School Board Meeting March 25, 2020

Are there any other board directors on.

Is the presentation up.

Can you see it.

This is Director Hersey.

I can see the presentation.

Thank you Director Hersey.

Is it being shared on Teams.

There is a PowerPoint available through Teams.

It's just our standard board meeting presentation which has content that is consistent with the board meeting agenda.

Do we have any other directors on the call.

Hello.

Sounds like Director Mack.

Can you hear me back.

It's Director Rankin.

Can somebody let me know if we're starting.

We are trying to but I don't have quorum just yet.

Director Mack is here too and Director DeWolf I don't know if you can see that you can see the list of people on the call.

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Director Harris is here.

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This is Ellie.

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Finally we are streaming this through SPS-TV and my understanding is that the audio is currently live on the television.

Hi SPS-TV.

Okay so it sounds like we have a quorum I'd love to get this meeting started.

We are at 1 0 2 p.m.

So it is 1 0 2 p.m.

I am now calling the March 25th 2020 regular board meeting to order.

We live and go to school in a city that is the ancestral homeland to the Duwamish people Muckleshoot Nation and the Suquamish Nation.

We acknowledge them as custodians of this land since time immemorial.

As guests and in many of our cases as settlers on this land we extend our deepest gratitude and respect to their ancestors and elders past present and future.

Ms.

Wilson-Jones I'm going to ask you to call the roll call please and if you are not talking please mute your phone.

Thank you and take it away Ms.

Wilson-Jones.

Director Hampson.

Director Hampson.

If you are muted currently we cannot hear you.

Director Hampson.

Director Harris.

Here.

Director Hersey.

Here.

Director Mack.

Here.

Director Rankin.

I'm here and I'm on a phone and I'm about to switch to a laptop.

I'm here.

Okay.

Director Rivera-Smith.

I'm just getting back from delivering lunches.

Director Rivera-Smith is here.

Thank you.

Oh I got it.

Okay.

Director Hampson.

Yes here.

Sorry.

Director DeWolf.

Thank you.

Here.

Okay.

Thank you everybody.

So Superintendent Juneau is also joining us for today's meeting and additional staff will be briefing the board as we move through this agenda.

Obviously today is our first day doing our regular legislative working by telephone.

So thanks everybody for your patience and your flexibility as we get into this practice.

So just to reiterate this meeting is being held electronically consistent with the governor's March 24th 2020 proclamation prohibiting meetings such as this one.

from being held in person and I'll note that members of the public may also be joining via phone or online streaming.

I will not be asking members of the public to identify themselves but thank you to those of you who are joining us today.

As stated on the agenda there will not be a public comment opportunity today for the board's March 11th 2020 vote to waive relevant provisions of board policy 1430 and board procedure 1430BP and board resolution 2019 2020-29 expanding board policy to facilitate implementation of emergency measures in response to the novel coronavirus or COVID-19.

Public comments are always invited by email to the board by fax and by mail as stated on the agenda.

To facilitate today's meeting I will be asking participants to ensure that you are muted when you are not speaking.

Staff will may also be meeting participants to address feedback and ensure we can hear directors and staff.

So let's see where we are.

Okay.

So we have now reached the consent portion of today's agenda.

Do I have a motion for the consent agenda and before we actually let me pause really quick.

I do want to note that we have removed the March 7th retreat minutes off of today's agenda and they have been moved to the April 7th regular legislative board meeting.

So those are not currently on today's agenda anymore.

They will be up for our consideration on the April 7th meeting.

I just wanted to clarify.

So knowing all that we have now reached the consent portion of today's agenda.

Do I have a motion for the consent agenda.

I move approval of the consent agenda.

This is Director Hampson.

Thank you Director Hampson.

Do I have a second.

Thank you Director Harris for the second.

of the consent agenda has been moved by Director Hampson and seconded by Director Harris.

Do directors have any items they would like to remove from the consent agenda.

Okay.

Hearing none.

Being none all those in favor of the consent agenda please signify by saying aye.

All those opposed.

OK.

The consent agenda has passed unanimously.

So we will now move.

To the.

Introduction portion of the agenda.

I will note that as indicated on the agenda on agenda.

Many of today's introduction items were not first reviewed in committee due to public health related cancellations of several of our March committee meetings.

So to facilitate director questions and discussions today I'll be calling on each director alphabetically after each after each staff presentation and the population is alphabetically to gather questions comments concerns.

So.

We will now move to introduction item number 1. Mrs. Approval of Families Education Preschool and Promise FEPP.

Levy funding for K-12 school based investments for the 2020-2021 through 2025-2026 school years.

So Senior Advisor Superintendent Sherri Kokx I believe you will be briefing us on this and our next item.

So I'll let you take it away.

Yes thank you directors and President DeWolf.

I'd first like to just start off this agenda item by thanking the district staff and the City of Seattle staff who have worked hard through this process of the family education preschool and Promise school-based investments.

I'd also like to thank the Seattle voters for continuing to have faith in our work together as systems.

The city has awarded 20 elementary schools 5 middle schools and 5 high schools although these have not been publicly announced due to the coronavirus incident.

These investments will support our schools and target investments on students who need these supports the most.

Our students who are furthest from educational justice.

SPS Seattle Public Schools values the partnership we've had with the City of Seattle.

and particularly the Department of Education and Early Learning and we appreciate you board directors for your ongoing engagement around FEPP school-based investments.

Last year the school board Superintendent Juneau Mayor Durkin and the city council signed our partnership agreement that guides this work and this relationship and the implementation of FEPP.

I just want to call the attention that this is a 6-year We've put forward the BAR for six years with a $113,572,311 grant to support a variety of work that will be taking place over the next six years.

On the third page of the BAR itself it goes into what the K-12 investments are paying for.

And I just want to highlight a couple of them that are in direct alignment with our strategic plan.

The culturally responsive programming that is our Kingmakers programs that are happening at some of our schools throughout the city.

And then the Educator Diversity Award is for our Academy Rising Educators our Seattle Teacher Residency and our Class to CERT programs just to name a few of what those investments are being utilized for.

You can see in the third bullet on page 3 the K-12 investments including expanded learning and academic supports as well as college readiness.

And I'm not going to read each of the schools to you but they are listed there.

This award also includes our nursing programming as well as wraparound services for family support services.

And those family support services would include a total of three FTE one at Martin Luther King Elementary one at Dearborn International and one at Concord International schools.

And then there is also the summer learning at the schools listed there.

One last thing that I'd like to just call out on a couple of things actually is that both SPS and DEEL are committed to utilizing racial equity analysis.

That's been used throughout the process and we're both committed to continuing to utilize these strategies in the decision making process as this work is ongoing over the next six years.

The benefit to our students is quite phenomenal there.

while that section of the bar is short in itself.

But this goes further our practices of culturally responsive teaching supports both students physical and mental health programming in grades K through 12 as well as other academic learning so that we can ensure that our scholars are college and community ready.

Because as you know the other part of the FEPP is the post-secondary education I will conclude my comments at this time.

I do want to call out that I Dwayne Chappelle from DEEL is here as well and he and I are ready for questions.

Thank you Sherri.

So at this point I'm going to call on directors in alphabetical order and just ask if you have questions or provide any comments on item number one.

And just a reminder again today all of our items are introduction.

So and we have 11 items today.

We are scheduled to be here until 3. So knowing all that I'm going to start with Director Hampson and go down the list.

