001Whoa. All right. Call this meeting to order. Good evening. At this time, I call the meeting to order. I'd like to do a flag salute. And Mr. Anderson is going to lead us in the flag salute tonight. Take a picture. Yes. Yes. Ready? Begin. I pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Nice job, sir. Hi, guys. Hello. Hello. Okay. Move right along. I'd like to call for a motion approval of the August 13, 2024 regular board meeting. Make a motion to approve. Second. A second. All in favor? I opposed. Motion carries. Like call for a motion to approve the August 16th and 17 special board meeting. Make a motion to approve. Second.
002Oh. All in favor? I. Motion carries. Okay. Like to call for a motion to approve the August 21st, 2024 special board meeting. Move to approve August 21, 2024 special board meeting minutes. Second. All in favor? Opposed? Motion carries. Any changes or additions? No. Uh, any public comments? No. Any public? All right, we're going to move right on to presentations. Stephen, I'd like to welcome Betty Palmer, the district's new CTE director, to come up and uh introduce yourself and uh tell us a little bit about yourself or you, Mr. Anderson. So, so I will just say a very brief word. It's okay because um Rob was like, "Hey, is it okay? Can you introduce Betty?" And so I was like, "Sure." Um so I I want to go through that piece with you guys and then
003I'll of course she'll come up and talk about her. This is good. He put it to [Laughter] music. You like to see that. Um so she started her career um for with the USDA Forest Service um earning an associates of technical arts and natural resources technology. She's worked in five different ranger districts in Oregon and Washington both as a forestry technician, wildland firefighter, and a fisheries technician salmon and trout habitat surveys. She then worked in the food service industry earning an associates degree in culinary arts. She was a prep cook, baker, catering. Uh, this work experience led to CTE culinary arts instructor position at Wanachi Valley Technical Skills Center and she holds a BS in career and technical education and training. Most recently, she has been the CTE director at Wallik School District in Madawa
004U for four years, maybe five, completed her and um so fun fact, we actually went through our CTE um director training together and so we didn't really um we had some connections and we went through, you know, different things. I know that she went through a huge audit with that we have to go through every five years with uh OSBI just making sure things are are are right there. So, we're I'm very very excited. Please joining me in welcoming Miss Betsy Palmer. Any questions? Covered all the ground. Do you know all of us? Should we maybe introduce ourselves? I know I did meet with you. I'm Dan Hall. I met you at the the first day of school. Andrea Artega. Nice to meet you. Good to meet you. It's nice to see you again. Thank
005you. Heather Garcia Mendoza. Nice to meet you. And if I if you don't mind me asking, what uh caused you to move from Waloop to over here? Um the opportunity. Opportunity. Yeah. Yeah. Nice. Well, welcome to Grand View. I'm Scott McKenna. Nice to meet you. Nice to meet you. Welcome. Jose was Yeah. Well, um, as Derek said, I got a little bit of a background and I kind of fell into teaching, which turned out to be, um, quite a great experience. But in that whole process, I also um was interested in leadership and directorship and that's how I um kind of shifted my gears a little bit and earned a under um my graduate degree in career and technical education administration and at the same time um that's where we met with the director of
006training program and I was at Wuka at the time. So, I'm really excited to be here and be in Ground View and met a few people um see a few opportunities the um made a phone call, thank you very much, over at uh Walmart and the distribution center to see what we can do with with their um education programs and how we can collaborate a little bit with the region. Um Derek and I talked this afternoon about the WSU um egg station and it just seems like some lowhanging fruit there. And I don't mean that dismissively. I mean and when I say that I mean it's an opportunity. Um talked about the um corporate training and I'm certainly very aware of things like CDL um programs like that. I watched from afar as a fellow
007develop theirs and think those are really really good programs. So, I'm all ears and uh yeah, whatever comes to mind or if anybody wants to meet later and discuss things more specifically, but um I'm very fond of egg towns and even though I have a background in forestry, that's part of agriculture. And so kind of my whole um association has been with egg production whether it's culinary, forestry, fisheries, and certainly now in this position. Could you help me catch a salmon on the Columbia River? Maybe I need a little bit of technical help. She a little more tech. [Laughter] Come on. We'll have Ben We'll have Ben share about that later. Okay. You got to get to the water first. That's true. Come on, Ben. Let's go. Are there any questions or comments or certainly
008how to get a hold of me at the high school? I think you being here is a great thing. Um I think one of the things that we've learned over the last few years is uh uh CTE is something we need to push more on. and and I think there's a lot that we did not take advantage of and do and I think there's a lot more there we could do and uh now that we have somebody that's overseeing that directly. Um I'm hoping that uh opens up doors to do more of that type of stuff. I'm one of the ones that helped find some of these things about the CDL and some of the different things that have popped up. uh um people send me that stuff because I think that's a big passion
009in the valley and and especially in our area to to do a lot of those type of things and so I'm glad you're here. Thank you. Yeah. Welcome. Thank you, Daddy. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Anderson. Thanks, Derek. Uh, next I'd like to uh invite Lupe and Ben to come up and uh give us a little uh 20 minute spiel on uh try 30 minute spiel. Read fast because I got three pages and I couldn't think of everything. But do you need a timer set? I do. Give me somebody told me the two minute or the three minute uh warning. Uh do you you just do the best you can and we'll be good. First and foremost uh thanks to Dr. Darling and his vision of having a director of safety for the Grand School
010District especially in a time like now where we don't have an SRO. It's coming in huge. uh cuz if we didn't I I don't know where the school would be in this situation of not having anybody looking out for the safety of our students. Um so kudos and the fact that uh I can wear this attire badge everything. I mean it just it just highlights my the things that I'm comfortable with and my experience and knowledge to be able to still carry a firearm and uh to be able to protect myself and the students um staff and so on and so forth. So I mean thank you again for the opportunity and to you guys as well. Um so we did get to attend a NASRO school safety summit and this was Dr. Rivera, myself,
011Ben and Manuel, one of the security officers and some of the things that we attended some of the breakout sessions. One was a detective out of Chicago who was talking to us about the importance of paying attention to social media platforms and the leakage that comes from these because as we all are aware well aware of that every time we close shut down schools is because of Facebook post or something on Snapchat or somebody's posting something that they're going to come and shoot the schools up and then there we go into a panic and locking schools down for closing them out for the day and things of that nature. So, we've got some information that we can then relay over to the police department such as templates on uh Snapchat search warrants, Facebook search warrants,
012and things of that Instagram and things like that that Dr. Vetta was able to load on a USB. So, we haven't yet got over to the police department, but that's one thing that we'll share with them so they can assist us if we ever need that assistance. Um, the other one was a pretty cool uh session that we had involving different uh this was a specific school district or and they zoomed in on a specific school, the playground and whatnot. The scenario starts out with a bunch of colored circles everywhere and each one represented a group of students or a teacher or a unknown person and community members and so on and so forth. And then the uh information starts off with a person coming on talking to a staff member. This is in the
013morning during drop off saying, "Hey, my husband's on the way over here with a gun and he's going to kill me. What do we do?" And she's dropping off the kids off at the time. And so, can I hide in the schools? Can I do this? Can I do that? And it was a room full of um a lot of law enforcement officers and a lot of uh school personnel as well. But it was nice to see the differences. and uh everybody going up against oh no that's that doesn't sound like the right thing to do you need to do x y and z and then just working through that it was really nice to that was one of the ones that where I kind of seen everybody really really engaged as to what steps
014to do and covering all their bases and things of that nature and I got involved in it I couldn't just sit and listen so somebody challenged me on something and I of course you take a personal one and you're just like okay dude well you can't go back to Arizona band in the state. So, that was something that I'm going to be talking to Chris Weeden and the sock. Um, I really enjoyed it and I think that would be uh something really cool to do with our safety leads and whatnot um at every school district and kind of place an area like that. And we also um got the opportunity to listen in on two SRO's from Sandy Hook uh that were there and a parent who lost a daughter I believe at Stone Marjgery
015in Florida. And the impact that it has on first responders, parents, teachers, staff, and community as a whole. I mean, to suffer through an incident like that and go through an incident like that, I mean, it it really takes a toll on the community as a whole, and it's going to take the community to bounce back and try and recover from this. But years later, years later, I mean, Sandy Hook is almost 10 years, not more, and these officers, you can tell, are still suffering the effects of it. Seeing all the bloodshed and all these children that have lost their lives that day. It's just I I I couldn't help but to get emotional because I can put myself in their shoes and it's just like, oh my goodness. And even the dad and taking
