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[0:22] Welcome to our student reps for the 26th from the 7th school year. This is your first meeting with us, and we are thrilled to have you.
[0:30] And now we will talk about option of the agenda.
[0:37] Oh, motion to excuse J. Van der Steu.
[0:41] Sorry.
[0:42] I don't want to hear.
[0:43] Hi.
[0:44] You pose.
[0:46] All right.
[0:47] Director Van der Steu, is excused.
[0:50] Is there a motion to adopt urgent that?
[0:53] The agenda is written.
[0:55] Second.
[0:57] The question.
[0:58] All those in favor?
[1:00] Any opposed?
[1:02] All right.
[1:03] We'll take this time to move into our public comment period.
[1:07] Anybody wishing to address the board tonight?
[1:11] Can there's a sign in the sheet over there?
[1:12] If there's anything in it?
[1:13] Or if there's anybody online that wishes to provide public comment?
[1:18] Okay.
[1:19] Do you agree with that?
[1:20] And then move into the superintendent's report.
[1:22] All right.
[1:23] Thank you.
[1:25] Well, here we are in other school year.
[1:29] It's a very nice picture is up on the slide there,
[1:34] from Curry Neth.
[1:36] Thank you for sharing those.
[1:37] It was exciting week.
[1:39] Obviously, when we have our kids coming back
[1:42] and we have a great kind of rolling start this year,
[1:46] you know, three days and four days,
[1:47] and then this week we'll see what we do with five.
[1:51] I think it's good for the students.
[1:54] I think it's good for our teachers, especially, and I think it's good for the community is a nice kind of, all right, let's get our feedback.
[2:04] Be underneath this and we'll get going. So we'll see maybe there might be a possibility we can do that again next year, since we'll have another late day or day next year as well.
[2:15] So, our new student reps as mentioned by Kelsey, Elise Cicerta in a beach.
[2:24] Thank you so much for being here.
[2:26] I'm really looking forward to getting to know these young ladies and having that dialogue throughout the year with not only them, but other students as well.
[2:36] So, again, thank you. They went through a tough interview process to be here.
[2:42] So the process works as they let me see Volcano that they're going to apply and they've allowed the application.
[2:52] We review all the applications. We have a screening process and then we have interviews.
[2:58] And I think we ended up with two great students on our board this year.
[3:05] I do want to briefly talk about enrollment.
[3:09] Next month, I'll be giving a more in-depth report on our enrollment projections and budget projections
[3:17] going to future years.
[3:20] But for right now, you need to know that we budgeted for basic education and enrollment number of
[3:24] 2,735 and our September count is 2,708.
[3:33] so we're a little bit low and we'll see if it holds like it's last year I believe
[3:41] we went up a little bit in October and then started a downward trend for the
[3:46] rest of the school year so let's hear what we're at and I'll talk like I said
[3:51] I'll talk more about this next month but just to get it out there you know we
[3:58] We will continue serving our students the best of all of them, obviously.
[4:05] With enrollment, declines comes budget crunches.
[4:13] So I'm thankful that we've worked really hard in the last couple of years to get our
[4:16] fund balanced back to where it is, to where it has to be by more policy.
[4:22] And we are going to continue serving our students.
[4:25] So, I'll talk more about that next month.
[4:28] I'm sure you're just on pins and needles just waiting.
[4:35] Just a no review for where we are right now,
[4:39] compared to this time last year.
[4:43] Lintot, elementary is down 57 students,
[4:48] or Smith Elementary is down 10.
[4:51] The middle school is down 19,
[4:53] and WF West is up slightly, but we do have a large number of students in writing to start the share.
[5:01] So next thing, student achievement, I want to share that Kayla has been doing a wonderful job,
[5:08] just jumping in with both feet, taking over student achievement this year with energy and passion.
[5:17] And I love to see that.
[5:18] We have a meeting this morning with our student achievement team, including your attention
[5:26] specialist from Sujjali College.
[5:29] So we meet once a month with everybody who's kind of involved with that, not involved with
[5:33] different things that are going on in the different programs.
[5:36] We talk about what's working, what's not working, how can we help each other, which is really,
[5:41] really important because we really are touching all of our students all the way from kindergarten
[5:46] garden up into the college level.
