Speaker 1: Being Wednesday, April 8th, 2026 to order at 5 34. If we go, go ahead please and stand for the Pledge of Allegiance. Chance do you mind? Speaker 2: I pledge allegiance, allegiance to Speaker 3: The flag of the United States of America and, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God in indivisible with liberty and justice for Speaker 1: All. Thank you. If you would please remain standing for just a moment of silence. Speaker 2: Great, Speaker 1: Thank you. Speaker 2: Alright, Speaker 1: On to our agenda. Are there any changes to April eighth's agenda?
No. Okay. Alright. I would take a motion to approve the April 8th, 2026 agenda as presented. Speaker 4: I make a motion to approve the April 8th, 2026 agenda Speaker 2: As presented. Speaker 1: Great. May I get a second? Speaker 2: A second. Speaker 1: Okay. Thank you. May I get Sharon, may I get roll call please? Speaker 2: Yes, bill you. Aye has aye Kyle Aye. Jenkins. Aye. Speaker 1: Jensen? Aye. Okay. Onto public audience. Sharon. I didn't see anybody has anybody? Speaker 2: Nope. Speaker 1: We don't have anybody Speaker 2: Tonight. Thank you. Speaker 1: Perfect. Alright, onto the consent agenda.
There's the March 11th, 2026 draft board minutes. May I get a motion to approve those as presented? Speaker 2: I'll make a motion to approve the March 11th, 2026 draft board minutes. Speaker 1: Perfect. May I get a second? I'll Speaker 2: Second. Speaker 1: Thank you. Sharon, may I get roll call please? Speaker 2: Will you? Aye ask aye. Aye. Aye. Aye, Speaker 1: Aye. Okay. And then the consent agenda. Are there any changes to the consent agenda? Speaker 2: No. Okay, Speaker 1: Perfect. May I get a motion to approve the consent agenda as presented?
Speaker 2: I'll make a motion to approve the consent agenda as presented. Speaker 1: Great. May I get a second? Speaker 2: I'll second. Speaker 1: Great. Sharon, may I get roll call please? Poll Speaker 2: You. Aye. As aye, Kyle. Aye. Jenkins. Aye. Jen. Speaker 1: Aye. Alright. On the assistant superintendent report, Jenny. Speaker 4: Well, I was a little late getting here. Was it already mentioned that it feels like forever since we've met. Speaker 1: No, but yes, no, Speaker 4: It does. It does. Yeah. I had to, I had to go back and look at at when we last met and when, when I last shared and so I just have a handful of things of course.
You know, I always love to talk about all the good things. So Riverside family, fun night. Who else got to go to that? Were some of you I feel like? No. Okay. Yeah, that was an awesome thing and whenever you go and hold baby goats, I mean the world is right, so the only thing that they really needed to do was probably charge for holding the baby goats. But what an awesome experience. They put on such a great experience and, and they're really trying to get some playground in some equipment
and so they just did such a great job. So kudos to Riverside. Great family fun night. And I just wanna make it a note how to get more baby goats into everyone's life. Right? And then last week, I don't know if you guys heard about Jeff Veley at Highland, it's spelled VELE and he is a bully prevention educator and he's, he came and he spoke with, he did an assembly in the morning for the younger kids, an assembly in the afternoon for the older kids and a lunch for parents.
And just brought a great message, a, a simple message that's, that kids can replicate and remember and a great message and reminding them that, you know, the only thing that can really overcome hate is love. And it was just a great message and really well done and awesome. So that was great. Did over spring break I got to work because I had taken a vacation in January and so I worked with Julie Goldberg and Erin Bodett doing a comprehensive special education
overview of our needs for next year. And that was really informative and will help guide our, our structure for next year and what we need. So that was awesome. You already know that everyone, I mean CMAs is CMAs and it is underway and I don't know, I mean I just, maybe you should just go watch it all happen some year. Your life might not be complete unless you really see how it goes and I can see the excitement and chances face, right? We did Iowa test of basic skills. You what? Basic test We did Iowa test of basic skills. Yeah.
So anyway, people do a great job with that. It's very, it, it's complicated, it's important, but you also don't wanna make it make kids freak out or adults. And so that's a fine balance, right? Yep. See, look at 'em. Okay. And then one thing I just wanna mention, oh, and Jared Cooney Horvath, you guys know he's coming Friday and he is a neuroscience guy and he talks about the science of learning and he is doing two parent sessions in the afternoon, 1230 at right Coleridge Coleridge
and two 30 at Rifle High School. So if you have any friends that ask you will this be any good, you will not be bored. It will be worth your time. And it's called like a roadmap through your child's brain. So Awesome. And the last thing I wanted just what date it is? Friday. This Friday, of course. Yeah. So the last thing I just wanna mention is that over the years the requirements for relicensure for administrators and teachers change and I haven't had to renew my principal license and for quite some, quite a number of years.
So I had to take the read, I got to take the read act training and I Speaker 1: Say, Speaker 4: Well it is, it's actually gonna, it's actually more than that. I was dreading this, okay, I really was, full disclosure, I made my password to get in. I really hate this Speaker 1: Jenny. Speaker 4: I did. I mean, 'cause I was like feeling kind of like, I don't wanna do this, but I knew, you know, it was valuable and stuff. But I have to say that I now wish I would've taken it when it first came into,
when we first started with the requirement. I hope that everybody gets to engage with that, the way they present the science of reading, because There can be as much as a million word gap when kids show up to kindergarten depending on how much they've been read to and how many words that they've heard and what needs to happen in a child's brain, not just before school, but during school. All the complexities of how they come to read and formulate language.
I just ended up being like, I, I was ashamed of my password. I told everyone that I was thrilled that I spent spring break taking redact training because it was just one of those times when you're, you're doing the work, right? And then you're just doing the work and then something happens and it goes, I remember how important that is and why we do this work. And so I just wanted to share that little experience. So I'm ashamed, sorry about my password, Speaker 1: Change your password. Speaker 4: And that's, that's what I have tonight. So thanks for letting me share.
Speaker 1: Did you update your password? Speaker 4: I haven't had to get in again, so I haven't done that yet. Speaker 1: Perfect. Let's say, yeah, Kurt, anything on the superintendent report? Speaker 5: So my superintendent report, a couple things that I just wanna highlight, wanna highlight what we did find out from the Colorado Department of Education that one of our school, Wamsley Elementary was given a award called the Colorado Center's of Excellent Award. And so this award is given based off of last year's assessments. And so this award is given to schools that
pub across the state that have a student population that have at least 75% are at risk population and it has the highest rate of student longitudinal growth. And so when we got the final report, there's only 16 schools in the entire state of Colorado that are given this honor. And so we are very proud of the well Wamsley Elementary for this honor. And so we're very excited. And so the, the 28th of this month, Kathy Senior and I will be going down and receiving that award
and for their school, but we just, we really want to publicly acknowledge the incredibly hard work of her and her staff and everything that's, that's gone on at at Wamsley. And so it's a really incredible honor of the great work that's gone on with, with their staff and their students and all of that. So I just wanna publicly acknowledge that they received that because it is not something that that happens. There is over 1700 schools in the state of Colorado and so we only have 16 be acknowledged
and then be one of 'em and one of them being an re two school. I just want people to know what incredible work is going on in our, in our schools. And that's one of them. And so it's, it's not just happening in Wamsley, it's happening in all of our schools, but that happened to be the one that was, was called out based off of last year's assessment. So just wanna make sure that that was brought to attention. Another thing that I wanna, that we also found out is that Rifle High School was also given the honor of what's called the ninth Grade Success grant. And so Rifle High School applied for a grant
through the Department of Education. This grant, they're gonna get a result of about 200,000 additional dollars that the grant that they wrote is really about creating a comprehensive plan for freshmen coming in. And this will really focus on oversight and in in and integration of academic and behavioral and social emotional supports for the freshmen class coming in really focused around math. And so this will allow them to hire a new person to help support the freshmen coming
into Rifle High School. And so this is a very exciting opportunity for Rifle High School to help support to do that. And so this was a very competitive grant across the state and so we just found out about this grant. I think the other fun thing, and this speaks to, and I I have to give kudos to Jacob and the rifle high school team in support of BOCES for that, that we also heard that from the state team, that of all the grants that were WR written, this was given kudos
for one of the finest submissions Oh yeah. In the state that were written, submitted. So kudos to Jacob and and his team for the work that they did in, in that component. So wanted to point that out. The third thing that I, I wanted to, to talk about was that we are also get was was working with a lot of people across the state and there's a lot of conversations about what's going on, especially around teacher recruitment and retention. I know that we've talked a lot about the issues around recruitment and retention
and a lot of the different avenues and you know, one of, besides how we're working to try to ensure that we have places for teachers to live and stay in our community, but one of the things that we're looking at is how do we make sure that we get people into the pathway of teaching. And so our HR team and partnership with I think about 12 different organizations have really worked on the teacher apprenticeship. And so we are honored to have the first and across the entire state of Colorado,
the very first teacher apprentice, Justine Terry, who will be graduating through the teacher apprenticeship program here in re two here in April. And so that is the first one in the state of Colorado will be, will be starting from Garfield re two. But I think what's even more amazing is that not only are we the first one in the state of Colorado to have a certified apprentice go through the program to be able to become a full fledged teacher, but next year we have 12 that will be finishing their program. That's great. So we are really the, the leader in this area.
