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heat heat welcome to the board of education work session for Gley Evans School District 6 this is Monday April 14th miss Lemon would you please call the role yes the work session is called to order uh the work session is called to order thank
you director Oari present director Bentley director Campos Spitzy present director Mash present director Matthews present director Norwood director Sullivan present with five board members present first item on our agenda is our calendar
review and community engagement we are rapidly approaching the end of the school year there are a couple of events I would call to your attention um the boys and girls club dinner and I assume Miss Lemon needs
RSVPs as soon as possible also the retirement celebration um we have one more school visit to Jackson Elementary and then we start all of our graduations and end of year celebrations
president Mash um if I could mention if everybody could please RSVP as soon as possible to all of the graduations um our schools are putting together their programs to get printed so if you could do that right away we'd appreciate it and there in the one of the board docs
um our weekly email has um has all of the who's speaking and who's the liaison correct yes okay what we're wearing and what we're wearing yes all right anything that's missing or any
other comments on the schedule all right we will move along to our board member comments and reports and Mr matthews would you like to go first wow uh wasn't expecting that um yeah so just looking back at at the
calendar and and what we've uh what we've been doing just in the last few weeks um Monday got to go to the capital and testify on student finance or school finance bill and that was it was good
and made it out of it made it out of committee later that day so we're it's good to see what that were maybe not getting cut as much as we we thought that's that's very helpful and then spent this uh Friday
night and Saturday night at at Gley West seeing oh someone what did we see what was the name hades Town um yeah saw Hades Town twice just fantastic show and so congrats to all those Gly West students and uh faculty that put
that on so that's about it thank you President Mash well I attended uh along with some of my other fellow board members uh the Maplewood One School many cultures event in March and it was great to see the different stations and have the opportunity to
learn about the different customs and traditions of our students and all the native uh countries they all the countries that they are native to i also attended the dream team banquet that same night so it's kind of
turn around and rush into that uh this was my second year and once again I was very impressed by the successful experiences that our students have during their time here in district 6 and I wish them the best in their future endeavors and then
finally I also had the opportunity to attend the Holocaust survivor presentation of the UCCCC for eighth graders janet Singer Applefield sharing of her experiences while she was a young girl from having had to change her name
several times in order to survive from losing almost every member of her family including having her pet killed those can be challenging messages for our students to hear and I want to share that I found our students conduct during
her presentation to be outstanding and I found the students questions to be respectful and insightful again it made me proud to be a part of school district 6 and that's all I have president Mash thanks
dr campus Spitzy yes um I guess I wanted to start off with how excited I am that the school finance act or the new formula may be implemented or will be implemented this year at 15% um so only 15% but that's the first step
towards um 100% and so I'm excited that our state is really um wanting to back public education that way and very proud that I feel like our district and our superintendent played a pivotal role in that decision um also have been thinking
of all of our students in third grade through 12th grade who are CES testing right now um I know um one of my friends was saying that the teachers had told them you know make sure you're eating good and sleeping good and it just makes the kids more nervous that they're going to get tested
the next day but um also uh loved participating in the Gley Dream Team banquet um at the end of March i was able to go to that banquet for many many years before I was a board member but um always impressed by the dream team
scholars um the scholarship recipients are also impressive um and I am looking forward to seeing Hades Town on Friday night so Gley West is putting it on this weekend as well um if you can make it
out uh I know that in our business agenda we will be honoring our Betcher and Daniels Fund scholarship recipients but I wanted to highlight um Ta K bluo uh who was a Gley Central High School senior who won the Wilbert Weedman
scholarship um that is given by the Weld Community Foundation um so it's $80,000 towards college um he had his his story in the Gley Tribune and it was just really powerful um he was born in a refugee camp in Myanmar um since leaving
Myanmar has been back three times to help with war aid um has a 4.0 GPA started chess club at Gley Central plays volleyball um and is taking AP classes and is in band um so just an amazing
amazing representation of our seniors um this year and a very um deserving scholarship recipient and I think that's all I did i got to have one student from Gley Central shadow me in the last week as Merald Davonia um who wants to be an
ultrasound tech came over to clinic and I tried to convince her to be a doctor instead so um anyway it's been a fun few weeks i feel like I haven't been here in forever because my last board meeting was maybe a month ago um and excited to have our
new president um presiding over this meeting thanks Mrs sullivan i'm basically just trying to get back in i was down for 3 weeks with bronchitis and pneumonia so um just kind of first day back to work was today
actually but congratulations on your new bowl well we're glad to have you hope you're feeling better um I also enjoy the Maplewood Cultural Night and similar to the Gley Central Cultural um assembly
the kids are so brave and and generous with their the sharing of their experience um we got to dance a little bit and um draw self-portraits and they were all very very proud to to show us around their school uh I also um
attended the community council on education um leadership I guess is invited to that meeting with the chamber of commerce and representatives from UNCC and Ames all come and give updates this time Dr pelch led um an activity of
asking the business leaders what they would like to see in our graduates um that will make them workforce ready so that was really good conversation and um positive feedback also Dak took a tour of the Career and Tech Ed Center as well
as nutrition services and it was really fun um they were all just very um excited and impressed and all of our students at the CTE center were off in competition which I didn't realize how many opportunities for competition we
have with varying clubs um but the um cyber security kids were competing as well as um I think the the construction pathway but just amazing to see that space completely filled with equipment filled with students um I don't know
when the last time the board was there but I did feel like it just it really looks um it looks it's so exciting that it's it's going really well there um as well as our nutrition services is always um an area to to celebrate um we got to
see all the varying um places of production and then the innovative tools that they're using to make things more efficient and get back to our precoid um scratch uh we're trying to make as many things from scratch as possible and
the I think the menu items are exciting there's things coming back that were there before and and new choices so um if you have a student in district 6 you might look at the menu um and and see what day you want to go and and try out the lunch as well um I also have the
opportunity of working with one of our district 6 interns at Banner Health Caitlyn Luther from from Gley West and she's just really excited to be there and learn everything that she can and I also encourage everyone to go see Hades Town next weekend it's um just visually
stunning excellent vocals and um congratulations to Peggy Free on her last show so um our next item of um is our budget update and we'll give that to Dr
pil thank you President Mash and um I will just say I had a couple of um conversations over the last few days with with Miss Sponsor i think you all are aware that she's out with her husband um who has had some pretty significant um procedures done and so
she'll she's been out several days now and and will continue to spend time supporting him but she has been able to work from home some and and did help me some um putting some information together for you tonight um I just didn't want to wait until too long to to
give you all an update on where we are with the budget and where we are with budget cuts in particular because I know you're starting to hear things and you're getting information from me about cuts that we're making so I wanted to to give you some of that and give you an opportunity to ask questions and and um
inquire so uh we started out the year building the budget looking for about um looking to fill a deficit of about 12 million uh dollars and most of that is based on two things one the increase in cost in benefits um so health insurance
uh as well as parah so we we have an increase that we pay into PAR for each of our employees um and then salaries because it is our intent to do steps and lanes and some raise for our employees and so when we increase salaries we also
increase the co-curricular pay so that that is seeing a significant increase as well and what that co-curricular pay will cost us throughout the system um and then of course we're seeing an increase in utilities and we are anticipating an increase and have
already begun to see an increase in equipment and materials and supplies as a result of of you know the changing um economics and the result of tariffs and so we're currently looking at about um a
a gap of filling of about 6 to7 million and so we've worked hard to to fill that gap um and as as u Miss Campos Spitzy Dr campos Spitzy indicated we're close to having a school finance act we're not we're not quite there yet it's in a
props um Nate will give us some update during the legislative piece on where we are with the school finance act but we are hopeful um so I want to be clear that as you've heard about cuts that we we will be getting more funding from the state than we did the previous year
however cost is outpacing that pretty dramatically um as it is for every school district in the state of Colorado I would guess fortunately we are not in declining enrollment like some of our neighboring districts we are going to uh budget flat for next year the state is
projecting us to be in increasing enrollment however um there's just enough uncertainty in the climate that we uh do Dr miss Sponsor and I both have agreed we really do need to to budget with a flat enrollment as if we are not
planning to grow in the district so um I'll walk you through this and then we'll provide you some of this in a a weekly memo also as it gets clearer and clearer but um we did increase our staffing ratio by one student um so that that was some savings in the system as
you know uh we did make the decision to close the Jeff Jefferson Junior High School program uh we've also eliminated the deans um at our large K8s and at our high schools some of our high schools have chosen to use teacher FD to convert
back and to keep a dean um but but we pulled those dean positions back we pulled back an assistant principal position at Bella Romero they've had uh five administrators on those two campuses and and um looking at that and studying that carefully we really feel
it's appropriate to to pull another position back we had added another position when uh when John Cooney left feeling like the new principal needed that additional support and and so we we feel like it's reasonable to pull that back at this time
um so then so those are the big pieces that hit the buildings in terms of the district-wide cuts we've eliminated three coordinator positions out of this building um so three administrators out of this building we've also eliminated an administrative assistant out of this
building actually in our school leadership department um we have eliminated some of the technology replacement um budget for Chromebooks and for laptops uh mostly for staff and so that that's that's a
sizable um savings there to do that um we are eliminating a position in instructional technology services it's an instructional technology services tech position we eliminated uh we did not reinstate the counselor core grant
positions um out of the general fund we had hoped we would be able to do that out of mil levy override but we we just can't i'll talk about mil levy override here in a moment as well um we also eliminated the zero dropout 9th grade interventions positions those of you who've been on the board for a while
you're aware that we have um numbers of contracts with zero dropouts and we felt like we've done a lot of work and and um shoring up our high school teams and they're they're prepared to take that work on so we've pulled that contract
back we also have been evaluating all of our software and curriculum positions to um to make sure we don't have redundancy and uh we can produce some savings there so uh we we have made some cuts there as
well um through the support of the IT department um to save some dollars we will also postpone uh the the additional security camera projects um that were scheduled for next year we'll hold on that um and then we'll also eliminate
the contracted additional security officers that we've had at the uh large high schools um and so all of that uh results in a savings of about $7 million um that we were able to recapture and and we're still looking so as positions
open up we're looking to to say do we need that position um can we absorb that position in other ways in the system um as as contracts come up for renewal around uh curriculum and software purchases and and other things that we
