25 second warning, we're starting in 25 seconds. This meeting is now called to order. Roll call, please. Vice President Konz, here. Director Wilburn, here. Director Payne, here. President Shandy, here. The pledge Allegiance will be led by Vice President Konz. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
All right. Thank you, Director Konz. At this time, let the record show that the public hearing on the 2025/2026 proposed budget is now open. Ms. Allan. Thank you. In compliance with state statute A proposed budget for 25/26 was presented to the Board of Education on May 8th, 2025. The proposed budget was made available for inspection on the district’s website and in person at the EAC starting on May 9th, 2025. Legal
notices of the proposed budget were published in the local newspapers The 25/26 proposed budget will be considered for adoption at tonight's meeting. Mr. Belcher, do we have anyone signed up to speak to the board this evening regarding the proposed 2025 fiscal budget? We do have one individual who has signed up for comment Thank you. The Board welcomes the comments of our community members. We greatly value all comments from the public, but in order to adhere to Board policy and accomplish the work, the work already on the
the agenda, the board and Superintendent will not respond at the meeting. Speakers may offer appreciation for or criticism of school operations and programs as concerned them but are are encouraged to exercise their speech rights responsibly as they are personally responsible. For any legal consequences attributable to their comments, including claims for defamation, please keep in mind that students often attend board meetings. Speakers remarks, therefore, should be suitable for an audience that includes kindergarten through 12th grade students, 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 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 4.04, comments will be be curtailed if remarks or behavior becomes inappropriate the Board President may interpret Warren or terminate a speaker speaker's statement that is unrelated to the business of the school district, inappropriate for K12 students, or disrupted
to an orderly, civil and projective meeting. Thank you your cooperation. Our only commenter is Katie Czukas. I'm hoping to get some clarification because this is a budget hearing. It's not a typical type of comments. How much time do I have for my the hearing comments? 2 minutes That's unfortunate. Also in typically in budget hearings there's ability to ask questions and please don't have the timer going right now. There's ability to ask questions of me and the what was read said that you cannot address any questions will I have time to have questions addressed to me if that makes sense
No, my statement stands, 2 minutes, and no questions right now. Thank you. OK, that's a shame. OK, anyway, given my comments and prior years on the budget, I had planned to set aside a lot of time to review this large document. But it was surprising to me that this budget is only 59 pages versus last year's, which is over 300 pages. I totally agree with what the goals are about strengthening student academic growth and achievement, but today in the working session, we discussed capital shortfalls and we're hearing about a 19% cut to the current funding sources for the Air Academy High School rebuild. Again, my name is Katherine Czukas. I am
the parent Co-chair of the SAC for Air Academy High School. I live in the district. I have children at Air Academy. I recommend that you that you halt the approval of the budget for the 25/26 until the risks that can be identified and also incorporated in the budget. I encourage you not to approve the resolution 244-25 your agenda item 13 C until there's been discussion and details shared with the board about several specific items. Here's the specifics I'd like to have shared and discussed on page 6 it talks about what the the budgeting process may not allow. This is about El 2.6.
And again, I think there are. It's inadequate about the capital line items now the DoD cap is new. This budget has changed in the past month with respect to Air Academy. I think there could be a request to set aside aside more capital reserves to be used and be set aside for PISMIP funds from the district funds for Air Academy Academy. By this, I mean we're going to be using district funding sources like we were doing for Douglas Valley Elementary School. The board should be asking for year end fund balance balances to increase by more than.
75% for the capital funds for the next three to four years On page 41 you can see that the capital fund balances, the reserves are going down by a lot in the year year, a lot significant amount on page 41 for the 27/28 year. We cannot have this on page 20 29, we have no projection related to Pismat funds in the future, this also also could be a source for Air Academy. This could be happening on page page 37, you can see it's really interesting. We have mill have levies going going down each year and again, we've got a mill levy drop in 2026
Your time is up. Thank you. Please vacate. That concludes the public hearing portion of our agenda. There is a budget discussion later in the meeting at which board members may comment about the proposed 2025/26 budget. Mrs. Ruckman, Are there any updates to the agenda? There were updates to the agenda and the board has been made aware of these. Members of the board, are there any items you wish to move to to move from the consent agenda? Are there any discussion items to be added to the agenda? May we have a motion to approve the Agenda? Moved. Second. Roll call, please. Vice
President Konz, aye. Director Wilburn, aye. Payne, aye. President Shandy, aye. Does anyone have anything to share for board comment tonight? Director Konz. Thank you Briefly, thank you all for being here. As our school years ended, I just want to thank all those that are in the room and your teams here at D20 EAC for all your hard work We've been seeing a lot of big projects lately and I
just want to thank our cabinet and all their Staffs for really pushing forward on everything. Thank, uh, want to thank Colonel Cheo Stallworth for serving with us. Not only as our liaison on this board, but for serving our country and our community. And we honor you and Congrats on your upcoming retirement. And then finally, I just want to welcome Director Susan Payne to her first full board meeting, and we're glad to have you here and thank you so much for
for heeding the call. Thank you so much. All right, Superintendent Haberer All right. Well, we finished the end of the year and so many great things happening. So I did get several visits in actually, in the last couple of weeks before school ended and so many amazing opportunities for students to to celebrate at Mountain View Elementary, I had a chance to have a rather lengthy conversation with teacher Casey Baugh and she was telling me all about the You Fly Reading program,
hence the butterfly. And she uses the butterfly as a reward. So as students start to hit their goals that they set for themselves they get to wear the butterfly and I guess it's very popular, but I was just so so impressed with the ,just the system that she had there in her classroom and for that whole grade level. And so that was just a joy to learn more about their reading program. At Woodmen-Roberts, I caught it just in time, previous students who attended
Woodmen-Roberts had a chance, they were all seniors, and they do a walkthrough and everybody cheers for them, which is also a great role model for our younger students to see them in their cap and gowns gowns and think that's going to be me someday. Foothills Elementary again. They were doing the 5th grade clap, so the 5th graders all kind of parade through the school and everyone claps for him and these students on the left, there, they all wanted both Julie and I Principal Julie Cassano and I to sign their yearbooks. So that was pretty fun.
I don't think I've been asked that since high school. So that was just really fun. Eagle View Middle School, amazing, absolutely fantastic eighth grade choir concert. They the folks at Air Academy, if they're getting these students, are just gonna have such a wonderful new group for their programming there 'cause I know they have an amazing choir and drama program at Air Academy Academy as well. Project Search Graduation. That was a real joy and just I'm so appreciative of our partnership with
UC Health and so congratulations to our students who recently graduated from Project Search and that would include Chloe Cunningham from Liberty High School School, Logan June from Rampart, Matthew Jacobs, who also was from Rampart, and Elena Patel who was from Air Academy High School. So, as you guys know, Project Search is a national program that supports Adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities and the initiative helps participants have a
transition from school to meaningful employment between the ages of 18 and 21, and two of them already had jobs waiting for them as a result of their internship. So again a huge, huge thank you to UC Health and our partnership with them. Our Bridges graduation, and I know we had a chance to do that together. Huge congratulations to our students and these students students that graduated this year included Nicholas Enfield Christian Tovar, Paul Michael Mcgranski
Quay, Ella Stahl, Levi Archuleta, Travis Sweeten, Ryan Better, Hannah Wright, Sage Rovia, and JL Rivera Rivera. And the Bridges transition program, as you know, is our D20 program designed to support students with disabilities as they transition from high school to the adult world. And certainly individualizes the services that really are tailored to meet individual needs. And as you know, we had a wonderful time, amazing
graduation and a huge thank you to Dr. Field and Learning Services and everyone who helped out with this successful graduations. And thank you to the Communications team and taking all those wonderful pictures. And we had about 1800 graduates this year from our district. And then I had a chance to go to the 8th grade continuation ceremony and the gentleman who is speaking there, he is Jordan Pruitt, and
and he was their 8th grade class president and he was just did an amazing job with his speech. And I couldn't help but take a picture of Becky and I sporting our purple. Pine Creek High School, huge congratulations to Divyansh Kulkarni, I had a chance to meet him. I love going to Tiffany Davis, I always ask to go to her classroom, she does amazing job at Pine Creek with her programming and
and this student he won a logo design was chosen for the second annual Colorado Springs Fire Department open house so they used his logo for social media, for their open house and for their T-shirts, which I thought was really cool. And then Becky and I had a chance to go to the Pre-graduation reception and it was just wonderful to have some time speaking with our new Superintendent, General Tony Barronfind and he I told him that we were trying to invite him to his I met his wife at
the one of the football games and she mentioned she loves to stand outside and listen to the marching band at Air Academy. So I try to get an invitation through all of the I guess barriers or channels for last year's homecoming, and he said he never received it, so he actually gave his direct contact. So we're gonna try to ensure that he at least has the invitation and the date for homecoming but just appreciate his support and of course, we got to pet the Falcon, which was amazing. Huge thank you to our new Director, Susan Payne. That is such a delight to have you on the board. So we're
super excited about that. Colorado School, huge shout out to our Communications team, we're proud to announce that they received they went to recently a a convention that brings all the communication teams together in our state and they won the prestigious award of of excellence in the Internet Intranet category for our Insider, which Mark, you and your team just done a fabulous job in putting that together and what we do in Cabinet as we go around and say, OK, what do we have to submit to the
Insider, so it's a true team effort, but I just appreciate Mark and Krystal and the whole team and your efforts with that so that was exciting to see that they won an award, too, for that. Peak Education I was invited to go to the grand opening and want to learn more about this program and so I Kendra Tate, who's our college and career services coordinator there in the middle, and Tala will be Tala Harman We're all gonna work together to reach out to Peak Education. They might be a
