All right. Good evening everyone. Boy, we have a full house tonight. Welcome to the regular, uh, D 60 Board of Education meeting, the October 28th, 2025 meeting. I would now like to call the meeting to order. Would you please, um, oh, the time is 6:00 PM Would you please call the role Ms. Patron? Mr. Cisneros? Dr. De Niro? Here, judge Mays. Here. Mrs. Pen Nuncio. Here. Mr. Tebow here. And if you would now please join me for the Pledge of Allegiance, The United States of America, and to the
Republic for which stands, one Nation under God, individual for liberty and justice For all. All right, before we adopt the agenda, does Superintendent Kimsey or a board member have any recommendations for corrections or modifications to the agenda at this time? All right. Seeing none, we will move on to 3.0 adoption of the agenda. May I have a motion, please? So moved. Is there a second? Second. Is there any discussion? Seeing none, please call the vote. Ms. Patron, Dr. De Niro. Aye. Judge Mays Aye. Mrs.
Pen, nuncio. Aye. Mr. Tebow? Aye. Well, to get the evening started, we have a Special performance Superintendent Kinzie, will you please introduce our special guest? Absolutely. It's my distinct honor and pleasure to invite to the microphone, Ms. Vil, uh, bonos, who will introduce our special choir this evening. Good evening, president Pen Nuncio, superintendent Kimey and members of the board, I have the pleasure of introducing our performers for tonight's meeting. Tonight's performers are from Fountain International Magnet
School under the direction of Robin King. The Lion Pride Choir meets once a week after school and has been a fountain staple for many years. They have had the honor of performing the National Anthem at, um, district 60 Rocky Games for the last 11 years and counting. Over the years, this group has had the opportunity to perform at the School's International Festival, the Pueblo County Element, the Pueblo Elementary Choir Celebration, and other events with their feeder school at East High School. In preparation for this year's international festival at
fims, where students celebrate other countries from around the world, FIMS Land Pride Choir will be presenting a song from Japan. This Japanese folk song is entitled Ame Ame and Translates to Rain. Rain. This song tells a happy story about rain, where the mother brings an umbrella for her child making rainy days fun. Their second song is The World Is Ours. It's the Coca-Cola Global 2014 FIFA World Cup Anthem, and has been recorded by artists around the world.
This song inspires individuals to be the best version of themselves. At this time, I would like to invite the board members and Dr. Kimey to come and sit in the front table here. And please welcome the Fins Lion Pride Choir. Um, Joseph, can you scoot that way? Three steps. Here we go. Okay. Front row, Annie, can you, okay. Ready? Okay. Okay. Be careful. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. We are going to go out this way and we're gonna go where you drop them off and then you guys can just come and pick them up right there. Thank you so much. Thank you. Board. Thank you. Okay.
Well, what a treat that was to start our evening off with those cuties. So thank you so much again to the Lions Pride Choir and to Mrs. Robin King. That was fabulous. We so enjoyed that. Alright, well then next up on our agenda is 4.0 Gifts to School. Do we have any gifts to school this evening? Dr. Kimsey, We absolutely do. President Pen Nuncio, it is my honor to announce a total of 40,804 $40,800 and 71 cents in total, uh, in gifts to schools.
And I'd like to take a moment to recognize each of these contributors to the success of our students in Pueblo District 60. Uh, the Denver Broncos Foundation donated $2,500 to the East High School Football Program. Adolf and Bernadette Padula donated $1,120 to the East High School Wrestling Program. Benefits Broker Incorporated donated $250 to the Centennial High School boys soccer team. Pueblo Central High School Foundation donated a 2025 CF
Modo Modo U Force UTV 800 xl. Valued at $13,813 and 99 cents to Central High School Spectrum Community Services donated $1,000 to the Centennial High School Boys Basketball Program. Centennial High School Foundation donated $150 to the Centennial High School Link Crew. American Legion Auxiliary Unit two membership donated $150 to the Centennial High School. Bulldog Brotherhood Robert Belcher Family Foundation
donated $6,144 to Pueblo Academy of Arts for a field trip to the University of Colorado Boulder. Kimberly and Richard Orona donated $200 to the South High School softball program, Southern Colorado Community Foundation. Carrie and Dan Ros Family Fund donated $1,285 to the East High School Boys Wrestling Program. Permanente Holdings donated $2,000 to the East High School Activity Fund.
April SDA donated $550 to Bacca Elementary Qua Works. Federal Credit Union donated $4,000 to Sunset Park Elementary, Richardson Accounting and Tax Services. PC donated $200 to the South High School Girls Basketball Program. Little Caesars donated $1,000 to the South High School Girls Basketball Program. Elizabeth A. Davis donated $2,000 to Parkview Elementary School. Fourth grade Southwest Church
of Christ donated 118 backpacks filled with school supplies valued at $3,000 to District 60 McKinney Vito Program. And as a reminder, that program serves our students who are displaced or unhoused. Sparrow Sales Tax LLC donated $237 and 72 cents to the Centennial High School Band Program. Alvin and Carol Rivera donated $500 to the Centennial High School Physical Education program. Pueblo Centennial High School Foundation donated $500
to the Centennial High School Unified Bowling Program, and Royal Electrical Services Incorporated donated $200 to the Centennial High School softball program. At this time, the Board of Education is asked to accept, uh, these gifts to schools. Thank you Superintendent Kimsey. And again, thank you to all of these individuals and groups for their generosity and their support of District 60. We are just so grateful and appreciative to all of you. May I have a motion please. I move that the Board of Education approves
and graciously accepts the gifts to schools as presented in the October 28th, 2025 board materials. Is there a second? Second. Is there any discussion? See none. Please call the vote. Ms. Patron Dr. De Niro. Aye. Judge Mays Aye. Mrs. Penzu? Aye. Mr. Tebo? Aye. We're gonna move on to 5.0 recognitions. Superintendent Kimsey. Do we have any recognitions this evening? We absolutely do. President Pen Nuncio. We have several. Uh, and it's my honor first to introduce to the board again
to thank him for his service. Mr. Todd Albright, if you'll come to the mic. Uh, he is our Pueblo Summer musical Director. Mr. Albright directed the production of the 65th annual Pueblo Summer musical of Roger and Hammerstein's Cinderella on July 12th. Uh, I think that date's wrong. Uh, it was the week of July 12th, 2025 at the San De Cristo Arts and Conference Center. Uh, the production was presented by the Pueblo School District 60
and in cooperation with the City of Pueblo Parks and Recreation Department. And this is truly a shining moment for our district and our city. And we're just so honored to have you, Mr. Albright. Well, thank you. I thought I was here to thank you. So, but I appreciate that very much. I really just wanted to, I reached out because I wanted to come in. Again, thank you for supporting this tradition. I, I was thinking today, um, as I was fixing this picture frame that he's got, I'm, can you pass that around to them so they can see?