So Director Hampson do you have any questions comments or concerns for Sherri and Item Number 1.

I just want to say I'm grateful for the historic partnership particularly this round of funding has been much there's been quite a bit more engagement that I've witnessed with respect to community partner outreach and so I think that that deal has been heading in a good direction with that in terms of their partnership with us and with other community based partners it's been heartening to watch.

I do think that in terms of things that we're going to want to in the implementation that we'll want to pay attention to that we do have that DEEL did a great job tracking the schools that were invited to participate the schools that then did or did not choose to participate.

I think we're going to need to have some conversations and insight internally to SPS as to the extent to which we're providing all the appropriate support to make sure that the principals have what they.

weight does fall to them and their BLTs.

But I think that that there was there was a tremendous amount of effort probably more effort than has ever been done before to make sure that we knew kind of the targeted the schools that were invited to participate and apply and then that deal was able to follow all the way through and connect with folks and kind of learn where they were in the process.

And then I know there's also going to be some juggling of who those partners are in our local school communities.

And I hope that when all of this is said and done, I think we'll probably have some even closer stronger partnerships that will ensure that what comes into buildings given that we've had some some negative experiences in our past that that we'll we'll try to make sure that all these localized school partnerships get off on a great track and I'm really excited about a lot of the new schools coming in and also very committed to supporting the schools that are not in this year's round of of grants but I just want to say thank you to DEEL and to everybody at Seattle Public Schools that that made this happen in this way this year and I'm excited about the dollars coming through.

Great.

Thank you Director Hampson.

Director Harris.

Director can I just comment to one thing.

Go ahead Sherry.

One of the comments Director Hampson made is that SPS I want to just make a shout out to James Bush and Diane DeBacker's teams who actually and offer up many kind of tutorial sessions in partnership with DEEL to support our principals.

So I want to make sure to give a call out to that work.

Thank you.

Great.

And we are really grateful for Chief DeBacker and James Bush.

Director Harris.

I echo the thank you and I'm beyond pleased that we were able to pass this levy and it makes being a.

sign depot and standing on street corners waving signs well worth our while and I was pleased to do it.

Two questions.

One we are going to be withholding 25 percent and acting as the city's banker until until audits are done and Thus far I don't believe we have failed any audits in previous distributions.

Is that correct.

I guess that would be for Mr. Chappelle.

So can you can you reiterate your question.

Is Joanne here.

OK.

Yes I'm here.

I was taking myself off of mute.

Hey Director Harris.

I believe that that is accurate what you're saying.

Can you introduce yourself Dwayne.

Oh yes.

Yes.

Thank you.

Yes.

Thank you President DeWolf.

This is Dwayne Chappelle.

I'm the director of education early learning for the city of Seattle.

And Director Harris to answer your question I believe you what you your statement is accurate.

I'm taking a few notes and what I'll do just to follow back up with you to make sure but I do believe that your statement is accurate but I will follow back up with you and CC all of those around this question.

Okay.

Thank you.

My next question is when we met with DEO staff and SPS staff and I believe Director Hersey was with me when we had our 2 by 2. We talked about having check-ins every two years, as opposed to letting this go for six years, given our oversight responsibilities.

Has this been amended since that date?

Go ahead, Sherry.

No, go ahead, Duane.

What I was going to say we we did take note of that and that is on our list to get this figured out what the timelines and everything what that would actually look like.

But I'll defer over to you Sherri to finish that.

Director Harris I just want to be sure that I understand your question.

So this BAR is for the full 6 years.

In the 2 by 2's you had requested it to be for 2 years instead.

Is that your question.

Know what to have specific check-ins and reports to the board every two years.

Director Harris can I can I repeat that you would like for us DEEL and SPS to come and check in with the board every two years to provide an update on where we are with our investments.

And that's what I was saying is that we have that penciled in for us DEEL and SPS.

But due to the COVID piece, we just haven't had a chance to follow back up with that.

So am I accurately repeating the requests?

Dwayne, I think I'm hearing that you have the request right.

Again, this is an introduction item.

So I'm hopeful that between these two weeks between introduction and action that there would be an ability to set something easily for us to just have a two year conversation or every two year conversation.

OK.

Confirmed I'll work with Dr. DeBacker's team and as well to coordinate with DEEL on what that might look like.

Thank you.

Thank you all.

Any other questions Director Harris.

I'm assuming mute.

Okay.

Hearing no additional questions from Director Harris let's go to Director Hersey.

Hi can y'all hear me.

Yes.

Fantastic.

Thanks for the work on this and investments that are coming to our schools.

My question was just similar to Director Harris's and I understand this is an introduction item.

I know that we had a brief conversation about what supports for our buildings would look like in terms of reaching some of these goals through their CSIP process.

And I guess my question there is at what intersection are we able to have the conversation that Director Harris was alluding to.

But then also during the meetings that we had during our 2 by 2 I asked very specifically around What are the supports in place to make sure that we're not ending up in a place to where we have all this money coming through but it's not necessarily being allocated or not necessarily allocated but used in the most effective way to where we have like underspend blah blah blah blah.

I'm just wondering what are the supports the direct supports from SPS's side that we're providing to principals to make sure that this work moves forward.

And that was the end of my question.

Thank you.

Director Hersey I captured your question and I don't have an answer to this right now but I will get it to you before or have it for sure by action.

Thank you so much.

Thank you Sherry.

So just to reiterate we'll hear we'll hear back back about that on April 7th at that board meeting.

Director Mack.

Sorry it took me a second to unmute.

Thank you very much.

I appreciate all of the thank you's that have gone out and underscore those as well as the Director Harris's question around specific two year check ins I think is an appropriate thing to include in this agreement.

And then however that.

plays out in the actual agreements however that gets kind of codified into this board action.

And as I was reviewing the documentation and noting that the next agenda item is for preschool which is only for one year not the full plan.

I'm wanting to get clarity around what we are actually doing with this board action and what we're not doing and whether or not the acceptance of the dollars will still be coming through us every year as it does reach well over the typical limit.

So this this board action lays out the six year plan but I'm curious to know about whether or not next year when the dollars are being provided if that's going to be coming back to the board for approval or if this is the one action that we are taking for this entire six year.

Thank you Director Mack.

The this is the one action that you will be taking for the six years on the K-12 investments.

And I can talk more either now or when we get to the preschool one next about why it's coming as a 1-year versus the 6-year.

And I would just say to keep on introduction item 1. Yeah.

Keep the.

Yeah and I I'm exactly I'm happy to talk about and talk about the preschool aspect when we get to that and keep it just focused here.

I this was not something that really flagged for me in the two by twos but I have a little bit of concern around not having this come to the board every year because while a plan for six years sounds great and these are the expected awards I would anticipate that there's some sort of there'll be adjustments made or need to be made.

I mean the populations of those schools are going to be changing the number of students.

There's just a lot of changes that happen over six years.

So I'm I guess I'm a little like happy to have approve a plan but not having that you know check in and approval on the actual dollars coming through in future years leaves me a little concerned.

Thanks Director Mack.

So there will be no changes in the awards as far as the schools go based on demographics changes.

And we do know that those will happen based on what happened with the FFEL levy.

And but we did not change the schools even though the demographics definitely shifted over the course of time and so we do not anticipate based on the working with DEEL that we would change the schools even if demographics changed.

And that's why we've put forward this as a 6-year protocol.

Does that answer your question Director Mack.

