[Music] I'd like to call to order this regular meeting of the Boulder Valley School District Board of Education for Tuesday December 10th 2024 board members May attend and participate in board meetings in person and by electronic means in accordance with bbsd policy bmea and state law
Laura can you please call the role Chavez here medler here nnick Quin Lin AA here Raj Paul here Sergeant
here anger here thank you board members I'd like you now and guests turn your attention to the screens for our land acknowledgement this evening
[Music] the Boulder Valley School District resides and operates on land that is the ancestral Homeland and unjustly in Legally taken territory of the ud Pelin
arapo Cheyenne Apache Navajo and 48 other tribal Nations historically tied to this land who have called This Land home since time and Memorial [Music]
we acknowledge the atrocities committed here including the painful history of genocide forced assimilation and efforts to alienate the indigenous inhabitants from their Homeland supported by the policies of the United States [Music]
government bbsd is aware of the many indigenous peoples past and present and their dignified Nations and cultures who care for this land with strength and resilience BBC recognizes the histories of the land in Colorado and the survival of many nations that carried their oral
Traditions into the present it is bbd's responsibility to educate ourselves our community and our students so that we can embrace the wisdom and knowledge of indigenous peoples and actively stand together to address
[Music] injustices in offering this land acknowledgement we affirm and honor the history wisdom oral traditions and resilience of indigenous people and recognize the responsibility to care for and appreciate this land
together thank you to our Communications team who put that together what's very well done I'd like to remind everyone that the mission of the Boulder Valley school district has create challenging meaningful and engaging learning opportunities that alter and Thrive and are prepared for successful civically engaged lives good evening everyone
thank you for joining us in person here tonight and remotely we are glad to have you observe and participate in our meetings at this time I'd like to see if there's a motion to approve our agenda move by Kitty seconded by Jorge Laura can you please call the role Chavez yes medler yes nnick yes
Quin L AA yes Raj Paul yes Sergeant yes anger yes motion passes next I am excited to pass the uh meeting over to Dr Anderson who will be introducing our student moment for this
evening thank you board president Raj Paul uh board members as we all remember early this fall we had a couple very serious incidents in which bbsc students were hit while crossing Baseline Road near 95th Avenue tonight's student moment guest Willow Fleet Meer an eighth
grader at Nevan plat middle school and her her family and neighbors decided to take action to help protect students she wrote about her experience in the Indian Peaks neighborhood newsletter the stroll and now she's here to share her thoughts in person welcome Willow we're excited
to have you this evening thank you hi my name is Willow Fleet Meer and I am going to be talking to you guys about the Indian Peaks crosswalk action from past present and future
perspectives um I am 13 years old I am an eighth grader at plat middle school I have been in bbsd since kindergarten I went to Douglas Elementary School I have two older siblings I'm a 360 leader at school and I love to dance I love to
sing I go to youth group and I take the bus to school each morning so turning back to the crosswalks I'm going to talk to you guys about past present and future so in the past on Thursday September 5th and Friday September 6th
two students were hit by cars at two different crosswalks on Baseline Road I was walking home from school one day and I live in an alley that you can see the end of not the end but I can see
Baseline Road so I was walking up my alley and I see the RTD and it dropped off a couple kids and I turned into my house and then I saw my dad running up to the top of the road to see what all the commotion was about so I walked up
to the top of the road and I saw somebody lying in the middle of the road and then my dad told me to go home so I went home and my dad came home and he was really really scared and I remember
trying to comfort him and then he had described the girl he had seen and I had walked with her home the day before she rides the RTD and I had ridden the RTD school bus home from school and you have to cross the road to get to the
neighborhood the next morning I was at my school bus stop and me and my friends heard sirens we were trying to stay calm cuz all of us knew what had happened the day before and so we were all a little bit scared and then I got a call from my
mom about a minute later saying that another student in bbsd had gotten hit so on that Friday morning I went to school and I was really distracted and so my mom came and picked me up from
school and we wanted to take some action and so we made signs to put on the roads that said slow down and we made these signs to put on these buckets that had Flags in them and they say take it to make it and you take up a flag when
you're about to cross the road so that cars can see you when you're crossing the community response in my neighborhood and school was incredible um a bunch of parents stepped up to help and stand at the crosswalk so
that students and other people can cross safely and also a bunch of students at my school stepped up and we all made posters and signs and presents and a bunch of things for the two students that had gotten hit the news has also done a really
great job of communicating all of the accidents that have happened and making sure that everybody knows what has been happening in the community with the accidents so I got interviewed and my mom got interviewed and a couple other people in
my neighborhood got interviewed to help assess what had happened there has also been a lot of education for people to understand what has been going on the police have done a really good job at staying at their
stations by the crosswalks so that people will get tickets at their speeding and a bunch of other traffic issues 5 days after the accident there were 62 tickets handed out from the police station and that is a lot of
tickets and it was only on Baseline Road as well at those two crosswalks so the police have done a great job of taking action as well also 120,000 cars pass from Boulder to Lafayette every day putting a lot of
students and people and cars in risk of being injured or killed just this morning I was on the school bus and we had to turn around two times from two different car accidents on the road and I was late to school and that
was really really interesting to see I also wrote an article from my neighborhood magazine it's called stroll in Indian Peaks I write one article monthly and a couple months ago I chose
to write about the crosswalks and the action in the future I have a couple things that I think would really help the crosswalks and the safety of people crossing the road and also cars as they
cross too so Community Partnerships like you guys and the police stations and cities have all been really really helpful and I hope that they will continue I also think that it'd be very helpful if we could lower the speed limit in the area because right now now
it's at 40 and that is a really fast um that is really fast for cars to pass through with two different crosswalks in the midst of it and I think we should at least lower it to 35 the police have been and I hope will continue to be very helpful through all
of these times and they have been pulling and pulling over people and I've even seen it outside of my own neighborhood and that has been really helpful as well as maybe making the road a single Lane so that there would be more traffic so that cars could be going
slower right now it is two lanes I also think that it' be helpful to have crossing guards at the crosswalks in the morning and in the afternoon when students are arriving and going to school because there are so many kids who have to cross the road to
get to LMS or Centaurus or the RTD bus stop um in the morning and the afternoon parents can step up but they can't step up forever and I think that to have some people that will do that would be really helpful there's also
been some talk about a traffic light being put at Roser and Baseline and although that is really great it probably won't happen for quite some time and yeah thank you so much for listening and for having me have a wonderful
evening thank you for your activism Willow and for keeping us aast of this issue as it unfolds board members do you have any questions for our student moment speaker this evening Kitty yes do you know do either of the crosswalks have the that thing where you
push the button and the lights on the signs flash is it do they even have that yes they do have that and with both accidents both of the students had used them and the car still didn't see them coming and it was yeah yeah they're hard to see sometimes during the day yes
especially because in at Night the Lights show out more but they do day I have one question have you um been in communication or working at all with safe roads to school who is at all I have not I'll just put in a plug for the
great work that safe routes to school does to help think through challenges around pedestrian and car transportation and access points and so that would be in your journey another Avenue I would explore and they the safe roots to school team from bbsd can work with different local governments to help
address joint areas of concern so i' encourage you to reach out to them as well thank you thanks Willow best of luck thank you so much board members the next item on our agenda this evening is our work session study tonight we have one topic which is
the review of our annual comprehensive financial report otherwise known as the AER I will turn it over to Dr Anderson to do some introductions thank you board president Raj Paul um board members as you know
this is an annual meeting where we present the annual comprehensive financial report through our partners with Clifton Larson Allen uh and uh to introduce our team I will turn the
presentation over to Bill Suter uh thank you Dr Anderson uh president rajul all members of the board um so we're reviewing the uh fiscal year
2324 audit uh that's last year um is the culmination of the fiscal cycle that lasts some 28 months uh that's a little foreshadowing for my next presentation U so stay tuned uh but um
the audit is really a uh a lot of work uh to pull this uh all together and I just really want to thank staff for all the hard work uh and folks might not realize but that the staff really is
everybody in the district uh from HR to payroll to the accounting staff to everybody that has a PE card and is coding expenditures and the purchasing staff and the clerical staff at school buildings so it's really
I'm getting a new microphone it's really that's much better uh uh a lot of work uh for all the accounting that goes on in the in the school district this is really just pulling it all together uh at the end so
uh on November 20th the audit committee uh which is comprised of board member and Treasurer Alex medler uh board member lenia quinland AA uh and Community member and longtime audit Committee Member Bob smart uh and staff
we reviewed the audit uh it was still in draft form at that time but we reviewed it in detail uh and it had some great discussion uh as we always do uh with the audit committee uh but really dove into it uh for uh quite some
time uh so uh at this point I'll turn it over to Allison SLI who's a principal with not a school principal uh principal with Clifton Larsson Allen uh and who is the lead uh on our audit team and so we
have a a PowerPoint presentation which I'll bring up here in a second and we'll go through the audit great thank you so much and uh thanks everyone for having me here this evening so we do have a brief presentation just to summarize the results um as was mentioned we did meet
with the audit Committee in uh much more detail so um hard to summarize almost 200 Page document that you have in front of you uh in a in a short meeting but certainly happy to um cover some highlights uh this evening as well as uh certainly answer any questions that the board members might
have and we're almost there slideshow there maybe there you go thank you all right so we will be covering the fiscally year 2024 year end as was mentioned so as of 6:30 uh 24 year end uh covering the audit results
here it's not sharing there that didn't quite work hold please why it's not presenting next support e back in business thank you we'll go
through this uh efficiently here so uh just a couple agenda items but just to recap the overall audit scope um as is every year uh we do ultimately issue a report over the financial statements which you should have in front of you in the green uh cover that the board members have um this almost 200 Page
document is the annual comprehensive financial report or Acer uh so that's the ultimate financial statements for the district as a whole uh for your fiscal year uh there's also different aspects that we as external Auditors are engaged to perform and report to you all as board members we are directly engaged
with the board to perform the audit um so certain aspects related to Communications that we uh issue a letter to the board as well as any sort of uh recommendations findings things like that as well um because the district is a recipient of federal funding uh we also uh conduct what's called a single
audit uh which is basically an audit of uh Federal f fing that the district receiv so the requirement is any government highered or nonprofit uh organization that receives 750,000 or more of federal funding has to go through a single audit so that's a deep dive into uh certain federal programs
related to internal controls and compliance so that's one of the deliverables the compliance section that's within the financial statements so just to summarize the overall uh results of the audit so um these are just some highlights out of the the large uh document you have in
front of you so uh we do issue an audit opinion opinion over the financial statements and we're happy to report that was an unmodified or clean opinion over the financial statements for the district again this year so congratulations to um everyone involved with that as as Bill mentioned um it is a large effort that um takes up quite a
bit of the year to get us to the point to issue the audit um in November uh related to uh the federal Awards as I mentioned so um we do also uh conduct an audit over the federal Awards any of the large programs that the district has has to be audited every third year um so
this year uh we did audit one program um Esser funding which is similar to to last year we audited that last year as well um that's Co related covid-19 related funding that does um uh get audited and and that'll uh run its course and and should be the last year of being audited um but we we're happy
to report we did have an unmodified opinion over the uh Federal Awards as well so um that's a a large achievement to be able to achieve both of those um from an audit opinion standpoint in terms of the audit results uh more specifically related to financial statements um within the compliance
section at the back of your act for document you have there is a schedule of findings and question costs so that's an uh one of the deliverables related to the single audit um that has to report any sort of finding so um there's kind of two different levels of findings uh one is a material weakness which would
be the most uh severe type of finding that an entity can receive um a step down from that um is what's called a significant deficiency so that is a a a type of finding that is reported within this document that does get provided to the federal government at the end of the audit as well as uh different
stakeholders so uh we did have one significant deficiency this year uh related to the financial statements this was related to an audit adjustment that was made um it was discussed with the district and they um updated it it was a capital asset item uh for about $3.1 million so the financial statements that
you see in front of you are correct uh management agreed to that um and that was uh taken uh taken action so the the financial statements are correct and and reflect that adjustment we did have some other verbal best practice recommendations related to Information Technology um we do do bring in it
Auditors from our team at CLA um and those were uh discussed with with management as well just best practice recommendations related to Federal Awards uh we did not have any material weaknesses and we did not have any significant deficiencies related to the Esser program um which is uh great to
see um and that's a really positive result as well um so the governance communication letter that's a letter that does get issued directly to governance um so that uh you don't necessarily have in the public document um but just some summaries here really it's just kind of overall takeaways from the audit um no
sort of major changes though really um not a lot of updates or anything like that if you were to compare that that letter to the prior year uh letter um we did have uh what's called a uncorrected misstatement which is basically an item that was identified through the audit that um was large enough to bring to
your attention but not any sort of material error so um that item is noted related to um kind of accounting specific information of lease standards so um that was similar to the the prior year um and it was noted again this year so um that that is one of those items
where again not a material uh error but just something to bring to your attention uh and then that corrected misstatement I mentioned that was corrected within the financial statements related to Capital assets um no sort of disagreements with management no sort of um issues there in terms of the audit results which is all positive
um and then we do get assigned management representation letter that we do attach to that letter that is signed by management saying that they let us know of um they gave us the board minutes to review they gave us all the supporting documentation they let us know of any litigation things like that so we do do get that signed before we issue our audit
opinion um and just a real high level overview uh to without going through the large uh AC for document so um some of the just highlights here that uh independent Auditors report you'll kind of can follow along with the table of contents if you want to that is our unmodified opinion so that's towards the
front of the financials uh the management discussion and Analysis or mdna is a good summary of what happened year-over-year that is written by management and does have that comparison year-over-year so if you're looking for um you know about 15 pages or so summary of the 200 Page document that's a good place to look in terms of uh Financial
results um and then the actual financial statements themselves uh follow after that statement of net position which shows that all-in look uh for the district the balance sheet basically for the district um and statement of activities is basically the income statement for that all-in look uh for the district uh and then there's several
other uh pages of financial statements at the fund level which is kind of more the budget to actual information you're used to seeing um at the individual funds and then a whole lot of pages uh explaining all the all the numbers um all the disclosures things like that that are required to be reported so that's just a real high level overview
of the act for document um and then the single audit section just to touch on that briefly is that compliance section that's towards the back of that document um that does have our two audited opinions related to uh internal controls over our financial reporting and compliance um and then it
does have our uh report over compliance for each major federal program that schedule of findings and question cost um as well as the schedule of expenditures of federal awards are noted back there as well um so with that that's kind of the formal presentation high level overview uh certainly happy to address any
questions or comments that the board members might have or Bill if I miss anything feel free to jump in board members do you have any questions for Allison Alex uh not really a question for Allison but I did want to give a shout
out uh to Bob smart on our uh committee for the expertise and the care that he puts into it we continue to be um very well served by having him as part of the group and uh I'm not sure what to report from a long and thorough discussion of of these documents that we had um last
month uh but we um it was good to get to all the little things where the um audit uh reflects things uh didn't have much substance behind them and was uh uh gave me confidence in the overall management of the finances and the transparency
into it so Bill uh one final thing uh attached to the agenda item is the uh assurances for financial accreditation uh that's a form required by CDE uh and just to read a couple of
things off it um the school district must submit an assurance form certifying the school district's substantial and good faith compliance uh with School District budget law Financial policies and procedures ACT public school Financial transparency act and
accounting and Reporting uh so there's uh several sections on here uh that are all indicating that we are in compliance uh with the those U pieces of uh state law uh there is one item that's noted uh
that uh spending did not exceed amounts appropriated for each fund uh so um Justice High School uh expended over their uh appropriation uh it's a little weird because the the
charter schools are listed as component units so while the total Charter fund uh wasn't overspent uh the the singular School uh overspent their um uh appropriation uh so uh We've noted that
um on the last page uh there's a place for myself uh and the superintendent to sign uh certifying to the best of our knowledge and belief the assurances are uh true and correct uh and that all information is provided as applicable
and is true and correct and then also that uh as board president uh certifying that the board refed reviewed the assurances and approved uh the related responses so with that if there is any other questions you alluded a little bit um to
my question with your comments on Justice High did you um conduct the audit for all of our Charter Schools this year as you have in the past we did yes we conducted the audit and those are all um Standalone financial statements that get issued as well by each charter school which are issued before the