a good source of support, especially for Aspen Valley because what they do, is they empower young people to pursue their dreams by dreams by helping them navigate the path beyond high school. They provide guidance, resources, support to ensure all youth, regardless of their background have have the access that they need and training so they'll actually come in and do some mentorship and just kind of help support our efforts. I told them about Aspen Valley and they were excited to explore that possibility. And our amazing Cabinet, truly, I just want to say how much I love each one of
them. We have such a strong team and we couldn't help but just have a little bit of fun to celebrate the great year that we've had together. And you see the amazing thing happened, all the things in our districts and we have amazing leaders and that is especially true for our Cabinet. Every single one of them. So, thank you, Cabinet. Could not do this job without you. You're amazing. We also are starting some new things and that is a special education spotlight. We have so many amazing things going on in our special Ed department, so we want to start highlighting those
wonderful programs that we have. So, we have three Academy District 20 students who are set to begin internships at UC Health. Again, through the Project Search, starting in August they get to rotate through various hospital departments facilities facilities, pharmacy, human resources, and it really offers them some amazing internship opportunities. So congratulation to Margaret Wilson, Ariana Ariana Winters, and Joshua Tobias, and a huge thank you to our special Ed team and all the support of their students
in helping to provide these opportunities. The other thing we're going to start adding to this Superintendent update is a strategic plan spotlight, so we were very excited to see that we hit our third grade reading goals. So we had the goal of 77 point achieved or above above or at or above the end of your benchmark and so we met our goal there. And then another celebration is that 90% of our third graders are reading
proficiently. And as you guys know, we're also tracking any students that don't hit that mark, we follow up with them the next couple years to ensure that they become proficient with everything that we can do before they graduate from 5th grade graduate transition to 6th grade. And then more celebrations really around connectedness, which is another important part of our strategic plan Colonel Hubert sent us a bunch of celebrations they just went to to a national competition and
they placed first in broad jump, second in pull-ups and flexed arm hang, 4th in beach obstacles and 3rd they placed overall all service and 1st place in the Air Force Coed team, and Colonel Huber also was named the Region Second Senior Instructor of the Year, and there are many celebrations within that and we're just so proud of our team. And we also had a wonderful time to celebrate with our classified staff. Over on the right I
spent some time in their new facility with the transportation team, just really asking them what's going well, what are some of our challenges. And I had the wonderful opportunity to meet Jeff Prophet over in the right hand corner there There he is, the Colorado State pupil Transportation Association Rodeo. Champ he he's qualified for the national competition in Austin this summer, so we'll get to we'll have to wish him the best and
hear about how that goes, but he was really excited to tell me about his his rodeo, his bus rodeo experiences. And then over on the other side, certainly was really wonderful to be able to visit with all of our classified staff. They're really a a foundation, a very foundational support to our whole district and we can't do it without them. Again, they're such an important part of our Team One. And then as thank you, all of you for the transportation ribbon cutting. That was exciting and I think we were all so impressed with that new facility
And so as we shared there, this project represents a significant step towards supporting our amazing transportation operations and team and although it was not originally included in the 2016 bond Language, because of careful financial management, it allowed us to complete it as a final project of the $230 million bond initiative and it really addresses the needs, all the needs that were identified in 2016 and truly demonstrates how we use our resources
responsibly. And thank you to Nicole and Amy, Director Konz and Director Shandy and Director Payne. Thank you so much for being there for the PISMIP PISMIP. Evaluation today was so great and thank you, Colonel Stallworth, for bringing your team. It was again a true Team One moment. As you can see, we all sat together and a huge thank you to Deputy Superintendent Becky Allan. Becky, you are just exceptional in putting all of that data
together in the presentation and the agenda and all of that. So thank you. I went really well I think the folks from the Department of Defense are very supportive of our project and we're going to spend another day or in the morning tomorrow and go to a Discovery Canyon and we're looking at the different career Academy options. But I know I just felt nothing but support from them today. And it's due to our team effort and especially all the detail and that you put together, Becky and you and Kris, I know really worked hard on that and so
so thank you. Now we want to say a special thank you to Colonel Stallworth. He has been our Liaison to USAFA and he has been in service to D20 for the past two years. You joined the Board of Education as again, our USAFA liaison in the summer of 2023, I think the same summer I came on, right, and he's really been so integral in helping us With our Pismo project as well as anytime we've had had a need to
work together with USAFA, It's like Colonel Stallworth, we need your help. And then snow days, right? I mean, I know you and Becky were gonna call each other like 4:30 in the morning 4 Excuse me. Yup. Four. And just a wonderful partnership. And I know that you are really a big part of that. So just want to thank you for that. Colonel Stallworth, he is the Commander of the 10th Mission Support Group at the United States Air Force Academy. He commands a team of nearly 1,900
Military, civilian and contractors and he is also retiring from the Air Force after 20 years of service to our country. So thank you for your service to that is just tremendous. So, we'd like to give share a few mementos with you, so if you'll come around around in front. And that's the end of my Superintendent report. Mr. Smart, do you have an administrator that we can celebrate? I don't only have one, I have 7. Oh, I'm not. I'm not gonna get the record, though. Becky got 8, so I'm still I might
make up, I may make up two just so I can get to 9. So see if I can come up with a couple extras tonight. The first two folks I'm gonna introduce are not here tonight. Unfortunately, they were not able to to be here in person or online and they're doing some other things, so I'll just introduce them, but they wish they could be here so So, the first individual I'd like to introduce is Mike Wedor. Who's being recommended as the principal at Village Middle School? He's actually in Branson, MO, which I didn't realize this when I was a kid, I went to Branson. I didn't know I was in Branson 'cause I was a kid and
we went to this place called Silver Dollar City, and I still have a fear of log rides because of that place So. And guess where I'm going this summer? Branson. Oh, gosh. OK, so. I know. Mike holds a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering and a Master of Science in Engineering Management from the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs. He began his kinda educational career at USAFA as an analyst in a couple different areas. He was a lessons learned specialist and also in admissions and then he was also in the enrollment programs branch and then
he went to District 49 to Rocky Mountain Classical Academy where he did several different positions there. He was a teacher. He was in elementary school principal and then A K-8 principal and athletic director and then he moved on to Odyssey Elementary School where he was was an assistant principal. And then to Skyview Middle School, where he was the assistant principal and he currently serves as the principal at Skyville Skyview Middle School in District 49. So we're pleased to recommend Mike tonight for the position of principal at Village Middle School. You can clap if you want, just even though he's out here. I mean just for
for me. Makes me feel better. OK, Thank you. All right, the next individual I'm gonna introduce is Karie Ebbens and she's being recommended for the Director for Curriculum and Instruction. And again she's unable to be here tonight, but she holds a Bachelor's of Arts in Elementary Education from the University of West Florida and a Masters of Arts in Education Administration Supervision from University of Phoenix. And she began her career in District 11 as a third grade teacher and then moved on to District 49 where she was a 3rd grade teacher at Woodman Hills and also a
literacy coach at Ridgeview Elementary School. Then moved on to Harrison District 2 where she worked at Sand Creek Elementary School as an Assistant Principal and she's currently serving as a principal at Ranch Creek Elementary School. And so we're excited to have her step into her new role as Director for Curriculum and Instruction. I need a little applause sign or something. I could do that. No just just kidding. You guys are great. OK, so the next individual I'd like to introduce is Allison Metcalf, who's being recommended as the Assistant Principal for Mountain View Elementary School. And I think there's a few folks from Mountain View here tonight
as well. Yeah. All right. And she's here with her husband, Nick, and her kids Quinn, and Tate was gonna come, but then he decided to stay home and I'm here. He's gonna miss out on milkshakes after this is over, so I'm sorry, Tate. OK, So, Allison holds a Bachelors of Science in early childhood education from the University of of Wisconsin. Stout that must be in is Is that in Stout? Wisconsin is that way. Oh. Madison. Oh Menominee. Oh, that's another hard word. That's why I didn't say it Masters of education in Cultural and Linguistic diverse education from
from Colorado State University. Pueblo. Which I'm glad it's Pueblo instead of Fort Collins. As I went to school in Wyoming, so at least that's better. And Allison began her career in Harrison District 2 at Mountain Vista Community School as a CLDE teacher for K2 and then Bricker Elementary School where she was third grade teacher and ELG instructional coach. And she's currently serving as a TOSA/Dean of Students at Sunrise Elementary School in Whitefield District 3. So we're
pleased to recommend Allison tonight for the position of Assistant Principal of Mountain View Elementary School. Anything You'd like to say? all right. Hi everyone, good evening. I am truly honored and excited to be joining Academy School District 20 as the new Assistant Principal at Mountain View. I am looking forward to working alongside Principal Gorsh and contributing the to the incredible work she's already begun. I wanted to extend my gratitude to Mr. Smart, Ms. Killingsworth, the Hiring Committee, Hiring Committee, and the Board of Education for for this amazing opportunity to serve our D20 community.
Thank you. Thank you. All right now, Quinn, you owe me because I'm making sure you're getting milkshakes tonight. All right. The next individual I'd like to introduce it is Amanda Wermers and who's being recommended as the Assistant Principal and athletic director at Rampart High School and she she holds a Bachelor of Science in Secretary Education from the university of Vermont. That just sounds nice, doesn't University of Vermont and Masters of Arts and Educational Leadership from the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs She began her career in Harrison District 2 as a health
teacher and then went to Douglas County School District and was a PE teacher And a health teacher there and then went back to Harrison to teach PE, health and avid and then became an IB coordinator and interim principal and then an assistant principal. She's done it all right? She's done it all. And then she moved to district 11 where she's an assistant principal/ athletic director there at Mitchell High School and so we're pleased to introduce her tonight for the position of assistant principal and athletic Director at Rampart High School. Anything you'd like to say?
OK. I just want to say thank you for allowing me to join the District 20 team and the Rampart team. Super excited to jump in and have this opportunity and I look forward to a great time in District 20 Thank you. Thank you. All right. Thank you. All right. Next, I'd like to introduce Alice Stoneback, who is being recommended as the assistant. All right, yeah, let her go. Woohoo. Recommended as the assistant principal for Air Academy High School. She's joined this evening by her husband, Matt, and her two sons Sebi, which is short for Sebastian correct, and then Bear.
