001We're in the middle. I have to follow Jean here and then Jean says we're starting call this meeting to order. I would like to call up Cora Kavasos to lead us in our flag salute this evening. And she's going to do a great job. She's professional. You want me to say? No. You want to say take a begin to 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 Good job. Good job. And the best thing ever happen one more. One more. One more. Good job. Thank you. [Laughter] Okay. Oh, sorry. No, it's all right. We'll just skip it this time. I was gonna give it to Chuck. Okay. So, no surveys. Okay. Welcome everybody for being here. Thank you
002for coming. It's very nice to have a lot of people here. Um, do we have any public comments? All right. Um, any additions or deletions to the agenda? No. I like it. Any public comment? So, I'd like to move right on to the consent agenda if we could. like to call for a motion to approve the consent agenda. I make a motion to approve. I'll second. All those in favor? I opposed. Motion carries. Okay, we'll move on to new business. Mr. Shre, would you please go over the information regarding the scholarship of the the Daryl Emith scholarship, please? Yes. Thank you, Sister Paul. Um, and so each year I bring the board in January the Smith scholarship fund that exists and um, we review and I'm going to skip down here review the criteria of
003which that the Smith scholarship fund was put together for and I want to make sure that the board has a chance has had a chance to read that if you all not otherwise I would read it but if you've read it have you all read it read it and if you all um concur it the same or you have a chance to modify it if you'd like to and that's why this is part of under new business in case you do decide to make any modifications you'd be able to do that tonight and then the next meeting is what I'd come in and have in the past it's been $10,000 check so we'll cut the check between now and then so you'll know and that goes to dollars per scholars oh great question I have
004I saw in there where it started at like 422 and it's up to 475ish now it's making more money than we're spending do we want to change that where we give a little more money of that away or do we want to leave it where it is and let it bill? Um, that's totally up to the board. Um, you can do that. Yes, you could do whatever you you prefer to do. And we could you could say each year you could modify it to say each year to have the $10,000 or the investment earnings that year. Or you could even add another dollar amount in there because the investment earnings, if you take a look at the memo, it's like 14,000 something. Yeah. Yeah. And some change 14,826. And so you can modify that language.
005We modified it one year to actually put that 10,000 in there because 25% was not much of a would only been like $3,500 going out each year and so we wanted to modify it to be 10. That can be modified. What do you guys think of bumping that up to 12? Well, if it made 14. Well, no, no, no. But you may not make 14 one year, too. I mean that's kind of the happy I kind of like the 10 or investment earnings because then we know it I mean one year it might be 14 one year it might be eight one year you know well what what I would do is I would say in 10,000 or investment earnings when it was higher because it's made $50,000 in the years it's been in there
006going down is not a bad thing. Yeah. I don't want it to get down to nothing, but I I don't think there's any reason to have it continue to build. But anyway, that that's a good idea, too, Heather. The 10,000 minimum or investment earnings for the year and then if we get to a point where it's not making enough, we can revisit. We could revisit it and change it to eight or whatever we wanted to. So, do we need to make a motion on that now, Brad? Um, yes. or next week or next. You actually have the ability to make the motion, change it, and approve it tonight. That's why they're new business. Yep. I make a motion for the Daryl E Scholarship to provide either the investment earnings or $10,000, whichever is higher. Second.
