School Board Meeting June 6, 2018 P1

2018. This is your Seattle Public Schools Board's legislative meeting.

Roll call please.

Ms. Ramirez.

Director Burke.

Here.

Director DeWolf.

Present.

Director Mack.

Here.

Director Patu.

Director Pinkham.

Present.

Director Harris.

Present and Director Geary is home ill and hello to Director Geary I know you're watching us.

She will not be on the phone that I'm aware of if she sees something she certainly knows how to call in.

If everyone would please stand for the Pledge of Allegiance or continue to sit if you like because we are not in the NFL.

So I'm going to take advantage of being the president and all the extra work that that entails and take personal privilege.

Mr. Van Duzer front and center please sir.

Our board manager Nate Van Duzer who has served with extreme distinction for a year and a half plus who came to us from the Seattle City Council staff who has accepted a free ride to Notre Dame for his master's degree in international peace studies.

This is your last board meeting and for anyone who has served in an executive staff capacity that has seven different constituents meaning your board members that has to deal with goodness knows how many constituents in terms of staff in the schools and the families.

and the executive staff here in this building.

You have done it with extraordinary grace ethics and a smile on your face and we have worked you way too hard.

And for that you have our thanks.

Thank you.

Thank you Nate.

Thanks.

I'm not done yet.

We're going to sing happy birthday to Director Pinkham.

Happy birthday to you.

Happy birthday to you.

Happy birthday Director Pinkham.

Happy birthday to you.

If we can't celebrate the good people then what the heck are we doing here.

And on that note Superintendent Nyland the floor is yours for celebrating other good people.

Thank you.

We have a lot to celebrate tonight.

We have a huge variety of students along with their proud parents and families along with coaches and others.

We're going to be recognizing athletic champions seal of bioliteracy students Garfield chess and our national board certified teachers.

I'd like to invite Dr. Flip Herndon to the podium to help us recognize our athletic champions.

Good evening Flip Herndon associate superintendent of operations and facilities and one of the departments I have the pleasure of overseeing is also athletics.

So a quick word about athletics our vision in Seattle Public Schools athletics is excellence in academics and athletics.

By connecting students to academics through an exceptional athletic program and to meet this vision our mission and goals we try to transform by providing an exemplary athletic program with maximum student participation.

Enable by utilizing the individual and group skills and knowledge of our athletic coaches teaching staff and community to encourage excellence both in the classroom and on the playing field.

to operate by coordinating or the coordination of operating an all encompassing athletic program in both the middle and high school levels and through productivity by encouraging academic and athletic excellence for all participating students.

We want to make sure that tonight we recognize a few of the accomplishments of our state championships and of course the staff that support them and the families that support our students and show up and encourage them through their athletic endeavors.

So with that I'm going to announce some of the state team and individual champions and if they're here if you hear your name please feel free to stand up until we're done at the end and then I'll ask everybody for a round of applause.

And if I may I neglected something so during the presentation we're going to ask participants to stand and then please don't leave because after we've completed all of the recognitions we want to invite the board down and then we want to bring our teams and our champions up group by group to do a group photo but we don't want to go up down up down up down up down.

So we're going to recognize our athletes now and we'll ask you to stand and then please remain seated and remain in the room so we can get a picture in a few minutes.

So tonight we have three four state championships that we're going to recognize three athletic and one academic state championship.

The first recognition is the Garfield boys basketball team head coach Brandon Roy.

Second is the Garfield boys soccer team head coach Carlos Enriquez.

The Nathan Hale ultimate team head coach Mike Heffron.

and academic state champions Nathan Hale girls volleyball head coach Jean Burt.

For individual state champions.

For boys, these are all in track and field.

For boys from Chief Sealth, Elijah Jackson in the long jump and in the triple jump.

Head coach Lorna Considine.

From Ballard in the pole vault, Chad Cohen.

Head coach Bob Morenzi.

And from West Seattle 300 meter hurdles Cass Elliott head coach Will Harrison.

Those are the boys.

On the girls side we have four or sorry three individual state champions also in track and field.

From West Seattle in the pole vault Chloe Cunliffe head coach Will Harrison.

She also set a new state record in the pole vault.

From Garfield Lyric Harris in the triple jump.

head coach Kwajalein Griffin and from Ingram in the 100 meter high hurdles Phoebe Soloway, head coaches Kurt Spann and Bob Swift.

