[0:03] Good evening. Good evening and welcome. Thank you for being here. I'd like to call to order this regular meeting

[0:11] of the Battleground School District Board of Directors for Monday, December 8, 2025 at 6 p.m.,

[0:17] please stand and join us for the pledge of allegiance.

[0:19] I

[0:25] pledge allegiance to the pride 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.

[0:43] Next, we'll have roll call.

[0:52] President and Director of District 1, Mary Snitley, here.

[0:55] Vice President and Director of District 5, Jackie Maddox.

[0:59] Director of District 2, Debbie Johnson.

[1:03] Director of District 3, Ted Shampine.

[1:05] Here.

[1:06] Director of District 4, Terry Tate.

[1:09] Student Representative Eatsil Contreras Manteo.

[1:13] Student Representative Toby Win.

[1:16] Madam President, we have a forum.

[1:17] Thank you.

[1:18] And next approval of tonight's agenda,

[1:24] I'll need a motion to approve the agenda as presented.

[1:32] That's probably a good idea. Yes, fine.

[1:36] I can find my agenda. Thank you. Okay.

[1:41] So tonight's agenda, we have the approval of the minutes, the appointment of an acting board president,

[1:47] oaths of office for new board members, recognition of outgoing board members,

[1:51] election officers, student and board updates, superintendent and staff updates, citizens comments,

[1:58] consent agenda, which includes items A through F, no old business, no new business,

[2:05] future agenda items and board events, and an executive session. Could I have a motion to approve

[2:12] the agenda as presented? I'm moving to approve the agenda as presented. It's been moved that we

[2:21] Thank you and board all those in favor say aye and opposed motion passes five to zero.

[2:31] Next is approval of the minutes for the November 24th, 2025 regular board meeting.

[2:43] If I could have a motion to approve minutes.

[2:46] I'll move the board address approve the minutes of that November 24th regular board meeting as presented.

[2:52] and student reps.

[2:54] Pro.

[2:55] Thank you.

[2:56] And board all those in favor say aye.

[2:58] Aye.

[2:59] And opposed motion passes five to zero.

[3:04] And finally, as my last official act, I would like to give an opportunity to direct your

[3:13] campaign and direct your Maddox to say a few words.

[3:18] No, let me take off first.

[3:20] All right.

[3:22] Well, I'd write it down because I'm not good at first.

[3:27] I might choke up and it won't be the first time you all saw me cry.

[3:32] I'm sick.

[3:34] So I just wanted to thank you to all of those who supported me and challenged me and helped me

[3:38] to learn and grow during the last five and a half years I was on the board.

[3:42] Serving students has been an honor.

[3:46] Thank you to my superintendents, Mark Ross, Denny Waters, and now Shelly Whitten.

[3:53] Your leadership and guidance have been invaluable, but continuing vision you have for

[3:57] our district is truly remarkable.

[4:00] Thank you to my past board members, I'm so grateful to have served with you and enjoy our continued

[4:05] friendship with many of you.

[4:07] Thank you to Mary and Ted, the three of us have accomplished some amazing things and

[4:12] come challenges with grace and resilience always putting students first. To the students,

[4:19] parents, staff and community, thank you for showing up, for speaking up and helping me to navigate

[4:25] decisions that impact all of you. And last but not least, thank you to my family.

[4:33] They have

[4:34] endured all of it. Good, great, bad and ugly. And a few tears from afar. I started to make a list

[4:43] of accomplishments and realized it would take too much time, but I do want to share a couple

[4:47] of my favorite student voice has evolved over the last five and a half years. It has

[4:54] gone from an occasional student story to ASP reports to every meeting, every school represented,

[5:02] and for that I'm truly proud. PLC work, I would put our district up against any other district

[5:09] in the state and the nation for the PLC work that we accomplish here. You are all amazing.

[5:16] And for our facility improvements, Kevin Jolma, you have done amazing things with our facilities

[5:23] with getting blood out of a turnout. Thank you for all the work you do and keeping good buildings running for our kids.

[5:33] I have no doubt this district will continue success keeping the focus on each and every student

[5:38] During incoming board members, welcome and good luck.

[5:41] You have a big job in front of you.

[5:43] Keep each and every student first, rely on your superintendent.

[5:47] She is amazing and knows this district better than anyone.

[5:51] The loud voices are not always the majority

[5:53] and most importantly know your role.

[5:56] Stay off the dance floor.

[5:59] And if you don't know what that means,

[6:01] David Kennedy will surely share a picture.

[6:11] Thank you, Jackie.

[6:12] Thank you.

[6:13] Thank you for for everything that you've done for the board and with the board and did all to everything you said and Ted take the rest of the words out of my mouth

[6:25] Yeah, as I said here and I I said what I wrote is like Jackie I need to dig right this down

[6:30] It still feels holy inadequate

[6:34] To express them on a gratitude

[6:36] But I have for the district

[6:39] But I am gonna read it. I might have lived here in there

[6:44] First and foremost, thank you to Danny Waters, Shully Witton, and my fellow board members, and our amazing student board representatives.

[6:52] Your support, advice, guidance and stewardship, have been second and done.

[6:58] I am sure they honored to have worked alongside you these past four years.

[7:03] A heart felt, thank you to our administrators, teachers, certified, classified for all you do, and the love you show the district.

[7:10] we simply could not function without your dedication in leadership.

[7:15] I'd like to specifically call out Kevin Jolma, his tolerance for my constant

[7:21] pestering has been second to none. And I blame Danny, he's the one that gave me

[7:25] your cell phone number, so again, thank you Kevin, I appreciate everything you've done

[7:31] for us. The board has experienced a share of challenges, celebrations, and growing

[7:36] pains. It's been a role of co-star for sure. But through it, I'll try to keep one

[7:41] in front of one mind inspired by the words of Martin Luther King Jr.

[7:46] There is a moral obligation to obey just laws as well as a moral responsibility

[7:50] to disobey unjust laws.

[7:54] As I step away, my hope is that we all continue to lead the courage, integrity,

[7:58] and a commitment to what is right, and just even when it's hard.

[8:03] Thank you for allowing me to serve. It truly has been an honor.

[8:15] Ted, thank you so much.

[8:18] Not just for the work you've done on a board, but for the words, again, the rest of the

[8:22] words you took out of my mouth, so I did owe to everything you said as well.

[8:28] I feel a deep and profound gratitude this evening.

[8:35] First to my family, for stepping up and supporting me and allowing me to take on this position

[8:42] At a time when we have our own challenges and giving me the free space to do this and listening to me as I talked about it.

[8:54] I'm sure you'll be happy not to have to hear about it anymore.

[8:59] Thank you to the community of Battleground School District for giving me this opportunity and letting me to this position.

[9:07] I'm indebted to you for giving me the opportunity to make a difference for students and

[9:11] families.

[9:12] That was my goal.

[9:15] Thank you to the staff.

[9:18] As I sat here this evening and listened to these SIP plans, knowing that that's only two examples

[9:25] of every single one of our 19 schools and the amazing work you're doing.

[9:30] I've watched you and listened to you and I've learned from you.

[9:33] I'm humbled and astounded staff at your dedication in your compassion.

[9:39] Whether you work in a classroom, whether you support work in the classroom,

[9:45] whether you're keeping all of our buildings up and running warm and dry.

[9:50] Thank you Kevin.

[9:52] And to the board, thank you for your support, for your courage,

[9:58] for your grace you've shown me, for your integrity.

[10:03] I could go on, but you know what it means to serve well, and I've learned so much from you.

[10:10] Thank you, Jackie and Ted. Your voices will be greatly missed.

[10:16] And student reps, I can see you over there.

[10:20] It's on Toby and those who've gone before, I didn't miss you.

[10:25] You represent the whole reason we do this work.

[10:27] You are a shining example of the product, if you will, you remind us of what the future holds and the future is bright, so thank you.

[10:40] And new board, I applaud your courage to run for office and I congratulate your success. May you serve well and struggle with your learning.

[10:51] Hmm.

[10:53] Did I say struggle?

[10:55] Yes.

[10:55] And here's why.

[10:57] I used to tell my students that I wanted them to struggle with their learning because

[11:00] anything we're learning well involves a little struggle.

[11:05] Let me illustrate with a story.

[11:07] Almost 25 years ago I was working for a district that received a substantial grant.

[11:12] $3 million to be exact.

[11:15] From a very well-known foundation based in Seattle.

[11:18] The Foundation's idea was that they could re-tool education in Washington State in five years.

[11:24] So every other month, all the districts involved.

[11:28] The $3 million was just our grant.

[11:32] Many other districts in the state received much bigger grants.

[11:36] But every other month, they brought us together for this multimillion-dollar project.

[11:42] And they had the best experts in education, the best experts in business.

[11:46] for us to learn from. At the end of five years there was a big ban quit and the keynote speaker was the executive director of this particular foundation that I'm sure you're very familiar with.

[12:00] I'll never forget what he had to say. He walked to the podium and he looked at us hundreds of his out there and he didn't say anything.

[12:07] He just stood there for a very awkward amount of time and finally he said, and I'll quote,

[12:14] My father is a brain surgeon and the work that you do as educators is so much more complicated

[12:20] than brain surgery.

[12:23] Yes, what happens every single day in our schools is more complicated than brain surgery.

[12:30] It is more complex than rocket science.

[12:33] I urge you to look to the experts sitting right here in this room with you, look to the teachers in every battleground classroom.

[12:43] They have been doing this complicated work for a long time. Ask them the questions first and then be willing to struggle with your learning.

[12:53] True vision or leadership is understanding what is working and being able to move the needle to the next level.

[13:00] So, new board, I hope and pray, you will deeply learn the why, what and how, a battle

[13:07] around school district's vision, so that you can support and foster it.

[13:13] You have the best expert in the room to guide you in that visionary leadership, because

[13:17] Superintendent Witton was an integral part of building the district system wide coherence.

[13:23] She has the perseverance to stay the course, and she has the courage to maintain the focus

[13:29] on each and every child. Finally to all of you who have been a part of my short journey

[13:34] is director, God's feed. You will be in my mind and in my heart, always. Thank you.

[13:51] Mary, could I take a moment and read a message from Danny to the three of you? Yes, that'd be all right.

[13:59] Denny says, Dear Mary, Jackie, and Ted.

[14:04] On a night where you step away from your role as school board directors, I want you to know that I am thinking of you all in wishing you nothing but the best.

[14:14] My superintendency was marked with some tough times, the COVID pandemic, budget shortfalls, levy challenges, and tough labor negotiations just to name a few.

[14:24] But no matter what the challenges were, I always considered myself the luckiest superintendent in the state because I had the three best four directors anyone could ever ask for.

[14:36] All three of you brought wisdom, courage and heart to the job and I and the district were better for it.

[14:43] Thank you for everything. Hopefully we get a chance to see each other again sometime and when we do, I'm buying.

[14:50] Thank you again, my friends and congratulations, you are the best.

[15:06] And so, we've come to an important part of our meeting.

[15:12] As it turns out, if both the school board president and vice-president have terms ending simultaneously as they are today, the board will select an acting president-protem to maintain leadership and temporarily fulfill the president's duties until new officers are elected.

[15:30] So, I move that Debbie Johnson be selected as acting president pro-tim and tell the election

[15:37] of officers later in this meeting and I need a second for that motion.

[15:43] I second that motion.

[15:44] Okay, it has been moved and seconded that Debbie Johnson be president pro-tim and tell

[15:50] the election of officers later in this meeting.

[15:53] All those in favor say aye.

[15:56] opposed motion passes five to zero.

[16:02] And so Debbie will step into my role.

[16:06] Sure, I will. And take over.

[16:12] So I guess we're ready for the OFL office.

[16:19] This is what I need to say in your script right there.

[16:22] Propology one one one one one. OFL office. According to the statutory provision, each new director shall take an oath or an affirmation to support the

[16:31] of the United States and the State of Washington to uphold the laws of the State of Washington

[16:37] to promote the interests of education and to fully discharge the duties of his or her office

[16:44] to the best of his or her ability. Superintendent Shelley Witten will administer the oath of

[16:50] office to our new directors.

[16:51] I'm sorry, will

[17:05] you raise your right hand?

[17:08] I, state your name?

[17:10] I, for recently.

[17:11] Do solemnly swear that I will support.

[17:15] Do solemnly swear that I will support.

[17:19] The Constitution of the United States and the State of Washington.

[17:24] Do the Constitution of the United States and the State of Washington.

[17:27] And the laws of the State of Washington.

[17:29] and a laws of the State of Washington.

[17:33] And I will faithfully discharge the duties.

[17:36] And I will faithfully discharge the duties.

[17:39] Of the Office of Battleground School District,

[17:41] one-nineteen of the Office of the Battleground School,

[17:48] number one-nineteen.

[17:55] Director of position number one to the best of my ability.

[17:59] the director of position number one to the best of my ability.

[18:22] I state your name.

[18:23] I curse for well.

[18:25] Do solemnly swear that I will support.

[18:28] Do solemnly swear that I will support.

[18:31] The Constitution of the United States and the State of Washington.

[18:39] The Constitution of the United States and the State of Washington.

[18:42] And the laws of the State of Washington.

[18:44] And the laws of the State of Washington.

[18:46] And I will favorly discharge the duties.

[18:49] That will faithfully discharge the duties of the office of Battleground School District

[18:55] 119 of the office of Battleground School District number 119 director position number 3 to the best of my ability

[19:02] Director District position number 3 to the best of my ability

[19:21] I state your name

[19:25] Do solemnly swear that I will support

[19:28] Do solemnly swear that I will support

[19:30] The Constitution of the United States and the State of Washington.

