okay Kandum I think we're recording right now and live streaming yep thank you sorry about that thank you morning everyone thanks again for joining this episode of Aaron Talks Too
Much and today we want to cover couple of things and we apologize because there's an LRP pack meeting going on at the same time so LRPAC is happening and they're discussing a lot of the bond pieces which are also on our agenda for
today and we want to make sure that we're utilizing Megan's time as well and Megan if you're still Oh did she join keep joining us or did she leave oops uh let me check
um I think she left she was here first thing Aaron and I think she left real quick okay can you see if we can get her back on yeah yep great so where are we going to start
today i want to start with We're gonna start with then u Oh there's Megan so yes Aaron she's back on okay there we go
okay so I think Megan's back on and I want to start uh in order to utilize her time well and all of our time well I want to start with Megan and I'm going to help her uh walk through a presentation she hasn't seen so she's
really going to like that part um and uh but she will understand sort of what it is we're attempting to do under our piece under one of the one of the pieces that
the district has related to the board and I'm stalling a minute because I need to pull it up board policy 2.3 talks about the way and our method of budgeting and how we look at budget
priorities and when we're looking at those budget priorities ensuring that that budget priority matches both I think the community
overall and then um the board's priorities so under 2.3 the budget planning there's really it's just small but we do this will be a presentation that we need to give to the board as part of our bond um
presentation or our board adopted board presentation but we're ensuring that we have projections for revenues the carryovers and the planning uh any of the disclosure of our planning
assumptions and then we're also ensuring that we are not deviating from the board's ends priorities that's hard to say so when we look at those boards and
priorities one of those is within 5C and so I'm going to launch my uh presentation for 5C and are we able to see that okay yes so under
5C what we'll do for the members of fact this is the presentation that with your approval today and then any adjustments we need to make after the presentation um then we will ask the members to
provide this presentation to the board at at its next board meeting so what is 5C 5c was the mill levy override and how did we how did we come
to the original pieces that collaborative effort through elevate and then prioritizing those uh investments within our six focus areas and what we do during the budgeting process is we start at the
cabinet level and we're determining our overall allocations and allocation methodologies both for schools as well as for departments and the majority of 5C of course is within Megan's world and
so as we start thinking about 21st century learners diverse learning outside the classroom safe schools seal and world class staff those are the pieces that were originally prioritized within
5C 5c over the years we started with the original amount of $27 million that was the amount that was in the original ballot question and the amounts of funds available related to 2018 mill have increased by
inflation of our mill levy overrides the only mill that grows is the 18 mil which grows by inflation and you can see here through next year's budget forecast so for next year's budget uh forecasting
$34.7 million which is a 2.3% increase on uh from the prior year i asked last night at the DAC meeting what everyone thought inflation was and very few
people would have guessed it was 2.3% i think uh many of us assume that we're still in that 8% range sometimes the way it feels in our own personal world i think uh what we also know is based on
the chairman of a Federal Reserve's comments that um he uh chairman Powell is worried about the impact of the tariffs and the impact of potential
inflation so knowing that I think it's important to realize that our other mil levies do not grow by inflation in other words we passed a mill levy in 1991 for $5.4
million and I know that you all realize but it's also worth restating that $5.4 million bought a different basket of goods in 1991 than it does today and as you can see that through the forecast
period of FY2029 the basket of goods or an inflationadjusted amount we would be short by $38 million in other words what we originally said
were our priorities in '91 2000 the ' 04 and '08 mill and the ways in which we spent those funds those are still costing us uh today but we don't have the same
buying power that we did in '91 2004 and 08 and even to the extent that the 18 mil rose by inflation I think that depending on where the priorities sit it
still may not pay for an inflation adjusted amount so we want to just make sure that FAC and the board as we go through budget planning that when we're talking about the mill levy and people will
sometimes say well what about the mil levy money doesn't the mil levy money pay for that and the answer is it did pay for that in 1991 but it costs more today than it did in
1991 and overall within those spending priorities assuming inflation we would be short in FY29 by $38 million so and I'm going to invite uh Megan and