And those are our athletic champions for this year.

All right.

Thank you.

And athletic champions don't go away just yet.

Second up is the seal of bioliteracy and I'd like to introduce Dr. Michelle Aoki to tell us a little bit about the bioliteracy diploma and how many students have done that incredible work.

Here she comes.

Good evening everybody.

I'm Michelle Ancy-Aoki, International Education Administrator.

We just had some late arrivals from Chief South Ingram.

It takes longer to get to school board meetings now with the later start times you know.

So tonight we are honoring once again students who have qualified for the seal of biliteracy.

It's the seniors now because they will earn the seal by graduating and meeting all of our high school graduation requirements.

and also demonstrating a high level of proficiency in a language besides English.

So we have a number of students who were able to come out and join us tonight representing Chief Sealth, Cleveland, Franklin, Garfield, Nathan Hale, Roosevelt, and Southlake and we have almost every high school represented but not everyone made it this far.

We also have 20 languages represented at this time.

Amharic, Chinese, Mandarin, French, Japanese, Spanish, Tagalog, Tigrinya, Vietnamese, as well as Arabic, Cambodian, Cantonese, Fuhrer, Japanese, Lao, Oromo, Russian, Somali, Thai, Tigrinya, Ukrainian.

So we're at about 387 students so far, but there'll be a lot more adding when we get the AP and IB test results in the summer.

And there's a lot more 11th graders and 10th and we're now testing a lot of 8th and 9th graders so they'll be showing up here in just a few years.

So I just like the students who are in the audience to stand up when I call your school just so we can acknowledge them and then students after at the end of the program you'll be invited to come up to the side and we'll come forward for a picture.

OK.

So if you're students from Chief Sealth please stand up.

They may not.

Oh there they are way in the back.

Crowded night.

How about Cleveland and Franklin.

We'll do a couple at a time.

Cleveland and Franklin.

Back there also.

Garfield.

And Nathan Hale.

OK.

Thank you.

Roosevelt and Southlake High School.

Thank you everyone for coming.

Thank you to the district for your support and for allowing us to recognize our students tonight and we'll be back for pictures in a few minutes.

All right.

Thank you.

I'd like to now introduce executive director Dr. Sarah Pritchett to tell us about Garfield chess.

Thank you.

Sarah Pritchett executive director of schools.

I'd like to bring up Ted Howard who has been the principal of Garfield High School for over 14 years to speak about our chess team this year and their great accomplishments.

Again.

Principal Howard.

Thank you Dr. Pritchett and I say congratulations to Dr. Pritchett new doctor this year.

Give a round of applause.

I'd like to bring up Mr. Nomura and Garfield chess team.

Come on Garfield Chess Team.

OK.

All right.

Good afternoon everybody.

My name is Jeff Nomura.

I'm the coach of the Garfield chess team and the Garfield chess team enjoyed a highly successful season this year.

In February we defeated our rival and perennial powerhouse Lakeside school 4 to 1 to win the Seattle Metro League title.

Lakeside has been one of the top teams in the country for many years and was ranked number two nationally the past two years.

In March we finished at the top in the Washington State team chess championship defeating top seed in Newport in the last round 3 to 2. This year's state title is the seventh in Garfield State history.

Oh, thank you.

Garfield's now placed among the top teams at state every year for the past 20 years, winning two titles, placing second four times and placing third three times in that time span.

In April, we traveled to Columbus, Ohio to compete with the best teams from all over the country, and we placed 12th.

The Garfield chess team would like to acknowledge and thank Principal Howard for all of his work in making this trip possible.

Thank you, Mr. Howard.

OK now I'd like to introduce the students who represented Garfield at nationals.

OK we'll start here on the left.

We have a senior.

His name is Zubary Wilson.

OK this is.

And this is Zubary's fourth year on the chess team.

So we're very lucky to have him for four years.

OK.

Also another senior in his fourth year fourth year on the chess team.

We have Carl Dutton.

And our next student is a freshman his first year on the chess team Andreas Farney.

OK.

Next we have another senior his fourth year on the chess team.

His name is Bashir Abdel Fattah.

OK.

And last we have a junior his third year in the chess team a very strong chess player one of the very top chess players in the country.

