001Good evening. It is 5:30 p.m. July 8th. Welcome to our regular board of directors meeting. Please join us for the pledge of allegiance. I pledge 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. Director Boken has our land acknowledgement. Thank you. Evergreen Public Schools resides on the traditional lands of the Shinookan peoples and the Kalat 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 next item on our agenda is to adopt the agenda. Since the whole board
002is not able to attend in person, I propose that we move the workshop agenda items for discussion to our border retreat agenda on July 31st. Is there a motion? I move adoption of the uh uh agenda as presented with the workshop agenda items moved to our board retreat agenda on the 31st. Second. Director Perkins moves that we adopt the agenda removing the workshop to the board retreat. Seconded by Director Boenegra. All in favor? I posted. Thank you. The next item on our agenda is matters reserved for board action. Lori. Yes. Oh, so we are going to do our oath of office for a new superintendent. So, Superintendent Maloney, will you please repeat after me? I, Christine Noel Maloney, do solemnly swear that I will support the Constitution of the United States that I will support
003the Constitution of the United States and the State of Washington and will faithfully perform the duties of Superintendent, Secretary of Evergreen School District and will faithfully perform the duties of superintendent secretary of Evergreen School District number 114. County of Clark, State of Washington best of my ability. And the County of Clark, State of Washington, according to the best of my ability. Thank you. The next item on our agenda is public comments. 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, the administrative staff, or the audience. Although the board will not engage in dialogue, the board chair may ask
004a speaker a clarifying question to follow up at a later time on an issue raised during public comment. Each speaker has a maximum of three minutes this evening to ensure we hear from as many voices as possible. The first person on our list is Angie Bunda. Good evening. Waiting for my time to start. Everyone has a limit. A line that is eventually crossed when they can no longer stand idly by and watch corruption continue. Where the transgressions of those around them can no longer be covered up and kept discreet in what they believe will maintain the image of the organization at the cost of the adults and children who continue to be ignored, intimidated, or paid off in settlements to keep quiet. Everyone eventually reaches that pivotal moment where they say no more and must
005stand up and speak out. It could be due to seeing a child or staff member who was hurt by the decision to remain quiet. It could be thinking, "Well, this is the last time so and so is going to do this kind of thing only to see it happen again and again." We all have that limit, and it's sad to see that this board and a school district have not yet reached that threshold. History will remember what you did with the seat you hold, but also what you did not do, what you turned a blind eye to, and what your silence made you complicit and an active participant in allowing to happen to the lives of adults and children. Many of you in this room may have started out your careers with a passion for
006helping, educating, and inspiring your students. However, somewhere along the journey, you were intimidated or scared into just trying to stay afloat in your jobs and survive scrutiny or retaliation. and now you feel you're in too deep and are too afraid to actually help in the ways you know you should. Keeping quiet uh in these situations and allowing them to continue for the sake of the district's reputation is doing just the opposite. Everyone talks and knows of the transgressions even if they are too afraid to say it publicly. The only thing complicity does is ruin the lives of more and more people who deserve better. And for those who remain silent about what I know you know is happening, the community will not forget. As a leader, once you are aware of a situation, you have
007two choices. To allow it to continue for whatever justifications you create, or to be the person who stops toxic cultures, and corrupt behaviors for the sake of the children, families, and staff that you are supposed to be serving. People will keep asking questions and shining light on those who hope they can use fear to keep their decisions hidden in the darkness. Everyone has a limit. And I hope that once you reach yours, you will join us in trying to create true systems that serve everyone. Safe, supportive environments for staff and children and stronger relationships that will transform this school district and community. We'll keep a handout stretched for when you are ready to be part of the solution. Thank you. Thank you. Next is Katherine Pertik. Good evening. My name is Katherine Ferdick and I'm
008a parent of now four children graduated through our district and also a volunteer. As I reflect on the educational experiences of my four children, I can count many district staff who impacted them. The bargaining for PSSE staff needs to be fair. It needs to protect those who work so closely with our children, and it needs to prioritize their requests for a fair salary and safety. In doing so, you equally protect our children. We talk about the desperate need for Paris, the short staffing of bus drivers, which plays a role in grievances that arise from parents and employees. But in that same conversation, turn away from offering a competitive wage for these positions. The observation, competitive wages and attracting quality talent is only applied to administrative positions. It doesn't match up. The PSSE positions are so
