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[Music] [Music] good afternoon welcome to the work session for the board of education for gy Evans school district 6 today is the
24th of February um we will call the meeting to order and Miss lemon will you call the role for us please director Zari pres director Bentley pres director kampos spitzy pres director Mash pres director Matthews pres director Norwood pres
director Sullivan present all board members present thank you Miss lemon um everybody please check your calendars first while we go through this uh you'll notice tomorrow we have a couple of events the
my story culture assem culture culture assembly at uh it's at gy Central the gy Evans Elementary Coral Festival which should be a great show it's tomorrow night at the Union Colony Civic Center at 6 we do have our casby winter
legislative conference coming up on the 27th and 28th uh G's state of the city address is on the 27th uh that's Thursday uh evening at 6 at ases this year uh then we have a school visit on
Monday the 3rd to Bella Romero the the uh 4th through 8th Grade Campus then uh there is a world County Distinguished Citizen dinner that one miss lemon do we have everybody responded has everybody responded to that I believe everybody's
responded who would like to go okay great and that gets us up to the to the next board meeting but there's a couple of things right after that board meeting that's a busy week for us uh the 10 10th uh we have the success Foundation breakfast on the
11th early morning at Northridge and then NE negotiations with GAA on the 12th through the 14th and we stop there um anything else that needs to be on our [Music] calendar I'm looking Mr President the
Northridge Marine Corps Awards I believe trying to find it on good calendar I think is April 22nd I'm not sure so all right I'm waiting to hear back from major Kinley all right well if you will just communicate with Miss lemon and she
can she can get that on our calendars as well anything else that should be on our calendar that is not showing up all right well moving right along we will get board member comments and reports and we'll start with Miss
Sullivan um I was actually out of town for the last week and then came back and was joyfully sick anybody wants to have a good laugh you can pull out the Dave Ramsey Show which I was on I was a hot mess husband was calm cool collect but it was uh really good out there it was
very positive environment it was amazing and then they did call me in and I interviewed with uh the Ramsay place so pretty excited uh but then on the fly home there was a bunch of people sick on the plane so our whole family was sick over the
weekend so but good place to go oh congratulations on that Dr Camp spit yeah so Friday um most of us were able to attend the James Madison K through 8 school visit um it was really
cool to see them fully moved into their new space um just a beautiful building um they talked to us about um kind of forming their identity as a steam Academy um and what that's going to mean for them and their staff um we talked
about little things like School drop offs being a little bit challenging with how many students they have um and the parking lot situation and they talked about um plans on how to right size their school so that because they were so popular and had a lot of kids come in
through open enrollment um how to M go back to the model that they were hoping for which was uh three classes per grade level um but it's a really impressive building it's prek through 8 um well through seven for now um but they're planning on starting 8th grade next year
so that was exciting and then Friday night um I got to end my day at G West High School um I aaz on for that school and I was invited by their Future Farmers of America students um to attend their um Farm totable event and so they
put on a dinner um for community members they partner with grey catering um the students who in the gy catering track um to put together a meal it was delicious it was very well attended they actually had us eat quickly because there were so many people there that they needed more
space for people to sit at tables um they had a huge silent auction um and just a very successful event um I really loved that there was a bunch of CSU students there who were G West Alum um who are now at CSU and they came to just
support the event and and came as volunteers and we're all wearing their CSU here so just cool to see that community and that connection great thank you Dr ke spitzy Mr noan I too um enjoyed the visit to Madison it's amazing what they've got going on there
um to see the work that they're doing with all the students and how they handle even some of the work with the teachers is pretty incredible last time I was there it was still the round building so this was uh great to see the new building night before that I did get a chance to go out to the Northridge
boys basketball game and get a chance to see the inaugural Hall of Fame duees for Northridge got a chance to catch up with some students that I hadn't seen in over 20 years um and visit with them and see what they're up to and uh kind of watch
them bask in their Glory of being the first group to be um in the North Hall of Fame so it's pretty good to see it thank you Mr Norwood Mr Bentley um I got to attend the gy area Chamber of
Commerce dinner uh that was that's always a good dinner um I think they set a record every year for attendance and just nice to be uh in there with the with the chamber and all the good work they do for the community and and help us with the stuff that we have going on and it was it was
really nice to see John and Del H awarded that award that night um also got to go to Madison um this was my first time through the school since uh the beam topping and and just to see you know to hear about their challenges as
with admin you know their their their principal they've had three in three years basically there and just to see that the the progress they're making towards stability and and just the home that they've made in that new building um it was just really impressive to see how far they've come in a short amount of time so it's fun to see the bond
dollars at work and um those those teachers and students definitely appreciated it Mr aori like to went to Madison I agree totally with my other board members here very impressive School
a whole new world uh for that school versus what they used to have I also went to the grey Area Chamber of Commerce annual dinner and um it was great that John and deia were honored it was very touching and Dr pelch presented that award to
them I also had uh the opportunity to go to the district 6 honor Orchestra Festival being that I was once an orchestra director it was appropriate for me and it was really great to see the kid kids up on stage and all the teachers and uh to watch the new
orchester director at UNC who was invited in to direct that group so continuing that partnership with uh the university I also had the opportunity to join Anthony aouth Overton and Nate fall
and uh with two of our students to go down to the casby student day at the Capitol uh it was a great day and I guess we're going to hear from the students later uh down the road from what I understand uh in March Pro
potentially uh I'd like to just thank uh Senator Kirk Meer for taking her time to visit with the students and taking them into the Senate chamber uh so that they could get a closer look at the way uh the Senate operates and our students
spoke with her about the importance of school funding and both of our students represented the district District really really well they were they were outstanding finally this afternoon I did have a chance to hear this presentation that we're going to hear this evening
and it was outstanding it's a great presentation I'm looking forward to it again thank you Mr oari Vice President mesh um I got to attend the community council for Education I've been invited many times
but this was my first opportunity to attend and Nelson Rodriguez gave an update on um our internship program it was a really great uh information for all the leaders uh all the Business Leaders what that entails there was some good brainstorming about how we could
maybe create even um a seminar or some sort of workshop for Business Leaders to know exactly how to make that a successful opportunity for them and how to how to reach out to more businesses cuz we have I think almost twice as many students as we have Physicians who are
interested so um that really great partnership again with district 6 and the the chamber ases community colleges there as well as UNCC and everybody gives an update and there's you know some discussion on the budgets for next
year for all of Education higher education preschool as well and just you know knowing that we're going to have to be creative um and also knowing that we have those Partnerships that hopefully we can work together um for when there
might be a shortfall um I enjoyed the chamber dinner as well and the Madison visit where we did get to observe Miss osmus teaching her class um so always wonderful to have our own come back and and teach at District Six as
well I really don't have anything to add I did enjoy the Madison visit um it it is true I guess if you if you build it they will they will come and they continue to uh pack students in and it is it is good to hear that they hopefully will be able to rightsize
rightsize that um although it it's incredible that how many students have open enrolled to Madison and that that's great to see uh yes great to see John honored at the John Halley and dilia Halley honored at
the at the chamber dinner and um yeah they've done so much uh for in the city in the school district and um um can be happier and more proud of them for all they've done I did get to go to the combin league Honor Band concert and
that's that's always great to see uh so many schools represented from from around um I don't know even know how how big the combined league is Mr zor could probably say it tell me better than uh but it's a number of schools from uh
from Well County at least and uh that was at the um u c and so fantastic concert that they put on and great for those kids to get to work with with some of uh some outstanding uh conductors so um I think
that's that is about everything and we'll we'll move on from board member comments and reports and go on to we're going to change our agenda a little bit so our students are not here um who are going to present to us I I've heard that they are uh they made the playoffs or or
something um so they they've had a they've got a game that they they have to have to attend uh one has to play plan I think and so we're not going to hear from them tonight and we're going to move our Downtown Development information up on the agenda uh to let
our guest leave early if they if they so desire and so Dr pilch I I will hand it to you for for introductions because I'm not sure exactly who all is presenting to us tonight thank you president Matthews um I'll just start by saying that I shared with you all um
individually several months ago that we were in conversation with the city of gy and um with the developer on the possibility of being a partner in in a revitalization of downtown here of several blocks downtown that could
involve us here in district 6 um an opportunity to build a new building and and to deal with some of the issues that we've dealt with with this building for quite some time now so that that project has begun to move along a little more aggressively and there's still a lot of
moving Parts it's a complex project between the city of gy Weld County and school district 6 we're really the smaller player in all of this we're the smallest land owner and the smallest building owner in all of this um but we would benefit greatly from an
opportunity to participate and um and we're you know we're really pleased that we were approached I'm pleased we were approached and asked to to consider the the the proposition for this and so I see we have folks coming from richmark I'll let them introduce themselves and
um and then we've got U much of the Richardson family sitting behind us back here uh to show support and I suppose ask answer or ask questions to as we go but what we want to do with you tonight is really give you a high level overview of of what the project might look like and and kind of what the moving pieces
are between the city the county and the school district here downtown um we're not prepared yet to talk about numbers and funding but we will continue to work on that and come back at a later at a later time to visit with you all about that but just to get you up to speed with where the rest of the entities are
on this they're a little further along than we are with the city and the county because they're far bigger players in this with a lot more property involved uh and a lot greater oh look yeah a lot greater need and so a lot a lot more work to do probably there so I'll pass this to you all Adam and and let you get
started well thank you very much and thank you uh board for letting us join and join your work session and show you some of our crazy ideas um this has been a whirlwind of work and trying to get uh talking to council members and
Commissioners and staffs and um we really appreciate the time here uh my name is Adam Frasier I work for the Richardsons at ridgemark and uh really today I'm going to let Stephanie do most of the driving she's kind of our uh secret weapon in our office that she's a land planner by education and trade and
she's been working really hard on this so I'm going to let Stephanie van Dy take thanks Adam yes as he mentioned my name is Stephanie Van Dien and I want want to first of all say thank you for your service uh I really appreciate you guys it takes a village to raise
children and you are a very important part of that Village so thank you very much um for playing your role in that Village and and letting us come to you today we want to really work on the great momentum that's been building I mean district 6 has been doing so many
wonderful wonderful things lately and we want to facilitate that we want to promote that we want to help that move along and so this project came up um and we kind of weasel our way into it where the Weld County had a master plan come up and they said well we're moving out
to O Street and we're like well you know what about these other ideas and so the conversation really started with the county then it brought in the city um and then we heard from you guys that you know this building needed repairs as well and so what an opportunity where we
have these three major players of the city and county all needing new facilities at the same time so rather than think in this little box in in this little box here in this building can we think bigger than that so we have some we have some big Ideas we have some
Vision um and we're excited to share and then we would love your feedback as well and your thoughts as well so our gy Downtown Vision why now because all three entities need to move um and here's kind of those needs that they they have and
here's the the map of who owns what in this area so the county is in the dark blue the city is in the light blue and then you guys have the 1.74 Acres there district 6 um which is is significant you guys are a significant player in
this um and so how do we kind of swap here trade there to fulfill everybody's needs that you see on this list and only having to move once so the goal is that we could build a new facility and you guys could move in rather than
having to move to Temporary locations first and why do we want to do this we want a vibrant we want a thriving downtown you know I don't know a very many cities that don't have that heart in the middle that Weld County Seat that
that major heartbeat right in the downtown area that thrive elsewhere you know sure like there's you could have a little bedroom community but you don't think about going there for any any Services we could create create um this and and build on um the momentum of
downtown and create a really thriving inclusive um spot for for our residents there's all the details and the weeds right because one concern that the county shared was well we can't have a big enough building um and what we
shared with them is that we're actually in a unique spot here in downtown where a lot of the city code doesn't necessarily apply to these city blocks so we're able to build taller for example we're able to build to the set to the RightWay lines to the sidewalks
rather than having to be set back so there's a lot fewer constraints as far as going through these City entitlement process getting those land use approvals getting the the checks that um we have to go through with the planning department with the city of gy no matter where you build so we have the unique
situation of being located in the general Improvement District overlay which is going to be expanded um but that gives us a little more flexibility here so that's exciting so what can that look like you know I don't know if many of you have been to the dairy Block in Denver but
they have retail they have shopping they have restaurants they have Hotel they have all of these really exciting um really active spaces and our city blocks are very similar in size to the dairy block so we can fit the dairy block you
know on one of these blocks and the current where we are right now is right here on that corner this is another example that also you know that music Lane in Austin Texas where as you're walking through the alley you find these really special spaces you come around the corner and
you see this new restaurant you're like oh I have to try that out like you know it's a really unique um experience and you know can we bring that authentic Weld County experience here we don't want to to replicate any of these projects but we want to point out that
we do have the room we do have the the ability the space to do that so can we create our own unique Weld County destination here with all of these Partners But It's Tricky right there's a lot of players and the land swap going
from the existing current ownership to making you know bigger chunks of single colors but having the ability to go up and out and however we need to kind of twist and turn to make the tetris pieces fit um so we're working through all of
that right now and the big Vision which you know it is possible we are making these little steps towards this big Vision as we speak but what would happen is to orient yourself here is Lincoln Park and then