[19:34] The Constitution of the United States and the State of Washington.

[19:37] And the Laws of the State of Washington.

[19:40] And the Laws of the State of Washington.

[19:42] And I will fully discharge the duties.

[19:45] and I will fully discharge the duties of the Office of Fatal Ground School District number

[19:50] 1.19 of the Office of The Federal satu District Number 19.

[19:56] Director, district position number five to the best of my ability.

[20:01] Director, position, district number five to the best of my ability.

[20:06] Thank you.

[20:11] Are there family members of our three board members that would like to get pictures with their newly elected?

[20:32] At this time, Superintendent Shelley Whitten will acknowledge out-going school board members, Mary

[20:38] Siddly, Jackie Maddox, and Ted Chepney for their service to the district, expressing gratitude

[20:45] for their contributions and dedication to students, parents, staff, and the community.

[20:51] The presentation of service plaques will be followed by a brief dessert beverage social.

[20:58] Superintendent Witten will then welcome new board, school board members,

[21:02] Laura Shipley, Sibley, qualifies.

[21:05] Chris Grewell, Grant and is it Grewell?

[21:10] And Marshall Merritt, making a smooth transition into leadership

[21:14] and ensuring continuity as they begin their terms.

[21:20] Thank you.

[21:20] So I have a few remarks and I'm just going to apologize to the three of you because I may get a little emotional.

[21:31] So I'll do this one at a time.

[21:34] So I would like to start by recognizing Director Ted Champine, Director of District 3.

[21:41] It is my honor to recognize Director Ted Shampine for his dedicated service to

[21:47] Battleground School District as a Board of Director of District 3 from 2021 to 2025.

[21:57] Ted brought with him not only a deep background in construction, providing clarity around

[22:02] the club's complexities of school, facility maintenance and building projects, but also

[22:10] remarkable sense of creativity that enriched his work and our collective problem-solving as a board.

[22:16] His ability to see both the structural and the innovative sides of a challenge has been a

[22:22] true asset to this district. During his tenure and in collaboration with fellow outgoing board members,

[22:29] 10 helped Ted help shaped one of the most succinct, focused, and results oriented strategic plans

[22:35] in this district's history.

[22:37] Developed with broad stakeholder engagement,

[22:40] this plan reflects a shared vision for strong student outcomes.

[22:44] Ted's belief in supporting students beyond the classroom

[22:47] was instrumental in elevating the safe and caring

[22:51] environment pillar, ensuring attention

[22:53] to the academic social and emotional needs of every student

[22:57] which fully aligns to our district mission.

[23:01] Ted has also been a champion of athletics and activities

[23:04] recognizing that these experiences are essential to cultivating belonging and helping students

[23:10] feel connected and successful in school. His leadership was key in assuring the installation

[23:15] of a new multi-functional reader board at our district stadium. An enhancement that strengthens

[23:23] communication, elevate school pride, and supports the many events that bring our community together.

[23:28] His service on the audit committee, as well as the WAIA representative, further highlights his commitment to accountability, opportunity, and well-rounded student growth.

[23:41] Beyond his service, Ted is a talented painter and his artistic gifts have touched our community in meaningful ways.

[23:49] I am especially grateful for a train painting he created an artwork that gave my family a heart

[23:57] felt way to honor and celebrate my father's service to our local community.

[24:02] That gesture reflects not only Ted's creativity, but his generosity of spirit.

[24:09] Ted, thank you for your leadership, your art, art history, your steady perspective,

[24:15] and your whole hearted commitment to the Battleground School District.

[24:20] Your impact will continue to be felt by our students, staff, and community for years to come.

[24:26] Thank you.

[24:37] I want to thank you for your service from 2021 to 2025 as Director of District Number 3.

[24:44] Thank you, Ted.

[24:45] Thank you.

[24:49] All right.

[24:59] Oh, it is my honor to recognize Mary Snelly, who has faithfully served as Battleground

[25:06] School District as the Director of District 1 from 2021 to 2025, including her leadership

[25:14] roles as Vice President in 2024 and President in 2025.

[25:20] Mary's deep background in education has been evidenced in every decision,

[25:26] every discussion, and every initiative she supports.

[25:29] She has been a steadfast advocate for academic excellence,

[25:34] consistently championed efforts that align our

[25:37] system from the boardroom to the classroom.

[25:41] Her commitment to ensuring that every student receives a high-quality education has strengthened our district in meaningful ways and lasting ways.

[25:53] During her tenure, Mary worked alongside fellow board members helping to guide and develop one of the most, again, succinct, focused and results-oriented strategic plans, our district has ever produced.

[26:05] This plan created through collaboration with multiple stakeholders reflects her belief that

[26:12] shared purpose, clarity, collective efforts, are essential to positive outcomes for students.

[26:19] Mary has also been a strong champion of professional learning community communities and

[26:25] professional development, recognizing that well-supported educators are key to meeting

[26:30] the diverse and growing needs of our students.

[26:33] Her advocacy has helped advance a culture of continuous learning for staff at every level.

[26:41] In addition to her board leadership role as Mary has contributed significantly through her service on both the audit committee and the legislative committee.

[26:52] Demonstrating her commitment to responsible stewardship advocacy and ensuring the district priorities are well represented at the state level.

[27:02] Mary, your leadership insight and unwavering dedication have made a lasting impact on this district.

[27:11] On behalf of the Battleground School District community, myself, thank you for your years of service, your thoughtful guidance and your enduring commitment to our students and staff.

[27:23] We are deeply grateful.

[27:55] So tonight we recognize and extend our deeper appreciation to Jackie Manix, who has faithfully served as Battleground School District Director for District 5 from 2020 to 2025.

[28:10] Throughout her tenure Jackie has demonstrated unwavering commitment and thoughtful leadership in a true heart for service.

[28:17] Jackie stepped into key leadership roles on the board serving as Vice President in 2021,

[28:24] 2022 and again in 2025. As board president in 2023 and 2024. In each of these

[28:34] roles, she brought steady guidance, clarity of purpose, and a collective spirit that

[28:39] strengthens the work of the board and supports the district, both through challenges and

[28:44] opportunities. During her tenure like her board counterparts, she has helped guide and develop

[28:55] the most succinct focused and results oriented strategic plan our district has ever produced.

[29:03] There is a reason that I'm repeating this for all of you. I don't think this strategic plan

[29:08] exist without your leadership. The plan has been created with multiple stakeholders. They reflect

[29:16] her belief that with clarity, shared purpose and collective effort, those things are essential

[29:23] for the positive outcomes of students and we're seeing that play out today. Beyond her board service,

[29:32] Jackie Devode devoted her time and talents to the Battle of Grand Education Foundation,

[29:37] where she championed fundraising efforts and initiatives that directly addressed food insecurities among our students.

[29:45] Her dedication ensures that some of the most vulnerable children receive critical support,

[29:52] reflecting her deep belief in the caring for each and every student.

[29:57] She will continue positively impacting

[30:00] Distance through her supportive BGF as their treasurer as she vacates her board position.

[30:06] Jackie also provides valuable oversight as a member of the audit committee, where her keen

[30:17] I for detail and strong accounting background have proved invaluable. Her expertise helped ensure

[30:24] transparency, accountability, and sound stewardship of district resources.

[30:32] Jackie, your service has made a meaningful and lasting impact.

[30:38] On me as a district leader on the board, on our schools, and most importantly, on the

[30:43] students and families of battleground, I would like to communicate our gratitude for

[30:48] leadership, your diligence, and your compassion. Thank you for your five years of

[30:55] dedication to our community.

[31:11] We will now take a 15-minute

[31:14] recess to reset the board seating, returning to our regular board session at 646.

[31:27] The six, and we're moving to the agenda item,

[31:33] election of officers.

[31:35] Please

[31:37] keep everybody.

[31:41] Per policy 1, 2, 1, 0, annual organizational meeting at the first regular meeting of our newly elected board members,

[31:50] are seated in the election year at the first regular meeting in December in not election years.

[31:56] The board shall elect from its members, a chair, president, and a vice chair, vice president, to serve one year turns.

[32:06] A newly appointed board member will not be eligible to serve as an officer, unless the majority of the board has been newly appointed, which in the case for our board this year.

[32:19] So, newly appointed board members are eligible to serve as officers.

[32:25] Do we have any board members interested in pursuing a leadership position as either president

[32:34] or vice president for 2026?

[32:36] I now call for nominations for board president for 2026.

[32:45] I have an interest in serving leadership.

[32:48] Okay.

[32:48] More shot.

[32:51] Here he has an interest in leadership.

[32:57] Okay.

[32:58] President.

[33:01] Okay.

[33:01] So I'm kind of those are nominations and all nominations for President are concluded.

[33:09] Was there anyone else?

[33:10] Point of order, madam?

[33:11] Yes.

[33:13] Maybe we should like take nominations for President specifically, we've expressed an interest

[33:18] in serving.

[33:19] Okay.

[33:19] But we really haven't been nominated.

[33:21] Yeah.

[33:21] I think I'm going to nominate myself.

[33:23] Let's do that.

[33:24] So I'm going to call for nominations for Board President.

[33:28] I nominate Marshall Merritt's President, okay?

[33:33] And I nominate Terry T. for President.

[33:36] Okay, were there any others?

[33:43] We're going to have a roll call vote for each board member, Carla.

[33:48] Do you want to have discussion or have either of them speak maybe?

[33:54] Sure.

[33:58] I don't, I didn't prepare anything to say.

[34:02] I would just put out there for the public to know that I've been interested in serving

[34:06] because I've been involved with the school district for the past four or five years.

[34:12] So I think that I come with some understanding.

[34:15] And I think that running a meeting is important.

[34:20] And keeping us on track is important and I think I would do a good job with that.

[34:23] That's why I'm interested in running.

[34:25] Okay?

[34:32] Would you guys like me to wax elegant? I don't feel like I have anything important to say.

[34:36] Anybody want it? No, I don't feel okay.

[34:42] As we have a split nomination, I'm going to do a role call vote. I will call each director individually,

[34:48] and I will ask you if you vote for Marshall Marit for President or Territate for President. Please verbalize which candidate you select.

[35:02] Director of District 2, Debbie Johnson, how do you vote?

[35:06] Marcia Merit or Territate Terry

[35:11] Lori simply director of district one how do you vote?

[35:15] Marshall Merit

[35:21] Territate director of district four how do you vote? Territate

[35:28] Marshall Merit director of district five how do you vote?

[35:31] Marshall Merit and Chris Groll director of district three how do you vote?

[35:37] Territate

[35:42] by a vote of three to two your new board president is Territate.

[35:59] I don't have to do it anymore.

[36:01] It's musical chairs.

[36:03] It will be.

[36:08] I have big shoes to fill Debbie.

[36:10] You did a really good job as President Protem.

[36:13] Thank you.

[36:16] Thank you.

[36:17] Thank you, Carla, for saving me.

[36:22] So continuing with item 9B,

[36:26] election of officers.

[36:28] We now move to the election of Board Vice President.

[36:31] I now call for nominations for Board Vice President for 2026, please.

[36:38] I'd like to nominate Chris

[36:44] and I would nominate Lori Sidley.

[36:50] Are there any other nominations?

[36:54] No, having heard none of them, we'll go ahead and vote, Carla.

[36:58] Would we just do a roll call vote again when we do that?

[37:01] We, though.

[37:02] Yeah.

[37:06] Do you want?

[37:08] Do you want to get them the opportunity?

[37:10] Oh, yes.

[37:10] to speak? Yes, I'm sorry, yes. It wasn't on our agenda, you didn't put it on there.

[37:16] Lori, would you like to speak? I'm just interested in serving in any way that I can and

[37:24] just I know I could be a great group.

[37:29] Yeah, I'd like to second with Lori said, however I can serve and be at best use.

[37:35] Before we vote, I'd like to add, I'm not going to talk a lot as president, but I would like to

[37:42] I thank both of you very sincerely.

[37:44] We had the opportunity to have the five of us

[37:46] having copied together a few weeks ago

[37:48] and we just got to know each other

[37:51] and share things together.

[37:52] It was very uplifting and very,

[37:54] it was very nice.

[37:56] So I feel like we know each other already

[37:57] and we're really moving forward

[37:59] to get something done.

[38:00] So Carla, turn it to you.

[38:03] As we have a split nomination again

[38:05] for Vice President,

[38:06] I will do a roll call vote

[38:07] if each director,

[38:08] I will ask if you vote for Laura Sibli or for Chris Grohl for the Office of Vice President and I'll do this in no particular order.

[38:20] Director of District 2, Debbie Johnson, how do you vote? Chris.

[38:27] Marshall Merritt, Director of District 5, how do you vote?

[38:30] Laura Sibli.

[38:34] Chris Grohl, Director of District 3, how do you vote?

[38:40] Laura Sibli, Director of District 1, how do you vote?

[38:44] Laura Sibli.

[38:46] And Terry Tate director of District 4, how do you vote?

[38:49] Chris Grohl.

[38:52] By a vote of three to two, your new vice president is Chris Grohl.

[39:00] Do they need to move seats?

[39:04] They want, but they don't have to.

[39:07] The person who has to be theirs.

[39:09] All right.

[39:10] Very good.

[39:11] Thank you.

[39:11] More president?

[39:12] Where would we be if we didn't have you there?

[39:16] Next item on the agenda, TNA is student voice.

[39:26] Do we have any students on the audience under here that would like to speak to us?

[39:34] No, okay.

[39:36] All right.

