Agenda – Third Post 12/16/24
Regular Board Meeting
Wednesday, December 18, 2024, 4:15 p.m.

Board of Directors
2445 – 3rd Avenue South
Seattle, Washington 98134
206-252-0040
Seattle Public Schools

The meeting will be live streamed on SPSTV and broadcast on television on Comcast 26 (standard-def) and 319 (hi-def), Wave 26 (standard-def) and 695 (hi-def), and Century Link 8008 (standard-def) and 8508 (hi-def).

To listen by phone, dial 206-800-4125 and use Conference ID 430 118 732#. This phone number and Conference ID will also be used by those who sign up to provide public testimony through the process described on the agenda below.

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I. Call to Order – 4:15 p.m.

1. General Welcome Announcement to Audience
2. Roll Call

II. Superintendent Comments 

III. Board Comments

• Director & Student Member Comments

IV. Progress Monitoring

• Goal 1: Early Literacy (Materials updated 12/13/24)
• Goal 2: Mathematics (Materials updated 12/13/24)
• Progress Monitoring Presentation (Materials added 12/13/24)

V. Presentation of Moss Adams Governance Assessment (Materials added 12/16/24)

VI. Public Testimony

Public testimony will begin at or after 5:30 p.m.

Members of the public who wish to address the board in person or by teleconference may sign up online beginning Monday, December 16, 2024 at 8:00 a.m. The public testimony list will be posted Tuesday, December 17, 2024. Those who sign up online and are placed on the posted public testimony list may provide their testimony in person or by dialing 206-800-4125 and using Conference ID 430 118 732#. For information on how the public testimony list is created, please visit the Board’s website.

Testimony List

Order	Name	Topic
1	Lillian Stowell	Importance of Librarians
2	Hailey Ryan Sander	Well-resourced schools and guardrails
3	Hamza Ali	Cutting of libraries
4	Munira Mohamed	No reductions in Schools (Library’s/Classrooms)
5	Nolan Jones	SAP tech
6	Chris Jackins	Consent item #1 – Minutes of the November 26, 2024 Regular Board Meeting; Consent item #5 Resolution 2024/25-7 Aki Kurose; PERC Notice; Consent item #7 Final Acceptance on Rising Star Elementary School @ African American Academy; Board oversight
7	Mahlon Landis	Goals & Guardrails for 2025-2026 and program reductions/support to promote student outcomes
8	Laura Marie Rivera	Goals and Guardrails, Educational Equity
9	Hank Morgan	Guardrails
10	Annie Becker	BEX Levy
11	Megan Hamiton	Capital Projects
12	Aaron Moore	Chronic Underfunding of Schools
13	Bailey Medilo	School Revenue, Cuts, & Closures
14	TuesD Chambers	Well Resourced Schools
15	Michele Campbell	Audits / Budget
16	Nica Sy	Save our schools, Pro people education
17	Samantha Fogg	access
18	Liz Barry	Dual Language proposal
19	Shana Schasteen	Special Education understaffing
20	Sarah Brown	The adverse impact of incorrect enrollment projections and October staffing policies resulting in huge class sizes in high poverty schools

Testimony Waitlist

Order	Name	Topic
1	Andrea Redmond	Early literacy, what’s next? How do we build on it?
2	Gabriel de los Angeles	Native Education and IPAC
3	Virginia Trufan	Student Outcomes
4	Grace Rooney	TOPS Vice Principal
5	Rebekah Binns	Lack of oversight & community input on BEX committee
6	Elias Markham	Library being cut to 2 and a half days

VII. Business Action Items

A. Consent Agenda

Routine Approvals (Introduction & Action)

1. Minutes of the November 13, 2024 Board Special Meeting, November 19, 2024 Regular Board Meeting, and November 26, 2024 Board Special Meeting.
2. Personnel Report.
3. Warrants Report – October 16 thru November 15, 2024.

