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good that was the best part Lindsay we Nathan's kind of last day in the office was today so we went to the Smithy e e I'll give a few minutes for director after they get here
has anyone confirmed she's coming tonight I'll text her awesome looks like Betsy join are we ready to jump into this meeting we have Betsy
here I'm here okay team are we ready good evening I call this meeting to order at 6:15 is that that's your time 6:15 pm um present tonight are directors titler
director after director def frees um thank you to our interpreter ASD would you please share the interpretation instructions with our participants and then we can turn on the interpretation function perfect thank you so much the first business in order is the approval of the agenda directors are there any proposed
changes to the agenda seeing as there are none do I have a motion to approve the agenda as presented I move to approve the agenda as presented I second all in
favor I I motion passes the next business in order is the approval of the consent agenda which includes routine personnel and minutes from our previous board meeting directors are there any items that you would like to pull off the consent agenda for a separate discussion and
vote hearing none do I have a motion to approve the consent agenda I move that we approve the consent agenda have a second I second please call to a
vote director Tyler hi director after hi director Ramirez hi director def fres hi thank you the next business in order is act
proposed 2024 budget do I have a motion to approve the proposed 2425 budget I move that the board approve the proposed 2425 budget as presented I second I'm we will now have two minutes
discussion for each board member and five minutes Open disc discussion and we actually have a presentation from Chief Markham that integrates some of the board director's questions so I wonder if we want to start with that yeah let's go ahead thank you
okay right let me share let me share my screen here so everybody can see it all right can everybody see that all right perfect um so tonight is the final of three reads for the
2425 uh school year budget for RO Fork School District um format for tonight is very similar to what it's been like for the last couple presentations to try and keep some consistency we review some budget assumptions go quickly over the general
fund as well as some of the other funds uh there is a very detailed write up um along with this presentation that was a part of the board packet this past weekend funded pup count for the district is 5,717 students of that 530 attend
Charter Schools authorized by the district district and another 5,187 go to District run schools the pro people funding as determined by the school Finance Act is $2,172 and the total program funding from the school Finance Act is just shy
of 7 million at 69.6 million you can see our net assessed valuation um is budgeted to go up I think it's 1% and the total estimated Mill Levy for the next year to operate the school district is 43.4 49 and you can see that Mill
will generate a total of $79 million uh from local property taxes okay next slide here gives an overall view of the entire um employees that we expect to have at uh the r Fork
School District FTE stands for full-time equivalent so you can see we have just shy of 830 employees budgeted for this does not count athletic coaches or extracurricular uh volunteers or coaches um those are also um kind of semi positions that we have throughout the
year you can see how those positions break down across uh fund and by different program area with 63% of our positions being focused on Direct instruction and another um nine and a half% on student
support raises for all staff are budget at 6 and a qu% plus the applicable benefits and raises for the ex teamer budget at 5 and a qu% plus the applicable benefits real quick through general fund Revenue this has been pretty steady
through all the presentations we've done so far in this cycle um a little bit more on general fund most Revenue that comes into this fund is co-mingled together and they provide for the general operations of the district the exceptions are and the reason their exceptions either they dictated by
accounting guidance or by CDE guidance uh react funding pays for specific K2 literacy or sorry K3 literacy uh interventions special education both federal and state pay for part of our special education programs English language proficiency act supports
specific positions within the district related to English language learning um Universal pre- funding it's tied to the number of prek students enrolled and supports that program specifically and remember that um those amounts um are budgeted to be in fund 19
this year and not part of the general fund but you will still see them on a historical basis and then Medicaid reimbursements those flow into the general fund and are passed through to our designated purpose Grant fund and they'll support our Elementary Middle School family aison again just a quick summing of our
total program funding as determined by the Colorado legislature 5,77 funded pupils which is our account that's the work we do internally against the per pupil funding 12, $172 that's determined by the state gives us total programming funding of
69,500 uh three different funding mechanisms are used to pay for that $ 69.6 million the first is local property taxes so we will Mill for that the board will approve a mill Levy uh which is fixed
they'll do that in December and it will go into effect February of 25 and that's expected to raise 47.1 million local specific ownership tax is estimated based on historical Trends it's basically car uh registrations is a large part of that and then whatever
those two don't raise the state back fills and it's called State Equalization and we expect that to be$ 20.6 million next year other local funding um the largest source for that is our M ofy overrides uh the voters have been very generous um
in our district approving a max out M Levy override and next year we'll raise $18 million to support students and teachers in our district uh that's $3,148 per pupil we don't collect it on a per pup per pupil basis but we like to show it um to kind of give everybody a
sense of size and and what those amounts are um in addition to the mlos there's additional specific ownership taxes uh interest on delinquent taxes and interest on invested Cash State funding this has remained pretty stable throughout our process as well um this is where you'll see a lot