It does but I guess I don't I mean it answers part of the question what it doesn't answer is the I think maybe this is a JoLynn Berge question and our policy around approval of funds every year is tied to our annual budget not a six year plan.

So I guess I'm just I'm not quite understanding why this the actual approval of the funds wouldn't be coming each year in future years.

based on our current policies around approval of funds and approval of budgets.

I'm not sure I understand how this would supersede the need for that annual approval process in the future years from a financial perspective.

And additionally I think the question that Director Harris raised around having specific check-ins I mean if there is no mechanism There's no actual time when it comes back to the board then there's no function.

So I guess specifically my question is are we waiving the future board's annual approval of these dollars.

And secondly what is the check-in process that Director Harris was referencing be it every two years be it annually along with the acceptance of the dollars.

I think there needs to be something.

So.

I appreciate that Director Mack.

Just want to be thoughtful about time it is 130. I do think that given that this is intro and it sounds like there's some movement to bring forward some sort of a check in as part of this I think we'll be able to see something by April 7th.

And I just point out that we do have a spot on the oversight committee.

As a board.

Oh OK.

That's great.

OK.

Sherry do you have all the questions and things that if weren't answered we can make sure they're back by April 7th.

I have Director Mack's I haven't heard from the other two directors yet.

We're still going through I just want to make sure you got Director Mack.

Hi can you hear me.

Can you hear me.

Yes.

Okay.

I switched from my phone to my laptop so I have to make sure I had continuity.

I just echo what my colleagues have said already and to add on to what Director Mack was asking.

In the 2 by 2 that I was in we did discuss concerns about six years out and what happens if the needs of different communities change.

And and it was mentioned that there was a possibility that if if the need wasn't there anymore at one school based on whatever their priorities were what they were working on that there could be the possibility of shifting it.

So I would like more I guess concrete information or or confirmation around that.

And I would just also echo with what Director Hampson was saying about concerns that I have about the schools who have received this funding in the past and are not this year and how we can make sure that they still have what they need to serve their students.

I know In particular in my district John Rogers Elementary is losing their art teacher and some counseling and some other things that have been really critical to their community.

So that's another another piece that I have concerns around that I hope we can figure out how to how to address supporting those schools.

So but yeah.

Thank you.

I really appreciated the thoughtfulness that has been taken around this that we heard a lot about in 2 by 2's and you know looking forward to this continued partnership.

So thank you.

That's it for me.

President DeWolf.

Can I make a comment or would you like for me just to follow back up in the email because I want to follow protocol and make sure that you know I'm meeting the timeline.

You're here with us.

I mean if you have if you have a.

comment back for that I don't I mean the expectation again not only because these are introduction items but the expectation is that you don't have to necessarily have an answer right this moment because there could be things you need to find or in between the two weeks but if you have information you'd like to share now.

Okay.

Yep.

I'll just.

Yep.

What I'll what I'll do and just kind of put this out there what we shared with Director Rankin Wasn't that we if if needs change at a school that we would change levy investment mid mid levy terms.

What we said was that if they were if there were schools who weren't meeting their expected goals and priorities we would work with schools to to figure out ways to get them to be successful.

And then if there became a time where we thought it was best to.

to shift that investment and we would probably re you know redo like a little competitive process.

I just want to make sure that I'm that it's clear that we didn't say or even thinking about that if if the school's demographics change that we would shift schools mid-levee.

And I'm happy to talk about that more offline.

I just want to make make sure that that was out there.

No my my understanding from the 2 by 2 wasn't that you know demographic change would trigger an automatic shift in the funding.

But what I remember asking was you know what happens if a school decides that if the school determines that whatever supports they were using to pay for aren't needed anymore then would there be a possibility of other schools accessing that.

And I thought that the answer was was theoretically yes.

Not that not that a change in demographics would suddenly mean a school would have it pulled.

If that makes sense.

That was that was my understanding.

So having a firm clarification of that for action would be great.

Thank you Director Rankin.

Director Rivera-Smith.

Hi can you hear me.

We can hear you.

Awesome.

So thank you.

I thanks also for all the work that goes into this.

It's a big lift and I appreciate that we got it in before our COVID crisis.

So thank goodness for that.

And I echo the concerns with the support of schools to apply for these dollars.

I trust that that's going to be looked at going forward.

Regarding the check-in the check-ins that were a couple of directors mentioned you know I feel you know I do see that in the BAR there is a couple of work groups that are forming that will be they'll collaborate and support the development and implementation of the levy investments.

So that's great.

And we do say there is going to be a deal has committed to providing an annual investment report to the board.

I see that there is that report already coming so anything beyond that is appreciated but it's great to see that we do have that in place.

Here the only thing I'm looking for maybe some clarification on maybe I don't know just to know who these people are but I have in my notes that the the applications were reviewed by a 23 member community panel and I would be interested in seeing who those community participants are.

And that's the end of my comments.

Thank you Director Rivera-Smith.

Okay my only question is concerning the investments in our teachers particularly increasing teachers of color into our educator workforce.

About those investments I can't can't tell where they are in the document.

I can call out a little bit.

Oh sure sure.

Are you asking in particular the educator diversity dollars what exactly are those going to?

Yes and I and I say that because especially you know very live we're getting emails from students just to continue to advocate for more diverse and representative educator workforce so.

Yes so in particular or kind of more specifically those dollars go towards supporting our Academy of Rising Educators our Classified to CERT program our teacher our Seattle Teacher Residency Program and our My Brothers Teachers Program.

And those are spelled out specifically in the letter of intent.

That is around this particular five hundred and sixty three thousand dollar ask for the school year 2021. Does that answer your question.

Yes.

Thank you.

That was that was great.

And in each of those in each of Director DeWolf and other directors in each of those LOI's it's letter of intent.

It spells out more specifics about the investments for the upcoming school year.

Thank you.

And those are all part of a package of documents.

It is 137. We still have 10 items.

So I just want to encourage directors if if directors already made a point.

I know Sherri and our team are taking that down for the action.

So just to be mindful of our time because I want to make sure SPS-TV is back on at 3 o'clock for our family and our community.

So I'm going to move to introduction item number two which is approval of families education preschool and Promise F levy funding for preschool services for 2020-2021 school year.

Ms. Cox I believe you will also be presenting again here.

So I'll ask you to take it away.

Thank you Director DeWolf.

The same amount same round of thank you's go out regarding this award as well.

This is in particular the seven million three hundred three hundred thousand dollar award for preschool programming in Seattle Public Schools.

When the teams were working together to determine this award there was alignment in around our strategic plan.

In particular the superintendent goal around the P3 planning pathways as well as utilizing the data from our 13 priority schools.

So this continues the current programming with some additional classrooms as well as some conversions to better serve our students with special education needs.

So I'll just highlight that the the new or the changes are that at John Muir Elementary we're going to add a new full-day Head Start classroom.

And that is one of our 13 schools.

And then our part day to a full-day Head Start At West Seattle Elementary which is also one of our 13 schools we're going to.

SPP plus and we're going to convert a Head Start to a Head Start plus classroom.

And then at Olympic Hills Elementary we're going to convert an SPP to an SPP plus as well as convert a Head Start to a Head Start plus program.

And those schools are all.

in the 13 priority schools that we've listed due to the number of African-American boys in grades K-3 at those schools.

I will leave it at that and I'm ready to take questions on the preschool portion.

Thank you Sherri.

All right.

I'm going to start with Director Hampson.

We'll just go down the line again for questions comments and concerns from our directors.