we have the historic Courthouse right here and currently this is the Centennial Center so once this Justice new judicial Center was built over here the Centennial Center folks would move out and move over on this side and I'll show a better
example of this for a phase one on coming up here um but then the city round building and what would happen is this is the new district 6 building here with City Hall private offices and a hotel
and so we create really this mixed juuse um really kind of activated block here uh with um preferably a parking garage but this is just kind of our initial stab at it you know maybe we need surface parking maybe we need to
this is an initial concept which can change but this is the Hope Stephanie go back and reference where the school district currently where this building currently is right here just move across so there so basically just across the street yeah so the juror parking lot is
where this block currently is this is the juror parking lot does somebody who owns that it's like a house with a building attached to it I think it might be the Union offices who owns that Union the union so yeah
there's a handful on the jury parking lot that have not haven't been acquired haven't been reached out to yet there's some work to do MH still on acquiring it but is those are those little orange those little orange they haven't been approached yet but a lot of
that's I didn't want to shake their entire world until the county said yes right yeah that makes sense now that this is in the Press I probably should reach out to him and sorry we drew on your Aerials sorry I had you yeah doodled on
your property so here's a concept of what this block could look like um we could have now North is pointing up so here is the school district building we're thinking that um activating the ground floor with retail or coffee shop or
restaurant Brew you know Brewery Hotel restaurant and these not only face out but they also face in so as you see this green space going through and you're like oh what's that and you kind of want to wander wander down mid block and then you come across the coffee shop or you
come across the restaurant um and having you know all of these people in one space can really support those restaurants and whatnot as well and then kind of back a house um where we we need that loading unloading all of that so
question uhhuh uh can you uh kind of give us an idea about size what would be the what's the current size do you know of this building square footage versus the new one so if you add everything up here with the basement and the out
buildings I think this is close to 880,000 square ft a lot of it's not very usable space just if you you know you look at big hallways and these conference rooms over here are not closed off so you can't really do anything private in those conference rooms and then with one North being that
just that big open space downstairs night shade it's not so this would be 65 to 75,000 Square ft we think with a more usable space more usable I think that would get out of the old Bank building here could
fit the security um station downstairs be included be somewhere else no it would stay it' be included so everything in this building and across the street at the enrollment off the across the street with the family center enrollment all that would go we'd all come together
into one facility yeah that's the plan right now is I'm always curious about underground parking is that it's really expensive okay yeah so it is easier to build up than or flat is the cheapest you know just these
massive Walmart parking lots are the cheapest but then the parking garage and then underground does get more expensive so some precedent imagery of what this block could look like you know like these little restaurants and shops and everything um that are in these mid
block Crossings in between all of these buildings so our phasing you know it's like okay great the pretty pictures are wonderful but can it actually happen you know I I have I have a blast do doodling on other people's property sure but
what's real and what can actually happen and that's where we get into here is you know the if we take the juror parking lot in order to do um the development on this lot and move you guys across the street then we need to give them
temporary parking somewhere else and so this is the old furniture store that we just demolished uh we did go in for to the city of gley for a pre-application meeting and they gave us the green light for a temporary parking lot here so we're able to you know that's already
been given the thumbs up so that's real we can move and require some paperwork still but we can move that parking over to this lot um and then this is where the Public Works building and Weld County owns some of these Parcels here and that's where we can make up that
second half of their juror parking lot so when we build the judicial Center the Centennial Center moves over City Hall then moves into their new city hall here and you guys can move in to the new district 6 building um once this you
know block is constructed you only have to move once rather than into temporary facilities and so this kind of outlines the um you know the the total square footage so right now for we're proposing on this block about 67,000 ft that can
grow um again this was just kind of the first stab we can go up we can go out that can that can totally morph um but we were just getting into that range of 65 to 75 and so that's kind of where it landed yeah would you mind going backwards sure so were you um across the
city hall where it's in pink are is there a church that normally that sits there are they demolishing yep so um we're under contract to purchase the Methodist Church there okay mhm y so yeah that's our our brief overview um
to kind of just give the the the big picture but um hopefully as some of these other pieces start falling into place we'll be able to come back with a lot more more detail for you and more information what we haven't shared with the board in detail is uh a review of
this building uh Kent and his team brought in um a team to review this building and and to do a fac facility conditions audit to determine what it would take to improve this building or or what it would cost to replace this building so that is work that we have
done and we'll continue to do so that you'll have that information to look at as well as we begin to get possibly more serious about this and speaking of that part of getting more serious on it do we know where the county is on this well we
we were there today when when richmark and and others presented to the county to share their their estimate of the numbers um it would seem that the the reports that they've gotten back so far have not really been Apples to Apples
and so I think what richmark was trying to do um was show them with a pretty extensive audit with lots of of different Architects and Engineers involved that um the numbers are really not what they've been projected to be
and and so I think uh that Adam and and Colin did a really nice job today saying uh we just want to seat at the table we want to come in and and meet with your staff and and talk with your staff and have a seat at the table and and work through the numbers together and work through the needs together that's what
we're asking to do and so I I don't you know I think we're hopeful all of us that they were receptive Logan was in the room as well and Tyler was in the um overflow space and so Arlo was there so I think you know I think um and Stephanie is brilliant she's their
secret weapon um so I think you know I think it the story today would read a lot lot differently than the story that was in Bez West and in the gy Tribune about the cost difference between O Street and downtown I think the story would I don't
think media was present today they were oh they were present oh yeah okay good so we'll see what gets printed next yeah if um and this of course is working way out if the county were to go with this idea what's the time frame look like for
I mean obviously the school district would be a part of this so what are we looking at in terms of time on this project it's about three years from when we all actually sit say go go you have an architect ready to
draw we know exactly what we want to feed the architect but if we know what we want we have an architect that we like we could get your building and the parking garage delivered in 3 years 3 years from now is when that construction from when you from when you
may say yes so I think the the time between now and a yes is a bit unknown the County's said they're going to have three open houses in March and then they'll be they need to make they plan to make a decision shortly thereafter so
um I think yeah three three years from everyone really sits down and there's a lot of paperwork that's going to have to get negotiated by some smart attorneys and U and then then the clock starts there's still a possibility of of
us engaging in something um with the developer and with the city around this and with the land swap even if the county doesn't come fully on board and and they were to decide to go to O Street they have they have indicated they would still be interested in the property Swap and you know allowing us
to build on their property and swapping our land for their land so um we'll see where that goes and I think the decision the board is going to have to make is um knowing that at some point this building I I is either going to have to have substantial improvements or subst or be
replaced which the cost is pretty comparable and so um do do we stay downtown or do we you know do we look to build like out on the toon Academy campus where we do have 8 acres and I think our our pref preference has always
been to stay downtown that we see us as a vital part of downtown and we have 150 plus employees in this building plus all the staff that we bring in here you know throughout the day for meetings and for interviews and for other things and so I think we feel like you know we're a
vital part of downtown and it's centrally located for the district it's it's a good location to to get to most of our schools in a a pretty even amount of time and you know when you're looking at the farthest you have to go it's about the same um so I think those are all
discussions that we we'll need to have and and work through and and of course you know do we invest the dollars in it and I I think you all are well aware of the condition of this building and we can have Kent and team come and share more of that um when you're ready for that it's you know last week when it was
so cold in here uh or so cold outside we had some offices in the 50s and some offices in the '90s in this building I mean it's just you know and there it's one thing to be uncomfortable and it's one thing to have an elevator out which happens about once a week and you're taking stairs you're using the service
elevator but it's another thing to expect people to work in 50° temperature or 90° temperature that's just those are not good working conditions for folks and so um we're we're going to have to do some pretty significant work here the biggest issues here are hbac asbest and
the elevators all very expensive the most expensive parts of all very expensive yeah and then the flooding and the water stuff all the water stuff I'm curious um and this is from you know side conversations with uh
folks in the county um have they thought so so they don't have to have all their cour houses like here they don't all have to be downtown they could have some here and spread out and actually make it more convenient for some of their um
residents to access cour houses closer to like Southern W County that I'm just curious if they're trying to just consolidate them all into the same building when really they don't have to so the master plan that was done for the county did recommend that they were all
Consolidated into one building and that was mostly for wayfinding where it's like okay I have jury duty which building which Courthouse do I go to and then what room is it in that building um so had concerns with just finding the
right building if it was split up um however I would love to hear what you've heard as far as why that is maybe better you know because there's two sides to every every design challenge has two sides or more so I'd love to hear your
the feedback that you've gotten too sure that could be awfully sure sure too if you want um what well I I don't want to out my source very enough Dr pil I don't know if you want
to mention like the possible funding me mechanism for the districts well I think you know that those are still conversations that we're having and clearly we will need to take on more debt I mean that that is the reality of of how we would do that I mean there's you know there's we could look to some
Reserve we could look um but I I think what we have most talked about is the possibility of cops um which would mean that we would take on debt and kind of like taking on bonded inde deadness but you don't go to your voters for voter approval um you
know we we had the conversation when we had Bond Revenue that was excess Revenue in this last bond issue and and you know built a curent technical education center and an addition at Martinez and an addition at Meer and uh you know
those you know expanded the projects we had going rather than building a new district office so that's an option down the road as well is to look to bom proceeds that's what most school districts do down the road we don't have those proceeds to do that right now so that would require another bond issue um
but the reality is we would take on debt to to able to do this Dr Phil how much do we put into this building every year right now well we think we have that number yet right Megan and can of what we're SP putting in but it you know
we're in the millions um or a million at least a year of problems um you know most of the flood fling well not most a lot of the flooding issues that occurred with the basement is insurance but but the trade-off of that is we we watch our insurance premiums just continue to go
up or get dropped by our insurance and so you know even if we're not paying for it on the front end because insurance is we're paying for it on the back end with our insurance premiums very likely and so you know there but we're working with with budget and finance to and with Mr
Hanson's team to really look at what what is it costing us to keep these facili you know going and um what what are we putting in this facilities the one thing you can't really as easily quantify is just how much time our own District staff are here you know so one of the
things on Tuesday or Wednesday morning when it was so nasty and they're texting me and you know we're always like schools first that I you know I need our team out working on schools first getting boilers in schools running getting power up in schools before they're worried about fixing this
building um mean that that that has to our priority before they're over here and so just that human resource and and the money you know that the district is incurring just in wages when folks are out and when they're out you know working overtime because they're out on
a a weekend making sure that and this building is one of our our biggest problems we able to fix a lot of our problems with this last bond issue and we still have a few you know spots where we we're really you know having a monitor but um it's usually a matter of like let's just get a boiler back up at
Cameron but this building is just really complex it's old and it's big and it's not been well kept and since we're talking about that uh the natural question that flows from that is since the downtown has had such a significant
issue with flooding this new construction I would presume would would answer for some of that would accommodate yeah that was one of the questions I had Doran so I I like that I their answer is interesting yeah and you know richmark fortunate to build
a lot of stuff downtown that was all also in the flood stuff so with new construction you get a couple advantages you can build it about 8 Ines higher off the ground right and that takes care of most events and then you add storm inlets in your bargain Lots which none of this stuff does downtown and uh I do
believe especially if we pull this off you're touching you know six blocks and everyone starts adding I think not only does it benefit these projects but it actually helps kind of the old town and the plaza really makes huge improvements
and the city's pretty um excited about they want to do linoln park at the same time so it kind of just be this giant uh Improvement to the infrastructure in our downtown yeah so you can either raise your building above the base flood elevation and that way water doesn't get in your doors you'll
just have some ramps and steps to the front doors or you can also provide on-site detention and that way you can hold that initial storm and then release it at the historic rate so and I would presume we would not have a basement then like we have in this building prob
not you could um you would just flood proof it and so that water wouldn't get into the basement but then there's floodgates and doors and whatnot that you probably don't want to deal with so it's anything's possible but then you are adding dollar signs so I would say
you know if if you want to look at the cost effective go up one go up instead of down build up yeah I think it's a district we've decided windows are pretty good thing right daylight is a good thing at least at gy West it's made a dramatic
improvement with the the phasing um I think one of the potential negatives that was printed in one of the Publications was about just what will this do to downtown business flow of traffic all that kind of stuff so it actually improves it um
so the reality is that we did have an econom an economist study what would those effects be and I I'm not a a numbers person and so it came back and it's like oh I didn't realize that construction actually improves the
economy because you have all of those construction workers downtown that are buying lunch you have all those construction workers downtown they're like oh I should get my wife some flowers before I go home so they're stopping at the local businesses so the the downtown businesses would actually
improve um and we saw that when building the Maddie the what was it the Roma's Pizza and Cha Hut those guys loved us they were very thankful right yeah it is there a temporary mess you know do we have to close down a lane to to get
close you know and that construction absolutely um but that's going to happen either way that's going to happen no matter what we do down here and whether it's demolishing the buildings that's going to cause a little disruption in traffic so so there are certainly temporary inconveniences for those
