001have to get started. Yeah. Tell him he can take the night off. Let me tell him real quick. Or he can call. I mean, that's an option, too. I know it's not the best. So, we've tried that before. It's hard to hear. Yeah. You can't hear. Thanks, Ernesto. No problem. Okay. We're going to call this meeting to order. Let me go to the top of my page here because I have to follow strict uh guidelines that Jean has set forward for me. Okay. Sorry, I was getting on here because it has the little links. Okay. So, we're going to do the flag salute. So, I need uh Mr. Kase to come up here and he's going to take care of it for us. Sir, you all right, sir? To the flag of the United States
002of America, Count of three. One, two, three. Great. Excellent. I'm going to wrestling tonight. Thank you for coming. Do you have to give us what's Oh, I did not do that. Wow. You know what happens when you remind them of that? Yeah. This is your last time. A I like this delegating look kind of nice sometimes. Anyway, uh like to welcome everybody here. It's nice to have people in the audience get to this with us. Oh, I guess I should go to this page. Dean does a better job of putting red on here and telling me what to do. Uh any additional uh deletions of the agenda? Nothing. Okay. Uh, any public comment? No. No public comment. Okay. Gonna move on to the consent agenda. I'd like to call for a motion to approve the
003consent agenda. I move to approve. Second. All in favor? Opposed? Motion carries. Okay, we're going to move to new business. Oh, under consent. We have a check. Uh, he wasn't on, so I didn't feel I needed to tell him that he couldn't vote. He's not even on. He's not here. Thank you for telling us. Director Stagman will recuse and actually be in a different state. Okay. Thank you. So, yeah, Chuck's done. Okay. So, move on to new business. Uh, this is something we vote on. Motion to approve. Oh. Uh you guys all seen in there the resignation of one of our uh one of our beloved people. Um like to call for a motion to approve the resate. What happens if we don't approve it? Then I will just a lot of what happens to
004that? I didn't know we had that option. That's good. That's good. Anyway, like I call for a motion to approve the resignation of Andrea Ortega. I'll make a motion to approve. I'll second. All in favor? I opposed. Motion carries. You owe us. Thank you. I'll come and visit and I'll sit out there. Can you have Can you do a public comment? We need to have a Yes, I will. At least tell us something. Just tell me on it. Nice. Uh tonight, I'd like to welcome the high school ASB leadership students who will be sharing their report with the board. Welcome. Thank you for coming. Good evening everyone. I am ASB president Santi Navaro and I'm the assistant activities coordinator Suriel Mosan. Uh for our first part of our report uh during our uh adoptive family
005uh was successful. We had about 17 families or we gifted. So that was pretty success all. And secondly, we will be starting coaches versus cancer. And with that, we will have like a silent auction during the gravity versus proer game. And there will also be a cash C cash and dash. Yeah. Cash. Yeah. And that'll be going on. And we're really excited for that. What's cash and dash? It's like when the um the basketball players, they go around the bleachers asking for cash, like just the pads up there and ask people to just do donations. Uh the winter ball will be uh happening on the 18th at the high school. It'll be hosted by HOSA. And then we have the basketball playing today in Quincy and we actually had a big win this Saturday against
006CEO which we were really excited for that. It was a really close game and it was crazy. It was great. Yeah. Uh, another event that is happening this week I believe is uh wrestling on Thursday. They will be facing off against Ellensburg here. And then um we're going to be doing like a hate speech awareness um week during late February to like early March. And we'll also like be having um SACE coming and doing like a speech um awareness like kind of assembly for our students. And also the ASP board is uh currently planning pep assemblies for the 30th of January and the 7th of February. And that's pretty much everything that we have for you guys today. So thank you guys. Thank you. Thank you. So I have a question. Yeah. on the families
007that you adopted. How did you find the families? Um, I asked this because the company I I have, we adopt families and we found two of them this last year, but I was just curious how you guys go about. We actually call the schools and get information. Mr. Square works with the counselors. Okay. That's how they do it. Yeah. Oh, look right over here. They um actually get them from Salvation Army. And so there's um different agencies that refer the families to different agencies. And so then she works with those agencies so that um not one family is adopted twice. Oh, very nice. Because we've gone through the Catholic Church a few times. Um not that that's not a great organization, but they want they back when we did it, they wanted you to deliver
008it to the church and they would disperse it. We would much rather take it to the families and I would always take some people with us so they could see what that was actually like and understand it learning. So, no, that's awesome. 17 is amazing. Yes. Congratulations. A lot of rapping. I heard you guys had How do you fund raise for that? Where where do you where's the money come from? So the leadership class um everybody gets about like five yeah like five businesses that we go and ask for donations and this year we wait we raised like was it like 10,000 near00 10,000 wow so yeah that's honestly one of like the busiest like months and don't you go to Walmart shopping and hopefully they give you guys a pretty good deal. Yeah. Good.
