001call the um September 24th regular board meeting to order. Um let's first stand and say pledge allegiance. I pledge allegiance 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. >> All right. Can I get a motion to adopt the agenda? >> I'll make a motion to adopt the agenda. >> Second. >> All those in favor? >> I. >> Can I get a motion to adopt the consent agenda? Make a motion to adopt the consent agenda. >> I'll second. >> All those in favor? I >> I uh next thing up is public comment. Do we have any public comment? >> We do not. >> Nothing. >> All right. We'll jump right into reports. Uh first one being
002um the 2025s-26 staff professional development plan. And that will be >> actually pushed until postponed. Okay. >> Apologies. >> She is ill. >> Okay. >> Then we'll move right on to the crowd favorite. Mr. Jay Jagger with the maintenance and facility report. >> Usual sister. >> Evening. >> Hello. >> Love that we're here and it's not even dinner time yet. >> Is that working well? >> Oh yeah. >> Yeah. Okay. >> All right. So, we have um summer update. Um so, quick overview of the summer. Um I always like to see how many working days there are in the summer. Um, for some people it seems like a long summer when you're trying to take care of your kids all summer and trying to find something to do. But for for the staff here, there
003were uh 43 work days. Um, and then most of the maintenance and and the custodial staff try and plan their their vacations over the summer. Um, so there's a lot of of two week locks where there staff out. Um, maintenance was I I touched on this last month when I was here, but maintenance was staffed with only only two employees from April through July. Um, the caveat of that, when we hired the third maintenance employee, we we stole someone from the the custodial. Um, so they were understaffed then at the high school. Um, when I talked with with Bryant Mickelson about um some of the custodial projects, one of the things he wanted me to mention was how everybody shared staff and everybody worked really well with each other this summer um to make up
004for the one and a half two positions that were vacant for a while. So um and that kind of put us into slightly a survival mode for the summer here. Um, a lot of it was was a was a status quo. Um, maintaining the facilities that we do have. Um, not a lot of of of the new projects this summer. Um, so I'll just touch at at the campuses real quick. Um, just a reminder, there's three and a half people assigned for a custodial to the elementary. Um, the elementary is just over 100,000 square feet and 43 classrooms there. um custodial team does does does the cleaning for the entire space and then and then they do minor maintenance um such as some plumbing fixtures, light bulb changes and things like that. Um total campus
005there is a 25 acre campus and our grounds team maintains all that. Um this summer we spent the maintenance team spent three and a half weeks there. Um with the amount of students that we have gets a lot of abuse um from stairs, handrails, restrooms, walls. Um building B was was built in 1991. Um so so that building started is starting to show its age. um building A with over 600 or just under 600 students in the building A um really takes a lot of time out of us. Um so we spent three and a half weeks there this summer when you think of only 43 work days uh three and a half weeks really ate up really about a month, right? So, um, some of the big things there, uh, there's 138 138 air
006filters at the elementary school. Um, and they're all on or, uh, most of them are on the, uh, the, uh, the the third floor mechanical. Um, so you're having to pack everything up and then let everything back down. Um, we do all of our own all of our own maintenance for for the boilers. Um, last summer I got um I started getting getting Noel Santana um who he came to us don't quote me I want to say four years ago four years ago he came to us in maintenance um he's been with the district for over 15 years um started as a subcustodian and then and then has worked his way through so he's doing all that maintenance now um the big thing there is the PTA um they donated a rock climbing wall um
007for the for the gym in building A. Um I haven't seen the kids on it yet, but it's going to be super excited to see them when they are. So, here at the middle school, um there's uh two and a half custodians assigned here. um just under 82,000 square ft and 27 classrooms here. Um this is a a 16acre campus. Um one of the big tasks from the the the custodial team this year, um they did a lot of pressure washing outside. Um part of that was my fault because we pulled the trees out and we had to clean up behind them. Um but that's that's kind of the biggest project that we did here was um really that was geared around Kurt and I started talking about that about two years ago. Um safety
008for the students um and the the the monitoring of them during lunchtime. Um it was getting to be a pretty a I'd say a a a burden on the staff. um students climbing it and back behind the trees doing what middle school kids do, right? So, um so we got that project done this year. It was great. Um here there's a 91 air filters. Um and then we also repainted the the outdoor basketball court and um the four squareear courts. Um trying to liven up San Quinton a little bit out there for him. So, Wow. Um, at the high school level, um, there's three full-time custodians assigned there. And at the high school that those custodians also have to do the MP3 campus and the district office and the transportation department. Um, so there's a