long-term gains but the economics actually um improves and traffic wise it looks like it's going to push a lot too 11th Street versus 10th Street because that's the access to the parking garages mhm yep so the other thing that we've been
talking some about is just you know and when you bring candidates in for interviews you bring c new teachers in to do their fingerprinting and things I mean the ability to have a you know a a state-of-the-art facility for Recruitment and Retention I think really
does matter and um it really does matter when we look around at our colleagues um around the state districts our size have have far more sophisticated facilities than we do we know that Windsor is redoing their district office so they're going to have a much more inviting space
to bring people into and so you know I'm thinking about that too I'm thinking about employee Recruitment and Retention and um just that it draws people in and and I'm thinking about families that when families come in and they're trying to make a decision about where to go to school I think having a vibrant downtown
is an important piece to that that we want a vibrant and attractive downtown that families want to be a part of and so I think only I think improving downtown only benefits District stes it's like you said president Matthews about Madison you build it and they will
come you know we Madison Elementary School had declining enrollment at times um in my tenure here and now you know the families have come the Open Enrollment came the have come back I mean it's there's something about a new
facility that really does attract and retain people and we just we just know that I did you mention I don't know if everyone heard so it would have our admin offices our Command Center our family center and our boardroom and we would share our parking garage with the
other businesses and you know I know you just saw that beautiful new Command Center Wade's already said I'm keeping all my screens so all that we would you know we would just move all that equipment over um just to be clear I mean and that equipment should be good for 6 to 10 years so we should be able to move that
equipment assuming the timeline goes sooner than than six to 10 years to do this what we know is the longer this gets drug out the more construction costs go up um we're seeing a much higher construction cost now than we were when we started our bond 5 years
ago and so that's just the reality um I don't know Ken if you want to say anything about that I'm I'm we're not do a bond right now yeah I mean uh cost of construction has gone like West our cost per square foot
was I think was $450 square foot and they're doing high schools now for almost $800 a square foot um so you know we don't want to
wait I'd like to invite I mean we're not as formal as our meeting earlier today so if if any of you all would like to share anything else that you want to add and I know you've been really close to this and working on this and and have invested a great deal in the school district and the success of the district
I know in in my time here and even before I got here Logan left who likes to talk Logan's the who hired me I don't think we have anything to add we've enjoyed putting all this together and doing these Stu studies and
seeing how it can all work together it it would be this is like a once in a lifetime opportunity for three public entities to come together re new facilities and completely R the
downtown stars align this so we're hoping we can get everybody what else are you all thinking about what are the questions I guess like the the glaring thing that the Public's probably going to ask is what's in it for you guys you know what what parts are are touching
you guys and or what isn't or or what where where are you guys at you know I I kind of have an idea but I think that that question is G ask a lot oh of the a richmark a brimark yeah I'm working really hard to figure out how I can make money we've already put in a lot of hours
have invested uh I mean a lot of money but just the amount of resources that they've put they've well all that list of Architects and engineers and wow our off they've the our office has been turned 100% to this right now and um
it's been we every resource we can grab and find has been going towards trying to pull this off and answer your question I not sure how we make money yet obviously we have some apartment we own some land next door like and if this comes up that's hopefully the land
appreciates and we're going to be able build some apartments on the furniture store block after after the wel County's done borrowing it for free which I offered him without the Richardson's permission today $1 I I told $1 I didn't ask Arlo about that before I did it so originally
we talked about being a renter and and really about about richmark being the developer and we would rent from them which would they would then probably stand to to make a little bit of money and and once that I said you know I'd really like to own my own building is that a possibility for us to own rather
than rent I mean they said of course um of course we want you to own your own building if you can figure out how to do that yeah so I think I always feel like I have a very biased view so I try to stay quiet with this conversation because I love
downtown and um you know I'm fortunate enough to live centrally and really enjoy downtown with my family and so this makes me so happy so anything I can do to persuade others um into this Vision I am happy to be an ambassador
well thank you we appreciate welome the team well I think at our meeting Logan was saying he's maybe not as much of a person who spends all of his time in downtown but he can appreciate from the just every time you think about an IC IC
City like Austin like Boulder like Fort Collins you're thinking of ult Fort Collins you're thinking of Pearl Street you're thinking of the music District um like those are the really special places I think most people enjoy the historic buildings and and the history and just
um that destination location that place that's unique to just that place so whether you're you choose to go to the Rio and The Crest all the time or or you live in and you know West gy this yeah
this this benefits the entire city um and yeah I think I think we take pride in gy being the county seat and that we serve the rest of the county in in many different ways and we want that to be a welcoming place for folks who you know
probably it's not their favorite thing to come to court in gy but um maybe it can be a positive experience anyway and that's a good point too you know you mentioned those historic buildings we're not on just wiping out every single building down here um in this plan specifically you know we are keeping and
repurposing several of the histo more historic structures that have that character that have that sense of place um so it's not just a clean slate it is it is still working within those historic buildings too are you keeping the First
Baptist Church and that I think I saw that on one of the plans that yeah there it is y that one's seeing mhm so that one stays on this concept right yeah right yeah for today today's thought is yes that one's
on the register so under any scenario answer is yes could we figure out a way to grab the claron and put it in here too you're not the first one to say that that's good I like it's gross haven't approached the local businesses yet what's that this
you haven't approached the local businesses that would be not the not the property owners on the jury parking lot that we're showing a big building on no I haven't we have talked to the DDA one of them was there and we have been emailing with her yeah the chamber the gy area Chamber board and the Downtown
Development Association are both really paying attention to this and very involved and really want to see this go um and so both have written letters to the the County Commissioners you know offering their support the Downtown Development Association has offered $1 million in support of this um the city
of gy has offered 10 million in support of a parking garage for this and so the downtown businesses have offered the amount of the cost of the original Courthouse I thought that was clever that was aan idea and then is it opening up for
additional businesses like abut restaurants and all that to be moving in because I guess I'm not seeing that go back to the first floor of the jur so this is the kind of the first floor plan of the where the school district City Hall thr a hotel maybe
private office but this red here is kind of the first floor retail restaurants one of Lo Logan's other dream is once if we pull this off to wrap a bow around it he wants fat Alberts Kenny's and JB's right
here so like that if we pulled this off with all these govern he's like that's how that's how you really get everyone across the Finish Line If you promise those restaurants potato brumas too any big
comeback so if there was a little Mom and Pop shop that's like we need a space for this new ice cream store concept that we have we're like great how big do you need let's put it in the school dist you know let's put it here let's find a space for you let's figure out how to make it happen other questions or thoughts
yeah just for fun talk about our ideas for theart courthous yeah um so one idea that we have is when we were trying to figure out how to talk the county into this and they it's
been it's been a dollar a lot of dollars and cents is the kind of the thing they have this huge hickey with that historic couse in that maintaining it uh they have over they have a million dollars a year planned in their 2025 budget just for like keeping it together but one of
our fun ideas is what if we can build a hotel kind of behind it on the west side of it and tie it into the historic Courthouse where we do an Adaptive reuse to turn that into maybe the banquet space for the hotel the restaurant space
for the hotel all your kind of amenities kind of a Union Station in Denver idea of uh try to tie that all in together to make that and that the courthouse it wouldn't be just amities for the hotel too right kind of all downtown we see the Double Tree and tap into it for
events your wedding venue wedding venues yeah like it's kind of a downtown public space Sim very similar to does I have a capacity um projection so I just know like every event that we try to host not us specifically but everybody's limited
to basically if it's doesn't fit in the Double Tree they can't do it in town you know and I think it's 500 people or something which or you know it's not probably be less just thinking a floor plates but yeah this probably be L either Island Grove or you we're we're also solving that
problem good we can come in and show you Logan has a Fieldhouse too we're throwing Logan under the bus chair a lot left what other questions guys let these guys go I will just say regardless of of what happens and hopefully hopefully all of
this comes to pass when I know we cannot stay in this building um and so and I know we want to as a district um be in the in the downtown if we can be and so uh whatever comes to pass though I appreciate your
vision uh for for the city and and for the downtown and um yeah we something that we can all I think I can't remember it was Colin that that said it but uh it's a it's a Once in a 100 year uh
project where where we can all come together the city of gy and district 6 and in the county and so my personal hope is that it that it does come to pass so yeah everything our to make it so just to reiterate like to how lucky gy and well county is to have this
family in in here and you guys' Vision um I knew where you guys' heart were but I just want to make sure it was out there that this is basically charity on on your end so it's it's it's cool to see and and it's it's one of my favorite parts of gy is is how much uh the community and and the people who have
prospered here have have given back and do give back is there anything that we can do like like do we need a collective I don't think so yet um Miss Mash I think that eventually we may want to um the city did a letter of intent
around this million dollars and to and the intent to participate so I think at some point we may want to do something like that do a letter of intent to par participate or um to to act in good faith as a partner so we may want to do that at some point and we can visit more about that if that's necessary and
prudent to do that but we we sure could yeah maybe we should think about that more since the city went forward with the letter so we would need to come to the board with that with a resolution or a letter that you all would approve so uh we'll visit some more about that and see um if we want to go more formal on
that we sure could look at that that might be a nice thing to do good idea um I think you know I I too want to Echo Kyle's words um you know I've worked in three other communities and and never have I seen uh the kind of commitment we
have here for philanthropy and and deep deep dedication and just you know when it's really just a handful of individuals investing so deeply in a community and so deeply in the school district and you know most recently uh richmark has has invested in this
Elementary Athletics program and and expanding the elementary Athletics and you know I think it's going to be a real game Cher for our kids here in district 6 and it's just thing after thing after thing and you know I only got to work with Logan for a few months on the board but he stuck around and still met with
me for you know for several months after he was no longer a board member and he was really the one who you know coached me around this idea of that we needed more K8 schools and that families love k8s and that's really a big piece of my influence of um helping to lead mcalli
to becomeing a K8 and looking at the new pre-eng engineering Academy being a K8 and Madison being a K8 I mean it just and it's proven to be a very very successful model and um so I you know personally and professionally am very indebted to the Richardson family and um
feel like their commitment to district 6 has been significant to Our Success here and what we've been able to do for students here in district 6 and Logan did want to stay but he's on kid duty right now so he had to go take care of kids otherwise he still would have been here for sure
by the way we all work for Logan that's how it always is right well if there are no other questions we'll we'll let you guys go and just say thank you for being here thank you for for this presentation thank you thank you thank
you next on our agenda is our legislative update so Mr fall I think bring you up all right Mr F welcome and we will I'll just give it over to you as Dr PCH
uh escorts Our Guest out what does go thank you president Matthews and members of the board um my name is Nate fall I'm in house legal council for the school district we are um talking about a legislative update for today and I need to pull up my notes I'm
sorry I thought I had them up um so uh just a few things just to get us started and I did share an electronic version with you all so you should be able to access the links uh on your own if you would like to um there was a financial literacy bill that was
introduced uh few weeks ago um so that's House Bill 25192 what this bill does is it does two things number one it creates a mandatory financial literacy requirement for graduation and then number two it requires that all students uh who are
Juniors or seniors must complete a FAFSA form um but it does list out a number of exceptions um for individuals who don't want to fill out or don't need to fill out the fast form which leads to the question why even have it as a requirement if you can just exempt out of it but
nonetheless um so what the financial literacy piece is that would require uh completion of a course in financial literacy as a condition of high school graduation and this would be uh Incorporated um through the State Board of Education would then be developing
those rules that then we would need to follow whether or not we can incorporate kind of our own curriculum into that Financial literacy requirement is unknown it's unclear I think when you read the law um uh a lot of school districts and a lot of the major um groups in the state
of Colorado are actually coming out against this bill um and the reason that they are coming out against the bill is just for the fact that adding a new requirement means adding teachers developing curriculum you know it's going to take time it might take electives away from other requirements
if we don't want to add on an elective um just kind of those practical implementation concerns I think are what a lot of these uh school districts and organizations are seeing uh our district is just in a position of monitor I'm certainly I would be interested to hear what this board's comments are on the
financial literacy Bill I'm not sure if you've read it at all or if you've looked into it or read in the news about it um and certainly that's something we can have a conversation about later but I just wanted to share that that bill uh has been introduced um which groups have you said have opposed it um so I know that uh
Colorado Association of school boards uh Colorado Association of School Executives um I believe Colorado Education Association the teachers union has come out against it let's see here Colorado or School Counselors Association is in
opposition case um casby and CA education reinv Vision bosies um I thought I saw maybe maybe I should maybe let me take that comment back
about CA I don't see them on this list me I thought I saw CE on here earlier I'm sorry and then Pikes Peak Area School District Alliance is also an opposition is that posted somewhere or is that a list you can send out via email you um you should be able I can I
can send you a link put that in in our weekly bulletin for them to do so on the bill tracker that I sent you you have to kind of click on and I I'll walk you through it but you'll be able to see all the folks or organizations that have come out in support or oppose or amend or whatever um and I think it's also
posted on the Colorado State's website but it's a little less easy to navigate so okay I was at the winter conference for the Colorado Association of school execs last week and what what I mostly heard was that I worry about an unfunded mandate that it'll come without additional funding for curriculum
writing and curriculum revision or for additional teachers and then also the worry about um around the financial aid is again the unfunded mandate you know just keeping track of that and and the counselor you know council's already have a case load of 400 plus kids and
