001Okay, the time is 6:01 and we are beginning the June 25th Granite School Board regularly scheduled meeting. Uh, please rise and join me in the pledge of allegiance. 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. Okay, thank you. And I will turn it over to Superintendent Geon for the land acknowledgement. Thank you, Director Moo. We honor the first peoples of these lands by acknowledging that the area in which we gather is within the traditional territory of the still gamish tribe of Indians. The still gamish people have inhabited these lands and waters since time in memorial and their descendants have remained in this territory to this day. The Still Gamish people have continued
002to practice the traditional ways of their ancestors of fishing, hunting, and gathering. The Silgomish tribe has had these lands and cultural traditions passed on to them by their ancestors who believe that everything has a spirit and that they are the caretakers of these lands and waters. Yeah. Thank you. Okay. And then in attendance tonight we have Director Dayne, Director Kincaid, Director Kerry, myself, Director Leoo, and then Superintendent Eastland. Um like to make a motion that we excuse Director Goer tonight. Second. The motion's been made and seconded. All in favor? Hi. Hi. Okay. Next, we will go to uh board comments. We'll start down. Uh Director Dane, any comments? Sure. Um well, an amazing event. The the the graduation that we had um at the high school and here at Crossroads. Um real positive. Uh, and
003one of the best parts of being on the board is being able to attend those, being able to congratulate our um, students for their achievements. And it it was just great. And I think that staff did an amazing job of setting it all up. So, you know, my thanks go out to everybody. Looking forward to getting some stuff moving for the next school year. Um, pretty excited about the upcoming school year. So, great. Uh, director can concede comments and community report. Um, not a lot to report as far as the community goes right now. Everybody's just enjoying summer and doing all the summer things, the farmers market and all that kind of fun stuff. Um, and just kind of same comment. Um, as Director Dane just had a great time at the graduations. It was
004a lot of fun and just happy summer everybody. Thank you. Okay. And then director Carrie and Ledge. Yeah. Um, first off, I want to apologize for miss graduation. Really tough day, really tough traffic and stuff, but um, sad that I wasn't able to celebrate all of those um, wonderful students for their achievements. So, excuse my absence from that. U,, but it was great to be able to participate in the high school graduation. It's it's definitely it's those moments sitting um on stage seeing the products of our system and all of the wonderful things that they're going to do, you know, here, there, and everywhere. And feeling like in a small small way, I was a little piece of that story. I was a little itty bitty piece of helping them get to that point and
005all of the wonderful things they're going to do thereafter. It's it's it it makes everything worth it. So, um it's probably one of the biggest things I'm going to miss one day when I'm not sitting in this chair. Actually, it's definitely going to be the biggest thing I miss. So, um outside of that, just uh legislatively, um obviously the session is over, so there's not a whole lot of stuff going on there. Um, one of the things that, um, I would love to do kind of as I transition, you know, obviously off of the board in January is, um, to keep the fire going on on some of the things I've done and at Olympia. Um, and I'm willing to meet with anyone or some person who wants to kind of do that to introduce
006or whatever data you think is the best idea because there's um I've been able to make some really good connections and stuff and I I think that there is um there's definitely an understanding of the particular challenges that we have here in Granite related to regionalization and um kind of the special things about us and the support that we need and I feel um I feel that there's some positive momentum I I would hate to lose because um people in this community need deserve that and the state needs to step up in a bigger way to support our our students in our community. So, um outside of that, um it's summer. Yay. Excited for summer. Cool. Thank you, Director Kerry. Uh from my side, no real updates from WIAA. Um, from a common perspective, uh,
007yeah, graduations, those are always my favorite time of the year. Um, and this year was actually good. We didn't have rain. It wasn't too crazy hot, unless you were inside the building. Um, but luckily we were outside. Um, it's always always great. I love Crossroads because everybody gets their own their own time. Um, and so that that's great to hear. Um, harder to do at the high school with many many more students. Um, but I will say with the high school, I heard a national anthem that could that could rival good man rival anything at any Seahawks game, any anything. Uh, Super Bowl and that was that was fantastic. And so um highlight I love I love seeing all the students across the stage and I love seeing you know people like that with that
008talent that can just um and the bravery too uh to just go up there and sing in front of I don't know how many people were in the stand but there were quite a few um and so that was that was fantastic. That was a the one of the highlights there for me for sure. Indeed. Yeah. She's she's special. And I gave her when I shook her hand like she's on Tiger Cabinet. She's a leader. She was in our recruitment video for a high school principal. I said, "Is there anything you can't do?" And she just laughed, right? And then she's she's Yeah, she's really special. I shook her head and said, "You don't sing. You sang." That was that was that was the most amazing thing. So, um Okay. So, now we'll move on