district as a whole and then um is it only the IT department that you specifically audit or do you rotate through other departments um you noted the comment the comment on it and I know when I was treasur you also did an audit of that
department so I was just curious how that that process works yeah that's a great question so um there's not necessarily audits of specific departments it as a whole has obviously a big role in financial reporting and kind of how financials are put together so that's a component of control
environment as well as any sort of risks that are identified with data integrity and um security things like that so um that's just part of the understanding the district as a whole and kind of what those controls are over the financial reporting but um as uh I think Bill mentioned earlier um we meet with
members of a lot of different departments so HR payroll grants uh being probably the largest ones in in in terms of um the expenditures that you will have an activity so um yeah a lot of folks Transportation I mean a lot of different folks are discussed during the audit process as far as just what what's
happening um Capital assets you know being a large spend as well so a lot of uh involvement with discussions with those folks as well so thanks for members any other questions we appreciate your work on this and second Alex's comment on Bob
smart he's been a great partner for many years on that well seeing as there oh Alex can I just invite uh bill um I think one of the things that's good for our community to be aware of and and this may not be the right place to have this discussion but I as I look at the finances I
continue to see a very decreasing State share from the state finance formula and I think it's helpful to understand for the community when we start dealing with our budget decisions later throughout the process where we sort of stand with our finances both after last year's legislative session after this upcoming
budget and also our role of just how much we we get from the state and feds could you comment on that change from this year last year the the trend on that um I'll say that's more foreshadowing as well for the the budget conversation because I do have a slide specifically on that that'll really
illustrate that uh very clearly thanks again um members that concludes this discussion this topic we will take a very brief adjournment to rearrange the boardroom welcome back to the meeting everyone the first item on our the
regular portion of our agenda this evening is the superintendent report Dr Anderson good evening thank you board president of Raj Paul board members few things to to all on for the December 10th superintendent remarks first I want to thank everybody who was able to join
us for our superintendent's honor role uh that happened prior to this meeting was a great way to just continue to recognize all the amazing things happening in our school district so I want to thank all of our attendees and their families for for coming out and celebrating with us today um so the
holiday season as you know is underway if you were out at the lights of December parade and Boulder this weekend you may have seen our transportation team going down the parade route they decked out a bbsd bus with holiday lights road bikes and walked with decorated crossing guard stop signs all
to celebrate the many ways bbsd gets kids to school CW who's our crossw crosswalk mascot encourages kids to keep their heads up while crossing the street he even came along for the FES of fun Transportation staff enjoyed cheers and
lots of gratitude from families watching the parade and we're told that we love our bus drivers Was Heard many many times along the the route from all of our fans that are parents and kids and so we want to thank the transportation department for participating in the
lights of December parade board members this time of year many of our schools are in the holiday spirit busy coordinating efforts to benefit Community organizations right before Thanksgiving curus high school student staff and even some family members gathered to make about 500 heart
pillows for breast cancer patients the pillows are for breast cancer patients the nonprofit J Will pink Village aims to distribute them to every woman going through a masectomy the heart shape works perfectly when they're strapping into a seat belt helping to prevent the seat belt from touching their chest area
which is a very painful Prospect isn't the first time centaura students have helped make these pillows back in May of 2023 the school helped the organization replace its stock of pillows that had burned down in the storage unit during the Marshall fire one of thanks uh goes out so much to all of our schools who go
to the extra mile to help during this time of year and and special thanks to the students at santarus last week uh was an emotional time for some of our longtime folks in our community where people were able to come out and say goodbye to the old Baseline Junior High Baseline middle
school and New Vista High School building after serving the students of bbsd for 71 years the building is scheduled to be demolished in 202 5 after the upcoming opening of the New Vista High School building which will be following winter break while the 1953
building is showing its age many of the past students and staff reminisced fondly while walking through the hallways visiting classrooms the gym and more it was evident how much their time at the school meant to them and I think there's many of us that are excited to welcome
in the new version uh which will be the new high school the new New Vista High School building bbsd was recently selected to participate in the US Department of Energy's energy class program also known as Champions leading the advancement of sustainable schools BSC is joining about
60 other districts and education agencies and developing strategies to enhance Energy Efficiency Foster healthier learning environments and optimize costs conjunction with this announcement bbsd was also invited to be part of the Department of Eder Energy's better climate challenge which aims to
set and reach ambitious ambitious portfolio wide missions reduction goals and finally want to send a thank you to Broomfield mayor guen castria city council member Bruce Leslie nine news anchor Kyle Clark and the many many
other community members and parents who came out recently for Aspen Creek's K8 career day we know it takes Partnerships like these with our community to make our educational efforts and students successful and very excited for um all of the the career related functions and
activi ities that are happening in our elementary and middle schools in alignment with Grad Plus initiative board members that's all I have for my remarks for this evening thank you Dr Anderson board members do you have any questions for Dr Anderson seeing as there are none the
next item on our agenda this evening is public participation the board respects the rights of the public to speak on matters concerning the operations of our schools the board does not endorse the comments of any speaker and reminds all those who speak that you are responsible for your own speech speakers Le have two minutes to speak you will see a yellow
card when you have 30 seconds remaining and an orange card when you have 10 seconds remaining if you run it of time or like to share additional information you may always email the board our first Speaker this evening is Knox
McCutchen who is attending in person Knox does not appear to be here this evening so we will move on to our second speaker Victor Guston and if you could just push the little button with the person on it and it'll turn your mic on thank you
okay uh hi my name is Victor and I'm a junior at monach High School uh and I like to talk about the cell phone policy uh I'd like to start by saying that I would like to add my voice to what the other students from the last meeting said about the policy and that I
don't think this harsh of a policy is necessary nor the right thing to spend resources on by disallowing phones or personal technology devices the only people affected will be the people use their phone responsibly those who abuse the
phones will always find a way around it and keep using them uh for example to get around in classroom phone Pockets students can say that they forgot their phone at home or use an extra or old phone uh these tactics can easily translate to avoid a
building wide band the only people who are actually being punished by this rule are those who don't want to break it which are those who can manage their phone use already I also think that the time that we that will be spent enforcing this policy
would be better spent addressing the far more concerning issue vaping and other substance abuse that is ubiquitous in school buildings specifically restrooms these substances are known to be detrimental to students and all students who are using them are abusing
them whereas that is not necessarily the case with fronts vaping and substance abuse causes students to follow the rules to feel uncomfortable using the school resturants and I'd like to urge you to prioritize addressing the substance
abuse issue before considering cell phone restrictions thank you for your time thank you our next speaker this evening is me Neil Fishman good evening thank you very much uh for this my my name is Neil Fishman
my gender pronouns are he and him and I'm speaking tonight both as myself as well as in my role as president of the board of the Rocky Mountain equality action fund I want to express my wholehearted support for the Boulder Valley School District's resolution
24-36 on supporting students and families this resolution embodies the district's commitment to ensuring that every child no matter their Identity or background can access education in a safe and supportive environment the resolution takes a bold
stand for E Equity by addressing the unique and overlapping challenges faced by students from targeted minority groups including those who are lgbtq intersectionality reminds us that the experiences of discrimination and
marginalization often overlap for instance lgbtq students who are also students of color immigrants or from diverse religious backgrounds face compounded challenges this resolution affirms that all students deserve protection respect and
the ability to thrive without fear of bullying harassment or hate it's critical to recognize the disproportionate impact of bullying and harassment on students from marginalized communities and to ensure these behaviors are not tolerated in our schools and I am grateful that the
resolution also acknowledges the fears and uncertainties facing students and families affected by immigration challenges no family should have to choose between safety and education schools must remain protected spaces for all furthermore the district stand
against hate speech including anti-Semitism and religious harassment as outlined in the resolution emphasizes its dedication to cultivating a culture of respect and inclusivity this resolution is a call to action for all of us Educators students
parents and community members to Champion equity and stand against all forms of discrimin ation I applaud the district for its leadership and for advancing a vision where every student feels seen supported and celebrated regardless of their Identity or
identities thank you thank you our next speaker this evening is Andrew brand uh good evening board members superintendent Anderson I'm Andrew Brandt uh new vista's rep to the Dak and the Dak policy subc commmittee uh speak on my own behalf and not uh on behalf of
the committee um we've been working on updates to policies jrl and Jrs which govern interrogations and searches of students by law enforcement uh or school officials on school grounds you'll receive Notes From The subcommittee co-chairs Who diligently worked with us
to formulate policies that align better with the districts and board's goals for equity and fairness I won't disparage the dax's work but I'm asking you not to approve the changes and to send the policy Red Line back to the deck the subcommittee was under a tight deadline
to get these to you by tonight but late in the process some committee members and other Dak reps recognized and called attention to Serious deficits and problems that remain unaddressed in the policy Redline document uh there are also new pitfalls
created by some last minute additions there are more issues than I can even list in two minutes some of the changes in my opinion seriously impact student civil rights and turn school grounds potentially into an anti-constitutional safe space for law enforcement giving
them greater latitude when they operate on school grounds than they would have at a police station at the expense of the rights and dignity of kids and families as a result of the time pressure to deliver this to the board by tonight a plurality opted to send you the redlines and some notes about the
hour-long debate that transpired in last week's Dax meeting I don't think that's good enough what is so urgent that there was a rush to finish this right now when it comes to civil rights we need to get the whole thing right the first time and not make things worse in a quest for
expediency we live in an era where we hear a lot about imminent threats to school safety but these remain fortunately very rare however these policies don't apply only to those rare instances what is far more likely to happen is that a student suspected of any sort of wrongdoing with or without
evidence may be subjected to searches or interrogations where a power imbalance leaves a student uninformed of or unable to exercise their civil rights and leaving them humiliated and degraded and that is not the bbsd that I signed on to be a part of and I urge you to kick this
back to the deck thank you thank you the remaining speaker this evening are participating virtually first of which is Scott Blakeley Scott is not present we'll be moving on to Elliot faden flaten
hear me okay yes okay my I am Elliot fayen I have two non-jewish children currently at Eldorado K through 8 I attended Callis man's presentation last night at uh bbsd regarding her book that has been promised to be placed in each
bbsd Library this presentation which was set up by bbd's new inclusive teaching director floret King went exactly as expected namely a he used the term extremist only for a Jew and not a single Arab in spite of the two
intifadas in October 7th B it placed this blame for the October 7th genocide not on those who broadcast their barbarity Li but instead on Israel and C it pushed racist blood liels about Israel engaging in quote disproportionate Force against those who
have promised to murder its civilians for one of time I cannot educate those here tonight on why those either were both racist and false I can only say that given this was an event put on by bbd's Dei program that I just should not have to we do not expect inclusive
teaching directors to invite the KKK or the proud boys in the name of Education because for other minorities we know that the pretext to providing education is not justification to teach racist lies yet when Jews are the minority article after article has been written
about Dei programs not just ignoring their well documented suffering at at the hands of racists but in fact Dei programs Banning the Flames of hate in this past year on a Charged topic like this floret King should have done basic due diligence to make sure the invited
speaker would not Foster hate or at least coordinate with stakeholders she did not do that similar she was at Best dismissive of community concerns last night the lesson for bbd's Jewish community and allies is that for bbd's Dei program unlike other minorities
racism and hate aimed at simply does not count thank you our next speaker this evening is Elise MOS hello can you hear me yes we can great um thank you I am a resident of Boulder and I'm here to discuss the same
event that Elliot fayen had just reviewed I um am concerned for numerous reasons what Elliot mentioned as along with addition to what I'm going to mention I learned this event about 1 hour before it took place and By Word of
Mouth I know other parents and concerned Boulder writes who also learned about it last minute and made time quickly to attend this due to the important nature of this topic um it was uh some of us
already knew of this professor because she moderated a Q&A for an event that featured the anti-israel film israelism at Colorado School of Minds last month which was co-hosted by the anti-semitic group SDS
so a lot of us were already aware of this professor's anti-israel agenda and sure enough that came through last night um as expected uh certain facts were omitted and certain things were presented that were opinions and not
actual facts um and uh some of the issues were definitely addressed during Q&A um by attendees who expressed serious concerns about the skewed narrative being shared
to teachers who are then supposed to educate their students on this topic um had the audience not been there I can imagine that no one would have probably checked some of the facts that were being shared since I'm guessing most
teachers were there learn about the topic and didn't have a lot of prior knowledge on this issue um anti-Semitism is already a problem at B at bbsd and this event only fans the Flames further I ask that the board investigate the
materials at of this uh lecture and see how it's being presented in the classroom and also see how this topic is being discussed in the classroom thank you thank you our next speaker this evening is dicka Leon
hi can you hear me yes I am too here to express uh my serious concerns about the recent Israel Palestine event yesterday organized by Flo King the new Dei director um her selection of uh CU
Boulder Professor Hillary kisman um who is known for her anti-israel narratives was highly problematic uh and you'd expect her to do her due diligence and really uh look
into who she is inviting um Hillary's presentation displayed clear bias presenting opinions as facts while meeting critical historical context this only deepens hostilities towards already struggling
Jewish minorities in B bbsd schools like my children uh who already both of them experienced anti-Semitism at school I would like to know uh is bbsd also planning similar events to address other
Global conflicts such as the Sunni ala Shiite conflict maybe Boh Haram Nigeria conflict or turkey K conflict because if not I am um wondering why this topic is PRI prioritized
and why was it presented in a way that reinforces harmful stereotypes about Jewish students uh what was exceptionally disturbing was Flo King's response when parents raised concerns about the bullying of Jewish and Israeli children
as students instead of addressing the issue she deflected to anti-Semitism and islamophobia despite nobody in the room ever mentioned islamophobia this word didn't come up in yesterday's
conversation this dismissive uh response lacked empathy and failed acknowled to acknowledge uh the institutional racism and anti-Semitism Jewish families currently face in our schools this
event thank you our final speaker this evening is Jamal Gilmore hello uh hello everybody uh thank you for your time um I wanted to talk about um this is tough uh some
harassment and bullying by teachers at my son's school his school is uh andine Middle School uh I've talked to uh Dan Ryan and everybody inside the administration and they don't feel that uh uh the teacher uh Mr schler I think
that's his name he's a math science teacher uh there he's uh shaming and stealing dignity from my son uh We've we've wrote the school we've wrote inside the like tell safe to tell we did
the bullying report uh we haven't got any feedback really um I think ran Rihanna just emailed me a minute ago saying that uh she's sorry to hear about this and she's known about this uh what happened is uh my son
uh is getting messed with in school and he's asking people to help him out no one can help him out uh but the minute he sets boundaries with other students uh then miraculously the teachers come in and they discipline him without disciplining other schools other students in the school so that's uh
that's the way um systemic racism looks like in the school so for him it it's it's it's really hard for him to go to school he uh he is neurodiverse and so he does he does take his steps to help himself out in this uh but he does need
help from the administration and and no one seems to help him at all uh he can't go anywhere um and so my ask is if the board or the superintendent or anybody around could help us uh with this problem he's already lost two years of his schooling due to bullying in the
school being called Gay and and all kinds of colorful language and so I would like some help from bvsd thank you so much you have a wonderful day thank you board members that concludes public participation for this evening I want to
thank everyone who took the time to show up in person and attend public participation remotely um we are here to listen to your thoughts and experiences we will now move on to the
next item on our agenda this evening which is board communication board members who would like to begin Kitty well first I want to thank everybody who took the time to come and speak to us and especially I I can't even remember I'm sorry our students
name from but Willow of course and I always love hearing from our students and I'm we have some of the best students they can get up right in front of board members where I would have been shaking my boots at the same age I would in fact it would never have occurred to
me um and thank you for the parents who of have commented about last night's um presentation thank you to the who else what do else do we speak about oh to the students who have given us their opinion
on our um cell phone policy last weekend we were at our casby conference in Colorado Springs and we did hear and earful from students on their opinions on the um cell phone policy and and I'm glad they were able to share that with
us um a couple of of um presentations I went to um I was impressed with the first one was put on by the um Durango school district and they're doing something along the lines of what we've
done with Grad Plus only its more intangible um skills that they're promoting it's called portrait of a graduate and they're working on ways to in all of their instruction teach kids to be empathetic collaborators resilient
Risk Takers agile thinkers creative problem solvers confident communicators and courageous leaders and they are encouraging their students to be active in the community and to work for some of the things that they think are important
sort of like our students do so that was an excellent um program to go to and I don't know if there's anything else I was going to talk about now I don't there was I can't remember
