Speaker 1: For the Pledge of Allegiance and then stay standing for just a moment of silence. Speaker 2: Chance would you please lead us? I pledge allegiance, pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for wishes. It stance one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Speaker 1: Thank you. If you would stay standing please for a moment of silence. Thank you. Alright. Alright. On to the agenda. Are there any changes to the agenda? Speaker 2: There are none. Speaker 1: Okay. Okay. May I have a motion
to approve the agenda as presented? Speaker 2: Make a motion to approve the agenda as presented. Speaker 1: May I get a second? I second that. Thank you. Sharon. May I have roll call please? Speaker 2: Eli, though? Aye. Haskell Aye. Jenkins. Aye. Jen. Speaker 1: Aye. Alright. And now on to public audience. I'm going to read just a few, a few welcoming notes for, for the public audience. The board's meeting time is dedicated to its strategic mission and top priority focus areas. Public participation is an opportunity to present brief comments
or pose questions to the board for consideration and follow up. Each person is asked to focus comments to three minutes. The boundaries are designed to help keep the meeting focused and in no way should limit conversations beyond the board meeting. Please be aware that any individual student or personnel matters are considered confidential under Colorado law. It is out of respect for the individual students and staff that we ask those conversations to be held behind in executive session. Insights are needed and welcomed and the board encourages you to meet with the most appropriate person among the district's, many leaders.
So with that, I will go ahead and Alyssa Piland, welcome. Come on up. Thank you for coming. Thank you Speaker 2: For letting me. Speaker 1: Yeah, you, you can go ahead and have a seat or stand if you'd like. You've got three minutes. The floor is yours. Speaker 3: So today I come to about a subject that I'm deeply passionate about youth sports. I spent most, most of my younger years participating in basketball and track. And I feel those experiences shaped the person I am. As I continue in life, my new passion has become sharing
that knowledge with the younger generation. Youth sports provide an infinite amount of benefits to our community. Playing sports can improve mental health and emotional regulation. Young athletes can learn to be good teammates and understand teamwork. Staying active is also important to overall health and wellbeing by increasing flexibility and developing motor skills. Participating in sports helps to build a foundation for lifelong health and wellness. All of these concepts fit perfectly into your vision statement. Our vision is to encourage, nurture and challenge every student every day.
This, this is where I am running into some roadblocks at times. And what I would like is us as a community to be able to allow gym space, public or, you know, track space, anything for our local teams to be able to utilize these even when the schools are not open. I'm asking if we could devise a plan to allow the local teams and parks and rec departments to utilize the space in the summertime.
And when the school is closed. I understand that there are infinite amount of limitations, potentially including maintenance and staffing that could limit the availability to the teams and the parks and rec departments. However, I do think that we could reach a resolution to provide to our community as well as allow schools the time needed for any employee vacation, as well as gym maintenance. I have a bachelor's degree in sports management and I would be happy to volunteer my time as well to assist in creating a policy that would allow our local youth
to utilize our gym space throughout the year. Yes, I, I have a, I started a nonprofit for a goals basketball team. And yes, we can play outside, but it's incredibly uncomfortable this time of year to play outside. So being able to utilize the gym space is great. I am incredibly grateful because the school district has a allowed me gym space. But I would like to continue to see this happening for all of our local teams as well. I did as well reach out to our community. I have a, not necessarily a petition, but I do have multiple signatures for multiple
families in our E two community that also agree with my sentiments. That's what I've got. So, great. Awesome. Speaker 1: Thank, thank you. Thank you. Did you have that list? Is it okay? It's here. You have her contact phone and we should have your contact info, correct? Yes. Okay. And that's perfect. Thank you very much. Omi Gomez. Sharon, are these mine or do you need, need these back? 'cause I started writing notes on them. No, you're fine. Okay. Okay. All right. Salomi, you got three minutes. Speaker 4: Hello, my name is Salomi Gonzalez. Speaker 1: Oh, I'm sorry. Speaker 4: I have three kids in this school
district, RE two, and I'm here to, okay, let me read. Good evening everyone. I want to make, I, I wanna take a moment to express my, my heart. Feel gratitude to our outgoing board, president Britain, Fletcher Britain. Thank you for all your dedication and service. We wish you all the best in your new journey. A aboard. We also want to extend my warm welcome to our new superintendent, clerk and our new vice, Jenny. I look forward to working together, continuing
to support our wonderful community. Thank you all the board members for your hard and dedication, hard work and dedication. Thank you. Speaker 1: Thank you. Speaker 2: Okay, Speaker 1: Robin Robinson, you've got, oh, just one second. Can we reset the timer? Please Get you your full three minutes. Speaker 5: May not need it, but, Speaker 1: Alright. Floor is yours, Robin Speaker 5: Robinson, and thank you for being here. And I thank you for that. Also here to thank Bri, even though he is not physically here for his years of service and you know, just appreciation for that fight.
And to that, I got to read some of the comments online in the post, not independent hasn't been for years. And some of the Facebook posts, which were so vitriolic against him, helping parents retain the control of their children's education and the personal things that happened to 'em on school grounds that the schools could even be sued for if they didn't notify parents. And that just shows that he was over the target and that you guys were over the target. And I appreciate you standing up so strongly for the parental rights and that, you know, helps the new
people coming in understand some of the issues that are coming your way. And that what we call, that they're doing is the primal scream of a dying regime. And that part of your, you know, your legacy will be how you continue to respond to the changes in our society, even though Colorado is, you know, being a little archaic on that, it will be changing. And so I just thank you very much for all your hard work and fighting with Britain on this. Thank you. Speaker 1: Thank you Robin. Speaker 2: Okay. Speaker 1: Caleb Robinson. I didn't see him come in yet.
Okay, we'll I'll, I'll put him back down to the bottom, Trish. Speaker 2: All right, Speaker 1: Welcome Trish. Speaker 6: Good evening. Trish Rady rifle resident. I also would like to thank Britton for his years of service. I think a lot of people are forgetting that you're volunteering your time here and a lot of you have full-time work and you're doing a wonderful community service whether people agree with you or not. And I appreciate that. And I was thinking about a, a quote
that I saw on posted recently that said something like social media could be the down downfall of our society. And I'm starting to see that with so many negative comments. It's easy to do that when you don't see someone face to face these new words that came into our lexicon more recently, like gaslighting and haters and fear mongering. And I saw that against Britain and other people. And I try and not to do that. Think about our founding fathers or Martin Luther King
or Seaver Caesar Chavez using words like that. People that were generally respected and had education would never stoop to using those kinds of words. And I'm tired of seeing it myself and just general civility seems to be gone in our society. I was at a restaurant this weekend just having a burger at a sports bar and this guy comes out and we're having a little chat. I must have heard the F word four times in the general conversation. And it just breaks my heart that people don't even think about that anymore.
And I just want to say that I've experienced those kinds of things used against me also. And I know if I don't agree with you, That is okay, but I'm not gonna stoop to the level of using those kinds of words. And I just want to help. I just want you to understand that I know that that's happened to some of you and Bri and Bri's wife Myrna has been raked over the coals also. And I'm just kind of tired of it. And I want our community come together
in a more positive way. And I hope I contribute to that in a positive way because I know I've been called out on my behavior and I haven't, has haven't always had the best behavior myself, but at least I'm willing to say that and apologize if I've done something wrong towards someone because I love this community. I've been here for years now and I, I feel that I wanna stay here and contribute in a positive way. So thank you for all your due and all the new people that have been appointed. So God bless you all. Thank you. Speaker 1: Thank you. Trish. I've
got Tila forehand as well. She's on Zoom. Oh, she's on Zoom? Okay, perfect. Speaker 2: Alright. Speaker 1: Tila, are you, can you hear us? Speaker 2: I can hear you. I was just unmuting. Speaker 1: Perfect. All right. Tila, you've got three minutes. The mic is yours. Oh, just a Speaker 2: And apparently she's gotten off to try to read or check her, Speaker 1: Her connection. Her connection. Okay. So, we'll we can, we'll circle back to that Theresa, if you wanna keep an eye out, if you see or come back on that would be great and we'll circle back. And I still haven't seen Caleb come in,
so we'll, we'll move on with, there's Caleb. Perfect timing. Speaker 2: Sorry, Speaker 1: Traffic Speaker 7: Was a little rough. Speaker 1: Alright. Caleb, you're up for public audience. You got three minutes? We can just reset the timer and the floor will be yours, sir. Speaker 7: Perfect. Thank you. Speaker 1: Oh, one second or 15. Speaker 7: I'll be short. I, I know that I need Speaker 2: Take 15 seconds. Speaker 1: Yeah. All right. Go. Speaker 7: Okay. Thank you for bearing with me. I apologize for being late.
I just wanted to show up and thank the board for all your hard work. I know it's volunteer and you get a lot of complaints, you know, from all kinds of people and some positive stuff too, but just really appreciate it, you know, and also in, you know, Britain stepping down and resigning. I just, and I, I assume he is on Zoom, but I just want him to say thank you to him and his stance for parents' rights and for, you know, educating our children and not, you know, just sticking to this,
the standard lowering of, of standards to adjust the metrics but continuing to put, you know, achievement at the top and trying to encourage kids and families to be involved and just continuing to, you know, increase our, our CMAS scores. And yeah, I just wanted to say that. And that's all I got. So thank you and I appreciate it. Speaker 1: Thank you. I appreciate you coming in. Do we have Tila back? Maybe Speaker 8: Tila Zoom went out. She hasn't come back in, so, Speaker 1: Okay, we'll, we'll, we'll try back, we'll just,
we'll keep moving on. I'll try back after the next agenda item and then if we can get, we're onto the approval of the last board meeting, which was May 28th. Speaker 8: Seems like forever Speaker 1: Ago. Yeah, it does seem like forever ago. So if I can get approval to approve the May 28th, 2025 draft board minutes. Speaker 8: I make approval to a motion, sorry? Or a motion to approve the May 28th, 2025 draft board minutes. Speaker 1: Great, thank you. Cassie. May I get a second? Thank you Sharon. Speaker 8: Aye. Asco Aye. Jenkins? Aye. Speaker 1: Jenkins. Aye. And then onto the approval
of the special June 19th, 2025 drafts. Special board meeting minutes. May I get a motion Speaker 9: I move to approve the July or June, 2019, 2025 draft special board minutes. Speaker 1: You second. Thank you. Speaker 8: I can't second that. Oh, I second. Yeah. Speaker 1: Thank you. Speaker 8: Your fel Aye. Asco recused Jenkins. Aye. Yeah, Speaker 1: Jensen. Aye. Speaker 8: I've signed on a late
Speaker 1: It it was a minute. Literally a minute. That was it there. So sorry. It Speaker 8: Kind of threw me for a minute. I was like wait. Yeah, Speaker 1: Anything on Tela yet? Okay. Alright. And Speaker 8: Consent to Speaker 1: Jennifer. Yeah. Yep, that's, yep, that's right there too. Sorry May, are there any changes to the consent agenda? No, your Honor. There are none. Okay. May I get an approval to, or may I get a motion to approve the consent agenda as presented? Speaker 9: Move to approve the consent Speaker 10: Agenda as presented. Speaker 1: Thank you. May I get a second? Any second that.
Thank you Sharon. Speaker 2: Aye Paco Speaker 11: Aye. Speaker 2: Jenkins Aye. And Speaker 1: Jen? Aye. Speaker 10: Okay. Speaker 1: Okay. Any, I'll try again. Okay. We'll go on to the assistant superintendent report and then we'll try back. So Speaker 10: I'm gonna do a report Speaker 1: Together. I was gonna say is it gonna be a joint report? It is. It's nice. Speaker 10: We're gonna start out with some athletic celebrations. Athletic Speaker 11: Athletic celebrations. So everything in spring, it was a very busy end and a very successful end for lots and lots of athletes around the district.
And so we're gonna start with baseball And Coleridge high school baseball team took state champions and so we want so quite an accomplishment. And in the Colorado, the three a Colorado coach of the year, Dan Larson was voted as that the three A player of the year was Coleridge Senior Ben Simons, Allstate. First team was Coleridge Junior, John, Luke, Houston and Allstate. Second team was Coleridge, senior Logan, Harlow and Sophomore Maddox Vis Avis.
Avis. Avis. Avis. Thank you. And then Allstate Honorable mention was Rifle Josh Wright. So we had a bear in there as well. So Speaker 10: Soccer also did well. Cole Ridge High School had an Allstate Mon Honorable mention in Morgan Kale in the four A Western Slope League honors McKayla Vic from Rifle High School was second team and Anna Robinson from Rifle High School was honorable mention and track and field. We had our Cole Ridge ladies track in second place
as champions of the states. Speaker 1: I would like to throw in there too that my niece took first in state for shot. I'm just throwing that in there Speaker 10: Because I can, there might be more coming. I Speaker 11: Think that we're gonna actually Speaker 10: Jen because Speaker 11: It does say that there were some state champions in my bad in state track. My boys discus Yadier Loya from Rifle Boys Triple Jump. Marcus Munoz from Coleridge Girls 800 Effy Fletcher from Coleridge and Girls Shot Put Bri or Bre Briley Riley.