Last year he won the national championship for high school students.

I'd like to introduce Roland Feng.

OK.

Thank you very much.

Thank you and congratulations.

Thank you.

And lastly I'd like to introduce Cashel Toner executive director for curriculum instruction support to tell us a little bit about national board certified teachers.

And wow we have a lot of teachers who've worked really hard this last year.

That's true.

Greetings National Board certified teachers are highly accomplished educators who meet high and rigorous standards set by the National Board for professional teaching standards.

National Board certification is achieved upon successful completion of a voluntary assessment program designed to recognize effective and accomplished teachers who meet high standards based on what teachers should know and be able to do.

Seattle Public Schools has 550 employees who have achieved certification from national board for professional teaching standards including 106 teachers who successfully completed their certification process this year.

That's pretty remarkable.

You have the names of all 106 teachers tonight and if you're a national board teacher this year or in the past would you please stand up so we can recognize you?

Or if you're already standing, we'll clap for you.

I always I always get a little tongue tied over this and we certainly have more national board certified teachers than any other district in the state because we're big.

We also have one of the highest percentages.

I have to qualify myself.

There's a few districts in eastern Washington and I have three teachers and they're all certified.

Statistically Seattle together with SEA WA and all the others has done an amazing job of helping us create a great teaching staff.

Nate so we're doing pictures.

Tell us again how we're doing this.

So we're going to do the athletes, and then we're going to do the students.

We have Crystal Howard up here as well.

All right, ready?

One, two, three.

We're going to take a couple.

One, two, three.

Just one more.

One, two, three.

We're going to have to really squeeze in on this side.

Squeeze, squeeze.

All right, ready?

1, 2, 3. 1, 2, 3. One more.

1, 2, 3. Awesome.

Thanks, you guys.

OK.

Athletes and coaches.

Athletes and coaches, if you could come up.

Athletes and coaches, if you could come up for a picture.

All together.

Yeah.

Everyone, yeah.

back.

One, two, three.

One, two, three.

One, two, three.

Oh, wait, I'm gonna take one more.

One, two, three.

Awesome.

Congratulations, guys.

One, two, three.

Hey.

So.

See you Monday.

So board directors we need to be in the front row so we can hear the Leschi musicians.

Thank you.

Thank you.

As we're getting set up for this we are from Leschi Elementary.

My name is Nathaniel Oxford.

We're here with Sally Baldwin and Thea as well.

At Leschi we are fortunate enough to have to have.

Not just our regular elementary instrumental music program during the day but we also have an after school program here that is put on by Seattle music partners.

And so we've collaborated on this event to come and bring several of our groups each to play a little bit tonight to give a different flavor because we have different things going on.

We I try to give it a little.

Sure.

So hey guys, just have fun, okay?

Yeah, we're gonna play first, just like this morning.

You guys go first, then those guys, Red Lion, then those guys, and then these guys.

Go down, do a repeat, and then stop at 25. All right.

So we're collaborating on this on this event to showcase both of what we do.

Keep in mind when we have elementary instrumental groups in here these kids they do 30 minutes a week.

So by the end of the year they've done 15 hours just 15 hours on the instruments.

Did you have anything to say Sally?

going to say that I'm Sally Baldwin and I'm the education director of Seattle Music Partners.

So to supplement only having that 15 hours for the entire year of instruction we step in and we have volunteers come to the schools such as Leschi and it is a nonprofit completely funded by donations that we can actually provide for them about three hours of instruction a week.

I did not do the math on that for 30 weeks though someone else can do that.

But yeah, we have two groups that we also would like to perform for you, and we have lots of music, so we're going to share that now.

Thank you.

Let's go.

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That was so great.

Thank you Mr. Oxford.

And the next song we're going to play for you is See a Hamba.

Watch them all run.

And it is a traditional South African tune.

Oh, So,

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The next song we're going to play for you is from our advanced strings, which is Dragon Hunter.

Can you move out of the way so that he can stand up?

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Thank you so much.

Thank you guys.

That was awesome.

It's the best part of our meetings.

Bar none.

Channel 26. You can watch yourselves on YouTube.

Could the two of you all come up and tell us about your history of teaching music and in the Seattle School District.

And can you also address which other schools your CBO assists with music education because I think we need to know that.

All right.

