001from Smith School where all the smart kids go to school. Hey, I went to Smith school. Oh my god. Okay, you're in the group. Okay, are you ready? Aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Good job. You don't want to be in the picture. Camera always comes up. Not the hot dogs. for coming. I appreciate it. Thank you, Victor. Thank you. Okay, we have guests. I'd like to welcome the guests. I'm so happy to have people here. We don't have very many people very often, so thank you for being here. Um, any additions or changes to the agenda? No. Any public comment? No public comment, ma'am. All right, we'll move on to the consent agenda.
002Everybody's had a chance to look at it with our nice link here. I really like that. So, uh, do I get a motion on the consent? Make a motion to approve the consent agenda. Second. All in favor? I opposed. Motion carries. We're going to move right on to Mr. Shrieve and our possible new buses. Well, I'm hoping so. How would you approve these? It's been a while since we brought buses before the board and it's taken a while for the bus companies to get um back up to speed. And do we have the last buses we approved? They're slowly making their way across the country. So, we don't have them yet. Years later, we finally do. Okay. I was going to say you're not going to get new buses if we don't have the old
003ones. No, we finally have those. So, now it's time to say order some buses. So before the board tonight are two buses, one large bus like we've always wanted to try to order a large one every time and there's another sped bus in here 24 passenger sped bus with a lift. So those are two buses that we proposing at this time and hoping for approval to order those and you have the dollars of property. Are we uh retiring the one that we have that has a lift in it or do we have we found that we needed an extra one for that? We need an extra one. We'll retire. There is a spare right now that is used rarely but doesn't always seem to work. And so we'll get another one in. Okay. And we
004for years we only had one special ed bus. Then we went to two and now we have three that are running. Okay. And so over time we've had to add more on the road every day as they go. So just aware of that. And um we'll start retiring a couple buses here down the road but uh not at this time. A quick question. I know that we had made an effort to try to get at least a couple of buses in our um fleet so that with summer school, you know, our students are comfortable. Will the large bus have air conditioning or are we at where we need to be for summer? Both of these buses will have AC. Okay. So, the large one as well as the one with lift. I don't want us
005the smaller bus with a lift will also have air conditioning. a little more of a common thing now to get probably our little more. We're trying to Yes. have enough in the fleet to so we have summer school have enough. Uh the plan is to was plan was origing when this one shows up and then we'll have one smaller bus with AC. Okay. The real small ones have AC in the front part of the cab where the drivers at. doesn't reach doesn't necessarily go back, but they do have some cool air in some of those buses. Nice. Any other questions or comments for uh Brad on the buses? So, we'll move to a motion. I move to approve the purchase of two new school buses. I'll second the motion. All in favor? I opposed. Motion
006carries. Next, we would like to welcome the high school ASB students. they're going to come up and give us a uh what's going on up there because I know they got to hurry to get to a game here in about 50 minutes. So, on Thursday, we're going to Proser for leadership day, our our leadership class and extra students who are just like involved in our grade in our school. Each grade got to invite like four or five students to come with us. Um, there's the HOSA health fair going on along with the HOSA blood drive right now. Yes, right now. Oh, I thought that it's tonight. I think it goes until 8 p.m. The health fair, too. Yeah. They going to go into the gym and start getting people that way. Your blood sugar after
007concessions. Yeah, there's a Well, tonight is the district home game. We're up against Ellensburg. So, um, tomorrow is girls basketball at Ellensburg for districts and wrestling districts is at Ellensburg on Friday. That's really all we have going on. Yeah, pretty much it. We did raise $13,000 from Coach Dancer. Oh, yeah. Very nice. I did. I heard that. Very nice. Great. I didn't hear the amount, but I got a little choked up seeing our little man from last year, but um but yeah, it was a lot of people. It was a good game. A lot of people helping out in the cafeteria area. It was good. Full capacity. Yeah. Yeah. Awesome. Thank you. Thank you, ladies. Thank you, ladies. We expect a lot of yelling and screaming tonight. Grayson's gonna be there. Will one of you
008be Grayson? No. He kind of smells added to the agenda to um get a new Grayson suit cuz that one like is it Santino needs a washing but it's not little fumigation. It's [Laughter] Brennan Anderson. We need a new Grayson suit. That one is itchy and it scares the little kids. It actually does scare them. I actually feel it's the eyebrows. Yeah. Grayson's mean and tug. But we need a kinder less smelling Grayson. Got it. Yeah, we'll see what we can do. We'll get that on the agenda. Okay, we'll move on to Dr. Darling's report. It was on your uh packet, but uh he's gonna give us any extra input. All right, so earlier I think a day or two after we got back from Phoenix, I kind of emailed a recap to you all
