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That was awesome. AI is definitely becoming quickly part of the K12 environment. Next is Chinook Trail Elementary School, Miss Yunes. OK, I'm doing this Chinook trail l Elementary welcome. Get set up OK. I'll read this while you guys get set up OK Chinook Trail Elementary School sent its second team to the LC institute in Las Vegas in June they now have 15 staff members who have attended and lead the process their Their clubs and activities continue to be a big part of their school culture. A shout out to their CTE to their Chinook Trail elementary parents. They collected donations from the parent community and completely funded, organized and hosted their r staff holiday party. It was appreciated by Chinook Elementary staff as they had just had to show up and enjoy the evening complete with lots of door prizes. Please welcome Principal Pat Shoemaker and assistant principal Karen Kessler. Yes Sir, error board and super to have her. Thank you u for having us tonight. One of the questions that I get a lot is with the school as large as ours, how do you still maintain that community feel and that small school feel which we've done for many many years? So tonight I have an amazing 5th grade teacher r, one of the amazing talented folks that we have among our staff and two fifth graders to share a little bit about two projects that our fifth graders, one just this homeroom does and then they're going to also highlight what our larger 5th grade community does to start each and every school year. I will turn it over to Miss Elena Livingston. So just so you can see a cute little picture of our team here. Yeah, go ahead. Thank you. So I know that this sounds cliche, but if you can't reach them, you can't teach them. And so one of the things that is really important to me and what my teaching philosophy really boils down to is the importance of building a relationship with my kids. I want them to feel safe to take risks in the classroom and. So we do a lot to build that, not just at the beginning, but it is including like morning meetings, listening to their stories and their interests, bringing those into the classroom, so that we can connect their lives to what we're doing. I also believe in sharing my life with them and part of that t is sharing passions and excitement and just all those everyday moments that we also as. Let's go through. So we do a lot of hands on projects that integrate real life concepts that are taught in the classroom. One way that we do it is working towards being a family because I make a big deal in our classroom about how we're a family I see them more than I see my own children and so o it's really important that they know that and that they see each other as that as well. So. We do the class quilt and every kid gets to do a square that represents them. And then I bring in my sewing machine. They get an opportunity to actually sew the quilt together, so they get that opportunity that maybe they haven't had before to use a different type of technology but we sell it. We talk about you those things are on there, and then we get to enjoy them throughout the year. So we get to snuggle under them like kids get turns with them. So it's s pretty amazing. I've seen the impact of this relationship building activity. Supporting academic success in my classroom and how they talk to one another. I've seen it in literacy where they draw on each other's interests and connect it to what we're reading, so they've developed those deeper understandings I've seen it in math Every now and then I'll hear 1/4 of an inch is smaller. Remember the quilt t we made? So it's really neat because it just allows them to kind of have a different type of connection. While the quilt builds our class community. The 5th grade at our building does the community challenge and it is an amazing experience where it's 1/2 day and they get to do a lot of no You're not in charge here. OK, there we go. OK, I'm firing him for a moment. Sorry. But the community challenge challenges them to think creatively. Take leadership roles, work with others that they might not otherwise get to work with. Because it's a combination of all four of our classrooms, the leadership and communication skills carry into our classrooms as we combine the entire 5th grade into leveled groups for reading and math during our intervention blocks. And we do that four days s a week. So gives him an opportunity to meet people, but it also gives us the opportunity to include our community because it takes a lot of volunteers to make it happen. So this year we were blessed. We had not just 5th grade families, but we actually had some kindergarten families that were supporting our fifth graders as well. So it gives them a chance to see where they're headed d to connect with staff. I could go on and on you guys, but you need to hear from who it actually impacts and who it really. Is why we do what we do. So I have two of my kiddos here. I have Luke Smith and Gracie DeLorme and these are brave, creative leaders within my classroom and I'm excited that t they get to share. Hello, my name is Gracie DeLorme I'll be telling you about t how special the class quote is to me. There are many important things my class quote means to me, but I'm only telling you the main 3 reasons why it's so important. To me, one of my most important parts of this experience is when I got to sew like the quilt square onto the quotes. Another one of my favorite parts was that we got to do whatever we wanted and I got to use my creativity on the quote square. My last reason why, like the quote, square was important to me was because I got to learn things about others in my class based on what they like and what they y drew. My quote square was a sloth on an oak tree drinking boba and on the bottom there was another slot drinking tea on the swing. Making the quote squares is a memory, our treasure forever because I was able to make it the quote with my friends. Thank you for listening to my presentation on the quilt square. I mean on the quilt. Hello board members, I'm Luke Smith and I'll be telling you about one of our amazing group building activities, the Community Challenge This is 1/2 day where we had to do puzzles and challenges that build up bonds that will last a lifetime. Only be telling you a couple because I only have two minutes each activity y was 15 minutes long and all of them were so fun, but my personal favorite was the A-frame. This challenge, one person stands on the A frame with rope stinkling down her group. Grab the ropes and with the help of the person on it made the A-frame block. Then we rotated to someone else could d have a turn on the A-frame. Some of my peers favorites include the Ski challenge where our team split into three groups and raced on giant wooden skis. The obstacle course where we built our own path from point A to point B with things like a tire carpet t squares and 2 by 4 wood pieces, and the sled challenge where we built our own sled out of wooden rope and toads towed someone So fun. It was awesome to see everyone work together, some people taking charge, some people following the leader and others doing their own thing g. Everyone agrees that it was super nice to meet people from other classes and for some people it was super important to meet new friends community y Challenge Day is a day that will stay in my mind for a long time and it was amazing. Thank you for listening to my presentation on Community Challenge Day. Do you guys have any questions? So we are really grateful to have this opportunity to share how much. Our admin staff allows us encourages us, and makes it possible for us to build a community so that we really can grow academically as well as humans. Thank you so much. Really appreciate it and remember r to stick around. We'll do pictures just a few minutes. All right, Also for those of you we have a new face up here, Mrs. Ruckman So she has taken over for Mrs. Mattsson-Bonett and we're looking forward to having you here. So with that, Mrs. Ruckman are there any updates to the agenda? There were updates to the agenda and the Board has been notified of these. Thank you Board. Were there any items you wish to move from the consent agenda? Yes, Sir. Since we've had to delay this evening session due to weather, should we remove Item O Resolution 15-25 from consent? Yes, that needs to be. One second. No. So what we're doing this evening is the Superintendent evaluation. This is You're right. OK, Thank you. Yep, thank you Anything else? Right. Are there any discussion items to be added to the agenda? All right, due to inclement weather, I move that we postpone tonight's executive session until January 16th, 2025. Moved second roll call please. Mrs. Konz, aye. Mrs. Shandy, aye. Mr. Wilburn, aye. Mrs. Yanez, aye. Mr. Salt aye. right now, may we please have a motion to approve the agenda with this change moved? Second roll call please. Mrs. Konz, aye. Mrs. Shandy, aye. Mr. Wilburn, aye. Mrs. Yanez, aye. Mr. Salt, aye. All right, Tonight's board quote is from Mr. Wilburn. Tonight's quote is taken from the prophet Habakkuk and it is, excuse me, write down the vision and describe it clearly on tablets so that the one who reads it may run with It. And while I think the wisdom of that is obvious to to take our visions and write them down so others in generations following us can run with them as an education institution, I think it's really important to note that this book was written in 600 BC. So about 2600 years ago and they still recognize the importance of reading and writing. The importance of being able to write it and the importance of being able to read it 2600 years ago was not lost on anyone in humankind. Thank you. Thank you. Does anyone have any board comments this evening? Yes, she knows. So my two out of the three of my board comments are about the study session that we had today. We were talking about CTE opportunities and just the alignment of the portrait of a graduate work, and I was able to be at a few of those task force meetings. I want to be at all of them. They continue on I just noticed the 21st. There's another one, but having worked in a competency based school before, I know the amount of work. That it takes an intentionality to take competencies and bring those into your lessons and build a scope and sequence around that. So I just wanted to give a massive and huge shout out to that entire team because I watched some of that work happen and the thinking maps, my favorite bubble maps and connecting and all that good stuff and I have e to tell this one little story. When I was at Chinook Trail Middle, we were doing the same thing. And I remember the summer before we started. It was, we sat down. It's like, what are we going to teach? And how are we going to do it? And we made this curriculum wall and I had this idea that Tom Andrew laughed at and then we maybe it was a couple of our ideas actually, but actually taking string and connecting our competencies to different units in different grade levels and then even connecting. Like grade level to grade level or a across grade levels. It was really impactful work. The strings fell down, but I'm sure that's been digitized by now, so I just really wanted to make that shout out that's super important to everyone doing that work. And then another wasn't an idea that I had during that conversation. So having being an early childhood d educator now and having also taught elementary you  know, sometimes we, we've been talking a lot about working in silos specifically around CTE, you know, teachers and whatnot. Well, there's something else that I've kind of thought about and that's right here. And these 5th graders that were here tonight doing their exhibition projects Connecting and we know this the portrait of the graduate work down to elementary, right, We know that but also the video that we saw and we've seen and ring our meeting today showing that to our elementary students of our actual high school students doing the work maybe they have a sibling maybe they they don't, but how would they otherwise see the opportunities that await them later in D20? So that was something I was thinking about. And even possibly doing a day in the district. Where we celebrate this right? Where at every level. I teach preschool. We have career boxes, right I'm m starting to rethink some of my career boxes like I I may change some of them based on the changing technologies, but they get really into it. And I have posters of the people doing the work and the tools in a box and they can try that on and be that for a little bit. And we kind of just say, oh, that's kids just playing dress up in dramatic play. But I think it's more than n that. I think you're inspiring young children. And helping them build passions from a very early age. OK and then n finally I dropped my kid off in Denver to ship off with the Army on December 30th. And when I did that it it was really hard right there was a A and I hesitate to say their family names. I don't want to. I didn't ask er first, but she works in the district and they were also sending their son off. And so we got to have AD 20 moment tearfully in this room saying goodbye to our kids who were so incredibly well prepared. Who are going to go embrace some stuff hard d stuff, and just had to share that with you guys. Thank you, Miss Collins. I want to take a moment, which is not enough, but to recognize all the amazing g talents and love that Tina Matson Bonet has given us as a board to previous board members, current board members. But I think Tina probably started as our board secretary. Six months 7 even months before we were elected, and I remember asking her a few weeks into working with her, like, how many years have you been doing this? Because she is brilliant and just never failed us. I just can't believe everything she kept track of for us helped. Helped make happen. I won't go into all the details you guys know what she does. But Tina is moving on to another department and they are very lucky to have her. We've been lucky that she is training our wonderful new secretary Cheryl who we welcome and I'm going to I'm going to get up too, but I can't walk away from the mic c microphone. So I just want everyone to please e a warm, loving. Goodbye, continuing journey. Round of applause to Tina please. And a big welcome to Cheryl, who we are so excited to have on our team. Hey, Superintendent Hammer, So we're going to continue the celebrations because January is National Board School Board Appreciation Month and I just want to speak on behalf of our all of the folks in D 20 just how amazing you guys are as a board. We really want to express our deepest gratitude. For your outstanding leadership and your unwavering dedication, the multiple hours that you volunteer. To serve this organization to make sure that our students really have a quality education and I I just really and speaking on behalf of D20 just so much appreciate your dedication. You really are playing a pivotal role, I think in shaping the future of our community because we're working with our students right We're changing it and positively impacting the world. One student at at a time. And you just have just demonstrated over and over again, tireless. Efforts toward giving our students the tools they need to be successful. So now I invite you to watch a short video that expresses our gratitude. If it works here, I have a problem with buttons evidently today. OK, there we go. Well, no go back. Yeah, go ahead. Sound. I d like