##VIDEO ID:-kPhCovplpU## a [Music] w right [Music] n [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] well good evening and welcome to the Board of Education work session for gy Evans school district 6 um it is we're running a little bit late actually almost an hour and a half late today that's 5:25 and the meeting will now uh come to order Miss lemon will you call the RO Force please director Sor pres director Bentley Pres director campus spitzy present director Mash present director Matthews present director Norwood present director Sullivan present all board members present thank you Miss lemon uh first on our agenda is the calendar review and Community engagement and so you have a calendar in front of you you will see that there is nothing um after today in December and so the next thing though before we get together again there is a a a school visit to Centennial on January 9th just make sure that's on your calendar for 7:30 a.m. at Centennial on January 9th and that's all we're going to look at there's some other important things on there but they don't happen until after we meet again so make sure you're looking at this calendar and uh checking off um accept or or decline invitations that are sent to you um next we have board member comments and reports and I would ask you guys I know we have a lot to report because of of casby but I'll ask you to keep those comments brief and we'll start with Miss suiv sorry oh well I have no comments I wasn't there so I'm excited to learn what you guys did all right thank you Miss Sol Dr k spitzy um so this was my third casby um it was definitely the most exciting I think cuz I got to graduate out of Finance 101 and legal compliance and go to like more interesting work sessions um the work sessions that most uh that there was a lot of um attendance and excitement around was um SK school boards across the state trying to figure out cell phone regulation and um and positive messaging behind that um I really liked one District's motto it was um less what was it more social less media um I really like that and so just to hear some success stories around cell phones was was exciting um got to attend a session with Doran and Kyle around artificial intelligence and how we can um make the most of it and um quiet some of our fears around it um and the work session we had on Wednesday we had an all day work session um that most of us were able to attend um that we we got to just reconnect as a board and and tackle some important subjects including um next year's election and as well as cell phones in our district um so had a great time it was busy um there were days that we were that at least Natalie and I scheduled ourselves from 7:30 in the morning till like 10 p.m. and so um some time for fun but mostly just kind of getting getting down to business so was great um just a couple things did get an opportunity to go to the Marine Corp for ball which I enjoy every year um we did get a chance to go to Franklin where they built speakers and I did find out that I am not smarter than an eighth grader and I did enjoy casby as well too they were Great Courses uh got a chance to go to talk to a lot of the vendors caught up with some friends and uh the last night I was there I did get a chance to catch up with one of my former students who is a chief meteorologist at one of the TV stations Mr Bentley um yeah about the same only thing outside of casby that I I got to attend was on 11:21 I um joined I haven't been all summer been slacking a little bit just with my busy schedule but Centennial bosis had their their monthly meeting um we just kind of I give an update of the district at my discretion they don't require anything from us but I was able to share with them obviously they all knew Dr P's uh superintendent of the Year award but um outside that casby was great um this is this is my fourth one so I you know knew what to expect and and they had a lot of really good U breakout sessions um the the keynote speakers were were good and and it was just really nice to kind of spend some time with everybody and and learn and and look forward to next year Mr Zori yeah in addition to what's already been reported out on the kby conference and our school visits and the Marine Court corball which was outstanding uh they now have 130 cadetes pretty impressive uh group of kids with their spre de cor and their dedication I also had the opportunity to uh attend the student wellness policy committee quarterly meeting again on November 19th and I'm always very very impressed with the folks that we have uh that help our kids our families and our staff receive support towards velopment lifelong Wellness behaviors and then finally um I also had the opportunity to attend a couple of concerts uh one with Centennial and one with maker The Choir concerts and the Folklorico dancers at uh Centennial and I think my takea away from that which I had forgotten about even as a director was how the other staff members in the school use those opportunities the concerts to connect closely with parents and I was just really neat to see and I it was a a whole school activity so that was great thank you Mr President thank you Mr bosari Vice President mes I also really enjoyed the visit to Franklin we got to be the students and the students taught us how to what they were doing in science so that was that was really fun that was a little different than any other school visit we've done um I enjoyed casby very much I always get to just relax a little bit not be quite so formal with our board which is is fun um and Dr pilch and Teresa and Michael and I got to present and um share with other districts I think we were it was very well attended um just all the ways that we have made Community Connection and how that has you know allowed our district to move forward with um our our community trusting us with their funds and then being able to do all the different things um and really highlighted how we are trying to give back to our community with our piloting the program of um paid volunteer