And so when I say 12 Theresa's gonna, this is working with a lot of partners of what this looks like, how this comes about and because they all want to be recognized for being part of this. And so it takes a lot of juggling and Simone has been a huge part of that. So she deserves a lot of credit, Devin also and, and making sure that all the paperwork is in the right place and Jacob and and CMC and lots of other people, but we're gonna also career wise, but we're gonna get a lot of of of press around this.
And so the state is very excited because this is something that people have talked about for a decade and it hasn't really come to fruition. And so RE two is the first district to actually make it happen. So not only are we making it happen this year, but we've got 12 more in the pipeline to do it. And these are excellent individuals for our kids and what they're doing because they're getting more time with master teachers and helping be ready to help serve our kids in that time. So it's very exciting that we have this coming.
And then if I, if I'm reading this correctly, we also have 35 the year after that, is that correct? No, there's 35 next year. We have 12. Oh there's 35 total in the state of Colorado for next year. Well for next year 12 of them will be ours. That's awesome. So that shows you how, what an impact we have and and what that looks like. So those are some of my highlights for the report. The other thing is that we do, we are continuing to work with our community groups around what we're doing around finance and our look to how we support what we're doing
for teacher recruitment and retention. I believe our next meeting will be at the district office on the 19th at six o'clock. So we invite everyone to come join us for those conversations in what we're doing and we continue to narrow down what our scope for solutions looks like. And so we continue to encourage everybody to do that, including whether or not we have the right solutions on the table and the right people at the table. And we have support of partner organizations that are, all of those pieces are coming together
and hopefully we will as we start narrowing that those that we will be looking at that group to be bringing those solutions to board members here in the upcoming months as we look at that. So that's my board report. Speaker 1: Speaking of community groups, you wanted Brandy to share on dac? Speaker 5: Oh thank you. Sorry. That's why Ass thank you. And then we also have the DAC report. So Brandy Speaker 4: And while Brandy's coming up, I will tell you that we were quite wicked in the way we told the Wamsley staff about the award. We called a staff meeting, we were glum, we told them
how much we wanted to supported them and then, and then then Kathy and Betsy and John's wife came in in there. They were doing CMAs SmackDown. So we, they came in in their boxing robes and their gloves and, and then we told them that they got the award. So kind of evil. Speaker 5: So Speaker 6: I just wanna say real quick that Riverside, we are working on the baby goat thing. Okay. It's gonna be a thing. It's Speaker 4: A thing.
Speaker 1: It's coming. Speaker 6: It is coming, yeah. Okay. I'm here to give the deck report and our last act meeting was on March 17th at Highland on our agenda. The first thing on our agenda that night was talking about crisis management and safety protocols, districtwide. And we talked about and went over the standard re response protocols from the I Love You Guys program and that way everybody on deck understands what happens in the schools when an emergency happens. And I do wanna just say that this handout is available in the front office of all of our buildings.
So if parents will like a copy of this, we have it. And I can't speak for every building, but I can't speak for Cactus Valley that during one of our SAC meetings throughout the year, our principal Kelly, she does bring this out and talks to our parents about this. So our parents have an opportunity to know as well. So all schools follow the same protocol. We have holds, secures, lockdowns, evacuate or shelter in place. This protocol outlines what each of those means and when it's appropriate to use each of those and what the schools do when we have to call one of these, we additional safety practices
that happen within the schools are that each school does hold a monthly drill, whether that's a lockdown or a fire drill. And all drills are announced to staff and students in advance. So they know that it is a drill that way if we have the real deal, they understand what to do. We also do annual staff training and we have protocol clipboards in each classroom so that they're available in, in case there's a substitute teacher, even they have it all right there. Each of our staff badges also have a copy of the protocol on the back so that we have those for quick reference if we need it in an emergency. And then each building also has their own clear
reunification process, which does require that a guardian have an ID in order to pick up that student wherever the reunification location might be. We also briefly talked about, just to answer some questions amongst the doc members about if a student were to be caught in transition when a, when a lockdown came down or a fire drill for example, they're in the hallway, what do they do? So we want them to get behind a fire rated locked door as soon as possible. So we want them to go to the nearest door that they can get into. And if that's not an option, then they need to go
to a bathroom and get into a stall, put their feet up and or run. We also talked about the Safe To Tell program, which is used in all of the buildings and provided all of that information to the DAC members. And then the next thing was over the last two meetings, Simone has been with us to talk to us about grant funding and resources. She's been so great about giving us so much information. So we went through that and we just talked about the different types of grants and how you apply for them, how you determine if you're even eligible and what it applies for. Is it district wide? Is it for a specific building a department and figuring out if you even qualify
before you tried to apply. And then we did talk about some other opportunities in terms of grants or funding that might be a possibility of things that we need to look into. And one of those would be specific for rifle schools. It was brought to our attention and I don't, our next meeting is coming up so I don't know where we are with this, but Rifle offers grit grants we talked about. And that stands for the Greater Rifle Improvement team. And those are grants that they provide through lodging taxes. So we don't even know if we can qualify for those or not, but it's something that I think we're gonna check into. We also talked about our PTAs maybe trying to collaborate
and talk about what grants they know about and have successfully applied for and or received money so that it can be shared amongst us all. For example, I know Jenny mentioned here at Riverside, we are trying really hard to get some playground equipment and KSE just successfully did you know their whole playground? So Amy from the K-S-E-P-T-A has been really great to work with because she is sharing all of her knowledge and what they did with the admin at Riverside and, and myself as well. We also talked about as a last resort using GoFundMe if we needed to
for a very specific need or request. And that if we were to use GoFundMe, how including a video and being personable would have a, a better impact. And then Simone has made it very clear that if any of us, no matter what capacity in the school we are, that she's available to help us. So if we need grant application support, she is there for us. And then we also talked about, one thing is that in the coming school year, we really need to encourage all of our families to complete that CEP form, which is the Colorado eligibility provision form
because that's really crucial for funding in our schools. And we talked about some challenges in that this year it wasn't really like very clear what that was. And so there has been discussion that there will be better messaging around that next year so that people know what it is and that we really do need them to fill it out even if they don't think they qualify. And we talked about improving outreach to our families that are hesitant to submit that, just fear for fear of immigration concerns. So we will work on that. And the last thing we talked about was what Kirk mentioned, how the financial update
and how we're going to be in a budget deficit this year through the state and the mill levy and the bond measure. All of that information and some potential investment areas that he mentioned as well is talking more in depth about teacher and staff housing, the career pathway programs and opening an early childhood education center. So our next doc meeting is going to be on April 21st at five 30 at Rifle Middle School. Our DOC meetings are open to everybody, so whether you're a parent, teacher, community member, we invite you to come and join us.