of specific program support like I mentioned just earlier so react uh transportation we fill out a form every year and the state reimburses a portion of our uh reimbursable miles it's basically the miles and the money we spend getting students to and from school so athletic trips extracurricular
trips activity trips aren't a part of that reimbursement um so that's a process to go through and sort that out special education funding provides uh funds to support our sped programs uh we get two sources one is here under State and one is from the federal government in addition to that the
district supplements those amounts with general fund spending as well and then uh Alpa or English language proficiency funds okay Federal funding um this is the smallest liver uh when you break it down by Source in our general fund
Revenue budget it's 2% of total general fund Revenue uh it's $2 million even and it's about $343 per pupil the largest source is um idea and special education support as well as the Medicaid reimbursements so now we'll quickly run
through expenditures for the general fund um these might look a little different from before if you're comparing numbers but uh the substance is the same I went through there was quite a few changes um particularly at the school LEL us um schools are
rounding out their staff and finalizing positions within the schools so you can see we're contemplating a total expenditure budget of $ 83.3 million which is an increase of 1.2 million that's an increase despite moving our early childhood
education program out of this fund for 2425 so the 2324 includes Early Childhood 2425 does not salaries and benefits are just shy of 84% which is typical not just for our district for for school districts across
the the state our biggest investment is in our people uh which is ultimately an investment in our in our students the general fund will employ 673 people and as I just mentioned Early Child load has been moved out here's a quick breakdown of uh bu
position uh you can see the line share certified teachers uh and then the classified instruction would be things like uh pair of professionals particularly within our sped program so some strategic Investments we're looking forward to in 2425 um this year we went through a new
strategic uh process to determine the plan for the next five years that plan along with earlier Investments made um through the uip process and the process or an outcome we call the Learning acceleration plan those are the three main items that guided our investments so we're continuing to invest in the
strategy that began for this year we're um adding an additional 8.3 um or on top of the 8.3 FTE we added this year it's another six and a half on a permanent basis in 2425 that's going to cost $670,000 in our budget um as
Chief park has mentioned multiple times the lap is much more than people uh we did some high dosage tutoring um there's stuff around attendance um lots of other things uh to try and increase the performance in our schools here's a list of the Strategic Investments um one of our strategic
strategic pillars uh remains to retain and recruit staff and so that's where we see a six and a quarter percent raise come in uh six and a qu% will beat the estimated inflation as provided by um the CDE which is five and a quarter uh beating inflation allows employees to
get ahead if you're matching inflation you're basically allowing them to do the same thing year-over year but of course when employees are able to get ahead to save uh to do different things as they progress in their careers through the roin fork schools and you can see the other Investments listed there um a lot
of these are one-time Investments uh Communications audits sped program review Equity audit data dashboard and support those are all one-time Investments for the current year those are being used you know we we reserve a portion of our um mil ofy override for investing in
retaining and recruiting staff and for Dev developing staff and in our programs okay we'll start to review the general fund by by um program area so first is instruction and this is exactly what it
sounds like it's our direct instruction to our students so these are folks who are in front of students day in and day out uh by far the line share of our general fund is spent here um 53 million total dollars at just over 10,300 um sorry 9 717 per people on $50 million of
spend again that decreas it's because early childhood education the line share those costs would have showed up in instruction and they have now moved to fund 19 next up is people Services um these are direct support services for students so things like counselors health aids um
occupational therapy nurses um and our deans of culture that we've invested in through our learning acceleration plan those items show up here represents another 45 about 45 and a half employees and another $1,881 per people spent
[Music] here um next up is instructional support so these are things um that you know we spend money on to try and improve uh instructional practices here at the district so you'll see things like instructional coaches instructional facilitators Chief Parks a lot of her
departments will roll up here um we're going to spend $86.50 per pupil um the Professional Services that you see here are primarily for the sped program review and the assessments uh data collection and the data dashboard a strategic initiative
that we'll spend money on the increase and instructional support and the dollarss comes from it was pointed out by um the district deck that you know where's the coaching dollars and previously we recorded those as instructional and so going back through the state mandated chart of
accounts we aligned uh both with the dec and with the state chart of accounts um to show those as instructional support rather than direct instruction General Administration these are the costs to run the Sun control office which is primarily the office of the superintendent uh the Board of
Education and then our central office um overhead so you can see there are two administrators which are superintendent uh Chief uh Landon and classified support is uh Rodrigo um budget increasing slightly we
have seen an increase um in Professional Services Under Professional Services you'll find things things like legal and legal costs have increased um due to a myriad of factors over the last three or four years um various legal findings I think you know with a newer staff we've