purchase contracts on we're looking at each of those saying is this something that we could hold on or wait on or or do in another way in the system um you know it's really hard we say and we believe in keeping the cuts as far away from as we can from the schools but the
reality is that most supports in the district are here to support the schools so it's very hard to make cuts without impacting our schools i mean that is just a reality when you're looking to find budget savings so I'll stop there for a minute and let you um ask questions that you might have uh share
your comments and wonderings so you said you saved 7 million what's the difference then your guesstimate of how much more you need to So probably a couple of million uh I think Taylor based on the the school finance act and um there's an amendment right now for
supplemental funding the atrisisk supplemental funding to to stay in the school finance act that was a thing from the old school finance act if that comes back in um that is that will benefit district six significantly uh it's about a $7 million statewide budget and we we
receive about 2.2 million of that currently under the current finance formula so because we have so many students who live in poverty um so we think that we can fill the gap um with that passing if that doesn't we're going
to have to look to go deeper thank you i also wanted to talk mil levy for just a minute um you may remember from the the this previous budget um that we we had in the past collected last year it was about 6 million more dollars um we
should have collected in mill levy override and this year this coming year would have been over seven million more in mill levy override and that that's based on that the freezing of the assessed valuation that was done statewide um to save homeowners on you
know tax dollars and so that's um those are dollars that we don't have coming in that we have had coming in in the past so the money that we get from the state is roughly the same it's our it's our own MLO money that we're down about 7
million is that Yeah it's we're down council of core grants yeah we're down the MLO we'll actually receive more from the state than we've received in the past our PPR will be greater than it was this current school year we believe depend on where the the finance act lands
and then how about federal dollars we just really don't know yet Miss Mash about federal dollars we just don't know uh we are planning for a 15% reduction in title dollars in title one in particular and so the budget we've built around title schools um is about 15% uh
less than what it has been in the past cuz we anticipate that kind of a cut and we've been seeing cuts like that you know for several years now that's been dwindling for a while now so um you know our our schools that are are very high poverty that that receive a lot of title
one dollars you know they may have seen one or two positions go away with the loss of those title one dollars if they were paying for teachers out of those dollars can you explain to me um you mentioned like co-curricular costs uhhuh can you
what does that mean yeah so those are extra duty contracts so co-curricular is anything that employees do in addition to their regular employment so it it there are extra duty contracts for coaching for um uh being a lead teacher
in a building for s for leading um a you know being the theater teacher who does the plays with all those those extra duty contracts thanks mhm and they're based on all those contracts are um that that amount is based on years of
experience um that the employee has the summer school programs won't have to be affected with Well I do that is not included here but we are we did we are evaluating that right now right we did scale back we did scale back some of
summer school i Yeah so there there we are doing fewer programs at summer school how about lunches because Well right now um nutrition should be fully funded for first semester so what this has already
passed the legislature so what passed is um to fully fund um school lunch for all which the state passed a year ago and to fully fund it for the first semester but there is not enough funding to fund it for second semester so um the intent is
for there to be a ballot measure to take it to the state um t statewide to the voters to determine whether or not the voters want to pay for for school lunch for all so district 6 will be fine with the exception of one school we because
our students qualif our schools qualify just all of our schools except for one of our charter schools every other school qualifies so we will still be funded on breakfast and lunch regardless um but but the schools that don't qualify um for those federal supports uh
will not if the ballot measure in the fall doesn't pass will not be funded second semester so then we'll have to go back to an application some I don't know I don't know what their plan is for that i don't know they've already identified those
schools so I don't know that they No I don't think you'd go back this year yeah and do we benefit off of federal grants that might be as we do we do benefit from federal grants um uh we have
about 13% of our budget I think is federal grants um so but we just don't know yet um the big ones are the title grants the title one title three um those are you know those are the sizable ones mckenna Vento for our homelessness
population and that's a that's a federal grant as well um our afterchool 21st century programs are federal grants um Gear Up is a federal grant so I we just really do not know yet um Mr aari and
um I'll wait I'll wait till Mr fall comes but perhaps we'll talk a little bit about um where the state of Colorado is around you know signing off to to not offer certain programs in order to guarantee receiving federal grants
we just really don't know the counselor core grants can you explain those are state grants um not federal grants and they're they're typically for three years and we had so right now we have eight positions in counselor core grants
am I right currently eight so all of our high schools and middle schools um next year those that grant ends and the intent had always been to pay for those positions out of mil levy override dollars when the grant ended with
receiving fewer mil levy override dollars we did cut those positions at middle school we we do have the high the additional high school positions in the budget right now we do expect um we have been awarded council core grants for our K8 schools right now we're still being
told we we will receive those counselor core positions so new positions for three years coming up um right now we're told we will still receive that funding so it's likely that some of the folks that were in middle schools uh would move into those K8 positions and so they they will there will still
be counselors in high school and and in our K through8 yeah these were just additional positions to the what we typically staff for this was an additional position really uh with more specific duties than a traditional school counselor um that and those duties come as a
requirement of the grant from the state so uh we at the high school level we still funded the additional counselor yeah the the middle schools have one or two counselors Anthony um one or two they have two they'll have
two they'll have two what else are you wondering about did the legislature say when they might have it finalized um we there's we we don't know do we know Nate when we might be finalized with school finance act no i mean it's got to go through
appropriations and then through both changes so yeah so we're probably into next week maybe that still would be early it would be early they're trying to be earlier i think that would be the earliest we would know
other questions this is a time to clarify those myths that you're you know the things you're hearing out there is it truth or a myth um around around funding and and around staffing and budgeting and it's also
time to if there's things you want to make sure we're looking at or considering that we're doing that as well well I'm grateful that the student to staff ratio was only increased by one i think that I am too i was fearful we may have to go deeper than that so and
and part of this I want to be really frank and I think you all know this especially those of you who have participated now for multiple years in negotiations you know that um the our cabinet team our philosophy is to pay the people we have well first and then
to add more people so um you know the decision was made to to do everything we could to honor um steps and lanes which is honoring education as well as years of service and then also um looking at the possibility of at least some small
raise for everyone um that that was more you know that's the priority over over the staffing quite frankly so um um when you say increase the ratio by one student so that's where you're
asking each individual building to decrease FTE yes yeah so if um so a high school that um may have been at a 25 to 5 to one so every 25 and a half teachers or every 25 and a half students you get
one FTE that w that went to 26 and a half you get one and I may have the original number wrong on what it is but it went up one um when we we do the math to determine what they get now it's not as easy um to make that work perfectly
at the elementary level because you have to it's based on actually round you know rounds the number of classes you have at at kinder and first and second and they just don't work out perfectly to be 22 to one at you know in every building for
every kindergarten section so in some cases you may you know you may have 17 kids in a kindergarten classroom or or 16 and in some cases you might have the you know the 22 23 depend on how the numbers fall all
right thank you very much for that update and I'm sure there'll be more to come once we have solidified numbers and yes at this time we'll invite Mr fall to come and give us our legislative update i'll just while he's transitional I'll
add one more thing miss Mash we are um Miss Snder our GRE Education Association president and I met last week we're beginning to to try to plan backwards to when we might be able to bring the master contract language to you all for a vote um as you know the
association has to ratify it before we can bring it to you for a vote um so our compensation committee has to finish compensation and and be able to come to agreement there and then Miss Snder can work with her association to to begin to
put that out for possible ratification so hopefully what we we said May right we were hoping there's just one meeting in May and so we're hoping that one meeting in May we would be able to do that so thank you President Mash and members of the board Dr pilch my name is Nate
Fall i'm in House Legal Counsel for the school district we are doing a legislative update today um I we will talk at the end about school finance act um hopefully I can answer some of those questions that were brought up just now um but let's start
with board priorities i'm just letting you know that house bill 251192 that's that financial literacy graduation requirement bill hasn't made any movement it's still been referred to House Appropriations Committee and that was as of March 6th we're still determining whether or not
we can just supplement our current curriculum um and just create a graduation requirement for what students are already doing um but there's more to come with that and we'll see if this even goes through um House Bill 251135 communication devices in school this is
that cell phone ban bill where you have to pass a policy that did get through the Senate with a few amendments and it's now on to the governor's desk for signature we'll we will be in compliance with that law when it's signed we already are in compliance we are in the clients yeah that's what he what I
meant uh now from a federal level uh in here I have embedded links it looks like I don't know if I've shared this with you but embedded links that we've talked about in the past for dear colleague le letters as well as executive orders from President Trump i did include uh some new information from the US Department
of Education that's bullet point two on April 3rd uh the US Department of Education issued this title six certification letter and they sent it to all state governments asking their kind of commissioners of education or superintendents of education whoever may be that authoritative figure to sign a
certification uh essentially stating that um we do not violate title six which is the um federal law that prohibits discrimination on the basis of race and national origin uh really the focus is that uh state
education systems do not promote or have programs for diversity equity and inclusion also known as DEI um ultimately what this letter does is they are threatening to pull Title One funding if a state does not follow
the federal government's interpretation of Title Six go ahead um does that require us to change our language in our documents and on our website so it it it would depend on how this ultimately becomes enforced I would say
um so but I can get there let me let me try to answer that i'll walk us through a little bit more um Director Zari and so what this letter said is that all state um officials are required to sign the certification within 10 days and then return it to the department of
education essentially saying that we'll comply with this new directive uh and then last week on Friday uh Commissioner Susanna Cordova issued a letter essentially saying that they're not going to be signing the certification and they're not going to be collecting
signatures from ELEAS or local education um agencies uh to um sign the certification uh the reasoning that they gave was really similar to what I've seen from other states i think the state of New York did something similar and they just said that we are already we've
already made assurances that we will comply with title six um and so there's no need to make renew those assurances that we are going to comply with title six because we're already doing that um and then the other kind of main part about Susana Cordova's or Commissioner Cordova's uh letter is that we don't
really have the state doesn't have any obligation to actually sign this uh in order for the federal government to issue such a directive they have to go through a really specific process that involves notice and comment uh and they didn't do that they essentially just released guidance saying that you have
