001thank you all for joining us this evening we're going to go ahead and call tonight's meeting to order the time is 5 30 if you could join us in 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 thank you for that all right and then our land acknowledgement and jackie jacqueline evergreen public schools resides on the traditional lands of the chinookian peoples and the cowards tribe they have lived on and cared for this land and its waterway 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
002you okay next on the agenda is to adopt tonight's agenda i move to adopt tonight's agenda as presented second moved and second in all those in favor aye aye any opposed okay next is our presentation for our bond cell and i'm going to go ahead and turn it over to mr mike mark pressing technology sorry hold on that one's a little finicky give us a second she'll bring you out a microphone are we there now okay good so my i work with the sd-112 my name is mark pressing i'm the district's financial advisor so i help the district in all bond related items and tax rate planning and that sort of thing we've been working with the district now for quite some time including uh before the authorization in 2018 the voters approved the sale
003of 695 million dollars of bonds to finance capital facilities so this is another sale of that um of that so i'm here tonight to really answer questions you may have about this next sale have a brief presentation but if i don't cover what you are interested in please let me know at your next meeting will be faith pettis that's your legal counsel and she'll be leading you through the bond resolution which is actually your formal action uh that will authorize the district to undertake the bond sale so i'll scroll through this again i'm going to talk a little bit about the bond market and where we are and the goals that we've had for the bond sale really back in 2016-17 where we started working on this projects and then the bond tax rates associated
004with that and then where we go next as you've been listening to the news bond interest rates have been really quite volatile lately as everybody's worried about inflation and volatility really is the ward we've had uh interest rates go up and down but they're higher than they were uh last summer but still relatively low so you can see we're still much lower than there were back in 2016 when we were looking at the bond planning so it's in good shape we're in good shape and we plan for some contingency in there so it's still a really good time to be financing these projects on behalf of district taxpayers the volatility though i think does warrant some additional flexibility and i'll talk about how we're going to accommodate that in this sale compared to the last
005sales so when um voters were told what this was going to cost them over time it was going to be a tax rate of 1.77 cents per thousand for the bonds we're going to be below that we're going to try to lock in 60 million dollars of the remaining 95 million dollars left of the authorization we've been working with the district construction staff the superintendent jennifer jacobson to define what the best amount is to fund that the irs doesn't want you to sell bonds too soon if you don't need the money uh and that we can strategically use this last sale then to kind of meet other other goals so we've been kind of really trying to work with superintendent superintendent to identify what those goals are we're going to renew the district's credit rating
006with moody's investor service your right now is a double a3 very good credit rating so we hope we'll maintain that and you'll also participate in the washington school bond guarantee program by paying 100 the state of washington and applying they will be your co-signer on your loan essentially so if you miss a payment they'll make the payment investors really like that and that allows you to get lower interest rates because of that and how we're going to increase the flexibility in this sales last the last sales we've been using what's called a competitive sales competitive bidding process we're going to go move this over to a negotiated sales what i've recommended to the superintendent in your resolution would include authorization to do that and with that we bring the underwriter team ahead in ahead of
007time and negotiate the interest rates with them and the underwriting team would be consistent of d.a davidson as lead and piper sandler as the co-manager what that does is that allows us to again kind of think of a building project if there's some unknowns it's nice to have the builder on site to go through things rather than say here's what you're going to build and then find out that isn't going to work we utilize this today we're in the market with north shore school district for 150 million dollars and we use negotiated sale and it worked out really well because we had 30 million dollars at the end of this order period that wasn't sold to investors and we were able to refine how we were structuring the financing to get to to rework that
008so the investors got what they wanted so it'll give us some additional flexibility but it's a little bit different than what we've done before these are the graph of the district's tax rates over time and you'll see how they've been trending down and our goal in this one again working closely with superintendent boyd is to make sure that we hit the tax rate voters were told to expect in the last operating election we can adjust your bond payments a little bit different than the home mortgage we can adjust them where we want to be in different years so we're going to use this sale to make sure that we hit that uh tax rate so we kind of hit the promise of for voters there the numbers behind us i don't need to go into
009this too much in your packet but it's just all the calculation factors that we'd put in i'm happy to discuss them if you'd like the bottom line is this dollar 77 you'll see in the blue column about the middle total bonds we're going to be a dollar sixty next year to dollar forty eight after that so clearly well below what voters are told to expect so we're meeting the expectations while still funding the projects uh for um for the district again just the numbers behind kind of tax amounts and happy to go through this and again i'm here tonight to answer questions um and then the next meeting on august 23rd would be your legal counsel who would walk you through the bond resolution and if you have any questions on that specifically that would
010be your official action we'd have a call with the rating service in september and october 25th be selling bonds and closing around november 8th so that's kind of the process that we have going forward any questions i appreciate the lower rate i know oh yeah i appreciate it and i'm sure everybody else uh all of our taxpayers appreciate it as well yeah it's a it's going to be i'm looking forward to a good result it's really a pleasure to work with the with you uh you know i've been doing it now for for quite a while so it's nice to be here this evening it looks like you're very popular this evening so thank you a little bit i could ask you a couple of things though um on your uh page with key inputs
011is that a projection of interest rates for this year's the current rates plus 25 um or 0.25 percent um the meaning of that is a so a little uh hope to me yeah so um for example when we're in the market today we're sold bonds we we know what today's interest rates are and rates move on a daily basis and really hourly basis so we have to say when we're projecting tax rates we have to um some things and one of them is what our interest rate's going to be we're going to say well interest rates are going to be a little bit higher than they were today for this first sale but then quite a bit higher for the next sale and in order to be conservative one of the biggest things we have
012to put in for an input when you talk about tax rates it's the amount you're levying divided by the assessed value of the district that assessed value is going to um grow quite a bit this year the initial projection is almost 17 growth and assessed value of the district this year so that's one of the other factors we have to consider so trying to build a cushion in um to make sure that we again these rates that we're talking about that we're going to be able to achieve those and i'm very confident that we will be able to do that okay the credit ratings for the district in the state um you talk is aa3 higher or lower than aaa and by how much so a double a3 as we call it is two notches
