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goingon here haven't just medal so we have re Padilla nice Cass Simmons L Ramos hyri Ashford Tera Hernandez Roberts arsal
I and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with and justice for District's two mission is to graduate college and career ready students skills attitudes and behaviors
to person give them a [Applause] hand so we going to item number Adam president I'm Miss Salazar in favor oh sorry let me step back I have a
mo Madam president I to amend the agenda section at all right now we have right very excited excuse me man
can you vot hi hi hi hi we have a meeting now we're going to go into um item four areed to
have fman the principal oh thank you very much that's the quietest I've heard you I I prepped all of them for what it might sound like so I'm sorry to disapp no ma'am it was just change a
happy change but a change so anyway we are Fox Meadow Middle School we are so very excited to be with you um it's incredibly humbling during the year spent there to be able to be surrounded by amazing kids um we're excited to talk about Fox Meadow answer any questions
that you guys have so if you our total 53 of which are Hispanic SL less than 1% are American or Indian American Indian or Alaskan 2% American 12% black or African native
Hawaii 24% [Music] white six of us are part of gifted education two 22% of us are part of special education 16% of us are cultur and linguistic diverse education 11% of us non- English proficient and of us are
Li our school box metal has 57 total staffs 31 fulltime teachers two counselors two social workers two Student Success Center staff one social emotional Wellness specialist one psychologist and
one Dean orative practices how Fox met supports students of the plus students the administrative support uh supports the student by fostering a safe and welcoming enir stakeholders partners
with students and staff and families through regular and well supporting them times of transition both from and equi staff and to be tools need help teachers support our students
at Fox Meadow we support our students by providing and support utilizing scaffolding and best practices to support students they offer appropriate And Timely feedback to reinforce students and encouraging Student
Success our support staff individualizes and support social emot relationship support to add
add this is how Community Partners support the students at Fox Meadow Community Partners provide after school programs for mentoring tutoring and increased engagement they also offer resour and support food and security housing and parenting program they
provide relationships and encouragement are you a business owner do you want to help support staff and students at Fox Meadows if so call 719 5277 one0 this is how our families support
FOX meow they collaborate with school staff to provide information about their student and to give feedback establishing clear and realistic expectations for academic growth behavior and respons our families stay informed and participate with our
schools and this is how we're and this is how we're supporting our students academic as you guys know we are on Improvement status right now it's something that we are fighting hard to we currently going through a lot of our systems next year through our block
schedule which Mr Cooper we'll talk to about in just a minute uh but we're close and we're we're fighting to stay above that threshold so uh we come to you today with lots of opportunities for growth celebrating our successes so what you see now is our Ela
data it is our five-year trending data it's our whole school but it's also our disaggregated data broken down for all of our Learners at Fox you can can see there were some positive Trends and there's definitely room for improvement some of the things that we're looking forward to next year to address some
student skill deficits and some growth opportunities we're shifting to a block schedule Ela specifically is going to be double blocked they're going to have an hour of core instruction then they're going to have 40 minutes of targeted interventions and extension activities they're also going to be double blocked
meaning they'll have Ela every single day to increase that seat time and increase that exposure similarly with our math data see that it is trended downwards um and started to stagnate out that is also going into
that double block so we first started with thinking about math knowing that we need to have that knowing that math scores have trended downwards across the district as well as across the state one of the ways that that can benefit with that double block is ensuring that all students have an intervention so in that
second half whether they be an advanced student a student that's in the red um they have that extra that they need that's on their level that's going to get them where they need to be our access data so this is our multi-lingual Learners these are a kiddos that take access we don't have the five-year data because of how the
test has shifted over the last couple of years but you can see that same stagnation which tells us we need to do some different things it's why we're super excited about the double block next year for ELA and math to really Target the Learners who need additional supports and be able to provide extensions for Learners who are ready
