oh good evening nothing we like better than a standing room only crowd at our school board meetings thank you very much i am calling the uh April 23rd regular meeting of the board of education of 27J schools to order uh all matters noticed on our agenda uh in any
category may be considered for action as listed and any item not so noticed may not be considered items listed on our agenda may be considered in any order at the discretion of the chairperson but first if you could all stand let's have a pledge of allegiance tracy will you lead us
will the board secretary please do the roll call director Alvarado I director Carbajal here director Khan here director Green I am present director Thomas here director Trillo here director Wilhelm here mr president you
do have quorum thank you very much next up we'd like to read our commitment to governing style the board will govern lawfully observing policy governance principles with an emphasis on outward vision rather than internal preoccupation encouragement of diversity and viewpoints strategic leadership more than administrative detail a clear
distinction of board and chief executive roles collective rather than individual decisions future rather than past or present and governing proactively rather than reactivively sorry next up is approval of our agenda do I have a motion i'll move to approve the agenda dated April
23rd 2025 as presented second i have a motion from Director Carbal second from Director Alvarado correct very good roll call vote director Alvarado i director Carbajal i director Khan i
director Green of course director Thomas i director Trillo i director Wilhelm yes motion carries thank you thank you again we have a full agenda tonight first up we have a presentation to the board ryan Roth events and public relations coordinator will be present presenting
to the board a check that represents the collective donations made on behalf of new customers of Aloe Fiber it's installing all over Brighton from November through December 2024 these new customers designated 27J schools
as microphones on uh please give us your presentation and tell us all about you thank you colorado general manager Bob Buyersdorf to uh talk a little bit about Aloe for Education and how important it is in our continued commitment not only to Brighton but to uh 27J as well so step
on up Bob bob thank you as Ryan mentioned my name is Bob Buyersorf i'm our general manager um for the Colorado region so appreciate being here today directors um uh superintendent and staff as well we appreciate having the opportunity to
address you as well as the audience behind us so um what we're presenting a check as u as Ryan mentioned so what drove this um you know how did this come about and uh again it was uh so for everybody um who signed up for Aloe
service during that period they could designate the school that they wanted us to present uh provide you know provide a donation of $50 to so thanks to the people behind me and many others who are not here tonight um we have a check for you for $2600 this evening for the
district for 27J yeah so yeah so um that's exciting stuff for us education is very very important to us um I should also tell you that uh all that disruption and all that dust we're kicking up in throughout your community uh is going to wrap up here at the um
right at toward the end of August so I think that will be appreciated by probably everyone in front of me and many people behind me as well um but um so as part of that then all the good stuff comes right behind that and that is to make sure that you can get that
really fast service uh and get the services that you're looking for and the reliability that you deserve so um that's how we go about doing things uh anyway um education crucial for us when we're coming to events like these um the arts also very very important to us so
you'll see us about town i'm sure many of you have already uh and we're going to continue on with that and we're also bringing lastly uh because I know you need to get on with the agenda here um lastly we're uh bringing new products to bear too so uh smart schools as an example um which will be able to start
connecting um you and your students when you're outside the buildings as well with Wi-Fi that will be able to provide campuswide uh Wi-Fi also and for students that may not have access to Wi-Fi at home um if they have neighbors
with um with Alo service that same smart school is going to allow them to have a seamless integration from school to to their home so these are the kinds of things and innovation that uh gig uh gig uh broadband can provide if you're looking for reasons to um to really
create a great outcome for a community so with that I will stop uh greatly appreciate you uh you know allowing us to have the opportunity excited to bring you money and we're anxious to have a few of you come uh maybe take uh we'd like to get some video uh with a few of you as well and ask you a few questions
and um and hear what you think about all this so with that I'll stop we'll do the picture right now and this must be your first check presentation but next time you just wait till the very end and say we're bringing you a check for $2,600 and they all go burst into applause
i do a lot of big checks let me just tell you this let's do that check come on down let's have the board go down there with them come on we're really excited about this thank you that's right and we can't wait to put it on our social media thank you
thanks much thank you for some strange reason I don't think you were all here just for the check presentation next up the board of education would like to recognize a few of our staff members as recipients of the
27J believer awards for being a good egg uh Mandy will read the uh nomination form and then we'll pres present a whole bunch of awards uh Barb Haggedy would you like to join us come on up she's going to read the certified staff thank you okay all right good evening thank you
guys for being here um we realize it makes more sense tom and I always come up with a fun theme for our believer awards so it makes more sense for you guys when we start reading these nominations if you know what the theme was so this was the um the nomination
form that the staff received it says "Do you know a good egg in 27day schools a teacher or staff member who keeps things from getting scrambled stays sunny side up and never cracks under pressure this edition of the 27J believers award
recognizes the good eggs in our school whose dedication hard work and positive attitude help keep the school running smoothly ensuring that students and colleagues alike feel supported and valued every day is a little brighter because of them and they make every challenge seem a little easier to tackle
help us show our appreciation for the exceptional people who make 27J amazing be sure to include specific examples and how they've made a positive impact so that was our um our theme for this one because I catch myself saying a lot oh he's a good egg or she's a good egg so
that just became our theme so first Tom's going to kick us off with our administration awards and they wouldn't let me say it but I said these people are more valuable than the egg aisle of King Supers um first up we have our administration
awards and our first recipient is Gina Patel gita Gita Gita I apologize and we make them stand up here while we read it so they get further embarrassed i'm really sorry Gita uh uh
this nominee said and it was uh Danny Jane was a was a grant writer from 27J i am beyond excited to recognize Gita Patel as a 27J school's good egg gita brought her wealth of knowledge to 27J this past August with a vision for an alternative lensure program and a drive
to bring it to life in addition to her other duties as the workforce development and recruiter coordinator recruitment coordinator GA provide prepared and submitted proposals for not one but three alternative lensure programs to help 27J recruit develop and
prepare highly qualified individuals for a career as a teacher she never came close to cracking under pressure man she put a significant amount of consideration into the proposals to make sure her plan was anything but scrambled she researched compare comparable programs across the state assessed
financial considerations and sought funding to help make her vision a reality her dedication to bringing this program to life did not go unnoticed cde recommended all three programs for approval to the state board and the Colorado State Board of Education approved all three programs without any
revisions uh Gita brings a sunny side up attitude to all conversations inspiring greatness in and creating meaningful meaningful connections to those around her these traits are also why she is so excellent in her roles she is able to network with pro prospective hires
sharing the 27J mission and vision and helping us to recruit the best talent for our community kea is not just simply a good egg she's a golden egg a treasure very good and again her idea is bringing business professionals and people that have had a career and some professional experience
to our teaching classrooms and allowing them to have an impact on our students so I really appreciate your idea thank you very much thank you so much uh certificate suitable for framing there you go and then all these people want to shake your hand
once again give it up for a Next up on the hot seat is Becky Turizy come on up becky is an incredible human she was nominated by Megan Murray a special education teacher and uh Becky uh is a
the district's bed coordinator uh Becky is an incredible human being as well as guide for the PVHS special education department she's a great sounding board and is very knowledgeable in order to create solutions and is just a ray of sunshine our team feels wholly supported by her and we are thankful for
everything she has helped us navigate through she has taken multiple consecutive hours to help us create a master schedule for SPED and she jumped off with the PV team for the Special Olympics uh she's kind caring and compassionate and they're so lucky to have her be a part of their team congratulations Becky we really
appreciate that thank you again you get the nomination and a certificate suitable for training thank you and these guys all want to shake your hand oh and now I get a break after this
one this is not a group uh this is an administration team the Steuart Middle School administration team and I need Christa Dean Taran Cabrera and Brandy Dunaway please come on up here you guys can all hold this while I
read eloquently about you uh they were nominated by Kyle Farer oh I see you right there thank you sir uh he was the assistant personal at 27J online academy uh educating students in the post-pandemic world is not a one-sizefits-all venture for decades
we've used the word differentiate to describe how we needed to adjust our instruction and our systems for different groups of students after the pandemic it became abundantly clear that differentiating to groups was not enough we needed to individualize our programming to fit student and family
needs 27j online provides the flexibility to individualize beyond what many buildings can do no other building admin team has partnered with online academy more to access this flexibility than the team at Ortho Stewart Middle School bet you didn't know it had a full
name did you christine and her team have reached out numerous times to partner for individual students whose needs were not truly being fully met by their school alone over the last four years the two schools have partnered to temporarily shift students to online academy who are struggling socially behaviorally or
academically these two schools have partnered to allow students to take advanced math classes that were not offered in the building and recently the two schools have partnered to help foster two foster students to help two foster students new to Steuart and 27J each with significant needs and
significant social anxiety in each of these situations it was the team at Steuart being engaged enough with their students that they identified the need and reached out for partnership kristen Taran and Brandy are all good eggs and should be celebrated as much thank you thank you very much congratulations we
appreciate everything you do thank you very much it's so good to see our schools partner together like this barb Hagerty you have the hot seat this is the hot seat but it's such an honor to be able to read about my fellow colleagues and
the wonderful work that they're doing first up we have Annabelle Fala Fala annabelle's a social worker at South Elementary and she was nominated by Lori McFersonson the school counselor annabelle is definitely the egg that is
sunny side up oh I love all the egg references it's already awesome i am more than excited to be nominating my teammate for this spring's reaching out award annabelle is excellent at always making sure colleagues feel supported and valued she can be caught bringing in
little treats and leaving notes words of encouragement on the hard days or during busy weeks for numerous staff members almost every week someone will find coffee on their desk when they arrive in the morning just reminding them how much they are cared for i was recently diagnosed with breast cancer and the
other day I came to school to find a giant bag of chemotherapy care items she had the flu over the weekend and still made time to create this amazing care package right when I needed it the most she also does not allow things to get scrambled here at South Elementary School we recently have had so many
challenges that have caused all staff to have concerns and questions for next year annabelle has been so reassuring making sure everyone has a positive outlook she even took time out of her day to explore and brainstorm office room changes so that everyone felt comfortable when moving to a new space
she kept telling us that she was determined to make her sped team determined to make sure her sped team all had appropriate space in a comfortable environment to be successful she graciously even offered up her room as the sensory room for next year so that we had a log have a logical space
conveniently located by the new SSN classroom we are getting she will have to pack up and move but that was never a concern for her her attitude stays positive and is never the rotten egg at this school annabelle began her career here at South and has somehow managed to
befriend and form relationships with almost every staff member here her extra sunny personality has won us over including the students no matter the challenge you will never hear her groan or moan about the work we do she is one of the most passionate people oh this is a whole
two-pager that's how amazing you are she's one of the most passionate people I've ever met and her extraordinary personality just allows her to be much more successful she's such a team player and asks us daily if we need help i can't speak enough positive words for Annabella the school social worker who
has completely changed the climate and culture of not only our team and department but the entire school i asked numerous staff members to help contribute to this nomination knowing it isn't just me who feels this way she is truly a sunny side up egg that we all
find exceptional congratulations man these yolks are funny so funny uh next up we have Ted Halper from The English Teacher at Brighton High School ted was nominated by Joshua Sharp
um a teacher at the 27J online academy when I first saw this email the first person I thought of was Ted Halbert at Brighton High School ted is a man who is always welcoming to all students from different walks of life and cares so deeply about the kids and what is going on with them on a personal level not
only that but he is always the person to talk to if you have if you have questions and need perspective to show you what is really important and what matters most he's the kindest most positive soul that I know and he does all that he can to help us see the best in everyone around him ted Halbert cares
so deeply about his job and he is one of the best that I know at at it i know that within my first couple years of teaching he helped me so much that I don't know where I would be without him giving me advice about content or how best to build relationships with kids he always tells people the best way to
build relationships with kids even even when it's tough is to lean in make sure that they see you and that you see them for not the kid in the seat but for the person that they are tell them how much you care about them and that you're glad that they're there and it's always gre
and always to greet them at the door brighton High School is lucky to have such a phenomenal leader and anyone if anyone deserves this award it's him thank you well and I can't wait to I can't wait to tell Josh that I got to read this for you oh this is just
next we have artist Jacobson third grade teacher at reunion that's the way to do it right artist was nominated by Erica Hermson second grade teacher at reunion artist is the most positive person I have ever met no matter what life throws
at her and it's thrown plenty you'll always find artists with a smile on her face or to hear her saying "It's the best day ever." Day after day artist loves students and co-workers unlike I anyone I've ever known and she brings out the best in everyone i watch as students from previous years line up
outside of Artist's door to hug her every morning before school i hear her teaching with passion and energy and I've never seen a teacher invite more students in for lunch bunch than artists she is the best role model for teachers and students and the world could use more people like
artists congratulations all right next up we have Elizabeth Patch eighth grade math teacher from VCON it's so good to see you hi patch was nominated by Rebecca Carlson
an eighth grade English teacher at VCON patch exemplifies hard work and dedication to all students and the VCON community she has made a positive impact on the school by dedicating her time to support new teachers every Friday morning she hosts new teachers in her room and provides a space for them to
