Agenda – FINAL Post 10/9/24
Regular Board Meeting
Wednesday, October 9, 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 967 313 502#. 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

• Progress Monitoring Goal 1: 3^rd Grade Reading
  • Monitoring Memo (Updated 10/3/24 & 10/7/24)
• Progress Monitoring Goal 2: 7^th Grade Math
  • Monitoring Memo (Updated 10/7/24)
• Presentation (Added 10/7/24)

V. Public Testimony

Public testimony is expected to begin at or after 5 p.m. for this meeting.

Members of the public who wish to address the board in person or by teleconference may sign up online beginning Monday, October 7, 2024 at 8:00 a.m. The public testimony list will be posted Tuesday, October 8, 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 967 313 502#. For information on how the public testimony list is created, please visit the Board’s website.

Testimony List

Order	Name	Topic
1	Mariko Fujita	DLI WRS
2	Alice Appleton	Well Resourced Schools – No Closures – and McGilvra
3	Alexandra Borowiecki	Well-Resourced Schools-don’t close schools
4	Rebecca Meredith	school closures
5	Sarah Nau	WRS
6	Elias Kass	School closures
7	Alexandra Rouse	Well Resourced Schools – don’t close schools
8	Rebekah Binns	School closure class sizes
9	Aidan carroll	Native ed and dont close schools
10	Kate Huber	School Funding
11	Kelly Alleen-Willems	School closures / Sanislo
12	Erin Combs	School closures
13	Briana Herman-Brand	no school closures
14	Michele Campbell	WRS
15	Michael Grigg	Well Resourced Schools Opportunity
16	Tracy Laxdal Lee	Closing Green Lake elementary and moving the medically fragile program
17	Charlotte Casey	SPS closing 5 schools
18	Jake Milstein	School Closures
19	Dave Ellenwood	School closures
20	Max Drewes	School closures
21	Krista Schert	School closures
22	Jennifer Lavallee	School closures
23	Matthew Burtness	School consolidations
24	Katherine Hodde	School Closure
25	Megan Lee	School closures

