001I was wondering you guys maybe elementary >> I yelled at him today younger son's class for running in the hallways. >> Oh nice. >> But I got a float out of it so it's all good. >> Oh yeah. >> Yeah. >> Oh yeah. They were probably running around trying to find >> Yeah. Yeah. >> No, this is my water. opening >> it. Sounds good. >> You have cheese. Yes. >> Gracie. >> I had like 60s outside. >> That is so funny. agenda all day today and now he's doing meetings. >> You have the agenda up on the door. >> No, it's not that big of a deal. >> Call the meeting to order. >> Danielle can lead us, please. I aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for
002which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> Approval of the minutes from the regular meeting on February 17, 2026. It's been moved and second to approve the minutes from the February 17, 2026 meeting. All in favor say I. >> I. >> All opposed. It is approved. That's great. >> I hear there's some additions. >> Tanya is going to tell you what they are. >> First one is a change on Kate Clinton. She's our middle school track coach. Chris Dipment is changing from what I had on here to $2,178. So, change >> 2,178. Second change is changing um the label of golf coach to golf advisor. Was Mr. J talk about that tomorrow. We'll come back when we live there. Um 6 I then we're going to um is
003add a rental house um increase for starting August 1st. And 6J is adding the resolution 252604 which is a move from money that OC deposited into the transportation fund that should have gone into the US fund and I'll describe that more when we get to that. Tell me >> policy what? And that one is 6J. >> But is it there's policy number? They both >> Oh, no. Resolution 25 264. >> One more time. >> 2564. Welcome audience and positive comments. Gracie is up. Soon after the last school board meeting, we held a general ASB meeting where we have two class representatives from each class meet in the pit. In this meeting, we discussed funding and the end of the year trip. That Friday, we had a team building day in our superhero groups. In our
004groups, we made hand bunnies, which are you can see on the wall by the fireplace over there. And we created spring themed decorations to put around the halls. The fatheraughter dance was on February 25th. We decorated the entire cafeteria pink, red, and white. Misty gone volunteered her time to take pictures of the father and daughters. We had pre-sale and at the door tables. We had a good number of people, but not as good as last year. On March 6, we had an assembly. We opened with a game. This game was head, shoulders, knees, color. It is similar to head, shoulders, knees, cup, but in this version, two people are sitting around a hula hoop and are told different actions like touch your head, touch your shoulders until eventually a color is called. The two would
005race to see who could grab the corresponding color first. Then we handed out tat awards and attendance awards. Afterwards, Miss V handed out prizes for book last. Then the teams split into split and built paper airplanes. The teams competed to see whose airplane went the furthest. Now, we are planning for a team day on Friday. We are also going to be holding a cornhole tournament once enough teams sign up. Thank you. Are there any questions? >> Who's playing one? >> Don't know. >> Who's playing? >> Yeah, for airplanes. >> Oh, who's playing one? >> Chase Harter. >> Chase >> cuz we we held a high school win against each other in elementary and then the winner from each played against each other. I don't remember the elementary, but Chase won overall. >> Great. Thank you.
006>> Thank you. >> Okay. What's that agenda? FFA update. >> Okay. Um, let's see. Well, recently we tried to go to a floral contest, but the passes were closed, so that unfortunately did not happen. Um, but I took the girls up to Spokane and they got to go we went to I'm gonna pronounce it Manito Manito Manato Park and they got to go shopping and stuff because they've put in like two months of coming in just about every other day after school and put in a lot of hours so they got rewarded a little bit in that sense anyways and we get to be that more prepared for next year now. Um, let's see. We have Gracie and Scarlet and Rory all made it to districts in their speaking contest. So Gracie is going to
007compete in ExTemp on Wednesday and Rory's going to be in prepared and Scarlet's going to be in the CRE and then later that night we have the Ameck contest. So we're going to drive to Yakimo for that one. And then I'm asking for permission or approval approval uh to take kids overnight for state ENR, which is environmental and natural resources for that FFA contest from April 12th to the 13th and it's over in Stanwood. The contest is on the 13th and I have Gracie, Rowdy, Scarlet, Ty, and Jake. Thank you for that. Any questions? I assume you're the chaperone and and all and that's all taken care of. >> Yeah. I'm going to talk with some more adviserss to figure out kind of where they're staying at again. Same with the AGMC. >> Okay. >>
008Yeah. >> And your rooms and all that are set up. >> I'm going to I'm going to get like for Amech or for the ENR one >> for the ENR. for ENR. I haven't picked rooms just yet, but it's going to be uh it'll be Gracie, Scarlet, and Rowdy in one room and then Ty, Jake in another room, and then me in my other room. >> Anybody have any questions about that? >> April 12th >> to the 13th. Oh, >> when state act >> state is March 20 or it's the contest is March 26th. We're leaving March 25th. And that one we're staying at the true hotel in by the Yakma airport there. And I have um Garpel's a teacher as the chap or as like the male chapel for that one because they're also
009staying at that hotel. I think we've approved that one already. >> But I'd ask for a motion to approve the ENR. >> I move we approve the UNRI trip on the 12th 13. It's been moved and seconded to approve the trip ENR on April 12th through the 14th. All in favor say I. >> Opposed, you can go. >> Okay. Thank you. >> Thank you for the update. >> Yes. Thank you very much. >> Great. Senior update. >> I need your help. So, I need clarification from the board of who can and cannot go on the senior trip in the aspects of homeschoolers. I have told them no, but I want to be backed up by the board on that. So, let's say we have a student right now that is going to three classes, but
010they are a student. They're not a homeschool. They're half and half kind of. Are they allowed to go as long as they help with the fundraising? I'm kind of needing clarification of what your guys' thought process is. I have told the homeschooler no because of insurance. I would They're not our student even though they play sports with us. Plus, I've already bought the tickets. So, it would just be Yeah. Even though it's a great kid would be fun, I said no. So that brought my attention to, oh, I better have the board involved in this. So that's why I'm here. >> You have one this year. The one that's going to free classes, that's next year. >> That's next year. >> And I don't want to approach her until we have a decision. If she
