001All right, it is 6 o'clock and we will get this meeting started. If you would all rise for the pledge of allegiance. [Applause] 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. Have board members had a chance to take a look at the agenda? There are no additions, omissions, changes. So, is there a motion? I move that we adopt the agenda as published. And I'll second it. It's been moved and seconded to adopt the agenda. All those in favor say I. I. I. I. All those opposed say no. Hearing none, the agenda has been adopted. Now we will move on to the superintendent report. Thank you, board president Davidson, other board
002directors, student reps, community members, families, and staff. Um I'll start off with um our recognition for our administrative professionals day. Um this is that week in which we recognize those who work uh for us in education. We usually call them folks that work in the front office. Um but also those who work in central office um and that um help just like we talk about with our classified and our educators is really they they help keep things running. A lot of times these people usually stay in their jobs for very long periods of time at the schools and central office. um they get woven right into the community. They know everything. They this like they know where everything's buried. They know where they know what's going on, what's up to date. They're great at uh
003reading the tea leaves about when situations look like they're that need something needs to be addressed. Um they for any good administrator uh they lean on these individuals all the time to anywhere from getting themselves calendared to writing a reply uh putting together a letter um keeping the doors open. Um they're always there for you. So I just really think of so many of the administrators that I've worked with any of them are listening um and I'm sure they're still working probably some of them um because they work really long hours. I just want to say really thank you so much for your commitment to not only your jobs but also the students because um without you uh a lot of times the doors would not be unlocked. Um you wouldn't know when the bell
004rings and a lot of families wouldn't know when is that event again? Can I I just want to ask you again. So um just want to thank them so much for all their service. It does mean a lot. uh since since we're talking about service and customer service, I think it's one of the things that uh especially coming off the pandemic is just around how do things get done in districts like what how do I if I have a concern or I need to get information a lot of times calling the front office is a great start. A lot of times the front office knows what's going on. There's um sometimes things pivot. There's a change in the schedule. Uh athletics has changes all the time including events when things are going on. I know
005even for myself who would think that I was pretty well at navigating school districts, you know, I've got to make calls and emails too to individuals to get answers. Um because not everything can be contained on the website. They're just it's hard to maintain and update websites. I think we've become a society that's like why didn't I see it on the website? Well, I'm like well who's going to manage that? People are pretty pretty busy. So usually the big things we do expect uh but some of the nuances uh about your your student's education getting registered sometimes um just about who do I ask for this information is is uh call in the front office and and I just kind of want to put that out there that if you uh have your student or
006are coming to a the Shelton school district maybe you got an incoming student this next year uh one glad to have you. Thank you for letting us educate your student. Uh two, um trying to figure out who the right person to address things with is really a good place to start. Um because if you want a quicker reply, it's usually a best best place to go. Call the front office, call your school. And if you're um having a challenge with what's going on for your student or some interactions with other students in the classroom, call your call the teacher, email the teacher. Their job is to reply. If not, then it is the next level. Call your principal. Talk to the principal. What's going on for your student? I didn't get a reply from this
007this teacher in the last 24 hours. It is pretty urgent. Letting them know about that. Uh so the administrator can address that or something that's going on in the bus. Here in this district, the administrators do handle bus issues. So calling your um principal or assistant principal and talking to them about your issues is a really good place to go. Um and um if you're having a concern about your school administrator, um that's when you call center office. You'd want to get um Maryanne Marshall who's in a speech today. She's over the schools. Um teaching and learning questions about that or and of course copying me. I love to be copied. It's really a good place for it. Um, a lot of times if issues come to me and I think there are things that
008could be handled at the school site, I usually will move it there and then get um a response like I get uh copied on that and I usually get I get a reply from the principles. Hey, here's an update on that. That's how it works just because the volume sometimes is so much and I just try to if you handle it at the right level that way you can get a better quicker response for it um for folks. And so just putting it out there um we're here to serve you and support you. Um, and I really want to know if somebody didn't reply to you. So, that's usually or if you if you didn't get an answer that is confusing because we want to get get things clarified for you because again it is