I brought a cast photo for you guys to see, um, the number of people involved. What's there? You'll see 44 in the cast, seven on a stage crew, and 14 in an orchestra. What you don't see are the 12 staff members behind it that are putting on the show. But that's over 75 people that come together and put their energies for eight weeks to put on that show. And, uh, when I was fixing the frame and I was typing the 65th, I realized, hey, I'm doing something that's older than I am. And there's not many of those things that I work on anymore.
But, um, I just really appreciate the investment and I can, it's an honor to be part of the history 'cause it inspired it. I know the summer musical inspired me. It inspired my colleagues, my, my, um, my assistant director or music director, um, who, who took my place in Canyon City High School where I used to teach. Um, he is a graduate of Pueblo District 60 Pueblo East. And he is a product of the Pueblo Summer musicals as well. Um, all of us really have ties to Pueblo. I graduated from South in 1982 and, um, I was Mr.
Giraffe in Noah's Animals, and I know you were wondering about that 'cause you're, where did I see him before? But, but that was my first musical. So anyway, I just wanted to come and thank you all. I hope, I don't know if you all got to see the show or not, and Dr. Kimsey got to come, but, um, I really wanted to make sure the 65th was a memorable, um, standout experience. And we really did that. And I could not have done it without the support of Cindy Smith back here. And I know that's not officially her title anymore, and she kept it under her umbrella.
And I'm very grateful that she did because she works really hard to support us behind the scenes and, um, and it is a lot of work. So, so thank you. I appreciate that So much. Well, thank you so much Mr. Albrecht. We have most of us, I, I am sure saw the, the musical this summer and it was fabulous. Just like all the other musicals I've seen you produce and direct. Um, it's been wonderful. And so thank you so much for all that you do to promote the arts. Um, our support, our talented young people and the Pueblo community.
We are, we just, we just love it. Going to those shows, it means a lot to the community. Thank You. And I, I just wanna add one more. It's very great. This is a community-wide mentoring program because these kids come back and give back. In the last two years, we've had kids actually age out, even though we've expanded the age to try and recover after COVID, these kids still stick around and age out and those younger kids look up to them. And I, I think it's such an important program to develop the arts. I hope we can inspire more kids
to do music theater in the Pueblo High schools. And again, I'll keep recruiting all of them as best, best I can. But I, I hope that it'll ignite some fire in those schools so I can get more Pueblo District 60 current representation in the cast. That's my goal. Okay, Wonderful. Uh, director Telo has a question. Thank you. I I don't have a question. I just want to thank you for, um, all your efforts and I wanna let the board know that, um, you serve your community in many ways and our community.
And I want to say that, um, as a board member of the Canyon City School District, I, I'm not quite sure if it's RR one, RE one. Yes. R it's funny 'cause I am on the school board in Canada and ours, red means you're not on, and red means you're on here. Sounds very confusing to me. Um, yes, I serve on the Canyon City School. I'm vice president of the Canyon City School Board. And I, I think that's very important that, uh, we, we recognize you for all that as well. Plus, personally, I want to offer my thanks
and I think the thanks of all who are involved in education in Pueblo for your support of my floor resolution at the regional meeting in Loveland. I just really appreciate that. I was happy to, to do that. And, uh, you know, best of luck to you and we'll look forward to seeing you again. Okay. Thank you. Thank you all. Thank You. Thank you again. Superintendent Kimsey, do we have other recognitions this evening? We have several. And at this time, I am going to turn this over to, uh, it's my distinct honor
and pleasure to turn this over to our Director of Communications and Public Relations, Mr. Sprouse, who will introduce each of the next, uh, recognitions to the board. Well, thank you so much, uh, Madam President, superintendent Kimsey, members of the board, we, as, uh, the superintendent just mentioned, have some outstanding recognitions to share with you this evening. I'd love for you to come down and create a receiving line and anyone that's being honored here in these next few groups, if you could kind of work your way to that side of the room when your name is called.
Um, you'll see Ms. Tammy Neal over there. She'll hand you a certificate and then you can come down the receiving line. And then we're gonna take a group photo here. But, um, board members, if you wouldn't mind coming on down, please. All right. Well, tonight I have the privilege of recognizing several outstanding women who truly shine within Pueblo D 60. Their dedication and leadership and service reflect the very best of who we are as a district. To begin, I'm proud to share that Pueblo D 60 is home to only the third recipient in the nation to receive the Kathy Simmons National Alliance
for Medicaid Education Merit Award. Ladies and gentlemen, please join me in congratulating Michelle Camille, our coordinator of school-based Medicaid programming. Michelle earned this national honor for her significant contributions to the field of school-based Medicaid service services work that directly supports the health and wellbeing of our students. Michelle, yeah, please hang out here. In addition, earlier this month, Carmen Olivas and Janelle Mais Johnson were honored at the Mariosa Center for Safety's, uh, 24th annual tribute to Women event.