seek advice she spends time observing teachers providing them with feedback and is a committed member of the ILT team she is an everpresent member of the VCON community supporting students by attending sports game patch works tirelessly even during her plan time to support student success in math her
influence and impact on the school are unmatched good to see you this is it well do do you want me to read this out loud for Rachel zerling zerling okay all right rachel Zerling is unable to attend but she is a fifth grade teacher at Discovery and she was
nominated by Tori Teague and she said "What sets Rachel apart is her ability to tackle challenges with grace and determination no matter the obstacle she approaches it with solutionsoriented mindset helping others find ways to succeed and grow her presence makes every day a little brighter and her
influence makes every challenge seem a little easier to face it is with great respect and admiration that I nominate Rachel for this well-deserved recognition her love for teaching our students and her ability to unite staff and her immeasurable contributions to our school community truly embody the
spirit of excellence in education that's great there you go all right i think I failed to tell you at the beginning too when we do the call for nominations we had was it a hundred did we hit 100 there was about a hundred nominations so um we have
fantastic staff in it um we wish we could recognize them all and all nominations receive their form so they can read all the amazing things that their that their friends had to say about them um so first up for um for our classified staff we have Carlos Gosska
am I saying that right awesome come on down carlos is the custodian for the athletic wing at Prairie View High School and he was nominated by Jason Humphrey carlos's contributions to Prairie View athletics goes far beyond the typical support role he is a fixture
at nearly every game match and event offering encouragement and building relationships with all of our student athletes his presence at events is not just about his job as the as the athletic wing custodian Carlos takes the time to connect with athletes making them feel seen and supported through his
actions he helps foster an environment of unity positivity and success one of the remarkable aspects of Carlos's service is the strong rep rapport he builds not only with the athletes but also with their families he takes the time to get to know the parents and is a go-to resource for them when they need
answers or guidance his willingness to assist and provide support creates a sense of trust and community within the school and his ability to engage with parents strengthens the bond between our athletes and the broader school family carlos is one of those rare individuals who takes the initiative to assist in
all aspects of school activities whether it's athletics or other school related events he is always willing to step in and help where needed his presence and support go a long way in ensuring that our school community functions smoothly and that our athletes feel valued in every aspect of their educational and
extracurricular experiences in conclusion Carlos Gaska is a vital asset to Burview High School and to our athletic department his dedication to our student athletes his continuous support of all our of all our school activities and his genuine care for our community make him more than deserving
of the 27J believers award i wholeheartedly recommend him for this honor and truly believe he is a deserving recipient of this recognition thank you so much i have a student athlete two of them so thank you for all you do for
them uhhuh all right next we have Amanda Lucero principal secretary at Pinnock Elementary and Amanda was nominated by Elva Al Oliv Alivas the school register at Pinoch and she apologizes in advance
she says "I wrote a letter i want to nominate this amazing woman who I've had the pleasure to meet and work with for the first time this year Amanda Lucero when I came into work in July 2024 I was honored to meet this beautiful lady and start a wonderful year at Pinnock she showed me how much
she values her job her bosses co-workers and all others we settled in a freezing room because of our office was getting remodeled and she gave me all the tools I needed to do my job i was then treated like a queen with a blanket coat the most comfy office chair and offered all
the support I could have hoped to have from an office manager/cco-orker unfortunately one day I injured my knee and Amanda offered to drive me to the ER she was just so loving and supportive that by no means is expected not always found with just a person you barely know i will never be
able to thank her enough when we moved into the office it was a chaos and to see how she put this office into a professional yet so inviting and organized environment it blew my mind she worked so quickly efficiently she made it so welcoming and never complained about all the hard work she
put into it i have watched how she treats people and she again blows my mind over and over showing how she can be asked for something from so many people at once and never falls apart answers their questions with great attitude and always with a smile i have seen that no matter how stressful the moment she will always treat staff
parents and students with so much respect willingness to help and give comfort to those that need it with such grace she is dedicated to being at work even if she's sick one example that showed her commitment is when she went into emergency surgery and was back in a few days when she should have been home
recovering at least a couple of weeks but I knew payroll was due and wanted to make sure um that we were all getting a paycheck not once have I or others had to stress about time sheets nor feel bad because we took a day off and no matter the reason Amanda just understands life happens but yet she makes sure we know
she has our back at all i think page two at all times also I would like to add that I have never heard a complaint or been told a negative thing about her as for Amanda I've never seen an eye roll or a mad gesture you really are a
saint or even a sigh from her just a gorgeous smile and positive vibes she truly is the most valuable person in our office the students adore her and not many children enter the office without stopping to give her a huge hug and of course leave with a big smile on their face we all really appreciate her and
acknowledge our office school is never the same when she happens to be out amanda definitely is like a model of an exceptional person employee at 27J pinoch really is fortunate and has a gym oh yeah fortunate and has a gym a mama
hen taking care of her chicks and making sure they are excellent she takes care and loves us and we love her please nominate her she deserves it so much there you are thank you so much yeah thanks for all you do egg funds were not required
but encouraged all right next up is Karen Coronado Ratovich sorry okay i'm going to try this is a mouthful but I'm trying to get culturally and linguistically diverse paraprofessional at Overland Trail Middle School is that right okay and Karen was nominated by Lauren Palmer the
CLLD teacher at Overland Trail Middle School and this is what Lauren had to say karen goes above and beyond every day in support of our students she builds authentic trusting relationships with them i have seen many examples of students coming to her with both their worries and stresses as well as their
celebrations and accomplishments for example one of our sixth grade students was excited to join the basketball team but had a lot of questions about how she stayed after school to join theformational meeting to help translate for his student and for this student and her dad later she made a sign to wave at
the basketball game to cheer her on multilingual student participation in after school activities tends to be low but Karen went above and beyond to make sure the student could not only participate but know there was someone in her corner to cheer her on every day I see examples like this of Karen noticing what students need speaking up
on their behalf and doing everything in her power to find solutions proactively she is very observant and always ready to advocate for others she jumps in to offer language scaffolds and challenges students to keep working hard i am very grateful to have Karen as my classroom partner this year
there might have been a few tears shed in this um re reading of these the board's back here crying all right um next we have Michelle Nelson nutrition services manager at Prairie View High School
and Michelle was nominated by Tony George SAD nutritional services director it was a pleasure to nominate Michelle Nelson for this award recognizing that a hungry child cannot learn Michelle has worked hard to increase breakfast and lunch participation at her school at breakfast time Michelle encourages
students who may have just come in to the cafeteria with their friend to take a meal she keeps that She keeps that line open in the morning so that those who may I should have brought my glasses i'm gonna hold this a little further away she keeps that line open in the morning so that those who may have go got to school late can have a chance to
get breakfast this has led to a nearly 300% increase in participation over the last three years yeah we can give a round of applause for that yes oh my god you're the best okay this is gonna get
better michelle does an excellent job of uplifting the nutrition services staff that she is in charge of at Prairie View every few weeks Michelle creates a thank you treat with a special note attached for her staff she uses her own money time and energy an example of one she
has done is "Have I told you recently you're incredible to work with thanks for all you do." That note would be attached to a Reese's peanut butter cup that she gives to her staff also every few months she has a potluck for her employees birthdays celebrating them to the fullest michelle remembers every
detail about people so she can shower them with appreciation she does this for every person she comes across we truly appreciate all that Michelle does to make her students and staff feel welcomed to the cafeteria at Prairie View High School give you back thank you so much
appreciate you okay and this award is for Matias Talerico campus super supervisor at Pinnock Elementary um this um this nomination this candidate is not um able to attend tonight so Amanda Lucero where did you end up you are supposed to take
this with you okay nominated by principal Jennifer Oldweiler assistant principal David Scotland instructional coach Brittney Sierra and counselor Nicole Bernabable at Pinno Elementary i am delighted to nominate our outstanding campus supervisor Mati I'm going to butcher
this name is it Ma Matias matias for this recognition although he joined our school after the year had already started he wasted no time in building meaningful relationships with students and staff quickly becoming a trusted and valued member of our school community his calm and reassuring presence is a
cornerstone of our campus especially when working with students who may be disregulated he approaches every situation with care patience and compassion ensuring that students feel supported and understood his situational awareness and willingness to step in wherever needed make him an
indispensable part of our team whether assisting with office responsibilities managing student behavior or providing additional support he is always ready to help in addition to his dedication to our school he is also pursuing his undergraduate degree in education demonstrating his commitment to working
with children and shaping young lives for the better a vital member of our mental health team he creates positive and meaningful interactions with students throughout the day at recess he actively engages with students by playing basketball soccer and tag fostering a sense of connection and belonging he is also one of the first
friendly faces that families see when they drop off their children setting a positive tone for the day his presence work ethic and caring nature have made a lasting impact on our school community and he is truly deserving of this recognition i guess those flowers probably aren't for me i think they're
going to be for this next group here uh Heather Garcia the principal of Brander Elementary uh nominated the register front office team at Brander Elementary so I need Julie Martin principal secretary Esme Aan health aid
Lupita Madrano Perez uh to please all come on up you hold this you guys all get to share that you can like take turns taking it home there is a carton of good eggs in Brandner's front office each day our
front office welcomes students staff parents in the 27J community to our school and weekly uh she see Heather sees snacks and treats from parents and staff thanking them for this or that they represent the values of Brandon and 27J each and every day here's some
examples of their impact example students are the priority everything stops for students a student comes into the office each and every one of them the office staff is checking on them to make sure they have what they need in the middle of a conversation and a student comes in the conversation stops
a student has developed a pattern of coming to the office esme is working with the teacher to support and extend into the classroom so they don't have to keep coming back uh as the new student is starting Lupita is making sure that that student feels welcome and has everything they need for their first day
uh they problem solve ways to limit interruptions into the classroom students are the priority page two uh another example they make families feel welcome and a part of the community a family of ours informed us they were moving and on the last day the
mom came into the office to deliver cookies because of the positive impact they had on that family mom was in tears and she said leaving Brandner is the hardest thing in this move i continue to listen stories of how Julie Lupa and Esme have made positive impacts on this
family and mom hugged each and every one of them and then left they truly care about our community another example during a medical emergency they are an efficient team uh there was a call that came on the radio that Esme was needed in the upstairs hallway esme called for
the medical response team and the team stepped into action it was flawless the student got the response she needed the team worked with clear direct communication and remained calm no matter the situation they jump students or administrations no matter what the situation i don't they jump in to help
i'm pretty sure I I think there's more you can see um during moments like these their sense of calm focus and care is unmatched and now for an example from the staff when a
staff member is sick or the office staff checks on them and cares for them in ways that they can't even begin to explain a staff member is having a bad day Julie is taking them candy esme is checking their temp and Luba is asking if they need a hug when a sub comes into the building they
try their best to make them feel welcome and have everything they need to be successful they understand that in order to have an impact on students our adults must be taken care of too these three staff members are so humble they would never say they deserve such recognition and I can tell you someone who sees them
each and every day they deserve it so much more julie Lupita and Esme you are a reason to believe in 27J schools congratulations you bet congratulations thank you thank you very much you got
Oh oh I'm sorry give them their nomination we have a couple presentations before we do our second we're done with this right yes okay so that wraps up our 27J believers award
i'm going to ad liib this last part where's Michelle where did Michelle go from Prairie View is she still here yeah okay i'm not gonna make you come back up but you had several nominations and we only got to read one of them um so I have to tell the story maybe you can help me along sometime around lunch one
day at lunch you lost power to the school maybe and there was I don't know hundreds and hundreds of hungry children and no power and thousands And um somehow you figured out a way to feed them all like rallied her staff got
what food they could got it prepared however they could and none of our kids went hungry because of Michelle's efforts i don't know how I couldn't feed my family of four without power i don't know how you fed thousand kids with no power so I wanted to make sure that you were recognized for that because it's a valiant effort
so so that concludes our 27day believers award we have um some refreshments over here we invite you to stay give hugs and high fives to your friends thank you all for coming out and supporting um all the awesome work that's happening here in in 2017 we're going to do group photos at
the top at the front so don't leave as of yet okay we are reconvening the meeting uh next up is item seven our 2015 2021 bond oversight committee presentation the board of education will be presented with a report from the 2015 2021 bond
oversight committee uh our former school board director Kevin Kerban kevin Kerber will present this mic is yours Kevin all right can you guys hear me all right perfect well it's an honor to to be here
and present to you um again my name is Kevin Kerber and we're going to present the bond oversight committee quarterly report uh to the board of education for the first quarter of 2025 the bond oversights committee's role is to monitor the bond issues passed in 20
by 27J schools on November 3rd 2015 and November 2nd 2021 and uh those bond amounts were 248 million in 2015 and 515 million in 2021 excuse me 2015 and 2021
we've had regular meetings each of the three months of this quarter and uh yours truly presented uh back in January and and in summary our progress continued on the district's numerous projects um representing a total spending of
about 300 million in 2015 and were just over 227 million in 2021 so far uh the majority of the expenditures incurred the past quarter were for uh really five main items and that was the Talon Ridge
