001okay all right red light is on so we are live everyone um welcome to the August 8th 2023 board meeting the 2023-24 school year has officially started and we're excited that you've joined us this evening may we begin with interpretation instructions for our Spanish-speaking audience thank you thank you madam president hello participants interpretations companies I'd like to call the regular meeting of the Adams 14 Board of Education on Tuesday August 8 2023 to order please join me as we stand for the Pledge of Allegiance and a moment of silence tomorrow is International Day of the world's indigenous and I ask that we observe this moment of silence in their honor I pledge allegiance of the United States of America indivisible with liberty thank you everyone always try to count my head but I'm sure I
002spent less time than I should have so sorry uh first on the agenda Israel call Vermont or can you conduct roll call please Mr Amador here Mrs Estrada Ms Lovato Here Is Molina here thank you and then we have um lots of meeting minutes may I have a motion to approve the minutes of June 13th 2023 regular meeting the June 27 2023 study session and special meeting and the June 29 2023 special meeting so moved second thank you before we move on to roll call I just wanted to add a quick note regarding the June 13th minutes and recording I'd like to thank the talented and our linguistically gifted and brave students that presented their syllabi literacy autobiographies they were the highlight of the evening in my opinion the autobiography presentations are not included in
003the meeting recording to protect our students information but I believe the full video has been saved internally should any family members wish to request that and then I want to thank you a quick thank you and shout out to our team because they quickly took care of that before posting it live so thank you uh Ramona roll call please Mr Amador aye Mrs Estrada aye aye thank you next on the agenda is 2.8 approval of the agenda may I have a motion to approve motion to approve second thank you Ramona roll call please Mr Amador aye Mrs Estrada aye Ms Lovato aye Ms Molina aye Ms Zubia aye thank you um next on the agenda is 3.0 consent agenda items um we've changed the order of our agenda a little bit um and we will
004now consider consent agenda before I ask for a motion to approve the consent agenda I would like to pull 3.2 which is the approval of the 2324 Board of Education meeting calendar as well as 3.6 approval of the boys and girls of metro Denver on with 14 contract um mostly for discussion may I have a motion to approve the amended consent agenda to include consent agenda items 3.1 3.3 3.4 and 3.5 a motion to approve thank you second thank you Ramona roll call please Mr Amador aye Ms Estrada aye Ms Lovato I am Ms Molina hi Ms Zubia aye thank you that passes unanimously more detailed information for consent agenda items are available on board docs but I'd like to quickly highlight the items that were just approved we approved Personnel actions the agreement with
005the Adams County clerk clerk and recorder to participate in the November 7th election a contract for audio visual Renovations at Adams City High School in their large gym and cafeteria and in contract with blueprint for a math Intervention Program for our third fourth and fifth graders I ask that the consent agenda items 3.2 and 3.6 be pulled for discussion but we'll go ahead and move those to our regular business agenda so with that next on the agenda will be celebrations and recognitions um Dr luria I understand that we have some newly hired staff with us this evening would you like to introduce them yes Madam presidential members of the board I'm going to start with a staff very quickly I'm going to ask him to um to you know stand up and be recognized there
006is a list Ramona a slide with their names but if not I can actually oh oh there you go right good thing I have my glasses um Dr Roadie chief of school Innovation transformation Linda Idol our clde director both of them experts in their own field Diego Romero director of communications Beth Nelson she is our special ed director not yeah she's um Michelle OT coordinator of strategic planning Michael abdale coordinator of student services he's actually coming back to the district him and Diego are coming back to the district this is someone that you actually um approved back in May but now he is here with us our present Kathleen Taylor our principal Central Elementary Garrett Douglas a principal of lesser Arnold High School Rachel Hughes he is a principal of Rose Hill she was an
007interim last year one of our interim principals Matt Johnson Adam City Middle School assistant principal Amy uh boys have been oof I practiced that one and I think I still butcher it but Central Elementary assistant principal Luz Rossi Jones do upon a system principal and Victor Mendes KMS assistant principal both Amy and Luz in Matt actually where members of our team last year in a different role and they are moving to the schools so I just well this is loose so I just I want to thank them for for um you know for joining our team and I want you to start putting heads you know faces and names together and I'm also gonna let them know because I know some of them principles are I'm still having things to do because I know that's
008how it goes so unless you have any questions for the American president I just or members of the board yeah thank you so much for deciding to be for teeners and um welcome back to those that are are coming back to us um we're so excited that you're here and we definitely wish you the best and look forward to working with you yeah um colleagues anything else you guys can please sit down thank you sorry no I just want to say yes thank you for being here thank you and welcome loose you're so loose all right so they share names and but also what we have in common we share the passion to serve our communities and to change the narrative for for this District so thank you very much for being here and please
009you know administrator School based administrators anyone you're free to go because I know you have things to do so thank you ma'am and welcome awesome yes and we're switching a little bit of the order of the agenda just to ensure that they were introduced but I um after the audience comments I also have some other celebrations to share okay wonderful thank you so much thank you guys for joining us um sorry I've got too many things going on um thank you next is 4.2 beginning of the Year events um I know Dr Lydia and her staff have been busy getting ready for a new school year um Dr Lydia would you like to share some of the events that took place and are scheduled for next week actually we have a little video to show
010this is gonna make me cry yes probably [Music] okay foreign words so it has been um a very busy summer it has been a very smooth beginning of the year we are working very closely with principals I'll have some updates um during my updates but um it's it's been a phenomenal beginning of the school year in summer preparation that's awesome um we saw the Channel 7 News if you guys haven't seen it it was a great um op-ed that they did are opening uh thing um thank you Dr Gloria I know I really enjoyed the welcome back rally so thank you for um being there and director zubio joined me as well I'm so thankful that the newly appointed commissioner Cordova and state board member Solis and Plummer joined us um we also had CDE
011accountability staff there which demonstrates a much much improved and collaborative relationship so thank you for that um I also hadn't planned on speaking when I attended the rally um and um I wanted to say something that I failed to say then then um I just want to say thank you thank you to our entire Adams 14 team thank you for shutting out the negativity and outside noise thank you for your dedication to our students we can't do this work without you we see you and we appreciate you so thank you um I also got survived in Adams 14 bus for the first time in many years I won't say how many um I attended one of the meet your bus driver events and I also got to tour the new Lester Arnold high school at
012the Hanson campus um an official name we'll work on that was the community soon um but it was it was just amazing to see I got to see not only their new space um but the Health Sciences and digital technology tools like I was just amazed and I didn't even get to see them in action there was this huge um interactive touch screen thing that I kid you not is probably about the size of this diet where the students are going to be able to just interact and learn about health they had medical beds set up and it's just I'm so excited for our students they're going to have so many great learning opportunities um I also would like to do a quick shout out to Regina Baca for taking time out of her busy
013day to show me around and explain things and answer my many questions when they're getting ready to open the school um are there anything that my board members would like to share about events or I know I saw postings and we all got to attend some great things I could start I just wanted to um thank all the staff that put together our resource fair that was one of the highlights for a lot of people I saw a lot of folks who were very grateful and thankful for the opportunity to have received all the supplies and clothing brand new shoes I mean just all kinds of resources that they needed and so thank you for everyone who put that together as well as the staff from at the back to school nights that was I
014know there's still a few more but it was beautiful to see how many parents came out and I wanted to say a special shout out to our DAC members because they have been working really hard on recruiting new parents I want to put in a little plug to all the new parents that are new to Adams 14. please join our deck and our sacks our let me say I the first to say we should is acronyms so District accountability committee and our school accountability committee so go to your school and ask about the sac and be a member of Sac we need you as this board one of the um I should say a very positive role that this board or stand this board has taken is to take the role of deck to that