and Megan I think I'll start with having you just introduce yourself but I'm going to go through each one of these and as we talk about them um I'll invite Megan in to talk about ways in which we're implementing these in both the
2425 school year of how we're doing uh learning materials resources and textbooks in the current year and then our plan for the upcoming year so we're sort of looking at the 5C report in both how we've allocated or looked at those
funds in the current year um as well as moving forward so Megan I just want to introduce yourself i'm sure everyone knows who you are but I just want to make sure yes good morning everybody my name is Megan Kaine i'm the chief academic
officer for Adams 12 this is my 26th year of having um the privilege to serve in this system so um thank you for joining us this morning and taking an opportunity uh to hear about the investments that we've made on behalf of our students in our system
first large significant um investment of 10 about 10% of our funds really goes to updating the learning materials resources and textbooks and so Megan do you want to talk about the overall
process i think um what I talked about last night at DAC again was just the introduction of new learning materials for the middle school uh learning uh the new middle school adoption and then
talking about uh the math adoption as well yep so um I can talk about these like three uh buckets here the first around updating our technology devices and systems as many of you know um post
pandemic we've um onboarded many uh technology devices across our system to ensure that students have one-to-one access but then also that our educators have um high quality um devices to be able to support and deliver instruction
within the classroom specifically in the educational um technology area we've made an investment in our Seessaw um learning management system which is a management system that's utilized
particularly at the elementary level in grades uh PK through 2 and then also um it's a it's a system that's leveraged for our significant student needs program in grades 3 through 12 we also
uh leverage uh Edpuzzle in K K12 classrooms alongside Padlet Backpack um in specifically in high school and middle school we utilize a platform called Gail um which allows uh social
studies science and ELA teachers um to assign reading material um that is uh specifically connected to um the content that they're teaching in their classrooms and then uh we also invest in
overdrive and uh pair deck which are also educational uh platforms that uh students utilize in um our updated learning materials and resources and textbooks uh we have uh our typical
investment that we've had year-over-year in everyday math uh student journals as well as the everyday math digital platform that our educators can access along with um our partnership with the mind research institute and the
implementation of STM math uh supports and resources within the elementary classrooms interesting fact to note here is that we um have gone through a thorough vetting process to move into not this upcoming school year but a
future school year um that uh where we will be adopting a new uh elementary math resource um that will uh you'll see appear um under these investments in future years we opted not to move
forward with that investment this current school year coming up um because of the uh implementation of our benchmark advance resource um and Dibble's assessment tool over the course of the last four years uh we want to
give the elementary uh educators a little breath um before we start to adjust their math resource as well in the English language arts area uh we continue to make an investment in actively learn uh which again is a
digital platform that both educators and students can use um simultaneously um to access the most current literature um to support their learning in those classrooms and then we will be making a substantial um
investment at um the tune of about $1.59 um million dollars uh to adopt a new middle school ELA resource um that is aligned to standards um and has uh reading materials that are most current
and interesting um for our readers at the middle school level uh in the social studies pa space uh we continue to partner with Gibbs Smith Education and the Colorado story uh resource uh for our students and um
those are the most current uh investments in the learning materials resources and textbook lanes oh oopsie and one of our larger next pieces and um these are a lot of the
investments that we've made and we haven't tred up all of these these numbers but this was the intent in the budgeting process for 2425 was to reduce the class sizes um high school course options the our
interventionist programs at the elementary and K8 level the and then I can talk about the allocation to charter schools and then we've expanded preschool across the district in any of these individual pieces Megan that you
might want to touch on other than what we what we've written here yeah I think the only thing that I would touch on here is I'm sure um the members of FACK have heard um the message from our superintendent
about reductions in our system and may um be connected to a school that is uh working through some class size uh conversations and then also around our academic interventionists and one thing that I just want to clarify here is that
we um in initially had 15 elementary FTE two KAF FTE and a 1.0 coordinator FTE built into the academic interventionist