to follow this um and that violates agency law uh around notice and comment and then the second piece is that federal guidance of this nature doesn't carry the force of law uh and so they didn't want to be bound by something that's not law um but but again could
that jeopardize our being able to receive grants from the federal level i mean with or without the state compliance are we required to comply as an individual school district with federal um directives so I think that's
something we can certainly consider um I I think it's certainly possible that they could enforce this and start withdrawing Title One funds from states that aren't in compliance and then um that would obviously trickle down to school districts uh I'm not sure what it might look like if a school district
were to sign on um whether or not they would still funnel money directly to that school district so um I think that's certainly a possibility okay but I was under the the understanding that we're waiting for um Susanna
Cordova to make a decision and that she basically speaks for the 178 school districts in the state of Colorado yes and it's been um our position to just kind of follow what CDE is planning to do with this so um that's just the position we're taking at this time
and we're watching the other school district I mean the other states to see how this falls out in other states it is yeah um and and we know that the state of Maine um right now may be facing a cut in funding due to some uh violations with um how the current federal
government interprets Title 9 and so they're threatening funding now in the state of Maine so it we will see kind of what ends up happening um but whether or not the federal government can withhold funds without congressional action I think is
going to be a issue that's going to be litigated for years um and so but whether or not that means we're going to get funding while that litigation is happening is another question it's it's just a lot of unknown i I apologize this might be the third or fourth time I've spoken to you all with nothing but vague
answers to your questions and just I still say I don't know but um to your point Director Zari yeah it's possible they could pull funding cuz I still get confused um how much goes through the state and how much directly impacts us
as an individual school district yeah it all flows through the state uh okay unless we well that it's not act when we apply for um these one-off grants like the safety grants I don't think those go through the state they come directly to us but but all of the big um the big
title grants the idea special education grants um all of that comes through the state regardless um and with the proposed elimination of the Department of Educa the state United States Department of Education um all of those are supposed to go to the state level to
be disseminated uh locally to school districts so um I think you know we don't we don't know uh there's a lot we don't know um we have been you know some of the documents that were released uh from the
new United States Secretary of Education have have said uh none of the none of the changes in federal funding will impact special education or title one and but then when you get notice that if you're not in compliance with the
executive order um you're at risk of having your title one funding pulled that's in you know in conflict with what we were previously told and really kind of a whole separate thing going on around the you know the the executive
orders around not not implementing any cultural proficiency work or title really you know title any of the the title six pieces yeah I would hope that our district wouldn't take any preemptive action you
know um and would just stand our ground unless we're absolutely forced to that's my hope well as I mentioned I I'll continue to keep you updated and I I do apologize that we haven't been able to reach a a
determination on what what's the best approach here certainly if there's a threat to cut title one funding we're going to scrutinize that closely and decide if there's something that we have to do but um and and it we will come to our board of education for input on that
we will we won't be making a unilateral decision around that we're talking millions of dollars okay um I did just continue to add on page two of your document um the executive orders that we have that we know have a real direct impact on K12
education i haven't seen anything since uh that I added to that list and then uh just talking about accountability House Bill 25278 that's modifications the accountability system that hasn't made any movement either since the last time we spoke just just as a reminder there is a
summary in here that I think really does kind of explain the task force recommendations and then how they included it in the bill so you can kind of mirror and watch what changes were made and why um I don't know if the board has any other bills or questions about anything
else that uh you were wondering about okay well if anything comes up just let me know we'll go to other proposed legislation i have three bills we actually haven't talked about before we get into the school finance act this first one is Senate Bill 25284 youth service organization engagement on
school campuses this bill would require schools to allow these youth service organizations to um present on campus about their organization so uh Boy Scouts of America
for example would be able to come during school hours and present on what Boy Scouts of America does and so and then we would have to create policy on managing these outside organizations coming in to our schools to present uh
we would still retain that kind of time place and manner restrictions that we do for um public comment for example uh I I think this bill is concerning for a number of reasons and I'll just highlight the two main ones the first one is just allowing an
outside organization to come take away time from learning time I think is problematic across many regards especially when we're really focused on academic achievement this just takes more time out of the day uh for students to not learn and have to um learn about other organizations we already allow
these organizations to come into our building uh to provide information uh they have they have to sign the facilities use agreement we have a whole process for these organizations already but it takes place outside of the school hours and so we find that to be a beneficial process the second piece that
I think is concerning is the administrative burden that comes with managing the request for which organizations get to come speak to kids and which don't uh it's a very challenging decision at times uh and whether or not an organization meets
this definition of youth services organization um is going to be up for debate and then depending on what is the content or nature of the organization and what they want to present on it just may be challenging from an administrative standpoint to decide kind of uh what
organizations we're going to be able to allow in as well as kind of how often they can come in how long they're allowed to speak etc etc and so it's just going to be a real challenge uh in my perspective for u managing all these requests
nate where where does this come from and is there any support for it or do we just expect it to fail so this comes from the Boy Scouts of America I believe and uh last time I checked they were the only org that was supporting it um I didn't actually see if there were any
other organizations that were involved with this at all so do they currently from what you said do they currently come into the schools not during the school day okay so it has to be after yeah as now there are times
that we do let um outside agencies in say during lunchtime in at on high school campuses when the campuses are open um there are some things where we bring in outside organizations but we're you know we're pretty restrictive and pretty careful cuz as you can imagine a
lot of people want access to our students a lot of organizations do so uh Colorado Association of School Executives is opposing Charter Advocacy Coalition is opposing CASBY is opposing and St val St brain Valley School District is
opposing and then Scouting Colorado is in support colorado Children's Alliance is in support and Colorado alliance of YMCA's is in support so I mean obviously this is really can get very very uh
complicated but within the bill have have you examined it at all do they put limitations at all on anything like religious organizations or things along those lines or is it just open to if this bill were to pass anyone would be able to come into
the schools i always prepare for the worst case scenario so what I can just read uh what a youth service organization by this bill means a youtherving nonprofit organization that promotes civic education and
engagement positive youth development leadership training and opportunities social emotional well-being career and job readiness skills mentorship opportunities or community service opportunities to all youth and does not discriminate on the basis of disability race creed color national origin
ancestry gender or sex so a non-discriminatory organization and it's a pretty broad definition of what organizations could meet this so and and I think for the most part it's brought with good intentions right
i mean these are YMCA Boy Scouts of America these are organizations that you know we've long worked with and um there's benefit for students participating in them it just during the school day I think is what's most challenging for us any other questions on that
one okay this next bill is Senate Bill 25276 it's called Protect Civil Rights Immigration Status this is up for the Senate tomorrow for some floor work i believe this will be their second reading um I I provide a lot of information in
in in the document I shared so I don't expect us to read through everything but just know that this is creating kind of um barriers when it comes to federal immigration authorities accessing information about people about citizens and so it creates really substantial
restrictions on what can be released to federal immigration officials when that information can be released um what can be released um and it also restricts what we can ask in terms of our students and their families i I will say for the most part we already do comply very much
with this bill i'm not saying we don't comply with this bill uh we've already done trainings about releasing personally identifiable information to any third party not just federal immigration authorities but to any third person that wants to come and review a child's record we have a
process in place for that so that's not of most concern what's concerning is this bill creates liability and it creates personal liability uh a significant amount of personal liability for somebody who intentionally discloses personally identifiable information to
federal immigration authorities uh the last time I checked and I believe there was an amendment but it could be civil penalties up to $50,000 per violation and they don't get any protection from statutory or qualified immunity they're removing that immunity if you are intentionally releasing this
information again we our staff are not intentionally releasing anything to anybody they know what Furpa is they know what the rules are in terms of disclosing information uh to anybody but in the event that a bunch of immigration officials come to your school and they
really want information and they want it now and you can just imagine somebody in that position may feel obligated to release that information in that moment and now they're subject to a $50,000 fine um it just doesn't necessarily seem fair anytime any of our
employees could face liability for anything it raises a red flag for me and I just find that to be very very concerning i think that the intention behind this bill is made the right way right we're not to intentionally disclose information uh that could affect somebody's citizenship status but
nonetheless that's a pretty hefty fine uh to include um as a statutory fine they would use that money for the benefit of the immigration legal defense fund right the money goes to a good place but um I'm just concerned that if we don't make sure that all of our
training is exactly right or if we miss somebody or we get a new person in the building that day anything could happen right um and we can only do so much preparation and training uh before perhaps something goes wrong and it's really my goal to just predict plan for the plan for the worst and the most
unlikely to happen and and this is one of those situations where I genuinely have some concerns about this that is of course my uh humble opinion um certainly uh whatever this board kind of is interested in or a direction this board
wishes to go you know I'm I'm all ears for that leads me to ask have we been asked to give information on students no as of yet no no
okay we that uh parents ask um I just had a parent ask me last week if if we would release that if someone asked about their their immigration status would we release that and so we're still
working to help you know educate our families that we don't release that information any other questions or thoughts or concerns about that one i agree with the amend monitor you know if if there are
some additional protections that can be made for that information without the steep penalty yeah I'd be interested to see what amendments might come forward and I do know uh organizations like
HASSBY and Case and a lot of school districts have been looking at this i know a lot of uh in-house attorneys have been looking at this just because of all that statutory liability that's being created um it's it's just very concerning so I think you all heard me talk about
before that one way we help recruit and retain teachers is we we make the work environment in which they work as positive as we can of that a big piece of that is what is the legislation that is coming down every year that is impacting the way teachers are able to
do their job or not do their job or or something like this where they could have to take on you know significant liability for something and so I think I think when I think about opposing some of this kind of legislation I think about what helps me to to retain and
recruit and have have quality teachers in the classroom get people to go into education have we heard from any schools in Colorado that ICE agents have been asking school personnel for information i have not heard that i haven't either i
