Good evening. I call this meeting to order at 6:21 p.m. Um, directors Defrades, Ramirez, NMO are present tonight, 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? The first business in order is the approval of the agenda. Directors, are there any proposed changes to the agenda?
Do I have a motion to approve the agenda as presented? >> I have a motion to approve. >> Second. All in favor say I. I. >> I. Motion passes. Our next agenda item is our opening
celebrations and updates by our superintendent, Dr. Anna Cole. Good evening, board and community. Um, I feel like we say this all the time, but these weeks leading up to the holiday break are incredibly busy. Um, so lots to
celebrate and um and uh update folks on. want to first congratulate Basalt Elementary School that was voted the best place to work in Aspen Snow Mass and Basalt in the Aspen Times. So really cool recognition. Um cheers to the Longhorns and amazing school culture and
climate. That's a really neat um recognition. Uh across the district, we are right in the middle of high school finals week. Students all over are wrapping up projects and showcasing learning. Uh the last few weeks have been full with capstone presentations by
the class of 2026. Uh a number of holiday band and choir performances right now or actually in about 10 minutes. Glow Springs choir is going to go on stage. So we'll um I know folks are that might be more that might be better attended than the board meeting
tonight. Um tomorrow our CRS and Riverview preschool students will be performing um for celebrations at the end of the semester. If you've seen our staff or students that look like slackers perhaps walking around the grocery store in their pajamas at 4:30 in the afternoon or FL, there's been all
kinds of spirit weeks going on. Um, also want to send a special shout out to the students and staff in the Ready for the World program. Uh, the students in the program planned, prepped, cooked, decorated, and hosted an absolutely lovely holiday celebration with hands down the best food and decorations in
the district. Um, also want to thank the facilities teams who are flexibly supporting all of these activities that happen at schools all in the evening. Um, and making sure our schools still look good the next morning for kids to learn. Um, and importantly this time of year we're also measuring student
academic growth. And so we are wrapping up NWA mid-year testing, math and English assessments for elementary and middle school, some high school students. These assessments are aligned to strategic priority number two, rigorous learning for all, and the board will get an update on those outcomes at
the end of January. So, we will have a pretty quick turnaround on those mid-year check-ins on student learning. We're also wrapping up um before the break the Panorama student survey. This is also a really critical indicator. It's part of our strategic plan. It's connected to one of our mission measures
where we really track student belonging and uh students perceptions of belonging through the Panorama student data. Uh it's tied to strategic prior priority number one, students first. So we'll also update the board on that when we get that data. Um so many thanks to all of our school staff and leaders
supporting activities, keeping our learning environments focused, um celebratory, and thriving. And then finally, I want to send a special congratulations to the Glenwood Springs Middle School sixth graders, their families, their faculty, and staff who
turned out in great numbers last night um for the sixth grade celebration of learning. The sixth graders packed the hallways and presented their design thinking projects that integrated standards, concepts, and skills from English language arts, science, and social studies in projects where
students identified sticky problems and design solutions. There is a lot to celebrate this time of year, and celebrations of learning are an absolute highlight. Thanks. >> Great. Thank you. The next business in order is a
presentation from Dr. from Dr. Cole on her goals for this year. Okay, so this is a bit of a midyear update affirming the goals that have been um co-constructed by the board and myself really from this fall um to give
the board and community an update on where we're where I'm at, what what I'm working on, and what the plan looks like moving ahead. This is also part of our our process to kind of strengthen systems around superintendent evaluation, accountability, um, and feedback cycles for the board. Um, there
are five goals in a professional development plan. So, I just want to kind of highlight some of the updates here. Goal number one is aligned to our strategic priority on operational excellence and it's really about making sure that we have a high quality senior leadership team. As you know, and since this um goal and these priorities
priorities were developed, we have um welcomed our new chief of HR and talent, Amy Brookkeman, um to the team. You know, we we continue to feel a gap in terms of not having up a public information officer. We're using consult some consultants this year with some
targeted support in that area and not currently direct hiring that due to budget um challenges and limits. Um, and we're continuing to examine district office staffing levels and structures, uh, with communications in mind and certainly with declining enrollment in
mind. Um, and working on those pieces that that roll up to senior leadership. Goal number two was really focused on CLLD program accountability. This has been a priority of the board since you all really tackled um, an update to the
um, IHBEA policy last spring. And this is tied to strategic priority number two, rigorous learning for all. We had the first CLLDE program review with the board early in October. I think what you know what I heard from that was that there are areas for improvement in the way that first program review happened
specifically around how we can better integrate student academic achievement and growth data beyond just kind of access testing scores. Um and then as the board is aware based on the resolution the board passed this fall um moving forward CLLD program reviews will
include if appropriate um transition plans around programs that may be shifting in schools. Um and just a heads up as the board knows we'll have some of the targets that are tied to this goal in the access and el data that will come
later this spring. Goal number three is really connected again to our strategic priority on operational excellence. Um as we have um stabilized our health insurance plans back to CEBT and also implemented the
collaborative bargaining contract with our certified staff. Um we're still trying to get the dust to settle on some process and timelines around how our um IBB calendars work, how our health insurance collaborative solutions team work. So, we have brought forward this
year a new integrated IBB calendar. Um, we're going to pilot it, see if it works out this year. Um, I think we have some concerns and questions. It's all kind of tied to this goal to really have a clear and coherent process and I would say we're still working through it. um some
real wins and I'm really grateful for Chief Brockman in this work is that we really um were able to have strong support from all three of our IBB groups to align on specific questions around health insurance priorities. And so all
three of those um labor relations teams surveyed their staff using the same questions around insurance to identify priorities. So, it's been really helpful for the collaborative solutions team to be able to really compare interest across those three groups and try to
identify what's going to work there. So, lots more to come on this goal um as we we kind of work to continuously improve this. Goal number four is really around staff recruitment and retention um which is tied really tightly to our priority
around thriving team. And so the interest here from the board was really to focus on grow your own programs that would um provide pathways specifically for our paraprofessionals and our students um especially Latino Latina
paraprofessionals and students to help um folks navigate systems towards education credentials. Uh so we're working with Colorado River Boseies, the early childhood education team to pilot some education internships which are part of kind of career and technical education pathways. So hoping that
second semester we'll have some more high school students getting into our early childhood classrooms and um we'll be leaning on Boseies for some funding to support uh those students with stipens as part of this plan. And then we're looking at applying for funding
for an a career navigator, grant funding for a career navigator um to really support this kind of grow your own programs because of our limited capacity. This is an a pretty significant additional chunk of work and we recognize that we may need some support and folks a dedicated staff and
so I think we might have some um external funding partners that might be interested in some multi-year piloting of this for us. So more to come on this goal. And then goal number five, this is our north star. Um the goal is to eliminate the achievement gap. And as the board is
well aware, we're in year two of our strategic plan, which is intended and designed to move a lot of levers um to address this target. And what we saw in the data from 2425 were some small areas of growth and areas where we feel a little stuck. Um nothing I don't think
we're seeing the substantial moves that we've hoped to see yet. Uh the updates and work plan are really to stay the course with the five-year strategic plan. We continue to build, especially with um Jonathan Landon's support and the entire strategic leadership committee, stronger internal
accountability systems um really focused on making sure that we are implementing the initiatives that we think are going to lead to better student outcomes with fidelity and that we're uh keeping our measures and metrics updated through the data dashboard. um and looking forward
to reporting to the board on some of that mid-year data at the end of January. In terms of my ongoing professional development, the focus has really been on um the certification goal of of me completing an administrative lensure
program. So last year completed the UCCCs administrator license program, but I need to stack that with the principal lensure program. So I'm focusing on that this year. Uh that work is going to continue through this winter spring hope anticipating completion of that by
August. And so that process for this year includes ongoing regular coaching with Tom Gregory who's former superintendent CFO at Academy District 20, Kathleen Brunza who's so there's two coaches that work with me as part of this program um through the Mountain
Bosey's principal lensure um alt ed program. Um, so really looking ahead, I anticipate that summer 2026 will be a good time to kind of step back, identify needs and gaps for um, looking at additional professional development um, that can happen once all the
certification PD is over. That's all I got. Happy to take questions. Great. We will now have two minutes for discussion. Um, each board member will now have two minutes for discussion. And
I'm going to start with um director defraes online. >> Thanks Director After and my apologies for not being able to be there in person, especially my first meeting as chair. Thank you so much, Director After, for jumping in to chair the
meeting. Um and I just love that our team can kind of support each other. Um, Director Koulenberg had that great opportunity to find some time to spend with her kid and watch a performance and she's done so much for this board and has put in all the hours. So, we were glad to be able to make that work. Um,
really quick, I wanted to talk I had a question about the grow your own goal. I know we had discussed close partnership with CMC and I was wondering if you could update on what it is we're doing with them that you would consider kind
of falling into this bucket. Um, yeah, that's where I'll start. Thanks. >> Great question. You know, I think CMC is a is absolutely a partner in so many ways in terms of there's just multiple touch points that we have with CMC in terms of uh working with students, working with staff. Um I I think that
one of the challenges for us in really best leveraging the bachelor's degree programs that CMC offers through the um elementary education program leveraging the scholarships they have the apprenticeships apprenticeship programs
is really the capacity for somebody internally in the district to manage that and help staff navigate the CM how to how to blend the CMC systems which often require mentor teachers and adviserss um with our staff and to support folks who are
typically first generation, you know, the folks that we're really trying to target would be first generation college students to navigate the timelines and deadlines for accessing funding at CMC. And so I would say we're we are are well aware of what's possible where we are getting stuck right now frankly as
capacity to really support our staff to navigate those systems successfully. Um, so many of those programs really rely on flexible day-to-day schedules, having a mentor teacher in the same building, being able to step away from your PAR job, your early childhood job for um
observations. And so we've just yet to have um the capacity to have somebody who can really navigate that. And so I would say currently, to be honest, we're underutilizing CMC programs, frankly, because it's tricky to figure out how to make them fit. And this is really why
we're seeing that if we could pilot a couple years of having someone solely dedicated to being that point of contact for our staff, kind of a warm handoff, um really helping folks integrate and identify where opportunities are that that we could see a lot more um
utilization. >> Um do you think that that's something so okay so you're saying that that sort of comes after the establishment of this position? Sorry, I have a very small screen right now. I'm jumping between um the career navigator >> y >> that come that comes first and then you
feel like that would allow this capacity um to integrate with them a little better. >> I think so. It just it feels like that's where we keep getting stuck. Um is making that link and and really having clear plans, work plans for folks so that they're typically school leaders
or early childhood directors can know when they can count on them, when they can step away for coursework, um when they can meet with mentor teachers, who those mentor teachers are. All those pieces feel like they're we're we're just getting stuck on capacity and fitting them all together. >> Do we have any staff currently enrolled
in their programs? just, you know, the ones that have been able to pursue it on their own. >> Gosh, I don't, you know, that's a great question. I don't have the exact numbers. I know just from my work in early childhood that I know we have a couple people working on associates degrees. Um, I I don't know like the current number of say student teachers
we have in the district, but we could get back to you on that. >> It's not urgent, just I think as we move forward. Um, another question in the your team building basically um the leadership positions.
