Check. 2 minute warning. Please find your seats. 2 minute warning. This meeting is now called to order, a roll call please. Vice President Konz, here. Director Wilburn, here. Director Yanez, here. Director Payne. I see her lips moving. You're muted, Director Payne. There we go. I'm here. Thank you. President Shandy, here. The Pledge of Allegiance will be led by Vice President Konz. And I invite our friends from The da Vinci Academy to lead us in the pledge.
I pledge allegiance to the flag of United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God, indivisible with with liberty and justice for all. Thank you, that was beautiful. Welcome to our board meeting tonight. We're excited to start our gathering by celebrating the outstanding faculty, staff, and students of D20 their hard work work deserves our recognition, and so we encourage applause during
this celebration. Let's get started. Tonight we have Rampart High School and then the Da Vinci Academy with us. Director, Vice President Konz. Thank you. So I am honored to present Rampart High School to the room on behalf behalf of their liaison, Director Payne, who's out of town on remote and losing her voice. So Ramparts near and dear to my heart, fun facts about Rampart High School It is 60% choice students. They were the second
high school that was built in Academy district. They are back to back 4A band state state champions. And of all D20 schools they have the best view of of the Front Range from their cafeteria. Please join me in welcoming Principal Meghan Sanders and David Altman from Rampart High School. Welcome. You. We also have our drum majors here. Please. Yeah. Come on down, Mrs Brubaker Brubaker's here. And if the green button isn't automatically on, you guys can turn those on.
Cool. I just have a couple of words. Thank you guys for having us here and recognizing the accomplishments of the Rampart Regiment, my name is David Altman and I've been the Assistant Director of Bands at Rampart since 2021. I'd like to thank Miss Sanders, Miss Edgett and the rest of the staff at Rampart for their unending support of our band program, including the band boosters, all the volunteers who make the season possible. They feed our students. They make sure the uniforms fit they design spirit wear, and they make sure to cheer for us in the stands stands to Mr. Kunzius, who couldn't be here today because he's watching. The Grands of Bands of America. Grand National
Championships in Indianapolis right now. Thank you for setting the course for our program, for his friendship, mentorship, wisdom and work ethic that never seems to fade. To the band staff who shows up early early, stays late. They're willing to help our students all the time. We would not be where we are without an amazing, dedicated team of adults who are so passionate about, passionate about providing the best experience for our kids. And lastly, I need to thank the students of the Rampart Regiment. They are truly champions. Their love for music and and marching is infectious. And their commitment to each other and our culture of excellence is
inspiring. I'm so fortunate to be their band director and can easily say that there's nobody, nowhere else I would rather be this season Marks marks the 4th state championship that Rampart has received and the second time that we have won back to back. Our show called Stardust was one of a a simple concept that the atoms that create life on Earth were forged in the center of stars. This simple fact means one thing, that we are all connected to each other, not just in the present, but in the past. And in the future. This show is a celebration of life. And just like it takes millions of atoms crossing the stars. Bring about the beauty in this world. It takes an entire school
community to bring out the beauty we got to see on the field a couple of Saturdays ago. Thank you for all the support that you give to our young people, the wonderful experience that they get to have making music together. The future of Rampart Music is as bright as any star could be. Hello, my name is Ty Shaws is Lucas. Hi is Lucas Miller and that is Hannah Hannah Waldrop. As you know, 3 weeks ago, our very own Rampart marching band, the Rampart Regiment secured A4A Championship title title at the Colorado Bandmasters Association State Championships with a breathtaking score of 88.25
At this competition we showcased Ramparts excellence and what D20 has to offer. We'd also like. We'd also like to highlight other D20 marching bands that performed at this competition Liberty High School who placed 11th Air Academy who placed placed fourth and Pine Creek who placed third in the respective classes. This This accomplishment represents countless hours of dedication, practice, and collaboration from our students and staff. We are honored to represent the D20 community while doing so. We would like to thank our amazing volunteer staff, administrators and
district personnel who have supported our program. The opportunity to make a lifelong memory and lifelong memories is priceless for each student in our ensemble. And it wouldn't be possible without your commitment to performing arts, to the performing arts in our community we look forward to to continuing to build on this success for future Rampart students and band members. Thank you. Thank you. Will you allow me liberties all light night on my final board meeting? But I just want to say thanks to the Rampart community because our oldest
daughter went through there, graduated from there. This is her favorite teacher right here, Mrs Brubaker who did did so much and our younger one started off there, still swims for them and goes to the village now, but like all of our schools everyone is unique in their own way. But Rampart is truly a special community and I'm so proud of. All of you guys, so thanks for being here. Tonight do you have? Is it what Megan is on her? She just turned on to Parliament. She got cut up with something, so she will
be here, but we can go ahead and get and get started is someone someone gonna do the? This one. So if I push this, it'll advance it OK OK, so we're here just to talk a little bit about our Ramparts early College Academy. This is an an incredible program. We're in our 4th fourth year and we're going to graduate our first, our first class of seniors. We run it through our AVID program, but. OK, so. You're also welcome to sit in that front row of
chairs up there too, or pull them all around if you want. Make it work for you. So I'm. Bree Brubaker, I coordinate the AVID program and we have here just an AVID who's our senior AVID teacher and then we have our students here to speak. So this is this is Ashlyn and Fernanda. And Elias. And the all three of these seniors have been in the program since they were freshmen. So it's just it's been so awesome to see them as freshmen, 14 years old
old, and now they're getting ready to go on their own and they're like, it's her birthday today. She's 18 today today. Happy birthday. We won't sing to you. OK, so basically what our early college Academy is, we have partnered 4 years ago we partnered with UCCS to to provide our students. This opportunity to earn 30 plus general education college classes through UCCS for free but taught by predominantly our Rampart teachers and
in that program they have the support and guidance from their avid elective teacher which I taught these guys guys their freshman and sophomore year and then Mr Abbott has taught them the junior and senior year. Why is Rika so special? We're unique in a couple ways, but there's a lot of early college programs in the city, but we have partnered with UCCS. We also run this through an already existing program, Avid. And these students are able to. Attend traditional high school with their peers as opposed
to being bused somewhere off campus and then they're also able to take AP classes or whatever other classes they would like. In there in their schedule. So. We work very closely with Karen Bessette from UCCS. She's kind of our liaison and this is what she had to say about. Rampart and Rika as a privileged partner in the Rika program, our office has access to the classes, the students take. I've personally read through several students assignments and discussion boards and have been amazed by
the number of students who mentioned they never thought they would be able to go to college, but that this program has given them a valuable and unique opportunity, inspiring them to articulate their newly found college goals. Working with the Rico leadership team our UCC S team has has witnessed their passion for student learning and their sense of responsibility for their mission. Their vision has guided us to this point and it is remarkable to witness so. So. You guys can now speak to the program. Ashlynn, you're up. OK, I'll start. Hello so when I first started
started avid it honestly was very intimidating because the hard the work is very rigorous and hard but looking back I back I definitely would do it again every single time there's so so much support within the program and just my Avid teacher, Mr. Abbott, he's amazing and Ms. Brubaker when I had her, but the class class really does teach you so much about preparing for college. It shows shows you what college professors will expect. Which is something that's hard to anticipate when you're a high schooler and And so now, as a lot of my friends are scared about college, I've honestly
been very relaxed because I've been doing it for four years so now now it feels like a very seamless transition and I I also love that it is free because that does make College in general more accessible to everyone. And I think that everyone should have that equal opportunity to education and And then finally, I've also taken some AP classes I I took AP psychology last year, and I prefer this to that because there is a lot less. Stress. In order to get college credit, you only need to pass the class as a whole instead of one test and so I'm m not a great test taker so for me that really does allow me to have
have more opportunity to get that credit. And so overall I've loved loved Avid. So my experience of Avid as a non-English speaker as my first language has been very different from any other classes that I've taken. So I was a former ESL student and at first I felt like I wasn't prepared enough to join this program but as as year started to go by I. Realized how prepared I am for college and how much my vocabulary has. Changed and how really this class these
classes have benefited benefit me more than than any other classes that I've taken. They've prepared me not just for college, but also for life, teaching me different experiences like having to work work with people that I might not. Be very close with they're having to learn how to manage different stuff in life and I really enjoy these classes. Like I also was saying me me personally I feel like taking an AP class is is a little bit more difficult because you have to pay for the tests and and it's yeah, it's just more
difficult in general having to even take the the test. But I feel like this class has really been a benefit for me especially with money and stuff like that. So I just want to say when I when first started Avid, my sister, she used to go to a different school and she had kind of like a similar plot, similar program there and And when I got to the school, my sister looked, looked through like the Avid, like all the description stuff like that. And she told me that I should do it And so I did. And I want to say that it's and I'm super glad I joined
like it's prepared me a lot for college. If I haven't joined Avid, I wouldn't. I would have no idea what to do. On the college applications, how to prepare and what certain things have to put on there? I don't wanna and I wanna say I think thank you to Mr. Abbott and Mrs. Brubaker. They've been such a help to me, all these four years, and I'm so glad that I get get to be there and they get to be my teacher. Avid Just How to say this? I was just It's just an an amazing experience. You get to take field trips to different colleges
here in Colorado such as UCS and CSU, Fort Collins and going to those colleges, seeing everything there and just experiencing a little part on what an actual college student has to to go through every single day. I just want to say that it's different. It's different from seeing it reading it on a paper, and then going to the actual actual campus. Cause you get to experience the different areas like and if you wanna go to the college you can know like how like they're already the
the layout of the area and yeah is a really supportive and and amazing program helps you a lot and the college credits that it provides provides really helps, really helps go into college. Thank you all so much, it's great testimonies. Megan, do you have anything you want to add? OK. Glad you're here. Thank you all so much. Here we are proud of you guys and all your classmates and. Couldn't have better advisors than Mr. Abbott and Mrs. Brubaker and support from Mrs. Sanders and thanks to the district
for supporting this program. So I know it's amazing for students. So thank you guys. Next. Oh, and we want to remind all of our our visitors to stay after, excuse me, after the Superintendent comments so we can take pictures and give you guys some little treats too, if you guys are able to stay. Next, we are welcoming the Da Vinci Academy they are an arts integration school and provide a wide range of creative experiences for all their students that can look like building a bridge to explore the law of physics, writing a play to describe a math idea, or creating a dance to represent the water cycle. Students create their
their grade level performances. Based on their core standards. Thank you guys for leading the pledge tonight. And please join me in welcoming Prince Principal Sheehan Freeman-Todd from The da Vinci Academy. Hi. Good evening, Superintendent Haberer and members of the Board of Education and guests. I'm Sheehan Freeman-Todd and I have the honor of serving as the principal of The da Vinci Academy. The Da Vinci Academy is home to just over 450 students in preschool through 5th grade and is the only arts integration elementary school in Academy District 20. Tonight we have four third grade students here with us and two members of our encore team, which might be known as specials at other schools.
I'd like to introduce giveaway when I introduce you. Lyra Georges. Amy Powell. Dante Fajardo. Wesley Jenkins. Celeste Kronlage. And Erica Skelsey, they're going to share how at the Da Vinci Academy, the arts aren't something extra, they're the avenue for learning grade level academic standards and skills Arts integration develops critical thinking, creativity and problem-solving skills while improving academic understanding Thank you for your ongoing support of our students staff
staff, and family. It's a privilege to share the work happening at The da Vinci Academy with all of you this evening. We are The da Vinci Academy. We are an arts integration school. That means we learn everything that students learn at every D20 school, but we learn it through the arts. That means we are learning core standards and art standards at the same time. It makes learning more interesting. He might be wondering what that looks like at our school it It might be. It might be a class using musical rhythms to break apart their vocabulary words. It also might look like.
Students creating frozen pictures using their bodies. To show their answers to questions. Or students drawing their notes instead of writing them when we one way we share arts arts integration learning is through a gallery our version of a performance more like an increment since our audience learns the standards we are learning through the arts. We create our gallery during our encores Encores
Encores are visual of our specials. They're called called encores because it's a second chance. For us to learn about our core centers in different way. We'd like to share some moments from our third grade gallery, our Science Circus. We learned our life science standards and then experienced them again through the arts. And movement we create life cycles cycles, dances that show how different animals and plants. Have different life cycles. It just skipped ahead. Back one, here we go.
In world languages, we focus on how humans adapt when they experiments and communicate in different cultures. In our we look at the work of. Work of art author Robin Page and illustrator Steve Jenkins A a Colorado pair who like to teach children s and families about animals and their and their environments. All right, shows how a big cat has adaptations to its environment. It's hungry. That's why it's hunting for
prey. My celebrity was in the tundra. It's white fur helps a chemical helps it camouflage. This tiger is on the. Name is the secret name. His last fight he got a black eye and he is still great water. Think. Not only were covering our science standards, but our writing standards too. In drama, we learn circus skills like clowning and used our writing skills to create a script and skits about migration and
hibernation. In music, we used a parachute to create a giant circus tent and adapt our movements to match the style of the music. Arjuna Krishna teaches us essential skills like collaboration, communication and problem solving that helps us grant to amazing critical thinkers that who can face any challenge. And that is arts integration. PC. Thank you all and I just want to give a shout out to to Principal Freeman Todd and all of your amazing staff and students because you guys have just been doing an extraordinary
extraordinary job. So it's been a privilege to know you. Mrs. Ruckman, are there any updates to the agenda? There were updates to the agenda and the Board has been made aware of these. Thank you. Members of the Board. Are there any items you wish to move from the consent agenda? Are there any discussion items to be added to the agenda? May we have a motion to approve the agenda. Moved. Second. Roll call, please, Vice President Konz, aye. Director Wilburn, aye. Director Yanez, aye. Director Payne, aye. President Shandy, aye. Does anyone have anything to share for board comments tonight?
Direct Vice President Konz nominated. Not it so I want to thank thank Cheryl and Brittny and everyone on staff who graciously hosted Director Yanez and I's farewell party last night. I was just so touched to see all of our central admin staff there and all the principals who came out to say goodbye to us so So thank you guys so much for that. I am so honored to have met and worked with the outstanding EAC leaders and employees. The principals and APS the beautiful
souls at the front offices of our schools the amazing teachers and pairs and classrooms over the last four years. It was a joy every time I was able to visit with students, enjoy their incredible performances, including tonight and volunteering at field days and special events. I am humbled by the community's trust in me and allowing me to serve D20 for the last last four years. And I am incredibly and most grateful for the Ships I've built with two superintendents and many
members. The cards I gave each of you can't begin to express how much I value the intelligence passion passion, loving, kindness, and deep values each of you bring to this community and the fellowship I feel with all of you. I am proud of the work we have done and the values we have upheld. As you all continue to collaborate together, I ask you to please understand each other with open minds. Realizing that a BOE member and a cabinet member may have opposing beliefs or values, but both are
always wanting what's best for kids. Don't be afraid to step outside the status quo. What has always been done and be leaders in the education world developing the best student outcomes and staff satisfaction and And thank you to my family and friends who walked this journey with me. I am blessed and I wish all of you the very best. Director Yanez. All right. You said that everything I was going to say, Nicole. Just kidding. I mean you said it really well, but I'm going to add a couple things. Two years flies by when you're having fun
and it this really was just a true joy. Not easy, but important and I'm just really grateful for the opportunity to have given back to District 20 who saw saw all five of my kids through their education when still going. A huge thank you to all of you here tonight in Cabinet. Principals. Superintendent Haberer. I know the The effort this takes, the commitment
the time, the sacrifice, and you do it because you love kids. And I saw that in each and everyone of you, and I'm just so honored to know you and grateful for what I learned from you because I've learned a ton. Thank you to the principals, vice principals or assistant principals and teachers that let us walk through classrooms. I know what that feels like. To be under a microscope, it feels a little bit, but truly it's a vulnerable place
and I am gonna miss so much having this front row seat to these kids journeys and being able to walk through those those classrooms. And I just, I'm really, really grateful for that experience and thank you for letting us, letting us in. You couldn't lock the door, but that anyways, you know what I mean. Hold on, my notes went away here. I said this last night, but it needs to be said again. Thank you for feeding us all the food all the time. It would have been a bag of chips in my car on the way here. So that's really important. I need to say that thank you to the security team for always keeping us
safe and making us feel safe. That's really, really important. Thank you. Thank you for the laughs. Thank you to Deputy Superintendent and CFO Becky Allan for playing catch phrase during graduation. The pauses between graduations and laughing really, really hard together that was was something I'll never forget. Let's see. Thank you to Krystal and Mark for capturing angles of our faces that you know were somewhat acceptable at times. Keep that thing away from me. A huge thank you to my teammates
for pushing me, pushing my thinking, helping me grow. Helping me learn your perspective, sharing mine, hearing each other. I'm really proud of that. I think I have a few pieces of advice for the newcomers as well, and that is to really see people. This is a giant school district with with lots of kinds of people, and we can say that we see people and we can say that we hear people, but we have to mean it and we have to do it. And so it's not checking a box.
