Hey, Jonathan. Hello. We'll be starting momentarily. Hello. Can you hear me? Okay. Yes. Perfect. Your haircut looks nice. We're live
streaming right now. Oh, okay. Hello. Hi. Can you hear me? Hello everybody. We're live streaming already, so we're just going to get started as soon as uh Jasmine and Katherine show. Is my audio working?
Yes. You can hear me, Jonathan? Yes, I can. Kenny, thanks. I'm going to step away for a moment. I'll be right back. And do you have Oh, do you have me as a presenter? Yes.
We're already live streaming, so we're just waiting a couple minutes for Katherine and Jasmine. While we're waiting, uh, Jonathan, I just show um chat, raise hand, show captions, and interpretation. So, where
does it say to share screen? Share should be between raise hand and show captions. Okay, I do not have that on my on my screen, Christy. It looks like it's a little green box. Yeah, maybe you need to maximize your screen
or something. Okay, I just maximized it. There's no room between raise hand and show captions. It's on the bottom, right? Correct. Okay. Yeah.
Anna, if if you need to share, can you just go ahead and share? Do you need me to send or do have it? I can I can absolutely do that, Christie. Um, in fact, while we're just waiting, I'll go ahead and try. Um, and then
you can tell me um, you know, like you can tell me which which page. Does that make sense? Yep. My screen. Yes. Okay. Does that Does that work? And then you just tell me where to go. Yeah, that'll work. Just
Yeah. Perfect. Perfect. Perfect. We'll just plan to do that if we need to, you know, go to that. Okay. Cool. Okay. So, we're ready. Um I don't know if if Director Kenberg's joining. Um Director RmIrez. Good afternoon, everyone. Uh,
Director Clberg might be jumping in a little later today. So, we'll see if we can get this done quickly and we'll just go ahead and start without her. Great. You ready for us to jump on? Okay, I'm
ready when you're ready. Right. Thank you, team. Good evening, everyone. I call this meeting to order at 5:02 p.m. Present tonight uh we have director after director Titler director defraes meaning we have a quorum. Thank you to our interpreter Rodrigo. Would you
please share the interpretation instructions with our participants and then we can turn on the interpretation function. We're good to go. Awesome. The first business in order is the approval of the agenda. Directors, are there any proposed changes to the
agenda? Okay. Do I have the motion to approve the agenda as presented? I make Go ahead, Kenny. I make a motion to approve the agenda as presented. I'll second. All in favor?
I I I motion passes. The next business in order is the approval of the 2526 budget. Do I have a motion to approve the 2526 budget? I move we approve the 2526 budget as
presented. Do I have I second. Okay. We will now have two minute discussion for each board member and five minutes of open discussion. Should we start? I I'll just start like we usually do. Director DeFreeze, would
you like to start? Can I just mention one thing? Um, if you don't have your camera on, people won't be seeing you on the video. Just as an FYI. Um, see,
not sure I see the camera option either on here. Bottom left video right next to audio. Nope. It just says audio. It does not give me that option. Just has audio.