Bear. I love that name. Bear. Now he, they say he truly is like a bear. He'd climb a tree and all I did was fall out of of trees. So way to go, Bear. Alice holds a Bachelor's of Arts in French and secondary education from Alma College and a Masters of in Teacher Arts and Humanities from Colorado College in Colorado Springs She began her career in Manitou Springs as a teacher, track and field coach, cheerleading coach student council advisor. Anything I'm missing there? Pretty much everything, yeah. And then now she's
currently serving as a Dean of students and little bit of activities director help there at Air Academy right. And so we're happy to recommend her tonight for the assistant principal at Air Academy high school. Anything you'd like to say? Sure. Thank you. I just want to say I'm so excited to be an assistant principal at Air Academy High School and to just continue my learning and growth as part of the very Special KDet community. Thank you to Amy for selecting me to be part of the incredible administrative team, and thank you
to the board for this opportunity. Thank you. Quite a quite a cheering section. All right. Good job OK, so next I'd like to introduce Kendra Tate, who's being recommended as the Director for College and Career Services. She holds a Bachelor's of Arts in journalism from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hills at the Tar Hills and I'm a a Duke fan, so OK. Anyways, masters of Masters of education and from the University of North Carolina Greensboro cuz he decided not to go go back to the Tar Hills to switch it up, OK
and then a masters of education educational leadership from Northern Arizona University, which fun fact, I also got my masters at Northern Arizona Arizona University. Go lumberjacks. Yeah, Bachelor. So quite a few of us went there And so Kendra began her career in Tucson Unified School District in Arizona. She worked at several schools and middle school, high school and did journalism, intervention teacher English also ACT teacher in business and and marketing as well. And then she went to Page Arizona, which another fun fact, when I was a teacher in Arizona, I used to coach
coach and we played against Paige. I used to go to Paige all the time and they beat us most of the time. So I'm really sad about that. But she was an assistant principal there and then she she also went to Casa Grande Elementary School District and went to was a principal at Cactus, which so if if you have a school in Arizona, it has to somebody has to have a Cactus elementary school or middle school. That's was middle school. And then she went to Tucson Tucson Unified School District where she was AK-8 school principal there And she currently serves as a college and career coordinator in
in D20. And so we're excited to recommend her for the director for college College and Career Services. Anything you'd like to say? I just want to thank everyone for this opportunity and President Shandy, Superintendent Haberer, board members I'm just really excited to work alongside the team that I've been working with for the last four years and with district leadership as we continue the what we've built so far and to grow that from the portrait of a graduate to our dual and concurrent enrollment, our industry certification, all the things that we we are doing currently as we prepare students for their post
secondary. Life so that we create those lifelong learners and who have multiple opportunities and can carve out their own path because they're prepared so So thank you again for this opportunity. I'm very excited. Thank you. Wow. That's OK. All right. Thank you you for that. All right, last but not least all right, I would like to introduce Jim Rohr, who's being recommended as the Director for contracting and purchasing. Maybe Becky wants to do a little No, OK, he's joined this evening by his wife, Beth, who said she didn't want to be introduced. Oh, that was my notes for myself not to do that. But Beth, thank you for coming
tonight. Jim holds a bachelor's of science and justice systems from Truman State University and a Masters of Business Administration in finance from the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs. He's also a certified public procurement officer and a certified procurement professional. That sounds very exciting and and I'm sure I hear about that later. Yeah, she's going to tell me all that. So he began his career. He was in the US Army. Did several things, air platoon leader, operations officer, company commander KB Home construction. Another fun fact, I did have a KB Home when I lived in California
So, yeah. So it's just like 6° of separation going on here tonight if you don't know that that, look up Kevin Bacon. Also worked at Today's Homes, Leonard Corporation and construction manager, and Blue Sky Restoration is the project manager. He's currently serving as a purchasing and contracts manager in District 49. We're pleased to recommend Jim tonight for the position of Director for Contracting and Purchasing. Do you have anything you like to say? Keep it short, I just want to thank the Board, everyone that I've met so far. It's been a great experience. I'm super excited to start and I can't wait
Thank you. Thank you. Just so Jim has been so excited. He's kind of already just like reached out and said, hey, anything I can do? So we appreciate that, Jim, appreciate you being ready to roll so So that's all I have for tonight. Thank you. Till now, you won't see me again till August. I know it's gonna be sad. Thank you, Mr. Smart. I wanna circle it back around. I apologize. Director Wilburn. You had a board comment that I did not allow you to make. So please, I did Director Shandy and her desire to keep these meetings moving. First of all, I can't help but wonder if all these people from Northern
Arizona is just an indication that school's easy to get into or or is that? Is that not the case? I had a couple of comments and also busy looking for my notes. I just I missed the window. I too, would, of course like to congratulate Colonel Stallworth who was leaving the Board and Mrs. Payne who is joining it. Frankly, I don't know which of the two of you should be more happy about that fact, but best of luck my friend. It's been a pleasure to get to know you and I'm certainly enjoying getting the opportunity to know you. What I wanted to comment on so at the last board meeting during
public comment even there's a lot of concerns and questions about special education and rightfully so, I think all school districts probably struggled to some point. It's a very difficult area of the the education industry to manage. And the comment was made that we are sending our SPED professionals away by the the dozens. And I thought if that's accurate, that's not good. I mean, we need to make sure that we're we're getting and and retaining the right people. So I reached out to our head of HR, Mr. Cameron, actually, no, to Mr. Smart, but to the Superintendent Haberer, who then reached out to Mr. Smart, because that's how we do it and said, you can we get
get a, can we get a look at our numbers? Are we really hemorrhaging special education professionals? And if so, what's our plan for correcting that? And Mr. Smart provided me the the actual numbers. Now, granted, there's some ebb and flow here because these these resources get reallocated from time to time and sent where they're needed and what have you around the district, but as of May 1st, so the end of last school year, May 1st, 2024 the district employed 39 resource para education educators. 39. As of May 1st this year so roughly
a month and a couple weeks ago we had 40 research para educators within the district. So appearances and reality may not be the same. We're we're going to work on it. We are working on It. Superintendent Haberer daily is engaged in making sure that our SPED abilities are where they need to be. But the idea that we're, we're just sending people away by the dozens because for for whatever reason is not accurate. And we're we're constantly working on that. There's not a day that goes by that we aren't. These children deserve as much attention as anybody else but the
idea that the numbers are plummeting, I just wanted to point out that that's not entirely accurate. Thank you. Thank you, Director Wilburn. All right, we need a motion to approve the consent agenda as posted. moved. Second. Roll call, please. Vice President Konz, aye. Director Wilburn, aye. Director Payne, aye. President Shandy, aye. There are 15 people viewing the live stream right now and we will take a 10 minute break to transition. See you in 10.
One minute warning, please. One minute warning. Find your seats. All right, it's always so incredibly inspiring to begin our meeting by celebrating the hard work and achievements of our D20 faculty, staff, liaisons all the amazing people. So thank you for that. Now we transition into the business portion of our meeting, a time for
thoughtful discussion and decision making out of respect for for this focus, we ask that the applause be held during this part of the session as we as we shift our attention to the important work ahead. Thank you very much. There are no items pulled from the consent agenda. Monitoring report for executive limitations Policy 2. 5 asset protection. Does anyone have any questions or comments? Director Wilburn, when you're ready. No worries, take your time. OK, 2.5 asset protection. So I can't get at the report now because I'm temporarily offline. We'll have to fix that in a minute. Policy provision 2.5
point 1. So on page 2, the data reported includes annual property appraisals, but then 2.5 point 2 the final budget says the appraisal company only inspected new construction, which which I suspect is probably the right one because doing the whole thing seems excessive. But which way does that actually work? I guess that's that, Becky. Yes, Deputy Superintendent. OK. Over be great no overview is Mr Ristig to contact you, but periodically and you're referring
to our appraised value in the school district so So I think what might be referred to is that there's an appraisal done of our existing properties and at sometimes for them to update that they just then evaluate the new construction and then they'll get and evaluate all buildings. But if any more specifics, I'd be more than happy to have Mr. Ristig contact you, no that I had a feeling was something like that. I just wanted to make sure. District
broker and then in two DOT 5.8 which is the Cumbra Vista, I think it says the report says summer or fall Is there any tightening on that transaction yet or is that still kind of where we are? I have no update after they extended it with the one that was Approved back on May 8th where they asked to extend the closing deadline. But I have not gotten an update I did ask our contact, do you think that by September because that's the new window we signed on for and I said you're shot
at that is June and August and and September, those would be the three board meetings that would be available. And I said I assumed June would not work and I said you'd really have to then have that tightened up because the board has to go ahead and. That in advance so to make that that September closing it would have to either be approved at the August meeting or the September meeting she She said that she thought that would work, but certainly if anything changes
we would need to execute another amendment and I would bring it to the the board for consideration. OK, So we'll find out when you find out kind of thing Yes, Sir. OK And lastly 2.5 DOT 9 vehicle asset disposal. I'm just curious this. So we had several vehicles I don't have it in front of me but mostly Trucks and tractor. I mean heavy vehicles. Reach the end of their depreciable life? What actually happened to those trucks and vans? Are those disposed of or they just reached the end of their appreciable life Well when it's off, yeah, we
don't use them anymore that that's kind of the full disposal process whether or not we not we received any income on these. I will research that and get back back with you. I'd buy one. OK. Thank you. You're welcome. Any other questions? No. OK, is the Superintendent excuse me, is the superintendent's interpretation of the policy reasonable? Is there sufficient evidence to determine compliance for Are all these sections in compliance recognition of exemplary performance or concerns regarding for performance
Would you like to see any additional different evidence or should any part of this policy be changed in the next monitoring report cycle? Do you see any evidence which is extraneous or no longer necessary? All right, that brings us to monitoring report for executive limitations policy 2.10 district calendar does Does anyone have questions? Director Wilburn, I do. I'm doing this from memory because I had to do a restart, but I believe the the El it's written that the school year shall not begin in the first two weeks
of August. You're shaking your head, so you already know OK what am I missing or what do we want? You're close, but it's the first number one under the El 2.10. I have it up live from board docs. It says start the school year as late in possible. Right. Not in the first two weeks, Director. I think at one, there's one portion that says what you said, Dr. Field, and there is another portion I noticed that too. We're only a day earlier than two weeks, but there's some portion of that report that did say was it in report or in the El?
I believe it was a report. Can we pull that up? What was in our board packet? Sure. Thank you, I'm just coming back to life here. It'll be erased so you can get it up first, right? Dr. Fields is Director Konz is. I which page? It's just in the interpretation. OK, that is where we read it though. So what does it say exactly so So this is the first page of the report. Yeah, I see it. Yep. The The interpretation. The district shall ensure that the school year does not fall I'm sorry, does not begin within the first two weeks of August
That's a that's not written correctly because the El which is what we follow, says within the as early as possible. So ll make effect we'll fix it. OK. And so we need. Get that in our MRE too, OK, Yeah good catch. Any other questions? All right, is the Superintendent's interpretation of the policy reasonable? Is there a sufficient evidence to determine compliance for each section? Are all sections in compliance recognition recognition of exemplary performance, or concerns regarding performance would you like to see
any additional different evidence or should any part of this policy be changed in the next monitoring cycle? Yes, we need to change the wording. Do you see evidence which is extraneous or no longer necessary? Yeah. All right. All right, that brings us to the advisory Personnel Performance Evaluation Council Does anyone have any questions or comments? Director Wilburn. Just one curiosity I'm wondering. So we had. 146 life licensed staff members complete H Triple E Just wondering where that 146 comes from it It seems like a great number. Does that typically go up, go down, or stay right
about there? Well, this is the first year we had the full implementation of highly effective educator. Evaluation 'cause it just went into effect So this is our first kind of full implementation of it and that's throughout the district. So that's including all school sites we We anticipate that will continue to go up from here as people learn more about that and fall into that category so So thank you, Mr. Smart. Yep. All right. 2025 summer projects update? Does anyone have questions or comments? Director Wilburn. I guess I'm sucking all the airspace up, sorry about that.
