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Spanish interpreters for joining us tonight we're also live streaming our meeting if you are here here in person tonight you've got to hear our wonderful student performers from kedy middle school that joined us to perform a selection from School House Rock I think everybody enjoyed I don't know if we
ever had a complete clap for them um it was wonderful and we uh uh want to thank the um Theater Arts Teacher Maria yast who was um responsible for bringing those wonderful
students to us and it's always such a pleasure to see firsthand the extraordinary student experiences going on in our community roll call please missada Miss Applegate here miss Kenworthy here Miss Parker here miss
Reed here Dr V here uh every month the board of education has the pleasure of recognizing students staff community members and schools oh thank you I'm sorry I've just been out of order here would you all please join me for the Pledge of
Allegiance thank you I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all
okay um every month the board of education has the pleasure of recognizing students staff community members and schools for their achievements and contributions to our community so we will move into the honors and recognition for the first recognition of the evening it will be
for Normandy Elementary School um and uh we actually have two phases to Normandy um to explain the wonderful success that they've had um academically and so um let's see is
uh principal Andrea cousins here okay Excuse Me Miss cousins um I think my script is out of order I don't see it we've already did it you did it okay thank you you did it before we went to
yes so I apologize yeah for the confusion we actually had an executive session so we've done some of this preliminary work already in the beginning beforehand so we are ready to go into the um uh recognition so miss
cousins you can please come on up and um anyone else did you bring from your school your wonderful teachers if they would join you so I'm just going to go and read um the uh combined recognitions here for
Normandy Elementary School Normandy Elementary School's guiding philosophy is to actively engage the whole child in core knowledge personalized literacy and math instruction and schoolwide arts physical education and social emotional
development to ensure all students reach their full potential the school's academic results affirm the hard work of Normandy students Educators families and community and creating a safe and welcoming school where students Master challenging and engaging content academic bright spots include
kindergarten 2024 math scores and math their math achievement percentile was 82 and their math reading achievement percentile was 84 maap tests are designed to measure students academic growth in the key subjects of math
reading and language arts in second grade the median growth percentile on map was 84 third highest in all of Jeffco in third grade in third grade Normandy students achieved the highest achievement for the entire district with 86% of students achieving the meets or
exceeds level of cmath in math Normandy staff engages students in literacy and math skills by incorporating them throughout Library content art music and PE which has helped students draw connections between academic content healthy habits Fine Arts and the real
world the Normandy Special Education team has supported student growth across grade levels and students in fourth and fifth grade observed a sizable increase in growth both on map and Cass please join us and recognizing Normandy Elementary and the leadership of
principal Andrea cousins and her wonderful Math teachers I am here I want to get the names of the teachers that have joined you um is coach Janette Reed
here okay um online well congratulations to her um let's see who else do we have um we got Heidi and Aaron so Heidi Myers and Aaron
jman um in recognition of their third grade math achievement scor so you Heidi and um and Aaron are here thank you so much who else do we have here Andrea okay welcome all right well thank you so much
for being here um and this is one of my schools so I I get to give out the awards e okay and for our next recognition of the evening I'm going to hand it over to director Kenworthy thank you director Parker next
the board of education is pleased to honor the following Colorado shape award recipients for their outstanding contributions in the fields of health and physical education Amy Flynn assistant director of electives for being awarded administrator of the Year Jamie scarcliffe PE teacher at Golden
high school for being awarded High School teacher of the year Brian wieren adapted PE teacher for being awarded the lifetime time Achievement Award and finally Katie spir for being awarded adapted PE teacher of the year unfortunately Jamie is unable to join us
tonight will Amy Brian and Katie please join us at the front of the room to receive the our people our strength recognition [Applause] woohoo the shape shape Colorado is a Professional Organization for health and physical Educators that is committed to
advocating for quality phys education health education and physical activity resources throughout the state of Colorado and in the nation the Colorado shape award ceremony is a Statewide highly competitive accomplishment that honors teachers for their outstanding achievements and contributions in the
field of physical education through a lens of equity diversity and inclusion Amy assistant director of electives and Katie Central based adapted PE teacher were selected to receive the 2024 shape Colorado administrator and teacher of
the year award and were recognized by their peers for their outstanding contributions at the shape Colorado State Convention this October Brian District adapted PE teacher received the prestigious Lifetime Achievement Award Brian has devoted his career to
developing a quality adapted physical education curriculum designed to be modified to address the unique needs of individual students his program ensures students have access to participate in physical education regardless of physical cognitive or emot
ability in the words of Dave yon District PE coordinator Brian works tirelessly to advocate for the educational rights and needs of our differently abled students this recognition embodies Jeff CO's value of equity especially when it comes
to viewing individual differences as assets to be leveraged as we all help students Thrive please join us in heartily congratulating Amy Katie and Brian for this important recognition and their commitment to providing a inclusionary physical education
experience for our Jeff Co students [Applause] [Applause] and now I will hand it over to director
Applegate thank you director Kenworthy the board of education is pleased to recognize District nurse Ashley laali for providing outstanding health services to our schools will Ashley please join us at the front of the room to receive the our people our strength
recognition so joining the jeco nursing team this year Ashley is already having a huge impact on the health and well-being of the students at her designated schools in September Ashley received a shout out from her director for saving the life of aone Ranch Elementary school student that was choking on food in the
cafeteria it was yeah right like let's give a hands up for that it was noted that Ashley quickly went into action and performed the heinl maneuver to dislodge the stuck food item in the words of Tanya Weaver director of Health Services we are very proud to
have this new addition to our team of nurses to ensure the safety and well-being of our students it's acts that like this that highlight how essential School nurses are to the well-being and overall health of our students they are dedicated Healthcare professionals who work in collaboration with families schools and
communities to develop and promote comprehensive healthare programs for our youth every school in Jeffco has a district registered nurse that consults with students parents School staff and administration to provide Optimum school health please join us in celebrating Ashley for providing outstanding Health
Services to the students and communities she served it's truly inspirational to hear of the valuable contributions made by our dedicated School nurses who work in our schools to ensure our students maximum their academic experiences through consistent healthare [Applause]
[Music] [Applause] [Applause] and now I will hand it to director Reed thank you very much for our final celebration of the evening the board of education is pleased to honor and
recognize Christina Mane and the women's league uh the women's league of Voters for Jefferson County for their efforts to promote pre voter and voter registration awareness for our community will Christina please join us at the front of the room to receive the our
community our Legacy [Applause] recognition the League of Women Voters is a nonpartisan Grassroots organization working to protect and expand voting rights and ensure everyone is represented in our democracy they
Empower voters and defend democracy through advocacy education and litigation at the local state and National levels the Jefferson County chapter of women's league of Voters envisions a democracy where every person
has the desire the right the knowledge and the confidence to participate the league is proud to be nonpartisan neither supporting nor opposing candidates or political parties the women's league of Voters has provided valuable contributions in the area of
voter registration and pre voter registration Outreach for our Jeffco students families and the Greater Community I would like to mention that one at one of my high school student Town Halls my discussion was followed by a discussion of the women's league uh women's league on voter registration
awareness and I found that that empowering that we're intentionally providing Community Resources to inform our students on the electoral process please join us in celebrating Christina man and the Jefferson County women's league of Voters for championing
programs and initiatives that build community and promote voter awareness for Jeffco students and Families e a sincere thank you to all our recognition honores this month it's our pleasure to honor you for your
commitment to our community now we will turn to our board proclamations the board publicly recognizes spe special events and significant issues by issuing proclamations in the month of November We are commemorating family and social
Partnerships in Education Month which is November also National hunger and homelessness awareness week November 18 through 26 National School psychology week November 11 through
15 National Education support professional Day November 20 and I just want to point out that yesterday um I had the opportunity with Mr Gatlin to go work in the uh kitchen at um Dunston middle school so um definitely
appreciate the work of our uh support professionals and then also National substitute Educators Day November 22nd we encourage you to read the Jeff Co school board's proclamations items 5.01 through 5.05 are presented in board
Doc's proposed proclamations for the month of November do I have a motion regarding the approval of the proclamations I move to approve items 5.01 through 5.05 on the action Proclamation section as published in board Ducks is there a second second it
has been moved and seconded to approve the November proclamations as presented in board docs roll call please miss Sada Miss Applegate yes yes Miss Kenworthy yes Miss Parker yes Miss Reed yes Dr
varda yes now we will turn to public comment this is an opportunity for the community to share their thoughts with the board during public comment the board does not engage in discussion with or respond to
individuals the board will now listen to public comment on any topic for up to 1 hour if more time is required we'll have a second public comment at the end of the meeting meting there's a 3 minute time limit per individual speaker and if there are four or more people who sign up to address the board they will have
10 minutes for the group's view to be presented each speaker's been given a number the board invites you to come up in order when the person before you completes their comments you may step up to the podium we listen with respect and ask those who address the board to do the
same as there a number one for public comment tonight come on up I think it's okay to have a posi at the podum yep so please tell us your name and where you're from and you
have three minutes have 10 minutes test can you hear me now okay uh my name is Edie frings um need my address to it is 6336 Engles Court our Vada Colorado
83 and my topic is Title One funding and the effective collection of student benefits applications um let's see so I am a parent of Matilda a first grader at Edgewater Elementary School um which is
a title one school I'm here as an advocate for not only Edgewater but all tile win schools in this district and Beyond two years ago I voted in favor of funding for the healthy School meals for all program I'm willing to bet that everyone in this room did as well
because schools provide the essentials to our communities feeding every child no matter what their circumstance is a no-brainer but feeding our children should not come at the expense of Title One schools losing funding that pays for
critical staff and services and that is exactly what is about to happen if this District does not make changes now when I voted for healthy School meals for all I worried about what would happen to Title One funding absent the incentive of free and reduced lunch
would families still apply for benefits so that title one funding would be equitably distributed what I feared has come to fruition absent the clear incentive of free and reduced lunch the collection of these applications from families in Jeffco has plummeted historically
Edgewater elementary school has had a student body with upwards of 85% qualifying for benefits according to the applications collected this year only about 40 excuse me 54% are eligible student bodies fluctuate but not that
drastically and now Edgewater is at risk of completely losing its title one funding this is terrifying frustrating and an inexcusable situation and we are not alone 14 Schools or 40% of Title One schools in Jeffco are at risk of losing
their funding I had the opportunity to meet with the principal of Edgewater the head of federal programs as well as the assistant director of title and funding I was encouraged to hear that they are aware of this issue and have mechanisms available to them to make sure that these 14 Schools don't totally fall off
with funding Cliff but if nothing changes between now and next year I fear more and more students will needlessly suffer because of mixed messaging and a confusing and inconvenient application process now that every child receiv free lunch applying for benefits through the
app School cafe makes zero sense I saw my daughter's school do everything they could with the limited resources and energy they have at the beginning of the school year to get as many families as possible to fill out this form before the October 1st deadline collecting this
information from families should not be a Monumental task left up to the individual schools I am here to ask the board to treat this with the urgency it requires the application for student benefits for the next school year becomes available on July 1st there is
too much confusion and mixed messaging when it comes to collecting benefits applications from families we should not have to download a separate application and learn to navigate it just to fill out this form this information needs to be collected as a part of the yearly
registration process it needs to be straightforward and separated from the messaging of free lunch I urge you to take steps to streamline this process so that the title one schools in this District get the financial support that
they so desperately need thank you thank you so much number two I'm sorry I'm number seven but I'm with the group you want to switch us around um there's just two of us to speak this
even um it's uh we we didn't have a group coales quickly enough to sign up as a group so she is also speaking on the same topic can we just switch around the numbers so seven goes to or should we wait
oh keep the order yeah yeah if you don't mind we'll we'll keep with the order but but we'll listen to you at number seven thank you okay is there number two welcome please tell us your name and you
have three minutes hi my name is Chandra Shaw I'm here again 2245 Nelson place and I'm here to talk about Vivien and um so now that the municipal process for disposition has ended um we would like to be informed and involved during the
closing and entitlement process so most specifically we are most interested in ensuring that there are at least three acres of open space and we understand that there are negotiations ongoing regarding the open space sale to City of Lakewood I've been talking to Greg just outside in the hall actually so I got
more information which is great he mentioned that you know the the map of they think it's going to be the southeast area which is what we're looking for but that they need to do some more negotiations and understand the land a little bit better and so there might be some tweaking so but we'd
like to be informed of you know what that map is looking like and what the space will be just so that you know we're hoping that it'll be the space that we're looking for and we want to stay informed and involved specifically in that open space transactions we're wondering like who is the best point of contact and we're working with Greg but
is there someone else that we should be communicating with maybe there could be updates via email to the community maybe some signs at the school just so that other people in the community are aware of what's going on we also have some questions about what happens regard um during the 540 day entitlement period
one um question is when does this period actually start I understand there's a 90day inspection periodes does the 540 days start after that is done or is the 90day inspection period part of the 540 days and will there be another Jeff Co
Schoolboard vote after the the 90-day inspection period it sounds like maybe there isn't based on my conversation with Greg but just wondering about that then we're also wondering about what will happen during that period in terms of the neighborhood use of the land will we be able to use the space will the be fences put up
will it be maintained so we're just curious about you know things like that because there's a lot of people that use the land there's children that go there use the playground there's people and dogs and kids that play in the area I saw some little kids playing baseball was very cute um the other last week so
definitely we're hoping to be able to use the land during that entitling period also wondering what's going to happen to the playground equipment if it's not within the open space boundaries U the hope is that it can be moved maybe it can fit within the open space or be moved somewhere else just would be a shame to see that go to waste
there's certainly children in the community that use it and the Colorado Kids Academy is Right nearby and they use it um on a periodic basis as well we're also curious about the trees and things like picnic tables and benches that I presume will be reused or left there ideally and um wondering also what
will happen in terms of sustainability for the building when it's torn down there's relatively new HVAC equipment in there will that be reused is there some opportunities for um reuse of as much of the material as possible possible um after it's torn down um and then just so