space and we will continue to maintain and and sustain um that allocation what I would clarify for the group is that post pandemic we utilized other funds to expand and add additional academic
interventionists in this space and due to the plateau of esser funds and then also the reduction of our general fund um we will not be able to continue funding i believe at at our highest point we have had 47 FTE across the
system um supporting intervention and we just due to our budget constraints won't be able to continue at that level but the good news is that due to our 5C funds and other funds in our system we will be able to ensure that all of our
elementary and K8 schools will be able to maintain and sustain an interventionist that will be able to um support uh intervention for our most uh needed students across the system so just want to clarify that for you and
then the other piece is that we worked closely alongside our finance team in um the class size impact um at high school and have been working closely with our high school leaders as they've had to make some uh budget adjustments as well
as our middle school leaders making budget adjustments and we believe that as a result of that really focused work in our system um that we'll be able to maintain reasonable class sizes at our secondary schools and be able to uh
maintain uh especially in our core content um educators to support uh high levels of teaching and learning for our students and then on the charter school piece so everyone's
aware based on a statute and based on our plan so under state law we're required to adopt a plan on how we will share mil levy override funds with our charter schools and our plan currently states that we
share on a per pupil basis mill levies with our charters what that means is we have our funded pupil count and we divide our total MLOS's by
that funded pupil count and then we would forward and we forward on a a monthly basis to our charter schools an amount equal to the their proportionate share based on pupil count and so that's
the current plan i would tell you that you know plans across this metro area have are diverse um one plan in particular is Littleton littleton's mil levy override sharing plan with their
charters uh the MIL levy plan uh pays first for special education which is about 50% of Littleton's mil levby overrides and then they share whatever's left on a per pupil basis so
as we look at ways of of utilizing resources within the charter school uh space is that we know that we want to make sure that what the original intention was of of the overall piece is
that we are creating that plan adjusting that plan or reviewing that plan periodically we are required to post that plan on our website as are all other school districts across the c across the state who have charter schools all of those are posted on their
financial transparency websites as is ours and uh just to give you a quick where is that um for anybody um within our district website is uh you'll see that
at the bottom of our website there's always on every page there's a link to financial transparency and coming to that financial transparency page what you will see is there is a section called
um the plan for distribution of additional mill levy revenues or the statement of intent to distribute and that is that exists on every district's financial transparency website and it
states the plan for how we distribute those funds to our charters and right now our plan says that we share it on a per pupil basis as and and so then just a little
bit of arithmetic for you as the denominator adjusts so for example if um if the total funded pupil count for the district goes down however the number of students who
are at the charter school actually either stays the same or goes up then just from math the distribution to charter schools would go up so
charters would not just see a percentage increase based on the fact that the mil levy override increased by inflation but they can also receive an increase just because they have more students than uh
as a percentage than they did originally so there's a both there's a both and in the distribution to the charter schools the next big piece is the expansion of of CTE
programming and again this is the 2018 mill so of course we had expansion of CTE as well on the 24 mil levy which did not pass and but then we also have
expansion of CTE programming on the bond of 24 which did pass so this is the piece Megan if you want to say anything further on CTE um expansion and the expansion from
essentially 2018 till today there's been a lot of great programming adjustments that have been made since that time yeah I think you know really the only item that I would add here is that the good news is is that we're we have figured
out how to sustain the expansion that we have done um due to not passing the mill levy this year we won't be able to add additional um career and technical education programming yet as far as the personnel
um but we are um able to continue what we've put in place and then as we develop uh Thornton High School and have some opportunities to expand um CTE there um it will be really exciting
times um for that school and we will most likely be adding um new programming um there and then also in our middle schools we're in conversations um with all of our comprehensive middle schools about how we might um start to expand in