009to item 4, superintendent report, presented by Dana Gelin. All right. Um a few things tonight. Maria Loi was going to try to make it um to meet the board, but she knew she was finishing up. She was her last day in Edmonds, too. So, she was going to try to get out here. But I did put a slide in. If you could go to that next Oh, do I have you made all the moves during the study session and so now it's like, you know, I'll continue on. So, just just some things about her. really excited to have her start. She came out um a few days and met with staff um just like Mr. Pike did at the high school. She has over 30 years of experience. Um one of the really things we're
010really excited about is um her experience as a senior consultant at the University of Washington. Um you know, she helped write cell 5D instruction is her jam. um and she just really is looking forward to partnering with um with our staff and um and her passion is literacy and baking pies. That's that's going to make us happy on on both accounts. So, we're just really excited to have her here and it's next week so it's going to be exciting. Um today, yesterday I think it was, we actually um got notice from OSPI that we will be having a program review. Um before CO, these were called consolidated program reviews. affectionately referred to as CPR. Um they there's usually a cycle and um the the cycle is usually five years and then COVID hit and a
011lot of these got delayed and so I honestly don't know when the last time that the consolidated program review but now just called program review um was done in granite. Um I have had the pleasure of doing these. I walk into a district, every time I've walked in, it's it's CPR time. And so, and it's it's always that I I was in Canvas for eight years and I did I think I did three of them. Something happened. And then I was in Edmonds for six years and I did two of them. so very familiar with this process and I am so grateful for all of the work from so many staff members and um and thinking about special education and and multilingual learners and the CTE work we've done this year because we've really unearthed
012a lot of things and cleaned a lot of things up and that will be critical in this review. So the timing couldn't be better. So while it's a lot of work, um the intent is to make sure that we're you know dotting all our eyes and crossing all our tees and doing things and spending funds as they are intended. Um couple of slides on this. So the purpose is to ensure the compliance of course with state and federal regulations and that we're using using monies um as they're intended. Um it's about equitable and and services and opportunities um for our kids and and they also provide some technical assistance. um they aren't doing they used to do these on-site. Now it sounds like we're going to give them all the documentation and then um we'll
013have you know some meetings with them virtually and then they'll give us some guidance. Think of it like an audit of your programs of all of your programs. Um they will let us know exactly what programs they are in a sense looking at and so we'll we'll focus on those. Um, it is a self assessment in a way because you're providing like you're you're you're finding the documents and you're showing that you give a home language survey every time someone registers and they mark that English isn't the first language or their home language. It's like all of those kind of checks and balances to make sure the services um are as they should be. Um, next slide is just a continuation of this. The areas commonly reviewed are around equity and civil rights. Um academic
014supports like supports for our English language learners which we call our multilingual learners. Uh the fiscal management um especially around title one that is is one that gets um scrutinized. um CTE will have a significant portion that will be reviewed and then our ML program title one CTE that they'll they'll dive into each of those programs and um they will look I think about the CTE WA was review and all the work we've done to to make sure that we're doing that as it's intended and um I think that is going to be great because we have the things that we need to have to give to them and and and show why we're doing what we're doing. Um it is about some transparency and that accountability, but it's all about kids and learning. Um
015so we welcome it. We will be attending a they have a few webinars. Um we'll be attending one in August. Um most the people in this room are already on that invite and so we'll go to that and learn exactly what we're going to do and then we'll just wait for their steps. But I wanted the board to be aware of that. Um thank you Marshall Cruz for the pictures here. So a couple of things, some maintenance, safety, and security updates. You know, summer's a time that you do some walkthroughs of all buildings and grounds and see what needs attention. Um, some ADA considerations in all of our buildings. Um, Granite Falls High School, the sighting repair project is is underway in that they are pressure washing and getting ready to do that. We want
016to make sure that that is that set aside um levy funds that are for capital project specifically earmarked for that. Um, so if you see equipment there and those kind of things, it's it's what the board approved um a couple board meetings ago. And then Mountain Way, um, parking lot repair, we have um, you know, that we had that leak that that that blew, if you will, and it had some issues and we had water on the grounds and we were able to wait till school got out so that we could patch that up. Marshall's been working really hard with insurance um, and and back and forth on that. And I'm going to let him talk just a little bit about it because insurance is going to cover it all but one small piece which