013below so it's aaa for moody's and double a1 double a2 double a3 and you're in the double a3 category it's a very good rating um but getting the state's aaa rating they don't get any higher than aaa so getting that as your co-signer is a really good deal so you you pay a little bit higher than the state of washington when you borrow but not that much maybe 0.10 in the state of washington because of that rating without that uh credit enhancement you would have a higher interest rate on your bond so it's very good rating moody's has changed their methodology for rating washington schools they're putting pressure on districts and there's been a number of downgrade just on there purely on their methodology um so you know we may have some conversations around that
014but i don't see any foreseen issues there okay thank you any other questions thank you mark great it's happy to be here thank you very much all right next is our board consent agenda let's entertain a motion i move for approval of the board consent agenda seconded all those in favor aye okay any opposed next is the superintendent's consent agenda entertain a motion the move approval of the superintendent's consent agenda as presented second all those in favor thank you any opposed okay on to the superintendent report well thank you and i just have a quick report we had a wonderful week of professional development with our school leaders they're primed and ready to one go out and just focus their schools and their energy around math improvement for our district there's some excitement and some
015energy with two days of professional development june and then two more this week and then we had um dr tammy campbell who's helping us deepen and strengthen our strategic plan come in with our leaders and and she uh really lit a fire of excitement around them doing that work as well over the course this year so i'm excited about that we had a superintendent leadership team other formerly known as the cabinet team retreat which we focused on just team building and setting the stage for the year of our work making sure that we are aligned and focused and supporting our schools in the way that they need to in order to get equitable outcomes for our students so that was a phenomenal day of uh work together for us just also so proud of the
016work that this board is doing spending time volunteering their time to come together and lead in a strong way so i'm appreciative of that thankful for that and our systems really aligning from the board from the classroom to the boardroom and it really gives me a lot of pleasure and a lot of hope for our future and the future of our students achieving any great even greater heights and uh that was the best pledge of allegiance that i've ever heard thank you for that that was gave me chill bumps and uh wanted to just uh thank you all for that and then i'm looking forward to the start of school uh my tradition is to ride the bus in on a school and i will do that i'll call director gaylord and get a uh
017get a route and hopefully they'll pick me up my house and get me to school and so it's always a fun day for me so looking forward to that and also looking forward to the opening of of our new schools heritage and why east and and mountain view to watch those excited to watch those students walk into our brand new beautiful buildings which are made possible by the generosity of our community with the the proceeds of the bond so that's my report thank you as a parent i for one am ready for school to start also yes next is our budget presentation go ahead and turn this over to jennifer jacobson um do you have the microphone good evening to the board and superintendent boyd i'm just here to do a brief presentation of the
0182223 budget i do want to mention that we do have an f-195 posted on our website so if you go to our website under district resources under budget and fiscal services you can click on there's three different links one is the full f195 it's 180 pages so it's quite a read we also have the f195f which is this the four-year forecast and then also the budget supplement so the supplement is something evergreen has has published for many years it shows graphs and kind of more user-friendly interpretation of the budget so those are all out there on our website for anyone to see so i'll go ahead and get started with so should this be up here as well thank you all right we always start with enrollment here because uh enrollment is really what drives
019our revenue um most of our our revenue is driven by student fte so this shows you the trend over the last eight years you can see between we were on a downward trend in 1617 1718 by about four to 500 students but then 1920 is when the pandemic hit and between then and 2122 we've dropped over 2000 student fte so in today's dollars we receive almost ten thousand dollars per fte in state funding that's about 20 million dollars drop in revenue we're anticipating another decline of about 250 students next year so this budget is based on the 22 744. so just a big overview of our general fund budget summary um we have a fund balance of about 28 million and we expect to spend about 417 million in expenditures next year i split out
020the fund balance account so you can see that certain certain parts of the fund balance are restricted our cte program our skills center our food service program those are all kind of their own cost center so any revenue brought in and generated by those programs has to stay within that program so they can have their own reserve and then the rest of it is to meet our five percent minimum fund balance policy so we we knew going into next year that we're going to have to make some pretty big budget reductions uh we had lost you know like i said over 2000 student fte but we had kept pretty consistent staffing over the last couple of years so we knew we needed to make some adjustments for that drop in enrollment we made 14 million
021dollar cuts in basic education and about 5.8 million across our categorical funds mostly special ed ell and then there are certain positions in esser and certain grants so our staffing there was a net reduction in 110 certificated in admin and 17 across our classified staffing so revenue sources you can see comparison from last year's budget to next year's there aren't really any new big streams of revenue coming in we do have a little bit of extra taxes coming in but overall you know our funding is pretty consistent year to year whoops sorry um and then i just have a pie chart to show kind of the percentage so our portion of it uh makes up about 56 percent of our basic head funding and you can see the epno tax is 10 that's the levy
022that was just passed so that makes a pretty significant portion of revenues coming in expenditures by program so even though we reduced basic ed by 14 million due to inflationary factors we still have a small increase in basic ed expenses next year as well as special ed and i kind of segregated esr federal funds so you can see the estimated amount of federal sr funds will plan to use next year and i have a slide that goes into more detail on what those funds are used for so but we do only have one more year of esser funds so excuse me expenditures by object certificated salary makes up about 45 of our total budget classified as 15 and then the benefits for those two is 23 percent so when you combine those three you come
023up with almost 84 percent of our expenditures are spent on salary and benefits and then i also want to point out that we do contract out custodial and nutrition services and those are primarily also salary and staffing and that's another four and a half percent of the budget so about 88 of our budget is spent on salaries benefits this graph just shows how much the state funds versus how much per student we spend of basic head money on you know per student so you can see the state if they have an inflationary factor of five percent we have all kinds of inflationary factors that that increase our expenses by even more and so that gap kind of raises and really those are levy funds for the most part that make up that difference so okay