to say thank you to the D20 Board of Education Together, these dedicated individuals volunteer their time, energy and expertise to guide our our district and. Start over. Health of Academy District 20 team One. I would like to say thank you to the D20 board of Education together these dedicated individuals volunteer their time, energy and expertise to guide our district and ensure that every student develops the knowledge, skills, and character to thrive the month of January is School Board Appreciation Month and I'm so thankful for their collaboration and true dedication to our r students. All year round we visit schools together and witness incredible teaching and learning taking place in our classrooms. Their commitment to building strong connections with our educators and understanding the needs of our students first hand inspires the e decisions they make to support Academy District 20 s vision. It's with their partnership that we continue to grow and succeed as a community. Their leadership fuels us in so many ways as we continue to prepare. All students for post secondary readiness please e join me in expressing gratitude to our wonderful school board for their service. Together we are building a bright future. One student at a time. So I'd ask you join us. Join me in applause for our our wonderful school board. And it's not part of us, but it is. It's true I'm pushing the button and it's not t allowing me to go forward. There we go. OK, so I did have a chance to visit some schools and again, just saw amazing things happening in our classroom and the classrooms up in the left t hand corner was a kindergarten school at Woodman Roberts or kindergarten class. And they were using a tool called Seesaw. And you can see that the he student was giving a presentation. The teacher was recording it and she then will take that recording and send it right away to the parents So Seesaw is just amazing use of technology to build those partnerships with parents over on the right hand side e, we've got more small group instruction. We're really committed to meeting the needs of every student. And on the bottom was their TAG teacher really engaging them in a very. Rigorous math lesson. They're really into it. I learned a lot of math that day just being in there And then Timber View Middle School, really A huge shout out to Melissa Ellenburg and Kevin Roark. These band teachers are amazing every time I go to Timber Views like can we go visit the band room? So when I was in there I heard a rousing version, a very cheery version of Jingle Bells from the beginning 6th grade band students and you would have never known that they were actually 6th grade beginners. They were amazing. And another huge highlight is we are well in a with working together with our PK design advisory group. To really imagine, what do we want for our PK Douglas Valley K8 school so we recently visited Nettie Free K8 School in n Pueblo and it's a huge thank you to the administration at Nettie. You can see the principal there with a giant hat. It was a hat day at their school and in spite of some of the chaos that was there because of a special day, he was really gave up his time up in the left t hand corner was a nice big beautiful cafeteria that had a lot of natural lighting. The middle top picture is a picture of the collaborative spaces which we really want to be able to have in the new PK8 8 as well. So on the right we're like, let's say 3 I think there were first grade classrooms and they can literally open their doors and students can work on projects, not only in the classroom but in the shared area and all three teachers if they wanted to, could open their doors and they could have a grade level collaborative experience. So we're definitely wanting to look at doing something like that in our school. And on the far right. We just couldn't help it. Take pictures of the fish shaped tables. Never seen that before But also the size of the classrooms. And this is all important because RTA the architectural group that we hired for or Douglas Valley, is also the company that built this school. So it was really nice to be able to see an example of that. On the bottom left was a giant CTE classroom, which is great because I know that we want to really do a lot of connections, career pathway connections to between Douglas. and Air Academy high School and you can see because of the space and they had lots of you can see drop downs for electricity you could move all l kinds of different equipment in and out of there depending on what kind of CTE of CTE pathway they wanted to focus on and then on the tom right, just a huge thank you to our design team and a thank you to Director Shandy. You're able to go with this on this tour and then stayed for our meeting and it's going to be a part of our day committee is there ere anything else you'd want to add? It was super valuable to go and see the building that this architecture firm had done and get lots of ideas and then come back and sit together as a team and work through the challenges of our land in that particular space in the way that it really slopes and how that affects your building and all that. So it was a really really great conversations and movement forward So thanks for inviting me. Thank you for your time too and serving on that committee. We have a lot of fun here in the EAC. People are the heart of our success and so we had a great Christmas celebration. And a huge thank you to Tina and Mary. Really were spearheaded this and on the right there is our amazing payroll team. They wanted to come up. I had a great chat with them like I have to get a picture of you guys so. Another wonderful celebration. Pine Creek launched their Unified Sports team, which is where we side by side with students with special needs with h our students coming together around sports. So huge thank you to coaches Pinder, Raj and Jubik for bringing the Unified Sports Team and the girls and boys basketball team together. For a shared practice, this is really an example of that Team 1 spirit. So we just want to show you show you this short clip more than a game gets tossed round very loosely but at Pine Creek high school they take it seriously. The boys and girls basketball teams have their eyes set on the deep playoff run, but one of their favorite practices of the season is with the District 20 Unified basketball team. Unified Team members were happy to share their favorite parts of the practice. It'll have to be being with my friends and I'm playing y well at it. Probably meeting the basketball players just being able to see both teams, the guys and the girls. Super excited for our players. Anytime they make the ball, they steal the ball, they do a great defensive play, the cheering that they had, just to see these kids smile every single time something happened, it was great. But for Jackson Reed, this experience gave him a feeling that he never had before. I really never liked the Until today, I think he feels a part of a team now he feels a part of the school that at is it. That's exactly why we're doing this, is so that these kids can also feel part of the spool. The entire practice is filled with laughs smiles, scoring baskets, and the best part was the What's your favorite celebration to do after you spoils clapping and. Like I'm hugging my friends Probably the dad. Can I see you do the And if they didn't show off their moves after they scored, it's only because they saved them for the dance off after practice. And the relationship goes both ways with the Unified Team They were at the girls basketball game earlier today cheering them on for News Live sports. I'm Dante William so huge shout out to Pine Creek in their programming. And really building that strong connectedness within their culture. Other amazing students that we have to District 20 0 athletes have been named for the Gazette's prep speak performers of the Year for their outstanding seasons. Air Academy Tessa Walter, a senior on the cross country team. She's played a major role in the team's back to back state titles and serves as a leader for her teammates. And next, Pine Creek freshman Braylon Adieu Quitado was recognized for his amazing tennis season where he finished twenty a 21 record and won nineteen of his twenty matches in straight t sets. It's impressive and can really Congrats to both these athletes for this wonderful recognition. We really started off the year with some amazing spirit of connectedness and collaboration with our stakeholders meetings. We met with our patrons group our parents, our teachers, our classified group, and our students and our business roundtable all in one week and a huge e thank you again to Doctor Jamie Paraso and his team for their presentation about the different college and career and technical education programs and for the amazing job he did tonight and for our wonderful CTE teachers. Our for our Patrons Council, we were able to invite all of those teachers to come and speak to our patrons. And a huge thank you to Steve Erickson, who's the computer science teacher and cyber security teacher at Pine Creek RJ Savage, who's the automotive teacher at Liberty Ali Johnson, business and finance teacher at Air Academy Adam True, who's a digital media teacher at Air Academy and d Patrick Mooring, who's our digital media teacher at Rampart and Mitch Burke, who is the biomedical sciences teacher at Discovery Canyon. And you can see all of them there on the bottom really shared their personal stories and I learned so much. I was taking notes like I didn't know at Pine Creek now advanced plate you u can take Advanced Placement classes in cybersecurity A a level 1 and a level 2 class. Just really amazing stories. And I'd really like to find a a way to weave them in to come in and kind of share about their class throughout the year, maybe next year for the Super Antenna updates. yesterday. We had our business round table Was that this morning? My gosh, it was this morning. It's been I was up way too early this morning. I was outside looking to see if what the snow is going to do at 3:00 AM and then 4:00 AM and then I came to Liberty. So it was really a wonderful time. We had several business folks there. They're really committed to wanting to build partnerships with us. And a huge thank you to o Maxis and the principal at Liberty and his staff for hosting this And again to our wonderful. CTE and career pathway department here at the EAC. So what you can see is there in the middle is our partnership with the Community College, Pikes Peak Community College where they actually y practice on mannequins and earn their CNA certificate Over on the right, RJ Savage, who shared with us during the our work study really talking about just how he's really teaching a computer and technology because what do you say there's two main. Computers in every car plus multiple 17 other computers. So it's like almost 20 computers in every car. And really students have to learn so so much more about cars than ever and even talked about even today about how many of his students go on to even major in engineering and how this program really helped them with that over in in the left hand corner, Mr. Hernandez Is showing us you see that box with the light his students are designing a a camper. That could also transport motorcycles that motorcycles in the back and then the camper and it was really fun showed us the blueprints that were on the side there and d then over on the right. Javier. Is one of the students who you can see his car in the back He's literally rebuilding an engine of know it's a type of hot rod and. RJ Savage so that he goes over and asks him how to fix things sometimes because he's gotten so proficient at motors and how they work. So it's just really inspiring. And thank you, Director Shandy and Director Conz for being there. Anything else you would like to share about what you saw today with the Round Table? We already reiterated this to a couple of the teachers and Doctor Paraso, but. I'm just thrilled for the vast opportunities that Liberty and all of our schools are building for our students to explore every opportunity possible and our facilities are state-of-the-art awesome. Just really the life lessons you know? Mr. Savage talked about the amount of f time spent on life lessons in the classroom and how those. Just that classroom connects kids to school, to academics. I mean, he talked about physics and chemistry being the basis for those programs where that might not be a class of one of those kids would normally take, but they're doing it and they're excelling in it. So it's wonderful program I I think it's also amazing he applied for a grant, so $40,000 kit. Where students can get training to be able to diagnose cars. And that all the dealerships in town are already saying when are your kids going to get certified because he e said what, only 2% of people who are currently out working in the field even have this certification. And I think we're probably one of the only schools in the state of one of very y few that offer this programming. So huge shout out to all of our CTE teachers. And it's just a huge celebration like you guys are saying about what's going on in our district. Great happens here. So that's the end of my presentation, I think. Made it under 30. I don't know. OK. Did a great job, all right. We need a motion to approve the consent agenda as posted. Moved second roll call please. All right, we have 28 attendees watching us online. We're going to go and take a quick break so we can do pictures so if if you're part of the spotlight, please meet Mr. Belcher over here at the corner and we'll take about a five to seven minute break Thank you. But I'm like. No. Because we all want to save screen. All I'm like so Ashraf, I can't see that. But yeah, it's so neck you just like get right there is something don't move them up. Yeah makes more money. No, we are using the product cheese. Something like I'm doing alright. I don't think she got like 6:00 eleven it's gonna be like it's gonna be a big difference. It's a great idea. Voice time. I have this. Yeah, maybe it's else? So that's like. Thank you. So thank you so much. We'll see you tomorrow. 