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          SO IT'S 6:00 SO ARE WE GOING TO CALL THIS REGULAR MEETING [INAUDIBLE] NIGHT OF THE BATTLE
GROUND SCHOOL BOARD MEETING TO ORDER AT 
          [1. Call to Order]
6:00. 
          WE'LL START OFF WITH OUR PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE. 
          THANK YOU. 
          UNDER GOD, INDIVISIBLE, WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL. 
          ROLL CALL. 
          PRESIDENT AND DIRECTOR OF DISTRICT FOUR MARK WATRIN, HERE. 
          VICE PRESIDENT AND DIRECTOR OF DISTRICT FIVE JACKIE MADDUX, HERE. 
          DIRECTOR OF DISTRICT ONE MARY SNITILY, HERE. 
          DIRECTOR OF DISTRICT TWO ROB HENRICKSON, HERE. 
          DIRECTOR OF DISTRICT THREE TED CHAMPINE, HERE. 
          STUDENT REPRESENTATIVE SYDNEY CORDON, HERE. 
          STUDENT REPRESENTATIVE RICARDO MARTIN DEL CAMPO, HERE. 
          MR. PRESIDENT, WE HAVE A QUORUM. 
          THANK YOU. AND THANK YOU TO ALL THE STAFF HERE TONIGHT TO SHARE INFORMATION, THE STUDENTS
THAT HAVE COME TO PRESENT. 
          WE'RE LOOKING FORWARD TO THAT. 
          THAT'S GREAT. WE GOT YOU IN EARLY ON THE AGENDA, CITIZENS THAT HAVE BEEN FOLLOWING US AND
THAT MIGHT BE NEW OUT THERE AND THOSE ONLINE. 
          THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE AND ADDING TO THIS DISCUSSION AS WE DO THE BUSINESS OF THE
BATTLE GROUND SCHOOL BOARD. 
          [4. Agenda Approval]
FIRST UP, IS OUR AGENDA APPROVAL. 
          TONIGHT'S AGENDA INCLUDES THE AGENDA APPROVAL, COMMUNICATIONS FROM THE BOARD,
SUPERINTENDENT AND STAFF UPDATES, CITIZENS COMMENTS. 
          WE HAVE FIVE, I BELIEVE, SIGNED UP RIGHT NOW AND IF THERE'S ANY ADDITIONAL, WE'LL SEE IF
THERE'S TIME, BUT THERE PROBABLY WILL BE. 
          SO YOU CAN THINK ABOUT THAT. 
          WE WILL THEN HAVE OUR CONSENT AGENDA AND OLD BUSINESS. 
          WE HAVE ONE ITEM AND NEW BUSINESS TWO ITEMS, FUTURE AGENDA ITEMS. SEEMS LIKE THERE'S A LOT ON THE CALENDAR, SO WE'LL MAKE SURE WE TRY TO CATCH EVERYBODY UP
THERE. 
          THERE IS AN EXECUTIVE SESSION AFTER THIS REGULAR SESSION TONIGHT. 
          NO ACTION EXPECTED. 
          THAT'S THE AGENDA IF THERE'S ANY QUESTIONS ABOUT THAT, THIS WOULD BE THE TIME TO BRING
THEM UP. 
          IF NOT, I'D TAKE A MOTION TO APPROVE THE AGENDA. 
          I'LL MOVE THAT THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS APPROVE THE AGENDA AS PRESENTED. 
          THANK YOU. IT'S BEEN MOVED THAT THE AGENDA BE PRESENTED OR ACCEPTED AS PRESENTED. 
          ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SIGNIFY BY SAYING AYE, AYE. 
          ALL THOSE OPPOSED. 
          MOTION PASSES 5 TO 0. 
          [5. Communications]
FIRST UP, UNDER OUR BOARD COMMUNICATIONS IS OUR STUDENT VOICE. 
          AND WE HAVE A SPECIAL PRESENTATION TONIGHT WITH OUR WASHINGTON HISTORY GROUP. 
          IS THAT CORRECT? YES. 
          SO OUTSTANDING NEWS FOR US. 
          MS. SOOHOO IS THE EIGHTH GRADE HISTORY AND ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS TEACHER AT PLEASANT
VALLEY MIDDLE SCHOOL AND HER STUDENTS, SAM WATTS AND LAUREN MCCOMBS, RECENTLY WON FIRST PLACE AT THE WASHINGTON STATE HISTORY COMPETITION. 
          AND TONIGHT, SAM AND LAUREN ARE GOING TO PRESENT THEIR PERFORMANCE, WHICH WAS ENTITLED THE ORIGINS, TRANSMISSIONS, AND IMPACT ON HISTORY OF THE BLACK DEATH DEBATE. 
          AND I THOUGHT IT WOULD BE GOOD BEFORE BEFORE LAUREN AND SAM PRESENT IF MS. SOOHOO MMAYBE, PERHAPS COULD JUST TALK ABOUT THE TIME AND THE EFFORT AND THE WORK THAT
WENT INTO THIS FOR THE STUDENTS AND WHAT THE WHAT THE COMPETITION ITSELF ENTAILS, SO THAT WE COULD GET SOME INSIGHT
THERE, ONCE WE GET THIS STRAIGHTENED OUT. 
          CAN I JUST SAY BEFOREHAND I HAD MS. SOOHOO FOR NATURAL HISTORY DAY AS WELL. 
          I'VE KNOWN LAUREN FOR A WHILE SHE'S IN OUR JAZZ BAND. 
          THEY'RE BOTH AMAZING PEOPLE AND I HAD SO MUCH FUN WORKING WITH MS. SOOHOO DURING MY EIGHTH GRADE YEAR DOING NATIONAL HISTORY DAY. 
          I'M VERY PROUD OF HOW EVERYTHING'S TURNED OUT. 
          YEAH, THAT'S VERY COOL. 
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[LAUGHTER] WHO KNEW YOU WERE GOING TO GET THOSE KUDOS RIGHT? THE SENSE AND SENSIBILITY. 
          THAT WAS GREAT. [INAUDIBLE] SO THERE YOU GO. IF YOU COULD JUST GIVE US KIND OF AN OVERVIEW OF WHAT THE COMPETITION. 
          SURE. SO NATIONAL HISTORY DAY IS A NATIONAL EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH PROJECT OPEN TO 6TH TO
8TH GRADERS IN THE JUNIOR DIVISION AND 9TH TO 12TH GRADERS IN THE SENIOR DIVISION TO PUBLIC PRIVATE HOMESCHOOL STUDENTS. 
          AND IT'S ON AN ANNUAL THEME. 
          SO THE THEME THIS YEAR IS DEBATE AND DIPLOMACY, SUCCESSES, FAILURES AND IMPACT ON
HISTORY. 
          AND THEY CHOSE A SCIENTIFIC TOPIC ON THE BLACK DEATH BECAUSE OF THEIR INTEREST IN HOW IT
CONNECTS TO COVID AND HOW PEOPLE REACTED TO THE ORIGIN TRANSMISSION OF COVID. 
          AND THIS IS THE ORIGIN AND TRANSMISSION OF THE BLACK DEATH. 
          SO. WELL, THANK YOU AND THANK YOU FOR ALL YOU DO. 
          THANK YOU. THANK YOU. 
          ALL RIGHT, LAUREN AND SAM, IT'S ALL YOU. 
          I'M SAM WATTS. I'M LAUREN MCCOMBS. 
          OUR JUNIOR GROUP PERFORMANCE IS TITLED THE ORIGIN, TRANSMISSION, AND IMPACT ON HISTORY OF
THE BLACK DEATH DEBATE. 
          MAY WE BEGIN. 
          PLEASE. HELLO MY NAME IS [INAUDIBLE] ALSO KNOWN AS THE BLACK RAT. 
          MY COLLEAGUE, THE BLACK RAT FLEA, [INAUDIBLE] AND I ARE PERSONALLY INVESTED IN THE THREE
DEBATABLE QUESTIONS. 
          WHERE DID THE BLACK DEATH ORIGINATE? HOW WAS THE BLACK DEATH TRANSMITTED? AND WHAT WAS THE HISTORICAL IMPACT OF THE BLACK DEATH? WHAT OUR RESEARCH UNCOVERED WERE THREE GUIDING PRINCIPLES THAT AFFECT THE ANSWERS TO THE
HISTORICAL IMPACT QUESTIONS. 
          RETROSPECTIVE DIAGNOSIS. 
          PALEO GENETICS. 
          AND THE PARADIGM SHIFT. 
          DESCRIPTIONS OF PLAGUE DATE BACK TO JOURNAL ENTRIES FROM FLORENTINE, MARCHIONNE DI COPPO
STEFANI AND OTHER MERCHANTS FROM INDIA AND CHINA 1000 YEARS AGO. 
          NOT TO BE EUROCENTRIC OR ANYTHING, BUT OUR STORY STARTS WITH [INAUDIBLE] SAILORS SLUMPED
AT THE DOORS IN THE PORTS OF MESSINA, SICILY, IN 1346 NO ONE KNEW THE HORROR THAT WOULD ENSUE. 
          ALTHOUGH EUROPE WAS AT THE BEGINNING OF THE RENAISSANCE, THE CHURCH WAS AT THE TOP OF THE
POLITICAL, ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL POWER AT THE TIME. 
          PEOPLE BELIEVE THEY'RE BEING PUNISHED FOR THEIR SINS ON VAPORS, THE ALIGNMENT OF THE
STARS, OR TAPPED INTO SYSTEMIC ANTISEMITISM AND BLAMED THE JEWS. 
          BUT MONGOLIANS AT THE TIME ALREADY KNEW THE PLAGUE COULD HAVE BEEN TRANSMITTED FROM
PERSON TO PERSON, SO THEY CATAPULTED PLAGUE INFESTED BODIES OVER SIEGE ROLES DURING SIEGES. 
          HISTORIANS USED RETROSPECTIVE DIAGNOSIS DESCRIPTIONS FROM THE TIME MADE BY CONTEMPORARY
WITNESSES BECAUSE THE PATIENTS AND MEDICAL HISTORIES WERE UNAVAILABLE. 
          THEIR DESCRIPTIONS OF SYMPTOMS WILL NOT NECESSARILY CONFORM TO HOW WE WOULD DESCRIBE
DISEASES ABSENT THE SCIENTIFIC METHOD, MEDIEVAL HISTORIANS DID NOT TEST THEIR HYPOTHESIS. IN 1348, FLORENTINE HISTORIAN MARCHIONNE DI COPPO STEFANI ISOLATED NO. 
          MARCHIONNE DI COPPO STEFANI RECORDED THE DEAD AND DYING. 
          CONTEMPORARY WITNESSES OBSERVED HEALTHY PEOPLE GOING TO BED AND DYING IN THEIR SLEEP. 
          DOCTORS DYING WHILE TREATING A PATIENT. 
          SOMETHING TO DO WITH CONTACT WITH THE AFFLICTED. 
          THE AFFLICTED EXHIBITED BUBOES, SWOLLEN LYMPH NODE IN THE ARMPIT AND GROIN AREAS. 
          FEVER, VOMITING AND DIARRHEA. 
          ALTHOUGH THE BLACK DEATH WAS IDENTIFIED AS SPREADING FROM THE BLACK SEAT INTO ITALY, IT
WAS LABELED BY THE BLACK BUBOES. 
          THE RETROSPECTIVE DIAGNOSIS AS TO THE ORIGINS OF THE BLACK DEATH CHANGE WITH PALEO
GENETICS TRACKING THE DISEASE THROUGH DNA. 
          IN 1896, ALEXANDER GERSON ISOLATED THE BACTERIUM NAMED AFTER HIMSELF YERSINIA PESTIS. 
          ARCHEOLOGICAL DNA EVIDENCE IDENTIFIED YERSINIA PESTIS IN MEDIEVAL CEMETERIES THAT PROVES
THAT YERSINIA PESTIS CAUSED THE BLACK DEATH. 
          THE DEBATE HAS MOVED ON TO KNOW WHAT CAUSED THE BLACK DEATH, BUT HOW THE BACTERIUM
SPREAD. 
          AS STATED EARLIER, 14TH CENTURY WITNESSES DESCRIBED THEIR OBSERVATIONS. 
          POPE CLEMENT, THE SIX, SAT BETWEEN TWO FIREPLACES WITH ROARING FIRES, PROOF THAT FLEAS
INFECTED WITH YERSINIA PESTIS REPELLED AND DID NOT BITE HIM. 
          POPE CLEMENT, THE SIXTH ANALYSIS REVEALED THAT YERSINIA PESTIS INFECTED ME THE BLACK RAT
FLEA MADE ME SO SICK THAT I VOMITED MY STOMACH CONTENTS ONTO THE BLACK RAT, SPREADING YERSINIA PESTIS IN DEBRIS, CLOTHING, BEDDING AND [INAUDIBLE] TO PEOPLE. 
          POPE CLEMENT, SIX, BLAMED FLEAS ON RATS. 
          I WAS BLAMED FOR THE DEATH OF MILLIONS. 
          WE WERE BLAMED FOR THE DEATH OF MILLIONS. 
          QUITE THE BURDEN. TURNS OUT THAT MORE RESEARCH, ESPECIALLY PALEO GENETICS, ENTER THE
DEBATE AND CHALLENGE HOW YERSINIA PESTIS SPREAD. 
          THAT'S HOW DEBATES WORK. 
          NEW INFORMATION FORCES REASSESSMENT OF PREVIOUS ASSUMPTIONS. 
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RESEARCHER DAVID DAVIS PUZZLED HOW PLAGUE COULD HAVE SPREAD SO QUICKLY WITH UP TO 90%
MORTALITY IF FLEAS ON RATS WAS THE CAUSE. 
          DATA COMPARING FLEA AND RAT POPULATIONS DID NOT MATCH THE DEATH DATA. 
          GEORGE DVORSKY DISCOVERED I AM ACTUALLY A PICKY EATER AND RESIDE ONLY ON BLACK RATS. 
          SO IF DATA SHOW THE BLACK RAT POPULATION, HOW IS THE PEST TO SPREAD? DR. DVORSKY'S RESEARCH POINTED TO. 
          WAIT IS THERE AN ECHO IN HERE OR ARE WE JUST DEBATING THAT QUESTION? IF I'M NOT GUILTY, THEN WHO IS? HUMAN FLEAS AND LICE ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE SPREAD OF YERSINIA PESTIS AMONG HUMANS. 
          YES. THE DISEASE INITIALLY MAKES THE JUMP FROM RODENTS TO HUMANS, BUT FROM THERE, HUMAN
PARASITES TAKE OVER. 
          ARCHEOLOGICALLY WITHOUT ARCHEOLOGICAL DNA EVIDENCE A TOOL AVAILABLE AFTER 1980 COMPUTER
MODELING TO TEST HUMAN FLEA AND LICE SUPPORTED THE SPREAD OF YERSINIA PESTIS. 
          NOT MY FAULT. BLAME [INAUDIBLE] WHAT HE SAID, NOT OUR FAULT. 
          WELL, TO ADD TO THE DEBATE, I DR. 
          SAMUEL COHN JR. 
          ASSERT THAT THE ENTIRE BLACK DEATH DEBATE OF ORIGIN AND TRANSMISSION IS A SQUARE PEG
[INAUDIBLE]. 
          HISTORIANS HAVE TRIED TO POUND INTO A ROUND HOLE BY DISTORTING, IGNORING AND OMITTING DATA
TO SUPPORT THE THESIS. 
          MY STUDIES OF THE 14TH CENTURY IN BRITISH EARLY 20TH CENTURY PLAGUE NARRATIVES INDICATE
THAT THEY ARE NOT THE SAME DISEASE. 
          THE OPPOSITE IS TRUE. 
          I AM DR. MONICA GREEN, MEDIEVAL HISTORIAN, HISTORIAN SINCE 1980 AND ESPECIALLY 2002 HAVE
REEXAMINED DNA EVIDENCE, RETROSPECTIVE DIAGNOSIS, USING INSCRIPTIONS FROM THE TIME GIVE HISTORICAL
CONTEXT. 
          BUT RETROSPECTIVE DIAGNOSIS LACKS VERIFICATION FOR MEASURABLE AND REPEATABLE SOURCES,
SOMETHING FUNDAMENTAL TO THE SCIENTIFIC METHOD. 
          YOU COULD HAVE, AS WE HAVE PROVEN WITH PALEO GENETICS, DNA ANALYSIS, THAT THE 14TH
CENTURY BLACK DEATH WAS YERSINIA PESTIS. 
          BUT DESCRIPTIONS OF PLAGUE SYMPTOMS AND TRANSMISSION IN INDIA DO NOT MATCH. 
          THEREFORE, MEDIEVAL BLACK DEATH COULD NOT HAVE BEEN YERSINIA PESTIS. 
          YOU HAVE NO PROOF THAT THAT KILLED 75 TO 200 MILLION PEOPLE IN THE 14TH CENTURY WITH SOME
OTHER PANDEMIC SMALLPOX. 
          JUST BECAUSE YOU CANNOT MATCH THE SYMPTOMS FROM BOTH TIME PERIODS DOES NOT MEAN THE
MEDIEVAL DISEASE WAS NOT PLAGUE. 
          WELCOME TO THE 21ST CENTURY. 
          WELCOME TO THE PARADIGM SHIFT, WHERE HISTORIANS USE THE TOOLS OF SCIENCE, X-RAYS, CARBON
DATING, DNA TESTING AND LET THE DATA LEAD THEM TO TEST NEW HYPOTHESIS. WELL, WOULD YOU HAVE BEEN AS THOROUGH IF I HADN'T CHALLENGED YOUR THESIS? NO. WE HAVE DISCREDITED YOUR HISTORICAL METHODOLOGY THAT RELIED ON RETROSPECTIVE
DIAGNOSIS THAT IS USING 700 YEAR OLD EYEWITNESS TESTIMONY COMPARED TO CHECKING AND CROSS-CHECKING DATA. 
          PALEO GENETICS USE DNA EVIDENCE FOUND IN PLAGUE VICTIMS IN MULTIPLE 14TH CENTURY
CEMETERIES. 
          PROVING THAT YERSINIA PESTIS CAUSED THE BLACK DEATH, THEN THE OVERWHELMING EVIDENCE OF
HOW THE BACILLUS WAS TRANSMITTED DEMONSTRATES HOW HISTORICAL QUESTIONS NEED AND BENEFIT FROM THE PARADIGM SHIFT OF TRULY PUTTING SCIENCE INTO THE SOCIAL SCIENCES. 
          WITHOUT PALEO GENETICS IN THE LAST 20 YEARS, ANYONE COULD HAVE RANDOMLY PROPOSED A NEW
HYPOTHESIS TO CHALLENGE WELL TESTED EVIDENCE. 
          IT REMINDS ME OF FLAT EARTH PROPONENTS. 
          JUST ASKING TO DEBATE SOME POINT DOES NOT JUSTIFY OPENING A WHOLE NEW INVESTIGATION
WITHOUT NEW EVIDENCE. 
          NEW EVIDENCE HAS EXONERATED ME. 
          THE BLACK RAT CARRYING FLEAS IS THE MAIN CAUSE OF THE BLACK DEATH. 
          THAT'S TRUE. SCIENTISTS FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD APPLY THE SCIENTIFIC METHOD OF TESTING
HYPOTHESIS MADE BY MULTIPLE RESEARCHERS TO PROVE THAT SOMETHING IS TRUE, SUCH AS FLEAS AND LICE SPECIFIC TO HUMANS AND HUMANS SPREADING THE BACILLUS. 
          WITH NEW RESEARCH, UNCOVERING THE FACT THAT YERSINIA PESTIS DOES NOT SURVIVE WELL IN
SUNLIGHT AND OTHER RESEARCH AND PRACTICES PROVES THAT THE BLACK DEATH TRANSMITS MUCH SLOWER THAN IT ONCE DID. 
          ALSO, THE BACILLUS IS LESS LETHAL DUE TO THE USE OF MODERN ANTIBIOTICS AND OTHER
MEDICINE. 
          DOWN WITH RETROSPECTIVE DIAGNOSIS. 
          UP WITH A PARADIGM SHIFT USING PALEO GENETICS TO UNCOVER THE TRUTH. 
          [APPLAUSE] WOW. THAT IS REALLY GOOD. 
          [INAUDIBLE] I CAN SIT THERE AND LISTEN TO THAT FOR HOURS. 
          [00:15:08]
THAT WAS REALLY GOOD. VERY NICE. 
          YES. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR BRINGING THAT TO THE BOARD INCLUDING [INAUDIBLE] TOO. 
          THANKS FOR ALL YOUR EFFORT IN THIS AND MAKING SURE THAT WE GET TO SEE THESE LITTLE
SNIPPETS OF THE GREAT WORK GOING ON OUT THERE. 
          HOW MANY PEOPLE COMPETED AT THE COMPETITION? OKAY. SO THEY GAVE THE CHOICE BECAUSE SOME PEOPLE ARE STILL UNCOMFORTABLE. 
          SO TOTAL. 
          ORDINARILY IT WAS LIKE 900. 
          PROBABLY ABOUT 700. 
          WOW. WOW. 
          AND THEN THE NATIONAL IS VIRTUAL AGAIN. 
          THEY WON A TRIP TO GO TO WASHINGTON, D.C. 
          AND WE LOVE RAISING MONEY BY SELLING POPSICLES AND DONUTS. 
          AND AND WE'VE COME TO THE BOARD TO ASK FOR PERMISSION TO GO, BUT IT'S VIRTUAL. 
          SO THEY HAVE ONE MORE WEEK TO FINALIZE ANY CHANGES AND THEN UPLOAD IT ALL. 
          SO THEN YOU GUYS ARE GOING TO DO IT VIRTUAL. 
          UNANIMOUS DECISION. [INAUDIBLE] WAS IT EXCITING FOR YOU GUYS AND HOW DID IT FEEL TO WIN? VERY SURPRISING. 
          YEAH, IT'S VERY IMPRESSIVE. 
          I MEAN, LET ALONE THE PERFORMANCES, WHICH WERE STELLAR. 
          BUT, YOU KNOW, I'VE NEVER SEEN A RAT PLAYED AND PLAYED I MEAN, WE PLAYED SO WELL. 
          BUT BUT JUST THE VOCABULARY, THE VERBIAGE, KEEPING ALL THE FACTS STRAIGHT, THE WHOLE
THING VERY, VERY IMPRESSIVE AND REMEMBERING IT ALL. 
          I CAN BARELY REMEMBER MY SPEECHES FROM MY SPEECH CLASS. 
          HOW MANY HOURS? HOW DID YOU GUYS CHOOSE YOUR TOPIC? OKAY. THAT WAS ME. 
          HE WAS GONE, I THINK HE HAD COVID AT THE TIME. 
          SO I. 
          I WAS LIKE, I DON'T KNOW. 
          I THOUGHT THAT, LIKE, MEDICINE STUFF WAS REALLY COOL AND STUFF LIKE THAT. 
          AND SO THEN I LOOKED AND RESEARCHED SOME OF THE BIG PANDEMICS AND HE HE CHOSE LIKE WHICH
PANDEMIC WE WERE GOING TO CHOOSE. 
          BUT LIKE, YEAH, SO, AND WE THOUGHT IT WAS JUST COOL TO LIKE, COMPARE IT TO THE, TO COVID
AND STUFF. 