now we're going to put requirement for financial aid on on the counselors also so I think um if there was money and if we weren't looking at a year of facing budget cuts there might be a little more support for this but they they are pretty adamant across the organizations
that uh especially case and and casby um that they're just are not they are not coming out in support of this um Megan did you hear anything else from an today and your a new today okay how about it dbo when you're with them um I think
another issue that around the financial aid requirement really comes down to undocumented students and at you know at that point they would hat it out themselves by as undocumented
undocumented yeah Dr Pils they looked at rather than adding a whole new curriculum maybe adding in financial literacy to some of the business classes well that's kind of what we have right now we have not kind of it is so right now the financial
literacy standards are in US history and then we've I sent you all a list out oh gosh SE few months ago with of all of the finance courses that include the financial literacy standards so those standards are in many of our finance
courses at the high school level already um but you know this is really about adding a a semester of financial literacy with its own its own course with its own standards what's confusing and I don't know if they've clarified this yet or not they they'll need to is
they say that is there's no change in the standards but if it's a whole semester of instruction there has to be a change in something because currently in teaching it in US history and even what we teach in elementary where we teach it in math and and Middle School we don't we don't teach a full semester
of it would there be required credentialing for teachers to teach it I suspect there would be we don't know yet but I suspect there would be so would hence the addition hiring of additional teachers and then you know possibly the letting go of other teachers who aren't
credentialed or who or their courses don't make you know this from being in a high school if your course doesn't make then you don't offer that course so and I do want to make clear in the record that CA has not come out with any position on this I don't know why I
thought that so must been one of the others we were talking about Nate might be um but I think we'd welcome additional feedback from you all because it's been laid over right now but it it'll come back yeah as far as in where it was just introduced I'm not sure if I
saw that it was in any committee at any I guess I'd be curi most curious about teacher support for it and parent support for it and I from the groups that are opposing it I didn't really hear any I mean the school counselor um
sure sure that's for that fast a portion of it um but yeah like if I were to hear strong parent support and strong teacher support for it I would lean more towards do we have any indication of the any parent group supporting at night on the
bill tracker I wonder um not that I saw and I know Mrs Sullivan has been you know she's been really clear about the her desire to see a financial literacy requirement for graduation I think Mr Norwood you've talked some about the importance of financial literacy I don't know where you you land on the
requirement but yeah yeah you did have it in your courses what who typically decides like the graduation requirements that we have for the state of Colorado who usually decides that the Colorado Department of Education issues the graduation
standards and then they say these are the standards for graduation and then we put together a committee here um locally with teachers and parents and students input and and then we determine how we're going to meet those standards so you may recall the last big change in
graduation requirements was when um they added the requirements around college andc readiness and so you had to have certain ACT scores or advanced placement uh courses or advanced placement scores or um your um Capstone
um completed so th those were all part of that that last graduation requirement revision it did not include additional credits for requirement but it was additional um like the financial aid form would be it was an additional act or action that the student had to
demonstrate that they had performed and fulfilled for graduation so that I think those came out in about 2000 we could go back and look so then once we bring the graduation committee together um to look at that and make then they would come to the board typically with a work session and
let you know what they're thinking and get your feedback and your recommendations around what you know their initially thinking around any changes in graduation requirements and then they would take that back to their committee and and very likely take it out for more input from groups like Dak or maybe to student you know student
groups and then that eventually would come to the board for final approval so I just might U just my experience from being the casby representative um we're one of only I believe eight states that have local control for our school
boards and these types of things that come from the legislation are generally um not supported widely um it's it's like nonpartisan it's rural it's it's large districts things that
are imposed upon school districts from the legislation are generally frown upon even if it's a good idea um because it is like like we taking away local control it's taking away local control it's an unfunded mandate um so I think maybe just from that sort of
casby lens I generally am like no no most graduation requirements do not come from the legislature if that's what you were asking yeah I was like this seems out of at the local level um you know changes in graduation requirements
typically involve a lot of teacher input so the legislature it does pass this and says you know you're going to have a semester course uh and you know then hopefully they'll put some some fence posts around that about you know what the standards are what that curriculum
should be we would then put a team together to to advise us on how to implement that course and what that course is and where that course is offered but that would be the level where staff would have input would be at that point yeah CD would have to
implement some sort of credential re requirement as well if they if the if the legislation requires it yeah and you know it could be it could be they would require you know an actual lure in it Rob like what you carry or you know business licensure or
it could be that they have a teacher has to take so many hours of you know training to to teach the personal finance class that you know there's several ways to kind of get there I think it would be better to try to incorporate it into some classes but agreed you
know I'm not the state legislature well but I think the Dilemma is what class because not every high school has every class I mean that's why it's in US history US history is a Statewide graduation requirement so every high school has US history and every student
has to take it so that's why the standards are there there is no Finance course for example or economics course that is offered Statewide now what our folks have said here just just anecdotally is that if we if we were to
have this requirement and we had input and we had the ability we would probably look to to add a requirement for economics and then put it in the economics course that correct Dean I mean that's kind of what our teachers have said if there's going to be a
finance requirement let's put in econ then you could have you know regular econ you could have advanced placement econ you could have concurent enrollment econ micro yeah does West have any of this in their High School of Business all all of our high schools have some
some business courses that teach some of these standards and we're currently working with UNCC to offer a concurrent enrollment course that will where students for personal finance where students will earn college credit um also for taking personal finance at the college level which we think will increase
interest in it you know because right now kids are looking un courses and weighted courses and do I take AP music theory do I take you know concurrent enrollment finance a minut Dr PCH I don't know if you were superintendent
when we got high school 101 at Northridge no probably not that was in the late 200 8 9 10 somewhere there so no probably not I came in 15 that was that was yeah is was that but was that kind
of their seminar program their home room program it was a program that we picked up we went to um it was up Las Vegas there was a big convention that went on there and there was a guy that presented it to us and he actually came and set the program by force it included choices and
consequences and communication skills and credit and buying a car that's a lot of the things that I Incorporated in a by class so but it was approved through the district back in 7 or eight I think boy that went fast yeah I don't I don't know about that but I can look into that
thank you Dr pill currently the financial literacy standards are embedded in the in the US History curriculum that every student takes and it's really pre or k West K preschool K through K through 10 basically um we
have we have financial literacy standards K through 10 and so there's some at every grade level in mathematics until you get to high school and then it's in US history presumably presumably because everybody has to take USS in school yeah
all right any other questions on that one if not we'll let Mr Paul continue yeah and uh I appreciate this conversation a lot so um just know that I am but a mere lowly lawyer and I just do what you tell me to do so if this is
something you want then just please but um I I appreciate the conversation um and so please um let me know if if you learn anything or if you want to take it position um cell phone banss not much has changed there school Finance uh not a lot has changed since our last
conversation we still are just kind of uh it's unclear about what direction we are going to be going with a new school funding formula how it's going to be funded if they're going to include averaging and if they do how many years um it seems like we probably won't know
an answer until that uh revenue forecast comes out mid-march so we're just going to kind of continue to be in this place for that okay uh and then uh accountability there was a bill that was finally introduced last week that's House Bill
25278 modifications to the accountability system this is the this one is going to involve a lot of conversations with uh Dr pilch and her superintendent group um and I know that a lot of folks are going to be looking at this bill um and there will be many
amendments and revisions that are going to be coming forward um there's just a lot of folks that have interest in this bill but I know that a lot of folks want to have change to the system of accountability so this this there will be movement um and there will be change to our accountability system it's just
uh a matter of how much change will come Nate I could add the big thing that we are really hoping for out of this is that we will get um more emphasis on post Workforce postsecondary Workforce Readiness and post Workforce Readiness activities that happen in schools and so
that um in instead of just the T being such a heavy weight that we would also be looking at and we currently get we currently get credit for concurrent enrollment and CT certificates and those things but what we're looking for as a superintendent group is to have a really a greater weight on all of those things
and the delicate dance then is the really small schools because they don't have as many opportunities as a large District like we have for kids to take concurrent enrollment and CTE certificated courses but that's the big thing we hope we can get out of this is that we're really looking at Workforce ready
at a you know as a significant measurement in accountability um and not just the Colorado state test is really so we're looking more at high school or they're looking more at high school
rather than middle and elementary yeah okay well the big thing at middle and elementary is opt outs and so really looking at how opt outs are manag CU you currently you can take um you could reach a school of distinct and then the next year you can have your
students opt out and keep your rating at school distinction because opt outs don't count against you um as a school district and so what and then in some districts what they find is that some of their higher achieving students are the students who do opt out so it actually skews their
their test results because of that so there a lot of conversation around opt outs and how we manage opt outs and um and can a school or School District get performance or distinction when they have high numbers of students opting out at the state test and and what we do
with that so we you know we don't have a big opt out here in district 6 it's not been a significant issue here in district 6 in most of our schools and so um it's not as big of an issue as it is in in some of the other districts around
us so I'll keep you posted it's iy there's a lot of stuff in that new accountability bill it's a really technical term icky um go ahead Mr fall the for the proposed legislation actually a lot of this is
not new information so I just wanted to spend a little bit of time on the first two that are on this um the first one is House Bill 25210 what this bill does is it's just going to audit all of the data reporting requirements for K12 institutions and then it is going to see if there are
ways to more efficiently report the data to collect the data if there's any way they can consolidate some of these data submissions uh if they can align some of the data so we don't have to multiple reports um we provide produce and collect so
much data required by law to both the state and the federal government it is significant it is cumbersome it is hard to track it is hard to know what dat data fits where uh behavioral incidents we now have to track by demographic
information and then Track by if it was harassment you know and then based on category subcategory of harassment and then based on subcategories of that subcategory of harassment you know and so just tracking that and making sure the reporting accurate information back
to the state uh is cumbersome and so this bill is just going to review it and see if there's any solutions we can make uh and I think that that is a terrific idea um so we don't want to support that just go ahead and support it Mr fall I I could I me sounds like he would I think
I know what I would do and I would support it um yeah it's I mean it really all it is is an audit so there probably will be a fiscal note attached so I mean however much money it would cost to do a review um but I I think that in the grand scheme of things that there'd be money well spent by the state to do an
audit like that it's just gotten so out of control they don't even realize all the unfunded mandates that have been placed on us and um and on teachers well I don't know if Drew Palmer and chief corus and I and we have a team that meets monthly just even
talk about the data itself and just how to record it report it and how do we get our staff to know how to do it and it's it's a lot it's a lot of work so um okay well I can certainly any other okay don't want to just speak for the for the board but unless there's unless there's
some opposition to that idea yeah let's change that to support thank you um and then the uh the other bill I wanted to bring up was House Bill 25146 Juvenile Detention bed caps this is not a bill that has anything to do with school districts uh but we've actually seen a
few school districts come out uh in opposition to this bill and in fact DPS is taking a very very very strong position of opposition to this bill um and essentially what this bill does is it increases the number of beds available for juveniles in the state of
Colorado from 21 to 245 or 254 and then each year thereafter they can kind of increase that cap um as necess necessary because there aren't enough beds uh in the state of Colorado for juvenile offenders um the I will just say that
what I've been hearing from these other school districts is the issue really isn't that these juveniles don't have a place to sleep in a detention center it's say they have nowhere to go once they're released from the Detention Center that there's not Community Resources
available to actually provide that behavioral support uh to these folks once they are released um and so oftentimes a lot of them end up staying longer in beds before they can be released because there's nowhere for them to go um and so this is just kind of a conversation about where does money
matter the most and you know would this be money that could be more useful for some kind of community services or somebody that a school district could partner with for our atrisk youth um to provide them with additional Services outside of the Juvenile Justice System again we don't have I don't have a
position on this bill I just wanted to share with you uh just so you can see how uh there are some bills that occasionally um districts will take pretty strong positions on kind of surprisingly um and then when you kind of read into it a little bit further um there is some considerations to be had
uh for for this bill I think it comes with the one.5 million increase I think every bet is about $177,000 a year um they're pretty expensive um but but we do also have a need for the beds themselves and I'm sure Chief corus
would uh tell the other perspective here about why there may be a benefit to having more bets available so DPS is against this then where would they want those students that um need to be at a juvenile detention center to be placed
yeah I haven't I haven't spoken directly with anybody at DPS but what I so what I understand is that they think that that money that could be used to buy more beds could instead be used to could be funneled towards Community Resources so these students when they are released I
I'm calling them students these juveniles when they are released uh that they can go to some Center that can provide them with some support there but I I don't I don't know what what they would want instead of vs that's a good question I can definitely um find that