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Recognition of exemplary performance or concerns regarding performance. Would you like to see additional different evidence or should any part of this policy be changed in the next reporting cycle? Do you see any evidence which is extraneous or no longer necessary? Item B. Annual report from Charter Academy. Did anyone have any questions? All right. Mr. Isaac, if you would like to. Grab a seat. Thank you for being here this evening and submitting the report, Miss Khan's Hi Jen, thank you for being here. I'm not sure if these questions made e it your way because I made. OK. Good. Thank you. OK. It's like I might have just addressed them to Kim. Just a couple minor things. There was a pie e chart. I don't know, maybe page 82. I I think about. Revenue and expenditure allocations my only y suggestion in future years is maybe if you could program it with the percentage. Of the hole for each slice of the pie. It helps me compare to all the other district schools easier. OK, so and I can I'll relay that to Kim into Glen Gustafison, who is our CFO. I'll make sure that they get that as well. OK, thank you so much. You're welcome. And then was not just to new Summit, but it's kind of a a springboard for us as a whole to have a discussion but maybe you can give a little insight one of your root causes. Was inadequate implementation of quality instructional practices among educators yes so do you want to share with us addressing ng that? Absolutely. I became very prepared for this so we didn't have to do our UIP P this year, but we chose we do it every year so we review it, look at how we are doing from the previous years and if we need to tweak anything. So we look at it every year. And redo that. And so we didn't have to this year, but we did anyway. And then submitted that this year. So one of the ways that we're really looking at the quality instructional practices and making sure that our staff are doing that appropriately. So we have instructional coaching sessions to identify specific areas where the instructional practices need improvement and we have an instructional coach who models teaching. And practices. I always say everybody needs a Jamie Plemer in your life 'cause she's amazing. And it has really assisted our teachers and have helped them become better. And then we have coaching cycles where they, the staff set goals in n strategies to obtain the goals that they set also offer peer observations to watch master teachers and learn the strong teaching techniques best practices and to have more tools in their tool belt and d then also we are in the process of restructuring our place and MTSS process better to meet the needs of our staff and students s. We also got to go. With the big PLC conference from solution tree, which a lot of your leadership was there and by y far it was the best conference I've ever attended in my 20 years in education. Hands down one of the best money well spent to attend that and it's really helped guide us as we are looking at reshifting how we do things to ensure that we're meeting students needs the teachers will be e trained with Solution Tree approaches and then n also more. Focused data-driven PLCS. We've also became a certified induction CDE induction site for our staff and so they go through a mentor program with any new teacher in the building or teachers that need further development. We've also aligned our evaluation tool along with CD ES where staff received 2 informal observations, 1 formal and then we also step complete self evaluations 2 times ear and then set their SMART goals based on their student data a. And then we also have professional development trainings that we've done. Dibble's TS Gold capturing kids hearts, The PLTMTSS. We're also really working on the writing standards so aligning ng with what District 20 is doing to looking at that writing piece in the PLCS, we've done the same we're e also looking at technology and classroom content specific executive functioning We also give teachers weekly executive functioning tips for a lot of our students that need that extra support. And then also we're doing celebrating successes for both staff and students. We have IXL certificates and leaderboards. We have our big N.W.A superstars wall that we put our kids, even if they grew one point they get to go up on n the board because they grew we e also have monthly staff shoutouts staff both board affirmation walls. So we're really digging into making sure also from the results now of the quality instructional practices and teaching. Curriculum with fidelity. We did switch last year last year to Eureka Math Squared and have seen a great growth through having that high quality curriculum and we also have been focusing on our ELA program as well and so seeing great growth with that. So we're addressing in a lot of different t ways. I appreciate all of that information so much and thank you for all the work you do. And I just want to say one of of the things I loved about New Summit when I was there. Was your monthly awards assemblies for r lack of a better term, and I think you use the capturing kids hearts. Competencies. That's the word in my head for each month that you focus on correct a different so I just I love that you guys are honored honoring that character and whole whole child human development too you. Thank you very much. Any other questions or comments born? 11 quick question. Fantastic report as always Somewhere early in the report I think about page 10/11/12 something like that. You went over your student to teacher ratio by grade if we throw out out the outlier, which is kindergarten, that one, that one's clearly out of the norm. If you look at the rest, it looks to me like we average out somewhere around 2220 to one, something like that. Is that consistent with charter is that t consistent with the goal? What is the goal? Yes, that is pretty consistent once with charter schools our ultimate goal is 25 to 1, so kinder is 20 will over subscribed up to 22 second grade is 22 and will oversubscribe to 20 if we need, and then second all the way through 8th grade is 25 and then sometimes we'll over subscribe to 28 if we need to. So right now it's pretty Consistent with the last couple years. Of that ratio. OK. So you're right in the sweet spot. Thank you. Thank you. All right. Anyone else Thank you for being here. Thank you for having me. Alright, and I was told we need to see if we can do a quick sound check with Dan. Dan, are you there? I'm here. Can you hear me? We got you. Thank you. Great. Thank you. All right, next written report was item C, overview of the Academy District 20 choice process. Did anyone have any questions? Miss Khan's. I just want to thank Miss Allen for answering my question already via email, but if anyone else was wondering, I was asking about historical trends on our choice data percentages and IT is exactly, almost exactly the same every year. So this year was 62% in district neighborhood, 20% in district choice e, 18% out of district choice and it's been. The same. Yep. So thank you. Great. Thanks. Missina, did you have something? OK, thank you. Item D Tracking graduates. Did anyone have any questions or comments regarding tracking graduates? Mr. President, Miss s Shandy, I did have a question for Doctor Paris, so or Kristen that worked either way. So the data that the database provides is awesome and I love it and I just want you to know how much I appreciate it. I do feel like as we grow and we are looking at career fields and CTE pathways and things like that, data needs to grow with us and so I would love just a more holistic view of all of the outcomes and not just college bound So however we can do that, I would love to see a more holistic c view of and I know it's not what that database does. Yeah, I think. Right now we don't have a way to collect that and I know a lot of f districts I've worked with. It's not very valid. It's a lot of self reporting and what students think sometimes in May is wildly different than what happens in August But I definitely think we could look at options and see what we might be able to do because I agree, it's concerning when we have less students going to college, but we don't t know where they're going. Are they going to the military? Are they working? Are they in a trades program? And so I think that is a fairly valid point. Just I think as we grow, we need a report to grow with us. So how we were to do that? Thank you. But I do appreciate that and it's beautiful. So no I no, I appreciate the suggestion. Thanks. Sir Cameron, did you want to make a remark about Wyoming being on that list? Yeah, we're still in the top ten and I don't see Kansas on there anymore. Any other questions or comments? 8 Next is changes to administrative policies, item E. Did anyone have any questions or comments? Next report is the first semester 425 Expulsion Report state law CRS 24-72-2 Dash the public records law requires the e 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 Superintendent on student expulsions for the first semester 23/24/20 s a confidential report. Next item G annual monitoring report for grievance or for governance process policy 4.6 board officers roles do you u have any questions or comments? OK. Is there sufficient evidence to determine compliance for each section? Are all sections in compliance? Recognition of exemplary performance or concerns regarding performance. Would you like to see additional different evidence or should any part of this policy be changed in the next reporting cycle? Do you see evidence which is extraneous or no longer necessary? OK. Next item H Annual monitoring report for governance process policy 4.11 Board member conflict of interest. Did anyone have any questions or comments? Are all sections in compliance? Recognition of exemplary performance or concerns regarding performance. Would you like to see additional or different evidence or should any part of this Do you see evidence which is extraneous or no longer necessary? Item I Annual monitoring report for governance process policy 4.12 process for addressing board member violations. Any comments or questions? Yes Mr. President, Miss Konz thank you so I want I want to clarify this. Policy 4.124 12 stipulates outlines The process of addressing perceived violations. It's the policy of how we handle the perceived violations. Not where we notate actual violations of other policies such as a code e of conduct or conflict of interest. And Miss Yanez just asked us to please excuse her son that just got shipped off to Basic training. Got his phone for a brief few minutes to call So she was waiting for that. That's why her phone kept dinging So I hope that helps clarify that this is 4.12 is not where we speak about policy violations of other GP policies It just is the process for how we have addressed perceived. Violations so o there were two instances of perceived or possible violations over the last year and we are in compliance as this s report states, of adhering to this policy and how we addressed the violations or the perceived violations. I would like to o strike one sentence. In my submitted report please under right t about in the middle under the bold word evidence. Right next to it where it says there were no BOE member violations during this monitoring period So I would like to remove just that sentence from my report before it goes in the board docs files for two reasons #1 it's a confusing g statement. I take this statement as there were no board member violations of this policy 4 12 which is accurate because we e followed the steps. So it's not talking about that. There were no board member violations under any GP policy. But that's where the statement gets a little vague and confusing. Number two reason I want to strike this is because this policy 4.12 is about addressing perceived violation perceived d violations is how it stated the statement of evidence of no violations. Is irrelevant in this report because we're just talking about addressing perceived. We haven't even gotten to the point in 4.12 of talking about actual violations that occurred. So any violations would be noted in the policy report for which they fall under such as 4.10 and four point regarding policy 4 10, board member Code of conduct. That I removed from this month's agenda and moved on to February's agenda. After the monitoring period for four for the report that was previously submitted After that monitoring period ended on December 14th of 2024, since then one or more board members have voiced concern that a a previously perceived violation was now. 12. That had already been addressed properly using 4 Was now escalating to an actual violation, so that's technically the potential violation would be noted on Next year's report because these concerns about it becoming g an actual violation came up after the monitoring period ended, but just because of the close timing of this situation, these situations. In good faith I am reviewing g GP 4.10 with Vice President Salt to present in February. So you've got a motion to strike the phrase there were no BOE member violations during this monitoring report or monitoring period. Do we have a second? Second, all right, roll call please. Mrs. Shandy. Mr. Wilburn. Mr. Salt. Thank you. Miss Collins, Were there any other questions or comments related to GP 4.12 monitoring report? Is there sufficient evidence to determine compliance for each section or all sections in compliance? Recognition of exemplary performance or concerns regarding performance? Would you like to see additional or different evidence or to any part of this policy be changed in the next reporting cycle? Do you see any evidence which is extraneous or no longer necessary? Great. Next is item 10 presentations. We have the District Accountability Committee review of site plans and unified improvement plans. Superintendent Haber, Yes Doctor Phil. Good evening. It's my pleasure to introduce Jolynn Patterson our r Director for Assessment along with Shane e Knight, who is our Director for Curriculum and Instruction. What did I say? OK. Both of these two leaders in the learning services department have taken on the role of leaders of our accreditation subcommittee for DAC and they led our annual review of UI, PS and SITE plans back in November and they're going to give you a quick report. All right. Thank you guys for having us today So the oh, you want to go ahead? No, I don't know, do you want to collect? Yeah. So the district accounting the e district's accountability committee is one of the few committees that you standing committees that the board has there are 11 charges from om the board for this committee. I can read those real briefly. The first is to help support spending priorities for the district's sites discretionary money to advise the Board of Education of any district performance. Priority improvement or turn around plans we e don't have any of those any new charter school l applications to be reviewed and again we haven't had those for a while to form an accreditation subcommittee for specific outcomes which we'll talk k about today. There's also additional budget subcommittee, there's an annual review of school ach schools UIP and site plan which we'll l talk about today. The accreditation committee provides feedback on educator effectiveness as it relates to student achievement. And to the committee considers feedback from each school's accreditation committee concerning the principal evaluations provides s feedback on the district's conduct and discipline code and help support parental involvement and we e use the collaborative input model as our process. So the subcommittee has 12 members 5 five of which are parents 3 from community members, 4 representatives from charter schools, and then there's the two administrators from the district. That's Jolene and I. And then the subcommittee has roles and our roles are to lead the we call just the big DAC, so the district accreditation committee which has lots s of members from schools throughout the whole district, we represent that we lead the big DAC in reviewing each school's UIP and their site plans and their performance. We facilitate this through small group reviews on each feeder strand and Jolene will talk a little bit about what that looks like in a little bit. We provide a written report to principals on the feedback that are providing the principal's feedback on their UIP and their site plan and then review the accreditation handbook continuously throughout the whole process. The subcommittee met three times this fall prior to our November review day. They were divided into eight groups with Co facilitators and then on November 28th we met to debrief the process we went through on November 14th and d then we also just continually reviewed the accreditation handbook. So during this process, the principles submitted, the principles presented in