001Welcome to the 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. First item on our agenda is to adopt the agenda. Is there a motion? I motion to I skip the land acknowledgement. I am sorry. Na, could you read the land acknowledgement, please? Thank you. The next item on our agenda is to adopt the agenda. Is there a motion? Um, a motion to approve tonight's agenda. Second. Oh, sorry. Gary Bane. Director Wilson. Um, moves that we adopt the agenda. Seconded by Director Boengra. All in favor? I. I. Thank you. Next item on our agenda is public comments, but we have
002no one signed up. So, we will I guess I guess continue continue on. Um the next item on our agenda is board or our board consent agenda. Is there a motion? I move to approve tonight's board consent agenda as presented. Second. Director Grunwalt moves that we adopt the agenda as presented. Seconded by Director Perkins. All in favor? I. Thank you. The next item is our superintendent consent agenda. Is there a motion? I move to approve the superintendent's consent agenda as presented. Second. Director Gromwell moves to approve the superintendent consent agenda as presented. Seconded by Director Perkins. All in favor? I. I. Thank you. The next item on our agenda is our superintendent report. Okay. All right. Fantastic. Well, it's been busy since we've come back from spring break. So, um, welcome to the second week
003after spring break and it, um, lots of things have been happening. Um, I do want to start off with, um, I'm going to use the operational expectation policies and I'll name those of the different things I'm going to talk about during my superintendent report today like I've done in the past. Um, so I'm going to start with OE6, financial administration. So, I really do want to go back again and I know we had a presentation from our chief financial officer at our last board meeting at the um end of March and she shared with you our budget and um some of the things that were happening within her department, but I do want to go back and say how impressed I am with the work that she has done with her team. Um, we have
004another a year of clean audits. And I don't know, I mean, that might have been lost in her presentation a little bit because there's lots of other great information and data that she shared, but that is huge for a district our size to be able to have clean audits because the state auditors come in and it is extensive and it is hours and hours and hours and weeks on end where we have state auditors gathering information and asking questions and us having to provide that evidence and finding that information. So I wanted to acknowledge that and that was top of mind for me because on last Wednesday I attended the teaching learning and equity department meeting where we uh what was shared was zero budget or zerobased budgeting and how that's going to work for
005our district. This is new for us and it's really a fantastic way for us to reexamine how we are spending our funds in support of our students and in support of our strategic plan. And so that was described in detail, discussed and shared at the teaching and learning uh department and equity department meeting that I attended. And um they are now involved in specific meetings with the financial department and their own departments and leads going through that process. And so we are looking for duplications, redundancies, um and trying to find ways to become more efficient. And um so this is new for us. And this is something when I talk about measuring twice, cutting once and systems that serve that this is a great example of that um process in place um for OE7 asset
006protection and OE12 facilities. Uh you might have heard of the great emerald flood that we had on Tuesday uh last Tuesday and we had a broken pipe, right? So we had a lead custodian and I will get you her name. I don't have it right now, but she comes in early all the time. I understand and I if somebody knows the name I think I was trying Alex is trying to get a hold of it for me out there. If you do have it please shout that out for me. Don't know if you have it yet. Um but um amazing. So she comes in early to start work and um she found the problem and immediately notified um her supervisors and the response from the district level team from all of the different departments was
007absolutely amazing. Um, and I wanted to call out also Jim Sullivan, a craftsman, structural maintenance um, uh, employee here. Um, he did phenomenal job going in and actually physically figuring out where it was coming from, how to shut it off, and and all of those pieces to go with it. Um, our senior director of instruction leadership was on the phone at 5:30 in the morning and on his way to that building to help assess the situation and get communication out and start the whole process. So, I wanted to acknowledge him as well. Um, there was furniture that was moved. We had to communicate to staff and parents right away before they shipped their little ones out the door to make sure that nobody was left standing at a bus stop. We had transportation involved going,
008"Okay, the, you know, do we send the buses out?" And yes, we do send the buses out just in case there was a family that missed the communication because we last thing we want is a little one standing out at the bus stop and no bus coming, right? And so we um did that and uh made sure that there was a couple of students that had showed up and so we brought them back and then got them back to their their home um safely. And so that was um another great feature of the response that happened uh facilities on it. We did a debrief in my office that afternoon. I think it was at 3:30 on Tuesday. So it happens. We discovered at 5:30 in the morning. By 3:30 in the afternoon, we're able to
009pull together. There was about 15 people in my office going through a debrief about how did we respond? Okay. And what areas could we improve upon and uh we started off with, you know, what are some things that you think went really well and what are some wonderings or questions or areas that you think that we could improve upon? And one person after the next after the next went, I can't believe how well that went. Right? I was so impressed that um you know our director of transportation thought of this and I was so impressed that we had communication go out and we did learn a couple of things. Um so in our communications department with um our senior director of communications uh Craig Bernbach he discovered that we have in our parent square a
010system uh something that's built into the system so that if parents they get that initial um text if they don't respond to that initial text or they read it to show that they read it. Then there's a phone call that goes so we don't do duplicate up and you know annoy our families with a double phone call or a double text. And so that was kind of a neat thing that we discovered through Parent Square on that. But there's lots of great things that came out of that. Um I do want to recognize that principal Darcy Mitchellen and um assistant principal Lauren Collins were on it. I mean they were they were there and helping out and helping direct and and um really were were spot on and did an amazing job. Um, so there's
011lots of people. I I don't have a big long list, but let me let me assure you that people came together from across departments and really made a significant difference. And so the great emerald flood only lasted one day and kids and everybody and staff were back into school the next day. Yes. Michelle Cox, would that be the janitor? I need confirmation. Is that right? Yes. Okay. I I want to say it again. Michelle Cox was the uh lead custodian who was the one that discovered it and immediately um contacted the right people to get that going. Thank you very much. I wanted to make sure I had that name. So, love it. And have her publicly recognized. You also have a copy of the waiver request because when students miss school, right, we have
012to make it up and there's a reason why we have snow days. Um but this is unusual. This is one school out of all 38 of our schools, right? And um so we have submitted a waiver request. We believe that they will have a positive result that we will not have to have Emerald Elementary come back and make that up after the school year. So we're very we're 99% positive that that is going to occur that they will be fine and in the school year with the rest of the other 37 schools. Okay. So you have a copy of that information that's been uh provided to OSPI. Um, another great fun thing, um, is under OE0, which is equity, and OE3, community stakeholder relationships. I had, um, mentioned before, um, kind of exploring the idea
013of, um, having before and after child care, um, for all of our elementary schools, right? And then one of the things we started looking at was what are some ways we can become um that we can provide um services for families in their neighborhood schools, right? Instead of busing. And we had partial child care provided for some of our schools but not all of our 22 elementaryaries. Um and I you know we we want to be equitable in that some of the uh opportunities that we provide our kids as much as possible and to help our families. So, I am very excited. On Friday afternoon, I was able to send out a communication to parents and um to our elementary staff and our our regular or all of our staff actually um announcing that next
