BOE Prioritization Meeting - June 10, 2025

001I'd like to call to order the special meeting of the Boulder Valley School District Board of Education for Tuesday, June 10th, 2025. Board members may attend and participate in board meetings by electronic means in accordance with BBSC policy BA and state law. Lord, Chavez here. Medler here. Nesnik here. Quinn Linua here. Raj Paul here. Sergeant Anger here. Thank you. I would like to remind everybody that the mission of the Boulder Valley School District is to create challenging, meaningful, engaging learning opportunities so that all children thrive and are prepared for successful civically engaged lives. Good morning everyone. Thank you for joining us. We're glad to have you serve in our meetings. At this time, is there a mot is there a motion to approve today's agenda? So moved. Moved by Beth, seconded by Alex. Or can

002you please call the vote on the motion? Chavez, yes. Medler, yes. Nisnik, yes. Quinn Linawa, yes. Raj Paul, yes. Anger, yes. Motion passes. Sorry if it feels like I'm screaming. It's really weird not having a mic in front of me. Um we will begin this work session with our prioritization planning and I will hand it over to Dr. Anderson to do the introductions. Thanks Nicole. Good to see everybody today. Um you know Heather and I were were were just chatting um about our partnership in doing this prioritization. um uh seven years going we have uh worked with Heather and her group uh to to make sure that we're focusing on the right work uh that we're that everybody's voice is being heard and that we're collectively acting in ways that uh that support our mission

003and vision. So, uh, si same agenda, uh, you know, some different topics as we went through last time. Uh, felt like our last prioritization was super productive. Uh, really feel like we've had a great year. Um, going through and and and identifying uh, the things that we need to focus on and taking action on that and and doing that in a strategic and intentional way. I was talking with Jonathan Dings on who's retiring. We had a nice retirement party from the other day. But uh you know he's like I was talking to him about this meeting and I what I the way I describe this prioritization process is that you know it allows us to focus on the most important things gets voices in the room but also calms the noise that can consume uh

004governance teams as you're trying to get things done. So um I really appreciate the process. I really appreciate Heather and her partnership. Uh and so the first thing that we will do today is a bit of a board check-in led by Heather. Then we will go through the agenda setting items from this semester. Thank you uh to everybody for filling out our survey. Uh again, we did this last time where we we talk about topics previously prioritized, topics required by board policy and new prioritization topics. Then we'll build out our board uh and uh and talk about the context of what's going to be going on in the fall and then have a conversation on how full do we want to pack the board uh and how much time and energy between staff board others

005do we have like how many things can we get done. So with that I'll turn it over to Heather. Thanks Rob. Hello. So nice to see you. Um I thought we could do today a quick round of things. I have two questions. One is um my usual ridiculous icebreaker which today I'm going to I'm going to tell you now so you can sit with it for a minute is if you had a tagline for yourself what would it be? Don't overthink it. I was just like yeah I got this or was that the don't overthink it? Okay not overthink it. And then the other thing is um what anything in particular on your mind about things that have been great um things that you're struggling with as a member of the board just so we

006can have that in our heads as we go forward. Um to give you a minute to think I'll tell you my current tagline is choose joy in a time of uh all kinds of excitement um in life uh easy to get run down by the things and I'm just all about just when in doubt choose joy. Anyone want to go next? We don't have to go in a circle, but we certainly can. Rob's ready. Well, there you go. So, uh, so my tagline right now, I think, and this is partly because Ben is getting ready to go to college and I'm trying to help calling it dad camp. So, we're trying to like this summer, I'm trying to really just get him ready to be on his own so he can launch. And it's, you

007know, h have the discipline to continuously improve and uh, you know, whatever it is, if you're disciplined, if you know what you want to do, discipline is the, you know, kind of keeps folks from reaching their goals and dreams. So, focusing on discipline and continuous improvement. And anything on your mind big picture, um, school district wise, what? Well, well, I mean, you know, at the feds, the federal level, things are are are intentionally chaotic. And uh, you know, the more that I think about it, though, the more that the more I'm com so comfortable and grateful to be here, right? So, to the extent that that there's chaos, um, as a as a design, uh, um, you know, I think that that this process always grounds me in, um, in gratitude. uh just because I

008do think that we're uh pretty a strong governance team, highly functional uh and uh and so in any event um grateful to be here, grateful that I think that we'll have a great semester next year based on today's prioritization, but mindful that not everybody has it as as good as we have it. Excellent. Okay, want to go next? Welcome. Lovely. Um, I'm currently in my tagline is um, bagel nervous system check-in. Oh, which I'm going to send that over to Alex. Talk about that. Um, because I I'm also having a high stress personal environment due to a death in our family. And so, um, I just I'm all about just no chaos. I'm just I'm grounded and other people around me might not be, but I'm just trying to pass that along. Um, I've enjoyed

009my work and school board is actually one of my favorite places to be because it does not have that same amount of chaos. So I actually this is one of my really happy places. I enjoy my fellow board members staff just I feel good about being here. Great. I'll go. Um my tagline maybe is one that I recognize myself but that I'm trying to overcome. And so I'll say president business because I I come here and in a lot of places in life and I just like am here to get the work done. And I know I could be better at relationships and that kind of soft stuff. So, I'm just acknowledging that to you because we all come here with different um needs and strengths and desires. That's something I'm trying to do better

010at is not just being president of business, but I am here to like get the work done and stay focused on what we can accomplish. And that really relates to the context of the world. It feels really frustrating. There are so many unknowns. But I feel best when we're all just focusing on the things that are within our control. What can we do given all of the unknowns? Um, so that's that's sort of where I am and I am appreciative of this board really sticking to that like that governance structure and focusing on our work. Um, really applying our skill set to do what's best for our students and our staff and our community. You're right. It's so weird not to have a microphone. I want to lean forward very out of so well trained

011this bunch right we are um I don't have a great one but right now I think my tagline might be I just wrote this down feeling local and keeping it essential and so here's what I mean by that what I mean by that is I'm feeling a lot on a personal level about the importance of keeping things local in my life doing a ton of summer camps we're just kind of having a bolder focused summer of just chill. We're going to get bored. We're gonna we're going to embrace the boredom and we're going to just embrace that creativity. I think we get too overscheduled in our lives and as a parent, I think there's a lot of pressure for that. So anyway, in an effort to scale back on that, I'm focusing on the local

012for my family and myself. Um some of my current professional goals are are pretty local as well. So, um, I'm keeping it local and focusing on the essentials around here. And with that, I was thinking about the gratitude I have for being here, the opportunity to serve on the board. And I think for me in recent times, that gratitude really comes from again local. I think that given the pol the state of our country, the federal politics, all you can do is focus on the local. I can't control what's happening in Denver, the country, but I can contribute to this community and be hyper local. So, I think my tagline is keeping it local. Thanks. All right. Yeah. Yeah. I think I'm a lot of themes here. Um, you know, I think, um, I appreciate

013a calm individual anyway, but, you know, keep calm and stay on track. You know, there's there is a lot of chaos and I know there's a lot of vulnerable um, families and individuals who are being affected right now, right? I mean, think about the the Jewish community, you know, the horrible tech about a week and a half ago um, at a social at a, you know, social support events community event, right? um kids mentioning deportations at the continuation ceremonies, right? Um us facing budget cuts um and the importance of the work that we're doing and that we're all on the same page in terms of saying we want an inclusive community here. We care about our families and we want to do the best for our kids and stay on track and make sure that

014we're serving all of our kids. And so, um it's easy to get overwhelmed and sometimes it can get to you, right? But just staying calm and knowing that you're not doing it alone, um and that we're working together. I really value um everybody here for doing that work and and staying on track for that. And I think we're doing support and staying true to our values and saying we're care for all our kids and we're going to do what it takes to get them there. So keep calm and stay on track. Thanks. All right. Uh Kitty, just give you a minute to think. Um I was gonna say not detecting what's on the top of the question is um if you had a tagline for where you are in your life right now, what would

015it be? And then related if you want it to be or not related if you want it not to be um what's on your mind big picture board stuff. So you can noodle on that while Alex goes. Yep. Uh maybe there's too many words in this one but um like compassion is the mission and it's selfish. Um so I'm uh with a millennia just um the bagel nerve thing is not good in this world for many reasons. And when people ask me what I think about the board and I'm like, "Oh my god, the more you get involved, the deeper you dig, the more you find so many wonderful people who are working so hard to do what's right for kids." And so the intent and the focus is so there. Um, which is why

016the distraction and the the feedback is like we're in a good spot. like I'm trying to maintain. The few people I've seen in politics who like stay focused, have a calmness, but they also have just a constant compassion. Like they're just like thinking about the things they're trying to make better. And then when someone is having a problem, is in crisis, is struggling, it's not working, you can actually hear what they're saying, and maybe you can't deal with it, maybe there's nothing to do, but at least you understand it better if you have compassion for them. and that gives you compassion for yourself. So, that's kind of where I'm at. And I think um uh I reiterate how much I find this board experience a privilege. Um and what a pleasure it is to work

017with all of you. Um and I feel like uh the challenges are really real. So the in terms of getting stuff done, it's so nice that we can figure out where to go, feel like we're working effectively, making change and doing things because that agency is super reaffirming. Um, and I will say that when you have you think about fighter, we always say fight or flight and I'm in constant fight or flight in my professional and parts of my personal life, but the third one is freeze. So it's freeze, fight or flight and like we can just be paralyzed by how overwhelming the stuff is. So that's where I think compassion lets you stay in the flow and have confidence that people around you are trying to do good. You can get to good and

018the flow will be achieved even if you can't control the things that they're stressing you out. Thanks Alex. Jason, do you want to go? Sure. Um, can you all hear me? Okay. Y Okay. I'm gonna mostly stay off camera if that's okay because I got some chaos behind me. But I appreciate being able to call in. Sorry for not being there. I always enjoyed this meeting and being there in person and the kind of personal connection and um unfortunately I'm going last here. I wish I would have gone first because it's hard to follow uh like follow you all and all the things you said and you hit on a lot of things I want to talk about. Um I think my tagline actually Beth you used exactly which was focus locally. Um, but I