Okay.

So Director Hampson.

My only question here is if there's an update on the the payment for special education students from our 2 by 2's.

There were still some details being figured out when we met.

My understanding Director Hampson is that we've reached full agreement to support the changes that I just laid out for you all.

So I think we've reached agreement on those services.

Okay.

Thank you.

Director Harris.

Huge thank you.

Huge thank you for increased focus on SPP plus and Head Start plus inclusion programs.

Bill would love to see a goal because I think with goals you have something to aim for.

Had this conversation a lot.

I do have a question though about Seattle preschool programs that are not an SPS facility.

Are are those.

manned or or staffed by folks under a collective bargaining agreement that came up recently in COVID-19.

Citing issues.

Director Harris my understanding is that the SPP classrooms that are operated by our CBR community based organizations are not part of a bargaining agreement.

Mr. Chappelle.

Yes Director Harris.

I feel so let me I'll follow back up with you on that because I want to just make sure that that is 100 percent accurate.

But I am leaning towards what Sherri in agreement with what Sherri said.

But let me just circle I'll circle back with you on that just to make sure I can be specific with you.

OK.

Could that be to the whole board not just myself please sir.

Absolutely.

This will be to the whole board.

Yes ma'am.

Thank you so much.

Thanks Director Harris.

Okay Director Hersey.

No questions for me at this time.

Thank you Director Hersey.

Director Mack.

Yes thank you.

Apologies for that delay and unmuting.

So this is just for the acceptance of the.

next year and I was reading through and see that it lays out what the dollars are actually being spent for but the the change and the expansion of the program leaves a couple questions for me from both the number of seats available as well as capacity management of our whole buildings.

So the first question that I have which may be a little technical but in hearing that we're converting a developmental preschool classroom to an SPP plus classroom my understanding is that SPP plus classrooms only provide what is it four slots for students with disabilities out of the number.

So I'm kind of curious to know what is there Is there going to be maintained in this transition from a developmental preschool to a SPP plus the number of spaces available for students that need it.

Are we reducing the number of developmental slash special education slots in preschool or are we expanding it.

I guess I'll pause there.

My other one is around the planning for physical capacity.

But Ms. Cox do you do you know or maybe Ms. Toner's on the line.

She might know.

I don't have the number off the top of my head Director Mack but I will get that number and provide the board with that information.

I believe your question is are we maintaining the same number of seats for students who have special education needs in this transition.

Yes I think that's probably a good way to boil it down.

Knowing that developmental preschool is a shorter day and specifically for students that are identified as needing developmental preschool as provides special education services for those students.

But my concern of the transition in this process is from.

If we're converting a developmental preschool are we ensuring that we are still going to be providing the same or more slots for special education services in our preschools that are needed for that to serve the students.

So yes I think your way of boiling it down is probably a little more simple than I'm explaining it.

So thank you for coming back to the full board with more detail on that.

We'll get you a chart of the numbers.

That sounds great.

And then my other question is about the capacity management of our buildings and the provision of preschool classrooms in our buildings which you know they require a they require a separate playground space and you know the codes have substantially different than our regular classrooms which is something we have to plan for.

And.

Also if we convert a K-5 classroom to a preschool classroom then it reduces the capacity of the building for K-5 classrooms.

So I do appreciate from a planning perspective that we're just looking at this one year out.

But I know that we're planning on expanding over time and I'm wondering what.

The current thinking is have we identified where those additional preschool classrooms might be over the course of the next six years and the implementation of the levy.

Do we have some tentative draft ideas at this point or is that all still TBD because we really need to filter that through our capacity management processes and including the new advisory committee that's spinning up.

My understanding is that the the team of Cashel's team in early learning with Heather Brown and Fred's team have been working together on some draft planning for the capacity management side but that there is nothing final at this time.

Great.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Director Rankin.

Yes hi sorry I was couldn't find the right window I was looking at the item.

I have well okay.

I would like for every SPP location to be accessible and available to any student with or without disabilities and for staffing to follow student need.

I would also like that to be the case in Seattle Public Schools.

So I'm just kind of throwing that out there because I you know when we when we have when we figure out how we're going to staff sites first it it de it de-centers the needs of the actual students that we're trying to serve and how we're trying to serve them.

I have wonderings about.

students with disabilities who decides or helps families determine if SPP plus is the best spot for their child with disabilities if developmental preschool is the best place.

And then what happens as was in the case of my own child in the in one of the pilot classrooms of SPP plus what happens if.

you discover that a child has a disability or that a disability emerges that needs to be addressed.

So I guess this isn't really a question right now because I don't know that there is an answer but I would just ask that we all think about going forward how we are determining how many that there are a number of slots and that we staff based on that number of slots instead of us assessing what the need is in our communities and for our families and then staff according to the reality in front of us.

I know that's more complicated because of the way that funding works and patching together different streams but that is honestly my that is something that I can't let myself not state.

So.

That's it for me for now.

Thank you Director Rankin.

I think the only thing I can I hear you and the other thing I guess I'd like to add is that when you ask the question about who helps families determine which programming is best that is part of the IEP team's decision making.

Now that would require a student to have an IEP team.

So as far as the emerging disabilities that's that's a different different question that I don't have an answer answer to at this time.

And our our goal is to continue to work with the city to get funds to move to more and more inclusion classrooms.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Director Rivera-Smith.

Hi.

I'll just like to echo off Sherri there yeah I know that our early early learning department did a have a goal of adding three to four classrooms a year.

So we appreciate the city working with us to strengthen that commitment to us help us plan for those full day inclusion preschool that we'd like to achieve.

Otherwise I have no other questions I haven't already been asked by other board members.

Thank you.

Thank you Director Rivera-Smith.

I don't have any questions at this time but just want to really reiterate our not only the gratitude to the voters for supporting the levy the FEPP levy but also gratitude to the city for being really great partners in this work and knowing that because of our great partnership over the last couple of years that certainly needing that strong relationship now as we go through the coronavirus as it's leaving our community so.

Super grateful to you for all the work you've done to put this together and to bring this before the board.

So.

I. We will now move to introduction item number 3.

We're at 152 we have 8 additional we have 8 items left.

So item number 3 is resolution 2019. slash 2 0 dash 2 8 affirming inclusion of our LGBTQIA student staff and community and want to just do a little bit of clarification here.

Some of the items that come before the board between now and the end of the closure of the governor's order.

Because of last night's order and work coming before the board needing to be necessary and routine.

Some of our items will still be coming before the full board.

We won't make a vote on them but they will be introduced in in the timeline that we've set on our on our committee work calendar.

So this item for example we'll introduce today and we may not vote on it until May 6th I think is the date of the first board meeting that would be outside of the current governor's closure directive.

So just want to set a little bit of expectation and context around this item.

You'll see it today but we may not see it again until after the closure just so that we're making sure to focus on necessary and routine work.

Or work that pertains to the response to the coronavirus.

So this is a resolution that I've developed over the last few months working with groups such as Inclusive Washington.

Again was really grateful to have met with the.

Meany Middle School ASB who when I spent the afternoon with them one of the first things I said is and it wasn't an LGBTQ class it was obviously an ASB class and so one of the very first thing that they said they want in their schools and their middle school is LGBTQ inclusive curriculum.

So much of the work of Inclusive Washington Meany Middle School ASB as well as groups and organizations and leaders across the city from.

