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to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liy and Justice Miss lemon we call the role for us please director pres director Bentley
present director campus spitzy present director Mash pres director Matthews present director Norwood director Sullivan present six board members present thank you Miss lemon well again good evening Welcome to our board meeting for gy Ev school district 6 we
are glad that you are joining us whether you are here with us in person or or joining us online uh but we I see a lot of people here here tonight and so I I know we have some very special uh celebrations looking out into to the audience I see I don't know we might
have a majority of principles here uh tonight it seems like uh but thank you all for joining us tonight uh just a few few updates on on what we've been doing and what we will do thank you to everyone who came out this last Friday for the gy uh district 6 uh gy Evans
school district 6 Arts night um that was a a fabulous night where where art from across the district is displayed downtown it's a great partnership that we have uh with downtown we will have something on our agenda tonight uh about supporting uh
our downtown and our desire to as a board and as an Administration to uh to stay downtown and so stay tuned for that uh also want to let you guys know that we as a board have a busy week and that's because we will be doing uh
negotiations with our gy Educators Association really Education Association um and in I've been on this board this is my eth possibly negotiation that that we've done and um I think sometimes people
think that that's that's very a very contentious thing or that that would and at times in this District it has been a contentious thing but it is it is such a delight to get to spend time uh with our teachers and with our administrators and we generally have a um I don't I don't
think this is typical throughout the country but we generally have a great time together uh solving problems together and so we're we're excited for for that event uh then lastly I just wanted to let uh uh offer a some personal a personal
announcement and that is that um that I will be stepping down as the president of of this board in in a couple weeks uh I wanted to give our our board members I let them know this earlier tonight Mr Norwood is absent tonight but uh but I
will let him know but I I let them know earlier in our work session uh and that's because i' I've done this job for a while I was elected to as the President on my 44th birthday it was the the night that we also um appointed Miss
Mash to replace Mr dwit uh who was who had stepped down from the board or was stepping down from the board I I turned 50 a few months ago and and so I've done this for for about almost six and a half years and um means a couple of things
I've done it a long time but also I don't have much time left as a board member and so I've just after a lot of thinking and uh talking about this with a couple people decided the best thing to do uh the best way I could help the district would be to help whoever is
going to be next I am term limited uh none of uh no one else is term limited on our on our board so so the next president very likely is sitting with us tonight and uh I thought it best uh to uh for them to go ahead and and take the
Reigns so anyway that's what I wanted to let let everyone know and those are all of my announcements and uh we'll proceed to our superintendent's honoral Dr Pils thank you president Matthews I'm going to invite Mr Anthony osmus to come
up um we have a lot of a lot of uh young people to recognize tonight lots of of State qualifier qualifiers and champions from our winter sports and our band and choir students um as well as our Health Sciences students at gy Central and
Northridge with the TSA problem solving team and and probably more than what you have given me here so Mr osus I'm going to turn this over to you and let you all get started I know we have a a lot of students and uh parents here tonight to watch their recognition a lot of students and
coaches to recognize tonight in in several different sports and activities I'm Anthony alus I am the assistant superintendent of secondary schools in k8s and um also support um Athletics in our district just want to recognize just a few people before we get to the schools um first of all Chris Klein is
ending his term with us he's our halftime athletic director couldn't make it tonight but we give Chris Klein a lot of thanks and praise for all he does um for our schools so that they can go to their events and do all sorts of things without a hitch um just thankful also
for um for Jeff Collins and JJ Barons and Sean scribbick um athletic directors of our different schools and they'll get a chance to introduce their teams tonight but we are recognized in um some big honors some All State honors um just some some high recognition and we thank
these kids for coming out tonight these are also the same students who are also a part of many other things and so they're very busy and they're very dedicated and talented and just like Athletics they put a lot of time and effort into their skill and their craft and their Sports and it's nice that we as a district get to recognize them so
first I would like to turn this over to um Jeff granson tonight who's in for JJ and and we'll talk a little bit about gy West all right uh thanks for having uh students from gly West here tonight we have a lot of things going on we had our first track meet tonight we had our
tennis match versus Windsor we have Hades towns rehearsals going on so we're trying to figure out who's here and who's not here um so I'm going to turn over first though to miss Julie Ratliff who is our business teacher and F fbaa adviser where we had uh I've been at
gley West for 22 years a decade as business teacher and FBA adviser we had more students qualify for State fbaa than than I've seen in the in the two decades I've been at gy West so I'm introduce Julie Ratliff and let her tell you about our state fbaa competitions hello thanks for having us
uh thanks for the nice introduction also we do have a lot of students we have a track someone at the track meet someone at the play practice so we have a small But Mighty contingent of the 13 students that qualified for our state FBA
competition in April we really grew our club this year and we also won the productivity award because our uh enrollment Grew From 5 to 29 students
and of the 29 13 qualified in scoring for the top 10 in the top four in our region which included all the four Colin schools so we're excited to be here and thank you for the honor of having us have you guys great on the center
yeah all right next up we have our music programs that qualified for State Choir and state Orchestra programs and so our State Choir are at our musical rehearsals here tonight but I'm going to turn over to Mr Tom nent to introduce our All State Orchestra student
thank you so much for having us my name is Tom Nan I'm the orchestra director at gy West High School and um this year I also got the honor of serving as the chair for Colorado all state so I know that Calvin uh represented one of the uh 112 accepted students who auditioned um
out of uh 592 different students across the state who auditioned for All State Orchestra and so Calvin was accepted for his second year and represented gy West grade at a concert at CSU uh back in uh early February um with the uh director of orchestras at Kansas State and uh
just super wonderful young man um he'll be performing with the grey West orchestras in the pit at Hades toown and is also going to be performing in the grey youth Phil Harmonic concert coming up in um in in April as well so
Calvin thanks right here in the middle all right Calvin such an accom musician I had to ask him what we were recognizing him here for tonight with all his Awards and honors um also not here tonight uh gy West hosts the District swim team and we had uh 19 swimmers qualify for girls State
swimming uh uh beginning of February uh so we want to recognize those State swimmers um but next up I'm going to turn over to Eli hendershaw an assistant wrestling coach at gy West and along with our boys wrestling team uh we host the district girls wrestling team where we had I believe eight state qualifiers
I let Eli Hender sh our social worker at G West and our assistant wrestling coach tell you more about our wrestling program uh good good evening thank you for uh having us uh my name is Elijah Hendershot uh like Mr Cranson said I'm the social worker at gy West and I also help coach wrestling uh both boys and
girls uh we had a really good year this year we had three boys qualify and then eight girls which is the most girls we've ever had qualified in the uh years we've been running the program um I've got about five of them here with me but uh Marcelo if you want to raise your hand Marcel placed uh six and then
Aubrey if you're in the back Aubry placed fifth um our other Placer is in Oklahoma watching the Big 12 uh wrestling championship right now so um it was a great year I think we'll have some really good success next year coming off of this and our program just keeps getting better and better so thank
you guys have you guys right center thank you all right good job gly West I'll let got this St here either way it's all good next up is our Central High School Wildcats and um led by Sean scrii and I
do want to say that Sean scrii was just hired as our District athletic director so I'll turn uh all of the honors over to Sean thank you Anthony thank you Bor Dr pilch um it's always a great night to celebrate uh our athletes and and our state participants and so um you've
caught us in a bad time we've got the musical going on this week and so uh we've got that we've got a track meet today and so we're a little thin uh but a Shameless plug if you get a chance come check out Legally Blonde Wednesday through Saturday we'd love to see you guys um with that I'll introduce our first sponsor who is kind of the Jack of
all trades Greely Central Shelley toning she has a hard time saying no um but she is our Deca and FBLA sponsor and so she would like to speak on her students behalf hi so we actually had three kids uh qualify for State Deca and that took
place the end of February and then we had 13 kids who have qualified for State FBLA which takes place at the end of April I do have One loan representative for all of us this is no and she and her partner qualified in
introduction to social media strategy which is both a test and a presentation and they did an amazing job and they are very much looking forward to going to State and getting to experience all that down there so all of the others are involved in everything else tonight so
that's why we have our One loan representative thank you I'll be get right out here uh the next honores that I'd like to honor um Head Coach Maurice Garcia Salazar is going to introduce our state qualifying wrestlers hello so I took uh three uh
qualifying um state representatives uh two ended up being uh placers in the tournament um and and top placers at that um Daniel Romero uh he ended up making it to the finals I had a really
good tournament and and you know I'll leave it at that that that last match was really good for him uh builds character to to you know go out you know on top so and they just just had a had a
bad little 5 Seconds at the end there but but did really good um uh Gabe Galindo um all these wrestlers I've worked with for very long time and since they were young and you know they're they're amazing athletes as well as like
amazing people you know um Gabe gindo he he also made it to the state floor uh did very good um did not um place but still did represented gy Central very
well um my own son Noah Garcia Salazar uh second time uh at or third time at State um as a qualifier um second time placing uh placed third uh the year before and
placed um fourth this year so so very proud of These Guys these guys are amazing athletes and amazing individuals y [Applause] and then before I introduce our girls basketball team um just like to give a
shout out to our Health occupation Student Association students um went down to Denver competed against over 2,000 other students in the health uh occupation field uh and competed in different events from um simple things as like teaching a CPR class to nursing
skills Etc uh We've qualified six for Nationals which is a huge success um and and kind of a cool thing is our nursing assistant sweep category we placed first second and third out of the entire state so I just wanted to give them a shout
out because they are not here due to prior engagements um with that Miss Juliet sheets and girls basketball thanks for having us um so I'll introduce my team here but uh last year we had not the greatest season at
gy Central and we had no seniors and we were in a definitely a building year and so this year we were excited we came back uh had a winning season um fifth in the conference um 25th overall to make the playoffs and we had we earned a home
playoff bid so we won our first home playoff game and then we had a long trip to Durango uh and lost in Durango but really had a great season I mean not only a winning season but all of our student athletes very involved uh great
students and they always bring a lot of joy and really a lot of Pride for uh gy Central and so very very excited to coach the group but um so actually I don't have really much more to say so they're going to go by and just say their name uh
they're like oh no she's making me speak but they'll say their name but um thank you so much for having us here tonight and uh really proud of this group so Juliet sheets head coach oh I'm going to the side uh Carmen Whitehead I'm an assistant coach
oh no uh I'm Madison Sapa and I'm a senior yeah my name's Rose suette Rivera Flores and I'm a junior I'm Amaya gambo and I'm a junior and I'm Abby toart and I'm a junior Heather S assistant
coach I'm Lincoln sver assistant coach okay and congratulations gy Central proud of you all conratulations congratulations guys congratulations good job nice done stver nice job coach
and last but not least tonight we have our students from Northridge you or Jeff and I'll turn this over to Aaron Allen to uh get us started good evening board superintendent pilch thank you so much for having us here this evening uh I'm
just very honored to be introducing such wonderful students and their coaches um for their accomplishments of getting to state competition not only do we have athletes today but we also have chefs and Engineers uh and we have people from from each group that is going to be speaking to you tonight so uh starting
with girls basketball they qualified for state tournament and made it to the round of 16 Bay McGee can you come up and share some information I just want to say good job to everyone who is there for the sweet 16 we played our hearts out it was a great season and I'm lucky to be with
you guys all and it was a great season good job guys [Applause] basketball to good job good good season next I'd like to recognize Leland kamacho uh while he wasn't able to be
here tonight he is a fantastic wrestler for us and he qualified for the state wrestling tournament uh next I'd like to recognize um our JROTC Rifle Team um the team finished fourth out of the top 19 Marine Corps Jr
jrc teams in the country the highest score and finish for Northridge teams ever we finished fifth out of the previous two occasions and this time we were fourth of 96 athletes here were our Sho Shooters finished uh Timothy Longacre was fifth Ethan Kinsley was
18th Caleb was 30th and Mark Marcos was 66th they qualified the team to compete in the all service Nationals uh which will be happening during spring break Tim was awarded his gold Junior distinguished shooting badge this is
similar to being recognized as an high school All-American in the shooting world and it's only the second the second time for this award in North rd's history so Ethan Kinsley can you come up and share some more information [Applause]
well first off I just wanted to say thank you for uh recognizing our team as you guys might know Marksmanship isn't a very known sport in this District but uh Statewide and nationally it's a pretty darn known sport um it's an Olympic sport the three position shooting so uh
pretty darn known um as already said we took first in state and regionals and we took fourth overall in Nationals and it's our honor to continue to put Northridge and district 6 on the map unfortunately next year we got three of our Shooters leaving since of us are seniors um but before we leave we're
going to do our best to train up the next year's competitive team hopefully keep District Six known throughout the nation for shooting um again thank you guys for uh inviting us and we look forward to continue representing Northridge and district 6 um one more
thing is uh as of programs Balian Commander I just wanted toite invite you all to the ceremony our award ceremony on Tuesday April 22nd thank you all right now we'd like to move away from our athletes and move to our chefs
um our prart program has a culinary team and they finished third out of 23 teams at last week's state competition uh I'm excited to welcome Sammy batika to come speak to us the team and I have been practicing
continuously since October of last year perfecting our menu our menu is themed upon a guat melon and Syrian style Fusion menu as it represents our background and our heritage as a group last week we went to competition at State and we were able to place third
but no other than with the help of Mrs Fodor thank you for representing us [Applause] [Laughter] uh a quick note about our culinary team they have been practicing uh before our
basketball games and I got to try their food uh who knew Syrian and Guatemalan would go together so well but it was amazingly delicious lamb steak lamb shanks and finally I'd like to welcome our TSA team they received first place at our state competition for technology
problem solving uh this is the second time this group has been up here last year they went to Nationals and they're going again and so I'd like to welcome Jim Corbett to introduce his team all right good evening everybody I just like to take a chance to recognize David Vera and Jeff WN they beat out 140
of the best engineering mines in the state okay so all I did all I did was tell them that you've got to take chances or you won't win and they took chances and they pulled up in the clutch and came home with first
place all right I would personally like to take the opportunity to thank thank Aon Allen and Stacy monismith for all the last minute coordination that if that hadn't taken place this wouldn't have happened I would also like to thank the success Foundation uh in particular because uh when our students are going
up against some of the biggest juggernauts in the state they send 150 100 kids to these competitions okay when our students get the opportunity to compete not only do they compete and hold their own but in many cases succeed and win and the success Foundation is a
great equalizer they can put our contributions as a community into very focused places where we can see our students achieve results all right thank you squish two row two rows
[Music] great job North range we go this way thank you Dr pilch for allowing us to um show off all of these grade students and student athletes thank you Dr pilch um congratulations Mr Longacre I don't know if I did not introduce you guys but as
always we were joined with these two students Mr Timothy Longacre he's the president of our Council of student representatives and Miss Sarah Venegas uh who's a member of the Council of student representatives and they they sit with us every board meeting and provide a lot of valuable input um also
I I noticed a couple of plugs in there and so uh just want to reemphasize that Legally Blonde is this weekend at at gy Central uh Hades toown is uh April 11th and 12th at gy West and so check out those shows if you get a chance next item on our
agenda is the approval of the agenda and so we'll need a motion to proceed I move that the Board of Education of gy Evan school district 6 approves the agenda as presented second thank you both is there any discussion on the agenda I don't see any so miss lemon will we
give us a vote please director Zari I director Bentley I director Campos spitzy I director Mash I director Matthews I director Sullivan I motion carries 6 Z thank you Miss lemon next on our agenda is our Council of student Representatives report and I think