016his information and uh I feel for the dad and and him saying, you know, well, the officers didn't do what they were supposed to do. Nonetheless, I should hate law enforcement, but I don't. And he's been pushing for law reforms in Florida. And all the law reforms that have happened are running through him and his crew. And that's, you know, trying to make schools safer and police more training for police and things of that nature. And I'll touch that on that a little bit more here. But I mean, just seeing the overall impact of something like that was unreal. The other thing that I saw that I really, really liked and I'm going to be looking into is glass film uh protection for the entries at all our schools. And they ended up putting this
017film, see-through film on this window. And they took this big gorilla looking dude with a baseball bat and he swung and swung and swung maybe like 30 times. He actually bent the aluminum bat trying to get through this window and he couldn't. And that to me was like, oh, eye opening. I was like, okay, I can see how that could come in handy. So, tomorrow I've got an appointment with 3M, which is a different uh brand. Um, because I think Safe Haven obviously wants to sell their name and their product. I don't know how expensive it is, but I'm researching what it would cost to put that film around the entrances of the high school, middle school, and all our elementaryaries just to buy us time. If somebody wants to shoot through them, they can't
018clear. The last thing I want is like the last shooting we had in Midwest, the person sheltered their way through. Um, having this film, I think, would buy us minutes, hopefully, not seconds, hopefully minutes, um, to delay their tactics. So then uh we saw a presentation on tall cop um he's an exboyise police officer who's now doing all this recon on all these drug trends and the one biggest thing uh he says is vapes vapes are coming out with like 26,000 ps and he says this is like the biggest trend now for our schools and this is something that I didn't catch on at first and I was wondering why these flocks of kids would just go into the restrooms all at once and it's like Well, he says they're 26,000 puffs. They're not going
019to use them all. So, what are they doing? They're selling them. And that's why they're using their phones and hey, maybe here and they've got like 10 kids and selling them to these kids and they're all going in there and they're all taking hits off of these and that's how they're making some of their money nowadays. Um, the comeback of mushrooms. He says this is one of the biggest things. Start looking for mushrooms in your community. Psilocybin mushrooms. Um, the inhalent are coming back. start looking for those little CO2 cartridges and any type of uh like the keyboard cleaners and things of that nature. When you start seeing these in backpacks, these kids are starting to hop against. Um and then if you guys are concerned about fentanyl, guess what? There's like three different drugs
020that are starting to come out. One is a horse tranquilizer, something along those lines, but there's like three different lines of uh drugs that are coming out that are 10 times worse than he says. And wait till those start coming out. And some of those are in forms of Skittles. You'll see them. And he says, "And those are the ones that are very dangerous if little kids have left around little kids and just pick them up." He says, "Because they look like Skittles." Well, Naran help. Narcan will help. But he also touched up on a drug um synthetic drug. He says that some schools are seeing where some of the some of the students are passing out and they're giving him Narcan. Narcan can't do anything with it. They take them, they get test labs
021and nothing comes back on the test labs. Um, which is interesting, he says. And I don't know what kind of synthetic it is or how they're fabricating it, but it's very potent and it's not detected. So then you have a student who you think is just having seizures, but yet they technically could be under the influence of this drug and you'll never know. He says, "So start looking for things that just don't add up." Um, so then we got to see uh Bernie James. He's the law professor for Pepperdine University. Love this guy. Um I saw him the first time when I went to the first uh conference over in Tennessee. And I told Jose and uh and I told uh Ben, I said, "Grab on because this guy is going to let you have
022it on." The biggest push, his biggest concern was behavioral threat assessments. And that's my biggest focus. I think one of my biggest focuses this year is making sure that our school district as a whole and I'm talking about all high school, middle school, and elementary that we all have our behavioral assessment threat assessment teams ready to act. This is you know you hear something you say something a teacher just you know student makes a comment teacher hears you know what the comment is and act acting upon it you know in a timely fashion as opposed to well I don't think they're going to do anything or because they said that the majority of the time we can prevent them from doing something that's going to prevent them from going away to prison or jail or
023whatever the case may be. So, if we can get to them before they act out um and get them their services, I think that's going to be one of the biggest things. And then not having these behavioral threat assessment teams is probably one of the biggest liabilities for school districts right now. So, if and when something happens, then they start doing the research, any red flags. And then that's when everybody starts coming out of the woodwork. Teachers, students included, oh yeah, well, I heard him say this and this and this. where a teacher or staff member says, "Well, yeah, he might have said something like that in class, but I didn't didn't take it as serious as I should have." So, whenever there's any threats or any mention of any violence or anything like that,
024we have to get together with the threat assessment teams. And uh it's our counselors, it's our admin, it's me, it's our law enforcement, it's therap uh counselors outside the schools if need be. But we have to get all stakeholders who have some kind of vested interest in the student, the school and the district and community together as a whole. And uh it's everybody in this piece here has a piece to a puzzle and we need all those pieces to complete the puzzle to be able to be successful in this. If you don't and you don't do things right, we're still liable if something ends up happening. we're not immune from this unless you actually show due diligence and uh take every step necessary and that was done in Denver where they formed their team and
025the student challenged the whole threat assessment because he didn't want to be surged and uh it went all the way to the ninth circuit court and they sided with the Denver school district and said no they were they did their due diligence and they were able to document a well done behavioral threat assessment and in they included searches. The kid challenged the searches as uh illegal against the sport right amendment against search and seizures. They ended up winning. Uh the school didn't get sued and uh long story short, if you do what you're supposed to and you do things right, um it's going to save a lot of headache and money in the long run. So, my biggest thing is I reached out to Chris Villanu, who's our ESC 105 uh behavioral threat assessment coordinator,
026and I said, "Hey, I really want to focus on making sure that uh we understand it as a whole. So, I'm going to get our administrators, counselors together, and we're going to start training this here as soon as we can come up with the dates here next month." So, that's one of the biggest things. um local parent as well. He says don't be afraid to act reasonably whenever it becomes you know whenever behavior or discipline is at hand. He says school staff can act as the parent obviously and discipline or behaviors and things of that nature. And I think you know that was one of the things we harped on with our administrators here last week and not being afraid to stick their necks out there for I mean we are in charge of these
027kids. we are supposed to act as their parents. As long as you're being reasonable and not it's not something that you wouldn't do to any other student, you're going to be fine. So, let's go over some highlight topics for last year. Um presentation, I did a parent presentation back in October on safety and security for a meeting there at the middle school and I also participated with some Century 21 students. We made some somales. That was pretty cool. um I assist with the monthly re uh crisis response for all schools. We observe all the crisis responses and provide them with our feedback. Um we also initiated a locked door policy during school instruction. So when school is in session, students are in class, we ask teachers to lock their doors and close them, close them
028and lock them. And so it's just one step closer to when we actually go into a full lockdown that they don't have to worry about the door cuz the door's closed. Or let's say your door's already closed and somebody's wandering. You don't have to worry about this person peeking into your room because your door's already locked and secured. And like they say, there's never been one school shooter that has ever breached a locked door. It hasn't happened. Will it the storm Marjgery shooting incident was him shooting through the window and killing all the classmates inside the classroom because of the access through the window. But they've been instructed to push away onto the door side and away from the uh view of the window. So that's something that we've been working on and uh I
