##VIDEO ID:CvcXz767tHU## All right. Good evening. This meeting is now called to order Roll call please. Mrs. Konz here. Mrs. Yanez, here. Mr. Salt here All right, the Pledge of Allegiance I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. And tonight we have Academy International Elementary School here for our board spotlight if you all could stay after you are done and until after our Superintendent update, we'd love to take some pictures with you and give you a little prize. So hang out for just a few minutes. Academy International is one of Mr. Wilburn schools but since he is excused tonight, I will introduce them Academy International Elementary School is a diverse and inclusive community offering the IBPYP program. And French lessons they are, truly international with a wide range of cultures represented in 23 3 languages spoken among them are re Arabic, Finnish, Jamaican, Creole, Russian Swahili and Urdu Fun fact, I took Russian in college and I remember like 3 words. Please welcome Principal Laura McNally, and assistant principal Good evening. Good evening We're excited to provide our K5 students with a variety of engaging clubs this fall semester With 12 clubs to choose from, students have opportunities to explore their interests, develop new skills, and most importantly, have fun. These clubs allow students to learn and creative hands on environment outside the traditional classroom, supporting their personal growth and natural curiosity. We have 6 special students with us here tonight to share about their club experiences and the IB Learner Profile traits they've learned and applied in the club. To start us off, we'll have students come up and Chris you'll share your experiences first. Hello, my name is Chris and I'm in fifth grade I'm here to represent the chess club I really enjoyed d chess. It is the way that you can express yourself through the way you play. I joined this club because when my brother had introduced me to chess and taught me how to play, and when I was in preschool, I went to watch my very first chess tournament and loved chess ever since. After that, I was determined to get better and better. It taught me strategy and how to be a good sport I think that learning chess will help you become caring because you must show respect to your opponent. As compassion and you learn how to be a good sport when losing it also makes you reflective because you u don't always win and even when you lose you can learn from your mistakes and from your opponent and their strategy so every y time you get better. This is 1/2 done chess game it n show you an example of what a chess match might look like it's It's also a magnetic chess board. It can be useful if you decide to practice or play while traveling so the pieces don't fall off and this is an award I got for. 3rd place in my school. For a chess tournament. Thank you for listening I'll now pass it on to Kennedy. Hello, my name is Kennedy. I'm in second grade. I represent origami of all the IB learner profiles. I think I'm an Enquirer and knowledgeable I I joined. I joined origami because I thought it would be fun. They like trying new things. I've been doing clubs since kindergarten I've been in story making club builder club and origami club today I brought an example of origami that I made. You're the shark that I made This side looks easy, but the other side looks hard. Next week we're making jellyfish and octopus. It will involve cutting which sounds hard. Thank you for having me today. Now I will present Michael. Hello, my name is Michael Sharp and I'm here to represent the Disc Golf Club at Academy International, The Disc Golf Club at Academy International is more than just a group of students it's a dynamic community where students come together to learn, play, and compete in the exciting sport of disc golf With a focus on different skills and sportsmanship, the club offers regular practice sessions, whether you are a seasoned player or a curious beginner the club provides a supportive environment to improve your game enjoy the outdoors, and make new friends. By participating in the disc Golf Club students s not only enhance their physical fitness and strategic thinking but also build lasting connections and memories. Being a part of the disc Golf Club has helped me develop in a lot of ways One thing I've learned through this sport is how to be reflective After each, though, I have to think about what I did right and what I need to improve on next time. I also learned to be a thinker. I have to think about the wind, how to angle my throw, and the he best way to approach the course. As you can see I brought 3 discs. They may look k different not only by color but by the rims. This one is a driver. I can tell it's a driver because of how short the rim is. Next is a mid range. It has a curve on the rim and it goes a bit farther than the putter, which I'm doing next This is a putter. It has the biggest room and is used for close se range shots. One last thing I would like to share is the RIM people e use it to write their names and. Phone number so in case they lose their disk they can get it back from any people that find it. Thank you for listening to me today. I appreciate your time. I will now introduce Nora and Hani. Hello, my name is Nora Fernandez and my name is Hani, said to Prakash. We are here today representing the Academy International Girls Who Code Club, the girls who Co club has extended my abilities to code and build Which I've enjoyed all my life and now know much more about I've been enjoying this club because I love coding I've always been interested in how everyday robots work like microwaves and Roombas. Also my parents were software engineers. I picked up a couple things. We are being critical thinkers in this tickets because we had to sell difficult problems and are constantly trying new things. Today we have brought the adaption claw in the Rover the e Rover was built from scratch by me and Zombie As you notice throughout the past presentation, the Rover has s been driving around in a rather random pattern. But really it's a very important layout set on Nora's computer. The adaption club will now be demonstrated. One second, please. As you can see, the adaption claw has multiple different moving parts. First of all, you can see that there is a rope here and rubber band. Those are the two parts that stand out the most. The rope connects to this is pink, this pink. This pink part here which connects to this s yellow which connects to this yellow part here which connects s to another piece, which is the same piece connecting to a yellow connecting to the orange band creating g tension between the claw and the lever. When the lever pulls down, the claw picks up. And when you release, the rubber band pulls it back It can range from large items like that to smaller ones, slower and slower. My gosh, why can I not pick this up? It's been working as you can see. We have also built a small movable equal 1 which is the hardest one to pick up but still can pick up p with a little bit of assistance. Thank you so much for supporting all girls who code and for letting us present to you today. Man. Next up we have Owen. Hello my name is Owen. I am from m 3rd grade and I'm here to represent so we're e making with Mrs. King. So if you don't know what story making is it is basically getting to play with your ideas and then sometimes writing down a story I enjoy my my quote because you get to play with your story ideas that you don't really y get to use in the real world. I choose the IB trait of communicator because you get to not just use your voice, but writing and creating stories. The next I betray I chose was reflective because you think about. How you can add on more or think about what could make the story better. Here's a artifact I have today is examples of f story ideas. And some story kits. In the four years in store. Thank you for your support and wonderful job students, we're so proud of you. Great job. Thank you so much for coming and sharing with us. Again, if you can hang out until after the superintendent's update, we'll do some pictures, little tokens for everyone to take home. Mrs. Mattsson-Bonett? Are there any updates to the agenda? There were no updates to the agenda. 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 y we have a motion to approve the agenda Moved Second roll l call please. Mrs. Konz, aye. Mrs.  Yanez, aye. Mr. Salt aye. All right tonight's board quote was one that I presented says it's a quote from John Adams, Says, “Always stand on principle even if you stand alone” Next, we'll move on to board comments. I'll talk about the CASB doing a CASB debrief there there any other comments this evening? I was just gonna say thank you to the Yes committee for the bond. People that volunteered their time and a lot of it. So thank you to those people. Absolutely. Thank you for sharing that So Mrs. Shandy and I went down to the CASB fall delegate assembly and conference it's two parts. Friday is conference, Saturday is the delegate assembly, for those of you who aren't familiar CASB is the state school board association that we're members of and so each member district has one delegate that they send to these delegate assemblies. The delegate assemblies pass resolutions that become. Part of CASB’s platform for lobbying efforts in the new legislative session that will start in January. This. I've been the CASB delegate for the past few years. Mrs. Shandy took over this year and they changed some of the format so previously we would have 20 to 30 different resolutions that would come this time to actually consolidate it down into a platform that had four pillars to it. Mrs. Sandy was the one who took care of voting on that, so I'm not sure what all the updates were, but I went to the conference part of it on Friday afternoon. And ended up going to a session on Superintendent evaluations that was led by Matt Cook and the CASB director Dubal. And so it was a really interesting it was a well attended session, lots of different people who are kind of struggling with how do we evaluate the Superintendent. So I talked a little bit about what we do and actually utilized. The metrics that we brought out, I think it was in August that we had sort of the goals and with we met him if we didn't and I said these all align with our strategic plan and then it's a very visual indication of yes, we met met our goals and that we did not meet our goals. And that's kind of rolls up from the strategic plan that the Superintendent had. And so it makes evaluations really easy and transparent for everyone. So actually shared that document with a few of my the folks that were on my table. And so we've been dialoguing a little bit about that. So I just wanted to share that the work that we're doing here is helping continue to set the example and other districts across the state. Appreciate all the work that you're doing. And I think I saw it enough. So Mrs. Shandy can give us an update on the assembly portion of the. CASB Delegate Assembly. Hello, it was awesome Let's see, the CASB switched their platform a little bit We talked about that last time. Let me pull out my notes. But the delegation did approve that new platform, so that was good. There were seven resolutions. Two of them were withdrawn because they just weren't ready after talking about it, a couple failed. The GED 1 failed as was written. They were encouraged to bring that back in December, but other than that it was a really great to see e democracy and delegation and all of that in n action. So thanks for letting me experience that. Absolutely I I appreciate you taking that on. Alright, last call, any other board comments? All right Superintendent Haber. Absolutely. I'm sorry, I just have to add. So I came from Oklahoma from my son's Marine artillery officer graduation this morning where Air Academy high school. Prepared him well, I wanted to say that so. He ended up being in the top 90th percent there e are only two students in all class that got that grade, so he was an honorary for that. But I wanted to shout out to Air Academy and Dan Olson for their work with what they've done to prepare him for being an officer in the brains. Thank you Superintendent Haberer. all right, Well, great does happen here. And thank you, Mrs. Shandy for sharing that as well. We are so excited and just really want to thank our amazing community for their support and passing our bond initiative. This is a huge win for our district and we're really excited to start exploring next steps which we started in our study y session this time today and we really look forward to o using this victory to support. Our students and our staff, especially with a brand new high school and center of excellence where we'll be able to expand our career technical education opportunities And as you saw during the study session, we already have a list of how or a plan for how we're going to start on all of the projects that at the different schools and a huge thank you, thank you. This was a true e team effort. A huge thank you to Becky Allen and her whole team and Mark Belcher and all the communication and Tanya and the legal team and really all of cabinet and our staff members, our amazing parents. It's just was a true team, one effort and so we're super excited about that and definitely something to celebrate then we had d three snow days and boy we just have the most dedicated d teams, our transportation team and Mike Redmond's facility team. Every single morning they were out driving around at like 3:00 and 4:00 in the morning. To see how the roads were and then we'd all meet at 5 in the the morning to say, OK, do we want to go beyond A 2 hour delay and. These pictures we chose that just happened to be the weekend where there were several championships that were scheduled for football and other sports and we heard word that we needed to use our stadium the e one at liberty there on Saturday and I d I think it was a Sunday game, right, Ron? You had to get it ready for Saturday night so you can see how much snow was there and in a short amount of time with facilities and they had parent volunteers out there. They literally shoveled it out so that we could have a game on Saturday. So again, we just had such an amazing parent community, amazing staff members, and this was truly a huge feat in celebration of f our Team 1 spirit. I shared with you and my update and here to all the different school visits I've been able to do. I'm also teaming up with the PSSGS who supervised principles so I'm not only doing my own visits but going along with them. Just to keep learning about the great things that are happening in our schools, talking to teachers in particular. Finding out how the curriculum's going for them and our new initiative around IXL. I think teachers and principals in general are really enjoying that. So it's been just a huge part of my work as a Superintendent and I I always appreciate it when board members are able to come along to because that way you get to see how decisions we make here in the boardroom are affecting and positively, I believe, impacting our students. So this is just an example. Chinook Trail Elementary. We saw definitely evidence of that focus on writing that we made for this year as a result of our Michael Schmocker results, now that we all did as a district last year. Then I went to Aspen Valley this s was an Art Room. Got to see some of the great creativity of our students. Then I went to Discovery Canyon Campus High School principal Matt Mitchell is excited to show me about the weight room. They kind of have a teamed approach with students doing weights and cardio at the same time. I got to go to their new field house and see the drones flying around and thank goodness, right? Because before they didn't have the airspace, but now inside they're able to actually fly the drones on campus and they are working towards certifications which will allow them to o be very marketable in the workforce. And then that picture in the upper right corner are two amazing g seniors. Bryn Mawr's and Maddie Arlovski and they were so excited to meet with me and tell me about the club that they started at Discovery Canyon. Which was the women in STEM engineering they called the Wise Club. I think they said they went from 4 students to now they have 30 girls that t are doing that and then the swing set there and I'm going to let et, I'm going to ask Mr. Josh Kinney who's the Discovery Canyon