001Okay, it's six o'clock. Uh, start the meeting. If we can stand for the pledge of allegiance to the flag of the United States of America andice for all. Has everybody had a chance to look at the agenda? Yes. I move that we approve tonight's agenda. I second. All in favor? I. And we have an agenda. And now the superintendent's report. Mr. Jess. Thank you. Board President Wheelander, board directors, student representatives, family and community members, staff, and students. Uh I'm going to start off um at the LA from the last uh board meeting. Uh we had some students who are part of the native education program at Olympic Middle School uh speak to us. Um they were uh raising the the uh issue of having um the Squaxon Island flag and as well as Skookcomish uh
002tribal nations flag as well um here with the school district. I know a number of other districts uh here in the south put Sound uh flags up um for the respective uh tribal nations that um they serve and um we'll be looking at that for sure. I did want to highlight I just want to thank them. I think it's always brave to be in fifth or sixth grade to get up in front of a large group and including a televised meeting to uh read and speak and they spoke very elegantly and I think they um obviously demonstrate that they are getting an outstanding education here u most certainly in our area focuses literacy and I know some of the stories for some of those students and they are working very hard and I just want
003to thank them again and of course the educators who support them. Speaking of educators, uh the automotive class at SHS uh just a little less than two weeks ago uh were recognized for remodeling a very very very old Subaru Outback that was donated by uh Shelton Ford as well as some auto parts u by Napa Auto Parts um company. Um we had the sheriff's office there, some representatives from the county and um the students uh in the automotive class led by uh Mike Meyer. They totally took this car that was going to be slated for uh demolition, rem remodeled it, uh were able to fix it up and it's uh absolutely running. I I can attest to some of their work um personally and that vehicle is going to go to turning point. Uh turning
004point is an opportunity for someone to turn their life around. Uh and that vehicle will mean a very uh will mean something very significant to the individual who does get that. And I want to thank the students in the automotive class, Mike Meyer, the community uh organizations that I just mentioned in supporting that uh effort. I think it's really indicative of what we're trying to do with our students. We're not only trying to provide them with an education around the core content, but also citizenship and giving back to your community. And that's definitely one signal, one sign about how we are giving back um and again changing lives. Uh the button robe ceremony uh was uh a little over um a week and a half ago. That was really a wonderful evening in which our
005students, our seniors who are recognized as Native American uh were able to tell their stories and celebrate their graduation here with the Shelton School District uh with their families and friends. And that was really a wonderful ceremony. So, thank you so much for those who put it on. Um, and uh, for all those who came, it was always inspiring. If you didn't know, uh, we have Shelton Promise. Shelton Promise is a agreement with Evergreen State College where students who graduate from the Shelton School District either this year or next year can go to Evergreen State tuition free. So, if you graduate for any of the three high schools and you um submit an application with assistance, they will help you with your application. Right, Kaylee? And they will uh help you get in. You get
006in, you go for free tuition for all four years. And you there is a sliding scale uh assistance for um both tuition room and board. So, I mean, a room and board, sorry, tuition's free. Really excited about that opportunity. Um, if you need to know more information, we have it right on our website. Um, obviously, Evergreen State does and you can get direct assistance. And I'm not I'm reason I'm saying this is it's not too late. They have rolling admissions. So, if you are like, "Oh my gosh, I got so stressed out. I just found out some things. I'm just going to I'm graduating, maybe even graduating this summer. Get those credits." And you're like, "I would like to give it a try." It's not too late for you. Um even if you end up
007graduating um somewhere else next year, uh don't finish out with us. Um there are opportunities for you again with Shelton Promise. So please, you can look again at the Shelton School District website for that information. And so with that, uh I know we have some student leaders in the crowd as well as some staff and families from Bordeaux. Welcome. We're so excited that you're here and I can't wait to see the performance by those young student leaders uh at Bordeaux Elementary. So with that, thank you so much. Thank you. And that does indeed bring us up to the presentation from the Bordeaux Elementary students. Hello. Good evening, President Welander or directors, superintendent Jesse, parents and community members. If I haven't met you yet, I'm Amy Butell, finishing up my third year as assistant principal at
