001Okay, everybody, it's 6:00. If we could stand for the Pledge of 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, has everybody had a chance to look at the agenda? >> I move that we approve tonight's agenda. >> Second. >> All in favor? >> Aye. >> All right, we have an agenda. Next up is superintendent's report. >> Thank you, Board President Wielander, other Board Directors, student representatives, staff, community members, other students. Um I It's that time of year. It's recognition celebrations and graduation. So, I will start off with just my public service announcement. Uh we have uh we're starting off on June 4th at 6:00 p.m. in the
002PAC for Choice High School's graduation. So, if you are looking for Choice and the various programs underneath it, uh that will be on, again, June 4th, so it's a Thursday at the PAC. The next night, Friday, is for Cedar, Cedar High School. It'll be really exciting. And that is at 6:30, so not 6:00, 6:30 on June 5th, um at the PAC as well. And then we'll we'll conclude with SHS, their high school graduation is at 6:00 p.m. So, may I repeat that again cuz it's not usually It's usually in the morning. At 6:00 p.m. Uh and And is, again, at Saint Martin's University at the pavilion. So, uh that Saturday, again June 6th, 6:00 p.m. at St. Martin's. So, I think I I hopefully I caught some people uh that are listening in and to
003know when the high school graduations are. Many of our schools have uh celebrations and recognitions. I suggest you look on their webpage or your newsletters to uh get an update on what's going on at each of your uh respective student schools uh so that you can attend or at least tune in. Um and so because we definitely want to celebrate a lot of the accomplishments for our students like we are here this evening. So, I'm excited for that. Um we have a lot to lot going on that's very positive uh for the district. Um and so, I will just uh literally end. I know one thing that's not going to maybe might get announced by Sophia, but um and I want to steal her thunder, but uh I thought it was really cool that the
004state president for Washington State's FFA, so the Future Farmers of America, is uh Lane Stoney and he is for all of Washington State for FFA president. Um and he goes to SHS. So, congratulations, Lane, um for a very well-earned representative. As somebody from Walla Walla, FFA was big. Uh all my cousins belonged. I did not. I got shamed and I was in I was in science club instead, but you know, that's that's probably not as not as much fun, I think. Uh with that, uh concludes my comments. >> Science club was cool. Uh okay, first up or next up was community comments and we don't have any, so we'll move straight on to uh item number five, reports and recognitions. And first up will be the athletics report with Scott Chamberlain. >> Oh, don't see
005a portable mic. Just take that away from me. You didn't know I was coming, did you? That's okay. I can make this work. Well, thanks for having us here tonight. We have had an exciting couple of weeks, an exciting spring. Um, just a week ago on the Wednesday the 13th, Principal Kipper and I had the opportunity to travel down to Vancouver to see a triple header. Uh, we got to see our track team compete in the first day of the district tournament, our district meet. We saw the javelin throwers and pole vault, I believe it was. And then we drove over to Mountain View High School and had the fast pitch team on one field and the baseball team on the other field in their district tournament games. And unfortunately, the baseball team uh, ended
006their season there, but was a good season. Our fast pitch team won and then continued to win and advanced to the state tournament. And so, they are not here tonight because they're actually celebrating their season with their banquet. So, um, we'll have to maybe bring them back at the next meeting. Um, but anyways, I was just reading in the newspaper on the way in. I think it was 31 years since our fast pitch team had um, participated in state tournament or qualified in the state tournament. It was an exciting uh, few days of uh, fast pitch action and then uh, Thursday at the state tournament the rack in Lacey. Uh, the girls did a great job representing Shelton and um, hopefully something we'll we'll build on. We've also have three athletes traveling to Mount Tahoma
007um, Thursday, Friday and hopefully Saturday. Our track athletes, some of there some of them are here. Hunter is here, so Hunter, would you come up? Hunter Daggett. He qualified in the discus. >> [applause] >> Trayson Bartholomew, I saw him sneak in. No, there's no sneaking about him, but come on up, Trayson. >> [applause] >> Trayson was the District 4 3A 800 meter district champion. And I was just talking to coach Schultz that during the season this was just kind of a training uh event for him for the mile and then he goes and wins the district championship. So, he runs um well, let me back up. Hunter uh throws on Thursday at Mount Tahoma High School in Tacoma. Um Trayson runs on Friday and then Claire Did Claire come in? Oh, she did. Perfect. Claire
