001all right we're going to go ahead and call this meeting to order thank you we'll start with roll director Assad Lucas here director bastelli here director Goldstein here director Marsh holen here director Potter here all right I'll entertain a motion to approve the agenda moved director Assad Lucas I director belli I director Goldstein I director Marsh holen I director Potter I all right rise if you are able for the Pledge of Allegiance I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all all right thank you everyone for showing up tonight we don't get visitors very often all right we're going to start with the superintendent update so I'll just say given the audience that
002I see out there and a lot of the dialogue that I'm having with a variety of stakeholders right now I think the singular topic of uh strong interest and concern relates to budget for next year I could start to peac meal some of that puzzle individually on my comments but we do have an agenda item tonight about the budget that Gina lir CFO myself and some others on staff will collaborate on um so for those in the audience with interest about that there'll be a lot more detail to share about like the the picture and the puzzle we're trying to solve but instead of me doing a little bit and then Gina and others doing some of the same ground here in a few minutes I'm just going to defer the rest of my time
003and focus on budget with her in a few minutes thank you all right Board of Education comments recognition Awards and vision director Potter thank you president Goldstein I want to start by saying good evening to everybody I also would like to highlight that I'm incredibly proud to be representing Adams 12 we seem to always provide incredible opportunities for our students Horizon marching band or Horizon's band and Legacy band um both had the opportunity to play in Dublin Ireland this week so they are abroad doing that which is just an incredible thing um and I know not every student gets that opportunity so I'm grateful to be part of a district that helps provide that I also want to say that I completely um support and understand um freedom of speech and the right to assemble
004and how important it is to advocate for school funding um we've talked about it a lot here at these board meetings and before and after board meetings and everything and um you know I appreciate everyone's willingness to go out and kind of have that fight I think it's an incredibly important one so that we can continue to provide resources and support and opportunities to those um to our students here I am um sadden that it has gotten to this point if I'm being completely honest I wish that you know I look at our community and we've had um discussions I've had discussions with community members on all different political places and you know there's a feeling of we voted for people that cared about public education we trusted our legislators to do what's right for
005public education and here we are today um not having school tomorrow because we see legislation coming down the pipeline and changes from the governor that are really going to negatively impact us so I hope that um they will listen they will listen to all of the voices of school board members across the state superintendents Educators staff members um and we can see some positive changes that take place because at the end of the day I very much so I'm concerned I'm worried I'm saddened for the students tomorrow that will be going without resources that have to have an interrupted day that aren't going to get their lunch tomorrow the parents that have had to scramble that maybe don't have the time off or maybe they you know are already struggling to make ends meet now
006they're going to have more time away from work so I am I am concerned that it took um kind of these Extreme Measures to hopefully get again hopefully see some um changes in the end um but at the end of the day I hope everyone stay as warm tomorrow as it's going to be chilly thank you thank you director Mar hon thank you um I doo want to call out the bands in dubland because everybody was talking to me about that at the St Patrick's Day Parade in Denver and obviously most people know Legacy is uh my home high school so congratulations to them as well as Horizon um I wanted to thank the Frank d'angeles foundation for coming um and putting on their school safety presentation I was scheduled to go to it and
007then came back from a work trip with Co so I was unable to attend that um I wanted to thank Northland for hosting us last meeting um for the community engagement and getting to speak to their students um especially about the new um additions to the stem program that was um really great and um yeah I I at the capital a lot and I I would like to call out some of our legislators especially um representative bird I think she's doing an incredible job um and I I think that um missing tomorrow is really sad but I would rather students miss one day and get um a lifetime of education then us keep taking this because we need to stop not funding education at the state and federal level so thanks thank you director belli
008maybe that was a sign I'm kidding uh so I had a very productive week week I last week I visited a couple of schools I went to Mali drive and spoke with a doctor or Kristen Powers there um she's lovely principal lovely vice principal they've had a really great success story I think um that we're not terribly aware of so since 2022 um in the the Colorado Department of Education School accountability framework we've seen some great Improvement um there I think they started out at around uh I don't know 25 30% on that framework and now they're up to they're in the green they're around 50% which is remarkable given the fact that they went through covid-19 to get to that point so a big shout out to the Mali Drive teachers who have obviously
009been hustling and working really hard uh to keep to to make sure that our kids are learning um I also visited Sky View elementary and feel terrible because I did not bring my sky view notes so I might have to postpone talking about that one until I'm able to refresh the conversations that I had with her but I do think I recollect that we've seen some great math score improvement over the past year um and so there's a lot for the uh principals and the teachers and the students to celebrate together in that area um I would also like to thank the teachers for their advocacy on behalf of our children and their public education experience and really this is um this is Teachers standing up for what's in the best interest of our kids
010and it's not necessarily oh great I get a day off tomorrow because nobody wants to go to the state capital and stand there for three hours and that's not a good PTO day but I appreciate you doing that and as Alexa said I think we're at the point with education funding in Colorado where we have to to do big things because it's just come to a point where it's almost it's getting to be un untenable we can't operate any further with the adequacy studies showing how we're already grossly underfunded um being 46 than the nation in per pupil funding and there are correlations that show that when you invest more in public education you do see performance improvements and kids the data is out there I work at CU Boulder I'm happy to share those
011Resources with anyone who wants them so again I just thank um our teachers for you know doing that and I know a lot of us are planning to come out and support it as well um I wanted to bring my son unfortunately he he got sick and so I don't want people thinking he's going to give them the plague so he won't be with me tomorrow but um I do plan to go out and show my support as well for all public education districts in in Colorado thank you director s Lucas good evening everyone and thank you for being here tonight taking out time of your evening um so unfortunately I have not been able to be able to visit schools the way I would like due to craziness with my own work um and
012um the majority of our clients I shared um receive Services through Medicaid with disabilities and a lot of scary stuff coming down with that so um really been consumed with that however I have been able to uh attend a couple things I attended a screening for the counted or uh counted out uh math is power uh documentary which I highly recommend um you know as much as I like to think I know something I really don't and um that documentary is really enlightening and helped me even understand that the importance of approaching math is not just teaching it but understanding the concept of it um and highly recommend it if you have not seen it um also unfortunately I've not been able to attend a unified basketball game but I I did hear that thoron
013beat North Glenn last night but uh um so congrats one thing I do want to say what I really do appreciate um the unified basketball game a few of my clients played who are now in Special Olympics played when they were in high school and they still talk about I mean these are clients that are in their 30s and 40s um and talk about it I mean and they necessarily didn't go to adam2 but they maybe had these opportunities in the districts that they attended and this is such an empowering program for them um which really then fed their their love to continue playing as adults in Special Olympics and even try out other um uh Sports so I also want to give a congratulations to Legacy and Horizon for their incredibly hard work and