008Bordeaux and along with my partner, my amazing partner, Kyle O'Neal. We have some wonderful things happening at Bordeaux that we want to share. just one of the many things and that's our fourth grade student leaders. This was an idea that was brought to Mr. O'Neal and I last year about this time by Mr. Meyers, our STEM teacher, and we said, "Great. Bring us a presentation of what that would look like." And he did. And he has supported these students throughout the year. They are nominated by their teachers. We have two of the fourth grade teachers right here, Mrs. Scott and Miss Bezenbeck. They're nominated by their teachers and they're able to serve for a trimester at a time. At the end of the trimester, they can be nominated again. They can also decide that, oh,
009this wasn't for me and um let somebody else step up. So, I'm going to let them show you and talk to you about what it's like to be on student leadership at Bordeaux. First of all, we have Hazel and Ka. Hello, I'm Hazel. Hello, I'm Hazel. And I'm Ka. Today we are going to present the characteristics of being a bulldog leader. One thing about a bulldog leader is that we get to be kind and not talk behind each other's backs. We also help people when they need it. We try to be safe, respectful, and responsible. We try to be the kindest and the nicest. Another characteristic about being a bordo bulldog leader is that we try to be the best role model that we can be. We shall being safe, respectful and responsible by not
010hitting and instead helping others. And if we can help others can that others then so can you. these are the characteristics of a bulldog leader. Thank you ladies. And next up we have Addie and Anna. what we do. We help with garbage during lunchtime once we finish eating. We also help with passing out lunch boats to first grade and second grade and third grade lunches. And we also and also our lunch. We help monitor the hallway when kids go out to recess. We help make sure all students are following the expectations at recess. We deliver mail from the office at the end of the day. We do announcements at the end of the day for the next day. We have lunch meetings and we eat in the STEM room to talk about responsibilities and pick
011spirit days. We have also been able to go down to the kindergarten and read to them at the end of the day on Fridays. Thank you ladies. And I'm just so proud of all these students for standing up and speaking to you and telling us what it's like to be a leader. And next up, they get to say talk again. Addie and Anna. What I enjoy most about being on leadership, rewards. Sometimes because of all our hard work, we get rewards. Some examples are ice cream, pancakes, and root beer floats. This helps because it makes students more excited to help out and enjoy working because they look forward to the reward at the end. This also helps to motivate them, which will not only help them stay as a well- behaved leader and student, but
012it will help them later in life as well. Recognition. One way recognition can help you is it can help you feel better about yourself. One reason why it can help you feel better about yourself is how it makes you feel. You can feel proud or happy about yourself because you get this feeling that someone cares or someone is recognizing you. Do you like recognition? And why do you like recognition? I like recognition because it makes you feel wonderful on the inside. Respect. Respect is a very important need in an elementary school leadership classroom and even in a regular classroom. Students in leadership receive respect and pass it around. Here's an example. Let's say a teacher is walking by and sees your work. She/he says, "I like this work." That would make you feel respected, right?
013That's great. However, to make it even better, our leadership students pass this positivity around by respecting other people. Not just in the classrooms or in school, but all around in the real world. This makes me enjoy leadership. Thank you. Let's hear about responsibilities and privileges from Rose and Lily. One of our one of our responsibilities is to help out with spirit days. Another responsibility we have is to make sure kids outside are being safe, respectful, and responsible and are following all the expectations. If they are not following the rules, we ask them to stop three times. And if they don't, we have to go and ask another recess helper. If they don't listen, we have to go and ask an recess duty to help us out. The next responsibility we have is announcements. In announcements,