008Warnock >> [applause] >> qualified in two events. Uh she was second place in the 100 meter hurdles and she was a district champion uh in the 300 meter hurdles and she runs on Thursday as well. So, that is our state participant track members. Let's give them a round of applause. >> [applause] >> And then we have one young lady here who actually already participated in her state event. Uh Andrea Fogo, would she come up? >> [applause] >> Andrea qualified in the 3A uh golf tournament district golf tournament for state, traveled to Deer Park kind of over by Walla Walla, a little bit north. It's on the other side of the uh other side of the state at least. Um I think Is there Is there something for her up there? Yeah, there we go. Great
009photo. Took me a long time to get it cropped where you could actually see that she was jumping. Uh anyway, she went over and participated um at the Deer Park uh golf course this past week. I believe it was Tuesday and Wednesday. Um and uh just had a great season. So, these are our spring state athletes. >> [applause] >> Good job, guys. Thank you. All right, let me sit down here. >> [applause] >> And then I just wanted to give a quick update. I know there's at least a couple members on here who's asked about our uh mini dome and um all of the banners that used to hang in there that I'm not a fan of cuz they weren't very pretty. But anyways, I've been working on high climber ring of champions which is
010the plan is to as you walk in the mini dome over the weight room girls locker room area the ring of champions sign and then listing all of our league championships along what would be the where the windows used to be. However, what I learned quickly is as I dug through trophies for some reason all the history that I saw started in 1974 which I didn't quite understand that cuz I had trophies from 1952, 1958. Then what I learned was 1974 don't quote me but I'm told that's when we became Shelton High School. And so that is the reason those that's where those started. So that's where we're going to start cuz that's when we also moved into where the Shelton High School is now and the mini dome. And so we will start there
011with league championships going to our right which is somewhere in the 60s. So there's a lot of work and I don't want to miss anything. As you can see there's three on each board so if we were to miss one that's cost very costly to fix. And then district championships go to the left which I want to say there's around 20 something don't once again don't quote me on that. And then we'll rearrange our state championship banners the five state championship banners on the bottom. So the plan is hopefully to get to that this summer. Alderson's Awards West and Sentra is the is the company that I've been working with. So they've done the artwork for me to get started. They're really good to work with just because when I tell them to hold on
012they hold on. They're they're not high pressure. They know they that we want to get it right. So if Robert was here he might go wait a minute you haven't talked to me about this but we have we Chris Walton and I have been working on it at least talking about how we can attach and what the measurements are and all those things. So just thought we'd give an update because it had kind of stalled a little bit once I found out that I didn't think I had accurate information. So. Any questions for me? >> I I'll make a comment. Um and congratulations to all the athletes out there. It's wonderful to see what you've been able to accomplish. Thank you for getting to this. I am one of those people I have sat in
013there over the years in the mini dome. Went to high school there myself, so I saw the banners up and then when they came down when we cleaned the gym. But sitting through all sorts of sports events over the years, it looked really bare. These look really nice, so thank you for taking the time to get this right. I think it is you know, there's a lot of community pride. There's a lot of people that still live here that participated in those um events and were part of those championships and you know, their children and grandchildren like to see those things up there as well. So, I appreciate the work you've done on that. >> Absolutely. And I I forgot to add one thing is um as I dig through the stuff before 1974, my
014plan is to create a board that goes somewhere that I'm going to say it right. Irene Smith, is that right? No. Irene S. Reed, there we go. Irene S. Reed High School Championships and then we'll just list those ones there and then delineate that these are because of the two different the changes in our high school name. So. Awesome. Thank you. >> Oh, looks good. Thanks. >> Yep, you bet. Have a great night. >> [applause] >> Okay, up next with the parent partnership program presentation. It's actually >> Yeah, this will be a team effort real quickly. I want to we're really excited. Um Okay there. It shocked me. Um we're going to walk through uh kind of an announcement. We talked about this a couple months ago that we were going to develop and implement
015for next year a home link parent partnership program to reach out to the existing home school families in our area. Um we know in Shelton we have about 270 students who have filled out the intent to home school. So, this is designed to kind of reach those parents and provide support to those students specifically. Um so, kind of a quick overview of what we're um launching uh and developing out for next year is this again, it's called HomeLink. It's a it's a K um 6 K8 parent partnership. Uh eventually we'll start off small with a small group of students um to make sure we get it right. Uh and what happens in this program is that the parent those parents who choose to home school are still the primary instructional leader in the home, but