Greater so just want to share my gratitude for not only Inclusive Washington and Meeting Middle School ASB but also Greater Seattle Business Association Somos Seattle Wysen Pride Foundation Equal Rights Washington NAACP LGBTQ Gender Justice League GLSEN Gender Diversity LGBTQ Allies Allyship Ingersoll Gender Center Gay City and Washington LGBTQ Commission as well as the NAACP Youth Council who are currently reviewing this as well.

So grateful to all the folks who have given feedback insights and put your time and energy into advocating for LGBTQ inclusion in our schools.

That was a process that I've been working to develop this resolution.

Imagine all of the things that have happened since November.

And obviously coronavirus being one of.

Like I said we've been working on this over and over again since November and this is the product we're sharing today.

I don't necessarily want to read through the whole resolution because it's 2 o'clock but if you notice in the resolution really trying to illustrate that we've done a ton of work at the district to support our LGBTQ students.

Tons of research that suggest inclusive schools increase academic performance as well as things of safety in our schools.

And then lays out some some therefore be resolved.

And I think the highlights from the resolution are the superintendent will direct the facility's assessment be completed and provide it to provide to the board which details which schools could be converted to either a single cell or multi-stall gender-neutral restroom.

So basically a feasibility assessment study as well as committing the district to making sure that we have at least one accessible multi-stall gender-neutral restroom in all new facilities construction taking place between when the vote happens and moving forward.

In addition it also requires that newly adopted United States history social studies English language arts instructional materials and reasonably include in all other instructional materials explicitly incorporate significant events societal contributions and or representations of LGBTQIA plus individuals.

So those those are some of the highlights.

As you can see in the documents I have the BAR and the resolution and the racial equity analysis so.

It is I'm going to go through the directors by athletic order and answer any questions.

So Director Hampson.

I don't believe I have any questions at this time.

I look forward to I appreciate the thoroughness of this and that it also ties directly to future changes in policy and thank you so much.

Thanks Director Hampson.

Director Harris.

Again many and profound thanks to you and to all of the groups that you've been working with.

From a policy standpoint I think you need an additional director on the resolution and I think most of your colleagues would be more than honored to sign on.

Oh okay.

That's great feedback.

Thank you.

Director Hersey.

Excited for this.

Don't have any questions at this time.

Great work.

Thank you Director Hersey.

Director Mack.

No thank you.

No question or comments at this time.

Thank you.

Thanks Director Mack.

Director Rankin.

Hi I do not have questions or comments.

I appreciate the thoughtfulness and through-thread of this kind of weaving it into our values as a as a district and ensuring that these stories are told and have representation through our curriculum is awesome and I'm just appreciative of the of President DeWolf's work and the folks who supported it.

So thank you.

Thank you Director Rankin and to clarify there are three policies that this is so far tied to but there might be more.

There's 3211 which is coming before C&I.

2015 is coming back in June to C&I as well as 6900 and that is coming through Ops in April.

So those will those are on their own tracks but those are the ones to look to look forward to that correspond to this.

or have a connection to this resolution.

Okay.

Director Rivera-Smith.

Thanks to Director Rivera-Smith and obviously I don't have any questions or comments for myself so I'm going to keep us moving right along.

Thank you everybody for your gratitude.

But again I want to make sure that if anybody is taking some gratitude it's Inclusive Washington Meany Middle School ASB and all the countless organizations that helped me as well as Ronald Boy at SPS Lisa Love at SPS and Chief DeBacker and Chief Podesta as well as Director Smith and Rankin.

So thank you everybody.

So I'm going to move us to item number I felt like somebody might be vacuuming potentially.

So we will now move to introduction item number four.

Memorandum of understanding with Seattle Education Association regarding teacher principal evaluation program otherwise known as TPEP.

So Chief Human Resources Officer Dr. Clover Codd I believe you will be briefing us.

That is correct.

Can you all hear me.

Yes.

Thank you.

Great.

Okay.

All right.

So just for way of background in the spring of 2019 the legislature did make changes to OCW 28A 405.100 which is the law that governs the teacher and principal evaluation process known as TPEP.

Those changes are outlined in a memo that was attached to this board action report.

Specifically with respect to this board action we are asking to enter into a memorandum of understanding with the Seattle Education Association to take to change one provision of our collective bargaining agreement that will now align with the RCW.

That change last spring made it so that comprehensive mandated every six years for teachers on continuing contracts in proficient status or above as opposed to every four years.

Now this law does not preclude or change any provision in the collective bargaining agreement that allows a principal from moving any teacher at any time during a school year up through December to a comprehensive cycle from a focus cycle.

So just in case you don't know a comprehensive cycle means that a teacher is being evaluated on all eight evaluative criteria in a given year whereas a focused evaluation cycle allows for the evaluator and the teacher to mutually agree upon one criteria to be evaluated on.

So in any given year all teachers still receive a summative evaluation.

This MOU would change the provision in the CBA requiring when the comprehensive cycle is mandated.

I'll open it up with questions.

Thank you.

I'm going to run through our list alphabetically so Director Hampson I'll let you take away first with any comments questions or concerns.

None at this time.

Thank you.

Thank you Director Hampson.

Director Harris.

Question for Dr. Codd if I could.

What would all 8 criteria if a principal wanted to evaluate would that be someone that is not what's the word I want to say Shining for lack of a better word.

So thanks for that question Director Harris.

So a principal or a teacher could a teacher could always ask to be on a comprehensive evaluation cycle.

So it's not necessarily only because they're not fully proficient.

Now a principal can always move a teacher who they have concerns about from a focus cycle to a comprehensive cycle.

Sometimes that will also happen if a teacher train changes So it's not necessarily tied to performance.

And do teachers actually ask for this comprehensive evaluation as opposed to principal.

You know I don't know that would be anecdotal information.

I don't have that information readily available.

Thank you.

Thank you Director Harris.

Director Hersey.

No questions for me at this time.

Just a quick comment.

As a teacher who is proudly now unfocused as opposed to comprehensive I have never heard of somebody asking to go back to comprehensive.

If that gives you any clarity Director Harris.

Director Mack.

Yeah so appreciate this coming before us and I understand that it's an MOU that adjusts the collective bargaining agreements and that it requires board approval.

I'm curious to know what the threshold of that is for MOUs.

So coming before the board and why perhaps there might be other MOUs that would be agreed upon without coming before the board.

So, in general, if an MOU is changing a provision that is outlined in the collective bargaining.

Come forward to the board for approval or.

If the the MOU would have a financial impact of anything above the two hundred and fifty thousand dollar threshold it would also come to the board for board approval.

If it's an MOU that is essentially clarifying expectations or clarifying clarifying something that's already outlined in the collective bargaining agreement it would not come to the board for approval because no changes to the CBA would be would be made.

Thank you.

Any other questions or comments.

Zach if you're talking you're on mute.

Oh I was.

That was me.

Director Rankin.

No I do not have further questions.

I appreciate hearing from.

the union educator on our board about the preference that teachers have.

So thank you Director Hersey.

I know it.

Thank you Director Rankin Director Director Rivera-Smith Director Rivera-Smith.

Did you I said no sorry no questions right now.

Thank you.

Thanks Director Rivera-Smith and I have no questions at this time but thank you Dr. Codd for all of your work on this.

And just to echo Director Rankin and to really elevate Director Hersey I am grateful to have that voice and that perspective here today in this conversation.

Thanks Dr. Codd.

Okay so now we'll move to Introduction Item Number 5. This is BTA IV replacement of non-functional audio visual equipment in schools in addition of AV equipment in new schools and capacity classrooms.

