##VIDEO ID:https://www.facebook.com/schooldistrict51/videos/board-of-education-work-session-1-7-25/1166667768411592## One. Thank you for joining us for our first work session of twenty twenty-five. Uh we'll go ahead and call the meeting to order and then if you don't mind standing with us, we're going to go ahead and do the pledge of allegiance. So, Director Jones, you want to kick us off? Flags of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under god with liberty and justice for all Alrighty. Amy, we can go ahead and do roll call. Mister Chavez. Here. Missus Evanson. Here. Missus Heitz. Here. Mister Jones. Here. Miss Lima. Here. Alright. So, this month is Board Appreciation Month and I think Doctor Hill has something he wants to say. Yes, once again, I'll spare you from reading your own recognition but I'm proud to read this recognition. So, each January, Mesa County Valley School District 51 honors our school board members during School Board Recognition Month. Serving on the Board of Education is a volunteer role that demands countless hours of commitment, careful consideration, and tough decision making. In the past year, our board members have faced particularly challenging decisions, striving to balance the needs of our students, staff, and community admits complex and ever evolving circumstances. Being a school board member means dedicating personal time to preparing for and attending meetings, reviewing proposals, communicating with the community, and navigating difficult conversations and decisions. Board members serve without pay and are motivated by their belief in the power of public education to shape the future of our community and their commitment to making a meaningful impact on the lives of Mesa County's children. Our board members have immense responsibilities. They oversee decisions like adopting a balanced budget for the largest employer in the county, hiring and supporting the district superintendent. Thank you. Um and striving to meet the community's educational goals and expectations through policy adoption. Their work is not always visible but it is critical to the success of our schools and the well being of our students. We are proud of the work of our school board and express our gratitude to our school board members for their selfless service and dedication, their willingness to take on this work during these difficult times deserves recognition and appreciation. On behalf of the students, staff, and families of Mesa County Valley School District fifty-one. We thank our school board members for their efforts and hereby proclaim January 2025 as school board recognition month. Please join us in thanking our board members for their invaluable contributions to public education and our D 5-1 community. Let's round of applause for our school board members. Thank you. We appreciate it. Um alright. We have our United Way campaign Update and report. Yes, thank you guys for everything you do. You guys are awesome. Thank you and we appreciate your support of the United Way of Mesa County and and how our district partners with them. My name is Cory Hafee. I'm the principal at Appleton Elementary and we are the bookworms, the mighty bookworms. And I'm a chairperson of the District 51 United Way Pledge Campaign. The D51 United Way Pledge Campaign is an exciting annual event where D 51 employees partner with United Way of Mesa County to help fund 3-4 local programs and 26 community investment agencies. These programs serve about 50thousand people in Mesa County and address a variety of social problems focused on healthy community, youth opportunity, and financial security. D 51 employees are the largest yearly organization donor to the pledge drive and have given somewhere in the neighborhood of 1. 3 million dollars in donations since the partnership began. That's your custodians, cafeteria staff, administrators, teachers, grounds and maintenance, and every other D 51 department being represented and donating some of their hard-earned money to the United Way of Mesa They do this because they know it as positively impacts the kids and their families that go to our schools. Before I get to all the good news about what a great partnership it is, I'd like to recognize several people who have made this partnership possible. She's not here tonight but the brains behind all of this is April Hart. She's our Dfifty-1 Office of Volunteer and Community Partnerships. She's the behind-the-scenes organizer. Literally goes through thousands and thousands of all kinds of pledge forms and everything just Makes it all line up correctly and it is spotless when she's done. She is amazing person and works tirelessly to do it. Never wants the accolades, never shows up here because she just doesn't like that but she deserves a lot of just kudos for that. Also, Faith Rodriguez is the United Way of Mesa County executive director. She's a new one there. Kira Ald is the Community Impact and Outreach Manager in Cassidy Lujan is the donor and grants manager and they help us out a lot as well. Our own D51 Foundation executive director Doctor Angela Christensen will be sharing some words here in a moment and we couldn't do this without the 52 D51 building coordinators who run each building's individual schools pledge drive and those people work really hard to to make this just add one more plate to spin and they do a great job doing this. So, now the great news. Here's the great news. Six hundred and sixty generous D 51 employees don $63, seven hundred and ninety-one dollars and forty cents back into the community through United Way of Mesa County. So, that's outstanding. We always like to incentivize the giving and so we have some awards that we give out. One of the awards that we'll be giving out in in the future here, we get some names put on these plaques but we have some building plaque winners and this is for employee participation increases and the winners this year in the elementary school division with an increase of 11. 