014year we're going to be partnering with right at school um for after and before child care and this is a huge change for us. We have not had that obviously we've had a partial um opportunities for our families and the only school that uh right at school will not be operating in is Burton and that is because there is a active boys and girls club partnership there at Burton Elementary. So there is child care provided through that program. Um students get to stay like I said at their home school. We don't have to bus them and so actually this is a significant savings for the district. So, it's a huge bonus and fantastic um that we have kids served in their home schools. But then on top of that, we get the extra um uh
015financial boost that we do not have to extend out more money from from the uh district to provide that service because they will be in their home schools. So, um more like I said, information went out and there'll be lots more um uh info coming out for families and uh information sessions and the websites available and all of that too. under OE7 asset protection. I just got um notified that our technology team just earned the class link award of excellent for outstanding use of analytics. I don't know exactly what that all means, but it sounds super impressive and so I just wanted to share that that our tech team is doing amazing work and they got recognized by an outside entity for the work that they're doing. Okay. Um OE3 community stakeholder relationships. So, I'm
016continuing um chats with Christine. I actually held one last night. It was over at Heritage High School. Um coffee and conversations are continuing. Um that's what that's the parents. Uh the chat was with staff um attending community events and hosted today the regional law enforcement school districts meeting and we'll again host it um this coming fall and that is a um a group school district um representatives and superintendent. It's Clark County Sheriff. it is the Vancouver um uh police department and it's ESD 112 and their school safety and security uh lead for that and some of the work that's coming out of that is amazing and right now we are um uh uh finishing up the first year where we have the same type everybody knows the same type of response. So remember the videos
017that were shared u for just a you know probably a month or so back um around you know what's the difference between hold secure you know lockdown um all of that so we are now speaking the same language and so that idea came out of that group to say let's use the same language across Cresa Vancouver PD Clark County Sheriff you know all the districts all the surrounding districts so now we are and so that that is huge that we're we're able to do that um so that's just one example of some of the great work that's coming out of that group. You'll hear more later on when we talk specifically about safety. Um, I'd like to um also share that um I I was a little disappointed uh because uh Creatures uh excuse me,
018it's uh Creature Creations um over at Archway, they create um and they make I got to see the production just yesterday when I was over there at Archway. Um dog treats and cat treats, right? So, I was super excited when I was told, "Hey, there's going to be a story about this and we're going to post it out on social media and you have dogs, right?" Well, I was very excited and um yeah, my dogs didn't get chosen. So, there's another dog that's that now has a limelight, Mr. Burnbox dog. And um anyway, so I'm not bitter about that at all. Uh so, it is a fantastic story. Please check it out when it comes out on Facebook, even though my dogs aren't featured. And they're they were very happy customers, by the way. they
019did enjoy those treats. Um, so um, out and about at schools and I know we'll be visiting an elementary school tomorrow. U, Mr. Wilson or Director Wilson and I will be doing that. So, we're excited to do that. And again, please check when I have um, all those classroom visits and school visits out there and sign yourself up. Love to have you come along. Um, I'd like to end with um, on Saturday uh, I went to the Tiger Invite at Battleground. There was 17 high schools participating. That was huge. the place was packed. Um, and our ever I kept hearing evergreen over the the PA system, right? So, um, and it was Evergreen Boys placed fourth, we had, um, Union Girls third and Union Boys second in all of this out of the 17 high
020schools. And it was a great day, not only because I was there as a superintendent and able to walk around and talk to different people, but then I spent some time over at the pole vaultting pit because my son was per was over there um, competing as well. So, it was lots of fun. I'd be a parent as well on that. Okay. And that wraps up the superintendent report, but let me give you a little bit of highlight of something that's coming um in the teaching learning equity uh department report here. Um you're going to hear about some of the um workaround of special education services. Right. So, as you know, we received um the final report from the from the review that um I commissioned on special services, special education services. We got that
021at the end of February. And so if you take the spring break out, we it's been about a month, right? But the work that's been involved and um the things that we're starting um I've been very impressed with the people's dedication and their effort and the time they've spent and the thought they've put into things to try to make sure that we are providing the best service possible for all our students, their families, and the stakeholders around our special ser special education services. So you're going to hear some of that tonight and it will be ongoing and you'll get lots more information from Dr. Fox and Dr. Bennett in a little bit. So that wraps up my superintendent report. Thank you. Thank you. So that brings us to Dr. Fox with our teaching and learning
022and equity update. teaching, learning, and equity update. This evening, I have three items. We have three items for you, including a highlight of the Evergreen School District Foundation, the WASA review of EPS special services. We'll get you there. and then a special services focus on um special education staffing that will be presented by uh director of special services Dr. Matt Bennett. So our thought was instead of everyone coming up with their laptop and unplugging and plugging and unplugging and plugging, we put them all into one deck to save time. It was a really good idea. Next meeting in May, it'll save time. The Evergreen School District Foundation is a nonprofit organization partnering with EPS to bridge the basic needs gap, foster innovative and engaging learning experiences, and maximize opportunities to ensure that all students have
023access to a world competitive education. The foundation is overseen by an executive team shown here. And we are fortunate this evening to have President Jason Huggin here with us. Jason, will you stand up? We could clap for him right now as [Applause] well. And as I share more, you'll know more why we need to clap for him and for his organization. I've become more familiar with Jason and the work of the foundation through some regular meetings with Jason over the past few months. But it was by recently attending the gala and the auction that I better understood the impact of the foundation's work. Announced at their board of directors meeting last Tuesday, this year's auction raised over $100,000. However, the auction is just Yeah, that another place for clapping. I'll learn to pause after all
024these big numbers I have on my script. The auction is just one of the many ways that the foundation raises funds. The foundation works in partnership with local businesses and individual donors who share the passion of providing every student with quality education. Their primary revenue sources are individual donations, the annual auction, and other fundraising events. In the last 15 years, the foundation has raised over $147 million for EPS students and staff. I will pause there. That's amazing. That's just amazing. Programs supported include special grants to meet classroom needs, support of the district's pantry program, which provides food and financial aid to families in need. student scholarships and the educator of the year award. The ed 2025 educator of the year was recognized in the good news report at your last board meeting. She was also
025honored at the gala. Pioneer Elementary School counselor Nancy Brown spoke receiving a standing ovation. Also attending the gala were 14 EPS students. These scholarship winners were individually recognized and collectively earned $78,500 to assist with their postsecary education. I didn't really plan that, but it really these are amazing numbers and amazing donations. Uh tonight we want to thank President Huggins and his ex executive team and everyone in the Evergreen community who has made contribution to these efforts to support EPS students, staff, and families. Jason, thank you. Please pass along our thanks to your executive board. And I just wonder if you might want to shake his hand and thank him yourself. Jason, would you be willing to come up and let them do that? President Huggin, I'm certain that our student representatives would love to shake
