Thank you for being Are we on? Do it again, Sherry. Do it again, and you're sitting now. Okay. Okay. Thank you for being here this evening. I would like to call this Tuesday, 08/19/2025 school board meeting to order at 06:00. If you could please stand for the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of The United States Of America, and to the republic for which it stands, Okay.
Deb, if you could establish quorum, please. We, as of right now, have one, two, three, four board members available. Our mics on can you hear me? There we go. K. So we have four board members all locked into board docs. And are all mites on all the way down? Yes. Thank you. Good. Alright. Can I get a motion to set the agenda, please? I'll move to set the agenda. A second. Madam president, excuse me. They're all over the place. I'd like to remove an item from the consent calendar. I'd like to remove the monthly employment list and put it as action item k.
Can we just add that to the motion? Can we just add that to the motion? Yes. We do. We do. Like okay. Sorry. I wasn't actually talking. What was the item number? K. I believe it's Action item k. Online voting is now available. Motion passes unanimously. Alright. We'll move on to oath of office And I would like to also mention that
District A will be on the ballot, and anyone living in District A, if you're interested in running, you can pick up a petition from Deb. It just needs to be turned in by the twenty ninth. And, Tiffany, this will also pertain to you as well. Okay. Moving on to reports, celebration reports. Well, I know I read a really amazing one in our in some of our other reports, and I don't know if I even need to say anything yet or wait, but our middle school band. So I'll I think it's in somebody else's report, so I'll leave that. But super exciting. Do you wanna do that on the reports?
What? What? Did you wanna do that with celebrations? Okay. President Noyes? Yes. Andrew Campos here. We could talk about that now if you're ready. Okay. Well, I just knew it was in somebody's report. So Yeah. Come on up, Andrew. Tell us about the cool news. Oh, it's amazing. It's always cool. Again. Again. Very briefly. We were contacted, about a year ago by mister Collins of this foundation because we've had an association with firms. Sixteen, seventeen years, they used to be the ones that ran the Colorado Public Radio in Schmitt Drive.
And so I believe they contacted me, said we've had a good relationship with you in the past. We're curious if you'd be interested in being one of the first 100 schools in America to be in our inaugural Adopt a School program, which will basically be a fun stride to buy new instruments for these 100 schools in America. And, of course, I checked with mister Pearson. This foundation is kind of Andy Van Halen was very from the Van Halen was very in music education.
His son Wolfgang took the mantle from him and was kind of the celebrity spokesperson for mister Holland's Opus, Adopt a School Foundation, and he got a lot of his, celebrity friends to put on social media about it. So we worked with them to create a page on their website, our story, quotes, a little bit of our history, some pictures, and then people from all over the world could read our story and donate to our group if they wanted to. And long story short, we got our funds completely met, as of a couple weeks
ago. We had, the last bit was an anonymous $15,000 donation somebody made. And so they contacted me, said congratulations. You've been fully funded. And so I was able I had given them a wish list back in the day. Said if if somebody gave you $40,000, what would you what would you buy? And so they are now buying buying for us that wish list. I think they have an some sort of relationship with these different music vendors, so they're either getting instruments at cost or lower than cost because we're getting, you know,
$40,000 worth of new instruments, including a new baritone saxophone and a new tuba, which are extraordinarily expensive. So, extremely excited about that. And as far as and I know the board might be concerned about strings attached. It's just kind of the normal boilerplate things when you accept a donation. You know, I'm gonna need to put those instruments and their serial numbers in the database. We'll get them district tagged. And then probably down the line, they'll want, some sort of statement from me about how this impacted the lives of our students, maybe stories, anecdotes from the students even,
pictures, just to talk about, you know, promote the efficacy of the program so that now that they can can go beyond these first 100 schools, in The United States. So pretty cool that somebody read our story and said, hey. I'd like to give $15,000 to that. And there were other donations too. That was just the big one that surprised me the first week of preschool. So if anybody has any questions. No. That's That's great. That was exciting to read that. Yeah. Great.
No. I just like to know and celebrate you that. This is a great addition because every year, mister Campbell's bank continues to grow at the beginning of the year. His course load for his students is about 265 students out of the school of 530. The Do we have any other celebrations as Mike went to?
Okay. Any other celebration reports? Yeah. That'd be good. Okay. Yeah. Yep. So the district received, this document from the Pleasant View Charter School. Resolution of appreciation and recognition. Maybe somebody else should read it. Whereas, the Board of Directors from Pleasant View Charter School has been fortunate to have affiliation and relationships. Somebody else needs to read this. Okay. With the Montezuma Cortez Board of Education, the leadership of superintendent Tom Burris and his
committed staff, Whereas, members of Pleasant View Charter School staff are financially benefiting from the work undertaken by the RE one Board of Education, the superintendent, and the voters of Montezuma County regarding the passage of the mill levy override. Whereas, Pleasant View, Charter School Board of Directors wish to extend our sincere appreciation for the willingness and expertise of the r e one board, r e one director Danielle Bradford, director Justin Schmidt, director Brad Edridge, associate superintendent Eddie Ramirez, and superintendent Tom Burris.
Now, therefore, be it resolved that the Pleasant View Charter School Board Of Directors recognize, appreciate, and thank the officers of and members of the Montezuma Cortez Board of Education, the superintendent of schools, and his staff for the timely help offered and accepted. Adopted this August by the Pleasant View Board of Directors, Tammy Hampton, Shayla Oliver, Phil Casper, Melanie Fowler, and 40%.
20%. Rena Susan. Susan. Susan. Thank you. So I apologize for not reading that, but I I was gonna get choked up. So I just don't hear enough nice words. Mhmm. Well, I'm understanding the first week of school kind of went off fairly well, so I think that's a celebration, you know, that might need to acknowledge. Thank you all for being a part of that. The others. Okay. We will move on to report, reports b, superintendent's report, senior.
The first the first day of school in my career, this was probably the smoothest. I mean, it's not smooth. It is it is the first day, but, we had some issues at the high school with schedules and other things, but all by and large, it was a really good first day. I do wanna thank doctor Anne Kiki for coming down and facilitated a, conversation about potential new board members. I thought that she was very powerful and that she had her, ideas in line.
She is the Aurora Public Schools, president of the board. I just want to report to the board that our BOCES, application for removal from BOCES to form our own AIU was submitted timely, and now we wait till the September to see if there are any things that we need to add to that application. Doctor Christian Northrop has data. I will have data at the next board meeting. This is just a little sample of it so far.