          YEAH. SO AGAIN, VERY RELEVANT. 
          OUTSTANDING. AND JUST THANKS FOR BEING HERE AND SHARING WITH US. 
          GREAT. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. 
          [APPLAUSE] GOOD LUCK. IT'S MY JOB TO EMBARRASS YOU. 
          SINCE WE'VE HAD THE PLAGUE DEBATE IT SOUNDS LIKE WE HAVE BONNIE SCHNEIDER AND THE SPEECH
AND DEBATE GROUP. 
          SO FOR OUR SECOND STUDENT VOICE PRESENTATION TODAY IS CORINNE SCHNEIDER FROM BATTLE
GROUND HIGH SCHOOL. 
          HERE'S YOUR TEAM HERE. 
          OH, THEY'RE BEHIND THE SCREEN. 
          SO BATTLE GROUND HIGH SCHOOL'S SPEECH AND DEBATE TEAM, THEY'RE HERE TO PRESENT AND TELL
US SOME OF THE HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE STATE COMPETITION. 
          SO I'LL LET YOU TELL US A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE EVENT AND THE STUDENTS THAT ARE HERE WITH
YOU. 
          THANK YOU. HI. 
          SO MY NAME IS CORINNE SCHNEIDER AND I AM THIS YEAR'S SPEECH AND DEBATE COACH. 
          SPEECH AND DEBATE TEAM IS AN ACADEMIC SPORT THAT SOME OF THE SCHOOLS IN THE AREA HAVE. 
          AND IT'S AN OPPORTUNITY FOR STUDENTS TO REALLY COMPETE WITH THEIR MINDS IN A VARIETY OF
WAYS, INCLUDING PERFORMANCE, A LOT LIKE ACTING AS WELL AS DEBATE. 
          SO I HAVE TWO OF OUR WONDERFUL DEBATE TEAM MEMBERS HERE TODAY. 
          WE HAVE MARLEE WING AND AMANDA DUNN AND I'LL LET THEM KIND OF SHARE THEIR THOUGHTS ON WHY
SPEECH AND DEBATE IS IMPORTANT. 
          THIS YEAR, WE WERE VERY LUCKY TO PLACE AT EVERY DISTRICT TOURNAMENT AND WE WERE ABLE TO
MAKE IT TO STATE THIS YEAR, TOO. 
          WELL, CONGRATULATIONS. CONGRATULATIONS. 
          [APPLAUSE] ALL RIGHTY. 
          I'M MARLEE WING, I'M JUST GOING TO TELL YOU WHY SPEECH AND DEBATE IS IMPORTANT TO ME AND
WHY IT SHOULD BE IMPORTANT TO EVERYONE ELSE I THINK. 
          SPEECH AND DEBATE IS A GREAT OPPORTUNITY FOR STUDENTS TO LEARN AND DEVELOPMENT THEIR
ARGUMENTATIVE AND SPEAKING SKILLS. 
          I KNOW THAT BY PARTICIPATING IN SPEECH DEBATE, I'VE BEEN ABLE TO FIND MY SPEAKING AND
DATA COLLECTION SKILLS. 
          THIS HASN'T JUST HELPED ME IN AN ACADEMIC SETTING LIKE AN ENGLISH CLASS, BUT HAS HELPED
ME FOR MY OWN OPINIONS ON THE THINGS AROUND US AND DETERMINE WHAT SOURCES I CAN RELY ON AND TRUST. 
          SPEECH AND DEBATE HAS ALSO PRESENTED A GREAT OPPORTUNITY FOR ME TO BE ABLE TO PARTICIPATE
ON A DEBATE STAGE WHERE I CAN VOICE AND HEAR REAL OPINIONS AND LEARN HOW TO UNDERSTAND OR COUNTER THEM. FOR THESE REASONS, SPEECH AND DEBATE IS AN EXCELLENT PROGRAM FOR STUDENTS. 
          AND THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME. 
          THANK YOU. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. 
          [00:20:06]
SO I PERSONALLY WENT TO STATE FOR STUDENT CONGRESS AND IMPROMPTU. 
          UNFORTUNATELY, I DID NOT PLACE IN EITHER EVENT, BUT I WAS FORTUNATE ENOUGH TO BE ABLE TO
COMPETE IN THOSE EVENTS FOR EVERY LOCAL TOURNAMENT WE COMPETED IN, AND I WON FIRST OR THIRD FOR EACH AND EVERY ONE OF THEM. 
          SPEECH AND DEBATE IS AN EXTREMELY IMPORTANT EVENT IN SCHOOL, THOUGH OUR SPEECH TEAM IS
SMALL, WE HAVE RATHER INCREDIBLE FRIENDSHIPS BLOOMING AND WE HAVE FOUNDED OUR ABILITIES TO GATHER INFORMATION AND PUBLICLY SPEAK. 
          I HAVE NEVER BEEN PARTICULARLY GOOD AT EITHER OF THOSE SUBJECTS, DESPITE MY TEACHER'S
BEST EFFORTS. 
          IMPROMPTU IS ABOUT MAKING UP A SPEECH IN FRONT OF A GROUP OF PEOPLE. 
          TYPICALLY, IT'S JUST YOUR PEERS AROUND 5 TO 6 MEMBERS. 
          YOU'D BE GIVEN A LIST OF SUBJECTS AND YOU'D PICK ONE. 
          ONE WAS A QUOTE. 
          MY FAVORITES WERE THE MISTER ROGERS ONES. 
          YOU WOULD BE GIVEN A RANDOM NOUN. 
          FOR EXAMPLE, PIE IS ONE THAT I REMEMBER US HAVING AT A TOURNAMENT, AND THEN YOU'D BE
GIVEN ANOTHER RANDOM TOPIC LIKE MAYBE YELLOW OR RUNNING. 
          IMPROMPTU IS BY FAR MY FAVORITE EVENT FOR THE SIMPLE FACT OF IT LETS YOUR IMAGINATION
BLOOM. 
          CONGRESS IS FAR MORE FORMAL AS WE FOLLOW THE PROCEEDINGS SET BY THE US CONGRESS. 
          IT'S EXTREMELY FUN. 
          MY PERSONAL FAVORITE LITTLE BIT IS SIMPLY HOW YOU REFER TO EACH PERSON AS SENATOR. 
          SO ME AND MARLEE BOTH COMPETED IN CONGRESS OFTEN, SO WE WOULD BE SENATOR WING AND SENATOR
DUNN. 
          IT GIVES YOU A TASTE OF ACTUAL GOVERNMENT PROCEEDINGS AND FRANKLY, IT IS AN INCREDIBLE
EXPERIENCE FOR ANYONE TO BE A PART OF. 
          SPEECH AND DEBATE HONES YOUR CRITICAL THINKING SKILLS AS IT MAKES YOU CHOOSE WHAT
INFORMATION YOU'LL PRESENT IN DEBATES LIKE LINCOLN-DOUGLAS OR PUBLIC FORUM. 
          I PERSONALLY DID NOT COMPETE IN EITHER EVENT, BUT I KNOW MARLEE DID PUBLIC FORUM. 
          MANY DEBATES CAN BE RATHER DIFFICULT. 
          I KNOW IN CONGRESS THERE WERE OFTEN QUITE A FEW PEOPLE WHO HAD A LOT MORE INFORMATION
THAN ME. 
          I REMEMBER ONE GIRL WITH A NOTEBOOK CHOCK FULL OF JUST NOTES ON LIKE TWO BILLS. 
          I COULD NEVER FIND THAT MUCH INFORMATION, LET ALONE WRITE IT ALL DOWN. 
          BUT SHE SOMEHOW FOUND THE TIME AND WAY TO DO THAT. 
          I BELIEVE SHE WON FIRST PLACE MULTIPLE TIMES FOR OBVIOUS REASONS. 
          SPEECH AND DEBATE IS SPLIT INTO NOVICE AND OPEN, NOVICE BEING THE YOUNGER PEOPLE. 
          SO ME AS A FRESHMAN, BEING MY FIRST YEAR, I WAS IN NOVICE IMPROMPTU AND NOVICE CONGRESS. 
          IT'S FORTUNATE THAT WE'RE SPLIT INTO THE PEOPLE WHO ARE STILL LEARNING AND THE PEOPLE WHO
ARE MORE EXPERIENCED BECAUSE THE MORE EXPERIENCED STUDENTS HAVE, OBVIOUSLY A BETTER UNDERSTANDING AND MORE FAR MORE EXPERIENCE. 
          A SPEECH DEBATE TEAM IS A GREAT PLACE FOR YOU TO GROW AND LEARN AS A PERSON. 
          IT'S PROBABLY THE BEST THING THAT'S HAPPENED TO ME THIS YEAR. 
          THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME. 
          WOW. THANK YOU. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. 
          [APPLAUSE] SO WHAT TIME WHAT TIME OF THE YEAR DOES SPEECH AND DEBATE WHEN YOU WHEN DO YOU
GUYS START YOUR YOUR SEASON OR IS IT JUST AN ALL YEAR THING OR? IT IS PRIMARILY A FULL YEAR, FULL ACADEMIC YEAR SPORT. 
          SO TYPICALLY OUR FIRST TOURNAMENT HAPPENS DURING THE FALL IN SEPTEMBER WITH OUR STATE
TOURNAMENT HAPPENING SOMETIME IN MARCH. 
          STUDENTS OF LARGER TEAMS DO HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO ATTEND NATIONALS WITH THE QUALIFYING
TOURNAMENT, WHICH IS USUALLY THIS MONTH IN MAY, AND THEN NATIONALS WOULD ACTUALLY BE IN JUNE. SO FOR MUCH, MUCH LARGER TEAMS, THEY DO HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO PARTICIPATE FOR
THE FULL ACADEMIC YEAR. 
          WOW. AND IT'S REASONABLY NEW AT BATTLE GROUND HIGH SCHOOL OR BROUGHT BACK, CORRECT? SO THIS IS ACTUALLY MY FIRST YEAR WORKING AT BATTLE GROUND HIGH SCHOOL. 
          SO I'M NOT I DON'T KNOW THE FULL HISTORY OF THE TEAM. 
          I KNOW IT IT DID EXIST THROUGH COVID, SO THAT WAS REALLY COOL. 
          YEAH, I AM MORE FAMILIAR ACTUALLY WITH PRAIRIE'S TEAM, WHICH SHE SOUNDED LIKE MAYBE ONE
OF YOU IS FROM PRAIRIE SAYING YOU HAD A SPEECH CLASS. 
          NO, I AM FROM PRAIRIE, BUT I'M A FULL TIME RUNNING START, SO. 
          OH, SPEECH AT CLARK COLLEGE. 
          OH, INTERESTING. YEAH, MY SISTER DID OR BOTH OF MY SISTERS DID SPEECH AND DEBATE. 
          SO THIS IS VERY YEAH, YEAH. 
          YEAH. SO WE DEFINITELY TEND TO SEE OUR LARGER TEAMS COME FROM SCHOOLS THAT DO HAVE A
SPEECH AND DEBATE CLASS. 
          AT THE MOMENT, BATTLE GROUND HIGH SCHOOL DOES NOT, BUT THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WE'RE
LOOKING FORWARD TO STARTING. 
          GOOD. IT LOOKS IT'S OBVIOUS FROM BOTH OF YOU YOUR PRESENTATION YOU PRACTICE A LOT OF
SKILLS. 
          THERE'S NO UMS, THERE'S NO PAUSE. 
          WHEN THERE IS A PAUSE, IT'S A MOMENT WHERE YOU JUST PAUSE AND NO EXTRA WORDS. 
          IT'S VERY CLEAR THAT YOUR PUBLIC SPEAKING IS IS REALLY NICE ALREADY. 
          SO HATS OFF TO BOTH OF YOU. 
          [00:25:02]
KUDOS. NICE WORK. 
          IS THERE ANYTHING THAT THE BOARD OR THAT THE SCHOOL ADMINISTRATION CAN DO TO HELP SUPPORT
YOUR EFFORTS OR INCREASE STUDENT PARTICIPATION IN SPEECH AND DEBATE? I MEAN, OBVIOUSLY, YOU GUYS HAVE GAINED A LOT FROM IT. 
          ALL WE NEED IS FUNDING AND AWARENESS WHICH WE CAN SUPPLY ON OUR OWN. 
          YEAH, WE NEED PEOPLE. THAT'S ALL. 
          WE NEED AWARENESS. 
          SO DURING THE FRESHMAN ORIENTATION, WE DID HAVE A TABLE SET UP WHERE THE INCOMING
FRESHMEN CAN COME IN AND SEE. 
          I THINK THE ONLY OTHER THING THAT WOULD REALLY BE HELPFUL IS AGAIN, JUST THAT AWARENESS
OF IF THERE'S A FACEBOOK PAGE POST THAT'S ON THERE. 
          I'VE BEEN TRYING TO GET WORD OUT TO SOME EIGHTH GRADE TEACHERS AT CHIEF UMTUCH. 
          RIGHT. WELL, WE'VE GOT RITA HERE TODAY, SO SHE'LL GET YOU A LITTLE BIT OF PUBLICITY AND
WE'LL SEE WHAT WE CAN DO. 
          BUT OUTSTANDING AND JUST THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE. 
          AND THANK YOU ON A ON A GREAT SEASON AND, YOU KNOW, APPRECIATE YOUR APPRECIATE YOUR
EFFORTS AND FOR SHARING WITH US. 
          THANK YOU. THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU [APPLAUSE]. 
          OKAY. THAT'S THE TWO ON MY LIST. 
          ANY OTHERS? NO, I'D LIKE. 
          YEAH, I LIKE THE PRESS. 
          THEN WE'VE GOT OUR HELP FROM BRINGING IN STUDENTS AT THE START, AND IT'S FEELS GOOD. 
          YEAH. VERY COOL. AH. 
          AH. YOU KNOW OTHERS THAT WE KNOW OF? AH, YES. GO AHEAD. 
          YOU GUYS READY? SO WE ARE WE JUST HAD OPENING NIGHT FOR SENSE AND SENSIBILITY THIS FRIDAY OR THIS PAST FRIDAY, AND WE HAD ANOTHER SHOW SATURDAY AT 1:00 AND 7:00. 
          BOTH ALL THREE OF THEM WENT REALLY WELL. 
          AND THE DRAMA TEAM WOULD LIKE TO ENCOURAGE EVERYONE OUT THERE, INCLUDING ALL OF YOU, TO
GO TO OUR SHOWS ON THURSDAY AND FRIDAY AS WELL. 
          I BELIEVE THURSDAYS IS AT 6:00 AND FRIDAY IT'S AT 7:00. 
          NOW, ARE YOU ARE YOU PERFORMING IN THIS ONE? ABSOLUTELY. WHAT WHAT IS YOUR ROLE? SIR JOHN. 
          SIR JOHN MIDDLETON. HE'S JUST VERY LOUD. 
          SO I DO MY JOB. 
          AND THEN MARCHING BAND. 
          WE ARE STARTING TO GET READY FOR HAZEL DELL PARADE ON THE 21ST. 
          AND I KNOW PRAIRIE HIGH SCHOOL'S BAND IS GOING TO DISNEYLAND PRETTY SOON AND WE'RE ALL
LOOKING FORWARD TO THAT. 
          I HAVE JUST A REMINDER THAT PICK UP FOR CAP AND GOWN IS GOING TO BE MAY 25TH, 11 A.M. 
          TO 5:00 PM, AND THEN SENIOR AWARDS IS GOING TO BE MONDAY, JUNE 6TH AT 6:00 PM. 
          AND THEN, OF COURSE, GRADUATION PRACTICE. 
          DON'T BE LATE. IT'S 8:30 SHARP ON JUNE 9TH. 
          THANK YOU. I NEEDED THOSE MENTAL DATES IN MY HEAD, APPRECIATE IT. 
          THE CEREMONY STARTS AT 7:00 FOR GRADUATION. 
          OKAY. I DON'T SEE ANY OTHER ASB LOOKING REPRESENTATIVES OUT THERE, BUT DO YOU HAVE ANY? NOPE. OKAY. ALL RIGHT. 
          THAT'S OUR STUDENT VOICE FOR TONIGHT. 
          NEXT UP IS OUR COMMITTEE REPORTS. 
          OUR COMMITTEES INCLUDE THE LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEE, AUDIT COMMITTEE, BATTLE GROUND
EDUCATION FOUNDATION, WIAA, THE WASHINGTON STATE SCHOOL DIRECTORS ASSOCIATION, AND OUR TOURS COMMITTEE. 
          AUDIT COMMITTEE. ANYTHING TO REPORT? I CAN TELL YOU THE AUDIT COMMITTEE MET AND REVIEWED THE BUDGETS FOR THE SUPERINTENDENT
AND THE BOARD. 
          WE REVIEWED VOUCHERS FOR APRIL, THE SUPERINTENDENTS TIMESHEET AND PAYROLL. 
          EVERYTHING WAS IN ORDER. 
          THANK YOU. BATTLE GROUND EDUCATION FOUNDATION, DR. 
          MADDUX. 
          JUST A LOT GOING ON WITH THE EDUCATION FOUNDATION. 
          THEY ARE THIS PAST COUPLE OF WEEKS, THEY'VE HAD AN AUCTION COMMITTEE MEETING AND SO THEY
ARE JUST RAMPING UP FOR THEIR EVENT THIS FALL. 
          SO IF THEY IF ANYBODY WOULD LIKE TO VOLUNTEER AT THAT OR DONATE, PLEASE GET A HOLD OF THE
EDUCATION FOUNDATION. 
          THEY WOULD REALLY APPRECIATE THAT THEY ARE DOING A HYBRID EVENT THIS YEAR. 
          SO THEY WILL HAVE THEIR PART OF IT ON LINE AS WELL AS IN-PERSON. 
          SO THAT'LL BE EXCITING AND THERE'S DOING A LOT OF GREAT THINGS, SO IT'S GOOD MOVING
FORWARD. 
          GREAT. THANK YOU. WIAA [INAUDIBLE] YEAH. 
          WE HAVEN'T HAD A REAL MEETING FOR THIS MONTH YET. 
          HOWEVER, I BELIEVE I MENTIONED THE LAST ONE THE AMENDMENTS WERE UP FOR FINAL VOTE. 
          AND I HAVE THE RESULTS. 
          THE BIG ONES. 
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I'LL JUST BRUSH OVER THOSE IS THE REDISTRICTING FROM NINE DISTRICTS DOWN TO SIX AND THAT
WAS APPROVED. 
          AND THE OTHER BIG ONE THAT WAS APPROVED WAS REMOVING THE WORDS, IF YOU DIDN'T MEET
GRADES, YOU WERE ON ACADEMIC ELIGIBILITY FOR FIVE WEEKS AND NOW YOU ARE ON ACADEMIC PROBATION FOR THREE WEEKS. 
          AND THIS IS FOR FALL SPORTS, WHICH IS, AS EVERYONE KNOWS, RELIANT ON THE PREVIOUS
SEMESTER, WHICH IS THE LAST ACADEMIC YEAR. 
          IT WAS RELIANT ON THOSE GRADES. 
          SO AGAIN, IF YOU DON'T MAKE INSTEAD OF BEING INELIGIBLE, NOW YOU'RE JUST ON PROBATION FOR
THREE WEEKS. 
          SO THAT WAS A BIG ONE. 
          ONE THAT MARK YOU WERE INTERESTED IN WAS THE CHESS BEING A SANCTIONED SPORT. 
          THEY ACTUALLY DECIDED TO WITHDRAW THAT THE CHESS PROGRAM DID. 
          SO THEY'RE NO LONGER SEEKING ANY [INAUDIBLE] JURISDICTION ON THAT. 
          SO. OKAY, GREAT. 
          AND I ASSUME THERE'S A PROCEDURE IN PLACE FOR A STUDENT THAT'S ON ACADEMIC PROBATION. 
          THEY GET REGULAR REVIEWS. 
          THEY HAVE TO BRING THAT FORWARD OR DOES THAT HAPPEN AUTOMATICALLY? IT HAPPENS AUTOMATICALLY. 
          BUT I MEAN, IT NEEDS TO BE FOLLOWED. 
          THE PROCESS STARTS. 
          IT HAPPENS AUTOMATICALLY. 
          BUT THE ULTIMATE RESPONSIBILITY OF FOLLOWING UP GETTING TEACHERS TO REPORT GRADES GOING
AROUND THE SHEET IS THE RESPONSIBILITY OF THE STUDENT ATHLETE. 
          GOTCHA. YEAH, BECAUSE THAT'D BE BEFORE THE FIRST OFFICIAL GRADE REPORT. 
          SO THEY'D HAVE TO GO AROUND TO EACH TEACHER WITH THE FORM AND. 
          OKAY. AND WE HAVE THAT IN PROCEDURE. 
          YES. AND I CAN TELL YOU FIRSTHAND THAT COACHES ARE ON TOP OF IT AS WELL. 
          THEY'RE VERY CONCERNED ABOUT THE STUDENT'S GRADES, AND THEY'RE ON TOP OF THEIR ATHLETES,
AND THEIR MEMBERS PRETTY REGULARLY, WEEKLY, IN SOME CASES, TO MAKE SURE GRADES ARE COMING UP. 
          THANK YOU. YES, SIR. 
          OKAY. NEXT UP, OUR WASHINGTON STATE SCHOOL DIRECTORS ASSOCIATION. 
          ANY UPDATES FROM ANYBODY ELSE? I WAS SUPPOSED TO HAVE A MEETING WITH HILARY FRANZ FROM PUBLIC LANDS, WHERE WE'RE GOING
TO GET SOME MORE INPUT ON HOW TIMBER RESOURCES ARE IMPACTING OUR ACCESS TO STATE MATCHING FUNDS FOR BUILDING THAT GOT RESCHEDULED. 
          SO IT'LL BE A REPORT ANOTHER TIME. 
          WE HAVE A IT'LL BE IN FUTURE EVENTS AS WELL, BUT WE HAVE A DISTRICT AREA SIX MEETING NEXT
TUESDAY I BELIEVE SO. 
          AND TOURS. 
          WHO DID WE HAVE? WHO WANTS TO GO FIRST? WHO WANTS IT? I'LL GO. 
          YEAH. NO ONE'S GOING TO JUMP UP AT IT. 
          SO I WAS GROUP ONE. 
          SO WHEN WE WENT AROUND, I TOOK DIBS ON COLUMN FOR AUTO BODY OR THE AUTO SHOP THIS CLASS,
I'M GOING TO TALK ABOUT THAT ONE. 
          WHEN WE WENT THERE, I THINK IT WAS ONE OF THE FIRST LEVELS THAT THEY WERE IN THERE DOING
THAT. 
          SO SOME OF THE YOUNGER, YOUNGER STUDENTS WERE IN THERE GOING THROUGH SOME OF THE BASICS,
GETTING CLEANED UP AND STUFF AT THE TIME BECAUSE WE WERE COMING IN TOWARDS THE END OF THE CLASS, BUT WE SPENT SOME TIME TALKING TO THE TEACHER. 
          AND ONE OF THE THINGS I REALLY LIKED ABOUT WHAT HE WAS DOING THERE IS IN THE AUTO SHOP TWO
LEVELS. 