009like I said before I was using myself as example even with all my years and experience. I still navigating a school district even for my own kids. Um, sometimes I got questions because things are different at at school different schools and school districts you know like I came from this district and I don't understand this one. I get that. We want to help parents. um around navigating those things. So, anything we can do to help. Um this is just a reminder about where the best places are to get some of the things that you're looking for help with this time of year or any time of year. So, with that, um thank you so much again for letting us educate your student. Uh last my last topic is uh bus drivers. You know, we're still
010looking for bus drivers. We're looking for substitutes. Hey, inflation's real. Maybe it's hitting your household extra money. Um sometimes we could we could use it even even on evenings and weekends. We we have substitute routes that could help us with um athletics and activities uh for our students. We have stuff during the summer. We have summer program if that's something where somebody can have help us out. We really again are looking for um bus drivers or we can help train you to be a bus driver. So if you're interested, just call the district. We we will take your call. um because we are looking for folks still and I anticipate we'll continue to be looking for folks since it is a national shortage on bus drivers. But why not? I saw one of our, you
011know, nice new shiny buses. I I I was even just for one moment. Um and like that'd be kind of fun to drive that bus. But anyway, that's that's a whole other topic. Um so, thank you for your consideration. Um and that concludes my comments. All right. Thank you very much for all of those good reminders. I think even as we get into whether students are moving into the district too and enrolling, you know, call your school, walk into the school if you're not getting your answers because you definitely need to get your get answers and I'm Thank you for saying that people can copy you on those things as well for followup if they're not hearing from things. So now we do have some community comments this evening. I've got three people that have
012signed up. So, I am going to read the standard language around community comments. As part of the regular schoolboard meeting, the board invites community members to make public comments in person and or by phone as conditions allow. If speaking in person, please follow the public comment procedure by signing in and stating your name and address at the podium when called by the board chair. If making comments by phone, please dial 1253-215-8782 and enter meeting ID number 87256181 978. Each person is allowed three minutes to speak. In accordance with the Open Public Meetings Act, the board is not allowed to discuss items that are not on the agenda. The board will direct the superintendent to follow up on any items that arise during public comment as appropriate. The board will not allow complaints against an individual
013staff member or student in open session unless that individual has requested an open public hearing. And please, I apologize if I pronounce your name wrong, but I do have Lori Pantoia first. if you could come up to the podium. Hi, thank you guys for letting me speak tonight. My reason for coming here tonight was is in October of 2021. So, previously up until the 12th of this month, I was router dispatcher for the uh bus garage. Um, I've been there since 2015, 2016. on October in October of 21, I was asked to cover um the director responsibilities as our director was leaving and we had a substitute one coming in coming back and she had already planned vacations, long vacations, three weeks here, two weeks. Uh her husband had a stroke so she also went
014to his doctor's appointment. So, they asked me if I would help because my background is in HR. Um, I did. It was CO. I had drivers that got CO. I made sure that I took very good care of them. I had a driver that passed away. I'm sure you all seen the the parade that I put together in a week. Um, I did COVID tracing. I did uh watched videos when there wasn't a director there. I mean, I did a lot of stuff. All along I've been asking, you know, so are we going to am I going to get compensation or, you know, oh yeah, you know, we're working on it. We're working on it. Um I was told that had I not been there that we would have had to have closed the doors.
015Um, so I just continued to work on I worked from 5:00 in the morning till sometimes 600 7 8:00 at night. My family can attest to that that I was absent for about 10 months. Um, because I spent all my time at the bus garage with my sick employees making sure that everybody was, you know, okay for at the end of the day and and everything. In August of this last year, um it was told to me that I would not be getting any compensation because um someone had said that I didn't have any responsibility, director responsibilities during that time. Found out that that really wasn't said. So, I've kind of just let it go because the following month I was diagnosed with cerosis. Um, that's just a minor of medical conditions that I have.