And, what I wanna do is I will make copies for all the board members so that you have a copy of the data. The data does include down to the teacher level achievement in each teacher's classroom. Room. I will then take a copy of this and redact all the teacher names and, in some cases, the school names, and we will have a a conversation around, the data and I'll try to make it as quick as possible. But, again, this is why we're here.
Here's our scores, and here's what they mean. We have had a short meeting with doctor Romero in strategic planning that has, moved that forward. I had an interesting meeting with and have another meeting with PCC, the head of PCC and the two superintendents of of our area. We are talking about sharing classes. We are talking about the possibility of doing basically a Zoom class, live Zoom class at one site and having kids at other sites.
All three of us are getting small enough that that's going to become a reality sooner than later. Speaking of that as a reality, I've got the numbers for the schools. Beach Street, 64, this is as of today, Kiva, 130. Kemper, 345. Lewis, A15. Mesa, 296. When we closed Manoa, both Mesa and Kemper were over 400. So Kemper is three forty five, Mesa is two ninety six.
This goes right along with the declining trend of our students in the county. This goes way back when I was here before, there were over 3,000 students in the school district, and now there's 1,940. MCHS, 590, MCMS, 530, Pleasant View is 39, and Swoase is one zero seven. That's all I have, madam president. Does anybody have any comments, questions for mister Burrows? I guess I have a couple here.
And, actually, that was one of my question on student numbers. That one's already done. The PCC situation. Yes. My one concern about that from teachers who have done this in the past and tried to do, like, Zoom classes for other schools. The class the host class, I think, takes a real beating on that because the teacher is trying to do, like, a be on camera to do a class on camera, and it's hard to run their own classroom when they're doing that. So just to have that in mind. That would be a good word. Condition, certainly. Our kids sacrifice, for that. Not that I don't like Mancos and Duck Creek and Dolores and everything, but just
I don't want to see that the classrooms here sacrificed because of that. I appreciate it. It's it's I don't know how to really explain it. It's just if you're you're trying to be more like an actor and stuff on a TV and and it's hard to run your classroom when you're doing that at the same time. True. So the other piece of that, mister Rice that was discussed is who does the homework grading? Mhmm. So those are things we're gonna discuss. We have a Thursday morning meeting, the four of us, and we're gonna bring those things up and see where we go.
The problem is you just don't have a lot of teachers like the the upper science classes, upper math classes. We're just we're in an area with declining enrollment both in teachers and students. Okay. If it would be a matter of, like, a recording, like, a science class or something, where our teachers recording an hour long lesson and then they do that later. But the ones that I've seen, they're actually doing a live, you know, where those students are watching live. And that, to me, it just really sort of hurts the environment, the host environment
to me. K. Certainly take that into account. And where we at on the air conditioning? Pardon me? Where we at on air conditioning? Glad you asked. So the air conditioning as of today, I got an email from, Jessica Allison who is Michael, our attorney's assistant. Matthews Carrier has agreed to defend them against our lawsuit and has appointed an attorney to represent represent them. Unfortunately, the attorney just received the case file yesterday. So she left me a voice mail asking if we would agree to a weak
extension of time for Matthews to answer the complaint. This would push it to Friday the twenty ninth. Before I respond, I wanted to check with you. If we don't agree to the extension, which we will agree, I think and she says, I think it would hurt our our rapport with the attorney in moving this forward. So they're inclined to give them the extra week. What we did ask for is emergency fix to see if we could get some of the, units going at Mesa, at Kemper.
We have seven units, and two of those are operational. What, train wants to do is come in and if and pressure test the units. And if the pressure test reveals a significant leak, they're not gonna fix it at all. And but if the pressure test reveals a small leak, they're gonna try to find the small leak, try to do the repairs. They've asked for a $10,000 not to exceed, and they're going to see how many of them they can get fixed. I also talked to Comfort Air Comfort Air is over thirty days out, which thirty
days out from now, we probably won't need air conditioning. But these guys, the train people will be here right next week. Correct? Okay. I know starting school earlier and earlier all the time. We're into the hotter part of the year every every year now, and it's Yes. A long time to be putting up without air conditioning out there. Yeah. It certainly is. Right now, we do have swamp coolers over at, Mesa, and we were told by the attorney to keep the the receipts for all that equipment that we're buying to
cool our classrooms the best we can, and that they will throw that into the lawsuit against Matthews. And they're helping? The the swamp coolers? Helping the least? They are helping. And it's, it's got a lot. It's just cut out here to help. Yeah. They definitely need to do it. Good. Pull it. Well, this has been a lot of help on this thing. Help me? Right. Thank you, president. Yes. I have a suggestion.
When I've watched videos of these board meetings, if somebody doesn't come to a microphone, you cannot hear a word that they are saying. I'm wondering if you would ask anyone who responds in the in the audience to come to the mic, please? Alright. I will go ahead and, reiterate that if you are being spoken to or need we need to hear you, if you would please approach the the microphone. Thank you. Also I'm sorry. Also, in your packet, you have a recommendation for appointment of the district accountability committee members.
We are trying to get more representation from the schools rather than representation from one or two of the schools. And so there is a recommendation recommendations from CDE that they publish about the DAC. The DAC, one of the major functions is the accountability of student achievement, and I I think we need, with this much data and what it says, we need a
lot of concern and consideration of the data. So you have a a recommendation in your file to, make that happen where Kemper Sack, Mesa Sack, Lewis, the middle school, high school, Southwest Open will all have a a member at the table. Okay. Okay. Moving on to report c, assistant superintendent's report. Mister Ramirez. Madam president, members of the board, I've just mentioned that CDE and the US Department
of Education have released all of the various title grants. With that being said, in your packet, you have the twenty twenty four twenty five, spreadsheet on the federal grants. Just call to your attention for comparison that, the award of grants was $3,042,487 with 79¢. The 2324 carryover was $692,277 with 62¢.
For a total revenue for the 2425 school year of $3,734,765.41. At the end of the year, it shows a budget balance of $580,026.15. But keep in mind that some of those are state grants, that no longer allow carryover. And so when you look at the 2526 grant allocation spreadsheet, you'll see that roughly
the award is $2,314,983.57, with a carryover of $487,835.98, which is almost, close to a $100,000 less of carryover for a total revenue of $2,802,819.55, which is, roughly about, putting myself on the line here with guesstimation mathematics, a little
bit less of 354,000, dollars. So I what I want to draw to the attention of the board is the shrinking grant amount that's occurring annually. And so as we fill that pressure on the grant side, it's also happening on the on the state side, and and, missus, Danielle will talk about that in her financial report, not, specifically in that matter, but in general.