[39:38] Okay.

[39:38] So our most recent student tour was of Cam Academy and I'd go there.

[39:45] So I'm kind of just like asking my own friends questions.

[39:48] But so I have five like well ten main topics five of them are are good and five of them are bad

[39:55] So we'll start with the good

[39:57] A lot of kids said that their teachers are pretty good at like connecting with them

[40:01] So that was a good thing to hear they also said that the community because like camp is like really small school

[40:07] It's their through 12, but like there's not a lot of kids there

[40:10] So they said the community is really nice since everyone knows each other and then they said that the recess is are really nice

[40:17] I asked, like, multiple kids, like, how are the recess aids?

[40:21] And the moment I'd say that, the eyes was like glow

[40:23] and they'd smile, they're like, they're so nice.

[40:25] I agree, but like, the recess aids are so nice, okay?

[40:28] And then also, a lot of the kids said, like, there's not,

[40:32] like, there's no fights or, like, bullying, like, you'd see

[40:35] in other schools.

[40:36] And then, for the last thing, they said that, like,

[40:39] cans, like, more on the challenging side.

[40:41] But they said that that challenging aspect helps them learn more,

[40:45] like this in general and it's for the bad topics we had the food isn't good but like I'm

[40:53] asking kids these questions so like it's obvious they also said that the homework work load could

[40:58] be too much sometimes and they don't have time to do other things and they also said they want

[41:04] more playground equipment um they also said they don't like how there's no PE or extra curricular

[41:10] activities and sports obviously and then lastly they said that they didn't like that we

[41:16] don't have doors on the bathrooms. I'll explain that. So yeah let me explain. So

[41:22] last year just a group of kids you know like I don't know kids was just going to

[41:27] the bathrooms and just they were just in there too long not doing restroom type

[41:31] activities so so then are like like the only thing to do is to open the doors so

[41:37] They can't hide in there so then they just removed the door like there's no door on the

[41:42] Bapers anymore, so the kids don't like ending a lot of them brought it up

[41:47] Anyways, that's the that's how I mean things and then I'll take it so tell me what do you think about the doors?

[41:54] I think like I would like doors

[41:56] But there's a valid reason for why like why they got removed in the first place

[42:02] It's all that problem referred

[42:04] Um,

[42:08] but because ours is like an open campus there is there is vandalism so some of our bathrooms like our 800 or 900 or regular

[42:21] We closed but I think on top of that the reason because is because we don't have a lot of security guards because

[42:28] We they have to be seeing if people are going off campus checking their IDs

[42:32] They can't be at this place and then we got security getting cold at certain times for

[42:38] Finding certain kids for in school suspension or stuff like that so they're everywhere so they can't all be at once

[42:43] It wasn't that big of an issue when we had more security officers on campus and

[42:50] Cool, I also can't be everywhere at once because she is at the middle school as well

[42:54] and she's coming back from like a recent injury. Our wrist injury, so I think that's kind of, I guess, why it's more?

[43:03] Thank you.

[43:04] The problem right now, but I also like to point out is like, when we tour our middle schools,

[43:11] our middle schools are way different from family academy. I mean,

[43:14] the sizing, the population, the ages. But if you see, if you remember, our results from the past previous board meetings,

[43:22] And then looking at this, a lot of the kids have common issues, which means there's a common problem.

[43:29] And if you really put all the points together, the common problem is we don't have enough funds because of the love you fairly.

[43:38] As you can see, school sports, school facilities, even meat, classroom environment, recess equipment, and safety and bullying concerns, and extracurricular activities again.

[43:52] All those things go towards one point, which is not having the funds for those things and not being able to have those things.

[44:01] So that's from our power point.

[44:04] And these are certain.

[44:05] So you gave Kim students the survey.

[44:08] This is the thought exchange.

[44:10] If you go to the first slide, there, I think you had.

[44:13] Yeah, there was not.

[44:14] Have you participated in?

[44:16] Yeah.

[44:16] And if you go back, I like, for example, how do you, can you go back to the, like, with the bar graphs?

[44:20] Just like because I know you taught asking me like it's like a little looks a little convoluted it could look

[44:25] But so basically the top is like the highest rated thing so like

[44:30] Okay, like they right now the answer and it falls under that category and the other like survey takers

[44:35] They rate that

[44:37] Issue the highest, but just because it's at the top

[44:40] It doesn't necessarily mean it was brought up the most so that one had 16 total thoughts and then school sports had 39 so 30

[44:48] Yeah, I don't know why they're 39. It doesn't matter, but school sports was bought up more. It's just that

[44:54] the extra curricular activities had a higher score. So it's like like kids agree with that.

[45:00] So you can add comments or you can not like fully finish the forms. So some kids finish it fully or some kids can't because of the internet. So it's just hearing there depends.

[45:11] Yeah, but that's just kind of how that got first.

[45:14] Yeah, and then this Wednesday we tore my school for high school.

[45:18] Oh, we're fine.

[45:19] So I'm excited about that. I kind of want to go about it a different way just because I mean with Cam like,

[45:29] So kind of my thought process and talking to Toby is I want to go about it with staff as well

[45:36] When I'm on my tour because I know a lot about students because I'm the insider up for like I hear everything

[45:42] I see everything but I don't really see the staff's point of view

[45:46] Even though I'd one of the students that does have a close connection with staff just because I'm always hanging out with them

[45:52] Or I'm always working with them for ASB or community events. They're always like my number one option

[45:58] But yeah, so we're doing the talk very and then kind of switching off of our tours

[46:04] I have a couple main points that I don't want to bring up. Once our carnival at prayer high school is December 13th

[46:11] 11 to 2 p.m. This Saturday. Hope to see you guys there. Super excited. My favorite event to plan. I've planned it for the past three years

[46:18] It's one of my favorite things. It's a free fully free event free food free toys

[46:23] free activities, free prizes, that's just the goal to make sure that somebody sees the joy out of a holiday that they might not enjoy, usually or do not have the fun to enjoy.

[46:36] And then kind of going to sports because our winter season has started up,

[46:42] Battleground versus Prairie. Girls 1, 60 to 26 and our boys 1, 104 to 54, which is,

[46:53] has not happened in a while when it's hit the three digits on that scoreboard.

[46:58] For wrestling, our boys showed out at the AC Davis Invite and Yakima taking nine wrestlers

[47:04] and battling to fifth place team finish out of 17 bringing home five players.

[47:09] So in fourth place for the 126-pound category,

[47:14] Remington Hughes, and then third place finishers

[47:17] is Luke Servant, Servant, 450 pounds,

[47:21] Brody Wired, 365, and Artum for 190 pounds.

[47:26] And then our champion and lightweight outstanding

[47:29] wrestler was Tommy Vic in the 138-pound category.

[47:33] And then I wanted to just highlight two athletes,

[47:37] one at Bout of Ground and one at Prairie,

[47:38] because I think these two accomplishments

[47:40] are some of a bunch of athlete strains.

[47:44] And so James Gill, a senior at Prairie High School,

[47:48] committed last year for baseball,

[47:50] and it's going to play baseball.

[47:52] Battleground.

[47:53] Battleground.

[47:53] James Gill, the third at Battleground,

[47:55] will be playing baseball at UW.

[47:58] And then at Prairie High School, Devon Viju,

[48:03] will be playing football at University of Nevada in Reno.

[48:07] So I just kind of wanted to highlight these two athletes because they put immense work.

[48:13] I know both of them personally and just seeing their social media platforms and then

[48:17] seeing how much work and how much effort they put outside of school.

[48:22] And just in school and the atmosphere they bring into their athletic

[48:25] Sino James has really impacted the baseball team in a wonderful way,

[48:30] showing commitment, determination and just being outstanding leader on that baseball field.

[48:36] Devin B. Jew, which showing teamwork, athleticism to its finest, and just overall showing other athletes to put all they can and what they want on that field.

[48:49] And so I just kind of want to highlight those two athletes because those are outstanding accomplishments to be playing D1 next year.

[48:56] So yeah.

[48:57] Thank you.

[48:59] I got like two things to share I guess I I mean up my school. We recently did the blood drive last Wednesday

[49:07] We got 20 blood donations. It was like slightly less than last time, but that was just because our NHS

[49:15] We did advertise it very well, but besides that and then we also are doing the giving tree and we have

[49:21] 64 gifts for that so far and that's that's all I got for that

[49:30] That's it. Yeah, so then we got committee reports

[49:35] So legislative committee, WIA committee first since I'm doing that one, there's no WIA committee report, okay?

[49:45] So legislative committee, all I have for us is because of the legislative session coming up,

[49:51] I do special trainings and things next week, and the concern basically on the street is that the the state keeps saying that

[50:00] projected budget is going to be less than they told us the last time they projected a budget.

[50:05] So every so often they project the budget and then they come out and tell us,

[50:09] oh we got less revenues coming in than we are anticipating.

[50:12] Oh we got less revenues coming in.

[50:14] So we'll see where this trip takes us this year.

[50:17] I don't know.

[50:18] You have any comments about that?

[50:20] Super didn't win.

[50:21] Other than I've heard the same thing that now is not the time to ask.

[50:25] So my goal has been to talk about unfunded

[50:29] or underfunded mandates that our legislature

[50:31] could wrap their minds around to help give us some relief

[50:34] in a different way.

[50:36] Yeah, I don't have any confidence

[50:37] we know what they're going to do.

[50:39] Audit committee.

[50:41] Yes, we had the Audit committee.

[50:43] We reviewed vouchers, superintendent, time card,

[50:48] and selected payroll, and everything was in order.

[50:55] It strikes me that we have a couple of positions to fill. Is that, is this the time to do it now?

[51:03] Because I don't, I don't have a, is it on the agenda?

[51:06] Yeah, it's on the agenda under committee reports.

[51:10] Okay.

[51:14] We will need somebody for the audit committee.

[51:17] I'm willing to stay on for a couple of months until the new board members feel comfortable to take that.

[51:30] But I'm willing to stay on for a few months.

[51:35] So we do need someone else possibly too.

[51:43] The underlined piece, Terry, if you.

[51:45] Director of Champagne's former seat on the Audit Committee is now open.

[51:49] Oh, I'm sorry.

[51:50] I see how you organize.

[51:51] Thank you.

[51:53] So director Champagne's former seat on the audit committee is now open due to his term expiration.

[51:59] The board will discuss an appointing new board member to replace Mr. Champagne.

[52:05] So now Debbie has been serving and she's just told us now that she doesn't want to serve much longer also.

[52:12] So we will need two people. Does anybody really interested in serving on the audit committee?

[52:21] As I stated previously, I'll serve in whatever capacities need to.

[52:25] I didn't think I should say that for you, but you definitely did.

[52:28] Yep.

[52:29] So he's available, right?

[52:32] Mr. Marshall's available to serve.

[52:33] We need another person.

[52:34] I could also.

[52:35] You would like he's willing to do that?

[52:37] All right.

[52:38] So then Debbie's going to continue to meet with you with them for a few meetings.

[52:46] Excellent.

[52:47] Does she talk with you about it already?

[52:49] Yeah.

[52:50] All right.

[52:51] Good, good, good.

[52:52] Okay.

[52:52] All right, now I am not going to be continuing as the led rep.

[52:57] I recently been elected to the WASDE legislative committee, which has some whole different

[53:04] gambit of responsibilities, I can continue though as the led rep until somebody speaks

[53:10] up that they'd like to take my place, right?

[53:12] So I can do both because I will definitely be involved in both intensively, right?

[53:18] So, be it known, we're looking for somebody to take over as our led drip member on the board.

[53:26] I'd be interested in that.

[53:28] Anybody else?

[53:30] Okay.

[53:31] Well, we'll think about it.

[53:33] We'll ruin the need on it, okay?

[53:35] Because you're going to finish your audit committee.

[53:37] All right.

[53:40] Battleground Education Foundation has something underlined in it.

[53:45] Director Maddox's former seat on the BGEF committee is now open due to her term expiration.

[53:52] The board will discuss in a point a new board member to replace Miss Maddox.

[53:59] I am very interested in that one.

[54:01] Oh, excellent.

[54:02] Okay.

[54:02] I love to serve in that room.

[54:04] All right.

[54:05] So you will have to hook up with Superintendent Witton, and she'll get you in the top where

[54:10] you need to be.

[54:12] Have you already served with them somehow?

[54:14] I bet you have.

[54:15] No.

[54:16] I don't know.

[54:17] You see what?

[54:18] Yeah.

[54:19] Okay.

[54:19] You'll like it.

[54:20] You'll like it a lot.

[54:21] I like it.

[54:23] Okay.

[54:23] Twoers committee.

[54:25] Do we need to speak about the twoers committee?

[54:28] We do.

[54:29] We need to make sure that everybody has filled out the survey.

[54:33] We need to discuss what day of the week we're going to do twoers.

[54:38] They have been in the past on Fridays, but with new board members, we want to make sure

[54:43] we can accommodate as best we can of a variety of schedules. So if everyone will make sure

[54:50] that they filled out the survey, I think there's still a couple people to fill it out,

[54:54] then we can discuss it at the first board meeting in January and then we'll probably do a quick

[54:59] turn around so we can get to some of you and to Prairie High School before the 26th.

[55:06] There's Carla, do you want to cattle on the ones who haven't filled it out yet?

[55:18] May I ask if you received mine?

[55:21] You did, yes, okay.

[55:25] I think that is all the committee business.

[55:28] So, I have a question.

[55:29] Do we not have a board tour on the 19th?

[55:33] We are basically resetting if the board, that is the board's will.