016Um, so I've just kind of let it go, but I have the feeling still deep inside me and I struggle with it on a daily basis that I put everything I had, everything that I had into the transportation department. I tried to put routes together. We were so short of bus drivers. I tried to combine routes. I was told, "Don't do that anymore." I had combined quite a few routes. We had drivers that um got sick and they still cannot come back. I combined their routes so that we could get as many kids to school as possible. Um and I was told not to do that. And um I just really feel that um I don't want to say that I was not appreciated because many from the district office told me on a daily
017basis, you're amazing. If it wasn't for you, we would not transportation would not be running. So, I am here to ask that that be opened up again and looked at. Um, I did have to, like I said, resign two weeks ago, um, due to medical issues. Um it has the do I've been going through a lot of testing and um my decline my health decline over the last two years was because I put other people the district ahead of taking care of myself. I've not I've been off on medical since October. I am taking care of myself. In October when I was diagnosed with cerosis, I was told that my fiber scan was 396. The highest it can be is 400. It's pretty scary. 3 weeks ago, I went back for another fiber scan and
018it's at 3:36. So, it's going in the right direction, but I feel that I still have something owed to me. For as much as I put into the district, I do feel and would really like for it to be looked at again. Thank you. Sorry I went over. Have a great evening. Thank you, Heather Kolski. Hi, my name is Heather Kowalsski. I'm a mother of five children who've gone through the school district and I work for the school district as well. What I have to say is more for the community than for the school board, but I think it's something that everyone needs to hear. Um, we've had a lot of community members who have been angry about our schools being woke. The whole theme of go woke go broke against the levy, going woke
019to them. What they are against is just being kind and accepting to all students and being supportive of them and anything they may be going through. Something happened to our community in the last few years. It became acceptable to openly hate and attack those who are different from us, who have different beliefs and a way of life than what someone else might consider right or the box they want them to fit into. Our schools used to be a safer place for our gender expansive students. Not perfect, but they were able to express themselves and experiment with who they wanted to be without fear. Now they're experiencing more fear and sometimes don't feel safe being themselves because other students say and do hurtful things. Our gender expansive students don't always say anything to an adult because
020they're scared of retaliation. Admins, counselors, and teachers do their best, but with a huge student population, social media, and students who are afraid to speak up, it's not easy to protect them all. We can have all the anti-bullying policies in the world and it will not help until it becomes our community's norm to accept everybody with kindness and care. Our community needs to care about all of our students, past and previous and those who are coming up. Not just to conform, not just those who conform with our gender and sexual norms. We encourage students to try out different classes, art forms, sports, drama, band, etc. to find their talents, interests, and a way to express themselves. Finding their spot on the LGBTQ spectrum is no different. No one fits into a box perfectly. We need
021triangles, circles, octagons, and rhombuses. No one is forcing anyone to change anything about themselves. No one is pushing any agenda, but kindness to others. You don't need to understand. You don't need to agree. But we all need to be kind. Someone else changing their gender or sexual identity affects the other people in our society as much as someone dying their hair. Maybe you preferred their hair blonde, but do you know what? It's not your business. For those who are angry about our state and school policy on gender- inclusive schools, how does it really affect you or your student? What has been taken away from you? Don't approve of being gay? Don't be gay. Don't approve of being transgender? Don't change your gender. Allow our students to feel safe in our schools. all of our students
022safe in our homes, businesses, and especially our schools. Teach your children to be kind above all else. It isn't that difficult to let other people lead their lives that way. Their happiness leads to a kinder society everywhere. And I do appreciate the board's stance on the gender inclusive inclusivity and the fact that we have gender equality um policies. And I know that we have a committee that's going to be coming out with some recommendations and I greatly appreciate it. Thank you. Thank you, Marilyn Aaron. Hello, I'm Marilyn Aaron. I live out Cloqualum. Um, a few things. I'm just going to follow up again on the Narcan available at all the schools. haven't heard anything um if it's available from you know the high school OBJ all the way down to the elementary schools and staff
023training for how to properly administer it if needed. Um you mentioned bus drivers, we do desperately need them, although I do see that we only need part-time yet consistently there's at least three routes down on a regular basis. So, if we only need part-time drivers, I'm confused as to how we have three routes down. Um, I'm very sad to hear that Lori has left because she was the most valuable asset up there. Um, I've talked to her many times and she's always answered my questions. Um, another quick question. Uh, do you guys get a chance to review the minutes prior to approval? I hope so. Um, I did have a question on the agenda for the consent agenda where it mentions um general fund warrants um student body fund warrant and there's like a nine-digit
024number. How do you find out more information about that as a community member? I kind of tried to look around and get some answers as to see dive a little deeper. I wasn't able to find anything. So, I'm hoping I can get some answers for that. Um Was you mentioned wanting to help? Um, I know somebody that's actually called your office to try to schedule an in-person meeting with you at least three times. They haven't been able to do so. I would love to hear suggestions as to what I can have them do to make sure that they can get that meeting with you since you're so willing to help. Um, also Carrie, you mentioned about walking into the schools. Um, I have students at SHS to get questions answered. You know, you should be