014we say what the lunch menu is and who has a big ball celebration. One of one of our privileges we have is we get to leave class early to help out with book fair, but we help out w with is we count the money that a student has. The next privilege that we get to do is every Friday we get to read to the kindergarteners. When we read to them, they pick out a book or we bring a book to them. The last privilege we get to do is help out with assemblies. What we do to help out in the assemblies is we help set up and help the guests set up their station. And Bryce, why don't you tell us about the challenges of being on leadership? A challenge of being a part of
015leadership is having to balance a busy schedule. This has been a great experience because this is a skill that will prepare me for t taking on more responsibilities as I get older. On leadership, we have daily rotations of responsibilities to help out with around around the school. We have to work extra hard with making sure our regular responsibilities of fourth grade students are taken care of first before making I mean taking on extra responsibilities. This balance has taught me a lot about making priorities and making checklists of what needs to be done. This has been a hard but rewarding experience of learning what it takes to take care of our own business as a student and pushing ourselves to do ex to do extras to help out our school. We have a lot of fun
016taking on new opportunities to help the b the bulldogs of Bordeaux. Thank you. And again, I'm just so proud of our fourth grade leaders getting up and speaking to all of you. This is about half of our leaders who were able to come tonight. So, we have about a dozen every trimester. Did you have any questions? Go ahead. Oh, I don't have any questions. Uh, I'm super impressed. I didn't want to get up and speak in front of other people or read out loud in fourth grade and I knew everybody in my fourth grade class. So, to be able to come up here and and do this, um, you guys have done a great job. I love the fact that they uh said the words get to help so many times and and the word
017nice and respectful were were all in highlights. So outstanding work. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. And someday you could be sitting up here with the student leaders from the other high schools. Thank you very much. Have a great evening. [Applause] Okay. On item number five, community comment. As part of the regular school board meeting, the public uh the board welcomes community members to make public comments in person and or by phone as conditions allow. Please see the full script with call-in instructions and guidelines for community comments displayed on the screen above. First up is Marilyn Aaron. So, first off, I have to say, um, it's nice to hear Y highlight the automotive program. My son is a leader in that program and um it's given him a direction for his career and it's very
018much appreciated. He actually was the lead that worked on your car and uh his team did a great job. And in regards to the car that they gave back, um my son actually got to see it kind of come full circle on his way home from school that day. they passed by the gas station and saw the recipient of the car filling up their gas tank. So, that was pretty special for him. So, um, I don't know if your schoolboard packet looks different from what the public gets, but given the financial state of our district this year, I respectfully request greater transparency regarding agenda items, um, namely the general fund when paying out uh, 704 through 706. It's um, there's $55,000 for 10 warrants. uh $1,900 for six warrants and then there's a single warrant
019for $15,000. Uh what specific goods or services were purchased and which vendors were paid? It would be nice to uh see that in light of our financial constraints or any of these expenses that could be reduced or deferred. Um were they planned budgeted expenses or an unanticipated cost? Uh, in the entrance interest of transparency, honesty, and rebuilding public trust, I respectfully ask that the board commit to publishing itemized details of current and future warrants, including vendor names and payment purposes and clarify what financial oversight measures are in place to ensure accountability and prevent future budget shortfalls. Now, on to the topic of agenda item um 801 regarding the proposed RAD plan for Evergreen beginning this upcoming school year. The financial implications of this plan raise concerns. This plan outlines more than $541,000 in new costs
020for four different positions. an EL learning coach, an academic assistant principal, a TOSA for multilingual ELA, and then stipens for9 staff to participate in summer year-round instructional planning. Um, I'm going to run out of time, but some of the questions that I have is, is there a financial contingency plan or priority list showing what will be funded first if only partial RAD funding is received? Have these positions already been included in the budget or will budget amendments be required? Um, has the district assessed the impact on other schools if local funds are diverted to cover these costs? For example, will staff, PD time, or student support be reduced? We all want Evergreen and its students to succeed, but committing over half a million dollars to four positions before state funding is guaranteed raises valid questions.
