001good evening everyone thank you for allowing us to be a few minutes late we're working harder to get better about being on time welcome to the september 13th board of education meeting we will begin with instructions for interpretation for our spanish speaking audience thank you madam president thank you so much i like to call the meeting of the adams school district board of education to order please join me as we stand for the pledge of allegiance and a moment of silence during the moment of silence i'd like to ask that we remember an unsung hero in our community lost last november leroy quintana leroy dedicated so much of himself to support our adams 14 students and the entire community his legacy a legacy his family members continue to carry on thank you i pledge of
002the allegiance states of america into the republic for which it stands one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice okay thanks connie all right um next on the agenda is roll call uh romano would you roll call please mr amador here ms estrada here ms lovato here miss zubia here thank you next on the agenda we have 2.5 2.6 2.7 approval of the minutes of august 9th august 23rd and august 29th of 2022 uh may i have a motion to approve the minutes a motion to approve thank you and second second thank you uh ramona roll call please mr amador aye ms estrada aye ms lovato aye ms zubia aye thank you that is approved unanimously um next on the agenda is 2.8 approval of the agenda may i have a motion to approve
003the agenda so moved oh second thank you romano real call please mr amador aye ms estrada aye ms lovato aye ms zubia aye thank you next on the agenda is celebrations and recognitions this evening we have the classified staff recognition dr lyria would you please introduce us to the staff we're recognizing this evening yes madam president thank you members of the board members of the public adams14 has a group of talented animation employees who go above and beyond for our students every day and we have been with the support of our partner sanchor we have been providing these recognitions it's a monetary token of the work they do and we want to pre to to say thank you and say how much we appreciate the work that every single employee does for our students we're
004going to be recognizing three classified individuals today the first one is claudia marcias from central elementary she's a building engineer and i do not know i cannot see very well the public with the light in my face but if claudia is here if he can come up i don't think she's here um claudia is an exceptional employee who requires no supervision and this is what uh her peers and colleagues at the school say no supervision to fulfill her responsibilities she manages her time well and works every minute of every single day although she's always busy claudia will always greet you with a warm welcome and her great and a great smile so claudia thank you i hope you're listening to us and watching us uh virtually but we want to say that we thank your
005we thank you for your for your work we also have laura pasillas from alsup elementary school she is an instructional paraprofessional not sure if lauda is here i can see somebody moving up there lauda come up here um laura she said also as i said in a instructional paraprofessional and what her colleagues and peers have to say is you can always count on laura to have a smile on her face laura and kurt encourages our students to do their very best and supports them along the way lada goes out of her way to identify the students that she's working with that need additional support she will work with those students on her own time just to ensure they're getting all the help they can get so lauda thank you very much we're going to ask
006you to come up here in a minute so that we can take a picture uh with you and the and the board and we also have um violeta leyva from hansen elementary school she's also a paraprofessional i want to i don't know if she's here today in violeta it's a great addition to a professional team is what her peers say she always communicates and adapts very quickly and is always happy and eager to help anyone so thank you very much so miss laura if you want to come up and if you do not mind taking a picture with her hello on stage thank you madam president oh thank you that was wonderful thank you thank you dr lydia are there any comments from our fellow board member from my fellow board members sorry no i
007just uh i would like to say thank you to the three folks that were recognized but also to all the rest of the staff that is working just as hard to and worked just as hard to make this school years um you know the start of the school year go so we're just very appreciative of everybody's work so thank you i agree congratulations and thank you so much great thank you next on the agendas 3.2 hispanic heritage month proclamation secretary zubia would you please write the proclamation yes thank you so a proclamation for his hispanic heritage month september 15 through october 15 of 2022 whereas national hispanic heritage month is observed each year from september 15 through october 15 to celebrate the histories cultures and contributions of americans whose ancestors came from spain mexico the