feel like it would make a headline i haven't either headlines nate would we not want to unless it's amended would we not want to just oppose it um I can work with Well yeah i mean absolutely i can work with um our
lobbyist to see kind of what her recommendation is of course because this is such a politically charged bill you know we want to make sure that we're kind of doing right by ourselves by not taking necessarily taking a strong position one way or another unless we really feel strongly about it yeah like
to me I I do think cuz right it's worded staff who intentionally violate the provisions like yes I wouldn't love for our staff to intentionally be violating like even our policy right and saying like "Oh well this kid just got here two weeks ago you know?" Um so I I I think
the spirit of the legislation is is good it's to protect our kids um but yes I agree that if it were done unintentionally and you can't prove that it was unintentional or that person felt like a $50,000 fine versus like whatever
federal you know punishment they're being threatened with if they don't disclose information right you're putting your staff in between a rock and a hard place um so I I wouldn't oppose it i would say monitor amend but I would not oppose the spirit of the legislation
yeah absolutely uh the last bill I just wanted to mention is Senate Bill 25153 i apologize to Miss Sponsor she's not here tonight but um she did want me to bring this one up with you um th this is just a bill that's just adding more reporting
requirements on the finance team uh it's asking for school by school financial reporting if this bill were to pass right now we just do district level reporting um this would start in 2027 i would it would also involve detailed tracking of marketing recruit recruitment lobbying and private funding
sources for school districts um there are new accounting categories that are being created through this bill and an extensive reporting of private revenue sources and I think the intention to this bill is more for charters kind of wondering where they're getting their revenue from
but this the obligation still goes to the school districts as well so it's not just charters that are that are having to do this it's all schools so it just is going to require significant extra work for our finance department that's already strained with the amount of reporting that they're currently doing
um this is a bill that I would also recommend we monitor or oppose yeah i was going to ask what what is it in this bill that we would be doing differently than what we already do i mean we already report uh
consistently that's part of the requirements i would presume we don't we're not currently required to report school by school spending so we report district spending which includes the school spending uh which you know we have in our total budget but we're not
required to report that um at the state level uh in addition um some of the other um there's it changes how we have to report so maybe it's it's things we would already be reporting but it changes the detail that
we must provide in that reporting so Megan said to me um that she believed this would require her to hire one more person in the in the finance department if this passes okay to be able to do this all right with no other questions
we can go into school finance so uh as Dr kipla Spitzy pointed out uh we did get a school finance act bill that's House Bill 251320 it's going to be in front of House Appropriations Committee tomorrow i just put a couple of very very very high
level highlights here uh obviously there's a lot more to this bill but I just want to start and say that this really is a positive step forward uh Representative McCcluskey the speaker of the house uh has been such an advocate for 1448 as well as pushing 1320 forward
um utilizing kind of the foundational principles of 1448 that we're going to start supporting more of our atrisisk students in the state of Colorado uh I will also just give a shout out to Dr pilch and Director Matthews for going to the state uh and going to the House Education Committee a week ago and
speaking to this bill and why it's so important for our students in our community uh they did an excellent job and the House Education Committee did pass it uh unanimously i believe it was a 13 to zero vote and so kudos and thank you so much for continuing to
um it was a twominut uh testimony Dr approach not three um and so the uh but I'll just say this is going to be a gradual phase in so uh we know that there's been a lot of conversation around how we can't fully implement 1448 so I'm just using numbers 1448 would be
the school finance act last year or the the changes to the school finance act last year um and so they're doing a gradual phase in because they wouldn't be able to fully support it we just don't have enough money in the state to do it the way that they want to do and so uh instead of them phasing it in over six years they're going to phase it in
over seven years and this is going to help school districts uh who are facing declining enrollment or who have enrollment fluctuations year-to-year so those they'll be held harmless at least next year which means that they'll get the same amount of funding that they
were entitled to get for next year um and this is an increase in per pupil funding uh I think that the state did a lot of mental gymnastics here to get schools more money uh this is a this is a year where we know that we have a $1.2 billion shortfall and schools are going
to get more money that's amazing that's really something to be thankful for so um our lawmakers have been working really hard to to do this right and so um I know we may sound like we're complaining a lot that we don't have enough money but um it is it is remarkable and something that we truly
should thank our lawmakers for um for for bringing this together um so as far as specifics uh as I mentioned they're going to do a they're modifying the phase in from uh it would would be fully implemented by
the 203031 fiscal year that's been moved to the 203132 fiscal year they're going to maintain four-year averaging for next school year and then from every year on they're going to kind of lower that number there's this smoothing factor uh that I cannot explain to you and I wish
m maybe Dr pilch can uh in the event that if they shift to three-year averaging uh they don't have the amount of money available to support the this school finance formula then they'll revert back to the old formula is did I have that right
the smoothing piece i think I I don't know Nate and part of what they've talked about is um how do they how do they take care of especially um very small districts when
if if they drop by 12 kids in a individual school year that's significant funding for example um so I thought the smoothing was in relation to the numbers of kids I'll get more information yeah I mean honestly I don't think most of us
understand it um and it's it's kind of a a term that's out there that's being talked about but I don't know that most of us have actually been given a full explanation of it yeah and the I will say the committee members were also asking a lot of questions about the smoothing factor and it didn't answer any questions for me so no I I don't I
don't think we've seen a clear explanation of what it means and so are did we start with fiveyear averaging and we're going to four or has it always been four i believe it started with five and it's going to four which was already part of the plan i mean you know was to
continue to ratchet that down but it was kind of the the deal is that they need to keep averaging in place to in some way just because of declining enrollment fluctuating enrollment numbers um the number I have for the
increase in per pupil funding is $195 more um for next year so um that's great and then per student and then uh we had asked about the the atrisisk supplemental aid so my reading is that for next year 2526 they're going to get
the same funding that 7 million is going to remain and then statewide statewide and then in 2627 there it's going to be 50% of that level and then they'll be fully eliminated by 2728 so as the other numbers come up that
number will continue to go down that makes sense uh and then the they're going to delay the at risk measure implementation from next year to the year after and that that again is going to work with the um the supplemental
aid and yeah I'm not sure if there's any other kind of specific questions or thoughts around this i was just curious how it works so there 1448 was the school funding bill last year but now we have to have a do
we have a new one every year even though that or that bill just said here's how the funding formula works and then there's a new one each year so 1448 was a change in the formula okay like how how you weight different things in the
formula so it changing to 1448 took away the significant factor of cost of living many districts were benefiting from cost of living um which is really an outdated and old factor and what it did instead was it increased the importance of the
at risk factors so the factors around students who are free and reduced lunch students who are ELLL and students who are special ed and for us so in the current formula uh we only get funded one one lift on a a student who might have all three of
those characteristics in the new formula uh we will get funded on every student who's free and reduced lunch you'll get a lift for that and then of every student who's an English language learner so if I'm a student who is free and reduced lunch and a student who is
an English language learner I'm going to get a I'm going to get a double lift on that because we know the the resources needed to serve an English language learner are different than the resources to serve a student who's living in poverty some of it might be the same but it but it's it it's not necessarily um
the same for every child and so that's what changed in 1448 and then annually a school finance act has to be passed okay as part of the total budget okay what would you add to that
um nothing i don't know there unless you have any questions about that so I feel unfortunately I it feels like we will be we will be uh legislating the new school funding formula every year as we legislate the school finance act every
year I'm afraid until it's fully implemented so the triggers that um Senator Kirkmeer had referred to earlier in the year they uh did not come into effect i'm presuming that was voted on
that was voted on yes and and so I think uh Senator Kirkmire would say that the trigger is was triggered yeah so the joint budget committee is who had to vote on had the trigger been met and it was a tie and in the event of a tie it's a loss and so the loss was no the
trigger was not met and Senator Kirkmire was one of those votes that said yes the trigger has been met so we are pretty lucky actually that this came through we are fortunate very fortunate very fortunate
so in the beginning you said that um our student enrollment wasn't going to wasn't affecting us like it has other districts but I'm trying to remember where I had seen we had a 200 u pupil reduction at west or we have an increase
in other schools to help offset that so we're not losing that yeah we are so our Northridge and Central are both up for next year okay yeah um Mr paul do you have any information about the I don't know if it's a bill or
just an initiative to examine the constitutionality of Taber i I uh I do I don't I I don't want to speak off the top of my head but I I'm very aware of that um it's so yes they're they're just deciding whether or not Taber is even
constitutional so this is just another attempt to review Taber uh in a different way um just because they continue to take Taber repealing Taber back to the lawmaker or to the voters uh and that's not very effective so they're looking at other angles but I can I can provide you a briefing on on that and
where we're at with that but yes that is that is a big big deal um and then I don't I I'll share the electronic version with you now um just know at the school finance at the very end I dropped the fiscal note in there as well which I think really does a great job of summarizing kind of
everything we talked about so will you share that with Miss Lemon and me as well yes and then we'll put it in the weekly bulletin any other comments or questions for Mr paul thank you thank you
again um at this time we will debrief the work session and we'll start with you Mrs sullivan mr paul thank you for your in-depth um explanation and um formalization of bringing this down to our level of
understanding but um this is a lot of information to intake but um once this goes through then tomorrow with the April 15th will you guys be providing an email then for the update on the uh school finance act yes okay it won't go
through tomorrow oh I thought this was it's Oh this is going just to the house of appropriations yes yes it goes to appropes and um so that could take a few days okay thank you dr yes um thank you Mr fall as always um
and thank you for the budget update i was uh I was wanting to hear about the number you know the deficit um and so I just keep thinking wow it could have been worse right if uh if if the um
state finance act didn't pass um our school finance act so I this is the first time that I'm on the board where where we have to make cuts and cuts are hard man
um and for me it's you know the the teacher to student ratio matters a lot and so I feel like we were able to have that have minimal impact um while still making some some tough decisions you know so thank you guys for
your work on that i'm sure it is not the most fun part of your job um and for doing it thoughtfully and and informing us and keeping us informed about it thank you mr well um I I just keep thinking every
time we say the word uncertainty uh that is a destabilizing factor it's tough for all of our employees and our community and I want to thank you for answering uh my questions and and for my
seeking clarification i think a lot of people feel that way right now not sure what's going to happen and it's a big concern because we have a lot of kids that benefit off Title One funds and some of these other grants and programs that we have so I appreciate your