[55:39] What we talked about is not doing any of the board tours until we got input,

[55:46] But since that schedule was made with the former board members, it just so that's canceled

[55:53] it.

[55:54] Yes.

[55:54] We will reschedule it.

[55:56] It should be known also that we have been planning everybody participating when we go

[56:02] on a tour.

[56:04] But the year before we had three people or two go on on.

[56:10] So there are alternatives, and everybody I'm sure director of Superintendent Witten will be happy to hear

[56:16] whatever we got to say, is there, you have any thoughts about returning possibly for the working

[56:22] people to go to three people again or two?

[56:25] Well, I think, you know, it's up to you to decide how you would like to do this moving forward.

[56:31] What we found is that with limited struggling schedules that it was better for us to move

[56:40] to a situation where we could divide the board

[56:42] when we went to a school because then if somebody couldn't make it,

[56:46] the school hadn't done all that planning

[56:47] and they don't have anybody to show it to.

[56:51] As long as we stay in groups of two,

[56:54] when the principal or their leadership team is presenting,

[56:58] it's fine for us to be together.

[57:00] It is listed as an event for us.

[57:03] That's fine.

[57:04] It's just then we separate when we two are

[57:07] and we're actually talking about school business

[57:09] so that we're not in a quorum, so we keep two and two.

[57:13] So you two gentlemen, they're working full-time jobs, have you had to retire?

[57:19] So I'd be at no one that you're not under a harsh commitment to be at these, if you can't make it, you can't make it, right?

[57:25] We know, okay.

[57:27] And Terry, when I send out the invites for all of those, I do pull each board member, make sure that they are available.

[57:34] If there is a scheduling conflict, we do have the ability to assign it by

[57:39] so to speak to anyone who cannot make a board tour so that we have enough people to attend.

[57:47] Very good. Any further discussion about that?

[57:51] And that's the last committee item that we needed to discuss.

[57:55] So now we're at director reports.

[57:58] Anyone?

[58:00] I have, excuse me, a few things.

[58:02] I went to the Cascadia breakfast today.

[58:05] It was really, really enlightening.

[58:08] They have added some new programs of study.

[58:16] They have maritime technology now and barbering.

[58:21] And they were really excited about it.

[58:24] They invited the public in to talk about,

[58:29] they have a 101 building that's falling down

[58:34] and they want to replace it.

[58:37] They're looking for $55 million

[58:39] in order to do that. And they had beautiful architectural pitchers for us to look at.

[58:48] My older daughter went to Cascadia when it was the skill center. I just think it's a wonderful place.

[58:57] They have done a really nice job preparing young people for their future, especially in areas.

[59:07] You know, like they have aviation, they just have so many different air things that, you know, we have some great ones too, don't give me wrong, but this is really another opportunity for kids to graduate another plate way they can go and it was just a beautiful beautiful opportunity to listen to what they're doing and they just wanted the public to know that that's their, that's their hope is that their building will be replaced.

[59:35] and they are going to the legislature about it.

[59:44] They want to position Washington as a national leader.

[59:50] And I guess it's one of the biggest training centers.

[1:00:00] So it's pretty, pretty exciting to be a part of that. The other thing is that we're going to have coffee with directors again.

[1:00:09] We met last week and it was great. We had three community members join us, which was super.

[1:00:16] And we appreciated them giving their time. We're going to also meet the 10th and the 17th.

[1:00:22] at Allen earnings from 1030 to 1130 we're talking quite a bit about the

[1:00:27] levy and then what we can do to help help with that and just talking to the

[1:00:32] public about anything that they want to talk about also it's not just levy

[1:00:37] it's any any questions that they have. So we invite all the public to come out and

[1:00:42] visit with us and chat. The next one on January will be the 7th from 1030 to 1130

[1:00:51] and Allen and he's also.

[1:00:53] We made Flex the Time because we want to be able to have

[1:00:57] all of our board members join, Marshall and Chris.

[1:01:03] And so we made Flex the Time, but right now,

[1:01:05] that's the Time we've set it for.

[1:01:08] Could I, for just a minute?

[1:01:11] I just want to caution the board to.

[1:01:14] Yeah, thank you, Terry.

[1:01:16] I just want to caution us to be careful.

[1:01:19] One of the things that PDC looks for is initiating new things after a board resolution for a

[1:01:27] levee bond or whatever campaign we might be running.

[1:01:31] So we need to be cautious that we are allowing the community to bring topics to us, not

[1:01:38] that we're putting topics in front of the community, particularly if it's around the levee.

[1:01:44] And then making sure that, unless we are listing it as a meeting that we don't have a forum.

[1:01:53] So to speak clearly, Debbie and I are having copy with anyone who would like to join us on Wednesday,

[1:01:59] morning at 10, 30 at Allen earnings.

[1:02:02] And entertain any questions you might have. There's not a levy meeting.

[1:02:06] This is a talk to the board meeting.

[1:02:09] And you won't be stuck with Terry and Debbie all the time.

[1:02:11] will be other board members from time to time. Those two of us. That's the idea.

[1:02:19] In the other

[1:02:19] committee reports, I guess not. I don't have any. Okay. Well, it's not copyright of the

[1:02:26] directors, but I'm available at Alan Ernese. Most mornings at seven. All right. So you guys

[1:02:32] ever need to find me. That's usually where I'm at in the morning.

[1:02:36] No, Tara. I was looking at

[1:02:38] the schedule here and looks like we're not going to meet for quite a while. I know

[1:02:45] we have this levee coming up and so I kind of wanted to look to see what the

[1:02:51] board thoughts were on meeting again sometime in December maybe in two weeks. I know

[1:02:57] there's schools out but looking at somewhere ballpark on the 22nd. Okay well a

[1:03:06] Point of order.

[1:03:07] Item 16 on the agenda is future board events.

[1:03:11] All right.

[1:03:12] So we'll hold it for there.

[1:03:14] Okay?

[1:03:14] Put it up in.

[1:03:15] Thanks.

[1:03:15] Put it in.

[1:03:16] There you go.

[1:03:18] So superintendent with it.

[1:03:21] Superintendent with it.

[1:03:24] Just a couple of things for me.

[1:03:26] It's been seven days of school since we had a board meeting.

[1:03:31] So not as much as I may normally share.

[1:03:34] But as you know, I have two been trying to meet with our community in a variety of ways and places.

[1:03:42] And so I have a little bit of information about a couple of different things.

[1:03:46] We had the executive dialogue meeting with that includes the Vancouver Chamber coming out to meet with some of our larger businesses in the area,

[1:03:55] and they invited C-Tran out.

[1:03:58] and it was an interesting discussion that I thought was important to share with you as well as our

[1:04:03] community and our families. Eric Floric from C-Tran, he shared with us about many programs that they

[1:04:12] have within C-Tran, but one that I had not specifically heard of. It is a relatively new program

[1:04:19] and it's a ride share service called The Current. So I think it's really important to know that

[1:04:26] program allows people in the city limits of battleground to move within the community in a

[1:04:33] ride share manner for the same price as riding bus taking a bus. So if an individual didn't

[1:04:41] live on a bus line and needed to move around our community, they could call, they could reach out

[1:04:48] to ride to the ride share program and actually I have some flyers that I will put on the back

[1:04:53] people in case anybody wants to take those, but that program is relatively new and it's

[1:05:03] allowing people that live in the community who don't have transportation to get to bus

[1:05:08] lines or to get to and from, say, the grocery store or places like that. I think that's an

[1:05:14] important thing because it's not just for adults, it's also for students, young people. So

[1:05:20] So if young people are needing to get to cascadia, for instance, and they need to take a

[1:05:25] bus, but they don't live close, but they're in town, they could actually catch a ride

[1:05:30] chair and then go from there.

[1:05:32] So it's going to provide or does provide a lot of opportunities for people to move in and

[1:05:39] among our area without having a car.

[1:05:43] So I thought that was important for us.

[1:05:46] The other thing I was able last week to meet with our group of pastors from our community,

[1:05:53] it was a wonderful discussion. As I'm going out to these meetings, often times I'm asking,

[1:05:59] what are the things that you're hearing about our schools, not unlike what Toby and Eatsle

[1:06:03] are doing with the students, I'm doing the same thing in the community and they had a variety of

[1:06:09] things to share that were voices from the members of their church and I thought that they were

[1:06:16] very thoughtful. They're very supportive of the school district and

[1:06:20] challenge. They realize that it's evolving greatly. We talked about many of the

[1:06:26] differences between our our different places in the community because we've

[1:06:31] got Vancouver, the City of Vancouver, the City of Battleground, Yakult,

[1:06:35] Amboy, and it was an interesting discussion. They had great perspective

[1:06:40] based on the conversation about the communities that make up each of those areas.

[1:06:45] And they asked great questions, one of the questions that I thought was really insightful

[1:06:51] and I've heard before, it was around clubs, clubs, and schools, and how do they work?

[1:06:57] So it gave me the opportunity to explain that clubs are done through our associated student

[1:07:02] body, that when students are interested in starting a club, they get eight kiddos together,

[1:07:09] they write some bylaws, they find an advisor, and then they go present to the ASB, and that's

[1:07:16] how they start a club, essentially. And so it was interesting. I mean, to just have this dialogue,

[1:07:22] because I think oftentimes, all of us internally, we are so used to it that we think, oh,

[1:07:30] this is easy, this is how it's done, but people outside of the school environment don't realize

[1:07:35] the nuances of how things happen and whether adults are driving them or students are driving

[1:07:41] them and whatnot. So it was a good discussion overall. They had lots of questions and we

[1:07:47] had lots of dialogue and certainly they provided some insights to me that I think will be

[1:07:52] helpful to me personally and my team as we move forward. The other thing that we did, you

[1:07:58] probably remember our legacy night that we did in the fall for football. We did a very similar

[1:08:02] thing for basketball. It was a great opportunity as Ethel said. It was Prairie won the night, big,

[1:08:10] so good for them. But it was a great opportunity for us to again celebrate our alumni and staff

[1:08:16] that have made this community a part of them and remain in our community. And it was nice to

[1:08:25] celebrate them and also just celebrate the athletic events that are bringing our two high schools

[1:08:31] together. So it was a nice event. I'm proud of our students. Great sportsmanship all through

[1:08:37] the evening. So, um, like Debbie, I had the opportunity to be at Cascadia, but not for the

[1:08:43] breakfast that she attended. Um, they have a regular superintendent administrative council meeting

[1:08:48] that happens about four times a year. And, uh, we did some reviewing of information and data.

[1:08:55] And I thought there was some interesting data, particularly about battleground public schools and

[1:09:00] how we access their program, their at Cascadia.

[1:09:04] We actually, for large large districts,

[1:09:08] we have a completion rate of over four certificates

[1:09:14] for every student that participates.

[1:09:17] So we have a very high certification rate for our students.

[1:09:21] We also have a low attrition rate for our special education

[1:09:25] and multi-lingual students participating in the program.

[1:09:29] So once our students start, they often stay in the program.

[1:09:32] So that was really good news.

[1:09:36] We had basically head count this last year.

[1:09:42] We had a total of 1614 students,

[1:09:48] which is about 9,000 students.

[1:09:51] And battleground, oh, I didn't write it down.

[1:09:53] Oh, shoot.

[1:09:54] I didn't write down how many.

[1:09:55] But our students I want to say was, it was like 350 or I believe all double check that, but it's good numbers, good showing from battleground.

[1:10:08] I think that says a lot in respect to how our students extend the CTE offerings that we have internally.

[1:10:16] Most of our participation are in the 11th and 12th grade, so many of our students start in a health services program, for instance,

[1:10:24] and then they go on to get a CNA license or a medical assistance license over at Cascadia

[1:10:30] Tech.

[1:10:32] So, our students are maximizing the opportunities of those certification programs.

[1:10:37] We also were able to visit the Cosmautology and the Barbering Program.

[1:10:43] The Barbering Program was full.

[1:10:47] All males had separate one female and I was just impressed.

[1:10:51] They were fully engaged in those haircuts on their mannequins, and it was very cool to

[1:10:58] watch them doing, I would have gladly had a haircut from any of them.

[1:11:03] In fact, maybe after 30 years of cutting my husband's hair, I might send him down there.

[1:11:08] Give that up.

[1:11:10] And then we also visited the aviation program, and wow, it was impressive.

[1:11:17] In fact, one of our students that I got to meet in the ROTC program a few weeks ago, he was in the aviation class in the senior class and participating at a high level and again, many of the students in that program are either planning to go on to be a pilot or some of a couple of them have an interest in air traffic controlling.

[1:11:42] So, just a high-need area and it's great to see some of our young people stepping into roles that they'll be able to find work in right away.

[1:11:51] And that for me is all I have any questions about any of those visits or...

[1:11:58] I just would, excuse me, add that they told us today that they're getting these, what do they call that they sit in?

[1:12:05] Simulators. $65,000 a piece. They're getting a bread they would. Yeah, so they were pretty excited about it. Yeah, and they have big drones

[1:12:18] I mean, it's an amazing facility to walk through and see what they have. My youngest son went through that program and graduated

[1:12:26] And yeah, his desire now is to finish out and become a pilot, but you can if done right, you can finish out your ground school

[1:12:35] and from Pymet's license and variety of things.

[1:12:38] It was a great program for him, kept him very engaged in school.

[1:12:41] Yeah, it was great.

[1:12:42] Oh, that's great.

[1:12:45] And so that's it for me.

[1:12:47] Nothing from Lonell, you've heard about Sips earlier,

[1:12:50] nothing from human resources.

