Okay. 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, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Do I have a motion on the agenda please? I need to set the agenda as presumed. Do I have a second? Please. Do I have any discussion? Missus
Fallock. Hi. Mister Bush. Good. Apologies. We are voting our motion to you. The agenda is presented. Uh Missus Barlett. Hi. Missus Bush. Hi. Miss Fisher in Bow's eye. Missus Hubde. Aye. Missus Hubdi. Aye. Miss Barrio. Aye. Mister West. Aye. Thank you. Student spotlight please. Mister Jenkins. Good evening, board directors. We have several fantastic celebrations for this evening's meeting. We're going to start off with some student celebrations and I will invite Deputy Jarrell to the
podium along with her student. Thank you, Matt. Good evening. I'm Deputy Jarrell with the Montrose County Sheriff's Office and this evening, I'm going to be presenting the November SRO Citizenship Award and at this time, I'd like to invite, invite Evan Eddy. I was able to sit down and speak with Evan as well as his teachers and here's a little snippet about why this young man is so amazing. Evan Eddy is currently a senior at the Olathe High School and is very deserving of the November SRO
Citizenship Award. Evans teachers would describe him as kindhearted, hardworking, and always willing to step in and lend a helping hand to fellow classmates and teachers. Mister Spar spoke about Evan's wonderful sense of humor and says he is an absolute delight to have in class. Evan exceed at all aspects of school and currently has a 3point5 GPA. Evans says his favorite class is American politics with mister Hamm. Evan is when Evan is not in school, you
will find him spending time building up his small business which he and a group of friends started. Evan would describe the business as a handyman for hire but mostly focusing on window washing. Evan's favorite hobbies include playing baseball and hiking. Evans says his passion for hiking has just started but his favorite hike recently was to the Blue Lakes. Evans says his dream job would be to be a business owner of a handyman slash window washing service. Evans says the most exciting thing, he is looking
forward to after graduating is earning adult money and being able to buy cool things as well as excite becoming an adult. Evans says his biggest role model would be his dad, Dan. Edmund describes his dad as one of the most caring and kind-hearted people he knows. Evan says he Joyce hanging out with his girlfriend and gaming. Evan demonstrates exceptional citizenship in his school in his community, and I am honored to present him the November SRO citizenship award.
Have it. I have it. Yes. Okay. In my folder? I think so. If not, we will get it to you. Congratulations, Evan. People will get evidence certificate in account. Good job. Thanks Emma. Thanks. Thank you. Thanks have a look. Thank you. Alright, coming up next, we're going to have two Montrose High School student athletes, Elijah and Aiden who are going to present their present to invite you the board and the community to their football first state playoff game on Saturday
this weekend at 1 PM and they're going to discuss their accomplishments this season. So, fellas, introduce yourself and go ahead. Alright. Uh so, I'm Aiden. I'm a running back and I'm a senior at Montrose High School. Um I'm Elijah Womack. I'm a running back and linebacker. So I guess we just got invited to discuss our football season. Um we've gone ten and oh in the regular season. Something we haven't done since 2021. So we think that's pretty cool. We host our first playoff game this weekend Saturday at one against Frederick High
School. Hopefully all you guys can make it there. Um yeah. I'm not sure what else we can say. It's about all I got. I guess some highlights of this season would be I mean some of our just favorite moments of the season just this season we noticed we became a I'm sorry. I got it. I don't know. Um we beat the number two team being the number fourteen to clinch home seed. Um throughout playoffs so that was pretty cool and we did it on in week 10
on senior night so that's pretty cool. So we're league champions for the fourth year in a row so we're thankful and happy to be able to put another number up there. Um I'm not sure what else. Well I have a question. Board members may have a question. So because of your performance this season assuming we keep going in the playoffs, are those all home games? Yeah, yeah. Yeah. So, that's what I was mentioning a second ago. Um when we were the number 14 in week nine, we beat the number two
team, Pueblo West and so we bumped up to the two seed and so the one seed has their own side of the playoff bracket and the two seed has their own side and so by beating them, we clinch the two seeds and over the higher seed in our bracket. So, we should have home games. Um assuming we keep going through our playoffs. So, it's pretty cool. So, yeah. Remember, I was the by week. Oh, good. Good. This is great. We're rested. We're we're focused and we're ready to go. We're excited to go. We appreciate that. We're excited as well. Thank you. Good luck. Congratulations. Good job. Good job. Alright. Thank
you, Doug. Good luck. Play hard. Okay, moving on. We've got some staff celebrations and to start off, we want to invite some friends from Cottonwood Elementary School. Um miss Henny, if you would like to bring your teacher up. And I do have those certificates. Thank you, sir. I got it. Oh, and I gotta do a preface. So, the these are the Altrusa awards for staff members. Uh for many years, Altrusa has supported the school district. Um they're going to provide us a certificate as well as $50 for each staff member recognized
that you have to use on yourself. Okay. Yeah. Thank you I'm Honey Algesh, principal at Cottonwood Elementary and I'm honored to nominate Miss Jen Smith for the Altruza Apple Award. This year, Mrs. Smith transitioned into the reading interventionist role and her impact has been truly outstanding. She provides invaluable support to both students and staff. Um and always prioritizing student growth and achievement. Her dedication to help students succeed goes above and
beyond what is expected. And she continues to elevate learning at Cottonwood Elementary. Missus Smith is a shining example of our values. She leads with kindness, believes in the potential of every student, and gives her all to ensure each child can thrive. Her passion and commitment are making a lasting difference in our community. Thank you, Jen. Congratulations. Okay, coming up next, we have some friends from Johnson Elementary School, Miss Bloomfield. If you'd like to come up with your staff members. And here's your
pocket. Oh my gosh. You couldn't have made it bigger. These are old eyes. Alright. So, I am it's my absolute honor to nominate Nikki Thompson for this award. Um she embodies everything that we admire in a teacher. With boundless senses of humor, Nikki has a magical way of turning even the toughest days into unforgettable moments filled with laughter with her kindergarteners. Nikki brings positive and energy to every lesson creating a classroom atmosphere where every student
feels seen, valued, and inspired. But beyond the energy and absolute positivity, Nikki shows a deep and genuine love for every student meeting them exactly where they need to be and helping them to succeed in every possible way. Nikki doesn't just teach, she uplifts, empowers, and creates a space where every student knows they matter. For those reasons and so many more, I'm thrilled to nominate Nikki Thompson for this recognition And up now will be our friends from Northside. Mister Resintrader if
you'd like to come up with Mister Severson. Alright. Scott's really nervous. I'm going to go off script. Been harassing him all day about the things that I'm going to talk about but I'll stick with the script. Um you know, he is just truly an amazing teacher and probably even better person. Um it's hard to find someone more dedicated to his students in school. Scott, not only develops amazing relationships and culture within his classroom, he sets out to develop strong relationships with every student as well as every other teacher in the school. Um you'll see