43%, Broadway Elementary. Yeah. And in the middle school division, Brookliff Middle School increased by 10. 1 5% in the high school division, Valley High School went up 16. 12% in their donations. And the office building was Emerson. That's a really tight competition. They went up only one point six9 but that's a tough competition right there. So they did a great job. So well done. Alright, we have we have some other awards that we need you guys to help us select. We do this every year. Uh these are are pay period, win a day off competitions and so how this works is, if a classified employee puts in $5 per pay period, We choose, we, they have their name put into a hat. Basically, when we choose out of that hat and we we pick six of those folks to get a win a day off and then, certified folks, if they put in $10 per pay period, we also choose six of those folks and then in the administrative area, if they put in twenty bucks per pay period, we choose three of those guys to get a day off. So, Angela's going to help me with passing these around and if you guys would read the name of the person you pull out and then we'll give those on to Amy over here and then we can keep track of everybody. So, thank you for your help. Alright. Which one? Alright. Classified. Here we go. Who we get? We need. We need six winners from Classified. Go for it. Give it your best. Deborah Thompson from Loma. Alright. Whoo. Deborah Thompson. Eva Geskey from BTK. Wonderful. Uh Katie Bossio from Fruita Middle School. Great. Francis Dominguez from Taupe. And Courtney Adler from Scenic Elementary. To draw the certified staff. There's also sixty Oop, I got two. Hold on. Sorry, drop one Virginia West from Taupe. Ruth McKee from FMS. Rachel Houser from Broadway, It's one Kat Brown from BMS. Elizabeth Brown from Mesa View. Roxy McManus from Grand River Academy. Now, our last three names we need to draw from the administrators. These folks put in $20 per pay period. So, we just need three of you guys Shawn Wilson from Taylor. Alright. Amy Shepherd from Clifton. And Todd McClaskey from the Career Center. Right. That's awesome. Uh thank you guys for your support in that. Wanna give the floor to Angela Christensen, our D51 Foundation executive director. He's got some other good information about United Way. Yeah, thank you so much. Um my name is Angela Christensen and I'm the executive director of the School District 51 Foundation and I just want to sincerely thank and start off by acknowledging Cory Hafe. He has been directing this and leading this for so many years and truly without his hard work and effort, I don't think we'd be where we are. Um and so, I'd like to give a round of applause to Cory for all of his hard work. His enthusiasm on the presentations is always inspiring after a long day. Um I also want to recognize April Hart. As Cory mentioned for her efforts really behind the scenes to make the logistics so seamless in this effort. And thank you for the entire team at United Way led by Faith Rodriguez for her hard work that really benefits so many people in our community. She's one of our non-profit leaders who I work with regularly. This year's totals for the D51 Foundation is the highest ever. We are excited to share and will be receiving over ten thousand dollars from this year's effort. Um D 51 staff members can designate their donation to a local non profit and it's been exciting to see so many of our D51 staff members select the D-51 Foundation for their donation. Um it says to me that they really the excellent work being done and they know that the funds are going to go right back into the students and schools in School District fifty-one. Some of those funds that they donate to end up going to our Bloom Where You're Planted Fund that allows students with financial need to participate in extracurricular activities. Some for grants in the classroom, for classroom technology like 3D printers and programmable robots. And some of funds allow teachers to do a little more professional learning to help grow our students academically. The momentum for D51 and the D51 Foundation continues to grow and I'm excited to share that in addition to the highest funds for United Way. We also have raised for our White Ice Celebration the highest sponsorship that we've ever received. Um our thirteenth annual White Eye Celebration Gala will be coming up early February. We literally had an 11% increase in sponsorships from last year. So, that's pretty exciting. It's been year after year growth. And I really believe that large part of that growth is due to our fantastic and strong board of directors. And two of them. Three of them actually are right here. Um which is just wonderful to have them on our board of directors. But they're out there connecting with our community and sharing the great things happening in School District 51 and I really appreciate their hard work. So, thanks to everybody who follows the foundation. Um thanks to everyone who will be purchasing their tickets for White Ice that's coming up and it is truly making a difference all throughout Mesa County. Um we ended up listing some incentives. It's up on the screen for anyone who designated the foundation with their specific donation and so, the incentives are as follows. Um we get, we'll be giving six tickets to the building with the highest donations to D51 Foundation and Cory, you will have the pleasure of sharing that with your staff at Appleton Elementary tomorrow. The building with