you know the petition now has 1155 signatures and 68% are in the immediate zip codes 80215 33 and 228 and we looked at the contract and it does look at this flexibility to have more than three acres which we really appreciate and thank you for all the work that you've
done working with city of blakewood just in time thank you do we have have number three welcome please tell us your name and you have three minutes okay thanks sorry I have a
cold um hello Jeff for my name is Teresa beaser and I'm in lwood Colorado and I'm terrified to be here in the last 22 years I've had five of my children in Jeff schools and I still have one at Lakewood High School I'm familiar with jeos so I'm very familiar with them and
I live less than two minutes from Vivian um I work with my neighbors my ad hoc community members City of Lakewood and my w members but none of them own the property so everybody tells me that all I can do is talk to you and that you make all the decisions and it's been
really difficult to get timely information so I wanted to give feedback on the disposition process as I have experienced it um and so that other families facing the same thing in the near future might learn from our experience um your
website notes that you have J and crl to assist in the property distribution process but once it gets there it's already too late for the community um as soon as the school is closed or talking about being closed that's when they need to engage that's when they need to get
involved to look for Solutions and my community the majority was caught completely unaware um the Vivian Community was notified on the 11th of April that it entered into the process and the neighbors didn't know it was happening the City of Lakewood was
unaware and um most of them wanted to convert it to be a park but they had never heard anything um the first block of the old and the new Municipal process says that Jeffco will meet with Vivian
or sorry it'll meet with the city about the disposition and we have lots of proof that that never happened it was even discussed on the September 13th special session that you had with the school board um and it wasn't acknowledged but we did have that our a
board members expressed that we were experiencing pain loss and frustration in this last eight months crl sent four emails to people that subscribed to the service about Vivan and there was one
meeting in a very small room where 200 people showed up many were sent away and just were told go watch it online um SEL gathered the comments posted on her website and then continued to get rid of the property at this point it wasn't
clear to anybody that was too late and it didn't matter that the land was gifted the owner is Jeff Co schools so I know it's a drain on your budget and I know it's an anchor holding you to my community but it's already been a absorbed in another
school um there were four people in my neighborhood put on the ad hoc committee they signed documents they couldn't share sensitive procurement information this effectively made those four individuals our Representatives with no way to communicate with us um it was
difficult for everyone involved and not a fair representation from our community or trans transparent this is where we started to get the message that it was too late and I just want to say that we needed a little bit more time and I don't know
why signs aren't put up on the properties I don't know why that um the contract was just posted minutes before the meeting tonight we just barely get to see it while sitting in the back of the room and I don't know I think Shandra asked the rest of my questions
about the property so I really appreciate your time and your energy toward this thank you thank you and is there number four thank you please tell us your name and you have three minutes thank you my
name is Emily hul windis and I am a resident in Westminster Colorado and I am talking about our renewal for derell Academy so I'd like to thank you for coming and for letting me come and speak tonight I spoke back in March of 2023 with a few of our students he called us
the Von trop crew from derell we were thankful for the two-year renewal but it did seem like it was just yesterday that I was here advocating for our students and our staff I'm one of our founding teachers at derell when we opened in 2016 at the Red Rocks Community Church across from the Arvada Center which is
also where I teach I was excited for the opportunity to teach dance in a public school because I believe I'm still one of the only dance Ed Educators in all of Jeff Co Public Schools something I'm still working on as I know dance and movement have such positive impacts on our health and wellbeing I also teach
theater and PE to our students so I'm actively keeping our moving and engaged in their studies as well as making sure they're upstanding citizens in our community over the years I've been a part of all the changes all the shifts we had which has been quite a lot in the short time we've been open opening a
school in a church then moving to a different neighborhood twice now working through the pandemic and teaching online to teaching kids online and in person at the same time seeing transitions of families moving to teachers leaving Education Al together to facing really
difficult parents who I still believe do not have our best interest in heart even after their students have left the school six years ago they continue to harass Us online and even write letters to you all it really does impact our marketing and efforts to grow our student body so
I hope that they are listening and that they hear that this is no way helpful I'm sorry I even have to share this but it's been quite difficult to have such unwarranted harassment by someone who's no longer a part of our community our goal is to ensure that our school remains safe and a positive environment
for all we welcome all students that come to derell and work really hard to make sure they have all their resources and positive learning environments to be successful at derell after they leave when they're there and after they leave we only transitioned into our new building 15 months ago let me say moving
a home is a lot let alone an entire school we actually were finally able to move into the building one week prior to school starting and welcoming kids into our building it was quite the challenge but we did it successfully even though we been open since 2016 it does feel
like we are basically starting new again in another part of town we are so thankful for the opportunities the district has provided to our community especially the continuous professional development for our teachers and our staff in this last year I personally have become more involved with the district serving on the spa committee
which is the Strategic plan for the Arts committee and I'm currently serving as an instructional leader for our theater team and Lead our District's Middle School theater PLC it's really exciting to be a part of these committees helping teachers connect and grow in the Arts as well as finding ways to help our
students grow and be successful our students also attend the Jeffco theater Festival the Jeffco Improv Festival each year providing those kids opportunities to collaborate with other Jeffco students and professional artists taking workshops and Performing I highly recommend if you are able to attend
these events in the future to see how talented all of our students in Jeffco are in the last time since our Charter here are some significant achievements and mileston oh I've ran out of time I'd also just like to say though um we are
hoping that your contingent renal will be longer so we continue to reach our goals thank you so much thank you number five number five come on up welcome please introduce yourself you
have five three minutes hello my name is Mia IES and I'm a senior at Evergreen high school and I'm here with Drew cavi who is a junior at Evergreen high school we are here to speak about um how farmwald who is our
former teacher and we would like to give a recommendation on his behalf because we really want him back um oh sorry uh this is a letter to the board on behalf of the Evergreen high school basketball players how farmal was our
coach and teacher on behalf of the players at Evergreen high school basketball team I'm writing to share our disappointment about the recent decision to fire coach farmwald we apologize for not being able to attend this meeting in person but and as a team we're at practice at this time but I wanted to
ensure that our feelings about Coach farmal were shared farmal has been more than just a coach he has been a mentor a guide and a huge influence on all of our Lives it it is rare to find a coach who puts in as much time and effort into his team as he
did he would spend countless late nights planning for games working on game plans and thinking about each player strengths and challenges coach farmal truly cares about the team's success and puts his heart into everything that he has done to help us improve coach fal's impact
goes far beyond teaching basketball he taught us the values of responsibility respect and hard work and the lessons that we will that will stay with us throughout our lives while he has pushed us to play our best in the court his main goal was to help us grow into
responsible and resilient young men he cared deeply about each as each of us as individuals and he worked tired LLY to prepare us not just for games but for life after basketball coach farmal has shaped us into better people and players because of this we ask you to reconsider
the decision to remove coach farmal based on old and unapproving allegations from years ago his dedication and commitment to our growth deserve respect and recognition not dismissal on behalf of the players we respectfully urge you to let Coach farmal resume his duties at
Evergreen high school and allow him to continue leading and inspiring us both on and off the C Court Mr farmal has taught Drew and I in the ETV broadcasting class and he has invoked a passion in me that I want to pursue this
as my future career and not having him as a teacher has darkened the classroom we are having so much trouble functioning without him and Jeffco has removed him for an unfair reason and given us nothing in return we have not
had another teacher to help us continue I'm sorry to help us continue this class and it is so unfair and I mean I would love to have him back not just for us but for the other students incoming they
deserve to have that teaching because he not only helps you inside the classroom and learn these skills but he helps you become a better person and teaches you skills outside of school thank [Applause]
you thank you thank you so much number six welcome please tell us your name and you have three minutes my name is Jim Powers um I live at 11305 West Glendon Drive in
Lakewood just a block down from Glennon Heights Elementary School and that's what I'm here to talk about um I'm one of the ad hoc members uh that looked over the um uh the the submittals that were provided for that particular piece
of property and um I just wanted to let the board know know that um I am I am typically uh skeptical of governments and bureaucracies and the way these kinds of things worked and I and I kind of went into this thinking that uh the
ad hoc members who actually live in the neighborhood were were just there so we could be you know the whole process can be told that that it was a um you know the neighborhood was involved um but I want to say that I I think that the process other than some of the hiccups
in the beginning with some of the the communication I thought the process was very fair um I thought it was uh I felt that our voices as ad hoc members were listened to I'm also an architect so I have a little bit of understanding of
development um some of the some of the submittals that were made for that particular property um you know I'm not against development but I wanted the the development if it was going to happen in that neighborhood to fit the neighborhood and Glennon Heights in
particular has large Lots around that particular school they're Halfacre Lots so it's not your typical smaller neighborhood um so I was I was happy to see that uh that uh both jll and and specifically Roger Sherman was was a
really big help here in in coordinating and um being a lay on between us as ad hoc members and and the other the members of the other committee um and just making sure the information that we provided as ad hoc members got to the to
the folks that were making submitt um so you know we put together just a quick uh plan that showed the lot sizes and the house sizes around that school and you know this is after the first submitt and that was included to go out to the second to for the second submitt and I
think that that was really important that the folks submitting submitting proposals for that property had that information um and we're also very happy obviously and all the neighbors that I've talked to and communicated with are very happy with
uh actually the school being a school and staying that way in the neighborhood and the fields staying the way they are and um and I know that that's going to all be voted on this evening and and we hope that that vote goes uh for approval
and um I just wanted to just let you guys know that I thought the process was was was well done also Roger Sherman at the end um when the process was over uh he sat down with us and kind of had a debriefing of what we thought went right and what we thought went wrong and that
was really helpful too and I I believe that he'll be sharing that information or maybe he already has um to to improve the process in the future for other properties that that end up going for sale so I just wanted to extend my appreciation thank you very much guys have a great
night thank you now do we have number seven good evening again my name is Angela cryan I live at 2227 eaten Street in Edgewater Colorado and I'm here this evening to once again reiterate our need for Title One funding and to figure out
a solution both my children attend Edgewater Elementary I have Jack the fifth grader and Sarah third grader we have benefited more than you know in a wonderful school we are so concerned and the
families that are here tonight with me are so concerned about losing the funding that is critical even for one year 189,000 150,000 50,000 5,000 whatever that
amount is it is too much to lose for our students I don't if you know the diversity of Jeff Co and I don't know if you know the diversity of Edgewater we are a bilingual program um and I am one of the lucky parents to be here tonight
but I am an englishon parent I do not speak Spanish at least not well enough for my children to say that I do my children speak it better than I do so I want you to know what this company school has done for us there are 297
students at water we exceeded our expected enrollment by 30 plus students this year we have stretched every penny our school accountability committee and leadership team has found out that we
didn't even have enough money to do in teacher recognition this week that the school district recommended our families stepped up and our community stepped up for years we've had this great community and we have felt Sid stepped by the
school district we've been promised four new classrooms and a playground for six plus years we have finally been told that we might get a playground or at least equipment that's safe this year at Spring break after three years of
pushing for it we are short on classrooms funding for teachers though is our most important concern I know that it may not seem like much but being able to stand in front of you this evening and say simplification of a
process and form is all that it takes to get our funding and anything you can do to help us support that we are happy to support as well I want to leave you with one thing this community has taught me how to text in English and in Spanish and my
children know how to respond in both English and Spanish when is spoken to in that language first and they've learned the diversity and community and the strive that jessco has to make our world and Global Community as it says in your
mission anything our families can do to help we would appreciate this is a small number of the 297 families that are here tonight on behalf of all Title One funds thank you thank you for that um Miss cryan I I
thank you I just want to thank you for your comments I want to thank you for your passion and I have I'm going to ask um Miss Peña who is our chief of family and Community Partnerships to step out with you and your group um we have some good news for you uh the school's qualified for title one this week so the
funding is there uh in addition in addition I received an update from Mr Gatlin our chief operating officer this week regarding the playground so if you're interested in update around that work as well Mr Gatlin would be happy to step out with Miss paa and give you guys some answers this
[Applause] evening thank you do we have a number eight welcome please tell us your name and you have three minutes my name is Jerry Onan I live in
Lakewood very close to Glennon Heights Elementary School and that's what I'm here to speak about tonight uh and I speak in support of Jacob academy uh we looked very carefully at all of the proposals that came in from the beginning to the end
our committee I believe was a stellar group of hardworking people and as as it turns out in my view Jacob Academy was the only one of the final entities who addressed all of the evaluation criteria
and they did it very well uh the other two remaining offers did not address all the criteria some of them made uh statements that were inaccurate uh misinformed uh some of the statements through their process
and some of them may have been even to the point of being false statements as we checked through some of what they did so I could not have supported any one of the other two entities but Jacobs did a very very good job and we started off
this um having some concerns uh about the process but the process I think has worked quite well through the uh uh through the course of what we did and uh we're grateful to all of those who were involved in that process um I know that
in the study session there was some concerns expressed about maybe some competition between Jeff Co and Jacob Academy me I I trust that those concerns uh have uh faded away at this point but
if they if they haven't I would say from my view um it's probably too late in the game uh to be changing the evaluation criteria to throw in some additional elements to be considered so uh we live and die by that
evaluation criteria when we review these proposals and we did that as a committee we looked at that very very carefully the process certainly had some some flaws I will acknowledge that and um I won't address those flaws at this
point but I think maybe even through divine intervention we uh skipped through some of the problems that uh were there and I think there's a very very good resolution on the table for you all to consider this evening um when
we started the process I had a very low expectation and a very low regard for Jeff Co schools I want to tell you that that is changed I told the HOA committee who voted unanimously in favor of Jacob that uh I didn't think I would ever
think this let alone say it out loud but I have great respect H for Jeff Co now and what they have done a large part of that is because of Jeff Gatlin this individual is a stellar person person great to work with his