hours for our staff so that was really fun fun to go everywhere and be like oh yeah we have a superintendent the um um and then I also got to attend the DC meeting I'm supposed to attend all of them in the first two um for whatever reason there was a conflict with um I think maybe tennis tournament or something um but we got to take a tour of the command center and that was really really fun to see and I think really great to get some parents in there as well just to see the amazing technology that we have to to keep our students safe and um so yeah congratulations on pursuing those grants and and the completion of that hopefully we don't have to use it very often but it's really great to know that we have it there and I don't have a lot to add um yes great great visit to Franklin um always has been proud so proud of that school and what they've accomplished uh over the last few years and um it's my final casby so it was a special one uh for me it was great to spend it with with you guys um very much enjoyed enjoyed those days and uh we'll treasure them and that's all I've got so U we will move on to our financial audit presentation thank you president Matthews um I am super excited that we have John Paul here again you might remember him from this time last year but he and his team have been busy working on our audit and it's all WRA up I'd also like to just take this opportunity to thank Mandy because this is really her labor of and she spend months and months and months of light on this and also the finance team um everyone has worked really hard to make this happen this year and I feel like we have a fantastic result to present to you so with that I'll bring that over to all right great thank you so again my name is John Paul Lisha with Clifton Larson Allen or CLA I'm happy to uh be able to present this year's uh financial statement and single audit uh results um you're making me all a little jealous I might be needing to get a hamburger or cheeseburger on the way home um but I'll be able to wait um so uh brief agenda and would be happy to I I'll plan to be brief on things but would H be happy to spend any more time if there's something uh that makes sense to discuss in more detail um but otherwise fortunately we'll be able to be uh pretty brief so just as a quick reminder of the scope of the audit um really what we're doing as Auditors is making sure that the annual financial statements that are uh presented are materially correct so the way that you can look at that would be that the district is the author of that I think it's over 150 Pages or so of financial data and we would be kind of the editor double-checking making sure that everything is correct the amounts are correct the disclosures are the way they need to be nothing's missing or omitted um that type of thing um that does not mean so we're not taking responsibility for the financial statements that's the district um also a couple of common misconceptions uh while we do have audit procedures that generally look for fraud or material fraud that's not something that is a emphasis or a focus as part of the um financial statements um and we are looking for making sure that the financial statements are materially correct so if um you know smaller dollar amounts we're looking to make sure that overall uh that that can be relied upon by the board to make informed financial decisions okay so in terms of the scope of the audit there's really two main components to it there's the financial statement audit which is all of the financial activity and the results um and we're pleased to be able to say that we're able to give an unmodified or informally referred to as a clean audit opinion for this year so that means after all of our audit procedures were performed um that we believe with um reasonable assurance that the financial statements are materially correct and so that's the highest level of audit report that you can receive it's also the audit report that you should be expecting to receive each year and I think I've said this before but if you weren't going to be receiving that this is not the first time that you would be hearing about it um but again pleased to be able to present uh the modified opinion and then also there's the single audit uh which would be the audit over Federal Awards um and so that is a required component um anytime a government or other entity receives U more than a million in federal funding uh they're required to go through the single audit process um so I will um give spoilers for kind of the rest of it we did not have any findings for that so very uh pleased to be able to present that as well as well um we'll go through in just a minute some of the uh very briefly on the it recommendations that we had but we're uh pleased to be able to say that we didn't have any material weaknesses or significant deficiencies those would be kind of recommendations that are considered uh more than just like a best practice recommendation that would rise above that level uh so we did not have any of those so kudos to the district it's a very very clean audit um did want to present in very very broad Strokes um what the financial data looked like um and so doing that have a couple of uh graphs in here that just show uh some Trends so over the last uh 5 years you can see that the district's uh net position um has increased from really below -200 million to uh almost 100 million um this year if you um consider why was that so significantly negative before um the reason for that um as you may remember from previous uh audit presentations or other uh governments is the district's participation in the parid defined benefit plan uh which is now as of been about 10 years now that this has been added onto the district's financial statements and so that liability is very significant um and really weighs down the rest of the uh overall Financial uh position of the district you can see over the last 5 years it's been a little bit up and down but relatively stable if you include the previous couple of years prior to this