Middle School uh that's 31.4% spent and then North transportation terminal project that's 22.5% spent rocky Vista High School that is just beginning and that's at 4.6% so far
deferred maintenance projects as you guys know are our large expenditure uh for this district and we're about 69.3% and we've had some uh remaining closeout projects from Discovery Magnet School Brighton High School STEM CTE
Center and the Riverdale Ridge High School STEM CTE Center uh some some specific details uh really are the rightway acquisition on Talon Ridge uh project uh we finalized the construction plan and site for Rocky Vista High
School and the grading and foundation permits have been received and early phases of construction have started there in Commerce City 100% construction documents uh were submitted in February for the Rocky Vista High School and construction
continues for the north transportation terminal uh with vertical construction finally uh the project is nearly enclosed with uh interior work now um projects funded from the 2021 deferred maintenance allocation during first quarter include the following: South
Elementary the educational service center Penock Brighton High School and Southeast Elementary as you know a lot more to come with the deferred maintenance and uh right now we're 69.3% as I said
earlier uh that's a $28.5 million uh budget and the committee had recommended to increase that um to uh excuse me to 30 million by um by the superintendent this past
quarter excuse me increase by 3 million to get just over 30 million there were also several other additional projects utilized bond funds which include um some remaining project expenditures at South Lawn Elementary Friendship Park uh
middle school at Land and Stewart Middle School uh construction staff continued on an interior lock upgrade project at nine schools um that was actually funded as a bonus project from the 2015 bond and as of the first quarter most of that
work's been completed and there's only a few doors that still need some hardware and those parts are on order uh moving on to technology um we have total spending on technology at 163,000 um from the 2021 technology
budget um and that's primarily for a fiber mapping project bond program technology budget of 12.7 million which was recommended to be increased by 2.7 million uh by the committee for approval by the
superintendent moving on to safety and security uh the largest expenditures were for continued work on secure vestibule improvements at the five schools and those are listed as Pano Elementary Second Creek Elementary Teneg Elementary Turnberry Elementary and
Westridge Elementary um there's five more secure vestibial uh vestibule projects planned for 2025 and those will come uh this summer and those include South Elementary Southeast Elementary Henderson Elementary the Bob Sakata
Educational Campus and Brighton High School of the $10 million allocated uh 31.5% has been spent and um that's for the 2021 bond program safety and
security budget several this is this is probably one of the most important items um several budget uh adjustments were recommended by the committee to the superintendent this quarter and basically we had excess contingencies included in uh the
following schools um and basically it consists of reduction of unneeded funds from already completed projects that had contingencies in them and then we repurposed those funds to projects that needed additional funds okay and those
projects included um excess contingencies excuse me included Pra Prairie View High School STEM and CTE that's now complete discovery Magnet School that's now complete uh Prairie View High School
baseball infield turf project and the Brmley East Charter School project so out of all of those uh contingency project funds uh we repurposed for the following projects and items uh the first one was Rocky Vista High School
Quist Middle School um believe it or not to provide a reserve money for a potential arbitrage liability for interest earnings above the arbitrage limit we're not allowed to make too much money on our interest the IRS does not like that um as mentioned above
um deferred maintenance as well we added and then uh some funds for Talon Ridge Middle School as well okay moving on to the charter school projects uh we had about 5.9 million spent for architect and construction costs at Bel Creek that project is 100%
complete for both the 2015 and 2021 funds uh we have just under 10 million on the Stee School project um the greenhouse auxiliary building received its certificate of occupancy in March of of this year and just over six million was spent for architecture and
construction costs at Eagle Ridge Academy overhead spending to support the administration and construction efforts of the district bond uh program totaled about 650,000 and really our hats go off uh to everybody at 27J and and the
administration that's involved with these projects um you know they they have a a small fraction of what most construction companies have and they're managing multiple projects at a time um
99.3% of the bond program uh is spent through the first quarter and really we only have about 1.3 just a little bit less than 1.3 uh remaining that's being held uh in escrow by the city of Thornton um once that's released um we
can uh maintain those improvements at Riverdale Ridge High School uh the 2021 bond program overall has spent approximately 40% through the first quarter and uh with this report the committee certifies that all
expenditures to date have been made inherence to the official bond language as approved by the borders of 27J schools on November 3rd 2015 and on November 2nd 2021 thank you and I guess we'll add that uh
they can follow the project the project progress on our website at www.sd27j.org about us bonds levies/bond that's that's all all the information is there and you had much more in your report you condense in there all that
information is on the website there so if people want to stay up to date on what we're doing with their money uh you guys are very detailed and very thorough exactly yeah and there's uh financial reports for the 2015 bond financial reports for the 2021 bond and also um a
list of all those projects as you had said to Tom thank you thank you very much y uh with that I guess I would entertain a motion to accept move to accept the report from the 2015 2021 bond oversight committee as presented
i'll second thank you very much can I have a roll call for vote director Alvarado hi director Carbajal i director Khan hi director Green yes director Thomas i i'm noting that
Director Trillo is still absent and Director Wilhelm i thank you motion carries form thank you very much Mr kerber thank you very much for your report and your continued work on this committee thank you guys you bet thank you melinda will you pass me that piece
of paper the one right on the desk see we both left our sheets somebody got mine i guarantee you that's okay uh next up uh as if you weren't too enlightened by our first report let's
have a report from the Mill Levy Override Oversight Committee presentation uh the Board of Education will be presented with the report from the 22 2022 Milvy override oversight committee uh you do not look like co-chairs person Michael Kuba you are
correct i am not co-chair Michael Kuba i am in fact co-chairperson Victoria Viel here i was gonna say it's in our agenda so thank you we'll need to amend that uh Mike was unable to meet last minute so okay proceed thank you thank
you uh so the mill levy committee met last on April 8th of this year uh we had two primary topics i was actually not in attendance but thankful to Mike's notes here were able to proceed uh we actually had our very own Michael Cloud our uh
27J chief human resources office present to us and he was really insightful of talking about the approach that 27J has as far as um attracting and retaining quality staff and personnel and
administrators and teachers here um his personal motto and I think it's kind of just all of 27's Jade motto is a rising tide lifts all boats together um and so by providing a livable wage and consistent raises for all staff across
the board or all teachers across the board regardless of certification and not uh we are able to keep with our um competitive market and attract top talent and retain them over year-over-year and reduce some turnover here so that was really insightful um he
reminded us that our fiscal year is coming to an end at uh June 30th our fiscal year runs July to June 30th so we're right around the corner um and he went over some criteria as far as once you get your M's um your previous
bachelor's degrees um additional credits no longer count so you're in your own lane there um and just again reinforcing the um path that we have open to our talent at large next we had um Sam
Ortega he's our 27J director of safety and security present and he had a guest um Jack Gagan from Zero Eyes zero Eyes is a security software that uses existing cameras um and it is a monthly
subscription that has a varying tier level based on the number of cameras number of locations things like that and what I really like about Zero Eyes is that it aims to prevent situations before they make it to our doors so Zero
Eyes can use actual cameras and scan the parking lot for weapons detections now there is some limitations it's not going to scan a body so it can't um scan like on the waistline but what they have is an AI tool here and it will notify the
call center which triggers a human interaction and they can connect with the school at the ground level within seconds i think it was like less than 30 seconds and as we know safety seconds matter um so I really liked that about
Zero Eyes previously and we've talked about this in the past we had some uh physical weapons detection equipment launched we did some testing at Prairie View that unfortunately wasn't scalable like it it wasn't realistic for us to
wait 2 hours for all of our students to get through one door so we were able to um and and and we were kind of misled by the company they didn't give us the full truth um and their full limitations
thankfully we were able to return that equipment and got we recouped quite a bit of our money back we just had a small uh restocking fee which is pretty standard across if you buy from wafer you have to pay a restocking fee if you return um so as as Sam continues to
explore safety for high school even with zero eyes he's considering middle school and elementary i want to call out that unfortunately crime has no zip code and no schedule it can happen anywhere at any time and as we think about safety for our schools and our staff and our
kids I want us to keep in mind that it's multi-layered and there's not going to be one silver bullet pardon the pun that's going to be the final answer to keep everybody safe um but we are exploring options and tools at our availability as
best we can here any additional commentary question from my fellow board members that were there the zero eye presentation the zero eye presentation was really remarkable how fast things can happen and how it goes
from this the the incident to the AI to a person i mean it's just like the domino effect was really remarkable um really cool technology and some really good safety guards so it wasn't just like oh they have a pencil in their pocket you know it was it was really
cool technology it was really interesting to see that and I think it's important to admit mistakes or admit something that isn't going to be feasible uh again we want something that's not going to be disruptive to the school it's going to protect their safety but it also going to allow the students to get in there
and go to school we want them to so I do appreciate that you know yeah yeah that's part of the charter of the committee right and of this this mill levy is to bring quality best suited options to our our community here
anything else i would accept a motion thank you again board have a good evening move to accept the report from the 2022 mil levy override oversight committee as presented i have a motion from Director Wilhelm
second from Director Thomas roll call vote director Alvarado hi director Carbajal yes director Khan hi director Green of course director Thomas i director Wilhelm i motion carries thank
you we're just full of fun things tonight next up another one of our favorite things uh not quite as many as we expected but uh members of our student advisory council will present information regarding their bylaws and their operational guidelines and head handbook please you guys have been
tackling the meat of this and that's what we really like it isn't just fun reports it's it's you're you're tackling the facts so we appreciate it please step up to the plate and talk to us yes so first of all Tyler wanted to apologize for not being here he had a swim meet uh he made it abundantly clear
that I had to share that so um so yeah the um past month or so we've been working on our operational guidelines and handbook so that we can lay the foundation for future student advisory councils especially because it's changed so much just over this past
year so we really just wanted to lay out um like our mission and um yeah our operational guidelines how we work yeah yeah so there's like a whole table of contents you can just scroll past that and then we have it all separated into who says
what all right so our overview as you all know is that we are the student advisory council and we are a group from all the high schools as you know and our main goal is mainly to spread representation from our schools talk
about issues give updates and also give student voice and that is something that we are working on um we are very solutionoriented and we rely on communicating and listening actively to our community and our schools so that
not only can we represent our own schools but then we can give an adequate information to the board so that they know what's going on in our schools now our mission right here our mission is to give voice to the students at large concerns recommendations general
opinions and findings to collaborate with the 27J school district um our vision is not only just to um sit here give updates it's al also to be the voice be the voice of our student body to be able to give students that are not
able to come sit up here like us a voice in our district to know that they are represented um at our last meeting we kind of sat down and we talked about values and what we think as a collective whole that we should embody and we had a couple of words that kind of came up so
we came up with impact unity integrity respect awareness and service and leadership and we are going to all work so hard to uphold these values so that everyone in our entire board not only feels respected but so that we can all
collaborate well so that we can give voice and work together collaboratively and as you guys as the board have leadership roles with Mr green being the president and Miss Thomas being the vice president we also have leadership roles within our own council so we vote for two co-presidents
and then a secretary the co-president's job within our board is to work with Mr dr will Pierce our superintendent to create the agenda and help schedule the different meetings that we're going to they also keep us on track and like try
to make sure we understand why we're choosing this topic and why we're bringing it to you and the secretary their job is to take notes from the meeting give us minutes for anyone that's been absent and give a overall extra perspective they can also be a
fill-in for when a president is missing so if we need a president to do something with Will Pierce and they are unable to due to some external circumstance then the secretary can step into that position all righty and then next up we have our
logistics which is sort of just how we operate and how we will schedule our meetings so our meetings will be um the locations change regularly so we are able to view all different schools within the district and the high schools and view different uh communities and
how they are and then um at the meetings we will discuss uh topics that we will possibly present to the board of education we will debate and uh form constructive opinions and uh and advice for the board on those and then um we
will keep records on how to best record that information and uh it'll be considered by all the council members on how we propose that and then next up we have um our outside meeting so during the course of any council member being on our council
we will have they will have the opportunity to attend the Colorado Association of School Board Student Leadership Academy um which I believe Rachel is a part of on planning it this year or next year oh my bad just want Yeah we'll get there we'll get there
yeah just wanted to give you a shout out there sorry um so um we'll have that up with uh more like a secession line i believe we decided where seniors go we covered that in the event all right cool and then next up we have the communications we will mainly use the
group me app and members are expected to communicate with each other and other members from their school to make sure that they stay up to date with council operations and um our topics and our minutes we will also use Google calendar um to update the board and us on events
throughout the school our schools and uh other people's schools and we will communicate uh in a professional and respectful manner uh in accordance with our values both in person and virtually we also establish a new member induction
system so uh we basically want to ensure that all applicants are given the ability to have a fair and um fair and oh I'm sorry I'm losing my train of thought here fair and uh collaborative and inclusive application
process and that they know the expectations of how we will do our application process so it'll start with an application and then a sec an interview and then the leadership team and the applicant school uh representative will handpick a member
essentially and um applicants should be rising juniors in order to have a senior and a junior representative from each school sort of like a secession system so as the senior leaves the junior takes over as the senior and they pick someone to be a junior so there's two
