001good evening thank you everyone for joining us tonight for our regular school board directors meeting uh my name is julie bocanegra um school board chair and i would like to call the meeting to order and first take a roll call to confirm the attendees uh director victoria bradford here director rob perkins here uh director jenny gronwald here director rachel rogers here superintendent mike merlino administrative assistant lori stroll thank you good evening uh the time is now 5 36 and under governor inslee's proclamation 2028 in response to the coven 19 outbreak temporary suspends portions of open public meeting act the proclamation requires that all attendants at an open public meeting not take place in person but occur remotely including the board directors and the public our meeting this evening is conducted via zoom audio webinar at
002this time i would like to recite 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 all right um again our first order of business this evening is to adopt our agenda can we entertain a motion to adopt the agenda will we adopt the agenda as it's been presented second uh it's been moved and seconded all in favor say i through roll call i for me victoria hi rob hi jenny hi rachel hi perfect thank you all right next up on our agenda uh is information and i do believe we have a special guest presenter uh mayor mayor mcinerney oval is going to join us this evening to
003address the board lori do you know if the mayor is available um she's not signed in yet okay so i think what we'll do if everybody is okay with this is we could move forward to do we do um our board consent agenda or should we do matters of reserve for more action first um i think we should probably do the reorganization before the consent agendas that's that's in um matters reserved for board action is the board reorganization and the next would be the elementary boundary committee changes so do you think we should go ahead and start with the reorganization until the mayor is able to join join us okay let's do it all right so next on the agenda matters reserved for board action uh board reorganization this is our election of president vice
004president and legislative representative and kind of some background information um each year our first meeting in december we reorganize our board officers it usually coincides with the school board elections this year there was no school board election but we still do a reorganization each year and elect new officers with that being said um i guess i will open up the discussion um with the board on who may be interested in fulfilling these roles or what direction we want to go in um so i know that i have been the board chair the board president the last couple of years and it may be time to let and have somebody else take the reins for a bit so um i guess we'll start with the board president are we opening nominations we yeah open nominations or
005discussion around it well i'd like to uh nominate and or suggest that victoria bradford serve as board chair during the next year okay so nomination for uh victoria bradford um do we have a second i second okay so victoria's been presently working uh as the vice president um so i guess we can open it up for discussion or victoria do you accept the nomination i would accept the nomination thank you yeah so i guess we could open up for discussion i guess i would just say victoria has been uh working in that role as vice president the last couple of years um and so it seems like a natural progression for this year for her to move up into that role so i um would be supportive of that plus she's very experienced maybe can
006see us through the next bit of turbulence here until we can get back to some normalcy can we end the turbulence i don't know like it will stop unprecedented times is that what we like to refer to it as right is that part of your platform victoria ending the turbulence blowing things down taking it easy any other discussion i'm just as i've always had confidence in victoria's leadership in the years when she's been excuse me board president my her experience speaks volumes to me um which is why i said yesterday and she's obviously done it a number of times before in the past probably so many they've forgotten the count so um i guess with that said um should we go ahead and take a vote are there any other nominees all right so noon
007seconded all in favor say aye it's an eye for me uh victoria i guess it's tonight rob hi jenny hi and rachel hi great congratulations victoria you're president now so i'm going to turn it over to you okay to take on the other the next role of vice president okay well let's see what we can do about that okay um is there any discussion before we take nominations for the position of vice president well um i don't know if discussion but i i would say that i have been thinking that jenny um it might be time for jenny to step into one of these roles and i think she would do a great job and she's been more involved with the equity work that we've been on um as of as of recent and um
008worked with was to some in the past and so i think this would be a great opportunity for her so i think i'll just go ahead and nominate jenny gronwald for vice president i'll second the nomination thank you jenny i guess i accept okay you're willing to take that position i have a good mentor okay well then um let's take a vote um on that nomination of jimmy gronwald for vice president uh julie uh i rob hi jenny hi i'm and i rachel hi okay great i appreciate um it's going to be fun working closer with you this year's um and i think you're going to be great thank you i look forward to it next up is our legislative rep and just for the audience i think it's important that they understand the importance
009of the role that our legislative representative makes for the board it's a pretty um time intensive position in that um that person and rob's been doing that for us the last couple of years and doing a great job meets with our legislators both here and up in olympia when things are open up there and keeps the board abreast of what's going on legislatively helps lobby for things that we feel are important for our district um it's been a we've been a very consistent district to really uh work with our legislators and so it's important that we have someone in that position that really knows how to work with other people so um i thank rob for all your service the last couple years in that role because you've done a really good job thank you
010i appreciate hearing that kind of thing really um really helps and it's very encouraging it is hard work do we have any other uh discussion about who we feel should take that position this year well i want to just add that rob also has not um obviously been doing a great job representing our board but he's been uh representing our entire region um with the washington state school board association um is it going on three years now rob or i don't mean it feels like you've been doing it a long time ever since uh mavis nichols battleground said my name in that uh conference meeting i guess it's three years now yeah um correct this is this is going to be the beginning of the fourth yeah it makes sense that the work kind of
011coincides with that um and i agree with victoria you've done a fantastic job thank you thank you i would like to nominate rob to continue on as the legislative representative i would second well i'll accept the nomination great thank you rob okay well i'd like to take a vote um i'm an absolute yay on that one um julie hi rachel hi ginny hi and rob hi okay looks like we've got you for another year doing the hard stuff thank you rob for taking this on because it's really important work and we're glad you do it so well okay yeah okay yeah all right there's one other position i'm gonna just go ahead and bring up even though it's not technically an elected position but this last year um i've been working with julie as the
012vice president but i also have been the board liaison to the um to the um foundation the evergreen school district foundation which has actually been pretty enjoyable until hobbit hit but um i'm just would like to know if there's anybody on the board that would like to take that roll over you meet once a month um it's an evening meeting on when a wednesday not too long it's it's really not a hard position to do is there anybody here that would like to take that on this year so are they meeting virtually right now they're meeting virtually right now yep yeah well think if there's nobody who wants to do it right now why don't we talk about this again and if anybody has any questions about what it entails um i can fill you
013in on that yeah i wouldn't i don't think i would mind i've done it before in the past i don't think i would uh mind doing it again i just think i need to figure out a couple things on my schedule first before i would before i commit to it okay so rachel what about you i would wonder i would want to talk to you about what it entails okay with what you would what you do in that capacity so yeah i'll i'll reach out we'll talk about it so that you know um and see if you're interested okay great well that's i think that's everything we need for the board reorganization um do we have the mayor with us yet lori she has joined us yeah we do good i can't see her so
014well good well i would like to welcome vancouver's most popular mayor back into new goal and we welcome you to address the board with um some news i think you have for us yes thank you victoria and congratulations on your new responsibilities good evening directors thank you so very much for the opportunity to address you this evening i'm sorry i was late i just came back from ridgefield school district so we've made the presentation for them the city of vancouver is leading an effort to expand broadband infrastructure and services across clark county and the effort is supported by different cities ports our businesses business associations and such but clark public utilities has also been involved in this conversation as we are all looking on how to proceed with this idea in november the vancouver city
015council adopted a resolution that would formally request clark public utilities to perform a study of feasibility for improving broadband throughout clark county and so we're out and about talking with the community asking agencies for their support to make a presentation to clark public utilities in january so this effort actually started with the greater vancouver chamber of commerce members when they were discussing legislative priorities and you of course know that the chamber involves businesses and schools and healthcare providers and public entities and non-profits and such but they all identified access to affordable high-speed internet as a legislative priority and as a challenge to their organization and all the people who depend on them whether it's students or workers or patients or service providers and such but access to high-speed internet as you know is probably more
016important now than we've ever thought with all of your students working remotely all our employees working remotely and such and it's that real and urgent need to this access that kind of brought everything forward and identifying our most vulnerable populations if you would the children the elderly low-income are marginalized communities you probably have students that i get phone calls and emails from thinking that i control everything in their life they have no internet access and those who do have access may be using satellites or hot spots that they've checked out from the library varying degrees of reliability but there's a strong interest right now in clark public utilities as a broadband infrastructure provider the pud is the right entity for all of this because it has the power under washington state law to own and
017operate open access broadband infrastructure because they are trusted and i don't know how many awards they've received they are the essential utilities of clark county families and businesses and agencies and everyone but in the state of washington puds are authorized to sell wholesale telecommunications services now they can't be the internet service providers but they can level that playing field if you will when it comes to providing access to that infrastructure they can sell wholesale access to the isps and then let them make those connections from the internet to the end user so you know the benefits it would increase our regional digital equity across all of our different areas better jobs education kind of bringing up more economic equity regional competitiveness healthcare think of all of the doctors that are going through the internet now
018but the first steps to all of this is to learn whether or not this approach and future investments are really viable and so that's why the city of vancouver is asking clark public utilities to perform a study it examines the feasibility of expanding broadband and access across clark county not just for the unserved but for the underserved you know how difficult it is with one family parents working at home and children trying to stay on task with their ipads or laptops or whatever so the city is asking for your support in resolution we expect to make a presentation to clark um pud boards and commissioners in january the resolution is not binding it's simply requesting them to perform a feasibility study and we're going to be pitching in money to help with that but we
019were hoping that you would consider the request i'd be happy to answer any questions um mayor um mcnerney ogle i appreciate you bringing this subject up um i'm aware of uh just anecdotally there is a teacher friend of mine who was setting up work uh a work from home situation for uh the prep work that she has to do who has i think um 400 or 500 kilobits upstream that's 1998 levels of internet connectivity and she could never teach a class from her home she has to come into covington uh in order to teach there um and that's out in the rural areas but i'm also aware that even there are circumstances where even evergreen school district is underserved by the different uh the different offerings uh possible i was i was told this week
020while taking a different technical demonstration that major internet service provider of the area didn't even bid on um business access for our three new schools and that's what we're harry director and that's why i'm in the office tonight because i can't get it and i'm just up the street on a neighborhood so i'm not unserved but like many of your families were underserved right and it would be uh beneficial to everybody to get some really robust fast connections into the regions where the under service has taken place um that will uh that will go just entirely in support of the idea of the feasibility study but also just personally in support of greater access you know recognition as a former telecom employee and a software developer that it hasn't grown the way that they told
021us it would be growing when they began offering internet service in 1997. it's time to finish out those last miles so i'm hoping the pud can help us all i would concur with that rob i think even recently we received a letter from a family with a student a union high school that's had lots of difficulties with internet and um and i know that our our neighbor to the north and battleground they've always had the issues um and you know not only we want to make sure our students and everybody are served but we also have an obligation to students throughout the entire state to make sure that you know every student has equal access and opportunities and so i would uh definitely support the study there there are whites this widespread interest in them
022in the legislature and among the state letter groups for education uh for exactly this kind of thing um i know it's on senator wellman's radar uh as the um sort of p through 12 committee uh in the senate over education and she continues to ask us for data about who's being served and who's not um in wazda the school directors association is uh preparing and submitting that data to her in the format that she needs in order to stump for this as a statue so that there could be enhanced statutory opportunities and maybe enhanced authority rachel any thoughts yeah i'm i kind of would echo what rob's been saying and and julie as well i'm just thank you mayor for coming and addressing this with us i do appreciate you taking the time thank you
023so very much i know you have uh protocols on all of that i'll head over to the ctran meeting where we're discussing ripping up meal plane putting in conduit and fiber optics to give a spine all the way out in through your district so we'll be helping you thank you so very much for the opportunity thank you it's so good to see you yes it's nice to have a visitor in our lonely world these days okay great that's awesome what an important thing to be um doing for our county and our city and our district i it's it's a good thing so we would work on that resolution and bring it next to the first being in january for the board to consider and approve to support that movement all right that's perfect thanks mike
024okay so now we go down to other reserve for board action and this is our um discussion regarding elementary boundary committee changes proposal this is a first reading we've workshopped this and now's time for public review and comment is scott should be participating scott can speak to us a little bit yeah i'm here um thank you very much um was just a quick recap uh for folks um this work uh this time stems from the 2018 construction bond and the district has been very blessed with the support of our community that is resulting at the elementary level in the opening of one brand new elementary school and the rebuilding of a handful of others and in leading that work as part of phase two of that process which is tied to the construction schedule for
025the newly rebuilt buildings we formed a parent committee in november and december of 2019 involving parents at that time from five of our elementary schools ellsworth fur crest marion riverview and fisher's landing and over the course of the time frame from december of 2019 until april of 2020 that parent committee uh got together five or six different times established group norms and guiding principles and worked together to come up with a series of recommendations for possible changes to the attendance zones for several of those schools in keeping with the guidelines from the board to as we call it to right size elementary schools which generally is considered somewhere between 450 and 550 students depending upon the capacity of the individual schools and in so doing over the course of this work in its three phases
026to reduce the number of students in portable classrooms across the district at the elementary level we paused the work in april of 2020 in the hopes that when this last fall came we'd be in a position to hold community forums live and in person and then these following board meetings that way as well that sadly did not work out so because of the pandemic so we moved forward with virtual community forums of which we held four of those and listened to feedback from our community and also alternative proposals and recommendations both during those forums and then quite a lot of that via email the remaining members of the parent committee then got together with myself and considered all of that feedback examined alternate proposals against so to speak the guiding principles that had already been
027established and then presented recommendations to the school board at its meeting last month in november okay can you just share a little bit about how people were selected and kind of what how that all rolled out just so sure um so um as i mentioned initially there were five schools that were envisioned to be a part of this process so i worked with the principals of those five schools with the idea that we hopefully would have two representatives from each of those schools to engage in the work two parent representatives we started the first meeting in december there were nine parent representatives that were invited to that based on the recommendations of principles and that translated into two parent representatives from each of those five schools with the exception of ellsworth where one parent had
028been identified at that first meeting seven of the nine showed up we had a few folks that needed to drop out of the committee two before they even attended a meeting and then one after a couple of meetings i worked with the principal at one school and upon her recommendation added one representative an additional a new representative to that school for a total of two that happened in january which worked out fine because that's when the work began in earnest after the december meeting of establishing group norms and beginning the work on the guiding principles and so those seven parent representatives again representing all five of the schools that were initially envisioned to be part of this work carried the work forward and we landed in april with those initial recommendations prior to the community
029forums thank you you're welcome okay do you have anything else you want to share with with us before we move to audience questions and and um comments can i ask the question real quick victoria yeah scott you mentioned the con um the virtual community forums how what was i'm sorry i missed this but what was the attendance on those uh they were very well attended um at least as we if we were to measure those against the attendance in round one of this process when we held um you know forms in person um there were i don't know several dozen at one of those probably 15 to 20 at the other one we also held a an additional forum for marion elementary school that was in spanish because there'd been quite a bit of interest
030from that school possibly via you know the dual immersion program that's at that school to do one in spanish so uh myself and the parent committee worked with our ell department on the translation and they helped us facilitate that so for myself and i think for all of us we were very pleased with the attendance at those forums it's uh you know the kind of thing i've heard superintendent molino speak several times about even in the midst of the pandemic there are opportunities to do things differently because one must and then you learn about some different things that you possibly can continue to do in the future and it may be that even after this pandemic is behind us that uh forums held virtually will be part of this process because it seemed to work
031out very well for parents as far as attendance went so i was pleased with that thanks for the question julie okay anything else we'll have more time we'll have questions by the board um a little bit later okay i'd like to call for audience questions and comments and this is a time to speak to this particular agenda item i know we had um three people that had signed up for citizen comments during that portion but this would be the time for them to um make their comments or ask their questions um lori you've got the list right oh sorry i do and we have jennifer klebnik ready to speak to the board great thank you hi there hi jennifer i don't know if my camera is on hmm it's not it's just not you all