the most staff donations to the D51 Foundation as designated goes to BTK. And then we will work on selecting two names from everyone who donated to United Way and designated it to the foundation and we'll be sharing that with our folks here within this next week. So, thank you so much and thanks everyone for the support of nonprofits throughout our community. Thank you. I think Cory gets to congratulate the board every January because you guys always do your update. The same time. So, thanks Cory. Once again, I was like, this is a little deja vu. I think you said the same thing last year. So, but we appreciate all that you do. Alright, now we have our strategic plan update which is our student and staff wellness team. Oh, I saw that. It was strategic Oh, it's working too. It's working. Now, we're good. Okay. Good evening. Um thanks for having us here today. So, with me, it's Connie Mack, Dan Bunnell, and Amy Zortman and so, a couple of years ago, we really combined our prepared and supported students with prepared and supported staff and it's really been this beautiful marriage between the two and so, tonight, you'll hear both about staff, wellness, and student wellness. So, I'll turn it over to Dan and then Connie and Amy will chime in as well. Alright. Well, thank you for listening to us tonight. It's been quite a while actually since Staff Wellness, student wellness has come together to present to you. I believe it was last September and so we're just glad to to be able to share some some pretty interesting results and exciting results when it comes to student wellness and staff wellness. Um we just want to recenter everybody again on our graduate profile which grounds us in the work that we do as a district. Uh the outcomes in our district fifty graduates are that they possess the skills they need to fulfill their lifelong goals such as college, career, and technical education, military, or fulfill their career pathway of choice. Ultimately, they are when they graduate from district fifty-one, they're creative problem solvers. They're culturally connected and they're ready for career in life. So, tonight, the three focus areas, obviously, are the prepared and and supported students, our prepared and supported staff and both of those two focus areas could not do the work that they do without the engaged supportive community partners. And we'll talk about those partners here a little bit. Alright, this graphic that I want to show you now is a graphic that we over the last two and a half, three years have really grounded ourselves on. Um it was a graph that we had presented last year when we presented to you on our mental health and wellness data from our students. Um this is a rendition of the model of Maslow's hierarchy of needs. It describes two very important foundational steps. The physiological and the safety needs that must be solid before a sense of belonging or connectedness is achieved. Uh Amy's now going to talk about the whole child approach that supports both students and staff and through community partnership. Alright, thank you. In order for us to achieve our goals, we know that we cannot do this alone. We utilize the ASCD and CDC's whole school, whole community, whole child model to help guide our community partners who they are and help for them to help meet the needs of our students. All of these partnerships are incredibly valuable but to highlight a few, we partner with Mesa County Transportation, Colorado Department of Transportation, and Safe Routes to School for a walk, bike, and roll to school day that happens in October and May every year. Colorado Parks and wildlife so our students can participate in fishing, archery, snowshoeing, and cross-country skiing. Um our local agriculture business to utilize local beef and produce in our meal programs. And so you know this month Colorado proud meatloaf is back on the menu. Students in some of our elementary schools are receiving education about nutrition and healthy eating from integrated nutrition education program. Um we partner with the Kids Aid Backpack Program. Our D-51 nurses and school counselors receive resources that are in Grand Valley that are available to adolescents through Mesa County Public Health and Nurse Family Partnerships. Clinic runs our school-based health centers and we will highlight a few more throughout our presentation. All of these organizations help shown help us engage, equip, and empower our students to become healthy, safe, engaged, supported, and challenged. Alright, now let's jump back into our strategic plan. Um as we look at the focus area around prepared and supported students, the priority area that I'm going to present the data to you on tonight is around student wellness. Um this has been obviously a three-year journey or two and a half year journey for us around student wellness. Uh we know that student wellness is crucial to the development of and growth of all of our students. Uh for this reason, growing our students' sense of belonging has been and will continue to be a primary goal in our strategic plan. When students feel a belonging and connectedness and have trusted adults. They thrive both academically and social emotionally. So, as you can see, tonight is an update really on our year three progress and where we're at as we head towards that June of 2025 date. Um and so by the end of this June, our our goal as a system was that all schools will meet and exceed the national norm for student sense of belonging for all students including disagregated groups as majored by the Spring Student Panorama Survey. So, if you remember or if you Are new to this. We survey our students twice a year with our panorama survey. It is our perceptual survey which really