009lot there's a lot a lot of square footage there for them. Um, the high school campus makes up a little over 141,000 square feet. uh 26 classrooms there. That's a 47 acre campus. Um you know, some of the biggest bullets there is the high school is our largest energy consumption for the district. Um so trying to to reduce that um to get to where we can be compliant with the the Clean Building Act. Um we have two more years to be compliant there. Um so trying to get the compliance down there's there's there's two avenues. Um the first avenue that that I know I know Dr. Ever is is is advocating for um and that is an exemption for schools. Um hospitals have the exemption but the the the public school buildings don't. So, um,
010working on that. If if that happens, great. If not, um, then it's then it's on us to reduce energy over the next year. Um, so we can show one full year of being in in compliance by 2027. >> And that was for clean air. >> That's for the clean buildings act. >> Clean buildings. Have you been able to find where you're like bleeding out from? >> Yeah. So, we had an audit done uh going on two years ago now. Um and the energy audit identified lighting and and and the the HBAC. >> Okay. >> Um so, lighting, we've we've changed out um well over half that campus now to to LED lighting. Um, and then we've we've changed the the timers on the the uh HVSC controls um to really shrink down the amount of
011time that that that we're we're running that equipment >> with the with the fixtures modified. Is that would the picture on the left is a fuse? The picture on the left is the fuse for and it's supported after the modification of that's pretty big fuse. >> Wasn't that from the old days that they had to find online? >> So that goes down to one of the last bullets. Response to unexpected system failures. >> So that's the >> that's the 1991 fuse changed out with the brand new in the box 1984 fuse. >> But isn't most of that building new besides like the performing arts center and all of that? So the infrastructure was not upgraded in 2012 during the construction. So the building is new. Correct. But what feeds the building up? So we'll say
012from the road to the building was the original >> and then the building out is new. >> Right. So we're so we still have that from whenever whenever that was installed likely 191. MC. So >> construction all tilt up. I >> just didn't know if there's insulation concern, but I mean there was already upgrades to insulation. >> Yeah. Yeah. So that was all new in in 2012. Mhm. And the picture on the right there, that that's Noel in in the auditorium doing a lighting retrofit. This summer we changed out over 600 light bulbs. Um, and when you change to LED, you also have to modify the fixture as well. Um, so we've been doing all that in-house. Um, the high school campus has 221 air filters that we change every year. And then every other
013year we change an additional 350 year of filters. Um, >> so that's like 450 filters per district. That's a lot. Do we own that lift? >> No. No, that one was a rental. >> Yeah, that would be a nice one. >> Yeah, it would be a good inquiry. We can use it inside. >> Yeah, definitely. >> You can pull behind anything. indicated fitting >> and are safe. >> Cool. I love that. >> Um and last thing at the high school, um so we have one functioning heater for the north gym. Um and that heater at the end of the heating season last year went down. Um so we had some pretty major repairs on that this summer. Um that heater is from 91 as well. Um that was a big year for the district. Um
014that was right before COVID that was that was a project that was going to replace both the heaters. Um when when the CO hit and the the the funding changed um that project had to get tabled. Um so now we're we're working hard to maintain what we have. Um so that's back to being functional now. >> Whatever it is, it's working because it's won the America volleyball game. probably all the parents in there. >> Funny. Um, I did want to say like sometimes I'll be going to work it'll be 7 in the morning or even earlier and all of a sudden I'll see you go by in the truck. >> Most of the time no one's even at work yet wise when you're the first one with a table transporting or something going from the
015high school to another school. I'm like, "Wait, there goes Jay already. Keep it going. What's he doing?" So, I'm like, "Huh, that's impressive." So, thanks for just being on top of everything, making things run the way that we do because without you spearheading things, and having the energy, I don't this wouldn't run like it does. >> Absolutely. Well, thank you. >> Yeah. >> Seven's probably a little bit later. Yeah, I was gonna say it's probably that's probably the latest time I've seen it. But there's been some times that I've seen it pretty dang early and I'm like, "Wait, where is he going? What is going on?" >> We played basketball a couple years ago. I remember Jay showing up like in his full work stuff for basketball night. He's like, "Oh, I've been at school