That's all I have for you. Speaker 1: Thanks Brandy. Speaker 6: You are welcome. Thank Speaker 2: You. Thank Speaker 6: You. You're welcome. Speaker 2: Okay, Speaker 1: Kirk, was there anything else that you had for your superintendent report? Speaker 5: I did have one more that I would just like to, to bring forward is that we did an, we did do principal searches for coleridge to, to replace our longtime principal, Jackie, Dr. Jackie Davis, who is retiring, officially retiring after her transition year.
And we did those interviews last week and we have made a decision to recommend. And so we announced that to both the, the, the interview teams and to the staff of Coleridge. And I'd like to formally announce and share that Michael Micki it will serve as our next principal for Coleridge High School. And so we think that his experience and his relationships with over two decades at Coleridge High School, he has built trust with both the staff and students and his contributing to the strong culture
and his understanding of high school and, and what, where that high school has been and where it's going is really the right person at the right time for that, that building. So we're very excited about his vision and where he's gonna take that, that facility. So I'm very excited about him taking the reins. We're sad that Jackie is officially retiring, but no, for her it is, it is time and for her family. And so we thank her for her many years, I believe 21 years in that building, nine as as the building principal. So we thank her for what she has done,
but we're very excited for Coleridge and the Titans with, with Mick as the new leadership. And so we look forward to him taking, taking the roles there. Speaker 7: That's awesome. Speaker 1: Thank you. Perfect. Alright. Onto board reports and requests. Steve, I'll start with you. Speaker 7: Yeah, as I was doing my job for spring break and supporting one of our local teachers mental health while my wife went to the desert, so it was a little chaotic. So I don't have a ton of, we all have a role to play.
Right, right. So, so that was good. So it's been a little bit crazy. So I, but so we don't have a ton of like official to report on, but I've had a lot of conversations with people in the community, a lot about, you know, there was some concerns about the staffing shuffles and or, you know, not filling positions and things like that. And, you know, that always leads to, you know, what, what generally came out to be a generally positive conversation that was a good, you know, they usually regret asking me about that. And then we get to talk about school finance, let's dive into it.
And then they, they walk away quietly. But I, I think it's, you know, my overall feeling that right now is just generally positive, you know, for, given the, everything we're dealing with in the broader picture of the state finances and all of that, you know, we're really set up pretty well and, you know, better than anticipated. So I, I feel great about, you know, kind of how things are going in in that sense. And then also, you know, we haven't had any terrible news as far as the, the boot dropping yet on the finances. So hopefully that, that keeps going. And then one of the things that, you know,
we've been reviewing policy, so it's been very good for me to, you know, just especially being the new guy on the board of, you know, remind ourselves of why we're here and what's the, you know, you know, the norms and expectations that we've all signed up for and you know, it's good to center that conversation. And then also one of the things that comes to mind or that I would like to know maybe a little bit more about, I know the, there's a healthy schools meal grant that we're submitting. I would love to, you know, I'm kind of a, I did my master's thesis on nutrition
and effect on school performance and there's some, so love to see that. I would love to see if that's successful, you know, hear more about it and our schools are doing, I think that's something that's too often overlooked in our schools and our kids. You know, it's, it has an impact on student achievement, let's say for sure. So that's great to hear. And but yeah, that's about nothing. Good job everybody. We've lots to celebrate and a lot of work to do, but I think we're on the right tracks. Appreciate you all. Awesome. Thanks Steve. Speaker 8: Megan, I am immensely proud to be part
of the board in ups and downs and it's, it's inspiring to watch the, the staff even as we come to the close of a year, be still so impactful and powerful, ready to serve with that, with that servant heart showing up here as if this is the only thing that they have going on in life to impact staff and more importantly, students who we know trickle out to, to make a huge impact in our communities.
Please, please, please share with your staff as well. And then districtwide, we do an amazing job of making the impact known in our buildings. I still think that we need to do a better job of making the community understand exactly what a bedrock each of our schools are. We, we are the foundation of our communities, our, our our three very different towns are all centered around our schools. And I just, I just don't think that we speak enough about, we don't, we don't do a great enough job singing our
praises from the mountain tops. We are far too humble sometimes with that. I, I really appreciate all of the growth that each of our schools are experiencing. It's, it's, it's amazing to, to watch and to hear about this new award and that new award and, and just the, the kudos that we are starting to receive statewide for the hard work that didn't just happen in the last six months. Like you cannot, you, you lace up your boots from the bottom, not from the top.
And that's exactly how education happens as well. It, it has to happen from the bottom and it grows slowly, albeit sometimes until you finally see that volcano erupt. And then that's when we get to, to take, to take a step back and, and actually recognize all of the hard work. So thank you all for all that you do. I I continue to, albeit not, not very often receive like the 2:00 AM I don't know why people that are so upset about school district always text at 2:00 AM but that's like the, the witching hour
where my phone rings, I need to just learn to turn it off, but my phone will ring at 2:00 AM or the text or a Facebook message. And undoubtedly it's always rumors that are very easy to dispel. I think that's when people finally get themselves all worked up and the courage to finally reach out. Can't sleep, can't sleep and are upset about something. So, you know, I appreciate the opportunity because it is that to, to be able to converse with our community. Say like, I, I really appreciate in law enforcement I learned
that there's two things if you wanna make a person mad is mess with their money and mess with their kids. And a school district does both of both of those things. Lucky us. So I guess what I'm saying is that we could look at the complaints as and be a little disheartened to buy it, but that means that that is a parent or a community member that wants something great for their kids. So it's an opportunity for us to engage in a positive manner to say we actually are meeting those needs and we're actually exceeding them.
Here's why. So I, I appreciate those. Speaker 9: Good point of view. Cassie, I just had, sorry I'm just getting my voice back. A shout out to Wamsley. Obviously it's already been highlighted and Mick at Coleridge, I'm excited to have him be there and I think that the kids are excited. I've heard a lot of kid chatter so they all seem pretty excited as far as that he was even applying. They don't, I don't know if they know that he got the position. I think it was just advertised today, right? Or yesterday.
Yeah. So I don't know if they officially know he got the position but they were excited that he was applying. Speaker 10: That's the first thing my son texted me when he got his phone back. Speaker 9: Oh really? When he got his phone back. So I'm sure they're gonna be overjoyed. All the kids do really love him. CVE Thank you all for your hard work. I mean this school obviously holds a special place. I mean my two younger ones have gone here. I have one still here. You guys do a phenomenal job. I did wanna highlight that, the drill that Brandy was highlighting. I did get to pull the fire drill
and they had a record setting time of getting out of the school for their practice fire drill by the way. And I got to be a part of it. But then I also was the one who got in trouble 'cause I was talking and I didn't know you weren't supposed to talk in the fire drum. I was like, well these kids really know what they're doing. And they're like, Speaker 11: Shh, Speaker 9: Sorry, Speaker 11: Imagine that. Speaker 9: So don't make me laugh. Sorry I start coughing. So that was really fun. Highlight of my last month or so. But I just wanna give all the elementary schools a shout out
for this week and next week with CMAs. I know it's a big undertaking. I know personally my son was excited. He got three snack times a day. He got extra recess, he's gonna have ice cream. Like I haven't seen him up since 6:00 AM since the first week of school. And all week he got up at 6:00 AM Wow. So he got up, he cooked bacon, he, he needed a healthy breakfast, he was ready to go. So I mean, I, I wanna encourage the teachers. They do hear you. These kids do hear you.
They do wanna take it to heart. And I just, I know that they're trying to apply themselves. I've talked more than what my son, but they're trying really hard and I think it starts from the top, you know, the teacher down and trickles down to them. So shout out to all the teachers with the CMAs endeavor right now. So that's pretty much it. Awesome. My report. Okay. Speaker 10: Okay. Springtime. My favorite time of year seems like
it's kinda a month early. Gotcha. But I just love seeing new life, right? Everything's rejuvenated, everything's fresh. Start One thing that always worries me, 'cause when I was younger, this is when, when high school kids especially become super active long winter. So I want to recommend and then just keep hammering this kids be careful this spring, summer. So let's, you know, just be careful with all your happenings and have fun.