Chief Financial Officer JoLynn Berge I believe you will be briefing us.

Hello.

Good afternoon.

This BAR is to approve the purchase order for AV equipment for our new classrooms that open in school year 2021. along with any break-fix that's an IT term for broken equipment that would be needed to be replaced through the 21-22 school year.

On page 19 of the technology plan which can be found on the Department of Technology Services external website on the left-hand side that plan outlines the budget for technology for years 18-23.

So on page 19 of that plan this is included in the planned expenditure under the Student Learning and Support Systems section under the row title class budget from GTA $4 $2,934,000.

This BAR is for $1.1 million of that.

Additionally plan on pages 38 and 39 there's a section titled classroom audio-visual which outlines which what each new classroom receives as well as providing a diagram of the configuration and it provides additional details as well.

That would conclude my remarks and I'm happy to answer any questions.

Thank you.

Director Hampson.

Any comments questions or concerns.

No just a comment.

This is one that we would have looked at in audit and finance but didn't but went ahead and pushed up for intro because of the coronavirus and cancellation of that meeting.

So that said I know that this is a tremendous need in our buildings.

Anyone that's.

that spent any time in our classrooms knows how dependent our teachers are on this technology every day and I know it's it's greatly needed.

So.

Thank you Director Hampson.

Director Harris.

I am in favor of this expenditure and I am also in favor of us figuring out a way to take the technology plan which has not been embedded in policy and figure out a way that we take a look at it have a work session and put it into policy since we're using it as a basis for some pretty impressive numbers and very needed expenditures.

Thank you.

Thank you Director Harris.

Director Hersey.

No questions for me at this time.

Thank you Director Hersey.

Director Mack.

I'll just underscore and agree with Director Harris's statement around the planning aspect and we need we need to continue to move forward.

We definitely need to continue to make strides especially now to provide technology to students and to be able to learn more effectively remotely.

And so definitely support this action as well as additional actions that may be taken to support students around technology.

Thank you Director Mack.

Director Rankin.

Hi.

I don't have specific questions I wanted to tag on to what directors Mack and Harris brought up about the need for planning technology and just add that it is my desire that with that planning that teaching and learning is driving that that we are planning for and engaging with technology in a way that is being driven by what we want in terms of teaching and learning for our educators and for our students and that it's not the other way around that we're not planning technology spending and implementation and then figuring out how to teach with it later.

I think you know it'd be really.

Easy to order up a thousands of whatever kind of equipment there might be but if we are not thinking about it and having it being driven by what we want education to be and making sure that our educators are supported in using it effectively the technology by itself is is not super useful.

So I'm seeing this as a crossover kind of between curriculum instruction and operations in terms of what it a plan could look like.

I just want to make sure that we're not losing sight of the fact that it should be tied to teaching and learning.

So thanks.

Sounds like we have room for a very meaningful and robust discussion.

Thank you Director Rankin.

Director Rivera-Smith.

Hi thanks.

I was looking so I see in the BAR that The district will stock these parts so that when schools create a work order for repair or replacements that can happen.

So therefore the onus is on the schools to access this to make those work orders.

I want to make sure that we have a plan to communicate we have this available now because we want to make sure the schools know that this is this will be available to them so that they can put those work orders in.

I think a lot of teachers get used to working with the dysfunctioning things they have and they don't think to come back and ask for good pieces good good equipment.

So I want to make sure that they know to do that now.

And I am also thinking about something no one else probably cares about but what do we what happens to the parts we're getting rid of.

Is the contractor going to recycle them or do they go from there.

Just want to always be thinking about you know we're throwing something out where it's going what we're doing with that.

That's all.

Chief Chief Berge do you know if there's a plan for that or if at least by the 7th we could have an answer.

About the recycling of parts.

Yeah it's just just their what's their process.

Yeah.

Yeah that's fine.

And the TSS's so the technology support specialist in each building the teacher communicates with that staff person in each building.

That's how the work orders get done.

No one it's a very familiar process so if they have a laptop issue or technology issue in the classroom the TSS enters the work order and gets that taken care of.

Thank you Chief Berge.

And I have no questions at this time.

Thank you.

Next.

Thank you.

Okay so next item is item number 6. This is checks.

We'll now move to introduction item number six which is BEX IV final acceptance of contract P5124 with EM Tech LLC for the View Ridge Seismic Improvement Project.

This came through the Ops Committee on March 2nd for approval.

Chief Operations Officer Fred Podesta.

I believe he'll be briefing us.

Yes good afternoon.

Thank you President DeWolf and I as you noted with this item and the remaining items on the agenda unlike some of the previous ones all these actions were heard by the operations committee because the scheduling permitted that.

Agenda item six is a final acceptance of a construction contract that provided seismic improvements to View Ridge Elementary School.

This work was completed in the summer of 2019. The contracts were awarded in the spring and structural improvements were made to the school and the work was accepted by both district staff and our consultant at completion in August of 2019. And this allows the.

Contract accepts the contract and allows the contractor to release their performance bond.

And that's includes my introduction concludes my introduction and I'll take any questions at this time.

Okay.

Thanks Chief Podesta.

All right.

I'm going to start again down the line.

So Director Hampson do you have any items or any comments questions or concerns for Chief Podesta on item number 6.

None for me.

Thank you.

Thank you Director Hampson.

Director Harris.

None for me but congratulations.

These are always times to celebrate.

Thank you.

Thank you Director Harris.

They definitely are.

Director Hersey.

None for me at this time.

Thank you.

Thank you Director Hersey.

Director Mack.

No questions just a comment and I think on all of the rest of these two.

Massive thank you for everyone coming together for Ops and having these discussions.

These were.

I'll review discuss and move forward as they're stated.

So thank you very much for the work and cheers.

Thank you Director Mack.

And just for the just for the public Director Mack is the chair of the operations committee and so thank you for all of your work.

I know that y'all have been working a little bit double time.

You've been adding more meetings than normal so really grateful for your work and thank you obviously to Chief Podesta for your work.

Director Rankin.

I'll just echo what's been said.

This is exciting and I really appreciate the thoughtfulness and thoroughness of circling back to you know make sure that we've done the things we committed to voters with in these levies and that you know student safety and making sure things are all you know buttoned up and done is is awesome.

So thanks.

Okay.

Thank you Director Rankin.

Director Rivera-Smith.

No questions at this time.

Thank you.

Thanks Director Rivera-Smith.

Chief Podesta I only have one question.

Again just for the public.

Is there a place where folks can go to see progress and or what projects we're working on are doing or how the levy kind of the progress on the levy I think to some of the comments from directors in this item.

Certainly people I think are interested or want to celebrate the great work we've done.

or see if their school maybe has recently had work done or if there's something coming down the line.

Is there a place on our website where people can that you would maybe direct people to where they can get a snapshot or.

There there is.

I believe it's fairly easy to navigate.

I don't have the link in in mind but we have project specific websites that for major projects that describe the body of work associated with our levies and.

Folks can look at photos and progress reports as projects progress.

And I think if people look in the capital projects and planning part of the district's website they can find those project updates.

I actually just sent that to a.

If people Google BEX or BTA.

SPS it should come up with a whole page on our website where you can click on the individual levies and what projects are still in process.

And it's a lot of information actually.

That's great.

Thank you so much Director Rankin.

Okay.