016for 20 hours because something broken." I can't remember what school was at, but just >> Oh, yeah. Yeah. There was a winter storm. >> It was a winter storm. That's right. Yeah. Like, >> it would be interesting to really track your your steps. Do you track your steps? >> I don't track my steps. I do track my hours. >> That would seem really beneficial. >> Be kind of a fun project for a student to do like on a staff member, >> right? >> That's really moving around just to see what you know in a day. >> Yeah. Thank you. >> Navy thing. >> Thanks. Yeah. >> But yeah, be but for being short, nobody would ever guess that from the public that you're going how much you're going without or sacrificing and you know you
017know minimal staff and whatever because when I came to the I right there the first day I mean that place just looked phenomenal. I mean the floors were like glass. I even told Tyler Docker I said make sure to tell whoever the custodians are here. I said this place looks great. I mean they did a good job. I mean he said yeah know they take pride they we work well with them we give them a request they're they're a great staff work with good people and uh so he said he said he was going to relay the message but I want to let you know too that for being you know to see the the grounds and the fields and buildings and it's not like you know the district's slowly getting bigger but you're not
018getting more staff you're getting less staff going so so kudos to your management >> so the biggest thing the biggest asset that that we have is the staff um you know and we do a really good job with with making the staff feel valued um and with that they take a lot of ownership in the work they do. >> So and I'd say that starts >> that that value starts at the top down right >> you know so with without Dr. Ever and and Dr. They're horrible. Um, I think that's the first time I've said that. So, >> you're going to live that all year. There's going to be horrible. >> Are these your boys? >> No, those are their these are my boys. Sorry. >> We got football. Oh, yeah. They are that. Sorry.
019>> Yeah. >> But yeah. and and promote to see null well you know go from being custodian you know now he's like maintenance guy and being successful at it too >> started here at 5 years old with his dad sleeping gyms for him >> and he's such a great guy all the way around he's the nicest most polite person >> really is just want to close by saying it was you know with being going status quo and and and the the survival mode like I said um we still did accomplish Um, one of the biggest things was was was a budget um with the way we were able to manage it throughout the year and then um the budget team was able to allocate um the um some funds that we can spend in in
020the summer. Um with that we spent just over $100,000 between between June and August. um my department did a maintenance right so um so that's pretty special um and then like I said at the beginning just everybody sharing workload between between the campuses um takes a whole team and everybody came everybody showed up so yeah >> do you ever present to honor society or some of the other service groups for hours for students to do beautifific ification projects. >> I don't >> I've been pitching it to my daughter who's an artist to paint something on the yard wall or whatever you want to call that out there. It's just this giant gray >> mask. We'll just do like MMS or a Trojan head or or something so that she has all of her honor society
021hours in. >> Yeah, I've never looked into that. >> They all have to get in. I don't know how many hours for honor society specifically. Okay. >> Um, but it would be great to take ownership of their own community and their building. >> Something I'd be happy to look into. >> Oh, I should sell that at home. I'm selling it here. >> Thank you so much, Jay. I really appreciate it. Thanks, J. >> Thank you, Jay. Thanks. >> All right. Um, next item up is new business. Want to take your brother? >> Okay. >> You're so good. >> Thank you. >> I thought it was Jay's time. >> Football practice. >> Yeah. Um, yeah. First review policy procedure 3210 non-discrimination and equity. >> Dr. Good evening. Um before I jump in kind of to echo
022the board sentiments and then Jay's comments about the custodial staff when in the spring when we notified each team that we weren't going to they were going to be working down a person to a building. Everybody we talked to was like we don't like it but we're going to make it work. and they were concerned about hitting their high levels of expectations with being short staffed. And so I think I think Marty you said that the floor was immaculate >> like a brand like like it was a brand new building that >> that is the that is the pride they take in the work that they do. Um, and so it is because of their efforts, because of Jay and Bryant's and Rob's um, leadership that they're feeling what they do. I've worked in other
023buildings and that has not been the attitude of the custodian. >> You have a decent sub pool to pull from in the event since you're already short staffed and then what if someone calls out? I believe the sub pool is up to two right now. Zero to two and we're still trying to get >> many we hired from said pools. Yeah. Continuing to do >> I've seen Bellingham public schools. >> All right. Um, so tonight we have four policies uh for the board and let's cycle through this. As a reminder, oops, I'm going the wrong way. I apologize. As a reminder, was changed their classifications. Um, so critical is is the one that's we have to have. It's essential. It is based on federal to state law. Um encouraged is well not required by law.