And remember that there's still a lot of time before school is out and yeah, focus on the good things. Of course, Wamsley, when I first came on the board, I remember the first school we went to is Wamsley and Kathy was, I believe Simone was working with her and she was just like upset or she was really worried about you where, where they were at and in testing and men in that administration team. And so to see that go from there to where she's at now
and where that facility's at now is you've done amazing, really a testament to not only the teachers but also the leadership in that building. So I'm a huge proponent of any organization that is steady and consistently great. One thing they have in common, they have a staff that's bought in and they have solid leadership. I'm very proud to be part of an organization that I feel that's where we're at. We have a staff that the leadership believes in wholeheartedly. I feel we believe in wholeheartedly. And then I also, speaking for me,
I believe wholeheartedly in our leadership. So thank you guys for continue to teach me things. I may not act like I'm listening and I may say dumb stuff, but thank you for, for teaching me and continue to teach me and Cactus Valley. Like I'm kind of biased. This school, this is like when I first got to be, be a school dad, like as a fur. You know, like I'll never forget my, my kids are one year apart in school. They're 18 months apart. But one year. So Cason had a whole kindergarten
year under his, under his belt. Right, Kay does going starting kindergarten and now we dropped him off. I dropped him off out here their first day of school. And I'll never forget this image. And I'm sure her parents have the same image. You'll, you'll remember certain things your whole life. Kaya was so nervous and she just, you know, I saw the picture of my phone. She curled hair and Cason gets out and walks through the chain link fence. There's a little break out there and puts his arm around her. He just walks her on the table. And I'll never forget that as she has a walk away from the truck as, as long as I live. So Cactus Valley, you have a special place in my heart for giving me that great news about
c Cole Ridge High School. I'm really excited about the trajectory staying remaining consistent and seeing where we go from here. Right. So good luck to Mick and we'll see hopefully we're, we'll be there to support him however we can. And I think that's about it. But I did wanna touch on Megan's comments about the public, which you, you have a great, you have a great light. Like that was a great, great way you put it. It's an opportunity. Yeah. Sometimes I don't think that,
so I'm being quite honest. But it is a good opportunity because you can, it is and it's amazing how much information you digest without knowing you digest it. Especially when some people challenge stuff that you've been listening to for two years. Right. And, and you can easily either point them in the right direction. I always either play to some own or Kirk they fun And you know, and or Jason with finance. Like, you know, 'cause that that's always one thing, like you said, mess with somebody's money. They always think, you know, and, and there's just overarchingly in society.
There's just this massive distrust in large bureaucracies and the school's seen as a bureaucracy and, and okay, maybe it fits a definition, but everybody is imagining we're inefficient with the money. We're we're not doing things right. Schools are mismanaging their funds, you know, we've all heard it. And guess what, five years ago I was probably guilty of spreading it. I would recommend and I would, I would I guess encourage anybody to look into that and get with your school, get with Jason. I'll get his phone number and put it out publicly.
Just find out because IIII will hang my hat on that. We do the best we can. I've sat in Jason's office, I've asked him questions, he's shown me everything that I've ever asked and not just 'cause I'm on the board. So I'm just really proud of the organization that we have and, and I'm really excited about the future. So Speaker 8: Yeah, I think to touch on that, the, the, the thing that is most dangerous is when our constituents are no longer calling. Yep, sure. 'cause then they just don't care anymore. Yeah, Speaker 1: Yeah, Speaker 10: Yeah. I get that. And then Speaker 8: So the complaints hard, but they're good because we've still got somebody in the community
that's engaged and wants some answers. Speaker 10: Yes. That's all I got. Okay. Speaker 1: Thank you everybody. Thank you Cactus Valley for hosting us. It is, it's always fun to come to the schools. And I have to say, I really enjoyed the math games. Definitely made me rethink about Speaker 10: I do one on the record. I did beat Kirk. Speaker 1: I wanted too, by the way. Yeah. Cassie says her dice was weighted, but we'll see. It was broken. But, but I do wanna say there were two things that I heard pretty, pretty consistently throughout
your guys' presentation. And it was consistency and collaboration. And I think overall throughout our district, that is definitely present because if we didn't have the consistency in our schools, if we didn't have the consistency in our leadership and we didn't have the consistency on this board, we wouldn't be having the successes that we have, especially the collaboration. So Kelly, you hit on collaborating with the families and that is one of the biggest things that I have. I, I don't wanna say preach 'cause that gives a, a bad message, but that's one thing that I definitely hit on, that this is a collaboration.
This is a partnership not just with the board and its community, but with the parents and the schools. With the parents and us. Like Megan said, it's sometimes yes, those 2:00 AM phone calls or texts are not always fun to read. And sometimes I have to put my phone away before I respond. There are times when I respond, reread it, delete it, and then respond again. But that's just it. It's, it's the passion that comes from the parents.
And, you know, our, our communities revolve around our schools and with that too, our parents are always gonna show up for their kids. And we've seen it with, I mean it's springtime, so there's a renewal of everything. So that also means that there is a renewal in our sports. So baseball is here, track is here, softball, girls golf, girls golf. So there's, there's all the things. Mountain Biking Club is back up for the spring. So it's definitely fun to see all the life out there.
And I think with the collaboration and the consistency that we have in this district, we wouldn't be having the re the awards and the celebrations that we do have, such as the Colorado Centers for Education of Excellent Education. Coleridge is the, one of the top high schools in the state rifle. Just got that $2,000 grant. There's 200, $200,000 grant. There's, we've got several performance schools. And I think that is a testament to the leadership that we have. Not only in the building but at, at the district office as well.
So, you know, and people keep coming and they keep coming to work. They keep showing up, they keep doing the job and it shows. And with CMAs this week, I, my story's not as good as Cassie's. My son's first question last week was if I could sign him out of CMAs, my high schooler asked. And my response was, why if you give me a good argument, we'll discuss. And he says, I just don't wanna, and I said, well I just don't wanna sign you out. So, so there you go. But you know,
but I think having that understanding that it's, you know, Mary said that they're not graded and and I explained to him that he's not graded, but this is a great way for the school to show how we can improve the things that we can do better for our students. So when I asked him on, on yesterday, 'cause he started his test yesterday, he got in the car and I asked him how it went and he's like, me, it wasn't so bad. Okay. So he was ready to go again today and did not get up and cook bacon, although I kind of wish he did. So. But I, I do wanna say thank you
to everybody and as the school year draws to a close and you would think that everybody would be tired and dragging their feet coming in. It's, it's definitely just the opposite. So it's still exciting to see. So thank you. But on with that, we've got the committee reports, but again, it's been forever since we got together. And I don't think we've had, other than Dak and Brandy was here to discuss Dak and Speaker 9: We did have a BOCES meeting on Friday, but I wasn't able to go 'cause I had no voice and wasn't filling the best.
So I opted out of that meeting. But I'll have one next month. Speaker 8: We did have a safety meeting last week. Okay. So I, I do have a quick report on safety meeting. Speaker 1: Perfect. We good with Speaker 8: That? Okay. Safety committee meeting the end of March. There's a lot of kudos for New Castle pd who is a, a brand new chief. He's been with the department a few years, but now that the department is under his new leadership, they're really tackling the re reunification drill and law enforcement's piece
or their role in that reunification drill. So it was, it was relayed to the safety committee that they're, they're basically, they're doing an excellent job of crossing t's dotting i's making sure that our New Castle kids are, are safe and, and well taken care of and protected as I'm sure all of the schools are. But it's, it's nice when a new leader comes in, puts eyes on it and knows exactly where some of the holes are and how to fill those appropriately. This, this will, this was the last safety committee meeting,
so we won't have any more at the, this next year. We set schedule for what our meetings will look like next year. RMS updated that they have now vape detectors in every bathroom. There was some discussion as to whether or not those were effective only in deterrence or in actual detection. Either way RMS is reporting less vape use in the building. Now they're working on trying to tackle what that might look like outside of the building. But nevertheless, it's, it's a rolling target.