tonight we have our gy West High School students to present for us I I see principal Cranson coming to the podium so I'll just say welcome gy West and uh again due to some scheduling
conflicts tonight we're going to switch it up a little bit tonight and uh at gy West for the last two or three years we've had a student council class to help build the culture and Leadership capacity in our building and so uh tonight uh with some of our board Representatives unavailable I'm going to turn over to McKai Morales our student
body president student council president and uh and our executive Council from our student council to share with you uh some of their uh uh things they've been working on in student council at gy West so Mai good afternoon or good evening folks as principal Cranson said my name is
McKai Morales I am the student body president of the gly West student council I'm involved in future Business Leaders of America Unified sports and a member of the football team the last three years I have taken more than 10 dual enrollment classes at the
University of Northern Colorado and Ames Community College next year I plan to attend the University of Northern Colorado and study business administration throughout my time in student council our goal of establishing a culture of Excellence has always been the backbone of our Council our advisers
encourage us to go above and beyond and always strive for Success this year our Council applied for the National Council of Excellence award we went through an application process of describing different events that we put on and how our Council impacts the community being
awarded with this gold stand not only as a merit but also shows the dedication our Council has to Excellence our Council never gives up our Council always finds another way to strive for greatness thank you good evening I'm Madison Vella a
senior at gy West I'm the vice president of student council vice president of National Honor Society a member of the dance team and a four-year Avid student next year I will attend Colorado Christian University majoring in kinesiology and minoring in dance my favorite part of gy West has been my
involvement in student council I've had various opportunities to step into leadership roles and improve my school Community this past Friday student coun council hosted our first annual Middle School leadership day we had over 50 students middle school students attend this event we partnered with Central to
create five different breakout sessions where students learn various aspects of leadership the sessions were planned and taught by stud members to grow their own leadership skills it was a huge success student council is excited to continue this event in the years to come as we cultivate the next generation of leaders
thank you good evening all of you I am rundo ruen OKO flis Jr I am your student G was student council treasurer and forced off a little bit about me I have stood before this board on multiple occasions for Deca and now FBLA and it's thanks to
the classes the institutions and the staff we have with gy West that I'm able to grasp these opportunities and to build something of myself um for our student council I would love to share with you a local uh event that our entire Council performed freshman Sophos
juniors seniors we had the absolute privilege of being able to go to shashin elementary and partnering with book trust and organization meant to help engage and really Spar that loaning and love of books and all of the younger
Elementary grades all of our Council went to shashin and we had the amazing opportunity to read to these Elementary grade levels from kindergarten to fifth grade I had the personal pleasure of staying with a class of kindergart reading them all a bunch of stories from
Pokemon to uh dog man and it was a blessing so I would just like to thank you all for allowing us to join you today in this momentous evening thank thank [Applause] you in addition to the events that
ramundo and Madison described we also partner with our local food bank in a dodgeball tournament event hosted earlier in the semester gy West finds itself at a bit of a low Point sometimes when it comes to student morale so we found a way to bring it up by hosting a
dodgeball tournament the entire process behind it took a week and a half of planning and it was actually one of our best turnout events that we've had this year uh all proceeds from this including gate donations and the student signup form were all given to the W County Food
Bank we believe that it's Our obligation and our pleasure to work with our community and to supply people in less need or in Greater need with what we can give them I want to note it I was I finished third in the uh dodgeball tournament here so um
I just want to thank these guys for coming out tonight and for all their work uh as students and as Leaders at gy West and thank you again for the opportunity to have them share tonight thank you thank you to to these students at gy West U from Mr Cranson but also Council
of student representatives in general um so thank you guys and thank you for the report next tonight we pardon excuse me president Matthews I think we have Mr Casey sitting in the back of the room and we didn't think you
high was coming tonight and I believe he has several State recognitions he could share with us if you may allow that oh absolutely thank you welcome Mr Casey sorry we saw the track event but then I didn't see you in in the audience yeah I was hiding back I was a social studies
teacher so um yeah and I apologize for the confusion our dance team was set to be recognized tonight but they couldn't make it because they're all dancing tonight and I definitely not a dancer um but I was just kind of listing our winter things so I'll share those with you as well and thank you for including
us in this as well and um and it's great to see so many kids doing so many great things um so we had 20 students qualify for state fbaa three National qualifiers for Deca we plac three students in State
wrestling um including our first girls wrestler she was in the finals got second this year and she's young so she's got a chance to be back and then one student that wrestles with us from Frontier that was also a second place um we had four in all state band two in all
state jazz band eight National qualifiers for speech and debate um our girls and boys basketball teams are both playing this Wednesday in the Elite 8 um our girls are 25 and0 and rank number one and 4A and we're excited about that and uh the boys had a great upset overtime upset on Saturday that was a
lot of fun um cheer te te finished at State just outside the finals and the reason biggest thing we were here is our palms team um was the state champions this year again so thank you for including us in the recognition and we're happy to be a part of District 6
excellent thank you Mr Casey and again if you if you haven't um ascertain this yet our students are very busy uh they they stay busy they uh doing a lot of different things uh and so we're we're very proud of of all of them the ones
that were recognized tonight and and so many others uh next on our agenda is Brentwood School to watch recognition we've gotten to honor a lot of students and so now we get to to honor a school and so Mr Dr pil is I should give it to
you you president Matthews um I'm I'm really excited to have brenwood here tonight to share this presentation with us and uh they are a three pach as I said last board meeting at being recognized as as a middle school to watch and uh this is this is a really an
amazing accomplishment and I wanted them to come tonight and just share with you all and with our community um a little bit about their school and and the work they do there and a little bit about this award so welcome Mr osus if you're going to kick off I'll turn it over to
you quick kickoff so president Matthews members of the board and Dr pel and Council of sud reps I just wanted to get in front of this um and just brag a little bit about the school so Mrs Peterson the principal of this school and her team and her teachers and her students are just amazing so they set
the bar so high they work super hard every day um their school like many of our other schools um set the bar for other schools and what it's like to educate students um and so we it is no surprise to us that they are a threee in this award and Mrs Peterson will be here
to tell us a little bit about this award and and more about what's next all right as uh Mr osus mentioned I'm Nicole Peterson and I have been blessed to be the principal at brenwood for 12 years and I had some of our team members
come with us like as Dr pil say an organization is only as good as the people in it and we have a very special school in a special place because of the teachers the administration our support staff and I have Aira here one of our students as well and so with that
Schools to Watch program in the mid90s a group of K12 educators and highered people got together and they're like is anybody talking about middle school middle school reform Middle School everything because it's just this weird Gap Elementary we know we've got to make readers writers all of
the things high schoolers we need to have college career ready graduate and middle school is like that bridge but sometimes was forgotten so that's really where this National Forum started and with that they identified this program called the schools to watch and so I
know it's always kind of scary when people are like you're on a watch list but it's not it's like an it's an honor and so what that is is they are identifying or like middle schools that really embody like the components that they talk about that I'll walk you through here in a minute and it is a really rigorous application process like
there was so much data I'm so grateful for Drew Palmer because he makes miracles happen uh we had to submit a narrative with each of the indicators and then they come and they visit your school and they go into every single classroom they go into every single space they pull a panel of students to
talk to they speak with your staff they speak with parents and so they really walk away with a solid picture of what your school is like and you know sometimes like you can you can pull off a visit and you can just hide some people here and there every now and again but not with this one so every classroom is seen and so the things
they're looking for are academic Excellence which is really why we're here we want our students to learn grow and Achieve and so we've got that literacy focus in all of our core areas um we like have that you know writing is a huge push for us and it always has been and we see really great data good
growth and achievement out of that uh we've got IB and Avid which work hand inhand to help our students we great strategies as a result and one thing that I think about brunwood is the culture of learning that we've established uh 12 years ago sometimes it felt like kids didn't show up to school
thinking they were going to learn that day and every single day our kids know that they're going to learn developmental responsibility is the other component to be a school to watch and so part of this is we really focus on that transition to Middle School morford's here and she puts together our
Jump Start program our incoming sixth graders are in that building so much and on day one they're like little leaders and they know the routines procedures and they're so excited and so comfortable we've got our web leaders who are eighth graders Amora is one of those and she helps to get that transition going something special that
people talk about all the time cookie delivery we show up at every sixth grader's house and we deliver cookies and welcome them to our school no matter how many sixth graders we have uh and then we have our bangal Academy so new students part of being a boundary school is you enroll students like two to five
a week for the entire year and so if you're not really strategic about that transition you lose kids and so we want every kid to have a friend and feel welcome on that first day and we want our kids they like they are seen whether they want to be or not birthdays are a big deal for us so we go into their
classrooms with their birthday cards and we sing to them and we make it a big deal because they're a big deal oh gosh now I jumped um the criteria here also has social equity and so that Integrity with our rigor our kids all have access to that high quality grade level
instruction and that's where it starts uh a place to belong we've got clubs like crazy uh Sports Seer our athletic director gave me the numbers today we have 111 girls registered for spring soccer 66 boys for soccer and 69 students ready for track and so
consistently we have so much participation in Middle School athletics not to mention we have kids in music we've got band Orchestra we've got a guitar class rocking all of the things um and so we make sure that our students like have a place to belong and if there's something that we don't have
that they want they can start it we also really focus on recognizing our students uh we use our Bengals of the week we use our IB learner profiles we celebrate students for that and then we have our claw Awards so at brunwood you come prepared listen and learn act respectfully and work hard and then our
organizational structure really is like when I think about our organization and our Focus obviously we create opportunities and structures for kids but so much of it is for our adults too and so we have to have teachers who are committed driven all of these people are and all of the ones that aren't here
like they are just there every single day doing what's best for kids we do a traveling trophies um that it's kind of like Dr P's Run for the Roses if you've seen that before but we have three traveling trophies so every week whether we have PD or not our staff members share that and celebrate a peer we do
our stairway drops um we just our staff is working together all of the time I know uh Anthony loves to talk about e teacher efficacy and that's like a a huge push and then our stairway drops are really our celebration so if we don't have a PD in the morning we still come together at the bottom of our
stairs and we celebrate birthdays achievements all of the great things that are happening and we always end in the fight song which is always a trip and then um we have some of our quotes from our site visit I put those up there I think when they did our evaluation at
the and the one that really resonated with me is our building is really good at dreaming and then achieving those dreams and I think that really does sum that up from our visit but even better than just quotes from our site visit I have Amora who is an eighth grader and she's going to come up here and tell you
a couple things about our school hi my name is Amora villamil thank you for having me I go to Brentwood Middle School um I'm involved in volleyball basketball track and soccer I'm in speech and debate student
council and I'm president of njhs I'm in sources of sources of strength and I'm an eighth grade web leader and I'm in band next year I'm going to gy West with the goal of being a senator when I grow up something I love about Brentwood is
most importantly the teachers they can communicate with students very well and I really like how I can I have several teachers that I can go to whenever I need help or I'm stressed out with something or there's something like a struggle going on in school I can always
go to many of my teachers with help and most importantly Sports I love how I'm able to do so many sports throughout the school year um I'm even able to do soccer and track at the same time I love how the coaches really
push us athletes to do the best of abilities that we can um they have they set goals for us at the beginning of the season and then throughout this season they push us to the best of abilities
and they help us complete the goals that they have set for us and overall I really love the school that I go to they have helped me be a much greater student athlete than I could ever imagine before
I went into Middle School I was really nervous to go in but I feel very welcomed and and I believe that all the students that go there feel very welcomed as well thank you and so what's awesome about Amora is
on Friday I was like Hey Amora on Monday There's a board meeting and she's like I got you and then she just walked away and so we had the Basketball Championships on Saturday which we came up second to mcalli whatever in vars and JV but um when we were there she's like oh that board meeting when is it and I
said 5:45 she's like in the the morning I was like nope and she just she would have been here at 5:45 this morning if that's when you wanted her here so um for so for next steps for this recognition is we do get to go to Washington DC to the national middle
level conference which is awesome but then something really cool is that they have asked us at Brentwood Middle School to host the state conference for all of the middle level Educators in the fall which I'm like we've gone to some of the like SE and I get to go on a lot of site visits which is really cool because we
can give other school's feedback and we learn and bring things back to our own school but we're like some of these buildings of these conferences are so fancy and they're like you know what you the magic it's not in a building it's in the people who are in it and I'm like 100% And so we've been saying that all along but it really is they're so
excited because the reality is our demographic doesn't match necessarily the same as the other schools that receive this recognition and then Diane laow who is in St Frain and she works with this um organization as well she asked um me to present at the Cas conference and a panel that she's
putting together too so there's some really awesome opportunities um we're working with the principal red eaten middle school and so some really cool things schools come visit our school and they get to learn from some of the very best people that I have ever seen or could imagine seeing in education and
then um so Brentwood truly special place one of our teachers Lori hador she sent an email just out to staff over things that she was wrestling with in her mind and I really think like she said this yesterday unsolicited just um and so I just want to read it to you because it
is pretty pretty telling of our staff and our culture how lucky are we to get to work with children during a time in their life that is like no other time they'll experience emotions identity maturity puberty social media oof it's a lot but we get to be the stability in their lives when they need it most I am
humbled that you all chose middle school as the place to pour your professional love into I celebrate you all today and I'm grateful to work side by side with you who knows what state the minds hearts and souls of our students will be tomorrow but together we will love them through it until they get to the other side and then when they get to the other
side we'll keep on loving them so there you go any questions I know I bet we have a few coming in um well we'll go ahead and start with Mr longer he's
first thank you president Matthews I just really wanted to speak on how amazing that school sounds the the amount of morow upkeep that must take to keep a middle school up I I know many people even I when I was a middle schooler just found it tough it's it's a
transitional stage for students it's it's weird it's strange but seeing a principal just Administration and student that are so motivated to go into a school such as middle school and just bring that amount of positivity such as Anora that's your name right Amora Amora
sorry I don't want to mess that up wanted to be a senator already having an idea about it as a middle schooler that that shows something both about your personality and who you are as a human being and about the school being able to Harbor and create students like that that already can have a dream for their
future that's that's incredible stuff I I really want to know how you do it it's incredible stuff because I personally want to lead later on my life as well so I want to learn how to upkeep things the way you all do and bring the same motivation the same smile you brought when you gave that whole speech that was
