Speaker 1: Meeting to order at 5 33. If you would please rise for the Pledge of Allegiance. Speaker 2: Steve, do you mind pleading I pledge allegiance to To the flag. United of the United States of America and to the Republic for wishes stands one Nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice. Speaker 1: Thank you. If you would please stay standing for just a moment of silence. Okay. Thank you. Alright, onto the meeting agenda. I would take a motion to approve the
July 15th, 2025 agenda as presented. Are there any changes? No, Speaker 2: There's not. I'll make a motion to approve the July 20 15th. Speaker 1: Oh, that we need to change that to 2026. Speaker 2: It's on the paper. It is. Yeah, Speaker 1: Of Speaker 2: Course. It's 2026. Yeah, Speaker 1: That's right. The sad part is, is none of us noticed it. Oh, guys, Speaker 2: One. Yeah. Speaker 1: So, so now is amended. Speaker 2: Amended. Speaker 1: Perfect. May I get a second? I'll second. Thank you. Sharon, may I get roll call please? Speaker 2: Will you? Aye Kyle. Aye. Jensen, Jen Jenkins, I apologize. Aye,
Speaker 1: Jensen? Aye. Alright. On the public audience, is there any public audience? Speaker 2: I don't have anybody that's checked in. Speaker 1: Okay. Alright, then we'll go ahead and move on to the consent agenda. Are there any changes to the consent agenda? Okay. I would take a motion to approve the consent agenda as presented. Can Speaker 3: I ask one question real quick? It doesn't look like the recommendation. Jacob's recommendation for the TCI middle school resource center is on here or in Speaker 2: The packet?
It's yes, the very second. Second at the bottom. Well, I Speaker 3: Get that it's on the consent, it's not on in the packet Speaker 4: As far as any additional information. Yeah, that information is the pilot that we've been running for the last school year and it's been in your weekly updates that I've been giving you. Okay. As far as what we've been doing in that process of using it. I Speaker 3: Wasn't sure if there was any documents. Speaker 4: No, there was no additional documents for this. We are just asking for approval so that we can purchase it and get it in time to start the Got it. 26 27 school year. Okay. Do
Speaker 2: They have a used model? Speaker 1: Yeah. Do we get a discount? Speaker 4: Like all resources? We try to shop the, the most inexpensive versions we can, but unfortunately no. There is not much. Making sure discounts making. Speaker 1: It was worth a shot. Yeah. Refurbished. Alright. All right. Thank you Megan. Any other questions? Okay. I would take a motion to approve the consent agenda as presented. I make a motion to approve it as as presented. Thank you. May I get a second please? I'll second it. Thank you.
Sharon, may I get roll call please? All you, aye a aye. Jenkins Aye. Jen Jensen. Aye. Welcome back Sharon. Yeah, I can fill it. Alright, governance discussion items. Speaker 4: So just so that as a reminder to the board and the public, the the, the district has been working for the last six months with the, with our, our community partners. We've been hosting monthly meetings in which we've had up to 30 to 35 members of the public come and,
and work with the, the staff. During that time. We've been doing a lot of research. We've, we've been working with specialists in the areas of both of finance around bonds and mills to help us make sure that we have all the information. That information has been helpful in presenting during work sessions to the board as well as the community. And so we continue to work with the, those interested community members on what is in the best interest for the district as far as
financing and supporting recruitment retention and best interest for our, our CTE programs as well as early childhood. And so it's been a continued process for the district as far as looking at the best interest of where we go for now and into the future. And so we are, we are requesting as the district that the, the board en engage with the Garfield County to, to participate in an upcoming, the upcoming November election. Speaker 1: Okay. Is there any other questions, discussion?
Speaker 5: No, I think it's something that we've been working towards. I'm not surprised. I'm not, nothing that I have to clarify Speaker 1: On. Okay. This is just to get on the ballot. Speaker 4: Yes. Just Speaker 1: To pull in the spot. Speaker 4: According, according to the election calendar, we must, must inform the clerk and recorder that we are interested in being on the ballot. We will also, there's another agenda item where you need to designate an election, sorry, official the word the official. And so we'll be asking you to do that tonight. This does not bond you to to that.