[5:49] So that was a great meeting we had.
[5:52] And the monthly meeting is something that came out
[5:55] of a birth report that was done after the 10-year review.
[6:00] So year and a half ago or so, we started those.
[6:04] And I think they're great.
[6:06] It gives us an opportunity to talk about what's going on,
[6:10] what the other person's doing.
[6:11] And I think that makes us stronger
[6:13] as a team to better show our students.
[6:15] In regards to some other professional development that was going on, even just right before
[6:24] this meeting, our administrators in the district have graciously volunteered because I think
[6:32] they put it to participate in some professional development regarding leadership and they'll
[6:39] doing that every Tuesday, the school year, right,
[6:44] record school board, except for I think one month,
[6:46] there's nothing but so a lot of a lot of times spent.
[6:50] And that's going to be led by AWSP,
[6:53] which is the Association for Washington State Principles.
[6:56] They're leading that professional development
[6:58] and it's really focused on culture systems and learning
[7:05] and getting all those things in sync
[7:07] so that we can do a better job of providing hope for our students and for our community.
[7:17] So I'm looking forward to more of that learning and then community engagement.
[7:23] Just quick update. We've been talking about, you know, when I share with you my goals for the year,
[7:30] more community engagement with myself and others and engaging with our,
[7:35] not just parents but our whole community. We're going to be doing a webinar. We don't have a
[7:41] fancy name for it yet but we'll come up with something catchy I guess at some point but November
[7:46] 12th is a day we're kind of circled and we're looking towards. Don't share that out yet because it's
[7:54] not written in stone but it'll be sometime mid November after conferences before Thanksgiving somewhere
[8:02] I really just want to give an opportunity.
[8:05] The first one will be focused on sharing about the 75 by 35, what that is, what does that mean for our students, and then also focusing on CTE programs and how those fit in to our overall district boards.
[8:21] We really want to start this two-way dialogue and communication with our community.
[8:26] So this is a good first step in that direction.
[8:31] Yeah,
[8:36] I have a question on running start.
[8:39] I'd love to get a little bit more data about kind of what our numbers have looked like and how that does impact our budget.
[8:49] And then I know last year there was legislation that was introduced that would require the running start students.
[8:55] the colleges would actually only get what their actual tuition should be instead of the full FTE
[9:01] that the school district would have gotten. I would love to crunch some of those numbers. I think,
[9:06] you know, as it's come out that the state continues to be in a deficit and they're not looking
[9:10] to help school districts out. I think OVN net neutral way for the state to maybe consider
[9:16] legislation like that, you know, pay the colleges what they're owed and then give the rest of the money
[9:20] to the school districts that those kids are coming from because ultimately we are still responsible
[9:25] for making sure that they can graduate and we do still have responsibility for them.
[9:29] So I think, you know, getting some strong data ahead of time before session,
[9:34] we could start putting out and putting some pressure on them to help us in that regard.
[9:39] Again, we're not extra money to the state. It's just allocating it differently.
[9:44] So I've been blessed and full on that.
[9:45] Yeah, we have a little bit more than half of our students are part-time at high schools as well.
[9:54] So you could be anywhere from like one class, just like music, like a band class, or it could be up to a half day.
[10:03] But the majority, slight majority, or half time, but the other 40-something kids are going there full time.
[10:12] So I think there was 87.
[10:14] So that changes, does that change how much money we get for the student then we get half?
[10:20] So how it works?
[10:21] It depends on what their FTE is.
[10:24] So if they're just because they're half-time,
[10:26] we call it half-time doesn't mean they're necessarily half-time.
[10:28] They can be at point two FTE if they're just coming to one class.
[10:33] Or if they're-
[10:34] My understanding is that the money, like the college is getting more money.
[10:39] Like kids that have graduated might pay $5,000 to go there,
[10:42] but the kids that are in high school,
[10:44] they're getting more money for those kids even though it seems a little-
[10:49] Yeah, even though those kids-
[10:50] Even the running start kids are still responsible.
[10:54] The high school is still responsible for them.
[10:56] Sure.
[10:56] Whether you're counseling services,
[10:58] for clubs and activities.
[11:00] Yeah, for athletic auditives.
