001for the pledge of allegiance. To the flag of the stand, welcome and thank you for coming. Uh, do we have any need for translation? Oh, okay. At this time, I will accept a motion to approve today's agenda. I will make that motion and I'll second that. I have a motion and a second. All in favor? I. Any opposed? Motion passes 40. Um, we'll move right into our student representative reports. Sorry to throw that at you so quickly. Um, well, there's nothing going on besides just like leadership training at school. That's why. Great. Great. If you need anything from us, let us know. Um, moving on to board member discussion. We'll turn the time over to Director Gerber for our legislative report. I don't have anything for legislative report today. Okay, we're cruising right through. We're
002going to break a record. Depending on how many slides Josh has. Um, at this time, I'll accept a motion for required approvals. I'll make a motion to approve required approvals. I will second that. Uh, I have a motion and a second. All in favor? I. Any opposed? Motion passes 40. And at this time, we'll turn the time over to um Josh for our superintendentformational items. There are just a couple slides here. Uh, this is just a followup. uh when we left the retreat last week, there were a couple of questions to be answered and so we want to make sure we got back to you uh that you've seen that slide uh again you we would have seen it on on Tuesday night but it's just uh if we are looking at a February election
003uh February 2026 election uh that would be the timing and the pieces how they come together. Um, Azaro had asked a question about uh, could we run in November? And so we did some research and the answer to that, the quick answer to that question is yes. Uh, if you could go to the next slide, please. Um, but I want to be realistic with you in next one. There you go. What that would look like. Um, it's a very tight timeline. Uh, so basically the the resolution has to be filed with uh, Adams County by nove or by August 5th. Uh there are only two existing regular board meetings between now and August 5th. And so that would mean at those two meetings uh you would need to to do the two-step approval process for
004a levy resolution. So, uh, yes, it's possible, uh, but it it would need to be, um, pretty efficient and and I think the biggest risk in that I don't doubt at all that you all could do the the work there and we could do it from the back end to get it ready. It's does that give ample time for the community communication and the pieces that follow it is I think the bigger question. So, um, so those are the dates that uh, election day is November 4th as you know. Um but the two meetings that are scheduled in July are July 14th and 28th. And so typically that first one we would bring you uh all the details and facts and everything uh to make it and then the final resolution would be approved at
005that last meeting in July and then we would turn around and file it right away by August 5th. So um I don't know if you have questions about that or the other you were thinking about February for the Would it be because I've just found out today there might be another jurisdiction running another bond possibly in February could be ranging from 3 million to 20 million for sure on would that possibly affect it especially if it was the $20 million bond the school could it kind of send a negative impact certainly there's probably lots of things to consider and one of those if there's another entity in our community that's putting forth a new attacks. Um you know people do look at the full scope of it and make a determination of of what's affordable
006for their family or business or farm or whatever they're they're voting on behalf of. So I think you have to you have to take all of that into consideration and really make a determination of what's best. So I didn't know that. Yeah. So, do we wait for board discussions or do we talk about it now? Um, we already are past board discussions, so I think we it's appropriate to talk about it right now. So, are you talking about the one for the fire department, Ken? Is that the one you're No, that one will be out in November. I'm talking about the city of possibly going for several options discussed from repairing it, which is right around Their top choice was 20 million. They did have a couple in between, but my understanding is they want
007to go out February. So, but they're not for sure on the direction. On top of on top of that one, I did read that there are going to go out for one for um they don't have enough funds for the fire department now that it's splitting up between And so that one's going as well. So there's quite a bit of them coming coming at us. So we need to uh maybe start looking at this a little deeper thinking or start putting our stuff together or trying to figure this out. But the people from Mulla will be getting hit quite a bit in the next two to three years. If I might offer you a suggestion, uh, one of the things that we can do uh, in preparation for our July meeting is we could basically