It's taking time to meet with them. I think it's super important to always meet with people You know you're not gonna agree with. That's super Important, and listen and always be ready to learn something because every single time I make myself available to do that, I learn something. Don't be afraid to reframe things so an issue can come up, and don't be afraid to flip it upside down right side up and look at it from all angles and take on a new
direction. There's a couple things I feel like I left Undone. One day I might come back, you never know. And I'm gonna say I'm because I just wanna throw them out there. Food for thought I have have a microphone. No one's making me walk away from it. Drivers Ed We live in a state with one of the highest rates of teen fatality and car accidents. So I left something on the field there. And I really I'm I can do a little work. On the side on that. I'm gonna mention too that are a little bit
more high-profile. Parking spaces. I was been thinking about this for quite some time and as a mother of five kids, 4 who've graduated already, the parking space conversation happened in our household, although my oldest ones it wasn't really a thing yet. Here's food for thought. We have to buy a lot of paint for parking spaces. That concrete soaks up paint, and I know that it seems to be a rite of passage for today's seniors. What if, and I'm just saying what if, seniors, I'm talking to you out there,
you chose a teacher who really impacted your journey here in District 20 and what if you painted their parking space to say thank you? Books. I started my tenure with books as the hottest topic in this school district and the planet earth and I'm gonna, I'm gonna leave it on that, too. So this is one of those situations where you really need to listen to people that you might not agree with and I'm proud of of the work we did around that by providing
parents the right and choice for their students while also protecting age levels and levels of appropriateness for other students. But during our conversation with books, what if the conversation went from specific book titles to. Literacy rates and learning instead How many students are checking out books? Who's reading what? Book clubs genre genre studies really taking a pulse on where we are in the the district around library usage rather than
just those titles. OK, So what am I gonna do in all my spare time The other night, and I shared this before I learned to play mahjong and we played two games and I won both of them so it So it turns out I am gonna go global. I don't know if there's like a league or something, but I might join it. I'm gonna miss this. I'm gonna miss this work but I promise I'm still gonna wake up every single day and do what's right with for kids and support teachers. So maybe you'll see me again someday, but
thank you. Thank you both. I know last night was a great little ceremony, so thank you for being there and your families. It was great to see them and again just just honoring your incredible commitment and the very real sacrifice that you both have made to ensure that our students and school communities thrive. So thank you both. Any other board comments? Nope. All right can I? Can I make one with my crappy voice? Director Payne. Thank you, President Shandy. To Vice President Konz, thank you so
much for all of the mentorship and I just wanted to extend my sincere appreciation to both of you as Board of Education members. I really have recognized in this short time that I've been on the board, it is one of the most challenging and selfless roles in public service and I say that as a 27-year law enforcement veteran. I appreciate your time and dedication. Your commitment to this district have contributed to important conversations and have helped me in the short time on the board and for
the future of my role. I know that it will make a huge difference so So just on behalf of Olympic City USA, the City of Colorado Springs, the children, the staff and the community, thank you for your willingness to be vulnerable vulnerable and to serve this district. And I just wish you the very best. In this next chapter and all your free time. Thank you. Colonel Herndon. Madam President. Thank you, ladies. Thank you on behalf of the United States Air Force Academy, we just really appreciate your partnership
and I appreciate just the infectious smiles that you have and the hospitality every time I came to one of these sessions. And so you'll be missed and hopefully we'll stay in touch. Really quickly for the body. We're thrilled that the government is is back open. And for all those who experienced inconvenience over at the United States Air Force Academy from the services that we provide to transiting on and out the installation, we just appreciate the flexibility and and patience. To that end, as we turn into the holiday season, on
behalf of General Bauernfein, he asked that I extend an invite for a new tradition that we're setting at the Academy, and that's called Holly and Ivy. Many of you are familiar with Holly and Ivy in performances downtown. We are bringing those performances to your United States Air Force Academy. Those days will be the 3rd, 4th and 9th of December at Arnold Hall. Admission will be free for all ages, so I imagine the students from The da Vinci Academy. You guys really might like this. These are going to be professional bandsmen and orchestra. A jazz band a
a choral group, an acapella group, the drum, drum and bugle corps, and then an incredible performance by our United States Air Force Band. And they are a premier band. These are professional, some of them Juilliard Juilliard trained. Musicians that will engage and put on an incredible holiday performance. We will start our advertising splash so you can go to usafa.edu and check out our social media pages to get the information on how to get a ticket, but we're really excited to
welcome you to the Academy for these concerts as we celebrate the season and showcase the musical talent of the band, their ability to inspire, patriotism and service. But also express our thanks to each of you in our community. Thank you so much, that's exciting All right, Superintendent Haberer, I think you have like what, 2 slides? No try try 28. I'll go fast. I'll go fast. So many celebrations First, I want to start with, we did have our annual audit
report and just want to celebrate for two years in a row we've had no findings, a clean report, which is very rare and unusual for district our size. So I'd like to Just give a thank you to Deputy Becky Allan, CFO and her whole whole entire financial team and we will have a true celebration slide celebrate that again in December. But if we can please give them a hand. So lots of good things. I'm pushing the button it's not wanting to go. There we go. OK, I'm going to the next
one. So I had a wonderful opportunity as I go into different schools and to get to talk with teachers and principals and when I was at Liberty, I I had the wonderful opportunity to be in Sarah Paulin’s AP government class at Liberty High School. And it was right before the elections. And their students were just very engaged with who's going to get elected and who are we going to nominate? And I think there was one student that was Absent, so they nominated that student by the phone and said hey
by the way, you're nominated, you're going to be our nomination for being the the president. So I guess that's what happens when you're not there but it was truly a privilege and I was so so excited about their project that I asked if Mrs. Paulin’s class would come for about 5 minutes or so and just kind of share about their experience. Kind of give an overview of what the project was about and then I would just love to hear some students talk about their experience, so come on up. Good evening. I'm not going to have. I have several here for moral support. I did not
bring all 84 of them right, but thank thank you so very much for the opportunity to spotlight I I've been a Lancer for 17 years now and I know our kids are phenomenal, but any opportunity that I have to to talk about what they can do and how consistently, I am amazed by what they are capable of every October as part part of our study of linkage institutions for government in AP government. I task these kids with something monumental they hold
hold a class caucus. After we learn what a caucus is, they hold one and they select candidates that they think could run. Cooper is the candidate in question that happened to miss that morning and found himself in the middle of the pictures you see there on stage. After they've selected their campaign managers, their candidates, they've discussed their potential campaign strategies, they've talked about potential platform ideas that they might want to address other than the ones that I have assigned them, which this year, what was it national debt and opioid use and
Prop LL and MMM that they had to research, they talked about others. And then I said, great, you're going to run against each other. This has become legendary at Liberty High School When I first started doing this project, I was teaching in Kansas. I had 25 kids. We borrowed a math class to present in front of. This year, again, 84 kids across 3 sections. We have an auditorium with 400 and seats in it and it was very near standing room only some of y'all all have been on those stages for the candidate forums and so
so you might have a feeling. The six faces you see in that picture of what might be going through their heads because they know it's about to happen next. They have written press releases and they've created platforms with their parties ideas and they've run a social media campaign and they've got swag that they're going to hand out to the people. And one of the candidates has a has a rap written about them and another one has an original song in their commercial that they're re going to show. And all of them are nervous because they've written a speech and there are 400 of their friends
they might have. To sit next to next class after standing up up there, they present their commercials, they give their speeches and then I start asking questions. What makes your platform different from from the others? And then like an 80s talk show host, I wander out into the crowd and whatever comes to mind of whatever kid happens to to be sitting in there, they have to address. I. I feel confident saying this now, I don't think I could have done it. And yet we had three phenomenal candidates who stood up there and took every question. They had a wonderful support
team with the vice presidential candidates at the end we cast ballots UCS stack there. I go home that evening and as I'm I'm watching actual election returns, I am also counting ballot certifying results. There's an exit poll on the back that asks, why did you do this? Why did you choose this person? And And I am taking that qualitative response and turning it into quantitative quantitative data with so many pie charts, right? So many pie charts that we will look at the next day and talk about why it came out in a certain way. We tried
ranked choice voting this year because we had three candidates. It was on the ballot last year failed in Colorado Colorado, but maybe we'll come back up again and I want the kids to see what what happens if first round, second round. And so we try to install all of that, but you don't want to hear from me, I don't think as much as you might want to hear from them. So I'm going to turn it over to three of our candidates. Well, two candidates in a campaign manager they'll tell you who. Where and ideally they'll tell you something about this project that's going to stick out to them because I can promise you not only
only is this my best recruiting tool, the kids who sit in that that auditorium show up in my class later, but whenever I run into kids into the in the grocery store, I run run into people, I post on social media picture of the ballots I get comments back about what they remember they're throwing throwing slogans at me from 10 years ago. They're talking about this one their candidate just hadn't fumble that last question they question, they would have won and they could have held it over their best. And for the rest of their life. But let me turn it over to my other 3. Hi, I'm Cooper. I'm the one who she was obviously
talking about when it comes to not showing up. It's an interesting thing. I didn't realize that so many people would have actually cared for me to run in that class but once once you get into it, at first I was like, OK, sure, I'm doing this, that sounds fun. But then you realize you're really representing the entirety of what this project tells all about the position you have to fight for, and you have to believe in it, or at least you have to convince people that you do. And honestly, it was a pretty difficult task. Hi, I'm Jane. I want to start this with an apology if
If you know anything about me, I talk a lot and time limits don't really mean much to me apparently I I actually got points off of this assignment because I talked for too long so let's s get started, shall we we? So we live in a time in a culture that's riddled with political disunity and with polarization polarization. This project truly just spoke to me because as the president of my party and even going against these wonderful gentlemen. On that stage with me, it just spoke to me
because I realized that we could have 1000 different views, 413 different views in that auditorium and we all got together and spoke about it. You don't see that often in this culture where everyone is truthful and everyone is honest about what they believe and why they believe it. But we got there and we showed up and stuff happened and it was amazing. So this project truly spoke to me. Even within our classes, we had 1000 different perspectives and we had to come up with one line of reasoning of why. What? And I was supposed to say what and then why, but
know it's OK. Thank you guys. Hi, I'm Avery and I was a campaign manager for this project in our class. It was really interesting to get to see like all of the behind the scenes things that goes into an election and into in the real world and just being able to experience that in the classroom setting and go through all of those motions and as the campaign manager and just being like my counterparts and I manage manage different groups and had to get everybody in the class we had had people, we had 31 people in our class to get to come together with a
consensus of what we wanted to be in our platform. Form how we were going to campaign it and advertise it and then how we were going to present it on Election Day with our candidates. And so it was just really a good learning experience to see just with the leadership and all the behind the scenes stuff that has to go into that. Like I feel like I didn't understand before on Election Day all that goes into the actual presidential debates and everything. And that was a really cool thing to to see that in class. Yeah. Thank you so much. Let's give these guys a hand. That was amazing so
So fun to be in your classroom. I think you can tell from our students how is when they give presentation, our future is really in good hands. We've got amazing, amazing students. So Discovery Campus high school I had a chance to to go to Thor Wars. This is an annual event. It was was super fun. It's an epic competition that they have students get points for spirit participation, positive behavior, which reinforces our portrait of a graduate and our character traits and it
it all ends in this competition. I will say in the tug of war that the freshmen did beat the sophomores at one point, which was pretty fun. For them and congratulations to the seniors who took home the Thor Wars championship. But But board members, if you haven't been, I would deeply encourage you to go to that next year. It's super fun. And talk about school spirit, it's so fun to have all of the different grade levels in the same gym and just really supporting each other in unity at the same time, having fun competition. Congratulations to Eagle View Middle School teacher, Dr.
Amanda Trimillos, who has been named Department of Defense STEM Ambassador for the 2025-26 school year Joining nly 30 teachers nationwide to receive this honor. The DoD STEM Ambassador program recognizes outstanding educators who demonstrate a deep commitment to advancing science, technology, engineering, and mathematics opportunities for students and since the program's inception, only 138 educators across the country have
held this title. And I think that Principal Jamie Lester and I believe that Dr. Trimillos is here. Please stand and be recognized. And Doctor Trimilloss, we'd love for you to stay too. And so we can get a picture of you. We real, that's just such a huge accomplishment, so So congratulations. Village high school we have a USA water polo, proudly announced the 2025 junior Olympic all-American selections and three Village High School students made the roster. Congratulations to Junior Ivy Tirman, who was also named the MVP.
Junior Zoe Charron and Freshman Linden Tirman. I was so thrilled I did have a chance to go to the The 4A marching band competition and a huge congratulations again to Rampart High School. The sound of their brass, it just filled the whole Falcon Stadium and was was really an inspiration to all of us that were there and I I know this is the second year in the row that Rampart has won that 4A championship, so let's give it up again for Rampart. I also had a chance to stay to hear Air Academy
High School and they did a fabulous job as they took fourth place in the 4A and Pine Creek took third place in 5A. Liberty High School a chance to go to their fall play along with Director Wilburn and we saw the fall play The Hound of Baskervilles and I really appreciate Mr. Skelcey who was the theater director he had had 100 and about 100 students take place
participate in this production, which is amazing and what a wonderful way to help students feel connected. And to experience the creation the the creativity of the Fine Arts. So just a huge thank you to him and to the students. Eagle View Middle School 6th grader Robert Stepanov, he finished first place in the 6th through 8th grade race at the middle school state cross country meet. The race included the top 232 runners in the state and this
this is an incredible accomplishment to be the fastest middle school runner in the state as a 6th grade student. And he won by 19 seconds. And I believe that Robert and his family are here along with Principal Lester. Please stand and be recognized. That is so awesome. All right. So talking we have our TCA partners partners here with us tonight, so we thought we'd do a quick overview of some of their accomplishments. They won first place in the 2A marching band competition under the
direction of Christina Schwartz- Soper on 20 October 24th, the TCA Girls Flag football blew out #2 Mountain View 34 to 0 to win the state championship. On November 1st, Both the TCA girls and boys cross country teams won the state 3A cross country titles and the TCA girls cross-country has won seven of the past eight state championships and the boys cross country team has won four of the past five and on on November 8th, TCA’s football team destroyed its second
round playoff opponent Florence 54 to to 16. The Titans are 10 and 0 on the season and have now won 23 games in a row with 21 of those 23 wins coming by double digits. All of their wins this season have been by at least 17 points and a huge shout out to the head coach Justin Rich and he took over the program has been building men of character. So thank you for sharing that with me with me, Director Wilburn. I appreciate that. All right, we highlight our We have an
amazing special education program here and Unified Sports is is something that we are really working on growing in our district. Pine Creek High School unified flag football they they participate in the Special Olympic State flag football football competition and we have students across D20 involved in these teams from Liberty Air Academy Bridges and Chinook Trail Middle School. They also recently Were involved in a bowling challenge and they had a great day of competition. As you can see they had they were awarded
medals for their team. So an important program for us all to know about in special education is our preschool child find and you can see the data there. How many screens and evaluations that we did in this last year. But why is it it important? Early intervention is one of the most effective ways to support children with disabilities by identifying needs before kindergarten, and that's the focus of this team. By doing this, it can improve school readiness, foster inclusive learning environments, build stronger relationships.
