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EFR to form nonprofit Plan designed to give members even standing BY LINDA BALL ISSAQUAH/SAMMAMISH REPORTER
Jaimey Hayes receives her diploma from Jeff Bush, executive director, of Insight School of Washington. COURTESY PHOTO.
Sammamish senior graduates without setting foot in classroom BY KELLY MONTGOMERY ISSAQUAH/SAMMAMISH REPORTER
Sammamish senior Jaimey Hayes graduated from high school June 21 without setting foot in a traditional classroom in more than a year. Hayes attended Insight School of Washington (ISWA), a full-time, fully accredited online high school. She decided to enroll after feeling frustrated and disinterested at her brick-andmortar school. “I went to Eastlake High School and then for my senior year I switched,” Hayes said. “Elementary
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school and junior high weren’t the easiest for me.” Hayes is dyslexic and said she found her classes exhausting, which left her with little energy for other activities that interested her. “I like to move around and being in a classroom every day is kind of boring, so I wanted to change it up,” she said. Hayes said ISWA is a good school if you are self-motivated and enjoy activities outside of the traditional classroom. For Hayes, that activity is skiing. “You definitely have to be your own
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By the beginning of 2015, the five partners in Eastside Fire and Rescue will be operating as a 501c3 nonprofit organization. The partnership includes Issaquah, Sammamish, North Bend and fire districts 10 and 38 in unincorporated King County. When the partnership began in 1999, District 10, which is in unincorporated King County, was the largest member with more employees and money. It agreed to be the employer of record, which placed extra liability on it. Deputy Chief Greg Tryon said that situation affected voting as well. For example, in collective bargaining, all of the partners could vote yes to a contract, but if District 10 voted no its vote would prevail, giving it unfair power. Tryon said the new seven-year interlocal agreement, which begins Jan. 1, 2015, will stay the same. When EFR receives its nonprofit status, it will still be called Eastside Fire and Rescue, but the nonprofit will be the employer of record. That way all the partners will be on even ground. EFR’s new operations committee has assembled the language for the nonprofit, the attorneys are happy with it, and four out of the five partners have all approved it. Sammamish has yet to take up the issue. Tryon said it has gone through the majority of the red tape — for example with the IRS and the Department of Retirement Systems, but there is still some fine tuning to do.
push,” she said. “You can’t go into it thinking it’s going to be a piece of cake.” Hayes said the workload at ISWA was easier for her because she could review the information she’d been given, take a test and then be done with that unit. Her class days were devoted to specific topics: Monday was English, Tuesday was history, Wednesday was math and both Thursdays and Fridays were catch up days. She did some work in the morning and some in the evening so SEE GRADUATE, 7
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