014getting um this amazing opportunity to play um in Ireland uh I also want to say thank you to our our district our Educators everybody for continuing to fight the good fight and ensuring our kids get the funding that they deserve um you know one of the things so my daughter is a sixth grader at centry and is attending a is a Boston trip coming up and I went to a meeting and just watching you know her the the Teacher Michelle Pearson who's going to be uh taking the kids and doing it forever I don't think I've ever appreciated somebody as much as somebody who's willing to take a bunch of middle schoolers somewhere um on a field and be so excited about doing it um this is what this is this is what it's about
015I never got that opportunity to go a small town in Nebraska there were not those opportunities and this is before Nebraska even had the vou program that took away from our Public Schools even more so um and so it was just such an exciting opportunity um you know attending my kids parent teacher conferences where that's the student LED conferences and my little kindergartner who has a really hard time socializing and hard time expressing himself being so excited because the love his teacher has given him to learn and to and is so supportive um you know and as has been said by others it's it's really hard that yeah we have to lose a day um however if this doesn't get fixed and this doesn't get addressed we're going to be losing a lot more than
016just a day of learning um for year in years to come um it's kind of a make it or break it point and so we have to continue advocating and working to ensure that our kids all kids get what they need that our state funds students the way that they deserve to be funded and that and again like it look I said even from the federal level don't take away things from kids that will help them be successful um so thank you everyone for your fight in this um last thing please do not forget to sign up for the five star 5K it is April 26th this is another amazing opportunity again that funding help support that gives for students families Community coming together in a really fun way for a really great purpose um
017so yeah uh I think registration still op t-shirts are still available able so definitely register before those run out and I hope to see everyone there that is all I have for this evening thank you all for being here tonight thank you for your advocacy thank you for your support and I hope you all have a great week thank you I will not be placing a bet with you on the 5K I will walk it all right um I went out to Shadow Ridge it's been a couple weeks I see uh Kim mclaughin back there and got to go into classrooms and see what was going on I got to sit with teachers while they were working with their coaches Kim one of them and their DDI their data driven instruction and a lot of
018thoughtful conversation going on a lot of cool things going on in classrooms too um I did go to the Adams 14th state of the union I was invited I do um kind of interact with them down there quite a bit and uh it was really um nice to see what was going on there um I went to the Nea retired Leadership Summit in Detroit um couple weekend like last weekend and um I always enjoy hanging out with Educators from all over the place and you would think right now with the possibility of the Department of Education being erased that there would be really a gloomy place to a gloomy conference but I will tell you that um I was given the opportunity to um see and hear from some really amazing people there's a book
019called Schoolhouse burning by Derek black if you are interested in Reading um books of that nature written by a guy from Tennessee and it was introduced by his former teacher who's a retired NAA person and um he he gave everybody a copy and he talked about you know we are under attack public education is under attack and it's it's a shame I also um got to rub elbows with Becky Pres pres Becky Pringle uh if you go down to the capital tomorrow the na president will be there also but there's going to be so many people there I don't know how close any of us will get to her but she always is very inspiring when she talks and if any of you know who Mar Mary kusler is she's been out to Colorado a
020few times she's the government um relations person for Nea she too is very inspiring and I actually left that conference feeling very inspired that there is hope and we just need to continue to do what we do um I did take a little time for uh hanging out with one of my old colleagues from North Glenn Middle School um and I don't know if you know this but Detroit's across the river from Canada so we took the opportunity to go have dinner in Canada it was not the easiest thing to do by the way um been involved with the IBS negotiations and I went to the movie and count out math you know math literacy is extremely as important as language arts literacy and uh you know some of the things things that um our
021students face in terms of grasping the concepts of math that came out went to North Glenn midle school last week too and got to go into some classrooms there and I did go to the unified basketball game last night against uh North Glenn against Thorton High and um yes but both teams played well and I'll tell you you go to these games enough that some of the athletes were the same athletes that um had been there uh previous years and I will tell you the the most um heartwarming thing from the evening was um Anna Rosa if you're from North Glen High I know who Anna Rosa is she's saying the national anthem um a young lady with disabilities and it just was amazing um I believe tomorrow night or next week is uh mountain
022range versus thoron high I will be at that one um and the reason that I didn't wear a thoron shirt tonight is because I wore a horizon shirt I'm wearing a horizon shirt um I felt like Horizon needs a little love they've had some real tragedies the last couple of weeks and I want you guys to all you know keep them in your thoughts and this is really hard for me but we've also had a couple of Staff members passed away that I worked with um Elise Frank Martin school psychologist she lost her battle with cancer a couple days ago um I go to the same synagogue AER so that was was really hard and then today I found out that Gail Peak passed away I worked with her too she was at Federal Heights
023for many many years and if you know bigail she too fought really hard um but then you know I just want to make sure that we recognize that and honor them um I got a letter from an occupational therapist from Child fine Rose O'Donnell telling me about um their administrative assist jod Davis and how wonderful she is and that she's going to have to be leaving and they just wanted the board to know the greatness of um the work that jod was doing so that's my [Applause] summary thank you all right public comment uh good evening the board welcomes public comment to learn about the preferences and concerns of the Adams 12 five-star community each speaker will have three minutes please use the microphone and state your name and city of residence before beginning your
024comments please give any handouts or information you would like to share with the board to Lee Koka here to my right a three minute timer will be set for each speaker please keep an eye on the timer and you will be informed when time has expired and we will ask that you end your comments at that time our first Speaker this evening is Thomas Scoville on hello there we go Thomas Scoville thoron been a while in my life private sector unions have shrunk drunk as they destroyed businesses like steel and Autos today unions thrive in the government sector because government contct and unions can drive cannot drive government into bankruptcy and out of business I think a hundred years ago Union served a useful purpose but since then protection and safety have been taken over
025by the government no need for unions so today there's not much left for unions to do except make whatever they touch turn to crap tomorrow tomorrow's Wildcat strike is more evidence our problem is poor student performance especially for kids from poor families whom it seems you don't know how to teach this is a tragedy because kids need to know how to read to become financially secure adults sadly I hear little from you on getting kids to the the performance standard but to hear lots about wanting more money this pardon let's keep order sadly I hear little from you on getting kids to the performance standards but I hear lots of you wanting Lots from you wanting more money this continues after the recent very large union pay raise I say if you want to talk
026taxpayers out of more money you ought to consider doing a better job I know you're impeded by the union because it has one Mission more money for union members lip service to the contrary to them nothing else matters so tomorrow students are out of school because too many teachers will be lobbying government for more money with no thought for the students who will miss a full day of instruction and lot on the following day because of lack of cont anity sadly this board is fully own is a fully owned subsidiary of the Union taxpayers par parents and students deserve better please get on with it otherwise you serve no useful purpose finally taber's my friend and a friend to all taxpayers I just helped my do my granddaughter do her uh first tax return on