009heavily studentfacing yet again told there is no money. While we give other groups a raise yearly to keep up with our insane inflation, how can this measure up to those other employees? Again, when you show val show you value, protect and prioritize in bargaining those who interact with our children on a daily basis, you reflect the valuing, protecting, and prioritizing the students of EPS. Thank you. Thank you. Next is Tony Miles. Good evening. As you know, my name is Tony Miles. I'm an associate at Mount View High School. Um, and I've been a building leader in this district for 14 years now. Uh, tonight I come in my capacity as a board member for the Evergreen Administrators Association. As you know, four years ago, we had to enter into mediation to resolve our bargaining. In
010short, it is disheartening that we are moving to mediation again for our current bargaining. Following our experience during the last bargain, our association committed to use personal funds to provide legal counsel in our efforts to develop an agreement that is both mindful of district needs, yet supportive and clear with our members, especially when it comes to a rift process. After months of negotiations, we are deeply disheartened that there is still no agreement on clear, transparent, and fair reduction in force language in our contract. We have shared with you input from our members, several of whom state that they feel uneasy, hopeless, unappreciated, and fearful. And tonight, while I stand alone and speaking to you, I am not isolated in our beliefs. We understand that school districts must make difficult decisions in the face of financial
011challenges, and we know that the financial outlook is grim, and that reductions in administrative staffing is a reasonable resolution. We are not asking for immunity from those hard choices. We are pleading for a process rooted in clarity and fairness, which honors the years of service to our school community. We are reaching out to ensure decisions affecting careers and personal livelihoods are made with clear and objective criteria, not opaque discretion. We are advocating for a process that protects the district's financial interests by advocating for a policy free of bias that could lead to lawsuits and litigation. The district bargaining team's continuing assistance on maintaining maximum flexibility and discretion in rift procedures and decisions sends a message that our professional contributions are conditional. that the livelihood of our families and careers can be disrupted without clear rationale
012or consistent process that is free of prejudice, retaliation, and retribution. The absence of such language in our contract runs counter to our collective imperative as leaders in this district to create environments where people feel seen and valued, where people feel like they belong. That sense of belonging must extend to building to building leaders as well. Belonging cannot be simply a poster in the hallway or a graphic embedded on a website. It must be embedded in our processes, written into our policies, and reflected in our decisions. Our current RIFF proposal safeguards building leaders with 10 or more years of service to our school district, while also allowing district leaders discretion and flexibility on how to reduce administrative staffing levels at our schools. Our roof proposal does not require a single cent of additional compensation, not one
013cent. It is our belief that this is a compromise between our interest to have a process that is based upon seniority and the district bargaining team's desire to have maximum discretion and flexibility. We fully acknowledge that the board does not directly participate in bargaining and we respect that role though we have been told multiple times that each of you are are supportive of the district bargaining team stance specifically on this riff issue. But we also know that you are the community stewards of this district's vision, values, and culture. Your voice and your influence matter. You shape the expectations of what this school district stands for. Thank you. Thank you. Next is Jacob Smith. When you are Good evening. Uh my name is Jacob Smith and I'm here to talk about uh budget cuts you guys
014have made over the last uh couple of sessions. Um, I went through Heritage when the economy was about to tank and so we had a table our IQ credit union and I had to wait almost 13 years to get that in even though Heritage has a really solid solid FBA and DECA program and budget cuts I understand are not exactly a good topic that everybody wants to talk about and I would branch out to multiple topics that I could but uh I'm I'm restricted to one but I'm a little bit concerned about some of the cuts that you've made. Uh, one of them was the middle school dean of students. Um we've had incidents with weapons over the last uh uh three seven incidents over about three years. uh two of them at a middle
015school and um I'm a little bit baffled that those positions got cut even with um with incidents that have happened and um the common denominator in all these situations um all of them involve boys and I feel that boys need a positive male role model and that activities such as stack of FBA and sports can help as well and I also believe that school safety is equates to community safety I'll tell you why and uh my father lives near a near a school where an incident happened with a weapon happened and I would be sad if um something were to happen to him. I also live not very far from a school where an incident happened and I live with a relative and I would be sad if that relative had passed away even though