now the other um breakout session I wanted to mention if I think of it I'll raise my hand again lenia uh I thought we had a great um some great sessions at casm but what
comes to mind that I would like to share with our public is that um several of us attended a discussion from the superintendent who was in Grand Island Nebraska when there was a 206
immigration raid and that particular session was very informative about uh what we potentially face as uh these new policies may come our way and
so I would encourage anyone with concerns to uh be sure they're reaching out to our Administration so that we can help allay concerns and then uh later tonight we will be discussing a
resolution about how we are here to protect our families so thank you J and then Alex I'd also like to thank everybody who spoke tonight um you know it's it's been a I really appreciate you know seeing
the student moment earlier the superintend Honor's role and and know the great things that we're doing here uh but I also you know hear the the need for us to kind of come together as a community and and be inclusive and and think about the actions we can take to kind of support each other right and that how important it is for us to come together and recognize the differences
but also the needs that we see across the district and and and and and um the actions that we can take right in terms of standing together um I think we need that now more more than ever um the the casby meeting last week I think one of the Highlight for me was having breakfast with um our uh student cabinet
and youth Equity council members to to recognize work that they've put in over the years as a part of this district and the voice that they have um and seeing how engaged they are and proactive they are and the change that they want to make I think that's a reflection of this community and what and what our students can do and and I think that's that's
really powerful um and you know I I was in that session um that you know this that uh it was emotional it was something that you know affects communities I think as we come together and think about how we stand not just for ourselves but for others I think that's that's why many of us are here
and so I want to I want to thank our our teachers our Educators our administrators and our community members who um are are voicing that right now um and I was at that parade on Saturday evening um I did see the transportation buses I had no idea we had a mascot that
was awesome so many of our elementary schools were there um our middle schools or high schools the Manhattan band was there which is awesome um just a just a great energy great event and it's a nice uh uh it's nice nice for this time of
year thank you um yeah I had a few things well again I like everybody else I want to thank all the people who spoke uh tonight and uh it was really exciting always to see the superintendent um on a role just really amazing things going on by our our students and and the adults
as well um I wanted to comment on a couple of sessions I went to at casby I went to a panel uh from districts that were actually ahead of us on implementing cell phone uh policies and uh there was some great stuff brought up um uh and I I raised questions said hey
we we've done it now what's the most important thing on the communication front what to do and and generally the experienced superintendents and School Board presidents in that session were emphasizing uh the the things to facilitate uh social interaction the getting the getting the ping pong tables
available getting the games in the library things that give kids uh uh the students things to do with their time they also talked about how to the importance of having some discussions amongst the Educators about what they're doing differently and how they might change uh what goes on in the classrooms
in addition to just having less distraction but um I think the primary feedback I got from the U most experienced superintendent was um yeah these are all really important things to talk about but you should just do this it makes things a lot better and uh their overall affirmation that it's the
right way to go um I will say that that uh I've appreciated all the input we've heard from uh the students and the parents and uh one of the recurring things that's come up in the discussion and I I don't think it's an either or I think it's a yes and but I have heard from a lot of students complaining about
uh The Vaping issues that are still going on and I know this was a huge priority uh for the board um in previous years it's happened at the same time that there was State attention to Legal settlements that are going on and uh it sounds as far as the students are concerned that uh we haven't um cracked
that egg yet and that we still have progress to be done on it and I'd be curious to find out eventually um maybe add it to our agenda setting or something and revisit how we're doing on The Vaping front uh I really don't think it's a an either or I think kids should be comfortable all the time and we
should do what we can to stop uh practices like that um I also went to a session that was a little mind-blowing for me um I went to two sessions in a strand on artificial intelligence and uh I will say that from my professional work I am kind of a
skeptic on edtech and that I have seen lots of full-time virtual stuff in the charter world where there's just not really a focus on achievement and I think the sessions uh I came away with actually thinking I need to or that we should be deepening our consideration of
it and over time we'll have to put a little more time into it and it's the part I came away with is it's much more than thinking about plagiarism and that if we're thinking about it primarily from like what might a student do wrong with this we are totally thinking about um 3% of it that's really important this
year and in fact there's much more transformative stuff coming down the pike that is both advantageous and problematic and that the sort of first thing a parent or someone thinks about is like oh this is a new form of plagiarism support when in fact it's so
much more than that and it will affect how we do analysis how we construct teaching but it will also affect what it means to be literate and what it means about how we communicate with one another and construct our arguments like people will use this the same way we do
research on the internet today and we're thinking about it instead like how to make sure it doesn't happen um finally I I would really have appreciated the parental input I've gotten from people on the street as well as emails as well as this testimony one thing I'd like to
highlight is the a I got a bunch of emails from Netherland parents who were just supporting their principal and there have been some issues going on lately that were pretty tricky for families in the community to deal with and there was an overwhelming support from the community like wow our principal really treated us with respect
and worked to address those things and it's nice on the school board I will confess sometimes you get uh an emphasis on the grievance and that's important and I'm glad to receive it uh but it's also good when you hear when someone says well they really appreciated a bolder leader uh who they thought was
doing good things for their community so wanted to bring that to people's attention and um I guess that's it oh and I really appreciate people speaking and emailing in support of our resolution 2436 and look uh look forward to acting on
that Beth I should have gone earlier I want to ditto pretty much everything that everyone said tonight um so I to was at casby and I think this was the best casby we we've been to in my estimation um mostly because some of the sessions
felt more relevant and thought-provoking than in the past I too was at the the session around the um immigration raids that occurred in uh in Nebraska and it was as Jorge and lenia said it was uh it
was emotional and difficult to listen to and very thought-provoking um and it I walked away with similar feelings as Jorge was saying how incredibly important it is that we come together right now you know we have challenges ahead and I really truly do have confidence in this board and in our
district leadership to do everything we can to ensure students are safe here and they have a place to belong um I'm glad we have tonight's resolution um on the docket and as Alex said we really appreciate hearing from all the folks in the community in support of it so I think we're going to keep things that
are important of this nature top of mine and I just want to add that and also hanging out with the students at casbia is always a highlight we have some incredible kids Jason is there anything you wanted to share this evening uh sure um hey everyone sorry
for not being there in person uh I came home to a sick household and got sick myself so best that I'm not there but I was disappointed to meet to miss the honor rall it's always one of the or it's was my favorite event last year but um anyway yeah I think uh unfortunately
going last most of the casby stuff was covered uh I think you know I went to a lot of those same sessions really enjoyed it um and just getting to spend time with my colleagues on the board I'm grateful to have um you know colleagues
that are smart and passionate and fun so uh really enjoyable time a lot of good takeaways so again sorry for not being there person but um I'm I'm listening in um casby I guess my two cents about casby I
went to a few different sessions for my board members one was around professional development I went to a session on higher education it was interesting to hear a little bit about whether some school districts are doing direct admissions working with colleges and universities to do direct admits I
thought that was an interesting um thing to consider or think about exploring the other thing that I thought out of that highered breakout session that was interesting was ways in which we can improve and increase access to college campuses for
students and anybody that has kids at are high school age are thinking about college to understand how Predictive Analytics is increasingly a part of an application process in every touch point you have with the university whether it's visiting it online going to a table or showing up in person those are data
points that they're collecting and can impact the application so I thought thinking through how to help our students get on campuses to determine if they good fits if it's the right thing for their future when they might not be able to figure that out or have the means to do that themselves is something
worth exploring I went to a session on the upcoming legislation with Susanna Cordova and board members from across the state with a lot of questions on uh how to how to
process what we're hearing may occur at both the state and National level that was something that while not entirely POS positive it felt good that a lot of people are trying to tackle the same problems that we are there are a lot of unknowns that
we are yet to to to think through and understand I was able to attend two different student sessions one as a panel and one or a round table session and then our breakfast and through both of those experiences with our students and
students from across the state there were two threads that I thought are worth interesting for us to consider and think about is how to increase student access to the information and the work of the board and to the board itself when we make decisions that impact them
and there are a lot of different models out there and there are a lot of ways that we could consider approaching this as a board but from our students both that attended casby the casby youth strand as part of Youth Equity Council and our student cabinet really a a a
desire to understand what we do and how they can engage in the work that impacts them so something to think about and then it was great just generally to interact and network with school board members from across the state there are a lot of school districts that are tackling the
same problems we are graduation requirements cell phone policies how to speak to and think about changes to the school Finance act and and averaging and how the budget's going to impact us all and what does it mean for the accountability task force
recommendations and so it was really great to talk with peers from like-minded school districts and validating definitely to know that we're really all tackling the same big important issues and there is a lot to learn from each other that is all I had
and for those listening casby is the Colorado Association of school boards and we do attend at least one conference every year to convene and learn from each other seeing as I was the last board member to provide comments we will move on to the inform our information item
this evening we have three information items the first of which is the annual enrollment update all right good evening preser J Paul members of the board and Dr Anderson this next presentation doesn't really need an introduction I think Glenn's been providing this presentation
the annual enrollment update for almost 15 years I believe uh let's not confuse this presentation with the annual Trend report annual enrollment Trend report that we deliver in February that includes fiveyear projections this is
really just an update on October count you will see over the last decade although the presentation style has changed changed a little bit the data points the trends have stayed the same so it's easy to compare year after year and with that I will turn it over to Glenn srew or senior planner I just
noted that we have the incorrect date on this it should be December 10th not December 12th so we will get that corrected and uh uploaded to uh board dos with that Glen thank you I to provide a little bit of uh
overview and context for this uh um um presentation uh this is specifically a snapshot for the 2024 enrollment um and to review how uh past Trends uh affect our current uh status
with our enrollment um that information is then used uh uh for more information in the future and contributes to enrollment projections uh that which also contributes to the 2526 budget and it's also a resource uh it's also
important in the resource allocation for FTE facilities uh and educational materials and it's also uh heavily used by several communities uh especially um the elck and bond committees so moving on to the overall
Trends uh this year 2024 uh we saw about a 0.5 decline in enrollment uh about 141 students which was uh quite a bit better than we had projected we had uh expectation was to be around a 1.4% loss which is 388 students down so we beat
That by a pretty good margin but we still did decline uh that's uh following a trend since around 2017 a pretty steady decline uh especially through the pandemic years uh and continue Cline more recently uh but more recently we've
been closer to about a 1% loss so a half% loss is pretty good A big contributor to this is probably a bolster from recent migrants uh to the area um which hit much of the Front Range uh we thought we might have seen
maybe an additional 100 uh 125 students uh from recent migrants looking at enrollment change as a a absolute number uh year-over-year change uh in this chart the dark blue lines represent Elementary level uh with
the lighter uh the lightest being the high school and middle in between uh we see uh as we've been seeing over the years Elementary has really been driving a lot of the declines uh as that moves into the middle school and now we see High School in more recent years in Decline as well in
2024 uh we still see Elementary uh in Decline but not as bad as we've seen in recent years uh also uh High School is probably pretty consistent with uh recent years a little bit better uh but we do see another surprising year of
growth at Middle School um the one explanation that comes to mind is we may still be seeing uh um uh pandemic kids who enrolled in Elementary programs outside the district uh that are coming in at that transitional
level looking at this in terms of grade distribution and how the different grade levels and populations and those grade levels affect overall enrollment uh when you look at this this chart you can see the grade levels along the bottom K through 12 uh each grade level has the
top of the line in dark is the highest that grade level has been in the last 10 years the line with the lower with the lighter blue is the lowest that El that enrollment has been in the last 10 years uh the white squares are where we are at
this year and the little triangles are where we were projected and what really stands out is that kindergarten class which was uh about a 100 bigger than what we had expected um so a definite pop at kindergarten and also uh one of
the biggest classes since the pandemic as well uh but not just kindergarten all of the transitional levels uh experienced did beat expectation and were a little higher than what uh a lot of the past trends that we've been seeing uh would tell us they would be
otherwise we see the pattern that we've been seeing over the years with very very small classes uh through elementary and middle school and moving into high school when we look at change on a regional level and K12 students where
they live based on where they live not where they go to school uh we see this chart breaks down Bolder in the dark bars and the Eastern communities and the lighter bars uh we see that starting in
2018 or so we see Boulder uh starting those declining Trends and really driving a lot of the decline in the district and through the pandemic uh much of the eastern part of the district was in Decline as well uh this year Boulder is fairly on Trend in terms of
its amount of decline but we saw a pretty good bump in the eastern part of the district uh that was not necessarily unexpected uh the eastern part of the district did have quite a bit of housing that was expected to come online and it it has uh in this last year so Parkdale
being the biggest one has added about over 400 units in about the last 18 months so that's probably the major contributor to that bump uh this year looking at a similar chart uh refined a little bit to the elementary level and showing more Community
differences again we see that Elementary losses uh in Boulder starting as far back as 2016 and continuing uh through this year and Boulder still showing uh fairly consistent losses uh again this
year uh we do see bumps a little bit in Broomfield and the mountains in 2024 uh but we do see uh and we also see the uh lafette Erie area you can reflect in that that Ki growth that I mentioned
earlier probably from new housing uh and also Lewisville and Superior showing uh similar declines they've seen in the past although Lewisville uh seem to have a little bit less decline this year than in the past and looking at other factors in uh
districts uh enrollment migration out of district and births being a few uh this is a a revision of a chart we've shown in the past uh in the past we've shown only the dark bars which are uh outer District students coming into the district uh this year we ranched out
to use CDE data which also shows us students leaving the district as well uh the one difference with this is it also includes PK which is in in most of my charts I do not include PKS and it does skew things a little bit um because PK
in recent years in particular with universal coverage um uh we've seen an increase so the numbers do skew a little bit but the overall trends of of new um out of District students is generally the
same uh the other part on this is the light blue lines on the bottom that's what the CDE does offer uh it's not data that we have in house uh and that is the number of students leaving out to other districts and we can see actual growth
in that number from 2014 up until about the pandemic uh and 11 leveling off since then uh since CD doesn't produce their data until January uh the last bar 2024 is our estimate of CDE numbers which are
uh our out of District kids plus our preschoolers uh we'll have to wait till January to see what the outs look like uh net migration is an important factor in enrollment uh this is our chart where we try to get it that as best we can uh it measures new and leaving resident students to the
district the uh Top Line in green measuring new students that come into the district uh either moving to it or uh enrolling from um private schools or home schools the line below that in in kind of the reddish purple are the
students that are leaving bbsd uh and the gains or difference that we see is that line with the arrows in between that would be the net difference so a little bigger that net difference line the more uh students we gain from from from this kind of uh net migration uh
this year we're seeing very large gains 580 again probably a function of some of the um recent migrant students uh in the area that I mentioned before um but it doesn't explain the entire difference uh 580 is pretty large last year was a
pretty good gain as well at 380 some of the best numbers we've seen since even before um the pandemic uh and the sh was even stronger so that's another good sign for the district um in our in our Outlook going in the
future births uh another key Trend that we look at uh of course birs hopefully turned to kindergarteners uh later so it's an important thing to monitor um and is a baseline to enrollment overall uh um declining burst is nothing new to
bvs um overall decline for the district since 1999 um and that's continued we can see in this chart it does differ regionally somewhat uh the Top Line in Gray is the
eastern part of the district uh we can see a much uh More Level line although some slight decline uh with that line and much more drastic uh birth declines and Boulder itself although since 2019 we do see a bit of a leveling in in
Boulder as well and of course we discussed this over the last year or so total fertility rates have been going down steadily and again we see in 2020 that has happened again uh that means um women are having
fewer um fewer childrens or or fewer kids and uh or not having kids at all and what births the correlation of birth to kindergarteners look looks like in bvsd is shown here uh the dark blue
line are the resident kindergarteners that we've had year-over-year the Gray Line on top of that are the corresponding births uh that occurred roughly five to six years before that uh so uh we can see over the years there's
been a fairly consistent uh Trend between those two lines uh with a few exceptions especially the pan pandemic uh the thing that we've been watching more recently has been the previous two years where that ratio between uh the number of births and uh