009of our trip, some of the successes that we're currently doing in our freshman success program, then some next steps for us. It was a good visit. We had a lot of people there who were heavily involved in our freshman success program and they talk about students who leave their freshman year on credit to graduate have three times higher to graduate. Very simple math hard to argue with very dynamic need and it's not a hard thing to do. It's just we need to make sure that every freshman has eyes on them all year long so they don't become credit deficient. So, um, the school we went and visited is a interesting school. They they have 43 schools that feed their freshman program. So, we have one, maybe a couple stragglers from they have 43 different schools
010that feed them. So, them trying to figure out how to get the other schools, get those kids ready for them is not an option. They have to make sure they have a system ready so when those kids get there, everybody's getting the equitable access to success. And so, it was good was good. So they weren't just this district that's having all these the warm and fuzzies and then taking the warm and fuzzy and keep giving them all up. These they have some heavy impacted kids and they showed us the demographics of where across Phoenix those kids come from and they were some of them are take a bus for an hour and a half public transportation hour and half a day just to get there and back and so it was good. It was good
011visit for us. I spent the day at the ESD with Josie. There's there's a big educator pathway gathering to be honest. It's complete waste of time. we're already doing a lot in growing our own and recruiting our own. Um and and uh so we got about an hour's worth of knowledge in the seven hours we were there. Um but it is what it is. Um and then February 6, I spent the day in Olympia. I met with Congressman um I met with Representative Ibara, Representative Dent, and Congressman King. And I actually saw Gloria there, too. Uh she and I were texting and we having to pass it in the hallway. So she's not she wasn't there. I wasn't able to visit her because she's had anything to do with the education um committees, but it
012was good to see her nonetheless. And I spoke with them and uh the ESD 105 is really hammering three big points. Transportation funding, MSOC funding, and special education costs. Well, for us, I give them a one that's a little more specific to us is MSOC transportation and substitute teacher costs. And I think President I think Representative Dent was actually the probably the most shocked at how much we spend in sub costs a year. Um, and I kind of told him, I said, 'Well, the older generations like you and I, when we when we're when we retire, we're going to be proud of the 180 days we have banked in our our sick days. I said, 'Now when stu when we get incoming teachers, they're like, "Okay, how many sick days can I use this year?"
013They use them as vacation days and and we are so underfunded with how much we spit. We get like four is it four days per sub and those as it is are underfunded. And so it's it's a constant um bank trainer for us. And so, so I could not leave these with them because they can't take anything physical because of the public records request. They can only have things digital. Um, but there's some good conversations I had with them. It was kind of eye opening for them to see how much we've been under budget, underfunded just in these three categories for the last several years. So, thank Brad for you and your department for helping get all that information to me. And then coffee with this coffee with the soups. We've had some uh great
014conversations about dogs or puppies and social media and bullying and special education. And one mom was really upset because her son's pictures haven't been put on any Facebook postings or anything at all. And and an employee who works with that parents son actually said, "Well, because you signed a do not publish form." Mom said, "No, I didn't." She goes, "Yes, you did. I take pictures of your baby all the time, but I can't put them on because you won't last." So immediately that got taken care of. So it was but we've had we've had a couple that are, you know, that are there every time. And then we have some we've had every single time we've had at least two or three new people show up with different different things to talk about or we
015even had a a person who's going through his teaching degree and he was there. He had to take notes of a public event like that. So he's back in the audience just um paying attention and so it was a good night. Chuck, anything to add about conversations we heard? No, just the one that was our employee and I had not met her uh is at HT and she was had moved up here within the last two years from Georgia and was not really complaining was concerned that we let the kids go outside to BL all the way down to 20°. Oh yeah. Yeah. So she wanted to know like do we have data that support like do we see an increase of attended absences during those cold times of year? And I sent her the