these uh all look very small because it uh ballooned for a couple of years um overall still a very significant liability that's presented so that 350 million that you uh see for fiscal year 24 um you know obviously that would even back in fiscal year 20 that would kind of over that the reason it's negative is because of that um net pension liability um also included is what's referred to as opep or other post-employment benefits perah has a health care subsidy that's included to retirees uh it's a small component of the overall um benefits that perah provides but under accounting standards that's required to be presented separately you can see this was um less than 10 million so compared to the pension liability it's you know very small but did want to point that out because otherwise it's not something that you would be seeing or generally talking about on um you know a recurring basis so just knowing that when you see that listed throughout the financial statements that's what that relates to uh so looking at the uh general fund and fund balance so those previous slides were on what we refer to as the full acral basis that includes long-term items such as the capital assets of the school district as well as the pension liabilities it includes your bonds uh things that don't need to be paid right away you wouldn't budget for them they're really those long-term items this information is all more really what you'd be budgeting for and what you have available to budget into the upcoming year and so if you look at the trend for the general fund you can see that the general fund continues to be in a strong financial position uh each year over the last uh six years and you'll see the reason I used six years in uh another slide um but you can see that that has been trending up obviously there's more to the story than um just an increase in fund balance the school district doesn't exist to make a profit it's not like a business the point is the you know quality of education and that also includes you know the upkeep of the school buildings other things that wouldn't be presented um just directly within the uh amounts in the financial the ending financials of um you know on this more budgetary basis so if we look here on the um that was just for the general funds that's the largest component of the district but there's other funds that kind of account for other various activities if we look at the total you can see there is a significant increase in fiscal year 20 which is why I included six years um and this because it's on that budgetary basis it includes the bond funding as assets of the district because you're able to spend those and you have to repay it back on a much longer term basis so that's why this makes it look like you have you know a lot of money but really that has to be pidb over that longer term period um and so if we then look at kind of taking out the building fund which is where those Bond proceeds were account for you can see um while it looks 21 drop a little bit I'm sorry to interrupt sure so if you look at the um like orange bars in there that would be the bond funding coming in and then being spent down so there was the issuance and then I believe there is the second TR the second issuance correct I got you so it goes down as you start spending it it goes back up for the other issuance and then continues to decrease and so that's why it's um getting you know a lot smaller but you can see the uh blue uh bars would be nonbond proceeds essentially and so that similar to the general fund has continued to increase over the last 6 years again showing that um strengthening at least from a dollar's and sense perspective um of the financial position of the district um any questions on again that's you know 150 pages in a couple of minutes um but any questions uh comments before we move into kind of more of the recommendations side of things is the blue then just represent the state funding that we get receive the biggest component of that would be the state funding and this is um fund balance would be your assets minus your liabilities so this is not going to include any revenues that came in during the year this is going to be tracking how much is left over at the end of the year of what was spent does that make sense TR yeah so what you I mean basically if you were running your own um you know checking and savings account this would be what's left over at the end of the year of kind of what's sitting in your account obviously there's a little bit more to the district than just a single bank account but that's kind of if you're comparing it to like a personal finance that's what it would be so it wouldn't include all the paychecks that you receed during the year it would just be here as at the end of the year how much was left in the account any other questions comments here okay um there was a new auditing standard that was effective for um this past um audit and that required us to go into a little bit more detail on um Information Technology uh looking at Disaster Recovery plans user access to systems um cyber security those types of things it's a very you know surface level review of that obviously you can go we could spend just as many hours as we spent on the audit in total on just you know a couple of those things um but that was something that we uh did look at in a little bit more detail this year because of that change in auditing standard we did have some recommendations relating to those things none of those Rose to the level uh really of even being called out specifically in here basically improvements to uh policies recommendations testing of backups things like that um so those have been discussed with District uh Personnel um and so we're just bringing it up but otherwise um nothing that really Rises to the level of uh the board's attention Okay so moving to the uh single audit again this is um over Federal Awards um the and it's at the very if you're looking for this in the financial statements it's at the very end of the file uh you you'll see that the