027Sunday she's getting $177 back from the state of Colorado not a bad deal there's Madam president what keep your hands off table our next speaker is Jonathan reinger thank you I want to thank the board for the opportunity to speak this evening uh my name is Jonathan reinger uh Thorton resident proud father of two Horizon High School graduates I began teaching because I love literature I planned imaginary lessons the way mathematical savants write equations on Windows everything logical and mysterious inevitable and hypothetical all at once but there was one thing the aspiring teacher in me never imagined and that is the Unspeakable love I would come to feel for my students sharing in their amazement as they witness abroad way show at the Denver Center for the first time taking photos with their families at
028graduation celebrating when they win a beter scholarship laughing with them until our cheeks hurt cheering their achievements and grieving their deaths was not something that any teaching program could have prepared me for only those who are in that classroom those who are in that most energetic of spaces who have borne Witness to the artistic dynamism who have stood Testament to their effortless Beauty can understand the depth of that unique relationship in the midst of my 26th year in this work here's what I know Educators care deeply about children teachers don't spend Untold hours planning lessons writing learning objectives and success criteria providing personally written feedback for glamour they don't relinquish their privacy and their personal ambition for days off they don't finance a Corolla on a seven-year term for Grandeur they are paid in The
029Invisible currency of their students success in the Beautiful Noise of their enthusiasm and in the hard one outcome of their dedication similarly we do not take Collective action on a whim we demonstrate because we care too much about your children to see their sweetness wasted on the desert of neglect excuses and half measures we sought and failed to resolve this matter at the ballot last November and now we Face the prospect of empty classrooms and diminished services but we believe too deeply in the breathtaking Souls that populate our classrooms to see them abandoned by those bestowed with the sacred duty of protecting them we are too invested in their becoming to see them abandoned by a line item veto so we show up we demonstrate we shout we disrupt because we believe our children are
030worthy and that they are endlessly enough and until legislators do right by our kids until those with the power of the purse are the same in practice as they are in profession until they declare thy priorities with their pocketbook until they begin protecting children with the same fervor they protect their positions they will hear from us your time has expired thank you our next speaker is Trisha Laro Hello I'm Trisha laru I live in Thorton I'm an Adams 12 parent and the DLP at mountain range last week the Department of Education was gutted that has consequences a student's future shouldn't depend on if their state values education as a teacher I'm gutted it's heartbreaking to fight for our students and our jobs year after year nationally we risk losing Equity among states opportunities for students
031should be consistent no matter the zip code students on an IEP or 504 GT students and multilingual Learners students attending college on Al loan those at a title school and those coping with large class sizes we have students whose mental health is suffering students whose family struggle to put food on the table our schools Provide support every child every day we know their name strength and needs without Federal oversight states that don't value these protections don't have to provide them and that is why teachers administrators staff and students held a Walkin today at schools across the country locally in Colorado K12 education is underfunded by $4 billion that's $4,600 less per student per year versus the national average did you know 95% of Colorado students attend public schools being fully funded to 1989 levels isn't
032enough but we still celebrated that fully funded era at the capital last spring and now the state can't keep balancing the budget by taking from education and that is why we're standing up tomorrow at the capital a cut is a cut and our students are paying the price even more close to home in Adams 12 were facing Cuts larger than any since 2011 I was here at Neer Creek Middle School it was devastating after those cuts class sizes ballooned when we lost teachers we lost Deans counselors and campus supervisors three things we need now more than ever I mean have you ever been in a high school lately full-time Librarians at most schools were cut to half and we lost many other amazing ones including the teacher of the year we lost Middle School sports
033outdoor education and so much more now faced with declining enrollment we also lost a M Levy that we so desperately needed thank you superintend gadowski and the board members supporting this fight this isn't a holiday it's hard work every teacher standing up tomorrow took a personal day because our schools and our students matter we had no other choice thank you thank you TR our next speaker is Joshua Williams hello my name is Josh William Willams I am a Thorton resident excuse me and a teacher in the district for over 20 years and a parent of two Adams students um I'm an English teacher and we are always telling our students to consider our audience yet I'm struggling to Envision mine to whom exactly do I address my comment certainly not the school board who undoubtedly
034opposes major cuts to education nor am I speaking to the district level admin who are likewise against these loss of vital resources I'm obviously not speaking to my colleagues here in read tonight the counselors instructional coaches content coordinators registar social workers custodians secretaries and everyone else who not only support but embody the vital nature of public education so what am I to do other than maybe introduce those of us in red yet again to our community we are Educators we are teachers and coaches and Locker openers and backpack organization facilitators and drill sergeants and shoulders to cry on we councel we encourage we raise the bar and we applaud from the stands at games and performances we stand closest to the door in an emergency between our students in danger we are Skill Builders dance
035chaperon School moms snack providers Kleenex and bad day dispensers and sadly lonely Advocates we plant trees in whose shade we will never sit but we can't do that without necessary resources seeds soil shovels water according to Colorado's education or Effectiveness rubric an Effective Teacher is willing to quote advocate for improvements to teaching and learning at the local state and or national level and yet we are still criticized by some community members and falsely accused of whining for more money or striking or abandoning kids for doing just that exactly what our rubric demands advocating for the resources we need to serve all of our students at my School whenever we see someone doing something that is way outside of their job description we joke other duties as assigned think about tomorrow that way our students need
036us to stand up and with one voice demand from the decision makers that they find a better way a way that doesn't eliminate what they need Middle School sports and lunches and books in their hands and support professionals and engaging electives and not being one of 37 in a classroom we can only hope that many of you will add your voice to our righteous cause and join in our advocacy for their education thank you very much thank you Josh our next speaker is Valerie meters sorry my name is valer Mets I live in Westminster I'm an Adams 12 graduate parent and reading interventionist at cornado Hills I choose to live in the district I graduated from because Adams 12 is elevating Student Success every day it has been through many programs students um receive and
037appropriate class sizes that success is achieved however our district is facing serious Cuts ones that will impact the students of our Adams 12 um Community um through sorry um the margins are the margins are cut to the quick as a parent I would like my child to experience the education I have had in Adams 12 the students of Adams 12 deser deserve an educational experience that Mr Dy and I have both had and I want to say thank you for calling for a workday um to allow me to advocate for my child and for the students I serve um they deserve to have every choice available to them and have teachers who are not overwhelmed by classes um with too many students in needs to meet and um I just want to say thank you
038thank you our next speaker is Anna namoth thank you hello I'm an namoth I've been a teacher in Adams 12 for 24 years and I'm here with a friend who might speak in the microphone next time okay I'm moral support moral support when deciding what to do whether it's talking with a friend or deciding to take a personal day to protest I pause to remind myself of greatest consequences the reality one person creates for another we each what we each do and what we each say creates reality somebody else has to live with the decision to protest potential cuts to school funding creates a an immediate consequence of missing a day with students teaching is what I love it's what I choose I would rather be in the classroom to choose to miss a day