out well based on previous legislation and previous years and who has opposed it I suspect they don't they they want to see fewer youth incarcerated yeah DPS probably yeah they want to see fewer they don't want to they don't they don't want beds because they don't want more kids incarcerated so they want those
dollars instead spent on prevention and intervention or you know treatment okay that makes sense um and then the remaining bills uh I just there just kind of an update of where we're at um the core bill is at its uh second Senate reading is what I
should say not second second reading uh the Library resources bill um just know that casby had introduced those amendments uh those were passed um and we are in support of the Amendments as introduced by casby because it doesn't really change what we do uh the safe to tell um has been assigned to the Senate
Appropriations Committee um I thought our conversation at the last meeting was really productive and certainly would be um we could change that to support if that's the direction that you would all like to go um and then the tech accessibility liability Bill uh passed through the whole house so now it's to
the Senate and that bill should probably pass without any issues okay um I may be test on that one anybody want to change our position from monitors to support on the safe to tell how you want to make that
case I I mean just like I um I guess I voiced my opinion last meeting I I can only see it as benefiting the student to have more awareness around their home life and um possible incidents happening
at home so I would support but is there an opposing view we all good the the negative for the the potential question I guess is the Bill acts immunity protection for staff actions taken in
response but I mean we already have protocols for how we treat our students right like yeah I again that's just me wanting to protect uh School staff at all possible cost like what like what types
of like if they did weren't handled with care somehow like could we be liable that's that's my question um but you know there are still there's you know Good Samaritan laws and we have immunities um in school already and so maybe those protections would still
apply in a case like this but yeah if we were to receive a Handle With Care notice and we didn't Handle With Care you know I just I don't know what that yeah it might be a little too early for us to jump in I was going to say it sounds like that we haven't quite made
up our mind as a group so um what I would like to do because I did hear from another superintendent whose district is very similar to ours that they currently do this and works really well but I didn't have an opportunity to really dig in with her and ask what how it works so what I'd like to do is you know how do
you do it like what is the system once you know that you get the you know Handle With Care notice what do you do next and then how do you follow through with that so let let me just some work on that and then I'll bring that back okay thank you Dr P and would you all be comfortable if I felt like her response
was appropriate that we're not going to be hanging on people out stright that I went ahead to support moved it to support I'm I'm I'm a fan as as it's presented I think I said that last time too so okay let me talk with with her and see kind of how it plays out on the
day to day support somehow okay to the law support yeah did we did we say how we are as a board for the very first one of financial literacy I didn't know I don't believe
so oh we said monitor right I thought or I thought we had a monitor on it yeah I wanted more information on parent input and teacher input well I don't think they're Gathering parent and teacher input unless a parent group would come out and support or opposition to adhere
they're not I don't or CA woulding yeah I saw standord children is in support and um there was one other children succeeds I think Colorado succeeds no Colorado succeeds is the other or that's in
support of it what are the two again CA hasn't taken a stance CA has not um they were Colorado succeeds these are just the children's orgs a stand for children Inc um and then there are many Financial
instit in support National Institution of Insurance and financial advisers uh Colorado Bankers Association Bankers yeah so a lot of the financial institutions it sounds like casby's already made a a decision to to oppose they are in
opposition I suppose we could try to offer an opinion but I don't I don't know that it if casban Case are opposing that I don't know if it um we need to do much more okay well we I can continue to Monitor and do some information gathering it looks like there is a
hearing set for next week on uh the 6th I've told miss barcus our lobbyist that I I wasn't comfortable with Nate and me saying oppose or or support knowing that our board is not you know completely together on this that some of
our board would like to see a financial literacy requirement and some would not so I I felt like I I didn't feel like I should take a stand knowing that yeah we can't take votes in in the work session so I mean we really got to get like a
general kind of like yeah hey we we all really support or oppose and so I just say we stay where we are tday okay great Mr fall have you this was something that a Community member thought was potentially affecting us
House Bill 25 1169 um housing developments on faith and education that's the one for to sent me yeah so I didn't know if you know anything about that I I had that written on my paper too I I don't have any information on it but I I did hear that
Dr Camp spitzy wanted some information on it so I will I will we need to do some more research my legal understanding is not allowing me to come away it look I told my husband I was like the legal Lee was over my head this says the bill aims to streamline the approval process for residential
developments and ensure that they are not unduly restricted by local zoning rules so what I'm thinking of is like I know in the neighborhood where ncmc is the hospital it can't be higher than five stories so I think it's trying to remove some of those kinds of housing
regulations in order to develop more housing options and so like if wherever our school or faith could this is just my but anyway so yeah if you look into that yeah we need to learn more all right well let's debrief the work
session we're at 5:32 thank you Mr fall sorry uh just trying to move us along uh so we can get started with our next meeting uh Michael is hungry uh Mr aori well obviously it's exciting to think down
the road in terms of uh the School District administration building and what potentially could happen and uh regardless of whether the county uh goes along with uh the plan put forth by richmark I think that's something we
have to continue to think about um moving forward I think that has provided a a kind of a push for us to look down the road and then thanks again Nate for all your help with understanding most of
this um sometimes it can get pretty confusing so I do appreciate that very much thanks Mr President thank you sir Mr Bentley yeah yeah I kind of just Echo D said U what a what a exciting time to be part
of the district and and gy in general um families like the Richardson and and and many others that just continue to pour back into the community um you know I'm from an actual small town and it doesn't feel as tight-knit in as small town as as gy does and gy isn't small anymore so
yeah I'm I'm happy to be here I'm glad that life brought me here to kind of open my eyes to to see the the Wonder and the good side of that and uh appreciate Nate always keeping us up to Snuff on on what's going on down in Denver it's not my favorite place to be
but now I feel like I'm well aware what's happening thank you Mr Bentley Mr Norwood I agree watching the development of the downtown area is fascinating to me and I know what it did for Oldtown Fort Collins and I'd like to see you for downtown Gand um Dr P thank you for
answering questions about financial literacy appreciate that and Nate as always appreciate you thank you sir Dr K spitzy yeah um I already voiced my excitement about possibilities for our community um and
I'm glad um that Dr pilch brought up the Richardson's contribution to our after school sports programs in fourth and fifth grade because um like I I just think it's so cool that that we're doing that and I came home and was so excited about it and my husband asked me how is
that being funded and I was like it's Richardson's help with that so um yeah feel grateful to be in a community where we hear about each other um yes and Nate thank you for keeping us up to date and
um letting us um voice our stand on on some of these things happening in Denver Miss suvan um I do like the idea of the downtown as well um we don't have that developed down here they've tried years that for years to try to create
that old toown feel of what for Collins has and maybe this is what we need is just the whole facelift and to get the whole Community understanding what changes could be possible down here so that's exciting and um on the financial literacy thank you for bringing a lot of
the information up front and whatnot and I do have a couple meetings and I need to set up one with you as well Natalie um just to present with you is the U information I have but to me um when we look at our district and we have such a
high poverty rate um this to me just because I've talked to some students um who've recently graduated from other schools and I've asked them what they've had for financial literacy and even though they're getting those standards in the
um the CICS classes they're not really applying it um as the front knowledge of the understanding of what it could do and you know how it changes their their life and whatnot but I've spoken to kids that have taken an actual financial literacy class when it's a personal
financial literacy over courses of a semester they're understanding more of the impacts as to what it does for them and I would like to help break that cycle with um our families here in this district and maybe change that uh that poverty rate with some of our families I think that would be very
impactful thank you Miss Sullivan vice president M yeah I'm very excited about the downtown um project I'm with with Brenda that we spend all of our time in downtown we have invested um personally and and um
yeah so I'm really excited and I do very much appreciate the richardon family who um you know has has been blessed and is extending that blessing to to the city um I hope that they they've done so much research in all of the the numbers and
the math and um really want to make it um doable for all of the entities so I really appreciate all their time um and yeah the legislation is always is kind of fascinating and um just interesting to see what bills where
the passion for change comes from and then yeah how it affects education it's really interesting so thank you for helping us to understand that thank you Miss mash and yeah I'll just again echo my my support um we like
to say as the as the school district goes so goes the city and I I believe that's true but the reverse is also true and we need a strong gy uh to be successful in this in this district and this without a doubt makes makes this community and uh stronger and creates a
center of gravity and a city center um in the downtown and so very thankful for the Richardson for putting that putting that forward um and sorry Nate to Usher you off unceremoniously U I did I am
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la [Music] [Music] well good evening and welcome to the Board of Education meeting for gy Evans school district 6 today is the 24th day of February 2025 this meeting will now come to order please stand and join us
for the pledge of allegiance to our flag Al to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liy and justice for all Miss lemon will you call the RO
Force please director aari presid director Bentley presid director Campos spitzy pres director Mash present director Matthews present director Norwood present director Sullivan all board members present thank you Miss lemon well again welcome all of you who
are here in person and those you who are watching online I I will say if you're if you're watching online you might not be able to see how packed our our boardroom is right now and so we are we are delighted to have so many families here with us tonight we will be honoring some some Dream Team Scholars tonight
and we're anxiously awaiting that part of our meeting but welcome to everyone who's here did want to let everyone know that uh coming up very quickly March 7th uh is the district 6 Annual Arts walk it will take place downtown and so if
you've never been to this event before it is is a fantastic event to see art from all over the district uh from our traditional schools from our Charter Schools we even have art from uh Ames and UNC this year but it's it's hosted
all throughout the downtown businesses so you can um you can check I I know they generally put out a a map or at least put that on online but uh do try to make it on March 7th uh from 5: to 8: uh for the art walk and and check out
some some of the art that has been created in district 6 um speaking of downtown I want to let everyone know what we've been doing in our work session and um our work session we we hold each uh Monday before our board meetings we hold that at 4:00 and this
last work session just a few um couple hours ago we had the got to hear from richmark and richmark is a developer and wants to develop uh put a a very um an incredible project downtown it
would house both dis District Six it would house the city of gley and it would house Weld County and um it would it would change the the landscape of downtown dramatically and so you you
probably will we hear something about that or maybe you've already heard something about that in the paper but uh and I don't know how the county feels or or the city feels but uh it was pretty um well I I don't want to speak for the board but uh but yeah I I could tell
that all of our board members were very excited about the possibility of this of this new development and what it would mean uh not only for our school district but but for our city in general and so uh we we appreciate richm and and their vision for downtown those are all the
announcements I'll give you tonight so we can get on with our meeting and first thing on our agenda is our superintendent's honor roll thank you president Matthews I am honored to recognize a student this evening for our superintendent's
honorable Morrison web Shaw uh student Early College Academy Morrison would you like to join us at the podium come on up and if you have supporters with you you'd like to bring you can have them come stand by you all right right there's perfect
because I'm G to ask I'm going to let give you a chance if you want to say anything when I'm done okay Morrison but first i'm going to talk about you a little bit Morrison is a student at Early College Academy and he he is has won a very prestigious award he is the
winner of the age 15 to6 group for the Desmos math art contest so this is combining math and art right both sides of the brain um the international contest has been described as the Olympics of mathematical design the
Desmos math art contest is open yearly to students ages 13 to 18 to Showcase their graphing calculator skills their creativity and their love of math this was Morrison's second time entering the competition if you look up Morrison's
artwork you will see the complex formulas used to create this artwork we want to thank you for taking your love of math to the next level Morrison and for representing Early College Academy so well congratulations on your award and I do know uh the one thing that I
think our board would like to hear and anything else you'd like to share I bet we'd like to know how many calculators were used in your piece do you know that um how many calculators um
one just I mean like you don't need more than one they told me to ask you that question I mean like equations like lines of equations there is a 265 which in general is fairly optimized
I mean there was um there was actually one winner that had close to I'd like to say like 5,000 that was around the same complexity um my first submission
actually was 500 so almost double that of my second so I I do like to say that it's very laomiz yeah great congratulations Morrison thanks for representing early college
[Applause] and congrat congratulations Morrison and thank you Dr pilch next on our agenda is uh our motion to approve the agenda and so if someone would be so kind to make that motion I move that the Board of
Education of gy Evans school district 6 approves the agenda as presented second thank you both is there any discussion on the agenda I'm Sorry Miss Venegas I did not see you buzzing uh did it's not for the agenda it was for the previous
item okay I'm so sorry um any discussion on the agenda all right Miss lemon will you give us a vote please director aari I director Bentley I director Campos spitzy I director mesh I director Matthews I director Norwood I director
Sullivan I motion carries 70 thank you Miss lemon well next on our agenda is our dream team honors Scholars presentation and so I would like to invite our Dream Team representatives to come to the podium and um make this presentation for
us okay we're going to fill up the room just a little bit more good evening good evening president Matthews and members of the board uh thank you so much for having us this evening my name is Miranda Ooa the executive director of the gy Dream Team this is Edith Gonzalez the assistant director of programs and
our program coordinator Alexis Strada um we are also joined by several Dream Team board of directors and staff members what an exciting and special night it is to have you all join us here as we present our newest and largest cohort of Dream Team Scholars um honor scholarship
recipients the gy dream team is a community based nonprofit We have partnered with gy Evans school district 6 for over 37 years and plat Valley re7 for almost 2 years now making College a reality for many students in W
County providing scholarships is one of many opportunities we strive to give our students within our programs uh in the past 20 years alone we have given over $650,000 um to assisting over 480 students with scholarship dollars
tonight and this year is no different as we are awarding a total of $67,500 in scholarships to 41 deserving seniors um among the scholarships gifted this year is the dilia and John W hafley scholarship the scholarship honors two
longtime gy Educators who wish to make a lasting impact to students in need we also celebrate the bond family Summit award this award will benefit two Dream Team scholarship recipients who have demonstrated Superior academic performance with the highest GPA at this time I will announce this