011went down to one class, one ad class just to be done, >> nothing. She can't go anyway. We already booked her tickets. I'm not adding anybody, >> okay, >> this year. But you have another sibling that's coming up in >> what? Four years, five years. >> Or any other homeschool student >> or Running Start. Yeah, Graciey's going to be doing Running Start. She won't be really our student if she starts running Start. So, I I don't have so much trouble with a running start like Emory was because they did it from our school and they were in our school. Um, but there's a lot of different aspects that are now popping up that make me go >> about that. >> No, a lot of good ones this year. So, I don't know if we have
012to make a decision, but I would like to hear your thoughts. >> Then it needs to go in the student handbook. >> In the student handbook. That's kind of what we're >> hoping for. Well, I don't think the homeschool kids get kids. That's my opinion there on that. >> Okay. >> I think that's I mean I just don't think that that's the right thing, but I'm up to somebody has a different opinion on that. >> I agree with you there. But what about a kid that's doing three classes here, >> but homeschools half the time? That's different than completely homeschooling. I don't know. I don't see a kid that does three classes that any different than our home school. Okay. Not a home school. Uh Brandon start students because they're not our student during those
013running start hours. They might be on our grounds, but they're not our student. Okay. So, if you're going to we've already set a precedent of the running start student go to Hawaii. I think that student that's three classes. I don't know. They might be taking college class. They're just not taking it through us. I think my opinion is those two the same. The homeschool student, I don't think they're not our student at all. >> Y >> and I think it has to be based on the participation in fundraising. >> Oh yeah. if they don't participate in fundraising and every fundraiser. So like if they if you have this one person, you know, coming in to take a to be an FFA and they're only here one period, I'm going to expect them to be here
014in the AM or at lunch working that shack. >> Yes. >> That's just the gonna in my opinion that's going to be the rule. >> Yes. >> So if you have a morning one, great. You just come early enough to work shack. But if you have a five or fifth period, you better be coming at lunch and working the shack at least a couple times a week depending how big your class is. Yeah. In my that's the way I kind of look at it. But I don't know where to draw the line between as long as they're here for one class and helping out with fundraising. Is that a yes or a no? >> My initial thought is the same as their homeschool. >> Yeah. and and I don't equate it the same as the
015running star. To me, they're totally different things. Um but I you know I like you know it's I understand the argument but then we have to decide okay how many classes qualify. >> Exactly. >> You're doing one class you know um I don't right at the moment I have the answer to that. My initial reaction is to either a full-time student here or you're not. >> I guess >> that'd be the easiest. >> Well, that >> there's no it's black and white. >> There's no gray area. >> Yeah. I think um for students that have been here from the start of their freshman year, anticipated their freshman, sophomore year and maybe their junior year, whatever. Whatever running starts for them, they for me I think that they are a student here because they started here.
016They they didn't just They just didn't come from one class. >> I mean, these kids are advanced kids. They're not >> I mean, I don't think they should get penalized for being advanced, but that's just what I >> you know, and I will add to that just the get a portion of our students is an in-out fund. We get the money, we write a check to central whatever raise the check to but is run through a portion. So in that aspect they are students >> and I assume the insurance company sees it that way as well >> where a home school would not have that saying. So I think we've pretty much decided that the homeschool is a no >> but what you guys decide on if the student is here part-time and I and
017or running start. So that's where we have to figure out that touch of subject. >> Well, like I said, I think the running starts is decided too. As far as we're concerned, they're still same. Um, no. So the only question is is the school. >> No. Is like the student that isn't going to Running Start that's only here for like two or three periods or Right. >> Yeah. We're getting some money. >> Yeah, we do get money, right? >> Yeah. for those three classes >> like a 0.59 or a point four something. So depending on how many >> depend on like >> I say >> a minimum of classes they have to take. >> Yeah, that's my question. >> It's really hard >> because I can see a student, we don't have this right now,
018but kind of we do. I can see a student coming for one class just to be an FFA. So their senior year, are they still going to rank are going to be able to go to Hawaii. >> Well, the problem is that puts all the responsibility on to the advisor >> because now they have to make the call. Have they have they you know participated enough >> fundraising >> and see so then all of a sudden it's your problem and and I don't want it to be your fault. So, um, you know, that's the only problem tying it to, okay, they can come to a couple classes, but as long as they participate, well, what if they're not, but they think they are, you know what I mean? >> How soon do you have to
019know? >> I don't need to know. Um, I it's Rowdy. I would like to approach the juniors pretty soon because we are already planning Farmfest. So I and I don't know if Rody would want to go with all those boys or not, but I I want to bring it up to her and I want to ask her, okay, are you plan on taking three classes, four classes to one class, you know, what are you planning on doing next year? And then say, well, if you're taking three or more, that's kind of the way I'm looking at it, but that's not just because she's taking three now. If you're then would you be interested in going on the Hawaii trip? And if you are, you have to participate in working the shack and all fundraising. Are
020you interested? I just want to But before I do that, well, I wanted to talk to you guys. Haven't there been a policy that and this would be a little different than who we're talking about, but didn't we have a policy that a student that just choiced in for their senior year, they did not get to go on the senior year? >> That was when they fund your fundraised all freshman, sophomore, junior se. We do everything your senior year. >> Okay? >> So, in my opinion, if you if we had someone come in right now for senior year, it would be a no. even if we hadn't paid because these kids have worked hard. But like Kraton Kraton came in his senior year, but he has worked his tail off and done all the fundraising.
