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Good evening. It is so nice to see a crowd here and I know you just came to see your board of education in action. So, I'm calling this meeting to order for June 10th. Uh uh my first notice will be that all matters on this agenda uh can be in any category may be

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considered as for action as listed. Any item not so noticed may not be considered and items listed on this agenda may be considered in any order at the discretion of the chairperson. Our next would be the pledge of allegiance. And I'm going to have past president Greg Petroski lead us in the pledge of

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allegiance. I could have had past president Worth do it too, but thought I'd put you on the spot, Greg. Uh, let's have a roll call for attendance, please. >> Director Raone Alvarado. >> Director Tracy Alvarado. Director Melinda Carbajal, >> present. >> Director Ashley Khan,

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>> here. Director Tom Green, >> I am present. >> Director Star Trillo >> here. >> Director Rachel Wilhelm >> here. >> Mr. President, you do have quorum. >> Thank you very much, Madam Secretary. Item three would be our commitment to governing styles. The board will govern lawfully observing policy governance

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principles with an emphasis on outward vision rather than internal preoccupation. Encouragement of diversity and viewpoints. Strategic leadership more than administrative detail. Clear distinction of board and chief executive roles. Collective rather than individual decisions. future rather

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than past or present and governing proactively rather than reactively. Item four would be approval of the agenda. Do I have a motion? >> I move to approve the agenda dated June 10th, 2026 as presented. >> I'll second. >> Motion from Director Khan, second from

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Director Carwal. Roll call vote. >> Director Raone Alvarado. >> Yes. >> Director Melinda Carbajal. >> Yes. >> Director Ashley Khan. >> Yes. >> Director Tom Green. >> Uh, sure. >> Director Star Trillo. Yes. >> Director Rachel Wilhelm. >> Yes. >> Motion car. Motion carries. Thank you.

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>> Thank you very much. This is probably why everybody is here. We have two and a half pages of board of education recognitions. Uh so I I am probably going to stand for this one because I have a lot of things to hand out. And would you guys like to join me? Sure.

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>> Thank you. As part of my preamble, the board of education would like to recognize the following students and staff as state and national winners. These accomplishments occurred during the spring and summer of the 2025 2026 school year. First up, Brighton High

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School. >> Go Bulldogs. Uh Parker Gunderson, is he here? Let's still recognize him for the All State Choir and National Qualifier, International Thesbian Society for Solo Musical. Congratulations, Parker.

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Hello to Lisa Gomez, Jackie Reynoso, and Lennin Supas. Come on up here. Two out of three. These guys received first place at the Colorado Prostart Management. Uh oh, all three of you. Great. Congratulations, guys. Pick up

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your certificate here. >> These guys are our future chefs right here. Congratulations. Thank you very much. Let's get a picture. Slip on over here. Let's get you between the board here. Let's get a great picture. Let's get a picture first and then shake

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everybody's hands. I'm sure they've been washed because they are ProStart first place winners here. >> Thank you very much. Congratulations. Go down. You got to go to this. >> Congratulations. >> And now for an individual accomplishment

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prostal. Dara, is she here? Oh, she is the first place Colorado ProStart Management uh student of the year. So, very good. Outstanding student of the year. And now, Alana Mercias. Mercias. Alana,

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you're here. Come here. Alana is one of our Daniels Scholarship recipients. So, congratulations. >> Thank you. >> Yeah. Let's get right over to these guys. >> We're also gonna have a reception. So, moms and dads, they'll get time to do

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more photos. >> Alana's going to have a lot of money because all of her tuition is paid for. So, congratulations as a Daniel Scholarship recipient. And now, Abina Abino Ortega Walk, are you here? Dude, I wish he he's probably

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out working because he is our Skills USA state champion in plumbing. So, you need something done. Carlo, how about Tracy Ryman? Are you here? Come on up, Trace.

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Trace made all state choir. Congratulations. Congratulations. Let's get a picture over here. losing that. >> Congratulations. >> Uh Tilly Hubby, are you here? She's probably out wrestling because she

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is the 155 lb champion in wrestling. Tilly Hubby, congratulations to her. She's been up here many times. She's been a champion for years. Uh Keith Robinson, are you here? Come on down. >> Yes. Congratulations.

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>> Let's go over here. I'm going to shake your hand bigger. I'm going to put you in place. But I got to be careful because he's the state shot put champion. All right. >> Congratulations again, buddy. You're the man. >> I got Wow, dude.

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>> Congratulations. I'm going to need to go to the physical therapist after that. That dude's got a handshake. Congratulations, Keith. Uh, Elkie Sander, are you here? All right. Well, Eli is the national

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choifier for the International Thespian Society for Solo Musical. So, you and Trace can get together and sing. Um, how about Tony to follow? Tony, are you here? He's the 113 pound champion in

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wrestling. Uh, and they're pending, but we know they're going to do well. Uh, our trap and ski shoe team is competing next week. So, and those guys are just great. What? >> They got second. >> They got second. >> Eagle got first. >> Oh, well that's okay. You know, that's

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still the 2017 school district. So, let's let's hear for our travel AND SKI CHAMPIONS. AND NOW, how about our yearbook guys? How about Gavin Federoko Federco? Come on out, man. He's the Colorado Student Media

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Association Designer of the Year. If they got first place in another category, they get another certificate. Oh, and he also got first place in the best of Colorado uh yearbook. Uh what what was that?

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>> So many different categories, right, Justin? >> I I'll get to that in a second. So, you're gonna have to stick around because you got an individual. Congratulations for you, Gavin. Uh >> thank you. >> Yeah, go around the But stick around because you're a champion,

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>> Kevin. Shake everyone's hand. And then uh Sammy Granado, are you here? YEAH. You can probably find Sammy on Facebook because he's the Colorado Student Media Association social media content creator

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of the year. >> Congratulations, Sammy. >> Appreciate it. >> You bet. Let's get a picture and then make sure you stick and guess stick around because we're going to need you both. Make sure you like it. Post on Facebook. And then the yearbook staff, they also

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placed in 20 of the 21 categories in the Colorado Student Media Association best of Colorado contest. Uh the team won 13 first place awards, three second place awards, and four honorable mentions. Uh they won the most of any 5A high school

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yearbook because that bright high school yearbook is just phenomenal. Justin knows that. Uh so alphabet. >> Okay, I'm gonna go Wyatt Dingis. I'm gonna have you all come on up here. Wyatt,

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Rayan Dodge, Riley Dhy. >> These are alphabetical order. You can tell there's a ton of them. Halen Blake, Ivan Fuentes, Audrey Heler. Come on everybody, come on

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up here. Megan Hudok, Kayen Cana, Corey Kessinger, Isela Leon, Tatum McSney,

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Marley Mland, K. Spellelman, Aubrey Thompson. Come on, keep it going. Skyler Thompson, Max Shel, Isaiah Vega, keep going. Anthony Vera

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Gonzalez, and that is that's it. Okay, but now come on up here, guys. All of you guys come up here. And uh they got the first place overall theme package, first place theme copy package, first place sports reaction

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photo, first place club spread, first place people spread, first place academic writing, uh first place academic photo, first place sports action photo, first place student life spread, first place student life photo,

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first place sports writing, first place sports spread, first place chronological spread. Oh my god. And it just goes on. First place school news. Second place student life writing. Second place student life writing summer. Uh second

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place profile writing. Uh honorable mention for clubs writing. Honorable mention for environmental portrait. Honorable mention for academic spread. An honorable mention for clubs photo. And this is just a phenomenal team here. Let's give it to them again. That bar is set so high for next year's

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yearbook. I mean, come on. Good luck, guys. Yeah, it's up to you, Jose. Congratulations. Yes. Congratulations. >> Congratulations. >> You guys are the best. >> Congratulations. >> Congratulations. >> Congratulations. >> Congratulations. >> Good job.

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>> Congratulations. >> Good job, Sammy. You bet. >> Thank you. Thank you. >> Congratulations. All right. So, students here, so we can have something from Belleview High School. Uh, Jaden Corvis, are you here? Jaden,

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come on down. 115 pound champion in wrestling. >> Good job. Thank you. >> Congratulations. And we actually have two Daniel Scholarships winners in 27J. Uh Isaiah Lavado, are you here? Yeah.

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We have three. I'm sorry. I lied. >> Congratulations, bud. >> Good job. >> It's going to have a lot of money in college because it's all paid for. >> Yeah, that's right. We had not one, not two, but three Daniel scholarships. And

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we're so happy that uh the next one is Jasmine Newman. Are you here, Jasmine? >> Oh, she is also in our student leadership uh group. So, it was really an honor for us to see that, too. So, congratulations to Jasmine. She's a great person, too. In

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addition to Isaiah and our other Daniel Scholarship winner. How about Nick Wall? Nick Well here. Another one that is a skills USA state champion in power equipment. Those are our debut high school winners. How

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about Riverdale High School winners? We got them, too. Uh Lyanna Armen Armandas. Lyanna Arandas. Did I get it close? No more. I knew it. >> How do I say it? >> Iliana.

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>> Iliana. Oh my goodness. Thank you. Congratulations. I'm clearly not the prodentian skills champion here at all. >> But that was an L. That was not an I. Uh,

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how about Briana Briendon? Is she here? Wow, that girl is phenomenal in basketball. She was the all-time state scoring leader. Uh, Brianna Quinton did. So, let's give it up for her.

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and the Gatorade Colorado girls basketball player of the year. And by the way, her if anybody's uh needs a trivia contest, she scored 2,983 points. Yeah. Uh how about Veronica Lear?

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Veronica Leer. Oh, another one. Wish you could have been here. Uh Skills USA state champion uh in computer programming. So, if anybody need some computer programming, call up Veronica. Uh, how about Payton Mani?

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Yes. Let's go, folks. She's in the Colorado Women Hall of Fame. Congratulations. >> Thank you so much. >> You bet. Right over here. >> Hi. Thank you. >> You can't catch her. She's fast.

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Uh Jeffrey Shu, are you here? You all setting because he's a Skills USA state champion in related technical math. So congratulations to uh Jeffrey. And finally, the unified basketball team from Riveridge High School was the state

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champions. Is there anybody here from the unified basketball team? Oh yes, let's give it up for them. They are great. Are your hands saw yet? We got more. Uh Brian Hall is the 2025 shape educator of the year from Quist Middle School.

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Brian, are you here? He's not able to attend, but let's give him a hand because that takes a lot to be educator of the year. Uh next up you would like to honor builders, developers and facility planning and advisory committee members who have contributed to the capital

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facility fee foundation on our 25th anniversary of the capital facilities fee foundation. Uh generations of students have benefited from this alliance. This foundation is unique public private partnership between municipalities, developers, builders and

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27J schools. It was established in 2001 to collect contrib contributions from developers and builders to help fund school expansions and new school constructions. And just let's put a number on this one. Approximately $21 million has been

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contributed to this foundation since this started. That's almost a million dollars a year. Uh we'd like to recognize these builders. DR Horton, KB Homes, Lenor Corporation, Meritage Homes, and Richmond American Homes. Is anybody here? I thought we had Come on

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up, guys. These are nice ones. These are actually in a frame and everything. That's what $21 million will get you right there. So, thank you very much. Come on. We'll have you all stand right up in here. We're going to get a picture of you. Get You want to get your plaque first?

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>> Got it. Perfect. Come on in there. Congratulations. >> Come on in there. >> Come on in there. Congratulations. >> I don't need to be in this picture. You guys do. >> You're the $21 million folks here. Right here. Can you get them all, Kevin? Who needs

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>> pretend like we like each other? >> Oh, thank you again, Tina. home, Candy Homes, Maritage Homes, Manor, and Richmond American Homes. Thank you again for $21 million that went directly into our schools.

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>> Uh we'd also like to acknowledge our capital facility fee foundation committee members. These are the people that take that money and decide where to get spent at the various projects at each of the schools. Uh David Akunto from the Thornton City Council, Rannon Collins from the Brighton City Council,

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Lynn Bachma, Lin Baka at Adams County Commissioner, Susan Noble from Commerce City Mayor Prom, and Randy Bower from Oakwood Homes. Any of those guys here? Uh let's give them a round of applause. There's three of us on the board that

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have served on that. Uh Ramon Alvarado, Ashley Khan, and myself. Yeah. Pass and past board of education members starillo, Tracy Alvarado, Lloyd Worth,

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Greg Petrosky, uh Leon Thordon, Mary Vhill, Kevin Kerber, Bernard Timig, Blaine Dickensson, Patrick Day, uh Rich Ducet, and Joan Kiss. You guys are all here. Come on up here. Come on. Yeah, you weren't going to get away with

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this one. Come on. >> Lo, sir. >> Get in there, Ty. Get in the center. >> Come on. >> Stand up. I'm sorry. >> I wanted to make you smile. >> Another round of applause FOR THESE

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GUYS. AND NOW this is your opportunity to personally meet each and every one of these award recipients. We're going to take a brief moment reception. There's lemonade, tea, there's cookies, all sorts of deliciousness. And then we'll reconvene here in just a few more minutes. Uh but please let's congratulate all these guys one more

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time. And if you didn't get a certificate, you need to work harder. All right. So, let's see. We hope to see you all next year. Thank >> you. All right, let's reconvene. Apparently, uh this next item scared everyone away. Uh, it is item six, our superintendence

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report. Super, are you ready to go? >> I was actually just thinking about that. Everybody always, it's always nothing, no better feeling than everybody leaving right before your your your talk. So, you're welcome for those of who stayed. Steve, you don't have to. This is not part of your contract.