007All those in favor? I opposed. Motion carries. Okay. Then what I'll do is I'll modify number one whereas one through five and modify number one to have that on there. Okay. Thank you. Does that make sense? I want to make sure you don't. Yep. Yeah. No, that's great. And that provides a few more dollars for our CD. So, you'll still bring that to us at the end of the year. You'll just be able to tell us, hey, the investment earnings last year were this or whatever. Exactly. And so, this time we cut the check since you modified it now. I'll cut the check for the 14,86. Yep. Okay. Um, and then it's given out in 20 or $1,250 increments. Is that right? Okay. And so, the last one won't be that big. And there was
008something in there about about giving that much or spreading it about the other ones. Yeah. Number four on here says uh if the dispersement leaves an amount of money of awarding 12 1,250 scholarships, the difference may be awarded at the discretion of dollars for scholars awards. Perfect. As long as it's under the Daryl East Smith scholarship. And there were some stipulations in it. You can change the stipul stipulations are it must be awarded that. Let me make make sure my screen's blocking some of the words here. Just a second. So it uh it must be awarded that year. It must be called the Derely Smith. Yes, that's very I'd like to move on to Amy and our cultivating kindness. Very nice to see you tonight everyone. one person make it. Well, thank you everybody. As
009you know, we do cultivating kindness, which is an initiative to make sure that our staff and GSD members are recognized by families, students, counterparts, you know, teachers, principles, um so they get a little bit of recognition as well. So, the first person we'd like to um to have come up is Jasmine Corona. She's a TV ice cream. And who other than one of the people I think is amazing that nominate you is Mr. Loris Gonzalez. And we're gonna have cry. gonna have her read that you sign. Okay. Kindness is a positive quality that is valued in many cultures and societies. It is defined as the act of showing care, concern, and consideration for others and can take many forms from small acts of thoughtfulness to larger gestures of generosity. And this was written by somebody
010unknown. It's a quote. This quote fits Jasmine. I normally don't nominate people, but here is why I am nominating Jasmine. Jasmine is kind, compassionate, shows empathy for others. She has a love for learning and teaching students. You see, Jasmine started as an ELELLL student at Grand View High School. She was shy, but she also knew that the only way to get out of the fields was to learn English, graduate from high school, and go to college. She persevered and managed to learn English and graduate from Grand View High School while also working in the fields to help support her families. Today, Jasmine is in her third year at Heritage University in pursuit of a teaching degree. Again, she is doing this by working full-time to help support her family and going to college full-time. She
011has built a strong working relationship with teachers, students, and parents. She truly cares for students and goes above and beyond to help students with homework, language support during school, after school, and yes, even on Saturdays. I have seen Jasmine work with students. She is a She is very positive, willing to help, understanding, patient, and is always praising students. If you are ever at Grand View High School, please stop by and observe her. She is amazing. The students seek her, appreciate her, trust her, and confide in her. Jasmine knows what it takes to work hard to achieve your goals and dreams. She motivates students to strive and reach for their goals. She is a role model for Grand School District students and yes, even for me and the great Grandu High School staff. I am so
012proud of your accomplishments. To Jasmine, you will make a great teacher. You will lead them to so many opportunities by guiding them, teaching them, empowering them, and believing in them. Jasmine, it has been my honor to nominate you for this award. God bless and thank you for all you do. of you just have to promise to come back and work at Grand View School. I'll be back. Perfect. I'll look for your name on the agenda. Thank you. Thank you, Lord. The next person we have here is Julie Rodriguez Alvarez. million times. This is for you. These are all created by our C2 students at the high school and decided to make them. And this is a neat little gift bag for you. Herman's insurance. So, I want to read to you Julie Rodriguez Alvarez. She's
013a secretary at our middle school and she was nominated by Kesha Rio. Yes. Okay. And is Kesha here by any chance? She's not. She's not. Okay. I will read that for her. Julie is always on top of her work with attendance. She makes sure the students are marked present and she makes sure to call the families when students are gone for a few days. She truly cares and she is very friendly person and helps anyone that she possibly can. So, we just thought that was so great. Thank you. Thank you for being positive and thank you. I want to make sure that she is um spoken about. Um this is Ashley Kramer. She's a parent educator at HT. She had just emailed me shortly before coming saying that she was not able to make it.