With families and demonstrate A commitment to equity and excellence preschool child find find preschool child find evaluations are available to children ages 2.9 years to five years of age who are preschool age eligible free of charge to families who live within the D20 boundaries we We evaluate four children a week with a total of 2 evaluations on Tuesday and two evaluations on Friday. We evaluate through play based assessments. With a multidisciplinary team and we
assess all developmental areas. And all children who are evaluated have also have a vision and hearing screening prior to the evaluation on the same day. So it's really a whole child approach and I really, really appreciate our child find team. They really do a phenomenal job of of early intervention and giving students what they need before they come to kindergarten. So thank you to that team. We as know we're connecting the work that we do as a district that I do as a Superintendent with our strategic plan as
much as we can. So as I go on school visits and what what I do is 'cause so many of you have come with me and I can't wait for our new school board members to come along with me as well on these school visits because what we do is as as you know, as we walk alongside principles and we go to classrooms and when we after we observe a classroom, we come out and we talk about what we saw. About the teaching and learning. And it gives a principal a wonderful, wonderful time To talk about all the work they're doing around literacy and math in particular. So Legacy Peak Elementary, my bucket was full when I
got to visit here because I got to spend time with their little preschool students. I know there was questions about that. Super fun And there was also small group instruction led by Liz Barerra who with her secondary second grade students there you there you can see. Receiving some support with literacy and 3rd grade teacher Jenna Anderson that you see on the bottom. There she was super excited to show me how she's using achievement data to personalize the learning for her students and the sheet that she had as one from
a student, she's showing students how to set their own goals for learning as a result of what they are seeing in the data, which has been super fun and she's seen a a lot of academic growth, which it is one of the highest. Indicators or factors that we can do for students for student achievement is to help them set their own goals. Academically and how to get there. So she has a whole rubric too, where students know what they need to do as a next step to reach their goals. When I was at Academy Endeavor,
Principal Carrie Mitchell and Assistant Principal Molly Lehman were were excited to show me these projects that the students had built as a result of learning about volume. They measured the volume of all these different shapes, and then I had to design an animal out of it. At Edith Wolford Elementary I was it was exciting to see one of our Portrait of a Graduate competencies is being contributing citizens so you can see there is a sock drive you wouldn't imagine all the different kinds of socks that are available and just a huge
thank you to Counselor Hailey Li and of course Principal Robin Lowrey and Assistant Principal Amanda Oliver, They've been really working together with students. There were hundreds of socks back there. And they were donating it to those socks to various nonprofit organizations. At Academy International, I was so amazed. In both cases, students were just coming in from the playground and especially on the left that kindergarten class kids are all all jazz and they were kind of yelling and coming in real rowdy. I would
tell you within two minutes that kindergarten teacher Mrs. Van Wie, she was amazing. She had all these little routines and within two minutes the kids had their stuff put away They were seated on the carpet and she was reading a book. I mean, it was it was magic. It truly was. And Our second grade teacher was also doing a great intervention with students around math. Encompass Heights Elementary. I was encouraged to see how Mrs. Arroyo was actively engaging her second grade students in turn in talks they had just done a character analysis in a
a novel and the students got to talk one on one with each other about the characters and what kind of character development they saw as second graders, which was very impressive. Chinook Trail Middle School I I got to see several 6th grade classrooms and you as you can see, students were eagerly helping each other with math problems. And so important to have some movement during class and you can see that the students did a really good our teachers did did a good job with orchestrating that and the classroom
Frontier Elementary, they really have a lot of strengths in the arts and we talked about how could you really highlight the arts programs that that they have during choice nights to help increase their enrollment. But I had a chance to watch the art teacher and he was teaching them all about pumpkins. And of course, the little kinders had to say what they were going to be for Halloween, which was a kick to hear and then the next month, Mountain Ridge Middle School there was a math class and they were on a treasure hunt and they had to go around and solve different algebra
problems to get their clues. So they were super engaged with that activity. Antelope Trails. I had a chance to watch their kindergarten PLC and I was amazed at all the different techniques and strategies that these amazing kindergarten teachers have to help students learn how to how to read and I learned so much just by being a part of their PLC. And a huge thank you to them and their expertise at Explorer Principal Kristin Driver was super excited to show me the posters that that were on the wall that were all about the academic standards that students were
learning in their classrooms as a result of Parent Night So the parents had a chance to walk through, learn about the standards that students were focusing on, and then they knew the type of questions to ask teachers when they sat down with them for their their conferences. Challenger Learning Center. This was, I really appreciated being invited to this as you know after the horrific tragedy of losing the Challenger Space Shuttle, this this American flag that you now see posted in the Challenger Learning Center was recovered out of all
the pieces that were floating around in the ocean, they were able to to find this capsule and inside was this American flag completely untouched, completely intact, and a local eagle Scout troop had Donated this flag originally to the Challenger Space Shuttle and so they put it in this container and then To all of our horrific watching it happen. I know I just gotten home home from a nursing shift 11 to 7 and watched. It was horrible but pretty amazing that this flag is the one piece that
didn't with it wasn't damaged So the Eagle Scout Scout troop got this flag back and this flag actually had flown over the White House at one time too. This is a local troop up in Monument and it was donated to the Challenger Learning Center by Dr. Paris, who was the Eagle Scout Master at the time. And it really represents the courage of the Challenger crew and the hope that we have through innovation in space. I had a chance to attend the Colorado Springs Leadership Institute with
Andrea Slattery from Nunn Construction. It was a wonderful way to make some connections with many of our Colorado Springs leaders. And Director Shandy and I were invited to attend Harrison School Districts board meeting because their board received the Cube Urban School Board of the Year by the National School Board Association. Really making making history as the first board in Colorado, Colorado To ever receive this national recognition since its creation in 2004, the Cube Award for Urban School School Board Excellence has celebrated boards that demonstrate outstanding
leadership, academic improvement, educational equity, and community engagement. And so we were really excited to be able to join them and help celebrate their hard work and build those connections. I had my Superintendent Principal Advisory Advisory Council. This group has been amazing when we have problems that we need to solve and one of their focus has been around a special education and how can we better support teachers in the classrooms when we have students that are dysregulating and
And we have just been able to come up with some great solutions and really grapple at the grassroots level and these principals are amazing. I just put out I initiated having this group. When I first are actually my second year here because I heard from principals that they wanted to be able to spend more time with me as a Superintendent and I thought their input is really important and just together we've been able to do a lot lot of good work together for the district. And right now we're focusing on special education. And a huge shout out to Dr. Lujan-Lindsey and her whole team. They've been
very open and receptive of ideas and just the work that's happening between principals. And our Special Ed team has been absolutely remarkable. Foothills Elementary had a chemistry of taste Expo and they had a chance to visit the UCCS campus. Our future scientists where they partnered with Doctor Tvrdy, our D20 Volunteer of the Year, and senior his senior capstone students for the day of science exploration and And certainly they were focusing on those important
characteristics that are important to the board as well. And how to be a lifelong learner, a critical thinker and effective communicator. And a huge thank you to Director Wilburn for his help in connecting us with the DA’s Office. On October 24th, 21 High school juniors and seniors from Academy District 20 participated in the A Day in the Life job shadow Experience hosted by the Colorado 4th Judicial District Attorney’s Office. Students heard engaging presentations
from the elected District Attorney Michael Allen along with with prosecutors, paralegals, investigators, and other professionals who shared insights into their roles and Career paths seniors who attended are now able to apply for an internship at the DA's office, which will begin in January of 2026. And we certainly look forward to this rotation of work-based learning events becoming an annual event. So, thank you Director Wilburn for your help with that was amazing. Of course, we have to have a little fun here at the EAC, so we all
dressed up and as you can see our Blue Wing, we were the the Princess, the Disney princesses and it it was just super fun. We look forward to that every year. And on the same day, I had a chance to go up to School in the Woods which was fun. The principal, Patrick Perry, invited me to come up and course I'm a little competitive and he challenged me to the donut challenge. So I had to participate, but it was so fun to see students outdoors enjoying the different contests and still learning about nature and
building. Manager Greg Harmon, who you see on the right, he was super excited to show me his Iris farm. He He is there is actually a national Or a Colorado Springs iris society, but she belongs to and they are planning irises and hoping to grow them and teach the kids even how to sell them and have that be like an iris market at some point. But that was really fun to see what they they were doing. Yay, we're starting the design team for Air Academy High School and just
a huge thank you to our parents. Our students. We have teachers, we have administrators, we have central office folks, And we're all coming together to start the planning. They have 3 drawings of what the site could site could look like as far as the different parts of classrooms and the gym and where we're gonna put the fields. And that was super fun that just just happened yesterday. Our engagement group summit. This was amazing. Last year I had appreciated bringing our community members in, but I thought, no, I want them in the schools. Like how do we bring them in the schools? And so took that
to the communications team and Mark and I started brainstorming how could, what could that look like? And Mark came up with with that idea of, well, what about like a summit where we have it at high school and we bring everyone together and huge huge thank you, Amy, for attending that. Director Shandy it was amazing we had. Our patrons 60 and over you having conversations with our parents. We had teachers there the the students at Liberty High School. A huge thank. I see, Matt system back there if you want to weigh thank you. Matt did a
did a great job talking about Liberty, one of his English teachers talked about PLCS. It was just a wonderful day. And then of course they had a chance to tour the different. Facilities. So I think if I click on here, is this the video? There we go. Says Short. So again, thank you, Mark, to you and your team and for all who participated. It was amazing day I I had an opportunity. I was invited to present with Dr. Wendy Birhanzel at the CASE Principal Conference on it was on, So you wanna
be a Superintendent and Melissa Gibson is there and she is the CASE president and that was really fun because Harrison School District is very different in many many ways than us here in D20. But we certainly realize that our hearts were the same and we have the same mission as far as serving kids and ensuring that every student thrives. And then? Director Shandy and I, we were invited to go to the UCCS Regents celebration which was super fun to connect connect with more UCCS staff members. And there were community members. Mayor Yemi was there and it was great to reconnect
with him and some of the other Colorado Springs leaders. And the Veterans Day celebrations, this was so much fun. Had a chance to go to Air Academy High School and go to their celebration. And then of course, the annual Douglass Valley Parade, which was just really fun the kindergartners are so cute with their little flags and and their little banners. So what a great day and just a huge thank you to all of our veterans, those of of you that are veterans in our audience.
Thank you so much for your service and for your sacrifice. And of course, unfortunately our farewell reception. And I do have a special gift for both of you, from all of us. Director Konz, thank you again for your dedication and your heart for kids and especially for making sure that parents are actively involved with their students education. So thank you. And Ms. Yanez, Director Yanez. Lauren, thank you so much. You have such a heart for kids
and for teachers, and I've just learned so much from you and I especially appreciate your passion for early learning And if Holly was here, I would totally send her to your preschool. Right. And now that's the end of my report. Well done. Tonight we have one new administrator to approve. Mr. Smart, would you please make the introduction? Yes I will. I want you to know this is the first time I've been able to introduce an administrator for my department, Human Resources Resources. I know. Amazing. All right I am pleased to introduce Chelsea Kott, who is being
being recommended as the Assistant Director for human resources. Now, I wanted to let you know, I didn't know this at the time, but Chelsea likes cats. Know I'm allergic to potatoes. I'm also allergic to cats. So it's a good thing we're not bringing your pet to work day anymore, so we've decided to cancel that. They're all leaving. I'm like the entertainment kids Don't you guys know that? They don't. They just don't. Goodness. OK. Are the did the high school kids leave that ran for president? They already left, too. I was going to tell him my platform was free pizza I I think I could have got some votes. All right, Chelsea, we're on
to you. Hang on. So Chelsea holds an Associate in Arts and Liberal Studies from Santa Barbara City College. Also a Bachelors of Arts in communication studies from the University of San Diego. And Master of Arts in Higher Education from Boston College and a Doctor of Philosophy in Adult and higher education from Oregon State University. So that means we got 2 doctors. In HR, of course. Mine's honorary, OK. Chelsea began her career at the University of San Diego where she was a community director. Then she was a supervisor
of student affairs at Palomar Community Community College and then a Deputy Title 9 coordinator and Director of student Services at Mira Costa Community College. And then over the last few years she's been overseas her Her husband is Marine, and he couldn't be here tonight 'cause he's watching their two-year-old. We could have, but she said he couldn't come, so yes she was finishing her PhD and has worked as a worked as an employment facilitator, providing professional training and coaching to military members on civilian employment
and career development. So we are pleased to recommend Chelsea to you tonight for the position of Assistant Director for Human Resources. Anything you'd like like to say, Chelsea? Here she comes. I just want to say thank you to everybody. Hi, I was going to say thank you to the kids who led the pledge and to everyone else who presented. All the students who presented just my cheeks hurt from smiling so so much and I know I've found my district. I'm so excited for my 2-year-old to be with you all one day, but I'm just I'm thrilled to be here I was talking with Cameron earlier and saying my former district that I was
with like they set the bar high and I've only only been here for a minute and I can tell that you all are. You might exceed that bar. So I'm very pleased to be here and just grateful for the opportunity. We're so glad to have you. All right. That's all I got. Thanks. Thank you. All right, we need a motion to approve the consent agenda as posted. Moved Second. Roll call, please. Vice President Konz, aye. Director Wilburn, aye. Director Yanez, aye. Director Payne, Aye. Sorry. President Shandy, aye. All right, we have
16 people viewing the live stream right now. We will take a break at this moment. Take pictures. So if you were part of the celebration, please come and take pictures. 10 minutes? 10-minute break. Thank you. 2-minute warning, please find your seats. All right, it's always incredibly inspiring to begin our meeting by celebrating the hard work and achievements of our D20 students faculty, and staff. Now we transition into the business part of our meeting. A time for thoughtful discussion and decision-making out of of respect for this focus, we ask that the applause be held during this part of
the session as we shift our attention to the important work ahead. Thank you so much. Are there are no items pulled from the consent agenda that brings us to our written reports. The monthly financial report through through September 2025. Does anyone have any questions or comments? Director Wilburn. I have one question for you, Ms. Allan. Pretty simple and I'd like to think so. SB-20 24017 was passed last year. I think and we chose, it wasn't compulsory, we chose to opt
opt in and I granted the jury's probably still out on that since we just opted in last July. But just generally speaking, how do you think that's working It's working beautifully. It is because it really is spreading out our revenue in a more consistent fashion throughout the year. And even if you start to look at the. The graphs you can see the if you take a look at the graph on page. 6 is a good one. And although there's still some spikes when you look at that top graph in blue, see how it's not as erratic as the line beneath it
it? And that really is just, it's it certainly is not a straight line, but it is more in line with having consistency each month. So it's helped with our cash flow a lot. OK, so we're just we're smoother. We are smoother. Yes, it would be like me saying, you know, I'm gonna give you $1000. But I'm gonna give you 100 now and then, and five months I'll give you 300 versus you you get $20.00 a month. 20/20/2020 It's more
predictable and less reactive. Does the opt in opt out, is that assumed are we opted in until we choose to opt out? Yes, Sir. Yes. So we said we're good and we haven't had any need I think something came out like if you didn't want to stick with us, let us know. OK. Good report. Thank you. Thank you. That my only comment and thought just want to throw it out there, Superintendent Haberer, just in in our constant heart for accelerating student outcomes and always wanting to tie every dollar to student
outcomes and trying to adopt a real student return on investment lens type thing. So you know my job is The What And your job is The How, so I don't know how we would do that exactly, but I would love to in some way Every dollar to an outcome in some way just Just something discussions to have in the future in the future future. Yeah, but what improvement are we getting with this expenditure or this investment or whatever in student outcomes So just an idea to talk about in the future.