021Uh, the community deserves to know. So, thank you. I'll email you this to Lisa Wilson. Good evening. My name is Tissa Wilson. I reside here in Shelton, Washington. And I am here tonight just to let the community know that there is a petition that is demanding increased uh accountability and transparency from the Shelton School District and it's been gaining support across our community. We've got boots on the ground getting wet signatures and we have a virtual um version of it going around as well. I've heard numerous people in our town voice concerns at these meetings and frequently express feeling unheard and frustrated by the district. So, if you would like to add your signature to hundreds of others, I'll be here afterwards um and I can take a signature or give you a QR code
022to share. And while this petition calls out some specific concerns of ours, it also appeals to the broader concerns that I think are shared by many, namely again the call for increased transparency and accountability in our district. And I hope this part will make it into the meeting minutes. The website, if you want to find it, is www.change.org/change_4_ssd. Thank you. [Applause] Thank [Applause] you. Okay. Item number six, reports and recognition report from the student board representatives. And we will start first with Kaylee Allen. Um, in the day program, students are working hard to finish strong and complete their coursework. We have 33 seniors set to graduate this year. Our ASB elections will be held next week so we can start building our community right as the school year begins next year. We're looking forward to
023Cedar moving across the parking lot from the building and finding ways to collaborate them and their staff. Open Doors is excited at report that they will have at least 16 graduates in their program with the potential of more by the end of summer. They're grow they are gearing up for their mo their move and getting excited for next year. Room 2 students have been busy working on history and the environment as well as the flash curriculum for health. The students engaged in hands-on and investigative activities focused on environmental science and local waterways, creating maps and writing information and essays about their fightings. For the Flash curriculum, we discussed what healthy relationships and dating look like as well as participating I mean practicing no to unwanted pressure and how to recognize situations that may be unsafe
024or uncomfortable. We have also covered important topics such as STDs and HIV and how they are transmitted symptoms of them and prevent prevent any. In relation to this topic, we discussed how condoms can help prevent both pregnancy and the spread of STDs. Our next topic we will be discussing will be birth control. How it works, different methods and being informed about choices aligned with their personal values and beliefs. The individual learning pro learning academy has started off offering programming to students learning online and in through other options. Thank you Alan from Cedar. Yeah. So we've got a few updates. Our ECP we had a really big turnout. It was it surprised even even me how many people showed up. Uh we had a great time there. We had a little bit of a cookout. Um
025we got to share a lot of our projects and I think overall it was just a great time for the community. We had a live Socratic seminar that the community got to watch that I was also a part of and that was uh I think it was really interesting for the community to see how uh class discussions go. They got a little sample of that. We also had a our team for Environ go to state which was really fun. I got to I was also I am part of Environ so I got to go to that and it was it was really fun. Went all the way out to Samish Island. So pretty far from here. Uh we also had a our school dance was last th last Thursday. Yes. On the same day as
026Environ actually and I heard that it was really good. A lot of people had fun. Uh people brought their plus ones and yeah, we're just having a lot of fun during that. Uh tomorrow we're uh Cedar is taking all of its juniors on an Evergreen field trip and that is being done in partnership with the Shelton Promise. So I know we're going to have a whole lot of fun there checking out Evergreen and just kind of learning how to just how to tour a college in general, college, university, any kind of school. Uh we also have our ambassadors. We're already starting to plan our orientation, doing a little bit of collaboration with uh choices principal. Uh we've been working out how we're going to sort of just how we're going to do everything. It's still
027in its early phases, but we're doing a lot of good we have a lot of good progress on that. And about that today actually on the Theresa Johnson trail, we were we were working with Choice students to remove a whole bunch of the English ivy that was there because it's a it's a pretty bad invasive species. It just kind of takes over everything. You can't even leave it on the ground. It also just roots up again. It's horrible. But we were able to remove a lot of it from the uh beginning part of it uh up at the top over by the hospital. So that was fun. And we also have some parting gifts for staff that we've been that we've been working on. We have some bench some benches that uh students are signing.
028So that's fun. And yeah, that's kind of what's been going on with Cedar. Thank you. And Abigail from Shelton High School. The end of the school year is approaching. Only seven more days for seniors and 13 more for freshman, juniors, and sophomores. Our senior awards night is tomorrow at 7 p.m. in the performing arts center. The community is encouraged to join. June 2nd is when graduation ticket pickup starts and it goes throughout the 13th. All fees and dues must be paid before picking up those tickets. This week is spirit week to celebrate seniors. Monday or today was anything but a backpack day. Tomorrow is country versus country club. Thursday is decades day. Friday is winter versus summer and NJOTC had their awards night last week and that went very well along with our prom last