014Her son is playing basketball up in East Valley. So I said, "No worries. I will read it for you. So she was nominated by Allison Cleo. Did I pronounce that correctly? Clau. Thank you. Thank you. Okay. Ashley is an exceptional colleague who inspires me every day to be kind and patient with our students. She is so calm and gentle, especially with our younger students. And they all have grown to really love her. Students know that they can count on her to help them if they're in trouble or they need anything. and her patience and understanding. Her patience and understanding demeanor is really something we really admire. So that was from that was for Ashley Kramer and I will be going over there tomorrow to take a picture of her and get are all set up
015with her goodies too. So thank you all. Thank you for both. Now, we would like to welcome Deca and have them give us a little spiel of what they got going on. Hi everyone, my name is Emily Alvarez and if you can't see me, I'm so sorry. I am currently the Grand View DECA president and I am also a four-year member of DECA. for this being my first year. I would like to start this off by introducing who I am here with Davis. My name is Felix. My name is Jamil Montes. My name is Alfredo Valdez. My name is Carla. My name is Jaylen Himez. And my name is Luca. That being said, I want to proudly mention how successful our NECA chapter has been in growing as a chapter altogether. We have brought in
016so many students mainly um freshman and sophomores which are all lower classmen and I know a lot of people um like to downplay that lower classmen aren't as interested in um activities after school but I'm very proud of the people that are here with me alongside with those who are also in our chapter. As you know or as you may not know, CTE month is in February which is a great way to demonstrate the importance of it and how our chapter follows that. We like to incorporate CT skills when we practice for our role plays when we practice our tests and all of which is important for the real world. Um, we build our students and we help them with their competitions all so that they can obviously place in these competitions, but more importantly
017so that when they graduate or when they get a job, they can take these skills and incorporate them when they get a job and then hopefully bring it into the community. Although our chapter started small, but over time we've steadily worked our way up to meet and often exceeded exhaustion and DECA's expectations. this year through our community service hours which has earned us at least two allocations to internationals for DECA. Um this year through oh I already said that membership campaigns and promotional efforts we've showed uh what a small dedicated group can accomplish. Being recognized alongside long larger schools is a testament to our work and determination of our members. It means a lot to us as it reflects just not to our growth as a chapter, but our commitment to making a big impact
018despite our size. We've proven with that perseverance, we can achieve just as much, if not more, than schools with far larger teams. We've worked hard to build a strong sense of community both within DECA and in the larger Grand View community through our dedicated service projects and promotional campaigns. We've been granted another two allocated positions within Deca Internationals due to memberships that have been given to our chapter. It's been incredibly rewarding to see our efforts recognized by Washington DECA, which honored us for our contributions to community service and promotional outreach. This recognition not only validates our hard work, but also serves as motivation to continue expanding our impact both within the chapter and beyond. This year has been an exciting time for a chapter filled with growth and accomplishments. One of our biggest achievements has
019been the success of our membership campaign which allowed us to bring in many new members who are excited and eager to learn. These new members have already shown great promise contributing fresh ideas and perspectives to our chapter. Our commitments to growing as a chapter doesn't stop with recruitment, though. Our chapter may be smaller compared to some of the larger schools in the state, but that hasn't stopped us from going above and beyond this year. Our hope and dedication to community service, successful membership campaigns, and effective promotional efforts have been a huge part of our success. Being recognized alongside larger schools is an is a big achievement for us and it shows that even with fewer resources, we are capable of making a significant impact. For our members, this recognition means a lot as it proves
020that hard work, passion, and commitment can level the playing field no matter the size of our chapter. Our chapter's involvement in the holiday dear is a perfect example of how we apply the skills we've learned in Henda to benefit the community. Through this event, DECA members were not only able to showcase their marketing, event planning, and leadership abilities, but also demonstrate their ability to work collaboratively with local businesses and organizations. Members took on various roles from organizing the logistics to promoting the event and even interacting with families who attended. The support of local businesses such as Neighbors Barbecue, who donated food, and TSA and HOSA, who contributed door prizes and their time, made the event a success. It was more than just a fundraiser. It was an opportunity to build lasting relationships with community members