017is actually kind of hilarious. So go ahead, Marshall. Yeah. So what happened was we had a a underground pipe that feeds our fire hydrants burst. It was under our property. So it's our responsibility. It burst with a hole about this big in the pipe. And the best we could diagnose it was just maybe there was a bit of rust on the outside that was just kind of continuing to wear a little bit and then it finally just gave way and it kind of geysered up through the ground. It's about 8 feet underground is where the pipe is. Um our so we we worked with the city. We had to we had to outline where all the power lines were, the water lines, the gas lines, all that stuff. Once we figured all that stuff out,
018the the city could dial down the pressure that they can't turn the pressure off because it's feeding fire hydrants. And so we had to let it continue to leak. Meanwhile, we were getting all the equipment in place and getting ready to do this stuff. I notified the insurance company right off the bat, but they didn't respond very quickly. Um, but we had to get the leak to stop. So, they dug it up. They um found a leak. Once they found a leak, the city turned off the water while they cut the pipe. We have the pipe. It's a section about this big by this big and it weighs I don't know 80 to 100 pounds. It's not easy thing to lift. We have it on site still. We're going to hold on to it until
019all this stuff is done. Has a nice little hole in it. What they do is they um they saw off the enough pipe to install a new section and they have these clamping devices that clamp into the pipe so that it seals perfectly. They then test the pressure. They let it sit there for a while. They actually hook a stethoscope up to the pipe to see if it's shaking at all or if there's any vibration in the pipe. And that's how they know that the seal is complete. Um once they found out the seal was complete, they put a little bit of gravel on it and then they stopped because we need to get approval to keep going forward with our project. There's about 15 There's probably I think it was 15,000 square ft of
020asphalt that is settling because of the water that we're going to replace. Um, well, the insurance company, oddly enough, says, "Yeah, we don't cover a broken pipe, but we cover all the damages incurred from the broken pipe. We cover the access to get to the broken pipe, but the actual replacement of the broken pipe, we're probably not going to cover that." But we had to send them a bunch of documents about why it happened, about the cause, about um our history of maintenance. Like they want to know our history of maintaining a 8ft underground pipe. Oh, you expect inspect the 8ft underground pipe? Never. It's 8t underground. But it was it was actually comical. But the cost of actually repairing the pipe is almost nothing. the cost of we haven't gotten the final bid for
021the cost of repairing the playground uh the asphalt is going to be a pretty significant cost that's going to be covered by insurance so we're going to buy some pipe okay fix it I was honestly it I was thrilled that it wasn't like sewer water right there's all these there's all these wind that was the first thing was like then we wouldn't have been able to have school right once we knew about so all's well that ends well I mean it it was about as good as it could get and we had a water feature at field Hey, get a new parking lot. There you go. Um and so then um the installation of the digital visitor management. Thank you to Dan Scholard. He um held meetings with our admin and with all of our
022secretaries. So that will be on the first at the first of school. That will be how our visitors are badged um with a stateisssued um ID. We talked about that the last meeting a little bit. Um and then there's a some growth in early learning as we get bigger. Um, so we'll have two classrooms that were actually designed to be early learning classrooms over uh on the on the Crossroads side. Um, the toilets are low. There's the toilets in the in the classrooms. And so the additional two classrooms over there and some of our early learning support staff will actually move to the Crossroads office as well. So it's really exciting and Crossroads is excited to have them. Um, and it'll be it'll be great to have our littles on um on both sides of
023of the building. So, um, we will be adding those, but there's some flooring that needs to be laid and, um, some carpet that needs to be torn up. Um, it's better to have hard floors for three and four year olds for obvious reasons. So, we're excited about that. And then lastly, um, upcoming district and community events. This is not an all-inclusive list, but there's a lot going on in the summer. The summer is the time where you um, get some things done in preparation for the school year, of course. Um, we have the Crossroads Open Doors AL program manager interviews coming up. Um, we kind of set a date, but but we'll continue to look at our excuse me, our applicants and um involve our students and staff in the process. Um, we have a
024studentled schoolboard forum tomorrow night at Granite Falls High School. This is a little mock run. It'll be pretty low-key. We have four candidates that are able to make it tomorrow night at 6:00. Um, our students will be running the whole thing. I'll probably kick it off and then there'll be, you know, just a microphone for the candidates and a microphone for our students. We have 13 adviserss to the board for next year. Um, two of our seniors will be kind of facilitators, but all of our students will be asking questions. Some of them are a little nervous, so they're really looking forward to it. Um, but in October, we'll have one before the general election. So, this one will be low-key. It won't be streamed or anything. we'll kind of get, you know, kind of