that space as well with both FTE alongside um with the monies that the bond has provided us so Megan I just wanted to to ask a follow-up question there and a clarifying question is that I think it's
easy for us to assume that CTE for the district means uh future forward only at Bowman and Wash Square and the fact is that it actually includes a lot more than just future forward right correct we have uh CTE programming across our
entire district um so we have very specific uh buildings that house um some of our CTE programming which are Bowman um the Bowman campus and the Wash Square campus but we also have CTE programming
in each of our comprehensive high schools as well as um each of our comprehensive middle schools across our system um so it's it it's both and right uh we have specific locations where students can go to access that learning
but then they can also access that programming within their own school setting thank you the next uh big piece and and some of this uh was one time the installation of so the access cards and as we continue
to ensure that we have those as access card systems updated as well as the cards themselves uh that's part of the safe schools which was the out $300,000 of of this but certainly the
the larger component is the security officers the at the campus supervision at our high schools yep and school i would just add that school safety continues to be at at the top of our priority list to ensure that we've got the most updated systems
um that we're monitoring those systems um and that we're consistently um working alongside our campus supervisors to ensure um the highest levels of support um across our system one of our next major investments in
this happened certainly not only in the metro area statewide and and and across the country in 2018 we we added significant investment incling
uh counselors at all levels and then our curriculum and then crisis response here uh on the district side as well and so this has been a pretty dramatic
expansion as far as uh I think Megan if you want to talk from your experience even before 2018 when when really there was a a much larger focus in recent recent years on
Yeah so we um as a system started building our um social emotional learning programming prior to uh the pandemic and post uh pandemic uh the good news is we had a lot of
foundational pieces already in place in our system aligned to social emotional learning traumainformed care and response and post pandemic what happened is we had so many students that had experienced some form or level of trauma
um over that time that we knew that our students were really fragile coming back into a more brickandmortar setting um the other thing that became really visible for us during that time was that our students um had spent so much time
on devices and or secluded from their peers that they were not engaging in what we would call typical school ready um behaviors prior to um either enrolling in school or had been so cut
off from others that when they came back into school our students were just having a lot of challenges navigating the social environment of school and doing so in a really productive way and so we made a significant investment in our system to expand our social
emotional um learning specialists across our system to ensure that we had counselors that were available um for our students to support them and really thinking about how do we leverage a social emotional curriculum to really
support our educators in making sure that they have the skills and the tools um to provide the level of support that our students need and so um you may hear of some curriculum across the system um
depending on where students go to school um but we utilize um things such as sources of strength c cultures of dignity capturing kids' hearts building healthy communities understanding trauma and facilitating hope restorative
practices um school connect and second step and depending on the level of um whether students are attending elementary school middle school or high school those schools have an opportunity to select one of those particular
curriculums and then think about how they embed that learning and support um within the system to support their students the other thing I would just note is that the cost um of our mental health folks is pretty significant and
so um increasing FTE costs in the counselor and social worker space um is is higher than what has what we had budgeted for in our 5C money so we have been adjusting for that cost um and
utilizing other funding sources outside of 5C to maintain and sustain those positions um over time but the good news is is that in our curriculum bucket we've been able to carry some fun balance um in that space uh to allow
some expanding and some new learning opportunities for example in our um capturing kids heart schools um that have piloted that work this year we've been able to really support staff um in
uh having those groups um facilitators from Capturing Kids Hearts work really closely with staff particularly in our two of our comprehensive high schools at Legacy High School and Horizon High School to really help them think about the ways in which adults are connecting
specifically um with kids um and then I see the question um about is the cost per cell position higher than the teacher level and the answer to that is no um it's the cost of um the social
worker license and then also the counselor license so the SEAL um does not cost more than a teacher seal is on what we would call a TOSA um position um which is uh comparable to an educator's