021while also supporting our local economy. The holiday bizaar is just one of the many ways our chapter actively contributes to the community, making CTE month a great time to reflect on how we are not just preparing for the future, but also helping build a stronger, more connected community today. This year, we brought 20 students to an area 6 competition with 16 qualifiers. It has been inspiring to watch us freshmen grow into great leaders and develop skills for our future careers in business. As the SCTC is coming around the corner, we would like to invite all of you to a be a judge at our mock judge our mock job interviews which February Friday, February 28th at the DHS library. February 24th, sorry. Monday February Monday February 24th at the DHS library. Good job. Would any
022of you be interested in supporting our chapter? What time is that to be done? 6 p.m. 6 p.m. 24th. Monday, February 24th. And if you could bring a friend or too maybe I have to check my calendar. So, and it should take about an hour. um for us to go through our comp our six uh 16 students and then doc we're hoping that we could pass this along. This is Dr. Darling's t-shirt, the t-shirt that I worked with um to organize the neighborhood since all of you contributed to our sponsorships. And so I I I don't know if it play justice, but my officer team went out and our community supported us this year like in a big big way. That's amazing. So, thank you to all of you for contributing to that. And if
023you could pass this on to Dr. Darling, that would be that would be wonderful. So, how many members did you have prior to this year? And how many do you currently have? Well, most of our members last year were seniors. So, that's why a majority of our chapter was Yeah. Um I think we had around probably left. Yeah, because we lost a lot of our seniors, but this year we have more freshman and sophomores than anything. So it's great to see. So what's your total right now? Um I think we have around 20. We have about 30. We have 30 members about 20 and 20 um community me or alumni and we have 20 um professionals which is what allocated us that allocation. And so with we have only three seniors and then we have
02430 students but not all of them are competitors. So of the students that went to area 6 we had I thought we had I'm trying to think we had 17 students that ended up actually physically going to area and 16 of them are going to state. Very nice. We only have one student who opted out um for for one reason or another. Nice. So we you mentioned a lot a theme right about it didn't doesn't matter about the size of our district that we're up there with larger districts. How many other districts our size are competing in these competitions and competing go to state and internationals? It's an excellent question. I don't know the answer to that. Do you? Sorry I was trying to process the question. That was the best answer right there. And
025so we compete with area six. And so area six, we have Proser, Grand View, we have Connell, and then all the Tri City schools are in our area. Okay. And so when it comes to DECA, we don't compete with 2A. It's all it's just the region basically. And then once we go past that competition at um in December, then it's state. And again, it's all the chapters in Washington state that qualify from their area that go to state. And when we go to state, there isn't an a two-way. It's it's all So the Tri Cities being the larger schools, we'd be comparable to like the Connells or the Proers or something with our sizes. And so when you think of Proser, they're they I think they have about 10 students that are competitors. And so
026bringing 16 or 17. Mhm. That's what I was trying to say. No, well done. Thank you. I was curious when you mentioned the size. Like I said, I heard it quite a bit about our size and when we're competing against larger schools. We were mentioned along bigger schools like Belleview and War in Seattle. So, more of the Westside schools. That's amazing. Well, you all look very professional and represent us very very well. very proud of our DECA um students and program. So, thank you. It's very nice to put that kind of effort into it. Fantastic. And thank you for this shirt. I'm sure Rob will be very happy to receive that, Dr. Darling. So, thank you, McKenzie. He's got a thumbs up. Awesome. Thank you. Yes. Thank you. Thank you very much. And thank you
027for approving our travel to state and randomly for internationals. Thank you. Thank you. Have a good night. Thank you. So, we'll move on to uh Dr. Darling's uh superintendent report. Good evening, board. Can you hear me? Okay. Yep. Yes. So, greetings from uh sunny and semiwarm Phoenix. It's supposed to be 80 a couple days after we leave, so we just missed the heat wave. Uh so, just a couple of items worth reporting. I know that um board member Steman was able to attend, but we had Aaron Jones at the high school all day on Thursday. She met with our student advisory council um provided two assemblies and then met with them again that afternoon. And you may not know this, but after she left that evening, she also sent um some personalized videos to the
028student advisory council. one just kind of summarizing what she did for the day, but also another one she sent specifically to the teacher group that's going to be working on um with on with the teachers, kind of giving them some advice on how to work with teachers and such. I thought it was a real nice personalized touch that she did that for the students. Jose and I met with leadership from the apostolic assembly last week to kind of further the conversations around their partnership with our strategic plan and they've got some ideas. Um, so they're trying to narrow down about where to focus and they have a uh they could probably help us with every single category. So they're trying to figure out, you know, where to start. Brad and I attended a superintendent slash