measures that climate and culture that students feel in a in all of our buildings. Um we do have parts of our survey that caters to K three students and then most mostly in our elementary schools, it's our four or five students and then our secondary schools which will be our 612 student students across the system. Um So, we want to just take a look at that progress and update you on really what the trends look like over the last two and a half years even though there's there's four years of data that that is here. Uh we have been using this panorama tool as a a way to measure our metrics for the past seven to 10 years. Um and we've got some exciting trends that we want to show you tonight. Uh trending to the third year goal. The inputs and outputs are moving and trending. Schools continue to set belonging and they're all moving in the right direction. So, as you can see, in our elementary graph there, the national norm which is where we want to be for each of our levels is at 68 percent. So, as measured from spring to spring and you can see a steady climb in our elementary schools where our students continue to feel a sense of belonging and this last spring, we were at our highest level that we have been in in 4 years at 64% to the national norm. So, we're we're excited about where we're going with that and and obviously I'll show you some preliminary fall data that will show that we're we're even on track to do better in elementary. Um you can see in the middle there, that's our middle school cohort or level. Uh the national norm for middle schools and their answering in a favorable response is at 49% and we have been seeing a steady climb. Obviously, after COVID from that 39% up to 43%. So, small gains there but we are we're continuing to move in the right direction and then high school is a great celebration that we did celebrate with our high school levels last year. Uh the national norms at 42%. It was the first time since we've been doing panorama that are that we've had a level meet that national norm in our high schools did hit that. So the national norms 42% and we hit 42%. So that is a celebration that that we want to make sure that we acknowledge. Okay. Because our third year goal in the two cheeks plan is around belonging, it includes desegregated groups. That is where the goal has shifted not only in belonging for all of our schools. We want to see that national norm hit. Uh but the goal change significantly to include our desegregated groups. Um and our focus is has really shifted into digging the data down into those subgroups and the subgroups include students obviously with disabilities. Our Hispanic students, students of color, students gifted, free and reduced lunch. Those are all of our desegregated groups that we continue to monitor And we really this last fall have really dug into those disaggregated groups to make sure that we are closing gaps there. We want to make sure we're not widening gaps with our our subgroup populations of students but we're closing those gaps. So that has been a major focus this last fall and it will continue in even into the development of our our new strategic plan this spring. We also know that the trusted adult, as I mentioned, is a key component to the supporting, the belonging, and the connectedness in our schools and our classrooms. Um, so we are really focusing in on measuring with some new questions around that trusted adult piece to ensure that all students in district 51 have trusted adult or at least one trusted adult in our schools. Um this is the preliminary data that I wanted to show you Um as I said, we we do the panorama data in the fall and in the spring but for the strategic plan, it is spring to spring. Uh so, this is really a formative measure that we did back in October and you can see our elementary is on a positive track. They continue to go up and then you can see our middle school. If the trend continues, we'll hit the national norm for our middle schools and you can see our high schools have gone from that forty-two and they're trending to that forty-seven percent when it comes to belongings. So, We hope this and we want to continue to push and measure and monitor the goals that the schools have put into play and and we're seeing some positive results out of that. Okay. Alright. Um we are looking at multiple data points. In the fall of twenty twenty-three, our students participated in the Healthy Kids Colorado survey which is a statewide survey that also contributes to national data. We have the best district wide participation we've ever had which is a huge celebration. As you can see on the screen, 65. 2% of high school students and sixty-five point 3% of middle school students reported that they feel like they belong in their school and 95% of middle school students think it's important to finish high school. Okay. So, now, we'll switch to staff wellness and we'll talk a little bit about the progress we've done so far this year and talk about some next steps as well but what we know about Staff Wellness is that it's crucial for fostering a positive and an effective educational environment because we know that when staff members are physically and mentally well, they're better equipped to engage with students leading to improved academic performance, performance, and providing some strong support for students. And so, in the next slide. If you want to advance slides, Stan. Thanks. Um we'll talk a little bit about our staff wellness surveys. So, in the past, we have issued a panorama staff survey in November of each year. This year, we'll be issuing that staff survey to all staff late March, early April and that's typically the same time in which the TLCC survey is issued. The TLCC survey