001bus ride to the airport, which from there we flew on a 5 and a half hour flight to DC, which was actually not as bad as I expected to be. It was it was really nice, so it was great. Um, when we landed in DC, we got on a charter bus this time, which was really comfy. Uh we went to the city, went to our hotel, uh got to unpack our rooms, and then we got to take an optional walk to the grocery store to get food and stuff like that for our hotel rooms, which was really helpful. But a lot of people ended up buying more food than they thought they'd need due to the fact that we were only in our hotel rooms for like an hour or two a day. So yeah,
002uh day two was the Air and Space Museum was mainly what we did. Um, we were not with the Closup Foundation this day. We were just with our chaprons and teachers, which um, allowed us to like go at our own pace, which was fantastic. Um, it was really cool. Everybody loved the Pepsi plane. Some of the coolest coolest stuff I've ever seen. I'm a I'm a space nerd. Took a lot of pictures. Um, really cool to see all this stuff. And I didn't know some of it existed, which was great. Yeah. Uh after that we went to some food trucks to get to or like to get lunch and we ended up eating lunch by the Washington Monument which wasn't ex uh on our agenda but I'm so glad we got to see it. Uh
003it was way bigger than I expected to be which was all striking. It was really cool. Uh we went to the Holocaust Museum. I didn't take pictures because it didn't feel like the right time but that was something we did as well. Uh day three we started with the FDR memorial which was really pretty. They had a it had a lot of cherry trees, lots of waterfalls. It was really simple but really really really cool to see. And then after that we went to the MLK Memorial which was even even simpler but it was also really cool because the amount of artwork and detail and historic accuracy that goes into all the monuments is incredible to see. really really cool. Uh the Jefferson Memorial was really fun. It was not sure how to describe it
004other um different from the other monuments that we visited because they all had something of them that was the same, but they also had like their own unique elements. I guess this one was that it was kind of similar to like the Lincoln Memorial with its build, but it was different because it was for a different person, but you got to learn a lot just by like going into the monuments and seeing like how the structure represented the person, seeing like their historic posts on the wall, seeing what they actually looked like, which was really cool. Uh, we also went to Arlington National Cemetery, which was way bigger than I thought it was going to be. It's crazy to see how many people are buried there. like how they put it all together. Uh we
005went to the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and we got to see the changing of the guard which was really cool cuz everything they do is so in sync and so robotic. It was insane. It was really cool. We went to the Euima Memorial and it ended up starting to rain which wasn't a bad thing like I was guessing it was going to be. It w it was really warm rain which was good. Uh, and we were having a lot of fun. So, they just let us kind of walk around in the rain. Um, I did not get any pictures of the memorial. He did luckily. So, that was cool. We also went on a scavenger hunt to find specific wars on the memorial. And then there was a double rainbow, which was even better.