We will now move to Introduction Item Number 7. This is the Elevator Maintenance and Repair Master State Contract.

This came through Ops on March 12th for consideration.

So Mr. Podesta I believe you'll be presenting again.

Yes.

Elevators being much-used and complex and specialized mechanical devices.

The district always maintains a maintenance contract.

with specialized service providers that can provide planned and unplanned maintenance and repairs on elevators which are also subject to state regulation and inspected annually.

The district has a practice of using state contracts which are awarded across the state state and rosters developed for each county in the state.

And staff reviewed the roster for King County and selected LTCH which had the most favorable pricing and also had experience with our specific buildings and equipment.

That concludes my remarks and I'll take any questions directors have.

Thanks Chief Podesta.

All right starting with Director Hampson.

Hearing none let's move to Director Harris.

No questions at this time.

Thanks Director Harris.

Director Hersey.

Second verse same as the first.

Thank you.

Thank you Director Hersey.

Director Mack.

Just a thank you.

No questions.

Thanks Director Mack.

Director Rankin.

No questions.

Thank you.

Thanks Director Rankin.

Director Rivera-Smith.

Hi thanks.

So I'm looking back from the Ops meeting.

You talked about the roster on Chief Podesta that's used for these contractors.

And you said that because we were inquiring about the equity considerations and who those contractors were and you said you would check to see if equity was considered in the building.

Were you able to do that.

Yes we we actually revised the board action report to look into the state process to see what kind of outreach and consideration were made mostly for small business and you know added that information to the board action report.

Thanks a lot.

Thank you very much.

Thank you.

I have no further.

questions oh and actually Director Hampson do you have a question.

I know that you might have.

No sorry about that.

No questions for me.

Thank you.

OK.

Thank you.

And I have none at this time as well Chief Podesta.

So thank you.

We'll now move to item introduction item number 8 which is BTA V building condition assessment award contract number K1379 to perform building condition assessment services.

This came through Ops on March the operations committee on March 12th for approval.

Mr. Podesta I know you'll be presenting again.

Yes as as part of planning our capital program and for levy planning we typically contract with consultants to review all our review facilities that are in scope which are usually older buildings buildings not just recently reconstructed and to check the condition of the structure and also building systems to help us prioritize which facilities need the most attention in our future capital work.

There's also a requirement to get funding from the state with the school assistance school school construction assistance program to have a certified condition assessment done every six years.

We have one due in 2020. This contract would allow us to begin that condition assessment.

And that concludes my introduction and I'd be happy to take questions.

Thank you.

Okay.

So for introduction item number eight we'll start with questions comments or concerns from Director Hampson.

Director Hampson take it away.

None.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Director Harris.

Question for Chief Operations.

Is this the Meng folks or is this another one of those evaluations because I don't recognize the name of the proposed contractor.

This is a different firm.

The staff that worked for Meng at the time that we did the last previous assessment that you may be familiar with Director Harris have actually joined this firm.

Meng did bid.

We this was awarded in a competitive process.

There were multiple bidders including Meng and others.

But this was deemed the most favorable bid and the key personnel working on the assessment have worked on Seattle Public Schools assessments in the past.

So.

So here's my question then.

Do they have any kind of a non-compete or can they.

build upon the foundation of what Meng has done in the past.

They're welcome to use the deliverables that are the property of the district in the past.

And then of course the staff are not constrained with whatever personal experience they have.

Outstanding.

Thank you.

Thank you Director Harris Director Mack excuse me Director Hersey.

None for me.

Thank you.

Thanks Director Hersey.

Director Mack.

Yeah this was discussed in Ops and I also wanted to help make the point that this contract starts one of the very key components to our facilities master planning that's required for the next levy and just a really really important part of that process and I'm grateful that we are continuing to move forward on these planning pieces that need to need to keep going even in light of the emergency that we're in.

Thank you.

Thanks Director Mack.

Director Rankin.

I'm good.

Thanks Director Rankin.

Director Rivera-Smith.

Yeah just want to echo off of Director Mack and how it's great to see these go forward.

I do remember that it was also noted that potentially some of this work could start while schools are empty because of you know the kids all being out of them right now.

So it'd be pretty awesome to have that one tiny benefit to being in full schools right now.

But Chief Podesta is that something that we that is still a possibility.

It is.

We're discussing with our with our staff and consultants given the governor's order about essential functions to make sure we're in compliance with that and and making sure that we're maintaining safe workplaces for everyone.

Some of this work does entail people getting into crawl spaces and getting into tight areas.

So but we are trying to look for ways to keep this work going.

Wonderful.

Thank you.

Thank you Director Rivera-Smith.

And Chief Podesta I don't have any questions for you at this time for item number 8. Okay.

So we'll go to we'll now move to introduction item number 9. contract P5128 bid number B11923 to Olympic Peninsula Instruction excuse me Construction Inc. for the relocation and set up portable to relocate and set up portable classrooms at multiple school sites project.

This came to the operations committee on March 12th for consideration.

So Mr. Podesta take it away.

We are getting contracts signed up for whatever capacity work we need This coming summer this work is aligned with our capacity management plan that the board approved in January of this year and this will be contractors that can move multiple portables.

The actual location and setup will be finalized you know closer to the start of school in terms of enrollment and capacity trends are in place.

But we award the contracts now to get Get contractors on board and start doing the planning work.

And I'd be happy to entertain any questions directors have.

So not necessarily directly related so don't feel the need to spend too much time in response.

One of the things that this contract brings to mind for me is the since we're talking about moving and.

you know relocating setting up one big things like relocation for example.

What would a company like this provide in terms of environmental assurances that would that something that might have any kind of toxic.

I know most of it is probably off gas by the time something gets moved but I think that is one of the bigger concerns our communities have around.

When we're doing something like moving it it could be disturbing things.

Do companies like this provide you with environmental assurances.

They do at some with regard to some site specific work.

I think the condition of the businesses the condition of the structures ourselves in some cases.

are the district's responsibility and we may work with other consultants I think that would not necessarily be completely in scope of this within inside the actual structure as much of whatever facility or site prep needs to be done.

at a place where these things are moved.

And I will make a note of this question and see if we have any more information to add when the when action is taken on this item.

But it's certainly part of a it's it certainly is part of the project consideration.

I'm not sure it's fully in the scope of this contract.

Thank you for that.

Director Harris.

Only that I want to be part of the crew at some point to see how it all works in the middle of the night.

We'll we'll set a date.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Director Hersey.

None from me.

Thank you.

Thanks Director Hersey.

Director Mack.

Yes thank you.

I was when we push something forward for consideration instead of approval there's always a reason for doing so and I just was looking at my notes as to what that reason was and what I wrote down was that there's to be a reference to the capacity and I don't know whether or not that's included.

I don't see this as a red line so I can't tell whether or not.

more daylight into the capacity implications.

I think the attachment of the capacity management board action that was approved provides a fair amount of that information to complete the question.

But I think one of my questions is how aligned is the estimation to what was estimated back in December meaning do we have the same number of portables and the same locations that are expected to be moved or this is this plan and this dollar amount potentially changing between now and fall.

My understanding is the pricing was a bit more favorable.

Then the well I'll take your first question first.

There was language added to the BAR that directly references the capacity management plan.

I think the pricing we got was a bit more favorable than the estimates that were provided in that project and would allow for the amount of moving the number of structures that were anticipated in that project.

We've seen in past history is the number of portables does not affect the cost nearly as much as site-specific conditions at a building site.