025able to walk in, talk to. I have a student here at Mountain View. I can openly come and go as needed because they my kids have been here forever. I have a student at Berdau. That's not the case. It's very hard to get into the building. Um and then of course Shelton High School, same way. And then also, uh are you guys like Wyth, you said something about how it'd be fun to drive a bus. Are you able to step in and help if needed? Like would they be able to train you to fill in or is that an option? Just curious. Then my other thing, uh, lastly, we have more administrative positions at the district that we've hired for. I'm not saying these positions aren't needed, but when it comes to budget cuts, should
026we really be taking what's most important from our kids, and that's direct contact, whether it be teachers, paras, etc., and putting more heavy administrative extra positions with the district. Thank you. Unless there are any other public comments, I don't think we've had any dial in. Nope, we have not had any dial in for a while. So, it looks like that is it for our community comments. We are going to go into reports and recognitions. And first up, we always have our student representatives. And tonight we have one representative here. So Miranda, it's all you to give us a report on choice. Oh, excuse me. I'm sorry, on Cedar. I've got I have choice right by your name for some reason. So sorry about that. Um, good evening. At CEDA, we've had the Olympic College hosted
027a college and community fair that Cedar students participated in. It went well and was fun and informative. On April 21st was the first deadline for new student applications for the next year and we are currently reviewing the applications over the next two weeks. We enjoyed having the intern at the counseling office who is finishing up their internship. And our civ class and our geometry and national research block class are currently helping with the gardens and is making a trail on the hill beside our campus. Also, the Envon group competed today at the Olympia Squawken Park. Well, on Thursday we have a big field trip planned to the Portland Art Museum. We are also doing state testing throughout this week and our current focus is graduation requirements and the seniors are organizing our graduation while also
028selling crispy cream donuts as a fundraiser for senior club so we can do more. All of the seniors are making plans and preparing for next year. Thank you. All right. Thank you very much for your report. Okay, moving on. Next, we've got item 5.02, which is recognition of the district's administrative professionals in recognition of April 26th, which is tomorrow being administrative professionals day. Maryanne, I'll leave it to you. Is this on? Good evening, board president Davidson, esteemed members of the school board. I am honored to be here today to speak to you about an important event that takes place every year. It's administrative professionals week. This week, which falls on the last full week of April, is an opportunity for us to recognize and appreciate the hard work and dedication of our administration administrative professionals.
029As you all know, these individuals are the backbone of any organization. They keep things running smoothly. They handle countless tasks and serve as the first point of contact for anyone who interacts with our school system. Without their tireless efforts, our schools would not be able to function at the high level of efficiency and professionalism that we have come to expect. During this week, we have the opportunity to express our gratitude to these hardworking individuals. We can take the time to thank them for their contributions, show them how much we value their work, and recognize the important role that they play in our school system. I'd like to encourage us all to take a moment this week to show our appreciation. Whether it's a simple thank you note, a small gift, or even just a few
030words of kindness. Let's make sure that they know how much they are valued and how important their work is to us. In closing, I want to personally express my sincere gratitude to all of our administrative professionals. Thank you for your hard work, your dedication, and your commitment to making our schools the best they can be. You are truly the unsung heroes of our school systems and we are lucky to have you. Thank you. All right. Thank you very much, Maryanne, and the board. If you have any comments or questions for Maryanne about this, you're welcome to ask that at this point. I might start out I I just having two kids in the school district and having them go up through this. I am very much thankful for the administrative professionals and now having them
031at the high school, just you know, Jen Johnson and her emails that come, I mean, she's constantly keeping parents on track with absences and she is answering emails even on the weekends. So when you say people are working around the clock, I know many of them do do that trying to make sure that things are in place and they are the glue that keeps it all together and they really are one of the first pieces of communication and um you know some of sometimes we're still short staffed in some of those areas too which is tough but um for all the people that are holding it together up there at every single one of our schools um I mean their work definitely definitely is not going unnoticed, especially by those of us that have kids
032and and keeping things on track. And I would just like to say as a new board member within the last seven months, I'd like to thank Allison Nut for helping me uh guide through all the things I need to do and the information you send to me. You are an incredible asset to the board. Miranda, go ahead. All office Roco office administrator Kerry. Um, I've seen how much work she puts in and how much he does as I help in the office one of my classes. And I can't believe how much she does and how much he helps. And I think it's really important to show the fact that we're thankful. That's why at CEDO we're currently passing out like little note things for students staff to fill out to give Hill and I saw