006Uh, this day we got to meet Representative Larson, which was pretty cool cuz he's a cool guy. uh he got we he answered all of our questions and we got to take a picture with him and it was really cool to talk to somebody who represents our state uh in like the actual government. So that was really cool too. Yeah, he was really nice. He told us all about his job. He told us about the committees he works on and other committees that um happened. We got to go into some rooms to see some like professional meetings happen which was also cool because now I know how stuff works. So, that'll that should help me in history someday. Um, then we went to the Capitol building. This is probably one of my favorite parts of
007the whole trip because I've seen pictures of the Capitol and I've always wondered what it looked like inside. I didn't actually think we were going to be going into like the capital and then I was like, "Oh, we're going into the capital." Which was fantastic. I was so glad we got to see that because it's really cool. Uh, the Museum of American History was next and it had lots of uh, stuff in it that I didn't know were like significant to American history. And then I found out and I was like, "Oh, so that's how this this is how this happened." And it was really cool to see just like the variety of stuff that they had there. Um, they had everything from like the Civil War to the Revolutionary War to piracy to the
008telegraph to fashion to transportation. It was really cool. Uh, the Lincoln Memorial was fantastic. Again, a lot bigger than I thought it was going to be, but really cool. Um, I love that they had the Gettysburg address on the wall cuz I didn't at first I didn't know that that's what that was. Um, I thought it was an excerpt from like a different speech and then they were like, "No, Skettysburg address." I was like, "Oh, that's that's even cooler." Um, I love they had like his some of the significant things that he said on the walls. It was great to see that. Really cool to um be there and see that because then it was even more historically impactful, which was great. Um, this was the night that we stayed out later so that we
009could see some of the memorials when it got dark, which makes it a lot more realistic. Um, we went to the Vietnam War Memorial first. Um, it was insane to see the number of names on that wall. Um, it was really quiet, really, really a respectful kind of thing. um really gave us a perspective on like what what people have done for our country which was really cool. Um after that we went to the World War II memorial which I didn't really know was a thing and then I saw it and I was like oh this is this is actually pretty cool. Um, it was it was great to see like all of the all the different parts of everything and all the detail and effort that people put into the memorials to like preserve
010the history of our country, which is great. Uh, this is the Korean War Memorial. This one was my favorite of the memorials we visited because of all of the um details that went into it and the effort to make it so realistic. When we first came through, it was light out, so you could you could see that the statues were made out of stone and that there was light like on them. Um, but when it got dark and we walked back by, the way that they were illuminated made it look like they were real people. Um, which is how it was designed. And the effect was really stunning, which is cool. And I love the way they use the laser to carve the basic people into the marble because that's just um that's a great
011extra touch to make sure that they're not forgotten. Um day five we went to Philadelphia. We got up early to drive and see stuff there which was really cool because I'm glad we did that because that has a lot of fun stuff there. Um we went to the Hall of Signers first. We loved seeing the statues. That was a highlight of the trip for everybody. whether it was like funny or it was like, "Oh, this is what these people looked like." It was cool. Also, there was a lot of them, so we didn't know that many people signed those documents, and that was cool to learn. Uh, we went to the Libertyville, which was also really cool to see because I didn't know it was made of um black iron. I thought it was made
012of bronze. That was a revelation. Um, it was also really cool to see because I didn't know how big it was and how how um significant the crack was and they were telling us all about the like the history of it cracked here, it was mended and then it cracked again. Like it hasn't been rung since and that was cool to see how they like um made an effort to preserve that little bit of history. We also went to Independence Hall which was really cool to see because um it was it was really crazy to think that we were like in the rooms that where like the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence were signed and like all those important decisions were made and that was really that was really cool cuz I didn't I
013didn't I didn't even think I'd be there. That was really So that was cool to be there. Uh then we went to the White House which was really fun last day. On the last day. Yes. This is the last day in DC. Um, usually you can go up to the fence that is behind where we are, but they were expecting a protest, so they kept us um at a distance. But one thing that we found really funny was we got to see the Secret Service kind of appear on the roof and we didn't know where they had come from. So, we saw them appear and we were like, "What?" So, that was that was fun. And we were all we had a fun time there because we were looking for the president. We did not
