--------- Good afternoon. Good afternoon. Welcome to the work session for the Board of Education of Greeley Evans School District six. This meeting will now come to order. Miss Lemon, will you please call the roll? Director Azari? Present. Director Bentley? Present. Director Campos Spitzi? Present. Director Edmonds? Present. Director Lemos Garcia? Present. Director Mash? Present. Director Rogge? Present. All board members present. The first item on our agenda is our calendar review. And we have just a few things before all of the graduations. Frontier House breakfast this Wednesday.
Mhmm. And then, yes, hopefully, you have all RSVP'd for the to the graduations that you are able to attend. And then I will highlight on June 8 a retirement celebration for mister West Tuttle. And we will all be excited to wish you the best in the next phase of your life. We also did reschedule the retirement celebration for the rest of our staff retiring, which I don't see that much for you. Thursday evening. Yeah. So 05:14 Mhmm. But it's not here. Time is that again?
05:00. At 05:00 at the UNC Ballroom? Correct. Yep. We received it in our email. I will also share that there's another so this is a retirement open house for mister Tuttle that we will share district wide. There will be another retirement event and leaving event for mister Tuttle, chief of communications, miss Myers, and in house legal counsel Nate fall on June 10. After work, we're still determining the location. And that will be more for friends and family of those three and our district
leadership team, but they can come to either one. Okay. Let's see. Anyone else have anything to add or any further discussion? President, may I mention for graduations? I have your regalia here tonight. Okay. And so if you'll just, take that home. It's hanging outside of Astra here. And if you have any questions or think anything's the same, please let me know. Mhmm. And if you haven't worn it before, the sash, sometimes we help each other with that. So I'll dress you too. If you need help when you get there, we'll get you dressed. Yeah. Done for free. Don't you worry about it. Trying to wrap something with cling wrap at the house.
Folding your fitted bed sheet. Down and sideways. So we'll make sure we all got that going the right direction. Alright. And then we will proceed to our board member comments. Let's begin today with director Lemos Garcia. I'm just pulling your name. Alright. Yeah. Perfect. So I, was able to attend the early college, visit on April 28. So, I think there was a good group over there visiting. Had a tour of the school, went into some classrooms. Students were so excited, so proud.
It was great to attend that visit. And then the other, event that I attended is was the rising artist project. That was this past Saturday. I had no idea that that program even existed and how it, how we collaborate with how it collaborates with district six. So it was just such an amazing opportunity to see that and be there as well. So those are the two things that I did this last couple weeks. Awesome. Thank you for sharing. Director Azari. Okay. Well, it's been a really busy couple of weeks for me. I've attended a lot of things.
So I'll try to make this report as short as possible. I also attended the Early College Academy, and, the students did a great job including, Sarah, the student who sits with us at the school board business meeting. I also attended the Greeley Central High School Arts Magnet Gala. They celebrated their twentieth anniversary. And a shout out to all the staff and students at the castle for putting on a terrific show. I also attended two elementary school events. First was Billy Martinez's Dia de Los Ninos. That was an exceptional event as well.
Should I say an entire day of events at that school? I attended the cultural assembly where the music and the dancing blew me away. To say it was powerful would be an understatement. That was very powerful. I also visited their creation of a tree in their building on which the students hung papers, which they had written down their wishes and hopes for the future. In most cases, those wishes were celebratory and expressed thanks for all sorts of things like their mom's. Happy Mother's Day. But in some cases, those wishes addressed the students' fears and their hopes for a
brighter future for themselves and their families. So it was very touching. I then attended Meeker's Leadership Discovery Night. Again, a big thank you to our community partners who were there, including the Girl Scouts, Smile Doctors, and Nutrition Services for the Smoothie Bike and the High Plains Library Desk Direct, and we had many sponsors, that donated prizes for the students. And then on May 4, I attended the visit to Scott Elementary School. I appreciated the candid discussion there regarding instruction, the culture, and their celebrations, including their
growth in k 12 k two literacy even though they've had quite a bit of staff turnover. And they're thinking through next steps toward making Scott a community school, which is really great. And that same day, I also attended the student wellness policy committee meeting as the board representative to that group and once again, I was impressed by the content and timely flow of that meeting. They've run a very efficient meeting. The student wellness policy folks are working on the triennial review, which is a requirement
of the USDA. And towards that end, they're determining how well our wellness policy compares to a, quote, model wellness policy. Suffice to say, from what I have observed, our district is a model standard, and that has come through careful analysis and ongoing improvements in how we do things in this district regarding student wellness. And then finally, like Dina Lemos, Garcia attended the Rising Artist Project, which is a collaboration between the Colorado Dance Collective and our GT staff towards providing extended opportunities in
dance to students identified as GT. And I was honored to be asked to speak at that event thanks to our superintendent. In that speech, I spoke about our growing GT program, which has added 65 new talent area identifications at Super, and how we include annual workshops, field experiences, and mentorships in collaboration with many people and organizations throughout our community to give our students opportunities to grow. And I also thanked our community. There were a lot of people there, and the Colorado Dance Collective.
Wendy Sosa is their director. I thank them on behalf of the district for being such great partners, which they are. So that's all I have. That's all? That's it. Thank you, president Nesbitt. You're often busy. Yeah. Right. Sure. Let me go back to you, director Ruggie. Well, as some of our other board members did, I attended the ECA on the twenty eighth and that was it's always really fun to hear from the students and their perspective on their schools. And, I enjoyed their presentations and kind of the reasons they've chosen Early College Academy
and, where how that they felt that put them, in position for continuing their adult life. So that was, just really enjoyed those students. And then I also, attended Scott Elementary, and it was very, interesting to hear about, you know, kind of their their steps forward and, what they're trying to accomplish in their school and, felt like there was a great effort there and a great determination to move forward.
And we, again, got to visit with some of the students and, hear what, some of those kids as fifth graders were hoping for, coming up and where they did decided to go and why. And, so, yeah, that was a a wonderful experience. Director Edmunds. Thank you, president Masch. Just a couple of things. One, I I missed I forget which school visit it was because I was on a webinar, that was hosted by No Kid Hungry. I was talking specifically about school breakfast programs, research done by Juliana Cohen.
And it was just great, informative presentation talking about the importance and benefits of breakfast programs in schools, and evidence shows that kids who eat breakfast at school have improved diet nutrition as well as improved attendance and academic performance. So I'm grateful for, the voters for allowing free school meals for our kids. We're two weeks out from summer break where those meals become inaccessible. And so organizations like the food bank and community groups and church pantries and everyone
steps up to make sure our kids are fed. But I'm grateful that when they're in school, they get a wonderful breakfast, especially ones, here in District six. And Danielle Bach and her team, as we got to see a couple weeks ago, just the the love and care that they put into that, and just how, how wonderful our nutrition program is. It's great to hear about Scott wanting to become a community school. I think that that's, a a wonderful step forward in just understanding how we as a district don't just serve the students, but we serve that community, especially in communities
like Scott. And you see that at, in k Hyman. You see that at at, Martinez and all the schools. Schools. So, it's very encouraging to see that that plan is moving forward. And then lastly, I went to TSoil Museum Night on Friday, which is always really fun. The theme, this this go around, they do three museum nights a a school year, and this this time, it was on the future. And so talked about this before. They allow the kids to take the idea of future and research whatever they want.
So I saw a presentation on rockets, especially with Artemis two. I think we've got a lot of those kids really excited about that. I saw stuff on AI and AI art and, you know, ethical use of AI. Some kids use water filtration. So just thinking in a state of like ours, it's even though no one's seems to officially set it yet, feels feels like we're heading towards a drought. And so it's allowing the kids to really think about that future focus because this is our future. So, these kids are really thinking forward, but I think my favorite part of the night is you when you walk in, there was a self portrait gallery that every
person in the school did one, including, the collaborators and the the school administrators. And so they did a self portrait of what they how they saw themselves in the future. Some kids did football players, doctors, firefighters, you know, all those things. But I think the general consensus that I noticed in all the pictures was there was just smiles on their faces. So we do have kids, director Azari shared the tree, that he saw and that generally there's hope. And I I saw that in the self self portraits that our kids really do
have a hope for the future and seeing themselves that they see themselves happy. And so, again, just brought comfort to me to know that these kiddos, as much as we we get to see the news feed, we we get to see the effects of when you don't actually read the news all the time, that you can actually paint a half me self portrait. But, I encourage board members next school year to check out Museum Night if you haven't, because it's really very interesting time and you can learn a lot of different stuff. Thank you. Doctor Campos Petzi? Yeah. So I was fortunate enough to have time off to, go to the Early College
Academy and the Scott Elementary School visits. ECA, always impressive. They have room to grow, which they call them well, we call them the best kept secret in District 6. Right? Like, a free college prep school where you can learn Russian, German, Spanish. I forget how many languages they said they had access to. But they don't wanna be the best kept secret in District 6 and in Greeley and Evans. So, you know, if you know people out there who have a kiddo, Sarah Venegas did a pitch on, I think, doctor Pilch asked her, who is the right student
to come to ECA? And she said, anybody. Anybody can succeed in ECA, and, and they they're doing amazing. That very next weekend after our ECA visit, I was on the soccer fields because of my kids, and there was these two so the the team my kindergartener was playing against had these really young coaches. And I was like, are those, like, college it's usually like a dad that, you know, like my husband. He's a volunteer coach. But it was these two young guys. And so afterwards, I was like, are you guys in college?
Are you in high school? Like, you're coaching kindergartners. And they're both ECA students. And so it made me so happy. Was one of them who actually played soccer for Greeley Central High School. They're both going to four year universities. One of them wants to be an architect. The other one's going into accounting, but just made my day for, you you know, them coaching these little guys out there. Scott, yes. Amazing school. Scott Stars. I love just wanna echo, director Edmonds that they're becoming a community school. I think that's such a good fit for that school. So looking forward to what they achieve.