033her read them. She looked really happy. That's wonderful. Thank you for sharing that. Are there any other comments or or anything to add at this time? I'll just go I'll just say everybody has expressed the sentiment very well. I know that uh you know the front office people whether it's um school districts and doctor's offices and you know whether it's this this district or the district my kids were in the front office staff is always amazing and um an integral part of the district and thank you to all of the staff here. All right. Thank you, Maryanne. And you are staying up there because you are item 5.03 as well, which is an update on the 7 to2 English language arts. All right. Well, I'd first like to start off just to give you an
034update on our curriculum adoption process and how that's going. We are identifying book sets for our students in grades 7 through 12. And I've been working with our adoption committee to identify 25 book sets for each grade level. And so they are finalizing those lists. They're working to go through the antibbias tool and also create some summary pages for each of those books. Um once that is done, that information will go to the instructional materials committee for review. And then once those are approved by the instructional materials committee, we'll have those books open for display down at the district office for our community to come in and take a look. Once we go through that process, we'll push those book sets to the board for approval. So, we're kind of on the home front leading
035to the end and we're just excited about finalizing these list and moving that work forward. In regards to the 712 work, we have been working closely with members of our ELA teachers um in each of our buildings. And so we have a small cadre that we've put together and we worked in partnership with district office and our ELA consultant. And so our first meeting um with the team was working with our consultant and just talking about instructional strategies and then going inside of the classroom and watching the consultant work with students so we could get a look into how those strategies would play out inside of the classroom. So we did that at MS and we also did that for in a freshman class up at Shelton High School. Um and the purpose of this
036cadre is to work in partnership to develop a comprehensive plan for our ELA instruction next year. After that work took place, we did the lab site, we had some discussions, we had some more meetings. Um, we sent a a communication um to our ELA staff in the district just to update them on the progress and what we're doing. Just want to make sure that we're communicating out consistently as much as possible to our teachers. Our next plan is on in May in miday we are going to do another lab session but this time we're going to have our cadre cadre and we're going to pull in additional ELA teachers from grades 7 through 12 to be a part of that. And before summer break we're going to have one more final meeting and we're going
037to discuss our best path for implementation um into the 2324 school year. Again, this is a collaborative plan that's being put together, not just by district office, but in collaboration with the teachers who work inside of the classroom every single day with our students. It's important that we move through this work together. And of course, we're going to keep the board updated as we move through this process that you guys are aware of what's going on. And I just like to hand it over to Wyth. I know you've been a part of this. and if you have anything to add. Yeah, I'll just add the piece that uh for our community to know that this work is underneath our strategic plan. It's one of our four priority areas, highquality literacy instruction. We did lift this
038work um about this time last year uh for our elementary and Olympic middle school. getting ready, getting books, getting the training. We have extensive training um about this time and plus also over the summer for our folks um so that they're ready to lift it. And then the lessons learned this year. So the really nice thing about for the 712 people, they're like, what did we learn this last year? Uh what worked, didn't work. And I think the key things are kids love books, have plenty of variety. That's why we're looking at 25 um books to for book sets for each grade level because it's not just the genre, but it's also your reading levels. We have a variety of kids that read at different levels and so we want to make sure that we
039get them in just right books. And I think the two other areas is just around pacing. Um it's got a lot of complexity to it. Um this level of instruction and then also our opportunity for um folks to come and um see the work in place. uh we call them lab days where they get a release and they can come watch other educators here um who are more experienced in these particular approaches um model that for their staff and then have dialogue and conversation. What resonated with you? What could fit? How would this look in my classroom versus my colleagues classroom? And then what do we want to do work on together? Um as a as usually a grade level team but in this case obviously at the secondary about a department. So, um, people
040are really jazzed and excited about it. It continues the work. We're having record-breaking, um, circulation through, uh, Shelton High School's library, uh, like never before. Been in, um, all of the ELA classes, and when I talk to the kids, they're they're so hungry for books, they're buying books outside, and we want to get those books so they don't have to buy those books necessarily on their own. Um, we can get those, too. And so, we are in desperate need to get this move. um as our students are just loving the books, we can do that, but why not even have them more accessible obviously in the classroom and then the instruction that comes with it so they can know the literary moves both in reading and writing uh to prepare them for college career readiness
041really um because you need to have that technical reading and writing skills to for pretty much any job um that is out there. So exciting work and I just want to thank our ELA teachers that are part of the cadre. Um it's really good and I want to thank Maryanne also for helping to lead the charge because um helping to select books for the long term for uh book sets is not not an easy choice for any educator um because you know you're locked in on some of those books for a while um because they they are expensive. So with that uh I think that concludes our presentation. if you have any questions. I was curious which antibbias tool are we using? So if you go to the OSPI website, we're using their antibbias tool.