014see him, but who knows? They're really cool. And then the Museum of Natural History was amazing. I did not know um what they had there. And it turns out they had way more than I thought they did. Um they had several sections. My favorite of which was the fossils because it's crazy to like see the the actual size of creatures that we've never seen with like our own eyes. Um, but I also love seeing the Hope Diamond because I am a big fan of history that has kind of a creepy element to it and the Hope Diamond for sure has that. So, how big is that in real life? Um, it's about this big. Really? I forgot the exact number of carrots it is, but it's incredibly it's it's really cool to see. Pictures cannot
015do it justice. It's it's it's amazing. Uh yeah, this was they also had the Hall of Mammals. So they had um really really cool taxiderermy of animals and that was impressive to see because you're probably never going to see some of these animals in real life which was cool to get a perspective on like what they looked like and where they lived. And they also did a special effect when we were in the savannah section. So they dimmed the lights, they put on like thunder noises and they made it seem like it was raining which was fun. Uh, and then we took a detour and got to see the founding documents, which was not something that was originally on our schedule. I'm glad we did it, though. Um, we just got we had the option
016of going to the art gallery to sit down in the air conditioning or to go see this. And I chose to go along and see this, which is amazing. I did not expect the documents to be so faded, though. I don't know why I didn't expect that, but it was it was kind of a shock, but in a good way. Um, but it was really really cool to see the originals because that's like the original founding documents. Yeah. So, um, this is the other student reflection he said. Um, and one thing that I have appreciated is that I see a lot of growth like personal growth. um because it's oftentimes the first time that they've been in a hotel room with other people their own age and they have to get themselves to bed and
017figure out showers and you know so I've seen a lot of that sort of growth and then you know lots of landmarks and we really pack so much into a short time so that's what she said and then overall this is an amazing experience whether it was being silly and having fun with my friends which is this is some of the stuff we did we got ice cream We goofed around with the statues which was great. Hung out on the bus. That was that was really cool. Got to get closer with a lot of friends. Or if it was seeing some of the coolest structures and statues in all of American history. These are my favorites. I couldn't pick like three because it was all so cool. Um I loved it. We loved it. It
018was so great. This is actually that might have been my favorite presentation all year. You're an amazing job. What grade are you? I'm an eight. Yeah. Well done. I had a little cousin born on the trip. I got one text message and a photo from the bus the whole trip. Hugely successful. I guess he's not my cousin. No, my cousin's my nephew. Um I have a couple questions. Yeah. Okay. Um a small amount of students got to go because I know it's incredibly expensive and you guys do fundraising, correct? To offset that so that it opens up opportunity for other students. So would you suggest this to someone who was kind of on the fence about going? Absolutely. That is an experience I would never pass up if I had the opportunity to do it
019again. like it's it's completely worth every cent that it costs to go on. The memories are priceless. Okay. And did you participate in fundraising and getting yourself there? I did. They had a lot of um craft fairs and things you could sell, which was um an easy way to build up some of the money that it cost to go. I raised about half and my parents um um helped me with the other half. So, it's kind of a meet in the middle sort of situation, which is an easy way to raise the money that you need to go. Yeah, it's great. And you I mean, you worked for it. Yeah. So, and then last you showed everything that was your favorite, but what was your most memorable moment from the trip? My most memorable moment
020was probably um when probably when we were going to the Washington Monument and I was like, "Yeah, this is going this is going to be cool." And I was just kind of thinking about like lunch and stuff and then we got there and I was like, whoa, this is really, really cool. I'm definitely selfish. I like to be with them when they see the National Mall for the first time because it's such a cool thing. It was really cool just like standing at the base of the Washington Monument and being like, if anywhere that I turn right now, I can see something that has history. Like I can see the Lincoln Memorial. I can see the Jefferson Memorial. I can see the White House. I can see the Capitol building. just everywhere you turn there
021was something cool and fun to look at which was probably my most memorable experience. Well, I hope you give that testimony to future students uh as a way to get kids involved. She did. I did. Last week I got excused from my classes to go give presentations. Fantastic. Good job. Can you still climb the Washington Monument? I don't. I wish. So, yes, you can, but we um our group is too large. have to make the reservation I think 30 days in advance and we can't coordinate. Sure. Yeah. Can't do that. One of the last but one of the things that you said that I was really proud of is that how respectful you were at times and what you needed to be and that takes a lot of maturity and so thank you for teaching