I have been working as an elementary instrumental music teacher for three years in the Seattle schools and I have six schools this year Leschi.

This is my second year at Leschi.

And I had some things that I set out to do there this year and one of them just involved more collaboration between you know the SPS program and the Seattle music partners program.

And what we've seen in that is really.

It's really made a big difference in just the teamwork, getting the year started off and everything else.

So I'm really glad to be here.

I'm a trombone player primarily, but we have to do all the instruments.

Actually, I think 40% of my interview was performing the different instruments when I started on a couple years ago.

Sally?

Hi so Seattle Music Partners actually works with schools that are focused in the central district area for Seattle Public Schools and who we service are Leschi Elementary, Baylor-Gatzert Elementary, Madrona Elementary and Lowell Elementary.

And the students get private one on one lessons one day a week at each one of those schools.

And where do we get those volunteers from are actually from.

Many of the high schools around here, all of the SPS high schools, a lot of the schools over in the Kirkland area on the east side, Shoreline area schools, Ingram, all the ones that are north, we recruit everywhere.

UW, we do a lot of recruiting everywhere to get the volunteers to come in.

The other students that we have that are not here that are not in 4th and 5th grade we actually have a 6th through 8th grade program that meets on Wednesday evenings and those are from I think eight different middle schools.

I know Alki, Mercer, Washington for sure.

And so because it's at so many different schools, we have them come to us at Garfield Community Center.

So it's a very cool thing to be centrally located, that the students still, after they're out of the elementary school, they come back for our instruction.

The day is obviously a group day that we do on a second day a week.

So it really helps the students to be able to prepare with their individual volunteers and then also to be able to focus and create music in a group.

Outstanding.

Thanks very much.

My personal fantasy for the Seattle Public Schools is every student every day music and we will blow our math scores through the roof.

Thank you again.

Unfortunately we had a bit of a hiccup on the seal of biliteracy and West Seattle High School wasn't called out and specifically Carla Hernandez Galeogos please stand and be recognized.

Thank you so much.

Dr. Nyland the floor is yours for superintendent contact.

Comments.

Thank you.

I'm going to be brief with my comments tonight.

There is some additional information including our good news on the table in the back along with some of our upcoming community engagement.

June is LGBTQ pride month and on the morning of June 1st starting off the month in grand style.

Staff students families community members joined directors Harris and DeWolf along with Clover Codd assistant superintendent of human resources.

to raise the LGBTQ and transgender pride flags at the John Stanford Center.

A crowd was gathered out here.

It must have been exciting with all the construction going on out there.

Please remember that on June 24th is the city's pride parade and we'll have a big yellow bus in the parade and people can march and participate.

So information is on our homepage.

In just a few weeks days our district and our community and staff and students families are going to be celebrating graduation ceremonies.

And that's always an exciting part of the year as we congratulate students not just on the completion of their senior year but their time in Seattle Public Schools and completion of an important milestone in their life.

I sure I speak for the board.

We get to show up and sit on the stage and shake a few hands but it becomes apparent how much work goes into preparing all of the pomp and circumstance with music and programs and all of that goes with it.

So thank you to our staff for making that happen and thank you to the board for your participation.

It makes makes a long week I know but it's fun to celebrate with the kids.

Although our graduations are about celebrations we certainly are saddened by the loss of our Franklin High School senior.

And you'll notice that up here in the front the directors have an orange ribbon.

Ryan De La Cruz was shot and killed at a city park last week.

Franklin seniors are going to be honoring him in a variety of ways.

On Friday they're going to be creating a human orange ribbon along Rainier Avenue symbolic of the color for reducing gun violence.

And so many of our staff and this is a participation event by Franklin High School interagency and I think some of the other high schools trying to make a human chain.

between Rainier Beach and Franklin.

So we certainly are saddened on behalf of the family and the students at Franklin.

So they actually were supposed to be here tonight be recognized as national champions with regard to their not debate but their mock trial.

Thank you.

So.

Our strategic plan has three big goals educational excellence and equity efficient systems and engagement.

I'll give a brief recap on each one of those.

Under our excellence and equity I would like to invite Susan Grant CTE specialist to come talk about some of the highlights from our recent CTE culinary partnership and a district wide summit.

I'm Susan Grant I'm CTE specialist here at the district and thank you for the opportunity to highlight this industry partnership with Molly Moon ice cream and our culinary classes across the district.