And just so the board understands that, as well as, the audience and the administrators, as as we go forward, the fiscal amount is a shrinking amount. And then you heard the enrollment report from mister Burris earlier that we're down a little bit more on students as well. And so the PPR, gets up will affect our general operation as well. So, very confident miss Bradford is on top of that. She monitors that on a day to day basis.
She keeps us in check as administrative team as we look at the revenue, and we try to foresee and forecast and make adjustments as needed. Thank you. Thank you, mister Ramirez. Do you see anybody have any questions about his report? And, again, I'd like to thank all of our directors for submitting your reports too. Who was there? I had a couple of things here. In the nutrition, report, mister Ramirez, it said that they are that our nutrition services is stocking the concession stamp for the football games. How does that What we're doing is trying to standardize the equipment that's inside the
concession stand. And then we try to take advantage of the purchasing power through the food service, with our general operational activities money. And so we're just trying to be more efficient with that. Also, a better product to the to the community and also at a better cost. So is the district actually selling that product to the concession stand then? Or are we donating it to the concession stand? No. For the equipment that was bought. I actually have a couple of questions about that too. Is that just for the the food, and does that include, like, the paper products too, like the It will include it will include everything.
It's the paper products and the food. Okay. And that comes off the top right away, of the profit. Yes. Thank you. Thank you. Alright. Moving on to reports. Item d, executive director of finance report. Miss Bradford. Good evening, madam president, members of the board. I do have a change to my report tonight. I had initially intended to present on the UPK contracts for for our three year olds in the district area. We contract with several preschools, just to allow for choice and also to ensure that,
you know, we can extend the availability of care in preschool to students beyond what Beach Street can manage. Unfortunately, there's been some question as to who is paying for paraprofessionals for students that have IEPs. So we're just trying to go through some of those details, with our legal counsel and get more information. We're hoping to have those to you in September. So that's an update there. We did have our first MLL meeting last week. I felt that went pretty well. We didn't have all of our members that attend, unfortunately, but we have made contact,
and I'm hopeful that they'll be involved in future meetings. That's been handed over to them to as far as facilitation and scheduling. But I believe what we did in the meeting is reviewed kind of the history of the MLO. We looked at the ballot language so they understood what their role was, looked at the resolution, again, to just further understand the role. And so we'll see what they come up with, but, I'm excited to see that in the works. And I believe that's all I have for this evening. Thank you. Does anybody have any questions for miss Bradford?
I I have a comment. Okay. I wanna thank you for, putting the, graph together. I think as we go forward, that might be a helpful tool. At least, I hope it's gonna be a helpful tool, but thank you for for doing that. You're welcome. And that format works for you as is? Yeah. I I'm gonna have to wait to answer that and see how things go. So Okay. Thank you. I actually have it down here to have you explain that graph a little bit
more too a few of them. Okay. So what I did with that graph is we wanted to see how we're doing in a comparison of prior years. So what I was able to pull is our cash flow for the last two years, determine what percentage of the budget had been utilized at each month, and then I compared that to our current cash flow this year. So the lines, would represent the two year average, And then the bars represent our actual cash flow for this year. And the only the only one I saw and that was pretty high was mister
Knox in there for technology already on, money spent. So I'm assuming that's to get the school year started with Well, that and I would say it technology stuff and everything. Also, keep in mind that we, this year, absorbed the one thirty into the general fund as we work into, transitioning into the skyward, accounting program. So we essentially took two budgets and combined it into one, so that is a little bit misleading on that one perhaps. Okay. Alright. We'll move on to, report item e, executive director of academic services report. Mister Schmidt. Alright.
Alright. Good good evening, members of the board. I did provide a written report, but I'm just gonna kinda touch on a couple of highlights. First, just a update on focus areas, for the school year. Three main areas that we're focused on, with regard to, improving our academic effectiveness in the classroom. We've got some professional training from a variety of different folks, both from the curriculum providers, as well as instructional coaching, executive coaching for principals, and also, instructional coaching directly
in the classroom for our math department. And I've described each one of those in more detail in your report. In addition, we are we are focused on, providing more, collaboration time for teachers this year, and it's and it's working differently at different campuses. At the high school, they were able to create common planning periods for teachers so they can do more PLC and data meetings. At the elementary level, they'll have they'll still have grade level meetings in their buildings
as well as, grade level meetings across buildings on our PD days on Fridays. And so that's how we're working to address our issues of, wanting to have more common planning, common assessments, and and alignment across the district with our programming and our pacing. And so that's another area that we're focused on. And then the last piece of that is our instructional coaching in the classroom. This is something that principals are already doing.
We're just continuing to try and refine that process and and hopefully find more time to be able to be in classrooms more. Some of the coaching that principals are receiving from some of the groups that we're working with are in the areas of of instructional coaching as well. So those are the three main focus areas, for this year, and, again, they're explained in greater detail in your packet. Just a quick update on data and assessment. The assessment calendar was provided to you all. All. The star assessment window opened yesterday, for for all campuses.
Dibbles was scheduled to open next Monday. Reading coaches and principals at the elementary schools, had asked to be able move that back a week so that the the baseline data was closer to the start of the school year instead of a week of two weeks of instruction in. And so we were able to move the start of that window back to this week. And so DIBELS testing is also available for for, elementary schools to begin this week. One other note, mister Burrows mentioned, the CMAS and PSAT data.