year's scholarship recipients per high school if you could please hold your applause until the end and they have all been read students as we read your name please come forward from gy Central we have Lis pesera Jennifer
brandrup Angel kasas Stephanie sea Gomez Joselyn Chavis Gustavo Garcia Krishna Gonzalez Castaneda Milo
Kyle Madison sepeta from gy West Nancy banega Vega Brianna chides L Mariana Enriquez HMA
Lopez Ivan Martinez Garcia Jocelyn Melendez Montoya areli Mandola Morales Mario Rodriguez Amy sanan and Daniel Zavala
Hai from Jefferson High School itati Chavez Brandon Medina salana from Early College Academy McKenzie Franks lensa mum Diana ordones Sanchez Kevin
Tran and from northri high school Melanie Castro Vasquez Madison Conor sky isoo Gomez Shiloh Grim hany Hussein Jazelle Marquez imanol Mena
Rodriguez Evelyn Olivas Amy Reyes Veronica Reyes Jaylen sto Soo and Joel Vasquez please join us in a round of applause [Applause] we want to take a picture
maybe parents you're welcome to take a picture before we transition do we want to get any board members in the picture we kind of filled this whole part but than guess we're okay thank you all so much again
trans as our Dream Team Scholars are exiting um just a quick word about how much we appreciate the Dream Team this is a nonprofit We have a lot of great Partners in gy uh but but this one uh works really hard to serve the students
of district 6 well it has for as you heard a number of years I think they she said uh they've given away $600,000 of scholarships but they they start early on identifying students who who have the ability to go to college uh but maybe
don't um have much experience with college and uh giving them the opportunity to to gain experience uh and see what college would be like to give them the study skills habits to help them help them be successful in college so they have been sending District Six
students to college uh and this is scholarships are just one way but they've been doing that for um for a long long time and so we're very appreciative of the dream team next on our agenda is our our Council of student Representatives report and so I'd like to bring Mr osmus to the podium to
introduce our Council of student Representatives as always we are joined uh at the dis with uh by Mr Timothy Longacre and Miss Sarah Vegas we they sit with us each and every time and they don't get to vote on on issues but they
do weigh in on on the different uh items that we debate and and we're very thankful to have their voice Mr osus I'll give it to you and president Matthews members of the board Dr Phil Council of student reps I'll tell you a little bit about the Council of student reps this is a group of high school
students across our district um which is representation from all of our high schools including our Charter Schools um that play a valuable role so they give us feedback as leaders in the district and they also work to support other students across the district tonight we um we honor our students from Frontier
tonight as they talk a little bit about their school and I'd like to introduce Jackie Schmidt who's the assistant principal at Frontier to introduce group and probably tell us a little bit about um each of our students Jackie absolutely thank you so much good evening members of the board president
Matthews and all of our amazing gy community members that have joined us here tonight I am so very proud to be here um as you may have noticed the dedication with this team is pretty awesome Kaden literally just broke his nose right before he came and he still
showed up and has been icing his face the entire time so just basketball injuryj literally came from track practice and basketball practice and ice on his face the whole time um so these three amazing students embody our mission at Frontier Academy which is
building leaders they do this day in and day out and for some of them they will be this is their last year with us one of them is going to be graduating soon so it's just with great pride that I I introduce Kaylee Josh and Kaden to you and I'll let them speak a little bit
about what's been going on at Frontier this year good evening my name is Kaye bum gner and I'm a senior at Frontier Academy I'm involved in the Council of student representatives and the district 6 student health advisory Council I am the President and co-founder of Frontier Academy's women and stem Club a
co-president of Key Club a member of the Frontier Academy jazz band National Honor Society Academic Decathlon and a technician for our theater program in the fall I'll be headed to the South Dakota School of minds and Technology to study chemical engineering my name is Josh lir and I'm
a junior at Frontier Academy I'm involved in the Council of student Representatives as well as a Frontiers Academy's interact Club their jazz band National Honor Society and I'm also a member of Frontier Academy's track team hello everyone my name is kayen Clark and I'm
a junior at Frontier Academy I am involved in Council of student Representatives I'm a member of our jazz band as well as our interact club and fellowship of Christian athletes I participate in both basketball and track in addition to various service
opportunities in my school and my community you guys may remember our presentation last year when we shared our concerns for um student safety regarding exiting our school parking lot and driving on to 16 Street we're glad to share that with the recent addition of a No Parking Zone um to the left of
the exit students and parents are able to see with ease when they attempt to leave our parking lot our Frontier Community is grateful for the increased safety of our students and families not only has school safety improved but school spirit has as well in November we hosted a well week which
served as a rate to raise money and awareness for the lack of clean water in the Kingdom of eswatini after 7 years of fundraising we met our goal and will be sponsoring a well students were excited to participate in raising money and played a huge role in the success of our project we hope to find similar results
in this week's wish week and hope to make a difference for the children in the makea wish program we are also pleased to report that student involvement in clubs and activities has increased with the current Freshman Class we've seen a lot of increase and involvement in active
extracurricular activities and opportunities over the past two years we have implemented a club fair at the beginning of the year to help students explore ways to get involved D and learn about the diverse clubs we offer we hope to see this trend continue in a positive direction with the incoming
classes over the past few years Frontier Academy has joined several District groups like the Council of student Representatives as well as the student health advisory Council we would love to grow a relationship with district 6 by finding more ways to serve within our greater District Community if there are more opportunities please let us know we
are here to serve thank you for all thank you all for giving us this opportunity to come um to connect with you tonight please please let us know if you have any questions sorry slight concussion maybe Mr longer has a
question thank you very much president Matthews um usual thing I do when we have CSR members come in I just want to give a few comments on everything you guys said you all have some incredible career prospects you're all very involved in what you do so that's incredible stuff to see especially for a
senior that's a really good school you're heading to so I'm very excited for whatever you go on to do and you've done very well as a CSR member same goes for all three of you that was a very good speech I really liked how long it was he gave a good nice deep well view of your school and how
involved all of you are it's good to see it your school is getting more involved with everything around district 6 so I hope to see your school grow and get into more programs on here and you're all very incredible members of the group so I really appreciate having you here and having you in the group thank you very
much thank you Mr longer Dr campus spitzy I also wanted to congratulate you on your future career in chemical engineering that's quite impressive um and I'm curious uh since joining the Council of student reps um I I'm just
kind of curious of how like what you learn from each other as students from the charters versus the non-charter and kind of ideas you've gotten or or shared with the rest of the group of students um I think that having a different perspective as a charter
school definitely helps to like communicate more cuz I know uh with the cell phone policy that put into place this year it was really good to be able to talk to district 6 students because we've had a similar policy for most of our um schooling so just being able to exchange ideas and talk about what it's
like at different schools like it puts things in perspective that maybe the cell phone policy isn't actually that bad and things like that um I've got something as well I think it's just really cool especially cuz like Frontiers are really small like small school compared to a lot of these
schools in gy it's just really cool to like check out the different opportunities that they have cuz I feel like Frontier just um just because we're smaller we're like limited in terms of that stuff just because there's not as much interest um as other schools with more students so I feel like that's really
cool Miss Mes well I just wanted to say thank you for the presentation I'm sure you're all very busy this time of year um and also just thank you for being involved in the um both the student health um group Shack as well as the council student
reps because I I really appreciate like what you said sharing sharing ideas um just getting um all of the students from different schools together uh I I think that anytime that that's an opportunity it it benefits everyone so thank you for
coming Mr no thank you president Matthews first of all congratulations you guys have got such Bright Futures ahead of you it's uh it's really rewarding to see that the district has such great young people involved and I did want to reach out to
Mr long aner as well too um maybe somebody somebody people didn't know but congratulations on your fifth place finish in Nationals with Marine Corps OTC team so um you did well I don't see any other questions or
comments uh for you guys I will just say thank you for being a part of our Council of student Representatives I get to work with that group quite often and and appreciate your voice and and your participation and the time you put in uh to that I do think it's valuable to have our charter schools there along with our
traditional schools and uh Mr Mr longaker does a great job of leading that group and we appreciate you as well sir um thank you guys thank you next on our agenda is our school social worker week Proclamation and this
is a motion we'll need a motion to move forward I move that the board of educationist gy Evans school district 6 accept the proclamation as presented second thank you both before we go any further Miss Mash would you read that Proclamation for us yes be
happy to honorary proclamation of the Board of Education of wel County School District 6 Proclamation recognizing March 2025 as school Social Work month whereas the significance of school social work as highlighted in the elementary and
secondary Education Act of 1965 and the individuals with disabilities Education Act underscores its integral role in educational settings and whereas School social workers play a central role in cultivating positive School environments
and whereas School social work workers unwavering commitment involves guiding students to explore their unique abilities strengths interests and talents employing evidence-based strategies while Champion championing educational equity and whereas as licensed mental health professionals
with educational settings within educational settings School social workers administer crucial assessments interventions counseling Family Outreach and Community referrals and where a school social workers scope extends to a myriad of student issues including but not limited
to mental health concerns family Dynamics trauma homelessness and substance abuse and whereas National School Social Work month serves as a platform to acknowledge and celebrate the unwavering dedication professionalism and compassion of school
social workers in meeting the diverse needs of students and families now therefore the Board of Education of gy Evans school district 6 proclaims March 2025 as National School Social Work month recognizing an honoring the invaluable contributions and accomplishments of school social workers
in fostering the well-being and academic success of students in gy Evans school district 6 thank you Miss Mash are there any questions or comments on this Proclamation I'll oh mismatch well I'm
pleased that I got to read this um it is always fun to give a resolution because it kind of um just really sums up what one group of our employees do and this is so very much um it can't really all be encompassed in in one document but um
thank you so much for your your work to Foster the mental health as well as the social skills of our students um helping them to discover what their strengths are and their interests and um again just your work is
invaluable in the academic success as well as just these students becoming wonderful members of society so thank you very much thank you Miss mesh and I'll just add my comments um I focused on this one line in our
Proclamation that says um that uh the extent documenting the extent of your work and it says the school social worker scope extends to a myriad of students issues including but not limited to mental health concerns
family Dynamics trauma homelessness and substance abuse and I I think I can speak for everyone and saying that we all wish that um that you didn't have to be in our schools that that there was no trauma that our students um under underw there were no mental health issues uh
but but there are and so we we're just so thankful that that you're there that you've chosen to work in our district that you've chosen to serve our students and um yeah thank you very much and I'd like to invite whoever would like to if if you have any words um to say in
acceptance of this Proclamation um thank you so much for having us tonight my name is Jesse cajano and I'm the school social worker at Northridge High School as well as the lead School social worker for district 6 um I'm here tonight with a few fellow
social workers we have Jessica Fernandez who's at Maplewood Elementary School Elijah Hendershot who's at gy West and Susanna Fuller who's at that Gap really really Alternative Program um we would like to thank you Dr pilch president
Matthews and members member of the school board as well as members of our district leadership including Tammy Brandon who's been a huge support of our district six social workers our school social workers are dedicated to fostering positive School environments where every student feels safe supported and empowered to thrive academically
emotionally and socially we are so grateful for the teachers administrators other school mental health staff parents and Community Partners that we have the privilege to work with to support our students so I'm honored to accept this Proclamation for school Social Work Week on behalf of our district six School
social workers thank you m Mr Longacre has a comment thank you again president Matthews um I just wanted to speak on my experiences with school social workers I've interacted with a majority of them
from around the district in my past 10 years in this District so I I must say with my life and how much you have supported me and the countless numbers of students you all work with I don't know how you do with the amount of Courage it takes to be able to handle these situations that these students go
through by yourself and with the small teams you may work with it's incredible it's incredible work what you do for these students saves lives helps their lives and sends them towards the district six goal of a college ready and job ready student and because of you
students that come from rougher patches or rougher backgrounds can achieve just as much as the students that come from a rich family rich and poor no matter what in this District because of your work and many other people's work in this District we're all put on the same level and I find that level of equality to be
something unique to district 6 I really appreciate all the work you all do as our amazing social workers thank you thank you well said Mr long Acer I I think we are I don't see any other questions or comments so I think we're ready for a vote Miss lemon director Zari I director
Bentley hi director Campos spitzy I director MH I director Matthews I director Norwood I director Sullivan I motion carries 70 thank you Miss lemon oh I have a proclamation for you [Applause] next on our agenda is our
superintendent's report so Dr pilch thank you president Matthews um lots lots of things to celebrate in district 6 right now lots of recognition for staff and students and so the these that I'm going to mention tonight I'll just mention
briefly and then I want to bring them back before the board for superintendent honor roll um and and a little bit of presentation to the board because there's such a big deal so the first one is Brentwood middle school that has been named uh the 2025 a a225 Colorado tra
Trailblazer school to watch this is a three repeat this is their third time to receive this recognition it is a prestigious Colorado recognition and they will travel to Washington DC this summer to present and talk about their accomplishments and I'd like to bring
them forward to the board to share with you all a little bit more about what their work has been and and how you get recognized like this for three years in a row so pretty exciting and then uh two young men I want to recogniz just quickly from Northridge High School both
seniors uh David Rivera and Jeff WN they took first place in the problem solving category at the state tests of engineering aptitude math and science stem competition for middle and high school students earlier this month and this qualifies them to go on to a
national competition as well in Nashville in June and so I want to bring them in um and and get to know them a little bit better and and what their competition was and then finally uh I think that all of you have seen the coverage with our former gy Central Alam