          SO THE NEXT STEP HE IS GOING TO BE TREATING IT MORE LIKE A JOB WHERE THEY COME IN WITH A
TIME CARD CLOCK IN AND THEN THEY HAVE TO ESTIMATE THE TIME AND MATERIALS IT'S GOING TO TAKE TO DO A REPAIR. 
          AND I REALLY LIKE THAT BECAUSE IT KIND OF GAVE THEM A REAL WORLD EXPOSURE AS TO WHAT
THAT'S GOING TO BE LIKE AND HOW TO ACTUALLY MAKE A LIVING DOING THAT RATHER THAN JUST PARTS IDENTIFICATION AND KIND OF THE [INAUDIBLE] OF IT. 
          THIS REALLY INTERESTS THESE KIDS AND IT WAS IT'D BE INTERESTING AND I KNOW THAT EVEN MY
OWN BOYS ARE GOING TO BE REALLY EXCITED TO GET INVOLVED IN THAT. 
          SO I REALLY LIKE THAT WHAT THEY'RE DOING IN THERE. 
          AND I MUST SAY, I THOUGHT THE SHOP WAS ABSOLUTELY FANTASTIC. 
          IT WAS IT WAS IT WAS WELL KEPT AND IT APPEARS HE'S GOT QUITE A BIT OF TOOLS AND THINGS
THAT HE NEEDS TO TEACH THESE KIDS. 
          SO IT WAS GOOD. I REALLY ENJOYED IT. 
          AND HE WAS SURPRISED WE CAME ALL THE WAY OUT THERE TO SEE IT IS A LITTLE BIT OF A WALK. 
          SO HE WAS. BUT IT WAS. 
          IT WAS A NICE DAY. SO I RANG IN AND IT WAS GOOD. 
          AND WE I WAS WITH TED AND WE WERE ALL OVER THE SCHOOL ACTUALLY. 
          WE HEADED ON THE OPPOSITE END OVER BY THE GREENHOUSES FROM THE SHOP AND WE STOPPED BY THE
FLORAL DEPARTMENT. 
          THAT WAS REALLY FASCINATING. 
          A SIMILAR I DON'T THINK THEY KEEP TIME SUPPLIES, BUT THEY DO USE CASH REGISTER AND TREAT. 
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THEY DO HAVE SALES OF FLOWERS AND IT WAS REALLY IMPRESSIVE TO SEE ALL OF THE DIFFERENT. 
          THEY WERE HAVING UGLY BASE DAY OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT WHERE THEY JUST HAD ALL THESE
RANDOM THINGS AND THEY WERE MAKING FLOWERS, POTS. 
          AND SO IT WAS JUST REALLY IMPRESSIVE TO SEE THAT OPERATION. 
          AND IT SEEMED TO THE STUDENTS WERE JUST VERY ENGAGED AND I REALLY ENJOYED SEEING THAT. 
          AND THEN WE ALSO STOPPED BY I THINK ONE OF THE OTHER FASCINATING THINGS WE SAW WAS THE
ASL CLASS AND THEY WERE DOING FLASHCARDS AND THEY HAD TO TEACH YOU. 
          THEY WERE SITTING ACROSS FROM EACH OTHER AND THEY HAD TO THE PERSON ACROSS FROM HAD TO
GUESS WHAT THEY WERE SIGNING. 
          AND SHE KEPT MAKING IT HARDER. 
          SHE KEPT SAYING, NOW YOU CAN'T USE LETTERS, YOU CAN'T SIGN LETTERS. 
          AND SO THEY'D HAVE TO DO DIFFERENT THINGS TO GET THROUGH IT. 
          AND IT WAS JUST IT WAS KIND OF LIKE, OH, GOSH, WE GOT TO LEAVE. 
          BUT IT WAS IT WAS REALLY FUN TO WATCH. 
          SO JUST A GREAT EXPERIENCE THERE. 
          WELL, I WAS TRYING TO LOOK UP ALL THE DIFFERENT THINGS I LEARNED. 
          I OBVIOUSLY DIDN'T LEARN VERY WELL, BUT I REALLY WAS IMPRESSED WITH THE THE ROTC, THE
THINGS THAT THEY'RE LEARNING THERE, THE ON THE HANDS ON LEARNING ABOUT HOW TO DIRECT AIRPLANE LANDING AND AND DEALING WITH ALL
THAT. 
          AND THEN THE HIGHLIGHT FOR ME ALSO WAS GOING ACROSS THE HALL TO THE MEDICAL AREA WITH MS
. 
          GODFREY AND THE TECHNOLOGY THEY HAVE THERE THAT I KNOW THAT MY SON'S A PT STUDENT IN TEXAS
AND THEY THEY THEY TAUGHT THAT THEY HAVE THE SAME TECHNOLOGY AND WE HAVE IT RIGHT HERE IN IN BATTLE GROUND TO HAVE THE THE TECHNOLOGY
TO LOOK AT THE WORDS ARE ESCAPING ME THE THAT'S JUST AMAZING TO HAVE THAT TECHNOLOGY AT OUR LEVEL HERE. 
          THAT'S 100,000. YEAH, I REMEMBER APPROVING IT. 
          YEAH, YEAH, YEAH. 
          I THINK YOU HAD QUESTIONS ABOUT IT. 
          YEAH. WHAT ARE WE BUYING HERE NOW? YOU KNOW, SO. RIGHT. 
          THAT WAS VERY IMPRESSIVE. 
          VERY IMPRESSIVE WITH WITH WHAT WE HAVE AVAILABLE AT THE HIGH SCHOOL. 
          IT'S A GREAT PROGRAM. YEAH. 
          SO I'M GOING TO JUMP OFF ON THAT. 
          AND YES, THE ROTC JUST SEEING I THINK WHAT IMPRESSED ME WAS THE STUDENTS WERE SO FULLY
ENGAGED, I'M NOT SURE THAT THEY EVEN KNOW KNEW WE WERE THERE, BUT PLANNING WAS VERY MUCH STUDENT LED PLANNING THAT MISSION AND IT WAS IMPRESSIVE. 
          AND I'M ALSO IMPRESSED AT HOW MANY AND I KNOW THIS HAPPENS ALL OVER THE DISTRICT TEACHERS
OR ORGANIZATIONS WRITING GRANTS FOR THINGS THAT END UP ENHANCING CLASSROOM WORK. 
          AND THEN AGAIN WITH THE HEALTH CAREERS, THAT WAS ANOTHER PLACE WHERE STUDENTS SO TOTALLY
ENGAGED AND WHO WOULDN'T BE I MEAN, I COULD HAVE STAYED THERE ALL DAY AND LOOKED AT THAT TABLE. 
          I'M NOT SURE I EVER REALIZED THAT THAT IS AN ACTUAL CADAVER. 
          THAT IS A COMPLETE WITH EVERYTHING LIKE A SCOLIOSIS, WHICH WOULD MAKE SENSE BECAUSE IT'S
NOT A PERFECT IT'S NOT A PERFECT MODEL. 
          IT'S AN ACTUAL MODEL WHICH WOULD BE IMPORTANT. 
          INDIVIDUALS THAT DONATED THEIR BODIES TO HAVE THEM FILMED SLIDE BY SLIDE BY SLIDE BY
SLIDE TO BE ABLE TO DEVELOP THIS TECHNOLOGY. 
          IT WAS JUST ABSOLUTELY AMAZING. 
          SO, YOU KNOW, AND STUDENT ENGAGEMENT AND WHEN I GO IN, THAT'S WHAT I LOVE TO SEE. 
          BUT I ALSO SAW STUDENT ENGAGEMENT IN MATH AND IN SCIENCE AND ALL THROUGHOUT THE BUILDING. 
          AND I JUST APPRECIATE THE FACT THAT IT TAKES A LOT OF WORK TO PREPARE FOR OUR TOURS. 
          AND I KNOW SOMETIMES IT'S NERVE RACKING FOR TEACHERS TO HAVE THE DISRUPTION, BUT IT
REALLY HELPS ME TO REALLY SEE ON THE STUDENT LEVEL WHAT'S HAPPENING BASED ON THE DECISIONS THAT WE'RE MAKING HERE. 
          SO I APPRECIATE THAT VERY MUCH. 
          THE TOURS WERE REALLY FUN. 
          I LOVE THE PEOPLE THAT TOURED US. 
          I THINK THE ONE TAKEAWAY I HAVE IS WHEN WE WALKED INTO THE WELDING SHOP AND WE SAW ALL
THE TOOLS AND LIKE THE X RAY, LIKE CUTTER THEY ALSO WELDED. 
          IT WAS IT WAS CRAZY TO THINK WE HAVE THAT IN OUR SCHOOL DISTRICT. 
          AND IT WAS JUST SO FUN TO SEE THE STUDENTS REALLY INVOLVED AND LIKE ENJOYING WHAT THEY'RE
WORKING ON AND BEING PASSIONATE ABOUT IT AND BEING ABLE TO HAVE THAT IN THE SCHOOL DISTRICT FOR THEM TO BRANCH OUT AND SEE IF THEY WANT TO DO THAT IN THE
FUTURE. 
          I WAS UNABLE TO GO, SO. 
          OKAY. ALL RIGHT. 
          SORRY, RICARDO. YEAH? I'D LIKE TO PIGGYBACK OFF OF SYDNEY THE NUMBER OF OPPORTUNITIES THAT STUDENTS HAVE, I
THINK, IS REALLY IMPRESSIVE, PARTICULARLY THROUGH THE CTE PROGRAMS THAT 
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WE VISITED. 
          THANK YOU. BUT ALSO THEN KIND OF IN CONTRAST, AS WE WENT THROUGH QUITE A NUMBER OF THE
HISTORY AND SOCIAL STUDIES CLASSES. 
          AND SO JUST SEEING THOSE CORE SUBJECTS AND TELLING THAT THEY WERE ON A SCHEDULE AND IT
WAS TIME FOR LEARNING ABOUT WORLD WAR TWO OR THE COUNTRIES OF AFRICA OR THINGS LIKE THAT, THAT THAT'S REALLY A MAJORITY OF A STUDENT EXPERIENCE THAT
THEY GET THIS COMMON GROUND ABOUT THEIR WORLD. 
          SO I KIND OF LIKE THAT BOTH OPPORTUNITIES AND COMMON GROUND OUT THERE. 
          MADE ME WANT TO GO BACK TO HIGH SCHOOL [LAUGHTER]. 
          REALLY GREAT OPPORTUNITIES FOR OUR KIDS. 
          THE ENGAGEMENT WAS THROUGH THE ROOF AND THE OPPORTUNITIES TO TRY DIFFERENT FIELDS THAT
MIGHT BE OF INTEREST. 
          JUST UNBELIEVABLE HOW THAT'S GROWN OVER THE YEARS IN OUR SCHOOL DISTRICT. 
          IT'S IMPRESSIVE AND I WOULD ECHO THE WORK THAT TEACHERS PUT IN TO HAVE US COME THROUGH WAS
WAS CLEAR. 
          BUT IT WAS ALSO WONDERFUL BECAUSE YOU SAW THE VARIETY. 
          YOU COULD TELL THAT KIDS WERE PICKING THINGS TO TAKE, THAT THEY REALLY FED THEIR
INTEREST. 
          AND I JUST THINK THERE'S SO MANY MORE OPPORTUNITIES FOR OUR STUDENTS THAN THERE USED TO
BE. 
          SO HATS OFF TO THOSE PEOPLE WORKING ON DEVELOPING THOSE PARTICULARLY CTE PROGRAMS. BUT ALL OF OUR PROGRAMS, JUST HIGH QUALITY FELT, FELT GOOD TO SEE. 
          AND I JUST END BY RECOGNIZING THE EFFORTS OF THE BUILDING ADMINISTRATION AND THE STAFF
PRINCIPAL SHARPE GORE DID A DID A GREAT JOB OR JUST ORGANIZING, YOU KNOW, IN HELPING PLAN THIS AND WELCOME US. 
          BUT ALSO JUST IT'S IMPRESSIVE THE WORK THAT'S BEING DONE AND THAT GOES FOR THE REMAINDER
OF HIS ADMINISTRATIVE TEAM. 
          AND AND AS SHELLY MENTIONED, THE TEACHERS AND SUPPORT STAFF WHERE YOU COULD YOU COULD SEE
IT CLEARLY THEIR HARD WORK AND AND POSITIVE EFFORTS. 
          IT WAS SO GOOD, IN FACT, THAT SYDNEY WAS TAKING PICTURES THAT PASSED THE PRAIRIE SO THEY
COULD [INAUDIBLE]. 
          SO WE'VE GOT SOME OTHER TOURS COMING UP SOON. 
          EVERYBODY GET A CHANCE TO CONTRIBUTE. 
          OKAY. SO MAY 10TH, PLEASANT VALLEY MIDDLE, DUKE'S MIDDLE, MAY 13, PLEASANT VALLEY
PRIMARY. 
          AND THEN WE'RE ALL AT PRAIRIE AGAIN ON MAY 24TH SO. 
          ALL RIGHT. NEXT UP IS OUR DIRECTOR REPORTS. 
          IF WE HAVE ANY REPORTS FROM DIRECTORS, YOU'D LIKE TO GET IN. 
          I ATTENDED THE PRAIRIE PLANT SALE AND IT WAS AMAZING AS IT IS EVERY YEAR. 
          THEY JUST DO SUCH A GREAT JOB. 
          I GOT THE OPPORTUNITY TO SPEAK WITH A COUPLE OF STUDENTS, A SOPHOMORE AND A FRESHMAN WHO
ARE PARTICIPATING IN THE PROGRAM. 
          AND ALL OF THE STUDENTS WERE JUST SO HELPFUL. 
          WE ALL KIND OF HUNKERED IN THE GREENHOUSE FOR A WHILE BECAUSE IT JUST STARTED RAINING
LIKE LITERALLY BUCKETS, I THINK. 
          AT LEAST SO IT SOUNDED IN THE GREENHOUSE. 
          BUT SO. 
          SO WHILE WE WERE WAITING, I GOT TO CHAT WITH A COUPLE OF OF NICE YOUNG LADIES, AND THEY
JUST SHARED HOW MUCH THEY LOVED THAT PROGRAM AND LEARNING ABOUT PLANT BIOLOGY AND JUST THEY WERE SO EXCITED TO KEEP TAKING IT AND, YOU KNOW, LOOKING
ALREADY LOOKING FORWARD TO NEXT YEAR. 
          SO THAT WAS SUPER EXCITING TO DO AND I THEY SOME GREAT PLANTS, SO THAT WAS A BONUS. 
          LAST WEEK I ATTENDED A PRAIRIE SOCCER GAME. 
          THEY PLAYED EVERGREEN, AND IT WAS TO DETERMINE WHETHER THEY COULD GO TO THE PLAYOFFS AND
GO TO DISTRICTS, AND THEY ENDED UP LOSING. 
          BUT IT SURE RAINED A LOT. 
          IT JUST POURED ON US, BUT IT WAS A FUN GAME TO WATCH. 
          YEAH. SEE HOW I WORKED THAT IN THERE? OKAY. ANY OTHER DIRECT REPORTS? ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU. IT DOES HELP WHEN WE CAN BE AT THOSE EVENTS AND SEE SOME OF THOSE
THINGS GOING ON. 
          I THINK LIKE WE HEARD TONIGHT, THERE'S GREAT THINGS GOING IN THE CLASSROOM. 
          THERE'S ALSO GREAT THINGS GOING ON IN OUR CLUBS AND OPPORTUNITIES FOR STUDENTS TO FIND
THINGS LIKE SPEECH AND DEBATE THAT THEY REALLY LIKE. 
          SO. ALL RIGHT. 
          [6. Superintendent and Staff Updates]
NEXT UP IS OUR SUPERINTENDENT AND STAFF UPDATES. 
          AND WE DO HAVE A CAPITAL PROJECTS PLAN THAT'S GOING TO TAKE A LITTLE BIT OF TIME TO
PRESENT. 
          SO AGAIN, THANK YOU AUDIENCE. 
          WE ARE GOING TO GET TO YOU, BUT I ACTUALLY HOPE YOU'LL FIND THIS INTERESTING. 
          IT'S KIND OF A COMPLETE SURVEY OF OUR FACILITIES. 
          WHAT I'D LIKE TO DO FOR THE SAKE OF FLOW, BECAUSE KEVIN WILL NOT HAVE A REPORT TODAY
BECAUSE HE'S PART OF THE CAPITAL FACILITIES PLANNING. 
          OUR CFO, MICHELLE SCOTT, WILL NOT HAVE A FINANCE REPORT TODAY BECAUSE SHE IS PART OF THE
CAPITAL FACILITIES PLANNING. 
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I WON'T HAVE A REPORT BECAUSE I'M PART OF THE CAPITAL FACILITIES PLAN. 
          SHELLY DOESN'T HAVE A REPORT JUST BECAUSE OF THE SAKE OF TIME. 
          THANK YOU. YEAH, SHE'S TRYING TO. 
          SO I'D LIKE TO SHIFT REAL QUICKLY BEFORE WE GET TO THE CAPITAL FACILITIES REPORT TO
MICHELLE REINHART TO GIVE US A QUICK HUMAN RESOURCES REPORT. 
          OBVIOUSLY, I SHOULD HAVE PLANNED MY. 
          ALL RIGHT. WELL, GOOD EVENING, BOARD, JUST WANTED TO GIVE A QUICK UPDATE REGARDING
STAFFING. 
          SO LAST WEEK WE HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO OFFER WE HAD ABOUT NINE STAFF MEMBERS WHO WERE
DISPLACED, WHO DIDN'T HAVE A POSITION, AND WE HAD AT LEAST A 35 TO 40 OPEN POSITIONS FOR THEM TO CHOOSE FROM. 
          AND SO WE WENT THROUGH THAT PROCESS AND HAD THEM SELECT A POSITION. 
          AND SO THAT WAS A WORK TOOK SEVERAL HOURS, BUT THAT WAS WITH STEPHANIE WATTS AND CURTIS
[INAUDIBLE] THE BGA PRESIDENT. 
          I JUST WANTED TO ALSO BRING TO YOUR ATTENTION ON THE CONSENT AGENDA. 
          YOU'LL SEE A RESOLUTION. 
          AND SO PART OF STAFFING AT THIS TIME OF YEAR WHERE WE'RE LOOKING TO MAKE ADJUSTMENTS
BASED ON ENROLLMENT, WE'RE LOOKING TO MAKE ADJUSTMENTS BASED OFF BASED ON STUDENT FORECASTING AND REQUESTS. 
          AND SO THE HIGH SCHOOLS WRAPPED UP THEIR FORECASTING REQUEST IN THE LAST COUPLE OF WEEKS. 
          AND SO WITH THAT, THERE WERE A COUPLE OF AREAS IN CTE WHERE SOME OF OUR ARE STAFF IN
THOSE PROGRAMS. THEY'RE LIMITED IN THEIR CERTIFICATION. 
          AND SO THE LIST OF OF 35 TO 40 POSITIONS, THEY'RE NOT ABLE TO TO CHOOSE FROM THOSE FROM
THOSE POSITIONS. 
          SO WE DO HAVE A COUPLE OF A COUPLE OF CLASSES THAT WE HAVE TO ELIMINATE AT THIS TIME. 
          WE WATCH THE NUMBERS VERY CLOSELY AND I HAVE CINDY ARNOLD HERE IN IN IN THE AUDIENCE AS
WELL. 
          THIS IS NOT A THIS IS NOT UNCOMMON FOR CTE, WHERE EVERY YEAR THEY'RE HAVING TO ADJUST
PROGRAM NEEDS BASED OFF OF OF OF STUDENT REQUESTS. 
          SO SO YOU'LL JUST NOTICE THAT IT LOOKS LIKE A TOTAL OF 1.7 FTE CLASSES ARE ELIMINATED AND
THAT'S NOT ONE PERSON OR TWO TWO TEACHERS THAT POTENTIALLY IS ONE CLASS HERE, ONE CLASS OVER OVER IN IN THIS AREA. 
          BUT THAT IS CERTAINLY WORST CASE SCENARIO THAT WE ARE HAVING TO PLAN FOR. 
          SO YOU WILL SEE THAT ON THE CONSENT AGENDA. 
          SO AND IT'S NOT UNCOMMON TO BY THE BEGINNING OF THE YEAR, HAVE ALL OF THOSE BACK, BECAUSE
WHAT HAPPENS IS AS ENROLLMENT CHANGES AND NEW STUDENTS COME IN IN THE SUMMER, THEY FILL THOSE POSITIONS AS THEY DO. 
          BUT AS YOU KNOW, WE HAVE A STATUTORY DEADLINE OF MAY 15TH. 
          AND SO WE HAVE TO LET STAFF KNOW IF OUR PROJECTION IS LESS THAN A 1.0 FTE. 
          SO THAT IS WHAT MICHELLE IS REFERRING TO IN TERMS OF CURRENT NUMBERS OR CURRENT
INFORMATION. 
          SO THAT WILL CONTINUE TO BE ADJUSTED THROUGHOUT THE SUMMER. 
          ANY QUESTIONS? THANK YOU, MICHELLE AND THEN NEXT, I'D LIKE TO GET OUR COMMUNICATIONS REPORT FROM MS. SANDERS, RITA SANDERS. 
          THANK YOU. THANK YOU. 
          ALL RIGHT. I JUST HAVE A BRIEF REPORT TONIGHT. 
          FIRST UP, I WANT TO REMIND YOU ALL THAT VOTING IS OPEN FOR OUR NATIONAL FUTURE CHEF
CONTENDER, [INAUDIBLE]. 
          AND SO IF YOU HAVEN'T VOTED, PLEASE DO. 
          IT'S OPEN THROUGH FRIDAY AND YOU CAN DEVOTE FROM YOU CAN VOTE FROM ALL YOUR DEVICES. 
          CAN'T VOTE ONCE FOR EACH DEVICE? BUT EVERY DEVICE. 
          JUST A LITTLE TIP THERE. 
          ALL RIGHT. I ALSO WANTED TO SHARE WITH YOU. 
          I ALSO WANTED TO SHARE WITH YOU THAT, AS YOU KNOW, NEXT MEETING IS THE ART SHOW MEETING
AND WE'RE SUPER EXCITED. 
          AND THE ART SHOW IS VIRTUAL AGAIN THIS YEAR, BUT IT'S NOW LIVE AND SO WE ARE JUDGING IT
THIS YEAR. 
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WE TOOK A LITTLE BIT OF A HIATUS ON JUDGING THE ART SHOW, BUT IT IS GOING TO BE JUDGED
THIS YEAR. 
          OUR ART TEACHERS HAVE WORKED REALLY HARD TO GATHER ALL THE ART AND THIS TO HEART HAS
WORKED REALLY HARD TO SHOW THIS YEAR. 
          AND WE HAVE PUT TOGETHER THE VIRTUAL ART SHOW ON OUR WEBSITE AND WE HAVE A COUPLE OF NEW
AWARDS THIS YEAR THAT WE'RE GOING TO DO. 
          AND SO ONE IS THE BOARD DIRECTOR'S CHOICE AWARD. 
          AND SO WE'RE ASKING THE FIVE VOTING DIRECTORS TO PLEASE VISIT THE ART SHOW ONLINE THIS
WEEK AND SELECT YOUR FAVORITE. AND THAT ARTIST IS GOING TO GET A BOARD DIRECTOR'S CHOICE AWARD. 