026your hand as well. Thank you very much. Thank you so much for being here. Appreciate it. It only happens because of the people in this room, whether they know it or not. Thank you. We appreciate the partnership. You may be getting tired of this visual. In the last few board meetings, I've been using this graphic and I'm going to continue to because so much of the TLE work fits into uh one of these five icons. This graphic is from OSPI and it's used to organize some of the ways we're supporting students in their schools. In particular, this icon, which represents the continuum of evidence-based instruction and support, is used when we talk about how and when students receive instruction, and participate in learning. Tier one instruction is for all students. Students attend their neighborhood school,
027receive instruction in a general education classroom, and receive support as needed. Tiers two and three represent the intensity of support necessary for some students. Students who demonstrate significant risk or who do not respond to tier 2 interventions may receive tier three intensive interventions that are individualized to meet their needs. Many times these students have an individualized education plan or an IEP. To ensure that students with an IEP receive appropriate support, we have a special education department. And recently we commissioned a management and operational review of this department to answer this question. Is the special education department using and managing operating systems in a manner that serves all stakeholders efficiently and effectively? You can see the logo there for WASA. The WASA management review team conducted 21 interviews in early January and reviewed district documents in
028an effort to respond to this broad question. To be more specific, all interviewees were asked from your perspective, what is the most significant positive outcome of serving students with disabilities in the current neighborhood schools model? And from your perspective, what do you think is the most significant barrier or the primary challenge in providing services to students with disabilities within the neighborhood schools model? The themes that emerged from the interviews fall largely into the following categories and were addressed individually within the final report. the shift to neighborhood schools and the implementation of inclusive schools. The provision of services, special education services in an inclusive schools model, including the subcategories of staffing, special education, teachers, pareducators, instructional practices, materials, curriculum, and delivery, as well as communication and collaboration. And while I'm moving through this overview quickly, I'm
029pleased to say that the WASA team, the WASA review team spent considerable time talking with us about their findings and about their recommendations. It's worth noting that the threeperson review team included consultants with experience in special education as teachers and as district leaders. They know state law and they know other school districts in our state. And so we believe their commentary and their recommendations are worth considering regarding the shift to neighborhood schools and the implementation of inclusive schools. The recommendation is to develop a plan for fostering district-wide consistency, collaboration, and communication in supporting inclusive practice. It's recommended that we establish a special education department advisory team to initiate this work. In addition, it's recommended that we convene a committee whose purpose is to review and make recommendations on needed instructional materials to meet the needs
030of an inclusive special education model. They report, quote, "Evidence-based curriculum and teaching practices are part of the comprehensive array of services that should be available to special education staff to meet the needs of their students." End quote. The WA was team expressed surprise and some of their strongest recommendations are regarding our staffing model and the staff matrix used to determine staffing. They report quote the concept of inclusive schools and the way staffing is currently being determined is inongruous. End quote. Let me provide a quick simple comparison. Previously, students were identified by a disability and sent to a program housed in various schools across the district where specialists worked with groups of students with the same disability. In the inclusive model, students are invited to attend school within their neighborhood and attend classes with their peers.
031To support students with an IEP, general education teachers work with special ed teachers to provide the appropriate support in their neighborhood school. Instead of specializing in a specific disability, special education teachers have become generalists in that they work to provide interventions based on individual student needs. This philosophy promotes the idea that each student is a unique learner and requires an individualized education plan. Currently, the staffing model which is used to determine how much special education staffing or FTE is necessary at each school is based on a student's identified disability. This is a remnant of the previous service delivery model and it is recommended that we modify this matrix to reflect the inclusive model I just described. In addition, the WASA review team noted an over reliance on onetoone para educators to support the array of
032services required to meet the needs of students and urged us to explore a range of alternative supports that could help a student make meaningful progress. Recommendations include developing a structured plan to gradually fade pareducator support focusing on skill building and fostering independence throughout the report and warranting a section of its own. The review team emphasized the importance of communication and collaboration. Given the depth of quote given the depth of work that lies ahead of the district, the current teaching staff will be called upon to use strong communication skills to work with one another and with building and district administrators to achieve agreed upon outcomes for their students and families. End quote. WASA recommends ongoing guided conversations regarding roles and responsibilities which will assist in building clear expectations across all buildings. Noting that the interviews revealed
033a desire to meet with colleagues from various buildings to build a network of support for all staff. The review team recommends that EPS establish focused time for staff to meet and refine how a comprehensive array of services are provided in each building with a lens on inclusivity and equality. Results of the WASA management and operations review are providing us targeted areas for improvement and the report details immediate actions and some long-term goals. However, we have not been waiting for this review or the recommendations to begin working on some of the obvious issues creating concern in our district. Director of special services Dr. Matt Bennett will officially begin his work as senior director on July 1st, but he hit the ground running in December when he was asked to take over leadership of the special education
034department. Matt has spent considerable time analyzing the staffing process in EPS and is now going to provide you with an overview of his findings and next steps. Matt. Good evening, board. Tonight's presentation offers a concise look at our work around special education staffing. What we've learned, what's changed, and where we're headed. Staffing is a foundational piece of ensuring timely, meaningful support for students receiving special education. Getting it right is essential. Let's start with why staffing is so critical. Appropriate staffing aligned with our service delivery model is what allows students receiving special education services to get the support they need when and how they need it. When staffing is insufficient or misaligned, services are delayed, inconsistent, or incomplete. That has a direct impact on student success. Our goal is not just to meet compliance, but to
035ensure highquality, equitable outcomes for all learners. In December 2024, a district-wide review revealed that multiple schools were understaffed. That meant services weren't always being delivered on time and in some cases not delivered consistently. This wasn't due to a lack of effort. It was a systemic issue related to how we were allocating and forecasting staffing. It signaled the need for a change. We launched a deep data analysis of historical staffing and student needs to develop a proactive model, one that anticipates needs and ensures every building is appropriately staffed throughout the year. By analyzing four years of enrollment trends, we identified average annual growth by building. This allows us to anticipate where needs are increasing and respond with targeting targeted staffing, making our system more agile and equitable. In February, we presented these findings to a dis