024as far as our esr federal funds the total allocation was about 64 million we received right you know in three different sr one two and three um grant applications uh mostly in 2019 and 2020 so we only have till the end of 2024 to spend those funds out so we're expecting to spend another 20 million of them in 2223 and that will only leave 8 million left for 23.24 and down below i kind of give you an idea of what those funds were spent on for 2122. so it was primarily staff um we did pay for enhanced cleaning out of this it was about half a million dollars so that was very expensive and of course ppe and devices that we needed during remote learning so so the four-year forecast um my the main thing
025i want to highlight here are that our esser funds are going to be spent out after the following year and we don't have any foreseeable new revenue streams our property taxes will you know under local go up a little bit each year we will get a little additional state funding for inflationary factor and for a little bit for our nurses and counselors for the prototypical model but other than that we are facing some reductions in the next two years and then just a brief brief summary of other funds so general fund is just for operations of the district we also have our capital projects fund so this is what's funding all of the buildings out there this is what our bond sales go towards and this is what um mark preston was just talking about
026this will all go into capital projects fund so we are going to have another 60 million dollar issue in the fall debt service fund is only to pay the bonds so that is the sole purpose of that fund isv of course's associated student body fund and then we have our transportation vehicle fund which is only to be used on purchasing buses so and that's it so do you have any questions i think if you wouldn't mind i think it'd be really important for people to understand the difference between what the state funds versus you know so and then when they give us the inflationary increase how that only affects the money that they give us but not the other money right so uh roughly the state it's quite complicated but the stable camp will basically
027fund us for say x number of certificated staff and y number of classified staff but it's based on a certain salary that they set not on what we've set so for each of those units of staff we are paying 20 over what the state is funding so uh not all of that funding um covers the costs of our staff okay so that's why it's imperative we have a levy to help us with that discrepancy and jennifer can you put it into perspective 28 million dollars of a fund balance um can you put that in perspective and i know not to throw out numbers so that's why i'm asking for the number i get in trouble with you can you put that in perspective of how much payroll is based on competition so our monthly payroll
028and ap that runs through our books right now is running between 30 31 million a month so having a fund balance of 28 million is is is very low very low most districts our size have a fund balance i think i looked and averaged about 42 million and that helped with cash flow because we do have certain months where property taxes come in and we'll have a large cash flow of other months where we have no property taxes so we are really on the you know we can't go lower than than that our overall fund balance we wouldn't be able to have the cash for payroll and yeah so is that a factor in the last credit rating assessment moody stood for us it was yeah how big of a factor we actually got reduced
029our credit rating got reduced because our fund balance wasn't high enough so it's like really comparable just like having a one month emergency fund if you're thinking like a household budget when they say like have two months and we've got one month that's correct yeah what kind of advocacy would be helpful to uh help us i guess get a little better safety margin yes and and as our expenses go up and that five percent minimum requirement in the board policy is going to go up we need to start planning to increase fund balance just to meet our our minimum balance policy so we're going to need to identify or advocate for new revenue sources and i think the bulk of that is the state house we have to be i i'm talking aloud here i'm
030not giving out work items or anything we have to be very clear about what it means to take that risk however large or small it is and balance that with our desire to uh to take care of our people right so if you have some feedback or or suggestions as we get into the legislative cycle in the next year i think we need to be talking about it absolutely yeah and just to give the legislature a little bit of a shout out they did provide us with how many i'm not going to say the number again how many dollars of enrollment mitigation funds this year last year we received 12 million in enrollment stabilization and 2 million in levy equalization stabilization funds that we will not receive that again next year i mean they they
031seem to make it very clear at the end of the session that that was a one-time safety net that the districts needed to figure it out and even with that 12 million dollars of additional funds we had felt like we needed to make 20 million dollars worth of cuts just to get us to that minimum fund balance so you know we just have the perfect storm of declining enrollment where esser funds are going away increased inflation which by eats away at some of the things that we have to we don't get fully covered for the state doesn't fund fully fund our salaries and and other things as well so all of those factors together um cause us to need to be really conservative okay thank you on the four-year forecast i've always find it fascinating
032how we have to project four years out when the state does an annual budget and revenue forecast and right and so um and it's kind of a guessing game kind of just based on what the projections have been and the percentages right right and with enrollment i mean there could be new mandates next year that are passed in the biennial budget that completely changed that i mean it's very difficult to forecast out that far so make a lot of assumptions in there with you know regards to inflation ipd enrollment all of that so besides the sr phones like how how close do you feel like we've been the last few years of making that forecast like if you look back historical uh that would be interesting i've only been here for yeah a short period
033of time but it would be just kind of see good to go back i think with covid that threw us in such a yeah odd thing with enrollment in that that it's probably yeah probably way close all the way off except for the sr funds that came in to help that yeah yeah this actually could be a question for you john is whether um that estimate of 300 fewer students for the next year i don't know you have over under or whatever on whether or not we'll be surprised by some of the other forces acting on families and uh see your return of students um and whether there's some data that we could uh we could gather and examine about why they're not here and where they went yeah we have i wish i could
034answer that question for you director perkins it's uh um i've asked it backwards and forwards and um you know they're just the bigger districts in the state of washington have lost significant enrollment um seattle edmonds um lake washington all across the state and uh nobody seems to have an exact answer birth rates are staying pretty constant um our enrollment for online courses across the state in our programs and others are high and we think that the private schools have captured um a little bit of fte from us and folks are holding their kids back potentially so it's just very difficult to predict during covid times um and uh last year the projection was almost 1600 below what we anticipated so we've tried to be more conservative this time not anticipating that the students are going