024Policy is intended to reflect the spirit of existing state or federal law. And then discretionary, they didn't change that. Um that is addresses an action likely being part by the board or local school district. Um so the first one I'm bringing to you tonight is policy 3210. Um, and this is first reading, so as always, ask questions um if you have them tonight or send me an email. Um, changes to 3210. Last spring or summer, Washington state updated their protected classes. Um, and they included ethnicity, homelessness, immigration, or citizenship status. And so, WADA updated this policy to include those protected classes. Um, WASA all of WA was also added language about student handbooks. Um, and WASDA came out with a template that every student handbook has to have some version of. Um, and then WASDA
025as OSPI and WADA do is they came through and audited us in the spring. They do a civil rights audit and one of the things they asked for was our student handbook language. Um and so it is is boilerplate language from OSBI and then we we merize it so to speak. Um the big change in procedure 3210 is it's been reorganized to help employees um parents and students understand the complaint process better. Um the previous version was a little bit difficult to follow and has tried to clean this version. Um the piece that um that I neglected to um address was a couple years ago we added the equity policy to this non-discrimination policy. Um, and so when I copied and pasted the equity policy into the WASDA template for these changes, it was it
026was came across as change language. That uh equity educational equity policy has not changed from what the board approved previously, but it does appear in the in your documents as that whole section has changed, but that whole section has not changed. Um the changes were in the the areas that I just discussed >> and that's the complaint process and the student handbook. >> Yes. And then the adding the protected classes, additional protected classes and this is an essential policy and it's an update to existing question. Okay. Uh moving on to the next one. 3231 procedure. Uh this is again a critical or essential policy. It's also an existing um update to an existing procedure. Um two changes in this is WASDA has updated this procedure to align with Senate Bill 1176 withholding of transcripts and
027diplomas. And so one of the changes in this procedure is previously if a student owned a fine, owed a fine or had a missing book or something like that, the information could not be released. So if they transferred schools, we did not send additional information to that next school. We held that information to get that fine. Um the language has changed to we will send unofficial documents so that the student can get registered if it's college or if it's a different high school or different school and then the official will come in after we work with the family to collect the fees for the damage or the missing items. >> So there's still some level of accountability with the survey. >> There's still some level of accountability. Okay. >> And that's even for college. You
028said >> that's even for graduation. Yeah. So um and then the other change in this is when WASDA comes out with their model policies and procedures, they will often do the parentheticals and they will say uh district determines A, B and C and then they give you a list of things to to choose from. And so we in our procedure we still have that language. And so we went through and struck out, you can see in your board docs, we struck out the we left the list and that list is um in aligned with FURPA. Um and so those things that are suggested there by Waza are also the ones that are suggested by FURPA. Um and that was also um ran through our attorney and he made no recommendations to change. Okay. Next policy
029um is policy 3241 and policy 3241 is a student discipline policy and there's a little history here and what you have so it is a critical essential policy and procedure and it's an update to an existing so Meridian school district has always had a policy um the shift here is that in your board docs I gave you a clean unmarked up version of 3241 and I haven't done that before but the reason I'm going to share with you um we last updated this policy in 2018 um and and at that time um the state went in and made some pretty drastic changes to suit discipline and so we updated our policy to match match those changes. the state came out and they updated it once again, I believe in 2019, and then in 2023 it
030made a shift. And and what they found is through the discipline um and looking at data from from schools is they found way back in 2018, they found a higher um higher percentage of students of poverty, students of color, students who were behind in grade level, special education, students who are receiving special education services, those students were receiving more discipline than other students. And it was it was across the state. I'd like to say it was across the nation, but I'm not going to say that. I'm going to say it was across the state. And so they made those changes at that time. So we adopted it at that time. Then we had they made, I think, one or two other changes. But then in or 2425, they changed the rules again based on legislation