for new opportunities at Fox meow we support the personal development and success of our students by helping them form relationships we give them opportunities to form relationships not only within our building but with our partners that come in and work with our students we have
from the um big brothers and big sisters group they come in and do our Stars group um our Dy ladies come in and support our group of girls about once a month we have men of impact men of influence and women of impact coming in twice a week to meet with our students
and then internally we have our flame Group which is students that are experiencing loss in their families um our journeys of Hope group is a group that's targeted specifically for our students that have been on an immigration journey and um an anger
management group that targets um different groups of kids supporting learning how to work through uh just in general and then uh we support them with learning and and growing in empathy with restorative circles and restorative projects when
things have gone wrong and give them the opportunity to build a way back um for through personal responsibility they have the opportunity to Comm to complete community service projects uh within the building to give back to their Community to grow an Integrity we focus on social
and emotional learning and we use our in um store through our PBIS um intervention supports Andes our as I mentioned our areas for Focus this year on improvements to best first instruction and best first reading
practices which are making a very very big and profound impact on our classrooms we're always working to improve our daily attendance rates um also increasing opportunities for Family Outreach that's going to be one of parts of focus next year now that a little bit more stable than we were this time last
year and one of my goals when I came to Fox Meadow is to continue to develop student leadership opportunity see these amazing humans we're starting to get that our strengths um our inclusive classroom models we serve all of our
minutes all of our students IEP minutes in the classroom we do very little bit of very little pullout to allow our students to get the intervention that they need to help them s to succeed um our Band program and I'm telling you what I watched them play last week holy
buckets I wish they could have been here tonight BL on your mind uh club Elevate is going absolutely amazingly uh we were the top VR school for the district um so we got some additional Grant monies through Dave jarbo and his team so we're super super excited about that and as
we've mentioned I have the wonderful opportunity to speak to you guys in the very first board meeting this year we are rebranding and redeveloping our school uh we're doing that through our students and stakeholder input so we are really excited about the growth that we've made the growth that we will make and uh looking to make Fox meow the
shiny tower on the hill that we once were once again so thank you guys for hearing us board [Music] meeting oh questions oh yeah that was so much easier when it was going to be them
so I would like to definitely commend you and your staff for looking at um those major changes that you are making um with Ela and math and you serve one of the most fun unique age groups um of
students almost that with the straight f with that and extending that Ela could you talk about just briefly or give me a name of how are what what program PD how are you preparing teachers to ensure
that though that long that block you know we're engaging sustaining because that's a shift that that's a planning shift for teachers 100% yeah so I can fumble through that or I could talk to the the boss of that so I'm gonna allow her to answer that question for
you our district has adopted a new um resource for ELA anyway so through into lit there are beautiful wonderful interventions built in we are going to focus heavily on writable which is a component of insolate our kiddos need that Writing Practice they need specific
explicit targeted writing production and practice so that's going to be one component of it being from the elementary world I bring in the station model which sometimes can be scary to secondary teachers but it's how we're going to Target what the kiddos need so
what that's going to look like for us is all of our plc's in May are going to shift into how do you run station how do you really look at your data what standard are you focusing on what are the components of that standard and then how do you scaffold backwards and forwards from there so really look at
those skill deficits and say the data says this kiddo has a deficit in let's say decoding here's how I'm going to attack that in a station you and I am excited for the success that I know you are going to see
so yes so I I have a comment and maybe a question I saw a lot of social support staff and so I'm wondering um how that's going are you seeing positive
improvements mission to speak frankly Dr yes um the impacts that the team is making I I cannot put into words with you but I can tell you through field that it is making such a profound impact on our our staff and our students and me because I'm sleeping
um mission to speak very frankly last year we did not go more than seven days without a fight we have gone 40 plus days this year without a fight well to to this point to this point sorry it's it's snowing that should wipe off the