had a ton of turnover at the district office I think there's just more requests for legal support School administration these will be your principales APS and the front office staff at every school so employs almost 55 people spends
$1,188 per pupil increase in Sal just primarily coming from um the 6.25% increase for employees um that you see there business administration this is the finance Parable and accounts payable department along with accounting um we
have got six employees in that department a total budget of $811,000 or $156 per people under operations and maintenance this is what it costs to maintain um all of our Fields all of our equipment all
of our buildings across our three uh three different communities uh they employ 53.33% from 325,000 to uh just over 1.1 million we've converted seven custodial positions so I think typically you'd see 60 budgeted here and we've got um 53
budgeted and um the remainder of that's going to pay for those custodial Services um we got a question last time on supplies you know the seems like a high supplies cost uh the chart of accounts mandates that we you know that gas and electricity are considered
supplies and so those show up there and that's what kind of inflates that number to that that 2 million plus student transportation uh this is where a lot of our students begin and end their day on buses uh to and to and from where they live um 31 people are
contemplating to be hired here you can see on an actual basis we're going to have just under 23 people employed this year so still really hard time um hiring and keeping uh CDL certified bus drivers really all employees in the transportation department particularly
drivers have been hard to find um and we continue to be out there um someone said that the transportation department was in I think the Strawberry Days parade out there um pushing um pushing their department and and trying to recruit people to to come join them so that's
wonderful to see them out doing that um one of the larger increases as you'll see here uh is also um for other services and we have some Ain vento homeless qualified students as well as students and IEPs who um are required by
law to receive transportation to school and so being short on bus drivers who wind up Contracting with local taxi services to provide those and that's why you see that large jump of almost $170,000 so those are quite expensive those services are expensive um but we have worked that into this year's budget
then other Central support um so basically anything that wasn't covered before is going to fall under here so it's items such as it Communications and human uh Human Resources employing just over 16 folks um across those those multiple different departments uh about
$53 per per student so this schedule shows uh the budgeted revenues the budgeted expenses you can see we're expected to overspend and that's quite typical for our district we carry over amounts uh year-over year you can see the amounts listed there about 1.4 million for
curricular uh materials and professional development that's Chief Park's budget that can be you know large expenditures one year followed by years where that's quite quiet and you'll build a balance and then spend it again school budget allocations um I believe director rir has pushed a couple years ago to see
that number come down through Co it had built and it was in excess of a million dollars a couple years ago it's now half a million so schools are spending we've been pushing and pring them to get that money into classrooms um and to hold fewer dollars aside the education opportunity fund came out of the 2021
mllo uh We've set that aside uh there's been some stops and starts and I think we just completed our first round of um or this first semester is just wrapping up on grants we gave to um to employees to pursue to pursue further education so at the end of the year
we're estimated to have $5.3 million of reserves of that 2.9 is reserved by Taber uh there's a reserve policy on the books um passed by this board that says we should hold 10% of our revenue and Reserve so that's another 10% so 133% is
kind of held to the side the there are mechanisms for the board to spend that $9.6 million set aside um there's just certain things within the policy that you would need to follow in order to do that and then unincumbered reserves these are basically dollars that um we could spend or we could save depending on the direction the board wants to go
um there's a ton of strategic needs I mean we could probably write a list a mile long and we have $2.7 million to service that list um everything from preparing for uh new roofs in our building whe if we ever go for a best Grant we'll need matching funds uh
providing additional housing for um um employees there's all a laundry list of things that that money could be spent on again that's you know I think the work of the board finance committee uh being that go go uh go between every month and then going back to the board at large
and and comeing with a a strategy for those dollars in the future so we'll look at the Early Childhood fund real quick um this program has grown uh with the Advent of universal prek as well as absorbing uh growing years in um Basalt so we'll have
just under 79 employees in that department for next year um total revenues of $5 million of that 1.25 is coming from the general fund so that's basically the general funds investment uh beyond the dollars we receive uh to support early childhood education and
you can see the expenditures laid out there again the largest we're investing in people uh the people to to be in front of those those young children um that's the by far the line share of that that expenditure so you can see the enrollment we're we're budgeting for
next year in our prek program uh we'll welcome infants for the first time and we'll have 15 there we'll have uh 50 in our toddler room and then an additional 255 uh prek in our standard day rooms uh of those children listed 98 are budgeted to um or predicted to participate in our
extended day programs we offer a sliding scale tuition amount for staff and that is going to provide $125,000 of our early childhood um tuition assistance for the upcoming year the Food Service fund uh this does
exactly what it sounds like it provides meals to our um students and with the Advent of free meals for all um that service has gone up so you'll see revenue and expenditures grow accordingly um There Are Rules around the beginning fund balance we try and