022that. That's that is that's awesome. Thank you. citizens of the app. Awesome. Thank you very much. That was awesome. Excellent job. Thank you. Well, that was definitely one of the best films we've seen. So wonderful and to remember everything. I would never. I'm like, where are my Q cards? I said she she gets on tour. Yeah. I'll go with her. Yeah. Yeah. All right. So, doesn't if there's any public comment. So, we're going to be moving on to new business. It's first review facilities. See if I can. Okay. So I am pinch hitting for Mr. Gagger today. He had some uh other commitments with his children. I said it's good. This is the first first read. He'll be here on June 11th. But this is something that we do every six years. Uh however, there
023is an addition this year. Wakom County requested a 20-year projection because they're doing the growth management act. And so they've received that from other districts. But this is set up for um the projection 20 years out. It's very heavily um accurate up to first six years and then it expands out. The farther out you get, the less accurate is depending on how much it's developed and what you end up having for impacts. It is set up for SEMA mitigation fees down the wall. So large developments where whether it be environmental or affecting our school district um and not for impact fees. And so, um, this way impact fees would would affect neighborhood growth and and we heard last fall, I believe, that the emphasis would be on making sure we protect the district with SEMA
024mitigation. So, that's how it's set up. So, when something does get developed and they go for permitting, then we have a place at the table to talk about the district. It's just a read this time and then ask for approval next next meeting. Anybody have any questions? If you if you do have any, if you could let us know over the next week or so so that Jay has time to gather those responses and be able to get them back. Obviously, it's tough to project after years. See, it's tough to project two to three years out, let alone capital. So, okay. Okay. Moving on. first review 2025 26 Latinos in action. So we've talked about Latinos in action before and if you remember Mr. Harbble and I attended a leader breakfast at Western. They had
025their conference and then since then Mr. Dawing and Caleb Benson went to Ferndale to see their class in action. And so this is a memorandum of understanding to establish an elective class that Midian High School for Latinos in Action. The cost is 12,000. We have a grant from Foundry 10. They're going to provide 10,000 of it and so we'll be able to provide the rest of it. You'll be getting that MLU probably in the next meeting or so. They haven't developed it yet, but they've given us confirmation that they're going to provide the funding for that. So, this is a first read. Second meeting will come back on the gloves June but this is for running a class with the high school student. Have we done any surveys and the basis for bringing this in
026and huge huge emphasis of students at the high school interested and ready to go. Okay, great. Actually originated the students fabulous reaching out is it like it's an elective is it history or it's based on service? and mentorship and there's a there's a composition of the class where you have students it's a it's a 30 4030 so students who are advanced learners students who are traditional learners and students who may need personalized academic support so there's some work between administration and um the students who desire to get into class and then an obligation that they have through the agreement is to do mentorship at the lower grade it's it's fantastic to watch Cool. Well, uh, moving on to resolution 0325, an emergency declaration and waving and bid laws. Looks like we are reviewing and seeking
027approval assuming. So, for this res. Yeah. So, for um Mr. Jagger. He worked on an issue that we had with a water leak that was on the south side of the middle school and was originally thought to um be a break in the line in the raspberry fields and happened over a weekend for the repair. And so we were not in a position to wait to do bid law. And so this is uh we contacted Everson Brick Works and they came out and made the repair and um this is approval for us to use them in a short period of time and we didn't have the ability to go through bid process and so this is um what was the cost of that? Just under 17,000. It's Iverson, right? Sorry, what did I say? Oh,
028Iverson, excuse me. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. And I'm assuming this is common verbage that falls in compliance with anything state level and other schools have done this before. Specific state law requires this. Yep. Yep. Yep. Is it just for this one instance or if that ever happens again, then we can just this one? Any time. We've had this happen at Portland when pipes burst the high school. Yeah. And we had to bring in crew to clean it and crew to make the repair. Yeah. And it sounds like the original estimate was much much higher. Uh more than doubled. It normally isn't anything over 10,000 you have to go to bid. Is that the 10,000 is when we need to seek seek approval from the board. So there's two conditions. if it's an ESD contract and
029if it's over 10,000 in terms of the um district or my my authority to spend funds. So when is it to bid? It depends on what the project is. So it graduates. Yeah. So we have a roster for small but when it gets beyond that we use bid process. Well it's fixed. He actually sealed it and bypassed it because it's an outside super expensive to do the actual repair. He's not want he's not recommending cutting in the concrete. So at the middle Yeah. So I like it. Righty motion. That was first. What's that? We need a motion. We do need a motion. Please. All right. Please get a motion to approve resolution 0325. All motion to approve resolution 0325 as presented today. I will second. All those in favor? I I Daniel time moving on.
