okay Stephanie are we ready okay I'm GNA call the meeting to order we will start with roll call director Assad Lucas here director bastelli here director Goldstein here director Marsh Holan here director
Potter here I will entertain a motion to approve the agenda so moved second is there any discussion director I director belli I director Goldstein I director
Marsh holen I director Potter I okay let's um rise if you are able for the Pledge of Allegiance I pledge of allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the for it stands one
nation indivisible withy and justice for all okay we'll start off with the superintendent update thank you Lori um so I'll be fairly brief I would say that uh the
issues most pressing and top of mind for me right now are two and one we've just had an extensive discussion about and work study session which are the widespread unsubstantiated non-credible threats of school violence that are circulating throughout much of our
community throughout much of our state and throughout much of our country right now it's uh a very challenging time to do your best work when you're spending uh so much time dealing with the various threats and how they get tweaked and adjusted a little bit uh to be
applicable to a specific school and allege certain times or certain grade levels or certain students are going to be the alleged perpetrators um I hope that our students and community members will start to act a more responsible
ways than some of them have been in a writing these false rumors but it's certainly been stressful and distracting and not the way that we would want U the rest of the school year to go so I hope we can turn a corner soon and then the second thing I would update you all
about um I think I forwarded all to you uh some email Communications and some of them came to you directly related to the resignation of Mike Balman as the assistant principal at Mountain View Elementary School last Thursday I met with Mike
this morning along with Mila from HR for about an hour and a half and learned quite a bit more about the issues and concerns that Mike uh was feeling that prompted him to resign and there's a number of steps that I've committed to Mike to take to learn more about some of
those issues and concerns one of the first steps was to meet with Peggy Heath who's the principal of the school to get more perspective from her on some of the issues that Mike brought forward and I believe that happened this afternoon with Bo and Mila so I look forward to
hearing more about that I've uh committed to the Mountain View uh staff that I'll go out there and meet with them next week and I'm going to work with Mike so that I can share more specifics about how he was feeling and the issues that he was struggling with
um in terms of interactions with some others in District leadership um and then invite a lot of feedback from that staff about some of the issues that they may have perspective and information about as well so I want let you know uh that's where it stands Mike is somebody
that I've known uh from before his first day here he's someone I hold in high high regard and respect and I'm sad that he um is not part of our team at this point and I just want to dig into this as earnestly as we can and see what
adjustments we might need to make so that we don't lose a great talent like Mike in the future so those are the two things most pressing for me right now thank you thank you okay um Board of Education comments
recognition Awards and vision start with director Potter um good evening everybody I'll keep my comments pretty brief I had my first sporting event as a hawks parent over the weekend or over this last week
and it was pretty exciting um as many people know my children go to a charter school and so they play sports nearby at Horizon High School and just the culture and experience of being there with a high school team with Horizon um and the Hawks it was truly something special and
I look forward to many many more experiences um having a freshman that meant I also got to experience homecoming and I'm not as excited about having many many of more of those to come um but everyone was safe everyone made good choices um didn't sound like
there was any chaos that really took place out on that football field but um I'm grateful for all the staff that made that possible and continue to keep all of our kids safe especially during these trying times thank you thank you director Mar hon thank you um as a
Mountain View graduate I just wanted to thank staff I think um I know the community has feelings about it and I doo think Mr Bowman is a great talent want to keep but I appreciate um the work that leadership has done to really address the issue um and I I know the
community at least feels heard um which I appreciate so so um I am excited for everyone's homecoming and I hope they have a really great homecoming and if you're not in Broomfield come down to Broomfield days this weekend because I think um legacy's marching and and we'll
have a lot of good school spirit out there so that's I have thank you director bastelli I have a few updates I was able to visit Stellar Elementary School um with and with the the principal Jennifer Buck gave me a tour um the elementary school
is a lovely space I think it was built about 177 years ago so you can really see that it's more of a modern learning space um it uh it's also some interesting things about it is that it was built as an overflow school and that
a lot of the students commute in so they have to bus in as opposed to other elementary schools where kids generally walk to school or you know their parents drive them they have 17 languages spoken in that building and um from uh according to principal Buck their
bilingual students median growth percentile was on track to uh was the average was on track to e proficiency at 82% which exceeds State expectations so that's a really nice um metric that we
can celebrate for our district I also just wanted to take a moment since this is classified staff month to show appreciation I wanted to talk about the wehouse team who is really instrumental in um the back to school bash and the five our kickoff uh the warehouse team
in that 3-day period was coordinating the delivery of materials to various the two different Stadium locations it was about, 1500 chairs for the kickoff um unloading all those trucks full of backpacks it was pretty obvious if you were there and you saw them that they
were busting their rear ends to um help make sure that the events uh went off without a hitch so thank you thank you director Assad Lucas good evening
well by according to my attire you can stand up and you can determine who won the North Glenn thoron football team however I will add the Vol thoron volleyball team did win the week before
um no I attended that last Friday night with present gold scene and as always just such a fun uh game to attend they were having what was it the Class of 84
Champions uh in a reunion and so that was just so much fun to watch and be part of and Sher blunt who's the principal at Northland was part of that and so when they announced her name just how all the kids cheering and parents
and it was just it was really neat um I visited Thorton middle school yesterday and um you know we just visited the different classrooms kids got to share what they're learning how they're learning it all that it was just really
great to be back into the schools and the classrooms and talking to kids and I mean that school in particular holds a place in my heart because many especially the sixth graders this year I have known since preschool or kindergarden um I went to school with
one of my kids and so uh even though she attended different middle school but um it was just really fun to see them and have them share things that they love about their new middle school so today I visited North Glenn High School
and uh I thought I got was going to be able to tend their uh pep assembly but it was this morning and I was there this afternoon so I missed it we got to hear about uh it's the freshman's first pep assembly so all the growing pains that
come with that and um asking where do I sit and then being under where it says freshman you know so uh it was pretty fun to listen to and hear about but just great feedback to get here how the school's
doing you what things are working great things that um you know continue to improve on of course cell phone use and social media came up in the discussion so having continued uh conversations around
that we attended a few of us have been attending City Council meetings to share the blueprint information that our bonded Mill and now labeled as 5D and 5e on the ballot and um it was really great I attended the city of Westminster to
share about it that you know very supportive and uh took in the information and um we'll probably be introducing a resolution in the next meeting and then uh attended the city of Thorton's uh council meeting where they