amazing stuff so just wanted to recognize thank you so much ma'am thank you Mr Longacre Dr Kempo spitzy yeah I wanted to congratulate you guys as well that this is the third year you let people into all of your
classrooms which is amazing um so yeah Middle School gives me cringe memories but it is a a time we all go through and to have Educators passionate about that stage of life and um and yeah winning this award three times in a row that's
really cool Mr aari yeah just congratulations again I spent time in my career working at Brentwood and uh I know uh firsthand the challenges and the fact that you folks
have um risen to such a high level of recognition is truly amazing uh the state level Middle School Conference when does that occur it is on September member 27th it's a Saturday and then the pre-conference will be on the 26th so
people will be able to come and walk through classrooms and all of those things and so definitely something worth celebrating thank you don't see any other questions from board members I have one though how many students did you say played girls
soccer we have 111 registered right now 111 just so everyone understands how many students are at britwood 565 so I'm assuming 565 half of those are are girls right so you know a little
less than 300 girls a third of the girls are are going out for soccer so something this Council of student Representatives has been working on is is helping uh our students get involved at an earlier age and Mr longer was alluding to this and you touched on it
but can you just say how how do you get that much participation come here our extracurriculars and our um how do you get that much involvement um I think I always talk about our coaches you know trying to get
the kid magnets in front of kids and we can teach them about the sport later but kids go out for the humans that are in front of them so that's the big secret get get adults in front of them that kids love percentage of kids are oh gosh
a lot yeah we were I think we were at 72% last year that at least one activity throughout the year 72% had at least one activity that's amazing yeah um well again thank you guys for being here
thank you for for the wonderful work uh that you're doing is there anything else Dr pilt uh for this this group of high Achievers no you know I yes not no yes I I am just so proud of the work that that has gone on throughout the district but
there's no question that brittwood Middle School truly is a a jewel in our crown and I am honored to have them here tonight to share a little bit about what they do there and for us to get to celebrate you and just so proud of you and appreciate all of you for your leadership and remember you lead from
the seat you're in and you all are doing that thank you so [Applause] much again congratulations thank you guys for being here and Dr pilch I'll give it back to you for your superintendent report okay Mr Matthews I'll keep this short we've had a lot of
recognition tonight uh I I want to congratulate all of the students who were honored and recognized tonight for the awards uh I am so pleased that you all agreed to add that piece to our agenda to bring more students in front of us and to get to see what they do and
again uh to see what Brentwood has been doing and you're you're about to hear about um some pretty excellent adults here a little bit later as we uh have you consider some room naming uh rights here uh this evening I do want to say
congratulations um to the the staff with Megan n nent and the other choir teachers who were and retired choir teachers in district 6 who were a part of the gy Evans Elementary Coral Festival um here last week what what an
amazing event I think we had over 400 students um on the stage at the Union Colony Civic Center and they just had that day to practice and it was just truly beautiful um thank you to Megan Nan again and to her colleagues and and to the the gy children's Carell for your
leadership in this work and um just really a nice nice event to see all those parents and grandparents and aunts and uncles and staff in the audience was really something so congratulations everyone thank you president Matthews thank you Dr pilch next on our agenda is
our i230 update strengthening Partnerships goal two external stakeholders I'm not sure who's coming to the to the podium so Dr pilch I'll give it to you for introductions or Miss Myers Miss Myers is coming to the podium
and uh our our um other co-leads on on this committee from the Strategic plan so we'll let them take it away well thank you president Matthews Dr pilch um members of the board we are here tonight to give you an update on
our strengthening Partnerships goal 2 [Music] um sorry I haven't been up here for a while um which of course is part of our uh strategic plan Innovation 2030 as you well know the mission and vision of that
plan this also fits in with at least two of our values we build positive relationships with students families and communities and we promote access opportunity and choice of course this is one of the four Focus areas of our strategic plan strengthening
Partnerships specifically the district 6 enhances Student Success by communicating engaging and collaborating with our communities and school Partners so there's two goals in this and we're presenting tonight on goal two which is sort of the external communication part of this which is to
communicate and collaborate with external stakeholders including businesses local government and Community organizations our objectives under this goal are to develop and Implement a district-wide plan to partner with businesses Community groups and
individuals and to develop and Implement a plan for students and staff to contribute to the community so here are the some of the outcomes that we would like to see from these objectives schools and District departments will Implement a district right Community Partnership plan district 6 will support
volunteerism by documenting and annually annually increasing the number of students and staff who engage and service to the community and here are some of the overall actions underneath all this we want to develop and Implement a comprehensive Community Partnership plan which we'll talk about in a minute
create and execute a training for that partnership plan create and Implement guidelines for supporting and recognizing local businesses and philanthropic organizations to partner with D6 and create a web page on the district and school sites that recognize business partners as well along the
volunteer um area students will be given the opportunity and tools to contribute to the community throughout their school career as included in their personalized learning plan and we will create and Implement a volunteer plan for staff who are able to volunteer during contract
time and with that I would like to bring up um our assistant superintendent of um Human Resources Annette Overton and Nelson Rodriguez who is our Community Partnership administrator to talk a little bit about our D6 gives back program
thank you Teresa and uh good evening to you all um so in an effort to increase um staff uh involvement in our community district 6 has developed a pilot volunteer program called D6 gives back
and really this program encourages district 6 employees to volunteer with various Community organizations and gy Evans um through 8 hours of paid time off um we have a committee that has uh worked to develop a website and some
marketing material here but also to create a process where those interested in this program could actually go to the website uh register to participate in this program and use some of their paytime off um to work with our community organizations this program was developed
by a committee of district 6 employees and community members that met regularly over the last 2 years and as a committee we researched other um similar volunteer programs we conducted some Outreach to
community organizations we met with GAA leadership we also administered a staff survey to help inform the development of this program we also worked with uh district 6 Communications as I mentioned to develop our marketing material um our
website does house um different resources in contacts with various Community organizations in the community who are looking to um host district 6 employees for various volunteer activities and I want to invite uh Annette to share um some specific
insights and some data uh from this this program that we did just recently Implement thank you Nelson and thank you Teresa um I'm excited to talk about this we've been I've been part of this program for the two years um bringing it
to fruition and um the pilot was EXC exciting for all of us to participate in we had it run from October 7th through uh January 31st and we invited initially 40 organizations to participate in uh
the application process to be part of the pilot program we had 12 that were interested and finalized everything with us so we had um our employees participate with those particular 12 particularly particular 12 organizations
uh 22 staff were part of the pilot and they um uh resulted that the the volunteer work that they did resulted in over 80 hours of service back to the community so that's that is an exciting um thing to think about because so many
of our organizations give to us and this gave us the opportunity then to give back um our employees volunteered at places like Weld County Food Bank um a local church board and Meals on Wheels and then um United
Way to name just four out of the 12 the pilot allows us also to fine-tune a process and to determine feasibility for a larger rollout next fall uh we also plan to incorporate staff recognition in this program and then certainly we're
developing a budget right now on how we can actually do some more work and expand the work that we're doing um we're also increasing our um we're making another rally toward uh the community and different organizations
that might want to participate and as people have learned more about this then they have been inviting their own um places that they volunteer to reach out to us to get involved so it's um that small start and then it's going to
become this uh lar much larger um program right now teachers and school-based staff have the challenge of taking time to volunteer and to participate in these opportunities because they have it's a little more challenging for them to leave so we're
uh we're working with organizations to develop kind of a oneandone model or a one-time um opportunity where they they will do maybe a shoe drive or they'll do uh food baskets during the holidays or a coat drive or um a hygiene um kits that
they can give that we can utilize at the Family Center or other places around town so we think about those um things that teachers can do so that they can become involved and that'll be um uh that will build capacity with District Six gives back so we'd love to um answer
questions probably at the end of the presentation right yeah I just want to add that my team at communications went and spent two hours packing um boxes for senior citizens at the food bank and it was such a great experience for us and such
a good team building experience and I think that that's some of the feedback that we received um piggybacking on what we've done with the staff we're also looking at formalizing some um volunteer hours for our students and Ann Ramirez
who is the principal at Hyman elementary school has been leading some of this work she's had a couple meetings really talking about what that would look like at the different levels um maybe 5 hours at elementary 10 at middle 15 at high schools a lot of our schools are already
doing this and I think the more we're researching this we're finding this isn't unattainable for any of these schools they're doing you know elementary schools are doing food drives they're doing coat drives they're doing um giving out meals to families at Thanksgiving they're doing a lot of work around this already so we really feel
like that this is probably an attainable goal and then um we've recently found out that we can utilize um zel which is the career in College Planning tool that the district has attained to actually track volunteer hours in that so that will be a super help tool um for our
schools moving forward some of the next steps with that group are looking at just what volunteer activities are out there that that kids can do I know a lot of organizations don't want people under the age of 16 or people under the age of 18 volunteering for various reasons but
we really want to find out what those areas are that our students could physically volunteer in and then some of the opportunities to do things for Community organizations maybe at the school site um some of this could include something as simple is an elementary school choir going to sing at
a nursing home or or um uh last year they drew cards for our nurses at Banner Health so all of that is considered giving back to the community so we're really trying to get creative around that so they are going to contact Bright Futures see what volunteer opportunities
there are for young people and then they really wanted to work on a recognition program for these students possibly even a pin or a cord that they could wear at graduation so we're looking into all of those areas so the last area I'm going to touch on quickly is the development of a Community Partnership plan I've talked
to you about this before we worked with the Colorado education initiative who facilitated some of these meetings for us we had a really great reput representation from community members and local organizations businesses and our staff on creating this plan CI kind
of drafted a plan for us which I've been retooling um and looking at for the last um few months and then meeting with Julie Hill from the success foundation and Nelson Rodriguez to really go over that plan and make it a district six plan and some of the really key Focus
areas are ensuring that these are two-way Partnerships I feel like um sometimes when we've had Community Partnerships it feels like what can you do for us instead of what can we do for you as well um so we're really focusing on that and ways that schools can give
back to these organizations that are giving so much to us and then creating partnership ship that really meet students academic goals um there's a saying that backpacks and bagels are nice and we do appreciate those and we need those but are there Partnerships
that can delve more into what we're trying to achieve for our students on an academic level so can they come in and talk about what they do in their business can they give our students some in insight into the careers that are available in their businesses so we're really looking at some of that more um
focused work around academic achievement and then of course Partnerships always and can include donations but we want to make sure that that's not a barrier for any Community organization that if they want to volunteer if they want to provide tutoring if they want to provide
job shadowing opportunities or if they can have some of their employees come into schools and talk to kids about careers that's equally as valuable so we're really trying to get away from that what can you do for us financially but what can you do for to give our students more opportunities
so this spring we'll be working um with Nelson and Julie to revise that plan make sure it's it's in a good State and then our next steps will be to try to collect an inventory of the existing Partnerships in our schools it's a bit of a challenge um we've tried to do it
before but we're going to try it again um honestly some of our our schools don't even realize they have Partners sometimes because they're just so used to working with organizations and things and they're like oh yeah that would be a partnership so we're really trying to change that mentality of of let's
recognize everybody who's doing something for our school and then once we get that inventory then we can kind of identify where we have redundancies and overlap we don't want to be constantly going to the same people all the time as well and um it's really good to have Julie Hill on that that too
because the success Foundation has so many Partnerships so we really want to make sure we're we're being cognizant of that and then um we will hope we're hoping by next year we can find four schools that are willing to part to partner with us to Pilot this plan um
we'd like to have a school at every level Elementary Middle K8 and high school really see how it works get in there and do the work with them to see how that would how that would look and if we can create these really robust sustainable Partnerships so we will be
creating a training module we want to get a lot of feedback from this pilot program to see what's working and what's not working and then of course ask for additional schools to participate in 2027 and 2027 I do want to mention that some of the reason that this is in the
Strategic plan really is driven by our school leaders who said There feels like there's inequity in our schools like some schools have tons and tons and tons of Partners and some schools don't have any and how can we bridge that Gap and a lot of it is um a lot of This falls on
our leadership at our school because when a company comes in they want to meet with the principal like they don't want to meet with the principal's design all the time so um some of the feedback we got from um the school leaders on this committee was that there needs to be somebody at
the district level who owns this and that's why we've talked about would it be possible to hire a Community Partnership coordinator at some point that could coordinate all of these Partnerships keep those relationships going intervene if there's trouble you
know um take new businesses that are interested in partnering and make sure that they're getting with the right schools that kind of work and so we're hoping somewhere down the line that we may be able to create a position that would be able to do that other districts have it I actually spent a lot of time talking with the person
who does this for Jeff Co and they have had some real success it's a position that would cost money but it also brings resources into the district so that's a further conversation for down the line and then this is some of the outcome data that we're hoping to achieve by the
end of this that by September 2027 100% of schools District departments will Implement District White Community Partnerships plan we actually added that um departments because there are some departments that really want to do this work nutrition services Transportation some of them want to be able to create
those Partnerships and then this data is around the volunteering uh 10% of students will be engaged annually in community service 100% of schools will be engaged annually in a community service project and then 10% of Staff
will be engaged annually in service to the community so those are definitely um outcomes that we're hoping to attain and with that I will turn it back over to you m Mr Matthews and if there's any questions we're happy to answer those thank you Miss Myers uh we do have
some questions first is Dr kampo spitzy um you began answering one of them which was what were the 12 Brave organizations who they're all on our website oh cool good um and then I I wanted to say nice logo
I like the D6 gives back um how have you been getting feedback from participants from the staff that you piloted with well I I'll turn this over to Anette but they did host a focus group with the staff who participated in those virtually and I think they got quite a bit of
information we um outside of that we've also at the end of the um their volunteer time we send a survey that goes to the organiz ation the supervisor that um sponsored them and then we also send something to the employee to say is
this a great experience that perhaps other employees might want to participate in and give us a little feedback in that in that form so every time you volunteer at a different organization or at within that you take time off um from district 6 we ask you
to give a little bit of feedback for that and so we've been receiving feedback thanks so much this was great or maybe we could consider could you consider this organization and so that's how we're we're building that um that list again and then um getting feedback
from the organizations about what we what they would like to see for example they'd like us to have something to wear that looks like district 6 right so District Six gives back we're also um getting t-shirts that we can have them