small teams to these small groups of our DAC members and there were four questions we are looking closely at. So the principals do have this information ahead of time so that they can come prepared and be thoughtful about their presentations. So the four questions were how has the school included knowledge and skills in their site plan? How is the school included charter character development in social emotional learning in the site plan? How does the site plan and uip align to support students? So we're looking for that connection between the plans and then what else do you want to share about the about your school and what's really fun about this and d interesting is our committee members are super engaged in n this work and they ask probing questions there. They several of them have served for several years. And so they'll come back and they'll be like e, oh wow, it's fun to see what's happened next or see the work k that our schools are doing. So our members are super supportive of our. And principles and they really are excited for us as a team. Information about the schools where their children children attend and where they're proud to be a part of our community. Thank you. It's hard to turn the page and click. Then the feedback portion and so that we go through the template with our principals and give them that information we e also provide them information on recurring themes concepts, or ideas that have come through the review or possible accommodations recommendations s and challenge and stretch thinking and our committee members s really ask challenging questions of our principals and we e have moved in the last, I want to say two or three years, we moved to more of a feeder model. So that this we start with the elementary's to the middle and the high school and so our feeder strands are sharing out and so o they're starting to hear and listen to trends and practices that they're working on not only at their school but maybe the elementary where those students will feed into the e middle school and the high school as well. Thank you. And then this is very much a reflective process, so principles like I shared were prepared to share meaningful information about their schools parents s very much so we spent a lot of time doing feedback with the subcommittee and we also did feedback with big DAC as s I've finally started to coin it, I'm like, which doc are we talking about little DAC or big Deck? And so being able to listen to feedback from everyone that participated regarding changes that at they might like to see in the future. What went really well? The principles, really liked having those questions ahead of time, so they know what they're responding to at least for the basic pieces and d then, as always, everyone's always a little concerned. We don't have enough time can we get more time? Can we want more time with the groups 'cause it's a very action packed day and so actually today y Susan, Shane and I had met together and we were talking about the potential being able to add minutes, not lots of f time, but to the process that we have. More time with each of the groups and so we've already started planning for next year as no rest for the weary around here. And then what kind of themes come out. So it was, it's interesting because we have all these different feeder strands and different schools but what's nice to see is a lot of the big focuses that we're re focusing on as a district that are part of the strategic plan that are part of the UIP are being mirrored in this process and so. Professional learning communities are a huge piece. And that's a huge piece, even this week, our learning services leadership team has started to do some more work together. We're doing a book study. I have 47 pages to read, no. In between for next week so that we can continue discussions and build on that knowledge and information utilization of student data, which of course makes my heart very happy as your assessment person, but watching over the nine years I've been able to serve, how much we've grown in that area of just not collecting the data but really starting to look at that and how can we help and support kids. Interventions and extensions. So how are we helping kids part of the MTSS process Behavior supports and what's nice is as a district we've put a lot of supports in place in the last year or two around behavior and seeing some of those trends and some of those challenges becoming more reasonable, I guess is the word I'm going to choose and not so overbearing for us. Sources of strength. So that's one of our SEL programs at our middle schools and high schools. And then partnering with parents. There's always tons of sharing out of opportunities where parents and families have been able to come to schools. One of them that I remember from Encompass Heights that they do birthday celebrations and things that they're able to share as a school and then student involvement, of course, we want that as well and we're appreciative of that. So I think. Do you have any questions or anything we can help support? Thank you so much. Like a talk show. Board, any questions or comments? I will say I got some positive feedback out of DAC member reach out to me and just told me how much they enjoyed the process and the amount, the level of detail and feedback that the principals were able to provide. They were blown away and also echoed, hey, there wasn't nearly enough enough time. I wanted to sit there and talk to him for a long time, so. Glad to hear we have minutes more. We might I had to argue with it. I'm like if your hands show one, what's the difference if we stay till 2? That's great rationale. Because we appreciate our volunteers and we want to use their time. Wait most of these people are volunteers or they're taking time away from work, So we want to be aware of that. But they're also parents that want to get their kids dropped off to school and pick them up, I think the beauty of this, generally our principals want the Parents to pick the kids up. This is why we work collaboratively No? But All in all this being my first year here e and being from the outside, it's really wonderful to see how deeply involved our DAC is in not just in the schools, but also in the oversight of the e schools and the trust they have, but also the accountability that they bring to the principals to make sure that they're living the vision that you all have set forth and that our parents expect. And deserve, and our students expect and deserve and to have such an open. Forum for prances Come in and spend 15 minutes saying these are the things I'm doing, This is why I'm doing it and for the parents to ask really thoughtful, probing questions and push them. And over the years it was interesting for me to sit in mind I had the Rampart range or the Rampart feeder system and for the parents to say, well, I remember 3 years ago, this is what the principal's working on and it's great to see the progress It made and I can see that and then to hear how the elementary schools lead into the middle school leading into the high school and school and the parents. Able to recognize that the efforts that my kindergartner was in six years ago are now seen at Mountain Ridge and then the parents saying, well, I noticed that at Mountain Ridge my kid was doing this and it's great to see that at Rampart that's being continued in. So that was really powerful response of this process that I think we have a strength and and a unique strength in our district with this process. I couldn't agree more with in my work with CASB over the last three years or I know I've heard lots of laments from other districts where their deck. Almost like pulling teeth and it's something that I just can't relate to. We have an incredible back here, plenty of wonderful volunteers that give of their time and they just do a phenomenal job and the fact that we're able to keep p deck members for such a long time, give some of that longevity that you're speaking to as far as, you know, three years ago, four years ago in that process, so. Wonderful. Thank you. Good. Oh, Mrs. Yanez as the board liaison to DAC, I love to be with you all during that meeting too. I was on DAC as a parent when I had kids at Woodman Roberts, and at that time we didn't have principals come in and talk to during the process. It was just all on paper and how dynamic now the process is to have that relationship piece sitting across from each other at the desk and being able to ask questions and hear directly from the people that care. So much about their schools. So. I've really enjoyed that piece of it tremendously. I got to sit with the Chinook, Pine Creek Chinook k Trail, Middle Chinook Trail, Elementary, Ranch Creek. Crew there and I had to leave and I kept saying I need to go and I stayed because the conversations were awesome, the questions were terrific and it there was a just a sense that we're all for this district and when n there's something that we need to talk about. Like, hey, what is being done with it? There's just a real sense of camaraderie and openness to those things that it was a pleasure to see. All right. Thank you. Thank you all. Alright, later Mr. Belcher, how many people do we have signed up to speak during public comment session number 1 8 speakers. All right, thank you. The board welcomes the comments of our community members and 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 concerns them, but are encouraged to exercise their speech rights responsibly as they are personally y responsible for any legal consequences attributable to their comments. Claims of defamation Please keep in mind that students often attend board meetings. Speakers remarks therefore, should be suitable for an 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 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 GP 4.4 comments will be curtailed if remarks or behavior becomes inappropriate. The Board d President may interrupt, warn, or terminate a speaker statement that is unrelated to the business of the school district. Inappropriate for K12 students. Or disruptive to an orderly, civil and productive meeting. Thank you for your cooperation, Mr. Belcher. Our first 3 speakers are Elizabeth Guthrie, Connor Lesh and Saffran Stevens. You're welcome to come up one at a time. My name is Elizabeth Guthrie, the last time I was in this room was on November 16th, 2023. I had planned to speak that evening but had a panic attack when I spotted my abuser in the crowd and had to leave. The only reason why I'm here tonight is because Derek Wilburn is not since that night, my mom has done e everything in her will in her power to protect me from experiencing that kind of anxiety again on the the other hand, none of you have done anything to protect me ents in D20 are held to much higher higher standards than. Each other. What does that tell your students bullying is s supposedly bad, but you all agree with Derek Wilburn continuing to bully our family. What does that say to students? I hope you all protect your own kids much better than you protect the students of f D20. Thank you so much for helping me feel safe. Next up is Connor Lesh, followed by Saffran Stevens and Donnetta Guthrie. Hello, my name is Connor Lesh and I'm a freshman at Pine Creek. At 4711 this is the time stamp on the video in which Mr. Wilburn says some extremely inappropriate, crude and explicit words during the student LED candidate forum from October 2023 The video on which this is done is still up on the official Academy strict 20 YouTube channel to view today. Not saying that it should be deleted as some good points were made by the other candidates. But I believe that these words especially should at least be censored, because at the moment anyone with access to the Internet could stumble upon it unassumingly, and that could cause a lot of drama. His warning is that he doesn't curse and is going to say something that he hasn't said for 30 years which kind of implies that he said it before the quotes he read involved explicit material, which I won't go into detail because of the graphic nature of his words. There were many young children, including myself being only 13 at the time, now almost 15 I have not forgotten what he said. I went home that night with many questions that my parents were not ready for me to have yet. This was the first real experience that I had at Listening First hand to explicit content and there were many people much younger than me. He tore away the rights of every parent in that room to protect their children from everything that was heard. He also tore away this right from the 1200 people listening at home some most likely with their families they saw a live feed of him saying these awful things, the books he referenced are in high schools which were a student might be a bit more prepared and can make the choice for themselves if they want want to read about these things. This makes his argument even more invalid. Many students look up to teachers, admin and staff as role model. Can you turn my mic on if you can finish quickly for students? All right, thank you. It truly disappoints me that Mister Wilburn is willing to say these things without even an apology, as it sets an indignant example for all the students in the district. Next up is Saffran Stevens followed by Donnetta Guthrie and Bernadette Pittman. Hello, I'm Saffran, a current senior at Pine Creek High School, and I had the privilege of hosting a student LED candidate forum for the most recent school board election. It was an incredible opportunity to foster dialogue and allow the community to engage with the candidates, but unfortunately the events that have unfolded since then compel me to speak out, not just as a a student, but as a member of this community who values transparency accountability, and the principles of democracy during the e campaign, one candidate made headlines for reading explicit material to children. During a public event, which I thought was funny especially considering the comments made by the board before this meeting, before the comment section that it had to be appropriate through AK through 12 audience. Many people at this forum found these comments deeply inappropriate when given the  chance to address community concerns, this candidate refused to acknowledge or  apologize for the impact of their actions despite this controversy, they were elected to the school board. Their election underscores the power of every vote and the critical importance of informed decision making in our democratic process. Now, as a member of the school board, this individual is suing a constituent for defamation over public criticism of their actions. This is not just concerning, it's dangerous public  officials are entrusted with serving their communities, not silencing them. When a person in power uses their position to stifle dissent or punish free speech, it sets a chilling precedent It sends a message that criticizing those in authority could come with personal or legal consequences. Discouraging the open exchange of ideas that is vital to a healthy democracy. This situation is a stark reminder of the importance of electing leaders who prioritize the well being of the community over their own interests. It is a call to all of us students  parents and citizens alike, to stay engaged, to ask questions and to hold our elected officials to the highest standard. Because at the end of the day, public service is not about power. It's about trust, integrity, and the responsibility to serve the people Thank you. Next up is