001You know me. Okay, sir. Right here. You're in charge. I aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for it stands one nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Good job. And we're gonna look at that lady right there. And we're gonna smile big. Right. One, two, three. Oh, awesome. One, two, three. Great job. Awesome. Thank you. Oh, you want to take another one? Take one more card. We're gonna come right over here. [Music] Are we good to go? Bye bye. Bye. Thank you. Uh, I'd like to uh call for a motion to approve the October 8th, 2024 regular board meeting. Make a motion to approve. A second. All in favor? Opposed? Motion carries. Okay. We actually have two changes to the uh um agenda tonight.
002There'll be two different ones I'm going to read and we're going to have to make a motion to vote on them. I'd like to call for a motion to add an executive session to evaluate the qualifications and an of an applicant for public employment or to review the performance of a public employee at the end of this meeting for 15 minutes with no action to follow. I'd like to make a motion to evaluate qualifications of an applicant or public employee or public employment or to review the performance of the public employee for 15 minutes with no action to follow. I second. All in favor? I opposed. Motion carries. I'd like to call for a motion to add an executive session to re to review negotiation on the performance of publicly bid contracts when public knowledge
003regarding such consideration would cause a likelihood of increased cost at the end of the meeting for 15 minutes with no action to follow. I move to approve. Second. Second. All in favor? I. Motion carries. We will do that at later on in the meeting. Any public comment? No public comment. All right, presentations. We're going to do cultivating kindness. You're in charge now. Thank you so much. Good seeing everybody. Thank you for being here. Another year of cultivating kindness and making sure that our employees know how valued they are. First, we have Smith from Smith Elementary, Miss Bites. Hi. Come up, Miss. This was from Fantasy Roman, a student, I believe. Oh, excuse me. I'm sorry. She's a parent. Excuse me. Pardon me. What she wrote here. So, I'm going to give you the certificate. We
004ran out of the flexi glass. We're going to be using this wood. Excuse me. I'm sorry. So, this is the award that our um CTE students and Mr. Grant produced and this is what Miss uh Miss Fantasy Rowan said about you. Miss Bonitas deserves this award because she's an amazing teacher and not just any teacher. She works with uh she works with children that need extra attention and support in school. She works with children in the special education program who need IEPs met. I have seen drastic changes with my son thanks to her and her amazing work as an educator. She is organized, patient, professional, and caring. Her job is not easy, and she's doing an amazing job and deserves to be recognized for it. Now, you got to get a picture of her crying.
005Sure. Thank you for being kind. Next we have um Miss Lupita Saliza. Okay. You're from Mccclure Elementary. Yes. And um this was from Evelyn Sanchez. This is from a parent and she said, "My daughter has had Miss Saliza in fourth grade two years ago." My daughter's academics grew substantially. This was due to Miss Saliza's hard work and dedication. Miss Saliza believed in my daughter's capability to succeed fourth grade and left an everlasting impression on my daughter's academic success. I will forever be thankful to Miss Ciza for her impact. And she could not be here tonight. So she wanted me to tell you that I would love for Miss Ciza to know that that was me referring to my body, my daughter Jazar. You know who that is. Wonderful. Thank you so much for cultivating kindness.