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>> Exe executive leaders, you must stay. All right. You must stay till the end. Uh, no. I I I I always give a report and it's just so bad this time of year because there just there's no way I could be at all the cool stuff. But there are some cool things happening, right? The 27J schools group of kids

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that received Adams County scholarships and and Star's daughter was one of those, but I thought you should see those kids. The kids' names are up on the right and it was a great night. Adams County scholarships. Adams County raised over two gave over $2.2 $2 million in scholarships this year and so

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lucky to get so many kids in 27J scholarships. So that was a fun night. Um we had so many awards celebrations. I just captured a couple. This is the academic awards or the the scholarship awards at the the senior what used to be senior breakfast at the on the left for

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Brighton High School. Uh and then on the right that is the Phoenix award. Uh I will put a plug in for Steve Shelton. Uh it is probably the the best thing you could possibly go to, right? I I go every year and I cry every year and I go

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back and do the same punishment again. Uh the Phoenix is designed for kids that have rose from the ashes and and not your topofthe- line students, not the 46 kids that we awarded here tonight that have just imag amazing things. These are kids that life got in the way for and they needed somebody to believe in them

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and to see that see hope in them and possibility in them and make it happen. And so I'm always touched by the the kids awarded and the the teachers who really helped carry kids across the stage. Just really really proud stuff at the end of the year with that. Uh we've

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given you updates. You guys were part of this. We gave you updates that we were doing the insight alternative lensure educator. We had seven graduates yesterday. A couple of them were sick and one of them is just out of camera there yet. But Gita Patel who did this

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Michael's vision to bring it. We're lucky to have uh bring some people and what a cool thing people that were were in industry and said, "Hey, I'm going to I I want to go back and try to serve serve kids." And so uh those are a couple of of our graduates that that

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that ceremony was yesterday, but it was our first ever graduating class of of seven seven people. So >> and if I'm I was speaking with Gita earlier today, there was eight originally and the only one that didn't went to NASA to work. So this is just how the caliber of people that we're

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attracting here for this program. >> Really fun stuff and Gita has done just an incredible job. So thank you Michael Gita and everybody else in that thing. >> Uh uh Michael got this picture for me just it's the weirdest thing is you go to a Denver art show on the sidewalk art and you're like I wonder what we're

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going to see. Michael's taking his kids and along he runs into a couple Riverdale students. You've got uh a former art award winner Paris on the left and Briana uh on the on the right and you could see the art that they did. Of course, Mr. Shaver and Mrs. John

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standing there behind them. So, I just think that's kind of fun when you run into the community and you're like they got second place. So, that that's pretty cool that again we have some awesome kids. If you don't know, graduation, you guys all were there. Thank you for being there. That really meant a lot to

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everybody that our our board is there for our kids. And what a fun day that was. Uh, and then two more that you you you weren't able to be at, but I I got the picture from the stage. The lights were bright, so they're not very good pictures. And um, but 98 graduates and

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99 graduates at those two schools. And such a such a cool story, such a cool environment. Uh, so many reasons to be proud. And you think about those two campuses. Um, they've also had some adversity and some challenges and having to try to figure out how life works online. And, uh, it was it was this

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really special special day. So, congratulates them. Just a couple quick graduation statistics. Uh, we're still working on getting all the numbers in, but Riverdale had about 421 graduates. We were guessing who had the most. It was Prairie View High School that had the most graduates. Uh, 440 graduates.

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Uh, and then a couple things. We're just trying to get more. I just think it's amazing. I heard it at Brighton High School ceremony, 355 graduates and they uh $4.2 million in scholarships those kids were awarded. Now, they're not taking advantage of all those scholarships, but that's amazing. And

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Prairie View High School, we had 4.5 million in in plus in scholarships at Prairie View. I didn't get the statist for Riverdale Ridge High School. Uh, and I don't have them for every other school. Uh, and I I have to think Eagle Ridge has to be a a missed number because they have so many kids going to

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scholarships and a reason to celebrate them. That was the Ashley and they that was the 30 kids higher than they've ever graduated Eagle Ridge. So, cool stuff. most graduates in the fastest ceremony. Thank you, Steve. You got back on time. >> We're catering to our audience. We

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should tell your friends they should come, Steve. >> And then a couple things just because our community, you know, we we we made this decision for a lot of reasons. Uh, one was some of them wasn't um um some of the venues that we had previously used weren't available. Everybody would love a hometown graduation at Brighton

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High School, but we have about 5,000 people attending each of those graduations and our stadiums can't hold it. And we have the v the variability of weather and actually the cost was more expensive. But just a breakdown of what we had spent in the past. Uh you can see

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the costs over the last years and and and doing it all three on one day at one time at FC Blue was a a good decision for us financially for sure. and we liked it for for for all general purposes. It was a good setting. We we

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always ask and Steve's been part of this, but we we know we have some continuous improvement. Uh we heard that trap parking and traffic flow was was hard for kids and families getting in and out of between that. We we think that there could be some we have to we have to be done in two hours to give

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flow of traffic to get out. Um seating space and then like a protocol for seating. Um we had people from Brighton or Prairie View saving seats for the Bright and High people. So when people came in got a little messy at times. So we we can work through some of those pain points. Uh entry and greetings um

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not having somebody which you greet you is walk in the door and then not not everybody having a program and where do I get a program and some had programs and some didn't have programs. It's just a little confusing over there. And then the the other complaint I learned even just from tonight is just just PE parents feeling a little rushed on the

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way out that didn't have enough time to take pictures with their families. So all those things matter to us and so we we we did it our first time. We did a really good job. We tried to think of it all. We didn't. So we got to learn and get better. And so that's what we you can expect from us. One update just

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because I'm not I know many of us live in this community, but Brighton uh police Sam gave me this uh last week that Brighton police will be using BHS on 6:11 and 6:17 for an active shooter training uh from 7:00 to 7:00 a.m. to

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4:00. So just if you were to get calls what's going on at Brighton High School, what what's what's happening? You have that in the loop. And then what's that? >> Yes. >> Yeah. We'll make sure that we communicate as well, but just didn't want to catch you guys off guard. And

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then every year, uh, district leadership, we play kind of a a a year in numbers. I was going through my past presentations with you, and I know you're always on the edge of your seat, so you already remember those statistics. Um, but this one is a bunch of things I've not shared with you. And so we we play a game at the end of the

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year like our district buys some numbers that are pretty cool. And I still don't have them all. Uh, but here's some cool things, right? Two, we now have true transportation terminals. That happened this year. It's hard to imagine that happened this year. 90 million. That's that's how much we got on time on budget

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for Talon Ridge construction, right? 148 million is what Rocky Vista is costing. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you to the bond taxpayers that agreed to help us stay ahead of the growth and build schools on times. I love the next one. $20 million of additional construction

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projects districtwide. Um we we always get the headline goes to Rocky Vista and Talon Ridge, but making sure that we take care of our existing schools. Uh we're having construction and taking care of hallways at Prairie View this summer. Like it matters for the the equity that every kid gets a gets a

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good-look building when they to walk into every day. And if while we're talking about the new schools, how about Heritage turning 100? Um I don't know if many of us knew that Heritage turn somewhere turned 100red years old. Terry Terry was the first graduating class if you remember.

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um uh 1.5 million miles traveled by her transportation department and and I was told that it was five times around the world is how many times you could get around with 1.5 million >> one year

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>> and in one year this is one year's numbers we travel the distance and now we have two transportation terminals that helps we had over two million meals served by our nutrition services department breakfast and lunch and it's over 2 million. I think we could probably sharpen that number up, but all

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of our voters, everybody who said yes to LL and MM, tell me that those take those 2 million mills away from kids. That that would be a sad day. So, thank you for that. Uh we have a a gentleman by the name of Wasim and Wasim was since we've hired him has saved over $500,000

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and energy conservation and just being expense aware. We hadn't been staring at our bills closely or knowing what we're getting build for, so we just pay the bills. And I said when we hired him, Wasim better we better he better be able to pay his salary with what with in the savings. And Wasim's paid for a lot of

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people's salary with with his work. So congratulations there. Uh if you didn't remember, Capstone Academy opened earlier this year. It's like sometimes the years tell you what the days don't. You forgot. We opened a new K8 charter school in the south part of our district. We had 643

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HR processed new employees. So over the course of year we processed 843 employees. Uh Jeremy and his team they they they the six techs 29,000 devices they're responsible for and that that Chromebooks desktops and

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they have a 98% positive tech ticket survey response and I just think that goes to Jeremy and his team and his commitment to trying to be very client serviceoriented. 2.7 million square feet of building space, which I couldn't believe that that's how much building space we have.

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I think we've seen that in that was some of the statistics. I know that you read diligently in your your report from a couple weeks ago. Uh 6,045 work orders in a year and 16 members of our facility team working like crazy to try to make that stuff happen. Those groups deserve

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shout outs and they're not always the things I celebrate up here when we when we share with you. 22,000 average square foot of our our custodians clean each day, right? So, if that's you, that's 8.8 houses the custodian cleans each day that they work for us. That's pretty

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awesome. We maintain 473 acres of ground on 31 sites and 11 groundsmen are taking care of that of 43 acres per person. And so, I some of that you think is probably liable. We should we should be investing more in those groups, but that's what our budget holds. And those guys do

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their very best and proud of it. uh 3.9% uh this is just data I just got here recently. We had 3.9% increase in the percentage is 27J students are becoming fluent in English. And what's cool about that number is last year that number was four. The number before was four. So we just keep growing on that percentage.

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I'm proud of that. And then 4% increase in the number of of of students who are participating in AP coursework. Um we we've often spent a lot of time up here. I talk about all the CTE programs and exciting stuff, but uh uh uh 4% more more kids are taking AP and concurrent

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enrollment classes in our high schools than ever before. And what I'm really about is the the quotations. Of course, this means we're increasing the participation of our diver diverse students. You can't have increases in our community without having more and more diverse students. I don't have the individual breakdowns, but we have we have kids who are taking programs and

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imagining a future that they they might not have imagined before. So, I'm pumped about that. 18 different industry pathways uh in 27J. That that's that's a a high from around our region and 70% of our seniors 27J seniors are graduating

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with an industry certificate when they leave us. That's pretty cool. You think about uh what just happened in this room, the amount of state and national champion that was the second semester list of people that happens right here in 27J, right? And so sometimes we go well we don't win many sports. It's like

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I don't know. We don't have very We have award-winning a lot of things right here in 27J. And I I I'm always embarrassed that our community doesn't always I don't think they fully understand just just how many great things are happening right here in this district. And then I've already shared, but it's the the outcomes that matter most. When we try

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to improve our dashboard, we're trying to improve those those indicators below and those outcomes matter. And so we we're increasing by 4.3% point increase on the third quarter dashboard. and that that that's inclusive. Almost all of all of those metrics are slightly up and and that

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that's kind of the data we turn. So with that, that will conclude my long very labor intensive but very worth it. >> That was a great report. I love seeing those numbers. Do you have any questions for them? >> Well, I want to compliment you on that.

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That was an excellent report. Uh moving on, item eight would be our uh Oh, no. Yeah. Item seven would be matters of public comment. The board will now hear public comments on topics that have been indicated on the sign-in sheet. A reminder that this board meeting is a business meeting held in public, not a

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public meeting. The board hears public comments to learn about the preferences and concerns of our community. Therefore, tonight we listen. We are prohibited by state law from taking any action on the items because law requires formal public notice prior to any action on an agenda item. Uh during our next meeting, if appropriate, we will

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consider your comments in our discussion. We will 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 the opportunity to participate, we have a few ground rules. Uh if you intend to address the board,

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you sign in on the speaker signin sheet. We'll call you in order. Uh speaker's comments are limited to three minutes. Uh we ask that you refrain from making complaints or negative comments about individual students or district employees. However, we cannot prevent you from doing so. Such complaints and comments should be addressed first at

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the classroom or school level and if then still unresolved go to the superintendent directly. A disturbing good order by inappropriate language or gestures is grounds for removal from the meeting and we thank you in advance for your participation tonight. I have three members on there. I had two that were crossed out. So I will skip over those.

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The first up would be David Pockington in district would like to talk about the PA bathroom and title nine policies. David, welcome. for some reason. >> Apologize. >> Thank you. >> Am I on?

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When parents like myself make complaints, we want to be heard and acknowledge that the board is listening, taking into consideration our complaint. I didn't read anywhere in the commitment to governing style where anybody on the board can tell

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parents to get their crap together. I use that word instead of the other language. That was over parking. Wonder how the board feels about somebody protecting his kids. Title 9 prohibits discrimination based on sex and education programs and

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activities that receive federal financial assistance. Title 9 and Colorado law are completely different. sexual harassment grievance. This is your policy. The district is committed to maintaining a learning environment free from sexual harassment and conforms to legal requirements under Title 9

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Education Amendments of 1972, but we follow Colorado law. We allow boys into girls bathrooms. Other policy, harassment, discrimination, investigation procedures, allegations of sexual harassment arising under Title 9. You say follow Title 9, but we allow boys in

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girls bathrooms. How can 27J say they follow Title 9 again by allowing uh boys in the girls bathrooms when both Title 9 and Colorado law contradict each other? OCR, Department of Education has made it clear that Denver and Jeffco for its

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policies are wrong. 27J follows those same policies. Principles of policy governance. The board will govern lawfully. If you disobey Title 9, a federal law where uh where federal supersedes state in this

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matter, how are we governing lawfully? 27J's policies. State 27J follow Title 9. How come we're not putting in writing that we follow Colorado law? How come we don't put it down in paper that we do it? Are we trying to hide it some way? I don't know.