The following warrants as audited and certified by the auditing officer, as required by RCW 42.24.08, are approved for payment:

Fund	Payment Type	Amount
General Fund	*Payroll	$169,022.33
General Fund	Vendor	$37,872050.86
Capital Project Fund	Vendor	$25,579,899.20
Associated Student Body Fund	Vendor	$191,041.77
Expendable Trust Fund	Vendor	$0
Grand Total	All	$63,812,014.16

*Note – Payroll total reflects warrants issued to employees.  It does not however, reflect cash transfer amounts in payment of employees’ Direct Deposit payroll.

Grants/Gifts, Contracts & Capital Projects Approvals (Introduction & Action)

4. Approval of SAP vendor contract for new cloud Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) business information systems platform.  Approval of this item would authorize the Superintendent to execute a five-year contract with SAP, from December 20, 2024 to December 19, 2029, for a total not-to-exceed amount of $12,332,746.97 with any minor additions, deletions, and modifications deemed necessary by the Superintendent and to take any necessary actions to implement the contracts. Immediate action is in the best interest of the district.
5. BEX V/BEX VI/SCAP: Resolution 2024/25-7 New-in-Lieu of Modernization for the Aki Kurose Middle School Modernization and Additions project. Approval of this item would approve Resolution 2024/25-7, as attached to the Board Action Report, certifying that a portion of the facility identified in the project application (Form D-3) for the Aki Kurose Middle School Modernization and Additions project, submitted to the Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction, 25,327 square feet will be built new-in-lieu of modernization, while the remaining 135,952 square feet, will be modernized. Immediate action is in the best interest of the district.
6. BTA V: Final Acceptance of Contract PO7800001922 with LSI/PlayCreation, Inc., for the Highland Park Elementary School Playground project. Approval of this item would accept the work performed under Contract PO7800001922 with LSI/PlayCreation, Inc., for the Highland Park Elementary School Playground project as final. Immediate action is in the best interest of the district.
7. BTA V: Final Acceptance of Contract PO7800001926 with LSI/PlayCreation, Inc. for the Rising Star Elementary School Playground project. Approval of this item would accept the work performed under Contract PO7800001926 with LSI/PlayCreation, Inc., for the Rising Star Elementary School Playground project as final. Immediate action is in the best interest of the district. 
8. BTA V: Final Acceptance of Contract P5205 with H2I Group, Inc., for the Bleacher Replacement at Jane Addams Middle School project. Approval of this item would accept the work performed under Contract P5205 with H2I Group, Inc., for the Bleacher Replacement at Jane Addams Middle School project as final. Immediate action is in the best interest of the district.

B. Items Removed from the Consent Agenda

C. Election of Officers – Election of the Board Officers: President, Vice President, and Member-at-Large

D. Action Items

1. Approval of Board Resolution No. 2024/25-9, Educational Program Reduction per Board Policy No. 0060. Approval of this item would adopt Board Resolution No. 2024/25-9, Educational Program Reduction, as attached to this Board Action Report. (Updated since introduction, Materials added 12/13/24)

E. Introduction Items

1. Adoption of Board Policy Nos. 0020, Goals for the District, and 0025, Guardrails for the District, and Amendment to Board Policy No. 1010, Oversight and Progress Monitoring. Approval of this item would adopt Board Policy Nos. 0020 and 0025, setting new Goals and Guardrails for the district, and amend Board Policy No. 1010 as attached to the Board Action Report. The Goals and Guardrails will guide the district through the duration of the 2025-30 Strategic Plan.  (Materials updated 12/16/24)

VIII. Informational Items

• Monthly Budget Status Report – September 2024
• Monthly Budget Status Report – October 2024
• Public Employment Relations Commission Notice, Case: 137237-U-23c, Decisions: 13982-EDUC and 13983-PECB
• Legislative Liaison Update
• Council of Great City Schools Liaison Update

IX. Adjourn – 8:30 p.m.

Calendar Reminders

A complete list of upcoming Board meetings and Director community meetings can be found on the School Board calendar website.