[11:02] All those different things.
[11:04] So, yeah, it's definitely a financial advantage
[11:13] to the college to have running start students.
[11:16] Do we? Are we responsible for transportation? Do they? No, they don't. Any
[11:26] other questions?
[11:28] If we're moving to the Director Report? Okay.
[11:38] That's you, but I begin on VJ, and I think you got some pictures for me, Daniel.
[11:45] Okay, some of our project, this is one that was unplanned.
[11:49] We had a boiler that fed the domestic hot water that we were going to freshen up and
[11:55] we found it was a disaster so we replaced it with two instant hot water, much cheaper
[12:03] than replaced with a boiler.
[12:04] We have some redundancy in our system, so we're excited about that.
[12:08] Next slide.
[12:09] actually let's let's skip this one and do this one last and that's the big
[12:15] that's the big one okay here we go the the band room and Jim most of you are
[12:23] where we had pretty significant water intrusion through that south wall of the
[12:30] band room and especially the upper gymnasium so it was it was worse than
[12:38] we thought it would be that picture in the bottom right hand corner is actually the band storage room.
[12:48] So it's pretty bad. It messed up the floors as well, damaged that VCT tile.
[12:56] But how about the next picture? So that's what it looks like today. It looks all really nice.
[13:02] and Paul Robertson did the exterior painting for us and the upper gymnasium painting we handled
[13:09] the painting in the in the bathroom including the flooring and replaced it was a vinyl covered
[13:18] particle board before that shelving was placed with steel shelving and had a little bit of room
[13:24] to breathe of that wall, but really did the wall right, put locks on on it. So happy about that next project.
[13:35] Okay, we've got some overhead, new overhead doors.
[13:39] Please take a quick question.
[13:41] Yes, sir.
[13:42] On the exterior of that wall, did you have to do any rink routing on it? It looked like that one picture extensive.
[13:49] If you had to spend a lot of time re-grouting we did we did an and shout out to Paul Rodson pain and
[13:57] They really could have hit us with a change order on that because it was so much worse
[14:03] Then expected so yeah, we
[14:06] Especially on the bathroom is where the the grouting was the work we we did a little bit of it
[14:11] But they did most of it of the grouting repair
[14:15] And hit it with locks on so it's
[14:17] If that wall is watertight now, it's very thankful for that.
[14:25] Thank you.
[14:25] So yeah, we did it right.
[14:29] Yeah, we've got some new overhead doors for the auto shop as well as the wood shop.
[14:38] And those have been, there have been doors in the auto shop
[14:43] that at one time switched over to solid walls, but I put doors back in and the wood shop,
[14:53] the issue was teacher couldn't see when students were outside.
[14:58] All right, so now that the...
[15:00] Nice glass overhead door. You can keep an eye on kids. Is there outside working next project?
[15:11] Actually, before we let me just touch on a few other things we did. I didn't get pictures, but we did some extensive repairs to the parking lot service at the high school, the middle school. I think also sort of where that we don't have the greatest ground around there. Well, I do play the likes to shrink and swell.
[15:35] So out of mess, but the worst of the areas have been prepared.
[15:42] We had lakeside do it, and lakeside is not typically the low bit.
[15:47] They were the low bit for this, and they do excellent work.
[15:51] If we ever wanted to do it truly the right way, we would put geotech fabric down over the
[15:58] whole thing that we control that sharing and slowing and repay. But much much better than it was
[16:07] restricted ourselves. Also put a do-heat pump and duct work and at CMS we put
[16:16] where we replace the heads on our parking lot poles. Lighting is much better in the parking lot
[16:24] today that it was. We still have a few spots we'd like to hit. The future, but let's talk about the big project.
[16:32] So maybe you got a chance to get out and see things as they progress.
[16:39] We're privileged to work with McKinistery as our general contractor for this.
[16:46] They take safety seriously.
[16:48] They have taken good care of us.
[16:51] There's the erection of the I-beams,
[16:55] the structure and the next slide.
[16:58] You can see how things are coming along
[17:01] the top right picture there.
[17:04] That is our shutdown where we had to bring
[17:08] the whole system down at the high school.
[17:11] And I'll say third time was a charm
[17:14] because of some challenges.