How I know finance has been a big jump forward with Christie. We had the controller position and I think we're we're still hiring for that one because the first um round didn't quite work out. Is that correct? >> You got it. Yep. So, that position is currently open. We're working to fill it
actively. So, yeah, we it's been um it's no surprise. It's just a challenging um hiring process in the valley. >> And then my other question is with the PD outside of the programs that you're
involved in right now, um would you be comfortable and you can you don't have to, but could do you have any interest in summarizing if you have like um other folks that you would consider mentors in this work or other resources that aren't just inside that lensure program? >> Oh gosh. I mean, you know, to we we all
just got back from CASBY, the Colorado Association of School Boards, and I definitely leverage that meeting of having a lot of superintendents who I follow and monitor or see as kind of comparables to us because of either what they're working on or who they're serving or where they are geographically
as um kind of the phone a friend folks. And so definitely definitely leverage having a lot of those people in the same place for connecting with a ton of superintendents while I was there. um you know we have we participate as a district in a number of groups like CASBY um case the Colorado Association
of School Executives the Rural Alliance and so you know there's a lot of folks that I get to connect with through those avenues and absolutely follow up with um when there's specific questions or um needs or I just want to learn more about how they navigated um certain
situations. you know, we meet regularly and I'm really grateful for this work. Um, the Aspen to parachute superintendent meet monthly. Um, and those meetings are incredibly beneficial for things that we can work on together. Um, things that we're seeing in the valley and then just as to have as
thought partners. So, I feel pretty well connected across the state with a lot of folks in similar roles. That's not formal PD, but it definitely feels like a supportive network um that we have in place. Um, that's all I have for now. I might come back in the five minutes, but I
want to give everyone else time, too. Thanks. >> Thanks. >> Thank you, Director Nemo. I might be showing some of my newness here, but can you kind of compare and contrast for me a little bit like goal
two and goal with the five are like how are they the same and how are they different in a nutshell? >> I think goal two is really around I I might have to look back at the slide is around the CLLD program. Is that correct?
>> Yeah. See, they're they both are part of like our strategic priority rigorous learning for all, which is really about making sure that students have accessed have access to grade level standards
um every day in every class. And our kids all have different strengths and challenges that that can make their needs in terms of accessing that grade level content different. um we are privileged to serve a large population
of emerging bilingual students. And so it's then we can kind of identify we can group a lot of those special supports for emerging bilingual students, the the resources that that group of students in particular needs to access grade level standards through our CLLD program. So our culturally and linguistically
diverse education program. So when we think about helping um achieve the goals and our strategic priority of rigorous learning for all um focusing on the strength and efficacy of our CLLD programs is essential. It's critical. um you know, our emerging
bilingual students uh come with incredible strengths and uh commitment to their education and unique sets of um needs in order to access which is typically English language content and standards. That department is really meant to make sure
we have a holistic approach to that. And the goal for that uh the goal that my goal related to CLLE is to really make sure that those programs that we choose at every school are working are serving students both in terms of their English language acquisition as measured by the
access tests and and I think this is an important push that we you know heard from the board even that we wanted the board wanted to see more of that those programs are working to help kids access content and demonstrate growth and achievement in math and English language arts because sometimes sometimes we don't always look at that data together.
Um so it's a piece of the bigger picture um in terms of kind of that goal number five which is close the achievement gap overall. And when we name that achievement gap, it exists between students of color and white students. It exists between emerging bilingual students and not emerging bilingual students. It exists between students
with disabilities and students without. And it absolutely exists between students whose families um income is beneath the federal poverty level and students whose families are not. So that you know that goal number five is pretty big and broad and I would say the goal number two is really focusing on a specific group of students in the
program serving them and that the board's interest in having both of those goals is that um there's what I read from that is that there's an interest and push from the board to attend holistically to the whole thing and a particular interest to make sure that our CLLD programs are working well for
kids. Does that help? >> Okay. Yeah. >> Um that's all I have. Okay, Charm. >> Yeah. And I I just want to preface to that um at the end of the superintendent evaluation that we just did, we added um as a board in our superintendent goals
alignment on the professional development piece for the superintendent as well as a number six on the superintendent goals of professional development. Um, I wanted to ask and
just thinking through too like being at CASBY that was so great to be able to network and um check in with other school districts. Um, but do you think that you could benefit from having a oneto-one executive coach?
>> For sure. I mean, I think in a lot of ways that's what Tom and Kathleen are right now through the lensure programs. um you know they're they're focused on making sure that I meet the standards that the state has laid out for the principal lensure programs and the administrative lensure programs. So
they're really targeted to making sure those holistic pieces are there. I do think that once this is completed um it will be really helpful to look at the gaps and needs that I have as indicated from our eval the the board evaluation to really target and have an executive
coach moving moving forward from there. Um I you know any high performer needs good coaching. Um and so you know that's I think that's going to be important piece of the puzzle. My capacity I think to add on top of the current credentiing requirements and and educational
components right now feels limited to take that on but by next summer absolutely. >> And how often do you meet again with Tom and Kathleen? >> It's about monthly. >> Okay. Um, so I, you know, I think first
of all, like I really appreciate this opportunity for us to have this touch point as a board on the goals. I think it's important work and I think we as a team really wanted to continue to support um, not just your growth, but also this new routine that we've set
forth for not just the superintendent, but the board itself as we go forward. And I think this is a good um stop point for all of us to just think through the recent evaluation and like looking ahead, thinking through this process again and adjusting I think will be
really helpful. Um, and so, you know, I appreciate the update and I also just want to push on the PD because I think this is something we've discussed as a board and we um, you know, have lifted this up in our not
just our recent evaluation, but our prior one. And I just think it's important for us as a team um, you know, we're always saying that the success of your our superintendent, the su success of the board and the district as a whole. And I think executive coaching is incredibly important. It's a useful tool
um that I think like you just said, right? Um high performing leaders need high coaching and I think that oneonone would be incredibly helpful. >> Thank you. >> Thank you. I don't have any I don't have any additional questions, but I do feel
like we maybe missed an opportunity to celebrate the completion of your licensing in August. So, sorry. Well, it's not it's not complete because it like they all have to go together. So, I just completed one little section. >> Well, that's to be honest. Like our teachers have to navigate far more
complex systems. So, it's like they really deserve these are not as tricky as the teacher certifications and they're all their credentials and where they're um like licensed. It's so much more complex. So, I appreciate that and I have a long way to go and I have like
nothing to complain about compared to what they have to navigate. >> Okay. it. Well, be be sure not to let us miss an opportunity to congratulate and celebrate when it's appropriate and yeah, agree on the teaching uh licensing requirements too. Um, I don't have any
additional questions. So, directors, we will now have five minutes for open discussion. If you have additional questions at this time, remembering that we have a lot of things to cover in this agenda. >> Nothing to add? >> No. >> Yeah. I just um I appreciate the need
for the one-on-one executive coaching. Um, and I also recognize the capacity issues that are currently going on. Um, but I just I I do agree with what Director Ramirez was saying, especially once you have those pieces lined up. Um,
I wonder did you do you have threads out as to who or or where you might seek that out already? Um, I'm sure you've thought about it a bit. we'll start last year with a local organiz or nonprofit that was going to
help kind of match. Um, and it didn't really pan out well. I, you know, I I have not, to be honest, dug into it enough yet. I think I've been stuck on the credentiing requirements and I haven't quite looked beyond it yet, but I think that's a fair push and, you know, something that I do need to start working on and see that as kind of a
spring thing when I get closer to the end of this this piece. >> Okay, that makes sense. Thanks, I'll just say I have a um fabulous executive coach I've had the benefit of working with for the last four years and can ask her for referrals if that's ever
helpful. Okay, great. Um if no other questions, we will move on. At this time, we welcome members of the public who have signed up to address the board. There are zero speakers signed up
for tonight. Do I have to read the rest of it? >> Sorry. >> Oh, thank you. Um, members of the public who wish to share their views with the board may always do so in writing at any
time. For this evening's public comment, we received one written comment. Okay. The next business in order is the approval of the consent agenda which includes routine personnel minutes from our two previous board meetings.