021So, um, if we did fundraising, you know, he did miss the summer stuff, which was basically Farmfest, but he's made up for it tfold. But if I had a slacker, I would have no problem sitting down with his parents or her parents and saying, >> "Hey, this is the way they want to go. this is what needs to be stepped up. So, and I have each parent sign a contract along with their kids at the beginning of the school year. >> And in that, it gives me and Mrs. B the right to suspend them from the trip. But luckily, we haven't had to use that yet. >> We have had kids opt out, and I make it very clear that you cannot change your mind halfway through the school year. if they do it at
022the beginning of school year. But that's only stuff that I've had to deal with so far. So now this new stuff is coming up. >> Okay. So if the homeschool approaches you, I already told them no. I doubt they will. I think they kind of they understood. I said you're not our student. And I kind of dumped or you know the insurance company sees it that way. I'm sure >> that was easy. >> The next one not so easy. >> One class, two class, three class, part-time, you know, I don't know how you look at it. >> So >> I think the running start is they go too everybody agree on that. >> Okay. >> So the only question is is the one, two or three class students. Okay. That we have to discuss. >>
023Okay. Do we give you enough direction? >> Yes. >> Okay. >> But it could I kind of I know you don't meet but are do you guys have other sessions coming up or are we looking a month out? >> As of today it's a month out. >> Okay. >> Right. And this do we have to uh vote on a new policy. Is that where we're at? >> That's what I was wondering. >> We could do a special meeting. >> Well, I just don't want to wait more than because that'll be April, >> right? We >> That would be awesome. >> Answer in a week. >> That would be really helpful because I would like to approach the juniors and get them going because every time I put it back and then all of a sudden
024it's oops, >> right? >> We need to meet tomorrow. Yes. So, >> okay. >> That's what I needed. >> Any other problems come up, I'll let you know. >> We really enjoy it. >> Thanks. All right. Thanks, guys. >> Have a good night. See you. >> Okay. Uh, high school golf advisor. >> Yeah. >> So, I have that on the sheet, too. So, we had two kids that were ended up interested in playing. We thought we might have a couple more. Uh, so Kobe kind of talked to him and I kind of talked to him about making it more into a club activity this year. Um, one of them the skill is lower is pretty low even for a high school thing. And with golf, if you have one kid that's really low, it slows
025down the entire event to a crawl for that one thing. And so Col's idea was, hey, if I took them, we do more of a limited practice. I can take them to a few courses. They can go to like the driving range. and go to the simulator and kind of work on stuff this year to get the skill set up for next year. And I think we might have maybe some more interest next year as well. Um, and the kids were both okay with it when we talked to them. So that was kind of where we wanted to go with it. I think it's better for everybody involved if we go that route. >> Any questions for Jeff on that? Thanks, Jeff. >> Yeah. >> Uh, middle school track coach and contract. >> Um, we're
026just going to change um, Caitlyn Clinton's middle school track coach statement from $2,82,178. Um, because that is what we put in the advertisement was at 2,178. So, we need to keep it instead of where it was on the pay scale. So, I'll make a motion to approve middle school track coach Caitlyn Clinton for $2,178. >> It's been moved and seconded to approve the middle school track coach uh Caitlyn for $2,178 as presented. All in favor say I. Pot. Okay. Policy 5401. >> Um, okay. So, policy 5401, policy, and these are all okay. And, um, there's a yellow piece of paper in your packet here that explains the differences between the new policy and old policy. this all four of these policies were approved on the 6th of March this month. Okay. So then the second
027out is all critical the if you look at if you look at the job des or the not job description if you look at the description of why it was changed mostly it's it it refers to um changes in languages like in the CBA or the actual board policy and they cut out a lot of the language. It just referred to the RCWS and the wax as it applies to um because that's kind of the way it's set up to begin with based on RCW. If you look at the first one, um 5401, it doesn't have hardly any wording at all just every paragraph just refers to RC. And so my understanding is the intent of this is to um just make it as simple as possible and just refer to the RCW and relax.