district received about $45 million in federal Awards um as part of that we're required to test the federal government has a formula here's what we want you to look at and it rotates uh every 3 years so as part of this we were looking at the eser funding as well as the title one uh funding they provide the federal government provides here's the specific areas that we want you to check compliance for so making sure that the district is doing everything that the federal government government says all the strings attached if you will uh to that funding and so those were all the things that we were looking at and we did not have any instances where there was non-compliance or issues with the internal controls or the the structure that was being followed so um it can be very difficult to get through a single audit it's very black and white it's on a test basis so we're looking at samples so we didn't test absolutely every transaction but um it's on a statistical basis and so it can be very black and white if you you know missed something on one transaction even if it was for $6 it shows up in the single audit report um so that uh kudos to the district for having a very clean single audit again it's easy to have little things pop up during that but there was nothing that that came so um did want to yeah again kudos to the district it was an incredibly clean audit to not have any uh Financial audit findings or single audit findings um there is also a letter that uh was included with the financial statements to the board that outlines all of our required Communications so that letter goes into more detail if you look at it it's very legal Le we're required to say a bunch of things and so we do um but here's kind of the bullet points for that um there were no significant changes in accounting policies or estimates um estimates would include like that net pension liability how long the estimated uh life will be of school buildings things like that that would impact the financials um really what the district should probably be my opinion most proud of is the uncorrected and corrected misstatement section having none in there is uh signs of a very very clean audit um and so you can get to that unmodified audit report but it can be kind of a mess to get to that point and this is where that mess would be um presented but in this case no uncorrected misstatements no corrected misstatements so basically everything that we were provided was at the level that it should be and organized well so again Kudos the district for that um and then really nothing to comment on with the other um communication uh should be maybe pointed out that the uh financial statements do include the charter schools that are part of uh the district obviously those have separate boards separate um you know management structures from the rest of the district but they do roll up into the district so if you're looking you will see their uh financial information also included and again just wanted to last time give shout out to the the staff um everything that we asked for was provided uh very promptly and with you know the level of accuracy requested so I really appreciate um everything that Megan and Mandy did uh to make the audit process smooth for this year so that's everything that I have any questions comments or discussion items any questions guys I know it's pretty straightforward and I think everybody now has has seen this at least twice and and so um yeah we're always always thrilled to get a clean clean audit and very thankful for the for the financial team that we have and so like you said we do we expect it cuz we know they're fantastic and we've had it every year so yeah right I know it's easy to hear the same thing but this is not how all of the audit presentations go so you might have heard it a couple times but yeah it's um yeah very yeah very good work so thank you all thank John PA for for coming over to gy absolutely thank you m work Megan thank you you next I'm on our agenda is our cell phone test Force up in discussion so not sure who's coming looks like mrar sorry can we just have a moment think we just had a moment they had a so you had an update um a month ago already um from from Anthony and Kim Silva um about the progress on the cell phone uh work that we've done this semester we have a little bit more update for you tonight and then I want to visit a little bit about recommendations that we would we admin we would put in place to uh recommend to you all um and then I know you all probably want to share a little bit more about what you learned at casby and um I think to close out I do want to get a sense of what is it that you all would be looking forward to know that progress is being made that that what is the outcome that would show our cell phone practices are working and and are getting the results um that we'd be hoping for so with that I'll let Mr ASA start and then I'll jump in thank you very much um thank you for the chance just to work with you again and sounds like you did have some great conversation down at casby I'm I'm sorry that I missed that and I'm anxious to hear um excited to hear about what you are coming up with as a result of that and so just um just a reminder where we've been and so we know cell phones have been increasing um conversation topic across the country and so that that prompted us to dive into our own policy and then specifically in our own policy down here where it says um that cell phones or PT that our personal technology devices must be regulated and so that was our language that we landed on and so we created practice in response to that policy whereas our um K through a schools our our um our practice was that cell phones are not permitted during the day we do use cell phones before school allow kids to come um to school like so before school after school they can use cell phones but they're just not in practice during throughout the course of the day and that's k through eight and their high schools um cell phones are not permitted during class so not not