juju um no I mean yes it is it is profound it is it's hard to quantify because our referrals are still high but when you go into a classroom and you're dealing with some of the tier one things that are getting brought to you know our level as principles and assistant
principles we wouldn't have had time to even think about it talk about it look at it this year because of that group of support staff we absolutely do and they are taking care of so many things and running around like crazy and doing restorative circles with our students daily restorative circles with our
students and our staff daily and in terms of just developing those things and letting teachers hear what kids' experiences are where that was not a strong point or something that we were doing last year at all we were just trying to get to tomorrow frankly this year because of
that group because of the team that we've been able to assemble we are absolutely having those conversations and I would I can look to my kiddos because they feel it would you guys agree is it way different and I will just if you haven't
been there it's hard to describe but um I will say the focus at Fox meow is on learning for the first time that we've seen for a while before it was on survival and the kids told me that the staff told me that um I was there and I had a special friend say some Choice words so miss jier and I did a
restorative with me and my friend but that talks about the culture is we're not just gonna let it go they're not just going to run hallways it used to be and this is not made up but it used to be that the kids didn't go to class or they were just in the hallways and some
of our best students felt like they couldn't learn because other behaviors were distracting them and now the focus is on learning and everyone is engaged in their classroom doing what they need to do it is a night and day culture just from last year to this year but from this year to two years ago it doesn't
even look like the same school I just want to say thank you because I was your board member last year and I I think it was you're pretty new to the district I but you are very you were very determined to make a
difference in the lives of our students so I appreciate you I appreciate the all of your work and all of everything that you've done this far um apprciate that but I yeah I I I definitely want to take the
Kudos but it is truly our team I mean as you can see from the group that is here the group that you got to meet last year it it is everybody and it takes a village and it's working so w while I appreciate that directed to me it is truly at everybody on thank you no thank you so very much actually
want to hear something from the students I know you're excited to sit down but don't go anywhere okay so um I would like to know what is your favorite part of your learning day at
foxman I feel like the school Community is very welcoming and it definitely gives room for improvement because speaking from experience last year I felt very out of place and I felt like I had to act out in order to be seen as
cool but this year with the support wor that the not only the teachers but even the peer the peers that I surround myself with have given me I definitely have improved and I enjoy going to school and being able to learn and um get new experiences also agree with the Mani
statement I can also say that the new staff that we have this year like our social workers and our counselors they help a lot they give you one-on-one time they talk to you directly and help you through your problems and same with the teachers too new and old ones I feel like they have a lot of improvement too
and they've given us a lot more structure to build off of like better work time more periods to have space to understand and even if you don't quite get it they still give you that one-on-one time that you might need personally with my experience I
think that the staff once again have been a lot more helpful um I have noticed that um a lot of my teachers are much more dedicated to um helping us learn and understand their curriculum and their material and the supportive staff um in the counseling center and um
other staff like that they have also been very helpful and even if a lot of us don't see them a lot we all have a relationship with them I think my favorite part is the fact how like Reagan said even if we don't see him a lot we're still
connected as uh a school as yeah like a school and to be honest that's amazing to me because in the previous years it felt it was kids who would uh lash out or something and then
kids who had to sometimes bail that but this year with the new Stu with the new teachers and some of the new ways they teach which can both be fun interactive and also educational it feels like we're all connected
well this should help to validate why you're here to know you don't like this attention I did not become a principal for a microphone I I did it for the kids so thank you for the question for them they are truly amazing um and as director Williams said we would love to
have you guys come out and experience what what the growth we're making at Fox Meadow is and we are truly truly building something that is going to be long lasting and going to be very successful so our team is great our kids are amazing and thank you for the opportunity to speak with you this