High School teacher who sponsors that club, to come to the mic and just maybe talk a little bit about t that club if he's here. And oh, does that Matt, Matt Mitchell, is that him right now? I think it may be. But they were so excited because the swing set there what they y did is it's a cell phone charging station. And so there they are. OK, yes, Josh and Brent come on up and also got to hear Brian talk at the Veterans Assembly. And you are o articulate and amazing, just a natural as as a presenter. So Brent, I'd love to hear more about t your club. And what you're and more about this swing wing set? Thank you so much, ma'am. Good afternoon, everyone. Thank you so much for giving me the opportunity to speak with you tonight. My name is Bryn Macros. I'm a senior at Discovery Canyon Campus High School, and I am here today to share information about the first ever omen in STEM engineering club or Wise for short in our r district in the United States, there is approximately 1 8 million people working in the engineering fields, however of this 1.8 million people. Only 14% of these are women Furthermore, on average at my high school, only half of the girls in our engineering program make it past the first year and d understandably so. It is so easy for young female students to feel outnumbered when they're 12:50 in a classroom And I can understand the struggle first hand because I was almost one of the female students who didn't make it back the next year. But instead of stepping away from the program whose materials I was passionate about. I found a different solution and with the help of my best friends Maddie Orlowski, we founded the 1st ever Women in STEM club our sophomore year in high school Three years later and the club has grown over 6 00% and created a space where girls feel supported and encouraged to pursue their interest in engineering and science Instead of losing half of our girls to the program, I can now confidently say that they are still here, showing up to our meetings each week and taking on leadership roles. We also have a high graduated amount of girls. Using their STEM school skills in the real world studying aeronautical engineering at Carnegie Mellon and mechanical engineering at the University of Colorado Boulder. And we are so proud of them. None of this would have been possible without the incredible support of our club sponsor Josh Kinney, who single handedly sponsors the club. Without him we would have never been able to complete our latest project which you will all get to see on video in n one moment. He is very humble and does not like to take credit for anything but without him we would never have been able to build this swing and I'm so incredibly grateful that he was able to do this with us. Thank you so much for your time and your continued commitment to empowering all students in our district. So my Co president Maddie Orlowski couldn't be here today, but we have a video of her explaining our swing project to you first hands if you'd all like to look at the board. I'm my Co president wise and this is our swing I I could swing on the swing. You're a mechanical energy is going to be converted to electrical energy. As you swing the gear will turn and then using a rectifier, the positive and negative direction of the gear will create a positive charge to powder our battery use an adapter that That battery can power a silk. Thank you guys so much. So amazing. Thank you and d I think you said you're already seeing students going out and using it, right? That's cool. That's really cool All right, so next we have a picture of Principal Laura McNally proudly showing off of some of the wonderful student writing that's happening at her school. And then Edith Wolford Elementary there were a good small group support around writing that saw. Students were decorating pumpkins. The pumpkin on the far right is Harry Potter, and they were decorating their pumpkins to their favorite characters. But my favorite highlight of my trip was the proverbs or the idioms that first graders were writing. So instead of people who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones, the first graders said people who live in glass houses should get curtains. So concrete. I love it, I love it. I was laughing. It was amazing. Then at Air Academy I went there on Halloween and I went into a math classroom where they had about 50 students. It was kind of a shared teaching. Experience and considering was Halloween there was s high levels of engagement the teachers just had d such a great connection with their students and then the top p right, I had a chance to visit a special Ed classroom and the teacher. It was so exciting to to see how they were monitoring the progress of students and of f course I asked the student take a picture of us and he had to do a selfie so So I totally had to include that picture. At Prairie Hills Elementary, I got to see innovative ways that they were. Teaching math with students and students were very engaged with their learning there at Pine Creek, Miss Yanez and I had a chance to go and visit their amazing graphic arts pathway where students were used learn actually earning industry certifications that will get them high paying jobs while they're in high school and beyond. And then one of the highlights was the worm dissection that we were watching in the zoology class there is Nathan Rhodes proudly. Ending his worm. Yes, you can I I can smell that picture. Yes, it wasn't exactly delightful in there as far as smell this was s a huge celebration for us. We were invited to present about our career technical pathways at the Pikes Peak Workforce Board meeting, which was actually held at Coronado o High School. And I thought, wow, you know what's the best way ow our programming so just a huge t a huge thank you to Mark Belcher and his communications team and all. DTE teachers, we created a really fun video that we want to show you that highlights what we're doing around career technical education. We live in a dynamic and ever changing world, so to be in the forefront, innovation and empower students to reach their potential, we've established a laser like focus on expanding and strengthening our career and technical education or CTE programming in Academy District 20. I believe the CTE programming we are working on right now will revolutionize the workforce across Colorado Springs across the state, and I'd argue across the country. First stop, we're going to go into our solution. We're going to let go. That was extension. What CTE does is it brings relevancy to the It's transformational in students lives as they get excited about a potential career opportunity in their future. It brings purpose to what they do in school. You can't experience using this kind of machinery unless you're in a shop like this. I'll just have my nails here. We get to use some of the stuff that really is state of the industry, the anatomize tables that you saw that state of the industry technology we do DNA A fingerprinting on our own DNA. We work with bacteria we do gene manipulation, We do real state of the industry stuff. Industry changes dramatically with new technologies and new ways of doing things, new innovations. It's imperative that we partner with industry. To really bolster and bring relevancy to our high school programs and that way students when they graduate and they join the world of work or they join different secondary opportunities that they're super r successful because they've already dealt with it, they've already have experience with it. It just was evident that there was a need not just in Colorado Springs, in Colorado, but nationally. There's a pilot shortage. Students need to see what is actually happening on the other side in industry and it induces those kids to thoughts of these are a bunch of different career paths that I could take well, for example, the drones class that at we're running right now, it allows us to get our part 107 license by the end of the class by learning Java, I can apply this to like any future work computers and cyber security and other stuff. I think the main thing I'm learning is like. The whole coding application 'cause once you get one language down, learning a second language is like super fast. Students who graduate from Academy District 20 are extraordinary. We attribute that to our dedicated educators and the way our programs are constructed. Together we are equipping students with the e employability skills that employers are looking for whether they've decided to pursue higher education or enter the workforce. Our students aren't just prepared, but they are empowered through career and technical education students s acquire the knowledge, skills and character to o forge their own paths in an ever changing world What do you want to class longer to be something that's easily said at the end of f the day. I don't think that the classes allow us to really gain new skills. Personally as well as physically, and then also a critical mindset to allow us to be open to new engineering aspects if we're looking forward a lot in n aviation, learning about what we've done so that we can like make things better in the future. What we're really trying to show in this space is that it is really fun to run a business, so it's really hard so we don't hide anything from these kids. We're offering is something that not a lot of schools have They don't have that type of program that they can use to help assist their students on growing. And so it is very transformational. It gives kids direction, it gives them purpose and seeing that spark, seeing that passion and intent in their education, but seeing it towards something that's going to be relevant to them and help support their future families, to support themselves and to bring g value back to our city, to our region, to our state, to our country. The landscape of education will continue to adapt and grow, and so will we in District 20, our work in this area has just begun. Our educators are finding innovative ways to ignite young minds ensuring that when our students step into the world they do so not just prepare. Ready to excel and shape the future? We will continue to share this work with you as we grow and expand programming that prepares students for multiple post secondary opportunities. Great happens here in D20. So again, we're just so excited about the different opportunities that we're providing for students and although that is like a a great music, it's kind of gets you jazz. But it really is amazing and a huge thank you to our CTE teachers. They also were there helping us to present and after, oops after I went after we presented, I also had a chance to visit some of their CTE classes at Coronado And I best of all, I got a chance to talk with students, which I love and. All of them told me about how the skills they were learning in their classes they thought would transfer to any career or pathway that they might choose beyond high school. They're really easily able to make those connections, which was great to see. So we have AS s you amazing marching band programs here in D20 and the last weekend in October. D20 marching bands competed in the Colorado Bandmasters Association School marching band finals. Congratulations to Pine Creek, they came in 7th place in the 5A Air Academy came in 3rd place and d 4A and TCA came in first place in two and drumroll and a huge congratulations truly to Rampart High School. This marching band came out on top earning awards all l the way across. Let's give them Anne. They were named 2024's Colorado Band Masters Association for a state championship for marching bands and on n Halloween I was at the Rampart versus Air Academy football game and I had a chance to watch them perform. It was truly outstanding. They had some soloists and the saxophone and the e flute. And other soloists, and I didn't know how they were able to keep doing it with all these people marching around. And plus it was really cold out. So I think that we have tonight our band director, Keith Acuncius and three drum majors. Would you like to come to the microphone and just tell us a little bit about your program and your ion? Hello and thank you for having us here tonight. My name is Keith Acuncius and I'm one of the band directors at Rampart this s season has truly been storybook season for us The students have been outstanding and amazing, and I'm really just so grateful to be their band director at Rampart High School. This really represents not just their day to day efforts or week to week or even this season but for several of them 345 5 years worth of effort and work and they just couldn't. Be better representatives of, not just D20 and Rampart High School, but the whole community of Colorado Springs. We were able to travel out to Grand Junction this year and they represented well. They won that competition as well. But the moments where we were in hotel or when we were out eating lunch in places and people would just come up to them and say these are some truly fantastic students and I think they just did a terrific job of representing all of us. And the representatives of our band are here with us tonight. This is. Head drum major. Irene Wish, drum major Gabriella Olson and drum major Hannah Waldrop And I couldn't be more pleased to have had these three young ladies just do a terrific job of representing the band at every competition as well. So thank you so much for having us. Yes, thank you did d you want to? I think you were going to. Do you want to share something about your experience Yeah, No, I'd love to. I just wanted to say thank you so much for joining us at the Halloween game, too. And that's something that's so wonderful And yeah, I just think it's so incredibly cool. We went from 60, around 60 members my freshman year to almost 130. And now we're here with a state championship title after these four years, and I just I just wanted to say thank you. And we're so proud to be able to Thank you. Thank you guys. Really appreciate all your hard effort. Wanted to share. Sorry I wanted d to share that if you haven't had the opportunity to watch them perform, they performed for their final time at our Champions Assembly on Tuesday. We had to reschedule it because of those snow days, but it is on the K Ram YouTube and it's not their full show, but you can honestly feel like just all of the joy that we were able to celebrate them and that they were able to celebrate themselves. Awesome. Thank you so much. So as last year, we made some budget reductions at the central office so that we could staff our elementary schools with h security and every time I go to an elementary y, I mean are smiling as security officers and just hear amazing stories about how principals and teachers just love having them around. So was able to get to catch h a few pictures. This is security officer Jeff Potts on he left school in the woods. He loves to do whereas e is he? Where is he at Wave? OK. There you are. Thank you Miss Officer Potts for your dedication to the students in school in the e woods, and it looks like you're really good at archery too. And I know the principal hared that you like to do animal tracking too, at recess, kind of show kids how to do that, so that's just huge and building relationships with our students and we really appreciate you for that. Also, security officer Curtis Lilly Is he here tonight? Was he able to be here? Nope He is at Douglas Valley Elementary and I was just out there for the parade and. This picture was from Principal Adrian Marie and she wanted to share this story of this picture, she said. Today one of our kindergartners was arriving via the kiss and go and her mother asked if she could hold up the line to get a picture of her daughter with Officer Lily She shared that her daughter insisted on being a police officer for Halloween this year because she loves Officer Lily so much and looks forward to seeing him every day. She then added everyone in our family knows about. Him, even her grandmother who lives out of state, so let's give it up for both of our security. And now we have a special award also to one of our amazing security officers for Alan Dominguez from Challenger Middle School He saved a student's life a couple of weeks ago and he earned a prestigious award for his action so o it Assistant Director for Security, Buck Myers and Rich Payne Director, please come to the microphone and present a Director's commendation award to officer er Dominguez. Thank