019think just, you know, maybe on a more personal note, um, something I kind of work for and try to always think about is just striving for balance. Um, and balance in my kind of family life and work life. Um, you know, balance just across the board and it's something it's um, I don't know tagline, but it's something I think about a lot. Um, and then just, you know, like I said, the theme of focus, local focus. I think to so many people's points, you know, Rob, you mentioned just being fortunate to work on the issues and in the community that we do, and I think that's even more so true now kind of in this chaotic world. Um, and and to work with you all in this board. I I feel exactly I feel the

020same as as what many of you said is just kind of grateful to be part of this team and uh to have colleagues like this. I know it's a very rare thing to have colleagues that you like personally and that you respect uh and that you know I think where we're generally aligned and even when there's a few times when we're not you know we do so in a very um collegial and friendly manner. So I I'm echo all you know basically everything I like I said I wish I didn't go last because I I feel like I'm just repeating um what others said maybe more articulate than I did but um but yeah just feeling those things right now. Thanks, Jason. And lucky you, you weren't last. You were the penultimate because the last

021one. So, say a tagline about where I am with in your life. Just right now. Mine was choose joy. We had some choose local, live local. Okay. So, not specifically about board. No, doesn't have to be about the board. Can be if you wanted. You're a woman of many dimensions. Boy, I I guess thinking about if there is any way I could make a difference on the board. I haven't felt like I've been able to um last couple years and um just thinking what if anything can I do before November. And then I'm also thinking about being a a snowbird and spending time in Phoenix and thinking about what I'm going to do when I'm off the board and I will have the opportunity to spend my family owns an apartment in Phoenix and so

022and I have a lot of family there so thinking about that too. So, um, yeah, I guess that, you know, focusing on is there a way I can make a difference? I don't know. Okay, thanks. We're all going to be thinking about Kitty in the deep freeze in February. Kathleen, did you want to play? Um, sure. I think I um I am working right now on resisting false urgency. [Music] I like that. This you didn't make those changes. cuz I sent you more. Let's see. That's not false urgency. That's actual urgency. But I find like for myself, I do pretty well. We're all working hard around here and then I get something handed to me that people think needs to be done right then and I don't think I can manage it on top of

023what's already happening and then I freak out. So having realized that now we really spend time including on my team what is actually urgent what needs to get done today because I think urgency disregulates us and it also can undermine the ability to really do the work thoughtfully. Excellent. Thanks. You want to put one? Oh, sure. Okay. I guess my tagline, it's kind of a double tagline. I have an idea and never give up. I usually go around and say, "Oh, I have an idea." And everyone scatters like um but I I I think and it goes along with how I feel with what's going on in the world. I have absolutely no control. I love having control. Don't have the ability to do that in the big scheme of things. So, I really my

024goals are to focus on what I can do with our staff here at the ed center and the people that I work with and with my family and just keep it simple. The chaos, everybody pretty much said everything that I would have said and um seems like a common theme. These are interesting times for sure. Thanks, Laura. Okay, lovelies. If you have a gander at the agenda, the printed agenda, there's one thing we need to do before we get to the Rob fund, which is to visit a little bit about the board calendar. And this needs to come first because it influences how many meetings you actually have to program during the rest of our time today. Bora, can you bring our attention to the specific questions that we have calendar-wise? We have with our

025new fall break, we've got some Tuesdays that fall on days off for students like our regular cadence of board meetings on a day where students not have school break. So October 14th, that's a fall break day. We work here at the district, our students will not be in school. And November 11th, which is Veterans Day, um this is a holiday, but it's also considered a board regular meeting. So we need to figure out how we want to do these. Do we want to navigate and potentially do a meeting on a different Tuesday? I like for your sake having meetings on Tuesdays simply because it's board Tuesday, Tuesday, Tuesday. It doesn't vary from the norm. Um, however, the day of the week might or the uh date might vary from the second, third, or fourth. So,

026those are the two big things. Um, as you can see, November 11th would mean we only have one meeting in November because the next one is over Thanksgiving break. Um, December 2nd will most likely be the reception for board elections. That's something that's dependent upon how ballots are counted and everything else, but most likely it will be that. December 9th will be um a regular board meeting which the new board will be at and then CASBY is late this year. It's December 10th to the 13th and then we would have a work session on the 16th. So historically Laura we've usually met if the district admin has this happened last month April of this year where we had a board meeting when the district staff are working the board typically convenes. Mhm. Just for board

027members, you understand that that's kind of the past president there. Um, will staff be working on November 11th? No, I didn't think so. It's a holiday. It's a holiday situation. You could bump you could bump both just a Tuesday earlier. So you instead of the 7th, it would be or the 11th, it would be the 4th, right? Well, that's a DAP day. Is that first Tuesday of the month? We could do this. We could potentially do this as a work session and this is the regular meeting too, but we couldn't because the work session is going to be at school visits. So that would work. And when we're pointing, just tell us what you're pointing to because Jason can't see you. Okay. So November 11th, if we moved that to November 4th, we could put

028school visits there. But it's in school. November 4th. There would be And that's election day. It's election day. Oh, yeah. That's election. Whatever that's worth. It's election day. But is a school visit during the day? School visits would be during the day. That'd be fine. Just on a selfish point, I have planned around the regular schedule and we'll be out of the country uh the week of October 26 and the week of November 7. I remember what sorry I like November 2 through 7. So I November 2 through 7. May not be able to leave and make it remotely on the fourth. That's all. But I'm one person and I to elevate that. I think we all plan our calendar around the anticipation that we never have meetings on the first Tuesday, but we are

029always we're very likely to have meetings every other Tuesday after that. So I I agree. We are Yeah, I'd rather do a different day of the week myself than different weeks. I selfishly Other thoughts? So can I ask a question about November 11th? Sounds like we're circling around that one. Is that the most important one to find an alternative meeting for? Or are we trying to find alternative meetings for October 14th and November 11th? We well October 14th is no students in the buildings staff work. So we can leave that. That's actually that works. Pause on that one. Is everyone comfortable with that one? Yeah, leave it. Leaving I vote October. No, I'm sure. Yeah, I'm totally I'll tell. So, then we only need to kind of sort of reschedule November 11th, if you will,

030or decide not to. Sounds or decide not to. I like the idea of putting November 4th school visits on the calendar during the day, even if not everyone's there. How do you feel about that, Alex? I don't want to like months and visit schools once. Then, let's not do that. Let's do it a different day. We've only had one school visit other than some of the special events. round tables. We don't do round tables. Um, we couldn't visit schools anyway because they're not going to be in session. No, if that were November 4th. Oh. Oh, okay. We're back to the 11th cuz it is scheduled to be the 11th currently. I mean, we have to move. I currently have on here. I Whatever's on there is not there's nothing really on there. That has to

031be done that day. Guys, Alex and I are both wondering what happened November 12th. Yeah. like the Tuesday thing doesn't seem so sacrosing to me. Again, I feel like we've committed our Tuesdays. Um, here's the question. Board members, I mean, and it gets to there's potential for three brand spanking new board members. As we think about this calendar, I think we need to think about what kind of work we want to commit them to. um or what kind of and the kind of work we want to have the work we want to have wrapped up before the new board gets seated is it would it if we didn't want to commit them to a bunch of work I know some of you did not like being committed to work that was in progress when you

032started maybe it's fine if we just cancel that meeting on that day knowing that like a week thereafter we're going to I mean shortly thereafter two weeks thereafter we're going have an entirely new board. We could do double duty on the 18th. Double duty would have a have school visits in the morning and then a meeting and then a meeting at night. I think that sounds great. I can do that. Two season. That'll make the staff a little stressed, but Oh, because school bus are fun, right? There's I mean I I actually think that works really well. And then there's the organizational meaning, right? The third. So instead of crossing that out, just put nove just leave two November 18th. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Erase that and then and then black. Just put November 18th. All

033right. So now we lose we didn't lose meeting time. Oh. So that's fantastic because you are a busy bunch. All right. Lord, did we do our assignment? I believe so. Fantastic. Thank you, lovely. In that case, Rob. All right. Check catch us up on the things and then we'll discuss. I would love to do that. So, um, you know, we I I I never take this out. I think it's always good to ground in our vision and mission of the school district. Um, we develop our children's greatest abilities and make possible the discovery and pursuit of their dreams, which when fulfilled will benefit us all. We provide a comprehensive and innovative approach to education and graduate successful, curious, lifelong learners who confidently confront the great challenges of their time. Our mission, the mission of the

034Boulder Valley School District is to create challenging, meaningful, engaging learning opportunities so that all children thrive and are prepared for successful, civically engaged lives. We are doing that. We are absolutely doing that. That makes me incredibly proud. Uh we respect the inherent value of each student and incorporate the strengths and diversity of students, families, staff, and communities. Societal inequities and unique learning needs will not be barriers to student success. We address the intellectual growth, health, and physical development and social, emotional well-being of students. We value accountability and transparency at all levels. We've done that. We have done that. uh you know as we think about our original long-term student outcomes in our strategic plan that we set in 2019 uh ignite all students benefit from challenging and relevant educational opportunities equip we reduce disparities in

035achievement and soar every student graduates empowered with the skills necessary for post-graduate success and I'm proud to say that our strategic initiative and strategic plan are delivering on all three um so with that being stated Ed and uh and just grounding in why we're here and what we're trying to do. Um what are the things that we have to consider as we as we press forward um with the fall semester? I think that Nicole, you you really led us off well in the sense that we're going to have um at the you know mid November we'll have new board members getting ready to on board. Um we have our elementary school math adoption that we're going to be going through. Um, we have a new I didn't add this on here, but I can. MClass,

036right? We're moving away from I Ready and moving towards MCLass. That touches a lot of people, a lot of things. Uh, we have our UNIB salary schedule work as a result of negotiations. You know, want to take this opportunity to thank BBEA for for engaging with us in what was a lengthy and productive negotiating session. I think we spent more time negotiating this year than um on this topic in terms of salary and compensation than we ever have. And as a result of that work and I believe that the vote from the BVEA executive board is finalized on Wednesday um we will be starting in August uh really looking at our salary schedule to ensure sustainability. That's a critically important step, a proactive step that that BVEA and the district have agreed needs to happen.