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your title nine complaint form. You guys have a Title 9 complaint form right here. But why do we have a complaint form again if we're allowing boys into the girls bathrooms? We want 27J to look good, but deep down

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we are no better than Denver or Jeffco. We're just trying to hide in more. 27J school board allows girls or sorry allows this to happen and continues to. What happens if somebody gets hurt a child? Who's to blame for it? 27J board will govern proactively. That

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means we need to do something about it before something bad happens. Either 27J respects females and will follow Title 9 or we follow Colorado law allowing boys into a girls restrooms and intimate spaces. Which one is 27J going to follow? Thank you.

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>> Thank you, David. Uh, next up would be Sarah Park. She's from out of the district, but she would like to talk about the budget. Sarah, are you here? Come on forward. Welcome. >> Board President Green, distinguished members of the board, Superintendent Pierce, and amazing executive leadership

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team. Thank you for allowing me to join your meeting and offer my public comment tonight. I'm Sarah Park. I'm a former teacher and principal from Mapleton, um, who found myself drawn to the finance and funding side of things. I reached out to a few of you by email and I wanted to come and introduce myself

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tonight in person. I want to start by congratulating you all. First, I feel so lucky to be here tonight. Um I haven't been in working inside a school for a while and so it was really inspirational to see all these kids celebrated here tonight and all that you're accomplishing. So, thank you for letting

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me be here. I also want to celebrate you on your TW or commend you and congratulate you on your 2627 budget that's included in the board board materials for the consent agenda tonight. You and your leadership team have done an incredible job in a very challenging context for both the state

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and for 27J specifically and I have serious respect for the budget that you have developed and all the expertise and difficult decisions that went into making it. Um I own a local branch of Skoolie Mitchell which is the largest cost reduction consulting firm in North

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America and we specialize in the only budget lever that remains for 27J which is recurring vendor costs across more than 20 C categories including te things like telecom, IT, waste, utilities, supplies, copers, manage print, many

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more. Schoolie Mitchell averages 28% savings to school districts. And these are savings that can be discovered, actualized, and accounted for after the budget is approved. So, please know I'm not here in any way to upend this incredible budget that you've got coming

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forward tonight or any of the great work by your CFO and her team. There are three reasons we find savings that even the most excellent leadership financial teams and financial teams can't. one. The first one I'm going to

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quote um Liam Niss from the movie Taken, which is that we have a very particular set of skills. We have 180 analysts in our head office who specialize only in this. No school district can or should have the budget for that staffing on

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this specialty alone. Number two, we have access to information that no one else has. Schoolie Mitchell has been doing this for more than 25 years for more than 33,000 clients. So, we have a a private and dynamic database of more than 30,000 negotiation

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rate negotiated rates that the vendors do not publish. And three, we bring bandwidth to your financial team that you just simply couldn't have. You're keeping your central administrative team as lean as possible, as you should. As consultants, we come in strategically,

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bringing both expertise and bandwidth. Our results are proven. And the reason I'm here at this time in the school year is because we just had our first results in Colorado with your neighboring district where in our first category we saved them a million dollars. Do you

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need me to stop now? Is that my buzzer? >> I have just three more sentences. Okay, thank you. um they're selecting their next category and the CFO and the deputy CFO said that they'd be happy to talk with you, anyone here at Bright at 27J

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to offer their reference and um recommendation. And the final reason why I am passionate about bringing these services to school districts is the way the fees work. We get paid on a contingency basis. If we find savings for you, we receive a percentage of the actual savings. If we don't find

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savings, you pay us nothing. you just get a free expert external audit of your chosen vendor costs. So, I won't take up any more time. Thank you so much for your time. Congratulations on all your incredible work and accomplishments and I hope I have the chance to connect with you more.

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>> Thank you, Miss Park. Next up would be Janine Runfla in the district. She'd like to talk to us about literacy. Welcome, Janine. I think you guys already know I'm in the district. Um, so as a parent in the district and a former science teacher

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from the district, um, I just wanted to come from that perspective, but, um, I wanted to start by saying my purpose tonight is to not criticize the teachers or attack the district. Um, I know firsthand how difficult it is teaching and how much pressure schools are, um, for getting to standards and using

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technology and testing and everything. Um, I'm speaking tonight because I care deeply about the public education and because I want to partner with the district in strengthening student learning in our community. 27J's curriculum instruction department states that the purpose of the thinking

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classroom is to empower students as thinkers, learners, and problem solvers. I strongly support that vision. My concern is whether our increased dependence on technology is always aligned with that research tells us how students learn, process information, develop writing skills, and build critical thinking. The growing body

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appeared research reviewed re research shows that handwriting and paperbased learning tasks engage the brain differently than screen-based learning. Uh research published in psychology science found that students taking notes by hand demonstrated a stronger conceptual understanding than students

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typing notes on laptops because typing often encouraged transcription rather than deeper cognitive processes. um plus all the distractions that come with being on a computer like games and other things. Um research has also shown that writing

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itself strengthens critical thinking because students must organize, analyze, explain and revise their reasoning. Technology absolutely has value in education. I'm not arguing against technology. Digital tools can improve access communication, collaboration, and

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efficiency. But technology should support thinking, not replace the cognitive work involved in learning. I also appreciate that the district has already taken steps to reduce the distraction through cell phone policies during the school day.

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Um my hope is that we continue to um have conversations that look at the role of sustained writing, handwriting, and paperbased thinking and developing stronger learners and critical thinkers. As a parent, this became very personal for for me while supporting my daughter

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who had writing goals on an IEP for several years. During one quarter this past year, there was only one writing assignment used to assess progress on her writing goal, and it was not even a completed final draft. That concerns me, not because I want to blame teachers, but because strong writing skills

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develop through consistent writing practice, drafting, and revision, and feedback, and opportunities to organize and explain ideas. If we want students to become thinkers and problem solvers, then we have to ensure they are regularly doing the kind of writing and

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reasoning that develops those skills. I believe everyone in this room wants the same thing. Students who can think critically, communicate effectively, and succeed long after they leave our schools. >> Perfect. >> Thank you, Jenny. I appreciate the report you're providing. Is there

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anybody else that wanted to speak but didn't know you needed to fill out that form? Seeing none, moving on. Item eight would be our consent agenda. All matters listed on the consent agenda are operational matters about which the board has governing policies and implementation of which is delegated to

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the superintendent. They will be enacted in one motion by category in the order listed below. There will be no discussion of these items prior to the time the board of directors vote on the motion and any member of the public who wishes to discuss the consent agenda should have notified us ahead of time. They have not. Our items on the consent

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agenda are a approval of the board of ed education minutes dated ma May 27th 2026 the study session and regular meeting and approval of personnel items on the memorandum dated June 4th 2026 which is a confidential disclosure. Do I have a motion?

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>> Second >> motion from director Ramon Alvarado and a second from director Trill. Roll call. Because of uh Tracy's absence, I'm just going to call your last names since I only have since I only have one Alvarado here tonight. Director Alvarado,

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>> yes. >> Director Carbal, >> yes. >> Director Khan, >> yes. >> Director Green, >> of course. >> Director Trujillo, >> yes. >> Director Wilhelm, >> yes. >> Motion carries. Thank you. >> Thank you very much. Next up would be item nine, governance process that supports our global goals. Uh here we'll

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hear reports from a number of our directors on committees that they serve. ownership linkage. Director Carboural, do you have anything to add? >> I I don't think so. We're going to talk about it at the end of this. >> Uh board of education, Director Carbal or Shillo, do you have anything to add?

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Moving on, uh facility planning and advisory committee. Uh we are going to have a meeting uh later this month and I'll have a report after that in August obviously. Rocky Mountain Risk, our director isn't here. Uh the 27J believers award director to Wilhelm.

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Thank you very much. the 20 27J school use tax with Commerce City. Director Alvarado or Director Wilhelm >> oversight committee director Alvarado >> uh we have not met since the last time. So >> very well we are yeah we have a rapid

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turnover so it can be understandable we haven't met yet. How about the 2022 mill levy override oversight committee director Alvarado or Wilhelm? We met last night and Michael is going to present what we did um in August. We

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thought he was presenting tonight, but he's actually on the agenda for the August meeting. It was a good meeting. We went over the budgets. >> Yeah, that's sums it up. We kind of went through the budgets about the 27 budget. So, good discussion we had around that. So, >> I don't want to steal his thunder.

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>> Oh, go ahead. Steal his thunder. How about the Brighton Youth Commission, Director Jill? Anything? Um I I haven't attended a meeting in a minute but they keep me updated and again allow that flexibility as long as I volunteer at some of the events to make up the hours

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from meetings. So some of the updates we are starting it's like the year just ended right we had speak week it was all amazing and we just had interviews I believe a week ago for all the new members that'll be coming in.

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So that's all I have right now >> and they usually always have a big presentation at the uh city of Brighton Fourth of July barbecue. So I look forward to that too. Uh do you have anything on the excellence and education award? Director Khan. >> No, we have not met. We'll ramp up

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meetings probably in October again to get ready for next year. >> Very good. Uh next up, uh the board will consider combining the ownership linkage and board educations committee. Uh we have four directors currently. Director Melinda Carbajal and Tracy Alvarado currently serve on the ownership linkage

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committee and director Carbajal and Sarter Heel serve on the board of education committee. Uh the motion that we will consider uh I would like to appoint Director Carbajal and director Raone Alvarado as the members of this

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combined committee if you so move. >> I just had a question. um when in previous years when we've assigned committees, it's been volunteer basis. So why are we switching to you appointing? >> It's in the bylaws that the president

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appoints them. I usually ask for consensus on it, but uh again, I've got four people that we're trying to combine into one here on this one. So that's who I'd like to appoint. Do we have a motion? committee. >> Yes, currently that those would be the only two that would serve on this new

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newly formed committee hopefully. And again, we will be and it's under item N. We'll be forming a new strategic partnership and an intergovernment relations committee. Uh I would like to have you appointed on that new one when it's the time comes if it's approved.

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>> So it would be linkage and then educa wait >> combined. into one. >> No. Yeah, it would be one committee that would >> currently >> but we'll have a new committee. Correct. or will that >> we will have discussion and it's

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consideration in August for the new committee >> leading up to >> that's what we have are like to lead up to yes but at this point we only have this we can table it we if there's no motion we can wait until August and decide then this is uh what's uh waiting for us this this month

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>> my question is are there two separate >> are there two separate things one we're going to approve to put these two committees together and that's what we're discussing and then two on the appointment piece. >> No, I my my recommendation would be who I would appoint. Those are the two that

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I would appoint. So, you can only do the one, but then the appointment would still be left up to the president. >> I'm sorry. I I'm having a really hard time um because

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>> Yeah. Was he volunteered or >> was he volunteled or was he >> I did discuss it with him. I'd like to get him more involved. I know he's has a shortage of participation and I would like to get him involved but I did discuss it with him before the meeting and I know you had a discussion with Belinda. I'd like to hear your thoughts.

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>> Sure. Yeah. So I mean I'm very transparent. um I was approached before we had this meeting so didn't have all time to discuss it or or that not but um what I'd like to see is where would like sort of serve on those meetings if

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there's a strong preference then I would consider some of those board members who want to be part of those meetings. So >> I think that it should be volunteer like it's been every time we've ever had a committee. I don't understand why for

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this one committee, we would suddenly use the bylaws to appoint people. That seems off to me when every year that I've been on this board, it has been, okay, who wants to do this? We all kind of rally. We all take turns. Like, if there's

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people that are interested and wanting to do it and wanting to spearhead it, I don't understand why now we're having appointments. I don't agree. >> Again, that that's the bylaws. That's how it's said is the president appoints who serves on the committees. >> But why is that now? >> Previously I've I've asked for your

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input and and that's that's how we've basically appointed them. >> So >> So can you explain so I understand why it's >> that's my feelings. If you guys want to make a different motion, you can. But again, it's the bylaws state that the board president appoints who serves on

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the committees. >> So will that be how things are going to be moving forward? >> I would like that to be yes. so that we could assure even distribution. >> I just want to >> had even distribution in the past. >> We haven't. Yeah. And I think it's important to get everyone involved.

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>> I was just going to say that I just looked Raone is on four committees. >> Pulling me off of that would leave me only in one. >> Okay. Would you like to be the one appointed with this one then? >> Yeah.

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>> Okay. Those will be the two that I would appoint then. Director Carbahal and Director Trill >> are you okay? >> Yeah, you can call me Carver Hall. I'm I will accept that committee. Yeah. So then if everyone's okay with that, I would move to approve combining the

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ownership linkage committee and board education committee. >> Second. >> Roll call vote, please. I'm >> sorry, who was that? Second. Thank you. Director Alvarado. >> Yes.

