MARYSVILLE – The Marysville School Board set its legislative priorities for next year this week.

Board president Pete Lundberg said directors statewide have about 100 ideas on their wish list.

“They are not all good ideas,” he said, smiling.

Board member Chris Nation said that list should be cut to about 30. “We can’t support all of them,” he said.

Board members looked at the 35 pages of ideas and came up with their own top 10, which was released Thursday. “School districts all have their specific needs,” Lundberg said.

The local Top 10 includes, in no particular order:

•Changing School Bond Approval Requirements

•Levy Equalization/Levy Lid/Grandfathered Inequities

•Professional Development

•Tax Reform

•Funding for Homeless Students

•Academic Rigor and Equity in Public Education

•Statewide Bargaining for Salaries and Healthcare

•Public Records Requests

•Compensation Technical Working Group Recommendations

•Social-emotional and Behavioral Support for Students

During the board meeting Sept. 19, Lundberg listed his priorities as: Equity in education; Using rigor and innovation to graduate; Bilingual kindergarten preparedness; and English Language Learners, which is “grossly underfunded.”

In other news Monday, Marysville School District department heads gave a quick rundown regarding the start of school.

James Stevens, executive director of special education, said it’s been one of the “smoothest starts” he’s ever seen.

Human Resources director Jason Thompson said 37 elementary and 20 secondary teachers have been hired, along with seven specialists. There are still five openings.

Finance director Mike Sullivan said enrollment is up 55 students in all of the schools, except for the alternatives ones, where they are down about 90 students.

As a result, Superintendent Becky Berg said they all need to watch the budget.

Technology director Scott Beebe said thousands of Chromebooks have been handed out but they are short about 200 of them. He said 456 teachers will be going through another round of training on them in the next few weeks.

In other school news:

•Chris Lutgen of Sodexo gave a report on food services. He reported that 75 percent of funding comes from federal and state sources. The rest of the $3.912.5 million does not. Cost to serve the 1.216 million meals is $446 million. The net loss was 45 cents per meal.

Lundberg asked how the gap could be closed.

Lutgen responded, “Feed more kids.”

Sullivan said some free- and reduced-lunch kids aren’t eating. “We’ve got to serve better meals,” he said. “We’ve got to make kids want to eat.”

Nation said the district can’t keep losing money on this. He doesn’t want to raise the cost of meals because constituents are maxed out.

•The Marysville School District and Tulalip Unity and Wellness Month is set for October. Various events will take place talking about mental health, domestic violence, bullying, substance abuse, suicide and more. “We’ve been immersed in mental health work after our tragedy,” Superintendent Becky Berg said, referring to the shooting at Marysville-Pilchuck Oct. 24, 2014. The resolution, in part, is “a call to action to be embraced by individuals and organizations uniting to eliminate stigma and increase awareness of opportunities to live mentally, emotionally and spiritually well.”

•The Grove Church was honored for its fifth annual I “Heart” Marysville program. Last summer, church members volunteered time at various schools to clean them up. Leader Andrew Munoz received a Certificate of Appreciation. “It’s an honor and blessing to serve our community,” he said.

•The Kellogg-Marsh PTA donated $33,500 for new playground equipment.