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e e good evening I call this meeting to order at 6:34 pm tonight we have presid director after and myself meum thank you to our interpreter ASD would you please share the
interr thank you the first business is the approval of the agenda directors are there any proposed changes to the agenda being none do I have a motion to approve the agenda as presented I move that we approve the agenda as presented I have a second
second all in favor say I next agenda item is our opening celebrations and updates by so just want to start by thanking the parents and celebrating the parents families who attended Monday's Springs director Forum that
hosted it felt like over 45 50 parents invested significant amounts of time I think probably the average amount of time a parents spent with us was somewhere in four or five hours um it was really clear that the family spent a lot of time preparing their thoughts connecting with and collaborating with
other families and then taking the time to share their concerns and questions with director really want to thank and celebrate director rire for creating the space sh and again just want to
celebrate families who took the time to share and it was really clear they are deeply committed to partnering with our schools our staff our leaders to really strengthening academic social and cultural experiences of our students
school it was a real highlight it was a real privilege to be part listening and learning session so really grateful for that also want to celebrate and thank um the Colorado State Board of Education the commissioner of Education
Susanna Cordova and um all the support staff from the Colorado Department of Education who are hosting their regular meeting today and tomorrow in Glenwood Springs but town a day early to participate in a b to parachute tour and a full
meeting School District Garfield re2 Garfield 16 were really um showed up with staff and planning and so just want to thank the board of educ the State Board of Education the commissioner and all the staff we started off the Day visiting the district office in
garfield2 then we went to tour rifle high schools Career and Technical education So Co what is happening there really inspiring um the team then moved made their way up to the metwood project which is really exciting to get to show off all the work that has led to that
solution for Teacher housing and recruitment retention we came here to School District district office and then finished the day at Bridges High School um it was a really wonderful opportunity for our teams to share the challenges that we fa school districts and so want
to thank all the board members our scho board members Mari 2 who participated and of course the State Board andion who participated in the day also just really want to want to lift up the the support and collaboration of Garfield R2 team that
was really helpful and Leadership and collaboration on making the day come together finally be for most of our employees especially our largest group of teachers and School staff this is a really quiet time year
dep this is actually they're heading summer so our facilities teams especially custodial maintenance our finan they are all up right now this is a really busy summer busy season for them so I just want to celebrate and
thank those sta members who lean in when so many others across the district kind of lean out arresting that there's groups that are just really ramping up in terms of workload and our school staff are on break so is public comments so at this time we
welcome members the public sign address public comment to respect the time of all who are present speakers are asked to Li their remarks a reminder to speakers to uphold our procedures for public comments constructive with your feedback and comments
and members of the public wish to share their views with the board always time for this evening our first speaker is hello MERS of the board my name is Alan Val I'm the region manager profit based here in our Valley
whose goal elev the voices of positive and changes in our scho district I want to start off by commending the board and the RO for school district for passing the state hav policy and regulation this significant achievement is a test to your hard work but also the hard work of
hundreds of Latino parents students and community members who have been for over a year over a decade however while the sa policy is a victory it doesn't mean that our work is over the education of and future of all going Fork School District uh students
particular students hinge Upon Our continued efforts complacency is not an option I'm here today to highlight critical issues that require our immed attention if we are to ensure a quality education for our students still unacceptable that
a are two great levels behind in core subjects it is unacceptable that Latino parents are often excluded from decisioning SP both the school district and school and School District level and it is unacceptable that our teaching and administrative staff reflect the
diversity of our student body plan while step in the right direction not enough we need comprehensive detailed plans addressing each of these pressing issues these plans must outline specific budgetary needs necessary human capital
Investments and realistic urgent timeline ensuring that these matters are prioritized and our community are calling for the district the longer we delay the more Latino students will suffer system SE a moment to drive meaningful
change and provide the quality education than the next business in order is the approval of the consent agenda which includes rou person any items that you would like TOA for a separate discussion and
vote hearing none do I have a motion to approve the consent agenda is there a second second that motion you please call the vote director kenberg hi director defres hi director titler hi director
after RZ motion passes directors you just appr the consent agenda the next business in order the second reading and discussion of the proposed 2425 budget with Chief mark thank you we'll jump in everybody will
have two minutes then we'll have five minutes of open discussion um director fredy's would you like to start no okay director Tyler do we do we do the presentation first or if yeah if you'd like to that's fine okay yeah sorry I thought we had that up
thank you director kenberg um tonight marks the second reading of the 2024 25 budget for R Fork School District the final reading and Adoption of the fiscal year 2025 budget will occur on June 26th presented budget has over $134 million of Revenue and expenditures in an
appropriation of $200 million $97 million of Revenue is budgeted for the general fund alone which is the district's primary operating budget of that over $15 million is transferred to other funds to cover necessary items such as capital maintenance and upgrades insurance payments Early Childhood
programs and support for district authorized Charters nearly 75% of the district's Revenue will come from local sources primarily from taxes this means a district will collect more than 90% of its fiscal year revenue between March and June 2025 while expenditures remain
relatively even month-to-month this creates a mismatch with revenues which means the district will participate in the state's cash flow Loan program designed to cover the gap between time periods of low cast Collections and high cash collections many districts participate in this program it's not a sign of financial stress but it is
another program to Monitor and manage and for the board to be aware of in the first year of the newly adopted strategic plan the district will invest $5.5 million toward strategic priorities such as continuing the learning acceleration plan Investments newly immigrated student supports mental
health support and retaining recruiting talented staff this was also a time of transition June 30th of this year will Mark the end of the current strategic plan and the beginning of the next five-year strategic plan this plan is the foundation upon which the budget is built and The Guiding document for
making any new invest alongside the Strategic plan is a District's unified Improvement plan or uip and is also reviewed and approved by the board and it names specific challenges root causes and major Improvement strategies new Investments and initiatives must support both the
uip and strategic plan as part of the transitional period we have a newly seated superintendent multiple incoming building principles and assistant principles two new board members and soon a new CFO the board and exec team have worked to strengthen communication and collaboration
that has result in the creation of a permanent board finance committee which began meeting this spring the committee will provide an Avenue for better board communication and input better collaboration on creating budgets that meet board goals and ultimately benefit the students of rfsd I have created a proposed annual
budget timeline designed to shift communication intervals and finalize Investments earlier than the current process and to provide time at each step along the way for thoughtful work to occur uh with that I'll begin tonight's presentation this presentation remains larger than
Chang from before I know there was desire to discuss this publicly so um oops okay so tonight's oops so tonight we'll cover budget assumptions uh hit some high level assumptions on the and discuss the
general fund discuss early childhood fund food food service fund and are designated a purpose Grant fund and then open the floor for questions and discussion so moving on to slide three um this year we're budgeting for 5,717 students of which