keep that low while also making sure that they're not um scratching for dollars um and having to cut Corners when it comes to feeding our kids there is a transfer from the general fund budgeted this year as a placeholder this is something going to monitor uh as the year progresses into whether not you'll
need that 200,000 if it becomes evident you don't you can reallocate that on January's amended budget for other purposes this year the net designated purpose Grant fund this is where where house a lot of our grants so they're within this budget um there are basically a ton of budgets
within this this this budget right so um title one has a budget title two has a budget title three has a budget all the different school health professional grants we get uh ears Grant they all have budgets within here that basically roll up those grants are written for specific purposes the money must be used
for those purposes and if you want to change you have to get approval typically through some sort of budget revision process um this fund um employs an additional 36 people beyond what we pay for um out of the other
funds and you can see we're estimating about $8.5 million uh of Revenue and expense for the upcoming year familiar um positions and departments are funded from here pre-collegiate Family Resource Center the ECA Liaisons um our multi-tier
systems of support support so mtss that's supported with an ears Grant from the state um there's typically 40 or more unique grants every year that provide um revenues are expenditures um that exceed $6 million every year that's continuing to grow I know we just looked
at eight and a half million so6 million is a little bit low here um and then again the general fund is providing $1.2 million of support I don't want to say that's misleading because our you know we do pass through those Medicaid revenues and that's a part of that $1.2 million but our local service plan which
dictates how we spend Medicare revenues um says you know that's we're going to spend it on liaison so we pass it through here to meet to to meet that requirement all right turn it back over for uh board discussion thank you Chief Markham we are going to now commenor two
minutes for each board director director titler would you like to go first thank you thank you Chief Markham for the format of that is really easy and to understand and digest and see and thank you for all the time putting it
together I have a couple questions um I know I asked this last time and I still don't remember and so if you can somebody can just say again that $1.25 million that we're budgeting for ECE again can somebody remind me why is
it that even though we're not having to like pay rent we're still outside of budget for that program um I think part of it you're seeing as we accept and provide students for U special education students um we
also provide healthc care benefits which a lot of providers uh private providers don't so I think you know on almost 80 employees at $10,500 an employee that adds up pretty quick um I think that's generally the reason you you see that
number great thank you um and then I still have a question about the student transportation other services of the $169,000 for the taxi service for the IEP and McKenna vento if we had full staff of drivers would that not be
necessary it is likely that wouldn't be necessary we could allocate drivers um to picking up those students yes but with the same amount of money be needed for the drivers then instead of having to farm out to like taxis it would be um
discussion with the transportation department indicate that would be cheaper to hire our own our own employees and can we say how many like IEP students this includes and how many um mckenny vento students this is um I do not have those numbers available off
hand is there a possibility of getting that so we can just have an idea of what that is yep thank you that's it thank you thank you director titler uh director def frees Chief Markham thank you for your
thoroughness um and I don't have any further questions thank you director after I don't have any questions either I feel well prepared to pass this budget with all the um presentations we've had and the discussion too thanks for all
your work on it yeah thank you thank you I did just want to make one clarification um uh a point of clarification there was a mention about the 10% Reserve per policy I just wanted to clarify that it wasn't this board but
the board previously that had passed that 10% um Reserve per policy um I also did have a question in regards to our Strategic investment and I think this is maybe more for the team I'm wondering how we're tracking um the impact of
student growth and achievement for strategic Investments I believe there's two the um 2.0 FTE and the uh money for budgeted for the mental health professionals so do you mean the 2.0 FTE
for um newly newly arrived students that is for the 2425 school year so they're hiring for that now right and my question was how are we tracking the impact how are we ensuring that uh there's going to that this is
actually going to be helpful to us how are we tracking this investment I would say the Investments are aligned to the Strategic plan priorities and then those are all monitored and measured by those priority measures and then the the mission measures of the Strategic plan so those
will be you know those those annual um strategic priority measures will be kind of our our outcome to see if these Investments are the right work to to move student achievement and growth and sorry go ahead would that
apply for the school-based mental health professionals too Anna yeah I mean when you think of that priority number one um around like student leadership we look at belonging data which is tied to student mental health and well-being um
so a lot of those pieces would be integrated and I I would like to Echo too that part of that $200,000 became necessary because we did receive Some Cuts in Grants so rather than reducing service we elected to um maintain service because we know that mental
health um needs are about as great as they've ever been and we didn't feel it was appropriate to um in the face of those cuts to reduce those Services thank you um I also had a question in regards to the designated um purpose fund um can you
guys can you please share Nathan where that um uh the increase I think it's where is it the change is 1.6 um what that is attributed to let's see here