Let's see. Other highlights, UNC had their graduation ceremonies this last weekend, and so I attended Saturday's commencements. There were three student speakers in the commencements that I attended. Two of them were Greeley Evan students, and they were so good. They were definitely the two best. One of them, Kira Villarell, did k through eight at university, but then transferred over to Northridge, and she played girls soccer, for the Northridge Grizzlies, and will be going
to see you and shoot. She wants to be a physician and a PhD, and, and she's gonna shadow me in clinic in a couple weeks. So I'm excited to have her, and then Jasmine. I didn't get to talk to her after the ceremony, so I don't know which school she went through, but her speech was just phenomenal and made me so proud, that they're d six grads. I got to go to Meeker Discover Leadership Discovery Night because my kids go to Meeker. It was so cool. Probably two highlights. They did an egg drop. And so, so they, you know, you would go into this room.
They'd give you things like pipe cleaners and paper and tape and bags and balloons, and you had to come up with contraptions that you thought would protect an egg as they threw it off the roof of the school. And ours, I am not an engineer. It it broke right away. My kids were so hopeful. And then my second favorite thing at the Discovery Night was, SNAG. So it stands for starting new at golf, and so it's part of the Michael Rae Lee Foundation. So Michael Ray Lee, was a Greeley Central High School graduate, who was also an
avid golfer, went and got an engineering degree from the Colorado School of Mines, and then passed away at at the early age of 28 years old from complications related to COVID nineteen. And so his family has built this, legacy and this foundation, to teach kids how to, play golf and to make it accessible to all kids of all incomes. So Michael Raley's mom was at Meeker with all the golf clubs, teaching all these little kids on how to play golf, on this little field, and it was beautiful.
I just thought what a way to honor honor her son that way. Let's see. Because I did have a UNC board meeting last week. We talked about enrollment for the coming year and what those numbers are looking like. Weld County, so which is Greeley Evans. I mean, we're the main contributor continue to be the the largest enrollment of all the counties in the state into UNC. So I was really proud to see that number continue to grow, and it was credited to our direct admissions process that we're working on. They also mentioned that in 2025, they expanded, the eligibility zone to allow students to
not, have to live in the dorms their freshman year. So right now at UNC, if you don't live in the eligibility zone, you mandatory have to live in the dorms, have to live in the dorms, freshman year, but we have expanded it. So all of Greeley Evans district six, if you're a student here and wanna go to UNC, you can live at home and don't have to live in the dorms. So I thought those were some highlights. Let's see. Last Friday night, I got to go to Chapelo's Ballet Folklorico. I'm friends with their dance instructor, and so, it was beautiful. I think Kim Desmond came and took some pictures.
They they just did such a phenomenal job. It I brought my mother-in-law who is visiting us from Mexico, and she lives in Mazatlan, which is in the state of Sinaloa. And the way they did the dances, they split them up in grades. So it was, like, kindergarten to to second grade and then third to fifth and then sixth through eighth, but they also split it up according to regions of Mexico. And so, the kids would come and read in English and Spanish, like, the the region they were representing and what their costumes were or their dresses were like and why, and and then they would do the dance.
And so got a shout out. They had a whole dance, and it was all carnival. So, like, Mardi Gras in Mexico is called Carnaval. It's in February, and it is a it's just a spectacle. And it was so well done by the students. My, mother-in-law was thrilled. So kudos to Chapalo and their staff. It the the audience, it was full, and they were way into the performance. I mean, people were clapping and and, shouting out encouragement to the dancers. Let's see.
I guess, last thing, I'm like, I scribbled notes, and I can't read them. This last week, there's a semi professional soccer league that is starting in Greeley, and they had their pre preseason inaugural match. It was done at UNC at one of the stadiums out there. But one of our Greeley Central seniors was playing, and I didn't even realize it. I just kept looking at this kid, and I was like, he looks so familiar, while I was watching the game. And then at the end, I asked, Luis Gutierrez who's leading this. I was like, is that a Johnny Alcantara?
And he's like, yeah. I was like, oh my god. I lost her. So how cool. One of our Wildcats playing semi professional soccer right here in Greeley, and I think that's it. Director Belli. There's nothing left to say. I, I only attended the ECA tour with everybody else. It was a great tour. They always do a great job. Very impressive bunch of kids. So, other than that, I've just been busy with with my personal life and work. So excited for graduation season, though. It's always a lot of fun. And if I learned anything last year that I can share with you guys is
to put some sunscreen on your head. Bring sunglasses, sweetie. We got this spray on. Yeah. We're waiting. We're hoping Amy brings us some other ones. So we had some orange ones for us last year. Yeah. We've got Greeley Central sunglasses before. Well, I enjoyed attending this the visit to Scott as well, and, I the the highlight of all of our school visits is when we get to speak with the students, and their fifth graders were just fantastic. I especially thought one little boy repeated each question every time we asked him a question. Well, what I wanna do when I am done with school is and I was
like, as adults, we're constantly asking people to do that. So Mhmm. I don't know. They were all very well spoken. They knew exactly what they were gonna do, and it was a wide variety. And so very excited for those students. The other unique thing that I got to do, Franklin Middle School is my ambassador school, and they had a disaster day. So they partnered with the Red Cross, UCHealth, and the Greeley Fire Department. And first, they had their students create a video of, like, a news report that this big flood was coming. And then they set up their their gym was as a shelter if people had
had to be evacuated and what would that look like? And the Red Cross gave them supplies and bags, and then they went out and they got to go in the water rescue truck from the fire department and learn about fast water rescue and standing water rescue. And they all got to, like, toss a rope as how they would help somebody floating down the street, you know, in a flood. They had, a bounce castle that was an obstacle course, and, of course, that was super fun for them to just get some wiggles out, but they had these giant stuffed animals that they had to try to rescue.
So it was a really cool event, and, doctor Lester would like to recreate it next year and maybe, you know, invite other middle schools as well. And then then just because doctor Lester is amazing, she she cooked Greek food for all of the volunteers, and I got to taste her homemade, family recipe gyros, and it was pretty fabulous. So I was very impressed with the event and, lucky that I got to eat some yummy food as well.
So alright. We will move on to discuss some policy updates. The Nathan fall hour. Mister fall. Glad you're feeling better. Thank you. Is this That's right. Thank you. Good afternoon, president Mash, members of the board, doctor Pilch. My name is Nathan, legal counsel for the school district. We thought it might be helpful to walk you through the policy changes that we're proposing to the board just to lead to some more discussion. Discussion. You might have some questions around some of the policies, so hopefully, we can use this time to talk through that. I just wanna let you know that this isn't a time to talk about positions
and to say if you're gonna vote yes or no against something. So just to keep that in mind. This is just kind of an info session, but definitely willing and, open to your questions and feedback here. So in front of you tonight, there's gonna be four policies that we're, gonna be talking about. The first one is the student dress code policy. So at the last meeting, we had a pretty robust conversation around the student dress code. And so after kinda hearing your feedback about what to do, we went back to the drawing board, and and we provided two separate versions.
So, tonight in front of the board, you'll have two different versions of JICA. It would be my advice to make a motion on one or the other. So I I moved to pass version two of the policy. Does that make sense? So version one is the committee's recommendation. So this is all the work that chief Corliss did, over the year with, the committee to look at the dress code. It's just that same policy, but then it's been updated now with the board of education comments. So, there was the grammatical error on the sunglasses or dark glasses.
I take ownership of that. It's my job and responsibility to draft policy, and I didn't do my job. And so that has been fixed to say sunglasses or dark glasses worn inside the building during school hours unless required as part of a class or activity. And there's a little bit of confusion because hats, hair nets, hoods, and other hair recoverings had that similar language. So that's been adjusted to be consistent. I wasn't sure if there are other errors throughout the documents. That was kind of one of the main areas that we did adjust.
Made some other adjustments with your comments. We moved the exceptions all the way up. So it'll say, this is the expected dress code standard. These are the exceptions. This is when you can wear something else, and then it goes into what students may not wear. We did kinda add some language. There was some confusion around the shoulders. So just straps over the shoulders is the expectation. It doesn't have to be any particular size. And sorry. I should have known some other things. Oh, there was another comment about we had a professionalism, kind of a sentence around
an expectation that students are preparing themselves for a professional future, and we got some some feedback from the board that that wasn't language that you would prefer to have in the dress code. So we removed that language and then just kind of made some other red line formatting so it reads a lot better than it did previously. So, again, I I take ownership for, how these policies are presented to you, and and certainly, I think the last version wasn't, a proper version. So, do you have any questions on kind of what we've done or any other
kinda concerns about this policy? It does seem to flow, but, like, as I was reading through it, it seemed like it better flow with this updated version. Okay. We I was gonna propose a third and fourth version to you all, and, I I was talked down to just provide a few. And so we I did have another example that, kind of flowed the same way, but we had stripped out the graduation adornments and the gang related behavior and moved them to another policy. That would have just required then you to adopt three other policy revisions, and then
make adjustments over the years if we're gonna be making adjustments to those policies. So you'd have to be making adjustments to multiple policies, and it just seemed like it'd be a lot. It made more sense to contain everything in one. So does the gang related sit somewhere else too, or this is the only document that gang related sits in? So we have a a secret society's gang policy. Yeah. It's on JFCA or something like that. And so that that addresses just secret societies and gangs, and that it's prohibited in
the district. And it doesn't speak about dress code specifically. That was my curiosity. So the second version that's gonna go in front of you is a simplified version. And, essentially, if you look at the red lines and you look at what the policy is now, essentially, it's just the preamble. And it just says, we as a board wanna have a minimum standard of dress. We don't want clothes that are disruptive. Schools, you may adopt uniforms if you choose to. And that's very specific to what the the Safe Schools Act requires boards to do is adopt adopt a board policy that has minimum standard address and prohibits disruptive clothing
and allows for a uniform. So that's what that second version does. And then everything that goes under that preamble would move to a regulation. Meaning that then district administration would be responsible for making revisions to the dress code, but there would be no board oversight for those kind of specifics that are currently in the board policy. Per school? Well, it would be we would have a district wide regulation, which would just mirror the current dress code policy. But it would be it would be something that the district administration would have the flexibility to make revisions without bringing it in front of you all.