006Thank you. Next we have um Miss Claire Humpton. Wonderful. This is for you, Miss Hunter. You were written uh and nominated by a student that this is what she had to say. Her name is Katie Rose Bates and she said, "Whenever I am sad or down, she notices, "When my dad died and my grandma died, she went out of her way and bought me a present. A good, well, sorry for your loss kind of present. A lot of people around me, including teachers, ignore the fact that my dad died and treated it like it was nothing." But she didn't. She's been there with me since my freshman year, and I can't imagine going out without her. Thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you all. This was a tough month for this. Tell you what,
007great submissions. So, next we'll move on to Dr. Darling uh give us his report. All right. So, um good evening board. A couple of the news items that I wanted to make sure we talked about. Um a huge thank you. As you know, we've had um Wi-Fi connectivity issues for the last 15 days, not that we've been counting. And we wanted to make sure that we thanked the YBC campus and the Grand View Library for making space for our staff. I was over there using it. I saw many of our staff members using it. They had offered us office space or conference rooms. Really been over backwards to help accommodate us. So, make sure and even extra mile was letting staff come use their their location during the daytime. So, it was really super helpful
008during that time. And then I grammatically put even huger thank you to the tech team because um you probably saw them here 24 hours a day sometimes. They were working all over the place. Um despite some injuries like Ernesto might may or may not have fallen through a table in the process. Um yeah they those guys were working really really hard and so we owe them a huge thank you too. And I even especially keep thinking to the staff who would show up and bring them lunch and dinner and breakfast and donuts. And they said if they knew it was like this, they'd unplug the Wi-Fi. Some of the upcoming events we have this Thursday, we have our superintendent student advisory council meeting at the in the library. We'll probably starting closer to 7:30. So
009if you're around, feel free to drop by. There's going to be a ribbon cutting ceremony that same day at 10 a.m. at the at the new playground, the all-inclusive playground over there, HT. Um, and for those of you who want to attend, we have the the ample and equitable funding for every Washington child. Um, some symposiums can be happen at Davis High School on the 24th in the evening from 6:00 to 8. And so, um, we've already paid for the district, so anybody who wants to attend, you can you don't need to register, you can just show up. And then on the 30th, we are doing our citywide emergency response activity. That'll be at the district learning center from 8 am to 2 pm. That's where we have YSO, YPD, GPD, um emergency management from
010Yakima County, all kinds of people will be there. The 30th at what time? 30th from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. And so we're doing like a um a mock emergency and so you can drop in and out at any time. We're kind of walking through that process. That's a training that they've done down at the middle school. same same one that they did when they brought in No, that was through GSD 105 or no I'm sorry they'll be there as well but um emergency management from Yakima and Lupe will be running. Okay. Yeah. What time did you say that started? 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Yeah. Is this one where they do the simulation? Yeah. But not like we're not assigning people to show like fake injuries or that type of thing. Everybody just kind
011of sits around and talks about how they would handle different scenarios and such. So it won't be filled with actors. But that'll be the next step after this. The 30th from 8 to 2. Yep. Yeah. And then um next Monday, well then November 4th and 5th will be coffee with the soup. And so if you want to swing by at 8 am on Monday or 4:30 p.m. on Tuesday and we have an update from WASA and I I mean from WASA, sorry. And I actually um asked Heather Curl from Wazda to be on here. So Heather, if you want to um show us your camera, you won't be able to see us because we don't have a camera set up, but um can we give us a microphone check so we can hear you? Okay.
012Can you hear me? Okay. We can't. Okay. Just one second. Okay, we need to turn our volume up. Can you hear? Just We can't hear you yet. So, hold on. Okay. Nope, that's not it. You have any idea what it is, Brad? It's usually one of the audio ones there where you're back at. Yeah. What's the first one? What's the one that says off? That's the spatial sounds. And then questiona left me. Is there mic? Let's see. Is there a machine button? Do you have a pen and paper? She can write it down. Hold up. Does she know sign language? Can you hear us? She can. I can hear you. Is there a remote? Over there on the far left. audio. That's her being over here. Uh oh. And it's not that mic at the
013bottom. That's us. Right there. Yeah, that's our microphone. [Music] Wi-Fi. Open that box in the right hand bottom corner of the settings. sound. Should I try again? Mono auto. We should be able to hear it. No, it's nice. She joined. Yeah, we don't want to hear what she has to say, but we can get to it. We need another 24 hours with it in here. Yeah, we do. I don't think this is going to work. Um, it's probably not picking it up. Can she call in maybe to the phone? Yeah. So, Heather, why don't you left on the microphone? Sometimes it'll allow you to do I know you said that that was us, but sometimes it allows you to pick a speaker as well. Heather, can you can we hear you? Can you hear me
014now? Not yet. So, why don't you go ahead and over here. We can't get any volume on the We have help coming computer. I'm okay with that. Right. I I agree. Plug and play. But there'll be 30 seconds. He's still here. Might turn stuff on. If it doesn't work, I can test the microphone, but I don't. I see. Yeah. So, it's not showing the option for the TV. He'll be here in a minute. Yeah. Click. Click. There you go. Yeah, it's all working. Good. You can hear us. That's good. Is it? Yeah. Think the 24th? Yep. Yeah, we have three things the 24th. You can sound that for some reason. What about the remote control? We didn't try that, do we? She did. She did. Here's the Here's the mouse. We're really broke at this.