I'd like to showcase the winning Sunday as part of this challenge and competition that we had.

I have with me today Emily Kim who is the marketing and public relations managers of Molly Moon Ice Cream and I'll turn it over to her for a minute to talk a little bit about the partnership.

Hi I just wanted to come in and say how amazing this partnership was for us at Molly Moons.

We were so excited to do this this year and kind of strengthen our partnership with Seattle Public Schools which has always been a main pillar for us but we haven't done a big official partnership until this year.

And we were so excited to bring five culinary classrooms Ingram West Seattle Roosevelt Rainier Beach and I am blanking on the fifth one.

Oh, Franklin, the winner of the challenge, but into our headquarters and have our chefs teach them all about our sustainable sourcing, and why local and organic is important, and how to make toppings, and how we make our ice cream, and about culinary careers, and the different places in the field that you can go with a culinary background and where you can start.

It was amazing.

The students were so talented.

We honestly wanted to serve every single sundae that we got in the competition.

They were so impressive.

I mean like they came up with things that our kitchen teams would come up with and they were all so delicious.

It was really really hard to choose.

a winner.

But this amazing blueberry compote and shortbread that Franklin came up with was so good.

We're so proud to serve it.

It is on our June menu right now.

So everyone should come try it.

We wanted to bring it here tonight but it was a little bit of a time constraint I think.

So yeah.

Thank you so much.

And we were really excited for this partnership.

So I'd like to introduce you to a couple of the students in the class as well as the teacher, Lana Salisbury from Franklin High School.

Well thank you so much.

We did have a very exciting time.

The students really enjoyed learning.

I've been at Franklin High School for 16 years and I wanted to first of all say thank you so much for supporting our CTE career connected learning in the culinary pathway.

I have four students from my classes to share their experience with the Molly Moon challenge.

So first we have Lily and Luna Bui then Ioana Hernandez David Reyes Gomez and Hawa Jagana.

Hi my name is Lillian I'm a senior at Franklin High School for the June Sunday special at Molly Moon's Franklin High School Advanced Culinary has a Sunday called Seattle Summer.

We have Molly Moon's sweet cream ice cream for the creamy flavor topped with organic wild blueberries thickened with organic blueberry jam to keep the tartness of the berries in a tasty sauce.

The organic wild blueberry sauce is paired with Molly Moon's dark fudge sauce for the bitter component.

The sundae is topped with whipped cream shortbread cookie crumbles with cinnamon sugar and kosher salt and a chunk of cherry.

Enjoy the taste of the Northwest in our Seattle summer sundae.

Thank you.

Hello my name is Joanna Hernandez.

I'm a junior at Franklin High School.

In the process of creating the sundae we wanted to make sure that our recipes were cost effective for Molly Moon ice cream and we use one of her existing toppings that it's dark fudge.

Hi my name is David Reyes Gomez from Franklin High School.

It was great to have a real challenge from this ice cream challenge I guess.

It was one of the greatest things to do because I could have worked with more of my classmates and learning new stuff and as well I was good with the ice cream.

So thank you very much.

Hi my name is Hawa.

I'm a sophomore from Franklin High School.

I'm taking the culinary class so I can have more skills at home and to get a job.

Please support Molly Moon by purchasing our award winning Sunday which is Seattle Summer.

All proceeds will be donated to Seattle School District's culinary programs.

Help us gain skills to pay the bills.

Thank you once again.

Again you can go purchase your Sunday at any of the Molly Moon stores through the month of June and support CT culinary.

All right.

Thank you very much.

Sounds like you've been working on how to make those tantalizingly exciting and make us all rush out and buy one.

So thank you.

Other work under excellence and equity the school board met and worked through their continuing work toward our agenda item tonight in terms of SMART goals coming up so appreciate that time and then the board met in an all day retreat on Saturday with incoming superintendent Juneau to talk about what the strengths and opportunities and challenges are for the district in the time ahead.

Goal 2 is improving systems and the board also met recently in a workshop session to continue moving the budget forward and the budget has good news for this coming year and that there is a a little bit more money than we had anticipated from the legislature.

And that is well and good.

And at the same time we continue to be concerned as a district over the state's inability to fully fund their promises going forward.

So after this coming year the budget does not look as rosy.