That is scheduled to be unembargoed at the state board meeting, which takes place over two days, Wednesday and Thursday of this meeting of this week. So once that is unembargoed, we'll be able to share that information board publicly at the next at the next meeting. That's all I have. Any feedback on the collaboration time that the elementary teachers had between the buildings, like like with all the second grade teachers, stuff like that? Yeah. So we had one day during preservice where they could collaborate together, and I think
it was a little bit of a a mixed result. I think we had a little bit better collaboration, with our k two group, and we're gonna continue to work on that collaboration with our three five group. I think some of it is just around making sure that we all have the same expectations for what that looks like. And so one of the things that I'm gonna be doing is working with, doctor Romero to build out protocols for how our district PLC and data meetings need to be run. And then principals will and and assistant mister Smith, I I wanna thank you for
providing the assessment and data calendar. I think this is the first time that, I've seen a calendar like this, and, we had requested, at some time in the past that this be done. So I'm I'm thanking you for putting that together and especially, highlighting the the dates when the board will have access to the data or that it will be presented to the board. So, I look forward to working through that calendar and seeing the data that you're
gathering. Well and and I will pass on that gratitude to mister Parr. He is the one that created that. I just shared it with you, so I can't take credit for it. But he he took heed to your request, and and he did create that before his departure. Alright. Report f, executive director of ESS. Miss Nagel. Good evening, board. I submitted my report, and I recognized that there was an attachment that was supposed
to be with this also, related to the family and community engagement, which is the planning that I have going for each of those days. So I will get those to you in the very, for the next meeting. Did you have any other questions, or can I answer anything for you? Thank you. Alright. Thank you. Thank you, miss Meegle. Alright. Report g, board reports. We had our first BOCES meeting last Wednesday evening, for this fall. And as mister Burris already reported on that a little bit, but the form with
from the state, basically, to the BOCES asking a series of questions. But, ultimately, the final question is is do you support, Montezuma Cortez to become their own AU? And it's just a yes or no answer, no explanation or anything, and it was marked yes and sent in. So, little bit of contention on some of the stuff there, but not not too bad overall. So that is sent in. That was our first meeting. We have a new president of the BOCES board as Kim Alexander from Dove Creek.
So that was her first meeting. And then we had to elect a treasurer, which is now, Rachel, from, Mancos, Rachel McCarter. Went through a lot of policies again, which we do a lot at the BOCES meetings. But the one big question that I had to to bring tonight to everybody here, and I hope somebody can help us out with it, I was a little concerned when we go through all of our policies at BOCES base there's always policies that conflict with every individual district. So when we have a BOCES employee in our buildings, do they know our policies?
Are they actually trained on that to know our policies and know what to when it comes to student achievement and things like that? That came up. It was a thought I had at the meeting there. I didn't ask BOCES this, but, because they emphasize that they train their employees on their policies. But but then when they're in our buildings, do they have to adhere to our policies? And do they actually know our policies? Anybody. There you go. The short answer to that is, I know that BOCES allows travel time for their employees who live out of the city, which means that they don't necessarily report to
work at the same time as our employees report to work. As far as the policies within the building, as they're there, they have to abide by our policies with whatever items that are that that consists of. Any of the principals, do you sit down with BOCES and, do any training about this is what your expectations are in the building or come to the microphone? I Thank you, Dan. Really address training them on both on policies.
I haven't been here long enough to do that, but I did sit down with, one of the BOCES employees this past week, the the week previous to this, and just talked about expectations regarding, communications and how those should proceed. I thought it went pretty well, but, there was a definite lack of understanding, I think, that existed. Alright. Thank you. Miss Meegle, as far as, oops, as far as, service time, you kinda dictate with
them about service time, don't you? Service time is a it's a team decision. As far as if you're talking about specifically with students, we negotiate the times that they're gonna be working in our buildings and stuff. That's with BOCES, more with Brandy, and Royce, that portion of it. As far as policy specific, it's more this is the expected dress code. This is, you know, when we need those types of things, but not the details of our policies. No. Okay. Just just as an example of, you know, one that we just passed, what, six
six months ago, I think it was policy eight c. Right? Where we protected parental rights on that policy, BOCES would not have done that in their policy. They did on that particular policy because myself and Pagosa basically demanded that that was protected in there. But just as an example, a policy like that that would could really contradict with BOCES policy. And when their employees are in our buildings, they need to know that policy of ours. Right. I mean, do we provide BOCES with all of our I mean, personally, like, send
them over instead of just having them look up our policies? We do not. All of our policies are online, and they That's what you're saying, like do not. Do you recommend that they We can do that. See our policies or adhere to our policies? These are for you to, get familiar with, whatever the situation is to bring it to their attention. Yes. We have a meeting coming up with them next week. I think that's right. Yeah. Yeah. Hey, Will. Certainly you mentioned that about the policies. So on the flip side of that, I could be wrong, but I think this
is the first time I've ever heard that BOCES has policies. Are those policies available on their website? Yes. And because they are the AU, does that mean our district has to follow their policies or whose policies take priority? That's basically my my question is on our campus, our policies would take priority. But that's my concern is is when you have a BOCES employee in a building, do they even know our policy?
And if they do Which policy do they support? And I I I mean, I asked it there to to Royce, and Royce assured me that they have to go by our school policy, but we don't they don't know our school policies. Yeah. Right. Alright. We'll have that conversation. I was get I was gonna say we did recently have a converse well, I said recently, within the last, maybe, four or five months, had a conversation with Royce about who it was more about the supervision of employees and if there is a, an employee that's maybe not following a policy or they're outside of the bounds in
some way, how that chain of command works. And during that conversation, you know, we had kinda we had come to the agreement that if it's a BOCES employee and they're out of line, then we escalate that through the BOCES chain of command and vice versa. So we did talk about it from an employee supervisory perspective. Any other board reports at this time? Oh, president Noyes, I just wanted to remind everyone that they are signed up for Thursday night's, CASB regional meeting in Durango at from 04:30 to 08:30.
We have a ticket for you as well, miss Cheney, if you plan to attend, and that includes, the executive team as well. I like Caspi's time better though. It said 04:30 to 07:30. What did I say? 04:30 to 08:30. Oh, yeah. It is 07:30. I I just caught that today. Thank you, mister Rice. Okay. Madam president, I just wanted to let the, board know I'll be traveling to the East Slope to attend the class sponsored, policy summit, this weekend.
So I look forward to that. Okay. Thank you for attending that. Alright. Okay. Great. So we will move on to citizens address the board. One hour limit, three minutes each. Must turn in your field out ticket prior to meeting. Alright. Chris Crowley. And, Chris, if I can ask you to turn on that mic when you come up here, I don't think it's been turned on yet. Thank you. It's on? It's on now? Start your time over while we fix it. Okay. Testing. One, two, three. Time. Just gonna stand right next to it.
Good. Ladies and gentlemen, I would like to speak today regarding students from outside of MCHS participating in activities not offered at the school they attend. Nikki and I have enjoyed watching and rooting for activities such as football, basketball, baseball, wrestling, volleyball, track and field, softball, soccer, golf, band, choir, and theater. Each of these activities has invited and benefited from participation from outside schools including Dove Creek, Dolores, Mancos, Swoes, Gold Academy, and numerous home schools.