you know so in the next round of volunteer times so cool thank you um I also just just wanted to and I think I said this last time um we were given information on this um pilot but that I'm so glad that it's on paid contract
time I think that um is important um and then you guys trying to get creative so that teachers can participate as well um um I think the last thing I wanted to say I just think it's it is so important um not just for staff I I'm thinking
specifically for students um for us to instill that seed of philanthropy and and volunteerism um and just today I know at Meer Elementary they're doing a penny drive or like they're they're collecting coins um and there is a a prize the
class that gets the most gets a movie and you know um so my daughter comes home and is like where's the money you know um and uh but it was really fun because her brother who's not in school like gave her money to add to to the
coins that she's going to give um and he connected it to the success Foundation uh bowling with the Burrows and he's like because I was like this is fundraising we're giving to United Way which is a program that helps people in need um and he's like oh like when we went bowling you know the other day and
so even in these little ones just putting in those seeds of of um of helping others I think is is just such a a great cause thank you Dr Kos spitzy Mr oari yeah I just have a clarifying question it's probably directed more to
Mr Mr Rodriguez so we have business partners and Community Partners that partner with individual schools and we have business partners that partner with us to support internships there I'm I'm presuming
that's not one and the same I mean we it would be a completely different uh process a different yeah program well that's a great question we do have uh various business and Community Partners that support the school district in many ways so um an
organization that might be hosting a summer internship for some of our high school students are also contributing uh financially to one of our schools uh or hosting a job experience or coming in and speaking to students about various careers and so there are some organizations that are involved uh in
many different ways I think with the Community Partnership plan that Teresa highlighted is that we really want to be uh intentional about how schools go about building Partnerships with with or organizations with businesses that is also long-term and it's not just these
oneoff um you know donations but really together uh you know schools and and Community organizations are meeting regularly to address different needs that they both have and so there will be some overlap I think in in in in these programs but um I think it's it's a
little different in that we want the schools to really have one at least one partner uh that they could rely on throughout the school year Miss Vegas thank you president Matthews um I just wanted
to I just wanted to Echo um what Dr kpos Fitzy was saying about how important it is to encourage and motivate those students from such a young age to want to volunteer within their Community it builds their communication skills and those different um environmental settings and it helps build their character as well to be a people person
to want to go in help their Community I also think it is a great idea to make maybe um have that pin or recognition for those graduation students who do put a lot of their time and effort into those volunteering hours just um recognizing their success within that as
well I also think hoping that Bright Futures um Bright Futures encourages to add more volunteer opportunities is also very important a lot of students do struggle finding where to volunteer and where to get their hours so I think it's very important to can just add that extra
support for our students um as someone who has volunteered many many hours within our community in different forums and different environments I also think it's important to help track those hours because it can be difficult especially for those students who hope to volunteer at a
younger age how do you track those hours how do you keep those hours where can those hours go into as you're getting older and as you're applying to a scholarships um but thank you I think you guys are doing amazing work thank you for that I appreciate your feedback on that as well any other questions from board
members comments I'll just say thank you it's it's um I think one of the great successes we've seen over the last 10 years is uh the ability to to bring people into our district as we've
already heard tonight right our our our partners are so important to to what we do uh I mean you heard it uh specifically about the success Foundation tonight but we have so many other partners in this community and they are they are critical in in so many different ways to what we do and so
thank you to all of our all of our partners and thank you guys to your work in recruiting more and and helping our district engage and and give back so we appreciate it greatly thank you president Matthews next on our agenda is our public participation as a board we
welcome the comments of community members and we dedicate a portion of each business meeting to provide an opportunity for the community to present brief comments All speakers are limited to 2 minutes for comments our board members typically will not respond but we may ask our 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 uh tonight we only have one speaker I think and that's Miss Michelle sren is Miss sren with us thank you for being here tonight miss
sren um and you'll have two minutes thank you for having me sorry I was trying to multitask um I did want to touch base really quick I appreciate you guys allowing us always to continue to make comments um as parents um last time I
was here um there was an individual that said that he had free speech and so I wanted to touch base real quick on that to to let parents know that there is constitutional restrictions on time Poli and matter and they can't just come and be crazy when they're here so I
appreciate you guys keeping comments um limited by these individuals cuz that day I did have my son with me and he was a little bit distraught so I appreciate that thank you um but my main reason for coming to speak to you guys today was to
talk about Billy Martinez um drop off um and in the back on Second Street um I had already reached out to Mrs mash and I appreciate her phone calls um I wasn't able to answer due to working um and I appreciate Mr Wade reaching out to me as
well um it has been an issue since my son started school there um the drop off is not very safe since we have the CTE school and now um the Boys and Girls Club there as well um the drop off has
come more congested Ed and unsafe for students and for parents um number one because there's three different signs that say no turning left but there's a gazillion parents that turn left and then there's signs um there's a double
yellow for not turning left in but they turn in um I've seen on several occasions when I've left gone to leave my son um students coming from the backside of the school to get into school almost getting run over by my parents trying to turn left in and out
and um it's become very concerning for me number one it also takes forever to leave my son um also there's dirt and there's no cement so it's muddy thank you Miss sren yeah thank you so much and
I again thank you Mrs mash for returning my phone call have a great one thank you next on our agenda as is our consent agenda and we will need a motion I move that the Board of Education of gy Evans school district 6 approves the
items as presented on the consent agenda and authorizes the officers to sign any and all contracts second thank you both any discussion on the consent agenda saying none Miss lemon will you give us a vote please director Zari I director Bentley I director campus
spitzy I director Mash I director Matthews I director Sullivan hi motion carries 60 thank you Miss lemon next on our agenda is the naming of the Heath Middle School shop and this is also an action item
that will require a motion I move that the Board of Education of gy Evans school district 6 approves the recommendation to name the heath shop Don Reed industrial Arts Center as presented second thank you
both Dr Pils before we open this up for board members is there anything you would like to say by way of introduction um I will just say I think that we have Mr Reed and his family with us and so if you all would like to move closer or if you're comfortable where you are that is fine too um we will have you um come up
and be introduced here in just a moment uh Mr Reed um but we I I think that um Heath Middle School began the process of of considering the naming of the Heath Middle School shop you all are aware that we we redid that shop as a part of
the bond issue work at Heath Middle School and so it's had a pretty nice facelift since the time when Mr Reed served there um and so I'll let Miss Myers walk you through the process um and she she was a part of the process and then I I think um that we also have
some some additional information from uh Dr ker um superintendent pilch and members of the board I was honored to be part of the process both for the Heath Middle School um naming of the wood shop and the PLC naming of a classroom um as you
all know there is board policy around how we name um rooms buildings any facility in the district that needs to be followed and I will say sitting in with both of these groups groups they did an amazing um job of involving their
communities their parents um students in this process so they did take nominations they followed board procedure and specifically they followed um policy ffr which is the regulation for policy FF on guidelines of when
considering facility names and specifically I want to draw your attention to uh number four which is in recognition of the contribution to education by a resident or family associated with the local community both of these namings um refer to that part
of the policy and I think you'll be um honored to see who these uh schools have chosen to name areas after so I will bring forth Dr Dr Don creger from Heath Middle School to talk about their process I'd like to start by thanking
our generous Community for their support through the bond which led to the additions at Heath one of them being a state-of-the-art shop and I'm really excited to introduce Don to you but I want to start with just the the members of the committee were very diverse
including our current shop teacher we had a professor from the University of Norther in Colorado we had Parents participate and then we had District level leadership as well so it was a great conversation and a great opportunity to learn about the legacy of
Don Reed and what he brings to our community we met on January 23rd and initially when I opened the spreadsheet and saw that there were 81 submissions I was like wow this is going to take way longer than I thought but then we started reading and we realized that 100% of the submissions were were for Mr
Don Reed and and so then we just had the pleasure of of learning about him and what he brought to our community and and the love and passion that he continues to exhibit and give to our community so I want to start with just some of the characteristics that that were shared about Don um it was really
clear the message from his former T students that they communed his passion his kindness his patience his dedication to them and their development as Learners as well as lifelong community members who continue to give back many
of those students shared that Don had a creative energy that led them to enjoy their experience in the classroom they still continue today to use what he taught them they also they had one former student who summed it up as Mr Reed's
contribution to our community more specifically the heath Community has been Monumental his passion for Woodwork and more importantly teaching Middle School Scholars was inspiring in addition to the numerous former students who
nominated Don there were several former colleagues who completed the survey and they said as a lifelong district 6 educator they saw Don as someone whose love for Education extended Beyond his own classroom as he was a mentor and coach for several of them and allowed
them to grow as Educators overall there was overwhelming support for the shop at Heath to be named after Don Reed he loved his work he loved his school and he continues to love his
community there are a couple of quotes here that stood out to the committee and so I wanted to share them Laura gurn shared Don Faithfully taught at Heath for many years equipping students for success in the shop his commitment dedication and passion have inspired many to make a living in the trades
literally building the foundation of our community I can think of no better way to honor the history of this program at Heath while recognizing someone who has been an outstanding citizen in the grey community and then Amy Gayden reason for
recommendation sums up what so many others in the recommendation shared there could be no other suitable name that would carry as much character dedication and Devotion to the wood shop and to the school Don spent many years of his life teaching his skills to
others which aside from his masterful woodworking would also include his fatherly guidance warm demeanor and his wonderful sense of humor the whole purpose of naming anything is to give it a greater meaning I can't imagine any other name than Don
Reed the committee read through all of the submissions and we would formally like to recommend that the shop at Heath be named the Don Reed industrial Art Center at this time we'd like to ask for your approval to move forward with this recommendation do you have any
questions for 32 years in all um Junior High T for 32 years uh all in junior high that that's pretty amazing Mr Reed I I'd love to invite you to the to the podium and just to to say a few words I
imagine that we will approve this uh so I think that's something of a foregone conclusion so before we do though I'd like to invite you to say a few words if you would like well the only words that I could take of
right now is wow my sonin law Scot back is the one we started all of this and carried it through I knew nothing of
it it said the principal at at Heath joined in and I knew nothing of that until the night he took us on a tour and found out some of the changes that were made
at Heath uh this fall or this winter over what I used to have and it you it used to be a long
time Drive in there we could drive in at that time we drive in park go and talk to a little bit our friends go down and talk to the uh principal or the principal's helper pick up
our letters if there were any had back to their shop and I had the med shop for the entire time that they had metal
shop year after I retired they had a different program in there and year after that something else completely so I
was kind of bragging a little bit about having a class this longer than what I left and he stopped it you know it felt kind of good then so
but the real the real thing is guys and ladies the the you the the I I also have a speech problem and sometimes I'm starting to talk and I can't finish them
I will try to come around another way but the cre board is responsible for all of this because you make it make it so kids could come
to school and you make it so we could uh give to them what we have lined up so you guys are the response in the
beginning and after what I see here tonight I will stay out of your way I just you guys are do it fantast fantastic and I just want to add that um I took my
daddy's class and um he would not grade my projects He had Stu two student teachers that had to grade my projects and they were scared to death because they didn't know how to trade but at my 10-year class reunion um
one of my uh classmates walked up and it's not Carolyn how are you it was Carolyn how's your dad do you know I became an industrial arts teacher because of your dad so that was one but we just it's so much fun we're out in the community we had one here tonight
that she walked up she Mr Reed you know and so between in uh he taught several business classes typing um and uh different things over the 32 years but I think the thing that he's probably one of the most proud is he never had an
accident in his class my daddy was a very strict disciplinarian and um uh Mr Reed your dad he made me do 50 deep knee bins today or I had to do 50 push-ups but results were very
successful and the counselors always said the kids that were needed a little extra guidance if if they uh came to Dad's class they knew they were going to learn that day so thank you so much
thank you I will make a COR correction there we had a section of which our B shop that was to let the kids know what
it was like to be working in a factory so we were I had some stuff for them to use and we had different places that they were working we had I can't remember how many
kids we had 16 17 somewhere in there and they were doing a wonderful job they're doing their job what they were supposed to do and if they had to wait for the person behind them or the person
in front of them they did they didn't cause any problems however one day we had one of their friends come up to him and while they were waiting for the person next
person the visitors poked the guy he was running drill press they poked him in the hand he jerked and the hand went across there
was drill press and actually hurt him real bad and so in in reality we had no no problem with kids in our class we
just couldn't handle the ones that were doing nothing so so but again thank you you guys you're the ones to makeing it happen and you're the ones that have approved
this this is a a meeting or it's a stamp goes on a woodworking tool up by the head of the
of the yeah anyway it's something that I did but yet I got rewarded for it and I am very very pleased of that reward so thank you and thank you for
serving this and I guess you're going to get thank thank you Mr Reed uh Miss Mash has a comment I just wanted to say it's such a pleasure to get to learn about your
legacy and the way that you cared for so many kids we've already talked about middle school today and how that's such a challenging time for students but it was unanimous that this shop be named after you and so that's just amazing that that you you had such a lasting
effect on so many kids that were in that awkward awkward face and so um we are I also want to extend our thanks to our voters who allowed us to to have such a successful bond that we could add that
shop that beautiful shop at Heath and we know that when kids feel connected and they have an extra activity at school that they do so much better and so thanks for creating that Legacy at Heath that is now gonna continue on in a new
space thank you thank you Miss Mash I don't think there's anything else but to to just make this official so miss lemon will you give us a vote please director aari I director Bentley I director campus spitzy I director Mash I director
Matthews I director Sullivan I motion carry 6 Z thank you thank you very much giving well I'm not sure we can top that but we'll try um next I'd like to bring up Jim Butterfield who's the coordinator of the
pter Learning Center who will talk with you about their recommendation to name a classroom at that facility as they're coming up um this too is an action item so would someone be so kind as to make a motion I move that the Board of Education of gy Evans school district 6 approves the
recommendation to name the pter Learning Center classroom the hayy classroom for excellence as presented second thank you both um Dr pilch do you have any words of introduction on this one or shall we turn it over to Mr butter I will just
share that um Mr and Mrs Halley are not able to be with us tonight I do think they are watching remotely and uh Mr Halley does look forward to seeing us early tomorrow morning at the success Foundation breakfast where you'll have an opportunity to say a few words to him personally um if you'd like to it with
that uh we'll turn this over to Mr Butterfield who is our coordinator out at the pter Learning Center we okay students members of the board Dr bills thank you my name is Jim Butterfield I'm the coordinator out of
the putter Learning Center um I'll try really hard not to uh get a little emotional here that last presentation was pretty dang awesome so started off my career as a shop teacher so I definitely am very excited for that honor uh for him um out at the PLC we