015next level of them truly being advisors to us so I really encourage parents to join the deck the district accountability committee but please provide your time and your energy at the school advisory committee level as well so I wanted to say a shout out to all of the folks that stayed those late hours to make sure that this that everything was available to the parents when they needed it so thank you it was it was wonderful to see and it was great to see everybody at the rally as well thank you anyone else all right thank you all um next on the agenda is audience comments from when I didn't see any we don't have any okay who's CNN for today we will go on to uh 6.1 superintendent report um Dr Lydia yeah um
016thank you madam president member of the board um we do have a visitor um today and um Miss Deborah Bullock we have been meeting um uh you know we've been having a lot of conversation on how really after I uh and I shared with her your charge from the board to truly uh re-engage the community to really bring back a different tone I've said many many times a lot of things happened before I got there I was not even part of them um but I owned them I'll say superintendent and I know that has been your sentiment as well many you know not creative we're not even you were not even in your positions but it is our reality and we owe them in your chart charge in Vision has been very clear that we
017will do things differently that we will re-engage our community we will re engage families in a very different Manner and that we will redesign the way that we support our students and um so we've had a lot of conversations uh a lot of um really good conversations I'm going to live it there um because well now I need to explain why I said that uh because you know in the past we've all had experiences that make us believe or feel one way or another and at this point I think our what um I'll say superintendents in the conversation with Miss Bullock what we are really trying to do is understand that happens understand that's a reality we cannot change the past but we can certainly change the future and for us to be better today
018and have a better future we really need to understand where we were and and where we come from so um as part of your vision I am responding to that by adding one standing item it's going to be a short item during my updates that we're calling Adams 14 a moment in history we're going to go back to the community maybe this name will be tweaked because this is really not something that means Bullock and I are putting out of our hats this is it has been a lot of conversations uh with alumni with Ms Bullock the Historical Society really a lot of groups that are interested in just um going back to a place where we can collaborate and support our community in a very different way so um this is going to be
019a standing item as I said during my updates that is going to include you know a very brief story uh told by by an alumni and who is better than somebody in this community who has been committed to trying to preserve history by many actions and books and um you know efforts to to keep it alive so it could be different any month of course it's going to be different people but it could be a a picture that we display or a short movie or just an item that they bring anything really it's about um telling the story uh telling our history the way they see it and um you know started re-engaging everyone in a much different way we have discussed also how to engage community in unveiling the new buildings the names of
020the new buildings that the old Leicester Arnold Building I'm going to call it that way and the hands on campus uh we do not want and one of the promises to the Hanson Community this is not to forget about Hansen to forget about what happened things change our number of students you know um our enrollment you know has decreased along the years and we need to do very difficult things but it doesn't mean that we do not care that those happen at one time that those schools were alive so we have a lot of ideas uh that will be we'll be bringing forward um to you uh you have brought up some of those ideas to me my you know yourself so um that's the whole purpose of this segment and I'm gonna pass it
021on to miss bolo to introduce herself and tell us her story thank you Dr waria Madam president and board thank you for having me in here today and I chose the Irondale elementary school because that's where I went to school and I am an alumni of Adams City High School graduated in 1973 and um we started the Historical Society because there was nobody documenting the history in Commerce City And so there's a lot to document a lot of stories a lot of history facts but I'm going to share with you tonight the Irondale Elementary School some of you may not know it was one of the schools in Adams 14 and it was it's still the building is still there it's at 87th and rosemary so if you know where the drive-in is and you
022know where the fire station is school's right in the middle um it was when I went to school it was a country school there wasn't the drive-in wasn't there the fire station wasn't there the whole area was Farms basically and even the flea market was not there the flea market was all grass it was a sod farm and so it was there wasn't a lot there so it was established in the mid-1900s and a lot of the schools are named after a person a location or a street so Irondale is the location it's the it's the neighborhood and it was at one time a town it was incorporated in 1889 when Derby was incorporated and it was settled it was there was a Foundry there called Irondale and that's why they called it the school
023Irondale School and they actually had a mayor and town trustees and that happened in 1924 in 1926 Charles Black was elected mayor there were six other trustees and these were people that lived in the area Nettie Bruce Sebastian sebastiana palumbos palumbos were farmers they're still around um Carl Fowler the diandria's and the salmanese families the town was unincorporated in 1930 due to increasing vacancy there just wasn't a lot of movement but it still remained one of our communities one of our neighborhoods and so and the ninth so all through until the 1980s it was in elementary school and around 1980 the Colorado Gold football training Corporation or Camp it was a semi-pro football league they leased the school probably from the school district and they had their training camp there so it was it was
024a football training camp and then around 2000 the fish food bank was in there the fish food bank is still around it's at Our Savior Lutheran church now so it's moved to a few different locations and currently today it's a church it's ministerial palabra De Vida church and school private school and so the building it's pretty much still looks the same you can see you know both of the pictures um the uh the school right now with um Hanson was called Oneida in the beginning so it was because of the street it was on it was on Oneida Street and then Mr Hansen is why they named it um Hansen Elementary so just wanted to show those facts with you we'll be bringing different people in different alumni who can share the stories of their
025schools and hopefully you'll enjoy that and it'll engage a lot of people any questions that's awesome I think it was a trip down memory lane I remember being little and going to the Colorado Gold training camp I thought it was like they had tours um and then I think the city owned it for a while because when I worked at the rec center I used to have to go in there and do inventory for uh the baseball teams okay baseball yeah yeah um well CeCe still owns the um City teams I would go in there with uh Tim Moore who was recently retired and okay yeah that was much fun but my dad went to school there yeah so I know it my dad went to school there because my grandma still lives right by
026the Ada she lives right in that area yeah she lives on uh Pontiac Street where all the the train tracks went by so I'll buy there all the time so in 1978 they had Kids First Community Health Services it was called the Health Co-Op oh and that's where they first opened it and so we have pictures of the grand opening there from 1978 when they first Incorporated and um I remember shortly after we started working there I realized that I actually had gotten my shots there oh my gosh I think I went there before as a kid as a kid is that why the food bank was in there um I don't know because I all I remember is what I saw in our historical photos and clippings from the newspaper remember when we did
027our 40th anniversary I went back and I looked and we had pictures of the grand opening and then um talking to my mom she told me that that's where I had gotten some of my shots for school and I was like well what are that what coincidence that is right just there for two years it was yeah it was only there until they built um the no they were there until they got the building on 69th and 1980 and 1990 when they moved to the new building but they were in there until then so okay we can contribute to the history that's good I like it I'll add it well and this is so fun I think it's such a great and creative way to um re-engage our community and learn about the history of
028our city and our district well thank you I'm excited yeah thank you too thank you thank you Miss Bullock and um I think just um we just witnessed everybody else witnessed we have so many things that really bring us back as a community um so you're like Miss Bullock and I and I have been having conversations with different um committee uh community members you know as I try to get them get us back um you know we we can choose to focus on those great stories I mean I just saw the light you know I'm sitting here you know seeing the light uh in in the stories um because we are our stories and we can choose to you know Leverage this kind of conversations or or any others that we choose to write and
029we're choosing to rewrite our narrative and also recover that history that made us who that still make us who we are as a community so um I myself I love Antiques and stories and so I'm just having a blast here because I do and a little plug for the museum I went there um Miss Black showed me around and it's beautiful it's um it's crazy I mean like especially for people like probably most of the board generation after generation and I even looked in the phone book my Lovato side was in there but my Garcia side was very undercover my grandma was always like nope we're enlisting our number and nope we're not sharing this so it was really neat to see all the memorabilia and the museum is Free by the way so I