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>> Yes. >> Director Khan. >> Yes. >> Director Green. >> Yep. >> Director Trillo. >> Yes. >> Director Wilhelm. >> Yes. >> And the director's appointed would be Director Carbajal and Director Trillo.

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>> Perfect. And I can quote um just so you guys know and I'll make it in the minutes. 2D is your board officers and meeting conducts. I was just looking it up. 2E says the board president will appoint board members to serve on board committees as chair of such committees except where specific otherwise in board

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policy. So I'll put that in the minutes so that it notes where that policy is since you guys had a discussion on it. Motion carries. Thank you. >> Thank you. Uh other matters of information for board of future the CASBY McGuffy nominations open June 8th.

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uh please coordinate uh with me or uh Director Sheets, board secretary Sheets uh on who we'd like to nominate this year. Uh I who who doesn't have it now? >> I have a list. >> What's that?

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>> Casby allowed us to do two last year because it was an election year and sometimes people come off and haven't had it. So I didn't bring my McGuffy list, but um >> typically it's one. >> Typically it's one. That was a rare exception that they allowed us to do two. Typically, you are only allowed one. Yes.

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>> So, please keep that in mind. Uh, Director Alvarado will attend Casby's fall conference and delegate assembly on September 11th and 12th. And again, in August, we will consider the formation of a new strategic partnership and intergovernmental relations committee. Uh, and we'll discuss at the study

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session and the regular meeting. And again, uh, I would expect action or open the opportunity for action in August. Uh, next up would be expectations of the board policy. Uh, director superintendent Michael Clow, executive director of learning, kids

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services Carla Reer, and director of safety and security Sam Ortega. Threeways are going to present the expectations of the board report 3A, treatment of students/public, as conveying reasonable interpretations of the executive limitations. Come on down.

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You have you have the slidesh? >> Yep. >> Awesome. >> Mr. President, thank you. Oh, we got multiples. >> All right. Uh first I'd like to um thank my colleagues who supported uh all my

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colleagues who support and there's a lot here uh related to the intervention services team. Darcy Brown, Sam Ortega, Carlo Ryder, all supporting uh preparing this report tonight. Unfortunately, uh Darcy could not uh attend this session

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tonight. Uh so I'll I'll take her spot, but uh I'll be in more of a question taking mode than a context giving mode as I'm still learning a lot of the components of this report. But we'll start with I believe Sam, you're up first with school safety

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and and as has been my uh um practice, I report compliance for this report and we'll share some information and then take questions. >> All right. just go. >> Oh, you're good. >> As that pulls up, uh just want to say thank you again for allowing me to be

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here and present to you all um around safety uh student safety, security, and well-being. Um again, 27J continues to prioritize the safe, respectful, and dignified treatment of all students through a comprehensive system of prevention, preparedness, response, and

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intervention. So, a couple things uh just to highlight, I'll let you take a look at this. Um again, one of the things I want to highlight, armed school, uh safety guards are deployed across 18 campuses supported by three mobile arms supervisors and a firearm detection K9

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unit. We have uh of those campuses that are secured by the uh SSGS, we have 100% attendance. So every day this year of the school year, there was an armed guard at the uh elementary schools, the and the high schools. And then we had our school resource officers that were

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assigned to uh from Brighton, Commerce City, and Thornton. So that's a highlight there. Another highlight, Secure Vestibills. Uh we thanks to the bond team. I I know Terry I think left. Um but thanks to them again for all the work that they did for securing our vestibules. So every school um every

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campus we have secured vestibules and so that again is is huge with controlled access visitor screening ID verification uh communication systems are in place every at every district managed school. So that was a huge uh success for us this year. Uh last year I had to present

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with there was a few that were uh pending uh construction over the summertime or over the the wintertime and but now we have them all in and so that's a huge success for us this year. Some emergency preparedness and response

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presentation here. Um we have again uh districtwide 178 employees serve on our C teams which are school emergency response teams and complete FEMA incident command system training. Uh that's the ICS 100. So we

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have command staff, general staff, um we have incident commanders. So they're all uh trained in that. We have uh district safety and security personnel providing ongoing guidance, training and support for emergency planning and preparedness efforts. And then we have I wanted to introduce last

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time we met uh we didn't have a structure or a weapons detection program in place. However, now we do. And so just wanted to touch base on that a little bit. Um the primary goal again of the weapons detection program u were to prevent firearms from being brought onto

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campuses, reduce the threat of gun violence, and provide additional protection during reported threats or heightened safety concerns. And so we really landed on that third uh third bullet there, the primary goals. Um the key components of that is now we do have weapons detection system. We have a targeted deployment. uh weapons

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detection is intended for use during high severity incidents rather than a routine daily screening which didn't fit into our operational needs. And we had uh we we listened to the feedback that we received from the community, from our staff, from our kids uh who had to wait in lines for um hours up to hours to get

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into school in the morning time. So that wasn't going to be good for us. Um so we defined our activation criteria. So we have screening may occur during credible threats, active investigations, community or regional incidents, uh behavioral concerns, heightened tensions, uh post incident precautionary

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measures, and then also event safety um and availability. Our high school leaders are aware of the equipment and can request deployment if circumstance meet the established criteria. And then we continue testing and evaluation. The safety and security department uh continues to evaluate potential uses of weapon detection technology at district

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events and in future safety planning. So that's the intended use behind our weapon detection program. Um that's good on that one there. Um what else we have? This is kind of intervention services, but one last highlight. I just wanted to do the an overall impact safety and security

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efforts. Again, we have strong partnerships with law enforcement and public safety agencies. uh comprehensive emergency planning and training at every school, increased staffing and resources dedicated to school safety, improved threat assessment, uh crisis response and afterhour support, constant focus on

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maintaining safe, secure and supportive learning environments for all students, staff and visitors. And again, the weapons detection initiative strengthened overall campus security, improved emergency preparedness, increased supervision at high schools, and established a flexible framework for enhanced screening during elevated

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threat situations while minimizing disruption to the daily learning. >> Awesome. Uh this next slide you see uh talks about the threat assessment team and you see this is a a cross

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um um organization uh team that comes together to uh support our students and and our invention services team created this team along with the folks you see highlighted on that uh list. Melissa

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Vasquez is member of the team from our perspective and it's just another piece of evidence of the effort we take to uh work to keep kids safe. There are threats. Kids make threats to self. They make threats to others and we have to

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assess those in a way uh to to try to predict and support uh what our students need. So, it's just another example of how uh we work to prevent things from escalating. Keep going unless there are questions as

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we go. >> See, uh suicide assessment. I don't have a lot of context for this, but I would take certainly if you had questions, I could uh take questions and bring information back to you. >> Mr. President, >> go ahead. Yeah. >> Um sorry. U on this slide here as I was

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reading through it um can you explain a little bit more about the sources of strength the effect effectiveness of that program and uh why some schools are opting not to be participate what others are and also if this is

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I guess too early for elementary schools to be sort of adopting this or am I misunderstanding something here? >> Say that again. So the question about elementary schools >> right? Yeah. Is it >> I guess that programming so it's being this is seems to me it's like a peerto peer-to-peer program. So I'm wondering

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the effectiveness at the elementary level and why some schools are opting to participate in this sources of strengths and others are not. >> Yeah. Okay. I can chase those. I can bring those back. Yep.

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I guess one other >> Yeah. Yeah. >> the I think what I know I can't answer all of the question, Raone, but but many of our high schools and middle schools have like u uh

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long sustained programs where they've used something other than sources strength that they they've done. I'm thinking of what's but Brighton High School. It's not sources of strength. They they belong to another group. Uh I can't remember

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>> but but but it allows them the autonomy to keep running the programs they have if they all meet the same similar criteria. Uh, and I don't know if you are you asking anything about s the the the sources of strength program itself or just >> Well, I think I'm just trying to get

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like a a good understanding of the program itself. It seems like it's I don't know if it's a some type of training or if it's a vendor or what it is. Uh, >> it is a program. >> Okay. >> Yeah. And we can get more specifics from from the intervention services team, but

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it is sources of strength is a program. Middle school life skills um is one of the programs that we use and then high school is I probably don't know the technical name. We always call it OIE um but I can re refresh about what that

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program is. >> Yeah. And I guess as a followup is so I'm looking at the the suicide assessments there. So I'm not sure if that's an increase decrease or to try to assess the effectness effect of the program. episodes.

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>> Well, yeah. The assessments, I want to be careful about any judgment on whether those go up and down because we want to do the assessments if someone is a a threat. I don't know that it would be good or bad that the numbers went down because we want to be assessing kids and

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getting them into our system, but we can find out context for sure. >> Yeah. along those lines. I it really would be helpful to know if the safe to tell uh reporting is increasing or decreasing compared to last year. Uh the

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threat assessments are those increasing or decreasing the suicide. So so some comparative numbers rather than just the static this is what happened last year. It would it'd be nice to see some comparative. >> Thank you for that. And I actually forgot about the safe to tell and threat responsive uh response improvements that

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we made this year. Um, we do have in August 2025, uh, we added an emergency response specialist, the safety, uh, specifically to work on after hours, but also to help support our schools during the the school day as well. So, we had, uh, 642 calls, uh, to safety towel this

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year. um which 50 50 to 60% um were after hours calls and so having that person on uh improved investigation and management of reports involving threats of violence, self harm, suicide concerns, weapons, abuse and welfare checks. It enhanced our coordination

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with schools uh intervention services, law enforcement, uh dispatch agencies and community partners uh has improved that tremendously. Um we're working towards being a what they call a gold standard by the attorney general's office. And so each one of our schools

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um will have been trained, the students trained in front of of uh trained personnel from safe to tell. So um that person having that person on this year has significantly impacted and enhanced our ability to to speak to law enforcement, communicate, close out,

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check on our students at any time during the night. And so that's that was huge for us. So, like I said, 642 of those calls. There was 300 309 of those calls were after hours. So, when you know, they're not in school. Um, but we're still sending law enforcement to check

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on them, do well-being checks. So, um, that was that was huge for us. >> Are we getting comparative data uh for next year? She's actually working on that right now. >> Yeah. And that those numbers are enlightening because that's more than two a day. >> Yeah. >> If you look at that. So, you know, and

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so that that's something that would are they coming in streaks where we get sometimes we get 10 in a day or, you know, some comparative data so we can look at that. But that that seems like a lot, but I'm glad we have somebody there to handle that. >> Yeah. >> And I'll just remind you, these are these are hard because these aren't

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goals. And so these are limitations. So you're you're asking us to make sure that we have precautions that make sure we keep kids safe. Does that make sense? So the the data going up and down is isn't as important as that we collect it and

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we know it or we we have mechanisms to keep it. Does that make sense? Like I if if the goal if you made this you wanted to make this a goal about kids safety then you would expect numbers to go down or go up depending on what that is. To Michael's point, we want to make sure

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the kids we have suicide assessments. If we have a thought, a kid just, oh man, I'm gonna says something off the comment, we do that. We want to make sure that every kids are safe. Those protocols are what matter that we have protocols, we have procedures, we take this serious, we have afterhour people

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might watch. Those are the ways that we're proving to you that we are keeping kids safe. Does that make sense? Now the data about how safe are we compared to how are kids responding to our interventions. How many kids are getting better from sources of strength versus

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not is more of the operations of the goal itself but how we move it. Does that make sense? But it's not a limitation >> right >> goal. I just wanted to clarify that for our team. >> Can I this might be slightly off topic. Um and I know it happens in most school districts but we've lost a few students

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this year to suicide. Are we able to look at them on a case-by case basis and see what we've missed if there was a possibility we could have re you know been reaching in or if we already were uh yeah exhaustively

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uh I mean that that's the that's that's the ultimate worst there is. It's the most senseless, saddest thing in the world. Like to to say, are we looking back? I don't I can't think of a time. I think we're over looking back, right? Everybody from

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counselor to teacher to person who walked by them in the hall is analyzing every interaction they've had and every thought that they've gone through and and then we formally try to look back and see how we might have missed it. And you know, hindsight's always always that way that were there signs, were there

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worries? Were there concerns? Did you know? Yeah. You usually always find some trail back after the fact. Does that make sense? And in some cases, you don't, but yes. Are we are we looking? Yes. Are there findings? Yeah. And then and I don't know in the end you're

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you're you're making a a permanent solution to a temporary problem. When does kid a kid experience a temporary problem that they can't find themselves out of, right? Like that that's a that's a hard thing to deal with. I don't I don't have a good answer for you, Ashley. But we do look and try to backtrack all of that to see what we

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could do, how we could be better. But, you know, the the the guilt of something like that is is unbearable for everybody, everybody included, right? Everybody can't can't stop doing that. Now whether that actually makes the system better, stronger all the times,

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I'm not sure if they're predictable or rational at that point. Does that make sense? I don't know if that's answering your question. I just think it's a so part of treatment of students. Uh one of the expectations Thank you.