039in the classroom is in an effort to create a consequence that will last beyond my own lifetime we are currently funded 30 years behind the rate of inflation my generation of teachers and the next generation of teachers deserve to fight to move things forward and not regain what was lost the reality we are working to create the consequence we are working to realize for our students for the next generation of teachers is funding that allows public schools to remain public and serve all of our students and just a shout out for someone who's been teaching for 30 years in the district this is our home and we love what we do thank you thank you our next speaker is Dennis vogul thanks good evening my name is Dennis I'm Thorton resident I am not a
040teacher I am a parent of two and a half thoron high school graduates uh one almost graduate hopefully I am here in support of the action for tomorrow I think that the need for collective bargaining is high and I think that the need for Collective action is now we as a community have been shorted for funding for education for 80 years this has been a long time intense program that has been undercutting our education and trying to dumb down our entire population and to have our funding now getting rid of the BS factor and only being in the 80s 1980s for funding is ridiculous it is absolutely appor that of our neighboring states we have one of the strongest economies and our funding per student is lower than that of Kansas Nebraska and Wyoming seriously
041I cannot even imagine how we can justify screwing over our kids to save a few dollars in taxes unions are we the people the government is We the People unfortunately one of those is protecting us and the other one is trying to screw us over actively gutting the Department of Education is a por I'm going to use that word a lot I think but I support all of you going out to the capital and speaking your power and your voice thank you Dennis our final speaker is Keith mains thank you Keith Mains Adams County uh I mean a Thornton City resident and um my kids are older now um I came to speak of a little different uh uh issue uh because I'm not sure where we stand in this uh particular District on this
042issue and it just recently came into the uh public um uh news and uh so I'm very concerned about it uh and I hope that I have some indications that that there are some issues going on uh I'll start by saying I fully appreciate the many teachers who care about their students and are making a career of teaching children my own wife is a is a teacher and um I mean she's not teaching right now um and uh taught for many years both in the classroom and my own kids as well my daughter picked up the bug and she's a teacher as well and she I know she really cares about the uh issues that you all face in the classroom and and I see them every day and so I I appreciate the people
043who are really uh fighting again you know and doing the job of of teaching our kids um I'm calling attention to the policies about allowing boys into girls restrooms and locker rooms it was recently in the news and uh I I don't know and I don't know if I can ask a question here of what the policy is there but it was in the news an Illinois school there was staff that blocked girls in the in a restroom because they didn't want to change in front of a boy who is pretending to be a girl and uh they certainly have the absolute right of their own body and that to me is sexual harassment and if if our policy is any different here in this County I I would tell you I would very much
044support uh a uh lawsuit against that District or certainly against that school and against those staff members who participated in blocking that person and um so that is my concern and uh I I hope that our education would not be in the uh job of indoctrination but in teaching our kids the important uh Elements of Reading Writing math and so on and so forth I'm an Air Force Academy graduate myself I went to the public public system and uh I'm currently a pilot but um and and and I benefited from from science you know from the the science and and all the the math and stuff that I learned and I really appreciated my teachers and and I certainly appreciate all the ones who are doing that kind of work for us today so but
045I I can I ask that question what our policy is that that's my only question I'll just jump in and say um I'm going to ask our legal counsil or one of my members of staff to email you the guidelines we have in place simply stated what we have in place now is aligned with Colorado state law that does extend protections to students who identify as transgender we'll get you the details of that uh okay well then I I Pro test that because a male is a male and a female is a female okay um I believe board committee liazon reports Dak F and LR Pac is there a Dak report there is um and I might need to um have if Dave is willing when we get to the portion where Dave did his
046review of the Maps data I think that's some good news and I don't know about you guys but I need some good news right now particularly around our seventh and eighth grade students where I think we saw uh he shared with the Dak committee that I think we saw a 10-point math score Improvement um over yeah so that's something to celebrate is that correct Dave yeah I'd have to pull the numbers up I know we saw significant uh in terms of math there was significant change uh increases in growth comparing pre-pandemic data to current year data fall winter as well as last fall winter to this fall winter um reading was up in most areas but at a couple grade levels it was down compared to last year I believe in second and third grade
047yeah so thank you we all needed that that good news right yeah um I feel like eore sometimes otherwise um other things that were talked about in the D committee it was very very rich and very fruitful there was a lot of conversation around the spending survey that the Dak committee shares with people who belong to the student accountability committees and a lot of the conversation was around the need to revise it moving forward because it uses a lot of um uh let's say administrative jargon um meaning some of the questions needed to be translated into examples people understand and also it's just a really long survey again this is just a survey that we use with the sack committee members um just to gauge their perceptions around things but it was a good conversation
048it was a heated conversation and we got some great feedback out of it uh and the final thing is the DC is facing a bit of a leadership um sudden loss of leadership uh and that's something you don't want to just dump new people into that role without any sort of prep work but I think the committee managed to work out a good system for addressing that um and filling that Gap in the short term so that was the district accountability committee thank you how about the fact I uh was able to listen to part of the fact um unfortunately not all of it but there was external monitoring reports on insurance and re receivables multi-year expenditures and penalties in filing as well as working on the monetary report sorry monitoring report um and I
049believe uh a lot of the work that um Gina and Aaron are doing is around the budget as we know and and we'll get more information from that thank you um LR Pac has not met since the last time I reported out to you but we do meet tomorrow so I will have something to tell you at the next board meeting all right fiscal year 26 budget update Gina good evening Bard yay it works all right so as Chris um shared in his comments we'll talk a little bit about a budget update um I expect Bo and Chris to do some chiming in as we go along and as always please stop if you have questions sorry the pollen is killing me um so we'll talk through a little bit about the school Finance act
050our projected funded pupil count Revenue estimates and then this is where we'll do some um sharing of information around things the district has talked about and lots of moving Parts hence the more to come okay as I have already shared the inflation for the school Finance Act is 2.3% which means our base funding everyone in the state of Colorado's base funding is growing $195.42 per pupil um in our modeling we are now assuming that there will be the modified implementation of 1448 what that means is that for the upcoming school year we will be funded on fouryear averaging that's down from fiveyear averaging in the current um funding model and it will be implemented over seven years the phas in year one is a 10% of the increase for 1448 as compared to what our
051funding would be with the school Finance Act of 94 modified to four-year averaging so it's a 10% implementation of 1448 in year 1 so I've got some color commentary on slide one if we can go back I'll just highlight a few things that I think are important and and some of what I say uh some of the audience may have heard me say before I'll start with inflation the way that uh our school funding system in colado works is that that they calculate the amount of inflation that's gone on last year so throughout 2024 and then you get some money that allows you as it extends to things like employee compensation and start to pass on to people the money they actually needed to pay for the inflationary goods and services the past year and