029weekend and that went well too. Thank you. Uh on to item 6.02, recognition of outgoing student board representatives, Mr. Jesse. Thank you. Uh so as part of our annual process that means that our student representatives from three of the high schools uh either graduate or they leave their position or they come back. And so, um, for us, uh, you know, along with the, you know, for the district and for the board, really just want to thank, uh, Kaylee, Allan, and Abigail so much. I think of our, uh, moniker, which is inspire, challenge, and empower. when I think of the three of you, um I know when I listen to your stories and what you do, uh by coming up here and again presenting information and also just seeing how public forums happen, how how we
030can have discourse, uh around some tough challenges that face public education and that's really inspiring to me that you're willing to sit through a lot of this. Some of it is very technical. It's not always exciting, but some of it's really um I hope empowering for you as you move into your adulthood and take on new new things and new horizons um because you will have a lot of opportunities where you can feel you'll be part of a community and how you want to impact it. And so I hope that you were further empowered by this experience and can move forward and do great things. Uh special recognition to you Kaylee. I know you got into Evergreen State and I think that's awesome. You're our first class of Shelton Promise. Uh and I um uh
031I know Allan, you'll be coming back and I've already co-opted you for some student leadership stuff that you and I are going to further discuss. Um really excited about that. And Abigail, you are still going to WSU. Is that correct? I I know there was another couple other options there. So, I'm just uh good for you. and and so um really all three of you have done outstanding job as representatives of your um each elected student bodies the from the three schools and I I just yeah I just kind of like words words can't always describe all the things that you you do do. Um, but again for me, you inspire me and you are a great representative for the Shelton School District. And so with that, I do have three certificates as part of
032your service. Um, and I have uh some sweatshirts here uh from the Shelton School District because I mean, why not continue to represent us where wherever you may go? Um, so uh thank you so much. I like the [Applause] Thanks, guys. It's It's been a lot of fun having you and and getting your insights from the the various high schools and um there's there's actually things we wouldn't know about if it wasn't for you. So, uh thank you very much. Okay. On to the item point 6.03, the budget status report. Clinton Sherman. Good evening, board of directors. Um, today I want to walk through last month's budget status report update. Um, April was tax collection month, right? Um, so that actually put our fund balance into the positive for a brief moment in time. That
033will go negative again uh next month. And then June is a low aortionment month. We had a early low a portion month in November. We'll have another one of those in June. That's the structure of the aortionment payment schedule. The only thing other to note from this from tonight's uh presentation is the April balances will change because you've met with Drake scholarship folks and awarded scholarships. So that'll that'll go down over time. Any other questions for me? Okay. Not not specifically. Um, I guess the the one thing that I always wonder and and you bring it up again is is there any work being done at the level of the state and feds to to even out the aortionment over the course of the year as No, actually there was a bill last session to
034make it worse and push even a larger percentage into July and August which because the end of the state's fiscal year is June and so when they push those revenues into the end of July and August that's their new that's the start of their new fiscal year. So it pushes it outside of their budget. So it's actually saves them money in one budget year. Uh so no they actually the things that were proposed were the opposite of smoothing it out. Good news then. Well, okay. It didn't pass thankfully. Honestly, I was really concerned about it for for lots of districts. It doesn't make a ton of sense to put more than 22 and a half% of our revenue in the last two months of the year. It doesn't make sense for anybody out there moving
035through the world. So Okay. Thank you. Of course. Any questions? Just to um clarify again for everybody at home. Sure. As you see this go up and then down again in June, we expect those things to happen, right? Yes, we do. No surprises here. No, no surprises. Yeah. Yeah. And like like we talked about, ending the year in a deficit doesn't happen in a year and it takes longer than a year to get out of it. So, we're we're structuring and aggressively moving forward. But yes, this is all what we're expecting to see. Okay. We we've been working on the graph that we've had in the past is we've been working with our local ESD which is an extension of OSPI. We're they're still find we're fine-tuning it. So they're still fine-tuning it. It's their
036tool that we we utilized um because it helps monitor, you know, really kind of like where you're at with your general fund balance, but also our expenditures. And so not all the um items are getting managed at the same same rate as we were we're used to. So we don't want to reflect misinformation. So our our work right now we usually have it up uh our job is to try to bring that back. We're going to do a full uh session anyway in June for around the budget. So there's a lot of information coming at a huge presentation. We can definitely put that information back up. Um and then again as he mentioned and I'm glad you asked that director Dale is just again a portion means those are the state monies that we get