representatives per school now yeah and just a little bit extra there um if like um Trayvon and I at Brighton are both seniors so when we leave we'll pick a junior and a senior to start the cycle yeah
all right and our next section is commitments so we will again be committed to serve the district at large and our schools but we kind of wanted to talk about how that looks like so our first section is district outreach um
the SACE will be committed to ensure the mission statements and overall student voice so this will be seen by again when you're doing research when you're talking to your schools go out show yourselves be in their halls be involved and overall be there be the
representative for your school don't be underground don't hide show yourself and be the representative for all the next thing with commitment is also member relationships so it's not only just being nice to everyone it's working collaboratively as we all know you're
not going to like every single person you work with but there is a standard that you each have to follow and when regarding situations there is a way to handle it making sure that not only are we talking to the person that we're either having conflict with but we're also talking to our um leadership team
so that we can all work collaboratively to meet our one big goal and then again community networking and involvement so the SACE should not only be committed to working in schools and in district but also connecting with community seeing if the SACE can help find community help
for our own schools to see what can we do to interact with all parts of the school and not just certain individual parts that seem relevant we've also added some attendance guidelines because throughout the years we've noticed that we've had some members that just kind of disappear and
with our commitment it's a big commitment and it does matter so we decided to put some attendance policies in place so our attendance polic sorry our attendance policies we will have me
members must attend 70% of the meetings each semester we would like this to be included in this because we need the voices of your schools if you don't show up then how will anyone know what's actually going on when you're not there
and if you can't communicate when you're there then again no one knows what's happening at your school and no one can give advice to you guys which defeats the entire point we also would like to make sure that if you cannot attend a
meeting you notify us instead of just ghosting and disappearing off the face of the earth because we get life happens people get sick people lose family members all kinds of things so that needs to be communicated to either the co-presidents the secretary or Mr pierce
and Miss Lan we also will be having some form of enforcement for this so with the 70% the co-presidents and secretary will be in charge of monitoring that but with the enforcement it takes away if you don't
come the 70% of the time then it takes away opportunities such as CASBY but it also depending on how how much you miss it could take away things such as your graduation cords or your letter of recommendation from Mr pierce and Miss
Lan but also you would have less of an impact in your school which I think is the most harmful part so this is kind of the biggest change from the past couple years so now our presentations are focused on specific
topics and so um we've decided that all members of the student advisory council must attend at least one board meeting during the year um so that they can like um build up their skills in front of the board and develop a stronger relationship so that um you know we can make more change and so we've decided
that topics should be carefully selected and should align with SACE values and members are encouraged to engage with their school communities to identify issues that are meaningful and relevant to a wide range of students so things that are important to I don't know the 10 of us might not actually be that
important in the grand scheme of things and so it's really important to be connecting with our um schools and community at large and that kind of goes into how we're researching so researching should involve engaging with teachers students and administrators to gather diverse perspectives on certain
topics and this can in include focus groups surveys interviews classroom observations you name it um and then this inclusive research can help SACE members um accurately represent our schools and the broader 27J community
and now our presentations this uh isn't as important for you guys as we handle all that but um we always try to put together a nice slideshow and u make sure that that's as representative of the discussion that we had as if you guys were actually there just you know
more civil alrighty and as some of you guys may be aware we have the opportunity for all our council members to shadow other students and or uh staff members or which is relatively new i'll explain that in a second and board members could
also come and shadow our stu our council members so um first there we established a protocol for how you should schedule a f a shadow um the two students and or a student staff member or board member should notify Lenan at least two weeks
in advance and file out the appropriate paperwork on the shared drive just saying "Hey this is who I'm shadowing this is who's shadowing me this is where we're going to be at uh we might need an excused absence we might need coordination with school staff and security just to clear visitor passes
and stuff if necessary in all circumstances of shadowing the parties must have a conversation to define the purpose and goals of the shadowing you must have a reason and you must have a goal on what you want to achieve you can't just go and just have fun per
se um students shadowing other students so uh members of the 27J student advisory council are able to go shadow other students to view and observe how other schools operate and notice the differences in cultures and communities and traditions at different schools uh we want to encourage all our members to
go and shadow other students just so they could see the different cultures we have um students shadowing a 27J staff member uh members of the 27J student advisory council are encouraged to shadow a 27J member staff member if the student has an interest or passion in
the field the respective staff member works in if you're interested in school safety and security maybe you could go talk with talk and shadow um director Ortega one day um and then board of education members shadowing a student uh you guys are able to come and shadow us
at our respective schools and um observe daily school operations and interact with the student body and build general knowledge of modern generation students i know director Thomas came and shadowed me last year and it was super fun yeah and so as mentioned in the commitment section we have a lot of
events so um kind of the biggest thing that we have to do is we have a um a calendar that all of you guys should have access to and so um in lie of doing the calendar updates at the presentations um now we just add all of our events to the calendar so that you
guys are all updated on that and um yeah you guys can come to our schools and then we also attend CASBY every December and we outlined a whole um process for who gets selected so seniors get um the lead well the leadership team gets priority over everyone and then um
seniors and then juniors after that and um then you also have to you know be an active member and um meet the attendance criteria and everything which is about the same and then we're also um we haven't been doing the podcast as much this year but we're working on getting
that um especially with the um focus on like our advisory topics now um but just with the um council changing so much this year we haven't really had time but we're working towards getting uh three podcasts published for the next year and
that's basically it but I do want to share that Andre kind of alluded to is next um this December I'm going to be on the CASBY student leadership planning team so yay so I'm like one of nine representatives helping to basically run
the whole conference so I'm so excited yes so I just want to say uh watching these guys so so one of the things that we we were working on is that they organizations don't always like audit themselves right and so they they they audited their meetings they audited the
frustrations they've had they tried to figure out how we can be a better organization and they wanted to put it in a a document to clarify who who we are and what we stand for as a group because they were kind of feeling inconsistent and it wasn't always the way we wanted it to be so imagine and
they started with mission vision i mean imagine designing how their organization is going to run and trying to build build it to endure past and I don't know how many group meets we had last night and the night before but probably 150 between these four all running around
trying to make this go so like incredible kudos to all of these guys and today I mean it's my phone kept buzzing i'm like what is going on and it's like Jasmine was on there Rachel was on there Andre was on there Zoe yeah it was cool i got one an hour ago so
they've been so hard yeah pretty cool well I appre appreciate all the work you guys put into this it's really a professional document it's it shows the seriousness that you take uh in your duties here and and we really appreciate that and I really appreciate
the change that has happened in our student advisory council because before it used to be kind of willy-nilly you'd show up and you just sometimes you'd read somebody else's school events and not even be sure what you were talking about this time you guys are showing up prepared and you actually have important
things to talk about and and re topics you've researched and things that you put a lot of thought into and I really appreciate the professionalism that you've brought to this organization so thank you very much and uh I I can't wait to see how this is going to affect future student advisory council members
that the work you've done has laid the foundation for the a really strong future i I guess I had one question are you going to allow an excused absence uh you know because that that 70% could be really tough and some of these guys are you guys are really busy you are the best and brightest that our schools have
to offer so uh as long as it's communicated it'll be fine cuz if you communicate like one of our members we know that they have sports every Wednesday night so they can't attend these normally because of their sport commitment which we completely
understand just communicate that cuz if you just disappear then what is are you just trying to get chords out of it or something to write on your college application because why should you get that credit if you don't do the work
i didn't know Will would write his recommendation letter can Can I get one no please go ahead i'm just really excited so when I started serving on the board you guys came and a lot of times it was just all the events that were happening at your school but what I think is really cool is that you've created a
legacy in your service now and so what you guys have documented here and what you're offering the district is much different and when you go off into the world and you talk about how you created a system of structure that like people behind you now get to follow and they're always going to talk about your leadership group stepping up to create
this system and so kudos to you for doing that i'm always amazed by you i always expect that I'm going to learn something from you when I'm sitting here today um but hopefully you put that in your pocket and realize that like what you created is something deeper than what you're doing here with us today but it's going to leave a legacy of your
service here and so we really appreciate you yeah I'll piggy back on that and I'm like I don't know do y'all know what emergencetics is do have you ever heard of that it tells you what you are and like I'm structural so this like speaks
to my heart because I need that structure i need guidelines and it's what makes me work and it's really hard to put something together when or I mean sometimes it creates you're frustrated because you're the person always there or you're the person never there and you're like no I don't like this so
trying to work together and create that and and it's a lot of work so yes kudos to you guys and then the only question I have is so um and I'm sorry if you said it and I wasn't in here so what um how does the application process get
um sent out to the students all right so our application process will be dependent on what open slots we have for each school and we'll just uh try to target that school with posters um possible social media or communication from their school
administrators to students it just depends really on each school and how students will perceive it the most yeah so for this upcoming year it's a little bit different because we're reducing the amount of people that we have on the council so we're going down from in some cases four representatives
to two and a lot of that has been pretty seamless because a lot of the members are inactive or seniors that are graduating um so we only have to fill um a seat at Eagle Ridge the uh online academy and then um yeah INO so um this
year we're just kind of hand selecting those people we didn't um I think maybe Marley uh sent out an application for Eagoridge but Oh yeah and um Zoe sent one out for the online academy but this year we're just kind of going in hand selecting um you know juniors or seniors
and then going forward we're going to um you know follow the guidelines set up and also to answer your question with the application since I did send one out we make a Google form with questions like what would if you could make any change in your school what would it be if you could make any change in the
district what would it be and why like and then we also ask questions like what are your extracurriculars because if you're in every club under the sun you're not going to have time and that's understandable so that would make it look but if someone's more open with time then they would be probably more
accepted than someone who's in all sports and all clubs and all everything you know are there term limits for your co-presidents or for your officers so the requirement to run for it is you have to serve for a year and so now that
we're changing it to juniors and seniors that means that you have to be a senior to run so once you graduate then and with the voting process it's the people so like I'm graduating this year but I still get a vote for who is being accepted next year so that's kind of how
that voting process works and then every year once new graduates move out then you get a new president in that way it's a nice cycle see I'm asking the c tough questions but it shows you thought it all out i really appreciate this i mean you you planned for this thank you
i just said I' I've opened two schools so building an organization from scratch is hard and like these these kids are doing it it's like wow you guys are thinking about things like I I would I didn't think of it's like in the detail it's like really impressive yeah
thanks again guys we'll see you next month no you're gonna come you better come yeah that's right we don't want to dock you for not being here uh next up item 10 the speak week
proclamation the board of education will consider approving proclamation number three 2024 2025 declaring the week of April 28th through May 3rd 2025 as suicide prevention education awareness and knowledge or speak week this is the
13th annual speak week uh and the pro proclamation will be read by director to please proceed 27j schools board of education proclamation number 3 2024 2025 suicide prevention education awareness and
knowledge week it's speak week so uh April 28th 2025 through May 3rd 2025 whereas Colorado is sixth in the nation for suicide deaths according to the latest CDC data and whereas according to Colorado's children's
campaign in recent years suicide has been recognized as the leading cause of death among Colorado's youth and whereas Children's Hospital Colorado reports they are seeing twice as many patients reporting increased anxiety depression
and feelings of isolation and social disconnectedness and they have seen a 90% increase in demand for behavioral health treatment in the past several years and whereas Colorado House Bill 21-1258 Rapid Mental Health Response for
Colorado youth established a temporary program to facilitate youth mental health services in response to identified needs and whereas the program called I Matter was established in 2021 and renewed in May 2023 provides access
to mental health and substance use disorders services for youth and addresses needs that may have resulted from the CO 19 pandemic and whereas this year marks the 13th anniversary for the Brighton Youth Commission founding Speak Week due to a tragic loss of a youth in
the community in 2011 and has developed and presented the program each year since to spread awareness of available resources to break down the stigma associated with mental health and whereas since 2012 the BYC has raised more than $100,000 to support speak
mental health initiatives the BYC collaborated with 14 schools from elementary to high schools and whereas the BYC is hosting a 5K walk on May 3rd at Carmichael Park to celebrate the week of activities and would invite the entire community to join them by
registering at speak5k.org and whereas together we can increase awareness about suicide prevention decrease its frequency provide hope to survivors and build a caring and supportive community and now it's Tom you do read that oh I
read that okay it says "And now therefore I Tom Green president of the board of education do hereby proclaim April 28th 2025 May 3rd 2025 as suicide prevention education awareness and knowledge week through out 27J schools."