016we partner them with a highly qualified teacher um with years of experience homeschooling and in our system uh and understand what it looks like for our curriculum delivery. Uh and then we provide resources like curriculum, um instructional support, um tutoring to those families um just to kind of create some connections between the Shelton School District and those homeschooling families. Uh when I first came here I met a couple of families kind of randomly that were really interested if we develop one of those. So, we expect to have some serious interest in this. We had talked about at uh a couple meetings ago about homeschooling um kind of picking up in the state not at the and that's happening here in Shelton but not at the nowhere near the same rate. But, we do want to
017meet those students and those families where they're at. >> Go ahead. Sorry. >> Thank you. You're fine. >> So, I'll just uh say just a couple more notes about the programming aspect of this. Um so, it is home-based instruction as uh Clinton was mentioning. Um we are but then we provide resources and support uh and the families meet with our highly qualified teacher uh once a week. Uh they co-create a written student learning plan and then they check in on progress towards the goals that are written in that plan. Um we are planning on having this housed at Evergreen, as we do have the space there and we're really set up for that at that location. Um we uh had the um benefit of visiting a program like this today in another district to go
018see what it might look like. Um it was really exciting to see the families um and students visiting with the program and really the close relationship that they also developed through those weekly meetings with the teacher, which leads me to introduce Ms. Gottlieb, who um has been teaching third grade at Bordeaux. Uh I've had the joy of visiting her classroom many times and working closely with her as a member of our literacy work group, who's um worked to build out our literacy model that we've had so much success with. Um Ms. Gottlieb also did um some home school herself, so she's very familiar in this area. Also um has corporate and project management experience in her background. So, was super excited when she agreed to do this and we're um happy to welcome her to
019the program. Yay. >> [applause] >> Yeah. So, with that um we are going to be holding some parent interest nights uh in June, so stay tuned. We'll be posting those I'm sure to our social media and uh website um so that people, if they are currently home schooling and would like to learn more about what we have to offer with this program, we'll get those set up. So, with that um we're able to take any questions that you might have. >> I don't necessarily have any questions. I'm just excited to see that we're able to reestablish that connection with some of the kids and I know that they have a hard time transitioning out, but a harder time transitioning back in. So, as things change, this will be something that's super important. So, thank you
020for putting this all together. >> Thank you. This Thank you. It's really important to I think maintain our online models also, so that if we do need to make a transition or for students who maybe have other needs that put them in the home for longer periods of time, they have this ability to stay engaged and still belong in the district. So, I really appreciate that. >> Yeah, anecdotally, my daughter had some health issues in elementary school, and so we needed a program just like this. So, we provided home-based instruction through our HomeLink program to our daughter for a handful of years while Seattle Children's and us we worked partnered through her health issues, and it was a real benefit to her to keep engaged in school. And the nice thing is on those um
021this program doesn't preclude kids from getting involved in bands or other activities as a as a after school tutoring, all those things, those connections with the schools still exist. So, it's really I think beneficial to the families and the students. So. >> Yeah, I was going to say it just sounds like a great service that we haven't had that will help keep families and the schools connected for whatever those supports or needs might be as they change. So, thank you for for being a part of developing that. >> Great. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> [applause] >> Okay, up next the Washington School Recognition Program uh for Bordo Elementary and Evergreen Elementary. Mr. Jesse. >> Thank you, Board President Wealander. So, um we started this school year with a national recognition of only one of
022two school districts in all of Washington state to have um three consecutive years of growth um in early literacy. So, us and Steilacoom, and we were number one in the state. So, it does come with other um recognitions and rewards. Um so, uh I would like to just take this moment to recognize both Bordeaux and Evergreen Elementaries. Uh I hope I have their staff come on up. I would they came here. They need to get recognized. Come on up, Bordeaux. I know I see them here. >> [applause] >> Um just a small sampling of the teacher leaders along with the obviously we have our principals. I think we have a both assistant principals are here, too. Good. Stuck in there, Amy. Um and these these professionals did work really hard. And what it really means