and UNCC Alam Andrew alz he just wrestled in his final wrestling meet at UNCC um but he does go on to compete in the Nationals but he has a 10-year wrestling career of being undefeated uh and so that started at at gy Central and
went on through UNC so congratulations to uh you uh C gy Central Alum Andre LZ um we continue to be so proud of him and his accomplishments and I believe we had a a pretty large group of students that got to go watch him wrestle on Sunday from from our school so pretty excited
about that so congratulations just so many uh good stories to tell in district 6 and I'll I'll just tell everyone what I told the group of superintendents and other school leaders last week when I had a chance to speak as the Colorado superintendent of the year one of the things I said was we just have to keep telling the good stories you know our
three good stories um and and telling the good stories about what's going well in public educ ation and it's a time when people need to hear what's working and and what we're proud of that that we're doing that our colleagues are doing and that's happening districtwide so tell your good stories thank you
president Matthews thank you Dr Pils next on our agenda tonight is innovation 2030 update student learning and achievement goal two professional development update so I see Mr Tuttle standing up
like to invite you uh Mr Tuttle to the podium make this presentation thank you good evening board president Matthews members of the board and Dr pilch so privileged to be here to be able to share with you an update on professional development in our district
going from new professionals Academy to supporting teacher leaders to facilitating professional development themselves with me this evening I have two co-leads of our professional development i2030 task force Kim Silva director of schools and Allison Ferguson
principal at Meer Elementary School this sits squarely in our student learning and achievement um section of the Strategic plan specifically the work of professional development sits in that strategic plan and goal two around implementing consistent and coherent
aligned curriculum assessment and instructional practices that are research-based to ensure that all students learn and under that objective number two Implement a professional development plan that supports education to ensure quality teaching and
learning our outcome objective by 2028 100% of educators will create a professional development plan based on their learning needs taking into account the professional practices rubric and measures of student learning let me pass this over to Kim Silva to share a little
bit more about this year's professional development um professor professional development within our district takes place through a variety of avenues designed to support Educators at every stage in their career we focus on foundational training growth throughout the school year and Extended Learning
opportunities our foundational training um does begin with new professionals Academy where we welcome and Orient our new Educators to our district throughout the school year we prioritize continued learning within our community offering districtwide and school specific profession professional development
session that promote growth and collaboration among Educators additionally we provide Extended Learning opportunities through specialized Summits conferences and targeted strands that deeper insights and Advance Lear Advanced learning in
specific areas of Interest no no this way I need to go back okay good the new professionals um Academy we we call it NPA is probably what you've heard it to be called um for certified staff it took place this past summer um from July 31st
to August 2nd the this professional development experience provided participants with several days of orientation where they became familiar with our District's mission and vision key Focus areas and the essential curriculum components vital to their specific role this year we had 152
participants as detailed in the breakdown on the slide uh notably while all were new to our district most had previous experience um with within education in addition to the new professional development sessions we also hosted a district 6 information and
networking Fair which was an excellent opportunity for participants to connect with various departments including payroll benefits GAA and more the new professionals Academy encompasses a wide range of focus areas designed to support Educators in their
role We Begin by introducing the i2030 Strategic plan and aligning our new uh new Educators with the district's Mission Vision and goals we also ensure teachers are well acquainted with content and resources specific to their role key Focus areas of the academy
include fostering professional learning communities with an emphasis on learning for all students additionally we cover curriculum essential instructional strategies and effective assessment practices to support our new teachers we offer a comprehensive Mentor program
each building is has assigned one to two lead mentors who guide new staff through the induction process these mentors provide ongoing support throughout the school year meeting regularly with their mentees the mentorship serves as a vital connection within the building helping
new teachers familiarize themselves with the district the school as well as curriculum additionally mentors assist with professional development including support during a classroom management course after the first year mentorship continues with the assistance of an
early educator lead who provides guidance to certified staff during their second and third year of teaching this is an example of the work bridging between our work and the work of the retention team with within operational and organizational
Effectiveness our District offers a diverse range of professional development opportunities throughout the school year this year teachers can choose from a variety of PD sessions that are tailored to meet their individual ual needs the offerings focus on math and Literacy for elementary teachers as well as foundations of
professional learning communities and specific content areas for secondary teachers additionally we've created specialized sessions for multilingual learner Educators elective teachers special education teachers and special service providers to address their
unique needs so just in one of the key teams supporting the professional development in our district is our professional Development Council this team plays a crucial role in shaping our learning opportunities and has um already determined the theme for this Summer's
professional development events and so the theme as you can see this year is maap being our way to success this upcoming summer we're offering three exciting professional development opportunities um within strands conferences and Summits this this summer Su we will offer three
different Summits one Summit will focus on technology providing valuable insights into our our diverse technology platforms used across our district another Summit will Center on culturally and linguistically diverse um clld education and as well as co- teing
offering a CDE approved certificate program that meets the English learner license requirement that our state has our third Summit will support special education and Behavioral Health aligning with the new 10 hour license renewal requirement and offering
essential support in those areas these Summits provide opportunities for educators to both deepen their experience as well as stay aligned with the latest license requirements each summer we also offer several conferences this summer we will continue offering consensus training
providing valuable tools for collaboration and shared decision-making additionally we will host our special education Summer Academy offering in-depth training and resource for educators in this field and then to further support our commitment to Avid we will provide Avid path training as
well as send some teams to Summer Avid summer Institute for specialized professional development lastly we are excited to offer professional development strands once against this year these strands are designed to be either building specific or content focused typically spanning 1
to two days teachers who participate will earn District Six credit for their attendance I will we'll now turn this over to Allison Ferguson who is my i230 professional development team co-lead and the principal at merer elementary school good evening our i2030 action
team includes 10 Educators from all levels of our K12 System including District directors we work together to collaboratively refine priorities for district-wide professional development over the next four over the next 5 years this included identifying specific
action steps for each year to ensure progress towards our i230 goals we outlined in the next few slides are the key Focus areas the action team has agreed upon our three key Focus areas in oh
thank you thank you um are going to ensure comprehensive support for all staff members including certified Personnel classified employees and special service providers these Focus areas allow us to provide a structured and intentional
approach to professional learning ensuring that employees receive the necessary foundational skills and information as they enter our district while also fostering continuous growth throughout their careers by establishing clear Pathways for professional
development we can support both new and returning staff in refining their expertise and expanding their instructional and operational practices our goal is to create a system that not only strengthens individual competencies but also enhances overall organ
organizational Effectiveness in addition to supporting staff in their professional learning we are committed to building internal capacity for the facilitation of professional development by equipping our Educators and Leaders with the skills and resources needed to effectively lead training and mentorship
opportunities we can foster a culture of shared learning and collaboration this approach ensures that professional development is sustain able aligned with District priorities and continuously evolving to meet the needs of our staff and
students the first area of focus is skills and information which serves as a foundational framework for staff as they enter our school district our goal is to provide employees with the Essential Knowledge tools and resources tailored to their specific roles ensuring a
smooth transition and a strong start by offering clearly defined professional devel vment opportunities and a structured aligned system of support throughout the year we'll create an environment where all employees feel prepared confident and empowered in
their positions a key component of this work is our mentoring program which provides targeted support for our new teachers first year certified teachers are paired within building mentors who offer the guidance coaching and professional support as they navigate their initial year in the district um
this is the same work that Kim touched on earlier so so it's kind of weaving all those pieces in teachers in their second and third years continue to receive the structure building support as they further develop their skills in instructional practices integrating mentoring with our foundational training
we are not only strengthening the development of our Educators but also enhancing teacher and staff retention a Wells supported Workforce leads to Greater job satisfaction improved instructional quality and ultimately better student outcomes additionally we
are actively collaborating with the i230 r to align our efforts and ensure that all Educators receive comprehensive support that they need through initiatives we are committed to building a strong knowledgeable and resilient staff that contributes to overall success of our
schools the second area of focus is refining complex practices and deepening content knowledge our goal is to design professional development Pathways that enhance your subject matter expertise while strengthening High leverage instructional practices within the
classroom room by providing structured opportunities for growth we aim to support Educators in refining instructional strategies deepening their and ultimately improving student outcomes to meaningful and lasting impact these development Pathways will
be reinforced at the building level creating a cohesive and streamlined process for Teacher growth professional development must be accompanied by consistent followup and feedback to effectively Translate learning into practice by providing
support and monitoring the implementation of high leverage instructional strategies we bridge the gap professional learning and classroom application leading to Great Student Success additionally this work aligns with our certified teachers professional
practices rubric in Randa allowing Educators to continually develop in this established framework oury area to capacity with District weed to equipping for
I think we may have a few Mr Tuttle uh thank you guys for your presentation and it looks like Dr Campo spitzy will lead us off um more a comment than a question um I I just really love the focus of not just professional development but using
professional development as I don't know a pathway to retention and um I love that mentorship that it doesn't end with the first year but it continues into the second and third year um at the building level and um just really you know handholding as much as we can to make
the job um lighter for these early Educators and make them better Educators right um so thank you for the work that you're doing thank you Dr cost spitzy Mr aari yeah I'm just wondering uh for those teachers that are new to the
profession and I'm presuming this is just the teachers or is this the staff in general throughout the district before I go on just wondering so okay so directed toward just uh the teaching
staff the instructional staff for for those new teachers is there some checkin um with the group if you will towards maybe the end of the year to determine if the new professionals
Academy was s helped them actually throughout the year e had a similar question to Mr oari um I come from a family of Educators and I said I know that professional development is something of a source of
contention between administrators and and teachers and uh it is that contingent is ages old um but it but it seems to Center on this that uh that everybody believes in professional development and
finds it valuable and wants it to to be good and teach teachers often times want to spend that time in their classrooms or grading papers or doing uh lesson plans and so uh how do we how do we balance uh that that tension if you will
or how do we balance uh the time of of educating teachers but also giving them uh giving them the chance to um Hang on we're going to we're going to we're going to fix our microphone [Laughter] and and it sounds like from your
response to Mr aari's question that we do measure our teacher satisfaction uh but can you just speak a little bit more uh to that a couple things and feel free to add into this um one of the things that we did this year was we um also TR
um created opportunities for Teacher choice in the professional development so it wasn't that they all had to take the same thing that they got to self- select into saying I really want to learn more about this so this is something that's going better my practices and so there's a lot of teacher voice in those professional development the sessions this year in
addition when I think about the calendar and I'm looking to Aaron um as we added those days in we balanced their individual plan time with the professional development days so there was usually a half and half so a time to
learn but then also a time for them to be able to have that through individual plan time and we recognize that that's important as well to add and we do measure that I mean to make sure that teachers from teachers that yes uh we're getting uh
that plan time um both so we are constantly monitoring that and then we do survey at the end of every single professional development session we collect data on the effectiveness of that and very very high ratings this year we're looking at revamping it so that it can also give us feedback on how
do we change to make it better so we're looking at the questions to make sure we're asking thoughtful questions that give us feedback to guide that work further yeah well thank you thank you for for that answer I appreciate it very much and uh thank you also for the inclusiveness of our professional
development uh I'm just looking at saying that long-term substitutes are are in our new professionals Academy um uh heard you mention that are classified I know they're not all uh receiving professional development but but I know that are C classified are receiving professional development as well and so
I very much appreciate um including everyone in in that professional development there any other questions from comments from board members well I don't see any so I will just say thank you again for uh for your report we appreciate your presentation
tonight next on our agenda is our public participation as a board we welcome the comments of community members and we dedicate a portion of each business meeting to provide an opportunity for the community to present brief comments All speakers are limited to two minutes for comments
our board members typically will not respond but we may ask our District staff to do so all written testimony or handouts must be submitted to the board secretary Miss Amy lemon we ask all speakers and those in attendance to conduct themselves in a dignified and non-disruptive manner cheering snapping
clapping and other distractions are not permitted anyone who disturbs order may be required to sit down or to leave the boardroom speakers are responsible for their own speech and should refrain from profane and obscene remarks all remarks must be suitable for an audience that includes kindergarten through 12th grade
students the board is committed to providing a safe environment where all members of the school Community are treated with dignity and respect we expect all speakers to exercise their speech rights responsibly with that read first on um first two sign up are uh Mr
David Meek well thank you all tonight welcome Mr Meek thank you thank you hey I really appreciate all you do and I think you think I'm half crazy but we are we're a fool for Jesus I wish we had more fools for Jesus y all do a lot of great stuff