028Um Teresa and I and Tommy will have to meet with the teachers anyway to talk about so just the first reading but 5041 is the standard of sick leave. 5404 we do have that policies. So in both of these they would be updating the policy and both of those policies um were approved in 2011 and this and all all four of these policies were updated by WADA and on the 3rd of March this this year. 5401P is a new policy. We don't even have that policy right now. So 5401 the procedure part of it is a new policy and it wasn't just refers to the RC that applies to that make sense. Um and so and then 54 has to do with emergency discretionary needs and That's the one they give you some flexibility. But
029these are all first. >> Does anybody have any questions for Doug? >> One of the things that could probably be adding No, not right now. I don't have the >> Our CDA contract this year is opened ends this August 31st. So, we'll be looking at probably redoing a lot of things in the CBA. Okay. What was that? >> Okay. Uh we're moving on to six I the rental house increase. >> Um so I looked into the policy of what they increase the rental house. Um I can't even give you the exact numbers like 9.063 or whatever. And I figured that to be it was $62 and some cents. I like round numbers, so I changed it to $600. So, starting August 1st with the new contract for next school year, $600. >> I don't think
030we don't get that. too in the weeds for us. >> Okay. And now we'll talk about resolutions 25-2604. >> Okay. So I had shared this with Harmon. This been a couple months ago and so when I go to do the transmitt this is all on me to the county. I have I have lines one for general fund, one for ASB fund, one for transportation capital. We never have transportation in there. So, usually I just cover cover that part up. Well, I didn't. And I put the um cash receipt money that was supposed to go into ASB account on the transportation line. And so I sent it through and it was two days later I pulled it out and it hit me when it happened. So I contacted uh the county treasurer and she said we
031can't we can't do anything. We need a resolution to change it. So that's where we're at. I was um we got the um check for the bus that we just sold because that's kind of what K and I talked about. Well, if we get enough money to cover that, we'll just put that in the ASB fund and the rest is in the transportation fund, but it ends up being less than the 5416 that went into the ASB fund. So, we have to do the resolution. I sent it to the county. They move it back to the correct fund and then the next transit level that's supposed to go. >> Sorry, >> that's fine. >> I'd entertain a motion to approve resolution 25-264. I move that we approve resolution 25-26-4 as >> it's been moved and
032second to approve resolution 25-26-04. All in favor say I. >> All opposed approved have a resolution now. Okay. Uh communications to the board capital. If you have this mostly fine quite a bit, the connector we're using today I like it a lot faster. really appreciate. Really appreciate Jeff and Randy. Those two spent a lot of time after hours examining things, making sure it was covered. Randy was up there on the weekends working at night, checking things, checking all the appreciate that because that was a pretty key part of making sure Margaret's you know it was added to her job too. Those three people do a lot I talked to is called regular list analysis and they are the ones that are going to update our ICOs report I showed you the last retreat. I talked
033to Sarah who was our contact last week and they've already started doing some pilot updating. They have a crew of seven people that come out and two different areas and it's going to happen sometime between April and September. Um and the next thing I just want to kind of give you an update and I guess to ask if you're okay with it. Um, we're going to move forward on the emergency grant as soon as possible. There is there is no limitation and there's not really a number but the longer you wait the more necessary they have. So I mean there's a pool of money in there. It's not necessarily just first come first serve but there would be a time before fall. Our our immediate needs are to repair the roof secondary elementary. Our second
034one is um and this came up after the retreat is the elementary wall. There's a wall down here if you go in to the elementary on the north side the door there on the wall on the right is the tallest wall on our campus and Greg is pretty concerned that in fact he's going to bring in a structural engineer to examine Um you said of all the cracks and all the outside conditions that was actually concerned in terms of maybe something not happening. So so the plan there is to bring a structural engineer in and then I I decided I talked to Greg and I talked to Marshall Manuel who's did some construction for us and I talked to Apollo about quotes and then just help coordinate everything. I'd like to just go with the
035following everything mostly because it would be easier for us to be included if we just had one umbrella, one place to go to for everything. Does that make sense? You guys, Greg's going to be involved in just because Apollo seems to have the best access to people that are used to work on schools. Apollo does that's what they do. schools and um most of his carpenters and most masonry people all those people that's what they do in school if I go with some of the people that Greg has is offered and also man everything I just g to call that can just check up on everything and then if we and he's also going to help write the grants So, I mean, just I think that's what we're still doing just to have Apollo do
036it. We never really had Apollo do anything on our campus, but they seem to do a really good job and have a really good structural engineer assessment. Then then the people can come in and then Greg's going to write up a description of the repairs that hopefully will be significant. Um, for new repair, I think we need to make another run with that. Talking to Mark Brown and talking to Hunter and talking to Mark Brown, all the data the repair is a grant that's due by November 1st, but by the end of September, our completed nothing to lose. $600,000 last time. And like I shared at the retreat, our wasn't indicate. So I think we need to make it around that too. Our our capital our capital money starts coming in next year like spring
037of 2027. So we'll collect money from you know 2020 27 2028 2029. So, in the next year or two, our finances as far as cash goes. So, I'm still going to try to hear um with the gym. Um it's going to it's down the road possibly a little bit, but I still would like solar panels. Um, this is a blue piece of paper here. Um, I hadn't heard from Brian for quite a while and so I called him a couple weeks ago and he said I was just getting ready to call you which is not always and he said that WSU informed them that all they had some big projects and so they were they didn't have the money to you know to go forward with the so and then he followed up with this
038is the letters that he sent out to all everybody that was on the same procedure we are they're still going to try down the road and I and I did tell him that he was still interested and wanted to be part of that any questions on the capital part of it um this weekend I went to fact I just got back this afternoon I went to the small school convention in one and one of the reasons I want to go to it is because most of it had to do with legislative action and and also consolidation. There was two there was three meetings where consolidation were if they weren't the topic they were on the list. So I remember to go and I have some information for you on that. So on the bud session,
039no additional funding for schools. Everything everything was just cut. Um he did say that he did the people that talked to us talked quite a bit, but then there's also some other people. So all of the house representatives are all up for re-election 100% all in half of the Senate. And so, you know, that that could change things depending on who elected who gets reelected that's going to be in the next year. They shared that this last session. It was a short session and just to show kind of the way things happened. There was a hundred education bills proposed, but there was a thousand human advocate. They called them human advocate which had to do with social economic based issues human rights social services. They said that that was recording bills to deal with it