evening thank you don't go anywhere because we uh have gifts we have gifts and we're gonna take pictures if anyone who's here from Fox Meadow if you're a parent a staff member please come up for a picture because we want to
honor the whole Fox Meadow Family [Laughter] us minut kind of intentional we can hang out another hour and a half of fun e that was a wonderful presentation by Fox
Meadow really really proud of the strides that they're making and the due diligence by all the staff and I don't know that uh people grasp on the significance of what the student voice was in saying the difference between
last year and this year here and I I see the enthusiasm and um so thank you to everyone who contributed on this so that with that being said we are going to move forward
um do we have any public comment all right so we are going to move on no public comment on this evening so now we are at item six communicating with the board we have two
dynamic student board Representatives who will report this evening they have Mr Aiden gagos and Mr Misha Rollin whoever wants to go first okay um so what I have
is uh two weeks ago we started our St sat boot camp which is seven Mondays leading up to the PSATs and sat in the middle of April there's two different phases on Mondays during Second or 6th I mean after second or
sixth since we have a block schedule there's 45 minutes where freshman and juniors get test taking strategies and then seniors go and get content for Life After High School then in all of our core classes teachers have intentional SAT prep within their normal content
with emphasis on high priority sat skills regarding that we saw growth in both math and English in mock in our mock PSAT and SAT exams from October to February and after spring break we have
our Cass science Testing and we also had another College Board visit uh evaluating our preap which Miss Rachel laugher participated in and two preap reps uh shared the
strengths and areas for improvement and we're pleased with the holistic roll out of preap and last night girl soccer be Atlas 3 to one I was there for the first half we we were worried about that wind it was cold
out there it was chilly and then tonight Mr Basin is hosting D2 honor band where middle schoolers from across the district come for a full day rehearsal then a concert which started at 6 with
high school players joining as well then it's that time of year so we have a whole bunch of senior events tomorrow is a senior class fundraiser at Smashburger over here off Ramona Nevada from open to close just mention you're with SI for 30% of the
proceeds to go to the senior class and then on April 11th there's a student versus staff volleyball tournament at 6m to help support the senior class then on April 25th we have prom at Widner Fields April 20 29th we
have our capping ceremony where graduating students take their grad caps and cap someone who has been important during their Journey throughout high school then decision day is May second so in the auditorium graduating students
will share their plans for next year whether it be College decision or career decision then after decision day all of class of 2025 will put their handprints around and already voted on design as a live living Legacy the school and then
May 8th we have our grad walks at Gerson Soaring Eagles and Panorama and then Senior sunset May 9th and get then graduation on the 13th hello everybody um I'm a little under the weather right now so I'm gonna try my best to speak but I'm here
because I love this position and don't see myself as home right now but I'm just going to talk about one thing I've been doing as a student board representative on my own free time is talking about the new phone policy that I talked about during the superintendent advisory panel and basically I was tked
I asked Dr bur Hansel about am I able to talk to staff about the information needed basically to make update changes and Katherine was very interested in it and sent me the policy so I'm first going to talk about the process the first process is it's my free period I go to the copy machine and make 150
copies of the new phone policy and I get a teacher keys to put all the phone policies into the mailboxes alongside with that I also made QR codes for a Google form assessment about the four questions asking about how what their impact on on new pH policy is and I
stapled that put in all the teachers and I received a total of 33 responses out of 153 staff it's pretty good and I would like now to say the questions that I asked I only ask four questions because they deserve it's something I'm studing my
psychology classes that a long survey won't give you proper results of how teachers want to take something seriously so that's the reason why I do short answers but they're productive they're known for what they as my first question is is for from a scaler 1 or 10 how would you write the phone policy my second question is what information
would you like to add to this policy my third question was what would be the impact on the students in your classroom my fourth question is how would this impact you as a teacher meaning the original policy you had on phones earphones and fifth question something really easy any questions that I could bring back to the board and with a total
of 33 responses I would like to tell you the central tendency the average rating for a scale one 10 is 7.70 on the new phone policy that they read in overview so that's mostly overwhelming positive the bar graph shows that it's skewed to the left which also means that it's overwhelmingly positive with 12