Mrs. Manus Johnson, principal of Risley School of In Innovation, was nominated for Professional Achievement Award. Let's give her a round of applause. And Mrs. Olivas, our district educational translator and interpreter was nominated and received the community service award for 2025. Each of these incredible women exemplify the heart and excellence of Pueblo D 60. They continuously go above and beyond to serve our students, families, and community. And we are proud to celebrate their accomplishments tonight. It's also worth noting that Pueblo South High School,
serenity, Dawson, and Pueblo East graduate, Isabel Rosales, were also named nominated for the Young Leaders Award. Serenity was unable to attend tonight, she's currently attending her end of the year volleyball banquet, and Isabel is in Fort Collins, attending college at the Colorado State University. If I could have our board members and superintendent come on over here for a group Photo 1, 2, 3. Thank you very much. One more. Now this evening, I also have the privilege of recognizing the members of the Superintendent's Advisory Steering committee. This dedicated group of approximately 30 individuals made up
of parents, students, staff members, community members. They all played an essential role in helping guide our school district through the right sizing process. Those steering committee members that are with us tonight, if we'll follow the same order, kind of come up towards Tammy and then work your way down. And then we'll take another group photo. Now, over the past several months, and, and I'll name you each, but over the past several months, including over the summer, the committee met four times engaging in thoughtful discussion and careful analysis to develop six potential options for the consideration.
For consideration. These options were then shared with the broader community through a public survey, which generated valuable feedback and insights. The results of the survey are now being discussed in a second round of community meetings, allowing for even more voices to be heard. Now. All of that information gathered from both the committee's work and the community's input will help inform the final set of recommendations that will ultimately come before the Board of Education at a later date. The work of the Superintendent's Advisory Steering Committee was crucial in foundation,
in a foundational step in this process. On behalf of the district, we want to extend our deepest gratitude for their time, commitment, and collaboration as we work together to imagine a new and vibrant future for our students and our schools. We have some of the community members with us tonight in the audience. Let's just take a moment to invite them up to the front to meet you all and to receive a super, a certificate with us tonight. And, and maybe not all of them are here, but we're gonna read through this list and we'll make sure we'll name all of our, um, committee members, but Arjun, uh,
D 60 teacher at Minnequa, Charlotte Vasquez from Sunflower Bank. I know Charlotte's here. Dana Elkins Green of our D 60 Nutrition Services. Dustin Mi, principal at Central High School. Jacob Lewis, a teacher at Centennial High School. Janelle Manus Johnson, principal at Risley. Julie Griego, principal at Baca. Catherine Thompson, a teacher over at South High School. Mike Mays, the president of PEA. Matthew McIntyre, apparent at PAA
and central Pam Lucero Lucero, uh, representative in our D 60 HR office. Randy Addington, a parent at Highland Park. Rebecca Tomlin, an assistant principal at PAA Ryan macra, principal at Corwin. Terry Bradford are, uh, a member of our ESS department here in D 60. And other members include, um, Cassandra Nalan, uh, part of our business services team here at D 60. Brett Boston, a city councilman for Pueblo. Alex Trujillo, principal at Centennial.
Corey Ortega in our IT department. Heather Huffman, a secretary at Central Kim Smith, uh, certified staff member at Beah Heights and the PPEA rep, Alyssa Fuentes, a parent at Corin and Central Amanda V. Hill certified staff member at Risley. Brian Day, one of our facilities workers. Crystal Gallegos, the principal at Highland Park. Jamie Wendler, parent at Irving. Joey Diaz, the assistant principal at Nets Freed Carrie Gonzalez, apparent at Central Melvin Bland.
He's part of our facilities department. And the A CME representative Paul Haley of Pueblo Fire. Samantha Archuleta, a staff member at Bradford. Tommy Mora, a student at Dutch Clark Digital. Malachi Vasquez, a former D 60 student. And now at PCC, Brandon Martinez, a D 60 student rep from Central and Michael Gage of Pueblo Community College. Let's give them all a warm round of applause. If I can invite our superintendent and board members over, we'll get another group photo and then I'm done.
Thank you again to all of you for your service and efforts in this process. The board truly appreciates your time and your contributions to this committee. We will now, I guess we're gonna, we don't have any public comment tonight, right, Mr. Sprouse? We did not, not receive any recorded messages. No. Thank You. Thank you Mr. Sprouse. We'll move on to 7.0 communications and board comments. Does Superintendent Kimsey or a board member have any communications or comments this evening? Director Tebow. Thank you, Madam President. I, I actually have a couple of things that,
um, I'll bring up. Hopefully, um, be very brief about that, uh, about them. Just to let the board know. Um, as the delegate from the board to the Pueblo area, uh, council of Governments, uh, back in September, there was a presentation that I found quite interesting, um, dealing with, um, what was called the areas of persistent poverty in our community. And it was probably something that
we can all just, um, pretty much figure out. Um, but it was very, uh, intriguing and interesting to hear the consultants meet and hunt where the consultants deal with, uh, some of the, um, the planning that, that was recommended to all our governments in terms of making, um, areas in our community more convenient to get to work, more convenient for daycare and more convenient to attend, um, school.