040kind of just show the nature of where we're at and what the legislature has to do with they did say there was one win and maybe Johnny kind of explain how this works but it was passed that K12 schools do not hesitate sales tax there have an exemption and it starts on July 1. It's not retroactive, so you can't go back at all. It starts on July 1st. And this has to do with um mostly on services. My understanding that we wouldn't have to pay sales tax. I don't know how much money that's going to save us. >> Well, we're not doing anything now. They're just not I mean, we don't have to pay for it right now. They're just not going to make schools pay for it like they're making other people. So, >>
041yeah. >> But they said that was basically the only Uh some of the cuts uh there was four four main cuts that impact us while this promote the TTK 35% cut and and I everybody's kind of unclear or nobody can really explain how this is going to work but they do they do have some what they call existing priority. So if you were in the program before which we have been for at least two years you're qualified there but the kids it's by the student now you have and the categories that qualify you for funding are profit condos so depending on which kids would like to take you know based on their financial situation could could determine whether >> here's the I went to um the business manager meeting at ESB yesterday and that was
042the big question because the most of the schools there are do have TTK and um even the big school they said they talked to me from ODI and they cannot give anybody an answer because they don't know yet how they're going to do cut because our biggest question of mine was does that mean you're going to you know when you say slot cut are you cutting full school funding are you cutting just a portion of everybody's funding they have absolutely no idea they have not even invented the will yet how those are going to go. The assumption that um everybody else there had is that it's going to be based off of the free reduced price lunches. Problem with that is it changes every single year. So you don't know if you're going to have
043especially small schools. So we don't know if we're going to have a program from year to year. So I don't think they can do that, you know, at least on the small school side unless that's their plan. It's just kids altogether because we're looking at, you know what, we have five kids. Maybe three of them are reduced this year and maybe next year none of them are free reduced. of you going to come up funding and then the next year reinstate us and then you know when you're dealing with entire programs they're going to have to come up with that more secure you know idea of how who they're funding and how they're funding it and it's >> I don't think they can use the free completely >> well they actually the last session I
044went to was on this right here they said there was three conditions poverty um what they call school extremes with they call it child care desert like if there's places where there's no child care but um >> you know I looked it up there all of the deserts are Yak Montre Cities area in the west side nothing on this eastern border is considered a desert we don't have child care and this is on the DCYF you can go on to the DCF and look it up and they'll tell you but it's crazy that there's like a pocket here and a pocket here and nothing else. None of us consider it deserts. So, and then the third one is ability for spend. So, if you if you're pre but like she said, nobody knows how much
045each kid could bring. I think right now we bring in $30,000 around $30,000. Um you know that's how much TTJ money we get but nobody knows how much each kid would bring in if you qualify. And even the ecot we again just like to reduce we could have three kids one year in TK and no kids the next year that are in bed and you can't change that big of a program every single year every day especially with all paperwork that it requires because it's like oh yeah you guys get TK hire a teacher this year oh let them go you don't get TK you know your kids don't get to come to There's a lot of research out there on the benefit. Um, our situation is somewhat unique. I was at the meeting I
046was at today. People were just asking each other how they ran. There was nobody that was going to just know the last two years they were preschool but we had we had to do something different because she didn't have a teacher there. So I think kindergarten so a lot of the schools I talked to and I am I'm planning on doing some kind of a survey of schools our size to see how they days because we do ours in kindergarten set up this year and so we're a little bit into a different situation than the schools who who have a certified teacher that that's all that person does is TTK those people are probably not because the schools that I've talked to just in the community area their popping up because because they had to
047hire a certain teacher to do it. Um I was at a meeting last week and just kind of shared that schools in the county were sharing what they do too and surprising how many I mean there's some that are some program and so are we're going to have to take a look you know the impact Have we have we been did we start TTK when we could start PTK? Were we missing we missed the first year? >> We started the second year. >> Okay. Any questions on that one? The next one is bust depreciation. This what they did is they extended out the depreciation schedule that you get paid and so where it says class A it says 9 to 10 that should be 8 to 10. So the buses that were on an 8year
048schedule and I'm on schedule the ones that were on a 10 year got moved up to 15. What that means is >> you still get the same amount of money on the depreciation total over that time. They're going to cut how much we get each year. And the impact that that could have on us is we're pretty hard on our bus because almost all routes are not travel. I mean, they're hard on things and so um nobody really knows how I threer. Um, talking to Randy, he said usually by year seven or eight, you know, we start to do a lot of repairs and so and we use that appreciation money to do those repairs and so it's going to impact. Um number three, MSOC despite the inflation costs that are rising in different numbers
049all over the board number replacement area still pretty high because even though there's a replacement increase in the other one that they did cut and I didn't down there first is running start. They did cut our running start time. They called it a go from 1.1. They were thinking about 1.2 but I think they landed on 1.3. But but they did cut our store. >> They did. I mean I were just talking about we got the speed one. The last very last minute. >> Well, it's like everything they went halfway. >> Yeah, they did. Yeah. So, so basically a kid that takes three five credit classes for brain start. That's one at a time. And so we can still have three of a student. So we can have them I don't know how divided by
050seven do the math. So we can have three of a student on top of that one. So like what we've done here. So those are the cuts that impacted us. On the next page I wrote down LEA because that was also in but we don't qualify for and I've never been able to figure that out because if I ask what LEA is for they say it's up the difference which we kept hammered on that and we still don't qualify for assistance because it's called assistance assistance and it was originally set up to help schools that can't collect enough on their levy to make things qualify for that. >> Where do you get it? >> There's only like two women county schools that get LA and I can't figure because they it's like based on your