you and good evening. Thanks to the board of Education and to Superintendent Haber for the opportunity to present this award tonight. Director of f Security Rich Payne and I will be presenting a Director's Commendation for life saving to Security Officer Alan Dominguez and a direct a district security challenge coin to Assistant Principal Molly Bishop. For their actions at Challenger Middle School on October 23rd, 2024. So first thing, I would love to have officer Dominguez and Missus Bishop come up and join us, please. OK. This is a director's accommodation, perhaps Officer Alan Dominguez on Wednesday October 23rd, 20 2024 at approximately 12:27 PM, Officer Alan Dominguez was on duty at Challenger Middle School monitoring student behavior during lunch when he observed assistant Principal Molly Bishop, assistant a student who appeared to be in distress recognize the signs of choking. Officer Dominguez immediately rushed to assist while Miss Bishop attempted a Heimlich maneuver. She was unable to y clear the student's airway. Officer Dominguez quickly stepped in and continued performing the Heimlich maneuver. After several attempts, he was able to dislodge obstruction, allowing the student to breathe again. Officer Dominguez is being recognized for his quick and decisive actions during this critical situation and is credited to save the life of the student His actions demonstrate his dedication and commitment to the student safety and students of Air Academy School District 20. I would just like to say thank you for this honor and being recognized. Officer Dominguez. He absolutely was a savior that day. I'd like to thank everybody for letting me be here for District 20. These are one of the biggest reasons why I love working here at D20. Being there for the kids, being there for the staff members, being there for anybody that walks through these buildings and I would like to thank k Molly for that great teamwork that we performed that day. Thank you again. So a few more celebrations. Our Academy high School broadcast journalism class taught by Andrew Longhenry had ad a great field trip to the Mountain West Conference cross country Championship where students learned about the nature of live streaming, sporting events and the flow of information by a hands on experience This was amazing. Encompass Heights Elementary School hosted one of the last district elementary cross country running meets. They had 284 students from Encompass. Chinook Trail and Academy Endeavor Elementary. They took to the trails around the school to chase down the rabbit who's a services were volunteered y David Stevens of Academy Endeavour Elementary. Pine Creek High School, we were celebrating one of their students was a part of the forge evolution and restorative practice for misdemeanor crimes in Colorado Springs and her mom, Marta is also one of our ESL teachers who is also served as an interim Dean. So a super excited to see. One of our amazing students taking part of this important community service Pine Creek High School. Also their cheerleaders are the 20/24/20 game day division winners. They earn the opportunity to o travel to Orlando to UCA Finals in February Village High School they participated in serve your city class at Village High School that class help decorate for a very special Halloween party at at Hope and Home. Foster, an adoption agency in Colorado Springs. And the party was held for over 60 foster families that the agency supports. Chinook Trail Middle School softball team. They completed the North Peak Athletic Conference softball tournament and won for r the third year in a row. And this is exciting. This was our parody teacher Pathway night and a huge thank you to Cameron Smart and his whole HR team for putting this on. We had over 120 individuals who attended the para to Teacher Pathways event and it provided resources and information for paraprofessionals who are interested in becoming a teacher partnering g with Teach Colorado and the Colorado Department of Education and neighboring school districts. They all partner together to put on this. Amazing. An event which is really a launching point for individuals who are ready to take that next step to be a teacher. And then we recently took a group of high school principals, Dr Field and some of our learning services folks and our current technical education folks to put her high school there. They have what's called a wall to wall career Academy model and they actually won an award with CASBAH, I think last summer But every student there is involved in some kind of a career pathway career r Academy. So it was just really great to see how they y organize things. Best of all, we had a chance to go. And visit some of the different rooms, the one in the left, the students actually build their own escape room. And they have different themes and then they I think charge 10 bucks if somebody wants to go through it. It's kind of a fundraiser, but t it's about really engineering and how do you build different things for different purposes. They had an automotive one like we do. The one on the bottom was interesting. It was around behavioral health and they got sort of supported by the Community College of Aurora to do ACTE, mental behavior health pathway. So I thought that was really interesting and we may have. Principal at one of our high schools might be interested in doing that so it t gave us some good ideas, not saying that we would do this model but it was a good way to look at what what's possible. We also just recently had DID a tour with Doctor Eckert and her behavioral specials from Children's Hospital. They toured our Aspire program and then we met and they were telling us about all the different kind of training that they have around behavioral health And we say, I said, well, what's the next steps? And I think our team was excited to learn more about the training that they do with their behavioral health specialists. And then they invited us to do a tour at their place. So that's our next step. And you know, they're just across from the e pond. Street so be great to have a strong partnership with our neighbors. We talked d about this in the study session a little bit. The anxious generation huge community wide conversation we had over a little close to 400 people sign up for this is really a district wide community wide professional learning opportunity. We had parents we had some me students, we had the lots of staff members administrators Teachers, paras. Board members and I know Amy, thank you I know you were able to join online. And Lauren are able to join in person A A huge great conversation around the effects of social media on some of the other kinds of factors that are in our culture and how they could potentially be affecting mental health for adolescents. So we we're going to have two more sessions and I I know I really enjoyed the groups that I was able to meet with on that night. For November, stakeholder means we're cut short this year because of the snow days and. We did have a chance to meet with our patrons and got to hear our update on Parent Square Our r trials have gone really well with the trial schools and we'll be going full scale with Parent Square second semester And then certainly talked about the vector training. The vector training is something new this year was something that I know that was important to me as a Superintendent my last district, but basically what it does is it gives consistent training across s the board for our teachers, for every staff member. Antenna takes it too around like mandatory reporting and all the different all the different mandatory trainings that are required by the state as well as ones that are important to us in the district and it's s nice because we can change up what those topics are each year. We had a lot of fun at our annual fall festival Huge thank you to Tina Mattsson-Bonett and Mary Elsner for support. We all dress up and we had some amazing costumes again this year. And now a huge, huge thank you. I know this has been one of my highlights of the year and that was this combined concert that we had last Saturday. I was the first time ever where we have partnered with the Colorado Springs Philharmonic and that USAFA Cadet Corral which is their premier chorus group and we're all together on stage. It was such a privilege. They asked me if I would emcee that first part of the event, which was really fun, but I am very honored have. I know that. Wes is here and you are the brainchild, I think for this was you, so I'd love to. Here your story around that we have to kind of keep p it short since we're running long, but thank you so much that t was an outstanding experience for our students to be on stage and d to be alongside all of those professional musicians if you and Ron want to come to the mic and just. Say something brief about this event. It was, and we all. We already have it scheduled right for 2627 school year We do it we'll be able to do it every other year so well I'll keep short because me and time limits don't work very well so. I just wanted to tell a little bit about our team because sometimes it looks like Wes and I maybe did this and we were just helping every K through 12 choir director was involved of the to learn the one piece took hours and hours and hours and many of those directors s were on site for Saturday supervising. I spent about 15 minutes with middle schoolers, so I was ready to run out the door after they were bouncing off the walls, but they did a great t job. But Caitlin Clark, my administrative assistant. Tanner Jones assisted Ginger helping out emceeing and we had two D20 parents that serve high up in the Philharmonic that were D20 parents that helped make this dream come true And I will say after 30 years of leading and coordinating g events, this ranks number one I've never seen such an impactful event as this 254th through h 12th graders. We're on stage with you, Safa a Philharmonic. Group that was terrific and that's a once in a lifetime experience for our kids that we're gonna do every two years now and Wes will tell you a little bit t more about a special D20. World premiere so I'm gonna let him talk about that so one of of the pieces that we got to perform excuse e me, was a world premiere of a composition called Seek By D20 graduate Josh Maynard. He went through Woodman Roberts. He was my student at Eagle View and also went to Air Academy High School and he's now senior at Boulder studying music composition. About to go to grad school for choral or choral conducting. With the hopes of being a college choir professor and he wrote a piece he's commissioned to write for University of Wyoming's women's choir last year. I reached out to him and asked if he'd be willing to orchestrate it, and we did. The world premiere of the orchestration at the end of the first half of the concert this past Saturday And during the dress rehearsal, the conductor turned around to him and asked, how old are you? And he said, I'm 22. And he said well, if you're writing like this, stay in touch. So, Josh now has a Direct Line to the second largest professional orchestra in the state of Colorado. And that's just one example of the continued life lessons that students can learn. And we know that not all 250 of these students are going to become professional musicians but the teamwork, the dedication, the patience that they learn like like the CTE skills and just like the students in Keith's marching band, it it'll transfer to whatever they do in n their adult lives. And two things I just want to close with is they announced, Nathan announced this, that in the 90 year history of the Philharmonic. This is the first ever partnership with the school district to be on stage with the Philharmonic so o pretty cool. And then I think the whole event encapsulates D20's commitment to the arts and passions of all students. It was the most beautiful event I've ever seen. So thank you, thank you, thank you, Mr. Truly was outstanding. So we had an amazing Veterans Day celebration across the district, and a big thank you to Cole for writing in the fire truck in the for our parade at Douglas Valley. Had a chance to go to Air Academy in the morning, then went Discovery Canyon and then got to March in the parade and then be the MC for their for all their students and parent assembly that they had afterwards. It was huge celebration and just a huge e thank you to our veterans, our active service members. Military families for their sacrifice and their continued service to our community and last t but not least, a huge thank you to we just have such an A magazine legacy here in n D20 and again, a thank you to our communications department for their awesome work we did our Hall of Excellence ceremony earlier this week. We inducted 2 individuals. Pam Sattler, who was a Spanish teacher at Air Academy High School. Scott Davis, who was a civics teacher at Air Academy High School, and I had a chance to meet Carol who started school in the woods, and I had a chance to hear how that was started. So we are just so incredibly blessed here in the Academy. District 20 for the legacy that all the people before us have left and just the amazing excellence like the he joint partnership with the choir concert that we just will continue to move forward with. So that's the end of my soup update. Thank you, lots of incredible things going on between athletics activities s, security. Everyone's doing a great job, so we really appreciate all the support from our staff and our teachers every day just to continue to persist excellence throughout the district. We need a motion to approve the consent agenda as posted Moved second roll call please Mrs. Konz aye. Mrs. Shandy, aye. Mrs. Yanez, aye. Mr. Salt aye. have 22 people online we're going to take about. 10 minute recess so we can do pictures shake hands and we'll get back to it shortly. All right, we are back. Thank you all. So next is number 8, but there were no items pulled from the consent agenda, so it moved to 9 written reports first up is the monthly financial report through September of 2024. Were there any questions or comments? Seeing none Item B annual monitoring report for TCA. Were there any questions or comments? Item C Notice of auto renewal of Superintendent contract. Were there any questions or comments? Item D Expulsion Appeal notification This is a confidential report. State law CRS 24-72- 2-4(3)(D)(III) the public Records law requires the Board of Education to comply with provisions of the family education rights and privacy act, which protects the confidentiality of student discipline records. Therefore, the report by the Expulsion appeal notification is confidential. Item E First quarter Board of Education discretionary budget update Were there any questions or comments? Mr. President, my only comment is the election fees came in more as usual and that's why we're over We'll see what the final bill is and then Mrs. Allan will rectify that at the mid year. Thank you. I appreciate the update on that. Right. Those are all of our written reports. Next up are presentations. First is the report of the citizens Bond Oversight Committee. Superintendent Haberer. Yes, and I'll turn that over to Ms. Becky Allan, Deputy Superintendent, CFO All right, I would like to welcome Mr. David Brockway. Yeah, we'll just switch it to the CBOC. There we go. Thank you. It's an honor to be here tonight. I'm reporting tonight on the 2016 bond issuance our r group met, our oversight group met on October 30th and the meeting was led by Kris Garnhart who briefed us on the financial activities of September, August and July there is not a whole lot of expenditures to report during that time as we're kind of coming into the sunset of the bond issue and but an interesting thing that's happened in all three of those months, there have been interest earnings. That are credited back to the project those have been around 6060 sixty 000 a month something like that so that those are coming back but but I really want to note August there was a tax, sales tax reimbursement from the Chinook Trail middle School project. So yes, that was completed a few years ago but but it's a pretty onerous task to get gather up p all those receipts for materials and things like that. And the Bond Project office does that and d they were rewarded. 