037And so, um, but that's going to be very labor intensive uh for a lot of folks. Uh, it's election season, continued federal impacts, you know, the work that we have um continuing within our strategic plan, which is our top priority, and then other priorities is determined today. So, so that's the landscape of what we're scheduling to. I think it's it's important to kind of kind of list that up. Um, you know, we started this last semester and I think it makes sense. We've taken uh, you know, we surveyed board members on topics that were brought up um during agenda setting at the end of our meetings and then I've prioritized um, topics in three categories three categories previously prioritized. So follow-ups from work that the board has already directed us to do, work that's required

038by current board policy, and then new prioritized topics. And then what we will do is I can walk you through um uh the sheet that you have and where we've placed prioritized topics and then we can talk about do we need to take on more? Do we have those topics in the right spots? Um and have any other conversations that the board like to have in terms of the work for fall semester. I have a question for you. So the one these priorities that we did the survey about these the um ones required by current current board policy are not on this list. Right. So so here's here's here's the list right here. Um the things that we previously prioritized uh unless you tell me different. I think that the strategic plan extended work sessions

039have been a game changer. I totally agree. They they they let us talk and question and think about the work. It lets our our team prepare and think about the work in deeper ways. I really think that's been a huge success. Right. After our last school visit, we all agreed we'd like this more, please. Right. So, more school visits. We have to work on attendance boundaries based on our last session that you know we are bringing those back to you early in the fall. Um in terms of declining enrollment based on our last session, what are some additional options for the board to consider moving forward? Um and then we have to work on our priorities and legislative platform and we've agreed to do that August September time frame. Uh board policy, we have quarterly

040updates on Sabbach, uh an enrollment update, our budget process and annual audit. Those are two updates that you get per board policy. Dak our DAC planning session because Dak comes and asks you know you are able to kind of work with Dak on the work they need to do. You know when I met with when we met I met with Dak exec that one time. I actually want to propose and I talked to the folks in deck exec about this a little bit like I I don't know that we need to do it twice but really once we set our calendar letting them know what our calendar is and then because we're setting our calendar after today and then and then sharing our calendar with them and figuring out the points in which they want

041to weigh in. It might not take the type of time it has taken in the past if we provide them with our calendar. We haven't really done that like show like our our semester at a glance and like this is what we're doing. Do you want our work to align or not? Do you want to align with our work? Like it that one could look different and or be less time consuming based on because they're new to a deck team if they're if they agree with that idea. I mean if this is supposed to be a mutual relationship we just after like this as soon as we know this summer say hey deck exact this is our first semester's work. here's what we think that we would like your assistance with. How does that sound?

042Like I it could look different than having a a long board meeting to talk about that or it could be just once a year. Sorry. They they're slated, but they don't meet at all during the summer. They won't meet until August. Like first the first Tuesday in August they meet or do they meet until September? I was going to say August training. Okay. will probably be in August. So, I think since we now know who those folks are, like that just could it could streamline that and rather than having a round circle of like just staring at each other and hearing everybody's best ideas and not really having an actionable plan, we could rethink that. Um, so, so, so, so would you still want to have the public meeting to agree upon like the how

043they're going to how they propose based on the calendar? you know, they engage or would you want to move away from the public meeting? I I think that do we do we need that? I I would love to ask them because in the p like the last couple times it's been like a lot of them haven't even shown up, right? Their their commitments or deck are the first Tuesday of the month. So coming in on a different board meeting, I think that is part of the reason why they don't all show up all the decks. So I could go either way depending on the real deck exec board members thoughts. I think I like I like the idea of connecting with the exact um new DAC executive officials and talking about making a change. It

044makes really reasonable sense what you proposed. Yeah, I think it makes sense. Share the calendar and see kind of how they're feeling, how useful those meetings. I know big part was just more direction but that could be done earlier by having the calendar. Yeah. And if they want to come to our meetings, by all means. But Alex, well, I was just um uh like I think we're all on the page of wanting to have more alignment, more timely input um so that we can take advantage of it and they're using their time effectively. Uh I since that hasn't gone as well as we have hoped in the last year. I'm just like will the executive committee the executive leadership be the way to handle that or the bigger discussion be the way to handle it.

045So I for you you've dealt more with trying to figure out how to get it aligned. So that makes sense to me but I could see also a board level discussion with their leadership being helpful too. I just don't know but I defer to your judgment because I don't really know the best way to make it happen. Nicole, did I hear you offer just to do some outreach to see what their preference would be? Yeah. Is that the best next step and then circle back on this to see? So, we'll plan to have it. We can pull it. Yep. And that frees up some space and time to do something else if we'd like. So, um now now here are the new prioritization topics based on the board's feedback that I've worked into the board.

046And so, we could talk through these. Um and and so kindergarten readiness from UPK to K. Sorry. Quick question, Robert. Are these in order of rank number one? And they're on the back of your agenda and in the table at the top. They're not listed in they're not listed in rank order, but if you pop around, you can see that that there's three tens and then a couple of nines. Thank you. Sorry. So, so that came in number one. I love this. I love this topic. I think this idea of, you know, we've had two years of universal preupk. we've had two different models starting to track how those investments are preparing kids for kindergarten I think is really really important. Um so I love this topic. Uh topic number two acceleration update and I

047think based on board feedback you know thinking about this more broadly has been the direction don't just give us a gift and talented update. We do a lot of stuff, a lot of things where kids can accelerate and we're doing a lot of work on how to differentiate to get kids thinking and and provide those types of supports across the board. Uh and so a different take as opposed to just having our gift and talented coordinators come and say we don't have any money like it's really limited, right? You know, it's more pushing the pull out. And so I do think that makes a ton of sense. uh we have to talk about number three uh because it's going to feed into our legislative platform, but we need to inform our public, right? And so

048I think that that was was was lots of support. Homework policy uh came in at number four and then instructional program policy came in at number five. Um, I'll mention number six I see as part of our strategic plan updates, which is this continuation of discipline discussion, including student and family experience and expectations. I do think we need to dig into that a little bit and leverage, you know, some of our committees to really think about and get more f more more detail on that experience, but I would see that as part of one our strategic plan deep dives. Uh and then number seven, which would be the thing that we would have to decide if we wanted to add it or not given what Nicole shared in the beginning was grading policy. A grading

049policy will take you I I mean a year to two years. I I would imag Well, think about it. It is it impacts every single teacher, every single parent, every single kid, every single school. uh depending upon where that would go if we're talking about light touch adjustments versus deep reconsiderations. um you know there is a lot of space for educators today to determine how they grade uh what counts for what there's some loose guidelines around professionalism um and then there's a policy but it's you know so so but we can start to talk about this I would say that as we think about and reflect upon the academic stress is one of the big factors in student mental health like this is a big lever so so we can we can do it now.

050We can do it in the spring uh after checking in with new board members. But I would that would be to the I would leave that to the just a board discussion on on what we thought about that. And then once we have that then I can show you how the board lays out and then we can have discussions on on um on how we'd want to change things um or how if there's space and time for additional things that that we feel like is maybe not reflected here that the board would want to think about over the fall semester. So with regard to the grading policy, what I find is interesting is that it is rather prescribed and our staff don't follow the prescription that's laid out there. So the policy could be like

051it's up to the staff and the staff have to include their grading policy in the syllabus. I mean that's my biggest I don't know that when I put this up there that I have like a people should grade this way. Okay. It's just so and I would leave that up to like district staff level guidance, but I think what irks me is that it lays out what grading should look like and nobody follows it and and we saw that in a recent complaint we received. It's so I'm wondering it is it a required policy by CASBY? I don't think uh let me check. I don't think so. I could see that going a million ways. I wasn't going at it like with just so everybody knows. So the topic is enforcement policy or implementation implementation.

052Okay. Or like or just maybe the policy if we believe that teachers should have latitude to some degree. Maybe the policy reflects that. I think that so for me this policy could go a million different ways. I wasn't thinking okay just so you know. Okay. Um, and I think that's where the concern was like when people complain that, hey, if I don't understand what this three-point grading scale is or what is no points grading and your policy says this and the policyy's like A B CDE E F, what does it all mean? So, okay, that's that was sort of where I was and it does create academic stress and our our um our all over the place around, you know, if your grandfather didn't have an advanced course, you can have a fivepoint scale, but

053any new course has to be IB or AP to have an awaited grade. So, it's like it's a it's a mess. And so, the policy could be written in a way that allows latitude or that doesn't. Um, but that's sort of where when I hear from the community around the complaints of it all, it's it's just the lack of clarity, that infidelity to whatever it is. That's such a tricky line that you're describing though because the idea of like we do want to honor, you know, professional judgment of teachers and giving them latitude, but at the same time creating consistency for the the public. I like the question of does Casby even have a policy? Yeah, they say that it is required by law. Okay. But their sample policy brings together grading and then state

054assessment. And there was a lot of law around state assessment. How do we tell families if they can opt out or not and all of that. So I'll have to really tease it apart to see what's specific about grading would have to be in the policy. Well, Alex, well, I was just going to say the other thing to think about is um there's teacher fidelity and then there's probably school level fidelity. And so if we're still trying to figure out how we protect the uniqueness of our different schools, then um again, I don't know what the answer is. It seems like parental and student transparency is the goal uh or primary goal followed by whatever else we're trying to achieve with it. But I would just note in there like is there a way for

055schools to be different if they have a philosophy about it? And then parents would know I'm at this school. This is the school's approach. Here's here's here's where I sit on grading. Um You know, maybe some teachers have this dialed in. In my experience as a principal teacher, when you ask people why do they grade the way they do, they don't have real good answers. It's not intentional, right? Some use points, some weight categories. Some use points and weight categories, but don't have equal amounts assignments and categories. So, the weights then get skewed. And so then it's, you know, you get these mathematical um anomalies because folks haven't understand mathematically how they set up their grade book at the secondary level. Um I do think that it's worth a conversation, right? I do think that

056if we feel like that we have a policy that folks aren't following, we should that I have an obligation to address that, right, as superintendent. Uh and so I'm good with finding the place to put this on the board to begin the conversation, right? Because Nicole, to your point, it could be right that we just work in there school autonomy or teacher autonomy or teacher autonomy aligned to school and and create maybe some first touch cleanups, right? Like to just get things more adherence. So when a when a community member has an issue with grading, they look at our board policy, it says one thing and people say, "Yeah, but we don't follow that." Like that's that doesn't make sense to me. Um, so I'm okay with adding uh grading policy to the board and