almost everyday walking in, checking on various classrooms throughout the building, getting to know, I think his goal is to know all 340 kids' names by the end of the first 2 weeks. You know and he's always willing to step up and lend a hand. Um every classroom or every teacher has a bulletin board in the hallway and they were all built by this guy. Um covers duties if I'm going to be out for a meeting. He's the first one out there to greet kids, take my place in the mornings. Um but beyond his
selflessness, he's also an outstanding teacher. Um and my boys have both had the pleasure of being in his class. Oakley is going on two years in his class this time. Um And he sets and maintains high expectations, engages students in active learning experiences, and supports students to learn and achieve. And I didn't plan this but it's also very fitting with yesterday being Veterans Day because he served our country in the United States Navy for 20 plus years. Yeah, for sure. His son didn't get held back. I looped up. Just to be
clear. Just to be clear. Just to be clear. It's a good mention. And thank you Mister Resident Trader for mentioning Mister Savison Severson's service. It was great to see board members at our Veterans Day events that we had this week honoring members of armed armed forces who have served or who are serving. Also the Montrose High School football game that the student athletes mentioned. Um there will be free admission for veterans on Saturday at that playoff game. Um so we encourage everybody and and we thank
all of our veterans for their service. Uh last staff recognitions we have. October was a little wonky on the calendar. Usually for the KREX Golden Apple Award. Uh we're surprised that staff member of the Monday before this board meeting. Uh but because the calendar fell a little differently in October, we didn't get a chance to mention Miss Garcia. Uh so the October KREX Golden Apple Award went to Montrose High School Science Teacher Emma Ray Garcia. Um I will summarize Miss Garcia's nomination that is gushing
from one of her students who said Miss Garcia is always there when you need her. She's the best teacher I've ever had. Uh student talked about biomedical and forensic science. All the fascinating things they were learning in Miss Garcia's class. Uh for the KREX Golden Apple Award for November, that went to Pomona Elementary School, fiscal education teacher, Amanda Connolly. Um 8 different parents had nominated Miss Conley and said some really nice things about her. Um talking about amazing she was going
above and beyond taking time to tutor kids and and make sure they're physically active even on her own time. Uh so thank you to Miss Conley. Thank you to Miss Garcia. Um Miss Connolly's interview will be next week on Monday at the five, six, and 10 o'clock KREX News. That'll also be on our website and social media. In addition to Miss Garcia's interview. Uh we got some great things going on in the district. Uh with wonderful students and staff. And then finally we have several for which we are grateful this month. Centennial Middle School received a
donation in the amount of 3, 500 from Montrose Oral Maxofacial Implant Surgeons for their shop program. The Montrose High School Cross Country team received $1$1, 000 donation from Lou and Dawn Winkler. The San Juan Healthcare Foundation donated thirteen50 to offer the virtual new me program to the Denver Museum of Nature and Science to MCSD fifth grade students. The classes will be held at Times, Olathe Elementary School, November 1st, Cottonwood Elementary School, December 5th,
Johnson Elementary School, December 6th, Northside, December 19th, Pomona Elementary, January twenty-fourth, Oak Grove Elementary, April 11th, Peak Virtual Academy, April 28th. Uh and finally, donations were designated to Montrose High School Athletics in memory of teacher and coach Joe Fastler, Cindy and Michael Rogers donated a and fifty dollars. Jean and Jerry Troshinski donated a hundred dollars. Juliana and Michael Myers
donated $50 and Jody and Dale Lonker donated $50 as well. So, thank you for those generous donations. Uh we'll be back next next month to celebrate some awesome students and staff. Thank you board directors. Okay. And anybody who is celebrating, y'all are welcome. Welcome to Saint No, it's the best fit, the financial fit Thanks. Have it at the beginning. Thank you. I always clear a room with them. Beginning it again. Just saying Alright. So, I am reporting tonight on the first quarter. Um last July through September. So, we have the
cash balance report that you have on your agenda there. So, all of the cash balances as of September 30th along with the interest rates. And we are seeing rates starting to come down. Kahlo Trust kind of scroll this with the room as well. Color Trust is down to 5. two. Now, they were at five point five, five point four. We are seeing rates starting to come down. Um CDs are now below 5% when we were seeing em at at over 5 percent and the Federal Reserve cut rates another quarter of a percent just last week. And so we are expecting to
go down a little bit more. Um so does anyone have any questions on the the bank balances? Around our cash investments? Those are big savings for food service. Savings? What do you mean? And we just went from 1. 7 to just 1 million. Yeah, depending on the time of year and the timing of expenses and the cash flow fluctuates. Alright, so if we don't have any questions on this report, I'll move on to the first quarter, quarterly report. So, I will do a quick summary
of of the columns. Uh starting from the left, that first blue highlighted column for general fun starting from the last shows. The beginning fun balance, the revenue, and the expenditures. It also compares this this first quarter for this fiscal year with last year first quarter and then that second blue highlighted column just shows the current adopted budget that was adopted by the board in June and that third highlight column shows the percent of spending in the first quarter compared to the annual
budget. And so that's kind of the breakdown of the columns. And then as usual we move over to the left and we talk about expected fund balance. Um papers here. And compared to the adopted budgeted fund balance. And so as I said was it compares the expected fund balance in each fund with the board approved adopted budget as we go through the year. Um variances also consider any changes in the beginning fund balance carried forward from the ending fun
balance from the prior years audit. I know this is a little bit confusing time of the year when we have to talk about this but each year in May, the ending fund balance is projected when the budget is submitted to the board and once the spending for the rest of the year, an audit is complete, the ending fund balance is final and becomes the actual beginning from balance if that makes sense because we have to project it in May. Um the variances at this time of year are mainly the difference between this beginning budgeted fund balance and the actual audited beginning fun balance. So, I'm going to talk a little bit about the
variances over 75, 000 for the first quarter. So, for general fund that you can see on the screen here, the expected ending fund balance and I'm right here on this this left side over here is 16. 5 million. Uh for the first quarter of the new fiscal year of twenty-four 2-five, the expected fund balance is 16. 5 which is 241, 000 higher compared to the adopted budget ending fund balance which was
at 16. 3 that you can see which was said in May and this is due to the start of the of starting the year with a higher beginning fund balance. From what we budgeted to our actual audit results. Um the variants of two hundred and forty-one thousand is attributed to costs coming in slightly under budget. Um for transportation. We had some credits for combined routes. So we were under budget and transportation. Um some in para benefits and utilities and a little bit in unspent contingency.