5,187 will attend District operated schools the remaining 530 will attend District author authorized Charters the State legislated per people funding is $2,172 and the total program funding
tied to that is $ 69.6 million our net assessed value as everyone knows increased significantly this past fiscal year uh will remain close to $ 1.8 billion the estimated total Mill Levy for the upcoming fiscal year 2425 will
be 43.4 49 and will generate local property taxes in excess of $79 million overall this budget supports employing 823 full-time people this does not exclude extracurricular coaches or athletic coaches which also add um
people in positions to the mix as well raises for all staff are budget at 6.25% for the exec team that is at 5.25% which is meeting inflation the Medicare percentage is 1.45% and the pair percentage is 21 and
.4% health insurance uh is remaining at $10,500 we'll be entering the second year of being self funded and that amount has not changed so we're not increasing health insurance contributions nor increasing the contributions from employees I think that's a big win here in year year one
moving to year two for that program so moving on to general fund Revenue we've covered a lot of this in detail so this will be pretty high level moving from here total program funding uh again funded pupil count of 5,717 pupils uh multiplied by the pro pupil
funding of 12,172 gets uh total program funding of $6 69.5 million this is by far the largest share of Revenue that we get it's funded from three separate sources uh local property taxes local specific ownership tax and the state backfills the rest so as we collect more
locally have we've seen here over the last two years uh that funding shifts from the state to local taxpayers other local funding includes the mil ly overrides which are estimated 18 uh .0 million for next year which is $3,148 per pupil there's additional
specific ownership taxes interest on delinquent taxes as well as interest on invested cash uh interest on invested cash is expected to be somewhere around $1 A5 million do next year as we collect more cash locally we have higher cash balances for longer and given the interest rate environment that increases
uh Revenue as well moving on to State funding the state provides in addition to Equalization through total program funding various grants and support of uh early literacy through the react Transportation support special education
and English language Proficiency in total we estimate those will be $3.4 million or just over $600 per people Federal funding um in addition to the general fund we also receive funding that comes into our designated purpose fund uh but for this these purposes in
the general fund we receive about $1.8 million uh it's less than 2% of our general fund revenue and it's primarily in the form of special education support through idea um the $1.1 million listed here or 1.2 is actually slightly higher
um after we got the final estimate from the State Medicaid reimbursements that come in those have been increasing over the past couple years and the local service plan uh says that we use that to support our family Aon program in the schools okay general fund expenditures
uh in the past these have been presented kind of all worlded up and it can be fairly overwhelming with multiple years budget iterations differences percentages um so trying to break it down uh we'll start high level this slide
shows what we call program areas so that instruction pupil Services instructional support um are various programs that are operated out of the general fund this uh shows expenditures next year of just under $84 million which is
an increase of nearly $2 million over the current year as as typical salaries and benefits are over 84% of our budgeted expenditures so the largest expenditure for the district is its people so the people are val our most valuable resource and that's what we're spending our money on one change for
this year is moving the Early Childhood uh expenditures and revenues from the general fund to its own fund to better track uh the revenues and expenditures for that program in a specific fund the 670 people supported in the general fund are broken down as such you
can see the line share certified teachers with over 438 expected FTE um and as well as support Personnel total compensation so salary plus benefits will exceed $70 million for next next year so we're fortunate this year to
have additional revenue and that means additional Investments and these Investments as mentioned in my opening comments are designed to align with strategic um priorities both last year the board approved moving forward with uh responding the uip through the lap
which is a learning acceleration program so this year we're adding 6 and a half FTE on a permanent basis estimated to cost 600 $70,000 um I know we talk a lot about the people we're adding but as Chief park has pointed out it is a lot more than people when we talk about
accelerating our students learning the chart shows the Investments over the full two years of the lap additional Investments uh in critical areas of focus we're adding uh to FTE to support schools with newly immigrated students uh these will be
student facing uh positions their budget at $211,000 uh Chief Park superintendent Cole myself went through a fairly rigorous process Gathering data working with schools to see um where those two FTE should be deployed we heard pretty
resoundingly from schools that having 0. one1 of a person isn't really helpful and so we tried to be as thoughtful as possible um while providing the maximum support for the schools that needed it most we're also providing additional support $200,000 for student student
based Mental Health then the next slide shows the total strategic Investments um you can see the largest one by far is retaining and recruiting staff that 6.25% raise is estimated to be $3.9 million along with
the other uh Investments listed there a lot of those are tied to the first year of the Strategic plan as we mentioned the equity audit the data dashboard support Communications audit all those are things that need to be done on the first year of the Strategic plan in order to move forward with the
rest of the work moving on and looking at instruction uh when we hear instruction we think about what happens in schools this is generally what we're thinking this is direct instruction to to students uh you can see the vast majority of our expenditures are here again that's where most of our certified teachers are going
to show up and that's most of that expenditure general fund expenses will be $993 per people for the instructional program next year student Support Services these are activities designed to assess and improve the well-being of students uh
these are things like health aids and counselors and nurses um so very uh near to the work that happens under the instructional program but separate uh just over $1,060 per people will be spent on this um again mostly certified
teachers and and support staff in this area instructional support services so these are services that um you think about instructional coaches uh the work that comes out of Chief parks department um
in supporting um our instructors and getting better at at their jobs uh every day this is $744 per pupil um and is an increase this is where we spend more on instructional coaches through the through the lap you'll see
an increase in expenditures here General Administration these are the activities concerned with basically administering the district so Office of the superintendent uh the board's budget itself uh the central office management again uh about $24 per people uh has two
employees currently um superintendent being one and the district off manager being the second moving on quickly to school administration um this is exactly what it sounds like these are the front offices from the principls and assistant
principles the front office Specialists that manage School Finance attendants and registrars just over or just sorry just shy of $1,200 per people business administration this is the finance department essentially comes in at $156 per pupil
uh this department has six people uh CFO a payroll manager and a financial controller as well as three support staff supporting payroll accounts payable and general Finance Maintenance and Facilities really any maintenance of the entire
School District so from grounds to Capital maintenance to buildings uh this department employs 54 people um as well as uh this is C 54 feels low that's a lot at that
um $9 million of expenditure um custodial we've seen a huge change there we've seen um you know moving money from salaries and benefits to Professional Services basically Contracting out custodial Services because of our inability to hire um so while the
dollars remain the same uh the categories have shifted from from prior years student transportation is exactly what it sounds like these are the activities that get kids to and from school um really uh I think one of the most powerful things I heard Chief bone say is that this is kind of where Equity
begins it make sure our kids that need to get to school can get to school and that's where their day begins and ends um just over $650 per pupil this is your bus drivers the uh director of Transportation mechanics um are all rolled up
here and then other Central support uh for us at it HR and Communications are the big departments that roll up here again supporting 16 Folks at $500 per people then to provide a picture of reserves um this is added from the last