All right. Building Fund Update? Does anyone have any questions or comments? I think my only comment is how exciting is the 2016 fund is done. How exciting is that? Director Wilbur, did you have something? Your face says yes, but your voice says no. OK, alright. Legal department update? Does anyone have any questions or comments? Superintendent Haberer. Yeah, so we would like to propose that we have this as a study session item for
the January study session, if possible. I know at that point we're kind of, we're using this report right now. It's kind of a road map to see how we want to streamline those legal expenses into kind of a you know, funneling it in one place so that we can, it's always been a part of the financial report in different departments But, How do we put it together in one so it's just a little better to see exactly how much you of our budget is being spent. Yeah, more transparency. I would love that
that to go on the January study session, Mrs. Ruckman, Thank you. Make that note real fast. All right, annual monitoring report for The Classical Academy. Does anyone have any questions or comments? Director Wilburn. Thank you. Sure, Dr. Thomason, Is Doctor T back there? Oh, there he is. Doctor T want to run through a few things with you big report, which is a good thing. But I've lost my own notes. OK #1 very good numbers on teacher turnover
like that number just continues to drop K through 12, lowest teacher turnover ever last year. What pretty close close to it. Yes, Sir. What do you attribute that? I mean, what can we pull at the district level from whatever you're doing at TCA that's working to retain teachers? What are you doing? That's a great question, Sir. I can only speak for TCA, but I know one of the things that we really try to do is and we try to create a culture that where people love to be. And so there's a lot of encouragement there and we work really hard at trying to take care of our teachers. I know a lot of our
parents create. Know paired teacher organizations come in and they serve our teachers food and we try to take care of them and let them know how much we really appreciate the efforts that they have and they pour into our kids and so I wish I had more than than that, but we try to create a really great culture where they want to stick around. It's impressive the report has your 24/25 rankings, but not compared to 23/24, so in the future that would be really helpful Yes, Sir. Junior high school, we know there's some challenges and things. I assume there's plans in
place to close some of those gaps. Absolutely. Can you talk a little bit about that we We can. We was fortunate enough, my Director of Academic Services, Mr. West Jolly, and myself made our way over to speak with Dr. Field and also Ms. Haberer and Jolynn And so we were Strategizing on ways that we could do that. So we're working with the district right now and we've got district folks that are scheduled to come meet with our junior high principal and our junior high team to do some trainings. Cool, don't Am I hogging all the airspace here? Yes. OK. And I attended the October board meeting as
and I was there from gavel to just from pledge of Allegiance to dismissal. And as everyone knows I'm TCA I I don't think that's a big secret. All three of our kids were K through 12 TCA well Well actually one was 3 through 12 and our kids are four years apart apart almost to the month. So I got a full 12 years. So I understand the culture pretty well, pretty well. And what seems to be. Emerging at TCA, at least to my casual observation, I'm not as connected as I once was, obviously. Yes, Sir, is sort of a Staff versus parents
admin versus the. The I love you, love me is not the way it used to be and maybe that happens as organizations grow and diversify. That's inevitable. But it falls on you to kind of. Take a troll and smooth the sand over and make things work. What? I don't even know what my question is, it's just it's concerning to me as a TCA parent. I love the school my parents kids had great educational educational experiences and I wanna see it continue on a on an amazing path. I think the reason it was great when we were there was because it was parent directed education and maybe
there's some pushback against that now, I don't know, but just from from your chair, right? What? How do you answer all that, Sir? I know one of the things that we really do is try to listen to our parents, obviously. My door is open to our parents for them to come and speak to me, which they do. in fact, today I was on the phone with a parent who was upset about some things and I was able to. Speak in a way that allowed them to feel, Feel quite a bit better about the situation that I was dealing with at that very moment. And so that's a simple example of one of the things we do whether I go out and
speak to our parent teacher conferences or not parent teacher Conference, excuse me, our PTO anytime we have PTO’s I'm usually making the rounds and talking to those folks and making myself available whether I'm also at any kind of sporting event things along those lines Sir that that I will say that the October board meeting you attended was probably probably the largest board meeting. It was a confluence of several. Different things that are all spinning up in the community at once. Typically our board meetings aren't attended like that. And so you came on a very unique evening.
I have a talent for that. It's gonna be a challenge and you'll work your way through it and And lastly. We get I don't get Mr. Weston, whom I I don't think I know. Is that right? Weston, Tom Weston. Tom Weston Yes, Sir. He attends. He produces the report. He sends it into the district I I don't know that we're statutorily required for you to provide that to us, and I don't know if you are either So I don't know how he's paid, if he's compensated, if he's doing it out of goodwill or whatever. But no one really seems seems to know where that report lands at the district, which tells me.
Might not be the most important report in the world do Do you push that to us or somehow are we pulling it from you No, Sir, No, Sir, I know Mr. Weston sends it to D20 administration and he is. We contract him through the district and so he's with the district and we contract him and he actually comes in and watches in our board meetings meetings and always has, probably for the last, I want to say 10 years or so. Do we have a statutory requirement for that? Do we, do we know? I do not know. I don't think we do. I could. I couldn't
find one, but. It's probably worth looking around there if it's not required. It might be worth questioning, is that dollars you're putting on the table that don't need to be? If no one here is reading the report, I just thought for the first time, maybe that's my fault, but I just saw the first one. So, food for thought. Superintendent Habeer. I shared with you guys last night, we've been getting reports and I've been getting them and so has our legal counsel since I've been here. I think that my impression is that Mr. Weston was kind of the liaison between the
the charters and D20 and I'm certainly think that we're all willing to just revisit that which we will and we can get back with the board around that. We're looking into that right now. Because, and we spoke last night because your meetings are are archived. Are they not right so. We don't necessarily have to have a written report if we got a video report that that we can reference. Well, Sir, we don't, we don't necessarily have a video report There's no, there's no necessarily video that we shoot. We've we audio tape them. OK, so the audio tape and then his written report of the two archives that exist. OK. Ms.
Allan. Oh, thank you, ma'am. Mr. Wilburn, I just wanted to answer the question about the funding. So it is a contract that split three ways. So New Summit, TCA and D20 Charter all puts a contribution. It's roughly, I'm gonna say approximate because 1 is a little bit higher, but about 11,000 per person or per entity I should say, gives you one is 12,011 and and 11, Yes. OK, yes.
I bet TCA could do something with 11 grand. That's resurfacing the gym floor right there. OK. Thank you, Ms. Shandy. Thank you. Thank you, ma'am. Staff retention report? Does anyone have any questions or comments? Mr. Smart, I just want to say thank you. I thought it was a really thoughtful and thorough report. Appreciated your effort and put it together. Director Wilburn. So do I. Mr. Smart, I know we kind of got this ball rolling a couple months ago and you grabbed it and ran with it. The last page of the report, which I don't have in front of me like an idiot, but the last page is regional comparisons, which really makes
D20 look Like a very desirable place to work. I was really glad to see that compared to other other regions, other districts in the county we're, we're the locomotive. We're, we're, we're kind of getting it done and Tells me that you were putting together compensation packages that are competitive. We're providing environments that people want to work in and I echo President Shandy’s, I know this was a lot of work the The only other question I have were you done Director Wilburn sorry OK was just. What's the state comparison? I'm just curious. Yeah, state
average is 20.18 for teachers and so we fall just below that, OK, for licensed staff which is that regional district comparison, so we're we're, you know, we're in the ballpark of where everybody else is at and there's a lot of factors. I think that's the other thing you have to kind of look at this. There's so many factors that impact retention You know, there's some things that we can control And there's some things we can't. We can't control. People got to move. We can't control people necessarily retire and other things. So our focus is really focusing on what we
can control in order to retain as many staff as we can. Awesome. Thank you very much, Director Yanez. I just wanted to add into continuing to, I mean your infographics were Terrific, but the continuing to inspire Young people to go into education and looking at I I know we had that event this year for the teacher cadet program continuing to grow that I'll just always always, I'll throw this out there always be a place for kids to come and try it out and finding I actually
when I taught 5th grade at Woodman Roberts, I had a teacher cadet and it was a fabulous experience but continuing to not only attract teachers now, but build for the future. That's something that is just really on my heart and trying to figure out how we can get our high schoolers and middle schoolers even and and dare I say elementary students inspired to do that. For sure, one of the things we just attended a couple weeks ago was UCC puts on an event and it's really they bring students from all all over the region. And it is like the teacher cadet students, they come in, they go to
UCCS and we were able to meet with them and share a little bit about D20. They do a little tour of the campus, learned about the programs at UCCS as far as the teaching programs, so it was a great opportunity for us to start to make connections with high school kids that are getting ready to graduate and look to go on that career path so. We're gonna keep doing that for sure. Excellent. All right, Athletics program update. Does anyone have any questions or comments? Vice President Konz. Hi, Mr. Knight. Thanks for taking my impromptu call when some of this all came to a head day of your meeting. But
thank you for being so responsive to the parents and families especially at Air Academy with decisions on hockey and I I did not forward any questions, so I'm not gonna try to. That's totally fine Happy to respond to anything. But why, yes you can. But I did wanna say thank you for you for having that meeting. I totally understand both sides. Your reasoning for safety and timing made a lot of sense to me, the parents
concerns and our legacy of strong athletics in this district also mean a lot to me and a lot of people. This is. This is a small thing, but I think it's a. It's a theme we want to be aware of and watch in the whole district is. Making too many quick. Decisions. I'm not saying it happens A lot, but there was that feeling of. Folks had heard that it was going to happen and and then again, I understand the timing of why you decide
we decided to not have it happen, but. If we can just be a little bit more in the planning stage and strategic stage as a district before information gets disseminated at all. Either way, give ourselves time and I'm m not saying it just about this decision. We just want to be know. President Shandy mentioned that last night that I caution taking time a a lot just so we get the right decision, you know, as often as possible
possible. So again, I completely understand, but I just. Want to throw that out for the future. Here's my question Sure, how much? Mentoring. Active coaching just because I have no idea do a ADS do with the coaches at their schools? Boy, that's a great question and I wish, Ron was not up at he's Ron is our our district athletic director. His son is a supporting the volleyball program at Fort Collins C at CSU and he's being honored tonight. So Ron couldn't
be here. So I can't speak directly to that. I can tell you that. Oh boy, I wish I remember the numbers and Ginger you might remember, think it's something like 30,000. Chapters of A Better Way and so a Was something that we brought to the district a couple years ago to increase the level of education and professionalism to our coaching staff and each month the coaches are asked or required or asked to. Maybe they're asquired, you know they're offering opportunity, right? Yeah, they're offered the opportunity
to take a continuing learning class through a better way and And they watch a chapter a month. So it's bite size. It's not sitting in front of the computer for 8 hours at one sitting where people disengage. It's small little snippets on how to more effectively lead young athletes and how do you do it in a safe manner? How do you nurture the heart and the soul and all the soft skills? That we get through high school athletics and do so in a way that still maintains a healthy competitive environment and and so our coaches and our district and our school
athletic directors have done a phenomenal job of engaging that And since we've engaged in the better way, we've had a significant decrease in the number of compliance issues and a higher level of student and parent satisfaction in our athletic programs. We're not going to get 100 of people happy about some of the decisions that. Coaches make. That's just the reality we're not gonna get 100% of of coaches making always, 100% of the time the best decision. But we're significantly closing the gap between the best decision and the daily
decisions every single day. And I think A better way has a huge piece of that. And then I also wanna shout out our athletic directors in the high schools and middle schools. They are doing an amazing job of meeting with and mentoring and leading our coaches in every sport. I'm glad to hear it. I'm sorry. No, you know, it's one of our strategic goals to increase participation in extracurricular activities and I do think think a piece of that puzzle is working. I'm so glad to hear about all
the work that's being done because I think the more the the coaches can effectively engage the student body and get more participation, perhaps that will lead to, you know, increasing. We did increase four teams and only had to. Pause too, I think correct, but I think it'll lead to perhaps engaging even more. Yeah, just just to that point, 2500 kids at the school level of participated in athletic event our our athletic team and fall and so far registered for the
the winter. So that's 2500 kids, that's 10% of our district. I appreciate you popping in. Yep, thank you. So do you you have Director Wilburn? Go ahead, Director Wilburn. OK, I'll follow Mrs Khan's s lead and give a speech and call it a question. In our study session earlier, we talked about two things that I think are very germane to this conversation I'm going back to to Erica Air Academy hockey, by the way, we talked about. How long to retain video recording of this meeting on the Internet? We settled on no less than a year, it sounds like, and
that's the way people can get information and that we as a board board try to be responsive to our constituents. So we've heard a lot from constituents in the last couple of weeks since the decision was made about Air Academy hockey, who are not, who are not happy with the decision and I suspect don't have all the information just Just like I didn't. I didn't. There was a meeting with players and families. And many of the players it sounds like to me. I wasn't able to be there if not all of them were supportive of the idea of shutting hockey down down there. There's some of them expressed some forms of mental trauma over.
The situation surrounding hockey at Air Academy High. I I'd like for you to just talk to that and let's get it onto our video records so that in the future when we get more emails, which we inevitably will, Mrs. Ruckman can say this was discussed in the November meeting. Please reference Our number one at the 17-minute mark and hear Mr. Knight's comments. Whatever. I don't think the public has a true understanding of what's really happening because how could they, unless they hear it come from somebody that's close to the source. Yeah, I
I think this is a really hard one. Let me say this from the beginning. Our number one commitment is making sure that all of our interested student athletes have an opportunity to play the sport that they love. At a competitive level of their skill and interest and what we were having at Air Academy is a legacy a very, very long multi generational legacy of excellence in the hockey program. And anytime you have a legacy of excellence start to deteriorate because of declining
interest, that punches you in the heart. For the legacy, for those, for those people who nine year I think No, 11 years ago were state champions and to have a have the declining interest in the program over the last couple years is gotta be a be a punch in the gut. There's a colleague of mine whose husband played for the team played for Air Academy, and that colleague expressed like they're it just hurts to see that program disappear The other piece, it's not just a legacy, it's the kids who who want to wear their jersey with pride.
And represent their school. It's less about winning and losing. It's less about it's less about playing the game, it's more about representing my community and representing my tribe and to be able to wear your jersey is very or in hockey to wear your sweater, it's very, very important for for our school community. And so this decision wasn't made lightly and to my own. Learning as new to this role. To Director Konz’ Guidance or advice is we could have done a
better job of Being more transparent and open and thoughtful about the conversations been happening honestly over the last couple years. There, across the state, the hockey's a difficult sport to recruit for because it's so expensive to enter and the skill level and fitness sport sport specific fitness that you have to maintain to be able to be safe on the ice is very high and so it's it's not like soccer or volleyball or cross country, all sports that I love and was able to play
without having a background you can jump into those without being unsafe you unsafe. You might not be competitive, but you're not going to be unsafe. And hockey, it's different. It's like football, you can't put £100 freshman out on the varsity football field and hope that they're gonna be successful and hope they're gonna be safe because the chances of injury are much higher whether they are injured or not, The chances of injury and then with hockey, the physicality physicality, you've gotta have a large number of kids, you've gotta have it to have a safe healthy program. You gotta have about 50 or 25 kids on the roster and
at Air Academy last year we had. The last couple years we had. A significant lower we had 29 and 20 2013 or 2023, we had 27 last year This year we were expecting about 15, about 15 15 kids. Now final enrollment was a little bit higher than that but there was a significant number of kids that that are wanting to play high school hockey but not wanting to sacrifice their bodies to play on a team that has lower than expected numbers and
that's what led to that decision. And so this was a conversation that. Started a year or two ago before I was here and in this continued and as we started to watch the registration numbers numbers come in two weeks before the registration deadline we'd only had had nine kids on and our athletic director Air Academy has such a good relationship with her kids. She knew that there there was a significant number of kids who are competitive hockey players. Who said I will not play this year, high school hockey. Because it's not safe for me for overuse
injuries and because we don't have enough people on sorry, my heart rate's running. The they just were not. They were committed to not playing. If they were going to play on a hockey team, that was not safe for them physically, and then you spoke to mentally we had two students who spoke up during the meeting and just talked talked about passionately, talked about, bravely, talked about the mental struggles they had on the ice, off the ice, in the classroom and and at home because of the challenges of the program last year. And they didn't want to be placed in that position of
having to make a decision. Do I play the sport I love? And potentially suffer the mental health issues that I suffered last couple years. Or and or do I just sit out? My hockey season now that that impacted them. At the same time, we had kids who were very passionate about wanting to play the sport they love and to where the blue and golds or the blue and silver sweater and so so regardless, there were gonna be unhappy kids. We had to make a decision that was for the safety of all kids, and that's the decision we made. Thank you, good explanation. Yeah. Two things that you can't give away what you don't have
And when you only have 15 kids and you really need 25 you you can't. I don't see a path forward. I mean I've people have have said many times and emails there's a path forward, no there's not actually when there's only 15 and I think by calling it a little early and cause of the transparency had been better, yes, but I think in calling it early as I understand. You gave the varsity kids an opportunity to go scout the other teams, meet with the other coaches and figure out where they wanted to try out. They wouldn't have had that
opportunity if we had waited until the last minute to make the cut because then they would have just been left without nothing is Is that correct? That's a really important point. And that was the that was the reason we made the decision when we did, because hockey teams were having parent meetings the following week. And we wanted everyone to make an informed consent we We believe in our district and parental involvement and family choice and having an informed decision. And so if we waited until November 5th, those preliminary meetings would have already passed and parents would have had
three days to make a decision on where their kids were going to try out. Because trials started on the 10th, we would have and we would have the weekend in between, right? So they wouldn't have had ample time to meet with coaches understand the programs, understand philosophies, find a good fit. And so we made the decision at a time where hopefully everyone would have the opportunity to find a team. The good news is. As far as we can tell right now, we'll know for certain on Monday, but as far as we know right now, I got a text message as was walking in here tonight. Every kid who wanted to play on the air, hockey air Air Academy team has a place or sorry.