unanimously supported uh our uh Bond and Mill as through a resolution and you know highlighted the importance of supporting our school district because you know even mayor Coleman made the comment of strong
schools equal strong communities so that was really great we appreciate their support um also I just to address some of the what um superintendent gadowski mentioned of
some of these School rumors and um UNS unsubstantiated threats is I know I experiened the situation this morning with it and uh
even though it was okay it's fine just dealing with an anxious child from it and how stressful and scary that is and very very disruptive to their education and and just how stressed and anxious
parents are about it and so I I strongly strongly encourage and I shared this with many of the parents I knew if you see something or hear something you know and also please share this with your children but reach out to an somebody you know directly to like either the
principal or um somebody else may be within the district that can confirm one way or the other instead of reaching out to maybe other parents who don't know for sure kids reaching out to other kids I mean even I shared this earlier but
even after it was unfounded and cleared I mean my child is even texting oh I heard this or I heard that so just really encouraging where they get their information and how they get it and to whom they can share that with to make sure that it's factual and not
continuing to spread misinformation um but yeah that's all I have so thanks for being here tonight thank you um a week ago Friday I went to Studio school and I hung out with the
drama teacher Mr SS and I think it was third it was either third or fourth grade and they had a resident from the Denver Center for the performance Arts as a guest resident teacher and so I um I just joined the class it was fun and
we were um we were using um expression learning how to express things and and different emotions and to me different things it was kind of fun and I figured I wasn't just gonna sit there and watch them so I just joined them um and then Monday the 9th I went to uh Glennwood
Springs actually for the casby Carl Association of school boards has their Federal relations Network which I'm a part of has a bus tour every year and if you recall last year we were part of the bus tour so this year we chose um
Roaring Fork School District because they have teacher housing and um we spent the morning in um in elementary school and we had you walk in the door and they were waiting for us the fifth grade ambassadors they grabbed us and escorted us to the cafeteria where we
had a breakfast um you know the healthy meals um is in effect there too and um then we met various people u in the district the superintendent and chief academic officer and the Chief Operating Officer and then we um visited
classrooms and it wasn't just it was Schoolboard members and legislators and staffers from the Senator's offices um hicken Looper and Bennett that are you know keep up with what's going on in education and then since it was a bus tour we had to take school bus and we
took it to their um ad bu the ad building which is in um Carbondale so about a half hour ride um between Glenwood and carale and I believe Basalt is also part of this district and we um
had um somebody from uh the West um like parachute that superintendent talked to us too about teacher housing and then the housing that they had and then we had a couple of high school kids talk to us at two and and then we got back on
the bus and it was like a really short bus ride to go see the teacher housing and it was really lucky because they actually had some that was just about finished so it wasn't being occupied but we could go in and see what it was like and they're their apartments and they have various they have like three
bedroom two-bedroom one bedroom and um you know it's it's cons they have it set pricewise to be something that um is Affordable for the educator and then they also have it interestingly it's not much different the school district's kind of in the mortgage business because
they um they're paying off a loan using the rent takes a little longer than what you know we're typically used to but it does provide that opportunity for um their their Educators to live there it was really a interesting experience um I to went to city council for Thorton and
watched them unanimously approve um supporting our Millan Bond um I've been in contact with northen and they prob they're going to be talking about it and I've also been in contact with the County Commissioners and they'll be talking about it so and
then Broomfield also and since I have to go to burough next Monday which is the Broomfield urban renewal Authority since I represent um the school districts I'll take that opportunity to make a public comment um I went to a celebration for our lobbyist Tanya um Kelly bowy at um
an shs campus and they were celebrating her work that she had done um at CU actually um but just to have some you know and there were um elected officials and and folks that she had interacted with both sides of the aisle praising
her excellent work that she's done for years and so it's really an honor to be invited to this to watch her be celebrated she really deserved it um and I I was walking in with a gentleman and I looked at him and I was like I think
that's Governor Bill Ritter and sure enough it was and then um one of the first speakers was uh former Senator Corey Gardner and then you know you had Bruce Benson and Babu prey and you had um uh the chancellor uh well the president Todd
Solomon and so it was just really neat to see and I said but wait a second you're not really retiring are you because what about us so anyway she's not going anywhere just changing things um Northland High School Thorton
football game um I thought that the way they honored the Class of 84 was really cool because that was the year where several sports teams won state championships not just the football but uh cross country and I believe soccer girl soccer boy
soccer and and they were there were a whole bunch of them there and um we were down there on the field um talking with some of them and I learned that some of them actually went to Westlake when I taught there one of them is our own Teresa gilbreath and
and we had never we we know each other pretty well but we had never made that connection because our last names are different um but now we know and it was just a neat um uh some of you might remember um Dominic cpra who was the football coach he passed away um many
years ago now but um he you know his wife Deb kapra who also served in our district she was there to represent him and Coach Gallas was there um he's now retired too and um rosadi he was the soccer coach um it was just neat to see
all these people and they're like grown-ups so um and I will say themselves right and I will say that had the C team football team the next day lost to Thorton I would have worn a Thorton shirt tonight but you can see
I'm not wearing a Thorton shirt because the C team which my son plays for um actually won too not quite as much as Friday night it was like 8 to nothing but um it was pretty substantial Friday night um I went out to Legacy High
School on Monday to sign a grant for them for in the counseling department and I guess I could have just signed it and nothing would have ever been but they invited me out there to learn about it so I said sure so um the counselors are applying it's called ramp recognized
American school counselor Association model program so it's called and ASA is their professional association and um I think it was maybe a year or so ago maybe two that Rocky toop counselors also received this award so um the Legacy counselors and Jeff harus has
really taken this on to really um they did a real thoughtful and showed me the book that you know everything that they're doing that will help them get recognized and um so hopefully they'll be recognized and then there's like a national recognition for that so that
was was good and then today I went to the eighth grade career fair I love going to the eighth grade career fair um ever since I was an eighth grade teacher and I have to say it was it's just evolved into something really truly amazing um back when I used to take kids
it was at the merchandise mart and if you remember how big the merchandise mart was it was pretty comparable it held things pretty well but then they closed that and so the last couple years it's been out at the Western Stock Show this year they moved it to the
fairgrounds and they also moved it to two days because there's like 6,000 eighth graders in Adams County and that's a lot of kids to push through something and if you want them to have an experience where they get to go and talk to different um educational places
or businesses or whatever it this year gave they had enough time to thoughtfully do that and so if if you know the fairgrounds it started in the exhibition Hall where they had a big chunk of the vendors there and then it was such a nice day