          SO WE'LL HAVE FIVE OF THOSE, ONE FROM EACH OF YOU. 
          OF COURSE, THE SUPERINTENDENT ALSO NEEDS TO GO ONLINE AND CHOOSE HIS AWARD THIS YEAR FOR
THE SUPERINTENDENT AWARD. 
          AND THEN WE'RE ALSO DOING A PEOPLE'S CHOICE AWARD. 
          WE'RE GOING TO DO ONE FOR PRIMARY, ONE FOR MIDDLE AND ONE FOR HIGH SCHOOL LEVEL. 
          AND SO WE'RE GOING TO SEND THAT OUT IN OUR INFORMATION TO PARENTS TONIGHT AND SHARE IT
WITH OUR COMMUNITY. 
          AND SO OUR COMMUNITY AND FAMILIES CAN HELP US CHOOSE PEOPLE'S CHOICE AWARDS THIS YEAR. 
          SO THAT SHOULD BE REALLY FUN. 
          SO THAT'S LIVE AND I WILL SEND YOU ALL AN EMAIL TOMORROW TO REMIND YOU TO CHOOSE YOUR
RECIPIENTS THIS WEEK. 
          THAT'S IT. THAT'S IT. 
          THANK YOU, RITA. AND ALSO, BEFORE WE GET ON TO THE CAPITAL FACILITIES PLAN, I ALSO WANT
TO LET THE BOARD KNOW THAT LAST WEEK WAS TEACHER APPRECIATION WEEK. 
          IF YOU HAVEN'T HAD AN OPPORTUNITY, YOU CAN GO ONLINE. 
          CHRIS BROWN AND THE COMMUNICATIONS DEPARTMENT PRODUCED A COUPLE OF GREAT VIDEOS THAT ARE
ABSOLUTELY OUTSTANDING. 
          YOU CAN LOOK AT THOSE, IT'S WONDERFUL. 
          AND ALSO THIS WEDNESDAY IS SCHOOL NURSE APPRECIATION DAY. 
          SO THAT'S REALLY IMPORTANT WE HAVE 25 FANTASTIC SCHOOL NURSES THAT HAVE, YOU KNOW, HELPED
LEAD US THROUGH THE PANDEMIC, BUT WHO ON A DAILY BASIS PROVIDE A LOT OF CARE AND KINDNESS AND AN OUTSTANDING
WORK ETHIC IN OUR SCHOOLS. 
          SO WE APPRECIATE THEM AS WELL. 
          CAN I SAY SOMETHING ABOUT OUR PRINCIPLES AS WELL. 
          YEAH. IT ACTUALLY LANDED ON SUNDAY, RIGHT? YEAH. RIGHT. 
          WHICH IS ODD. 
          SO IT'S USUALLY PRINCIPALS DAY IS KIND OF TRICKY BECAUSE IT'S USUALLY THE FIRST DAY OF
MAY OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT. 
          AND IT HAS FALLEN ON A WEEKEND THE LAST COUPLE OF YEARS. 
          SO WE JUST PICKED OUR DAY AND WE CELEBRATED THEM. 
          SO IT WAS LAST WEEK. 
          YEAH, BUT WE DID, WE DID BRING ATTENTION TO OUR OUTSTANDING ADMINISTRATIVE TEAMS AS WELL. 
          OKAY WITH THAT ONE OF THE RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE SCHOOL BOARD IS TO APPROVE AND SUBMIT A CAPITAL FACILITY PLAN. 
          THE BIGGEST COMPONENT I WOULDN'T SAY THAT THE BIG THAT'S THE WRONG PHRASING. 
          THE MOST SIGNIFICANT PART OF THE CAPITAL FACILITY PLAN IS THAT WE WILL BE SETTING OUR
SCHOOL IMPACT FEES. 
          SO NOT ONLY WILL WE BE IDENTIFYING WHAT WE WANT TO WHAT OUR NEEDS ARE FROM A FACILITY
STANDPOINT AND WHAT WE THINK WE'RE GOING TO BE SPENDING OUR SCHOOL IMPACT FEES ON, WE ALSO HAVE TO GO THROUGH
THE PROCESS OF SETTING THOSE FEES. 
          BATTLE GROUND IS A UNIQUE DISTRICT IN THAT WE SIT IN FOUR DIFFERENT MUNICIPALITIES. 
          SO WE HAVE THE COUNTY, WE HAVE THE CITY OF VANCOUVER, WE HAVE THE TOWN OF YAKULT, AND WE
HAVE THE CITY OF BATTLE GROUND. 
          SO MANY SCHOOL DISTRICTS ONLY NEED TO GET THEIR CAPITAL FACILITIES PLAN APPROVED BY ONE
MUNICIPALITY. 
          WE NEED TO GET OUR PLAN APPROVED BY FOUR MUNICIPALITIES. 
          SO TIMING IS CRITICAL AND IMPORTANT FOR US. 
          SO I DO WANT TO COMMEND THE EFFORTS OF MICHELLE SCOTT AND KEVIN JOLMA. 
          THEY HAVE LED THIS EFFORT FOR US. 
          I WILL SAY THAT WE ARE THE FIRST OF SEVERAL DISTRICTS THAT ARE DUE THIS YEAR TO COMPLETE
OURS AND AT LEAST BRING TO YOU A DRAFT. OUR INTENT TODAY IS NOT TO GO OVER THE DRAFT. 
          YOU WILL NOTE THAT THE DRAFT IS PROVIDED TO YOU IN ADMINISTRATIVE CONTENT. 
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TODAY'S PURPOSE IS TO JUST GIVE YOU AN OVERVIEW OF THE CAPITAL FACILITIES PROCESS TO GET
YOU A BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF THAT PROCESS SO THAT WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE DRAFT, WE'LL BE READY TO TALK ABOUT THE DRAFT
AT OUR NEXT MEETING. 
          THAT'S OUR TIMELINE FOR THIS. 
          IT'S ALSO TO GIVE YOU TO START THINKING ABOUT THAT CRITICAL QUESTION OF HOW MUCH ARE WE
GOING TO SET OUR SCHOOL IMPACT FEES FOR? MICHELLE IS GOING TO GO THROUGH THE PROCESS THAT SHE DETERMINED THAT GIVES US KIND OF THE
UPPER LIMIT THAT WE CAN SET OUR IMPACT FEES. 
          BUT THE DECISION TRULY IS A POLITICAL ONE IN THAT THAT GIVES YOU YOUR CEILING. 
          BUT YOU WEIGH IN A MULTITUDE OF OTHER FACTORS THE ECONOMY BEING ONE, THE TAXES BEING
ANOTHER, THAT WHOLE THING, HOW WE PLAN TO ACTUALLY, AS WE MOVE FORWARD IN THE FUTURE FUND OUR NEED FOR NEW
FACILITIES. 
          IF YOU CHOOSE THE HIGHEST AMOUNT, THE IDEA THAT WOULD BE WOULD BE COMING FROM THAT WOULD
BE THAT WITHIN 4 TO 6 YEARS, BY RAISING OUR IMPACT FEES TO THAT TOP TIER, THAT WE COULD ACTUALLY MEET OUR
FUNDING NEEDS AND RESPONSIBILITIES WITHOUT HAVING A BOND. 
          BUT TO INCREASE IT AND WE'LL SHARE WITH YOU SOME OF THE FINE LINES IN THAT AGAIN, IS A IS
A CONSIDERATION A MULTI STEP PROCESS THAT YOU ALSO NEED TO CONSIDER BECAUSE WE ALSO HAVE TO WEIGH IN THE IDEA THAT THE
FINAL YOU'LL MAKE A RECOMMENDATION, WE'LL SUBMIT A RECOMMENDATION, BUT THE FINAL APPROVAL OF RATES IS UP TO
EACH MUNICIPALITY. 
          AND WE ALSO HAVE TO CONSIDER WHERE WE SIT WITH OTHER DISTRICTS AROUND US. 
          SO IT'S A COMPLICATED AND TO SOME EXTENT ARBITRARY PROCESS THAT WE HOPE TO SHED SOME LIGHT
ON. 
          AND YOU'LL GET A BETTER UNDERSTANDING, BUT WE'LL GO THROUGH IT WITH YOU. 
          OKAY. SO WITH THAT, I'M GOING TO TURN IT OVER TO KEVIN JOLMA AND MICHELLE SCOTT. 
          BRING YOUR MICROPHONE. 
          OKAY. WE'RE GOING TO START OUT WITH SOME TERMINOLOGY THAT'S IMPORTANT WHEN YOU'RE LOOKING
THROUGH THE CAPITAL FACILITY PLAN, THE DRAFT, JUST TO GIVE YOU SOME IDEAS OF WHAT WHAT THE MEANINGS ARE ON. 
          PERMANENT FACILITIES ARE CONSIDERED BRICK AND MORTAR SCHOOL BUILDINGS. 
          SO IT DOES NOT INCLUDE PORTABLES, BASICALLY. 
          SO UNHOUSED STUDENTS IS BRICK AND MORTAR, SCHOOL BUILDING, STUDENT CAPACITY UNLESS THE
ENROLLMENT. 
          SO IF THE ENROLLMENT IS GREATER THAN THE CAPACITY AND STUDENTS ARE IN PORTABLES, THEN YOU
HAVE WHAT'S CONSIDERED UNHOUSED STUDENTS. 
          AND THEN NEXT IS A STUDENT GENERATION RATE, WHICH IS IMPORTANT BECAUSE THE STUDENT
GENERATION RATE IS WHAT THAT IS, IS IT'S TAKING THE NUMBER OF RESIDENTS IN THE DISTRICT AND THEN DIVIDING BY OUR ENROLLMENT. 
          AND SO THAT'S GIVING AN AVERAGE STUDENT PER HOUSEHOLD AND IN DIFFERENT GRADE BANDS. 
          AND SO IN IN THIS PARTICULAR CASE, RIGHT NOW WE ARE AT A .4 STUDENT IN EVERY RESIDENT IN OUR DISTRICT AND CLARK COUNTY PROVIDES PROVIDED THE RESIDENTS THEY DIDN'T
HAVE THE MULTI FAMILY RESIDENT DATA BUT WE HAD THAT INFORMATION FROM THE DEMOGRAPHER THAT WAS HIRED FOR THE
DISTRICT IN 2019 WHEN WE INITIALLY STARTED THE DISTRICT, STARTED THE CAPITAL FACILITY PLANNING BUT WAS PLACED ON
HOLD DUE TO COVID. 
          SO THIS UPDATE HAS BEEN ON HOLD FOR A COUPLE OF YEARS TO GET THIS UPDATED. 
          SO ON OUR CURRENT PLAN THAT THAT HAS IT HASN'T EXPIRED, WE'VE JUST HAD WAIVERS TO
CONTINUE IT ON. 
          NEXT, WHY OUR CAPITAL FACILITY PLANS ARE PREPARED AND IT'S A TOOL TO EVALUATE AND 
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PROJECT PERMANENT CAPACITY FACILITY NEEDS FOR HEALTH STUDENTS. 
          AND IT'S IT'S REQUIRED BY THE WASHINGTON STATE GROWTH MANAGEMENT ACT TO CHARGE A SCHOOL
IMPACT FEE. 
          AND THEN CURRENTLY RIGHT NOW THE IT'S A SIX YEAR PLANNING IS UPDATED EVERY FOUR YEARS. 
          SO EVERY FOUR YEARS THE DISTRICT UPDATES THE PLANT, THE SIX YEAR PLAN. 
          SO IT'S KIND OF A ROLLING PLAN. 
          SO AND OUR PLAN WAS DUE IN 2020, JUST SO YOU KNOW, BUT IT WAS DELAYED BECAUSE OF COVID. AND SO EVERYBODY HAS BEEN ON STANDSTILL. 
          RIGHT. SO THE REQUIRED ELEMENTS IN A CAPITAL FACILITY PLAN FOR ALL FOR ALL SCHOOLS IS THE
STANDARD OF SERVICE. SO PROGRAMS BEING OFFERED CLASS SIZE AND GRADE SPANS. 
          AND A LOT OF THAT WORK WAS DONE BY DEPUTY SUPERINTENDENT SHELLY WHITTEN. 
          SHE ASSISTED IN THAT AREA AND THEN WE DID. 
          WE TOOK OUR CURRENT HEAD COUNT ENROLLMENT, SO AND THEN WE LOOKED AT FORECASTING
ENROLLMENT AND WE DON'T HAVE A LOT OF GROWTH FORECASTED INTO THAT ENROLLMENT. 
          BUT YOU WILL SEE WE DO CURRENTLY HAVE UNHOUSED STUDENTS AND THAT IS PRIMARILY WILL BE A
FUNCTION OF THE THE STUDENTS AND PORTABLES AS WELL AS GOING TO FULL TIME KINDERGARTEN FROM OUR PRIOR
CAPITAL FACILITY PLAN, WHICH WAS BASED OFF OF HALF TIME KINDERGARTEN STUDENTS BACK IN 2015. 
          SO THERE'S A THERE'S A FEW THINGS THAT ARE DIFFERENT. 
          SO IT TAKES THE FACILITY INVENTORY IS IMPORTANT. 
          SO WE'LL HAVE THE PROPERTY THAT THE DISTRICT OWNS. 
          PORTABLE INFORMATION AND SUPPORT FACILITIES ARE INCLUDED IN IN THE PLAN AND THEN THE
CAPACITY PROVIDED WITH OUR CURRENT FACILITIES, A FINANCING PLAN FOR NEEDED FACILITIES AND THE
IMPACT FEE CALCULATION. 
          SO NEXT, ASSESSING AND DISPERSING SCHOOL IMPACT FEES. 
          AS SUPERINTENDENT WATERS MENTIONED, WE HAVE THE FOUR MUNICIPALITIES AND THEY ARE
RESPONSIBLE FOR COLLECTING THE IMPACT FEE AND THROUGH INTERLOCAL AGREEMENTS THAT WE HAVE WITH THEM, THEY REMIT BACK TO THE
SCHOOL DISTRICT. 
          AND HOW DO WE SPEND THOSE IMPACT FEES? WELL, WE IT PROVIDES FOR SYSTEM WIDE IMPROVEMENTS THAT BENEFIT NEW DEVELOPMENT. 
          AND SO IT'S IMPROVEMENTS THAT ADD STUDENT CAPACITY AND RELATED SUPPORT FACILITIES AND
FIND A PORTION OF THOSE IMPROVEMENT COSTS. 
          SO YOU CAN USE IMPACT FEES FOR PORTABLES, YOU CAN USE THEM FOR YOUR SUPPORT FACILITIES
AND IDEALLY FOR BRICK AND MORTAR BUILDINGS TO HELP OFFSET THE COST OF FINANCING THOSE BRICK AND MORTAR FACILITIES. 
          AS YOU KNOW, AND YOU MENTIONED, MR. WATRIN, THAT THE STATE FUNDING ASSISTANCE THAT COMES DOWN FROM THE STATE IS REALLY NOT
ADEQUATE TO DO THAT. 
          AND SO SCHOOL IMPACT FEES ARE AN IMPORTANT COMPONENT OF THE BUILDING FACILITIES AND
FINANCING FACILITIES. SO THE PROCESS TO ADOPT A CAPITAL FACILITY PLAN AND SCHOOL FEES. MR. WATERS ALREADY MENTIONED THAT WE WILL THE BOARD WILL APPROVE. 
          AND ONCE THE BOARD HAS MADE A RECOMMENDATION ON THE SCHOOL IMPACT FEE AMOUNT AND APPROVED
THE PLAN, THEN IT WILL BE FILED WITH THE COUNTY, CITIES AND TOWN, AND THEN THEY WILL GO THROUGH A PROCESS WITH THEIR PLANNING
COMMISSION AND THEY'LL HAVE PUBLIC THEY'LL HAVE PUBLIC COMMENT AND THEN IT'LL GO EVENTUALLY TO FOR FINAL APPROVAL BY DEPENDING ON IF IT'S THEIR
COUNCILS. 
          AND SO IN THE NEW IMPACT FEES BECOME EFFECTIVE IN 2023. 
          AND SO THERE'S A THERE'S SOME ADDITIONAL PROCESS ON ADOPTING THE CAPITAL FACILITY PLANS. 
          YOU NEED TO HAVE YOUR STUDENT ENROLLMENT PROJECTIONS AND IT'S AND WE TAKE OUR BEST EFFORT
TO DO THAT BASED ON SOME TRENDS THAT WE WERE SEEING PRE-COVID. 
          WE LOOKED AT THOSE AND WE LOOKED AT JUST IT WAS JUST MORE OF A CONSERVATIVE LOOK AT IT. 
          IT'S DIFFICULT TO PROJECT GROWTH BECAUSE EVEN THOUGH WE HAVE A LOT OF BUILDING AND
DEVELOPMENT GOING ON, IT DOESN'T NECESSARILY DRIVE 
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ENROLLMENT IN THOSE NUMBERS. 
          IT JUST DEPENDS. 
          SO WE'RE KIND OF AT AN ODD TIME RIGHT NOW WITH A LOT OF BUILDING, BUT NOT SEEING
INITIALLY A SIGNIFICANT GROWTH IN ENROLLMENT AT THIS TIME. SO WE'LL IDENTIFY FACILITY NEEDS AND THEN WE HAVE THE STUDENT GENERATION RATES
AND THEN WE CALCULATE THE SCHOOL IMPACT FEE ON THAT. 
          SO AGAIN THE PROCESS TO ADOPT THOSE ARE PART OF THE PLANNING COMMISSION'S WILL THEY'LL BE ADOPTED WITH THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN
AMENDMENTS FOR THE COUNTY AND FOR THE CITIES AND THE COMMISSION HOLDING PUBLIC HEARINGS AND THEN RECOMMENDATIONS FOR THOSE. 
          SO LET'S LOOK AT ENROLLMENT. 
          SO IN HEADCOUNT COMPARED TO PERMANENT CAPACITY, IT'S REALLY IN OUR K-8S THAT WE REALLY
SHOW THE STRONGEST NEED. 
          SO WHEN WE LOOK AT CAPACITY, PERMANENT CAPACITY, IT'S BASED ON TEACHING STATIONS. 
          AND TEACHING STATIONS ARE KIND OF LIKE YOUR HOME ROOMS. SO THEY'RE LOOKING AND THEY'RE NOT LOOKING LIKE IT NECESSARILY LIKE THE FISH LITTLE YOU
KNOW, LITTLE CLASSROOMS THAT HAVE BEEN JUST KIND OF SET UP TO BE USED FOR PULL OUT MODELS OF EDUCATION. 
          SO IT'S REALLY TRYING TO DETERMINE WHAT IS THE WHAT ARE THE NUMBER OF TEACHING STATIONS. 
          AND WE HAVE SOME OF OUR SPECIAL SERVICES THAT HAVE A MAY HAVE A LOWER ENROLLMENT AVERAGE. 
          AND THEN WE ALSO USE THE ENROLLMENT, THE CLASS SIZE BASED ON SOME OF OUR CONTRACTED
LANGUAGE WOULD BE INCLUDED IN THOSE PROJECTING THESE IN DETERMINING PERMANENT CAPACITY AS WELL AS FORECASTING. 
          SO SO YOU CAN SEE HERE IN OUR K FOR ALL OF THE K-4S AND WHEN WE LOOK AT RIVER, RIVERS'
INCLUDED IN THAT K-4, SO IT'S LOOKING AT ALL OF THOSE FACILITIES THAT HAVE A K-4. 
          SO YOU'RE LOOKING AT PERMANENT CAPACITY OF 3,907 WITH A FORECAST ENROLLMENT IN 2,028 OF
4,594. 
          SO FACILITY NEEDS OF 687. 
          SO THEN THE MIDDLE SCHOOL IS 3,182 AND FORECAST AN ENROLLMENT OF 3,713. 
          THAT'S 531. 
          SO BASICALLY A LOT OF THESE STUDENTS ARE RIGHT NOW IN PORTABLES RIGHT NOW. 
          SO HIGH SCHOOL, WE DO NOT SHOW ANY NEED FOR CAPACITY BASED ON CURRENT ENROLLMENT AND OUR PERMANENT CAPACITY. 
          MICHELLE, CAN I ASK YOU A QUICK QUESTION? YEAH. THESE PROJECTIONS, THIS IS A FOUR YEAR PLAN. 
          ARE THESE PROJECTIONS TAKING THAT INTO CONSIDERATION THAT THIS IS GOING TO BE THE FOUR
YEAR NEED OR IS THIS JUST THE NEXT YEAR'S NEED? IT'S ACTUALLY SIX YEAR. 
          SIX YEAR, YEAH. 
          YEAH. SO THE ENROLLMENT FORECAST, WHEN YOU REVIEW THE DRAFT PLAN, YOU'LL SEE THE
ENROLLMENT BY YEAR AND YOU CAN SEE HOW THE WHEN THEY'RE MOVING FROM GRADE TO GRADE. 
          SO FROM 7TH GRADE TO 8TH GRADE THE NEXT YEAR AND YOU CAN SEE KIND OF THOSE YOU'LL BE ABLE
TO SEE HOW THOSE WE HAVE IT BY EACH GRADE IN THE ENROLLMENT FORECASTING. 
          SO YOU CAN SEE HOW THAT'S MOVING. 
          THERE IS A REDUCTION, YOU KNOW, RUNNING START STUDENTS, YOU KNOW, COME OUT OF THAT
CALCULATION BECAUSE OF THE SOME OF THE HEAD COUNTS WITH THOSE. 
          SO IS THAT WHY YOU HAVE I MEAN, IS THAT THE ONLY REASON YOU HAVE THE BIG DROP BETWEEN THE
PRIMARY MIDDLE MATRICULATING UP TO HIGH SCHOOL WHERE WE HAVE THESE HIGH NEEDS AND THEN IT JUST DROPS DOWN IN ENROLLMENT. 
          YEAH, I, I CAN'T REALLY SPEAK TO THE ACTUAL, YOU KNOW, I KNOW THE NUMBERS, BUT I'M NOT
SURE IN THE ENROLLMENT IS CERTAINLY A PIECE OF IT. 
          BUT IT'S ALSO THAT OUR HIGH SCHOOL ENROLLMENT HAS BEEN DECLINING OVER THE LAST FEW YEARS
AND RIGHT NOW WE DON'T SEE IT TRENDING IN THE OTHER DIRECTION. A LOT OF OUR FAMILY HOMES, STUDENTS AGE OUT OF. 
          WE ARE POSSIBLY SEEING A TREND IN THE OTHER DIRECTION. 
          IT PARTICULARLY IN THE PLEASANT VALLEY AREA THAT WE'VE BEEN MONITORING WITH SOME OF THE
NEW HOMES OVER THERE. 
          OUR KINDERGARTEN ENROLLMENT APPEARS TO BE UP. 
          SO WE MAY BE HITTING A SECOND TREND OF GROWING ENROLLMENT, BUT IT GOES BASICALLY IN
SWELLS BECAUSE FAMILIES START OVER IN THOSE HOMES AND COME UP THROUGH. 
          SO IT'S IT'S VERY HARD TO KNOW THE FULL STORY OF THE HIGH SCHOOL PIECE. 