009And then uh they also sent out an email to staff. So a lot of staff will donate as well. Nice. That's awesome. Thank you. Great program. Thank you very much. Okay, moving on. Uh Mr. Darling, uh I saw your report on the thing, but want to elaborate on any of it? So, um the beginning of the month, we had our coffee with the soup Monday morning and Tuesday afternoon. And again, we had some conversations about uh topics never came up before. one of about our our policy around retakes and if there's a requirement for retaching before students allowed to take a retake if there's a a time or evidence shown. We had questions around one of the requests came whether the district could not do any the high school specifically could not do any activities
010Wednesday nights because some churches have their youth activities Wednesday nights. So Jose and I have been looking into that about whether how feasible is that. We know we don't have athletics typically on Wednesday nights. Um and so we're trying to figure out some kind we Jose and I met with a a church group before we came to this and we we asked them specifically what night of your events. They said uh usually it's like Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday, Thursday or Friday. They weren't they had every night covered. Um but we told we told this parent that was something we would look into to find out kind of the um some more information about behind that. Um we and just a reminder we had our board session study session last week where we dove a lot
011into the upcoming policies that we're going to be monitoring for the next almost for the next fiscal year. That was good. And Jose, will you take a minute to share about your presenting to the Senate Ways and Means Committee? Yeah. So today I was asked to testify before the Senate um for House Bill I think it was 5280 with 90 success. So, in the proposed budget, they're proposing to eliminate $6 million from that um grant. And so, I went on and testified how um it's increased are on track to graduate. So, when the research supports that when students are on track at 9th grade, they're three or four times more likely to to graduate from high school on time. Um attendance increases and behavioral um also decreases. So, yeah, I have the opportunity and the
012honor to testify today. So, it was really good. That's neat. Yeah. He sits on a call for two hours. He say, "Okay, Dr. Rivera, in five minutes, you have one minute." Yeah, exactly. One minute. There's like a timer on there after all that. Yeah, it's good. And then furthermore, I will be also submitting written testament. So, I'll I'll put my comments um and there's a portal that you can go on to the Senate and put all your comments on there so you can go back and thoroughly read it because a minute is very fast. And so it has all my talking points and why we should continue to fund it. But I had a couple of superintendent on there text me. It's above what a good job you did. So thank you Dr. Good. Congratulations.