they had in the courtyard between the um exhibition Hall and the way Meer Dome they had the construction companies you know like they hadp Adolf Peterson they had RTD they had um the uh ibw the electrical they had sheet metal they had
Martin Martin my husband's company and then they went from there into the waym Dome where they had the higher ed they had our school districts so HR was there um oh yeah H was there and uh talked to Sarah and Melissa yep and just talking
with kids about all the different jobs that you can do in Adams 12 and um in 27 Jay was there in Mableton and all those and then um so the banking and finance people were in there too and and it just flowed really well and I was the one in
charge of telling him it was the five minute warning and then that was time to go on the bus so that's what I did today it was really fun so anyway that's it now we're on to public comment good evening the board welcomes public climate to learn about the
preferences and concerns of the Adams 12 festar Community each speaker will have 3 minutes please use the microphone and state your name and city of residence before beginning your comments please give any handouts or information you would like to share with the board to
Koka here to my right a 3 Minute Timer will be set for each speaker please keep an eye on the timer speakers will be informed when that time has expired and we ask that you end your comments at that time our first Speaker tonight will be Valerie
meters she's not here so we're move on to Dr Jared Lee there's a microphone there turn it on and wait a second and then it should be working hi my name is Jared Lee I live in Broomfield uh my wife Karen and I we
have two kids who go to Mountain View so I just wanted to uh just take a moment to at least make a public comment in support of uh Mike Balman the um recently departed uh assistant principal at Mountain View um I just want to say
like in our two plus years having kids at Mountain View and all of our interactions with Mike he's just been unfailingly kind caring um professional and he's
really cared deeply about the kids and the staff at at Mountain View and so something just doesn't seem right about this situation it's not in his character to leave abruptly a month into a school
year I mean he came back to Mountain View right after his house burned down in the Marshall fire so he is dedicated to this community and this community is dedicated to him too today all the staff most of the kids a lot of the parents at
drop off wh all wore Green in support of Mike Bowman and his uh famous green pants um so I don't know what happened but something isn't right and my concern for for this
district is it just doesn't seem like he's being treated well and again I'm glad um superintendent gdowski that you met to hear that you met with him today and I would just encourage there to be more transparency with the Mountain View Community about what happened because
when it's just the the very Bland HR speak of resigned for personal reasons but without having the opportunity to say goodbye to any of the kids or anything like that something isn't right and so I'd encourage you all on the board to please ask
questions um and please share information with the community uh as as soon as you're able um just to we need answers and I'll just say also the the third graders are organizing a petition to try to bring
him back so he is much loved in that community and so if there 's I know there's only a small chance but I would if there's any way to encourage him to come back or to bring him back the community would welcome him back with
open arms because he is much loved and supported and it just want to say again as my Time's ending here with Mike's departure Mountain View and Adams 12 has lost a a very talented administrator a
really caring educator and most importantly a really wonderful person thanks thank you our uh final speaker for the night will be Carrie Weaver use my teacher voice okay uh good evening my name is Carrie Weaver and I
work at stem lunch as the GTA and DLP today I'm here to voice my strong opposition of Colorado Amendment 80 the constitutional right of school choice initiative I see firsthand how vital it is to ensure every child has access to a
free and equal education this amendment threatens to undermine the right and harm the very students we are committed to serve while school choice seems like sounds really empowering Amendment 80 would deepen inequalities by diverting
public to private and Charter Schools draining essential funding from public schools that serve our most vulnerable students 95% of Colorado students attend public schools which means Amendment 80 would
pull resources from the vast majority of our children many of our students face significant CH challenges and have needs for specialized education this includes F food insecurity and access to free and Mental Health Services students need
specialized support ranging from our gifted Learners to those with learning differences public schools are the backbone of our community and provide not just an education but also those critical services and supports that students need to overcome the barriers and become valuable citizens here in
Adams 12 Equity is our driving force behind every decision we ensure every child has the opportunity to succeed options to meet our learning Pathways and choices to prepare them to thrive in their adult lives by allowing state funding to be funnel into private
schools Amendment 80 creates a two-tiered system of Education families with more monetary resources could access better options while lower income students like those I serve will be left with extremely underfunded public schools and fewer opportunities and
options those that we have strived to provide in this District Amendment 80 also locks up Public Funding for private schools into the state constitution for the very first time making this shift permanent and difficult to ever reverse
moreover private and charter schools are not held to the same accountability standards as our Public Schools the lack of accountability poses a significant risk for our students public schools have to meet state requirements to ensure all students receive a high quality education private schools
however get to select which students get admitted and they don't offer the same Services mostly to our students with disabilities High needs or behavioral challenges I urge you to oppose Amendment 80 and advocate for all all public schools all Educators support service providers and staff members and
most importantly for our students let's work together to create a system that Fosters true equality and opportunity for every child not just those with a means to navigate an unequal system thank you for your time and consideration thank you
okay all right um board committee lays on reports daak and fact so start with the Dak we met last Wednesday and it was a very full meeting um because there's a lot of ground to cover it's the framework for the new um members of the
Dak committee it was wonderful getting to know some of those new members a little bit better uh some of the major topics discussed were the areas that the Dak covers like the uniform Improvement plan um spending priorities the school uh accountability
committees um so they went into detail on what the school accountability committees are um and they discussed the DAC members role as a liaison to those school about accountability committees which is one of my favorite features of this uh this framework so um there was a
little bit of wrangling we have a bit of too much representation in some schools and we needed to move some folks over to other schools to make sure our representation was a bit more balanced as far as DC members acting as Liaisons so at this point I'm happy to say that
they have 31 of 53 schools where we have a DC liaison um and that that's wonderful we want to get as many voices and perspectives as we can they also discussed the upcoming Charter renewal for the new America Academy and they were looking for parents and community
members from the daak to take part in that um they discuss the policy Council uh this is the meeting where they tend to ask Dak folks to part participate in the policy Council I think they have six seats available to them and they found four people at that meeting who were
willing to do that they might have found two more I'm not sure uh the final item they discussed was the DAC bylaws on sort of opening up participation um on the policy Council if the Dak doesn't have you know enough people to fill their six seats so I
think that will be discussed in more detail in later meetings but it was a pretty full meeting thank you fact there was no fact meeting since our last update um I don't know what the protocol would be but I don't think Valerie got
the memo that we started at 6 and she had signed up for a public comment is what happens there I think it's probably up to the board uh that you could uh amend your agenda to just have
another period of brief public comment for the speaker who wasn't able to be present before if that's the desire of the board okay do I have a motion to um amend the agenda to allow for a second public comment so moved