to be out um to interfere with instructional time during class they can be used before school after school um at lunch and off blocks and then also approved exceptions is where we left this and only because when we listen to our parents and our students and our admin um prior to the school year that um for medical reasons you might have a student that uses the phone um which is sometimes found in a 504 and then also we as you know we have a lot of students that use phones for translation purposes using their cell phone to download an app to help with translation we do have a number of students especially um that are non-english-speaking students who are finding a use for cell phones and so those are the approved exceptions that you might see in a class um with this practice we were looking to reduce significantly reduce the use of devices in the classroom um for both student engagement and for well-being and um inside of this looking for just some consistent practice um with this and then also a an a very strong uh K12 implementation so this is something different than we've ever had in our district and so um to move and to move a whole system a K12 system with 23,000 students or Le 18,000 students in this situation and then um with our key um our key goal to protect instructural time and reduce the Reliance of cell phones or use of cell phones in the classroom so we met with our cell phone Task Force again this week for mid-year update um our cell phone Task Force made the following recommendations that we enforce existing existing policies and procedures um Implement more consistently they we did have money conversation they said don't spend money on cell phones we have other needs specifically around Paras um and and IEPs and so some of those uses increase education to parents and students on proper phone use they did they do like that thought of of reaching out to the community um for both our students in school and then out of school with our parents and then support Progressive consequences such as Pou pouches for habitual users um many of the parents that were on our Comm were not in favor of suspensions um unless you really get unless you have those habitual users met with the administration after break um had a great conversation with them and their recommendation was to enforce existing policies and procedures be more consistent um include taking devices um I know working with our legal team that's a little that's a little fuzzy like when do we do that so we would need some training some additional training on when to use it what language to use and and what that looks like inside of this support Progressive consequences such as pouches or lockers for habitual users and then and also work with Community leaders on um and health providers for on a CommunityWide campaign so what so what are the side effects of cell phones and and being able to work with our community to be able to understand the LI behind all of this and then increase again education to our parents and our students so um you've seen some of this in a previous work session but um I wanted just to Circle back to what we estimate as cost um we did get a cost on a possible translation device so if we were to say no we're not going to have phones out at all for translation devices um the cost for the device that would probably be most favorable for for what students were using it for would be around $1,200 uh we we estimate that would be about $840,000 to meet the needs of about 700 students um that are identified as those students who are at some time or another are getting access access to a translation device uh the C costs on the pouches are about $30 um if we were to do a secured Locker per classroom it's about 3,000 the locker that gets very expensive there's about 300 classrooms in the district so you're you know we're upwards of a million dollars there um The High School principles at this time really feel like they as I've shared with You' all before that they would need additional campus monitors um to to manage the pouches or to manage the lockers um or some way of securing the phone the cost of a single campus monitor is about 52,000 now as we learned at Don at casby the districts that did go to the to some sort of securing of cell phones did not add additional staff to manage that I don't I don't know if any of those high schools are the same size as our high schools I know the high schools that were on the panel from Aspen and Summit that many of us heard those high schools are significantly smaller than our high schools but um I think that's something we could look at we could certainly look to visit possibly d11 um and see how that is working with the pouches and you know how how are they managing that physically um because I think initially our our principles and assistant principles were just very worried about the burden on either teachers or or on administrative staff to manage the Locking and unlocking of the pouches we do did bring the patches up to show you all if you'd like to see those tonight um so you can see this this is just the cost of the the pouches and the campus monitors this does not include the cost of the translation devices um or lockers this is if we went with pouches and then we went with additional security monitors um to support them um so I I had indicated um that what would be helpful I think most helpful to to staff and me tonight um and in the coming weeks would be for us to know what data can we collect and can we put together that will indicate we're having success or not and and what are the outcomes that you all will need to see to know you know that what we're currently doing um is working or is not working and so we we want we want to look to that um I do think if you go back a few slides around the admin recommendation what we've learned is very few phones have been taken away actually from the student um and that um very few times have parents had to come get the phones that often times the phone is taken and then the student is given the phone back at the