And, and so I at some point was hoping that that, um, that that presentation or that slide show could be shared with the board. And I will try to follow up on that and, uh, give a, um, a little more detailed report, at least in, in future meetings. Um, the second thing that I wanted to sort of mention is that we all know that of course, next Tuesday is the election and on the state ballot is, um, or are the two, um, measures dealing
with, uh, um, basically, um, feeding our students, um, and how we're going to as a state, uh, approach the difficulty in funding, uh, those, those kinds of issues. Um, but I also noticed that, um, well, and I should say to the board that, you know, I've been involved in, um, trying to, um, work on the reduction of, of, um, food waste and, um, food nutrition for Coloradans for 40 years or more, depending on the service
that I've been able to, um, have the privilege of undertaking, uh, on behalf of citizens. But I noticed that, that, um, these particular measures, at least mm, reaches out and, and tries to help, um, the increased, uh, snap, um, costs that are going to be paid by the state, uh, based on, uh, HR one, which we commonly, uh, recognize as the one big beautiful bill act that was recently, um,
passed by Congress and signed by the president. And it got me thinking a little bit about, um, the efforts that perhaps the, the school district could undertake, especially in this time where we have a government shutdown and we're predicted, um, next week that a lot of individuals will not be qualifying for, uh, SNAP food assistance. And when I was doing a little bit of research on the subject, I noticed that, um, in Colorado at least, um, half
of the SNAP recipients are children. And of course, I'm just thinking that, um, with that kind of number of children, school districts throughout the state are, are, um, experiencing, you know, the difficulty of, um, of having food, um, in any, you know, way that is, um, nutritious for them. So I'm just bringing this up because, um, I have talked to the superintendent about my interest in, um, house Bill 10 59, which encourages the district,
all districts to, to try to develop, um, policies dealing with, um, the, the proper, uh, usage of food and, and food waste. And I'm looking forward to, to trying to get that accomplished here in the next, um, year as we, uh, work toward different policies on the board. But I was also thinking that, um, that perhaps maybe that, um, our nutrition, um, areas, um, that, that, that deal with the, the Breakfast
and Lunch programs could take a look at, um, whether there's any room for us to act as a supplement to the, uh, SNAP issue that is facing us, uh, for the months of, uh, November and possibly December, especially over the holidays. I just recall when COVID was at its peak, um, during the summertime at least, a lot of individuals were able to, you know, drive to certain locations and receive sacks of food and, and milk and things like that to, you know, to take care of their,
um, their basic needs. Um, I, I just don't know where this would go or how this would go, but I think it's something that, um, perhaps we could, um, take a look at in the district and see if there's anything we can do to help, um, you know, backfill some of this, uh, needed nutrition. There are other programs, and I know that, for example, Pueblo County government is, I think, increasing, um, spending for, uh, TANF Money, but I'm not quite sure that TANF is, is, uh,
it's not the same as Snap. Um, and I'm not quite sure how much, um, of the food actually gets to school, school children. And the same with food banks. Uh, you know, there's just a lot of elderly and disabled people. Um, and so I'm just trying to focus on, maybe there's a way for our district to take a look at the idea of, of utilizing, um, food, um, maybe a shared table at schools where the, um, the leftover food can be, um, just as it indicates shared with other, um, you know,
families or individuals who, who aren't getting the nutrition that they need in the, in the district, especially with the reduction of Snap. Um, I guess that wasn't so brief after all, but that's kind of my thought. I I don't have any particular plan or idea, but perhaps, um, those that are involved in this could, could, uh, at least give some information to the board at a future meeting and maybe even a plan for, uh, what appears to be a long road before, um, the government shut down is resolved. So with that, I'll, I'll end
and, uh, thank you for your time. Thank you. Director Tebow. Superintendent Kimsey. Yes. Director Tebow. Uh, and you may not have had a chance to see it yet. I sent, uh, the board some detailed plans from our district. Um, we are implementing the shared table. Um, we have sent messaging, uh, it's on our carousel. We're doing it both in English and in Spanish. I'd like to point out Ms. Elkins Green, who has taken the lead with this from the beginning, has worked very carefully with schools, uh, with Mr. Sprouse to get the word out so
that we can support our families and our students as best as we possibly, possibly can. There were several, um, suggestions from our commissioner and Lieutenant governor in a webinar I attended on Friday morning. Uh, and that also reinforced what Ms. Elkins Green was already doing in our district. So we're doing quite a bit, uh, of course. Could we do more? Absolutely. I know, um, many of us are looking at personally donating to food banks, uh, that kind of thing because this is going to be,
as you shared, a, an extremely difficult period for our families. Uh, and so having moved to Pueblo, I have no doubt that our community is going to really wrap our arms around each other and take care of each other during this difficult time. Thank you, superintendent Kimsey. Other, uh, communications or comments from the board? All right, next up is 8.0 special resolutions, and we have four resolutions this evening. Director Mays will be reading our first resolution 2025 National Principals Month Pro Proclamation,
whereas principals are educational visionaries, instructional and assessment leaders, disciplinarians, community builders, budget analysts, facilities managers, and administrators of legal and contractual obligations. And whereas principals set the academic tone for their schools and we're collaborative with teachers to develop and maintain a clear mission high curriculum standards and set performance goals and objectives for schools to achieve educational excellence. And whereas principals create school environments that facilitate great teaching and learning
and continuous school improvement, and whereas the vision, dedication, and determination of a principal provide the mobilizing force behind any school reform effort. And whereas the celebration of National Principals Month honors the contribution of school principals and assistant principals at all grade levels to the success of students in Pueblo School District Number 60 schools, and recognizes the importance of principals in ensuring that every child has access to a quality education. Now, therefore, the Pueblo School District Number 60 Board of Education does hereby proclaim October, 2025
as National Principals Month. And I would at this time move that the Board of Education proclaim October, 2020 6, 20 25, uh, excuse me, October, yes. As get, I'm sorry, uh, myself lost here. Uh, I, I would ask that the board adopt the proposition that we did as presented tonight's materials. Thank you. Director Mayes. Is there a second? Second. Is there any discussion? Please call a vote. Ms. Patron.