integrity and the willingness to express uh his concerns over what our concerns were uh should not be overlooked I consider him a friend and would be glad to work with him anytime in the future thank you thank
[Applause] you do we have a number nine yeah welcome please tell us your name and you have three minutes thank you um I'm Sarah mcne from The Glenn and Heights Community I don't want to share
my address is that okay feels weird sorry um I'm GNA read just because that's where I'm in live right now uh good evening board members this decision regarding the Glennon Heights property is incredible um I'm grateful to share my thoughts on what this decision means
for all of us um the vote for Jak Academy to purchase the glenden heights property is more than just a practical Choice it's an investment in our families and our future and our community this space will be a Lifeline for families in need of supportive care for their children during the early years and beyond for some of us the need
for Afterschool Child Care programs are critical um my students attend dein elementary and for instance our after school programs were filled the same day that they were open um this has been true for over two years now and so I think there is a great need for this in
Jacob's Academy um I've even had to adjust my own work hours to ensure that I'm able to pick up or take my children to school uh I believe that Jacob's Academy can make a real difference in helping families find the stability they need and serve as a trusted resource for our community um growing up I attended
Glenn and Heights with my family here um and it's a trusted resource in our community that we hated to lose um but we're so elated to maybe have the Halls once again filled with laughter and learning um it feels like we're breathing new life into this space that's been closed
for two years and to see it repurposed as a learning space um is just incredible to our community so thank you um being part of this ad hoc committee has also been a unique experience that has given me uh true stake in our community um I want to thank Jeff again
you've just been incredible through this process he's really a champion for the effort and supporting us through questions and concerns as well as my wonderful ad hoc team and my my humans um it's been a learning Journey for all of us I'm sure you feel that way as well
um but I'm grateful to be a part of this process um and now we know that all properties couldn't be repurposed um I'm glad to see the district is responding to community feedback we feel that and we appreciate that so much I know the Vivian community over here is seeing a
little bit of repurpose on its land and so I appreciate you listening and learning from our community we really I think needed that after those closures so thank you for doing that um looking forward I hope to continue to prioritize those spaces that serve our community like the parks and the Open Spaces we
can always build but we can't create new land so preserving these spaces here in Lakewood makes our community a truly special place to live um this experience has shown me what it means to have a voice and decision that shapes our neighborhoods and I just want to thank you for listening to us and taking the time um this decision is going to have a
lasting impact on many of our families and our communities so thank you so much for you and all of work and listening that you've done I've just really appreciated it and uh we're really excited to have Jacob's Academy so please vote it in thank you thank
[Applause] you do we have a number nine I think we are finished with our public comment okay thank you thank you all for coming here okay um now as a reminder to the
board and the listening public on November 6 2024 the board held a study session that included the following topics an update from the Jeffco administrator Association Property Disposition dialogue with our financial
advisory committee the superintendent's recommendations on the district Charter renewal applications and finally monitoring report e08 the proposed school year calendars for the next three-year cycle I
encourage you all to watch the recording of this session to learn more about these topics you can also visit our board page on the Jeffco Public Schools website there you'll find a host of information and links to both the board docs and our live stream platforms so we'll now move to our first agenda item
of the evening for our first topic of study the board of education is excited to hear an update from Jeff Co schools Foundation leadership on the Strategic initiatives of the foundation in partnership with the district as an independent nonprofit partner Jeff
Co schools Foundation has a proud and long history of raising resources to provide academic programmatic and enrichment support to Jeff Co students Educators schools and families I also want to take a moment to acknowledge and
thank first vice president Reed who represents our board on the foundation board of directors before I turn this over to miss Jensen superintendent dorland is there anything you would like to add I'm going to give Miss Jensen a
minute possibly there she is come on up hello Miss Jensen it's great to see you this evening I just want to thank uh Miss Jensen her staff and our entire Community who participate with Jeffco schools foundation for their support from everything um in everything from
our amazing annual art show uh to individual classroom grants that support our teachers in um special projects that they want to do with their students um and everything in between and thank you to miss Reed for serving on the board um and I will hand
it over to Courtney thanks for being here thank you thanks for having me tonight thank you as many of you know last year was very much a rebuilding year for us and we spent a lot of time solidifying new programs um our three pillars for programs are strengthening
our community investing in our Educators and stimulating growth I'm going to give a little bit of an overview of what we spent funds on last school year and then what we've accomplished thus far in the first quarter of this school year um our strengthening a community so far has really been around providing vital
resources and supports to our high highest need schools we have um as superintendent Doran mentioned investing in our Educators through educator grants we started that last spring and we have that open again right now actually and then stimulating growth
right now our main focus has been around um excuse me providing funding to the Arts and career exploration opportunities for high school students sorry it's okay last year we this is just a
breakdown of kind of where our funding went so 55% of the funds went between a lot to the Arts and to Career hubs in high schools 30% to strengthen our community a lot of that looked like um some basic need items that schools needed a lot of snacks we had lots of
requests for snacks and then 15% around investing in Educators that looked like educator GRS teacher appreciation funding the first thrives award tonight with the district I I'm not going to read through all of it but a lot of the things we did last
year um was to support District programs around we provided funding for Summit Jeffco last year we supported funding for the alliance committee meetings to ensure that folks had meals and so were in the evenings um we were able to sponsor an author event that was in
partnership with the Jeffco public library and provide 475 books to every single library in the district um and then that was Alo also during an author event thank you where jacqulyn Woodson got to come and speak to students at Jefferson Junior Senior was a really fun
event Under the Umbrella of the Jeffco schools Foundation is our serving kids program which is a clothing bank for Jeffco students uh they do incredible work in our volunte all all volunteer run and they have seen a significant need last year uh increase and then
again this year have already had an increase in need and a lot of that is also along with the cost of items going up they they feel that they are quickly going through their their items on their shelves we are able to provide 15 Title One schools with snacks for low-income
students and we funded the Jeff Co Reeds grocery program ensuring every student had access to weekly groceries and we provided internet for 64 families in need this was a program that started during covid and these were kind of the remaining folks that were on that
program last year year we provided 39 educator grants across 28 schools as I mentioned we did this um for the first time in the spring and we kind of learned a lot of things and learned some hiccups and so we changed the timeline
to be now so that we can get the funding out this school year and and teachers can use it this school year we funded 39 Educators last year and we think we had like 46 applicants and this year the application closes tomorrow and we already have 91 applications with nearly
asking for about $777,000 so we're excited that people are becoming more aware of the opportunity um and having ideas to share that they would like to receive funding for and then finally our stimulate growth program last year we supplemented
funding for the Learning Ally program which encourages a love for reading and works to improve each students's overall literacy as I mentioned we boosted funding to the Jeff Co visualant Performing Arts departments for the art shows theater festivals music festivals educator trainings and more um we
provided five high school career hubs with supplies to incentivize students and career engagement in the hub and we fully funded the costume connection which provides free costumes to all Jeffco schools for theater production special projects and more this year in this first quarter we have been able to
apply for additional funding for new career hubs in high schools so we're happy to provide funding to arada and Bear Creek as they start to build out their career hubs in their schools and we are also able to provide 61,000 to
the Visual and Performing Arts departments a lot of that has already been awarded to um allow for students to participate in festivals the theater Festival marching band Festival free of cost where they would traditionally have to pay fees to attend also provide
transportation to festivals and a lot of professional learning for educators that specializ in the Visual and Performing Arts and it's been really wonderful that we've received lovely feedback from the trainings that Educators have been able to go to and as some of you may know December
10th is Colorado giz day and November 1st was the first day of giving you can give now until December 10th so we I wanted to share a little video If this year we are fundraising to invest in our Educators so our hope is is that everyone who applies their funding and
meets criteria for the educator grants we can get that out to them oh if you just click on the box maybe not oh bummer maybe it won't work sorry oh it's probably because it's in PDF format that's okay sorry about that you
can watch it I I'll send it out to you um but one of what we did uh we were able just to go out to a bunch of schools that we awarded funding to last year and see you know what they were able to do with the small amount of money uh as you all know teachers are very Thrifty and able to make money go a long way it was really great to get out
into the schools and um see the difference one of the things I think that's hard is that we're not with the students we don't see necessarily the people that we are fundraising for so this was a great way for my staff to be able to see that and we made a few videos that we'll be
sharing throughout the next month to share with the community as well and one thing I just wanted to mention as a positive note as many of you know the foundation very much was in a rebuilding year last year and I have my own board meeting tomorrow so I pulled some
numbers and in q1 of this fiscal year our total revenue is up 285 compared to last year at this time so I'm very proud of that and our net revenue is at 84% positive change compared to q1 fiscal year 24 so I feel that the foundation is
um on the up and up and we're doing some good work and I appreciate all of your support and just getting to know you all so thank you thank you so much Miss Jensen and right back at you we appreciate you very much as well um board members there are
any questions or comments for Miss Jensen just thank you thanks for being here tonight it's great to hear um as you put it the up and up um I'm really grateful and I'm I'm thinking about ways that we can help
lift up your organization so I'd love to have conversation with you offline yeah have all right cool thanks thank you have a great evening and I just want to reinforce that um if you're looking for a place to give charitable Don donations this is uh
this is our opportunity to do that you've got the QR code and uh it would be really great to kick in a little cash here and help keep that upward trajectory I just like to say that um
was late to knowing about the Jefferson Foundation um and uh then I got to work with you and and uh superintendent with the um art um work that we got to um uh purchase some beautiful art as you can
see behind us um and I didn't know about all the other things you were doing uh so thank you for this presentation um certain things that just jumped out on me the career hubs those schools that I have that have career hubs in it I just think they're doing wonderful jobs um so
thanks for letting us know what what more you're doing out there yeah thanks Al righty um I think we are ready now for the next presentation uh the board will receive
an informational update on the district's preliminary and un audited student enrollment count for the current school year and the estimated fiscal impacts of this enrollment as a reminder to the board and our listening public each year the district conducts a
student pupil count in early October as required by the Colorado Department of Education October count enrollment data is a key variable that drives changes to the district's forecasted revenue for
fy2 before I turn this over to miss copelan to introduce the topic superintendent dorin is anything you'd like to share thank you president Parker uh I'd like to thank um our presenters this evening for all the hard work that went into the
presentation and I want to thank the board too for this annual update to you in addition to the more regular updates that you've asked to receive regarding enrollment we all know that enrollment impacts not only our Revenue but also the programming that we're able to
provide our students and so I'm looking forward to you all studying this this evening thank you am I handing it to miss C great thanks uh good evening board members great to see you we're going to quickly uh preview the topics uh for
this evening it's not quite today anymore um but before I get started I do want to say the thing that is so weird about this presentation every year is that we're talking about students and then we start talking about them as if they're dollars and that's not true at
all um it is a financial reality that our enrollment count matters but I do want to say that um we absolutely think of our students as little humans that are learning and please forgive us for the presentation um so first we're going to talk about our um historic and current
District membership um then we've got some specific analysis around um rths and then we have some withdrawal information and then we have an analysis of Revenue and expense impact um we are going to be handing off a little bit I'm
supposed to have two of my team members here I'm sure they were following the 7M suggested start time for this topic so but that's okay I can sub for them um but since we are handing off feel free to interject with questions at any time
that way um you know for whichever section we're and you can get your questions answered um and with that all right hey all right why they while they get settled I'm gonna I'm G to keep
going and see how bad I messed it up um okay so this is showing a fiveyear trend of Jeff Co student membership um colorcoded the purple is District K12 the green is district prek and the blue
is Charter prek to 12 as you can see there's a little bit of a trend there but we are pretty excited um that some of the year-over-year declines are slowing um which is something that we had forecasted and now we're seeing that and
that is reassuring to us um total District membership of 6483 again that's a K12 number um has decreased about 8% since 2021 that was one of those years where I
hate saying because it's a mouthful um Etc so you can see the rest of the data up there and Brian are you ready to jump in sh are you ready to jump in sure okay let me give you the clicker awesome thank
you um so this next slide is looking at the um variance between our um incoming Kinder cohort in the same year as we have the um exiting cohort of 12th grade so as you can see 10 years ago on the far left the variance between these two
cohorts was about 500 students and now we're looking at our preliminary data is showing this is closer to 1600 so it's just another way of demonstrating to you the declining enrollment and how we're seeing that um Trend going forward um and how that's impacting our enrollment
at the Jeffco District another piece of information we wanted to share with you this evening is just a followup to a lot of data that you saw last year which was around our rths school closures last year this year we have four additional schools um to those Clos it was Arvada K8 Cole Creek
Canyon K8 more middle school and Bergen Meadow Elementary School uh this is showing the percentage of students that we retained within the district after those schools closed so our vatic 8 77% of those students were retained within the district primarily they went to nor
North Arvada middle school and Lawrence Elementary School Cole Creek Canyon 77% uh and then they primarily stayed there and as it turned into Jefferson Academy and um and when we say 77% we um lost 18 students so since
that's such a small school the percentage could be a little bit deceptive on that data point more Middle School 88% primarily those students went to Pomona Junior Senior High and then 94% at Bergen where they converted over into their new building the orange line that's going across on that graph is the
average from what we saw in WS one from last year so we're just comparing it to last year and it's pretty similar trend now I'll turn it over to Jeremy thank you in preparing the campus withdrawal Trend data we identified uh there was a
change in how campus collected that data the table below restates the 2223 data in a new methodology that accounts for that change that is then used on the following uh Trend slides so in looking at the district managed
schools of withdrawal campus withdrawal data by reason the top withdrawal reason my apologies the top withdrawal reason continues to be transferred to another Colorado district with a year-over-year decrease of 21 students followed by the
second highest is transferred to another state with a year-over-year decrease of 97 students yeah I got it we do want to note that there was an increase in the Dropout campus
withdrawal counts um when looking at campus withdraw data over a 12month period that does not take in account whether any student returns to the district and re enrolls uh student engagement and our team work with schools to identify disengaged students with the Dropout status and effort to
re-engage the student schools are encouraged if they are unsure whether a student is transferred or if they have not received a confirmation of enrollment to to code the student as a dropped out to prompt the student engagement processes for re-engagement in digging into the