vigilance and staying on top of it thanks Mr matthews i I would agree with Dr campus Spitzy feel very thankful that given a$1.2 $2 billion deficit that uh the idea that we're we're only going to
lose 7 million um sound sounds really good and and still very hard so thank you guys all of you for your work um to make those cuts as um limiting as as
possible so thank you yes thank you for the budget update so that we can um answer those questions intelligently and and know exactly where where those cuts are being made um once again we receive good audit for our
finance team and so I just continue to be so thankful that we have excellent um reserves and and management of our dollars so that when these times happen um we can mitigate the the impact
so um I think that we are a little ahead of schedule um we will be back for our business meeting at 6 p.m this meeting is now Part: 2
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[Music] good evening and welcome to the board of education business meeting for Gley Evans School District 6 this meeting will now come to order please stand and
join me for the pledge of allegiance i pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all
miss Lemon will you please call the role director Azari present director Bentley director Campos Spitzy present director Mash present director Matthews present director Norwood director Sullivan present five board members present thank
you and I'd also like to welcome our Council of Student Representative students with us tonight sarah Venegas from Early College Academy and Dante Parand from Gley Central High School thank you for being here and we always value your input um so we have only six weeks left
of this semester i know that probably incites varying emotions depending on um your role here in the district but I wanted to just offer our sincere encouragement to our seniors who are running hard towards that finish line one of my friends who has a senior said that being a parent of a senior is like
having an additional part-time job um with all the lasts with all of I see some nodding in the in the audience out there so um best wishes to all of you whether you are applying for scholarships for entrance for an internship or um looking for what you're
pursuing right after high school we wish you all the best we also wanted to invite everyone to the district 6 art show that is opening April 17th here in our um administration building lobby the reception is from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m as
you make your way out you can see that some of it is already on display um but we would love to feature the artwork from all of our district 6 elementary and K8 schools so be sure to stop by and peruse um all of those beautiful
pieces um and at this time I'll turn it over to Dr pilch for her superintendent's honor role thank you so much President Mash it's that time of year um where District 6 is privileged to recognize some very prestigious scholarships uh here in the
district and and I believe we have those students here with us tonight and and some of their family members so uh family I encourage you as your student comes up to receive the recognition feel free to to get their picture and and uh to notice that i first would like to
recognize our Daniel's scholarship recipients and I'm going to tell you a little bit about the Daniels Scholarship and then I'm going to let you know who won those scholarships so um annually u more than 2,000 students apply for the Daniels Scholarship this is a
scholarship that is awarded to students in just four states in the country Colorado New Mexico Utah and Wyoming this year the Daniels fund uh funded 209 209 scholarships in those four states and we have two of those students here
in district 6 daniels fund scholars are selected because they embody the criteria that Bill Daniels uh defined for the program and that criteria is strength of character leadership potential commitment to serving their communities academic performance or
promise well-rounded personality and emotional maturity and stability you know with that I really think I need the two students to come up to the podium as I finish this so I would like to invite Anastasia Rodriguez and Levi Carlson to go ahead and come up and let me finish
talking about you come on up we want to look at you um thank you you can just stand there so that so everybody knows who I'm talking about when I talk about these this amazing criteria on which you were selected so scholars were selected based
on those values and those were values very important to the founder of this scholarship um they also include ethics and integrity honesty respect for people loyalty reliability an entrepreneurial
spirit patriotism and dedication to the community and commitment to excellence and etiquette which means that overall you're really good kids right um so Daniel Scholars have to attend a partner school within that four-state region
that I mentioned either Colorado New Mexico Utah or Wyoming so if you're planning to go somewhere else you don't get to be awarded uh the Daniels Scholarship um but they will each receive up to $100,000 over the four years toward their undergraduate degree
i was asking Mr matthews can you get a college degree for that and he assures me you can um Daniel Scholars may use their scholarship at any accredited nonprofit college or university um anywhere oh anywhere in the United States you don't have to go to the four
schools you have to have gone to high school in one of those four schools to get the award so you can use this anywhere in the country um so this year we're proud to honor two of our students who are recipients of the scholarship um please join me in congratulating Gilly West
senior Anastasia Rodriguez and University High School senior Levi Carlson stay there you're not done stay there you're not done um Anastasia has been very involved in future farmers of America at
Gley West and especially she's interested in animal sciences she plans to attend Colorado State University next year to study animal and equin science with the hopes of becoming a large animal veterinarian and Levi um is also
very active in extracurricular at University High including marching band pep band jazz band he's in the Fellowship of Christian Athletes he's on Student Council and in the National Honor Society uh Levi said he was excited to learn he will receive the Daniels Fund scholarship because he
plans to attend Colorado State University as well to study computer science congratulations to both of you thanks you guys congratulations congratulations and now we have another scholarship award recipient to recognize
um I think that uh District 6 has some real magic here when it comes to receiving these big honors uh and scholarships and we've been fortunate to have a student recognized uh as a Betcher Foundation scholarship winner so
since 1952 the Betcher Scholarship Program has existed here in Colorado in an effort to keep Colorado's most talented seniors in state for their post-secary years scholars are selected based on academics service leadership
and character so in addition to receiving an $80,000 scholarship award across the four years scholars also receive institutional um merit and or needs-based uh needs-based scholarships for their campuses um and as a comprehensive
scholarship the Betcher ALS award also includes programming and support to ensure that scholars reach their full academic and leadership potential so students who are Betterra scholars are Betterra Scholar throughout their college career and they're they join other Betterra scholars throughout
Colorado uh really starting this summer preparing them for college entrance and then they're followed throughout their college career i am honored to recognize tonight uh one of the students in Colorado here in uh district 6 from Gley
Central High School who has been awarded a Bacher Foundation scholarship natalie Shyz Salazar come on up Natalie congratulations Natalie uh Mr matthews and I were talking that we think almost every year that I have been here we have been so honored to have a
Veterans Scholar and I will tell you um and some of you know that district that I was in before I came here we did not always have a Veterans Scholar in that district and so we're so proud to have you Natalie i want to talk just a little bit about you okay um Natalie has uh
participated in volleyball wrestling and track at Girly Central she's also served as the president of the National Honor Society while maintaining a part-time job uh she plans to attend the University of Colorado Boulder to major in biological sciences and minor in
businesses and she hopes to become a vascular surgeon someday uh she is the second person in her family to receive this full ride scholarship her brother Yahir uh
received a better scholarship in 2022 and is is in attendance at the Colorado School of Minds here in Colorado congratulations [Applause] Natalie thank you President Matthews i mean President Mash pardon me i'll get
used to it i promise thank you President Mash you're very welcome i bet that won't be the last time that happens and that is a Okay uh we now need to approve our agenda and I need a motion please i move that the board of education of Gley Evans School District 6 approves the
agenda as presented second thank you both is there any discussion on the motion seeing none Miss Lemon would you give us a vote please director Azari I director Campos Spitzy I director Mash I director Matthews I director Sullivan I
motion carries 5-0 all right and then Miss Lemon is our Gley Creative District here okay excellent so our next item of business is the Gley Creative District coloring book presentation which is a very special event that happens every year
and at this point I will welcome Miss Mrs louisa Anderson chair of the art commission to share this with us greetings school board and uh attendees uh this is in fact the uh sixth iteration of the book that we've got it
was completely redesigned this year for our third graders we have a little over 2600 that are going out to our third grade every student within district 6 either at a charter school the district 6 schools or some of the other private uh and charter schools will all all the
third graders will receive their coloring book uh it does feature uh newly drawn drawings uh and activities for our students of various artworks around town especially those that are new uh especially our u new arch trees
that have been installed uh and added and the boxes the traffic boxes at many of our intersections throughout town some of these boxes were decorated by well designed used designs of students within the district so and teachers so
keep an eye out for those and you'll learn how the process is done as well with making a drawing that can be folded over so that it fits around the whole box so we thank you very much for the opportunity to share with the city art commission and the creative district and
district 6 to get these in the hands of our students unfortunately I do not have them with us uh we had hoped that they would be ready they are ready but they didn't make it here tonight so thank you all for the opportunity to share thank you very much thank you for supporting the arts and encouraging that
in our youngest students and I look forward to maybe peeking at one of those at some point our next item is a proclamation for educator appreciation days and this is also an action item requires a motion
i move that the board of education of Gley Evans School District 6 adopts the honorary proclamation declaring that educator appreciation days be celebrated in the district during spring 2025 second thank you both mr aari Mr
matthews would you please read the proclamation gladly Madam President educator appreciation days whereas a well- educated public is essential to the preservation of our national freedom and our democratic system of government and whereas the
people of the United States have recognized that free access to public education for all children is a vital component of a strong and vibrant country and whereas the board of education recognizes and honors the important impact that teachers and staff
have on our children's education and whereas a rich and well-rounded education incur includes curriculum instruction and support for the physical health and well-being of our children and whereas children's education and the
success of their schools is also dependent upon exceptional and dedicated leadership at the school and district level and whereas it is appropriate that teachers staff and educational leaders be publicly recognized for their dedication and commitment to educating
and supporting all students now therefore be it resolved that the board of education of Weld County School District 6 proclaims the following national recognition dates to be celebrated and recognized in our local schools and communities in Gley Evans
Colorado during the spring of 2025 administrative Professionals Week April 20th through 26th physical Education and Sport Week May 1st through 7th school Lunch Hero Day May 2nd teacher
Appreciation Week May 5th through 9th school Nurse Day May 7th 2025 national Education Educational Bosses Week May 19th through 23rd given under my hand and the executive seal of
Weld County School District 6 this 14th day of April 2025 natalie Mash President thank you very much for reading that and I always enjoy um giving when we get to um vote on these proclamations we're
very intentional about um celebrating the work here in the district so I believe that Aaron Snyder our president of the Gley Education Association will be accepting this proclamation are there any comments from board members mr ozari
I say this quite often in our uh work sessions and most people don't get to see or hear th those sessions uh but every time when we go out to buildings I I don't know if most people are aware the school board visits every school in
our district over time every time I go out to those buildings and even as a former educator I'm very impressed uh with the learning that's taking place inside the classrooms and I always leave with this feeling again I'm a former
educator i always leave with this feeling how do the teachers and the staff of that building do their job it's amazing and the kids are on task and the halls are quiet and orderly and I just deeply appreciate everything our
teachers and staff do uh food service workers bus drivers bringing the kids to school teachers in the classroom campus monitors principals custodial staff the whole bunch as school nurses just uh thank you very very much for everything