Replace gym floors. We had talked about asbestos abatement and all those things where what does I mean, clearly it's been budgeted and oh, thank you, Mike Redmond is our director for Facilities and he'd be happy to help. So just to hear the question again one more time, it's just so we talked multiple times over the last year or two about replacement of gym floors and asbestos abatement was always an issue because it's difficult and expensive. We have everything we need. It's gonna get done I forget which schools, I think there's two or three, it's at Woodmen-
Robertson, Chinook. We do matter of fact, just there there, Woodmen-Roberts yesterday. Containment bubbles built. They're removing the asbestos getting out of there, and once that's removed they'll be able to reinstall the floor and go to the next stage. So yes, we have everything we need for being a technical knucklehead. I have no idea what getting the bubbles installed when you you go in, you have to make sure that as you're working in this, you're picking up dust, you're kicking up the particulate. That's there. You don't want it to get into the building or out
so they build a bubble. It looks just like that. When you go up to the doors where they're working, it's a contain bubble that has, you know, I want to say it's plastic, it's not, but that keeps all the air where you want it and doesn't allow the asbestos particles to escape. And at DCC, this is just a curiosity for me. We talked about, we're talking about putting any post tension surface. I think it was for tennis. What What is that? It is basically the better version of how
you do tennis courts today. What they do, the courts that are currently there are asphalt overtime they breakdown, they move real easy what we're re putting in is concrete that's reinforced with steel, with pieces of steel wire and it it goes through and it's post tension because they actually will stretch it like a rubber band. So they put it in there and then they pull it extremely tight. And then cut it, secure it and and what it does is over time as the concrete gets older
it keeps it pulled together. So if you do get cracks their their hairline cracks, they base they don't exist where if you were to to go up to DCC right now and look at the asphalt we have cracks that are two 3 inches, this won't t happen with the post tension. It'll actually keep it together longer. Mr. Wilburn, shortly after I started as CFO, Mike and I would walk the some of the tennis courts they had a a lot of cracks. Not only at DCC but other sites as well, and it used to get what I'd call a band aid
every year or two with you the crack filler filler and it just we were putting good money after bad and so we went ahead and invested in those post tension courts and now now we have them. This will this will be our last site. It is it's it's the last. So they'll all be post tension separate challengers. Got asphalt under the high school? It's going to squirt the the long range. It's gonna save a ton of money with all the expanding and contracting it will it was one of those OK just let's put another 100,000 in but it just with the freezing and thaw it just
it just wouldn't last. Over a long period of time and we'd be right back at Square 1. So we decided to really invest and take care of it. Yeah, the band aids that we were talking about, they wouldn't last through a year, so it'd be great courts in the fall for the boys by the time the girls girls were playing, the spring cracks were all there came back So this was a great investment. Director Cons. So Mr Redman and Mr Morse is is that right? OK. We were sitting next to each other this morning at Air Academy, so I was just kind
kind of asking him about. In this report, the Mountain Ridge Portables and you said you were able to sell them. Yep, which is exciting. It had just generated a question in my mind about how frequent because because so many port modular buildings are so old, How often does that happen? But if you just you can share a little bit, then I have another comment. Yeah, we actually sold two of them. Two of the three. Doesn't happen enough for me to be happy just because of the portals are temporary. We have a lot of them. There's a lot of maintenance that goes along with them to keep them
up. Yeah, but when we can, we do try to sell them. As we were talking this afternoon, things with the temporary buildings, a lot of us are 30-40 years old. I laugh because we have couple that are older than than the school they're at. Cause they do get moved around, reused, repurposed remodeled, we are able to easily fix them up. But there's quite a cost to doing it as we're moving them around. But when we get to a point we get rid of them, we either demolish them or in this case we're able to sell. Well, I'm glad for that. Thank you. And
it's this is just kind of. A beginning comment to the board and Superintendent Haberer that. How much money know there's a lot of. $20,000 Metal ramps that need replacing, The old wood, that's people are getting injured on ramps up to the modular buildings so So I just want to start the conversation just a outlook of how necessary the the modulars are at our schools with maybe stagnant enrollment or something.
I just think it would be wise for us to look at making sure we're not putting. You where student safety staff safety is a concern that needs to happen but making sure we're not putting too too much money into these modular buildings perhaps perhaps when we're not gonna be needing them. So thank you for the insight this morning. Monthly financial report through April 2025 does Does anyone have any questions or comments? No, OK, just making sure they want to skip you again. 2nd semester, 2024/25
expulsion report. Does anyone have any questions or comments? OK. Changes to administrative policies update. Does anyone have any questions or comments? OK, Executive limitations Policy 2.11 administrative policy adoption process Does anyone have any questions or comments? Mark, can you please pull this up? I wanted to make a quick comment. Been serving on this board for 19 months. I think it is. And in that time come up again and again with policies created and things like that the
The board would like to be more a part of and Superintendent Haberer has been amazing in receiving our desires to be a part part of policy, administrative policy creation. Carver's policy model. Has worked for many years, but for this board we need a little bit of adaptation for that in In this policy 2.11 gives us that gives us more of a role in administrative policy creation and and I'm excited about that and I'm very appreciative
for Superintendent Haberer's willingness to participate in that that and her ideas around it and for her cabinet cabinet to also. Welcome our desires as a board for that so. Director Konz and just to to add on to what President Shandy said. This has been a thoughtful process of trying to all work together as team one and 1st from what I understand. I want to thank the cabinet for being open to this modification, but really I'm
thrilled for our citizens, our public in our area to get a monthly. We're expecting a monthly report about administrative policies rather than twice a year with that long list that is attached in BoardDocs. So we're really going to increase the transparency of all of us in this room and in this community getting to hear much more frequently about updates and have a discussion. The board is going to get a chance to hear the
historical reasoning behind administrative policies. We're re going to be able to have much more. Full rich discussions about each policy so I appreciate everyone working together with that. Very good Thank you. Monitoring report for governance policy Process policy 4.5. Monitoring board governance process and the board Superintendent relationship does Does anyone have questions or comments? Director Konz Director Wilburn, did you have any? Just before I go, OK
all I wanted to point out to the the board is no changes in this policy but right at the top in the 1st first paragraph, the last sentence, it says monitoring current progress will be done as efficiently as possible balancing the need to allow sufficient time and depth for this important function as we're doing right now, reviewing all these policies with the need balancing. With the need to use meetings primarily to create the future rather than review the
past, so I just appreciated that reminder as I was reviewing this policy that although it's good and right for us to review our current policies that let's make sure we are focusing on that forward looking future looking agenda at every board meeting. Yeah, that's great. Love that. Thank you All right, any other comments, questions? 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 see
would you like to see any additional different evidence or should any part of this policy policy be changed in the next monitoring port cycle? Do you see evidence which is extraneous or no longer necessary? OK monitoring report for governance policy, process policy 4.7 board committee principals. Does anyone have any questions or comments? Director Wilburn. One comment. I think this is typographical in nature On background it says the resolution finding it in compliance was passed August 8th 2025. Which hasn't arrived yet.
Forward thinking forward. She's looking. Where Derrick? Sorry, I Last sentence on the background. And 4.7 I'm sorry if if I'm just not finding it yet. I was looking at the attachment. OK. This report. Will be passed. Yeah, I just need to be changed to. Will be OK, thank you for. OK. Thank you. All right. Thank you for that, Director Wilburn. Is there sufficient evidence to determine compliance for each section? Are all sections in compliance recognition of exemplary
exemplary performance, or concerns regarding performance? Would you like to see any additional different evidence or should any part of this policy be changed in the next monitoring report cycle? It wasn't the policy that was incorrect. It was just yeah. So nothing there. Do you see any evidence which is extraneous or no longer necessary? OK. Monitoring report for governance process Policy 4 8 Board committee structure. Does anyone have any questions or comments? Director Konz. OK, I would like to submit to the board
a minor change so Mrs. Ruckman if the board agrees, if there's consensus would like for this report to be changed going forward for next year for for us to approve the new wording but in 4 B and Mark, can you bring it up please? Thank you. OK, so just scroll up a little bit to 1B. Thank you so much. It says membership for the DAC members of the DAC shall be appointed by the Board of Education
That's not quite accurate in 4.7 it it even says they will be approved by the Board of Education So I just submit that we change that word online. 2 of B2 shall be approved by the Board of Education. OK, and then please do not change further on in that paragraph. It says the board may appoint additional ad hoc members if expertise is desired. That is accurate, so make sure we keep that word. So thank you.
OK. So I'll notate that in the MRE, no All right. Any other questions or comments? OK Is there sufficient evidence to determine compliance for each section are all all sections in compliance? Recognition of exemplary performance or concerns regarding performance. Would you like to see any additional different evidence or should any part of this policy be changed in the next monitoring report cycle Director Konz just approved. Correct. Appointed to approved. Do you see any evidence which is extraneous or no longer necessary? OK. Monitoring report for governance process policy
4.9 board agenda planning. Does anyone have any questions or comments? Director Konz. OK. Thank you. One submittal for clarification on number six of GP 4.9. Thank you, Mark, this is just to align with another GP that we adjusted, but we are now calling the Superintendent evaluations or reviews mid-year and end-of-year instead of formative and summative. So if we could
Remove summative informative and just use mid-year and end of year. OK, thank you. And then the only other thing I want to another little point out for the board to keep on our radar is in two. DI One. I just want to I do this every year but I never want to lose our linkages because we get busy sometimes groups that we've have have committed to doing linkages drop out, whatever. So I just want to make sure we keep doing them. I love how we
did it last time where we had a full day of meeting with all of our stakeholder groups, the teachers the parent sounding board, the student supervisor supervisory committee Superintendent committee. I think that I suggest that should be a staple every year as one of our linkages to have that full with our big overarching questions to talk to every stakeholder group. That so just want to keep it on our radar
Absolutely. That's great. Director Wilburn, do you have anything OK, that sounds great. OK, is there sufficient evidence to determine compliance for each section are all 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 monitoring report cycle? Can Director Konz please surmise to Cheryl to Mrs. Ruckman your your number six, remove the 2 words I think you got it and change them. Thank you so much.
And I really don't recall if the mid-year one was formative. Yeah, we'll have to look at which is mid-year formative is. Mid, mid-year, I'm sorry. Yeah, formative would be the mid-year and then summative would be every. That's what I thought. So it's kind of backwards So it's kind of backwards, I feel like in this policy here. Summative would be end of year and then further on when it says formative would be mid-year. That's what I thought. Thank you so much. OK, do you
see any evidence which is extraneous or no longer necessary? OK, very good. All right, 2025/2026 Board of Education agenda planning calendar. Does anyone have any questions or comments? OK. 2025/2026 Board of Education Liaison assignments Does anyone have any questions or comments? We already updated the one committee. Director Payne, OK. That's not voting right, and we corrected the spelling on the elementary school. Thank you. Excellent. With a hyphen. Will you kindly check for the hyphen Woodmen-Roberts is Is that correct hyphen? Thank you
OK, All right, that brings us to I think the point was Woodmen is plural. Yes, we got that. Alright, that brings us to our presentation supporting ESL success for National Geographic Pathways Superintendent Haberer. And with Director Shane Knight, would you like to come to the podium? All right. Thank you for giving us the opportunity to talk about this Kylie Bailey, she's assistant principal at Rampart High School and she'll be here to to answer any specific questions. It was asked that we just share a little bit of information. About kind of why this was selected as
an option for you to consider, this is an ESL text adoption and part of ESL is we wanted to look at make sure that we have material that doesn't just provide the English language acquisition standards, but also addresses other academic standards. So we look at the reading the writing, the the communications standards for high school we also look look at mark this not working for. Advancing, we also have the science standards. That are present in the National Geographic
textbook. Can you advance? So why the pathways? The National Geographic's pathways series It's a research based ESL textbook designed to build English language proficiency through engaging real world content. Think the real value of this is providing students students real-world. Articles that are grounded in cross curricular integration of standards. It has high level of academic vocabulary. Aligns with the English language standards by WIDA It provides scaffolded language. Opportunities for kids that come
from having zero English exposure to nearly proficient English skills and so that is very rare to find a textbook that has such a wide breadth of of opportunities for kids to develop and expand on their language acquisition and to have it embedded in content that they're going to encounter in their other classes. So not only is it helping them acquire the language in the ESL class, but it's also helping build their. Language skills that are gonna be necessary for success in language
arts, math, science, social studies and on the high stakes assessments that our kids are engaged in in and then just being a National Geographic text it it is highly engaging with authentic text and with visual media. Can we advance to the next slide Why it matters? It's a rigorous text text. It has a really sound. Research based strategies to engage students in the four components of language acquisition which are listening, reading, writing and speaking and it gives kids the opportunity to engage in
that. Now it's working. Alright, thanks Patrick, are you just watching my finger? Alright, so the way the textbook is designed it it provides opportunities for kids to think and discuss around central topic and then kids to explore that theme a little more deeply. They read 2 texts and in between the two texts that they read, there's a video opportunity. So not only do they get to practice the reading, they get a visual and an an audio to help with their listening and their speaking.