057I and we can walk through the board. We can figure out where we'd want to put that. What else? Uh, this is a big picture observation. I mean, I think I've added a few things along the way because I want to know what we do. And some of them are sort of in the strand of like let's follow up on implementation and see how it's going. And I recognize that there isn't necessarily a reason for the board to have a discussion about it or a super in-depth update, but there's sometimes are things where I'm like, okay, the idling policy is a little tiny thing that could be taken care of with some signage like we don't need to know the details of that, but maybe that's a good thing to do. Um or on the

058vaping followup like that seems like an implementation issue that's on the books that an executive director and interaction with principles will be following up on. not the board, but we might get a brief update from the superintendent on how that's going, right? So, I assume there are things that are not board action or even need be a lot of board discussion that could still be followed up on um or that I assume are being followed up on. Yep. And that there's several of those items. So, I think about, you know, the the vathing policy, the idling policy, they're not things I prioritized either. So, don't get me wrong, I'm not they're not a big deal. So, what do you say if we go through the highest priority ones and then let's look at what's left

059and then we could talk about like what maybe is the right approach for those things. Yeah. Or just know that there's things that are on on the list that are cool, they can still be acted on or followed up on without it needing to be taken care of time. Yeah. And what we could do is that we could formalize when you'd expect to see those updates. Yeah. So, so whether it's with some news and notes, whether it's an executive summary, uh some things might be, hey, look, here's what's going on with this thing. Right. So, so, so, absolutely. Yeah. Hanging threads are no good. Yeah. So, so like I'd like to tighten up like what those things are that you all would want to have updates on through some form and means of communication, not

060necessarily for a board agenda item or an information item or a board discussion. That doesn't mean that you can't be keeping up with how things are going, right? So yeah, one and I might make a friendly amendment to the prioritization process to have like two parking lots and have the prioritization list and the love to know what's going on on this list. Um that can be dealt with by staff and leadership without us needing to talk about a great idea to calendar it out. What you're saying is that it doesn't belong on the calendar. It's on the calendar, but we want to hear about this in some form or another. I think that's right. Love that. Did you want to say this one? Nope, you're good. Okay. All right. Um, so we'll go through, so

061did you have sort of an existential question first, which is when might we want to do grading policy before or after the new board is seated to drive some of the rest of you want to move? Let's go through the board and let's see if there's a time and space where it makes sense and uh and then we'll just kind of take a look at it. Right. I think that um I will say that the that that bringing things either information or work session is the springboard for change, right? That's a springboard for change, right? So, uh, and so, and it's a springboard to change because it informs our community what we're thinking about, what we're doing. It informs everybody. Here's what we're thinking. Here's what we're doing. And so, there's benefit to that. So,

062if you'll allow, I will go to the board. We will squint. And for the visually impaired among us, myself included, and also for Jason, you'll tell us what you're pointing to and moving when you're pointing and moving. I mean, there's nothing preventing us pushing this back and everybody coming up and looking at it together if you don't want to be in your seats. I doubt there's room for us to all be close enough to read it regardless of where it is. Just read just read some of it to us. We'll see how that goes. You just want to have your I just show off. I can kind of read it. Kind of read it. I can kind of The last line of the eye test, you're kind of like, is that a Jesus? Look at

063that. But now I'm going to get in the way of everybody. No, you're okay. Okay. All right. So, we start meeting in August 12th. Right now, nothing there. you know this, you know, anything that happens over the summer or whatever, we give give ourselves some space. That is the day before school starts on the 13th. Yep. So, uh, we may move the back to school update there. I think actually that makes sense. Yes, that makes sense. Yeah, it does. Yeah. Uh, I don't know why it wasn't. So, remind me one. Okay. Information. Okay. Thank you. Yep. So, information's orange, day session yellow, work session green. Thank you. Uh, 19. Let's go. What's blue up there again? a blue executive session blue. You can't see. Yeah, we can't read anything. I will read everything to you

064that's in blue. So, um accessibility is fast. So, so back to school update. Uh and just any any pressing issues from what happens in June, right? Might be. Yeah. Uh and again, there's nothing here for policy. Uh but your policy worked is you know, we've we've you know, you're going to be getting about 20 policies a quarter, right? So, that's what we were able to knock out last time. So, so, so remember the policy works good. Uh, 19th, let's go visit some schools. Yes, that'll be fun. It'll be, you know, we can go kind of check things out. And also first day of school, I'll be around and about if you want to come tag along. You always are welcome to do that. Uh, on August 26th, uh, exec session goal setting, right? Let's talk

065about like what are the things that you'd hope that I'd accomplish throughout the year. Work session legislative priorities. Um, and then this is ballot issue advocacy. Remember, we have a board policy that says if there's anything local, what we want to advocate for or against, whatever board members have an interest in the board taking some kind of an action that we have that conversation. I just want to highlight that I'm glad we've moved that back to like August 26. Historically, we've kind of got it too close to the actual elections. Does it have to be just local? Um, I don't I mean, I don't think we've limited that in policy. I think I mean usually the stuff we that comes up about education isn't just local. I think what the reason this got on our

066in policy is because there were some issues that were questionable the impact that they had. I think it was the library district, right? We're like is that the district? Is there not a district? And then folks were asking us to take a stand. Then we didn't take a stand and then it was like we vote we're against it. But so anyway, it just cleans that up. But we'll have the the state meal initiative for sure. Right. That might be a little bit later coming out. That's a good question. Yeah. So, it'll be out. So, what here's what I'm going to do. Here's the impacts of change universal free lunch program. I'm going to slide that over here. I have that on the same day. Uh, so you can I think that that's fine. Uh, September

0679th, I have DAC planning. And then the big but the big thing is attendance boundaries. We're going to have to study the tenants down boundaries and then if we're going to pass a resolution around free meals for all based on our priorities, we have that there. I am concerned if we study attendance boundaries on September 9th. How are we going to get it done before the showcase? We'll have it that we'll have it planned by the 23rd. So you will have it Yeah. And the showcase is when? October 22nd. Okay. So it gives us about a month. Okay. um for the new kid on the block. Just because I'm wondering what's the showcase is the place to be. Don't you see? I don't live in Boulder. No. Well, they're in Jefferson County. So, uh the

068two three years ago, we decided that on on one evening in October, we would bring all of our schools together, all of our departments, all of our district, and we rent out the CU Event Center. And so for parents who want to take advantage of open enrollment, they don't have to try to navigate a labyrinth of dates and whatever. You show up one night, you could see all the schools, you can get all the connections you need, you can learn about the district, whether you live here, whether you don't live here. Last year, people flew in. Whoa. We had a bunch of folks fly in from Seattle and other areas, especially students with with um special needs IEPs because they were moving here. because they were moving here and they'd heard about the work we're

069doing and because we were having the event. So you're so awesome. I don't know. It's just, you know, it's like a event. So thank you. Uh that's the showcase. All right. Um so that that gets 26 September 9th, attendance boundaries. The 16th we're going to have strategic plan updates for you. Lots of of endofear data that we could share how things are going. September 23rd, kindergarten readiness and approving attendance boundies boundaries. Also approving DAC membership. Uh October 14th, I have a work session on homework policy is something we prioritized. Um I have here a special session update. What does that mean? Well, that we're anticipating that there's going to be a special session around budget. Oh, I see. So, we're gonna we'd save some space there. uh in October, a declining enrollment and LRAK update.

070And this is where as we think about options um in terms of uh of um accelerating potential solutions for declining enrollment, that would happen on Octo October 21st. October 28th, your SEBACK update and then our acceleration update work session. On November 18th, uh we'd have during the day school visits and at night we would talk about the IGA, IG, and then any other topics that would come up. That's um IGA. That's the instructional program. Yeah, that's that was prioritized. Jason's Sorry. Sorry, Jason. Uh um the December 2nd board election um swearing in ceremony. December 9th honor roll audit enrollment update budget process CASBY and then the 16th my midyear eval and then um strategic plan and strategic plan update. So, we have some space, right? I didn't I didn't like totally like sometimes I've had

071two work sessions, two information sessions. I will say that with our current board because of the depth of our discussion, I'm a little bit hesitant to put more topics just because we dig in deeper and I don't if we're if we're every Tuesday here till 11 o'clock, that's going to burn us all out and I don't So, we have prioritized the work of the district. I think we've prioritized the the the top six items of prioritization. They're on this board. And so we could also talk about grading policy. And Rob, where did uh continuation of discipline discussion end up? That is going to happen in one of our strategic plan updates. I'm going to embed that. And so then and so then if I go grading policy I So if you go down could you

072go down this list and tell us which ones are in? Yeah. Yeah. Sure. Where's my list? Here you can use my list. I got kindergartens in. Acceleration updates in policy. KH not in. Uh, next steps with cell phones not in, but that might be an update, right? Yeah, right. That might be an update. Uh, vaping might be an update. Not in. Idling not in. Uh, grading policies is what we're talking about here. I would put grading policy probably here September 23rd which gives us a couple of months to try to land that before the end of the semester if we were going to do something. I think that makes sense. Uh um IKA grading policy just on the board instructional program on the board. Continuation of discipline embedded impact of change to universal free lunch

073pay on on the board. Uh light interest in the Boulder Valley comprehensive plan district's role in city work but not up there yet. We can delegate that to committee. uh homework on my eval policy is gonna it's gonna come probably say that was the one I'm really kind of worried about this done a million different ways again potential for three new board members good to have codify what we already yeah August 12th you said it could go early there's no reason to not to if you're going to set you want to just do that in policy though right like a study on August 12th is what you're saying, right? Yeah. Yeah. And then we can codify it because your goal meeting is when? September. It's one August 26. Okay. Is that enough? Is that okay?