Policies A D AE AE E GB E KFA and repeals of policies C HCA CD GB EA and KGB. Directors, are there any items you would
like to pull off the consent agenda for a separate discussion and vote? >> I would like to make a motion to pull policy AE. >> Do I have a second? >> Hold on. Which one is that? >> I need a second for that.
>> Yeah. All right. Do I have a second? >> Yeah, I can second that. >> Okay. Um All right. So in that case since we are pulling item which one? AE AE. Yeah.
>> Um for separate discussion and vote. Then each board member will have two minutes to share comments or ask questions. >> You you do the vote on the consent agenda and then you come back to that one. >> Ah thank you. So move to pass the I move that we approve the consent agenda as
amended. >> Yes. >> Do I have a second? I second. Okay. Call to vote. >> Director After. >> Hi. >> Director Drades. >> I. >> Director NMO. >> Hi. >> Director Ramirez. >> Hi.
Okay. Now back to where I was. Um, each board member will now have two minutes to share comments or ask questions regarding policy AE. We will begin with director Ramirez. Yeah. So I pulled policy AE because um I
was a little confused as I was reading it again how it goes from that jumps from that first paragraph to second paragraph regarding the district accountability uh team. Um that language regarding the board will
adopt and maintain an accountability program to measure the adequacy and efficiency of the educational program. I thought was it just was confusing to me how we jumped from a program to the DAC. Um, and so I pulled it because I feel
like this needs to have further discussion regarding either the updating the t like I wasn't sure if this was meant to be a district accountability policy and I was really confused on that.
A great question. Um, it definitely is connected to establishing the DAC um, and like district accountability committees, school accountability committees, the the accompanying regulation really gets into the technical components of how those committees should be set up. I hear your
concerns when you, you know, it talks about academic accomplishments of students and then focuses straight into the deck that it feels like maybe there's information missing there on what the program accountability program looks like. Yeah, I mean we could certainly take it back to policy
committee, dig in and look and see if there's other recommended language on what that would look like. um you know when I my first my current thinking on that is it like oh well that's you know the strategic plan and the measures and the performance frameworks um but maybe that needs to be flushed out
>> yeah it just jumps too brazenly to the next thing on the DAC and I also think that there should be language about the superintendent's role in this um whether it's the programming or the deck I think that's missing Um, Jasmine, do you
Okay, I got those notes for policy committee. So, was there other stuff? So, you were looking at continuity between when is it talking about Oh, I'm sorry, chair. I just jumped right in. >> Go for it. >> Um, you're looking for continuity in paragraphs one to two. Are we talking
about a program or are we talking about the DAC? And you're also looking for clarity around the the superintendent's role in this policy. Is that right? Lindsay, do you have any other comments or questions on that? Okay. >> No, just trying to catch the notes for
um the committee. >> Okay. >> Do you have any comments or questions? >> No. >> Okay. I don't either. Um we will now have five minutes of open
discussion on policy AE. Anything else? >> No. >> I think my only question is kind of process and wondering if we need to move to pull this and send it back to policy committee
>> and take yes and take a vote on that. So I make a motion to pull AE policy and send it back to policy committee for review. >> Do I have a second? >> I second. >> Jinx.
>> Okay. Call a vote. >> Director Freddy's >> I. >> Director. >> Hi. >> Director Numo I. >> Director Ramirez. Okay. Did we do everything we need to do on the consent agenda? >> Yes.
>> Okay, great. All right. Um, >> just noting for the record that Katherryn Kenberg has entered the building >> like Elvis. >> Um,
welcome. Okay. Uh, next business in order is a brief presentation from Chief Shaquoin and discussion on the school year 2425 audited financial statement. >> Okay. Uh, >> sure. mic on. >> Sorry.
>> Is your mic on? >> Okay. Thank you, director. That's better. Uh, so we had just spent an a wonderful amazing time with our auditor for a whole hour. I was so excited to go through all the files, go through all
the information um to talk about what was it 414 files, 418 or something like that that the auditors reviewed and that um the district had prepared um for the audit. Um and so just a whole bunch of work that we've been doing and and um
had presented on those results. Uh the the only couple things I would say and then I'm I'm going to uh defer over to Paul for the actual report is that the the results that were presented in the audit were favorable compared to last
year. And I believe that our team made a lot of huge gains um in our systems, in our financial processes to really make sure to shore up our whole system as an organization. and I'm really proud of the team's work and I believe this is a
step in the right direction for our team. Um, additionally, I know we've been through a lot in 2425, a lot of uh financial discussions and this audit culminates the completion of our health self- insurance health insurance fund
and all the concerns around that. um those overages and actually the stop loss that we put into place saved us an additional 800,000 which reflected in the results of our audit that were that Paul is about to present and everything
else came in very close to what we anticipated. So it's it's a culture of no surprises is what we like in the audit. So, uh, those are the couple things I'd like to state and then go ahead and, um, Paul, if you want to just, uh, give a brief presentation and
discussion. >> Um, sure. Thank you. Uh, I'm an auditor. I don't really say anything nice, but, um, I feel like the district has made a lot of progress. Uh, you know, we went through the, uh, 2024 recommendations,
which was several pages long, and, uh, the district has cleared a lot of those items. only has a few remaining. And um I think you've made both progress financially and progress on internal controls and systems and communication
and I think the district's trending in the right direction. So be happy to answer any questions. >> Great. Any questions? >> Okay. Thank you. Um we will now have two minutes of discussion for each board member starting with Director Koulenberg.
Thank you first off um for giving us a timely audit um for giving us a mostly clean audit and for bringing us as far as we've come within just one short year um which I think in the life of things is a very small amount of time. Um so I
I don't have any specific questions about the audit. I think that I got most of those answered during work session and was grateful that I could attend remotely. Thank you everybody for being flexible with this tonight. Um, and I really just wanted to give your team a thanks, give this team a thanks for the
pushes that we've made on finances. Um, and superintendent's team of thanks and the superintendent thanks for for all of that. Um, I'm hopeful that this is the start of a new consistent cycle and process for the audit and that this is
the kickoff for a timely and engaging budgeting process. So, thanks. >> Thank you. Great. Director Defrdies, >> thanks. I had questions addressed in the work session. I appreciate um the foundation we're building uh making sure that what we can control is being done
in a timely fashion, knowing that there's lots of variables that will be in front of us over the next few years as a declining enrollment school district and as a school district who's going to try and take advantage of every opportunity we can to shore up our financial position. Um so, thank you for
your work, Paul. Thanks for the time you've given us um both tonight and uh earlier going through this process so thoroughly. >> Great. Director Nemo, >> I don't have any questions either. I just want to say that I'm so stoked with
this team with your team. When I got to do a tour of the building, I met some other parts of your team and one of them was like, "I love this job. I love this team. We're so tight." And I don't know, that's not something I expected to hear, but yeah, I I'm very excited um to have
you in the seat that you're in with the team that you have and um I look forward to the next year working with you guys and just seeing how we can help. Thank you so much, Dr. Mir. >> Yeah, I'll just reiterate what I said during the work session. Thank you,
Paul, for the time. Um and to Yita, too. I think it's been really important for us to establish this new relationship. um and to set these new systems and norms with our finance team and with the auditor. I think this work has been really rewarding in the long run. We've
needed to have a finance committee. We've needed to have timelines. we've needed to meet quarterly's deadlines and um and it just feels really rewarding in a moment like this where all of that work has really come to a place where
all of us are excited and prepared for a new way of doing finance at the school district. um and just really believing in not only our team um but knowing that we're being efficient and I really appreciate that high level of
expectation and diligence from the team and um always grateful at the opportunity to work with you Paul. So thank you. >> Great. Um I don't really have any questions. I just because we covered
them in both finance committee and in the work session today. Um I did want to just point out in case anyone's listening that um the response to the audit board letter makes for good reading to understand um uh how the district is responding to the things
pointed out in the audit and the number of those recommendations decreased significantly from seven last year to three this year and we had chance in the work session to go through some of the actually the previous year's um audit letter uh which was good to see and
discuss how things have uh changed for the better over the last 12 months. Um so thanks thanks Paul for um spending time with us today for all this work. Um and thanks Christie for um getting us in ship shape here.
Uh thank you very much and uh I'm just going to note one other thing as far as next steps. Um now it it comes to the you know continuing to improve and and those kind of things. And the one thing that we're just going to continue to watch is our fund balance and looking at
that um looking at our minimum fund balance and that is a minimum not a goal. Um but it's something that we need to continue to watch um given a lot of the uncertainties in the current environment uh political um looking at state looking at federal government um
looking at you know declining enrollment all of those kind of things and assuring that our fund balance is going to maintain organizational continuity. So the meaning what that means is that that we don't we're not forced to cut in the middle of a year because we have
something that happens to us. And so that's where it's important to watch that and make sure that we maintain an adequate cushion between that minimum and where we're at here forward if at all possible um with all these unknowns that we're working with so that we can
just uh we can just be really effective as an organization instead of reactive because we've just got out of that reactive mode. So um from 2425 and it feels really good. I think we're in a really good spot.