036to district leadership. We stressed the importance of aligning staffing to projected needs, using data to guide decisions, and working collaboratively across HR, finance, and operations. It was a unified message. Sustainable solutions require shared leadership. This presentation emphasized three key focus areas. Aligning staffing with projected needs, using data to build a more accurate and equitable system, and strengthening cross departmental collaboration to ensure sustainability and responsible resource use. These focus areas are helping us move from reactive decisions to intentional strategic staffing that supports both students and staff long term. The data and leadership presentation sparked systemwide awareness. There's now broad recognition that our current staffing model must evolve to meet the complex changing needs of students and that evolution requires collective coordinated action. Since February, we've continued analyzing data, recognizing this is a long-term process. We're deepening
037our understanding of staffing needs and affirming that special education staffing will remain a critical focus for our district. This progress is a result of shared leadership. Dr. Brian Fox, Bobby Height, Griffin Payeyton, Alex Shuy, and Todd Kernowski have all played key roles connecting staffing to instruction, service delivery, and school level realities. We also want to recognize our special education coordinators, Dr. Talia Nok, Micah Johnson, Joel Zam, and Ronda Lim for their leadership and critical insights throughout this process. In addition, we're grateful for the ongoing input and partnership of our building principles whose day-to-day perspectives continue to shape this work in meaningful ways. Their collaboration is moving us from insight to action. To close, aligned and consistent staffing is the foundation of everything we do in special education. We're committed to building a staffing model that
038is responsive, sustainable, and equitable. Through proactive planning and collaborative leadership, we're ensuring every student eligible for special education receives the services they are entitled to and deserve. Thank you. Thank you. So this evening I wanted to thank Jason Huggin and the Evergreen School District Foundation for their efforts and their support. I also wanted to provide a highlevel overview of the WASA review prior to you reading the report. Send that to you tomorrow morning. Hopefully it will give you some context for some of the changes you're learning about in the special education department. A major change beginning in December was an analysis of staffing process and Dr. Bennett's update on this work should help you see our effort to create a staffing model which accurately reflects each building's actual needs throughout the year. At your next
039meeting, as you can see on this slide, Dr. Fowler will share with you the new EPS data dashboard and we will have a report on recently shared youth truth data as well as some celebration of attendance data that I learned about this morning that we'll make sure is uh here for you on May 13th. So what questions or comments do you have? Anyone? So in in terms of a concrete example, can you tell me how you've implemented any of the staffing changes so far or just how that's going at this point? A concrete example, I think that a concrete example is um to to restate something that Dr. Bennett shared was the collaboration in interdep departmental communication and the historical um the analysis of of growth in each school and a three-year historical uh data
040the percentage of growth has helped us make more informed decisions on which schools are truly going to be needing the additional support and we didn't have that previously. it wasn't as um it wasn't as coordinated. Um I think that that has then informed us as we plan for next year. We're doing staffing right now in the district and are able to get going on interviewing and hiring of special ed teachers now while we have a pool available to us rather than finding us in October or November unaware of the increases that we were going to need and scrambling to try and find uh special ed teachers which were hard to find after the school year started. I'm looking forward to reading the report, but just to kind of clarify on the staffing part, it sounds
041like maybe we just misidentified like where uh we needed one to one where we could have utilized staff in different areas. Is that I think that um the report clearly shows that we are inconsistent in the implementation of the model and from school to school and understanding of uh neighborhood schools. And I think that in in the time that it took to move from one model to the next, there was a sense of frustration and concern at at schools. What are we going to do? We're not trained in this special disability. Let's get a PAR educator or let's make sure that this student has the support of a one-on-one. And what the report found is that we we've we've done that to an extreme and there's an over reliance on that and that we need
042to be providing um materials and curriculum was one thing that came out and additional professional development to help teachers who may not have been uh specially trained in each of the disabilities or in the disabilities that were then coming um evident in some of the students and so more time to talk and learn from each other and provide professional development as well. Yep. That's helpful. Thank you, Dr. Fox. Um, I know last year I was asking about um missing IEP minutes just to see, you know, are we tracking that? And I was surprised that we really didn't have that information. But back in December, there was an email and it sounded like starting this next school year, 2025 26, we will be tracking those missing IEP minutes. And and that would be something internally that
043we're noting, not relying on parents, but something staff. Correct. That Yeah. I don't want to cut you off, but that's our job to to track missed time. Yes. And um yeah, I just wanted to see if we are on track to implementing that because that'll help with, you know, staffing, seeing, okay, we're missing, this school's got this many hours and, you know, missing and, you know, where the staffing needs might be. And then a second question, I know we've been catching up on our pared educators. We've been, you know, down, you know, from what we'd like to have, you know, on our staffing. And I know we're catching up on that, but do you know roughly where we're at currently as far as, you know, at one time we were, I believe it was like
044over a hundred we were missing. You know, it was just hard to find people out there willing to do that job at that pay. But do you know maybe just you can maybe email me just where we're at as far as how many open positions we're currently down in that? Yes. Let me answer your first question with two responses and then remind me to answer your second question. um we began tracking when that was made aware when we were made aware of the problems uh in in missing instructional time uh as noted on individual students IEPs the tracking began and and those special ed coordinators that Dr. Bennett um praised kicked into gear along with principles and teachers and we were able to communicate with parents and put together plans for compensatory education. So, uh,
045some tutoring after school, um, some additional time spent during the school day when possible, and even in some cases, um, we're planning for summer school in order to make up some of the time that was missing. But the second response I wanted to provide is yes, our our staffing changes in in um better staffing our special ed classrooms should prevent us from having that problem in the future. Beginning now with our our um postings and interviewing and hiring and the the the changes that Dr. Bennett talked about should prevent us from having that problem. We'll still track when that happens when we when we are missing some of the instructional time. We'll our tracking system is now in place and and working well, but hopefully we we will prevent it by having more teachers hired
046and in place. And then as far as pair educators, I don't know that number uh of outstanding open uh positions and I'll email I'll research and get that for you. Thank you. Okay, great. Thank you. Thank you. Next we have a presentation from Nicole Delasu. Dosaso. Do I have to use a clicker? Can you hit the button? You can hit the button. I can hit the button. Thank you. Good evening. We're going to go over our annual asset preservation presentation. I know everyone is so excited about this, but it gives me an opportunity to discuss how well our buildings are doing. Yes, the fluke of emerald. It it happens such as the nature of the amount of inventory we have. So, as a reminder, so a preservation program, um that I didn't go through. There's