It seems like one door spoke about referrals and the fact that she, Amanda had received, I believe she said eight high risk referrals just last week. So there was some discussion really for, for my edification is, is really understanding what do those high risk when we say a referral in my mind that meant that you had to go through a screening and that you may not qualify for services. But she educated me in helping me to understand that by the time she receives them,
because the schools are so well-trained, it's really more of an acceptance process. Figuring out what it is that each of these students that have have been referred to her, what they need, not whether or not they will qualify, but what they need in the action plan that she's gonna put forward. So I I really, I appreciate that from, from each of the schools that this process has been, I don't wanna say seamless 'cause I'm sure there's a lot of hiccups to it, but that it, it has been so well ironed out now that by the time one door receives the referrals all Amanda's all
like, like it's easy. But what she's doing at that point is really kind of coordinating as services for each of these kiddos so that they leave with diploma in hand and they're the best version of themselves by the time they're done with re two. There's also some conversation about School Gate Guardian and now that the, the camera project is really done is is safety committee will be refocusing our time and attention back on School Gate Guardian to figure out how best we can coordinate with each of the schools to make sure that if you've got a kid at CVE
and Coleridge, the process is the same as a parent. You don't, you don't have one process at one school and something completely different as is adhered to at another school. I love you guys. One of the, some of the wins that was reported back to the safety committee is I love you guys has been trained now in each and every school, comprehensively trained in each and every school in our district. So that that is a huge win. And that every school is current and proficient on their drills, which isn't always the the case Wonder Door reported,
sorry, this is so long. Wonder reported a great, great relationships with each of the law enforcement communities, but specifically even rifle PD that have been great support in in the building. And then each of the law enforcement jurisdictions throughout our communities watchdog program at RMS and then GME are very effective and huge community outreach. That's all I have.
Sorry that was really long-winded, but No, no, Speaker 1: It's good. That's great. That's good. What's the Speaker 8: Yellow again? Oh no, no, I'm so sorry. I do have one more thing. LPRs or the license plate readers were successfully installed over spring break, but the licensing still is not in place. And so to kind of give you an idea and, and Kirk fill in the holes if I get something wrong. But you've got, the state law requires that if you are being recorded or information is being secured without
your fundamental knowledge that it's happening. So essentially your license plate is being recorded as you enter on a school property that there must be some kind of notification saying, Hey, we are capturing this data. That way you have an opportunity to leave if you don't want your data, your data collect. Correct. Collected. Collected. Thank you. So those signs have been ordered but not installed and then there's some licensing requirements that's, that's still yet unmet but in the works. Yes. Speaker 1: Awesome. Speaker 7: Great. What's the, is it, that's all part of this camera? Yes.
That's all that project Speaker 8: Wrapping up. So the license plate readers are actually pretty amazing. Law enforcement uses 'em a lot of government aid entities. It captures the data from your plate vehicle registration, any wants and warrants associated with it. Registered owner wants and warrants like it's pretty extensive and it will share that information with school administrators as well as law enforcement. So for example, let's say we have a, in a perfect world, we have a parent who has an active restraint against
their child at Rifle High School and they cross that license plate reader. In a perfect world, that restraining order is associated with the license plate and then there is an immediate alert that goes to school administrators and then goes to law enforcement to say, now we have somebody that is on school property that is restrained from this location. Speaker 2: Ms. Oto. Okay. Speaker 1: Steve, did you have any committees? Speaker 7: No, it did not meet Speaker 1: Chance. Nope. I do wanna say one thing that I did forget in my board report yesterday,
I had the opportunity to go out to ride and actually get a tour myself of the ride facility. I've been out there several times and dropped my son off to volunteer. But RIDE stands for Riding Institute for Disabled Equestrian. So yesterday it was the ECE students, the students with dis disabil or the special education students that were there. And there was probably what Kirk? Six six students and they broke 'em out into different groups and they had three different sessions. And of course one of those sessions is riding the horse
and getting the feel of the horse and the comfort level with that. And I kept hearing yesterday how you should have seen this girl last week. You should have seen her last week. 'cause the week before she was just screaming and crying and wouldn't even like screaming at even the, the stuffed horse in one of the stations Wouldn't even get on the horse, wouldn't even get near it. And then LA yesterday, by the end of her second session, which was the riding portion of of her trip, she was sitting upright, she was comfortable, she was not gripping her sidewalk actually it was her
sidewalk's hair for deer life. And she actually, they were actually able to get her helmet on her. And so it was, it, it was exciting to see the volunteers' excitement in going from one extreme to the other. And so it was, it was definitely a, a very rewarding day. So Kirk and I both got the opportunity to do that and Dee was very excited. She took us around in the side by side and showed us all of the different trails and a lot of the different activities that they do during the summer programs and everything else.
'cause then during the summer, it's not just students, it's also the veterans and the nursing home. And then I believe like at risk youth also comes during the summer. So it's, it was, it was a lot of fun. So I think Speaker 9: It's really important that we have those types of partnerships in the community. You know, it's, it's pretty amazing. It's just one of many that we work with. Speaker 1: Right. Yeah. So that was, that was a lot of fun. So, and then advocacy. Speaker 5: Yeah, so I'll talk about advocacy.
There's many of, you know, there is a lot going on as the legislative session session is going on. I think some of the big things is that we are getting down as we get down to the end of the session, the long bill is always one of the last components. What I think has been the most interesting and gives Jason and I the most consternation is the fact that right now the JBC and the governor are using two different sets of numbers.
One is using one set and the other is using the other. And they're only about a half a billion dollars difference. Oh, only that's awesome. In what they're choosing to use and so, so awesome. That's not how we choose to budget. They got, they got close. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Half a billion dollars and they're the ones that tell us if our schools are how much money we, we That's awesome. We budget off of, so supposedly they have, they last week got to a budget. They chose the lower of a billion dollars shortfall.
What we best that Jason and I can figure out is what they did is they robbed, okay, that's my words, about $600,000 from the state education fund, which was formulated out of Amendment 23. The other portion of that, I'm not real sure where they got it from. I don't think Jason knows either, but somehow they claim that they got to a budget. Oh, Medicaid. And so they stole it from Medicaid. So I think we're, we're real concerned about
what that looks like. What, so the way we're structured, that looks like probably what it means for us is probably flat funding for next year. We'll know more in the next two weeks where it looks like for the long bill, I think there's probably two possible scenarios that come out of it. One is that if we are correct in what we're hearing, and I will tell you that no one, no one's reading the tea leaves right now. Everyone is, is everyone
who knows more than we do is kind of scared. And so they won't make any pros modifications of what that looks like. So we can't run any numbers right now. But if it is, in fact, if it is in fact flat funded, we're probably budgeting right where we need to be. There is a theoretical that they could come in higher or they could come in lower. I think we're positioned right for that. Either way the long term is really where our problem sits because if,
because they took a big chunk out of the ED fund for it, the question's gonna be what does it look like for next year? They're already saying that they're a billion in the hole for next fiscal year. Yeah. Which means if you took, if you went after half of your budget problem for Medicaid and the other half of what you spend is K 12, guess where it's gonna come out of next year? So we're gonna have to start looking at setting up for next year. It is what it is, but we're, we continue
to believe we positioned ourselves in the right position that we need to be. If things turn out more positive than they are, it's set. I would say that it positions us well to say we put it in so that we can position ourselves for deficit spending for next year and vice versa depending on where it goes. But that's where we sit I think. Right. Probably the other, we we're monitoring quite a bit of different bills. The other thing that came out of this is that they're at least claiming
that they're gonna flat fund everything else. Meaning that no bills that'll go through will have any fiscal bills attached to them. I'm not a politician, but I've never seen a year where they put anything through that didn't have a fiscal note attached to it. If they can pull that off, it may be the first in history, but we'll see if they can do it. God bless them if they can. In the other piece, there is two pieces of legislation there coming through. One is a piece of legislation that is going to try to get a referred measure, which is going to try
to p put a piece of legislation on or a, a ballot measure on that will be asking for the voters to look at helping adjust what, whether or not we get additional funding to come in at inflation, which would be for a 10 year extension on, which would be about a 2% to education. There is also another one, which is right now labeled at called 1 39, which is in the ballot gathering
or the signature gathering phase, which would be a graduated tax. Which a graduated tax would be taxing people over $500,000 income if that one that would raise almost a billion dollars for education funding. My belief is that the two of them together would be probably the answer to try to get us out of our, our systemic issues that we have in education. So the question will be is whether or not both of them, one gets through and gets on the ballot from a referred measure.