Great. Um, we will now have five minutes for open discussion if there are any remaining questions. Thank you, um, Christie for bringing that up because we did talk about that in finance committee in regards to finance policy of, um,
talking about that, um, minimum balance. >> Um, can you just elaborate a little bit more on that of what our conversation and sort of what your expectations or hopes are for the district? Yeah, thanks for that. Uh, so the conversation was
we're we have roughly 3.6 million um above our minimum fund balance. It seems like a lot, but looking at the audit report, um, our general fund revenues is 101 million. So that is, you know, that that's not a huge number as a percentage. And so it's it's it's
something that that um we need to make sure we're using thoughtfully. Uh part of the conversation that we talked about was that we do not have a separate fund balance for most of our deferred maintenance and capital items and there are emergencies that can come up and so
we just have to be thoughtful about that as a potential um and and how we maintain that fund balance at its current level. And then the second thing is looking at those those risks at the federal the state level at looking at what declining enrollment is and
watching those those trends very closely and looking at how we can utilize that fund balance to ensure that we have that continuity within the system so we avoid mid-year cuts. And the the the last
thing we start we alluded to in the finance committee was really looking at um that minimum fund balance is to see if that is where we want to land as far as because we don't want that to be a goal. That's the second time I've said that. But a lot of times people see a
minimum fund balance and say, "Oh, we've got more so we can spend all that." and and just really continue that conversation to make sure that we understand the implications of spending that fund balance down. >> And I'll note to the one of the
additional things that we as a board would want to consider in policy is adding the language in regards to the audit um and the response letter from the district. That is a practice we didn't do before. Um and I think it's
really important. I think it's been really helpful for us to get into that practice and it would be really important for us to codify that policy as well. >> Yeah, I want to thank uh um Dr. Cole for her work on that and making sure that that those systems were put into place
as well as the board and as well as the finance committee because all those oversightes were not currently put in or were not previously put into place. And I really believe that that shores up our financials as a district and it puts more eyes on it and it really ensures that we're going to stay in this place
and if there is something of concern, we can talk about it before it becomes a problem. So I think that those things that that uh Paul has done as an auditor and the board and the superintendent are are super crucial uh for the future and I just I'm really grateful that you've
put those things into place. Okay. Anything else? Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Are you standing up here for the next one? >> Oh, yes. The Thank you. I was like, "Oh,
I'm done." >> Um, the next business in order is approval of the 2425 asurances for financial accreditation. Do I have a motion to approve the 2425 asurances for financial accreditation? I move that the board approve um the
2425 asurances for financial accreditation. >> Do I have a second? >> As present. I second as presented. As >> presented. Okay. We'll now have two minutes of discussion for each board
member starting with director NMO if you have any questions. I don't. Director Ramirez, no questions. Director Koulenberg, I don't have questions on this either. Thank you. Director Drades,
>> no questions. Thank you. >> I don't have any questions either. Uh, we now have five minutes of open discussion hearing. None. Um, okay. Assuming no intervening motions to
amend, you can call the vote. >> Director After >> I. >> Director Defrightes. >> I. >> Director Kenberg, >> I. >> Director Nimmo, >> I. >> Director Ramirez, >> I >> Okay, thank you. Thank you all.
Next business in order is approval of the housing master plan. Are we doing present? Is there a presentation? Okay. >> Hi. >> Hi. >> Um, do I have a motion to approve the
housing master plan? >> I move that the board approve the housing master plan as presented. >> Do I have a second? >> I second. We'll now have two minutes of discussion for each board member. Um,
beginning with Director Ramirez. >> Thanks, team. This feels great. I'm sure it feels great for you, too. >> It does. Yeah. >> Um, you know, I appreciated the update. Um, and especially everything that was
incorporated. Um, I did have a question in regards to this this uh plan. Um, if we go into an accelerated decline, is there a process or a plan in place to adjust?
>> What type of decline are you talking about? Like a financial decline or an enrollment decline? >> Well, I I meant enrollment, but financial might might also be a question. >> Yeah, it's a great question. So, um, Rachel's on online there. Um, and I shared our enrollment forecast with her
and they looked at all the numbers and certainly, uh, we could adjust as we go. I think the beauty of this plan is it's a living document. Um, I'd love to be in a situation where we like accidentally built too much housing and we have surplus housing and we're trying to figure out how to fill it. I don't think we're ever going to get to that
situation. So we looked at kind of staff to student ratios projected out about 10 years and it really doesn't impact our forecasts at this stage. And so it'd be you know if five years from now we're starting to see that wow our you know staffing levels and our housing levels
are starting to match up and we then we could stop building we could stop you know moving forward. But I I think it's a really distant um challenge but we have taken it into consideration and it just didn't impact the the goals as much as we thought it might. And Rachel does have a little overview if you'd like her
to share it. But if if you have everything you need, that's fine, too. >> That'd be great. I'd appreciate it, Rachel. >> Okay, I can do that. Um, give me one second. It is a condensed version of things that you all have seen. Um,
let me just make sure that with Zoom, are you seeing the full screen? >> Yep. Excellent. >> Well, outline mode, but >> Oh, no. I can fix that. Okay. Is that better? >> Yep.
>> Perfect. Um, so again, um, this is there shouldn't be anything new in here. This is, you know, some tweaks to what we talked about, um, the last time we chatted, I think a couple weeks ago, um, and, you know, what we've been talking about throughout the whole process. But
you know for anyone who might be listening or in the room who's new to this just a very quick overview. Um so the the four key components of this work were what are the housing needs? What are the housing opportunities? How do we
structure a framework of how we meet housing needs and then what do we actually do over the next 10 years and what's that timeline look like? Um, a couple key principles that we were keeping in mind throughout this whole process. One is the focus on both
recruitment and retention. Um, we can't do one to the exclusion of the other. We need housing in order to recruit new staff and we also need housing in order to keep staff that come work for the district. And so we made sure to hold
both of those needs. Um, the the second piece is geographical equity. And so as we're balancing competing interests and working in a limited resource environment, where do we prioritize resource allocation? Um and so
understanding where um needs are larger and so you know thinking about basalt housing costs there you know housing costs are high everywhere and they are highest in basalt. Um, and then also considering where district resources
are, particularly with land. Um, and then speaking of resources, uh, understanding we're in a constrained environment, particularly financially, um, and making sure that what is being recommended, um, is achievable. And so, as we'll see, there are years assigned
to different actions. And in the full report, we have sort of a yearbyear for the next 5 years. Um, and that's not set in stone. that is, you know, in a world where we have resources available each of those years, this is what we would like to do. And if resources aren't
available, then we shift. And then we thought it was important just to to reiterate the process and the outreach. And so we didn't do this in a vacuum. Uh we heard from staff throughout the process, both through a survey and focus groups. Um and so we
heard from about 2thirds of district staff in this process. And then also as this material was being developed um you all saw it and provided input as did the executive team the leadership team staff housing committee and then the full draft report um was distributed to all
staff as well. And so a very quick overview. Um as as Ben said, the needs are high and so shifts in um conditions will impact the needs, but you know, when we're talking
about 434 housing units over 10 years, um if that changes by 10 or 20 units, um you know, it makes a difference, but it doesn't change the trajectory that we're on. Um and that's that's sort of the total need. And then what we're looking at in terms of a goal is meeting 75% of
that need. So we know that the district one can't meet 100% of needs of employees and um not everyone wants their housing to be provided or subsidized through the district. And so recognizing that reality, we're setting a goal of 75% of that um or 326 units
over the next 10 years. And that accounts for both the current needs of existing staff and then what we anticipate future needs to be as staff turns over over the next 10 years. And as we're thinking about how we meet
these needs, we try to account for the different ages, life stages, life conditions of staff and what that means in terms of housing. And the biggest piece of this was really trying to keep in mind the ability for people to move and shift between different types of
housing. What we heard um through the outreach was that people who got into staff housing felt really lucky and also felt stuck. And so the ability to be able to move within and between units um as you know life stages happen can be
really impactful. And so thinking about the opportunities the district has, you know, land is the biggest one particularly um in a highcost developable land constrained community. Um, and so we looked at sort
of the key land holdings of the district and really honed in on the tree farm site, um, the J sites on JW drive in Eljabal, um, and then the bridges site, the remainder of that site. Um, and then also considering Riverview as that next
stage. Depending on um, how many units we can get on some of these sites, we might need to look to Riverview as sort of that that last piece of the puzzle to meet the need. And then funding is obviously a huge component. And so we had a really good
sit down with Christy. Um, and she brought some really great reality to the conversation which we were aware of, but we wanted to obviously make sure that anything that was recommended fit within current and anticipated future financial conditions. Um and so being really
realistic about the the revenue that is available now and what might be available in the future and really focusing on lower no cost actions over the next 5 years um and looking for you know the 2030 to 2035 window um for some
of those higher cost strategies and also keeping in mind that this is not the the district's challenge to shoulder on its own. Um there are a lot of organizations throughout the region working on housing um and who also have
housing needs and who have different and complimentary resources. And so building up those partnerships, you know, if the district can bring the land and someone else can bring financing um and we get housing from multiple organizations, that can be a really great way um to
capitalize on the resources that we have and and help contribute to addressing a regional challenge. And so the the framework, this is something we've we've chatted through, but these three pillars of providing housing, supporting housing, and connecting housing. Um, and so providing
is, you know, building and housing staff. Supporting is financial or other support. Um, and then connecting is is really utilizing some of these other regional organizations um, and helping get staff connected to
other programs that exist in the region. And so this is a summary of the action plan. Um, the, like I said, the report has more of a yearby-year um, but looking at individual year actions for year 1 to five um, within
that provide support and connect buckets. Um, and this this really creates the framework of the work plan um, for Ben and and for his team to really hit the ground running um, and start making some of these changes. And I know that some of that work um, some of those conversations have already
started just based on um, opportunities to start chatting um, with folks about development opportunities. Um and this is you know the the culmination of about a year of effort um and you know really great conversations throughout um really
beneficial input and feedback from staff um and what we hope is a a realistic plan to move forward. And then to one of the earlier comments um it's not set in stone. It's it's intended to be revisited over time um as one progress
is made and two conditions might change. Great. I think that's the end of the overview. Thank you. Okay. >> Great. Thank you, Rachel. >> You want to go back to your two minutes? >> Yeah, please. Um, and just a follow-up question and thank you for appendix A and um being able to provide all of that
information in regards to the current role and um location of everyone who was surveyed. I did have just a follow-up question in regards to the equity um piece you were talking about. Um, were there any implications
to equity or labor relations that you felt were necessary for the board to be aware of in doing this master plan? >> Um, I don't I don't know how to answer that. I don't know exactly what you're asking. Any concerns regarding
um like if anybody will it dependent on housing or this plan where we might have some equity concerns or any relations labor relations like with our CBC negotiations or anything
that we feel might become an issue for us moving forward. >> Okay. Thank you for clarifying. Um, not that I can think of. You know, the one thing that has come up historically and that there were at least one there was at least one comment in the staff feedback. Um, was a lot of staff are
sensitive to the idea that they don't want general fund dollars diverted to housing because they want to preserve general fund dollars for salaries and things that benefit all staff. And there's an, you know, an understanding that when you do housing, it benefits some staff and not others. So, I don't know if that's the type of thing
you're asking about, but that's that's a concern that's kind of always been there. And I think we're in a good position with that that we do have this housing fund that stands alone. Um, as we consider, you know, mil levy and ways to do recruitment and retention. You know, in the past, we've allocated some of those dollars toward housing. We
might do that again. And and I think that that'll always be a concern. But I think the main thing is for people to understand that the way we have things set up currently, dollars for housing are not competing with dollars for salaries. Thank you.