047an extra nine in that whack number. Um but essentially it applies to state fund assisted buildings built after December 31st, 1993. So for us that is 21 buildings of the 38 that we have and soon to be 22 um after tonight since uh we have final acceptance of Mil Plane Elementary School. So that will get added to the asset preservation list and from the acceptance. So in this year 2025 s we'll do annual inspections of it and then every six years per the requirement it will undergo a certified third-party assessor and those updates then go into ICOS which is the inventory and condition of schools and the results are obviously presented to the school board. basically minimum data is to be reported to OSBI and that includes the building condition scores and changes to building
048inventory. So when we offload a building such as when we sold old image to SC last year, we removed that from our inventory in Icos. So specifically speaking to the building condition assessment itself, the scores represent a snapshot in time of the estimated overall asset condition. So basically as we're going through annually, we're basically looking at everything that's happened over the course of the year. So it the internal assessments include myself, our capital projects manager, Jason Murray, and our maintenance department as well. So we'll do a full review of kind of different work orders that have taken place over the year, how those items were addressed, has that changed the score of that particular building based on that item. So, let's say uh we had a a water heater failure, it got replaced, that score
049may have gone down previously. It would then go back up. So, that's kind of the annual review. Once again, though, it's that snapshot in time. So, it's only going to capture what we have in that moment. So, we do our reviews in January. It's not going to capture what happened at Emerald last week. So, right now, that score is great. If we were to go back in and add an Emerald, it would go down a tiny bit, but then would go back up following the repair. So building scores are calculated by factoring weighted average scores for all of the individual building components. So you could have one area of your building that's not doing so hot. Let's simplistically let's say the flooring. Um but we have but the walls, the ceiling are great, lighting is
050excellent. It's going to average that all out. So it might have a higher score. So the general scoring matrix is displayed here for us. we go ahead and consider a building new or excellent if it's two two years old or less um good most of our buildings are in this range and anything that lands in the fair category which you can see is a pretty big range from 84 to 62% are going to be our buildings kind of our older inventory you're going to see there the conditions that are impacting these scores really just vary on um multiple factors including natural weathering general use, wear and tear, obviously general depreciation. It's no different than your own home or vehicle. Um maintenance and operations, and then obviously we do capital renewal projects each year. Um that
051will affect those scores as well. So, one slide I always like to include um just to give people some perspective. Um so, our total district-wide building square footage is listed there. Um, so we're in over three million. Um, and then we have our total portable square footage that I like to show even though we currently aren't using our full portable inventory. And then the amount of square footage that's currently covered by the asset preservation program. So those 21 buildings, soon to be 22, that are covered that we have to report to OSPI on each year. And now I will unveil the scores. you have already seen these and the full like 269 page report. Um, so if you want to see each individual facet of each school, you're more than welcome to. It's probably a
052great great document to put you to bed. Um, but here are the schools and the scores. Our next certified assessments will take place in 2027. We have two schools, Image Elementary and Siftton, if you can believe it or not, will hit their sixth year in 2027. um settle them that will be their first certified assessment. Um so that's both exciting and time flies right here are the remainder of the scores and a general overview. Our facilities continue to be very well cared for. Um our maintenance department does an excellent job. They really do. Um, like Christine said, the response to Emerald was case in point. You know, there's, like I said, there is a lot of square footage that we have to cover. And so, sometimes some things take a little bit longer, but obviously
053we encourage schools to never hesitate to reach out and ask the question if there's something that hasn't been addressed or they want to know an update of where something is at. In addition to that, we do an excellent job of our capital renewal projects each summer and tracking that. So, we have we were asked to look at just like a 5-year projection on our projects. We're tracking seven years out because it's easier for us to plan to get an idea of how much is really going to happen each year and the approximate cost of what that's going to look like as well. So, speaking of capital renewal projects, I thought it'd be good to just overview some of the projects that'll be taking place this summer. Um, so every year we do gym floor codings
054at all of our secondary gyms. It's always a fun coordination with the schools because our gyms are widely utilized over the summertime. Um, but those get done and ABM performs that for us. We have a regular schedule for parking lot ceiling and also repair. Um, so those locations and as you can see we use codes for our schools and it's the first three letters unless it's a high school. Um, so those are the locations up there. War is warehouse. Um, masonry steeler. We'll also be doing interior painting at Columbia Valley, Covington, and Union, which is going to be a big one. We have carpet replacement at Covington, um, which I I got a pitch on that one. Covington currently has carpet in their corridors. It's one of our only middle schools and actual schools that
055really has carpet in the corridors outside of elementary. When you think about the foot traffic, can only imagine what those carpets look like. We're actually going to be converting that to a floor like flooring tile. Um, so that is going to help so much. Um, I know the admin are very excited about that and the students are too because we actually surveyed the students to determine what colors and what design that will look like. Um, so that was really fun to kind of get them involved with that process. We'll be doing a fire panel replacement at Fischer's Landing because, believe it or not, those fire panels expire and they stop working eventually and we obviously need a fire panel. We're doing heat detector replacements at the locations listed. An elevator card readers are being added
056at Coington. It is the only middle school that doesn't have card readers on their elevators. And we'll be replacing boilers at Shahala, which I will actually overview momentarily. some larger capital projects. We will be doing the Evergreen High School kitchen and Commons tenant improvement and that will kind of start in the summer. We'll be actually going out to bid here shortly and go into the fall and I'll show you some photos of that. In addition to that, we will also be doing the Union High School. We be replacing all the rooftop units on each building. We'll be doing some HVAC controls, some boilers, and all of the lighting will be upgraded to LED. So, not only will we be addressing the HVAC was end of life, we'll actually all this work will be getting us
057into compliance with the clean buildings performance standard. Um, so Union High School is a school that is over 220,000 square feet and those locations are all set to be in compliance by June 1st of 2026. So, we will be ready to go. In addition to that, we are working with Cascadia Technical Academy to do a 100 building replacement. We're currently in pre-esign. We actually finished pre-esign last Friday. We received our deliverable from LSW architects who is the architect on the project and we're entering into schematic design. Skill centers are funded differently than regular K12 buildings. Um and so they their construction process is weird. pre-esign to them includes schematic design and then their construction portion starts at design development through the end of construction closeout which is interesting. So they'll know if they're funded for
058the actual project for the construction portion of it after the legislative session concludes. Uh the Evergreen High School project is funded by the federal USDA funds that are required to be spent by the nutrition services program and the union high school work is funded by the capital funds program. So I wanted to show some renderings of the Evergreen High School kitchen and commons improvement project. So this is the servery and the kitchen. So it's a complete remodel of the kitchen. It's pretty exciting for them. they're taking advantage of kind of more of the space and if you can if you notice it mirrors what Mountain View High School looks like. So when we had we had visited Mountain View High School during their lunchtime to really see the flow and it just works significantly better