052you don't start to get that money until July so you can be paying more for eggs and bread gasoline and other things for a year and a half before we get more money that we can pass on to employees to help them uh manage those expenses we have a strong interest as a leadership team even in a really challenging budget to find ways to provide at minimum uh resources to staff that helped them pay for the cost of inflation last year on the hb1 1448 just want to emphasize that 1448 does a few basic things one is that it gives more money to small rural districts that I think uh it's often unknown that over a 100 school districts in Colorado have fewer than a thousand kids K through 12 some of those districts are
05330 to 50 kids K through 12 many of them are a few hundred to 500 and at those very small systems and all the transportation expense they have they consistently find themselves not able to meet to be viable and continuing to dip into reserves and they beg for money almost every year at the legislature part of what 1448 attempts to do is to say instead of begging for more money each year we'll recognize that small school districts just don't get enough under our system to keep the doors open long term that's a positive thing for sure 1448 also gives more money for kids who are multilingual Learners kids who are at risk to find largely by free and reduce lunch status and for special education needs so that's what's behind 1448 those all serve very
054legitimate needs in our state the challenge thing about uh the averaging discussions I continue to hear our governor say that we should just go to a current year account and that a having averaging and funding that blends where we've been over a four to five year period is unnecessary to meet the needs of kids where they are now and it's a complete falsehood the governor likes to promote that he founded the new America school 20 plus years ago I'm confident that he hasn't spent 15 years balancing budgets in increasing enrollment and declining enrollment as I have and I can tell you lots of examples about how you sometimes have more kids in a school and you don't need more money next year we may have a school in our system that we anticipate will'll have
05542 more kids under the state funding system that the governor envisions half a million dollars more would come to that school and yet they won't need to add any more teachers any more par professionals any more staff because they'll have appropriate class sizes appropriate ratios of pairs to Kids in Need conversely you can lose 42 kids and under the governor's conception lose half a million dollars in funding and you can't do without the same number of teachers and Par professionals and staff to serve them so he is disconnected from reality in a significant way and it's frankly insulting to me to those in the audience and all of those who with Integrity managed School budgets day in and day out and year in and year out for him to suggest that we're somehow into a
056money grab for kids that are in uh vacant seats now we need that money desperately in a state that by objective studies says that we're 3.5 billion to $4.1 billion underfunded to put that into context we currently have a general fund budget for Adams 12 of $390 million approximately that's our total program total program and the governor uh the adequacy study that would have us get another 4.1 billion as a state would send about $270 million more to Adams 12 that's a 70% increase to get to what objective studies say is an adequately funded education that's provided in many other states in our country so I am um Beyond angry with the governor and his just insistence to uh message to our community and our state in ways that are dishonest and disconnected from the
057reality of serving kids effectively [Applause] okay so on this slide what I'm showing you is the 2024 October count for the district we have the line for district managed schools and Charter Schools this does not include the CSI schools so in 20242 we had 34,653 funding pupils that used 5year averaging in 2526 using fouryear averaging we're projecting that number is going to go down 95.4 students and simple math multiply 95.4 times roughly $122,000 that's the year-over-year reason why our revenue is challenging I really wanted to give you that context the impact of going from four five years to four years is 500 I'm sorry is 32.5 students so if we had stayed on fiveyear averaging we would our funded pupil count would have gone down 5849 not 95.4 so that difference in averaging is definitely
058material in my world um and helps explain some of the revenue new challenges that we're having you can see additionally that our Charter Schools were projecting them to grow a little bit they are remaining relatively stable or um flat or growing in small increments as compared to our decline on that slide I'll just say that you may hear from some members of the legislature and the governor that uh we're going to be up one to 2% of funding for next year it's not accurate and the the key reasons why it's not accurate is that the way School Finance works is that charter schools that are authorized by the charter school Institute their students are included in our account and we just pass the money through so that's not money coming to us to manage and
059support our schools or our Charter Schools the second thing is that in so many of the runs we've seen from the governor and legislative staff they have an inflated atrisk funding count for us our atrisk count is expected to decline by a about 6% next year because of fewer students being on the Medicaid roles which has been like an automatic qualifier for free and reduced lunch status that's going to decline and many of the runs we've seen here to for don't factor in the accurate data about how many students will be free and reduce lunch next year and then uh the third piece is they often represent a higher enrollment for us than what we think is going to be real so when you have a lot of inaccurate variables built into the calculation you
060can markedly misrepresent the funding that's coming our way so if you hear tomorrow from folks Adam 12 is going to be up 1.2 to 2% don't buy it and we can give you more information about why that's not true so this is a look at what we're expecting for revenues for the next fiscal year so our ongoing Revenue we expect it to increase a whopping $315,000 um that's because the district's School Finance act portion will actually is projected to decline $1.1 million we do have an inflationary increase for our mevy override money and we factor in the portion of property taxes called abatements um We're projecting that total to grow to 847 th000 or grow by 847 th000 and then our categorical funding will grow by inflation to an additional 54.7 um with the change
061in then the next line is our change in one-time resources and so we're looking at the availability of about $15.6 million in one-time funding that can be used at the board the district's discretion and so part of that is our projected available fund balance that's the unassigned fund balance above the 4% floor that we are um in policy required to maintain and then we have um like we these are not the reduction isn't fully determined but we're likely to reduce a one-time transfer to the curriculum reserve of $4.5 million so that gives us these one-time resources of $15.6 million on the curriculum piece I'll just note uh we currently have close to $10 million in that fund so there are funds for us uh to do some implementation next year at the middle school level
062and to have funds for future years but we're uh We've determined that we're not going to move forward with a math adoption at elementary next year we feel like it's the wrong thing to do for a variety of reasons including the recognition that we've done a lot of change in the literacy space including this year having Benchmark reading and writing both being combined together and we feel like another year of sustaining that work and letting people settle into that is better than adding yet another thing into the mix so just wanted to add that detail all right so I'm going to go through this slide quickly and then I'm sure Bo and Chris are going to want to do some color commentary we have spent um my goodness at least seven hours in meetings this
063week talking about key decisions that need to be made at the district level We are continuing those conversations as we get refined and updated information We the finance team will continue to refine and update our projections that's the unassigned fund balance that's available those are constantly changing numbers and making our best guess in middle of March when we have you know several months of actual expenditures that need to happen the audit acral period blah blah blah it's our best guess we hope we're we hope we're close um we we put a lot of thought and Analysis into coming up with those numbers so we're not you know using a a magic eightball or anything there's a lot of thought there but there are factors that can change that number that are out of our control