So there would be no you it would strip all oversight from the board and go to district administration. So as a reminder, regulation lives within in our policy documents, but those are administrative. They're not board approved unless state law has required that that regulation go before the board of education. So what the second one is proposing is that we shorten that policy, keep all of the specifics about dress code over in regulation, which would allow administration to make changes in a timely manner over time if needed.
Would would that be similar to the cell phone policy? Mhmm. Mhmm. So the regulation is what happens on the ground day to day Right. Which you guys can change as necessary. Mhmm. Correct. But there's an overarching policy. Policy. Correct. So but my understanding was is that with the first one, the attempt was to get basically all administrators on the same page with what they were so that the district was district wide wide and what the expectations were dress code. Mhmm. And this one doesn't do that as much?
Yeah. That's it. I'm sorry. I'm I'm not being very clear here. So this this no. I'm not I'm not so this would be, we would create a regulation, and you can see language in here. It says, the board directs the superintendent to develop and implement a comprehensive dress code policy through the company regulation for all district six students and or district students in accordance with law. And so the way our board policy manual works is the board has policy that it adopts, and then it also directs the superintendent or whatever department to develop regulations
to meet kind of the board's needs. And in this case, the board would be directing the superintendent consistent wide regulation of students. Which at this time would be the language that's in the first proposed, policy. I I that would be the language I would recommend we put into the regulation. Okay. So that That was there would still be the ability to work with building level administrators to to really work to get consistency across the district in the implementation of
that. Okay. That was my question. Thanks. Yeah. And, ultimately, the goal of the revisions to even begin with, if we just go back to September whenever chief Corliss started all this work. I mean, it was really for consistency across the district was ultimately the goal. So I think we're still meeting kind of the goal for consistency. But just know that there are, I think, four buildings that do have dress codes, like uniforms. And so and that's perfectly fine. It's perfectly fine with the policy, with the laws, it's currently written, and it'll be fine moving forward, either way you go. So but that would that's a more restrictive dress code than what the regulation is.
So I think as long as it's more restrictive than the dress code, then it's okay. It's if you're trying to kind of create some flexibility outside of the regulation, then it probably wouldn't work. Okay. So from an administrative perspective, doctor Pilch and chief Corless, what's better for you guys? Well, so we and this is why we brought you two. The first one, I think, does what the committee recommended. And so we wanna honor their work and their recommendation. And I think that both chief Corliss and I would recommend the shorter second policy.
Where'd he go? He's over there. Yes. Right. He's always by the He and I spoke today, and have spoken over the weeks, and I think we both would be supportive of the shorter policy allowing, you know, regulation to be where the the really the meat of the practice is. And as you, in the future, make changes, you'll still do it with the same process that you've you've done. Mhmm. So that's so be committees and teachers and principals and whatnot. Yes. It just wouldn't be us having to talk about shoulder strap length and all that stuff. Correct. The the benefit if you wanna go towards I think benefit from where the way
I look at it would be as if there is something that we see as a minor change that may need to be in the in the gain category, that we can end it and make that change, and that the whole policy doesn't have to go before the board again would be would be an advantage in in that in that scenario. Or if there's a recommendation for changes to be made, the whole policy doesn't have to go before the board again. Does the, graduation dress code policy because we, do we have a separate one or we don't? We have We have a we have a policy for graduations, but we don't like,
the dress code language has just been in our dress code all along. And so that was that was what I think is IKF was what I had kinda moved the dress code language into that policy as kind of another option. So but but this version this version, that dress code language for graduations would just go into the regulation. So it all still stay in kind of the same place. And as far as graduation goes, from what I recall, there's some wiggle room in there for each individual school regarding their graduations.
Mhmm. So that's not detailed Right. To an extreme. Right. What you see in the policy language around graduations is really what was required by state law just a few years ago that we we add I'll let let Nate state the language. Yeah. It's, for for cultural or religious Expression. Yeah. It's it's kind of the ideas that some some students wanted to decorate their graduation caps with something that was culturally significant. It was kind of the meaning behind the law. So and that's that's why that language is in here is to permit that behavior
if it comes to it in a nondisruptive way. Other comments on this? Okay. The next, policy just letting you know, ECAF is our video surveillance policy. Just state law prohibits retaining surveillance footage for more than three years. So this is well within that. Just know that this is, not legally required that we're doing this change. It's just more of an administrative and practical burden. Also just having all that storage over the years can take up a lot of memory and cost money. Right? So we're just kinda limiting the amount of time that we have to retain surveillance
footage because we have all these cameras now. We get a lot of folks that wanna look at them, often. Of course, if it's something that's important that we wanna retain, I know the chief Corris and his team have a really good process to make sure that we're retaining videos, if it's happening within that sixty days. So that's what that purpose of that changes. Do we have a limit now, or we don't we just we just been saving files since we installed the cameras? I'm not totally sure the answer to that question. You wanna come over here? But I know that, chief and and mister Henson both build their department deal with
this. Yeah. So so right now, the storage is just basically based off of the servers and how much time that our servers are able to retain. And the problem is is the more camera footage that we get, we are the link the length of the amount of video that is retained and it's it's not consistent and so we're really working towards some consistency with our with our camera retention now, if it's there's an incident that occurs we save that footage and that footage
is saved forever. So it's not like that footage only is there for sixty days and then it's gone right, but it's just for that running footage and our our cameras only record when they detect movement and the purpose for that is to to save space up on our servers. So what we're trying to get is where there's consistency of those sixty days that we're guaranteeing and and it comes down into a budgetary piece of it as to we buy new servers. We're we're buying servers with the amount of storage that can only retain up to sixty days so right now if some of them go a little bit longer than
that sixty days, but we're just trying to bring all of them back to where there's some consistency district wide. Do you guys need a data center? We need a data center. Yes. Moving on. Thanks. You may wanna stay here for this one. Wait. For KF, community use to school facilities. This is just our school facility. So we we do allow third parties to use our facilities all the time. We are just wanting to limit folks being able to stay at our schools overnight for a number of reasons that you probably all can dream up in your head. And so, again, this isn't a legally required revision.
It's just something more from an administrative practical standpoint. That's why this is being brought in front of you. And they had some caveat, like, if there were some, like, crazy natural disaster and people needed a safe place, like right? Yeah. We added, and if you look down thank you, doctor Campos Spitzley. So if you look at down to the you might have missed it. So if you look down to the second page of those red lines on KF, you can see that there was a line superintendent may be fixed. I remember that. Due to extenuating circumstances. So, yes. Be an emergency or or even a a really, you know, significant event for our
students. Mhmm. But but we would we would manage that at the superintendent level rather than right now, anybody can, fill out the facilities form to request an overnight stay in our schools. And so, you know, they have to provide proof of insurance and all of those things, but it's really, really quite cumbersome and and it has comes with some safety concerns too. So we'd like to we'd like to stop that practice. And doctor Pilch promises not to make exceptions to throw a party with all the
best friends. Maybe. Okay. Alright. The last one I'm gonna invite, mister Tuttle up here. So for ICICA, this is our, instruction time policy and also goes over schooling, early school calendar. We're making pretty significant red lines to this policy. And so I just wanted to kinda walk you through a few of those. So first of all, we we define what a certificated or licensed teacher is. The Colorado rules and regulations, allow boards to define who that is. And then we're also I think what's key here is kinda redefining what the educational
process is. We're making some changes around recess time. Again, the rules, for what counts towards instructional times is as long as the board specifically uh-oh. Thank you. As long as the board specifically includes recess time in their educational process definition, then it then you can count that towards your instructional minutes. But then we've also, added this language around morning routines. Some folks refer to it as soft start. And so that's also been defined, as well. And then we added work study time. I will say I met with our CTE leaders today.
They mentioned that it's work study might not be the right nomenclature. It's work based learning might be the appropriate way to refer to work or, work study time. And so we wanted to define that. And the only reason I bring this up is we haven't actually come up with any plans for work study or for credit for work, but I think this opens the door for the opportunity to talk about it, for next steps. So I know that, Lisa Hudson, who, supports our business development, and then, Jenny Schilling and Jordan Carleberg, who are CTU leaders, are really wanting something like this.
We just we don't have any actual plan to do it. We just wanna kinda open the door to to make that an option. And then we also adjusted some language around remote learning for public health emergencies because that language was added during COVID, and then other kind of stylistic changes. So, mister Tuttle, I don't know if you had anything to add to that or not. But No. I can just add just real quickly. So recess is important to think about. We have a house bill policy, eleven ten of ten sixty nine that requires thirty
minutes of physical activity for elementary school students per day. And so recess is one of the things that can count towards that. When we think about SEL and some of our development of self control and self management, oftentimes, those happen for kids in unstructured times, such as recess. So it's a perfectly appropriate thing to be thinking about an instructional component at the elementary level. Several front range districts have added recess just in the last couple of years to this policy. So just know that there that's happening in several other districts. And then through negotiations, you heard about the soft start.
And as we talked about wanting to include that as instructional time, and when we talked about it as morning meetings, our staff really value that time and see the value of that. So that's the reason we've included that here as well. And sorry. The I know you said the nomen nomenclature of work study might not be correct. When I think work study, I think college when I got paid to, like, you know, study at work. Mhmm. They're getting paid with college with high school credit. Okay. And then and they may be getting paid by their employer as well. It's just not the district is not paying it.