time but it's important um you know as as was pointed out before we're budgeting to spend more than we have in net revenue and that is typical you know typically we have departments that carry over money from year to year and so as that money is carried over it's com from reserves you can see at the bottom that
after a 3% table reserve and the 10% Reserve per uh the board's policy unencumbered reserves are estimated to be $2.7 million uh that's money that could be saved for any day it could be deployed for other strategic purposes um but it is there as a resource if
needed okay so moving on from the general fund we move into a more specific fund which is uh for Early Childhood this is new this year year um given the increase in this program the growing complexity the Stacked funding the different revenue streams we thought it was important to be able to match
revenues with expenditures and to also be able to view uh the general fund support for this program and next year we're estimating support at just shy of $1.3 million from the general fund this program supports at 79 people
across our five preschool programs I think for the first year we have imp care uh the expanding and absorption of the bassal program um has increased the cost but also the the capacity of the Early Childhood
Program so we're estimating 320 children served um 1103 year olds 145 uh four year olds 15 infants and 50 toddlers uh 90 of those will participate in our extended day programs um the staff
sliding scale provides tuition relief to staff of over $125,000 so again that's just another way that the the district supports staff um with with children here next we'll take a look at the food service fund uh this fund provides the
activities concern with providing food to students and staff uh at the school district so we're estimating about 28 people employed here here um we're going to serve over 3800 3,800 meals a day which I think comes to like 630,000 meals for the year which is pretty
incredible the average daily cost is $17,700 average daily revenue is slightly less than that so we're going to dip into um what is currently a very healthy fund balance in that fund and last I think we're going to look at the designated purpose Grant
funds this is where we track specific grants that we get from both the state and local and federal government so everything from the ears Grant which supports our multi-tiered systems of support took me five years to get that
one I couldn't tell you what ear stands for unfortunately there you go I knew you were up here um but these programs while we always try and keep grants um
not at arms length that's not the right word but they do become critical to the way we operate and provide um student support here at the district um any loss of grant funding is a loss of service and we try and do our best to maintain grants as as much as
possible over close to 45 people are paid for through this fund including uh F FRC and pre-collegiate as well as interventionists uh at the at the elementary schools through our Title One funding we're estimated to have at least 40 unique grants with revenues Endor
expenditures that come through each year it's about $6 million uh each of these grants has an application a budget interim Financial reports annual Financial reports um updated budgets um a lot goes in behind the scenes and
often times it doesn't matter the amount of the grant all that stuff must be done so it is quite the LIF from both the what I would call the program manager so the people who are actually deploying those resources in schools to the back office which is um Finance supporting
the reporting and tracking of expenditures and with that I'll turn it back over to the board for their question and discussion session thank you director Tyler thank you for your presentation my first question is um that spreadsheet
that we got about budget and board questions were answers going to be provided in there uh the last I checked there was two questions in there and I had answered both okay I put some in Monday morning oh yeah sir I have so I
don't know if I do you want me to leave those questions and you can go ahead and ask them now and we'll see if I can answer them on the spot okay can I ask for more than the two minutes then or how do we want to go about that there seven of them eight seven pick your most important ones pick a couple of your
top ones and then the other ones will just get answered yeah sorry there hadn't been much activity there for about three or four weeks so I had um I guess um I would say on line number I don't know if you have that open or not on line number
12 it says in slide number 19 and I don't know if that was the same 19 I should have looked at what that was um what are other services
for um this was for general fund expenditures and it says other services for $1.6 million can you define it all what those other services are sorry my slide 19 has other expenditures of 31,000 okay it was for
the it was for the slide for General funding expenditures from the last the one that we were presented with along with that topic general fund expenditures instruction that's slide 16 I think was
the instruction other services that is almost 100% our payment to bosis so that's bosis there yeah like in other purchase service is how that shows up and then there was another other expenditures for 54300
,000 also is that on that one yeah and so that is primarily funds that are carried over from year to year and kind of held in contingency and so the way those are rolled out and budgeted or as other expenditures until they're defined so what you would see as an an under spend on that category and
overspend somewhere else as those are deployed but Canon will say you can't spend contingency you should spend it how you are spending it okay um in the charter school allocations there for $8.25
million um I understand that for the 530 students that comes out to 6.4 million is that extra money of the almost $1.8 million is that Ross money at this point and is that in addition to the State per pup funding they participate in
basically every other state Grant so redact Title One title two title three idea ecea State Transportation gifted and talented um all that stuff gets passed through them on a approvable basis so that doesn't include Ross money
then no and where is that money being held that's held on our our end but where is that in this budget I mean we're spending it in all these line items it's not like a Ross line item so it's just expenditures going into our general budget yeah so we don't have
like I know in the past that's sort of been earmarked for specific ideas that we wanted to do I thought that money like it was being used for specific categories and so this year a lot of like the onetime Strategic
expenditures around um sped audit Equity audit that's what we're spending that on because we're trying to treat it as one time money but is in the budget for the future we don't have it budgeted for any particular area no yeah
in um the insurance Reserve fund yes it's that's gotten up like 100,000 250 $550,000 over the last three years what's the Thought on why that's happened our premiums are increasing so
this the property pool that we're part of the Colorado School District Self Insurance pool or ssip um that pool we're part of has experienced extensive losses um from hail damage and other things so as that happens our our costs
go up as well as our workers comp um has really seen an increase over the last three or four years so the fact that we're budgeting the same amount for our insurance for next year that doesn't have any I'm guess I was confused with the
part where we were saying that we were having the same amount of expenditures that at least employees are paying the same amount next year are we expecting to pick up extra amount on that or so this that does not include the the insurance Reserve fund is is
separate from our health insurance uh Health Insurance Pool and so can you explain so for what is that then I'm that's our property and liability our Autos our auto insurance our workers
comp our unemployment insurance property casually is that like the 1.3 I think is what that is 1.55 and then on what you presented to us
today you mentioned that on page 16 of your presentation from today why is it that [Music] um there are not on the right page let me get there real fast
um it's showing that um in general fund expenditures why are salaries less from the budget from last year's that because of Early Childhood being taken out is that where that difference is exactly so we moved um 7 78 employees all of whom would be in
that category that have moved to their own fund as well as you know per the Dak the Dak really wanted to make sure that coaching was called out so there were several coaches who are classified as certified so for the dak's recommendation we move that to the instructional support category um as
well as some Library assistance which can kind of go both ways but we um correctly categorize those as well under instructional support and I guess just one last question thank you for your patience on the Early Childhood fund page where it
says our total expenditures are five million basically yes and tuition is $1,200 I'm curious of like where is it that
um we are running like such a deficit between tuition and total expenditures when you just like look at a regular program that is running most programs their total expenditures are being covered by
tuition and and they're paying rent so I'm just not quite understanding like why is our tuition only like a quarter of our expenditures where I understand our prices are a little bit lower than pre market but so you have to also lump