uh position and then I guess the last thing that I would add in that um seal space is that um we did um add additional seals with esser funds post pandemic particularly at our title
schools um over the course of the last few years and um title leaders have utilized their title funds to staff two um seals and um we've had to make some adjustments in that space again due due
to um funding and the cliffing of some of those ESSER funds um and so building leaders specifically in our title schools have made some decisions about utilizing title monies to either continue to fund one or to fund two
seals so you may hear about some adjustments that have been made in that space nerd the I think maybe alphabetically our last topic on the worldass staff piece is another uh significant
allocation and what I would say here is that again remember that these pieces were are ongoing costs so as we've developed the salary adjustments the
COLA adjustment for staff that these costs you know continue to to to be within uh the overall pay of of all staff and then to know that uh while
the 1% cost of living at one point in time 2018 costs more today than it did then so here on on this piece you know I think the investment of early career
educator salary um pieces and and so I think as that has happened across the metro area is is on the on the earlier career side versus either the length of the schedule you could have you can
increase the length of the schedule shorten the schedule you can do things with the steps or the increments between years of service you can put a a big emphasis on the early career educator uh salary piece uh to
get people involved in in a BA 1 2 3 4 piece and then and then still being able to be uh competitive on the on the back side between years five and 25 and then the experience credit for
veteran teachers that is different across the metro area here for in 2018 the the piece was to to utilize that up to 10 years and so Jerry Creek is a good example of of a district that
has I think it's less than hours and so if there are districts where you can go in and they may not count all of the experience they may count just five years they may just count two years so even if you had 15 years of experience
and you had a master's with 15 years of experience and in some of those districts you would still only be placed at year five or year three depending on the metro area district or other districts across the country and this
one was to increase that service level to 10 um let me see and then um the teacher leadership as well so those were the investments that are continually being
made on on the staff side when again I would say that um this is uh just prioritized investments of of $34 million that's what we were talking
about here and when what I would say is continually want to focus on the fact that that's $34 million and not lose sight the forest for the trees concept and if I can flip back just one second
to u our financial transparency website what I would and on our financial transparency website we have the navigating the budget guide and within the navigating the budget guide
we again continue to focus on these focus areas and what that means for me is that the implementation or the allocation of 2018 mill levy funds only supplements what we were doing
already in other words it doesn't pay for everything that we have to do and it's it was only additive and allowed us to do uh some additional investments but it again is the it is
the overall strategy on the entire budgeting platform so when we're looking at overall budget pieces focusing those on the academic outcomes which again is part of our uh 2.3 monitoring for the
board which will also be doing uh finance will be putting that presentation together for May as well but what that starts with is these are the guiding principles that we share with the community and this is how we
set the budget and then 2018 funds really then just come in as part of the overall portfolio of available resources in other words those property taxes but
when we look at the overall revenues we know that property taxes are really just one component and when we look at state revenue for example $45 million that is a significant um piece
where our 2018 mill really is again only slightly additive to the entire to to the entire system what I would also say and and I think over here on the general fund side you'll see that
13.8% 8% of our investments are paid for by Milvy overrides and what I encourage board members to look at and act to look at as well and a conversation I had with them last night is that we are looking at the
entire portfolio and making sure that the entire portfolio of income and revenue is aligned to those guiding principles that came out of Elevate um and when we look at the other main
piece here that I wanted to talk about is Megan had mentioned a few times about the federal funds and you'll see here that overall on all funds federal funds represent uh just under 7% of the
district's entire budget so when we look at things like title resources in IDA in particular we know that we we certainly will plan for and have contingencies for
any adjustments at the federal level related to policy changes but I wanted to share with you that there are also other funds that we are just as intent on budgeting uh correctly in budgeting