I think it's okay. As long as I can hear our voice, right? It's gonna Okay. Okay. My apologies. Okay. Uh, director, did you want to go first? Um, I don't think I have any additional questions or comments besides what we've covered in uh, public
meetings and work sessions over the past four months. appreciation to the staff for bringing us to this point. Director Titler, uh much the same as Director Drades. Just no further questions, but I want to say thank you to all the work that has
gone into this and especially to Chief Shakcoin for the countless hours that she has devoted to this and I hope that you find a little bit of respit from the long hours that you've been putting in. Thank you
director after. Great. Thanks. I don't have any questions. I did want to um just comment that I really appreciated the long narrative that the team put together along with the budget document. Um and I hope if anyone is watching this, they take the time to go read
that. That's about 20 pages, but it gives a really wholesome summary of the situation that we have found ourselves in and the master class that this team put together in fixing a lot of the errors to the extent that they could while also being um conservative and
realistic about uh the ones we'll face in the future. Um and it really is a helpful document in understanding school finance in Colorado and how it affects our students. And um so Dr. Nicole and Christy, I just wanted to commend you for that and thank you also for um
making it clear some of the different categories that we've been asking for. Um I just am really grateful to the work that you put into that document and hope that if folks are interested in this topic, they take a moment to go to go
and read it. I don't have any questions. Thanks team. I wanted to echo that sentiment. I really appreciated um uh the letter uh from the superintendent and the CFO. Um I don't believe that was
just something that was added before. I might be wrong, but I definitely appreciated um the what I'm sure was a lot of time and investment on your end um to make sure that um this document was um not
only like thorough um but that any person in our community could look at this document and understand the process that this team went through over the last couple of years. and in an effort to um to do
better than than we have in the past. So, I really appreciate this commitment. I really appreciate um the dedication of our team. I appreciate the letter. I think this is a good practice that we have uh moved into. And um I look
forward to uh the work that we're going to continue to do when it comes to our budget and the conversations that will continue to happen. And um I just wanted to to note I appreciated the timeline and and you know I know that we're going to strive um to have this done by
our last schoolboard meeting, regular schoolboard meeting uh in future years. So thank you team for your hard work and dedication to to go through this and all that's to come. Okay,
we will now move oops into our five minutes. Do any uh other board do any of the board members have any further questions or comments? I guess I would also like to just echo the sentiment of the narrative and how
important the narrative is for understanding beyond the numbers. And then also just to say a thank you for the way that the tees have been crossed and the eyes have been dotted and that there's a much more thorowness to the whole budget
process this time through and it's an easier to understand and it seems like I feel more confident this time passing a budget that everything is included in the budget as opposed maybe
to past year. I feel good about it. So, thank you. I was wondering um Christie and Dr. Cole, is there anything you need from us besides just approving this tonight? Like, is there is there anything that you want to ask of the the board that we
are already in dialogue on as we wrap up this year and go into next? I my only take would be and then maybe Christie if you have other thoughts is we really it's really helpful to hear the feedback of like the letter really helped the narrative really helped you know if there are things that you also
think would be helpful moving forward um that you would like to see um while it's fresh we would welcome that feedback absolutely and I think the only thing that we need to do is make sure to to get the budget approved at this point
and um the only thing that I would have to add is that we I have not made any changes to this budget based upon the last version you've seen. So, just so you're aware that this is the exact these are the exact numbers we've talked about and um and so yeah, I'm just
grateful for all of your feedback and uh look forward to the next year where we really engage the finance committee as we move forward in um additional conversation about the final presentation of the budget and the budget process. Thanks Christine. I think it's really
important for us as a team also to be mindful especially in a year uh or past years that we've had in reviewing the budget. you know that our budget is obviously a reflection of the values of the district and of the board and what we hope to accomplish and also uh the
fact that we can always bring the budget back if needed to update it or um you know make corrections or or um find areas in which we feel as a board we need to further uh invest moving
forward. So, I think this was a really good um place for us to get on the right foot moving forward. Um and just like as we look into finance committee and trying to get onto a better timeline, I
think I think we all feel at a better place uh and what we're working with and the numbers that we're working with moving forward. So I appreciate really truly the the year we've had uh for the learning curve for all of us because I
think it has been such a good uh learning opportunity for all of us to get to know our budget better. So, thank you team. And speaking on that, Chief um Chief, no, that would be director Ramirez. Um I would like to say I like the idea of
what you were bringing up is it seems like in budget years it of past and maybe even including this one has been so much based on the numbers and what it is and really not having so much of that discussion about how budget should be
based and how budget should be used. And that has been a topic that hasn't been discussed very much. And I think that could be a better not a better, but I think that would be a good conversation for the board to be part of as we move forward is how is budget used and how is
budget allocated and there's been very little I feel of that part of the discussion and that would be a good conversation to continue as we feel we're more locked in on the actual numerical part of the budget. Thank you, Director Tyler. Any further
comments, questions? No. Okay, Jonathan, if you can call for a vote, please. Director After. Hi, Director Defrdes. Hi. to director
Ramirez. I director Titler I perfect. So I believe that's it. If there's no further business and there is no objection, the be meeting will now be adjourned. It is 5:12 p.m.
Bye.