032have seen me before i'm sure um but you can hear me so that's the most important thing so um i had a few questions i'm gonna try to make it as short as possible because i don't want to take up too much time um i have a few questions for the board if you do approve of some of the changes but not all of them can you make that your decision or is it all or nothing and also can you choose a proposal that has been submitted by uh other interested parties or does it have to come from that committee normally yeah go ahead okay just yeah just answer that question real quick normally the process is the the committee receives the input and it goes to the committee for their review and running it
033through the kind of the logistics that each um each plan has to meet you know criteria and and then they bring anything that looks different or looks viable then they bring it forward to us yeah i i i wish i had more time to properly give a real good counter proposal as you have seen i do a lot of research and i'm very detailed so i i think i could have done a much better job had i had the time to do so um i i have one statement and then i'll i'll leave for now but um i said i know you're aware that i greatly disagree with the changes in regards to fishers landing elementary boundary uh especially since it was pushed a year or two ahead of schedule but i i cannot emphasize
034enough how concerned i am about the proposal changed to ellsworth and marion when i was a kid i had to walk to school when i missed the bus there are single families there's people without a car there's one where both parents work those kids if they miss the bus what's gonna happen go back home isn't that illegal like i know that they're bust kids and i know that they didn't think about that because of that but i mean come on some people have to walk to school that's just a fact of life for some people a lot of people many people and so given that fact that proposal for kids from north of mill plain to cross mill plane to go to ellsworth is dangerous flat out dangerous and i i cannot say i care
035about children i care about all the children i know everybody does but i think about the things that can happen that is so busy it's so it's so dangerous so i i think i might just leave it with that because that's the most important thing is i am greatly concerned about the safety of the children that would end up having a cross mill plane i that is i mean as much as i hate the fishers landing thing that that's just scares me literally i've lost sleepover thinking about that okay so does anyone have any questions for jennifer [Music] jennifer you you mentioned that those were the uh the ones that would have to cross in the proposal they're all considered best right none of them are considered walkers and that uh radius yeah maybe they
036can ask scott yeah no they are considered bus but again kids miss the bus it happens i've done it i remember walking to school when i missed the bus as a kid because i didn't have a stay-at-home parent to drive me to school it a lot of people don't have that they're not that lucky okay thank you you're welcome anyone else have any questions for jennifer okay thank you jennifer i appreciate your input thank you victoria and and board thank you um lori who was next that signed up on our list um i have a chris or jana white hello this is chris white thank you for being here yeah thank you for for letting us chat a little bit um mike i would like to propose delaying the non-essential um redistricting of certain areas
037particularly i know that it was spoken during the presentation that fisher's landing was not part of the scope of the work initially and i know that the board had some concerns as well there's just a lot going on in the southeast part of of the district as far as new developments and when we've already got all the covid disruptions it's just i would like to sort of see the dust settle a little bit on what new um buildings are being built what what rezoning actually goes through i don't know if you're aware of the probably the hp old hp vancouver innovation center um light industrial versus mixed use um you know they're potentially adding 1800 houses just right behind me here so um that would be going into fisher's landing so i i guess um
038it would just be nice to sort of have a better idea of what the plan for this area is before we start just shuffling kids around you know and then we've also got the palisades that are being redeveloped we have more uh just a little bit north um on 192nd and um i think it's 25th or so there's some large apartment complexes there that i believe feed into um fisher's landing as well so do we know if there's going to be a new elementary school in this section um [Music] because that's you know we're just adding thousands of um high density um yeah that's that's my big concerns and proposal mike do you want to add anything to that bot about what's happening over there at that old hp there isn't any new elementary that's
039being that was part of the bond in 2018 um i can't speak to the specific um um developments he's talking about but i know that uh scott and the committee had access to all of the development information as part of the conversation i i'm my belief and somebody's going to correct me if i'm wrong but fischer's landing has always been part of this boundary re um uh redrawing for this second time around i think the school that was added because of this was columbia valley actually not fisher's landing so fisher's landing's been a part of this potential um throughout i guess so one thing i would add is uh i mean we have a lot of development throughout the district and we have i think relatively good models that we use uh through our working
040with the city working with the facilities department on how many students are generated from multi-family and single-family projects so i think at the last meeting there was a lot of conversation around the development in the fur crest area we went back looked at that we reviewed all of the development again and and i think we're comfortable with moving forward with the recommendation um the schools uh do have enrollment declines uh i think ever we've talked about that a lot uh so i i don't i don't see um significant issues from the additional development that will occur and we're honestly going to see how things develop next fall when we come back and even in the spring as there's more of an opportunity for kids potentially to be in school with respect to vaccine distribution and
041that that type of work but i think all of the things that are being raised by mr white were things that the committee considered in the process scott maybe can verify that yes that's true there's i'm not sure i'm familiar with every aspect that chris is sharing regarding some of that i've worked with sue and ray lynn in our facilities department to make sure that we're abreast to the best of their knowledge with what is planned for the fishers landing area and the uh one uh new or upcoming development that we talked about in the committee um is located in the southeast section of the current fisher's landing zone it actually straddles i believe 192nd avenue which means that uh a large portion of it is within the evergreen school district boundary and there's also
042a very large portion that's in the canvas school district so we of course factored into into our work and projections uh you know the part that uh that is ours correct so we did do that so you're correct mike in that regard and the others as well thanks chris any do you have any other comments or questions um i did was kind of curious uh because i know that it's a little up side of the scope but the whole there there's a potential of a middle school and i did note that the uh shahila school they've got like 26 uh classrooms in portables i don't know if there's been talk of redistricting the middle schools as well not in the short term okay that's it thank you chris we appreciate your participation thank you okay
043um i think we had a third person that had signed up yes victoria we have aaron parkinson ready to address the board great hi good evening is everyone here hi aaron thank you for joining us tonight yeah thank you for having me um we have many concerns regarding the boundary shift specifically um for fishers landing first and foremost is the integrity and due diligence of the parent committee and this committee was formed and decisions were being made over a year ago as has already been pointed out and those of us that were impacted were not notified until october 7th of this year that is extremely unethical and lacking transparency additionally when fish when the fishers landing parent representatives determined they were no longer going to be impacted by this change they should have immediately recused
044themselves from the committee they continued to make decisions which were favorable to their family and their community regarding the committee's lack of due diligence for their own presentation at the last board meeting they did not even survey our neighborhood until we voiced our concerns at the community meeting on october 26th when asked by mr perkins at the last board meeting mr monroe couldn't even point to the exact location of the new construction they're using to justify this change someone had someone from our community had a voice in the planning you would know that these are not family friendly apartments as is being portrayed and these are classified as urban lofts meant to attract the young professionals at fisher investments located directly across southeast 192nd and who are relocating here from their downsized offices in san
045francisco and los angeles there are no amenities at this complex which would draw families and these are important details which could have been provided by any member of our community had our funds of knowledge been sought out secondly as i understand it the end goal is to remove portables from most of the schools understandably um it is going to require displacing a whole lot more than 50 students from fisher's landing to achieve this as it stands there are six portables at fishers landing 50 students would eliminate one portable at best two classes right now there are two fourth grade classes of 25 students there a much larger overhaul would be needed if the intent is to eliminate portables lastly and in the same vein as a large overhaul and these boundary changes are simply putting
046a band-aid on a bullet wound evergreen school district is growing exponentially development is happening all over as mentioned in the last board meeting by mrs bocanegra and mrs bradford many schools are bursting at the seams demographics and fundings are about to dramatically shift district-wide endeavor and burton are great examples but also look at what what is happening at pioneer elementary a school with an enrollment of all with an enrollment of almost 700 title one with high percentage of low-income high-risk students half a million to three quarter of a million dollar homes are being built within its boundaries that is a major disrupter and will eventually impact emerald bbc york and sifton the impact of the new loft complex on 192nd and 20th pales in comparison to what is happening at the former velvet acres property
047this piecemealing of a boundary adjustment is a short-term fix to a long-term problem unfortunately a major district-wide overhaul is going to be required to address the massive expansion within evergreen school district we asked the board to please take our serious and thoughtful considerations into account and reject these proposals thank you for your time thank you aaron appreciate it um any comments from scott or mike um to aaron's comments yeah i think that maybe some of the enrollment numbers are are um old numbers because i think pioneers quite a bit lower than 700 kids based upon a redrawing of boundaries last year and i think we we actually have approached it district-wide to try to get to the point where numbers as scott mentioned earlier right-sizing our buildings to around the 450 to 500 i think
048is what he said somewhere in that range um and we actually not not even you know i mean this year obviously is kind of an outlier with respect to enrollment due to covid i don't think there's any question there is development going on throughout the district but we're actually seeing the opposite of what's being represented there um our enrollment's been flat or declining for um at least three four five years and we've been bringing in smaller kindergarten classes uh every year for probably at least the last four five six years and of course this year like i said is a major outlier when we we've uh we're hoping that um actually i don't hoping i think we believe that the the a lot of kids that have stayed away this fall will will come back
049either this spring and we've actually seen kindergarten enrollment grow throughout the year um and and there's also no question that the interest is in removing as many portables as we can but again trying to make sure that the schools have similar sizes um in that process and i think i've heard fisher's landing was originally only built for 420 kids or something like that so there's likely going to always be some portables that fisher's landing but i think the effort is to try to reduce the reliance on them there as much as possible i understand what what aaron is saying i just some of the enrollment numbers are off a little bit and i just wanted to clarify that i i was looking for that email that you had sent us for um pioneer because i
050know that pioneer did have a lot of students before we opened emerald and yeah we were we were over 700 but i can't remember right off scott knows he probably has in his hand my thing is we're probably around 500 or less than 500 a pioneer now the pioneer right now has approximately students and they were projected to be closer to 550 at the start of this year based on their capacity so you know as mike mentioned they were reduced significantly with the opening of emerald elementary school and that was in phase one of the work anything else you'd like us to know erin no thank you thanks for participating we appreciate it yeah thank you is there anyone else in the audience who has questions or comments pertaining to this matter director bradford i
051do have um iz i don't have their full name on there wanting to ask a question okay great are you there yeah okay yeah hello can you guys hear me yes yes we can hello yeah hello my name is israel parkinson i'm aaron's husband i'm not going to be nearly as eloquent as my wife but so be it so i i have some concerns and i and some of my concerns uh stem from how this whole committee uh was formulated and then the the amount of power this committee holds because pretty much it sounds like what i'm hearing is what this committee is going to recommend is what's going to be endorsed and supported by the school board um so some of my biggest concerns is like you got to take a look at the
052the political climate today unfortunately and you got to look at what we're looking at it from a community from a community here we have we have two of our representatives in the officials landing area out are out there on the evergreen highway which is probably one of the richest communities in vancouver uh they're they're going against their own guiding principles they're supposed to be uh not from the same located area and then on that they're on the same street so i have concerns on how that committee or how the members represent us were selected i also have some concerns on the recommendations of clear meadows being separated from fisher's landing because i don't think the impact and the impact on our community is is not only uh drastic but it's very frustrating because we are
053one of the few communities out here that are no rental community so we bought here because we want our kids to go to fisher's landing we can't like not that we would but it's not like we could say okay well we want to stay in official landing so we can rent out our house and move somewhere else we are stuck and committed to this neighborhood and we we can't do anything about it so whatever decisions you guys make are going to definitely drastically affect this community uh one of the other issues i have is when we start talking about transparency i spoke to scott when this first happened i asked so there was i believe seven or eight members of this committee and i said well how many of those members of those comm of
054this committee were affected by the decisions of these proposals and i believe in the last in the last board meeting we had on october 7th they said there was two members of the committee that were affected by this proposal so my follow-up question was okay good can you can you then tell me what was their effect i didn't need to know names or anything like that i just want to know what the net effect was did they go was this was the neighborhood where they live where they were there were they gaining a better school because the reality is we all know these schools are ranked and rated for reasons were they gaining in better schools or were some or were some of these affected committee members getting negative schools like where they go because
055i have a i struggle to see how evergreen can justify staying in the fishers landing district or school school i i was just curious out of transparency and i was told by scott that between scott and mike that that information was not pertinent and that it shouldn't be transparent and it's irrelevant well i think that is a route i think that is relevant information because i feel like this is being a rush process you guys have already delayed things because of the covid so there's no reason why not to stop and just push it out another year so we can all we can all sit in and get all the information not be rushed to uh not be rushed to get on board with this with two months notice i know jana started a uh
056uh jana white they started a petition an online petition i know there's several hundred people that signed up that said they voted against this uh we were gonna do paper paper petitions but unfortunately with covid it wasn't you know it's not a good time to be going around knocking on people's doors but that's another thing that we wanted to get involved in but we don't have time to do because it's coving so i just wish you guys would consider if not rejecting this proposal that you at least delay it for a year i don't see what the rush is and with that i'm done speaking okay thank you so much for for being with us tonight scott or mike any comments there to clarify anything on that i i don't i don't have anything to
057say okay okay do we have anyone else in the audience that would like to make comment or have a question um director bradford miss klebnick who um spoke earlier has raised her hand again okay are you on yes i am thank you very much um i just wanted to i did forget i was so excited about telling you about my concerns about ellsworth and marion um i forgot to say yeah uh if we're getting or if we're trying to clear the portables you know that 50 people's not going to fix the problem like you know they it maybe the evergreen highway area also can be cold to fix that problem that would add another 35 people and uh and my other one was i greatly encourage everybody to just take a step back and postpone
058the decision please and that's it okay thanks jennifer laurie do we have anyone else in the audience we do we have lindsey harris wanting to address the word okay hello lindsay lindsey is lindsay there there may be technical difficulties the moderator did unmute her okay um we also have uh chris and jana white raising their hand again who spoke earlier okay can you hear me there's okay this is actually janet um chris has actually ran off to another meeting um actually the vancouver innovation project which is the field that's in between clear meadows and fisher's landing that is currently getting uh rezoned that we've been discussing um so i don't think that there's a real good clear understanding on the school board's part of how many new homes are actually going into this area um
059between the palisades the vancouver innovation project and the new apartments off of 192nd there's roughly 3 000 new families going to be filling those homes um i know when chris spoke he brought that up as well um and it was kind of brushed off as it you guys don't feel like that's going to affect the attendance at fisher's landing um i i don't really understand how you don't unders how you can't see that 000 new families in like a three mile radius around fisher's landing that's obviously going to affect the affect the attendance um i don't think that maybe somebody's connected the dots of where these are actually at um i don't know if any of you live out here if you really know what's happening um but those are major major developments that are
060brand new they're huge um i agree with everybody else that said i think you need to hold off for a year and actually do some research of what is happening um before you start changing the boundaries for the fishers landing folks um yes we we moved into our neighborhood uh clear meadows for fishers landing i i do see with those new 3000 homes and apartments being built that yeah we are obviously at some point going to you know probably get kicked out of fisher's landing elementary i'm not happy about it but i get it um but i don't think it's reasonable to be moving us now until you know exactly you know where are all these kids going to go i mean to me 3 000 new homes it's you're going to need another elementary
061school in the area um i know you said that hasn't been passed in the last school bond but i mean obviously something's going to have to happen or the school board needs to start talking to the city and say hey you need to stop building so many houses because we don't have the infrastructure for that so that's my biggest point here okay scott do you have any comments that address what jan is talking about there we go just trying to find the right buttons on the computer um and uh well again and similar to uh you know what i think uh you know chris white might have shared before i think he was um the one who did um you know i i'm at a loss at the moment as to where the you know
062the figure of 3 000 homes that would affect fisher's landing you know is coming from i'm not aware of that so um you know i i definitely will uh re-loop with sue and ray lynn and uh you know ascertain with certainty that there isn't anything that i'm missing um you know because again that was part of the process a couple of times during the process and you know the numbers of construction was considered by the committee but it was nowhere near approaching you know what i'm hearing on this call so um i'll i'll take a look at that and then report back to mike and to you guys okay thank you scott do we have anyone else in the audience um yes director bradford lindsay harris has raised her hand again so we're gonna try