which is teaching and conditions in Colorado is typically issued by CDE and it's typically for our educators and our school-based staff. It's not meant for all staff and so our panorama staff data is meant for all staff and so we hope to be able to steal some of those questions from the TLCC survey, include them in our survey so we can track trends year over year and we'll have that data. It'll be, it's not Apple's because again, TLC is for educators and our panorama survey is for all staff but what what you can see here in one of the things that I think Amy and and Connie have done a really great job with. Last year, they increased our participation rate for the staff survey by 19% and so, we had an amazing turnout for our staff survey. We hope to emulate that again when we issue our staff survey in the spring and then we're hope to make some gains in how staff are feeling about their sense of belonging and their wellness and so to talk a little bit more about what we're doing to improve staff wellness. I'll turn it over to Connie. Thank you. So, the next slide, Dan. So, I wanted to share with you what's happening on a monthly basis with regards to our staff wellness challenges. We've been very mindful of the wellness challenge topics, taking into consideration the feedback from previous surveys and the timing of different district initiatives and activities. For example, is a time when teachers and staff are preparing for the school year, meeting new students, getting to know other staff members, etcetera. We called it the Be Prepared Challenge and points were awarded for preparing for success, establishing routines, completing annual required trainings, and fostering working relationships. In September, we launched the digital detox challenge which aligned with our new cellphone policy. In October, we encouraged walking. In November focused on celebrating and giving gratitude which included over 800 employees receiving gratitude guides and Amy will talk about this a little more in a minute. December, we focused on happiness and this month to start off the New Year, we we're highlighting financial wellness. Amy, do you want to talk about the guides for a second? Yup. Um so, we partnered with Gandola Goods who is a local business to she creates gratitude guides for many different age level and so she did the guide to meet for our district and then we asked staff to just request one. If they wanted one, we bought them one and we were able to give out over 800, which was awesome. Um Employees responded that they that it was beneficial to take time to focus on what they were grateful for. And they appreciated how the gratitude guide was set up and the activities that were in it. Um we heard I heard a lot of positive feedback. Um and they were all very excited to get them, receive them, and work in them. There's 90 different activities that they could choose from to do. And we do know that a couple principles actually requested for their entire staff to have a copy of the the gun. Yes. That's very neat. Next slide, Amy's going to talk about the different statistics that we that we garnered from all of those challenges. So, we've been implementing the staff wellness challenges since March. So, not quite a year and we are learning what types of challenges our employees like to participate in. Um and we promote them in our staff newsletter. So, on the screen, you'll see the number of people that registered and so we use a good life portal through Monument Health and so, employees have to log on to the portal and say that they want to do the challenge and then each week, they go in they mark off what activities they've done for the week. and if they meet a certain amount of points, then, they go into a drawing. And we're able to give out some pretty cool things every month that we're at, we are pretty excited about. And employees get to choose out of three prizes each month. So some of these as we're going through, we're seeing okay, what do people like to do? Um what do they not like to do? Uh so, we can so that can help guide our future challenges. In October, we launched or we partnered with Monument Health to offer a six-week healthy, plant-based cooking class series and we held this at CMU Tech Culinary Kitchen in D51 sponsored twenty-four participants to learn the benefits of a whole food plant-based diet. They received instruction on how to cook different recipes and then they enjoyed the freshly-prepared meal for each session. Session s were taught by a CMU tech culinary chef, chef, and a local primary care physician. So, we'll be offering a second session in the spring. Uh it was very received and we'll see if we can get more people to participate. We also held our annual benefits fair, vendor fair in early October at Grand Junction High School. Employees could sign up for free chair massages and a flu shot. They could pick up some free swag and put their name in for a chance to win some great health promoting prizes. We had close to over close to 200 staff members participate in that fun event. Then, I wanted to share our employee assistance utilization. In this slideshows, our utilization from 2018 through 2000twenty-four. As a school district, we've always outperformed the national benchmark of 4% but I wanted to point out that 27% increase we've had year over year from 23 to twenty-four and this is really good news. Um we're continuing to promote EAP as a free resource. Um reducing the stigma around reaching out for outside assistance for things that are our staff members and or their spouses and families whether they're needing assistance for personal health and wellness, financial wellness, something impacting their immediate family, or perhaps the stress of caring