029business manager training last week at the ESD and um it's it's pretty nice when your business manager is one that everybody keeps asking questions to and um and Brad when Brad speaks, people listen. So I think it's a great testament to his not only his knowledge but the respect he has from those around the region. And then I lost it. Um so and so um just so you're aware we're already planning for summer school. So Jose and his team are busy figuring out who the whats and everybody for summer school program this summer. We also um direct President Hall and I met with um a group from WASDA. They're writing an article on you all for the board of the year. Aaza sends out a quarterly um printed magazine. So they'll be featured in that
030and I believe they spoke with a couple of you as well. And then Jose and I are coming to you from Phoenix, Arizona because we came down here for a freshman success program visit. The district has been involved um with the center for center of high school success. I believe that's what it's called. and um for a few years now and we came down here to Saddleback High School to visit their program and see what they're doing. They're having some great success and a lot of the stuff that we have in place already is what they recommend. And so now it's kind of rejuvenated the team to go back and figure out what do we need to do better, where are some areas for focus, areas for growth. So it's been a great learning opportunity
031for our our high school leadership, high school freshman success team. And then just so you're aware, upcoming next week, I'll be meeting at the ESD um executive director Chase and I will be at the ESD for an educator pathways gathering. We're trying to partner with ESD 105 and our local universities on creating um more pathways to keep our students and our staff here in our in our district. And then on the 6th, I'll spend the whole day and Dr. Devet is probably going to join me. We'll be at at um Olympia all day. They have a superintendent convening where just superintendents from our region are going on one of three days. And so he and I will be representing Grand View that day, talking with legislators and um and such. And then lastly, just so
032you don't forget, the 14th is Valentine's Day. Throw that in there. Um and so one final item of business, and it's not on here, I have the privilege of reading, as you may know, this month is National um School Board Recognition Month. And so, um, I have the privilege of reading a proclamation from the newly, um, newly sworn in Governor Bob Ferguson, and it goes like this. Whereas the mission of Washington's public school system is to ensure all students achieve at high levels and possess the skills, knowledge to be responsible members of a democratic society and enjoy productive and satisfying lives. And whereas Washington's 295 locally elected school boards and nine ESDs are the core of the public education governance system in our state. And whereas the districts and regions they lead serve more than
0331.1 million students, have a combined annual budget of over 20 billion and and employ approximately 125,345 people. And whereas the school directors play a crucial role in promoting student learning and achievement by creating a vision, establishing policies and budgets, and setting clear standards of accountability for all involved. And whereas school directors are directly accountable to the residents of their districts and regions, serving as a vital link between members of community and schools. And whereas the school directors and ESDs provide a passionate voice of advocacy for public schools and the welfare of school children. And whereas it is appropriate to recognize school board directors as outstanding public servants and champions for public education. Now therefore, I Bob Ferguson, Governor of the state of Washington, do hereby proclaim January 2025 as schoolboard recognition month in Washington. And
034I encourage all people in our state to join me in this special observance. So board, I want to personally thank you for your sacrifices and your vision of what you have for our students and our staff at the Grand View School District. you. I appreciate how you truly do put students first. You ask the right questions. You push us to be better and you want to hold us accountable because we owe it to our students. So, a happy uh schoolboard recognition month and thank you for all you do. Thank you. And that's the summary of my report and Jose is sending you confetti. Thank you on his behalf. Thank you. Right names on the right. Thank you. I'm Chuck. You'd never be so lucky. I could not be a Chuck. Could not be a Chuck.
035All right, we're going to move on to our uh policy governance part of it, which is where we have two. We have our BSR5 and our NS number two. And uh I was happy to see that we actually got four responses. Um, one thing to kind of let you guys know a little bit is Gan has no idea who responds. It's anonymous. So, um, one thing I did do is I when I got done with it, I did send Gan a quick little note that just said, "Look for another one in there." Uh, because it just to make sure it went through because she was a little nervous about it going through. Um, but I like the links on it. I was very happy with that. Um but anyway, so this is the first one.
036Uh came back with um I was a little bit confused on one thing and maybe you guys can help me out with this one. Um and maybe reading it now, it does say comments. I kind of took the note as a as the exception portion of it. So when I saw there was writing, I was thinking there was an exception because the it says reasonable progress, reasonable progress with exception or did not make reasonable progress. But it actually says comments. So you can comment on there if there was anything you wanted to um say uh with it, but it did come back all uh in reasonable progress. Um did anybody have any questions or comments based on and I know it should have been in here if you did, but did the information come through?