That's usually on behalf of the school board so it's not just me doing it i declare on behalf of the school board okay and uh I can't I encourage you all to sign up and take part in that walk i can't wait to get my Well I already have the yellow t-shirt for this year but uh
I'll get another one because uh we had them wear at the city council the other day but I have like six of them now uh do I have a motion you can make it move to approve proclamation number 3 20224 2025 declaring the week of April
28th 2025 through May 3rd 2025 as speak week i'll second you're fighting over this uh so I have a motion from Director Trill and a second from Director Wilham and uh let's have a
roll call vote director Alvarado I director Carbajal yes director Khan I director Green enthusiastically yes director Thomas I director Trio I director Wilham I motion carries thank you thank you very much uh next up is
our superintendence report superintendent Will Pierce please take over uh the spring is really really busy uh the the honoring and trying to get through the the tradition and ceremony of the end of the year it's happening
you're also preparing for next year the amount of events I there's there's no way possible that I can celebrate all the good that's happening in the group so if I miss something you're like how come you didn't talk about that it's like it's impossible to keep up on but I've got I've got some things that to
highlight um CESAP C or CMOS PSAT um that oh god I went way too far testing's complete that that's really an important thing for our school there's lots of wins that you can read there uh Jeremy in the tech department is is always amazing and leaning in carla Lisa Morris
Evelyn Hernandez have been incredible highlight Evelyn because she runs that thing uh assessment coordinators test administrators teachers counts it's all hands- on deck uh and uh even our comm's team we had a 18% decrease in optouts and if you don't know that that girl in
that is Mr minnie's uh daughter um that I just thought that would be fun but of course he's out at Adams County awards ceremony tonight which could be another update uh I always you never get to see all the things that tech does for our department because it's all hidden under
the ground all unseen um but you rarely they come out and educators every educator got a new laptop that this this this month and so it was a lot of deployment laptops and covers and people were like so excited to get a laptop and Jeremy and his team deserve a huge
thanks for that because that's one of those efforts that you could notice and we could always notice Jeremy's work but it's always behind the scenes so that's exceptionally cool uh hired administrator on special assignment i think I've talked to you guys about uh the work that we're going to do with our middle schools right we're we're we're
we're looking at all our programming articulating programming looking at our systems how can we perform better that is Jackie Tobias she is the new the new administrator on special assignment kind of a new label for AOSA um to to to lead
that charge but that's her so wanted you to meet her she's still working her way from North Carolina to join the team um but excited that she will be part of that group uh and then a whole bunch of good news right so many of you went to Prairie uh Prairie Vista Youth uh uh
Correction Center the the it wasn't an open house but that's what it was called obviously we didn't open house you had to lock everything up i can't have a picture of it because we all had to leave our phones in there but that that was a great event uh another really really behind the scenes but in great
service that not many people know about in our district uh BHS has a couple on here um 2025 National Gold Council of Excellence for their student council um that that that's pretty cool the BHS Esports is making it made it to the Final Four that's the second time
they've made it deep they compete tomorrow night i don't have the Twitch address yet to watch it but I will find that if you're interested in watching that two massive awards i'm always so impressed that school our school district continues to turn out Betchers
and Daniel Scholarship award winners and Prairie View had two of them or Vanessa Garcia and Lyric L Lewis um that that's an incredible honor if you don't know Betcher is a national scholarship free full ride anywhere you want to go in the world um and Daniels is Colorado's
version of that you can go anywhere in Colorado free full ride so that that's incredible the those kids deserve that and then we just finished uh in our CTE uh spa uh spaces 10 students across three comprehensive high schools all placed at the Skills USA State
Championships uh competition there was a gentleman in the back over here um his his mom um um was was got the award Mandy for nutrition services uh Michelle her son is was a state champion for
construction trades so that that that was a pretty best best uh construction trades guy in the state so that's pretty cool eliza Pickerell route award this was pretty cool tyler Orcut sent us this and um you have to get 85% of your
seniors registered to vote and I thought that was a pretty cool thing that Riverdale took that on it's the the highest presentation he had he had 85 most of any high school in the state um and by far first time we've ever received this reward pretty cool um and
then here's here's a a medley of things that I went to the left side is a cultural uh night some of us went to that at Prairie View High School and you don't realize how many cultures are present in our schools but these kids man they had posters for everything that these these girls Ghana they had a dance
competition they the the the from India from Native American culture they danced they they played music they had food uh it was a great event so that's the left the center one is our career fair for all of our high schools and I was
impressed we had about 45 businesses show up and want to be part of that uh on the right I've never been to a swim meet before but Terry's always saying you should go because if you don't know Diego's a swimmer uh for our team um and he's probably on the far block or the
second to the far block getting ready to jump in when I was taking that picture um but went went to it that that's probably one of the coolest events I could go to it was incredible and of course Tyler swims on the team too so I didn't know if you'd see he'd see it but but uh fun the the camaraderie and
spirit and uh if I said Terry should be proud he must be a really good kid the kids could noticeably chant Diego they were going Diego mad for for that kid but it was fun to watch our kids participate spinning swimming and of course you know we have one district swim team they all swim on that team so
kind of cool and then the top one is that is artwork by Paris Sanchez we had the 27J RI 27J art festival this week or art uh event i'm I'm losing yeah but that that is her art up top and she she
got the superintendence award which was not a hard pick because I mean it was a very hard pick but they made it easy on me but just incredible incredible art and then I I always want to do this because we have some bad circumstances sometimes and and and I I hate that we have bad circumstances but I'm always
really proud of the response that we have um if you didn't know I you all know all of these updates because I text you the details but Overland Trail had a really scary scenario breakout um where things that you you you do preventatively to try to catch kids we we didn't we didn't catch we didn't know
the kid was going to be dangerous um and uh threatened threatened violence against the school but his his his foster parents let us know and and while I hate that that's the story I'm really proud that parents and foster parents again see something say something to all of our community members they let us
know the police jump to action and all of our response you can't see in this picture but we had seven police officers there that day we had tons of stuff we will do an afteraction to try to figure out how do we learn and be better and all of these things but I'm just so grateful
that so grateful that we we avoided the risk uh on the same day that we had that that uh the scare there there was a shooting in Texas and there was a shooting i mean it happens and I'm just it haunts me and scares me and if I could plead for our community let's let's be as active as we can knowing
what our kids are bringing to school what they're thinking what they're doing on social media please lean in on that and we will continue to lean in and do our best and best in response so so thankful to Eric Lam Lambrite and his leadership so thankful to the the staff at Stuart who continued to show up on
the days that they were worried about and and the police officer and and commander Domagini and Chief all all being grateful for Brighton High School uh Steuart Middle School we had we had we had three passings they're all in blue um Andrew Guerrero was a was a
staff member for us at Steuart Middle School he passed away um and uh the the funeral services were yesterday and so terrible terrible stuff but we had we had principles from other school go help
cover that school so that their staff could go we had everybody at the ESC was at that school to do duty to cover classrooms to help make sure that they they still had school and still had kids and it's it's one of the things that we could celebrate 27J when when somebody's having a no- day we we wrap our arms
around them and we have incredible unity for for a school that needed our help that day and so I I terrible bad circumstances great response and as you all know as well uh David Felton's wife passed away Adena Felton um that's really really sad stuff uh funeral
services are tomorrow um at 11 o'clock i think you guys had the calendar request but um Friday Friday today's Wednesday yeah Friday um again we have the exact same response so you imagine when somebody close in your school that the
the staff really wants to show up and so we we we try not to cancel school because we know what the important school is for predictable for our kids and for our community but a whole bunch of people are going to be at reunion to make sure we're covered so that that whole staff anybody that wants to go can go support Mr felton and uh his passing
and then in in the bottom I didn't put a picture of it you you know we lost a student that was at Quist Middle School student and then now OA 27 online student Brooklyn Lopez in a tragic motorcycle accident and so those are just those things are heavy and hard and I I just I always want to make sure that
we update and it's also they're bad circumstances but I'm I'm proud of the people for leaning in and doing the best they can and then the last thing um I learned today when when one of our board members walked in that it's administrative assistant day did any of our people on
the back table know that today was administrative assistant day jeremy is the only one um but what what in the world would we do without Lenan so just please thank you Lynn and I think Melinda
and we did send you a gift card to use for coffee and it is a pleasure i am just excited about the kids excited about you guys excited about our new life
and tomorrow can be administrative assistant day yes yes if she would have put it on my calendar I would have remembered it was like obviously you weren't a good administrative assistant you didn't remind him by the way that that
concludes my report supposed to acknowledge me uh next up finally thank you for your patience and waiting it's time for matters of public comment the board will now hear public comments from the following topics that have been indicated on the sign-in sheet a reminder this board meeting is a
business meeting held in public not a public meeting uh the board hears public comments to learn about the preferences and concerns of our community therefore tonight we will listen we are prohibited by state law to take any actions on the items because law requires formal public notice prior to any action on an agenda item during our next meeting if
appropriate we will consider your comments in our discussion and we always ask that the superintendent attempt to find an answer for any of your questions by that time the board welcomes the comments of our community members but to ensure that everyone will have an opportunity to participate we have a few
ground rules that we ask you to follow anyone intending to address the board should sign in on the speaker signin sheet and I will call speakers in the order in which they signed in speaker comments are limited to three minutes if more than one person wishes to speak on the same topic we ask that the speaker limit their comments
comments to only new information we ask that you do not repeat views already expressed by other speakers although we cannot prevent you from doing so we ask that you refrain from making complaints or negative comments against individual students or district employees however again we can't prevent you from doing so
such complaints and comments should be addressed first at the classroom or school level and then still unresolved to the superintendent uh disturbing good order by inappropriate language or gestures is also ground for removal from the meetings we thank you in advance for your participation tonight and I have two people signed up first up will be uh
David Pockington uh he would like to talk about the transgender policy uh I have you come on up introduce yourself make sure the microphone's on and then announce whether you're in district or out of district before you start your speaking
go ahead have a seat get comfortable sorry my name is David Pockington uh I'm in district 27J okay um lived here in Brighton for a few years uh first thing uh director Trijo um you talked about
trying to get more parents involved uh I was thinking about that while we're sitting back there trying to get more parents more maybe more interaction with kids like events because with kids comes parents and get them involved in that but sorry I didn't mean to jump in on that
um trying to talk about a touchy subject obviously uh the policy for 27J for the transgender bathroom um allows boys who are transitioning to be in the girls bathroom um obviously I'm a father of
three uh concerns me uh greatly my daughter seven knows that it's wrong for a boy with a penis to be in the girl's bathroom i got talking with a superintendent um pretty lengthy conversation but um I
know that 27 days following Colorado colorado has a law that says that it's okay for men to be in the bathroom with females if that's what they prefer um back in
1873 the US Supreme Court said that women don't have the same rights as men obviously it's not true 152 years later we find that it's true women have the same rights as men girls have the same rights as boys let's not take that
away um I didn't know this until I Googled it 1893 Colorado became the first state to allow women to vote way before 1920 that's why because they looked in they said "Women have rights girls have
rights so let's keep it that way um 1920 uh women got the chance to vote pretty significant uh topic event that happened it's awesome let's not take away
that like I said my daughter's 7 years old she knows what's right and wrong in that event i'm just asking that the policy be changed and I know It's hard because we're in a a world
where things are changing right um but sometimes we have to stand alone sometimes we have to be that Colorado back in 1893 and say "No women have rights and we're going to allow that let's not take that away from my daughter or any other girl that's in
27J." There's a school Willand Park down in the Springs actually took that event and says "Hey this is what we're going to do let's mirror them ourselves after them let's not take away her rights." It's almost
like where does a boy's rights end where my daughter's rights begin that's something I want you to take with you go ahead and finish you waited a long time we had a really full agenda sorry go ahead and finish um where does the that boy's rights end where my
daughter's rights begin if I went with you to the bathroom right now you'd be like "Hey it's it's our bathroom." I get that let's be that district that says "Hey we're going to take a stand and
we're going to start fighting for girls rights." Um had this long conversation I was going to get into but only three minutes sorry um sorry give me one more second here like I said my daughter's 7 years
old and knows what's right and wrong um as a father I'm up here defending those rights as my daughter that's what a dad does that's what a father does um I'll keep standing on that ground even if I'm the only one because it's my
daughter i assume the same thing you guys would too again don't treat her as money this is a a little girl that wants to go through school but knows what's right and wrong we can learn from her better than
ourselves sometimes let's do that thank you thank you very much and again like I said I appreciate your patience we had a full agenda tonight and so we appreciate you sticking around thank you for your comments next up I have Janine
Runa she's going to talk to us about literacy janine you know the drills so I But welcome thank you for sticking around feel like this chair's gotten shorter um so I'm here to speak about the cornerstone of student success literacy
yeah for the record you still have to introduce your name on the district janine Ren and Fulla i'm in district talking about literacy um so I'm here to speak to you about the quarter cornerstone of student success literacy and the critical responsibility we hold through the