008caribbean and central and south america whereas the celebration originally began as a week-long celebration in 1968 until it was expanded by president ronald reagan in 1988 to cover a third to cover 30 days whereas september 15th was chosen as the beginning of hispanic heritage month because it is the anniversary of the independence of five latin american countries costa rica el salvador guatemala honduras and nicaragua that all declared independence in 1821 whereas the theme of this year is unido's inclusivity for a stronger nation reinforcing the need for diverse voices and perspectives to be welcomed in any decision-making process thereby building a stronger community and a stronger nation whereas the hispanic and latinx community compromises the largest minority group in the united states and represents 87 percent of adams county school district 14's total population whereas members
009of the hispanic community have made countless contributions to the united states economy and culture serving in all branches of the armed forces as the dedicated public servants and as leaders in education healthcare business and entrepreneurship and other professions whereas adams county school district 14 has an important role in educating students and the larger community about the diversity of the hispanic and latinx communities and their contributions to the state of colorado and the united states of america whereas adams 14 schools honor and preserve the linguistic and cultural assets of students through bilingual and dual language instruction and are still a bi-literacy program as well as honoring the backgrounds of our students from spanish-speaking households therefore be it resolved that the adams 14 board of education is committed to highlighting the rich diversity of peoples and histories
010within the hispanic and latinx communities via further resolved one recognizes inclusion as a core value at of adams 14 and the school board has a responsibility to oppose the historical system systematic racism towards hispanic and latin next people in colorado and two invites all members of our community to join in celebrating our hispanic and latin next students and families approved this 13th day of september 2022. thank you secretary zabia may i have a motion to approve the proclamation recognizing hispanic heritage month so second great thank you colleagues any additional comments all right thank you so much uh ramona roll call please mr amador aye ms estrada aye ms lovato aye ms zubia aye thank you next on the agenda we have uh superintendent gloria's updates uh dr gloria would you please provide your updates yes
011thank you i have two brief but very important exciting updates today the first one i just want to thank adams county they actually provided us with two checks to support our homeless population one is for one million dollars and the other one for 275 thousand dollars out here so that everybody can see them but we are very excited with their the partnership and the support that we get from adams county and i will be uh giving these dollars good use to support our homeless population so um that's the first one and i'm going to put it out there in a minute so everybody can can see them and the other one the state department run calculations for the expedited clock adjustments conditions for the 2022 request to reconsider the pro to reconsider process in adams
012county adams not county school district has three schools that meet the criteria to actually have a better rating or improved rating this is pending the state board approval but we do meet the criteria three of our schools meet the criteria these are lesser arnold high school and if they are approved by the state board they will go from priority improvement to improvement ranking we also have rose hill elementary school going as well from priority improvement to improvement and we have hands-on elementary school going from improvement to being on the watch for a year too that means that if we maintain and continue growing they will be out of improvement so this is exciting where we met yesterday with cde and we were talking about the process and what to look for so pending board approval
013state board approval will get a new designation for this school so that's quite exciting because especially the second semester we put a lot of structures in place and this is proof that we can take care of our students and our students can demonstrate what they're learning and what our teachers are doing every single day so that that's exciting very exciting yes thank you and those are my two updates thank you thank you so much colleagues do you have any questions or comments for dr rhodius oh that's just exciting information yeah very exciting um dr lydia i hate to put you on the spot do you happen to know when i know they're up for state board approval but when is the process when we learn what the rest of our school's ratings were uh um
014actually we met with them yesterday and i know sheila was taking cup his notes so i'm going to ask her to yell it out from there and i will repeat it here september 22 september 23rd awesome thank you i knew it was coming up but i was this is exciting news so it was exciting i was so excited doing the victory dance uh and while sheila was taking notes yes very well deserved great thank you so much yeah those are amazing yeah next on the agenda we have audience comments do we have any we don't have any okay um this evening we have none so next on our agenda our consent items may have a motion to approve your consent items emotions her proof thank you may i have a second second thank you um