are um we are a Center for Science and um stewardship of the outdoors and we educate kids pre112 uh using outdoor experiences and inquiry learning we're very excited about the work that we do out there um and I keep going backwards
so uh we did go through the process that was outlined before by um Teresa and and um we had a committee that put together it actually started back when we were at gy West a few weeks ago uh before that uh talking about the Buddy bench that
they wanted to do for for Mr Hayley and I thought well we should probably get one out there as well cuz we know he was a pretty big angler and and so we started there there simultaneously The pter Learning Center Foundation started a committee went through a whole bunch of stuff had a bunch of meetings and
then I had to whoa we have some processes and things so we slowed them down um but I felt like it came from the place of the heart which is really where John hafley is for me um on a personal note I got to meet Mr hafley last year when I came back to to District Six and back to the Front Range uh through
basketball um I I just don't think you can meet a a better more Stellar human being he and his wife Del are both just pretty amazing people so I'm excited to talk to about them today so we formed the committee and uh we went through the process and went through all the same procedures and and protocol that were
named before and uh we convened on January 16th after having a couple other meetings uh as a full committee we created a survey uh and then we met again on February 4th to review the process uh we had uh 14 responses to the survey and 13 were some variation of
John John and deia or general support for the process so pretty pretty well overwhelming for a place that is not a school it's a site and a lot of people don't necessarily know we did advertise the same way but I felt like it was a pretty good response in our committee was pretty varied so going forward from
there um let me tell you a little bit about John andela uh longtime District Six Educators John served two terms on the board of education Delia served as the president of the success Foundation the couple has created the Delia and John W hafley uh opportunity fund through the success Foundation uh they
both supportive The pter Learning Center menley John has served on the foundation board out there as well and then they've served on both numerous Community boards and committees here in gly um this is probably a really great summary of uh
the process and the survey that we went through every single person that responded wrote about this much um either in support of the process or in support for them so John and Delia Halley have made extraordinary and Lasting contributions to the pter Learning Center just six in the gy
community as classroom Educators board members volunteers mentors and philanthropists they have demonstrated unwavering dedication and love for education in community their efforts have brought tremendous value to the entities they serve and have positively shaped the lives of many in our community this classroom stands as a
testament to the rich history for the schoolhouse connecting the past present and future and reflects the integration of Education in our natural world just as this space Bridges these elements the hayle have seamlessly integrated their passion for lifelong learning and the commitment to enriching the enriching
the gy community naming this classroom for their honor would celebrate their profound impact in enduring Legacy that was from Larry rogad one of the respondents and he also sat on the committee so our recommendation to you tonight is to consider the Halle classroom for excellence it'll be the
first classroom uh as you walk into the small school house we have a library and then the big classroom next door this will be the big classroom and we'd like to name it the Halle classroom for excellence any questions thank you Mr butfield uh I
imagine we might have a a question or two we'll see looks like Miss Mash not a question um just my wholehearted um support of this recommendation um as you already have
mentioned both John and dilia are um just the most kind and generous uh folks that you'll ever hope to meet and um they spend so much of their time in The Great Outdoors such fabulous fly Fisher people um so many pictures of just the
most amazing fish I have having received from them so um I just think it it is an excellent choice and I'll be voting a whole heart thank you any other questions from board members comments from board
members well I will just echo my support for this um certainly it as you said there it's hard to find um more generous more giving uh people than than the hayle and and people who who are more
committed to the outdoors and and to fishing and U so it is and for those for several of us on on the board this one's emotional as well for several in the room it's emotional as well because John one of the things that that John did was
serve on on this board and so uh he is a mentor to to many of us and um yeah I imagine imagine he will have absolutely unanimous support we have commissioned a local artist um should we get permission
tonight and we will uh let you all know when we decide to do a room ceremony out there for him and we'll invite you all I don't see any other comments so again let's make this official Miss lemon director Zari hi director Bentley hi director Campos spitzy I director MH
I director Matthews I director Sullivan I motion carries 60 thank you so much thank you Mr Butterfield our last agenda item tonight is a letter of support for the Downtown gy Development and this to is an action
item that will require a motion I move that the Board of Education of gy Evans school district 6 approves a letter to support for Downtown gy Development as presented second thank you both not sure I did not ask anyone uh
but would someone like to read uh this letter before we vote on it Miss smash okay sure yes let me zoom in okay all right dear W County Commissioners city of gy downtown Town Development Association and richmark
Properties Inc the gy Evans school district 6 Board of Education and elected seven member volunteer board is proud to serve 23,000 students and nearly 3,000 staff members our mission as outlined in the district six strategic plan titled Innovation 2030 is
district 6 engages every student in a personalized well-rounded and excellent education preparing students to be College and Career ready we are committed to ensuring our students are ready to serve the communities of Gan Evans as employees employers business owners philanthropists volunteers
consumers and most importantly participating citizens of our community we know that a healthy public education system helps create a healthy community and we know public education cannot be healthy without strong Community Partnerships district 6 has a unique opportunity to be a part of a history
making partnership with the city of gy and W County that could result in badly needed facility upgrades upgrades for each of our entities all well contributing to the economic health of our downtown gy Center the plan developed by richmark Properties Inc gives us the opportunity through land
swaps and collaboration to create a welcoming structurally sound safe and healthy place for the 130 plus employees in our Administration facilities downtown gy has supported our educational mission in district 6 in many ways including the annual district
6 Arts walk which features art and musical performances by district 6 students opportunities for students to perform at Friday Fest and other events providing internship opportunities working with horiculture students at gy West to install landscaping and much
more we the district 6 Board of Education support the richmark plan and sincerely hope that it will move forward with the support of the Weld County Commissioners and the City of gy we believe a strong downtown is key to the economic and social success of gy and are committed to keeping our administration building in the area
thank you for our consideration sign the Board of Education gy Evans schol district 6 thank you Miss Mash are there any comments or questions on this before we vote you guys must be ready to go home uh I I will just say it it's an honor to
get to to vote for this and support uh of our of our downtown we say often that as the school district goes so goes so goes the city U but the reverse is also true and very dependent on on the city and and the downtown and uh having a
great community and we I think I can speak for all of us and and saying that we firmly believe we do have a great community and a great City and so it's uh it's a wonderful opportunity and I certainly will be voting um in the affirmative any other questions or
comments Miss mesh I will just Echo the same as having been a business owner and a business investor in downtown gy and just just loving where I live spending my dollars at um independent businesses and and watching the immense change in
downtown gy as as businesses moved out early in the early 2000s um to the DDA making a concerted effort to make it a a destination location for arts and culture and food and drink and um I think that downtown gy is beautiful
and I'm so excited for all of the the potential in this um in this plan and um I feel honored that we as a district um have been seen as a partner as well and that and that our input and our
participation is welcomed and and desired so I will also be voting Hardy yes any other questions or comments all right Miss lemon will you give us a vote please director aari I director Bentley hi director campus spit
I director Mash I director Matthews I director Sullivan I motion carries 60 thank you Miss lemon well that is all the business that is all the business that that we have tonight and thank you to to so many who were with us tonight congratulations to so many who were
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for gy Evan school district 6 today is March 10th 2025 the meeting will now come to order and we'll start with our roll call Miss London director aari pres director Bentley director campus spitzy presid director Mash present director
Matthews present director Norwood director Sullivan present five board members present thank you Miss lemon first on our agenda is our calendar review and we have a busy week
tomorrow tomorrow morning is the success Foundation breakfast hopefully everybody is planning to attend that uh it's a big fundraiser for for our nonprofit um and then Wednesday through Friday we have negotiations so busy week uh for us but
if you look at your agenda uh your calendar you'll see we don't have anything but board meetings and work sessions until May and that is because a lot of our schools will be doing testing I'm quite certain uh they're pretty busy
this time of year and don't need to see us so uh we will get another board visit in May and we have a retirement celebration and 10e anniversary celebration for for Prairie Heights so make make a note of all those but yeah I don't see the Dream
Team yeah dream team has a banquet right it's on the 29 2 7 27th of March March yeah okay is there anything we need to tell you miss lemon with regard to the Dream Team
celebration uh no if you'll just RP be of the calendar to invite okay take care right thank you thank you there's there's an RSVP Bo leering team okay yes so I usually do that for the board yes thank you do all of you plan to be at um
North Ro tomorrow morning for breakfast everybody be there yeah yeah great I'm I'm pretty sure Mr um Mr Norwood will not be there U but I don't know about Mr Bley um says next is our board member
comments and reports but if you guys don't mind can we hear from our uh casby student day um at the capital hear from our students they they're busier than we are and need to get somewhere and so if
you don't mind we're going to just flip those and so we'll do our casby student day at the capital update now Mr aari went with with these students and so Mr aari would you mind introducing uh our students and
U oh no well I mean just it maybe not introduce the students but just sort of um lead off for us if if you don't mind and then Mr fall you as well well I'd be happy to lead off but before I do let's have our our students introduce themselves to us uh I'm Ayah I'm from
Northridge and I'm in 10th Grade oh um I'm Abby and I go to Central in 11th grade I would have had that by the way I just I just got say that these two were very very impressive at the state capital and very mature and advocated
for our districts through just their presence and the way they conducted themselves and I couldn't be more proud of them and being affiliated with the district Mr President so I look forward to hear their insights from what they picked up from what they observed at the
state capital and the event that we attended and Mr fall do you have anything to add before we get going yeah I was really impressed by Aaliyah and Abby both um for just their eagerness uh to learn and to understand this whole process and their bravery for speaking
with our state representatives uh particularly Senator Kirk me um and just asking the hard questions um I thought was really impressive and um I'm sure they learned a couple things and I'm just curious you know what what were your biggest takeaways from the day well
I really liked um like observing how everybody in positions of power like did things cuz it's really different from like just normal day-to-day seeing people like everybody like had this kind of air and when we were talking to her
like she was very matter of fact I thought that was really cool even though I didn't really understand much of what she was saying it was it was really interesting because um we had gotten there and we were like told like oh this is like the situation of the like education and like
finance and like how everything's going and I was like okay I know where my side is like I know what I want so when we got to speak with her like well at first it was interesting because when we got onto the senate floor and we tried to go and sit they were like no like you got to like RSVP like you can't be in here
like and then when we finally got to talk with um Senator Kook Mayer then they were treating us with so much respect they were opening the doors I was like okay and um but anyways um yeah so it was really cool because CU I asked
her like what her like what they were going to end up doing and stuff like what what her opinion on um all of it was anding yeah the funding and it was different from mine and it was like I was asking like hard questions like oh where else could we get money from like
to to fund for like education and stuff um and it was it was interesting to see how they work because she was very like on the nose like oh this is what we're doing like I'm not going to like shift it and it was just it was really interesting to see how all of that works
cuz she's a very passionate and like headstrong woman so it was cool but yeah so yeah what did say what did she say um well I was like we've been
waiting I was like oh like she she said she's going to try and keep funding um the same level as last year and she's going to try and make sure that we get the same amount that was promised in the Constitution I don't get what she meant
by that but it stuck with me she said like every year um funding was below what the Constitution promised us but last year is the only year was said at that level and she wants to keep it that way so what that means is not
reinstating the budget stabilization factor I believe that's what she's talking about there it's not going to be worse than last year yeah she said she's going to try keep the same and she said something like um every year um this the school's
budget is the one being taken from when they need more money for something else and I didn't know that I thought that was interesting I thought school was like this is how much you get you got this I didn't know they take out of bit and she was very like reassuring as
far as like programs go for like special ed and for um people who like their first language is in English that like they would still have funding and stuff but essentially like it's not what we like wanted you know what I mean but it was interesting to see how like the
other districts like um in Colorado like how they reacted toward it because I don't know it was we were in a we were in a room and there was like all these different districts and the way that they uh were advocating for a certain bill I remember it was like the FAA bill
um and they were like totally like hey yeah like we already require fasta and all of this um but like for our district it would be a little bit harder for um like our not primary English speakers to like get it and it was just interesting to see how like across Colorado there is
different and like there's diversity and stuff but I don't know just all of it overall the whole experience of going to the capital it was interesting to see like all these different perspectives because even though like I believe that like we should have gotten the same like you know um finances and stuff it does
end up helping out like other people you know it's just it's interesting to see all the different points of views so um who is the guy that we met at the very beginning he was talking to us and telling us what we were going to do uh Matt Cook yeah see at the end yeah maybe
probably he was the only one there but at the end what she was just talking about where all of the different schools came together we left the um this the house I think yeah the big house and we went back
to the Nights of Columbus Hall the lunch place yes room the room and we started talking about all of the uh different bills that they wanted to pass and our opinions on it and she was talking about
how the fast everybody was talking about how what a bad idea it was and it was kind of controversial because the guy who wanted that bill was trying to do it for some reason I don't remember what you guys said but he was trying to do it for his own little reason and
everybody was just disagreeing with it because it made no sense completely what are you talking about but the FAFSA bill is the same bill that carries the uh personal finance requirement
right so I think casby is opposing that bill for a couple different reasons we can talk about two yeah one of the big reasons was CU um in Colorado we have a lot of diversity and um they don't want their
information being required for that to get an education it would just bring them down a lot if they had to submit that to the government that made a lot of sense to me I don't get why that should be a requirement even if they're not going to college H what
else oh overall I think the experience though was really cool I thought it was really awesome to go down to the Capal with like District members like it was like cool um when we first arrived in the Northridge parking lot it was it was funny because I couldn't find the car but then it ended up being like the
biggest white SUV and I was like okay so um it's a district vehicle yeah yeah and yeah it was cool the ride was cool and I would honestly say like next year if I had the chance to go again I would totally go again like it's it's just honestly super cool to see how things
work in the house versus the Senate and then the fact that we got to talk to like a senator was like really awesome did you get to see Senator Bry yeah wait uh he was busy and then unfortunately was unable to meet with us but he he was really wanting to meet with us he just did just didn't work out so we got to w
we got to wave he W what did you guys think of the lobbyists like their role in everything yeah I was like people get paid to do that I don't want to be a fan it was cool because like all of them started crowding the like the lobby like
where you have to wait and stuff um so that was interesting but um the lobbyist that we were with right because he was registered as a lobbyist was uh yeah well Matt Cook is the lobbyist well I think he's a registered lobbyist for casby um and then uh Ann barcas was our lobbyist oh wait that's the one that got
us to speak with yeah okay yeah yeah well Matt Matt Cook you said um it was really cool specifically him because he was representing like all the different districts in Colorado and like for FSA Bill like some of us we were like whoa