that state amount in there that $2.6 million is the upk that's Universal prek payments we get from the state so that is also tuition it just is coming from the state but you're right the transfer from the general fund that subsidy from the general fund is large and part of that is due to um we serve kids that
quite frankly aren't served as well at private daycare right we're we're taking kids on IEPs and providing specialized services and then health insurance is a big cost for us as so that state money is considered quote unquote tuition yeah
okay thank you thank you director after great thanks um first of all thanks for the um answer to my question in the board tracker I think that was a couple weeks ago now but I just saw it admittedly and it was really helpful and it um for the
other board members it asked about the implication of the school Finance act and I did not realize that it doesn't take effect until starting next fiscal year 25 26 right so good to know um thanks also for the helpful memo that came
along with this presentation today welcome that was um great to see thanks I have some I just wanted to focus my questions on the slide 25 the reserves can you talk a little bit about all the carryover that's coming from
curricular materials professional development school budget alloc in the education opportunity fund is that saying that that funding wasn't used in this current the current fiscal year and it's being carried forward into next next year exactly in all those categories yeah so curriculum materials
is Chief parks's Department a curriculum can be very lumpy in how you spend it it's not in even 500,000 year you might have to deploy a million dollars one year okay to implement new curriculum uh heavy PD with a new uh curriculum coming in and then it can kind of taper off
you'll see that e and flow um over the years school budget allocations uh we allow schools to carry over the discretionary funds from one year to the other so that they're able to redeploy funds they don't use this year for those schools next year um that has actually
come down that was over a million dollars a couple years ago and again from board prompting I think specifically director rir is saying they need to be spending that money they have spent um over half a million dollars in plan to spend more for the upcoming year um we set a Target you know some sort of
carryover around we'll say 25% so most schools that you know would be a $20,000 carryover it just allows them if great PD comes up or they need something you know there's some some opportunity that they can take advantage of they have that money saved without having to rely on the
district education opportunity fund those seed funds was originally $300,000 came from the 2021 Mill Levy override uh that was the part of the Ross funds that year as director Tyler pointed out and that's basically um
assistance in in helping rfsd staff get educated so yeah I remember getting a presentation on the education opportunity fund a few months ago is it are you feeling like it's unders subscribed given that out of 300K there's 240 being carried over um it's taken a little while to get off the
ground I think we're wrapping up the first this was the first semester of of payments which was about $55,000 so from here on out we should see more spending there is that a total amount that we have or is that is it supposed to be 300K a year or is it 3 right now we're
waiting to see what the Run rate is before there's some sort of ongoing investment so that will dwindle until some future decision is made on on how to fund that Perman and then what is scheduled use of reserves refer to that's just the total that's the sum of
those four um and then what do does the district think about it ahead of time or plan for what to do with unencumbered reserves or do we you mentioned a rainy day fund is that is that the plan for it I mean technically all reserves are rainy day
fund um you know the 3% Taber those are kind of like the things you touch Last Resort um I believe the way those work once you spend your table reserves like the first dollars you appropriate in your next budget have to repay those if I remember
correctly uh 10% policy Reserve you can go below that I think the board simply has to acknowledge that they understand they're going below that um and then unencumbered reserves are um really what they sound like you could buy more housing you could hire
more temporary workers you could do things that the board wants to do um anything that's on the Strategic plan is you there to be funded so how do how do you how does the district touch those do you come to the board and ask for permission to use the UNC Comber reserves I think as we're building a
budget um if we see a critical need that we need to get something done uh we would say you know these are areas that for investment that current Revenue won't cover is this something that the board feels comfortable spending reserves on um I know director Tyler's passionate about housing and finding
housing and we have talked at length around you know is that something you could use to support housing efforts um so those are all things that you know the board is more you know I think those those are great discussions for the finance committee to to talk about okay
um just one final question on that school budget allocation carryover so it sounds like you'd be happy with carrying over like half of the 500k that is sitting there I heard a teacher recently um I've heard this I think everyone's heard this before but I did just hear this maybe a month ago use
their own money to buy school supplies and um I feel like if we're sitting on some cash and that either that message isn't getting across but um yeah there's something there's a disconnect there that is real unfortunate either in the Optics of it or the reality of it yeah
and I think that you know that is is heartbreaking to hear because schools you know almost without exception have money so that teachers don't have to do that and we beat the drum from January on this year like if you have money people you know we don't
want to hear those stories because they shouldn't be happening especially when you consider that the district invested $300,000 this year in paying school fees Supply fees for children who are afro eligible that's another $300,000 that school's got like I don't think there is any scenario in which a teacher our
district should be buying yeah thanks I just want to reiterate the gratitude for the memo great job you guys I really appreciate um just how thorough we are um and also
just like thanks to the team for the incredible um push that we've done in finance to make sure that it's clear precise and um just
like even going through this PowerPoint presentation was really happy just being able to think like any family can come in here any teacher can come in here and understand and I really appreciate that commitment thank you um I wanted to just
follow up on some questions um in regards to the audits and what we've budgeted towards them um I believe we have three um there's a equity audit crashing number now there's the communications audit and there's the
sped program I'm just wondering um how those budget allocations were decided um and if we think we've budgeted enough in all of these sections is that because we've already seen proposals yeah so particular around the equity audit we
had originally bu budgeted closer to 100,000 and when actual uh bids began to come back around 45 we said hey now we can go ahead and fund the data work that's kind of been put on hold and is also critical to our strategic plan that's upcoming
awesome and then so thank you for that um and then I also just wanted to ask and this was more of a clarifying question so ECE has been pulled out now we have ECE as a standalone um other programs and like I again
appreciate how thorough we were um in this PowerPoint presentation and with the memo um but for the designated purpose Grant fund is are we saying that
the family Research Center the pre-collegiate program and um like mental health professionals all everything that was within this fund is that only funded through this fund or
are we pulling from somewhere else um I mean the almost the entire FRC is going to show up in here in one form or another they get a lot of local funding as well as um transfer transfer from the general fund the general fund does
support pre-collegiate and the FRC but each of these has its own like their budgets Within this budget right so there's an ears budget that says here's the number of people here's how we're spending it so on and so forth okay and where where is that in our general
fund um the what do you mean like where do where does that lie like that support for these programs yeah so in the transfers to other funds there's an a line item for 1.65 million so it goes out it shows as an outgoing from the
general fund and it shows as an incoming into that fund but it's not here I mean it's not listed here right now or it is yeah so if you go to slide 29 29 got it it's the last in the the
long box on the left it's the second to last line that says transer from General I see it okay so there's a corresponding that's an inflow there's a corresponding outflow in the general flow okay thank you you got the sun I know
go Fredy um just to Echo what director Ramirez said thank you I think that presentation you just gave having already heard a bunch of these things it was still just really well-crafted and I'm wondering if there is a plan to make that available this specific one that we
got tonight more publicly is it on the website um how could we share that I was working with uh Christina Vargas who then won on maternity leave so um we can certainly put it out there um I know it's not super easy to navigate through diligent um but we can certainly look at