241,000 from the city of Colorado Springs So good on them for getting that and. Where that leaves the bond overall, it's 90 4% completed. There's about 7.1 million of work to be completed that that's in the bond project of that two point lion is the contingency fund. So we feel we're well on our way to having all the voter language completed and then plus the four additional projects that were added. So that's really y exciting. Every time I say it, it's really exciting. Other major categories that are in there, the biggest being technology infrastructure of about 2.3 million. Yeah, 2.3 million left remaining on that and then some of the facility audit projects and those total about a 35,000 or so we'll l meet another time in January and be farther along than n 97.4%, but we'll have an update at that time. So if anybody has any questions, happy to field those. So I don't have really questions related to the. Report that you provided. I do want to take this opportunity to say with the passing of the 24 bond we were e likely going to just keep the existing citizens bond oversight committee and re engage the charge for that committee to oversee the ongoing funds. So instead ad of having a separate citizens bond oversight committee, we'll just have the one committee that will then start seeing overseeing the new bond as it t rolls in. Great. Thank you. Absolutely. I appreciate all the work that you've done I know you've been on this the whole way and you've done an amazing job with work in this committee and I really appreciate all the time and effort that you put into it. Thank you. We have a great team and it's a pleasure working with the board, with Chris and his team too Thank you. Thank you. Any other questions born. Thank you so much. Thanks. All right Next is the building fund update, Superintendent Haberer. Yep. And I already said again say Ms. Becky Allan, CFO Deputy Superintendent. I'd like to welcome Kris Garnhart Good evening, board, and thank you. I'm going to call this the Fall 2024 update, so you'll see some interesting pictures this time not kind of very similar one ne to what you've seen in the past. The Rampart in Liberty High School swimming pool upgrades are both complete now, and they're functional. We did have a little bit of money, so we're going to do a few extra things out there, replace the timing systems at both schools and it sounds the sound system that both schools in the pool area and then we got some windows, two more windows that are going to be replaced here before Thanksgiving at Woodman Roberts and then that'll finish out the window replacement line item. These are just some pictures from the Rampart pool swimming pool equipment upgrades. You've seen some of this in the past. The picture with the blue item in the upper left is the pool equipment room and then the finished pool that's filled and usable and d it looks very similar to Liberty, which is theirs. The difference is the mechanical room has a different layout. And they're finishing up a little bit of ceiling and stuff, but they've been swimming in that pool for a few weeks now. The exciting project that we have going on is our transportation expansion project. So this is a picture of the new mental building that will house the bus maintenance operation This is them putting the superstructure in place. This is a picture of it when they were pouring the concrete floor slab so o to kind of give you an idea, they did this floor report in one day, started about 4:30 in the morning, finished at 10 00 at night. It was about 400 cubic yards of concrete and to put that in perspective, that's about 50 truckloads of those. Concrete mixers that you see, but it takes a lot of people to do that work. And then this is a picture of what it looks like on the inside. And this is what it looks like on the West side of the outside. So they're in the process of pouring the concrete apron in front of the garage doors there and then this is the side e. What I will say is we're in the process of putting together a move plan right now with our transportation folks to move over here in mid December so that when they return from winter break in beginning of January, they'll be functioning out of that building and then our contractor will move to the to the inside of the building to do the renovation that we need to do over there. During the summer there was a little bit of the renovation on the interior of the building. We did because there was some work that would have e really been very disruptive to the transportation function as a a part of that renovation, we're adding four bathrooms and so this is a picture of one of them. Two of them were completed and they're usable the he other two will finish up when we finish the interior renovation And then we got our document scanning project. So we've made some headway on that. We have finished up a scanning in all the human resources documents. And we have left to the ones that you see on this list just yesterday there e was a large pick up. It was probably I don't know, 300 boxes worth of finance documents that were stored at the warehouse that the company just took up and they'll it'll be about 3 months for them to scan that in. And that's the bulk of what t we have remaining. The others are some odds and ends. So we'll wrap that up in the springtime. So with that, any questions? Board, any questions? All right, thank you. Thank you. Right next is item C, the 2024 residential Development Analysis Report. Superintendent Haberer yes, and again as Deputy and CFO superintendent Becky on so we we truly have a blessing to be able to work with Don Smith. Don, how many years 20 plus that you've been here a consultant yes and each year he gives us the benefit of his wisdom around the the development in our school district and. How it impacts future planning, so this is his annual report and Don, thank you for being here. And please, the floor is yours. Thanks, Becky it it's amazing how the time flies it's been about 25 years that I've worked for the district part time I I came here in a financial crisis and we're as I look at things in the ways it goes today, it's just a totally different operation. But with that my annual task is working with the planning departments of the county and the city. To make sure number one, that the things that are e being built in the district don't interfere with some of the things we're trying to do, and also they land and fee process whereby the district gains Lander fees s based on the amount of residential construction that we have in the district over the years. This report has s been given not only to the Board of Education, but to a number of stakeholder groups and also. Number of times to Moody's Investment Services in new York for the bond rating of the District for credit. So it's been an ongoing process I've e really enjoyed the first part of the presentation. I'm going to go through quite quickly because it deals with commercial and really I put this in for one reason for the board is commercial development in the district. Will make the assessed value grow at about 4 our times what residential does, so you need to have a nice mix between not only just all homes, but we also got to have that commercial piece and so that's why we include this the other pictures in here I re I put in when I do the parent group as I have in the past. This is the group the moms and dads like they it's always hey, what do you got for a secret for is this year is you 5th Ave coming or who's going to show up on our r doorstep And really we got an amphitheater that's making a lot of noise from what I read in the paper I'm I'm not sure this is the this is the Air Force Academy visitor center. Can't wait for this place to open and have an n opportunity to go in and see the displays. We're talking about mid 20 The building is done, but the group that did the he museum. Big an Olympic Museum downtown are doing the interactive things for this museum as well. The hotel is open at this time, but there's a view out of the front of the visitors there and it's just fabulous view. There's the amphitheater up at Polaris Point. Here's some things are going on there up along Northgate our r Interquest up in that area. This is a new splash park that's coming over by the amphitheater and this is the one I like to show o show because in 2006. This aerial shot of Interquest there was nothing but new life Church, and here we are 18 years later and they are down to where there is virtually nothing left as far as sights or they've got a few commercial l sites left. Do I understand the north side of the road, right p next to the Interstate? It's going to be an outdoor equipment type place like 4 wheel drive vehicles and things like that. So that parcel has been sold Whoops, let's go the right way here. Just some of the things that are going on out in that area. And we're getting a new development down at the very bottom end of Flying Horse where powers s and Hwy 83 cross. There'll be a big commercial development going in there in the next few years. And I think what they're waiting for is the intersection to be completed, the bridge built and d then for Powers to actually be completed. And that should be coming because that was part of the last agreement on the extension of the he sales tax with the city. There's a couple of developments I didn't get pictures for that are not in here. 1 is. The new King Superstore I'm sure you're all looking forward to getting g that little shopping center down over on that corner. You don't have to drive miles to find a grocery store. The other one that just came out from the city in the past about a week is Dick's Sporting Goods is looking at building a huge new facility off of the southeast corner of Woodman Rd where the current facility was floor and decors it's back from m the road in front of that would be the Dick's Sporting Goods store about out 100,000 square feet, which is about two elementary schools. Climbing walls, Typical sport things plus s apparel. Plus they're going to have an outdoor field, so that's one of the exciting things that's coming to the District within the next few years. The process that I go through this picture here is just what's going on out next to our campus site out on research at Legacy Peak with all the road improvements, drainage improvements to that particular site But the real meat of this is the residential piece. That we want to talk about and what I do is in January each year I start preparing to contact all the developers that are building in the district as far as residential construction to find out number one, what did you complete in the last year and #2 what are you planning for the he next 5 years? What is it? What does this look like in our district for the next years? And I can tell you that the majority of the the development, and you've all seen this is around, driving around is sliding east east in the district as all the rest of it is starting to fill up. One is the Sterling Ranch project, which is out off of Ulmer Rd. Last year you had the pleasure of accepting some school sites in an agreement with the county and the developers and now that's coming to fruition that those e sites will actually be held by the county for the district for the next 20 to 25 years, if you would need to build in that area and a lot of be driven by you you know, what's that type of housing and the number of students who come with that t development. But that is a large piece of what's happening in the district on. East side, along with the balance of Wolf Ranch there's a considerable amount of sites are e spaces left. We have a number of school sites that we own or are reserved the he ones in red font are actually reserved for the district. We do not own it. We don't have title o that land, therefore we do not maintain it even though some people think at times it's our parcel to maintain, that is not true. So we have the pre K5 site over it at the farm that's a really nice about 15 acre site that at some point down the road may not be in elementary school, but with all the things that are coming down the Pike as far as different learning styles and things for students, there's an opportunity for the district if they never need a midsize facility, you would have that site available to build on and then up on highway and Shoop. Can I ask you a quick question quick? So it says that it's s listed as a pre K5, but that's what we're saying. Wise would fit there, yes, so we can use that. However, we would need for the benefit of the district that t is correct. You can use it for the benefit of the district and the thing was we oversized that a little bit t to 15 acres because we were having trouble with all the traffic requirements and things that the city would like to put on the district now as far as drop off zones and things and you'll notice if you go into o the housing development there at the farm, the street is wider up at the top and that's because they made the developer put in a drop lane. Along there for the school site, whatever that would happen to be. Out of Hwy 83 and Shupe on an old an old master planner is about 1700 single family homes that were planted out there at one time. They have not started anything there but there were a couple of school sites on the old master plan. I've talked to the owners of that property several times and they don't have anything going right now but if you look from there, everything's s closing in on them. You know, flying horses coming down, they're going to be almost down to that intersection and then we got the development came up from the behind Pine Creek High School. And so therefore it's in the city utilities are at t the front door and that means building could happen very quickly. We have another pre K5 site that was identified at that on Briargate Parkway where it will extend over to black Forest Rd and out in Sterling Ranch. You're very familiar with the pre K fly pre K8 8 sites out there that we have. And then the two that we own is the balance of the pre K12 campus on Reach Earth Parkway out at y Peak. And we also own the five acre Coomer Vista site down in Cumber Vista, just northeast of the hospital there. I'll skip through a number of these that you can look at your leisure and I'm sure you've had a chance to look those over talks about our process whereby we haven't also demographer that looks at birth rates and those types of things and give us a grand picture of what they see coming down the road. Mine is based on a on a snapshot in time. This is what's happened. Your housing. This is what I've seen you grow over the last 20 years by taking that information then we developed our projections for the future. We've really dropped. When I first came here, we were getting about 3/4 of a student per single family home. That has dropped down to o the actual numbers, about .25 to 2 to .5. Somewhere in that range per household. The actual enrollment growth from last year to this year were up about 37 students. It's good to be up. You don't wanna go be going down as an old school finance officer, the worst positions you u can be in is going backwards. Don't wanna be there. And also we like to share with our community there's a a perception that we're you know if we build especially multifamily housing in the district, we're gonna be overrun with h students. But let me assure you, you're not going to be e's a representation of what happened in since 2018 in this this district. Reported by their developers, it was over 12 000 units represented there in the between the single family single e family, attached multi family. And we've gained a total of 138 students now w, this is way below what we've done in the past, but we look at birth rates, we look at the cost of housing, we look at the interest rates, all of these things are driving the number of children in the district. But like I say, even n small growth is good. And when we look at buildings, so when we go through now, I'm going to take you through and kind of walk you through where we are at each high school area. Last year I had to divide by east, West, I think it was Mr. Salt asked me if we could look at it kind of like a high school region even though we're not a feeder school system or elementary A goes to middle school B to high school C because we're open enrollment. But this gives us a good idea of what things look like in the various neighborhoods in the district. And we look at two different figures. One is the architectural utilization. Which is 100% of the seats that the school was built for the e other thing that we would like to use is what we call our maximization or