you do for our school district dr campos Fitzy yes this proclamation um comes up every year and it's it's always a little hard because I feel like every one of those um sections or leaders in our buildings
deserves their own proclamation you know our school lunch heroes and our PE teachers our school nurses um I will say that whenever I meet someone and I find out that they were a school teacher in our district my instinct is to want to say thank you for your service and
really because you know we talk about it so much it is it is vocational right it's like a calling it's teachers do not do their job for a paycheck they do it for so much more um and and and they're supported by their school building there
i think on the school board I learned more than ever how much um you know the school is more more than just a teacher there's there's so many other adults in that building who are helping our children grow into the people they're becoming um but I just think of my kid coming home from school
one day and she wants to talk about what she ate for lunch like I know that today she had some butter and jelly and her favorite teacher is her PE teacher and um and and you know she loves going to the school nurs's office because she gets a
lollipop and so um just knowing how all of these groups just touch our kids' lives every day our students lives and just love on them um and allow them to succeed in their academic journey uh I just really do thank you for your
service uh from the bottom of my heart mr matthews thank you Madam President um yeah I would I would simply ask add um we thank our teachers or we try to thank our teachers and and all of our support
staff as often as we can and we can never say thank you enough and so um I know reading down this list I I could think uh I can see the people uh the administrative professionals that were in the schools that I went to and
the PE teachers that I had um the women who and uh sometimes men who were in in their lunchrooms um certainly the teachers and um e the nurses who oftentimes wrote me a
note to get out of class and um and and even our educational bosses and so it they make such an impact not not just on on our kids but the rest of our lives uh the rest of those kids' lives and so
again we cannot say thank you enough miss Snder would you like to say anything you do not have to otherwise we will oh yeah i do actually want to say something so Erin Snyder elementary educator currently serving as GA's president um thank you for all of the
things that you said i also feel the same way about all of my educators um and especially like first of all I appreciate the pro proclamation i also appreciate the list because as educators we get into doing our stuff and it's
hard for us to remember oh yeah we got to do that and if you look it up on Google like there's a week all the time like there's multiple weeks to honor people so thank you for giving us a list so that we can all remember to celebrate each other when the time comes i
remember Frank my custodian when I was a kid and I currently the thing about being the president I miss a lot from our school buildings is having lunch every day and breakfast um so that is a time where our students can socialize
and be cared for and um it's just all of the things that you guys said and I recognize that we are very fortunate to have a board of education who supports us and our community who supports us in a way that um you say it often and
frequently and um and I think you mean it and so it is appreciated and thank you i accept this proclamation miss Leven will you give us a vote please director Azari I director Campos Spitzy I director Mash I director Matthews I
director Sullivan I motion carries 5-0 i would just say to students parents and um community members if you see an educator in the next month just thank them for all their work um our next item is our superintendence
report give that to you thank you President Mash um I I first want to share that I had the the honor and privilege of attending Hades Town uh the the teen version of the musical this past weekend at Girley West High School and I just want to announce that this is
the last production for Mrs peggy Frammel uh I think she's been there 40 years or so um as the theater arts director and uh it's really a fine show i hope you'll get a chance to go see it uh there's still another show on this coming Friday and Saturday night you can
go on their web page uh tickets are $15 it is it is a beautifully done show the the depth of the talent of the students and uh you can just see the beautiful direction of all the staff and production crew that were involved it it's a beautiful beautiful show and I I
hope more of you will get a chance to see it and and to send Miss Falaf FM as um the students call her off in um lots of good cheer i also want to um make an announcement that our Special Olympics
annual uh track and field event is coming up on Saturday April 23rd at 9:30 a.m at the district athletic complex that always proves to be an excellent event to attend um and it's open to the public if for some reason they should
get rained out then they'll come back um on April 30th and have the event and then finally I want to share that um Mr matthews and I went uh down to the Capitol last Monday a week ago uh to
testify before the uh state education committee regarding the school finance act which is health house bill 1320 so we were testifying in support of the school finance act in an effort um to encourage the legislators who serve on
the state ed committee uh to to pass that um and move that forward to the appropriations committee and then eventually it'll go to both floors for approval but it is this house bill um that will implement the legislation we worked on so hard last year which was to change the school funding formula and
for those of you who who were with us on that you know that formula means really um channeling the dollars in the school finance act to to go to the students who need those dollars the most and so in a district like ours where we have a lot of of students who live in poverty a lot
of students who are learning English as a second language and students who are being served through special education this finance act is a gamecher for our district um it changes how the money flows to school districts and it is a more equitable formula and so um we're
very excited about it i would encourage um those of you that pay attention to this sort of thing to encourage your legislators uh to to continue to support House Bill 1320 um and the implementation of the new school finance act thank you very much President Mash
next on our agenda is our innovation 2030 update student student learning and achievement goal one concurrent enrollment and so I'll turn that over to Mr osmus thank you President Mash members of the board dr pelch Council of Student Reps uh my name is Anthony Almouth i'm the
assistant superintendent of Secondary and K8 Leadership as well as postsecary readiness i'm joined tonight by Jenny Schilling our director of career and technical education and Jordan Carlberg our career pathway specialist and also some students we're here to present to you tonight a little bit about
concurrent enrollment and how that has changed u some of our students um opportunities that they've had in high school this work is found in our innovation 2030 strategic plan and it is funded by MLO and so I just want to start by talking about the Milvy override and
just thanking our voters in Gillian Evans for this opportunity um this work that you hear tonight just can't be accomplished without um our voters and the support from our community this work is grounded in our mission and our vision and in our values most closely
related to we know that every child can achieve we build positive relationships with students families and communities and we promote access opportunity and choice our strategic plan has four focus
areas this work falls in our student learning and achievement and is found under goal one to provide a personalized learning experience so all students graduate on time and are career and college ready we're tracking by 2028 90% of students
in grades 6 through 12 will include a college or career pathway and academic course of study in their personalized learning plan and our objective is to provide career pathway exposure and awareness at all levels through options for all
students to meet or exceed graduation requirements through post-secary opportunities and I just want to say that with concurrent enrollment three things happen in addition to the objective one concurrent enrollment
reduces the financial barriers to higher education students often face financial challenges to college or post-secary training concurrent enrollment allows our students to earn college credit at no cost to them making college more
accessible also taking concurrent enrollment classes builds confidence and college readiness many students do not see themselves as college ready due to a lack of exposure or support concurrent enrollment gives our students the opportunity to be to
experience college level coursework and this helps close the achievement gap and lastly concurrent enrollment accelerates career pathways and workforce readiness for students who may not pursue that traditional four-year experience concurrent enrollment can provide access to career and technical
education courses and industry certificates our action on this one major action is just to inc to increase the opportunities of concurrent enrollment by communicating with students about academic pathways and expanding partnerships with post-secondary
institutions to include teaching on the high school campus or on the college campus to kick off this presentation I'm going to turn this over to Jenny Schilling and then we'll hear from some of our students as well thank you Mr osmus it is an honor to provide an update on our I2030 efforts
to highlight the meaningful opportunities we're creating for students as they explore and pursue their future career and college goals this past Friday a group of community members toured the D6 CTE Center and as they visited classrooms and learned more
about the programs offered the words they used to describe the opportunity provided to students were empowering engaging and meaningful i couldn't help but take a few notes because I realized how frequently I'd already used the word opportunity while preparing for this
update in searching for other ways to describe the impact of this work I came across words like moment space time and event but two words I came across particularly stood out freedom
and hope those words captured the true essence of what this work represents for our students and families and speaks deeply to the heart of the work we are fortunate to do with that in mind I'm proud to share that 3,720 high school students participated in career pathway in a career pathway
this year an increase of over 1,000 students compared to last year and 1,219 high school students enrolled in post-secary coursework during the 2425 school year and the very first cohort of CNA students at Gley Central High School
achieved a 90% certification pass rate significantly surpassing the state average of 75% these numbers reflect more than just program growth they represent expanded expanded access equity and long-term impact for students across our district
thank you for your continued support of this important work and it is now my pleasure to introduce Ashley Mahiha a Girly Central High School junior and student of the certified nursing aid program to share the experience the CNA program has provided to
her hello and good evening my name is Ashley Mahia and I am a junior at Gly Central High School being here in front of you all is an honor first and foremost I want to thank our school board for supporting concurrent enrollment and allowing the CTE program to offer classes that prepare students
like myself for the future and helping us choose which career path to pursue my experience with concurrent enrollment has been one of my most significant opportunities through concurrent enrollment I was fortunate enough to get into the CNA program through concurrent enrollment
um I I was fortunate enough to get into the CNA program through Morgan Community College and I was able to take this course at Gly Central along with choosing to pursue a career in the medical field throughout my years in high school I have taken classes that include introduction to health science
um anatomy and physiology orientational health careers and medical terminology an orientation to health careers and medical terminology are also available through Morgan Community College concurrent enrollment allows me to obtain college credit and get a head start on classes required for my health
science degree also this past fair I went to um HOSA through our club at Gly Central hosa focuses on preparing students for careers in the health science field encouraging leadership and promoting healthcare awareness hosa helped me learn more about different careers in the medical field which
helped me get a better understanding of these careers that I could continue with our hosta club was highly successful and several students placed in the top 10 in our events after high school I want to continue my education and pursue nursing having the opportunity to be in the CNA
program now gives me an early push and puts me one step closer to becoming a nurse and it's just an excellent opportunity so again I want to thank District 6 for giving me the opportunity to become a certified nursing assistant which is the first step in pursuing my dream of becoming a registered nurse
thank you [Laughter] thank you Ashley good evening my name is Jordan Carlberg i'm the career pathway specialist uh concurrent enrollment is opportunity for students in grades 10 through 12 um to earn college credit while in high school the courses must be
a guaranteed transfer course or a CTE pathway course as designated by the Department of Higher Education what is unique to district 6 is that there is no additional cost to students to participate textbooks fees and other costs are all paid through our mil levy override many of our concurrent
enrollment courses students participate in are offered on the district 6 campus this includes 11 district 6 CT pathways where students have the opportunity to earn college credit educational certificates and industry certificates preparing students for a successful launch into the plans after high school