Riley Jensen. So anyway those guys state Speaker 10: Yes Allstate track and field First team ladies at the Fletcher from Cole Rich as a sophomore really. Jensen Riley. Riley Jensen as se as a senior from Coleridge in the shop book and Kiana Wild from Coleridge 100 hurdles and she is a sophomore. Second team ladies, Faye Goodman from Coleridge Riley Hedberg Coleridge. Allison Smy from Coleridge. Jordan Terrell from Coleridge, Lexi Thurman from Coleridge
and Hailey Whitman from Coleridge. Very strong and young team. Speaker 11: Lots of relays as well as hurdles. Long jump, triple jump. These guys are quite talented and honor will mention Ladies we had in four a Trinity Johnson rifle senior for pole vault. So that was pretty special. First team in Men's Ya Dear Loya from rifle for the discus. Aiden Huey from Coleridge for the 110 hurdles. And Marcus Munoz from Coleridge also for the long jump and triple jump. And then there was golf rifle high school students,
Elizabeth May and Sidney Gentry qualified for the title for the three A Ladies state golf championship. Yes. Speaker 10: And then we had some exciting news from an an alumni. Peyton Garrison graduated from Coal Ridge in 2022 and was a seven time state champion. And her four by four relay team earned a spot on the 2025 D one track and field championship in Eugene, Oregon as a collegiate athlete. Congratulations to her and her teammates for becoming the first relay in school history to qualify for the NCAA outdoor championships.
Awesome. COVID just keeps talking. Speaker 11: Yep. Now that we've swept them, here is our report. So as this chapter comes to our close, we extend our deepest gratitude to all of you. Our extraordinary dedicated colleagues and the steadfast and strong community that we've had the privilege of serving. Speaker 10: Together we have weathered change, embraced challenges, lifted a strategic plan with solid direction and always kept children at the center of our decision decisions. It's been an honor to lead alongside you, to problem solve
with you and to dream with you about what education can be in this valley. We call home. Speaker 11: We leave confident in the direction of the district knowing that capable and caring hands will carry the work forward. And we're proud to pass the baton to such a talented team in Kirk and Jenny, Speaker 10: Thank you all for your support, your trust and your tireless commitment to public education. May all that's been built together be the momentum that carries Garfield RE two into the future. Speaker 11: So to chance and fathom and Cassie
and Scott, thank you for stepping forward with your heart, your intelligence and your unwavering purpose. Your leadership reflects both continuity and fresh perspectives. And so may you shine the light boldly as you go forward and carry the work with grace as you have done every day you've been in seats. And know that we will be cheering for you as a guide on the side in the next chapter of the district story. Speaker 10: A special thanks to our main dude Brit. He's concluded his service on this board. Bri, you've done the good work
and the hard work with conviction and integrity and courage. Every single day of your turn, your steady presence and commitment to students has left a lasting mark on all of Speaker 1: Us. Speaker 11: Whether arriving in your bomber jacket, on your motorcycle, or offering calm insight at every table, you've always shown up with authenticity and you've always encouraged perspectives from everyone. It has been an honor to serve alongside you. You are the man with nothing but heart Speaker 10: To every re two employee.
From classrooms to kitchens, from buses to buildings, we're gonna say thank you. Thanks for living each day with courage, for taking pride in your work and for always finishing what you start. Thank you for what? For doing what must be done for doing. For being tough when needed, but always fair and keeping your promises to kids, families and to one another. Speaker 11: Thank you for persevering for showing up when things were hard and for lifting everyone, inclu mostly the children through challenge after challenge. Your work is important and you are making a difference.
And because of you Garfield already two, the district has strength and hope for its future. Speaker 1: Thank you. Speaker 11: And and I know that he's not here and we'll be sending this on, but talk about a man with fia. We do have an award that we'll be sending to Britain and thanking him for all of his work and his years and the hardships and the celebrations. I think he's proud of what he's done and we are proud to have served alongside him. And so we'll be sending that eternal flame Yeah. To him afterwards. Awesome, Speaker 1: Awesome. Yes, thank you. Thank you for doing that.
Thank you ladies. And Speaker 11: That concludes our Speaker 10: Last report. Speaker 1: Okay. Anything from Jenny and Kirk that's kind of hard to follow and I'm putting you on the spot, sorry. So you can say no next time Speaker 12: We, we will be happy at our next board meeting to follow that. Speaker 1: Perfect. Awesome. Thank you guys. And Heather and Lisa, thank you very much. Are you guys okay if I check on Tila before we do the board reports? Still not back. Okay. Okay. We'll just Tila, if you are listening you do have our contact information, please feel free
to email us or call us or contact us. Otherwise we will see you at our next board meeting in August. So thank you and apologize for the technical difficulties. So with that we will move on to board reports and requests. And Scott I'll start with you. Speaker 9: Okay. Board reports. We had a meeting Monday morning and one a couple of weeks ago with the finance committee and as always I learned a lot and there was a lot of information on this one coming up. I'm not gonna steal their thunder or their lightning or whatever you want to call it but it's coming. So that was a good meeting.
We had a lot of information and other than that just echoing, I was gonna mention a few of those things that you guys did. Congratulations to everybody and a good successful ending of the year. So, and no requests from my partner. Speaker 1: Okay, thank you Cassie. Speaker 8: I don't have any board reports since the last meeting so none of my groups have met Last Speaker 1: Meeting a month Speaker 8: Ago. Yes, a month ago we haven't met 'cause it was like year end and I was gone. So nothing on that end. I did want to say something to the both of you.
I tried to write something and I couldn't. But just know that the fruit of your labor is before you and I hope we make you proud and I'll always write in a purple pen and never not think of you grading my papers. So anyways, thank you for helping us. Thank you for my acronym list. I really appreciate that and you guys have helped us so much to be a successful board
and all that we're doing is because you guys believed in us, you helped us, you got us anything, we asked for answers for anything we needed. And I just thank you for that 'cause we couldn't do what we do without you. And I'm looking forward to our two new, I apologize ahead of time for all our dumb questions but, and questions and things we, things we think we have the answers to and then you can just tell us No. Okay. But we just, I appreciate all that you guys have done and helped us see things.
I thank you for starting the strategic plan, putting that in motion and I, I am very excited to see that plan through. I wanna give a shout out to Bri. It was an honor and a pleasure serving with you. I couldn't have asked for a better board member to come in and serve with you. Answered questions. You helped us see things in a different point of view. You encouraged us, you, you made us laugh and it was very enjoyable serving with you. So thank you Bri for all your years of service
and your heart that you poured into this district. Thank you. I do have one request. Sharon, this is your a request for you with, and I know we'll be going over it later in the agenda, but the open seat position coming up but also it being all an auction year. If we could get some information on, if people were wanting to run for a seat. 'cause I know we'll have two seats available for the November ballot. What that might look like for somebody
that wants to come in. If we could just have like just discussion or them or you speak to the board at a board meeting or something and just give, this is what you need, steps of how we need to do it, what you need to do, the deadlines and dates, all that kind of stuff. Just so we're transparent with the community moving forward over time by Speaker 13: CSB that we have to put it out by Speaker 8: There. Yep. Steps we have Speaker 13: To follow and Speaker 8: Dates. Yes. And all of that information. 'cause I mean I know I was so late into coming like I only had like four days to get my 50 signatures or whatever. There's a date
Speaker 13: We can put it out and that's when I will. But I will share all that with you on when the deadlines are Yep. 15 when Speaker 8: We put it out. I think that would be a great action item for an agenda maybe or something if you guys are all up for it. Like just a public service announcement of this is what you need to do, this is how you do it. And kind of go from there just so the public. You can do that. Okay. Thank you. That was my only request. Speaker 2: Chance. Sorry, Speaker 8: I'm writing notes. Speaker 14: Okay, Speaker 2: Well Speaker 14: All good things must end right. Sad reality. It's important to honor
and celebrate the work done in the tenure of Superintendent Grimley and assistant Superintendent Pierce. Thank you both for the years of devotion to this district and all the children in our community To board President Fletcher. The critics will always doubt and criticize those of us at this table that actually care. We'll always know the accurate accounting of your time as president. I truly don't believe there is a better choice to lead this district through this last year. Thank you for your tireless devotion to the position. Your calm demeanor and thoughtful conversations will be missed Now we are sitting at a pivotal moment in any
organization changing of the guard. I'm proud to have been part of the team that chose Mr. Banger to lead it, to lead this district in the future. Mr. Banger and I have already discussed and I think all of us have touched base. So I think he's primed Speaker 1: Lucky him. He's like, oh goody. Speaker 14: He along with Ms. Nipper, stand poised to meet this challenge depending on who you ask. Some people like change and some people despise change. I'm an excited optimist 'cause the stark reality is pretty simple. Their success is Garfield. RE two.
Success With the change gives us all the time needed to recalibrate, rejuvenate, and attack our duties with renewed vigor. I would like to challenge every person that works for Garfield. RE two. Ask yourself every day, how did I make a child's education better today? Whether you are the superintendent in a director's position or custodial services, that should be a question that could be easily answered. I'll be, in fact, I'll be asking this question at the end of every board meeting during board recap to see, make sure we stay on and make sure we keep the children in focus. The strategic plan of Garfield RE two is our guiding light.
Thank you to this administration. We'll continue forward shirking off the insecurities and arrogance that is so easily found in all of us in their place. We will instill resolve and understanding to provide an excellent education for all children in our district. And one more time for Britain. Go Bears. Speaker 1: Go Bears. Go bears. It's my turn. I guess so. I by chance it's hard to believe that another school year has come and gone and this will be our last board meeting until the start of the 20 25, 20 26 school year. This meeting is a little bittersweet because changes upon us
and it is a changing of the guards. Heather and Lisa, I cannot thank you guys enough for your unwavering support and dedication, not only to this district, to this board and to me as a board member and a mom. Kirk and Jenny. Thank you guys. Welcome. I will apologize ahead of time for like Cassie said our stupid questions. Even though I believe there is no stupid question except for the one that's not asked. And hopefully you guys will be patient with us and we'll, we'll get to where we need to be because ultimately at the end
of the day, it's the kids that matter. And that's what all of us are here, are here for. So Jenny and Kirk, welcome Heather and Lisa Godspeed on your adventures of head ahead. And I hope next year in the track report we're hearing about Coach Grimley as well. Volunteer. Volunteer Coach Grimley seventh grade. Hey, middle school matters. Ask Jenny. See, I would also like to give my best to Bri and Mirna. Their dedication and volunteer efforts to this community is unwavering.
As I have stated before, this is the most rewarding, unpaid, full-time job I have ever had. Next to being a mom, all of us that sit on this board have full-time jobs and I can speak for myself, but I am proud to represent my district on this board. I understand that there have been some concerns about how some things are being done and it is our responsibility to know our policies. And when we do things, we don't do them just to do them. We do consult, we do talk, and we do do consult the leaders
of our district along with legal. I would hope that if there are concerns that they would come to us directly. We have had an open door policy on this board for as long as I have sat on this board. And as for as long as I have sat out in those seats, I have always been welcomed, whether it be with a board member or a district member, to be able to voice my concerns, to be able to offer my solutions and to hear and to work together as a partnership. So I have learned that we're not going
to make everybody happy, but I cannot disregard all of the good things that this board with Britain's help have achieved while Britain was being called away with his business. I'd like to point out that his duties as a board president were never neglected and his dedication to re two and to our strategic plan, again, never wavered. The hard work that this board puts into what we will continue to do and the good things will continue to happen regardless of the naysayers who need to complain because of their own insecurities. We have come a long way to get to where we are
with the partnerships, relationships, and the respect that we have here in this room and beyond. I look forward to seeing who is willing to step up for district A and to help us continue to grow and develop our strategic plan and to take Garfield re two to where we know it can go and Britain like Chance this one's for you. Go Bears. Go Bears. Go bears. So, all right, thank you everybody. Governance, discussion items. Oh, awesome. Insurance. We have insurance. Do we need to take a break
before we hear from insurance? No, probably after. Should we, Scott, do you have any insight on that one? Do we need to, should we take a a five? Sure. No. Should we Okay. Five, five. Five minutes. Five minutes. Okay. Okay. Speaker 15: I think the Speaker 1: Only Yep. She works for, she does is I just, yeah. Yes. Discussion items for insurance. Proposals for the 25 26 school year from Glenwood Insurance.
Welcome. Okay. Thank you guys for waiting. Speaker 15: Thank you. Thank you for having us. I am Netty Avery from Glenwood Insurance and this is Tom Jensen. I'll just kind of explain my role and a little bit about Glenwood Insurance and then I'll let Tom speak to his experience and and his role at Glenwood Insurance. Glenwood Insurance has been around for over a hundred years, serving our community as an independent insurance agency. I've been at Glenwood Insurance for 36 years. My role as commercial producer, kind of like the quarterback or the project manager of whatever you need, bring it to us.