So that's what explains that that difference between where we came out with our final audit and what we projected in May. And then the next fund and you can you know can see the differences in each fund. They're all most of them are unders the 75, 000 variant threshold. The next one I'm going to talk about is the building fund. Fund forty-one here on the second page. And that funds in expected ending fund balance here is seven point six million. And the actual this is due to the actual
audited beginning from balance coming in higher than projected from the prior year from HVAC project expenses coming in under budget. So that was good. And some reallocation of security project expenses to the general fund to utilize some one time savings. So that's what caused that difference. And then then the next fund over that variant threshold is employee medical fund sixty-five. So that expected ending fund balance here is 2 point seven million. And
that is due to again similar reason of that audited beginning imbalance coming in lower than budgeted ending fund balance in the prior year mainly due to higher claim cost than anticipated that had to be accrued at year end from claims that occurred in 23twenty-four but not paid out until July through September. So if the claim occurred in 23twenty-four even though the payout is maybe not till September 1st we have to accrue it back into that fiscal year. And we had some pretty large ones. We had a large claim that was in negotiations
between the provider and our third administrator for like nine months and so it caused a little bit of difference between fiscal years there. Um so that's the reason for that variance. Um the audit status is that we're in the final stage of the 23 twenty-four audit. Um for the financial statements and CDE pipeline submission has been complete. Um that's the earliest that we've ever got that through. Um so in December you'll be getting an audit presentation and be a lot accept the audit next month. So what
questions do you have? So in our on the budgeted amount I noticed that our I don't we haven't got an official October count yet. No that'll be cost to a few students. We are down a little bit in enrollment and all that detail will be presented next month when you guys accept October count and there'll be some comparisons to prior years and a lot of data. Um so but yeah we are a little bit under what we budgeted. For FTE October count. Any other questions? Short and sweet this chord. Well, we have the audit
one now. Yes. Okay, thank you. Appreciate it. Uh okay. Board advisory committee updates. Have any of the board committees met? She did that. Yeah, you were first. Oh. Um. Well, we went through the rubric with the proposal for the charter school and just kind of each section and talked about it and went around Honolulu and so what we have to do we should have
turned in our rubric yesterday then Mato is going to put it all together and then we'll find it December 3rd when we meet Nance dad will come up with a recommendation on what they think should happen. Charter. Anything else? I just have like a three things I wanted to talk about just because it's such a learning process, you know, with the whole with all of this and and watching the boot camp and I just wanted to just ask
the board, you know, with them doing the review just from what I'm seeing and from what I understand like a lot of times, Dax can come to the capacity interviews but they weren't, they didn't come into the capacity interview to be able to ask the question. So, a lot of questions that they're asking, you know, where asked at the capacity interview that we did and so I just didn't know, you know, if they have another opportunity to run their their thoughts or things that they're looking at, you know, by Montrose Classical Academy. So, that was just
something that I was wondering about or if they're able to do something where they can do like a recommendation with conditions just because they do have things that they're like wanting to see more of, you know? So, and I didn't know what the board would think of that because we've been in conversation this process and it's still a process, you know, and 'cuz they're going to make a recommendation. With strengths and weaknesses that they see with Montrose Classical Academy but you know, like the other make room recommendation to not approve it as a
charter school or to approve it and so, you know, and just discussion with them or when it comes to that meeting, discussing like, could they do a recommendation with conditions like we want to see more details about salaries for teachers for example that came up or just certain things? So it seems like from so Medu will be putting together the combining information so it seems like she could potentially provide us with a recommendation one way or
the other with yeah I think that's what the text therefore to make recommendations a certain way if they see if they if they I assume if the group kind of all agrees on something that that condition could be made in the recommendation to us. Okay yeah. So I think that's something that she could include in her Right up. Okay. Yeah, I just wanted to run it by you all because it wasn't discussed and I just had since it's a process and just as an option because they do have questions and if they don't have another opportunity
to talk to Montrose Classical Academy Um beforehand, they may have things that, you know, they're like, maybe they would recommend for approval if certain conditions were met, you know, kind of like. Good. What we would do. Did MCA make a presentation at any of the DAC meetings? Any kind of a presentation? No. Okay. They were asked to watch the board meeting where they were Presenting. Okay. And DAC members did have opportunities to attend publicly held meetings by MCA as well. Yeah. Um
of which there were multiple. A few of them. I mean I think as we've all looked at our board policy around the Dak in this process is probably one of those things that we need to clean up. And and it could be something. Yeah. Potentially. We do differently maybe next time or whatever but I know. It's just from watching the bootcamp. It could be done a different way and maybe more in an equitable way so that they can get their questions answered. Um from MCA. So. Well, and if there are
questions that are reflected in the write-off from Medu, that we already know that we've, we had opportunities to ask questions and there is an extensive application. So, we as board members should be familiar enough with that application and the questions that we asked as well to determine if those questions seem valid or not too. It's not ultimately that Alice or Nisha if if you know when they meet again, if there's a question having been with the Pasco Academy interview should hopefully if they're similar, they answer, you
could be able to answer them or refer back to part of that. I would hope anyway. Right Okay. And then the second thing that I noticed with the DAC is that we've met one of the statutory requirements to have one person from Vista. Well, a charter school that's from the district to be present and so she wasn't at this meeting but she's going to do the whole review process but when I was looking at statue, it says there needs to be one person with a demonstrated knowledge of charter schools regardless of whether that person resides within the school
district or not. Um and I don't who that person is on the deck and so I was talking to Mackenzie Cahn from PAXA about this and she said that an external charter reviewer would meet that requirement because you know demonstrated knowledge of charter schools so I don't know who would be. Well, I believe we have a charter school board member on the committee. We do and I included that. And back to you but Yeah. Yeah. What are they? One of Vista's board members agreed to be that Part: 2
With charter schools and three of them are on involved in the in the Dak process. So just to note those three things because there seems to be a lot of pressure to bring outside. Um opinions and and decision making to this process and I that's what we're here to do. Um to represent our local community. So just to note that tip. And I just want to make sure the statutes followed. So, that's Okay. Any other anything else? Um I will not be able to be at the December
third meeting because my son has an event that evening that I have to go to and so I just wanted to see if somebody else wanted to join Alice. I just think this is such a great process to go through that I think it can be beneficial to have a couple board members there. Um so is there anybody else that would be willing to do that or can join? I could do it. Okay. To the the December third deck meeting? Awesome. Great. Thank you for volunteering. Appreciate that. I know that you work it's crazy too. Okay, that's great. Thank you. I
appreciate that. Okay. Um any other board committee updates? Why didn't we have anything Okay, great. Alright, let's move on to the superintendent's report with the deferred maintenance projects update. Please. Mister Fatlich and mister Fargo. I was waiting for him to get up. Wow. Good evening. Wanna just chat a little bit about our deferred maintenance program and our maintenance program in general. Um they run parallel with one
another. But Let's see. Do we have a presentation coming up? It's beautiful. It's a very nice presentation. Don't want you to have to bring me That's why Is it? Yeah. Yeah, we have a free app. We we have it. You can't see it but we can. That's it. Alright. And throw it up here in a sec. Well, he's doing that. I'll I'll remind you guys our maintenance I start with maintenance goals and our goals for this year are continuation from our goals from last year because they deal with communication and
that's kind of keeping our stakeholders which are are end users when they put in board orders or project requests and we start working with them. We try to make sure that we get some kind of feedback to them on a regular basis. Um that they at least know that we acknowledge that they put in a work order and In the past, it's been ever miss. Hey, look at that and so we we deal with our communication. We deal with our we're working on
preventative maintenance program now. So, we've been trying to hit that really hard over the last 12 months and then the last one obviously is going to deal with the the professional development of our own staff. So, we try to get them out and maintain their certificate and handle learn something new about their profession that's going to help them out. Um so, the deferred maintenance program, if you skip me to another, there you go. This is
something that is right out of our master capital plan. So this is the all the canvases and shows, you know, where the deferred maintenance moneys go to. The big blue thing over there is Montrose High School. Um so, we'll be continuing to support that campus with deferred maintenance on a regular basis as we have been in the past. The the they account for about one third of
deferred maintenance monies throughout the district. It's kind of interesting when you look at that $115 million dollars is kind of the when you add up all of the things that FCI came up with for our campuses when they did that thorough analysis that was back when I think it was finalized in twenty twenty. Um so that $115 million dollars. Those are does the escalated value over five years. So, we're there. Basically, right? Um
I don't know if our grandchildren will even be alive by the time we get through paying off that 150 million by the time we go through all those things which I was thinking about the other day and then I was realizing I think the biggest thing that I've learned about deferred maintenance is The things that were identified in twenty twenty don't there's so many things that we've run across that were never considered in deferred maintenance. You know a big thing
like that comes to mind right off the top of my head is a couple years ago we were running we had a leak in our small vapor league. Don't don't be alarmed. And our underground fuel system at the bus bar. And it cost us three to dig it out. Put a new one in. And this one is above ground so one we're going to be saving a little bit of money over the years. Cuz we don't have to go through all these extensive underground type
inspections and testing and things that just now we can kind of do it through a visual inspection because it's all about ground. But that was missed in our in our deferred maintenance program. And there are other you know, they just like right now, we're going through updating our clocks and bells and phones. None of that was really included in our deferred maintenance and so, these are just things that are up above and beyond at $115 million dollars.