in alignment with the overall um with the overall um elevate process and so those when we're looking at per pupil revenues and again this is showing a little bit of
the differences in the metro areas and then uh bit of a history lesson in the fiscal downturn but also in our funded pupil count and as I was talking about in here with the funded pupil count if
our funded pupil count goes down and the district side is lower while the charter school side stays the same or increases then their percentage share of this mil levy
override funding would go up uh the rest of us um then we'll come back um right after this when we uh is then on how we're spending those funds and the reason I want to spend just a second on this is we've talked about how
we spend 34 million this is how we spend the whole pie and again the the point at the beginning of the presentation is that inflation adjusted
the mil levy overall mil levy is not paying for what it used to and so that is where the remainder of these general fund resources of about $530 million is
really focused on um when we talk about the totals we are talking about 80 just uh just over 88% being salaries and benefits and that pretty much aligns to the investments
that we talked about within 5C it's not exactly uh apples to apples but it's very close that approximately 88% is at salaries and benefits and as Megan talked about it's really the curriculum
adoption pieces that are the the non salary or the supply side of how we're spending those monies so even on the 5C side it aligns overall to our focus of spending the majority of our budget on
on staff what I would say about the remaining 11% is that we need to keep the lights on so that includes Excel Energy it includes uh the fuel for the
buses it includes insurance both property insurance as well as workers comp so there's a significant other component uh outside of just uh salaries and benefits but as you can
see you know we're it it is really once you even start taking Excel Energy and some of our other pieces into account it really is a smaller amount we continue to share the initial
prioritized investments this is what Megan has shared with us today and this breaks it out into a little bit more detail on line item by line item but we've bucketized it in the presentation today so I wanted to make sure we were sharing that with
you as well as I think just having that emphasis here which is that as we're looking at the overall cost from 1991 until today is that our costs have grown
more than the increase of the mil levy overrides i'm sure I went four minutes over at least um so I need to stop talking and let's check in with FA and see if there are any questions
uh for me or for Megan on the 5C piece thanks Aaron uh sorry I was a few minutes late uh this is extremely helpful background and insight into you know how the district is operating and spending these ny dollars i don't I don't have any other questions
right um again thank you so much Megan for for jumping on and and uh to her credit I will just say that she did not see this presentation so uh she was very much a trooper i will say though that she has seen it just not
maybe like us well the good news Aaron is that uh my team and I and uh finance have been working behind the scenes on our uh prioritized um investments so it uh was right at top of mind um for me
and thank you um fact team for giving me the opportunity to spend a little bit of time with you this morning thanks Mer and we have uh Jeff who is joining us uh on the phone uh we also have uh but what we want to talk about now is
really moving now on to the bond side and as I will say again um that LRPAC also is meeting now and they're seeing this same information so obviously from different
speaker where we are on the current bond is we've issued the bonds This was done in late January we issued the bonds at $171.5 million with 8.4% premium with uh just
under just about 6% of costs to issue the bonds which netted $185 million to the project fund as a reminder the we are authorized to issue $830 million of PAR and so far we
have issued 171 and a half just over that so probably over two or three or four additional issuances over the next uh four to six years then we would issue the remaining
amount of PAR the first piece the first par issuance was 171 and a half that is to essentially pay for what we anticipate as the first two years worth of of bond investments
we are going through the process now of of of recclassing some bond uh pre-bond issuance uh spending that we did which is allowable under IRS rules and identifying u the pieces to get those
moved in we have allocated uh to our charter schools their proportional share of the bond what I will tell you is that it's a little bit more complicated than per pupil when it comes to the bond piece
and the bond piece for the charters has uh is also about the fact that the charter also receives capital construction money from the state so they would then we would take the
piece that they received from the state and then not double up on that because those funds are not available to the district they're only available to charter schools and it's available to charter schools on a uh per pupil basis
so when we look at the investments from CDE related to capital construction for charters we then take that off of uh their allocation before allocating bond proceeds in other words uh not not