016data and actually last year we had more absences in the spring than we did in the winter. Yeah. So the cold weather wasn't impacting and she and she wasn't really complaining. She said she wanted to see the data. So it was a good conversation. I saw you sent that to me too. I saw that. That kind of surprised me. No, it surprised me too. I expected to see a spike like she was talking about. And so she said it's been so cold here. And I said you ain't seen nothing yet. This is a pretty mild winter. Yeah. That Georgia winter. Yeah. And then um our superintendent, our student advisory council came and presented to cabinet the other day um and wanted to get some feedback from cabinet. They're trying to they're trying to um create
017an oath for people to to take to help end hate speech in the community for students to sign, for teachers to sign, for administrators to sign, even community members to sign. And so they got some feedback from from our cabinet on change this change terminology. What are some good resources here? Cut this out. And it's good because they get to see how the sausage is made and they got told no about some of the things that they were really sure about. And so they got to go back, regroup, bring it back to us again. But that's part of the process. And it's a really great experience for these students to get this type of feedback and not give up, but come back and help help make it better. So that was great. And the girls
018already covered some of our upcoming events. Uh no school next Monday because of President's Day. And then we have uh state will be at the end of the month in February. And then the 25th, student advisory council is having their next meeting and you're all welcome to come up and join us in library. And that's my report. Before we get to the next one, did you see the assessment form? Did I see the assessment form? Here we can Oh, yes, I did see that. I'm sorry. We're we're at it. All right. So, actually, I'm gonna we're gonna kind of bounce to the next while you give you a little time to do that. So I actually that needs to be something at the beginning I guess I need to put on here that make sure
019we let them know that they get the assessment form. So is it just going to be the last person every time? It wasn't actually the last person. I'm not sure why. I think it was cuz did Scott do you have it last time? I was first. Oh, so it was going down the row. It was David Andrea the last I think Andrea was at the left. We forgot it last time. You were gonna have forgot the form. Oh that's right. We didn't have the form. What? I should have caught you again, Chuck. I need to I'm going to make a note of who I give it to so we know. I think I've done it the last four times. She fully done it three, but okay. Okay. But anyway, uh we'll skip we'll skip uh
020that portion. We'll go down to uh uh Mr. Shrieve with uh the Daryl Smith scholarship. I know we had a little change to that. So So I tucked up that document again and give you a chance to review it. But I made an FYI because you pretty much approved it. But if you see something in there, read that first line that's only changed. If it didn't look quite right, so I thought it went good. Okay. And then we cut the check and you already approve the the warrants. You already cut that check. 14,000. We'll hand that off to the dollar. So we'll we'll skip to the board real quick. Um I showed you guys the the mural for the back that Urkard has. Um, I will email I'm sorry. I was going to email that
021to you guys today and I got hung up and forgot all about it. But, uh, uh, I would like to get your input because I would like to try to meet with him on Friday to pin down exactly the material that we need for that so that I can go get it. So, I'm going to provide him the material and the school is going to build it. So, do you need help getting I can get the Are we doing steel and wood? Uh, the stainless is not a problem. I already have somebody willing to donate it to us. The wood I'm going to go talk to Cliff. And then really the other stuff they they have to make the little uh stickers or whatever you want to call them. They have that stuff. So they're
022just screen print type stuff or I believe so. Um so anyway, I have that part of it kind of already taken care of, but if there's something I definitely run into, I'll let you know. But I would like I told him I would like to try to meet with him on Friday if I can to pin it down. exactly what he needs because I like to get started on it. Yeah. And try to get it done. It looks I think it looks great. Yeah. Work too. Yeah. And it plugs in or something. Is that right? Uh we're going to have lights on the background of it and it'll plug in because there's a nice outlet right there. Okay. So, I'm getting to my joke real quick. Then you can laugh. Uh so I'll use the
023$500 electrical bill for the next year or two. Yes. Yes. Yes. I won't plug my computer in to charge it here anymore. So, we'll turn the microphone off. Will that help? Um, any anything else from the board? Uh, Saturday I went we had the, uh, unified basketball event here again. Okay. Where they brought in two t two other teams and played their little roundroin tournament, provided the kids pizza and stuff. I always enjoy going to that. Oriana does a great job with that program. They also had the um uh thing down at the extra mile. Uh Jose was there on Saturday night. Uh went to that. Uh they raised uh I don't know how much they raised to be honest with you. I haven't heard. But uh I know we spent more than I actually