074Yeah, I think that works. Okay. Then um goal instructional policy and those are just from the 70s. So I was just, you know, those are just part of our our and one of them's not required at all. Quarterly, those are just policies that will come. So we don't have to cut them. Where do you Okay. You don't have to be done. I just when I when I found them, I was like, well, this is fun. I mean, some good stuff came from the 70s. Just saying. Okay. Which ones are we are we the towards the bottom instructional instructional goals. So we've got IA, right? And then we've got the educational objective. And actually they say like basically the same thing and only one is required. So it could be like a kill policy situation. Do

075you want to tackle that on? We're pretty light on the 12th. August 12th. Yeah. You are going to there's going to be some stuff coming back for action on the 12th because we're going to study the negotiation policies next week. So we'll study all 9h policies next week and then we could adopt those. And then we're holding a little space that August 12th because there may be uh policy changes based on the legislative session. So don't put anything else on August 12th. Well, I think I would say your your all of C there are three C policies. They should come as a set for study August 12th. Okay. Evaluation ones or the superintendent? Yeah. like um yeah requirements or oh do you want to want to flip the board around in what would be the

076ultimate board prioritization move and it does make sense we've got the qualification powers and responsibilities of the soup which reads like a job description right now and that's the one we were changing to be superintendent evaluation. We've got a school building admin one that is ready to go. It's actually a helpful policy even though it's old and it's short. And then leadership and decision making. So I think those three could come. That's August 12th. August 12th. What are the colors again? Um red means it is out of compliance or a high priority and needs to be in the queue. Uh, yellow is IDed as as ready for needing review or we're ready and green means you've touched it recently like when you redid all of the B policies about how the board operates in what

077January and February and then what about these some of them that have nothing or black the black is ready to die potentially black was retired or flagged for elimination. So on the policy maintenance schedule, so the part that Chris Bret and I do together, we have highlighted the D policies, these fiscal ones for work and late summer, early fall and E. And these two are they they need a lot of work. This is where the policies like on asbestous are that we just don't need. We had planned to do them in the spring, but because of the work around budget, it didn't make sense to have Bill's team revising policies when they're doing the important budget work. So that's why we moved all of H up. You'll get this next week since we couldn't get

078as much done in DNA. And then we'll be bringing them in related chunks as part of that maintenance calendar. Is this available in a spreadsheet? Yes, it is. If you want, I'd like to see because I can't. Come on, Alex. Where where does it leave the last two items on our thing? It sounds like goals policy and a education objectives policy. Where are those? We have not prioritized those yet. Right. So we can we can we can certainly prioritize to get to those in in the fall through as part of just part of general policy as part of policy. But I before I'd ask Kathleen when we'd put those on the board. I would say Kathleen's going to get those on the board. But we need to talk look at the policies talk to our

079team. How much work is going to have to go in to fix those? So we cannot put those on board. We can't put them on the board yet. Well, we can put All right. So we can sometimes what I do sometimes what I do here's this is this is what I do sometimes I'll put them over here right so we don't forget about them right so we don't forget about them and we know and Laura knows and everybody knows that those things have to get through instructional goals and educational objectives and can I ask a clarifying question on those two like they sound important are they relevant or important or are they just sort of artifacts that were like kind of addressing. One of them is I think required, but they both read and one

080of them isn't and they read very similarly. One reads so bad I like laughed and kind of wanted to vomit a little bit and then email Kathy like this is a this is a pleasure to read. Um but I think that's right Kathy, right? one is required, but the other one is just like a funny artifact that I don't Well, and these there's a little set of these in your priorities that seem related to me where we should be boiling down because we've got the instructional goals policy, which is currently policy IA. We've got the educational objectives policy which is ADA and then the instructional program policies which are about halfway down your list. IGA and IGA-R and I think those will be a set that we need to look at together and see what

081we need to keep and what we can jettison. So you'll do some combining and what what about and does that leak into IKA and IKR and IKC terms of like they all seem related to instructional practice from with guidance from above is how I group those four. Yeah, I think that I I think the grading and homework policies are going to be much more nuts and bolts and the instructional goals and objectives policies are going to be more philosophical like neurodeiversity was. So I would keep those apart because grading and homework are going to be big. Are you saying though IGA IG A we just add IIA and ABA to that? I think that's a set. I think that's what goes together. And then I'll talk with Chris and we'll talk with exec team and

082come back with the proposal for we're adding IIA to Oh, sorry. This is not till November. So, so that gives What if I did this? Kathleen, tell me as I do it. I'm always going to think it's the best idea ever. Well, you know, you're a genius, boss. Uh, we just lump them all here, right? Because you would have till November. Yeah, I think that's right. Rob, so we have plenty of time. Alex has a question. Sorry, Alex. No, we were discussing earlier interrupting culture. Um, I guess like I think of the district's initiative and Rob's leadership on sort of our instructional infrastructure. And so like these sound like policies that support our instructional infrastructure, but it doesn't sound like they are. So if they're not and they're just sort of a distraction and a

083tangent, then let's get them off. And then I would invite Rob and the leadership team to think like is there something that would help you, you know, with this fidelity to our um your agenda to have an infrastructure? I do think I think anytime that you can put a stake in the ground on what you believe in and what you expect folks to to shape their practice around is important. This may be like a chicken egg kind of a thing, right? where we've kind of really established who we are and it's not codified in policy. And so bringing policy back around to reiterate and solidify what it is we're doing around supporting students. So So yes, and and and I do think it all I think it all can meld together. I think it should.

084If they're good, if the policies are good, they should all meld together. So I took them out of pending. I put it November 18th. And so then on the list all we have are some commitments to updates. So we didn't talk about col policy KH. No high up there. Yeah. Sponsorships. No, it's uh it's eight. It's third down from the top on the list. Sponsorships is KHB and KH is the public gifts to schools. Both of which we studied this year. but were have not been brought back. I have KHB sponsorships on June 17th. The sponsorship one was more cleanup and just get a little more modern reflect that we're going to need increasing numbers of partnerships. But I didn't have KH scheduled to come back the public gifts because that felt like I this

085is probably uh just put this in a thinking parking lot but we have had our sponsorship and partnerships thing sort of in a sports and activities thing and I keep thinking about it as a CTE grad plus idea too um and getting the right kind of partners involved in that. Yeah, that's more partnership than sponsorship. Does it have to be? Some of these players have a ton of money. If you think of like Chevron sponsoring the innovate the the um up in Greenley, they that whole facility around like career technical education. It not that we want Chevron. They don't really align with our you know um interest community values. But I So Alex, I see where that it can get muddy a little bit. But um yeah, I keep it separate. I understand. But I

086do think there are potential re revenue stream to support the things we're doing and then they deepen the partnership with you. So um if you all wanted to We I if if everybody's like like if if the definition of the topic is how is the district leveraging partnerships to gain sponsorships like like is that is that what I'm hearing you all take because like like we could talk about that. I do have some ideas around that. We've done some initial leg work on what could that look like, right? We had talked at one point about uh the naming rights of things and you know how do you how do you leverage like a you know scoreboards to be able to generate uh that type of thing. Um why don't we have that conversation if you

087all are okay I'll add it and talk because we've done some work on it and so it would be good to get everybody kind of on the same. So, I'm going to call it not sponsorship policy, but you said community partnerships or partnerships or sponsorship. I'm going to call it community sponsorships. And Kath KH is that the one we studied that has right. You studied KH and KHR, which is your public gifts, 10% share when we're using it for staff. And then KHB was a a little more business straightforward sponsorship. Interesting that like St. Brain with all their partnerships, they've got a 2015 policy that reads like the cas. Yeah. A lot of different communities. Thompson had an influence on Cherry Creek. They all have very different ones. And yeah. So that's I'm comfortable with

088that because we've done some work around that and it feels like a good time to bring that back to you all to to think about. Where'd you put it? Uh, I put it on the 14th. On the 14th. Well, I like uh and I'm excited to, you know, just keep track of all the Sure. the different little pathway stuff that we're doing. So, the overlap of the ven diagram interests me. So, does that mean that we only have four things on this list that have not landed in one block? I think Yeah, but I also think that those are updates. So, like it would be they idling. It would be next steps with cell phone policy like an implementation update. Um or could be we do a school visit to check it out. Like we

089have these school visits we haven't determined. Do lunchtime at a high school. We can do lunch time at a high school. Vaping, idling, and then uh comprehensive plan. The comprehensive plan. I don't plan on doing anything on that unless you tell me I need to. That one I thinking about that a little bit more and in the past how we really tackled things that were a benefit districtwide and we tried to be really clear. I mean in the past when things have gotten dicey it was because this tension over is it just one locality or is it represent does it impact our entire student body that was just something I was thinking about in preparation of this meeting with a comp plan it is just the city of Boulder not our entire district and so

090I we just set the precedent of potentially engaging with all the localities as a revisioning I know Lafayette's doing a their main throw up fair and the rec center and all kinds of stuff and like we're not engaging there and so what does it got a comprehensive plan they're undergoing. So, what does it say to our community when we pick one comprehensive plan to get involved in but not the others? But but at the same time, as a South Boulder resident, like figuring out how South Ber rec center supports Fairview's swim team and stuff is a real real issues that'll Yeah. But I don't think that the city cares what we have to say about Well, is that just as someone who worked on the comp plan before like is that comp plan level detail

091like or is that work implementation and partnerships? I don't think the city wants to partner with us. That's just my opinion. I I would never send Rob down that rabbit hole. Speaking spec now, the one thing now I brought this up and I didn't put it on our list, but I because I wanted to talk to you all about it. Um, is there interest in in working to setting a meeting with the town council of Netherland and the board? Oh, yeah. I I was just taken aback um on the ways that they that the mayor engaged the district and I think what I told him in an email that I copied you all on is right that we decide as a governance team what other governance teams that we engage with. As a reminder, the

092email was you will come to a a town hall that we will host and uh they had already had the agenda set up and I pushed back a little bit on that. Um I haven't heard back since so I don't know that this is a pressing issue. I do think that the principal decision decision we made up there was the right decision. I stand behind that 100%. I think that folks are are really settling into that decision. That's the one thing that I didn't put on the voting thing because but I brought it up. So I felt like if you wanted to do that or again if you wanted to say and previous boards have done this Rob like get us in a rhythm meeting with these other town city councils. uh we could do

093that or we could pause on that, wait till the new board seated and see if that's something that that everybody wants to do because it takes a lot of time and effort and sometimes then you're meeting off schedule because our ladies don't meet with other people's dates. I will say um I engage with the city managers. I do do that as a part of the role of my work. Um sometimes I'm asked to go to city town meetings to give updates on the school district. I do those and I update you when I do that. The last I did was in Lafayette. I did that last fall. Um, I engage most of the of of the town managers about a year and a half ago. Uh, I meet with Nura pretty frequently over in Boulder.