end of the day whereas our agreement was phones if phones you know phones would be taken and parents would be called to come pick them up so uh we'll be meeting with principls our High School principles on Monday to talk about you know what are the barriers that they're facing that's causing them to not be able to fully Implement what was agreed to in the fall um they would say that this is the best that they've seen cell phone like the lack of cell phones in the classroom however they do know that some of the consequences that we that we had said they just did not go to that level yeah so you know what's what is in their way of doing that what you know and and we know part of what's in their way is that you know they're very focused on academic achievement and our our Stu student failure rate and I've mentioned to you all attendance and and chronic absenteeism as a worry and and student safety and so I what I am hoping to work with High School principles on is so what what is it that we can do um or our Board of Education can do to better support you to to have this right to the top of your list and feel like you can get it done at you know closer to the top of the list so um what we plan to do next is identify that's what I was just talking about identify and address those barriers that have been um the barriers that are getting in the way of a consistent implementation we'll continue to listen sessions we do plan to contract with melan survey uh melan something melan what Teresa strategies strategies uh to do a a community survey next early next semester um not just about cell phones but about lots of things like how do you know how do you think the performance of the district is compared to previous years but lot you know really to get a sense of where our community is in relationship to the district so we will include some of those cell phone questions in that survey um we'll continue to analyze the practices and the research um not not just in Colorado but Across the Nation also lots of districts are moving in a more restrictive Direction I mean probably every week Boards of educations are making those decisions throughout the country and so we want to watch that and and talk with our colleagues to learn more about that as Anthony mentioned earlier working with Community leaders and parents on a campaign to reduce use of devices I think this is super important um and and what we're learning is there have been some very effective campaigns in some communities where the whole Community is getting around this with Billboards and um ads and and mailings and other things so uh we we will explore that second semester um and I think the final thing that we can do is consider moving what's been practice um into actually actual Board of Education policy so if if practice is um the first time you're told to put your phone away the second time you're given a detention for having the phone out the third time you're given two detentions for having the phone out uh in the fourth time the phone is taken and parents have to come pick up the phone whatever we just whatever those practices are at the building level we could put those into board policy and um I think some of you saw that that's what um district 51 has done down in Mesa um so that's I mean that's a possibility to to follow um Mesa in that way of putting it into board policy so we'll more to come on that now I think that's now I will leave it to you to ask questions or make comments or share or go ahead Miss suvan um I see that we have admins and community members and parents but um I'm not seeing where we've involved the teachers in the discussion and teachers teachers are too and teachers and sorry last spring we had teachers I may not have said that but teachers Adan teachers students and parents what are the teachers and it's been a topic at my teachers advisory Council now twice um teachers feel like it's a lot better than it has been and at the last teachers advisory Council what they said was we we just need to be consistent we just need to be consistent and um we need to see why people are strugg and they all agree it's classroom management and people who struggle with classroom management struggle with implementing this policy um or implementing these practices but um and then I think pretty resoundingly across teachers is don't spend money on this because we have so many needs and but as I told them um it's all about priorities I mean there's money you just had an audit report there is money there just isn't money to do everything so what are those highest priority High leverage strategies we want to spend money on is one of my U takeaways from casby if going to the conference is to have sort of some sort of relevance uh it was interesting to hear Aspen I know it's a significantly different district from ours but um the the takeaway from me was when they said and they're pretty emphatic that there was not a push back from their parents or from their kids when they banned cell phones for the day uh it's been an extreme they said quote it's been an extremely positive experience even the students say it's been a good thing so just something uh how was a takeaway from that session which surprised me yeah being in the schools as long as I have been so I don't know I think when we started this work and not to interrupt you but when we started this work this was where the majority of the schools were going last spring and then since then we've heard other schools going different directions so it's just interesting to see where everyone's going with this I have a question to ask but don't I guess I do but don't some people have diabetic monitors that they have to scan with their phones yeah that'd be one of the exceptions we talked about where they would just need to keep their phone close it was it was brought up a couple times that people were asking if there was anything on the state level and they and Matt Matt Cook is his name right casby uh lobbyist he said that not at this time but I think with as much talk as it's