Then they have to respond to the text, and then they have to discuss and review and the way it's crafted is is to create discussion debates. It's not to teach the content, but it's to create opportunities for kids to discuss viewpoints that are that are exposed in the different writings and then to debate them, because that's the ultimate ultimate goal of language is to have conversation and discussions The way the themes are broken out there's five books in the series that starts from.
Works all the way to book 4 which which is the more advanced and each one has a different theme in each unit unit and I've got all those units. I can't read it from here, nor do I care to go over all of those, but you can see all the very topics from business to exploration of the world through socioeconomics through through sociology, through career exploration through scientific. Topics It builds students academic vocabulary across curricular contents. Now we had we went through the typical
typical review process, educators reviewed it, and then we had opportunities for community perspectives all All of the educators who reviewed it felt it was strong had a strong, engaging visuals that aligned with the standards both the content and the language standards the cross curricular connections, and then there were strong language language development and A5 point rating scale out of the I I don't remember, I think there's 57. Points across the five. I don't remember how many. There's a whole bunch, but an average to 4.9 out of five point
On the total ratings from the educators community Perspectives, 3 people rated it. All three felt that it had strong, engaging visuals. 2 out of the three felt that it had strong ESL strategies, that it was well organized, that it had a systematic approach towards instruction and value. The cross curricular notification. Two of the reviewers expressed that there were some articles that expressed A biased perspective. There certainly are some biases that come through in this textbook series. I mean, it's put on by National Geographic. There's going to be a bias
towards environmental consciousness that comes through there's that's just inherent. In the perspective of it, and I think that's probably why it's being considered with a higher level of scrutiny, we're not here to debate that we're not here to advocate for one thing or the other. We're here to present why we chose to bring this forward and allow you guys to make the debate. I have some opportunities for you guys to check out. The Foundations book 1 and book 2 and I believe you had an opportunity to review book 3 and book 4, which had the
three points that were community members had brought up as a point of concern for bias. Yeah I think we'll go ahead and just do discussions now too. And then if we want to discuss again before we vote, we can do that. I am the one that pulled the book and you were right, the ideological bias in the book is uncceptable, it just does not align with our district 20's vision for student outcomes. And character. And in fact, in my opinion it violates El 2 1 and 2.2 misaligns within's policy on
character, respect, integrity, compassion and responsibility and And while it does have beautiful, engaging pictures, it it does not appear to our academic rigor. I do not believe. I just can't support some the quotes that are in there and the One sided bias that it pushes and so that is why I pulled it. I believe we have better options For choosing to teach our ESL kids. So any other comments or questions?
Director Konz. I first want to thank the teams that continuously yes reviewed these books our You know our staff and public. We know how much time it takes and our stance on books is never a reflection on any personal. I just want to make sure we know that, OK, because I've been in President Shandy's position before, pulling text, and I understand. I did look at books 3 and 4 again. And I do agree with
President Shandy, one question for you, it's kind of a philosophical question. You might not have the answer, but you stated topics are meant to be debated, which I appreciate you pointing that out that. The book certainly does not allude to that if there's just one viewpoint being given in in a textbook, it's not really obvious that they're supposed to be debated so and then again, in addition to what President Shandy said About not being aligned with our character and specifically
I think about hope integrity that that in Book 4 there's a whole chapter segment on on lying and deception. I was just so disheartened that National Geographic wants to give our students a chapter about lying and deception when we could pick any other positive characteristic in this world that kind of put me over the edge. I'll just, that's my comment and I appreciate that. I do appreciate your time both of
And for putting together the presentation and all that. I'm passionate about and I just jump in, so thank you Director Konz for softening all of that for me too, so So any other questions or comments Director Wilburn? I'm thank you. I know it. It's very time consuming and I went through books 3 and 4 pretty thoroughly as well and it's clear there is ideological bias present in the book and for me personally, I'm OK with that so long as you've got the counterbalance right, if we're going to
present the Ying, present the Yang, that sort of thing. And we don't have a lot of When you start getting into the worldview of Leonardo DiCaprio that's OK, but let's get into the worldview of somebody who is on the opposite side of that. We're getting into carbon footprint. The effect of managing urbanization, which is in essence kind of talking about people where they should live and shouldn't live and these sorts of topics. They get delicate fast. And if the goal is to enhance one's English ability there, there's lots of ways to to do it. In book four, I think it's
Yeah, the human age begins with human beings have altered the planet so much in just the past century or two that we are now in a new epoch. And then it goes on from there, OK. Where's the other side of that kind of thing? And I remember I listened to A and there's scientists and science on both sides of the aisle in everything, but certainly in this issue of climate change and human activity and how human activity might be affecting that, and I listen to a great lecture. I can't remember who it was, but it was a guy at some some university. I traveled to a lot of universities, as a lot of people know.
And he was on the opposite side of the idea that human beings are changing the climate of the planet. And this is what he said. Whether you agree with him or not, he made a really great point that how old the Earth is, no one knows I mean, none of us know. Some people say it's 6000 years. Some people say it's 60 million. Some people say it's 60 billion. No one knows We'll never know, but we know it's old. The Earth has been around for a long time. Here before any of us got here. It'll be here after we're all gone and the idea that the earth, the age of
the Earth, the same people who will tell you like I'm paraphrasing his point, but the age of the earth is unknown. The same people who will tell you that the dinosaurs died off 65,000,000 years ago will tell you that in the last 100 years we're changing the Earth's climate. Well, we only have about 140 years of data. It's only been about a 140 years that mankind's been able to measure oceanic depths and atmospheric temperature. About 140 years. How accurate those first couple of decades were, nobody knows, But based on about 140 years
of data, we're going to make conclusive statements statements about the change to the climate. And at the same time say that dinosaurs died 200 million years ago. It's just it's a disconnect. So if we're presenting both sides of this, I'm fine with it. I don't see a lot of that. I don't see the Yang. I only see the Yang. So for me, that's problematic. I don't believe there's any other questions. Thank you very much. Yeah, neither, neither Kylie nor I wrote the text. Yes. No, I wish I would have, but no, I mean, the reality is it's your decision to
make, and we'll respect your decision. It's the best text. We Can beat our students needs at the moment, but we will continue to look for other texts. Thank you thank you we We appreciate you guys. Thank you. All right, Air Academy High School bond updates and federal impact Superintendent Haberer. Yes, Deputy It's on, right. OK, great Please allow me to again give a thank you. I I did during the work session this afternoon to the board
members, to Superintendent Haberer, Colonel Stallworth, Mark, we had such a strong presence today at at the federal evaluation team visit, as you can see a lot lot of people come in. It's a big deal, people from Washington DC to Boston to California flew in just for this and to have everyone voice in that space was very much appreciated. So the purpose of this update is to really give some more specifics around where
are we with funding for the PSMI project. Now it's important to just have a couple of distinguishing pieces first of all, we've got 2 PSMI locations in play. We've got Douglas Valley Elementary School. And we've got Air Academy High School for Douglas Valley Elementary. Remember there there are no building fund, no bond dollars going to the match for that particular site. It is simply the money that we decided as a
district and you as the board and the Superintendent decided it was an important enough project we felt around around 13 million was something that we could save over time. We have done that so building building fund dollars are not. In play and what I'm going to share with you here in a little bit only really applies to Air Academy high school, what we are going to be talking about is a limit on the cap associated with the federal match with respect to Douglas Valley it's not that there's
not a cap, however, we have already put in our design proposal for Douglas Valley. It has already been approved what the federal government shared with us. Is when we put that design proposal in, even though we're only asking the money to actually do the design, we also have to put in that proposal what we think the construction will cost the construction of of the new site, the PK 8, the demolition of the old school equipment that we'll need
the dollar amount that we put in that particular document, that design proposal. That is what the federal government said. They will stand by that match amount. We can't go higher than we put in that proposal, even though we still owe a construction proposal for Douglas Valley Once the design is complete, the dollar amount they have said verbally they can support support the dollar amount that we had in that proposal So really this particular presentation is mainly focused on Air Academy High School
but it inevitably sparks the question what about Douglas Valley? So that's the update there with. Valley again they will honor the dollar amounts that that we put in that particular design proposal so So let's just kind of go through what is the history history of the projected costs that we've been considering for this project since the beginning and when I say since the beginning, we are going to go back to not today's vet visit the one on March
14th of 2024, it's the one that we we will always remember fondly the three day visit where one of the Day’s was a Blizzard. All these people came in and they stayed in their hotel room and we did a virtual meeting with them. We had a Wednesday was the first day it was a a beautiful day like this. Then all of a sudden over a foot of snow, so all of us always commiserate on that and remember it. So when the team came, we talked heavily about Douglas Valley, but they also wanted to know about Air Academy
Box. That's got the green lettering at the very top of the screen, is what we shared with them at that time. We had done some conceptual work starting back in 2023 for Air Academy and these are the dollars that we anticipated that the project at Air Academy would cost and it's important important that I just point out a few of these specifics at the time. It was 212.8 million our our estimate and we escalated that to 20
$2026 at the time. But for this I've escalated to 2020 2027 because that's the apples to apples we're looking at that time. They also requested that buildings built through the PSMI program met net zero and photo voltaic. What does that mean? I did not know. So when I say that, please know I learned myself net zero and photovoltaic by by the way, is solar energy. Net 0 means just that. What you spend in energy, you bring in energy. So the
solar panels, the lighting. All of those pieces, it becomes a 0 sum game. So that cost was 238 million when you escalate it to $2027.00 off to the right in the green green font. That is how we derived the bond piece of how much we were asking. So if you take take 238 kind of rounded a little bit there there you go to a $240 million project
project. That's where we got the dollar amounts of. The 49 million, it was important that people see that. So now let's go to the second chart. This represents things that have happened since the bond passed Specifically on February 10th, we were notified by PSMI that NET 0 was rescinded That's $25.6 million. And we're not going to decide to say let's just do it anyway. It was. It was something
extra. Money is tight, so we say that comes off the books books. The other thing that was confirmed on May 19th and it was discussed again today at the FET visit was LEED silver, lead silver. The federal government does not require however, now but the installation meaning USAFA can tell us whether or not they require it. They do not. So between February and May, following the bond a total of 28.5 million. Came off the cost.