059than what Evergreen High School has currently. Here's more of the common side, adding some more of the natural wood elements. We also did some student engagement on this project, too, and a lot of the students were definitely pulled to that more natural greenery, kind of calming, but also a demand for more lighting, for sure. And this is just a example of some programmatic relationships from the Cascadia Technical Academy project. So in pre-esign we do what we call bubble diagrams. And it's basically just showing the relationship between the main shop, what an outside work area would be if you had restrooms, offices, and classrooms. The example you're seeing here is for diesel technology, but we did one for every single space that is included in the 100 building, which the 100 building um houses diesel, automotive,
060criminal justice, and the construction program. Um so a pretty unique conglomerate of programs there. And it's been actually quite fun working and doing the pre-esign process which includes a ton of collaboration with students and teachers and just kind of developing what it could be. Um, so now from that, like I mentioned, we'll move into the schematic design process where we actually start to see drawings of moving basically from that and creating it into an actual drawing and seeing what it could be like. And that concludes that. Are there any questions on that portion? I have a excuse me, I have a quick one on Cascadia. Where is it going to be built? So, interesting, right? Um, so Cascadia um 100 is the furthest building in the back. It is the furthest building pushed to the
061west side of the property, right? The parking lot is on the east side. We would be building in place on the parking lot. we have to keep the existing 100 building open and occupied. Um, so it's going to be quite the squeeze, but it is possible. Um, so we're currently working on um getting our geotech out there to really sample those areas and survey to really see can we actually squeeze this bad boy in there. I think I am confident that we can and LSW architects and our structural engineers and our civil engineers are pretty confident as well. So it will be um as you have seen with most construction that takes place when the building is still occupied. It will be a coordination effort especially on the parking side. So we're already discussing hey
062how can we do some temporary parking maybe in the grassy field um to absolutely address that for the students and staff. So that's kind of where we're proposing at this point. Well, yeah, because they also have the fire exit at the end of that. Exactly. Yep. We'll have to keep a loop. Okay. It'll be there. It'll be fine. Thanks, Nicole. And what would be the timeline for that? If we get approved, so if they get approved, funding, our schematic design process will go through the beginning of August. We will continue on basically. So, we would probably, we haven't actually scheduled out beyond that point because we don't know if we're funded yet. Um, but pro I would imagine we would kick off summer of 2026. That school year will have the parking problems you predicted
063then. Yeah. Well, I'm just trying to think. We we we talked about um bringing region six to the um to the culinary program for uh WASDA region six meeting next year and and uh there will need to be parking for that. Well, there or another school and just have the culinary students cater it wherever we're at. That would work too. Hi, Nicole. On the report, um, everything was like basically 80% or better, all the buildings, and there was one outlier, Union building 300. Do you know what the issue might be there? I'd have to look specifically at the details within the detailed report, but I' I'd be happy to look at that and get back to you. Yeah. Um, and thank you for your answers to the Mountain View um, building commissioning report that Absolutely.
064It's an agenda. Thanks. You're so welcome. I just want to, I guess, commend everybody because some of these buildings are 30 years old now. Pioneer Elementary is 30 years old and uh still in the shape that it's in is is uh worth praise. It's Thank you for the hard work that you and everyone has done. Absolutely. Thank you. I'll definitely extend that to maintenance, too, because they're the ones that are really they're doing the dayto-day. So, we get the bigger stuff in facilities. Any other questions? Thank you. Thank you. You are going to do theformational item too though. Yes. So, I'm going to stay up here because I also submitted anformational item in regards to our claim buildings performance standard. So, we had um originally come to the board I think back in July um
065for the firstformational item and that was for the Union High School work. This one is to add in Shahala Middle School Boilers. Um, and the reason for that is, and why we didn't have it before, um, when we were coming in for the Union High School stuff, is we over probably mid school year, uh, we discovered that Shaha had a failing boiler. Um, and so we were like, okay, we'll just buy a new boiler. Well, not so simple because they're so outdated and original to the school that you can't actually acquire that same boiler anymore. putting in a brand new boiler alongside the existing because there's still one more boiler there. They're not going to speak to each other, if you will. So, we went ahead and decided, hey, we have an opportunity to go
066ahead and just scoop this into our clean building stuff. So, we're doing we have an existing contract with Department of Enterprise Services. Um, and so we can put that work into there and then go directly to an energy services contractor or an ESCO which we've been working with will energy and get that work done for a much basically it'll be faster. We save monies on project management because we're kind of looping it into that same phase. So theformational item is basically to just make the board and the district aware that we are going to be looping that in. Um we will then receive an amended investment grade audit report and energy services proposal which will detail the actual cost of that. So it'll basically get looped into the existing one with Union High School that
067you've already seen and approved. Once that is approved, then we will then amend the contract that we have with department of over enterprise services. So you'll see both of these set of documents in the upcoming board meetings. Are there any questions on that one? Not specifically on that one, but uh I wonder if you could just share the status of the music uh room expansions that are taking place. I think it's Heritage and and Union, right? Union and Evergreen. Evergreen. Thank you for the correction. So, we are actually so close. Um, we actually have final inspection for temporary certificate of occupancy at Evergreen High School tomorrow. So, assuming that all goes well and we get our clearance from the city, we should be able to have that building turned or that portion of the building,
068the addition turned over to us on Monday. Um, so that's pretty exciting for Evergreen Union High School. We were on the same schedule, but they did the city did not accept our sprinkler test that we did over spring break. They want us to do it again. Um, so we're back we're back to getting that scheduled. It's an item in a test that we have to do either right before school or on a weekend um because we are obviously scheduling around students and staff and events and all the fun stuff. So, we'll be getting that scheduled. So, Union, we're probably maybe a couple more weeks off depending on how that all goes. But they look absolutely beautiful and when they are ready to go, I'm be happy to take you all to go see them. I
069really look forward to that. Yeah, they turned out really, really nice. Any other questions? Thank you very much. Yes, thank you so much. Next item on our agenda is our student board representative report. Turn it over to our student reps. Do you want the clicker or do you just want to put that up here? Yeah. And then just make sure you speak into the microphone so they can hear it. Okay. Good evening. Good evening. Tonight, me and one of the other student advisory committee members, Suhab Kadus, he'll be joining me today and we're both going to share about some youth choose survey from Heritage. So, we've seen lots of improvements throughout the last couple years. First, my school has helped me understand the steps I need to take in order to have the career I
070want. There's lots of green and improvement from our freshman, juniors, and seniors. Next, this is just some of the percentiles. We've grown from 39th to 48th and 2023 2025. Next, what I learned in class helps me outside of school. We see growth in every grade level, especially from 2023 to 2025. I think we're kind of getting the vision. Lots of green. Again, um this is all of our scores from all the categories, engagement, culture, etc. And we've seen a lot of change and the reasons behind the improvement explanary student leaders. For example, we have ASB, which stands for associate student body, which in other schools call it leadership. ASB we call ASB. clubs, multiple athletic programs, and a dual language program and more. Taking the uh taking to heat the idea of the big three