And then we have a team of five that are dedicated to this account and we can delegate from there. My role is really to make sure we have the best coverage for you, the right pricing and explain coverages to you. Step in if we need some. We do have a claims liaison that works with us. I think you probably saw our team members in the packet. And we have Tom Jensen as our loss control specialist, so I'll let him kind of speak to his experience. Speaker 16: So good evening. My name's Tom Jensen.
I'm the loss control specialist with Glenwood Insurance. I've been with Glenwood for about three years. Before that, I was in a safety role with Pinnacle Assurance for five years. And before that I did safety and environmental compliance in industry for several years. In my role, I really help the district to identify ways to reduce the likelihood of needing to use your insurance. You know, we first and foremost want to help you identify risks and manage them the best that you can, knowing always that the insurance is there in the background if you need it, but there's nothing better than than
preventing those incidents from happening, preventing claims from happening in the first place. And so I work closely with district staff to identify risks, manage risks, and then when needed, understand the processes, moving claims through to closure. Speaker 15: Right. So we'll go over, in your packet you received are three major proposals on three major insurance policies. The package insurance policy, which we'll go over in a a little bit of more detail, the workers' compensation and then the cyber liability after I kind of give you a highlight, differences
between 2024, 2025, what we're seeing. Review each of those with you. Then we're gonna let Tom take us through his collaboration with the district employees, the district staff that he's done in 2024, and then what we have proposed for upcoming in 2025. So in your packet you do have a, a summary of insurance coverage that just compares year over year, giving you line by line the insurance premium for 2024 to 25 and then the upcoming proposed insurance premium,
the percentage of change and also the dollar amount. The biggest thing that we're seeing this year is probably everyone is, is property insurance in wildfire areas is harder and harder to get companies to ensure properties. We feel very comfortable with the proposals that we have on the table. Gladfelter for the package, pinnacle for the workers' comp and Tokyo Marine for the cyber all specialize in public entities. So we are taking your insurance to companies
that partner well with us and know the, the nuances of public entities so that from the underwriter to the claims manager to, you know, the billing department, they understand your, your specific needs and, and so do we. Tom and I kind of specialize in larger commercial and we specialize in some public entity and school districts. So we feel like we've got the, the right thing going. So as I was mentioning some, there are different companies out there too that will say that they'll write school districts.
I just want to clear this up that, and we've approached them and we keep our ear to the ground and we keep trying to figure out if we've got another market or whatever. And we've approached a couple in the last year and they said, yeah, we write school districts, but when we get into it, they won't write the property piece or they won't write the educators legal piece. And so we feel very confident in these proposals that we're putting forth for you. I like gladfelter package proposal and you have a cover letter from me highlighting the premium from last year and the property limit.
So we have a blanket property limit on each of the policies and we, we can use that blanket property limit at any of the buildings that we insure. However, GLAD Falter would like to make sure that you're insuring them to a proper value. And so they have something called a statement of values and we attribute each building a certain limit. So in your packet you will see the values on the buildings that we're insuring 2024 to 25 and then what the proposed increase is for 25 to 26
V Gladfelter automatically has a 4% inflation guard increase. So automatically each of those buildings every year is going to increase 4% year over year. The, as you can see from your handout, the property insurance has increased more than 4%. So as I was mentioning, sometimes companies won't write property. So those that will and stay in the game, it's supply and demand and they'll increase those rates a little bit. I think all of us are feeling that sometime some in some type in your property,
in your homeowner's insurance. So I did highlight that, showing you the blanket limit from last year, the blanket limit for this year. Another spreadsheet that I have in your packet shows each building and the value of each building and then the cost per square foot. The reason I do that for you is just at a quick glance, maybe the board members can say, does that seem right? Does that seem right for Rifle High School to have this cost per square foot versus another, you know, another facility that we have insured. So it's just a quick reference.
Again, we have a blanket policy limit for the, for the property. Gladfelter not only insures the property, but they insure the auto, they insure the educator's legal, they insure the general liability. They insure the inland Marine, they insure some crime. You'll see that crime has increased year over year, but that's because we had a grant that required a million dollars for the preschool. So they, they required a million dollars of crime coverage. As you can see, the comparison really the package
policy is up. All those lines are up a total of 15% year over year and each line is broken out for your consideration. Next, I would move any questions on the Gladfelter proposal. I do like it because they do explain some of the coverage they give give you the coverage highlights in layman's terms, if you will, so that people can really understand what is this coverage and, and how would we apply it. But if you ever have a question, our door is open and, and we'd be happy to answer questions. Moving on to the workers' comp, I have a cover letter highlighting the difference in
premium there as well. What we have seen every year, you give us your estimated payroll that you think that the district is gonna have as a whole by classification. So we've received that from district employees and we've given it to Pinnacle. Again, they have a special department for public entities. They know this risk and they come back with a rate. And while we're expecting the payroll to be down 11.5% year over year, that's what the report shows. The cost of workers' comp has only gone up 3%.
So 11% down, 3% up. The factor that we need to talk about is, and give you just a brief overview on it, is called the experience modification factor. And we went over that last year. But I would like Tom to maybe just give us an, a brief update on what the experience modification factor is, how it's developed, and some nuances of it. Speaker 16: Sure. So the, the experience modification factor is essentially a rating that compares your loss history against the loss history of other entities that are similar to yours in scope.
So school districts and similar in size, so small, they break 'em up into, into essentially premium bands. So it's, it's as liked as like for like as it can be, the neutral place for an in for a mod is 1.0. So if you're 1.0, your past losses are what would be expected for an entity like yours. If your losses have been higher than anticipated, then you would have a mod above one. If your losses have been less than you would have a mod below one. That modifier is a multiplier.
When they're calculating your premium, they take your amount of payroll for each of the class codes. The carrier then multiplies that by a base rate for each of those class codes. That's based on the expected losses or the risks. So someone who works in an office setting is pennies per dollar, a hundred dollars of payroll. Someone who works in a maintenance setting might be several dollars per a hundred dollars of payroll. But each of those class codes is multiplied out and they get a, what they call a manual premium and then they take that emod and they multiply your premium by that to get to what the actual cost of your insurance is.
So the district, they now developing that mod, it's a three year look. So this year's mod that's used to calculate your coming, coming years premium is based on the 21, 22, 22 23 and 23, 24 policy years. They're always lagging by one year because work comp claims take time to develop and really determine what the cost is. So there's a year of those claims aging. So hopefully most of, most, if not all of them are closed. And there's a firm number of what did this cost. So that's what we're looking at your mod
for the coming year is a 1.2, your previous mod was a 1.07. So there was an increase that was primarily driven by the losses in that 22, 23 or 2324 policy year. That's what's kind of dictating that. And what we find is the year that dropped off had less losses and the year that we're picking up had more losses. Looking forward, we see that if your year were to settle out the way it looks, your 23 or 24, 25 year, we would anticipate seeing your mod drop again next year. Your performance has been better this last year.
And so the modeling we've done shows that it should be coming back down, turning the corner. Now we don't know how the current claims will all play out, but based on the reserves, and we even have a couple month, a couple weeks of the year left for claims to occur. But based on the reserves that have assigned to the claims from this past year, you're looking like you'll turn the corner for the coming year. And, and I, you know, we, we can speak to the work we've done. Do we just wanna roll into that or are there any questions on the mod? Speaker 8: What did you say? Our mod this year was 1.2. 1.2. Speaker 16: Your, your new mod is 1.2 Speaker 8: And last year you said what? Because
Speaker 16: 1.0770 because Speaker 8: I wrote down 1.5 for some reason last year Speaker 16: Ah, Speaker 8: At our meeting last time. So that's Speaker 15: Why. So 13% difference, but, and so it kind of is netting your payroll expected payroll is down 11%. The experience MOD's going up 13%, you're seeing a net 3% increase. Okay. So it's kind of stabilizing. But we, I I do wanna also point out that Glenwood Insurance also has a claims liaison that helps us to close claims. So she works with Pinnacle Assurance to help get those claims closed so that your Emad stays
where it should be and, and claims are closing faster. Pinnacle closes their claims, I think like 43% faster than other competitors. So they really are trying to work together. And then, and then yeah, I we can, let's just move into the cyber I think and then we'll go back to any questions on any of, of the work comp. Okay. And then cyber, I was just talking to Roger, it was surprisingly down this year, right? Our, our quote is down. And so we were saying what happened a couple of years ago,
cyber claims, cyber hacking was really going up. A lot of insurance carriers were trying to cut their losses. They were limiting the amount of insurance they would offer and charging more, especially hospitals, schools, public entities. So we saw that and then requiring you to implement like multi-factor authentication and that kind of thing. Once those have been in place, the market kind of stabilized and so premiums are stabilizing and, and we're seeing premiums flatten and more options.
So in cyber liability world this year we have two options. One is a $3 million limit with a $25,000 deductible. That is what you currently have. And they're also offering a $10,000 deductible for $2,000 more. So I would defer to Roger to see what he thinks Speaker 17: Our recommendation is to take the, a higher go with the 25,000 save the $2,000 for the district. Speaker 15: I agree. Okay. So that's an overview of the insurance proposals we have on the table for the 25 26 policy term.
We've worked really closely with your district employees and I do wanna just at this point say thank you to Heather and Lisa that your leadership, I think trickles down to many managers and, and employees and people that we get to meet and collaborate with. And I think that that is amazing if when we walk through schools, the happiness, the, the leadership that we see is incredible and it, it comes from the top. And then I also just wanna say thank you to all of you
who do volunteer. I know it's a lot, it's a sacrifice and people don't understand the amount of time that you put forth for this district. And so I just wanna say thank you and with that I'll Lee turn it over to Tom. Speaker 16: Yeah, so I just wanna take a moment to recap the activities we've take. We've taken part in over the past year with the district starting with, I think we went into this last year with a goal of improving the handling of the claims. Let's streamline that. Let's help people understand how your insurances coverage work, how to move claims through the systems, how help employees understand
how your insurance programs work, especially workers' comp because that's the one that really touches a lot of employees at really difficult times. So we started having meetings quarterly throughout the year to look at your claims. One, to make sure that they're being processed efficiently by Pinnacle to make sure that Pinnacle's communicating clearly with the employees. Make sure that Pinnacle's communicating clearly with the district staff who are managing those claims. Make sure that the return to work process is working. Make sure that the providers, the medical providers are being responsive. You know, the district can't direct care,
but the district can certainly demand that those medical providers are efficient. That they're, that they are caring for, for the injured workers, that appointments are timely, that claims are being closed when they can be. So we worked pretty hard to make sure that those claims are moving through the system. So quarterly meetings there and then we met twice with, with managers to, to look more holistically at risk management and understand, okay, where are you having claims? What are the, the driving factors behind those claims? And what could be done maybe to make changes to processes
or procedures or facilities to reduce the likelihood of, of those trends continuing. And so I, I think that was quite effective and I think that work that the district staff were doing throughout the year, what is one of the things that's leading to this lower M mod, kind of turning the corner and starting to bring the mod down. I mean, that doesn't just happen, right? If you leave the processes to themselves, you're not gonna see, you know, 10% plus improvements year over year. So I'm really excited to see that, that that's really taking hold kind of those meetings and, and what Krista Rema
and I were, were finding, as we were talking about the way claims were, were flowing, what we identified was we need to educate everybody in the, who takes part in that process more deeply in how comp works kind of a workers' comp 1 0 1. And so we did a meeting this spring with all the financial secretaries who are, you know, those people that are dealing, you know, helping that injured worker, you know, the day that they get hurt, they're the ones who start that process who document what happened, who get them, you know, headed off to the medical providers. So we met with those financial secretaries just to,
to lay out here, here's how the process works, here's how the statute works. Workers' comp is very clearly defined in statute, how it works. So make sure they understand how that works and why things work the way they do. And I think that was a really productive meeting just to get everybody in the room answer their questions. There are all sorts of misconceptions about, about insurance. And so we talked all that through and you know, I'm really excited for how that will pay off in the coming year, getting everybody on the same page and making them comfortable with the process. I think when people develop comfort with the processes, then they're more, they're more likely to engage
with those processes. So I, I think that was a huge win. We also did walkthroughs of the majority of the school campuses this winter to identify opportunities to mitigate wildfire. That, that is a huge concern. I think we all know there have been seven wildfires in the last seven days in our county. So, you know, it's a, it's a serious, a serious risk. And you know, I've met with John and worked a lot with John to identify, you know, what can be done. And, and it's painful at times because we gotta cut down trees, we don't want to cut down, we have to remove vegetation that we don't wanna remove.