029I really like it. Um the other one is I've started up my grade classes again and that's one of the biggest things um that I plan on pursuing. Um as one of my end goals is to try to minimize the gang involvement with our students is I started with the fifth graders last uh spring and I went through the six weeks. I'm going to do another six weeks in the fall with the next fifth grade class coming up here. And then in the winter quarter I'm going to do 13 weeks with the sixth graders at a double. And ultimately the plan is to try and minimize gang involvement in schools which I think is one of the hottest topics right now. And this program is one of the best rated researchbased programs for gang prevention
030exists in the country. It's been vetted and they they said that it is legitimate and I've been doing it for six years before so while I was an SRO for the school district and it works and I absolutely love it. So when I was told that I even as a retired law enforcement officer I can continue to do so. I jumped on it. I'm like, "Uh, Dr. Darlene, I need a letter saying that you're willing to sponsor me and the chief, uh, chief, I need a letter saying that I retired in good standings, so I'm going to continue doing this." And he's like, "Okay." So, that got taken care of. Um, so one of the other biggest things that we've been doing is uh our tabletop exercises, and this is to prepare us for when
031the big bomb hits a gram school. Um we're practicing a school shooting during the cafeteria um during lunch at the high school. And that's what we're prepping for is mass casualties and how we're going to react or how we're going to respond and work together with our local law enforcement, Yakama fire, um Grand Fire, and all our surrounding agencies and doing the whole reunification and figuring out that piece of it as well. And so this is like one of the biggest projects that I have. Eventually we're going to get to the point where we're going to do a full scale where we're going to have actors. We're going to have people with blood on them and things of that nature. And that's to test our capabilities and for our local police department to test their
032capability and seeing if and what hiccups they're going to come up along the way. And the biggest thing is I just want us to iron out all our wrinkles so that if and when it happens because it's a matter of not if but when um that we're going to be ready for it. And I think that's one of the biggest things that uh all these other schools if we don't learn from all their mistakes with reunification and things of that nature and all the things that fell through the cracks, I just don't want to be in those shoes. um when something bad happens, I want to make sure that we're prepared with that full simulation. Is that with the kids? It's not going to be with kids at school. Um they're going to be actors.
033There might be kids if their parents are willing to sign waiverss on, but it's not going to be during school. It's going to more than likely going to be like a Saturday morning, okay? so that the kids aren't affected because RJW says that we can't do real life scenarios of that nature with kids during school because we don't want to traumatize kids, right? So that will come against us if we were to do something like that. But if I decided that I want my two kids in this and I talk to them ahead of time, which they will be. So I've got two boys and then I know Dr. Don has a couple and uh and we can keep asking for other parents and see if they're okay with doing this. Obviously, we'd like to
034have like 20 to 30 because we want to simulate the buses and things of that nature and getting kids on the bus and and scattering five kids per classroom and pretending they're full classrooms and just try and make it as real as we can get because I I just there's no substitute for it. And uh so we're going to do our next tabletop exercise with everybody, all the key role players on October 30th. Um, and that's going to be all of Gran, Yakim County, State Patrol, Sheriff's Office, Proser, EMS, ALS, and we're going to try and get everybody in this room. And we're going to break it up into planning, logistics, finance, operations, and do the whole ICS. And we're going to do unified command uh with our police department, our fire department, and we're
035going to get this thing going. And that's one of the biggest things uh that Ben has really been pushing me with and assisting me with. and his military background and his familiarity with ICS has really come in very very very handy. Um, so that's one of the biggest uh points that I'm trying to also became a safety care trainer last year. Um, and that's through the sped program and teaching all sped affiliated staff members on how to properly physically manage students and how to prevent getting to the point where you have to go hands-on. and what if you do go hands-on and how that looks and what a one person or two person stability or third person stability or chair stability, seated stability. So, I go through all those motions. I'm not one of those
036people that obviously shies away from going hands-on with people. I love to go hand with people, but I just can't do the arm bars or wrist locks or things like, you know, I I so I have to retrain my brain um to it's all soft tissue, nothing involving the joints and things like that because we don't want to hurt these kids. But it also teaches me, you know, and how to do deescalation and the staff members how to deescalate, but when worst case scenario happens and you have to go hands-on, how to safely do so and put this child where he can't hurt himself or herself or can't hurt anybody else. So this summer, we actually trained 40 staff members uh with the assistance of ESD. Um, so we're all trained in safety care and
037it sounds like school insurance, quote me, that if you're not on safety care, school insurance was not going to cover you this year. So we are all okay. We're not doing driver sponsor CPI or whatever that was anymore. So that's all gone. I have to do my refresher in October. I need to head back up to Spokane and refresh as a trainer. You have to do that every year. So that's up and coming. um monthly meetings, gang meetings, intel meetings with our superintendent, uh assistant superintendent have attended and all administrators at all buildings um where we bring in the police department who at the time were working at the schools so it was easy for them to have access to all our students and know what was going on. We're going to continue to do
038this. We meet like once a month, but we talk about all the gang impacted students and what they're doing off campus as well and how that affects the schools and taking that into consideration and knowing who's hanging out with who. So, we can see who their friends are out in school. We share that information with the police department and they're telling us what they're doing out here. So, we're coming together to try and work through some of the issues that we're seeing at school. Um, future highlights. I know I didn't hit on everything but future we want to one of the things I did this year and thanks again to Dr. on this. I was able to bring who was an ex law enforcement officer from Pierce County who was small member the whole nine
039yards. I mean he's been doing school safety seminars for 27 years and he did a crisis reality training here for our district for our certified staff. Is that correct? Certified right? I'm still certified classified. I sometimes I I don't know which one's which. two classes, 200 plus employees, and afterwards um the stack of papers, we didn't bring it, but it's stack of papers, five out of five. Five out of five. We absolutely loved him. He was awesome. Thanks for bringing them here. But I want to say thanks to Dr. Don because I brought it up to Dr. Darl, Dr. Fetta, and I said, "Hey, uh I my brother who's a teacher in Seattle was really really high on this person and I was like, "Okay, I'll uh I'll have a chat with him." And we
040talked for about an hour on the phone and I was like, "Okay, I think I like you, dude. Let's uh see if we can work you to come over to the uh this side of the mountains and uh put on a heck of a presentation not just once but twice. And so good that we're actually in the process of bringing them in again for the uh October 11th for classified because they heard about it and they were coming up to me and saying that's not fair. And I was like no it's not it isn't. And my hope at that point in time was to get everybody on the same page because I was really impressed with this individual. And uh one day maybe I can be just as good as him and then maybe I
041can charge $4,000 to come down to this. Um I probably shouldn't have brought up the money, but nonetheless good and good people are very hard to find. And uh when you do it's I don't think you can put a price on safety and that mindset that now all these teachers are going back into their classrooms and saying man I really need to change everything that I've got up in this room and how am I going to take cover with my kids and things of that nature and lights on or off whatever the case may be blinds or making sure that all windows are that have blinds during a lockdown and that's one of the biggest things we focus on is on lockdowns as we go through every single door and we try every door and
042we try to get in and try to ruse them to let us in and uh if we can see inside their classroom then we'll tell them to adjust their blinds and things of that nature. I don't want nothing shown. So that was crucial. So like I said, we're going to bring him back. I've talked about our next tabletop exercise. I will continue my great classes and uh introduce Ben as our new safety liaison. I forgot to do that. Rud 9 and comes in very handy now that we don't have an SRO because it's so easy to get just sidetracked and my biggest thing is if I'm in classes for six weeks and then 13 weeks I want somebody else looking out for the district. So when I'm busy teaching I think Ben's going to come
043in handy to go through all the meetings and whatnot while I'm trying to do my thing and trying to suppress gang behavior and things of that nature. So having Ben, he's godsend to me. I mean I really appreciate that Dr. Dr. Darling was able to work with me on bringing them on board. Thank you again. Um, so I talked about uh administrators and counselors uh being trained on uh behavioral threat assessments, making sure that uh and I am scheduled to go possibly to a uh single officer response active shooter in Colorado. That's still in the see if they've got room for me. It's through Frank the Alangelus Foundation. He was the principal at Coline at the time of the incident. So they donated an elementary school to him annex Foundation and they've turned it into