063to see if we can get her on the line okay great lindsay are you there yeah it appears she's having technical difficulties i'm not sure what's happening can you hear me now here she is okay sorry it's my new headphones i'm so sorry it's okay um we've all been there technology love it um so i am new to the school district i have a kindergartner at orchards um and miss shepherd is her teacher she's very great um and so looking on your website i was trying to figure out when the schools might open up um of course there's data on both sides why they're closed and why they should be opened up but um i saw on their your equity resolution and that kind of surprised me um i'm a native american enrolled tribal member
064and so is my daughter and when i tried to learn more about this equity program i went to sign up and it it asked if i was interested in meeting by demographic and i thought that that was a strange question and i'm sure there's some reason why you all might might do that but it kind of sounds like segregation and i think that it might be counterproductive to what your resolution is actually trying to achieve um and then also in uh paragraph six of that resolution um and it's resolution six three six five um it states that you all are trying to recruit people um of color and but then also one of your policies is that you do not discriminate um against people uh regarding their skin color so i would figure that would
065include caucasian people um and and so i was trying to uh because those contradict each other and of course uh that latter policy of not um discriminating against people because of their skin color probably came first before the resolution i'd imagine um and so i was trying to find more information about this equity policy and and supposedly you you all would have had something before the start of this school year and i wasn't able to find it on the um school website and also it talks about audits to make sure that you all are achieving this um push for equity and um i was interested in learning more about that and i think that the emphasis on race and the emphasis on hiring by color instead of by qualifications is not in the best interest
066of the students and maybe i'm just simple-minded but uh and this equity thing is it just seems very uh confusing to me especially as a native american i wouldn't want to be singled out and if i'm meeting by demographic you know i might have like i don't know three other people to meet with um but i just i think it's really uh bizarre and counterproductive and i wanted to find out more about it and i was wondering if you all finished that um that policy we're still in the in the works of that by getting um input from other people right now we're currently on the agenda talking about our boundary changes but we do have on the agenda further down um an equity um update about the work that we're doing so if you
067don't mind hanging in there we'd love to have you listen in and then if there's more questions we'd be happy to connect you with someone in our district who could answer those questions for you i'm so sorry okay well you're fine you're fine so hang in there with us and we'll get to that part in the agenda and we'd love to have you hear what's going on and then we'll connect you with somebody in the district to go in deeper on that for you okay great thank you okay thank you lindsay okay do we have anyone else who has comments or questions regarding the um boundary changes um i don't have anybody new i do have is again raising his hand to comment okay all righty yeah i just had one last one last question
068and that is uh and i'm i'm actually asking you guys if this proposal is not rejected what would be the ramification of holding it up of why not like what would be the argument against not moving forward or not holding it off for a year considering as we all say this covid stuff is a special circumstance and let let the sea let everything shake out in this area before these decisions are pushed through mike do you want to answer that question i think actually scott can answer that question because i think there's some specifics around some of the buildings within this rotation okay thank you yeah i mean you know my take on that um first and foremost would be the you know currently being rebuilt marion and ellsworth elementary schools um which are set
069to open you know this coming fall at the same time that this proposal you know if approved would go into effect and uh so you know in my view it's important that we engage in the work to to redraw the boundaries for those schools and have the new boundaries that are designed around the increased capacities of the new buildings in place when those schools open i mean that's a big part of this uh to me okay um and then the other part um you know unrelated to that same area of the district would be and i think mike or somebody mentioned it a little bit before would be all of the you know construction that is currently going on in the fur crest neighborhood and so you know part of this proposal in addition to
070eliminating a patchwork quilt area for ferc rest would increase the capacity there so that we've got the buffer that we think we need you know based on all of that so my personal belief is in those sections certainly the timing of this is you know fairly critical okay thank you and i guess the one thing i would say about the the scott mentioned something and two also the the 3 000 homes that we're hearing we don't we don't have record of 3 000 home we're we're aware of the vancouver i think it's the vancouver innovation center um bringing in multifamily and single family but also i think that that's going to be a five to 15-year build out per the information that they've shared with the city but not near the 3 000 figure yeah
071okay but real quick so one of the one of the other concerns i have too is that currently i don't know am i still unmuted yeah you are yeah okay so one of the other concerns that i have is is that when i was looking at the chart and i don't know if this has changed but like for us in clear meadows with us being pushed to uh columbia valley when you look at the the progression of where our kids would go to school we're unknown when it comes to high school as well so like we have a bunch of unknowns like where all the other ones they have the same line path and they say the kids will well the kids that knew kids at fishland will meet up with them again in high
072school or middle school or whatever the chart i saw had us as unknown that it was undetermined where we were where our kids were going to go uh i don't know if he's looking at the wrong chart but that was my understanding and that's just another reason that i would say hey this we this should be this should be halted for a year at least till things settle from this cobit stuff so we we don't have any proposed changes from middle school or high school boundaries so no matter where you live in the district you should be able to tell what middle school or high school you would go to i believe they pushed out the one they pushed out said that it was it was unknown whether or not uh clear meadows would go
073to mountain view or was it union union like on the chart that i believe scott pushed out well i'm looking at the chart now and the clear meadows section you know that we're discussing um is you know does now and would in the future um go to shahala and to mountain view because as mike mentioned the middle school boundaries and high school boundaries we're not proposing a change to that so okay i i will dig up i'll dig up the chart that we saw but there was a there was a uh like an ex like an excel sheet or some kind of matrix that outlined all the schools of where they would go after this after this repositioning and it showed for clear meadows it showed mountain view union so i might have some misinformation
074there um i'll dig it up and then email it out to you guys but i'm pretty sure that was something that we got from you scott but again okay i'll research i'd be you know happy israel to take a look at that i'm i'm looking at the chart now that i i think you're referring to and the union slash mountain view is currently and in the future that's the what i would call the main area for columbia valley because you know that is depending on where one lives within that zone and most of those students go to union but some of them go to mountain view but yes okay then we can go from there no no i i so i think we are talking about the same thing so either way so so just
075to be clear that i understand the kids going to columbia valley gets split up down the road at high school then depending on like for us being in clear meadows we would wind up going to mountain view the other kids from columbia valley that are on the other side of 20th or whatever would go to union or whatever right there's no proposed changes to high school or middle school boundaries that they're of course based on your address so uh regardless of what the board decides with the elementary proposals that are currently being discussed uh middle school and high school doesn't change yeah so i mean but this is just one more avenue of where i'm just a little frustrated so we have our kids that are in fishers landing they get split up from their
076friends there then they go they make new friends at columbia valley and they split up they won't see them at columbia valley as well this is just one more reason why i'm just wreck and i'm done talking but i just would wish you guys would push this off we feel like this is rushed we're in clear meadows we heard about this two months ago like i i really hope the school the board considers just holding off and letting things let the dust settle before things change and with that being said thank you guys i will not be raising my hand again thank you for being here okay uh do we have anyone else in the audience that needs to share with us tonight not at this time okay well i appreciate the people that were
077here tonight um so now i would like to call for a motion regarding um the board boundaries and whether this should be move forward for a second reading victoria i uh move that we advance this proposal to a second reading at our next meeting i'll second okay so now um i wanna open i accept the second and then i would like to open this up for the board to ask questions and make comments at this point so i i from the comments i just have a couple clarifying questions if i if i may yes um columbia valley right now they all feed into shahala is that correct um the the main area of columbia valley feeds into shahelah yes the area is surrounding the school and then the others go where way east and its
078entirety i know the uh the satellite area the cimarron neighborhood let's see let me look at that um they go to pacific is this but isn't in this proposal the cimarron neighborhood is going to go to parthenon's northwood hearth correct okay so i mean that's a different area than you know again what i consider the the main area that uh israel was talking about okay but i think all the columbia valley kids would go to shahala after if the the cimarron students go to hearthwood uh no they'd still go you know again because you know the middle school boundaries don't change so so right now the again this columbia valley main area obviously they go to columbia valley right and then they all go to shahala and then most of them go to mountain view
079and or excuse me most of them go to union and some of them go to mountain view and then the cimarron neighborhood right now obviously they go to columbia valley but then they all go to pacific and they all go to evergreen and so that of course you know doesn't change if this part of the proposal you know ends up being accepted by the board then the cimarron neighborhood would change their elementary school to hearthwood then they'd still go to pacific which would be with uh a portion of the kids that they in that case went to elementary school with and then they would all go to evergreen high school together because all of hartwood goes to evergreen and uh you know so it's it's a little bit better aligned if you look at it
080from a feeder pattern standpoint with the change for that area the sense that i have right now is the entirety of the clear metals neighborhood that we've been talking about uh is fed into mount shahela followed by mountain view that's correct and there are i don't know mike if you can affirm that there are no current discussions about changing boundaries for middle and high school i think you did affirm that there's no secondary boundary changes under discussion with this yeah i think i've said that a couple times yeah um uh current boundaries for ellsworth elementary include an exclave um in north of burton road in the uh in the oakbrook neighborhood um i wonder if i i could learn from you scott what happens if uh those kids miss the bus well i mean those
081kids um you know back to you know i think the point that that jennifer made i think uh you know i mean there's no denying that uh whether you're talking about the oak brook neighborhood or whether you're talking about uh you know the current proposal which is that section just north of mill plain i mean both of those are north of mill plain and so that means by definition they're all in a bus zone and it would be considered you know from a district standpoint unsafe passage for them to walk because they'd have to cross mill plane in the case of the oak brook neighborhood it would uh i mean it's in my mind it's not really feasible you know to to walk if they miss the bus because you're talking about a 25-30 minute
082bus ride as it is right now from that neighborhood all the way to ellsworth when you factor in the stops and so you know part of this proposal you know unfortunately the numbers don't work out um you know to use mill plane as the buffer between the two schools because ellsworth would be too small and marion would be much too large especially when you consider the di program and the growth that's that's there so this proposal you know it doesn't eliminate unfortunately the need to have some of the ellsworth zone north of mill plain but it does make if approved that section you know a whole a much shorter bus ride you know from those homes to ellsworth than the oak brook neighborhood is okay um and then i guess i just had the comment
083to make that after the last workshop meeting uh in connection with this proposal scott was um we all had an opportunity to speak with scott and mike one-on-one about the ramifications and have some of our concerns resolved and he did in fact return with the correct demographic information [Music] that i guess one of the one of the people testifying said that wasn't available at our first uh our first workshop we received those answers we just wanted to get that into the conversation as well was that we i i consider myself fully um informed about what's happening and to have asked about some of the same concerns that were raised tonight um maybe you could talk a little bit about uh it's not a certainty i know that but the boundary exception process and some of
084the flex that might exist in that if a parent outside of the school area wants to select a school with room sure well the uh yeah as we've discussed and i think this came up in um i can't remember if it came up in the community forums but i know there were a few email inquiries that came from parents that were answered but in answer to your question rob the the process for parents anywhere in the district to request a boundary exception from their home school to any other school of their choice that remains intact um you know really separate from this process so the the added provision as i think uh you all know on the board is that in policy there is a a provision or references made to any current fourth grade
085students that would be affected if by proposals such as this that are approved you know with the idea that if at all possible in space allows and parents want to seek a boundary exception for their current fourth grader we want to be in a position to approve those if at all possible so that a student you know isn't at a brand new elementary school for what would then be their final year of elementary before moving on to middle school and as we discussed i mean related to that you know but separate it is has always been and will always continue to be our goal to as space allows at schools to say yes to as many boundary exception requests as we get because you know anytime a parent requests a boundary exception from their home
086school to another school you know they have very good reasons for that and if so if we as a district can be in a position to accommodate them and approve that we want to be able to do so and we'll continue to take that mindset for me i was you know when we had our first workshop and i think i posed some questions i was concerned um about what would happen with the endeavor area and endeavors not on this one right now but we do know that there's still students in that area that are attending fur crest and that eventually um we were going to have to take care of that problem and so i did i did have some concerns around what was going to happen there especially with some of the new developments
087that are happening out around 112 and wondering you know um you know what would this look like if we waited or if we put it on pause but then i also understand that we have brand new skill brand new schools that are going to be ready to go and it's all the domino effect and so we've got to be able to put those kids and fill those schools to capacity right from the right from the beginning plus when we go to phase three of this and burton is rebuilt that will then alleviate some of that problem in that endeavor area because we'll be able to realign and have more capacity because that isn't burton one of our smallest schools right now yeah burton is um actually right now our and actually you know pre-pandemic um
088our second smallest school um at the elementary level and so is the smallest right which um that will be slightly less small you know again depending on what the board decides with this series of recommendations so when you know the new burton uh because that's you know one of the schools that we're lucky enough to to rebuild um as part of the 2018 bond and so um the new burton right now is scheduled to open in the fall of 2023 and when it reopens it i mean it already the attendance zone for burton already abuts the attendant zone for endeavor when the new burton opens those two schools will be even closer together because of its new location and so um you know our plan and right now the numbers bear this out and i
089really i shouldn't say our plan i should say my current thinking based on you know whatever the you know third parent committee thinks when we uh do that work but there's certainly going to be a you know a lot of room for growth at the new burton uh not only based on its current enrollment but based on the new building because the new building will have an increased capacity the same as marion and ellsworth so that based on the numbers right now and the projections looks to be able to give us the room we need not only to right size both burton and endeavor but also with fur crest being in the mix there the um quite a high likelihood in my opinion that we'll be able to address those apartment complexes that you mentioned
090julie that are so close to endeavor and allow those to attend you know endeavor which they're much closer to if that's the will of the committee and the board approves it and then um you know have some other kids go to fur crest you know again depending on what happens and the timing of all that uh current construction that we talked about before yeah i just think that um you know that deciding and you know and working towards this recommendation is you know not only this step for next year but it also is a domino effect for what's to come after that and you know and i think that um when this board set out um and put the bond um you know several years ago and start did that i mean that worked even
091though the bond passed a few years ago we started that work many many years ago talking about the the growth and what we needed and one of our always has been one of our guiding principles is about less kids and portables and so whatever we can do um to accomplish it that's why we built these news that rebuilt the schools when they were old but to also expand the capacity and get kids out of portables if we could and if that's um and i and i understand that attachment to your elementary school i get it i mean i think everybody across the district and we and all of us board members live in different areas of the district and um you know our elementary school was sifton not new sift in old sifton but we
092had an attachment to it so i get it it just you know that's what happens when you're in your neighborhood and you have that attachment to your elementary school and your community um but i also have a belief that all of our schools are great schools with great people inside of them doing amazing work so um i also think that you know that if there's a adjustment or realignment i think that people will be okay and i think that um they'll enjoy whatever school that they're in i think that they'll get used to that school community i'm glad you brought that up julie because i was thinking the same thing since you mentioned that i've been around for a while i've seen a lot of boundary changes over the years and it's very difficult to
093think about changing your school which is a good thing because we want people to be engaged in their schools and love their school but i also know that people make that change because i up until this last month lived in the cimarron neighborhood and i remember things when they were all shifting around um for us and but you know what the parents maintain positive attitudes the kids got in there the schools are good i tend to be skeptical of the best schools report because it doesn't take in so many things i mean it's just they're kind of bogus in a way i'm you we've all been in these schools i mean columbia valley is an awesome school i've been in there that used to be my only school i went to on the first day
094of school because i loved that school so much they were so awesome and the kids just were really fun and happy to be there and so i i really want to encourage the parents that have concerns i get it just like julie said um we've been there we we know what it's like and it will be okay but i i do understand the angst about it and i also in just in the in our review of things in our meeting with with scott and mike after the board workshop on this because we did definitely heard what you were saying and had questions about it and seeing the reasoning behind it all and what they looked at and how they tried to make things work you know looking at the new ideas and stuff they're just
095times when it is what it is and that's never easy um because you know we're grateful that you want to advocate for your kids and um we think that's an important part of why our schools are what they are is that we have parents that are involved and want to be a part of their children's educational experience and we encourage that and encourage you to stay connected um but i do want to give you just some reassurance that the schools that they will be going to are going to equally be as wonderful and you will get engaged involved in that community and you'll you'll see it's a wonderful place too with really great teachers who care about their about your children i really believe that about columbia valley myself having been there in several occasions