037each month month from the state. It's like getting your own pay for the district to pay our bills. And so that's that's why when people are listening I'm like yeah that's that some months you get different percentages. It's not the same percentage every month as a part of your 100% total right. So they divide out over 12 months. Here's your your monies for the Shelton School District. And then what makes it difficult sometimes is as you know some months you have more more bills and expenses are higher. And that's why inflation is hitting so many of the school districtes. you can't always plan for you're you're out well over a year and trying to plan your budget and then when things happen in real time that is your that is the money you have. So
038you try to be as conservative as possible. That's why sometimes as you get to the end it gets really difficult to to manage all your monies when the bills just keep coming. That's been our challenge with us for the Shelton school district and almost every other district that I know of here in the state. So I'm just trying to explain it for the people that are listening on. Yeah. Sorry. The aortionments is the revenue system that districts receive their money through. Sorry. And so it's my understanding too just like every year we then close the budget out for this year in July and we start planning again and have to pass a budget for the next school year in August. We will we've started we started the budget process in January. We'll have a budget
039workshops and some some work around the budget for next year. Right. Right now, we don't close this year's books until after August. The end of our fiscal year is August 31st. Okay. And then we have a couple more months of uh accounting that has to occur u with book and receivables, a bunch of accounting stuff. Uh and so we really close the books in November. Okay. But there is just a lot of uncertainty on the federal level and then trying to see exactly how the state what they just settled on as far as money goes. that there's we're that's not 100% clear. That is that is correct. Um go ahead and that's some of the challenges that school that you face is because as you can hear from we start in January and so when
040you build a budget and then the governor just signed off on this legislation, right? And so you we're trying to do work way in advance. And one of the items that's coming up here um that I've that is just really frustrating is that what I didn't know we didn't mentioned I'm sure director Gilmore did not mention that the school improvement grant which is 30 million it's a $30 million grant that is divided out for specifically schools and they're given to school districts but schools that are needing improvement right they have lower student growth scores is we we received those monies. Almost every district receives those many many many dollars. That 30 million I didn't know was going to get slated. It got cut. The our state legislature cut that 30 million and um I was
041just on a superintendent's call with with um the superintendent of public instruction and that was like fast like people were superintendents are really asking about that because that was not foreseen. I didn't know that we were gonna lose, you know, up to $700,000 because I never knew that was even an item. And so we had already been planning since January. We closed out on doing our school budget. So it's not a part of trying to mislead. That's just how we have to work. And as you're mentioning, uh, Director Davidson, the federal government, we don't receive those dollars either about what that exactly is until this into the summer. like usually this next month you'll know what generally those monies are, but they already just cut one grant that we were going to receive that was
042going to help us pay for some nursing services. What else is going to be slated to that could be possibly cut? Could be more. And so, I mean, $10,000 we can we can work around, $50,000 I can work around after that, then it gets harder because that means we have to balance balance our budget. And so, I appreciate this. I want to get into detail because we're trying to be as transparent as possible in a environment that is unprecedented where monies are moving and that $700,000 was a big deal for us and that's where it currently sits. OSPI's let us know. They're like they're trying to figure out some of the school improvement specific uh you know what monies can go where. I think they're going to probably try to cobble that out from some
043other grant monies that they have. Um it could mean no money. It could mean some money. I know it's not going to be all the money, right? Great questions. Any other questions? Okay. Well, actually, yeah, I mean, might as well talk about some of this. The only way for us to actually be making money as a school district is based off of our enrollment. And do we foresee any increases in our enrollment or is that not going to happen in the you know near future? I know there's housing developments. I don't know how quickly those are coming. So for me in my role it's a balance. I am seeing a ton of homes going in. Shelton has been very aggressive in in some expansion lately. But as the finance guy, you budget conservatively. So you
044budget some flatter enrollment because you don't want to overinflate your revenues when you haven't seen the white of their students eyes yet. And so it does feel and seem like there's some growth happening in Shelton, but we won't recognize that as as dependable revenue until the kids are here. Thank you. That makes sense. Okay, great. And to tag on to that, are we able to go after um any impact fees or anything like that as the big housing developments come in? Yes. Uh currently they're all u negotiated independently with each developer. We are working with both development councils to create a structure for a formula that's just part of the economic development plans. So any developer can go to the websites and see what those fees will be for them in those different um plots