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with the treatment of students. One of the expectations is that we will not illicit information which there is no clear business necessity. So uh one of the components of this we want to share and be transparent about educational research requests that we have received

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in the district during the 2526 school year. There were three requests made. You can see them there. um they are the bulleted items on the slide and within the report of the three requests two of them were approved and they were the

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second and third bullet items. Um so in regards to the expectation neither of these research proposals required or involve students in any fashion. So uh they only involve staff members or

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school leaders. So student information um was not elicited through the educational research pro uh process in any fashion. The ones that were approved aligned with our priorities um in relation to leadership. We do

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value and promote um the 27J6 leadership skills. The proposal was in alignment with that. We obviously are uh equity focused. We want to create opportunities for all of our kids. And so what does equity focus leadership look like would

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align with our our district uh priorities? Um and then of course within alternative schools uh we have one alternative school innovations and options. How do we support students through relationships in being successful in

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meeting the graduation requirements? Obviously an interest of ours. So those two uh educational research projects were approved, supported and no confidential, no student information, no students were involved in any way.

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Uh internal um student data that we collect. Go ahead. >> Sorry, Carla. Yeah, >> back on the uh the Yeah, back on this one. Um and I noticed there was the seven sort of standards that we have, right? Are these I just want to reconcile my minor. Are these part of

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the IRB as well or do they have to submit like an IRB get approval from the institution first before they actually come to to the school? >> Many of our research project projects are related to individuals who are pursuing advanced degrees. However, our

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partnerships could also involve uh businesses, educational businesses and individuals. In this particular case, they were all related to uh individuals who were pursuing an advanced degree. So IRB was involved as well.

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>> Okay. So there's just want to make sure there's is an opportunity for consultants to actually solicit as well. So an IRB >> sometimes when we uh have a partnership with a vendor we don't again none of these were this but there have been in

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past when we've had partnerships with vendors where they also have an interest in the effectiveness of the program if you will >> so sometime because we also have that interest. >> Sure. So we would create that partnership as well. And so in that case

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an and an IRB would not be part of it. But through our standards um we we do our diligence to protect student confidentiality and do not share any identifying information with outside >> okay >> individuals.

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>> Great. Thank you. >> Okay. Um okay so internal student data um so we did um this year in 2526 we implemented and administered our uh revised student climate and culture

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survey. Um this survey there are um categories that we get feedback on um inclusivity, relationships, safety, those types of topics. I realized this afternoon, so

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I'm just going to be transparent. I'm sorry we didn't put the data in here from the results. It was a brand new survey and we didn't put the data in here. We can get that for you. Geez. Uh I I did take a peek um and I

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can get it to you more formally um by some of the categories that we uh get student perception on. When we look at the overall student survey, the the um spring administration of all the students who took the survey across all

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grade levels, the percent of students who indicated a positive learning environment was 86.2%. So, I can give you that broad result verbally. My apologies for not including

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it in the report tonight. um and we can get you more more detailed information by category. So um the social emotional learning common assessment um this is an assessment that we have been administering to students

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um for multiple years and um it does align with what we indicate as they're called castle competencies. So the self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, relationship skills, and responsible decision-m we have those are

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also important and relevant skills for our kids to have. And so we do have a common assessment for that. And uh we can also get you some some data on this if you request it. Uh expectation

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uh number two collect review. We will not collect, review, transmit, store or destroy student information in a manner that fails to protect against improper access to that information. So um we do have uh vendors that we we do need to

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share and they house uh student confidential or student identifiable information. Um, Infinite Campus is our student information system and then the the hyperlink there is uh third-party vendors. Most of these

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vendors are um our curriculum programming. So for secondary English language arts and math we u partner with SAVIS my perspectives and envision. And so because there is a student side, they

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do have some information. And so we we have agreements with all of our vendors about the protection of uh student privacy and we have processes and procedures that we need to um follow one to transmit the data but also if there

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is a data breach. Um we have not had any data breaches involving our um students this year through our systems. Just a quick question. A lot of us parents received that email stating that there was a breach, but it's true that

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none of that was in 27J. That's correct. >> We did not have any data breach through our systems in 27J. >> Thank you for reiterating that. >> All right. And then just some of the um protections that we also have in place for staff members like additional layers

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of protection. Every staff member is required to have dual authentication. So, we log in, but then we also have to confirm that it's us through a dual authentication process. Um, password protection, very standard process. Um,

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some content filters. Um, and email protections. All right. Sorry. Oh, this one might be me still. Yep. Sorry. Oh, Stephen. No, it's both of us. Sorry.

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And here we're just trying to answer that question. Operate without uh communicating to students and public a clear understanding of what may be expected from district services offered. You'll see uh the things addressed in code of conduct and student handbooks to

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students, families. And then our communications team also helps with the communicating of what families and students um what expectations we have and also what's available to them through our so our communications team

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um does a lot of work to make sure that our uh district website has relevant information for families. Um, we also communicate with families through different social media platforms that you can see listed there. We do provide

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a specific page on the website that connects to um any emergency situations that are take place in the district um along with emailing, texting information to parents and we can do that by site

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location. So only the families that are impacted get that information. We also have partnerships with our local, regional, and national media to help um communicate situations that need that larger media presence as well. Um currently, our

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communications team throughout the school year was working on um upgrades to our district communication systems. One of those was the accessibility of our website to asssure that um individuals with disabilities can access

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the information that's on our website. Um we provide language transit translations not only on the website uh but we have a tool called two-way chat. Uh it's we had a some troubleshooting to

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do throughout the year, but we're getting to the place where that's working pretty well. That allows a teacher and a a family who have different language preferences to interact directly without the use of a a in-person translation. Um so the two-way

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chat has is growing to be a useful tool. And then coming in the fall, we have a um e newswsletter that will help automate information so that there's some consistent districtwide information in our school newsletters.

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Oh, uh sorry. Uh student achievement information that is available um through the public. Again, just so families know what is available to them through our um

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education system. On the left is some programming information that is available for kids and and all of this includes contact information. Who's the best person to reach out to if you want to learn more? And then of course the services um that go along with while

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kids are at school getting kids to school other services that are provided are also available through the website and that's on the right side there. Then you'll see information about uh uh services provided through the intervention services team uh to support

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families in McKini Vento. The referrals that come to support for intervention services. So indicating that we are communicating and engaging uh families who need support foster care students and communication

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with them. that happens again through the intervention services team to make sure that they're aware and being communicated with. And then the final piece uh operate without informing students or the public as appropriate of this policy without

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providing a complaint response process to students etc. I'll read that. Uh >> sorry. >> Yeah. Yeah. >> Sorry. Uh, Michael, >> I I just want to >> don't want to gloss over the last two slides on the Yeah. I mean, those I think that's great work that 27J is

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doing and I just want to point that out that it's >> great to see all the things that we're doing for these kids. >> Uh, and so I just want to point that out. I want to acknowledge the the great work that we're all doing for those kids. So, thank you. >> Absolutely. and and the intervention services team, Darcy's team, and and I

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mean, they're engaged directly with families who have very intensive needs and and work to take care of them. They support those. You saw the threat assessments earlier. That team is engaged with some of the heaviest loads that we carry in this district and and they do a really good

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job. Uh you see Title Nine, which also falls under Darcy. Um Megan Rhodess is our title N coordinator and so there's a process for those issues to be screened and h hopefully we handle those

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appropriately in compliance with uh Title 9. That's the goal and we have a process to do that and that's what you would expect of us. Any other any other questions that I can carry and and bring back information for?

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So we will follow up with some additional data. >> Uh with that I will entertain a motion on item 10B. I'll move to accept the expectations of the board report through 3A treatment of students public as conveying reasonable

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interpretation of the executive limitations. >> I'll second >> motion from director Wilhelm, second from director Carvajal. Roll call vote. >> Director Alvarado, >> yes. >> Director Carbajal, >> yes. >> Director Khan, >> I.

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>> Director Green, >> yep. >> Director Trillo, >> I. >> Director Wilhelm, >> yes. Motion carries. Thank you. >> Thank you. And now the Stacy show begins. Uh, Chief Financial Officer Stacy Mashamoto will present the expectations of the board report through

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3F financial planning and budgeting as conveying reasonable interpretation of the executive limitations. Proceed. >> All right. Good evening. Thank you guys. Um so tonight I will be as president Green said presenting on policy 3F

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financial planning and budgeting. Um so we kind of break this up into two things. We talk about the policy language and then the limitations that are within the policy. So first off um the policy language says financial planning for any fiscal year or the remaining part of any fiscal year will not deviate material materially from the

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board's end priority risk financial jeopardy or fail to be derived from a multi-year plan. So I tonight's presentation I kind of want to go into our interpretations of those those the language within this policy and kind of

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how we show compliance for this policy. Um so as it was highlighted in the language those are the five different um language interpretations I'll go over tonight. So first up, financial planning. Um as presented in the past

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board meeting, past board meeting um the district does undergo a rigorous budget process that we start in January, February. We meet on a weekly basis um to to talk about projections, initiatives, compensations to plan for the next school year. And obviously as

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we had talked about too, close monitoring of the legislative sessions at the state level are done in those first few months as well. As you all know, those decisions heavily dictate um funding for our school and the school districts. Um as I said, proposed budget

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was presented in May and we're looking to have it adopted by the board tonight. Um so material deviation. Um so it's our interpretation is the budget of any fund shall not decrease by 10% or more unless the district has adequately set aside

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the 3% board reserve and 3% Taber reserve. So, we kind of gave a summary here of all the appropriations from fiscal year 26 um compared to our recommended recommended appropriations for fiscal year 27. And you can see that

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obviously clearly some of the funds do have a greater than 10% decrease year-over-year. However, because we still adequately have the 3% board reserve and 3% Taber set aside for those

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funds, um it we can still um report compliance with this and we absolutely have um reasons for those large decreases in those funds. Um later in the I guess not later but in

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your guys's monitoring report there is some um let's see on pages like 11 and 12 there's some explanations of potentially why revenue has gone down or why expenditures have gone down up or down.

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And so like for the cap reserve fund, you see that decrease in 37%. There's a big explanation of why that is and that is all in that um monitoring report. So if you have any questions on that, we're happy to entertain those. Um but yeah, I'll keep

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moving on. Um so in the language it says the board's end priority. So obviously all of our investments and um go into schools to support the the board's global ends. um we kind of shifted this around a little bit from last year. So

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if you compare monitor reports year-over-year um we it wasn't presented in a way that we thought fairly represented our decision. So um I had my team adjust class a category that says

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classroom support. So before it was just direct school allocation and then like everything else was in the central support services but in those central support services. So like academic support, special education support, um and some of that district-wide support is specifically in the classroom at the

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school. So um we didn't think it was fairly represented last year. So we think this is a better representation of our um priorities. So with the new makeup, we're showing, you know, 59.6% of the

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general fund expenditures are going to classroom support. 29.2 2 is budgeted for charter and transfers to other funds including transportation. Um and then 11.2 is budgeted for support for services support services at the

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district level. So financial services obviously one of those is as an example >> question. >> Thank you. Sorry. Um, >> and I know uh I think uh don't want to add another category whatsoever, but I think one of the big

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numbers that we're always looking at is the safety. We're always talking about how much we're investing in safety. >> Yeah. >> Safety this, safety that. >> Yeah. >> Not obviously for today, but do we know can we get something to say like this is the amount we're actually investing in safety? >> Yep. >> That way it's sort of we have an idea of

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>> Yeah. >> what that total safety we're committed to. >> Yep. >> Thank you. And and I think I just if somebody looks at this and listen sees close to a million dollars to the board of education >> we we talk about this every year. We

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need you to really >> elaborate why that it >> as I was editing this and last time it you're it was in my head that yes it does still say close to a million dollars and and like you said you guys

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have you have a $43,000 budget. So, um, we'll absolutely make those adjustments. >> There's not a million dollars going to the board of education, >> right? >> So, that's it's really it's really important that we point that out. >> Okay.

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>> Um, so the next part of the policy language we want to talk about is a financial jeopardy. Um so policy 3D financial conditions and activities is presented to the board in the January board meeting and full compliance was reported at that time. In that report

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there's 15 different fiscal policies um or different limitations that are placed to superintendent's leadership to mit mitigate the financial risk. In addition to the policies, um, we had our external auditors, Ruben Brown, conduct a financial audit, and

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that was presented as well in the January board meeting. Um, and they did identify a significant deficiency in our internal controls over financial reporting in relation to the treatment of our subscriptionbased information technology arrangements. So, this is all information that we had presented in the

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past, but it's part of this monitoring report as well. So, I just wanted to say it again. And to reiterate, the district test implemented implemented a corrective action plan and taken appropriate steps to ensure proper treatment of the SIPAS is taken going forward.