096and knowing who the principal there is and who she's brought on as teachers it is a place where they care about all the kids and it is a wonderful place to learn um yeah a little vulnerable there but yeah i just i love visiting that school too [Music] um anybody else on the board have any other questions or comments jenny any thoughts on yours and um nope i had um a very good conversation with the other day with scott and mike so i got all my questions answered and concerns addressed so i appreciate it rachel any thoughts uh a lot of thoughts i feel because you're in the fishers landing area right i understand the attachment to fisher's landing i'm very attached to fisher's landing [Music] and you know as a child i was affected
097by a boundary change and had to go to a different school my fourth and fifth grades and that was really hard as a child to have to do that but in the end it helped me be flexible i made new friends and luckily got to bring some of my old friends with me too but um it's definitely something that's going to really impact our families and i think it's something that we have to be really deliberate and careful about but i think that our committee was really deliberate and careful about it and that's you know where i guess i just disagree with some of our commentators tonight in that i know after talking to scott and mike that we are this committee really did put a lot of thoughtful work into this and considered many
098different options [Music] um so it's it's a really hard decision and i think that we just have to do what's best for our entire district and i think doing some changes now and some changes later is not really the best way to go you know some people are asking us to delay certain areas of this change where we need to make some now so i'm on board with making all the decisions now and i do think that we have really put a lot of thought and effort into this i wish that we could satisfy everybody and i know we can't and that's the terrible side effect of this process vic if you don't mind i could also point out that what we're what we're voting on today is the first reading and that there will
099be time in the next uh the next meeting is in january right that's probably when the second reading will take place there will be time for us to consider everything that's been offered tonight yeah and uh reach a decision that includes those voices i want to point out too that there's some questions and things being entered in the q a but i think that the time for public comment passed uh regarding this when we made our motion to discuss yeah i've read them all yeah and me too and that those comments are going to be in the public record as well so we won't have lost that we will be able to capture that and remain open to emails back and forth and conversations between now and that and that second reading and i express
100appreciation for the anxiety around change that mitchell pointed out and the anxiety that um just want to repeat it's like if you're worried about something i think that means that you care about it and i think we're listening to people tonight who care any other input comments oh could we point out that we're not going to be using q and a during public comments for any purpose i don't think we have a structure for that for um the written q a tool the questions answers on the screen what you're just talking about rob right yeah yeah so the people that are popping questions in that's not part of the process we can't respond to those right as we move forward in the meeting is what you're we can still acknowledge that we've received them and
101we've read them yeah um yeah that that i well it's just as a i guess a point of order kind of thing is uh are we going to use that tool or read those questions aloud or anything uh during public comment no okay yeah but we've got them we but we do have have them as part of the record for the board to have as part of our process yes thanks rob for asking okay all right so at this time we'll now take a vote to accept this um existing boundary change is presented for a second reading knowing that in the middle of all of this we'll still be researching looking at things and receiving information as we go forward so i'll take a roll call vote i'm a yes julie yes rod yes rachel
102yes ginny yes okay thank you all right we will then go ahead move this forward for a second reading it'll be brought back um and again the second reading is there for a reason so we have time for more research on this and and we will be putting great thought into it as we move forward okay so our next on the agenda is the board consent agenda um do i have a motion for approval of the board consent agenda and director gren waltz so moves is there a second is that julie okay okay all in favor i'm and i i i'm a yes ginny yes rachel yes julie yes rob yes okay thank you that's been approved next up is the um oops hang on sorry guys ended up having to look at this on
103my phone instead of my printout let's see okay next up we have the superintendent's consent agenda do i have a motion for approval of the superintendent's consent agenda director perkins director okay it's been moved and seconded um we'll now take a vote i'm a yes ginny yes rachel she wasn't muted she muted herself yes i somehow also made myself like my entire screen so i don't know how i did that i'm just looking at myself right now julie yes rob yes all right thank you it's been approved oh my gosh okay okay hang in here with me guys trying to find our next our next uh item here i'll help you stupid really let's report thank you i appreciate that i needed help okay so me where is my coat you went away off my
104screen i'm here you can hear me okay so i want to share just a few different things um that are occurring what's been happening uh what we're doing um i'll start with uh this past friday we had a legislative forum uh by zoom it was the first time that that's happened uh but you know like with these board meetings with a lot of the meetings like uh scott mentioned with respect to the turnout for forums you know when you do it by zoom you often have a larger turnout than what you might otherwise have and so i think we had a larger number of legislators participate by zoom than what we might typically have and um they were asked at the beginning to kind of share what it is they uh what it is that
105they uh want to learn um unfortunately these forums are really meant where we're making kind of presentations to them because basically what almost every one of the folks um that our legislators were wanting to know how kids get back to school because the the uh individuals that they represent a lot of the families are reaching out and really struggling with the length and the amount of time that this uh continues to go on like everybody is struggling with it the forum didn't really kind of take that head on there was a point in time where we did um uh representative craft and representative vic asked some pretty specific questions about that um and and really i think the response uh of the superintendents was around um really the guidelines that are in place that we
106have in the state uh that we can't continue to operate under the ones that were presented at the beginning of the year um is what we follow you know it's it's the situation is you have people in olympia saying well it's a local decision um on how you handle that but there's this department of health uh decision tree that we need to follow um and so it's a difficult it is a difficult situation i think we all have been tracking the rates uh i don't think the county updated their numbers this week yet as i understand it they're merging some systems and struggling with coming up with the calculation uh i look before the meeting it still shows that we're 427.64 per hundred thousand uh dr melnick uh continues to have concerns with the number
107of cases uh that are occurring um for me um my comments to the to the because they're asking what can they do to help for me we've been listening honestly from the superintendent of public instruction and others uh that we need to wait until a vaccine shows up once a vaccine shows up then that's the path back and so my kind of request for the folks in olympia was that we make sure that whenever the vaccine becomes available that there's efficient distribution of the vaccine and some clarity around what requirements may or may not exist with respect to the vaccine but it's really frustrating to hear kind of some of the things that we hear and at this point i don't know that there is a clear understanding of exactly who i think it's clear
108that the first folks that get the vaccine will be people that are health care workers um and i think most at-risk individuals and i think the data pretty well shows who those individuals are um i i know that there was a blog post or some sort of a of a distribution uh from the president of wea this week uh uh or last week talking about the potential first of the state department of health guideline changes and that there was some uh discussion around the conversation between the pr uh the leadership of wea and the governor and that there wouldn't be any changes but in for me the comment i think that he shared was i think in that there was some conversation around prioritization of folks that work in schools towards the vaccine so we're
109going to have to kind of see how the next several weeks develop as to how many doses we receive how fast we receive them in the state of washington what the actual plan is for distribution um and that that's significant because if we get to this point of this crisis eight nine months in and we start having political problems which clearly we've had political problems throughout but at this point if we have political problems when we have access to a vaccine it really becomes an indictment of adults because our kids are losing school every day and we are here for our children and we need to do everything we can to make sure that that happens so um i think everybody is uh whether that's families whether that's students whether that's our staff um i
110think i think everybody's just really frustrated and everybody is very um kind of just tired of the situation that we're all facing uh so my my message repeatedly with olympia folks will be we need to lead you know i think the the individuals in olympia want to tell school districts you need to lead and just make some decisions regardless of the guidelines that we've put in place and i think that's hard i think the leadership needs to come from olympia and i'm very hopeful that that will occur in the next several weeks and months um the cdc recently uh put out some new guidelines on the quarantine language um and as what appears to be almost with everything that has happened around this our state has some counties adopting it one way other counties adopting
111it another way so there's not consistency i think in clark county there's a feeling that we should stay with the cdc's most strict guidelines at 14 days of quarantining and of course we're going to follow what our county says but we're really advocating for dr melnick as much as he can again to push the state to say what's the guideline for the state it should be one guideline in yakima and another guideline in king county and another guideline in whitman county and another in clark county it it it we meet every week and the frustrations are being felt so i think that clark county is doing everything we can to safely return students to school in an environment of kind of cases that just continue to grow and uh uh jay sent me a text
112now i think the number is 447 instead of 4 27. so it's gone up a little bit so we're starting to see a little bit of a slowdown hopefully with that now all that being said the frustrations aside i'll share a few other things that we're working on uh one uh we the state had some stimulus money from last summer uh and some of those dollars were specifically allocated for devices and they started distributing the access to devices for districts in the state of washington based upon some demographic information we were not in the first tier of that request we were able to make a request in the second tier uh we were a second tier district we uh received information just within the last few weeks that we have been um approved for 2000
113over 2000 devices so we're going to receive some uh we have the ability to to um purchase and then be reimbursed for over 2 000 devices from the state of washington that's good news um that'll help us out as we uh initially you know with the the one-to-one initiative it wasn't envisioned that we would be sending devices home necessarily with elementary school kids so we're seeing more uh extensive usage of our devices than what you might have seen um what what you might have expected so it is a really nice thing that we're able to receive those um i do think in the conversations with the local with dr mellick and our local folks i i really do see that if we manage the vaccine distribution and uh we get good guidance from the state
114i do i'm very optimistic that we will have kids back um this year in some fashion and um maybe not sooner rather than later but i think we do have an opportunity to make that happen it's very important to me if at all costs we have the ability to have our students back at school this year maybe our kids have a season some seasons in the spring to play sports our band students have opportunities to do more than virtual present concerts our theater students have some ability to are and that our our seniors have an opportunity to graduate in some sort of an actual ceremony um this year so i i am optimistic about that with all that being said one of the things that we talked about this week and we've been talking about
115i i've directed our teaching and learning folks to um in the next month or thereabouts as we get closer to the end of the year we we get closer to the opportunity to have kids on site and so everybody knows that um while i think we've got a great program our staff has done a tremendous job of delivering instruction to our kids in a very difficult situation that face-to-face on-site is the preferred clearly for most kids delivery uh instructional delivery program we have um i've talked about we need to free up money whether it's through the districts um basic head funds levy funds title one meant to support that lab to support that but we've got to create what opportunities we're going to make available for our students this summer um and identify the students
116for some services to start working on some of the catch-up for areas that we might have fallen behind so i would say in the next you know by the time we get into january late january we should have plans starting to be developed on what that looks like for us this summer i think in a typical year it's sometimes difficult to get kids to participate because they've been in school all year even staff to participate because they've been in school all year um i think that the demand is going to be there this year and i think we need to take advantage of that and do as much as we can to extend the school year so we'll report more on that um the last several weeks uh i've taught i've shared you know i've
117been out meeting with principals um i've expanded that into associate principles here in the last several weeks my belief is uh we need to create build on as many relationships as we can i'm doing that within the district by meeting um safely appropriately with our staff throughout the district getting feedback on what's working what's not working and how we can make changes i'm really excited about the option to do that um i wanna also mention that um we will be piloting in january uh meal delivery program um initially at uh orchards and at uh covington where families within the boundary will be able to uh go on to an online form and uh request meals for the week and we will deliver them to their homes as opposed to everybody having to come in um
118we'll use some of our staff to make those deliveries and if it's successful uh we would expand on that they can go out and deliver a week's worth of breakfast and meat and lunches that's i think a really good thing they're going to be working on that project um and then i just really want to say um i mean honestly i could talk forever but i just want to i want to continue to thank our families thank our staff because folks just continue to persevere through a very difficult situation we're going on now eight plus months of this and it i know that governor inslee extended his moratorium another uh several weeks i know that our open public meeting acts uh meetings act uh proclamation was extended through the uh late january i think the
11919th of january uh folks are tired you know our our staff is tired our our students are tired um but kids just keep persevering when i see things like the north side uh choir the northside festival where we had students from the north side of the district led by our heritage choir director as well as other teachers within the district put out their virtual song was unbelievable uh we've still got uh staff coming in working with kindergarten students we've got staff working with students on ieps we've got staff coming in working with students on the student engagement teams we've got coaches still in small groups following the guidelines working with kids we have so many people that are there for our students and continue to want to be there for the students and are really
120frustrated themselves by what's happening um around the world and i just want to thank everyone for that um it it's it's been a long run um but i want to leave i kind of want to leave like for myself this is i just want to always remember to be thankful and grateful that we have the opportunity um to lead through this situation it's a very difficult situation but we have the ability to bring some of our expertise we have the ability to collaborate and work together on what are some of the best things we can do for our community um i'm thankful i'm in the spot i'm in it's a tough spot uh i'm thankful i get to work with our staff i'm thankful i get to work with all of you um and i
121guess i just want to leave it with that and uh we're going to keep working hard for the kids that's why we're here it's all about the kids i'm happy to answer any questions you might have it kind of stole my thunder about the choir thing but that's okay thank you for mentioning that what else did you want to mention rob i'll steal your your thunder for that too no i'll yeah i'll shut up i i just have to agree so much about the music uh the efforts of the music teachers thank you they do get creative on their zoom events it's pretty exciting thanks mike appreciate it now for some good news um our director of communications ms gail spoiler is here to bring us some uplifting and inspiring news i am and there
122might be a couple music references in there as well first of all as we scan down in the good news um which is online there for you um you know we you mentioned briefly the evergreen school district foundation and um your role on it victoria as well as um some of the other community and staff members and we just want to thank them for some of their work over the past month or so some small donations and some very large donations they were able to secure 300 backpacks you see the picture there a lot of times we get donated they're really cute elementary backpacks and we forget that our middle school and high school students also are in need of backpacks so the foundation provided 300 backpacks that are mostly aimed at our middle school
123and high school students and they were delivered up to evergreen high school's community resource center and so those will be distributed um more importantly the delayed gala that was supposed to happen last march and was rescheduled in um just last month we thought at one point it might be in person and then it went virtual and i think we were all really pleasantly surprised at how fun the ritual gala was and not only was it fun it was very profitable over a hundred thousand dollars was raised from our greater community and that will be distributed through grants and other programs over the next coming years so good work by the foundation um our legacy high school staff as you know they have some students that sometimes can be hard to engage and if you scroll
124down just a little bit to the legacy high school piece and so our our staff at legacy high school is always worried about how they can yeah okay yeah i just it it muted itself our legacy staff is always concerned about how they can continue to connect and support their students so they put together some care packages with um donations um from share and clark county food bank but more importantly than just providing the packets they went out and made one-on-one connections with over 190 students that are enrolled at legacy and so good work from them um you know we've our schools have again looked for creative ways that they can be involved as you know our deaf and hard of hearing program is at for crest elementary and so the staff there decided that
125they would actually broaden the asl work that they do um in the classroom to the broader fur crest community so they opened an asl club for their fourth and fifth graders and that is met with great success and so not only are they learning asl american sign language but they're also learning the history of the of american sign language and then um that continues to make that community of the hard of hearing program with infer crest just a little bit more approachable for the students there and part of that community so over at heritage there asl student staff and parents collaborated to produce an asl song that was sung by a former heritage high school student graduate and they put it out just in time for world kindness day you know i know one of
126the things that we all missed um during november was the veterans day celebrations those are always fun and our schools do a great job of celebrating our schools continue to do a great job of celebrating even in a virtual environment and endeavor put together just a very very charming veterans day assembly that featured all of their students um providing um and honoring the veterans that they would like to have done in person but it's really charming if you hadn't had a chance to look that um and how many of you like brussels sprouts um it probably took you even a bit of time that courage to take your first bite if you haven't already if you if you have or haven't but that's why chartwells decided to make brussels sprouts um maybe more fun for