023to get this award in this particular case for both schools means you had the top 10% growth out of all elementaries in Washington state from the 23-24 school year to the 24-25. So, it's over a 1-year period. Uh so, um and in the ELA and math for both schools, and Evergreen also got an extra nod for uh that kind of growth in attendance, as well. So, both both schools um multiple content areas uh and this growth um and I have all the confidence in the world that these two schools will be coming back up here again very soon uh along with others, just given the significant growth that we've had not only in ELA, but obviously other things. Attendance is going very well this year, for example, and um just really proud of them. So,
024uh, let's give a big round of applause to both Evergreen and Bordeaux. >> [applause] >> I don't I don't know if Kyle or Paula want to say anything. I don't know. >> Just questions. All right, they'll take questions. Great. >> No question, just thank you so much. I know, I think of attendance, that requires a lot of one-on-one phone calls and tracking people down and involvement. All of those awards represent extra effort, so thank you. We appreciate it. >> Yes, having students at Bordeaux, I greatly appreciate all your hard work and effort and collaboration. I know every time we work on reading at home or they have the personalized, you know, libraries in each classroom, it's just well-deserved and hard-earned. So, thank you. >> I'm just super proud of all of you, and so, thank
025you. >> Yeah, it's very exciting to be in the top 10% of all of the schools in Washington state for this kind of growth and what that means for the students. So, thank you all for Obviously, this must be a big team effort in your schools because it's not just one individual that's able to pull that off. So, thank you all for doing that. >> I'd like to say it's loud. I'd like to say as somebody who went to Evergreen Elementary when I was a when I was a kid, it's really good to see that it's still such a such a great school, cuz I remember growing up there, I always had I had a great time taking all of my classes. And so, it's just nice to see that it's still that it's still
026going strong. Can't wait to go on the senior walk through there. >> I really can't add any more than what's already been said, but wonderful job. That's the kind of stuff that the community wants to see, and that's really going to pay dividends for us in the long run. Thank you very much. >> Thanks, guys. >> [applause] >> All right, and now the budget update with Clinton Sherman. >> I always have to follow the coolest stuff. All right. Uh we have a another budget update walking through expenses with a little more detail. I mean, revenues with a little more detail. Um there shouldn't be any changes to this graph since last time. Um our fund balance is a little higher than projected. Um working with OSPI, we remember we did that apportionment advance in November.
027That was initially scheduled to come out in April. Uh it'll actually come out here in uh June from the state. That's when they'll make that recovery. Um we are still on track to hit that $1.5 million fund balance. Um I I know I keep saying that, but I can't reiterate enough. It's still a far cry from the 7 and 1/2 8 million that we we should be having for a healthy fund balance that allows us to absorb some of this economic down pressure that we're all feeling right now. So, we're working towards that. That's a longer range plan. It'll take a couple years to get there. We know that. Um but we are still on track as we've laid out the plan. Um our current enrollment for this year is at 4170. Um because of
028that, we're um projecting a 4135 for next year. We saw this a little dip a couple months ago. We recognized that, so we're trying to budget accordingly. Um with that, that reduces some of our revenues uh in some in some different areas. So, we we've seen this graph a lot. Um some people call it a a brownie pan. I just like it more than a pie chart. Um that big block that's 52 and 1/2% is is is our is two big buckets. It's basic education dollars and basic education for special ed dollars. So, they're kind of 01 program dollars. Those we we know what those ones are. Um the local taxes, we've had a lot of talk about that, a lot of gratitude for our community passing at a incredibly high percentage. That has been
029amazing. Um local effort assistance is that state match dollars. That's coming in lower than we initially expected as legislative session wrapped up and reduced those dollars from what they had initially promised. Um keep kind of going around in a circle. The other districts is how we serve the non-high districts around us. We invoice them for their high schoolers. We have a special education co-op and we have the um Mason County Mason Transit County co-op. Those dollars come in from other districts. That's that 2.4%. So, what I want to talk about tonight are kind of the two buckets that that vary can can vary quite a bit, which is the state special purpose and the federal special purpose. And so, these are dollars with names to them, right? They're they're kind of identified for specific things.