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Um, and then the last part of that policy language talks about a multi-year plan. Um, so this looks a little different probably than the one that I presented during the study session a couple months ago. Um, and it's because

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I did it so that there was still the board reserve, the Taber reserve. In the other uh forecast, we kind of just let it go, right? As if nothing was going to change. In this um multi-year plan, it is assumed that adjustments will be made

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in our expenditures uh mostly specifically in salary and benefits to uh so that we don't go into a deficit into a negative fund balance. So that's the biggest difference. But as you can still see our estimated fund balance for

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fiscal year 26 27 the beginning fund balance is 60 just under 69 million and then for the next two years pretty big reductions in those fund balance estimated. >> So what you're saying is you just took out the projected increases for salaries

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in order to make it more balanced. >> Yep. So this is assuming that cuts are going to be made so that we can stay within compliance. um on this report the other projection which is more realistic I I wouldn't say more realistic but it it it doesn't take into assumption that

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like any kind of cuts are going to be made okay or increases in revenues however we want it yes it doesn't account for any increases >> correct it is a very conservative

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conservative conservative increase in enrollment as well as PPR Um, >> go ahead. >> So, help me walk me through this. Sorry. Say walk me through this. >> Uh, as of 25, we had $ 38 million in

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unassigned fund balance. Correct. How does that when you actually did the forecast, what does that do to that $38 million of unassigned fund balance? Are we going to eat it all up and then now we're just because then we had like

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16% of the expenses which which was the unassigned fund balance. So do are we now saying that we would not be able to even have what 6% 6% with these the reserve and tabor we would not even have

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a like a month to actually pay for expenses >> the these projections right there. So if you can see in fiscal year 2930 and 30 29 3031 I should say um it's right at that 14 million that is the 3% Taber and

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3% board reserve. So that is the minimum >> that's the maximum you >> yeah the minimum reserve that we have to keep which is >> right >> in this projection everything else is expensed out any other additional unassigned fund balance. That's

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exhausted. >> Exhausted. Correct. >> Okay. >> Okay. >> One more question. So, when you were when you were looking at that labor, did you just leave it without any increases over time? Like when did you stop

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increasing it? Like how did you determine what that was going to look like in terms of us making >> Uhhuh. >> So, take a look at your expenditures. 2627 expenditures are 257 million. 2728 it already is reduced to 254.

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Um and that was to stay within so that revenues didn't completely exceed expenditures. We cutting into 100% of our fund balance. Um because I could have we could have made this projection a little different. We could

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have assumed that no decreases in expenditures, no cuts were going to be made in 2728 and that would have made 2829's beginning fund balance even lower. So then the cuts would have been more in 2829. So just it

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okay. >> Yeah. Yeah. >> Okay. So moving on. So in relation to the policy language, um we report compliance on that part of it. So the second part of the policy are are the

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management limitations. So the four that I'm going to talk about are uh avoiding fiscal risk, um ensuring credible projections, spending within revenue, and supporting board governance. So most specifically, more specifically, it says the superintendent will not allow budgeting that risks incurring those

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situations or conditions described as unacceptable in the financial conditions and activities uh board policy. So that policy basically a 3D says a 3% board reserve and the required 3% Taber reserve were secured in the event revenues fall due to adjusted October

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counts or unexpected or an unexpected recision occurs. Um, and kind of to show this, as you guys saw, that the total of that reserve is roughly $14 million. Um, and this is our cash balances. So, um,

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our cash balances, which is made up of part of our reserves, right, what we have, um, are well over that $14 million as of this last year. So, we'll report compliance for that one. Um the second management limitation is

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superintendent will not allow budgeting that emits credible projections of revenues, expenses, um capital operational items, cash flow projections, and planning assumptions. So there's a lot of information in the actual report, but this is just some information that we want to pull out and

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kind of um highlight tonight. Um, so this chart that we have here is the planning department's projections of our student count, which you guys know is a huge driver as well of what our budgeted revenues are going to be. Um, and so

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it's by fiscal year. It's it's what the projection is compared to what the actual the overage or under and then the over under percentage. So, as you can see, I think our highest over or under is about 3.3%.

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And that was back in 2015, so quite some time ago. Um, in more recent years, the highest was an over and under of 1.87 during COVID. So, um, that's just kind

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of kudos to our our planning team because, yeah, that number that they give us is super important and can make a big impact on our budget. Um, so in relations to revenues, revenues are somewhat of an easier um

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item to project because they're mainly made up of state equalization, as you see, 57% and of property taxes is 36%. So, state equalization is basically um in the 10 years I've been here, it's what the state says we're going to get,

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and I have yet to not receive what the state has told us that we would be getting. Um so, that projection is pretty easy to um come close to. And the other big chunk is our property taxes. So, what this chart is showing is what

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we certify in December versus what we collect in that following calendar year. Um so looking at the percent of total collected we either at 100% or over 100% with the exception of the 22 23 year um

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it was we were collectioned at 92.56% and in the past we've kind of um equated that to COVID times when because property taxes are in a rear right so during COVID times they they allowed taxpayers to pay

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later. Um so that's potentially why that following year we were at 105% collection versus the the prior year. So, um yeah, the other items of revenue um are SOT

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taxes, special education that we get, uh funding that we get from the state, and then just miscellaneous revenue, which is uh like rebates that we get into the general fund, interest that we earn on any, um cash balances that we have. So, and as you see, they make up less than

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7% of general fund revenue. Expenditures on the other hand little um harder to project. Um so general fund expenditures right now for fiscal year 27 this is the breakup that we have. Um 63.7%

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in salaries 22% in benefits and 14.3% in others. Um so just giving a little bit of historical information on how we've done budget to actuals in the general fund. I I gave 22 23 24 25 and then projection of 20 well not a projection

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20 fiscal year 26 as of May 31st because that's how the far the last um month that we have closed and it's just showing what we budgeted versus what the actuals were spent and 95% 81 74 87 and probably projecting to be close to the

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88% this year as well. So with all of that, I do report compliance on the management limitation number two. Any questions on those? >> Um say the uh part of the audit the A133 that was also part of this report. It's

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being compliant, right? >> Okay. Just want to sure. >> Yeah. Um so management limitation number three, the superintendent will not allow budgeting that plans the expenditure in any fiscal year of more funds than are

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conservatively projected to be received. Um so right now even though our expenditures are potentially exceeding our revenues that we're bringing in, we still have fund balance to cover those expenditures. So we are not overallocating

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um any of our budgets. So within the 15 different funds, um, no funds are projected to be in a deficit at the end of the year. So I report compliance on that. And the fourth management limitation, a

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superintendent will not allow budgeting that provides less for activities during the year than is set forth in the cost of governance policy. So as we reported back in March, April or we reported on the current year for fiscal year 2627

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policy governance budget is 43,000. Um and within that board of education budget there is also $100,000 budgeted for the annual independent audit as required. So report compliance on that one as well.

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So any questions? I would say that the uh chart for item three is better expressed than the spreadsheet that you put for item two. And you had the you had a better chart

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up there on your slide. I would like to see that one and then maybe some additional details rather than what we presented in our report because I think that one was easier to read than than it was here. >> Absolutely. >> It looks better in three. >> Thank you. Go ahead.

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I would accept a motion if there are no more questions. This would be 10 C. >> Yeah. >> Go ahead. >> Oh. Uh move to accept the expectation of the board report through 3. Financial planning and budgeting as conveying

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reasonable interpretation of the executive limitations. >> I'll second. >> Motion from Director Alvarado. Second from Director Wilhelm. Roll call vote. Director Alvarado, >> yes. >> Director Carvajal, >> yes. >> Director Khan, >> yes.

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>> Director Green, >> thank you. Yes. >> Director Trillo, >> I. >> Director Wilhelm, >> yes. >> Motion carries. Thank you. >> Thank you very much. And uh indeed, you see in August we will take up the social and emotional learning dashboard that had been moved from March and also the

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global executive constraint. Uh, next up would be our Why did you the item 11, which is our district-wide fee schedule. Uh, so please present. >> I almost didn't take >> long time no see. >> I

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Yeah, go right right ahead. Let's talk about the uh fees, which is always fun. >> All right, I'll try to be as quick as possible at this. I realize that we didn't provide you with a write up of the changes. So, here's my quick down and dirty summary presentation of the

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proposed fee changes. Um, so just a quick overview. Most of the changes had to do with cost recovery adjustments, so increases on our end that we're just passing off. Um, new fees are added for esports. This is a pilot program at one of our middle schools. um online academy

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had it had some new fees added a change in CTE block classes um and record services which is primarily transcript stuff. Um technology replacement fees updated to reflect the current costs and then some fee descriptions were just

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updated so that we could be a little bit more flexible with the collection of things. So, uh, Overland Trail, yeah, we have, um, Jonathan Robertson there is, um, kind of volunteering to help pilot that program and to see if we can get some interest

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and see how it goes. Yeah. >> Um, if we get that sheet uh, as supplemental material for the August report, so we've got that list compared to what it was this year, what it was last year. Absolutely. Included as part of that uh, update. So, they can still

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approve this or or deny whichever, but I'd still like to have that comparative differ >> for sure. Yep. Absolutely. Um, so quickly, the new fees that were added, the Overland Trails esports participation fee, so 125 for participation, 25 for fundraising. That's the same for all middle school

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sports. Um, the block class fee, $40 per semester. Um, it's basically taking two classes and smooshing it into one semester. So, it's most CT classes are $20 a um a class. So since it's like two classes in one semester, had to add a

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$40 fee for them. OA added a couple fees for credit recovery and summer school. Um collectively the K8, so the elementaryaries and the middle schools wanted to add um a planner replacement fee. The school provides the first

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planner to all their students. Um and they just wanted to be able to have a fee for replacements for lost planners. So, we added that $5 one. Um, and then there was transcripts and record service fees. So, there is if there was a

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comparison, you would see that there's a lot. There's probably about five more different various fees to um help address the um the requests because right before we only had I think one or two fees in relation to transcripts.

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So, fee increases that we had instrumental rental fee went from 60 to 75. the PE course fee 5 to 10, the PE required uniform 15 to 25, um replacement gym lock fees 10 to 14,

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and then that alumni transcript request is five from $5 to $6. So those were the in increases. Um the technology updates, so twofold on this one, we increased Sorry, go ahead. >> Oh, that's okay. Can you talk to us how

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you adjusted those and came up with those increases like a $10 on a PE uniform and so forth? >> Yeah, sorry. Um, so Britney Barner, my uh accounting manager, begins this process in early April, kind of after

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spring break. She meets with all of the middle schools, high schools. She worked with Michael Clow and um Brett Min with the schools and talking about any adjustments that they think they need to make. So first that's how it started is is the schools collectively

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they come they say hey we're not seeing it enough to cover our costs for XYZ right um and then they collectively come together and they have to decide as a group whether or not they want to increase this fee across

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all schools or all high schools all elementaryaries um and then from there we make these recommendations to the board. Okay. So, are they doing like data gathering externally on cost and they have a lot

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of so once the initial meetings are with principles and the principal secretaries, then more detailed meetings are followed up with Britney and the actual finance secretaries to go through to say, "Hey, you know, um these really

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are fees that need to be increased or costs that aren't being covered. we're, you know, continuously in a deficit for our PE uniforms because kids lose them all the time and we don't replace them and XYZ. So, yeah. Uh-huh.

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Have you ever computed what the average cost of fees per student is? Uh, you know, high school, we got nearly two pages of of various fees that could be applied. elementary is less, but you know, it might be interesting to see

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what the average student pays in fees. I >> know you could, but >> for some of us that don't have kids anymore, >> sports and yeah, if they have transportation, >> I think in looking at these numbers, the other thing that I have a concern with, and I'm certain that we passed it before because I don't see it on anybody's

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list, is in order to pay a high school sport, the fee is $150 and for middle school it's $125. So only a $25 difference, but we know that those programs aren't even remotely close to the same in terms of robust or transportation or any of those things.

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So talk to me about how we landed there and what that looks like. >> It's because we had the opportunity for fundraising for high school sports. Um you typically each athletic program gets at least two major fundraisers. So that's why at the middle school level

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it's $125 plus that $25 fundraising fee. We don't make middle school sports do fundraising outside of what their sports are. Um there the the the other story Stacy was in here is there was a board about 15

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years ago that said there will be no more middle school sports. And then the parents showed up and we had removed the line item of budget for middle school sports. And the agreement was if you want middle school sports, you're paying for the whole thing yourself

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at one time. We have reduced our percentage of going to middle school sports. We But to your point, we offer a much different watered down program, right? They don't have 15 high school games. They have six, seven. I mean, it's a small schedule. So

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that is definitely something to look at. But I know that we pass the costs on. But if you look at our budget allocation in the budget book or wherever exactly what we contribute to high school, it's not nearly enough. What we contribute to middle schools is exactly what it costs

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and then they have to fund raise the rest. Fund raise or or pay. Does that make sense? It's a It's a small I think we gave $15,000 more to Discovery when we gave them a sports program. I think it was something that

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small to reflect the the >> Well, and it's even smaller to the school. Yep. And then a portion of that goes to the middle school athletics bucket that they share. >> Yeah. >> You can email me. And there's a number of these fees on

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here that are we can we can get you the average cost, Tom. There there's also the the the reality that many many of our families uh uh have that are free and reduced lunch won't pay won't be paying or assess these fees. But the fees you have for

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replacement of is is half of this list, right? >> You you didn't turn that back in your feed. It it costs, right? You you broke that thing. There's a cost and that's just trying to recover the same money

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that we lost. So, yeah, I we also as a school district, this is probably my least favorite conversation ever is fees because it's it's just one of those things that, you know, screams inequity and and hard. It's hard.

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our own contributions from the district to the free and reduced lunch backfill pot. Right? So every family who does free and get free and reduce lunch, we wave their fees or we reduce their fees. Well, where does that money come from?

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Where where do the reduced fees come from? Does the government give you more because you have more free introduced lunch? Like that's offset. No, that's a line item in our general fund that we play to the fees. When was the last time we increased that free and reduced lunch back fee and it doesn't come close to paying those bills?