putting it it just might be some value just again what director said it's very accessible and it's well organized and I don't think that that effort should go to waste when our our priority sometimes is transparency around these budgets so seeing that effort um and then just kind of at the very high level um director
after sort of touched on this but I had a couple questions I just wanted to say out loud where does Colorado rank um in per pupil funding for the nation um last I heard we 40 in it it depends on kind of which study
you look at we are definitely in the bottom half um one study ranked us 51 there's only 50 states so it's kind of you know but that was I think for wage that kind of takes in wages we can pay which is a funing thing and cost of
living um yeah I don't have a specific number it's it's still not really yeah it's really low and it's not something that our district has any control over when it comes to setting that per pupil amount right so what we can control locally is our M lby
overrides which we have maxed out we've done what we can locally um and now we're kind of it's up to the state so they have implemented the new funding formula which director after asked about that will put more money in um to our district for sure um one of the things
they did change which kind of offset some of that positive for us is they move the cost of living factor and cap it um I think they capped it at 23% if you're Aspen and it's that's basically two times the amount the cost ofing like they're I mean they're going to lose money they're
ask to lose $6 million so it offsets some of our gains we're net winners but um yeah removing the negative factor just allows us to start growing but we still have 12 years like a whole generation of students who've never been in a fully funded classroom yeah exactly
and I mean so it's taken as a state 10 million doll which is essentially what we spend in one year so we basically have forgone one year of Education funding since that was implemented yeah I think I just um I heard some conversations with local leaders that this is still not quite Landing that even though our property taxes have gone up and all these great
bills have been passed that that money is not going to be in front of us in our or let alone in our classrooms um even with the new school finance budget from mclusky it's like 2030 before that's fully implemented yeah and I think it's just I'm just saying it for the record I know I'm preaching to the choir here so
thank you well I think that's the next big step is to figure out a way to have boards cooperate and and Advocate at the state level for state level changes because as we say budgets reflect priorities when we're 40th in
the country and funding education I think that shows where the state's priorities are correct thank you thank you um I want to Echo the same thing that you just heard this was so well laid out I think breaking it down to per people dollars really makes it
conrete for people to understand that this is the rough percentage of money that's going towards each of these services and can allow you to put them next to each other engage their benefits um I just have one general question since I've been on the board our raises have outpaced inflation pretty
significantly so we're providing more for our employees than inflation um and we're doing that again this year just looked it up I think said 2023 it was 4% on average Nationwide I'm sure it was higher here but do you think that that's sustainable long term it seems like that is a trend
that we've been on for at least a few years now um which creates expectations and is that something that we can maintain and sustain I think that's a strategic discussion to have long term right I mean one of the
Strategic items or pillars is attract and retain and you do that generally through compensation and it's keeping up with your neighbors which aren't always the best because it's 178 different school districts all their funding looks different so it's kind of you know they still competing um but
it's not always the most useful metric um it there's just so many things that go into that um the state has been putting more money in Beyond inflation if it's ever inflation is the only Pro pup increase we get like it makes it
really hard because cost of utilities go up cost of gas goes all that stuff goes up and that what away what you have so um long-term probably not but don't have a crystal PA
yeah thank you so we'll move to five minutes of open discussion anyone has anything else on this sorry I don't want to read on on this but I um I'm wondering Chief Markham on page
29 um where it says the total State total federal and then transfer from General en is that supposed to equal 5,000 I mean 5 million is that what we're adding yeah so you also need to make sure you include the local funds above of 1.57
million got it okay just two more follow-ups so there was a couple questions I didn't get to on that form so if you just have a chance to throw something in there yeah when you get a chance that would be great and I too would like to say I really appreciated the layout of it one
thing that of the presentation and how the budget's been laid out to make it easy to understand I was wondering if it'd be possible when there was like other services if there can be some more um detail about that it's like when it says
other services $1.5 million that seems like a pretty big other yeah and so if there could be a little bit more detail with what that other is that would be helpful yeah certainly would you like that in the presentation I feel like typically that's something that would be in the write up where you kind of go
through more much more granular um not necessarily line by line but here's the big things you see in there or would you like it in a presentation more of a summary format I guess just like in this presentation that we just had when it says others there might be a parenthesis
that says bosies slash whatever else that other is okay I mean this I wanted to tell you that like this feedback is really helpful because what you've seen Chief Markham do is you know I think some of the first iterations of these live decks
you didn't have that narrative that has been so helpful so this is good for us to like think oh gosh we missed that you know tried to capture those pieces and say oh this means these positions but the others I think something that you know it's built into the new timeline that I
mentioned earlier but I think my first year here I'll say second because the first year was the first year Co and that was its own thing [Music] um but really trying to start with in January here's what revenues are looking
like showing an update of revenues at the next meeting with kind of and gradually building on and I think that's where at one of those work sessions like really diving into like here's only we say other providing that detail and then it's there and again you're kind of building up a story over the course of
multiple months that first year it's here's your two readings and it's a 60-page document and you're like oh my gosh like I have no choice but to say yes to this otherwise we don't have school and I'm not like so I think your point is well taken and you know definitely something we can add to the um taking time to go into that detail
and then leaving that call out as the budget progresses and I think just from a finance committee perspective you know we have had conversations now where we want to get more into a Cadence of going through the budget at an earlier time so
that we can be um having some of these conversations and bringing them back to the board with more time ahead of approving the the budget um I I think that's a commitment that we all share of you know moving
forward making sure that we bring in the deck that we um are uh you know giving ourselves enough time to review and to bring forth what we think is really necessary for you guys to see during the presentation so that way we can help
answer questions um you know and we're not all trying to figure out how to ask questions at the end um I did have one question about the dean of culture for some reason and maybe I'm wrong and I apologize if I'm wrong but did we not
have a dean of culture in all of our schools now wasn't that part of this um there're in all the middle and high schools but not in the elementary elementary elementary but yeah I don't think anybody well doesn't GSS have yeah GS has budgeted that on um this year they
do I think next year they've changed that to a prevention specialist position okay double check but from District finding mle yeah okay good to know thank you all we're good that's it yeah no vote second
we'll vote at our next meeting thank you the next business order is action on the proposed 2425 student fees do I have a motion to approve the proposed 2425 student fees I move that we approve the proposed
2425 student fees is there a second I second we'll now have two minutes discussion for each board member and five minutes of open discussion director defres do you have any questions or comments on student fees um just comments that I
appreciate as a mother of three students um in elementary school that I get a flat rate of what I can send to the school that's going to help them and that the teachers are able to address Equity issues by Distributing supplies in the classroom that allow all the students sitting in the same room to succeed equally I know that there's
parents who have a vision of how School prep used to go go for them and what they would buy and what they would bring but I I appreciate our District's move um to have standard fees that that supply all those students with what they need dror