030So, it's a big table. It's a bit a little bit more detail. Uh normally we sit through a workshop for a couple of hours and walk through this data. Um kind of slowly dripping this out to you guys over time. None of it's new. Um I think the big takeaway is really the the increase of transportation cuz ridership has gone up. Even though enrollment has kind of dipped down a little, the number of students riding the bus is actually increased. And so, that generates a whole specific line item of revenue that's increasing. Um some of these other ones like OSSI dollars, those were in flux. We didn't know about those coming back or not. They did come in at 320, which is roughly the same as we received last year. And we talked about this
031idea um after legislative session. When the federal government or the state just keeps us whole with the same amount of money, it's effectively a decrease because the cost of salaries and supplies and insurance and utilities all continue to go up. So, when when those revenues don't keep pace with the expenses, we have to figure out how to absorb that. So, uh let's see. Yeah, I think those are the kind of big thing items I wanted to talk about in this one. The other one I think that's maybe important is special education had some changes. We apply for a safety net for some expenses for students who are um who have higher needs. Um Director Ivy Carter is a real master at that safety net actually. She's just I've not met another um special education director
032who was as keyed in on how that works. And so, that dollars included there, that's roughly 400 grandish that we're going to receive every year at the end of the year to help balance that budget. Um what questions do you have about the special purpose state dollars? That's not a challenge. You don't have to if you don't have any, but if you do, I'm happy to take it. >> Just out of curiosity, how does ridership go up while attending goes 10%? >> What about mobility where students are living? If they move to out from in the city within a mile of their school to outside somewhere else, then they ride the bus and we get paid for those students to come in from from beyond a mile. >> Oh, thank you. >> Yep. It's all
033about family mobility really. But on the flip side, we'll be the next slide I'll talk about in a second. Go ahead. >> And again, those dollars that collected, they go towards transportation. It's a very >> specific. It's a very specifically dedicated dollars, so I wouldn't want somebody to think that we're getting an additional half million dollars that are going to go somewhere else. They're they're dedicated to trans >> No, it's to cover the Each one of these line items are like that. They have specific purposes. They only can be spent in in specific ways. Um so, I think that's important to clarify. Thank you, Superintendent Jesse. Anything else? Great. We'll slide on to federal dollars. This one's been up in the air for a handful of years. Um the biggest decrease you'll see here is
034in school food services because as enrollment declines regardless of mobility of families, the number of students being fed is reduced. And so we are we provide reimbursable meals to each student. And so as each of those meals qualifies to be reimbursed from the federal government, we get paid for those. So as enrollment goes down, less meals are being served, so less revenue is being generated. As opposed to transportation where those families can move around and it can still create an increase. I know it's it's might feel a little weird, but that that's how the math of it works. Um the other one that's noticeable is the federal grants other agencies. And for a handful of years, we received some FEMA grants and some other federal dollars from other agencies. We collected the last of those
035last year. Um some last paperwork of grant had to go down and I had to go to some base and file it in person actually to claim it. Um but those dollars are going away. And so that $25,000 for next year is more in line to what we were doing before COVID. We we didn't get a lot of these other agency grants before that. Um one of the new grants this year is rural and low-income. It's a 6152.01 uh title five rural and low-income. That is we haven't had those dollars for a while. That is for um districts that are considered rural, uh which we just clicked into, which is interesting. Um we spent a lot of work applying for this grant. And so but again, that just backfills dollars that were already lost. And
036those dollars can be used in anything from title one to title four. So we'll find some appropriate uses for those dollars, but really it's going to backfill some of the exist current losses we're seeing. What questions do you have about federal special purpose grants? Yeah. >> You mentioned we just now got into the rural Excuse me. What's [clears throat] the metric they use for that to determine rural? >> a federal database that does that. They they look at populations. They look at The other big thing is uh the number of low-income students in our And I think we've always been considered rural, but the the low-income number clicked over uh at the federal level. Um Yeah. Do you have more thoughts? >> Yeah, it It's not every year. I forget the cycle on this. I
037think it's >> Uh I don't want to say it wrong. I think it's It could be >> It's not more than five, but it could be three to five. >> Yeah, I think it's three to five. I'm not quite sure either. Uh and there's different It's not uh you would you might think rural's like a bunch of countrysides, but there's different classifications of rural. Um It's just not metropolitan or a city, I think, is what they look at, advise. I can find out more information and bring it back. I'm not sure exactly what clicked us over. I was just happy to see some money coming in, to be honest with you. I was look really more looking at all the different ways we could figure out to spend it appropriately. Yeah. But I can look