015really quickly i would like to welcome mr ramona lewis we um as part of our personnel actions we just approved her as our executive assistant to the board and um to label council so so thank you very excited to have you back [Applause] oh my goodness yes i'm sorry thank you secretary zubia corrected me we need to vote first before i noted that can we take roll call thank you mr salazar mr amador aye ms estrada aye ms lovato aye ms zubia aye thank you luckily that worked out in my favor i would also quickly like to thank uh monica for her many years of service um i know i believe she's taking a little time off here and um we would look forward to a celebration and hopefully recognizing her her service yeah she
016is going to stay with the district that is correct madam president members of the board she um decided that she wanted to eat a change and but she's staying within the district and we're excited for that yes we are awesome thank you thank you welcome thank you oh now i will not be flustered on my mistake sorry about that next on the agenda we have business action items uh 7.1 is approval of the first reading and emergency adoption of policy ic ica school year school calendar administration is seeking approval of this policy to be put into place according to board policy bg to approve and adopt the changes during the first reading so policy changes are in place prior to october count this policy will then go to the second reading at the october 11th
017meeting with any necessary updates and final adoption may i have a motion to approve the first reading and emergency adoption of policy ic ica the school year school calendar so moved thank you may i have a second a second thank you any comments or questions [Music] aye next on the agenda is 7.2 approval of the first reading of policy jldba suicide prevention this is the first reading of a new policy once this policy goes through the second reading and final adoption a committee will consider several curriculums to bring the to the board for our review may i have a motion to approve the first reading of policy jldba suicide prevention a second thank you any questions or comments no it's just about time i know that this is a very difficult subject and topic out
018there but it's one that needs to be addressed so thank you for bringing it all forward thank you uh ramona mr amador aye ms estrada aye ms lovato aye ms zubia aye thank you next on the agenda 7.3 approval of revised student calendar for the 2022-23 school year the 2022-23 student calendar has been revised to include the observance of the new year's holiday there was also a miscalculation with the student contact days in october and march due to parent-teacher conferences and the compensation day for staff on the friday of parent teacher conference week with this change it impacted the last day of school for students and staff resulting in the day being moved from may 25th to may 24th of 2023 may i have a motion to approve the revised student calendar for the 2022-23
019school year so moved thank you second i'll say that thank you any questions or comments all right ramona roll call please mr amador aye ms estrada aye ms lovato aye ms item is 7.4 resolution 22 13. resolution to opt out of the paid family family medical leave insurance act program may i have a motion to approve resolution 2213 to opt out of the paid family family medical leave insurance act program i'll move to approve um can i have a second that's a tough one second are there comments or questions yeah well yes i think that um you know just the way it reads um opting out of paid family medical leave insurance act program sounds wrong to me because we have so many families um so many people that work for us that that use
020it but then when you read it um and you i guess i'm just concerned of how it reads because people can still take they can still use fmla right so i guess i'm just concerned as to or questioning why is it that um we have to have a resolution to opt out of it if people are still going to be using it yes i can use that because it's by law they we offer it right yes uh madam president members of the board i'm i'm going to ask dr mckenna to come here he's our chief for human resources so that he can explain a little bit better and then i can add if he missed anything thank you dr mckenna thank you thank you madam president uh members of the board madam superintendent those of
021you that are at home watching i do agree the wording leaves a little bit to be questioned however the district already has all of these insurances and anybody that wants to still opt in to family still has the option if we as a district don't opt out then everybody is automatically opted in you have no choice every single person in the district whether they have insurance coverage or not has to if we don't opt out has to pay for this supplemental coverage that they can opt in if they want it it costs no more whether we opt in or opt out for those people that want coverage we just don't want coverage mandated for people that don't want it and we did a survey and the vast majority of our staff this wasn't a decision
022made by myself or our superintendent we did a survey gave access to every employee the vast majority does want to opt out every school district in colorado up to this point i've been told has opted out instead of mandating that their employees opted in so this will not affect any employee that wants to opt in this won't cost them any more money uh this will only result in people that don't want to have this insurance be mandated to take it and if i may add uh this does not impact family medical leave this is not the the uh the fmla now so f malayah there are no changes to it this is an additional coverage but if it's mandated you know the employee will have to make a contribution a mandated contribution so this is