042We're walking through that. I would just like to thank you for all your hard work and collaboration to sorry um develop this ELA tools and this book set and I'm really proud of the work that the district's doing on literacy. states. I know when I substituted for a little bit at the high school, I found it really heartbreaking how many students struggled with reading, especially as someone who just always consumes books and literature. So, I'm excited to see that we're working on things and coming together as a community to to create a set of books that we can continue to teach and improve on. I had a question. You mentioned that the books would be down at the district office. I imagine that will be advertised then at that point to the public. And what
043period of time is typical for that for people to come down and take a look? Is it like a week? Is it two weeks? I'm not sure what the typical time frame has been. I remember when we've done this in the past and it's been like in one of it was in Shelton High School Library, the last one that I remembered. Um or maybe it was one of the other libraries, but I I just can't remember how long the process is for people to come take a look. Yeah. So once we move through that process with our instructional materials committee, you can imagine um we're going se grades 7 through 12 with 25 books at each grade level. We want to make sure that we do a thorough job. So I know right now our
044team personally has a goal of trying to get that done by the end of May. and we want to make sure that our community has an opportunity to get in and see these books and look over them. And so, um, initially it's a week long that we would keep the district office open for them to come into the conference room. Um, but we can always adjust that. Again, it's important that our community have an opportunity and if a week isn't enough time, then we want to make sure that we give our community time to see those books, but also be on a timeline to get those to the board and adopted. Yeah. So, there's the the rub of the reality. So, we'll we'll get them there. We I definitely two weeks is a solid thing
045and we'll have a list of them. We could we have a list generated so that um individuals can have that. Only thing that I would say the caveat is is even at the end of May then we have to order them um an a book and so we are gonna be relying on all of the I mean that's a lot of books as you can hear here showing up. So sometimes supply lines again are not always the same but we'll have a a high majority of the titles available but we'll also have the title I mean we'll have all the titles whether I physically have the book necessarily in the central office. We'll try to do our best to get it there. There may be a couple that don't come through um for necessarily the
046whole two weeks, but they usually always show up like a couple days late if need be. And then um the other part is getting them to the board because the part also is about us to order them. they are in this fiscal year. So, we want to get those ordered so they can actually show up in time prep ready for the next school year and prep and prepared um because we're also at the end of our fiscal year at the end of August. So, we want to make sure they we do receive them and have them ready for the the school year. So, I think getting them out there um for a couple weeks and then if if um family members have more questions, I've always directed them to go back to the school and
047have an access to the books because the books are always there. And so, if they have more questions on them, um they have an opportunity to pick them up right there at the school site too for their own individual taking and if they want to read it with their student, we can try to accommodate that. We can that too. Sometimes parents might like to read um you know, young adult books. They're often very entertaining. Thank you. That was another question I had about timelines. So, you guys addressed that. Thank you. Are there any other questions about the 7 to 12 English language arts update? Nothing at this time. All right. Thank you, Maryanne, for both reports. All right. Now, we can move on to the consent agenda. And as you can see, we do have
048the minutes from the previous meeting, and we do have different warrants that are out there. Are there any questions or comments or is there a motion? I'd like to make a motion to accept the consent agenda. I'll second that motion. All right. It's been moved and seconded to approve the consent agenda. All those in favor say I. I. I. All those opposed say no. Hearing none, the consent agenda has passed. All right. Tonight we do not have anything under discussion and action items. So I'm going to move directly into board member comments and I'll start on this end tonight. Sandy, if you have any board member comments and sorry if I'm catching you off guard. I don't have a lot. Normally I give some legislative update and um the legislature did close on Sunday. There's
049actually a meeting of ledge reps tonight to talk about um a phone meeting to talk about the different um differences. So I really don't have a whole lot to report other than um basics in an email that came from OSPI through the superintendent earlier. Um the uh special education funding um seems to have followed the uh the model that was fewer dollars but um still a a uh greatly appreciated influx of money into the the system. And um I'm sorry Richard's not here. He'll be pleased to know that his the bill he was watching about running start passed through too. So, um, those were a couple of things that I knew off the top of my head, and by the time we meet again, it'll be old information probably. So, that's it for me. All