So, we keep pushing on and but that's where our moneys go. So, the projects for twenty-four 2-five, these are kind of identified priority wise and there's eight eight basically. Um we need some equipment obviously for our our team that's that's doing a lot of the work. We need another riding more for our grounds. Um new snow, snowplow blades for two of our trucks and
just a little secret but don't tell anybody but I already bought those. So, really hoping you're going to improve this and we're going to get a new gator for one of our campuses. That one's just really super old. We got some concrete projects. We're going to try to start protecting a little bit more in depth all of our site-based modulars. Um last year, we went and spent quite a bit of money relocating two modulars. and just kind of made me think about
what we need to do to protect the assets that we have on the ground as they sit and they've been there for a long time. So, we're going to start with the school-based and we have identified a couple of roofs that need to be done over at the ECC campus. We're going to take care of those. Our parking lots are in disrepair. So, we'll be working on those Latha Elementary School roof is out of warranty. It's about 15 to 20 years old and we've had 22 work orders
in the last 14 months on leaks. So, we're going to we're going to put a new roof coating on Olathe Elementary School. We're going to work on bells, intercoms, and clock replacement. We're going to hook up our modulars with security installations to bring em up to to snuff and then the last but not least, obviously, we have a lot of individual projects that are identified through the master capital plan and prioritize. Through the maintenance department and our building leaders on things
that they would like to see that support various aspects of the learning environment. Okay. So, that's what's in the works for twenty-four twenty-five. If you look on this particular page, there's a link. If you scroll back one sec on me real quick, thank you. The the the hyperlink up there. Is a spreadsheet that we document everything within our our a Google sheet that our where our projects are
by year and what we've been doing and how we've done and we're doing a little better job with that. We're actually trying to get some actual versus estimated costs involved with all of those as well and then the the other thing when I talk about is when we run parallel is a lot of our deferred maintenance is contracted out but a lot of it is also done by our own team and they do that on top of the regular duties which is we we run
little over 1900 work orders a year. And and oh by the way, if anybody knows a good plumber, we're still looking for one So, we've been doing that with an outside guy A retired gentleman has been doing our plumbing stuff for us and Glenn Smith's been kind of tutoring him around the district to help him out but positions are difficult to fill. Okay, next one up is this is
where the work orders now. This is where the majority of work orders come from, Montrose High School, which is understandable. It's the largest campus in the district and then you can read right down, you know, where the work orders are coming from late the middle high is second. Once again, one of our bigger campuses since Centennial, Oak Road, blah, blah, blah. You can read it just as easy as I can. It's up there. And then on the other end, it it shows what types of work orders that we do. Plumbing is huge, Hvac is huge,
electrical, grounds. I mean, our guys are hopping. Um we have 90 open work orders right now. Um we ran, it it's kind of a a cycle where by the end of the year, we'll get it down to 15 or 20 and then August rolls around and everybody comes back to work and we shoot. We shoot up grew up like a hundred and twenty-five I think before the we started to get a handle on them all but when it's all said and
done 1900 work orders a year. So, that's about seven or eight per workday that we do every single day. It. So, just to kind of wrap it up real quick. We have a little over $2 million dollars right at $2 million dollars this year in allocated funds Um we have our site-based projects, identified buyer building leaders and they're all screened through our master capital plan. Most of them are
streaming through our master capital plan obviously as I talked about before. There's a lot of lot of things that were just missed when we did that analysis. And then our maintenance facilities and grounds we address over 1900 work orders. On top of that deferred maintenance program. Questions. When you say missed you mean that they weren't able to be predicted at the time that it was done while they were done since. Unidentified or I just
think they weren't identified. Um you know, I look at when you read that master capital plan and you started looking at trying to dig into it and to me, it's a little complicated. Mainly because the way they color code things, you know, like, green means, hey, it's it's it's good and red means. Yeah, you're probably going to need to replace that here in the next short period of time before it fails. Um but this give a dollar amount, you know, for some of that
green stuff which, I'm thinking, but they do. So, but on the flip side, There's nothing in there about, you know, bells, intercoms, things like that that are just are just antiquated. Having been at Montrose High School for many years. That being been on his last legs for many years and but you know, there's no mention in the bus barn in the master capital plan of a fuel system. This is not
there. I would say they just weren't identified. You know. Other questions. Are you going after any grand slave or the roofing at OES. OES. We are going after best and mister Pavlich can better speak to the goals for that. Um exactly what he wants to. Shoot for on that. We will finally do with tests this year. So we're going to invite best friends and we met with
our owner, like our owner's reps that we work with on a lot of facility, projects, and then also based on the plan needs and where you guys want us to focus Um you know, we're going to we don't have to decide what we're submitting really finally until around January when we start writing. So, we we got three different courses action. I don't think today is the right time to plan out because but I can give back to you guys on that. But we are going to this month. I don't know if Jim already has or he's willing next week but you'll
notify us that we are going to write the best grants this year. Like we do almost every year. Anything else? Hey, staff members do you have working on all these work orders? Or is it mostly contracted? Uh the work orders, the only ones that are really contracted are are things that that become so cumbersome that it's not it's it's cheaper and it's cheaper based upon that we we outsource it because then we're not tying up our in-house person for so
long that in other work orders get collected. So so he's a good example, right? Oh, life. Yeah, like a Hvac unit that, you know, we we have to put in a mini split or something like that. We'll contract that out because We take Kevin and plus maybe somebody else would have to pull another guy off to help him. And so then we got two guys doing the job for two or three days and they're getting one thing done and everything else especially the
heating and cooling is crazy. Right now. Um that there are thirteen thirteen full-time folks over there. To answer your question. Thank you. So, when you talk about equipment needs, snowplow lathes, riding like a new gator, what school needs a new gator? Can't remember off the top of my head. And what does the gator use for? Um. Moving grounds folks around. And it usually puts snow plows on. To but yeah.
**** out of information. It's not just for football games, isn't it? No. And I know it not for Montreal High School. So, yeah. It's not just for football games. It's one of the like telesport like it's one of the group. Yeah. The Atlantic, it's a grounds one. Yeah. Hasn't it been bad? Sideways. It's not like a four, yeah, four or side bus. I think I can use on the weekends. Just curious. You frown on that. Really? Thank you officer. It's I'll
just note too. It's really interesting to see how little of the budget the Combine Middle School sets up. Awesome brand-new campus. Yeah. Mm hmm. Interesting, huh? I mean, they do suck up money last time. Of course. I see that. Last summer, we draw a twenty-five grand just on compressors for the Hvac. Yeah. That is to pay the people to come and put them in because they're all the parts were under labor. I mean, I'm the warranty but the labor wasn't. Yeah. Very very small percentage. Thanks.
Alright. Uh we don't have any blue sheets, green sheets, or whatever color they are these days. Um so we're no community input. Alright, old business. Uh Colorado Association of Charter School authorizes external charter school application reviewer. Um do we have Mackenzie Conn? No worries. You can wait. Yep. No problem. Thank you. Hello Doctor Khan, can you hear us? Yes, I can hear you. Okay, great.