127students so that they would be encouraged to take a bite perhaps at the thanksgiving table and so you can see chartwells and the fur crest community pairing up to feature brussels sprouts as students stop to pick up meals during the daily meal pickup so there you go and you know our staff continues to innovate on how to deliver engaging curriculum and so what you see in front of you right now is a frontier middle school they prepared science experiment kits with several different science experiments and so they distributed them to students had them follow instructions as well as doing it within the zoom classroom and so if all went well in those experiments elephants in our community will have toothpaste not quite sure elephant toothpaste but that was the the end game on one of
128the science experiments again making it fun and intriguing and engaging for our students a couple of our highest viewed social media posts over the last month include a story of a former riverview student who has now returned to teach side by side with her former kindergarten teacher and so if you haven't had a chance to take a look at that story um it's just charming and it's exactly what we've talked about for years as far as growing our own and welcoming them back into our community then um another of our highest um social media posts was again as rob referenced one of the innovative music programs that have happened um the covington frontier middle school choir teacher put together a presentation where they combine the two choirs and so you can imagine how many students
129that involved from two different schools collaborating um to produce one beautiful song um it garnered so much attention that kgw also actually um came out and interviewed our teacher um britta hobbs and featured the performance as well as talking with two of the students one from covington and one from frontier about that collaboration process so thanksgiving always brings out a lot of great work by our schools and students and again no exception all of our four comprehensive high schools did tremendous food drives with um share to raise uh awareness and and bring in a lot of food for our families mountain view also was part of that they also worked with their mandy's pantry and then the finley family who are owners of some of our area restaurants to put together more than 100 food
130boxes for thanksgiving including frozen turkeys and all of the trimmings and then they delivered those to the 100 families that had been identified in the community you'll see next month i'll have more of the work that's being done in our schools again to support our families and then i would be remiss if i didn't end the good news with our wonderful recognition of our wonderful board of directors um the sixth time in 10 years that you've been recognized for exemplary work by um wasda as a washington state school board of distinction and i'll go ahead and point out just like we did in the social media post this photo is from 2019's award um so it was okay back in 2019 that you guys could stand that close together and not wear masks we just
131have a recent photo and so that's the photo from last year's ceremony but um accomplishments are probably even greater this year as you um were recognized at the recent conference thank you we love the good news we need it right now more than ever now we have to go back to mike and get budget news perhaps if he did it in a zoom concert it would be better i think so or a tick-tock dance or something there we go good night uh yeah no i don't think there are some tick-tock dances out there i've seen but i don't i don't think i'll be participating in any of those or if i have i'm going to do my best to make sure you never see them they always they always manage to come out so financial
132report i also in that legislative forum um basically i kind of mentioned that's what the legislators wanted to know but the the districts were sharing the areas of of concern and areas that the the districts believe that the legislation could help us so um among the vaccine vaccination uh conversation um we also talked about the shortfalls that districts are facing and we've talked at length about um our enrollment decline at this point um we're you know we had already budgeted for about a 450 475 student enrollment decline before covid hit us at this point i think that we likely will be impacted about a thousand students in the basic ed program i think some of some of the um like our cascadia accounts a little higher than what it might have been um and also
133we've seen a lot of i think our kids move to the home choice academy so the home choice academy numbers are up compared but within the schools uh we're down almost four probably between fourteen hundred and fifty and fifteen hundred kids this year um that's a significant amount of of revenue that we've uh been impacted uh we shared that information transportation we've talked also from the beginning about the concern around transportation we have three points of time that we count our our students but you have to actually transport students in order to count students and receive revenue for them um 25 of that is in the fall count in october we had about 10 percent of what we typically would transport in our fall count there a g there's a january count which we will
134not have um likely any more kids transported than we did in the fall and then the spring count is typically from the spring before so the state has held us harmless on that so we would get the full amount from last spring even though we weren't in school last spring but they're giving us the full amount the estimate is that we'll receive about 50 ish percent of what we typically get we typically get about 16 million so i had kind of optimistically hope the cup might be three to five million we're probably talking about more like a a seven eight million dollar cut in transportation um i believe what i shared with our folks between with the legislators between um the enrollment declines in base again which then that restricts how many special ed students
135we can be funded for the uh transportation impacts and then um increased unemployment cooperative rates due to the number of furloughed staff that we have throughout the cooperative there's probably close to a 10 20 million hit on us this year which we've done um a lot to mitigate already with things that we've um you know obviously we've furloughed a number of employees but our our interest is in bringing students back as as quickly and as safely as possible so a number of those um classified staff have been brought back i think about 35 of the hours that we had furloughed have been brought back at this point but i just want to kind of give a frame of reference rob was a member of a budget committee um and victoria was a board member through
136the cuts from 0-809 through 11-12 we had about 26 million that we eliminated in that four year period 0809 910 10 11 11 12. um that 20 million would be a number that we wouldn't have necessarily been aware of until school started this year you know we typically have the opportunity to go through some forums and have processes and have opportunities to share well um our forums if we were able to have them would have all been largely uh well they all would have been zoom uh forums so my message to the legislators was we have a real we have a real problem this school year um i uh you know the state revenue shortfall was initially projected at almost nine billion dollars over a uh basically a three year period when they looked at
137that initially back in june of 20. every updated revenue forecast that's gotten better i think the number that they're looking at now which would have been probably not figuring on the types of of uh extensions of shutdowns and restrictions that the governor's put in place now through i think the beginning of january but that nine billion dollar figure was down to three billion thereabouts which in my mind you know you're getting uh uh that number is getting closer to a number within the rainy day fund that the state has potentially to help uh us through that um so at the same time um you know we honestly are looking for support from olympia whether that's through a hold harmless on enrollment if that's the right way uh hold harmless somehow on transportation um there have
138been superintendent reichdoll talked today about um you know the most recent information on the federal stimulus is they're looking at a 900 billion dollar potential program but where a day or two ago they felt pretty comfortable about this happening now there's more concern that there's a fracturing of the votes on that within that likely would be money to help save not save but help support state budgets but even with that that it's important uh how does the state distribute it so our request would be do whatever they can around hold harmless enrollment transportation and if they do receive federal stimulus monies that cares too or whatever they want to call it do their best to distribute that as quickly as possible his conversation today was it could drag on and on you know we'll get
139to the point where we need to start building budgets for 2122 um in the in the um you know late winter early spring and if we don't have answers from a long legislative session or from the federal government that's going to put more pressure on us um i do think personally that the the the potential for a vaccine um depending on how that's handled gives us some hope with respect to enrollment uh but but if our honestly a 20 million dollar hit you know we come into the year with the 28 million dollar reserve i i you know we we could see a 8 to 10 million dollar impact on our fund balance if we don't do more than we've already done uh at this point and i don't think anybody um could reasonably think
140about building a budget for next year based upon enrollment that doesn't exist and then especially if we've seen a decline in our fund balance bank on a smaller fund balance to bail us out of another problem next year so there's no question in my mind we'll be dealing with some reductions for 2122 um and i think that uh um there's likely further reductions even this school year that we'll have to look at i talk about this with the the um superintendents every week everybody's on the same page everybody's got different pressures they're facing um i think uh canvas and both canvas and ridgefield have had um public uh protests at the district office about trying to pressure the district to get students back into school so there are a lot of pressures that districts are
141facing um we are as well but but i am i am optimistic um i am optimistic that we'll have students back um at some point this spring and and i think you know there are a lot of particularly our kindergarten class this year we had budgeted for over 1600 students and we're a little over 1300 um i those students will come back uh my belief is they will come back and i think our middle schools and our high schools have stayed relatively uh flat or even up a little bit it's really elementary where this is impacted um but you know the thing about it is like i said so many times we we don't exist without um students and i and i say that just basically to say our priority is our kids and so
142that's why we have to find money for a summer option for kids to give them the ability to to catch up where they might have lost we we have to um i'm i am uh very optimistic that there's a lot of demand that's building up throughout the community for kids kids know they want to be in school at this point parents see the value of school that they always have but they see it even more than they have now i'm i'm very um thankful that the voters passed in 2018 the bond passed in 2019 the operations levy because when kids come back they're going to have some facilities that are unbelievable to access in our new elementary schools we'll have five next fall we'll have a new legacy we'll have a new transitions program we'll
143have a new hollingsworth academy we've got new fields being put up uh uh uh made available throughout the district uh through field turf so we and and we've talked about this at cabinet as well we have to um be ready uh the very first day that that we have the opportunity to bring kids back and we have to greet all of our students with uh what everything we have to offer for them and i know that our staff is up to up to that but they're you know we we've uh as like i said earlier victoria you and rob are very well aware and rachel and jenny and julie as well because um basically since i've been in this spot uh we're looking at something along the lines of over 30 million dollars worth of
144impact between the budget cuts that we made that for spring and then what we're facing right now we and that's what i said we'll get ric we'll get through it we will get through it we will figure it out um we will figure out the path but if they can help us in olympia in a not an ongoing thing we don't need this to be a bow wave but we do need help right now and i think it's imperative that we all know rob through his role on the legislative committee we're all going to have opportunities to share our story with legislators and we do every day but we we need to let them know our story like other districts are letting the legislators know our story we we do great things in our district
145we do great things for kids we we're doing great things for kids right now um and we we just have to continue to make sure that the focus is always on kids um and we'll we'll we'll get through this and we'll be we'll talk about what's happening and we'll continue to likely talk talk all spring which i know gail gets the opportunity to say a lot of good news when she does hers this isn't always good news but the good news is i think that we've done this before we have experience and we can lead lead the district through this situation as well um and we'll make difficult decisions but we'll make we'll make the right decisions and as the board has always done i remember in the cuts from 0809 910 four priorities the
146school the school what's happening in our buildings continued professional development keep working with our staff on getting better every day making sure that our facilities are in good shape making sure we maintain our facilities and and making sure everyone is safe and secure as well as possible those are the priorities and i don't know that anyone would say that they've changed because they all focus on kids so i just wanted to share uh we we will face more difficulty through the rest of the year and into next year um but we're on top of it and we'll continue to communicate on it and i'm happy to answer any questions folks any of you might have on any of this stuff well i do remember the last cuts and it's never pretty but i do trust
147that we'll get through it and that we'll find a way to make this work um and that as long as we keep everything centered on what's best for our kids and and look at it from you know an all-district scenario i think that we will make the right decisions and we're grateful that we have you here to help us figure that out it's not easy and i know it's very stressful and i appreciate all the hard work that you guys have been putting in because this has not been an easy year but for by any stretch and i think we've done very well um in light of the difficulties and keeping things going and we've been getting you know like we've been getting some nice letters and things from people um you can't make everybody
148happy in any of these situations but we've got a lot of people that are feeling good about how we're handling in a very difficult time and i appreciate that thanks any other questions for mike okay well now we are moving on to citizen comments um and this is time for citizens who wish to address the board on matters that were not on the agenda tonight are not personnel or legal in nature uh we're happy to hear what you have to say and we ask that you keep your comments to three minutes um lori do we ha who's up first on this one um director bradford julia apple is up first and she should be on okay great julia we're here to listen unfortunately it appears that she's using an older version of zoom and i
149don't think she's going to be able to access it according to the moderator okay um can we try jennifer bradley so we're going to go ahead and unmute jennifer bradley all right just a second please jennifer is that working now yeah okay thank you thanks for your patience um so my name is jennifer bradley i am a first grade teacher i live in vancouver on 30th avenue and i was speaking tonight in support for something that i believe julia and maybe sarah were going to present or propose so i'll just sort of speak generally and hope that they can um still get on and and say their piece but i'm speaking as a concerned citizen and educator to show my support for our fellow concerned citizens community members and educators who are employing our school
150districts to please put student staff and community safety first and do everything that we can to help control and contain covid i know the board members are well read and informed about covid so it won't repeat all of the most recent numbers facts and research but we all know that our local numbers are extremely high and have been growing exponentially over the past few weeks and are expected to continue to rise in what's been described as surge upon surge both locally and nationally in the coming weeks we're all aware of our many healthcare systems services providers and equipment locally and nationally are being overwhelmed and over taxed are in short supply and are projected to only get worse in the coming days and weeks i believe that community health and safety are always a top
151priority for our schools before during and after cobin and i stand with others here tonight who hopefully will also have a chance to speak and asking that evergreen public schools does everything possible including but not limited to suspending in-person services while our numbers are surging and remaining extremely high and that we all do our part in mitigating the devastating effects of covid in our local community and um put health and safety first thank you thank you jennifer so next is sarah vann it might take just a second okay can you hear me hi hi um so my name is sarah vann i'm the teacher for students with visual impairments in the district and um this is an initiative that i've been working on with julia apple she is the developmental skills teacher at hearthwood elementary
152school i would like to read a letter that we wrote and um that has already gained in less than 24 hours over a hundred signatures from members of the evergreen evergreen employees um but first off i just wanted to thank you guys for your time i know that this is a very very challenging time there's so much conflict and um you know in opinions with how the covid situation is being handled in our schools and we really really appreciate all the thought and all the action that you guys are doing during this time so i'm going to go ahead and read our letter um dear members of the school board we are all aware of the many negative impacts remote learning has had on our school community including students families and staff often described as
153challenging we understand that remote learning does not meet the educational emotional and general needs of students many students families and staff who have been participating in in-person services this school year have reported positively students enjoy being in their schools with their peers child care burdens are lightened for our families and educators are back in their second homes their classrooms in person learning provides a sense of normalcy during such an unprecedented time this request is not cause to advocate for distance versus in-person learning a controversy about which much of our community is divided we are requesting temporary action to help minimize the spread of copin 19 in our area we are writing to ask that you support an educational initiative that fosters the physical health and safety of our students families and staff during this upcoming
154holiday season this letter is to ask you to consider providing only virtual services during the week after winter break january 4th through 8th for all students who are currently receiving in-person services mandating virtual learning after winter break will supply students and staff with a built-in quarantine period directly after the christmas holiday as recommended by governor inslee this will serve as a buffer to reduce holiday related transmission of covid18 in our schools many of us felt the unease of returning to in-person school after the thanksgiving break knowing students and staff had gathered in unregulated groups during the holiday clark county public health has only confirmed our fears by documenting rising numbers of cases within our community as increases are published weekly and as we prepare for the upcoming christmas holiday that much of our community celebrates
155our concerns grow with validation even with the limited number of people present on our campuses numerous numerous staff and students have either been exposed to or infected by covid19 positive cases have been reported in 18 of our district buildings and staff and students have been quarantined fallen ill and even hospitalized each time someone has an exposure or is confirmed to have covenanted quarantine protocols are enacted to decrease the likelihood of an outbreak with the rise in community cases the likelihood that students and staff will need to go into quarantine will only increase causing possible staff shortages unplanned educational disruption for our students and an increase in potential spread when placing new staff members in classrooms where there is a risk of a possible outbreak we could face the disparity of entire classrooms being shut down
156due to mandatory quarantine or lack of staffing you are empowered with the capacity and privilege to save lives this holiday season we urge you to take the necessary steps and mandate that our students who are currently receiving in-person services receive virtual services the week after our scheduled winter break thank you for your time and consideration thank you sarah those were the only two people that signed up that are actually on um the meeting at this time okay well great well i appreciate everyone who's participated tonight it was good discussion not always easy but it was good okay so um next oops let's see board comments yep thank you i'll help you i keep flip flipping back and forth between the different deals that you sent me okay so now it's time for comments by the
157board um is there anything anyone on the board would like to share with us rob you always have stuff i don't want to go first you go right ahead okay here it comes um it's like i equipped a little bit about the music concerts i am had an interaction an email interaction with billy bewell of heritage high school the choir director at the high school who with a team of friends um funded by i think a district grant uh were able to produce the uh the fall concert feeder pattern we're used to going to and speaking out to thank people for their local support of uh music uh in all of our schools and and i know i'm not the only one who loves that concert um the if you'll permit me a vulnerability the