second director Assad Lucas I director bastelli I director Goldstein I director marshan hi director Potter I okay um go ahead and have our second
round of public comment so I think uh Stephanie's getting her timer ready uh she won't read the whole script I think the key things are to state your name uh which city you reside in and to be aware that you've got three minutes and she'll probably hold up ass sign at 30 seconds
to let you know uh thank you for making time for me to speak my name is Valerie Mets I uh am a resident of Westminster I am also a parent and a teacher within the district and I am speaking um to express my
support in the board's opposition to Amendment 80 um for a couple reasons firstly um the amendment is redundant we already have um school choice we've had it for 30 years secondly budget stabilization factor is no longer
impacting Educational Funding sadly the current budget is in line with 1989 funding levels and Amendment 80 allows the insufficient budget to be divided further into Pockets that can select students that they want to serve in public education I'm sorry private
private education and lastly in a time where I will be walking to pass the bond and M Levy for 5e and 5D um I support the board um wanting to eliminate the possibility of more funding going into Pockets that do not serve our students
thank you thank you okay on to the board business um so there's a couple of resolutions in your pocket tonight um and the first one is is is an
opposition to Amendment 80 which is on the ballot um I know usually we talk about them first and then vote the next meeting but with the election coming so soon um I felt that you know we could have a great conversation and decide right in there
whether or not we wanted to support this so um I will ask if there's a motion to adopt the resolution opposing proposed amendment 80 to the Colo Constitution as presented so move second and um I'm GNA call on
Phil um he wants to make an amendment yes as I mentioned during the work study session I had some concerns about the very last paragraph of this proposed resolution that paragraph is on the
second page of my version and it says be it further resolved that harm the harm caused to the atams 12 F star schools by amending 80 commonly called school choice in K12 education will be made publicly available in clear accessible formats to ensure transparency and
highlight how voucher systems undermine public accountability and my recommendation is that in order to be very clear that we're not going to have any potential violations or challenges under the fair campaign Practices Act
that option one I would say you could strike that paragraph and I think the resolution still sends a message and if the board wanted to strike that and replace it with something else option two would be to write be it further
resolved that the passage of this resolution will be communicated in compliance with the fair campaign Practices Act so if you're interested in my recommend
um the person that made the first motion uh could agree to that and alter their motion so or as stated by me under option one or option two and then the person that seconded if they agreed um it could be a new motion to consider the
resolution as modified so I would move to to strike that last paragraph um in the resolution from uh this resolution I second that you agreed to
that second that modification correct all right and is that clear to Stephanie okay do we have to vote on it you have to vote on the modified resolution and then we'll vote on the actual resolution okay cuz yeah cuz we
we haven't discussed it yeah we're going to consider the modified motion so let's take a vote on that just to be extra careful here okay director Assad Lucas hi director bastelli hi director Goldstein hi director Marsh Holan hi
director Potter I okay now we discuss the resolution all right um who wants to start I am happy to start the conversation um you
know when I heard this was coming or going to be on the ballot I really all I could think of was Nebraska this my home state from a very small school district there I mean everyone knows Cabellas and
probably Sydney that's my hometown but um you know last I saw they have about 1300 students enrolled which is probably more than when I was but um last year Nebraska passed pretty much the same
Amendment and Sydney lost their Public School District with 1300 students lost over $600,000 of funding immediately which led to one of their
schools having to be shut down um it's not they have many to begin with anyway way and so uh I mean it really did cause some dire strains and many of the people who supported
that Amendment are now supporting an amendment that is probably going to be on the ballot that will hopefully reverse that first amendment and not allow public tax dollars to go to
private institutions such as private schools um that do not have to follow the same laws and transparency as public schools and so um I mean it was again
that was just one tiny school district in Nebraska it was devastating across the state for pretty much all the rural school districts and I was just trying to think last I heard the closest
private school um that you know V could be used uh since was in Carney Nebraska which is three hours away from Sydney and so um it was just devastating to the
majority of Nebraska that is rural school districts and the same very well will happen here and will devastate our rural school districts um and they don't have have choices they don't have options like but
you know for for private schools that um others do they rely on their Public School District and so we H they're already underfunded I mean we're all underfunded in the state of Colorado as it is and
this will cause such significant harm to students who attend public schools so I guess I share the cautionary tale of Nebraska um as a wakeup because or as a
warning sign for Colorado because it will it will be devastating um Mira spoke to the impact to uh public schools and public school funding I think there's also and she mentioned this as well but I want to emphasize it even more that when you
have public dollars they should require public oversight and I think our districts are held to an oversight expectation that private schools are just not held to um and by opening this
door we're placing kids at further risk of being potentially for lack of a better term abused by private schools because they do not have that level of oversight to make sure that a kid is not discriminated against because of their
abilities um or for other factors that it's just very risky to open this Floodgate and I tend to like to think of all the kids in our district whether they're homeschooled um charter school students they're all our kids and it's
Our obligation to protect them and I think voting to support this resolution is a vote to protect our kids and also a vote to make sure that our public dollars are spent wisely um and for the right reasons I think um I have some concerns
about this resolution I keep hearing about vouchers and school funding however that is not part of the ballot language um being introduced with Amendment 80 well I understand there are some concerns that that may possibly open a Floodgate there is no language saying that fed that school funding will
go to private schools um there's no funding saying that or there's no language saying that Charter Schools um will not have to be transparent with the funding that they get we have charter schools here in Adams 12 all of them have to report either to us or the state
and they have to report on the information it is our job to oversee our charter schools and hold them accountable and so I'm a little bit concerned of some of the verbiage that I have heard um while we are neighboring to Nebraska we are not the same and we
are number two in this in the country as far as Charter School enrollment goes um there is a lot of importance involved with choice and this Ballot or this amendment 80 is really designed to say you are allowed to have choices this is
in place because we have neighboring school districts like Adams 14 that um their right to um authorize a charter was revoked because they were blanket rejecting all Charter applications that came to their desk and while um we do
have that in the law already um I think it is important to acknowledge that there are places that say no you can't be a charter school here you only have the public education choice and for some children that that's just not enough we've seen a decline in enrollment here in Adams 12 and some of that is because
of declining population and people moving away but that's also because our homeschool communities are thriving our private schools are full and our charter schools are on weight list Adams 12 is home to the largest charter school in the state of Colorado and it serves a population that still needs so much
serving the gifted and talented population we have a school in Aurora Colorado it is specifically designed to cater to teen parents and pregnancies um they their graduation rates are double what they are in the rest of the Aurora