071to heart, at Heritage, we are encouraged to find three staff that we can go for for any questions and support. For example, my big three are, I would say, Philip Scamlhorn, uh Miss Bledsoe, and Mr. Chris. Um, join the pack messaging from day one. High percentage of T-Wolves are involved in multiple activities, a stat we take great pride in. Number four, a collective teacher effort to nudge students in the margins towards learning goals and a sense of belonging. Number five, hardworking student management and security team with heart. Number six, security pass. more kids in class mo more of the time has uh school feeling safer. Number seven, great restorative and relational work at the re-entry program equipping students to return to school with a stronger behavioral skills. We're excited to see the improvement in our
072school community and we know that all the schools are working to make similar improvements. Do you have any questions we can answer or anything else you want to address? First off, thank you very much. Um, what is a securely pass? So, we basically get this app on our phones and before we have to like go to the bathroom, go get water, we have to put the teacher room coming from and then where we're going in the building and it goes to all the security as well as our teachers and they have to accept it for us to go. Can you explain number five um a little bit? Like the hardworking student management? Is that like students that are working with the security team? Is there a program in place? No, just us working hard in
073class, outside of class during our um activities and just things like that. Can I add to that? Yes. Security team with heart. I would say me personally as a student at Heritage, I have such a close relationship with all the staff uh and specifically the security team because of all they do for us students. Every single time I walk in the hallways, it's always a fist bump. Hi, how are you doing? And I feel like a lot of our students are really close with security too because they always want to make sure our school is safe and uh just overall safe environment where they could talk about anything and that's basically what I say with security team with heart. Thank you. I love seeing all the improvements. Um I know it takes a great deal
074of work and student leaders like yourself to make sure that that's happening throughout the school. So thank you both very much. Thank you. Any other questions? Um on the um big three for like identifying the three teachers, counselors that you know you can go to and um feel safe with. Um this is probably a hard question, but do you think it's like over and over the same group of three or four or five or do you think it's widespread as far as the teachers and counselors that they pick, the students are picking? Um, I'd say for me every year it's been a different set of teachers. Like I'll have a new one, but also be able to add on to who I already have. So I think it's wide widespread. Yeah. My guess is probably
075because all of the students are in different classes and so there would be it would be different for everybody because they all have a different experience. Yeah. Based on what classes that they're taking. Yep. Anything else? Nope. And this was Heritage High School specific. Thank you. Uh, appreciate it. Appreciate your work. Thank you very much. Next up, we have uh Craig Burbach with our good news report. I thought I could do it with one hand, but I cannot. Good evening board of directors and Dr. Maloney. And I am going to start as always. I love doing the good news report. I am going to start with the story that uh Dr. Maloney was talking about at Archway. And I want to just say it was a timing thing. Our superintendent schedule is very busy and
076trying to make an appointment with the dog was even busier. So, uh, I went with I went with Let's just say Craig, her dogs have enough awards, right? They do. My dog has never won any award. I can promise you that. Um, but the story uh that we did uh share today is on Archway Academy. Students are in the pet treat business. And I know many of us here do know that um that Archway students, they sell pet treats, mostly dog treats, but they are making cat treats now and others. Um but the the program Creature Creations has really grown into almost an entire uh business for the students. Not only do they make them from scratch, then bake them uh and then package them. Um they also now they market them. They have a
077website, they do uh marketing flyers and um and the students, some students work on that. And then this year they added delivering. So, there are students and volunteers that um they have to map it out on city buses to get on the buses to find the schools that are on bus routes. Um all of our schools now are able to purchase um outside people as well, but uh all our schools have it set up and um the school and the staff wanted to to uh say thank you to fiscal services because they helped work with them that on that and CTE obviously also supports this program. These are work site experiences. Everybody at Archway has to have a work site experience. And for people who don't know, that's our transition program serves 18 to 22-year-old
078students. Um, and they're teaching them life skills. And one of the big things they're trying to do is help prepare students for future paid employment or some of them now currently have jobs while they still go to the program. So, I do uh encourage everyone to watch this uh story and see how um this gets done with the help of some really supportive staff members. uh one teacher Nora who kind of started it and now she says she's handed it off to um Josh uh pareducator who has really taken it to another level. So um it's really great uh program and the dogs do love the treats. Last week Columbia Valley Elementary School hosted Science on Wheels. Uh this is a traveling exhibit from the Pacific Science Center in Seattle and it starts out um
079in the morning for with a an all school assembly where people from the Pacific Science Center show the entire school some uh experiments and talk about science and STEM and then it's an all day experience. So in the library, you could see the pictures here of all these interactive experiences where students were learning about magnets, about gravity, um, and other things that I don't understand. Uh, and they were really enjoying them. And the students really do get to do these on their own. There are staff and volunteers there. Uh, but the experience are set up where the students can do it themselves and and kind of learn and they do it together. So you hear them kind of like talking about, you know, oh no, we got to do this or we got to do
080that. And then also in the gym, uh, one of the, uh, um, educators from the Pacific Science Center does additional, uh, lessons. This one there that I captured was about hearing. So, this is the second year they've had that. And, um, I want to make sure to, uh, give a special recognition to Columbia Valley's um, parent organization that helped uh, solidify getting this group there. Over at Ellsworth Elementary School. Yep. This is at Ellsworth Elementary School. You can see these pictures. This is the the Jungle Book play they put on. They have a new staff member there, Mr. who uh work with staff um and families to help build this beautiful set that was in the gym. And uh the fifth graders performed and it was really cool. During the day, they had what they
081called a dress rehearsal, which was an entire performance uh assembly for the school before they had their prime time performance uh for um families at night. Uh just really really beautiful. Uh Aaron Winterong who is our best photographer took these pictures and really able to share the colors and what existed there. York Elementary School just one of our many schools that do this wonderful they do a book parade kind of thing where you dress up as your favorite book character and uh principal Don Harris got in the act there and had a twin. Ilia Elementary School had a talent show and um all our talent shows are great. I will say that I've been to quite a few. I have to say that this was one of the most amazing talent show experiences I've ever
082seen at elementary school. They had mimes. Uh you could see that one girl's face as she's watching. She was watching this uh young man here doing the the dice stacking thing with a cup. I've never seen anything like it. He was absolutely amazing. Um they had vaudeville acts. They had dance uh comedy. Uh a very impressive uh talent show there. Sunset Elementary School had the Pegasus Puppet Theater come and perform for their students. They really, really enjoyed it. Uh, some special recognitions. Legacy High School has a uh students learning how to do ceramics and they had a ceramic showdown at Battleground High School where they competed. Don't ask me how you judge ceramics. I don't know. But and I also don't know what a coil competition is, but I do know that Legacy is awesome