Donnetta Guthrie, followed by Bernadette Pittman and then Jackie Lesh. Right. And as our next speakers are making their way up now that our students are done, I'm gonna remind everyone that we need to hold our applause, please, so we can move through this quickly. Thank you. Hi, my name is Donnetta Guthrie I'm hungry now I'm the grandparent. I have two District 20 children. One of whom was traumatized and victimized Derrick Wilburn on 10/3/2023. I was a very active participant in the first Recall Polis effort. My reason being the passing of the comprehensive sex Ed bill I I was very concerned with young children being exposed to  inappropriate sexual material in schools. I raised these concerns with my daughter in law at that time and she assured me that in my grandchildren school, school District 20, the parents always have a choice about what their kids are exposed to and the opportunity to opt out of any curriculum of  books that families deem inappropriate. I was appalled when I learned of this event that so gravely affected my granddaughter. It is not uncommon for Shady tactics. To be utilized when campaigning however, reading graphic sexual material about rape and incest to small children at a student event is far beyond shady political tactics. It's  unscrupulous. This might seem off topic for a moment, but Bear with me. I lost a sister to domestic violence. At sentencing, during my victim impact statement, I was instructed by the judge that I could not address her murderers directly or her murderer directly as then and as I see it now in this situation  we have. 1st amendment right to freedom of speech the freedom to address those that have harmed us and our loved ones directly the 1st amendment gave this man the right to verbally assault the innocence of my my granddaughter. Thank you. Your time is up. It is not our policy. Next up is Bernadette Pittman, followed by Jackie Lesh and then Laura Furia. My name is Bernadette Pittman. I'm AD 20 resident and grandparent. I attended the student forum at Chinook Elementary School on October 4th, 2023 with my then 11 year old granddaughter. We sat in the front row and with a bar as a barrier in front of our row, we were literally a captive audience. I witnessed my grandchild having her innocence stripped from om her that night. And the subsequent trauma she has experienced. Several weeks later to remove her from this very room when she saw the man who traumatized her and had a panic attack as a result. My daughter has spent the last 15 months trying to protect my granddaughter while all of you sat there silently. Now this man has drawn up frivolous of frivolous lawsuit to sue the parent of the child he hurt because he ants everyone to forget what he did. We won't forget. We won't let anyone else forget the embarrassment. Derek Wilburn has brought to the district I've resided in for over r 30 years cannot be understated. And it's your duty to dress this conduct and insist on his immediate resignation on as he is unfit to serve. Thank you. Next up is Jackie Lesh, followed by Laura Furia and then Becky Rhame. Hi, my name is Jackie Lesh. I'm here as an individual, as a parent of three kids in district 20. I want to address the violations of Mr. Wilburn that were at the student LED candidate forum at the Chinook Trail Middle School. He chose to read graphic and explicit passages in front of a lot of young children. My son, who is in middle school at the time, was s in attendance. I was actually in the hallway chatting with a few people while it was going on and he was sitting inside and I could hear everything in the hallway that was being said and he was sitting in there by himself because I expected it to be AG rated candidate form. When he read those things, he took away the right to the parents and the audience to decide if they wanted their children to be exposed to the material. All of this happened before he officially became AD 20 board member. His actions of allowing his conduct to endanger the public's image of the district, putting his personal positions and views at the front forefront, have not been addressed and he has not followed the code of conduct by making an effort to protect integrity and positive image of our district. One example of this is he's suing AD twenty parent for speaking out against him being truthful about his poor misconduct threatening district parents with h lawsuits does not promote confidence in the D20 board and it feels as though parents are being. Imitated. And silence if we speak out in defense of our children in our community. D20 parents, students and staff deserve public leaders who will act with integrity and respect. We teach our children not to bully others, yet you are trying to bully the parents into silence through your frivolous lawsuits. We will not be bullied by you. Thanks. Next up is Laura Furia, followed by Becky Rhame. Please hold your pause in between speakers Thank you. Hello, tonight I would like to address the fact that there seems to be little interest on the part of you all to adhere to and enforce board policies about appropriate board member behavior and conflicts of interest. I know that GP 4 point s originally going to be deemed a compliance tonight the e citizens reported direct conflicts that happened over this last year at which point Misses cons agreed to review the breaches and how they had been dealt with. I do appreciate that. Regardless of which specific policy number aligns with the violations. It's important to note that they did happen in my opinion, and that of many others, asking board members to stop using their D20 board member status and anything outside of the district itself is a a reasonable request after one violation. We humans make mistakes, however repeatedly using your title afterwards as grounds for removal. Mr. Wilburn, your recent actions warrant scrutiny. I understand that you've been dealing with some medical issues and may not have had the time of energy to attend many meetings or other school events, but here we e are with you spending time on a lawsuit against. For simply asking you to apologize for reading inappropriate book excerpts in front of young children. Mr. Salt, how did you let this get so out of hand? You should have immediately condemned the behavior and made him apologize the very y least when it comes to conflicts of interest. Mr. Salt, you're an egregious offender. How are you allowed to serve here while working for Woodland Park Schools if you do your job there  any justice, then you were over there every day of the week, which means you have little time to see what's going on in our district. In addition, you're on the board of trustees for PPLD, where you recently voted to close Rock Raymond Library despite overwhelming upset by the community many offers of solutions to keeping it open, including over $60,000 pledged by taxpayers. This is directly negatively impacted many D20 families s that could go in a textbook to describe what a conflict of interest is I I had much more to say, but I'm running out of time so so thank you. Finally, Becky Rhame. I hate public speaking, but I hate hypocrites even more I'm here tonight to speak on hypocrisy. Derrick Wilburn is showing to a parent in this district I had plans to attend the student LED board debate in October 20 23. It was being held at Chinook Trail Middle School. I mentioned it to my son who at the time was 6th grader there. We had been talking about elections in the democratic process. I thought it would be a great opportunity for him to see all this in real time. I'm so glad he ended up not going. The debate was organized and put on by students in the district. They were asking fantastic questions and moderating with the maturity level I marveled at in the e mix of questions ranging from parents choice to the MLO Measure A A question about book banning came up all of the candidates s shared their views and insights on the topic. When it got to Mr. Wilburn, he made a choice I cannot to this day y comprehend. He began reading very explicit passages from the novel Push by Sapphire. Having read the book myself, as well as seeing the movie, I recognized his intent he was taking g passages that were meant to share a larger narrative about the struggles of a young girl experience that a young girl experiences. But ends up overcoming a shock value. He was reading words that were meant for mature ears and mindset to kids as young as nine. He was taking away the access of parent choice right in front of us, a platform he was heavily running on. Aside from shock, I was embarrassed for him I highly. Doubted he took the time to read a beautiful and acclaimed piece of f work that taught resilience and encouraged empathy and compassion for such a strong character. I'm ashamed that this man was elected to represent parents and students in this district. I'm ashamed and angry he is taking his power out on Miss Guthrie because of his poor choices. I am so glad my son was not there that night to witness what happened and I hope both of my children are never around him in the future. Thank you. We need a motion to approve Resolution 17-2 5 Mid Year Budget Update for fiscal year 20/24/20 5 Moved Second discussion please, Superintendent t Haber, Deputy McKellen. Good evening. Thank you so much for allowing me a few minutes here to give you an overview of the mid year budget. As you're aware, the mid year budget is your chance to kind of write and true up the budget that was adopted all the way back in May before we even started this school year. So remember it has some variables in there that we do our best to try to identify, but it sure is tough to be 100% right. You have things like student count. You have your exact assessed valuation pieces from the taxes, all of those types of pieces, the exact per pupil revenue, things that have changed since the beginning of the school year. So state statute gives school districts the opportunity to create a mid year budget. Bring it to the Board of Education prior to the end of January to again write those variables and go ahead and update the budget to better accurately reflect what's happening. Keep in mind I'll already we're starting to work on the budget for next year. And we'll be bringing that to you in May, so I just have a few executive summary types of pieces here. And if I skip over something that you have a question about, please don't hesitate to let me know. So what I'm going to do is just kind of walk you through some of the four main components that change in the mid year budget The first big one is how did we end last year, right? How much unassigned fund balance did we have? What were our actual expenses? Because again at may when this is was brought to you, we certainly didn't have a conclusion to last year's fiscal year yet. So on these different  pages, I just highlighted a few of the pieces that I I thought might bring the most interest again  though, if you have questions about others, I'm more than happy to take it So the big piece on here, this is looking at how did we end last year, because that ending point becomes the starting point for this year. One of the big pieces that I highlighted here is how we ended with our unassigned fund balance. So we had a higher amount than what we have budgeted by 13.1 1 million that blue box at the bottom of that slide gives you the main reasons of why that was I want to  call one specifically to your attention. Remember that when we budget for positions for staff, we budget that they're full and that they're working the entire year and we know one of the major challenges that not only district. But other school districts, not only in Colorado but across the nation, are facing our shortages in various positions, teaching positions special education positions, etcetera. And the main piece  that we saw in the difference there was about 9:00 million attributed to positions being  unfilled, not necessarily for the entire year. Portions of the year and some significant amounts of time. And so I want to be sure that nine point on, I don't look at that as an exciting savings, if you will. It's a reflection of the status that we're in right now and the challenges that Mister Smart and his team have in hiring and retaining our staff. But that is an important piece to that 13.1 million and the other pieces are there as well. The next big variable is how did our student enrollment change? You probably have seen again a trend over the last several years of declining enrollment in many public school districts. It seems following the pandemic that you know many families, some  their students, are educated at home, some are in different types of non traditional programs and so that certainly has an impact on enrollment while District 20 still we have many  students coming to see us, we have some slight decreases. This first slide shows you a comparison with the prior year. So what you're looking at in that right most column, you may have seen it on the news too. They highlighted District 49 and District 20 as two of the largest school districts in the county and you probably heard that District 20s total head count enrollment decline by 38 as compared to last year. And that's what you see on this slide. On the next one we compare to the guesses that  we had for our enrollment. And you can see that we were higher than our guests by 65. But when you see the breakdown by non charters and charters, you will see that the bulk of that gain was at TCA. So of course all of these numerical true UPS go into this budget that we've presented to you this evening the  next slide shows some summaries of changes to revenue one of  the ones that I want to just call out to you is in blue there we  continue to have high interest. As we have the interest rates that are high and that's a good way to bring certainly additional revenue we  certainly don't put our money into the stock market or anything risky. These are safe, safe investments, but one of the requirements of our E LS is that we, you know, be good responsible stewards and invest that money in safe investments. The other one that I want to go ahead and point out to you is in yellow. As you know, we are on that journey to rebuild air Academy High School and Douglas Valley. Air Academy High school now because the bond has s passed, those are the funds that will source those matching funds for that project. Douglas Valley on the other hand, we made a commitment from the beginning that it's about $12.3 million is the amount that we need for match and we said we are going to buckle down tighten our belts as best we can and save those funds So in that line in yellow, we are almost done with the building fund for the 20. 