Testimony Waitlist

Order	Name	Topic
1	Jessica Samayoa	How Cedar Park Elementary School helps my family and why closing it would be very hard on us.
2	Emily Tobin	Well-Resourced Schools
3	Annie Becker	WRS and BEX Levy
4	Chris Jackins	Action Item (Consent item #1) Minutes of the September 18, 2024 Regular Board Meeting; Consent item #7): Acceptance of grant from the Alliance for Education for strategic planning; don’t close schools
5	Ben Gitenstein	Approval of Resolution No. 2024/25-4 Building Excellence (BEX) VI Capital Levy Program, Don’t close schools
6	Brendan Levy	School Closures
7	Sarah Butler	Opposition to School Closures
8	Lynne Salkin Morris	School closures
9	Jane Park	School Closures
10	Danielle Reiss	School closures
11	Ayva Larson	Possible closing of Cedar Park Elementary School.
12	Erin MacDougall	School closures, enrollment/waitlists, SPS can become a great school district
13	Amy Carroll	school closures and admin workload
14	Sarah Kontopoulos	Closure of public schools
15	Jessica Holman	Well Resourced Schools and Board Oversight
16	Gregory Goldstein	School Closures
17	Warlina Wheeler	Dunlap ES impacts and request of transparency
18	Sebrena Burr	“Kasserian Ingera – How are the children?” PASS Contract; Well Resourced Schools;  Alliance for Education Grant
19	Linda Cuddy	School closures, consolidations, west seattle school boundaries what school(s)will students
20	Jana Parker	Addressing school district’s budget deficit
21	Joe Mangan	Well resourced school plans
22	Michelle Kusowski	Well-Resourced Schools
23	Katherine Lewis	School closures
24	Shannon Robinson	Keep option, k-8, and language immersion schools
25	Andy Morris	School Closures
26	Molly Reagan	School closures
27	Irena Zlatanovic	School closures, budget shortfalls
28	Alexandra Bradbury	No cuts, defend public education!
29	Mary Dickson	South Shore k8 and surrounding schools, expand popular programs do not close
30	Katie Doptis	School closures
31	Jennifer Koch	Keep schools open
32	Ashley Worobec	Thriving schools of all shapes, sizes, and programs.
33	Ryan Miller	School closures
34	Chelsea Lin	School closures
35	Alyssa Everitt	Opposing neighborhood school closures and inequitable class sizes/staffing practices
36	Emily Carmichael	Potential school closures
37	S. Brook Peterson	Opposition to neighborhood school closure.
38	Megan Hamilton	Do not close schools to solve these problems
39	Chelsea Kane	Well Resourced Schoole
40	Theresa Horstman	No cuts and no school closures
41	Rebecca Allen	Stop school closures and pressure the state to fund education
42	Stephanie Anderson Soares	Neighborhood school closures
43	Dustin Cole	Keep Schools Open: Inclusion for Distinct at Graham Hill
44	Hilary Wilson	Large class sizes (via closures) will not achieving equity
45	Jeffrey Chon	School closures
46	Jane Tunks Demel	BEX VI levy
47	Laurel Beckwith	BEX levy
48	Kara Golgert	BEX – Capital Projects, Buildings that support inclusion.
49	Heather Smith	BEX VI Levy Proposal
50	Kevin Wilhelm	Levi funding
51	Peggi Fu	BEX Levy funding mega elementary schools
52	Rhett Hounsell	Native American Education
53	Gregory Engel	Firearm injury prevention education
54	Sarah Sense-Wilson	Indian Education
55	Gordon Macdougall	Curriculum and Instruction Native American students
56	Natasha Daviduke	Overages at Emerson Elementary
57	Peter Gross	Budget increase categories overview
58	Sam gutierrez	Access
59	Cherylynne Crowther	Special education
60	Lareina Redwoman	Indian education
61	Amelia Andress	INDIAN EDUCATION
62	Clarissa Antone	The state of Indian Education
63	Kayla Harstad	Indian education
64	Blaine Parce	Indian education
65	Albert Wong	Anti-Asian bias in Seattle School leadership and advocacy community
66	Jasper Thomas	support for our teachers
67	Stephanie Jackson	Black Female Teachers and Equal Employment Opportunity
68	Ines Tobin	Indian education
69	Luke Smaul	WRS
70	Frazier Bardolph	“Well Resourced Schools” – Don’t close schools
71	maryanne wood	school closure specifically plan to close lafayette elementary and the alki elementary school
72	Tricia Alexander	Stop school closures, fully fund schools
73	Mary Rodriguez	Focusing on the success of all students.
74	Michael Eney	School Closures and BEX
75	Alex Martin Borowiecki	WRS – Merits of Keeping Schools Open (McGilvra)
76	Jie Lei	Keep schools open
77	Julie Schneider	Diverse options can make SPS a stronger district
78	Elisa Keller	What true community engagement means, before closing schools

VI. Business Action Items

A. Consent Agenda

Routine Approvals (Introduction & Action)

1. Minutes of the September 11, 2024 Board Special Meeting; September 18, 2024 Board Special Meeting; and September 18, 2024 Regular Board Meeting (corrected 10/2/24).
2. Personnel Report
3. Warrants Report – August 16 thru September 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	$246,179.99
General Fund	Vendor	$26,250,519.78
Capital Project Fund	Vendor	$31,201,605.52
Associated Student Body Fund	Vendor	$148,568.84
Expendable Trust Fund	Vendor	$65,000.00
Grand Total	All	$57,911,874.13

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

4. Approval of Seattle Public Schools (SPS) Personal Services Contract (PSC) with University Tutors for Seattle Schools (UTSS) dba Tutors Impacting Public Schools (TIPS). Approval of this item would authorize the Superintendent to execute the contract with TIPS for the purpose of providing Families, Education, Preschool, and Promise (FEPP) Levy-funded or other funding source activities in selected elementary, K-8, middle, and high schools, with any minor additions, deletions, and modifications deemed necessary by the Superintendent, and to take any necessary actions to implement the contract. Immediate action is in the best interest of the district.
5. Approval of Seattle Public Schools Personal Services Contracts for the City of Seattle’s Parks & Recreation Department. Approval of this item would authorize the Superintendent to execute the contracts with City of Seattle’s Parks & Recreation Department with an initial value of $1,147,342 for the purpose of providing Families, Education, Preschool, and Promise (FEPP) Levy funded or other funding source activities in selected elementary, K-8, middle, and high schools, with any minor additions, deletions and modifications deemed necessary by the Superintendent, and to take any necessary actions to implement the contract. Immediate action is in the best interest of the district.
6. Approval of the 2023 – 2026 Collective Bargaining Agreement between Seattle Public Schools and Teamsters Local Union No. 174. Approval of this item would approve the 2023 – 2026 Collective Bargaining Agreement between Seattle Public Schools and Teamsters Local Union No. 174 and authorize the Superintendent, on behalf of the Board of Directors, to execute the Agreement in the form attached to the School Board Action Report, with any minor additions, deletions, and modifications deemed necessary by the Superintendent and to take any necessary actions to implements the terms of this agreement. Immediate action is in the best interest of the District.
7. Acceptance of grant funding to Seattle Public Schools from the Alliance for Education for the purposes of strategic planning. Approval of this item would authorize the Superintendent to accept the Alliance for Education grant in the amount of $528,000. Immediate action is in the best interest of the district. (Materials added 10/3/24)