it looks like the $1.6 million increas is tied uh primarily to an increase in state grants um looks like the ears Grant is going up um quite a bit uh colado Department of uh Health Services which I
think supports um are and it help me with the acronym ccmp or CMP I think that's where that money comes through and then an increase in uh local funds as well and can you explain a little bit more Chief Markham of what
that because we we take money from the general fund correct to put we take 1.27 million from the general fund yes but a lot of it is so you look on page 18 of the budget in full it breaks down by Grant
where the money is coming from and so while we do supplement this this this fund with General funds it's not you know it's $1.3 million of the entire $8.5 million budget and that supports the general
operations of the pre-collegiate program so sorry this is a general F transfer it supports pre-collegiate uh it supports F FRC operations and then it's the Medicaid pass through which also supports the EC um or not EC but the family Liaisons at elementary and middle
schools and what was the amount that came out of the general fund last year uh well this year the budget is for 1.47 uh the prior two years it was just over 800,000 so a lot of that uh increase is tied to we've got uh an
increase in medic Medicaid reimbursements and so again those are passed through dollar for dooll so as Medicaid reimbursements go up that amount that is transferred goes up um and then we have generally increased if we see a poor people increase of 8% uh
we increase the funds we pass through by 8% thank you so much okay we will now open it for five minute open discussion board directors does anyone else have any further questions or comments okay seeing as there are none
can we please call to a [Music] vote director after hi director Ramirez hi director Dees hi director Tyler
I thank you the budget has passed thank you all thanks he and if I can interrupt for a minute this is Chief markham's kind of last day and his last um task on his to-do list until we have a thousand questions and call him up and
then during the next transition but just want to appreciate Chief Markham and the work uh bringing this budget to this moment of approval um in during this time of transition so thanks so much for that and for all your work Chief Markham over the last five years we're g to miss
you thank you thank you Anna we Echo as a board that sentiment thank you Chief Markham thank you all and thank you all for you do um I know that's a it's a big lift and I look forward to what the the board finance committee is going to do I think it will'll create a lot stronger
um communication and input on the front end of these budgets which I know has been important and will remain important so thank you thank you okay the next business in order is action on the Habitat for Humanity M do I have a motion to approve
the Habitat for Humanity mou I move that we approve the Habitat for Humanity mou go have a second I second okay we will now have two-minute discussion for each board member and a
fem minute open discussion um I would like to give the opportunity to Chief Bon faul to share a little bit more on this um partnership and before we uh call to a vote all right um thank you director Ramirez so thanks for finding time for
this and Gail Schwartz uh the director of Habitat for Humanity Ru for Valley is here with us thanks for being here Gail um we don't have a big presentation plan but we're here to answer your questions um I'm glad that we were able to talk about this earlier uh and get everybody up to speed but essentially what you're approving but we're asking for your
approval of tonight is um it's actually just the resolution authorizing me to continue working with Gail and habitat in coming weeks um as they attempt to secure financing and close on the purchase of an 88 unit building in in Glenwood Springs um and for us to make a
contribution of up to $1 million for up to 10 units um that would be priority for our uh staff so um you know habitat's business is getting uh our local Workforce into housing that's affordable based on their income and is
sustainable for them long term so there are some details that uh we may not have every answer to every question yet um it's really A New Concept this priority purchase kind of thing and it's new for Habitat to be buying existing building and condominium ising it and then converting it to ownership units um Inc
coming months and so um you know the the resolution is really just authorizing me to continue that work and then move it forward because the timeline is pretty short thank you Chief Bon um I am gonna open us up for discussion before
we call for a vote um so I'm going to go ahead and move us towards that um director after thanks for being here tonight and um thank you I I saw in the uh Post Independent that you uh had some success
with h one of the local municipalities this week so congratulations on that uh I don't have any questions I'm excited about this opportunity thank you director Dees um again echoing uh D director after's enthusiasm for this um I know
that the time has been really short and I appreciated uh the work that uh Chief balk has done in anticipation of opportunities like this to have us positioned to be able to move forward and to recognize a good opportunity when
we see it um and I'm excited to see the larger strategic plan for housing recognizing that the units we're purchasing in this uh particular location are definitely aimed at our newer uh small family single single individuals um joining the district and
that we do need to continue to seek out ways to to reach those who have larger families or who are above the 120% Ami that this is kind of maxing out at we do have employees that you know continue to serve in this district and and look and search for housing as well so again
totally enthusiastic 10 more units to to help secure teachers its ownership that's amazing um and I'm excited to be a part of this and to continue to be a district that leads the way again with the the hard work of our staff in the foresight of of the people that we have out
there thank you director titler I too EO the sentiment that I think this is a great opportunity and thank you habitat for offering this possibility to our school district and thank you chief bomac for all the work I
know that's going to go into moving this forward I do have a question about the looking through the packet that we received and it says all unit prices are based what a buyer can afford at 33% of their income and I'm curious about how that