getting I don't think it's very long before we see something on a state level anyways so yeah some other folks said that they had heard there was talk so yeah as far as districts in Colorado to look at um besides Aspen and Summit and 51 and 11 Jeff Co they said some of their schools had Yonder pouches um so they were letting it be more sight based but it does sound like some some large high schools in Jeff Co are also doing that and as far as metrics um I think that's a really hard question um because some you know it's a question of of trusting the metrics um so I know Jeff C the metrics they're following in Infinite Campus they were tracking cell phone infractions and tracking time spent on the management of this practice of of the restrictor cell phone regulations um I would think teachers would be the most reliable source um obviously the teachers who are the ones having trouble implementing the policy might not self-report accurately um but I would hope that we could get if all teachers were being surveyed we could get a more clear picture I I wouldn't necessarily trust student feedback because I think across the board uh students do not want us to take while they they will acknowledge that uh social media is bad for them um they're addicted to the their cell phones and they don't want us to take them away um but yeah for for how to figure out you know whether we're getting the results we want it is a tricky question and then I love the idea of making it a bigger Public Health campaign um Colorado district 51 um is doing that and and like dearra mentioned have uh Billboards in town um encouraging parents to wait till 16 or um commit to or commit to 16 wait till 8th campaigns like that and even for uh younger kids telling parents to stop scrolling and play with your kid you know um so I I could I I I have a public health degree so that makes me really excited to make this a cultural change not just in our schools but in our community any other questions or comments I was really encouraged casby Anthony just how um how possible it it seemed and trust you guys to to figure out the best way to to make it happen but I think that would be something I would want to communicate to our our administrators I think sometimes we feel like oh no this is never this this is we're swimming so so much against the current it'll it'll it'll never really happen and uh we heard from people saying yeah it's happening you know it it can be done and so have a lot of faith that you guys can continue to build on the success we've made this semester into this next semester and into the next year so any other questions all right thank you thank you and we're we're debriefing the work session and we're not we're not far off time we uh so let's let's do that quickly and we'll we'll be on to our business meeting start this way Mr aari thanks again Anthony for your work on this in the cell phone Task Force it's great and thanks again to Megan and Mandy I'm going to use the the words uh it's great that we have an unmodified opinion of our a it with no material weaknesses so that's awesome there you go yeah um kind of kind of same thing um one thing I want to add to to the financial department is we hear Praises from basically every employee that we run into in the district of how great the financial department is so just so just so you guys know your your co-workers are saying good things about you behind your backs also uh um thanks Anthony uh this is uh somehow become a you know in a relatively short time a hot button topic and and not on our level Statewide or Countrywide so um thank you guys for looking into this and and and know that it holds a great deal of importance to to a lot of us on the board so we're we're excited to to work forward with you guys on this Mr no with don't have a lot to add but thanks to you know Megan and Andy for all the financial work doing a great job there and it's not easy cell phones technology taking over the world but thank you for the work you guys are doing as well Dr Kos spitsy um also not a lot to add except uh I've been on the board this is coming into my third year and I've gotten used to the clean Audits and so I think it was really nice um for him to point out that that is not always the case that this is not the norm we are out of the norm and um your team is we we have your team to thank for that um and then Anthony um thank you for continuing to work on this um one of the phrases that came out of our work session on Wednesday was that we want to be on the right side of history on this and um and the encouragement uh from other districts that it can happen and even a superintendent who was a little bit against it said it was fantastic for students so um yeah just encouraging us to keep moving forward with that um yeah thank you for not not never having any surprises in our audits um you guys do a fantastic job but so his presentation is always short sweet boring but exciting at the same time because we have no issues and I am looking board to see in the direction that uh we end up going so um just hearing the feedback of how many districts we're on board with um the no cell phone compliance issues I'm I'm really liking this so thank you for um pursuing and keeping uh keeping us moving forward I every what I'm saying um congratulations on another clean audit and I was just thinking about how um having a strong financial team really helps to build the trust with our community um so we I don't get a lot of comments about what's the district doing with my taxpayer dollars but it's wonderful to always be able to say that we are award-winning that we have clean audit every year so well done on that and yeah thank you for the continued work on cell phone policy and just kind of see see what we can figure out um not much to add guys again thank you thank you for both for for your work Mandy she so she she's gone uh so um thank you both um for your work and uh congratulations and Megan and so but that's all we got and the work session is adjourned it's 6 [Music] e e e for