So we still have the ability to remove ourselves from that if the board doesn't choose. This also will not force you on any language at this point because we know that the board still has some work to do around whether or not which direction you all would like to go as far as this decision and languaging that you'd like on that if you so choose to do this. But this is part of the clerk and recorder's requirements that you inform them within a certain amount of days. And so to make that happen, we, we are asking you to do
that this, this evening so that we can move forward and inform the clerk and recorder for Garfield County. Speaker 5: So we would be asking for a, for a motion to Speaker 1: Approve, Speaker 5: To coordinate with Garfield County to allow Garfield re two to coordinate with Garfield County election. Correct. Okay. Speaker 1: So I would take a motion to approve Garfield re two to coordinate with Garfield County for the November 3rd, 2026 election. Speaker 5: I'll make a motion for Garfield re two to coordinate with Garfield County start recorder for the November 3rd, 2026 election.
Speaker 1: Perfect. May I get a second please? I'll second Speaker 5: That. Speaker 1: Thank you Steve. Sharon, may I get roll call please? Speaker 2: Will you? Aye a aye Jenkins Speaker 5: Aye. Speaker 1: Jensen Aye. Alright. And then next on the agenda is the designation of the election official. I believe Sharon is probably the most qualified candidate for it. And I would like to see Sharon on there. So if we could get an approval for Sharon Donahue to be the designated election official for the November 3rd, 2026 election. Sharon, Speaker 5: Who?
Speaker 1: Oh, oh Donahue. Speaker 5: Oh. Oh, she's Speaker 1: Back. That's Sharon. She's back. It's not her, her picture that was sitting at her desk. Oh, that awful. See that's just how much we missed you though. It was cruel. So, Speaker 5: So again, so just for clarification, we'll be at, we would ask for a motion or somebody would put a motion forward nominating Sharon Donahue as a Garfield RE two elect, designated election official. Is that correct? Speaker 1: Yes. Yes. Speaker 5: Okay. Speaker 1: I make a motion. I was gonna say,
Speaker 3: I, I was waiting for you to call for one. I make a motion for the approval of Sharon Donahue to be designated as the official election of, or sorry, the election official for our November 3rd election. Speaker 1: Perfect. May I get a second? Speaker 5: I'll second. Speaker 1: Thank you. Chance, Sharon, may I get roll call please? All you, Speaker 2: Aye aye. Aye. Jenkins. Aye. Speaker 1: Jensen? Aye. Okay. Any future requests? Speaker 4: I I do have one to ask the board if they are interested in possibly doing a work session and a
and also then a, a board meeting to just do a consent agenda for hiring at the end of the month. This is the one that we do that just is to allow us to do emergency hires for just a consent agenda. So it is a very quick one. That one would be on the 31st. So we would just need quorum. We would need three individuals. We would do it at six o'clock on the 31st. And the only agenda item would be the consent agenda for hiring. And then also at this time we believe we would also have the
stop gap or catastrophe insurance that we weren't able to get because we are still waiting on bids on those. So there'd be two items, any hiring in that, that we are waiting on bids on for, for that. And we would do that on the 31st. That's a Friday at six, it would be a Friday And we would do it just the administrative staff is at case through that week. So that's why I'd push it to the very last day. Is Speaker 5: There, is there month something important about the month of July it needing to be in that month? Speaker 4: Because then staff will come back,
new hires will come back on the third for new hire training starting on the third. So there any contracts that HR does will all say they'll sign pending approval by the board. So they do all that when, when any of the directors or principals make their request and we have them then sign them, get them locked down. But it always has that, that line because as you guys know, in the policies that you approve, you are the final say in that. So that's why we have that done. So that one is put in place. So we would do that.