030suggest people start going over there and check them out yeah any of our students maybe do not go there we're going to bring the museum to the students uh because that is just um the whole child understanding where we are in where our you know coming to us before so thank you Miss Bullock thank you um so that is my first uh um update um then I also want to mizuvian mentioned the the fair that we have thank you Miss Bullock I'm actually attending her board meeting tomorrow and sharing some things as well um resource Fair we have a slide just I just want to publicly thank these organizations they have they contribute contributed uh one way or another um always supporting our students with backpacks resources uh just the information that was um you
031know very well received by our our community and um they sponsored us as I said with materials or you know food all kinds of things I'm sure I am missing some um Salud actually yes thank you this is what happens when I start naming people I always leave someone out but I like I said the other day just call them out and yell them out so that we can recognize them so salute should be here as well but I just want to I think everyone it was a phenomenal Affair we had over 1500 families or students attend this this year we had a very different system um a very different system for families flows who was very organized and we were able to even register and get information from families that has been needed so
032thank you team for working on that I know Mario's team and Sheila state were fiercely working you know for hours and hours so there are some pictures of preparation also Madam president and members of the board I did share with you the org chart we restructured through our um finance and budget planning understanding that we you know we're in a found some things that pushed us to look as our finances differently I want to recap to everyone there was a the basic Foundation were three elements that really grounded us on the way that we're going to be looking at the restructure of the district first was the Strategic plan in the board goals you were very clear on ensuring that our number one goal is to support our students and for that we needed to
033have resources closer to the students to the classrooms to the teachers and that covered under the big umbrella of equity when we say Equity I I like to to share Equity we usually go to you know what students receive or equity in Access but I the way that I see it and we are seeing it as an organization is Equitable practices for for students and adults um in every department so those were the three um pillars that on which we founded how we were going to address um the restructure we created criteria so we can explain like I said over and over in any court of law what constitutes the title Chief director coordinator coaches Specialists and managers that was not clear before there was there were an an equitable practices in the past for
034years and years as far as what title a position would receive what salary would be connected to that title or the responsibilities it was just uh is not as clear as to say this position gets X right because it's almost like an algorithm some positions will have more responsibility some others will have a greater scope of responsibility um so we created we created the criteria and that is how we started reorganizing uh of course this is very small print for the public but it's going to be posted and available as soon as tomorrow and I just want to share we have five main offices um three of them are focused on operations business officer finance officer and Human Resources although Human Resources you know goes to academic and to supporting instruction and and operations and
035we have two that support instruction in schools directly the our chief School Innovation and Equity officer and chief academic officer um we're using some of the grants for some of these salaries and moving forward my goal this year is to prepare a five-year Staffing model so that if we continue experiencing the decrease in enrollment that we have experienced since 2004 every year except one we have experience at a decrease in enrollment mostly because of the low birth in this area based on our demographers we will need to adjust right and we didn't adjust in the past so the next slide I'm not going to go under each one but there are two things that I want to call out in here in some of them you will see a dotted line though that dotted line
036really just um it's a visual that those positions under the dotted line are positions are directly at the school supporting schools or spending the majority of the time in the schools and the other thing that I want to to just name with or or point out with a restructure we were able through this quite frankly brutal difficult process because it was no not easy by any means um over two and a half million dollars are being re are shifting from central office and upper management to support closer to the school so we are very proud of that because it is directly aligned to to the vision to the Strategic plan to ensuring that resources are spent where they need to to be spent so um I don't know if there's any questions um or comments
037about the Church I have a couple and then I'll open it up to support members um I just want to thank you and your staff I know this was um very grueling very difficult um and I think the thoughtful way we went about it I mean I think you told me stories of where you were literally having meetings and that's not something you see a lot with superintendents um I think my only notes would be on the foundation part um I just want to be very clear that this is not it does not have anything to do with the reorganization order from the state board we it was really hard to find another word that would fit that correctly but I just wanted to throw that out there um and then I think last I
038really appreciate that we finally took time to look at positions equitably because I think for so many years we heard about the same people doing the same jobs but this person got paid you know probably double what this other person did um I think my only caution in that is um as as somebody that struggled to finish the last three classes of her undergraduate degree I I just want to make sure we're not eliminating people that are dedicated to our district or putting up that extra boundary because they don't have that as long as we're taking the holistic evaluation of our applicants um I I think that but I think um infusing two and a half million plus back to our schools and back to our students is amazing so that's have any comments or
039questions or questions why am I always the one talking okay okay I do I have just one um and I do apologize that I didn't send this one earlier I wanted to just send it and uh it's no big deal I just wanted to make sure that when you see the green which is the principles that there's a clear indication as to who they answer to because having two bosses at once sometimes it's very complicated and when you look at that that's almost like the visual of what that is and I know that once in a while it is very confusing that they already have enough in their plate that I hope that they don't have to decide who they need to go to every time that there's an issue because I know that that
040happens um and I'd hate to put people in that position so thank you for bringing that up and that is actually something that we can clarify in this before it's posted because uh certainly we did not want that confusion to be the message it's a very clean cut actually there are all principles except two report directly to the chief of school Innovation Equity officer um the two principles that report to our chief academic officer is less Arnold high school and that is because it's a very unique programming that we have there and our chief academic officer has the institutional knowledge in in background and supports because it it it encompasses so many community supports to our students at Leicester that was a a better fit for our chief academic officer than our new chief of
041schools and the other school that re that does not report to our chief academic Chief Equity Innovation and Equity yes the title chief of schools I'm going to call it chief of schools and chief of academics the other principle that does not report to the chief of school is Adam City Middle School they are related and by no means we want to create any any we do not want to put anybody in a position where um you know their integrity or um ethics are going to be or can be questioned so that principle of Adam City Middle School reports directly to Sheila as our chief academic officer but it is not that you know playing mom and dad or you know Mom and Mom or Aunt and Aunt it is a very clean-cut based on
042the skill set and of course two of them being related to each other so thank you we're going to clean that before we put it up there so we actually call the names of the schools under each I was going to say because it it's explained on here I just wanted to make once again the perception on the first one totally it doesn't clear it up as once you break it down no thank you totally so we'll separate it so we avoid confusions thank you um made me think of something else of course um I I do I'm very excited about the addition of the school Innovation and Equity Department um I think it comes at a key time especially as we implement the pre-k through six schools and start working towards schools of choice
043and I'm sure Dr Lydia has filled you in that we have um a really big push for bilingual and biliteracy um programming but also creating that that actual School of Choice within our district for our community um our academies at the high school we've been raving about it and our community is so excited about it so I'm just excited that we have that so thank you thank you all right if there are no other questions um let me see now I lost my list would you report all right thank you Dr Lydia lots of things happening already yeah I think I I have I had a couple and I I lost my list but I do want to um share two more things if I if I may we received information from nine news uh