037Did we get everything? I thought it looked good. Everything came through. Good. Good. Good. So anyway, we need to uh uh is there any comments on this or do we have a motion on it to approve this or um because there's it reasonable progress? There's no exceptions. So uh I guess you would we would make the the recommendation or the motion to accept with comments instead of exceptions because that was is what this one happens to have on it. So any discussion on it or anything? I'm I'm good with approving it. I I move to approve the uh BSR number five. BSR number five with comments. I'll second it. Anyone? No. Uh so we have a motion. All in favor? I opposed. So the motion carries. Now I'm going to go backwards because I want
038to get to the other one real quick. So the other one was an ends. So, it also had pretty much the same uh stuff uh with just the comment. Uh any questions or comments on this one? No. Do we have a motion? I'll make a motion to approve U E2 or N2 whole person as is with comments. I'll second it. All in favor? I opposed. Motion carries. Okay. Um We can't do the assessment of the meeting. Forgot to put the assessment in. I think we did a good job. We'll do the assessment that it was Chuck said we did a good job. We'll write that on. I make a motion we accept that. Chuck said we did a good job. Um what? Let's just say what do you think? You did a great job. Okay,
039perfect. Normally we don't have many people sitting here to tell us that. um little bit of thing from the board I want to go into. Um and I don't if you guys were contacted, great. A lady from Wazda reached out to me. Uh was asking about one interview for the school board of the year thing. I responded and copied Rob on. I said, "I'd like to have Rob involved with it." She goes, "I've already I've already been in contact with Rob. I'm meeting with him on Friday at 1:30." I said, "Perfect." I said, "I'll get with uh Rob and see if I can attend." So, we both sat in on a call with the lady. She's doing an article on the being the school board of the year. Um, and I don't think she works
040for WASDA, does she? No, she's an independent person. So, she was asking about, you know, what's changed in the last few years? What are we uh, you know, what have you guys done? Asked a little bit about the government policy, policy governance, um, some different things. So, we just kind of filled her in and talked about the new uh um playground and Rob had to explain, you know, really what that playground is, you know, um and all the different things that we're looking at doing and trying to do. So, anyway, that will be coming out in their uh thing sometime soon. I don't know when, be honest with you, but uh so yeah, that was pretty cool. Um I don't know. Do you want to say anything about when you went up in the Yeah.
041What's her name? Yeah. When Aaron Jones was here, uh, her talk was about hate speech and words matter. And it was really wellreceived. I went to the one with the freshman and the seniors. And of course, you guys have seen her at Wazda. You know how she kind of talks to you and performs bouncing around the stage. And uh, I thought it was very positive thing for us to have in our high school. I'm glad our students had the opportunity to hear her because she has a lot of positive messages and it aligns really well with what their goals were with the hate speech and with the the message that we want to bring. So, and just what she's gone through, her message is pretty amazing. Rob was filling me in on that when I
042met with him. How she grew up and where she grew up and Yeah. Yeah. So, what she went through is pretty amazing. Uh, one of the ones was when she was little, the some of the little kids, and Rob, you can tell me if I'm off on this, was when are you going to get the right soap or the right something to clean your get your skin clean? Because she was adopted by a white family. And uh, so she went home and tried scrubbing her arms to get them clean. And uh, so it was it was pretty amazing the stuff that she actually went through and the different things. But she's done very well, which is great. Yeah. and she uh comes back and does stuff like this which is really cool. So she's married
043to a pro. Is she who? I don't who's she married to Rob? Do you know? Uh her husband's a head football coach in Seattle area. But her brother-in-law is Jesse Jones. Remember Jesse Jones from Cairo News Chairo? Is it Kyro 7 or King Five? Okay. Jesse Jones investigates. That's her brother-in-law. So her brother is married to him, but I don't know his history very much other than that. I remember her saying at WASA that he's a pastor, I think, or two. Or he's a I thought she said a pastor. He could be, but I also know he's a Yeah, I don't remember. She and OJ had a ton in common with their siblings and their h I mean their spouses and kids and stuff. And so it was pretty and they had the same color