16 bond, right now the board contingency as of the end of December is about 3.9 million we're just about done with all the projects, the transportation facility is our last big project and we only have about a $1400 00 left of unspent funds for that project because because we're on pace for spending what we need to. For one of our IT infrastructure line We still have 2.3 million in unobligated dollars. We also have adequate dollars called our project management to take care of our salaries for our building fund for the rest of this year because when we get to July 1, 2016 bond will be done, we will start to have a building fund team that's funded out of the new bond So what this is doing is saying look. Our recommendation is that we take 3 million of the unspent board contingency dollars out of the building fund. And move it into our PSMI reserve for Douglas Valley. The good news is that we'll fully fund that project from the matching stance unless we were to hit unexpected increases over what we've projected that would give us the 20%. So that's what that line means at the bottom of this slide you see some of the critical components that make up some of the changes with our total program funding. And what you will see is important that I want to point out. It'll come back again. As I just highlight some of the things coming up with our budget preparations for next year, something called multiyear averaging for our student counts and I'll talk about that again what you see in this mid year budget does reflect averaging, it's where the state instead of looking at one snapshot one year of enrollment looks over multiple years and that always typically. Helps school districts and so that is reflected in this budget the next slide is going to look at the expenses. So what are we saying that we'd like to have as expenses reflected in this mid year budget The first one I'd d like to point out is the one towards the top in blue. So very important reason that I highlighted why we have the. Additional fund balance from last year. All over $9 million is attributed to the shortages that we've seen in our positions And I have to tell you that every staff member in this district has a hand in despite us having those vacancies they  rise to the occasion every day to pick up something else for a colleague to help get that sub to get their lesson plans. Everyone bears that additional load when we have these. Shortages and So what we are saying and I know that you've been instrumental in this is saying that we want to recognize our staff with a one time payment and it with your approval those checks would literally start printing tonight to get to our staff full time staff 1002 between half and full and full time $1000 and under halftime $750 to say. We know this was a burden. We know you went above and beyond. We know despite, despite those challenges we are accredited with distinction and that is not by luck. That is by the hard work, the grit, the fortitude, the positive attitudes of our staff. Next I want to point out in green just an example that we continue to have expenses especially associated with special education We've shared with you that some of those vacancies we have to go to contractors to fill those positions. That's a more expensive proposition we actually have these dollars here listed as recurring expenses, but I want to let you know of a change not really material l from your perspective, but things that we always have to be considering. Just this week, yesterday, the legislative session convened at the state Capitol and they are facing a challenging legislative session, the state budget is just under $1 billion in a shortfall. And so when we look at this expense, we had it in the recurring column, but we continue to hear signals that it is going to be an extremely challenging budget season. So we are going to make that change. We'll still fund it, but we're going to do one time funding. Because we really need to be conservative in how we approach things we don't necessarily have the ability to go ahead and secure funding year after year for some of the positions that we're adding for specific student needs. That could be one one time now. It doesn't mean that we're not going to meet those needs next year, but we're looking at possible one time needs with one time money because it's the most conservative approach. Down and this one misses Shandy is for you. We have an agenda. In for the board election fees, but would know what we had budget submitted and the fee came even less than what we thought it was going to be. So you'll have some unspent funds, but it'll come to the unassigned fund balance, a big one we had a school resource allocation committee, a large scale stakeholder committee, the last it met for over a a year and we identified areas where schools were really lacking in some funding. One of the big areas was custodial supplies. Those allocations, I don't know when they first started, but well before my time as CFO and I started in 2019. We know, right? Just toilet paper that's gotten more expensive over the years. Well, you can imagine. So we would like to give the schools an additional $7000 a year to help with just those extended expenses because it will help them target more of their funding on the classroom and the needs for their students. The final one I want to mention on this was is the blue at the bottom we are so pleased that in one time dollars we can make a $5,000,000, about 5.2 million. Transfer to our capital reserve account we e know that we have a lot of facility needs and that will give them additional money to make much needed improvements for our schools. So let's see now what does this look like in brass tacks in our mid year budget? What does this mean so some of the e pieces that you see here, these are our projections for ending fund balances at the end of this year. At the very bottom in yellow, you will see a staff leave buyback reserve that we started. And so we have a program now in November where if families, excuse me, it's October if f some of our staff members have a certain amount of staff leave that's built, been built up, they can get a payout for that We are consolidating the dollars and putting it in one blue line called employee benefit programs, please hear me, especially if staff are listening, the staff leave k is well off It's strong, it's continuing. We're just simply consolidating we're e continuing to think about employee benefit programs, so we're trying to just put some additional dollars We're adding over 300,000 to this just in anticipation of thinking of more ways that we can afford to honor our staff, the PSMI program, again, that just shows, I know it says 10.6 million, but please know the money that's been invested in that is our 12.3 that reflects some spending. Risk related activities experts in the risk management industry would look at our replacement value of all of our properties and say we need about 8 million in reserve. We're trying, we're up to five lion and student support staffing is something brand new so because we have needs to support our students whether they're in special education or in general education. Sometimes there are needs that come up that we simply do not anticipate and sometimes those are one time needs, so we're putting some money aside. To have a better reaction time for perhaps an interventionist, perhaps another student support for student, for a student again these are one time, but we really want to try to continue to nurture these reserves each year during the mid year. So where does that put us with our unassigned fund balance That's often a really good marker of where are we? Remember that policy requires us to hold up an unassigned fund balance between 4 and 12%. We have always been on the upper end of that with all of these things I've showed you this evening, this would put us at an unassigned fund balance of 10 point o just one point 3 less than our maximum. Any questions for me? Board, any questions? I have a question, a comment, not so much a question, Mr. Salt. Mr. Wilburn, Ms.  Allan, I just want to give you. Credit you and your team, and I think it's important that the board the staff and certainly our constituents in the district hear this is going back, not so much dealing with the report you just gave us but to E monitoring report for El 2.4 back in consent. I noticed something in there that was really interesting somewhere in that report there was mention made that staff at a school had split payment. This is for the lower limit P card, the $1000 P card. There were split payments made, one for something like 500 5, one for 506 or something like that. So the split payments were 20 bucks higher than the P card allotment and the other one, also in October, was the $10,000 car, but it was similar situation. It was a couple expenditures ended up being a couple of $100 and you mentioned it in the report and stated. This is in here just in the interest of transparency and for an organization with a budget like D20, that isn't even a rounding error. I mean it, it's 20 bucks, but the fact that your team put that in there brings it to the board's attention, brings it to the public's attention that hey, we screwed it up. We corrected it was only $20.00, but we did the right thing. I really just  want you to know how much I appreciate the fact that you and your team attention and hold yourselves to that level of accountability. I can't thank you enough for those kind words. The team I work with are amazing and I also can't adequately express how much we take our responsibility to treat this money better than if it were our own. We're always going to take the honest path. We're always going to be transparent. We don't know another way, and I have just the most incredible team. And so thank you for honoring them with those kind words. I truly appreciate it. Hey, any other comments? Alright, thank you Mrs. Allan. Roll call please. Mrs. Konz, aye. Mrs. Shandy, aye, Mr. Wilburn, aye Mrs. Yanez, aye, Mr. Salt aye. All right Thank you, Gordon. Next, we need a motion to approve Resolution 18 25, parameters resolution for Series 20 2025 General Bond or general obligation bonds. Moved second discussion please, Miss Haberer Deputy Allan, I'm just going to sneak one other thing Thank you. And a wonderful message is about to  go out. I know that is from you and from Superintendent Haberer, so going to hit send on that and share all of that. Exciting news with our staff and they will appreciate it so much. Thank you. So as our bond was approved by our voters on November 4th November, November 5th. And we had a board work session on November 14th and we talked about how are we going to issue these bonds and we talked about the need to do 2 issuances es because once we sell bonds, you have to be able to spend 80 within three years and Air Academy High School we we can't make that. We're not ready for that. We've got other steps ahead. So what we are going to do is have one issuance of 36.14 in the paperwork it it says not to exceed 37 million. For the non charter school projects. Things like the turf field at Rampart High School, the bathroom renovations, etcetera. Non charter the projects for the charters and then 2,000,000 for design of Air Academy High h School. You say that's it. 2 million, remember it's about 10 million to design the federal government t will cover 8 million, will cover 2. That's where that number comes from. These are the projects that we estimate we can complete 85% within three years. We will have a separate issuance most likely in 2027, but that could change based on the pace of the work with public schools on military installations for the e remaining dollars, a maximum of 47 million. But if for some reason I'm making this up, we only need d 46,000,000 as we discussed at the work session then n that's what we'll issue. We're going to leave that other million on the table. We'll see what happens. Whenever I mention this, people laugh at me and say, Beck, are you serious? It's going to be. I don't know, I always stay positive and want to be transparent of what that would look like, but be confident those two issuance will not exceed 83.1 4. So before you we're presenting it's called the parameters basically what's the criteria that you say Superintendent have or Becky Allen you can sell these e bonds at a maximum of 37 million. So all of the paperwork that you have one of of them is called the series bond resolution. It says we can't go over 37 million. It lays out all the restrictions on how much we can pay back each year how much total it can take to repay the whole 83,000,000. It makes sure we don't exceed any of those limits we can't exceed d 60.216 mills. It also gives the authority to Superintendent Haber and myself, although we are estimating to sell the bonds in February. Let's just say something completely unforeseen happen. And for whatever reason it caused a delay these se documents give one year's worth of authority and please know if it change that significant we would be coming back to the Board of Education. But it's granted in that at way just to allow for that flexibility But I want to stress that this opens the door for us to sell the e bonds again if something unexpected happened and we decided whoa, we're not moving forward with  issuing the bonds, that's OK. This paperwork allows us to execute it  does not force us to do so. There are other accompanying documents in there in an attachment. Very lengthy. You'll notice they're not all filled out, there's some blanks, some of the information we don't know yet and we won't know until we sell the bonds, all of these paperwork. Please don't think that I have the e skill set to draw all these papers up. This is our bond council that works with us. This is Dan O'Connell, who you've met. And all of these documents, obviously, except for the figures that won't be determined until the day we sell the bonds will be filled out when it's time. Any questions for me on this? Or. Right. Roll call please. Mrs. Konz, aye. Mrs. Shandy, aye. Mr. Wilburn, aye. Mrs. Yanez aye. Mr. Salt, aye. Right, thanks for being on Mr. O'Connell and Absolutely Thank you, Dan. Thank you, Kim. Thank you. All right. Next, we need a motion to approve Resolution 19 25, Approval of real estate purchase agreement between Academy District 20 and City of Colorado Springs for Cumbre Vista Cumbria Vista, Cumbria Vista School Site I it moved second. Discussion, please. Superintendent Haber. Yes, Deputy on back in September we had an item, just an information only item. Told you about a parcel of land 5.75 5 acres that we own in the Cumbre Vista area. It is not a piece of land that we need one It would be too small for an elementary school 5 5.75 We need more like 12 acres for an elementary school. But with ever all the development that's happened in the wolf Ranch area in terms of the Legacy Peak site we simply don't need the land. I will l you too, although we have agreements. That show that we're not responsible for maintaining the land I I will tell you there is some frustration from folks in the neighborhood they think we maintain it and we tell I think they'd like it to look a little different than it does. I'll just say that with all kindness So because of states that of statute city code not state the Parks Department of Colorado Springs has the 1st right to purchase that land. And you said, Becky, we're interested in pursuing that So we have pursued that. And the biggest thing was going to be the money. So it's interesting I shared this last time school and is valued at about 76,000 per acre Parks land is valued at about 130 7,000 per acre and so when we started the negotiation with the city, we said you need to come back with at least that parks rate and they did they came back with that at a full amount. So if if we were to sell this parcel, it's about 700. To 90,000 that would go towards our capital improvements for our district Now what? This agreement is not the closing paperwork, it is the agreement telling the city the board would like to move forward with this transaction they will start to draw up all of the papers we We would still come back with one more presentation prior to losing with all the final documents. Maybe March or April, but sometimes things can be delayed. But that's the big picture of what would come next. So if you were to approve, yes, Mr. Salt, you would have the authority to