015can't fix it. So if that works off and back on, that works a lot for me. The other thing that works is you just throw it away and buy a new one. That's when you find out all you need is Yeah. Give us 30 seconds. That might be our next option. You can call my cell phone. We'll be able to see her on there and listen to her on here. It's probably our best. So minimize the screen. Let's see if the other speakers are working up on the top. And in the TV valuable see TV settings. Hit that TV mode. Is it on all the way? I think the promotes are Okay, Heather, why don't you go ahead and call my cell phone? Does it have the buttons just on the TV where you can
016turn it up and down? So, you know your she know your number. Yeah. Okay. We had it all planned out. Everything was going to work perfectly until got the way. Okay. Leaving the Zoom to call us. Okay. Now you got to see your face though. Should have brought my AAA batteries. We have some in our mouse. Oh, it's all right. We have you in here and you're on speaker. Go ahead. Okay. Sorry about that technical difficulty. Can you hear me? Okay. Yes. Yes. Wonderful. Um, so you know who I look what I look like. I think you saw my face, but here's my voice. Um I'm from WASDA the Washington School Association um that supports school board members and we have every year a competition of for um where boards submit applications to be considered
017for a board of distinction for that year. Um so I'm happy to report first that Gran View was selected to be a board of distinction. Furthermore, we uh recognize three boards throughout the state at three different levels. small district, medium district, and large. And I'm so excited to share that Grand View has been selected to be the board of the year uh for the medium-sized district. So, congratulations the positive energy um and stories that surfaced that really aligns with what we learned about you from your application. And we're so excited to honor the board of the year uh during the annual conference during the Friday general session. Um and you'll also be recognized during the Thursday president's dinner just as one of the boards of distinction. So congratulations all around. Thank you very much. Wow.
018So there's more. No, now you're gonna be all movie stars. What's the criteria? I'd say true. There'll be a video made about the work that you shared um that WASTA will show during the um during that Friday session. So um yay. Congrats. Yeah. And I I actually have a copy of what was submitted um to to nominate you all. So I'll share that with you and you can read read through it later. Thank you, Rob. All right. Thank you, Heather. Thank you. Thank you. Me too very much. Wow, that's cool. Yeah, I found out about it five hours ago. Well, I I mean I did a nomination uh in August. Um and so so I I recognize the work that you're all doing around the strategic plan around supporting dual language and around being supporting
019inclusionary practices especially for like our students as special education students. So there's a series of questions that they asked and I had to upload information and data to support some of it. And so, um, just so you're aware, a small the medium-sized districts, anybody between 2,000 and 9,000. And so, that's probably about 70% of the districts in Washington state fit within the mediumsized school district. Um, so it's a pretty big tip in your a notch in your cap for all you. So, so should we be going when they present this? Well, Friday, Thursday night, they'll announce all the boards of distinction and then Friday during the lunchon is when they will have the three districts um that who are nominated who who win be recognized and they'll show the video on the screen. So, it
020might not be a bad idea to go up for the lunchon on Friday to be there for that part. When are you going? Your thing is Saturday. Our thing is Friday also. Oh, your thing is Friday also. Yeah. November. And so, so the lunchon is at noon, I believe, or 11:30. And then we're presenting at 3:30 or 3:15, I think. And so, so if if you all want to go up early, we can ride together and take the students early, or you all can go by yourselves and I can bring the girls um later on so they don't have to miss the whole day of school, however we want to coordinate that. We have some time to figure that out. Okay. But even if there's one or two of you, she said you don't even
021have to be there at all because they're going to show your pictures and the video about the district and stuff on the screen after they announce it. But they will ask if you're in the audience to stand and people will will clap for you. So, what's the date? Uh, November 22nd will be the lunchon, the the Friday lunchon when they announce the winners of the um the board of the year. Yeah. Cool. Wow. I think we should be there. Yeah. Yeah. So, Thursday night they do the board of distinction. So, there's probably 20 boards that get recognized for that, I believe. Um maybe maybe less. And They're not going to announce the winners. They don't announce the winners that night. And they also asked that we don't do a big public announcement about this. If
