In honor of the recognition of Career and Technical Education Month, the Prairie High School AFJROTC cadets will present the colors.
The board secretary or recorder will call roll of board members.
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Student voice is an opportunity for Associated Student Body (ASB) reports, student initiatives, achievements and recognitions.
Students from Yacolt Primary and Amboy Middle schools will be present to share about the great things happening at their schools. The names and grade levels of the Yacolt Primary students follows:
Two high school ceramic students will be sharing information about the upcoming Ceramics Showdown.
A couple of the members from the Prairie High School chess team will be present to share about their activities.
Presenter:
Luke LeCount, Director of Human Resources
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The Employee Recognitions Awards highlight staff members who reflect the district's strategic plan goals. These individuals from all roles represent their school/department and themselves in a positive manner. February's recipients are:
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Board Members
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Legislative Committee
Mary Snitily serves as the Board's Legislative Representative for the 2023 and 2024 calendar years. She will give a report to the Board on current legislative news and events.
Audit Committee Report
Audit Committee members are Ted Champine and Terry Tate. The audit committee will meet with Business Office staff prior to the first scheduled board meeting each month to review vouchers, the superintendent's and board of directors' budgets, payroll and the superintendent's time sheet. The committee will report back to the Board on the first board meeting of the month.
Battle Ground Education Foundation
Debbie Johnson serves as the Board representative on the Battle Ground Education Foundation.
Washington Interscholastic Activities Association Committee
Ted Champine serves as the Board representative on the Washington Interscholastic Activities Association (WIAA) committee.
Washington State School Directors' Association Updates
Board members who serve on various Washington State School Directors' Association (WSSDA) committees will have an opportunity to provide an update to the Board.
Tours Committee
The Board tours every school in the district by splitting up into three separate groups and visiting classrooms and offices. The tour schedule for the next two months follows:
| Daybreak Middle School | Group 3 | February 13, 2024 | Completed |
| Battle Ground High School | Groups 1, 2, 3 | March 1, 2024 | Upcoming |
| Daybreak Primary School | Group 3 | March 12, 2024 | Upcoming |
| Pleasant Valley Middle School | Group 1 | March 22, 2024 | Upcoming |
| Pleasant Valley Primary School | Group 2 | March 22, 2024 | Upcoming |
| Tukes Valley Primary School | Group 3 | March 26, 2024 | Upcoming |
| Group 1 Members | Mary Snitily, Terry Tate, Sora Tolley, David Kennedy |
| Group 2 Members | Ted Champine, Debbie Johnson, Shelly Whitten |
| Group 3 Members | Jackie Maddux, Julia Stiffler, Denny Waters |
Background:
An opportunity for board members to report out on their activities associated with their respective positions.
Presenter:
Denny Waters
Superintendent
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Denny Waters will provide periodic updates on events and/or recognitions throughout the district.
Presenter:
Shelly Whitten
Deputy Superintendent
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Shelly Whitten will provide an update to the Board on the Teaching and Learning Department.
Presenter:
Michelle Reinhardt
Executive Director of Human Resources
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A human resources report will be provided to the Board by Michelle Reinhardt.
Presenter:
Michelle Scott
Chief Financial Officer
Background:
Michelle Scott will give an update to the Board on finances.
Presenter:
Kevin Jolma
Executive Director of Facilities
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Kevin Jolma will give the Board an update on current projects.
Presenter:
Amanda Richter
Director of Communications & Community Outreach
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Amanda Richter will report on district events and promotions.
This is a meeting of the Battle Ground Public Schools Board of Directors, and it is open to the public to attend, view presentations, and hear the discussion between board members during open session.
The Board welcomes comments from citizens during Citizens' Comments and asks that those wishing to address the Board sign in on the sign-in sheet provided which is located close to the entrance.
Please follow the procedures for Citizens' Comments by stating your name, limiting your time to three (3) minutes, and refraining from discussing confidential matters.
Board members do not normally respond to questions or petitions during Citizens' Comments. They will listen and give direction to the Administrative Team if action is deemed necessary.
Thank you for your comments.
Minutes become official after approval by the Board.