But doing that ultimately is gonna help protect the district, is gonna improve the safety of the staff and the students and it's gonna help keep your insurance costs manageable moving forward. So we've spent quite a bit of time doing those walkthroughs and John's team has done a lot of work this year, you know, with clearing vegetation and, you know, setting you guys on the right track. And then also we've been working together kind of building by building to develop wildfire prevention and response plans for each campus. So that's, that's our activities over the last year, kind of the risk management activities, kind of more overarching
that we've done, continuing to work on wildfire prevention, your cost containment program. So in the workers' state workers' comp statute, there's a provision that allows businesses, entities to develop a program to manage claims, reduce the frequency of claims, improve employee safety, and if all of those components are in place, an entity can be certified by the state with a cost containment certificate. If you're cost contained, you automatically get a 5% discount on your workers' compensation premium. The school has been cost contained for several years. I'm working with the district
to make sure that you maintain that. So we once a year get together, review all of the components of the cost containment program, make sure that you're in good stead to, to get through your next, your next cycle. You have two more years on your current cost containment certificate, so you're doing well. Everything's still in place As a member of the cost containment board, I'm, I'm very familiar with the program, I'm pretty passionate about it. So I really enjoy seeing the district maintain that certification. We've we're doing the period claims reviews, we're getting involved with Pinnacle's claims team to help make sure that claims are moving forward.
I think we developed, there was some friction with the local medical providers and, and maybe not the as good a communication as there could be. So we brought Pinnacle and local medical providers and district staff together to have a dialogue about those providers and their response to the district's needs. And we'll be having a meeting here in, in August with all the stakeholders. Actually the end of July. Yeah, Speaker 15: It's, it's mid July. We've got that one scheduled already. Yep. So that'll be just good Speaker 16: Collaborative, everybody at the same table can develop relationships and help everybody understand each other's
needs and the friction points in the system and try to try to break those down. I mean, that's going to help with costs. I think most important though, it's gonna help with the experience of the injured worker. You know, they feel that friction, they feel the resistance in the system and, and they're already vulnerable when you're dealing with an injury or with a comp claim. So making that as painless as possible for that injured worker I think is, is ultimately the goal. Looking forward at the coming year, we've identified some things that we wanna focus on. I think, you know, we, we set ourselves up really well last year with the comp process and I think we're gonna, you know,
we're, we're off to a good start there. Activities for the coming year. One, keep working on wildfires, keep working on the mitigation efforts, keep working on the response plans. Gladfelter is gonna be sending a wildfire specialist in later this month to do walkthroughs of two of the campuses. They do these periodically and so I'm looking forward to doing that, kinda getting their perspective on how we've done so far and then what we can do moving forward. They'll make recommendations on those two campuses that we walk, then we'll take that and we'll spread, we'll spread that across the district and we'll apply those recommendations they make
for those specific campuses. Say, okay, well how does that apply over here? How does that apply over there? So I really look forward to that and in validating the work, I think we'll be end up validating the work we've been doing so far, continue to work on the cost containment program. We'd like to continue the periodic meetings with leadership to review lost trends and identify ways to reduce likelihood of those types of trends continuing, kind of turn the corners on 'em. I I approach loss control very much from a place of continuous learning. We are where we are, let's try to identify what we can do better. We're never gonna prevent every claim, we're never gonna prevent all of the accidents,
but we can make incremental changes to reduce claims trends over time. I think taking a good look at liability risks associated with student activities. Yeah, both extracurricular extracurriculars in sports to make sure that we're protecting the kids, make sure we're protecting the district and make sure that staff, you know, we do reduce or minimize the number of injuries to staff during those types of activities. I think that's a really good place to mindfully look and not about shutting things down, but like how can we do these things better, right? How can we really understand the risks associated with those extracurricular activities and,
and be very mindful about how we approach 'em in the future. Driving I think is a, is another place we've seen based on previous, you know, past year claims. Looking at the frequency of driving incidents to, to bring that down is another place to focus. I have quite a bit of experience with that. I have a class A CDL I'm pretty passionate about driving. It is the greatest risk, you know, day in and day out that your staff and your students encounter. That's proven out over time very clearly. So I think that's a very valuable place to put effort over the coming year. And yeah, we'll continue to work on that, that interface
with Grand River Health, with other providers, with Pinnacle to make sure that you know, that, that the, the care that's being given to injured workers is the best it can be and as streamlined as possible. I think this year we did facility walkthroughs last year, really focused on wildfire. I think this year, going back in and looking more at the, the, the student environment risks to staff across those campuses, right? Is the, is the next step. We've done those pretty much every year for several years. This last year we released zero just in on wildfire.
But I think this coming year we step back and we look at kind of that bigger picture, broader picture of, of the, the risks in the, in the environment. And then, Speaker 15: Yeah, lastly, I think we, one of our last things that we want to try to do in 2025, we will offer this and maybe you'll take us up and maybe you won't, but maybe a work session on insurance and the ins and outs and how you can reduce risk and other things. And maybe your basic questions. Some, you know, anything we could answer as, as a working session for not only the board members
but leadership as well, just to kind of close some doors and or answer any questions that you might have. So we, we have that on the table if you guys would like to do a working session with us just to bring, bring up to speed on the insurance industry. Speaker 16: That it, yes. Yeah, man, you did a great job. Thank you. Thanks. That was, that was a lot of information. I do have Speaker 14: A question. Yes. Since you guys are the liability exposure, ex experts, and we had a public comment regarding gym time
and what that would look like to opening it to the public. My first thought obviously is exposure to liability. Speaker 15: Right. And so many times in that, I think that other districts do that, they might open it up to a club and what they would do is require the club to have their own insurance policy. And it's pretty inexpensive. We can sell it to them for the liability that they might cause to your building. And then also for the injured club members. So if it's a basketball or soccer club team that wants
to come in on Sunday afternoons, they purchase an insurance policy that would provide some protection for damage that they cause, either to other people or to the building. And then it also gives them some participant coverage. Okay. So there is, and then, you know, if it's the city or the town that's, that's using it, then they have their own policy too. Collect the certificate of insurance and, and be named as an additional insured. And that all comes together in a policy that's not really very expensive for the club. Speaker 14: Okay. Okay. Speaker 16: And then I think clearly defining roles
and responsibilities, what's acceptable, what's not. Oh, Speaker 14: Sure. Speaker 16: Yeah. I mean, I think a lot of it really will Speaker 14: Be, I mean this is a, we are at the very beginning of this. Yeah. The policy creation, so Right. We're at leads. I don't even know yet. But yeah, I just, that, that was like the first thing that came to my mind was, it sounds great, but I just worry about broken legs. And, Speaker 15: And I, I think you've got a, a good point. And I think that we really need to kind of talk about that too, because I think sometimes when kids get into middle school, there are a lot of clubs, club activities that are like the ski club, the, the Mountain Biking Club,
the Desert Camping Experience Club. And we just need to maybe kinda all get on the same page with that too. You know what I mean? I just think that that's a liability, that that's an exposure that Yes, that schools do. Yes, that happens. But make sure that we've got the permission slips in place and that this is a club that we really do want to put our insurance out there for Sure. The other thing that we offer that's on your highlighted over overview list is the district does not pay for this, but K and k has a voluntary accident policy or a, or a participant accident policy.
So the district pays $50 to K and K and all of the families in the district can come in and choose what level of accident policy or health insurance policy, excess health insurance policy that they want to purchase. They don't have to purchase it, but it's an option. You can get some coverage for your family. You can get it year round, you can get it only during the school year. You can get it if you're playing football. You can get it if you're a band member and each family pays their own premium. But that is available and it might be helpful to do that at your sports meetings,
your fall sport, your winter sport, your spring sport meeting. Just remind people that that's out there on the website or they have some flyers that, Hey, just remember that you can enroll in this and Speaker 14: That. And our cost is $50 per enrollee. Speaker 15: No, $50. And everybody else, they, the, the person that wants the policy pays, Speaker 1: But they can pick it for like, so if they only wanna be able to cover their son during football season or Yes. Speaker 15: Yes. Speaker 14: Give me an example of sort like what that would cost for one student middle school football. Gosh, Speaker 15: I don't have it in front of me. I can get it back. I can get it for you,
but it's not, I I would say maybe 300. I'm gonna guess chance I'll get that for you. Speaker 14: The, the, yeah, I'm just wondering, I'm wondering, are we talking like, you know, 1500 or two 50, you know, like that's going on. Speaker 16: The, the limits would seem, will seem relatively low when you look at 'em, but the really, the, the purpose of it or is it covers the, it's it's enough to cover the deductible on most people's personal health insurance policies. Speaker 15: So it is excess over any other collectible policy. Yeah. So it will cover the deductible, but if you don't have insurance, it drops down it's primary. Yep. So it does give them a little bit of coverage. And I feel like we've had a few incidents
where it would've come into play and it would've been nice to have, but the thing is, is you gotta get the parent to enroll. I mean, if they don't enroll then they don't have it. That's just the deal. Speaker 14: Yeah. Speaker 15: And there's another policy out there that I don't handle that's an overarching life insurance policy and I've seen, but that is ca catastrophic loss. So you do have that out there. Just know that I don't handle that policy, but Scott could probably give the board, you know, he could look at it and give a commentary on it. Speaker 14: So the school district has life insurance.
Speaker 15: It's, it's like an overarching catastrophic, like if kids were killed. Speaker 14: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, Speaker 15: Yeah. We've got some details on that that I can send chance. I'll send you through that. Okay. And you can share Speaker 14: It. I just wanna make sure they don't get paid if I die, Speaker 1: You're like, wait a second. Yeah, Speaker 15: So I have a few take takeaways for chance, but shall I send it back just through Sharon and you can, yeah, that's fine. Okay. Okay. That's great. Any other questions for us? Speaker 8: I did, so you were touching base on the driving incidents. Is that like affecting our rates? No. Okay.
I Its not. How many of these driving incidents are we having and is this a problem? Speaker 15: It's not, you know, penny runs a great department over there. She's really great. And you can see that that increase over all year, year over year is not that big of a difference. I believe the, the, what's accounting for that is you guys got some new school buses, so maybe we took off older vehicles and added newer, so the Speaker 1: Premium, Speaker 8: So, and then you students that have accidents on the property, say fender beers or whatever, does that affect our insurance? No. Okay. Even if they don't have insurance,
Speaker 15: No. Doesn't Okay. Yeah. Speaker 8: It was just that, you know how sometimes Yeah, yeah. That's your own. I was like, is that affecting us? Yeah, Speaker 15: No, I like that. And that's what I was kind of thinking for the closed door session or the work session or whatever we're doing, is just to ask those kinds of questions of how in the insurance world there's a, there's a protocol for what pays first. Like if they're at work and they're injured, that goes to work comp for sure first. Right. In an auto, the auto goes first and that auto's insurance policy goes first. And, and just kind of talk through some of those things.
I think it might be helpful. Speaker 18: That sounds riveting. Speaker 15: I know we do probably have to bring the Starbucks to that one. Speaker 1: Sign me up. Yeah. Speaker 15: Alright. Anything else? I don't. Alright. Thank you. Speaker 1: Thank you very much. Yes. Thank you guys. Great. Great presentation. Lots of information. Speaker 8: Wait, I do have one question on the one that we're gonna be the cover letter for the Tokyo Marine. Is that for the 25? Speaker 1: Yes. Okay. Speaker 15: There's two options. Yep. Speaker 1: Yep. We're gonna go. Roger's, Roger wants
to go at the highest deductible. The highest deductible. 25,000. Yeah. Yeah. Save the 2000. Speaker 8: So we just need to make note of that when we go to do that. Yeah. When you Speaker 1: Vote. Yes. Yep. Thank you. Thank you. Speaker 8: Thank Speaker 1: You. Speaker 8: It's already like a cover letter. That's why Speaker 1: I was just had it, it's already gonna have to edit it. I highlighted it on my notes. I didn't do I have to that they were talking about it wasn't on my welcome back. Fuck. Oh, my favorite budget. Where's the popcorn? I'm sorry. No popcorn this time. I'm sorry.
Speaker 8: It's eight pages. Speaker 1: Don't Speaker 18: Feel bad. Chance has the same enthusiasm Speaker 1: For our Speaker 18: Presentation. It's good to see everyone before Tom sneaks out on our presentation. I do wanna mention a couple months ago, he crushed my dreams when we met for a few minutes and he said if I ever got back into coaching football, I wasn't allowed to tackle the kids. Speaker 1: Aw. Here's Speaker 18: Where the crushing part comes because he said I would get hurt. Speaker 1: So there have been changes. There Speaker 18: Have been. Yes sir. It's good to see everybody. It's, it's, I'm gonna, I'm gonna see if this say something that sounds like Jeff, it's like Uhoh.
It's nice to see the, the, this year and next year at the same table. It mirrors our presentation. Speaker 1: That sounds he, he's learning Jeff. He's learning Speaker 18: Better than I ever hope Speaker 1: He kick us off young wan. Speaker 18: Well starting with that farewell captain and first mate, you'll be missed, but we've got a double celebration. Welcome Kirk and Jenny. Look forward to working with you. Alright, well we want to keep this as efficient as we can. So we'll try to try to move through stuff without rushing.