[17:16] And we ended up doing it late in the evening, but PUD was wonderful to work with us.
[17:24] And this, the bottom right hand corner, that's the most important picture that's LNI coming
[17:30] out and signing off, that things are looking good.
[17:34] We're still not live and producing power for PUD, that should be coming very soon.
[17:40] But when it's all sitting down, it's a 180 kilowatt system that should be a great help
[17:48] to us and actually a lot of things, meaning state mandates for clean buildings and for
[17:58] energy code and also reducing our power to be able to build with PUDs.
[18:03] So we're proud of our team for working hard
[18:08] and making things happen and just keep making progress.
[18:13] Any questions?
[18:14] Well, when you say producing power for FUD and we look
[18:17] into sell it back to FUD or retain that
[18:20] to the company ourselves.
[18:22] What, it doesn't produce enough power, even
[18:26] with the 34.6 of the Stem Wing, doesn't produce enough
[18:31] to totally power, but what if we sell it to PUD and offsets are energy usage?
[18:41] Has anyone put together any conservative projections on what kind of revenue does that look like to offset?
[18:48] You know, I wasn't in on the right and the grant initial, but I don't know if anybody else can speak to that.
[18:58] I've been watching the power production on the stem wing and those nice clear sunny days
[19:07] makes quite a difference versus the cloudy days, but it should be a great help, I'll throw
[19:14] this in.
[19:16] We're going to have much better fact and with coverage of our parking lot, they wired it in
[19:23] for extra cameras.
[19:24] there's lights under there as well. And as of today, nobody has run into any of the IVVs.
[19:32] As someone ran in on foot to a box. So we've had an injury, you know, we don't want to
[19:40] bore a boy or looking down, but so far so good. But I can work on getting some of those as we have
[19:49] of the 180 kilowatt system of those numbers.
[19:53] How'd you guys allocate the covered parking?
[19:55] That's what I really want to know as well.
[19:58] Is that a lottery system, or seniors?
[20:04] We followed the same plan as last year, actually.
[20:08] So that's the same spots that they could choose.
[20:12] I mean, obviously students wanted
[20:14] to choose hundreds of covers, you know, for sure, yeah.
[20:19] All right, until they got one loose puffs.
[20:24] Either one of you out parking, or I have a covered parking spot.
[20:27] It's really great.
[20:28] I enjoy it.
[20:31] Yeah.
[20:33] What do you want?
[20:33] Do we still win or?
[20:34] My car gets a little bit wet, but it's not nearly as wet as it was the other way.
[20:40] It's not, it's not solid.
[20:42] There are gaps.
[20:43] All right.
[20:44] Yes.
[20:44] Okay.
[20:45] All right.
[20:46] Okay.
[20:46] Great.
[20:47] Appreciate it.
[20:47] Yeah.
[20:52] Thank you.
[20:54] Thank you.
[20:57] All right.
[20:58] Heather.
[20:59] I didn't know that it's going into my report.
[21:01] I did want to point out that insurance provided coverage for that's hardly Robinson painting
[21:07] or that Regent just talked about,
[21:10] and she had this foundation provided funding
[21:12] for the doors that were in the doors,
[21:16] I believe, and the Department of Commerce grant
[21:19] provided the funding for the solar panels.
[21:22] Okay.
[21:23] That's good ways to paint her projects.
[21:26] We're very excited.
[21:28] Hey, the Justice Report for July is up there on the board.
[21:32] I realize that it is September,
[21:34] and we should be seeing August.
[21:36] However, the county treasurer still run me about a month behind on reports.
[21:41] So those really truly are July members.
[21:45] We are absolutely on track to stay within our adopted budget for $5.26.
[21:51] We've been monitoring that carefully, of course.
[21:55] And that is my report for July, unless there's any questions, I do want to keep going though.
[22:00] Our school finance advisory committee kicked off the year with enthusiasm on September 8 with a meeting first meeting of the year and the six of us talked at length an hour and half long meeting.
[22:16] We had a really good discussion about enrollment concerns and
[22:21] property evaluations, levy and facility needs, especially for CMS and the WF West CTE building.
[22:29] I reviewed, I think at this one, it was June's budget status report just to kind of explain how it works.