Colorado Read Act since its passage in 2012 the Colorado Act has provided essential funding to support early reading instruction and intervention from 2016 to 2023 school district 27J received a total of 2.5 million in read
Act funds this investment was intended to ensure that students are reading at grade level by the end of third grade but despite this investment our results show a troubling trend in 2016 34% of third grade students in our district met or exceeded
expectations on the CMAS in English language arts by 2023 that number had dropped to just 32.7% that means nearly twothirds of our third graders are not reading at grade level even with over $2.5 million to
towards improving literacy outcomes this raises critical questions with the superintendent stating that intervention is not a priority if we're not going to make that a priority what are we going to do with
these funds the Colorado Read Act exists to support early intervention to catch struggling readers before they fall behind if intervention is not being prioritized we are not just misallocating resources we are letting down the very students who need the help the most reading is the foundation of
learning without it students struggle in every subject area and their future opportunities become limited it's not just a data point it's a crisis i urge this board to take action we must examine how our readact funds have been used identify gaps in our
current literacy strategies and most importantly commit to making intervention a central focus moving forward let's not waste another year let's ensure every student in 27J has the opportunity to become a strong confident reader thank you
even under time thank you again for coming in and staying around we really appreciate it um next up is our consent agenda and all matters listed under a consent agenda are operational matters about which the board has governing policies implementation of which is delegated to the superintendent they
will be enacted in one motion by category in the order listed below uh there will be no discussion of these items prior to the time the board of directors uh vote on the motion unless members of the board staff or public request specific items to be discussed separately and or removed from
this section hearing none uh consent agenda consists of these three items a approval of the board of education minutes dated March 12th 2025 study session and a regular meeting and the April 9th 2025 linkage meeting with school-based parent groups those minutes
from that is enclosed b approval of personnel items on memorandum dated April 16 2025 and resolution number 7 2024-2025 non-renewal of contracts of probationary teachers those were confidential enclosures and C approval
of re resolution number 8 2024 and 2025 requesting the transfer of 1.6 million of the cash in lie of land dedication fees held by the city of Commerce City for the construction of Rocky Vista High School what is the pleasure of the board
i'll move to approve the consent agenda as presented i'll second a motion from Director Carval second from Director Wilhelm you've been very active this evening but can I have a roll call vote director Alvarado I director Carvajal
yes i've noted uh Director K left the meeting at 8:04 director Green yes director Thomas I director Trillo I director Wilham I motion carries thank you thank you very much next up is item 14 governance process that supports our
global goals uh we'll now hear reports from directors on the various committees and meetings that they've attended uh a ownership linkage director coverall yeah we had an opportunity to discuss our last linkage meeting here at the study session ahead of this and we're just looking forward to having another study
session in the future around something around parents and how we're going to measure our um potential working with them through policy and goals perfect thank you uh item B board education director Khan I mean Director Thomas uh nothing to report our board committee is
uh facility planning advisory committee uh we are did not meet uh recently here but we are continuing to uh work on the uh boundaries uh for our new school year uh the C capital facility fee foundation directors want to take it
sure um we met on Monday and the kind of two major points is we allocated $2 million towards Rocky Vista for their construction that came out of that CFF fund and then about $1,000 to buy nine signs for builders to put up and say
that they're working with us on their partnership so those are our big updates thank you very much rocky Mountain Risk Director Carbal yes they have um Rocky Mountain Risk has moved buildings or at least is in the middle of that we approved that as a board and they'll be sharing space with I'm going to mess
this up um another community organization that's a nonprofit so they'll move into that facility and that's where we'll be operating out of from now on and when I remember what facility that is I'm going to tell you perfect thank you uh the
27J believers do you have a report on sure we had an exceptional 27J believers award um recognizing all of our good eggs throughout the district tonight very good it's community reach we moved
into the community reach building thank you that's why you didn't get a president on administrative assistant day because I was like it would make sense where they're at uh the Commerce City uh and school
district 27J use tax committee uh will be meeting tomorrow uh and uh while I'm a member of that uh director Thomas has agreed to be a part of that committee now so she is the new member on the 27J and Commerce City use tax committee 2015
2021 bond oversight committee either one of would you like to touch on that i mean we had a report from the committee tonight so nothing to add and the 2022 mil levy oversight override oversight committee uh we had that report tonight as well nothing to add it
was great and would you like to report on the Brighton Youth Commission director Jahil yeah so they've been working hard on speak week and then today we were able to take some of the students with us to
the Los Huntos conference and it was called um Huntos Mas which is together we are more in I don't want to mess it up so it's the local government Hispanic network which is nationwide and we have the Losuntos Colorado chapter which put
on the conference today so we had some great breakout sessions and the students were able to go and you know whatever they wanted to go to they went to we had lunch there were dancers they truly enjoyed it and um even if they were not
of Hispanic descent just learning listening absorbing that information they had a great time i had a great time with them we have a great group of kids on the on the Brighton Youth Commission great thank you and I think you really shined on this committee so I'm really glad you stepped up for that is there any other matters of information for the
board hearing none let's move on to item 15 uh expectations of the board uh the board acts to accept or reject the following reports due or submitted since last meeting none at this time and B Chief Operations Officer Terry Lucero will present the expectations of the
board report through 3E asset protection you could have been walking up here you know they're giving me the business for how long this meeting is taking come on come on down well you have three minutes no
oh dude start the timer to use my phone can you hear me my voice is still bad it's going to be that for that way for a couple more months but uh we'll make it work here uh want to jump into the report but as always want to thank the people that helped
contribute to the report uh this represents the assets of the entire organization and the groups that helped put this together was uh Jeremy Heidi and his technology team Stacy and the finance team uh Janelle and the communications team Sam Ortega and the
safety uh security team Lonnie Martinez with the facility team Ben Dolman the construction team uh Tony Georgestad the nutrition team Greg Thompson the planning team uh and Ed Bar and the transport ed uh Greg Thompson the planning ed and transportation so this
is really about the assets of the entire organization and the efforts that we make to protect them uh I have to thank Tanner Dolman i blew it today being an administrative assistant i did call her and thank her for this report we often come with powerpoints and and and well
put together reports she does all that work right she's an incredible administrative assistant and uh want want to just thank her for her work uh thank Lenan for getting this this into the it's it's a large document and she always does a good job and and and uh
also I want to thank uh Mr pierce and the board and the community and given us the opportunity to to really protect these assets for for our district uh so this is the 16th time that I've presented this report to the district so after 16 times uh I guess I can be a
little nostalgic right and and uh I had this crazy idea in my mind that I was responsible for te protecting the assets of the district that was my job well it's my job to write the report okay so whose job is it to protect the
assets of the district right well when we think about that it's all of our work right you think of of of of a bus driver that damages a bus a kid that tosses the Chromebook out the window you misbehaving and and and impacting our
image it's not only our tangible assets it's our intangible assets right so so as we think about this uh uh I I I just it just came to me that that uh we have to protect these assets and they're fundamental to the work that we do in
educating our kids uh so I have a couple targets with you and then I'm going to move through it first of all I want to provide a high level understanding of the district's assets and the efforts made to protect them and then secondly I I just want to create an awareness of the immense
number of assets and the value of assets that you people have control over all right you're you're you're you're uh this isn't your your neighborhood association this is not the
PTA you have control over a billion dollars in assets a billion dollars in assets right a and uh uh through through the superintendent and through your work protecting those assets that are funded by the community and then then lastly I
just urge you during this presentation to think of the ways that you can improve your work about protecting those assets so so I I'll pick on on the finance team but but they do these uh they do these audits and they come and
they present the audits right those are really critical documents about the way we handle our dollars right ask questions right ask questions about the way we protect our buses ask questions about the way our buildings are protected right hold us accountable
to that because we're we're taxpayers right they're our assets right so anyway uh just just uh those are the three targets I have i'll move quickly through the report i'll I'll understand I understand that it's late uh there's 14
sections subsections to the report uh and in the report uh there's an index on pages 2 three and four that goes through each one of them subsections we're uh reporting compliance in every one of those sections okay i got to tell you in some
of those sections the metric is defined by law or some kind of of of regulation in in in in other cases it's just a little more subjective right how well are we taking care of the lawn instead of in front of Overland Middle School right that's more of a subjective kind
of a situation so some of these are based on what are the requirements by this the state about how we manage our buses right there are written laws about that other things about how often do we change the air filters in a building much more subjective right but overall
we're reporting compliance on every one of these issues uh I have some handouts because some of the things did not uh print well if they could have uh one of those I want to take a little time and talk about insurance which is section
one uh are our assets insured and and uh it just didn't print well the report so uh want to talk a little bit about the way this this tiered uh
insurance works so across the top you'll see the various kinds of insurance we have property autophysical damage errors emissions liabilities worker compensation boiler machinery employee dishonesty cyber uh liability and
malicious attack that first row under there is what our deductible is okay so when we make a claim on any of these things we are responsible for that deductible and then the pool Rocky Mountain risk covers that next level so
you can see uh I'll talk about property and and building building contents we we got to pay the first $5,000 the pool will cover up to $250,000 then they have excess coverage that covers from 250 to 750 and then
there's yet another layer of coverage that takes a from from 1 million to a hund00 million of coverage that sounds like a lot of coverage i'm going to show you a chart in just a minute uh when we talk about the insured value uh of our
of our properties right uh the one good thing about this report is it causes us to review this i was on the phone multiple times with Colorado with with Rocky Mountain Risk today asking that question $100 million worth of insurance that sounds like an awful lot right but
if a a tornado came in heaven forbid and hit Quist and and and and Riverdale Ridge on the same day you that's one occurrence you could have more than $100 million in losses
right well insurance is really you know the the the the biggest risk profit game there is in the world we can insure to whatever level we want right but it costs a lot of money to ensure that right you can get whatever coverage you
want to ensure you for doing whatever you want if you're willing to pay that so the Rocky Mountain Risk Group takes a look at the risk so what are the chances what are the chances that we're going to get hit by a tornado once what's the chance of it being a complete loss and what's the
chance that it's going to hit more than one school so so anyway there's there's risk and profit involved right and there are charts that manage all these things right so you can see all the different layers of co of of coverage for all of the items that we have and and we
haven't taken the time to dig into this but uh I can tell you the Rocky Mountain Risk is is uh very conscientious about this uh my colleagues will know that until I'm satisfied I keep asking questions they had me on the phone for a couple hours today two or three
different times do we have enough is this truly truly enough so anyway I wanted to take the time and talk a little bit about that insurance so So that first section about insurance is yes we're adequately insured and we're reporting compliance we have a member I
think that's that's uh Melinda that sits on that board uh I would guess by this discussion I had with them today they'll probably be bringing issues to that board to talk about is that enough the cost of of of equipment and materials is
just skyrocketing right the next the next section section two is about facilities and and and equipment right and Terry can I stop you for a quick second sure um just in talking about the Rocky Mountain risk and know it said the premiums are you know within a
comfortable level do you have any idea what the renewals look like each year like if we get a raise in I don't have those uh but I I would be more than happy and thanks for the question i'd be more than happy to get that and send that out stacy I don't know if you have
that so so we just got all of our informationers but but uh clearly we can get you that information and thank you for the question so well if you go to page eight right uh that first chart there so so it talks
about the insured value of our buildings is $830 million right that's the insured value of our buildings that's not the value of our buildings because none of our buildings are insured to 100% so if
a tornado were to strike right you still have the land the the infrastructure that goes in there so it's just covering the potential loss so they're ensuring us uh they're in ensuring us to to that level that you see
there uh this is a longitudinal this isn't in the report but this is a longitudinal look at uh the square footage that uh of buildings that we have and uh and their insured value so
we're over two and a half uh we're 2.7 million square feet of of of building space and you can see how that that value has increased by the handout there from just over 1.5 million and we're now over uh 2.7 million to uh square feet in
buildings that we own over the last over the last 15 years we could go back further and that that line would even be more more drastic right uh the next thing that's really important when we think about our buildings so so you're responsible for
$830 million of insured value in our buildings right what do we do with that right so first of all this is a list of the buildings that we have uh the renovations that we've made the years they were built the renovation dates their total
square foot so you can see on on a regular basis we are back renovating our buildings to continue to keep them maintained if if that makes any sense then to go on and if you go to pages 10 11 and
12 these are lists of projects that were minor renovations within these schools uh the the bond oversight committee reported we had $25.5 million set set aside and deferred maintenance right the bond oversight
committee recommended a $3 million increase to that to take it to $28.5 million out of the general fund we have another $1.75 million that we contribute to to to this effort and that doesn't include
uh dollars that departments or schools pay out of their own budgets right so this is a continuous process when you have $800 million worth worth of assets you have to constantly be reinvesting in them so this just really gives you an idea of you know there's asphalt work