graduation in addition to the CT pathway courses students are also earning guaranteed transfer courses which will count towards their future college degree plans a guaranteed transfer course are courses that can apply to an AA AS or most bachelor degrees at a Colorado College or universities here's
a list of our top five concurrent enrollment courses with the highest enrollment for math credit being as college algebra and the highest enrollment for ELA credit being UNCC um English composition this opportunity wouldn't be possible without our amazing long-standing partnership with Ames Community College and the University of
Northern Colorado also in order to enhance our CTE pathways we have increased our partnerships with Northeastern Junior College Front Range Community College and Morgan Community College as you can see uh concurrent enrollment continues to grow in district 6 with just over 1,200 individual
students participating in the 24-25 school year the large growth in participation in the last two years is a result of development of standardized districtwide student enrollments process as well as the amazing work our high school counselors and career college readiness coordinator do every day in supporting our students through the
application and enrollment process um district 6 students enrolled in 41 individual college courses this school year with an average course earning about three credits this means our students have earned approximately 12,000 college credits by the end of this school year i'll now hand it back
over to Jenny to share about the three extended high school programs under the concurrent enrollment umbrella thank you Jordan the first program I want to share with you is um Ascent accelerating students through concurrent enrollment a fifthyear high school program that allows eligible
seniors to take an additional year of college classes at no tuition cost students participate in concurrent enrollment the year after completing 12th grade earning college credit while the program covers tuition books and fees over the last year District 6 has 13 students continue their education
through the Ascent program students need to complete nine concurrent enrollment credits upon the completion of their senior year to be eligible for this program this is a program we are waiting to hear if funding will continue and we are paying close attention the second program is the
teacher recruitment education and preparation or TREP program created by Senate Bill 21185 the TREP program creates the opportunity for qualified students in an educator career pathway to concurrently enroll in post-secary courses for the two years following
their 12th grade year we currently have two seniors enrolled in this program taking classes at Ames Community College to be eligible for the TRP program students need to complete one course in the educator pathway during their 12th grade year students
interested in the educator pathway also have the opportunity to take classes at the CTE center where they can earn 19 concurrent enrollment credits finally the PEK or Pathways to Technology Early College High School program is a ne is a
unique educational model allowing high school students to earn their high school diploma and an associate of applied science degree while also gaining relevant work experience in a growing field courses are taken for both high school and college credit and are at no cost to families pek programs are
offered in the construction pathway at Gley West and in the advanced manufacturing pathway at Gley Central High School students in the Gley West High School senior cohort will have completed 37 college credits at the end of the school year and students completing their junior year will have completed 19 college credits towards
their associates and project management additionally Ames Community College has partnered with the University of Wyoming allowing students a one-to-one credit transfer directly into their construction management program it is now my pleasure to introduce Diego Guzman a recent graduate of the
construction management PEK program at Gley West High School and Titus Jenkins a current Gley West High School senior and PEK student to share their experience hello my name is Diego Guzman uh I'm a recent graduate from Ames Community College and Gley West uh I just want to
start off by saying thank you for just the opportunity and all the the fundings that went towards my education and gave me to this point uh when I started off my freshman year I didn't really like understand or even know what the college experience would even look like so uh
starting in I met Carl Bberg and everybody else that helped me get into the Ames Community College and with taking extra credits towards my senior year it helped me graduate in December which helped push towards
getting my 27 credits to CU Denver which is hopefully now next next year will transfer to 30 36 credits of transferring credits with added on classes so starting in
uh starting starting in my junior year I took uh 19 right yeah i took 19 credits with uh Ames Community College and then I also did an internship with Roach that helped me not gain just the construction experience but also of the workforce and
learning different parts of AR uh from the architecture side all the way to just the project managing and so going into CU Denver one of the biggest things that I learned was not just of time management but just the dedication it takes just to go into
school and with the money and just all the all the back work that I've never seen before and so with with PEK it helped me prepare and also finish my education instead of a four four to five years I'm going to be able to graduate
in two years with my bachelor's in architecture which is something I've never ever seen myself doing even if you told me in the beginning of this program so my biggest thanks is just given this this opportunity and bringing on uh
Carberg and Miss Hansen and I know she's not here but just giving these two to help push me throughout this and just giving me the motivation thank you [Laughter] hello my name is Titus Jenkins i'm a
senior at Greley West High School and this is my third year in the PEK program i was asked to speak about the PEK program and how it's benefited my education i am passionate about the PEK program so I could probably spend the night talking about how amazing it is but since it's a school night I'll try
to keep it to a minimum the PEK program has offered me a ton of support and opportunities I never thought I would have from higher education at no cost to job opportunities and internships that have allowed me to put my skills into a real world setting before PE I had no
idea what I was going to do after high school i wasn't on the right path i wasn't applying myself to school and overall I was just wasn't motivated one day my construction teacher Mr carlberg came up to me and asked me if I was interested in joining the PEK program at
PEK program at Gley West it piqued my interest so I joined as they say the rest is history since then I've become completely different person from passing all my classes with flying colors and I'm actually enjoying school i have a plan for my future now and I'm determined to achieve my goals i always
had the ability to do great things but this program has gave me the plan and the drive to chase my dreams as you can see I'm grateful for the PEK program for many reasons but the fact that I will be halfway through my college career at no cost to me is invaluable being able to focus on my
studies and remain goal oriented without the stress about worrying how I'm going to pay for my college is huge is a huge blessing to say I'm grateful for PEK program would be an understatement i owe so much to this program the way and the way that I'm going to repay is to
accomplish every goal I set out to achieve it's a challenging world we live in but my determination and PEK's generosity are paving the way to a bright pe to a bright future for me and hopefully for many more students to [Laughter]
[Applause] come postseequity work is just fun just hearing from students and how this work impacts them and prepares them for college and and to accomplish things that they never thought they could even do so I thank the board I think the
community um for the mil levy right i think the teachers and the schools and the counselors and everyone that supports this and and our post um and and our team um Jordan and and Jenny thank you and our next steps on this is just continue to share the opportunities available to students um we seem to continue to get the word out you see
that every year we increase um and it is really just about getting to families and so that we are driven on that work um and then we also connect this through our um our discovery lab and you'll see sometimes our truck that's out um just getting our students at a younger age um excited about this work and even our
smart labs in our K5 um elementary schools and then also uh continue to support our students to access these post-secary offerings and we'd be happy to answer any questions that you might have thank you very much i think we have some
questions um first Miss Bengis thank you President Mash if this will There we go so I did have one question before um I kind of went on a little rant there so you mentioned the Associates of Science so is that more
targeted towards the other district high schools or would that be different for early college academy since we already do have that partnership with AS um how does that work for early college um thank you um the PEK program is um
kind it's similar to like an ECA program um it's a high school um early college while in high school and so um students are following an associates of applied science degree plan um while also doing all the normal high school stuff um the
same course work that they do as a normal high school student all that is just usually embedded within one of the the career um really it's supposed to be embedded within the STEM pathways um but at District 6 it's embedded within construction trades at West and Advanced Manufacturing at Central okay thank you does that answer your question yes thank
you so much all right so I am a student at Early College Academy and as I did already mention we do already have that partnership with Ames so currently I am a full Ames student i'm taking only Ames classes um but I can relate to many of the students here because of having
those concurrent enrollment classes those classes that are more advanced that are like they said taking that next step into those career paths because it helps you helps you put aside all those tedious core classes that normally you would have to take once you enter
college all those math classes all those in English classes as we have seen the AS trig and college algebra classes are both the most popular because those are core courses you have to take in order to get through those smaller associates degrees whether that's your associates of arts or associates of science so
getting through those um higher level classes right now in high school helps you then pursue your career right away you don't have to worry about those extra little classes you can right away pursue all those other classes that are going to be more structured to the
career path that you want to take therefore it allows students to also challenge themselves and connect with other students that are the same that are at the same level of education that they are and it helps them build off of each other as well so thank you so much for that amazing opportunity that our
district offers us thank you Miss Vengas dr campos Spitzy yeah um I had a few questions um so as far as the ascent and the TREP programs are those dependent on state funding is
that right okay and then is there like a cap to how many students we can take is there a limit we have 13 slots for the ascent program um and currently we don't have a limited number of slots that we
can take for TRAP okay and I had the same question as as far as slots for PEK we don't have any slot we can have as many students as we'd like in PEK up to up to about 24 in a class okay and then
do we do we normally fill it or is it do we currently it is full uh currently Katie Hansen's uh teaching assignment is completely PEK okay um and the kids they start in ninth grade is that right they start in ninth grade in the principles of construction
class and from principles of construction they move they have a choice to either continue just in a construction pathway or to move into the PEK program and so the students um they know they're going into PEK coming out of middle school is that they can apply to be part of that program we did that
when Mr carlberg was teaching there with our eighth graders as they were coming up to high school um currently we're recruiting or promoting this program from the sections of principle of construction which is an entry-level construction course do you ever use your alumni to recruit
more interest into PEK um this is our first alumni so absolutely we'll be using Diego to help us recruit for this program um all right i think I think those were my Oh I did have another question um so you
mentioned some of the concurrent enrollment courses are taught on the high school campuses and some of them are taught off the high school campus so what's the percentage there and um the college algebra and English comp those are our highest ones participating
in concern because those are offered on a district 6 campus um students are allowed um to go do concurrent enrollment on a Ames or UNCC campus um usually we run into we just wherever it fits within their schedule they still have to do all their high school classes
and if it fits within their schedule um then and we don't offer it on a District 6 campus it's open for them to to travel um to those campuses to participate um the the ratio I would um it's well over half of our students are doing concurrent enrollment on a District 6
campus um the next most popular program is probably Career Academy and those students are spending half the day over at Ames um and that's a pretty large cohort of students as well so we can get you those numbers and that breakdown of of how it breaks down we can provide you with that cool and when they're taught