158performances that he sent to me brought tears to my eyes and a feeling of grief about what we're missing out on but also of just gratefulness for the beauty that uh our students can express when they and their teachers collaborate like this i don't know how they engineered the sound to be that good given the microphones on all the chromebooks it's it's amazing and i just want to express my enthusiasm and support for this effort and hope that it will continue until the day we can all come and sing together because i sure want to come and sing with the kids now um we're going to talk about the waza conference later on so i'll do that then um i wanted to say just as a comment that uh as i was listening to the
159concern people have over coveted 19 i'm aware of the health department's support or report of data regarding [Music] school covet cases and as near as i can tell from looking over how they've organized it it's not spreadsheet the way i might like to have data presented but there are two active cases reported as connected to two of our schools right now the other cases are far too old to still be operative they're over two weeks right so if i use the 14 day quarantine period uh we have recoveries and some tragic hospitalizations but two cases are active if i use the 10-day then no cases are active uh but that suggests to me uh with my compliments that the protocols in use in the schools for the of students that we have there now are
160working to prevent transmission of disease in the schools and i know that they're watching data and reports and workforce levels and everything [Music] and if i'm not mistaken mike um we put a hold on increasing the number of in-person services for now uh based on the county's uh recommendations is that true that's correct yeah um so i don't see an increase in it but i also don't see the transmission of disease inside the schools if there's other data or more pertinent or relevant data we should we need to see that in order to change that decision in my view um i appreciate the board's support for the legislative representative role this is going to be the hardest um this is going to be the hardest session and i'm going to need help from the other
161four from time to time i've got some ambitions uh i've got some ambitions about getting students before the committees for testimony because like mike said we have good stories to tell we need to be telling them and this is a session where they have to take remote testimony so we have a real opportunity to give students that opportunity without needing to take them anywhere we can get on a zoom meeting with the legislature and the committees can interact with our kids and that's that's a hope i've had for years and years that we figure out a way to do that without imposing a travel burden on on kids so i hope to get support in finding those students i had uh an opportunity in connection with wazda's legislative committee to fill out a survey about
162school resource officers shane gardner our security and safety director gave me a lot of good information to add to the survey and i actually reached out to my own person to find students to help answer those questions so i had some conversations with students over zoom meetings um really thoughtful people not all of them leadership kids some of them are skill center and cascadia tech students and and other spectra i spoke with a graduate who was extremely thoughtful about the proposal but the survey was around proposed language uh for a bill and the students responded extremely thoughtfully to the bill and modified what i might have typed in and i hope to be able to continue that and expand it so that we get as many voices from as many students as possible uh into
163was committees and into the legislature it's more important than ever um i really appreciate the mayor saying what you did and uh the last thing i had was that in connection with i guess some was the legislative work national school board association's equity symposium which is usually january february uh in washington dc in person is online this year and it is no cost so we can all have an opportunity to attend the national equity symposium uh and hear from speakers that symposium was where i heard uh some of the most revelatory things about equity work uh kind of knocked me out of my lane liberate me for for more equity work the day on the hill that we talk about sending a representative or not to is postponed until june so we have time to
164continue talking about that whether or not that's applications for us um i think that's all i had aside from just appreciating the public feedback that we're getting and the thoughtful care that people are putting into what they're telling us i've met with uh some teacher friends and heard a lot of stressful stories and uh continue to acknowledge like mike this is hard this is really hard and um i'm hoping we can invent some opportunities for people just to talk to us and tell us about it good and bad because we need both thanks victoria victoria i think that there is one gentleman that had signed up that we missed uh andy and i think lori they've got him he i think he signed up for citizen comments and they and we missed him oh let's
165get him on here then yeah hi there can you hear me hi andy awesome thank you so much uh mike for for uh making that happen um honestly mikey kind of took the wind out of my sails i had a lot of things to say and you kind of said all the things that i really wanted to say about getting the kids back in school one thing that i don't think anybody pointed on is you know everybody's talking about the health and safety of uh you know the people who catch covid but nobody's really pointed on the fact that uh social isolation with the kids has got more of negative effect on the kids than covid is having on the people who contract it uh you know studies have been done for years and years
166hundreds of years in fact it dates all the way back to the 13th century with the the fredericks experiment when they socially isolated kids to see how they would react and most of them died and uh you know it's it's it's sad that uh that it's having such an effect but the sad truth is that it is um dr uh dr daniel ayman wrote a piece on social isolation in young developing minds and the fact that it um it literally has an effect on their immune system which makes them more susceptible to getting sick in times when they're lonely uh and i think these are things that we would really need to focus on as well i mean it's almost a lesser of two evil things i'm not saying that uh that kovid's not real
167you know because obviously it is but you know i really want to start focusing on what what uh effects this isolation is having on our kids my i have two boys that are 12 and 14 and my 12 year old in the last eight months has gained 50 pounds uh i got a i got an email from his math teacher who said that he hadn't turned in a math assignment in over a month and i'm like well why is it taking you so long to recognize this i know he's been doing them but you know it you get back to me in a month with this and that's the the thing is is there's their kids aren't getting enough focus you know everybody's parents all the kids parents are working um you know a lot
168of these kids are home alone a lot of the parents rely on the school for so many different things you know food uh you know like you said child care the kids need to be held accountable i mean kids need to they need social interaction for their development physically and and i think that's one thing we need to really really focus on you know i know you mentioned something about uh vaccine um i would venture to say that half of the parents are not going to let their kids get vaccines regardless whether it means they go back to school or not so that's something to also consider there's going to be a lot of push back on that if that's the if that's the deal um you know if it uh if we're waiting on
169guidelines from uh a health organization to to get back in school i think we're going to be waiting a long time because i don't think this thing is as bad as the health organizations are telling us um okay i mean if if we're we're risking the the welfare or well-being of our kids on on a virus that you have to be tested to know you have in which the test consists of shoving a giant swab all the way down into the back of your head to tell that you have it i mean that's it doesn't something's not adding up and our kids my kids your kids all of our kids are suffering because of this and it's time to possibly reevaluate where the information that we're getting about this covet is coming from and also
170look into a little bit deeper what uh the effects of this isolation is having on our kids and that's all i have thank you andy sorry we missed you thank you okay let's go go back to board comments um julie anything from you tonight um yeah a couple things um i know we're going to talk about wasda later too but over the course of the last a couple of weeks i had an opportunity to um be a judge for we the people so the program um contin you know continues on it's part of the ap government class at heritage high school and evergreen and they they compete in the we the people competition um civics class um obviously way different doing it virtual um i think that you know and as we talk about and
171i've kind of had an opportunity to experience some of these and i also sat in on a virtual um sports development class at evergreen high school and i had technology issues i couldn't get my microphone to work because of the security uh piece in google classroom which is great because then just doesn't let anybody in there and start talking right but um that was one of the issues and then i think that we they invited me back and we had some network issues the next time and but not any fault like thing i was doing but it just the network was down so i can see the frustrations that are um you know kids or community and everybody's going through and i think that there's been some great things that have happened with online learning
172and um kind of like we talked about earlier in the meeting about having online forums and maybe inviting because it's a platform to get more people to participate if you don't go out on a cold rainy night you can sign you can watch from your living room right and i think it's fantastic that we are that we're offering more opportunities for people to participate and i think that we've gotten super creative um with our you know the choir concerts fantastic and i and i love seeing all of this creativity that's coming out of it plus these kids are super smart with technology they can figure all of it out um but i do understand the the part that we're missing from the in person and getting kids back in the classroom and um you know
173i'm hopeful that um with what mike said earlier that you know if we get the vaccine and we can you know get to a hybrid part and get some kids back into class this spring and so they can participate in some of these activities and um be with each other and get back on the trajectory of you know of where they need to be so anyways it was really interesting having that opportunity to um be in the virtual classroom as you know as a judge for the we the people and then sitting in and listening to the kids in their class i got to listen to them as they as they did their class virtual it's great thanks julie jenny anything newsy for us tonight um i think rob covered a lot of what we've
174been doing i did have the opportunity to meet with um a class of juniors and seniors at heritage um to go over digital learning and just kind of give them a platform to let me know just kind of what was going on um their struggles um what what's been working and what's not and then you know just realizing that each each teacher and each student is individual and each person learns and responds and reacts differently and sometimes that can be frustrating to other people on the other side and so i think just being mindful and remembering to give everybody some grace um and then you know just trying to stay on top of as much as we can it's not easy you know i'm working from home as well with three children and i got
175that email the other day from the teacher about one you know it's you think you're on it and then you realize you're not um so i just we're all struggling um but it was good to to see the kids um even if it was over a computer and to have a conversation with them and to kind of just find out how they're all doing and and you know just reminding them to take care of themselves and to be healthy yeah thanks for that okay rachel anything you want to add no i don't think i have anything to ask tonight all right thank you rachel i did want to clarify something just for those listening we we've been talking about our conference that we'll be discussing in our workshop we did it virtually three-day conference virtually
176was a bit challenging for me um because i'm squirt i'm squirmy in my seat but um but it was still really informative and really good um so anyway but i wanted the public to know we did not go anywhere and didn't meet any place in person so okay if does anyone have anything else to add okay well then let's move on to future agenda items um is there anything to be suggested by the board if you can't think of anything tonight please feel free to just email me and let me know um if anything pops up that's on your mind i think we could be taking some wisdom i guess shared by the discussions we've had and figure out a way to open up some kind of town hall for them for all of this
177and i think it would be good to just get people together to let them talk to us about what it's been like and you know teacher student parent stakeholder taxpayer this is a year where we need to be listening harder and i don't have any answers because the technology is in the way um it's also an enabler yeah yeah it's true we it'll be second best but that's what's on my mind is how do we listen better uh even when we can't get together i want to be doing some of that um and if it's all right if we don't do it institutionally i want to be asking individuals to just come forward and say they set up a zone meeting with the board member and just talk okay why did you guys have time
178for that i don't know i i know how much time i have but uh i want that open to the public and i want folks to understand trying to think of a way to do that yeah thanks rob okay well now um we will go into recess where we'll just take a few minutes break then we will return for a board workshop we'll cover the 2021-22 school calendar our teaching and learning equity update we'll have a debrief on the conference a legislative update and a board meeting debrief after that we will go into an executive session to review the performance of a public employee so we'll go ahead and take a break now for just how did you guys how much time do you need about five minutes okay we'll take a five minute break
179and then we'll be back okay just waiting on julie i'm here oh you're there okay good i didn't see you we've got rachel we've got jenny okay looks like we've got everybody here that we need all right so first up is the 2021-22 calendar janae is going to talk a little bit about the calendar for next year that they've been working looking at okay great thanks hi hi the calendar is very similar to our current school year the 2021 labor day falls right around the same time so if you look um we color coded it for you the first day of school would be august 31st with the ending of the last day of school of june 15th we've added in all of our regular extra days that we do during the spring we had
180an open bargain with eea and we added a half day of training for equity that was added in on august 26th i've spoken with all of the school districts in our county to make sure that we all have the same winter break in spring break so all of that has been confirmed and it just happened to again flow just like it does this current school year with an even two weeks for the winter break first full week for spring break we have the snow days and everything else is basically the same i've talked with eea and they also have taken it to their group and cabinet has seen it as well and then we brought it for a draft for the school board okay comments questions are the dates for i think it's november and
181december are those the wrong years on there yeah i thought i saw that earlier yep they are thank you these are the weeks line up with november and december 2021 right yeah yeah i think it's just a typo in the header part but we'll fix that thank you it looks fine to me it looks pretty just standard like what we would normally follow yeah is this scheduled diversity training um optional or mandatory it's one of their extra days so it's not part of their base contract so they're expected to know the content even if they didn't attend the training and how do we know if they know the content um i don't know what the plan is for that day i think clarissa is going to be leading that day so i don't know what
182uh they're doing but my guess is uh there would be some type of power points or something available that they would have to make sure that they did on their own time is typically how we handle those days and i noticed since julie pointed that out that february through june should be 22 so all of those will fix this puts graduations roughly weekend the 9th 10th 11th 13th i'd have to ask mike i'm not i'm not sure what they're planning for that yeah i mean i would think that that sounds good the last day of school is the 16th so it usually would yeah it'd be the week before that i would think so we did it the 10th so it looked like it'd be likely the 10th and the 11th i mean we we
183did uh um they were friday and saturday we did what did we do one friday night and three on saturday isn't that right i guess we did two two on friday yeah yeah so we usually have some on thursday we yeah and then transitions yeah so we i would think we do two on the tenth and three on the 11th there's a yeah transitions legacy well i guess that's right i think we did two two on thursday two on friday and three on saturday yeah it was a busy week and we'll be doing that here in just six months or so that would be awesome if we get to do that this year hopefully we'll be out of the woods we'll figure out how to do it nice that's good to see something normal thanks
184janae yep thank you very much yep okay um does that come back for a first reading then yes yeah okay so we'll get will we get our first reading in january yes it's already on the agenda okay great perfect thank you okay so moving on let's uh talk about teaching and learning equity update our favorite subject and i'm serious i think julie and clarissa are speaking today i'm not sure who's starting that will be me there you go yeah um so good evening everyone and i just have a few equity updates to share with you all um so i'm really excited that we have officially completed the courageous conversation the experience professional development for all of our certificated staff minus about 60 folks who couldn't attend at that time but we do have a makeup
185session scheduled for them um and that is huge now all of our teachers have a um a reference and a tool to use um to have difficult conversations about inequities in our district and that is just the beginning our building admin are continuing with their staff with the courageous conversation work throughout the year each month they have um sessions with the teachers where they get to practice using the protocol and having these difficult conversations so i'm really excited about that we are also um on meeting number three that'll take place on december 19th with our equity advisory committee um this is a great group of folks we have been looking at um equity policies um near and far as well as some equity lenses from other districts um to see which components we'd like to
186see live in hours they're going to be making some suggestions based on their stakeholder groups and things that they have experienced and after we receive the results and information from our audit which is the third thing i'm going to update you on that will further inform what it is that we suggest for the soon-to-be equity policy and equity list that will adopt for our district thirdly you all will be hearing the presentation from education northwest as they have completed our district's equity audit they will be speaking to you all in a special meeting on december 15th which i'm also very excited about they have got some great things to share with you i had the opportunity to get just a bit of a preview um of some of the data memos and rough drafts some
187of the chapters to share and um we really have got we're doing great in some areas and the the report will analyze and highlight that but it'll also show us our areas of growth um which we do need to focus on and that leads me to my last share out which relates to the comment that our citizen put into this space a little bit earlier we have begun our community dei groups and actually on yesterday we had our first two so i had the pleasure of facilitating the uh black and african american dei group and the asian dei group also took place on last night and actually julie had the pleasure of co-facilitating that that gathering um we had an excellent time we got to know each other a little bit better since we're going
188to be spending some time together throughout the years and we also talked more about the purpose of those gatherings and i want to i want to pause and talk more about that that purpose just so that i can address um the comment that that was made a little bit earlier but then clear that up for you all as well so the purpose of these um dei gatherings are to surface and address um some of the concerns that our marginalized communities are experiencing um and so in order to do that we have to go directly to the source directly to those marginalized groups to find out what it is they're experiencing so that we can then help support right so we just don't want to listen these aren't just listening right district with community um solutions
189to their concerns and just like any really awesome teacher when they've noticed that that certain groups of their students are not experiencing success like some of the other students may be you want to do some very full with those students and that's what these groups are and so these are just strategic groupings rather than thinking of them as separating out or segregating out um our communities and so when you when you are that great teacher that's looking for the opportunity to provide that focused support sometimes you might have to pull a small group aside or ask some students to stay after so that you can provide for them that very focused attention and that is what these groups are for we want to provide that focused attention and we want to do it in a
190collaborative way and not just assume that we as the district have all the answers but that the communities that have been marginalized have feedback for us have solutions for us to potentially implement to help them and then in turn help us as a district become stronger and that was the final thing that i had to share with you all are there any questions clarisse do you have the coherent governance um suggestions for adding equity to the high-level board policies they emailed something out a month ago they did yeah okay okay i'll forward that to you there are minor changes that i don't think go far enough personally uh but if we're if we're doing policy audits top to bottom then we've got to include the top okay i'll email that to you with a copy