Dr. Deni Aye. Judge Mays Aye. Mrs. Peno? Aye. Mr. Tebo Aye. Director Mays will be reading our second resolution this evening. Court of Education is asked to proclaim October, 2020 6, 20 25 as Gifted and Talented Education Week, state of Colorado Gifted and Talented Education Week October, 2020 6, 20 25. Whereas Colorado is home to over 800,000 students, many of whom excel in one or more areas of their studies. And whereas the state of Colorado encourages
and promotes high standard for academic achievement, and whereas providing a challenging experience in the classroom for Colorado's gifted and talented students is vital to ensuring their continued intellectual, social and academic development, academic development. And whereas the Colorado Association for Gifted and Talented is committed to ensuring that teachers, administrators, and parents understand and meet the needs of College Colorado's best and brightest students, therefore be further resolved that we, the Pueblo School District Number 60 Board
of Education does proclaim October, 2020 6, 20 26, 20 25 as Gifted and Talented Education Week, and I would move the, uh, uh, board adopt this resolution, resolution as presented in tonight's materials. Thank you again. Director Mayes. May I have, is there a second? Second. Is there any discussion? Please call the vote. Ms. Patron Dr. De Niro. Aye. Judge Mays Aye. Mrs. Pen, nuncio Aye. Mr. Tebo Aye. Our third resolution will be read
by Director De Niro. The Board of Education is asked to proclaim National School Psychology Week November 3rd through seventh, 2025. This year's theme, finding Your Path reflects the ways that school psychologists help students, families, and school communities set and achieve their goals by helping them determine paths to learning growth and overall wellbeing that meet their unique needs. 2025 National School Psychology Week, November 3rd, 7, 20 25. Whereas the National Association of School Psychologists have designated November 3rd
through 7 20 25 as National School Psychology Week to highlight the important work school psychologists and other educators do to help promote the personal and academic success of children and youth. Whereas Children's Mental Health is directly linked to their learning and wellbeing. And whereas school psychologists collaborate on teams with teachers, counselors, administrators, students, and parents guardians to prepare all students to succeed. And whereas Pueblo School District Number 60 recognizes the critical role of school psychologists in promoting students' academic
development as well as their social, emotional and physical wellbeing, and therefore be it resolved that the Pueblo School District Number 60 Board of Education does hereby proclaim November three through seven. 2025 is National School Psychology Week in District 60 and commences observance to all of our school community. The Board of Education proclaims November. I move that the Board of Education proclaims November 3rd through seventh, 2025 as National School of Psychology Week as presented in the October 28th, 2025 board materials.
Thank you. Director De Niro. Is there a second? Second. Is there any discussion? Please call the vote. Ms. Patron Dr. De Niro. Aye. Judge Mays Aye. Mrs. Pen, nuncio. Aye. Mr. Tebo? Aye. Our final resolution this evening will also be read by Director De Niro. The Board of Education is asked to proclaim October as Cybersecurity Awareness Month 2025 Cybersecurity Awareness Month proclamation. Whereas the state of Colorado stands at the forefront of protecting its people working to detect, defend against
and respond to cybersecurity threats that endanger our personal privacy and the safety of our communities. And whereas cybersecurity affects every coloradoan at home, school, work, and in our communities. And each of us has a responsibility to maintain a secure digital environment. And whereas cybersecurity education and awareness, or essential for all who go online empowering individuals to stay safe in the digital world. And whereas Coloradoans can take powerful steps to stay safe online, such as creating strong passwords,
enabling multifactor on that authentication, re recognizing and reporting How is that? What is that? Fishing. Fishing attempts and keeping software up to date. And whereas inspiring and preparing the next generation of cybersecurity professionals is vital to meeting the growing demand for talent and expanding career opportunities and strengthening Colorado security and economic prosperity. And whereas the Stay Safe Online campaign serves our as our nation's leading public awareness effort,
helping individuals better understand cyber threats to effectively safeguard personnel personal information and protect business records. And whereas each of us has a critical role in to play in securing cyberspace and awareness, uh, awareness of essential cyber hygiene will improve the security of Colorado's information infrastructure and economy. Now, therefore, the Pueblo Pueblo School District Number 60 Board of Education does hereby proclaim the month. October in District 60 is cybersecurity Awareness month.
I move that the Board of Education proclaims October as Cybersecurity Awareness month as presented in the October 28th, 2025 board materials. Second. Thank you again, Dr. De Niro. We have a motion and a second. Is there any discussion? Seeing none, please call the vote. Ms. Patron Dr. De Niro. Aye. Judge Mays Aye. Mrs. Pen, nuncio. Aye. Mr. Tebo? Aye. Alright. Next on the agenda is 9.0 reports. Superintendent Kimsey, do we have any reports this evening? We do. President Pen Nuncio.
It's my distinct honor and pleasure to welcome, uh, our Chief Financial Officer, Ms. Lana Hans. She will present both the, uh, 20 24 25 fourth quarter financial report and the first quarter financial statements for, uh, fiscal year 25, 26. Ms. Hans, Good evening, president Pen Nuncio, members of the board, we're excited to be here at our fourth quarter financial statements for 24 25. Right? Um, the first fund
that we're going to look at is fund 10, and that's our operating fund. As you can see, the, there is an adjustment to the beginning reserves. That's what the two asterisks are at the very tippy top of the page. Um, there was a GS B 87 adjustment that I didn't include in the total, so it's my fault. Um, unaudited revenues for fund 10 were 183 million plus making our beginning unaudited reserves and revenues at 219 million. Allocations to charters were 17 million plus,
um, transfers to other funds. That includes athletics and insurance was 4.4 million, leaving as total reserves, unaudited, revenues, transfers, and allocations. The net is 197 million total unaudited expenditures, 163 million, leaving our unaudited ending reserves at 34 million plus. Does anybody have any questions about the details? I'll give you some details since you didn't ask. Um, our actual salary, uh, compared
to budget was within 2.4% of of budget. Um, not that I'm wonderful and great in trying to pat myself on the back, but at $138 million worth of salary, I was pretty darn close. And since that's 85% of our spend, um, I also feel that, uh, my ability to at least get within a striking distance of salaries is at least adequate. Of course, we have trouble when we start looking at benefits because you never know when people are going to take their benefits.