>> Great. Uh, Dr. Genberg, >> thanks. Um, this is exciting to have this at the finish line. So, that's uh I think housing has been an interest for me for a while and so to have this here is is super exciting. My question really
um is probably one that is unanswerable in some ways, but I'm curious if in development of this plan and our district need, we've contemplated the other projects that are online, um the other housing initiatives that are coming from the state, these other resources that are also
lining up, right? Um so hopefully we get help, right? Cavalry is coming to help us out. Um, and I'm curious one, how much we've contemplated this, and then two, what mechanisms or plans do we have for adjusting or shifting if there are additional supports that come into play
or different different opportunities for our teachers um, and staff to utilize? >> Yeah, thank you. Um, so two things there. One is um yes, I I've done a lot of research uh over the past couple years about how we can access some support and grants and Prop 123 and all
these things that people have heard about. In general, state and federal housing dollars aren't available when you restrict access to that housing based on employment. So, it's generally like counties, municipalities, if it's just open to anybody who works in the area, they can get those dollars and we
can't. Um, fortunately, and it sounds like there was a presentation at CASBY about it, um, there's some effort at the state level to to do some targeted uh, housing funding for school districts. And so, we're absolutely in the loop on that. I met with a person who presented,
Dr. Colt connected me with her um, and and gave input and feedback kind of both ways on that. So, we're all ears. I think, you know, fortunately, our school district is really very well known statewide as a leader and an early leader in housing. So, we've got kind of this 10-year track record. Um, so we
hear about things and people reach out. I mean, at least once a month, somebody just kind of cold calls me and says, "Can we consult? Can we learn from you?" Um, so we're we're always staying a breast of all that. And I think to your other question about, you know, to what degree could we adjust? Um, if resources
became available, 100%. So, for example, the plan says we don't have money to build more rental housing that we need to capitalize and finance until we do another bond. Well, if some great ST state grant program becomes available three years from now instead of five
years from now, we're ready to go. I mean, we've got these sites identified. We've got the data. We know what we need. And it's really just financing that's our obstacle. >> Thank you, Director Defrades.
>> Thanks. Um, yeah, Ben, I'm so glad that you brought that up about this district and the staff in it leading the way in this conversation in the state. I I'm so impressed with the work that staff's done around this. Um, especially Ben
bringing you bringing your vision and your strategic eye for project management at a scope and scale that we really haven't touched on before when it comes to capital improvements. at least I don't think we've done anything as a district quite this far reaching. Um and
yet I look at the memo and I see not only the steps plotted forward but also a good summary of the steps of stakeholder engagement that got us to this point and intentionality behind the housing committee and the outreach and the just thoughtful pieces that have
been brought in. Um I am really blown away. I think this is incredible. Um I love the strategy that's built in to reflect on it too as it does if it does need to adjust. you obviously have those levers. Um, this is really incredible work and um, I appreciate my colleagues
on the board who've picked this up and driven it forward as well, but really staff has just outdone themselves. So, thank you, >> Dr. Nemo. >> Um, I'm just curious like in all of your surveying and talking to teachers and
staff and stuff like what is the general feel? You know, I come from small town Kansas where I mean, this was not an issue. They just got to buy a house that they could afford. Like, what's the general feeling out there with the teachers? Like, are they
don't know? Are they just like, "Yes, we can't wait for this." Are they kind of like um I don't know. Yeah. What's their feeling? I mean, I think there's a general acceptance and understanding that this is a very high cost of living area and that housing is almost
impossible to access on any um really, you know, normal working person's salary in the valley now. And so, people get it and and it's not, you know, the school district's fault. It's not anybody's fault. It's just the way that it is in the valley that we live in. So, I think there's a an understanding and an acceptance. I don't think anybody moves
here today and is un unaware of that circumstance. So, they're choosing to to move here for all the the great reasons that we all live here. Um, and accepting that. Um, then when people deal with the their housing options, they're they're so limited and they just want more options. They want, as Rachel said, the
option to move into a bigger or smaller unit, move closer to where their kids go to school or where they work or where they like to, you know, recreate or whatever it is. And so I think people are really uh enthusiastic about the idea that we're going to help expand those options both on the rental front in the longer run and on the ownership
front in the shorter run. As Rachel said, people feel stuck a lot of the time in our housing. They feel very um they tell us that they feel a lot of gratitude to have the housing, but they also feel very limited by it. And so hopefully, you know, our next project is
an ownership development um in Elabel more than likely uh relatively soon after the adoption of this plan and then that'll open up some opportunities for people to move out of rental housing into ownership and really kind of sink their roots in and and settle there.
>> And is this similar to some of what Sko has done with their different types and sizes and stuff? I know cuz I know you can Well, I guess that's more with rentals. I don't They have different st sizes of rentals and styles like and have you talked to them at all about
>> who's that Eco Dwelling >> Eco Eco. Um we have reached out to Sko. They have a development planned actually in the same area on just across the road in on JW drive and so we're learning from them and the process and everything. Um but I
can't speak to their unit type. I was just wondering how well it was it works to like shift families from one size to the next and you know how you juggle all that. Just wondered if you had checked in with them. Um one other question on here figure seven. It talks about family members and unrelated
roommates and then there's also another one that says unrelated roommates and it probably seems weird but if you could just explain the difference to me. >> Let me find figure seven. Do you have a page number there? Cuz I'm >> 18. >> Thank you. scrolling through my 64 pages. >> I know. Sorry.
>> I think I probably know what that was. Is that from the the survey and just the household types? >> Yeah. >> Um Yeah. So, the just unrelated roommates is is just people who are unrelated to each other exclusively. Um so, you know, three people who just find
each other, live together, family members and unrelated roommates. Um is a family or a couple and also someone not related to them. And so just getting at the trend that we've seen in a lot of our work of you know families or couples bringing in unrelated people to live in
their housing unit with them to subsidize the overall cost. >> Okay. And is it fast and easy to tell me what the other was? >> Um in terms of the other household type. >> Yeah. >> Uh it ran the gamut. I don't have it. I can pull it up.
>> No. A lot of it is like, oh, like I'm renting a room from my parent or like it's a lot of them, you know, where it's clean, we'll reallocate those into other categories, but some of them um are just
sort of any and all type of >> Yeah. No, that's fine. Thank you. >> Could I add one comment there, Director Nemo? So, that that data, I'm glad that you drew our attention to figure seven. That's one of the things that it's kind of buried in the report. That's going to be some of the most valuable data though when we do our next project because for
example we're looking at you know uh ownership housing is generally for people who've been here a little bit longer. We want them to be permanently in their jobs and and really committed to the district. So we might say to a development partner we're looking at people and use years 4 through 10
m match those household types and those income levels to the housing that we create. And that's something that we've never had before. we've been, you know, we've always done little surveys and stuff, but it's been a little bit of a shot in the dark to try to hit the target. And so this is, um, you know, it's a moment in time, but, uh, I think
it's going to be really valuable data. So, I appreciate you, uh, pointing that out. >> Okay. Um, great. I don't have any other questions, but I am really impressed by this work. So, thank you for putting it together, um, Rachel and Ben and and the
whole team. Um, it's just great. It's great to have it as a tool for the team going forward and I appreciate how you've brought us along in the process over the last few years. Um, and before that, I'm sure. Um, and I think we've had a few deep dives in this most
recently in October. So, um, and I I also appreciate how you gave us an update on the questions we had in October in the staff memo. Uh, and also I just now noticed that I got a response to my board tracker request from a few
weeks ago on other developments um that are adjacent to us um in the political environment. So, I'll take a look at that. I hadn't seen it before, so thanks for that. >> Um, okay. Uh, we have five minutes of open discussion starting now. >> Um, I just want to apologize to Rachel.
I was gushing about staff and I forgot to call you out. I know your support has been integral here, so I appreciate that. No one no one in this room was standing around and admiring the problem. You guys were all like working towards it. So, thanks fixing it. >> All good. We like to work in the background.