the number of of Resident kindergarteners that we say had been declining in recent years uh we're usually running between 90 between 90 95% and we were getting into the 80s this year we did see a little bit of a rebound in that number much more to what we've seen in previous numbers so that's
also another good sign uh in the long run in summary uh enrollment declines this year uh uh have been been uh better than in recent years we had a lot although we did go down 141 kids or a half a percent
um we did beat our uh expectation by uh over two two times that um Elementary and high levels saw declines uh in 2024 but Middle School uh saw a second year of surprising gains uh in kindergarten
at 16009 was the largest that we've seen since the pandemic uh we saw stronger resident student gains at Middle School which may have come from uh the student uh from students returning uh re-entering the system after uh the pandemic uh out of
District contributions to enrollment in 2024 was close to last year's historic High uh Boulder Lewisville and Superior are largely driving enrollment declines where Lafayette and er actually showed some modest growth in
2024 uh birth showing signs of leveling off after a period of steep declines especially in Boulder and we are seeing stronger student net migrations also in 2024 with that I open up to questions
Beth thanks for that presentation sounds like a lot of good news um tell us a little bit more about Parkdale are we we seeing the majority of the gains there or are we anticipating more coming the number of houses purchased you know that sort of thing it it seems to be moving they seem to be selling briskly there's
three different Builders there and they're all nationals so they have they're pretty good at at providing incentives uh and bringing people uh into the houses so for 400 plus homes in in 18 months is is very robust Alex yeah um I'm trying to
understand slide 11 which looks like great news on the the leaving and coming residents um when is this adjusted for kindergarteners and outgoing 12th graders what does that mean so it's not it's so it doesn't all kindergarteners are new and all 12th graders leaving
right so you've got to take those two groups out yeah so what's left here are people in the other grades who started out in bbsd schools that but left or kids in those school age that are entering other than through the beginning of kindergarten it really just
looks at uh last year's kids and and seeing um which students were gained since last October and then which students were lost since last October so it's just a simple point-to-point comparison board members any other
questions for Glenn was a very thorough presentation Glenn thanks not a lot of questions from the board I will put a plug that there are Bright Futures ahead in bbsd and that open rment window is open and will be open until January 8th so as you're
thinking about 8 days left till winter break uh by the 8th of January if you want to be with us please be sure to apply kitty yeah yes I just want to make sure I understand on um slide 12 where says
the fertil total fertility rate fell from 1.4 to 1.0 so does that mean between 2010 and 2020 okay yes how is that a lot is that Ian what do we you
know it's it's been amazing since 1990 we've dropped almost perfectly point4 kids so to speak um every 10 years uh so from a lot of demographers would say 2.3 is what you need to
sustain a community without immigration uh so we're well below that level and been getting lower and lower Alex uh on that point uh how is the overall population of the school district doing are we continuing to we're the the the the the overall
population is has been increasing um just not in the areas that where we see a lot of kids so we of course we see a lot of young adults uh and also we're seeing you know the 60 plus uh portion of our
um population gaining quite a bit too Dr Anderson first of all I want to thank Glenn for being such an expert and for 15 years providing us this information thank you Glenn um if you could go to slide six I just want I want to point out a couple of things I
really just want to take this opportunity to thank all of our schools all of our school leaders all of our teachers for continuing to provide uh just an amazing opportunity for students uh as you can see here with kindergarten sixth grade and Ninth Grade those are
the transition years that we've really been focusing on at the bbsd is the place to be showcase uh and uh and to Glenn's point we certainly had an influx of Migrant students but it does not uh account for all of the students
that we that we were able to either retain or gain and uh while I couldn't tell you X number of parents who went to this event uh then enrolled in the school district I think it's it's between the the Showcase between the
improved efforts I think in our um our school-based events uh it's it's a mentality I think that we're embracing here in our school district uh to make sure that we serve each and every kid in our community and we open our doors um
where space allows for folks outside of our community that are part of our community in a different way to Nicole's point that work here or um or plan to be here at some point and so uh pretty significant news board members that we
are slowing down declining enrollment and if you were to tell me two years ago that that's where we would be at in December of 20 24 that we would have um beat projections and had begun to slow down declining enrollment based on the
things that we've been taking on I would I'd be thrilled and uh and so I don't want let to let this good news go past us without celebrating all of the work that has happened um over the course of the past two years to really begin to
adjust to our enrollment situation and know and understand that I think the future is bright in regards to uh not only our new enrollment preferences but uh new opportunities at schools that for for a long time maybe there weren't opportunities for folks to open
enroll uh and so just very excited that um one of the biggest challenges we're taking on which is declining enrollment we're seeing some progress based on I think the collective efforts of a lot of things thanks Glen thank you our next information item this
evening is the 2526 budget development process and the 2526 budget Outlook Bill Sutter will be presenting this information thank you president Raj Paul members of the board Dr Anderson
so we have our first step in the uh budget development cycle uh for the uh 25 26 fiscal year so we'll start with uh the fiscal
ccle so as I mentioned in the audit update uh as a little foreshadowing the 28th is month uh fiscal cycle of budget development budget implementation budget revision and then the financial audit uh
so we've got a brief two-minute video uh that uh highlights we we showed this about a year and a half ago uh but this really helps um kind of uh show the cycle for the community uh and uh some
additional excellent narration by our chief Communications officer Randy oh we don't have any sound do I need to unmute or e [Music] here in the Boulder Valley School District we take our responsibility at
stewards of taxpayer dollars very seriously we pride ourselves not only on our careful management of the funds that you've trusted us with for our students but also being transparent throughout the process Beyond being honored by national and international experts in the area bbsd is committed to ensuring
that our community understands our fiscal process so that you can follow it and participate it's important to know that from start to finish the fiscal cycle is about 28 months and includes first defining our budget process and planned Milestones then regularly
checking in on the fiscal lay of the land opportunities are given for staff members families and community members to contribute ideas District leadership then considers the alignment of these suggestions to the district's strategic plan and prioritizes things accordingly as the budget is created it is then
presented to the board of education for discussion and potential editing once board members approve the budget bbsd staff Works to implement it along the way as we will discuss in more depth in a moment there are factors which might alter our course which is why we regularly come back and update the board
and ultimately revise the budget Midway so that it reflects the conditions on the ground as the fiscal year ends our team ensures that everything that happened is properly recorded that report is then audited by an independent outside organization and they report back to the Board of Education about how
we did covering whether we followed best practices complied with state and federal law and accurately reported the information ensuring that we stay on the straight and narrow as we go through this process it can get a bit complicated because as we mentioned the entire process stretches over 28 months
it is common that our business services team is working to establish next year's budget while implementing this year's plan and reviewing what happened during the last fiscal year ultimately each cycle has the same event what does change from year to year are the factors that may impact our budget
every year we base our flight plan on the best information we can gather and try to forecast what might be ahead challenges certainly can emerge along the way with a billion dollar budget we can adjust and still get to our intended destination but in the rare event of a situation in which we need to
significantly change course we are in constant communication with our Board of Education and community so that everyone is aware can provide feedback and be part of the solution here in the Boulder Valley School District we are proud of our tradition of strong financial
[Music] stewardship so a brief overview of uh this fiscal cycle um as as uh was mentioned this this um last year this year next year conversation can get a
little confusing uh sometimes so uh we've done some color coding and I'll note this as we go through the presentation uh but we just reviewed uh last year with the audit uh for this year we have the state revenue forecast and revised budget and then next year
budget development uh uh conversation we'll have in a minute so I'll point that out as we move along so uh the timeline and Milestones uh we've been reviewing this process for about a decade now uh it helps illustrate the
points in the process uh where we get information uh comes into the district and staff uh we get feedback from the board uh we get input from the community uh and then the board takes action so I've gone through this in more detail in
the past uh the the conceptual ideas behind it uh haven't changed so I'm going to keep this a little slim down version uh but uh from September to June uh really is all the opportunity for for
uh feedback uh and input for um uh the community and uh the stakeholders uh public comment at board meetings uh there's plenty of opportunity for uh the community to give that feedback uh we have our data inputs
things like state revenue forecast uh Governor's budget the legislative session uh the October count that we got just got the uh update on uh Consumer Price Index which drives or inflation which drives uh funding uh as well as
those enrollment projections uh District quarterly financial statements uh and then we have the action items like the release of Staffing uh notifications to staff and adopting the budget the uh releasing of Staffing
which is noted there in the February to April uh time frame in that gray bar that's committing uh approximately 90% % of uh the general operating fund so it's a fairly significant uh action that gets
taken uh and is a commitment of the budget as we move forward uh so note the color coding uh up in the corner there so we have the hopefully it's shown up yep uh next year is identified so this is the conversation uh for the next year
budget development so the Takeaway on this uh is the budget development process process spans many months and there are plenty of opportunities uh to provide input uh and relevant data and
information comes to us throughout the process so some of it's coming to us right now uh the audit does uh uh provide us information for budget development uh enrollment count uh and then those uh State uh Financial
outlooks so as we move into the September state revenue forecast which is the most current one that we have available although there's another one the December forecast they come out quarterly uh is coming at the end of next
week so uh again note the color cording uh up in the corner there uh the green is this year so this is the current year September uh state revenue forecast and
uh it's only about 14% of the data that comes into the state so this is information uh you know the the revenue collections the proper uh not property taxes but uh income taxes and sales taxes that are coming into the state so
it's a very a small portion of what they're projecting on but uh the indications are a slowing economy uh there's been some downward revisions uh in their projections so moving into next year
while it's still the current year revenue forecast um the governor's budget is built at this time of year right it comes out uh 1 of November and it's built on that projection that has uh pretty limited
information uh when we get the December forecast there's almost three times as much information and data uh for that forecast uh that is uh helps inform uh where the legislative session starts and then when you get to the March forecast
which is what the state is setting the next year's Budget on uh it's much more than we have right now but it's still only 62% uh or just above half uh of the annual data so again the Takeaway on
this is that both the district and the state are building budgets with projections so they're imperfect imperfect data uh incomplete data uh and uh the picture becomes more
clear as we move along uh but we do have to make those uh uh educated guesses we'll say uh to to project the budget project student count uh build the budget pass the budget implement the budget and then make those revisions as
we get into the next fiscal year so for the revenue forecast in the current year uh the state general fund uh has a downward revision uh for Revenue uh the investment income and insurance premium taxes came in lower
than projected uh so that's why they're uh reducing their uh forecast uh inflation uh is projected in that September forecast at 2.7% which was up from the June forecast of 2.5 uh but it's actually likely to
decline as we get into the December forecast and what uh is the fin number for the calendar year uh 2024 which is the number that drives the fiscal year 2526 so it's in a rear uh is the funding
increase for the following year so for the economy uh normalizing wages so not as uh much growth in wages uh in income and Associated retail demand is why those lower income tax and sales tax
revenues have been proded projected downward continuing in uh the current year so uh you can see the declining general fund Revenue at the State uh both in last year uh so it was steady
for 22 and 23 declined in 24 further decline in 25 which is the current fiscal year uh and then starting to climb back so again this is uh constraining the state's budget uh when those revenues are
declining so uh again the takeaway total general fund state general fund revenue is declining uh while at the same time there are statutory increases uh for Budget areas including K12 uh that make it very difficult for
the State uh to fund new programs uh or move towards fully funding uh K12 to meet educational expectations and man so as we move into uh budget development uh this is just a reminder this is the new uh look and layout of the uh alog
together for all students U strategic plan this is just a reminder for the public uh that we have a phenomenal strategic plan uh that is producing great results and that the Strategic plan is the budget plan uh and will
drive those conversations in the coming months uh as we begin to build the budget uh and bring It Forward for adoption so as we move into the 2526 uh budget Outlook and challenges so
again note to color coding up there uh for next year the governor's uh 2526 K12 budget request had uh 2.5 inflation uh or Consumer Price Index funding increase
on base student funding uh Statewide enrollment decline so this is just uh the the raw number of students uh in the State uh declining by about half a percent or uh about twice
uh the percentage for the about half I would say the boulder is about twice what the state average is $15 million increase in general fund support for K12 schools uh this increases the state average per pupil funding uh by about
$299 there's a $1 13.5 million increase for categorical programs so categorical programs are required to be increased by inflation uh as part of uh Amendment 23 uh that was passed in 2000 uh by the
voters uh so there's a a requirement again some of that uh required statutory increase uh these are things for uh transportation special education uh gifted and talented uh education and Career and Technical education so
they're uh reimbursements uh to the district for uh current spending and the governor's budget also maintains uh the budget stabilization Factor uh at zero now uh for the what I would say are
the stunning components of the proposal uh just 7 months ago and after two years of processing with a legislature uh the rug was pulled out from under school districts by eliminating averaging uh reducing and extending the roll out of the new school Finance act uh This was
done with no public uh input and no public uh processing and so it was really disappointing to see this uh come out from the governor uh and really it was done to avoid at all cost reimplement re-implementing the budget
stabilization Factor this really makes for good talking points at press conferences uh but is really bad for schools so the Takeaway on this by adjusting for the inflation and eliminating averaging for declining enrollment school
districts implementing the new school Finance act maintaining the St budget stabilization Factor at zero the state is increasing per pupil funding by a greater percentage than total funding so it's kind of basic math when you reduce the denominator total student student
count uh you drive up the average funding at a greater percentage uh than total funding is increasing hey Bill I going to need you to back that thing up here uh and I'm gonna have to talk about this slide here for a moment you know board members and just for the public
that's watching I just want to be incredibly clear uh that uh averaging um a long standing practice in Colorado on how Stu how students are counted how we've projected and built our budgets
for how long bill ever ever and then um in a in November right before a session to change to change the way you count students so you don't have to reestablish a budget stabilization
factor is is what this looks like uh it does it's not what it looks like it is what it is uh we know that there are um there going to be budget challenges and pressures we know that within the special session uh to avoid having 50
and 108 be on the ballot in November and as a reminder for the public those were two um ballot initiatives uh that uh that would have significantly reduce the amount of tax dollars the state would be able to collect as opposed to letting those go
to the voters there was a special session this is something that as as a board we supported um but those dollars came came out of um they're contributing to this uh but
you know as another reminder as we were pushing back against 1448 last year what is it we told everybody you're not going to have the money and uh they don't have the money
but if you change the way that you count kids and say well this is a better way to count kids it's actually a way as Bill described to try to to get to the money so you don't have to reintroduce the budget stabilization factor and I would say that this is the governor's
initial budget and I'm Bill I'm sure you're going to talk about the joint budget may maybe you are going to talk about the JBC um they've been talking um in regards to this I think that there's a lot of folks in our corner to not allow averaging to be eliminated but I
will tell you up and down the Front Range and as we were at casban speaking with superintendent uh there are um a lot of concern around the chaos that this will bring to school districts across the Front Range so so
Bill you were cooking I know I don't I hate to stop when you're on such a role uh with a budget presentation but I think it is really important to stop and allow let folks know that a we saw some of this coming we were worried about some of this when we were fighting against 1448 board members as you can
remember that was a long drawn out fight we were unsuccessful in stopping that from passing um and and some of the things we were worried about are now coming true and uh and so in any event uh this will be a busy legislative session as we engage our
delegation um and share with them the realities of what will happen if this Governor's budget pushes forward and I believe Bill you're going to get into that a little bit so uh so more foreshadowing for you um as you move on
with budget presentation and just a quick reminder is it 100 students is roughly a million dollar is that the or how many if we're looking at a drop in 574s F or it's 574 FTE FTE or student
count uh that's 574 FTE of students uh so full-time equivalence um of students and what does that translate to typically in an average on a dollar basis [Music] the $6.5
million dis thanks that is the entire five-year averaging just to note that the new school Finance act part of that negotiation that went on last spring uh dropped it from five years to four years
uh so this is the cumulative effect of going from 5 years averaging which we're in right now uh to zero years averaging which is the proposal uh by the governor um just to note a couple other things uh
extending the implementation of it so it was originally rolled out to be implemented over six years uh with about 18% uh per year um of the uh new money
uh 550 million dollar uh of additional new money to in order to fund uh that new school Finance act so it extended it but uh to seven years but then also significantly re in reduced the first
year implementation from 18% of the new funding down to 10% with a promise of it'll be somewhere between 10 and 20% uh per year for the additional years of rollout which
really is just an indication that there probably won't be the money to roll out it in the future as well um so again just some significant changes that were made uh as uh all of the negotiations
that were happening uh during the legislative process last year um to note I don't have a particular slide on the JBC uh presentation that was done for school Finance Act for school Finance last week uh but members of the