044Kyle Clark actually they have shared with us that they every year they take one district and they sponsor a district so they have featured articles on this one district and they do fundraising for the district and they have been following very closely what happens here in Adams 14 and they mentioned for the last year a year and a half or so and they have decided that they want to sponsor us this year so they are taking them taking us under their wing we're extremely thankful we they're working through Josh gold or atoms 14 Education Foundation and so right now there is a link that they have in their website and anybody can go in they're going to have it open for a week they will be supporting the um the program that the foundation has
045called funding the unfunded and this is really for teachers who want to have clubs or schools want to have specific things that are not really funded as many programs we you know as districts do not receive full funding for everything uh they want to fund that so we're very excited about that we're gonna um through Josh add that link to our website as well it's only going to be open for a week so spread the voice you know in the word out there if anybody wants to donate and support um that way they can do it through that link also directly through the foundation but we are very excited about um this so thank you nine news um Mr Clark thank you for for selecting us and we're very excited about this year and changing
046the narrative for our students um also um um as you know yesterday was our first day so I have some um basic statistics here that I would like to share on day one I I want to say that we're working very closely with the schools and principals we're doing head count it is very important for our families to send every child to school in the past and because of how the system had been set up it's very difficult for us to even know how many students we have until after October count and we receive the final notification from the from from the state but that prevents us really from planning ahead of time for allocating funds earlier in the year appropriately so we are implementing a new way to to have our own numbers and
047our own um our own numbers I would say and we go class by class every school the teachers we have teams going class by class counting students and ensuring that we are accounting for every child that is showing up to our school that allows us two things number one balance classrooms if the case there needs to be a classroom that has too many kids classrooms that have you know very little students maybe allowing us opportunities to merge classrooms and still have a small classroom to free one teacher to move and that allows us just to do Staffing in a very different way and if there's any changes that we need to have them to have them you know by the end of the second week because the longer the students stay with a teacher the
048more attached they are and it is not fair for kids just to be switching classrooms or do balancing of classrooms you know in October so last year we had um not last year yesterday we had over 4 000 students showing up and in just one one day we had 448 new students showing today so that tells us that we know for the next few days we're going to be growing by the day but it is very important for all of us to also be sharing you know send your kids to school we are looking for them and if we start having absences we're attacking those absences very quickly because it is very important for kids to be in school so that's one uh one piece that I wanted to share we did have students being
049transported you mentioned um opportunity for families to ride buses we did have 16 buses going out there 12 general education for special education buses in one day we drove 913 miles around this very small geographical area picking up students and dropping them safely right now we have 2548 students that are choosing to be bus riders not every child is a bus rider many of them are Walkers or car riders and we had um we were working on having an insurance that 100 of our buses are um early to school we had cases where you know for years and years some buses have been historically late because of whatever so we're changing our routes and the way that we are tracking time on bus for kids we had just a handful of buses being late on
050day one that is actually very good because as we know not only bus drivers are learning their new routes but also students getting adjusted to the times and it takes a little longer pictures getting on the bus you know for the first day all that takes time and we want to honor that and have fun um so um I would say very successful first day and especially no issues have very smooth transportation of students from the old Henson geographic area the attendance Zone to Monaco so um very exciting um first day and lastly as a gift from me to you I know some of you love succulents I am forced to I'm being forced to love them my daughter is just crazy for succulents I've I'm not killing as many um as I did you
051know last semester but this is just yeah I know I broke one on the way here but I will replace that one um but um I know some of you love them oh you have what I may consider a bar my daughter is like you with with stickers of succulents everywhere including computer and everything so I love it just a little thing no you're not switching it for anybody so we'll see how last day um day long I hear these kind of flowers I mean uh plants they really like the this kind of light so maybe the pot is key that's it tells me this this yeah yeah I don't know I told my daughter what to buy and she told me what to buy I I kill plants I am a facial plant killer
052but um seriously I'm not proud of saying it although it sounds like I am but I'm not so but anyway just thank you for for what you do um and thank you for for your support because of your vision um we're having a phenomenal first week of school and I know a phenomenal year so thank you those are my updates I will say you reminded me about the buses um I was so impressed at how um the the team just knew who to call like the bus that I was on had hit a roadblock on their plan like there were some unplanned construction and they literally had the road barricaded and they talked to somebody on the radio who talked to somebody that was at the stop and they moved the barricade and let us
053go through and um so given the construction and everything that's going on in Converse city um the stats for the on time was very very impressive yeah get a little bit of clarification not clarification but I wanted to ask two things one is it possible to get the link from the nine news deal and have that posted on Facebook so that we could share that yeah on social media yay um and then second of all um I wanted to see if you could uh Dr Lauria clarify the late start schedule and that change because now that's on Thursdays and I know that um for some families I'm sure it's challenging because it's a it's something new and it's just challenging to start um on a late start but if you could just give us a
054little bit of an update on that that'd be great thank you yes uh thank you director Silvia Madam president members of the board um in fact every Thursday we will have a late start this is a way it's it's really focusing on supporting our teachers in a very different way in the past we're using Sr funds or also known as the covid funds all school districts receive an enormous amount of monies for the last three four years when we had kovid and with those funds we were able to even offer a double period for teachers a week an extra period a week so they would have a double blog once a week to do extended planning to do some PD you know just just just to do the work because we know after covet the
055the things that we expect in schools teachers even all of us is it's it's it's greater than than before it has always been difficult but with covet you know it just got harder so a way in which we um negotiated and agreed with our labor is to have a late start allowing teachers on a weekly basis now that covet funds are gone uh have that extra period of time during their work day to plan to look at the data to regroup students to really do a deeper dive in student work samples so that we can get better at serving our students so buses will be running exactly two hours without one hour and a half and it's just too complicated if bus will go and pick them up at 705 on Thursdays it's going to
056be 905 exactly two hours later uh that also means that for some families they will want to bring their kids earlier bus will not run earlier but if they choose to bring their kids to the school schools are working internally to offer opportunities for before care for students we know this is going to be a need especially at the elementary so we are working there's training for for paraprofessionals for individuals we started working with some of the outside organizations as well but the difficulty with that is that we really did not know how many parents were going to choose to do that although we send surveys we know you know we know we're gonna know better on day one on how many show up so we're ready for them schools are ready and we will
057be adapting in in shifting as the need you know tells us that we need to do so we're monitoring very closely is every Thursday and um and then we will be engaging the community once we have a rhythm to in in teachers to um you know determine next steps do we want to continue uh we know next year uh keeping sixth grade at the elementary level will also need to look at start times for the schools you have shared before high school or the older kids were always later because they would support um the younger kids and we have it backwards for some reason but also all the research that we as a as a district have been looking at for the last year and a half to be quite honest of um the research
058and the benefits of having the teenagers sleep a little longer as well in the benefits not only cognitive benefits but also social benefits because they're more rested they're less cranky and uh so let's fight let's fights would happen um so we're looking at all that and we will be you know bringing a recommendation in proposals later in the fall because these are things that our families will need to adjust and we want to give you know as much time as as we can to to adjust if we if we go to change start times also to support a late start so I hope that explains it a little better yes and just one last thing so if a family would like to take advantage of those um that before school care um before Thursday who
