As students, district staff, and school board members shuffled into their seats as the clock approached 6 p.m., many attendees prepared for their time to speak during the school board meeting at the Resource and Service Center (the District Office). Following the call to order, Pledge of Allegiance, and the brief look at the bare public comment sign-up sheet, the board welcomed the most recent district hire, Jeff Scott, for the newly created position of the district Safety and Security Manager. “Coming in I didn’t know what to expect… I started peeling, started seeing some stuff, [and] there’s a lot of good stuff that we have here and I’m just going to bring it together to make sure that we have the best district in the state,” said Scott as he addressed the board. “I know that’s a big goal, but I like shooting for the stars,” 

As the board meeting continued, the time came for an update from the district Student Advisory Council. A representative from each of the three high schools, AIM, Snohomish, and Glacier Peak, took turns briefing the board on the happenings and concerns of their respective schools. Some also shared their plans to increase student voice through the council to the board. “For our school at least, we are going to try and do a submission form that you can go online,” said Emma, the representative for AIM High School. “Which would basically mean that students are able to anonymously put in concerns and things that they’ve experienced and things that they might want brought up, and then I’m able to go through with ASB and find the things that I think are going to be important.”

“We don’t really have much to report,” said Addyson Clarke, the representative for Glacier Peak High School. “Second semester just started, today we had the induction of our 2023-2024 ASB president, Vice President, Secretary, Treasurer, and our P.R.,”

Other matters were also discussed on the topics of the number of variances to and out of the Snohomish School District, and the state of the transportation department, which has faced shortages in bus drivers like many other districts across the state.