064um we will be waiting for more information on the finalization of the school Finance act hopefully we know that by May 7th um and then of course we will update all of those numbers in the amended budget in January once we know our October count um we're constantly mon monitoring the updates around Federal allocations and how that what implications may happen there um with the state budget and then healthy meals for all I I went back and forth about including this but I do think it's important for your awareness the state has a $50 million shortfall to fund healthy emails for all and so they're looking at a couple of options the state is looking at a few options one of those options would be that the non- community eligibility sites C would go back
065to um free reduced and paid lunches we have three of those schools in our system right now that's Legacy Horizon and Westlake Middle School that's one potential outcome the other outcome is um that they would potentially fund all of the schools to stay free through December pending an outcome of a potential ballot measure and then the third option is that they would pull that $50 million from the state education fund so I just wanted to give that awareness um and then the last piece I have came to my attention maybe the end of last week or beginning of this week in the current School Finance act there's clear language on ensuring atrisk funds stay with the district or Charter School based on their percentage of at risk students there's a there's two statutes that deal
066with that I learned through the figure setting JBC hearings that the statutes that exist the language in them doesn't work for 1448 so the recommendation to the JBC was to repeal those statutes what that means for the district is Those portions of our funding would be a straight per pupil amount from the from the whole pot rather than allocating to the CSI schools and our Charter Schools based on their actual at risk elll and special ed students they would get an equal share of the total so that could have that has the potential to cause an additional reduction in our Revenue that we have not contemplated not great news not excited to share that we have um we've been updating our lobbyists we've shared these concerns and so hopefully an an amended or revised or
067new statute comes into play because I believe most people think those funds should go to the schools who have that need but we don't know where that will land so and now color commentary and I'll add anything you guys want what do you want to go next anything you want to share not yet oh you're going to be the closer all right we'll have both over it be the closer tonight I'll highlight a few things uh that I think are just important for the audience to hear one is we're doing a lot of modeling about budget scenarios we'll talk with our principles about some of those things in depth tomorrow for a number of hours one of our core interest is knowing that we're making reductions throughout the system that will be painful that will
068leave leave us short of doing what we feel like we can and should do for kids but we want to be in a spot that what whatever final plan we land on across leaders and Educators and classified staff at all levels folks feel like we've been fair and thoughtful in uh managing this really tough budget that's in front of us we do in our modeling have a step increase plan for certified and classified staff those percentages are slightly different between the two groups we feel like giving a step increase is an important thing to do we've worked hard um over the last five or seven years to change how our Sur schedule Works to make the cost of Step increases at scale less costly with the interest of not foregoing steps even in really tough
069times this is a really tough time but we feel like we need to move forward with steps and um meet that expectation the same is true of Lane movement for educators who complete more credits and meet various benchmarks and thresholds along the schedule to allocate funding for that we have interest uh in some Cola increases too to get us at least to that amount of inflation I talked about before if not beyond the big struggle in debate is should we do that with onetime funds or should we do it with ongoing Revenue the way that we'll get ongoing revenue is to make bigger cuts and so that's one of the real big struggles that uh we're up against and that we'll have more discussions with princip principl about and discussions in our IBS discussions uh
070coming forward but that's a hard part health insurance uh there's a number of things that are getting more expensive for us next year I'll highlight some of them one is health insurance we thought that we might get a 10% Plus premium increase for next year which we've been fortunate in Adams 12 not to have big health insurance premium increases through Kaiser 4 my tenure here they've usually been in like the 3 to 6% range we were hearing up until today that we thought we'd be at 10% plus we now think there's possibility to be somewhere between 7 and 9% depending on whether we make some adjustments to our plan and how things like deductibles work and co-pays we'll see what makes the most sense in that space But it's it's a touch better than we
071thought it was a few days ago a week ago I was talking about needing to allocate $2 million more for health insurance premiums we feel like that's going to skinny down to about 1.3 million so that's help it's still money that we don't have but we're glad uh that it's shrunk down there's a number of other things that are getting more expensive that we just absolutely have to pay uh like it or not utilities are one we're forecasting significant expense increases especially for water and then also some increases in natural gas and electricity we anticipate for like our maintenance group that's fixing broken down HVAC systems and other building systems that the parts budget we've been in the red consistently and there's more and more inflation that we're expecting there uh there's lots of uncertainty
072about what tariffs may do in terms of pricing for a variety of items so we're going to need to make some increases for things like our maintenance budget our custodial supplies budget and there are things like our it contracts where we have third parties who provide maintenance support for software systems hardware systems that it has been instead of implementing additional services and refreshing devices maybe at the same scill as they'd want they've been borrowing against that money to pay increasing cost for maintenance contracts for a couple of years they are going to go into the red in 26 27 if we don't give them more money to pay those increasing bills so that's about a $600,000 increase those are um just some highlights about Beyond just the deficits that uh Gina highlighted in terms of
073Revenue year-over-year and it uh going backwards we also have some of those cost increases that they're just non-negotiable for us we are going to work hard uh with our leaders with other stakeholders to find the best possible way to minimize reductions but it's going to be a hard year um we've looked at various scenarios and there's just a lot of tough J job loss akin to what I've heard folks like Trisha described earlier on um in the 2010 11 11 12 12 13 year it's a really hard and heavy time and um I hope that there's a way that as a state and as a community we can break free from it I'll just highlight some final points that I often say about budget that put us in the spot we uh are currently 14th
074out of 15 in the Metro region in terms of supplemental revenues that our community has approved for us there's lots of communities that have lots of people with low incomes and high poverty that have invested more in their schools than our community has there's places like Aurora for example where 70% of their kids are free and reduced lunch where they have a much larger mevy override than us and we find ourselves trailing all of our neighbors other than 27j sometimes by massive amounts of money it's a $90 million plus difference each year in terms of what Boulder Valley gets to serve their students versus what we get if you cross to the east side of Sheridan to serve kids here so milovy override in equity is a problem our governor and legislators often don't want
075to talk about it or acknowledge it and they're the ones at least our legislature and sometimes our other leaders over the last 30 years who've created that problem it used to be when I was young in my career that you could supersize your funding with an override by about 9% it's now that you can suers siize it by 50% and some districts have done that many of them all around us and we haven't um so that makes some of the pain that we're going to feel here bigger than some other places where they have resources to draw upon from miling overrides that we just don't have we just have to figure out as a state and a community where we want to give because right now the reality in Adams 12 is we uh at
076the state level have seen a number of Statewide ballot measures not go forward and there's people saying like our governor that we can do more with less and constantly asking to reduce tax rates and we find ourselves in this spot now that a year ago they're celebrating to Taylor Swift songs about we're uh breaking up with the budget stabilization factor and we're never never getting together and then you come up with a cuty new description for it this year and change the tune completely so we either have to add more money in terms of state taxes we either have to change Taber refunds or we have to add significant new money in at the local level and if we don't there's not any magic rabbit that I can pull out of a hatch or the