And yeah I'll stop there.

State auditors exit conference was held this last week.

Overall a good audit.

There were some findings that were noted that we will address and work on.

Appreciate the good work of our budget staff and auditors.

We're a big system so they're here for a long period of time.

and look at everything in great detail and then we appreciate their feedback on the things that we are doing well and the things that we can do better on.

And then finally under that area we also held a work session on the upcoming BEX V levy that's supposed to be is scheduled for February of 2019 and trying to figure out how to balance a whole bunch of priorities within the district.

What are those schools that need to be replaced?

What are the schools that need updated in terms of maintenance and where do we have to attend to growth?

And.

and safety.

And so that's a challenge.

Increasing cost of construction is also adding to the price of that endeavor.

And then the third goal is the engagement goal and our communication survey is out and will close on June 12th.

And so we value the input from our families to let us know how we're doing on communicating.

and involving our community in terms of decision making items that may impact them.

And a few good news items.

The U.S. News and World Report released their list of top schools recently and we had Roosevelt, Garfield, Ballard, Nathan Hale, Cleveland, Franklin and the Center School listed in that report.

So congratulations to those schools.

And the last item under good news that I'll talk about again there's more on the back table is that we had a large group of our district administrators principals as well as district leaders.

who have been working hard for a number of years at the University of Washington on completing their doctoral work.

And so I would like to give congratulations.

They actually walked last night at Heck Edmondson at the University of Washington.

I'm sure they have pictures if you'd like to see them.

I'd like to congratulate Dr. Kelly Aramaki, Dr. Maria Bruder, Dr. Marnie Campbell, Dr. Helen Young, Dr. Mia Williams, Dr. Sarah Pritchett and Dr. Keisha Scarlett.

That concludes my remarks.

OK we're at the part of the board meeting where committee chairs need to report out and a time check.

It is 5 10. We start public testimony at 5 30. Director Mack chair of operations please.

If it's OK I'll actually just touch quickly on the legislative piece first.

Director Geary is out.

In a couple of weeks I'll be going back to the WSSDA legislative committee for the second round of discussing the state level propositions that will be on for the state school board directors associations legislative committee and that will eventually go to the full membership for voting hot items there are school safety gun safety etc.

And I'm excited to be a part of the process of supporting the entire state and.

Increasing legislation around those issues for operations.

We have a packet that I think is about 200 pages long for tomorrow.

As Superintendent Nyland just mentioned we recently held a work session on our next capital levy BEX and we'll be tomorrow meeting about it's a two page agenda.

Important contracts like the dairy fresh farms duck delivery but also some exciting ones the contract around our orca cards for high school students and the city of Seattle is expanding.

the support to ensure that students have worker cards and we have that on our agenda as well as a number of construction related board action reports and we'll be talking about the.

2018 19 capital budget for technology.

So getting a little bit more specific detail on what we plan to be doing in the coming year around our technology budget.

I think the number that we have budget is around twenty nine million for the year.

So we'll just get a little bit more update on what that plan is and what will be.

expect to be spending it on.

And we'll also be talking about the next work session on BEX we're going to be having essentially one a month until we get to a place where we actually have the full plan together and that next BEX work sessions plan for June.

I'm sorry.

June 25th.

Yes that's correct.

June 25th.

So we're going to be talking about the facilities master plan and the table of contents what goes in there.

And also some conversation around our community engagement plan for BEX V. Additionally as was already sent out in notification we have a task force around the facility master plan that's being formed.

The advertisements for that went out a couple of weeks ago.

The deadline for submitting is tomorrow.

So I want to put a shout out that we're hoping to to get some folks engaged in the facility master plan task force to support the review around our capacity planning and then our matrix of our priorities.

And those meetings are going to be happening between now and August and we're going to do our best to kind of condense them into six meetings just do some really intensive work around those topics that end and that support will will be really good for us as a board to have the community to help engage and help us review that information.

So looking forward to that and I.

encourage anyone and everyone to apply that is interested in supporting that effort.

Additionally we also have another board committee the BEX BTA oversight committee this committee has been in place for.

I'm not exactly sure how many years I think as long as the BEX has existed.

So it's been probably a good 20 years and we recently expanded the charter in January to include oversight over our BTA levy which is the buildings technology and athletics or academics levy that comes on alternating years.