044like a war zone. So you go in there and there's smoke, there's fire alarms going off and you suit up, you go through these hallways and every classroom door has a uh wraparound like a theater screen and you've got an airsoft gun and you address the threats and the single officer response. So, if I ever get if I'm ever in a school and there's a school shooter, I've got a at least a little bit more experience on how to manipulate a school when I'm by myself to in search of an active shooter and how to address every hallway, how to address every doorway. So, that's in the plans. And then, we're planning on attending a school workplace violence seminar in Kenowick for two days. Um, and this is a combined effort with law enforcement and
045school officials. And so they'll do both training separate in their own identities and then we're going to come together for a tabletop exercise. And I'd like to really see how that's going to work out because I think that's going to give me a little bit more knowledge and experience when doing our tabletop here with our police department. Um so the goal again is uh to equip more schools. Uh one of my biggest things is that I want to try and bring a PA system to my clerk. How? I don't know. But that's one of the biggest safety things um on my list is making sure that McLar has a PA system so that they can advise of crisis situations when they're happening and that more cameras possibly at all the elementarymentaries um strokes for the
046elementaryaries to notify or let the public know that you know we are in lockdown and I want blue strobes everywhere so that the public knows not to go anywhere near and I want to continue to educate our parents on their responsibilities of what to do during a lockdown situation. Because my worst fear again is if something ends up happening is that all parents are going to rush over to that school and they're going to compromise the safety of their own kids by doing so because they're not going to allow first responders to show up on scene because when mayhem happens, they're going to be leaving their cars in the middle of the road and they're going to be running up to the schools and making things 10 times if not 20 times worse for us
047as we're trying to sit through everything that's going on. Um, so continue to do that and uh ultimately try and strive towards a gang, crime, and drug-free schools. That's all I got for you. I know it was a little too fast, but nonetheless, that that's uh that's what I got in in a nutshell for now. I got something to add a little bit. All right. Well, you left out one thing. Well, one of the things that is important. Yeah. One of Lup's visions was to make sure when came down that everybody got trained or got to see the presentation to he discovered well he classified it as well board yet. So talking to Dr. River was able to secure like you said it's going to happen. What he left out was that when he talked
048to Jesus he specifically also wanted if there was any training for bus drivers. That's the part he left out which was important because even the bus drivers had a two-hour session that is set up specifically for them to be trained on. if they do have a person with a weapon or or any kind of weapon or even if it's a gun, what can they do as a bus driver? What are some of their responsibilities? And one of the things they talked about was some how to do the break check because you'll see them in the mirror. So, you don't need to just stop. You don't need to keep driving. What are you going to do? And you put him in that scenario. And he told him that's one time that you can do the check
049break. And what is it? When do you do what why the cause of that? And again, he's describing when you do the check break, when you're seeing the the perpetrator, whoever it is with whatever weapon it is, yeah, the kids are all going to go forward, too. He explained that, but the objective is that you want to disable the individual, throw him off a balance. And that's what he explained. He went through that whole scenario based training. He recommended to Chris that drivers should practice that because if you don't practice, you're not going to do it. First of all, that's just the reality. But I wanted to make sure that you all bus drivers got it as well. And when the classified command is already figuring out with Dr. Dea how also the rest of
050staff maintenance grounds ker staff can also participate in that. So it's almost will we get 100% probably not because some people will be out but I can tell you what it'll be definitely over 90% of the entire school district will have already gone through the scenario based training and the information that you have and it today is a perfect example. It was our first lockdown procedure over at the middle school and we evaluated them all the time all through last year. This year is one of the better ones. We walked in graph has got the whole entire group clipboards maps instructions. Everybody had everybody knew what they were going to do. Not to say that they don't know what zones that they got. This is more specific and it was more specific based on some
051of the information that is susa shared with us and then the after action review. And so the difference between the ones we've seen last year and this year was the amount of silence that was there because last year kids were still talking. You still hear things moving around on it was silent. Seriously. Yeah. It's a teacher's perspective changing based on what they see because when they went up the training they seen the actual footage of the shootings that happened in these other schools. They actually got to see it and then listen to the presenter talk about it's not going to happen but it did. And I think that really opened up their eyes where they're like, you know what, it can happen. And that was one of the big differences between last year's and and
052this morning's we're doing evacuation drill high. All the schools are going to be doing, we always observe them to give input and feedback, but it's also George took a good step in them for their specific observations and then bring that back to the group. And a lot of times we miss a lot of that because everybody's got to go back to the class or whatever it is. It's time he held everybody together got the information and they put it all together and sent it out already as an email. But I think part of that has been their influence when the train that is gave change that whole mindset that teachers have questions for the student. You guys have a handle on it. most important thing as a school though is safety of the kids you
053know and staff and safety first that's the thing I mean two of my own like drill I want what's best for them so I want best and knowing that you're sending them to school that the schools are going to protect them and that was one of the things that that I won't forget that parent from Florida say and he said it to everyone I trusted in you guys. You guys said that I could trust you and that resonated with me and that freaking gives me the chills every time I I see him and I can still picture him saying that I trust you guys are going to take care of my kids. So seeing my own two kids, I know what he's talking about and it just that's what motivates him and that's what drives
054me to just do what I have to do and I won't stop until where where I want to be or the school is the entire district is on the same page, same sheet of us. So yeah, the board you're invited to attend on October 11th. There's going to be two sessions, one from 9 to noon and then from 1 to 1:30 to 4:30. And I can send you guys the invite if you guys would like to. Highly recommend. Very. Yeah. Very last year when we went we went to one of the security ones and the guy was from north to Spokane where they actually had a shooting type thing up there. Fremont. Freeman. Freeman. Yeah. Freeman. One of the things he was saying was that they learned from that was everything was done over in
055the cell towers and when they started having all this stuff going on it crashed the cell towers. They didn't have any communication with anybody. So police couldn't talk, fire couldn't talk, parents couldn't I mean nobody. And that was one of the things they learned. It's a learning thing that what do you do and how do you fix that in the future? Do you have a different mechanism or whatever? But that was one of the things they learned from that that he brought up to us. Lessons learned. Well, I want to thank both of you. It's a large undertaking to have such a detailed response plan and everybody all hands on deck, right? Everybody on the same page because that's what's going to help make it work within our school systems, but even the community with
056the county and everything. And I love the part that you mentioned about um trying to work on those behavioral um assessments. I was listening to somebody the other day who was sharing that she does wraparound services and you mentioned about vaping, you know, and how that's starting to come up and she's working with a sixth grade student and this mom's basically works, you know, in the nights. So the students by himself when he gets home, etc. And obviously he's gone all day. So there's not a lot of family connection, single parent household and stuff, but the student was bringing babes and selling them. And she ended up finding out, ended up making a connection with the student. They got the support and services they needed. They actually got him into extracurricular activities. And she said
057he was one of the success stories. Ninth grade, he's got like a 3.4, 3.5 GPA. Would be like a 2 something. I can't remember exactly. But um bringing in that component when it's not the critical major type of responses that are needed is also very helpful in ensuring that our students also have opportunity I guess to get services they need that might help prevent some of this too. So I appreciate even that connection. Um, I know your law enforcement background may not always lend to that, but you're cognizant of it and you're making that effort and I think it's going to be very helpful because some of our kids, I think, just need that connection, that support before, you know, like I say, it gets to something else. So, thank you both. Stop the bleed.