[1:12:52] And so I will turn it over to Michelle Scott and Cindy Clems.

[1:13:02] Hi, thank you.

[1:13:09] OK, good evening, board.

[1:13:11] I want to share with you our wrap-up of our 25-20, 24-25 school year, financial statements.

[1:13:24] The board receives budget status reports monthly.

[1:13:29] So a lot of this information is kind of just providing a little more context to it

[1:13:35] because the budget status reports don't provide as much information as you probably see in a financial

[1:13:42] statement for a business of sorts. So Cindy and I and Sherry Daily all work very closely

[1:13:49] for our end of the year report and financial statements. There's a lot of work that goes into it,

[1:13:58] very long checklist, a lot of information.

[1:14:02] As a matter of fact, OSPI is still has not,

[1:14:06] I checked earlier during the board meeting,

[1:14:08] they still haven't posted all of them

[1:14:10] for the school districts yet.

[1:14:12] So again, it's, you know, we're right on target,

[1:14:14] we're, this is how it works with school districts.

[1:14:20] And so, anything that we can't answer tonight,

[1:14:24] if you have specific questions,

[1:14:25] we will take your questions and we'll write them down

[1:14:27] and we'll go back to you and our financial statements will go through an intensive audit from our

[1:14:34] state auditors. They come in. They spend a lot of time with us and that only do they audit our

[1:14:40] financial statements. They also will audit accountability and our federal expenditures. So there's

[1:14:48] so there will be a audit that will start most likely towards the end-age January, so that's when it makes

[1:15:00] Committee will also be involved with that and have status updates as we go along.

[1:15:07] Next slide. Okay, so just some highlights to go over student enrollment increase from the prior year.

[1:15:15] And also we were over budget and we'll show you a graph coming up.

[1:15:20] We used $2.3 million of fund balance for expenses and excessive revenues.

[1:15:27] We had a new accounting requirement, a new gas bee that required us to re-calculate our compensated

[1:15:40] absences.

[1:15:41] So what this is, it's showing more of a liability on our statement of long-term liabilities.

[1:15:47] It is just a reputable item.

[1:15:49] It does not impact expenditures as you might see in a business.

[1:15:54] This is more just a reporting item.

[1:15:56] And it's trying to, is to give more transparency on the district's liability of compensated

[1:16:03] absences and that would be sick legal calls, vacation, personal days that are available.

[1:16:13] And we also wanted to note that from the prior year, if you look, our federal expenditures

[1:16:20] were greater, we had more revenue and federal money and that's because we had pan-down,

[1:16:24] that was in the prior year.

[1:16:28] So that was just an note that I wanted to share with you.

[1:16:32] Okay, going on to enrollment,

[1:16:34] you can see enrollment has been growing.

[1:16:38] And we ended the year with an annual average FTE

[1:16:42] and FTE means that that is our annual average full time enrollment.

[1:16:49] So that's when students attend that our school is not the head count.

[1:16:52] It's for how long that they're actually in seats.

[1:16:57] So we did have enrollment up 143 FTE from the prior year.

[1:17:03] And we were over budget by 64.

[1:17:06] So we were really close to budget giving, you know, the 12,217.

[1:17:18] Next, we also wanted to provide you with information on the breakout of that enrollment.

[1:17:25] So basic education was up 21 and then our alternative learning experience schools were up

[1:17:34] on our 22 for a total of 143. Our running start numbers increased as well. So that's 49

[1:17:42] FTE and our open doors increased for four. We also had an increase in special education of 80 students.

[1:17:50] I'm pretty much all of those came in right on budget, so

[1:17:58] let's go go to our general fund

[1:18:00] revenues so the general fund it's just you can see here that we had our state is the blue right

[1:18:09] there and our state makes up is what you might hear as a portionment. It's our basic education and we

[1:18:18] had 133 million, 750,000 on a state funding, and then our state special purpose

[1:18:29] funding is going to be a transportation food service, high cap program, all of our special

[1:18:37] categorical programs, and that was 50,000, 650,000.

[1:18:45] And so between the two of those, it's 184.2 million dollars and 80.5% of our revenue.

[1:18:55] And so as you can see, the federal funding is 4.2% and 9.7 million dollars is on our federal.

[1:19:07] And you can see that in the slides right there.

[1:19:10] um local levee would made up 13.3% of our funding for 30 million 353,000 and then we have

[1:19:20] some other revenues sources as well from different areas and we have a lot of that information

[1:19:28] on our budget presentation if anybody's interested in kind of a little more detailed breakdown

[1:19:34] of those categories.

[1:19:38] Any questions on revenue?

[1:19:42] Can I move on to, oh, yes.

[1:19:44] The FTE comparison to historically like 2019, maybe?

[1:19:49] Uh-huh.

[1:19:50] Where we have to be clear to that.

[1:19:52] And I will have to get that to you.

[1:19:55] Yeah, but yeah.

[1:19:58] So we did have, we did have stronger FTE prior to the pandemic.

[1:20:04] Yeah, yeah, something.

[1:20:05] Could I ask for question also concerning the enrollment being up?

[1:20:10] Is that compared year to year at the same time?

[1:20:14] Because enrollment at the beginning of the year seems like we've peed around a little bit.

[1:20:18] Yeah, yeah.

[1:20:18] Yeah.

[1:20:18] The year goes down.

[1:20:19] So the two periods are they?

[1:20:21] They are apples to apples, they are the annual averages.

[1:20:26] So those, yeah.

[1:20:27] So those do compare, we take enrollment every month at the beginning of the month.

[1:20:32] and then the stable average that.

[1:20:36] So you'll see when we do our enrollment graphs for you

[1:20:40] and give you information on enrollment,

[1:20:44] you'll see it go up and then you'll see it kind of go a little steady

[1:20:47] and then you'll see what we're taking is the annual average

[1:20:51] of all of those numbers together for each count.

[1:20:56] Okay.

[1:20:57] Thank you.

[1:20:58] Okay. I general phantom expenditures are general phantom expenditures and we're going to give it to you by

[1:21:10] objects. So there's different ways we look at expenditures. We look at them by programs

[1:21:15] and we look at them by objects and then we look at them by activities. So it's just different

[1:21:20] lenses on the expenditures. So the object makes up our salaries, our

[1:21:28] certificate of salaries, classified salaries, benefits, supplies,

[1:21:35] purchases, services, travel, and capital outlay. So those are our

[1:21:41] categories for object. Our salaries and benefits are a

[1:21:46] $87.4 million or 81% of our expenditures.

[1:21:52] So, we're a great deal of our expenditures are made up of staff and people taking care of kids.

[1:22:01] Had our contracted transportation and nutrition services labor been also included because we

[1:22:08] contract, it would have been a greater expenditure of our budget. But because those are contracted,

[1:22:15] They're in our purchase services, so you will not see those labor dollars included.

[1:22:21] So some of other districts may have a little bit higher expenditures for salaries and benefits,

[1:22:27] and that's due to the transportation and food service contracts.

[1:22:36] Not being included that they self-obbed.

[1:22:40] So, very, you can see very little of the budget is discretionary, purchase services like I said includes transportation of $14.6 million.

[1:22:51] Our food service operations of $4.3 million, running start is also included $3.1 million.

[1:22:58] That's a pass through. And then utilities insurance, $6 million total of $28 million.

[1:23:05] So you can see there's just not a lot of wiggle room when you take into consideration some of those

[1:23:14] expenditures.

[1:23:17] Okay, moving on to our expenditures by activity and we kind of consolidated the activities here.

[1:23:26] So as you can see, school support makes up 78.3% of our consolidated activities and when we say

[1:23:36] school support, we're talking libraries, our school offices,

[1:23:40] guidance counselors, health, and student safety, and teaching.

[1:23:47] We also have broken out the category of extracurricular and community education,

[1:23:53] and that is 1%.

[1:23:55] We have food service and transportation broken out at 7.9%.

[1:24:01] And we have maintenance, operations, grounds, utilities,

[1:24:05] and insurance consolidated together is about 8% of our budget and our

[1:24:11] technology print shop warehouses 1.7% and then you can see our district

[1:24:18] wide support is 3.1% that makes up our business services, human resources,

[1:24:26] superintendent's office, the school board, motor pool and copier releases.

[1:24:35] Any

[1:24:35] questions.

[1:24:39] Moving on, we just put this side in here. This is something similar you'll see in our

[1:24:45] levy information that talks about the use of levy funds. We basically ran reports that have

[1:24:51] levy coding on our expenditures and this is a may change depending on you know how we use those

[1:24:58] levy dollars, but 43% of our levy funding went to staffing and programs including teachers to support

[1:25:06] smaller class sizes, curricular professional development and statewide support, and then

[1:25:13] our district what is support, excuse me. And then we also have our Student Safety and Discipline

[1:25:21] of 22.3% and a system principles, nurses, and counselors are all included in that category.

[1:25:29] and then special education makes up 10.7 percent, our maintenance, operations and transportation

[1:25:39] is 9.3 percent and we have utilities insurance and technology 8.3 percent and then sports

[1:25:49] and extracurricular activities 6.5%,

[1:25:55] okay. Next slide please. So our general fan summary,

[1:26:03] our total revenues were 220,000, 836,000, 731. Our total expenditures were 230,000, 716,000,

[1:26:14] and $43. We did transfer out to debt service spent for our final debt service payment.

[1:26:21] We are now have no debt for our district. That was $370,000. Our expenditures are greater than

[1:26:31] revenue by $2.3 million.

[1:26:38] Next we're going to go over fund balance.

[1:26:44] So, fund balance is made

[1:26:45] of some main categories that I'd like to walk through. We have our non-spendable and restricted,

[1:26:53] which are just that. They are not available to be spent on anything other than what they are

[1:27:02] set aside for, which is prepaid expenditures, inventory, and categorical programs such as CTE or

[1:27:11] learning assistance program many we've already received that we need to spend on those programs.

[1:27:17] So that money is not available with budget. We have our assigned category and you can see here we have

[1:27:25] $14.2 million. That is to, and that has been assigned to the, to recover from the

[1:27:41] school year.

[1:27:44] I know signed is considered the rainyjade

[1:27:47] fin and we haven't had that for a couple of years and I want to

[1:27:50] I'm sorry I want to go back to the assigned normally the assigned is

[1:27:54] set up for curriculum adoptions. It's set aside for special

[1:27:58] purposes so that many that we had set aside and assigned for programs

[1:28:05] and implementation of curriculum adoptions is going to be used

[1:28:10] So we won't have those set aside, but we'll still have those curriculum adoptions that we will need to

[1:28:17] We will need to find the funding for

[1:28:23] So the NSI and for the board policy our minimum-than-balance policy by board policy is

[1:28:31] between four and six percent and we current. This is currently set at

[1:28:37] six percent of expenditures

[1:28:40] And you can see when your expenditures go up you also have your fund balance needs to go up so you can see that there was actually an increase in that category.

[1:28:53] So which leaves us with about 16 days of cash on hand with that 13.8 million dollars.

[1:29:02] Cashflow, the unassigned, and I have a note here too, is it's a signed up, or it's unassigned

[1:29:11] minimum balance for complexity of funding and other economic uncertainties that very strongly

[1:29:18] for cashflow. Cashflow, the state does not give us many on the same schedule every month,

[1:29:26] and then also you have swings with levy funds and different things.

[1:29:30] So you do need to have reserve set aside so that you can weather those cash flows.

[1:29:36] You may have read about many other school districts that are experiencing cash flow issues

[1:29:42] and having to actually borrow money to actually make cash flows to the cash.

[1:29:48] So that category is very important for the district to maintain continuity.

[1:30:00] And not have to borrow money to make payroll, you know, different things like that. So that was a lot. Is there any questions on

[1:30:09] balance that I can answer.

[1:30:13] I have one, anybody else? I wanted to be clear on the 14-186,

[1:30:20] but 14 million, that is money that we have set aside there from last year's funds and is sitting

[1:30:31] there to make up the deficit in our budget this year because of the levy failure? That's correct.

[1:30:39] Okay. And so that's going to leave us now with 13 million as our fund balance that is free to be used and whatever.

[1:30:51] Is that correct?

[1:30:53] The 13.8 million dollars is a board policy.

[1:30:59] Board is six percent.

[1:31:01] Board is six percent.

[1:31:03] So what is that?

[1:31:05] percent is at 13.8 million dollars and the FDA is actually six percent. It is actually

[1:31:12] percent. That's correct. Very good.

[1:31:18] We did budget to use one percent of that for this

[1:31:22] year as well, but because our fundellants came in a little stronger, we may be able to set

[1:31:27] that aside and not have to use that. It just depends on where we come in.

[1:31:32] Correct me if I'm wrong. My memory serves me that we were going to be we expected to kind of be as we projected this to at 4.4.5%.

[1:31:41] four percent yes so this was to whether the two years of the

[1:31:48] love you because it's one percent each year so 25 26 and 26 27 so the end of

[1:31:55] this year we had intended to be at five percent when closing this out we

[1:32:00] intended to be at five and then a year from now four percent one percent one

[1:32:07] Yeah, I wanted to make sure that.

[1:32:09] So now what?

[1:32:10] That's six instead of five.

[1:32:11] Correct.

[1:32:12] Good thing.

[1:32:13] Well, no.

[1:32:14] That was six percent.

[1:32:15] We planned on being at six percent at the end of twenty four twenty five.

[1:32:19] But we will be at five percent at the end of twenty five.

[1:32:22] And it's the largest for what we've put it.

[1:32:25] Well, right on target is to be commendable.

[1:32:27] Thank you.