059do they need to notify directly with the schools the schools have been uh you know reaching out to families they should have been hearing from them especially especially Elementary um because we know some of the older students are just happy they can stay a couple of hours or one more hour in bed but um they should have been receiving information if they are enrolling just recently or registering go straight to the to the front office or call the office of their schools they have information there thank you the great questions uh directors to be bless you those are um that's what I've been hearing from our community so I think that's helpful um it prompted a couple of questions of course on my part um we I know we had talked about providing transportation for
060our Lester Arnold students um since it was farther do we have buses for them in route and do we know how many students are taking advantage of that how many students I don't know have to bring that to you because I have the total amount but I about Ed is available okay because of the proximity now and the walking distance that we have um you know from lesser in the high school less Arnold students now have equal access to Transportation should they need it or choose to to use it they go with the high schools route and they're dropped off and they just you know walk to under the bridge to the schools so now they do have options how many students are taking advantage of that I I can share that with you because
061and my last question um I know as board members we always actively recruit students if there are late registrations is there information available on our webpage so they know who to contact to register and are we still accepting registrations at this time we are accepting registration that any time uh new students enrollment former students come in to re-register or to say I'm here I'm back and yes we we have it we actually met with principals today just to clarify the process streamline the process close any gaps in the information that may have been received differently heard differently any family at any time can go to their schools right now because school is starting we are shortening the amount of time or the window from when a family shows up in the first day of school
062it used to be you know no less sometimes 48 Hours sometimes even longer we regrouped very quickly today after we heard some information and things that we're trying to streamline to benefit our students so any family that shows up in the morning a child will be processed very quickly in a matter of hours they should be able to stay that same day at the school and if they show up in the afternoon then it will be the next day but no longer it's going to be I'm gonna wait for XYZ we want students in school we need students in school in once they are in school we'll continue working with the families to you know to get transcripts for examples or you know anything that we might still need but yes we are you know
063accepting students at all times and very excited because academies are very excited for our high school students so um the academies are also open all all of our 8th graders selected a an academy last year our new students you know were having orientations for them so that they can also choose an academy sooner than later that's wonderful thank you all right any other questions thank you Dr Lydia great update and great start to a new school year yeah uh next on the agenda we have uh business item 7.1 um very quickly I failed to follow our Cadence um we had agreed as a board to introduce new policies at a study session and then where we can kind of hash it out talk about it and then introduce it so I move that we table
064uh 7.1 the first reading of educational Equity policy the educational Equity policy um we'll first cover it at the upcoming study session and then I'll have it again on the September board meeting if that's okay yes for the first reading if you need us to I need a second yeah second I believe so correct or did you make the motion I made the motion yes yes I'll second thank you uh Ramona roll call please Mr almador aye Mrs Estrada aye hi qo um next I would like to introduce consent agenda item 3.2 which we moved off consents and it's about the board Education meeting calendar and posting um I wanted to ask a couple of questions of you guys and then I I wanted to open up for discussion um first I know we had
065talked about whether or not Tuesdays still work for all of us do we want to keep them on Tuesdays and um I also invite Dr Lydia to provide input about staff like does this Cadence work um Lucy I would like to uh and I think I mentioned this to to before um I would suggest that it would be good a change especially with all the changes that we're going through as a district right now to shift it a little bit because there's a lot of parents at least for us that have been here for years we were also on Deck but a lot of the excuses like I can't do it on Tuesdays because of this um it would be a good shift to change it from from Tuesday to another day and I would
066suggest Wednesday or Thursday and perhaps uh discuss it with the doc that maybe we could trade off days because Wednesday is like the middle of the week so I would I would recommend I think it would be good for the district and give other opportunities for also businesses and again I not only for myself but also with the work that a lot of us do it's kind of difficult for a lot of the community to show up you know like it would be awesome to bring him on a Friday night you know what I mean or uh Thursday night or Wednesday you know something different because we've been doing this for like decades so long that it's like stagnant and sometimes we got stuck in this day why why can we shift it around you
067know so I mean that is just a recommendation that uh change is good and I see a lot of change happening in our district and it's groovy uh I think it's really awesome and I'm honored to be part of this board and again I won't forever I'm humbled and thankful to every one of you guys for uh again choosing me to be part of this work and bring sustainability to our uh communities and to our parents and um yeah so I think that it would just be another up opening opportunity for more of the businesses and the parents because those are the people that when we think of community engagement the people more of the people that we need to get involved right so yeah this is I would I've been wanting to share and
068uh ask of this yeah if it's a possibility um board members I know this is probably the first time we all work during the day so is there another day of the week that works better um this Tuesday so I think my only things we've been doing that my only thing would be if we look at like our committees that we're part of to make sure it doesn't conflict because we can't I don't want to have them on days where we have to be in two places right so like especially if we know when those committees meet I would really you know try and work around that um just to make sure because you know maybe it's a Tuesday because everything else is taken and we have stuff going on uh you know that's that's
069my thing is I mean I know Monday's City Council you know Wednesdays are DAC you know there's things in there that we know I know some of them you know me odds and ends in the mornings but to make sure we're not conflicting with any of the stuff that we're in neither just so that we can make sure we can represent our district at those as well yeah that was going to be my concern at least for this year is the fact that um you already have like graduations continuations you have things that are being done at the school level around the meetings that around us around what we're doing um plus I already have my year scheduled for my work as well and a lot of the other committees I'm on around I've done
070it around the work that I do here I often tease and say I need my day job to keep my night job and this is my night job and so it makes it a little hard for this year but I think it's a consideration I just don't know how many other what that domino effect would look like if we change it now at the beginning of the school year for the remainder of the calendar that's already been approved I don't know I just to me it's um I don't know it's I'm okay either way um I think a preference would be a Wednesday for me because it's mid-week but that's when we have deck and we've been working really really hard to try and they've been working really hard to get people um to participate
071and I know that but some people they've already advertised the whole year of their Wednesday meetings yes that's why I'm saying that would be the only uh drawback but I think moving forward maybe for next year it would be a good conversation to have like in May and say what would that next year look like but that's just my opinion because well and it'll build into our conversation when we consider the school calendar for the next year as well okay and then I guess Yes mine is I mean does it have to be the second Wednesday Tuesday second or the fourth um well that kind of I have I have a whole bullet list of questions so I have some other questions so that I mean that's my question right yeah right so that's why
072okay so for now I think I hear we'll leave it for Tuesday and then um bring it up for further discussion I will say um to honor what you just said Lucy I think if we um push on our initiative to connect with our community and our owners our students and our parents and um we can schedule those on other nights and then it allows us to keep the meetings and study sessions about the actual work and hopefully we'll be able to engage with community members because I think of when people show up and they make comment or question things there there are things that should have been addressed in a different way I guess as we move towards policy governance so we'll keep that on there um my next question is we now have