>> I just wanted to take a moment too to um thank Economic and Planning Systems Inc. I was lucky enough to be part of the team when we first had interviews and it feels really great to have this um document and to also know that you guys
were with us through the whole the whole plan and more. Um I just really appreciate the the opportunity um to feel like we executed this really well. And so thank you to our team, thank you to everyone who's been involved, to our housing committee. I think this is
really an important document that um will continue to support the Roy Fork School District and schools and staff for years to come. So, thank you. And if I can interject just a minute, I wanted to follow up on Director NMO's question and maybe Dr. Park and Chief
Brockman may have other additional components to share, but when we think about staff who are enthusiastic about this, I can tell you hands down hiring managers are like, "Get it done. Let's go." like they are so excited about this work and anxious. We're about to kind of
enter into hiring season. Um and you know the minute we talk to prospective staff like the second question they ask us is around housing. Um we have been very limited in our ability to recruit and as as Chief Bombf Fox shared retain
staff when they want to shift housing. This is going to be, you know, if we can really stick to this plan and implement completely, it's going to be transformative for us as a district. And if the board directors remember this is part of our strategic plan, this is actually about closing the achievement
gap. This is about kids. Um what you know what we know from the research is that if we can recruit and retain a a highquality staff who reflect the diversity of our kids who live in this community who feel safe and supported and happy that is going to have a direct impact on the way our kids learn and our
outcomes. So it is um I will name that like our hiring managers are so excited that this work is continuing and that we're continuing to put the pressure on and have a target. And I don't know if Dr. Parker, Chief Progman, you have anything to add, but I just know that that's a group that's fired up.
>> Yeah. So, just wanted to lift that up as well. >> Great. Thanks. >> Okay. Um, well, with that, where are we? Do I have a motion to approve the housing master plan? We already did that. >> You already did that. >> Okay.
>> Are there intervening motions to amend? Will you please call the vote? >> Director Actor. >> Hi. >> Director Drades. >> Hi. >> Director Kenberg. >> Hi. >> Director Nemo. >> Hi. >> Director Ramirez. >> Hi. >> Okay. Thank you. >> Congratulations.
>> Thanks, Rachel. >> Thank you. Thank you. >> The next business in order is discussion on policies EBA ECF ICA exhibit EF-E-2 and repeal of current policies EBB D EC
and EI. Each board member will have two minutes to share comments or ask questions and we will begin with direct Dur Defrdies, I think it's your turn. Go ahead. >> Thanks. Um, I've gotten most of my
questions answered um in policy committee. Um, and I want to leave time director after for your thoughts on the ECF policy. So, let's not lose lose time for that. >> Okay.
Um, Director NMO, I'm I'm I've got nothing now. Okay, directors, I wanted to ask a question on EBA EBA. I saw that there was discussion on that and I just wanted to ask a followup in regards to um regulations that may exist
or that need to be created to support this policy being implemented. You know, I I would say a lot of those regulations in terms of implementation are done through specific departments like facilities, early childhood, custodial, and so um you know, I think
we really follow some of those like county and state based regulations and so didn't necessarily feel like we need to duplicate that. Does that kind of get at what you're asking? It does, but I think when I think the language as I read it and I don't know my colleagues
could disagree with me, I felt like it sort of implied that there is some duty of the board to make sure that this is happening and so that's where my question is stemming from of is there an accountability on the board to ensure this is happening and therefore do we need a regulation for it?
>> Justice the board will direct the superintendent to have a plan created. Yeah, I think I think you that that second paragraph I think let's correct Dr. Mark the like I think the board's duty as it's written this way is it's really through the superintendent. So you're kind of delegating that responsibility to the
superintendent. >> I still I don't know. I still feel like it says like will cause to be created procedures. So then does the board have to see that? I don't know. I guess I just I wanted to make sure and I felt like it was important to ask. I think even in seeing um that this is required
training for custodial grounds, I just wanted to make sure there isn't a responsibility here on the board. And I think it'd be important for us to to clarify and make sure that that's right. I don't know if my colleagues have anything to
say on that. >> No. When we round, Robin, you should use your two minutes then we can address. >> Okay. Um, that was it on my questions for this policy. >> Okay. Director Kenberg,
thank you. Um, I think that I got most of my questions answered via policy committee. I did put the same question into the policy as you guys can see the comments on the side because I agree that the language says the board will cause to be created implying that
the board is directing the superintendent in some way to make sure that these are created. And so that was my question is if they do exist um and I understand that we have them. So I think that it's just this policy is so broad
and that it touches every department that it still does concern me also that we got a response from our COO but we have early childhood we have nurses offices we have food services we have our our maintenance departments we have you know and so we we fit on some of
them but because the breadth of services that we provide is so great and it is subject to so many different regulatory agencies Um there is still a question for me too just that ensuring that the board is doing what this policy says it
will do. Um I I don't I don't necessarily think we need a regulation. I think I would just like like us to know that there are already these procedures in place um or that it is being addressed and
they're being created so that we're in compliance with this policy. uh and even from the framework of identifying all of the offices and departments that need these procedures. Um or if it's easier for us to have a one districtwide, everyone has their own in
the in the case that there isn't one, this is the district's overarching procedure that hits all the big marks. I think would would meet that. And maybe that exists somewhere already in a staff handbook or something. Um but that was my main question
on these. I think I also I echo director defraes. I think that um ECF sorry you can have that time for ECF. I agree with your comments on ECF and I I think we discussed that quite a bit in policy committee and so it would be interesting to have that
discussion as a board. >> Sure. >> Uh my turn. Um yeah, my only comments were on ECF which is energy conservation. I was delighted to see that in 1981 we had a had this policy in place. um surprised it hadn't been
updated since then. and just wanted to make sure that if there's interest from staff in putting a more um robust policy in place to ensure that the district has the you know codified
um and formal like policy backing to really have that would like put into writing I think all the transformative work that you all are already doing. then I would like to see that not at all intending to like
make a long policy for the sake of making a long policy but given the cost of the amount of money we spend on um on energy given that it's part of sustainability as part of our educational programming the policy as it is and even with the revision feels
remarkably light relative to um other policies that we have in place. So if there's appetite from the team to think a little bit more deeply about what like a really secure policy would be for energy efficiency, electrification,
um climate resilience, then I'd be happy to help think through that. Um and I'm not trying to get outside of your strategic plan whatsoever, but since it came up then I think that's my reaction to it. Um,
thanks director. after really appreciated your thoughts and comments and um they were substantive and so my recommendation would be um we had Chief Bonfog reviewed those and was very open to wondering if maybe we um I think our recommendation to the board would be to
Eddie out perhaps with you and and Chief Bombfaulk and perhaps either director Kenberg or Director DeFrredes from policy committee to rework a draft that could then go back through the policy committee process um if the board would be amendable that.
>> So would that be for So this is first read. So we would do that and then when that process is done >> um second read. Okay. >> Okay. That's fine with me if that's okay with
Okay. Thanks for listening. I don't have any other comments. We will now have five minutes for open discussion. >> Um regarding ECF discussion. Chief Bonfaulk, I know we've done building
efficiencies and received rebates, um, but I am not pulling up which system it was and which building. Um, that are good examples of the district's commitment to this right now. Can you can you remind me what I'm thinking about? >> Director, you're asking just what
actions we've talked about along the energy efficiency front over the last year or so. >> Well, weren't we? We're putting something we're getting rebates from the actual energy company at one point or some I forget. >> Okay. Thanks. >> A presentation we had from a consultant.
>> Yeah, there's there's a couple different things I can highlight briefly. One is um we work with clear clean energy economy for the region, a nonprofit here in Carbondale. Um and they are our advanced energy management consultant. uh and that preceded my time and it just
sort of fell off during COVID when the goal was to flood the buildings with air rather than be conservative about energy use. And uh so we picked that project up and it saved last year I believe we saved about $300,000 and it actually really helped us with our our budget challenges. Um that work continues with
clear and we'll we'll do a summary probably in the spring for the board. Separate from that, um we did some HVAC upgrades this summer and used like some air source heat pumps um and were able to shift some fuel from natural gas to electricity and were able to get some
rebates and we we went pretty broad with that. So those are still rolling in, but I think we've received about $50,000 in rebates and there's about $50,000 still outstanding from kind of the whole range of utilities. Um, so and now as we work on future projects and we do LED
lighting upgrades and all that, we work with core, we work with clear, and we work with the utilities to identify which rebates are available. >> And I think I'm just I'm was hoping you'd bring that up. Thank you so much. That was a helpful summary. Um, whatever we can do if we're working on the language uh, director after to sort of
capture that connection between economic viability and efficiency um, and make that a district priority. So, thanks for that. >> I have one question about equipment not unusually expensive and subject to easy
damage. Who gets to determine that? >> I don't know. What do we want any more specificity on that? When you're Oh, this is sorry EDC. Um, yeah. Authorized use of schoolowned materials.
Oh, >> we're actually repealing that policy. >> Oh, you are? Or we are? That's >> So, we didn't we did talk about some of that in policy committee and started get getting into the language and then >> the team decided it's not a required policy and it seemed to make more sense
to repeal that. Um, >> okay, good catch. >> Okay, any other comments? All right. Um, thank you. All right, we're not voted on. No, no vote. Okay,
great. Uh, thanks. Really appreciate it. Um, the next business in order is discussion on three board tracker requests from director Ramirez. >> There's also one from me included on the agenda. Yes, we discussed this briefly. We are
we're going to um we're going to directors is going to talk through all three of hers and then we're going to do two-minute roundroin after she talks through all of them and then we'll do five minute round robin and then we'll go to yours. Okay. Does that work?