          BUT I WOULD SAY THAT WE HAVE SEEN SOME DECLINING ENROLLMENT OVER THE LAST YEAR. 
          BUT I THINK IT IS INTERESTING, TED, I THINK YOUR POINT IS WELL MADE. 
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IF YOU LOOK AT THE PRIMARY NUMBERS, THE FORECAST ENROLLMENT FOR K-4 IS 4,590 FOR MIDDLE
SCHOOL, 3,713 IN HIGH SCHOOL, 3,402. 
          THAT'S WITHIN THE NEXT SIX YEARS. 
          IT WOULD BE INTERESTING TO THINK, THOUGH, THAT IN THE NEXT 12 YEARS THOSE 4,594 ARE GOING
TO MATRICULATE TO THE MIDDLE SCHOOL AND THEN TO HIGH SCHOOL. SO THE POTENTIAL FOR GROWTH IS OBVIOUSLY THERE. 
          IT'S JUST NOT PROBABLY GOING TO BE IMMEDIATE GROWTH, BUT IT'S GOING TO BE FUTURE GROWTH. 
          WELL, THAT'S WHY I ASK THE QUESTION, BECAUSE I DON'T WANT TO BE LIKE, OH, WE'RE NOT GOING
TO EVEN CONSIDER HIGH SCHOOL. 
          THEN ALL THE SUDDEN WE'RE LIKE, WE HAVE NO ROOM. 
          AND UNDERSTAND SOMETHING THAT IT'S TAKEN ME A WHILE TO UNDERSTAND IS THAT THERE'S REALLY
TWO WAYS THAT WE CAN RAISE MONEY FOR CONSTRUCTION. 
          ONE IS THE IMPACT FEES, BUT THE OTHER IS FOR A BOND. 
          AND THE IMPACT FEES ARE WHAT WE ARE TALKING ABOUT HERE. 
          THAT DOESN'T PRECLUDE A DISTRICT FROM RUNNING A BOND AND WANTING TO DO OTHER PROJECTS,
FOR INSTANCE, ALONG THE LINES OF REPLACEMENT OR OR REMODELING OR SOMETHING OR NEW FACILITIES. 
          YOU MENTIONED ATHLETIC FACILITIES BEFORE. 
          SO THOSE ARE OTHER WAYS THAT WE CAN DO THAT. 
          THIS IS SPECIFICALLY LOOKING AT THE USE OF THE SETTING AND THE USE OF IMPACT FEES. 
          AND CURRENTLY RIGHT NOW WITH OUR CURRENT FEE SCHEDULE, WHAT DO WE TAKE IN FOR IMPACT FEES
A YEAR? IT'S ABOUT $5 MILLION, $5 MILLION A YEAR. 
          SO THAT'S THE LAST TWO YEARS. 
          THAT'S TREND. SO JUST USING THAT NUMBER, IT'S A WAY THAT I WAS ABLE TO UNDERSTAND IT. 
          SO YOU CAN SEE IF YOU'RE TAKING IN $5 MILLION A YEAR AND YOU'RE PLANNING FOR SIX YEARS,
THAT'S GOING TO GIVE YOU A TOTAL OF $30 MILLION. 
          NOW, IS $30 MILLION SUFFICIENT FOR YOU TO MEET YOUR NEEDS? IF IT IS, THEN YOUR IMPACT FEES ARE GOOD WHERE THEY ARE. 
          IF IT'S NOT, THEN YOU NEED TO RAISE YOUR IMPACT FEES IN ORDER TO MEET YOUR NEEDS, OR YOU
KEEP YOUR IMPACT FEES LOW AND YOU DECIDE WE'RE GOING TO RAISE THE ADDITIONAL AMOUNT OF MONEY BY RUNNING A BOND. 
          SO ALL OF THOSE FACTORS. 
          BUT HOPEFULLY THAT GIVES YOU A LITTLE BIT CLEARER UNDERSTANDING OF OF HOW IT FITS
TOGETHER AND WHAT YOUR CONSIDERATIONS AS A BOARD NEED TO BE. RIGHT. 
          IS THAT? OKAY. THANK YOU. I JUST HAVE TO ALWAYS CHECK MY UNDERSTANDING A LITTLE BIT. 
          SO I APPRECIATE IT. THANK YOU. 
          YEAH, YOU'RE WELCOME. 
          SO JUST TO SHOW WE PUT ZERO IN FACILITY NEEDS, WE DON'T DEDUCT FROM THE NEEDS OF THE
K-8'S. 
          THOSE ARE STILL NEEDS IN THOSE GRADE BANDS AND SO THEY ARE NOT THAT TOTAL IS NOT REDUCED
BY THE OVER HOUSED STUDENTS IF YOU MIGHT, WITH THE HIGH SCHOOLS. 
          SO THE FACILITY NEEDS AND PLANS RELATED TO SCHOOL IMPACT FEES. 
          SO WE HAVE ON THE PLAN THERE'S TWO SETS OF INFORMATION. 
          THERE IS WHAT WE WOULD DO WITH SCHOOL IMPACT FEES, BUT WE'RE ALSO REQUIRED TO PUT OTHER
THINGS WE MAY DO THAT DON'T INVOLVE SCHOOL IMPACT FEES. SO YOU'LL SEE TWO YOU'LL SEE OTHER ITEMS ON THERE. 
          SO AND THEN THE FINANCING PLANS ARE BROKEN OUT BY THOSE TWO DIFFERENT SCHOOL IMPACTS,
THOSE TWO DIFFERENT TYPES OF PLANS. 
          SO WE THAT'S WHY I WANTED TO GO THROUGH THE FACILITY NEEDS WITH PLANS THAT RELATE TO
SCHOOL IMPACT FEES. 
          AND SO SINCE WE HAVE UNHOUSED STUDENTS AND WE HAVE A NEED FOR EXPANDING SUPPORT FACILITIES
AND RESPONSE TO GROWTH, WE DO SHOW ON THE CAPITAL FACILITY PLAN ONE K-4 AND ONE 5-8 SCHOOL AND NOW ON THE PLAN IT'S FOR 450. 
          AND SO IT'S NOT GOING TO COVER ALL 687 OR THE 531. 
          IT'S ONLY GOING TO COVER 450 OF EACH OF THOSE. 
          BUT WHAT'S IMPORTANT TO KNOW IS THAT THE CAPACITY OF THE DISTRICT TO TRY TO, YOU KNOW,
SAY WE'RE GOING TO BUILD TWO NEW K 4S AND TWO NEW 5-8S IS JUST SOMETHING THAT WE JUST DECIDED IN A SIX YEAR PLAN WAS
NOT POSSIBLE. SO IT DOESN'T CHANGE THE AMOUNT OF THE SCHOOL IMPACT FEE, WHETHER YOU WERE
PLANNING ON DOING BOTH. 
          IT'S JUST AT THIS TIME WE JUST FELT THAT IT WASN'T SOMETHING. 
          KEVIN FELT THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WE COULD DO. 
          YEAH. AGAIN, WHAT THEY WANT IS A SIX YEAR PLAN FOUR YEARS RE-APPROVED EVERY FOUR YEARS. 
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SO YOU LOOK AT EVERYTHING THAT YOU'RE GOING TO DO IN SIX YEARS AND LIST THEM. 
          IT DOESN'T PRECLUDE US FROM ADDING TO THIS LIST. 
          AND I JUST WANTED TO LET YOU KNOW, WE'RE TALKING IN LANGUAGE THAT WHEN WE DO TALK ABOUT A
BOND AND ENROLLMENT AND ELIGIBILITY, IT'S GOING TO BE A DIFFERENT DISCUSSION. 
          THE COUNTY LOOKS AT HOW MANY TEACHING STATIONS WE HAVE, AND THAT'S HOW THEY SAY YOU HAVE
ELIGIBILITY UNHOUSED. 
          THE STATE LOOKS AT SQUARE FOOTAGE. 
          SO WHEN WE DO A BOND, THESE NUMBERS DON'T MEAN ANYTHING TO OUR BOND. 
          THIS IS TO ESTABLISH OUR IMPACT FEE AND THE IMPACT OF THE NEW ENROLLMENT. 
          SO ON THE PLAN RELATED TO SCHOOL IMPACT FEES IS ONE PRIMARY, ONE MIDDLE AND SUPPORT
FACILITIES TO EXPAND WAREHOUSE AND MAINTENANCE AND PURCHASE PORTABLES. 
          SO THOSE ARE ALL ELIGIBLE FOR THE SCHOOL IMPACT FEES. 
          THIS IS THE IMPACT FEE CALCULATION WHICH IS DRIVEN BY THE STUDENT GENERATION RATE. 
          AND THEN THE COST TO BUILD FACILITIES AND THE COST TO BUILD FACILITIES HAS GONE UP
SIGNIFICANTLY SINCE OUR LAST PLAN WAS ADOPTED IN 2015. 
          SO WE DO HAVE PREVIOUSLY ADOPTED FEES FOR BATTLE GROUND PUBLIC SCHOOLS LISTED ON THIS
SLIDE. 
          AND SO AND AT THAT TIME, THE IMPACT FEE, THE CAPITAL FACILITY PLANS, IT LOOKS LIKE THERE
WAS DIFFERENT RULES OF WHEN THEY WERE ADOPTED. 
          SO YOU COULD SEE BUT THAT'S WHY I POINTED OUT OUR CURRENT ONE IS THIS A SIX YEAR PLAN
THAT WE ADOPT EVERY FOUR YEARS. 
          BUT AGAIN, LOOKING AT THOSE NUMBERS, YOU CAN SEE THAT THE FORMULA THAT MICHELLE RAN US
THROUGH ENABLES US TO COLLECT FOR A SINGLE FAMILY HOME UP TO $11,535 AND A MULTIFAMILY HOME FOR 4,963. 
          BUT LOOK AT HOW THAT COMPARES TO WHAT WE'RE CURRENTLY COLLECTING. 
          RIGHT NOW WE'RE CURRENTLY COLLECTING $6,397 AND $2,285. 
          SO IT'S QUITE IT WOULD BE QUITE THE DIFFERENCE. 
          IT WOULD BE ALMOST DOUBLE IF WE WERE TO GO TO THAT TOP NUMBER. 
          BUT YET IN 2009, IT WAS ALMOST 10,000 DOLLARS. 
          SO, AGAIN, A CONSIDERATION. 
          OBVIOUSLY, BUILDERS DON'T LIKE IT IF WE RAISE IT TOO HIGH. 
          CONSIDERATIONS, SOME OF OUR CITIZENRY DOESN'T LIKE IT IF WE RAISE IT TOO HIGH BECAUSE IT'S
MORE TAXES PER SAY. 
          BUT AT THE SAME TIME, YOU HEAR FROM OTHER CITIZENS WHO SAY THAT THE PEOPLE WHO MOVE INTO
AN AREA SHOULD BE HELD RESPONSIBLE FOR PAYING FOR THE NEW NEEDED FACILITIES TO ACCOMMODATE THAT GROWTH. 
          SO AGAIN, IT GOES DIFFERENT BOTH WAYS. 
          CITIES, OBVIOUSLY, MUNICIPALITIES LIKE GROWTH. 
          THEY WANT GROWTH. 
          IT PROVIDES A RICHER TAX BASE FOR THEM. 
          AND SO THEIR CONSIDERATIONS ALSO PLAY INTO THIS. 
          AND THAT'S WHY I THINK THE NEXT SLIDE I BELIEVE IT'S THE NEXT SLIDE. 
          YES. AND I JUST WANTED TO ADD ONE MORE THING REALLY QUICK IS WHEN YOU'RE LOOKING BACK IN
2009, REMEMBER THE STUDENT GENERATION RATE IS ONE OF THE FACTORS IN THE FORMULA, AND IT DEPENDS ON WHAT THE STUDENT GENERATION RATE AT THAT TIME WAS. 
          IF THERE WERE IF IT WAS CLOSER TO A 0.7 STUDENT TO A RESIDENT, AS OPPOSED TO NOW WE GOT A 0.4. 
          SO THAT CAN PLAY INTO THAT CALCULATION AS WELL. 
          AS WELL AS WHAT WAS HAPPENING BACK THEN IN 05, 06 AND SEVEN WERE BUILDING WAS ON FIRE. 
          AND SO WAS OUR FUTURE ENROLLMENT PROJECTION, IT WAS MUCH MORE LIKE THAT THAN IT IS THIS. 
          THAT'S WHERE THOSE LARGER NUMBERS CAME FROM. 
          THANK YOU, KEVIN. WOULD A BOND PLAY INTO THIS AS WELL? LIKE IF WE HAD PASSED A BOND, WOULD THAT NECESSARILY LOWER THE RATE OR BE CONSIDERATION
TO LOWER THE RATE BECAUSE WE WOULDN'T WE'D BE PAYING FOR IT WITH THE BOND VERSUS NEEDING IMPACT FEES. 
          THEY ARE COMPLETELY SEPARATE ANIMALS. 
          IT WOULD YOUR CHOICE. 
          NO, I WAS JUST ASKING. 
          YEAH, IT'S ONE DOES NOT AFFECT THE OTHER. 
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RIGHT. RIGHT. 
          SO TO ADD CAPACITY FOR SECURED FINANCING, WE DO HAVE $24 MILLION DOLLARS OF IMPACT FEES
THAT ARE IN OUR ACCOUNT. 
          AND THEN AND WE CURRENTLY HAVE PLANS TO USE 9 MILLION FOR THE CAM AND SOME SUPPORT FACILITIES AND SO AND SOME OTHER PORTABLE NEEDS BECAUSE WE HAVE TO
GET THOSE STUDENTS INTO FACILITIES, SAFE FACILITIES UNTIL WE CAN DO BRICK AND MORTAR BUILDING OF PERMANENT FACILITIES. 
          OTHER UNSECURED FINANCING ON THE PLAN IS THE PROJECTION OF IMPACT FEE CALCULATION, WHICH
DEPENDS ON THE AMOUNT YOU SET THE CALCULATION BECAUSE IT'S AN ESTIMATE BASED ON WHAT WE'VE COLLECTED
HISTORICALLY OVER THE LAST TWO YEARS, WE KIND OF PROJECT OUT THAT WOULD BE HOW WE WOULD PROJECT THAT BASED ON THE RATE THAT YOU
SET. 
          AND THEN BOND FUNDING, DEPENDING ON IMPACT FEE COLLECTIONS AND THEN STATE FUNDING
ASSISTANCE. 
          AND RIGHT NOW, BASED ON THE IN-HOUSE STUDENTS THAT WE HAVE RIGHT NOW, WE DON'T HAVE BASED
ON THEIR FORMULA AND THEIR ENROLLMENT PROJECTIONS AND THE WAY THAT THEY DETERMINE ELIGIBILITY, THERE'S RIGHT NOW CURRENTLY NOT ANY STATE FUNDING ASSISTANCE
THAT'S THAT'S SLATED FOR THOSE STUDENTS. 
          HOWEVER, THAT COULD CHANGE. 
          IT'S JUST A DRAFT YOU KNOW AND THEY ESTIMATE BASED ON THE CURRENT INFORMATION THAT THEY
HAVE. 
          AND SO I THINK THEY'RE LOOKING AT AN ENROLLMENT AND THEY'RE LOOKING TO SEE WHERE
ENROLLMENT GOES ON SOME OF THESE THINGS. 
          SO IF THAT BECOMES A WHERE WE'RE READY TO BUILD A BRICK AND MORTAR, WE WOULD DEFINITELY
WORK WITH OSPI TO SEE IF THERE WAS ANY ELIGIBILITY FOR THOSE NEW BUILDINGS. 
          SO OTHER PLANS THAT ARE INCLUDED ON THE PLAN BUT NOT PART OF THE SCHOOL IMPACT FEES AND DON'T RELATE TO THE CALCULATION AT ALL IS A PRIMARY A FACILITY NEEDS TO SO IT
DOES NOT ADD PERMANENT CAPACITY BUT IT'S REPLACE OR MODERNIZE GLENWOOD AND LAURIN INTERMEDIATES OR LAURIN MIDDLE SORRY
AND FUTURE PROGRAM 18 TO 21 YEAR OLD'S. 
          AND SO WITH THOSE, WE DO HAVE STATE FUNDING ASSISTANCE FOR THOSE FACILITIES BECAUSE THEY
ARE BEYOND THEIR LIFE CYCLE. 
          SO THERE IS ELIGIBILITY TO HELP SUPPORT THE REPLACEMENT OR MODERNIZATION OF THOSE
BUILDINGS. 
          AND THEN BOND FUNDING WOULD BE THE FINAL AMOUNT FOR DEPENDING ON WHAT WE NEED ON THOSE. 
          OKAY. ALL RIGHT. 
          AND THEN I DID INCLUDE CURRENT FEE IMPACT AMOUNTS FOR CLARK COUNTY SCHOOLS. 
          AS YOU CAN SEE YOU KNOW RIDGEFIELD. 
          CAN YOU ZOOM IN ON THIS? IS IT POSSIBLE? RIGHT? MAYBE NOT. RIGHT, BECAUSE IT'S A SLIDE PRESENTATION. 
          YEAH. SORRY. YEAH, YOU CAN. 
          YEAH, GO AHEAD. 
          YEAH, IT JUST NOTE THAT RIDGEFIELD WAS A VERY GROWING AREA. 
          THEY HAD A LOT OF STUDENTS. 
          THEIR STUDENT GENERATION RATE WAS HIGHER PER KIDS PER HOUSE. 
          RIGHT. AND SO THAT DROVE THEIR NUMBER UP QUITE HIGHER. 
          SO THEY WERE AT 10,100. 
          HOCKINSON 7,790. 
          AND THEN BATTLE GROUND IS CURRENTLY AT 6,397. 
          THAT'S FOR A SINGLE FAMILY RESIDENCE. 
          AND MULTIFAMILY RESIDENTS ARE LOWER AMOUNTS GENERALLY, BUT IT LOOKS LIKE IN RIDGEFIELD
THEIR STUDENT GENERATION RATE WAS PRETTY EQUAL IN THE MULTIFAMILY HOMES AS WELL AS THE SINGLE FAMILY RESIDENCE. 
          SO AND WE, LIKE MR. WATERS SAID, WE DON'T HAVE ANY INFORMATION FROM THE OTHER SCHOOLS, BUT BASED ON THE COST
OF BUILD FACILITIES, WE'RE ALL LOOKING AT A LOT OF INCREASE, A HIGH INCREASE PER SQUARE FOOT THAT'S GOING TO DRIVE THE COST AND THAT'S GOING TO DRIVE THE
PART OF THAT FORMULA FOR DETERMINING THOSE SCHOOL IMPACT FEES. IT JUST DEPENDS ON WHERE THEIR STUDENT GENERATION RATES ARE FOR THEIR
AREA. 
          SO NEXT STEPS IS THE BOARD NEEDS TO ADOPT THE CAPITAL FACILITY PLAN AND SCHOOL IMPACT FEE
AMOUNT BEFORE THE END OF MAY. 
          AND IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS OR IF THE PUBLIC HAS ANY QUESTIONS, THEY CAN CERTAINLY
CONTACT US AND WE WOULD BE HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY 
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QUESTIONS THEY HAVE. 
          SO AGAIN, YOU HAVE A COPY OF THIS PRESENTATION. 
          YOU HAVE AND YOU CAN SEE WHERE OUR RATES WERE PREVIOUSLY AND HOW THEY COMPARE TO OTHER
DISTRICTS. 
          AND THEN YOU'LL HAVE A DRAFT COPY OF THE CFP TO JUST KIND OF TAKE A LOOK AT WHICH WE WILL
PUBLISH ALSO PUT OUT FOR OUR CITIZENS TO ALSO TAKE A LOOK AT. 
          BUT THAT WILL GIVE YOU AN IDEA. 
          AND THEN IT'S JUST A MATTER OF US TRYING TO DECIDE WHERE WE WANT TO FALL IN TERMS OF
SETTING THOSE IMPACT FEES. 
          AND OF COURSE, IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS ABOUT THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE PLAN OR YOU'D LIKE
TO SEE CHANGES IN THE PLAN, WE CAN ALSO DISCUSS THAT WHEN WE COME TO YOU ON THE 23RD FOR APPROVAL. 
          AND WE'LL DO OUR VERY BEST TO GET YOU THE OTHER SCHOOL DISTRICTS WHERE THEY'RE LANDING
AT. 
          AGAIN, THEIR BOARDS WILL BE ADOPTING THOSE. 
          SO THOSE WILL BE THEIR DRAFTS. 
          AND SO WE'LL LOOK AT WHAT THEIR INITIAL CALCULATION IS. 
          AND I DID WANT TO LET YOU KNOW THAT IF YOU DO HAVE A CAPITAL LEVY, WHICH WE DO NOT HAVE A
CAPITAL LEVY THAT PLAYS INTO THE FEE AMOUNT, IT ACTUALLY REDUCES IT. 
          SO THERE IS A CREDIT WITH CAPITAL LEVIES. 
          SO THAT MAY MAKE A DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ONE DISTRICT AND ANOTHER DISTRICT AS FAR AS WHAT
THEY CHARGE. 
          BECAUSE THE STATE REQUIRES THAT YOU LOOK AT CAPITAL LEVIES INTO THAT FORMULA. 
          AGAIN, I WANT TO THANK THE TWO OF YOU FOR YOUR EFFORTS ON THIS. 
          ALL OF US, SHELLY, ME, KEVIN AND MICHELLE ARE ALL NEW TO DEVELOPING CAPITAL FACILITY
PLANS. 
          IT WASN'T SOMETHING WE'VE EVER DONE BEFORE, SO. 
          ACTUALLY I DID IT AT HOCKINSON. 
          OH YOU DID OKAY. YEAH, I DID TWO OF THEM AT HOCKINSON, SO I'M PRETTY FAMILIAR WITH THEM. 
          GOOD. YEAH, BUT YEAH. 
          GOOD. WELL, WE SHOULD HAVE GIVEN YOU THE WHOLE THING. 
          IT WAS REALLY IMPORTANT THAT WE DID IT ALL TOGETHER BECAUSE THERE'S SO MANY DIFFERENT
COMPONENTS, AND IT'S DEFINITELY A TEAM EFFORT. 
          SO THAT'S WHERE WE ARE. 
          GIVES YOU A QUICK OVERVIEW. 
          QUESTIONS FROM THE BOARD? I ENCOURAGE YOU TO LOOK AT THE PLAN. 
          THERE'S A LOT THERE AND TALK AROUND THE COMMUNITY. 
          THE PLAN ACTUALLY IS QUITE INTERESTING. 
          IT OFFERS A LOT OF GOOD INSIGHT. 
          RIGHT. INTO TO WHAT OUR NEEDS ARE, WHERE WE'RE GOING TO GO IN THE FUTURE, YOU KNOW SO. 
          YEAH. IT'S VERY THOROUGH, BUT IT'S ALSO VERY CLEAR. 
          YEAH. AND COULD WE GET A HARD COPY? YOU KNOW HOW I LIKE TO SCRIBBLE MY QUESTIONS ON IT? CERTAINLY. WELL, WE'LL GET SANDY TO GET YOU A HARD COPY AND TRY NOT TO GO DOWN THE RABBIT
HOLE. 
          THAT IS THAT FORM. 
          THAT FORMULA IS. 
          SHORT TERM QUESTION. 