073an October break so um I think we need to adjust our October uh study session and meeting because right now um the break is the second week of October so that 10th would be when we had proposed to have a board meeting and the district will be closed so I don't know if we want to consider moving it to the week prior my only caution with that is it's parent-teacher conferences and we have a lot of parents here so I would propose that we shift it later to say we have our board meeting on the 17th and then that poses another problem because that would put our study session on the 31st which is Halloween um why can't we just do back to back weeks we can totally do that as well yeah at least
074for October at least for October I I would go for that one yeah okay so we would move it to the 17th and the 24th yes yes okay they don't feel like being here on Halloween well no and I I love finding out Halloween that's or candy that's my favorite part see in the costumes yeah um the next one is uh we have a February break now and February it's the same thing so um our second week again will be parent teacher conferences and then um our fourth week first daddy session is okay so I so are you saying the second week is the break or the second week is conference second week is parent teacher conferences right so why don't we do it on the first week of February our regular meeting on February
0756th right okay and then leave our study sessions I would just leave it for the 2017 27th because that's yeah right yeah that's not an issue for the late one to have that study session and in March we typically only hold one meeting and no study session due to Spring Break um but now that week adjusted so it falls on the fourth week do we want to just leave having a meeting on March 12th and no study session or I guess I would say we should meet it around I think we look at it in February or somewhere around there if it's a need yeah see if there's a need for it and I think we should do it right have it awesome and then may um I personally would propose that we adjust May
076a little bit and we can totally maybe do this down the line um I just think that week that we have a study session then we have both continuations and we have both graduations that's all for our staff too yeah it's it's a lot so I you don't like being here for the whole week oh I'm trying to be considerate of our staff but no it was it was very fun but very exhausting yeah um do we do back to back that month too I mean I always say we should look at it towards April because we'll get the May schedule to kind of see what kind of continuation looks like what everything's kind of looking like for us there and then we can kind of decide right if it's a need like we can
077have yeah instead of not to have a study session that one or if we push it to like the beginning of June right after everything kind of dies down because I mean we'll have you know all of our continuations through elementary through middle our high schools all towards the end of May there so you know it's a it's a two-week process of stuff and top of any events that they have that we're invited to I mean I think I went like three weeks straight at being out of school every night so I mean it's not that bad okay just gotta do it we can also consider Madam president um members of the board um to have in those on those um dates business and study session at the end based on the conversations we had
078the last month or the last meeting last year the study sessions we're going to be using those and taking advantage of that those sessions to discuss the reports and the El so on those months we could have it back to back as well or um the same night it was going to be a little longer night but you know we can look at the um at the reports that are coming for the following month and see if there's any to have it afterwards okay okay yeah we'll we'll accept the way they are now and then just have a discussion as the date approaches um and I think um along the same lines I I would invite us to have a discussion about July um there's so much going on in the districts um even if
079it's just a temporary thing to maybe consider next year given with the 5B options I just anticipate a lot of decisions um so that we can Empower staff to make sure they have time to get things done but also be respectful because I know it's like everybody flies The Coop that's the one time anybody gets to do anything personal so I want to be respectful about that as well but I also just think giving given 5B and then given the transformation turnaround urgency I just feel like we need that little extra touch base before the school starts well and I think we could do that towards the end of July because then we can kind of approve everything that's going to be meet our staff that's coming if we have you know whatever we have
080so we have it all in July so by the time we meet at like the resource Fair we're not going oh who are you you're new I don't know who you are you know kind of that that you know the end of July when everyone starts to report at least Administration reports towards end of July there and be able to just kind of meet them and get the approvals that we need and if we need a study session for the meeting we have everything in line I would do something like that awesome so it should be determined but I wanted to throw that out there that's great um all right Ramona I wrote down the changes and I apologize if you do if you didn't get them um with with that I would like to
081um motion that we approved the agenda approve the amended I can't speak anymore uh 20 23 24 Board of Education meeting calendar and posting location oh second Ramona roll call please Mr Amador aye Mrs Estrada aye Mr Ms Lovato aye Ms Molina I miss Zubia I thank you um next we moved consent agenda item 3.6 approval of the boys and girls metro Denver Adams 14 contracts um I know we continuously talk about pushing ourselves to make data-driven decisions and I personally would just like to learn a little more about how many students use the service in comparison to how many we pay for in the contract um I'd also like information um to know how and if they're going to be able to support our students during our new uh breaks in October in February
082and in Spring um and Joe you're probably going to kill me but I I think I do want to point out there um if anybody digs into information as much as I do um with the ongoing battle that we have going on with you perhaps they did have their um Charter application approved by CSI expedited and um they did include in their application that they want to use the Boys and Girls Club so I just want to make sure that we're um putting our best foot forward before we sign that contract so with that I would like to make a motion that we table Madam president oh I'm sorry yeah just really quickly since it is public information that um it appears that you prep is Slow Rolling any type of opening of any school
083because of the litigation that is pending before the Denver district court and we received word from the Denver district judge just hours ago that he wants to have a hearing on um on this matter by next week so we'll have a better idea of of what's going on but I think that uh you're you're absolutely right and and raising this questions about what you prep is attempting to do at the Boys and Girls Club while this litigation is pending wonderful thank you and thank you for fighting for us Joe um awesome so um I would like to make a motion that we table this um pending what we hear from you and um our staff about if we need to table it to um later in this month or to September um I'm not sure
084about the timeline but I think there are trigger points Madam president that we have 30 days to respond to uh and this is all once again public information we have 30 days to respond to the Boys and Girls Club proposal which was provided to us I believe July the 21st yeah so so it's it's tight but uh we'll send a letter to the Boys and Girls Club to let them know about uh well we'll be asking the questions that uh that I wrote down and then also um asking them about um what they received from uh from you prep at this moment and notify them about the litigation okay okay well thank you so do I need to make a motion just to table it and um that would be appropriate okay I moved to
085table of the boys and girls metro Denver Adams 14 contract oh second any further discussion Ramona roll call please Mr almador aye Ms Estrada aye Ms Lovato aye Ms Molina aye Ms Zubia aye great thank you uh next on the agenda we have 8.1 Board of Education new business discussion um colleagues we've received two requests for sponsorships uh the first is Kids First Healthcare back to health fundraising breakfast um I believe this is the first time they're holding the event and it's scheduled for September 14th 7 30 to 9 in the morning and it'll be held here at Adams City High School um I proposed that we sponsored this event at the silver level at 1000 which will include our district logo on event signage and on the event invitation as well as on the
086kids first website it also includes a half page ad in the event program um board members comments questions are you um up for that or do you want to adjust it or do you think we should have the money to sponsor no okay okay with that it says Lucy doesn't want to uh okay well and they did um sponsor and contribute to our resource fair and support our students so I think that's awesome Ramona I think we are good um with the Thousand if you don't mind um why don't we have that as a form of emotion and okay do it yeah of course um I would like to or I move that we approve the silver level sponsorship for the kids first Healthcare or health back to health yeah Kids First Healthcare back to
087health fundraising event a second Ramona Rocco Please Mr almador aye Ms Estrada aye aye Ms Lovato aye Ms Molina hi Ms Zubia aye thank you um next we have another request for the annual breakfast of the Early Childhood Partnership of Adams County um lovingly known as epac in the community it's to be held on September 27th from 7 45 to 8 45 at the Adams County Weimar Dome last year we supported the breakfast at a silver level sponsorship which includes recognition in the events program prominently displayed displayed in the table and on the slideshow as people enter and we were announced in the formal presentation the silver level sponsorship is 750 dollars um I'd like to entertain emotion or could I is there a way that we could equally give them the one thousand dollars