for an aging family member. You can even access discounts for buying a new or a used car through this resource. And the resources are truly endless. The next slide I wanted to share through our health plan member programs, we're continuing to expand our ability to offer more lifestyle improvement and preventative medications in an affordable cost to members through our new electRX and GLP 1 programs. In addition to the Samaritan Fund program that removes the financial burden of medical and pharmaceutical cost for select employees and members of our health plan. All of these wellness initiatives that we talked about tonight support the overall well being of our employees and staff. And the year isn't over yet. Evidence suggests that if school staff or all employees feel well and supported, it will improve student well being and academic success. Any questions? Nope. Thank you. That was a great update and especially knowing what what the district's doing to help get these numbers there. So, instead just reporting out numbers, it's nice to know how we're getting there. Oh yeah, go ahead. I do have a question. Have you ever looked at the reasons why elementary at 68 percent and why it goes down from middle school and high school? Like what is elementary doing so well that we're we're not doing that as well in middle school and high school? Yeah. Um I I would say this Jose Luis nationally, obviously, elementary tends to perform better for the reason of you have you have less adults in in a school situation and in elementary. Uh so, you have that one primary teacher, that one teacher. If you remember when we transition to middle school, you you end up transitioning to multiple adults in a school. Uh obviously a lot going on in middle school, socially, emotionally going on in middle school. And then of course high school. There's that that tend to start to release a little bit. That responsibility. Kinda letting kids kind of find their own pathways and things like that. So I mean that nationally that's a trend. You just see the elementary piece of it sit where it sits and and middle school. Um and and certainly I think some challenges there are you know, what kind of relationships are being developed in the elementary school. How are those relationships being developed through the morning meeting process, through the some of the action steps that they're doing. Uh generally, kids feel really good at a younger age developmentally when they they're going to school and and I think it's a mystery both academically and you know, social, emotionally. We want to try to transition and I think that's the critical stage that that we need to really focus on as we move into this spring and as we've got some some transitions coming how can we do better from those transitions from fifth grade to sixth grade and what that looks like from elementary to middle and then that transition of course from eighth grade to high school and then another there's a couple other transitions that we don't talk about much and that's at pre K to kindergarten. Uh that transition is often you know can be stressful on kids and families. And then obviously that transition from twelfth grade graduation to post to post high school. So I think that's something as a system as we look at new strategic plan development coming up is how to how could we put some focus on what those transitions look like and how can we do better, right? I I think it's also important that we're when we set the goals in the strap plan that we what we were trying to compare ourselves to the national norm because you're right. When you look at it and we're not going to be satisfied unless we have a hundred percent but looking at it compared nationally, I think also helps put things in perspective but yeah, we always want those numbers to be higher. I do appreciate that this group and the the folks that are working on have been focusing on so many avenues around staff and student wellness that it's not just one thing. It's getting outdoors. It's putting technology down. It's nutrition and so I I appreciate the comprehensive approach that y'all taking around student staff wellness and not just hyper focused on one or two things but it's a lot of things that can really contribute to that. So, thanks for y'all's work on that. The other the other question I had, do you have, do you ever look at your staff if they feel if they feel like they belong? Yeah and that that that is part of. And like what are those scores? Did you ever bring that to us? Yeah. Yeah. So, that our staff survey will be issued in the spring and that's where we take a look at belonging, their well-being, and a number of other factors as well. So, we'll have some some data in the spring and we have that data that we had from last year as well. Yup and that data will be for principals they have their own individual school data so they can really hone in on things they could do at the campus level and then we'll have district level data as well. Alright, next up we have our bond planning update. Good evening board. Hello, everyone. Can you say happy New Year even though it's the sixth, I guess? We haven't seen you. Okay, well, happy New Year. We're the seventh. The seventh. Well, happy New Year on the seventh. Good to see you all. Thanks for having us tonight. Um for those watching online and those in the audience, I'm Clint Garcia. I'm the chief operations officer and presenting tonight is Micah Adams with Dynamic Project Management and you'll all remember back in November, our community said yes to our bond and We are very grateful for that and that has obviously given us a lot of work to do and so tonight, we're going to, if you'll push that forward, we're just going to give