works with the um 722 square foot one-bedroom units and right now it's listed as a household size of two what if a person is a less than the 120% Ami are they going to be able to
get into this unit type of unit and still be within their 33 % go ahead Gail thank you I just thank you very much and for diving into uh the the performa just as when we partnered on
basal Vista um with those uh 14 homes there uh if you might recall uh the same units had three different prices so what happens is you we back in to the price based upon the Ami so if if it's a one-bedroom owned by
an 80% Ami household it will have one price and then 100% And then 120% so uh we um we we were striving for 30% um of the income going towards housing the Piti but we have also
included as we did at for salista the um HOA and that takes us to the 33% because we know that some of the house the housing's cost are really and we have a nice chart that are really um passed
along to the HOA uh building insurance and maintenance and things of that nature that the homeowner isn't specifically responsible for so as we back in to so the allocation has not been made we've been in the process of
identifying uh based upon the current tenants our our goal is to house as many of the existing tenants that are interested in in the program and we believe 53 could be eligible and there's a distribution of of those
incomes throughout the 80 100 and 120% Ami so that that is um the habitat model that we set families up for Success based upon their income and their affordability and we're working very
hard on uh lining up mortgages so we have great sex at 80% Ami with 2 and a half% mortgages uh 36 year is From IDF I mean wow that's a wonderful opportunity for
those families and then there's some other opportunities up to 100% And then the opportunities are a little skinnier between 100% and 120 but we're working like mad at down payment assistance opportunities and looking at developing
a mortgage pool um I will just say first bank's been an amazing partner and in making this so um thank you for uh the trust and the ability to open the door to this really um I think it's a very Innovative approach to stabilizing 88
small households that our inner Community will be working from Bas State parachute to assult that's great and so from my understanding of your response scale and thank you for the work that you're doing in this so the
sheet that we saw that showed like household size and 120% Ami for the 722 square foot that was just as an example somebody who wanted that unit could get in at 80% Ami or 100% Ami or 120% Ami
correct and it could be a one person household or two person household okay and there are certain certain income uh examples you know well of course we all use the head guidelines and so um that's that's uh so using the one or two
person um a unfortunately a person with a child would not be eligible for it'd have to be two adults because um our policies and the HUD and so forth and USDA really require an extra uh sleeping
Arrangement living AR you know another bedroom for children so um that's it really is envision for as you said this new people in the community give them a toll hold and I just want to explain that they're also building up when you
have the opportunity to pay less in your mortgage than your rent and it will be stable over time and you for example with the 80% you have 100% mortgage with a two and a half% interest
rate and you're earning 3% a year on that on that mortgage uh saying that there's this is a wealth building opportunity for these individuals so hopefully there's Mobility into the housing stock uh uh when when they when
their family goes or they make other choices or whatever great well that sounds amazing thank you for the work on this and I don't have any further questions thank you thank you thank you again to Chief Bon and to Gail thank you for being here
I do have one follow-up question I I'm wondering if um and Gail this would be maybe more for you but um is there a cap for the district in being able to buy some of these units no at this time um so we what we
what we're seeing is there are uh 52 potentially eligible residents and so we wanted to protect them and uh have them have the opportunity to buy should should they choose so that makes it 35 priorities um the million dooll Grant
from the city did not have any priorities associated with it this this um contribution from the school dist is for 10 and we don't have um we are in very serious conversations with several other entities that you all know um that
are quite interested so we we need to be able to by the middle of the month uh be in a pretty close to allocating those 35 priorities so you have the first 10 that means there'll be 25 thank you so in that spirit I would like
to make an amendment to this resolution um I believe strongly that this board and past boards have had multiple conversations in regards to housing for staff and the future for the district and I think that capping at 10 really
limits us instead of helps us especially if past this meeting we or chief bonf or superintendent Cole here back from the community back from staff that we might have more interest than we maybe thought and so I would like uh to make an
amendment that we um change that third paragraph whereas um to designate a minimum of 10 Apartments instead of um up to and then um in that same space I
think we should um also adjust the amount of money that we have allocated at this time um to say um rfsd which is the fourth paragraph that rfsd um and actually
Chief buuk I'm not sure if we should even I'm not sure how we would word that fourth paragraph um in regards to how much money we would contribute for the units um we could word it however you like uh
and I'd be happy to share my thoughts on that kind of spend and contingency and other uh potential you know other things that might come up if you'd like that yeah I I mean I that would be my preference I'm happy to hear back from the rest of the board to see if they
have any questions or comments um I would I think that this is a great opportunity for us and for um our staff and I know that there's many entities within this whole community and the whole valley Corridor that are going to
want to jump on this and I am grateful to G and Habitat for Humanity for prioritizing us um and I just want to make sure that should there be extra interest from the community that we are able to utilize this opportunity