016I have a frosty relationship with both my parents. And then the second thing I'm a little bit concerned about is librarians. Uh I have fond memories going down the staircase at Silverstar Elementary wanting to check out all the Magic Tree House School books. And I remember the librarian say you can only have one per series. And uh I would the reason I want to check out all the books is cuz I'd take a bunch of books home over the weekend, read them, be finished as well. And then um another thing I'm really concerned about with budget cuts is that years back you cut a program called AVID and that program benefited a lot of kids from Heritage. And uh I was one of the first students in Evergreen Schools uh to go through the AVID
017program. And um I'm a little bit I'm a little bit puzzled. I feel like this budget process has been like a jigsaw puzzle. Well, a Rubik's cube. uh Aruba's cube to me and uh I thank you for your time and uh allowing us to testify about the issues. 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 to approve tonight's board consent agenda as presented. Second. Director Grwalt moves to approve the consent agenda as presented, seconded by Director Boenegra. All in favor? I. Thank you. The next item on our agenda is our superintendent consent agenda. Is there a motion? I move adoption of the superintendent's consent agenda as presented. Second. Director Perkins moves to approve the consent agenda as
018presented. Seconded by Director Grwalt. All in favor? I. Thank you. Oh, here. Okay. Got on. Director Wilson is attending virtually. Thank you. The next agenda on our item is our superintendent report. Thank you. I have three main topics for my superintendent report this evening. One is uh focused on academics, one is focused on recognition and the other one is on our district's uh fiscal health. So, uh, first topic, um, underneath OE, um, 010 11, um, I got to visit a couple of our summer school programs in the last couple of weeks. So, Cascadia Tech, um, Academy, uh, has over 700 students attending summer school and they are doing 90hour training sessions and some of these, uh, sessions are resulting in um, industry certifications. So, it's amazing to see all of the kids on campus doing
019u following their passion area, whether it's aviation, whether it's law enforcement, cosmetology, um a wide variety medical assistant as well. They have one of the largest uh beginning classes for medical assistants that they've ever had. So, great time over there to see them involved and um excited about the career path that they are looking into and perhaps want to actually uh pursue. Um the other I actually uh went over to both Archway and Hollingsworth where we house our extended school year summer school programs and uh we're serving around 90 students right now and providing individualized learning opportunities for each one of those students. So um they were identified as needing to um maintain some academic learning over the summer. Uh so that uh when you have a break you may have heard of something called
020the summer melt, right? So students uh you know go out in June and then promptly forget everything they've learned and when they come back in September and so as a teacher myself I have experienced some of that went wait a minute you go taught this last year and didn't retain it. So these are students who um need that extra support um to make sure that they can continue on on their learning goals. And so it was great it was fun to talk to the different students see them some of them out at recesses some of in the classrooms working on different projects and interacting with each other. Um so it was exciting and a lot of buzz and a lot of energy. Uh the next uh topic is recognition. So this falls under OE7. So
021I received a letter from the Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction and the Washington State Patrol congratulating our transportation team. We've received for the past two years a letter of achievement. So we've got this two years in a row. There are very strict inspection criteria that have to be met in order to achieve this recognition. So, I want to uh congratulate publicly our director of transportation, Lindel Grant, and all of our transportation staff who work very, very hard to make sure that all of our vehicles and buses are in tip-top shape so that our students are safely transported to and from schools and activities. The third topic is related to dis district district's fiscal health and falls underneath OE5. So on Tuesday last week, I received an email from the office of the superintendent of
022instruction regarding federal title funds. I immediately then met with staff from our fiscal services and our teaching and learning equity departments to discuss what those potential impacts are on our district and how we could best prepare for this. The very next morning, um, I sent an email to all of our EPS leadership, making them aware of the continuing and exacerbating financial challenges our district, uh, districts across our state and across our nation are currently facing. On July 1, the Trump administration withheld over $6 billion in previously approved, again, previously approved federal education grants to schools. And these have already been built into our 2526 schoolyear budgets, not just here in Evergreen, but across the state and the nation. These grants fund staff, professional development, summer schools, to name a few of the items that are