[22:36] And we talked about state funding and the flows of how the funding comes in and the timing.
[22:42] and we also reviewed two of my reports.
[22:48] We reviewed June and we reviewed the budget hearing slides
[22:51] from our adopted budget meeting, budget adoption meeting.
[22:56] And we had very good dialogue, lots of good questions,
[23:00] lots of research projects for Heather and Superintendents in Google.
[23:04] But at the end of the meeting, the committee elected
[23:10] Brian Cummings as the chairperson and Mike Alexander was elected to be the vice chairperson.
[23:17] And the next meeting will be Friday November 20th and at that meeting I plan to review
[23:24] hopefully August and September budget status report and then also go through the year-end
[23:30] financial statements. We have to have those turn in my October 25th so I'll be able to review
[23:36] with the committee how we actually ended the year and what that looked like and then I also plan
[23:42] to bring a list, a complete list of what our levy dollars funded in 2526 because we're now required
[23:50] to track every single dollar or every single cent. So I'll be able to produce a report that shows people
[23:56] what our levy dollars fund and then I mean that sounds all super exciting. Then the committee will
[24:02] take over with what they want to actually do during the rest of the meeting and I know that
[24:08] in a moment was a real focus and I know that it was for security and global already,
[24:13] but we've even had a bunch of good questions kind of during the meeting. And um,
[24:18] Director Svarno, would you like to add anything? I guess I'd like to thank your leadership
[24:23] during the meeting. You're getting peppered with questions. I mean lots of good questions.
[24:27] I mean, people are really truly engaged in the budget and the financial process and committed to the
[24:35] Shehala School District. It's a lot of diverse backgrounds there, but it's good. It's been a great
[24:41] learning opportunity for, I mean, for all of us. I learn something every time, especially for those
[24:48] that didn't understand the budget, how big it was, how complex it was, how many different sources
[24:54] a revenue it takes. So it's all been good and looking forward to future meetings and I'm sure
[25:01] we'll continue to have a lot of questions for the others. So thanks for all your support.
[25:07] Quick question, a couple of regarding the enrollment, how much of a financial impact is that when we're
[25:16] say we're down 20 25 30 students now roughly $10,500 per FTE and one of those impacts is
[25:29] you will not okay so September through December we get funded by the state based on what we
[25:37] budgeted okay and so we will see no impact September off to run November December in January
[25:44] the state starts adjusting our apportionment based on what our average is
[25:49] through January at that time. And then for every single month for the rest of the
[25:53] year, our apportionment is impacted by what our average turns out to be
[25:59] September through June.
[26:01] So starting now, we have to, as the best we can, spend money like the number,
[26:12] or not the number of rebudges for the number of kids,
[26:15] which is actually.
[26:16] Yes.
[26:17] And that's the same way for CTE budgets
[26:21] and green ill budgets.
[26:22] And there's a lot more than just basic and budgets.
[26:25] So we've been here.
[26:26] Well, I know it's a little more complex and just,
[26:29] well, $10,000, $30,000, okay, well, that makes sense.
[26:37] I think there's usually some time actually
[26:39] to adjust downward. What's your spending? But you want to do it now. I'm waiting for you.
[26:47] You're in your... The answer is yes, but we have all of our staffing in their contracts
[26:52] at this point. So yes. But we were thoughtful about a couple different. There was a couple different
[27:00] job postings we considered opening up before the school year started and we made a collective
[27:07] to the decision to wait until we saw what our role was going to be, and I think we'll
[27:13] do that.
[27:14] That's it.
[27:14] Okay.
[27:15] I said, you know, in Tim, along with the account, I don't know if we brought it up in our
[27:18] last three years or not, but we also have a cascade of hardwood adjustment that's going to.
[27:26] Well, cascade's new.
[27:27] So, so dairy gold and hardtails were previously cascade is new to us.
[27:32] Yeah, it is another big. Yeah, from an assessment standpoint, I think was it three not going to be three hundred grand roughly to two, two, two, fifty to three.
[27:41] Okay. Our estimate regardless. Yeah, so another impactful reassessment. So how does that?
[27:50] I don't think you're perfect.
[27:50] When do we get the money back from there?