detailed campus withdrawal data we noted that the top receiving district is Denver public schools with the top receiving School asrao online Academy High School and the top withdraw reason for all overall
withdrawal codes for moved when we compare this withdrawal data campus withdrawal data to cde's Choice enrollment in andout data the 22 23 24 school year is a first year in which there's a net loss of students from the
students who have choiced into Jeffco and out of Jeffco this net loss is due to a significant decline in the number of students who have choiced into Jeffco in those Trend years as we de dig into the detailed data CD data for Jeffco residents who are
choiced out of District um note the outof district enrollments are a mix of unique programs as well as proximity of neighboring and Boundary schools in reviewing our homebased education students register with Jeffco
um by grade levels there are 1469 homebased education students registered for the 2425 school year which is a year-over-year decrease of three students with the largest year-over-year increase in high school we want to note that this includes students enrolled in
part-time homebased enrichment programs and recognize that not every home-based education student who intends an enrichment program is registered with Jeffco and with that I want to turn over to Brian
awesome okay before we go into um revenue and expense in back do we have any questions so we can answer for you here yeah I think it is good for us to have our questions on that part of the presentation before we go into the budget are there any question from the
board Dr I'm sorry thank you for um I'm sorry if I missed it how do we get the data on withdrawal reasons withdrawal reasons are from so when a student withdraws the
register at the school identifies based upon the information they received a withdrawal code and then identifies comments of the information of where they're going so that's the information we pulled from and then created Trend over Trend data over two years so
someone knows where they're going the best information they have at the time it's a it's a process um typically the parent will inform the student and they'll capture that information and then that information has a separate process for State reporting where
there's a state comparison where we report a student going out of district and another District may or may not report that student yeah I'm just interested in data um would we assume we're missing a lot of data then just kids we don't know why they left
I Colorado is unique in the sense that we do not have a state data system that plugs into districts to get On Demand data it's a very delayed process between the data we capture and we report we're currently in the process of reporting the
2324 school year for end of year which doesn't finish up for the next two weeks I think I have a different question yeah than what you're answering I'm thinking of the method with how we get the data so since it's difficult like like if a family withdraws and they don't tell the
school where they're going we don't capture that we don't capture that correct and we do we know how much missing that in that case we work with student engagement we we ask schools to identify that student as a Dropout or unknown oh I see and then they work in
trying to follow up to engage that student and get that information that's helpful um and and Jeremy correct me if I'm wrong um there's another way that we sometimes find where a student has gone um when their new school requests their
cumulative file and so um some of some of these withdrawals where we know where they're going state or otherwise it's because a school in Texas has asked for the cumulative file so that's another source of it um we typically get those requests more in secondary than we do in
elementary I I imagine if you really wanted to go into you could validate what we recorded was what they reported but um my only other question um I visit all my Charter Schools up in the north and um one thing I've learned is how
many of them have homes school programs and I can think of three that have told me they have at least 800 homeschool students if not more which far exceeds these reports and I I do see the last bullet that says not every homeschool registers student registers correct but
I and and I went to the Jefferson Academy homeschool campus um last year um where I I think and I'm I'm doubting myself now but I think they have over 1,200 students um I think I've always wondered
how we could get better data um so for example in in the area that I live where we Clos the most schools and where we have this still a bunch of small schools and the most amount of Charters so this combination is just the way it is up
there then we have a lot of students in homeschool programs but we don't really have a record an accurate record unless they're not telling me accurate numbers but we were at woodro Wilson this week last week where I think he said they have over 800 just from that one school
so so yeah I can go ahead and get the total homeschool population and get that information to you as as an upate if not the these are the ones registered and um uh having what do I want to say um yeah
correct yeah so go back to my slide I'm sorry so it includes the students who enrolled in parttime homebased enrichments and then um students who are registered with us you do have situations where students do get into enrichments after the start of
school when we pull the data so this is a point in time data so we can I can get a a fuller set of data if you would prefer yeah I guess I'm just pointing out there seems to be something off because like I was not there this year at Jefferson Academy last year um and I
I think the thing that I find really interesting I'm just I just would love to know you know and I'm I'm so curious why um you know our kids are are choosing all the different schools that they do and I think also maybe we just need to learn more about homeschool programs because what I understood was
that when they register we have all these charters in the room they can probably tell me the answer to this but when they register with the charter even for part-time the charter receives District funding for that student and I think it's halfing they have to meet 90
Plus hours so I'm just I'm struck that we don't have the numbers when we are Distributing funding for those students in those schools so that's so we do we we do and I can get more information
break that out we have October count funding numbers we have um registration numbers thank you um thank you for the information I guess one I UND just looking at the probably the same Slide the reasons for
withdrawal um understand moved and the move to online school what does transfer include transfer would be move so oh when you're talking about that was the answer that was provided when the uh parents said they were leaving Jeffco so
they said they were being transferred in case so this comes from the comments and so unfortunately we are limited to how um it's entered based on the comments provided so we don't really have the ability to drill into it and say why are you choosing online versus
okay corre yeah um I have a question on slide nine where you're talking about um the difference in methodology it's like Dr difference so can you explain that so uh noow was a
suppression of withdrawal data and so the previous data set if the the school no showed it we had didn't have access to that data on the way we initially pulled it so in comparing that data we stopped schools from using the no-show
because it wasn't capturing all the data we wanted B better data quality for where a student was going and when they used the no-show was suppressing so we changed that practice and then we were able from the back end to get the the Fuller data set which we're
providing you um thank you this slide here makes it look like there were you know almost twice as many in the O category so what you're saying if I understand it that in the old methodology there would have been a noow
column correct there was a button to click a no show so they a student may not have returned turned and then we weren't able to pull on the front end where why they left or where and so we removed that because it
was uh suppressing access to that data on the front end so in doing so then we were able to collect that on the back end and then get the comparison Trend data okay thank you any other questions I'll just jump into and just say this is
part of um a lot of work as you guys know we've beening doing around um uh becoming a data culture and sort of tightening up how we're asking people to you know what goes in or what comes out is as good as what goes in in terms of
the data so we have done a lot of work around um more uh better expectation setting around what we want our schools to do for coding in ic um and been more clear I think in those expectations over the last year and so that's part of why
some of the state is looking different which is that footnote at the bottom of that slide so but I appreciate you highlighting that Mary and and noticing it thank you um and I just wanted to add the other piece of data that I feel like is missing in this current presentation um
is information about students newly enrolled in Jeffco right so these are not most of these are not net numbers they're just showing anyone who at some point departed and by the way they may have come back the other side of the coin is there are people arriving right
and so um maybe in a future iteration we'll try to show both because I think that might be really helpful as well um as we're trying to kind of understand what's happening there is some movement and people are coming here too right so that um we'll try and capture that in
the future okay so I think we're ready to go on thank you awesome thank you okay so we're going to cover the revenue and expense impacts based on the prary October counts um so the key takeaway from the prelimary enrollment um is
there were some minor adjustments to the district revenue and expenses that will result in no change to the budgeted use of fund balance um net revenue and net expenses will increase $1.3 million um this is due to increased people count um decrease to the atrisk count and some
small increases to other non factors the preliminary membership count for the district is up around 200 students um from the 25 20 FY 25 amended budget projections resulting in a funded pup count increase be 100 students this produces an increase of Revenue of $1.3
billion I'd also like to point out here that the ascent program did grow by 150 students from last year that was a great growth number um the preliminary October count enrollment produced a student based budgeting true up at schools of a net positive of $3 million this
included in this in excuse me including the net $3 million as a 3.5 use of carry forward to reduce the negative budget true UPS my budget team did anticipate the October true up amount um in the admitted budget and some of the
anticipation of having higher enrollment in some schools and some of the schools utilizing this carry forward this resulted in no change to the expense budget for the district there was a decrease in identified at risis student population which resulted in a decrease of $4 million from the
fi25 amended budget um the covid expansion for Medicade and snap identification ended last spring resulted in a a decrease in direct sear counts of around 6,000 students some of this decline was offset by increased form
submissions I'd like menion here that the district leadership did decide to hold School District district schools harmless from at risk count true UPS um for one year this year and to provide them time um to plan for the updated at risk budget for the FY 2526 school
year okay um the up upk enrollment was budgeted at a total utilization rate um of compacity of around 74% um the preliminary enrollment is coming in around 81% % of total capacity um which is an increase which is a great number to have um this increased the
revenue of around 2.5 million and also a relative increase of 1 million in expenses okay so this will we have now answer questions for revenue and expense so we just heard um from Edgewater that believe that they
[Music] um yeah their title well I'm thinking of like the individual students we keep calling them free and reduced lunch and that's really kind of a misnomer at this point but uh that that count is inaccurately low uh and then I look at
this and it looks like we're dropping as a district in the number of students who are being identified as at risk um that the for that submission of forms is up so I'm just wondering what's going on there because I I have to agree that I'm
having a hard time believing that Edgewater went from 80% to 54% overnight and can you help me understand better what's going on there sure so um if you look at FY
2122 on this chart um that was a year where uh there was not the same level of grandfathering and that's not the right word I wish I had a better word but where you count a student as eligible for assistance
simply because they were eligible the prior year um and so at that moment in time we weren't using direct certification this was all just from forums but you can see that there was even with um I think at that point it was like a one-year kind of um allow to
remain eligible um regardless of form submission but we were going down and if you draw sort of a line from that 20,000 students to the 19563 that's actually about what we thought was going to happen over time
the spikes are because um in 2223 I think that was our first year with direct wasn't it INE right but the I think the first year we
got to use direct was in 2223 right yeah and as soon as we did that our count went up and the reason is um uh the the the motivation to apply for public assistance is pretty high and those programs were um qualifying more folks
it was part of like um the equivalent of Esser the additional pandemic relief funds to States helped support um keeping folks on Medicaid regardless of kind of their status so while I I understand that number feels dramatic
it's actually because within that 80% quite a few of those folks actually were no longer eligible um for public assistance and they had been coming through to us on those direct C numbers that carried quite a few years worth of
eligible folks um and again when I look at the overall numbers for the district that that was the trend I expected to see um based on what we were seeing in fy21 and fy22 so I don't actually think it's
wrong so this is basically reflecting um a decrease in the number of people who are eligible for benefits okay because they had initially sort of been given Grace
into subsequent years and that is drawing to a conclusion okay thank you to to follow up on that um because Edgewater is not the only School worried about this I've heard quite a bit from several others this week um where do we
get these numbers multiple sources um so the the county um I'm going to put that in a little bit in air quotes um there's a number of different uh public Public
Assistance providers that are able to then submit data into a database that then flows to us effectively sort of through CDE um and that way we're able to match it to the student um within the district um our
food nutrition services team has always been the receiver of that data um feed so to speak I'm sorry um and again what I can see is that as soon as we intr uced
direct as a as a way to identify students um for food assistance within the school district all of our accounts went up and then they stayed higher than they should have because of this um rolling eligibility but we we get it from trusted sources and that's not the
only qualifying Factor um students may be in the foster care system and there's other factors um that that enable them to qualify as at risk in Colorado so is it fair to say I guess two questions here one that these numbers may not be
an exact reflection of the actual form submitted for free and reduce lunch that's the first one uh that's a fair thing just say I guess I'm uh that so where you're asking
for the second question um which is wise so if we are looking at title funding does title funding come from these numbers or do they come from the free and reduced lunch numbers uh so these numbers are the same
numbers that food nutrition services is using and so I'm I'm also trying to to not use frl so um so just a quick note I do want to remind folks um our title funding is important and obviously we
don't want to lose that but the money that we give schools for at students um through svb is more than twice um any of their per student allocations for title and every single School in the district who serves a student who's eligible for
assistance receives that atrisk allocation so on a monetary basis um that atrisk funding is much more significant than title funding um and again the the the reality of the
counts districtwide are going down and that's going to impact over time our title one districtwide um in terms of you know what does that mean for schools um we can always make a decision around that at risk factor we increased it as part
of the spbb work that we did because we wanted to make sure it was addtive um and we were trying to get closer to sort of a national Norm or Benchmark around approximately 20% um which we could find and we said
okay 20% of regular base fund um is a number to Target and and we try to get closer to that as well I'll add one thing thank you that I think that's helpful hopefully the board feels that way too and we can keep talking about it every year we do take a
strategic look at our title funding so um and and we make decisions through the budget cycle for the upcoming year about where to sort of draw certain lines what does what's going to qualify for title funding um in terms of uh
demographics number of um atrisk students served that kind of thing and it can change um from year to year so I I do think the other opportunity we have is to understand this acknowledge that our our um atrisk revenue is decreasing
and then we go back look at our schools look at our demographics how they're changing over the course of the year look at the October count information from students the demographic enrollment data and we make different decisions so every year schools are sort of wondering this is not necessarily a new thing um
schools do sometimes who hover on that you know cusp of well we're you have to be this percent of at risk to receive title funding if you're hovering on the edge of that number you're always sort of nervous you know am I going to be in
or out the next year one of the things that I think we have talked about and I don't know exactly where we are right now but I'll I'll get an update is um the opportunity to sort of tear schools and phase them in and out of that it's similar to the um averaging of enrollment that the state does so that
we're not yo-yoing year-to year on big enrollment fluctuations um there are strategies you can use where you say look you are looking like you are not going to be tital and you have a 2year or a three-year sort of phase out to be able to um make adjustments to your new
revenue or your new SVP over time those are all conversations that given this data that we're looking at which is fresh um and new to all of us um will cause us to have some of those conversations about how we're allocating title funds to schools how we're um
using it centrally honestly we need to take a look at that and think about what schools need versus what we need to do centrally to be able to administer the programs all those things will be conversations we have during our budget processes if that's helpful we don't have all the answers right now and we won't be able to know them until we kind