>> Yep. Okay. Um great. So, Director Ramirez, um over to you to discuss your three, uh board tracker requests. Yeah. Um so, I'm working on a couple of different
things and I wanted to make sure um we had time to add them to our policy for I mean to our conversations for next year. Um and tonight I'm actually missing a couple which it was a good flag for me.
Um, so I'll be bringing those forward to our next meeting. Um, but I wanted to talk about um a couple different things that we as a board have talked about and wanted to make sure we agreed was going to be put
on an agenda moving forward. Um it's one is the professional development policy, one is finance and policy committees being put into our policies and being codified and then um a board policy update to reflect additional leadership
elections. Um policy BDA um as it currently stands it is called board organizational meeting. Um this is where we talk about elections and so that one would be updated to include an additional
election in six months which would be in June um to reflect the opportunity for the board to have further discussion on leadership especially after an election year. And then we have, oops, sorry, I need to go back to my
tab. a professional development policy um which would go under policy BBA to include uh further conversation on our responsibilities as board members in getting professional development and
making sure that we as board members are up to date on um our role, our authority, powers and responsibilities and contributions really um as board members. And then policy BDE would be a
new policy um and that is um in alignment with BDF which would include conversation around our finance and policy committees. Um it could go under BDF which is committees of the board. Um
but I think just in seeing other boards like Adams 12 it made the most sense to create something new. Um I am working with a colleague out of Jeffco public schools who is also working in alignment um on these finance and policy
committees for her board and I think it would just be really important for us to have that codified into our policies. Um, and I did note just some of the updates that we need to do in regards to um, our financial policies, but I'll put that into the next board update
alongside the resolution for the library cards. Okay, that's it. Okay, so let's do two minutes each of this questions or comments on what was
just shared by Director Ramirez. Director Kenberg, can you go first? Sure. Um I'm in support of all of these updates. I think this is the next natural step in ensuring that some of the work that this board has done over the last handful of years uh is put into
practice and that it can outlive the people sitting at this table. Um I think the work identified has been valuable and beneficial. Um I would agree that we should create BDE not include it in BDF. I think that that's overly complicated.
Um, and I appreciate, you know, we use the same codification book that the National Association of School Boards uses. And so they do have a manual where we can look at those lettering suggestions um in the names of each
policy. So I'm in support of all three. I think that they're relatively easy lifts and I think that they um will have positive impact. >> Director Defrades Okay, that's the mute button. Sorry, I was like six tabs in. Um, yeah, I'm in
support of all of these. I think they feel like no lifts because you guys have done the big lifts with this a lot already. Um, I think yeah, developing those, putting them through policy committee, that would be the next step, right? Like we you guys do we need to assign who's
writing them or or director Ramirez, is that something you've already taken lead on? Do you need support with that to get a a drafts together for policy committee? Um maybe just advise on uh your capacity. >> Um I think that I I think that I can
rate these. I probably will use support from Jonathan and before we send it to policy committee, but these seem like really easy lifts. It's just language, additional language, and I think I have a lot of experience being able to do that. Thank you.
Thanks, Dr. Nemo. I support them. You know, I'll say coming off the election year, like there's a lot you don't realize that you need to know. I'm Yeah, it's so
coming in um the whole professional development thing, policy. Um, yeah, I support it and I I guess I hope too moving forward when we when we are looking for new board members that this is something that we can talk to them about before they get on so they
understand that it's part of the commitment which they should be excited about. >> Okay. Um, I am curious what the policies will say and withhold judgment until we actually
see them, especially on professional development since I'm not sure what the I'm curious what that one will say. So, um, if there's consensus about moving it forward through policy committee, then that sounds fine to me and we'll take a
look at the content of it once it comes back before the board. >> Yeah. Um, thank you, Jasmine. Yeah, Director Ramirez will kick it off for us. Okay, great. Um, five more minutes of discussion on those
items before we move on to the next. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Um, okay. Um, one second. >> The next item is related to a new policy related to incorporating student board members. Policy JIBB. Director
Koulenberg will now present her proposal. >> Thanks. Um, so I submitted this through the board tracker as a potential future agenda item. It's something that I've been hoping to accomplish in my time on the board. Um, and finally feel like I have the time to tackle. Uh, directors
and I both attended some sessions around this at CASBY this last weekend and I think it gave me the ump to get this started. Um, so I would like to propose introduction of policy JIBB which is student member student representative policy. The purpose would be to get to a
point where we had students um, sitting with us up here at the dis and I will not get into the specifics of it. I I drafted a a policy last weekend. I don't think that this is going to be an easy lift. Um I do think that this is
going to be a lengthier process and that we will need to involve um our student organizations at each high school. So I think it's going to take some community buyin, community involvement um and will take staff time. So, I think it does warrant a broader discussion from the
board to ensure that we're all on the same page uh and moving something like this forward and and an understanding that um it will take some time to get it get it up and running, but I do see a lot of value in it. I think that it is an experience that our students would
benefit from greatly uh and our communities more at large. Um, and it was really inspiring hearing from the districts that are doing this and hearing from the students that are engaged in this way. >> Thank you for bringing the proposal forward. Um, Director Defrades, will you
kick off the questions? >> Yeah. Um so it it's yeah I went to sat in on a session um which had several student board members one one set from Durango and they were all part of a national organization too that is put together to
support student board members which I thought was really interesting and they have a lot of great resources on their website. Um I think yeah you hit the nail on the head director Koulenberg of the roll out. I think the timing of the roll out to me feels um like we really need to be intentional
about it. Um and I wonder in your in your mind the order of operations. Do we policy up and go out of compliance so we just build it or do we spend time building the project making the framework having these plans in place and then get the policy on the books
when the actual program is taking shape? I think it's a it's a both and is similar to how we did the policies in relation to the CBA. We work on the policies while also working on the buildup um in our communities and our schools. Um I think that if the policy
is ready to be passed before the process is ready to move forward that that's not a huge deal to have some inongruence there. Um so I don't think it's like an apple before the cart scenario. I think we need to be working on both. I think that it's going to be um things are
going to come up as we involve students in this and hear their ideas and understand how they want to be involved. And I do want to be able to give students ownership over some of this. And so I would rather work on these processes together so that
we can adjust and policy if we need to um instead of first pushing a policy forward. Um, I think that the board will have to be intentional about the work though and so that's why like to have a discussion with everybody and I'd love to hear from staff on this too if it's something that we have the capacity to
move forward um right now. But I do think that there has to be some sort of kickoff and that's why I went ahead and put it through. >> Yeah, I agree. I think I'm I'm interested in getting crystal clear on like the legal frameworks of student
involvement. you know, is where do we fall on their the voting participation amount? Is there compensation? Yes, no. Like all of those are answered at statute level in Colorado. Making sure that we have those clear boundaries. Um, and then I guess the next step would be some kind of committee with students
in it to develop the program. And my concern and I think my not concern but you know just a a thought is like we need to make it sustainable and not overreach the first year. And I don't quite know what that looks like yet, but I think I have concerns that we
create a program, we make promises to students, um, we need to make sure that it's just absolutely tight. And I feel like a committee is the right way to go there. Um, but I'll stop. I think my two
minutes are up or almost up here. I can't hear the beeping out here if it's yelling at me. So, sorry. Oh, there's lots of other beeping in Vegas. >> Okay. Director Nemo. Um, I really support this. Um, lots of other school
boards are doing it, so I think we can we don't have to reinvent the wheel. We can just see see what's already being done and then make it our own. And I really think if we're if we're not involving the kids, then we're missing a big piece of the picture. So, I'm
excited about this and would like to help make it happen. Great. >> Thank you, Dr. Ramirez. >> Congratulations, Director Colberg, for bringing this forward and finally >> 10 years later, >> finally getting this um uh I'm very
excited. I think this is um something that has been um close to your heart and wanting to accomplish. And I know that there has been just some frustration of like capacity and having the opportunity to really um have the time to to devote
to um this lift. Um and I really appreciate um knowing that you're committed to seeing this through and that this will hopefully happen during our tenure. I think this is a really important opportunity for the district to lean into, to have student voice on
the board, to have an opportunity to really be a representative board of not just um the staff and the district, but also the learners in our classrooms. And so I really appreciate the opportunity
to dedicate the time to this and to to see it through. So congrats. Great. Um, this is good with me for sure. I'm excited about to seeing this uh seeing how this evolves. Um, I do
wonder why we don't have students participate in other ways. I noticed recently or a few months ago I think that um I think it was Balttown Council had a group of assault student a group of assault students presented to
Balttown Council about something. And I know Carbondale regularly has students coming to their town council meetings. Um, not intending to create additional work or pressure on students or or teachers, but like it seems like we're
we could incorporate students in a lot of different ways into our board meetings. And having a bit of an audience might make it more attractive for someone to be a student board member than sitting in an empty room of some grown-ups. Um, so just something to think through I think is not not just
how to add this formal potential formal role, but are there other ways that are um lighter lifts to incorporate students into this proceeding in a more regular way? >> Sure. Um I you know I love this idea and
I have the privilege to get to connect with our students um pretty consistently through our student superintendent advisory councils. Um and they are brilliant and have a lot to say and I think would really um I think this would
be a really compelling experience that um we would learn a lot from as a governance team. Um I I just would and I appreciate uh board directors bringing up you know acknowledgement of the capacity. I think it always sounds easy to say we're going to start a committee