030Already started. How's it going? Yeah. How are you? Good. got a quick quick meeting today. Okay, so the spam, right? Hold my notes here real quick because I had some notes. The AP is a bit high this month. So I wanted to talk about Yeah, it's good. Okay. So, uh this is our enrollment uh May compared to April. So, you can see the core program is down three FTE. MP3 is down two for a total of five. That's pretty normal for this time of year. Um special ed is also down four FTE. Typically that's a good thing. It means getting exited. Um the running start and dropout engagement are also down too. And make character budget we're still up quite a bit. uh four programs up 32 MP3s black and and over over this section
031here special education was up 13 enrollment was five we're actually right on Let's see where I break the Okay, so this is this is April. See, there's wasn't a whole lot to talk about on the revenue side. I mean, this Well, there is the the large property tax number that comes through in April. I was going to show that to you for the debt service capital funds as well. So 2,412,000 that's payable that comes in a large we also get a large chunk in October. As you can see total cash receipts are pretty high. is the highest month for revenue with that tax receipts coming in 4.9 million. It's the salaries pretty close to what our average was the accountable is is obviously high 960,000. It's mostly two large expenditures. Uh we have third I
032got wrong but I don't know why it's so $4 million um for our insurance that we pay we pay twice a year. Um so that's that's quite a bit and then there was $300,000 to micro computer systems. That's where Joe is is buying the the TVs TV stands and now fitting the buildings and so that that came in two ways. But uh that's really good techn are we putting money into the middle school and things well it's it's like those right there. So these devices been we also don't know when we're going to do I can check it does see here this on that cable report it does speak to which building so this was for building a the high school and so a lot of the projectors are failing for when to go. I
033ask a question about that too. So I'm assuming let's say we upgrade projectors, TVs, and then in the next three years we get a new we would put them back in. Yeah. Yeah. To the best of our ability. Yeah. Uh typically when you do like a a rebuild of building you get some have that money put pictures and put in this just be a savings that sh or just like we do in our homes. We go around to whatever rooms and other buildings needed equipment that we just upgraded and replace the equipment. Yeah. Yeah. Um, another expensure that's out of the ordinary is the Washington State Auditor's Office. There's 44,000 there. It's already done. That audit is just about done. They finished with their financial and single audit. The single audit is the federal programs
034and then they're pretty close to wrapping up the accountability audit. They actually issued the audit report last Friday for the financial signal audit. So that's that's a great thing that there's a that's happening by the end of May that audit report has to be considered a low risk audit. And so this puts us in low risk status for with the single audit the federal audit which means um they only audit 25% total dollars in federal programs as opposed to so that was that was a pretty big milestone. So far beyond it, there haven't been it's been very well very light. We'll probably have an exit meeting coming pretty soon. We'll schedule that charge. We'll be setting up the office to list And typically two is the magic number. Um if we do if you have
035three then it's a four. So if they're public two separate meetings there are four typically stay. Yeah, that any fund balance of 3.3 million that's like is that the 10% number that you wanted to always have? So that that's kind of like our high mark of the year and then those numbers after that's when it goes down to expected. Yeah. Okay. So we're I mean we're trending pretty good to to end it. This is right now shown 2.5 million. What I'd like to get to is where our low number is above two million. So our low number was in March was almost 1.8 million. So a lot of that still and if one of the biggest factors um when you go out for bonds and your your rating that you get. So the rating that
036you get impacts the interest rate that you're able to receive credit report and probably so will run a bunch of different various things like revenues compared to expenditures balance expenditures that type exam and so fun. Can you remind me what month it is that we asked all the teachers and staff to submit their expenses and things like there's a month that more of them get May is yes. So that's May 15th is our cut off for for each of the buildings, but typically the buildings will back that up a couple weeks for all of their staff is the secretary and the principal. uh we want to have a couple weeks to say, "Okay, we gave everybody a chance to spend the funds and now we're going to look at how much we have left and