Apparently, this policy has changed at least in regard to our homeschool students participating in our music programs. Notices have been sent notifying students that if they are not enrolled at MCHS, that they may attend before and after school practices, but may not attend the classes that are tied to these activities even if they pay the activities fee associated with the activity and ask only to attend in order to gain practice time and benefit the whole band and choir and even receiving zero academic credit.
How does this benefit the school, the music programs, or most importantly, these kids? The short answer is it does not. I predict that if these policies are left in place, our music programs will be hurt in the long run. Because after all, who really wants to come to something where the people in charge tell you that you can show up, but you're not truly welcome there. Is that student based outcomes or adult based? How much did our football and track programs benefit from Xander Cruzan attending Dole Academy? How much did our baseball program benefit from Seth Oaks and Darren Daves coming over
from Mancos? And how much did our softball program benefit from Riley Hickman coming in from Dove Creek? Apparently, our athletes are more important than our musicians. I hope that in the end, the school and the school district will change this policy as it is currently being implemented, and not for not only their own benefit, but that of the kids and our community. Thank you, Chris. Okay. I got Emily Hominski. Did I say that right? Mhmm. Hi, everyone. Can you hear me? My name is Emily Huminsky, and I am here on behalf of the district accountability
committee. I participate on the DAC as a community member. So the DAC has been confused about some recent communications about the DAC from the district. We received a letter from board chair Noyes and superintendent Burris where it mentioned that you were going to change the membership composition of the DAC. We then saw that DAC protocols was listed on the August work session agenda and now a DAC resolution tonight for adoption. This has caused some confusion and concern because we have not heard directly from you about any of these changes or why they're happening.
And in regards to the composition, we have been meeting all of the listed membership requirements in our board approved bylaws and also have a recruitment and orientation plan for new members. So a question for you all is within your idea of this updated composition, will you be directly appointing members? We have already set all of this upcoming year as meeting dates, and our meeting this month was never published, and we actually never got a response if we were meeting or not. But we had some important things to continue discussing and bring into this new school
year. We had some really good momentum in working on the goals we set last year, like supporting teacher and coach recruitment and retention, student recognition, supporting the SACs. And we also had some really good momentum around gathering community input regarding the discussion of reorganizing the elementary schools. We just recently sent the reports of all of the compiled information from the survey and those town halls that you conducted and that we conducted. And a lot of parents, teachers, community members took a lot of time out of their day to share their input and concerns and experiences with you all.
And so we wanted to make sure that there that that input is shared in two ways. One, we wanted to make sure that it's shared with you so that you can be informed what the community is thinking in regards to that decision. And overwhelmingly, we heard from the community that they are really concerned about that decision and strongly oppose it. We also heard that they're actually pretty concerned about student outcomes if that decision were to be passed. We'd also like that information to be shared back with the community for transparency around what they shared with you.
Ultimately, the doc is there to be a collaborator to support you all and really be the liaison between the Saks parents community and yourselves. And we're really looking for more communication from you, regarding this decision or regarding this change. And so we'd love for you to speak more to these changes, what they mean for us moving forward, and how we can continue working on the goals that we set last year and to hopefully not lose the momentum and some of the really good things that have been happening with the deck.
Thank you. Thank you, Emily. K. MB McAfee. Good evening, everyone. I always feel very awkward when I first start talking. It seems like there's a lot going on that I want to talk about. I'm going to say very briefly. I've talked about this, with Mr. Lynch and with Superintendent Burrows. There is more edit more than editing to be done on your strategic to be done on your strategic plan. I mean, you need some core beliefs. You need, vision statement. You need a mission statement. And then you can get in.
Wow. Sorry. I don't think I did I don't think I did that. No. I didn't. No. Okay. Anyway, eventually, you can get into the minute goals that Doctor Romero presented the other night. But really, there's so much more than just editing that needs to be done with a strategic plan. The next thing I want to point out to you is a timeline. Rhonda Tracy was elected to the board in November 2023 for a four year term. At the end of the meeting last month in July, she resigned right at the
end of the meeting. You have yet to accept her resignation. As I read policy, she is still a member of the board until her resignation is accepted. Meanwhile, I look on the employment list and I see that she has been hired as a HR, a human resource specialist probably at the August. I made that assumption. I don't know that for sure. Nevertheless, as you all know, you can't be a district employee and a member of
the board. And as I see it, as Wanda is tonight, she is a member of the board and a district employee and that's not legal. So something has to be done about that and my hunch is that when Mr. Lynch wanted to pull the employment list out from the consent calendar, you may be going to talk about this. I surely hope that you do talk about it because it seems like a very, glaring error. And then I wanted to say one thing about DAC.
I I'm not a member of DAC. I have not been to a DAC meeting, But I did hear, the previous speaker, Emily Huminsky, ask you to please talk about DAC. So please, in the discussion time after this, please talk about this decision that has come that looks like Dax being completely reshaped. Also, please talk about Rhonda Tracy's position. So I've given you two good items to talk about in your discussion time.
Thank you. Thank you, Rebecca Busick. Hello? Does it sound alright? Yeah. Okay. Public education runs deep in myself and my family history. I was born the daughter of two public school teachers and the granddaughter of a superintendent. To this day, if you go to Kent City High School in Kent City, Michigan, you can visit the James r Ward Memorial Football Field named after my grandfather who
had the foresight to buy land for a portion of what it was worth. The land is where the football field is located today. I grew up around school teachers who could do cool and innovative things in their classrooms. Where I grew up, you could be school teachers, have two children, a summer cabin on the lake in the Upper Peninsula, help your children pay for college, and have a good retirement. My dad was the president of his teachers union, a driver's ed teacher, and a girl's basketball coach. My mom was a middle school teacher who loved, and I mean really loved, the
oddities that are middle schoolers. I moved to Montezuma County twenty one years ago. When we built our house out in the county with a Dolores address, we assumed we are in the Dolores School District. I suppose because we didn't have kids at the time, it didn't concern us enough to actually look. We were wrong. We are in the Cortez School District. Our son was born in 2022. Our son started full time preschool this year, and we're driving him to Teddy Bear Preschool in Dolores and are currently looking to buy a house in the Dolores School District in part because of this school board and administration.