094Um, Lewisville has a new city manager. I met with her a month ago. Uh, they're getting up to speed. So, uh, as a representative of Netherland geographically to the extent that we get elected by district, um, I'd be interested in figuring out how a board member might join you in a meeting with a city with a city manager or something for that. Oh, okay. Or the mayor. So then when I'm in Netherland in the next campaign and over the next three years, I know what discussions are going on and can be clear like, hey, we're talking about that. We're working on that. Um, in terms of a Netherland meeting, I agree letting things cool down, but then doing something that we are co-doing isn't probably a bad idea, but I just really want to frame

095it and I've been trying to do this in a positive way that's forward-looking and not just, you know, a festivist airing of grievances. So, um, we I really want to figure out how we can have constructive relationships without it being a burden and maybe having board members that are interested because there could be a situation in which someone's representing another community, something's going on, it'd be good to plug them in some way if that makes sense or is appropriate. Um, given how long it took us to schedule a meeting with the Boulder City Council, I would say if we wanted to schedule something with known or any other locality, I know Erie has had some um desire mentioned some desires, we wait until after the election and the new board is seated because it potentially

096could be an off meeting time. It will take some time to schedule and then everybody has equal opportunity to say if it works for their calendar or not. So, I would throw that out there just to be kind to whoever gets elected um in November and then you know just in our in our um practice of no surprises if one board member went with like a report out to everybody because while we are elected in a geographic area everybody votes for everybody so the folks in Netherland also voted for me and Beth and Jorge and Melania like it's not like you're only representing your district we all represent the entire district even though we're elected um by those geographic we have to live within our boundaries. We do represent and are elected by everybody. So

097we're commissioners. Yeah. So um I just throwing that out there and then making I would also love I'm you know me and precedents that the rhythm of these meetings seem are kind of similar, right? So we're not like doing something special for for XYZ. We're we're being consistent in how we're working with our local governments. I am in favor of I think it's fine if if the board member wants to go and they could reach out to Rob and say I'd like to go and report back. I agree with that. Yes. I find that the meeting with the city of Boulder is a complete waste of time. That's what I got. Like there's always this big talk and and this is maybe from years of experience of dealing with them. There's a big talk of,

098well, sure, we'd love your input, but they don't really love your input. And then I spend three hours listening to them and they didn't really love my input and they don't really they're not going to act on it. The only thing that I felt like came out of that meeting that was positive was saying we want a seat on the transportation board, but we could be advocating for that without having that meeting. And so I I really don't like and don't find it to be helpful to our board business to be meeting with with the cities. It just doesn't make sense to me. I feel like you're already doing a great job. You have a relationship with NAR. You have a relationship in here. You I mean those are all your relationships to manage. But

099I don't I would be against ever prioritizing sitting down and and doing that meeting because I think it's just a lot of talking about a lot of stuff that we don't we actually don't get a say in just like if they came to our meeting and asked us to have a say in our board business. We probably wouldn't be like sure for transportation issues. Yeah. I mean, I agree that transportation issues cross over and it would be nice to have a seat on the transportation board and I'm sure you're advocating for that. Yes. And and I would say that you know these are at the purview of the board, right? You are elected official to elected official and in in the past uh sometimes not much not as much business was done but relationships were

100built. Right? So, um, now I will say that I have a very clear, we have a very clear way in which all of our elected officials that are not board members can in if they have a constituent who has an issue that's involved in the school district district, we prefer that they don't dig in and try to start solving the school district issues that they cir those to me. I delegate those and then we circle back to tell them how we fix that. And that's worked well. uh you know they do I do think I feel like I'm not sure if if Netherland has a city manager or somebody who runs their operations. I do feel like I owe that person a visit to say, "Look, this is right." You know, you you can't like

101it would be like our board showing up at a at a net town council meeting, right, to talk to them about how they're not supporting education, but like you know that that to your point like there's some bound there's like these unspoken rules in how elected officials I think um govern and and overlap. So, um I you won't see me prioritizing any meetings with any city councils, town councils, uh that I I only offer that as the board is is organizing their work and if they feel like do they need to have those meetings to build those relationships in ways to better serve the community citation and I think there's value in knowing each other. Trying to tell each other what to do on the other hand, I think is counterproductive. I mean, we don't

102want them telling us what to do. They don't want us. But when something comes up that involves the city or a town and the district, having those relationships, I think, is valuable. On the other hand, we have spent so much time um on getting really deep in details in our board meetings these last couple of years that I don't know that we would have time for that. But again, I'm not going to be on the board, so it doesn't matter. But I mean, yeah, if we could figure out a way to make our board meetings tighter and not spend so much time discussing detaily things that give staff tons of more work and we could open up time to develop those relationships with other elected officials because we do it with our um state legislators.

103Now, I mean, obviously we have a legislative agenda, but still having those relationships, I think, is a good thing. So, go ahead. Uh, to that point, I also really value the relationships and appreciate the insight, but I don't want to give up the depth. Um, and if we're trying to build the You don't want to give up the micromanaging, Alex? I wouldn't call it that. I would Okay, we we can agree to disagree, but I I believe the relationship thing is really key. So maybe what we need is more a happy hour socializing situation than a formal board game or invite them to your showcase. Sounds like everybody else is going to be there. Well, that's Yeah, but that don't miss, you know, if you you wouldn't I mean I think that could miss a

104lot of relationships too if it was just come to a a social gathering. I have an idea. Um what I'm hearing is we don't really want to slot board time for the official elected official to elected official official meeting because you know to the extent that there may be some value the value is really in the relationships and maybe some one-off things we could be advocating for through different avenues right like um so uh let me think about uh how how we might engage differently doesn't have to be a meeting, you could post it. It could be a visit. It could be a lunch. It could be a something, right? um if folks are interested in that and I can present some options and and and but I need some time to think about that

105and I probably want to call a couple of my city manager friends to say like you know is anybody down for this or are people so like in the weeds or overwhelmed that or um are there are are the town city councils functioning at a at a at a rate where that would be productive. Just want to make sure I understand where we landed with Netherlands specifically. That all sounded good. Um, is it that you're going to maybe contact that worked out? Contact the folks in Eterland, maybe meet with them. No, I won't. I'll contact the person who runs the city. I will not contact the mayor. I will not contact elected officials. I will contact my my peer who is whoever it is that runs the city and uh and just have a conversation

106with them. Great. Um, works for me. Y Alex, I follow up. Yeah, the only uh thing I might add would be if something comes up in those uh peer-to-peer meetings that's a substantive particular topic, then maybe that's a worthwhile thing to get together and talk about. So, if you say, "Hey, we're going to have a professional meeting peer-to-peer about transportation in Boulder County, then that's like a topic that we could come to and participate in maybe and have that be the focus rather than just that we are getting together. No, I I appreciate your approach just thinking about the appropriate level of where the relationship should be, right? And where people should be talking and when appropriate where it's appropriate for us to kind of sit in or participate, but really what's the appropriate level,

107right? What makes sense in the district in terms of what the work that you're doing for the city as well. So, I appreciate that. Nicole, just piggy back a little bit on Jorge and Alex both. I think the one thing that was really productive a we got to meet some city council members with the city of Boulder but there are I think for them to understand what we do and the degree of expertise we have within our staff I think was actually rather beneficial for some of them. So when we're when they're working on big problems that are that relate to some of our big problems, I think have having that conversation and having a time to discuss and say like hey actually we do have a very sophisticated staff that are looking at transportation

108and sustainability and you know with with our declining enrollment this is the type of housing stuff when they're all really related because I don't think they I think particularly those that you don't have kids in school or have kids that are really young in the school they have some or even that haven't had kids in school for a long time some preconceived notions about how this district operates or the how this our staff um how well equipped they are. And so that to me was a win there. Like they they will talk about our transportation services sometimes and they reference us. But now they understand like how sophisticated we are as a school district and I think that can help like oh just to build trust and they've got this we don't need to tell

109them what to do on XYZ or if we have a question we can reach out. So if there's a a if it makes sense in our joint work to have it to convene, I think that's great. And I think the leading at the level of um UDIC city managers as to the other elected officials is important. And maybe more former board members should run for Boulder City Council. We've got one. First one's in. Yeah, how does this feel? I think good. Um, did I just want to make sure that our idling thing like I know that we're putting it just somewhere as a little update, but just because we had so many sweet kids come and talk about it, I don't want to miss that. And I think I'm the one who maybe said something

110about vaping. I just don't know what we do at all. So, that can just be an update. An update. Sure. Because I'm sure we're trying to address it. We we've we've actually put a lot of steps in place over the years. very interested in this state law and idling policy. So maybe if you could even just get that to board members that would be interesting. Well, so so to the extent that that schools have the authority to put up signage and do some certain things. I think what happens sometimes board members and I think you all realize this is that there are activists and and groups within the community that get the opportunity to tell to to show to engage with groups of students on how to get civically engaged, right? And and so then

111you know well and and of course you could see it and the kids were sweet and they care about their their their earth but the reason that they came to the board is because adults told them this is where you should go. So so to the extent that that's an important thing right um and to the intent that and to the extent that somebody who's running a nonprofit profit activist group is going to try to elevate that above other things. Um there are things at our schools that that can happen, right? Parent volunteers can go out and man the car lines and say, "Hey, stop idling, right? Uh there there are other things that can happen at the school level and but you don't want to like I mean the kids are so sweet came

112up and you want to so so idling, we can certainly give an update on that whether it's idolling or whether it's climate change or whether whatever the topic that that kids are going to care about. Sometimes they will come to the board because adults have told them that's where they need to go. But just like a lot of problems go to the board, then you send them a name. Do um on on our climate change policies or environmental policies, do we have an idling piece in that? I don't I don't remember. And that would be a way to actually just say, "Okay, well, we're going to put this in somewhere in our policy where we just this is another part of our commitment." I like that. I could see a great opportunity to engage kids