We'll walk you through our updated projections and our proposed budgets at the same time. We'll show you how we'll do that. But we should be able to streamline things. Same with the fund balance projections. There are some small changes. We wanna highlight a couple things with this year's numbers, but we'll focus on the budget changes and the small, excuse me, supplemental for the capital fund. And with that, if you could go to, I believe it's the eighth slide in the presentation. Theresa Speaker 1: Jason Old, Speaker 18: Kick us off with revenue.
Speaker 1: 5, 7, 8. Speaker 2: Perfect. Perfect. Speaker 18: So here are some brand new numbers you've never seen before Speaker 1: Today. That was a joke. Speaker 18: This is, this is essentially what we presented 30 days ago. We, we present a proposed budget to the board. We even run in the newspaper to let people know there's a budget out there. They can come look at it, ask questions, have public comment on that. Gives you a full month to digest that We know how you hate surprises. And so this is, this is essentially what we've presented before.
Speaker 1: Have you ever had anybody come in and ask to look at the budget or talk to you about the budget? Well, Speaker 18: Sharon, Sharon laminated just in case Speaker 1: Anybody, any take any take, yeah. Speaker 18: And, and we did have a bet on whether anyone Speaker 1: Come in. Yeah. Let's move that before we have a work comp claim. Thank you. Before I Speaker 18: Looks like I tackled the Speaker 1: Player. Yeah, we'll just move that. Yeah. Try to keep those costs up. Speaker 18: One of the, one of the things that I do want to point out is that at the time we presented this and even up till yesterday, we still had about $5.3 million of our, of our local property taxes that we hadn't received. I'm
Speaker 1: Happy to until yesterday. Speaker 18: I'm happy to announce it. As of one o'clock today that money came in. So that's a lot of money. I do hope that someday you wake up and there's $5.3 million in the bank that wasn't there yesterday. That's always Speaker 1: Probably never gonna happen. Yeah. Speaker 18: Theresa, could you scroll up just a little so we can see the bottom just, oh, sorry. Thank you. Yeah, no problem. I wanted to point out that here is, here is the recommended budget was 70, just under 71 million. If you sat through presentations, believe meetings,
if you sat through CS meetings with me all year, we were, we were projecting six, seven months ago, this would be about 71 million for next year. That's the 300,000 that we lost in that, in that state cuts. And so just wanted to point out that I like 71 better than 70.6. That's, but that's what we'll get into for next year's budget. As far as our projections for revenue projected expected, they're very, very close. That revenues generally produces less shocks than expenses. So just same presentation we gave updated
cash in the bank as of today. Other than that, no changes. Anybody have any questions on revenue? Try to go fast because, alright. You wanna roll on down to, we'll take the expenditures. So we do have a couple things. As Jason mentioned, I'll come back to the budget, but it hasn't changed. These are the numbers we presented. We did have an unexpected variance here of quite a bit more than, you know, we would like. This is largely due to some increases in
personal or purchase services around special ed services and, and boce services. Although I want to be clear, it's not the Bo C's fault either. These are primarily SPED positions for things like occupational therapists, phy specialized services that we get. So this one took us by a bit of a surprise. But part of the reason this variance is so high is you all may or may not recall, we had ba rebalanced the supplies and purchase services earlier this year
because we were underspending those supplies. It looks like maybe we just took a little too much to the, to the supplies area. This variance drops down to about 300,000, which was about over, you know, that was about what the budget was over. If we had left more in there, we wouldn't see that variance. But if you could scroll down just a little bit more, Theresa, our, our variance in total or our budget deficit went up a little bit when we met with you, Scott. I mentioned I, it's weird having bad news when you're
hitting your budget because we were hoping we'd come in a little lower than this, but we are still on track to come in under or at budget this year. So that's fairly good news. Just not as good as we'd hoped. And then over here, in terms of the budgets, as I mentioned, those are based on essentially the activity we're seeing and, and we did increase these budgets somewhat for that activity. Although we're not expecting a huge increase in, in the non salaries. We're not expecting a huge increase there either.
But those lines do include the 2% and the 8% we've been talking to you about since the insurance discussions earlier this year. And we're thinking we, we can do a little better this year than, than we did last year. Although, as Jason mentioned, to balance the budget at the state level, they did make some tweaks. They were small reductions. We got most of the increase we were expecting. But with the drop in state revenue, you may or may not recall, they, they reduced district's payments or, or PPR by, by a little bit.
It wasn't huge. Like Jason said, it was a few hundred thousand dollars. But at any rate we think, we'll we think we'll come in a little lower next year, stay tuned. You know, we will propose adjustments if we're wrong. Any questions about that? If you don't mind, I'd like to add a little bit. This was this year's deficit. This is next year's. So we're, we're trending in the right direction as I've told you, finances and lot about momentum. If you sat through the leave meetings and CS meetings, you probably remember hearing me say, we'd really like to go, we know we're at
2 million this year. We'd really like to go to 1 million the following year. And then back to that breakeven point, well we're off by about 800,000. Where did that come from? 300,000 of ads that state revenue cut and $500,000 is, is the sped cost that we've talked about. Those sp those services that we have to buy. That I, you made a very eloquent speech about last time I was here. So it's, but that's, that's really where this is. So you ask yourself, how is it that with very minimal increase,
we've actually done better against budget than last year. We've got 2% raises built in, we've got 8% expected benefits increases. How do you do this? How do you improve? Her name is Kathy, you wanna start you guys to look at Yeah, Kathy and I'm glad she's here tonight. She's, she's done a tremendous job at trying to hold our costs that we, you know, that we can control those, those non-people costs as as tight as we can. So she should be proud of that. Oh and I did, yes. Best controller we've ever had.
And I did forget to mention that part of the reason it took us by surprise in terms of the increase here was the standard practice that there's, it's not a problem or anything unless it surprises you. But the BOCES pays us at the end of the year. So things we're looking on track, we we, and sorry, we pay them too. So we settle up at the end of the year, they give us money from the Exceptional Children's Education Act, some other sources and we pay them a lot of that back for the services they provide. So we settle up at the end of the year.
This payment comes in in June. So these numbers where we have them, we did projections for stuff that doesn't work like that, that's just normal monthly activity. But in this case I did go ahead and plug in the actual payment there to hopefully make sure we should have enough to cover at least the increase we proposed for next year. And we'll give 'em a call a little earlier this year and see if we can get you estimates to avoid that surprise in the future. Speaker 14: That's what I was gonna ask. Yes. Are we expecting that same increase in those services next year?
Speaker 18: They're budgeted. Speaker 1: So, and and just to be clear, so that 720,000 7 7 21 we'll say, yeah that is, that is paying for services because we don't offer them here. Or is it services that we have to offer and it just so happens that we have students that need them? Speaker 18: Well, it's services or both. We have to offer and it's often, and, and we've seen this, this, it's not just our district that that really struggles with this, but SPED positions are almost always the hard
to fill positions. So we're actually, if we could and in the past we've employed those specialized staff, although like an example of something we would almost always pay the BO Cs for. I don't think we have many deaf hard of hearing students. But audiology would probably not be something we ever Speaker 1: Hire, would ever hire ourselves. Speaker 18: But a Speaker 1: Physical occupational therapist Speaker 18: Or an Yeah. If we could find them within our salary scale and even if we could find them, they wouldn't be available. Right now they're very hard to fill.
But, but it's in exchange. Yes. The BOC this increases at least in part positions that we would like to fill here at the district. It's cheaper than, than contractors. Yes. For those services. So, so the answer to your question is yes, but it's both, it's services we have to provide as well as staff. We aren't able to, to basically find right now. Speaker 11: Now it's important to note as well that we have in particular to sped when you are hiring virtual teachers on a private contract, that absolutely will
increase that budget very quickly. Yes. Speaker 1: Now it, i I know we talk a lot about growing our own for just our, our regular classroom teachers. What about our SPED teachers? What about our occupational health therapists? What about our speech therapists? Because I actually know of somebody who is going in for speech therapy. Is there any way to help her in this process? Speaker 14: I think it's a problem though when you, when they're presented with the job market and you go to work for these other companies and you're offered 40% more than the school district. Yeah. That is a huge challenge. You know what I'm saying? I mean that that's, anybody is gonna go there. We just need, and
Speaker 10: There are extra classes and requirements to be a school social or not a social, yeah. Social Speaker 1: Worker's or speech therapist or speech Speaker 10: Therapists or occupational therapists. It's, it's more education than necessarily the private sector. Different certifications Speaker 14: I believe Ken mentioned last time is these like OCS and other, other organizations know who's in these programs. I mean, they snap 'em up and offer if they're, if they're any good, they, they take Speaker 1: Them well and, and I think too, the last time we spoke too, the virtual option too. I mean if people are getting these certifications,
they're gonna do the virtual option as an instructor because they can make 10 times more obviously as we see with our 721,000 budget and not gonna live here Here. Yeah. Where they have to pay for. Speaker 10: So CMC offers an apprentice program for special education, which means that we have people in the pipeline that are starting school now or in the, in the last year or year and a half that will be ready to come out. And they are our local people. They are our paraprofessionals.
They're the people that are supporting like the virtual speech language pathologists online. 'cause not that part of that cost there is we gotta hire the person online Speaker 1: And we have to pay for Speaker 10: Hey, someone to supervise. Yeah. Right. And so, but the supervisors are key. If we can get them to go to school and get their degrees, they're getting the practice and they're getting work with kids. And if we can get 'em through school, I think we're about, we have, we have one apprentice that has a semester left and then we'll be ours lives in the area, has kids in the area and then the next layer is
about a year from then. Then we have three or four more that will be licensed special ed and the year after that then they start booming because we've been pushing so many. Speaker 1: Yes. Do we have that agreement in writing? No Speaker 10: We don't because we're not paying for any of it. We are hiring them and paying them as apprentices now. And those years of experience count if they hire on with us. So if they hire on, if they hire on with us at the end of that process, then they get, if they did apprentice for three years, then they start on the Yes.
The fourth year. So there is a bonus to staying with us as well. And I, one of the biggest answers to staffing crisis is grow your own. If you already have figured out how to live here, let's get you into education because that's, that's what we need you Yeah. To make the community better. So, okay, thank you. They're coming three years will be flushed. Well Speaker 1: And it's, yeah, it's just, I mean and it, it's, it's not just here. We see it everywhere. Absolutely. So it's not, I mean unfortunate and unfortunately it's so it's the kids
and the families that are suffering. So, and it's again, not just here, Speaker 10: Most of our special service providers have been hired in person by us, not companies. We still are short for next for this coming year. We are still short special ed teachers teach teachers. Speaker 1: There's still some time. I mean we've still got a month. Speaker 10: Well and Jenny, do you wanna talk about what you guys did at Rifle Middle as a, this is another, I think, key solution that we might have that would help us in this process. But is what the girls did. What the girls did. Yeah. Amazing
Speaker 19: Stuff. We had a long period of stability in our special education team for a long time. And then they all left in one year for a variety of reasons that were, you know, family and life circumstances and we were unable to hire in person. And so to begin the year, three people who already had positions in our building, our reading specialists, our academic coach and our ad slash Dean of students started to, they were doing as much of, from their knowledge
that they already had of liaising with our special education needs as they could until we actually hired virtual teachers who could write the IEPs. But these ladies all enrolled in a special education program and worked over the course of the year doing all of their normal responsibilities plus this, plus every time I was going home on Thursdays they were going to class and they all, three of 'em just passed their praxis last Friday. And so we can't really necessarily have them serve
as the special education teacher full-time 'cause they do have a full-time role. But it will be greatly helpful in the way that Rifle middle school can configure its services and just offers some options that keep us in good standing and a lot, make sure that children and family needs get met. So, okay, that's off to them man. Interesting Speaker 10: Solution and, Speaker 1: And for them taking the initiative to do that too. Speaker 10: And how many more could we, could we get that we already have employed? Right? It's gonna be continued. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Sorry, I, I apologize for Speaker 10: Taking us. Speaker 18: We brought popcorn. Speaker 10: Thanks Jim. Yeah, Speaker 19: Thank you. I'm always happy. Speaker 18: So if there aren't any more here, we will move on to the fund balance objections, which we will also just cover briefly since we're looking forward not back. Right. So here's the fund balance. You guys have seen this, this was updated for the final expenditures that you've seen. Know this, these numbers will change between now
and December as the auditors get in and as costs get shifted back and forth into the right years and as grants get closed out and we can move money over. But that's, that's the projection so far. We are, I think, I think it's fair to say this is probably almost exactly what was presented six months ago. Yeah. We're right where we thought we would be. I think it would, it was fair to be optimistic back in November and I'll show you why in a little while. But if, if you got an extra 300,000 in that revenue and you had five, 500,000 less in, in unexpected cost,
we, we would've been, we would've been marched out as heroes. But that's, that's, that's the uncontrolled economic situation that we face. It's just where we're at. So I'm proud to say I the district's controlling what they can and, and overall this is, the numbers are slightly different. The blood is lapping on the shores. How's that? Okay. Not supposed to. Okay. Alright. This is, this is really, you know, this year was our last year of esser and stimulus.