on campus on a District 6 high school campus who's teaching the course um most of the time it's a District 6 um teacher that has been approved by that post-secary institution secondary is is interesting because um they have to go through their own vetting for each institution and so even someone might be
a credential by Ames they still have to be get vetted by UNCC and vice versa u but most of our um concurrent enrollment is offered by district 6 educator that's been vetted and then we do have a few um Ames employees that are coming to um Gley West um and Northridge to teach um
college algebra and then to teach criminal justice so thank you Mr ozari so this this question is basically just springboarded off of what Dr brenda had already asked but uh for instance
Ashley said she takes classes at the Morgan Community College i'm going to make the presumption that that's online or is she does does she drive out there herself or No I mean how do these how do kids access these classes and what
happens if a student does not have access to a college that's not in our vicinity so the the list of colleges that we've expanded to to enhance our um career techch ed pathway like Fort Morgan Community College with really central um that instructor has been um
Beth Anne Hockey is a registered nurse and has been um vetted by Morgan Community College to offer those classes at Gly Central and so there's no traveling um same with NJC um our two cosmetology instructors have been vetted by NJC and they are teaching the
cosmet cosmetology program at the CTE center and so um those those post-secondary partners that are kind of outside of our boundaries um those are um taught by a district 6 employee um through those organizations and um can you describe just briefly
what vetted means so like I mentioned there each um each postsecondary partner has their own process um it usually entails within the current teched pathways it usually entails showing that they have a CTE CTE authorization within that pathway and
then um there is the work experience and so if they're teaching within the current teched pathway they have to show that they essentially if they've come from industry um and then also that they have post-secary course work within that um program and then from there each institution takes that information
reviews resumes transcripts all that stuff and then um assigns what course numbers prefixes each individual teacher is credentialed to teach and so it really is individual by individual um for our core or our guaranteed transfer courses um those ones are a little bit
harder to get instructors vetted by because they have to have either a master's in that core content or at least 18 post-graduate credits in addition to a masters if it's outside of their core content and so for example if we had if to offer college algebra um
another college algebra section with a district six employee that that instructor has to have a masters in math or if they have a masters in a different subject area have to 18 graduate level credits in math and so to find those unicorns is a little more challenging but we do have a handful in our district
so and then and just one other question so when these instructors come into our schools and they're working on I'm presuming with a smaller group of students and so from the state and maybe Dr pelch can answer is from the state level perspective what are the
requirements in regards to like licensing teachers license being able to work with students under the age of 18 etc so a teacher from UNCC or Ames is not required to have a traditional teaching license because they're we're not actually giving them um district six
credit we're giving them college credit and then counting it for district six credit is what we're doing uh so they're you know they they've been endorsed by their postsecondary institution that they're coming to us from uh which allows them to be here do you want to add anything to that Jordan nope that's
Yeah so uh but but really the classes are comparable in size to other high school classes on our campuses one of the one of the pieces that we must adhere to for current technical ed credit there are certain requirements of keeping class size um to to a certain
level in order to get our Perkins fund reimbursement and for vocational standards at the state level okay I think I understand not totally if you don't you know who to ask yeah I do thank you Jordan yeah and Mr matthews
I had a question for Mr jenkins titus you said that you are a completely different person from before um you started the program until after can can you tell us a little bit more what that what what you mean by that
yeah so when I was I would say like a freshman sophomore when I was a freshman or a sophomore in high school I was around about probably a 2.5 2.7 GPA and then from that from my junior year and senior year now I'm I'm about at like a
4.2 4.1 GPA so it's changed like my academics and like what I focus on i'm not like I'm like more paying attention to my school and why do you think that that happened i I believe it happened
because I think that PEK is just such a great opportunity and if I'm going to be in those classes I feel like I should be putting my all into what I have okay thank you thank you Mr osmus i also had a question for you um you said that
we're we're we're doing more recruiting what are we doing differently this year this coming year that um that we didn't do in the past i think about three different things one we have a we have a beautiful truck a Discovery Lab um that
um is out in front of schools at times to attract students and get them excited about getting high school taking a class getting into a pathway you saw that we have increased our our pathway by over a thousand students this year kids taking a in a in a um pathway course and um
there's that there's a smart labs now that we we have aligned with this work uh K12 and so using a program to get kids excited about that um I know that'll be a couple years before that grows but then also just our the work that we're doing with our parents and so continue to reach out to parents or continue to reach out to students to
make sure that they are aware of this situation uh of this great opportunity that we have and so we um we also had people at the CT center the other day and and we were we were giving them a tour and many of them said "Oh I didn't even know that this was here." And so we
so we know that we are making growth but we have a long way to go thank you thank you all for the presentation and thank you to the students and even alumni for coming back and sharing your experience thank you Miss Benegas for also sharing your experience with an um
concurrent enrollment and um I think there's been some presentations where we've equated that number of credits to a dollar figure and that's also just astounding um what we're able to provide to our students like you mentioned at no cost to yourself so that you really have
that that head start so um thank you very much for all your work in this area mr osmus we actually do not have our council of student representatives on our agenda so I wanted to make sure are there students here no there are not
gotcha okay thank you okay so the next item 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 our 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 or obscene remarks all remarks must be suitable for an audience that
includes kindergarten through 12th grade students this board is committed to providing a safe environment where all members of the school community are treated with dignity and respect and we expect all speakers to exercise their speech rights responsibly our first speaker this
evening is Miss Lynn Parish welcome Miss Parish and you will have you want me to introduce myself or anything whatever you'd like to do you'll have Okay is that part of my minutes i believe so okay never mind okay sorry to change the
tune a little bit um so more than 10 girls were negatively impacted by the volleyball program at uh and other high schools the complaints were made to the district 6 title 9 coordinator because that was where we were directed when I informed some of you that the summary and final report had issues I was
ignored i was later told in hindsight the investigation should not have been conducted by D6 staff but was compl was completed as a courtesy by your title 9 coordinator but also as an independent third party yet the summary report notes that the school was in violation for not
reporting a title 9 issue to the D6 title 9 coordinator this is just contradictory and confusing 100 pages of the redacted report were visible to me three had information regarding interviews from me and my daughter but not one document that I provided was
included but 97 pages of irrelevant documents were included from the accused for example there were 16 photos from my Facebook page of my daughter playing volleyball and celebrating milestones with no explanation of relevance why were we not informed that District 6
should not have conducted the investigation or that it was being done as a courtesy or by an independent third party why were the issues with the investigation never acknowledged who oversees the quality of investigations the courtesy failed students the failure
there was failure to communicate truths from interviews there were over 10 false statements from mine incorporate documents that supported actual complaints um include victim statements record interviews initiate interviews provide recommendation to prevent the
rehire of a coach in question given the facts be unbiased explained relevance of documents noticed typos and grammatical errors none of our names were even spelled correctly the investigation was a disappointment an embarrassment a waste of taxpayer dollars and wasted
time but most importantly it dismissed the severe emotional impact on numerous students i just hope that you guys consider that and reav your your policy on how you conduct investigations with charter schools thank
you our next speaker is Don Banks thank you Miss Banks you will have two minutes i have provided each of you with a handout that gives you background on the case in which I'm referencing this evening my hope is that you can bring critically needed changes to the
district policies related to charter schools it would I would be so grateful to have you email me at your convenience with answers to the questions I will provide on August 1 2024 I emailed the district athletic director Chris Klene to ask about the district's jurisdiction
over university schools athletics mr klein never responded to my email but forwarded it to Jim Donaghhue the title N investigator why didn't Mr klein reply to my email and say there is no jurisdiction over charter schools in the district why didn't he refer to me refer
me to a policy and provide me with the correct body that would hear my concerns as a charter school on the same day I received a call and voicemail from Mr donahghue asking me to contact him urgently which I did and had an hour-long conversation why didn't Mr donahghue say immediately this was not
in his scope of authority why did he go to university schools the next morning and begin an investigation on October 31 Mr donahghue stated that he had 112 complaints to investigate since the beginning of the school year mr donahghue said that he is the only he is
only one person in his department recently Dr pilch said that the investigation was merely done as a courtesy do district students deserve to take a backseat to a courtesy investigation the policy needs to be clear and available and openly shared with families like ours i respectfully
request your help please read the handout documents included Google Docs link that I have shared with you i urge each of you to ask how this board can help the district assist charter school families like ours please provide district employees with clear policies and procedures related to charter
schools so that charter school families may be treated with respect and honesty thank you thank you Miss Banks thanks for being here the next item on our agenda is our consent
consent agenda which requires a motion i move that the board of education of Gley Evans School District 6 approves items as presented on the consent agenda and authorizes the officers to sign any and all contracts second thank you both
is there any discussion on the consent agenda seeing none Miss Lemon will give us a vote please director Zari I director Campos Spitzy I director Mash I director Matthews I director Sullivan I motion carries 5-0
thank you our next item of business is the purchase of land at 4350 37th Street Evans Colorado 80620 um this is also an action item i move that the board of education of Gley Evans School District 6 approves the
property purchase contract and the first amendment of the contract and authorizes Chief Financial Officer Megan Sponsor to sign related documents on behalf of the board of education second thank you all uh Dr pilch I'll give this over to you thank you President Mash you all may
recall that we have discussed um this possible land acquisition in executive session several months ago um under our ability to go into executive session to discuss real estate this is the property we spoke to you all about in Evans um which would be a possible future school
site it it is a large enough property to to be a high school site or to be a combination site between um a high school elementary school middle school elementary school so we're pretty excited about the site um I think the city of Evans is is excited to have us
purchase this site um it it does impact some other street work and road work they have going on in in their community and so um it's in our best interest and the the best interest of the city of Evans for us to move um on the purchase at this time we do plan to use uh
reserves to purchase this property um as we've talked with you all about previously um and this this in my opinion is a very appropriate use of reserves it's a one-time purchase um not an ongoing cost to the district are there any questions or
discussion on this motion and we did have the opportunity to ask those questions um in the exe executive session so Miss Lemon will you give us a vote please director Zari I director Campus Bitsy I director Mash I director Matthews I director Sullivan I
motion carries 5-0 right that is all of the business that we have for this evening thank you for joining us this meeting is now adjourned heat [Music]
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