like that's not cool and then another people like the other districts were like oh we already do that like so it's just it's interesting to see how like lobbyists work and the patience and like just everything knowledge that they need to be successful and stuff no I would think his job specifically is really
challenging because there are districts that literally have a 100 kids in the entire district and then there is you know Denver that has ,000 90,000 students and they're needs and their desires and their communities are so very different so he has to kind of I
don't know if it's kind of majority that the casby delegates one person from each um District gets to vote on different things so that's probably how their position was decided but yeah and I I sit on the lrc meetings with casby every other week and yeah it can be really a
big struggle to get everyone on the same page but ultimately they just do a majority vote if they want to take a position that's not consensus so it's not consensus you and case was not there Colorado Association School school of exx case folks weren't there it just Casp uh I'm not sure if I saw anybody
from I'm sure Elizabeth was a lot of the students were like AP US History or AP go and I was like that would make sense cuz I didn't really understand what was happening but I was really trying to I was like this you understood more than you think just listening to you I was
you did aah you did yeah but yeah I was like that would be an awesome experience if you were brilliant of government so I think it would be good if we could operate to our government classes for people who are interested because they would eat that up you retained a lot
being how it was a couple weeks ago so I'm impressed nice job something about I wanted to say about the lobby I forgot oh the Matt Cook um he left a really strong impression on me he uh at the beginning when he was talking to us he
was very fact-based but like he put his opinion in at the end and it made a lot of sense and I thought I respected him for that cuz when he was talking about stuff like there's this this and this and he was explaining everything about how it goes and he was like there's
going to be this person and they might not like you and I was like oh okay and he's like you might talk to this person and because you're a student they're going to like you and I was like okay cuz he was telling it TST straight I'd like to that's honestly so true because when we were talking with uh Senator
Kirk Mayer uh we were in the the hallway at first and she was like you know what let's go on to the senate floor and then like when we got on to the floor She was like so much more sweet to us it was it was funy that's a really amazing experience so Senator Kirk Meer she was accounting
commissioner she's been a representative now she's a senator like whether a person agrees or disagrees with her she has spent a lot of time in public service and has been elected and she is very knowledgeable and she is very much straight tell
influential down there yeah and she head yeah but it's cool that you got to I mean that's like a very real experience that that you had I mean if you met with a brand new senator they might be a little bit like well I'm still learning to but you got to meet with a veteran and did you get to learn um what her
profession was before she became a legislator I don't think so so that's always interesting like even those of us across the table here you know we're elected officials and we all come from very different backgrounds and so um sometimes it's interesting to find out
like what did you do before you ran for office or are you still doing whatever you used to do before you ran for office um so for example uh Scott brigh who you didn't get to meet um but he runs the ABC daycare centers in Gan Evans he owns
them and so he will obviously have a bit of a vested interest in prek education because that's right his business um so yeah just kind of interesting when you find out where people are coming from professionally I think sometimes you can get a little insight into their
political stances yeah that is interesting yeah she did um touch on the special ed programs a little bit more than like the um not primary English speakers like she was just reassuring that like those programs would not go away so maybe that
has something to like do with where she comes from or she does always advocate for special letter I think she might have a grandchild or something who special needs yeah that's interesting so I I I'll go back to what I said earlier great
representative from our school district well and Kudos you because um Mr osus was asking me so if we have a late start tomorrow or you call school off do we still go to Denver and I said well if it's safe to travel call the students and see if they want to go if they still
want to go you're going and so you guys said yeah you want to go even though I think had a late start that morning a delayed start so kudos to you you still got up very early and um found the white District vehicle and found your way to the capital it was fun it was very worth
it like I I did want to stay for the late start but no very inspiring to go to the capital so it was good we very much appreciate you guys representing us and it sounds like you did represent us really well and so thank you for for
taking the time to do that I hope it sounds like it was beneficial for you um but it was definitely beneficial for us to be represented and as I told you before sometimes legislators will listen to you more than they will listen to us um so thank you for taking that seriously and and doing the work to do
that of course student voice is super important thank you guys too you're welcome is our time up or should we keep going you can keep going cuz that sounded like a closing speech I was like you want to share you sure can we have time okay well I forgot what I was going
to say but in uh what's the big house like the green the green one or the red one the one with just the capital the one with the one with Kirk oh that was the Senate and then the other one that's the house okay in the Senate um when we were
escorted to the top I was trying my hardest but I really couldn't hear anything but then we moved to the house and they talked about a lot of stuff and there was a lot more people in there and I thought that it was interesting how in
the house they were talking about how they needed more funding everybody in there needed more funding and I thought it was cool that everybody was stting their case and there was a few people who were going against them and it just they made no sense they made no sense I don't know
why they were complaining sorry but there was one that stuck with me they were talking about how they needed more funding for Medicaid and the guy who's going against the Medicaid one he was just talking nonsense he's like it's coming out of your taxpaying dollars and I was like
well yeah yeah exactly they testify it can go on for a very long time when the legislators are testifying when we give comment we're limited on was it two three minutes but
they but but they can they they have a lot to say but I thought it was really cool because in the house right the other one in the house
um they weren't really doing that it was less engaging oh and the Senate yes usually the house is more Rowdy and the Senate is more decorum well I liked the house better yeah there's lot less going on in the
Senate which one do you think is more efficient I the the house they get straight to the point so we have a future representative and a future Senator better take that US history class but yeah I just wanted to comment
on that yeah for you oh just it was like seriously just so inspiring I I mean I would love to be Senator one day and like just seeing especially like speaking with Senator Kirk may like she started like as a wealth commissioner right and now she's up there that's super cool so
yeah oh I have nothing else to say Mr osus anything you want to add they uh the girls talk about that all the way back from the capital so I they were they were super excited about what they learned and what they saw and um they both did a great job it was a lot of fun the only downside to the
whole day I think was they had to listen to Mr osus uh music heavy metal I thought it would be nice and even wasn't that you went too Mrs yes it was so fun it was really good and it was fun to see um when uh Senator
Kirk Meer came out to say hello to us we had been waiting for a few minutes and then she came out and we were like all like hello hello nice to see you and she looked at the girls and said come with me and then they walked walked into the into the senate floor and um I think
Anthony Anthony and I were like after like 10 minutes we said may we should go check oh yeah so we went respons you know going around trying to find them because yes we were responsible so it was really really good she did a rem um
Senator kirm did a remarkable job just you know engaging with them and um teaching them new things it was so neat and then we all took a picture together it was a great picture that was super fun I feel like everyone should go spend a day at the capital just because you have
no idea what goes on there like it kind of could demystify what is actually what how decisions are made that affect us each yeah actually I thought that about district 6 like what you guys do um I thought CU everybody at the schools like the students they're like the district
is so dumb why would they put that in and then now that I'm working why didn't we have a snow day yeah yeah but like now that I'm like working with you guys like it makes so much sense and I'm like well you don't know everything what in particular did we do that was
dumb the phone policy the phone I that everybody was like no I hate the district I'm like well and it did turn out that when they talked about that they said who all has a pH policy in their district and every a lot of every
single District um they raise their hand and so we all do yeah so from and I bet it's worked out better than you guys initially thought I was in the meeting when we discussed it I seem to remember both of you being skeptical Matthews you've heard it all from
me well you could all commiserate together about my district cell phone policy just like you do about your parents yeah at the other casby event the one before this one um we were talking with the other what are you guys what is your job
board memb yes the other board members and what they're doing with their policies and they were like we don't get any push back and I was like I don't know about us and yeah didn't happen [Music] either has anybody come in and
complained come to our had one email one email see but yeah I didn't think it would go that way but like my whole point was um just being involved and seeing how actual actually things work is just like really eye openening
yeah thank you yeah thank you guys any anything else or shall we let you go to whatever practice soccer practice yeah good all right thank you you skip the running at least by being here and thank everybody else
administrators Mr aari for for making that trip down with our students appreciate you guys taking the time um we will we'll go on to board member comments and reports and we'll start with Miss Sullivan U let's see I've just been to two different soccer games one at
Frontier and then I kind of snuck a peek at at North Ridge and then I did do the some of the Arts walk this weekend um I didn't get through the whole thing but there was uh several nice displays I remember the one from Maplewood I really enjoyed that one um and I'm looking forward to a busy week with the
negotiations so I met with Diane on the phone and ready to rev up and hear what uh is all to come through that yeah um these last two weeks uh probably my favorite event was the gy
Central High School cultural assembly I brought the t-shirt that the students made but um that was the front of it the back is my favorite because it says Hi in all these different languages spoken in our community um I got to wear this shirt on Friday as well cuz I had two
cats come to Clinic with me um they're Avid student sophomores in uh Mr uh Steven Paulson's class and um they got to do a half day in clinic and so they were really excited I was wearing their t-shirt um I also got to attend the
third annual gy Evans Elementary Coral Festival which was magical um Megan nent Chris Pearson all the D6 music teachers I don't know how they can control over 500 students on the Union Colony um
Civic Center Stage it's quite amazing and it was very beautiful the the choirs were the songs were beautiful I was I was moved um as I often am into tears um and uh we also many of us got
to go to the Bella Romera School visit uh it was my very first time on that campus um a very interesting visit uh they are a k through eight campus but on two different sites and I had always imagined they were like right next door to each other and I learned during the
school visit that they're about a 3/4 of of a mile apart um so that was new to me and I also learned they were our first applied technology school which was the old word for stem um so they were really our first Blended learning stem type of
of school um so interesting to learn about some of their challenges um as well as some of their successes um and then lastly I did want to comment on um and thank you JRA for including in ewe our College um
enrollment uh for this fall um so uh in our weekly bulletin we got numbers for how many seniors we graduated in 2024 and of those seniors which was around 1300 um how many enrolled in either a
2-year or a 4-year institution and it's about a third about a third of our students um who graduated enrolled in either a fouryear or two-year institution um many more two years than four years um but I thank you for your
team because I know it took a little bit to get that data um I would be interested and I I would think the rest of the board may be interested um given our mission is preparing students to be College and Career ready um to see that data trended over the last 10 years just
kind of to see are we are we having an increase are we having a decline um I'd also like to see that data compared with State averages um or I don't know if it would be possible to compare it to similar districts that are similar size
with similar demographics um that might be a stretch to try to get those kinds of numbers um but just a comparison to gauge are we doing well are we doing below average um where are we there um and then also wanted to applaud um our
district six team on on Innovative thinking on how to improve admissions into uh both Ames and UNC locally with the pilot program with UNCC um for direct admission um so what that pilot program looks like I might know a little
bit more about it because I'm on the UNCC side as well um is that this spring um our Rising seniors so meaning our Juniors um will be getting those who are meeting academic requirements um will be getting a a letter of acceptance into
UNC even before they start their senior year telling them um you know based on your academic record you have been accepted and this is what your financial aid package will look like um so I think that could be a really key um intervention to try to get some of our
kids who may not see themselves as College um um as College material to to see that them getting or knowing they have been accepted to a fouryear institution and hopefully um and that the financial barrier isn't maybe as bad
as they assume it might be and um motivates them to apply so I'm really excited to see that really excited to see outcomes right like so we wouldn't see that till fall of 2026 but to see if that intervention does make a difference and how many of our kids are um
enrolling um but yeah uh and would would be interested in kind of having that as a a presentation to the board of um of our efforts around uh college readiness and college
admissions um and also and uh I can I brought this up with J earlier today I'm just curious to know why our high school graduation requirements don't match our higher education admissions the Colorado the state of Colorado's higher education
admissions recommendations and how we can help those match better um I think it brings the fast the fast that brought up over here by the Council of student reps um that conversation is I I actually am disappointed that the FASA is tied to
the financial literacy on that bill because I can see a lot of cost behind a financial literacy curriculum and it being an unfunded mandate that way um but I really do see the benefits of of making the FAFSA um a high school
graduation requirement and I think um when kids see how much financial aid award they can get that they might be more likely to enroll in a in a fouryear institution but those are my opinions and my
comments um I always have a lot of those uh but yes looking forward to an exciting week of From Success Foundation to our three-day negotiations um as well as Legally Blond this weekend I got my tickets for the mat on Saturday so gy
Central is having their performance um encourage youall to buy tickets too thank you for listening Mr aari uh thank you president Matthews I agree with Dr Brenda uh the gy central
cultural assembly was outstanding as well as the district 6 Elementary Coral festival and what impressed me most about the cultural Affairs assembly was the number of students we have that come from other countries around the world
and they carry their Flags in and it is very impressive I don't even know what the number but it just filled the gym which was amazing and then the second thing is I didn't see anyone on their cell phones in the uh in the
bleachers which was a first for me that many kids in one building in one area and not one phone out so that uh shows that the policy must be working which is great I had the opportunity to attend a
a gy Central High School girls uh playoff game uh one of my former students is an assistant coach on the team and I just got to say that that was very impressive as well um assistant superintendent osmus was there and it was a close game man down to the very
bitter end and uh just very proud to see our kids out there in competition and doing so well as uh many of you know I attended the casby winter legislative conference I do have notes from that a lot as you
can imagine is discussed at that conference and if you would like to talk with me about those um topics but I'll report out on just a couple as you might imagine we're we're all in the same boat a lot of folks are concerned about
what's happening to the federal level and how that's going to uh affect the state and local districts what's coming down the pike in in all areas uh and it's just uncertain Turf right
now and then of course with the funding from the state as of when I went to the conference but I'm sure a lot has changed um I'll defer to Mr fall on that but again the uncertainty of State
funding uh the good news is there's there are certain people uh Senator lundine was very vocal at the end of the conference that he feels that the state owes K12 the funding that was promised to K12
schools and it's of course just one voice in the room but it was good to hear we also had a report out from commissioner Cordova from CDE and I'll go ahead and read some of this because it's it's a little bit complicated she
said she shared information about cde's strategic plan which includes what she called wigs or widly important goals these include increasing student engagement accelerating student outcomes strengthening the educator Workforce and
providing operational excellence towards that end the role of the CDE will be to serve as a place where Educators can convene for peer-to-peer learning and obtain professional development CDE will also guide and Elevate the state by
highlighting what commissioner Cordova called bright spots using State data and our school district is one of those bright spots just so it's just we all know uh my personal reflection on the conference was that it's very important
I would hope other board members will join me and going to that in the future uh we get to hear the voices in the room from folks from all over the state and the challenges that are facing them and I had the opportunity to share with them some of the great things that are going
on in our school district uh one of the big challenges throughout the state and I believe we've tackled some of this here in our school district is Educator housing there's a lot of school districts that just can't pay teachers