um I guess I will will open it up for discussion uh since we've all had our two minutes um or directors I'll open it up for a five minutes discussion so I guess my question to your resol your Amendment to the
resolution J do director m is can we leave this at 10 and do another mou if there's an opportunity to purchase more and we decide subsequently that that's the right use of the contingency funds that are in the that are remaining well this is just it's just a
resolution so it's we're not um this is what we're saying we're hoping Chief bom Chief Bon is able to work towards um so if we leave 10 that's the
commitment that we're designating Chief bonu to commit to um which is why I would like to say a uh a minimum of 10 um because if in the following weeks or months before school
starts we start hearing from families that they are interested or uh teachers who are interested um at least we have 10 that would be set aside um and then potentially more should should that be something we want to look
into yeah that makes sense I'm just not sure since since we haven't had a discussion about what else is on the list of needs for the district I guess I'm not totally sure if I'm comfortable going above
10 without further in-depth discussion I think US changing the wording to a minimum of 10 would be limiting us in a sense I think I like the phrasing of up to with whatever number is that we land on
because that I feel gives Chief bomac some flexibility in what he decides as he looks into what kind of interest there is within our district that we have that ability to decide what is the
best number as we move forward and I do want to clarify that once that happen once there is a decision that Chief bonu would I'm assuming and correct me if I'm wrong Chief Bon but you would come back to the board to let let us know what that final
decision was well the challenge is that this is going to happen when you're sort of in summer recess and so that's why we wanted to bring it to you today to give me the authority to go forward and and negotiate with habitat and do a little bit of uh input from staff um and so no
I I this is sort of you're you're kind of handing the um the final decision to me um if you pass this resolution tonight because they're going to Habitat plans to close on this in the next next three weeks and you don't have another
meeting so I I think I you know I need parameters to work in I mean I could just give a little bit of background you know the the million dooll um contribution came from kind of our comfort level with money that's already allocated to housing that's in our contingency for Meadow Wood and since
it's very near completion so I think if you were to go above that uh we' need to identify another source um of funding um because I think we need to keep some some contingency I think we are going to get contingency back at the end of metwood but that's where there's going
to be um you know we're we're doing a housing master plan um starting in the fall and I think we're going to have a much clearer Direction on what kinds of things and so I'm a little bit personally uh reluctant to um to contribute too much more to to this
effort because I think that we want to keep our options open um I did a really minimal um survey I just sent an email to about 10 staff um who were either on the one-bedroom weight list which you know we have about 30 people on the one-bedroom weight list I just picked a few people who had reached out to me and really Express
their housing challenges and and how frustrated they were being on the one-bedroom weight list and I reached out to the current five people who we have living in L3 um granted people are on summer break a lot of people don't even check their email for weeks at a time um but I only heard back from two people and one said I'd be interested
and one said I work in Carbondale and if I'm going to buy I'd like to buy in Carbondale um so I didn't get the like burst of enthusiasm that maybe I had thought I might get and that's not to say that if we put it out to all staff we wouldn't get that um but that just
tempered me a little bit to going into this as far as whether uh we were at the right number but ultimately it's a board decision if you'd like to give me authority to to go higher than that I'm happy to take that forward I I definitely support a lot of what you're saying um and like not to
miss the good opportunity I'm really torn though because I do want to kind of take Chief BM Fox's Direction on retaining some of the funds for other opportunities again especially aimed at those groups that may be over 120% Ami
but that's you know like we all know very well um that that doesn't set us up to be successful in housing bids in this Valley right now and so retaining some of that amount for those longer ter staffs I don't know it's it is really it's a really hard call because it's
such a great opportunity and it's such a it's such an immediate one but I think I would take staff Direction on on holding it at a million I also have a question that we had when we originally presented with this great opportunity and that was if
we were giving these options on I don't know what to call it the 10 OP the 10 apartments or if we're looking to do as 15 is there you were going to look into Chief bonac whether or not those could be sold back
to another group if we ended up getting them and we don't use them and maybe you're able to answer that yeah like what happens if we did go more and decided we that was more than we should have how is that look in the future oh
and thank you excellent question so basically our our um policy would be absolute sell it to another employer another entity um hopefully at the same price that you got it that's not not to make money on it but um when you look at
the fact that these deed restrictions will be in place in perpetuity so this is part of your part of your housing stock not next year not for your but but really really for the life of the of the of the project and and the district and
it's so it's just a mechanism to in invest in stabilizing your um your your your Workforce and also that we because we're the rural Resort region in statute can go to 140% Ami um so that that're
looking at a little higher income bracket and it's it is contention upon being able to find um mortgages that will be favorable to to those to those um higher income height so I I don't
feel that we would be it be any problem to move it a little higher just as you were saying but but also the fact that you could resell it and it will be uh preserving we we've had several conversations about what if we don't need it next year and and this pool