113through some of our climate action kind of groups to the idling awareness. Yeah. Right. Like it's really an awareness. Yeah. Right. I don't idle anymore. I want one of those little kids. I'm like super. So I'm like, "Wow, I've lived it all." Well, if an adult if a kid comes and tells an adult, "Please don't idle," it's going to make that adult feel embarrassed. If an adult, they'll probably I mean, they could very well be just angry. I I still think there should be an idling jar where you have to put a quarter in when the kids walk around in line, just like a cussing jar, like a cousin. But but I do think on the on the vaping, let me say this. I do think like we have follow-up issues that I know become

114part of the interaction between the administration and the school leaders and then we have we get the feedback on a policy like the phone thing where people in Centurus and other high schools will say it's going great we love it and then we'll hear from Boulder and Fairview that's like it's a joke and no and everyone's ignoring it. So, um, not that that's true or that, you know, and one kid says it it's the way to go, but I there are the kind of things where you're curious about implementation and what's the structure that allows us to um understand how implementation is going on a big deal. Vaping was a big deal like you know five years ago. Cell phones were a big deal last year and will be this year. So, it's like how

115do we get the updates on the fidelity of implementation? Ricky because uh it's in the eye of the beholder, right? If your kid goes into a bathroom and somebody's vaping in there, the school's got a vaping issue. Right. Right. And if we to say, you know, we we went from X number of vaping um interventions to this many number of vaping interventions, right? Like so it's just depending upon your view. Sometimes at the ground level, an individual's experience may not be the experience of the entire system at large. Do we have vaping issues? Yes. Are we still have kids using cell phones? Yes. Right. We haven't eradicated either of those issues. uh and but but I do think the awareness and the expectation and the policy is there right again uh you know and and

116but it but it intertwines with the other ways that we interact right you know we don't have a zero tolerance policy for vaping like if you get caught with a vape you get 10 days suspension and but some people would think that's the way to solve it right some people would want you to do that if you do this and we see that like you we see this as as things bubble up bubble up to the board level and superintendent level We have addressed things in the ways that we've addressed things and folks think the consequences aren't hard enough. That teacher should be fired. That kid who believed my kid should be expelled. The kid who did these things. And so those because they're so personal are going to come with a level of emotion,

117right, that doesn't really understand the larger system. And I think that that sometimes can create a perception, right, that things are where they're not to be or where they're not to be. or even in the worst case scenario, the district's saying one thing's happening, but this other thing's actually happening, right? And so we we try to be completely honest with you all. Um, and we can look at data points to to point to to think about, you know, how is implementation going, where is it struggling, you know, and and as somebody who was a principal for eight years, things go in waves, right? You're a principal, all of a sudden, uh, there's a group of kids who've decided they're not going to follow a certain rule. They're going to be late on fire. they're gonna

118say, they're going to do something else and then you have to work through that and adjust to that and then hope that it comes down. So, uh interested with in in in the continuing conversations, but just the perspective of, you know, is is what we're doing where we want it to be with these societal issues, right? I think can be challenging to um to interpret and and to enforce and to maintain our our philosophy around restorative practices and you know helping kids learn from their mistakes and not throwing the book at kids and kids are making mistakes and sometimes they make horrible mistakes right that that some individuals would say gosh you know you did this you said this you should be gone like I don't want to turn around my kid ever again but

119we're public school system that well denying education is not the answer to behaviors right that we want to discourage okay Nicole's been trying to jump in and then let's see if we where we ended up so you asked the question does it feel like it's in a good spot yes and I want to be really clear about um as we get towards the end of this semester then what so when Beth and I were first elected the prioritization happened on the very first meeting and everybody had a conversation and we got to have zero say at all. When you all were elected, we're like, "We have so much work in the queue. We're not doing prioritization at all because there's too much work in the queue and why would you?" It was a disingenuous and

120b like Beth and I will give up a so we're all on the same footing. But that also didn't really go very well either. I look at this and I I just want to be really clear on what is going to carry over to the next board and when we then schedule our next prioritization meeting to avoid any of the hard feelings that some of you had towards me and Rob, but how the lack of priorization when you were first elected because I see a lot of carryover and then I look at the schedule. I see very few things being wrapped up tidily before the new board is elected and then typically we do prioritization right after the like right after CASBY. So I I'm curious how you guys want to proceed knowing like with

121that December part of our schedule and into January and if staff have comments on the carryover that's not going to be tidied up that the new board will have to be acting on. I and I I agree that there is like to me it looks like there's quite a lot of carryover at hand. I think it's important for our new board members for us to honor that they were, you know, elected and that they probably do have some things that are priorities for them. And I I myself, as somebody who I know I will still be here then. I'm totally open to hearing priorities of new board members unless they're well, not my priorities. No, I'm kidding. Always caveat. I'm kidding. I'm kidding. Unless I disagree with them. Um, I I think that that would

122be fine. Um, given that, you know, we are all on the same footing as elected officials, even though they don't know everything we know, that's okay. I think they're going to be smart adults. I think it's going to be awesome. When do you feel like now that you have two years in your belt? Because sometimes it's been at the CASBY convention and sometimes it's not been at the CASBY convention. Sometimes it's like depending on when we're the people are sworn in, sometimes it's like that meeting right there after it. So, I'm just so we can all have a conversation about it together. When do we feel like would be the appropriate time for those potentially three new folks to to have this to repeat this this opportunity um after they're elected? Katie, you had a

123thought? Well, I mean, one of the things I thought and going to um is that there's not to discount anybody's feelings because we did prioritization differently when I first joined the board and I don't remember any feelings of I'm not included in this. But when you're elected to a body whose work is ongoing as opposed to the legislature which starts brand new, it starts and ends. Um there there are differences and perhaps I mean and not that we shouldn't take into consideration everybody's viewpoint. We absolutely should. But perhaps there's an opportunity, I don't know, for education among candidates that you're joining a a group that's ongoing and that you know, if you don't want something that the rest of the board wanted, you you know, you just I don't know how to say what I'm

124thinking, but I guess taking into account what they want, but also understanding that this doesn't just start a new because there was an election. The stuff that's in the queue will continue to process. There's a conversation that you could have there. Hold on. Jason hasn't said much, so I'm going to let him jump the queue. Jason, go ahead. Oh, you don't need to have me jump the queue, but I was just going to say maybe a solution would be, you know, CASBY is the very first thing a new member goes to and just having kind of a primer on the process. I think that would have been helpful. That is could be helpful going forward. um you know what things are ongoing where kind of where things stand big picture and then the new board

125member members you know would have a better sense of that process and the timing and then we you know schedule the prioritization you know not later in December but maybe early in the next year with the understanding that people now know where this fits they'll know when they have a chance to weigh in and they'll have update on kind of the big picture items you know that that have just been closed before the election and those that are, you know, still ongoing and maybe the timing for that. And we sort of did that, Nicole and I met with Kathleen and Rob at CASBY that first year, sort of like a new board orientation, which is what I hear you suggesting, Jason, and I think that makes a lot of sense. I think it's a productive

126use of that CASBY time for new board members. It was only an hour or two. It wasn't a big chunk of time, but it was helpful. Alex. Yeah. Um, I think this makes sense and I think sort of a I like what Jason is saying and I like Kitty's point a lot about getting people up to speed. I think the thing that I don't I would suggest we not recreate is have that sort of discussion of the process but then say and in six months we'll get to talk about what you care about. So I think I agree with Jason that like an early January. Um so have the meeting at CASBY to get them up to speed on the process and where we're coming and how we deal with new ideas and say you

127now have the holidays to think about your new ideas and what you want to prioritize and bring bring to us so that they have both the background. we have a discussion at CASBY, get to know each other like maybe a a more informal brainstorming like hey what are the things you care about is more an open discussion than a prioritization and then say that's great well this is how it fits into our process look forward to the formal you know prioritization meeting in Jan and then modify that so that they have a chance to like meet with Rob or leadership and president and figure out what they want to bring. Can you remind me um because it's been a while since I've been in this case. After folks are first elected, they kind of go

128through all the department meetings. How long did it take to get all those scheduled? So, so a board a new board member could theoretically have at least strength through the fire hose to have some idea of how the district functions before they go under priorization because I think that could be I mean like you want to you want to digest a little bit to Alex's point before and have some time to maul it over before grand priorization. But how long does that did that take to get all those scheduled and done for new board members? If I put it on the calendar now, I'd be able to get it scheduled pretty instantaneously. If I wait until after the board is elected, it will take some time. Um, again, it depends on how many board members

129you have so that we don't hold a board meeting. Um, and trying to get, you know, if we do two to one, two board members to one staff person, it is obviously a quicker process. Plus, then you can bounce questions off of each other. Sorry, that's my daughter. I feel like we didn't. If we wait until the last minute once everyone's elected to find out, well, what days of the week work better for you? When are you out of town? When is this? one is that it takes longer because I'm scheduling not only staff schedule but also board member schedules and it could be something that I bring up when candidates meet with me. Hey, during um yes the latter part of December, early part of January, we're going to hold training sessions with staff.