The other one needs enough signatures to get on and so there's a lot of movement in the next 60 days to see if whether both one or both or neither. We'll make it onto the ballot to see if those will help. If that happens, then there may be some interesting things come November about a very crowd crowded ballot for everyone. So things to just know. But that's where we are on advocacy Speaker 9: Questions. Can you explain flat funding? Is that like no extras, it's just the flat dollar amount per, Speaker 5: It means, it means the amount of money that that per,
that per pupil that we were expecting. Right now, the way that that they, they did it is, is that we would be, it would be just inflation and our, our student counts is what I mean by that. Speaker 9: Okay. That's what I thought, but I didn't wanna assume. Speaker 5: Yeah, no, I appreciate that. Thank you. Thank you for the asking the question. Any other questions? Speaker 7: Awesome. Yeah. Great. Optimistic news. Is that something the, the collecting ballot or collecting signatures, is that something that we could do
online or is that a Speaker 5: As yes, as individuals, I can definitely connect you with the organization that is, is looking at, at that and doing that and be happy to, to connect you with the, with the, the organization that's, that's moving forward with that. Speaker 1: I do have to say your, your article in the paper about school finance was very informative and it was nice to kind of see 'em in a, in a three part too from the surrounding districts.
Yes. And from my understanding from you, that was not planned. Yes. So, yeah, school finance is definitely its own beast. And you know, I, and I hear in my house too, no new taxes. I don't wanna raise taxes. No news taxes. And it's, it's funny to see that our taxes get raised and we don't get any more money for our schools. Yeah. So, which is, is pretty sad. But that's, Speaker 10: And you're about lose a kidney driving down a 70 lately. Speaker 1: Yeah. Speaker 10: Holy moly.
Speaker 1: That's bad. Yep. On with that, we've got our governance discussion items, capital projects. John, come on up. Speaker 12: Well I'm having to follow that. Yeah, there's Speaker 1: No, you're not asking, there's nowhere but other Yeah, unless you're asking for money, we're just gonna say no, Speaker 12: That's actually what I'm doing. Okay. Speaker 1: You know, we'll hear it though. Speaker 12: But, but I've, but I've talked to Jason and he says that we should be, should be good on this. So every year I come to you, usually earlier in the year on for capital projects for the upcoming year.
This would be money that would be allocated July one starting this year. So nothing I talk about today will actually happen until after July one because it's next year's money. So I was just gonna go over some things that the Capital Projects committee decided on for the next year's. Capital projects and transportation. We're asking for two large school buses. Last year we only bought one school bus. We cut that out to use, cut one of them out to use for money for some other items that we had.
That's $350,000 we're, we wanted to continue our cycle on trucks and school vehicles. Last year we bought vehicles for it and one SUV, excuse me, I got a hair in my throat or something. I had my hair cut right after work. Probably not a good idea but, so that's what we're asking for $80,000, that would probably be for two pickup trucks, heat and air replacement. And the transportation in the large area. We're gonna, I have 150,000 budgeted for that.
I don't think it'll cost that. We have some other ideas in place to try to save that money and use it for another item that we have on the list that we've had to cut out at this point. Firewalls for schools, that's a technology item. Replacement firewalls for the district office and for the whole district. That's a technology item. 10 year cycle on our four wheelers that we push snow with, we try to replace one a year that way we've got 10, we've always got one that's 10 years old. Shampoo the same thing side by side. That's not like an A TV 'cause I know y'all are gonna say we're gonna get one for $5,000.
That's a, that's to clean the floors with it. The schools, that's a cycle. Also lawnmower, we try to do that every year. Rifle high school roof is our big ticket item this coming year. This right now starting June 3rd, we're gonna replace a significant portion of the rifle middle school roof. Some of it won't be replaced because it was done in I think in oh eight. So it's still in pretty good shape. But the other parts are 1997. The part at ELL high school is 1997. So we're replacing the parts.
I'd love to be able to go and replace the whole roof, but one, we're kind of budget restricted on that. So we're doing the oldest parts of the school roofs as we work, walk through it for the next few years hopefully. So the Walmsley PA system is non-existent right now. They're using our panic alarm system to do the announcements. And Theresa lives what mile from school. So she and she gets the announcement mile electric worse. Yeah, it's pretty loud. So they can hear it all the way to Napa. It's loud. Wow.
So it, the system we're using is not really meant for that. But it is a backup system we can use. So we don't have nothing but we wanna replace that. If we have any extra money from the other projects, I'd like to go to Highland and do that. Their system functions as it was designed when it was installed in 2003. But it really needs some upgrades to make it better. Speaker 10: Graduated in 2003. And just to hear you say that like it's old, makes me think Speaker 4: I was gonna sit here and think for a long time about 1997 being 30 years ago.
Speaker 10: Oh Speaker 12: Bad. Just Speaker 1: I graduated in 97. So talk about feeling old. Yeah. Okay, so sorry, back to Speaker 12: If we have extra money after I can do all this and I'm really gonna push for that to try to get that done also. And sometimes if you do pro two, two at a time, you can get a whole lot better deal. So a floor scrubber and food service equipment. Usually we put back $25,000 a year when I added all this up, we come up with 1.196, there was $4,000 left. So I put it toward food service like this.
This year we're in, right now we're replacing a dishwasher at Catherine Senior Elementary with that money. We don't know at this point exactly what we'll have, but that dishwasher failed. So we have that money setting there failed so it doesn't come out. Have to come outta general fund. And we do have some, some pretty old pieces of kitchen equipment and they get used a lot. So total that's $1.2 million. That's what we usually put in toward capital every year. So I was gonna see if y'all had any questions about any of these items. Speaker 10: The reason I didn't have a committee report 'cause he was coming to in front of him,
so I wanted you guys to hear it from him. Speaker 12: He didn't steal my thunder this time. Speaker 10: It's the same thing that we've been doing since my time on the board. This is a, doesn't even touch the stuff that needs to be done, but it's kind of the best we can do to keep some water in the water tank and yeah, keep do with what we can. So Speaker 12: Trying to keep from sneezing. Sorry. We're Speaker 1: Good. Bless you. Now Speaker 10: This is, this is something that I do support that we've talked about, so Speaker 1: Yeah, no I, John, when you come up
and when Mary comes up with food service, I always know that you guys are gonna shoot us straight and you do the, the best with what you have and you will allocate what you need, where you need it. And it is truly a, a puzzle piece and it's, you're robbing Peter to pay Paul sometimes. Speaker 10: Well easy with his head. I just agreed with it. I don't have Speaker 1: To Any other questions? Speaker 9: What's the difference between a side by side cleaning machine and a floor scrubber? 'cause that's like what I pictured when you set a side
by side cleaning machine was the floor scrubber Speaker 12: When you, when you like buff a floor. Oh, okay. Side. That's what we side by side call it side by side. Oh okay. We also use that to strip all the wax off the floor and then the walk behind floor scrubbers like you clean up after lunch. Okay. Gym floor. Okay, Speaker 9: Thank you for clarification Speaker 12: On that. The question Speaker 10: You were asking Speaker 9: The Speaker 8: Rifle high school roof, you've already received estimates or is that just a ballpark? Speaker 12: That, that we have not received estimates. I won't start bidding that out till I, till July after July one for the next summer. That is the estimate that come off our
facility plan that we just got. Okay. Completed. So that should be a pretty good number. Okay. So RI Rifle middle school is 3 52 and if there's a few more square feet at Rifle Middle School, then Speaker 2: What we're doing at Raffle High School. So Thanks Speaker 9: Pete. Speaker 2: Knock on wood. Speaker 1: Thank you. Speaker 9: Thank you. Woohoo. Speaker 1: Alright, governance action items. Policy focus. So we, we did our first review of section A for policies. So what we'll do with this, if there was, so we all reviewed the policies in section A.