double dipping into the same uh per pupil amal after that uh there is a size adjustment for instructional costs so the focus uh generally on the bond is of course on ensuring that the focus is on
the instructional arena and that instructional offset is also applied prior to the distri distribution of proceeds uh to the to charters chart the charter distribution would only have been their proportionate
share of this $185 million it's not their proportionate share of 830 million but their proportionate share of 185 less um less again their capital construction from the state as well as
an instructional offset the next piece is year to date at the at the offset the jump I talked to beyond uh the chairman Powell's comments related to interest rates and probably the reluctance of the
Federal Reserve to lower interest rates in the near term i will say that from an investment earnings standpoint that has assisted the district because we are now at uh 14% of of overall where we thought the
bond interest would be and that was bond interest on the entire portfolio of the program meaning all $830 million so we're 14% of the way there in less than 3 months so we anticipate to have a
significant amount of of interest and if I weren't being recorded I would say something else uh so I won't say that and so were but hi to Chairman Pal uh as he's still currently
employed uh the other piece that was adopted or approved it was presented to the board in again I would say it was presented again to the board in February and then at the last not last night's board meeting but the board meeting before
where we have the approval to move forward with our Oracle cloud ERP project which includes payroll and HR as well as financials and includes projects module for capital projects assets etc
as well as purchasing the whole the whole overall piece and that's approximately an 11 million project and that'll be paid for solely through interest earnings on on the bond
then um other folks have given this update but I'll I'll speak for them from the purchasing standpoint the where we've been able to to get in just under three months is that we now have the Thoron
High School contracts essentially complete that's with uh with Accenture uh and then the AE contracts etc as well as movement on the central kitchen warehouse
uh furniture for so furniture for all of our schools approximately $25 million playgrounds and then uh and as I said Jeff is on as well but moving
forward on all of our IT projects specifically those that projects that are related to which means it would be funded not only by the bond but also partially by
ate which is a um a quasi federal program that uh provides funds based on our free and reduced lunch percentage then uh the other pieces as far as where we are on uh construction
facility and the sign is movement on uh roof replacements parking the playground and Prairie Hills and to date um well as of probably yesterday we have over $10.3 million encumbered in all of these
projects in that um that does not include the IT uh incumbrances at this point but uh the 10.3 is majority of line items on one which is the summer
the majority of the summer bond projects related to the roofs the parking lots the playgrounds and some work that needed to and some immediate work that needs to happen at Prairie Hills on the IT side um e again at -ate
procurements happen both there are rules that that were adjusted around -ate and how we procure but working with specific vendors uh who participate in the -ate
program inable projects for hotspots internet service uh fiber optics um the network cabling and those are the vendors that that uh we're working with and then
uh the network overall network cabling project which you know it's it's hard when you talk about the bonds projects because you know there's times when things are behind the walls and you really can't see that we've really made a substantial
investments in the district but um these are are the types of projects that that happen and and that are very important uh to the district even though they're we really can't can't see them would say
even on the on the hotspot side you know ensuring that we have a connectivity across in all of our schools and so that's um really important and then the inter intercom project as well and so uh
Jeff is on on the phone um with uh any questions on the IT side the um construction side apologize but we have the overlap with LRPAC and so the construction folks are presenting at
LRPAC right now but if you do have any questions we can get back to you on on those pieces and so those are the that was the component of the bond spending that we wanted to talk touch on today
hey Erin I can throw Can you hear me yes okay i can throw another I don't know if you can see me i'm in a weird setup right now but um I can throw another couple updates out there in terms of the IT stuff and and I can probably answer some broad questions on the construction side as well um the network cabling
project um we've started at Sky View that's SC that was on that slide um our intention um now through spring of 26 is to complete network cabling at 12 sites um and like Erin said this is it's it's not super cool and it's not super
exciting but it is something that we can do at night and 12 months a year so when you see the construction plan or the CFND side of that that slide most of that work occurs during the summer um and most of the IT stuff we can do during the school year um that's not to