          JUST CLARIFYING QUESTIONS THAT'S ALL. 
          PRE K, DOES THAT FACTOR INTO THIS OR IS THAT JUST AN OPTION THAT WE ABSORB? WE YOU'LL NOTICE THAT IT'S IN THE PLAN THAT WE TALK ABOUT TRANSITIONAL KINDERGARTEN IN
THE PLAN. 
          BUT HOW THAT'S GOING TO GROW IS GOING TO REALLY DEPEND ON NEEDS. 
          SO IT WAS REALLY HARD FOR US TO PROJECT BEYOND THE FOUR THAT WE'RE PLANNING FOR AT THIS
TIME. 
          I WOULD IMAGINE IN THE NEXT FEW YEARS WE'LL PROBABLY HAVE AT LEAST ONE AT EACH CAMPUS. 
          AND BY THE WAY, ON A SIDE NOTE, THE INTEREST IN OUR TRANSITIONAL KINDERGARTEN HAS BEEN
GOOD SO FAR. 
          GOOD. KEVIN, DO WE HAVE CAMPUSES THAT REALLY JUST CAN'T ABSORB ANY OTHER PORTABLES? I KNOW THERE ARE SOME THAT ARE GETTING TIGHT ON SPACE. 
          THERE'S NOT A LOT OF ROOM AT ANY OF THEM REALLY. 
          YACOLT WE'RE PLANNING TO TAKE OUT FOUR OLD DOUBLES AND PUT TWO OLD DOUBLES AND PUT IN A
TEN PLEX NEXT SUMMER. 
          BUT, YEAH, PLANNING WISE, WE'RE GETTING PRETTY FULL. 
          OKAY. AND YOU CAN'T USE IMPACT FOR MODERNIZATION, IS THAT CORRECT? THERE MIGHT BE A TWIST TO IT IF WE BUILT LARGER THAN GLENWOOD LAURIN. 
          I HAVEN'T CONFIRMED THIS, BUT TO SAY THAT WE BUILT THOSE LARGER THAN 450 THE CURRENT
CAPACITY, PERHAPS THEY WOULD LET US USE IMPACT ON THAT ADDITIONAL. 
          PERHAPS LARGER. PERHAPS, BUT NOT CONFIRMED. 
          YOU CAN'T USE IT TO LIKE, SAY, FOR INSTANCE, YOU WANTED TO REMODEL YOUR LIBRARY. 
          YOU CAN'T USE IMPACT FEES FOR THAT? OR THE WHOLE SCHOOL. OR YEAH ANY PART OF THE SCHOOL. 
          BUT IF YOU'RE BUILDING ON MORE, MAYBE. 
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YEAH, RIGHT. 
          MARY, I HAVE A HARD COPY. 
          I'LL JUST. THANK YOU. I'LL JUST HAND IT TO YOU IS THAT ALL RIGHT? SURE. NOW THAT'S SERVICE. 
          YES. AMAZING. 
          THANK YOU. THANK YOU, BOARD FOR YOUR PATIENCE AS WE GO THROUGH THIS. 
          AND THAT'S IT. AND THAT'S IT. 
          SUPERINTENDENT'S REPORT. 
          SO SPEAKING OF PATIENCE, THANK YOU. 
          [7. Citizens' Comments]
AUDIENCE THOSE WHO SIGNED UP FOR CITIZENS COMMENTS OR WE'RE HERE TO LISTEN TO THOSE. 
          IT'S FINALLY YOUR TURN. 
          I APPRECIATE YOU WAITING. 
          THE BOARD RECOGNIZES THE VALUE OF PUBLIC COMMENT ON EDUCATIONAL ISSUES AND THE IMPORTANCE
OF INVOLVING MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC IN ITS MEETING, AND PROVIDES A PERIOD DURING THE BOARD MEETING FOR WHICH VISITORS MAY PRESENT TO THE BOARD. 
          WHEN WE CALL YOUR NAME, COME TO THE PODIUM, RE-IDENTIFY YOURSELF. 
          MAYBE YOUR CONNECTION TO THE DISTRICT. 
          PROCEED TO MAKE COMMENTS WITHIN OUR TIME LIMITS. 
          3 MINUTES IS TRADITIONAL. 
          THE PRESIDENT MAY INTERRUPT OR TERMINATE INDIVIDUAL STATEMENTS THAT'S TOO LENGTHY,
PERSONALLY DIRECTED, ABUSIVE, OBSCENE OR IRRELEVANT. 
          THE BOARD AS A WHOLE HAS A FINAL DECISION ON THAT. 
          I SEE MOSTLY VETERAN SPEAKERS ON HERE AND THAT HASN'T BEEN AN ISSUE. 
          THANK YOU AND THANK YOU FOR BEING RESPECTFUL OF EACH OTHER OUT THERE IN THE AUDIENCE. 
          OKAY, GREAT. 
          PERFECT. SO THE ORDER I HAVE HERE FOR SPEAKER EUNICE INGRAMANSON VICKI WINNIE. 
          I HOPE I'M SAYING THAT RIGHT. 
          ALI STRAPISON, JENNIFER HINEY-WITHE, JESSICA COLE AND WENDY RUSH. 
          SO, EUNICE, IF YOU'D LIKE TO COME ON UP. 
          GOOD EVENING, BOARD. 
          CAN YOU HEAR ME? I DON'T KNOW IF THE AUDIENCE CAN, BUT WE CAN. 
          WE NEED TO GET THE TIMER UP. 
          GO AHEAD. GOOD EVENING. 
          MY NAME IS EUNICE INGRAMANSON, AND MY PRONOUNS ARE SHE/HER. 
          I'M A COMMUNITY MEMBER IN THE BATTLE GROUND SCHOOL DISTRICT. 
          I'M HERE IN SUPPORT OF THE PROPOSED HYBRID CURRICULUM FOR THE MIDDLE SCHOOL AND HIGH
SCHOOL COMPREHENSIVE SEXUAL HEALTH EDUCATION. 
          FIRST OF ALL, HAVING BEEN A PART OF THIS CONVERSATION AT THE BOARD MEETINGS, COMMITTEE
MEETINGS, AND IN THE COMMUNITY AT LARGE FOR THE PAST FOUR YEARS, I WANT TO EXPRESS A DEEP APPRECIATION FOR THE BOARD, THE DISTRICT ADMINISTRATION, AND
ESPECIALLY TO ALLISON TUCHARDT AND DAVE CRESAP FOR NAVIGATING THESE TURBULENT WATERS WITH CARE, FOR
MEETING THE STATE LAWS AND THE OSPI STANDARDS, AND THE DEEP RESPECT AND SENSIBILITY FOR THE FEELINGS AND OPINIONS OF THE
COMMUNITY. 
          SO THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU. THANK YOU. 
          I HAVE SPOKEN AND ARGUED HARD FOR US TO ADOPT AN EVEN MORE INCLUSIVE CURRICULUM IN THE
PAST 15 MONTHS OR SO. 
          BUT NOW AT THIS PROPOSAL IS THE END PRODUCT OF THE DISCUSSIONS AND COMPROMISES, I
WHOLEHEARTEDLY SUPPORT ITS ADOPTION. 
          I FEEL THAT IF WE CAN MAKE WHAT IS IN THIS PROPOSED CURRICULUM THE CULTURE AND STANDARD
OF OUR SCHOOLS AND OUR COMMUNITY, WE WILL HAVE BUILT A BETTER SAFETY NET FOR OUR YOUTH THAN BEFORE. 
          OUR YOUTH WILL BE LEARNING, AMONG OTHER THINGS, HOW HUMAN REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEMS WORK, HOW
TO SET SAFE BOUNDARIES AROUND THEMSELVES AND RESPECT THE BOUNDARIES OF OTHERS. 
          HOW PEOPLE WITH DIVERSE SEXUAL IDENTITIES SHOULD BE TREATED WITH RESPECT. 
          HOW IMPORTANT IT IS TO HAVE A TRUSTED ADULT. 
          HOW TO ACCESS HEALTH CARE AND RESOURCES FOR THEIR NEEDS AROUND THEIR SEXUAL HEALTH. 
          HOW TO PREVENT SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED INFECTIONS AND UNWANTED PREGNANCIES. 
          HOW TO MAKE DECISIONS FOR OPTIMAL SEXUAL AND RELATIONAL HEALTH. 
          WHAT THE STATE LAW SAYS ABOUT SOME RELATED ISSUES SUCH AS SEXTING AND THE AGE OF CONSENT,
ETC., AND WHAT TO DO WHEN THEY OBSERVE OTHERS IN ABUSIVE RELATIONSHIPS. 
          THESE WORDS THAT ARE USED ON A PATH FOR HEALTHIER AND HAPPIER LIFE LONG TERM AND REDUCE
TEEN PREGNANCIES, STI VICTIMIZATION AND EVEN DEPRESSION AND SUICIDE. 
          PLEASE SAY YES. 
          THANK YOU. THANK YOU. 
          EUNICE. VICKI WINNIE. 
          HOPEFULLY I SAID THAT RIGHT. 
          WINNE. SORRY. 
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WELCOME. CAN YOU HEAR ME? THANKS FOR LETTING ME SPEAK. 
          FIRST OFF I WANT TO SAY I DO RESPECT EVERYBODY, NO MATTER ANY PERSON. 
          BUT I WOULD LIKE TO ADDRESS FOUR POINTS TONIGHT REGARDING THE SECOND VOTE ON THE SEX
EDUCATION CURRICULUM. 
          THE CURRICULUM YOU WANT TO USE, THERE WERE ITEMS THAT WERE NOT PLANNED, HOW THEY WOULD BE
TAUGHT IN THE CLASSROOM THE LAST TIME I WAS HERE. 
          SPECIFICALLY, ROLE PLAYING. 
          WE NEED TO KNOW AS PARENTS, GRANDPARENTS, TAXPAYERS, THESE SPECIFICS, WE WANT
TRANSPARENCY. 
          I ALSO WOULD LIKE TO ASK ABOUT YOUR FISCAL RESPONSIBILITY. 
          WHY DO YOU, THE BOARD, WANT TO APPROVE A CURRICULUM THAT ALMOST 50% OF THE HIGH SCHOOL
STUDENTS ARE GOING TO OPT OUT OF? MEANING MIDDLE SCHOOLS WOULD MORE LIKELY BE HIGHER. 
          WHY WOULD YOU SPEND TAXPAYERS MONEY ON A CURRICULUM THAT IS NOT TO BE USED FOR THE
MAJORITY OF STUDENTS? I WOULD ALSO LIKE TO BRING UP THE CONSTITUTION OF SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE. 
          WHY ARE WE TEACHING MORALITY IN A PUBLIC SCHOOL? THAT IS NOT THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT RIGHT TO TEACH [INAUDIBLE] TO OUR STUDENTS. 
          THAT'S THE JOB OF THE PARENTS. 
          THERE ARE PARENTS WHO WANT TO SUPPORT TRANSGENDER CHOICES TO THEIR CHILDREN. 
          THEY AS THE PARENTS HAVE EVERY RIGHT TO DO SO. 
          I, AS A PARENT, HAVE A RIGHT TO TEACH MY CHILDREN MY MORALS. 
          YOU ARE OVERREACHING YOUR AUTHORITY BY TEACHING ALL CHILDREN MORALITY AT SCHOOL THAT
DOESN'T ALIGN WITH THE MAJORITY OF PARENTS IN BATTLE GROUND SCHOOL DISTRICTS. 
          LET'S GET BACK TO TEACHING ACADEMICS AND LEAVE THE MORALITY OF STUDENTS TO THE PARENTS,
NOT THE GOVERNMENT. 
          I ALSO WOULD LIKE TO JUST NOTE ON MY FOURTH POINT, RESEARCH SHOWS THAT 80 TO 90% OF
CHILDREN WITH GENDER DYSPHORIA WILL GROW OUT OF THEIR TRANSGENDER IDENTITY BY THE TIME THEY'RE ADULTS. 
          SO WHY ARE WE PROMOTING THIS IN SCHOOL? THANK YOU. THANK YOU, VICKIE. 
          ALI STRAPISON. 
          HELLO BOARD MY NAME IS ALI STRAPISON I USE SHE/HER PRONOUNS. 
          I AM A PROUD MOTHER OF TWO KIDS IN THE DISTRICT. 
          ONE CURRENTLY A SOPHOMORE AT BATTLE GROUND HIGH SCHOOL, THE OTHER TWO YEARS, ALMOST THREE
YEARS GRADUATED FROM PRAIRIE HIGH SCHOOL THROUGH RUNNING START. 
          IN ADDITION, I ALSO OWN A HEALTH CARE BUSINESS WITH MY HUSBAND HERE IN BATTLE GROUND AND I
AM HERE TONIGHT TO SHOW MY SUPPORT FOR THE SECOND READING OF THIS, THE TWO COMPREHENSIVE SEXUAL HEALTH EDUCATION CURRICULA BEING CONSIDERED FOR ADOPTION IN OUR
MIDDLE AND HIGH SCHOOLS, AND TO PUBLICLY EXPRESS MY SINCERE APPRECIATION AND GRATITUDE FOR THE THREE YES VOTES AT THE FIRST READING TWO WEEKS AGO. 
          THE THREE DECADES WORTH OF DATA ARE SO CLEAR ABOUT THE POSITIVE IMPACTS ON OUR YOUTH'S
OVERALL SHORT AND LONG TERM HEALTH WHEN COMPREHENSIVE SEXUAL HEALTH EDUCATION IS INCLUDED IN THE OVERALL HEALTH CURRICULUM, WHETHER IT BE SIGNIFICANT
REDUCTION IN STI AND STDS AND UNINTENDED PREGNANCIES, OR THE EMPOWERMENT AGAINST SEXUAL VIOLENCE AND BUILDING STRONG, HEALTHY
RELATIONSHIP SKILLS, OR THE SIGNIFICANT INCREASE IN POSITIVE SELF ESTEEM, CONFIDENCE AND MENTAL HEALTH. 
          I ASK THAT YOU AGAIN PUT OUR STUDENTS HEALTH AHEAD OF POLITICS AND VOTE YES FOR THE
ADOPTION OF THESE TWO CURRICULA. 
          THANK YOU. THANK YOU, ALI. 
          JENNIFER. 
          WELCOME AGAIN. HI. 
          GOOD EVENING. I WOULD FIRST LIKE TO THANK ALLISON AND DAVE FOR CONSIDERING A CURRICULUM
PRESENTED BY A PARENT. 
          THANK YOU FOR TAKING THE TIME TO CONTACT THE AUTHOR OF CHECK THE FACTS AND ALLOWING IT TO
GO BEFORE THE BOARD FOR CONSIDERATION. 
          THANK YOU TO THE BOARD FOR SUPPORTING THE DISTRICT IN THEIR EFFORTS TO TAKE TIME TO
REEXAMINE, CURRICULUM CHOICES AND GIVING CHECK THE FACTS A PROPER HEARING. AND THANK YOU, DENNY, FOR SUPPORTING THE BOARD AND THE DIRECTORS OF
CURRICULUM DURING THIS PROCESS. 
          I WOULD LIKE TO ESPECIALLY THANK MARY FOR WHAT SHE HAD TO SAY LAST MEETING. 
          OUR DISTRICT HAS BEEN FORCED INTO THIS POSITION BY POLITICIANS AND BUREAUCRATS. 
          MY SONS WENT THROUGH THE PRIOR SEX ED CURRICULUM. 
          I DIDN'T HAVE A PROBLEM WITH IT. 
          I FELT IT WAS ACCURATE, APPROPRIATE AND VALUABLE INFORMATION FOR ALL STUDENTS. 
          BUT UNFORTUNATELY, PUBLIC EDUCATION IS BEING STRONGLY INFLUENCED BY GROUPS THAT ARE MORE
CONCERNED WITH PUSHING THEIR IDEOLOGY INSTEAD OF WHAT IS BEST FOR OUR 
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KIDS. I BELIEVE WE CAN LOOK INTO THE FUTURE BY LOOKING AT THE STATE OF EDUCATION IN
OREGON, WHO ARE ABOUT TEN YEARS AHEAD OF US IN ADOPTING MANDATED CSE. 
          THEIR STI RATES CONTINUE TO CLIMB, EVEN THOUGH CSE IS SUPPOSED TO REDUCE STI RATES IN
YOUNG PEOPLE. 
          BULLYING AND HARASSMENT AND YOUNG PEOPLE, INCLUDING LGBTQ STUDENTS, IS ON THE RISE. 
          SUICIDE ATTEMPTS HAVE INCREASED ALONG WITH SEXUAL ASSAULTS. 
          I GOT ALL OF THIS INFORMATION FROM THE OREGON TASK FORCE ON SCHOOL SAFETY. 
          CSE CLAIMS TO COMBAT ALL OF THESE ISSUES, YET IN OREGON, THAT HASN'T BEEN THE CASE. 
          I'VE ALWAYS SAID THAT YOU DON'T SOLVE A BULLYING ISSUE WITH A SEX ED CURRICULUM. 
          I STILL BELIEVE THAT. 
          THE AMOUNT OF YOUTH CLAIMING TO BE TRANSGENDER HAS RISEN BY 4,000%, ALONG WITH THE NUMBER
OF YOUNG ADULTS WHO ARE REGRETTING THEIR TRANSITION. GENDER AFFIRMING SEX EDUCATION IS JUST ONE OF THE ELEMENTS THAT IS
ENCOURAGING KIDS TO TRANSITION BEFORE THEY CAN FULLY UNDERSTAND WHAT THAT MEANS FOR THEIR BODIES AND FOR THEIR FUTURE. 
          I HOPE THAT DOESN'T HAPPEN HERE. 
          I HOPE THAT IN THE FUTURE, MAYBE THINGS POLITICALLY WILL CHANGE. 
          SO OUR DISTRICT HAS THE FREEDOM TO DO WHAT'S BEST FOR OUR COMMUNITY. 
          BUT AGAIN, I DO THANK ALL OF YOU FOR THE TIME THAT YOU HAVE TAKEN IN THIS PAST YEAR. 
          I KNOW YOU'VE PUT MORE EFFORT INTO IT THAN PROBABLY ANY OTHER SCHOOL DISTRICT IN
WASHINGTON. 
          AND I KNOW THIS BECAUSE I TALKED TO PARENTS ACROSS THE STATE, AND I KNOW THAT WE ARE
LUCKY TO BE IN THIS DISTRICT WHERE WE HAVE A BOARD THAT LISTENS TO US AND WE HAVE A SUPERINTENDENT WHO LISTENS TO US. 
          SO THANK YOU. THANK YOU, JENNIFER. 
          THANK YOU. 
          JESSICA. WELCOME AGAIN. HELLO, BOARD. 
          MY NAME IS JESSICA COLE. 
          MY PRONOUNS ARE SHE HER. 
          I'VE HAD KIDS IN THE DISTRICT ONE THAT GRADUATED. 
          AND I'M HERE TO ASK THE BOARD TO APPROVE THE TWO CURRICULA TONIGHT. 
          FIVE YEARS AGO, I WOULD HAVE BEEN STANDING HERE ASKING YOU TO VOTE NO. 
          BUT TONIGHT I'M ASKING YES. 
          AND SO, THANKFULLY, OPTING OUT IS AN OPTION. 
          LIKE I SAID LAST TIME WHEN I WAS A TEENAGER AND TOOK SEX ED, ABSTINENCE WAS MY CHOICE. 
          BUT RAPE AND SEXUAL ASSAULT TOOK THAT PLAN AWAY FROM ME. 
          MY TWO TRANS KIDS HAVE HAD A HARD TIME IN THE DISTRICT AND EDUCATION WOULD HAVE MADE
THEIR SCHOOL YEARS BETTER HERE. 
          THE GOOD HEART WILCOX CURRICULUM IS REALLY GOOD, AND I KNOW IT'S IMPORTANT FOR STUDENTS TO
SEE THEMSELVES IN THE CURRICULUM SO THEY CAN LEARN BETTER. 
          A QUESTION I KNOW I'M NOT GOING TO GET ANSWERED, BUT RESPECTFULLY ASK IS WHAT IS THE
BOARD'S PLAN IF THIS DOES NOT PASS TONIGHT? NIKKI KUHNHAUSEN WAS A 17 YEAR OLD TRANS, A YOUNG WOMAN HERE IN CLARK COUNTY. 
          SHE WAS MURDERED A FEW YEARS AGO HERE WITHIN THE BOUNDARIES OF OUR SCHOOL DISTRICT. 
          SO THIS IS A CURRENT LOCAL ISSUE. 
          SHE WAS MURDERED RIGHT BEFORE SHE WAS SUPPOSED TO GRADUATE FROM HIGH SCHOOL. 
          FROM QUESTIONS I'VE ASKED AND CONVERSATIONS I'VE HAD. 
          EACH YEAR, OUR DISTRICT IS BECOMING MORE AND MORE DIVERSE. 
          MORE DIVERSE THAN ANY OF US REALIZE, JUST BY BEING OUTSIDERS AND NOT LOOKING INTO IT. 
          SO, AGAIN, I'M ASKING YOU ALL TO APPROVE THE CURRICULA TONIGHT. 
          SO I'M ASKING YOU TO PLEASE SAY YES TO THE JESS. 
          THANK YOU, JESSICA. [LAUGHTER] THANK YOU. 
          AND WENDY. DO YOU WANT SOME WATER. 
          SORRY. THAT'S OKAY. HELLO. 
          I'M WENDY RUSH, PARENT OF TWO IN THE DISTRICT. 
          TONIGHT, MY TOP CONCERN RELATES TO THE DISTRICT STATEMENT REGARDING THE ADOPTION OF THE
MIDDLE SCHOOL SEXUAL HEALTH CURRICULUM. 
          IT'S ALREADY BEEN CLEAR THAT A LARGE NUMBER OF PARENTS ARE PROBABLY GOING TO BE OPTING
THEIR KIDS OUT. 
          AS WAS MENTIONED EARLIER, WE KNOW BY THE HIGH SCHOOL SURVEY THAT WAS DONE IN 2018, IT WAS
ABOUT 50% MIDDLE SCHOOL. 
          WE DON'T KNOW THAT. 
          WHICH BRINGS ME TO MY CONCERN. 
          THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS SAYS THAT OUR PUBLIC SCHOOL SAYS IT VALUES COMMUNITY INPUT. 
          IT UNDERSTANDS THAT THIS TOPIC MAY GENERATE A HIGH LEVEL OF PUBLIC INTEREST. 
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SO MY QUESTION IS, HOW? HOW DO YOU KNOW THE LEVEL OF INTEREST AND HOW DO YOU KNOW WHAT THE COMMUNITY VALUES,
SPECIFICALLY PARENTS, IF THEY'RE CONSIDERED THE PRIMARY INSTITUTER OF VALUES? SO THIS IS MY REQUEST. 
          MY REQUEST IS THAT WE PAUSE THIS VOTE IN ORDER TO CONDUCT A SURVEY. 
          WE HAVE THE ZOHO SURVEY AVAILABLE TO US, AND IT WOULD BE THE SAME THING SIMILAR TO WHAT
HAPPENED IN 2018, WHERE IT GOES OUT AND IT'S HITTING ON PRIMARILY THE SCOPE AND SEQUENCE QUESTIONS WHICH WOULD BE INVOLVED MEDICAL ACCURACY. 