responses saying it's a 10 out of 10 policy and with four people saying it's a one out of 10 policy which is perfectly fine outliers are fine because they give us give input and I received 30 responses on what information would you like to add to the policy it's too much to read but when I read mostly all
of it they said that for example uh let's see what information would you like to add to this policy he says put out a cyer entire blocks inform parents proactively so that students St receiving phone calls from parents during class when how
to use phone in classrooms only during lunch appreciate the Restriction of cell phones the mostly teachers were positive about the new phone policy because they want students to learn and they're there for a reason and that's what D2 is all about and what would be the the impact on the students they everybody said they
would be a lot more engaged only positive actual learning will likely happen and we're going to create stronger leaders stronger leadership and more creative minds and then for my DK question how would this impact you as a teacher mean the original policy you had on phones earphones most of the teachers that responded saying that they have
already had phone policies but this will help give them a secondary step to make sure that it's fulfilled in everything and also some people answer the wrong question says kids paying attention but that's still really good though love feedback and
and for my fourth for my final question I ask any questions um most of people didn't have questions but I would like to send this form by email so you can guys overview it because it's a lot of information and I'm not trying to take too much of your time but I just want to give you a quick summary about the
representative notation that I've been doing outside board me I'm not even sure how to come behind that um it was that good that thorough so um how did you develop the
question I developed these questions by putting those questions that was asked during the advisory panel meeting I was observing and learning all the questions that was asked that was in fully answered and I was curious about how the staff felt about asking these specific questions towards them
so these are actually student Le questions I just want to thank both of our um student board Reps for um giving us wonderful very detailed updates and um I'm looking forward to seeing what we can do with
your research I have a question for you you reported on all the testing happening how many of those tests do you have to take [Music] yes you guys like just impress me every
single time um it's it's good to have seen M grow from being a junior and now you're grad uating and and Aiden you're filling in the shoes as it's just an easy transition there's I don't see any
lag in student board representation and I know you're going to usher in the next uh junior uh student board rep the the same and so I'm just proud to see the growth that Misha has gained and and like I said Aiden every time you you
open your mouth you just more research more research I love that you love to dig and and and data dive and and I'm I'm looking to see where you go all of that it's going to be very very enlightening I believe because just to hear a youthful voice say some of the
things that bring to the table these were student-led questions you felt that they weren't answered and so you went for looking for the answers yourself and that's very impressive so I commend both of you and I'm waiting to hear about that acceptance letter to to you know
where M yes excellent job from everyone and thank you so very much so we are going to go to item seven which is employee [Music] recognition
so sh Dr ransel is wondering what in the world is this supposed to be so the month of March Actually March 7th was Employee recognition day and the month of March
is employee recognition month and we have sitting on the Das the number one female superintendent of the year for the United States of America who just so happens to be
our employee so we want to take this moment to appreciate you work and um you say Stu putting students
first that's who Dr Bram bodies so I'm going to give everyone an opportunity to have some words of encouragement at this time but we have a little well I've been there from the beginning
and and I have watched you become you you're you're like Wonder Woman you're the epitome of Wonder Woman and and to see you take on the naysayers and the people who don't want to do the work have excuses for why they can't
help your children you fight every single time and I appreciate that um you are the I say the second best decision that I ever made because the first is my wife but uh you're the second best decision that I've ever made
and and and I I would vote for you again every time Dr Gan so it just brings me Everywhere I Go Everywhere I Go up and down the highway Western Slope
anywhere people ask me where are you from here Harrison School District too oh that's Dr um Wendy yeah she's our superintendent and I am so proud of you
and what amazes me about you is you don't stop you're like the Energizer Bunny she wants to take on more more more do more more more for our students and for our district thank you so much
I'll jump back in to to caveat off of what JJ said up and down the 25 Corridor I was sitting on the husband's bench at at at the uh The Outlets at Castle Rock and I on the y'all know what the husband's bench is