025the run of the show and then um we'll have the more a little bit a little bigger one um if you will um coming up in October. Um the website is being updated and upgraded. Uh there's been a team that's been working on that all year and that will happen this summer. Um we have a work session that we the board uh will find some dates to to plan for that date in July. Uh we have a regular school board meeting on the 23rd. Uh, national night out will be on the MCE playfields because there will be a helicopter that's joining us and they need to land it there rather than somewhere else downtown. Um, fall sports, we talked a little bit about that study session and some possible of having a popup. Um, so
026some sports physicals can be done on site, but check the school websites for the details dates um for that. And thank you D for all your work getting that going. Um, we have a new certificate of staff orientation. Um, that'll happen at the and I'll ask the board to be um, stopping by and introducing yourselves. We'll give you the dates. I'll have Paris get those dates out to you. The School of Rock, the end of August. Emily super excited to play the piano again. Um, she's not here so I can say that. U, but we will have our School of Rock. More details to come on that. Our first day of school is tentatively planned for September 3rd pending um, successful negotiations and ratification of the GFA contract. And that is what I have for
027you tonight. Do we still have a budget hearing on the 23rd, too? Yes. Is so when's the July board meeting? 23rd. Yeah. Um the budget hearing. It's going to pass. You guys want to have a study session maybe a week before that or just to go over it in more detail than what we usually do at the board meeting? Uh, so like the 16th is what you're thinking. We can we'll find maybe we could do it at the retreat perhaps we could take some time and go in depth if we can back that up a little bit. Um, we could do it there. Yeah. So that we did last year too. I think it is. Yeah. It's kind of bringing up a good idea last year apparently. All right. Any questions? No. All right. Thank
028you. Think so. Okay. Okay, now moving to 4B business report prepared by Marshall Cruz. I just going to give you guys a couple updates because nothing so exciting in there, but um we're on track for the 5% fund balance. I feel I did a new revenue update, not in the board, just yesterday after we got our safety net award just to make sure we're on track. Our the safety net hearing was yesterday and we were conditionally awarded $2 million, a little over $2 million. Um 1.61 61 million in um in high needs and 383,000 in community impact. So, a little over $2 million. Um opportunity for that increase a little bit in the when we resubmit in August because we'll be capturing some services that weren't captured in that. So, there's a possibility for it
029to go up. It will not go down. It should only go and incrementally up. Nothing measurable. But we are on track to hit our 5% fund balance through really two more payrolls left in the in the year. So it's pretty high level of confidence that I think it'll be more like 5.2%. Um so we'll be well over $2 million in fund balance which is something this district has never had in its entire life. Yeah. So no, I mean I will say it's I'm reading it correctly and I'm probably remembering correctly from last year too. We're actually positive this time compared to last year. Last year we were negative. We'll still go negative. Um in this state borrowed a bunch of money from us this month in June. We gave the state a no interest loan
030this month because they short Yeah. That's what we do. We take care of each other. So, they're gonna pay us back in July, but we had to loan them a couple hundred,000 June. It's already our May and June are already our low aortionment months anyway. So, giving up two or $300,000 in June really hurts everybody. Um, but we'll we'll end up negative because July and August are our two biggest revenue months and they're our two lowest expenditure months. So, it's just the way that the revenue formulas for school districts work. Um, it will be better next year because of the change to the special ed rules of funding. We can claim known high cost stateet claims quarterly. So, if we have kids attending out of state um placements, we can we can get reimbursed quarterly
031for that. And we're also, you know, a million dollars of our safety net revenue will be added back into a portionment next year. We will have less safety net we can claim next year, but there'll be the revenue stream will be more fluid rather than all that get it all in August because right now we have to spend two million spend $2.7 million and we get two million back in August which is difficult for any district much less district our size. Any questions, discussion? Thank you, Marshall. Okay. 4C Athletics Activities Annual Report presented by Dave Bianini. Well, just in a nutshell, um I thought athletics um was outstanding this year. I mean, we we made the the playoffs in every sport but three. Uh Dana and I talk every Thursday basically about sports and uh
032yay, we made the playoffs, but in no way is our focus win at all costs and and we've talked a lot about coaching. We've talked a lot about uh student preparation just to get programs to where they need to be because we've in all the successes that we've had in sports and we're in a competitive league for us uh for us because when we go out of the league, we make the playoffs and we see teams like Camas or we see teams like Mount Baker um that shows us where okay, we need um to get a a little bit further along in our training and our commitments and and all of that. So, those are things that I talk with the coaches about. Those are things that Dana and I continually talk about um in