tler I maybe just have two questions I think the first one was how are we as a district communicating this to parents because I know there was a lot of confusion like why do I have this fee as a parent and how much is that fee and there was I
know at least at the high school last year a lot of questions about fees and has there been some kind of communication that's been clearing that up we've been working on that all year yeah it wasn't a it wasn't a clean roll out of this process which you remember
actually started this past year across the board some of our schools did a much better job with communication and we've learned um what works better and what doesn't and so I think it was it it was quite a significant change for some of our schools and programs and so we've
really tried to be a lot more deliberate this year about checking in with Finance Specialists making sure they understand making sure the communications are ready when we come back in August so it's been tricky and I think one of the things that makes it really hard and is going to continue to make it really hard is
the way the federal like school lunch program works and the eligibility requirements from like the direct certification process that happened the fact that we still need kind of free and reduced lunch eligible numbers it's still quite confusing for folks um
so it's it's very tricky and we are I mean we we were having meetings this week and planning more meetings coming up to kind of continually continually strengthen Communications on this um because it it is it's quite um complex
in the way we are able to wave fees and that families really have to authorize us to do that and that is tricky and it yeah it's confusing well I'm glad that that is being better communicated yeah I think it's gon to take a while but we get
there and then as far as I'm maybe still questioning or not understanding a little bit because the idea that I'm seeing on this fee parameters is talking about like we can only be using it for these certain things and it can't be
used for copy paper and all of that that it says but my what I'm hearing like them from the at least the middle school is that there are no student supply lists we're just going to pay for it out of our general fund and is that something
that is a school decision then on how they're doing that or is that across the board so it's a little tricky our expectation with the fees is that there would parents would not be asked to bring notebooks consumables pencils they wouldn't be expected to go buy things
that that the the school is then purchasing any any sort of materials markers crays um for students especially at the elementary middle school level um where historically and it's so different and I think this was part of the inequity was that we had schools that
would post supply lists we had schools that would charge fees and it was incredibly inconsistent and so the challenge is very unique in um making the shift to this level of consistency is different for every single School based on what they've done historically
and what their family expect um and so there is there is definitely some like change management work that we're doing with different schools everybody needs something a little different to get on board with this um in the way that they think about supplies and materials but to director
to fr's point it is it is really about Equity it's about um consistency and um not putting the onus of these materials um on individual parents to go shopping
and that's what I was understanding it I guess I'm just questioning where your cursor is right now on that line where it says fees is at the top of page two of the gotcha there there is
some so some of these rulings like this do align to the board policy on fees which states things like fees will not like some of this use of fees came directly from the board policy and I apologize I'm not sure which one that is right now but we can certainly look it up um but there is alignment and to be
honest where it says supply list may include these items as optional when we wrote this we were still trying to make it somewhat of an option for schools if they wanted to stick with supply lists right so I guess that's where my confusion is so like are
we saying there's supply list or there's not supply list and if there's not supply list should that even be there that paragraph It's a good catch there should I mean we're at the point now where we were kind of um doing an A nudge last year we're expecting this much more consistently across the board
this year and so we probably should I don't think we scrubbed for that language that yeah this our expectation is that there are not supply lists moving into 24 okay so that's just something that needs to be updated yeah okay thank you so we're voting on this tonight are you proposing that we strike so I do suppose that we would
strike um probably that first bullet point the whole first bullet point or would you like to strike the clause and supply lists will not include should just say well I just think that first part that says fees will not be used for
and supply lists will not include and if we're saying that there's not going to be supply list I don't think that that part should be there also we have to be really clear about this since we're voting on it um so I propose that we strike from the
header use of fees these three words and supply list so it would read fees are to benefit the instructional program fees will not be used for non-instructional supplies such as Kleenex choric wipes Etc and we
should be striking this comma and supply list will not include and this additional comma and then the following two sentences that make sense can someone with editing access strike those so that the board can see it did I do that think we need to be give Ed access
or if you just want to oh it's up here so we can see it up here um it's the very top of page two right use the cas okay so strike and supply list from that header up a line yeah up one more line
after right after use of fees and then in the next one I would unri you got to strike the first comma fees will not be used for strike that comma strike and ply list will not include strike the second comma and then unst strike non-instructional items such
as Kleenex clarx wipes Etc so should just read these will not be used for non-instructional items or non-instructional supplies because that aligns with policy right yeah both the last sentences the
last two sentences should both be struck we do a quick search for supply lists anywhere else in this document under Elementary under elementary and middle schools the value of items included on the supply list same under high schools
also under notification of Fe which is up at the top and then under Fe parameters there's one more mention it say parameters and supply lists will be approved annually by the Board of Education
it's all the way at the very top thanks miss it yeah director after do you have anything else uh yeah do you find that the athletic fee is a limiting factor to students participating it's higher than I thought it would be say that again sorry can you ask
question sorry uh athletic fees uh seem a little seem high to me do you think those are those fees limit participation even though I see that frl folks are getting 50%
waved um you know I don't know that it's it's been a barrier to participation I think Athletics are tricky um as a district we have a very minimal
investment in athletic programming um our athletic directors feel strongly that students participating do have an investment a financial investment for the team and the equipment and the materials and the refs and the buses and um it's been
pretty stable at this amount for as long as I think I can at least the last couple years um and I would certainly say that I know our athletic directors work really closely with kids and families who find this a barrier um and
and have really tried to find creative ways to minimize the cost of that but I I do think that there is a gigantic Pandora's Box about Athletics and our investment in them um that that we could open at some
point okay um as with many things I am confused about how the fees here relate to Charter Schools which have totally different fee structure at least CCS I just on their
website $595 fees for this year um per student to what extent do we have any say or leverage or anything with when it comes to CC or to the Charter Schools fees I think two rivers actually is not charging fees but they do have supply
lists on their website under current contract we have little influence um when that contract comes up for renegotiation I think it's something we could certainly put on the table that we would like that to be an area where our Charters aligned to our board policy and practices
or you know I think that's something that we could negotiate through that next process but right now we don't it's it's not an area where we have an influence or control thanks dror Ramirez thanks um in the high school section um
and I'm not sure if we updated that but it says Supply material fees activity fees the value of items included on the classroom supply list we struck that okay so I just Supply material fees that's
what we're saying 180 per unit and I just want to make sure we're we're I'm assuming that if the student is free reduced lunch that there is support from it's all waved if the
parent if the actually let me categorize that if a a student and family is frl eligible and they would like those benefits to extend to school fees then they're entirely waved okay and we as a district pay the school for that