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>> Not even close. >> So I also would be and I'm not 100% positive, but I would assume that some of the fee inflation is to cost the line item is is for some of that. >> Yeah. >> Does that make sense? Because the total cost of the program of science that

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needs the science fee includes what's not being backfilled because the district didn't put enough money in the fee replacement budget to backfill all of those fees. Does that make sense? Multi-million dollar problem fees are

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I just have a question. Are kids allowed um to play sports um to participate in some of these things if they haven't paid their fees? If they don't qualify for free and reduced, are they allowed they're not allowed to participate in any of these things? And what if they

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can afford a gym uniform, but they can't qualify for the the gym uniform? Like if they they can't qualify for no fees, but they can't also pay some of these fees, what happens? They get a bill before they can

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graduate. Some of the stuff accumulates. >> There's a certain um deadline. If your fees are not paid, then you're not on the team. >> Okay. I I guess I understand that we don't have any money and there's no way to make up the deficit and I totally get the middle school thing that happened

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years and years ago. Um my concern I guess is when we start adding things like replacement gym lock. Can we just say you have to bring your own gym lock and then not increase fees? How do we start to say like we see you as families? Like what are some like creative ways that we can start to say

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we see you and we understand like you already need to bring in a school supply list that's $120, but we also need you to pay $25 for consumables. Like how are we collaborating to make sure that this is in alignment with our with our community knowing that most of our

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community qualifies for free and reduced lunch. And so are we I know we're putting some general funding over. Are we also kind of balancing that on other families through these fee processes or are these directly related to the item over and over? We're not in increasing

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to meet the demand for other students. Just checking. It's it's a it's a over the course of time I've had some wonderful emails from parents who are very interested in this thing in in fees and and and not from a coming from a place of I can't pay fees

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but just just the inequity of fees in general. I think the best thing we could do is is have a community group that might be interested in talking about it trying to help us help us process through that right and so I would love to commit to that conversation. In fact, some of the parents have said, "Can we

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can continue this dialogue?" Right? Our justification up until now is that every school district around us charges and assesses and levies fees that are similar in the same range that we are. Right? If you went on Adams 12 and said, "What are the fee schedule?" I imagine they're the same. I I I we did that a

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few years ago just to benchmark, are we in the ballpark? But that doesn't that doesn't mean it's right for our community. But, you know, we just got done looking at a budget thing that talked about the rate of money that every school district just in the Adams County has more than us.

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We we there's no there's no pot of money to to make fees go away either. Does that make sense? So, I I don't know. It's just a real thing. It's it's it's we want uh experiences for our kids that

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that that the budget just can't sustain, right? We we we we should not be in the business of all the things. We can't have a band that's as awesome as Prairie View High School's band and all the experiences and all the travel and all the things they want to go to.

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We can't afford that program. Sorry. How many cool hats and uniforms does your daughter have in softball? We can't afford all of that. You want those things? Cool. And and and and that's not a that's not a good answer. I'm not answering your question. I We've been in an internal

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debate about this for years. H how might we how might we do this? And there's just not an answer. There's there's not a revenue stream. Where would you reallocate the budget to to make fees go away for every family? And then we it's

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it's a it's a problem. >> I mean, your question is what are we doing about the problem? And my affirmation is it's a problem. But I think it is something like I I I would be committed to and I I wonder if

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you know some of the parents have reached out. I would love to engage a community group of people that want to talk about what are the ideas, what are the options, what how might we do this different? >> I think one of the reasons why like I think about this is everyone thinks I did the mill levy, right? And the mill

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levy provided us with the CTE programming that's phenomenal. And we talk about how we get the teachers because of that. And then I look at this and I'm like, but if you're going to take any of those classes besides that mill levy, you're also needing to pay $20 per each of those courses. And I understand the deficit, but are we

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communicating that well to our families? Do they understand what that looks like? And like as we add programming through this other tax funding, like is it sustainable? I think we asked that question before when we ran. Um, can we continue with the programs? Well, yes, but now it looks like we we can't

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really. we need their support in this way too and that concerns me a little bit that's all. So I appreciate this work. I understand that it's it's awful but hopefully we can come to something and I like the community idea. >> Uh trying to figure out so when I saw

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this it was a little bit daunting like the number of fees like it seems like an administrative burden. I mean when I look I was like oh my goodness they have to track up all this but are any of these fees here I know you opened up the conversations with it's kind of recovering cost and the pass through right but are any of these fees sort of

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like can they just go directly to the vendor and get it like for example I'm just looking at the P uniform can they just go online and sort of on demand and instead of us maybe carrying inventory can they just go and just get on their own and kind of cut us out in the middle

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that makes sense or are we sort trying to meet the needs of the students so far that we might kind of lose them or you see what I'm saying? So, I'm just trying to figure out like if any fees, can they just go directly to the vendor and get the any of this things that they need? Does that make sense?

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>> That makes sense. And I think that kind of goes to what Melinda was talking about. I mean, you have the school supply list that you have to go get all of these different things. And if we add, you know, PE uniforms, locks, everything on there, um I

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It's like where do you want the fee to fall? >> I guess I would interject the if the gym uniform if they say okay I'm going to get it myself and it doesn't arrive. Do they still get to be in gym? If they don't have the uniform that

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everybody else is all wearing and then if if we're saying okay yeah we'll let him slide until they or her slide until they get their gym uniform. Well, then how long are we going to let them slide before we say, "No, you need to have the gym uniform." By having it through the

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school, we know that they're all going to match. They're all going to be wearing the same thing, they're all going to have the same gym uniform where whereas if you're allowing them to go get their own, does the Tommy Hilfiger shirt work for some people where the Hannes shirt works for another, you

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know, it's it's more of an equality thing. And I do think that through the uh school district buying in bulk, I I think that you're going to get a better deal than having everybody order it themselves, ship it to their house, make sure their kids has it, and everything else. So, I I think that's the uh the

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justification behind that is just that making sure everybody's the same and it's all the same and they all are dressed for the gym when they go. >> I have a couple examples just with like sports situation with uniforms. So like the softball team right now at Prairie View, they're wearing like 8-year-old

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uniforms and they they're mix matched. So between eight and five years of these uniforms to find what fits. So we don't match on the field. So like we just don't you know so like these fees even though they're they seem a lot it is

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still minimal and cannot cover cost of us keeping our teams looking like other teams. And then like with Cheer, I had two daughters in Cheer. Um we did buy directly from the vendor with our uniforms and I want to say we paid $680

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for each uniform for two girls and then it was 400 a month for cheer. So there are a lot I mean cheer is not a school sport but like I do know that like softball coaches aren't pushing that. It

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depends a lot on the coach too. like cheer was like we want new uniforms every year and so you're paying that every year. Softball's like dig out a thing out of the box that fits and we're getting on the field. So there's a lot of variables too in the different costs

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that are kind of inconsistent. I guess >> so many questions on this. >> I knew this was gener like that every school operates kind of independently, right? and creates their own culture and their own vibe and their own stuff. But when we look at things like PE uniforms, if we were buying them

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as a district at bulk, is it true that we would be saving like when I go to buy uniforms, if I buy them all at one time, I save money based on how many I get, are we utilizing that to ensure that our families aren't paying as much or are we allowing schools to do it separately and not getting bulk discounts on items where we could do better?

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>> Nope. That's absolutely something that now that we have a purchasing person, at least one person, um he is absolutely looking into our spending, looking where we could save money. He's already helped some of the athletic directors um purchasing, you know, wrestling mats, that kind of stuff. And I think he

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helped um middle schools with football helmets or something. Um but just so that there is somebody that we can bid out, we can vet out different vendors, we can get the best price that we can. And like you said, if we can buy, he

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would love all of the 27J shirts and everything that he would love to like take that all over and be like, we're gonna buy from this one vendor because we're going to save on bulk everything. So, um, absolutely, we are >> we are working towards that. We just

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didn't ever have a central person to help with that process >> that procurement coming and then we do see that providing significant and then we could look at this again and say hey we can drop it because we've now provided procurement in different ways. >> Fantastic.

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>> We also had a a very good presentation during public comment today about this very specific thing that maybe we could lean into. Good. All right. So then the technology updates really to reflect the actual costs again. So the Chromebook

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replacement for grades 3 through 12 went from 340 to 471, but that's a little bit because it also if you look at the fee schedule in that 471 that's to replace the Chromebook, the charger and the case. So for where 471 is the total cost

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of it, the rate is now set to be variable so that you can charge for just the charger or just the case or just the Chromebook itself. Um the second change we made is for the twoin one Chromebook replacements for grades K through two. Um it's a

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different type of Chromebook, so it's a little more costly and that's the same thing. The total replacement for the Chromebook, the charger, the case is 803, but they can split that into those three different components. >> Oh, we're not allowing students though K

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through 12 too to be responsible taking home Chromebooks. >> No, this is just replacement cost. I think there's a three strike rule if I remember right. Like you get one replaced. Yeah, there's a whole >> Okay. >> system in place. We do pay damage. So what she's saying

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is students get one if they knock it off the desk and it breaks. We pay the insurance so that we get a free replacement. If they do that more than two times, that's when >> the third one.

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Keep going. >> All right. Your fees removed. Yay. So, last year we removed world languages fees um at the high school level. It just wasn't being utilized. Um and OA removed that fee this year. And then we're moving away from Destiny. So,

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Destiny Library textbook replacement fee um was also removed from the list. Um, so then there's just some language updates that I just wanted to note out. Naviance was updated to s now say college and career readiness platform. So it's not vendor specific. Naviance

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was the vendor for that platform. So now whichever vendor we choose to use it doesn't we don't have to change that every time. Um the AP fee language expanded to include the testing related costs. Um ban fee language was expanded to include consumable supplies. So like

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reads for instruments, um cloths, replacement things, um and the parking permit language was updated for replacements and processing. So all in all, in summary, we believe the proposed changes um really I mean and it there is a lot to go into this. I

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mean these are just the changes. There's a lot of thought. There's a lot of process going into it. Absolutely. Our students and families are, you know, are in our minds when we're going through this process. Um, but like in summary, it says the adjustments are driven by increased program equipment and

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replacement costs. Um, and then just trying to to change the language so that we have a little bit more flexibility with the with the fee assessments. Okay. So, any >> Thank you. Any additional questions? >> Questions? >> I would like that motion

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from Go ahead. I just want to see if we move to approve this, can we ask that we do study on it or how does that work right now? >> This it's annually studied. That's that's what she presents to us.

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>> No, but what >> like a community group? >> I I there could be some >> you could bring something back to us. I I think we think that >> the approval is contingent on >> is that what are you asking? Like I'm

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approving this contingent on you studying it. >> Give you the example like so we we keep our we keep our CTE fees at $20 per course. >> What's the budget, Myra? We just did it last night. What's the budget that we give to CTE from Mil Levby just to cover

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the other side of the $20 for just CTE? the whole budget? >> No, just just the the the materials budget that makes that fee only $20. >> Does that come from? >> Yeah, >> that comes from Millie.

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>> But that wasn't the intent of >> No, but that's my point. But the the point was was more around the dollar the dollar signs, right? that that's a that's a it's a almost a million dollars or just just under a million dollars just to do CTE and still charge 20

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bucks. So what I'm what I'm what I'm giving you is these astronomical numbers of the real cost of all of these things that we want to do. We were so blessed and thankful that the community passed a mill levy. We have $1,121 of mil levy our communities pass for our

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kids. That's awesome. We're stretching that as far as we can. that and we still have to charge 20% $20 fee and it's still that much. I I'm just saying. So you take that by each sport, you take that by science, you take that by math

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is it's just it's it's a ton. >> Just stay up here. >> It's it's it's a ton. >> Go right ahead. >> Yeah, I know. And I'm I'm just saying but to study it. Yes. I want to I want I would love to know because these parents are like, could we talk about it? I'm planning on doing that. I'm just I'm

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teasing you about the conditional. I will approve this, >> but I'm directing you to go work. I already said I wanted to do it. >> Yeah. I like to believe it's continuously studying, >> but I will do this because my bosses are asking me. Of course, we'll meet with

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community. >> Did you want to just jump in there and give them that astronomical figure? >> You were asked by your superintendent for it. >> 1,300. >> It's even worse. three 1,300,399. >> We can get that for you.

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>> Get that for you. >> Then we'll know percentage wise what that looks like. Well, >> she she wants to know a number of students number. >> Yeah. Like is it over a mill? Is it double that? Are we 50%? Like what's the buy in on the male side versus parent side? Yeah. So, how much of that is

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coming from the $20 fee in addition to the 1.3? >> Yeah. Yeah, that's >> that's what she did. >> Okay. >> What's that? >> 20,000 students, >> but it's per it's per class.

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>> The numbers >> the numbers of CTE classes that that that have a fee to it. >> Yeah. I don't even think it would be that >> and the enrollment of kids. I get what your question is. We could probably find out. >> We'll get that for you. >> And yes, we will commit to a meeting if

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you'll come. >> Sold. >> Do I have a motion? >> I'll move to approve the district-wide feed schedule for the fiscal year 2026 2027 as presented. And I'll come. >> I'll second.