JBC um made some comments uh around the um disappointing nature of making such significant changes uh to the finance Act without um that public process that
occurred uh during the legislative session uh there were requests for numerous uh different scenarios uh what would it be to or what would it cost what would it take in funding to just continue the current School Finance
act uh so which was the uh language that was put into the the legislation last year of um if the money doesn't exist if the revenues aren't coming in high enough uh the trigger language it's
called Uh to to make it not be implemented so so instead of not implementing it uh they just ch they just made the changes to it uh so that it both could be implemented uh and
also um have that claim that uh per pupil funding is going up um funding students where they are uh eliminating Phantom students um comments uh of
districts just need to close schools fast faster um I would hope the governor would show up to any community meeting and tell the community that they should just close their school faster uh because that's the message that's coming along uh when it takes as we have
experienced um a lot of processing with the community to uh understand what's happening uh and make different choices or uh try things uh differently to um either slow down or reverse the effects
uh of some of that declining enrollment so uh these aren't schools aren't storefronts they're not a Dollar General you don't open them in six months and close them six months later um they're the heart of a community and so uh to be
as callous to suggest that schools should just be closed faster uh is um um pretty disingenuous in my opinion moving right along um so as we move forward uh looking at
the budget pressures uh for next year uh right sizing Staffing uh we have staff currently on one-time resources uh so these are staff that uh we maintain as we do our
staffing process uh we make the projections we staff schools and if uh students don't come in quite as projected and we're talking you know two three five uh students in a class uh that could mean that the class is
smaller than would be otherwise staffed but we don't uh go in and move students around and move teachers around at the beginning of the school year we have historically not done that uh it can be disruptive to the learning environment
so uh we maintain those staff uh on onetime dollars and make the adjustment in the following year when we have new enrollment projection and new visibility into where students are so uh making those adjustments for the current year
uh staff that we have that need to be uh moved around uh and then um you know our staffing anomalies with the small schools uh those are other challenges that exist uh when you have um we don't
have any five six seven round elementary schools uh it's much easier to uh sort of smooth the Staffing uh within a school uh so when you have really small schools with uh one two and three rounds uh gets a little harder to do that so
also resetting uh Staffing for declining enrollment um just as we're projecting the student decline for next year um uh it's just a resetting of all those Staffing formulas and then uh funding and
resources focused on on uh continuation of current strategic plan initiatives uh so maintaining as much as we have uh so this slide uh essentially sort of repeats some of that information but Staffing enrollment and inflation are uh
the sort of Trifecta of uh what we're facing uh uh going into next year's budget so the school Finance act changes I think I elaborated on that uh plenty U but the projected net increase in school
Finance act funding for uh the district is 8% yet the projected per pupil funding increase is 3% right so that's where you change the denominator and all of a sudden the per pupil increase uh gets
much larger and is a great talking point uh but we need to face the reality that the total school funding uh School act funding for the district is not going up uh by uh as much of a percent then
um the tax implications the local property tax implications foreshadowing on the uh uh State share piece so as local property tax increases the state support declines uh it's not a windfall
of funding so uh we created this uh graphic uh a couple years ago to help illustrate that as the total program funding for the school Finance Act is developed it's made up of local share uh which is the light blue and the state
share which is the orange and so uh we have the BS Factor the budget stabilization Factor funding void down there in the corner because that's uh we'll say a balloon that is right now at zero but can grow uh if the state is
facing a shortfall uh and needs to uh balance its Budget on the backs of schools uh it's a easy mechanism to be able to do that I think there as I said um will be uh other choices made perhaps
to still reduce funding to K12 uh but not make it as visible uh as the budget stabilization Factor was uh because it's a reminder to the state of them uh not funding uh K12 education in an
appropriate manner so as those State sources flow back to the state budget uh they get to be repurposed uh to other uh needs within the state so the budget stabilization factor is currently proposed to be
zero um and if it comes back uh it's an option uh and um some of my colleagues and I uh would suggest that that uh it's a an appropriate way to um
transparently uh reduce funding to K12 in the need that the state we have the constraint of the Taber that really doesn't allow the state to do some things there are some things that they could and should be doing uh in some cases but
um uh it's a it's a real transparent way to show that debt that is Ed uh to school districts um the governor was pretty quick to uh comment um I think one of the priorities listed in his budget letter uh included within his
presentation to the to the uh legislature uh was that a priority was fully funding K12 education and so we'll see when the adequacy study comes out here fairly soon uh just how close we
are uh to fully funding uh K12 education so this graph clearly illustrates uh what happens when local property tax increases uh and the state share declines so even though we had uh total
funding increases uh those funding increases were largely uh or entirely supported by the local property tax increases so this is not necessarily unique to Boulder um
but with declining enrollment and very strong uh property values uh it's the phenomenon that we're in uh where we're getting fairly close uh to being fully funded um locally there are some other
constraints in here so to be fully funded um there's maybe an oil and gas District uh typically they're very small districts um Aspen I believe is fully funded locally um you have to fund all
the categorical um reimbursements and uh the entire School Finance act so we're a little ways away but um a couple of reassessment cycles and a strong economy uh we could see ourselves being fully funded
locally uh the whole point of this is that there are not windfalls of dollars to the district uh when those local property taxes uh uh go up because of reassessment Cycles uh and allows the state to repurpose those State dollars
uh to other purposes so uh this is really uh the Crux of where we are where we have a um expectation imbalance uh just to provide um what
would be our historic uh compensation expectations of a cost of living increase at at that rate of inflation uh movement on salary schedules uh a health and D Dental uh
benefit increase of 5% which is very low uh anybody who's in tune to health and dental benefits uh there usually as we experienced last year double- digit increases uh we had to really uh
increase the deductibles uh and change some of the benefit structure in order to make maintain uh the funding for it uh but on the flip side the revenue expectations uh is under $2 million in
the governor's proposal uh in in the school Finance act including our 25% override so uh it's you know a 12ish million dollar Gap uh at this point um this is again based on the governor's
proposal uh it is not very popular in a lot of uh Arenas uh so we'll see if the legislature is willing to push back um against the governor uh that hasn't
materialized in some of the past sessions uh when there have been some other uh not so great ideas come forward um but uh you know we're just at the start of this um this is projecting
additional Revenue next year so it's not a uh uh decrease in Revenue uh overall for the district uh it's just a very very very very small increase so uh next steps in our budget
development uh so we'll have the second quarter state revenue forecast uh coming out next week that'll help inform uh where we are if they've UPG uh dated their uh inflation estimates uh as well as some of their projections for
revenues uh with that softening economy we have the state supplemental budget uh coming in January and February they'll be updating it for uh the student count from October uh we have our revised budget
study uh and action in January uh we have our draft strategic financial plan uh in mid January so that's a another um bite at some of the economic uh
projections uh yesterday the Cu uh leads School of Business puts out their economic forecast for the next uh calendar year so 2025 the 60th annual uh economic forecast I will add um and uh
so we'll include some of that updates uh in the draft strategic financial plan as along along with some of the uh assumptions uh that will be generated uh and then we have our midyear analysis in early February so
that's uh expenses compared to budget so that's our own sort of Revenue and expense projection uh for the district how are we doing through the first two quarters of the year uh and then the in April early April the preliminary budget
uh for next year so with that the end back to slide back to slide 26 bill um you know board members as we were discussing 1448 last
year I made a comment that you know if this thing passes we need to be ready for a new reality um this is this reality is is even a worse rection than that comment would have intended it's important uh as Bill and I
worked on this budget presentation it's important for us to be very honest with people honest with our community honest with our employees honest with um everyone you this is a $12 million gap between and this would include no new
programming no new expenditures no I mean we're going to have potentially additional needs um everything is we're going to have to take away to to do new um it is just a very different reality
than I think our district has become accustomed to not insurmountable we will we will we will deliver a balanced budget but they're uh I just I just think that there's there going to be things that people um feel like they can't live without and
they're going to have to live without them that's that's the nature of balancing budgets so um you know I think that we've done as much as we can to try to prevent this from happening whether it's the focus on on enrollment whether it's the focus on advocacy board members
you know how much time and effort and energy we poured into to trying to to to hold off 1448 we'll do this same thing with this budget uh just no one understand that um but it's just really important that we're incredibly clear
that if things don't significantly change uh that uh we're going to have to look at doing business differently in a lot of different ways uh in our district to be able to build and deliver a balanced budget which we have an obligation to our taxpayers have an obligation to this board to this
District to this community to make sure that we live within our means so um I know Bill the 27 slides is is is a lot of slides and I know bill went through some pretty painstaking detail on some of these issues and as we went through
this I just think it's really really important uh if if folks should be paying attention to what's going on and uh and I want to thank bill for his leadership and and for this presentation but I just needed to come back to the slide to just stop
to make the point that we are we are moving forward in a new reality um that is going to significantly change the ways that we've done business in the past with the understanding that our needs for our kids are continuing to grow thank you for sharing that Dr
Anderson and it speaks a bit to what I shared with the district accountability committee when they convened earlier this month to discuss their draft recommendations for a budget that um adding things is not a reality at this point and to think about the tradeoffs very
clearly so thank you for articulating that as well board members we will be spending a lot of time thinking and discussing thinking about and discussing this budget as Bill showed and we will undoubtedly be hearing questions and
concerns from our community about the contents of all of these budget discussions and so I really want to make sure all of us have a pretty clear understanding and can speak to how our budget process works and next steps and so I would welcome any questions that you have for Bill or
for Dr Anderson on this presentation and to make sure that we get questions answered on how to speak to our budget in the months ahead Kitty thank you for that lovely news
um do we have and by we I mean you have any idea um what this especially on slide I just accidentally made my screen smaller 206 um what that would be like if the
averaging were not taken away uh so so um there were three changes done to the new school Finance act in the in the governor
proposal extending the implementation uh cutting the first year implementation uh and eliminating four things eliminating the um uh hold harmless there's a half a percent uh
increase that was eliminated uh as well as eliminating the averaging so all four of those things together uh is at least $5 million so it would
not have closed the Gap entirely uh but it would have uh significantly reduced it uh for sure um so yeah and the other thing I just wanted to say is I used to talk about the state balancing the budget on the backs of
schools now I talk about the state balancing the budget on the backs of children because that's what we're really doing and in my opinion it's important when we talk about it that we talk about it that way so the community
understands that this is something that will directly harm children sure it will be a problem for employees especially if we have to reduce our our
Force but the biggest impact will be on children Alex um sort of a policy question is the change in the averaging still require a statutory change by the legislature and the a governor is proposing that they make that change or is that something
they have the authority to make without voting in the legislature to make it happen uh no it's it's currently in the school Finance act just just as the all of the calculations that go into it so it would have to be a statutory change there would have to be
or wouldn't have to be sorry would have to be okay so that's the sort of thing we can work with our delegation on to try to make not happen right um another question uh 5% Health dental increase how realistic is that in the last three
or four years Trend data on health and data increases um so that is the uh current language uh that's in the contracts around uh two times
inflation um up to a maximum of 5% so that's kind of The Benchmark uh that's in there um you know we have the the benefits committee went through a long process this fall uh to come together and we're really digging in and moving
forward on uh what are our options um from um the the benefit mix the plan designs uh all of that and this is perhaps a question for Dr Anderson but um I was strucked with
inside Bas ball uh coming out of the casby delegate assembly like failing to be able to take a position on the accountability issues before the state was indicative of you know whether groups like casby are up to the task of like advocating these complicated things um I'm curious what you think uh the
status is of our our fellow districts of similar size along the Front Range other ones affected by this and um who we have to work with to sort of build the Coalition uh of people that want to do the things we want to do because I'm I'm not sure I expect casby or case to come
through I think that's a fair assessment um you know we're we're gonna we're going to definitely have to to I think um work through our lobbyist to uh to to look at those districts that are that are in similar situations around around
uh around averaging um you know the Front Range is where we serve 70% of the you know the of the students in the state and that's where most of the decline is so will be impacting uh the majority of districts
across across the front L places like uh 27j and St Frain who may be um would actually be benefactors of something like this because they if you're increasing uh you don't if you if you're averaging and you lose a kid and it's
spread over five years you feel point two of the impact if you're gaining you feel point2 of the impact right and so uh there's a lot more school districts that would be that that this would hit and and some things that we spoke at at casby had an opportunity as part of our Front Range superintendent group to talk
with state board members the commissioner uh around a couple of Big Ideas around um just the volatility um without averaging that you have to prepare for as a district like say for example um you know because of
new federal immigration policy a district loses 500 600 kids which is a very it's a real that's a that is a reality that I think districts are thinking about you just heard Glenn present around you know the influx of Migrant students and how that help boost
our numbers right it can go the same way and so you know this idea of how we when I say we have to change the way we do business it would fundamentally changes the way we do business right you know schools are used to getting C you know their their allocations at a certain timeline parents are used to knowing who
their teacher going to be at a certain time or how many teachers there's going to be you know to the extent that you create this volatility we'll have to reflect on lots of our practices to make to make sure uh that that we are living within our means and uh what does that
mean getting you know people are already pushing us to hire earlier tell us you know give us give us that ft earlier so we can get in you know get ahead of the hiring processes or you know but but without averaging and without knowing in an environment where people can pick up
and go to any school that has room in the state like there's this other set of conditions in Colorado that make this completely um different than other places I've worked where um the ability for folks to pick up and go to another
school um beyond their neighborhood School uh is is vastly different it creates a it's a comp complicated set of of problems that we'll be looking to solve so you can trust me that our community can trust me to fight for our
school district to fight for every kid to fight for our employees as we think about pushing back against this proposal this proposed budget I will I promise you I will do that and um it will take more than just bbsd to make this happen Alex to your point and so um we've
already started some of those conversations and uh and knowing and understanding this is a tough this is a tough year for budget and uh um if this goes forward as past uh there's a going to be a lot of things change in a bbsc
that that people probably will not like I want to piggyback thanks for bringing those points up Alex there were things for in the front of my mind on slide six I wonder I've been wondering your timeline that's been in
place for 20 years I feel I struggle a little bit with having that window for Staffing allocations feel as permanent as it always has been given the changes that average the elimination of averaging might present
and I wonder if there's a way to make that box look different and maybe shaded or dotted lines to indicate that that that isn't necessarily going to be the reality for the rest of this year I just don't want to set like oh well this slide says and your timeline
says we will know by April we may not depending on how this all shakes out there are implications that need to be considered so that that timeline and being committed to that there's probably other things that that timeline impacts NE iations and other things but I I just
that is something that I'm really looking at in our timeline and how averaging will definitely impact abilities to Think Through Staffing just think about it like this we'll have to be ultra conservative you're right you're going to have more people on limited term contracts you'll have less people that that you can offer regular
contracts to right um you know you're going to have to do some type of allocating right but to the extent that you can give somebody all their positions and they can do all their interviews and be hired before um before May ends that may not be a reality
anymore now um I don't want to um I just trying to you know um strike a balance between without sounding tons and tons of alarms for folks but also being realistic about the situation I think that uh to the extent that that we have
contractual obligations that we're obligated to me I think that that you know we we um need to look at that and I also think that there are some things that will that we may have to negotiate and and open up the contract and think about um as we think about ways in which
we can navigate this new environment uh and so to the extent that you know we will'll lean on our our strong long-going partnership with our associations and uh and just you know put the facts in front of of everyone and start to figure those things out so
I would say this is if there are massive changes that that that happen with this budget development uh process then um then we'll just have to bring that forward to the public and let them know what's changed like I'm saying right now things are going to change to the extent we don't know again this is
we're very early in the budget process but if it stays on this path uh we won't be able to do things the way we've done bill um my understanding is that upk and
the school lunch program costs are also exceeding anticipated revenues and so working through the JBC is you know with upk has got a first look and they have some recommendations but as as that
situation continues to unfold and we potentially have shortfalls there how do you expect that to impact our budget and the need for our general fund to potentially help continue to support those programs in particular uh so
the we're in our second year of upk um so uh and it continues to change so um we'll see if there are further developments in how they decide to use
the um online application process um uh any changes to that uh any decisions that they make mid year uh to to be within their fiscal constraints at