Background:
Personnel reports are prepared by the Certificated and Classified Specialists for Board approval. The reports, attached, may contain items such as New Hires, Terminations, Assignment Changes, Resignations, Retirements, and Recommendations for Permanent Employment. Coaching assignments are listed when appropriate. The specialists will list incumbent employees and reasons for changes or new hires if appropriate. Confidential information is not contained in this report.
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Per Policy 2320, student travel requests require board approval if they are overnight trips. Advisors are required to submit all required paperwork at least two weeks in advance to Cheri Dailey, Director of Business Operations and Risk Management. Advisors must clear the trip with their building principal prior to submitting the request to Risk Management. Advisors are required to submit itineraries, budget information, transportation information and learning objectives along with the dates of travel and information on the group of students traveling with chaperones.
Exceptions to the rule are travel requests for state and national tournaments and competitions. The procedures for these types of trips is outlined in Procedure 2320P. Often the tournaments come up quickly and there is not enough time to present the trip to the board prior to the trip. In this case, advisors must submit all paperwork to the Risk Management Officer prior to the trip for approval. The trip is then ratified by board members at their next regularly scheduled board meeting.
Student travel requests are attached.
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WAC 392-123-115 requires a monthly budget status report for each fund to be prepared and submitted to each board member. The attached financial statements are provided to the board for their review and approval.
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Projects deemed complete and ready for acceptance by the school board as per the attached Request for Approval. This action protects the district from obligation to reimburse a subcontractor who files a lien after this 45-day period. This acceptance is required pursuant to RCW 60.28.011 and RCW 39.08.030.
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The Prairie High School Football Boosters is asking for approval for the donation of $17,977.70. The donation includes $2,775 for the Hudl ad subscription and $15,202.70 for football uniforms.
Background:
Policy 6815 Advertising on District Property, formalizes practices the district has already been doing for years. This policy takes into account several things, including, but not limited to prohibiting discrimination, freedom of speech and allows us to approve advertising consistent with the mission and policies of Battle Ground Public Schools. It also recognizes the need for additional revenue sources to support our school programs.
The first reading was approved on February 12, 2024.
Director of Student Services Tom Adams will be available for questions if they arise.
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The adoption of high school Advanced Placement (AP) Social Studies curriculum is a subcategory of the 9-12 Social Studies adoption. Non AP social studies curriculum will come to the Board for adoption this spring. The process for recommending AP courses is shorter than the process for non AP courses. The AP course process is governed by the requirements and guidelines from the College Board. This process will be explained at the Board meeting. Committee members for the AP adoption are typically teachers of Advanced Placement courses. This proposal comes with the endorsement from the Instructional Materials Committee (IMC) that the adoption process for this proposal has met all requirements of Board Policy 2020 and Procedure 2020P.
The list of recommended curriculum for high school advanced placement social studies courses follows:
AP Government:
Presidential Election Update American Government: Stories of a Nation, BFW 2021
Advanced Placement Edition United States Government and Politics, AMSCO 2024
AP US History:
The American Pageant, AP Edition, Cengage National Geographic 2020
Advanced Placement Edition United States History, AMSCO 2022
AP World History:
Ways of the World for the AP World History Modern Course Since,1200 CE BFW 2023
Advanced Placement Edition World History: Modern 1200 to present, AMSCO 2022
AP Human Geography:
Advanced Placement Edition Human Geography, AMSCO 2022
(Update Only) The Cultural Landscape: An Introduction to Human Geography 2024
The first reading of the curricula was approved on February 12, 2024.
Director of Curriculum, Instruction and Assessment Allison Tuchardt will be available for questions if they arise.
Background:
The adoption of high school Advanced Placement (AP) Science curriculum is a subcategory of the 6-12 Science adoption. Non AP science curriculum will come to the Board for adoption this spring. The process for recommending AP courses is shorter than the process for non AP courses. The AP course process is governed by the requirements and guidelines from the College Board. This process will be explained at the Board meeting. Committee members for the AP adoption are typically teachers of Advanced Placement courses. This proposal comes with the endorsement from the Instructional Materials Committee (IMC) that the adoption process for this proposal has met all requirements of Board Policy 2020 and Procedure 2020P.