Um, they have the option anytime during the year pending, um, particular things that happen in their family situation. And so you never know. So you always budget that one for the what if and you never really know what you're going to get. So, and with that, um, the only other thing that the auditors have, uh, brought to my attention is we're actually going to write down the tabor. It's going to go from 6 million to 5.2 million, which will affect, um, our unearned, I mean our
unreserved, uh, fund balance. So that will actually go up, not in total, just between Tabor and the un. Um, Anyway, I'm trying to think of the word and I can't, don't you love it? I'm out of words. I'll think of it in a minute, then I'll come back to it. Um, other things that happened is our preschool plans didn't, didn't pan out, and so we're still waiting for some equipment. Hopefully that's going to wrap up here soon so
that we can check that off the box. Um, purchase repairs and maintenance, of course, we're, we're way down. Um, I guess I threatened Chris enough that he wasn't gonna go spend the money. I'm kidding. Um, and other than that, we did have an actual net loss, of course with UPK, which you can't see because it's within all of the numbers. And that was about one, 1.4 million was returned, and so the net loss all overall was about a million dollars out of UPK. So anybody have any questions on that?
Director Tebow. Thank you. Um, on, on the screen that $34,000,160 I think we have, if I understand this correctly, we have, um, reserves that are required that, that eat a lot of that up. Um, Oh, absolutely. The operating reserve is 6%, the Tabor Reserve at 3%. Right. Other restricted reserves, et cetera. So it's not as though we have 34 million in the Bank. No, it is not. Um, that's one reason I said that the Tabor was actually gonna be written down. Currently it's $6 million of that number.
Um, if you take 6% times our, our revenues, um, which I can't do the math in my head, that's about $9 million. So you're at 17. We have almost still $3 million in CPP, uh, fund balance. We have prepaid expenditures, um, about 2.8 million off the top of my head. And then we have multi-year agreements about 1.6 million. So by the time you get down to all the nitty gritty, I think there's about 11 million left. That's, um, unassigned. That's the word I was looking for.
Right? Okay. Yeah, I I figured that was the case now. Thank you Uhhuh, Superintendent Kimsey. And, uh, one thing I would also like to point out, uh, Ms. Hans Hans, I always do a wrong, uh, uh, did an outstanding job last year. As soon as we saw that that funds were gonna become very limited working with each department and getting people to stop spending where not necessary. Uh, and so we were able to have that money to carry over into this fiscal year
to help us, to help us through. So she and the department heads did an outstanding job of checking every single line item. We put a moratorium on traveling outside of the state unless it was grant funded. Um, we really questioned every expenditure. And so that's how we are doing so well, and I just want to commend her and all department heads for that very, very hard work, um, that's going to help us moving forward as we work on the right sizing. Well, and one more comment. Thank you, Dr.
Kimsey, um, is we did not fund capital projects and that was 9.8 million, so that was another big bonus to our, our bottom line this last year. That's not gonna be the case going forward. I'm going to have to fund it. And so we'll talk about that in January. Okay. Any questions about fund 10 besides all that? Okay. This is your favorite, um, pie chart. It's really easy to read from way, way far away. Um, salary and benefits are still about 85%,
so everybody likes to look at that, I guess. Um, next fund is fund 17, and so we can go through the same routine. Our beginning reserves were a little over six, $600,000. We added revenues of 725,000 that ends up with beginning reserves and unaudited revenues of 1.3. We transferred money from fund 10 to fund 17 of 2.6 million, making our net, uh, reserves, transfers and unaudited revenues at 3.9. Our expenditures were 3.4 million
with which left us an ending fund balance of 484,000. Just to note the expenditures associated with athletics continue to rise. The biggest one that we are seeing the biggest increase with is, uh, all the officials and, and so all the umpires officials and anybody else timekeepers. Um, that cost is really escalating. Any questions there? Yes, sir. Uh, you, Yeah. What, what's the reason for the Increase? Um, it's a contract that's also ran through chasa. Um, and we use a company called Arbiter,
which everybody across the state, um, if you want to be a ref, you apply to this system and the rates are set through them. And so it was dictated by market forces. Um, it costs the referees a lot of money to travel, et cetera. And so their rates have, have basically doubled the last few, few years. Director De Niro, you mentioned Timekeepers. Is that through Chasa? No, but they're part of the bigger group. You know, you still have to pay people to, to watch the clocks and, and do everything.
Sometimes they're, um, hourly, uh, workers through athletics. Sometimes we have to pay for them. It depends on what the, what the event is. So those, that group hasn't increased. It's mostly the, it's the, it is the official. So it's your umpires. Um, yeah. Not the rest of the worker bees. Any questions on on that? No. Okay. Fund 18. Um, it's pretty standard beginning reserves plus unaudited revenues. Um, gives us a, a total beginning reserves
and unaudited revenues. Then we transfer money in from fund 10 at 1.8 million. Um, our unaudited expenditures are 2.1 million, which leaves us a bottom line of about 2 million, So that's pretty standard. Any questions on that? Okie dokie. Child, uh, nutrition services, um, beginning fund balance is about $10 million. She brings in about $10 million in revenues, which, and that says $20 million to spend.
Last year's unaudited expenditures were 9.7 million, leaving us an unended ending fund balance of 10 $10 million. Um, she does have a plan. She being Ms. Dana Elkin Green. I have a detailed plan if anybody's interested in looking at it. The biggest problem that we have is electrical access in the buildings still, plus timing. Um, her fund can buy the equipment but they can't install it. And so there's a lot of things in our way. Um, she is trying to spin that budget down
if anybody has any questions about that. Okay. Um, fund 22 grants. That's real interesting, huh? We begin with nothing and we end with nothing. No, I'm kidding. Um, unaudited revenues last year were 22.7 million and we spent 22.7 million. So, um, that fund always balances to zero. So that's what we'd expect. You can see that we had $30 million in federal revenue. That's huge. Um, I think we can all anticipate it not being that high this next, this next fiscal year.
Any questions on, on that? Dokie? Uh, student activities, same thing. Beginning reserves plus unaudited revenues less. Our unaudited expenditures still left us with about $2.6 million in reserves, so actually it's pretty healthy Student activity fund. Any questions on that? And just to caveat, the district doesn't, um, restrict their spending at all. That's totally up to the student. Student raised money. Student spent money. Okay. Fund 27.