038into that. I'm going to get a definitive answer. >> I don't have anything else. >> Great. Any other questions? >> I probably should ask this a few minutes ago. With the uh home school partnership program >> Yeah. >> with those students that are participating in that, is that going to help with our enrollment numbers? Are they like considered half a student or something like that? >> Um so, those students will have um written student learning plans, WSLPs. Like it's an ALE environment, right? It's an alternative learning experience. And so, those students will qualify uh as a 1.0 into an ALE program. Um that is not I am not accounting for those students cuz I have no idea what number that is. Again, we want to start small to make sure it's right, and then that
039things run smoothly as we as we kind of build it out, but that will um overall be an increase to our enrollment as those kids come in, who are who are currently homeschooling. That's That's our real The real invitation is for folks and families who are currently homeschooling. >> Just appreciate the breakdown and and know it's a little bit extra detailed, but for us and for those listening at home in the audience, where those dollars come from, >> Mhm. >> where what those changes are as we for a couple of years now we're going to have a tight belt as we get that fund balance back. So, I appreciate that that in-depth detail. Thank you. >> Of course. >> Great. >> Thank you. Okay, moving on to the uh student board reps and we will
040start with Alan Ramirez. >> Yes, so uh first things first, uh state envirothon, we went and we don't know how we placed yet, but I think we I think we did all right. But, the best part is we had fun at that. That's all that matters in the end. So, we had fun. Uh this Friday we're going to be having our school dance here in this gym from 7:00 to 9:00. We've already got some students helping to set up and take down and we're going to have a we're going to have a great time here. End of end of the year dance. Also on Friday during school, we're going to have Native Club is organizing a trash pickup day where we're going to be going around and picking up trash. So, that's going to be
041that's also going to be pretty fun. On Thursday, this Thursday, uh senior club has planned to go to a buffet and immediately afterwards go play laser tag. So, that's going to be fun for us. Hope nobody throws up. Our seniors have already signed up for all of their Evergreen classes. So, we've uh we're all pretty much we know what we're going to be doing in college, which is going to be fun, too. Our ambassadors are helping to are helping to set up graduation. We're going to have a little celebration before our official graduation from 4:30 to 6:00 at Cedar High School. So, if anybody wants to come and celebrate our Cedar seniors, that's going to be it's going to be available for them. At the very end, we're going to get to go in our
042fancy cars, get paraded around town, and have a have a grand old time. There's a lot of excitement around graduate around graduation, a little bit of a little bit of worrying, but we'll get there with the help of our of our um of our counselor, Susie. And yeah, I just want to say thanks to to everybody everybody here. It's been uh it's been a fun time being here on this board. And I'm sure I'm sure I'll come back for a few of these meetings. >> Okay, Abigail, you're up. >> Open doors in a day program seniors are excited to graduate at Shelton School on January 4th at 6:00 p.m. ASB is having a late night on June 2nd from 6:00 to 10:00. There will be games, movies, and food. Pathways is working hard with the
043community members. The middle school is having a celebration for the eighth graders for their good work. >> Very good. Sophia Todd. >> I think a lot of my notes have already been said, but Lane Stoney is a 2026 to 2027 FFA state president, which is a huge accomplishment. We are all inspired by his hard work and dedication to FFA. SHS fast pitch traveled to state Thursday. This is the first time in 31 years. I had 30 years down, but I think you're right. And then lastly, last week we had the passing of the gavel to the 2026-2027 ASB executive team. Thank you. >> Thank you. And next up is the recognition of the student school board representatives with Mr. Jesse. >> Uh I love this moment and opportunity. Um so proud of these three. Uh
044Alan, Abigail, and Sophia. And I just wanted to give a little nod to Nivea who wasn't able to finish out the year. Sophia stepped in, so again, thank you for stepping in, but Nivea did a good job while she was here, um for sure, to represent SHS. Um, just thank you so much for your service on the school board as student representatives for the Shelton School District. I think um, your leadership matters is making a difference. You are here to exercise your voice and share the perspectives of other students who don't have that opportunity or maybe don't feel so brave and courageous as yourselves. But it does take a lot of courage, patience, and commitment to sit at this long table, uh, to speak up and to represent your peers so thoughtfully. So, I really