of give into the budget process and and have more time with the October count data no thank you that's helpful and I appreciate the explanation um I also want to say that I've heard from other schools um similar to what um the Edgewater um parents uh
told us Everett Middle School is one of the ones that came to mind where people are saying there can't be that much a drastic change in the demographics so um and uh superintendent Doran you did say that uh to the Edgewater or excuse me yeah Edgewater um contingent that just
today some decision was made about that school was it made about multiple schools my understanding was that our food nutrition services team was doing some validation work alongside probably our finance and and Title One um uh Administration team and that just this
week some schools were notified that they sort of uh we're going to continue to receive the funding I don't know much about the timing but I'm grateful that Miss pñ was able to spend some time with the family just to calm their nerves and I'll be following up tomorrow with the team to just try to figure out like what message are we sending to our schools to
make sure that they understand what's happening and um support our principles with um a better understanding what's happening so they can be sense makers for their families thanks and also um are there are other students that we might miss
when we're talking about at risk and I know and last year there was more a concern in the Denver area of a lot of um migrant families coming in uh and I don't think that's happening as much now but is there any um did do any of our
newcomer kids fall through the cracks because for multiple reasons their parents don't know much about our schools do you want to address that yep okay that's an excellent question and one that was raised um just now by
our Edgewater Community as well and um really grateful to the board for their investment in our newcomer supports we do have three family ambassadors that um are our direct line of contact and support for um all of our newcomer families and Jeffco and so um just
shared that we have well um close to 900 newcomer amilies that were currently serving in Jeffco and I have a spreadsheet of every single one of them in which our newcomer um Family ambassadors have made direct points of contact to every single one of our newcomer families and are walking them
through um really all of the educational and enrollment processes that they need which would include the school benefits application and letting them know what rights um and um access that they have to the services that we provide not only at the district level but also at at the
county and the city level as as well and so that team is doing a tremendous job providing that information and those wraparound supports directly to our families and in partnership with our schools um and with our schools that have um Family engagement Liaisons in partnership with our family engagement Liaisons as
well thank you any other questions on this section this is this conversation is making me curious um about something that I know happened at rosstein I know that there's School accountability committee went um all in on really
working with that Community to make sure that they um paperwork their forms were turned in um and I'm curious whether or not that is something we would want to see replicated across the county or or
if we should put our energy elsewhere or I'm just what is your opinion that's what I'm asking I love giving opinions um so so you know again one interesting factoid uh in fy2 we're certifying
certifying we're qualifying almost twice as many students based on their form submission so the I'll just say it again the number of students qualifying based on their form submission is almost double what it was last year so I don't
it's hard for me to take that fact and say that there's something wrong form completion and submission right again I think a lot of what's happening is the the primary driver to get support as
much as um you know there's some incentives with the school district and types of supports but the primary driver is health care and food um and the the number that prob the numbers that probably aren't correct in this
multi-year trend are FY 23 and fy4 we quite a few folks were were certified that weren't right and so I don't when we talk about forms um I continue to
think that um moving to a system where so many of our students are direct certified actually improves identification um will always be better than forms to be honest um and so I'm glad that the state of Colorado has done
that I think Statewide is overall again numbers have gone up because of that process and I do think that's the right Focus so I guess you know I would really hope that we're our ambassadors are talking to our families about snap and about Medicaid and really
strongly encouraging them to apply for those important benefits um even more than our forms followup um one of the requests that we heard just this evening was um a request for
streamlining the the forms um or making them simpler or easier is that an internal process or is that something that's determined outside of the district I'm trying to harness my inner Beth Wallace um and there's quite a few
details about what's on the form what type of form and it actually has to vary a little bit based on the school status and whether it's a community school or etc etc so in short no thank
you one thing I think that is good I think the streamlining of Eligibility uh uh forms I guess I filling them out across the state there's so many efforts right now um
through Innovation um groups and then Human Service Groups all trying to streamline those eligibility documents for families so if we're going towards that hopefully we can benefit from from that streamlining and families will benefit from it too because that's a complaint they have not just about our
forms but in general they have to fill out a new thing for every single eligibility so there's a lot of work right now trying to um align those as well so hopefully it'll all align a little bit and just end up being easier for families as we talk about pulling
information from like Snap and Medicaid and all of that um what happens if we've got families who are here without documentation are they not eligible for these and therefore not being counted what happens with
that so we're starting to get a little bit outside my area of expertise um anecdotally I believe that your immigration status does not preclude you from um receiving Public
Assistance we and we can I make a suggestion I'm actually feeling the need for us to have some atrisk funding um discussions it seems like that might be an interest of the boards and I actually think that would be a great thing for us to build
into some of our um budget conversations as we go into midy year February March um and and I'm also taking away that and I'm just going to say this out loud for the team to kind of note and here I think we have some education to do with
our budget managers and school leaders around how their students are qualifying for at risk and I just want to say I love this idea of making sure that our families understand the social resources available to them in snap and Medicaid
and and getting more of our efforts focused on qualifying families for those supports that actually provide a benefit to them in addition to free school lunches which we have for every kid anyway um so I'm I'm really curious about this conversation I very much
appreciate all the questions you've asked because it's gotten me thinking and we're going to have some team conversations but I'd be happy for us to dive into this for the board um if you want to keep going with your agenda and we can bring this back great thanks that's good all right well thank
you so much we really appreciate it bye thank you um I'm wondering board if uh you'd be amenable if we adjust our our agenda right now and do the consent agenda now because we have some members
in the audience who are interested in what we will do so I think we will need a motion um Miss tson do we need how do we get out of order since you already have noticed the item for decision tonight you don't have to worry about amending your agenda to
alert the public that that's happening so I think just exercising a moment of courtesy and making the adjustment is something that you can do as long as there's no objection and the moment of courtesy is is what a moment of silence no I think it's exactly what you
did you proposed to your all right good then um we will go right now into the consent agenda um items 8.01 and 8.22 through 8.22 are presented in board
docs as a proposed consent agenda uh do I have a motion regarding the approval of the consent agenda agenda I move to approve items 8.01 through 8.22 on the consent agenda as published in board Ducks is there a second second any
comments Dr V I just wanted to comment on our um Property Disposition work I think we've come to a place where we have learned so much um and I kind of have two asks so the first one I'm so
sorry I just put a cough drop in not thinking we were going to talk right now um uh I think our process has some we heard good things and some really challenging things so I'm hopeful that we can do like a retro at this point on how those
processes have gone especially our community engagement work and just take stock of what's worked well and what hasn't and see where we might adjust and I think we've talked about that a little bit but I really want to focus on that because some people are really really upset by that process and so I think we
can learn I've always said like definitely have bigger rooms is one lesson we've learned um so people don't have to leave um the other thing is in the process of these latest property dispositions um in the study session I
asked about the demand uh for preschool and I we learned through the the response that we got that there are uh 359 kids in the area of Glennon Heights is it Glennon Heights I'm so sorry yes um
that are waiting on waight lists from and preschools from our neighborhood schools within our neighborhood School lists um and that's not something that I had heard about before we did all of this um I'm really glad that um a
preschool has been uh we have a way to put a preschool in there and meet that me so I'm pleased that we're at this point I'm regretful though that Jeffco didn't notice this in time to put our own programming in that school or just
address this need before a private sector entity was able to come in and do that so in this time when we have so much enrollment decline we need to capture every single kid that we can in
our public schools and so I just regret that we missed that somehow in the way that we were when we are given data and information about disposition should we put a school in disposition the way it's
framed is the district has determined we will no longer need that property and I just want to be able to really really trust that we have looked at every single piece of demand in the district where our programs could fill bring kids into that school um and do it before we
make really big uh irreversible decisions about letting properties go so I'm not saying Glenn and Heights should have been one thing or another I'm glad that we're going to be able to fill what's an obvious huge need in this area for these these kids on this weight list
um and and I'm I'm very pleased that the the community is happy with that but I I just feel like we missed something here and so going forward I'm just hopeful and I'd like to ask that we just are really hyper aware of these kinds of things so that we can fill as many of
these clothed schools with as much Jeff Co programming as possible um before private entities come in so those are just my asks and my thoughts on our process thank you any other
comments it has been moved and seconded to approve the consent agenda roll call please miss Zada Miss Applegate yes Miss Kenworthy yes M Parker yes Miss Reed yes Dr vard yes
the consent agenda items are approved thank you all for coming for our final presentation tonight the board will review the current analysis of the two new builds originally considered in the 2018 Capital Improvement program as a
reminder to the board and our listening public Jeff Co continues to conduct long-term planning analysis around School boundaries demographics and enrollment projections no staff recommendation is being made nor board decision is being requested at this time
before I turn this over to miss Rosario uh superintendent Doran do you have anything you'd like to share thank you president Parker this is a complicated topic and I want to reiterate I very much appreciate you saying no decisions are being made at this time um I want
our listing public to know that we have uh shared staff has shared with our Board of Education that we need to take our time with these decisions and we anticipate sort of um the old saying of multiple bites at the sapple um so that
we the board clearly understands um all the ins and outs and possible options and implications of the decisions to either build these two new schools or do something different um to support the trends and enrollment and and uh and so there will be no decisions obviously
this evening or next month but we do anticipate multiple conversations about this so stay tuned um this is uh round one uh and with that I'm going to hand it over to miss Rosario thank you maybe I don't have that close enough yet okay thank you for having
me um already articulated is our purpose for today we're going to review the current analysis for the two new builds that were contemplated as part of the 2018 um um Capital improve program we'll look at forecasted enrollment Trends and school utilization for both Ralston
Valley and Green Mountain and um we want to do this so that the staff and the board can collaborate on a path forward and reiterating again we're not making a recommendation or asking the board for a decision at this time so getting grounded we talk about
that in the fall of 2018 we had a bond issuance that was approved by our community and from that became the 2018 CIP program or capital Improvement program um which had $60 million earmarked for two new school builds you can see in the map on the right highle
picture of our district with two large blue dots one in Ralston Valley um in the northern part and then Green Mountain farther south towards the central part of our district timeline is we're here today um for the first presentation for you all to see this we have also engaged with
the um the Colorado futur Center sorry stuttered Colorado futur Center on a demographic study for Arvada we've already undergone that and that's almost complete we will then have some engagement with our aada elected officials um in hopefully December
January to review the data from CFC along with our own data for what we're seeing in that area um Additionally you all for our next board meeting in December we'll have a meeting with a dialogue session with our CAC committee which is our Capital Asset Advisory
committee and will also um talk about this uh potential of the two new builds then in the spring we're going to do a similar process that we're doing already in Arvada we'll engage again with CFC for a demographic study for the Lakewood area and then engage with our elected officials in that area um showing them
our data along with this demographic study and the decision- making is still to be determined but this is the path forward that we see today so starting with the end the key takeaways from this uh presentation are going to be that our enrollment projections demonstrate that both in
Ralston Valley and Green Mountain we are on track to be able to accommodate what we are projecting as our student enrollment for the next um foreseeable future within the current footprint within both of those articulation areas the schools at all levels display healthy rates of utilization and room to
accommodate the boundary students in including those that are coming from new developments any schools with higher utilization Trends tend to have a higher Choice percent and that gives us opportunity for um adjustments to try to accommodate the boundary students first
we're looking at utilization rates being healthy from 61% up to 100% And that gives us room for um enrollment growth and then just a reminder back in the spring and in June we made a decision to assign the trailstone development to Michel John Elementary Wing Carl middle
school and rolon Valley High School to alleviate some concerns that we did have at that time at Ralston Valley around Three Creeks capacity um and again our five-year projections demonstrate that we think we have capacity to accommodate the growth as we did this this was many um
months of analysis and as we did the analysis we came up with there was a few other um available levers that we that we believe we can pull besides just making a decision between do we build a school or do we not as we observe High utilization within schools we think there's some other things we can
consider in the process the first is to employ what we're calling effective Ive capacity planning so that's really looking at how can we smooth out enrollment across grades and cohorts within schools and articulation areas to create um an efficient model for those
schools within the articulation area we also look at if there's special programs in any of those schools um potentially prek or Central Services that are um taking up space in a building that was intended for K through five students and seeing if there's opportunity to
relocate to maybe help um if there's an enrollment growth in one of those schools additionally we can consider it's not highly um regarded but we can consider a temporary building when we really see that it's just a short-term solution for less than five years to a
building to accommodate maybe a bubble of enrollment that's um going through the school and then being able to remove the temp building once that bubble has um pushed through we also can look at the option of adding a permanent addition to a current building where with projected that we're going to have sustained
increase enrollment for greater than five years and that's obviously a smaller investment than a a new school building we can do similarly to what we did um in rolon Valley we can look at boundary lines we can adjust or reassign um based on where students live and
attend if that helps us to U maximize or minimize the impact on the current families but help with the long-term enrollment planning and then finally with the building a new school option that is really for when we do not think that the area at the capacity in the area is sufficient for the growth grow
we can look at um building a new school but the options with that isn't just build a new school we can also consider closing Andor consolidating with nearby schools as an option for that lever so just a reminder that we feel like there's a few levers we can also analyze in the process as we look at new growth
in any of our areas taking a step back um if we go back to 2016 and where we were and what we were thinking was going to happen within the district this graph is um showing what we were forecasting as our enrollment the green bars are the enrollment projections for
the Ron Valley um articulation area and the Orange is Green Mountain as you and at this time we knew excuse me we knew that we were having the candelis and lien Rock developments coming on within Roston Valley which is driving a good chunk of that those green bars growing