058We're going to become trainers this Thursday. And then come to find out that uh legislation says we have to have medical backpacks that have tourniquets and whatnot. And uh I'll share with them that we already took care of that last year. Yeah. Brad okayed me to spend some money and so I got these full tactical uh backpacks with gaues and tourniquets and things like that for every school. So if we ever have an incident, we've got like access to seven tourniquets for seven kids and things of that nature or staff members. So legislation is going to require that. We're already on top of that and we're going to have two trainers to include Cindy the nurse will be a a stop the blink trainer as well. So then we'll be able to train the entire
059district how to use props and tourniquets and things like that. Is that a little more in in depth than just a first aid? Yes, it's a little bit more than your typical first aid. Yes. With talking treating gunshot wounds, stab wounds and things of that nature. But you guys also um learn how to do it with items that aren't technical medical equipment and that's like belts and things of that nature. I mean when it comes to saving someone's life your shoelace, you know, um you might lose the limb because of the pressure, but I'd rather lose a limb than my leg. Yeah. When it comes to that, it's matter of, you know, so we'll be going through that training here Thursday as well. It's just a lot of training and I want to continue to
060go to all these trainings. I just want to immerse myself in everything the latest and greatest trends and whatnot when it comes to safety because I just I'm thirsting for more and I'm sorry that I bug everybody. Hey, you guys want to do that? I just I just Sorry. No, I think it's great. I appreciate what both of you guys do for us. You know, I have grandkids in the district and I'm like you. I want them to be as safe as possible. Thank you. We got a great great program that we can count on. So, thank you guys very much. Welcome. Thank you guys for all your support. Thanks for coming. Yeah. Thanks for coming, guys. See you. All right, Dr. Darwin, you get to follow that up. You stole my thunder. All right,
061so just quickly a recap of we had a busy week last week. We brought in Jeff Utech, who's a actually a worldrenowned trainer. He's been working with governments from the United States to Thailand to the Singapore to all over the place around technology implementation and AI responsiveness and such. And he came in and he did an interesting kickoff where he started talking to all of our certificate staff about the differences in the in the generations, how each generation values specific things and doing at the workforce and then also the technology that's existed for those different generations and how they interact with technology. It was a really a kind of a different spin on it, but I think he set it up perfectly to then lead into this current generation and their use of AI and
062how we can interact with it. And then he went and did breakout SE sessions with the secondary staff and breakout sessions with elementary staff and how they can use AI to make their jobs better to be better differentiated instruction for students. And it was we got a lot of good feedback on it. So he met with principles at the end too and gave us some great tools on how to use it. The principles attended as well. It was a it was a good first day and then then that was Monday. Tuesday they had Jesus with the active threat training. So a little bit more surreal kind of a training. Then Wednesday we did our kickoff. Um Dan did you all proud by standing and delivering for welcome the staff back and appreciate director Stegman for
063being there as well. and I focused on I introduced strategic plan focused on how um being our best self and doing our best work is really our climate culture work in the district and how we're really striving to make sure we meet the needs of individuals and have a strategic plan very much focuses on each kid every day whatever they need. Um so we uh day one I rode two two bus routes, one with Sandra and one with Chad. Two very different styles of drivers, two of our more veteran drivers. Um, but both really resonated the importance of that first smiley face. Kids see it in the morning because probably one of our bus drivers and each of them been with a hand handshake high five or a hug. You know, they're super excited to
064see the kids and the kids know they're welcome to love when they get on our buses. So, it was really heartwarming. It'll be probably the last year we have Chad because he lives in Yakimon. Just got married last weekend and so yeah, he'll be heading back up that way this after this year. then visited every school all day long that day and I have been in them since and so great first week of school. We're in phase two of the executive plan executive strategic plan where we're actually going to start um putting into practice and Jesus I mean sorry got Jesus be your mouse on the brand Jose um and I met with the crew today and Jose is kind of spearheading doing the internal implementation of this this plan where he's assigned five um
065five heads to kind of oversee each of our five priorities and they're going to start mobilizing this work internally and then I'm in the process of getting together all our faith-based partners and our business partners around how can they help us mobilize it externally and support it from the wraparounds. So, we have a contract with the same group that did our strategic plan to help us create big 10-inch window stickers that are going to go in each building that wants to partner with us to be one of our partners around each one of these plans. And so, I'm hoping to launch that meeting at the end of September, beginning of a October if we can get things rolling fast enough and depending on how long it takes for them to get this process going. We'll
066have a big launch with that external bless as well. And then you got to be Betty. We're super excited to have her. As soon as we found out that um out of sight, out of mind. Um Curtis was leaving. Derek immediately said, I think Betty Palmer would be would be interested in coming down. She'd do a fantastic job. And so we were fortunate that he was spot on as she is. She's doing a fantastic job. Just so you're aware of some of the committee things, I have a monthly meeting with the city of Grand View. I'll be meeting with them on 28th. Uh Friday morning, Jose and and I will be meeting at PNW with the rooster wing program. I kind of teased this last week about the the medical opportunity for some of our
067students to do. And then we'll have our coffee with the soups this month because the second is a holiday. We're going to do the AM on the 3rd and the PM on the third also instead of doing it over two days. Um middle school has their open house on the 4th. Smith has open house on the 5th. There's a great admissions redesign and I kind of shared with with you we currently have the great admissions program where our students are automatically accepted into six universities based on certain scores. Well, we're going to we're piloting an automatic funding for that program through central around they're going to automatically qualify for the the college grant. That's as long as you you receive some state um state assistance program. And a lot of our students don't know about
068it. They don't they don't apply. will this will do all the application for them. So basically it's a guaranteed admissions and guaranteed scholarship or grants and so we're doing a listening session with them the 9th and 10th I'd still find out more about that. High school has their open house on the 11th on the 18th and Harry Thompson on the 26th and then we're on October we're one night the way this is already. What questions do you have? Are there any programs like the one through central with um the trade schools and those kind of guys? I mean those places where we could um you know they could get some help with that type of you know I don't know that's a good question Betty I put Betty in contact with Central because you can
069and Betty and Derek weren't aware of this but you can clip classes at Central where you could take a comprehensive exam for like 50 bucks. If you score high enough you earn those credits instead of have to take the class. We're talking about how can we get our students a leg up on some of these credits they can't take in person. But that's a good question for me to have them also dive into about like these opportunities. Central previously hadn't even offered an AA. So they're really expanding their offerings rather than just packaging a BA and above. And so I'll have to ask more about that. I paid four years at Central for my daughter. So come on. Where was this when my daughter was in this? I know. But like Perry, when you get
070out of school, if you go to sign up for that, it could take you two, three years to get in. There was a way that a kid was a sophomore and that was something they were shooting for. Maybe they're able to get on the list to where when they do graduate, they can go straight in and not wait because then they get off on other things. Yeah. They get distracted. Yeah, that's good. So, we'll bring that up to her. And then circling back to the great admissions for CWU um and the other colleges, right, that they're automatically accepted to. Well, right now it's automatically accepted into Central. Only Central. Central's piloting this and there Central um he's trying to beat ASU to take over the world. ASU thinks they could take over the world, but
071I think President President Walbert is trying to give money because he's really thinking outside the box of a lot of stuff. Okay. Yeah. How are we do have the automatic uh admissions program that was our first year last year? Yep. Um did we receive any feedback on that and how many students were accepted? I know you guys were Yeah, I haven't received the data from them yet. They're still compiling it. Yeah. And then I just got contacted by another university. I don't I think it's PLU, but it might be a different one that wants us was also soft starting to offer this not that wasn't part of the original six. So, um I'll get I get a name off top of my head. Yeah. And I guess my only other question is how are we