023funded through this grant for through these grants. The unforeseen hit to our budget is almost $2 million. We're already well below well below our fund balance that we have said we need to maintain in order to operate fiscally soundly and you will hear more about that in the budget update um this evening following my report. So to try and mitigate this financial hit that we were not expecting, I made some initial decisions um that includes implementing a temporary freeze on grant-f funed hiring, grant-f funed contractual services, and grant-f funed school-based activities unless we deem them legally necessary. So this um helps a little bit, right? if we're going to try to mitigate it um by making these freezes happen um we we because we actually have already uh hired staff um and they've been issued
024contracts by the May 15th deadline and so we are required to continue those contracts to maintain their employment um even though their funding source has been discontinued. Our state is engaged in discussions and actions on our behalf and on behalf of all the districts in Washington state to get these previously approve approved funds re-released to us. You'll hear from our chief financial officer more details about the current state of our budget and a forecasting of our financial health. We are in a fiscally unhealthy place. We are doing everything we can to mitigate this. A fiscally strong district means strong schools and a strong community where students can thrive. That is our goal and we will continue to pursue that goal. At this time, I'd like to go ahead and turn it. Do you want me
025going introduce? Okay. Okay. I will introduce our chief financial officer, Jennifer Jacobson, for a current budget update. Good evening to the board and President Weatherspoon and Superintendent Maloney. Uh, I have a very brief update for you tonight. It's just a handful of slides. Um, some of which you've seen before. So, let me get that started. All right. So, tonight, just a few slides to update you. A lot of questions coming out about the federal funding freeze and possible elimination of funds. So, I thought I'd address that and what that input pack looks like for Evergreen. and uh just kind of a reminder of what our total federal funding looks like uh for the district. Um and then I'll give you just a current financial status update and uh just a brief glimpse of kind of
026preliminary numbers for 2526. So I want to remind you next month I do a fullblown uh budget presentation. So that'll be August 12th and I'll go through all the particulars on the budget and our four-year forecast at that time. And then um but we are still tweaking the budget right now. It is due this Thursday and at that point in time we'll uh put it on the website for it to be publicly available. So at that time we turn it over to ESD12. There's usually some revisions between the the two uh entities and um and then it'll go uh forward in the presentation. So uh first of all as far as federal funding um this came directly from OSPI and it shows what our current 2425 allocation was for each of these three um grants.
027So title three is our English language acquisition about 500,000. Uh title 2A was 515,000 and then title four we get over 600,000. So we typically budget about the same amount year after year in these grants. We expected to have some carryover. So we do say put some of these funds aside to do things like summer school. And if those don't come to fruition, there might be some carryover left. So we we're kind of projecting around 300,000 in that carryover we were counting on for next year. Um so that leaves us a total of almost $2 million that we were counting on for the 2526 budget. Um and that now we are hearing might be either frozen or eliminated. Um and as Dr. Maloney said these primarily go to staffing, they go to professional development. We
028have curriculum and contracts uh already signed uh what these funds are designated for. um and yeah, professional development. So, uh this covers a wide range of activities that we have counted on, we have a program for and uh so we're ready now. We've we're in discussions constantly about how we're going to pivot and prepare for the possibility these funds will go away. Um so I'll just keep you updated as as more information comes out about these grants. We were told that these should be um that these will likely be eliminated in 2627. Uh ESD12 and other districts in the region are just planning for these to go away in 2627, but now it's looking like they might actually eliminate them in 2526. So, um we were already in discussions about that probability that down the
029road these grant funds will go away. Um, this was part of my March presentation when these federal funds started perking up and people started talking about them. Um, our total federal funds for the district are 23.7 million. So about 5.6% of our revenue comes through federal funding. A large chunk of our nutrition service program about 9 million of our total $12 million program comes through our federal USDA funds. Um, I have not heard anything uh rumors or that about those USDA funds uh being reduced. So, I I hope that we can continue serving free lunches to our students through that program. Um, out of our special education revenue, about 5 million of that comes through our federal department of education. Um, that is another one that we have heard is safe. Um, however, we just
