001I'd like to welcome uh from Martinez from Mrs. Artega's first grade class to come up and help us lead us in the flag salute if you would please. Right over here and you're going to be in charge. You're going to tell us all what to do. Okay. Whenever you're ready. Right hand on your heart. Ready? Begin. I aliance to the flag and to the stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Good job. And then we're going to turn that around and we're going to take a nice There we go. Thank you. Thank you for coming. None. Yeah, you won't anymore. You should just email these to us. The train I did. There's not two. That's it. Oh, sorry. There you go. I didn't realize they were separate, right? Same trees.
002Okay. So, uh, oh, we go right into the approval of the without the changes. I'd like to call a motion for the approval of September 10th, 2024 regular board meeting. Make a motion to approve the September 10th regular board meeting minutes. I second. All in favor? I posted. Motion carries. Uh, changes, additions to the agenda. We actually do have some changes. Um on the vouchers, we're going to remove the second uh third and fourth vouchers from this. Um they're dated for a different date as when they were um approved. So we'll bring those at the next meeting. So we're removing those from this. That'll be the change made to it. Uh any public comment? None at this time. Okay, we'll move on to uh Dr. Darling with his uh presentation um his report. I apologize
003that I didn't get it to you Friday like we typically do. We're not sure there's a glitch in the matrix, but so on the 11th we had the the high school open house and the and it actually was also kind of a career fair and I thought Dan there um they had um the military, they had universities present, they had different opportunities there. Oh yeah, that's so Oh yeah, there too. So it was a it was a nice eye. I had a hot dog and chips and it was good. Um we So so update, we had all the equipment show up and all the final materials for the HT playground to finish its installation this week. And you might have seen on the news about a car and a truck and trailer that had a
004rollover accident in Tri Cities on the way to Home Depot. That was one of our our playground installers ran to get some final pieces of equipment they needed and all a lot of their tools and personal items were in there and this crew is coming from Olympia. And so um they reset this week. They're all headed back home. They're getting all the tools and stuff. They'll be here first thing next week to finalize all because right now they're finishing the padding underneath the whole thing. They have a a squishy pad that so be landed it we bend and not break. And so that's where so we're getting close. Um and we had a a district-wide for leadership team a threat assessment training yesterday by Christie Christ. Yeah, something like that. We're not sure. He says
005it so fast. I'm not sure how he says it from ESD 105 from their safety and security office. And uh he actually he was actually praised us more than he trained us because he talked about how the systems that have been implemented in our district especially the stuff that's happening at the middle school is a model that he's using through not through the ESD 105 but also statewide about doing their threat assessment protocols and their responses to threats and such. And so we had a lot of kudos for the middle school staff on the work that they're doing. And so that was good to hear. Uh we're just a reminder tomorrow at the high school and then um from 7:45 to 11:15 we're having our second student advisory committee meeting council meeting and it's pretty
006good pretty neat. Um Mrs. Wilson and I will show up. We'll probably do two minutes to speak and the students will leave every minute of it. So our lead fellows will lead every minute of it for the rest of the day. So they're going to do a lot of work and they're focusing on two big buckets. One is about education about hate speech and one is about policy work they do around hate speech in the district. So, um, if you can make it, that'd be awesome. If not, we'll have a lot of great things coming out of that. Plus, they're designing t-shirts and they're going to be because they want to identify themselves in the work that they're doing. And so, um, excited about that work. And just for an FYI, Bronson gave us his
00760e 60-day notice because either he's he's 99% sure he's going to be elected and if not, he'll definitely be appointed. But either way, um, it'll he'll no longer be able to represent us in that fashion. And I told him, I said, "Well, I'm kind of hope that we don't see you anymore for the next 60 days. I don't want to have to." But on the flip side, maybe we have something really we can do a bunch of policy review that we can dump on his lap for the next 60 days. Busy doing a principal training. I think that's it. So, and I think he said he's been with the district for 18 years. Wow. So, it's a long time. So, he's breaking up with us. Hopefully, we don't see him even after that. We don't
008want to see him ever. Yeah. So, he's working with us to help us find a replacement for him. somebody local that can help continue that work forward. In addition, FYI, we have the HT open house on Wednesday, uh, sorry, Thursday, Friday, I'll be in Wanchachi all day. I'm driving up that morning for an OSPI um, MAK meeting. And then the next Monday, we'll have our AM coffee with the soups. Next Tuesday have our PM coffee with the soups. And then on the 9th, just an FYI, there's a TVIP family night. So this is our multilingual families um information night and a resource night in the high school. And that's all I have for Oh, also we have finalized our please excuse my cutout job. We finalized our cling our window clingons for our strategic plans.