target utilization factor as the elementary schools if we can fill 90% of f that space with students, we're doing well and that's because se you have special Ed programs, you have special reading programs and all these other issues that principals run into that they need space for. So we plan 90% of that space for our regular attendance. At the high schools and middle schools, we use 80 and what happens there is you don't have to have art on a cart. In other words, the teacher has a room and not all rooms are used 100% of the time And so that's why we use 85% in those secondary schools as s far as the review process for enrollment in the various schools, we first look at the students who reside in that school district or school boundary area. Then we look at the industry choice students and then the outer district choice students. And that's how you can control the enrollments within your various schools in the district, some of them more popular than others because of program issues and other things. So the first one we'll look at is the Air Academy High School. And what I did is you have three blocks, you got three, elementary in the upper right, the middle school and then the high school. And what I've done is these are the projections from the new w housing. What are outside demographers telling us and what our staff is telling us internally between the building principals and Miss Allen's office and they look at and make their enrollment projection if there are no marks on this page. That means everything's fine. OK, you got lots of space in the West side to take on students so as s we look, as we go through these, things will change a little bit. This would be the Discovery Canyon High School area, the up in the upper right hand you see the elementary school and once again the design capacities for the various schools and the estimated enrollment in that area. Everything looks good when you look at the middle school if we use just the utilization capacity of 85% you you see some green blocks, OK, that means that in those e projections. We would be hitting that 85%. Does that mean that schools full and overflowing, we got to go into panic mode and build a middle school? No We got lots of space there, lots of flexibility. It's just keep an eye on that one because as we move down the road things could change in that particular r attendance area at the high school. We look good at this time. And as I mentioned, this is snapshot in time this can an change day to day as we move through the year Liberty High School. See the upper right as far as the elementary's in that area, we're fine. We go to the middle school. You can see that timber view and their capacity. We if we knew if the new housing played out to the exact number of f students for five years, we'd say, oh, we got a red space there, We need to do something and talk about what we're doing with the kids in that attendance area. What we're doing for in district choice and what we're doing for out of district choice in that particular building to make sure that we don't get into a problem. And you see, the same thing is true at Liberty High School. The projection would show that we will get to that 80 utilization, but only in the far out years in 27 and 28 does it look like we're going to get to about that 1800 mark, which would be 100% of f capacity. The Pine Creek High School attendance elementary schools you can see in the one of the demographers projections There's a green spot, sorry about that. I just haven't been flicking. Slides and talking here is really getting to be tough. I'm not as good at this those e kids that were here, I'll tell you, they're amazing I love their little robot. I don't remember doing anything like that when I was in school. I Anyway, you can see that in the Pine Creek High School elementary area if the demographer was right on hit on target out five years from now. We would have an issue. We'd want to take a look at to make sure we're not getting ourselves into a capacity bind there. Middle schools, you got a couple years that are in the green Pine Creek High School has been some questions in the past about the e capacity there. You see a lot of Reds and greens and projections and of course Pine Creek's one of those high schools that people like to go to and that's good That tells you you're doing a great job, but you need to make sure to keep an eye on that one. Don't let that one get away. And move on past what it's actually capable of holding. And then Rampart High School ramparts in the kind of in the middle of the district, kind of the oldest section of the district and we're kind of aging out in that area then therefore you see we have no real issues. I'm sorry, Keith Mckeith, keep me going here. All right, yeah, we need Vanna White here as soon as it's hard, but anyway it t kind of gives you an idea of where you're at so truly the district's in fine shape as far as facilities for the next years and actually out into foreseeable future. Future, but the things that come along like your bond issue you just had, I mean that's outstanding. Wonderful that he federal government's willing to help you with their Academy high school because one of the things we have trouble with is not so much the new facilities but it's all the maintenance that comes along behind and there's been some changes over the years in the school Finance Act that t kind of put a crimp on some of that and what you're able to do. But as far as being able to house the students the growth patterns we're seeing. You're in great shape if you ever get in a position where you need to o build, you got to have about five years in high school. So if you ever got to that position it t takes about five years. By the time you develop a program, you get this all pulled together as far as what you need for facility, get it out there and build a high school. It's five years down the road. But that kind of gives you a snapshot of where we're at and I appreciate the opportunity to share with you where it is I'd be e happy to answer any questions if I could. Thank you so much for your presentation. I always look forward to this every year. Board were there any questions? All right. Thank you so much. I appreciate it. All right, next is item D, the district Unified Improvement Plan. Superintendent Haberer. Yes, Dr. Susan Field, Assistant Superintendent of Learning Services. If we can click, good evening. So Jolyn and I are going to share with you this evening our unified improvement plan. This is a plan that we e write every year or I should say about every other year, correct? We update every year. We update every year based on our student achievement data. So we are going to walk you through it and Jolynn also placed at your desk this evening. A2 page unified Improvement Plan document that looks like this. And at the top of it says the stakeholder version n, Jolin's going to walk us through a few changes that CDE is actually made, which are positive good changes and then n Jolin always creates this document because e our real unified improvement plan is 50 pages and it's cumbersome to go through. So she has our CHEAT SHEET for our executive summary. We always We'll get the work session scheduled for you. Yeah, that's exactly all right. We are happy to share tonight. So the UIP process comes from the state of Colorado. In all schools and school districts have to participate in this cycle of continuous improvement and this process also meet state and federal accountability requirements so as doctor field shared CDE previously, so I've done this presentation for you all before 'cause we do it every year the he template for our schools to use had seven major components and those are listed right here for you. But what hey did and CDE spent a lot of time and d worked really hard. To improve this process for our schools and for us as the district and next week our DAC committee will be doing our accreditation review where e they're going to look at site plans and UI PS for all of our schools and so o I've shared with them as well that they're going to see two versions because if the school did not write a new UIP this year because they can't exercise the right to submit biannually y if they are on a performance plan. It will be in the old format and then next year they'll switch to the new format, so you'll see that it's much shorter, but much more succinct. So some of the highlights of that new template. Is it's very much streamlined our principles s were so appreciative of this process they were able to work through h the process once they do all the data analyzing and all those pieces and probably an hour or two were before it was endless hours trying to get everything into this template So that was super appreciated. It clarified instructions for them and gave them guidance. It reduced the completion time and it really improved the visual piece to it too. So it's much easier to read and look through as well. So the four pieces in the new template are assurances and my next slide will show you what those are it will look at t priorities and targets. And so when we walk through that stakeholder version I'm going to walk you through those different pieces root t causes and strategies and then implementation and action as well. So those assurances each school has to either agree or if they y do not agree and they don't have that. Process in place. Then they have to provide an explanation to the state all l of our schools were able to agree, but what they're stating on these assurances is they've gone through a data analysis process where they've worked with people, teams at their schools. They've also worked in partnership with stakeholders, including their school accountability committees and their staff at their school. And that they're committing to progress monitoring so that this isn't just a document that lives for one day to get it turned in and be done with it, That it really guides the work that they're doing. And it also addresses our READ ACT data for our younger students in kindergarten through 3rd grade that they've done a data analysis process for that as well. So what used to happen is we would do like Andy Ruskin, who is the director for literacy, does huge submissions to the state with our READ data, but we would have to turn around and put that same data in the UIP process. So the state realized if we're already submitting that and we have the data that was a piece of f the process, which was smart thinking in my opinion. When we think about efficiency and streamlining, so that's just an example of how it's a little bit simpler now All right, So in our district, we definitely look at the school and district performance frameworks. You remember we talked about being accredited with distinction and looking at how our schools perform We ask our schools and ourselves at the district level to address any areas that are yellow and red on those, which means they are not meeting or approaching. We do a lot of data analysis. I know you know that because I've shared a lot of data with you along the way. It's very much a collaborative process between all of our departments and our schools and then we are able to produce our district and our school improvement t plans. So there's a couple of new vocabulary words with the new STEAM line process. So in the past it was called a priority performance challenge, the new words are student performance priorities at the district level. You will see these are very big and very overarching because we're writing to address any challenges we might have at any school. Any grade level or any content across the district. So you can see we're addressing English language arts and achievement and growth, and then we're also looking at math achievement and growth across the district. So then it gets broken into major improvement strategies. So the major improvement strategy is what it is we're going to address, so the first one we have is improve staff collaboration through the successful implementation of our professional learning communities and our multi tiered systems of support and we talk a lot about those process. With you all and with our schools as well the e next piece that it focuses on and on your sheet, it actually comes before it, the root causes. So root causes are the areas that if we were able to remove that challenge, fix that problem, we would no longer see a concern in an area of our student performance data And so for this particular improvement strategy when we're e thinking about PLCS and MTSS, the areas that we looked at for root causes were making g sure that all students. Belong to everyone in the district that all kids means s all kids. And so that's an area we're constantly focusing on that we are ensuring that we have guaranteed and viable curriculum, which is something that our place process very much focuses on we've done a lot of work with our schools and that we're re using data because and I will tell you in my nine years in this job, we have come so far as a district in using data to make decisions, data to measure how we're doing. Initially it was a skill to learn how to collect it. But really utilizing that, but that's something we're still working on, especially at the individual classroom and student level, but using that data to guide and change our instructional practices and then collaborating together with our systems and structures specifically focused on PLCS and that MTSS process. So then the next piece we're going to look at are the action plans. So what are the things that we're e doing under this category, under this improvement strategy that. That we are doing to correct this. And so I'm going to do the first one and then Dr Field d I am going to let her talk to. Is going to do the second and third one for you all this evening as well and so I want you to know that this is work that's ongoing so if you were to look at past UI PS for us the the unified improvement plan, you would see some similarities because there's areas that take more than one year to fix or more than one to address and you want that sustainability but but some of the big picture pieces that we're focusing on this year is we continue to work on PLCS, specifically what we refer to as the SIG, which is our strategic implementation guide. Which is really a rubric that outlines what a strong PLC should look like in each building We e utilize our K12 principal meeting so when we come together r as a leadership team, we take time to focus on those PLCS instructional practices we look at data we e practice protocols together in n December we so professional learning is another r big focus and in December we have, I want to say 100 and 5 of us about yeah, about 170. That are going to we have been very fortunate that it's a local in the state of Colorado there's a big place conference and so that saved us a lot of travel and expense and so o we have a large group of people and an opportunity to learn together and improve practices so we're re looking very forward to that experience and then that ongoing professional learning ensuring that schools have done their work around their improvement plans one e of the things that. The assessment team, so my team put together, is a self paced course that teachers and staff can participate in around how to build common assessments and how to best do assessment practices. So it's they really enjoy having the opportunity to do something self paced, not always having to come and be with us and do that on their own time and then the e last section of the one I'm on right now really looks at that MTSS piece and you'll notice that the last under 2 E that our high school. Are really starting to work on and looking at a freshman success team and what would that look like? They're starting to collaborate and work together and looking at what they already have in place and how they y can improve in that. And so that's an area that we're working on. And then, OK, I'll go to the next one. So we have 3 e major improvement strategies and this is the second one and I d I also just want to say that our Friday late starts. Are a huge help for our teachers the time that teachers get to collaborate during that. Two hour late start is. I can't even describe what principles believe and say about that. And teachers as well. There's a lot of accountability for those late starts, the whole learning services s team is out in schools. We're all fanning out tomorrow to be in schools we like for our principals