The list of recommended curriculum for high school advanced placement science courses follows:
AP Biology:
Biology for the AP Course, BFW 2022
AP Chemistry:
Chemistry An Atoms Focused Approach, WW Norton 2020
AP Environmental Science:
Environmental Science for the AP Course, BFW 2023
The first reading was approved on February 12, 2024.
Director of Curriculum, Instruction and Assessment Allison Tuchardt will be available for questions if they arise.
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Presenter:
Matt Kesler
Principal, River HomeLink
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The purpose of our amendments is to update job descriptions and expectations as well as add a position, Sergeant at Arms. We also added sections to article IX to outline club formation, including the formation and criteria. Minor changes were made in word choices.
Presenter:
Cindy Arnold
Director of Career and Technical Education
Background:
The Career and Technical Education Plan and presentation to the School Board according to procedure 2170. Request that the School Board of Directors approve the Career and Technical Education plan.
February is Career and Technical Education (CTE) month. Battle Ground Public Schools presently has 1,018 full-time equivalent CTE students taking Career and Technical Education courses. This presentation will give the School Board an update of the CTE program.
Presenter:
Scott McDaniel
Director of Technology Services
Background:
On December 11, 2023, the Board was advised that the District would be a sub-recipient of a $300,000 Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) federal grant awarded to the City of Battle Ground. The grant provides funding to improve security in schools within the city limits. As a result, the Board approved advertising a request for proposal for the design and installation of a Public Safety Distributed Antenna System (DAS) for Battle Ground High School, Daybreak Middle School, Daybreak Primary School and Chief Middle School. The District advertised in both the Washington and Oregon Daily Journal of Commerce newspapers during December 2023, as well as on the District and the WA State Office of Minority & Women’s Business Enterprise (OMWBE) webpages. Twenty vendors requested the bid packet. Three bidders submitted qualifications. A committee was formed to review initial (Phase 1) qualifications submitted on January 12, 2024. All three vendors were interviewed. Based on the criteria as outlined in the RFP, all three vendors were deemed qualified, and invited to participate in site visits to further refine their proposals. Finalized formal bids (Phase 2) were opened February 12, 2024, and reviewed by the committee. The combined average score of the committee members for each proposal is attached.
Bids were scored by category; 100 total points were available.
Category Possible Points
Qualifications 35
Approach 30
Equipment 25
Cost 10
Bid tabulations are as follows:
Day Wireless 68.9 points awarded: Final bid: $414,166.77
McKinstry Essention 87.3 points awarded: Final Bid $295,204.97
Powercom 76.9 points awarded: Final bid $556,892.20
The committee reached a unanimous decision to recommend the award of the Public Safety DAS contract to McKinstry Essention. The project will be funded by the COPS grant through the City of Battle Ground. The Finance and Information Director for the City of Battle Ground, Meagan Lowery, CGAP, also approves the committee decision to award the contract to McKinstry Essention LLC.
Any costs that exceed the COPS budget will be funded by the Technology Services budget.
Presenter:
Michelle Reinhardt
Executive Director of Human Resources
Background:
We have recently changed our practice in how we conduct background checks of volunteers who have regularly scheduled unsupervised access to children. Volunteers will undergo a background check through the Washington State Patrol criminal identification system and through the Federal Bureau of Investigation, instead of through the Secure Volunteer Background Investigations Bureau (BIB). This will allow us to consider background information beyond seven years.
Presenter:
Michelle Reinhardt
Executive Director of Human Resources
Background:
In 2021, the Legislature passed House Bill (HB) 1016 making Juneteenth a state legal holiday in Washington. This change took effect in June 2022. Policy 5410 Holidays has been updated to include this holiday. Other changes to the policy include presenting the holidays in a listed format and removing language around additional dates that are considered holidays for district employees only. These additional dates are outlined in various collective bargaining agreements with the District. These contract provisions still remain in effect, but are removed from the policy due to not being considered state legal holidays.
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Board members will have an opportunity to add agenda items to upcoming board meetings.
Board members separately participate in many community and district events throughout each month as they are able. Each meeting they will review the calendar of upcoming events and discuss their participation.