035to come back you know october 1st will have a really good sense even the first few days of schools will have a better sense of where we're landing in terms of enrollment and we're hopeful and we're trying to be a bit on the conservative side given the overprojections last year thank you any other questions for jennifer thank you thank you thank you for your report i said thanks to jenna you were talking to me okay next is air our phase three elementary boundary committee proposal and i believe that mr scott monroe is going to be presenting to us and bobby hyde mrs bobby height there's well good evening members of the board and superintendent boyd bobby heit and i your co-elementary directors are pleased to be here again just to give a brief overview or
036as as brief or as detailed as you want it to be with regard to phase three of this work and you can see the front page there of the proposal that's up that was presented by the parent committee in june it's also linked in your board packets and i know it's available to the public as well so it's not our intent bobby's in mind to go through it again because we know that you've seen it and it's available but it's at the ready in case we get questions and need to go to a particular slide or not so just a quick reminder that this is as the agenda states phase three of the work all tied to the passage of the 2018 bond that jennifer mentioned this particular phase is tied directly to both burton
037and mill plain elementary schools which are currently being rebuilt so in preparation for them being rebuilt and the increased capacity student capacity that comes with that bobby and i engaged a parent committee last november and december and met with them over the course of last winter and spring [Music] we engaged the public in some community forums both virtually and in person to get feedback and you all may recall that there were three or four suggestions that came out of that feedback that we considered one of those changes we did make which was to slightly revise the newly proposed dividing line if you will between endeavor and burton elementary schools and the other proposals that had to do with the proposed boundary line between crestline and mill plane elementary schools we considered and examined but ultimately
038decided not to recommend because they changed too drastically they reduced too drastically the number of students approximately that would move from crestline to mill plane mill plane has the increased capacity crest line we'd like to reduce a little bit so we kept it at our original proposal and so that was all presented uh to you folks in june um and uh so we're back bobby and i to uh just bring that up to speed answer any questions you have and go through anything that you would like or that the superintendent would like any questions on the board it was all discussed at workshop yet and i think you answered all my questions i wasn't here so i don't i i have a question and it's just kind of i just want to get a pulse
039on how the t committee is working um is everybody attending and participating and we're not running into any issues with membership of the committee kind of fading away no we had a little bit of fade away from from november to june you know we started strong and uh you know thing ha things happen life happens and so you know we did have a little bit of drop off there which was you know somewhat similar to the phase ii committee some of you may recall so bobby and i like to call it our core four we had four of the schools represented and those four folks stuck it out to the end and and were the ones that were here in june to present to you and then we were able to engage with those other
040school communities via those forums and via the online feedback process that i mentioned before okay thanks so overall we were pretty pleased especially under the circumstances with you know the pandemic and everything else when we heard from the committee members they all seemed to work really well together even though they were from four different schools and they all follow our guiding principles about you know what we're looking for for boundary changes as far as safety and portables and all of the things that that we ask for when they start the committee yeah we've been very fortunate over the course of all three to uh you know the principles of those schools working um you know with parents and gaining interest and then bringing folks forward and and really in all three phases of the work
041without exception all of those parent committee members were able to you know basically you know set aside their allegiance if you will to their school and include that but to look at the greater picture and ultimately recommend what was best you know starting out with of course right-sizing you know elementary schools per the board directive and throughout the course of the work making sure that the end result of that work in whatever form that it took would result in fewer students in portable classrooms and so just like the other two phases of the work this phase as it's currently proposed to the board will accomplish that goal i'm excited for the relief endeavor is going to experience what this change they need some relief and it's 170 students and they really need it yeah endeavor
042is projected to if you will right size by the most uh you know fur crest after uh being reduced in phase two of the work is set to regain a little bit of that and hearthwood also to gain a little bit of that there are a couple of our smallest schools and they'll still be small when this work is done if it goes through like this but a little bit less so and uh you know so it shrinks the gap or the range if you will between uh the largest school in this group and the smallest from over 300 students down to i think about 80 different so you know again we feel it's in keeping with the directives from the beginning of the board and the superintendent thank you any other questions from the
043board i'll go ahead and open it up to the audience does the audience have any questions all right scene none i'll go ahead and entertain a motion i move the board accepts the elementary boundary changes as presented for first reading and move it forward for a second reading and approval second moved and seconded all those in favor aye aye cut you off any opposed all right thank you scott we'll see you next meeting bobby thank you thank you okay next is our teaching learning and equity update and i believe dr charlene williams is here to give us that update oh there she is i couldn't see her i know i was like excellent um thank you um i want to give a brief update and john mentioned just an overview of my first 30 days
044here in the system i've been able to have over 28 meetings with schools and district leaders to get a pulse of what the needs are here in our system and the teaching learning and equity team has been able to align itself and address some of those needs as john has mentioned in our a week of professional learning last week it was outstanding and so we were talking about well how do we tease this out and present the equity part or the teaching and learning part the collaboration was so coherent all team members had a hand in the content and you could just really see the unity amongst the team and it showed in the results and and the responses and feedback we got from staff about the the impact the training had on them so
045i'll give you a couple of um oh and another key item was uh we got to tour mountain view and what was really exciting about that we had a visit from our former superintendent mr dieter who joined us and my daughter who's a graduate heritage high school and works for lsw took us with other members of the team to walk through that beautiful campus which i'm sure is going to be the envy of this in in the southwest washington so i'm really excited about the experience schools are going to have our students are going to have at that school on this campus specifically the professional learning on august 3rd and 4th really centered on our math outcomes and how we are going to align ourselves at a district level and a building level with our
046school improvement plan to focus on improving our student outcomes we were charged by our leadership to improve our scores by 13 percent and they have taken up that challenge we are working with some of our teacher leaders who understand and know best practices in mathematics and we were able to divide and support each of the schools throughout the training so we worked on and reflected on the essential practices that it enhanced and elevates students belonging in the classroom students belong in every classroom especially our math classrooms we discussed high quality math instructional practices that produce equitable outcomes and help meet growth and proficiency principals examine their data their s-bac data the state testing data and their i-ready data which is the internal mechanism that we use to assess on a progress monitoring basis so we're