037we're at what needs be spend some of that on citizen needs to have and maybe build up a little bit of supplies." So when I say that in June, I would say most of that larger it's kind of Um, I would say we'll get April. April, not not as much. It should kind of tail off into the summer months. We don't we don't have a lot of 75 days. It feels like the last couple years it's been more it's been wrapping up sooner. Yes. Four, five years. Yeah. So we put a lot of effort into which is helpful because then if we do have some it just helps employ see how much funding we have left at the end of the year balance targets and that's why I was asking the question like how how
038accurate is that number at all of those expenses? pretty good. Yeah, it's pretty good. So, we have a procedure set in place where basically vaping suits the metal but um I mean with like I met with everybody last month when I was here and um like any department building that was a bit behind I offered them an extra week to complete it. So, so there were a couple that took advantage of that and then after that cut off date then they have to communicate with me directly and secondary purchase orders and this month when I'm meeting with everybody I check check in again and ask spending your standing and really what that it helps in a couple ways what we already talked about knowing how much money you have left at the end of the
039year but it also helps with like not getting a a lot of stuff in the summer and our biggest vendor is where we order a lot of our supplies with and there since they're so it's a it's basically just like a supply business that school districts so they're they're used to how schools work essentially what we can do is I've opened up purchase orders for next year. And so once they're done spilling out this year, they can place orders to be received in September. And then so for like beginning of the school year, supplies that go into next year's budget, they get the stuff right. this. It's always good to look at this percentage. Um, we just we're really close, but honestly, it just shows that we had some really good budgeting and that greatly
040as we're going through this year have passive for gifts. is to identify that we are that we are competition organizations essentially after 2 million last year again that shows you that there is a whole lot excess yeah sufficient we are pretty efficient And I think that's it's kind of a big indicator that we are sounds like a lot making a shift to production but most other school districts that much more significant shows that we did in that we do very good budgeting each year and make a lot of efforts to stay within that budget. say this year beginning the fall control procedures to make sure we did that. Okay. Okay. So, here's this is the budget status report. This is the general fund. It's basically the same information that you just saw, but I did
041want to show you this is the the capital projects fun. You can see up the top which fund it is and then the month April and then right here is the local tax receipts. This is the technology levy for 45,000 collections in we're tracking this fun balance and so there's there are some funds in there for projects that we the grants that we received that were invested less funds for now before we start the projects and then there's so all of the dollars that are in the capital projects fund are earmarked for spec either specific projects or for the technology levy for the secret mitigation fees that you received in the past to have a very specific purpose not basically increasing size capacity use it for construction ction for a little bit. Fund 30 is
042the debt service fund and we receive $561,000. And the only thing that the debt service fund does is collect um local taxes. So pay bonds. So you collect those funds, you accumulate them and then you pay bonds outization schedules. We pay twice a year. We pay December 1st. That's a interest payment payment on June 1st. So that's coming out interest payments. So when you when you at the start of a bond you're paying mostly interest and almost still premium or principal now it's called near the end of it. So now we're paying down the bonds by then we'll pay less in interest. Our interest payment coming up is 159,000. That's on the 179 we sold in and that's all questions. We are working through the budget process. I should probably touch on that. We've been
043in kind of a a little bit of a waiting wave where we went through and we estimated how much revenue we're going to get based on what was passed with the legislative session. And that's plug in all estimates and then we made a lot of those scenarios. We've been running scenarios through making little tweaks here or there to those scenarios and see how we balance out. And then we've been waiting for actual revenue allocations to come out today which said it's supposed to come out on Friday. And so next week we'll go and those figure out what the actual obligations are budget iteration. the board budget iteration that we've gone through and then from there we'll see where we balance out and put it together as a budget team and we'll see if we can