and shouldn't kids be interested in the things we're interested in? We hear I'd say multiple times a month of people saying why don't you send us some capstone kids to do this that or the other? And so you know I think we need to just I I'd be really curious to learn
from districts that are doing it who's running it. you know, when board the board director who's on point is not able to come, who's picking up the communication pieces, how do we manage uh turnover, just the like what is the lift? Um, you know, I would say just in
terms of the committees that we currently do run as a district where we see success and and consistency, we've been really deliberate about motivation and interest and um structures and systems to make sure kids and families
feel included. And um so I just think it it we just need to be thoughtful about it. And I just would want us to be it I I will just name um that even the uh it's a privilege for the superintendent student advisory councils to happen at
high school and it is a massive ask from staff to recruit kids and I'm going to them at lunch. Um but I will tell you it is probably 3 to four hours between meetings of deans and principles recruiting kids, reserving space, making sure they're all there. So, it's just I
just want to name that like um and our kids are they are incredibly active. So, I just I would want us to be really thoughtful about capacity and considering ways to meet students where they're at. Um but I have no doubt that we have students who would love this sort of an opportunity and and really
add important voice to the process. So, we just want to make sure that we're being thoughtful about what we assume is possible or easy um through the process. >> Thank you. Did you want to say anything else? >> No, I was just going to say I 100%
agree. I think that it looks really easy. You see these motivated kids at a conference and they're up there touting their experience. And that's why I say it's it's not going to be easy and it's going to take time. Um, and I think it's very important that we engage students on the creation of this. Um, and that's
why I was saying it's a simultaneous process of policy development and also exploring all of these questions and understanding all of the ins and outs of the things you're naming because there are so many little pieces um to think about and
things that will come up. >> Thank you. Um, we have five more minutes of open discussion on this unless >> I had a I had a question. I'm I'm thinking about the next steps and like how how to be intentional and
build but not overpromise. I'm wondering if there is interest, director Kenberg, from you and then staff, we could build an agenda potentially of getting someone from one of those organizations that done that's done successfully or representative from the national chapter
to do a presentation to the board with how how it starts. Um would that be a good thing to pursue while we're also doing the the drafting of some ideas at the same time? I mean, I plan to reach out to the
executive director director of the National School Board Members Association as well as um get back in touch with some of the contacts that I met last weekend um and kind of start from there just building out a document of questions, ideas, answers. Um, I put
together a draft policy already. And so I guess my question of the board is and staff like where do you want me to take this? I I think that there are many more questions that need to be answered before it moves to policy committee before it really goes anywhere within
our district. There are questions that we need to get right with as a board and have an understanding of our expectations. Um there's like some baseline questions, right? Like that I think we would have to answer um before we involved more voices. And so I would
propose that I do some of that and then bring it back at some point in January um either via work session or an agenda item, whatever you guys prefer, and then we can move from there. >> Yeah. Um,
I just I think I'm I'm wondering about a Yeah, maybe I don't know is this an offline conversation if we decide we can put it in a work session. I mean, I think there's interest. This whole agenda item tonight is does the board express interest in pursuing this? And I'm hearing unanimously yes. Um, obviously very thoughtful caveats about
what the next step steps are and how to involve folks. Um, but then so Director Koulenberg, are you comfortable if you and I kind of look at some calendars? Um, and um, Dr. Cole, obviously staying close with that. The only reason I'm thinking about a presentation is that, you know, I can feel I just want to name
like everyone who's not totally on fire for this idea immediately was like counting because it's a lot. It's going to be hours, it's going to be manpower, people, communications, everything that was named. And so I'm wondering if it would help to bring forward an example of the vision um before a lot of time
and commitment is asked um on behalf of anyone. And I know your notes and your your thoughtfulness, Director Koulenberg will definitely be a part of that. I'm just wondering if it would be helpful to have that third party who's been in it for a few more years and could sort of tell the story whether it is a work session presentation um would probably
feel about the right size for that. >> I think down the line that is yes. I don't think that I don't think it's ready yet for that. Okay. I think there needs to be some more research, ruminating, understanding of what we want
before we get to that step. But I agree that that would be very helpful. >> Okay. Yeah. Let's let's meet offline with this and figure out when it comes back to the board and in what shape. Um that feels like it would be the next step for me. >> Okay. Great.
Any other questions or comments? Nope. >> I think the best way to get kids signed up is to have them nominate each other. >> Other questions? >> Okay. The Thank you. The next business in order is board updates and
appreciations and we will begin with director NMO. A >> let's see. Um, well, Casby happened and it was very busy. It was a lot. The food was
great. I enjoyed the sessions. Um, and I really appreciated being there with my my board ladies. Um, so yeah, I just appreciate the effort that Jonathan and you guys all put in, Rodrigo, for
getting us over there and getting everything signed up for us. Um, that was really a good experience for me. Um, and I'm just really still I said it when I was campaigning, but I'm just really excited to be here with this team and with this staff. I think that we're
different from each other in some really great ways. Um, and also have like the same goals, the same focus. So, I just appreciate all of you and I'm excited to be on your team.
>> Thank you, Dr. Mir. >> Yeah. Um just uh appreciation uh I'll echo to the team for helping us as we planned everything for Casby. I know it's a huge left. Thank you Jonathan for making sure that everything was taken
care of. I know it's a lot and it was a lot of last minute asks too. Um I wanted to mention district accountability happened on Tuesday um the 9th. Um and um it was just really important for I
think it continues to be incredibly important for the board to be involved and to be present as much as possible during those conversations especially when there are questions um arising around process history procedure um just
because that that is such a brand new team. So thank you to Bridget and the team and everybody who is present on Tuesday. Um, like, uh, director NMO mentioned, we were at CASBY, which is really great. It was really important for us to be together as a team, um, and to be able
to, um, network with other school districts and talk about all of the things that we're doing and that others are doing and things that we should be doing. Um, and I wanted to just mention one thing. I did have a chance to meet um with the team at same vein after one of their breakout sessions regarding
pach and I forgot to mention that during our conversation but I will share that with you guys via the website or via email and as well as with the board. I think that that is such an interesting program. They have seven new staff um members who are graduates of their
program um who interned and did like apprent apprenticeships while they were high schoolers and then as they went to college for teaching were able to still stay in the classroom. And I think that's such a huge win for any team.
Having seven of your grow your own staff members in one school year is huge. Um, and so I I really wanted to make sure I mention that. And then, um, we had finance committee on Monday. Thank you
again to Christy and the team for all their hard work and due diligence, um, in regards to not just our audit, but our finances as a district. I think it's really important that we have finance committee. We see that. Um, and then I just wanted to also mention um that I
got a chance to meet with the director of Garfield County Libraries um before we went out on our Port Casby. Um, and I really look forward to having that conversation in regards to library cards for the Roaring Fork School District
students in January. That's it. Thank you so much. Thank you, Director Kimberg. >> Thanks. Um, yeah, Casby was great. I think we got to access a lot of wonderful information, informative
sessions, see colleagues from throughout the state, and just generally get to connect as a team, which was excellent. Um, I don't feel like I have many other updates beyond what I've shared with you all over the past couple of weeks. Um, but my appreciation for tonight, I would
like to give to Katrina Taves, who's our new music and movement teacher at Salt Elementary School. Um, for all of the work that she's been doing. She came into the role this year and um the kids love her. They're doing K-pop dances and she's hosting her first big performance
tomorrow. So, wanted to give her a shout out this time around and thank her for the energy, enthusiasm, um and just allound incredible movement that she's bringing to our kids. So, that's what I've got for tonight.
>> Great. Thank you, Director Defrades. Sorry, I wasn't talking to the mic. Director Defrades. >> No, I got it. Sorry, I just had to get back to the tab that had the button. Um, yes, thanks uh for including me and let um working with us to all get together at CASBY. That was really great. It was illuminating. Definitely something I
wish I'd been able to do sooner. Um, better late than never and definitely going to try to lean into what I learned and the people I met there. Lots of great connections. It was really a treat to watch director Koulenberg and director Ramirez um move stuff. so comfortably through those crowds where they've built these meaningful
relationships and invested time on committees and learned and grown with these people across the state. Um I could just tell that our district has been incredibly well represented there for many years. This was obviously not an anomaly and so thanks for letting me tag along and learn with you all. Um we
had policy committee but I think you've heard everything from that. Um I don't have any other updates. Um, I do appreciate I think the same right now the the name of the game is all the extra time and energy that our teachers are putting in. The band director
specifically at Glenwood Springs Middle School did a phenomenal job blending the band and choir together in a concert that actually didn't go on too long. Like he just kept things moving. Kids knew where to be. They knew what noises to make at exactly the right time. They
were respectful. It was And I also appreciate that. Um, Principal Olsen mentioned that half of the kids enrolled in that middle school are also enrolled in music, either choir or band. And so there is tremendous diversity on the risers and in the band seats and it was
really wonderful to see a representation of the whole community in that gym. So I really appreciated that. >> Great. Thank you. Um the we had a finance committee meeting as has been mentioned um a couple times
now in advance of the audit presentation which was very helpful to get me up to speed on that. Um we also had an internal um Boseies meeting and I've tried to keep the board here updated on Bosey's related and Yampa related
happenings. Um so I'm glad to be able to connect with the district staff on that. Um, and our next Bosey's board meeting is in mid January. Um, and you and I should connect a little bit here and there on Boseies since you're
the alternate now. Um, yeah. Uh, and that's all that's all I have in terms of updates. Um, okay, great. Well, if there is no further business and there's no objection, this meeting will be adjourned. It is 8:16 p.m.
>> Thanks, team. I really appreciate it. Thanks, Lindsay.