b'Board Minutes, continuedfacilities. date for the combined Region 6N andCompanies soliciting membership with Discussed advocacy efforts and6S RTS in Auburn in June. Plans wereWAMOA potential funding opportunities. made to begin monthly meetings.Region 8Tim Engh & Paul Harrison- Attendance: 16 February 10 Our monthly meetingJanuary 8th meeting was held at the Attendance & Engagement: Wehad Beth Gilbertson share on PSEESD 171 in Wenatchee with HD supply continue to see around 30% ofservices and rebates. She did anpresenting Little Giant ladders. Little our registered school districtsimpressive job of sharing 58 slides inGiant gave a live video presentation participating each month. under 10 minutes leaving plenty offrom their factory in Colorado on Region 5Justin Gray & Joan Moore-time for questions. We had 9 schoolLadder safety with the how, what and Region 5 has been meeting on thedistrict members and 13 ed partners inwhys on ladders. This is an excellent third Friday of the month and hasattendance. presentation we highly recommend and met in Silverdale, Port Angeles andRegion 7David Jagannath & Brittonone we will look to have at our RTS. We Bremerton. We have continued toVanness- January 22, 2025 Brianthen did a round table discussion on have respectable attendance as wellPiippo with Integrus Architectureissues we all face especially concerning as welcoming a few new faces to ourpresented and sponsored lunch. Thethe clean buildings law. We had 14 in meetings. presentation was-Maintenanceattendance.We decided not to have a meeting inAdvocacy During Design: When toCrown Paper supplied lunch for the February due to mid winter break andraise your hand and when to raise yourteam.will resume in March on the fourthvoice.February 12th meeting was held at the Friday because of spring leadershipWe had a really good discussion forChelan School Districts Maintenance the week before. nearly an hour. Seems like everyonedepartment with co-chair Rosey For March we will be at South Kitsaphad insight and experience with this.Burkhard running the meeting. Planet School District and Devin Malone fromWe had 12 people from school districtsturfs Jarred Whitaker presented on Millig will be presenting. present. The rest were Ed partners.various issues with grounds and what Our decision to take our meetings onAlicia Cole with Belfor restoration alsoto look for and why. We had several the road and have them at differentprovided some raffle ticket giveawaysgrounds teams there as guest. Rosey locations has been well received byto school district employees.directed a round table discussion on our members, although has provenFebruary 19th Shaun Kimm with ATSissues we all face and then disused the a little challenging to coordinateInland NW Energy Management willupcoming leadership conference as sometimes. be presenting at this meeting. Thewell as reported on our RTS in June. Region 6NChris Dillon & Tennillepresentation will focus on practicalHD supply provided lunch with 16 in Henry- Januarys meeting, we hadways for schools to make the most ofattendance.Elizabeth Jakab present on Workerstheir existing HVAC control systems.Region Eight and Two RTS committee comp and chemical training Learn how smart buildings can be evenhas held two RTS planning zoom Februarys meeting, we had Mitchsmarter, while saving energy in themeetings to date. Eastmont school Denning present about legislativeprocess. ATS will also be sponsoringdistrict in Wenatchee will host on things happening in Washington Statethe lunch. June 26th. We have chosen our food We had an okay turnout so far, hopeNo meeting for March due tovender and are currently working on to get other good people to present inLeadership Conference attendance, educational classes and our future meetings.April 16th Big Bend CoOp Utilities/various details for the RTSNo meeting in December 2024, AverageColumbia Electric Supply will beRegion 9Trevor Bell-We are meeting attendees average 8 memberspresenting on Energy Conservation incurrently meeting at Bobs Burgers on a bad day, 10 on a good day Public Schools and Incentive Programsin Everett on the first Thursday of Region 6S Michael Knaack & Shawnand Rebates available. Tony Preshoeach month. We are still experiencing Sandvig - January 13 Our monthlywith Ameresco- A green energygood attendee numbers at our meeting was at Charlies had Mitchcompany- will be sponsoring the lunch.meetings, but we would love for more Denning give a Legislative ReportWe have had one new member sincedistricts to join us for the meetings. and get people signed up for Day onour last board meeting Chad McQuinOur Ed Partners have mentioned the Hill After the meeting, the RTSwith Kahlotus SD. how much they enjoy attending our committee met to go over picking aContacts with the followingregions meetings and they have been 44 WAMOA JOURNALSUMMER 2025'