031and they modified the rules. And so Wazda came out with emergency rules which were in effect for the 24-25 school year. We did not adopt them, but we followed them. Our assistant principles and our buildings were aware of them, but we didn't get around to adopt them partly because it was shared these are going to change. These are going to change. So we we chose not to adopt them. I consulted with our attorney and he said you're probably good not to adopt them. Um, and so they changed and they the emergency rules that were in effect last year became in effect I believe in July. And those rules were so vastly different from the 2018, the last time this policy was updated, that it made more sense to me to just give you a brand
032new version, clean version of 3241 um for the review. If you look in the policy of 3241, there is a there is a section I think it says MSD discipline matrix and it's a little link. It's embedded in there. Pretty sure it's in the policy. It could be in the procedure, but it's if you click on that, that takes you to a spreadsheet, which is a Google doc, which our assistant principles and principles have been working on. really our assistant principles have been working on over the past year and a half to match the the new rules and that that that spreadsheet that Google doc covers discriminatory language. It covers violence. It covers um I'll just call it general misbehavior, but it's broken up and then it gives you different categories. It aligns the consequence.
033It aligns a restorative practice and when necessary align it aligns an RCW. >> Um and so that is a document that that helps us get alignment across buildings. our assistant principles and our principles, you've heard us talk about their collaboration and their goal is that if they're at the middle school, if you're a family and you have a student at the middle school and the high school and they do the same infraction, the consequences will be very similar. Um, and so that document has helped us to align our buildings. Um, >> I like this. It's and and kudos to um further talk us talk about our principles. Um Robert Katzik is a um amazing with the spreadsheets >> um and so he is he is able to make so he designed that with Shawn Duffy
034um and then it's just kind of evolved over the past year and a half. >> Great. And then correct me was this also this could also apply to social media and outside of school as long as it has implic implicate imp >> implications back to the building >> the learning environment. Yeah. >> And the this I guess in general terms and Dr. ever jump in here, but previously when they made that shift in 2018, the discipline rules went from punitive to more restorative and it and it it really kind of opened up where you had to I think the language was you had to try a you had to if something happened, you had to try a a corrective action before you could take it more direct or more um impactful corrective action. And so
035it kind of loosened up a little bit and I think as things do the pendulum swings and now it's tightening up a little bit. It's it's giving um administrators a little bit more ability to keep their building safe um and to ensure the learning environment stays safe. >> Great. >> So that example being when there's disruptive behavior from the learning environment. Yep. throwing of chairs, classroom things. Okay. >> Yep. And there's still restorative practices that are taking place, but it it is I think we've always kept the building safe. It's just looked different. And it's it's looked different from when I was in high school um to when my kids were in high school to even a couple years later. Okay. All right. And then the last one is 4040. And this is this is
036one of those where um we Lisa Gilchrist was asking our legal counsel about public records request and he reviewed our 4040 um and he updated this pol he made a suggestion to this policy um that spoke to um changing the language in 4040 and it's a slight language Um changing the language to instead of requiring a formal resolution um formal resolution uh do the volume and diversity of records continuously generated by public school districts around the state have been public records requests have have been provided to them. Some of them with an honest intent. they wanted this information. Some of them are are I'm going to use the term a gotcha and because of the amount of information that that a public school has, if you miss a deadline, you're in violation of that public
037records request. So by doing by making this small adjustment the board is not making a formal declaration but by adopting this policy they are declaring that we are not going to try to maintain those records and you're saying that maintaining of those those records are impractical. Those are those are and keeping an index of set records. So we're still going to have the records. We're still going to do that, but we may not have the index necessary. Um, >> so let me in practicality, what does that look like with transparency? And if there is a records request, >> if there is a records request, we'll still provide the records. I mean, we'll still go through our due process, but we just don't have to. If you look at it, it says the board hereby declares