030got our allocation for IDA next year and it's $300,000 less than we had budgeted. So that was a hit uh for 2526 that we were not anticipating. Um and then lastly I have listed the title 1 2 3 and four total about $ 8.4 million in revenue. Um we're hopeful that title one will stay intact of about $6 million. Um but honestly I would not be surprised to see that reduced at least for the 2627 school year. Um and like I said before uh we're still waiting on titles 2, three, and four. So, um, yeah, this is not something I've ever dealt with in my 20 odd years of of education of of these types of, um, changes, these abrupt changes. So, um, next, just spend a minute on uh, what our projection is for
0312425. Um, again, I shared this back in March when I started seeing that our expenses were out um, you know, outpacing the budget last year, last August, we approved a $4 million deficit for this year. Um, so we were planning on an ending fund balance this year of about 28 million. That would have kept our unrestricted fund balance at that 5% which is in our board policy. That's our target. We like to keep a 5% fund balance um of unrestricted fund balance as previous year's expenditures. Um as projections, you know, came out in February, March, I shared that we're looking at more like a $10 million deficit this year. Uh this is primarily due to special education. We have a lot more students, a lot more needs. We've had to hire a lot of certificated
032and classified staff to try to help out. And uh that was not foreseen. And so now we're looking at an ending fund balance of 22 million for this year. That'll put us down at 4%. Um, and we uh know that we need that 5% to to continue on. Um, I'll go to the next one and I'll talk a little bit more about why that 5% is so so crucial. So here's just a glimpse for our 2526 projected budget. We were hoping that we would see more in additional state funding for next year. I think most districts around were hoping to to get a bump up from the state. We did not get very much at all. We got a little bit in MSOC. I think about 5 to 600,000. The additional special education around a
033million. Um we might get some local effort assistance. However, our assessed value is coming in higher than expected and that will make our local effort assistance go down. So, um we did not receive a lot in additional funding. We did go through a zerobased budgeting and we found some areas to to make some reductions in. However, our inflationary increases are far uh over those cuts we were able to make. Um for instance, we just found out our insurance this year is coming in at 13% increase. So that's about $600,000. Um that's not what we anticipated. We've seen it go from three million to four million last year to 4.7 million this year and then another $600,000 increase next year. So these are just huge increases that the state is not providing that kind of additional
034funding to to help us absorb those. So this would leave us with a $16.8 million ending fund balance. the end of 2526, our unrestricted fund balance would be about two and a half% of our previous year expenditures. So I um want to talk a little bit about uh we want to be fiscally responsible. We need to find how to build our fund balance back up to the 5%. Um, one of the huge challenges of having such a low fund balance is our cash flow uh challenge and that is um that sorry um we're already starting to experience some of that as we're spending our fund balance down. Uh one of the problems we have is that our cash flow and revenue does not come in in an even stream across the year. um we have
035big peaks and valleys our aortionment some months we get 5% of our aortionment some months we get 12 and a half%. So to give you an example, this June we only got $20 million in state and federal funds in revenue. It's just our primary source of revenue. Um when we're averaging 36 $38 million in expenditures each month, that's not enough to cover that paycheck doesn't cover the expenses for that month. And so as we're shipping away, we need this fund balance to help those es and flows of cash in and out each month. So, uh, it is important as we move forward that we make further reductions in 2627 to try to build this back up to 5%. Um, right now I'm doing a forecast out for four years. Uh that'll be like I said
036posted Thursday and I will go over that in detail with you at the next board meeting. But I'm estimating somewhere around 12 to 14 million in reductions for 2627 and that includes the 2 million of federal cuts that we know we'll need to make for 2627. Um so I hope to fine-tune that number this fall. um once we get enrollment in this fall, once we get a couple months of salary behind, we'll be able to to narrow in and fine-tune that projection of what the cuts really need to look like for the following year. Um but that is right now what my estimate is. And that would put $8 million back into our fund balance. That would get us up to 4% and then the following year we would need to make about I think
037it was five million to get us back up to the 5%. So it would be you know this is just one suggestion. This is a lot of discussion we'll have in the future about how we're going to face uh face this issue and these challenges. I also plan in the fall to put together a cash flow projection for the year so we can look at the ups and downs of uh cash flow because I anticipate we will need to do an interfund loan from our capital projects fund into our general fund for those months where we have low revenue coming in and we need to to meet our AP and our payroll demands. So that is also going to happen in the fall um as we start navigating this this budget deficit challenge. Um I