That is why you'll see on a separate slide I'll give you some details on what are what our particular design design proposal was for Air Academy. So let's look at the bottom box Where does that leave us on May 20th, right, May 19th, we find out LEED silver not required, OK so May 20th, where does it leave us if you take the the 238.4 million in green? You take away the 28.5 in red that we didn't need to do anymore You
you get 209.9. That's really where we were saying this is the dollar amount that we think we will need as the full project. Federal Government 80% D 2020% so let's turn the page. This slide shows the proposal that we put in prior to the cap. What is very important to know is at the lower right hand corner you will see that the 100 and eight 38938
38938 That dollar represents 80% funding from the federal government. When you look right above that number in blue, see the 209.8. Think back to the prior slide. Let's see if I can go back there's the two O 99 right? You see the numbers flowing flowing. And So what the federal government told us is we now have to cap the amount of money that the DoD public schools on military Installations program is able to give to district
20. So that's a change from what? We were anticipating for this project where we were never given a cap 167 eight eight goes to 120. I'm going to go to the next slide. So now we decide OK, if they're going to give us 120 million, we have to kind of backwards map what type of project, total project could we do Well if we we just go 8020, that's the share that is typical for these projects that's
the upper right above that line. We'd have 120 million in the federal dollars That means 30 million in match from District 20. Makes a 150 million million project. If you do the math, 80% gives you 120 2020% gives you 30. However, we know in the bond we listed 49 million and now you can backtrack why where that number came from so if if you look down below, an alternative
perspective is to say, OK. We get the 120 million from the federal government and then beyond that we've got 30 million in match and our voters approve dollars for this project. There's another 19,000,000 sitting there we can can use those dollars. We now have a total project at 169 000,000 and that is basically what we presented to the federal evaluation team. This morning in terms of what something
like that would look like. Now you might be wondering as I would too, and as any community member would, who voted for this bond, is that OK to do the 49 million we thought that's just the 20% match. Is this OK to use the 49 million? So let's look at that. Let's look at the bond language and I would like to relay the legal advice that that we received from our bond attorney at Butler Snow. So the bond language is this long?
OK, this box just has the part that's really specific about what these dollars are for. So I want to just highlight if you'll take a look, it's just kind of a reminder of what this was off to the right with the little red asterisk, these dollar dollar amounts do not appear in bond language, however they were a part of all of our conversations and and presentations. So the 83.14
million we were attaching 49 million to the match for Air Academy High School, 23 million for non charters and and 11.14 for charters. Then there's an important line that goes below that it it says, and for acquiring, constructing or improving any capital assets that the district is authorized by law to own. So when we spoke to the attorneys, they shared the following. I have those two areas highlighted specifically in yellow, they said basically
if you are going to use the entire 40 million, our legal opinion is that is acceptable because you would be using those dollars for two purposes. First, you would be using it for the 20% match, which is the first yellow line. And they said secondly, the remaining remaining 19,000,000, if you will, of the 49. Would be used for the yellow line at the bottom constructing or improving any capital assets that the district is authorized by law to own
That's the Air Academy high School facility. Let me go ahead. I'm going to move the slide. Oh. Yes, thank you. That would be confusing. OK, but I should have been a little sharper. So let's talk about it a little further because we know as well that conversations came up next year last year and the beginning of this year that sounded like this. Here's a question we would get. What if we were building air Air Academy High School? And it came in less than 240 million
it came in at 210 million would Would you issue all of the bonds because the matching dollars required for that project would be less? We said no, we would not issue those. That's really not the situation we're in right now when we think about it at the top top, there's two main reasons we would not issue all of the 49 million. The second one with the little bubble says if we had the ability to complete the full scale scope project budget, we don't have that.
The other one is if we had such a reduction or remember, people would ask me, Becky Are you sure the money's going to be there? I said, I don't know. I said we have the best hopes, but we cannot guarantee. And I used to say if they cancel the whole thing, then we don't issue the bonds well. We're really not in that situation either They've given us a match value of 120 million. With the 49 million, we can
still build a school that meets the bond language. Now it will have to have some reduction in scope. Square footage is the main piece piece of that. And of course we've also talked about the career and technical education pathways we would still have, aviation still have have advanced manufacturing, still put those spaces. In a Center for excellence, etcetera but some of the other pathways that we wanted to
to also start. Culinary Arts, Hospitality management, Computers, AI We also were talking about some mechatronics which is advanced manufacturing coupled with with robotics. We can't afford to start those new pathways, but we can take what we have and we can make them better. So what are pathway forward at this time? Again, given the legal advice given the very
very positive response from the federal government this morning is to continue moving down the road of rebuilding air Air Academy High School. We do not want to revert to a renovation because remember, renovation is more than just that looks really nice It's the plumbing. It is the electrical, it's the HVAC and we we know that Air Academy High School is sorely. Need and so we don't want to dump
trying to take old systems some back from the 50s and get it up to snuff and we do we believe we have a pathway forward in what we shared today and again the legal support to say what the 40 000,000 is a valid use of bond dollars for those two valid reasons. And also saying our commitment to the voters is not now at odds with what we would be doing. Because we are not in the situation of saying
great news, we can build the full scope project, we can get it all done for 210 million. That is not the case. So that's really where we are right now. We literally meet with the federal evaluation team again in the morning. We will talk about next steps and we will continue. It's very important that the community knows we will continue to look for other ways to complement the dollars, for example. When we sell the bonds, the 47 million, there's a chance they'll be premium. That's additional dollars coming in
interest income, community partnerships We had a great day with Siemens. There could be others out there that they hear about the project and want to contribute so lots lots of things are on the table, but this is truly the pathway forward that we see for this. May I answer any any questions? I don't have a question, I just have a comment. I appreciate all your work this morning. And coordinating all of that, I do think we have some exciting community prospects ahead of us. And I encourage you again to really dive
into that. Director Konz, do you have any comments or anything? First of all, on that same vein, they told us that we can't change the scope of the project once we receive the money. So if we were to. Make a premium on the next sale interest income. Community partnerships, would that be considered after the fact and then we just add on as we could, correct. We need to be very strategic when we build that that proposal. We have to have some good estimates about what those things would potentially
potentially be so that we can incorporate them in the scope so we don't lose out. And I'm sorry, remind me and I should know this, what is our goal for projection for it to have that done? And submitted. What we're looking at now is a different approach with the proposal When we submit it for Douglas Valley, we did a design proposal, got that, even though we had construction numbers in there, they don't hold you to it and And that's the that's the risk, right
right? That's the reward of saying, you know what, we're going to go through the whole design and then we're going to have it down at a penny and put that construction proposal in. And that is because if we over or underestimate, we risk. Putting some of the money that we put in that we maybe didn't need to for a Douglas Valley, this is now a different strategy 120 million. That's it. So what we'd like to do is put a proposal together. It's called a design construction proposal. It doesn't mean we need
blueprints. We can still use our conceptual designs I I asked that today. But that will speed up the process because whenever funding might be in jeopardy, the faster you move, the better, so it will be a priority for us, just as it's been been. I mean, you can see what the team was able to put together today after a couple weeks notice and we will put the same vigor in the next step as well. Director cons. And that was that was my other comment just for anyone out there that was.
Kind of gut punched when we heard the reduction down to 120 million they they reiterated the DoD reiterated to us several times today that we are locked in, we are going to get the money, but we do want to move as fast as possible so we we actually are in receipt of the money but they just for everyone to know they there was 100 and schools on military bases if I'm correct. They had previously done the 1st 59. And then a few years ago, air
Academy was #61 Douglas Valley was #71 on the list. They locked in approval through 71 through Doug Valley from Number school #72 on are being reevaluated. So it did put my mind at ease that at least we had that verbal commitment several times that were locked into now receive that money And so definitely it's in our best interest to move move swiftly. And I'm we, there are several of us that are still hopeful that we can fight and get some of that back. So we will continue to do what we can control
and connect and do what we can. So thank you, all right right. Thank you. All right, Mr. Belcher. 6:54 Mr Belcher, how many people have signed up to speak during public comment? Section 1 We have 3 individuals who have signed up. Thank you. The board welcomes the the comments of our community members. We greatly value all comments from the public, but in order to adhere to board policy and and accomplish the work ahead on the agenda, the Board and Superintendent Superintendent will not respond at this meeting. Speakers may offer appreciation for or criticism
of school operations and programs as concerns them, but are encouraged to exercise their speech rights responsibly as they are personally responsible for any legal consequences attributable to their comments including claims for defamation. Please keep in mind that students often attend board meetings. Speakers remarks therefore therefore, should be suitable for an audience that includes kindergarten. Through 12th grade students, including no use of profanities or obscenities. Comments concerning personnel matters should be directed to the Superintendent or Board 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 GP4 point O 4. Comments will be curtailed if remarks or or behavior becomes inappropriate, the Board President may interrupt interrupt, warn, or terminate a speaker's statement that is unrelated to the business of the school district, inappropriate for K through 12 students or disruptive to an orderly. Civil and projected meeting. Thank you for your cooperation. All right. Speakers this evening are Lauren
Anderson, followed by Eddie Waldrop and Katie Chukas. Lauren Anderson you're up. Good evening, esteemed members of the school board. My name is Lauren Anderson and I recently graduated from Pine Creek High School, where I played varsity soccer for four years as a goalkeeper. One quote that always drives me is hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard, I believe that with dedication and effort I could compete with even even the most naturally gifted female athletes, even those who may be a bit faster or stronger, but that belief fails if we must compete against biological males, no amount of
training eliminates the physical advantages men bring to women’s sports. For example, in 2017, the US Women's national soccer team winners of four World Cups Cups, lost 5 to 2 to a team of 13 and 14 year old boys other Other sports like basketball and volleyball adjust equipment to match female athletes needs. Women use smaller, lighter basketballs and compete with shorter volleyball Nets These changes promote safety and performance by
accounting for physical differences between two genders. Women's soccer makes no accommodations we play on the same field, use the same goals, and kick the same ball as men. As a goalkeeper, I am at higher risk of concussions fractures and other injuries if I goal tend against a biological male since they shoot about 20 miles per faster than the average female, the only safeguard women soccer players have is fair competition, and that is insured by only playing against other biological females. I
urge District 20 to adopt policies that ensure female athletes compete only against biological females without action, the board will will force girls to accept biological boys in both competition and private spaces as a condition for playing high school sports your Your leadership must do more than protect us on the field. It must preserve the very definition and identity of women's sports thank you for your your time our next commenter is Eddie Waldrep, followed by by Katie Czukas. Hello, my name is Doctor Eddie Waldrep. I'm A D20