School District there is a purpose for Charter Schools home schools and sometimes private schools and I think that we need to be very careful of taking a strong stance one side or another because there are a lot of families in Adams 12 that have kids in
multiple places charter schools are not stealing funding from the District it is another option and some districts have the need for a charter school we talk about declining enrollment and I am fearful that there are some districts
that are right there on the cusp they are not big enough and they're not growing enough to build that new school but they still have schools that are at capacity and without Charter Schools or home schools or private schools coming into provide some relief they would be
stuck at capacity and overflowing classrooms with large class sizes for longer than I would want any teacher to have to deal with so I again I'm concerned about this our um our resolution makes mention of um where did
it say here vouchers um and again here it says now therefore be it resolved that atams 12 F star School Board of Education opposes School vouchers in Amendment 80 commonly called school choice and K12 education I would like to see vouchers stricken from that as is
not part of the amendment 80 and I would like to see um some rewording done on the financial piece because while this could have the potential consequences of maybe causing some of our students to leave therefore for a lack of school funding um it is not a direct correlation this is not like it's going
to pass and therefore we have to designate x amount of dollars from our public um school districts to private schools so they can hide the money they are completely separate entities and all this is asking for is that we allow parents to choose the best learning
environment possible for their children again um there are plenty of opportunities that um there are there are private schools that are um created to um serve special education population
there are Charter Schools created to serve um different demographics new America school is a perfect example and when I think about um some of our alternative schools and the fact that those are already full sometimes I wonder what would it look like if we had a charter school that
could give home to more children that are struggling if we are not currently able to do so or keep up at a fast enough pace so again I would be asking that we make um at minimum some changes to this document if not um take no stance the charter um the league of
charter schools has not taken a stance the cea the Colorado Education assoc Association took a stance against amendment 80 um it's written very similarly talking a lot about private school funding and I am just concerned at this point that there are more
inaccuracies in our uh resolution than there are accuracies I I would sorry sorry um I was just going to say I I um hear what director Potter is saying and and um have some agreement I
think it's interesting that I think every one of the board directors up here at some point has chosen a different Choice School for their kid my kids were just choiced into schools this year um I come from being a preschool parent at B Swan and I know that they're trying to
get a charter um through Broomfield or not Broomfield Boulder County um Boulder schools and and I do recognize that people have a fear that their Charter is going to get blanketly rejected my problem with this um text as it is written on the ballot is it does say
private education and it does say homeschools and I think that that just continues to open a door that public dollars are not being held in the public space and held with an oversight that is incredibly needed um I I understand um
the argument to make sure choice is there I appreciated the comment that this is redundant because again I think that if your board has had each one of us choose a school that best fits our kid there's really no need to do this and and when you start putting things in
here like home schools and private and we all understand how funding Works uh that opens kind of a slippery slope so this has nothing to do with well let me put this way charter schools are public schools and this
amendment um it's not about charter schools because charter schools are public schools and they get Public School dollars and I'm Sorry Miss Weaver it kind of made it confusing but it's about it is about private schools and it
is about homeschools that is the concern that no it doesn't specifically say it but what it does is if it becomes something in our Constitution that means it's the state's obligation to fund it we already have school choice in
Colorado and as director Marsh holson explained we've all chosen um not necessarily home schools for our kids but within our district and um why does it need to be enshrined in the Constitution um because once you put
something in the Constitution as you all know it's hard to get it out when people realize what it's opening the door for and I think a lot of people don't see that and they don't believe it that if this passed we would be obligated as a
state to fund private educational institutions therefore I think you know anytime you want to put an amendment to our constitution you better think long and hard and I'm glad at least that it takes 55% of the voters to approve it I
mean that's that's a permanent thing think of how hard it is to put amendments into the US Constitution okay so um that's in my mind why I oppose uh Amendment 80 because first of all we already have
school choice it's law it's statute and it does open the door to make private schools say to the state you have to fund us any would there be possibility to amend our current resolution then to make that argument because I do agree
with you changing the Constitution is a very serious thing and we do already have Colorado law um in place I think you know some of this is driven from the Senate bill that almost passed last year that would have potentially closed a lot of charter schools um and I and I do
think there is a compromising area um where you know we could get to to a a a better place with the resolution away from where it's written right now what are you suggesting um I you know I think it
would be great to include um some verbiage in here about how changing the Constitution is part of our reasoning for not supporting the um amendment I think like you you had pointed out it does mention private schools and
homeschooling um again I you know the spirit of the amendment was to make sure that parents always have a choice um and so language about supporting the rights for parents to have Choice while maybe
in keeping some of the other verbiage about concerns about private schools um I think there's just some compromise in there that could be made so um maybe a statement a whereas statement whereas
um that students in Colorado already have a choice as to what public school they attend and you could say public school um traditional or private or sorry not
private traditional or Charter is traditional the right word to use I would say District managed thank you District man okay so whereas CH students in Colorado already have a choice
as to attend um a district managed or Charter School of their choice um um Mr Spar has his hand up if the board's going to consider that I would just point out the third whereas clause on the first page school choice
has been established in Colorado law since 1994 allowing parents and students to choose from a variety of educational environments including neighborhood Public Schools Charter Schools private schools homeschooling and Accredited Online schools so I think in addition to
that aware as statement about um the board's feelings in regards to the seriousness of changing the Constitution as opposed to um keeping it State Statute I think we're looking at you
fell I'm sorry I was reading the next one that says Amendment 80 would for the first time enshrine a right to private schooling in the Colorado Constitution an unprecedented and unnecessary action so kind of looks like it's
there so again I I guess when I read that I don't my takeaway and maybe I'm just unique in this when I read that it doesn't say to me that the School Board supports choice just not changing the
Constitution so maybe it would be something to the effect of um uh an unprecedented amendment to a statute that has already already doing what it's supposed to do is that what you're saying something
like that I mean I feel like this covers that um I mean and I could be unique in that as well that those concerns that you've brought up Corney
it's throughout here because it it doesn't it focuses on private schools which as a side note in Colorado private schools are not registered as educational institutions they are registered as
businesses and as a business owner a private business owner that does contract with the state and takes uh through a voucher system for funding for Department of Corrections