If there was anything in the policies that you guys would like to see revised, please let us know which policy and what you would like to have viewed. And then if we need to, we can bring it forward for a first reading. Speaker 9: You just want me to start spouting off the letters? Who's keeping note of this? Oh Speaker 1: Yeah, Sharon. Sharon. Speaker 9: A c dash e dash one. Speaker 1: Okay. Speaker 9: That one needs to be board. It's like all the names Speaker 13: They've been done but Yes. Speaker 9: Well and I was wondering can we just label the like remove dev, I mean I don't know how
to go the names and just put the position positions. Yeah, just posted the positions instead of the names. Speaker 13: We can and I think that's the way they were prior. And then I think it was one of the, whoever brought out all those policies and Trustee State was schedule or something that said that you need to have a name listed so people knew who to contact. Speaker 9: Oh, oh, so Speaker 1: It a kid Speaker 13: Or a student or somebody or even a parent or somebody that looking for something and they make a specific Speaker 9: Name. Oh, okay. Okay. So you said this has already been fixed or Speaker 13: The names? Yes. So what happened with, Speaker 9: So how does that work? Do we not need to vote on it?
Speaker 13: No, on those ones, on the names because it's just something that you change as people change positions. It's not really something that has to be voted Speaker 9: On. Oh, okay. We just change. Speaker 13: Okay. And so we knew that that was in there. Devin had already fixed it when I made your guys' copies so it is correct but it's fine to put it on there. We'll double check everything. Speaker 9: So it's great to do it. Okay, so AC dash e dash one, somebody else can go. Speaker 1: No, go ahead. AC dash e dash two. It's a complaint form. Is that available electronically? Speaker 13: I believe it is all on the website, yes.
Speaker 1: Okay. Okay. That was my only question with that one. Next Speaker 8: Ac, I don't know that we need to bring it forward, but as I was going through here, there's some grammatical, punctuation, ac, middle of the page under protected hairstyles. Speaker 13: Okay. Speaker 8: Space between individual and individuals and perception. Speaker 13: Okay. Thank you Speaker 8: For giving a school district. Speaker 2: Okay. Speaker 10: I got policy ad, ad, educational philosophy, school district mission. I think it probably should become, well you guys review it but doesn't makes no mention of our strategic plan.
Speaker 2: Okay. Speaker 10: Policy a DA needs to be modernized to include, mention a street strategic plan. Speaker 13: And I'm sorry, can you say that Speaker 10: I-A-D-A-A-D-A. Speaker 2: Yes. Thank Speaker 10: You. A DD Speaker 2: Right. Speaker 10: Needs to be updated to include the safety committee as well as what whatever we look at. And policy. A, D, D dash E. One thing that is, it's a safe school report. Speaker 2: One Speaker 10: I've never seen one. Yeah. Speaker 2: Safe school report. Speaker 10: So I'd like if we just need to do away with it or if that's morphed into something else, whatever
that may be, which needs clarification. So that's all I got. Speaker 2: I, Speaker 7: I had a question on the A, DD. Yes. Just point number and kind of along the 10 and 14. Do we have like procedures for regular assessments by school climate professionals? Like does that, you know, kind of same do we, do we do that? And then also on 14, do we have a, like a sexual abuse and assault prevention plan and Yes. Curriculum and all of that stuff that we're actually we do, yes. Speaker 1: I do have to say going through all of this
and hearing what everybody else had, I'm glad to know that we were all kind of on the same page. Yeah Speaker 10: And I think it's a really good, I mean it takes time but it's really good to go through em and Speaker 1: Well, and like I was talking to Megan today and I mean there's so many things there's, there's so many policies that we Speaker 10: Don't even know I've heard of Speaker 1: And just trying to, we know they're there but honestly I can skim. Speaker 2: So Speaker 1: Was there any others? She has. Okay. Speaker 8: Another grammatical one, AC dash R dash one,
page five of seven under hearing procedure, there's strike through B. Speaker 2: Yeah, Speaker 13: Those are both fixed too. Speaker 8: But I'll, Speaker 13: I appreciate you doing well. I'm gonna double check all of it before Speaker 8: On page four of seven C is not space correctly as well. I do have, I'm sorry, what Speaker 13: Was that? Four Speaker 8: Page four of seven. Same policy spacing on Bulletproof bullet point C. Speaker 2: Just Speaker 8: Not space correctly. B and C. Thank you. Quick question on the definition of compliance officer. And, and this is again for my own ification. It says designated by the board.
When, when does that happen? Speaker 7: That's if there, how does that Speaker 8: And and maybe I, I could, I could format in a question as well and just email it to Fathom. I think Speaker 7: That's, if there's an incident, we get it assigned that. Okay. I had that flagged. Speaker 8: Okay. Sorry Cassie, go ahead and jump in if you've got more. No, Speaker 9: You're good. Speaker 8: Heather Grimley is listed on ACR two. Yeah, I assume that that's already been taken care of. Yeah, Speaker 13: But that's okay. I, I'm gonna double check Speaker 8: Along with on page 2 0 4 Ms.
Nipper and then Kayla Reese. Speaker 13: Right. Speaker 8: And then filing a complaint. It's like it was supposed to be the fill in the specifics that never got filled in. Identify locations which may include the district website, counseling offices and administrative offices filing complaint. It says forms for this purpose are available at and then in parentheses identify the locations. Okay. Oops. Speaker 9: On a ED, the education accountability act of 2009. I just wanna make sure that there's not a newer version. Okay. That we're in compliance.
It says in accordance of that act, I wanna make sure that there's not a newer one. Preferably Speaker 13: Okay. Speaker 9: That we're up to date on those dates. Anything with dates. I was looking at dates of stuff that we were holding ourselves accountable to as board members. I think that's important. Or per this law. Speaker 13: Lisa went through all of them. We did a whole new process. All policies and stuff and so it's probably up to date because she went through it all. Speaker 9: Okay. We'll Speaker 13: Check on it for Speaker 9: Sure.
Okay. Speaker 7: Yeah the one before that was last. Speaker 9: Yeah. In two, not Speaker 7: In 2007. Speaker 9: Yeah. Speaker 7: Still looks good. But Speaker 9: Yeah, I just a little concerned. I was like whoa, that's a little, yeah, Speaker 13: Maybe haven't changed it either. I mean Speaker 9: That's just Right. Right. They may not have but just in case they like did kind of what we did and updated something. I just wanna make sure it's all in line. Speaker 8: Another formatting a DF school wellness page one of three. Second paragraph in is bolded for some strange reason Speaker 13: In is bolded. Speaker 8: Yeah, just the I. Speaker 13: Oh, okay.
Speaker 8: I feel Speaker 9: Like the last one, the a EE and I just wanted to ask the board and maybe Kirk, the board shall post notice of public meetings in three public places within the district. Have we had to do that? Yeah, Speaker 13: We put when it goes on. Well things have kind of changed since we're all on mine Speaker 9: Now. Yeah. Speaker 13: That hasn't been changed, which it should be. But usually post one in the, when you come in the doors here on bulletin board, we've got that. It goes out online and just
Speaker 9: Is like our diligent in email and Facebook. Are those all considered one way of communicating or Speaker 13: I don't know. 'cause in the past Speaker 9: We had, that's what I was like mail them. Have we been doing that? There Speaker 13: Was a list of people who wanted them and we would mail them. We don't do that in, they Speaker 9: Haven't had Okay. Because Speaker 13: Now they just get them online. Speaker 9: Okay. I just wanted to make sure we were in compliance. That's Speaker 5: Great to bring that forward. Speaker 9: I just, if it says, it says that we're supposed to notice public meeting in three public places within the district, not less than 30 days prior to a meeting. Also. Good catch. 30 days. 30
Speaker 2: Days is 30 Speaker 9: Days. Yep. Speaker 13: I'll check that too. Speaker 1: Yeah, let's review that one. Correct. Speaker 9: A EE. Okay. Speaker 5: Huh. I'm glad we're, look, I mean that's what this is for to be honest. That's why we're doing this. Speaker 9: So that's not in the title of it is waiver of state Law and Regulation. So that's Speaker 13: Probably something that, I dunno if every school would do. I Speaker 5: Dunno. No, that that's different than sunshine. So, we'll, we'll double check. Speaker 9: I just wanna, it says it was last resolved in 2018 so it's been a bit three vice post Speaker 13: Office. Speaker 5: That's why, that's why we're looking at it.