008get the package ready and whether you choose to take action on it or not could choose if the path moves forward. So don't feel like you have to make a decision right at this minute. But, uh, basically what we need to hear from you is if if that's of interest to you at all, we have some work on our end to start doing to getting the package ready. And I think and I think for us I I honestly believe uh for the group of us uh not and including Mariah is actually maybe having another um executive session or having an open meeting where we sit down because we knew it was going to be a this one was going to affect the next one, the next one, the next one because of what we were
009going to do. And I think more now than ever, we really need to figure out that timeline. I I know the city of Oello one will affect just the residents of Oello and like their last bond that went out. They went out with park and rec district boundaries, which is basically the school district boundaries. But this time they can't do that. So it would have to be the city of fellow residents only on that lot. I know the county one fire department will only be for the county residents. So, it affects all of our voters within the school district. Is the is the fire department still going to run a bond um if there's still potential for negotiations for maybe that not splitting or is that deal done? That would be I think more of
010a Ken question. I think he knows a little more on that one. What they're proposing is a levy lift uh through the county residents. I believe they put out a letter today. It's right around 30 cents per thousand. I there is potential but until after July discussions I don't want anything to fire department agreed that's what they're looking um I would say as far as the board's concerned concerned. Let's move forward with some haste um so that we could potentially be ready for the August 5th deadline. And the only if you choose not to act on it, the work is not for you know it just pushes it out a little bit. So it's it's perfectly okay for us to to get going on that. So yeah, just one other slide real quick. If there's
011no other discussion, um, you have to know, first of all, I hate admitting when I'm wrong, but I was wrong the other night in the board or in the retreat and I need to clarify something. So, uh, I used the number, um, remember when we were talking about bonding capacity and basically being like a credit limit for a school district for bonds. I used the number 10% which was inaccurate. It's actually only 5%. The number is still uh, a very massive number that's that's far beyond what it probably we would be looking for anyway. But I just do I do want to clarify that. So based on RSS valuation last year was 2.4 billion. So on that 2.4 billion, the 5% would mean um at any given time we can't have any more than 124
012million out in in bonds. And and right now we have about seven and a half million uh is left those three remaining years on the 19 2007 bond. That would even be a high school if we needed it too. It'll get us a lot closer than the zero dollars we have right now. But and keep in mind that number doesn't include things like state match. That's what's actual the the debt occurred to the district or the taxpayers of the district. So state match would be on top of that. Great. So basically you're telling me it's 124 and then it would be whatever the state would give us on top of that. Correct. So okay. So that this the state match doesn't count 5%. No, because it's not considered local debt. That's the elected by your
013voters in your community. So, question. How do we get that to 10 instead of five or is that a role or um I we think it's an RC. I'm it is an RCW. There are like there's certain conditions which allow districts to apply for more than that. Um, but frankly speaking, I don't think Olla is going to meet that qualification because it's it's really intended for really property poor districts. Um, and we're not considered one of those. So, yeah, it's more than I thought it was going to be. So, wait till we go out for 70 bonds out here. We'll get there. All right. Well, thank you. Okay. Thank you, Josh. Um, next up we have our policy review. Um, this is just our first reading. Please review those and then we'll vote on those
014at our next meeting. Um, Marissa, do we have any public comment? No public comment. So, we'll move on to upcoming events. July 14th at 1 p.m. we have our next regular scheduled board meeting. And then July 28th at 1 PM we have our last board meeting of July. Does anyone have anything to add to that? No. Okay. Would we put something in there for for should we put something temporarily in case we do decide to uh act on this levy deal? Should we maybe make a date to where we could all get together and have conversation? Um let's have Marissa reach out to each of us and set an appointment because Mariah's not here. So, if we need a an an additional board meeting or an executive session moving forward, maybe you can coordinate that
015with Josh to see um when they're ready for more information for us. Excuse me. Okay, we'll move on to the board self assessment of the meeting. Quick. Yeah. Well, agenda very much. So, thank you Josh for that information. We have a lot to think about, a lot to consider moving forward with our levy and potentially a bond in the next few years. So, um we got to do what's right for our kids and right for our community. So, thank you for coming to the meeting ready with that information. Appreciate it.