077board can or the Gina can that's going uh to take away the real Challenge and pain that we have so I hope at some point all three of those things to some degree change because right now to be funded at two at 390 when we should be at 660 and 70% of a bump uh being what it would take for adequately funded education and and uh in Adams 12 that's just completely wrong Bo that's not very nice um so all the Chris Gina did a really good job with the nuts and bolts what I would I would share for all the audience tonight is behind all of this work we've been thinking about our people and one of the things we continue to be rugly cognizant about is how do we get this as right
078as we think it needs to be because there's a lot of noise in this and yet we know people need to know sooner than later and need to know with dignity and need to know in enough time to feel supported so um we talk a lot about the numbers I want everybody in this room to hear we're also thinking about how this is going to play out for individuals in our system unfortunately to do what we need to do around compensation maintaining key work in our system we are going to have to have some reductions but we want to move forward that we get that number right and that we support people that are going to be impacted by this as thoughtfully as possible and I just want people to know that the discussions aren't
079always around the money ABC it's around how do we take care of people um when the news is what it's going to be so that's what I'd add I Echo Chris's point that as a state we've got to have a reckoning around this because there have been far too many times where we've been making choices that aren't about where do we cut frivolous it's where do we really uh swallow hard about not doing things that that kids deserve and I'm I'm tired thank you Bo thank you Chris thank you Gina is there any questions I do have questions just follow-up questions um so the model that you've provided to us Gina it takes a look at the most recent sort of compromise being promoted by um representative mclusky correct so it's the 10% this year
08010% increase retaining the four-year average right correct okay but last year when people voted on the school Finance act the plan for this year was to have what in place it was the four-year averaging and year one was an 18% implementation and the school Finance Act of 1994 that is compared to 1448 was still fiveyear averaging and so when you change the number that it grows by and the percentage that we're um implementing the impact for Adams 12 results in US receiving that 1.1 million less in Revenue if we and I'm going from memory I'm going to look at Aaron and see if he can pull it up to shake his head I hate quoting numbers you guys know that um my recollection is if implemented with 1448 as written and and current law we
081would have seen a year-over-year increase in revenue of about 3.5 million is that the right model Aaron shaking his head yes um we've run 17 models so I have all the numbers jumbling around but it's a significant impact better than the alternative but yeah um and then the next question I had is um and this is something super intendent gdowski brought up which is that um the Medicaid numbers may be falling and I wanted to ask what the cause or reason behind that might be that's a great question so during Co they imp elemented some measures where income verification was not needed to retain Medicaid Eligibility those were lifted I think last year and so this was the first year since covid that um people had to prove their eligibility to remain Medicaid eligible and
082so our students who were Medicaid eligible were in that free and reduced lunch category um as a direct certification and roughly 6% of um our free and reduced lunch um declined by about 6% because of that Medicaid Eligibility okay thank you Paula one point I would uh just add to in terms of the speaker's proposal at this juncture she's carrying forward a proposal that the governor has made and Beyond the 10% implementation on four-year averaging he's also demanding that enrollment averaging go completely away over the next several years what I've consistently seen from colleagues throughout the state is no way are we saying yes to that deal there's just so many examples of how our state is consistently overestimated revenue and that we're going to be able to do all these great things and then
083the next year it's like oh sorry we can't do it so one example is the school meals for all that Gina talked about the $50 million deficit a second example is universal preschool for all we can do it for everybody and we can give you even more hours that we talked than uh of service and we talked about when we put it on the ballot and like oh nope we don't have enough money to do that we'll change that idea we can do four-year averaging and not have the budget stabilization factor that was the theme last year and already they're reneging on it now so in terms of trusting the governor to accurately forecast revenues and say that uh everything's going to be great next year no one's buying it well and that was going
084to be my with the seven-year phasin this is what we were talking about today there's no guarantee and that's one of my concerns is is they're telling it's like oh it's 10% this year but the next year how much would be the percentage and then the year at you know there's no guarantee that would even happen that's correct and the phase in the way it works is year 1 10% year 2 30% year three 40% year 4 50% wait it grows 10 20 another 10 another 20 and so at the seventh year you get to 100 if I was looking at it I could do that a little easier but yeah that's how the current bill is written yeah but you're right no guarantee and the other thing I just had an observation around this
085and it was around the falling enrollment numbers and I think sometimes in what I hear is we just need to do a better job of retaining students but what I would like to point out is that of the 172 districts in Colorado 136 have fallen in enrollments this is not a culture problem per se this is a state problem we're losing people in this state so um I just wanted to clarify that yeah we're losing people are moving out of the state and birth rates are down and so those are two of the primary causes of our declining enrollment thank you any other questions thank you Gina thank you thank you thank you Aaron yeah thanks [Applause] everyone okay on to board policy 2.5.8 policy revision um you have a proposed draft um to has
086to do with when does the board have to approve expenditures and revenue that's correct we're talking about uh board policy 2.5 asset protection and specifically one portion of that policy 2.5.8 and it talks about when the Board needs to approve asset acquisition and disposition and it's a $500,000 threshold and the easy part is the $500,000 however uh over the last three years since this policy has been revised we've had a lot of internal discussions among District leadership about what when board approval is required and when it is not and my proposed solution to try to address that is to Define property asset acquisition right in the policy and also to Define disposition right in the policy so does anybody have any questions we're GNA just talk about it tonight and then we'll vote on it
087next time and then I have another wrinkle to talk about too in this particular one yes okay go ahead well this week another situation arose that I did not put into this policy yet but I may take a shot at uh fixing this in the next couple of weeks and ask you to vote on that in April and that is a situation where we had hail damage of around $1 million at two of our buildings vmac and future forward wash Square we report that to our insurance carrier they pay us a million dollar minus our deductible and we need to make repairs for approximately $900,000 because a repair restoration is an asset acquisition in excess of $500,000 I believe under current board policy uh we would have to come to the board and get you
088to approve that and if you want to approve that sort of thing that's fine and we don't have to change the policy if that's something that doesn't seem like uh would require or be of interest to the board to do that which I think is sort of a perfunctory ministerial type action we could add another exception uh to the first paragraph that first paragraph uh currently says that there exceptions basically for things that the board has already approved like implementing a bond program uh an override plan or specifically identified budget items and my draft in my head so far is to potentially add another exception that says uh repairs funded by insurance proceeds would not require additional board approval so chew on that go ahead can it fold into this or do you it would
089it have to be its own separate change well because we're not planning to vote tonight I would uh write that up into a proposed change to the policy to be considered and voted on at the April 9 meeting and I could prepare two versions one with it one without it and you can choose which one you want okay thank you should do that thank you all right uh board policy 2.5.7 um that's under operating limitations I can keep I can keep talking if you want yep right it's all on you board 2.5 Point board policy 2.5.7 is another subpart of asset protection and again in uh 2022 the board made some changes to that policy and the policy on 2.5 5.7 um talks about when the board would receive procurement reports and it says that