038think yeah all I want to say is I know how much the board and Dr. Maloney are committed to being fiscally responsible and you know maintaining you know good custody of taxpayers funds. And so I'm um it's not great news, but we will just keep following going forward and uh we see all the districts around us facing the same types of challenges with cash flow, with inflation, and with fund balances. So um lastly, do you have any questions? I'll go into a lot more detail on budget next month, so you'd have some time to to think it over. But if you have direct questions about federal funding, any of the grants we're talking about, I'm happy to answer those. Director Wilson is online. Do you have any questions? Um, well, Jennifer, I was just wondering,
039um, would you suggest any further cuts to our budget for 2526? I know, um, you know, 85% of our budget is, you know, salaries and, you know, right? Most of our contracts are renewed by May. So, uh there's not a lot of pivoting we can do at this point for the 2526 school year. Um I did budget very um I feel robustly for special education next year because that was a big downfall. We did not foresee the the expenses coming from special education. So, we are working very tightly with the team to try to get a handle on that and figure out, you know, um ways we can kind of mitigate how much is is going into special education because that gap just keeps growing and growing between what the state and feds fund and
040what it's costing us. Um so, right. And the federal Oh, I'm sorry. The federal funds that are being cut, is that across the board, every state? Um or is it specific to just a few states or Yeah, it's all states. Okay. It's the same the same grants for all of the states, right? So, and that was money that was already a portioned to us that we were expecting for the 2526 school year. Yeah. It was appropriated to Washington. And so, you know, we kept being told it's it's there. plan on it and budget for it because it's been approved. Um, so I'm hopeful that we won't suffer those consequences. Yeah, those other federal funds, the buckets that you showed on that slide. So, for now, we are assuming that we're going to continue to get
041those, but I mean, is there conversations that those may go away because it feels like if that 2 million was taken, Can you go back to that slide? It was the nutrition. Yeah. What are we hearing about those? Like, what do we think? Because that would be a huge blow if we lose that funding. Yeah, I have not heard much at all about USDA funds. Usually it's Department of Ed that they're looking at. And they moved nutrition right to USDA. Wasn't that one of the things they did? That's how our C money comes through. Um so I'm hopeful that that will remain untouched. Uh but it's nothing, you know, secured. So would we would have to go back to the old way of you know lunch payments and free and reduced lunch and sure I'm
042assuming just the special education too that 5 million my all I keep hearing is that that's safe. I haven't heard anything else, so I'm hoping that's correct. In the 12 to 14 million in cuts you're anticipating for 2627, 2 million of that is these funds that we're talking about now that we know is probably going to go away. Are there any other federal funds? Those are the Yeah. Okay. Are there any other federal funds in that 12 to 14 million number? Yeah. So, anything in addition would have to be on top of the 12 to 14 million. Okay. I uh noticed in the Department of Education letter that there was a title one category um was title one part C. Do we have any grants or expenses in migrant education? Mig migrant education program. We
043don't have title one C. Okay. Nope. Okay. So uncertainty. Yeah. Our only federal funds for um our multilingual program is the title three uh $500,000 and that has helped fund our summer schools for our multi multilingual learners um as well as PD and staff. And so the money that's being withheld right now is not affecting our summer school programs right now. Uh, no. The summer school for this year will be part of 2425 fortunately. And so those funds are safe and we will still be able to run that program, but it could affect next summer's summer school program. Any other questions? We do have um like two by two meetings on the budget later this month for all the board and then as you said we have you're doing a presentation in August. Yes. And
044then we have the whole process in August. Yeah, we'll do the public hearing and then the resolution at the end of August. Okay. Thank you. The next item on our agenda is proposals for action. We have our GC 1, four, five, and six revisions. This is our second reading. So, we have them up on the board here. Dr. Maloney, have there been any questions or comments? I have received, my office has received no comments or questions. Can we see number two? I'm sorry. Number four. Are we going to do these all together? Yes. Number five. Let's scroll down a bit on number five. There were changes below the fifth item. I a few this is where we remove that. It refers to the other policy. Yeah. Okay. Yeah, there it is. added the other committees