So if there were changes it's exactly where you're going to put them and do you have to do more site work than you expect expected.

So there is a possibility for changes.

The capacity management report left plan left some was kind of open-ended and made an estimate of how many portables we might have to move but it's not specific on where.

So that that's probably the biggest variable but came in well in terms of what from the contractor the final pricing we'll know when we know what the exact specific sites and the circumstances at the buildings.

Thank you Mr. Podesta.

I also want to just point out for the record that I believe the number was across the district.

We have something and correct me if this is wrong but I believe 289 289 portables across the district which you know if a typical class at school building is maybe 30 classrooms.

We have five six buildings full in portables currently.

Just wanted to make that point.

Thank you very much.

Director Rankin.

No questions.

Thank you Director Rankin.

Director Rivera-Smith.

No questions at this time.

Thank you.

Thank you.

And I don't have any questions as well.

Thank you Chief Podesta.

We'll move on to item introduction item number 10 which is the BEX V award contract P1710 for construction project management services to parametrics for the Rainier Beach High School replacement project.

This came through the operations committee on March 12th for approval.

Mr. Podesta this is yours again.

Yes.

For large complex construction projects the district has a practice of hiring construction management firms to help us with the size and scope and the number of subcontractors and others that will be involved in a project.

This work was competitively bid and is particularly since everyone is interested in a accelerated schedule and managing The sites at Rainier Beach since we're going to perform construction and keep the school in place there's a lot of complexity and so we're hoping to get the construction management firm on board as quickly as possible and really dive into the details of the construction and demolition and construction schedules for Rainier Beach High School.

And happy to answer any questions you have.

Thank you Chief Podesta.

All right we'll start with Director Hampson's.

Any comments questions or concerns.

Let's do this.

Thank you very much.

None further.

Thank you.

Director Harris.

I hope that we can move forward on this with all due speed.

Thank you.

Thanks Director Harris.

Director Hersey.

Retweet.

Thank you.

Thanks Director Hersey.

Director Mack.

Yes thank you.

I just want to actually acknowledge the public comments that we've been getting in e-mails regarding the need for continuing to do the planning work and move forward on projects like this.

So grateful that we are doing so.

Thank you.

Thanks Director Mack.

Director Rankin.

I'm excited.

That's it.

Director Rivera-Smith.

Ditto.

Can't wait to see this get done.

Thank you.

Thank you.

And Chief Podesta I do have a couple questions.

My main question is about how does the impact of COVID-19 how is that impacting projects summer planning projects.

Is this project going to be impacted changed altered is the timeline going to be revised because of the school closures and coronavirus.

You know we've been advised by OSPI that you know none of the legal orders work should affect our the the timelines for our construction projects.

We're working with all our vendors and contractors you know to assess their impacts.

Sometimes people are flying in from other parts of the country.

People build teams so it's.

likely that there will be some effect there.

Some of those things are largely manageable but we're kind of still assessing.

There is still a lot of uncertainty you know about how construction will be affected and you know our summer timeline but we are looking for ways to continue work as best as possible while keeping Our staff and others safe and particularly at job sites where social distancing is. may be a little bit more difficult.

Other types of work design and consulting might be easier for people to work remotely.

And so there there will be some impact.

It's hard to know what it is but we are trying to keep our schedules are so so driven around being able to accomplish things in the summer.

We are looking for ways to continue as best we can.

And do you have a good spot for people to go to if they'd like to keep checked in checked in or kind of up to date on Rainier Beach High School replacement project updates.

I believe we have created a project website I I shouldn't swear to that.

And we'll I will double check make sure by the time this comes for action to see what we can advise people.

I don't think we have updates.

to the minute if we're having to revise schedules.

People are working because of our current public health situation.

But I think we have kind of general lay of the land on these projects and people can see our baseline schedules.

Thank you.

All right.

Moving on to item number 11. This is a distress school grant.

BEX IV program contingency approval of construction contract P5134 for bid number B11925 to CVX-DBK Construction Services Inc. and the use of BEX IV program contingency funds for the Magnolia Elementary School addition project.

This came through Operations Committee on March 12th for approval.

Mr. Podesta.

You can go ahead.

This is a construction contract for our prime contractor with regard to a school addition at Magnolia Elementary School.

These this work is a 6th classroom expansion and the We're using some transfer funds of two million as the BAR says from BEX IV from contingency there.

The project was competitively bid and this is something we're hoping to get started.

I'll take any questions.

Yeah.

Director Hampson.

No questions for me.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Director Harris.

None for me.

Thank you.

Thanks Director Harris.

Director Hersey.

None for me.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Director Mack.

I just think I want to make the additional point that this this second part of this project was was master planned into it even though the opening of Magnolia happened last year the second phase was expected to be done now and grateful that it's continuing forward.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Director Rankin.

No.

Thank you.

Director Rivera-Smith.

None for me.

Thank you.

Thank you.

And Chief Podesta I also do not have any additional questions at this time.

So thank you for joining us.

We do have a couple more minutes before we adjourn and I just wanted to spend a couple of seconds to just say a really big thank you and express supreme gratitude to SPS leadership and staff I know that in the span of a week you know obviously when the coronavirus became too big to ignore and we felt a moral imperative to close our schools SPS got rigged to work and I know that I particularly at the vantage point to have the board I've been really just honored and grateful for the work that the district has put in in the last week over the last week.

We've opened 26 breakfast and lunch meal sites where we're also distributing educational packets for students across the city.

We've launched a school bus food and educational materials delivery.

We've served more than 50 so information on our website about mental health providers who are working in partnership with the district to provide mental health supports crisis care and telehealth counseling.

Today we opened three child care centers.

Tomorrow we're going to open six and by the end of the week there will be an additional one and we're hoping to continue to open up more child care sites based on public health guidance and working with OSPI.

In addition we've also created pre-K-5 educational excuse me K-5 educational programming for SPS-TV YouTube and also our partnership at Como TV who are doing rebroadcast.

And mostly to say that all these are huge undertakings to do in a week creating a whole new system.

So I'm really really grateful the work that's been put in.

I know we're going to have some news soon about negotiations from our for Teachers Union but but really really grateful for all the work that you've done.

I know that it's it's definitely interesting time and it's so hard to parse through all the information that's coming at families.

But if you visit SeattleSchools.org scroll down to the page that says coronavirus update.

Click on that link.

Once you're there there are tons of pieces of information under the box that says resources and you'll find everything there from.

meal sites child care mental health services learning resources SPS-TV even ways that potentially people that need some internet access have some options there.

So just really grateful for the amount of information that's coming out of the district.

And also want to make one last bit of gratitude to my fellow board directors.

Over the last week and a half we've been in an experience we never thought we would be in.

But I'm really grateful for all of you for stepping up Continuing to listen to community bring those voices and perspectives to the district and work together to make sure that we are supporting our families and supporting our students at home during this unprecedented time.

I thank you all for your work all for your flexibility even making sure we can get on a call at 1 o'clock on a Wednesday all by telephone.

I know that you're advocating your personal efforts and even those from our community members for pitching in.

It's so humbling.

And so I believe we're all.

Thank you all for all of your work.

I am going to stand at 2 46 p.m.

being there being no further business to come before this board.

This regular board meeting is now adjourned at 2 46 p.m.

And thank you directors for being flexible and thank you to the staff for also being flexible.

And we will we'll see you on the next call.

Thanks everybody.

Good night everybody.

Good night or good afternoon.