That's why we doing the whole purpose. So that's great. Very Speaker 2: Good. Speaker 8: I've got the state Speaker 2: Laws Speaker 13: Just, Speaker 8: Sorry, some questions on AE dash E. It's accountability process. Timeline. I feel like we should go back through this. Make sure that we are adhering to each of these and making some kind of calendar notification there. There's just some things that need to be done that I'm not a hundred percent sir. That we are. Sure. Speaker 9: Which one was that? Ae Speaker 8: AE dash E. Speaker 9: Okay. Speaker 8: Accountability process. Timeline.
Speaker 1: And I know at one point too the accountability process timeline, we had actually re revisited that to Speaker 13: D. That's what I was, Speaker 2: I feel like some of that was like Frank initially forming dac, right? Yeah. Speaker 1: Yeah. Okay. Speaker 2: Well Speaker 13: We'll take a look at it. Make sure we, Speaker 1: Sharon did print out, give us all copies of section part of section B. So BBB to BDFB. Speaker 2: This is Speaker 1: Ours. Please don't make me say that. 10 times fast Speaker 2: Acronyms around here. Speaker 9: BBB through B-D-F-F-B Speaker 2: Was Speaker 13: About the same amount that you had for Speaker 2: A, I Speaker 13: Think there was 19 and A.
There's 40 and B. So I gave you 20. Speaker 2: Okay. Speaker 9: Thanks Sharon. Speaker 1: I think, I think this was a good Speaker 2: Thank you. 700 I think. Yeah. Looking forward to it. Yeah. When's our due date on this? Good job. Speaker 9: Can I request you Speaker 5: Talk about continuous improvement with the schools? Continuous improvement with the board. Speaker 2: Yeah. Speaker 4: Does it, does underscore how much is done in a school district? Right. It's a lot. Speaker 2: What is our due date for this next round of policies. Speaker 13: So I'll go through these ones and And bring it back
because I think we'll still be working on this one. On the next meeting. Or do you want me brought Speaker 2: Forward? I'm kind of ready. Speaker 1: Well, Mr. Overachiever, Speaker 2: He's doing my homework too. Huh? He's doing my homework too. I don't sleep well. So Speaker 1: One setting, would you guys think that maybe the, the first meeting in May would be a good opportunity to bring these back that way? Anything that we had pulled for a, we can bring forward in the next meeting. Speaker 9: We have one meeting in May. Speaker 2: I think we just keep going like that. Yeah, Speaker 1: No I think we have two meetings in May. Yeah. The only, the only months that we have one meeting is well July. Yeah, July. Speaker 9: Okay. Speaker 1: July.
Speaker 2: Get stuff goes right there. Just keep going. Speaker 1: So future requests with it being the end of the year, there is a lot of year end activities going on. Is there any way that we can get a list of Speaker 9: Dates? Speaker 1: Dates and activities at the different schools? Speaker 2: Awards, banquets on it. Like all that? Speaker 9: All the stuff. Graduations? Yeah. Celebrations. Like anything we can put on our calendar now. Please. Please. Speaker 2: Yes. Yes Speaker 5: We can do that. Speaker 9: Thank you. Speaker 4: Just one note of date. It was kind of, Theresa
and I were communicating at the next communica community meeting is on April 23rd. Speaker 9: April 23rd. Speaker 4: It's okay. I think the next one in May is next 19th. Yeah. Oh that's, I was in April. It's the 23rd. Speaker 9: Okay. I was say, oh that CBE is art auction and I have to be here to buy some art. Just want to make sure you have a Yeah. District office. I'll be buying four pieces of art that belong to a little boy. The boys. Four of a boys certain boys. Yes. Speaker 1: Oh I'm, that's how it goes. Speaker 9: That I've been requested to Speaker 4: And if you want it ahead of time,
the one in May is on the 14th. Speaker 9: May 14th. Her dates Speaker 4: May 14th is the May one. Okay. April 23rd. Speaker 9: I feel horrible. I haven't midnight to camp. Right. Clearly wanna wear 19th came from, that was, that was ingrained in my head. What time is that? Six. What am I doing? The nine? I think one of them was on the 19th. I really do apologize for not making any of those so far. It's just been those, Speaker 4: You're still getting the information. Speaker 9: Yes we are. Yeah, for sure. Yeah. From both sides. Speaker 1: Alright, meeting debrief.
I also, while you guys take a few minutes to Well thank you. Chance overachiever fill those out. I also just kind of wanted to make a quick question or a quick statement. There's a lot of information and a lot of time and energy that goes into these agendas and there's a lot of information on the consent agenda and we read them a lot and there's some that we agree with and disagree with such as Sharon's retirement. I was kind of hoping that I misread that on the last one but evidently I did not. So I'm excited for you. I am surely going to miss you.
I'm glad Speaker 9: Who's Speaker 14: Gonna do our do this stuff for you? Speaker 1: She's coming back for a, the transition year. So And how long Speaker 9: Does that last? Speaker 14: Couple. Three, four. Speaker 9: When? When do I, when's my term? That's how many transition years can you have? Speaker 14: You need you to have two more? Speaker 1: Four. At least four. Speaker 9: Depends on the negotiation. Speaker 1: Is this open for negotiation? Speaker 9: I don't know. Speaker 4: It will continue to be a topic of discussion. I can tell Speaker 9: You that Speaker 1: All, all I have to say is I'm sure whoever replaces you will be amazing but they won't be sharing.
Speaker 9: That's okay. But gotta move on. Speaker 1: But Sharon's moving not No, no. Sharon, I'm, they Speaker 9: Will be very good. I'm sure we'll selection and make sure bring them up. Yeah, this too. Oh, Speaker 14: Thank you for all you've done for us Sharon. Thank Speaker 9: That. Speaker 8: Wanna do a quick reminder of the board's agreement to honor SRO Josh Allison as he departs and transitions out of his role as SRO because that'll be happening at the end of May as well. Speaker 1: Yep. Speaker 10: Yeah. Thank you. Megan Point? Yes. Planned like there was a couple years he served,
Speaker 8: He gets five years. Five years in and yeah, so we've got a new SRO coming in. Okay. Speaker 10: And Josh was behind some initiatives at Rifle High School that I think were really neat. Really important. Speaker 9: Lock the door lock locks Speaker 10: And he spent a lot of his own time researching that. Testing them. Speaker 2: Yeah. Awesome. Speaker 1: So, so we Speaker 8: Do that on our, 'cause the PD will need to be invited. The 20th or this, sorry, the 13th. Speaker 9: May 13th Speaker 8: Or the 27th.
Speaker 1: Let's do 13th because I think the 27th that's gonna be, that's right after Speaker 2: Graduation. Speaker 1: Yeah. We've got, yeah. Graduation. Speaker 10: That's graduation awards banker. Speaker 1: Yeah, Speaker 2: We'll honor Speaker 10: When's prom. Gotcha, gotcha. Speaker 2: At the meeting. Speaker 9: Prom Speaker 2: Seventh at Ridge Ridge. May 8th. Speaker 9: May 8th at Coleridge and Rifles is next Friday the 17th. For what? Thank you prom. It's so early. Speaker 2: Yeah, we don't have to worry Speaker 9: About that. No, it's usually in April. Speaker 1: It's early. Speaker 9: Right? Our Coleridge is is late at May 8th. They're usually in April. Speaker 1: This was always in May.
Speaker 9: Well Ridge is in May. May, but Rifle is the 17th next week. Speaker 1: Okay. Alright. Yeah. So yeah, so on the first meeting in May too, we'll do the SRO. Okay. Make sure to add that. Okay. All right. And with that we will go ahead and adjourn the regular school board meeting. Wednesday, April 8th, 2026 at 7 0 5. Speaker 9: Yay. It's still.