[1:32:29] Thank you.

[1:32:31] Okay.

[1:32:33] Oh, was there any other questions?

[1:32:34] I'm sorry.

[1:32:36] Okay? So just moving on. So general fun to actual the budget is a little different than just kind of it's it's

[1:32:45] We're setting the budget for the next year. Why we're still in a current year and it's a little difficult sometimes to just kind of get everything nailed down.

[1:32:54] But in general, we did have some savings for 2324 that carried forward.

[1:32:59] We had used less to fund balance than we had budgeted, so this is all very good news.

[1:33:05] I mean, the district is being responsible only spending what they need.

[1:33:10] So, we are working on expenditures, though, because you want to come in on budget.

[1:33:15] You want to be able to use that money if you need that money.

[1:33:18] So, it is our goal as a team to try to hone in on any expenditures where we're seeing

[1:33:26] experiences to make sure that we're kind of monitoring them.

[1:33:30] It's a very big budget, you know, in general, we came in around 95% of

[1:33:35] budget. So, but we want that to be closer to 99% of budget. I mean, really,

[1:33:40] you really want to try to be as accurate as possible. There were some

[1:33:45] expenditures that were under budget. We did have some of our

[1:33:50] employee benefits that came in under budget. We had some categorical

[1:33:54] programs that didn't expend out. So those those funds get set aside and are the

[1:34:01] restricted fund balance. And we also had special education some quite a few

[1:34:08] unfilled positions. So there was quite a bit of savings in those expenditure

[1:34:13] categories. So I looked today and we only had like 10 pair of positions

[1:34:19] where as last year we were looking at 30 plus positions that were posted. So it's a really

[1:34:26] good sign that we're feeling all of our positions which is good. Revenue we had some revenue

[1:34:32] that came in over budget which is always nice is things that we didn't know that we're going to

[1:34:39] happen at the state in the middle of the year gave us a one-time allocation of $50 per student

[1:34:44] which was about 610,000, so that was a kind of, that was to help districts mitigate the

[1:34:53] underfunding of the M-Saw category, which we experience and use a lot of loveie dollars to.

[1:35:01] We also had a high poverty-lap allocation that we had an expected, we had enrollment,

[1:35:09] like I said was over budget, which gave us, it's about $10,000 in student times 64, so there you go.

[1:35:17] And we had investment income come in over budget and we had some state forest funds from the

[1:35:23] Daubler sale and there was a couple other sales of forestry. So and those are very difficult to

[1:35:31] project because it's based on harvest, sell, and so there's a lot of steps in it, and

[1:35:38] you can't, I work, I've been working closer with DNR because you only receive those

[1:35:45] funds if you pass a lovey. And so for 26, it looks, we're looking at, like we will miss out

[1:35:54] on about $300,000 of state forest funds from the sales, several sales that are there.

[1:36:00] But again, it all depends on when they harvest those timbers and when those companies are ready to use those.

[1:36:09] So, but that was just to give you a general idea of just some budget variances.

[1:36:16] Next slide. Okay, so just some final takeaways and enrollment continues to grow.

[1:36:21] More maintaining student programs and staffing and we had curriculum expenditures of 2.1 million dollars.

[1:36:28] curriculum is expensive and I always like to call that out because it is it is it is part of

[1:36:34] our budget and we actually didn't really have any strong adoptions last year but what we do that

[1:36:40] that that that's why we have that fun balance that assign fun balances to set aside because when

[1:36:45] you have to buy six years worth of curriculum and it becomes it's a need. As students, we see

[1:36:55] students are still recovering from the pandemic and continue to need extra supports.

[1:37:01] Our educational programs in Operation Levy again, the state funding alone will not cover the

[1:37:07] does not cover the cost of education and has not been keeping up with their actual cost and

[1:37:13] unfounded mandates. That's why our Levy is important and use. The 25 play six budget

[1:37:24] Projections require the use of fun balance due to the levy loss.

[1:37:29] So you'll see you'll start to see on our budget status reports as we continue throughout

[1:37:34] the year.

[1:37:35] Now that we've had our last levy collection for 25, you'll start to see that start to

[1:37:40] the fun balance start to decrease.

[1:37:45] That's general fun.

[1:37:46] We have three other funds to just cover with you and one slide so we won't take it

[1:37:51] to much of your time on that.

[1:37:53] So the first fund is Capital Projects, and it's important to know that the funding that we received,

[1:38:03] the primary source of funding, which is impact fees, are capital, levy, and grants.

[1:38:09] Those are restricted to capital improvements.

[1:38:12] They cannot be used for operations or school programs.

[1:38:16] So I know that gets a little bit confusing

[1:38:20] and people just kind of think,

[1:38:22] well, why can't the impact fees

[1:38:24] error, capital of a paper, certain things?

[1:38:28] So we, again, they are, they are,

[1:38:33] there's the county manual is very specific

[1:38:37] on the use of those funds.

[1:38:38] And so we follow the county manual.

[1:38:41] We use it for capital facility improvements, land acquisition, and some of our technology.

[1:38:51] We had for some projects.

[1:38:53] We had the roof replacements.

[1:38:56] You can see it, they were primary, the middle,

[1:38:58] toxelry primary, toxelry muddle and toxelry muddle and toxelry muddle school.

[1:39:05] We had, and that was with the capital of $1,000, and that fees paid for the operations

[1:39:12] building, and preparing for the BGBA Modular.

[1:39:17] We also had an energy audit grant that also flowed through the capital projects fund.

[1:39:23] So you can see that our beginning fund balance was $21 million, $388,000.

[1:39:32] Our revenue was 15,320,000 and our expenditures were 17,200 and 1,000 with an ending

[1:39:41] fund balance of $19.5 million in that account.

[1:39:46] And that is scheduled to pretty much be spent not all the way out, but we will be continuing

[1:39:54] to work on those capital-ledby projects as well as spending those impact fees for BGBA and

[1:40:01] future's building, so they'll be some more work going on with those funds.

[1:40:07] Our ASB Fund is student-bed. It's cultural athletic, recreational social,

[1:40:15] and that is a special fund for the students to do fundraisers and do special projects,

[1:40:22] and it helps pay for activities like transportation,

[1:40:28] officials, supplies, special events that they're doing. So it's really a student,

[1:40:35] led student controlled. And this is all rolled up. This is for all of our ASPs. And so

[1:40:42] there's middle school, high school, there's a little bit in our, even our elementary school,

[1:40:47] some of the field trips run through the, through the ASPs. So the beginning fund balance was

[1:40:54] 1,115,000 revenue, 1,300,4,000 expenditures of 1,120,000 with an ending fund balance of

[1:41:06] 1,290,000 and it was pretty standard to have that and it seems like a lot of money in

[1:41:13] their fund balance but they are often fundraising in one year and spending it in the next

[1:41:18] So it's just kind of that continuity that they have some money to get to start off the year to pay for transportation for buses or to pay for officials and, you know,

[1:41:31] just memberships, you know, all the different things that they need. So that money is getting rotated out of there, but it does seem like a lot leftover,

[1:41:39] but it is all for the students to be using and the revenue sources in there also include our

[1:41:49] participation fees and our ASB cards. So those are big source of revenue as well in there.

[1:41:58] And finally our debt service fan like we said we had our final payment for our non-voted

[1:42:03] on into December 24. There's still a little bit of reserves in there and that has come from

[1:42:11] funding that has been taxes and arrears so we're still collecting on some of those things

[1:42:19] and so working with legal counsel we just leave that sit in there and tell that there's an

[1:42:25] opportunity to use those for any debt that we may have in the future. So

[1:42:33] slide. Okay so

[1:42:36] there's financial and budget information. So you can find that on our district website.

[1:42:42] You have my phone number. If anybody has any questions in the community, that would like to

[1:42:48] call me and ask any questions or send me an email. It would be happy to answer those for them.

[1:42:55] Is there any questions? Any questions?

[1:43:00] Is this slide deck available online or is it

[1:43:03] with the state or something, you go to the state site and you get it or something like that.

[1:43:08] That is a great question, Terry. So we will put this slide deck up on the board docs and it'll

[1:43:14] be included in the financial updates and it also includes the financial document, the financial

[1:43:22] statements are also there as well for the community to look at as well. And then OSPI will be

[1:43:30] seen our financial statements. They do not post our our slight presentation, but they will have those as well.

[1:43:36] I available on their site. Anything else? Thank

[1:43:43] you.

[1:43:45] All right, so next up we have Amanda for a short.

[1:43:58] For instance, the last meeting when you voted on the Levy Resolution,

[1:44:02] much of my team's focus has been on preparing transparent and accurate information for voters using

[1:44:08] of our established allowed communication methods. I wanted to call your attention to one of those,

[1:44:14] which is our website, which has a wealth of information, including some of the information

[1:44:19] that was shared with the board in previous work sessions around things like state funding gaps

[1:44:24] and rising costs. There's also a calculator where someone can go and put in their homes,

[1:44:29] assess value, and it will provide them with an estimate on what this levy would cost them.

[1:44:33] So as the board gets questions, this might be a great starting point for people to get some of the information they're looking forward.

[1:44:40] We also have said a day for a community presentation that will be January 14th at 6 p.m. at Battleground High School, and that will also be another opportunity for people to come in and ask questions and get more information.

[1:44:52] Next slide please.

[1:44:56] Something new that all of the districts in South West.

[1:45:00] Washington have started recently that I'm excited about is campaign. Many districts have communications

[1:45:06] folks and we are involved in sharing good news about our schools every day, but we thought why not sort

[1:45:13] of work together and harness our collective efforts and sort of elevate that information on a larger scale.

[1:45:20] So we work together to put together a comprehensive communication plan. And since then, ESD12 was

[1:45:26] take in this and hit the ground running. They've secured sponsorships from private donors to

[1:45:33] fund some of this work. They've created a website where there will be highlights from districts all

[1:45:39] over the region and the plan is to do some more advertising using the donations going forward.

[1:45:46] So definitely an exciting new initiative that we're all excited to see. Come believe.

[1:45:52] And lastly, I just wanted to mention a couple of upcoming events.

[1:45:56] River Home Links Production has one more or two more showings this weekend of descendants.

[1:46:01] I hear that's a fun show.

[1:46:04] The work to plan the 2026 industry fair has already been going on for a couple of months.

[1:46:09] It seems like every year comes around faster and faster.

[1:46:11] But I wanted to mention that they are looking for vendors to secure tables to be at the fair.

[1:46:17] There's no cost for any business or organization that wants to do that.

[1:46:20] So if you have any contacts who might be interested in having a presence, please refer them to our website.

[1:46:26] And then one more thing that I forgot to put on this slide, there will be a career and technical education virtual showcase.

[1:46:33] This Thursday, December 11th at 4 p.m. and that is on Google Meet.

[1:46:38] So all that information is on our website and was emailed to parents as part of our weekly communication to them this evening.

[1:46:47] All right. Thank you.

[1:46:48] Thank you, Madam.

[1:46:50] For your superintendent and staff update.

[1:46:53] Very good.

[1:46:54] Okay.

[1:46:54] So we're at on the agenda of Citizens' comments.

[1:47:00] Number 12, we ask that you don't clap and I read this as a meeting of the Battle

[1:47:06] of the Public School Board of Directors and it is open to the public to attend view presentations

[1:47:11] and hear board members discuss topics during open sessions.

[1:47:15] The board welcomes comments from Citizens during Citizens' comments and ask that those

[1:47:19] wishing to address the board's sign-in on the sign-in sheet provided, which is located close

[1:47:24] to the entrance, or it was. Please follow the procedures for citizens' comments by stating

[1:47:29] your name, limiting your time to three minutes and refraining from discussing confidential matters.

[1:47:36] The board requires it all comments spoken at the meeting be appropriate for a family audience,

[1:47:41] comments inappropriate for a family audience can be submitted in writing.

[1:47:45] Board members do not normally respond to questions or petitions during citizens' comments.

[1:47:51] They will listen and give direction to the administrative team if action is deemed

[1:47:54] necessary.

[1:47:56] Thank you for your comments, and if you have any handouts, please I think they go to

[1:48:00] Carla.

[1:48:01] Is that correct?

[1:48:01] So, hand them to Carla after you're done.

[1:48:05] So we've got eight folks on the list here, Wendy Howzer is first.

[1:48:17] Good evening, Board.

[1:48:19] I'm sorry.

[1:48:19] It's going to be late, notice, but I'm Wendy Houser, I'm the music teacher up at Yackel

[1:48:23] Primary, and I came this evening because I'd like to personally invite you to my second

[1:48:28] graders Christmas program that is tomorrow night.

[1:48:32] It is tomorrow at 6 p.m. we also have a daytime for those our board members that are able

[1:48:36] to attend day performances, we have one at 930 tomorrow morning as well.

[1:48:41] The second graders program is called Winter Weather, it is talking about what they've learned

[1:48:46] in science.

[1:48:47] The program is actually written by me and the students, so it's not a canned performance, it's something we put together.

[1:48:54] It is there. Some of it is their own words and they will be reading their own words and my words.

[1:48:59] So, you are welcome to come, we'd like to have you.

[1:49:01] Thank you very, very much.

[1:49:05] I'm going to try to go at 930 if anybody wants to go with me.

[1:49:08] The last year is with me.

[1:49:09] Yeah, it would help me if somebody made me responsible and went with me.

[1:49:17] John, I believe it's Pollock.

[1:49:20] Paul?

[1:49:21] Paul?

[1:49:22] I am John Paul.

[1:49:24] I'm a 55-year resident of the Battleground.