B. Items Removed from the Consent Agenda

C. Action Items

1. Adoption of Resolution No. 2024/25-11, directing the Superintendent to present preliminary recommendations and supporting analysis in October 2024 for up to five school closures for the 2025-26 school year; to develop a multi-year plan no later than June 2025 to achieve fiscal stability in support of student outcomes; and to form a taskforce to advise the Superintendent on implementation of 2025-26 school closures, if approved by the Board, and development of the multi-year recommendations. Approval of this item would adopt Resolution No. 2024/25-11 as attached to the Board Action Report. Immediate action is in the best interest of the district. (Introduction & Action; Added to agenda 10/8/24; Materials added 10/9/24)

D. Introduction Items

1. Approval of 2024-25 Progress Monitoring Calendar Approval of this item would approve the Progress Monitoring Calendar for 2024-25, as attached to this Board Action Report. (Materials added 10/7/24)
2. Approval of Instructional Materials Committee Membership 2024-2028. Approval of this item would approve the persons listed on the document titled, “Proposed Instructional Materials Committee 2024-2028” attached to the Board Action Report to serve a four-year term on the Instructional Materials Committee.
3. Approval of the 2025 State Legislative Agenda. Approval of this item would adopt the 2025 State Legislative Agenda, as attached to this Board Action Report. (Materials added 10/7/24)
4. Approval of Resolution No. 2024/25-3 Replacement for Educational Programs and Operations Levy. Approval of this item would accept the proposed Replacement for Educational Programs and Operations Levy and adopt Resolution 2024/25-3 which places a three-year levy totaling $673.8 million dollars on the February 11, 2025 ballot, as attached to the Board action report. Approval of this item would also approve appointment of individuals to committees to prepare statements for the King County voters’ pamphlet advocating for approval and for rejection of the Educational Programs and Operations Levy. (Materials added 10/3/24; Board Action Report updated 10/7/24; Materials added 10/8/24)
5. Approval of Resolution No. 2024/25-4 Building Excellence (BEX) VI Capital Levy Program. Approval of this item would adopt Resolution 2024/25-4, placing a six-year capital levy on the February 11, 2025, Special Election Ballot for voter approval to fund the Building Excellence (BEX) VI Capital Levy program. Approval of this item would also approve appointment of individuals to committees to prepare statements for the King County voters’ pamphlet, advocating both for approval and rejection of the BEX VI Capital Levy. (Resolution added as attachment 10/3/24; Board Action Report updated 10/7/24)
6. Approval of Resolution No. 2024/25-2, Certification of Excess Levies and Calculation of General Fund Levy Rollback for 2025. Approval of this item would approve Resolution 2024/25-2, Certifying Excess Levies and Calculation of the General Fund Levy Rollback for 2025, as attached to the Board Action report. (Materials added 10/3/24)

• Presentation for Introduction Items 4 and 5: Educational Programs and Operations Levy & Building Excellence VI Capital Levy (Materials added 10/8/24)

VII. Well-Resourced Schools Update (Materials added 10/9/24)

VIII: Board Self-Evaluation

• Board Quarterly Self-Evaluation
  • Student Outcomes Focused Governance Manual and Board Quarterly Self-Evaluation Template
  • Board Quarterly Self-Evaluation – June 2024 (Approved August 28, 2024)
• Board Time-Use Evaluation – September 2024 (Materials added 10/2/24)

IX. Informational Items

• Board Director Questions and Staff Responses for October 9, 2024 Regular Board Meeting (Materials added 10/4/24)

X. 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.