To someone who loves and deeply believes in public schools, the action this board has taken in the past and are currently taking are an abomination. Why it took until ten tonight to announce that district a would be up for election, I don't understand. Petitions are due in ten days. What of district c? This school board administration and legal counsel have politicized our school. They have put the education of our students in jeopardy. They have abused and neglected their second most valuable assets, their teachers. I believe schools are the most valuable organization a community has, and what is happening
in the Cortez Area one School District is nothing short of a tragedy of the highest degree. Thank you, Rebecca. Okay. Here you go. Okay. Moving on to board discussions. Let me so where we wanna start. One. Yeah. We have Are are you guys wanting to start discussions? Yeah. We we went through that just a little while ago. It's a, we're trying for a better representation from all of the schools. Mister Burrows?
We're trying for better representations from all of the schools. I got it. I can do the teacher voice. We want the SACs to be set up and then each one of the SACs, the school accountability teams, to then select somebody onto the DAC. That that's really the emphasis of it. Get a representation from across the board. Okay. I feel like the DAC is, you know, our biggest advocate for and bridge with communications with the community, and it seems like we should be communicating far more proactively
through his junior here. He he worked with the DAC. The the items to be discussed through the DAC are are in statute and also in policy from CDE. Some of those, we we did very well, and some of those, I think, could have been improved upon. The issue with student outcomes, student achievement, whatever you wanna call it, was one of the things that, I'd really hoped that they had gotten into more. Also, the the parent inclusion in the school system, there's there were ideas of hiring
somebody to do that, but there was never any job description or, you know, what are what are the needs. And one of the places that I went with SOAR is that system where we will text parents if their child is missing a homework assignment, and then they will get a text when the child turns in the assignment. Assignment, and then they will get a text when the child turns in the assignment. It's a communication method that, my friend, Porter Cottrell, used at a school of a thousand kids and had over a 100,000 contacts during the school year.
So that was one of the the ideas to improve the student and parent, communication in the school district and I was really hoping that would be a DAC priority. Can you elaborate on students not being able to participate in in band, as a activity? They they can certainly, participate in band as an activity. Like, they can participate in football as an activity. All of the, activities that mister Crowley mentioned, they're open.
That that's regulated by CHASA. CHASA says if they don't offer the activity in the school where you go, then you're eligible to go to a school that's a neighboring school and be involved in that activity. And the question is not whether they can be involved. The question is really, with kids who want to take classes also, if they were involved in a homeschool, then homeschool students are eligible to take two classes or three and we get to have PPR for those kids who do that.
But an online school is a PPR school and so they get their own PPR, so consequently, they are not eligible for the curricular classes during the school day. But, they still fall under the Chasset and the Colorado Bandmasters, and they are eligible for the extracurricular activities. And by statute, if we have a and you know this well from drama, there's a participation fee. By statute, we can charge a 150% of our participation fee for kids from another,
I call them a PPR school. With homeschool, because we do get a PPR with those kids, they pay the same participation fee. That make it? Does that get you there? The the fees doesn't make any sense to me, but Okay. Forget the fee conversation there. I guess I can track the rest of that. Yeah. Yeah. Football's got a participation fee, for example. I don't know what it is. Jennifer, do you know what the Yes. $70? So, little Paul, who's gonna play center for football, has to pay a $70 participation
fee. But Tom from a, online school, who's participating through Chassa rules, I'll pay a $110 participation fee. Try to recap recapture some of the the wear and tear on our equipment. And then and not to confuse it, but a homeschool kid pays the same participation fee because we do claim a PPR with those kids. And you said they can take a wait. Homeschool kids can take a class? Yeah.
And but an online school kid could not because they're being counted as PPE elsewhere. Their their PPE are counted somewhere else. I had the discussion with Mark Knox several times about, like, Goal Academy. If they go to school if they were to go to school at our school for two periods, we we won't get anything from that goal. We'll capture the entire PPR. Mhmm. But they're still entitled to participate in the after school activities? Yes, sir. Absolutely. Correct correct me if I'm wrong, but, in regard to sports, there's no issue because
it's all outside of the school day. Right. Marching band is a peculiarity in regard to these rules because the marching band practices during school time with the songs, but they go out and practice on the field for their marching band. So it's like it's a unique situation, and, it's, unfortunate that, we're in that predicament. I don't know what the answer is, but it's a hard decision.
I've checked into Chassel rules and the Colorado Bandmasters, and they're the same. I would just like to, talk a little bit about, what MB mentioned about the strategic plan. We are still in the editing processes of, going over that, and, so that's not completely approved and completed yet. So we are working on that. And then, we do have a resignation, accepting the resignation on our action item tonight for District C.
So the the deck, I don't know what what we wanna talk about. Deck? What's that? Middle. Yeah. Okay. K. I guess I'd like to know. Is is that gonna be something that's appointed, or are those all volunteer positions, the DAC? They they will be selected from each one of the schools from their SACs. Select so the school will select them, not the board. No. Administration. So by no means, we're we're not stacking any decks. No. Right? Okay. No. Do you Mike, do you have anything else that you need to say?
So does anybody know what's coming next? For parents and students in the district, for all staff in the district, I'd, I'd like to encourage you to join the conversation to improve reading proficiency in our district, and beginning by listening to the podcast miniseries, Sold a Story, at sold a story dot o r g. It can trigger emotions, so you might have to split it up into several different
times. Anyway, I'm encouraged by hearing that some people, including staff and, board members have listened to that. I think it helps us all in conversations about how we improve reading in our district, and I hope it will help spur improvement in our reading in our district. Okay. And do you have anything to I have I think we need to adjust that timeline as far as run this. We're gonna talk about that, I guess. Is that what we're pulling out of consent?
I don't know I don't know why that was I don't know what your, thoughts were behind pulling out the employment the monthly employment list for an action item on its own. But, since since it's an action item, I'll save my comments for the discussion. Let's talk about that then. Okay? Okay. Something else along with that's on the consent, but since we don't talk about it in the consent, there's a request for an out of state travel for middle school football to go to Blanding, I think it was.