Well, welcome to Montrose virtually. Um okay. So, this is an opportunity for us to hear a little bit about what Kaxa does and how you would conduct the external charter school application review and then also an opportunity for the board obviously to ask any questions that they all might have as well. Um so, but it might be useful just to hear a little bit from you first if the boards are meanable to that so that we
can hear a little bit about Kexer and and you would be able to offer in terms of the external review. Absolutely and I apologize. I can't see you. So, usually I feed off body language or tease but I have my Facebook over here and my screen here. So, apologies if you need to interrupt me. Let me know. I can't see you. Um yes, I'll go ahead and provide an introduction. My name is Mackenzie Kahn. Um I'm the executive director for the Colorado Association of Charter School
Authorizers. Um a little bit about myself. I was recently an authorizer in Douglas County Schools as a school choice director. Also served as authorizer in Aurora Public Schools and two different school districts in Florida. Um I have a master's degree in charter schools and my doctorate from CU Denver in leadership for equity. Um I am currently leading the the organization and basically just a little bit about our organization is
that we are a support organization for authorizers in the state of Colorado. Um currently forty-six authorizers in the state. I would say about 50% right now of authorizers engage regularly with Paxa And some of the things that we provide regularly here providing professional development. We provide training, boot camps, different focus groups, working groups. On particular issues that operators are currently dealing
whether they've asked for support on. And then another arm of organization is providing FIFA service work. So, we do provide specialized supports for school districts that asked us for those things. Um some of the things that we do are most common service that we provide is serving as an external expert reviewer on various district review teams. Um and other kinds of work that we're engaged in. Uh
currently for example, we're working with a school district to run entire application process for them and manage the interview as a third party provide finalization reports and we've also worked with districts on school closures, managing school closure processes, and renewal processes as well. So, school districts that have applications that are coming up for renewal. Um we kind of provide our site for that process. And we also districts who
are limited in capacity so they may not have a specific staff member that's dedicated to the authorizing functions of the district and we will step in and provide some of the supports there like annual monitoring of the charters was compliance with statute and their contracts and then also providing annual reports. So, that's a little bit about Caxa. Um we are a 501 C three. We do have a governing board and one is executive director. We also do work with other external
consultants depending on the scope of the work that we're doing. Um so, could you provide us with a little bit of background as to what an external charter school application reviewer does and how that process will work? Absolutely. So, like I said, the most commonly utilized service that CAXA has with districts and most of the time is because there are lots of districts that have a great process. They have a
great team in place but they really need to that requirement of having that external expert. And we can provide that. Um one of the reasons why, well, first of all, one of the things in Colorado is we have identified, utilizing expert, external reviewers as a best practice. It's an adopted Colorado best practice for authorizers. It's also taken from National best practice for chargable authorizing
and one of the reasons why authorizers are encouraged to utilize expert reviewers, right? Because we have charter school applications that have complex, educational, financial, and operational sections of the applications. It's really difficult to find someone who is very versed in all three of those domains. Um and that is why we utilize your agents. We have experts with educational knowledge. We have experts in finance. We have experts in cooperations. Um and one of the
reasons why it's encouraged both national military to utilize expert external reviewers is really because the influence of an objective and unbiased review can really increase the integrity and the effectiveness of effectiveness of your process. Um when you have an external expert, reviewer, you're having an expert come in who is reviewing a charter school application constantly independent of local buy they don't understand the community. They and
and that's for a in a positive way, right? Because they're looking at solely the merit of the application based on best practices and standards and statue. Um and understanding what the expectations are in Colorado law on what is an effective charge blockation. The other reason is because when you're doing an expert external review, you're doing you're doing an evaluation of an application. Again, that's independent wise but their focus solely on is this a good application? which can give you a more confident,
right, ability to say the the there's a predictability of success for this school or not. Um and so, that's the the reason that I would say most districts engage an external reviewer. The other thing is that Capsa is able to provide that external review. Um it's not just something we know and we're familiar with. It's what we do. It's what we train. We provide professional development on and so we're able to
kind of give that extra layer of review on top of the reviewers that you already have internally. Um and we we when we provide a review we look at every section. So you may have three viewers internally that are for example your CFO might look at your finance section. They might look at other related sections on just hypothetically. But as a external review where we look at sections A through S or T with our charter school application and provides feedback on all of those
sections. We also participate in interviews if we are asked to be a part of those. Um and we also help with any kind of final culmination meetings or development of a thyroid ward. Capsa does not provide a recommendation. The board is the decision maker. We are not. Um we do not provide recommendations. We provide ratings just as any review form. We just provide that again external perspective and one more
thing around, a lot of times, district and hopefully, this is just health laws are considering what to do. A lot of districts will engage with Casa or any external review or buy an an elevated ability to get through an appeal situation without too many issues. Um when you have an external reviewer that has an expert in this, you know, the landscape, it does provide you a little bit of additional perfection as you're going through your application
process. In the case that you have denial or recommendation and that is appealed, you can, you know, additionally have that layer of grape you want. Uh So, we're a partner and that is what therapy looks like. We we customize whatever services are needed depending on the districts we work with and how engaged they want us to be. Um how long does your review take? Depending on the size of the athlete. Usually estimate 10 to 20 hours of
work. Um and that is just slowly for the applications provided written responses. If you're using a a typical template or a state of hotel. Other questions from the board. I'm on a flat rate. That's just for this flat rate I'll see here, right? Um yes. So, the rate that we have in front of us is $1, 500 and that's what that that would cover that 20 hours of review work. Is that? Accurate. Yes, it's typical I think for consultants nationally. I have
some national colleagues who do this work. They charge much much higher than that. We just do that as a community starts. It's a flat rate whether it takes us five or 50 hours. Um because it we we feel like it's a it's an important value for folks to have. And it's it is in our agenda that you you believe that KEXA would be able to do the external review and get us your perspective within the turnaround time to allow us to meet
the time frame that we've already agreed on with MCA. That was correct. Yes. Okay. I just want to make sure that that's even though it's on the agenda and everything What are the funding do you get for your organization I'm sorry I couldn't get it. Another funding do you have you get for your organization besides a flat fee? You get in funding? We are heavily reliant on grant funding as an organization. So currently we are sub guarantee recipient of the National Disemination Grant