you a quick update, a little recap on the master plan and what we've done over the last few years, bond scope overview and then, some work that we've done since they've said yes to the bond in November. We've been working pretty hard since then, getting things going and then, just a little snapshot into the future and so, I will turn it over to kind of kind of walk us through it. Sounds great. Um thanks. Uh it's good seeing everybody again and congratulations on board appreciation month. We know that you guys put a lot of hard work into your jobs for no pay. So, we really. So like Clint mentioned, we're going to do a quick just recap of the whole facility master plan process and so back in May of twenty twenty-three, RFQP went out to hire a master planner in June. Uh three firms were interviewed and Horde Copeland Mock out of Denver was selected to do the facility master plans. Um so then they went and toured nearly every school in the district with the team of engineers. Uh noting all the building deficiencies that they could see. And then, following that, they interviewed the principals at every single school, noting deficiencies, whether in the building itself, or in the educational environment and then, they started to to compile, you know, long list of items got help from a contractor on putting budgetary cost estimates to the items that they had developed and then started meeting with the planning committee over course of months and really started to develop the priorities in the district where that money if a bond were to be passed where the district wanted that focused. So that that all happens and then the exciting news came in November that the bond passed. Um so, it was $190 million dollars in total. There were three major components to it. Um improvements to Central High School, improvements to fruit of Monument High School and then, the priority improvement projects or what we're calling the pips and you can see there on the right a breakdown of the the budget for those components. Uh with central high school being the largest single component the pips collectively were were up there as well. Um so collectively they they would be the largest component of those three. For Central High School as you can see there that the budgets just under $70 million and the improvements primarily revolve around safety and security upgrades. Uh you know, vestibule, intra vestibule, life safety improvements, fire sprinklers, ADA improvements, and the replacement of the the two-story classroom wing there on the north side of the school that really needs some love. Um along with that, some some possible renovations to the dining rooms and Federer Hall. Through the Monument High School being roughly 20 million Um also primarily revolved around security upgrades and at Fruda Monument High School, that would be connecting those outbuildings to the to the main building. Um so that there's not as many you know, unsecured buildings on campus. Uh then, there'd be some classroom improvements as well. There's some science classrooms there that are very outdated. Um some classroom additions and expansions. Um just really some reconfiguration at some of those classrooms in there for a better learning environment. For the priority improvement projects. You can see some pictures there of items that may be included on that list. Um but anything really from you know, upgrades to sinks that maybe need ADA access, you there's a brick facades that are in disrepair and and need some patching, you know, addition of safety features, to roof hatches, asphalt parking lots that need some improvements, patching, repair, you know, there's concrete sidewalks, cracked, you know, there's a long long list of items that's included in there and you can see the three kind of main categories within the pips is the safety and security upgrades. Uh including, you know, camera, upgrades, access control upgrades. There's a prior maintenance and life safety upgrades. Um really what this revolves around is like ADA and the fire sprinklers and then there's the improved learning environments and the improved learning environments are you know, our our really, I mean, it could be furniture, it could be more lighting but a good portion of that too is potentially classroom innovations for changes with changing enrollment recently. Whether it's making some classrooms larger to accommodate more students or renovating some of unused space into sped classrooms. Kinda depends on each school individually. Um so, here's a brief overview of the schedule for the Priority improvement Projects. Uh didn't want to get too into detail for the coming summers as it I think will. I need. Yeah, they're still planning to do. So, this is a list for the the phase 1 summer projects. Um you know, a lot of the thought that went into that was starting with primarily schools that had more needs that primarily the derated schools from the facility assessments and starting on the east side of the valley working west. So, progress made since the bond was passed. Um an RFQP went out for architects, six firms submitted qualifications, three firms were interviewed, two firms were hired. As you can see there on the screen, Chamberlain, a local architecture firm teamed up with Horde Copeland Mock. Um to take on the Fruda Monument High School and the Priority Improvement Projects. And then Blythe Group. Um another local group architecture firm teamed up with DLR to take on Central High School. Along with that, Grand River Environmental was hard to start serving all the schools for asbestos and start preparing designs for asbestos abatement ahead of these projects. Additionally, an RFQP went out for construction managers. Um seven firms submitted, 6 