the state level um because that tax revenue isn't coming in as U hoped um the so that's upk for the um free meals
for all um the conversations the CDE that was a whole task force that got together to explore we'll say explore different options of how to make that program
sustainable and uh it covered the full gamut from we need to go ask for more Revenue uh to um well just make some school districts pay for it um make all the high school kids I mean like there's
all kinds of different options uh it was funded out of the state dead fund uh this year um just because they're not generating the right amount of Revenue um I think it's a something that the legislature needs
to wrestle with is the idea that they have the power to put uh tax increases in front of the uh electorate and uh they should get accustomed to that um
the voters have the option to say no uh but the the legislature is um sort of um I don't know afraid maybe uh to put tax increases in front of people uh where I think that they should get more
accustomed to doing that uh to help get the word out it's inexpensive right if any Grassroots effort is going to put something in front of the voters uh it's you know A4 million to go get signatures to get that to happen uh whereas the
legislature can uh just have a vote and and put it in front of the voters um so I think that's one thing that uh hopefully they'll um it's actually their obligation within Taber uh Taber does not say there will never
be a tax increase ever it's just that you need to go ask the voters and so okay do that process uh and ask the voters and they get the option to say no uh but when you ask the question the
voters say no and then you have to make reductions at the State Legislative level um that's a little bit more visible consequences of not providing adequate funding for public services uh in the
state um when you know the cash funds that come in from uh uh hunting licenses drive up the amount of dollars into the state that creates a table refund that
has to come out of the general fund I mean that cycle of of more people enjoying the state's activities drives up the refunds uh is just sort of a perverse way of this um
uh Taber ramification so the legislature should get used to asking to um have those appropriate uh funding for uh public services in my opinion
Alex if I could bring us back to sort of stuff within our control I appreciate that Colorado has really screwed up state finance and that Taber sucks and that we should change that as a state and a people um I believe that's not something bbsd is going to decide and and I think the fact that we had a
special session that um did such detriment to our finance is indicative that the politics don't look like they're about to switch to where we're going to go uh fix Taber and get more revenue and have people put a bunch of new taxes in front of the electorate in the next few years so I I think we could have more constructive uh conversations
that are focused on the stuff within our control um can you fill me in on some of the other budget pressures uh um that and also put in perspective what a $12 million hole is in terms of other things
I mean I I put that 12 million in a roughly $480 million um General operating budget as a percentage of like a 2.5% whole is that in in the big picture is that maybe a a realistic or
proportional way to think about what the 12 million hole looks like and what other things also cost $12 million where there is um any incremental flexibility on our part well uh K12 education is a service
industry and so the the costs that we have are in staff um the idea that uh an elementary school costs four
to5 million to run with all the staff for all the students um and all the projections are that you don't save anywhere near that amount of money when you close a school so this is
not a suggestion that closing schools saves enough money but that's like three elementary schools that go away and all the staff and all the everything and the kids get squeezed into the remaining schools uh driving up class sizes so
like that's the the size of the the issue I think it's tough that I mean at this point in the budget to to to know okay if we're short 12 million where where would the 12 million come from that's kind of what you're asking us uh
you know 90% of our Bud's people uh and uh I think that you know we'd have to really look at at everything um both future and current uh that we're wanting to do to try to preserve you know the efforts that are
happening to support our students in our classrooms for sure and um look at the things that we have implemented that are helping us move the needle across the district uh with a with a focus on supporting those those critical pieces
pieces and um I I think I think that that's really going to be the job right that'll be my job that'll be Bill's job that'll be our team's job as we try to think about um making up that difference in a way that has the I mean we're going
to feel it for sure but that preserves those critical functions as best we can you know but there's things that we do here that we spend more money on than other folks would spend money on um uh that become expectations right within
our community and uh and and some of those things might be things that uh we would just we would just have to look at doing differently and you know operationally Food Service Transportation I mean big big big divisions big chunks schools you know
Services uh you know but we're going to have to look at all those things board members Jason any questions no but thanks uh bill for your expertise and sobering presentation appreciate it one thing I wanted to go back to in the presentation was that the Strategic
plan does guide our fiscal budget decision-making processes and I'm grateful that we just Revis our strategic plan we have a clear clear path forward and that um while it sometimes regardless of how that shakes out it feels like we're going to have to be making some types of decisions but
that really is going to guide us in that process and I think relying on that um saves the board saves the public saves it from like trying to think of those small little levers to push it's like well how does our plan guide us um and we have a great plan in place thank you
Bill for that very thorough and as Jason said sobering presentation board members we have one more uh information item this evening and that is the legislative update we've touched on a few items regarding that in our budget presentation but I will hand it over to
Dr Anderson for a more detailed overview thank you board president Raj Paul uh yeah legislative update we're gearing up for our legislative breakfast in January um making sure that we have all of our materials as as we've previously discussed board members um
getting getting one pagers ready topical you know we'll have one pagers ready around some of this budget stuff one pagers ready on the accountability update um and then as we prepare between now and January as as topics are emerging we'll be in touch with the board on on
what some of those other one pagers may look like that we can present again beginning to try to build Synergy around the common issues that that some of our Front Range super districts um will be facing and dealing with and trying to align support around the things that we
know um will not only help our students but help students across the Front Range and so uh it's uh kind of we're winding down here in December things will ramp up pretty quick when we come back in January board members one question I have uh for you all as we think about that packet and thanks Rob for
mentioning that we're going to be making those updates casby has also developed a one pager they have asked during the delegate assembly that boards consider including their one pager along with District's information to legislators
and so I am highlighting that request and we can I think you saw that before when I before the delegate assembly when I went down to peblo we saw that but maybe we bring that back to the board and decide if that is something we indeed
want to do as Alex said sometimes the casby positions are not entirely aligned with ours and so I think it's something for us to to come to agreement on whether we want to include that with our documentation as well okay we will be moving now on to
action item consent grouping 9.1 Personnel items 9.2 approval of minutes November 19th 2024 9.3 baitman at Boulder High School 9.4 acceptance of donation Eisenhower Elementary 9.5 acceptance of donation Netherland Elementary 9.6 amendment of funding agreement for construction at
Summit Middle Charter School 9.7 Amendment for construction at Boulder Tech 9.8 Amendment for construction at Casey Middle School 9.9 Amendment for construction at the education center 9.10 Amendment for construction at at esqu esqua Bing Pioneer 9.11 Amendment for construction
at Horizon's Kate School 9.12 Amendment for construction at Louisville Middle School 9.13 Amendment for construction at Ryan Elementary School 9.14 annual comprehensive financial report otherwise known as the AER 9.15 cancellation of the December 24th 2024 board meeting
9.16 Clos of the bond funded work for Monarch campus 9.17 contract with blueprint skilled Services LLC 9.18 contract with Ena Services LLC 9.19 contract with Triad Services Solutions 9.20 acceptance Don of bond funded work
at lafette elementary school 9.21 final acceptance of bond funded work at ctin middle school for tennis courts 9.22 HVAC filter purchase 9.23 renewal of the DHE Computer Systems LLC contract 9.24 resolution
24-37 appointment to chassa board of directors 9.25 vacation of easement agreement 9.26 Grant AC academics instrument matching Grant Classics for Kids 9.27 Grant Food Services project skills USDA Boise State
are there any items board members would like to pull from the consent grouping seeing as there are none we need a motion to um approve before we discuss move by Alex second and by Beth board members any discussion on items within the
consent grouping Bill thank you for your service to the chassa board of directors Laura can you please call a rooll Chavez yes medler yes Nik yes Quin Lin AA yes Raj Paul yes Sergeant yes
hunger yes motion passes moving now to the action items on this evening's agenda board members we have resolution 24-35 certification of Mill lovees do we
have a motion moved by Alex seconded by Kitty is there any discussion on the certification of Mills board members seeing as there are none Laura can you please call the rooll Chavez
yes medler yes nnick yes quinin NOA yes rajaul yes Sergeant yes uner yes motion passes next board members we have resolution 24-36 supporting students and
families do we have a motion moved by Kitty seconded by lenia board members is there any discussion on this item Kitty then lenia I was just golly every time I touch my computer the screen changes I was going to suggest that we
actually read this resolution even though it's long but um because of the impact that it's going to have that is a great idea Kitty would you like to do the honors sure as if I can get my screen
back yes it'll come back hang on I'm almost there okay I'm ready do you want me to do it now whereas is whereas the mission of the Boulder Valley school district is is
to create challenging meaningful and engaging learning opportunities so that all children Thrive and are prepared for successful civically engaged lives whereas in order to learn and Thrive children must know that the school
district will support their safety and emotional well-being regardless of disability race Creed color sex sexual orientation gender identity or expression national origin immigration
SL citizenship status religion ancestry family compositions or physical characteristics whereas students deserve to feel safe and honored for who they are whereas the Boulder Valley School
District board of education has become a national model for school districts seeking to create safe schools for all students by adopting Equitable policies and transparently reviewing data in pursuit of the school district's
strategic plan whereas Colorado also is a national leader including in passing hb1 19- 1192 to ensure the inclusion of the history culture and social contributions
of racial and ethnic groups and lgbtq individuals in school School in public school curricula and academic standards whereas since the US Supreme Court's 1982 decision pler V do federal
law has recognized the right of all children regardless of immigration status to enroll in public schools whereas Federal guidance recognizes School quote schools are protected spaces where Federal
immigration Authority ities should not conduct immigration activities unquote further the guidance clearly states the federal agency's belief that we can accomplish our enforcement Mission without denying or limiting
individuals access to needed medical care children's access to their schools the displaced access to food and shelter people of Faith access to their places of worship and more adherence to this
principle is one Bedrock of our stature as public servants whereas the school district values and prioritize family and Community Partnerships including in its strategic plan knowing that our students
need their parents Guardians and other adults in their lives for their well-being including their educational success and whereas statements being made regarding possible actions to be taken at the federal level have caused
some of the school district's families students and staff to feel un insecure and unsafe whereas the board is committed to policies and practices that support and represent the diverse people and
families in our communities and assures that students can access their education as guaranteed by the Colorado Constitution and and both Colorado and federal law now therefore be it resolved that
the school district shall do everything in its lawful power to protect our students and families regardless of immigration status including but not limited to the following actions the school district will
continue its practice to not collect or maintain any information about our students or their families or Guardians IM immigration status the school district s shall assist families in
keeping emergency contacts up todate and otherwise support families in making emergency plans should families feel a need to do so and shall support students who may feel that they and their families are at
risk the school district's office of legal counsel shall respond to any request by federal immigration officials for entry into any school district school or other school district property
to communicate with any student while that student is under the supervision of the school district during any school activity or while using School District transportation for any information about our students and
families be it further resolved that the school district shall do everything in its lawful powers to protect our lgbtq students and community members including through implementation of Title 9 and other related federal and state laws and
board policies and an ongoing commitment to creating schools that are free of discrimination harassment and bullying be it further resolved that the school district shall not tolerate hate speech including anti-semitic speech and
other forms of religious harassment be it further resolved that the Board of Education restates its commitment to creating Equitable School conditions through its policies prohibiting bullying discrimination and
harassment principles teachers students and parents in all of our schools are encouraged to immediately report such behaviors through the school District's website and expects that all such reports will be fairly And Timely
investigated www um pointb do bvsd.org parents hyphen students SLB hyphen ready slake hyphen ayen
report be it further resolved that the superintendent and staff shall ID identify for the board any updates to policies and procedures necessary to implement this resolution be it further resolved that
the school district shall post this resolution at every School site and distribute it to School District staff and parents in all the predominantly used languages of the school district and shall broadly communicate the
commitments of this resolution now therefore be it resolved that the bvsd Board of Education adopts this resolution on this 10th day of December 2024 thank you kitty it is days like
today in resolutions like these that make me really proud to be part of bbsd me too board members discussion further discussion on this resolution helenia thank you to outstanding work
via Kathleen and her team on this resolution Jason sorry I had trouble unmuting um yeah you kind of stole my words there Nicole I just uh listen to kitty listening to you read that and I'm sorry I'm not there in the room but it just makes me proud to be part of this
district and some of the gravity of the words um you know really reminds us of our responsibilities here so thanks for all the work on that and thank you kitty for your suggestion to read that that was really powerful H thank you for the work on this I think
um our discussion the last we just talked about this was really important that we were all in the same um Step moving forward on this and we've heard from our commune members who are also saying that we're and we're standing together and I I think it's important this reflects our our values but all and
our sentiments about what we believe in but also speaks to the action that we want to take as a district to protect our students um who may be singled out um and so I really appreciate this and that it creates um a real link that people can reach out to if they need help or support so uh thank you for the
work on this Beth yeah I'll just join the chorus and wanting to thank Kathleen and her team for for creating this and something that kind of stands out for me is this this last part um that this will be posted every School site and distributed
to the School District staff and parents and all predominantly used languages of the school district that's really powerful and amazing and I think it it is a testament to to this board's resolve and this District's um commitment to supporting all students so
thank you for that Alex yeah I have two things one is to ditto what you what you've said and I think it Bears repeating that I um as Leaders on a school board in a district this is one of those cases where I think
we're reflecting the value of our community and this is what our community values and we are there um as part of that making sure that our our schools and our institutions do what we can to reflect our values and I have um dare I say it a a
line edit um uh well it's only only because of what you're saying about how visible this will be that one of the bullets strikes me is not quite reflecting what it means and it takes sort of a careful reading of it to get it right so I don't know if it's in
order or not but I would propose adding a couple words in the um where the part it says the school district's office of legal council shall respond to any request by federal immigration officials now what it's saying substantively is that when the legal council responds to that they shall keep in mind the things
that are three paragraphs before but I'd like to reference that again so as it now it reads superficially if you just take it out of context as if our legal council will be responsive to uh these requests when in fact what it's meaning is that the legal council shall follow through on our principles and the rest
of this as they respond to Legal requests does that distinction make a difference Kathleen maybe you could speak to that yeah I do think that words matter so I do think um I wonder if even since
we're there already if more helpful language might be schools will forward all requests to the office of legal counsel who will respond because then our schools would have that assurance that we're trying to offer them that
they can educate our kids and we will work on these other issues that's okay so just for clarity we have a motion on the floor do we need to amend that to
include the changes presently discussed prior to passing I would yes um does anybody want Alex would you I would move uh to make a conceptual amendment that Kathleen would work out the language to that reflects that direction that those
people in schools would direct those requests to our Council Laura do you want to call the role on that yes who actually made the second I didn't Kitty sorry okay this is the motion to approve
making the [Music] amendment Chavez yes medler yes nnick yes Quin L NOA yes rajul yes Sergeant yes anger yes
motion passes so then we unless there's further discussion board members we would go back to the motion to approve this resolution with the inclusion of the language in the amendment we just also
approved second is there motion okay so this is to approve the resolution as amended correct Chavez
yes medler yes nnick yes Quin L NOA yes Raj Paul yes Sergeant yes anger yes motion passes thanks to all the committee members Who provided feedback in advance of this
resolution we will now move on to policy action items board members our first action item will be board policy ikf graduation requirements do we have a motion to approve this policy moved by
Kitty seconded by Jorge board members any discussion on this poliy see I'll start while everybody's pulling that policy up I wanted to thank legal council for making some changes grammatically to improve the clarity of this policy
and improve our community's ability to understand the inclusions of it Kitty okay hang on I'm I'm trying to find it it is it's in the section where we talk about students being prepared for
college and is it industry and I was my proposal would to make that and or but I I'm let me see I tried to put it in my Google Drive let me see if I can
find my suggestion on that here it is come on open right so it would be under College and Career Readiness and the second paragraph under there students must complete at least one of
the measures and meet or exceed the measures corresponding cut score or criteria to demonstrate college and or career Readiness in English and math since not every single student is going to college does does that make sense
does that make sense Kathleen yes okay and then there's another instance of it in the following par gra and I have a few other grammatical things that I'll just send off to you oh no I did have one more sorry
under elective credits 70 credits and it says a maximum of five credits of community service may be earned as an elected elective and then recommended 15 or more hours of volunteer work equals one credit so is
that really just recommended and not required and if so how do you determine if if what's recommended isn't followed my understanding is that that