033our Thursday meetings. Go ahead. Next one. So, the next slide, um we are part of the Emerald Sound Conference. Um and again for our sports minus a few of the schools um we are very competitive in in all of our sports. Some of the the unique sports individual type sports like tennis um and we'll talk a little bit more about golf. Um that's where we're at a a really a big disadvantage because if you look on those team lists there, there's Granite Falls High School and there's South Whidby High School. And those are the only two public schools um that are in our league. And when we go um and play other schools, Bear Creek School, we go to play Kings, we go to play East Side Prep, um those kids are at a um
034a much greater advantage in terms of just financial support, the opportunities to have private training, um private coaching since they've been six years old. And so for our group to be competitive in this league, um I think that's a big pat on the back to our coaches, to our kids, their their uh commitment to getting better, trying to get better every single day. And so um again, all of those schools, Sans Kings High School and Cedar Park Christian, we compete with real well. The other two schools, I mean, they're they are on a different level. And when you look at state um rankings, um Cedar Park Christian Kings, they're always in the top five of of the 1A state rankings. And so um it's great to see that type of competition and give our kids,
035hey, this is where we need to be, where we want to be. Um but again, then we are we are always trying to keep up with money and we can't do that at at Grant, but we keep trying. Go ahead. Our fall sports uh cheer. I I don't think our cheer squad gets enough recognition. Um they are at every event in the winter, in the fall. Um our football games, it's pouring down rain. Everybody else has got rain gear on and um they are standing there cheering on their hearts out. You go to a basketball game, they are there. our pep assemblies. Um, a huge huge shout out to our cheer squad. Um, and again I everybody recognizes all the sports and yay they were successful and I don't think um the team, the coach,
036the girls get really recognized for the amount of commitment that they put in all year long. Sports are nine weeks long, not for the cheer team. They're they keep going all year long. Next slide. And and the one thing I really appreciate about our cheer squad and the coach we have, we have a variety of different levels, abilities. She has welcomed um all students at all different levels um to come and and participate in cheer. Um we have kids from our life skills program participating in cheer. We have kids that have participated in cheer for eight years, just like little league stuff. And so, um, for that program to be that, uh, equitable and and accepting of everyone, it it just adds to the to the whole program, um, for our fans and and for
037our kids to be at that same level and participate. Go ahead, Chris. So, our football team, they had a really good season. Uh, they finished seven and three. We made the playoffs. Um, we had 56 kids participate. We had um five kids make all league. Um Garrett Tolen, the one in the middle there, he made all league offensively and defensively. And then Jax Goldmith was an honorable mention. Brandon Davis, uh two-time coach of the year. Um, and then again, just quickly, um, great season and a lot of those kids, all of those kids, minus Garrett, um, will be back next year and and the younger kids that were freshman this year, um, they were pretty talented. So, football's in a good spot to to continue improving and growing and and, uh, certainly appreciate what Brandon
038is doing um, and coaching the staff. Go ahead, soccer team. Um this was um a great turnaround. Um last year we made a change in coaching. Um brought on uh Don and Jesse Mun. Jesse Mun's the head coach. Um, and one of my main goals for Jesse and Don was really create a culture um that the kids really want to be there and grow the program and make it a a positive experience for them and uh really from day one when they introduce themselves to the coaching or to the athletes, they changed that culture and and they did a fantastic job. Um the girls absolutely loved ha having them as coaches and um loved their season and for the 12 seniors that we had that was really um nice to see them go out in
039in that manner where they were proud of themselves. They were happy. Um we have two kids and this is kind a pretty rare thing for Granite Falls to send athletes on to play. We've maybe four or five kids um a year go on and play at the next level. Kayn Miller and Leila Munoz, they're going to go play college soccer. U Kayn is playing at Ever Community College. Ila is playing at Edmonds Community College. Uh couple of them got recognized uh all conference third team. Ellie Tate, um she'll be back next year. And then Kayn Miller, she was our goalie. Um she was also recognized um third team. So, great season for the soccer girls, cross country. Um, this is one of my passions. My kids grew up running cross country. Um, the mindset behind
040a cross country kid. Uh, I'm going to go run five miles a day and I'm at the finish line. I'm going to puke my guts out and then the next sentence is going to say, "Man, that was fun." And, uh, we we've got we got to host a couple big events. Um we hosted the the 1A through 4A U district championships. Um it's a huge event. We had 350 kids out there. Uh Mountain Loop invite that continues to grow. I think we had um 16 schools there for that. Uh Ben Rojos, the the picture on the left there. U he was a state participant uh ran the 5K course over in the Tri Cities at 1715. He made an eight place improvement from last year. Um we'll talk more about him at track. Um he's
041going to go on and run at Everett. Um Shelby Rising, that's not Shelby in the picture, but she also got to experience um her first opportunity at the state meet, too. So, cross country, another uh big shout out to Steve Lance, coach, and uh just really getting those kids uh the kids that don't play football or don't play kind of the sports that everybody else does, getting them involved and giving them that extra opportunity. Five and a half minute miles. That's impressive. Yeah, that's pretty quick. Yeah, this is the team um to watch this year. Um, again, last year we kind of had a bump in the road. Uh, made a change coaching midstream. Um, and and seeing the girls kind of just buy into that change. And we were at a place where, um,