090um the level of detail and the frequency of the reports will be established by feedback from the board and is intended to be flexible um I'm not aware of the board giving any feedback um recently and I think the question to the board is whether you want procurement reports if so how often and how detailed and I'll let uh Gina answer any questions you have about procurement reports and how much detail they may have questions comments that's what I'm just going to need to think about for for a bit and this is something we're not requesting a change in policy or recommending a change in policy we're just reminding the board that that policy is there and if you want procurement reports provide feedback and you will get them I'll just add uh some of
091what I've heard board members say over time so we started this policy about 25 years ago now and I think the original policy wanted us to provide maybe a monthly or quarterly report of every expenditure of $5,000 or more that board members could come in to the board assistants office and review they never did that uh and we stopped as a staff providing those reports because no one was accessing them then I think there were discussions about we'd like to look at things over half a million dollars in terms of an annual expenditure sometimes it's like give us the top 20 or 30 vendors that we work with and then there's been some discussion about I don't know that we as the board need any of that information because there's times especially a more recent
092history that we've had groups I believe like the finance and audit committee that look at some vendor expenditure reports so that's some of the history that I've heard um if it helps just for some further thinking about what you'd like to do would this report tell when um rfps are up I just wonder as a board where that where we get notified when we're going back out to bid on new vendors um and if that would be included in this so historically we've not uh provided notice to the board about RFP solicitations there are rfps on the street all the time uh I don't have a handle for it even Gina may not uh for all of them but if that were a strong interest we could talk about what that looks like well and
093isn't that one of the rules with the fact is kind of reviewing some of those with uh in the different departments department heads coming on talking about the RFP process and all right okay that's what I thought okay we'll bring it back for vot at the next meeting thank you before too many of you leave I just want to say thank you uh and I'll see you tomorrow um and feel free to stay I just noticed you know I get you know some this stuff can be kind of mundane we won't take it personally if you get up and leave during the policy language word smithing we we get it but will take great offense to [Laughter] that okay well now we're have an action item the proposed agreement with true life companies I will
094entertain a motion to authorize the administration to take all steps necessary to enter into an agreement or a series of agreements with true life companies also known as ttlc Thorton East Lake LLC true life regarding District property south of the educational support center that will a dedicate a permanent rideway to the city of Thorton for 125th Avenue B dedicate a permanent utility easement to the city of Thorton C have true life upgrade its planned storm water drainage system along Claude Court to accommodate storm water from District property in exchange for a $30,000 payment from the district and D Grant true life a temporary construction easement on District property so moved second Phil with would you like to elaborate sure uh this is a matter that I've kept the board informed of over the last six
095months to a year probably and it involves the development of the property south of the ESC U that property um owned by true life is just south of our 13.5 acre parcel that we tried to sell some years ago we ran into some uh difficulties in closing that sale due to the lack of water availability in Thorton the city of Thorton has now um resolved most of its water issues and they are now in the process of uh taking development plans again uh true life is pretty far down the road in their development plans and the one portion of this um regarding the storm water would be a tremendous help to the district when we tried to sell this property several years ago um storm water drainage was one of the issues that we ran
096into and the cost to fix that problem at the time was approximately $1 million so if we could use someone else's pipe for $30,000 that is a great asset to us and will uh help us get the maximum value for our 13 acres when it comes time to sell that two of the three things here uh that we're asking for dedication of the RightWay to build the 125th Avenue and the utility easement would both be required by the city of Thorton sooner or later so I see no problem with doing that sooner in order to facilitate this development and the final thing is a temporary construction easement to assist the neighboring property in its development and temporary uh is just that and it it will be built in s or the agreement is written in
097such a way that it will not interfere with our plans or our operations so I strongly support I strongly urge you to vote in support of this okay call a vote director Asad Lucas I director bastelli I director Goldstein I director Marsh Holan I director Potter I okay we're approved minutes I will entertain a motion to approve the minutes of the regular board meeting minutes and work study session of February 26 2025 and the special board meeting of March 5th 2025 as presented so moved second any discussion director Assad Lucas I director bastelli I director Goldstein I director Marsh holen I director Potter I okay monitoring report direct inspection monitoring governance process policy 4.7 cost of governance um you have an attachment in your packet this is our budget okay how we doing um well
098I can pitch in a little bit here okay um um met with Jarvis so we're trending really well our Target um for the end of February should be uh 66 6.67 were're well below all of that except in our other expenditures line uh which is 99% which is the only thing in there is our casby annual fees which have been paid so it should be where it is well and I know if I can speak to this but because we haven't voted but I was looking at the projections for next year's dues and it looks like it might drop a little bit if it if it goes as planned yes and we'll be I'll be working with Jarvis actually tomorrow to start building our our board budget for next year so you guys should have
099that shortly as well thanks any comments questions I just would ask Stephanie maybe to share a little bit more I think that the main line item of any significance in the board's budget is for purchase services and it's uh my belief is that's mostly if not uh entirely election expense but if you could talk more about what's in there I think that could be helpful and you can also phone a friend Gina all right let's look to Gina and Aon to give us some more information on that great so couple of things one as Chris mentioned the election Services line item is budgeted within the board's budget we do keep it in there again it'd be one thing if we know we don't have a an election necessarily every year or have those expenditures every
100every year however if we were to take it out then we'd have to put it back in take it out put it back in so it's a good placeholder overall another piece in there is the board hires and hires the independent auditor and the independent audit is also that expenditure is in there though I don't like it those Auditors don't report to me they report to you and so that that piece is in your budget as well so those are the the largest components of purchase services and of course we'll be going over our budget more in the next couple of months and then it's kind of rolled into the whole budget for the district that we'll vote on before the end of June okay all right consent agenda I will entertain a motion to
101approve the Personnel actions as listed resignations and terminations transfers and reassignments employment and leaves of absence so moved second any discuss okay director Assad Lucas I director bastelli I director Goldstein I director Marsh holen I director Potter I I don't know if we've had so many people stay to the very end no great all right next meeting I um am pleased to announce that dinners on me um I threw my card in a bowl at casby one of the people that do um and some of us got to eat some of their samples I won a dinner for us on April 9th so that's what I'm looking forward to um where's it from um where is it what's it's a I don't even think it's a local I'll let you know before yeah my sense
102is a it's a vendor that wants to provide uh privately uh vend supplied meals at schools there are some districts that contract with places like sedexo for things like meal service for kids so it's probably someone like that and I told them that we make our own but they said that didn't prude me from putting my name in the Hat all right um more budget budget and monitoring next time and then also April 16th um any comments before we adjourn well we're adjourned thank you everybody thank you oh my gosh crowd very good