009So this is the one in English, the one in Spanish. So we're going to have one for each of the five goals. And so we're gonna So Amy and I will be organizing our outreach um with all of our local business and community faith-based partners. have them come in and keep them educated on what each which each of the five plans, five goals are, but have each one of them adopt one and they'll leave with these window cleaners that they'll put in their buildings. So, you'll start to see our propaganda all around the community. And so, so we're excited for that next phase. So, as I said, Jose doing all the internal mobilization efforts and then and then we'll be doing all the external community mobilization efforts. And so, more and if you want, we
010can put these to the back of your trucks and your cars. Put all five across your windshield. You know you're all in for the Grammy school district. My little funker over there. I know. I have a big G in the back of mine right now. People say you probably shouldn't be speeding on the highway with the grand car. It says for go. When is your next uh student advisory thing? When do you have the next one? It'll be October. You're doing it monthly. Monthly. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. You said it's 7:30 to 11:30. Something like that. Yeah. 7:45 11:15 11:15 Okay. Yeah. And it'll be in the high in the in the library. I think the 24th is our next one. Okay. Yep. October 24th. And that's all my report. Sorry you on Friday. Sweet. Okay.
011So, we'll move on to the consent agenda. Make a motion to approve the consent agenda. Move to approve. Second. All in favor? Opposed? Motion carries. Well, we don't have to uh have Mr. Steman recuse himself. So, uh we still have to approve it here. Oh, I see. Still approve it. You just wouldn't vote. So, this is just a voucher standalone different than the other ones. Yes. Okay. So, uh like to call for a motion to approve the voucher. Um not sure what it's called. General fund. General fund voucher. Move to approve the general fund voucher. Second. I second. All in favor? I posted. Motion carries. Okay, we'll move on to new business. Um like to call for a motion to approve the October 22nd study session at 5:00 p.m. for the board uh governance training.
012Move to approve. Second. Second. All in favor? I opposed. Motion carries. We'll go on to the bus surplus. Mr. Shre, would you please review the bus surplus with this? We have four very old buses and they need to go on their merry way. Good answer. Haven't been used and so Chris is about these over and recommending we surplus them. Call for a motion to uh surplus the buses. Move to approve surplusing our buses. Second. A second. All in favor? Opposed? Motion carries. Yeah, we can buy that. We the best. So, uh, go uh from the board. Anybody got anything from the board? I finally went and toured the school during open house, the high school. That was the first time I've walked through the whole thing. Really? Yeah. And it's really nice. That library is
013really nice. Oh, yeah. Yeah. The wait room. Yeah. That amazing compared to what we used to have. Yeah. It makes the students feel important. Yeah. It's It's really It's a lot bigger than I thought that it was going to be. Yeah. The classrooms are huge. The the art room. Yeah. My goodness. Yeah. And they had the room off the back and stuff in it. Yeah. So, I was impressed. Very good. Um, one thing I ran into, I was getting coffee and and was talking to Wendy down there and she made a mention that the Smiths have been talking a little bit about possibly selling the rest of that land and the gas pumps and stuff. And I got to thinking in my mind, you know, what if we had our own gas pumps? would that
014save us some money instead of having to, you know, we could and so I actually called Brad and he has actually already thought about this and and had already kind of been in discussion a little bit with the Smiths, but um if that does come about, I think Brad would look into that to see. It's just kind of something that popped in my mind that, you know, we could buy at a definitely lower uh when something drops you could buy and then, you know, I think it would be worthwhile in the long run. How does that work though? Do you have to be in the fuel business in order to Sunnyside has their own fuel tanks? Own your own tanks, but that's what it would be. You would own this. Yeah, you would own this