Ice hockey team? Yeah. Did I say air hockey We need an air hockey team. I can play that and there's no safety issues. Too much risk of injury, alright so every kid who wanted to play. I believe has a place to play again I I don't wanna say that with certainty, but that was our number one intent to make sure everyone who wanted to play had to place and I think think right now we can say that Director Yunes I, this is a teachable moment for new board members coming on I just wanna say. So this was one of those situations where.
I received a lot of emails and phone calls and immediately the response was Superintendent Hebert and Shane coming on and talking. To me as I put forward the emails and the concern and an immediate. Working together to understand to listen, seek first, understand and then and move forward. And I'm so grateful for that. We don't always end up with the outcome that that every single person wants, but to be able to go back and answer those
emails and say I, everyone has done their due due diligence in this situation and it didn't. It didn't end up the way we all wanted. But I just really appreciate your thoughtfulness and ultimately you're just working together Thank you. I just want to put a little piece of context here of all the school districts in the state state we offered prior to this year, we offered four teams for our students and we have 26,000 kids. The only other district that
offered four teams was Jeffco, which is 3 times our size. Boulder, which is very similar to us. Saint Vrain. Denver, which is 4 times our size, all offer one One team Cherry Creek offers one team. Cherry Creek's up 55,000 kids per student. We offer more opportunities to play ice hockey than any other school district in the state state, minus those very tiny small school districts, but of the medium and large school districts, that's where we're at. Thank you, vice President. Cons. That is amazing to know and so change is
hard and so the more information. But. What you to what Director Eunice was just saying about getting on the phone and communicating and working together Superintendent Haberer and I were on a catch up call and I started asking questions and she was walking the halls finding Mr. Knight, finding Mr. Alexander and got them all on speaker and it it was just immediate resolution understanding understanding. So thank you for that and like like you said to our new board members who are here. That's how things roll around here, and it's exciting and it's gratifying and
it's collaborative and so thank you all. Thank you, Mr. Knight, and I appreciate the self-reflective attitude of learning how we could have done done it better. Appreciate. Oh, sorry, direct you've had two turns. Just one more thing that I think is important to get on the record. You mentioned winning and losing isn't everything and it isn't everything but I I think I played sports and I think probably many, if not most of us have Winning is fun. It certainly beats the alternative and the numbers I heard concerning the Air Academy win
loss record as things have begun to deteriorate these last couple couple years were indicated. It's going to be tough to have fun. Can you just speak to that real quick and then I'll be done with with you, yeah. To be honest with you, I didn't look at the win loss record. Because competition level is not important to me, I understand that they were not competitive on the ice but that's not why we have high school athletics. We're not out here to win state champions. It's wonderful when we do. I'm excited for our volleyball teams that are competing right now in Denver. I'm excited for all
of our teams that are in playoffs right now and I I'm happy for that. But that's not why we do what we do. But I do know suffering very big losses is hard, hard on the hearts of the athletes. And to your point, it's hard. It's hard to build a program with a losing record and that's not that didn't play any any part in why we made the decision. But it's definitely played a part in why some kids who could play the sport chose not to play it. Yep, thank you. Good Good escalation. All right, Thank you. I appreciate your time.
All right. Notice of auto renewal of Superintendent contract. Does anyone have any questions or comments? All right. Annual monitoring report for executive limitations policy 2.0. Global Executive constraint. Does anyone have any questions or comments? Director Wilburn. Yeah, I do have one. Who's doing this one Jolin. Is that that's you even better. Page 8. Says we. During the 24/25 school year we had at least 4 450 staff from 23 schools participate in the 15-day challenge that That sounds great. Can you tell us a little more about
about the 15-day challenge and is that something that we should be doing too? Oh, such a great question. The 15-day challenge is a great way of putting more structure to the the PLCS that happen in our schools and I'm going to field this to Dr. Field. Just to kind of give a greater description of it and what you're seeing in the schools. And just for everybody in the audience, the 15 Day Challenge is not a diet, OK? Or a workout routine or anything like that It is a way for teachers to come together
and with their standards or priority standards develop the 15 days about 3 weeks instructional units and And it's just a nice way to organize your teaching teaching. It's like a pacing guide. And teachers that I talked to in the PLC, as you saw one of the PLCS, I went to, I everywhere I go, I ask about that and they really like it because it also helps with the backwards planning where where they say, OK, here's the end that we want for students, here's the outcomes that we want 'cause they're planning a whole unit within that 15 days and they start their plan backwards from here's the outcomes. So what
what are all the instructional moves we're gonna do over the next couple of weeks or 15 days to get the outcomes that we want for students? So that's what I've really appreciated about the 15 day day challenge and. Many of our schools, the whole school and some places are just a few teams and we actually experienced a great professional development on that. When we all went last December, we had over 150 staff members. I went as well and that learned about the 15 day challenge and then we brought one of the solution tree experts in to come and teach at summer
Institute. I think we offered a couple trainings on that. So there's a lot of excitement around it, which I think has just boost the overall effectiveness of our PLCS at the teachers love it. That's good enough for me. Thank you. All right. Is the Superintendent's interpretation of the policy reasonable? Is there sufficient evidence to determine compliance for each section? Are all sections in compliance? Recognition of exemplary performance or concerns regarding performance. Would you like to see any additional different evidence or should any part of this policy be changed in the next monitoring report cycle? Do you see any evidence which is extraneous or no longer
necessary? All right. First quarter Board of Education discretionary budget update. Does anyone have any questions or comments? OK. Administrative Policy updates for month of October 2025. Does anyone have any questions or comments? I appreciate the red lines. That's the comment I will say say thank you very much. All right, Presentations. District Unified Improvement Plan, Superintendent Haberer. Jolynn Patterson, Come on up and Dr. Field. Good evening. Tonight, we're going to look at the districts Unified improvement plan. This first slide just speaks to
to that. This process is part of our cycle of continuous improvement. The Act of 2009 requires that Colorado district and schools create an annual annual improvement plan and so that's a process that I support with our building administrators in my amazing assessment team the Colorado Department of Education has has developed a process for the UIP planning. So we're going to look at some of the pieces. In the template tonight that goes with that and it's also designed to meet the state, federal and
and program accountability requirements. So 2 in the last two years the state has redone the template and so they're now calling it the streamlined streamlined template, which we are all very appreciative of because it was a very extensive online platform that we had to work within. So some of the key components are that is one it is now streamlined to better align with our school and district planning process. They They included clarified instructions within the system which which is helpful when you've got lots of people. Filling out a plan in a
form. The time that it takes to complete this has been reduced greatly. So that has been appreciative. I don't think the content I think when you see the report tonight having seen it it in past years, you'll see that it's very similar on the information that's being reported out. But the time that it takes our administrators to enter it has been reduced and then they state that they have an an advanced, an enhanced visual appeal. So we do like it when it looks a little happier and it's a little easier to read through. These were all submitted so at the school and district
level they get submitted on October 15th yearly. So I I submitted all those on behalf of the district. So our process as a district in for planning is around building these plans. We look at our district performance framework and our school performance frameworks which we've ve talked about in the last few months. We do extensive data analysis and then we collaborate together with with our leaders, specifically with our learning services leadership team that works in collaboration to
to develop this process and this work. I'm sorry, I'm trying not to cough for you all, so that's why I'm I sound like I'm running out of air. We appreciate you. I'm going to make it but and I can't laugh because then things get get so I won't be as funny tonight. Sorry about that. I'm gonna have to be be calm. All right, the next piece we're gonna look at are the assurances that are submitted each year. So the first first part, the schools sign off on this and so it says that they've worked together to look at. Their school performance framework. They have collaborated in a partnership with
their School Accountability Committee. And so they're working in partnership, not just during this time, but throughout the entire school year this year year, Doctor Field and I, and it was a partnership with Mr Knight and now Mrs Evans in supporting our DAC as we created modules and information for our schools so that they're all sharing similar information throughout the year with their school accountability committees and then for our elementaries elementaries, there is a focus on our read plans and our reading for our our kids, K through three.
So real quick, so before Jolynn, we actually jump into our new uip you all have a handout at your Yes this is the CHEAT SHEET. So you have you have 3 handouts that I gave you with a paper clip. I left them a long time ago so they might be buried. No few hours ago. So you have the the mini one that Susan just described. I also gave you the full report that was submitted which is much longer and in much smaller smaller font. So if that was something that you wanted to review and then
the third document will be for the next presentation for the strategic strategic plan. Thank you for remembering that. We gave you all handouts to go with it, so it might be easier to follow along. The slides are replicated in the handout but I use this format with our stakeholders and makes it easier for them to see and review without reading that extensive report written in about a six font. So the first thing the report looks at or this handout handout looks at are the priorities and the root causes And so our priorities this year we are looking at math in
particular and growth scores. We're looking at English language Language Arts and we're also looking at improving our chronic absenteeism rate. And so in a little bit we'll look at the data that's tied with that as well. When When we think about root causes, you have to think about these are adult adult behaviors. And so we want to make changes. That adults can do, we can't rely on. We sometimes people will say if the kids aren't at school or their parents don't bring them or that's not something that we can help or control. So when you do root causes, it has to
be things as us as educators and adults in the system can work on and improve. So we're going to look at the root causes in each of these sections. So as we go through this, you'll see the chart goes from left to right and up and down as well. So for math, once some of our root causes, so we also look at these that if we were able to fix. To these we would have different major improvement strategies because these are what are holding us back. Those are the root causes and we've done extensive work this year, we've done it every year but this this year we've even gotten deeper in looking at those root causes and
identifying areas to focus on. So for math math and ELA, you will see that they're very close. There is a lack of data driven or research based instructional practices, so that's something we're always working on Resources and curriculum is not fully aligned with the Colorado academic standards and there's a lack of teacher collaboration and coaching structures so So when you think about our PLC processes, we're really trying to keep that collaboration piece in place and working together. If we look to the far right. There is a lack so when we're in the chronic absenteeism
column, a lack of inconsistent use of systems to support support student engagement. And so that's the part where with chronic absenteeism we're re looking at kids that are absent more than 20 days of school year and we're trying to 20 days 20%. 10% sorry I was like let me check my facts facts. It's good to have a team. Because this is a new area that we've started looking at this year and so so just that lack of inconsistent use of systems to support our kids so that they are engaged in their classrooms and working with their teachers so So the good news is tonight I have Dr. Field with me who's going to
talk next. You're doing great. OK, so now I'm gonna talk about major improvement strategies. So after the work of doing a root cause analysis, this is like, OK, So what are we gonna do? What are our strategies so you can follow along with me on your your handout or the slides. It is in the middle of this first page where it says major improvement strategies. So the Colorado Department of Education has different areas that that you have to identify as strategies for example.
Instructional evaluation. You'll see number under map Math growth number 2 is Curriculum and Content, and #3 is Instructional Leadership Those are CD E's designations and that we select in our when we're writing our plan and then underneath it, we get to unpack a little bit about what that means for us so our our major improvement strategies for both math and ELA are going to focus on Evaluators giving meaningful and actionable. Feedback to teachers. We're going to
continue to promote targeted PLC time for school teams to identify priority standards and develop scope and and sequence. All of that work to lead us to the guaranteed and viable curriculum. And then as a as a district, we'll continue to focus on instructional areas that need support with teacher development so we can improve student outcomes. We're always, we've been very hyper focused on math. And then of course. Elementary reading. And then the new area like Jolynn said, is around chronic absenteeism and there is a push from
from the state for school districts to work on chronic absenteeism. It is something that all districts across the United States face since the pandemic and getting students back into school has. That's why we have such a high rate. Karie Ebbens, our Director for Curriculum and Instruction, is going to be working in our legal series next week with our admin to talk about strategies give schools their data and just strategies for how we re engage families to be back in school. And this is
chronic absenteeism and it's a is is it you can miss ten days a year, Karie, how many days is it? 10 percent, 10 and it doesn't matter what the reason, it's a total cumulative number, so So District 20 right now is sitting right under 20 at like 19.7% and we want to be at 10 and we were at 10. If you go back and look at our data like 1516 those years we were there, OK I'm jumping ahead, aren't I? OK, good. Thank you. OK, so goal setting is
the next slide and that's the bottom of that first page and you can see we have Measurable goals and actually in the actual UIP we also have to set interim measures as well, which is like the halfway point. So we use use our map growth data to help us with that even though they're not exactly exactly the same assessment, it can help us to see if we're on track so you can see here for math our our targeted areas are fifth grade math and 10th grade math and growth and then in CMAS El A it's 5th grade and 6th grade.