say that we aren't going to be busy doing this during the summer as well because we have better access to um hallways and the the work crews don't have to put their stuff away at night but um we we do have a list of 12 schools that we intend to get done on the network cabling side in the next roughly 12 months um so I just thought
I'd throw throw that out there because it wasn't on that slide and Jeeoff we have a question from Kelly um do you want to talk about uh the service providers do all her question is um do
all schools get the same uh service provider and how does that work across the IT side yeah so basically um there's there's kind of two components and part of the service provider if you're talking about like internet service um
which you pro I assume you are and I don't know if you can clarify but um I'll kind of talk about the structure of our network so we own our own fiber network that was something that we installed in the last bond um and our we have two different um because we're a a
public institution we take advantage of uh Front Range Gigap for our in Giga Pop sorry if that didn't come out clear for um one of our internet service providers uh and that's like a it's typically like a university kind of thing but it's like
a uh like a co-op I guess a public co-op um they provide service and then we back that service up with FRG no that's Front Range Gigapop we we have another I'm spacing the name of it but we use two digit we we do everything in twos so we
always want to make sure that we have resiliency if we lose connectivity to one um but we basically are our own service provider because we have our own fiber network and then we utilize um public cooperatives for that greater connection to the internet and then
every school has the same um bandwidth connectivity all of that so the infrastructure inside of the schools is the same everywhere um that allows us to to support all of that at scale so um I hope that answers your question and happy to answer a follow-up if you need
me to clarify something it is helpful thank you appreciate that what I'm more curious about like for example in the slide that's being displayed you have internet service zio hotspots T-Mobile is that part of the redundancy that you were talking about or is is there more
reason to have multiple connection points if you will that is part of the redundancy that we talk about so we have and if I rattle down through those so hotspots um a lot of our hotspots end up going we don't use those sort of on the production side most of those hotspots
are in place um or we have them in inventory in case we have an emergency so um if we have to stand up a district site like for maybe a reunification at an RTD bus stop or something like that or a park and ride um we can utilize those hotspots for those things um and
then also we use hotspots for homeless students or students that don't have connectivity at their house um one part of the federal funding is to basically like on the internet works or on the internet side they would call it the last mile so that's think of that as
like the connection to someone's home or the connection to their computer so we utilize hotspots for um our students that just don't have those that capability at home um they request those and check those out think of it kind of like a library book um internet service zo is our that's why I was spacing it
because they're new um we we contract through Zo for our internet service so that's a redundancy that we have so um it's like when you think about the capacity at the schools like every classroom is using is basically connected to the
internet all the time because we're a Google shop so all of that stuff sits outside of the district so we don't want to lose that because it basically shuts down the district um that's what that service is for and and um the next one fiber ops and maintenance so fiber ops
and maintenance is when think of uh you see an excavate you see someone working on the road and they have a big shovel and they stick that shovel on the road and rip our fiber out um that is really maintenance and repair of those kind of um I would say unplanned or unscheduled
um interruptions in service um that's irradable as well and then the network cabling part is the part like Aaron was talking about that's the stuff behind the walls does that help super helpful sir thank you so much for the explanation it's not super exciting stuff but it's
all it's like basically it's like a utility um and and we find that with internet services is we we how much we might complain about Excel Energy or somebody like that but we have a much better appreciation for the utility
services for providing consistency um and doing what they do because when you turn a faucet or you plug something in or you turn on a light switch there's usually water or electricity there and and to try and kind of support that which is sort of the state that everybody is in um is challenging
and that was that then is the component of ensuring that we are are sharing the information that we have related to the bond so covering both how we fund allocate and track the bond projects as
well as fund allocate and track our mil levy override spending so that is uh the components there if there are any other questions on those otherwise we'll stop the recording and um and the public side
of the meeting so thank you so much Jeff thank you you y'all have a good day thanks Jeff you too