and roof work and HVAC work this is the work that that staff does uh hidden hidden somewhere in this report and it's on uh I'm not going to be able to find it at this minute but one of the the it's actually in the middle of page 10
there there's a sentence that says uh our buildings have been open 100% of the time our schools have been open 100% of the time in the last year for their purpose now they haven't been perfect there's days that the buildings are too
hot or too cold and we have leaks and all those kind of things but our kids got to go to school every single day right and and we're really proud of that work you'll often see after winter break the school's been closed for three days because their pipes froze broke and they
flooded we have systems in place protecting these schools over all the weekends over the long weekends so that's that's some of the work we do to to protect those assets uh we also talk about some of the other things we do uh
in terms of our emergency operation plans to protect our our uh our work the number of radios we have out there access control uh afterhour security video surveillance all of that kind of stuff so that's so that's all of the
building kind of things that we do to protect our buildings pages 14 and 15 talks about the school sites that we own and the school sites that we're in the process of acquis of of of acquiring so
we have school sites to cover the next bond and part of the bond after that we're we're starting to build that list of where we'll build where we're building so as developers come in we we acquire additional assets for the district some of these we own and have
to maintain them some of them we're waiting for them to be dedicated and some of them we're just negotiating with with the developer but all the time we're creating those assets that will soon be ours that we'll be be building buildings on does that make sense
uh the next sections uh within the same section there's a ton of information here about uh about our computer and and our technology network and and uh the map didn't come across very very good either
but uh we often talk about our fiber optic network and uh we bought this fiber optic network from Jones Intercable before the year 2000 and we've adapted some of that use and we
put a lot of new cable in there if you look at this orange line on that map you can see in the Brighton area how we hit every single school how we run south and pick up the schools on our south end and in that green area that's the one that goes out to Discovery which is the
newest line we will soon be attaching that line to to uh uh Tal and Ridge and then bringing it back so we have another redundant loop over there so if we had the fiber optic cable get cut we could feed it from the other direction so we
don't lose our phone systems we don't lose our data systems so we run our own utility network when it comes to communication phones and data right so that's that's you know Jeremy's group is right now involved in mapping making sure every every one of those strands in
the cable is functioning where they're not functioning what we have to do to repair that uh we have excess capacity in our fiber optic network uh we have an amazing system if it takes a minute to load up we're all panicking
because it's running too slow right but our phones work our switches are updated on a regular basis so so we have assets that are below the ground that people don't even know that we have right and that's some of the work that that Jeremy does uh the number
of computers that we have in the district page 18 uh 28,000 devices 28,000 devices right and the chart above that talks about how many have to be replaced on an annual basis to maintain
those after five years we get rid of them kids get new Chromebooks uh your laptop's no longer supported so they're repled so think about uh Jeremy's work in in maintaining 28,000 computers across the
district replacing them fixing them when they're repaired keeping them up i mean the amount of work on in that is is is just astronomical on on page 19 uh we talk about our
buses right and there's a chart there about threequarters of the way down on that page and uh uh you can see we have 138 buses you can see that our average miles on those buses is 151,000 if you look at that bottom line going all the way
across every time that number goes up on the average mileage on a on a bus it's not it's that we're not adding enough buses right at a at at a reasonable time right so so the years that we dropped that dropped that number down we brought
10 or 11 buses into the fleet buses have gone up from $150,000 to $180,000 a bus right so so where we think we ought to be be replacing six eight well six to 12 a year we're not able to do that but
what I will tell you if we have this fantastic group of fleet mechanics that take care of all of the the the periodic maintenance that are required uh we have service vehicles that when that bus breaks down we can go out there and work on it in the field we're building that
new transportation center but think about you owning 138 buses at and that's not part that's not part of the of the $800 million in building assets this is on top of that right so
so you're you're a member of the board of a huge corporation that has tons and tons and tons of assets right so so it's fair to ask the question you asked and we should be able to provide you that information those are fair questions and
we look forward to having those um I just want to ask some questions around the fiber just because I don't know enough about it so and we're insuring it jar me Mr fiber is here okay cool so with this fiber this is our own internet and do we pay anybody to like service
that or we truly own that internet we own it but Jeremy you want to talk about our service efforts on on that in progress okay so we own the fiber but we pay them for the access to the internet utilizing the fiber to other people tap into our
network for fiber and the value of having this what it would be district so how long does it take to recoup that versus if we were paying them on that monthly amount is it it it
becomes valuable what like at how how far out we could do an ROI a investment pretty short okay and then my last question just because Aloe presented that check and we're thinking a lot about fiber obviously it's like tearing through our community
um their ability to give access to students at home that network because of how that works will we ever be able to provide that type of service for people at home because we own this fiber optics and then how will we is is there a way that that can become part of impact in
this service and we can this can come a different time but those are questions I have about this fiber optics you want an answer or you want you can no give me the answer first give me the answer and then if there's more followup so around schools we invested in outdoor
Wi-Fi for students so if you live around the school technically you're on our outdoor Wi-Fi if you're on device there is a way for the community members to get on the guest
network that way no we never route our fiber to anybody's house and maintain and then I think my final question around that then is our contract specifically with Century Link over a
long period of time does it come back for renewer where we go out for um a bid on that and what does that look like we do all that process okay usually we try to do it also plays with money from the government that we get to
provide internet and so there's a bid process every year we say what we have everybody internal process that we developed followed by the internet service so
every year that's evaluated problem of switching a huge lift to switch um and so you have to weigh the risk versus the reward cost versus there is cost savings
down okay okay and then last question I'm sorry but when you said we wouldn't go out to do the hub um in terms of that's not really our service we wouldn't like run it to a house for that access but if we were ever in the position to run off cables of hub for fiber so that students
could have access like say we had another COVID and we didn't have access to that could we create the infrastructure for our students to have access to technology in the future yes so we did some wireless access points we
did that very wireless could we do it yes okay thank you so much so so we don't own the internet right we own the fiber right the one really good thing about that is our fiber never gets compromised in terms of confidentiality
if you're not on our network or have access to our network you have no access to student data and those kind of things so so there's never that crosscontamination because our system is intact with it we do pay for the link to get outside to tie into the web to tie
into the internet okay but the wire the the the the wires that run between the schools were all interconnected so is our insurance cheaper than other districts because they don't have that infrastructure yeah and and we could and we could do an
ROI on that but absolutely the cost on a monthly basis to rent so Aloe and people like Aloe will be making overtures to to for us to lease uh excess capacity on their fiber optic networks it's
expensive right you figure what you pay to have access to the internet right and you multiply that by 20,000 students right on a monthly basis so think think of that kind of cost the access we'd
have to pay for every student to get their own service where we can provide that through our network right so so having our own network is in is way cheaper and we can do an ROI on that return on investment on that thank you so much great question I got a couple on
the on the buses um and and and maybe the next report I need another chart uh because you got best practices say a diesel at 350
uh 250 for a propane and 150 for gas engines uh I'd like to see how many we have of each of those sure because again I've got it's not part of the report but I do have that back yeah I got I got 90 some buses that could be in that window
i don't know which one of those or are going to be due to replace or or whatever so I I I think that's an important factor to have i it would be helpful to know how many of these are going to have to be replaced or what what our uh our time frame is on that one absolutely and that is and that is
forward thinking we've had those conversations in the past we've used bond money we've talked about paying it out of a general fund is this a question we ask the people in a mill levy override do you want to continue to have transportation services or are you willing to pay for it right yeah there's
some tricks that we use when we start getting the buses higher in mileage we don't let them run long routes they run 30 or 40 mile routes a day right our brand new buses they're racking up the miles right the easiest way to drop that average is drop 10 buses in there that
have zero miles you can imagine what that would do to to the average right but but that number uh we have buses out there that are I guarantee you are way older than any of the cars that you drive right i we just do so that is a
pinch point and that's why we include it in this report we can provide that data great question but we could go buy buses all day long if we had the funds for it but we don't have drivers right that's another that's the other part of the equation right is is drivers
who provide transportation uh last year we ended the year or this year uh we're down to under 300 kids that are unable to access buses because we don't have the routes right uh we have the buses but we don't have the drivers right so
it's like you got to match the number of drivers you have to the buses you have and then you got to keep the buses running if that makes sense right so it's it's this dance that that E does uh to do that anyway great questions around that some of these things as I said are
are are are more subjective than objective but we believe for the money we have we're continue to provide services we have high quality buildings so so in that area we're we're uh reporting compliance the next several of these
really have to talk about how we comply with policies are we are we doing the training that's necessary there's there's a list of the training that we make our staff to go through to prevent injuries uh that kind of stuff uh we go
in and talk about conflicts of interest uh we have bidding processes right where where we put our projects out to bid uh we've kind of led that way in the construction department because we spent millions and millions and millions of dollars uh we've all been in this
business so long that that if there was any conflict of interest all of them are our friends they all like us and you have to pick between people that are really good contractors so any favoritism would be vetted out very very quickly i'll talk about a survey a little bit later that
we did but uh uh we put on a we put on a procurement officer in the finance office to make sure all of our schools are following those procurement processes that's been a weak link in our system so so do our schools when they go
out and buy a $1,500 item are we sure that there's no conflicts of interest in those we don't know that yet we have put a procurement officer now on board that's building those structures we know how we handle it in our in our construction side of the house which is
our biggest expenditures but in in the in in the school buildings and that's going to be tough right are we gonna ask our principles to go out and get three bids for whatever it is they need that that takes time right so we have to be very careful that that our procurement
efforts don't don't override just logical and and and trusting people to do the right thing that's a that's a tough one if I don't know if I'm explaining that very well uh on page
24 you'll just there's some of the bid services that we go out we put them out on on Rocky Mountain Bidnet anybody is open to bid them uh you'll see we had we had a uh the policy talks about us doing a comparable bid right on smaller bids
there's times when we only have one bidder you need to have work done you only have one bidder our policy previously had been a no bid is the same thing as a bid so you invite somebody to bid they choose not to bid
right that counts as a bid but you can't have a comparable bid unless you have at least two right you have to compare to something so you will see in this list there's uh one of them uh the secure vestable insulation for elementary
schools we had one bid all right we're faced with the choice of right don't do the project or accept the bid right we accepted the bid there's other ways we can manage that unit pricing are they
cheating us what is the square foot improvement cost so we go through that process with them substantially we believe we've complied with the policy and and this is evidence of that uh uh we often uh the the next section
section seven on page 25 uh talks about uh whenever we're not allowed staff is not allowed to to lease acquire or or or disperse or dispose of properties only the board can do that
that's by state statute so I bring leases to this group when people want to purchase land I bring that to the group we usually do that in in executive session i believe you're going to get an update here very shortly that's going to talk about a unique opportunity we have to to purchase a piece of ground that
we've been trying to chase uh but we do not do that work this is evidence that we don't do that work that we bring it to the board every time we deal with any kind of of a property transaction uh page
28 is uh our investment work and and it's section 11 uh we have an investment policy we have state laws uh we can only invest uh our money in very secure kind of uh of of
paper right we can't take risk with with with the public's money there's a downside to that you don't make much on interest right you want to make a bunch of interest play the stock market if you lose it you lose it right we have to go in guaranteed
treasury notes and those kinds of things so this talks about uh the investments we make the interest that we earned uh that we earn uh that will surely fall right as as the interest rates go go
down across all of the other things our return on investment on these investments will will will also drop but this is is proof positive that we follow our uh we follow our investment policies uh so this whole report is is uh 34
pages and I got to tell you we worked to get it down to 34 pages right i mean we cut about eight pages of data out of it because we were just trying to provide that that that high level uh there's this whole conversation about
image right and and and we really dug into it in terms of the construction side and then Janelle put some information about the surveys that we put in there so the interesting thing is is we send it uh we send uh uh the opportunity to survey to a number of our
contractors and on page 31 you see some of their responses and it's did you receive adequate notice to bid district projects 35 said yes three said no right uh was the bid information adequate enough for you to submit a bid proposal
35 said yes two said no two uh no answer did you receive timely and complete responses to questions about bid submitt information 34 said yes right will your firm be bidding on future projects 36 seconds said yes what that tells me is
we have good vendor relations right people believe we run a fair process over there uh we sent out a bunch we we sent out a b uh we sent out a number of opportunities and surveys to our elected
officials and you can see we got very few responses that's been the historical part they get requests for surveys on a regular basis i don't know if Mr green completed his survey was but but uh the thing that was that it it