And we're at a point where we need more members.

We have some members that are retiring and some transitions that are happening and so we'll be advertising for that in the not so distant future.

And I just wanted to put that out there so folks know that we'll be looking for experts around building facilities and oversight of the of the levies.

And I think that's about it.

Other chairs.

Director Burke.

Curriculum and instruction.

OK.

Curriculum instruction where of course all the fun happens.

We always try to say that our committees are the best committees but coming up at our next one we have the annual approval of schools which you all know and love as CSIPs or continuous school improvement plans.

Every year these are approved have to be approved by the board per state law.

You've heard conversation around them how they're when you're looking at them for your schools for your regions pay special attention.

The high schools are all have all been asked to focus on a.

24 credit readiness how they're doing that in their school.

The middle schools are all being asked to focus on the goal of preparing students in mathematics so that they can be successful in algebra and the elementary schools are being asked to to focus on goals around literacy specifically the elementary adoption and reading by third grade.

So that's really exciting.

And I think that the feedback we've gotten from buildings and from administration is that these have been really powerful documents to help pull together common ideas.

We have a standing agenda item of the 24 credit update where we'll be talking a little bit more about professional development plans for high school educators to be able to deal with the 20 24 credit schedules.

We have a instructional materials update which will include discussion of the science adoption process K-12 science adoption process that is now just now getting underway.

We're discussing policies on electronic learning.

They're just going to be discussed.

We're not actually going to move them forward but they're going to we're going to develop them out a little bit.

Electronic learning library materials and we have some other special attention items.

The annual assessment report the district and SEA negotiate every year with a.

a joint workforce the calendar of assessments.

And so this is where we will hear as a as a committee and as a board what is our assessment calendar for next year.

So we're trying to figure out I mean they've already been working through how to get the best how to align the assessments with all of the other things that take place and maximize student instructional time.

And then we'll also get an update on Naviance which I think is an interesting topic for all of us to figure out how to provide the most value for our students and protect our student data.

Always a good thing.

Director Pinkham Audit and Finance Chair.

All right Audit and Finance.

Yesterday we had our quarterly audit meeting which went very well because that was my actual birthday.

It wasn't today.

So and thank you for the birthday wishes yesterday to my fellow board members and the staff that was there.

Definitely appreciate it.

Update we should be sharing some audits at the next board meeting I believe on June 27th for two schools that have been completed Cleveland and Center School to give information on those.

We also had the updates on various audit reports from our audit response management curriculum instruction capital projects human resources and budget and finance and a lot of this dealt with retention of records.

You know how long do we have to keep them.

And also what we're actually seeing what's being put in those records were.

Having to manage those and make sure people know hey after so many years you can destroy them.

And also that hey there's some records we don't need to put in a file.

And because of those people that may have access to them we need to be careful of what information is in there.

So we have teams working on those also capital projects new GCCM recommendations that are going through and how we manage those do we bring in a third party to do some review of those.

So I want to thank all.

Richard Best and Flip Herndon for the work they're doing their human resources big lift there is actually the leave program.

We're actually trying to monitor that to keep track of leave properly for our staff and make sure they're getting compensated accordingly.

Budget and finance our big lift now for that is new codes.

The state's making us do our budget codes a little bit differently so we've got to learn these new codes and it's going to take a lift for us to do that.

And thank you to JoLynn Burge and her staff that this will go as smoothly as possible.

Other issues that we're looking at with our audit is management of our key systems and how.

Schools may give out keys and copies of keys and make sure that we have a proper system to track those and it's just great to see that those are coming forward and people are starting to say hey these are issues we've got to make sure we monitor and be responsible for especially when we're seeing things across the country with people having access to schools when they probably shouldn't be.

So glad that they're keeping that as a priority.

Other updates from Auditor Finance our budget to have a hearing for the community on June 27th right before the next board meeting.

So please attend and look at the documents that are current there and come by and share your input on the budget for the next year and anything else you would like to share.

And I appreciate your attention.

Thank you.

OK.

I believe we are done with committee reports is that correct.

OK there's not a lot on exec.

We're trying to take care of business and push it through and do the best job we can.

There you go.

There's your update.

I would suggest we take a seven minute break be back here for 530 for public testimony and we have to start public testimony at 530. And you will be right after public testimony.

Thank you.

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