013Good job. Awesome guys. Thank you. So uh I'm just keep it here. Right. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. Sorry. So just a couple of upcoming events. I'll be at the ESD for um our South Central Regional meeting on the 16th. And then to piggyback off of what these two said on the 23rd, Aaron Jones is going to be here. Um Cameron reached out to her after having met her at the presenting. Yeah. Yeah. And so Erin will be here uh for the whole day. She's gonna start the morning with the student my advisory committee really quickly. She's going to do two assemblies in the during the day and then she spend the afternoon with them. Again, they're going to kind of talk through like what the work they've done, what their vision is and she's going to
014give them some advice and poke holes in. So we're inviting the middle school leadership team up to be part of that work as well. And then obviously if any of you want to come and send Is that on the 23rd? 23rd. Yeah. And this one I emailed you the updated schedule because after I sent it to you, the high school revamped their times for the schedule. So the one I sent to you is the current one with the red on Thursday. And then uh yeah, that's that's my report. Awesome. Anything comments, questions? No. Wow, we're flying through this a little too quick for me. I'm not used to this. We usually go over a lot more stuff. Anyway, next meeting. Uh yeah, next meeting will be a little longer. Chuck probably did goodness in this
015one. Um do you have your thing filled out? That's where we're at now. Oh goodness. Already? Yeah. Gosh. Okay, let's take you a while to fill out all that. I know. She She doesn't want this meeting to end. I know. So, just I'm going to jump to 15 real quick while while Andrea's doing that. Uh uh one I really want to thank everybody for and I know I sent the email out but thank everybody for going to the thing that we went to last week. Um I think that was definitely needed. I think we all knew what we wanted by going with what we're going with, but how it was going to work, I I'm not sure any of us really knew. Um and I think sitting down and walking through each one of those
016like we did and seeing some examples, I think was a great thing. And I think it's going to help us going forward. and uh getting some information from Rick. I would like to um and I'll probably bring this up in our uh halfway through the year meeting. I would like to try to bring Rick back uh after we're in this a year and do a little followup with him for a a day or half a day or whatever we can do. Maybe we set up a retreat for ourselves for a day, but half of the day is with maybe with Rig and maybe we go through some stuff and what worked good for us, what didn't, you know, I think he would be a great asset for that. And uh um uh just to kind
017of follow up where we are and revamp calendars, different things like that. So, but I was glad everybody was able to go. Another thing that I did um since then is I went to and I think I might have told you but we haven't had a meeting meeting since then is I went to that uh uh inspirational speaker that uh um Peyton Bonnie had at the high school for the coach. Yes. Um she was pretty amazing. Only an hour but there was quite a few people there which was nice to see. Um very cold in there. Not as much heat in that room but anyway um uh did a nice job. went and met with she was here for like three days. We actually went to the game against Henish, met with a lot of
018the players and did different stuff. She actually played uh professional volleyball in uh uh Greece, I believe it is. Um but she played at Pepperdine and she played beach volleyball against Misty May and them when they were doing their Olympic run. So she had some really cool stories. She lives in Bend, Oregon. And uh so it was kind of cool. So hopefully that really helps. Uh one of Payton's things was is getting the uh the players mind uh in focus with the not just the physical part of playing sports. So but it was the cross country coach was there, the volleyball coach was there, uh boys basketball was there. Uh there was quite a few of them. So it was pretty pretty good to see a lot of kids. Anyway, I was also glad we
019did the um that we did the thing last week. That was It's not We didn't do it. We didn't do that was good, I think, to kind of um have everybody get everybody on the same page moving forward. So, we're all kind of at the same spot. I think everybody was a little at a little different spot in the in this new process. So, it was helpful for me. I know that. Yeah, it gave some clarification as we start to actually perform right at the policy governance level and everything and figure out what it is that we are looking for. So, I think we got a pretty good idea for this first year. Yeah. Yeah. I think it was good to let uh Rob and his team know what we're kind of looking for as