044make any more production zone or shifts or there is maybe some capacity that we can add back some of the productions that we have in the latest plans that we have. I mean, it's going to be a really fast grind to get to the end of June. We'll be adopting the budget at the end of the June 25. Thank you. Appreciate it. work has to fix it. We just exit out. So a little bit sharing what's been going on. This is the last of my classes and been going to classes at each of our grade levels throughout the year. This is where we've been a brainchild of Angie and Lisa to get me some exposure and kids. It's been awesome, especially with the little ones, but the older ones as well. But um you know,
045never having early on treatment. It's it's very fun. Uh you'll notice on the right High five. We're gonna do it again next year. Yep. Oh, yeah. I think we're gonna We didn't do it at the beginning, so I think we'll probably um and then you have some videos. Yes. My daughter had a a granddaughter or a baby yesterday. Congratulations. I want an opportunity. So just kudos to our teachers and what they do with their children. It really is unique for, you know, most families don't don't get to see what we get to see on a daily basis, right? Experience. It's good. I like to see this taking off. Um because I know it wasn't as much time with your coffee checks or your chats with the doctor to see something like this the fruits of
046the labor and what the public would see. I like that. I think I do too and I think you I get a lot of it. I think it's good to show. But the other thing we've done which has been really good is to have me also be positioned with the math night other events and not just hey come talk about whatever. less scripted. Um we always have an opportunity to um highlight and honor people that contribute to the district. And so this year um we are part of region 108 which is the way has grown a lot of different regions across the state. And so, um, Sarah Morales Cruz on the right, she has just been a huge advocate for our Latino students, high school, middle school, predominantly for newer students, but really for all
047students, she was one that was as well. And then so for her advocacy and then also Dr. also Sarah community leadership award for their efforts around both the levy that was successful and also the two bond measures even though they weren't successful they work hard so we wanted to make sure that they brought gratitude for so puts on lunch is the casino folks from different districts have their as well they have air lots of success in athletics. Um, boys golf are state champs. So, um, it's the first state title in 18 years. Uh, girls golf got hit in state. So, the other thing that's really great, so high state finish since 1990s. The other thing is the interactive state champion. So, this year alone, three girls sports state champs. So basketball, wrestling, and golf said
048that at no point did any of the teams have so all different groups. Pretty impressive. Um track and field, both boys and girls programs are heading to Yakon. They left this morning, so they'll be they'll be competing. Um, softball is not a young young team. So, Bryant are building for the future. So, there's some success that they're looking for in potential. Um, same with baseball future ahead. Um, they just short. They lost a LC state. Boy, soccer similar. They lost in overtime. We do have students here amount of students participating which is one of our criteria how that's exciting. Awesome. This is a recent development. We had W County Sheriff's deputies join our bus route, bus route two last week and we also had other deputies who were ahead so that when we had violated
049the stop arms, they were in the call which made two to arrest two citations. Um and uh these are significant significant tickets to encourage people not to do that. And so for me, I really love the I love the community piece of it. Um and I I especially love the safety. So we've been um talking about trying to get cameras. A lot of complexity between whether cameras would be carried through by law enforcement agencies around the state. Um they've been great partners and make sure that people recognize a faith citation where they will send somebody over that. Oh yeah, that'd be great. And like get you on the bus and like this is what not to do. Tell your parents not to like I don't know. Be kind of funny. Yeah. go and turn left
050in the morning. Did we do anything to add of appreciation in response to this partnership? We delivered donuts or something to the sheriff. Well, I think it's on. Yeah, it's ongoing and they're going to continue coming. So, yeah. So, like anxious driving in the morning, going by the buses and so it's really it's great. and and there are people who are just acting without any regard at all and speeding past and so yeah it's it's been good and I appreciate Kurt it was just going to happen one day I love it reached out communicated and it was new so it's good remember that company years ago I think your principal called Red Line and they kind of installs cameras on our buses and then as they drive by they take pictures of them and they
051get a then we would get a certain percentage of whatever qualified towards that. But I think at the time Tom wanted against it if I remember right whatever money we get hasn't spent for specifically safety things in the district. Tom's like and I think the sheriff said too he's like the number of Canadian drivers have it was there's some complexity on whether they would actually follow through on it too because it could be overwhelming. So I thought great idea. It's a great idea all the pieces. I do think a lot of education for our community too see or we're posting or sheriffs are posting proper driving protocols especially for most of us who live here and two lanes were never a thing or two lane like where do you go? How do you observe the