when you're waiting on your wife she's shopping all the guys okay now you know but I was talking to a gentleman and we we get to chat and he said you work at Harrison I said yes I'm the board you guys are doing amazing things amazing
things and he he has nothing to do with education doesn't live down here up there that I've heard great about Harrison so I wanted to add that since you did it um I do I do want to
add it's good to have local recognition State recognition but National recognition people know you on the national level it's just I cannot be more proud to serve as a board member in
this school district he turn Dr bansel I have been in a of you very first day I never imagined I would be working alongside you in supporting
your visions and I just from a from the a personal space when I was at District 2 in 1982 there were so I hated this District I hated this District in
2015 and then I I am not kidding when you took the helm it's like we were sharing the same brain and sharing the same heart and I just appreciate everything that you've
done for our students supporting them from that social emotional level that people didn't think about in the past kids can't learn if they're not in an environment where they can Thrive whether it be home
whether it be in the community whether it be in the school and you took all of that on and I don't know if you challenged your staff or have you challenged yourself to do more to do things different to be
Innovative but I will tell you that I am so proud today to be D2 I am have never been more proud of this District than I am today I appreciate you beyond even
what words can say Wendy you we know how great you are but I just want to share a convers ation um that you leave by example and you're you're not afraid you because I remember
when um considering running and I sat with you and Rachel and I said do you really want me to run because I am truly coming from the classroom the buildings the
principalship um you know most board is rare that board members really know and knowing the governance we we are your we're not bosses we we work together but knowing that you did not
hesitate to say yes yes we want you we need you and I don't know if you remember that you and Rachel but I thought well oh my goodness this she is you are the windy from way back in Wildflower and Centennial when we used
to visit your um School you share your knowledge you are you are an anomaly there is none like you and I so appreciate working with you on the other side and on this side I dare not um close without
allowing our students to say something oh I was planning on already saying something well Dr bur anel you're an amazing person first of all your advocation for tomorrow's student leadership is phenomenal I'm not seen it in other districts have not seen it with any
other other of my friends like a d all that this District right here run by you just makes so much great change because under your leadership and I just like to tell a quick story is that the first time I met Dr banson was in an advisory
panel I was like what is this I'm so confused and then I thought that most of like you know I used to had a depiction that almost all the hups are just going to be mean they don't care about the students but I felt so welcome and after the second dur meeting I said she said
to me I think you would be a really good student board representative and I just that stuck my heart because I didn't know what it was but I just said really yeah I just appreciate all the opportunities you give and on top of that the letter of recommendations that you have sent to me I have asked you a
couple times and I know you have a busy job and everything but you still took the time to write me letter of recommendations to get me into prestigious programs like genuth casby Etc all those beautiful programs that I'm in to also advocate for student leadership Across the Nation and across the state of
Colorado I'll say I being on this board for two years now meeting a lot of people you genuinely have the kindest soul like you want to help students further their education
realize that they have the potential that you see in everyone and I think I thank you for that because growing up in this space this city not something that gets said to us very
often and hearing it from like the top person in our district it's probably the most important so thank you [Applause] but wait there's more we're going to take a picture and this is for you from
all of us so Patrick if you will give us a picture e so I just want to say thank you all um again you surprised me and I really don't appreciate it but I appreciate the
sentiments um I think it's obvious I love what I do I don't go to work I get to do what I love in life um and I have 13,000 kids that I advocate for every day um and I love it and I think there's no better job than
being here in D2 there's nowhere else I'd want to be I think one of the things that you said Miss Frasier is that people are talking about us and you know coming into this job people were talking about D2 in a different way um like the history you shared Joyce um and if
they're going to talk about us then we need to change The Narrative of what they're talking about and that narrative has changed but that's not just me that's the students that's the staff that's the leadership sitting up the dis and so I think we're a prime example of what it means when people can come together with the shared Mission and