Mhmm. Somewhere along the lines, we used to have a where since we live right here by the in the four corners, if it was less than 75 miles, I thought, we didn't have to do out of state travel stuff. And I think that was driven also by insurance that they covered it if it was less than $7,000. I'm gonna call a point of order. The consent calendar is not, available for discussion. If an item on the consent calendar should be discussed, it should be pulled off the calendar. The whole idea behind a consent calendar is there's the things on the list are
things that are expected not to need discussion. They're not controversial, and everyone can vote yes. That's why it's called a consent agenda. And so I would, urge that we do not try and discuss things unless we have pulled them off the consent calendar. K. Noted. Yes. K. Okay. Okay. Okay. Moving on to discussion item b, policy for information, IKF class of 2021 graduation requirements, IKF class of 2029 graduation requirements, IKF dash e dash one class of 2021 GR
options, I k f dash e dash one, class of 2029 GR options, I n d a b instructions, I j n d a b instruction through online courses, GBGH, Sickly Bank, GBGH, Sickly Bank, JICJ, student use of cell phones and other personal devices. So I did notice on the, Sickly Bank, there was an inconsistency in the, actual
policy and then the actual, Regulation. Yeah. Regulation. Yeah. The regulation. So I would just kinda like to bring that to the attention that, one is stating less than one hundred days and the other one is stating less than two hundred days. So I just we need to, make those align with each other. So, madam president, the these policies have, been submitted to the board from the policy
advisory committee and that committee is no longer, involved with them. It's up to the board now to, make any amendments that are necessary, and I thank you for spotting what we missed. And since tonight is information only, we can't make amendments. But at the first reading or the second reading, those amendments can be made. Okay. Does somebody else have any comments, questions, changes, or something that is visible?
Okay. What what triggered the, need to revise these policies, Mike? I'm sorry. I didn't hear the question. What triggered the need to make these revisions? Good question. I'm not We did make some changes to our graduation requirements. It's one of the is for the graduation ones. Yeah. Down through I k f dash e dash one, those are, those were triggered by the high school administration regarding graduation requirements. Okay.
So it does As well as IJN DAB. The GBGH and GBGH dash r were triggered by, administration in the district which found a difference between the handbook. I believe the problem was the difference between the handbook and these policies which needed to be aligned. And that Handbooks now dictate policy? That's kinda what it feels like. I beg your pardon? It feels like handbook changes are now dictating policy. I would disagree with that.
Okay. Doing those two. J I c j I c j is a cell phone policy, and, that's been, that has come up in conversations for about, I'm gonna guess, about a year. And, the schools and districts across the country are districts across the country are are making these policies. If I remember correctly, in Colorado, we have according to law that was passed recently,
we have until, I believe it's next summer to have this policy in place, and we've, we're doing that now with this policy. I think that covers them all. Yep. I believe so. Okay. Alright. Moving on to action items. Action item a, consent calendar. Can I get a motion to approve the consent calendar? I'd like to make a motion to accept the collect, consent calendar. I second. Online voting is now available. Miss Cheney, do you see your online vote?
It'll pop up. There you go. Motion passes unanimously. Thank you. Can I get a motion to accept the resignation of board member district c? I'd like to accept the resignation of board member district c. I'll I'll second it. Online voting is now available. Motion passes unanimously. K. Can I please get a, a motion to accept the resolution to declare a vacancy in District C? I'll move to, accept the resolution to declare a vacancy in District C.
I second it. Online voting is now available. Motion passes unanimously. Okay. We are at action item d, officer appointment for treasurer. We will need a motion to appoint somebody as treasurer. I move to appoint, Leland as treasurer. I'll second it. Leland, do you accept that? I accept. Thank you. Vote's not necessary on that, so I'm just going to mark that one. Okay. Okay. Action ID, district advisory committee deck resolution.
I get a motion to approve that. I'd like to make a motion to accept district advisory committee resolution. I'll second it. As I can tell, the composition of DAC and and and SAC is dictated by the state statutes. So what what is this resolution actually doing for us? How is this making any change? It's making it's ensuring we have representation from all of the schools, adequate representation.
Some of the same people that are on deck may be returning to the DAC through their schools. Okay. Online voting is now available. Miss Cheney, you do have to vote. You you can't abstain on that one. What let you change it? Up in the right corner where it changed both. It's right. You gotta scroll up there. That little red area if you click on that. Thank you. Motion passes unanimously. Okay. Action item f, the Lohr Foundation Grant for MCHS Engineering slash STEM program, program technology and supplies for $25,000. I move to accept the Lohr Foundation grant for MCHS engineering STEM and Technology Supplies.
I'll second it. Madam President, I've got some questions. Okay. Yes. Go ahead. So, when I was looking at my packet, I did not see any documents with this item. So I'm I was confused as to what is being asked for here. Is this a request to apply for a grant, Or is this a request to accept a grant? Yep. Yep. Yes. Please. Tall. It is to accept a grant, and it we hired a new teacher this year
and started a new program, but he has very limited tools and supplies to run a program. And so this will be used to buy drones, robotics type equipment, things for the kids to be using hands materials. So it is to accept the grant. We have a lot of the paperwork and all of the proposals for what equipment it entails. I could send to you if that would help. What normally comes before the board on these Loar Foundation grants is a Loar Foundation
grant agreement, and I see none with this packet. Well, I do you not I see one. Do you not have one attached to yours? My assistant principal has been in charge of this one. So I'm helping out, but he So I can see it now. Okay. It was not there when I was reviewing the packet before uploaded by miss Bradford. Yes.
Go go ahead. And, I wanted to add too. I was reviewing policies and policy DD. It does say that anyone wanting to apply for a grant should complete that form. So we have just started that. I don't think I think it's been overlooked in the past. So I apologize if there was confusion there. That sort of came after the fact, but, we would like that to be presented to you each time that someone is looking for a grant request. Yeah. So it was, in our packets on Monday the eleventh, and I was not able to see it. I think something needs to be looked at in regard to my access to the
packets because, I looked as late as, I think Friday and could not see anything with that. So there's an issue somewhere. Okay. Okay. The other, comment on discussion of this item is, the LoRa Foundation grant agreements, are all the same. They all contain toxic language in regard to work product. And typically work product is not an issue, but it is it can be an issue with computers.
Anything that can be programmed and there's both computers, iPads, potentially robotics, and controllers, which appear to me to be programmable items. And so I have a concern about that, grant agreement in regard to many things listed on this request.
Miss Boniface, do you know if the program has any intent to, make commercial product? Okay. I don't think it's an issue then. Not an not an issue until it is. Yep. Yep. Please do. If it would help, we could put some writing, signatures in place with the instructor, maybe even with the students and parents, that these products will only be used for instruction and possible licensure with the drills. I'd be happy to put together something like that. If it would help. It would help me, maybe it would help me for sure, to have that, to
have the the issue I'm raising put aside in whatever form that takes, and I'd be happy to work with you or with your staff to come up with an idea to solve that. I think we'd be happy to do that. Online voting is now available. Motion passes five to one. Alright. Can I get a motion to, approve the capital reserve request for twenty twenty five twenty twenty six maintenance service truck for $83,642?