088I mean they have been providing a lot of services to our families at Central through some of the classes that they've been providing I think that I don't know I'm just putting it out there if you guys think that I know they're asking for the 750 but Ramona do you know do you have information about the other sponsor levels I don't I think um and I did I apologize thank you but if not I'm fine with that I'm just I mean we just voted for a thousand for kids first and I think edpac has done a lot as well for his community um I I would second a thousand dollars so we can keep it equitable is that a proper motion or do we need to uh there was no motion made so oh I
089would like to motion too I'd like to make a motion to um increase that amount to a thousand dollars for ecpac for their sponsorship for their um breakfast I second that any further discussion board members all right Ramona Rocco please hold on just a second okay sorry who seconded it um I did okay um Mr almador aye Mr Estrada aye Ms Lovato aye Ms Molina fine Missouri aye all right that passes um last I do have one more item um I have been working on the ccura board which is the Commerce City urban renewal Authority board um their meetings are held on Monday and I um I I would like to um I've had discussions with James um I would like to nominate that we appoint director Amador for that position moving forward um do
090I need to make a motion to to appoint him or how so yes you do uh since the other committees are appointed by motion okay um I moved to a point uh director James Amador to the CC Ura may I have a second second any further discussion I I think really quickly accept oh yes do you accept yes thank you I will absolutely work with you um catch up to speed and work through this transition I just think um yeah I have a lot going on and I I was on uh line until past 11 for city council last night so thank you for taking this on no problem all right uh Ramona I think we need to send official notice over to their director if you don't mind doing so yes we need to
091vote I have a quick question on of course so I how do we get come up with this committee list how is it because I know there's a lot of more like everything's important here you know some are like but uh there's like more important ones out there that I know I'm part like through the city and the counties and right so I'm like and some of them that I'm on like area boards has not met or are we able to recommend more committees absolutely better uh just make sure that the meetings don't fall on Tuesday as as we um I believe in October November maybe December when we reconstitute our board after the election but I think we're all very open because we've all served in these roles for a number of years so
092if you have an interest in a specific school or a specific um organization I think you just talk to the person that's on there like I kind of strongholded uh James and said hey so we batted some in the past or are you yeah are you wanting to add some director Molina because you can we could do both yeah you can add some that you couldn't add in on it and send that prior like yeah or some that you just need us to discuss yeah why not yeah we do that at our study sessions so if you give us you know I was just wondering how it was created yeah I I think if you don't mind um letting Janet and I know like of new ones and then we'll work with Ramona to get
093it added to the agenda if you have things that you're interested in or already attend and want to make that District connection sure I think that'll be awesome yeah can I make a suggestion um for our study session if that's going to happen can um we just get like I don't know if we need to get with Ramona or if she can find like an explanation as to what each of those consist of because they think a lot of the community members would like to know what all where we are and yeah why are we participate in them um I think it would be very important to actually have like a some type of explanation as to what it is what what our role is I would love to see on our um when we
094redo the website just to I know we've asked for a number of years under our bios to say this person sits on this board and have that link to where that is yeah because we do a lot and and I think we we need our community to know all right sorry everyone are we convoluted um everything again thank you I think we're ready for roll call sorry yep Mr Amador hi Mrs Estrada I Lovato aye Is Molina aye Ms Zubia the last or not last but next uh is 8.2 Board of Education committee reports does anyone have a committee report um I know it was summer so actually can I go to the board discussion still I have a couple questions about something I want to bring up yeah so let's go back I um
095I would really like to take a look at our dual Language School of DuPont to make sure that the way we are promoting our immersion classroom there is correct um because what you know we we're promoting it to teach you know to teach our non-spanish speakers Spanish because they're learning in it 90 of the day and I know looking at the class currently the the kindergarten class there most of the kids in their native language is Spanish so I'm not sure we're promoting that currently correctly of how we want it to work um and I just want to take a look at that because my wife works at an immersion school when it is absolutely not built that way and I think I think we have to look at that program if we want it
096to work the way that we're wanting it to work towards our district I think we you know we have three three kindergarten classes that we have in English Spanish and then the immersion classroom but the immersion classroom is filled with majority Spanish speakers and I think that's not how we want it promoted so I I would I'd really like to see how we're how we kind of promote that and how we're supporting that school for that um because I think I think it's a great program but I think we need to do it the right way I think we're dropping the ball on that uh I think um it would be appropriate to make a motion to maybe direct Dr Lydia um I I too Dupont has been my school and I also worked a
097number of years in um delegmage immersion schools um K-12 and higher ed and they they have great examples here in Colorado I know we based a lot of our higher ed programming on um Escuela de Guadalupe and they did like one week in Spanish everybody from the custodian to the principles spoke Spanish and then switched over to English the next week um so just maybe if we can re reinvigorate or yeah just look into how we can listen to that programming yeah okay we're doing update anyway yeah so emotion Dr Laria to look into it you don't have to move that you could just be a director yeah yeah and I know we have some other schools out there like there's a couple there's some really good ones in Aurora that they have there's there's
098a couple academies out there that teach French Mandarin and Spanish like they teach all three and they started at kindergarten to eighth grade so I mean there's a lot of way that they're promoting that yes we have um different although we have four schools that offer bilingual programs we have different programs within so we'll bring to either August or September study session a breakdown an explanation of in description of the four programs we have in start discussions of what makes sense for us and how we're going to start moving forward um with expanding or changing tweaking whatever works mainly the expansion because I did hear even at the back to school night how disappointed some parents were that they would show up to school thinking that it was going to be bilingual because we do
099have 90 Latino in this community they just assume that all our schools had the bilingual programming and very disappointed to find out that was not the case so I think uh as part of our goals we've talked about this from the very beginning that we would love to have the whole District move that direction to be able to have an expansion of our syllabi literacy opportunities for more students so thank you I think that it's it's time that we have that conversation awesome and I'll make a note on that one and so it's not only addressing or looking at dual language programming but also bilingual which we'll dig into at our study session but I did include that in our educational Equity policy okay great thank you anything else before we move on that was
100the new discussion that was new discussion that was new business items so if you want action no I thought we were doing the updates I was just double checking that we had no further okay oh yes uh director zivia yes so I just wanted to say thank you to everyone who bought peaches from rotary so as one of my um uh committees which I love is being a rotarian uh from the Commerce City Club and so as a rotary member we do a lot of fundraising activities so thank you to items 14 and everybody who participated at the golf tournament because we fundraise for our shoe program that we usually provide in December for the families here of Adams 14 students and we take them shoe shopping so Not only was the golf tournament for
101that but so were the peaches that we peaches and pears fundraiser that we just recently submitted our orders for so I wanted to thank the community that helped support us to be able to help support the students in a different way which is a fun way so I just wanted to say that even though summer was here our rotarians keep meeting and keep doing the good work in the community so thank you and our report for DAC tomorrow is our first meeting here starting at 5 30 so they're kicking their ear off as well so they'll have their first meeting here so if you're available to come Dak will be here at 5 30 tomorrow for their first meeting of the year um uh I want to thank uh directors Estrada and Amador and also
102our football and wrestling coach Jared Aguero we were able to participate in said uh rotary's uh golf tournament and that was the first time I played golf in my life um I think Janet yours too so thank you to director Amador and Jared for coaching us and um we sadly came in dead last but it was a learning experience and we had lots of fun and it was in support of our students it was it was for a good cause so thank you and and I will say it was it was just great to have that um uh opportunity to meet with our community members our business owners and and just make those connections I'm always amazed at how many people uh director amateur knows or is related to but um lots of fun um