Okay. So that's that's So, yeah, work work based learning, I think, is a more appropriate Yeah. I think so. Is that reflected in this? It's not. So we would need to make a motion with the expectation that that would be corrected. Yeah. If the board agrees. Before that would that would be the probably the best move would be to reflect kind of the more accurate statement there. Sorry. And I mean to cut you off. Or we could table it tonight and fix it and bring it back in June. Whatever you all prefer. So you touched on this, mister Tuttle. But I'm gonna make the presumption that this is, this policy is not going to
add any unrest, to negotiations. It's gonna benefit. This is and this was part of what was rolled out to the teachers association, as part of this. So I'm looking back at Aaron. It's kinda what it is. So this is part of that mutual agreement. Yep. Thank you. I am curious. The, recess, is that for k through twelve? Like, is that, like, off campus lunches? Mhmm. Elementary. Okay. Yep. You might also see some changes around passing time between lunch and just know that the the rules are very specific that if you're going from class to lunch, that
can count. But if you're going from lunch to a class, it cannot. So we kind of clean that leg and jump a little bit too. So Between two classrooms or Yeah. Not that it was necessary, but just to for for clarity purposes, we we made those changes. I just wanna say it's funny where the use the the use of the word certificated. I'm like, why isn't it just certified? I don't know. And and it's hard to say. Yeah. It's like certificated or licensed teacher. Yeah. Yeah. I feel like it's the same thing as certified, but maybe it's not. And and, you know, if we're talking about things like work based learning, you know,
that would be a key inquiry is are they certificated or not. Right? So any other thoughts or comments for that? K. Thank you. Mhmm. Thank you. And I think you're still on Mhmm. Deck on at that. I am, and I did not print this out for you, but I hope you're able to pull up. I sent, just a PDF of the outline today. Mhmm. So, just giving you a legislative update so we know that Wednesday is the final
adjournment day. They are still doing a ton of work. It always surprises me how much work they managed to get done in a week, and kind of what all that all that time was spent pre previous to this. Right? So just wanted to cover just a couple of bills we've been talking about, talk a little bit about school finance. I know that I I completely neglected to talk about initiative 195 on here. So I apologize for not adding this to this because it is super important and relevant. So just to talk through some of the proposed legislation, the school finance act, there
were several amendments that were brought forth and passed this morning. What I can say is an area of concern for us is cost of living factor has kind of come up, as impacting our bottom line pretty significantly. And I don't wanna botch the sponsor's words here, but, it sounds like around February, we got some numbers to kind of work with in terms of setting the budget. And we got new information just recently, this just last week, and the cost of
living factor impacted what we're gonna receive this upcoming year pretty significantly if it was gonna be rolled out the way it is. We know that the cost of living factor really helps those districts that have a high cost of living, and this school district doesn't have as high a cost of living as those districts in the Denver Metro Area and some of our Summit County and Mountain School District residents. So, what they did today is they passed an amendment to essentially hold harmless the cost of living factor and delay it for another year so that we're not gonna be kinda saying this the significant decrease that we once did.
What did I miss? Oh, she's coming up. Yes. She is. Oh, she came printed out. Mhmm. Thank you, miss Sponsler. Miss Sponsler likes paper and electronics both. I do. I do. I do. To write. So the School Finance Act, we thought was on kind of a smooth path to approval. But last week, we kinda hit a bump in the road. And so some information that we learned had been held at CDE since February was
kind of suddenly brought into the formula, and we were not aware of the impact that that data would have until last week. And so districts like ours that were facing a drop in funding because of that information, we said, time out. We need to have more conversation about this. So several districts kinda got together. Case was a driving force behind this. And so we got together and we said, ultimately, let's not try to fix it because we don't have time to fix the problem right now.
This is gonna take some time to really study the the unintended consequences of the cost of living factor. So let's just go back to the cost of living factor that was in place last year. It's been in place the last two years, and let's just go with that number. And so that helped our district not lose. It was over a million dollars. District not lose it was over a million dollars, of an impact to the district. And so even districts that were going to be winners in that scenario, they were like, this isn't right. You can't spring this on districts at the last minute and expect them to figure
out how to make this work. So I think everyone was on board with, supporting this kind of change. So, we were kind of I was kind kind of waiting all weekend. They thought the amendment might come on Saturday. It came today along with 10 other amendments to the School Finance Act. So I've been trying to get my arms around what each of them really means. One is the cost of living factor that we were just talking about. That is what we expected to see and we're thankful for that. Another amendment has to do with the smoothing factor.
And so, we've talked about how the declining enrollment causes kind of a fiscal cliff. If you drop in enrollment and then you don't have any kind of buffer in your budget, to help have a soft landing, that creates a problem. And so rather than going around and around with the concept of phantom kids and and getting paid for students that aren't really there, we've said, okay. Let's come up with the smoothing factor. And so, there's been kind of a work group the last year that has studied
this issue and made a recommendation. And so that recommendation has finally made its way into the bill. So that's what we expected to see. I think it's probably the best we can do in terms of that topic. So hopefully, that will put the phantom student conversation to bed. And then the last amendment, I'm still honestly trying to get my arms around, has to do with, charter funding and how we pass through the funding to our charter schools. So since I don't really understand yet what that looks like and what that means,
I'll just tell you that it's there, and I will continue to evaluate this. So any other questions about school finance? For the smoothing factor, is it so I know that we used to average five years, and then it was three years. Mhmm. Is it three year average? So this year going into next year will be three years. If the new funding formula is phased in at the 45% level, which is scheduled to do a year from now, then the smoothing factor would come into play. And so it's basically taking your current year enrollment, half of that, 30% of the
prior year, and 20% of the two years before that. So trying to smooth that out over time. The cost of living thing is is surprising. I felt like that's what this the whole point was to have the dollars amount of student, not the cost of living in. That's exactly it. And what we saw are the the small rural districts that have different cost of living. They were negatively impacted. Districts like ours, we were negatively impacted. So we need to just have a a better understanding and conversation about how that
cost of living factor should work. Is it doing what we think it should? Are there other ways to offset that, to be determined. But we at least got the fix in that we need for this year. Anything else? Anything else? I'm light reading. When did you hear from one thirty five this month. Yeah. I'll stay. I I lean on the expertise of this sponsor all too often, as we all do. And so the next bill we just wanted to briefly talk about was that, $1.35, That is the, initiative to withhold some TAVR refunds and then create that kind of
positive factor that'll flow to the districts. They have adjusted the language pretty significantly. They made some amendments to the bill to make it more clear about what it's funding and what it's being funded for. I am a little bit confused about how the interest is to compound, every year. It's a 2% compounding. Mhmm. Right? And so what I can say is this is still the the underlying issue with all this is if there's no refund to to be given, then there's no money to be had. Right? So, this is just assuming that there is a refund every year that we would
be getting that additional funding. But this is a much better version, this amended version than the previous version that we saw. I don't know if you have anything to say about that. I think this helps get us to a place where we can support this, going forward. I think the the reality is any additional money into k 12 is helpful. And so even though this is not really clear about exactly how much funding there would be from year to year, it's something. So that's helpful. Which, and then if we're talking about, initiative one ninety five, I I think that
there's actually more potential for district than than what 135 has to offer. And so just know and I and I, again, I apologize for not including that, as a topic of conversation for today, but I think we would stand to benefit more from that ballot measure passing than than this one. Mhmm. But if they both pass to have both in there. Yeah. K. Thank you. You're welcome. And then then just so you know, I I added a couple bills that have been postponed indefinitely or or no longer on the table. Right? So twenty six one seventy six, that's a civil rights enforcement.
That's an OCR lite, the kind of state level office for civil rights. That bill has been postponed indefinitely. Really anything that had a fiscal note attached to it this year didn't go through. There wasn't a lot of legislation that's gonna really create any impacts for us in terms of policy developments, or kind of trainings or things of that nature, which I find to be beneficial, focus has been on finance. Senate Bill twenty six one ninety three, at risk public school program and public school
accountability. I bring this bill up, Case had originally opposed it. They have now moved into a monitoring position. They made some adjustments to make this a little bit more palatable. What I can say is this bill would have created more work for our finance team to demonstrate where money is going and that it's being given for our at risk students. Some of the adjustments that were made is if you already have a priority improvement plan, for example, then you don't have have to do any additional reporting. So it took some of that reporting off the table, but it's still extra work that is unnecessary.
We might need to adopt a policy or make revisions to a policy. That would be the only bill that I saw. Senate Bill twenty six one hundred and forty five, charter school involvement in local ballot questions. This bill did pass both chambers. Again, I don't see any need for immediate changes, but if we do move for another mill levy or bond, then we would need to, involve charters a little bit more in that decision. I know we already have in the past, so I don't think it's gonna change, our practice as much in this district. Senate bill twenty six one seventy, task force to expand effective public schools. This is a new bill, and it would just create a task force to study
equitable education resources. It's moving it's moving through both chambers, so everybody seems to to like this bill. And we like tasks task forces a lot to study things. Senate bill twenty six one eighty nine automated decision making technology. I also bring this bill forward to you as an FYI. In 2024, there was legislation passed around artificial intelligence. They created some pretty strong requirements for developers of artificial intelligence as well as consumers of artificial intelligence. So this bill is kind of a response to that bill.
Really, they're gonna be moving, disclosure and implementation to 01/01/2027 for companies that have AI. For the consumer, like a school district, there might be some issues where we have to make sure that any software that we're working with that has artificial intelligence embedded in it doesn't contain things that have bias. So making sure that it there's no algorithmic bias with the artificial intelligence. And so we have developed a pretty robust software review committee that looks at every software that comes in front of us, that we might pass this.
So this will be another layer that we're gonna be adding as making sure that it's not using AI that can be biased. So, I don't know if there is any actual immediate changes for us as a school district, but it's certainly something that we've been monitoring because we knew that there was gonna be some language coming forward around AI responsibility. And Colorado is the first one of the first states in the nation to have kind of legislation like this. Then just two more, house bill ten seventy eight. This is that off campus concurrent enrollment program. This also passed both chambers. The way I see it is this is just gonna expand opportunities.
And so, right now for post secondary institutions, four year institutions, unless they're participating in prep, you're not technically, students aren't allowed to attend courses off campus at those institutions. This would just allow for more programming and opportunities for students who attend classes, not provided directly at school. We would need to address that with UNC or whatever four year institution that we would be working with. So that's that'd be more contractual in nature, if anything.