This has been our trajectory. This has helped mask it, Esser helped mask it, but this is the trajectory we've been talking about. So we won't talk about that tonight. This is for the budget, but we'll have to soon. I Speaker 14: Mean, it's always great you to close our eyes blindly and wander into the ion Speaker 18: Taking Dar well say so. I'm just joking. I I've broken a toe or two doing that. It's not bad. Speaker 14: I mean, Speaker 1: Don't say that in front of insurance. Speaker 18: Yeah. It wasn't home. Oh, okay. Okay. But you're, you're right. We gotta do something. We can't just stumble aimlessly,
but we do, I mean we've got 12 to 18 months to let's say eight months to come together with a plan. And that should be plenty of time to do that May not be a popular plan Jan chance, but it'll be a plan Speaker 14: Depending on the day. I'm not very popular. Speaker 18: So in the interest of efficiency, we have poll for you. Now am I popular? We can either tell you the adjustments we made by fund or we can show you and tell you at the same time. That'll be quicker. We'll walk you through less slides quickest way possible.
Yes sir. You got it. Yes sir. So if you'll go down to that green beige and white sheet. Do you want hit this one first? Oh yes. Thank you. I got so excited to close this out. I forgot about one of the more important things. So we do have a supplemental budget request for you all tonight. This is some leftover work from the JCI contract. As you know, it went a little past what we thought it would and some invoices this month went through. So we need to increase the budget for that so we can get them paid. But it is a cash neutral transaction.
It, it's the loan that we took out. So there's no money coming out of any of our bank accounts. This is related to the loan. So there's no financial impact on the district that we really haven't already recognized except for the payment of these outstanding invoices. And then we'll capitalize that with the rest of the project. So we just, if you could go to the next page now please. We just need to bump the budget up this year by the payment that we made to JCII think last week sometime.
That's all we're doing. And that leaves us about, with the balance we expect at the end of the year, which is a little different than projected, but we'll wait till the audit to change all that. We're just getting the spending authority from you for the 551,000, which will go to JCI out of Bank of America. Well those of you that were here last year, you may remember John. John got it. Like a $15 million entry on this side and we were always trying to keep him on a leash. He's back there. But that money was for JCI
as it was paid down that, that lump sum of money that we borrowed, it trickled down into the fund balance. Now we're paying it out. So it's it's new kind of a wash. It's a wash, yes. It's absolutely And there'll be one more, there'll be one more probably 300 ish. So there'll be one more and we'll come back when that happens and, and, and wash out the JCI. So if we can skip the, these slides and just go to the schedules. Jason will take us through the, the first three funds, how many pages, how many pages we schedule. So I'm gonna walk you through the general fund.
These are the numbers that we just gave you. The budget comes through at that 72 4 7 months ago. We were hopeful that would be 72. But you've got your, your revenue, your your property tax, your your, your state share. Those numbers are are some of the numbers we can get pretty close in projections. Well, and those will be set in December with the mill levy. We'll be back setting mills. And those will lock those numbers in those, those revenue numbers. The rest of it is, like I said, what we presented last time.
Transfer out to John and there's your general fund. That's the big one. Nothing's changed since we presented that. No, your next is your food service fund. This is Mary's fund. It actually brings in revenue and has expenses. She's gonna make the term I think with about 200,000 in profit. There's some adjustments to her. Shout out Mary for making Speaker 1: Money. Yeah, making money. Speaker 18: I built her a spreadsheet and showed her where she was at and she started crying. She was so happy. Yes. She's, she's a heck of a manager, a heck of a manager.
She knows her stuff and knows her stuff and those that by school, by location by week. And you guys get those reports. She knows exactly how many meals they're serving. And then the trick is make sure that we get reimbursed for those meals. And that is not an easy task either. No, her financial secretary Sherry is amazing and gets us, gets us the, the reimbursements that we should, her budget is usually close to break even historically, the general fund had to supplement that some and now she's broken through and actually is a revenue center just a little bit. But it's, it's, it's impressive. It's a
Speaker 1: Revenue. Yes. Not an expenditure for Speaker 18: It. Yes, yes. For this year anyway, finally is, is your 22 fund, these are your grants. These have to balance out. We, if we spend the money we get reimbursed. So you don't have, you don't have fund balance on these. And it gets adjusted at the end of the year based on how much we spend against those grants. So that's our projected budgets for next year. Similar exactly. To this year. Well, and just as another thing about our, our grant funds, we, you all give us this spending authority,
but we actually have to have a physical award and grant letter to record it. So we budget these a little higher than what we actually receive or spend in the year. That gives us, we won't spend that excess, but it gives us room. If we happen to receive grants or something during the year, we don't have to come back to you for that. But the, the payroll and the expenditures are running. I'd say, if I recall correctly, the expenditures two to 300,000 less than this 1.9.
So we do have a little room for new grants if we need 'em. But, but not too much. Just sometimes I get questions about why is this the exact same amount and, and all that. That's, that's largely why is it does have to, your expenditures have to equal your revenues. And then we try to leave a little room in this fund because we don't know if there'll be grant opportunities and if they're competitive grants two to 300,000, they should fit right into that. So just FYI. Speaker 20: So I'm just wondering, is there grants for sped,
SPED teachers? Like can we look into this and Kim, is there room in that budget for us to add $700,000 worth of SP stuff? Speaker 18: Well we probably have to come back to you for 700 but we can get 300 of it in there and if you all want to increase the budget and we have the money coming, that is a piece of cake to do. So yes, we could accommodate that. Speaker 20: I'm really curious about that. Speaker 18: Alright, let's go to the next slide. We got the next three close. We're getting close because there are fewer numbers on these and these also have not changed much
since we presented them last, last month. But I did go ahead. In the activity fund, the revenue this year is coming in under the million 39,000. But when we looked at it earlier this year, the cost trends were looking like we might spend a bit more. We had the fund balance so I wasn't too worried about the revenue, but I did go ahead and make the revenue match the activity funds because that's also a revenue driven fund in that we have to collect fees for student activities, things like that, to, to earn the money that we spend.
So we try to make those match too. So that's a small adjustment we didn't talk about in May. And then we provided, this is essentially the audit year amount. So that was our estimate, the actual calendar year. Which is what or or sorry, let me flip that. This is the calendar year amount as an estimate that we provided you earlier. It was, it was a couple hundred thousand more than that I think. But this is our actual payment. We nailed that down before we put the finals together. So this one changed a bit since we showed it
to you last month. And then the last one we had an estimate in there but, but what we did before we put this stuff together, we kind of ran all the costs out a couple days before we assembled everything. There's that, it's about 755,000 in the fund. So we we're expecting to spend about this between the transfer and the remaining projects that we're bringing. They're not quite finished yet so we're bringing them into this this coming year. So it's those two items, what we had left that still needs
to be completed and the $1.2 million transfer and that that was in there. But this number changed a little bit since we tried to nail it down right before year end. And that's what we got on those three funds. Any questions, comments or concerns? Awesome. You're proud. Alright, well we got one more thing to show you. We won't, you don't need to, I don't need to read it to you or anything, anything. But you have three resolutions this evening for those items And if you go one more page down please. The first one and vice president
fam we did change. If you could scroll down just a little bit. Scott mentioned I had this stuff ready before I realized our good friend Bri was resigning. So it says acting, acting president on your signature sheets. Just FYI. But the first one is the supplemental. A supplemental is a current year budget adjustment. Okay. So that's for the capital item and there's only one of those. And then if you could go down to the next page, then you have a resolution for the amount that we think we're going to spend in each fund.
That's the appropriation resolution. And then there's one more which is we're expecting to use some of our fund balance. We discussed that on the general fund and that is your final resolution. So you've got three and that's what they are. You may or may not have questions about those, but I'm done now. Speaker 1: Okay. Speaker 18: Any questions on the three resolutions? We good. And we will hang out for the vote tonight. So if you do come up with questions we'll be here. Speaker 2: Thank you. Okay. Speaker 1: Thank you all Good to see Speaker 18: You. Thanks for great year. Speaker 2: Okay. Speaker 1: Wow. Insurance and finance.
Speaker 18: I knew that joke was coming. Speaker 2: Fun Speaker 1: Meeting. Riveting. No, it was good. It was good. You know for, for insurance and finance. I think it was very entertaining and informative. So thank you guys. Thank you. So now we've got governance action items. Yeah. So the pinnacle assurance for the workers' compensation for 25, 26 school year. Speaker 2: Any discussion? Speaker 1: I think the, I think it was very, very informative. Put together very well. I think it, you know, the fact that
that they're looking at the risk and bringing it to, to the schools, to the administration I think is definitely so that we can try to mitigate the risk and the workers' comp such as Cassie, moving the extension cord before Jason tripped. Nicely done. You're Speaker 2: Welcome. Speaker 8: I, I guess, I mean my math brain is trying to comprehend but okay, we give a 2% raise every year but it decreased 3%. So 'cause Speaker 14: Because we're missing Speaker 1: Because of vacancies. Vacancies.
Speaker 8: Oh because of the vacancies work. Speaker 14: Workman's comp is all about work hours. Speaker 8: Yeah, right, right. Worker hours. Yeah. Payroll is down and full-time employees. Yeah. Okay. That makes sense. Okay. I'm just like, I was like what? This isn't adding. Okay. Yes, that makes sense. Thank you we're talking that. Speaker 14: So we got some great news but then we got Speaker 1: So great news. Speaker 14: But I don't dunno, it's, it's just the trend I think. Yeah. Pinnacle, this one kind of is what it is. I think they all are. Glenwood Insurance has always done
as long as I've been here's done It's a great job. And continue. I know, I know John, we've had a lot of discussions at on capital projects regarding facility. He must be, I'm sorry Tom, it must be Tommy. He is meeting with about meeting and facilities and kind of going over things and I don't, we live in a great beautiful area, but I just really want to do whatever we can not to cut down the trees at Elk Creek. Okay. I mean let's please,
Speaker 1: Let's enjoy the shade. Yeah, I mean and the breeze. Speaker 14: I, I, I get it and I, I understand that that's my only request but yeah, I guess 10.1 I'm ready. Speaker 1: Okay, Speaker 8: I'm ready. Speaker 1: Okay. May I get a motion to approve the pinnacle assurance for the workers' compensation for 20 25 20 26 school year? Speaker 14: I'll make a motion to approve Pinnacle Assurance for the workers' compensation for 20 25 20 26 school Speaker 1: Year. Thank you. May I get a second? May I second Speaker 8: That? Thank Speaker 1: You Cassie. Sharon, Speaker 13: Before I say that, I just wanna make note that
Scott had stepped away from the conversation and is Speaker 1: Recusing himself. Yep. Okay. Speaker 13: Okay. So I have Haskell Speaker 8: Aye Speaker 13: Jen Jenkins, Speaker 14: Aye Speaker 13: And Speaker 1: Jenkins. Aye. Okay. 10.2 Tokyo Marine for cyber liability option for 20 25, 20 26 school year. There was the two options that they gave us. Let me find my notes and Roger, thank you for your feedback on which one you would like to see. I appreciate that. That definitely helps. 'cause you know,
Speaker 17: I was super excited to see it drop so much. I mean that just doesn't happen 'cause it's got the premiums go down and coverage goes up and it's, Speaker 14: It's great. Speaker 1: Right. Is there any discussion on that? Speaker 14: I think Roger nailed it. Yep. It's down and coverage is up. I'm not, I'm keeping my mouth yet Speaker 1: So, so just, just to be sure. So there were the two options that were presented. So the premium for the $10,000 limit is 36,000 plus tax and fees totaling $37,504 and 11 cents. The premium or the option that Roger you would prefer is the premium
for the $25,000 limit. I'm sorry? Premium for the $25,000 limit is 34,128 plus tax and fees totaling 35,000 572 68. That is the one that you would prefer? Speaker 14: That is correct. Okay. Looking Speaker 8: So do we need to say in our motion that one? Speaker 14: Yeah wait, is there a policy number or something that we need to Speaker 8: It doesn't, well that's what I was looking at and there is not one. So I think we just need to motion that I make a motion to approve the premium for the $25,000 limit
to Tokyo Marine with, for Tokyo Marine totaling the 35,000 572 68. Speaker 1: For cybersecurity. Speaker 8: For cybersecurity. Speaker 1: May I get a second? I'll Speaker 14: Second. Speaker 1: Thank you Sharon Speaker 14: Haskell. Speaker 8: Aye Speaker 14: Jenkins Aye. Speaker 1: Jenen. Aye. Okay. Last but certainly not least as far as insurance is the Glat Felt's Public entity insurance. I really did appreciate the breakdown of the building as well. Yeah, yeah that was, that Speaker 14: Is Speaker 1: Interesting. Yeah, very interesting to see. Speaker 14: It's alarming that Coal Ridge is $45 million. I know.