That's the Education foundation. Um, same story. Um, beginning reserves about $200,000. Uh, revenue's 118,000. Um, they spent about $86,000 leaving them 232,000 in, in reserves fund, 31, which is debt service. This is where the bonds are paid out of beginning reserves. 18 million unaudited revenues of 18 million unaudited expenditures at 17 million, leaving us a fund balance of 18 million. I am planning on decreasing the mill levy in December.
So we will have that discussion then. We don't need to keep building the fund balance, is what I'm trying to say. Okie dokie. Okay. Uh, bond fund, I sound like a broken record. Uh, beginning reserves 27 million. Um, you can see that the, uh, revenues are starting to dwindle and that's mostly, uh, interest 1 million, um, on audited expenditures at about 12.7 million. So we still have $15 million to spend at the end of last year, and we are trying to spend that.
So stay tuned. Okay. Any questions on Bun Bond? 41, uh, capital Projects Fund, uh, began with 34 million unaudited revenues, 2.6 unaudited expenditures 9.2. So we have a nice balance still of 31 plus million dollars in the fund reserves. Um, we do need to be adding to that fund. It doesn't look like it right now. However, we are continuing to have projects pop up
and it's hard for, um, facilities to keep, keep going when I keep restricting the money. So, uh, That one's going to change. Oops, pardon me. Fund 64, which is, um, our risk management. Um, basically the same thing of 2.5 million to begin. 1.3 in 1.5 out, leaving us with 2.3 at the end. So that was exciting. I don't know about you. Do you have any questions? Yes, sir.
Director Mays. Uh, Ms. Dion's, earlier in your presentation you meant something about some, uh, capital projects that had been, had been put on the shelf for a while, $9 million worth or something like that? Did I get, Um, no. That was a transfer from fund 10 to capital projects of 9.8 million last year. We did not transfer any money into capital projects. What does that mean? Um, that ordinarily we would continue to contribute to capital projects every year, last year,
early when we started to see, um, the funding decrease. And of course I get nervous and so, um, we discussed not funding capital projects in order to preserve our ending reserves. And so that's what we did is not fund capital projects this last year, but we will need to do that going forward. Does that ever catch up with us yet? Oh, absolutely. And that's what I'm trying to avoid is to go ahead and start funding it again this year. Where, where that,
that would just come from the general fund as well? Yes. And that's built into our next year budget or It was not. Um, we will look at that in January. That's my plan is to bring that back. Um, because the capital projects aren't going away and they're becoming more expensive. So when, pardon By Capital projects we're talking including maintenance of schools and that sort of thing, Uh, it is big dollars something that, um, is greater than your capital threshold. Um, it, it is hard to give you a dollar value. Like if you're re replace replacing a quarter of your roof,
um, is that a repair, a maintenance or are you gonna capitalize it? Well, it's still gonna run through the same fund because of the dollar value. Just depends how you handle it from a financial perspective. But all of our projects are becoming much more extreme and much more needy and greater in value. So if we don't start pumping money back into that fund, we won't be able to fix things. And then you'll be in the sticky wicket like roncalli. Will it cost you too much money to fix it? So, uh, and, and we'll get a more complete picture of that in a couple months. Did you say
You will? Okay. Thank you. All Right. Looking forward to it. I bet. Are you ready for round number two? Okay, so the first quarter of 25 26, um, I feel like I, I am uh, a, a record here, but anyway, the thing that you do need to note is the beginning revenues. That was based on last year's best guess when we did the estimated revenue and expenditures for last year. So the 27 million that will be replaced with the audited fund balance once the audit is complete.
So understand that that 27 million, uh, is not accurate anymore. So that will be changed predicting, um, a hundred and I can't see that 51 million in revenues for the quarter. We have moved, uh, allocations to charter at 1.6 million transfers to other funds at 1.1 million and we have unaudited expenditures at 124 million. Remember that has encumbered salaries and benefits. So that's very inflated.
It's not relative to the amount of money that we have taken in into fund 10. We don't encumber revenue. And so the negative fund balance at the bottom, that just shows you how much more cash we're going to need, um, to bring in over the next several months. It's not indicative of any sort of failure. We're, we're fine. It's not a bad position to be in, it's just the way the financial statements reflect when you encumber all of those expenses. Did I lose you? Hello, Director Tebow. Thank
you. And part of, part of the revenue picture has to relate to the payment of real estate taxes in, in the sense that um, I think it's 100% in April or 50% in February and 50% in June. So, Um, that, that revenue can, well some of that's correct. Um, we have gone to the nine month PPR schedule. So we do receive one ninth versus one 12th of the PPR. Okay. Alright. So we're actually being front loaded
with the revenues right now and then when March rolls around, we will not receive PPR, but we'll receive property taxes or at least we will by April. And so there's a couple of months where the revenue is going to really dip, but we also know that property taxes will pick back up and it will all even out. Okey yoki. This one. Um, it's a little different twist on the pie chart. We actually think we like this one better. I know it's hard to read on the screen, but what it shows you is what's really school-based budget, which includes instruction support from, um, support
and maintenance, which is 76% of our budget that's in the schools, including all of the staff, their salaries, their benefits facilities, all of the support from the district that ends up in the classroom. Everything goes into that bucket. Then the remainder little buckets tell you how much is in, um, Facilities, business services, the superintendent's bucket, um, debt.
I can't read it from here, I'm sorry, but you get the idea. Um, I don't know if you like this physical, this visual presentation or not. It's a different twist on, um, our usual pie chart. Does anybody have any questions about it? You don't like it, you like it? No opinion. Okay. All right. Thought we'd give it a try. Fund 17, once again, just like I said, um, beginning reserves, that was what was the best predicted value at the end of last year. Plus unaudited current revenues
transfers from fund 10 into athletics and unaudited expenditures, which includes encumbrances for some of the payroll. And despite all that, it actually still has ending reserve at a hundred, 192,000. But this will change over time. Okey doke. Alright, moving on. Insurance fund. This one looks a little different, um, because uh, we don't have any money coming in. Uh, fund 18, uh, didn't,
doesn't learn earn interest or there's any other fund of revenue. It all comes from fund 10. So you can see the unaudited revenues of zero. Um, also will include the 53,000 or 537,000 from fund 10. And we spent $2.6 million, um, in the first quarter. And that's normal. That's when all of our insurance bills are due. Okay, moving on. Um, beginning reserves for child nutrition plus unaudited revenues and those are always behind.