And then you can see our chronic absenteeism rate It's currently sitting right under 20% at 19 point and our goal at the end of this year is 18 18% or less. And then the goal for 2027 is 17 or less. And we think we can make even bigger gains than that, but we want to be conservative, OK So then the last thing is the actual implementation and action steps and this this is where it's a lot more detailed. And that's the whole backside of the handout we gave
you. But just a couple things. I'm not going to read it all to you, but just a couple things I want to highlight under both ELA and Math Growth, we talk about walkthroughs And so I think a lot of you have done walkthroughs with with our Superintendent or with some of the PSSGs where we actually walk into classrooms with principals and we provide feedback to teachers. All of our schools utilize some sort of We do have a walk through form, a district walk through form in each school with their different focus areas have created
a form that they use when they walk through classrooms Another big area is this whole idea around the Guiding coalition which is the Work around professional learning communities and that principals put together guiding coalitions to lead this work that's something else we're very focused on. And then both ELA and math curriculum review and alignment with standards. And then the big area is professional learning for teacher for teachers in math leads and improving instructional practices through professional learning a
ton of professional learning Is occurring not just for teachers, but also for our principals. And then finally in the far column that improve chronic absenteeism where we are right now that like Jolynn stated, this is a New area that we're focusing on and we want to do a complete root cause analysis because this will definitely involve our principals and our Deans and our assistant principals because there's many variables to root cause when it comes to absenteeism and we will continue to look
at our policy. We're also going to engage in some parent education on chronic absenteeism CDE has has some great. Resources for us that we're going to be sharing with schools. And then we're also going to work with our MTSS teams to be trained in working with students that are chronically absent and their families. So we are going to jump into the deep end of the pool in this area this next semester, and we will keep you posted. So we think about what's coming next. We will continue to tie to the strategic plan and our continuous improvement process
We are continuing to host ongoing professional learning we had had talked about the 15 day challenge earlier we just finished on on November seventh was a big district professional learning day overall and so we were able to support schools with a lot of work of work. And so learning services continues to do that customized support. Our data cycles and instructional coaching and then I did put 2 links in here. But if anyone, whether our audience friends friends or you all are interested in additional information, it would take you to the CDE site
where all this information is stored and there's background information as well. What questions can we answer for you? Add Director, Vice President, Konz. I didn't remember till right now as we were reading this again but Dr. Field, do you remember the first time I ever saw this report? And I was not pleased with the root causes. I don't know if I just remembered that and I I was just really concerned that we were missing part of the full scope, the full picture, right. That's your job. You guys do it amazing. But I had
opinions like I think there's other root causes besides what we captured. And so just To see you've always had such an amazing, intelligent team, but just to see The growth in building this report and the focus for all of our teachers and staff, I'm just really thrilled to see that these root causes are so targeted You know, the approach is so systematic and objective. Like you, Jolynn, you put it wonderfully that
it's the only thing that you should focus on is what we can control you know, and so I just how just the growth In this whole process for our district, I'm with You saw me. Had to. Yeah, something's in the room surrounding myself. Yeah. And from the outside looking in all of these specific strategies and actionable steps. It looks like there's a lot of repetition and you kind of eyes glaze over when you see
some of the terminology. But that's one of the joys and thrills for me of having been here and just understanding the work that you guys do and all of our staff does because each of these these items really means something dramatic and huge. Big programs, big processes. Very specific and so. Thank you, because it's wonderful work. Thank you, missus Cons and just for the just to let the whole board know that Jolene and I will share this with the DAC on Tuesday, so Tuesday the
18th is the annual review of UI PS and site plans and And before we do that, we do this, don't we or no, we've already done it, never mind we already already did it. We already did it. Thanks, Jerlyn Jerlyn. Last month we shared it with the DAC and this is so much easier to understand. Director Yanez. Thank you for this. I look at these and I'm looking at the three root causes under math growth and ELA when I I think about so that lack of data driven or research based instructional
practices, I start thinking about those high impact teaching strategies when I read resources curriculum not fully aligned with with Colorado academic standards, I think of PLC process and making sure that we're building those unit rights units that are aligned and then the lack of teacher collaboration and coaching structures. I think about how hard it is when you have changing teams and you are trying to build that culture and that collaboration and then somebody, two people out of the three person team or something is they're they change schools or they change jobs or
whatever. It's hard. It's A and then your students, it's a constantly moving target and so so because needs change, but I these are things that I don't know if they ever fully go away. Right. You're constantly like, it's like laundry you're And so I the attention to detail in this report and isolating those three things in education, it's like when you fix that tell the world because. It's just it's we'll write a book, correct Yep, you're I'll buy it. But yeah, I really
appreciate to Director Khan's point, this it's so. Detailed and down to the nitty gritty of this is what we do and it's hard and we're always gonna be moving, getting after it, these three things. So thank you Yeah. And I'll second off of that too, just the curriculum fully aligned and smokers values of doing curriculum audits and things like that and so so I love how we're looking at that and we're we're willing to do that and constantly like director
Guineas said the constant. Drive for improvement. So I do. I appreciate that. Thank you very much, ladies. You are. Do you have something? Oh, sorry, Director Wilburn couple quick questions. Are the UPI's basically rubber stamped stamped at the CDE level or do they sometimes push them back and say hey clean this up a little well in my in my, in my tenure in this role, they've never done that with our district UIPs. I would imagine at the state level there is more oversight for schools and districts that are on turnaround plans
in more intensive improvement plans. And so that's where the state does get more more involved. But for us, once we complete the submission, it's really us building it. And so the process is led by myself, but then our PSSGs, Dr. Field and Mr. Knight and Tacy Killingsworth and Becky Harris, they over, they review everything that the principals have submitted as well, like it's a team effort to ensure that we're making sure not only the district plan is well developed, but also our school plans. OK, and excuse me, the chronic absenteeism is alarming.
I'm sure more so for you all than for us being almost double the target. I'm curious to see as those plans and structures get put in place, what those look like, but I'm wondering how much of this is the numbers can say what you want them to say data Data type stuff in other words. My suspicion is it's the 80/20 principle where 20% of the actors are responsible for 80% of the acting. Has that kind of been your experience? So this is very new for us. So I will say as your data person we've been doing starting to do some Looking.
And how the state is collecting the data This is Karie Ebbens, our Director for Curriculum and Instruction and and she is our lead on this. So we have just started the work on disaggregating the data at At this point I'm gonna be working with all of the administrators starting next week. We've developed some new reports to help us understand demographics of students and really identify the specific students who are chronically absent. And so looking at when you think about the chronically absent student, it's a percentage of students. So you
can really hone down into the individuals and we're looking looking to see if we have any subgroups that are. More commonly arising with chronic absenteeism. So we're gonna put some layers on our reports to do some more information digging on that. So in the months to come, we'll definitely have answers to that. So that data mining is ramping up it it, it's just starting. Thank you. Yep. Thank you. Perfect. Director Yanz. Sorry, I'll make this quick I really appreciate your posture of getting
to the root cause of absenteeism rather than reacting to absenteeism. Truancy court is a thing, but it's sort of the that last stitch effort when I was a Casa in El Paso County was certainly. Absenteeism rates factored into dependency and neglect cases, but that's not always what's going on. And so I think just taking the time. To research and really look at what's actually happening, certainly the absenteeism
rates during COVID. May or may not still be impacting people s comfortability with coming back, but I'm just really appreciate your overall posture about the issue and really looking at the student versus just a response well and one of the things that we're really focusing on on is really separating chronic absenteeism from truancy because we know with bringing kids back to school it there's a big part of relationships and positivity and wanting kids to want to be at school.
And so when we talk about the strategies that we're using, it's really going to be around that relationship building barrier breaking, bringing them back to school in a positive manner where truancy a lot of times is punitive just by by the power of it, but we're going to be focusing on the other side. Awesome. Thank you so much. All right. We'll move on to our Strategic plan 2025/2026. It's me again. Thank you. OK. I'll stay with you for now, OK. There we go. You have to wait for the PowerPoint, ma'am, OK.
So just while we're filling time here. Jolynn and I and our strategic plan team, which includes a lot of cabinet and learning services we in September gave you an end of year report from last year and how we did on our goals and so since we've been the last couple months we have been working on, we've added about 7 or 8 new goals. Most of the other goals will stay in place because we want three-year trends to look at data over time. But we're going to give you an update on our new goals that we added to our strategic plan. So we're working on the
technical pieces in the background right now Dr. Field, so one thing for for the Board is that we did provide you at your seats tonight a another Jolynn version of the mini strategic plan that might be easier to follow along rather than than sometimes reviewing the PowerPoint. Right. And I think we'll just jump right in that sounds sounds OK. So Andi, you want to come up? If it we'll just go off this right now. That's great. OK. It was just it was just the strategic plan. This our mission statement and our who's on the team. Yeah, but we could do that
all at the end. We'll come back to it. We'll just jump into the goals now. So Andy just real quickly is gonna buzz through the literacy goals that we've had and we'll continue to have. All right, so 1.175% of third grade students will achieve on or above grade level benchmark status on Tibbles 8 the composite composite score, 1.257% of third graders will meet or exceed on CMAS ELA one 3 Elementary CMAS ELA
growth goal, we will achieve an an MGP medium growth percentile of 55. And 1.490% of 6th and 9th grade students will pass their ELA courses. Thanks, Andi. So no changes there. Dr. Field can do you mind, just kind of giving a quick explanation as to why we're keeping some of our goals the same and we're not like changing it. We shared that before, but I just think that's important to yeah, no, we just in order to really show progress and that we have you can reach a
goal once, but we want to show consistency over time. We're looking at a at a three-year trend, that's why. Thank you. I appreciate that. OK, Karie is gonna talk about Math real quick. All right, starting with 1.558 of 11th grade students will score 500 on SAT math assessment. And just a reminder that the state recommendation for that is 480. So that's a little bit we have a little bit of a more rigorous rigorous goal for our students, 1.690 of 6th and 9th grade students will pass their math courses
1.790% of 9th grade students will pass Algebra 1. 1.8. 95% of students are on track to graduate by the end of the freshman year. This one is a newer goal for us we We have had a four year tracker that our students have always done, but it's always been done handwritten. Now we have a tool in Infinite Campus where we are able to capture those digitally thus collect data. So we'll have that. Those digital for your planners are to be completed by December of this year.
And then on the flip side, 1.8 is a new goal for us this year. 90% of 6th and 9th grade grade students will pass their science courses. Thanks, Kerry. All right, Belinda's going to come talk we We have several new special education goals. Students with disabilities were going to continue our goal with the secondary students, so students with disabilities in grades six through 12 will demonstrate an increase from 52 to 50 on IEP goal growth approaching and achievement meets as measured by progress monitoring on
individual IEP goals. Our three new goals were were adding the elementary level to track their IEP goals and we've established A baseline so students with disabilities in grades grades K through five will demonstrate an increase. From 66% to 68% on IEP Goal growth approaching and achievement meets as measured by progress monitoring on individual IEP goals. And then now we're looking at our growth academically so so students with disabilities in grades three through 8 will demonstrate a
median growth percentile of 46 in reading on Cmas for the reporting AU administrative unit year of 2026, which is reported 2020 for our administrative report from. State, which is just for students with disabilities. It's always one year behind. And then students with disabilities in grades three through 8 will demonstrate a median growth percentile of 49 in math on CMAS for reporting our AU administrative report for the year year of 2026 reported for 2027.
I think my only comment for that is just that I can see where this. Forces are our speech paths our our OT, and our Special Ed department to do a much better job of writing goals correct that are, you know, attainable in the time period and all of that. I mean, it's easy just to write all of of these goals that aren't really accomplishable in a specific time. So I think this does a really good job of forcing us to write better goals. It does. And something that I always talk about is that transfer
of skill, right? We're we're honing in on what the gaps are and where we can close the gap for our students with disabilities, but then ensuring that we have that transfer of skill, which will hopefully contribute to that median growth percentile for our students and their academics. And then along with the goals that we have, it's really important to ensure that there's a rigor and that students can make that progress in light of the circumstance. Thank you. Yep. OK. Are you here for Kendra? All right. Thank you. So under college and career readiness 1.10 students are college and career ready by the end of the
12th grade year, successfully earning college credit CT pathway completion that would be at least two years in the same pathway and industry certification and or participate in a work-based learning experience and learn work-based learning experience needs to be through or at work that would be internships, pre apprenticeships, etcetera of at least 30 hours. Experience with a 5% or more growth in each area. And then 1.1190% of all students nine through 12th grade cohort will complete the the ICAP, which is of course the individual career and academic
plan process. Thanks. All right, we're on to the second objective area, which is culture of connectedness, Shane And so this is somewhat related to our previous conversation in 2.01 or 2.185% of our 6th through 12th grade students will report participation in a school district extracurricular activity a club, athletic team or some other non academic opportunity. And that's going to be measured through the survey data, the handover. And then we're looking to maintain a 90
attendance rate at each school level, elementary, middle and high school. And then 2.3 is 80% of our 6th through 12th grade students indicate that they feel included as part of the community as reported through the the Hanover Student Experience Survey. Thanks, Shane. I'm sorry, can I interrupt just while we sure sure can. And this might be for Carrie too, because it came up in the last presentation, but I think I may have been confusing the percentages we were were talking about and Mr Wilburn was referencing too, so we
were seeing that 19%. Absentee rate, but then we were also talking about 10% goal I think we were comparing apples to oranges if I'm starting to realize. All the numbers, percentages we were throwing around so So when we talk about 2.2 here 90% attendance at each level, does that mean 90 of students who miss less than 10%? It's a difference? Yeah, it's so the attendance rate is calculated a little bit differently
So when and the attendance rate really is used for school wider district wide, it's not getting necessarily down to the student level, but it's essentially just the number. Of present days over the number of total days And so it's just giving us this is the amount of time that students are present where with chronically absent we look at the total number of absences over. No, I'm not a math teacher, so it's the total number of days over the total absences or opposite, OK
opposite total number of absences over the total number of days. But really, it's totally comparing two different things, yeah we use the average daily attendance rate that is for a a group where chronic attendance is for. Individual student got it. OK. Thank I just. No, I, no, I get it. I just thought, I think we were all talking about a lot of different numbers and I kind of wanted it's a little clarification different, right? And it's two different percentages, so Good question. All right. Now we're on to our third objective area, which is invest in our staff and
Cameron's going to take this all right one, I want to preface this with you going going to see I have some new goals. I want to talk about why we made that shift when we started looking at what does it really mean to invest in staff and help them to grow, we had retention as one of of our goals. Well, retention's really a byproduct of what we do It's a result and not that we're not going to continue to track. Retention, we continue to do that every year, but we wanted to look at those things that we felt could impact our investment in staff and help staff to grow so
So our first one is 3.1, which is around offering competitive salaries and benefits that is measured measured through El 2.7, point 3, we have to be in the top quartile within our region. So that will continue to stay our goal for that. And then 3.2 is the same goal 90% of staff will complete a professional learning course or training. That's beyond what is required for them and And so that will continue because we feel that's very important. That's one of our pillars is that professional learning and how we support staff and help them
to be trained and understand the knowledge and skills they need to be successful. The other thing is 3.3, that's the next one, is increased staff participation staff Wellness opportunities. I'm not sure if you guys are familiar. We have a, we have a robust Wellness. Program and that includes anything from Yoga class or exercise classes? Or they bring in chefs and teach people how to cook healthy meals. We have mental health Wellness sessions. We do, I think you
probably heard of October, where we try to walk a lot. Yeah And we do all that. So these are all things that we offer We We have about a little over 3000 staff that in our district over that actually over over 3500, we have about 1000 of our staff participate. At least at some point. So we only got about third of our staff participating And we know there's a there's a connection between physical activity and and Wellness and also mental health. So we're, we're trying to increase that So that'll be 1 and then also one medical we
we, that is a thing we added on to our Kaiser benefits and it's basically, I can go to one medical, we have 3 three areas, locations. I don't have to pay a copay. I can get in within usually within 24 hours. I can do virtual you know, appointments right now we have about 800. Little over 800 folks who have accessed one medical. Out of probably about 1500 people that actually have the opportunity to potentially access that, and we just know that's gonna be better for our staff and their families
to be able to be able to go somewhere they don't have to pay a copay, they can get in quickly, get what they need, especially if it's something minor. If it's something more, they can get referred referred to a different doctor. And so that's one thing is to try to help promote the understanding of the benefit of that it also can also can hopefully help us lower our. Rates for our health insurance so So by using that we're not using the regular Kaiser insurance that means the the usage rate goes down. So hopefully that can help us keep our premiums lower so So there's a combination there. The next is 3.4. Which recognize at least one staff member or program
staff have are leading at least once a month through just various D20 communication options and one of that is we also know that staff want to be recognized for for what they do their contribution and recognize staff for us is very important and working with Mark and his communication team we will be able to continue to continue to highlight. Our staff and our programs that impact students. And then last is 3.5. You I want to talk. Let me, I'm going to say something first, OK
So, yeah. And then you can jump in. OK, so this is around the use of AI platforms, one of of the things that AI, you know, it's still fairly new we're still learning how can impact us in the education world, but what the what the idea is to reduce the time and energy and effort and the workload that staff have to do to do some of those tasks that now, right now might take two hours, they can maybe do in 1/2 hour. So if we can really help staff understand how to use these tools in a way that helps them reduce their workload, that will
be better for staff. So that's one of the ideas around this goal around AI. And then anything else you wanna add back, Susan? Yes, I'm reading notes from Diana, who couldn't be here, but she wanted me to tell you that an enterprise platforms are software platforms for which our district provides accounts to users as well as support and training. These platforms differ from the the consumer level software because they. By data privacy access to to usage metrics, and an array of other benefits and features And So what we're currently using is Microsoft Copilot
Magic School AI Notebook LM, which is a Google AI powered research and writing assistant and Google Gemini, which is Microsoft's generative OK. All right, Mark, next I wish I had known about Walktober, because it was more like Sittober for me. I just did a lot of sitting working so So Next up is transparent communication. We We are much like a shared what was shared earlier. We're gonna keep a lot of our goals very consistent. We're just gonna bump some of our numbers up or add on a target metric for 4.1
We're going to up the 90% positive or factual to to 92%. For 4.2, we're going to continue to meet the. User number on our website at meeting or exceeding our parent population annually, but we're gonna add on a website refresh. It's about time that we do that for our website We're also going to increase the functionality through targeted and intentional updates to our school choice tool So look forward to some updates on that from our team around 4.3. We're going to continue to grow at
5%, but we're also going to incorporate all of our existing social media pages across all our schools. So think about all. Our school Instagram pages, our school Facebook pages. We're gonna make sure that they are sustainably managed in an an enterprise tool. We're we're well underway on that, but we wanted to add that as a goal in the plan because it is future planning and it is is strategic under 4.4 we are are upping our parent engagement in terms of opting into the app at 60 or above for parent square which
which is we talked to our parent Square reps and they say we're already, we're already well above schools school. Tricks and systems are size in terms of our participation, so that's that is a lofty goal of course Superintendent Haberer and I have shared we would love for it to be at 100%, but it's a process and this is our first full year. So we're trying to be be realistic and still optimistic about engagement in parent square. Additionally we're going to make make sure that we're fully implementing Student Square across our high schools this year. Thank you. Thank you, Becky. The two goals that I have to share are around the
PSMI project for Douglas Valley Elementary School I I know Mr. Garnhardt is working now on finalizing some of the pieces from the Design Advisory Group We finished the third party estimate, so we are close to being able to really put together the construction proposal and submit that to the federal government. Superintendent Haber Haber during her remarks earlier talked about the. Design Advisory group starting to meet for Air Academy high school so we're projecting that will
will be ready to put together a design construction proposal, a package deal in the spring that's That's our goal. Thank you. Thank you, Becky. And then the last area I'll take take that one. OK, so we've been doing a lot of work and a huge thank you. Mr. Belcher and I are working really closely together, especially his team. And I'm saying I we get together, I'm saying this is what I think would be exciting to do. We work together on it. And Mark, you and your team have just been fabulous about implementing
and coming up just brainstorming together. So that's been really great. So we want to maintain consistent and active community engagement using the engagement groups that we At least 6x a year, which we want to have two summits and that's new this year we had one at at Liberty and our goal is to have the next one at the two Chinooks in the spring. And that we're in really utilizing these groups to get their feedback. We get their feedback on many different topics we did
did cell phones, especially with students last year and their feedback was amazing on what they thought around cell phone use but really district wide initiatives and the one that that we got a lot of good feedback on last year was our portrait of our graduate. We went to these groups more than once to to get their feedback to be able to put that together. And this year the initiative that they've been giving us feedback is that parent right and responsibility. So we definitely want to it's not just a group to come in and be able to share what we're doing, but we
we actively ask them for feedback on various topics. Pretty much every time that we made our first one was more around here the tools that you could use. With students, but these last couple, we for sure asked for their their feedback on the topics that are on the agenda. So we want to continue with that and grow the number of people that participate as well. Thank you. Do you guys have any questions for us? Thank you. No, great. Thank you very much. OK. We'll see you again sometime soon to give you another report
Thank you, ladies. All right. 2025 Residential Developmental Analysis report Superintendent Haberer. I'd like to introduce Don Smith. He is our planning consultant and what I appreciate about Don, one of the many things is his tremendous amount of historical knowledge regarding district District 20. And this is a revered report that people look forward to each year. So welcome, Mr. Smith. Thank you. I know where all the skeletons are buried. I would comment quickly on one thing
I heard earlier in the meeting and that was. The Academy School District 20 has produced an audit 2 years. In a row without comment. That is unbelievable as someone who who worked in school finance for a number of years, you have everybody in the world handing you money, but they all want to tell you how to use it. They want to know where it went, when it went, all the way from the school Finance Act to the person down taking care of the student activity funds at the school. That is tremendous, so Becky and her Kathy and her staff great job. With that, we'll jump into where I'm supposed
supposed to be on residential analysis. Always like to give you a little update on the commercial things in the district. Upfront because those drive our mill levy much more quickly than do the residential pieces so if you ever get yourself in a a position where you need to go to a bond issue or a mill levy override, it's that commercial development that that drives the assessed value upward and helps you pass those without having to increase bill levies the The Air Force Academy Visitors Center and that whole complex at at the north gate of the Academy. Tremendous asset to this school district I
I think the. Visitor Center is now scheduled to open next month is what I've heard, and that's been going on for some time. They kind of delayed and and delayed, but I think they're ready to go. But they bring in a lot of people into our area and of course that brings money into the district and hotels, motels, whatever the amphitheater has been an an addition. Some people say it's a boon. I'm not sure, but it is a tax generator in the district and and Integris manufacturing. Integris came into the district they got a lot of chips money from from the federal government. And they're going to be a major employer in this school district.