042the day we made the change, oh, we got a game tomorrow, we got a practice today, and what are we going to do? Well, um, we had to bring in the A team and and coach Lance and Coach Geese and they coached um the only loss our girls had. You know what? No, they they filled in for a couple one practice, couple games, one game, I think, and and then we were very fortunate to get u Mark Newman to to coach the team and and again the the girls just instantly bought into his positive outlook, um his his demeanor on the coaching uh floor and and it took a while to kind of for everybody to get to know each other, but man, that was an exciting season. Um they were one game away from
043state uh playing over at Cedar Park Christian in a winner to state game and um all those girls basically are coming back. Uh VO and Curi and Georgia um they were all first team allconerence kids and and Sage B was an honorable mention. All of them are coming back. And then Georgia um right in probably middle of the year towards maybe the the spring she was recognized um as in the class of 2026 one of the watch list kids. So um the the popularity the the little bit of publicity that we're getting um it's coming out here to Granite Falls too. And so this is going to be a special team to watch for sure. Um and I'm excited to to get them going this year. So go ahead. Okay. So, just before I go
044on to the winter sports, um I want to go on the record. We are going to have a fall boys golf team. In no way did the golf team eliminate any curricular um things that we are doing at Granite Falls High School. um because of community donations, business donations, individual people's donations, um donating whether it be equipment or money or time or uh whatever it is, everything for that golf program has been donated. There is no um we're not eliminating any programs. We did not eliminate any teachers. We did not eliminate anything to create the golf program. We had our golf meeting um right out right before school got out. We had 16 um kids come to the meeting and there was three or four families that emailed me the next day that said, "Hey,
045we weren't able to make it because of XYZ." So, um we're looking at having 19 to 20 kids. Again, another opportunity for kids to get involved with um we're not taking away from the football team. There's not football players leaving the football program to come and play uh golf or cross country kids or anything like that. Um the reason we were able to establish a golf team is uh a boys golf team and not and not a girls golf team yet. um we do offer more opportunities for girls to play sports than we do for boys. So, the equity issue, we're still in line with with all the rules and and regulations for that. Uh but but it's just again another opportunity for kids to get involved and whether they've ever swung a club or
046not. Um they're they were excited to be at that meeting. We hired Halen Davis. He's a teacher uh at Crossroads. Um what a resume he brings to the golf program. He played college golf. He was a national champion. Um he coached at Stanwood High School for a number of years and and really just kind of a diamond in the rough in terms of finding him and having be able to coach our our golf team. And really a big shout out to Jim Hfield and Sean McIll. They did a tremendous amount of leg work in in getting this program started um finding golf courses for our kids, finding just whatever was needed. Um those two guys in the community, they jumped on it and and really got things started. So, our winter sports, um, again, you
047saw cheer there, um, every every game, boys basketball, girls basketball, at wrestling matches, and they just continue, uh, to cheer and smile and be positive and get our crowd uh, really excited and jacked up. So, again, big shout out to the cheer. Go ahead, boys basketball. Um, two years ago we graduated a pretty big senior class and everybody thought, "Oh man, we are just going to get killed this year." Um, eight and 13. They were three and three in league. They made it to the playoffs. Uh, they placed second in the Chinook division. U, it's a pretty cool thing really when you when you get awarded the sportsmanship award that's recognized by other teams and and so that's always good to see. Um, couple kids all league. Um Hayden Gutierreza senior he was recognized as
048Emerald Sound MVP um just found out last week um Aaron Nations who was the coach um he did resign took another coaching spot so we will be hiring um a basketball boys basketball coach here in the summer and so that they can kind of get the open gyms going and start going that way. Go ahead. Girls basketball really the same type of thing. had three returners from varsity um the previous year and so everybody thought, "Oh man, this is going to be a rebuilding year." Um but our three seniors, Addy Hfield, Aubrey Bison, and Aya Gil, um they carried the team. They they had great seasons. Um Aubrey Boyce, I know she just got recognized as honorable mention through the league. Um she she had a year um her best year ever in in any
049sport that she played and um she was probably the team's most valuable player. She had a great great season, played any position you wanted her to play. Um again, they made it um all the way through the playoffs, lost in a winner to state game. Um, but again, I'm I'm just I'm not taking away anything from that team. But when you get to that level and you see the opponent we have to play, we also can see, okay, we we've got to do a little more communication, a little more um with the community, little leagues, and and get those programs established so that when they get through middle school and into high school, um we have this theater program because, um going up and playing Lynden, Christian and um Kings and all those schools that