103and then I also want to quickly give a congratulatory shout out to director Zubia so I don't know if everyone knows but um she is going to be recognized at the Latinos First Foundation uh Trailblazer and unsung heroine recognition luncheon in September so congratulations and I'm probably going to crash the party just so you know I'm gonna be there to support and yeah the ticket information if we're here do we have to give a donation no it's yeah it's uh you have to sponsor yeah you have to purchase a ticket or you can't afford that kind of money account yeah well and and maybe that's something we could talk about because um I know Latinos first has a great scholarship program so if we do decide we want to sponsor and we want to get
104our district involved in their work then why not yeah they give a lot of support so they're they're sponsorships though [Music] um let's see I think the lowest one is emerging leader sponsors 2000 and includes a table for 10 guests so maybe maybe yeah um 2000 is there lowest we would have to pay two thousand dollars yeah or individual tickets are 200. what are they gonna give you girl [Laughter] okay they give amazing scholarships I don't know what they're gonna give me but I'm yeah thank you thank you it's not gonna take me anywhere anymore I can't take you anywhere um I have one last thank you I want to give and I wanted to thank city council and the parents and our adagante youth advice report who really worked on trying to get um
105the speed bumps done before school started and so those have been uh already installed and we're just very happy to see that they were able to accomplish that before the start of school so thank you to the mayor and all the city council members and all their staff the city staff that made that happen um so I just I'm very pleased to see that also I will notify our new Communications person of the upcoming meeting with um they have the city puts on a meeting it's it's around safety uh in the city and they're going to have theirs coming up I don't have all the information but they have invited our youth to come and and participate in that meeting um and so I will have further information so if any Community member wants to
106come they have them once a month here and then the next day they have it up in reunion and they're at the rec centers and so the the last one I attended we had very few community members and that's because they really didn't know it was happening and so I want to make sure that we get more of our community involved because um the the city is interested in hearing from everyone so I want to make sure that I put that out there because I am very pleased and I know our kids are very grateful that they feel heard and of the community too that they you've all heard so thank you thank you for that yeah that reminds me um and sorry to add something else to your plate Dr Lydia but um when
107the group presented we had the gentleman set up in the corner back there that had the um safety uh signage I don't know a better word for it but um I would love if we could look into the cost of those because I think um it was such a huge statement and um on the quick action of our city council to install all that I mean they went above and beyond to even Venture into the Adams County unincorporated part basically saying you're if you're here to support us great but if not we're getting these installed and they did it before school started um so I think we should honor the works at the the youth committee did and and look into that as well as um I know parents and and teachers have been wanting
108training on the crosswalks and the students even just to learn how to be safe when you're crossing the streets because people will be speeding in Commerce City and especially right now during like new the the school starting we've been reminding people every day like even on Facebook letting people know remember remember that the kids are starting school uh watch because everybody's like rushing all the time you know what I mean yeah that's the other thing yes please respect the stop signs from the bus please okay thank you uh I guess I cannot can I just share about that also just since director Amador uh was sharing I I Really Wanna in one of the youth uh part of our deck and I was at alsop for the back to school night uh is it Monday
109or last Friday I think but uh and she was there also um one reason I mean I'm making faces because of sponsorships because the doc has said uh that their uh funding has been reduced so to be able so I was like man why don't we give those two thousand dollars to our doc to get some more you know so they could get fed properly uh and taken care of and be able to do more Outreach uh you know so I do want to say that they showed up to Echo Fest they showed up to the environmental justice Coalition event at Reunion uh and this is Brandy Betty and Aaliyah so our DAC is really doing uh you know I like had to get up oh also to the uh to the town hall they
110showed uh Brandi was at the Town Hall last week uh you know I'm like I'm I go to I try to go to the rec almost every day with my kids drag me over there uh you know but um so I have seen a lot of the the movement the members of the dark especially Betty Alia and uh Miss uh Brandi the chair uh the chair The Madam chair uh really doing a lot of Outreach so if we could also support our deck a lot more I know when I was there one of the things that was really important to us at that time we were together was to make sure that we were fed correctly you know that they were fed I mean I've come to some meetings I'm like whoa that's how much
111this costs you know I'm like I can't even afford to go there but for our dacs I mean they're volunteers uh we have like they they were going to give us t-shirts or some kind of vest last year I don't think we got it um I was part of that too um again I was not part of the board at that time I mean I continue to be part of the deck because I asked for it and this board allowed me to and I love helping on the deck because that's really where I come from I'm Grassroots as a mom so I do want to again shout out to the the parents and the students from DAC oh the students because uh very uh and I don't want to get emotional y'all know how I
112get but I was at do you Pro this weekend and we it was awesome to see our Inspire kids uh from Adam's 14 uh there and it was like a familiar because like we all like gravitated to each other like you know like where's my where's my fourteeners you know and and what there's one of the kids that are very he's very like excited about everything as in Candela you know and he's like I go I need a picture with you guys so I'll send it to to the to you guys soon miss Dr Lauria but he gathered all our students and these are VIP students from d for the DU program which I'm very honored to have my daughter was part of that and there's this that you know it was very uh as
113a parent all the parents that were there I also got to talk to some of the parents from our district and they were very proud of the work I was like At first I was like oh my gosh you're gonna slap me or what what's she gonna tell me you know what I mean but they just really came direct like because they came like charging at me I was like I was like you know how we we already used to this but um you know they're like I just wanted to thank you you know thank you because their kids my kid is here and whatever we're doing uh so yeah I wanted to give a shout out to those students from inspire player and the Inspire program that I think it's a really amazing program
114I also got to be at the Adams 14 Scholars Scholars dinner last week so I got to join for that um and it was really again uh honored to have this was a business uh The Deck Tech yeah yeah that was that did a dinner for the scholars and they helped so it was um it was good to show we do um continue um support of our students in college and they have two at least two annual uh dinners to check in and they teach them everything from um like Jonathan at the duck Superstore taught them about financial literacy and how to build your credit and how to get things when you're at college and advocate for yourself so they they do support throughout their college after they they obtain our scholarships well anyway I
115did want to just give them a shout out and thanks again to the doc over and over for showing up to all these spaces lastly was that one again of the concerns was about the funding was because um or maybe they need more technical support uh because I remember at that time when when I was on Deck we had Jesse at that time that was like Lucy what do you guys need uh we need this we need that he had like he was on top of it and that encouraged me as a parent like oh okay you know we're taken care of as parents um because um they were not able to have a table at a echo Fest because it was um you know the process you have to get the sponsorships pay the
11650 for the table and so there's little things that they might be new as leaders in that that might need to they need to be empowered or have that guidance because they need to be there and I tell you why because uh the charter schools were there they paid 500 to be there so um you know and I did mention to you what there but you know I did uh let people know that how it impacts public education so yeah anyway yeah again thank you welcome back maybe we maybe we could get um at a study session um part of our when we do our budgets see what that budget line item looks like for Jack which reminds me I also want to see the one for our board yes thank you anything else all
117right um 8.3 was any other communication do we have any other communication from the board we kind of look like we mishmashed all of all of the last three apologies um all right um this concludes our Jennifer this evening we want to wish our students and staff a fantastic 23-24 school year and we'll see you at our study session on Tuesday August 22nd at 5 30. may I have a motion to adjourn welcome to adjourn oh second thank you Ramona roll call please hi hi Ms Lovato aye Ms Molina aye Ms Zubia aye great we are adjourned thank you all for hanging in there with us