[27:52] Well, because aren't we supposed to just
[27:54] turn it that up like one that I didn't expect.
[27:56] I think we are, we're exactly right.
[27:59] So they did make it whole.
[28:01] Yes.
[28:03] Yeah, but it takes one up to 12 months
[28:06] to get fully free from that.
[28:12] So now it's going to one of them both season for me.
[28:15] Yeah, absolutely.
[28:16] Yeah, that's exactly right.
[28:19] Are the levy funds that you're tracking separately, are those posted on our district website?
[28:27] Would there be a way to do that or how much extra work would that be?
[28:32] I think that's one of the things that certain community members are looking at.
[28:36] So I was just curious, and if it was there, we'll talk to you later about how specific you'd
[28:42] know fit to be. I know you touched on it, Heather, but to levy, okay, we're going to have
[28:50] That would be in 20-28, it's one of the things we want to start talking about early.
[28:55] You know, and how we want to present that, just how critical it is to sustain everything
[29:02] we're doing.
[29:03] Well, I think I am encouraged to hear that you're already tracking it down to the penny
[29:08] and all of that, because I think that that transparency for our community will matter, too, and
[29:13] the trust to continue to support it, so that's good.
[29:17] But anything
[29:22] else for a budget status report will play a little long.
[29:26] Okay, all right, we'll move into the consent agenda for
[29:36] the standard stuff.
[29:55] Okay, ready for any discussion.
[30:00] All those in favor of approving the consent agenda? Any opposed? Motion carries. And now we are into board comments and discussion.
[30:14] The first thing I wanted to bring up. I know our last meeting we discussed meeting recordings. Obviously, we are recording all of our school we're meeting for require too light state law, but we were not posting. We are not posting those recordings or anything on our agenda.
[30:32] website. And so, at the last meeting, I had asked Superintendent Gold to provide some
[30:40] feedback on that, get information in terms of costs, workload and all of that and things
[30:45] for us to consider. And I know that we all received some information about that in our board
[30:50] memo that it really wouldn't be a lot of extra work to do any of those things if we wanted
[30:58] to post stuff to the website, so I personally am in favor of posting the audio portion. I know
[31:07] I think some of the feedback that we'd had a couple of years ago on recording our board meetings
[31:13] prior to it becoming state law was you know being really easy for people to you know take things
[31:20] out of context or clip things or things like that or have gotchas posting things with faces and all
[31:26] that. And I think that an easy way to solve that would be just to do the audio. It's, you know,
[31:33] people that truly care and want it for transparency purposes until listen to it would have that
[31:37] ability, but it would be less likely that they'd be sharing things with people's faces and things like
[31:44] that. So just love to know what everybody else thinks about about recordings. I have no issue with
[31:52] transparency. I agree. I think doing the audio portion would be the best way to do it
[32:00] start off. At least start that way and see how it works out and get a lot of requests
[32:05] for this visual portion. I guess we can consider it under later date or something. Have we
[32:11] got to see what other boards and school districts are doing around the state? All across the
[32:16] or maybe
[32:20] to do a motion or can we just okay so we'll just move forward with the audio
[32:26] being on there and I don't think it would be obviously it's a state law that we have
[32:30] to do it but I think it might be nice to post somewhere in the boardroom that board meetings
[32:35] are recorded just if we have members of the public that show up maybe they're not aware of what
[32:41] the state law is and I think we're really blessed here to not have to have a lot of
[32:48] Controversy or things like that, but if there's people that want to come in and might give them reminders, that's where they recorded and might not be about things.
[32:59] Okay. The other comments that I guess that I have, I want to think are principles.
[33:03] I know you guys have been doing a lot of extra work. I see that Mr. Curry's been doing coffee hours and Mrs. Feigerness is doing the huddle and I know the elementary principles.
[33:14] I think it was the last night you guys did pizza with the PTO and I just think it's awesome
[33:18] that you guys are going above and beyond to connect with families and making yourselves
[33:22] available and that's where things are just going to say thank you for that.
[33:27] And last thing that I have on my list is this is Chris's last meeting with us and just truly
[33:34] grateful for your work and all you've done or the district over the years you started off.