130Hold your calendar. Hold your calendar. I tell them about Casby. Yeah, that's what I suggest. Okay. Yeah. They said it in advance and say here's what you need to do if you're elected. And I could offer a couple of sessions um with staff, you know, a morning session, an evening or you know, a later in the day session, get it on staff on different days so that you can kind of pick or choose how what's going to work. And again, current board members would be welcome to go to those if you want more information on a topic. I would think as long as it's not too many Right. Right. Does anybody think there's going to be more than one new board member? These are crazy times. I wouldn't try to foretell the future. So would

131it if if Laura does that and with anybody coming to get their packets, she asked them to hold some time because I feel like there was some head nodding potentially January 13th for the next prioritization. That gives does that feel like you know if they if folks are seated on the 12th it gives them a bit over a month knowing we're not meeting over the holidays but get through CASBY and when we come back or would do you think that we need more breathing room and make that priorization on the 20th people actually see that on the second aren't they? They are but then we're gone and then we have they are seated on the second. They're seated on the second and then CASBY happens after that. Yeah. So the question is like the 13th

132or the 20th for the next board prioritization. Do we have a preference for members? I'd go 13th myself symbolically. Anyone in trouble by that? I think I'll go to Phoenix. Very comfortable with that. Um, this this brings a different dynamic to the prioritization process because you have folks who are then either in real time or within a week of are going to bring up new topics that the board has not had a chance to discuss in public to then consider to prioritize over other things. Like the thing of prioritization is is that you're choosing to do something over something else. So to the extent that we can we'd have to we're just going to have to cover a lot of ground right in December build relationships figure out what people care about. If you haven't

133picked up on it, this election cycle is very different from the last election cycle, right? Where we, you know, there's not, you know, multiple candidates already declared, right? It's just uh Beth and Nicole right now in Tracer, right? There's nobody else in Tracer for anything. It's June, right? Then you have July, then by when is it? They have to clarify August 6th. August 26th is the 28th or something. August 29th. So, so a little bit of a different dynamic. I'm happy. I think with fewer new board members, it's it's they get a more intimate onboarding experience. Um, I think that uh we will be welcoming and we'll share and we've got good teamwork and I do think that they may while the thing that they want to talk about may not rise to the top

134of the list because we're pretty thoughtful and pretty intentional. We've thought of a lot of the things. Uh again, perspective is everything. If you have somebody run who had an individual concern or issue and that raises to the top in a way that it hasn't raised for us. We just have to know and set expectations that the the board prioritizes this board. One person doesn't prioritize this board and that that's the way that it goes. But if they can make compelling arguments and if there's ways that they can get more information or learn more about it, uh part of that is the onboarding process as well. But I do appreciate Nicole you bringing up this point. I want all, you know, former, current, future board members to to embrace this process. I do think that

135it is a a just a significant tool in our success that we sit down, we think about what we talk about, we do the most important things. We don't do all of the things. Here's here's where boards I in my opinion and turn back over to Heather get things is is when you don't have a process like this something happens in a community right or and and whether it's a town council or a school court or whatever then the immediate is we want an update on this next week we need you to fix this problem yesterday and uh and and then you're always in this chaos mode and staff and team they don't know which way to turn and so then what it and then what it comes about is who's angriest, how do I

136fix that problem versus what are the most meaningful things we can do to to to align to our vision, mission, goals? And so, um, all that to say that this process works, I do think that, you know, it'll be interesting who gets elected, how do we bring them in the fold, how do we listen to them, how do we let them participate in the prioritization process, and then where does that shake out? looking at the actual January calendar and now realizing that I should have blues are blues typically are our daytime work sessions and our blacks dates are our business meetings. I would propose we bump it to the 20th so it's not on a regular business meeting or you flip-flop them and then the other thing that I think will be helpful is that

137at least then there's a couple regular meetings with agenda setting at the very bottom to like so they understand that is another built-in layer of the process so on December 9th they have a burning idea that they can bring it up and maybe then again on January 30th move that to the 20th and then so then they're then they can engage in the process at the normal point we bring all that whole list up and then it's not like an on the-fly which could be a little bit more tense desire. So if we bump the priorization to the 20th, it'd be in a regular meeting cadence and then they would have two regular meetings that they could add to the agenda prioritization and we could prime them in advance that hey this is when if

138you have ideas this is when you say it on the agenda so it also gets them like in our rhythm. Does that sound okay board members? Yeah, that's Are you available on the 20th of January? Uhuh. Probably. Another reason we need to talk about this early. What is Heather's availability? You guys make me feel so special. Uh, yes, I am available. Excellent. Okay. So, for a daytime work session for for a daytime project similar to today, and I I appreciate uh the modification was going in the direction I like. I think it will make people feel a new person this time then potential more new people next time. Know that we've built this process in that's responsive to the new folks and have it fit into our cadence and still have them feel like they

139can bring their stuff to the table. I do think CASBY is an opportunity both for the on boarding but also for people to talk about issues. So I do like the idea of kind of brainstorming what people are caring about without it being like it's just background to the informing prioritization process. Okay. You want to help further? Yeah, I do have pretty strong opinions about CASBY because two years ago we missed an enormous chunk of what would have been really good information especially for new board members. But I think we should strongly encourage every new board member to go to all the new board member sessions. And I are they still doing the day before session or not? I don't think so. No, they're really condensing down. That makes sense because when I um was

140elected, Donna and I went the day before and they had a whole day just for new board members and it was really helpful. It helped us understand what the job is of the board and what the job is not of the board. And then I I don't know what she did, but I went to as many new board sessions as I could and it was very helpful. Yes. And and I make it a point to go to as many sessions with new board members as possible to um to to hear the training and frame it in the ways that we work together. To stay in your lane, remember that's right. That's what just came back to me. What what does the board do and what is the job of staff? Y and I'll just say

141I'm there aren't a lot of executives that make the kind of effort that Rob makes to have new people just feel comfortable and we'll find a way to do as much of your things as you can if you have the support of the rest of the board. And so I have confidence that you'll figure it out. It'll be great. And this will be somebody who is going to be, I am positive, the only new person with six experienced people. And I can imagine it's not it's going to feel odd to not have a group you come in with. But you'll make that person that you're feel so welcome. Who's Oh, I Yeah, I know. But I'm just saying, you know, when you come in and you're new, if there's one other person, a cohort. Yeah.

142Yeah. You have this cohort that you have something in common with. And when you don't, it can be awkward. Not saying that the rest of you all are not friendly people, but and uh to um to Kitty's point, I agree like allowing the new person um to attend more sessions. I think we should be sensitive to how many sessions we're overlapping with when we do our CAS meeting. So, I think to that point, that makes sense. Um figuring out a time when we can have a few hours. Yeah. I don't know that we need to do an official formal PowerPoint thing. May maybe a time where we meet and talk. I mean, we we we have we have a little bit of time um between now and then. I'm happy to organize and we can

143res reserve the space. I don't want to um stop folks from going to things that they want to go to. But yeah, well, but I do I do think it's useful like that. I think that's a good time or make at some point I like the idea of making sure the person's grounded and understands our priorities and process and how they can fit in and what's on the list right and I think that might be useful dialogue where the other board members could say hey this is what you know we really cared about this and this is what we're doing um so a little discussion about it so having time for that I value I just think people might want to not have the overlap with the sessions it was helpful to have the time

144to connect too remember when we all like had dinner and hung out and like that's it's really nice and being mindful ful that if there are conversations related to work and it's not noticed, it constitutes a meeting. So being mindful of like the benefit of carving out a space that and we reserve it and it's official is that it's all above board, right? We will reserve a time. So we will reserve a time and try to I think because I just you know okay plan to not do things that are illegal as a general rights as a strategy I support it completely. It's a good plan. Hasn't hasn't CASsby officially been usually noted for the whole thing that way and not just the time. That's what I heard. But you have to say where you

145are if you're going to actually have a meeting. I mean, you can do that protective notice, but if we wind up with a group of board members talking board business in a hallway or something, you have to that would be an open meetings violation. Okay. Yeah. All right. I And I suspect there will be people there patrolling this year. I'm sorry. Not to be. I just had a couple of action items other than what was just discussed related to priorization which is Nicole you're going to do some outreach to DAC leadership just coordinate on the things Kathleen you were going to review the CASBY uh policy requirements on grading to make sure that conversation is informed and then I also heard requests for you to send that policy review spreadsheet from the back there out

146to the board for those who want to see it and this is this is an amendment to a followup I've put a few things out there that are not to be support business, but we want to know about and I want to be clear that I'm and I'm sorry, Kitty just stepped out, but I'll tell this to her one-on-one. Um, my intention is that we figure out ways that that is not very burdensome and that the things you already have in place that are letting you know that are boiled down even more for us pretty simply. So like I mostly these are implementation follow-up things like hey what's the implementation rate on the what's noteworthy about it and that should bubble up automatically I hope without like doing a study of it and having a

14730-minute presentation on it some kind of easy and clear cadence for implementation update RF I mean we have a whole RFI process but but I think also it's news and notes right like you know we we when we when we structure our news and notes updates to the board it's hey these are things you're interested in like you know we can flag things in news and notes to have it you know we could even create a new section in news and notes if it's it's helpful as you read through that to say updates on board work yeah can you write that down yeah I don't want we can bubble that up yeah as little extra work as possible to we do news and notes every week I've done news and notes every week every Friday

148or Saturday morning for seven years it's as solid of a communication guarantee that you can get so uh Yeah, that makes sense to put it there for me as long as you all um you know that that it works. Also a strategy by the best city managers. Just fun fact. Okay. Um the other thing uh Alex I did hear that I made a note for myself is that when we do prioritization surveys in the future just having a separate section so it's not all like I felt like you were saying this apples and oranges. There's you can apple and orange things separately. Yeah. Fantastic. All right. Anything else? You have more work to do, right? Yes, we do. Okay. Fantastic. So, um, do do you need to do official things so people can get a

149bio break before we um, everybody's breaking? I would like to comfort break. Sure. Board members, we may have a comfort break before we reconvene. Awesome. Um, members, the next topic on that was posted on our agenda today was CASBY resolutions. As you know, Casby moved up the timeline on the delegate assembly for the fall and the deadline for the resolutions is now in July. Uh Dr. Anderson had proposed via some notes or an email a couple ideas or no, we said at our last board meeting a couple ideas for potential resolutions. Um, are there any I don't know that we haven't heard anything else from folks about resolutions and the timeline is pretty short. So, I don't know if we want to spend very much time talking about it today or just move on to

150our executive session and I'll rephrase that as a since that has anybody come up with any ideas they would like to include as a potential CASBY resolution? Perfect. Seeing as there are none, we'll now move on to the next item on today's agenda, which is executive session. Is there a motion, Alex? I, Alex Medler, make a motion pursuant to CRS section 24-6-42 PN 4 PEN ER I to convene into executive session for purposes of determining positions relative to matters that may be subject to negotiations developing strategy for negotiations and instructing negotiators negotiators regarding charter school negotiations prep and peakto peak and pursuant to CRS section 24-6-42 Pren 4 PB to receive receive legal advice on charter school negotiations and contracts with Boulder Prep and Peak to Peak. Do I have a second? Second. Seconded by

151Beth. Laura, can you please call the role? Chavez, yes. Medler, yes. Nisnik, yes. Quinn Aea, yes. Raj Paul, yes. Sergeant, yes. Yes. Motion passes. Great. This convenes our public business for today. Board members, we will convene an executive session in the glacier room. I believe there is food in Cdora if we want to grab food.