parent and proud dad of a proud girl dad of a female student athlete. Tonight I'd like to voice my support for D20 to adopt A policy reflective of preserving fairness and safety in sports similar to that of D11 and D49 this topic is too important to wait, and I think it's important for the district to act now. I believe it can be done in a manner that respects the inherent dignity of all parties involved. Those who know me and have heard me speak and talk before will recognize my focus on reason, logic, evidence, and objectivity. On this topic, the central evidence rests in biological reality and the
differences between males and females without a policy in place protecting protecting girl sports and spaces, D20 is effectively compromised in the integrity, fairness of school sports and protected spaces A A biological sex is determined at conception and cannot be changed. Sex is determined by what type of gamete a body is designed to produce large large or small, regardless of the ability to produce them. D20 is a large, visible and important school district. Both locally and across Colorado is critical for D20 to take the lead and be proactive in setting the standard
and policy that protects female athletes rather than putting coaches parents and officials and students in precarious situations. I think it's important for detouring to be a leader in our state and our region. I would have loved to see D20 take the lead on this topic and consider it essential to join the 11 and D49 and responsibility in this matter at this critical time. Thank you for your time and consideration. Our final speaker for this section is Katie Chukas. It seems that we can talk about things that are not discussion items, so I'm gonna go back to talking about the budget again. I live in the
district. I'm an air Academy parent, parent Co-chair of the SAC and I'd like you to use the 17th, your next meeting, to discuss more about Air Academy high School this $40 million shortfall in the building is gonna be a big haircut and we should really be using the 2025/20 2025/26 budget to show future projections to close that gap we need need to raise capital reserves to get this reflected in the forecast. I know know we're gonna. The mid year, but let's make a recommendation in the budget that they're allocated to PISMIP and allocated to PISMIP for AIR
Academy high school. Let's get some scenarios associated with that other thing I I wanted to say is we need to start fundraising right now through the air Academy Alumni Association last year this this organization was starting to be involved with the 4B initiative but but we needed to pull back on the citizens committee that is a rich group of people, not rich in terms of money, but maybe, but in terms of it's a wide group of people over the past 60 years of alumni who need need to be tapped to. Capital money for the rebuild of Air Academy High School my comments today really are about 13 B about the idea that about the idea of the
the November items for the ballot and it really goes back to item 10M about the agenda planning calendar that two page table is extremely valuable. I encourage all who are considering to be a board member in November to read it because in my experience it outlines the cadence to board responsibility and the only topics you can talk about. So look at those. I also included some additions to that I think every April and every May. Every year there needs to be items about what to put on the ballot related to financing. This is in the language of bond initiatives for capital investments or other items that we need to put out
to voters like mill levy overrides to get additional funding. This is not stuff for election years. This is for every year in May and April and And I also think this grid is really what the board should focus on again Again, I also have a CSHAA athlete. That's why I don't come in the spring. Hands up if you've got a spring CSHAA athlete. Anybody else have a spring CSHAA athlete OK, one other person, but thank you, your time is up Thank you. Please vacate. Please vacate. All right, we need a motion to approve Resolution 242-25, Approval of Primary
Textbooks for ESL by National Geographic Pathways, grades nine through 12. Moved. second. Is there any further discussion we want to re-discuss or are we ready to vote? Since Mr. Knight still here, can I ask him another question please? Mr. Knight, can you kind of walk through Just mind us of this textbook would have is up for being used starting this fall, at Rampart this fall, OK Rampart. Are there alternatives, what's
the process should we vote no? What would be your process? I just would want to know know what your yeah situation is. It's a good question. So right now there is an inferior resource that are being being that's being used with teachers and teachers have to spend an an extraordinary amount of time supplementing, researching and finding non vetted non non research based full package, so they're having to splice things together so it's not to to say that they're using non research based practices they're
just not all in one place and so the planning time for the teachers that are supporting our English language learners is gonna be continued to be expanded without additional time or compensation or they're gonna have to spend more time looking for resources than than this would provide. And so in the interim, should the vote be no tonight will your team continue to just be looking at alternatives? How soon would they be implemented? You know, presented. Yeah under the normal scope of standards review it would happen in the fall. We'd come to you in the in the winter
early winter, so that we can propose. The school always has the right to do a school level review, which is what they did today. They did a school level review, but that wouldn't be again, until the spring. OK, I thought so, yeah just I wanna just work through logistics of just how it looks for our students for high school ESL students, I just don't know the program intimately. So are they in specific are all of the ESL students
together in a reading and writing class for to use this text? So for the content areas, no. Depending on the student's language ability. Where they're at on the scale of language acquisition some have a pull-out resource like ESL has a dedicated ESL class, others are integrated So for this text it would be in an ESL pull out. They would have access to the general education and the content areas throughout the day. But this is an additional supplemental class. And what about the
other high schools with this similar? Anytime we approve a text especially those that are school based under the previous model of school autonomy, each school can select their own as long as it's on the approved list. So if this is on the approved list, it would be available to all of our high schools. But this was specifically before by Rampart. So I guess what I'm asking is, do we know if other high schools have alternatives for this similar content? Rampart looked at all the alternatives before they went
to this process. OK thank you. Just curious what the pool looked like currently. Yeah, I think that's all I have. OK. Thank you. Thank you. Anybody else have further comment? OK. I just think at some point we have to uphold what it is we're about, and that's excellence even if it means a temporary inconvenience, so but OK. Roll call, please. Vice President Konz, no. Director Wilburn, no. Director Payne, no. President
Shandy, no. All right, we need a motion to approve Resolution 243- 25, authorization of the Designated Election Official DEO to submit a notice of intent to participate in the November 4th, 2025 coordinated lection for the purpose of seeking 3 director position seats open on the Academy District 20 Board of Education. Moved. Second. discussion please. No. OK, all right, Roll call, please. Vice President Konz, aye. Director
Wilburn, aye. Director Payne, aye. President Shandy, aye. We need a motion to approve Resolution 244-25. Approval of budget adoption for fiscal year 2025/ 2026. Moved. Second. Discussion, please. No question. All right. Roll call, please. Vice President Konz, aye. Director Wilburn, aye. Director Payne, aye. President Shandy, aye. Mr.
Belcher. How many people have signed up to speak during public comment Section 2? We have 9 individuals signed up to speak. Board President will recognize each speaker and consistent with with GP 4.04 the comments will be curtailed if remarks or or behavior becomes inappropriate. The board president may interrupt, warn or terminate a speaker's statement that is unrelated to the business of school district inappropriate for K through 12 students, or disruptive to an orderly, civil, and productive meeting. Thank you for your cooperation So with 9 speakers, I will call who's up to speak and then who is on
deck. If you're called up to deck, please feel free to sit in the front row, our first speaker tonight is Brian Moody, followed by Ginny Paas on deck. Brian Moody, are you in the audience? OK. Our next speaker is Ginny Paas, followed by Maura Shelden Hello my name is Ginny Paas and I'm a cross country track track and volleyball mom in D20. I'm speaking today to encourage you to implement a policy regarding biological sex and and fairness and athletics. It is a critical time to be proactive and protect our female athletes pre-season cross country is is well underway. Three days a week. My child leaves the house at 6:30
AM for practice. They go to weights and run a few additional days on their own. We frequent the Colorado Running company Stores. Every 400 miles we are replacing shoes. The amount of time, miles and effort these kids are putting into their sport is admirable for the top athletes. This is not just something fun fun to keep them busy, they mindfully train and make sacrifices to compete at an elite level at one of of the JV meets last fall, our ladies cross country team competed against a biological male whose ultimate who ultimately won the race this was was unfair and diminished the success and recognition of the female who
took second place. The lack of a policy separating sports participation by biological sex is a current issue. Why isn't D20 taking steps to protect our female athletes who have trained diligently and worked through bumps bruises and strains, and committed their time and talents to their sport. This is an attack on the female athletic community and promotes bias and prejudice against them. D20 female athletes deserve to be protected and defended by their school district men have inherent biological differences that provide distinct competitive advantages. Their lung capacity bone, and muscle density are all greater than that of women. Given these differences
we have a responsibility to protect the physical safety, the fairness and equality of opportunities. As well as the recognition for our female athletes, it is dangerous and unfair to allow males to compete in the female divisions on a team with a number of nationally ranked female runners. It would only take one biological male to displace them the time to develop and implement implement a sports policy based on biological sex is now Neighboring districts are courageously leading and protecting their female athletes. As a mom of a competitive athlete, I'm asking you to protect my daughter and provide D20 female athletes the opportunity to
compete fairly. Appreciate Our next speaker is Maura Shelden followed by Lisa Rainsberg Rainsberger. Administration and community members. My name is Maura Shelden and I'm here today to speak on behalf of early childhood special educators and preschool paraeducators regarding a matter that deeply impacts both the quality of education we provide provide and the well being of staff who deliver it. Today we were informed that the expectations placed on early childhood preschool education teachers and pairs will grow
significantly next year as we serve the general education education, serve general education as a general education teacher for up to 30 students. Each of those students require detailed report cards 3 per year, which are far more intensive than those of elementary grades. We also conduct parent teacher two parent teacher conferences a year and and daily instruction. However, our role does not stop there We are also active special education teachers for up to 14 14 students. That includes responsibilities such as updating
progress reports, conducting annual IEP meetings, can can pleading center based evaluations, and. In house evaluations. These are critical components of early child intervention in individualized instruction, and they require focus and careful planning to execute well. And yet, despite the increase in demands, our plan time has been significantly reduced due to an increase of daily contact time and six more student contact days days. Next year, we are being asked to do more with less time
to do it. This imbalance not only increases the risk risk of burnout, but it diminishes the quality of work we can. For our students when we don't have adequate time to plan for for lessons, complete evaluations, or collaborate with families it is our students that are affected. I am asking for preschool teachers to be a part of the planning and the calendar planning. We aren't. Preschool teachers are not represented anywhere in any of this planning. Student, thank you, your time is up.
Our next speaker is Lisa Rainsberger, followed by Jennifer Bergstrom. Good evening. My name is Lisa Rainsberger and and I'm here to you as the mother of two student athletes who graduated from Air Academy. My daughter was 10 time state champion and Gatorade national athlete of the year. I graduated from the University of Michigan with a degree in exercise science. I'm the 1985 Boston Marathon female champion, three time Olympic marathon team alternate two time time winner of the Chicago Marathon, and set 3 American records
over the course of my athletic career. All of this thanks to Title 9. I attended the Female Athlete Athlete Conference last week in Boston and learned the statistics I'm about to share with you from some of the best researchers in the world about sex differences between male and female Physiology. Puberty gives male biological males a permanent performance advantage Testosterone levels surge up to 30 fold higher, triggering greater muscle mass, strength, speed, and aerobic power that females cannot.
Match even with similar training, coaching and opportunities by age 14 boys run jump jump, swim significantly faster and farther than than girls. This divergent directly aligns with rising testosterone and is not due to motivation or effort in 2019 2019, 10,000 boys. Over 10,000 boys This one still gets me. Ran faster, faster 400 meter time than the three fastest women in the world.