So just, just putting that in place. And then also the other one was to see if we could do a work session on the 5th of August to recognize that it is would be fair week. But because of doing backwards planning, I'm hoping that that date would work for you to also meet with the community committee and do continuing the work regarding mill and bond and the discussions there, what time And so
seeing, we'd be open for an evening meeting, but depending on, I didn't know, I know some people have four H with regards to the fair. So I wanted to bring it forward for discussion if there was, if that was an availability on that day. It's tough because the following week, again, we, we have some date, we have some dates that are required to inform recorder. So Speaker 5: I think an evening's better. I mean that's Wednesday night. Yeah. So it's, it's, and that's pig day, right? Wednesdays are pig. It's a pig. So
Speaker 4: Is that a good thing or a bad thing Speaker 1: For him? It's a good thing. It's good for and pass it's, Speaker 5: Yeah, I don't have my kids do steers, which, okay. But it's just a long day because there's a lot, there's usually, usually a lot of pigs. But I think six o'clock Wednesday, six o is probably pretty fair. Fifth. Yeah. Okay. Speaker 1: My only question with the 31st, so you also set the gap insurances gonna need to be, anything else that's gonna need to be discussed on that? Speaker 4: No, we, we have, we've gone out to bids and so we're gonna, we're gonna bring you Speaker 1: The Speaker 4: Bids, the, the best, the, the, we will bring you,
your finance team will analyze that and then bring you the one that's bringing you forward. The one that we need to Speaker 5: Do, I know it's kind of a pain, but is it possible to get that sent out in an email prior to that meeting? Absolutely. In case we have questions we can coordinate, we can, we, we can Speaker 4: Definitely, we can def definitely bring forward anything you guys need. Well, Speaker 5: Remember there's something about a, we buy a insurance service from a company, Arizona that Netty mentioned. Speaker 4: Yes. Did she, that's why did you run, that's why, that's why, that's why this is coming up because this is taking much longer. We got very poor customer service from the past provider.
So then we went back to our current provider and we now, we weren't able to get bids from our current provider in time for this meeting. So that's why it's now gotten pushed to that one. So that's what I'm now waiting on is whether or not I will get the past provider or will I get our current provider. Either way, I will have a bid for us for the 20 26, 27 school year completed. We've also gone out to other providers because I do not, it's not gonna allow us
to start a school year without that particular policy in place. So we will have something and that's why I'm putting it in that particular one. Speaker 1: Okay. Speaker 4: To Speaker 5: Do it. And then, sorry, but the, Speaker 4: That's getting rid of that particular issue that was brought forward at that meeting Speaker 5: For us. There's the work session, the fifth. That's the community Speaker 4: And the board. Community Speaker 5: Members. Speaker 4: Well, any, it'll be a public meeting. So anyone's allowed. But Speaker 5: We're gonna talk about like the community you mentioned. Yeah. What do you, what do you call that again? Sorry, I'm writing it down. Speaker 4: Well, that it would be, it would be discussions around the, the, the information
that we've been presenting at the, the community meetings around finance and Bill and Mo. Bill Speaker 1: And Bill and Bill and Bill and Bond Speaker 4: Options. Thank you. Speaker 3: I am not able to make the 30th or the 31st. Okay. Just Speaker 1: A prior engagement. But I think we'll still have quorum. Yeah. I'll be, I'll be able to make it. We call. Yeah, we, we will call in. It'll be virtual right call. It'll be virtual. Yeah. Yep. Speaker 5: We can do virtual. I'll make it. Speaker 1: Yeah, Speaker 5: That's fine. Speaker 1: Yeah, it's six. Your chair just broke Speaker 5: Trying to kill me.
Speaker 1: I wasn't gonna say anything. At six. At six. Okay. Then I can make that then if it's virtual, Speaker 5: Hold on. Damn it. John, send out a Zoom link or something. Yep. 30. Speaker 1: Excellent. Yep. Speaker 5: And fifth will be live here probably. Speaker 1: Yes. Speaker 5: Six o'clock Speaker 1: At six. Speaker 5: Six o'clock on the 31st and Speaker 1: Six o'clock Speaker 5: The fifth. Okay. I had the fifth. Six and six. Yes, correct. Those were my two future items to bring forward to the Speaker 1: Board. Okay. Me too. Okay.
Any other future requests? Speaker 5: I had a real good one, but I can't remember. I thought about it like I had a, nevermind. Just adjourned meeting Speaker 1: You. You're gonna think about it as soon as I hit the gavel. Should I, should I wait? I got plenty of time. Okay. Alright. Well, with nothing further, we'll go ahead and adjourn our meeting for Wednesday, July 15th, 2026 at 5:50 PM.