[33:41] I've got to know you as my daughter's principal already been it and during that time we,
[33:46] I was working with a PCO to get watch dogs off the ground and work with you on that and you were
[33:51] so supportive of it and let me come in and present to teachers and talking to teachers. I heard such
[33:57] great things from the teachers about how they always thought so supported by you and I just think
[34:03] you always have the shale school district's best interests at heart and just want to thank you for all
[34:07] of your work.
[34:23] Heather, do you guys want to share about yourselves a little bit or what your interests are, what
[34:30] you do, that's your curricula, or something like that?
[34:34] I do have one quick thing.
[34:37] So we were talking a lot about running start.
[34:40] Is it a goal of the school districts to keep students at high school?
[34:46] I would say that it's a goal to share the school district of finding the pathways for students that works best.
[34:54] The one thing that I'm most concerned about is that at times running start is kind of sold to students as this great opportunity
[35:06] and you only have to go to school half the day and you can sleep in in the morning and those are all the wrong reasons to be going to college.
[35:16] If I may speak to that a little bit, I think just observing my friends that have gone to running
[35:23] start and when I was considering it as an option, there were the people that were seeking more
[35:29] free time or maybe did it like the social environment at the high school, but many of my friends
[35:35] decided in spite of the college and high school classes that for financial reasons it would make
[35:41] the most sense to go to Centralia College in order to better be able to pay for their education.
[35:48] I would say for that, like there have been a lot of comments about how students going to running
[35:55] start impacts our districts funding. And I believe now I was told that there is a path for students
[36:04] to get the equivalent of an associates while still being at high school full time. Is that correct?
[36:11] with the College of the Classroom? Yes. Not a degree itself, but the number of credits.
[36:18] Yeah. I think that is something that is not... I feel like that's not publicized enough.
[36:26] Does that make sense? Like, if our goal is for students to be choosing running start for the right reasons
[36:33] and to be involved with their peers.
[36:37] I think publicity of that is going to be a really big deal,
[36:41] because I think if you asked most students,
[36:43] they would have no idea that college and high school
[36:46] does amount to the same sum of credits,
[36:48] and could be just as financially effective.
[36:51] So I think going forward, if the aim is to keep students
[36:55] at the high school, that could be a simple change
[36:58] that would make a big difference.
[37:02] That's really good input, thank you.
[37:09] Do you guys want to share like what I mean you guys are both involved in activities and
[37:13] I was lucky to be able to sit in on your interview so I already know what you're all
[37:16] bringing into the table but if you want to share with any of the other board members or administrators
[37:21] some of the things that you guys do at high school or if you have any goals about your experience
[37:26] this year or anything like that?
[37:31] I haven't done a lot of leadership roles at the high school, but I think in the past
[37:38] I've sometimes kind of felt like there's like a certain group that can kind of be ignored
[37:45] or like not seen.
[37:47] And just like, I think that sometimes it can be easy to just feel like you're not third
[37:54] especially like if you're not very outgoing or like popular or in the right groups.
[38:00] So I think I'm just trying to come into this role like with an open mind of being
[38:04] able to help students who maybe might not usually get heard like have a voice
[38:09] and important matters.
[38:11] Um,
[38:16] I'm pretty involved at the high school.
[38:19] So I, I try to think of right now I'm doing a lot of soccer.
[38:23] That's kind of my main heavy hitting extracurricular.
[38:26] and then I'm also a part of our SB leadership team at high school, and I've been involved in the leadership class as well.
[38:35] But I think like Emma throughout my high school experience, I have noticed that there are kids who are naturally inclined to voice their opinion, and that's incredible, and we need their input.
[38:47] but I see our function as student reps
[38:50] to be go-betweens for the kids that maybe have thoughts
[38:56] but don't want to share them or have input
[38:59] but are as listened to because they don't have a platform
[39:03] to be available.
[39:04] Any
[39:11] more words comments or discussion on this one?
[39:15] Right, no one was into new business with donations.
[39:24] This is a good one.
[39:26] The Sheila's foundation, our donation of over $600,000
[39:32] towards our student achievement initiative.
[39:36] Don't move me except that generation.
[39:41] Is there any discussion?
[39:44] All right, all those in favor.
[39:46] All right.
[39:47] You post.
[39:49] Good.