10,000 high school boys ran faster than the fastest three women in the world these biological advantages advantages are why sects separated sports exist without them, female athletes lose, not just just races, but scholarships, podiums, opportunities respect and self esteem. It is imperative we continue to value the importance of protecting female athletes. Thank you. Our next speaker is Jennifer Bergstrom, followed by Andrea Dewing.
My name is Jennifer Bergstrom and I'm A D20 parent and and resident. I would like to voice my deep disappointment that the D20 board is even considering joining in the D49 lawsuit and adopting the misguided policy JBA preserving fairness and safety in sports. Once again, the board seems to have nothing better to do than to focus on political theater at the expense of trans and gender expansive kids. This well-established pattern of hatred aimed at students is appalling. These proposals in no way support the board ends of
knowledge, skills and character, nor did they advance the D20 mission to educate and inspire students to thrive instead Instead, you're looking for more ways to take things away from a segment of your student population, thus sending a strong message that some students are not welcome or do not belong in District 20. I find it highly irresponsible that D20 would even consider wasting financial resources by joining this lawsuit. I'm aware that your friends in D11 have joined it, but you? The wrong friends you've chosen those who wish to
to tear down public education, to break it and to divide it District 20, I expect you to be better. Stand for something positive. Stand for Unity stand for your students. Each and every one of them Superintendent Haberer, what happened to bringing people together? Instead, you choose to stoke flames of hatred, of separation and destruction. The D20 of today is a shadow of its former self, but it still holds so much good. You just need to shift the focus back to building positive and inclusive school communities rather than tearing them apart. Your proposed actions do
not serve the D20 community, and you know this because otherwise you would not be holding this conversation behind closed doors in an executive session. Our next commenter is Andrea Dewing followed by Cheri Sims. Good evening everyone, My name is Andrea Dewing and I currently coach in both the boys and girls programs at Air Academy High School and I had four children that went to Air Academy. If all of us here tonight We’re on the sideline of a six year old level soccer game and our team have prepared very hard to compete and to win and then we see our rival team walk up with 13 year old and 14 year olds
play walking on the field we would be yelling this is unfair they will hurt our kids. Where are their birth certificates to prove how old they are? As ludicrous as it sounds, it's exactly what District 20 would be allowing by not having a policy in place to protect females in school sports. Let me be clear, this is not about excluding kids, it is about creating a fair and safe environment for female athletes. Why do we have a WNBA? They should just be playing in the NBA. If there is no difference with physical ability, why are there no women playing in the MLS threatening to compete in the
tennis pro circuit? I was a Division One soccer player. I coached both boys and girls, men's and women Soccer teams for 35 years. I have 4 kids that all play top level collegiate soccer, one that played professionally I understand the demanding time and effort it takes to be great as a female. It would take all of the motivation out of working for yourself to the bone to be the best if you knew at any time a biological male could step in and take your place. If my 2 two sons had a pick up game with my two daughters who are excellent players, they would still never win. The fact that we are even contemplating this literally
negates all of women's sports and the sheer technical, tactical and physical Aspect, much less considering anything else Frankly, it's embarrassing to our society that it's even a discussion on the table It's not a question of if a trans girl will want to join A D20 girls sports, it's when. It's not a question of if a biological girl would get hurt, it's when. It's not a question of if a biological boy will steal a scholarship, perhaps your daughter's scholarship it's when. And D20 would be accountable. As an athlete and professional in the field, I strongly encourage you to join the other
districts in protecting our. Thank you. Our next speaker is Cheri Sherry Sims. Followed by Brett Dayberry. Hi, my name is Cheri Sims my children have attended our Academy high school here in district 20. I am sharing these thoughts tonight from the perspective of being a varsity high school girls coach also A D1 athlete and a mom of both boys and and girls who have also played high school varsity sports as well as as collegiate sports. There's just no way that I would want my middle. High school or a middle schooler or high
school boys to be exposed to a biological female in their locker room. And there's also no way that I would want my middle school or high school daughter to be exposed to biological males and their locker rooms as well. And both for obvious reasons, it creates discomfort, safety concerns, and a necessary risk for all involved District 20 needs to make the effort to create the necessary. To protect all athletes and as far
as participation in sports is concerned, it's currently obvious that biological males dominate in female sports and that biological females disproportionately do not have the same success in biological men's sports. It is clear that hormone therapy, etcetera do not compensate for biology and creating a level playing field in women's sports. My girls have permanently personally experienced this in the past when they've had to play against biological male from the opposing team. And the experience was both unsafe and frustrating as
they were up against the stronger and more aggressive opponent And finally, we chose to re choice our kids into District 20 because the district leadership and community values So I would just say to those of you on the the board that it's critical that you stand up now for our children and that you create policy that reflects common sense and fairness and safety for our female athletes. So thank you. Our next speaker is Brett Dayberry followed by by Huey Laugesen. First off, I want to welcome Susan Payne to the board
Secondly, I want to provide her a bit of personal history I've been fighting with the D20 board for over 3 three years now, fighting to get rid of the woke stuff that's been allowed to happen in this district, Fighting for the protection of our kids, fighting for parental rights. At this point, very little progress has been made in these regards. And I have 0 tolerance for any more excuses. I've heard them all. One of the chief reasons that this lack of progress is the fact that Aaron Salt sat on this board during that whole
time period. Not only did he not get anything done in these areas, he was the deciding vote on a number of issues that could have moved the district toward correcting some of these issues. Now you've been appointed to replace him. I realize you just replaced him like 15 minutes ago, but. I recognize that your window of time And your opportunity to make a difference is very short, because after summer break it will be soon be campaign season for the November board elections as
a start, my recommendations for you to sit down with Derrick and Amy and get the text for the ACA or non-legal name change that currently reads does not require parental approval Changed to read does require parental approval. It's quite simple. Do you believe that it's the parents who should raise their kids? Or do you believe it's the state's responsibility After summer break, this change will have been made Or not. Either way it will be
due to your input and your vote at At that point, we'll know who to support or not in the upcoming board election. Our final speaker is Huey Laugesen. Good evening, Board and Superintendent. My name is Huey Laugesen. My wife and I live right here in D20 where we are raising our son and our daughter. Tonight I'm here to talk about something no reasonable party should hesitate to defend the right safety and fairness owed to our daughters
District 20 needs clear, proactive policy that recognizes biological sex as the basis for girls sports, bathrooms and locker rooms. Not ideology. Not identity reality. Neighboring districts D11, D49 are already acting. They're not waiting for a national headline to land in their backyard. They're not waiting to become the next Loudoun County. They're doing what leaders do, seeing the issue and stepping up before 1 one of our daughters gets hurt. District 20 should not be
silent. We sit in the heart of Olympic City, surrounded by athletes and families who understand the value of Fair competition and the cost of losing it. Let me say this as plainly as I can my My daughter and every other girl in this district deserves a level playing field. Every girl deserves privacy in the locker room. Every girl deserves to know the truth. That deserves to know that adult, the adults in charge, have the spine to say no to the nonsense and yes to the truth. This
isn't complicated. It's not hateful It's a bare minimum obligation of this board, in fact. And it's urgent. We can either lead or be LED if If we wait until after something terrible happens, that's not leadership. That's cowardice. So tonight I'm m urging this board don't hunt. Don't hide don't pass the buck. Be bold. Be clear, set the standard. Let's get this right now before we're forced to explain to our daughters why we didn't. Thank you. Thank you.
Superintendent Haberer, do you have any clarification on the preschool changes or UPK? Yes, and I'm gonna ask Cameron Smart, Assistant Superintendent Smart to address that, please. Sure. I just wanna give a little context. So before universal pre-K was enacted, both the sessions were the same amount of time before being what year, which would have been 2 years ago I believe. So when it was enacted both both sessions were the same because the minutes were the
same. So then when it was enacted, they changed the requirement for. Instructional contact time that initially impacted our PM session, which is our 15-hour session and so we had to make some changes to length in that session to meet those requirements. Then this year they made some changes to the AM session which is our 10 hour session and in order to meet meet that we had to add minutes to that session to meet that requirement And we also needed to add some additional days because just to meet the requirement is. Does that if we have no snow days.
No late starts. Well, if you start to add late starts in there which would have impacted the AM session or even even snow days, then we're out of compliance again. So we had to add some buffer time in there to add account for that. We also wanted to look at well they're they only go four days a week, so So it's preschool students only go Monday through Thursdays. Friday is really a planning day for the teachers. So we wanted to to keep that Friday not extend into five days for for preschool students, which you could have done to beat the minutes. But wanted to keep that Friday's up full planning day for staff and
not impact that date. And unfortunately you only have so much time to work with within the school day and the work day for staff to meet those minutes requirements so So we're we were doing this to meet an obligation that the state has set forth. OK, so just to reiterate these these are not our random changes. These are our changes based on changes made from the state that are we need to meet those requirements. Correct. And that was shared with us very late in the semester thing. We didn't even know about it till in May. OK
thank you. Yep. All right. 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 a successful transition to the next level and upon graduation we'll be fully fully prepared for success. Did the board hear hear information tonight that would require the review or revision of a policy? I would say yes, boys and girls sports did. Did the board hear information tonight that would require a new policy?
Yes, boys and girls sports did. Did the board hear information tonight that the board would like to to include on a future agenda? Yes, boys and girls sports. There are Need my glasses by this point, 15 people watching on the live stream. I move that the Board of Education convene in executive session pursuant to Colorado Revised Statue 24-6-4 4O24D to confer with an attorney for the board for the purpose of receiving legal advice on
specific legal questions related to potentially joining the school district 49 versus Sullivan and all number 1463-D Colorado. Pending in the US District Court for the District of Colorado as a plaintiff in the litigation and the Board of Education is also considering considering whether to direct the adoption of a policy JBA titled Preserving Fairness and safety in in Sports while in executive session. The Board will not adopt any any proposed policy resolution, regulation or take any
formal action. Lastly, the Colorado open Meetings Law does not require the Board to make a record of of the executive session in which the attorney is present. And providing legal advice Colorado Colorado CRS 24-6-4O2 4O22-D point 52B. Moved. Second. Roll Call, please. Vice President Konz, aye. Director Wilburn, aye. Director Payne, aye. President Shandy, aye. The executive session will be held in Superintendent Haber's office and
invited to this executive session are Director Konz, Director Payne, myself, President Shandy, Director Yanez, But she is absent. Is she gonna join? Virtually No. OK, she she will be absent. Director Wilburn. Also invited our Superintendent Haberer, Ms. Becky Allan. Mrs. Tonya Thompson, Mr. Mark Belcher, Mr. Cameron Smart Mrs. Susan Field sorry, Mrs. Shelley Kooser, Mr. Shane Knight and Mr Chris Murray. The business portion of this
meeting is over. We will take a 10 minute break to reconvene in Superintendent Haberer office for the executive session. We are back in the boardroom. The D20 boardroom. present is Ms. Thompson, Director Payne, Director Wilburn, Superintendent Haberer, President Shandy and Director Konz. This meeting is adjourned.