to to communicate with our communities about what they're doing 'cause it is really important work that does impact student learning so o we appreciate the ongoing support of those late starts. So the second major improvement strategy is around utilizing student data to improve instruction and this is definitely like Jolin said in the last nine years we've come along way, but we still have a ways to go. For example, this morning I was in a middle school principal meeting and we always spend those monthly meetings are about 3 hours and the first hour and a half of all of our principal meetings is really professional learning for them. Around how do you lead to become an instructional leader? And so we did a lot of reflecting with them and we had them in small groups and they all feel the biggest area for their growth still is looking at data because we have a lot of data, but how do you actually change instruction for students or groups of students? And so it's still an area that we're e working on. There's some content areas. We're better at that than others And then especially for our students that are performing below grade level, how do we continue to support? Them using data. So this is a big focus area for us. There's a lot of people that are involved in this major improvement strategy so you can see here the the number one action plan around expanding and sustaining professional learning communities just to remind you u all professional learning communities is all around that idea like those four big questions, what do we want t students to know and be able to do? How will we know they've learned it? How are we gonna respond when they don't learn it? Did I get them out of order? No. I think you're doing good. OK. I was practicing in my head. OK. If they did learn it, I wasn't extension, I went blank I I was like, gosh, so we it the professional learning community model just requires so much collaboration and you all know in schools with teachers having different schedules, it's very hard to find collaboration time to do this important work. And so that's why we do have our late starts so at so so the continued focus on professional learning communities unities, especially around data analysis. And so we go in the learning services team m does and we provide protocols and trainings of how you could look at any kind of data, whether it's in WEA map, growth data, whether it's your CMASS data or now our IXL data attendance behavior, it runs the gamut. So that's something that we provide support on. You'll see we talk about Tier 1 ne through, 3 instructional practices and tier one through 3 social and academic behaviors. So we when you think about tiers and you think about the multi tier system of support and that triangle about 80% eighty to 85 5% of our students perform in the Tier 1 so o 80 to 85% of our students get their instruction just from our classroom teacher as we move through the tiers into two tier and Tier 2 and tier 3. At Tier 2, we probably have about 1015% of our students that might need some reteaching or intervention. And then tier three are students that might have a learning disability that need a pull out program to support them with their instructional needs. So that's what the tiers are we always talk about t improving Tier 1 instruction 85% of our r students received here, I mean get their instruction, their first best instruction in Tier 1. So we're always working on improving instruction. So we also just talk about. Also in this goal we have a a lot of support for our students and our teachers who write IEP, which are for our students at disabilities are MTSS plans. So in our read plans which are for our students in the elementary grades, our ELPs which are English language learner plans and our ALP which are re advanced learner plans, lots of plans that are required. And then how do you monitor how those students are doing? We provide. We're going to be continuing to provide ongoing training for staff focused on access strategies to the general Ed classroom that As for our students with disabilities. We have a lot of great instructional strategies and practices that are research based that support our students that are on IEPs in our classrooms and d then also we will provide training for all staff involved in delivering modifications, accommodations and specifically design instruction through speed collaboratives and special Ed resource hub. That's a huge training area. We're constantly training and supporting. Resource teachers, but also our general education teachers. And then finally. That the 7th action step under this major improvement strategy is to review our current service delivery models, and that's for students with disabilities to develop clear guidelines that align with the least restrictive environment continuum. So we're always looking at best t practices so that we ensure all students are learning at their maximum potential. Do you have a question? Yes, thank you. Thank you for pointing out all the focus on tier one as well with the majority of our students. I think you saw me itching the microphone closer, so you knew what I was thinking and I know w we've heard repeatedly that there's already a focus on writing in all of our schools, all of our courses. Have you found or is there a general plan from all of us? Reading results now 2.0. With the specificity of what you're training our teachers from that book specifically besides writing it in addition to writing, correct. Yeah, we're, yes, we are using on effective instruction so one of our big big focus areas is this whole e idea around instructional walkthroughs anybody in learning services are Superintendent I know some of of you have gone and done some instructional walkthroughs, but we've created. Feedback forms or instructional walkthrough forms. So Becky or Jolynn or I will go in with a principal or an assistant principal or sometimes even instructional coaches that schools may have and we'll just go in for 10 or r 15 minutes and we will use the form to kind of guide what we're looking at. And then we'll come out and have a conversation and then the principal or an instructional coach will actually give feedback to a teacher. The feedback piece is super critical. For getting better always right, all of us need feedback in whatever we're doing or however whatever line of work ran. Feedback is critical for growth and so so I think that focus on just effective instruction across the board starts with a solid curriculum, right, as you know we are e very focused. Our principles are very focused in literacy in all content areas I've seen. A. We created another kind of an audit form. For principals and assistant principals to use to go into content areas and just look for writing all l kinds of writing and then just being able to provide that t feedback to teachers has been super helpful Thank you so much for sharing that. Well, and I was just going to say the other day we have a group called support to schools where like all the directors like myself and the tosses. And so we started to plan for summer institute this year and I was just thinking about the posters in the room as 'cause we e just started to brainstorm like what's still needed? What are we focusing on? And so many of those things Doctor Field just talked about and then high impact teaching strategies, they're called the hits. And so you see that work continuing and being threaded currently and then also looking toward the future too, like how do we sustain this and how do we continue to build it? That's exciting. Good. Thank you so much. It is and I I think what's also been really fun to see is that the cultures and schools of you having a closed door and nobody watches me teach. It's really about getting better and d so we also encourage teachers to go observe one another. In classrooms and we have a lot of principles that do that or we I also encourage schools to go visit other schools and we have that occurring all the time so. OK, so that was a or improvement strategy to now we'll move on to major improvement strategy 3 3. And this strategy is around supporting the whole student and there's a lot of action steps in n this area and overall the e major improvement strategy is to improve student Wellness to positively impact student learning and a sense e of connectedness. So we are constantly supporting our schools. With a wide variety of supports in this area I'll just kind of walk you through a couple of them here. So the first one is around this, developing a sense of connectedness for all student staff in the community of stakeholders and we actually monitor this through the strategic plan, I think k you guys have seen the new updated goals we have. We monitor attendance, our goal is always 90% or better at all levels and we we were there. We had a couple schools that were not, but we work with h individual schools. If their attendance level is below 90 another big important area is student participation in non academic opportunities. There is really clear research around. The fact that when kids are engaged or involved in a club, in a after school activity of course e, athletics, the Fine Arts, a STEM club whatever it may be, there is a much more, a bigger connectedness to school. And so that's one of the goal areas that we monitor as well as we want students to feel like they're included in the school community. And this week we also met with high school principals we spent a lot of time talking about t CTE and actually our r assistant director for counseling, Julie Hendrickson, was talking about how w CTE programs are one of the best forms of suicide prevention because. CTE programs get students engaged and excited about. Their future and what they're learning and I think k that was a bit of a surprise to some of our principles, but something that we're very focused on, that's another presentation CTE, the he next major improvement strategy or action step area is just around ongoing professional learning for staff and these se are areas that we have been providing training on a consistent basis for 10 to 15 years. Just this whole idea around trauma informed practices, a lot of that is. Counselors, but is also we've had schools requested as well. We have been vigilant about suicide prevention awareness and have been for a good ten years. Social emotional Wellness and then youth mental health first id which is also open to our community we offer that several times a year and on a Saturday we we what we will easily have 100 parents sign up for that n finally. Continue to support student Wellness through innovative and evidence based practices. And so when we say evidence base, that's also research based that are known proven practices to let's say improve student behavior. So we have behavior teams and learning services that can go into schools and support the general education classroom and students with disabilities through a referral process. So we have a general education behavior team and then we also have multiple special Ed behavior teams and that's a multidisciplinary team that t will go into a school and support. A student and that the teacher that or teachers the second one e is develop the behavior threat assessment, management guidance and training Plan or BTM, which is something that Pete Ristig, Executive Director for operations as well as our Assistant Director for counseling or running together and then we continue to support students with Colorado social emotional Wellness ss standards pre-K through 12 and then. Finally, develop and implement updated systems for staff to refer students and families in need to their appropriate special populations. Team member. And that's a lot of that work that the Family Resource Center does and continues to do. So do you have anything else you want to say? We just have a looking ahead slide that makes the connections to what we're doing and we've talked about tying to the strategic plan all of of this process and our site plan, all of our processes we work on for the continuous improvement process. And then ongoing professional learning from the learning services team. So we have that support to schools group I talked about within that process our schools can ask for customized support so they could call and say they do call and d say we have a need in this area, who has the expertise and so we send out our teams to work with them and then continuing that data review cycle with our r principals and then instructional coaching is an ongoing piece. And I can actually give you a hard example of like customized support. So one of our teachers on special assignment, Brian Thompson. Who is a secondary math teacher is working very closely with Discovery Canyon High School in the algebra two team and just really ensuring that. The There's so many standards to teach you all l know that there's not enough days in the year to teach every single standard, so prioritizing those standards looking at you know what's t's on an SAT or PSAT test, just really helping the team also develop common formative assessments. So they can monitor how students are doing so this teacher on special assignment is weekly y in that school supporting just a small group of four teachers. But that's the kind of customized support that Jolin talking about. Do you have any questions? Just back on that trauma informed practices piece under action plan to a strategy 3. The Colorado Department of Early Childhood has a big push for teachers to take the trauma informed practices courses through their online professional development. And I know I'd heard you said that it was generally before for counselors, but is this something that's available like even through Vector is I don't know if they have trauma informed practices through that, but it's something that t I'm seeing. Be just for. Not just for, but it was suggested for directors and now it's at the classroom level. Agree and d I would say several of our schools, mostly elementary have e asked for on a professional learning day for three hours r someone to come in and provide some support and that has happened I d. I don't know if you know off the top of your head, Becky, about how many schools do you want you want to share? So what we've done is we actually have a trainer of trainers model. And so we've got people that are certified to go in and teach. We've probably had four or five of our elementary schools receive that training and we do offer it to Gen Ed teachers and that is something that we also invite our schools s if our principals want to invite those trainers in they have that opportunity as well. So we've just kind of opened it up to them m and then we go in when they when they ask for it. One of the ways I benefited from that, it's real actionable strategies that you can use that just are in your back pocket all the time, right, 'cause it's hard work and you might get a little nervous about how and what to do, but this was just really actionable strategy. So I'm assuming that your training is the same. Miss Khan's. In the beginning checklist that you had assurances the in the assurances sacks are one of them the school accountability committee. So I am just curious how our schools ls are doing. Do you have a general feel if we're getting more members participating in sex? I think so. It might depend on, I know it's very. I know in the schools that I supervise, they're very active. And like, I'm actually attending one on Monday Discovery canyons 'cause all three levels have their ACD D, they call ACDC and I'm going to attend theirs on Monday at 4:00. But I think so of course DAC is is very active and very smart and educated and knows all the right questions to ask all those people in that room. But that's a good question. Mrs. Konz I couldn't for sure say at at every single school, but I know that we have a lot of. Engagement. Good. I didn't mean to put you on the spot. It just made me think about how they're doing. I feel like I'm seeing a lot more principles putting it in their weekly newsletters inviting on a constant basis to sack meeting. So that's a good thing I haven't heard people say we can't get an like sometimes that's an an indicator too, like there's been in my career, been here as long as Mr. Schmidt, longer than Mr. Dawn maybe e. No. And there were years where you had a harder time having people participate and then one thing I would add is we were talking about about getting ready for. Next session for the anxious generation, the book study and