015from them. You would buy it from them. Yeah. To buy it from them. So, are you talking the the Smitties right here on the main drag? No, the one that's down there by that's by Brood Awakening. The those two Can we get in there? They used to get fuel from there. That's pretty tight. It's a little tight. Yeah, they they say it's fairly tight. We might have to develop the site a little bit more if we were to do something like that. Yeah. And they came in and requested that during that bid process that well, what what if you buy like 5,000 gallons of diesel, which you can do out in the market. That's what Sunnyside does. They go out and go on the market periodically and just buy 5,000 10,000 gallon and you can
016actually save a little bit if you if you hit the market just right. Too bad you can't buy it from Costco. Be a long hose. I know it's like 50 cents cheaper a gallon. Always burn five 20 gallons going up there to fuel up. It could. But if we could get it like right now that you approved was it at 10 cents 12 cents over the the rack you'd get closer to the 2% mark. We we are two cents over years ago going through Kico over rack and so that was really close to getting so to be really close to that lower number you see at Costco. I don't know where they get their fuel but but it's it is cheaper. We get it a little cheaper anyway as is we get it cheaper than
017you see at the pump. So we'll talk to them some more about that and have to weigh in. You know these tanks, how long have the tanks been in there? Are they are they certified that they don't have to dig them out? We had tanks here in the district over where the maintenance shop is at what used to be the bus garage years ago and there were tanks underground there and we had to remove those tanks when we did all the construction back in 2000. We removed those tanks and that one we did have to day down a ways. I'm sure it's a little spending just luckily there was a grant at the time. Do you have to remove ground soil to soil and stuff? Yes. And the canal was right there. The open canal
018was right there. So we were digging down getting closer and closer. They were getting closer and closer to that canal. Kind of like Gary Christensen in the house. He got pretty close to that house. And he was digging that. They went pretty deep on that. Yep. Anyway, it's just something I thought about and and uh I mean anything we can do to try to save a little bit of money in the long run. Um nowadays you almost have to look for it. So is it the building at all? like the big they're I think the L-shaped building, the offices and the thing cuz I don't think they do much anymore. I I talked to Doug once in a while. I don't I they park their vehicles down there. I think that's all they really do.
019Anyway, they were kind of talking to Wendy about if she wanted to buy it. So, that's where I heard about it from. So, um I said, "Well, boy, maybe the school district should think about that." Anyway, so we'll continue to look at it. And I I mentioned to Dan, we'd look into it in October because September's a little busy right now. And then work with uh with Rob on this one, too. Where are we going to get our ethanol free fuel if they close that down? That's where I get it for my mower and all my other stuff. School district buy it all. Yeah. School door tanks. So, do you have a 20 rack? Make a little money on this stuff. Excellent. Yeah. Anything else from the board? I just wanted to comment that it
020was pretty awesome to see that we had some students who had automatic admissions um at Eastern and Wazu and our elementary kids with their performance for Hispanic Heritage Month. It was beautiful to see them on the website. So, um, thank you for all those who are getting, you know, or to our district staff who are getting the colleges to come in and offer those opportunities, but also for working across the district or across the buildings to help our kids, you know, perform and and be a part of the bigger district. So, like Jose said, we're all greyhounds eventually. Eventually. Yeah. Anything else? This might be the record meeting here. Yeah. Close to it. Joseph's not here. I looked I made sure before I came I looked to see if there was Josie time. Okay. Nothing
021else. All right. We're journal. Did you want to talk about anything? You sure? I don't want you to feel left out. She should buy Santi's rent.