023ensuring like dr mccanna said that all employees have the option to choose whether they want to be covered by it or not so it's an additional insurance that would be mandated if we don't opt out and people would be deducted the same amount every month regardless of whether they want it or not everybody that is correct yeah and that's why every school district is opting out now the the benefit we as school districts have is we already have insurance plans we already have all of the things that they're offering but a lot of businesses don't and so this more or less was directed from my assumption and from my interpretation for those organizations and industries that don't have all of the insurance options that we have here yeah madam president just further yes thank you
024um thank you madam president members of the board madam secretary this was uh state law that changed it has nothing to do with federal law oh okay and i i watched the um commerce city city council meeting and they too opted out i think it was a government any government entity had to either opt out or be stuck with it for three years i mean it was written kind of weird so yes ma'am so i i do understand but it's not in our best interest to stay in this when we have the opportunity to opt out and allow that choice to employees yeah that makes sense thank you and thank you for um pulling our staff to make sure this is yes absolutely yes thank you dr mccann any further questions or discussion okay no
025thank you that helped and i think that helped clarify for the community as well because it does read like um yeah something different it's very weird yeah all right uh ramona roll call please mr amador hi ms agenda item number eight communication um board of education new business requests do we have any new business requests this evening no okay next is 8.2 board member communications does anyone have any communications do we want to wait to do this until we get a new board number um you mean 8.3 oh yeah yeah 8.3 okay sorry it's like sure thank you it's been a long weekend it's only tuesday okay um well this evening if it's okay i'd like to review we did approve a number of items on the consent agenda that i'd like to highlight um
026first is kemp elementary we purchased play works which supports social emotional growth for students teachers in school administration receive training to help students stay active and to provide students tools to deal positively with disagreements and managing conflicts this district or the district is exploring offering structured recess for all elementary schools in the future additionally as a district we are committed to the continuous improvement of the academic programs we offer including the training that complements these programs we approved academic supports for our students including to continue the work through the cde early literacy grant with the purchase of services and trainings with growing educational practices for early literacy instruction support to our elementary schools the purchase of services with mapleton school district to provide synchronous online instruction for up to 50 students in grades 6 through
02712 from mapleton's highly qualified teaching staff for the 2022-23 school year we sincerely appreciate this collaboration with our friends in mapleton the purchase of constructive constructing meaning training to provide assistance to the linguistically gifted students we serve constructing meaning is a research-based training for staff at all grade levels to support academic language and english proficiency while we continue to make progress adams 14 like most districts across the state of colorado still have unfilled positions this evening we approved a number of supports for our students including an increase to the blueprint new school network contract to support the math tutoring throughout the district increases for sun belt staffing salient health and therapy traveler contracts to help us in our efforts efforts to provide for staffing in our critical needs areas we approved a contract with miss
028maggie host striker hokestra sorry to fill the vacant educational technology coordinator position she's a former employee and will continue supporting us until we can hire for this position so we thank her for her continued support one last go around any other comments or questions for board comments okay next on the agenda we had 8.3 the review of adams 14 board of education member assignments for the 22-23 school year um while i know this was proposed in the agenda i would propose that we postpone this discussion until we do have our new board member um is that agreeable with everyone yes we'll be cable that for now i think the one question i did have um since we put it off for a couple of months is the urban renewal development so from i i wonder
029if you guys are okay with me attending that for now until i just want to make sure we have representation um and then once we get our new board member we can leave okay because they have a meeting coming up thank you all right this concludes our agenda for this evening our next board meeting is a study session on tuesday september 27th follow immediately following tonight's meeting we do have a community forum for the board vacancy we'll take a short recess and then begin the forum may i have a motion to adjourn a motion second thank you ramona roll call please mr amador aye ms estrada aye ms lovato aye ms zubia aye thank you everyone we're adjourned and we'll get set up for our community forum um we're scheduled to start at 7 15.
0307 15. so we'll have a little break you