024wanted to, but uh we got a couple nice things out of it and had a lot of fun with people. It was a lot of fun. uh talking with the kids, they had it wasn't their um story, but they had each kid or had three or four kids that came up and read stories that were written by all of the kids that apply that that go there. So, but it wasn't specifically theirs. They were reading for everybody else. So, you didn't really know who it was for. But there's a lot of very um heartfelt stories and a lot of challenge that those kids go through and uh some of the stuff was kind of amazing and they really uh said that that place really helped them out. They were all great kids. They uh nobody
025sat in the corner. I mean they brought you coffee, they brought you drinks, they came out and talked to you. Uh the girl here was one of them and she super nice kids. Um, but yeah, they were all very helpful and and uh not stuck in their box in a corner somewhere. It was really nice to see. So anyway, it was a lot of fun to go to that and attended like it's like it has been in the past. Yeah, it was pretty it was pretty full. There were a couple empty seats there, but it was pretty full. Jr. and I were trying to rearrange our schedules so we could both make it because he was coming from Spokane. I had to go out of town the other direction and his uh he was at
026a tournament in Spokane. It got delayed by eight hours. So, he was a little bit fired up because he had it all planned out. He's going to be able to make it like the last two hours and but he said his staff was stuff and he sent their credit card and he said they uh they did well my wife so it worked out well. So, Chuck got carried away too. Chuck did. Well, you have backtoback nights, too. I did. I know. I got carried away at the Friday night. We found out we got more stuff Friday night that we didn't even know about. So, building a new house? I don't know. Another new house. But supposedly the at the next uh game there's a VIP where you can sit and you get a shirt and
027they bring you drinks and stuff. You sit. Supposedly, we won that. Win. Yeah. Win. How much did it cost you to win? I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. We had a pretty VIP seating last time at the game. I saw you. I know. I was like, "Hey." Everybody was like, "How come you're sitting here?" Nobody told me no. It says GSD admin on there. And actually the officials when they uh did the stuff, they came along and and knuckled everybody. They did me too. I was like, "All right, this has worked out. It worked out just fine. I didn't have to worry about my seat or anything." So, um, but no, that was a lot of fun, too. And they raised a lot of money for that. So, it was worth it.
028Um, anything else from the board before we move on to our assessment? I think the only thing I wanted to share was I have sent a draft a rough draft of what our outline could look for like for the onboarding of our new board member and um potential potentially onboarding them. Um, I need a few documents to finalize it, but I mean for the most part it's going to be simple and linking to, you know, what they may need to know. Um, and Dan has a copy and I have it on my calendar tomorrow to look at it. Not a problem. So, um, we'll get feedback and then we'll have something to present to the group. Perfect. I do have a couple things I was going to write back uh um that I will get
029to that and do it. So, now that Rob's got his too. So, uh, we'll make that happen. Um, just one other thing from the board while we're here. Uh, this is Amanda. Um, I found out ama about Amanda when we're looking for a spot for Andrea and reached out to Amanda and Amanda actually came in and met with Rob and I last Friday. Had questions on what uh school district's about, what school board's about and which was great. And then Jean uh burst my bubble after I got home and told me that she lives on the south side of the road instead of the north side of the road. So technically she is in Scots yes area which is great news. So um anyway she wanted to come to a meeting and see what a
030meeting was like which I'm glad you're here. I appreciate that. Thank you. Um we are still looking for somebody in uh district one. So definitely keep that open. I have had a couple people send me some names that I'm going to request some contact information and try to reach out to a few more people. So, Jean will bet their email or the address before we talk. Oh, yes. Yes. Before I get too involved in something and we didn't scare her away, so that's a good sign. Did not scare her away. Thank goodness. Do you know anyone in that area? Your neighbors across the street. It's interesting because a few people I' I've mentioned it to and they're like I don't know if I know anybody that lives in that area like it's got a lot
031of people that live to find somebody that would want to do this though. Yeah. Exactly. Okay. To then answer your question Extra Mile raised 58,000. Whoa. Last year they raised 37. 2023 was 60. So you did buy a lot of stuff back up to you. And Brad still has to go down there and give him a check. So it might be a little higher. Jeremy and I were in Arizona playing golf last year. We missed it. So that's why it was so late last year. That's why last year. Well, it was funny. They were the the girls donated a their par their mother owns a time share in Lincoln City. So they donated I think it was five days, four nights down there. It's a two-bedroom condo. So, I was bidding against I can't even