And then, of course, we'd have to go through curriculum to make sure that we're doing that appropriately. So the last bill is twelve ninety two. This is that scholarship granting organization bill that was postponed indefinitely. So that was the bill that I was, really hoping for. We put up some guardrails around these SGOs, but, it sounded like governor Polis was gonna veto this bill anyways. So maybe that's why they decided to go to the. That's it. There's probably more to talk about, but I don't know if there's anything else you
had any specific questions about. Do you know the time frame of the is it one ninety five to get on the ballot to, like, how many when the signatures have to put in? Yeah. So, July 13 is the day they're giving us. I think, technically, they said it was actually August, but July 13 is, like so they need, there's 35 senate districts in the state. They need 2% of registered voters in each senate district to sign the petition in order to get it on the November ballot, and then they need an absolute number
of at least 30,000 signatures. Okay. So for Senate District 13, it's about 2,600 signatures. But if we can gather more to add to that 30,000, minimal requirement, that would be great. To be clear, there are two potential ballot measures that could potentially benefit k 12 and the and the state budget and other programs for children in the state of Colorado. The one is is the the ballot measure, that is proposed as a possibility based on the signature gathering that doctor Campos Bizzi just spoke about.
The other is, one thirty five, which is actual legislation, where our legislators would refer that to the ballot, and then there would be a vote on that in November as well. So there'll be more to come. We'll know more by our next board meeting, and we'll bring you more information about both of these for the next board meeting. Alright. Thank you, mister Brown. Thank you. Let us debrief the work. And we'll start with you, doctor Campbell Spitzley. Yes. Thank you for giving us a chance during the work session to look at some
of those policy updates. I know there's more than we usually have on the agenda, so thank you for giving us that opportunity to ask more questions and to get more clarification. And then as always, the legislative update is always a thrill and, getting the most up to date information of the amendments even from today. Thank you for for keep keeping us up to date on all of that, as we stay hopeful for the budget. Director Emmett. Yeah. I just I'd like to say another thank you to chief Corliss and the committee
for all the hard work you guys did for starting in September, I heard that a lot, that you guys have been doing a lot of work just to make sure we get to that that place and make sure we've got the right policies that make for the best learning environment for our students and easy for our teachers. So thank you for the time you put for that and keeping our schools safe. Thank you, missus Sponsler, for taking on the trying to understand 10 amendments in one day. And, I know everyone likes puzzles. Mine usually involve pictures, but, I appreciate you just taking the time to help us
understand that a little better. And I'm just, I'm holding on to hope. Thank you. Director. Just appreciate the information and just trying to take it all in. So, just appreciate everybody's work and time. Director Linsercy. Same. I really appreciate, all of the conversation around the policy updates and the legislative updates. I just learned every time we come to a meeting and we get policy and legislative updates. So thank you for spending the time with us.
Director Azari. Once again, I'm glad that there's a light at the end of the tunnel in regards to the finance formula for this year. Looking forward to getting that done and appreciate all the work towards that and the work on our policy statements. Real important. Director Bentley. Ditto. Lauren said it great. So not much to add. Yeah. Thank you. Thank you for the team that keeps us informed. I I understand that other districts don't have such a robust team of folks to
help their boards understand. So, yes, thank you for all the updates for wading through the information. And we will reconvene at 6PM. This meeting is adjourned. Part: 2
Good evening and welcome to the board of education meeting for Greeley Evans School District six on 05/11/2026. This meeting will now come to order. Please join us for the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of The United States Of America and to the republic for which it Miss Levin, will you please call the roll? Director Azari?
Present. Director Bentley? Present. Director Campos Fitzi? Present. Director Edmonds? Present. Director Lemos Garcia? Present. Director Mash? Present. Director Roegi? Present. All board members? Present. And I would also like to acknowledge our council of student representative students here for their final meeting as they are both graduating, before our next time together. But, president of CSR, Sarah Venegas from Early College Academy and Abby Tovar from Greeley Central High School. And you guys have your your presence and your feedback and your participation has been
so great, and we're very excited to see what you all do in the future. Alright. So as I mentioned, this is our last meeting of the school year. We wanna send all of our best to our seniors, especially, and all of our students who are completing AP, exams. We're excited to celebrate with our retiring educators, since we had a snow day, which I guess we're not entirely shocked because Colorado just weather is is crazy. But let's just celebrate all of the hard work, that culminates here in the next
couple of weeks. If you have any questions about our graduations, locations, times, and also if you would like to, refresh your memory on our new, clear bag policy that we are instituting at all of our, you know, major events and sporting events, please visit the district website. I would also like to invite the community to a specific retirement celebration for mister West Tuttle, who who has served in district six for thirty five years. This will be on Monday, June 8, from three to 4PM here at our District
Administration Building. There will be some remarks at 03:30PM. So if you are available to come and celebrate with us and with mister Tuttle, his remarkable career, we would love to have you. No RSVP is needed. And then another, exciting new, new change here in Greeley is that we now have a semi pro soccer team. That this is their inaugural season. It's called Atlético Union. We have 15 former and current d six students that are playing on those teams. The mission of this this new soccer team is to develop and showcase Greeley's talented
youth through soccer, helping to create pathways to scholarships, education, and a strong future for our community. And we already know that many of our, soccer students have received scholarships. The the goal is to get them more, more, more opportunities to be seen by coaches, and then there's also international students that are coming to play on this team to really help to sharpen the skills of our students. So their first game will be at Jackson Field on Saturday, May 23 at 6PM. So after you have been to a a couple of graduations and maybe eaten some
graduation food at a party, come on over to the inaugural game, and watch, some amazing, young people play soccer. We would now like to approve the agenda, which is an action item and re will require a motion. I move that the Board of Education of Greeley Evans School District six approves the agenda as presented. Second. Is there any discussion on the motion? Seeing none, miss Lemonoy, please give us a vote. Director Azari? Aye. Director Bentley? Bentley? Aye. Director Campos Fizzi? Aye. Director Edmonds? Aye. Director Lumos Garcia?
Aye. Director Mash? Aye. Director Rogge? Aye. Motion carries seven zero. Thank you. And now we're moving on to our superintendents honor roll, so I'll give it over to doctor Pilch. Thank you so much, president Masch. It is my pleasure to have two sets of superintendents honor roll honorees night. Four different students will be invited up, to be recognized. And first, I wanna recognize the two amazing young women sitting next to me from the council student reps, who have represented the council student reps here at our board
meetings, every every board meeting. And and Sarah, right next to me, has done this for two years now. Both of these young women have not only been leaders here with us at the dais, but also have been leaders at CASB, have been leaders at their own schools, and leaders district wide. And we're so proud of them, and we're going to miss you both. But we know that whatever you do, you're going to go on and do just remarkable, amazing things, in the future. And we look forward to hearing what you do and hearing how you lead in your future.
And I know the two of you, so I imagine that after I say thank you, you're gonna have something to say to us. So thank you, Sarah and Abby. And I'll give you a chance to share, and then I'll give you your honor rolls. Okay? Thank you. Guys, I still get nervous every time I come up here. Okay. So good evening, president Masch, doctor Pilch. Oh, yeah. Does that feel better? That's better. Look at me. That's better. Right, guys? Alright. Well, hello, everyone. Good evening. President Mash, doctor Pilch, members of the board, and everyone here tonight.
I'm Sarah Venegas, a senior from Early College Academy who has had the privilege to not only serve as this year's president for CSR, but also serve my second year as a student board representative here with all the board members. And I just want to express my absolute gratitude for having the opportunities given to me by district six. Having the opportunity to be in such an amazing group of students, such as CSR, and having the opportunity to sit here with all these board members and not only
connect with them during these board meetings and have them hear what I have they're normal people, just like we are. Every time they they're normal people, just like we are. Every time they visit a school or every time I hear other students say, the board members are gonna come visit us. I'm like, guys, they're just like you and I. Like, they're super awesome. So don't be too nervous. Just be yourself. Don't be such a square.
And I'm just so thankful for all of the district staff and all the teachers and all the mentors that I have had throughout these twelve years in district six, but especially throughout my high school career, these four super important years, every single year, I've been granted a new opportunity that just allows me to become a stronger student and an even stronger leader. And I know that everything that I have learned from district six, I will continue to carry on within my future. That way, I'm always carrying the values of district six, being positive, being strong, being
outspoken for those who might not have the courage yet to speak for themselves. And all of these practices and all of these lessons that I have learned from District 6, I will continue to carry and continue to always represent us because District 6 is my home. And just because I'm leaving for now, doesn't mean I won't be back. So thank you so much to everyone, and I'm so grateful. And I wouldn't be the student I am today without all of you. And now I will introduce Abigail Tovar.
Good evening, board, doctor Pilch, and everyone here tonight from the district six officials and everyone in the audience and anyone watching online. I just wanna take this opportunity to highlight all of the blessings that I have had, from serving as a student representative here. First, thank you, doctor Pilch, for creating the council of student representatives. And, I could just tell that you listened to the students in the district, and thank you for giving us a voice. And the council of student of representatives is truly, truly life changing for me, so thank you. And it's a prime example of the fact that you care about our students so
much, so thank you. And being a part of these meetings has given me firsthand experience in advocacy. My peers at school come up talking to me about dress code, phone policy, curriculum, and more. They trust me to share this feedback with the council of student representatives and you guys. Guys. Being in this position has not only helped me find my voice, but it it has also helped but it has also granted me with lifelong connections, whether that be with board members, district six officials, and even other leaders leaders across other high schools. I seriously cannot thank you guys for the amazing opportunities that district six district six has granted me with.
As I wrap up this speech, I just wanna share a little bit about where I plan to go. I'm going to Colorado State University, and I'm super excited about that. I plan to study in communications, which is where my internship was. So shout out, d six communications. And I just wanna say thank you so much, like, specifically to, some of the board, or the district six officials that I went to the capital with. That was really, really fun, whether that was my junior year or this last year. Thank you for that. That was really cool. And just to all of you guys, every time I see you at the assemblies or at my games, it just means a lot to me that you guys care.