recommendation creat creates a standard that building principles can then apply based on the type of community service that the student might engage with and the intensity of that service as well as the overall hour commitment okay so it doesn't need to be more specific than
just recommended um no my sources say no okay Alex on that front I guess I was reading the switch from 75 for five credits to 15 per one as producing more flexibility in
case schools were giving credit for Less service not to change the status or the criteria that were used that's how I understood it right well I was just looking at the word recommended not the the numbers if if um if if we figured out the what
to do with the recommended part I have another edit to propose um I really appreciate again all the the work by Council and all by the people working that have that's gone into this um we had a discussion at the last meeting
where we talked about the cut where we're taking out the sophisticated and competitive skill levels in the physical um education waivers and I uh made a case for inserting really more attention to say um a student's well-being and
accessing um activities they can do for lifelong Wellness um and in that spirit I appreciate uh replacing the sophisticated competitive with adequate rigor but I might suggest making another amendment in the list where it says the activities that are there and it has the
IE of mountain biking and Ultimate Frisbee um to illustrate what I'm talking about I'd be interested in saying mountain biking comma yoga comma dancing and Ultimate Frisbee to illustrate what I mean about non-competitive sports that could very well lead to student well-being and
lifelong access to physical activity so one clarification there um is it says or compare a non chassa school activities but we don't which we have mountain biking and Ultimate Frisbee as a school activity that are non- chassis
Sports I hear you on the wellness part and I would ALS O say that those components are not necessarily school activities but our PE classes we do offer walking and yoga and those types of more Wellness Focus that are not necessarily competitive type P
classes so I don't know if that would help some of your wondering on that position it's a good point that the above point is talking about the school activities and I was still thinking about the the waiver process um thinking
of my own SK kids kids who did stuff like yoga and climbing um that may be school or may not be school so maybe that we need another IE down there under uh the other part where we list some of those other activities all defer I know the athletic
Review Committee has weighed on this multiple times but I was and we've heard reports but I I've never been nor am I currently on that committee so I would def to Harry Waterman or legal counsel or others that have that expertise and then I saw two hands Kitty and
elenia I thought that the waiver discussion was centered more around an equity issue um where folks were getting waivers for
doing club sports um and I don't have a a very strong opinion about whether that's right or wrong but if you're getting it for yoga or mountain biking or Club sport maybe all of that's fine I just am not sure
we've ever hashed that out completely about what we're trying to do with wavers and also to one of Nicole's previous points why are we work requiring 15 credits of PE
and 10 credits of foreign language isn't that right is that right 10 credits of foreign language I mean I I just I don't feel that we've ever really dug into the waiver
issue um to look at the equity or maybe even some of the common sense of it with this topic board members as I said at the last board meeting passing this to ensure that our students are graduating with here the
higher education uh admissions requirements and kind of getting towards back PR practice was a right first step and that we could potentially take another pass on some of these Athletics waivers and PE as a next
go round I only and I'm bringing this up just because timing does matter so people can start planning and we have our open enrollment window ends and we have our transition nights beginning for this class of 2029 in Janu in January
actually right after that window and so those kiddos need to be coming in with an understanding of their graduation expectations and if this discussion was going to take longer to to give it the attention it deserves I would encourage I you know strong L
recommend we take that as iteration number two on this policy but I hear you and that is what I I I you know I did bring out that kitty okay so I have a question is purely gramatic it has nothing to do with
whether we throw yoga in there or rock climbing or whatever so when we're saying mountain biking and Ultimate Frisbee we're being specific about those two things is that correct okay because I had thought when I read it that that was an example so I was going to change
iie to EG but if it's really specifically that then it should stay IE Dr Anderson so you know I know that at um that at our last meeting discussing
this that this is something you all want to dig into and I do think that to do that the implications of adding specific fundamental changes um and and from what I'm understanding it's things that are certified club sports but not chassa
Sports and expanding that to individual activities that go beyond club which would be a change right which is something that we could consider but there's whole processes and things that you would have to do to validate that to verify that um and and um I don't think that was the intention of of cleaning
this up now and if if it was we would have to pull the policy and and and wait another year to do that I just don't know that we have the space and time to be able to make those changes now for the next graduating class Alex in the short term I would support
uh Kitty's proposal of turning IE into EG uh because I think that gets what I'm talking about so that we're not being exclusive now in our policy and I'll note this policy was last updated s years ago and has gone through 10e a decade long periods between updates so getting the political will to update
this in the long term I know we might iterate it but I do think it could take another decade so I I would prefer to at least insert the EG instead of the IE to Kitty's Point can I ask are there any actual other school
sports not that are not chassa I mean there is I can't think of any other except for those two that are non- chassis sports that we provide not that I I mean the grammatical new these are the two primary activities
that I'm aware of and um it's true that we did change this language since the board last looked at it the intent was really to correct some of that language that I believe the board asked me during open meaning to interpret and I couldn't
because the language was confusing Dr Anderson stepped in I think and clarified that and then this language was really just intended to clean that up and to reflect what is my understanding of current practice but if
it is too much of a shift then we can revert to that same language we can postpone to the 17th which is also a voting meeting or we could okay stop
talking so board members just to kind of think through our Roberts Rules of Order there is a motion to approve this language if we wanted to and I'll add an insert that I actually think it is does make more
sense when you read that um but if we wanted to to not if we wanted to amend and revert this section on waivers back to the previous language that would require an amendment like we just in the process we just took undertook for the
resolution on protecting families so if somebody would like that option a motion would be required yes Jorge you can ask a question I I just want to be clear on what this current language we is saying CU I got a little confused on the chassa
discussion because we have an or there so right so non- chassa school activities I.E mountain bike and Ultimate Frisbee that means that those specific activities are non chassa or a comparable activity outside the school program supervis or structural physical activity and that would be comparable to
what Alex is saying that we need some examples of keeping the current language is that am I reading that correctly yes you've you've stated correctly what I understand that paragraph means so it
really is taking language that was a little bit clunkier and just saying there are three ways we do it chassa approved non- chassa approved school activities or those comparable activities that are outside of
school and as a clarifying those are H have always been and will continue to be approved by the building principal by the building principal that's correct and I think in practice those
have been club sports so I just want to Alex's point I in practice those have always been club sports I've not seen now they're could be an example out there someone else is aware of of someone
saying I go to aerobics every week and their building principle letting them out of gym I have no idea but I just want to make sure that this is reflective of what we're currently doing yes that's my understanding that
this is reflective of what we are currently doing Alex I guess substantively what I was hoping to get to are the experiences of children like my own who are not interested in competitive team sports and who wouldn't play on a competitive
Club but would do a sport that they loved or an activity that they loved that gave them great physical activity um and lifelong access to well-being and I would hate for uh system set up by coaches who are used to competitive Sports thinking oh well this kid's doing
this thing that's not like the stuff everybody does when in fact the whole idea of a waiver is to facilitate a kid with from a different circumstance following their joy and finding physical activity that makes them healthy so I'm I'm still in favor of moving in this direction I'd much rather make these edits than not again I'd probably
again take out the IE so that I don't have a narrow-minded interpretation of this thinking this is all it could be when I'd like them to be open-minded and encouraging of Whatever Gets a kid active who might not who might probably hate PE class in the high school and find an activity out of high school that
they really enjoy Kitty so I have a question for Alex so in the second parenthetical oh I guess it would be the third parenthetical statement but the one that says I.E supervised Andor structured physical
activities and so on would that cover what you're talking about yes and and what I had Pro oh sorry what I had proposed in our last meeting was to take out sophisticated and competitive so I appreciate that that struck and it's sort of replaced
with adequate rigor um but I was still trying to get to an open-minded and an um uh an a broad interpretation of what that takes so that it wasn't um competitive team sports always but this isn't com
that yeah I'm just trying to understand why how this does not address your concerns not arguing with your concerns I'm just trying to figure this out uh I think it does as long as people
are thinking about adequate rigor the same way I am instead of the way um a basketball coach might think about it well I would think that if it were say yoga adequate rigor in yoga would be totally different from rigger in
something that was in involved a lot more motion and moving through space that's why I would love an e G that includes yoga and dance as examples of things that we're talking about so that someone who's not familiar with how intense yoga can be thinks that it
doesn't dissolve deserve the kind of waiver that being on another club does so so um board members since I think we heard that nobody wanted to make a motion on amending this language and we still have the motion on the floor to approve this policy and we have also
previously prioritized bringing this back with some discussions particularly around Sports and PE and that that part of this discussion I I would if there's any
other discussion outside of that topic I think we can entertain it but maybe moving toward a a Vote Alex I I support moving towards a vote and I think um my intention here is probably better addressed uh through um
implementation Dr Anderson so I I appreciate the discussion and I think that you know you want to do something like this that isn't subjective to the extent that uh you know because there's
words are are included or not includ I mean I do think that uh that a a a different look at how we require PE and physical education would take a little bit of a longer conversation but also a
regulation uh to the extent that says what are the processes in which you decide or not decide because you know to the extent that that right now which up to the building principle right um to to approve any
waivers or not is is that that's correct it's this is the principle is to get to a place if we want to have more inclusive opportunities for folks to be able to earn way givers of credit for demonstrating physical activity
through things that aren't already sanctioned by the school whether a club or C hsaa I just want to be really clear that we're not with the changes in the language that have been made that that's not the expectation that we've we're changing anything until we come back
have that other conversation again it already has been prioritized um and so to the extent that we can bring that back for the next graduating class and come to some consensus on what that looks like was my understanding that that's what we would be doing um and so
uh whether that's in the fall uh which would give us plenty of time for um to to to continue to do that I just don't if you if you if you start changing or shifting language I just don't want there to be um uh an interpretation that
that means we're shifting what qualifies or doesn't qualify for for a waiver until we've had that dis that conversation um knowing and understanding that I think that is the right conversation to have I just want to be I just want to be really clear on the specificity that I
think we would need to get into to be able to to to navigate something like that Laura can you please call the rooll Chavez yes Med yes nnick yes Quin Lin NOA yes Raj Paul
yes Sergeant yes anger yes motion passes at this point in the evening we have a comfort break request and so the board is going to take a very brief adjournment e I'd like to call the meeting this this evening's meeting back to order board
members we are now on the policy study item section of this evening's agenda we have two policies for study this evening the first of which is board policy jrl e interrogations by law enforcement officials at this point I will hand it over to Kathleen thank you uh board members we did put
together just a few slides that have the Constitutional Authority that underpins both of the policies we're going to talk about tonight it seemed important in light of the public comment we've received as well as I think um the Dak
committee's memo just to ground Us in what the legal requirements are so um searches really rest on the fourth amendment that is our governing um and important law we need to pay attention
to the fourth amendment of course that prevents unreasonable searches and seizures I wish our history teacher from Broomfield High School we're here to really put this all in context but I'll do my best so of course the fourth
amendment applies right to government and when the Supreme Court really looked at the Fourth Amendment in the context of schools we have two important cases the first one New Jersey versus T is a Supreme Court case that
looked at whether that law enforcement standard that we understand applies to searches where law enforcement officials would need probable cause in order to have a constitutional search in New Jersey versus T the Supreme Court really
looked at those requirements and tried to balance the extent of um requirements that would be put in place against the public interest that we have to navigate in public schools how much process are we going to require when we're trying to
balance a school's need to take action to protect the safety welfare of their institutions and their students and what the Supreme Court said is in the center of this slide it's evidence the school setting requires some easing of these
restrictions and that it wouldn't be reasonable to require a teacher to obtain a warrant because it would unduly interfere with our ability to really do what we need to do to protect kids so it's from this case law that we have the
Supreme Court standard that requires that school officials must have a reasonable suspicion to justify a search of a student and when we really look at what it means there's a second case that the Supreme Court heard in 2009 Safford
United school district versus reading that had to do with the extent of the search that the school could do so not a question about whether it was appropriate to search but in this case this involved a middle school student they were searching for high strength
ibuprofen pills and this student had on a T-shirt and leggings and was asked by staff to remove clothing turn out underwear and undergarments and that was the case where the Supreme Court said we're going to have two standards that
apply to schools school districts first of all you have to be justified at the Inception of a search meaning you have to have a reasonable suspicion that your search is going to turn up evidence that the student has violated board
policy and the second requirement is that any search even if it's reasonable and it's in ception is aible reasonable in scope meaning that the way that the search is carried out is respectful of
the students age gender and the nature of the infraction that we're looking for so this is really the Constitutional standard established through those two primary cases when we look now at the issue of interrogation I want to point out for
the board both of these policies I've been in place since the 80s and our current board policy is termed interrogations by law enforcement officials so it's really important that we understand what this term
interrogation actually means it rests on the Fifth Amendment I've highlighted because this is a really dense Amendment so in bold you'll see the language around interrogation this is really about not being able to compel a person's statements that could be used
against them in a criminal case that's the authority that we are attending to with this requirement when we look at the case law Miranda is the big case law it really interprets the Fifth Amendment to apply to custodial
interrogations which means it's an interrogation being done by law enforcement in a custodial situation where a person isn't free to leave that's what we're talking about when we talk about interrogations this really applies to
law enforcement and I think our public commenter was referencing that earlier tonight so when we turn to the revisions themselves starting with I think jrl is first so we can start with that one um I
would say a few things so the original policy that the board started with is really just a couple of paragraphs which is why this policy has so much redlined content I think one of the questions that comes up repeatedly with schools
and with parents sometimes is when a school official wants to talk to my student about misconduct or something that's happened during the school day what does that look like so the proposal on this policy is to expand the topic IT
addresses to address interrogations by law enforcement officials but also to provide our schools and our amilies with guidance around these other types of interactions they would have so interviews by school Personnel those really do have to be appropriate but we
don't have those obligations related to custodial interrogation like Miranda the other thing that we have an awful lot of in our schools that raise a lot of questions for school leaders is after we've made a mandatory report when
a public agency either law enforcement or child Protective Services wants to come to a school to interview a child they have an absolute right under statute because they are vested with that obligation to investigate child
abuse so the proposal is to add that content to this policy so that it really can be um instructive and provide that more comprehensive guidance um
so the deak we we did ask back earlier this fall when they were looking for some policy work we provided Jrs and J rle to them I think it was September and so we did ask that Dak would provide us
with their feedback so that I could try and incorporate it into a red line for the board because of when I received that feedback I had to go back and forth with our staff on this more than I might ordinarily like to do so originally the
board was looking at a red line that really talked about if you have to do this interrogation at school law enforcement official these are the conditions we're going to put in place and the Dak had a lot of comments I think in their memo about making sure
that those were sufficiently strong so we did make some additional additional revisions and I just want to point that out to the board now so the definitions and everything on policy on the first page stay the same but that paragraph at the top of page
two was modified after hearing from Dak and after talking with our Safety and Security leaders in the district so that we can be clear with law enforcement and our schools we know that a law enforcement interrogation raises significant issues of legal and
individual rights and I do think that some of the DAC language that they were asking was pushing this policy a little far I can't give legal advice to students about how they should engage with law enforcement so we really need to make sure that we're drawing a very
careful line there so this top paragraph says just first of all our fundamental belief that if law enforcement is seeking to do an interrogation of a student that they believe is engaged in criminal conduct they really need to try
to organize that activity outside of school while our students have access to their parents Guardians and other trusted adults that can actually give them advice as to how to proceed the rest of these numbered um
steps that we're asking School Personnel to take if there is a law enforcement official who is present in seeking to interrogate a student are really just more specific iterations of what the board had in policy previously and also
incorporate some language from the casby sample so obviously we need to confirm we're dealing with law enforcement we would make sure that we have a principal or a design who's familiar with this policy that accompanies the student until the parent
or Guardian can be present that is current practice it's reflected in our current language this is just more specific paragraph three also more specific we have always made an effort to talk with families but this language