[1:49:26] All my kids went to Battleground Schools.

[1:49:28] You've got nine more years of my granddaughters.

[1:49:30] So I'll be around.

[1:49:32] My subject tonight is why we think the Battleground School District

[1:49:35] and School Program is the best in the state.

[1:49:38] I'll have supporting evidence.

[1:49:40] I'm going to go ahead and start with the beginning.

[1:49:43] the kids arrive in the morning and one of the special arrivals are the small buses with

[1:49:49] the special needs kids. There's three levels of special needs kids. Two of the three levels

[1:49:55] have an adult assigned to them. That's a lot of overhead, but if we did not have that program,

[1:50:01] these kids at home staring at a wall. Congratulations for keeping that going. Next, the kids,

[1:50:08] we all do the pledge of allegiance and salute the flag. Thank you very much for doing that.

[1:50:12] And then the kids filter off to classes I'm going to talk about a couple of three.

[1:50:17] One of the best views and most important is Air Force Junior ROT State.

[1:50:22] We have a lot of kids that join the military, and if they have two years of ROTC they get one

[1:50:27] promotion, if they have four years they get two promotions on entering, or if they're in Eagle Scout they get a promotion.

[1:50:33] A lot of the kids go into military after school.

[1:50:36] Next program, this very important, is shop classes.

[1:50:40] about around one of the few schools in Prairie that have shop classes. You have wood shop, metal shop, welding, and auto shop.

[1:50:49] Low and behold, you just added a new and electrical house wiring a couple of years ago.

[1:50:54] How's my time going?

[1:50:55] I'm going to cover.

[1:50:56] Min and a half.

[1:50:57] Okay, so one of the success stories out of shop classes, Chase Marsh, class of 17.

[1:51:06] He had four years of auto-stop and immediately got hired by O'Reilly's in what's been a year.

[1:51:12] He's the assistant manager solely because of battleground training.

[1:51:16] That makes sense.

[1:51:17] And one last thing, it shows how quickly and correctly supervisors can make really good decisions.

[1:51:25] In February of 2017, our beloved shop teacher had hind past a way and Mr. Hamilton, the principal,

[1:51:31] was a shop teacher and he wanted to keep the program going but they couldn't.

[1:51:35] So we found a subteacher who had auto shop back around and they sent him out there

[1:51:40] and he was overwhelmed with trying to do six classes, no prep, and learned skyward blah, blah, blah,

[1:51:45] see call for help and he got Mr. Leonard Freeze and Cory Buckner to come out and help him.

[1:51:50] They kept the program going until they could hire a teacher.

[1:51:54] I just congratulate you for these programs that you don't think of.

[1:51:57] And I've got a couple of really minor recommendations in here I've done.

[1:52:01] Thank you.

[1:52:02] Thank you.

[1:52:03] Great job everybody.

[1:52:03] Thank you for, for over there. Thank you.

[1:52:08] Thank you, Ms. Paulus.

[1:52:15] Alley, strap us on.

[1:52:27] Going for a record, this is three meetings with no notes.

[1:52:31] I just wanted to congratulate the three new board members and welcome.

[1:52:36] I look, I know a couple of you and I look forward to, I am in your district,

[1:52:40] so I look forward to meeting you more, learning more about you and working with you.

[1:52:46] You guys already know.

[1:52:48] I look forward to working with you as well.

[1:52:52] And also in support of the Levy,

[1:52:54] we'll be boots on the ground again this time,

[1:52:57] recruiting not only more family members,

[1:53:01] but some neighbors as well.

[1:53:02] And I look forward to hopefully getting this over the finish line this time.

[1:53:07] Thank you.

[1:53:09] Thank you.

[1:53:11] Terry Dodson.

[1:53:25] Good evening, friends and neighbors.

[1:53:27] Tonight I want to talk about something that touches every corner of our community.

[1:53:33] It's our schools.

[1:53:35] The upcoming levied vote is not just about dollars and cents.

[1:53:40] It's about the future of our children.

[1:53:43] The strength of our neighborhoods and the values we hold as a community.

[1:53:49] Filling the funding gap, state funding covers only the basics.

[1:53:53] You heard that tonight from Michelle.

[1:53:56] Well, let us provide the resources that keep our schools running at the level our children deserve

[1:54:02] without them classrooms face larger sizes, like this year, fewer resources and diminished

[1:54:09] opportunities.

[1:54:12] Supporting the enrichment programs, think about the band concerts, the art shows, the sports

[1:54:18] teams, and the advanced classes that prepare students for college and careers.

[1:54:23] These programs are funded by levies, without them our children lose opportunities to discover

[1:54:30] passions and talents that shape their futures, maintaining safe and modern facilities.

[1:54:37] levies ensure our schools are safe, well maintained, and equipped with technology students

[1:54:44] need to thrive in today's world. A strong learning environment requires more than just

[1:54:51] desks and chalkboards. It requires investment in safety, accessibility, and innovation.

[1:54:59] Retaining a dedicated staff. Teachers, counselors, nurses, and support staff are the backbone

[1:55:06] of our schools. Levy dollars help us attract and retain the best professionals ensuring

[1:55:13] our children have the guidance and the care they need every day. Strengthening our community.

[1:55:19] Strong schools make strong communities, passing a levee boosts property values, attracts families and shows that we are committed to investing in our future.

[1:55:33] When we support education, we invest in the next generation of leaders, workers, and neighbors.

[1:55:41] In conclusion, this levee is not just about education.

[1:55:47] It's about community pride, opportunity and responsibility, by voting for our schools, we are

[1:55:55] saying that we believe in our children, we believe in our schools, and we believe in the

[1:56:03] future of our town. A school levee is more than just a financial measure. It's a statement

[1:56:10] of community priorities by approving one this next one, residents, and sure the students

[1:56:18] have access to opportunities that prepare them for college, careers, and citizenship.

[1:56:28] It also keeps them close, close to the community where they grew up, where they went to school

[1:56:33] and we need to support that.

[1:56:35] Let me also demonstrate that the community values education

[1:56:40] as a cornerstone of growth and prosperity.

[1:56:44] Thank you very much for your time. I appreciate it. Can I do it?

[1:56:47] You did, Terry.

[1:56:50] You know, since I'm new, I'm not going to insist we clap for you, but I think that one deserved

[1:56:55] a clap.

[1:56:58] Keith Walker, please.

[1:57:08] First up, I want to say thanks for everybody to stood up. I'm the new guy in town. I've lived here

[1:57:11] about three and a half years. I moved from Spokane to be closer to my kids.

[1:57:16] So, thank you guys for reading on the board. I do understand what you guys are going through

[1:57:20] and the troubles you have. I never knew you had shot class over here, still they got rid of it

[1:57:24] over in this little town of Cheney that were from horrible when they got rid of it, so thanks for keeping that.

[1:57:31] I just have a question. I don't know if you can answer to it or not, but I moved over here

[1:57:34] where you're, first of all, you fell the second level. I have no clue why. I'd like to see this

[1:57:39] Next, let me get past with my question is, is, why do you guys think that

[1:57:44] levy failed two of them?

[1:57:47] And what are we doing different to correct those reasons?

[1:57:51] Why we think they failed to make sure this next one passes?

[1:57:56] And I don't know if you're going to answer that or not, but from the new guy, from the

[1:58:00] outside looking in, that is the concern that I have.

[1:58:06] Thank you.

[1:58:06] Thank you, Keith. Terri is our chairman of our group there. You might want to talk to Terri Dodson.

[1:58:24] Mary Mendoza Hansel.

[1:58:29] I'm so.

[1:58:33] My galley, I have notes.

[1:58:36] So, good evening board members.

[1:58:38] Superintendent and members of the community.

[1:58:40] My name is Mary Mendoza Hansel and I am here on behalf of

[1:58:44] Value Ground Education Association.

[1:58:46] First of all, I extend a warm welcome.

[1:58:48] and sincere congratulations to each of our new

[1:58:50] these sworn in board members.

[1:58:53] Thank you for stepping forward to serve our students,

[1:58:55] our families, and our educators.

[1:58:57] Public services.easy and choosing to take on this responsibility

[1:59:01] says a great deal about your commitment to our district.

[1:59:05] As you dive into your work,

[1:59:06] we hope that you will always remember

[1:59:07] who is at the heart of every decision our students.

[1:59:11] Keep them at the forefront.

[1:59:13] They're needs, they're safety,

[1:59:15] they're opportunities,

[1:59:15] and their future or why we show up every day when our students drive our entire community

[1:59:22] thrives. I also want to express our appreciation for the board decision to run the upcoming

[1:59:26] levy in February. This timeline matters, it is our staff and our community,

[1:59:32] clarity and time to plan for the future, whether levy passes or fails. That transparency

[1:59:37] and predictability is deeply valued by our members. As we move forward, BGA looks forward to

[1:59:45] working alongside the citizens for better schools

[1:59:47] and our broader community to share accurate, positive information

[1:59:51] about what the Sleavy supports and why it is essential for our students.

[1:59:56] We know how important stable funding is for safe schools.

[2:00:39] Hello board, I'm Jessica Cole and I just want to first say welcome to our new board members.

[2:00:45] welcome Chris and welcome Marshall and welcome Lori. So thank you so much for serving.

[2:00:53] I also want to say that I do support the Levy and I'm super good job for paying off that

[2:00:58] that's amazing. That was a good report. To circle back from last time. A few weeks

[2:01:06] Since ago, I volunteered at the dream team, a fall training, one of the major projects students

[2:01:11] worked on was planning their upcoming prevention convention.

[2:01:15] The prevention convention is a youth-led wellness conference that our dream team students created

[2:01:20] and hosted for the first time this last school year.

[2:01:24] It was an incredible success and I was also able to volunteer at that.

[2:01:29] Because of the overwhelming positive feedback from students, families, and partners, the dream

[2:01:34] voted to host event again this year. While the Battleground

[2:01:38] Prevention Alliance does have some grant funding to help

[2:01:41] support the event, our total cost exceed what we received this year.

[2:01:46] Thanks to generous donation from ITU Credit Union, last

[2:01:51] I knew from two weeks ago so I don't have a update, but we were

[2:01:55] $1,200 away from our goal. So if anyone wants to support that,

[2:01:59] they can go to the website Prevent TogetherBG.org

[2:02:03] and make a donation there and I want to say thank you all for your service to the students and to the district.

[2:02:10] And since shelly brought up the current.

[2:02:13] Okay, I've written the current.

[2:02:15] It is so amazing that it's here. Just came in September.

[2:02:18] So for all of our students in district of under 18, the cost is free.

[2:02:23] I believe back checked everything I say please.

[2:02:26] And so, Monday to Friday, the current runs from 5.30 a.m. to 7 p.m. I believe. And then on the weekends, it runs 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. and it could get you anywhere in battleground from school to home, store, wherever you need to go, or if you live, you know, a couple miles, north or whatever, from a bus stop, it could take you to the bus stop so you could get on it to Vancouver or whatever.

[2:02:55] You do have to have an account, there's an app, or you could do it online.

[2:03:01] I had a glitch with mine.

[2:03:02] My phone was like, yeah, I thought I was somewhere else in battleground and I was freaking

[2:03:07] out.

[2:03:07] And so I called them and they were able to fix it for me and get it rerouted.

[2:03:12] I totally support the current.

[2:03:15] If you don't need it, I recommend you write it anyways, because you never know when

[2:03:19] you're going to need it, plus then you could like help other people.

[2:03:22] thank you so much. Another endorsement for the current. Something to look at. That finishes our

[2:03:31] citizens' comments. So now we're to item 13. I'm sorry, come on up. Oh, I'm

[2:03:41] Jennifer, excuse me. Oh my gosh. Please excuse me. Jennifer, I need to thank

[2:03:50] you for

[2:03:51] waving me down. Maybe I should have written my name bigger. No, I knew it was there. I knew

[2:03:56] the rate I'm sorry. Well I just wanted to come up and say congratulations to our new board members

[2:04:04] especially Lori. It was a challenging campaign but you were a formidable opponent and I very

[2:04:14] much enjoyed when we were on the candidate for them together and so I look forward to the

[2:04:24] beautiful things that all of you are going to be doing now that you're on the board.

[2:04:29] I also look forward to working with you in the future.

[2:04:33] Congratulations.

[2:04:35] Thank you.

[2:04:38] Okay, that completes our citizens' comments.

[2:04:41] So, the next item is consent agenda.

[2:04:44] There are looks like ABCDEF on the consent agenda.

[2:04:49] Let me get over there.

[2:04:56] Do I need to read what's on the consent agenda?

[2:04:58] Is there anything on the consent agenda that needs to be taken off so that we discuss it?

[2:05:06] That's correct, right?

[2:05:07] I don't have any underlying notes here.

[2:05:10] Okay, go ahead.

[2:05:11] Put me on the spot.

[2:05:13] Anything else?

[2:05:14] Anything you'd like to discuss?

[2:05:15] Anybody have anything you want to discuss?

[2:05:17] We'd entertain a motion for the consent agenda to be approved.

[2:05:20] If anybody doesn't have anything to discuss?

[2:05:26] as presented. So we have a motion to accept the consent agenda as presented. All those in

[2:05:35] favor say aye. Oh, but we ask our students for this was my first real bone. Okay, all right.

[2:05:43] Okay, you guys, we want to hear what you think. Pro. Pro. Good job. It's over. You motion

[2:05:51] down until I think. Now I get to say the other thing.