180 got it so I guess my um ask then of you and the team and I'm glad that we're do we're looking at this policy prior to next school year is along the lines of what director Tyler was saying of making sure that we're
sharing this with families as soon as possible and with staff because like we all know depending on the school that we're going to there are supply lists there are expectations of just writing a check there are expectations of cleanex
boxes and I I mean I understand that you know that is how we we've had this process but I think many of us are used to that process and assume that that is what is going to be the process for next year and so the sooner that we're able to send this out to families whether
it's a press release whether it's a push you know at the first week of August I just think it's super important because some families like they start saving money for some of these supplies now and so you know this I think this is amazing work I really appreciate the dedication
from our team to make sure that our students and families are supported and that um we're taking this um what some would consider a burden for them off of their plate and I I do appreciate that
commitment I just want to make sure that we're communicating as much as possible on the front end so that we don't end up in a situation where families weren't aware and for whatever reason schools shared supply list or whatever
and then you know we have duplication of items that we didn't need thank you I don't have any questions or concerns about this one last edit we need to delete the and in the third bullet under high school and elementary
and middle delete that and and comma and add a period to be consistent I appreciate having the communication language highlighted for the schools and I hope that they utilize that it goes out
um yeah we can't see we still can't see if you scroll up to the we can't see it on our end so if you scroll up it's also under elementary and middle oh you got it okay great five minutes of open discussion if anyone has anything just Pig you back in
on what director ramir said about come August or whatever for supply list I think it's also important that we send something out now because families are going to be shopping for supply lists and even often before like they get their official list or whatever they're
going to go out and buy no more official lists right right so okay so but before a list would come yeah that maybe just a communication that there will be no list we're not delinquent getting the list out but there will be no list this year no list is coming your way elementary
got that to all of us before the end and then that's the only reason I was like oh yeah I know about this and then one more question on the notes at the bottom of this parameters list I'm a little bit I have some questions about that as far as like it seemed like in
the second half of it said we will in 23 24 explore did we explore and what did we come up with and so that language seems a little bit questionable yeah we did not um we did not get they got have the capacity to follow up on this and
sort through um the the AP costs or outdoor education costs above and beyond um it became kind of a capacity issue in terms of being able to do that so we can absolutely
update or delete the notes because we haven't done that work um you know I think there are some really deep questions that this always brings up for a lot of us around we're in the business of public
education should we be doing this anyway like why are there fees anyway um and I think that extends to things you know like are we not I mean we we just talked about school um discretionary budgets that have rollover so and we talked
about you know Chief Markham was very clear about the the belief that we have that we are appropriately funding our classrooms for the materials that they need and so um I think there are questions that we need to be asking as a
district around APS around outdoor education around you know I think we all agree conceptually that if something is part of core programming right that is core requirements for graduation there ought not to be a fee for that and so I
think then it begs those questions when it comes to AP tests when it comes to outdoor education are those core program commitments and if so why why is this I I just think we got to Grapple with those things and I think these questions
maybe similar to Athletics open up some really big conversations about who we are and what is core to what we do and um to what extent Is our commitment to these programs like AP like outdoor education and I would say especially the
AP because the way counselors are going to be talking to students you should be taking this AP class and if the counselor is suggesting that the student be taking that then I think we do need to look at that as where's the cost basis and especially if we're looking at our
frl saying pretty much those are being covered in all other areas but not this and I don't know if we can make a change to this at this point for next year coming up yeah can we update the language then to reflect that you guys will work on this next week we can for sure yeah for
sure we could also just add language at the end that said say this work was not completed in 23 24 this work will be continued into 2526 no we don't have to or 2425 I kind of like that for am that way we don't have to go through and edit the whole paragraph everybody good with that okay
yes any other comments questions on this one are there any intervening motions to amend okay I make motion oh go ahead you got it my voice is going away anyways is this a policy or what do I call it the student fee parameters I
move that we adopt the student fee parameters as amended no yes yeah well do you have a motion to amend it first so we need a motion I can do it I make a motion that we amend the student the 2425 student Fe parameters to include the edits that were completed in the
document on the screen um which generally deleted all reference to supply lists and added the extension for completion of the work noted at the bottom of the document my second can we call the vote director
defres hi director titler hi director after hi director Ramirez hi director kolenberg I motion passes the next business in order is board reports and comments we'll begin with director after
uh not much to report I uh I'm sorry I wasn't able to attend the Colorado Department of Education visit this week uh or the finance committee meeting last week um my work uh has been all consuming recently I did want to call
people's attention to the um a new report that just came out this week from the Aspen institute's parachute to um parachute Aspen I'm blanking on the name of the initiative they have but um they uh
their recent uh just released state of play report for the Colorado River and Ro Fork Valley which has some interesting findings about the um the uh level of act outdoor activity and other
like sports related engagement um in for our kiddos as well as re2 and Garfield 16 School District um so it's got some interesting stuff in there that I think is um I hope people can take a look at least at the executive summary if not
the 60-page report at some point in the summer cheor R thanks had to look at my agenda to what I've done um so I had a follow-up meeting with the federal relations
Network um to talk up about our visit in September it's going to happen September 9th um it's going to be a one- day visit it's going to be half day um we have a board finance committee scheduled right
now 10 tentatively on that day so we might want to update that on our calendars um we're I'm spoking with Anna on what that day could look like and I have a follow-up
meeting next week with the um committee again just to follow up how our stateboard meeting went um they really want to use utilize one of our school buses um they want to visit mwood and they're very excited to come out here
and bring all of our um state and federal legislators who are going to um come and participate in that day um we also had finance committee again thanks to Chief mark for all of his work um from that meeting to this one on uh
prepping those slides that really helped answer some of our initial questions and then really dived into um director after's question on equity and how we're budgeting for that um over the weekend and
specifically on Monday um I had my town hall where we had um it was in Spanish for families and so thank thank you to the school district for providing interpretation for families um thank you to Ana for um being the the person in
the room who used the device I think it was truly a experience for not just the families but for us to experience what that really felt like for it to be theirs and um you know there were a lot of topics covered um a
lot of concerns covered um a lot of experiences the family shared and so I just want to like reiterate those thanks that anah shared in the beginning um that like without family input we we assume what we know is happening
in schools but it really matters to hear it from their perspective their lived experience um and then thank you again to our team for all of their leadership for the state board meeting we had that yesterday here it was really awesome to
have the State Board here to show off the district um to be able to engage with them about all of the needs that we have and quite frankly to hear from all the other districts on um where how they see
us we're their ASP so it was very interesting for me um but I also think it was a really a really good step forward in the right direction because I think we all were able to solidify that the
impact that we have on each other is real um and that it's it is really affecting us whether it you know it's teachers recruitment housing all of it is playing a huge role in this so I just