051land value. Who gets it? Then we're in a higher land value. So, we don't get it. them looking at the other school districts are also surrounded by weak bills and >> and they get it. So >> LA box got cut. They lost all they're making a year. They lost00. So they had to find their way. Okay. Future bills. They spent quite a bit of time talking about future bills and the impact that that could have. the green building requirements, all that starts next year. So, they start getting prepared for that. Ry talk a little bit about them and and there's some there's some question out there about how what size schools go first. I'm hoping the smaller schools are we'll see. Uh they did talk today too about there's a projected $878 million income, you
052know, deficit and they're talking they have an $880 million gain that they say that they have. That's what they told us at the session. So they may use that. Um and that that was that 880 million was one of the things that the education lobbyists were trying to get into as far as they didn't use they didn't use it at all. some other people that know us better understand um some other things that were were approved and I'll be very honest with you I don't know very much about any of these other things they were approved and it could impact us Teresa and Tanya could probably explain it better but the first one is the use of how you said that people need it and um in those in their own all of these are
053unfunded requirements. >> So with this just what I heard I I don't know their city will be able to answer that that the albuterol which is smart for asthmatics that if we use the students aluterol that they bring to school during school days then we have to replace it. That's the understanding I got. >> All right. Um, next one had to do with student restraint and isolation. We did approve I was talking about when we approve that student isolation they made about that just to make sure that we were aware of the changes. And I think we're on top of it with our >> basically they did a study in a closet is not a good environment. >> So um they're teaching us more about common practices. RPD next month is the the behavior specialist
054has been working. She's going to do the training and we just actually did trauma informed practices this month and next month. Um The other piece is that uh one of the state approved restraint techniques, restraint programs. We just had just the principal association just paid that up $10,000 to train Jessica McGregor and she's going to end up training county schools. So it's a right response used to be what we went with as per her teacher more expensive and it has to be done every year. the one CPI which is what we just train is every two years and less expensive and now we have our own trainer so we will pay her but we don't it's not a huge expense because we can so we'll be able to have everybody on staff >> uh the
055next two have to do with our school beyond plan that starts like some of the some of the requirements for start this fall. Lacrosse kind of volunteered to get involved in the year so they've known about some of these things and I know we're doing some of them. The first one has and but they made a big deal about these two make sure that understand it's a requirement. One of them has to do with financial aid information and sent out to the kids and parents and everybody who senior well actually it's not just seniors it's >> seventh grade the next one is uh they're required to to purchase an online program I think we've already purchased for that but they made a big deal about those two things you need to make sure you're doing
056those homeless equal access to public education can't turn down homeless people. I'm not sure why you turn down a lot of um this one is kind of interesting. School interference and deterioration um up to 12 to 18 month restriction. No contact on campus and my understanding is this has to do with the public. anybody intimidates anybody I don't have all the specifics but my understanding this and listening to people talk about this kids report um has to be completed in 35 days from start to finish that could be a challenge for schools like that don't have a school site. We have to school site come down our come down every month. I don't think she's comes down the beginning of the year, >> right? This is part of our contract with so And then this
057uh in the elementary ELA if if there's an adoption they have the requirements for what you can and what you can adopt specific to literacy collection but if you do adoption there's new requirements and our teachers are going uh finally realized that if they come to us they might get more participation so they're coming facts April 17th to go over the new standards. I'm hoping to send a large team. Okay. And then the things that didn't pass that they project will be on the market at the very beginning of the next session. Mock no. So ins transportation safety net said they're predicting that this could get some mileage next year too is parttime employees qualify for benefits right now substitut um district fund fund balance I think I think we talked about that didn't pass
058pretty sure it's going to This one, the next one's a new one and that's a portionment shift. >> After I get done with all this, I'm I'm going to share with you what they talk to us about school contamination. Um, one of the things, one of the things that could be up for discussion is the small school funding. And if they if that changes or they abolish the small school funding to change how they sent out a portionment that would put a lot of high schools out there because we I think we have I think we're a portion for 12.3 teachers. Uh eight of those are the small school funding for a high school because it takes so many teachers to teach all the classes right now. And so this is a strategy and they
059shared this with us that this is a strategy that the legislature may use so they don't have to use the word merge or use the word consolidation. If they drop the small school funding all the small schools like us so and there would be a lot of teachers out of work. I I think I think um I think I asked one time um as ESD how many teachers we would be funded for if they dropped this the small school money. I think it was my whole elementary. So we would basically be back and and and and that is a strategy that is out there right now. I'm going to talk about that more. So that they if they dropped that if they changed that portion of funding that would never be horrible for a lot
060of students. Um and the other one that was pretty big and I didn't write that on there was court limitations litigations. Right now there's um there's a lot of people that like to sue schools and right now the the statute of limitations is almost non-existent. There's schools on that's shared over there that they're being sued for things that happened in the building in 1960 and they're women and so and that's got a lot of schools I mean the people that committed the crimes are dead you know just gone just they could go back so far and those and so insurance companies are raising the rates knowing all that and so there there's like there'll be a lot of pressure next year to change some of those laws So that it's not so more limited as
061they drive the insurance cars. They um they had some legislatores there. Um one guy was that guy was a legislature restaurant. Oh, I can't say his name, but anyway, he got up and talked. He did a great job. Did a really really good job. and he just talked about um bringing the legislators into your school and and have them stay there and then at the end of the day we meet people and other classrooms and really get a feel for what the schools are actually going to especially the small schools to that was one of the things that they did with Prescott. Prescott raised that 194,000 their community their community raised they were I think um at least $2 million but their community raised $197,000 just on fundraising that they didn't so and so they