          IS THERE REALLY A NEED FOR SOME OF THESE TOPICS TO BE DONE? IT COULD STILL BE WITHIN THE STATE LAW, BUT IT'S KIND OF GETTING A GAUGE ON WHAT IS THE
LOCAL NEED. 
          THE OTHER THING THAT COULD BE ASKED IS TOPICS ABOUT RELATING TO SEXUALITY AND SEXUAL
EXPERIMENTATION. 
          HOW DO PARENTS REALLY FEEL ON THAT? AND MY GOAL OF BRINGING THIS UP IS WHEN YOU'RE HAVING A BROAD SCOPE SURVEY [INAUDIBLE],
PUTTING IT OUT LIKE THAT LAST ONE IN 2020, IT DOESN'T REALLY HIT ON THE KEY TOPICS THAT ADDRESS AND GAUGE REALLY HOW THE PARENTS ARE GOING TO BE RESPONDING BECAUSE PARENTS KNOW
THE SCOPE AND SEQUENCE OF THEIR KIDS. 
          I'M CONCERNED THAT TWO PARENTS GETTING PICKED OR TEACHERS GETTING PICKED IS NOT GOING TO
ADEQUATELY ANSWER THESE QUESTIONS, WHICH BRINGS YOU TO THE OPT OUT AND HOW YOU'RE GOING TO DEAL WITH THAT. IF YOU HAVE 50% OF THE KIDS GETTING OPTED OUT, YOU HAVE TO DEAL WITH
LESSON PLANS BECAUSE USING THE BOOK THAT THE PARENTS ARE OPTING OUT OF IS NOT GOING TO PASS THAT PARENTS DON'T WANT TO HAVE THE BOOK IN FRONT OF THEM, DOING LESSONS, REPEATING
SOMETHING THE KIDS ALREADY LEARNED IN THEIR HEALTH CLASS. 
          THEY'RE GOING TO WANT SOMETHING THAT'S AN EDUCATIONAL EQUIVALENT, AND BY LAW, THEY GET TO
HAVE THAT. 
          SO THAT MEANS PROVIDING SPACE THAT MEANS PROVIDING TEACHERS THAT MEANS PROVIDING A
LESSON. 
          SO HOW ARE YOU GOING TO GAUGE THAT? I THINK THAT IT WOULD BE IN THE BEST INTEREST AND IT SEEMS LIKE IT WOULD BE PRUDENT IF
YOU FIND THIS OUT BEFORE YOU GO AHEAD AND ADOPT THIS THAT WAY THAT'S PUT INTO IN SO THE PARENTS CAN KNOW WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN AND WHAT THEY'RE LOOKING AT BEFORE THEY
OPT OUT AND WHAT THEIR KIDS WILL BE LOOKING AT. 
          ONE OF THE THINGS THAT IS, I THINK, A VERY STRONG POTENTIAL IS THE HARASSMENT POLICY THAT
YOU HAVE. 
          A HOSTILE ENVIRONMENT INTERFERES WITH A STUDENT'S ABILITY TO PARTICIPATE OR BENEFIT FROM
SERVICES OR OPPORTUNITIES AFFORDED BY A DISTRICT. 
          IF THERE'S A SECTARIAN BIAS WHICH IS NOT ALLOWED IN WASHINGTON STATE CONSTITUTION FOR
SCHOOLS CANNOT HAVE A SECTARIAN BIAS, WHICH WOULD BE AN POLITICAL AGENDA OR IDEOLOGICAL AGENDA. 
          THAT MEANS THAT THERE'S GOING TO BE PREVENTING STUDENTS FROM HAVING THEIR ABILITY TO LEARN
HEALTH INSTRUCTION. 
          SO I THINK THAT NEEDS TO BE SOMETHING THAT'S LOOKED AT AND I DON'T WANT TO SAY WITH
POTENTIAL LAWSUITS, BUT LET'S SAY A POTENTIAL OF A LOT OF COMPLAINTS WHEN YOU'RE HAVING SOMETHING THAT IS VIOLATING THE WASHINGTON STATE CONSTITUTION. 
          SO A SURVEY IS WHAT I ASK. 
          ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU. THANK YOU, WENDY. 
          JUST IN CASE DO I HAVE ANYBODY ELSE? THANK YOU SO MUCH, CITIZENS, FOR BEING THROUGH THE SAME PROCESS WITH US. 
          NEXT UP IS OUR CONSENT AGENDA. 
          [8. Consent Agenda]
TONIGHT'S CONSENT AGENDA INCLUDES ITEM A APPROVAL OF THE CONSENT AGENDA. 
          ITEM B APPROVAL OF THE MINUTES OF THE APRIL 25, 2022 REGULAR MEETING. 
          ITEM C THE BUSINESS AND OPERATIONS REPORTS. 
          ITEM D CONTRACTS AND RATIFICATIONS. 
          ITEM E PERSONNEL REPORTS. 
          ITEM F STUDENT TRAVEL. 
          AND AS MENTIONED EARLIER. 
          ITEM G. RESOLUTION B 22 AND INTENT TO ADOPT MODIFIED EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS RELATED TO THE
PERSONNEL REQUEST. 
          IF THERE'S ANY OF THOSE ITEMS THAT YOU WISH TO DO SEPARATELY OR HAVE QUESTIONS ABOUT NOW
WOULD BE THE TIME TO COVER THAT. 
          THANK YOU. IT'S BEEN MOVED TO GO AHEAD AND APPROVE THE CONSENT AGENDA AS IT IS PRESENTED. 
          ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SIGNIFY BY SAYING AYE. 
          AYE. ALL THOSE OPPOSED. CONSENT AGENDA IS APPROVED. 
          NEXT UP IS OUR OLD BUSINESS. 
          [9. Old Business]
OLD BUSINESS IS OUR SECOND READING OF THE ADOPTION OF THE CURRICULUM PROPOSAL FOR
COMPREHENSIVE SEXUAL HEALTH, EDUCATION IN MIDDLE SCHOOL AND HIGH SCHOOL. 
          DAVE AND ALLISON ARE BACK. 
          GOOD EVENING BOARD. GOOD EVENING. 
          WE ARE HERE THIS EVENING TO PRESENT TO YOU THE SECOND READING OF THE PROPOSAL FOR SEXUAL
HEALTH CURRICULUM. 
          SO FIFTH AND SIXTH GRADE USING THE GREAT BODY SHOP, GRADE SEVEN AND EIGHT USING GOOD
HEART WILCOX COMPREHENSIVE HEALTH FOR MIDDLE SCHOOL AND HIGH SCHOOL USING GOOD HEART WILCOX COMPREHENSIVE HEALTH FOR HIGH SCHOOL. 
          WE DO NOT HAVE A FORMAL REPORT THIS EVENING, SO WE WILL TURN IT BACK TO YOU, MR. WATRIN. ALL RIGHT. 
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SO THIS WOULD BE A CHANCE IF ANYBODY ON THE BOARD WANTS TO COMMENT ONE MORE TIME. 
          IF I CAN ASK A POINT OF PRIVILEGE AS THE PRESIDENT, I'M SUPPOSED TO HELP FACILITATE THE
DISCUSSION. 
          AND I WAITED TILL THE LAST, LAST TIME AND DIDN'T HAVE MUCH TO SAY. 
          IF THAT'S OKAY WITH YOU, I'LL MAKE A STATEMENT. 
          OKAY, GREAT. 
          SO IT'S BEEN OBVIOUS THROUGH THIS WHOLE PROCESS ONE OF THE KEY THINGS IS TO MAKE SURE
THAT WE MEET THE STATE LAW AND STATE STANDARDS. 
          THAT'S WHAT KEEPS US OUT OF TROUBLE. 
          THANK YOU FOR MAKING SURE THAT OUR CHOICES ARE ONES THAT PREVENT ANY LAWSUITS OR FISCAL
DAMAGE AS WE GO ALONG. 
          IT ALSO SEEMS CLEAR FROM YOUR PRESENTATION THAT 5 DAYS OR 15 DAYS IS REALLY KIND OF A
BARE MINIMUM IN HEALTH. 
          AND I'M THINKING THERE'S A LOT OF COMMON GROUND IN THOSE OTHER 165 CLASS PERIODS. 
          SO I HOPE PARENTS WILL JOIN WITH US IN FINDING COMMON GROUND AND ALL THE REST OF THE
HEALTH CURRICULUM THAT KIDS GET. I HAVE HEARD THAT CITIZENS ARE CONCERNED ABOUT TEACHERS THEMSELVES, MAKING SURE THAT
THEY KIND OF ADOPT THOSE CORE VALUES, SAFETY AND KINDNESS AND SO ON. 
          AND SO IF YOU CAN HELP US MAKE SURE THAT THAT'S A KEY PART OF THE TEACHER PROFESSIONAL
DEVELOPMENT, I THINK THAT'LL GO A WAYS TO HELP OUT. 
          MY INPUT ALSO IS TO THE BOARD AND TO THE PUBLIC TO HELP YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT THE ROLE OF A
SCHOOL BOARD IS. 
          WE TAKE AN OATH OF OFFICE TO UPHOLD THE LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES IN WASHINGTON STATE,
AND THERE IS A PROCESS FOR REVISING THOSE LAWS. 
          THIS IS NOT THAT PROCESS. 
          THERE'S OTHER WAYS TO REVISE THE LAWS OF WASHINGTON. 
          WE HAVE A DIVERSITY OF OPINION BOTH AMONGST THE BOARD AND THE COMMUNITY. 
          I VIEW THAT DIVERSITY AS A STRENGTH OF OUR COMMUNITY. 
          I THINK IT MAKES US BETTER. 
          OUR CURRICULUM ADOPTION POLICY 2020 AND 2020 P. 
          I'VE OBSERVED THAT ALL THE BOARD MEMBERS HAVE DONE THEIR HOMEWORK DILIGENTLY OVER THE
LAST TWO YEARS. 
          THEY'VE HAD NOTHING BUT UNIVERSAL PRAISE FOR DAVE AND ALLISON AND THE COMMITTEE AND HOW
THEY'VE TREATED THE COMMUNITY KINDLY. 
          EVEN THOUGH WE SENT THEM BACK TO THE DRAWING BOARD TWICE. 
          YOU'VE TREATED THE BOARD QUITE NICELY AS WELL. 
          SO I THINK THE BALL IS BACK IN OUR COURT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE MEET THE LAWS OF THE STATE
OF WASHINGTON. 
          OTHER BOARD MEMBERS. 
          OKAY. I BELIEVE WE HAVE OLD BUSINESS ON THE FLOOR. 
          AND WE WOULD NEED A MOTION TO MOVE FORWARD. 
          I'LL MOVE THAT THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS APPROVE THE SECOND READING OF AND ADOPTION OF THE
RECOMMENDED COMPREHENSIVE SEXUAL EDUCATION CURRICULA FOR THE MIDDLE AND HIGH SCHOOLS. 
          IT'S BEEN MOVED TO APPROVE THE SECOND READING AS PRESENTED. 
          ANY OTHER QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS? HEARING NONE. ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SIGNIFY BY SAYING AYE? AYE. 
          ALL THOSE OPPOSED? NAY. 
          IF I HEARD THAT CORRECT. WE HAVE A 4 WHAT 3 2. 
          THREE TWO. 
          OKAY. SECOND READING IS APPROVED. 
          THANK YOU VERY MUCH. 
          THANK YOU. NEXT ITEM, NEW BUSINESS 
          [10. New Business]
ITEM A MANAGED PRINT SERVICES CONTRACT. 
          DARCY SPIEKERMAN. GOOD EVENING. 
          GOOD EVENING. I'M HERE TONIGHT TO ASK THE BOARD TO APPROVE A CONTRACT FOR, THANK YOU. 
          MANAGED PRINT SERVICES WITH PACIFIC OFFICE AUTOMATION. 
          AND IT WOULD BE EFFECTIVE SEPTEMBER 1ST, 2022. 
          RIGHT NOW IN OUR DISTRICT WE HAVE 269 PRINTERS IN ADDITION TO OUR COPIERS AND OUR
PRODUCTION PRINTERS AT THE PRINT SHOP. 
          AND WE HAVE THOSE ON AN EXTENSION AGREEMENT RIGHT NOW. 
          WE'VE HAD THEM, IT'LL BE 68 MONTHS AT THE END OF AUGUST. 
          SO WE'RE LOOKING FOR A REPLACEMENT CONTRACT. 
          IN LIEU OF GOING OUT TO A FORMAL BID, I OPTED TO GO THROUGH A COOPERATIVE CONTRACT. 
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IT SAVES A LOT OF TIME AND RESOURCES AND ALSO GIVES US ACCESS TO GREATER PURCHASING POWER
THROUGH A LARGER POOL OF VENDORS. EXCUSE ME. 
          SO FIRST I WAS APPROACHED BY RICO AND I PROVIDED THEM WITH THE SPECS THAT WE CURRENTLY
HAVE. 
          OUR PRINTERS, WE HAVE 168 BLACK AND WHITE AND 101 COLOR PRINTERS. 
          THEY WERE PROVIDED THE SPECS AND WHAT WE WERE LOOKING FOR AND WE WERE CONSIDERING
PURCHASING, LEASING OR JUST A COST PER COPY MODEL, WHICH IS WHAT WE HAVE NOW. 
          SO THEY SUBMITTED A PROPOSAL AND I SENT THE SAME INFORMATION TO POA, WHO'S OUR INCUMBENT
VENDOR THAT PROVIDES OUR MANAGE PRINT SERVICES. 
          AND KYOCERA ALSO CONTACTED ME, BUT THEY DECLINED TO SUBMIT A PROPOSAL, SO I ONLY ENDED UP
WITH PROPOSALS FROM RICO AND POA. THEY WERE GIVEN A LIST OF THE COOPERATIVE CONTRACTS THAT WE HAVE ACCESS TO AND THEY
WERE INVITED TO SELECT THEIR OWN COOPERATIVE CONTRACT. 
          I DIDN'T PROVIDE A PREFERENCE, JUST THE SPECS AND HOW MANY WE NEEDED. 
          SO RICO OPTED TO PROPOSE ON THE EXCUSE ME, LET ME GET MY CHART IN FRONT OF ME. 
          RICO WENT THROUGH THE NASBO CONTRACT AND WE OPTED TO GO THROUGH OMNIA PARTNERS AND
MICHELLE AND I SAT DOWN AFTER WE RECEIVED BOTH PROPOSALS AND COSTED OUT THE OPTION COST PER COPY OF FAIR MARKET VALUE LEASE OF $1 DOLLAR
BUYOUT LEASE OR JUST OUTRIGHT PURCHASE. 
          WE WENT THROUGH THE TOTAL COST OF THE PRINTERS AS WELL AS THE RATES PER COPY. 
          AND BOTTOM LINE IT CAME DOWN TO POA OFFERING THE BEST OPTIONS ON THE 60 MONTH TERM. 
          IT'S A COST PER COPY, SO WE WILL NOT BE RENTING, LEASING OR BUYING THE PRINTERS. 
          THEY JUST BRING THE EQUIPMENT IN AND WE USE IT AND WE PAY FOR THAT VIA CLICK CHARGES. 
          SO THEY DO QUARTERLY METER READINGS, CALCULATE IT BY THE RATES, AND THAT'S THE AMOUNT WE
PAY MONTHLY. 
          IT'S A SET AMOUNT, BUT AT THE END OF EACH FISCAL YEAR, WE RECONCILE ALL THE DATA. 
          SO YOU END UP IF YOU DON'T USE THE COPIES THAT THEY ARE BILLING FOR, WE GET A CREDIT AND
IF WE GO OVER, THEN WE ARE BILLED FOR THE OVERAGE AND IN THIS CASE IT'LL BE A LESSER RATE THAN WHAT IS CHARGED DURING THE
ENTIRE YEAR. 
          RICO IT WAS A VERY COMPETITIVE PROPOSAL, BUT RICO DIDN'T DO THAT ANNUAL RECONCILIATION. 
          SO IF WE WENT TO THEY PROPOSED 300,000 COPIES AND IF WE DIDN'T USE ALL 300,000 OF THOSE
PRINT THAT MANY IMAGES, WE WOULD PAY FOR THEM ANYWAY AND IT WOULD BE LOST MONEY. 
          SO THAT WAS ANOTHER REASON POA HAS THE BEST OPTION. 
          IT'S ACTUALLY A LESSER RATE THAN WE'RE PAYING NOW. 
          OUR CURRENT AGREEMENT, WE PAY .017 PER BLACK AND WHITE COPY AND 7.2 CENTS PER COLOR. 
          AND THIS NEW AGREEMENT HAS REDUCED THE RATE TO 0.1 BY 5. 
          YOU WOULDN'T THINK THAT MAKES A DIFFERENCE EXTENDING OUT SO FAR, BUT IT ACTUALLY DOES FOR
VOLUME AND THE COLOR IS $0.05 PER COPY. 
          SO APPLYING THIS SAME VOLUME TO OUR NEW RATE AND OUR EXPIRING RATE, WE ANTICIPATE A
POTENTIAL SAVINGS OF 1,900 A MONTH, WHICH IS 22,800 PER YEAR. 
          WE ALSO PROVIDES CUSTOM SPREADSHEETS AND THE NO MINIMUM ALLOWANCE, WHICH I'VE ALREADY
ADDRESSED. 
          I WORKED WITH TECH TO SEE IF THEY HAD ANY PREFERENCE TO PRINTERS, AND THEY DID MENTION
THAT OVER THE YEARS THE LEXMARK'S HAVE BEEN REALLY RELIABLE AND THEY'VE HAD FEW CALLS THROUGH THEIR HELPDESK ON THE LEXMARK'S, AND THEY DID SUGGEST THAT I TRY TO
STAY WITH THOSE IF I COULD. 
          SO. OH, AND THEN AT THE WASBO CONFERENCE THAT WE WERE JUST AT, I DID HAVE ANOTHER VENDOR
APPROACHED ME AND WANTED TO PUT IN A PROPOSAL AND EVEN THOUGH WE HAD THE AGENDA READY, I DID ALLOW THAT. 
          AND THEY DID PROPOSE THE LEXMARK PRINTERS, BUT IT CAME IN SIGNIFICANTLY MORE AND THEY
DIDN'T OFFER A COST PER COPY ONLY . THEY REQUIRED A LEASE PLUS A COST PER COPY, AND IT WOULD HAVE BEEN WELL OVER $1,000,000
FOR THE TERM OF THE CONTRACT. 
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SO I'M PRETTY COMFORTABLE RECOMMENDING POA WE'VE HAD A TEN YEAR RELATIONSHIP WITH THEM. 
          THEY'RE ALMOST LIKE ANOTHER DEPARTMENT IN OUR DISTRICT. 
          SO I ASKED THE BOARD IF YOU COULD PLEASE APPROVE THE 60 MONTH AGREEMENT WITH POA FOR
DISTRICT WIDE MANAGED PRINT SERVICES AND AUTHORIZE MICHELLE SCOTT CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER TO SIGN THE AGREEMENT. 
          DO YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS? THANK YOU, DARCY. YEAH. QUESTIONS? YEAH, I HAVE A QUESTION ON THE PROJECTION OF NEEDS. 
          WAS THERE ANY CONSIDERATION IN THERE FOR LIKE MISPRINTS OR A STATISTIC AS TO? NO IT'S JUST PER COPY PRINTED A METER. 
          WHEN A PAPER GOES THROUGH THERE, IT'S COUNTED AS A COPY. 
          SO IF SOMEONE GETS HALFWAY THROUGH A 1000 PAGE PRINT AND THEY'RE LIKE, OH,NO. 
          WE MAKE A MISTAKE WE GET CHARGED FOR IT. 500 PAGE WHOOPSIE. 
          YEAH, THEY'RE STILL CHARGED FOR MISTAKES, UNFORTUNATELY. 
          AND DO YOU KNOW IF THEY HAD ANY CONSIDERATION FOR THAT IN THEIR PROJECTIONS FOR THE
240,000? NO, I BASED THOSE NUMBERS ON OUR CURRENT AGREEMENT RIGHT NOW, WE PROJECTED 200,000 BLACK
AND WHITE AND 45,000 COLOR. THAT'S WHAT WE USE NOW. 
          AND THAT WAS TOO LOW. 
          AND THE RICO, THEY HAD PROPOSED THE 300,000, 90,000. 
          AND TO ME THAT WAS TOO HIGH. 
          SO WE ANALYZED THE DATA FOR THE LAST 62 MONTHS IS WHAT WE'VE HAD SO FAR AND CAME UP WITH
AN AVERAGE TO ALLOW FOR A LITTLE BIT OF GROWTH. 
          AND THAT'S WHERE WE CAME UP WITH THE TWO 40,000 AND THE 70,000. 
          SO IT SOUNDS LIKE THEN YOU'RE BASING YOUR PROJECTIONS ON HISTORICAL DATA AND ALLOWING FOR
A LITTLE BIT OF GROWTH. 
          THAT'S WHAT I WANTED TO KNOW. THANK YOU. 
          YOU'RE WELCOME. I'LL BET THERE'S SOME OOPS IN THERE, TOO. 
          SOME WHAT? SOME OOPS IN THAT HISTORICAL DATA TOO. 
          YEAH I'M SURE. YOU KNOW, WHICH IS GOOD, RIGHT? BECAUSE THEN WE'RE PLANNING EVERYBODY MAKES OOPS. 
          I THINK THEY ALL CAME OUT OF YOUR OFFICE. 
          [LAUGHTER] DARCY WE'VE HAD A TEN YEAR RELATIONSHIP, YOU SAID WITH THE GROUP, I ASSUME
THAT THEY'VE BEEN GOOD ABOUT COMING UP AND SERVICING MACHINES. 
          I KNOW THAT'S ALWAYS A. 
          FOUR HOUR WINDOW WHEN YOU CALL THEM. 
          COVID HAS AFFECTED THAT, BUT THEY'RE REALLY GOOD ABOUT GETTING OUT HERE. 
          THEY HAVE AREA TECHNICIANS THAT ARE HERE. 
          WE CAN CERTAINLY ATTEST TO THAT. 
          THEY'RE QUICK. THAT'S GOOD TO KNOW. YEAH. 
          YEAH. AND THIS IS ON TOP OF THE PRINT SHOP OR INCLUDES THE PRINT SHOP. 
          NO IT'S ON TOP OF THE PRINT SHOP. 
          THAT'S WHAT I THOUGHT. THEY ARE THREE SEPARATE AGREEMENTS WE HAVE THE PRINT SHOP
PRODUCTION OUR COPIERS, AND THEN THESE ARE THE PRINTERS. 
          OKAY THAT'S WHAT I THOUGHT. ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? I'LL JUST ASK ONE MORE. 
          SO I GET THE HISTORICAL DATA. 
          I JUST WANT TO FEED OFF OF WHAT TED WAS ASKING. 
          IS THERE ANY POTENTIAL FOR CONSIDERATION TO LESSEN AND MAYBE JUST EVEN IN THE LAST COUPLE
OF YEARS, HAVE THE NUMBERS DROPPED AT ALL HISTORICALLY WITH BEING DOING SO MUCH ONLINE AND MAYBE LESS PRINTING? I MEAN, IS THERE I GUESS IN THE PAST FIVE YEARS, IF YOU USED HISTORICAL DATA, DID IT KIND
OF GO UP AND THEN DOWN A LITTLE BIT? BEEN PRETTY CONSISTENT. 