believe in our kids and allow no barrier for Success so I'm just excited to see where we've come and to know what's on the horizon for D2 I just I'm excited for the future also thank you thank you right thank you so very much
everyone we are going on to item eight and that is the board consent agenda these are um items that we have Ed and and U reviewed in previous sessions item 8.1 is approval of minutes
combined board work session board meeting from February 6 2025 item 8.2 o10 communicating with the public monitoring report from 319 2024
8.3 oe9 communic with the board indicator report from 319 2025 and 8.4 approval of the 2025 2026 Board calendar at this time I will just
need a recommended motion please Madame President I move to approve the board consent agenda second motion to approve the board consent agenda by Mr Williams second by
m Miss Frasier all those in favor I did I make up for that that time okay thank you um item nine is the superintendent consent agenda um 9.1 is the Marge personnel and
comparison report and again I just need Madam president I move to approve the superintendent consent agenda I second motion to approve the uh superintendent consent agenda by Mr
Williams second by Salazar all those in favor I approved moving on to item 10 monitoring the
board 10.1 is annual have any addition I added uh the uh Town Hall tomorrow with Senator Bennett at proud that Harrison we get a confirmation
on at 5:30 open an hour before his first comfort anyone have comments questions we moving on to item 10.2 it is legislative
updates We Are In the Heat of the Congressional session um at the national level We are continuing to see changes um with the Department of Education not through Congress but through the new Administration um
getting rid of different arms of the Department of Education um so we're just still monitoring to see what's happening with that we have constant communication um with our Advocates at the state I mean at the um at the hill um Richie rap is constantly getting executive orders
and reading through to translate what that really means um fortunately a lot of those things don't have a lot of law sitting behind them and when they do become public then lawyers are pushing back against it and so we're really monitoring what's happening um at the
state level as you know the state is upside down with financing 1.5 billion so um we are working with the finance School Finance act um we were very excited that Miss araris got to sit in the room with or got to have feedback
with the um actual decision makers from joint budget committee to express our concerns with what they were planning to do um they are supposed to drop a bill tomorrow on what it's going to look like it is better than what we predicted but it's still not fully funding education
and so um again um it goes back on what we agreed to with the governor in November but it's better than what we thought two weeks ago so that's where we are there um there's two seclusion bills up that staff will be um up at the
capital sharing Insight on um one bans seclusion alog together which is very dangerous as a practice because because that's when you start seeing injuries to other students other staff um self harm and so we are supporting the bill that
allows seclusion after a level of um other things you've tried with the training with the um trying to deescalate so that is our practice right now in D2 and so that bill really would support they've written that bill a lot with our sped Department of what we do
and they want make sure other districts follow what we do because what we is ideal for what you should do there and then finally my favorite accountability bill um it's now not 108 pages it's down to 62 um but we added Amendment and it's
about back up to 100 um so testified last week I've talked to three legislators on the education committee this week just to answer questions since I had to chair the got to chair the committee um and we held it over intentionally last week so that we could
get more information and clarify the fiscal note the fiscal note was done totally by CDE and I had some reservations about what they overestimated and how much it would cost so we are redoing the fiscal note of reality of what it would cost and it should be up for vote either next week
or the following week in education houseside then it goes to the Senate so um again we have our alliance call every Thursday miss arice Mr GP and myself are on that talking with our lobbyists and giving feedback
um the busy time at the hill thank you does anyone have any questions comments I do have a comment um this Friday um March 20 20th and 21st
okay yeah I'll be in Denver with the Colorado Association of school boards and we will be going through each one of the bills that are coming uh forward and I'll also so bring something back but
we're monitoring a few of them uh very closely thank you Miss R so uh with that said we are now moving on to item 10.3 and this is board update so if any board members have any updates that they would like to share free to speak at
this time I do not have any just wanted to report back that last week at Carmel Middle School it was the elementary stem competition um I think uh with um David