020a group and then also for them to give input on wait a minute, this is what it says. You know, I get both sides of it. So, but if we need to revisit our parts of it to give us what we want, then we direct that to make that happen. And um I definitely want to look at we talked about and I know you weren't there. you talked about I think it'll be you would like to hear this is how to bring a new board member on and and having that packet and and Heather has said she's going to look at putting some stuff together and then we'll review it as a board on how to bring a new member in and what to give them and how to explain this to them. Um very
021helpful. I think it's going to be such a different process. I mean way different process. Yeah. Um, a little update on the emblem or the thing that's going to go back here. I came down and met with uh Rob for a little bit and asked for permission to talk to some people at the high school. Uh, Urkhard is willing to build the whole thing. Um, which will save us whatever it is. I'm going to provide him the material for it. My vision was and what he's going to do is do a rendering of this on the computer and so everybody can see it to see if they agree with it. Um, one thing I did not realize was the G with the dog going through it is the high school. Yeah. Okay. So, the G
022with the tail or whatever you want to call it is the district. So, we're going to do a G. That's going to be 3x3. The background's going to be 4x5. And there'll be a background. And we're going to stick the G out of stainless steel. And we're going to stick it off of the backboard and backlight it because we have power right there. Okay. And then in the corners, we're going to put each of the schools emblems. We're going to have those made and put those in the corners. Now, that's five. And we have really to make it even, make it six. I thought about, and I know we didn't talk about this, but thought about making another plaque with uh school board of the year 2024. Oh, yeah. And putting the G in it
023and having school board of the year 2024. And that would even it out. Three and three on each side. So, it would be proportional. Yeah, that's cool. So, he's supposed to build us a I talked to Urkard. He's going to build a uh picture of this on the computer colored, make it look like what he thinks. We can all look at it, give input. If we know how to change some things, make some different things. Once we get that down, then we'll provide the material and his he said his class can build the whole thing. That's a great idea. So, they have a deal down there. They can cut the stainless out, polish it, and do the wood and do the whole thing. And so the 500 bucks will cover all the all the material.
024Buy the material. And then if whatever we have left over, we'll decide whatever we want to do with it. So there won't be any labor involved in it. And I'm sure to be honest with you, I'll probably get all the material donated. Yeah. Because Cliff will donate the piece of plywood, the nice plywood for it. And I'll get a piece of stainless from somebody. It's not a big deal. Yeah. Rich or we'll go rob Rich's I'll go to Total Energy or something. It's been recorded. You can't say that. I'm sorry. I will ask for donations from Mr. Iiker. Mr. Iiker. So anyway, I'm sure we'll get some donations, but uh he was very happy to have the project. So if you guys run into anything like that that you his group is looking for stuff
025all the time. Okay. So, um, anyway, whatever happened to the sign that we are going to put our stuff on? Oh. Um, we are having a shadow box. A shadow box custom build. You're talking about for the order of the year award. No. Um, when we all got together, we were going to sponsor something. Oh, it was a t-shirt. The t-shirt for the on the back. What was that? We did our donation. I followed up with Charvette and I had not heard back and I don't know if she ever delivered it or didn't deliver it. I can follow up again. But let me ask Rob, did you ever get a t-shirt from DECA? No. Okay. So then I'll follow up and point out. Yeah, actually do that right now. Yeah, we did donate on that
026and now we're going to put that on there. I remember that. That's good that I forgot all about that. I forgot about it, too. Um, I just want to say thank you. It's been fun and great and um I'm disappointed to step away, but I think the board deserves to have somebody who can provide the time that it takes. So, we got the map out. We were looking at the map last Tuesday and looking at boundaries. Okay, where's the everybody at? And so, everybody's looking. I talked to who I told you I was going to talk to. She can't she can't do it right now. So, I did not realize how far north it actually went into that area, too. So, um I have a couple options, too. I was going to at least let