045and parcels that they build on. So we are developing that right now as well. Great. Good. Thank you. Say again. With the city. With the city and the county. Yeah. And the county or the city. Yeah. As and yeah. And our the district is broader than the city. Unincorporated parts of Shelton, I guess. Correct. Thank you. Okay. I I think that's it. That was fantastic. Thank you. Okay. All right. Item number seven, the consent agenda. Has everybody had a chance to take a look at that? I motion to approve this evening's consent agenda. I'll second that. All in favor? I I Okay. Item number eight, uh, discussion and action items. 8.01, proposed approval of the of required action, the RAD at Evergreen Elementary School beginning 2526 school year. Adrien Minry. Good evening, board president Welander,
046other esteemed board members, student representatives, and superintendent Jesse. Uh I am here tonight to uh bring up the uh plan for Evergreen Elementary as this required by the state. So the Shelton School District was identified as a required action district or RAD in 2024 based on low achievement at one of our elementary schools in consecutive previous years on the Washington school improvement framework. Specifically, Evergreen Elementary was classified as persistently low achieving, which directly impacted our district's identification. This moved Evergreen Elementary into the designation of a required introductory cohort or Rick. There's a lot of acronyms here. So, that one is the Rick for the 2526 school year. Important to note that the data that was used for this designation is lagging data. So it goes back to precoid and then includes COVID times and then
047uh did not and so then this past school year was the planning year for it. So the required action plan is a formal school improvement plan submitted to OSPI and the state board of education by schools identified as needing comprehensive support. The RAP identifies key priorities to increase student achievement, close opportunity gaps, and ensure academic growth. Board approval is required as part of the state accountability process to demonstrate district level commitment, oversight, and alignment of resources to support the plan's successful implementation. So, we worked closely with Evergreen Elementary this year to help develop that plan. So, for consideration, it is requested that the board of directors approve the required action district plan for a three-year cycle at Evergreen Elementary School beginning in the 2526 school year pending approval and funding by OSPI, which as you
048heard in previous presentations, we do not know if we have the funding. We do know that we as a district have a commitment to Evergreen to uh continue improving achievement which we have been doing. So with that I will open it up to any questions. Not so much a question but a a comment. We've got to see that improvement start now and so that's really encouraging and hopefully we get to continue that track over these next three years. So thank you. Thank you. I know we're all very closely watching it and the teachers I'm just I was actually at Evergreen today with Miss Kennedy and she was getting tearary talking about the efforts that her teachers have been putting in this year. Long hours you heard the students come and present about their afterchool tutoring.
049So we're really proud of the work and strides that we're make that they're making. Yeah, I think it's wonderful what is already taking place. I guess my question is um it sounds like we need to be approving this plan for the next three years, but there we have plans in place, but maybe there are some things that if funding does not come through, we may have to change or pivot what that plan may be. Absolutely. Based on that funding, right? So, it is all pending the funding. So, the funding would have been designated only for Evergreen. We couldn't have used it for something else. And if it doesn't come, then we don't then we don't have the money for that type of support, but we have to still find ways to be supporting the achievement
050for our students somehow. Correct. Yeah, that's what I wanted to just be clear on. Yeah, thank you. And then just to kind of follow on to help my brain, um, so we do have a plan B in the hopper. If the funds don't show up, we will continue with the MTSS work. Um, we call them our learning support teams. So, it's central office organizing and wrapping around our schools and then our continuous improvement process. So, the MTSS or multi-tered systems of support, that team that Evergreen has already developed and does that continual analysis of data to make those real-time decisions and then those bigger strategic decisions. So, for example, we have our June admin retreat coming up. Um, Miss Kennedy has identified teacher leaders who will be attending with her and uh to help make
051some of these decisions for next year. We're already looking into ways that we can support and continue the afterchool tutoring. So, it's really thinking about that's really what MTSS is, is thinking about what do we have and how can we best use it to the best of our knowledge and then just continually evaluate. Was that successful? What do we want to keep? What do we need to shift or adjust? Thank you. Um I I think that the grant would be a great thing and it's obviously needed, but uh it's nice to hear that if it doesn't happen, um we're still going to be taking care of business down there. So, thank you. Thank you. Anything else? Thank you. We take a motion. Yeah. I move that we approve the proposed approval for the required action