Speaker 1: And then there's the two scrolls that you guys are gonna tour, which is Rifle and Riverside. Yes. Yes. And I'm assuming those switch every year. Speaker 15: Yeah, they randomly pick. We were grateful for, you know, to, to have those two as the tour sites. And we're doing that either July 17th through the 24th. We're just confirming that date. Speaker 14: Okay. Rifle Middle School or Rifle High School. High school. High Speaker 1: High School. Sorry. Speaker 8: And John you went over and like verified all the square footage and all of that Speaker 21: On the insurance. It's hard, really hard to hear y'all tonight Speaker 15: On the spreadsheet. Verified the limits and square
Speaker 21: Footage. Yeah, I verified that all our buildings were on there and we actually took one off last week because we tore our modular down at Coal Ridge. Speaker 8: Oh yeah, the one in the back. Yeah. Speaker 21: So it's taken off for this, this coming year and I verified everything we have on. Okay. Speaker 14: Thank Speaker 8: You. Thank you. Speaker 1: I do appreciate, I do appreciate that breakdown. Speaker 8: And, and I'm sure you went through the vehicle list as well, penny? Speaker 21: Actually she did. Speaker 1: I'm not surprised. Okay. Speaker 21: So Speaker 2: We are not paying Speaker 21: On any vehicles that Speaker 2: Are decommissioned. Speaker 21: There's one I think we're paying on this
decommission that's sitting up there. I think we give money from the state for one more year from and then we'll take it off or what. We're better off paying it and doing it this way Speaker 2: From the Speaker 21: Equity act or what? We get so much money back per bus per state that, 'cause we don't pay for everything. We get so much money back. So we've got one more year. I think it's one more year on that bus and then we'll take it off and get rid of it. Speaker 2: Okay. Okay. Speaker 21: We're better off keeping it and doing what we're done. Okay. Speaker 1: And is it just, I mean, and maybe this is just a, a stupid question.
Is it liability that we're just covering on that since it is decommissioned? Yes. Okay. Just the least Speaker 21: We can. Speaker 1: Okay. Yeah, Speaker 21: It's, it's minimal. Speaker 1: Minimal. Speaker 21: But what we're getting is, Speaker 1: Well when we look at those totals, it's there's Yeah, I appreciate that. Thank you. May I get a motion? Speaker 21: I make a motion to approve drs. Public Entity Insurance. I as present. Speaker 8: I second that. Speaker 1: Sharon Speaker 2: Haskell. Aye. Speaker 21: Aye. Speaker 1: Aye. And now onto the different resolutions from
Speaker 21: You get to read. Speaker 1: I get to read. Okay. Here's the supplemental appropriation resolution. Be it resolved by the Board of Education of Garfield School District number RE two in Garfield County. That the amount shown in the following schedule be su be a supplemental appropriation to the capital projects funds as specified in the January revised budget for the fiscal year beginning J July 1st, 2024 and ending June 30th, 2025. The funds available in the capital projects funds are sufficient to allow for this one time expenditure.
The Capital Project Funds Capital Reserve Capital Projects Fund 551,957 for a total supplemental of 5,000, I'm sorry, 551,957 adopted this 25th day of June, 2025. May I get a motion? Speaker 8: I make a motion to approve the supplemental appropriation resolution. Speaker 2: Is there any other second? Speaker 1: Thank you Scott. Sharon, Speaker 2: Or excuse me. Aye. Haskell Aye. Jenkins. Aye.
Speaker 1: Aye. Next one. Appropriation resolution be it resolved by the Board of Education of Garfield School District number RE two in Garfield County. That the amount shown in the following schedule be appropriated to each fund as specified in the January revised budget for the fiscal year beginning July 1st, 2025 and ending June 30th, 2026. General fund of 72 million 478 230 9,000 special revenue funds. So food Service Special Revenue Fund 2,400,450
Governmental designated purpose Grants fund, 1,905,000 Pupil Activity Special Fund expend special fund expenditures 1,120,000 and Board Redemption Fund Bond Redemption Fund. You sure I should be the one reading this? 9 million 7 78 and 80,000 Capital Project Fund. Capital Reserve Capital Projects Fund 2,505,000 total appropriation. 88 million 986 769 Adopted this 25th
day of June, 2025. May I get a motion? Speaker 14: So moved. Speaker 1: Thank you. Second. Second. Thank you Sharon. Speaker 2: Aye. Aye. Jenkins. Aye. Speaker 1: Jensen? Aye. Speaker 2: Oh this one. Speaker 1: Anybody else Speaker 2: Make two? Speaker 14: Oh, there's a whole lot of numbers in it. Okay. Resolution authorizing the use of a portion of beginning fund balance as authorized by Colorado statutes. Whereas CRS 22 dash 44 dash zero five states that a budget duly adopted pursuant
to this article shall not provide for expenditures, enter fund, transfers or reserves in excess of available revenues and beginning fund balances. Whereas the Board of Education may authorize the use of a portion of the beginning of fund balance in the budget stating the amount to be used, the purpose for which the expenditure is needed. And the district's plan to ensure that the use of the beginning fund balance will not lead to an ongoing deficit. Whereas the Board of Education has determined the beginning fund balance fund balances in the general fund student activity fund. The capital projects funds are sufficient to allow
for the one-time expenditure and these actions will not lead to an ongoing deficit. Now therefore be it resolved in accordance with CRS 22 dash 44 dash zero five. The Board of Education authorizes the use of a portion of the fiscal year 2025 dash 2026 beginning fund balance for the planned use of a one-time expenditures from the following general funds and in the following amounts, general fund $1,853,350 Student Nutrition fund, $102,450
Bond redemption slash debt service fund 14,000 capital projects fund 805,000 be it further resolved. The use of this portion of these beginning fund balances for the purposes set forth above will not lead to ongoing deficits in the funds adopted this 25th day of June, 2025. Speaker 1: Thank you. May I get a motion? Speaker 2: So moved. Speaker 1: Thank you. Second please. Speaker 2: I second. Speaker 1: Thank you Sharon Speaker 2: Elito. Aye. Aye. Aye. Speaker 1: Aye. Speaker 2: Okay. Speaker 1: And we've
got the first reading for GBEE and GBEE dash E. That's, that's fun. Which is, so Garfield School District RE two. Thank you guys. Staff responsible. Yes. They just wanted Speaker 14: Their Speaker 2: Money. Yeah, Speaker 1: I thought they liked it. I did. Speaker 2: Thank Speaker 1: You. Bye. Thank you guys. We'll have to remind them of that. The next board meeting, when they say nobody sticks around for finance, they don't stick around for policy. Right. Garfield School District. RE two staff responsible use agreement.
This will be the first reading of GBEE dash E. That's a lot of red. Speaker 2: We just wrote this. Yeah. Roger gonna Speaker 17: Take this. Yeah, it's basically with Devin, we pretty much collaborated on that. She can't here tonight. It's basically a replace so much like we did with the student RUA early in the spring. We just wiped it. It was about 13 years old and completely replaced it. Ran it through legal. Got two big thumbs up on that. So unless you guys have any specific questions or anything I can answer. Roger, Speaker 2: Can you go to the microphone? Sure. So people at home can hear too. Want them all there. Thank you.
Speaker 17: You're welcome. Speaker 2: Okay. And this is, Speaker 17: I will point out a couple of differences. You guys have heard, you may have heard about House bill 21, 11 10. That's the accessibility bill that goes into effect July one of this year. And so on page two, item number four calls that out for staff just so they're aware of the responsibility to make sure that sure that the documents they create are accessible. There wasn't anything like that in our previous policy. So that's one kind of significant change
Speaker 1: On the dash E or just the policy? The E Speaker 17: On dash E. Okay. I think it's on page two of five if you'll see that in the packet. Speaker 1: Yep. Responsible use Speaker 17: Under number four. Yep. Theres's got it highlighted up there. Speaker 14: Okay. Where I see behaviors not aligned with responsible use. Speaker 17: Yep. Examples. Speaker 14: Yeah, examples. But absolutely. Where are consequences? I would say, Speaker 1: Yeah, Speaker 17: I think it, it states in there somewhere that it can be up into dismissal for staff
and any other legal consequences that would also be directed toward them. That is Speaker 2: So the last part under staff acknowledgement. Speaker 17: It may be Speaker 14: Yet. Speaker 2: Look on page five of five chance. Speaker 17: Yep. Speaker 14: Yeah. Speaker 1: The acknowledgement staff acknowledgement. Okay. Thank you. And that, yeah. And social media and external communication. Speaker 17: Right. So they, that's where it make sure that they understand. They need to be very clear with what they're communicating on social media, even on their personal accounts.
Okay. Anything that might have anything to do with Garfield R two school district, they need to be aware of. Speaker 1: Okay. Using of and, okay, thank you. Speaker 17: Sure. Speaker 14: So I see a lot of rules here. What kind of processes in place the police use? Speaker 17: You mean if they don't follow the guidelines? Speaker 14: Yeah, like software app misuse, installing unauthorized software apps that violate licensing agreements for district policy. Just saying we have 800 and some employees, how are we gonna know who you know? Speaker 17: Well, I mean there are different ways. I mean we could, some of that I don't want to talk about,
but we have software that can identify it use and that helps. We also, you know, we get sometimes, we'll, we'll notice different behavior on the network as well. And then that we've had a few instances over the years that are minor. Nothing significant that I'm aware of, but we've just talked to staff members. It also calls out that, you know, not to do things like promote your private business on our school network historically, way back when we had people selling some items in private business and we had to have conversations with them too. Speaker 2: Okay. Yeah. Speaker 1: Any other questions or concerns on,
Speaker 17: I will note there's a call out on number nine on page four about artificial intelligence as well. As we've discussed, you know, artificial intelligence is really baked into almost everything we do. It's, it's kind of amazing what's happened in three years. Yeah. But we did want to call it out specifically that there's a thing called high risk AI systems. There's a new law that's going into effect and we'll be hearing more about in February. I think it's on February 1st that we'll have some responsibility for too. So we're trying to get ahead of that a little bit by calling that out with staff so they're aware Speaker 1: Also with the use of, of ai.
I know that there was, last year, actually, I believe at this meeting or the first one in August, there was some discussion regarding a paper that was graded using ai. Is that, is that a separate policy or is that all kind of within this ai It, Speaker 17: It's within this and I think it, my perspective really is that comes down to training with, with staff about what's appropriate and what's not appropriate. Okay. I mean, again, it's, it's, The lines have blurred because it's so integrated into everything we do. I, I mean like, I don't know if you've, A lot
of people use Grammarly. I use Grammarly. Grammarly has an AI component now. There's really, it's almost impossible to find something that doesn't, but would it be appropriate for a teacher to full on grade student papers with artificial intelligence? Certainly without even looking at it, handing it back to a, to a student? Absolutely not. Absolutely. And that's the kind of training that we're, we're working with staff to make sure they understand. Okay. A hundred percent. Speaker 1: You know, I just, I was at a, a risk and compliance conference for banking, which just I'm sure sounds also invigorating a couple weeks ago. And a lot of the discussion was on AI and the use of ai.
So it's definitely, it is here whether we want it or not. Now it's just a matter of how we can use it and be safe about it. Speaker 17: Exactly. And it's a lot of conversations, just making sure people are aware about what's okay to share. Like if you're gonna upload information into ai, which a lot of us do, all of us do it probably every day in different ways. You know, it's very important not to be uploading student social security numbers, student personally identifiable information. And those are, again, going back to the trainings with staff. It's okay to, and you might have it like, look, you might grade a paper and then you might ask
AI for some suggestions. You could give the student to make it better. That's appropriate. But to have it just grade it and then give it back to a student without doing what you're great at as a teacher, which is grading, that would not be appropriate. Yeah. Speaker 1: Okay. Thank you. Speaker 17: You bet. But I, I will just say I'm excited about this. I think the last one we had served us well for about 14 years and a lot has changed in technology in 14 years. So I hope this and I expect that it will stand up really well as well. Speaker 1: Any other questions? Speaker 2: I don't think so. I'm good, Speaker 1: Scott. Okay. Speaker 2: Chance? Okay.