050right. Thank you, Sandy. Carla, do you have any comments tonight? Yes, I do have comments. First of all, I want to say the school district hosted a retired teachers uh event, teachers and administrators event and it was a wonderful opportunity for our former teachers to get together, say hello to colleagues. Um it was put together by Linda Arnold and it was just spectacular. and Wyth Jesse spoke and gave our strategic plan and I think you um really informed them of the direction of our uh our plan and our district and it was wellreceived. So I would just like to thank the district for offering up such a great event after co we have not seen a group of teach retired teachers so it was spectacular for all involved. The other thing I'd like to say
051is that um I really like what was said here tonight about the adoption and the curriculum and the direction of the language and that collaborating with teachers. I think that's a real key to having everyone on board and building something together. So I was very glad to hear that word and um I would re like to recommend Charlotte's Web. I know it's thought of as a second third grade book, but the vocabulary and the life lessons are rich in Charlotte's Web. Just throwing that out there for the 7 through 12. About the 20th time I read it to my class, I realized there is so much to life in this book. Okay. And another thing that I attended in the last couple of weeks is a huff and puff um um celebration. Our Shelton Rotary
052is interested in the upkeep and um safety of our um Huffand Puff which belongs to the city of Shelton. So, in collaboration, we have the city of Shelton, the Shelton school district, and Rotary working to improve the conditions of the trail as well as safety, trying to form uh community walking times so people feel safe. And there are other strategies involved in the improvement plan. It's just nice to see that different organizations are coming together And that concludes my my thoughts. All right. Thank you, Carla. And thank you for attending the retiree lunchon. I hadn't really thought about that. That that was the first one probably since we've gone through co for everyone to be there face to face together. Yeah. Because I know we were doing those before and that was I'm glad to
053see that that came back. All right. Lauren, do you have any comments this evening? I would just like to thank everybody who provided public comment for voicing your concerns. Um, and also reminding everyone of the importance of recognizing the struggles that students are also facing individually. And I would like to thank our administrators for the unseen work that they do. Um, there's a lot of paperwork to OSPI that I'm aware of and grant applications and funding and they just provide so much to the school district on top of just what students and teachers and staff see. And they improve the climate of schools and they are the first face you see when you enter a school and just very grateful for all of their work. All right. Thank you, Lauren. And I don't have a
054lot today either. Um I just very thankful for the administrative professionals that work at the schools. Thank you for the public comments and thank you for staying for the whole meeting as well too. Um the only other thing I will say is I was excited to see that we do have some student athletes that have received, you know, they they've done like a signing for playing sports in college. We continue to see different athletes. They just had three football players that are going on to college on scholarships. So, that's pretty exciting. I'm very thankful that the weather is getting better. I think the Shelton Invitational is this weekend and that's hosted at Shelton High School. And it looks like we're going to have some nice weather for other schools to come and and visit for
055that. Um, and that's I think the longest standing track meet in the state of Washington. So, that is pretty exciting. Outside of that, um, we do have two items on our exempt session this evening. It looks like there is possible action to follow. Um, for one of them, I'm not I think we will set a time frame at about a half an hour and we will come back out. If we haven't finished, we'll have to go back in and then we will uh be adjourning at that time and we will need to be signing documents as well. But for now, I believe we're going to be heading to a different room for an exempt session. Yes, we Yes. All right. Thank you all for coming back and thank you, Matt, for joining us. We know
056that since you were not able to be part of the exempt session that you'll be abstaining most likely from the vote. So, coming out of exempt session, do we have a motion? I propose to move the bargained agreement with the Shelton Athletics and Activities Association. And I'll second that. All right. It's been moved and seconded to approve the proposed bargained agreement with the Shelton Athletics and Activities Association. All those in favor say I. I. All those opposed say no. Are there any abstensions? I will abstain. All right. So, the proposed bargained agreement has passed and now we're going to adjourn. If there's a motion to adjurnn. I motion we adjurnn. Seconded. All right. It's been moved and seconded to adjurnn. All those in favor say I. I. I. All those opposed say no. I just
057got here so no. Okay. Well, that's noted. Thank you. The meeting is adjourned.