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>> Motion from Director Carbal, second from Director Wilhelm. Roll call vote. >> Director Alvarado. >> Yes. Director Carbajal, >> yes. >> Director Khan, >> I. >> Director Green, >> yep. >> Director Trillo, >> I. >> Director Wilhelm, >> yes. >> Motion carries. Thank you.

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>> And uh, anybody else would like to join this group up here for this fun final presentation. You've waited so patiently. We appreciate it. You made us feel like, you know, you really wanted to be here. >> Where are we going?

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>> To the fee meeting. New and approved. >> All right. So, are we sorry? >> Please, please don't don't let us sit here and babble. I want you to jump right into item 12, adoption of the fiscal year 2026 2027 budget and

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appropriations. Our chief financial officer, Stacy Yashimoto, will continue to present information presenting pertaining to the fiscal year 2026 2027. >> All right. Well, thank you. Um, this one should go quick hopefully. Um, don't jinx it. Um, so I just want to again the

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team, the budget team is here. Um, and you probably have a new face. This is Ashley Trillo. So, she is our, this is the newest, um, position we have is position control um, technician. So she is her primary work is really, you know, making sure that every single employee

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that we have is coded to where they're supposed to be is getting paid where they're supposed to get paid and that we have budget for them and they're in the right place. So um as you guys know, 86% of our budget is spent on salary and benefits. So making sure that that's accurate is huge. Um so the work that

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these guys put in this budget season um just want to commend them for it and thank them for it because without them yeah we absolutely wouldn't be as I said the last meeting I think the executive budget committee we all make these big ideas and we say this is what we want this is what we want here's this make

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this happen and these guys go in and line by line make it all into a budget for us so we can present it. So, um, between the proposed book that we presented last meeting and the adopted one that we have for you tonight, um,

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there were minimal changes that are not even visible in the book. It they're coding changes that we did on the back end. Um, so I would entertain any other questions that you may have had between now and then, then, and now.

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>> Any clarifying questions on the budget presentation? I'm gonna give him a little time. Ran, you guys, you always have questions. Come on, bud. This is your wheelhouse. >> No, no. I mean, I appreciate that. I mean, I first of all, I just want to say thank you very much. I being on that

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side of the of the house, I know how complicated it is and getting everybody to to play nice and I know you might have had some difficult conversations along the way. But um maybe just my question is what is the uh the environment or the mood of the cultural?

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Now that you've seen these budgets, how are kind of like staff principal responding to this? What is some of like the initial feedback that you're sort of receiving from from these folks? take that.

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>> So, is your question related more to just like our financial um position right now and what's to come or do you just mean like in general? >> Um I mean just from experience, right? So, I know certain departments might be

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really happy. Other departments might be like, you know, we're not going to get things done. We're not we have to give up give these things up. I'm trying to understand like what was the dynamics of this whole entire process. I know Stacy you talked about zerobased budgeting. Is it really truly zerobased budgeting in

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terms of every single year you say you have a zero budget come back with your ideas and then which might be just the same ideas that they had last year. Right? So it's almost like incremental budgeting per se. But I'm I'm just trying to understand what if you feel as if some departments provide a little bit

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more hesitation uh more more I guess push back regarding the budget as you go into the actual process itself. >> I'll start with it. I think um we do a lot of groundwork to kind of set

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the climate of the budget right this year. We've done work in the last two years even to say hey you know we have this great fund balance but if we want to continue to have the raises we want to continue to offer the programs um there may be cuts in the future because

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funding is is not favorable in the future. Um, so I think with the team, you know, the help of the executive team, with Michael, being with the high schools, Brett, being with the middle schools and the elementaryaries, it really sets helps set the tone so that

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the conversations that Myer and Lavar is having that they're having with the departments in the schools aren't as um tension tentious tension. No, what's the word? Uh, tense. Contentious. There you go. Aren't as contentious. I mean, obviously some

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people have better handles on their budgets than others. Um, but overall, I think the groundwork that we set sending the message, everyone is like, "All right, well, we got to cut. We We get it. We We're being conscious." >> I agree with that 100% because I think

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it starts at the top and a lot of the conversations that happen in budget committee then make it everywhere else. And I think us being as transparent as we are as a district, you know, everything that is shared here is also shared with

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principles. So the climate is good in the sense that I think everybody's going the same the same direction. So there is not like frustrations and conflict like I've seen

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in other places. Like I think here everybody is working towards the same mission and there's a lot of collaboration for the good. >> I've got a question. >> Yeah. I I just have a question like just talk to me a little bit about like the

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endofear budget and like spendown. I'm going to make some like assumptions based on other government entities that I've worked in or worked with. at the we were given a budget for the year towards as we get to the end of the cycle of the year people start to spend down so that the next year they kind of receive the

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same amount of funding. Do we see that at all in 27J? No. I would say no. Like we have that like fear that that would happen that we say if we're going to cut your budget next year they're going to say well I'm going to use everything that I have. Right. Um but the only variables that we

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see is the the normal cycles of a school district spending. So like a lot of spending happens at the beginning curriculum whatnot, you know, renewals happen and then a lot of spending happens near the end of the year when it's end of year, you know, celebrations

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and getting curriculum ready for the the next year getting restocks and everything. So I wouldn't say that there's this huge rush to spend at the end of the year. No, we also set a culture that every dollar you save may be a person that we keep in the future, right? So, it's like

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why why are you trying to spend my budget? We make fun of it, right? My budget. Whose budget? Like yours personally in your little department? No, it's all our money. Your frivolousness now would may cost somebody their job in the future if we

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go through cuts, right? And so, it's like just attacking it dead on like that. We we take pride and our departments take pride that there is no carryover and you have to give it back and we kind of compete over who can give the most back, right? I mean that's generally the culture. Brett hasn't

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spent anything on his PE card in three years and we we >> So awesome. Okay. Is there reports on that? Like how much money is coming back in like each time in each department and

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like what that looks like year-over-year and if we see it get tighter as this conversation starts to take place or if there's years where we're not as tight on that. I understand the cultural piece. I think that's important. I also have just worked in environments where you think that everyone does that but like there are things people need and in

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an environment where you need things and you could spend it so not give it back so you have it the next year like >> my mom always used that phrase keep honest people honest. It's not the idea that you don't want to be a part of the system and ensure everyone has your job. Like you also want to ensure that the classroom that you're teaching in next

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year is awesome. So like how are we doing that? >> Yeah. So on a monthly basis, the team sends out like not status but financials where you're at where you're at every month and where you're at at the end of the year. And a really neat thing that happened in in budget committee this

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year, I think um Terry was the first one that modeled it. He brought in what budget he was given, what he spent, and then what was left over. And he was very open, very transparent. Even though that information is shared openly, not everyone's going to look at Terry's

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budgets, right? Because Terry's watching his own budgets, but he brought that in and said, you know, there's some savings here. Michael did the same thing. We have cost savings. We, you know, something's going to increase, but you know, our current budget can absorb that. Um, so we look at it as well. And

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so when we're having those conversations come, you know, budget time, I can say something to be like, Brett, you know, this this director's budget has been, you know, in the good for four years in a row. Maybe have a quick conversation.

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Do they need that? Um, so yeah, I think like Myra said, the transparency that we have, um, it's not a pointing fingers kind of a thing. It's a, well, this is this is what we're doing. How can we help the pot?

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>> Thank you so much. >> My question is, and you know, you can direct me to where it is. Where are the expenses for like Talon Ridge? We've already hired principles, we've got utilities costs, we got everything else. I don't have a page for that here or the Rocky Vista the these costs are

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escalating where where are in this budget where are those reflected because they have FTEES they have you know there are already things that are happening expenses that we're incurring and I see it for all the other middle schools but I don't see it for a middle school we have but it's just not open yet but it's

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still incurring costs >> so prior to it actually being open every cost incurred including like the principal that we're hiring and everything gets covered by the bond before the opening. Um, and it it's a little twofold. One, we can't um because

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of the way the the pipeline works through CDE, we can't open a new location and say that we're coding this to Talon Ridge because we haven't technically opened the school yet. So, all of those costs do get covered in the bond fund. Um, if there's any timing

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things where the bond doesn't cover for it, then it goes into like a very generic 600 location in the in the general fund. >> Hey, Ramon could have given me that answer. >> Thank you very much. Again, I was just curious.

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>> Fair. >> Any additional questions because we might get out of here by 10. I would appreciate a motion. I'll move to approve resolution number 13 20252026 adoption of the fiscal year 2026 2027 budget and appropriations as

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presented. I'll second >> Carbal and Wilhelm. They've been the combination quite often this evening. Uh let's have a roll call vote. >> Director Alvarado, >> yes. >> Director Carbajal, >> yes. >> Director Khan, >> yes. >> Director Green, >> sure. >> Director Trill,

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>> yes. >> Director Wilhelm, >> yes. >> Motion carries. Thank you. Thank you very much and thank you for this presentation. Uh we really appreciate it. This is a lot of work. This isn't just handing us a booklet. You guys do all the work. Thank you all for coming and sitting through this meeting. Uh

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making Will feel like he was loved. Um our next schedule meeting, uh if you guys would love to join us, we have the Bays June 17th, 2026, 5:00 PM Topgolf. Uh, I understand there might even be uh doughnut holes

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>> and >> protein >> fillable donuts that I love. >> Otherwise, we will see you August 12th for that linkage meeting with the school principles. That's just should not be missed. It is a really good meeting. Uh, next up, director Ashley Khan will

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slowly present the quarterly meeting evaluation. >> Second time in like five years. Like, how did I skip out on this so many times? I'm just curious. Well, you probably were. You just didn't show up. >> You're rotation.

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>> Well, maybe that's why we get a four and arrived on time for meeting or because of me. >> We >> truly it's because of me and I'm sorry. It's just the way it has to be. Uh I have a lot going on in my world. So, I'm never on time. Sorry. Um outward vision

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rather than uh focus on internal operations. I think we hit a five. I think we've grown there. Strategic leadership proactive rather than reactive. Five collaborative teamwork 4.5 I think we can work a little better in study session to prepare a little more

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for some of these things because I feel some tension and but you guys really recovered great. Awesome job. I mean >> are we being honest? Can I just be like really honest? >> Okay. Sorry. You guys recover well and you always do and I love that. I love

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it. Thank you. um an initiator of policy and not merely a reactor to staff initiatives. Five, arrived on time for meeting. Four, properly prepared for meeting. Five, I think we're all pretty prepared. Um except me for that one. Uh gave full

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attention to the meeting. Five, worked in a business-like manner. Five, listened to and responded to the statements of others in a respectful manner. 4.5, business was conducted lawfully in an ethical manner. Yes. Five. I don't have any other comments.

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>> No other comments? >> Nope. >> I wish you were my teacher. I'd love your grading. Uh, thank you very much. We appreciate that and appreciate your honesty. Uh, are there any closing comments, please? >> I just have one. Um, tonight when you

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guys did policy of treatment of students in public, thank you for that. Sorry, I got a chance to like get my feet back under me. Um, I would just hope that we could talk in the thing about looking back at that policy and like the stuff like we talked about before for students and public. So maybe the education

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committee will be able to put that on. Obviously that didn't go towards your evaluation tonight or what you were presenting to us, but I thought as a board we might want to identify what that looks like. >> Well, and the earlier the better because that that was the problem before we didn't give them time to prepare to if we're going to break them apart, how we're going to do that and and

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>> maybe put it on a study session. Yes, >> Ramon. >> Um, again, I just want to thank the the budget team and everybody else who actually showed up and thank you very much. Um, what I would like to sort of perhaps see as a future agenda item is having an educational thing on the fund

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balance. Um, I think I feel as if maybe we don't have a quite understanding of what actually that actually means. regarding the I have a policy regarding perhaps a policy regarding a fund balance and try to figure out is make sure we understand what we approved a

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great budget today but I think as you noted it's you know it's going to be a tight squeeze squeeze I should say but I think understanding the fund balance policy might help us sort of make those decisions much easier so just >> education and linkage did you hear that

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>> yes and I think Lenan took note for us >> and let's put those two files together since Now that we've uh com combined those into two. >> So for the second month in a row he's asked for that and we've still got no. So yeah, fund balance um discussion

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reserve policy clarity operational standards. Yeah, >> two weeks ago. >> Am I the second month in a row he's asked for this now? >> Yeah, I I am not a parrot, but I take good notes. >> Yeah, >> I'm here to help.

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>> We will meet about that education. >> I'm here to help. Uh and I guess this this maybe another one. Uh it it is uh now the new topic in the news is cell

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phones. Uh the outright ban at schools or anything else. uh I know we had charged our uh students to come up with a policy and a recommendations and uh maybe we want to see if you're moving towards that or or how we're going to

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implement implement the uh data we've received from them or what what what is our future plans for that because I know that's on people's minds. I know that some school districts have banned outright bellto bell. Some of them have said, you know, always and breaks

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similar to what we have now or uh so I'd just like to maybe follow up on that. >> We had a parent email about that this morning. >> I I know it's on people's minds. >> See, I don't want them on their phone in school. >> Well, but it is the superintendent's decision. Is there any other topics for

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discussion? >> Nice. uh at not my decision the superintendence I didn't look at to me uh at this point then I will adjourn the meeting at >> 9:48 oh look at that thank Thank you.