um there is definitely not enough accountability by any means um and so going back to that this document sh I mean that's all it says is it really focusing
on um the harm of what could open for private schools which are essentially just businesses what if it's where is school choice as supported by this
board before the has established I mean how do we insert that or how we make do we propose an amendment we're still operating under the same um modified motion so we don't have to
redo that but I think we could uh read that proposed change into it and then include that in the final vote okay so okay so um the third
whereas whereas school choice which is supported by by the Adams 12 Board of Ed has been established in Colorado you could say whereas school choice uh which is supported by this
board okay with the capital B uh and then continue with that does that work Cy okay um would it also be possible we are not a rural School District um and if we pass a resolution I do feel like
we really need to be mindful of our populations that we are governing over um to strike the whereas let's see one two three four the sixth whereas that talks about rural schools um personally as a board member I don't feel like I have enough experience in a rural School
District um considering that's not what we govern over to speak to that um is that but I think that it also says that um it would benefit private schools which are in our area
so it it covers the whole Spectrum okay um the final ask I have is to um remove the word vouchers from the second now therefore be it resolved paragraph on the second page
where where are you talking the now therefore we now therefore so how what language are you thinking instead of that the Adams 12
festar school board of education opposes Amendment 80 commonly called school choice in K12 education how about maybe adding something in there and potential funding to private
schools well I think that statement is up to each of us to decide if we agree with it um I mean in my opinion um well I oppose School vouchers because they take public funds away from
public schools and it's my job to be responsible for public schools in Adams 12 so therefore vouchers that would take money from Adams 12 into the private schools would be against um my thoughts on what it be to be a fiduciary responsible person for this school board
well and I agree I mean I I think vouchers are an entirely different conversation um which is why I'm asking that we remove the vouchers portion from Amendment 80 because Amendment 80 isn't addressing vouchers specifically um and maybe have them have two separate
resolutions if we feel the need to pass a resolution about voucher or wait until vouchers come up to then address that and use this strictly to address Amendment 80 well I think part of the impetus against amendment 80 is saying
that should it be passed then it enshrines in the Constitution that children in Colorado have a right to a private education that needs to be funded so I think um the thought here is to be proactive in preventing that from
possibly happening by pointing out that legally it could happen I mean I'm not disagreeing we have private preschools that are offering free um or Universal preschool already um and I I think in a lot of ways it has challenged our public um
entities to to improve and and be able to compete in some of those ways but it's also um it takes some students so um that was it for my suggested changes my thoughts on
that so thank you for hearing them okay is there any other comments anybody else wants to make okay uh I think Chris so maybe Phil will ask to clarify or we'll restate something just to make sure everyone's got clarity about what you're voting on
yes the vote is um for the modified uh motion uh with one further change and that is to um revise the third whereas Clause to read whereas school choice comma which
is supported by this board with the capital B comma has been established etc etc that's what we're voting on okay director Assad Lucas I director bastelli I director Goldstein I director
Marsh Holan I director Potter no okay thank you on to the resolution appreciation of taxpayer investment in Adams 12 festar schools so I will entertain a motion to adopt the resolution and appreciation of
taxpayer investment in Adams 12 festar schools as presented so move second okay um director Potter requested that we um put forth a
resolution so um you have one to look at and going back to my I can never figure out how to do board dogs on a iPad okay all right so
comments I appreciate um you guys hearing this resolution today um we had had a request um for this several times during public comment and I thought that we owed it to our constituents to at least have the discussion um I think
this resolution was written fairly well um does a good job of highlighting all of the um responsible ways that we have used the taxpayer dollars however I'm a little bit disappointed that it seems to fall short in acknowledging some of the
sacrifices and um tolls it takes on our taxpayers we have a lot of families we have a lot of individuals in in the atams 12 boundaries that don't have kids in schools and so um you know I was hoping that we could acknowledge you
know kind of that population that is choosing to support our students even though you know they may not be directly immediately impacted even if they will be impacted by having an amazing Workforce and um reaping the benefits
down the road so if you look at the now therefore they're numbered out one through four number one says we extend our sincere gratitude and appreciation to taxpayers past and present would putting something in there
like regardless of whether or not they have children in our schools um I think you know a suggestion that I had would be um you know now therefore the district deeply acknowledges the financial sacrifices made by community members through their
property taxes understanding that these contributions reflect a significant personal investment in the future of our students and that the generosity has been instrumental and ensuring that our schools remain safe modern and capable of providing high quality education for all um I think that touches a little bit
more on um the magnitude of ask we are making on some of these families because while it is a cup of coffee for some that same $10 is an entire meal for others so do you all have that in writing in front of you or did you just no I did I
wrote it down could you read that again yes whereas the district deeply acknowledges the financial sacrifices made by community members through their property taxes understanding that these contributions reflect a significant personal investment in the future of our
students and that this generosity has been instrumental in ensuring that our schools remain safe modern capable of providing high quality education for all anybody have any input I think that was a really long paragraph and we're all just still
trying to process I was just going to ask do you mind if I if I I'm such a visual person do you have it that I like written out or am I allowed to email it to the board can I or do I have to email it to Stephanie what is that needed visually I'm going to look to Phil and see if he
has any objection to I prefer if I get emailed to Stephanie and if someone needs a written copy that can be distributed that way instead of interacting between board members by email during a meeting I send it to Stephanie thank you thank you since um
we aren't going to have a lot of time we don't have time to really digest that right now um may I suggest we table this till the next meeting where we have a chance to look at it and consider it in a more thoughtful manner yeah I think that's fine okay so we're going to do
that that'll give us time to look at it visually think about it and we'll come back next time I was trying to only make like one addition but get all of the feelings and things in that in that statement Courtney could I ask a
clarifying question about that yes uh suggested language is that in addition to items one through four or is that to replace something or maybe replace one okay thank you
okay all right on to Proclamation dyslexia awareness month I will entertain a motion to adopt the pro Proclamation declaring October 2024 dyslexia Awareness Month in Adam to Five Star schools as
presented so moved second do we read proclamations or because I know some entities do okay all right comments um so I am very um thrilled
that this is on there um I know my my predecessor uh this was a deep um issue for her and um as someone who is on this board um with uh pretty severe dyslexia I I really appreciate it I grew up where
um the stigma was uh pretty pretty not great um when you had dyslexia and and really really uh didn't allow you uh to feel like you had a whole lot of potential um in schools and and I had a lot of great support but I had a lot of
people assume that um I I was not going to make much of myself and um this week my daughter was diagnosed with dyslexia as well so um again I I think that this uh Proclamation um we have a lot of them and I know there's a lot of um other