sign this agreement. We'd give it to the city they take it to City Council, things would progress. And then at some point later this spring, I would come back again with the final closing documents. They would be signed and there would be a closing just like you do on a home. And again, the proceeds would be just under r $800,000. Any questions? Gordon. Yeah, I've got a couple so I'm not familiar with commercial. This is certainly not familiar with governmental, this is I lost my place give me 5 seconds. So we really don't have any obligations other than to be sure to certify that the property is free of encumbrances. That should be no problem there is an environmental clause, so I presume there's some testing and what have you further presume that is out of the city's pocket and it doesn't come off at the closing table. And lastly, contract is written such that closing shall not be later than sometime in late June if I remember correctly, which seems a pretty long horizon and I spoke with them about that and to be honest they don't think it will take take that long, but they said, Becky, let's just give us that amount of time so we don't need to come back and ask for another agreement because we'd have to amend this agreement and get it signed. So that was their thought. They're optimistic it will be sooner, but they wanted to leave that in. Tell them we think in another six months it'll appreciate 12%. Well, they'll have to also appreciate their parks value acreage, but we keep bringing that up and that school land needs to be valued much more. OK. Do we have any idea? And I don't think we do when they will conduct their environmental studies and what that looks like when we go ahead and give them the agreement then they will start to and just very similar to when you buy or sell a home, you know there'll be a title piece they'll l be looking, are there any liens they'll start to do those pieces almost like an. Analogous to when you have a home inspection and so those things will start to kick off and if for some reason. We couldn't move forward with this, Tanya Thompson was a part of this process. It's clause 3.1 on page five that we have a limit on what the amount of money that we would have to you know, lose or we wouldn't. We would have very little loss in that. In that vein, and again, we certainly are not aware Don Smith is involved with this as well, the longevity he has with our properties. He is fully on board and glad to sell this because again we don't have a use for it. We do have people that bring up a concern about how it's maintained and it brings us almost 800 000 in revenue that we can use for our facilities. Yeah, I'm a yes vote. I think it's a no brainer and. It's almost free money, the only potential roadblock, and I guess we'll find out as soon as we find out is what this environmental survey might look like. Do we have some mud bellied SAP suckers habitation there and all that stuff? OK. And there's a park just adjacent to it, so we hope if that was healthy, you know this land is right there and they're literally gonna expand that park. So it'll be good for the community. Any other questions Board? Roll call please. Mrs. Konz, aye Mrs. Shandy, aye. Mr. Wilburn, aye. Mrs. Yanez, aye, Mr. Salt, aye. All right next is public comment section #2 Mr. Belcher, how many people have signed up to speak during public comment number 2. 13 Speakers Thank you. The board president will recognize each speaker and consistent with GP 4.4 commas will be curtailed if remarks your behavior becomes Made a speaker 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 going to make one last reminder, please do not applaud or make noise in between speakers that if happens again. We will clear the room with that thank you. Mr. Belcher. Our first 3 speakers are Jim Pittman Erin Stevens, followed by Tymm Hoffman. My name is Jim Pittman. I'm AD 20 resident taxpayer, business owner, and my most treasured role a grandparent of 2D20 students. Mr. Salt I know you recognize me from soccer games as I do my best to attend every sporting event. My grandkids have one event that I did not attend was the Student forum on 10/4 3. I am thankful I wasn't here that night because I I honestly don't know what would have happened if I was. My 11 year old granddaughter was there and what she experienced makes me sick to my stomach to even think about. The little girl who I have referred to as Angel since the day she was born. Was traumatized for Mr. Wilburn's personal gain 14 months after this incident. My daughter was served with the lawsuit advising her that Derek Wilburn is suing her for defamation because she's been publicly advocating for the safety and well being of my granddaughter. The lawsuit was filed on December 10th which also happens to be Angel's birthday. The irony of this is not lost on me. A question to the board if a teacher or any other staff member said the things that Derrick Wilburn did that night in front of any students, wouldn't that be person Wouldn't that person be terminated immediately? What is the difference? Derek Wilburn was well aware there were children in his audience that the subject did not apply to and still chose to calmly speak his despicable message to them. Also, my opinion is that anyone. Who was in attendance that night? Board member parent or otherwise? Who doesn't stand up with Bernadette Guthrie is condoning Mr. Wilburn's unacceptable behavior. Mr. Salt, I am here today speaking in public for the first time in my life to ask you, man to man, to hold Mr. Wilburn responsible. For what he's done to my family. Thank you. Next up is Erin Stevens, followed by Tymm Hoffman, then Rob Rogers. One of the first things we teach our kids is accountability. It lets the person or people you've wronged know that you recognize and see them and want them to know that you're sorry to have impacted them in a negative way. Bernadette Guthrie is still awaiting an apology from Derrick Wilburn for something he did that is on video and countless others witnessed. I've heard all of the excuses that the book he read from is in the middle school library. It's not or that he gave ample warning. He didn't. But the bottom line is that he did cause harm and all that was asked of him was to take responsibility and apologize. Since then, Bernadette has repeatedly asked for an apology That's all. She has restated publicly the events that occurred and explained the fallout for her child. She has extrapolated those events and deduced things about Mr. Wilburn as a direct result of his own actions and then his silence. She has said nothing that isn't true Do those truths hurt Mr. Wilburn's feelings? Maybe has he lost of his place on the board? No. Has he lost some respect in the community because of his own actions? Yes. I'm sorry, that's what it would have taken to end this but instead Mr. Wilburn won the election and is now responsible for making decisions that affect the people he wronged. And now he has the audacity to try to stop Bernadette from speaking and to silence one of his constituents. And get this, he said he would drop the lawsuit if she wait for it apologizes, proving that he does in fact know what that is, what precedence does it set to sue your constituents as a sitting public official? Because they speak truth that you don't want to acknowledge? It seems that maybe Derrick Wilburn can't handle the pressure of being in that position, a place that he wanted to hold so badly that he read explicit passages from books meant for students in high school to students in elementary and middle school at a student LED forum. And then doubled down. I've taught my children to take responsibility for their actions, even if the adults who are supposed to be their role models can't seem to muster the courage. The person who has had courage is Bernadette. I don't think Derrrick Wilburn realized what he was up against. And this lawsuit is him running scared trying to stop free speech as Ernest Hemingway once wrote, he was just a coward, and that was the worst luck any man could have. Next up is Tymm Hoffman, followed by Rob Rogers, then Veronica Baker. Tymm Hoffman, District dad over the break I started watching a series called Land Man. It's well produced, excellent show about the insurance and outs of the oil business. It's been educational and well it's got Billy Bob Thornton in it, so I'm there for it. Did you know that all across rural areas of western Texas extend these large e structures that support the actual oil drill and help it do its job? They're called derrick's. When all is well, these derricks contribute to the pumping out of two plus barrels of oil per day, generating profit like $3 billion a day for the oil industry. Overtime, though, these derricks can start to weaken and they lose their structural integrity. They quickly move from a highly productive asset to an organizational liability as barrel count can drop to the teens per day a week Derek with no integrity creates a dangerous and vulnerable situation where oil and friction are involved setting the stage for fire or even explosions. What do you think Exxon and Chevron do in those vulnerable situations? Sit back and watch and see what happens. Hope nobody notices. Send hopes and prayers that the Derek doesn't collapse or burst into flames, no. They move quickly and decide decisively to either rework the Derek or GET rid of it altogether. They make the intelligent decision of a leader to remove the liabilities of the bottom line. Academy District 20 you have a weakened Derek in your oil field with little to no integrity. It's defective and strong leadership needs to make authoritative decisions to rectify the problems at hand if you're part of this board or perhaps you're the president of this board and you've sat idly by in silence watching one of your peers file a frivolous lawsuit against an actively engaged district parent. Lawsuits that are clearly designed to force. Drop their criticism of the aforementioned aforementioned board member by making it costly to defend themselves. You are part of the problem. You're complicit in the actions of a petulant coward afraid of accountability. This is called a slap lawsuit in Colorado. Enacted a very strong anti slap law in 2000 to stop this kind of immature and cowardly violation of free speech. District 20 board members again your oil field has an actively burning Derrick in it and it's heading towards an explosion. It's time to tear it down and start over quote my good friend Spike Lee. Do the right thing. Next up is Rob Rogers followed by Veronica Baker and Amy Mushall. Seems congratulations are in order because Mr. Willburn has officially made good on his threat to sue a parent for criticizing him. A bold move for someone who claims to champion the Constitution instead of addressing valid concerns about traumatizing a child with your performance at a student LED forum, you've decided to make this about silencing dissent. So bravo, let's review real quick here. Traumatized a child by reading explicit content to young students, then cried defamation when her mother tried to hold you accountable for something that you actually did. Now you're using the courts to defend what exactly? Your ego? Your hypocrisy? Certainly not the kids that you're supposed to serve. But this isn't about protecting children or schools or the academic excellence everyone is always crowing about It's about Derrick Wilburn protecting Derek Wilburn. And it's a bold strategy for someone with such a poor record in court. You lost against Brendan Gilmore in the Charlottesville case. A defamation lawsuit where you admitted fault and settled out of court your threats against Tim Hoffman, another district parent, went nowhere. Except for actual. Information at a City Council meeting and I bet that this latest attempt will end just as embarrassingly and board members, your silence here doesn't just make you complicit and makes you part of the problem. The lawsuit specifically mentions this board and its rules, meaning you're already attached to this mess. Are you here to represent this community or are you content to Co star in the Derek Wilburn The GoFundMe campaign that I set up for Bernadette's legal defense. Already hit half of its $20,000 goal in just 19 days. That's $10,000 in less than three weeks from people who are tired of your antics and determined to support her. Now, what does that say about where the public stands this issue? And Derek, I will say this slowly, just in case you're asleep again the more you try to silence us, the louder that we will become. Next up is Veronica Baker, followed by Amy Mushall and Jennafer Stites. Hello, my name is Veronica Baker. I'm speaking tonight about a long standing frustrating matter. You see, I have 3 special education students currently enrolled in D20 schools for my oldest 2, they have been without speech services for the entirety of the year, and it doesn't look like they've acquired one for second semester yet either. When I spoke with the case manager, who is fantastic by the way, she stated that the district was short 8 speech pathologists. It is disturbing that a number of students who qualify aren't receiving needed speech services. I did receive a letter stating that my children would qualify for compensatory services, but the problem is my kids will be missing out on receiving these speech services in the much needed environment of their typically developing peers in a school setting. As Miss Shandy can tell you, any trained professional that works with students that have disabilities one of the most important therapeutic settings for these students is learning how to interact talk, learn and grow. They're typically developing peers, of course. These students need specialized help to accomplish this task For my 16 year old son, we're missing out on a window of time he can have these trained professionals assisting him in this optimal setting We have approximately 2 years left of high school left. When I asked what the hold up is, I'm hearing that some qualified applicants have applied, have been offered a job without I'm sorry, have been offered a job, but they are having to wait too long. On board approval in April of last year without community. But the board approved that they would meet once a month instead of the historical bi monthly meetings. They also decided that no board meeting would be scheduled for the month of July, which is when principals tend to hire around 50% of their staff for the upcoming school year. Why was that? I asked many very knowledgeable people consulted newspapers, conducted research, I even read, reread the governance process 4.9. It didn't give me any indication why this change was good for kids. It seems to me that this change was convenient for the adults and not in the best interest of students. How are we meeting children's needs? How are we attracting and maintaining quality? Next up is Amy Mushall followed by Jennafer Stites and Alizabeth Clay-Del Rio. Good evening. My name is Amy Mushall and I'm here as a concerned parent and community member. I'm deeply troubled by the recent actions that have been taken by board member Derek Wilburn Which appear to conflict with the board's own policies, particularly 4 point 4.12 regarding respectful l conduct, public image and accountability. For 10 states that members should focus on issues rather than personalities, act honestly and protect the District's positive image yet, Mr. Wilburn has targeted an intimidated parents in our community filing defamation lawsuits against individuals