up um upwards over the course of these years we also had Three Creeks on on the radar to be projected to open in the fall of 2017 to help accommodate with growth from those new developments Three Creeks did open in the fall of 2017 um and then for Green Mountain we
knew that there was potential for developments but none of them were um we weren't close enough to any of those being able to really forecast any enrollment but we were forecasting at that time that the enrollment in Green Mountain was going to be relatively flat over the next few
years fast forward to today this graph is updated the bars are now the actual enrollment for both of those articulation areas the green bar um or the green line above is uh matches the bars that we saw in the previous slide so that's what we were projecting for
enrollment and then the green bars down below are what we saw as the actual enrollment and then same for Green Mountain the um orange line is what we projected and the orange bars is what we saw so we can see that we did see the growth in Ralston Valley as we
anticipated it just wasn't as significant as what was anticipated and then within Green Mountain we've actually seen a decrease in enrollment in Green Mountain where it was projected to be relatively flat so what's changed um in this time you you all are very familiar with this
um we don't have to go through it in detail we had the the pandemic but one thing to think about that we have seen is with there have been demographic changes so the families that grew that um moved into candelis lien Rock and sutera developments they actually yielded fewer students um into our
district than originally calculated in what we had seen in previous developments within the district so that's a change to our modeling that um we can learn from now as we saw those students come into our district the other piece is that we did have slow and uncertain pace of development so many of
these developments really did slow down or got delayed for various issues related either to the pandemic or supply chain or other issues within those areas so those those things are um things that we know happen now but we didn't know it at the time in 2016 so I will go through the analysis
but I first wanted to cover a few definitions that I think will help as we get into the analysis to make sure that we're um um operating from the same page so I will talk a lot about utilization just um to understand that utilization is calculated by dividing
the number of students in a building um currently within the design capacity understanding that design capacity doesn't always account for Center based programs that are operating within the school sometimes there might be a center based program that's taking up classroom space that was designed to have up to 24
students so that's going to be a variance between Divi design capacity and what's actually happening in cases where we have those center-based programs and or we anticipate greater than 100% utilization we're um currently going through a process where we have a facilities team member walking the
building with a school leader to really analyze this space because we know that based on when school buildings were built and how they're being used just looking at it from a straight math perspective doesn't always work to tell us what how how many students can be fit into that building so on these cases we're starting with those higher
priority ones and making sure that we're on the same page uh in the top right is utilization ranges so these are ranges that we've typically used in our summary of findings document that's issued through the facilities Department we'll use this color coding in the analysis going forward to just highlight the
differences on where schools are hitting in their utilization ranges um and then additionally in the bottom right hand corner of this slide is just our facilities condition index uh this is just to say that the goal of 2016 CIP program was to lower the
average FCI when um when we started in the program was a little greater than 20% and now we're less than 10% so uh obviously the the program has done a good job in lowering the FCI but then as the analysis goes through you're going to be ble to see those scores for each of the schools that we're
considering questions before I get into Ralston Valley all right here is our articulation maps for the Rolston Valley area on the left is our elementary boundaries and on the right are our Middle School boundaries I
am including um boundaries for the Stanley Lake articulation area as well we do have um in Roston Valley the interesting U matriculation pattern where students that attend Mel John Elementary then go up to Stanley Lake um
for Middle School at Wayne Carl middle school and then they come back down into their articulation area for Ralston Valley so that is part of why they're being included and then just for the proximity of these schools to the areas where we're going to be focusing the analysis the uh information on this uh
grid on this slide is we have a column there for 2425 enrollment this is our preliminary uh enrollment for October counts uh or leading up into October counts it was really pulled September 25th right prior to our October count
data so it's close but not exact um and keeping in mind that the enrollment data that's on here is our preschool through 12 um enrollment we also have capacity of the building that is the um the capacity that I referenced on the previous slide with the space capacity and then we have the column for
utilization this is using that color c um coding that I had mentioned to just give a visualization of where each of these schools are sitting for their utilization um percentages we also have capture rate capture rate is how many of the students that are boundary to that school are
actually attending that school so we can see really good capture rates in this area of the district and then finally the FCI score for each of the buildings and any of these uh schools that have um either an asterisk or a cross next to
them those are highlighting if a school has a temporary building on site or if they have a preschool program because that does impact what's going on in the building this slide is showing us our choice in and choice out statistics so the first uh two columns are from last
school year are choice in numbers um and percent of students that are choicing into each of these uh schools and then our choice out numbers and percentages and then the final two columns are a fiveyear average and most of them are consistent but you can see that some of them are different from
last year over a 5ye and so it just gives you a comparison if we take what we know today in Rolston Valley and we take the First Column it's kind of in the middle as the prelim column this is showing us our that preliminary enrollment for this school year and the utilization for each
of these schools and then we're forecasting out um the enrollment and utilization for each of the schools in this area um and then like I said Wayne Carl is included on the bottom just because we do have that um matriculation pattern with the students being involved going
up to Wayne Carl from Mel John so this is showing good levels of utilization across these schools but you can see some of the changes you can see Mel John going from 65% up to 84% and that's an anticipation of the trailstone development starting to come into that
school and um being enrolled within that school so the impact of status quo leaving everything as it is and looking at those um projections and utilizations we can see that um we have room within the buildings within the existing buildings if we leave it as is there's
no impact to the students and the families we don't have to do a boundary change we don't have to impact transportation we will see the better enrollments in Mel John and Wayne Carl due to the trailstone development um over time and then we would need to continue to en U monitor the enr
enrollment employ effective capacity planning within the area just to keep an eye on what's happening within those schools and where they're sitting with their um enrollment so now I want to give you a scenario of if we build a new school um in Rolston Valley and how this was
originally contemplated um in the 2018 Bond uh just keep in mind that this is used to explore the impact of a new K8 school it does um assume that when the K8 School opens all the students that are enrolled or that live in the
boundary for that new school would start attending the new school so it doesn't have consideration about if that's really what the pattern would be this is really just showing to illustrate the potential impacts of a new school in the area based on what we know today so these are your Elementary
School boundaries on the left are our current Elementary School boundaries and then on the right is the Elementary School boundaries in the middle is the lime green uh boundary area for the new K8 you can see it is a little red building uh and highlighting in the
middle there it's beautiful and here is the middle school on the left are the Middle School boundaries and then on the right is the uh Middle School boundaries the the original assumption for a school up here is a K8 so this would take the Middle
School boundary away um or this would take the Middle School boundary away yeah for Mel John it would take it away from Wayne Carl and put it in the new K8 and so you would see that in the middle of the um the articulation area up there so what does that mean for
utilization within this area the first five columns are what I showed you a few slides ago which is the utilization based on our status quo current state and on the right our five columns and you can see in the middle we add the new K8 school that becomes online in 2728
and goes forward you can see when we bring on the new K8 school um then we see the decline in utilization for ML John and for Wayne Carl at the bottom of the graph as those students are now boundary to attend the new K8
school are there questions on this part all right so if we built a new K8 School in Ralston Valley if if it was today a portion of the families that live in Three Creeks Mel John and Wayne Carl boundaries would experience a boundary change it's approximately 215 families
today uh the district would need to consider if we would exempt privileges for families that are currently enrolled in any of those schools if we really would have them attend the new school the first year that it opens and how that um works for the district to manage we could be creating an environment in
this area where schools would be competing for students students because as new students go to the new school they're going to leave the old school and the old school may want addition you know to beef up their enrollment so that they get their additional spb funding Wayne Carl and Mel John uh would need to
be monitored for long-term sustainability because we can see that the new school would be pulling students away from those two schools and that's the way the analysis goes for Ralston Valley are there questions you ready to do you want to go straight into Green
Mountain thoughts um this question is for Tracy I think do we have any information yet from the principes and staff in the area their thoughts on the Ralston Valley potential build we have shared
this information with our principles and I will maybe let one of these uh leaders over here share with you more detail about what they've shared with us yeah so thank you for asking that director Kenworthy so shine did a wonderful
presentation to all of our principles in the Ralston Valley and Green Mountain areas a couple of weeks ago um they asked really great questions I would say our Ralston Valley principles um the ones that were mentioned up there around
sustainability were really concerned about um what might happen to their schools one of the principles said that new schools are old skill school Killers um and they they were they were concerned we did definitely um got some great questions um Niel John in
particular had some questions and concerns about the capacity numbers we were showing for them so our facilities team actually just finished a walk I believe yesterday um or the day before and we will be adjusting the capacity numbers at Mel John but it doesn't change our analysis they have a
preschool program there and the ability they still have space um so we we we don't have uh we don't have concerns but I um I would say that they asked thoughtful questions and um they I think
they're they're still ruminating on it but there wasn't uh they weren't rejecting the idea that we brought forward that we could potentially we could handle the capacity within the schools that we already have Shan would you add to that no I think that's
exactly it I think they did you know they kind of nodded their heads and agreed that they felt like with what they're seeing that we had the capacity in that area to handle the students up there um if they're still ruminating on it is there a second chance for them to
Circle back around and give feedback or thoughts um since this sounds like this discussion happened really recently yes I think um yes we will continue to engage them um as we get further down the line with the board too and understand what our timing might look
like uh for sure we'll keep we'll keep checking in with them I would just say as we do that work it's always an option for us to have a principal or two who represents these areas be at the table so that the board can interact directly I mean you guys all do school visits and conductor
principes as well but just having their voice in the room as we move toward decision making uh for the board uh is always an option too uh the Green Mountain principles were also there so maybe we can add that into the presentation just some thoughts about how they reacted I think when I was in
there with them their reaction was very similar to the board's conversation um and so we can share that as well as we move forward that is helpful I think for me with the rson valley I'm less familiar and I don't I haven't visited a lot of schools up there because it's not my director District but I want to make
sure that their um voice is being considered as the experts you know living in that area and I know that I have way more access to information about Green Mountain because that is my close to my director district and so I appreciate you sharing that information
it's helpful thank you great I just want to make the comment for um anyone who may be watching that this is not the first time that we have seen any of this information so if we're not asking a lot of questions it is not
a lack of Interest it is we have had an opportunity to ask a lot of questions so far so um I'm very pleased that you are presenting this for the public to see because I think that they need lots of time to digest what it is that we're contemplating and all of that so I really appreciate you being here and I
just want people to understand that if it seems like we're mostly going yeahuh you know we we get this it's because we've had a chance to look at this all right well what so the analysis flows the same in Green Mountain um and now you have a little warmup to it to to
be able to get through the next part so we'll start the same with the um the boundary maps for the Green Mountain articulation area on the left is the Elementary School boundaries and on the right is the Middle School boundary so we only have one Middle School in this
articulation area that serves the full population and the and just to clarify those pink uh I'll say pinkish holes on the left in the Elementary School boundaries those are the ones that go to Rooney Ranch the orange goes to Hutchinson Elementary purple is and then
the darker purple is Foothills Elementary and you can see a red dot up there which is where Green Mountain Elementary that was closed is located so we'll start again with uh what our enrollment was for prek through 12th as of September 25th for the
schools in this area I am including Red Rocks Elementary School and Cary Middle School because those schools are close to this articulation area and we do have some um cross pollination from this articulation area into those schools and back and forth we have our capacity
numbers for each of the schools again if a school has a star or a cross next to it it indicates if it has temporary buildings on site or has a preschool program located within the school we have a column for utilization percentages for each of the schools based on that preliminary enrollment
number our capture rates um and our FCI scores you can notice that the capture rates are a little bit more varying um in this part of the district compared to what we saw in rol Valley this is our choice in and choice out statistics for the same schools we
can see the 2324 choice in numbers and choice out numbers and percentages and then on the far right the fiveyear average choice in and choice out and again similar to the capture rate we can see that these are different than rolon Valley we have higher percentages of choice in and choice out um within this
uh articulation area part of why we're looking at Green Mountain um and why it's being considered is because we do have some new developments in the Green Mountain Area there is a Red Rocks Ranch uh development that's currently having H houses being built but we already have
278 homes built from those 278 homes we have 75 students uh 95 additional homes will be projected through 2829 they're primarily single family units from 800 to 1.2 million million overall we Pro we are
projecting 43 new students that are projected to Jeffco over the next 10 years from those additional 95 um homes that are coming online we also have a uh development called Indigo the construction has not yet begun in this
development we are projecting 522 new homes and they will start being built in the 2728 school year there were also primarily single family units we're projecting a total of 22 new students to Jeffco starting anytime after 2728
school year so a little ways out and those 226 new students will still be spread out over time they wouldn't all hit within the same school year a note in the bottom right there has been some water right uh water rights conversations in this part of our district um and has been challenges for
these new developments to get these uh houses online being able to turn on water taps and have some agreement around the water rights in that area so here are those schools again the column 2425 prelim is what I showed you um just a minute ago in a different way
where we have the enrollment listed for each of the schools in the utilization and then we're projecting that enrollment going forward and the utilization rates for the schools and we can see you know dein is then coming up to 104% that's a change of 56 kids up to
523 but it is up to 104% if we go if we go back a slide we can see that also deini has um one of the higher you can see in the top right they have a a high choice in average of 44.7% so that's where we talk about some of those levers and looking at some of those pieces of
data if there's ways that we can help with um pulling down some of that enrollment to keep it closer to 100% than getting it to 104% so the same as rolon Valley if we have the impact of status quo and keeping the student and and I apologize this forecast that I showed you here
includes forecasted students from those developments that I mentioned on the previous slide so this does show the the growth the um the areas I apologize I should have said this I don't think do I have a oh a red