052district at Evergreen Elementary. I second. All in favor? I I Okay. Thank you very much. Thank you. And I know the session is over, but do you have a final update? I don't have a final leg legislative update. I um the governor signed the budget last week and I'm still kind of combing through that stuff and trying to understand it before I want to speak to it. So, but thank you everybody. Sorry if I disappointed anybody. All right, and we'll move on to board member comments. Director Deo. Yeah, just a couple real quick. I just want to personally thank the students over here. You kind of set the bar very high for whoever follows. Thank you for the reports and the information each week. Um, thank you to Bordeaux and those parents. I know they
053all went home, but thank you for that great presentation. You have to be proud of a fourth grader getting up here and speaking publicly. Um, and there's so many celebrations happening from graduations all over the place in this district. Congratulations to all of those graduates. We appreciate you. Thanks, Director Gilmore. Good evening. I also want to thank the students for your impressive commitment and um, shareouts. Uh, you all show amazing leadership qualities and I hope to see you and your passion and commitment to the Shelton community in the future. So, I hope to see you all in leadership roles pressure. And then u continuing on that topic of leadership, I wasn't quick enough earlier. I want to thank Bordeaux um for coming and giving that presentation. uh great leaders are grown in collaborative and collaborative
054environments and service to others. And I'm really excited to see that um the fourth graders are getting this opportunity before they head into the middle school where we're really trying to build those qualities and friendship and just better better collaboration between the middle and the junior high. and just starting that starting those ideas and that work early is really impressive and I've been really impressed with all the students here this year. And last week I also forgot to thank the Puget Sound Estuary. I went on a field trip with uh Bordeaux and out to uh I'm going to butcher it. Tuano Tuana Tuana State Park and um they had different stations set up for the students where they can go around and um touch and feel tanks out of the estuary um bird migration patterns.
055They combed the beach and it was just a really amazing opportunity for our students and really great collaboration between the scientists in our community. It was it was really cool. Director Davidson, I too want to thank all three of you. And Allan, it sounds like you might be back next year. Is that correct? So, we'll get to see your face still, but congratulations on getting into Evergreen. I'm excited to hear about how that goes. And congratulations on becoming a Coug. You guys really did raise the bar this year. I've been on the board for 10 years and each year the student representatives just keep getting better and better and it's wonderful to hear your input. So, um really excited about all of that and thank you also to the Bordeaux Bordeaux students. It is not
056easy to get up and talk in front of a group and it was wonderful to see each one of them tell us about the leadership program. Um it's great. I I think it's wonderful that in our board meetings we can have opportunities for students to get that experience for public speaking, but it's also wonderful for us as a board to hear about what the program is that's going on in the school because I didn't know all know very much about that leadership program. So that was wonderful. Um just shifting gears just a little bit, I am going to share something personal to me. Um, in the last week and a half, I lost my aunt, who is my mom's older sister, and my dad. And because of those two passings, I'm unfortunately not going to
057be able to make choice graduation. Um, it happens to land on my aunt's memorial service, so I won't be able to. I had intended to go and I would have loved to see you walk across the stage, but unfortunately I'm not going to be able to be there and just due to other things going on, it makes it a challenge to be at some of them, but I will be at the other graduations. So, I do plan on doing that. And then just to honor my own dad, he was on the Shelton school board for 12 years and he started in 1992 and he was my biggest supporter for getting on the school board and serving my community. It was very important to him and it was always my goal to match him in years
058of service. I've had 10 years and I plan on doing the best I possibly can for the next two years specifically to honor him. I'm going to miss his um asking me about it. He did up until the point that he couldn't really talk very much anymore. He always asked me about every board meeting, how it was going and what we were doing for students. and he never let me forget that that was the most important thing was that we are here for the students. So I did just want to share that and that's it. All right. So uh it's kind of my favorite time of the year. Uh this year I actually through scheduling get to get to all of it. um started off with the the button robe ceremony and to hear the
059the stories and and the the things that these kids have gone through and persevered to to make sure that they get to this point in life uh were incredible. It was great. Um and then I will be at all three graduations. So, I look forward to seeing all of you and shaking your hands. Um you know, we we keep getting more and more announcements of kids signing to to schools and people going places. um you're gonna go be a Coug and then uh go gooey ducks on the end. So um I really don't have much else other than it's at state. Yeah, we yeah we've got athletes at state and and going there and yeah there's just a lot going on. Um with that we don't have anything else going on. So I would take
060a motion to adjurnn. A motion to adjurnn. I'll second. All in favor? I I All right, we are adjourned at 655.