050have this this feeder program, they we can't compete with that. It's great that our girls got that far in the playoffs and the experience and watching them play and and the heartaches of of competition is is great to see. But yeah, we got a little bit of ways to go um before we can compete at the state level. Go ahead. Wrestling. uh huge huge success at our wrestling. Uh Tony Helguson uh he was coach of the year again and and he was kind of he co he's coached for a hundred years here and um he wasn't going to coach this year but then um the coach that we hired he is a military uh guy and he was deployed overseas not able to get back so Tony jumped back in and coached. Um, our girls
051program is growing significantly. Um, this year we had eight girls that stuck it out the whole year, too. And and we had 25 boys. Um, we had eight wrestlers make it to state this year, and that's the most in school history. Um, for those guys that got to go and and girls that got to go, um, it's a great experience to go down to the Math Classic in Tacoma. Um they they have 24 matchs going on and and wrestling going on all day long. And um just for our kids to be a part of that. And um we had Eric Diaz uh Eric Diaz and um Trevor make it uh or Trevor made it the furthest. He was one way, one match away from uh being on the podium. And so just again just great
052great experiences for our kids. And you see our girls team um was the Emerald Sam champions spring sports. Um again we had this was our biggest season and when we have 150 athletes and and kind of spreading them out amongst uh those those six or five sports and and our unified soccer u it it just that's where our kids are in in the spring. Go ahead. So, our unified soccer, what an exciting event to watch. Uh, these kids are u they're super excited when you go and watch them. They're they are competing like it is a world championship for them. And when they score a goal and they do something great, uh the joy that they um show is is something that like oh my gosh, it brings tears to your eyes watching them play.
053And we have part of the um unified unified program is you get two partners and um they're not in the they're not students with disabilities. They just get to be a part of the program. Um they're great working with the kids. They help keep the game going. A big shout out to Dee Heath who was a senior and both of them Elizabeth Burus who were seniors who worked with those kids and participated with them, cheered them on. Um and like they've they were part of a team which when they came to school the next day after competing um you could see the pride in in them as they walked through campus just like everybody else. And so that's super awesome to watch that go to curve. Boys baseball. Um we had 18 kids. We brought
054up uh four eighth graders to kind of finish our junior varsity program off. Uh, our varsity, they were non-league world champions. They went, they won all 10 of their non-league games. Unfortunately, their league games, we didn't win one of them. And so, um, that was one of our teams that, um, that didn't make the postseason this year, but again, you look at the second uh piece there on the slide, team sportsmanship award. And so we're carrying ourselves um the way that I would like to see and and our coaches are are making sure that when we're on the field, we're um carrying ourselves like we should in all athletic events. Drake Smith first team all conference and uh Carson Brooks was second team. Will Boyd was our only senior on that um team. And so
055we've got we're bringing back a a big crew of baseball guys too. Go ahead. Girls fast pitch. Another outstanding season. Um we had three of our our five seniors. Um they were fiveyear letter winners. Um hard hard to see them uh graduate this year just watching them for the last five years. Bella Fry, the pitcher right there. Uh one of my greatest memories and I'll take with me forever. She's in the eighth grade. Um and she got to pitch at the varsity level against Sultan. She strikes out her first high school kid ever. Um I'm not sure there were three outs, but she just ran off the field and jumped into her dad's arms. And so I mean those are the memories that um when when all this is said and done, their their playing
056career. I mean that's what really stands out for me. Addy Hfield, first team allconerence player. Um Natalie Ker, first team allconerence player. We got a little freshman, Anna Sully Cyson, left-handed hitter, catcher. Um she got an honorable mention. It's going to be one fun to watch her play for um four more year or three more years. And then uh overwhelmingly Natalie Clever and Bella Fry um were held Herald athletes of the week for their uh feats that they accomplished on the softball field. So really exciting uh softball season for the girls. again, one game away from uh being at state, but we play Cedar Park Christian, who is a top three team in state, and that's kind of the the hump we have to get over. Sure. Go ahead. Boys soccer. Um, boys soccer, we
057played a a JV season this year. just skill level and and skill development um is not at especially in the league that we play in um not at the level where we can even compete with kids and u and so our our JVS we hadn't won a game um for a number of years and and the kids knew they were playing a JV schedule but they got to win they won three games this year or two wins this year two wins in a tie um and So the monkey jumped off their back there. I mean, they they felt like every other team. Yay, we won. We're not the the laughingstock of the school. We're not the the team that every day we come to school and and have to tell everybody we lost five nothing,