072getting this information, keep promoting it with families because again large barriers is just getting accepted in the application. Yeah. Second barrier funding, right? Yeah. Um so how do we get this information out there? I know the CT would be amazing to try to branch out to like our tech schools while we have these areas and venues and keep building on them. How do we share this with families so that they can break down those barriers? Yeah. And I think that's well I know that this is all happening at the high school level. with counselors, the high school, they're heavily promoting this with families in their literature and their welcome back information nights. So, if you have a high school student, especially juniors and seniors, you'll start hearing about this really heavily because they start, you
073know, a lot of colleges start accepting students as their juniors. Yeah. So, letting juniors know and also let them know once we get more information and officially launching this pilot for the guaranteed scholarship program, they'll be we'll do a huge promotion on that as well. Awesome. Yeah. Thank you. Because I was just talking to one of our students. I don't mean to go off track, but Enrique, one of the boys that was in our, he was a senior last year and he was on a strategic planning committee. Um, I was talking to him because he was working at Mado down here in the street and I was like, "Hey, what are you doing? What are you going to go do for plans?" He goes, "Well, my I can't go to university because my parents want
074me my parents don't want to sign the FAFSA because there's a fear of signing the government stuff." And so, so he's got my number. So, he and I are going to chat about what we can do to help him get his paperwork finished so he can get into college because he wants to go. Well, there's just that that barrier still exists for him. So, we know that's a big fear out there that we have to overcome. Yeah. Thank you. Anything else? Okay, we're going to move on to the Let's call for a motion to approve the consent agenda. You make a motion to approve the consent agenda. Second. All in favor? I post. Motion carries. Okay, we're going to move to policies and procedures. I know these were sent out to uh everyone. Um like
075to have the following uh list for the first reading. Uh we'll take action on them at the next board meeting, but uh make sure you take a look at them and be prepared for the next board meeting to take action on those. Anybody have any comments or questions on those now? Mr. Shre, this time we'd like to go to recess, the regular board meeting to go into a budget hearing. Sorry, Joseph. I don't think you have to leave. No, no, it's not. You can stay. It's not one of your meetings where everybody has to leave. Yeah, this is a good one. If if we if we have to stay, you do too. Right. So, we suspended that one. We started the next one so I can share. Oh, sorry. And do we quit? Um, you're
076right. You're right. You still record or we stop recording? Oh, no. It says post disabled participating screen. I got you. Do we have to see the footage? No. I would think this needs to be recorded. I would think. Right. Right. But this need to be a separate recording that we can chop it up and we'll let Jesse handle that. Yes. I do. There was one more thing I forgot that I just found out about the end. You do it at the um the board. Yeah. Okay, you have a PowerPoint in front of you. I hand it out earlier. And so in the budget hearing, we're supposed to go over a quick overview of the entire budget. And of course, and what I've done is summarized it down to about 30 slides, which means a few
077slides, but I'll briefly go over it. But we have had digital sessions before this. So u first thing we'll go through is going to be enrollment. And in here, you've seen this this before where 2324 amendment was at um right here the 3349 and we're projecting to be a 3364 for 2425 to be conservative. Uh the real numbers for 2324 we're at 3,426 as an example. And so there the numbers uh the enrollment came in higher higher than budget. Uh but the interesting fact is that the enrollment only grew by five FTEEs from the year before. So, we're conservative on the budget, thank goodness, but we only had an extra five students for the year before. Um, on here, and I'll just go real quick. This is information for you to look at that you
078might would have at your fingertips. And this is actual enrollment from 20 2018 all the way through uh 2324. And then what we projected for enrollment for 2425. Talked about that in the past. This graph here real quick shows shows the actual enrollment. The top line, the blue happens to be what the actual enrollment was for each one of the years, 2019 to 2023 24. And then the budgeted numbers below uh which yes, I always try to budget lower than the actual uh the gap. We like to gap about 25 to 50 students. Um sometime larger, but that's not the intent. It tends to keep it 25 to 50. Um the next So Brad, how do you come up with just crazy talk here, but how do you coming up with dropping as much as
079you as it shows on here student wise? Where do you get where does that come from? So I used the cohort survival method which takes a look at the last five. actually moved down to three years instead of five and it shows trends and uses percentages and it shows where the the grades not so kinder because you have to go back and look at birth rates those types of things for when it comes to kinder but the others what what is the survival rate of somebody moving from first grade to second grade or second movement to third and those percentages are in there and it shows the enrollment continues to decline using those numbers because the elementary is lower and it but it doesn't take into account tight housing developments or a new business coming
080into town potentially or something that that doesn't come into play in how you came up with this model or how this is used. Correct. Correct. Okay, that's that's fine. But if you use that model, I would imagine that we would start to see that trend up if it actually impacted enrollments. Yes. Yes. So, this is a conservative model. But we've actually been since 2018, according to this, we've actually slowly gone pretty much down most of the time. [Music] And most of them have been that's why I have this this chart right here that shows the elementary the top top line that's elementary K5 and it shows the enrollment continue to come down from 2019 20 through 234 23 which then ripples into the middle school and into the high school and the the elementaryaries are
081looking like they're starting to flatline which means they're not necessarily coming back and increasing but they're not decreasing as much as they had in the past. So answer part of your question is that is starting to show some of those trends where the housing developments are coming in whether or not we're having additional students or new students to the district. Time will tell on that side of it. And the black line here is the high school. High school is looking fairly steady. Um given the projections for the next few years and the middle school shows that decline because of smaller class size coming through the elementary school. we discussed earlier how that class is coming through and then eventually that's why the high school app starts to tip off a little bit in 2728 because
082if those new housing developments did not produce additional students you may call it look at that high school would see this trend coming through at the same time lowering and real quick we had talked about this earlier about the staffing I was concerned you know it's my concern as well as your concern what are we doing with this decrease in enrollment How are we doing as far as staffing? Um, again, we've talked about this before. Certain staff this year is decreasing by 8 FTE. And you can see the list there where the pluses and minuses are, positions are increased, decreased. Oh, the whole thing disappeared. Let's get it back. And then on the classified side, there's small little FTE coming and going. Uh, you can take a look at that also. That shows that um
083um the director position increase 21st century, which is a grant. and the new security director which had just visited us here um a little bit ago today. Um and working through the elementary positions and then the middle school had a Europe position. I better leave that mouse alone. That's not working so well. U over here on the certificated side real quick is yes, we had additional ESR positions. Almost all but not all ESR positions were eliminated on the certificate side. Um the two that were continuing to maintain is we had the middle school counselor. We talked about that at our budget sessions and that person was esser but we maintained that position. And the other one was at the ninth grade level there was a esser position up there um doing ninth grade success and
084it was really important to high school to maintain that position and so we did maintain the position and moved it into CTE. So the funding source becomes CTE. Uh quick little uh uh pie charts here talking about showing the revenues and you can see most of the revenues come in from state and general purpose and then most of the expenditures are regular instruction. Then you have support services uh the different breakdown over here on the side. Uh federal stimulus it looks like the same color but it's federal stimulus no longer exists for next year. Um and so that's really compensatory ed. This this maroon that's in here it's compensatory ed. that is not federal stimulus. Um then overall in the budget and please interrupt and ask questions have them. Then revenues here's our local taxes.