045appreciate I know you guys take a lot of time into, uh, preparing your comments and you've done a great job the entire year, um, very consistent and definitely able to hear you. And also, um, I love those occasionally when you step into other items outside of student representatives just sharing your voice or thoughts. I I can distinctly remember those, I know other staff can, too, so even when you're participating in some of those conversations even months ago, people do remember what you said, um, cuz it can move them. Words have meaning. Uh, I just want to thank you for all your ideas that shared the leadership, um, you definitely demonstrated other students do see you, uh, many are watching Mason Web TV here today or have, uh, as you model the dedication, um, for community
046service and the incredible power of public education. These are representatives of public education. This is the things that these educators that are here, those watching, those who work for the Shelton School District all that work is helping these students, uh, be the best they can be and you can see that on display at every board, uh, meeting and also, of course, every day and and they're leaders on other activities. So, on behalf of the board, staff, and community, we are grateful for each of you providing a unique, personal perspective to what is happening in your individual high schools. We are all proud of your accomplishments, and we look forward to seeing your positive impact out in the community, and it can lead to track you well into the future. So, with that, we have some
047definitely some bags with some goodies uh for you uh as part of a appreciation for all your time. I absolute patience to have to sit through some of the content, so and all the comments. Um and I I don't know if I could have done that at your age, so I appreciate that, and um yeah. So, looking forward to hearing more. >> [applause] [applause] >> I've everyone of uh enjoyed having every one of you on the board. We do listen to what you say. Um there've been times when uh specifically Alan just kind of whispers out of nowhere and has some insights, and we remember that oh yes, this is for students, also. Um and I just really appreciate you guys all being here, doing a really good job, always having something important and uh
048informative to say, and and thanks. It's it's been fun. Anybody else? >> Yeah, I always can't help but comment that you guys have been wonderful. Every single year I feel like we get better and better with our student representatives, and what I feel like all three of you brought, I watched all of you develop public speaking better this year. I mean, and then also jumping in with the comments, or your news outside of even just the reports that you're giving from the school. When you've commented on something on the agenda, that is what we're here for is the student perspective, and I think that it inspires us as a board to have more of that. So, um I do hope that we continue to get that from student representatives that come back to being on
049the board, but thank you all for bringing your reports and your unique personalities um to this board. It's been wonderful having you. >> Just want to echo those comments and and say thank you for being excited about school. And thank you for being excited um about your schools. And And Alan, I think you have been here as long as I have, and so both years. And so, I don't know what I'm going to do next year, but you guys have set the bar really high for whoever follows. Appreciate you. >> Yeah, I want to reiterate all that. That you know, you guys not only are great speakers and you present your positions very well, but you're just wonderful people as well. You got great personalities. You're very positive. And uh really that really um sets
050a good tone for the rest of the student bodies that you represent as well. So, thank you very much, and we're going to miss you up here. >> I really appreciate uh not just what you've shared about the schools, but how you've all have shared how you've uniquely contributed to it and the different events and just the energy and the excitement you've brought each time, and it will be missed. So, thank you for sharing that with us this year, and I look forward to hearing um about what you all accomplish in the future cuz it's all going to be great things. >> Again, great job, guys. Thank you. Okay, on to the consent agenda. So, hopefully you had a chance to look at all that. I would take a motion. >> Make a motion that
051we approve the consent agenda as presented. >> I'll second. >> All All favor. >> Aye. >> All righty then. Okay. Item number seven, discussion and action items and the annual WIAA membership resolution. Mr. Chamberlain. >> [clears throat] >> Yeah, so this is just the annual membership board resolution to the WIAA for Shelton High School and Oakland Bay Junior High to compete and that we will follow the rules and regulations of the WIAA. Um and it's due by June 12th, so I'm cutting it close. >> Okay. >> [laughter] >> We take a motion to state members in the WIAA. >> I motion to approve the annual WIAA membership resolution. >> I'll second. >> All in favor? >> Aye. >> There you go. Okay. Item number eight, move on to board member comments. We'll start at the
052end with Mr. Wolford. >> Thank you all for coming tonight. This is a great turnout. Probably the most people I've seen here in a while. Um next week's graduation, I'm really excited to be part of a graduation from a school board rep point of view. It's going to be new for me. Uh I'm not going to make Choice, I'm sorry. I'll still be at work, so I'm not going to get there, but we'll be there for Cedar and SHS. Uh I want to say congratulations to our state um athletes. And ones that are still competing, that is that's so amazing. It's such an achievement that so very few students will ever accomplish, man. So, they need to hold their heads high. Um really looking forward to seeing what the softball team does and hearing the