awarenesses out there that we need to rise up but I think that this one to overcome the stigma that is so prevalent um is is really important so I appreciate that you know to Echo what um director Marshall said I think it's so important
that we shed some light on this I know Laura would be excited to have this on here as well um as another board member that has struggled with dyslexia I understand how hard it can be um even serving this capacity there are plenty of people that like to point out that I can't spell and I can't read fast and
all the things I can't do um and so I think taking the moment for both yourself and other people to acknowledge that this is a thing that people still deal with even as adults and they can be successful they can go on and Achieve greatness is just um pretty special and
I'm grateful that we take the time to do it um I think Alexis is a wonderful example of the kind of um successful adult you can become and I hope that we can continue to inspire more people with dyslexia to push past those boundaries and and kind of block out that other
noise and know that that um we are capable and we are a capable population so thank you for putting this on the agenda today well again just to Echo the both of what um you have said is one thing I really
appreciate is you know bringing more awareness and understanding to dyslexia and especially to speak to what you said Alex that um we're getting away finally from the stigma of having
a learning disability or develop velopmental disability equates to your overall ability and um and especially what you are able to do later
in life and I know not too far back in the past I we had many people who had a learning disability um or developmental disability that had nothing to do with
functioning be shipped away or put in special school you know and um it was pretty D detrimental and so I I really appreciate the awareness and the understanding that we continue to bring
and um and also the tools we introduce that we make system wide and again this was l Mitchell's passion but that will
normalize um this for all kids and because they're all learning the exact same way even though it might be more helpful for students with um dyslexia and so yeah thanks for continuing to bring
this forward and just to kind of second what uh Amira just said I I what I love about proclamations like this is that it's our ability to normalize learning differences um and to see them as differences and not so much disabilities because we see two very successful women
up here who have stated that they you know have this in their background um and as someone who has a child with his own learning differences not dyslexia but certainly other things the more we can do to remove the stigma to remove the stereotypes and to remove the
negativity around a difference is uh the best thing we can do in our role yeah and it's interesting a miror that you would mention that in the past you know kids with learning disabilities
like such were shuffled away because I have a cousin a few years older than me who was shuffled ACR to a different state to and and the methods that they used back then were not the methods that they have now to help him learn how to reach
and we have those methods in this District now thanks to Benchmark and um and I just have to say um you don't need to speak about Laura in the past tense because she is still passionate about reading and the science of reading um
and um I think that continuing to bring this forward every year too is very important okay director Assad Lucas hi director bastelli I I director Goldstein I
director Marsh holen I director Potter I okay proposed revisions to monitoring report schedule I'll in entertain a motion to adopt the proposed revisions to the monitoring report schedule as presented so moved second so last time
we saw the um changes um it's always good every once in a while systematically to look at what we do routinely and change the routine as necessary so any other comments director Assad Lucas I director
bastelli I director Goldstein I director Marsh Holan I director Potter I okay questions for the board meeting with the principal Representatives you have the attached um every year we meet with a a representative group of principles uh
from all levels and I will tell you you don't have to ask them too many questions to get them talking so we just wanted a few um they are somewhat different than last year um we change them every year based on what's going on in the system um but I guarantee you
that we will run out of time before they all get to say everything they want to say but is there any comments and this is not something we have to vote on or anything it's just if there's any other questions you think we should put on there um I was looking at
the Benchmark question that we have and I would love to see some sort of invitation to principles to discuss benchmarks success um around the special populations piece so how is it working for um emergent bilinguals how is it
working for students on IEPs for different reasons how is it um working as far as the instructor or teachers ability to differentiate um for twice exceptional students uh so just more in
that line and I'm going to be the person who is going to um go out on a limb and say for question three what what is that talking about I I don't know what you mean by capacity Builders and value ad so if you could translate happy to do
that uh first of all a suggestion on that one I think this is applicable to all levels so I might encourage you to say for all levels or just drop the introductory clause our Capac capacity Builders are our common term to capture
all the Educators in the building who work on building the capacity of our classroom teachers so this would include instructional coaches social emotional learning Specialists gifted and talented Advocates digital literacy Partners I
feel like I'm missing one thank you interventionist it's great to have a gallery here tonight so capacity Builder is all of those folks and so I think a question asking them what has been the
impact of our investment in those positions is a worthwhile question and then um for number four takeaways from this year's State assessment results um I'm hoping that they'll also be willing to provide some context or background because I know
sometimes there are variables taking place at a given school that may be useful to understand um when considering assessment results so when they answer it if they're not
addressing that just prompt them okay um so kind of around number three um I would agree to take the high school part out I'd like to know what all of our schools are doing but I am um maybe because it's on the Forefront of my mind I am curious to know how they are doing
this work with the portrait of a graduate in mind and I would like to know kind of their thoughts on that New Concept while we have them all there um so that we can kind of have a benchmark of this is where they were at going into it this is how they now feel and now
they're they love it or they hate it or we need to make changes well they have had time to really well that's what I was going to say I I love the idea of bringing the portrait of The Graduate into the conversation they will be less than two
weeks into viewing it when they see that so they could probably give you some anticipatory ideas in that space But you're not going to get a a a deep well vetted concrete answer uh to that piece
but I did like the piece around how do you use these uh really expert uh Educators to help uh lift all boats in your building how do you how do you uh structure them how do you use
them that addition to that question I think is really valuable the portrait question would be a good question for next year we could still ask for like uh what's your one word that comes up when we mention the portrait just to get that
initial reaction especially knowing how many um creative colorful words were used when we introduced Benchmark I don't think we need to add but I just wanted to point out um on number four the takeaway from State
assessments results um I heard a lot of stress last year at the elementary level for the um calendar of Assessments especially towards the end and kids getting tested every day so um I think if you're going to look at results you have to look at how the test
was was given and the time period it was so I don't know if we add that but I just want that in the back of everyone's mind and I mean I it does not need to be added because it always comes up organically but about mental health
and um how that's been looking over the past couple years I remember when I think it was my first year maybe it was when before I was even um Courtney I elected but um there was a lot of talk about you know mental health
and kids struggling and just all the things that have been put into place and supports and resources and how that reflects now um but again that always tends to come up organically so I don't think it really needs to be added yeah this does tend to be an organic