uh tells our school leaders we expect them to notify parents and then to talk to law enforcement and say by board policy I need to ask you to wait to do anything here until the student has access to their parent and
guardian and that the school and this is really where I'm trying to walk that line between legal advice and just information to support our students that the school would inform the student that they may have legal rights associated
with that request to interrogate them and that they can elect to wait for their parent and guardian to be present so just providing again more specific language we did incorporate a new requirement in Colorado law to make sure
we're making sure our students are questioned in a private space and then also just a general assertion that we would make sure our school leaders are asking law enforcement to follow all applicable safeguards again our hope is that we
will not need those more specific steps because we're communicating clearly our belief that those should those interrogations should take place outside of school but it does give us some specific direction if our school officials find themselves with an
officer with a badge and a gun standing in front of them demanding access to a student which is the way they've relayed these um these scenarios to us when they're asking for guidance so we believe that this will equip them with the
information that they would need to navigate these really challenging situations thank you for that thorough overview of case law and incorporation of that into this policy I see Kitty has her hand up so we'll start with
her one excuse me one thing that confuses me a little bit about this is this policy includes interviews and interrogations with the with the idea that the student may have committed
either a crime or an infraction but then it also includes interviews by Child Protection where the concern is that the child didn't commit something they are the victim of it but what's not
mentioned in here is if law enforcement is going to interview a child because of concerns the child has been a victim but the suspected perpetrator is not a family member then Child Services doesn't get involved and it would just be law enforcement but that would not be
an interrogation it would be an interview and most likely they wouldn't even do it at the school anyway they would take them to Blue Sky Bridge um but there are times when they have to do do it at the
school if it's like the parents about to come pick them up and then the kids you know they they think the kids's going to be a danger but or the perpetrator who's not a parent will pick them up um and I don't know what I'm asking I'm just it just sounds like we have two different
things in here and perhaps there might be a different way to organize it as you know interviews when the the student is a suspect and interviews when the student is is suspected to be a
victim then it doesn't matter who's interviewing if they're the victim whether it's law enforcement or um Child Protection Services can I ask a clarifying question on that and then we'll go to you lenia in our section of interviews by
school Personnel it does talk about victims and Witnesses kitty talking about victims perpetrators does the process
differ or is the process the same and is that important to the question that and how we address the question that kitty proposed the process is definitely different if it is a school interview or if it is a
law enforcement interrogation absolutely so I I I hear that um question and I'm thinking about some additional changes we can make when this comes back to the board to clarify that around the interview section yeah noted on the interrogations
versus interviews but I was thinking like in that interview section that Nuance yeah Kitty then L I just want to clarify because what I was talking about was just suspected child abuse okay not any other suspected you know policy
violation or crime okay lenia I actually feel like I like the way it's organized um because we're talking about interviews
by authorized public officials regarding child abuse neglect I like that it parses it out three different ways and it makes good sense to me so I'm I guess maybe I just want to understand what I I understand
that of course it could be someone different doing an interview but we've said authorized public officials but the title only says law enforcement no it says student interviews and
interrogations by law enforcement officials Child Protection workers are not on law enforcement officials I wonder board member sergeant if we should just I should just drop law enforcement officials from the title so it's just interviews and interrogations
that would make more sense to me Alex uh this is maybe a just a legal precedent question but how is the school interview not custodial if the kids have mandatory attendance like they're in our custody and that they can't leave so the same question about the police officer
who's doing the interrogation when you can't leave should come into play shouldn't it not according to the Supreme Court but what but I would say that that's an important piece of what we're trying trying to address with our students when we talk about law
enforcement officials accessing them at school is it possible for a child being interviewed by law enforcement if they're suspected of wrongdoing to think that they can leave if they're at school I just don't know which is why we went to the language that said we really are
going to ask that you do this anywhere but at school unless there's some sort of exigency and then I guess the intention for me would be not that the officer makes the kid step outside but this is done and then their
their parent are guardian and councel are involved but but it's not clear that the officer couldn't say just wait for them when they leave and catch them outside or say well let's step outside and continue this interview they wouldn't be able to say let's step outside and continue the interview under
this policy because the principal or design would be required to stay present until a parent guardian or adult was there in their stud so they can't just step outside the school building just the officer and the student this policy
would prevent that and if I may uh considering um the complexity of this little testimony tonight that's in sort of In conflict with what the Dak said when would this come back to us for
action and if we said hey we need we want some more input on this how much are we slowing it down like where are we in the process with our stakeholders and what's the intention of how we would move forward um so I would say this unlike
your graduation policy these policies can be changed any time of year and then what we're doing is training staff which we're constantly doing anyway so um I had this scheduled to come back next week but there's no reason that it would
have to if the board would like some more time spend or consideration of some other input posting it for a while longer seeing what other input we might get um then that's up to the will of the board and just to I'm happy to get
engagement on all of our policies to reiterate the DCH had a long time with us they were poked at multiple iterations to ensure that they were on timeline um and I do actually think it's important for us to understand that case law and for them to
have even if it's not like if they felt rushed have some early indications of where they were heading to help guide the conversation and they can always come back but I just want to make sure the board they they were proded a few times to make sure that they were on track for this initial meeting knowing
that we always do study followed by action and sometimes there's more space in between so not hard and fast on this one but other thoughts Jorge for all these interviews and interrogations it's clear guidance about when to contact parents for child
protective agencies and law enforcement but it doesn't speak to when school Personnel um so thinking about the issue of age and ability to consent and at what point we involve parents is there any way we can provide some guidance on that I know it's outside the external agencies but how do we distinguish that
or guide that for our our school leaders yeah I think we do need to provide that guidance and there's one sentence at the end of that first paragraph that um reads such interviews do not require prior consent of the parents or Guardian
but we could say consent or presence this is a pretty consistent request I I'm not going to lie there are an awful lot of parents who want to tell us that we cannot speak to their children if they're not present and realistically in order to protect
protect safety return kids to instruction so that they are learning that's just not feasible so that's the gentle language that we were using I was actually thinking more after
the fact notifying parents inter after they that their kid was interviewed and you know in terms of defining what interview is and all that I would second that it's similar to the language that was inserted under assertions around notification to parents so I think that
feels reasonable this is a big shift um this policy is really old we have moved all of our student policies related to code discipline in a lot of positive directions and I'm
excited to see more clarity I'm excited to see this have context around interviews not just interrogations and to have some of these protections for our students and notifications to our parents I think those are really big
positive steps in in these red lines so thank you for all of the iterations on that and even though maybe the full body of the deck didn't feel like they engaged a lot I do still want to thank them the policy subcommittee for their work um both of these policies and for
the information that they were able to provide us ahead of this meeting to help kind of guide board member thought thinking and the the red lines of this document so that partnership is always welcome any other questions on this red
line this evening board members knowing it will come back with some changes if Beth just to wrap up my understanding we are going to move forward with this because it can be iterative and we're not going to kick it back to stakeholders to get more input right like we're going to keep we're going to keep moving and when will we see it
again I guess I'm asking maybe a question I mean we heard from one deck member who's not speaking on the behalf of the DC this evening as we could offer they did not look at the red line they did look at the original policies to help provide guidance they
were provided with state law they were provided with the casan example of a lot of which had been included and they provided their feedback based on that we could if the will of the board show give them an opportunity to provide additional feedback based on
this red line again no sense of urgency i' rather take the time rather than have it approve and then come back and then reapprovals of Dak I was at the Dak meeting there were mixed opinions in the meeting um in
regards to uh in regards to these policies but to your point I'm not sure that everybody had the understanding of the difference between reasonal suspicion probable cause I think that maybe there's some confusions around you know the role of a school search versus
the role of a of uh or an interrogation um so uh it would be interesting and and it did feel like they were pressed for time in that meeting so to the extent that's helpful for board on your conversation I'd be happy to check in
with the doc policy subcommittee make sure that they've seen the red lines and maybe gather some feedback from them about how much time they want and report to the board next week at our policy work that sounds great next
policy that you overline o outlined a little bit is Right Jrs yes so Jrs is the search policy I've already provided the Constitutional authority authority on which it is
based so we did um incorporate more language from the casby sample to make sure that we addressed um multiple topics and a lot of this actually came at the behest of DC they specifically asked us to address things like cell
phones that we had not previously addressed in policy but well before Dr Anderson or many of us were here um we did have litigation in our district in 2008 on this issue so I've Incorporated that language into um this policy it is
our practice in bbsd not to search cell phones um um unless there's an exigent circumstance because of the additional privacy protections that courts have applied around phones um another thing that I would
point out is that this policy actually explicitly addresses the fact that um in our school district we do not ask School Personnel to conduct searches that are looking for firearms this was a significant point of
discussion um two years ago when there was a shooting in our neighboring District um as part of a search of a student where they knew that they were looking for weapons this is absolutely part of
our practice it is a well discussed across our safety security teams and our um building leadership but that is on page one of this policy I think that the other language you will see we incl uded Dak had
requested that we make sure there's an administrative report written up if there's a search that done that is done we've added language around um privacy and non-binary students having voice in how that search is carried
out um we added the cell phone piece and then we also added language around searching of automobiles and finally new language that came from both the casby sample and I believe dax's request that talks about
what we would do with items that may be seized as part of a search and those are the updates we've proposed for the board's discussion kitty yeah I a question about non-binary
students what if there is no one no adult on staff I don't even know how to phrase it I there's probably not going to be a non-binary adult in the room in on Steph
but what if there's no one whose gender identity makes the non-binary student feel comfortable we would only search if we had reasonable grounds to believe that we had a serious violation and board policy which means means we will make
every effort to make that student um to afford them all the dignity and privacy that they deserve fundamentally if we need to do a search to assure the protection of our school environment we will give that student voice and then the search will
be carried out in the best professional judgment and discretion of our highly trained and caring educators I have a question about when the personal searches are conducted the degree to which students are informed of
the rationale for the search and making sure that the students understand why they are being searched and um as long as that is in accordance with law I think that would
be helpful for our students and our families to understand similarly with the searches I'm wondering about situations in which a student may be searched the student felt the search was
unreasonable and nothing was found what types of restorative practices might be helpful in that situation because a search of a person which they might be asked you you know and then pat down
that particularly for our students that might have some trauma related to sexual assault or just power and balances and feeling like now this person of authority has I've been in this situation what kind is are there restorative things to help mend that
relationship and the person required of doing these searches is not I mean it's pretty clear um we want trusting relationships in our buildings is there a way to weave any of that in in a way that's meaning fall and if the answer is
no I just these are delicate situations particularly if a student feels targeted unjustly M keeping our school safe and thinking about those situations is on the my mind Dr Anderson I do think it
can be tricky and and I appreciate the sentiment I think that um I think that that that maybe we consider those things I think my worry would be if you create um too many conditions that would prevent people
from searching kids that might be in the best interest of the safety of the school I think that would be you know what's the balance there um and I want to be um but but I hear what you're saying I worked in schools a long time
and and uh but it's been a while right and so things have certainly changed uh for the better um I'm just trying to think you know you know potentially maybe we could take that back to some of our and and I'm guessing Kathleen you talked to school-based administrators
and the security team around what are the what are the things that they need to be able to do and how do we do those in the right ways to make sure that we're ensuring safety in our schools and I would think that as long as we're thinking about that balance and that that's what I would want to want to make sure we're doing yes 100% and that was
really the reason that there were some uh later redlines made is because I had to confer with our Safety and Security team and couldn't do that until I had all of Dax input or had a few things we needed to clarify we did add some
language um it's in the middle of page two under in between those paragraphs that actually have some black language or black uh print that says whenever possible we will inform the student of the reason that we're conducting the search we'll talk them through that
we'll really try to do it in an informed way um and then we did include that notification piece also on that page to make sure that parents are informed if there is a search that's
done and I do think um you know we've almost tripled the length of this policy in terms of the guidance and I will I will talk with um our administrators again and just make sure we've struck that balance correctly ly but see if there's um some language that we can
look at and then one more just comment related to the first two paragraphs in the second page related searches um the SEC the final sentence of that first paragraph searches of one person's are subject to XYZ it's similar to this whole the paragraph immediately
following it searches of um Pockets objects in The Possession Patel next year the clothing and then it says it in the next paragraph kind of again oh I see that it's just a little bit redundant and and since we just said we expanded the language it' be an opportunity to contract the language a
little at your will Jorge this actually goes back to the earlier Point um there will be an administrative report that's a part of this and I don't know to what degree May it's not in policy here but to agree to that we could be tracking this on a regular basis as part of our C Bo discussion
around discipline and their use of interrogations and of searches to kind of understand the scope of how we're approaching students um I think maybe address some of the stuff that you're raising in terms of our appropriateness and targeting students and that sort of thing um and the other part was I I did
notice that whenever possible because I was kind of curious that that kind of caught my eye to what degree would not be possible to disclose to a student why they're being searched and and what kind of if if that's necessary language of the whenever possible um I think to Dr Anderson's point it's
really hard sometimes to think about every circumstance that could possibly transpire when I started as a school attorney 30 years ago we we were looking in purses for
cigarettes right and that's that's some of what we do but I do think that there may be circumstances where we have a very high level threat concern and we're early in an investigation and we might not at that
time be able to talk about why the search was done but we might be able to Circle back to it later so that's when I the language I'm thinking about might be something like that it's not possible up front to make sure there's a conversation with the student to try and
address any concerns that might have Arisen something like that so in that same paragraph it talks about asking um the students or requesting the students permission to
perform the search but then the next sentence pretty much says not they're not allowed to say no or they're going to get in trouble right which does because I think right hey I don't hug people now without asking them I think there's a lot of
things that we used to do a little differently that probably maybe aren't the best trama informed but hey I'm going to need to pat down your ankles now you okay with that right a little bit like the TSA so it sounds like it's
just trying to be more gentle about it but we're going to do it anyway rather than saying get on the floor sucker yes for example sorry seen too much Law and Order and it's getting late Alex yeah I was thinking along
similar lines Kitty not along Law and Order but uh the second sentence where it talks about the students's failure to cooperate um will be grounds for disciplinary action I'd feel better if it said if we inserted something like a student's failure for operate with school officials conducting a search in
accordance with these policies will be considered grounds for disciplinary action so that the students are in a situation to say what your proposing violates your policy without fear of retaliation because I'm sure our students will memorize this but Jason any questions or comments on
this policy uh no nothing for me thanks board members any other discussion thank you Kathleen this was a big lift and in a policy two policies that are really heavy in law it was
helpful to have that legal lens uh ground our conversation I think it does provide a great deal of understanding of how we can take steps to afford our families and our students with as many rights as practicable and still
follow law Alex and uh we don't need another discussion of this but I am curious if there's any of the other legal developments that covered in our earlier resolution that are relevant to this or if um we feel comfortable that this puts us in a stronger position to
implement our previous policy um from the resolution tonight I do think this just really reflects the importance of updating board policy regularly making sure it continues to reflect the board's and
Community Values along with the law and then it provides the level of guidance that our staff and our students need in order to understand the way the district operates oh here we go I'm back on um well board
members we have one final item this evening a future agenda setting so if now is the time if there are items you like add to our agenda uh prioritization now is the time to raise them uh Rob if you would just confirm for me
at some point that waivers are already on there because I can't remember that yeah revisiting of the graduation requirements specifically just physical education W that waiver thing and then I would ask that we put vaping on our
list any other item board members seeing as there are n this meeting is adjourned