038that trying to maintain a current index of all the district's records would be impractical. So it's maintaining that index of all the records that we maintain. So if we get a public records request, we're still going to meet that public records request. But if they ask for an index of all of our public records by us having this policy, we will not have to produce that. And in fact, we can produce this policy that says here's why we don't have it >> and protect from lawsuit and helps us with that. But you will still be required to release the record. >> We'll still respond as a court. >> You just have to ask for specific things. >> Yes. >> Give us emails that pertain to or give us certain permits that you've required that for
039the storm water at blah blah blah >> or whatever. and and Lisa has done a very good job of keeping up on those >> and her volume of records requests >> has increased as well and I think she she shared that or someone shared that recently. >> Yeah, absolutely might help. Um, so the the gotcha, another way of saying that is weaponizing records requests. And so sometimes, and we've been fortunate, but some districts are being with requests to provide every purchase that's ever been done by the district or to provide an index of every purchase that's ever been done by the district. And that's not all digital, right? Sometimes that's >> and and it's a waste of resources, a waste of time. And um sometimes it's done uh because uh maybe a company is looking
040for contact information because they have a product that they want to sell. And so that's one way of getting information. Um sometimes it's done to try and uh you know they might send the request to a teacher, not to the records um request official and then after 5 days we're we're bound to respond within five days. We don't have to have the record but we have to acknowledge that we've received it. And if we don't after five days, then there's a liability that that exists. So, um, this is just one measure to protect. But you're concerned about whether we follow through, we fall through. Lisa does a nice job to say, "Hey, you asked for something. You need to be more specific. Can you tell us exactly what you're looking for?" >> And and Dr.
041ever mentioned that the request to teachers, not only a request to teacher, but a request to teacher during the summer where they may not be checking their email on a regular basis. So, >> and so going through that channel too is important. >> Y >> I almost have to fill these every single day. >> I get it a lot. >> It is. It is a lot of work. questions. >> All right, cool. Thank you. Next up, we have the finance report with Daniel. >> Good see you. >> This is an easy one. >> You liking the new deal. >> Yeah. >> Thank you. >> Slide. >> Okay. This first one is uh September enrollment compared to budget. We are down 11 in the core program. Um it was pretty pretty accurate budgeting for for enrollment.
042Typically we're up we're up a little bit. Um seems to be kind of a common theme like this year and last year where we start down a little bit and climb up over the first couple months of the school year. If I had to make a prediction, I would guess that we'll probably be um reaching our budget enrollment in November. Probably climbs up a little bit and then it'll fall a little. So, uh we'll see where we'll see where it ends up at. Um MP3 is up one. Um so, we we've really stabilized MP3 at about 215. It's been for a number of years. >> I'm assuming this was done before they completed all the choice transfer requests. >> Yeah. And I I believe we have had some more coming in after this. >> There's
043that's my understanding. >> Yeah. Uh special education is up three. So pretty pretty close there. The running start, those don't come in quite yet. So we don't have those in here. U I've also added the the ECAP enrollment. So this is the 40 40 students that we have. Um so it's budgeted 16 three-year-olds and 24 four year olds. So, at the time of of the enrollment count, we hadn't filled that up to the 40. Um, also, if you're curious about the uh what we're we've the traditional TK enrollment, that's the first line. Um, in the core program, that's 44. And so, now now we're capped at 44. That's the current legislation. questions on enrollment. >> So, early childhood is not meeting objections at this time. >> Yeah, but I think it was more of uh
044just getting the right students lined up. Is that I think there's also the 12 students that were not or were getting funded 70 to 75%. So, we do have a shortfall. Yeah. In the implementation. I yeah I know that from our previous conversation but I just was looking at what was actually projected and what >> yeah at this point we've filled our 84 spots. >> Okay I'm gonna zoom sorry I'm break this and zoom in a little bit. >> Yep. >> Oh no. >> Nope. We're still good. until it's Shane's turn at least. Um, okay. So, this is the budget projection report. Um, we're looking at July. So, right now, I'm in the process of closing the books out for August. Um, we leave accounts payable open through the end of September. So, essentially, if
045we get an invoice in September that belongs to last fiscal year, we can charge it to that. um as of October 1st, if you receive those, they go to the next fiscal year. But, um Dory Loops, who's our account payable specialist, she's pretty good at chasing all those invoices down. And uh we're in a particularly good spot this year. work. And in most years, we would do a special accounts payable run and have you guys come in just to sign those documents and and run that close to September 30th just to squeak in the rest of those invoices. But Dory's um she's so on top of it that we don't need to do that this year. So, that's a positive thing. >> Yeah. Um the we received 12 and a half% of the aortionment in