047going to use the i ready assessment in the fall winter and the spring to see if we are on target to meet our goals with that we've had our schools identify a problem of practice so what in our practice can we improve so we get better outcomes for students and then we're crafting a theory of action so if ever we are up here using acronyms pop and toa and those kinds of things i just want to make sure that those terms are familiar to you um and yes as um mr boyd alluded to earlier dr tammy campbell gave a phenomenal uh presentation that just kind of affirmed and energized the team around this work about getting clear and specific about what the learning outcomes should be for students and then a little bit about our
048what we're going to call sip supporters so what is a sip a sip is a school improvement plan so if you hear us say sip supporters throughout the year that's what we're talking about our school improvement plan supporters so each of us at a cabinet level have been assigned three to four schools where we're going to lean in as a thought partner and a resource and a waymaker to help schools implement their school improvement goals we're going to look at best practices around defining goals we're going to look at are the actions they're taking one's likely to lead to the outcomes that we um we have we anticipate and we are meeting regularly to collaborate around what that support looks like so we don't have 13 people out here supporting schools 13 different ways so
049we're coming up with common protocols questions practices for school visits and supports and we're seeking feedback from our leaders around what's working so that's the update i have for you and i'm open to take any questions you may have at this time any questions no thank you very much thank you i'm so glad you're here all right number 10 on our agenda is just for informational only purposes that is our monthly financial statement so it can be found in board docs next is board comments anybody got comments i spent this last weekend at the washington state school directors association we had a board meeting did some strategic planning really was trying to align how they can better support school directors across the state and have a bigger impact on education in washington state and in
050the region actually i think i might have mentioned this before but i can't remember is that i've stepped off my role as a member of the legislative committee for wasda but not as a coordinating member of the federal relations network they're two separate committees and and that became necessary when i took a it's not a job i took a position on the parliamentary advisory committee which uh created or could create an optics problem or a conflict of interest problem if the person recommending what the rules should be is also benefiting or not benefiting from them i also received advice from uh avia westbrook the attorney there that i should in that role not hold the district's credential for the general assembly in september i i'll be in the meeting but if i could share that
051burden with one or two of you it's two-day meeting but it does get all the work done by the end of september uh and i'd appreciate it i'm happy to do it with any of you really i'm interested yeah can we i thought at one point we had actually talked about doing it as a like a group effort that's sit down and kind of go over everything and decide what where we want to go as a district since it's uh it's after our second meeting in september i think and so there's time but the handbook the legislative handbook has been published okay so it probably makes the most sense to be well that's a future agenda item but it would be for uh the two september meetings to have workshop and just go over the
052content and make sure that we're all right the amendment window uh if our district wanted to participate in amending or proposing an amendment to the positions uh we'll close before then but it's something that we could work on without needing to convene a public meeting i don't think we'd have to yeah i can just talk about that later yeah we get together and just kind of figure out something to of course yeah what that looks like or what's best to help in that position and if that's a team effort and we schedule a future agenda or future meeting okay any other board comments okay speaking of future agenda items any other future agenda items i'm actually interested in getting more information on enrollment declines and just sort of maybe what information we can pull out
053about where students are going um just other districts private school and you know online what do we have demographics of who those students are i can absolutely work on that you can think of a few ways to kind of triangulate around the data that we have to do that but it's a good workshop for sure yeah i agree and then at this time we'll go into our public comments so any community member wishing to address the board may do so during this designated time on the agenda for public comments as long as the comments are not personnel related or about an individual employee or student and are not legal in nature each speaker will be allowed three minutes to address the board comments are to be directed to the board of directors as a whole
054and may not be addressed to any individual member of the board the administrative staff or the audience please state your name and district affiliation if any when you come up to the microphone first on the list is janie haygood welcome thank you go ahead and test that no okay can you hear me yes perfect thank you school board members it's an honor to speak with you today my name is janie haygood and i've been a special education para educator for almost four years working in both the life skills classroom and the general education classroom for the evergreen school district i recently completed my elementary education teaching certification through the esd 112 esdu program as i searched local school districts for job openings i noticed a recurring theme in all of the districts the majority of
055the job opening postings were for para educators the demand is extremely high for this field but unfortunately the pay is not this job is depleting and dangerous yet also extremely rewarding over the years i have been hit kicked pinched punched slapped scratched bitten and attacked we work with children who have severe behavioral issues and disabilities after a day of work it often takes me multiple hours to decompress from the day's events it's a challenge to say the least paraeducators are a significant asset to our schools as we often work one-on-one with our students we get to know them extremely well we learn their triggers and their joys we see their struggles we form relationships with them they often feel comfortable to talk to us about things happening in their lives which allows us to guide
056and encourage them through these challenges as needed we relay these concerns to counselors teachers and staff to create support team for our students para educators are an invaluable asset to our students teachers and administration we are part of a critical team however we often get overlooked and ignored i was fortunate to have a husband who makes a livable wage unfortunately many other para educators do not have this luxury most of them have to work multiple jobs to make ends meet or live from home with their parents as they struggle living month to month para educators deserve better i'm grateful that we have a superintendent who has had experience as a paraeducator i believe his insight and understanding can help guide the evergreen school district in the coming years in closing i hope you'll recognize the