through the Charter School Program. Um and we work in a collaborative with multiple other states. Um under project called the National Network for District Authorizing. That is our current name funding source. But we also take from very very minimal fees membership which does not keep us afloat but it's another source of revenue and fee for service is just one additional thing that we do. Other questions. When you review, do you look at a district's policies too to see if that application has fallen
in there? Are you doing this completely separate review away from the policies already in place? Typically, we do not consider the district's policies unless it's something specific like the waivers. Um so, the charge will be less than specific waivers from district policy. We will reverse ourself in district policy and provide feedback on those. So, I have a question. So, is it you're going off the statutes then and and the rubric that we we've been using That's correct. So, if a district comes to us, wants to utilize us as a
reviewer, we will use whatever material that they have provided the applicant. Most of the time, we're working with districts who don't have a process in place. So, we differ to statute which most of the templates and things that we go off of anyway are statutory based and so that is what we we thought too. We will always go back to reviewing it out of alignment with statute. And then I have a question because we were discussing some stuff earlier in our meeting just about the Dak and
them having somebody from a charter school that's a parent and then in the statute, it talks about somebody who's demonstrated knowledge of charter schools. Um and we have multiple people that have have worked with like one charter school or worked at the charter school. But that particular part in the statute, can you, can you talk about that a little bit and if there's anywhere else in statute that requires an external charter chartering viewer? Yeah, so I think that particular part of statute is, you
know, interpreted different ways. I've seen it interpreted different ways by different districts and both docs will include a person that is either in involved in the charter school, of parent of a charter school or has had some kind of experience and again, to what extent, that debateable based on each district's interpretation of that. Um the utilization of the expert reviewer is separate from that and something that we promote as best practice. Like I said, it is in color, statue as an approved standards for
authorizing and so, again, that could also be interpreted, right? As external review, what does that mean? Um I think it's important to note though that with regard to charter schools, again, the benefit you have within it's truly external review work that is not involved in your district, doesn't know much about the local nuances and all of that is that you're you're really getting a thorough review basis solely on the merit and predictability of success of the school. How many districts in Colorado have
you worked with on this review process? Me personally or CASA? CAXA Um so we have worked with five this year. Um this last summer. Um and before that I I don't know the exact number because I was not the executive director. Um I would I know for a fact at least three. Um and our previous executive director announced on a Colorado school board and I could get that information if
you need it. How long his cats have been around? It's the debatable question. Um I was actually I was actually around when Kaxo was starting to form. Um I was in Florida as an authorizer when we started Fexa which is the Florida counterpart. Um Colorado in Colorado, they started to have these discussions around twenty fifteen getting authorized us together in some kind of organized manner and then the actual Bible 1 C3 was a developed shortly thereafter. What's your relationship with CSI
and authorizers? Do you, you know, do you have external charter reviewers for CSI authorized? Districts? Sure, we have never been asked by CSI to be an external reviewer but CSI is an authorizer in Colorado. So, they are a member of Capsa. They also, we also have a member of CSI that serves on the CASA government board and that is by design. Um when the Capsa organization was developed and included in our bylaws is that we will
authorizers represented on our board that are of different size, different type, different, you know, rural versus metro and so, given that Colorado only has two types of authorizers in the district and one state authorizer, they are also serving on our board as well. And they remember, you know, some of their staff are participating in our professional development. Do you feel like that in your reviews of the applications that you are able
to be pretty unbiased? You know, and not be biased towards charter schools, advised in the whole process of the application. Um if I was not able to do that, I would not be holding this position. Um it's that important and when we do training, for example, just did a couple weeks ago, did a training for our school district staff on this. 45 minutes of the 60 minutes was how to review an application without bias. Um we strongly believe in that and we also
are not a pro or anti-charter organization. We are a pro good school and best practice for school districts organization. Um it's a extremely important to that. Other questions. Okay. Does everybody feel like they've had the opportunity wanted to talk to Kexler? I think so. Um alright so it seems like we don't have any further questions for you. Um Doctor Khan. So thank you for joining us. Um and I will call for a motion. I moved to approve hiring of Colorado
Association of Charter School Authorizers as an expert charter application reviewer and payment in the of $1, 500. Do I have a second? I will settle them. Alright. Uh any discussion? Alright. We are I do have kind I gotta clarify. Discussion. Okay. Clarifying. So, she said that they don't use board policy. In their process, they use statue but yet part
of our rubric is based on what's in our board policy. That's what our administration. It's just, this is just another, the way I'm looking at just another part of the review process. Okay. We still have our policy. We still have our way I'm understanding. Okay, I just want to make sure I. Okay. Sorry. We still have our we still have our lawyer reviewing. We still have all our admins reviewing. I'm slow on the go. I'm talking to me. This is just another. Okay. Another opinion I guess website. Okay. That's what it sounds like. Okay, any other discussion? Sorry. Are you fine? Yeah. That's what this was called. I I
do want to say that I think it what Doctor Khan said about having merit to show whether it would be successful or not with that experience with the outline is valuable because I don't, you know, I don't know how much, you know, from all the different reviewers on the deck and the different like specific reviewers that are being done that could say, this has to Vermont. Just from the experience and the review. So, I think that would be valuable. So, I just wanted to point that out and that that stood out to me. Okay. Then, also the ability
for mitigate some of the issues if it may be appealed or not. Um you know, whatever direction that we decide or we come to, then, we can say, hey, we did everything that we could to look at this in depth and this decision was was made with full knowledge and with a little backing of an unbiased entity that was separate from what we're at and so. Any further discussion? Okay. We're
voting on a motion to approve hiring of Colorado Association of Charter School Authorizers as an expert charter application reviewer and payment in the amount of $1500. Okay. Uh Missus Bowinger. Hi. Mister Bush. Aye. Missus Fishering votes aye. Missus Hubde. Aye. Missus Murphy. Aye. Mister Valerio. Aye. Mister West. Aye. Thank you. Okay. We are. Thank you so much Doctor Khan.
You're very welcome. Thank you for inviting me. Thank you. Okay. Um so, moving on to the consent agenda. Do we have items to be pulled? Sarah, can I interrupt? Yes, one second. Can I just get some direction from the board? Yes. Um I don't want to just assume that you would like us to be the liaison with Kaxa. Is that accurate? Um I would like you to liaison with Kaxa. Okay. So, otherwise, it gives one board member primacy over the other board members and that way, you can give us all the information at the
same time. Then. Yeah. So we will communicate with her and get the ball rolling and send her the application and yeah. Yes, please. Thank you. Yeah. So then, if we have questions individually, we will reach out and have conversations with her. We would have conversations with you. Something comes up later. I think it would be. I don't know. Yeah. I think it would be useful if we direct questions through Doctor Stevenson because that way, she can provide us or that might be a question that you ask but I don't think of and I might want the answer to that question as well. So, that way, we all get