191to all the other relevant people fantastic thank you so much and if you don't have anything else i'm going to pass it to julie who has some excellent things to share as well we can't hear you no you're muted silly goose there you go we can't hear you oh yeah it's muted again wow you might have to this you look great julie is that your voice controls on your computer i can maybe kind of get us started and then julie can pop in as soon as she gets her voice or voice back um so this is about the school improvement plan and you can see that there's a template i don't know if you guys remember last year legacy used it it was a one-page template that we're going to ask schools to use this
192year and it doesn't change the school improvement plan process it's the same data we still have all the plans with all the huge amounts of information but we just thought it was a better way for the schools to tell their story in a three to five minutes and also give you kind of graphic organizer help you see um what's going on there so julie and her folks put together three different templates so each school still uses a different template but they're going to tell the story like that so uh we think it's a good way to go it's going to help you guys but also help the principals just but have a better way to have a dialogue and not expect that they get through the whole huge document and then you as well you
193know the fine tool code one of the big stories and then how it ties to equity their goals in the past and then their what they've done this year and then kind of their goals for the future do we have a link to this document yet i believe there is the board docs contains a link to a day in the life which is a slideshow that links against documents about daily learning um we'll get you a link for that for this you can see just a little little graphic it's a snapshot of one of the templates and they all kind of look like that right i don't know if you have any questions about that i do brian um i noticed on here it's saying there's a board copy but it'll remove all the links
194from the board copy why do we remove all the links um i might need lori's help a little on this because i think there's in some of the documents now there's like i think 120 links in some of these so then as far as preparing them i believe you'll get is that right lori that's correct because all of those have to be uploaded into laser fish oh okay thank you can you hear me now yay yes okay i logged out and logged back in sorry about that that's okay it's all you julie okay so it sounded like grimm went over the template and the reason behind it but again we just wanted to streamline the information for the board and get you what you need in a timely manner so the sip presentations are coming
195back coming up late january and if you have any feedback on this this is what we were looking at where schools would use this basic template and there's a couple different options of how many goals they're going to show and you will still have access to the full fit plan but this will just be a quick guide for you to look at during the presentation executive summaries yes yeah and you know i've been doing those for quite a few years and we we know how the story can go and so just trying to get to um some really good data for you to see and in a quick snapshot that then we can even use in future years as a look back as a quick snapshot to remember what happened in years past okay all
196right so the other portion i wanted to talk to you about was um there's been questions and we've talked about the instructional program and what does remote learning look like and so we wanted to give you um a little visual into what the day in the life of our teachers and students are like so the curriculum instruction department did a professional development last week with all of the administrators in the district and part of it was to look at some best practices of teaching and learning in remote world so in this sheet and there are a bunch of links for you to look into has some really cool ways to look at what is happening instructionally one is the week at a glance document so these are all public on all of our websites but
197they show yeah if laurie can click on one they show specifically how we're communicating to families and students what the week looks like so it includes the live synchronous work as well as the on-demand or asynchronous work and so that is a communication tool and a planning tool for teachers in there and as you look through the different levels and classes you'll see a variety of different links and a couple of them have links to a padlet and padlet is a virtual app that's basically like a sticky note sheet that students can then write down their thinking and so it's also interesting to see these because they are communication devices between students and teachers and in there we took out the links to some of them that had recorded videos because we can't post those
198um publicly but the teachers as they're recording them they'll also post them here for the students so the students that aren't able to attend live will have the information in there so it's a really good communication tool and then something that eventually we want to show you is recorded videos but what we have is a timestamp of the videos and again what i think is interesting of those is if we think about walking into a classroom the different parts that you see walking in sometimes we just get a 10 minute snapshot looking at those time stamps we really see how the teachers are weaving in and out of direct instruction and group work and student thinking so looking at those time stamps give us us another view into the classroom and to what's happening in
199kids and in their kids daily life and schedule so some really cool things are happening and we have a lot to highlight of the good of the great things about remote learning and we can't we are super excited for when the time comes to be able to get back in in person but our teachers are really buying in to what this is and doing a great job for our students so when you when you have a moment um i would take some time and click through those and have a chance to see what's happening julie do you think that um our teachers will incorporate some of this into the classroom once they come back that this is offering a better communication tool yeah and planning um opportunity for them to to do this in a
200different way than that they've done before for sure we're trying to highlight those lessons learned of the good things about this and and the work that the plcs are doing to really plan together and distribute work the amount of communication that we're able to do with parents has exploded and teachers keep saying parents are our best partners and as hard it is for parents they really are stepping up as partners and we are having better relationships with parents this year than ever before and a lot of that is communicating what's happening happening in the classroom and i know as a parent i don't always know what's happening in the classroom when my kids are back in school regular but here i have a different view into it so i definitely think that we are looking
201at what are those lessons learned and what will we continue but teachers are finding success in things that i don't necessarily think they would have known that they would have had success in before so we're trying to capitalize on all of those pieces and use those in the future all right these uh these uh what are you calling the the uh you get a glance not the week at a glance i they all these documents resemble what my son is seeing in each of his classes as well the time stamp documents are an example of how if i look at peggy lincoln first grade notepad that's how the 53 minutes uh is being spent yes so that's the time stamp of a live session that she had and we we did use the video in
202the admin pd but it includes students names and pictures and we couldn't show that here but first we went through and time stamped what's happening in each chunk so that we could learn from the different pivots and what are they doing instructionally this is a hard question to even ask but how much [Music] engagement are students able to experience compared to a normal in-person hour like when i see kids doing remote learning and i've seen my son and a couple others not all the cameras are on for reasons that are somewhere between you know it'll expand the spectrum there are good reasons not to turn a camera on in somebody's house how are teachers able to feel i guess a sense of accomplishment about students accomplishing the learning do they have the tools i guess
203the mental tools that uh are the training that they need to perceive that in a remote setting i mean i guess i'm asking about the frictions and the frustrations a little bit yeah i think that it's interesting just like we have a country divided on you know our county on should we go back to school or not should we be remote or hybrid there are students that are thriving in this world and that they can engage they have found a voice in the remote learning whether the voice is through their chat that they can type an answer versus having to speak it out loud um making a video and not having to perform it there are there are ways that students are really thriving in that and there are some students that need the in
204person and that just can't wait to get back when we have hybrid you know and it's not their jam so i think it's going to be as we see engagement we've looked at that a lot of different ways and it's not just like you said turning your camera on and being present they're present in other ways as well so teachers are finding ways to um measure that and definitely it's taking time like it took some time in the fall like what does it look like how do i make engaging lessons and that's why we continue to do professional development around that like what what and how do we engage students in work virtually and but i think they really are finding ways to have students thrive and use some of the tools that they did
205in the classroom the padlet that i was talking about before that's a common tool that they use in the classroom and now they can also use it here so not everything is just out the window of what they did in person you know they relying on good teaching is still good teaching and how we engage students and get them to be the processors of the knowledge and the thinkers and these the students show up and they're showing up when they're engaged in those lessons i don't know if i fully answered your question rob that's uh that's one of the lenses on there um i wonder i wonder what we're losing um as far as progress goes you know the arguments that folks are being uh left behind a year effectively because they're not in there
206in person or but i'm also very interested in learning how teachers are perceiving their own sense of success when the internet went down the other day a teacher actually pinged me and said guess what the internet is down in our building again and i feel like a flaky teacher um even though it wasn't the teacher who was um flaky it was the technology in that moment right but they still internalized that failure well just like my audio didn't start right now i i feel like a fool right like i have used zoom multiple times why is my audio not working and there's technical things that um i've likened it to everyone's a first-year teacher again everyone's a first-year admin again everyone's a first-year and we have to give ourselves some grace in that and teachers
207and families as well families and parents that um this is a new context and and we are doing the best we can and we know that we need to serve students and work on things like summer school what mike mentioned we need to come up with some supports to really um get students caught up that this they're not thriving in this environment for the ones that aren't and how to work on that and provide supports over the summer okay thank you that was thoughtful i appreciate it appreciate the work you're doing thank you all right that's it for me thanks julie thank you good information clarissa um the the lady that was on that you that was asking the questions about our equity work do you i don't know if laurie was able to get
208any contact information for her or not i do and i'd be happy to share that with clarissa that'd be good because i think she would enjoy some information more information and she sounded very interested so if you don't mind thank you no problem okay all right so next up wasda the conference that we all didn't go to in person for three days so thoughts that keynote was revelatory what the keynote the um i am uh i'm not talking about the guitar player i'm blanking on the name of the the most important person i listened to i liked the guitar player i liked the guitar player too but the uh um yeah yeah yeah uh was like listening to a voice described these horrific things but the voice was uh this calm soothing [Music] this isn't
209even my the voice was this it started out so soothing and just like made me comfortable to listen and then started talking about these horrific differences and and uh just made me just kind of sit in awe at how effective it was getting me to listen to those things [Music] not that i'd be very good at 9pm in recalling it all but i did take a few dozen pages of notes on our equity pre-conference and on that keynote that uh i have for reference and i have her book and i know which voice to read it in now and that's usual to me that's just yeah she was good julie what were your takeaways well i'm with you victoria three days was a long time uh another uh example of us seeing probably what it's
210like to um because i don't work from home and so i can now understand jenny and you know rachel more because i think that you know working from home and doing online learning because it was online learning for us um you know three days and and i'm i'm usually on the on the move all day long and um so it was way different for me just to take a step back and watch a computer screen so i know that that's not the best way that i learn um so i think that uh wazda did it actually an overall good job with putting the conference together thank you jenny for being on that committee um i thought the keynotes were great all three of them we did the equity conference um i thought that was good
211overall um you know but i i don't know if the breakout sessions were you know kept me that interested throughout the couple of days but um you know and i think they did a good job with the closing session i know rob was on there and i was on there too but they uh did a really good job with the closing session for having it be a virtual conference so it's just hard it's just just not the best way that i learn and i know that about myself so yeah it's a mixed bag for me i enjoy small group in person learning you know supplemented by online it's almost like graduate studies where your classes are small or they're supposed to be um i've been in a home office for 22 years and i still
212i'm getting kind of tired of the flat screen zoom friends and i want to see my friends again it's getting it's getting old and difficult um the when they did the breakouts how abruptly those always and just like you have 10 seconds to say goodbye and it just didn't seem to be um congruent with the the import of the stuff we were talking about yeah yeah i noticed that there were fewer sessions overall and repeats and it was hard to tell whether or not you were watching a repeat but it was also interesting to see what happens when the presenter can go uninterrupted and and be watching their own recording and responding to questions in the chat uh it's looking for i'm just looking over my notes to see if there's anything that stands out
213in this moment i like that we can go back until like june next year next june to watch them because i know for me um not being away it did you know the responsibilities didn't stop so even sitting here you know trying to watch the breakout sessions and still having you know work pinging me over here and the kids over here and you know the other stuff over here it was really hard sometimes to really focus um you know in delivering kids to school or whatever it's so i missed quite a few but i do like that they are replaying them um or that they're they've saved them so that we can go back and and it's actually on one of my because i i like that we're going to be able to watch everything
214whereas when we're in person you can only see what you can physically get to during each of those breakouts whereas now we have them and we can see every breakout that was available um during the conference which i do like that we can get all of that education yeah and you moved victoria you moved the whole weekend for the whole couple days my moving that never ends rachel any thoughts it's rachel there she's also she's on the lamb i'm guessing um that there's a child who's in need i think i'm guessing the same that's fine i i ended up in side conversations i don't think i would have been in uh with uh cindy kelly remember cindy victoria the native american school director of department angelos yep she got me thinking about um land recognition
215statements give me a couple examples yeah i've been thinking about them too so that ended up being sort of a side thing i think uh donna sinclair the washington board is at least part native american i don't know if she's a tribal member but she's done some academic work at least with that intersectionality right uh and the khalids have sent me two suggested land recognition statements and uh some of the chinook folks as well i got some connections with them and looped in clarissa about what i was doing so that nobody got surprised who might have probably been doing that and it's something that i think we could be reading out in our board meetings the way that they've been reading them out and wasn't in general wasda meetings as a as a marker of
216inclusion and and to hope that they would like the citizen talk today begin and continue the dialogues that we need i wasn't able to get any people of color to advise me from the students on on the police and the school's questions was i had i don't have the connections and so in the conference that sort of kick in the pants if you will about those subjects was really valuable really done so i'll email those materials when i find them again in my file but that's that's what the conference did for me was uh that opportunity to just kind of go equity equity equity with each of the sessions and realizing that i can watch the others later that was nice yeah now mike did you go to any of them yeah no yeah i
217did i i probably wasn't i mean i certainly i think for me the thing that's difficult is when you're here it's like what jenny's saying you know there are so many things uh that are potential distractions and we lose from the team building that we we would have the opportunity to have um so i did i did listen to the guitar player uh play some songs uh i participated in things the first day but but i i wasn't clearly as connected as i would have been if we'd have been there so yeah i'm looking forward to the opportunity for i mean everybody is looking for the opportunity for things to kind of get back to normal when you when you have the ability to get away you're certainly much more engaged because there aren't the
218distractions of things that are yeah that never stop happening so anyone else okay well i think we're all looking forward to next year being in person okay let's see legislative updates yeah i'm not sure what rob might have i i wanted to just really quickly share that tomorrow um uh yeah i'm pretty sure it's tomorrow afternoon i'm participating in a in a not zoom but the microsoft teams meeting with the folks from this the house leadership uh i believe representative ormsby um sullivan and a third one i don't remember the third one that monica representative stoner set up for us to be able to share it's basically um myself and vancouver um brett and steve a little bit but i think brett's gonna be doing more of the conversation around enrollment transportation kind of explaining
219fun balances because i think they always hear that there's all these dollars and fun balances for for people to be able districts to be able to tap into kind of explaining how we've spent the cares money um what we've done with respect to reductions of positions already to try to mitigate and then also talking about our um extraordinary covet costs so i think we've got a half an hour with them to kind of tell our story uh in vancouver's and i think gavin may be on that as well participating in it kind of representing some of the smaller districts um and i appreciate representative sonia for setting that up and giving us the opportunity to have that direct conversation because these are three individuals that are leaders in the house democratic caucus and will be
220very influential as we move through things um so looking forward to that and hoping that that can help and more than anything else just kind of hoping that we kind of create this relationship um melissa introduced me to representative sullivan i think last session um and so trying to kind of build the relationship over time with folks so that we we become a district that they go to for information and look to as uh i mean i was i felt uh honored because representative stonier um she kind of presented it as she wanted the folks in olympia to hear from a district that's doing things the right way and that's that's a good thing that was awesome i appreciate that so i'll report back on that when we come back around um after uh the
221first of the year and how that's i mean obviously i'll share with you guys through emails or whatever so that you have a familiarity about how it went and what happened but i think that's kind of the big thing right now and i'm rob's probably got some to add he's on i've got a lot of information as well i uh well i think monica's been part of creating you know she's been part of creating the the excellence that she's talking about now um and it's nice to it's it's a real advantage to have somebody in that position also in in our uh in our district working it's it's neat i hope she does enough self-care yes i thought it was uh you know there were i think in our legislative forum with esd there met
222let's say there were 12 legislators and of the 12 i think nine are republicans and three are democrats and so we heard a lot of the perspective from the republicans in that forum and i think monica did a really good job at the end of that by pointing out um that there are more than one perspective there are a lot of different sides just as we've heard tonight from parents and from from others um complex interplay yeah you know so i mean you know she really encouraged the the consideration for for you know listening to the other side and trying to understand and understanding that it's just a very uh difficult time that we deal with and if we only listen to those that support us that you know it will be no different than