027them know that it's an opening now. Now that it's been No, it's posted on tomorrow. It'll be posted tomorrow. Um so, then we can start receiving uh people that want to Yeah. see about doing that. So, thank you. It's been We appreciated you on the board. Thanks. Thank you. I'm sure you're still here from us still and like Yeah. We'll come. We'll sit in the I'm not sure you guys will think that after we look at this ratings. I gave us a good rating. Come on. Thank you, Andrea, for your time, though. I know it's a lot juggling career and with the kids and everything. So, thank you for that. Yeah, it's now that they're getting into more and more sporting. Yeah. You know, and that's one thing I've never been able to if it's
028coming between work and my kids or extracurricular for me and my kids, I I can't miss out on their stuff. So it's important to be there. Yeah. I mean, usually high school is slow and boring, so Yeah. I wish I wish for you is double your pleasure, right? Yes. It is. I'm just I lucked out that they aren't involved in the same sports at the same time. I know. But you get both aspects like each other. You're going to chess club and you're going to the gym and you're going to this. You get it both sides. Yes. Yeah. We have chess next weekend. Okay. So, we're going to move on to the board assess. Uh, yep. We'll do the board assessment. So, uh, she gave us all goods. Agenda was well planned. Uh, the board
029follows the agenda. Board members prepared for the We didn't have to prepare as much. It was Scott did this. Did you do it last time? Yeah, the last one. And of course, we had all the stuff and he had to really get into it. Um yes we listened for 23 minutes very tentatively but uh yeah we got good thing yes yes okay I prepared a timeline thank you I have um packets ready at the office we set a uh when we met on Tuesday we set a timeline as to when we want see the stuff we have to review um when we have to have it back. Okay. And uh we set that based on months and then we also we're going to do a calendar in the middle of the year and set uh
030professional development different things we want to do. Um we're trying to get top notch. We got to bring somebody new in here. We got to show them we know what we're doing. They're going for 2025 board. Yeah. Did you guys uh receive an email from the Grammy Herald? Yes, we talked about that. Or wait, before regarding the policy government, was it? Yeah, Grammy Herald. Anyway, um not a big deal. I got it, too. I don't think you got Did you I did not get you did not Dr. Darling and Chuck were speaking to Yep. So, what I did and I can't tell you guys what to do. Everybody can do their own thing. I responded directly to Rob and said, "Do I respond to this or not to let him know?" Because I didn't know
031who it actually went to because I, you know, but then it sound it she informed me that it went to everybody, but I just wanted to make sure that any response went through Rob before um to make sure we're all on the same page. Um I don't think she was looking for any out of the ordinary or whatever. Initiated this because I let her know, hey, this is something to celebrate that the board is working on. So that's what that was the impetus for this. Yeah. some of her questions. The one question, you know, was this something that they're trying to keep an eye on you? It's more like no, that's not exactly at all. I mean, it's how do we work together? Be transparent. Yeah. How do we work together and how do we
032all and show the community what we're doing? Getting the community more involved. Um, so Chuck did meet with her and Chuck said that it went good. Yeah. And uh, she's a good advocate for the district. Yeah. And I think he answered some questions that she had that actually helped that really made sense that we were on boarding with pretty much nothing. And now we're doing this and so so will any other media potentially be contacting us? Like did we share that announcement with anybody? I only reached out to her. I reach out to anybody else. So if anybody else picks it up maybe maybe their parent station might parent entity might pick it up. Okay, good to know. Thank you. Yes, thank you. Yeah, I didn't get one. Okay, anything else? Um, this timeline then,
033this is where we're what we're at and their meetings are here or the meetings are going to be at the uh learning center. Aren't these our uh when we do that? That is an open question. Yeah, they were here last time. Yeah. Yeah, I think we did them because we actually interviewed right here. They would sit there and we would uh we can do either whatever you guys want to do. Um last time I think we did it here, but it was nice. I met them out in the hall. Yeah, the door was closed and then you know they Yeah, because down there they would all be in the same room. A question. Will we be having the um awards that night? You know how we have the uh where they have the recognitions and