062it now looks like the state's going to bail them out >> for a while it didn't look look like they were but after after the community stepped up and and raised a lot and it didn't pay for their didn't get out of debt, but for a small town like that to raise almost $200,000 said a lot to the legislation and so they did about they were it was possible that they could have been close this year. Um so anyway the small school funding thing is something that we really have to fight for that that a lot of a lot of things um applications okay there's a lot of political a lot more superintendent trying to get more political involved right now but those are the two big things okay the last session I went to
063this is one that I wait the whole time had to do with region and consolidation. Went to two other sessions where consolidation merching were talked about a lot about that happened and um this was put on by Jim and Jim. It's about Vazda and the rural education center. what they're doing is they're working on a report after Chris Reichall made his famous speech about merging schools. you know, his and he did say something like there's um hund 100 small schools in the state of Washington that are educating 5% of the student population and it's costing the state either 10 or 50% of the budget which I don't think is correct but anyway after he said that everybody just I mean that's the first time that on public TV or across the state that he said
064he said we need to look in the works he didn't say consolidation be talking about merging. It's going to have to be something that the state is going to look into. Okay. So, VA and Rick and the rural education center met with Chris and told him and made a deal with the way that they explained it is that we're going to do a study on the effectiveness and the efficiency of small schools. and and all we're asking of you is that you don't mention the word words anymore until we're done with this report and you and you agree. That's what they told us in the meeting is that that he agreed not to use the word words in any of his any of his speeches until this report came out. And so the report is
065called the small and rural rural school district efficiency uh study. It's a fivepart study and I believe you have part two at the retreat. The uh the phases are and they've completed the first two multiple administrations, different models for small schools and what they do is they examine all different kinds of combinations for administrative uh setups. Part-time superintendent, full-time principal, full-time superintendent, parttime principal, you know, principal superintendent together. They they they went through and they looked at all of those scenarios and that's the first part of the report and in all of them they wrote down the handover research is the company that they're going and doing the research um which according to to Tim and Jim they have a lot of respect and and part of each one of these studies are the pros
066and cons of each setup. you know, like they look at all the different administrative setups that most small schools do and look at the pros and cons, the best practices, which is more efficient and which is more effective and then also the strengths and the challenges. Um, and you guys saw number two, we talked a little bit. So anyway, the first one has to do with administrating different models. Second one has to do with co-ops, both academic and athletic. Number three has to do and those two are done. Number three has to do with effective use of ESD support and that was a pretty big push to keep ESDs and there he says by the end of this month they should have part three complete and then they'll move on to four where they hope
067to be done in April and May. Each one's taken about two months to complete and that is it's called the yellow pages but what it is is just a complete list of all the free resources that small schools have that they can use that they're supposed to help with whatever they need help with the um the fifth one and the most critical one and it said is critical service analysis that's number five and it's and they're going to work on that in May and June It's it's it's supposed to be a 200page book. It's going to be a book and you're going to send it out to every board member and make sure every board member has a copy of it, small schools in every administrator. And so we should get it this summer. And
068this the critical service analysis looks at academic effectiveness, career preparation, and they made a huge deal on college and high school. Huge deal. They had people get up and talk and and and talk and Tim basically said, "The more college in the high school you have going, the more you he didn't use the word safe, but but the more college in high school classes you have going, the stronger your case is to keep your high school, you know, and and and you read some testimonials by parents who who pick certain schools because they have college and and that's like like college in high school. And so if you've got multiple teachers that do college in your school, that's that's a plus for your school. They just kind of plus and that's hard to do because
069you have to have teachers who are basically going to be qualified to work for university. But this running start uh they encourage that, but they said it doesn't have quite the same impact to the legislature. So we start because they're basically getting a class. Uh they're also looking at local the impact of local control academic opportunities athletic opportunities and the last one which is really important is sustainability academic athletic sustainability in terms of office. So this was interesting. We should have that report. Sorry. a lot of information. >> That took me all the way through. >> Yeah, that's for sure. Uh safety. >> We had our We're still waiting on our now since May, but we haven't done this. They say we're going to do it next month. Okay. >> Um, I know that we
070had a meeting last week and they're they're planning another demonstration, another simulation like they did this year and that will be in the summer and very Jason and Dan who work at SDU are encouraging schools to have them come down to walk through school and technology. >> Nothing for technology. >> Sports, >> track, uh, full swing. Um, both junior high and high school. Now, junior high started this week. High school first meet this Saturday. Six kids participating. Four girls, two boys. Had a couple kids that just chose not to do it. didn't get a really good reason why I just chose not to do it. One high school baseball player participating in Kfax. They have their first game tomorrow. They got rained out over the weekend. Uh so he's playing they had a game in
071Ritzville. Uh we already talked about golf so I won't hit on that. Uh so junior high track 10 out picked up a couple. Um might get a couple more as they get paperwork done which will be good. They got a lot of time till their first meet. So then we're starting planning out summer activities, camps, and where they want to go and all that stuff and fundraising plans. >> What? >> All I I'm going to add one thing to the 35% uh TTK cut. I have heard that they're just going to cut 35% for everybody who's been participating. Yes. >> That's what I've heard. I whether that happens, I don't know. That's just what I've heard. Simple. >> Nothing else to do. >> Tanya, you only get you get 35% less money. End of the
072conversation. That's what I've heard. >> I'm kind of hoping that I mean, not hoping, >> right? >> Hope we don't get together. I just Yeah. >> Yeah. And I don't know how many small schools are. I don't know how many that represents. I don't I have no idea. But that's just what I don't go to the bank with that. That's just what Okay. Principal's report. >> One page. >> Just saying. One page. >> I'm learning. I'm learning. >> Slow and steady. Wins three. Would you like one or no? So I >> keep me on my toes. Um just same going through the criterion. One's just whatever. Two though I want to ensuring school safety. We have a behavior specialist with contracted seven days with her. She came out last week for two days. Spent the