223anyone half the people think one thing half the people i guarantee there isn't one decision that we don't make that maybe 40 percent of the people agree with 40 percent of the people disagree within the other 20 just think we're stupid no matter what we do so it's just this time is very difficult that's something that's on my mind uh secondary traumas are on my mind what it's going to be like to get all back together and how kids are going to respond differently it's just good to hear from julie today about how they're preparing for that that moment and thinking of ways to help teachers i wanted to i guess point out legislatively that in addition to the contacts that we have there was a misunderstanding with representative bergquist that came through the lobbyist
224last year well his wife is now on the was the legislative committee so i'm about to meet virtually [Music] somebody new and hope that there's some good professional relationships that we can establish there we don't have it we don't have a story of need that's very different from any other large district in the state the same funding shortfalls and pressures are it's inflicting us as much as they are seattle or north to our any any other big ones so we've got a good comment story to tell uh but i think what we have is like i said kind of pleading with everybody is we have a great need to coordinate there are lots of common points between waza waspo wazda and wea at the state level and they'll need to be singing the same songs
225because even if the projections are getting into the shortfall range we still have a shortage on special education and we need to tell that story um mandates that don't come with funding because those things even if they're doing fewer bills those things are going to be pressures on us and i need help this year more than anything not to not to try and do all the things you know what i mean so if you're willing uh to gather some students or supply remote testimony for a committee and and [Music] you can make space for that i would really appreciate it we need to we need to be coherent and needs to come in more voices than just one white male 1 you know what i mean yeah i think we'll work through melissa and any
226opportunities we have we'll make sure that we we we make sure we get folks available to support whatever we need to have make any kind of testimony that we can yeah and she she's going to be really instrumental um as long as we can just keep the messages synchronized i don't want to be accidentally stepping on anybody's toes this session it's still important yeah we'll talk uh before we get together exactly how we'll do that but i would imagine we'll just have a weekly meeting that's perfect uh to start with right nobody knows there's so much uncertainty about the whole session but it sounds like they've chosen microsoft teams well i'm pretty sure the district has a license for microsoft teams um aside from that the big issues the sro thing is going to get
227a bill um so we need to be thinking about how to characterize that and be sure that the student voices from our groups of color are put out in front because those are where the fears are coming from by interviews of the white students that i was able to talk with means that they're thoughtful but they're also not afraid of uniform police officers they're just not they were trained to treat them as as i was you know policemen who can help you uh there is going to be a lot of talk about transportation and a lot of talk about internet access so we have stories like the one that uh that derrick told me this week about centurylink not even bidding on the new schools and ending up with a small business connection that blew
228up in our faces when when all the teachers at the school needed 200 megabits instead of 40 and actually more than that for making videos and doing the live classes um folks need to know about that so that when the telcos come along and resist um puds doing internet and other new authorities that they're going to propose that we've got we've got these counter narratives because internet's not serving kids and it's nobody's fault in the system this is how it grew over time and it needs to be different it needs to be a utility and we're going to need help delivering that message in a way that we've never been opposed for before well and even for our families that you know maybe have the access for okay so for speaking from my own personal
229experience i just paid almost 100 more for my internet bill this month because you can change your speed and your your downloads information but they still only allow you so much every month and if you go over that you're paying 10 bucks for or whatever it is for every little bit of it and when you've got three kids on multiple devices and i mean even right now i'm sitting here on two different computers and my ipad and it's i i mean i'm running low on my data two weeks almost before the end of the month is up and there's no way to get more so it's just frustrating because even when the one you know even our families that have it like i don't know not everybody can afford an extra hundred dollar on their
230cable bill or their internet bill because the internet companies aren't giving any leeway well that profit margin on it's a hundred percent profit oh yeah yeah the the costs are half what they're charging and they don't tell you when you buy your package they just tell you well how many people do you have in your house oh well you need this much download speed or this much bandwidth but it has there's nothing ever said about you only getting to use 1 000 whatever it's called every month and once you go over that they start to charge you went over the 1.2 terabytes yes that's what it is yeah which i'm sure a lot of people are right now because everybody's home and on the internet so i just they're they're making a killing off of
231the you know unfortunate circumstances even though they're saying oh we're giving discounts well yeah but you're still not allowing additional usage which everybody is using way more than they used to right now i was kind of frustrated the other day when i got that bill can you tell yeah bennett one of my daughters moved to bellingham they qualify for the ten dollar internet essentials the one that we advertise to our families um if they qualify for services they can have 25 megabits of internet per month uh but they were i i've been doing this internet stuff for 30 years i tell people i've been on social media for 30 years which is actually true um but it it just the frictions involved in getting low income to prove you got to prove your low income
232uh in order to get 25 megabits and you can still go over the terabyte with that speed you just have a trap ahead of you but one way is to disable 4k movies then for four people shouldn't go over all that stuff but who knew that nobody knows that you have to be technically adept and even then you can get trapped they were without internet at the beginning of a college semester learning remotely for three four days just because it was hard to get in the first place and you think about when you think about that kid in the uh union area the family in the union area where there is no coverage at all and they're affluent and that's the story around the capital in olympia it's a story around the state it doesn't
233have to be rural it just has to be where they don't want to put the last mile yet so yeah there's a lot of passion around that maybe that can turn into something more universal for everybody at least in the state if we work together on it yeah i'll let you know how the meeting goes tomorrow appreciate you okay it's just a plea for help and we'll be scheduling the things just let us know rob we'll we'll help any way we can okay jenny do you want to do the debrief real quick i've got one more thing on there uh i want to have sue share uh what happened at the city council vancouver city council yesterday it was wonderful for rep uh mayor mcinerney yoga will come and and meet with us but i
234don't think that they helped us yesterday uh around um impact fees so i think sue's still on here i'm going to ask you to share some information okay thanks so um several months ago we received a letter it's actually the development that is just north of where the new asc is going to be the cerro park side um and talk to the developer regarding um a protesting payment of our impact fees you guys may remember um our last capital facilities plan was passed in um 2015 through 2021 a six-year plan the um you go through a process the you guys we work through it in the early spring usually in april or may the board approves the impact fees we submit it to the city we go through the planning commission and the city council
235in clark county camas and city of vancouver to get buy-in from their board and then the city of vancouver typically adopts our new fees in january of the following year so that last plan was adopted in january of 2016. when we passed the bond we updated our capital facilities plan because several of the elements changed within the plan and granted they don't really impact the fee what changed the fee was we had a lot fewer kids coming out of apartment complexes than we did right after the recession um but either way we updated our plan because our capacity changed a little bit adding the new school you know our financial plan changed but really the primary impact of the fees reducing is that we have fewer students living in apartments anyway that plan was 2019
236through 2025 it was adopted in january of 2020 and so the city's ordinance they have an ordinance about the collection of impact fees school impact fees park impact fees traffic and pet fees their ordinance establishes the timing of when impact fees are calculated which for multi-family residences at site plan approval or subdivision plat approval and so essentially what two uh developers the circle cerro park and then kestrel which i think is over in the fifth plane creek neighborhood it's a hurley development they both um developed they both submitted letters to protest impact fees we've had conversations with the city regarding this over the last six months or so but i heard from actually heard from the developer that the city was going to be having a hearing about it tonight so i requested a copy
237of you know the resolution the staff report any information didn't get it i was out a couple days last week and found out from someone at the city that hey you might want to know about this item on the agenda so i went of course there's the resolution for the city to approve the reduction of our impact fees and i've been pretty vocal mike's been copied on most of the emails with the city essentially what they're doing we've we've been an advocate for the city to revise their ordinance so that fees are calculated at the time of building permit because that's really when the fees are more applicable the way it is now those fees the original fees were adopted in january of 2016 and they're essentially allowed to vest so it could be three
238to five years time passes from the time that site plan approval is to the time that they pay the fees um the city felt that in and wrote a staff report feeling that that the developer if the developer could demonstrate that the fees were inaccurate at the time that they were calculated um that they could go ahead and you know get a reduction in the fee we kind of argued that you can't have your cake and eat it too either you make them all do at the time of building but you know calculated building permit or you do it the other way but you can't have it both ways and so in in some i agree with the development community that fees that are you know that our 2016 fees were no longer relevant things
239changed we updated our plan but we followed the city's ordinance and it's really an issue with the city's ordinance it's not an issue with the district when it first came up the city pushed the developers back to us and said hey this is your problem you guys change your plan you guys deal with it and we said no we don't have the authority to deal with it per the ordinance it's really the ordinance that's driving um the conflict and which puts us into a kind of a compromised position anyway long story short we've kind of gone back and forth i did get a hold of our attorney last night and let them know of this problem there are more than one developer that will now pursue a reduction in fee if all they have to
240do is write a letter to the city council and say evergreen screwed up on their fees that the fees say that the formula did not accurately reflect school impact fees it's not reasonable related to potential impacts the fees were excessive did not accurately reflect actual school impact i mean it's that's what i protested with the city that it that's not what happened we followed the ordinance we did the update as we're supposed to do when things change it's really the city's ordinance that determines the timing of the collection of the fee or the calculation of the fees in hindsight there may be a silver lining ironically last night the city manager presented to council the idea of getting rid of vesting in their ordinance and they're not talking together because the guy that i deal
241with in community development didn't didn't know that the city manager was presenting it in fact i found out today through the grapevine that the city manager didn't know that the vesting was on the docket last night either so there's just like everyone else people are working from home they're not always communicating really well there's a lot of other stuff going on in the world so there's little disconnects there and i will find out from our attorney what our best steps are moving forward but i i think the kind of silver lining is that everybody agreed at the council meeting last night that developers should pay the fee that's closest to when the project is built which would be at the building permit and um so i think that if that helps us move this forward
242because that's all documented and recorded and everybody agreed with it if that helps us move it forward so that fees are not allowed to vest and sit for three to five years then maybe there's a silver lining and it could be a good thing that's how um the ordinance for city of uh camas and clark county both are calculated at the time of building permit so it's a pretty significant difference i think it's 1.7 million dollars 1 million 702 944 dollars because the multi-family fee went down by almost four thousand dollars ironically and i looked in our tracking report we don't track the developers but i believe that hurley who submitted the multi-family reduction also has single-family projects going on the single-family fee went up by 332 but of course there's no protest about those
243fees so and and that's the whole point is you know you can't you can't have your cake and eat it too we should not allow developers to pick and choose which fees they get to pay um and frustrating really frustrating that the city didn't let let us know let me know that they were having a hearing in regards to it so i'll learn more tomorrow with our attorney and uh kind of let you know what some options are how we might pursue it just wanted to kind of update you that there was a little bit of a a little bit of a change in the way things have done and and that it happened kind of strangely and we'll keep you we'll keep you in the loop mike if we end up discussing this is
244it a closed session kind of thing it sounds like it might end up in a legal if we get to that point yeah we'll see how it all develops okay you know we've always had a really good relationship with the city they've been a good counterpart and i did not at the testimony last night i did not and i kind of regret did not tell council that i wasn't notified of the meeting because i'm trying to respect that relationship and i i just think there's some some things i mean i think it's going on like you guys have been talking about all evening there's just a lot of weirdness in the world and anxiety and other things and i try to be respectful of of what other people have i think people are busy people
245are disconnected from working from home and i do think that good things will come out of it if we can get the city to change their ordinance to calculate fees at the time of building permit and then it's consistent throughout do you guys have any questions at all i don't have a question but i do have a comment and it may or may not apply and it's fine we don't have to get into a big discussion but i don't want us to get into a position where that we were at a number of years ago when building was just going rampant through and we don't get our we don't get our money for to build new schools until we pass a bond and we have unhoused students you know to qualify for state portion bless
246you and um and we would write letters saying we are over capacity blah blah blah but as long as we didn't say stop don't do it which we're not allowed to do we were in a no-win situation and i don't want us to get into a situation again where developers are starting to do the end run and develop every inch of space and then we're not getting the impact fees that we need when we need them and so that's the thing i want us to watch out for because you know how that was yep so we do write a letter when we get notified of new developments and we constantly with all of the jurisdictions we have to raylyn goes on the websites and looks up um you know what's been approved normally we get
247notification of it and we we track them the kind of developments they were talking about at um fisher's landing tonight there were not ones that are on our list so it makes me a little bit nervous about not being notified but i have included in the letters that we send because i think there's a disconnect they think you know two developments 1.7 million dollars that's a lot of money but when you look at what that pays for new construction and the amount of the bond it's really less than two percent of the total cost of of our projects um so it's really a pretty small drop in the bucket when you look at what it costs to build a school these days um and we try to i think that was for me that was
248kind of the win out of the meeting last night was aligning the developers are you know yeah we we shouldn't pay that old fee it wasn't applicable we should pay the fee that's applicable at the building permit when you go to and that's why the city has pushed back on changing that and eliminating investing because most developers want to get the fees that are three years old because typically the fees go up in our case the fees went down and there's all kinds of case law around development pushing back on fee calculation at building permit because typically they go up so it'll be interesting to see where this goes and what kinds of it i'm hoping that we can work with the city to help them kind of push forward and advocate for amending their
249ordinance so that it aligns with the other jurisdictions and truly does have impacts closer to the time of development well thank you yeah anything else mike nope that's it okay jenny do your thing okay so um the board meeting debrief i will try to get this through this really quick um but i do want to make note that we do have um uh someone that wants to speak to us rob were you yeah bill um [Music] put in a comment about wanting to have a minute or less uh to thank some people who worked on the middle of high school schedule um you might either read that aloud victoria or you could let him talk it's up to you when does he want to talk to us he wants one minute or less presently he
250he asked it about 9 00 pm when we started the workshop um for the equity update and uh i don't know are we able to even make them go live so we can talk i don't know um but it's thanks to people if i read it aloud here it's thanks to people who worked on the middle and high school schedule discussion and i don't know if there's more that you wanted to say but it didn't sound like you wanted a long time to say it okay okay i guess we can we can do that if we can get him on oh there he is okay hey bill mainly it's just to show you that i actually can work the tech every once in a while i i did i asked for uh just a minute
251to think uh we had a um one of the things i just wanted to be grateful for as i look around the state and i talk to my colleagues it is quite a privilege that we do negotiate things together uh when we come to tough decisions we had a we were at a bit of a standstill with the middle school high school schedule and so janae helped put together a group where we could talk about some of the impacts of what the mou said and what the possible outcomes could be in problem solving so all i wanted to say is just thank you for the opportunity i was able to bring three teachers with me i brought adrian campbell uh chris sigmund and michelle berg to bring about their perspectives and i just wanted to
252thank janae and tracy tracy thompson aaron lusage bill olman julie was julie timulty was there and uh just the fact that we're able to negotiate through these things i was able to take that interpretation to my executive board and it was uh passed unanimously so that we can move forward with the scheduling and i just wanted to be grateful for the opportunity that we do get to negotiate these things at the table and i as i talk to my colleagues around the state not everybody gets that opportunity so i just wanted to give thanks for that that's it great thank you bill okay go ahead ginny all right so um we are at almost a quarter to ten so i i realized that it has been longer than an hour this time so i won't
253say that um lost track time apparently last meeting um i think everything i went fairly well it was a very long um beginning portion of our meeting i believe we've heard from a lot of people regarding the boundary uh changes and um it's always good to hear comments and concerns um because we do get a lot of emails so you can't always hear the passion um in the email so being able to hear them is always great as well um great transition julie and vic from one president into the next so i'm assuming you guys kind of planned that before so you guys did an amazing job transitioning that so thank you other than that i don't have anything else everything went fairly well anybody have any comments on tonight's meeting there was no there
254was no plan victoria's just a pro she just took it you guys did good especially in the online world i think given the huge amount of content that we covered tonight it's ending earlier than it could have well we're not done yet but yeah well yeah we're not so we can wrap it up yeah right yeah brian and julian the content that they gave us and a way to drill in later on yeah okay so um i think that we're good to go um and we will transition into an executive session i think we have to resign in for that and then we'll just come right back is that okay with everyone yep yep we'll go into the other link night see ya thanks everybody have a good evening everyone