questions answered but also each other's questions answered as well. Yeah, I'm just trying it, yeah. Sound, something online. Yes, exactly. We're happy to do that. Okay, great. Perfect. Alright. I would like to pull the October 8th regular meeting minutes, please. Okay that is Peter Wood. The October 8th regular meeting minutes. Sorry. So, item number one. Any other items? Oh, I would like to call number six. Number six. Cocaretherapy. Okay. So, number one and number six, being
pulled. Alright, can I have a motion to approve the agenda with the exception of items one and six? I'll make a motion to approve the consent agenda with the elimination of item one and item six. Okay, do I have second? I'll second that. Okay, do I have any discussion? Okay. Voting on a motion to approve the consent agenda with the exception or elimination rather of pot. Items one and six. Missus Balak. Okay, so under
the minutes, October 8th. Oh, hold on. I need to roll on. Oh, sorry. Sorry. Senegenic. I was getting ahead of it. Um I missed it. Mister Bush. Aye. Missus Fisheringbird's eye. Missus Hufty. Aye. Missus Murphy. Aye. Mister Valerio. Aye. Mister West. Aye. Okay. Item number one. The approval of credits from the October 8th regular meeting and the October 21st special meeting and the October 22nd regular meeting work session minutes. So I'm specifically under
October 8th and I moved to amendment minutes to include my statement from our October 8th meeting under the charter application process. Clarifying there was no board vote to deny a release of Montrose Classical Academy to CSI. Okay? Do I have a second? I'll start with that. Run about one more time. Yeah. You bet. So, I moved to amend the minutes to include my statement from our October 8th meeting under the the charter application process clarifying
that there was no board vote to deny a release of Montrose Classical Academy to CSI. Any discussion? Particularly we never had a motion for anything that way to vote on that I know of. No. Right. So I just wanted to clarify that that that was never never happened because it was discussed at one of our meetings that it did happen. Okay. Any further discussion? Is it appropriate to chime in here? You can chime in. Yeah. Um I we had looked at this because Nisha had brought this
to our attention as well and in discussing this with Lori, what Lori has been operating on as far as taking the minutes has been and please correct me if I'm wrong because I don't take the minutes. Um Robert Rules of Order discuss that the minutes taken should reflect decisions motions but not necessarily discussion and so, the minutes reflected in the attachments here do just that. I just
want to be wary of changing her you know, position or the expectations of how she takes minutes. Um if we include discussion items. So, I just thought that was relevant to bring to the table for discussion just so that Lori is clear as to what the expectation is for the minutes that she takes. And I think this particular thing was said for the record and then that was discussed or talked about as
as something to be documented in the record specifically as part of that discussion so it wouldn't be necessarily random discussion. It was like, hey, just for the record, this is this statement to be added to there. Uh which my understanding is pretty normal thing in Robert's rules to to be documented. Yeah. We're happy to do whatever the board decides. I just wanted to bring up how she has determined what minutes to take in the in the past. So So was the
statement of conversation or a do we vote on it? We didn't know about it. We didn't vote it. It was just part of the discussion. And you're saying death that it was more of a misstatement. I think it was from whatever quote. So, DCU letter kind of repeat kind of what you were Sure. Intending there. Yeah. So, I just wanted to state for the record that we had this that had been brought to the attention of the board that we
had not voted as a board to deny release to suicide for Monster's Classical Academy. So, that's why I brought it up and that's why I said for the record. you know, and I think maybe this is just a time to think about, you know, if we were to have a parliamentarian or a lawyer to clarify this, too, because from what I understand in boards that you can't say for the record and then, you can have what was verbatim said and I just want, it just to be clear that we never voted as a ward to
release. I don't. Was it ever brought to the board for a release? Didn't MCA ever forward come to the board and say, I want to release the CSI? No. Okay. That's all I need to know. No, but it was discussed amongst the board in in different various ways I never came to an agenda. So, before the meeting, which could be in a violate, in violation of some other laws. So, that's why I wanted to make it clear that we made it that it had
never been voted on that we just clarify that and get that clear because it was stated that we had voted at a meeting on that. That we had denied them Um released as he was stated in these minutes. I I I'm I'm just not following Where are you? On this new business thing? It's under, there's a section called charter application process just above the superintendent's report. Cuz that's where I brought it up was on that that section at that October 8th meeting. And you wanted that to be voted on? Is that? She just said it wasn't voted.
As far as I know, CSI never approached us to. You mean? Get her MCA. Or MCA? Yeah. Just to be clear. MCA never approached us with a motion or anything to but there was discussions that they wanted to do that, correct? There was, from what I understand, yes, because what I was clarifying was that our September twenty-fourth meeting, Doctor Stevenson had set, had stated that the board had voted a denial of a release to CSI with Montrose
Classical Academy being released to CSI. So, I wanted to clarify that we as a board had never done that, that's why I brought it up. Um, because we have in a September meeting or the other. It was a September twenty-fourth meeting that that was stated, and so I, I, did I stated that? That's, that's what I didn't state that. That the board voted on it. That the board denied a release to CSI and we had never voted on it. That's why at the last meeting or the October 8th meeting, that's why I said. I'll go back to the notes but I don't believe that I said that. Yeah, I I heard it.
So, and it was planned. So then we need to amend. So okay. So what Missus Valeck is asking us to do is to request an amendment to the minutes for the October 8th Regular Business Meeting that states that the board never voted on a request by MCA to be released to CSI. That's correct right? I just I just want to make sure that So that's what that's what Miss White's
requesting. Um that we just never had. That we amend the minutes to state. We never had it. That we did not have the the the board never made a decision. We never voted on that. Issue. That that topic was in the broadcast. That's two of them or or decision. Okay, any further discussion? So, can I just, this is not, it's different. Well, I just have a question about the the twenty-fourth meeting, the 21st
meeting, when it talks about who is impressive at the meeting. So, I think, so, that would, what we're currently discussing is the specific amendment to the minutes that that Doctor Balak, sorry very much. The missus Mali requested and I feel I'm a little bit concerned about having a discussion about the October twenty-first. Just because we're going to need to approve those minutes separately from these minutes and so if there are further discussion about the I think we could
get confused. I'm already confused so that's okay. I just want to make sure that don't get more confused. Um any further discussion about that? Trying to get back to where I need to be. Um I I can see what your concern is. I the board didn't ever make a decision about that. Um and it so but I also don't necessarily would
agree agree with amending the minutes in the manner that we're discussing. Um I think that's all the thoughts I have about that. Any further discussion? Okay. We are voting on a motion to amend the October 8th regular meeting minutes to reflect that the board did not vote on a decision to release NCA to CSI. Missus Balak. Aye. Mister Bush. No.
Mister Fishering votes no. Missus Hufty. No. Missus Murphy? No. Mister Valerio? Aye. Mister West? No. Okay. So now I need a motion regarding the other two sets of minutes. The October 21st special meeting and the October 2nd twenty-second rather regular meeting work session minutes either separately altogether. Um. To approve the October 21st Special Meeting and
October 22nd. Regular Meeting Work Session Minutes. Okay, do I have a second? Second, ma'am. Do I have any discussion? Visions, something. Well, I I guess I had a question about the interview process And Mingle Group was via Zoom. Did they need to be listed in those minutes? The person in attendance I I don't know. And I don't really matter They were part of the discussion. They answered questions on behalf of the board. Yeah. They did.