concept that you have 35 commitments but 53 units that are really uh in the marketplace so you're you would have the opportunity if you were to P goal you priority one year that you be able to
pick it up the next year so or when when the next uh unit came available because we don't like to tie people's housing to their jobs as we know that you'll probably hear about that from time to time from the S this time um but
regardless I really um am so grateful you're having this conversation when you're looking at um the the the interest of the of the districts long term so as a followup that to that Gil see if I'm understanding you correct so
if we were to buy 10 units or 10 shares priorities priorities thank you if we were to buy 10 priorities and we found that we could only find six of our employees that wanted to buy at this point we have four priorities in weight
basically so if the next time a unit comes open if we have another person who wants to buy then we have that first crack at using that priority they would be prioriti in that in that s absolutely because
this is your you're buying a priority in uh in the homes and so um so you're you're you framed it uh correctly thank you we've learned a little bit about this priority of course we learned from our partnership with you
at B but we learned about the priorities at at uh WTI in Rifle where we have three employers come up and provide us uh certain amount of money for being able to put their employees in so we were able to really work and I do have
an updated mou I don't know if you have the ability not to adopt that one specifically it's just more grammatical um rewarding in the in the mou that really protects your interest
longterm and I just might provide quick point of clarification so tonight the board's not approving the mou you're just approving a resolution that authorizes me to then final theou so I just provided a template that Gail had actually used with habitat at with PD Commons and rifle um so all those details will be filled in um and I think
the other thing to keep in mind is that yeah what we're buying here essentially through our contribution um we're a we're helping make the project happen because Without Partners um they're short of funds um but B we're buying priorities but it doesn't mean that that's all that you know it doesn't mean
breing Fork School District staff would be excluded from also entering General applications and lotteries in that other 50 some units and so just like we've seen a lot of our staff move out of our staff housing and into um deed restricted affordable house housing
managed by the county or our municipalities in recent years um you know in other words they're they can still apply and they could still get those others this is just guaranteeing us at least um the number that we contribute to thank you and I appreciate that and
um I still feel very strongly that we should um commit as a district to more I feel like this is something I shared previously um you know I think that this is a an opportunity and just from the conversations all of us have with
teachers and staff regarding housing um I see this as a great advantage and as a disadvantage to only have 10 although you know I not sure that um you know I guess only time will tell if families in
our staff in our district really want to purchase um but I I feel like this is really a not just a teacher retention um but and staff retention but just a an opportunity that I I know that other organizations in the valley are
going to take advantage of and um I appreciate the work that has been done thus far to at least um have a conversation about 10 um and I am hearing from my colleagues that they are not comfortable with going more um over
10 um but I want to just reiterate that I believe strongly that um this is going to be something that a lot of teachers are gonna there the having housing even just having a foot in the door at some
point in time in this Valley is g to be important and so um I again appreciate the time and the uh opportunity to bring this forward to this board so I I will mention something I'm I'm sorry director
um I'm I will mention that should should you authorize this an additional investment for priorities um that and we're able to just close close the property that we could uh consider
it and a let's say let's say you want another five units consider it a that securing that opportunity but let's say it is not something that appears as if you want to take advantage of it consider it a loan to the project that
you could be basically refunded when the when all the units are sold if you were not interested in taking advantage of the 45 units just using WR numbers does does that make sense if you you need time to sort this and and again it's a
it's a really a a function of I think Ben and I have worked together for such a long time trust that we are going to move forward in the best interests of the district so if there was a commitment to more that interest wasn't there on the part of your employees it
could be Al loone and that those funds could be return to if you chose to use fuel units does that make sense any other director comments I think I just again want to suggest that we commit to the million
enthusiastically um but retain the amount in our Reserve fund as discussed to continue to seek out other Housing Solutions um with there's there's quite a aorus board of of solutions available and we're trying out a lot of things and
I don't want to limit um the more thorough work that I know is going to go into that strategy going forward um so I would I would say committing enthusiastically to a million tonight anyone else okay we're going to go ahead and call for a
vote good right Ramirez sorry just to be clear we're voting on The Resolution as is or without okay there wasn't a second on the motion to amend so we're g to go ahead and call to a vote for the resolution
okay hi director defres hi director tler I hi thank you so much again to Chief Bon flock and Gail for your time and
commitment to housing in our Valley we appreciate uh all the time and energy spent on this and thank you to Chief bonl for all the time spent on housing for our staff all right thank you for your support of this thank you thank you
for thank you business and there's no objection the meeting will be adjourned it is 9:23 p.m. oh sorry I'm ahead of you guys it is 7:23 p.m. have a great night everybody thank you have a good summer
bye thank you thank you