[2:05:58] So now I forget when I

[2:05:59] is supposed to say, but all those in favor say I, I, all those opposed say I,

[2:06:08] same sign is what I always said. Okay. All business there is none. Okay. So

[2:06:14] the consentage into past. Do I need to say that? Five zero. Okay. All business

[2:06:21] 9, new business 9, also future agenda items in board events, does anybody have anything that

[2:06:30] they would like to say as to our future agenda items in board events?

[2:06:36] Well, Tara, I think I might.

[2:06:38] So I know we talked about putting it in the end in it earlier.

[2:06:41] I was looking at the calendar and noticed that we didn't have anything for quite a while.

[2:06:45] I think the levee is kind of weighing on a lot of parts and I think it'd be a great time to

[2:06:51] to meet, so I was going to see what the board thought about, you know, trying to squeeze another one in here in December, maybe in two weeks, and then on everyone's schedules.

[2:07:05] So in two weeks, you're suggesting we have a meeting?

[2:07:08] Yes.

[2:07:08] So what kind of purpose?

[2:07:10] Just to discuss the agenda, or to discuss the levy to any policies that you want to review.

[2:07:19] anybody have any thoughts about this proposal? I'm in favor. I'm in favor. I'm in favor. Oh my goodness.

[2:07:28] Well how come? Well I think we talked it was that school board.

[2:07:39] Yeah, we talked about we really need to come up with a plan that gets our community in.

[2:07:49] We need our community to come alongside us.

[2:07:53] We need to find out why they might not be alongside us.

[2:08:00] And we've got to start getting something in place

[2:08:04] where we can start hearing those voices, all voices,

[2:08:08] so that we can make the changes that we need to make.

[2:08:13] So for our students.

[2:08:18] And we talked about, you know, sooner than later because it's coming, so, and this is something we want to develop and get going and even do it beyond the levee.

[2:08:29] We want to start these conversations and really get feedback from our community more often.

[2:08:36] So, it's in the works, it's in our brains, but we need to start getting it to fruition.

[2:08:45] So, the proper way to handle this thing would be if we really want to talk about this for somebody to make a motion to say they want to talk about, they want to move to have a meeting.

[2:08:53] Okay, that could be the right way to handle this.

[2:08:56] Go ahead.

[2:08:57] Well, I move that we have another meeting in two weeks on December 22nd.

[2:09:06] Let's check in with our superintendent to see if that date is an issue that she would know.

[2:09:13] I don't see an issue with the date.

[2:09:15] I just want to make a note per our policy for 1,400.

[2:09:20] It would need to be a special meeting, not a line or like our work session.

[2:09:24] So it would not have a regular meeting.

[2:09:27] That was gender.

[2:09:28] That was gender.

[2:09:28] Next question.

[2:09:30] So what is this?

[2:09:31] Okay, so you're making a what kind of a meeting?

[2:09:33] Have you got a suggestion to?

[2:09:35] Yeah, so I'm thinking of a special meeting.

[2:09:37] An opportunity to hear from the community.

[2:09:39] So a listening session?

[2:09:42] Yes.

[2:09:42] Okay.

[2:09:43] All right.

[2:09:44] So make that the motion.

[2:09:45] Go ahead and start.

[2:09:46] All right.

[2:09:46] Well, then I make a motion to make the proposed meeting

[2:09:51] December 22nd, a listening session.

[2:09:52] Okay, now, since we'd have a small committee group, we don't need a second, so this would be the appropriate time now for discussion.

[2:10:01] You want to say anything else about, oh, I wouldn't make a suggestion that maybe at our next board meeting, we get it on the calendar.

[2:10:10] And then at our next board meeting, people have come with some ideas or talk to Shirley about what you think maybe we should you'd like to see us do at this meeting.

[2:10:19] except that the next sport meeting isn't until after.

[2:10:23] Oh, 20 seconds.

[2:10:26] Yeah.

[2:10:26] Can I make a suggestion?

[2:10:27] Please do.

[2:10:29] So if we made a motion to have a special board meeting on the 22nd,

[2:10:35] then prior to that meeting,

[2:10:37] I would be meeting with our board members.

[2:10:39] Yes, that's right.

[2:10:40] President and our president and any board members could give either of them.

[2:10:45] Yes.

[2:10:46] So that we could create an agenda.

[2:10:48] Perfect, so what you think maybe would be good to have on the agenda that we can post and say here's why we're having this meeting, right?

[2:10:57] Send it to us, right, Debbie? Yes, okay

[2:11:02] All right, and then one of the things that we will need to

[2:11:06] Determine is whether there will be any action beyond discussion that would take board approval and so

[2:11:13] If you have those types of things that would need board approval, or if you had questions about whether or not they would you could reach out to any of the three of us and we could help navigate that.

[2:11:27] Because we would need to market as such in a meeting.

[2:11:31] Typically, our work sessions do not have board action, they have board discussion and oftentimes not enough head, but not things that need approval per save it.

[2:11:40] And so, director, I presume, since you say you want to call it a listening session, you're

[2:11:45] really intending to have the community be invited, just come and talk to us, is that what

[2:11:49] you're thinking?

[2:11:50] Yeah.

[2:11:51] I think we can call it a special meeting in a vital community.

[2:11:54] I think that's still fine.

[2:11:57] You know, and if we leave it as a special meeting, if there is something that needs to come up

[2:12:01] that we need to vote on, we could add it to the agenda, but I think the primary purpose

[2:12:05] would be to listen to the community and offer them a time to come talk with us.

[2:12:12] I would add based on what director Subley said we talked about this so for folks that are

[2:12:20] watching on the camera wherever it is I guess right there we talked about this that was that we

[2:12:25] this kind of stuff we talked about these copy meetings that we're having on Wednesdays we want

[2:12:30] to talk to the community about whatever's on their mind okay so that would be then what we're

[2:12:37] be doing at this meeting, inviting people to come and talk, we're not going to wait until January,

[2:12:43] so we'll be talking more about this than it would be a bullet in about it or something,

[2:12:48] whatever, right. Okay, any further discussion? Now we don't have to say yes, we can say no.

[2:12:54] Right, okay. So any further discussion? I have a question. Yes, ma'am.

[2:13:00] So basically this special meeting or listening meeting will be questions, comments, and concerns from citizens, correct?

[2:13:09] That's what you want.

[2:13:11] What does the goal?

[2:13:12] Or students?

[2:13:13] Yeah, and students as well.

[2:13:15] My question would be for Michelle Scott.

[2:13:19] If she's able to be there in some sort of way just because I have a feeling that citizens also want numbers and kind of

[2:13:30] next week or more of the money goes and how the budgeting works. So I would also want to ask

[2:13:36] Michelle Scott if the 22nd works for her to be here with us to answer any citizen concerns about

[2:13:43] budgeting. Well maybe superintendent wouldn't you have something to say. Well I was just going to say that

[2:13:48] one of the things that our board hasn't had the opportunity to see yet is the presentations that we're

[2:13:55] already doing within our schools, which will provide a great deal of budgetary information

[2:14:01] as well as what programs are being supported with a levy.

[2:14:06] It's kind of your top, I don't know, it's not 10, but it's the top things that we have

[2:14:12] questions or we hear questions about and it's the presentation that we do.

[2:14:17] It's a little bit different with staff than it is with our community because it's a deeper

[2:14:21] dive into some things that people within the education system may understand, but I would

[2:14:26] venture to guess that anyone that would be attending this listening session that might be

[2:14:32] a piece of the special.

[2:14:34] So is there, is there possibly someone who could come and be prepared to maybe share that

[2:14:40] with us if it was needed?

[2:14:43] Yes, there is a definitely a deal.

[2:14:45] Okay, so if we can help with that, people there then, good thank you for bringing that up.

[2:14:50] anything else, go over to do you have anything? What are you going to do, guys? Any thoughts? Any thoughts? Any thoughts? Okay, here you know the discussion, our students.

[2:15:00] How do you lean on this? Proud? Proud? Okay. All those in favor say aye. Aye. All those opposed? Same side? Okay. Five, oh aye. Five, I didn't vote. Five, zero. I think that's the end of the agenda.

[2:15:21] So we're going to be moving to executive session, is there anything else?

[2:15:26] Board events.

[2:15:28] Yes, future events.

[2:15:30] So I don't know how this all works because of the open public meetings.

[2:15:38] So when we, like the cac is coming out with January 8th and we talked it was about all of us attending

[2:15:47] and that as long as it's put out there as an event that the board would, then it's

[2:15:54] broken. So we don't have to just have the two. And so I wanted to make sure we talked

[2:16:01] about that or reminded ourselves about that. Do we need to say what other events that we

[2:16:08] want to attend so that we're not? Yes, if the entirety of the board would be attending a

[2:16:15] then we would need to list it as a special meeting.

[2:16:20] The only hesitation, and I will, this is not something I brought up in that discussion

[2:16:25] because it really wasn't on my mind at the time.

[2:16:28] I just want to be really cautious about the fact that I don't want the input that we receive

[2:16:35] through those cack meetings to change by the sheer fact that we may have five board members there.

[2:16:42] So I would just ask the board to be listeners, not participateers, because I do think that

[2:16:51] that has been a extremely valuable from strategic plan, the bond planning to levees,

[2:16:58] to budgets, to just a variety of things that our cat has been providing input.

[2:17:03] I just want to be very careful that we continue to use it to gather information to help

[2:17:12] support all of us in the work that we're doing because I think it's been really valuable

[2:17:16] in that way.

[2:17:17] I would add that the purpose of the CAC is to provide the information to the community and receive

[2:17:23] information from the community to the superintendent specifically and while I think it's

[2:17:30] great that more of us can be there, we would want to be very careful to not distract from the

[2:17:40] and communicate appropriately.

[2:17:43] It's certainly, having you all there, certainly,

[2:17:46] would provide me sounding boards that I certainly

[2:17:48] would benefit from.

[2:17:51] And I just want to make sure that we're all kind of cognizant

[2:17:55] of that given take moving forward.

[2:17:59] Yeah, I was really surprised when

[2:18:00] Merit Waza was talking to some of their schools.

[2:18:04] And they said they're posting about 40 special meetings a month

[2:18:08] because any sporting event that the schools have going on, any musical, a dance, any event.

[2:18:16] They just call it a special meeting, and if the board can make it, then that's great.

[2:18:20] If they can't, that's okay also.

[2:18:23] But that way, they're not in trouble if the whole board shows up to a musical.

[2:18:28] Well, we absolutely have one.

[2:18:30] That could be a problem in a bigger city, in a bigger school district, then maybe in a district of 60 kids or something.

[2:18:37] So yeah, so I thought we'll be talking about that. Yeah, yeah, yeah, okay, so

[2:18:44] Any is there anybody feeling, you know, maybe it's not a good idea

[2:18:47] That was a real good word that you shared Marshall, but you didn't say was a bad idea

[2:18:51] You just said needs to be handled cautiously

[2:18:55] I'm in support of attending cack meetings. I've done it for four or five years whatever

[2:18:59] As long as I tried to go through the draws

[2:19:02] I didn't go to the cack leadership meeting the other night that cut felt kind of nice

[2:19:08] But that being said, there's a value for the meeting, I just wouldn't want to distract from the real purpose of the meeting.

[2:19:15] All right. Well, so any other...

[2:19:16] I attended for two years that I don't talk, so it's a problem.

[2:19:22] I wouldn't put that table on my nose.

[2:19:24] And I've been attending, and I talk too much, as you might have all realized, okay.

[2:19:28] So I will have to like talk, man.

[2:19:30] So you're so nice.

[2:19:32] You're really going to buy some of that tape.

[2:19:33] Okay, well then we'd really kind of have a consensus. I don't think we need a vote on anything.

[2:19:40] We do that. Superdent. Okay. All right. So anything else about future agenda items?

[2:19:51] We do have our next board meeting on January 12th or a special session on the 25th.

[2:19:58] I'm sorry. Okay.

[2:20:02] Do we have a tie?

[2:20:05] We just need to do a little bit more work sessions or usually for but we can certainly

[2:20:10] We can do it on what yeah, let's play in a probably six if the ideas that get people all work

[2:20:16] Okay, it's more helpful

[2:20:21] Anything else okay, we do have a executive session

[2:20:27] Nothing else

[2:20:29] Which no with no action

[2:20:31] Okay, well, I got my little things. Should I read the thing or no?

[2:20:34] Okay, all right, all right, all right. And the question is do we adjourn this meeting and then?

[2:20:39] No, okay, all right.

[2:20:41] We just, excuse me, one second, okay.

[2:20:44] List 30 minutes. I think, Terry.

[2:20:48] We don't have to read.

[2:20:49] We'll come back.

[2:20:50] I don't have any notes.

[2:20:52] I don't have anything to read here.

[2:20:55] Under content.

[2:20:56] Maybe it's, you know, maybe it's on the, this here.

[2:20:59] Sorry, excuse

[2:21:04] me folks. I wasn't prepared to do this

[2:21:08] Get out of here.

[2:21:17] An executive session is not listed

[2:21:27] Agenda

[2:21:27] Yes, I have it now. I'm sorry. Please excuse me

[2:21:35] Okay, I

[2:21:36] I think I know where it's at

[2:21:38] for I never read it through.

[2:21:41] Discussions held under executive sessions are confidential, though board will be entering

[2:21:46] executive session for the performance of a public employee per RCW-42.30.110-1G with no action

[2:21:57] for 30 minutes.

[2:22:01] The board will return at 8906.

[2:22:06] Thank you.

[2:22:08] For the adjournment meeting.

[2:22:11] I declare the meeting of the board adjourned as of 1955.

Dec 08, 2025 Board of Directors

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