053results of that in the future. Uh thanks. >> Yeah, I don't have too much except um congratulations to all the graduating seniors, Choice, Cedar, Shelton High School next week. Um it is such a big part of transitioning into adulthood and a great accomplishment. Shout out, I know it's been a lot, but to our fast pitch team, to Lane Stoney, and um our track uh state athletes. That's a lot of work. Appreciate all you coaches out there. I think they came to support them and they might not be here, but appreciate all the coaching and all the time invested there. And um for all the teachers, as we get close to the end of the year, we know we know it's getting close. We appreciate you uh staying strong all the way to the end. Thank
054you. >> Director Gilmore. >> Thank you everybody who came here tonight. Um thank you to the uh schools who uh Evergreen and Bordeaux who came out to be recognized for their impressive accomplishments. Um all the students, you know, this is the most exciting part of the year. I get wrapped up in all the energy of the end of the year, but my job just still stays the same. So thanks for letting us all celebrate with you next week and uh I can't wait to see all the students. You know, my favorite part of graduation, one of them is the biliteracy seals, so I look forward to seeing all the students and all the dual language students we have in our district and seeing all the families who are excited to see what these kids are
055going to accomplish. >> Director Davison. >> Yeah, I have a senior, so it's all overwhelming right now, um but very exciting. Um first of all, congratulations to Evergreen and to Bordeaux. That really is an accomplishment and I truly is wonderful for the students and just our whole community to see that type of growth. So, thank you all for the hard work that you're doing. Um congratulations to all of the student athletes whether they made it to through districts, state, everybody who participated. It's just you're out there representing Shelton and we have done really well this year in so many athletic events and also like the FAA or dance or cheer. There's just been so much um that's been really great that's gone on this year. Really exciting to see. And wonderful for the fast pitch
056team. I mean really it's I think it was since 1995. So that was that was like way back when I was after I'd graduated I guess even then. So a long time ago. Um congratulations to I guess what am I saying? We all did the Drake Scholarship. And and so I'm really excited next Wednesday as well we've got the senior awards that will be presented. I I'm not sure if it's in the performing arts or if it's in the mini dome cuz I've >> It's at the saw in the pack. >> Is it? >> Yeah. >> Cuz I got a communication that it was the mini dome so I just want to make sure myself where that's at. If we can get an update on that. But um that is next Wednesday. I'm excited to
057see all of the students that we were able to interview. It's really special to just have a chance to hear each student's story and what their you know plans for the future are and it's a lot of fun for us to be able to um I guess have that time with each student and be able to administer that Drake Scholarship to give them some support for their future college plans. The other really special thing last week was the Button Robe Ceremony. And I really wanted to highlight that. It's every year that I've been able to go it's a very special event and the families come up and they are able to tell a lot of very personal stories about their student and that night it was amazing to see we had a principal come back
058who was standing there with one of the students because the family wanted the principal there because he was instrumental in getting that student through school and to the point that he's at now where he's graduating and they just were saying that principal never gave up on him. And there were multiple teachers that were named by name that night. There were multiple people within the school and it just really highlights how it is those personal connections and relationships and sometimes it's just one special connection that really helps change the course of somebody's life and gets them to such a a milestone event like a graduation. So that was really special to see and I always appreciate the button robe ceremony. That's it. >> All right. Um I just we're right here towards the end of the
059school year. I will make my annual plug for all you kids out there. You're close. Don't mess anything up yes just yet. Um graduations are next week. I look forward to that every year. Um the the kids are doing great. Teachers are doing awesome. You know, we're we're performing at a a higher level in kind of everywhere than we have in a long time. Um super proud of all the athletes that are are out there doing well at district state and all that. Um Evergreen Bordeau thanks. Um you know, you make the whole town look good when you look good and I appreciate it. Um went to board button robe ceremony that was great as it is every year. Uh and speaking last I really only get to rehash what everybody else has said but
060just I'm I'm proud of all of you that have put forth the work, so thank you very much. With that, um we do have an exempt session uh that we're going to scurry off to. Um not sure how long it's going to take, but there will be no decisions made. So, if you want to leave, now's a good time.