So when you see the first quarter in fund 21, you can bet that we're at least two months behind on the revenue stream. And we have $8 million in, uh, unaudited revenues. I mean, I'm sorry, expenditures. And that includes encumbrances for the big contracts that we have with SFE. And so you end up with an ending fund balance of 2.8. We know that's not going to stay that way. Um, revenues will continue to to come in and we'll build the fund back up over time.
Okay, fund 22, it's a little different. Um, right now we have $9 million, um, that has been reimbursed to the, uh, district. We have unaudited expenditures of 11 million, which currently shows an a negative ending reserve of 1.9 million. But remember the majority of our grants are reimbursement, so the expenditures have to be incurred and then we are reimbursed through the system. So
student activities fund 2.9 million to begin with. Unaudited revenues of 581,000, expenditures of 469,000, leaving us $3 million in reserves. There's not a whole lot encumbered in, uh, student activities. So that's basically what they've spent. There's no payroll as or of any significance associated that fund. 1 27. Uh, basically same thing in the same thing out leaving
103 on the bottom line. And that's education foundation. That's all donated or fundraised monies and expenditures Fund 31. Um, currently do not have any expenses except for a $500 annual fee because our um, bond payments are due in December. So they will be forthcoming, uh, the bond fund. Um, we're, we're planning on spending the money if it's just a matter of time.
So this one, there's not a whole lot of change. Um, you can see that the revenues are slim. That's all interest. And then unaudited expenditures, including cued expenditures related to current projects. Fund 43 capital projects. Um, we are trying to spend that ending reserve down, which means we need to turn around and, and fund 10 needs to fund fund 43. Um, so right now we have 4.7 million in expenditures with more planned.
Any questions about that? Nope. Okay. Fund 64. Uh, same kind of deal you guys. Um, we start out with 2 million. We have revenues of 1.3, um, and expenditures of 1.8 for an ending fund of 1.5. And that's it. You have any questions? You, You have concerns? I have no jokes. I do, but it's okay. Anything? Nope. I Don't think, think so.
All righty then. That's the end of that story. Well, thank you so much ne Miss Hans. Uh, we so appreciate it. Thank you both those reports. All righty. Alright, we're now on to 10.0 policy. Dr. Kimsey, is there any information you need to share with the board before we take action on tonight's policies? No. These are as a reminder, permanent approval of the references that are related to the policies that were acted upon, uh, in the last board meeting. So these are just cleanup of these policies.
Thank you Superintendent Kimsey, may I have a motion please? I move that the board of Education permanently approves the modification to board policies JB equal education op opportunities, JF admission and denial of admission JFBA intra district choice open enrollment and JFBB inter-district choice. Open enrollment on second and final readings as presented in the October 28th, 2025 Board materials. Is there a second? Second. Is there any discussion? Seeing none, please call the vote. Ms. Patron. Dr. Niro?
Aye. Judge Mays Aye. Mrs. Peno? Aye. Mr. Tebo? No. We're now on to 11.0 approval of the consent agenda. May I have a motion please? I move that the Board of Education approve the consent agenda items two through 12. Is there a second? Second. Is there any discussion? C None. Please call the vote Ms. Patron Dr. De Niro. Aye. Judge Mays Aye. Mrs. Pen, nuncio. Aye. Mr. Kibo? Aye. Alright. Up next is 12.0 action items.
The first item we need to take action on this evening is, uh, expulsion of student 1 5 8 3 0 0. May I have a motion please? I move that the board expels student 1 5 8 3 0 0 for one calendar year pending review in 45 days as presented in the October 28th, 2025 board materials. Is there a second? Second. Is there any discussion? Seeing none, please call the vote. Ms. Patron. Dr. Niro? Aye. Judge Mays Aye. Mrs. Pen, nuncio. Aye. Mr. Tebo? Aye.
The final item we need to take action on this evening is the expulsion of student 1 7 0 4 2 4. May I have a motion please? I move that the Board of Education, expels student 1 7 0 4 2 4 for one calendar year pending review in 45 days as presented in the October 28th, 2025 board materials. Is there a second? Second. Is there any discussion? Please call the vote. Ms. Patron. Dr. De Niro. Aye. Judge Mays Aye. Mrs. Penzu? Aye. Mr. Tebo? Aye. Alright, we're on to 13.0 a board discussion
and recommendations for future agendas. Does a board director have anything they would like to discuss or make recommendations for items to be included in the next board agenda? Doesn't look like we have any, so we will move on to 14.0 Announcements on November 6th, 2025 at 7:00 PM The All City Middle and High School Honor Choir concert will be happening at East High School on November 11th, 2025 at 6:00 PM There will be a special board meeting at the Administrative services center here in the Arapaho room
on November 13th, 2025 at 7:00 PM the District 60 Pride and Patriotism event will be taking place at Pueblo Memorial Hall on November 27th. 2027 is the start of Thanksgiving break on December 2nd, 2025. There will be a special school board meeting at the administrative services center here in the Arapaho room and on December 9th, 2025 there will be a school board meeting at the administrative services center here in the Arapahoe room as well. And finally, December 22nd, uh, 2025
through January 2nd, 2026 is winter break with that if there is uh, no further business this evening. May I have a motion to adjourn? So is there a second? Second? Any discussion scene? None. Please call the vote. Ms. Patron. Dr. Denu Aye. Judge Mayes Aye. Mrs. Pen, nuncio. Aye. Mr. Kibo Aye, thanks for joining us this evening.