So, seriously, thank you so much for this opportunity. And, yeah, I'm grateful for everything. So thank you. Thank you, ladies, and congratulations again. I also have the honor of recognizing two of our younger scholars tonight, and I rarely get to recognize our younger scholars. So I'm really excited about this. We have two, young folks with us who have created, who have contributed greatly to the American Heart Association's Kids Heart Challenge and then the American Heart Challenge. So I would like to invite Jody Abrams, the region vice president, to come up,
and speak about American Heart Association and tell us more about these two fine young students. Oh, please bring the students up. So let's announce their names. Noah Pringieto and John Michael Sheehan. Welcome to the podium. Come on up, guys. Hi there. You can stand right here, and you stand right in the left. Well, I didn't tell them that they had to prepare, but they both did. Yeah. Okay. We're gonna lighten it. Okay.
Noah. Me first? Yeah. Okay. I will talk about I will talk all about you guys. Okay. Wonderful. American Heart Association's Kids Heart Challenge program this year. Out of 12,753 students across the state of Colorado who participated in our program, I would like to introduce you to two superstars. First up, we have Noah. Noah, can you tell them your name? Hi. I'm Noah. Tell them your last name, your whole name. Queen Nieto.
Very good. And Noah attends what school do you go to? For engineering. He is an amazing student, and he ended up number 19 in the entire state of Colorado raising a grand total of $1,334.36. So round of applause. Okay. And I would also like to introduce John Michael Sheehan. John Michael, can you tell them your name? I'm John Michael Sheehan. Very good. And what school do you go to?
Monfort Elementary. Excellent. John Michael ended up number 29 out of 12,753 students across the state of Colorado by raising $1,211.17. To these amazing young men, I would like to say thank you for your dedication and your vision in raising these amazing amounts of money that will fund life saving research and advance medical care and provide education that saves lives of those affected by
heart disease and stroke. Your efforts are inspiring, and we are so very proud of you. Kids Heart Challenge is about more than a fundraiser, though. It's about learning how to take care of your heart, making a difference for others, and you guys embraced that challenge and truly stood out, and we are grateful for your leadership. I'd also like to share a quick heartfelt thanks with the educators who made this possible. At Toynton Academy, we had David Frawley who leads heads up this program, with the support, of course, of his principal. And at Monfort, Robbie Bunstrom does a great job of leading this program as well,
and we're very grateful for them. Alright. Do you have something you would like to say? No. No. Okay. Noah, what would you like to say? That was okay. Hi. I would like to thank everybody who donated to me to make this possible. I really thank everybody. You're doing a great job. Absolutely. That's a great job. Lots of people donated. Yay. Absolutely. Thank you so much for allowing us a few moments to, recognize the amazing accomplishments of these wonderful students. Thank you so much. Congratulations to both of you. Thank you for being here to present those young men with those that honor, and
thank you guys for telling us about that. The next item is another special item, which is a mental health month proclamation. This is an action item and will require a motion. I move that the Board of Education agree, Levin, school district six, approves the proclamation declaring May as mental health month as presented. Second. And mister Azari, would you please read the proclamation this evening? I'd be happy to. Honorary proclamation of the Board of Education of Weld County School District six, mental health month. Whereas mental health is just as important as physical health and taking care of our
minds helps ourselves and our families, schools, and workplaces thrive. And whereas more than one in five adults and one in seven children in the children in The United States faces a mental health challenge each year, and many people living with stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, substance use, and other mental health conditions, and whereas getting help early and having access to affordable behavioral health care can prevent crises, reduce suicides, lower hospital stays, and prevent incarceration, leading to healthier residents of Greeley And whereas,
students and staff of Greeley Evans School District six have access to compassionate, comprehensive services, including counseling, crisis response, residential care, and community based supports through North Range Behavioral Health. And whereas North Range Behavioral Health has achieved federal CCBHC, which stands for Certified Community Behavioral health clinic designation and is a comprehensive and essential mental health safety net provider
serving Weld County, and whereas North Range Behavioral Health works with schools, medical providers, first responders, health and human services, employers, faith communities, and local partners to make sure mental health support is available when people need it, and whereas National Mental Health Month is observed each May to raise awareness, reduce stigma, support recovery, and remind people that it is okay to ask for help.
Now, therefore, we, the Board of Education of Weld County School District six, do hereby proclaim May as Mental Health Month. And we encourage our community to support mental health awareness, promote understanding, and help ensure that mental health care is available to everyone who needs it. Given under my hand and the executive seal of Weld County of School District six this May 2026. Natalie Masch, president. Thank you, mister Azari.
Is there any discussion on the motion? Seeing none, we will go ahead and take our roll or our vote. Director Azari? Aye. Director Bentley? Aye. Director Campos Spitzley? Aye. Director Edmonds? Aye. Director Lemos Garcia? Aye. Director Mash? Aye. Director Rogge? Aye. Motion carries seven zero. And we are very pleased to make this proclamation, and I I see that Mikayla Sanchez is here to receive it. Yes. Thank you so much. I have a couple notes, so I'm gonna go ahead and pull them up on my phone as is the sign of the times. Thank you to doctor Pilch and the the board for this proclamation.
As mentioned, my name is Mikaela Sanchez and I'm marketing and community outreach director for North Range Behavioral Health. There were a lot of, letters, said in that proclamation, CCBHC. And I just want everyone to know that regardless of what those letters happen to be at any certain point in time, we're the safety net provider. And what that means is that everyone of all ages, from all ages and stages have access to compassionate care regardless of ability to pay. And that's the most important part.
It's not only our value, but it's something that we are beholden to on a federal level and a state level. I want to thank, the district for your commitment to mental wellness, for our students and our staff. And this isn't just through a proclamation, this has been year after year after year. We have a long standing partnership with, Griliev in school district six from our school based services where people have access to support on-site through a school based therapist, through
mental health education and suicide prevention training for our high schoolers to help them understand signs and symptoms of how to recognize risk factors in themselves and their friends and how to get connected to a trusted adult. We also have, partnered on employee wellness wellness initiatives, where, you know, the district has shown a priority for caring for the well-being of our staff. We know that caregivers of all different, roles in a child's life, the mental well-being
and health of the caregiver is a direct impact on the mental wellness of our children. So thank you so much for, being a long standing partner and for proclaiming May as mental health month. And I will give it back to doctor Pilch to introduce us to some new members of the district leadership team. Thank you, president Masch. I am excited to come to you tonight with five recommendations, for new members on our district leadership team. And we we just continue to be so excited about our candidate pools and and
who we we are bringing into positions. I first want to introduce to you, I hope, a familiar face, Cassie Guy. Cassie, stand up while I talk about you, please. Thank you. Cassie will be coming back to the district office as the k 12, as a k 12 culturally linguistically diverse coordinator here in the district. And she has served as the elementary coordinator in the past, but most recently, she's been serving as the assistant principal at Toynton Academy of Pre Engineering. We're excited to have her come back over and and really provide her expertise to
our our English language learners. Prior to, Cassie moving to the district office back in 2018, she taught for over ten years, was a fifth grade teacher, an English language arts teacher, a title one interventionist, English language development teacher, and finally, a culturally linguistically development teacher here in our district. And, just so excited that Cassie has continued to commit to the district, and we look forward to welcoming her back over here. Congratulations. I'd also like to introduce John Spencer to you. That's you, John.
There you go. So I wanna first give you just a little bit of background. I'm recommending John tonight as the interim assistant principal at at Brentwood Middle School. We did a search and a, full interview, and we did not make a match on the assistant principal at Brentwood. And during that time, some of us in the room were saying to the principal, what about John Spencer? And she did not, think he was really interested or ready to move into administration after twenty two years of teaching. And so, she called me and said, what do you think about John Spencer?
I said, I think offer him the job, and we we'll put him in his in our midst. He'll say yes and and take this opportunity and help us out, over the next year. So, John, we're so glad to have you. You've proven yourself as an excellent social studies teacher at Brentwood. You've been the lead of the department. You've you've overseen the AVID program, and you've just done so much for the children here. So thank you for taking this opportunity on. I appreciate it. And then another internal hire here in the district, Trish Thompson, who will be taking
the role as assistant principal at Northridge High School. And, some of you have seen Trish over at Jefferson High School where she has served as the instructional coach since 2020. Prior to that, she was a teacher here in our district, teaching English English language development, and was also an AVID coordinator here in the district. She started her career in Mesa Public Schools in Arizona, where she taught AVID, career and technical ed. She was an English teacher, and then she she came to Colorado and joined us at Jefferson.
So we're really excited to have her join us over at Northridge High School. Congratulations, Trish. And now I have a couple of out of district hires for you. I'm really pleased to introduce to you mister Steven Apodaca. Yeah. Go ahead and applaud for it. We need to let these outside people know how much we love our people. Right? So Steven, will be the principal at s Christa McAuliffe k eight STEM Academy. He's already been over there meeting with staff and with some of the families and the students, so he's already beginning to make that transition, although he doesn't officially start until July.
Steven comes with tremendous principal experience. We are just so fortunate that he was in a position in his former district where he was ready for a new challenge and, and has heard about the great things going on over here. And so he is coming to us from the Poudre School District where he served for over twenty years as an assistant principal and a principal. Prior to that, Steven spent time in the Santa Ana Unified School District in California where he was a classroom teacher, an interventionist, an assistant principal, and a district administrator. And so just really excited to have Steven.
He comes to us, from a school that that is a a title one school, and so this will be a new experience for him. And we're really glad to have you, Steven. And thank you for coming over tonight. Congratulations. And then finally, our our candidate who has traveled the furthest, and I'm so pleased she's here tonight, Lindsey Garcia will be our new principal at Meeker Elementary School, and Lindsey comes to us from Seminole Independent School District in Texas. So she is in a very large k through two elementary school.