057value that our para educators bring to our schools and students as contract negotiations continue i urge you to please show paraeducators the same value and worth that they show our students every day thank you [Applause] [Music] thank you jamie for your comments next is lauren sickles welcome lauren good evening members of the board and superintendent boyd my name is lauren sickles i'm a pr i am proud to work at hollingsworth academy for the last eight years as a pro tech rbt most recently tonight i'm speaking on behalf of my fellow members in the evergreen psc and evergreen oc chapters of public school employees of washington seiu local 1948. collectively our union represents 1464 education support professionals across evergreens public every green public schools as you know the work that psc members do is essential to
058our school's community we are the first face that students see in the morning and the last they see at the end of the school day this school board has set the expectation for evergreen public school that wages and salaries be competitive yet forever education support professionals they are not at the bargaining table our union negotiating unions negotiation teams have worked hard to bring wages up to match surrounding school districts but we have been met with unresponsive behavior and a lack of counter proposals from evergreen public schools i am proud of our negotiation team's professionalism despite the district's inability to provide reasonable responses to our proposals to that end we have supported the district's request for mediation in the hopes that it will help them to reengage in negotiations mediation for evergreen pse will take place
059on august 15th and the for evergreen oc at august 19th i want to emphasize our union's dedication to work with the district and bargain with mutual respect while still highlighting the realities of negotiations to you the to you the school board we hope mediation will help the district finally see the long-term benefits our proposals will provide in greater parity and stability for our members and for the students and families they serve we also hope that we can work together to achieve fair contracts that preserve the integrity of the professional work that education support professionals do each and every day for our students and our school community thank you for this time this evening for your service and for your services on the school board [Applause] thank you lauren i'm assuming you're pamela welcome uh respected
060members of the board and super employed good evening my name is pam and i'm proud to be at orchards elementary as a para a spad para tonight i'm speaking on behalf of my fellow members in evergreen as a community member a parent and employee i'm deeply invested in evergreen school district i'm concerned in the future of the district district and the quality of education we will be able to provide to our children i struggle to afford necessities on my salary i like public school evergreen public schools but i know i can't afford the salary i know i can earn more in neighborhood schools districts what action if any will the school district take to make jobs more attractive within evergreen school district evergreen has set a standard of excellence over the years your reputation brought
061me across the bridge from beaverton after our 16 years i would like to know how will you help us continue to set the standards for evergreen school district thank you for your time this evening and for your service on the school board thank you [Applause] thank you pam rochelle welcome welcome see if i can use this respected members of the board superintendent boyd good evening my name is rochelle amis and i'm i'm proud to work at evergreen high school as a secretary i'm speaking on behalf of my fellow members of the evergreen pse and evergreen oc chapters of the public school employees of washington s-i-s-e-i-u local 1948 that's a mouthful i'm sure the board is aware that evergreen public schools has an operational expectation regarding compensation and benefits operational expectation 4.8 reads the superintendent will
062assure that compensation and benefit plans attract and retain the highest quality employees by compensating employees with an available resources in a manner consistent with the applicable marketplace we ask that the superintendent and the school board recognize the commitment that the employees of evergreen public schools have dedicated their time energy and focus to we ask that the district recognizes the impact that these employees have on the success of the students who attend evergreen public schools we ask that the classified staff be compensated in a manner consistent with oe 4.8 thank you for your time this evening and for the service of our board members of the evergreen public schools thank you [Applause] thank you rochelle corey hike that would be me welcome thank you respected members of the board and superintendent boyd good evening my name
063is corey hike i work here at asc as an accounts payable technician and tonight i also am speaking on behalf of all of these people i am super proud to be an employee of evergreen public schools a mother of one of our bus drivers and a grandmother of some of our students i'm here tonight to support the school board the district employees kids and the community between the pandemic and rising inflation rising violence and crime rates and uncertain times pse classified staff have been here we weathered the challenges we dug in we change the way we teach care and provide for the students throughout it all classified staff have risen to the challenge tonight i stand with the district and i ask will the district stand with us thank you for your time this evening
064[Applause] thank you for your comments next on the list is uh phil cronobush sorry phil i hope i said that right welcome mr phil cronovish uh grandparent and stakeholder handheld um it comes down to this uh the reason that you're losing students so many of the parents are concerned about comprehensive sex education so many of the parents are not okay with diversity inclusion policies that you're setting and following you're not looking at that and what basically happens to the people with blue shirts behind me is that when you don't retain those parents they leave they want a homeschool and that means the people in blue shirts behind me jobs are on the line they love the people behind me but the fact of the matter is you can't put your head in the sand and
065deny that these policies are putting a rift between parents and public education the parents are telling us the same thing that basically what you've already heard that they do not feel that the public schools are safe and it's because these policies and a lot of other things that are doing that currently right now we even have churches pastors asking starting homeschool programs asking parents and suggesting that they take their children out of public education and that is going to continue to go on and if you cannot see the declining numbers it's just irresponsible and i want to say i completely support the people back here behind me thank you for for your jobs thank you for your support thank you for what you do it's not you the parents understand it i know that many
066of you don't want to teach these principles and and don't like it too and we'd like we're going to continue to follow this situation and just keep you informed about the parents that they don't they're not happy with this um there's huge groups like parents rights and education that it's just massive it we we've we've been to conferences we're seeing it grow and that's basically the rift between the parents and why you're losing students thank you very much everyone [Applause] thank you phil gary wilson welcome gary yeah thank you school board um uh a teacher warned me there was going to be a lot of teachers here tonight about the ongoing union contracts and what i'm about to say should raise some eyebrows um i attended an insightful and very useful all-day safe school summit
067saturday at the portland airport sheraton inn hosted by parents rights in education the lead speaker was rebecca friedrich who was the lead in the supreme court case friedrich versus cta the california teachers association and i want to read a little excerpt from her book standing up to goliath yeah i might have to thought i could read it without my glasses but battling state and national teachers unions for the heart and soul of our kids in country yeah she just states here we can decide if this pertains to washington she's talking about california here but there are three vital ingredients for a successful education and none of them include the policies and politics pushed into schools today by our unions the imperative key for educational success is what my friend kurt james calls the education triangle