conversation more often than not so but you know if we get to a point where you have that question that's not being answered you go ahead and ask it I don't think or if we still have time because remember we only get what an hour and a half yeah yeah all
right on to the minute I will entertain a motion to approve the minutes of the regular board meeting of August 28 2024 and of the work study session of August 28th 2024 as presented so move second any
discussion director Assad Lucas I director bastelli I director Goldstein I director Marsh holen I director Potter I okay on to monitoring reports I will entertain uh internal monitoring report
General operating limitations policy 2.0 I will entertain a motion to acknowledge that the board has received a monitoring report as of September 18th 2024 for the period July 1 2023 through June 30th 2024 of the superintendent
concerning board policy 2.0 General operating limitations and finds the superintendent's interpretations are reasonable and supported by data that is relevant Justified and complete so moved second okay and Mr
Spar thank you Phil Spar general counsel for Adams 125 star schools the statement that I am uh providing the monitoring report for this evening States the superintendent shall not
cause or allow any practice activity decision or organizational circumstance which is either unlawful imprudent in violation of government regulations or of commonly accepted Business and Professional ethics and
practices so the first part of that statement uh is unlawful we're not to do anything that is unlawful we interpret that to mean are there any Court decisions or final agency decisions that have found that we were uh in violation
of of the laws of the United States or the laws of Colorado and I am reporting that we do not have any such decisions or judgments by final agencies or courts uh during
the time period at issue here which is uh July 1 2023 through June 30 2024 the second item in the report talks about imprudent we're not uh we interpret imprudent to mean any situation which
violates operating limitations ongoing violations of District policy or a failure to adopt any policy required by law or government regulation and I am in I am reporting that we are not in violation of any of those
standards um we use some due diligence efforts to check with District leaders to see if they have any ongoing violation concerns and I have not received any uh in my day-to-day work I
come across uh lots of different issues but when we find a a violation of policy we do our best to correct it and we don't allow ongoing violations so we have no um ongoing
violations to report the third standard has to do with violation of governmental regulations it's very similar to the the first one about unlawful activities and here we're looking at government regulations which
is really just a subset of state and federal laws uh often in more detail and again I don't have any decisions or judgments by final agency action to report that would be uh a violation of our
policy and the final item is interpreting commonly accepted business and professional ethics and practices we take the ethics uh concerns very seriously um most of the ethics
concerns with public employees are distilled into District policy 4130 that addresses staff ethics uh those policies are available online and are included in uh ongoing Communications to District employees
during the annual contract process I do my day-to-day work receive some either reports uh of potential ethics violations which are investigated and then corrected if need be uh my
preference is when someone ask me in advance uh would it be a violation uh of the ethics policy to do XY or Z and then under the policy itself I'm to give them a legal opinion and recommendation and we do not have any ongoing concerns
there um a second part part of District policy 4130 is an annual audit that'll be reported uh by the faac the finance and audit committee which I understand is scheduled for the October 2nd board
meeting those are the highlights of my report and I'll take any questions that the board members may have anybody have any questions okay thank you uh director Assad Lucas I dor belli
I director Goldstein I director Marsh Holan I director Potter I okay thank you I'm sorry can I I have to leave for a family emergency so I'm going to scoot out and I'm sorry to leave you guys early okay I hope everything's
okay okay uh number two internal monitoring report operating limitations policy 2.6 employment compensation and benefits I will entertain a motion to acknowledge that the board has received a monitoring report as of September 19th
2024 for the period August 15 2023 through August 14th 2024 of the superintendent concerning board policy 2.6 employment compensation and benefits and finds the superintendent's interpretations and are reasonable and supported by data that is relevant
Justified and complete so moved second I see Mila Shepard good evening uh thank you for uh inviting me forward to speak to this monitoring report um this as Lori said is is a
report dealing pertaining to employment compensation benefits there are six sections that we uh divide our our information out into uh the first one has to do with superintendent compensation and I would say about this
section and and all that follow there are no significant changes to this report year-over-year from the last couple you've seen actually we've updated all of the numbers but um I report compliance in all six areas of this policy and um no significant
changes but just as a a matter of Overview at a high level um that first section speaking about the the setting of the superintendent's compensation um the second section pertains to Employment Practices staying
legal as Phil with sharing in recruiting hiring evaluation promotion termination all Employment Practices are legally applied our compensation section three
deals with uh a few different uh areas of compens the total compensation package uh information about our analysis process for setting compensation information about our salary plans as they compare to other
districts uh information about our benefits plans which is part of the total compensation package both medical dental and vision coverage as well as leave leave of absence as it compares to other places and um and then in that
section also information about the uh Alp the longevity plan that was formerly ad uh administered to administrators and the stiens that were provided to certified classified employees all of those programs have been phased out long
ago but we still do have employees who are grandfathered and and being uh in receipt of those those stiens as they retire from our system so you've got some updated numbers there about the the numbers of folks in those programs um the fourth section uh speaks
to the prohibition about obligations that exceed our ability to to project year to year so that speaks to the annual budgeting process and not getting Beyond ourselves there uh the fifth section speaks to um the prohibition of uh to incur unfunded liabilities or to
create unpredictable or inequitable situations and uh the sixth section is the requirement of a six-month separation period before hiring Board of Ed members to be employees or contractors and so in all sections as I said at the start I report compliance um
I know no situations that violate any of these so I welcome any questions that you have uh about the information I've shared anybody have any questions none thank you thank you
okay director Assad Lucas I director bastelli I director Goldstein I director Marsh holen I okay on to the consent agenda I will entertain a motion to approve the Personnel actions as listed resignations
and terminations transfers and reassignments and employment and leaves of absence so Mo second okay any questions or discussion director Assad Lucas I
director bastelli I director Goldstein I director Marsh holen I Okay calendar September 25th is our special board meeting with our um principles um is this this is not on you though
okay okay and then we have October 2nd is our next uh meeting we have our work study session and then we have our regular meeting and then October 8th is our special board meeting at CSA we'll have questions at the next meeting to go over that too tends to be an organic
conversation um and there always fun to um listen to classified and is there anything else I'll just share that the October uh 1 October meeting I won't be present uh because I'll be at the league of innovative schools meeting with Matt Schmidt but Bo I think we'll be duly
ready to to go and support you all that evening thank you for letting us know I would just add that on September 28th Legacy is having their band Festival I don't know the correct term I'll be at that if you want to add that to the calendar I think we got invitations for
that there's a couple of things going on that day yeah okay well without further ad I will say we are adjourned I really like this early meeting start I think everybody else does too