034everything Amy comes in. Is that the same time as that meeting? I think about the space when we had let's see they used to be on different like a separate night. The second meeting it's second meeting. First meeting is ASB. Second meeting is cultivating guidance. Okay. Yeah. Then we'll plan for like on February 11th is a five o'clock. We're doing part of that. Um so that'll be before the normal meeting. We also decided that we're going to uh when we do get a new person, the before the next meeting, we have a special meeting and do kind of an introduction with the person to give them a what's going on. And then we talked about doing it after the election if we do have any new one. Really, it's set up anytime we have a
035new one because you can't just set it up for that because somebody leaves, you have new ones coming on. But we want to make sure we have a meeting with them prior to the next board meeting. to kind of help explain, you know, this is what's going to happen at the meeting. This is what we do. Do you have, you said you were working on a calendar for the year? We'll set that as a group and we do that in the middle of the year is we'll put the calendar together. That'll be the professional development that will be maybe try to get a tenative calendar out to the PE prospects that come through so they know what they're getting into. That's a good idea because we could say, "Yeah, we meet twice a month." But
036then you they also need to know, well, we have stud sessions here, we have development here. At our last meeting, we talked about setting some tentative dates and um setting what the topics may be. So that way we have at least those dates designated and if we end up not needing the professional development, we'll just, you know, remove that date. But yeah, that way we have a better idea. They're standing as a group and also whoever can whoever's coming in, they need to know. It's not just a couple hours to two nights or two nights a month. Yeah. And it's not 30 minutes because the next meeting's going to be Yeah. Two and a half hours probably. Yeah. Yeah. When we start because that's what Dale told me. An hour an hour twice twice month.
037You don't want to hold off till after the next meeting and wait that one. I I would except that's Nathan's last game and I can't miss that. So, all right. Anything else? Could I get a copy of that large um I don't need the the mammoth size uh map of the district of the different maybe just Did you get emailed the I did, but I can't you can't zoom down enough to see the names of the streets. Oh, really? And even watching like I know this town born and raised here where everything moves and I watch it and I still don't know where I'll print I'll print some more out because I printed some out. Uh the problem is I can't do color more than 11 by7. Chuck can so I did send it to
038him so we could ask him if we can print a few of them out. The other thing is I think we talked about this. We actually want to blow one of those up about as big as we can get and sticking it on the wall. be so helpful and have a color, especially with all of the It doesn't make any sense the way that they've done it. I mean, I don't know how they did it. This meandering. I know. It's just kind of like all of a sudden the canal bank and then a goat trail and Yeah, cuz I'm looking at I will I will talk to uh I have a couple people in Tri Cities and see I don't think we have anything to print out anything. We can do black and white. No,
039I want to really help. I'm thinking even if we do it in four sections, do quads and print it and then we could put it together and then put it on a big sheet, put it behind glass. Helps so much. Can't staples do something to Yeah, that's what I was going to talk to. Abidan is an outfit that does all our copers and printers in Tri Cities. I'm going to see how big they can do and if we can get four printed out, then we can just put them together and then put them on a big sheet and put them behind the glass. too out of Yakama when I was part of the booster and we did the posters. We did the large I think it's like a 3x4 or something. Um they have the
040capacity to to print large jobs as well if we ever need to and they're fairly reasonable. I can do uh 36x 48 but not color. So I want to talk to Abidan, see if they can do color and if they can I'll have them print for I'll do a copy of it to send here and then maybe I'll get some smaller ones printed that you can just have. So, whichever size will want to be able to frame it though, right? Yeah. I'm thinking doing it in quads and making it like six by six or whatever. Be so helpful. Yeah. Where do you live? So, and the color is really cool. Okay. Anything else? Rob got a new car. Everybody needs to know that. You can feel safe about Rob getting back and forth now. I
041got a car that's not for the winter. It's 10 years old, not 20 years old. You got some snow tires on it yet. Years old. What's that? You got some snow tires on it. Yeah. You drive fast enough. You don't need It's the stopping of course. Tires aren't going to help you stop anyway. Set the cruise. There you go. As soon as I get out of Union Gab, I can go back to sleep. Okay. Anything else? Nope. All right. Hey, thank you for being here. We like to have seeing you guys. No. No, the cell.