in that but my main thing is uh I have a dream I've had a dream for over 20 years right here that y'all would be a premier uh District in the whole America but that only will come about is when you
realize that every boy and every girl needs to know that they are created in the image of God and they have a Divine Purpose and a divine plan and then somehow you will realize that's your responsibility it's your moral responsibility your civic responsibility most of all your god-given
responsibility because at any moment all of us are going to stand before him and give an answer to him for what we did and what we haven't done a lot of books is wonderful and buildings is wonderful but when they read your thing at the funeral I wonder what they're going to say and will they
have to lie that hits really home to me you know the front page of the paper a while back it really hits me harder because I sat with some of you at the funeral of a girl that committed suicide you had three of them at all
three high schools in 2018 after I appeared before you and after you said no to Bible in schools and the Good News Club in 2018 and you had three suicides in three high schools the little girl hung herself you know and that so I'm just here to to help you and the only
way it's going to happen is that you personally ask Jesus to be your savior it's only it's going to happen and then the next thing you're going to have to ask the Holy Spirit to help you to do the boldness to change this mess because you can't do it by yourself the only reason I'm here is because the Lord and the Holy Spirit and so I pray that for
you and then I pray you don't sleep until you do it so anyway thanks again and the Lord bless you thank you Mr Meek next tonight we have miss Patricia Nelson welcome Miss Nelson thank you for being here you'll have two minutes
thank you so much um I'm here this evening to discuss my concerns about the policy change uh jih first the concerns about the policy this not only introduces a new search method into the school policy this also changes the policy so students have no way to refuse
the search with the oneand without being subject to disciplinary action per the red line a students failure to cooperate would be considered grounds for disciplinary action as drafted the policy change includes No Parental discretion unlike the policy surrounding
questioning students without parents present secondly I have concerns about staff members being part of the the searches I would suggest a red line um so that the change would be as follows only Law Enforcement Officers or SRO assigned to the school shall conduct
these searches parents should be notified prior to any searches and only the person who should the only person who should conduct these um searches are the sro's um I also want to bring up how this policy was announced the way that it was announced and um other parents that I talked to were under the same
impression is that this policy had already been approved um the email I received set per our school district Safety and Security Department district dist administrators have approved the use of a metal detector wand um there were no red lights provided in the policy announcement and per state statue
a safe School plan must be created and updated following the consultation with but not limited to accountability committee parents and community members at large the changes may happen in response to any relevant data in this case I don't feel like there was an explanation provided for this policy
change uh this policy change should have had a more more robust stakeholder process a longer announcement lead time and there should have been an invitation for community members to participate prior to the vote I reached out to the chief of School Safety and Security twice but my ask my questions around the
stakeholder process were not answered nor did I find any information about this in previous minutes this is especially important because as I was notified by the um superintendent this is only going to go in front of the school Bo members once prior to the vote so I really urge that you guys consider
this prior to making this change of this policy that it's not fair to our community members are thank you for being here Mr Nelson we appreciate your comments next on our agenda tonight is our consent agenda we'll need a motion to proceed I move that the Board of Education of G EV
school district 6 appr approves items as presented on the consent agenda and authorizes the officers to sign any and all contracts second thank you both any discussion on the consent agenda I don't see any so miss lemon will you give us a vote please director
Zari I director Bentley hi director Campos spy I director Mash I director Matthews I director Norwood I director Sullivan I motion carries 70 thank you Miss lemon next on our
agenda is is policy revisions and the first policy revision uh is to a foundation and basic comments AC non-discrimination Equal Employment and so this is an action item
that we'll need a motion or are we grouping all these we're grouping all these together so we'll we'll have several that are group together will someone please make that motion I move that the Board of Education of G Evan school district 6 approve the revisions to a foundations and basic Comm commitments policies as
presented second thank you both are there any discuss is there any discussion on on these policy revisions Dr pilch is there anything you would like to say in thank you president Matthews I'd like to invite uh attorney
Nathan fall to the podium please just to give some overview of of this several policies you have coming before you the AC policies as well as the gbaa policies as well as the revisions to the J uh policies they are all uh similarly
related to one another impacting staff um District action and then um students as well thank you Mr fall and he won't walk you through each one but I want to give H him to give you some a broad overview of of why these policies are
coming before you and what our intent is with the revision on these policies and then we'll be happy to take questions that you might have thank you Dr pilch president Matthews members of the board uh my name is Nate fall I'm in house legal councel for the school district uh in front of you are the
least we're talking about right now are the policies in our a section of the board policy manual these are the policies related to our non-discrimination uh we know that the with the new presidential Administration they had well let me let
me backtrack so uh last president Administration they had implemented new rules under Title 9 we are just calling those the 2024 rules for sake of Simplicity uh this new Administration has rescinded those rules meaning that we are now going back to the original uh
Title 9 sexual harassment rules which were adopted in 2020 so these policy revisions are essentially bringing us back to align with those 2020 regulations we did um keep some of the language um from our prev our last
policy revision that we passed last summer if you wouldn't if you do remember we did a kind of proposed policy adoption and then we ultimately passed the policy in August um and so this is essentially just kind of dialing that back a little bit um but we did keep some of that language in so you'll
see that some of the changes um weren't fully made and we did keep some of that language in there but just know that these revisions do align with federal law now with those 2020 regulations uh but we also have state law uh that we need to kind of tangle with which is
Senate bill 23296 which was another policy that this board adopted last summer uh and so we are still trying to make sure that we're um our policy language captures those requirements from Colorado law so that's kind of why we are doing this and I apologize for
the messy policy adoption last summer and here we are just kind of resending it but I'm happy to take any questions thank you Mr fall we have a question from Dr Campos spitzy um in acr1 the harassment and dis
discrimination investigation procedures for students um I just wanted to know what our definition is um when we say sexual allegations of sexual discrimination um under Title 9 must follow the complaint and investigation procedures so what you know I like just
by searching um I've seen definitions for sex discrimination for sex-based discrimination so I wasn't sure exactly what was meant by sexual discrimination yeah sexual discrimination and sex discrimination I think are one and the same and that may be I I think I'm I can
that may be an error on my part and I can fix that if it says sexual discrimination if the question is should it say sex discrimination okay that's probably just a grammatical typo and you said that was on acr1 yeah acr1 um like
the last paragraph before investigation process I see that well Dr Kos spitzy if you want to make a motion right now to change that to sex discrimination you could certainly do that um but uh I I I think that that's a technical typographical change that I can make um after the board makes its change to yeah
if I need to make a motion I will um I move to fix a typographical error um and that it should say allegations of sex discrimination rather than sexual discrimination on acr1
second and just just to clarify I apologize that was an amendment to the original motion this is an amendment to the original and so what what we now have to do is vote on on Dr Campos spitzy's Amendment uh to the original uh motion is there is there any further
discussion I don't see any so again we're voting on the amendment Dr Campos spitzy's Amendment to the motion please give us a vote Miss lemon director aari I director Bentley I director Campos spitzy I director Mash hi director Matthews hi director Norwood hi director
Sullivan I motion carries 70 thank you Miss lemon are there any other questions now that that has become uh the language that we're adopting is there are there any other dis is there any other
discussion I don't see any Mr fall so miss lemon will you give us a vote please director Zari I director Bentley I director Campos spitzy I director Mash hi director Matthews hi director Norwood hi director Sullivan hi motion carries 70 thank you Miss lemon next on our
agenda is our policy revisions gbaa sex-based harassment GB gbaa sex based oh sorry um we have a new program and it looks a little different than what we're familiar with uh so it we will need a motion to proceed I move that the Board
of Education of gy Evans school district 6 approves the revisions to policy gbaa sexual harassment as presented second thank you both Mr fall is there anything you would like to say about U these changes yes the only thing I'll say is you'll notice
that in this policy that that whole definition of sex-based harassment prohibited has been redlined and just know that that was the 2024's definition of sexual harassment um and so we've we've St struck that language um but the remaining policy you can see we just
made edits to the definition of sexual harassment there any questions or comments from board members seeing none Miss lemon will you give us a vote please director Zari I director Bentley I director Campos spitzy I director mes hi director Matthews hi
director Norwood hi director Sullivan I motion carry 70 thank you Miss lemon next tonight are policy revisions J student policies and so again we need a motion to proceed I move that the Board of Education of G Evan school
district 6 approve the revisions to Jay's students policies as presented second thank you both um Mr fall I'll give it again to you to introduce this but I I would since we've had uh some public comment um if you could answer any of the the questions that were
brought raised in public comment um about the the J policies I can say that we we're doing with these policies what what we do with all policies um we we bring policies pretty much every meeting uh with with Redline changes we're
updating uh all the time and so this policy is not different from uh or there is no different process for any other uh policy from any other policy um but can you address any of those other questions uh that were brought up in public comment yes thank you president Matthew
so um the I I just want to say that this doesn't change anything that we are already doing with our search and seizures procedures the Fourth Amendment of the United States Constitution still exists it hasn't changed in almost 250 years um and so or longer than that I
should say and so this is just an additional tool that school staff can use uh after really all other attempts have been exhausted um we know that uh vaping in particular is uh epidemic uh in this country and also in this school
district we know that uh students are doing it widely uh in the bathrooms and in dark classrooms and you know wherever it may be they're very hard to locate you can smell them you know they're there but you can't find them um but a metal detector can um and so we know we
know that this is just one other resource that school staff have um to uh potentially identify Contraband or illegal materials in district schools uh another piece is that all School staff that are going to be using these wands have been trained in the use of them uh
and again these are they're just aligning to our uh Safety and Security procedures that we already have when it comes to searches so nothing has changed in our searches process uh school officials have always been able to search students this isn't anything new certainly if there's a more
invasive search uh we always direct those to law enforcement we never direct staff to do uh more invasive searches like actually searching on the person um and then the wands themselves are very in non-invasive items you don't have to do Pat Downs with them you don't have to
touch anybody with a wand it can really just detect metal that is out there so just as far as our process nothing has changed this is just an additional tool and what we wanted to do was provide the public with notice that we are going to start using this tool we know that there
are other school districts even in Colorado that use kind of these handheld metal detector wands that don't have policy on this uh so really if anything we're doing a service to the community by letting them know uh that we are going to start including these in our search procedures um and this is kind of
part of that reason we adopted that or shared the communication out with the School Community last week just so we can put folks on notice that this is something that we are going to start using that there is a real problem in this school Community uh that we want to address and we believe that um wands are
uh a really great tool for doing that and then as far as the the public comment and notice piece this is an adjustment to our search and seizure policy uh this isn't for our safe schools reporting policy I know that they're there are sections of the safe School reporting policy that include search and seizures but this doesn't
align to that to that policy polic so I'm not sure what that comment was about um I I think this is just a regular policy adoption or revision thank you Mr fall Dr Kus spitzy yeah I did I did want to comment
and I guess just Echo a lot of the points U Mr fall just made um but but we do already have policy that allows search and pat down um when school officials have reasonable grounds to suspect that a search is warranted so
that already exists in my view um I see a wand as a way to keep hands off the kids um and so instead of doing the backhanded pat down which is part of the policy um it would be a way I think um
the Educators and administrators uh who who are trained to do this would would probably prefer to use a wand rather than do a pat down um I was also concerned about who was doing them um mostly because of an event that happened in Denver a couple years ago um that we
may be aware of that an administrator found a gun and um and then was shot by the student um so so I was assured that there would be training for everyone using the wand and um that if it is going to be a more invasive search or a
student who is higher you know risk um that it would be done by a law enforcement official um if we were implementing something I would say like metal detector at our school entrances um which would be very costly for the um
for the district I first sure would want many months in advance of town hall meetings and a lot of community input before we would do anything drastic like that um but you know I regularly go to Colorado Rapids games and we all get wanded down as we enter the stadium I
just don't see it as much of a a a controversial issue yeah thank you Dr campus spitzy and I I just want to add to that that that that they're not going to be used randomly they're going to be used when there is articulable reasonable suspicion to initiate a search and that's what the fourth
amendment requires in our in our school staff that can use the wands who are only building administrators by the way um they they know that and so they know that this is just not something to just pull out uh that they really need to have that grounded suspicion in order to even initiate a search to begin with so
um anyways thank you Miss Sullivan thank you for uh the clarity of um the policy and whatnot but I just want to verify then because I know I found it before we do provide the redline version online for parents to um check out so
was this one posted so that they can go back to see that yes yeah all red lines should be posted on the public website Mr aari one of the concerns that uh the speaker brought up was the line in the policy of students failure to cooperate
with school officials conducting a search will be considered grounds for disciplinary action that line is listed earlier on in the policy in an older version of the policy and then that's included under the handheld uh procedures in the red line is there any
difference between how those two statements will be interpreted by Administration it's the the same sentence I actually just copy and pasted it I'm pretty sure may maybe I justed some language but I just wanted to make clear that that which was already in policy that rule still applies to these
searches as well okay any other questions or comments from board members I don't see any so miss lemon will you give us a vote please director Zori I director Bentley hi director Campos spitzy I director
Mash I director Matthews I director Norwood I director Sullivan I motion Carri s zra thank you Miss lemon that's all the business we have tonight thank you for joining us again congratulations to our Dream Team Scholars this meeting is adjourned
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