046July. So July is a pretty big revenue month for the district. Um one you get that the higher percentage than any other month of your regular portionment. Um also we have so if you look at lower lower on the the revenue side here you can see there's quite a bit of figures in the in this area. And this this is typically where our invoicing revenues come in. So as of uh the end of June, you can invoice quite a bit. So we did quite a bit of invoicing there. Uh received some revenues. Um also there was talk about potentially u not receiving all the state funding in July. And so one of the things that I did to to kind of mitigate any impact of that is do a transfer out of our capital projects
047fund to the general fund. Um and that covers the uh the couple projects levy the or the uh technology levy. And so um I did that. So you can see that at the bottom of the screen here was about half a million dollars. Um and then I also did another transfer at the end of August just to get capture the rest of it. So everything that hadn't come through yet. So in this uh this blue area here total receipts for 4,265,000. Um and on the expendure side uh we've done a pretty good job of reducing cost this year and you can really see the impact of that. Um in July there's u the payroll amount was down from the average was 7 to 229 just you know right about uh 1.8 uh benefits typically follow
048that. So if you have your if if your payrolls up your benefit costs are going to be up as well or vice versa. the accounts payable are about a half a million dollars which is actually pretty low for the middle of summer. Um you have in June you have kind of that last little bit of the departments uh spending their budgets down so you get a little influx there and then you have know the projects that Jay's doing around the district coming in there. Uh, so total cash dispersements in July were 2,846,000. And I always like to point out this budget percentage here because this is a pretty big indicator of of how the district overall is doing financially. Uh we're at uh if you remember back to last year, we were tracking above that
049average all year and we had to work really hard to to bring that down. I really just squeak it in so we so we could um actually we ended up doing a budget extension last year just in case, but we squeakaked through without needing it. This year we've been tracking below, slightly below because it's a very tight budget, but um also been managing the finances really well. Uh total ending fund balance is uh 2,915,000. Any questions on the finance report? >> Thank you. >> Thanks David. >> Thank you. >> Okay. So, I think I'm going to keep the team up there as we continue through. >> I love that. >> Um, just some really exciting pieces. Last year, we did uh work with our principles and head coaching. Stacey Thomas used cell to help our
050principles really look at engagement. This year, um, we're taking part in the second year through the ESD. and we have Stanwood and um will be challenged on the other well here we go Edmonds and Lakewood and so and Meridian so Lyndon is not doing it this year nor is Mount Baker um and this year it is around student voice and ways to engage our students to share what it is that they are experiencing and how we can respond. So um looking at different ways to work with students on their perspectives about what's happening and so walkthroughs and uh strategies to work with our teachers about how to guide them and coach them in the moment when they are being observed. And so we've had our first meeting and so um we'll be hosting at the
051middle school at the next meeting. Sure you guys are updated on that when it comes up. So excited about the options for our principles. Again, this is a grant-f funed $500 a principal. Um, usually thousands of dollars to be able to do this. So, benefit to our >> It's grant funded and our peers dropped out. >> It is subsidized. So, the cost for us is $500 a piece. And yes, the other the other districts. >> So, and we're sending how many representatives? Four. all of our principles. >> I would love to have sent our principles and assistant principles, but we had testimon because it's the it's all the same one day. So, um excited to share. We had our um Latinos in action parent night um was fantastic. Um the uh Spson did just a
052fantastic job. Um she did an introduction and had a speech about her experience as a student both K12 college and then as an adult talking about individuals who um looked like her came from where she had come from and and being able to to speak to that and um well attended by families. uh families all came in with some food and had students who uh they performed the guitars and they were singing not just playing and um being shared and uh just a great evening. I think we had 28 students and then there's an action they're working right now on getting themselves set so they can go to the elementary school and do their training there. is uh it's going to be great for our district. It's going to be really great. >> That picture