really appreciate having our team lead that be in charge of it be present made us look great thank you for that work and and um you know it was amazing to to have that experience as a board member
of like we had them here we had CDE here um San Cordova is here to be able to look at our schools in the valley in the corridor to see our housing project thank you to Ben for hosting that it was really uh I was just so proud so
thanks I don't know how that turned into a thanks direct director at De bres um I joined Dr Cole and director Ramirez at the Glenwood city council some other things that were on your agenda last [Laughter]
week um to begin the conversation around shared funding uh with the SRO and Mental Health Services I think Dr Cole put it well when she she identified that these issues don't necessarily fall squarely within the parameters of either the school district or the city but that
the consequences of ignoring them will fall squarely on all of our heads and that they are important to to look for collaborative ways forward I think that it just highlighted to me um the need to continue to support Dr Cole's work with those local governments and the
communities um we fall into a rut on the school board and in education of assuming that people know what we know and it just happens wherever you are with and a lot of the assumptions of of just how things run and why they are the way they are specifically around funding and I think we just need to remember
remember that that story is not that widely known outside of Education circles about what we're looking at with a lot of the budget constraints we just discussed earlier um and so I think that I'm I'm looking forward to continuing to support that work with those local government stakeholders um and
especially working with the county to recognize the significant role that they can play especially with their Department of Public Health um as it relates to what is an unquestionable Mental Health crisis in our youth so um I appreciate it her words and her effort to build relationships and to stand up
and meet um people with as I think you were identifying quite well Dr Cole last time you saw me I was interim and and you had to remind them like no I'm actual superintendent again just those relationship pieces are so important I think you did a fantastic job and I appreciate it being there with you and I hope I didn't make your job any
harder director Tyler uh I'll start with the Bose's board we've been meeting every month with a group here at the District trying to figure out what it is that we're wanting from bosis and to put me in a
position to be able to represent us at our Bose's meetings we just passed our budget for bosies after asking them to come back with some more detailed numbers for us and so we've also trying to work with them on getting
them to help us with our enrollment and try try to make sure that we're recognizing when enrollment is necessary and making sure that we're approving that enrollment and then next in two weeks is going to be a retreat for bosies in which a bunch of different
issues and thoughts are going to be discussed and so that'll be in a couple weeks and we'll be able to have a recap on that um the other one I wanted to recap is last week at our Meadowwood
meeting there was we talked about budget a little bit and what's happening with the budget of our our building and first of all it's going really well there's two different um contingencies that we have within our building there's an
owner's contingency that is our contingency for other things that we would want or need to pay for and then there's a builder contingency and the Builder contingency is where they're taking money out from when something unexpected happens along the way um there's a very positive
Builder contingency at this point it seems like there will be most probably some kind of refund coming back to us from the building contingency and there was talk about a letter being written that they're looking at refunding at this point and saying that your owner's
contingency that you have on this project you can earmark for other areas that that owner conting contingency that we've been holding on to up until this point should be able to be released to us so that's great news they've done a great job of keeping on Pace and on
budget thank you feel like this happens to me every time that I can't think of anything specific that I need to report out well while I also feel like I've devoted a fair amount of time to outside of this meeting so um if I'm missing something
Dr Cole from our meetings let me know but I haven't had any other committee meetings in the last couple of weeks since we met I really appreciate everybody that was able to participate this week with the State Board I'm sorry that I wasn't able to be there so we'll now move on to
board appreciations we'll start with director Ramirez if you have anything else to say I know your report turned into an appreciation sorry okay um yeah I want to appreciate
um the students who showed up at the Town Hall um I think that as parents we have a lived experience within our schools and um as board members we have an experience in the schools but I think
there was something special about having having student voice and student experience at the Town Hall I think it takes a lot to have your mom sort of corner you and bring you along and sort of force you to share your experience um but I also think that just having
students being able to share whether it was an alumni experience a sister experience um or like a current experience like it it was so interesting to me and I I just appreciated
the courage and the vulnerability of those students um who are willing to share and you know I just want to again give thanks to our team um everyone at the deal who put out snacks put out
caffeine um everyone who um helped it be a success um and I you know I really just can't thank our team enough for that opportunity and I look forward to hosting the federal relations Network
and um casby and all of the delegation in September um because I think now we know that we can do these type of things and I hope we do it more often Dres um I want to appreciate all of the
organizations that are putting together childcare over the summer um a lot of local ones have stepped up this year I'm finding personally far more options for my kids than I've been there in the past and I know that some of that comes from um just people who have a really deep passion for providing
that care for children um so that's my appreciation as for all those groups Georgia tler I would like to appreciate teachers who many of whom are on their summer break but a lot of them also who are taking classes for
continuing education I know there's lots of classes that have been going on throughout the district I know there's a big cohort of people who went over to Western in Gunnison and just to all those who are continuing to educate themselves and make
themselves better teachers thank you director after um I don't have anything else to add tonight um and I would like to it's pride month so I would like to appreciate everyone with an our schools
and all the local organizations that help to make our schools a safe and welcoming space for all of our students staff and families um and specifically P flag for all the work that they've done and advocacy that they've done um in the
past year we've spent guess has it been a year almost a year a year ago it's about a year ago um we had a number of doctors show up we had um clergy members show up we just had so many supportive voices and so
just thanking them for their support and communities up and down the valley and uh the meaningful work that they do for our students and families and staff okay one more item the next business in order is an executive session pursuant to section 24-6
4024a CRS for the purpose of discussing the purchase acquisition lease transfer or sale of any real personal or other property interest specifically the potential purchase of real property for the purpose of employee housing do I have a motion to move into executive session I make a motion to move into
executive session I move that the Board of Education move into executive session pursuant to section we need to say all that huh 24-6 d 4024 a CRS for the purpose of discussing the purchase acquisition lease transfer or sale of
any real personal or other property interests specifically the potential purchase of real property for the purpose of employee housing can you please in invite inviting rco and our superintendent inviting superintendent
anac Cole and Chief Operating Officer Ben Boma I have a second a second I'll in favor say I I I hi the board will now move into executive session inviting Chief bonf and chief
Mark all right we need to remove into executive session Chief Markham are you joining us in executive session okay we need to remove into executive session inviting all three okay so reading the whole thing again I can read it I move that the Board of Education move into executive session
pursuant to section 24-6 4024 ACS for the purpose of discussing the purp purchase acquisition leash transfer or sale of any real personal or other property interest specifically the potential purchase of real property for the P purpose of employee housing inviting chief bonfol chief Markham and
Dr Cole do I have a second second all in favor say I I hi the board will now move into executive session the time is 8:08 pm e e e
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if there is no objection and no fur this further business this meeting will be adjourned it's 8:51 p.m.