I move to, accept the maintenance or the capital reserve request for the maintenance service truck. I'd like to accept that. Second second it. So I assume that the these since this is being bought somewhere else and stuff, these companies are the ones that only serviced. Is that correct? Yes. Yes. He had one with an engine that went out in it. So this is the replacement for that, I believe. Online voting style available? Motion passes five to one. K. Can I get a motion to approve the capital reserve request 20252026, the Gascoigne Management
System for $43,000.09 I'm sorry? $41,000.906 dollars 73¢. I'll move to accept the capital reserve request for the, Gasboy Islander fuel management system for $41,009.00 $6.73. Eddie, can you speak to this, request? Has, something happened with an existing asset that this is a replacement to? Or what is the purpose of this one? Yes, sir. It's a conversion to a key card system for fueling that identifies each driver.
Also, some of the charter schools that fuel there. We were on the honor system before. This is going to make it, more secure. Excellent. Thank you. Online voting is now available. Motion passes unanimously. Alright. Action item I, the policy second reading, JBAA, preserving fairness and safety in sports. I'm going to accept, policy JBAA for second reading. I second it. Madam president, just a I second.
A couple of comments. This policy was adopted by the board under the emergency or urgent method or pathway for adopting a policy, But under that method, we need to ratify it before, I think it's ninety days or whatever. So the vote we take tonight basically, seals this as a, a policy going forward as well. Thank you for that, Mike. Online voting is now available.
Motion passes unanimously. Alright. Our last action item oh, I'm sorry. Next to last, action item j, the Montezuma County Clerk Election Intergovernmental Agreement. I move to accept the, Montezuma County Clerk Election Intergovernmental Intergovernmental Agreement. One second. Online voting is now available. Mister, don't you you recorded an abstain? No. Not on purpose. What would you like your vote to be?
Thank you. Motion passes unanimously. Alright. Moving to our last action item, k, the monthly employment list that was removed from the consent calendar. So We need a motion. That option first. Motion. I'm going to accept the monthly, employment list. I'll second it. Okay. Go ahead, Mike. So, one of the concerns, that I have, and it's a board responsibility in regard
to new hires, employing people in the district. According to state statute, the board, has the say in those matters. And so, as a result of that, I've been working with the administration to get additional information over and above the list in order to make sure there's that I
personally don't have any issues with people that are being hired for instructional purposes. And, it's been very helpful in this particular case. The list was not out at the time of the board packets and, I did not have the opportunity before Friday to, get that information. So I was not able to learn more about the instructional staff that was, is
is being hired. And so I would like additional time to do that. And so what I would propose is to amend the motion such that we remove six of the instructional positions, and I can name them by people if necessary, but, it's basically the three teachers, the teachers, the counselor, and the long two long term subs. Remove them from the list and put them on next month's list in order to
give me time to see more information. And that that would be my amendment is to remove those one, two, three, four, five, six positions from this, monthly employee update and put them on next month's. And so in order for this to happen, my motion would need a second, and we would vote on that first and then vote on the main motion. Wouldn't that would mean we're left with vacant positions there and no instructors in class?
I beg your pardon? Don't wouldn't wouldn't that mean we'd be left with vacant positions and no instructors for those kids in those classes? Mister Burrows, do you want to answer that? This is one of the anomalies of Cortez or Colorado. We hire people, we put them to work, and they are not officially employees until the Board votes on it. So these people that are on this would continue to work and they would draw a paycheck and they would be in front of kids, but their official employment would
be held off a month. And is there any detriment to them for doing for doing that just because we didn't have their name on our list in time for a board meeting? The only detriment that I could see with it is if if they quit, if they abandon their job, we can hold them to a thirty day, stay in place or work on taking their license. If you have this, I don't if you don't have a formal action in place,
I believe they could just walk out the door and say, see you. Other than that, I don't see any detriments. Okay. Well, I was just gonna ask. This is the first time that I think this has come up. So I didn't know if this was something that How you go about it, if that's the way to go about it, if that's the the right procedure. So I I I don't like pulling them out of there, personally. I just don't like that message at all for that.
So before we discuss the amendment of motion Mhmm. The amend the motion to amend, we need to have a second and there is no second. If there is no second, the motion falls to the floor and it is not voted on. So if and and but we need a second in order to discuss it. I'll second it then just to get it for discussion. So I've I've, before making the, motion to amend, I I, explained what I was
doing. And the reason I'm doing it is because I'm very concerned about our culture and climate going forward, and so there are certain things that raise a red flag. And that's why I'm trying to spend more attention on, understanding who our district is hiring, for the positions that will affect students most directly than any other position in
the in the district. And so all I'm asking is for the board to give me some extra time to, do that do that work. And and it typically does not amount to any changes, because, things usually look pretty good. So, I don't anticipate any changes to the list as a result of more information, but it could happen.
K. Does this mean that we are in fact then in charge of hiring decisions? Because that that was always the impression was always given to me that that was an administration control and not in board purview. It's it's their control, but our ultimate responsibility. Our approval. So and and the law says we cannot delegate that responsibility, not even to the superintendent. Mhmm. So we rely on the superintendent to take care of all those things and make
them happen, but the board has the ultimate say in whether for instance, in in whether somebody gets gets hired. So for instance, if there was somebody on this list that you know is a bad actor, you have the ability to make sure that person does not get hired by our district. If you can convince the entire board of of your concern. Because it takes a board to make a decision. You can't make the decision on your own.
But it is definitely within the board's purview to, approve and therefore, our responsibility lies, in that ability to approve the hires. Okay. Did I say that right, miss Burris? Yes, sir. Mhmm. I'm ready. Okay. Yep. We're ready. Done. Okay. Do you see that? So So we're voting on the amendment. Okay. Online voting is now available. Read through it. Make sure you approve of it. Well, Motion passes five to one.
Actually, it was a problem. Okay. So Can you say What if yes. So now we're voting on So now we're voting on the main motion, which is been, amended to remove this the those six people, and the main motion is to adopt this employment, list monthly employment list. And so everybody that is remaining on the list will be approved after this vote,
probably. Mister Rice, do you remember who you made the original motion? He did. Mhmm. And then Leland. Leland, do you seconded that? Okay. Board docs erases that for some reason. Online voting is now available. Motion passes unanimously. Okay. K. I will adjourn this meeting at 07:45.