dot I don't know if anybody can see it at home in the bottom left part of the um Elementary School boundary close to Red Rocks Elementary that is close to where these new developments will be in the district and they are currently boundary to attend Hutchinson elementary school so
we can see here when we look at Hutchinson Elementary we can see that growth in student um student enrollment in the Years 2728 as we are ramping up a lot of those students going into the Hutch Elementary School um and that's
why that's what's driving the primary reason why the utilization is increasing at hutch so going back to this no impact uh if we keep a status quo with what we see today we do think that we have the capacity to handle these new families and not impact any current students in
families not change any boundaries we wouldn't have to do anything around Transportation um we will see additional levels of enrollment at Hutchinson and Dunston um schools due to the um new developments in that area but we think that both of those schools and with the
pattern of a lot of choicing in and choicing out across this area we should be able to um accommodate the students that come into the new developments and now we'll look at the scenario of building a new K8 school again this is used to as an
assumption to illustrate the potential impacts there would be additional conversations about how this all rolls out but this is assuming when we open the schools that all the students that are in the boundary for the new school would attend the new school so on the left is our current
Elementary School boundaries and then on the right is the building the new K8 this is where it was contemplated so again it's in the lime green with the hatch marks to it and the little red building and that um that is land that we have near those developments that was
originally held in case we needed to um build a new K8 school there so that is the location where it was originally contemplated because of where the school is and how um it would impact our existing elementary schools we would have to reboundary each of the other elementary schools after that so you can
see each of the boundaries while they're similar to what's on on the left they're not the same we do have to kind of change the boundaries for all elementary schools within this articulation Area Middle School as I mentioned before we only have one Middle School currently
to serve this articulation area this would now create two so this would take a portion of the Dunston um boundar middle school students and put them into the new Ka here's the comparison view so the first five column are the current state
of what we were projecting and talked about a few slides ago and the far right five columns are the and really it's the last two are showing the the two New Years where the school would come online in 2728 and we can see that as they come online then we can see that then
Hutchinson goes from 82% utilization down to 69 and there's other impacts across the board because like I said we have to uh change the boundary areas for all the elementary schools here so if we build a new K8 in this area a portion of families who currently live
in all elementary middle school will exp experience a boundary change this is says 214 I think the 214 is primarily the ones that are related to the K8 boundary the district would need to consider exemption privileges for families who are currently enrolled in Jeffco schools it would take 5 to 9
years to fully realize the impact of the boundary chains if we let kids stay in the school that they started schools then potentially again would be competing for students as principal seek to offer more Choice enrollment seats to make up for the offset um if they have a smaller boundary for those elementary
schools and Dunston Middle School in particular the long-term sustainability of that school would be at risk going from the school that serves the full articulation area to sharing it sorry questions um I think I understand on slide 35 the
Red Rocks column um or line but I'm I'm wondering if you for my fellow board members would be able to explain why Red Rocks is so high above their capacity numbers I can say from a a numbers
perspective they have four or five buildings on site and that's how they get to this 100 and plus% utilization because they are able to serve the students in those temp buildings and that doesn't count in our utilization calculation for um building capacity or
permanent capacity in those buildings so from a numbers perspective that's why it's that high thank you for that explanation you did it way better than I would thanks so much oh yeah thank you for this this is a lot of work and a lot of effort and Frank has
some really big implications for families so I appreciate I know you put a lot of work into it um reminder to our listening public we get to study this stuff in advance so this probably won't surprise you but I do want to ask it I'd be really curious to see what this look like modeled as the
K5 um it's it's interesting to me the impact to the middle schools especially Dunston um but also seeing some of the elementary schools I think that would be I would be interested to see those numbers and how that changed some of these charts um the other thing that I'm like
peaked by director vara's earlier comments on preschool numbers is do we know preschool numbers in these areas or if there's a wait list for some of these schools for preschool I know these are all K5 k6 K8 middle school but um we've
seen in multiple presentations tonight you know I'm a mom of a preschooler so I'm sorry to harp on this our preschool numbers are increasing and that's wonderful wonderful news but I'm curious if we are a similar spot in the South as we might be in kind of the Lakewood area
so I'd be curious to see those numbers too so I don't think I I do not have numbers on who's on weight list for preschools what I can say because we did do some studying of preschool um there for last school year there was around 80 preschool students they are currently
either going to Foothills or Hutch those are the two schools um that have a cross next to them that have the preschool enrollment included I would say it's like I think last year it was like 53 of those preschoolers went to Foothills in 27 went to Hutch um so we do have them
spread out over those two schools I think it would be fascinating for us to think about what a creative alternative in this region might look like the one thing I want to say in response to that is that um as it is
Hutchinson struggles to get the the kind of student capacity for um full programming and they they are in a part of the district where um a number of other schools are quite full and they
are not um they have a center program there that's an amazing program so you know I I'm all for sure let's take a look at what K5 would do but I am
concerned that it would still leave Hutchinson in the Lurch um and it wouldn't it wouldn't quite I don't think it like it's not going to replace Hutchinson it's not going to be able to take up all of those kids I think we're
going to end up with a couple of schools that aren't full um so I am concerned about the impact on Hutchinson um I also want to go back to to the Red Rock situation that looks like it's um going to be over capacity
no matter what status quo or if we um build a new school and so I'm wondering um is this something that we can address as a district sooner than the contemplated potential new new build I
mean do we have something going on now to address the schools that still have temporary buildings I can try to speak to that a little bit um I think that Red Rock So Red Rocks is in the Bear Creek um area and uh if if
you look at Red Rocks and where those kids are coming from they could definitely go to schools that don't have temporary buildings ultimately we've been trying to remove them um and there are some schools that their Community feels really strongly about keeping them
um and and serving students in the way that they are so we try to to keep that in mind um Red Rock say Elementary School is an one of our very old old buildings and so I think that as we do our um strategic Capital master plan
work um over the next 18 months it will be something that we are we are looking at um and ultimately um you know again these schools also get some choice and how many students they're allowing in
and how they're serving them um and they make those decisions with us and with their communities I don't I don't know if that fully answered your question oh I would I'll add on because I think that's um it answers it somewhat and I think there's more to it when you look
at this slide you'll see Red Rocks Elementary School's capacity at 216 so it is architecturally a small school and you know one of the criteria foreclosures was if it was less than 220
so they've added these temps and to you know no fault of the schools it's very difficult to provide high quality programming with 216 students so they use the temps to increase their enrollment to increase their revenue and then therefore increase robust programming that they can offer for
their students and we do have people who are coming from the Green Mountain area and choicing in to Red Rocks because it's just across it's just west of C470 um and so I know from our facilities team's conversations that we have had
conversations around um the fcii score um of red rocks and you can see here it's 12.7 it's not terrible by any means but it is an older building and it does have a lot of temp buildings and so could we imagine adding on an addition
to that building or rebuilding it or remodeling it in some way the footprint of where the building is and the land that it sits on is also very tricky and so it's almost to a point where we would have to move the kids to a different building for a year build and then move them back in and we just don't know
where we would do that um but I do think Red Rocks being considered as part of this conversation is really important because families cross boundary or take boundaries in this area um it's just but but in addition to everything Lisa said it's just a small school and so they
accept these kiddos have them in the temps and it's a very popular School thank you any other questions nope so thank you very much for this presentation we look forward to seeing it
again thank you okay so Mary can I say one more thing just to clarify because we keep coming back to this preschool um weight list piece I do want to um make sure that we get the board some additional information about preschool weight list
so the enrollment process for preschool is a bit different than it is for K12 we don't 100% control it as a school district and enroll jeco like we do uh the K12 enrollment um families use the
state system to express interest and then they are weight listed by the state system we encourage families to also enroll and enroll Jeff Co so that we can understand where families land where they don't land and sort of control some of the weight List information um but what I do
know is that many of our families are on multiple weight lists um and some families get into different programs and then they don't drop themselves off of this weight list which we don't completely control so I just I think we need to get you all some additional
information about that and so the the demand for preschool in various areas of our um Community are are not black and white uh just given the different kinds of preschool we offer half day full day the fact that there's not daycare
attached to it um as well as the fact that we are partnering right now with the state due to the upk initiative on enrollment and weight listing and which location and placement and and special
ed uh with child find so it's just it's complicated um and so I would like we'll take some next steps and just try to get some further information to the board about how we determine preschool demand because it is not as simple as just
looking at a weit list given the systems that we are part of at the state level so that's just important for you guys to know okay thank you um that does bring us now to the leadership reports um we would be starting with the superintendent great thank you Mary um
it's been a long meeting tonight so I'm going to keep my report brief uh first I want to share my appreciation for the board and the time we had together at the end of last month to reflect on the 2324 school year and set Focus areas uh
for my goals uh this year um I'm really appreciative for the time you committed to my annual evaluation uh as well as the thoughtful Reflections and feedback that each of you shared with me that are represented in the public memo you accepted tonight I I just really felt
like there was a lot of thought and intention put into the conversation that you all had with me um and I very much appreciate it um I know that there was time and effort put into that so thank you um as you all know I love the opportunity to get to spend time with our students so I want to highlight some ways that I've been able to do that I
was at Bell Middle School today you may have seen this on my Instagram post they're having a big family event tonight the type of family event I used to be a part of when my kids went to Bell Middle School um um and uh I toured their mobile Art Gallery uh where they
had artw workk from the uh Cherry Creek Arts Festival Gallery installed in their library and then seventh grade students were trained as dosent and so they kids invited me over and I said yes and I stopped by and I had a really nice like
30 to 45 minute tour of the uh Cherry Creek Arts uh pieces and the students shared with me um uh what they knew knew about the pieces and the artists and it was really fun so that was great uh Lucy and Emerson were my dosen and I just want to publicly thank Lucy and Emerson
for showing me around today uh they were very knowledgeable dosen uh last week I was able to spend time with our Jeff Co student leadership board at their fall retreat they told me about all the projects they were going to be engaged in this year and I know they're very much looking forward to speaking with you guys in the near future again I ate
lunch at all three Jefferson articulation area schools uh recently with our students and several of their moms uh who are engaged and passionate about our food nutrition services pilot um and I want to thank the principles
for joining me in those lunches I one time I was with all of you and we were able to um eat lunch with uh um uh representative peton is that right yes we were there with her um and and I've gone back so and all three schools have
had lovely lunches um with and Mr Gatlin joined me too so thank you Mr Gatlin for that I did also attend the Coline Chatfield football game at uh the beginning of this month during the pregame it was a very special evening both schools partnered um to host a
special ceremony for Janet Lowry who served as a longtime fax teacher at Chatfield High School um and tragically she is terminally ill um her husband Andy uh is chatville or colines oh my gosh Coline will be very mad at me if I
said Chatfield ofstead of col um so Janet Lowry did serve as a fact teacher at Chatfield and her husband Andy is Colin's longtime High School football coach um and the way that the two
communities came together in honor of two long-term Educators who care deeply about both of those communities was really special to see especially given the incredible rivalry that exists between uh colum Bine and Chatfield it was it was really special um and we say
often uh as a staff we say often that Jeff coing get were're really big but we can get really small really fast um and that was a a great example of how our community comes together in support of one another um in really special ways so
that was one of my favorite things I've done um and then Monday was Veterans Day and I want to thank our veterans for their service including the incredible Drew sh who runs the AV and streaming for our board meetings and much much more
speaking of honoring our veterans I want to thank Green Mountain High School for including me in their Veterans Day breakfast it was a very snowy day there were many people who were not happy about being out on the roads and I heard all of the feedback thank you please know that I heard you um but our
veterans were there at 7:30 in the morning ready to have a warm catered breakfast uh by the incredible staff at Green Mountain High School and many students came as well and sat and and um had breakfast with our veterans so that was really special I also want to
mention that the Arvada Aquatics Center is nearing completion and I had the opportunity to attend a reception for the impending opening of this incredible pool last week holy cow it's amazing um I know all of our competitive swimmers will be excited to have access to this
new facility and finally the district hosted is annual Better Together day yesterday um and I want to give a special shout out to the more than 75 people on our Central Services teams who participated in Vendor demonstrations for the district's Erp project over the
past three weeks this is an incredibly important project for our district as you all know it's going to allow us to modernize our operation systems in ways that will enhance our ability to serve our schools and individual staff members these are the folks who are often behind
the scenes working with our system and I want to say how thankful I am to each of them for their investment of time and energy in this important work which collectively total thousands of hours and thousands of pieces of feedback as the district Works through this
complicated um RFP process so thank you thank you director Applegate do you want to go next sure thing um well I did have a quite a busy couple
weeks and um I just want to lift up I think to begin with that I've heard a lot of um concerns about funding lately whether it's the title funding or whether it's um the announcement by the governor um our families are listening
and our families are watching and they are raising their concerns which I really appreciate so for those listening keep it coming we it's it's good to hear and it's good to engage and see how people are showing up so um we are aware and we are working through a lot of
those things but I just want to lift up that that's been a a more consistent um message that I've heard in the last couple weeks than I feel like I had in the previous month or two um got to attend um a really interesting CAC meeting and a huge shout out to Lisa and
shanine because you guys have done a ton of work and presenting to that and Mr Gatlin also um we got to attend a breakfast with some of our Jeff Co electeds which was also really great I know many um of you all were with me at that um I I had a ton of schools to
visit on our snow day which are quickly being rescheduled but I have gone to some schools and I'm really happy about that I got to see Arvada High School and wheat rdge high school and Hackberry Hills um there's more coming that are being rescheduled um and I'm sad that I miss
those got to attend something really special at weat Ridge High School um also this week they did a ribbon cutting for their new stem lab and um I got to attend with Dr Kim and um there's a very cool picture out there of all female engineers and Technical women who are
standing there ready to cut that ribbon and it was really really cool um and then a fourth grader that got stuck in that picture too so he had to come with me um but a big thank you to the Gil Foundation um it's really incredible I
found out we have the largest 3D printer in the Denver metro area that lives at wheat Rd High School I could fit in it um it's huge it's amazing um so these kids are building cars with it they are building Battle Bots they are doing all