The hospital major expansion coming at Memorial N even though this isn't on our tax base, what this does is brings doctor's offices, medical clinics, radiation type facilities and so forth, the physical therapy, all those things into the the area to support this hospital. So once again, things are going to really drive up the assessed value. We have the major district or developments that are left in the district, the majority of what's going on in our district is to the north and to the east. And Wolf
Ranch has been going on it research for a number of years but they still have over 2500 single family homes coming in that development, if you can believe that there are. So they're just getting really good start of where they're at on the the right side of the slide you see what's going to go happening at the South end. Where that is right where Powers Blvd. hits Hwy. 83. There will be a large residential development coming in that area. Down the lower left corner is out on Hwy 83 in Shoop that That large corner parcel that's in the city of Colorado Springs
And as it sits empty and you look that, look back to the High School of Pine Creek and the development around Pine Creek High School. It's not very far, but it's skipping a jump over to this parcel of land and also the city utilities are going past this parcel now. So I would expect that to to be developed down the road and we have some. Master plans in there where we had a couple of school sites that were spotted in there, but it'd have to have a new master plan because of the age of since that has been put together. The big one out east is
Sterling Ranch. About half of Sterling Ranch is in our district. The other half is in District 49. We started back in 2008 working with the developers and owners of this property to get school sites in this area We finally reached agreement two years ago with Classic Development. And we now have two school sites in there, a pre K5 and a pre K8 site. And one thing I think you'll see if you ever build a school out in that area, you're going to draw a lot of interest from District 49 because the school sites are very
close to the boundary. But at some point in time if we get back to the birth rates that we were achieving earlier and if if we get back to the point where we have more affordable housing. Sterling Ranch is the area that's really going to jump. But I can tell you when we first started talking about the Sterling Ranch area, we were talking about beginner homes, starter homes. They were talking 250, three, $100,000 homes. They've already sold homes out in the Sterling Ranch area for almost $1,000,000. And so I I'm not sure the starter piece is
still there. There's a couple others out in that area, too. There's some Schmidt property and a couple others Janus properties that'll also be bringing some multi family and things into the district. This isn't the best shot in the world, but this shows Powers Blvd going up the highway 83 and that little green area up there is known as Ovation. It's behind the Kettle Creek Creek subdivision off of Old Ranch Road and you'll notice right beyond there is is the new fire station that was built in that area. And of course this is important because this is where the whole development around that area is
is going to come once they put. That under or overpass in and powers goes through this is going to be a significant area in our district. You actually remembers the account you can see from 24 24 to 25 we had a little bit of decrease and as I keep telling Becky all all the time, you know, it's easy to grow It is very difficult to go down. So we got to keep growing or at least stay steady in with the the students that we're getting, but a little bit of a surprise and people don't realize that somebody says, well, we're going to build an apartment complex an
an Academy, school district 20, and the first thing that they envision is thousands of going to be roaring out of these doors and down to the bus stop. Not true if you look at this from 2000 2018 until now, this was on the 2nd of October. This year we've gained 23 23 students in this school district over that period of time. But if you look at the columns to the right, you have single family dwellings single family attached dwellings, multifamily, and you got over 13,000 dwellings have been built in the school district and you got
got 23 kids. So if someone comes to you to say, man, they're doing a building apartment complex in my neighborhood and. We just can't handle the students. That is not true. We are growing very, very slowly. We just are not generating the kids like we were when I first came here. We were getting almost 3/4 of a student out of every house. Now if I look at just the housing piece, I don't get into the demographers business where he goes into birth rate and all these other things. I look at how many kids you actually have and how many houses were actually built based on what the developers are telling
me and we're only about 1/10 of a student. Out of a house right now. So that is a significant change, but like I say the economy comes back around, birth rates come back up, housing becomes more affordable. You're well prepared because we'll show you in a minute that you do have school sites available to accommodate that growth. As far as building capacities, we talked to you about the actual building capacity. We use a couple of different things once the architectural architectural capacity, what was the school actually built for and like an elementary school is 600 students typically in our district
but we look at also is what's the utilization rate in In other words, not every classroom is used every period of the day and we have specials in the elementaries elementaries, for example, they come in and take up space and we have to account for that so for regular instruction. Elementary level grades pre K through five we hope hope to have a 90% utilization rate. When you jump into the middle schools, it's about in high schools it's about 85% and one of the things that happens there if you start pushing that towards the the 100% factor you've heard those teachers talk about
about art on a card and those types of thing and trying to teach those things multiple classrooms doesn't work very well and that's why we have to to maintain that utilization factor when we look at how do we accept students into the district and what do we First thing first. In district students, excuse me, that live in the enrollment area. Then we looked at choice kits in district. And lastly, kids coming from out of district and that's how we have to take through that process in order to look at kids coming in and we've got some schools that are at
right at capacity. And I mean maximum capacity, so we've looked at those things and I think they've all been reviewed and are being reviewed currently to make sure that we maintain the space available for our industry Yes, when we look at this I and far as each area I look at them by Mr. Smith, I ask a question real fast, raise my head like I'm in school capacity numbers. Does that include the portables correct. OK, so at point yes so if we have a lofty goal someday of
of not having. Any kids in portables that would? Greatly impact our capacity numbers at this point right today if we had to do away with with all the portables not knowing what they're used for, just get rid of all the portables you could handle all the students students that you have in the district now. You're opening a real can of worms because it's gonna meet a lot of movement around. That's the only way you can do it because you got schools that are really impacted with the kids and you got others got a lot of space available available. But the portables are used for a multitude of things.
From storage to after school programs to you name it. And that's why in the curricular side of the program is where they're important because they have these programs that they need additional space for and so so we would really impact those extras if we start taking portables away without making sure we have enough room But like I say, if it's just kids we have regular program, we can put them in the facilities we have at the present time. We take a look at the elementary areas and like I
say, we break them up by high school attendance areas in the district. We're not a feeder school system. We don't go to elementary A, middle school B high school C because of choice, but it's this is the best way to break down the district and see by area are Are there places that are having a problem housing all the students? And you can see in the elementary areas we're in great shape. We got a lot of seats available even though a number of are on the West West side of the district, we still have seats available to accommodate elementary students now when you look at
look at the middle school bunch. We start to see a little different situation in the Liberty High School area and the Pine Creek High School area, the green boxes with the green arrow. Indicate if you look at the 85 utilization number of the number of seats that we have available, we're vastly approaching or look to possibly exceed those in the next few years. But what we're saying is that's the 85% utilization. We could still take additional students in this school, it just said how do we accommodate movement and so forth within that particular
building? So we're in pretty good shape. And of course. Some of the. Demographers, I think some of those things are a little aggressive. I think we're probably not going to get quite that many students over the year and I really lie I I rely on Becky and her staff and all the building principals that feed into this process as numbers to give us accurate things. And they've been very accurate over the years and comfortable with we'll have space available. In the high school area. All of a sudden we start seeing some Red Arrows The green arrow means we're approaching the utilization factor of 80
capacity in the school when the red Red Arrows come up there, that means we're approaching the design capacity and the one that's been really close or a little bit over in the the last few years has been Pine Creek High School. And I can assure you that I've been told that these are being addressed, that high schools, we have to look at how many students we take in. We have to accommodate district students first and we have to and those that live around the high school, those in other areas areas of the district that want to go to the to, for example, Pine
Creek, and then we look at out of district students. The other thing There are other high schools in our our district that do very well. We are welcome. We'll take you over there. So, but those things are being looked at and being addressed and want to make sure that they do not get beyond our capacity to handle the students at those levels. Future school sites I mentioned just briefly. You're well positioned, if any additional growth in the district, I'll start over on the left side The farm is a pre K5 site. It's right at
the entrance into the farm development off of Voyager Parkway and we've got about 15 acres which which was set for an elementary site there, but you could utilize it for you know whatever the needs the disregard at this point and at some point in time if you decide you're not going to use that we that, we would go back to La Plata because they would have the first opportunity. To acquire the land back under the city code because that was dedicated or that comes through the dedication process. Up in the North End, I mentioned the Highway 83
and Shoop site. There was a pre K5, pre K8 K8 out there tentatively. I've talked to the current owners and they say that they would have to go through a complete new master plan process and but we would be involved immediately in that process to make sure that school sites are included because when I first started here doing this work, Wolf Ranch. Fought the district at the city level there were going to to be no school sites in Wolf Ranch. And it was How in a world do you expect us to do that And so working with Norwood over the years
years, we've got the sites we've already built on, we have the balance of the site on research that we can use for middle school and additional high school if needed. And we also have a third elementary site in Wolf Ranch up on Briargate Pkwy where it will will be extended out to Black Forest Rd. The other ones are the Sterling Ranch sites that I mentioned and then. The Coombra Vista site you were able to sell and that site was critically important. Somebody said why would you take a 5 acre school site? It was next to a park We had an agreement to use the park for during the day for playground
so we had plenty of room that was taken when this whole discussion at Wolf Ranch was going on that you weren't going to get any school sites from from Wolf Ranch and we had to have an out in case something happened and that was the Cumbra Vista site and we we appreciate. The park purchasing that site, I think the neighbors. We're happy to see that because there were always issues about who maintains the weeds and things and we were not responsible, but we our name always came up. With that, I think you're well positioned to
handle the growth that may come to the district and happy to answer any questions that I can. All right. No questions. Thank you so much, Mr. Smith We're getting close to my bedtime, so yes, that's too. Thank you very much Appreciate it. All right, reporter, the citizens bond oversight Committee. Hello, my name is Jessica Taverti. I am a very involved parent in the district district. My husband one volunteer of the year this year just just for context. So I sit before you as someone
incredibly invested and excited to share this with you I am also employed by the district as well as as a teacher and both my administrators are here to to make sure I do a good job. Now they're here to support me. So when you talk about retention and investment. Those are two people to talk to. They gave up their night for this. So Birdie is now our Our Co facilitator, really our chairperson for the Citizens Bond Oversight Committee. So we appreciate that
so much. Yeah, it's been a joy. So I will report I will report first on the recent monthly activity in the the bond funds and then give an overview as to where things stand on the bond project as a whole. I'll be using words like encumbrances. And expenditures and don't worry miss cons I will talk about about interest. I know that's your favorite part of our meetings. So a few things to wrap up on the 2016 bond, that's where I will start for the July 2025
financial reports, encumbrances and expenditures decreased by by $1860.00 with interest earnings of 8900 and resulting in a net decrease in expenditures and encumbrances of 10,000. 850 This included a savings of $1860 from the accessibility document remediation for the August 2025 financial reports. There were no encumbrances and expenditures with interest earnings
totaling 8714 $8714.00 This resulted in a net decrease of 8000 for encumbrances and expenditures. For September 2025 Financial reports there were no encumbrances and expenditures. Expenditures. With interest earnings totaling 8003 $8370, this resulted in a net decrease of $8370 for encumbrances and expenditures. The 202016 Bond fund has spent 99.17% of
the total budget, and the 2.2 million remains unencumbered as of September 30th 2025 after an audit is completed and the balance of funds remaining is reconciled. Any remaining funds will be most likely be moved to the general fund or capital reserved at mid year. Budget adjusted in January 20 2026. I'll now move to the Bond 2024 updates for the July 2025 reports encumbrances and expenditures increased by
by 294,120 120. Entrance earnings totaled 140 $144,692.00 resulting. In a net increase to encumbrances and expenditures of 144,420 428.00, spending included irrigation work for the turf field at Ramport High School and Wi-Fi for New Summit Charter Academy. There was also a refund of the bond insurance cost contingency of five
$5000 for the August 2020 reports. Encumbrances in expenditures increased by by $197,750. Interest earnings totaled 139 $139,808, resulting in a net increase to encumbrances and expenditures of 57,941 941.00. Spending included some HVAC work at New Summit Charter Academy in a change order to TCAS East
campus, create administrative classroom and gym space project. For the September 2025 reports encumbrances and expenditures decreased by 37,009 953, interest earnings totaled 100 and dollars resetting in a net decrease to encumbrances and expenditures of 169,900 940. Spending included environmental testing of gem floors that are scheduled to be replaced and a savings
from the turf field at Rampart High School. As of September 30th, 2025, eight point 7% of the funds have been spent. Our next meeting will occur in January and I will brief the Board of Education soon after. Any questions? You guys are kind of scary, so thank you. I was gonna say did you breathe there? No, I was, but I had my backup ready. I've got 1 Mrs Shandy. Director Wilburn. I think this is fairly obvious, but the Rampart savings on the Rampart turf
finds savings on the Rampart Turf installation. I presume it's attributed to water not being used. Keep it green. No, that was just a savings on the construction. We did a guaranteed maximum price with the contractor and when we. Closed out the contract there was about an $80,000 savings. You'll see that it reflected in the next report Way to bring them down. Vice President, Konz. I just want to thank you Jessica for taking on this this role and your admin team. Yeah, I didn't
know you guys were here just for that, to support her. So thank you for being here. And the last item I know But anyway, I just want to say welcome and thank you you and the whole CBOC for doing what you guys do and earning that interest so we can do even more projects. One more simple one. Please Director Wilburn, thank you. Love reading your reports. All those green check marks are manna from heaven. You have a lot of data in your in your report that's It's easy to understand, but it's not intuitive. For instance
I just picked it random. By the way, this is elder abuse the font on this thing thing. I just picked Pioneer Elementary on page 14. No reason for you to go there. Savings from fire alarm update 51 $51,000 and some change. Savings from boiler replacement, that's pretty obvious, but some something like savings from a fire alarm upgrade I'm glad to see the savings but I don't know where it comes from. How does that that upgrade save us money? See what I'm saying? That's for a lot of them, it's the difference between what the budget was and the actual project cost. OK, does