talking about how we can encourage parents to become involved in their community at their school and so the SAC opportunity being a place that they're trying to o connect and learn more about their school and their students. So there are conversations, but we could certainly get numbers if that would be of interest. How much I like numbers if you u want, go for it. But thank you guys, OK. Any other questions? Can I just make my mother come? Absolutely. Superintendent Heber and I were out at Ranch Creek Elementary this week. And Kerry Evans, I just have to give her a shout out for being an incredible instructional leader in this district We were walking through a first grade classroom, I think it was Miss Coulson's classroom, I wrote it down and I'm now I'm not sure, but we're watching her take the anchor chart that she had our T chart rather for writing g that she had presented the day before and she was having a group of of students create their own under small group supervision, but. We had done our whole group the day before and then the students were using Pebble Go to research and inform and these first graders were she actually had to tell one of the little e boys to stop writing so much on this T-shirt. It was s fantastic. She's like, so you're going to use this to create a paragraph? They were knocking g it out of the park. It was fantastic to see. And then we also got to see a fourth grade PLC meet and they were going over Dibbles data and they were looking at middle of the year versus end of the year. Where do we need to be and drilling down into those individual students. And having those conversations and I have to say I was teaching in the district when PLC was rolling out t and it felt a little clunky and it it's a little vulnerable to o be like, here's my data. I had a really like we kind of had a a good laugh because you kind of color code your data and mine was just this beautiful rainbow like, OK all all right, I need to push everybody to this end of you end of growth and achievement, but. They were doing that work and having those conversations, but most importantly. You could tell that the culture was built wherein this was just what they do, right? It wasn't prideful or vulnerable. They were just they were really anxious to just help kids. So it was really amazing to see. That is thanks we like I wrote e them down so we can remember to tell people we appreciate your support. All right. Anything else? Right. Thank you, ladies dies. Thank you. Alright, next is our public comment section 1 the board welcomes the comments of our community members. We greatly value all comments from the public, but in order to adhere to Board policy and accomplish the work already on the agenda, the Board and Superintendent will not respond at the meeting Speakers may offer appreciation for criticism of school operations and programs as concerned them, but are encouraged to exercise their speech rights responsibly as they are personally responsible for illegal consequences attributable to their comments, including claims for. Please keep in mind that students often attend board meetings speakers s remarks, therefore, should be suitable for an audience that includes kindergarten through 12th grade students, including no use of profanities or obscenities Comments concerning personnel matters should be directed to the Superintendent or board d President in writing with your signature. Supplemental written materials can be given to the security guards and they will be delivered to the Board Secretary The Board President will recognize each speaker and consistent with GP4 4.4, comments will be curtailed if remarks or behavior becomes s inappropriate, the Board President may interrupt, warned, or terminate. Statement that is unrelated to the business of the school district inappropriate for K12 students, or disruptive to an orderly civil and productive meeting Also because I see see some new faces here, we're asking for the ease of process, not to applaud speakers or you can wave hands or something so we can keep moving through the public comment section. Mr. Belcher 5 individuals, thank you, Sir, take it away. First up is Frankie Hodgson, followed by Saira Fetter. Good evening. My name is Frankie I I attend Encompass Heights Elementary School. I just want to take a moment and say today is World Diabetes Day. This is important to me because I have diabetes. I am on e 5th grade leadership team at my school we recently did the harvest of love food drive as part of the 5th grade leadership team we organized boxes and counted all the food I I am proud to announce we collected 4300 items of food that was. 31123 more than our goal at my school, we emphasize pride Pride stands for positive, responsible inclusive, determined and empathetic I'm I'm glad my school values these because they are good qualities o find in humans. My two favorite are inclusive and empathetic because these two make everybody feel like they belong. Belonging is important because no one wants to be left out. This is why I always choose to be kind. Next. Next up is Saira Fetter, followed by Aaron Como. Hello, my name is Saira Fetter. I have 3 kids one of them graduated from Grand Park all in in district 20 and I wanted to speak on the subject a notifying parents of if a child expresses gender r confusion. I know you guys value parents d the relationship we have I as a parent would feel if this was kept for me I would feel abandoned and betrayed you know with my trust in you guys and I'm sorry. And as a teacher. Is that in the schools? I get notified on my child has bad behavior, so I feel that this would be appropriate that I would get notified of something like this as well. I think we need to. We shouldn't give a message that secrets from parents are OK if you're a minor. And I just, I want to ask you that you're not relinquish our trust as parents and that you don't turn your back on us, I feel that the future with the children as far as this goes, is going to fall back on us as adults and as parents. And that's something that we're going to have to answer to. And it's just, I just hope you make the at choice with wisdom and with courage. And that's it. Thank you. Next up is Aaron Como, followed by Reilly Fetter. Hello, thank you very much for having me. This is my first time coming to a board meeting I've been extremely pleased with h the academic excellence and the opportunities for students here I I have three children live on the edge of the e district. My wife actually home schools But I appreciate this district and everything that you guys are doing and d I agree with the last speaker. And I'm just here as a witness and someone who loves these students and thinking about why people go into education and to pour into people. And I'm a big picture guy and I think about the difference between building up and pouring into people. And I'm a home builder, so I build. And if I were to build a house and live in it, my name would be on the deed If I wanted to expand my family, my wife and my DNA would be part of our heritage. And it's a written it's not a property y thing, but it's a heritage thing and it's a responsibility thing. And as the last speaker said. Getting into if the board ever decides to try to go the way of California and hide these things from parents that is crossing the line. Into destruction, there's building up and pouring into people, and then there's destruction if things like that and gender affirming care and things like that, if those decisions need to o be made, I'm here to say they definitely need to be included in the parents consent. So thank you guys and I'm really proud of everything that t I've seen here so far, and I thank you for your time and your diligence pouring into the next generation. God bless you. Aaron, Sorry. Reilly Fetter, followed by Alizabeth Clay Del Rio. Hello everybody. Thanks for having me out tonight to speak to you as a board you guys have your own job, as you know, being part of the board I myself, I'm a business owner, I own a restaurant. I've lived here my whole life born and bred I know that you know we are really nice and Thai community you y, you know, I try to move away from here and I just keep coming back because I love this place. You know, I feel like we have a trust as a community. Even just crossing a stranger on the road, you wanna just wave at them because that's the type of city that we are. That being said, we all have a job to do. I feel like when it comes to the school looking out for our kids, counseling our kids, we need to be transparent you guys as well as us as parents when it comes to our kids, guiding our kids, so hat they know. That we know that they can hopefully grow up to be successful and we helped in doing that. Having children, it's not a job, it's a gift and I feel like not t having that transparency, you're taking that obligation, that duty away from us. You're changing our gift by not telling us these things that are going on with our kids. So I feel like it is beneficial for our kids to grow into adults and bloom and blossom into beautiful people to make this community what it is, beautiful. So please, I asked you. Don't take that away from us Please have transparency. Please have our trust That's it. Thank you. Finally, Alizabeth Clay Del Rio. Hi, I'm Alizabeth. I'm 24. I'm a college student I grew up here I excelled in all of my classes I connected in clubs and I made a lot of genuine friendships in high school that have have lasted to this day. But despite all that, I felt horrible emptiness inside of me that at only the love and intervention of a living and loving God could repair. Today, I'm here to pray that the same mercy that he showed me would be shown to all of the students of D20 and everybody that is present at this meeting today. Father God, I pray that you would reside over in and through this meeting. That the hope of the living God, the love of the living God the life of the living God, and the will of the living God would reside in this place. God, you created family. This was your idea, and let no man drive a wedge between that which you have ordained as good, and let no man promote that which you have despised as evil. Your will is perfect and your nature is good. You knit us together in the womb, and you have called each of us by name before we were ever born. But no one changed that about themselves that you have so lovingly and intentionally created. And let no man be convinced that the name by which you have. Called them as an evil thing, but no further wedges be driven between the children and their families. Let families be included in the lives s of their children, the decisions of their children and the growth of their children. God d, I love you. Thank you for loving us, I plead our blood and I pray that all of the children of District 20, all the children of this city, God and everyone here today would know that you are a good God and that they would encounter the depth and d extent to which you love every individual even before they y love you. Thank you. Thank you. Next up, item 12 A, we need a motion to approve Resolution 299-24 acceptance of the audit report for fiscal year 2023 -24 moved second discussion, please, Superintendent Haberer. Yes, this is a huge celebration, this audit report. It was a stellar report, and again, a huge thank you to CFO Becky Allan and Cathy Watts and their entire team And so Ms. Becky Allan, Deputy Superintendent as CFO thank you. As you know, Colorado State law requires the district to have an annual independent audit of its financial records. Last Friday, the Board received the Aqua, which is the e annual comprehensive financial report. For fiscal year 2324 and the act for includes the auditor's opinion of the District's financial statements earlier this afternoon the audit t committee which Mr. Salt and Mrs. Konz attended, met with staff from Clifton Larson Allen, no relation to Becky Allan to discuss the audit report. So it's my pleasure to to introduce Mr. Sam Helwig from CLA. Who will present the 2324 audit opinion? Thank you Becky. As she said, I really did a a good job summarizing it. My name is Sam Hillig. I'm from Clifton Larson Allen and we just completed and issued the final opinions over the 2024 financial audit and this document here the e annual comprehensive financial Report. So it's quite the document a ton of f work that went in on both sides, but certainly just want to start off by saying thank you to Becky, Kathy, the entire team that worked tirelessly for many months to a prepare this document and work with us and getting the financial. Information that was needed to issue an unmodified audit opinion. So with that just wanted a relay that our opinions are e unmodified over the financial statements for fiscal year 20 4 that is not absolute, but it is reasonable assurance that at these are fairly stated in all material respects. So with that, happy to o take any questions. Thank you, appreciate you being here and hanging out with us all night. Question about. I know we talked a little bit about this during the audit committee, but I think it's just good to have out in the public portion of this, but could you also talk a little bit about because the audit really covers the district's financial Practices. But you talked a little bit about the charters and the oversight from that. Could you talk a little bit about that for me? Certainly. So within this document, the two charter schools are the Classical Academy and New Summit Charter Academy. CLA also audits the Classical Academy and New Summit Charter Academy is audited by other auditors. So both of those are referenced within our auditor's opinion. We do place reliance on the other auditors as part of our audit opinion with that t they have their own sets of internal controls and all that information does s roll up into this document. They are presented as discretely presented component units. So in terms of where you would find those within the basic financial statements. Each of those would undergo their own audit in terms of being relayed all the way up into this document. Thank you again for being here. Would you also relay what you said in our meeting earlier about our amazing finance team, please and how the process goes as you work with them every year certainly. And just to expand d on that, within the back of this document is the compliance section and that really covers our results under government auditing standards, so the formalized memorialized terms for any y findings, any issues that would have been identified that were material in nature would be reflected there. And if you turn back to that section, if you were to find that when you look up the ACT for online, you would see that there were no findings in that regard. So that is kind of point A for determining were there any major issues that were identified during the audit, so that's step one for a clean sheet, but we also wanted to relay that we work with a lot of school districts throughout throughout this fall really every single year and to have e a clean audit opinion as well as no findings, no o audit adjustments or uncorrected misstatements. It we don't see it that often, so it's really just a testament to the whole team here and just the tireless work that they do. So just to expand on that, we love coming here as well. So thank you for having us. And just working with them is a real it's a real good process for us in terms of how well an audit can go. I appreciate you sharing that, Miss Yunas. I'm not sure if this is a question for you or for Miss Allen, but there happens to be a frog on the cover of this report with a student's name, Sam, Who created it? I think we should maybe give Sam a shout out. I'm not sure. We one of the traditions that we have each year is in this ack for book and in our budget. We use art from the art show and we go around and take pictures and put lots of different art in our books to always remind us that our work is for kids and to celebrate them. So that's a tradition that's been started well before my time. There's also no. As I say, that was also discussed earlier that we're rehashing. We had a lot of these conversations, sorry and d if you go, there's more artwork on sections. Yeah, so you u can look through the other ones and there's some, the monster trucks. Really awesome. So all right, any other questions for Mr. for Mr. Helwig? May I just am I out of turn? I if I could please first of of all, Sam, we were reminiscing