045and number six language tweaking. So since the second reading is there a motion move that we adopt the changes uh that were presented in first reading for uh policies GC 1 4 5 and six. Second. Director Perkins moves that we rec um we approve the changes as presented for GC14 and 6 seconded by Director Gwal. Is there any discussion from the board? Dr. Wilson? No. Hearing none. All in favor? I closed. So moved. Thank you very much. Next item on our agenda isformational. It is our financial statement for May 2025. It's forformational purposes only. The next item on our agenda is our board comments. Director Wilson, you're online. Do you have any comments? Uh just as usual, I just want to thank all four speakers tonight for uh sharing and just yeah sad to hear
046what you know budget wise but um you know we'll just have to do what we can to um come out ahead. So thank you. Two items. Um the first is uh you might have seen an email uh from WASDA about the positions catalog. The first draft of the positions catalog uh has been released to us and uh I noticed going over it that the proposed positions and position changes are shorter than in previous years. The the manual is actually smaller uh which will make for a a much quicker general assembly meeting. Um, I think we can. Of course, I'm not in charge of actually leading the meeting. Uh, so there's that. Um, and I'd like to, uh, ask that we get a workshop set up in the first meeting in September so that we can,
047uh, give the delegate, and this year, I think I'm the delegate, um, instructions on how to vote, uh, whether to just take Wazda's committee recommendations and the board's committee recommendations, or whether we want to do something else. Uh so I invite you all to uh go get out that email with the link to the catalog and uh have a quick look at it uh before that workshop item. Uh the second one is that um I don't get the dig right. Couple of weeks ago I was invited to participate in uh something called back to school 100 years of public education in Clark County. Uh it was a gathering of invited people and Evergreen's people were also invited. Mike Tquita was also there. Um and it was led by Mark Ray and Terry Nelson, both of
048whom are retired teachers and administrator. I think he's administrator and teacher from Vancouver public schools. In attendance were uh representatives from Vancouver Education Association, um uh Latino Leadership Northwest, uh some administrators from Evergreen, uh not well Mike from Evergreen, but uh uh from Vancouver Public Schools, um and uh some community representatives like the Clark County Historical Museum. Um the goal is to uh someone noticed that uh come 2029 will be the 100th anniversary of the uh building of Shame Junior High School which at the time was uh junior high school was an innovation as a school that had labs and uh auditoriums and shop classes that apparently in those grades didn't exist in a lot of places before then. uh and Mark and Terry wanted to honor the 100th anniversary of that building which now
049houses the Vancouver uh School of Arts and um academics. Uh that the idea grew out of that into why don't we honor uh 100 years of education in Clark County. Um and so there are a couple of things that I noticed is that uh Mark Ray as a retired teacher uh that day showcased just how good of an instruction model um a workshop model can be which is the instruction model that we have here in Evergreen. Uh and the second one is that there's room on this uh what he calls a disappearing task force uh for input to come from members of the uh Evergreen Education Association and uh from current or retired administrators, retired board members, uh people who have experience with the history of e education in Clark County going back as far
050as as far as we can. Uh so if you know of some people who would take an interest in participating in that um I can make the connection and uh they'll receive an invitation in September to another workshop like this. Um, and really that would be um open for Mark and Terry to consider any community organizations with resources to tell the story of public education in Clark County over the last hundred years. Uh, we came up with ideas like uh maybe cooking contests uh using the food that uh kids ate for school lunch over the century and that you know that kind of thing. That was one that uh they said, "Yeah, we're definitely going to try to do that." Uh uh but also uh the historical society having um a year-long exhibit that you
051can go pay five bucks to go visit. Um as well as, you know, any music presentations. I mean, the ideas just ran the gamut. And uh it looks like it'll be a really really celebratory opportunity to uh showcase public education and what it's meant to us all for a century. And that's what I have. Reach out to me if you know of somebody and uh I'll make the connections. I just wanted to briefly mention a few weeks ago we did our school improvement plan meetings and it's one of my favorite meetings of the year hearing how the schools are doing how the principles have worked through the year with their staff and their students. I wanted to make a suggestion going forward in terms of how we do that where instead of we all have
052our individual meetings that we come together afterward and have just a quick workshop to discuss what we've heard from our individual meetings together and just something for us to think about. Yeah, a little debrief. I like to hear what everybody else is doing too and share some of the cool stuff I heard. Um it is 6:17 and our meeting is now adjourned. Thank you very much. [Music]