Speaker 1: GBEE Staff use of district technology, internet, and electronic communication. Speaker 2: It's Speaker 1: Good. It's short and sweet. Yep. It's refer to this, Speaker 17: It's kind of like you might remember with the student one we talked about the teeth document. The one that just says, yeah, there are consequences explicitly if you don't follow it. Speaker 2: Yep. Okay. Speaker 1: Yeah, I like it. Took three pages down to two paragraphs. Yep. Speaker 17: It's pretty clear. Speaker 1: Yep. Speaker 2: Okay. Speaker 1: Any discussion on that? Speaker 2: Okay. No. Okay. We will
Speaker 1: Do the second reading in August. All right, will Speaker 17: Do. Thank you very much. Speaker 1: Thank you. Thanks for sticking around, answering our questions. Speaker 17: Absolutely. Speaker 1: Okay. Resignation of board president. So do I just read the resolution? Yes. Resolution to declare a vacancy be it resolved that the board of Education of Garfield Re two school district accepts the resignation of Bri Fletcher from the Board of Education effective June 20th, 2025. And be it further resolved
that in accordance with state law. The board declares a vacancy in this school, in this school director office that will be filled by appointment by the board within 60 days in accordance with the following procedures. One interested persons are invited to send a letter to the board with a statement of interest and qualifications by August 4th, 2025. Two. The board will interview prospective candidates on August 13th, 2025 at a public meeting. Three. To be eligible for appointment, a candidate must be a registered elector
of the school district and reside and a resident of the director district in which the vacancy exists. And four, the appointee will serve until the next regular school biannual election in November, 2025. At which time an election will be held for a successor to fill the remainder of the unexpired term. Speaker 2: Okay. Speaker 1: May I get a motion to approve the resignation of board president? Speaker 2: What happens Speaker 1: If you don't approve it? Does he like have to step around? Yeah.
I reluctantly app approve. So, Speaker 14: So in this same motion, it's accepting it as resignation and declaring a Speaker 1: Vacancy. Correct? Yes. For district A, just to be clear, Speaker 9: Move the resolution to declare a vacancy as read. Speaker 1: Thank you. Second, please. A second. May I get a motion please, Sharon? Or not a motion, a roll call. Speaker 2: Ask both. Aye. Then s Speaker 14: Abstain. I'm not, Speaker 2: I think Speaker 14: I abstain. Thank Speaker 13: You. Okay. I'm sorry. Last one.
Speaker 1: Aye. Okay. And with that though, I do believe that we do need to restructure. Am I correct or are we good with how We are? Speaker 14: We're at election Speaker 1: Time. At election time. Okay. I think we're Speaker 14: Good. Speaker 1: Okay. Speaker 13: You're the acting president. What's your position? Vice president. We take over. I'm not Speaker 1: Okay, you're Speaker 13: Good until rush. Speaker 1: Perfect. Awesome. Okay. Policy focus. Anything for starting in August? Speaker 14: Hold on. Are you taking, are you taking a request?
Do net. There seems to be some con confusion, you know about board policies and section B. We have a board policy that says we're governed by Robert's rules of order. And when you look at Robert's rules of order, unanimous consent does not need to be formalized at any time. A board member can, can object if they are against unanimous consent. So we need to make it clear on these, I'm looking at looking at the policy, electronic participation or we need to clarify what that means. I believe, Speaker 1: And I believe the policy was last reviewed in 2018,
if I remember correctly. Yeah, Speaker 14: I, I'm pulling Will, Speaker 8: Will you name the policy? Yeah, hold on. Speaker 1: Yeah. Okay. Speaker 14: What service? Speaker 8: Oh, Speaker 1: Basement. Speaker 8: Sorry. Speaker 14: Hey, there's a school board meeting. Speaker 1: Are you looking at BBA or no? Speaker 8: No, it's BEDD. Rules of order. Yep. BEDD. Speaker 14: And so Yeah. BE d's rules of order. Speaker 1: BEDD. Yep. Yeah, it was 2018, beginning of 2018. Speaker 14: So then it's, you know, which I may, it makes sense,
Robert's rules of order, but then you know, there's claims that we broke policy by not formalizing a approval. So we need to fix that for future. Your, it needs to be there either 'cause you look, you look at Robert's rules of order and you read it. Unanimous consent does not have to be voted on at any time. A board member can object if they have an objection and then it has to be voted on. Right. So where, what are we doing here?
So is unanimous consent? Go ahead, chair. Yeah, Speaker 13: So it's not on our agenda for tonight, Speaker 14: But Speaker 13: Oh, but you brought it up and so if it's something that you want to have on for the future agenda items, we could put it on there. Yeah. Speaker 1: Have to do that. Yeah. Speaker 13: I think it's a conversation you need to have with the superintendent before any discussions. Speaker 14: That's my, that's my reasoning why I Speaker 1: There. Yeah. Well, and I Speaker 14: Clarification. Speaker 1: Yeah, and I think too, I mean, thank you. Thank you. Thank you Sharon. Yeah, I, there was nothing under item 11 under policy focus. So in my mind I just moved it to future agenda items. That's fine. So,
Speaker 14: And then, Speaker 8: So we are allowed to discuss it under policy focus or no? Speaker 1: Well, it'd be for future tonight. Speaker 14: Not tonight. Yeah. It's not the, it's not the agenda. Speaker 8: This will be future board agenda items. Future Speaker 1: Board agenda items. Oh, Speaker 14: She's right. Like we can't, we shouldn't discuss it tonight. Okay. It Speaker 8: Needs to be Speaker 14: Noticed and Speaker 13: Probably through Bill Kirk, you guys have that discussion and then if you have it on the agenda, that would be fine after Speaker 8: That. Okay. Yep. Thank you. Got it. Speaker 14: Don't worries. Kirk, you can slap my hand anytime. Speaker 1: He's gonna start throwing things at you here pretty soon. I did not. Speaker 8: We would like that as a future.
Speaker 14: So it turns out you're not taking requests. Speaker 1: What? I am taking requests for future agenda items. Kurt takes requests. Oh, so, so future agenda item would be to review policy BEDD. Was there another one? Speaker 2: I would get reserved to talk with Kirk and Jenny. Speaker 1: Okay. Speaker 2: Discuss that. And we can start. Speaker 1: Well, and I think that might be something too. Just something to, to help everybody kind of just get focused. Thank you. Acclimated around everything. So any other future agenda items?
Speaker 8: Just the election information. Yep. Which publicly making that with the details. We should, Sharon was talking to me. We should have more details by our August meeting. Speaker 1: Well, and there's a date that it has to right? Speaker 13: I can't get the newspaper until certain date. Yep. And then once we do that, and that's probably gonna be before our August 13th, but we can certainly, I said Theresa puts it on the website as soon as we're able to advertise it. We definitely do. And get it out as much as we can. And so, and we can certainly talk about that on the August 13th visit.
You know, you guys discuss that with Kirk on your agenda items. Speaker 2: Yep. Speaker 13: You know, we can have Speaker 2: That in your Speaker 12: Picture. I, I believe We'll, we'll push both, both of them because we have, not only do we have what you guys passed today, but we'll make sure that that information gets out and then we'll get, because we'll have two seats that we'll we will need to make sure that the public knows about. Yep. And so we'll make sure that those are, those are publicly out there. Okay. Or that, so we'll make sure that those are in compliance and that they're, they're broadcast so we'll we will make sure that those are
in, are publicly noticed. Okay. Speaker 1: And, and the information as far as the resolution for the vac for the declare of a vac vacancy tonight, that will be updated on our website and Facebook page and everything so that people that are interested in district A can, Speaker 12: We will work with the communications department and make sure that's it. That's done. Speaker 2: Awesome. Speaker 1: Thank you. Strategic plan update for 25 26 school year. Can that be on the future agenda items? Absolutely. Speaker 12: Okay. Speaker 1: It is year three
of our strategic plan. Holy cow. Speaker 2: I, I dunno have it. I guess I know bringing her back to talk about, I was gonna say she might community volunteer. We know you proved all your Speaker 1: Stuff. Heather, can you be our scribe? Anything else? Speaker 2: Where Speaker 14: Are we at? Speaker 1: Any other future agenda? Speaker 14: No. Speaker 1: Okay. Meeting debrief. Who's up for the board report? Speaker 14: And if it's Brit, I'm gonna be upset. I'll Speaker 8: Look it up. Hang on. Speaker 1: Not doing that one. I did the, it was, I took Scott's when you were gone and I did the next and you did the next one. So not it. Yeah,
Speaker 14: I think it, I think it's ca Speaker 8: I think it's me, but hang on. Speaker 1: I Speaker 14: Think it's ca because she had to move some stuff around 'cause of her trip I think. Yeah. I don't remember. I think that's what happened. She we're Speaker 8: Good. We just have to find the document, Kate. Go until something else. Speaker 1: But I think also too in the, in your board update, if you also wanted to hit on the vacancy too, and with the dates of letters of interest to the board by August 4th and then public interview Speaker 14: And remind what's the name of that August 13th State Department where you have to, you have to register and make for your campaign spending. What's the name
Speaker 1: Of it? That's for, that's for the election Speaker 14: Tracer. But, but that's for the election, not for the Oh Speaker 1: Yes, Speaker 14: Not for the appointment. Sorry. Speaker 1: Right. Speaker 14: That's, that needs to be something. 'cause I had, I fumbled my way through that. What's that Speaker 1: Tracer? Yeah. Speaker 14: When that could be a little more clearer to the average person. Speaker 1: I I will say it's a government run Speaker 14: Program. Oh Speaker 1: Yes. Speaker 14: Questions on that. Speaker 1: So I was getting the emails and, and the updates and Speaker 14: Can't, can't imagine you weren't Speaker 1: Confused. Yeah. Yeah. I, that state Speaker 14: Ran thing. Speaker 1: So Yeah. I I did have questions
'cause I kept getting the emails and I was like, I'm not spending any money. I know. So I like, I I sent a question back and I was like, what do you need me to do? I'm not spending anything. He's like, then you're fine. Just don't say anything. Okay. Check. Speaker 14: Yeah. File your annual file. Your report of what? Speaker 1: On what? I didn't spend any money, anything else from meeting debrief? Speaker 14: How did we make education better tonight? We celebrated. Okay. We celebrated. Okay. You voted on a budget so that we can be solvent for 25, 26. Okay. I like that one.
Speaker 1: I go last Scott. Speaker 14: I think it's more of a business meeting than anything else. So everything we should do should tie the education. Speaker 1: I think the cybersecurity will also help with education as well as the employee use policy. Yeah. There Speaker 14: You go. Awesome. Speaker 1: Cassie Speaker 8: Staff. Yeah. I think doing business about what we do is caring for the education of the kids. Agree. Speaker 14: Yep. Speaker 1: Chance we're Speaker 8: Taking care of business. That's our theme song for tonight. Have that queued up when the meetings over Speaker 1: Please. Can we have that as our walk off song? Yes. Working on
Speaker 8: Taking care of business. Well, Speaker 14: I have a question so I don't have to think of an answer, but Speaker 1: No. Nice. No, I will hold you accountable to that, sir. Speaker 14: It doing the business of the district remaining solvent. I mean, all the things you guys said, it's just, we always have to remember to keep the kids first and foremost. And that's why we're here. It's not really, I I'm not trying to get it to serve as some sort of a Gotcha. More of a, just a grounding, more of a remember why we're here type type thing. Just they, these babies can get mundane, can get stressful,
can get an, it makes you anxious, can get, there's a whole plethora of feelings you can feel. So you just remember where the kids, I did want to say thank you Heather, Lisa, we're gonna miss you. The lessons I've learned from you guys, I'll take with me the rest of my life and I appreciate you more. You'll never know. So thank you for that. Speaker 9: My meeting debrief was gonna be that. Oh, I wasn't doing that during the board report, Speaker 14: So Speaker 9: Save it for the last, but Right. That's the last, again, I you for, you know, as a late comer
and moving into this position and the leadership, the direction, the education was all phenomenal and you brought me up to speed very well. And I appreciate that a lot. And I just love your leadership, the people you have surrounded yourself with and that we get to work with every day and in your office and in the schools and, and then ultimately the kids and where it benefits them the most. And I look forward to working with you guys as you come in and I think you can just pick up and run with what these guys have built for us. And we'll just keep on going.
So thank you all very much and all the staff that sticks around here late at night, what's this thing on? So thank you very, very much. Thank Speaker 14: You. Speaker 8: Yes. Yeah. Cassie, do you have anything else in the meeting, debrief? No, it was a good meeting. Accomplished a lot. I am the board update. Board report. Board update. Yeah. And so I'll get that done. I do notice on here this is or noted our last meeting. So our next meeting Speaker 1: Is August 13th. Speaker 11: No, you, Speaker 8: July? No, we have one in July. We've got the, Speaker 11: And typically we do that the week of case
and it's a, it's an online meeting because you'll be in Breckenridge and they'll be in a variety of places. But that's for the consent agenda for new hires. Yep. Speaker 14: Just, just a consent agenda. It's Speaker 8: Very quick. Yeah. It's just like a Zoom, but in July. Yep. And then, and then if we can get the schedule of the upcoming year meetings. I don't know when we do that. Speaker 1: I actually have that, but I haven't had an Speaker 8: Opportunity to Okay. To sit with Kirk yet. Speaker 1: Awesome. Okay. As soon as I do, that'll come out to you guys. Perfect. Speaker 8: Thank you. That was my only question, but the meeting was great. Thank you. Speaker 1: Chance? You good? Okay. Yeah. I thank you everybody.
Thank you for sticking around to you guys out there. I appreciate it. Meds. Yeah. So with that I will adjourn our regular board meeting Wednesday, June 25th, 2025 at 8:10 PM.