enough for them to even afford an apartment to live in so I know that we have U Been proactive uh working with Partners throughout the community to make sure that our teachers get paid well and that they can
afford housing as well as other costs finally I had the opportunity uh did a lot Mr President uh finally well the beauty of being retired uh finally had the opportunity again to visit uh Romero
K agree with Dr Brenda on her perceptions of that visit and then I also attended the gy Arts walk the G the district 6 and and the Creative Arts District Arts walk this is very impressive a lot of parents and a lot of
kids flooding around downtown gy and seeing our students Arts displays in businesses across the entire downtown and seeing our students in performance uh playing at the library and other places in that downtown area really was
a great Community event made me very proud to be affiliated with our school district uh in showcasing our students in that in that event I also another Arts event had the opportunity to to
attend gy fell armonic Zoo Orchestra and that's where Madison and Maplewood Elementary School students uh get an opportunity to go down to the Civic Center and engage with professional musicians in learning what that industry
is all about and furthering their ability to make music and um be a part of those performance arts and then uh the final one was I had the opportunity to attend the sunny Mell Distinguished Citizen dinner where we honor the
service of uh folks throughout the community and our and Dr pilch usually um MC's that event but they pointed out that she was busy in New Orleans being recognized as one of our nation's outstanding
superintendents so again lot of proud moments over the last two weeks and that's all I have thank you Mr oori um presid I don't think I have a lot to add I very much enjoyed the
central um my story cultural assembly and um I think it was just so beautiful to see the the student support of each and every performer um and I think that the staff did a really great job of making a little bit of a competition
like everyone was just so fully engaged um supporting their classmates and um cheering for their their year so it it was really wonderful and um Maplewood fifth graders got to attend as well so it's fun that they bring up some of the
younger kiddos as well um I also enjoyed the visit to Bella and I think I had maybe only been to the K3 Campus before so yeah it's it's it seems kind of out enough town but they're doing excellent
work there and I hope that we can um replace their round building in some not too distant future um I wanted to give a shout out to the gy central unified basketball team which is the state champions this
year um and apparently the the West Central you know rivalry was was a very great game there um so yeah I think that's that's all I have and I'll I'll Echo what's been said the
the cultural assembly was was a fantastic event to see that many that many flags that you mentioned Mr aari on you just you just forget how many how many different countries are are in our
district and having lived overseas for for some time and just um I I know it it anytime you get a a touch of of home or somebody recognizes what your home or just you get to talk about what it's
like where where you're from or get to engage in that it's um it's really helpful because you spend so much of your time living living away from home um and so I'm I'm happy that our our
schools do this um gy Central does this particularly particularly well gy West does does something similar um don't know if we if they've had their yet or if we've got invited invited to that and North Ridge may do something as well but but I'm glad that our schools do that uh
because it it is hard to live away from home the uh gy let's see gy Evans Elementary Coral Festival that that also they sounded great I think it's the first year I've gotten to go to that but
um kudos to those choir to all of our choir teachers to have that that many kids on one stage and get them all to just to get that many kids elementary kids on stage I thought was uh pretty remarkable but to get that many kids on stage and get them to sing uh was was
was great and it was great to get to honor uh John Hayley as well at that event um went to the state of the city and great heard some just the the different plans that are hopefully happening and there some
of them are still still up in the air but it it it really it it's really exciting to see what what all is is happening in in gy right now and um we'll have something on our agenda to uh a letter that we're going to uh
vote on so that it can come from all of us and uh just to encourage uh to encourage our fellow City Partners to to stay in downtown and to make that happen um B rera School visit um always always always good and I
think it's the first time that I I think it's the first time we've been since since John Cooney uh it's not the principal there at the at the 448 uh campus and um and so yeah it's great great to see um the remarkable
things they do and then I got to serve on the North Ridge mock interviews for for stem and those kids did a a fantastic job yeah you you were there to Miss Mes so lot lots of fun things that we've gotten to do in The District in the last
couple of weeks again we we'll have a have a more boring month uh coming up I did want to share with you guys uh before I before I finish just uh um in my presidential comments tonight uh I'm going to going to announce that I'm resigning as as president uh on the on
the 24th so uh at that meeting in in two weeks and um and that's really just because I only have a few months left and I would I want to spend those months helping helping us transition to to whatever's next I've done gotten to do
this for a long time and so but I wanted to tell you guys in case you had any questions uh about that I guess um I'm trying to figure out if I will be on a flight at the time of the meeting um I'm flying to Mexico I'm
flying back back from Mexico that day and uh so I may not be able to vote well it does not have to happen then I could I could certainly it's kind of an important thing so would want everybody to be there Mr Norwood says he'll be back
that's his plan anyway that he'll be back on the 24th so um so maybe let me let me think about that Dr Camp spit I should have probably that's okay it looks like 5:30 to 7:30 is when I'm
on the plate um any any other questions about that well uh Dr pilt I wanted to give you a chance to update us because you've had a a pretty big trip to New Orleans
as U as Mr Rari already talked about so I wonder if you could give us a little bit of an update on Su I'm happy to um so several of us traveled to New Orleans um really to celebrate uh me having been
selected as the Colorado superintendent of the year you get to go before Marty G it it had just ended that Tuesday was the day before so cuz that's a big deal there there was still some leftover M Gris around but no
it was over um but people were U pretty disappointed they had had to cancel some parades And Delay parades the previous um day or weekend because of the weather and so some of those parades got moved to yesterday um and some just got really
shortened and and but that was all the talk from the lift drivers was about what happened to the marra parades but we did not go for marra uh we went for for the um aasa conference which is the American Association of school administrators it is the superintendent
National Organization um it was their National Conference on education and um so several of us went um from cabinet and so I felt you know very honored to have so many of my colleagues there uh while I was recognized and so they
recognized all uh 50 um superintendents who were selected uh there were only two that weren't able to make it from Across the Nation um and then uh so they announced each of us in our district and we walked across the state and we received a medallion and a beautiful
plaque thing um and then uh they moved pretty quickly into announcing the winner uh from the four finalists um that the winner was a gentleman from Alabama uh who works in a a very impacted high pover high poverty
District um very deserving of the recognition of the national uh award recognition um I think overall the conference so that was lovely that even um the Colorado Association of school execs had a private event um for the
other Colorado folks and us who were there and um they had a private dinner event to um which was an beautiful honoring of the work we've done here in gy and of of the accomplishments we've had here um so that was that was really
nice and fun uh the conference itself I will just say this that you know it's it is really powerful to be with leaders from around the country and I mean it's that is really powerful and and because I have gotten um more involved
Nationwide over the last few years to to have another opportunity to connect with those colleagues um in another setting that I've worked with on some other committees and things was was really meaningful and and to check in about you know where are we right now in the country with with all that's going on
with all the talk about the um Department of educ US Department of Education and things so um but the messages overall um in the General Sessions were really the messages where you know we need to control the narrative around public education and so it's a conversation you all have heard
me talk about a lot that we've got to be the ones telling the good stories and sharing the good news about what's happening in K12 um there's plenty of folks to talk about what's broken and and not working and we need to control the narrative and we need to be our our you know our own best Communicator
around what the lay of the land is really like in public education um in the country so this very Pro public education um very you know a lot of a lot of um powerful stories and practices around the country that where folks are
really having an impact um on kids um like we are here in gley and um was you know really really powerful I think um we we all had a chance to go to different sessions and so different ones
on the team who went um had an opportunity to learn in their area so of course Megan was going to some of the finance stuff you know and that was going to the human resources stuff um as one would expect um Tony did Venture away from technology a bit and didn't
just attend technology things yeah he got out there a little bit um but but um we're grateful we could go and you know it's really a once in a career opportunity not only for me to have been selected but for that many of us to get to travel like that we just don't do
that um but it but it was very good for us as a team as well and um and to have the opportunity to talk about what we were hearing and it was very affirming I will tell you that I think all of us felt like we're doing the right work here in the G EV School District that you'd go to a session and you'd hear
about what people are doing and and you you know you're doing the right work and um and so that's very affirming and I think felt really good for all of us on the team um we also got to hear from uh the president of the organization who is also a superintendent in Beaverton
Oregon his name is Gustavo Bel belderes and I've worked with Gustavo before on a couple of other National things and um he's just a a an amazing gentleman um and what's interesting is Beaverton Oregon where he is I visited the high
school in Beaverton Oregon probably 25 years ago yeah probably in 2000 uh from my district in Missouri we went to look at their current pathway programs and their Cent tech ed and um their
District at that time was probably 85% Caucasian um upper middle CL class very influent very affluent and now his district is it's completely flipped and it's it's a minority majority district and they're serving you know he has 60
different languages spoken in his district now and um it it was just really interesting to hear how that district has journeyed through a CH a significant change in their demographic and and the work that he is doing there and has done there he he uh grew up in
the area um and was a a child of Migrant workers and you know like many of us in the room public education was the great equalizer for him as well so hearing his story from the big stage there was a lot of fun he was he spoke to the whole you
know the whole contingency um the afternoon of the superintendent recognition so that was really you know powerful as well and um I was proud of my friend so anyway it was really um we're grateful we could do it we won't
be doing it again I mean it was that was a lot for for that many of us to go and um we were a little nervous about the district being gone Thursday and Friday both um Anthony came back Friday so he was back boots on the ground um was able
to attend the sunny melli award recognition I think with you Mr Zari but um really thank you and again I'm just really grateful to Case and my colleagues around the state who I have learned from and who have mentored me to
to to do this job and and to our team and to all of you and the previous board members I've gotten to work with it you know it all just has culminated kind of in this opportunity to be recognized in this way and and for our work to be recognized so um there is there's a
couple more events related to this there's an event in April that case puts on um to recognize the different honoraries they've had throughout the year for different Awards and then um there's another event in Washington DC in November for each of the state
superintendents of the year to come together again um but I you know I um we had to report early to practice so we you know I mean you superintendent can probably should not need two hours to figure out how to walk across the stage and have their name read right and the
right pace to walk and when to turn and look and all that but we we had to practice and so during that time I had the opportunity to visit with some of the other state superintendents of the year and um and hear you know a little bit about what their challenges are and and what their work is and um it doesn't
matter if you're in Connecticut or Colorado or Alaska or Arizona the challenges are are really pretty darn similar that that we're all facing and and some in little tiny districts with like 750 kids I think in The District in Alaska and then um you know some with
tens of thousands of students in their districts so lot of fun thanks for asking yeah thank you for the update and I got to I got to speak to someone from case and I should have should have said that in in last week
got to speak interview I I guess they were looking for some quotes for about you and and the and the award but but I just wanted to tell you the the person who was doing conducting the interview with me um she she had got had the opportunity to hear you speak and really
was very impressed and so you continue to make make us proud across the state and Across the Nation so thank you Dr Phil thank you it's really really my honor to do it so thank you okay we are now to a little bit late but to our
legislative update so invite fall to come back and let us know what else is happening at the capital let's take one pass take one pass it around we filled the time for you yes you did thank you president Matthews and members of the board yeah I
was a little worried about having 35 full minutes for this so I appreciate you all um having a lot being long-winded as Brenda said thank you for listening to me so uh just a couple of just to start off
uh on board priorities just know that that financial literacy bill has been um pretty heavily amended at this point so um and it's now refer Mr F let's wait because I know Mrs Sullivan is particularly interested in the financial
literacy literacy bill so let's just um let's just um maybe well could we skip ahead just skip ahead to cell phone B and then come back to financial literacy yeah all so I can just um yeah if you
look at the cell phone band just know that uh that bill the communication devices in school did pass the house and it's assigned to the house education committee next week on the 19th um and then if you look on but it's still simply you have to have a policy right yeah it doesn't impact
anything policy has to ban no it's not it's just you have to have a policy that has some kind of plan for addressing personal technology devices um but it's pretty specific that if you already have adopted a policy you don't have to do all the steps that they
require you do for policy adoption um which includes like a notice and comment from the public and stuff like that so we're we're okay and honestly our regulation as Mr osus pointed out earlier is awesome so um the uh other bills on page
three just just so you know where they're at um I removed some of the other ones because there wasn't any update um but just know that the modification s cor was heard today actually I should have looked up to see where that went in the house um State Civic military and Veterans Affairs committee um and then the other bill
that we had talked about with data um reporting was assigned to the education committee and then referred to Appropriations um and we still haven't seen when that's going to be scheduled yet so um everything else has been moving forward um and all the bills that we've been kind of in support of or
monitoring seem to be moving mov forward um so oh I can maybe oh um Dr sven's back I I can talk about the uh house bill 25169 that's at the bottom of page two here um I know that uh Dr Campos
spitzy and director Nash Mash both had questions about this particular bill um and so just know that this is really an issue of zoning so in Colorado if uh it is really for faith-based organizations schools are included but um from what I
understand there are tens of thousands of Acres of unused land owned by faith-based organizations across the state of Colorado and due to zoning issues uh they can't build they can't develop residential property on faith-based land because it's tax exempt
so this bill would allow uh Residential Properties to be build without going through the zoning process through the city and the county so actually when you're looking at this bill and who's kind of in support opposition most cities and counties are in opposition to this bill because it's it's a local control issue the state is essentially
saying you cannot control this now if you are a faith-based organization or a school district or a child care center I'm not sure what the other one is um then then a developer doesn't need to go through the approval process with the city and county um and you're just automatically entitled to develop on
that property so it's really an issue of zoning um and the idea the goal with this bill is to get more affordable housing in Colorado um so and the whether it's faith-based or faith land or educational land it does require for
the property owners like whether it's a school district or a Faith organization um to app to like okay it right like it can't be done without the approval of the current owners yes right yeah yeah they would
have to come to us and say hey we'd like to develop property and you could say no we could say no and just like religious um organizations can also say no right okay so and that's my understanding and and I don't see anything like um some other legislation that if you have
vacant land then another entity can kind of step in um and that doesn't seem to be what this is I think this is really an issue of zoning to make it easier to develop residential property got it thank you so yes yeah I hope that was helpful um okay so uh the financial
literacy going back to the first page um as I mentioned it was in the house committee on education and then it was referred to Appropriations when it was in the House Education committee uh it was amended and so the fafs for require or I'm sorry first they loosen the
requirement for financial literacy originally as drafted that students needed to complete that financial literacy requirement in 11th or 12th grade um and now it's uh 9th through 12th they can complete it at any point um in their High School career uh another change change was FFA so before
there was a bunch of exceptions now basically a student can either just decline to do it or the school would need to uh demonstrate that completion of fast for that particular student is not quote feasible um and I think that that would be you know language barriers or access or communication or things of