this afternoon that your first time here working for CLA in Colorado was my first time as ACFO. It's been a pleasure to work with you. We appreciate you always being a resource for us. As you mentioned today we we ask lots of questions because we always want to make sure we're e doing things right. And you also you just always t always respond quickly and help us understand. Kathy, our total budget is over $600 million. It is rare. Your leadership, what you do, everyone in the department. I am so proud to be your teammate and I cannot think more highly of your leadership or the work that you and Business Services does and d frankly, bookkeepers in the schools are our principals are leaders. It is a team m effort and you lead the charge, Kathy and I am incredibly proud. Miss Allen talked about this being the Super Bowl of the finance department and I have to say in the spirit the holiday season on, I picture Elf, the movie Elf when Santa comes back and they go, all right, great year everybody back to work for next year and I feel like with the audits and the the finance department's the same thing. Super Bowl's over audits in roll and we're back to it. So appreciate all the work that you your hat you, your team does. I know it's a lot of work throughout the year. It's just as an example of just. Get accolades all the time from your department. We don't take that stuff for granted. We understand the amount of work that goes in to the product that we see. So thank you pass along to the team m. thank you as always for your work. Any other questions right, roll call, please. Mrs. Konz, aye. Mrs. Shandy, aye. Mrs. Yanez, aye. Mr. Salt aye, Thank you. Thank you. All right, next is public comment section #2. The board president will recognize each speaker and consistent with GP4 4.4 comments will be curtailed for behavior becomes inappropriate. The Board President may interrupt Warner terminated speaker statement that is unrelated to the business of the school district and appropriate for K12 students or disruptive to an orderly and civil productive meeting. Thank you for your cooperation, Mr. Belcher. We have 6 individuals signed up. Take it away. All right, first up is Angela Blount with followed by Kelly Hudnall. Testing Liberty High School she e Kills Monsters had a parental warning that was rated PG14 After reading why, I knew that I would not be attending but knew many other young people and families could be, I decided to read the script very disturbing. I directed middle and high school shows for three decades immediately. It is a challenge to find the right show but my number one responsibility was for the students. I would not use them on a stage or for production just to fill seats and to leave them shattered once the curtain. Although it is bad enough that this play was performed for a paying audience for several nights, my heart breaks for the children who were involved in the rehearsal process as actors as well as the extensive technical crew who were repeatedly exposed to this material. They watched, heard, and acted out this content over and over and over What content am I referring to? Several references to male e genitals, correct and slang terms, as well as size several times a character ho was named Agnes the A had it many sexual double. Voracious and lewd name calling both bullying incest. For example, why don't you make out with h your sister as she throws her on top of her sisters then the demon told them they were gross, which is typical many references to lesbians and ***** and homosexuality as well as ridiculing characters for not agreeing with this lifestyle. Gender confusion that came out of nowhere and was even confusing to the characters. Heavy emphasis on demons, demonology, and demonic behavior. Proverbs 1821 shares that the power of life and death are in the tongue. And so much death was being spoken on that stage and going into the minds of the young people. This was a college production, and even though it was the young adventurers edition with PG14 warnings, it had no o place on a high school stage. Who approved show material? Kelly Hudnall, followed by Beth Hodgson. I want to start by saying thank you to all of you for your selfless service serving on this board and then the best way I know to use this time is to pray Loving and gracious God, you are the he giver of all good gifts and we thank you today for all your blessings. We thank you specifically for our r children, our youth, and our families in D20. Lord, drench them in your love and protect them from harm. We thank you for the men and women who serve. Hopelessly and sacrificially on this board Lord, lead them, guide them, protect them and their families, bless them according to your divine purpose and d we pray specifically tonight for Derek Wilburn and for his family. We pray for a rapid and full recovery Heavenly Father, we ask for your hand of divine protection guidance, and blessing over all of our D20 schools students, families, board and faculty members. We We pray for peace and truth to reign in our education system. Statewide for the protection of every student t and family, we acknowledge God that you have given parents the 1st and highest responsibility of leading their children, not the school. We pray for D20 parents to lead well and we acknowledge the school is here to assist parents with their consent and trust. We turn to you now in humility and dependence, asking for wisdom, guidance and direction in this meeting and every meeting for the sake of our kids you formed and shaped ped each of them. Them in their mother's womb for a divine purpose and destiny. And we are here to partner with you in protecting them serving them, caring for them, and leading them well with the consent of full knowledge and partnership of their parents. Help this team of board members to be wise in the decisions they make for the good of all those who have placed their trust and confidence in their leadership on the school board, give them insight to lead with integrity that their decisions may reflect what is right and good. In Jesus name, Amen. Beth Hodgson followed by Richard Brown. I cannot get the mother who stood in front of you last month and spoke about her child being essayed at our school out of her mind. I also cannot get out of my mind the fact that she was not notified immediately and the officer Mars and the school's response was boys will be boys This is not the first story I've heard from D20 of essay at school where parents were not notified after it was reported through the channels of the school. D20 needs to be doing better. I want to see a full policy in effect on what will be happening with further reports of SA in our schools safe reporting channels getting local law enforcement involved and notifying. Parents immediately when these reports happen, D20 is failing our children. As a mother and an RN who spent 15 years of my career in Women's Health, I feel very strongly that teaching comprehensive sexual education starting in grade school is necessary for our students success. The World Health Organization, using research, states these programs should be based on an established curriculum, scientifically accurate tailored for different ages, and comprehensive meaning they cover a range of of topics on sexual and sexual and sexual reproductive reproductive health throughout childhood and adolescence. Comprehensive sex Ed will help all of our students One in five girls have been S aid. It's been shown that these classes teach children how to appropriately identify and report SA teaches s consent in all relationships and children who receive comprehensive sexual education choose to become sexually active at a later age and practice safe sex, decreasing their risk of sexually transmitted infections. Comprehensive sex Ed also improves gender r relations, teaching equality, inequality, and gender violence even more re important now in this disgusting your body my. World we have entered make our schools better and safer for our children arm them with all of the facts they need to have a healthy mature understanding of sexual identities and relationships ensure all of our students fully understand consent promote evidence based curriculums be the change Richard Brown followed by Before I begin, I do want to agree that you guys are doing some great things, but just a reminder, no matter how good the water is it only takes a little poison to ruin the whole thing. So I thank you all for the opportunity to speak to you today and today I'd d like to take the time to talk about Colorado Revised Statute 2 Two Dash n the use of a student's chosen name the policy reads. The board directs the Superintendent to establish procedures allowing students to inform the school of their own chosen name and do not need parental approval. My mind is racing trying to understand how any of this makes sense and is healthy for the child, for example my kid throws up at the school, they'll notify me if my child is sick and has a fever. They'll notify me if my child is assaulted sexually. They're physically. They should notify me something as simple as my child's nausea requires notification, but something as dangerous and d potentially harmful to my students mind and body, the board feels not is not something they should require the Superintendent to direct the teachers to notify parents. Why? What could possibly justify secrecy and creating the vision among parents, teachers, and schools? What good can come from keeping something that is confusing my child and confronted and talked about, grow to become an even bigger problem? We would we encourage secrecy and deception among other r activities. Does it make sense that in a time where we should be rebuilding relationships between families and educators, transparency and openness is disregarded? Let me ask this why do we keep things from people? What is the overall reason we do not want to communicate something to someone? If we're being honest, it's usually because we're trying to hide something or we don't want something to be revealed. Maybe it's trying to avoid conflict. No matter the reason, I'm astonished that this board thinks. Keeping things happening to children from their parents is a good thing. If I'm a I'm a children's pastor and if I met any of your children and they mentioned something me that could potentially harm them and I kept it from you, how would you feel? Regardless of your politics and beliefs, these are our children and not yours. Teachers jobs are to educate and what's the school board do? They're the guardians and steward of the public trust. They put the interest of their local communities youth 1st through the policies they adopt the The school board members are ultimately responsible. Meagan Gaetke, followed by Riley Sistrunk. Alright, Hi, I'm Megan, geeky mom of 3D20 students. I'm going to take a break this week from talking about raising teacher pay to talk about public comment that was given last month and the concerns it raised with other r ongoing issues in the district. Last meeting a mother bravely y came to speak to the school board about her child who reported being sexually assaulted. The mother recollected how her child walked to her school and saw her attack her present from my understanding of her r account, the child sought help from an SRO and was told at some point during the discussion that boys will be boys. She named the officer who is not present tonight from what I I could tell. I want to know what is being done about this conduct. It appears Title 9 was not properly followed. And then an adult who is supposed to be trusted further injured the victim by commenting on a serious issue with callousness It was really disturbing to hear that mother's account and I want t to make sure that something like that never happens s again. And it's just been weighing on my heart ever since we listened to that. I also wanted to talk about. Just in social media and inside the military community, we see a lot of people asking about where they should live and what schools they should go to and like, we'd like to be like D20 0. They have strong academics and a lot of programs in our area and plus s it's like close to the installments. But I've also seen a lot of comments about the bullying in schools and I read an account where a speed student was filmed without their consent and d then the film was spread across to other students. And there was also mandatory reporting failure in that incident. I've heard from parents who said they were not informed by staff that their child was facing bowling issues at school. And some parents said they were not told when other students physically touched or hurt their child. So I just would like to see something happen Where we're working to make sure these things don't happen anymore. Riley Sistrunk. Hi. I would like to thank God for my wise and loving parents. Parents should be the safe place for their child to go to for anything but t especially for anything that has to do with their body or mental state that would have been believing they are not the gender they were assigned by God. Parents are the legal guardians of the children God has entrusted them with. Is a sad world where anyone would try to take that away from a parent. Use the other mic. I can't imagine someone advocating for me, a 17 year old, to be able to keep something like that for my parents. Yet here we are. Do I believe that a boy should be allowed to claim they are a girl and be called by a female name and vice versa? No, but I also do not believe that a parent should be cut out of the decision by that child. I ask that you consider Don't strip them of their parental rights. I'm so grateful for all my parents have gotten me through. I couldn't imagine going through hardships without them. If a child is deemed not mature enough to make important life decisions on their own, such as voting or getting married before they are 18, how can they be allowed to make such an altering decision without even the guidance of their parents? Thank you for this opportunity and I would like to end in prayer. God, we thank you for this time that we have come together. I pray that the right decisions to protect the kids at all costs would be made, that you would just give us all guidance and bravery to make the decision to protect them. Your name we pray, Amen. Great. Thank you. Superintendent Haberer, do you have any clarifications or next steps? No, I do not All right. Board was our business this evening focused on activities that promote and honor our mission statement, our belief statements and our global end statement that reminds us that all students will have the knowledge, skills 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? Mrs. Shandy, it was a good question Who does? Who does approve the show material Just for future knowledge. yeah, I'd like to take some time to put some things together around that I mean it's building level decision but we also we also have some policy and procedure around that. Thank you. 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 Mr. President, Mrs. Shandy, I do appreciate I asked last time to talk about the ACA policy. I appreciate you pushing it back to next month because I wasn't sure I was going to be here or not. So I appreciate you doing that for me, and I look forward to looking at that. So thank you, absolutely. Alright. We peaked at 26. We're down to 20 attendees online. We need a motion that the Board of Education convene an executive session pursuant to Colorado Revised Statute 24-6-402 (4)(b) for the purpose of receiving legal advice on specific legal questions related to administrative policy. ACA, while an executive session the Board will not adopt any proposed policy resolution, regulation, or take any y formal action. Lastly, the Colorado Open Meetings law does not e the Board to make record of the executive session. In which the attorney is present and providing legal advice per CRS 24-6-402(2)(d.5)(II)(B) moved second roll l call please. Mrs. Konz aye. Mrs. Shandy, aye. Mrs. Yanez, aye. Mr. Salt, aye. The executive session will be held in the Superintendent's office and invited to d to the executive session or Ms. Becky Allan, Dr. Susan Field, Mrs. Haberer, Mrs. Becky Harris, Mrs. Konz. Mr. Salt. Mrs. Shandy, Mrs. Thompson and Mrs. Yanez. The. Portion of the meeting is over. We will take a probably about a 7 to 10 minute break to make it upstairs and reconvene in Superintendent's office Thank you.