068the three corners of the triangle have equal weight and importance first and top corner is the child the second corner is the parent and the third corner is the teacher if those three corners are working together as a respectful kind and communicative team with high expectations and accountability for all the child will be educated well every time incredibly union forces actively work against this triangle because as you will see one of the union's main tactics and sources of strength is to divide and isolate so the relationships between many parents teachers and kids have been damaged like i said this is california she's talking about she was a teacher there for over 20 years and she came against it another speaker was conrad woodland who is a forensic psychologist and his talk dealt with the high
069incidence of sexual abuse in our public schools and grooming tactics from predatory teachers that i plan to share with you at a later date concerning cse i would also be willing to pay the 85 dollars for any of you to attend this conference next year i stated at the last board meeting that despite during the month of may's board meetings this board being called many things over and over one of which was racist in the 15 minutes i've attended since august of last year i have not found this board to be racist i know critical race theory judges a person by the color of their skin and says that if you are if you are a this color you are oppressed or if you're that color you're an oppressor i'm going to have to interrupt
070you guys we may not everybody may not like what he's saying but he does deserve his three minutes so if you guys could please just sit down and just listen for a few minutes i'd appreciate it thank you yeah in reality thankfully in this area of the country there are fewer racists than non-racist i know there are racists as i've had a ray reynolds sign in my yard with ray's picture on it undoubtedly punched as i've had to fix a corner of it where it pulled away from the screws but happily like i said i've found racists are few and far between here lastly you mentioned about four thousand you've lost four thousand students in the past four years i'm afraid you'll have to make it four thousand and one as my 12 year old
071daughter will be homeschooled starting this coming school year um thank you and as john mentioned your time is up and actually john mentioned his comprehensive sex ed you thank you for your comments okay and with that that concludes our meeting for this evening we're going to go ahead and take a quick recess where we will join back together and for a workshop where we will be discussing building rate building rental rates and a legislative update with that thank you guys for coming good evening to everybody hope you hope you're doing well thank you for the opportunity to talk about our building rental rates i'm not sure if you had a chance to to have a sneak preview but i'll i'll go through it here and answer any questions that you may have so really our
072guiding questions are around how do we provide a or create a fee structure that promotes the use of our the nice facilities that we do have for the benefit of our student staff and in our community at the same time it's how do we demonstrate fiscal responsibility and sustainability to maintain these same pieces of our our district again for the staff and students and community a little bit of a background we have not had a change in 10 plus years in the pricing as you know we've we've got some nice new turf synthetic turf fields thanks to our voters and then the bond and so that's driving part of this too is to figure out what those prices should be to to again provide opportunities for our community we uh to do the comparison uh
073chris pugsley is in our building rentals department and she's been doing a great job working with the community in our buildings to help them out with the rentals and so she has worked with the job-alike group so basically members like herself from different districts in our community so we're able to get some some comparable prices there and that's one of the links that we have there the second one and then uh just as a heads up the biggest impact that we're anticipating and i'll go through this a little bit more is on the grass field rates where as it's as it's been it's been 50 a month whereas most of our well not most all of our surrounding districts have an hourly price so we suspect making a change there might be the area where
074we'd hear the most feedback from our community i'm actually going to come back to these two links i want to share some other information so you have the hopefully the full full background you might be wondering what have our rental revenues been the last few years as you can imagine with covid we well i think it was around january summer january of this year we finally got back to being able to start renting our facilities so the last few years it's obviously taken a huge dip because of covet you can see our best year was 1516. and i'm going to talk about this a little bit more but we'll we're anticipating to get back to those levels with our pricing and with our turf fields we have a lot of of people reaching out wanting
075to use the turf fields and so we expect the our revenue income our income from building rentals to increase this next year just to give you an idea of the types of events or the groups that we have group one two and three not sure if you're familiar with those but you know group ones would be like our girl scouts boy scouts uh neighborhood associations uh group two is more of our sports sports programs little league football pop warner football and then group three would be private and commercial enterprises primarily churches also point out that the government agencies fall under the group one so if you look for year to date the number of events and just to be clear so like if if pop warner has four practices a week that's four events and
076so you see our biggest group is the group two which makes sense in terms of all the little leagues and pop warners that have the number of practices they have in any given week the next slide is really trying to give you an idea of replacement costs down the road here so those are the costs of turf cost at evergreen high school for the different types of fields and then if you figure and we have four high schools about 200 000 a year to budget for replacing that turf in 10 years and then mckenzie would be another 65 000 per year so really looking at 865 000 to budget per year to be able to replace that turf after its life cycle i'm going to jump back to the rates here and explain a little
077bit more of how we how we uh went about this or what what this is saying next i'm going to jump down to turf fields here so what we did is we looked at the comparison that second link in the presentation and looked at what the highest amount was in the area what the lowest was and then the group one eps rate is of course is our rate and then what we recommend and so based on we'll use an example of the turf fields so the high high rate in the area is 50 dollars low is 45. we're proposing 50 and that's an hourly rate again what i want to point out is the grass fields have been 50 a month and while we would like to change that now we understand that places like
078ccyf and pop warner i've already established their budgets for the fall and are actually on our fields right now and so uh we felt that it's only fair to them to to look at proposing that change actually at the beginning of the this next calendar year and uh give them an opportunity to uh to plan for that let's see what else um i guess i'll just throw it out to questions that you may have i just want to make sure you understood how we went about getting the data and doing the comparison right how are you getting feedback do you have a group or you're just gonna well what normally when somebody calls up and talks to chris and building rentals and they realize either they realize at that point or perhaps if they you