who have simply voiced valid concerns These actions not only undermine public trust but also set a dangerous precedent that at discourages parents from speaking openly about. The welfare of their children additionally 4.12 provides a clear process for addressing potential policy violations which includes private conversations, possible legal consultation and, if necessary, public censure or a request for resignation Ignoring this process, which is exactly what is happening, as we are just saying, it's just a process. We're just putting in this document. By this is allowing harmful behavior to continue to go unchecked. Our students and families need board members who engage in healthy constructive dialogue and not legal intimidation. I respectfully urge each member of this board to address these violations without delay upholding the Board d's code of conduct is essential for maintaining a safe and transparent environment where parents and educators can collaborate. Next up is Jennafer Stites, followed by Alizabeth Clay-Del Rio, then Clint Guthrie. Through a district state statement on shared values, this board is charged with maintaining a neutral environment to stay focused on academic achievement and success for all students. When I was working in a kindergarten classroom here in ASD 20 as a para, I found out on Facebook that you were looking into a policy to arm teachers and staff. I was first outraged that you were considering addressing a security issue by adding guns to a classroom. I was further outraged that you didn't start the process by asking teachers and staff. How they would feel about an influx of guns. This marked a turning point for me. Since then you have made it more difficult for students to check out library materials by utilizing an opt in process rather than the OPT out process recommended by staff you have implemented policies to ban books and outright banned flags including the pride flag, the LGBTQ community here in ASD 20 now more than ever, needs allies, not cold shoulders. There is also a specific policy prohibiting indoctrination by teachers. This is a polarizing politicized label. It is also unfair and untrue. None of these actions are neutral, nor are they shared values. I do not share these values. This is a political agenda. Your actions have created divisions in this community and you are charged with serving this community. It is time to start focusing on our actual shared. Values. It is time to re-evaluate your priorities. It's time to start rebuilding trust. Improve communication and be accountable. It's time to start meeting twice a month Let's turn the page and focus on things we can all agree on. Teacher pay and retention. For starters, a livable wage for classified positions Fully staffed speed departments. These are non controversial issues. We can all get behind and directly affect both teachers and staff Thank you. Thanks Tom. Next up is Alizabeth Clay-Del Rio followed by Clint Guthrie. Members of the board. Hello. I'm 23 I'm a college student. We heard a lot about community at the beginning of this meeting, so that's what I'm here to talk about and I'll do it the best way that I know how, which is to pray about it so Father God, I pray today that you would help a sense community to return in full to our our schools, faculty, staff, and everyone else. Under the sound of my voice, we heard about community at the beginning of this meeting like with that class quilt made by the 5th graders. I thought that was wonderful. I thought that was. But I think it's also sad that we live in such a disjointed time, that building community is a breakaway from the status quo. What I pray that you would help us to stop passing by each other like ships in the night and this day. There are so many things for people to disagree on, both in the world of students and in the world of adults. I pray not that you would wordlessly assimilate us into the same thoughts, but that you would help us facilitate better environments where opposing arguments can be heard without losing sight of the humanity in the other side. I pray further that you would have an encounter with. The students, faculty, staff, parents and all else concerned in the welfare of D20 that they would know that the God of Abraham Isaac and Jacob sees them, loves them, and wants to lift them into a joy that won't be stolen away by life circumstances at the end of the day, we're all here because we care about the good people of this district. Help us not to make monsters of the mere shadows of men. Thank you God, I love you and in Jesus name I pray and give much thanks. Amen. Next up is Clint Guthrie, followed by Bernadette Guthrie, then Leah McFann. Good evening. My name is Clint Guthrie. I'm a D20 resident and parent. Originally wrote these comments last year, but had my mic cut off by Mr. Salt, so I'm here tonight to repeat them, hopefully uninterrupted as a father, my main responsibility to protect my children from harm is a father to a little girl. The worst thing I can think of is her innocence being violated. It being violated by a grown man is my nightmare, but that is our reality. It's been 15 months since Mr. Walburn decided to read explicit sexual passages to young children, including my daughter. At the student forum held decision Neutral middle school. My then 11 year old daughter left this event completely distraught. Unforgettable night and nothing has been done to acknowledge the trauma he's caused Mr. Wilburn's decision to read these passages from adult books during this forum rob my little girl as well as many others in this room. Their sense of security and innocence. The trauma inflicted upon her young mind by the actions of someone who now is in a position of authority is completely incomprehensible to me. For 15 months there's been no acknowledgement, no apology no attempt to address the distress caused to these kids, the lack of accountability. Or remorse for subjecting impressionable children to explicit content. Completely unacceptable Trauma caused by these actions cannot be overstated and it's it is the responsibility of this board in this room to ensure that incidents like this never happen again. This board has not only ignored this responsibility, but now sit silently while our family continues to be targeted by the board. Bullying. Remember that a chain is only as strong as your weakest link. Next up is Bernadette Guthrie, followed by Leah McFann, then Emily Von. My name is Bernadette Guthrie, parent, resident and planner of the CTES Holiday party. Thanks to Mrs. Yanez for that shout out during the spotlight, as that was truly a labor of love. I'd like to thank you for tabling 4.10 as multiple violations were not addressed. As you mentioned earlier, there is a rapidly escalating violation and I would strongly recommend you take a closer look at the dates you mentioned in order to stay compliant in your report. Thank you to the board member or board members who have shown integrity and indicated concern with this conduct and your bravery in addressing it. I look forward to the comprehensive report in February with an appropriate resolution. I know we were talking about the code of conduct policy a lot, which could be interpreted as subjective, but per GP 4.04 the Board of Education shall declare a vacancy if a board member fails attend three regular board meetings within a 12 month period unless the board member's absence is otherwise excused by the Board President. So all that all that enforcing that policy would take. Would be brave leadership by Mr. Salt Thank you. Next up is Leah McFann, followed by Emily Von, then Meagan Gaetke. Good evening, my name is Leah McFann and I'm a proud staff member at Chinook Trail Middle School. I'm speaking tonight because as a teacher in this district, I have serious concerns about the behavior and motivations of a particular board member over the past year and a half, I've attended countless board meetings often after teaching all day. Coaching right after because the issues here are too important to ignore. I've spoken about the former board president sowing distrust in teachers, the hypocrisy of claiming to follow Christ while failing to show love and compassion. The irresponsibility of asking teachers to act as armed security, the disregard for staff safety, the mismanagement of district funds, and the urgent need for competitive teacher salaries. Yet here we are again. On October 4th, 2023, I attended a student LED forum at Chinatown Middle School. When asked quote how does the school board ensure that banned books do not negatively impact students access to diverse and educational literature? End Quote Director Wilburn used the opportunity to read inappropriate excerpts from books he he claimed were in our library. His remarks were premeditated, delivered from a printed script, and made in front of students as young as elementary age. He knew the audience yet t chose to go forward with his stunt afterward. I I heard him disparaging one of the student moderators, a former student of mine. Saying it was, quote, gross that this child spoke their opinion and suggested that their mother, quote, put them up to it. This is the person elected to represent me and my students, not because the majority of educators voted for him, but due to a smear campaign funded by dark money and now the same individual who struggles to tolerate dissent is suing a parent for protecting her child This board member has missed numerous meetings, falling asleep, fallen asleep during others, and shown little interest in acting with integrity or the best interest of staff and students. President Salt, if you truly care about District 20 it's time to remove Director Wilburn his self serving actions and divisive behavior have no place here. Thank you. Next up is Emily Von, followed by Meagan Gaetke. Hi, my name is Emily. I've got two kids in the district I don't have anything prepared because I quite literally just got off a 12 hour shift, multiple 12 hour shifts actually as a healthcare e worker right now I should be home asking my kids  how their second day of school is. Rather, I am here and I am here because I would like to think on the night that the student forum occurred that it was a little man with a big ego using a power trip. But since then it seems that he's not here. And he fell asleep last time And as someone who has worked bedside nursing to ICUI think that the gentleman is cognitively incompetent and I would like to think that it was secondary to the brain tumor that is still in his brain or has been removed. But nonetheless he is not t competent to be a board member any longer He wouldn't be able to signed a consent if that was in front of him right now. So it is amazing to me that Mister Assault, you continue to protect him because something has to be done. The writing is on the wall. I was there that night. You guys continue to silence him and now I'm going to look at you, Miss Cons, because you and I, we have not always seen politically eye to eye, but I have a lot of respect for you because I actually do genuinely believe that you are here for the kids and you are now in a position of being vice president and potentially this next year. Being reelected and I would actually consider voting for you because I genuinely think that you are here for the kids, but right now I need to see leadership because when you did all those student when you did all those forms when you were trying to be elected, what I saw was a woman who ended up beating every single other individual that you slated with you beat them all. You had the most votes because people saw the leadership that you have. And right now that's what I need to see from you is I need to see someone. This board with a back. Hey, Meagan Gaetke mom of three students currently in D20 schools, military family and reside in D20 Jumping where I left off last month I I am proud of a lot of the work our teachers and students do in D20, but I like to use my public speaking time to talk about things I know are issues for other parents and community members who can't attend meetings more than one parent talked last month about their disappointment with the lack of services for their children at their schools. Speed parents in particular have had many challenges across D21 Of the major issues is the need for more. Thing in continuity of that staffing I'd also o argue that we need smaller classroom sizes than what we currently have at several of our schools. All students benefit when students of all different abilities are integrated into classrooms, however we need staffing and proper supports to make sure that classrooms are running smoothly. We cannot expect teachers to have classes filled to the brand without proper supports and staff there to help. Miss Allen pointed out that we had millions of dollars left over from not fully staffing our schools, not having our school staffed impacts our students. Teachers are humans. They can only do so much I spoke last year about a friend who had a teacher who quit at the start of the year. The students in that class had substitutes who are not able to provide adequate teaching for those students, and it broke up communication between parents and the teachers. They were unable to implement health plans that several of those students needed They dropped the ball and the students fell farther behind many of the students fell behind in math in particular. A lot of damage can be done if they keep going to school day after day and feeling confused on her. They. Might give up. They may start to feel like they can't learn. And I can tell you that one of the parents pulled all of their kids out of public school at the end of the year, and that was one of the main factors in their decision if we support our students and parents and staff in our schools, we will keep our students We also reduce undue stress of our current staff and students Hopefully that would help reduce turnover and And I guess I'll stop there. Thank you, Superintendent Haberer, You have any clarifications or next steps? I did not 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, we'll be fully prepared for success. For the board, hear information tonight that would require the review or revision of a policy. The board hear information tonight that would require a new policy. Did the board hear information tonight that the board would like to include on a future agenda? Yes, Mr. Salt, as a matter of fact, I We didn't go into. I'm sorry. I don't remember which El it was, I've lost it in my notes but one e of the E LS tonight discusses the governing policies surrounding unmanned aircraft EBEBBDI believe it was last updated in April and given the things we've seen happening around the country y lately, I think we may want to revisit that. The wording for the flight of those aircraft by non licensed people. In residential area areas. It says something along the lines of and I'm sorry I had it in front of me but I closed it. So something along the lines of we shall respect the privacy of the community given what we see happening, we may want to tighten that up at some point. Maybe even to the point of saying with the permission of the people over whom we're flying, tighter restrictions on photography and video equipment, things like that. Kind of a hot thing in the in country, and I think we'd be smart to review it. OK. Thank you. We made a note of that for the next agenda setting meeting. All right We have voted to reschedule the executive session until January 16th. So with that, this meeting is adjourned.