were interviewed, and four were selected Um and so, these these four firms you can see on the screen. It's all pending contract negotiation. We're working through all of that right now. Um but asset construction management, local firm was awarded two priority improvement projects. Um both in Palisade, Taylor Elementary, and Palisade High School. Distinctive Design build Another local firm. Actually, all four of these are local firms. Um distinctive design build was awarded to Priority Improvement Projects as well. FCI Constructors was awarded for Priority Improvement Projects along with Central High School and Shaw was awarded Fruit of Montgomery High School. Uh so that kind of brings us up to speed where we're at now. Um and so moving forward design is in progress. The priority improvement projects are really the the main focus at the moment since a lot of that work needs to start happening this summer. Um so the the architects Chamberlain and HCM have already come out and met with the principles of each one of those schools for this coming summer. It started to really dive into that design. Um and we expect those schematic designs here in about two weeks, I believe, with pricing to follow and then we're also having kick-off meetings for Central High School and Fruita Monument High School Designs here upcoming and then the surveys and designs for the asbestos abatement is underway as well. Upcoming procurements that will be happening in the coming months are for commissioning agents, surveyor, geotechnical engineer, construction material testing, third party, mover, and asbestos abatement contractors. Um so, quite a bit of components to the team still to be brought on. Leave with that that covers everything in our presentation. Do you guys have any questions? Nope. Sounds good. Alright. Thanks guys. Yeah, while we're at it, we might as well add a little bit more. If you could give everybody just an over idea. I know we're just getting into the design part with Fruda and Central. There's a lot more to do with those two schools. It's a lot more involved than some of the priority improvement. Um but give us an idea when you think people in the community are going to start to see some movement. Yeah, that's a good question. Um so, like I mentioned, we've got kickoff meetings for Central on Friday and then for the monument will will be beginning of February and that this design, process for projects of that size is fairly extensive like you mentioned and so, You know, I would, I would think by the end of the year, we would, I, I think is what we have scheduled to have those designs, to a a point where the community will start to to see everything. Um I mean the idea is to I believe spring next year have those projects go out to to bid. Um and subcontractors locked up. work starting next spring. Um so yeah later this this fall you'll probably see designs. And I'm very disappointed there isn't any music. I was How to squeeze a drone flyover in here but wasn't quite sure. So, we'll work on that. Yeah. The pips. I think Adams and the pips. Clint knows how to write music so I think we'll work on something there. Hey, Clint to do this. Yeah Alright. Thank you, guys. Thank you. Alright, now moving into business items, we do have the second reading and adoption of the policy LBD which is relations with charter schools. Do you have a motion for the approval and adoption of the policy LBD? Motion to approve LBD. Second. Any discussion? These were obviously changes that had to be done per Colorado statute that was done this last year. So, we just updated those. Um so, any other discussion? Okay. Excuse me, seeing none. We can go ahead and take the vote. Mister Chavez. Approved. Missus Evanson. Yes. Missus Heitz. Yes. Mister Jones. Yes. Miss Lima. Yes. Alright. Open board discussion or if you want to share any good things from over the break. Got some rest hopefully. Um actually just I know we had a short meeting virtual one but Jose and I I had the privilege of going to the Warrior Classic and seen some very good wrestling in the district between both men and women and the girls really really put wrestling on the map out there and doing some good work and so it's good to see the community pull together and all be out there and kind of they got the Mesadea school and packed the gym for two full days of wrestling. So, it was. Nice. It was good and we had some great wrestling going on and a lot of good championships on both sides so. Good. Good. And I would like to add that the girls D fifty-one won the Warriors Classic. First off, then, I do believe that in my own opinion that the girls are given a disservice by not being in the main gym. They were separate and so, you couldn't, you had families that were separated and schools were separated. I think it worked better last year and they're all in the main gym so everybody could watch their because those girls are are fabulous. Good feedback. Any other Well, tomorrow is my 25th wedding anniversary. I can't believe my husband's put up with me that long. No, I'm just joking. I'm joking. Um no, it's been good. We are best friends and so I'm thankful. Um I'm thankful for our life together and our three kiddos. So, anyways, something good to share. You don't Yeah. Don't hear a lot of that. Much anymore. White ice. I'm already working on my. Oh, I bet you're working on your outfit right now. So, it'll be something special. Director Jones is always the one to watch. Plus, a few others. There are a few people that really go all out for White Ice. It's a good show a good, good, a good, good event for good, good reasons, good causes. Yup. Alright, any other Okay. Alright. The motion, Motion to adjourn. Motion to adjourn. Alright. Thank you everyone.