uh are you aware of the projects 12 people 12 responses from elected officials seven said they were aware five said they weren't uh we shared this with the bond oversight committee and they said how can they not know right you can't drive around here without seeing a sign where it's everywhere they
really have to have their heads in the sand but nonetheless they reported that they didn't know about that we asked them how they got the information but the thing that was rewarding to us is the last question uh is or the second last question do you trust the district to accomplish the goals of the 2021 bond
program in an ethical manner 10 said yes zero said no they trust us right they trust us and our reports that we make on a quarterly basis it's all designed to do that uh Janelle has a bunch of work a
bunch of language in here about the surveys they do the work they're going to continue to do we're testing that all of the time you play a large role in protecting the image of this district right does the community see this board
as a functional board that does good work that interacts with the people that are out there that complies with their poly policy governance model right the way the people they they they see this the their schools primarily through their kids' eyes is it a good school but
then they chase this thing up right do they have a good principal is there a good administration is there a good is there a decent school board leading this so so you do play a role in protecting the image of this district there's other policies out there about protecting our
name right and we've had to defend our name people as we've become more popular people want to want to be known as the 27J hamburger stand or something no you're not going to do that right and we've had to fight and and take on legal action to stop some of those things to
happen and lastly our name is an asset right and uh we've worked with that and we we've toyed with it and we'll probably toy with it again but it is our name right and we have to protect that name right so anyway it's a lot of
information a lot of information like I said the high level is is I hope you understand how big of an organization that you are managing that you're responsible through the superintendent your obligations in maintaining the investment the the
public investment in our district right uh uh and then thinking about your role in that thank you for the questions tonight i'll be conferring with Lan and we'll get that information to you uh that's the most questions I've had
given this report in 16 years can I give you another one sure um one section we didn't talk about um on page 20 is the nutrition services and just in looking at it it was talking about 90% of our revenues are tied to state and federal
sources is that anything that we you know we all hear things going on is that anything we are bracing for hey this may be something we're worried about changing or an asset we're we're concerned about so there's two sides of the the funding around meals right one
of them is the state free program i mean the the feds the feds program and one was the state we've always had the free and reduced lunch program that that the feds provided right uh the state came in a couple years ago and offered the healthy school meals for all and the
local taxpayers paid for that what they have found out is that so many kids took advantage of that that they didn't have enough money to pay for that they've assured us that that program will remain in effect until next December December of
25 okay uh this fall there will two be two ballot issues out there uh that will ask taxpayers to fund that a at a level to keep that okay so so that's the the the federal side of that and then
there's the state side of that so are we concerned about that yes there's a thing that's called uh community eligibility and right now uh basically if if a certain percentage of of the kids in the school are free and reduced lunch they say everybody in that school is free and
reduced lunch so that's grown at first it used to be just by individual student then they did it by schools and then they did it by the district all of our schools are eligible by community eligibility right uh the
feds can change those rules whenever they want to one of our greatest fears is is that they could say that everybody that's community eligibility currently will be grandfathered in okay that doesn't speak to our new
schools okay so imagine the situation where every school in the district has free meals and Talon Ridge because it's a new school and because it doesn't meet the community eligibility standard doesn't have free lunch
services is that a decision that families have to deal with you know do you like giving your kid five bucks every day when he walks out the door to to to buy lunch or would you rather go to school somewhere else where they can get free meals right we are really
worried about not of all not all of our schools being under the same eligibility guidelines so Tony Jorstad that was here earlier uh has been recognized as one of the most outstanding uh uh school nutrition uh people in the state for many years running uh he's on top of
this situation uh Janelle's tracking it through the state legislature with us we're watching that uh the worst possible scenario we do we do not pay a penny of general fund to support that not a penny of it right and even when
when students were paying the general fund never supported that right if we went back to that system where kids had to pay it would be an incredible strain because the number of kids being served drops right because kids just do
without so so we're we are on top of that and we're watching that um I kind of want to ask some question on that too so before we had the free lunch for all was there a difference in what that looked like because I I know that we do have a big percentage of free
and reduced lunch but that doesn't mean that the parents that were paying could always pay and I know there were balances like sometimes we would try to donate or let's pay off you know part of the school's balance when our kids were in elementary schools when we did it i guess I never knew the high school or
middle school level so do you see a difference in in what we're getting funded or what maybe we were in the negative before we had free lunch for all so so we've kind of been all over the place on here and and principles have taken this on themselves right we
don't want to be in the business where we're tracking the accounts of 20,000 people in terms of their lunch bills right so we love the free and reduced lunch program because you walk through we're still recording their numbers but in the case
where we've had we've had times when we've had to deny students the full lunch and we give them what's called a nutritional the nutritional minimum right they get the peanut butter sandwich they get they get the carton of milk right but we don't allow students
to run up balances because it just ends up being uncollected right so the student ends up with a $1,000 bill at the end of the year they couldn't afford it during the year they're not going to be able to afford it at the end of the year next year they do the same thing the following year they do the same
thing and when we finally get them is right before they're going to graduate they have a bill of 10 or 12,000 and we say you can't walk across the stage right it it's like the only crime they committed was
being poor right and and so so uh we have to get better at that what we did in the past very simply is I think there was a two-day lag that they allowed elementary students to to charge for two days and then they cut them off and gave them the
the basic meal that's re that's really hard right you have one kid that that has the full meal on his platter and he has another you have a kid next to him that doesn't have the exact same entree and those things that sends a message
right off the bat about what what that represents right and uh uh so so they do get a nutritious meal it's not the same meal that that the paid people get that's why we love the healthy school meals for all and that's where we want to stay
so we'll have the opportunity to be involved in a campaign uh statewide campaign to make this happen uh most school districts will tell you that they love that all kids and it's not just lunch it's breakfast too right and some
of you are parents and and you know what a relief that is for your knowing that your kids going to get a good nutritious meal twice a day if you get them there early enough in the morning right that's the way that works so we are concerned about it and we continue to monitor it
um I was going to add um yes it's all of our roles to to protect our assets but this report is fantastic and the things that your team thinks of checking schools on weekends and long holidays make sure we don't like the things that you guys think of are just so um so
outstanding so thank you for your work in protecting our assets i wanted to share this quick story you we talked about our deferred maintenance projects and how you decide what you're going to fund um at our bond oversight meeting it was last year I think they put um boxes
all along here like up here and each box had a project on it and then they gave us money like fake money and we got to and the money was like I don't know how they did the math but somehow we had not enough money to fund every project and we had to decide like what project and
none of them were bad ideas like it wasn't like they were asking us to fund he helipads or something outrageous or stupid um they were all needed and so we it was so it was such a hard exercise for our committee to decide so I know those are the decisions that you guys
make every day but with real money um on how we're going to protect our assets and what we're going to what we're going to take care of so thank you for all that you do the the money was actually based on the actual money we had and you had to choose how to spend the money we had and so you had people that were voting for their schools they wanted to
put all their money over here and then all these other things could it's difficult we try to make the best choices we can and the situation changes right so if a school if a boiler goes out in a school tomorrow and then it's the middle of the winter it doesn't
matter what what else is on your list that school gets a boiler tomorrow and we've had that happen right in the middle we've we've got great pictures of when these things quit working the way they're supposed to i just want to add something this
morning I went to EDC had their annual thing and Adams County comes and talks and the city talks and they talk about schools within the system but until you give this report even to myself sitting up here and like the weight of the amount of assets that we handle and the
work that occurs through 27J and how we're doing all of this capital projects while still educating kids every day i um am blown away by the work that you do within the district but more importantly I really think this story isn't told enough in our community and I don't
think that people realize the size of the district or the impact that we have or even as board members sitting up here um what really we're responsible for in in in this capacity for our constituents um and so I really hope that like this
story and the the stories along our district can be part of that conversation further in the future not just you're providing education and transportation but like the number of assets that we're doing i think if we put it up against other municipalities and boards that are serving um we're contenders and how we're utilizing this
funding and we should be held to that standard and asking those questions so this report today was like perfect in time for me to like really realize that the work that we're doing is meaningful and that we need everyone to understand the number of assets that our district is working with and the work that you guys are doing on the grounds and phenomenal so um the pool is in here i
saw the pool and you know the pool is sort of like the Olive Garden of Brighton in my head right like everyone has something to say about are we going to have a pool are we not going to have a pool and the conversations that's the only place where kids have access to do swimming as a program here in 27J is that something that we see being a part
of a conversation or had the district sort of moved towards now longer having that as an accessibility so we have begun composing a list of things that might be considered in a future election
replacing the pool is one of the things that that some committee will recommend to the board and the board will decide about that they are super expensive i was at the at the the Jeffco pool over the weekend at the at their invitational
tournament beautiful facility right this facility was built in 1972 i think I gave a report a dozen years ago and said we can't put any more money in this pool because it's good money after bad we've spent very little dollars it
looks great we we're you know putting the lipstick on the pig kind of thing right we're worried about the structural strength of that we monitor it all we have we have active monitoring we can see what happens in windtorms and snow loads we're actively monitoring the status of that pool
if something happened that changed that we would close the pool that day but it is a huge risk and liability currently it it's it's I wouldn't call it a risk or liability we'll watch it so it doesn't become I was pointing out some of the deficiencies of the building
to Will when he went to the to the swim meet uh I remember one other thing we we we talked about is just how much money you have in outstanding deferred maintenance that I know we're trying to get a a handle on it but you you gave us
a figure once of how much there is in deferred maintenance that is not done or that if we ever had to do it it was do you remember it was I thought it was like hundred million dollars if if we went out and and this is real early if we went out for another $500 million in
bonds you would see easily a hundred million of that if not more being in deferred maintenance we laugh our new buildings I tell the story all the time Timig was one of the that new tranch of buildings that we built we dedicated on September 11th
2001 right and and there were no planes in the sky because of what happened you know with with the 911 attack timig is 24 years old the lifespan on the mechanical equipment right is 20 years
we have a we have a a chiller we're looking at we were looking at Brighton High School today that was installed in the early 90s right we got 30 years on that piece of equipment right placement cost about a million bucks right we'll
make one more cooling season and next winter we'll be replacing that chiller so we got to push everything as hard as we can uh the one thing that I didn't mention and I'm really proud of is we put on an energy manager and for the first time ever we're considering uh the
energy impacts of the equipment we're putting in buildings our energy costs are about $5 million a year uh uh there's a rating that's called the the energy utila utilization index and and there's a number that they say schools
should fall under right two of our schools meet that standard all of the other schools are less energy efficient than that than than what the standard requires so we're beginning to look at all of that deciding the equipment we replace and uh we're finding lots of
things where we could save money in term of our energy utilization so it's just as we mature as an organization i'm still waiting for that meeting dude uh well yeah and when you consider that our oldest school is nearly 100 years old uh and several of them are are more than 50
so I got mad when I built that school well it shows uh are there any more questions i would entertain that motion i gave you three minutes you took an hour but Sorry oh yeah it was We enjoyed it i'll move
to accept the expectations of the board report through 3E as asset protection as conveying reasonable interpretation of the executive limitations oh Rachel wants second hey we're going to help you get that bond by having parent engagement
director Wilhelm was really trying to make it you know four for four here uh no I had a motion from Director Carbal a second from Director Trill roll call vote sorry I was writing down who second that uh Director Alvarado I director Carbajal
yes director Green yes director Thomas I director Trio I director Wilhelm I motion carries thank you thank you very much uh we're getting closer guys we're so close uh next month we'll be talking about treatment of students and the public so another opportunity uh don't
forget that uh April 29th that's a Tuesday we will have a meeting here with the Commerce City Council members uh and then May starts our crulest month uh is there is there a reason why Brighton City Council is not being active in that uh we decided uh and Brighton originally
had a meeting scheduled for that date they eventually uh cancelled it but we had already decided that we think uh direct outreach with Commerce City might be better uh we're trying to build some relationships there and we are excited about what we're doing in Commerce City so we thought we'd just devote it with
Commerce City fantastic thank you yes uh again uh we start our busy month May month uh in June uh Director Alvarado will present the evaluation are there any closing closing comments seeing none I will say that
once we get past a certain time the air conditioning shuts off you can hear it and so that's why things get uh get warmer in here even though it was really warm when we had all this crowd in here uh at this mo at this point then I will adjourn our meeting have a good evening
nice job everybody until the end