083at it. They finished uh second place. So, I didn't research that. And finally, of course, we good news would not be complete without uh talking and bragging about one of our music programs and Heritage High School. Yay, Heritage. Um their uh vocal jazz ensemble took first place and got the most outstanding ensemble ensemble award at the commencement Bay Jazz Festival. And we do have a recording of that uh of their performance. Any questions? Were you gonna play the recording? I I was not, but you can you could do it long. It's it's on the YouTube channel to to listen and the video, too. Yeah. Thank you. We need we need to get the link to how we get these uh dog treats. So, if you watch the story, there's a QR code. All right. Uh
084you can also find it on the Archway website on the top thing. They have uh Creature Creations as a subpage for them. Thank you. Next item on our agenda is board comments. I will um because we don't have a workshop, I will say that um for calendaring purposes, I've um passed along to everybody a list of all the things we have coming up. We are very very busy. There's also a list of all the exciting graduations coming up, but we also have a couple of meetings that we need to schedule. Lori has sent out a um doodle poll for us to fill out just to make sure that we can get what the last date nailed down. But just please go over this and if you have any questions, let me know. Anyone else? Uh
085just two things. I just want to uh follow up on the the foundation gala. It was really nicely done event. um was able to attend and it was fun to see so many students and families there and um seemed like everybody had a really good time and it sounds like they had a successful night raising money and then also u director Wilson and I will be at Evergreen High School tomorrow morning to do um breakfast with the board so I'm excited for that. Should I start talking? Uh I noticed uh the emerald flood while I was driving past to another engagement uh separate from anything else uh having to do with the schools. Um and I because that school is within short walking distance of my house, I kind of I dropped by just to
086see how they were doing. Uh, and uh, I was as equally impressed as you are with the way that everybody came together to make sure that school kids could get back in school the very next day. Um, I met Michelle and uh, she's she's hoping to be treated well for coming in so early. Uh, and and I I can't imagine that she won't be. She's uh, a great asset and and contributor to the school environment. Um, Marty um from facilities, what's his last name? Madria. Okay. Marty Madria. He took me aside and we got into a technical discussion outside the school about, you know, what it was that broke and uh what they were doing to fix and prevent and so forth. And I I appreciate uh his efforts to make sure I that I
087understand what went on. While there, they were very busy and everybody was there that needed to be there and the people who needed to come back in to Darcy was calling uh Darcy Mitchellson was calling teachers back in so that they could talk about what it is they needed for their classroom on the next day. Um, and she's she's the type of person who uh will she never puts on a dog and pony show. So, I was seeing the real thing going on and and the work that they were doing and uh uh again, praise for efforts and and just gratitude for the way that they pay attention to the environment that they're preparing for our kids. Um, surprisingly, not a lot of uh instructional materials were damaged and so that was fortunate, too. and
088and just uh just really happy to see things working on all cylinders like that in a great school. Um she did ask questions about the waiver which you answered tonight and showed us and here's hoping OSPI agrees. And that's that's about it for Emerald for me. Um I also have a legislative update. Maybe uh to supplement this, could you forward the note that uh Mr. Gonoski sent? Yes. uh to the whole board so you can see where we are. Um and as I had that ready and getting it out what we find is that that a lot of bills are have passed. A lot of policy bills that didn't really have a cost and weren't necessary to implement the budget either passed or failed. Um and there are uh two bills remaining on special education
089and MSOC funding. uh Senate 5263 and Senate uh for special education and Senate 5192 uh for materials um and operating costs. um the optimism we might have felt about very large increases in the special education funding multipliers um have been pulled back which one really expects uh during a legislative session is that it is always a back and forth um and the legislature right now is uh in the uh I guess the 14 or 11 day period where they're talking budget and a lot of that just happens behind closed doors after all the other bills have passed. 56 5263 is scheduled on the House floor for a vote. Um exactly when that happens is it's a very fastmoving couple of days when they do their floor votes. Um so exactly when that'll happen is not
090known to me, but there is still time uh to uh supply some advocacy if needed uh and see if we can get folks to agree that the multiplier should be a little higher. I imagine it'll have to go back into concurrence with the Senate and so there's still some back and forth to do. Um what they said about MSOC is that the appropriations committee stripped uh that bill of about $175 million in MSOC funding and its status just checking is that it is also on the floor for a vote. So I'm seeing two bills uh that address two of our biggest funding priorities. Uh, and they're going to have to keep talking. They're going to have to reconcile the differences between what the House passed and what the Senate passed. Even more so, uh, more
091to come along those lines. Um, the rest of the board should have the email that I had forwarded to Director Perkins. We should have that. Now, House Bill 2050 included something called an aortionment shift and looks like it's still in the House in committee. Uh but there is that doesn't mean that it it won't happen because it can be easily placed into the budget bill. Uh but it could change uh the funding that gets delivered to us and cause some cash cash flow concerns and problems if uh we're not careful and uh don't plan for it. Uh this is done by just help me out if I miss detail here, but this is what they're doing is that they're uh loading more of the funding uh into June, July, and August uh rather than uh
092aortioning it out in equal monthly installments. Um which lets them put those that spending into next year instead of this year. Uh, and it makes the budget look better. Washington budgets have to balance. So, it's one of the things that they've done in the past, I think, going all the way back to like the Great Recession and stuff is that they they've moved funding so that a bigger chunk of it comes in July and August than uh in the months where we actually need it. So, we'll have to maintain our savings and so forth there and and just pay attention to that. [Music] Um, and I think those are those are those are the biggest things to be thinking about is is uh 5263, 5192, and 2050. um to see if that language ends up
093in the budget bill uh either as a change for the two years or as a proviso um which is a term that means that they just suck something in for this next year um and still stuff remaining to be seen but it's it's proceeding about the way that I thought it would um and hopefully uh once they do have the budget passed maybe we can get together in a workshop and um talk about what the effects are um at the appropriate time because we will have to approve a budget based on it in August. I just wanted to mention um last week we got an email the board and Dr. Maloney about um I guess in orchards there were 60 homes that were um without water for several days and uh the concerned person was
094concerned about the students not being able to you know have water for that long and how it might affect their um educational opportunities and um Dr. Maloney you jumped in went be above and beyond the call of duty and got the city involved and helped facilitate it. So, it's just amazing that, you know, with all you have to do, you jumped in there as well. So, thank you. Yeah, there was um a lot of people, you know, we jumped in and made some phone calls and those type of things. And I do want to um recognize Marty because he drove out there um as well and did a report to to me um back saying that, you know, hey, there's nobody here and I see an open area that there's pipes exposed, etc. And so,
095um, we and he was also making phone calls as well. So, there was several people that helped and some entities that jumped in and so they got their water back. So, that was great. Yeah. Now we know what to do if there's a water issue. Call the superintendent. That was two two water issues within seven days with with good outcomes both times. All right. I want to thank our community members for coming and joining us tonight. I see that we have a former student board representative visiting us. Hi, nice to see you. Um, and also want to thank the teachers from Silverstar, the staff members at Silverstar for coming to join us tonight as well. It is 6:56 and the board is going into a short recess to sign documents followed by an executive session
096to review the performance of a public employee. This meeting is adjourned. [Music]