073whole day um I call them our highf flyers. We have some that have more behavior than others. Um she's not only like observing them in their natural environment. Um she's also doing some one-on-one coaching with all the teachers. Um I know that uh my TK kindergarten teacher's very happy with the coaching and is using some of the methods that they seem to be working. Um she actually I pointed her to a few classrooms and then she went and went another one and so she'll be back five more contractor seven. So five more times at least. One will be professional development next month. Um where she will do she calls it her behavior 101 um some of those trauma informed practices that we need to know. And then um we're going to have a tabletop exercise
074where we take some of those high flyers and we all discuss um how some things to work on working with them. One is a fifth grader come up to this building next year and so mixing the high school staff and middle school staff so that they know what those behaviors are like. Um, the second part of that, uh, I had a I had a complaint that I would put in the harassment, intimidation, and bullying category. Um, I've never done an investigation before, and I was talking to Doug about it. He says, "Well, Clear Risk does that." So, Clarisk is going to come in and do the investigation. I sent out, the letter went out in the mail today to all the parents of the middle school. Um, I said, "I've got so much going on
075in middle school. Let's just kind of let's just do it all." And he'll be really nice. 20 years of doing um child forensic interviews and investigations. Um, so he's going to come out. He's going to teach me along the way a little bit and we're going to do that together. And then last, uh, we don't have a threat assessment team. The one other person other than myself that got trained last year, um, doesn't work for us any longer. So Jason and I, Jason's very concerned that I have a team. Uh, I did one thread assessment. It didn't warrant having a team by the time it was done. So what happens is you do a the teacher does a a questionnaire basically about the student And then we put those three things together and then there's
076a team that goes over that and decides what the what we're going to do with it. Um the last one wasn't probably a high enough threat problem that needed to warrant the team. But anyway, Jason uh we talked we're actually going to host and he's going to come out and do threat assessment training for Whitman County. They're going to come to us so that way I can have more of my people hopefully trained. Um three is data. Pretty excited. the leadership team did a real good job of narrowing down to three goals we had this year. behavior goal. Um, on the edge of that, uh, library piece, there's a thing that tells you how you behave in the library. All around the school, they're formatted the same. Um, every classroom, I only have one spot
077that doesn't have those two yet. And we'll see. It needs to be community goal, increase staff engagement beyond the school day. 100% of our staff's been at least one event other than school. So, that was pretty great. And then academic full we wanted to just get back in the swing of collecting data and what do you do with it once you get it? And so we um divided into random teams. They picked a a goal. I mean one was I know one was do kids follow multiple multi-step directions. And I know that one teacher's data was every not in that one but in another one was to put like popsicle sticks in a can. So it was all kinds of different n retrieval methods. They came together. Some of them decided to go on to
078a new goal and some of them are still revisiting the goal they had started with. Um that works itself into that that next year. I'm hoping my goal is in September of October of next year, you will have a school improvement plan to approve at your board meeting, which is what we should be doing. Um, aligning curriculum, you know, we're still doing tier one, which MTSS is divided into three tiers. Tier one is just your basic instruction. So, we're trying to get that all on the same playing field. I did pass along some stuff to April. is going to help you with some social emotional learning curriculums um that deal strongly with the behavior end of that. Um so she has a little time with the student teacher so she's going to look at that
079with me. Um I know we did character strong before. I know that most schools run their course with Character Strong. Not only students, what do you call that word? we just run out of gas. But it's teacher, too. So, um, we're going to look at some other ones that are more behavior centered. Um, managing resources, you know, we got we're going to have some discussions. I've talked to the elementary teachers, but we need to get together and figure out what elementary schools can look like with the numbers. Um, we've got fifth grade with like possibly two next year, you know, and then a big next one and then a small. And so what can we do to give the kids what they need? Um and how how can we how can we allocate kids basically
080um engaging families. We had a great math night. We had a great literacy night. Um people come in. It's great. And uh I'm gonna talk more with Port Whipin County about getting community needs assessment because the right order should be community needs assessment strategic plan school. So trying to get that going and then closing the gap. We're we're doing good things. It was really exciting. Uh Stephanie that has worked with the leadership team um worked with us last year. She called me while I was over. Where was I? I don't even know where I was. I was at something. There's so many things in my life I can't even remember. Um and she was so excited because we had such a great leadership meeting because the things are really and that's just really exciting for
081both of us. So that's it. Any questions? >> Thank you. We'll move on to finance. report. >> I just um printed this out for you guys because I found it interesting. I probably should have talked about it when I talked about the legislative session, but that first page is just kind of showing you um the first little pie chart here 2019. Second one was is this here 25 27 by a little over 8% that's going towards schools. most of it is now going into other state investments, a lot of social other social issues, not education. So, I just wanted to you guys to have that refer back to it. I was just curious about, you know, because a lot of the talk is some of the meetings and things I've been listening into is what's
082happening with our timber revenue and our lottery revenue and all that money is supposed to go to schools. And this back page just kind of shows you how much is actually going, how much revenue there is and where they're spending it, where they should be spending it. That's that. Um, I already made my confession on the ASB ASB transportation thing. Um, we did I did get an email today that our bus sold and um it was about $4,700 is what we got out of that bus to auction which is Randy was happy with that. He said he was already expecting it to make it rain. So other than that, I think we're kind of on track. We are it's we've spent a lot of money um on Johnson and controls coming down. Buildings getting older.
083Things are just starting to fall apart. So hopefully we get that big $6 million grant here. Next year, the year after. But um right now our fund balance is looking pretty good. But I've talked to Randy quite a bit. We know we're not spend I don't know how much. But it's not going to end at that six whatever. Um just because there's just a lot of issues but we're still better than I >> uh books good. >> Books are good. I'd entertain a motion to approve the payroll and bills. >> Make a motion to pay the February payroll March bills in a total of 399,4775. Second. >> Been moved and seconded to approve the February payroll March bills in the amount of $399,4775 cents. All in favor say I. I. >> Oppos. Approve. Pay the
084bill. I told Doug earlier today that I didn't think we had an executive session. I don't know if any of the rest of you have anything that you want to discuss. Just show them my office door is open anytime. >> Hey, >> I the meeting. >> That's it. You can drop.