044hair only went up and O.J's went down. And Aaron was telling me beforehand, I got a chance to talk to her that her son is also teaching in the same school district with his dad and coaching football with them. Oh, that's awesome. Yeah. Is Spanway or something? Is that what you told me? Somewhere somewhere over there. Jose, do you remember? I want to say it's in the Renton area. Yeah, he's a I think he's a math teacher and he is teaching with his son. So, they're both in education. Nice. Yeah. So, yeah, that was pretty cool. Yeah. Um, and everybody got the news that Jean's leaving us. Yeah, I'll bet she comes and sees us once in a while. I don't know about that. You didn't even ask. How do you just leave without I
045don't know if you guys heard she'd send it. She turned in her letter of resignation and Rob wrote across that rejected. Unapproved. Unapproved. It's unapproved. Unapproved. So anyway, congratulations. Looking forward though to your retirement. I am. I am. I was very happy when you guys approved the consent agenda. Oh yeah. I snuck that into the radar. I saw it already. You had your service and it used to feel whoever comes on board after. I know. So anyway, the board I did want to mention two things. Um, first you you know that in my role I work with a lot of different school districts. Um, one of the school districts that I work with happened to mentioned that there was a student from her district that moved into Gran View at a high school level. And
046um she just said that she doesn't know what we're doing here, but she said that she heard a lot of positive things from the student that she cannot go on or cannot stop going on about how many opportunities we have for our students for college in the classroom or even just taking college classes, the supports that they have for students at the high school and the the traditions and or not the traditions that she feels accepted. she feels like she's included and she came over this year. Um, you know, she's a mobile student. She's had migratory moves and such. Um, so it's nice to hear that she feels welcomed. I know that, you know, there's maybe some students that don't, but it's good to hear a positive story. Um, and then just on another note,
047I know that this is right now a lot of there's a lot of uncertainty for some of our families in the community, and I just wanted to thank um, Dr. Darling, the cabinet staff, and Amy for sending out information for communities who are going to be impacted by some of the executive orders. Um, and letting them know that there's resources and support and as well as our staff, you know, what it is that we legally can and can't do. Um, so that they have the supports and they know how we can support our students. So, thank you for that. Um, we do not have anybody interested in the position that we have open. Just kind of letting you know. So, we need to hit the ground running a little harder. Do question since it closes
048tomorrow if I'm not mistaken. Can we vote tonight to extend that for a week? I think so. Do we need a motion to do that? I think the date was arbitrary. So you can reset it for whenever you want to. They were just internal dead for the purp we'll just open it. So we just need to put a blurp out that that's what we're doing. Do I need I can call the papers and have it run again? Yeah. You want Okay. Maybe have Amy post it again. Okay. wherever we start driving around the neighborhoods asking people that are out so cold they're not going to be outside too bad and it's summer be out mowing the lawn. Okay. Anything else? Uh everybody I'd like to say that I like the links on I do this.
049Yes. I like being able to hit the link and be able to go to it and not have 400 pages in one attachment. Yeah. Um that's why her res retirement letter was unapproved. She made it too easy. Just she's just getting things dialed in. I know. I agree with that. So yeah, we're finally getting anyway and thank you for the goodies for the u appreciation for the board. We appreciate it. Schools. Thank you to all the schools in the school and everybody. I'll send you tomorrow. I didn't get a chance to send it to you, but uh Urkhard sent me a first rendering of the deal for here. I'll send it to Jose, too. I showed Brad. I showed everybody up here few little tweaks that he's going to make, but he did include the
050um uh the the um school from here and then put on there the district logo at the top. So, it's really it's pretty cool looking. Um and uh they're going to make a few more little tweaks and then we'll send it out to everybody and see if everybody agrees. And then I told him we would get the material for him to where they could uh get started on it. So, but I'll forward it to you guys tomorrow, Rob, and that way you guys can see his first rendering and then you'll see the new one that comes out so everybody can decide what they want to do. I think it looks But it looks really cool. And we there's an outlet right there. So, we're going to put lights behind it behind just the G. So,
051I think it's going to look really cool. Really nice. Yep. Okay. Anything else? I don't have anything. you know when our next meeting will be and Jean will send out the information. Oh, not till the next, right? That's not till after the next meeting. We don't have any of those the next one. So, anyway, we're journ. Yeah, right there. See you guys. Oh, that way. We're going out to dinner. There you go. Enjoy. Don't get sunburned. Warm down there. So, we'll keep the same timelines as what we projected because what is a week now? Yeah. Well, we'll move it all out a week then, basically.