085It's 2.1 million. You can see local non- tax general purpose from the state. State special purpose. Special purpose would be any type of grants as well as special ed considered special purpose. Um federal special purpose those are the grants we have that are federal dollars such as title one, title three. All the titles are in there as an example. And then we have from other agency associations that's uh like save the children would be part of this uh this last one associations and other agencies as well as there is a contingency in there of 1 million. So 1 million of that is a contingency in case we receive additional dollars from the state or a grant to be able to have the revenue and then there's another contingency on the other side uh that also
086has the expenditure side. So the two balance out one million on the revenue, one million expenditure um just to be able to keep operations and moving if we do receive additional dollars. We talked about this slide before. So the ro expenditure would be 67,323 of operational expenditures. Uh the summary here showing the beginning fund balance of 9.5 million. The revenues we refer to as 66 million. Um the expenditure that I just mentioned 67.3 million and then operating transfer out 1.1 million. Uh same if you're looking at the board meeting tonight we may or may not actually transfer the full 1.1. We might do a reduced amount but it's in there just in case. And as you all know I've always come before the board and say okay it's time to transfer or it's not time
087to transfer. We have that discussion. Um in here we're required to do a four-year projection. And so you can see 2526 the beginning fund balance which was the ending fund balance on the previous document a 7.1 projected revenues and expenditures. Yeah. Um and it shows the uh projected revenues based upon the um enrollment that we'd have coming in. Most of it's based on most of B the money from the state is based upon enrollment. That is our number one driver. And so that's where most it's and that's what you're basing on based on the trend of the enrollment going down. The income is going to be less but you didn't change how much we're spending. you're showing the same staffing across even though the enrollment for your budget some of the it's on and actually
088the docs you have shows you the staffing going down slightly but because of the cost of living things that are coming through are kind of putting keeping those expenditures high which um yes Dan very very good observation how why would 2728 why would we be better off in the ending than the beginning where we bring in more money um So in 27 and in 2027, uh the anticipation is that it's time to run a levy. So our levy goes all through 2026. And so it's time to run a new levy and um hopefully the levy will come in high enough to leave not leave money on the table from the state. Raise it to at least $150 per thousand. We've talked about before, right? And then you get this additional it may or may not
089be 800,000, but that would have been this year if we would have had at least $150. But I'm sure you're also estimating the state's going to increase their pay to the school district based on a percentage that you increases every year. Like a cost of living increase. Yes. So that keeps going up every year. It does continue to increase. Yes. But not for all the staff on paid out grants. Um say one more. It actually all staff. So I don't I didn't quite hear you check. Well, but the staff that's being paid by a federal grant, you don't get a raise from the state for them. Correct. That's correct. But the staff still receive they still get their raise. We just don't get reimbursed for it. You're absolutely correct. And then here the transfer to
090keep the budget and keep the uh ending fund balance from dropping too fast or or too much um set it back to 600,000. And that can change, you know, see what happens this year for enrollment and those types of things, but projecting out the transfer would be reduced down to 600,000. And then we're required to we're required to present MSOC, which is material, supplies, and operating costs, and to show across the whole board the different programs that are supported by the state. Program 01 is is basic at all the classroom expenditures in 01 for an example unless it's a grant. Uh 02 happens to be the CLC program is is 0203 is a no dropass program a re-engagement that takes place over YBCC and then program 97 is all the support uh districtwide support anywhere
091from from the school board superintendent office HR rounds maintenance custodians is all part of that support and supports those types of things and this shows that overall MSOC Uh oh, I better not be touching. I shouldn't touch a mouse. Oops. So, uh, and here shows that overall the MSCO is provided by the state on the revenue generator. They call it the F203 is revenue generator. Uh, says the total allocation be 4.7 million. Come on mouse, don't mess up on. Okay, so 4.7 million and then all the expenditures are going through are 6.5. to show a difference of a negative 1.8 million and we've had negatives um all the years. So every year we we put the produce this and it has shown those in the past also. So it shows that we're expanding all those
092dollars provided by the state um for MSO and then you have here capital projects um capital projects which is newer also we had listed in there maintenance pool building. Yes, you've already approved with that and the fancy project you've approved. Um, however, you're very much aware they're not able to get permits until September and so they're all showing up in next year's capital projects. Uh, then also the HVAC project part of that is continue through September all the way through it depends if they can finish October 31st or November. And that's that one HVAC project. We also may take a look at some additional ones. We'll take a hard look at how we can provide those provide the HVAC projects and moving forward uh that would not cost quite as much as they have in
093the lot with the first two projects we started with. Uh districtwide paving projects. We've been looking at paving projects throughout the year. Um be like for an example the back of this building where the kitchen used to be. It's dirt back there. possibly do something that the what you where the u um triplex is at where the bus loop used. Well, they still use that bus loop. Take a look at that. We had expanded it years ago with gravel but never came back and paved it and take a look how we would pave that. Might have to put a retaining wall in there and those types of things uh as one of the projects. Now portable contingency just in case we'd have to purchase additional portables is in here. and then miscellaneous projects and purchases
094um as a line item and that takes care of the projects as well as if there's additional purchases of property we might want to acquire. And then the leaseold tax which is a small dollar amount but it is in here uh it's required on the property we have out the Wilson Highway property. Um Long and Suns they they pay for the lease but then we're also supposed to pay this tax to the state. Um we do tax them and it's a pass through. So it just shows up in here as as another expenditure. Again, the number is estimated beginning fund balance at 5 5.9 million. Um federal that's from that escer finishing up what's going to happen in September for the HVAC project and then other financing sources would be a million if in fact
095if we transfer transfer the million dollars in next fiscal year and total expenses of 4.2 2 million uh estimated 3.2 at the end. Um and again, here's a three-year projection looking at expenditures moving forward and the transfer of a half million because we had it in the general fund to transfer them. So, it would show up in here, which may or may not happen, but I have to project that saying, okay, this is what we're thinking. That's our best thinking at the moment. Um and then expenditures are moving forward. I would slow down 725,000 525 525 and of course have to let you know that any of these four year projections they can change as more information is provided things we find out that we need to work on the numbers could change in those
096next two years. Um debt service this is this is to pay the bonds we have two bonds for the high school they're both high school bonds and to pay those two bonds we have a beginning amounts 1.2 revenues at 2.8 8 expenditures for paying the bonds is 2.8 million to pay the bonds this next fiscal year. Down below you can see the assessment in the budget is assessing uh 2.9 million and that works out to $166 per thousand of assessed value projecting that and that's just to make the payments. Like I said um again when we sold this to the v voters when they voted on it it was voted to be $3.65 per thousand. So we've done very well as assessed values have gone up that's really helped to lower that and spread it
097out especially the new housing developments that are going in as well as other um developments that are happening throughout I know you're veryware very much aware there were also a couple of hops facilities that were built and that's helping also on the taxes on and spreading out those payments where we can't go in and raise what we charge on that to make a little money out of that, can we? We have to do whatever that works out to. We can't decide to go in there and instead of charging $166, charge $180. Um, yes. However, the limitations that are so on the board, the limitations happen to be that the reserve as of as of December 31st. We're not supposed to have more than about two to 5%. As we start to move down and so
098that's that's where the limitation of the ceiling is. Now, we're above that at this moment in time where we're starting to bring it down. We also don't want to have uh the debt payments continue to incline. Every once they spike a little bit, but we don't want to have the assessed values spike. I know I jumped a whole bunch of you know you don't want to have assess a lower number. I'm going to go the opposite direction. If it says 2.8 and all a sudden, hey, we've got it down. Oh, now we have to go from 2.8 and assess 3.3 3 million and go that's a big tax increase. Um but to really answer your question, I'm sorry went off is we we're not able to assess um more than we need and we would