that make sense? That makes perfect sense. That Answers that. OK. Thank you so much. Mr. Belcher. How many people have signed up to speak during public comment Section 1? One speaker. All right, the Board welcomes public comment on issues related to the operation and conduct of district schools in accordance with Board Governance policy GP 4.4 for. Were members of the public who have registered to comment at tonight's meeting. The Board has reserved 2 public comments sections The first public comment section is for individuals who are speaking on a specific agenda items and ASD 20 students
ASD 20 students will be called first, after which of individuals. Will be called in the order that they appear on the sign up sheet The second public comment section is for individuals who wish to speak on a general topic, not on the agenda. Individuals will be called in the order that they appear on the sign up sheet. Each individual speaker will be limited to two minutes of comment. Individual speakers may not see their time to other speakers, please keep in mind that students often attend board meetings Speakers remarks, therefore, should be suitable for an audience that includes kindergarten through
12th grade students. Out of respect for all speakers, please refrain from cheering, clapping, snapping, or speaking out during public comment. The Board President will recognize each speaker and may interrupt, warn, or terminate A speaker's statement that is unrelated to the operations or conduct of the school district or disruptive to an orderly, civil, and productive. Examples of comments that may be disruptive to an orderly civil and productive meeting include obscenities or profanities comments that constitute harassment on the basis of one or more protected classes, or personal attacks against any
individual that exceed permissible criticism. F school operations or personnel in their professional capacity. Finally, as a reminder to all present the board of the board and staff generally do not respond to to public comment. This is our opportunity to hear from students, parents and patrons The Board may discuss public comments later in the agenda or on future future agendas. Our sole speaker for this section is Katie Chukas. It's on OK. My name is Katherine Czukas. I live in the the district. I'm the Air Academy High. Air Academy High school parent. I'm still the SAC parent Co chair I
have two, I have comments on two things that the board needs to decide on tonight and one on not on the agenda. First about what's not on the agenda We've been having a lot of discussions about the new Air Academy high School school building. You're going to get a bigger update at some point However, one insight came up this week could that could be done now and it's s about saving money for the new building and also about safety today for our our families. And for the deer on the Academy, we can reduce the number of cars coming to the Air Academy campus if we can start having buses for our out of district choice students
again like there used to be at Eagle View years years ago. Again, you can have a fee that's totally appropriate to cover those students who could pick up a bus at Eagle View and take it onto the Air Academy high school campus. There's probably 100 kids. That's probably 2 buses. You can think of the fee to cover it cover it. And it's going to save money now. It's going to save parking spaces later. Regarding GP 4.4, this policy has changed so much in the past two years and still the document doesn't fit the process. For example, there's no way to sign up on the form to discuss if
you are four or against a decision item, so maybe remove that item from 4.4 before you pass it today or perhaps delay it and edit this document one more time again before voting. And finally, regarding the item on your decision 31420-25, there's an awful lot of money being spent on legal fees in the district. I look forward to the upcoming. Session Discretionary funding on legal fees must stop, whether it's by the district or by the board and And boy, is the board's category this quarter so much larger than legal
spending for the entire district. The board has an encumbrance without a budget for it, and that's a really bad thing $166,000 and it cannot be tied to any student outcome. Please stop this, Please vote today in a way that will stop additional money flowing out of the district to lawyers relating relating to the D49 versus Sullivan, thank you. All right, we need a motion to approve Resolution 311- 25, acceptance of the audit report for fiscal year 2024/25. Moved. Second. Discussion please.
Roll call. We you do have a discussion is Is that OK If I stop? Thank you. Thank you. Sorry I this didn't move fast enough. I'm sorry as you Colorado State law requires the district to have an annual independent audit of its financial records last Friday Friday, the board received the annual comprehensive financial report. We call it the act for fiscal year 24/25, which is a product of the annual audit process. The act for includes the auditor's opinion of the district's financial
Statements earlier this afternoon the audit committee, which includes Mrs. Shandy, Mr. Wilburn and Superintendent Haberer, met with staff from Clifton Larson Allen to discuss the audit report. Very important, Different, Allan OK, this no affiliation with me. It's my pleasure to introduce Mr. Sam Hellwitch, who will present the 24/25 audit opinion and he is a member of the team at Clifton Larson Allen.
Thank you very much Becky. Pleasure to be here and good evening everybody. So my my job is pretty easy tonight where I get to present the results of the audit. This is a multi month process though, so ultimately, you know, it's great culmination and happy to present the results to you for really really a job well done by Kathy, Becky, the entire the entire team, very large undertaking here So as Becky said, we have audited the financial statements as of June 30th, 2025. That includes your governmental activities, each major fund, the discreetly presented component units.
Non major funds and with that we have issued an unmodified or otherwise clean audit opinion And beyond that there is a more good news where we say there is no material weaknesses identified, no significant deficiencies beyond that there were no corrected audit adjustments adjustments, no past adjustments or uncorrected misstatements either. So if any of those were identified that would be in the compliance section at the very back of the annual comprehensive financial report. I want to just just reiterate how much of an accomplishment that is. And really just an unbelievable
reflection of your team. So it's a great rare occurrence to have all of that from a clean scorecard opinion. I do want to mention that within our governance communication, we note the single audit is still forthcoming. So that is always accompanying with your federal awards and those expenditures over the major programs. So we are underway with that the delay in that issuance issuance was because the final compliance supplement has not been officially released by the federal government. So we anticipate that in the next couple of months. That official deadline is end of March 2026, but we
May I please just publicly thank Sam and CLA? We have a partnership and you know, Kathy Watts and her team, they do such a good job. They want to make sure everything is right and they often reach out to Sam with questions and I just appreciate your prompt responses and just helping us to stay on track and the guidance that you give us. Kathy Watts is our Executive Director for Business Services and I wish I could adequately. Convey the magnitude of managing over a
$600 million budget and to not have one error, one finding 1 Misstatement 1 one anything. The amount of work that Kathy puts in her leadership with Tony and the other folks on the team, they work so hard and I'm incredibly proud and honored to to call you my teammate. I've learned from you and You're exceptional at what you do. Sam, may I ask you how in your your professional experience, how often do you see a district have no infractions?
We do we do several school districts this time of of year and in the springtime we do cities cities, counties, municipalities of all sizes. And like Becky said, this is a very good size school district. So it is extremely rare. So across our our teams this fall that we've identified auto adjustments past adjustments or significant issues. A lot of times. So I guess I don't have a an official number for you, but it's rare. It's rare. Yeah. All right. Thank you so much. I appreciate it and thank you, Ms.
Allan for your team and Kathy and Tony for the work that that they do. It's excellent. It does deserve breaking our rules of clapping, so thank you. OK. Now roll call please. Vice President Konz, aye. Director Wilburn, aye. Director Yanez, aye. Director Payne, aye. You're muted, Director Payne. Aye. President Shandy, aye. Alright. Alright, we need a motion to approve resolution 312- 25, Payment Redemption and Discharge a series
Series 2015 General Obligation Refunding bonds. Moved. Second. Discussion please. Can you hear me? Yep. OK. In the world of bonds, sometimes there's a lot of parallels to a mortgage so some families are in a position where they get to the point where they can say, you know what, I had a 30-year mortgage, but at year 23 we can pay it off early and we pay the remaining principal and we save those interest
payments That's what we are bringing to you this evening, one of our bonds. You can't just do it whenever you want. It's gotta get to a point where they're callable, meaning that you can do this. So imagine your mortgage and you can't do it. Year 10, year 12, I'm making this up, but at event, eventually, at some point you can do it. Well, we've hit the point where we can do that that for the Series 2015 bonds we have the opportunity to go ahead and
buy that down, discharge it, meaning pay it off in December and because we will do that that, we'll save our taxpayers $342,000 in interest. And so that is what the resolution is before you this evening and we certainly appreciate this opportunity because we wanted to be the best stewards we can for taxpayer dollars. So approving this resolution this evening would give us the ability to execute the documents to go ahead and
Charge this debt early in December. Any other discussion? Nope. All right, roll call, please. Vice President Konz, aye. Director Wilburn, aye. Director Yanez, aye. Director Payne, aye. President Shandy, aye. All right, we need a motion to approve resolution 313- 25, Approval of Governance Policy 4.4 Board meetings, revisions. Moved. Second. Discussion please. Vice President Konz. I just want to Recognize the comment we heard earlier?
We went through this in the study session. And I mentioned likewise that we have been going through this for the last four years and it's important because it's honoring our public, it's honoring the work we do. And all makeups of the boards I've been on have contributed to modifications and updates of this policy. Just as the times go and there's been some necessary and positive changes. I really appreciate the work that
we've all collaborated on and where we've landed gives a lot more flexibility for our community and I understand the thought process about making another toggle down menu for that very very specific instance of. Being for or against an item, but I will say I was mentored to Have policies be as broad as possible. This one we've had to do some specifics, but we're
I think we wanna maintain keeping keeping it broad. That's only ever happened once where we had that many speakers and we had a method we had a procedure that verified with all the public commenters and sorted them. So I just wanna, I wanna validate the opinion, but I don't foresee any changes need to What we've put on the agenda, I'll just say my opinion if that is, that's a how and that that can be done administratively in the creation
know we're creating a new procedure for books and all of that. And so that's something that that Superintendent Haberer can address in her how if we decide to do that. But like you said, generally I don't think it needs to be in the policy. We don't. So we don't have the how of we're going to do books in the policy either, so. Yeah, no, I think in the expansion of signups we heard and we've changed it. The allowing of books to be read and things like that. So and then also the.
The possibilities of allowing public comments at special meetings as well I think is a big addition So anyway, I have no other comments. Is there anything else? All right, roll call, please. Vice President Konz, aye. Director Wilburn, aye. Director Yanez, aye. Director Payne, aye. President Shandy, aye. Right, we need to move a motion to approve resolution Resolution 314-25, approval of settlement agreement. Moved. Second. Discussion. No. All right. Roll call, please. Vice President Konz, aye. Director Wilburn, aye. Director
Yanez, aye. Director Payne, aye. President Shandy, aye. All right, I move that the Board of Education convene in executive session, pursuant to Colorado Revised Statute 24-6 4024B for legal advice on specific legal mag matters related to district involvement in D49 versus Sullivan lawsuit while an executive executive session, the Board will not adopt any proposed policy resolution resolution, regulation or take any formal action. Lastly, the Colorado open Meetings Law does not require the Board to make record of the
executive session in which the attorney is present and providing legal advice. CRS 1024, Dash 640 dot 5D point 52B. Second. Roll call please. She moved, she made the motion. Vice President Konz, aye. Director Wilburn, aye. Director Yanez, aye. Director Payne, aye. President Shandy, aye. The executive session will be held on Superintendent Haberer's office. Invited to this executive session are myself, President Shandy
Mrs. Konz, Director Wilburn, Director Yanez and Director Payne. Also invited our Superintendent Haberer and Mr. Chris Murray. We will take a 10-minute break to reconvene in in Superintendent Haberer's office for the executive session. At once the four years. All right, we are back. We need a motion to approve resolution 315-25, approval of the settlement agreement related to district involvement in D49 versus Sullivan lawsuit. Moved. Second. Discussion, please. Mr
Murray, would you please come to the mic? President Shandy, I thought you might call on me. You're right. I will. For first, I'll just say I'm pleased that we're able to, we were able to present the board in executive session with a copy of a proposed settlement agreement with CHSAA It's not with the State of Colorado, just with CHSAA and it would get CHSAA out of the case. I would recommend to the board because our partners and D49 and BOCES have already approved this agreement. D 11 is going to be
looking at it next week, as are some of our smaller chart individual charter school partners. Because all of the Plaintiffs have not yet looked at the settlement agreement and have not yet approved it, and it's not a deal unless everybody is in. I would recommend that this board not discuss the terms of that settlement agreement other than the general characterization which I can make in public, which is that it is very favorable. I'm in a very positive resolution and to the credit of CHSAA for offering it.
Thank you. I appreciate that. Roll call, please. Vice President Konz, aye. Director Wilburn, aye. Director Yanez, aye. Director Payne. You're muted, Director Payne. All right, we'll skip. President Shandy, aye. All right, Mr Belcher, thank you. Mr. Murray, you are dismissed. We appreciate your time. Thank you all very much. Mr. Belcher, how many people have signed up to speak during public comment Section 2? We have one commenter, the board President will recognize each speaker and consistent with GP 4.4 comments will be be curtailed if remarks or behavior becomes inappropriate. The Board
Board President may interrupt, warn or terminate A speaker's statement that is unrelated to the business of the school district, inappropriate for K through 12 students or or disruptive to an orderly, civil and protective meeting. Thank you for for your cooperation. Our sole speaker for this section is Brett Dayberry. As D20 soon begins a new season with a new mix of board members, I want to offer some wisdom to the board This is for new members and existing members alike. This is for your edification. This isn't my wisdom. This is truly God's wisdom.
As I read these verses, you will quickly detect a clear theme. Galatians 110. Am I now trying to win the approval of human beings or of God? Or am I trying to please people if I I were still trying to please people, I would not be a servant of Christ. Proverbs, 29:25. The fear of man proves to be a snare. But whoever trusts in the Lord is kept safe. Psalms 118:8 It is better to trust in the Lord than to put
confidence in man. Isaiah, 51:12 I even I, am he who comforts you. Who are you who fear mere mortals? Human beings who are just but grass. Psalms, 56:11. In God I trust and I am not afraid. What can man do to me? Matthew 10:28 do not be afraid of those who will kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Instead, fear the one who is able to
destroy both soul and body in hell. In summary. Fear God over man while making your decisions affecting the 20. All right. Was our business this evening focused on the activities that promote and honor our mission statement, our release statements in our global end statement and that remind us that all students will have the knowledge, skills and and character necessary for successful transition to the next level and upon graduation will be fully prepared for success. Did the board hear information tonight that would require the review or
revision of a policy? I don't think so. Did the board hear information tonight that would require a new policy? Did the board hear information tonight that the board would like to include on a future agenda? A study session, but we got that covered so OK. There are 12 people watching the live stream stream. I do want to remind everyone that the December meeting will be our annual ugly Christmas sweater. Event so make sure you get yours yours and this meeting is adjourned.