053on the right has gotten bigger. The big group picture >> absolutely still >> this is our this is our first year of Latinos in action, right? >> Yeah. But then we have something different like a there was a bigger um gather one that we >> it's the um I know what you're talking about not international group but >> multicultural maybe >> yeah well and those aren't competing so yeah those are >> just another avenue action is during the school they correct and so it's actually a class they get to take. I love that. >> Great. >> Um, parking lot safety. So, um, want to give some kudos to some folks. Um, um, Nate Beanie at the elementary school, you just know the humanity that has to go through that building, whether it's our buses and
054the students funneling in and then also the the parent drop off and then also MP3. We really don't have a leadin that's great for MP3 when we have um pickup in the afternoon more so than than a drop off. It's two times a week, but we had had some indicators of unsafe behavior um mainly because people were lining up before the pickup time and on Laurel and trying to get off onto the shoulder. And so, um, reached out and and asked Jay, uh, to work with our high school and also with Michelle and and look at how could we minimize the impact and make it safer. And so, the idea, you can see the two arrows that are adjacent to each other was to actually stack the the weight to bring to bring in they
055say about how much you say about 300 ft cars. about to be a car. >> So took 12 to 15 minutes off the pickup time and and got cars off a little faster. So they're continuing to refine it. The first time was on Monday. >> Yeah. So I think Were you there today to see it? >> No. >> Yeah. Yeah. So checking with Michelle, but um anyway, appreciate heads coming together and minimizing any any issues there. This leads into my existing concerns about the location of the early childhood center where it's going in an already high traffic area with high school MP and three early childhood. I'm hoping that continues to be a big topic of discussion. >> We'll continue to examine that. We have we have people in the district office now and we
056have those things happening. But you don't have three or four classrooms of early childhood learners being dropped off to pick up. So there will be definitely the increase to traffic. >> Yeah. I think when we go through the design, I think that's the next next piece is we have it posted for architect. So we'll go through a couple weeks for an RFQ and as we go through the development of that we'll also look at what what options can happen. >> Great. So >> fun part there is we're expecting to break ground in fall to recess that >> so great. So where are you going to be? Um, all hands guacam summit will be tomorrow and it's at the peril event center. The dedication has changed a little bit for Friday. So there is a game
057>> for that again. And so um message went out to the community today and then WA was a board meeting and fall conference this one day in Twater. And then uh an item that just presented itself is uh Representative Santos who leads the education committee with the legislature is coming up to Wer County and Rep. Timmons uh are going to host a mental health convening with the superintendent on October 2nd. uh student well-being and behavioral health is the topic. Um don't know any more about it than that. And then I'll be attending the real skills for real life conference in Washington DC and because of my attendance Dr. Har will administer the board meeting. That's all we have. >> Thank you very much. Um no student board members today. Do we have information from board
058members? >> We are wrapping up the field dedication. We have very limited tickets left just by capacity of what the we had to move it to the commons. We will reach our capacity of 250 attendees. Um yeah, so it's all hands on deck Friday or uh Friday night the 7th and Saturday big event. And um it's pretty remarkable what will be taking place there. You're saying that there's limited tickets for the >> Yeah. >> Okay. Because there was a thing that said that we could still buy tickets at the door. People think that >> um I don't know. >> Okay. >> So, no tickets at the door. >> It It would be very unlikely that you would get in. Okay. shut down >> just because it takes three days to transfer make sure school gets
059some money. >> So yeah, it's going to be great. Mr. Ames is very excited and we have students, prior students flying in from all across the country. So >> yeah, >> it's crazy. And including his previous players from Mount Sai, his very first coaching job. >> That's cool. It's pretty cool. The people I've had the privilege to speak to the last three four weeks. It's been remarkable. So, and it's also his 80th birthday. So, >> yeah, there will be a special celebration with that and the engineer >> in PG. >> Yeah, we did have to cap it just because of a fun fact. Brian did a great job um including Meridian students in as much as he could. Um but because we have so many people in alumni in band and choir or band and
060cheer, we've opted to not have their performance so that those coaches could attend as community members. >> Um but we do have a lot of um support. Our side dishes are being provided by the culinary art students and our floor arrangements are being made by floral design. So he did a great job of including >> student engagement in the celebration and so they're on our recognition on our official program. >> Awesome. Anything else? Okay, we call our meeting and sign official documents. Thank you.