022the word gets out, that's fine. So Amy's going to sit on this until the 22nd at like 12:01. Then she's going to blast this. Um but yeah, since board of the year. Board of the year. Wow. For the mediumsiz districts. Awesome. And distinction, right? Board of So distinction. And then from the board of distinction, they elect a board of the year from all the board of distinction award winners. And so so if we're going to and I would encourage us all to go up for the lunchon and since we're presenting our district or Rob is and actually us any of us that want to we probably ought to go up to this lunchon and then hang around and be there for the presentation. Yeah. For our presentation. We're actually Rob's actually presenting on our process
023for our strategic plan. Yeah. Aren't you Aren't you going? So, the two go there. The two of those two have like speaking parts, but anybody else wants to But I would gladly give mine up to anybody that wants to Well, you are you speaking at the thing at three? He'll be speaking little bit. Hell, that's worth going just for that. Um, if I don't go to the lunchon with the students, I'd probably leave around 11:30. What time are the students leaving to get up there? They would go with us and go up there. So, I'd be driving them up. But if we go up for the lunch, probably have to leave about 8. Yeah. Yeah. So, I I probably would skip the lunchon because I don't want the girls have to miss the whole day
024of school. I see. And so, and if it's just me taking them up, then Aaron said she'll come with me. And so, that way there's two adults and the girls by themselves. And so, so I I leave here around 11 if we want to go to the lunchon. Do we need to we just show? I tell Heather. Yeah. And she would make us she'd have a table for you. Yeah. You don't need to pay anything. And the presentation's at 3. the Yep. Our session's at three. I think 3:15 to 4:15. And what time does it end? Do you know? It's an hour. Oh, yeah. Okay. Yep. And so, and we're doing it from the the our process of the teaching plan to the perspective of a board member versus a superintendent and students. So, the
025students are going to do quite a bit of talking, too. That's neat. Yeah. After that, the session will probably be packed knowing they can go to an award-winning board. When When is Rick's thing that he sent out to us? What day was that? His session. remember he sent us a thing an email I just saw that yeah he's doing him and someone else are doing something kind of like our new deal we're doing is at 10:45 to noon on Saturday the 25th so it's on Saturday Saturday session and then um and I also included this a little bit more information about the funding thing at um there's gonna be three basically three keynote speakers that are going to be there this is when we've talked about this from from the wasa from thea perspective was
026like this is really great with reform. First, we need to stop the bleeding and then we can work on reform. So, this is like a 2026 2027 kind of initiative. This is just kind of greasing those skids for that. Is anybody going to that? Brad and I are going. Are you going? Yeah. Yeah. So, cool. We just want to go and see a new auditorium and I'm sure all the pictures are really nice. And that's that's my superintendent report. Congratulations. Awesome. Thank you. Okay. So, we'll move to the consent agenda. Like call for a motion for the consent agenda. Move to approve. Second. All in favor? Opposed? Motion carries. Go to uh new business. Like to call for a motion to approve the McLar uh school improvement plan. We'll make a motion to approve the
027McLar School improvement plan. A second. Favor. I post. Motion carries. like to move to resolution five. Mr. Shre, would you please review resolution five with the board? Yes, I will. Mr. Board President, um, this resolution here is doing three things. The first thing is I'm reaffirming the levy, which was already approved in the budget of 2.3 million for 2025. It's also assessing to pay our bonds uh 2,95,000 which is also already in the budget already approved by you. And the third thing that's in here is received a letter from um it was Benton County, Yakimma County. This one is actually Yakma that came in and they had an adjustment to the uh to the levy amount. They call it a refund levy of 31,000. you're approving to recover those those um assessments that were missed
028out on. So that's really the reason for the whole memo is is 31,000 pieces. Any other questions or comments on that? Make a motion to approve. Make a motion to approve. Second. Second. All in favor? I opposed. Motion carries. So, we will go from the board real quick. Um, I just went up to the with about a hundred of our CTE students to a last Tuesday to a uh uh college and career fair at Sundome. I I enjoy doing that. I have I don't know very many of the kids anymore and anytime I get a chance to interact with them, I really like that. Awesome. Awesome. Okay. So, this time we're going to go into executive. Is it going to be two separate ones? We'll do one then get out of it and then do
029the next one. Need to do signatures. Afterwards. Okay. Is that right or now? She's going to take off. Oh, we can do them now. Oh, not a problem. So you should have put a line item signatures first and put it in bold red and not miss any of the like. Does anybody need a pen? There's a whole bunch of them right here. If you need one Oh, here you can have that one. There's only two signatures front and back and everything. That was many. Oh, my pants starting to die. Next. Okay. It's funny because I ran into Josie this last week and she said, "Oh, I have a little bit of an update. Not really much." Two executive sessions.