          OKAY. POA DOES OFFER AS PART OF THEIR SERVICE, THEY CAN COME OUT AND ANALYZE AND SUGGEST
WAYS TO REDUCE YOUR PRINTING FOOTPRINT. 
          AND THEY'VE DONE THAT BEFORE. 
          THEY HAVE A PROGRAM CALLED PAPER CUT. 
          WE HAD THAT INSTALLED ON DISTRICT COMPUTERS FOR A WHILE. 
          AND EVERY TIME YOU PRINT, IT WOULD COME UP AND TELL YOU AND MAKE YOU THINK ABOUT IT. 
          SO BUT THEY DO HAVE OPTIONS. 
          AND LIKE OUR ELECTRONIC FAXES ON THE COPIERS WAS ONE OPTION TO REDUCE PRINTING. 
          SO. OKAY. 
          THANK YOU. I MOVE THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS APPROVE THE 60 MONTH AGREEMENT WITH THE PACIFIC
OFFICE AUTOMATION FOR DISTRICT WIDE MANAGE PRINT SERVICE EFFECTIVE SEPTEMBER 1, 2022 AND AUTHORIZE THE CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER TO SIGN THE
AGREEMENT. 
          GOT A MOTION ON THE FLOOR TO APPROVE THE MANAGEMENT SERVICES CONTRACT. 
          ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SIGNIFY BY SAYING AYE? AYE. ALL THOSE OPPOSED? MOTION PASSES 5 TO 0. 
          THANK YOU. THANK YOU, DARCY. 
          OKAY. ITEM B ON THE NEW BUSINESS FIRST READING OF POLICY 2140 COMPREHENSIVE SCHOOL
COUNSELING PROGRAM .THAT WOULD BE ME. 
          YEAH. SO, AS YOU PROBABLY HAVE SEEN IN YOUR BOARD DOCUMENTS, THE LEGISLATURE PASSED A
BILL, SENATE BILL 5030 IN THE LEGISLATIVE SESSION IN 2021. 
          AND THIS BILL REALLY PUTS INTO PLACE IN THE STATE OF WASHINGTON A MOVE TOWARDS THESE
NATIONAL MODEL, THE ASKA  MODEL FOR SCHOOL COUNSELING. 
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AND IT HELPS MOVE DISTRICTS TOWARDS USING OUR MASTER'S LEVEL COUNSELING STAFF TO REALLY
PROVIDE PRIMARILY DIRECT INSTRUCTION TO STUDENTS. 
          SO DIRECT SERVICES AND INDIRECT SERVICES, IT IS A CHANGE IN THE MODEL TO ACTUALLY LOOK AT
TIME, STUDY AND THEIR USE OF TIME AND TO MOVE TOWARDS AN 80 20 BREAKDOWN OF THEIR TIME. 
          SO DIRECT SERVICES WOULD BE FOR THINGS LIKE LESSONS, SPECIFIC LESSONS, CAREER PLANNING
ACTIVITIES, CAREER DEVELOPMENT MIGHT BE FOR ACADEMIC STRENGTH BASED UNDERSTANDING FOR STUDENTS IN TERMS OF THEIR WHAT KIND OF STUDENT THEY ARE AND THEN WHAT KIND OF ADDITIONAL TRAINING THEY
MIGHT NEED. 
          SO THAT'S DIRECT SERVICES AND THEN INDIRECT SERVICES ARE THOSE THINGS THAT A COUNSELOR
MIGHT DO TO HOOK STUDENTS UP TO SERVICES SHOULD THEY NEED OUTSIDE COUNSELING SERVICES OR WORKING WITH THEIR FAMILIES, WORKING WITH SETTING THEM UP IN WORK BASED
LEARNING THOSE TYPES OF THINGS. 
          THE PUSH IS TO MOVE ALL COUNSELING STATEWIDE TO 80% OF THOSE TYPES OF SERVICES AND ONLY
20% IN PROGRAM MANAGEMENT OR THINGS LIKE PARTICIPATING IN MEETINGS, READING EMAILS, DOING THOSE TYPES OF
THINGS. 
          SO OVER THE COURSE OF BOTH THIS BOARD MEETING, AS WE TALK ABOUT THIS CHANGE IN A POLICY,
OUR OLD POLICY REALLY JUST TALKED ABOUT GUIDANCE AND COUNSELING. 
          AND REALLY THE FOCUS WAS MAINLY ON WHAT HIGH SCHOOLS DID TO PREPARE KIDS FOR ENTRANCE
INTO COLLEGE AND SOME TRADE SCHOOL. 
          THIS IS EXPANDING THE COMPREHENSIVE SCHOOL COUNSELING PLAN TO INCLUDE ALL OF THE WORK
THAT ARE DONE ACROSS K-12 SYSTEMS FOR SCHOOL COUNSELORS TO ALIGN WITH THAT, THAT NATIONAL MODEL. 
          SO THIS POLICY IS JUST LOOKING AT MAKING SURE THAT WE ARE APPROACHING COUNSELING FROM A
MULTI-TIERED SYSTEM APPROACH WHERE WE ACTUALLY ASSESS THE NEEDS OF OUR STUDENTS AND WE BUILD THE COUNSELING MODEL AROUND THAT. 
          SO WE DETERMINE WHAT ARE THE NEEDS FOR ALL STUDENTS IN TERMS OF COUNSELING SERVICES, WHAT
ARE THE NEEDS FOR SOME STUDENTS AND WHAT ARE THE NEEDS FOR FEW STUDENTS? AND DEVELOP THAT MODEL TO FIT THE NEEDS OF OUR STUDENTS. 
          AND SO IT WOULD REPRESENT A NEEDS BASED MOVEMENT OVER TIME IN CHANGING THE COUNSELING
MODEL, RATHER THAN IT ALWAYS BEING A STAGNANT PLAN FOR COUNSELING. 
          SO IN ORDER TO DO THAT, MAKE THOSE CHANGES, THERE'S A COMPLETE REVAMP OF THE STATE OF THE
POLICY. 
          AND SO IN FRONT OF YOU, WHAT WE'RE ASKING IS THAT YOU DELETE THE OLD POLICY THAT REALLY
DOESN'T ADDRESS WHAT THAT LOOKS LIKE TO THE NEW POLICY AND PROCEDURE THAT REALLY OUTLINES THE REQUIREMENTS IN
SENATE BILL 5030. 
          AND NEXT BOARD MEETING, WE INTEND TO COME TO YOU AND SHARE WITH YOU THE COMPREHENSIVE
SCHOOL COUNSELING PLAN THAT OUR SCHOOL COUNSELORS HAVE BEEN WORKING ON THIS YEAR, AS WELL AS A GOAL FOR NEXT YEAR, WHICH WILL BE OUR TRANSITION
PLAN OF HOW DO WE GET TO THAT COMPREHENSIVE SCHOOL COUNSELING MODEL THAT WE'RE HOPING TO GET TO. 
          ONE OF THE MAIN COMPONENTS IS WE WANT TO USE STAFF IN THEIR TRAINED AREA TO PROVIDE THE
MOST SERVICES WE CAN TO OUR STUDENTS BASED ON WHAT THEIR NEEDS ARE. 
          AND SO THIS REALLY JUST MOVES US IN A DIRECTION IN A MORE SYSTEMATIC AND DEFINED WAY. 
          SO SPECIFIC QUESTIONS I CERTAINLY COULD READ TO YOU PART OF THE THE LAW OR ANSWER ANY
QUESTIONS THAT YOU HAVE DIDN'T WANT TO JUST READ THE DOCUMENT TO YOU. 
          I THINK IT SOUNDS LIKE YOUR PLAN, THE PLAN YOU'RE GOING TO BRING TO US WILL PROBABLY
CLARIFY A LOT. 
          IT WILL. BUT I'M CURIOUS ABOUT THE 80, 20, 80%, 20%. 
          AND IS THAT SOMETHING THAT YOU'LL THEN BE NEEDING TO MONITOR AND REPORT ON? YES. SO AND WE HAVE DONE A TIME STUDY THIS YEAR AND WE WILL BE SHARING WITH YOU NEXT TIME
WHERE OUR PERCENTAGES ARE FALLING CURRENTLY, THEY'RE NOT AT 80/20. 
          BUT WE'RE NOT BAD. 
          WE'RE ACTUALLY CLOSER THAN WHEN WE DID THE TIME STUDY I WAS ACTUALLY SURPRISED THAT WE'RE
AS CLOSE AS WE ARE. 
          RIGHT. WE CERTAINLY HAVE A WAYS TO GO. 
          AND I THINK GETTING TO THOSE THINGS ARE GOING TO BE MORE DIFFICULT AT THE HIGHER LEVELS. 
          WHAT WE REQUIRE OF OUR HIGH SCHOOL COUNSELORS IS MUCH BROADER, OF COURSE, THAN IT IS AT
OUR K-8, BECAUSE THEY'RE ALSO DOING A LOT 
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MORE IN REGARDS TO CAREER DEVELOPMENT, HELPING THEM WITH THEIR PATHWAYS. 
          THEY ARE VERY INVOLVED THIS YEAR AN THE LAST FEW YEARS WITH WAIVERS AS THEY RELATE TO
COVID. 
          THAT'S A LOT OF NON ESSENTIAL COUNSELING DUTIES, BUT REALLY THEY ARE THE PEOPLE WHO HAVE
THE INFORMATION. 
          SO AT THIS POINT THEY ARE THE PEOPLE THAT NEED TO DO THAT WORK. 
          SO WE HAVE VARIOUS NEEDS ACROSS OUR K-12 SYSTEM TO REALLY LOOK AT AND SEE WHAT THINGS WE
MIGHT BE ABLE TO PULL OFF OF COUNSELORS. AND MAYBE THOSE TASKS CAN BE COMPLETED BY OTHER STAFF MEMBERS WHO, HAVE THE
SKILLS TO DO THAT BUT DON'T NECESSARILY NEED A MASTER'S DEGREE IN COUNSELING IN ORDER TO DO IT. 
          SO WE HAVE SOME ANALYSIS TO DO. 
          WE HAVE SOME GOALS FOR NEXT YEAR THAT WILL HELP US GET THERE. 
          AND IT'S BEEN A VERY COLLABORATIVE PROCESS. 
          I CAN TELL YOU THAT WE HAVE HAD SIX MEETINGS OVER THE COURSE OF ONE MEETING A MONTH SINCE
DECEMBER, WORKING WITH THAT GROUP FOR 2 HOURS EACH TIME WE'VE MET, THEY'VE BEEN JUST WONDERFUL IN PROVIDING INPUT AND
HELPING PERSONALLY ME LEARN A WHOLE BUNCH ABOUT COUNSELING THAT I DID NOT KNOW BEFORE. 
          BUT I THINK WITH THE SUPPORT OF THE RIGHT TEAM, WE'RE GOING TO BE ABLE TO MAKE SOME
REALLY NICE CHANGES FOR OUR STUDENTS ACROSS THE DISTRICT AND PROVIDING SOME REALLY GOOD SUPPORTS TO THEM. SO IT'S EXCITING WORK, BUT WE HAVE A LONG WAY TO GO AND THE FIRST STEP
IS REDOING OUR POLICY AND PROCEDURE TO ALIGN WITH THAT WORK. 
          SO. SHELLY, I APPRECIATE THAT THE CONCEPT OF RESTRUCTURING THAT TO GIVE THE COUNSELORS
MORE TIME TO FOCUS SPECIFICALLY ON THE STUDENTS I THINK IS GREAT. 
          MY QUESTION IS, IS THAT IN THE INTERIM OR MAYBE THE LONG TERM PLAN IS STAFFING, DO WE IS
THERE ALREADY BEEN OR WILL THERE BE AN ASSESSMENT TO CONSIDER WHETHER OR NOT WE HAVE ADEQUATE STAFF LEVELS TO EVEN SUPPORT THIS POLICY? YES. GREAT QUESTION. 
          WE ACTUALLY ARE CURRENTLY WE ARE PLANNING TO ADD THREE POSITIONS NEXT YEAR USING ESSER
FUNDS. 
          AS YOU KNOW, WE ALSO HAD A SHIFT IN THE WAY THAT THEY'RE FUNDED. 
          WE WERE SUPPLEMENTING MORE OF OUR COUNSELING STAFF WITH LEVY DOLLARS PREVIOUSLY, BUT WE
ARE RECOUPING, I GUESS MIGHT BE THE BEST WAY TO SAY IT IN THE PROTOTYPICAL MODEL, THE NUMBER OF ESA STAFF. 
          SO PSYCHS, COUNSELORS, NURSES, WE ARE RECOUPING MORE FUNDING FROM THE STATE IN WHAT THEY
DID IN THE LEGISLATURE THIS YEAR THAN WE'VE HAD IN THE PAST. AND SO WE ARE ADDING SOME STAFF, WE ARE USING ESSER MONEY, BUT WE WILL HAVE TO
REPRIORITIZE ACCORDING TO WHAT THESE NEEDS ARE AND THE DATA. 
          ONE OF THE GOALS AND I AM HIGHLIGHTING MORE THAN YOU NEED TONIGHT, BUT ONE OF THE THINGS
THAT WE NEED IS WE NEED A TIERED FIDELITY INVENTORY SO WE CAN ASSESS WHAT THE STUDENT NEEDS ARE BECAUSE THAT IN AND OF ITSELF WILL
HELP INFORM WHAT THE NECESSARY STAFFING LEVELS ARE AND WHETHER THOSE NEED TO BE THOSE THINGS THAT ARE BEING DONE NEED TO BE DONE BY A
COUNSELOR OR CAN BE DONE BY ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF OR DONE BY CLASSIFIED STAFF WHO CAN DO THOSE SOME OF THOSE SKILLS. 
          FOR INSTANCE, WE COULD FIND OUT THAT SOME OF THAT [INAUDIBLE] WORK COULD BE DONE BY A
REGISTRAR. 
          AND SO WE MAY NEED TO SHIFT STAFFING BASED ON WHAT WE FIND OUT THROUGH THAT ASSESSMENT. 
          BUT IT'S AN ASTUTE OBSERVATION, TED, AND I KNOW MARY KNOWS THIS BECAUSE I CAUGHT HER EYE
A COUPLE OF TIMES. 
          IT IS ONE OF THOSE EXAMPLES OF AN UNFUNDED MANDATE. 
          YEAH, RIGHT. 
          AND WE ARE FORTUNATE THAT WE HAVE COUNSELORS AT ALL OF OUR SCHOOLS AND WE'RE MEETING A
LOT OF THIS. I DON'T KNOW HOW OTHER SOME OF THE OTHER DISTRICTS ARE GOING TO BE ABLE TO TO DO
THIS. 
          BUT AND, YOU KNOW, I DON'T THINK THAT IT WAS NECESSARILY TIED IN THAT THE PROTOTYPICAL
MODEL WAS CHANGED. 
          IT WASN'T CHANGED BECAUSE OF THE COMPREHENSIVE SCHOOL COUNSELING MODEL. 
          IT IS BENEFICIAL TO US THAT WE'RE GOING TO RECEIVE MORE FUNDING FOR MENTAL HEALTH SUPPORT
STAFF, WHICH COUNSELORS QUALIFY FOR. SO THAT'S GOING TO HELP US. 
          BUT IT IS AN EXAMPLE OF ANOTHER UNFUNDED STATE MANDATE. 
          ABSOLUTELY. SO I KNOW THE FUNDING FOR THAT INCREASE IN COUNSELORS IS PHASED IN OVER THREE
YEARS. 
          YES. DOES THE POLICY TAKE EFFECT IMMEDIATELY? AND WE HAVE TO MEET THE POLICY? IT IS OUR OBLIGATION TO PASS A COMPREHENSIVE SCHOOL COUNSELING PLAN BEFORE THE BEGINNING
OF 22-23. 
          BUT YOU WILL NOTE THAT WHEN SHELLY INTRODUCES THE PLAN, THERE'S REQUESTS THERE. 
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THERE ULTIMATELY IS WHERE WE WANT TO GO, BUT IT'S NOT SOMETHING THAT'S GOING TO COST A
HUGE AMOUNT OF MONEY RIGHT OFF THE BAT. 
          OKAY. SO IT'S A PLAN. 
          ESSER FUNDS ARE HELPING WITH THAT WHICH WE CAN USE FOR TWO YEARS THAT'S GOING TO HELP US
GET THERE. 
          SO WELL, WILL THERE BE ANY NEED FOR ADDITIONAL TRAINING FOR THE COUNSELORS THEY'RE GOING
TO BE MOVING INTO MORE OF A? MOST OF OUR COUNSELORS HAVE BEEN TRAINED ON THE ASCA MODEL. 
          BUT PART OF THE WORK WE'VE BEEN DOING TOGETHER IN THOSE TRAININGS THAT WE'VE BEEN HAVING
IS ACTUALLY DIGGING IN TO THE ASCA MODEL FOR SOME OF OUR STAFF THAT WERE NOT TRAINED ON THAT THROUGH THEIR COUNSELING PROGRAM. 
          BUT YEAH, THERE WILL BE AN ONGOING NEED AND WE WILL HAVE TO DO SOME PROFESSIONAL
DEVELOPMENT. 
          EVEN ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE NOTICED WHEN WE DID OUR OWN TIME STUDY, WE DETERMINED THAT
NOT EVERYONE DEFINES DIRECT AND INDIRECT SERVICES THE SAME WAY. 
          SO THERE ARE IS SOME INTER RELIABILITY ISSUES IN TERMS OF OUR CODING. 
          SO IT IS DEFINITELY A LEARNING PROCESS. 
          BUT WHAT IS GOOD IS THAT WE'RE ALL LEARNING IT TOGETHER AND WE HAVE A NUMBER OF NEW HIRES
IN THE DISTRICT. 
          WE'VE HIRED SO FAR SEVEN NEW COUNSELORS FOR NEXT YEAR, MAINLY BECAUSE OF RESIGNATIONS AND
LEAVES OF ABSENCE. 
          BUT AGAIN, AS YOU INDICATED, THREE NEW AND THREE ADDITIONAL COUNSELORS. 
          THREE POSITIONS. SO WE HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY AND THE TIMING IS JUST COMING TOGETHER REALLY
PRETTY NICELY FOR BRINGING AND ONBOARDING NEW PEOPLE INTO OUR SYSTEM, AS WELL AS BRINGING ALONG OUR STAFF THAT HAVE BEEN WITH US
FOR A GREAT DEAL OF TIME SO. 
          IN MY PODCAST THAT I'M DOING, EVERY TIME I USE AN ACRONYM AND DON'T EXPLAIN IT, HE DINGS
A BELL. 
          SO I'M GOING TO DING THE BELL ON SHELLY AND ASCA. 
          AMERICAN SCHOOL COUNSELING ASSOCIATION. 
          SO JUST SO YOU KNOW. 
          YEAH YEAH. GOOD, GOOD DENNY. 
          [LAUGHTER] OKAY. BOARD ALONG WITH OUR COMPREHENSIVE BUILDING PLAN COMING UP HERE, OUR NEW
BUILDING PLAN COMING UP. 
          IT'D BE GOOD TO TAKE A LOOK CAREFULLY AT A BRAND NEW, FULLY WRITTEN POLICY ON COUNSELING
WHICH WILL IMPACT OUR SCHOOLS. 
          I APOLOGIZE TO THE BOARD. 
          ALL OF THOSE THINGS. IT'S JUST I WAS TELLING MARK THAT FOR TWO YEARS A LOT OF THIS STUFF
HAS GONE. 
          YOU KNOW IT SAT WHILE WE WERE DEALING WITH COVID AND NOW THAT COVID IS QUOTE UNQUOTE
OVER, IT'S JUST WE'RE FINDING OURSELVES JUST SWIMMING IN A WHOLE BUNCH OF NEW INITIATIVES, AND REQUIREMENTS. 
          YOU GOT TO MOVE IT FROM THE IN TO THE OUTBOX. 
          RIGHT, RIGHT. 
          SO I WOULD ASK THAT THE BOARD CONSIDER THE FIRST READING OF POLICY 2140 COMPREHENSIVE
SCHOOL COUNSELING PROGRAM. 
          I MOVE THAT THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS, ACCEPT THE FIRST READING OF THE POLICY 2140
COMPREHENSIVE SCHOOL COUNSELING PROGRAM, IT'S BEEN MOVED TO APPROVE THE FIRST READING POLICY 2140. 
          ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SIGNIFY BY SAYING AYE. 
          AYE. ALL THOSE OPPOSED. MOTION PASSES 5 TO 0. 
          THANK YOU. THAT'S THE END OF OUR NEW BUSINESS. 
          FUTURE EVENTS. WE MENTIONED A COUPLE IN THERE. 
          [11. Future Agenda Items and Board Events]
WE'VE GOT DISTRICT SIX MEETING AT KELSO NEXT TUESDAY. 
          WE'VE GOT SOME TOURS COMING UP. 
          THANK YOU FOR COVERING ME ON THE SPLIT. 
          THAT'S GREAT. ANYTHING ELSE OF NOTE? JUST AGAIN, A REMINDER ABOUT THE ART SHOW. 
          ART SHOW VOTE. 
          IS THAT A CONSENSUS VOTE? NO. 
          YOU PICK YOURS AND YOU'LL HAVE YOUR WINNER. 
          OKAY, OKAY. 
          YEAH, IT'S TOUGH. AND THAT PERSON GETS TWO YEAH, THAT'S REALLY. 
          YEAH. THE ODDS OF THAT ARE SLIM. 
          AND RITA SAID YOU CAN USE MULTIPLE DEVICES TO VOTE FOR OUR CULINARY PERSON. 
          I DIDN'T KNOW THAT. I ONLY GOT ONE VOTE IN SO FAR. 
          OKAY, I GOT THREE. 
          OKAY. ALL RIGHT. THERE'S ALWAYS SOMETHING IN THERE. 
          OKAY. BOARD. WE'RE LOOKING AT PROBABLY 15 MINUTES. 
          OH, REALLY? YEAH. OKAY, WELL, I WOULD LIKE TO ADD A MINIMUM OF FIVE TO THAT TO FULFILL
OUR RESPONSIBILITY, TO CALL, OF COURSE, OUR MEMBERS THAT WHY DON'T WE GO ON? WHY DON'T WE GO TEN AS A BREAK [INAUDIBLE] THOSE PHONE CALLS? TEN AS A BREAK TO MAKE YOUR PHONE CALLS. 
          [02:20:01]
AND THEN 15 8:30 WE'LL GO UNTIL 8:45. 
          RIGHT. OKAY. 
          SO THAT IS AN EXECUTIVE SESSION ON PERSONNEL RCW 4230110 
          [12. Executive Session]
ITEMS A AND G, NO ACTION EXPECTED. 
          ALL RIGHT. I'D LIKE TO ADJOURN THIS MONDAY, MAY 9TH, 2022 REGULAR SCHOOL BOARD MEETING
OF THE BATTLE GROUND SCHOOL DISTRICT. 
          IT IS 8:45. 
          YES. THANK YOU ALL.
* This transcript was compiled from uncorrected Closed Captioning.