Okay. I think you are correct. They likely should be listed in as being an attendance I think I might be looking at the wrong one. Yeah, I don't see that. Isn't that what they were called? I think they were called the Ninga education group. On the twenty-first. I think it was in the other one. 22nd. 22nd minutes. Yeah, the 22nd. It says that the Lord did a presentation. And we interviewed them. So, you're thinking the the Minga group should be added to the proposed charter
school interview. Who is present at the meeting? At the top is where do they get? I don't know the call to order, Jody? Mm hmm. Is that what you're talking about? It lists all the board members. And down below, it lists the individuals that are part of the board for Classical Academy which the Minga Group is not part of the board. I think they're their consultant. Okay. Alright. So, this is going to get into some Robert's rules that's slightly more complicated than we
normally have to deal with. So, we could we can make an amendment to the to the motion that we have and then that amendment would need to pass by two thirds. I understand. And then we would vote on the amended motion. So would someone like to make an amendment to the motion? So, we can then have a vote. To amend the motion. I move to amend the motion
to include the linger education group of October 22nd meeting. Okay. Do I have a second? Second. Alright. Any discussion? Okay. So we are voting on an amendment to the motion. Um that would amend the October 21st minute twenty2nd minutes to include the Minga group. Um to the to the discussion, to the presentation Um the MCA. Under the
under the proposed charter school under review section. Yes, thank you. Under the proposed charter school section. Do we have that was me reminding you. We're voting now. So now we're voting. Okay. Missus Bauer. Hi. Mister Bush. Hi. Missus Fishering votes aye. Missus Hufty. Aye. Missus Murphy. Aye. Mister Valerio. Aye. Mister West. Aye. Okay. So now I believe we still need a vote on the amended amended motion. And then we'll begin. For this particular
item. So any emotion that reflects that amended. Motion I need an amended motion to approve, yeah, the 21st meters. Yeah, and the 2-2nd. I moved to approve the agenda or the minutes for the October 21st and 22nd meeting. That reflects. That reflects the addition of lingo. Education group
to the section of the proposed charter school interview. Okay. Do I have a second? A second. Okay. Alright, do I have any discussion? Okay. We are voting on a motion to we are voting on a motion to approve the October 21st meeting, special meeting and October 22nd 20 twenty-four regular meeting work session minutes with the addition of the Minga Group to the minutes for the October 22nd meeting. Um under the
section of the agenda that that included the discussion with MCA. Okay? Okay. So, Missus Ballock, hi. Mister Bush. Aye. Missus Fishering votes aye. Missus Hubde. Aye. Missus Muffey. Aye. Mister Valerio. Aye. Mister West. Aye. Okay. Um so now we have item number six. Um the payment to ProCare Therapy in an amount not to exceed
$718 00 dollars For contracted mild moderate teacher. And the reason I just kept bringing this up is I just like to know more about what that going to entail that in our elementary school that we're going to have a contracted mild moderate teacher. Is that everyday? Zoom virtual. like, what does that even mean? Britney, you want to come out so? We have the expert on that here. Thanks for joining us by the
way. Yeah, no worries. Um Brittany Picard, special education director. Um so, this is a position that's been vacant since last year at Johnson Elementary School. This is my moderate position. In the past, it's kind of just been a group effort to cover all that case management to ensure compliance. It's been rocky. Um this year, we have a new teacher in the mod moderate position in a unfilled position maintained. This new teacher is a teacher but she's from Texas so she's learning more about the how Colorado does versus Texas, the system, all of those things and so the biggest issue, the
team did at the beginning of the year, the principal came to me and said, hey, we want to make it work. Um we use the 1. 0 FT for that teacher to hire two paraprofessionals to help with service delivery under the supervision of the teacher. Um but the teacher was having a hard time maintaining compliance and that's really what it comes down to is compliance. So, when we're not getting things done and we're not compliant with the law and IDDA, we have to kind of rethink some things and make sure that gets done. So, this person that we hired is actually super highly qualified. Um 20 plus years of teaching in all sorts of areas. Um the way we've decided to
structure it. Typically, when you have an online remote contracted teacher, they're able to case manage a lot more because all they're doing is paperwork, really. Um and so, this teacher is going, her name is Lisa. She is going to, Lisa Viska, I believe. Um she's going to be, he's managing all of the mild moderates. She will be running the meetings, doing all of the she'll get support with assessments as needed. Obviously, she's remote but she'll be putting all of that into paperwork, all of the evaluations, all of that stuff, getting that done in an efficient manner in a compliant manner which is what we want for state reporting and all of the things and it
just helps student outcomes and so with that then, Lacey Tesero, our other Mild Mod teacher, will be providing that direct instruction, pushing the classroom, and being able to have a schedule around that. We're still maintaining the other pair professional to help support that service delivery as well to ensure that they're maintaining that co-teaching model and helping support those needs over at Johnson as well. So, that's where where we came to. Um we kind of left it on the principal and the team for the first quarter and we're like let's see how it goes and then we reevaluate and we're like, it's not working. So, we need to jump on it and what's nice as I
mentioned in a previous board meeting with our online only contract. We get about 30 days. We can give a 30-day notice. So, that posting can remain posted. So, if somebody moves here, things like that like we are lucky to get an in-person SLP that moved to like Cimarron who's very highly qualified. Those things happen. So, in those happen, we can give that notice to that company and in 30 days, we have a teacher in person. We're not stuck with that remote provider. But in the meantime we're compliant. We're getting things done. And those IEPs are getting written. Which is most important. How many days do we can order this? Pardon? How many days a week are you doing this? How many
five days full day five days a week? Full time. You have set time then during the day? Yep. It follows our contract. All the things that we require. Um being on site or not on site. Um being on team meetings and zooming in doing all the things. It's teaming, coordinating, all that and we hired a pretty high for a person who's had experience with all of this in the past and had really good references and things like that. So, we felt pretty confident moving forward with that. So, the team in terms of writing those goals and things. Correct. So, yeah. So, the mama teacher will be doing a lot of the goal, the progress monitoring, all
those things and sharing. It's a little, it's a big collaborative effort but it's really going to just help make sure that people are in compliance. Peace gets done because we're hitting that really hard. In in the buildings, we'll be doing the IEPs, right? No, this person will be doing the IEPs. They're doing all the paperwork, the case management, in terms of service delivery and that face to face with the direct instruction. That will be the teacher that's on site. That's really best practice there. Um we're actually it we're kind of following a similar model. It's more split at Pomona Elementary. Um this teacher, we have 1. 5 FTE remote contractor
that does all the paperwork and then the point six does all the in-person things like that because they were unable to hire a person because they're like a weird 1. 5 FTE. So, the face-to-face teacher will do most of the assessments. Yup, assessments, direct instructions. Do all the scoring and then that will go out. Correct. Yup. Um. Yup Okay. Any other questions about that? Alright. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you very much. Uh can we get a motion? Uh I moved to approved
payment to proclaim therapy in any amount not to exceed seventy-one thousand eight hundred dollars contracting mild and moderate teacher. Here we go. Thank you. Do I have any discussion? We're both in a motion to approve payment to pay care therapy in an amount not to exceed $71, 800 for contracted mild moderate teacher. Um Missus Bullock. Hi. Mister Bush. Hi. Missus Fisher and Boats. Aye. Missus Hofty. Aye. Missus Murphy. Aye. Mister Valario. Aye. Mister
West. Aye. Thanks. Enrollment update. Um so improve all of the other that's what I was thinking when I reported. Um so as of November 6th the enrollment and again remind you this is not under people count yet. All that information is coming next month. Um so enrollment is five thousand nine hundred and 80 as of November 6th. That is 20 students down from last month. And 74 students down from this time last year. Um
there's many reasons that enrollment can fluctuate and like I said, details and comparisons are coming next week. Um but that is what we're seeing right now. Any questions about that? Do you know where they're at? Scattered all over? Elementary? Mix and and you're talking and I have a comparison to last year. Um a little bit of highlights. Um Black Canyon High School comes down from last year. Uh CMS. But again there could be there could be transition from a large grade or a small grade in between schools. Things like that as well. Um
Oak Grove is down. Um and Centennial and Cottonwood are the ones that are that are showing down. Um you know but a mix too because peak is up compared to last year. Vista is up compared to last year. Um so it's a and like I said, there'll be further comparison next month. Thank you. Any other questions? Okay, then we have just all the informational about some confidential student information, which is not for discussion. Um and
then executive session. So, I need a motion. Can I get a motion? I moved going to executive session for the discussion of the purchase, acquisition, lease, transfer, or sale in the wheel, personal, or other property interests to include the following individuals, all board members present this evening, Doctor Stevenson, Mister Havlich, Miss Inas, and Missus Laird to discuss this big property plan for CRS. Twenty-four dash six, dash
fouroh 2, fantasies four, fantasies eight, and then return to retro session. Right, do I have a I'll second it. Okay, any discussion? Alright, voting on a motion to enter executive session for the discussion of the purchase acquisition lease, transfer, or sale of any real personal or other property interest to discuss to discuss district property planning per CRS twenty-four dash six dash 402 Prenzy four, Prenzy A.
Alright. Missus Buck. Hi. Mister Bush. Aye. Missus Fishering votes aye. Missus Hufty. Aye. Um Missus Bobby. Aye. Mister Valerio. Aye. Mister West. Aye. Thank you. Okay. Yep. Can I run to the restroom? You come in front of the president? Yeah. No. Just don't all go together because that will be no good. Weird.