032remember who. Anyway, they bid 1,500 and I said, "Nah, I'm not going there." So, they gave it to them. And then, of course, what's Tim's brother's name? Dave. Dave goes, "I think we can do two for that price if you want to do it." Well, what do you say? So, I got hammered into that. So anyway, yeah, I was out of it and then I was in deep. So you were excited. Anyway, the kids, the grandkids when we told them about it are really looking forward to going to the beach. So it's well worth it. It'll probably be in November. Yeah. Uh they actually said we they didn't have a stipulation like the one what was the other one? The other one had Oh, and on or on or island you couldn't go three months
033out of a year. giant white. Yeah. Yeah. You couldn't go June, July or August. But this one was pretty booked for those months. Well, then he bought a two night stay somewhere at a resort and found I found out instead of taking me, he's going to take Shelby. That's the That's the lighted one at the um Celane. Yeah, the crystal. Yeah, I bought that at the uh I don't know whatever else we went to. I don't know. I go to plenty of things. The checkers bomb you go. Chuck could have bought the the the mariner thing and he said, "No, I got to be at the lake." That would have been fun, too. In the um whatever it's called. Oh, the diamond diamond club. The diamond club thing. That would have been a lot of
034fun. And the night stay, it was for four people with two rooms. It would have been Diamond Club's nice. They bring you through the whole Okay. Anything else? We strung this out longer. Um, we'll go on to our assessments. So, uh, we have, uh, four of us rate the board. All of them are fives, which is a good thing. Um, I'm not going to read each one of these. um board action occurred at the uh policy level rather than at the Yeah, we didn't do the some of the assessment stuff process. You're right. We didn't do that because it's not the meeting to do it. Other than that, we got all fives. Perfect. So, we did well. I take it back up. We got no we got off track on task. Yeah, we went off
035task. So, well, that's meeting pretty quick. The next meeting will be on the 25th. Uh, there's a game tonight if anybody wants to go to the game. Why we had it? I want to thank everybody for being able to make five o'clock work. I was kind of a last minute thing. Rob texted me and said something. Do we want to go early or do we want to move it to Monday? We went back and forth a few times and finally came to the conclusion that uh just go at 5:'lock. It worked out better. And so anyway, to consider next meeting if we have not received any applicants for the position or for our vacancy. Um should we set some time on the agenda to brainstorm to do any additional efforts to try to close? What
036is our additional efforts on that? Because didn't you send us the eventually if we don't find anybody ESD appoint somebody is that not correct the ESD board does after 90 days yes but how does that process work I mean if we don't fill it with the way I read it is I went on actually read the state I read our what our board policy says and then there's a state law that it the mandates yeah and it after 90 days and it's out of our hands okay 90 days effectively resignation acceptance. That's why as of the 31st or 28 28 27th and and on a on a a serious note, I am glad that you came because this I I don't want you to think that I'm jumping off the board, but this is my
037ninth year on the board and um and I've got a lot going on. So um you should consider it because it it is fantastic being on the board. It really is. every every time I've come. Oh, this is the first time, but after my meeting on Friday, it just it's really interesting. And yeah, it I mean I have a lot going on in my life. I have two young kids, not young. Lea's not young, but anyway. Um it's just a busy high school kid and a young kid. And it's kind of like the timing is just kind of right, you know. Good. Yeah. And so I've never done anything like this, so it is pretty pretty interesting. So yeah, it's it's always me following my kids or following my husband. So this would be something
038for me and that I can say I did for myself. Yeah. And then if he gets hired, he keeps working for the district, you say, "Listen, as your boss, we're see athletics if you don't there are some birds." But I love it. you should consider and when the time comes um you should consider you know what that looks like. I can relate to some of what you're saying. I had been asked when I had my kids in school and it wasn't the right time for me. Um but we're empty nesters now and if nothing else this keeps us out of trouble, right? Geez, I wish I would did that for me. Keep me out of trouble. No, it is actually really it is very rewarding. It is. Really is. It's it's a commitment, but you
039get much more out of it than than what it takes out of you. That's for sure. So, something to consider for sure. We look we need good people that are interested in our community and our schools and are wanting to make it better and so I'm glad you came down. Thank you. Yes. Thank you. Okay. Anything else? If not, we're going to be adjourned. Ajourned. yellow screen. [Music] Did you end up finding a seat?