jarbo he's not here tonight that was an exciting exciting project these students built brid es and they had to measure you know all of the logistics and all this stuff
and be able to raise the bridge and allow the the ship or the boat to come through some were successful some weren't but it was amazing because they got a chance to come back twice more and
they went back in the hallway and they studied and did all this and they came back and a lot of them were able to succeed and accomplish what their mission was so that was really good to see also I joined president Wills Hill
with um Mountain Vista for read Across America uh reading Dr Seuss books to I had second graders yes they are um but it was a wonderful experience and I really enjoyed that and also kudos to coach
Dunn at career Readiness Academy he um the school had a very successful cultural career night and there were all different um ethnic foods plus there was
entertainment and Coach I think the um mariachi band came from another school district yes yes they were outstanding and we had several vendors so cra
you're doing it and I was really glad to participate thank you I can comment on the stem award ceremony Mount Vista swept first place in almost every single category and and I I believe there were three uh three
Awards one was uh Ingenuity creativity and operation how the bridges operated and Mount Vista swept swept they were at all girls all all women future female
Engineers yes yes and um I'm not going to repeat what has already been said but I will say in the Dr Seuss read Across America I purposely selected the kindergarteners because they are the
most genuine and honest people on the planet if you want to know am I right Dr Pam just ask a kindergartner and they have no problems with volunteering um no filter but I will say
uh my crowning achievement um at the end of my experience um I had one of the students come up to me and gave me a big hug and said I like you and I was like oo that just made my whole year over there at Mountain Vista that was number
one and then number two they made me a little thank you booklet with drawings and pictures and that is just a pure treasure so anyway we're just thankful for all the um opportunities that we have um been afforded to us to support
all of our schools and and encourage them um so with that being said if there's no other additional comments I'm going to move forward to item 11 and 11.1 I am going to need a recommended
motion please Madame President I move that we go into executive session as authorized by Colorado revised Statute 24-6 D 424a to discuss property transaction related to
2550 Dorset Drive and the development of Wendy's Village in attendance superintendent Dr Wendy bansel District general counsel Katherine Richie WAP we fortify attorney Mr David Neville assistant
superintendent Dr Michael claudo and public information officer Christine O'Brien I also move that we go into two executive session hold on as off right by Colorado
revised Statute 24-6 D 424b for legal advice regarding board board member conduct in attendance District General Council Katherine Richie rap the following board members
will be attending the executive session myself JJ Frasier Dr Pam Robinson Joyce Salazar Corey Williams and Michelle Wills Hill all those in favor of moving move at
this time I I now an executive session e e e e e e e e
e e e e e e e e e e
e e e e e e e e e all right let the record reflect that we um are
coming back from executive session the time now is 8:06 PM March 19 2020 right now I just need a recommended motion Madame President I move to reconvene after executive
session second motion to reconvene the board meeting by Mr Williams second by Miss Frasier all those in favor I meeting is Rec we are moving ahead to item
11.3 it is matters reserved for board action um I just need a recommended motion at this time Madam president I move to approve the contract between Harrison School District 2 and we fortify for the lease
of land located at 2550 doorset drive for the purpose of building Wendy's Village second motion to approve the contract between Harrison School District 2 and we fortify for the lease of land located
at 2550 Dorset Drive for the purpose of building wind Village motion by Mr Williams second by Miss Salazar all those in favor I I item approved Madame President if I might add
uh that the board reconvened after 55 minutes in executive session and that has to be on the record thank you Mr we are going to item 11 point4 matters reserved for board consideration to take action based on
board member conduct the board has chosen not to take action based on board conduct other than to follow board policy GC 9B discussion in a private session between the offending member and the
full board um so at this time there's no further comment I just need to approve Madame President I moveed to approve the
amended motion Madame President I moved to approve the amendment to the motion per board policy gc9 B
discussion in a private session between the offending member and the full Board second motion to approve the amended motion by Miss Fraser second by Mr
Williams all in favor I I all right so we are at item number 12 that is to adjourn and I just need a recommended motion for that Madam
president with no other business I move to adjourn the Board of Education board meeting that's second motion to adjourn the meeting by Mr Williams second by Miss Salazar All In favor I meeting is adjourned thank
you