the coolest stuff so um it's just a great example that we have these Treasures in all of our high schools and it was really special to be able to see it another shout out to Mr Gatlin because it was the first time I got to see the Rena at whe Ridge and they look really good so thank you for that um and
then I just want to lift up that um to our preschool families it's a theme tonight apparently there are kindergarten information nights and so for if you are a parent of a preschooler who is in one of our Center programs or is not in Jeffco yet next week are a lot of kindergarten information nights and
so I know we're working to get some of those out and share some of that information um please go check them all out they're super cool our elementary schools are awesome um you also should know that enroll Jeffco opens in December
a lot of preschool parents are new parents in our district and haven't gone through a full enroll just Coast Cycle and so um we're trying to put some materials out at Campbell and Norman Anderson to help parents who are new to the system understand what they need to
do um and lastly I have a town hall next week Wednesday the 20th at Arvada West come say hi and I think that's it thank you um okay I had a busy month as well I
attended the casby fall conference in peblo and I always like going to those conferences because I get a chance to talk to people from um all kinds of different areas districts and so forth um I did ask them uh everyone I met
about their process for renewing Charter Schools I thought I'd try to get a feel for what other districts do and I just want to highlight one um District that I was talking to the super attendant and a member of their um uh board and they said they just went through the renewal
process for their one charter that they had in the district and that Charter had been there their contract was for 25 years so the charter school had been there 25 years and finally they were up for Renewal and the charter school was looking for another 25 years and the
board members said I think I think we're going to go for five this year just to see anyway um but I always do enjoy talking to other districts there's quite a range in Colorado um I did School visits um also got snowed out of some of
them of them but I got to Dutch Creek Coline Hills Normandy lewood Coronado Deer Creek Stony Creek and Falcon Bluffs and then um uh superintendent dorland and I had the pleasure of going to Ute
Meadows where we had this um greeting um you know was almost like a red carpet that we went down and um you know it was fantastic we did get interviewed too when we were there superintendent dorland has posted it on uh social media
and I got interviewed too and I have to make a correction because my question of would you rather swim with sharks or um Dolphins you know sound like a no-brainer so of course I said a dolphin but I want to correct that because there's something there's a whale shark
out there and actually my daughter has swung with the whale sharks the ocean because they're the only sharks that don't have teeth that um are Predator types so they just have these huge mouths like five feet wide and um if
you're brave enough you start to swim right towards them and at the last minute they'll go away because they don't want to eat you but I can't imagine doing it but um also I did attend uh woodro Wilson Academy with
director vard um we went to the elected official breakfast which is always fun I did Hold My Town Hall um meeting at Conifer High School two nights ago which was really fun up there um different uh
set of types of people I guess that on the mountain people but also there was a Cub Scout group that was there and they were getting their badge for elected official um campaigns kind of things so they qu asked me questions at the end
which was great and then a highlight I wish I had a picture to put on the slide um Mr Gatlin and I went and worked in the um kitchen as I mentioned earlier at Dunston middle school and I do have a picture of Mr Gatlin me and Linda you
can imagine the difference in Heights it was like some they had to stand back at the end of the of the room to get us all in the picture but anyway it was wonderful it was so much fun and uh we worked on their hamburgers and their um
uh pumpkin pies um and then got to see um I at least stay and saw the sixth graders come through for their for the cafeteria so it was a good month all righty um yeah because of the snow my my time has not been as busy as
I was originally anticipating that it would be um I had a chance to meet with Brian Martin to learn about the outdoor lab Foundation um and that was really fun to get filled in on uh you know some of the things that have gone on through history because I went to outdoor lab
myself a million years ago and uh he was saying you know it probably hasn't really changed all that much but um that it was really fun to to find out what the outdoor lab Foundation does to uh really help maintain those facilities and make sure kids have a really
extraordinary experience there um I just love a chance to do student town halls and I had a phenomenal student Town Hall at the Jeffco open school um because it was like all of their high school
students so it wasn't even just a small little group which is kind of what's happened before it was a full Auditorium and uh great questions and smart kids that are engaged and care very much about their education and
everyone else's education and they care about each other they care about the world it was just it was very heartwarming and and definitely one of those bucket filling things um really enjoyed the brief period of time at the
principal appreciation gathering at 240 Union it's nice to just sit and chat with principles and it's not part of the school visit where it's kind of structured and I have these questions and they have these concerns and you know but actually
um more personal conversation and it was just kind of fun to relax and get to know principles that I see fairly regularly but just in a much more informal uh setting so I enjoyed that another really fun thing it's kind of along the same lines as your town hall
is that I actually went to a Cub Scout meeting for troop 748 which was my son's Cub Scout Troop a million years ago and also his Boy Scout Troop and they were also working on their election badge so um a chance to to talk with them and
they were very energetic perhaps not totally enthusiastic about learning about elections but they were having a very good time together and they were very sweet to me um so yeah all my school visits got cancelled ex uh let's see I
thought I had a few others on here but maybe I don't the legislative breakfast was it's always an enjoyable thing um it is heartening to hear our elected officials talk about how much they appreciate the fact that we have a
legislative agenda so kudos to you um president Parker for really pushing to get us to do that um more thoughtfully and in a more formal way um and hearing them talk about the fact that as the second largest school district we have
clout and we should be using it so I appreciated hearing that um and then I had my Town Hall last night and uh it also was different than my previous one because I was handing off my Mountain schools to you and then um I had some
different schools it was very well attended and I was super glad to see that it was quite a full Library um a number of people from Edgewater and I urged them to come and speak tonight so um that's one of the
reasons that we had so many folks here that that they you know they were very concerned about the funding for their school um but it was a lively town hall and uh addressed a lot of concerns and then I had an inbox full of lovely thank
you notes this morning which was also really nice so um gosh you know I'm I'm loving the town halls just in general going really well so that's been my month um
yeah I I've enjoyed a couple Town Halls recently as well I'm going to save those for a little bit later um I'm GNA say I had a delicious chicken Tingo taco from the Edgewater you know scratch scratch food
initiative and thoroughly enjoyed eating lunch with my lunch companions at the table who were asking me about what my you know favorite foods were and we had so much fun I just that was a highlight um I also want to lift up that I had a
town hall on Monday this week this week has been full so I struggling I'm trying to hold on to what day it is um but on Monday we had um not not a huge turnout but enough that we had a really comfortable Community conversation I really
appreciated it for my first one it was a nice way to step into that work um lots of questions about um boundary line adjustments and what we studied this evening there were questions um right along the line with that I T I got to
talk about high school reimagine for folks who hadn't heard a lot about that work that was really exciting um anyway I think it went really well and I'm just grateful to U principal vill at be Creek High School for hosting and for several of our other principles who were there and also um helping me to answer
questions that were more detailed than what I have access to so um appreciated it felt like a really great Community conversation um and then I got to have a student Town Hall at Evergreen on Wednesday yesterday uh that went so well
that they have made plans to ask me to come back on a monthly basis so that we can have more conversation um which I thought was really exciting um they had questions from uh snow how do we make snow day decisions um all the way to what do I
think um the biggest issue is facing public education to how are we supporting special communities I mean really thoughtful um conversation with those students and I look forward to spending more time with them um then
after that I stopped by Evergreen Middle School completely unannounced and I think I may have thrown off some of their staff but I think I was gentle about it they have a program where they are raising trout um in a huge fish tank
that starts from Rue from like the row the fish eggs all the way through relatively mature enough to be released into the wild and when I was there visiting in September they hadn't started that yet and I knew they were going to and since I was approximate I
just went to see how it was going and I see I saw all of these little teeny tiny fishies and got to talk to the librarian for a great amount of time I was really grateful for how much time she spent with me being that I was unannounced um explaining the program to me and telling
me about um the work the enthusiasm from the students and The Crossover with conversations about conservation and environmentalism it's just an incredible stem opportunity and learning opportunity in a middle school and I was like giddy with excitement and joy when
I left after that conversation I know there are other schools in our district also participating in that program and I just want to say how amazing I think that whole um partnership is with some of our state agencies um to provide education to our kids and really engage
enging stem opportunity so cool uh I enjoyed our legislative breakfast and had some really interesting conversations regarding what's coming up in our legislative session this year I'm looking forward to being engaged um in that and being present up on the on Capitol Hill so that I can see what is going on with
public education in Colorado especially as we Face tough budget conversations at the state level um and last night I got to attend a palm competition at Coline High School the first first one I've ever attended as a Schoolboard member I
was a dancer in high school and college and I was a coach when I was a teacher and I am so familiar with being at those competitions but being there sort of unknown in that in that gym and getting to watch all of the teams I was so
filled with joy um and hope at what was happening with those teams the way the community was supportive of one another um it it felt so good to be sitting in a gy at 7:30 at night watching High School
creativity um that was such a gift that filled my bucket all the way up to overflowing um and I I didn't talk to anybody really there I just was observing and trying to keep a low profile I did see a principal who recognized me um when that was good
but otherwise I just loved sitting and watching the community um be together listening to music dancing supporting cheering for each other I was sitting up at the top screaming um at various points and different and I left before the results came out because I just
didn't want to know um because they were all so good and I just like I don't I don't they were amazing um I look forward to doing more of that as well and thank you to the CH as the high school chassa for the um past to be able
to get in there um it's really easy to attend so uh what else did I want to say I want to specifically lift up gratitude to the daak subcommittee on Charter applications and renewals for their research and information along with the time that they have spent on discussion and consideration those were really
valuable assets to me um to help me understand and draw conclusions I know it's frustrating that they were asked not to give specific recommendations um and I understand that and I thoroughly appreciate the document that they did present to us because it gave me a lot
of perspective and thoughtful feedback that I maybe would not have considered on my own just reading through the applications so um I know that they put a lot of effort into you know discussing the new process this year and the document that they
were used using as a guideline um I know it was difficult because it was also a compressed timeline for them um and I just want to share with everybody involved as we implemented a new process this year around renewals in the charter conversation bne Brown said say um that
there are unique challenges anytime something is tried for the first time she has different language for that I'm not going to go there but um just that I think our process regarding Charter accountability continues to approve because we've leaned into Partnerships between our community members and our and our Charter Partners specifically um
so I'm grateful for the work that happened there I know that it wasn't always comfortable um but there was a lot of effort put in there and I wanted to honor that and express my gratitude also thank you to the car students who performed for us tonight that was super duper fun um I also going to lift up
some concerns that I've heard from families including my own around struggling in some schools to access after care on a regular and predictable basis um my own my own family has been impacted by that I know that it's happening not in every school but in some of our schools that have after care programs and I want to say that I
empathize um I did have to take one of my students out of school early so that I could come here for a meeting that I had and um thankfully he was thoroughly entertained by markers and paper while he was here but I know that there are other parents working parents who are struggling with making the afternoons
and evenings work because of the um scramble to find after care when it's when it's not available readily and in a predictable manner um and also thanks to our SAE staff I know they're doing the best that they can um but hopefully we can find some solutions moving forward
um I've kept an eye on tax initiatives that were run by neighboring school districts and I'm looking forward to learning more about their processes and outcomes hopefully at the casby meeting that's coming up next month um I think that they will have a lot of valuable information that they can share with us as we look towards our own future around
running tax initiatives and I lastly want to express um congratulations to director Applegate and I on our one-year anniversary as it approaches at our our next study session actually the date was December 5th I won't ever forget it um
and also to Paula director director Reed for um telling me when I first agreed to run that the first year would be like drinking from a fire hose for the entire year uh that was wisdom that I've held with me for the last 12 months um
looking forward to maybe the fire hose slowing a little bit um now that we're full year in but I remain grateful to get to EG okay I'm really looking forward um to continuing to do this work and I'm grateful that I get to be here um this
position I know that this is an an honor and opportunity um to serve the community I'm just still so grateful to be here and to be serving with all of you and to be working with the District staff and our families it's just an honor to get to sit here so thank you
everybody for um our first year in I am going to pick my top three things that I did um I I've done I've done a lot um with our Arts and Music um
stuff in our area I've been to an area choir concert area orchestra concert um and got to see murder on the Orient Express at a West my mother was a huge agapic Christie fan so it was really fun
to to see that sorry um and then um I also got to do my uh Pomona Town Hall um student Town Hall which was just like uh the way you all described it and
the students were their leadership group um this is the school that is now um a 612 so it was pretty awesome to get to ask them how that's going and to see U hear their questions we talked about
what's going well and what they have challenges with um one of my favorite things was one of the wrestlers saying that his um sixth grade brother was like so um excited to be around the older
wrestlers um in the school so like that connection between the younger ones and the older one was the very first thing that this guy wanted to talk about and there was a lot of examples of that and confusing things they're told you know be mentors but you can't be in the bathroom together you know so like
things are trying to sort out um just because they're trying to figure out how to keep the the I should explain that the separation of the grades um there um I also went to the engage Arvada meeting um just a few
weeks ago it was held at North Arvada um and I just am always incredibly impressed with these um these people who come and sit for hours and engage with um each other and folks from the district and really just put their whole
heart into trying to think about what is going well and where they are struggling in their area and how they can uh work together and they've came up with some great ideas and I just really respect and and honor their leadership um in that Community for doing that work um
the only other thing I was gonna I was going to add that the info nights like every single school will have an info night over the next couple of weeks so yeah do do take a look at those because um you can really learn a lot about the schools um and I was just going to say
lastly that my uh Pomona um I'm sorry my next town hall is at Pomona on December 12th which is actually the same night as our elementary school's Winterfest which will be my last one in uh let's see 10
years um and so I'm trying to decide which one to go to just kidding um we just didn't I didn't I didn't look at the calendar very well so um anyways the town hall is unless you're going to the Winter Fest you
might want to come to the town hall on December 12th ATA so um yeah thanks so sorry I get worked up because uh it was uh really fun to see my uh daughter doing
like I should have given up on it a play that I know my mom would have loved thank you um that does bring us to the end of today's agenda we will stand adjourned our next meeting is a study session of the board scheduled at 4:30
pm on December 11th at the Ed Center good night everyone [Music]
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