099have to leave that money in that debt service fund anyway, right? And that doesn't accomplish what I was I should start asking about for a levy we can we can control those funds right for the bond it goes debt service we can't okay and when the voters approve the bonds they also approve for us to assess whatever it takes to pay those bonds. So in the budget you're approving this 2.9 million and that's what I'll give to the county assessor to assess. Okay. And then the four-year projection in here are the number one is just looking at the debt payments. Here are the debt payments coming across 2.8 2.896 2.934. So they're trying to be steady. There have been years that they do spike and I don't there's not one in the next uh 3
100to four years but they do periodically spike. When I say spike these are going up about 40,000 a year. There might be one that goes there is one that goes up about 60. So, any questions on head service? I didn't have my volume on. Otherwise, you heard the bus screech. Bus didn't break check. Break check. Break check. Well, let me see here. Yeah, we did. We did fire. That bus driver didn't break check you this morning. No, they checked. They uh give me a line. Okay, let's move on. But you did a good job playing corners though really fast and slam into the wall. Um so on the transation vehicle fund which is buying for buying yellow school buses and the only yellow school buses we'll begin to fund out of 9 million 900,000 921,000
101revenues at 223,000 next year. the transfer, the $100,000 if we transfer. The total expenditure is 1.3. That's just building capacity to pay for the one bus that's going to show up here in September since it hasn't shown up yet. The one with their condition we ordered two years ago and then ordering probably two buses this next year. We're looking at two buses to order again to keep ordering buses having to come in and take a look at if all of a sudden um we're able to acquire a grant for electric buses, we definitely would bring back to the board to discuss it. Uh but if we can have a grant that would pay most of the the fees on electric bus, it' probably be nice to finally get into that market um given that in
1022000 is it 2030 we're required to have electric buses. Um if that's that's still six years down the road legislature may change what that what the law is and that may change. So we could take a look at them and hopefully they've developed and developed the batteries, those types of things for these electric buses to come along and and also allow us to put in and some of the buses have um fuel fired heaters in them because electric bus is enough, but they wouldn't let us know. Some of the grants say electric only and that's all you can have, but we'll need to have some heat in the bus. Throw coats in with the the bus blanket for that. That'd be good. stats. Jeez. So, and again the four-year projection here is showing the estimate
103getting of in 2526. If we actually spend all the money, it would be 44,000. Um, if we do not, that number would be greater. And then moving forward, we expect the depreciation coming in, which is the money of the revenues. And the revenues we have for transportation vehicle is the depreciation of the state. That's where the revenue comes from. And ASV ASV here up on the top left. I thought I'd show really quick show at least one of the buildings. There is a contingency in here. So one of the buildings uh and one of the groups maybe the high school decide they're going to have a huge fundraiser. They didn't anticipate there is contingency. So they can actually exceed it by about well not the one group but we have 30,000 buildings for contingency for
104the revenue and expenditure side. Um the elementaryaries the reason elementaryaries do not have much to begin with or even zero at the end. The only fundraiser that goes through the elementary this time happens to be the um the book fair they have. Um the other fundraisers they do they do them all with inside the general fund. And the reason inside the general fund real quick is because the general fund allows them to spend on everything that ASB does and more. So in other words, uh, in the years ago, they were using their ASB funds that were raising to have they are reading goals and they give them award them some type of an award, right, for the reading goal. And that's not you cannot legally do that in ASB, but general fund you can. So
105we moved them all in there. They still do what they want. It just sits in a different fund. And the middle school and high school for the most part since they have full-blown ASBs, most everything runs through their ASB if it is if if it is in fact ASB. And I put down there real quick summary for what the high school, you know, they have general, they have athletics, classes, clubs, and trusts. All these numbers in here, the 10,00 2 3 4 6 those are numbers assigned by uh that we receive from the state. The state gives us guidance says this is the categories they should be in. And so those are not numbers that we necessarily assign. the generic ones in the top tier temporary state and that's how they categorize us. So again,
106the estimated beginning in fund mal 201,000 revenue 610 621,000 expenditures for net income fun,000 and Heather does a great job. Heather Rich, she's the one that works with each one of the ASBs goes off the middle school high school and has it has all the clubs and and show turn in what they were going to spend the next year. Here's our fundraisers. Here's what's the fundraiser and here's our expenditures. And so at the high school, level middle school, they could do it through and do all those pieces. and at the elementary just works with the principal saying okay here's what we anticipate you'll do in your book fairs didn't want to forget and give credit for Heather does a really good job and and the rest of the budget here I should uh before I
107finish here make sure give credit to my entire staff that all required uh to put everything together all of them and it's it's pretty time intensive for them to go through and put these things together and then here's the rest of ASB for the next three years. Any any questions? Great job, Brad. And Gene, I'm just going to leave this up here because when I get ready to approve, but I've got one more slide to to just show one slide from the budget with the budget here. Are we done with the budget hearing? I am moving back to questions. Yeah. Any questions? If not, we'll move back to the general meeting. Okay. No questions. Thank you, Brad. And thank you to your staff as well. Yes. Thank you. Good job, Brad. Okay. So, now we're
108back to the regular meeting. We'll move on to uh new business. like to call for a motion to approve resolution one scheduling schoolboard meetings for the 2024 2025 school year. Move to approve resolution one. I second it. All those in favor? I opposed. Motion carries. Uh the next thing we have uh Mr. Mr. Shre, can you please review this uh interlocal agreement with us uh with between Proser and us? Uh yes, we have a u the girls swim team and we do not have a pool that has water at this time and so we have anal agreement that's before you to approve that we can use the the pool facilities if possible. And this is just renewing an agreement we do every year anyway, right? Yes. I make a motion to approve. Second. All in
109favor? I opposed. Motion carries. Uh, next I'd like to call for a motion to approve resolution two, matter of fixing and adopting the 2024 2025 fiscal budget. I make a motion to approve. I second. All in favor? I opposed. Motion carries. Next, Mr. Shre Mr. Sh, can you uh um I've lost the right word. Oh, the bids for the um fuel. Uh yes, we put bids out there in the month of August and received two back in. We worked with uh three local distributors. Um RA Smith distributing uh Blouse, which is now Valley Wide and R Pal, which is Christensen. Um, two bids came in and the two bids that came in happened to be from Valleywide and then from Christensen. Uh, Valley Wide's bid came in at 14 cents above rack and Christensen was
11015 cents. So, I'm recommending we approve the bid from Valleywide. And a little bit of history is we did this three years ago. Um, and we just continue to award it to Christensen again because we could do that for um for two additional years. So, this contract also has in it uh and the bid opening had in it that we could have ordered for two additional years as we take a look at how things worked out this year. So, I'm recommending that valleywide um and that's where the buses currently are fueling up is at Valleywide even though Christensen has the bid. They have contracted with them or something like that, right? Or they they have an agreement. Yeah. So, I call for a motion to approve the fuel bid recommendation as presented. Make a motion
111to approve. Second. All in favor? I oppos. Motion carries. Okay. I'd like to call for a motion to approve resolution three, matter of transferring funds from the general fund to the capital projects fund. $500,000. Just $500,000 at this time. Yes. I make a motion to approve resolution three. I second. All in favor? I opposed. Motion carries. Finally, we're gonna give to Josie. I want to say thank you to the board for approving all those resolutions and budget. Thank you very much. Thank you. I know we give you a hard time, Brad, but you do a great job for us. You're the best. Thanks, Brad. Brad's office has asked that we hand sign a couple documents before you leave today. I guess you pass them around. Yeah, just pass them around. One was the uh one
112is the transfer. Correct. This one is the the transfer transfer fun right away tomorrow morning. This one's just you. This is for the inter. They have deadlines. We want to make sure you don't miss a deadline. This electronic ones don't make a back in time. What was the second one there was? It was just for Rob for the proer intera. Thank you, Jean. Thank you. So, we'll need to stop that as soon as soon as Brad shows the other slide. Yeah, Brad's got the other slide, but they already passed it. So, yeah, you don't need to woo us anymore. It was just a summary.