052bus? When do you stop? What lane stops? So thank you. Yeah, it's good. I think the the joint effort is awesome. Yeah, we had the first Northwest Education and Workforce Coalition gathering. Uh this is actually the second meeting, but they're calling it the first. This actually came out of career career connect Northwest which is a group out of BSC Miami and they are funded through OSPI and the government to to inforce and that's not the right word to help with economic development in the region. So we had people from um Highland, San Juan, Scadget, Washington counties. Uh the Northwest Workforce Council executive director was there. Um we also had K12. Um actually the only K12 district was Marian. So Sean and I were there. We also had Northwest Career Technical Academy. We had um Scadget
053Valley College, Western Washington University. um ATC port um and the and the whole purpose was to bring K12 and higher ed together and think about how progression. So we talked about CT, we talked about dual credit coursework, we talked about um automatic enrollment. So we have an agreement with students March area. So really looking at ways to increase in each of those and think about how we prepare opportunities for other students. So um this was the first time that that everyone was pulled together and pretty exciting to to be a part of the conversation and think about how will a skill center help in that how will our programming see and how will um college in the classroom courses work. So there's a whole smattering of opportunities that get an alignment for kids conversation. Now
054who's the audience for this? So you're gathering the reading of the mind. So you got people on the court and government and higher education. What's what's the desired outcome of this? We could have several. It could be increased CT and dual credit course work. It could be onboarding from K12 into any one of those community colleges and then into into Western or BTC has several four year programs now. So different than before. So a lot of schools don't recognize that um because the ports are there and because the Northwest Workforce Council is there we owe our funds which is to support other school youth. students who have not graduated or are not engaged, they have funding that they're able to do. So there are programs that they have for engagement in the workforce. And so
055trying to work with reports of Island County, Scadget, Waco, San um their connection to the economic engine is where we're going to see some partners. So the idea is to make sure that there are pathways and not by the sense of what kids would be making but pathways between K12 and higher ed and workforce. So that could be internships, apprenticeships, opportunities like and this is the first of its kind. Are there other groups like this through in other areas of the statement for fun? There are career connect Northwest offices across the state, but I don't together. We do have expanding programs. Talked to director Brower. She expects they do a lot of medicine in the morning next year with uh in CTA. So right now we have fire science and welding and then venist will
056be in the morning and um we have a morning fire science. We will also be offering an afternoon. So um to be able to have some afternoon classes to balance out when students are in and out of high school helps with schedule. It's what balances things. Um this is a bit of trying to start those programs get off the ground. So that will be on on campus. It'll be in the classroom right now. So and who will be meeting you? Well, I'll have to hire instructor. So someone experience that's NCTA's obligation instructor and you will be informed about all that. like if it's a partnership with Exel or any other we have an agreement with them right now. So they're they're they run a program now with the instructor there and make sure that they're
057certified. We have the end of the year music concert. We also have coming on June 2nd and 3rd. middle school has the choir and band concerts and looked at the middle English parades. So I mean just you want to get an honor music program that they're doing a few dates for you. So band concert's on the 2nd, the choir concert's on the 3rd. Uh graduation's on the 5th. Um it's 6 pm for all of you. It's actually 6:30 for the but for all of you it's 6. So I do have done that. Is there a certain area you'd like us to probably ask you to be at the district office and walk over or I'll text you and say over this month trying to figure that out what's probably probably okay yeah um and then
058we have regular school board meeting on the 11th And then last day of school, if you can believe it was on the 12th and then we will do the budget hearing and approval on the 25th and then have our normal summary conference at 12 p.m. my legislative caucus why is not obviously we have no speaking boarding board representatives is there any information from the board direct well we can designs and additional documents and um one second.