058whatever. Um and so that was great to see. They treated it like a win. They were jumping around throwing water on each other and and just having like, hey, we we won a game. And so, uh, the picture off there to the left, that mean mug, he's drilling that kid right in the side. So, uh, he was a senior. Um, and the last game they end up winning. There's probably two minutes, under two minutes left in the game. The score is tied. He's the one who gets to score the winning goal to end his senior year. and and when when we're talking about graduation and all that kids were at what's their favorite memory. Um that was his favorite memory of of just being the one to get to score that goal and knowing that
059he's going out with a win in soccer. Track and field. Another huge year for for track kids. Um we hosted the by district 1 and two championships. 393 kids uh from basically uh Granite Falls North and and our league Emerald Sound Conference participated in that. We had six athletes qualify for state. Uh Blair Johnson, Eric Diaz, Paige Bholse, Fabian, Julian Vilifane, and Ben Rojos. Uh Ben Rojos finished second in the 400 by a tenth of a second. Uh I mean that's that's a lean. That's a a click click and that's a tenth of a second. And so a huge huge finish to his senior year. Boys 4x4 team finished um fifth. They just got back from they got they qualified in their division and their time. They went down to Oregon track capital of the
060world and they got to running in in Eugene University of Oregon stadium. They competed in the 4x4. U it wasn't their best time, but what an experience to be in that environment and that atmosphere and get to see the Oregon stadium and all the history that that place holds with track. And so that was pretty cool for them. Uh Blair Johnson, she finished sixth in the the state in Volvo and Eric Diaz. Um, we were having our senior tea. Yeah. And I had a couple teachers in the back and and Marshall was in the back and they had live results up and I just I was I don't know what I was saying, introducing people or whatever I was saying and I'd look at them and and I could see like their just their facial
061expression like and oh, he made it. And I mean, as soon as I announced when they gave me the thumbs up that he won, as soon as I announced just to our senior T people, I mean, it they just went nuts like we, yay, we have a a state champion. The previous state champion, um, was also a pole balter. And so, uh, big shout out to our pole vault coach. He has two state champions now. And then Eric Diaz's sister in 2016 was part of a 4x200 team that also won a state champion. So really just overall for track it it was a great season for him. some some um the kids that we compete against in the Emerald Sound Conference um they're the best in the state and and when we went over to
062state um when we when we left the by district state championships um our boys 4x4 team was fifth there and so um we we go over and and we finished fifth in the state over in in Yakimon. Um Blair was second in in the by district champions ends up being sixth in state. So the competition that our kids face um throughout the league that was um that's gets us ready for this that bubble of track and field. Go ahead. Girls tennis uh similar to soccer in that they played a JV schedule. Um they were very very successful in their season. They only lost one match. Um the girls are growing. This is one of those sports that when we play Over Lake or Bear Creek or or um Cedar Park Christian, all these kids, they've
063had tennis lessons since they've been um six years old. And so the skill level is definitely different. But watching from day one to the end of the year and seeing the development and the growth um that our kids had and the joy, they love playing tennis now. And so that's uh kind of pretty awesome to see. And the there's the one thing I'm going to say with the tennis uh program is is great. It's in great shape. The tennis courts, we need some maintenance on that. Um the the poles just after years they they've bent in. Um not sure how that happens, whether they're not sunk in cement or or what, but um one of the courts is unusable now. And so, um, I think all probably of the the poles, the tennis poles need
064to be reset, re cemented into the ground so that we can have a a full court able to use. So, that is all. And if you have any questions to answer them, any questions? No. Just hats off to all these students. Amazing accomplishments. It's it's really fun to watch them. And I I intentionally stayed at the middle school for a long time. I loved the middle school, but I had kids, my own kids, growing up, and I wanted to make sure I could get to their events. But now that they're adults and doing their own thing, for me to be able to to go to these sporting events and watch them and just see the passion, and it doesn't really matter the skill level. I mean, it it could be our C team volleyball girls
065or baseball guys or whatever it is. Just to see their passion and and the struggles that they go through, the joys that that they when they find a success, they make their first basket ever. Those type things are are just like, man, it's cool. We have a picture of Dave at a volleyball game. It was a playoff game and we laughed so hard because it it is like he has a father over there. I mean, and it's he's cheering, but the look of relief in his face like like he's just like so happy. Yeah, it's so great. Like that's love that though. I love that he is just passionately watching and hoping and cheering. So, thank you Dave for that. Yeah, thank you. Okay. Okay. Uh item five, items from the floor. Do we have
066any? No. No. Okay. Uh six, unfinished business. We have none. Uh seven, new business. We have none. And then uh moving on to the consent agenda. Any discussion? Yes. No discussion. Any additions? Sorry. Yeah. Any additions? No. All right. Consent agenda is approved by unanimous consent. Okay. The time is 6:55 and we will adjourn this meeting. And then you take it, I