[39:50] You're pretty good, I just want to say that this is mostly from the Smith family and the
[39:58] Lindtop family who have continued over the years to invest in our community in many ways.
[40:07] I was talking with Kevin Smith earlier today and making connections with other groups that
[40:15] are interested in the work that's going on here in Chaelis.
[40:18] And that's like one of those special things that you don't see it as a donation, but it's
[40:24] really cool to know that there's people, WFS alumni that are out there, they're advocating
[40:31] for our students even decades after they've graduated.
[40:36] And that's really, I think that's just as important as the financial donation, but it's pretty
[40:44] cool that we're able to be the recipient of something like that.
[40:49] Absolutely.
[40:53] Okay.
[40:53] We have one policy on first reading.
[40:56] We're a policy 4,000 community relations and public information programs.
[41:01] Yeah.
[41:02] This one is just simply where it gets get ahead of the game.
[41:05] We want to make sure that we're up to speed on all the requirements.
[41:09] We're coming down from the federal level as well as will be required in the state.
[41:16] and this is just accessibility to district communications.
[41:23] So, simple things.
[41:26] But, Karina, and I believe Katie Howell worked on this policy
[41:32] to get it up to the standards.
[41:36] And I think it's the additions that we need to make.
[41:39] And there will be a lot of other districts that will be making
[41:42] to the same change in the next 18 months,
[41:46] but we're ahead of the wave, so don't care.
[41:48] Don't get about that.
[41:50] Thank you, Prima.
[41:54] We'll do a food board policy AP 4,000.
[41:59] A second.
[42:00] Can I ask you a question?
[42:02] All right, Paul doesn't favor.
[42:04] All right.
[42:05] Thank you, Paul.
[42:06] Two carries, and we have three policies
[42:09] on second reading board policy 30208
[42:13] on student prohibition and phasing, 32-30, which is student searches of students in student
[42:22] privacy, and then 32-46, restraint and isolation, all the same as what we have last month.
[42:30] The
[42:33] motion will move and go on to the same time or in a few minutes.
[42:38] I'm going to motionally approve the VP32 away, 32-30, and 32-46 is written a second.
[42:48] Any discussion?
[42:51] All those in favor?
[42:52] I.
[42:53] You'll post.
[42:55] All right.
[42:56] Nameless.
[42:56] And now we'll move into Board of Directors reports.
[42:59] WIA.
[43:00] is.
[43:00] I'm not engaged in anything, Neil.
[43:01] Okay.
[43:02] And whilst we have a general assembly, is this Saturday?
[43:07] Um, and I was going to know if it was sent out the handbook.
[43:12] Um, it is on the waster website.
[43:16] Um, the general assembly can look of all of the different policy
[43:19] positions that will be voted on.
[43:22] There's actually I think over 80 positions this year that the main
[43:26] school district has nominated to be retired.
[43:28] So it might be a really long day on Saturday,
[43:32] happy to go through all of those,
[43:34] but if anybody has any specific thoughts
[43:39] on any of those proposals or things like that,
[43:43] let me know.
[43:44] Otherwise, often in the participates.
[43:46] I'm hosting some other school board members
[43:48] over at Olympic in the library.
[43:51] I've done a couple last couple of years
[43:53] or just makes a little bit more enjoyable
[43:55] to be with other people that are doing it.
[43:58] it's all virtual and I think helps some of the other people that I've never participated
[44:04] before to have somebody walk them through it and help me with the process.
[44:08] So other than that, it's just OSPI and the government are probably seeing lots of
[44:14] the news.
[44:15] We've got different policy proposals that they're talking about putting out and you know,
[44:20] getting ready for 2027.
[44:22] and so we met a lot of Simulster, either.
[44:29] Okay, now we move back into any other word comment or discussion.
[44:38] We have announcements.
[44:43] I will be adjourned.
[44:45] Thank you for saying thank you to Daniel and his team.
[44:48] I see that National I see professional states knock up on me.
[44:51] Again, that's fun.
[44:53] We appreciate especially at the start of the year.
[44:55] how much they get done, and help us keep things running.
[45:00] rolling, and I know the ticket count had been too high and it's gotten taken care of and under control, and I want to just shout out to say thank you.