that nature um I know we had asked about can we use current curriculum um so the bill does say schools may use current curriculum if adopted pursuant to this law which is the this basically the um Finance course law 2232 135 there's this
Resource Bank created to pursu to 222 1227 uh is another bank that the state of Colorado has put out for financial literacy courses uh and there's also this quote any other alternative programs or materials and then it kind of goes on to kind of Define if you can
kind of use something outside of the Resource Bank or Colorado curriculum so I think it's a little bit it's giving a little bit more flexibility on um how we can incorporate this financial requirement and then this will apply next year they actually added another year so this would apply till September
1st of 2026 which would give us more time to prepare um we're still in a position to monitor uh I can see what other districts are doing but I just don't know if you all had any kind of thoughts or questions on this one
when are they looking to vote on this one then is this going to be in May is that when it goes to vote um the no so um it'll go to the House Appropriations Committee and they'll reach a decision if they if it passes
through there then it'll go to the house for its second reading um and so that could I mean that could all happen this month or next month um it just kind of depends on how they schedule it so yeah it could be it could be as soon as the end of this month but there has been a lot of push back from a lot of school
districts um and casby and case uh on this hole so I know that these amendments um probably do benefit but I'm just looking here Aurora Public Schools currently is opposed Cherry Creek is monitoring Colorado succeeds is
supporting Denver public schools is supporting Douglas County is amending and so forth so they're kind of all over the place yeah I think um because of the financial situation the state is in they don't put a price
tag on this right um no because they won't fund it we right they won't fund it and so I mean if if if they were you know um or implementing the new uh Finance
formula I feel like it would be a different conversation but in in a year I feel like when money is scarce yeah there was I think there was like an amendment how do you say that um about that
particular issue it does sound like this would why you're looking Mr fall does sound like this would be an expensive Bill uh for us and and i' Dr Camp spit do think just a from the time perspective even just requiring all of our students to do that
I wish they all would but if we have to be the ones to do that uh and to orchestrate that rather than the rather than the parents I do wonder about how much time that would take from for high school counselors to the fly with that
the FAFSA yeah I think that's the so I was on a committee you guys who were on the board may remember this I served for over a year on a committee that was um commissioned out of the governor's office with highered uh like highered
folks and K12 folks on it with the intent to just to look at a FAFSA requirement in the state or how to how to increase participation in FAFSA and um what I learned I mean it was all stuff I didn't you know happened really
before I was a superintendent so I wasn't really even aware of it but I guess there used to be a higher education department that provided a lot of resources to K12 to to assist K12 in in the completion of FAFSA and that whole department and all those dollars
have been eliminated um from from the highered division of of the budget and so there's there's no longer any of that support for a high school counselor to reach out to get this additional assistance from what what at one time
was a whole department a whole team um that the state funded um and so that you know that was one of the things that was talked about a lot that there just isn't the support to even help high school counselors to help you know to help 200 kids 250 kids
get this done um kind of all you know in the same time frame um the other piece is is truly um if you've done it you know you know it's complex and in our community it a lot of that would fall back onto our staff um to help students
to do that and um we do offer several financial aid workshops and financial aid nights and financial aid days to to support students and families with with the FAFSA um but I I do I do think it I mean that's we will very likely lose a
counselor at every secondary building next year because counselor school core Grant goes away which is a state Grant and it ends and you know I ideally if this funding formula as planned was fully funded we would have been able to to probably keep those counselors and as
it is now we very likely will lose one from every secondary building so that puts even a greater burden on our high schools with one fewer person on on the FAFSA and I agree every kid should do it I mean I I agree every every student do
and it says this last year $30 million in Colorado were left unclaimed because kids didn't yeah the number they were using a few years ago was like $40 million and um um and and it is if we don't fund higher ad and
we don't fund K12 why are we curious about why kids are not doing the FAFSA because we don't have the staff to support students to do the FAFSA we don't have the systems in place I mean and it tracks directly with funding we were like 48th in the country on the worst at completing FAFSA and
we're like 485th right now in the country okay 45th and then probably 40 we're probably 45th in funding right now yep we're 4 in funding higher ed we're 38 ining so it tracks directly with where the funding is it really does um so anyway that's the whole faps of story
I think the financial literacy piece is just the really it is unless they're going to put a money into it in an amendment I I think well case and cby are both as Miss Mash mentioned at our last meeting it's you know local control
that we want to set our own graduation requirements but but also um there will be a there will be a price tag around curriculum development training teachers and and you we will either need to hire more teachers or have teachers teach us
that are not endorsed in it I me that well and I I agree with I think what some of your team has talked about doing an econ because then that allows our advanced placement students to at least
have that piece you know college credit there should be a college credit option uh Mr f is going to ask you it says applies to students beginning of the nth grade on or after September 1st so it's that freshman class moving up so if you're already a senior that year you don't have to quit cram it in okay no it
start with the nth graders that year which is typically how graduation requirements change is you typically start with an incoming nth grade class um I don't know you know I don't know what um I don't I that gives us more time to prepare like curriculum and what course
and educate people on it however funding is going to be worse for being told in 2627 than it is in 2526 it's just not the right time so we'll see there was a specific appropriation Amendment for the fafs
section that was uh passed and so they are going to appropriate money for maintenance of any financial aid Resource Bank and financial aid training programs um financial aid training for high school counselors local education providers students and student family members and
maintenance of the web-based financial aid completion tool to track the satisfactory submission of a Fast Forward cast fot oh so that's some of the stuff that got cut before they're bringing maybe some of that back where does that money come from yeah where where is it going to it's going to come
from they're going to find this part says the department ation is going to do uh would would spend 164,000 this year and 184,000 approximately next year and then Department of higher education would spend about 42,000 this year and then 42,000 again next year not not
thousand not million District very small dollars so what else Mr fall us um I did um I know we're kind of running up against time I I have some information in here around kind of executive orders
from the federal level so I I'm I'm I know that there's been a lot of questions um surrounding Direction and guidance from the federal government with the new Administration um we know that they are making some pretty significant changes or they at least planning to make some pretty significant changes um really around the US
Department of Education but we know that um president Trump has issued a series of executive orders that do um kind of directly relate to schools in some capacity or just public entities in some capacity um and so I just have a little bit of information for you here about
what executive orders are where does that power come from obviously the US Constitution um and whether or not an executive order carries the force of law it just kind of matters on what the president's directing and who the president is directing that to um so any
agency that the president has authority over which would be all agencies in the US government um he can direct them to do certain things uh but it can't be it has to align with what current law says so even if the president directs a department to do something if it is not
aligned with law then that executive order would be challenging court and it would lose um you know the president can't appropriate funds and then of course executive orders can always be reversed um so we're waiting on guidance from the US Department of Education we're really
just monitoring all the executive orders see what functions they may have seeing if there's any next steps that we need to take uh we know that the US Department of Education is going to be issuing guidance here pretty soon um surrounding I think Choice uh in particular and how it's going to
appropriate funds but just know that we are monitoring it at this time we're just continuing to follow state and federal law until we see anything has changed um and yeah there's there's certainly a lot of uncertainty um and it's and it's been a little bit
challenging so but I will always provide you with information as we actually get some set guidance and and if we are changing anything uh this board will likely need to be the ones charged with making those decisions is there some date that has
been mentioned of when guidance is coming they had a 60-day that um from one of um president Trump's executive orders he had uh issued or he had directed the Secretary of Education to issue guidance on how States can use federal formula funds to
support K12 choice and that was in executive order 14191 which is the expanding educational freedom and opportunity for families order so we'll get some guidance on that
um yeah I know it's like very like iel we could spend lots and lots of time I mean executive orders have been around for centuries we know the Emancipation Proclamation is an executive order the um unfortunate president Rosevelt executive order that created the Japanese internment camps those are
executive orders so we know that they've long been used and they have created significant change in this country um and so we will be monitoring them to make sure that we are um complying with federal law all right um and then the last bill uh that
we could spend a lot of time on but it's this accountability modifications to accountability system I did Link in and I sent you all an electronic version and so there should be LinkedIn for you a summary about this bill which I think is really helpful so just know that uh we've talked about this quite a bit
there was the taskforce that created findings and recommendations for updating our system of accountability and accreditation um and so here in bullets I kind of put some of the highlights from this accountability bill um I think that at least for this school district
one of the key changes is they're adding a new Factor called postsecondary in workfor Workforce Readiness before gred uation uh sub indicator and so um you know that's going to recognize schools and districts to provide resources for students um receiving Workforce
credentials uh and certificates while in school and so this new sub indicator I mean it has you know there's a lot of different factors that will be kind of included you know um the percentage of students who successfully completed an
AP course and then scored a three or higher students who successfully completed a concurrent enrollment course an inter grated b or higher percentage of students who earn 12 or more credit hours through an early college program completed IB uh percentage of students
who successfully participate in the work-based learning incentive program um any percentage of students who receive a Workforce Readiness endorsement uh students who enlist in the military students who receive a stem diploma endorsement um so as you can see it's
just a very kind of holistic picture of what schools and school districts are doing and where they're driving students um once they graduate from high school because we know that not everybody um is going to college uh or wants to go to college and so there's other factors to look at in terms of what does AC
academic achievement really look like and so there's a lot of emphasis here on kind of those other kind of soft factors outside of the state assessment um the other thing I wanted to mention uh they wanted to provide results by June 1st of each year I know that they can be a little bit stressful
to have to wait um for those uh there's encouraging participation in state assessments so at the last board meeting Dr pilch talked about that um what's interesting is they actually updated the uh indicators for what's the highest
rating oh no it's distinguished distinguished so in order to I believe distinction in order to receive a distinction you have to have at least 85% participation yeah reporting that at least 85% of students participate in and complete State assessments is one of the
requirements for distinction um so they they've they've kind of adjusted some of those as well and then for priority Improvement um if there are distress factors where a student or a school might go onto priority Improvement there's kind of an
obligation for the state to step in before they say you're in priority Improvement and then when you're in year two uh the bill wants to give more support to those schools that are on priority Improvement or turnaround um so those are just some of the highlights uh I'm not sure if you have any questions
they want to have a state dashboard that that everyone can look at accountability percentages for high schools and uh school districts so uh for you on that task force no no okay no um the um
superintendent from Harrison School District from Boulder Valley School District from St brain school district and Douglas County School District those were the four superintendents it's pretty controversial it is yeah it you know it's it makes financial literacy and faster look like an easy
problem to solve um I I think there there conflict between the committee members and now how it's being interpreted in the bill and what the committee actually believes they agreed to
and and there's there's not near the substantial kind of change we would have liked to have seen even coming out of the committee um the pwr post Workforce rightness piece you know is a good is a good piece but
um the the participation won't have it we have strong participation here I think for the you know kids most schools have strong participation here in district 6 and so that won't be an issue for us most likely anything else Mr fall uh that's it
unless Dr P you have anything to add about school Finance anything else to add Dr pilch or any other questions from board members you know I think um I can talk I will probably talk about school Finance at negotiations and all of you will be there so I don't know that you need a preview of that right now it's it
you've heard tonight it's very Bleak it's very Bleak and depend on which Workshop we go to um in the state um people are resolved like Senator lundine saying you passed this now fund it you made a promise keep your promise and
then other people there's just no way no way no way so we'll wait and see we we won't know anything we were supposed to know something by March 17th we won't it won't be done by then sounds like a lot of fun from Miss sponsler uh yes we're run we're right
now we're working on SE several scenarios for next school year the other big thing the kids didn't talk about the students didn't talk about was this business of averaging U um student enrollment and so that's a big controversy and so uh when some of the legislators talk
about fully funding and that we can we can afford to do it a piece of that could be eliminating the averaging but they're getting so much pushed back from declining districts oh yeah that so that it will what it looks like
right now is coming down to maybe three years of averaging rather other than five years what has been 5 years of averaging so what's the uh deadline on all of this from The Joint budget committee I mean
what are we looking at as far as an answer they said that there was going to be a school Finance act by you know the end of this month there release a draft out so I mean but who knows that was the plan when we did all this work last year
but they could they could go to May which they normally do yeah don't every year they say that we'll do this first yeah or they always try to pass legislation that they're going to do it first or do it by April 1 or something
but any other questions comments guys all right thank you Mr fall appreciate you well we are to briefing the work session I think so um we'll start with Mr AAR well thank
you president Matthews thanks again Mr fall for all your work uh we keep saying that every board meeting but it just seems that your job just gets bigger and bigger as you're moving through all of this so and and again kudos to H Dr
pilch for her recognition and bringing that sort of light to our school district as I experienced myself at the casby winter legislative conference and finally thanks again to Mr osmus and
Miss Overton for their help in escorting the students down in the state capital again as we saw tonight these are just two of our 20 almost 23,000 students and they do a very very good job of representing us so
thanks thank you Dr Campos spitzy yeah thank you for all the information thank you for listening listening to me again um yeah thanks um everything uh that do Dr Mr
aori sorry I'm mixing the two that you had said I I appreciate but um I really want to thank the um all of you guys that took the students down because it's it was quite impressive that we had it to sanctioned for them to be here like 10 minutes and I think they could have went on and on and I think they were
sitting here for about 30 minutes of it but you could just see the excitement and the understanding and how captivated they were down there and it was just interesting to see it and through their eyes and and their their Vision as to what they had uh experienced but I was actually quite impressed with how much
they understood comprehended and retained to bring back to the meeting so thank you guys because um you obviously made an impression with him for that day and I guess I let uh Kirk Meer know that we appreciate the time that she spent with those girls as
well vice president mesh yeah I think we we know that we have amazing students but it's really fun when we get to just see again their their astuteness I think Mr fall mentioned their bravery um I also think the cultural assembly
represents our students bravery to I mean there's so many solo performances you know and just to bring forth um invulnerability you know present you know the gift of their culture to their friends and peers that's pretty amazing so um thank you again for for letting us
know what's going on Mr fall and congratulations again Dr PCH I'm glad you got to go have some fun with your with your colleagues and um and it is I mean we the the stories the good stories are not hard to tell we have so many and so many times people have said recently
how are things in district 6 and like well we have the superintendent of the Year leading us to excellent work thank you vice president mash and I don't have anything to to add just thank you to everyone uh thank you to the four of you as well for being here in your um
your work in the meeting so meeting's adjourned we'll say everyone at 6 o' [Music]