She's been there for almost twenty years, serving as the assistant principal, and she was ready to be a principal. And her superintendent told me, I just don't have anything for her right now, but she is ready. She should be a principal. And so I we're so excited that she decided to come. She really needed to move to Colorado because I think her husband has already moved here. So so thank you, mister Lindsey Garcia, for bringing us your wife as a new principal all the way from Texas. Lindsey has also served as a a media technology specialist and an instructional coach.
And as she told us in the interview, all of her work has been in title one schools, and in in schools with children like the kids we serve here in Greeley. So welcome to Greeley, guys, and congratulations. There you go. Do you have anything for your report as well? But I will go quickly on my superintendent's report. I just want to to remind everyone, we are coming up on the final two weeks of school here. We don't even have two full weeks left. And so first and and maybe most important for for adults listening, we have moved the retirement celebration that was scheduled for last Wednesday to Thursday, May 14.
It will still be at University of Northern Colorado in in the ballroom from five to seven. And so we're looking forward to honoring our retirees that night. And I will tell you, I did get a few texts saying, what about the retirement dinner? Can we reschedule? And human resources department did yeoman's work to make that reschedule happen so that we could we could celebrate our retirees next week. And then I just wanna remind you that next week, we start, this week, we start the celebrations of our outgoing students. So Wednesday night, we will recognize our students in our transitions program, and then, next
Tuesday, Tuesday, we'll recognize our students who have will be graduating from the project search program, the partnership with UCHealth. I will have my first graduation this Friday where I've been invited to participate in Aims Community College's graduation where they actually will graduate their students from Early College Academy who are earning an associate's degree. Can't wait to see you there, Sarah. And, and then we just hit the ground running with multiple graduations after that. It just doesn't stop until, the last day of school, and then we still have
one more graduation after that. So, we're all getting geared up and ready, and it's the most exciting time where we get really get to to see the the fruition of our work that when students walk across the stage and and actually, begin to contribute to their world in a brand new way. So looking forward to all those events coming up. Thank you, president Masch. Thank you. Item number seven on the agenda is, we're not we don't have an innovation 20 thirty update this evening. And then I also don't believe that we have anyone signed up for public participation.
So we'll move on to the consent agenda, which is an action item. I move that the Board of Education at Greeley Evans School District six approves items as presented on the consent agenda and authorizes the officers to sign any and all contracts. Second. Thank you both. Is there any discussion on the motion? Seeing none, miss Lemon, will you give us a vote? Director Azari? Aye. Director Bentley? Aye. Director Campos Fitzy? Aye. Director Edmonds? Aye. Director Lemos Garcia. Aye. Director Mash. Aye. Director Rogge. Aye. Motion carries seven zero. Thank you. And now we will hear from our district accountability committee and receive their budget recommendations.
I would like to invite the chair, Nate Johnson, to the podium and mister Osmos. Thank you, president Masch, members of the school board, doctor Pilch, and our members from the council of student representatives for the last time this year. My name is Anthony Alspeth and I serve as the assistant superintendent of secondary and k leadership and it has been my pleasure to facilitate the district accountability committee meetings this past school year. Now one of the district accountability committee's responsibilities is to make recommendations recommendations to the
board of education regarding the spending of district funds. In preparation for these recommendations, members have reviewed the district unified improvement plan and innovation 2030. Additionally, members have gained a deeper understanding of district priorities and challenges through through the discussions during the superintendent's forum and other budget information presented throughout the year. Here with me today is chairperson Nate Johnson, who will present a summary of the top recommended budget priorities from the district accountability committee. Thank you, Anthony. Good evening, doctor Pilch, president Nash, and members of the board.
Tonight, I am here to provide you with a summary of feedback gathered from the district accountability committee regarding budget budget priorities for next year. This report reflects things identified across 17 survey responses and is intended to help inform future budget discussions and decision making. The DAC budget recommendation document can be found in your board packet. This year and to staff credit, our survey, that we take every year was completely redesigned. And I think it gave us a much better appreciation for the actual budget side
of things instead of just priorities, and made things a lot more realistic as we were trying to work through, the budget recommendation exercise. The survey is also at the back of your board packet. I think you will find it much much more interesting and, a lot better than previous years. Overall, the feedback emphasized maintaining investments that directly support students and contribute to safe, supportive learning environments. Committee members consistently highlighted the importance of school safety, mental health supports, counseling services, academic
interventions, small class sizes, and special education services as foundation foundational elements to student success. When discussing areas for potential reduction or reevaluation, technology spending emerged most frequently. Stakeholders expressed interest in ensuring instructional technology is used strategically and effectively, particularly in younger grades, and encouraged the district to continue evaluating programs and materials and digital platforms for overall usage, impact, and alignment to student outcomes. The committee also identified several key drivers of student success that should continue to be
prioritized, including concurrent enrollment opportunities, advanced coursework, counseling and advising services, and extracurricular activities. Overall, the feedback reflects a desire to prioritize people centered investments, maintain strong student supports, improve efficiency, and continue investing in opportunities that support all District six students. I want to thank you all, for your, mental recognition of mental health awareness month as well too, with one student on a five zero four and another one on
an IEP. It's very near and dear to my heart and, continuing to see the advancement in community and family support throughout the district, along with mental health support is absolutely huge, and I really appreciate your guys' support on that. So, as I do every year or have the last couple years, I'd like to continue to challenge dads to get involved. We had another dad involved in DAC this year. Unfortunately, he's moving and leaving us, so I may be solo again, but, I would love for for some other dads to get involved. I think it's extremely important, for them to be involved in their child's education, and
I appreciate you very much for your time. Thank you. Thank you very much for presenting this information and also for serving as chair. Is this your second year or even My fourth year on the deck and third year as as chair. Well, thank you very much. And I love the call to more dads as well. Doctor Campos Pizzi has a question or comment. Yes. So, you list that there's a total of 17 survey responses. Yes. Can you you clarify for us how many DAC members are there? It varies from night to night. Typically, in that 20 range, every school has a representative.
It's just a matter of who can attend, and that's how many were in in attendance at our last meeting. Starts out stronger. Yeah. It usually starts out stronger and kinda fades off towards the end of the year, especially after Christmas break. But I will say that the group that we had this year was much more consistent and a much larger group than we've had in past years, especially towards the tail end of of DAC. Thank you. I'm not seeing any other questions or comments, but, again, thank you. And I I do agree that this is very well rounded, easy to read, see where your priorities are, and where, we will take this all into consideration.
So thank you very much. Thank you. One of the main, duties of the board is to create and revise policy, and so we will move on to our next agenda item, which is revisions to policy ECAF, use of video and audio monitoring, which is an action item. I I move that the Board of Education Degree Lab in School District six approves the revisions as presented to policy ECAF, use of video and auto audio monitoring. Second.
Is there any discussion on the motion? If you are interested, we did receive, some additional information on these policies and had some conversation in our work session. You can find that on YouTube. Miss Lemon, will you please give us a vote? Yes. And president Nash, I apologize. I did not hear who seconded the motion. What was that? Who seconded the motion? I apologize. I didn't hear. Thank you. Okay. Okay. And for the vote, director Azari? Aye. Director Bentley? Aye. Director Campos Spitzley? Aye. Director Edmonds? Aye. Director Lemos Garcia? Aye. Director Mash? Aye.
Director Rogge? Aye. Motion carries seven zero. And next is revisions to policy ICICA school year, school calendar instruction time. I move that the board of education of Greeley Avenue School District six approves the revisions as presented to policy IC slash ICA school year slash calendar school calendar slash instruction time. Second. Thank you. Is there any discussion on the motion? I have a motion to make. Okay. I move the policy ICICA is revised where it states work study to say work
based learning as part of our discussion that we had earlier. Second. Any discussion on the motion to amend? Seeing none, miss Levin, will you give us a vote? Director Azari? Aye. Director Bentley? Aye. Director Campos Pizzi? Aye. Director Edmonds? Aye. Director Lemos Garcia? Aye. Director Mash? Aye. Director Rogge? Aye. Motion carries seven zero. And then do we need an additional with with someone would please provide a motion to vote on the amended policy. But so we already made that motion to begin with.
So we've amended the motion. Now we'll just vote. Now we'll just vote. Okay. Got it. Will you please give us a vote? Yes. Thank you. Director Azari? Aye. Director Bentley? Aye. Director Campos Fitsi? Aye. Director Edmonds? Aye. Director Lumos Garcia? Aye. Director Mash? Aye. Director Rogge? Aye. Motion carries seven. Zero. Seven and a half years in, maybe I'll be a Robert's rule of order expert Play the time you leave. In another year and a half. Okay. Next revisions to policy j I c a student dress code. This is an action item as well. I move that the Board of Education of Greeley Evans School District six approves the
revisions as presented in version two to policy j I c student dress code. Is that again? Thank you all. Is there any discussion on the motion? Seeing none, Ms. Lemon, will you give us a vote? Director Azari? Aye. Director Bentley? Aye. Director Campos Bizzi? Aye. Director Edmonds? Aye. Director Lemos Garcia? Aye. Director Mash? Aye. Director Rohge? Aye. Motion carries seven zero. And last policy revision for policy k f, community use of school facilities. I move that the board of education at GreenLab and School District six approves the
revisions as presented to policy k f, community use of school facilities. Second. Is there any discussion on the motion? Seeing none, miss Lemon, will you please give us a vote? Director Azeri? Aye. Director Bentley? Aye. Director Campos Fizzi? Aye. Director Edmonds? Aye. Director Lemos Garcia? Aye. Director Mash? Aye. Director Rohde? Aye. Motion carries seven zero. And the last item on our agenda is a negotiations update, and I will invite missus Overton and Erin Snyder, president of the TEA, to the podium.