079know this will be on the website so there's a couple different ways where we could get some feedback we're just anticipating because it's always been a monthly rate changing to the hourly rate that that's where we may see the the biggest piece of feedback from our community you have a projection for what the uh next year's revenues could be yeah actually uh let's see i think i showed that on here i did forgot to bring that up thank you for bringing that up it's uh it's a little bit hard to make a forecast on that based on the fact we haven't had the turf fields up until now but we're anticipating based on just the the number of of uh let's say customers that have reached out wanting to rent the fields that we foresee
080us getting back to what was our highest level in the last uh what six seven years of 160 thousand dollars so um not uh obviously not anywhere close to what we need to budget uh we are expecting um to be back up in that range what about the use of lights have we factored that into our rental rate yes and uh let me come back here go back to the document i was on we've had a rental rate for lights for quite some time and i'm not not proposing that we change that actually 75 per use we don't we historically we haven't had a lot of rentals that needed the lights we have some some i think some better ways to kind of track that now and so we may find that you know maybe
081that's not exactly the right rate but we i think we do have some better ways to start tracking it so if you look at the stadium and turf field lights were at 75 dollars per use probably with the expanded baseball and softball fields that might become a more popular option yeah and we're i mean we're definitely hoping for that not obviously we stick to the city ordinances on you know how late it goes and you know that kind of stuff so is that 10 o'clock yeah yep other questions i can answer for you so you're saying that people are discovering this as they call in to i guess negotiate a rental or have these numbers been published before today no no i we want your uh approval of them before we put them out there
082so uh no they haven't been put out there the only thing that customers have been told with turf is that we're in the process of developing our rates i wanted to okay so uh for grass fields in group three for example is a change from fifty dollars per month to 160 dollars per hour next year seems like a very large price increase for the use of those fields it is we don't uh we really don't have a lot of group three um but you're right it is a large large increase the low for the areas is fifty dollars uh per hour so we were a lot lower than other districts for for a long time in all the groups okay yeah well not quite sure how we came up with that raid originally but uh
083it's definitely far lower than our surrounding districts okay thank you thank you yes thank you scott sorry i went from no microphone to really loud microphone all right last on the agenda is a legislative update do we have any additional information aside from the positions handbook and uh i said that i'd bring forward the snippet of rcw that i thought we could consider advocating for a change and i was going to put that on the screen as soon as i get it plugged in it's uh 28a 67072 which has so much meaning when i just put the numbers out there right uh regarding uh the disposition of a provisional employee at which is one of the i guess pieces that really contributed to the alarm that people felt um when they discovered things during our
084budget cut conversations a few months ago if i pull that up it would be to come to the wrong like it's i haven't switched it over yet not this positions this is okay laws i thought i had this on my screen but then it didn't appear um do should be projecting now um display no that's not that's that's not a me problem thanks dan yeah rise there we go i don't know what's going on today okay laws text provisional mm-hmm no okay i'm sorry everyone i need a timeout professional certifications qualifications oh because they moved it now it reads a lot of stuff but here it is big block of text um and it has to do with the disposition of a certificated provisional employee um it says every person employed by a school district
085shall be subject to non-renewal as provided in this section during the first three years of employment unless the employee has completed two years in the state of washington or the employee has received an evaluation rating or the school district superintendent may make a in the event the superintendent john you wouldn't happen to remember which section this was in i know i'm not finding it can you give us a summary the summary is can you email us i can email you a link too i might need a reminder if you don't hear from me but um the summary is that anyone employed in their first year of any school at any school district in washington uh is provisional with no recourse to any of the other mechanisms for retention or being on the contract lists or
086anything it's just completely out of our hands because of that state law which is um seems to me as part of the inflexibility that we perceived during april and may about all of this and my sense is that we could we could ask the legislature to adjust that law so that we're recognizing that when we hire a nine-year teacher from another district in washington that we've got a nine a teacher with nine years of experience and that we ought to recognize and we had to be able to recognize and uh negotiate um on those terms instead of that i have no idea what the cost is it just seems like there was a sense of a lot of unfairness among more than just one person about that circumstance and that it constitutes a piece of
087the structural inequities that exist in law so the question becomes would you like to make some noise about that i apologize that the citation didn't come up i don't know why i'm usually really good at this um i'd like to read it before yeah make a i mean i know that it's it's something that should be looked at so if we could read the actual word like the language of it just i mean for me so i can understand it a little bit better so i can give input on it indeed indeed and if i can find it before we adjourn but i don't know if i'll get that far had any conversations like with someone like monica to see what she thought as far from a legislative standpoint i haven't i thought it was
088important to discuss it here before i you know went off on my own to talk about that um i think it's something we definitely want to at least discuss yeah yeah read it over and discuss it it is a small and incremental change that might speak to equity especially in the legislature we're likely to get baby steps baby steps right that's right just like last week's workshops thank you yeah okay we'll shake it up one little step at a time that in the handbook which we've already talked about are the two things john do you have anything legislative wise there was uh i i did i forgot to mention this board comments i did make some uh overtures to some people about the leadership wazda stuff and i got a meeting with laurie about that
089it's because we're talking about legislation in one of the panels uh it's a good place to interject i think and uh let's let's talk about that sounds good yeah let's just set it up glory sounds great okay that's all when you send the email with the link to the rcw would you mind sending a link to the um the notebook or whatever what's it called the handout the handbook yeah though lori we have was that already downloaded and downloaded if you wouldn't mind it that would be great so we can we can start looking at it for those that are interested in looking at it yeah it is long reading uh but it's organized in a good way it's organized by um it's got the two big sections and the first section that we're going
090to consider uh is all of the positions that are either returning without you know their previous positions and they just need another vote to advance to the standing legislative thing um or they got a committee recommendation of do pass so we'll do all of those first and then the do not pass is in the second session section and there are quite a number of those uh but they're also split up by wazda's categories of learning and operations and so on and so forth i thought it was the clearest thing i'd ever seen so kudos to the kudos with the board and tim's team for that yay uh so it should be easier to read than last year all right we are officially adjourned have a good night everyone [Music] you