Good evening. Good evening, president Masch and board members and doctor Pilch. We're excited to be here tonight to talk about and give you an update on our, our, negotiations review over over the last, few months that we've been working. They the committee met in February to set the works for the season and then again in March to update the team and progress on tentative agreements. Finally, a small group of members met again in April to final finalize the agreements
and plan for the ratification vote and the communication after educators ratified the agreements. They approved the tentative agreement recommendations by the negotiations team on May 7. As you're aware, the main work we do in negotiations is around these four committees right here. And each of these committees work around the year to problem solve and collaboratively with both GEA and district administration. Tonight, we'll update you and our community about the agreements that were made from each
of these committees. Our negotiations team reached consensus, around these four areas of the time and learning committee chaired by doctor Thompson in human resources and president Snyder. The work around building consistency across the district is continuing. We will kiss we will keep the existing work day and the thirty minute duty free lunch as described in the master contract. The team recognized the value in the soft start and agreed to incorporate it into the morning routines for students. The name change to morning routines reflects the instructional work that will be addressed during
the time time frame. During the morning routines, breakfast will be included in all of our schools. Teachers will have flexibility in how they manage and their planned time outside of the student day. For safety reasons, we will ask employees who leave during the contracted day to follow the protocol to communicate with the office when leaving the building. We work through agreements to build consistency across District 6, and the teachers will maintain their two hundred and sixty eight minutes of individual planning time.
And, it will be that planning time will be between forty and fifty minutes of block a block of time each day for teachers. As schools will, actually it's for certified staff. Schools will add a few minutes of transition time to and from lunch so that students can arrive at the cafeteria safely, and teachers will maintain their full lunchtime. The amount of transition time will depend on the school site. You may remember the list of meetings that the team identified in February.
School leadership reviewed the list and determined which meetings were district required or building required. The negotiations team agreed on a plan of no more than three meetings per week and determined what would count for those three meetings. Some conversations were had about how to combine meetings to a death address redundancy of content. The team also addressed the number of assessments that were completed annually. While there were a lot of assessments, many are required by the federal or state government. The district administrators worked with various stakeholders to determine what changes could be made to
the number of assessments educators would proctor. We are committed to reduce the number of assessments and the committee is making adjustments based on the feedback the various stakeholders have given us. In June, the annual vertical team of teachers will and district curriculum coordinators and directors will, review and align the ELA priority standards and replace existing mid and end of year module assessments. The last the last agreement made with the time and learning work group will build
consistency in the platforms that we use. The district team will review the intervention platforms to determine effectiveness and efficiencies. They will identify best practices, look at data across the district to determine where we are beating the odds, and what these sites are doing to determine, the best course of action, and then recommend some changes. Agreements from our professional development team include maintaining the popular d six essentials, which was the design of the negotiations team from 2025.
This negotiations team agreed that safety and security should be added to our d six essentials work. Secondary educators will spend dedicated afternoon sessions with their building administrators reviewing school goals and initiatives to build familiarity with the expectations and priorities for the upcoming school year. During the final afternoon of new professionals academy, all educators will have time in the classroom and office or office setup to help help ensure that they are prepared for
a successful start to the school year. A professional development road map team collaborated to map out which Monday late starts would be building directed and which would be teacher or educator directed. In addition, the innovation twenty thirty professional development action team is developing a pathway for education experts to lead professional development opportunities. Many educators are already facilitating facilitating professional development during both district and building directed professional
learning time. And this pathway is intended to encourage more educators to share their expertise while supporting those interested in leading professional development opportunities and strengthening their compensation. When the compensation co chairs presented their work, they shared a lot of changes to the master contract this year. First, they discussed the agreements to the salary increases for educators. We agreed to granting steps and columns movement within the horizontal advancement process, as well
as adding 2% to the base of the salary schedule, making the starting salary a $54,101. And then the top of this the highest salary would be a 123,500. We agreed to the salary placement adjustments listed on this slide. One project the committee worked on was reviewing educators placement on the salary schedule and those who were hired prior to 2022 or 2023. 36 educators were impacted by the negotiated protocols for salary placement during those hiring years.
These educators will see a change in placement effective for the 2026, 2027 school year, increasing their years of experience placement and a salary increase. This will, this communication will go there is communication that will go out to employees later this month or in the month of June so that they know what those adjustments are for those 36 employees. The negotiations team received an update about the various factors influencing employee benefits. The recommendation moving forward is to change insurance carriers from Aetna to UMR, a UnitedHealthcare
health care company. The plans and doctors' networks will remain the same. That's good news for all of our employees. District costs will increase approximately 17% and employees will realize 8% of that cost, with one plan remaining at no cost to employees. The negotiations team heard feedback on the NICE health care system. It is a widely popular system, and we will continue offering that plan again next year. The dental plan will change to UMR, which is part of that UnitedHealthcare I just
mentioned, and the vision plan remains with EyeMed and does not incur any additional cost. Both the dental plan and the life insurance plan will have incur an additional cost for the school district. Additional benefits include maintaining the accident and hospital hospital indemnity plans and adding the critical illness with cancer coverage to our package. Our popular wellness programs will continue next year as well. We'll continue to use the Wellable app, and we'll continue with contests and individual and
group incentives. And that'll that refer to weight management, healthy eating, taking care of your numbers, and mindfulness kits. The career and technical education salary schedule was negotiated about three years ago. We agreed to add contract language related to the initial placement of all CTE educators on the certified schedule and remove the existing CTE schedule. This will create equity for all educators, both existing educators and new hires who are
working in the district. Once this is done, we will then add contract language defining CTE in the master contract. Our hard to fill language has been fulfilled through a memorandum of understanding since before COVID. We are moving our hard to fill language to live within the master contract. This creates understanding for educators who come to District six and who want to read about the contract language prior to coming here. It will enable us to demonstrate how we are competitive across Northern Colorado rather than having individuals reach out to find information before applying for a job or during the
salary placement process. The committee also addressed the way CTE educators move on the salary schedule. As CTE educators are now placed on the main certified salary schedule, they are now eligible to complete the horizontal advancement, for salary increases just as any other educator who is not a CTE educator employee. This creates equity for everyone. We finally, we agreed to remove the old CTE salary schedule to ensure clarity in
the contract. Continuing with compensation, the cocurricular task force is working to design a guidebook for coaches and athletic directors to build consistency across the system. The master contract co curricular schedule needed some cleanup to correct some duplication of positions and clarity of language. You'll see the next iteration of the schedule alphabetized to help finding the appropriate position much easier. Some positions were removed, such as fourth and fifth intramurals and other positions added, such
as flag football and middle school esports. The negotiations team three years ago established behavior training for all certified staff. This year is no exception. We agreed to establish a behavior training three point zero, which will deepen the understanding of behavior and trauma in the professional development resource as well as a family friendly
component in the parent handbook. Many modules will be generated so that administrators new to our system or those who just need a booster can access the training concepts. As mentioned earlier, a safety component will be added to the d six essentials so that all new hires are prepped and ready on the first day of school so that they know all of the safety protocols. The systems the systems of support team will continue to refine communication, consistency across the system, and collaboration within the behavior management.
This information is held in Infinite Campus so that all sites have a consistent practice across the system, and everyone knows where to access that's that information. Capturing this work in the master contract is important as we will identify the work within the systems of support purpose. The next steps for the systems of support team includes the SOS survey in May before the end of the year. They will provide a guide for our sites to strengthen the referral process and develop
year long PD plans to meet staff and student needs as they respond to behaviors. Building leaders will receive a template and some examples to use as a reference to enhance the referral process. Last year, just in terms of talking about that survey, last year we had six ninety three complete the survey, and we anticipate having many more, provide feedback on implementing the response to behavior discipline system. That is our presentation on all the the tentative agreements that were made in negotiations
this year. And, we would be happy Erin and I would be happy to entertain some questions for you from you. Thank you very much. This is very extensive. Any comments or questions? I feel like your your presentation was comprehensive. I recall all of those talking points that we had during negotiations. Once again, I would just like to call to attention this wonderful process for negotiating the master teacher contract each year, that the three entities of administration, GEA, and the
board get together. Every voice is in the room. All of the challenges and and, you know, potential problems to be solved are are discussed. And then thank you to all of the teams who have been working for the past four months and and years ongoing, to reach these agreements. President Mahesh, may I? Yes. Absolutely. I also wanna say thank you to all of you. We are so unique in the way that we negotiate, and I just wanna say thank you for participating because not every school board does.
And it's just another example of how vested you are into our community, and we appreciate it. I also wanna say thank you for your patience. It we had a lot of really hard conversations, and so, so your patience. Also, I wanna thank you for your voluntary leadership, and your good stewardship of our district in making it the best that it can be and continuing to have that in a collaborative way. And then, officially, GA has ratified this tentative agreement, and so thank you for considering,
accepting this tentative agreement as well. Excellent. Well, I think we are ready to do so. So, miss Lemon, will you please give us a We got a motion. Oh, we need a motion first, though. I move that the Board of Education of Greeley Evans School District six approves the tentative agreements to be incorporated into the twenty twenty six, twenty seven district six master contract. These tentative agreements include the adoption of the salary schedules as presented. Second. Is there any discussion on the motion? Seeing none, miss Levin, will you please give us a vote? Director Azari? Aye.
Director Bentley? Aye. Director Campos Spitzi? Aye. Director Edmonds? Aye. Director Lemos Garcia? Aye. Director Mash. Aye. Director Rogge. Aye. Motion carries seven zero. Awesome. Yeah. Thank you. Thank you guys very much. It'll be a great year. Thank you. I would just like to say, is that okay if I just go ahead? Sorry. I there's a process that I'm supposed to use and I didn't use it but I just keep wanting to say thank you so much for the time that, both of you have spent working and working on this and the hard conversations and all that it means to our teachers and our district that we are able to do
this in a collaborative way and I just wanna thank you, personally so much for your time and effort. Well said. Thank you. Yeah. Well, that is all the business that we have for this evening. Best wishes to all of you in the last ten days of school. I'm not sure how many, but we look forward to celebrating graduations with all of you. Thank you. This meeting is adjourned.