001Just call this meeting. >> Call this meeting to order. It is August 18th, 7 p.m. Roll call, please. Chris >> here. Andy Grantham >> here. >> Present. >> Katie Jeff here. >> Here >> next we have the pledge of allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> Do you have before you uh the minutes of the previous meeting? Pleasure of the board. Move to approve. >> Second. >> Roll call, please. >> Chris Brown. >> Hi. >> Amy Grantham. >> Hi. >> Nancy Hopper. >> Hi. >> Katie Jess. >> Hi. >> John. >> Hi. >> Smith. >> Hi. >> Sarah. >> Hi. I do not believe there's any changes. So I will need an
002approval for the agenda for this evening. Move to approve. Second. >> Chris Brown. >> Hi. >> Amy Grantham. >> Hi. >> Nancy Popper. >> Hi. >> Katie J. >> Hi. >> Johny. >> Hi. >> Smith. >> Hi. >> Sarah Whitney. >> Hi. >> Section two. Opportunity for the audience. Look how close I expect. >> How's it going? >> Um, in case anybody doesn't know me, my name is Pete Wack Radio here in Northeast Colorado. And, uh, we do have seven radio stations across the entire region in the triangle from Fort Morgan to Sterling down to Ray and back. Uh, we pretty much cover seven counties, but we go a little bit beyond that. I know that because I was in Julesburg last Friday night for their car cruise. So, that was a good night. Um,
003couple things uh uh to mention here. I wanted to just kind of let everybody know that there's an education opportunity if students that are really interested in media. Um, I know radio has kind of been written off here and there in the past. Uh, the funny thing is if I had a nickel for every time my industry was said that we were dead, I'd be on a beach still broadcasting radio because I enjoy it, but you know, I'd be on a beach, you know. So uh anyway but uh there's a lot of opportunities in this industry for students if they want to get into any form of media be it journalism, engineering promotions. We cover social media as well. Uh production which I'll get to here in a sec. Uh there's also sales. There's a
004lot of creativity and you'll of course all know about bobtock. Uh that you know a lot of people believe it or not still can't equate the fact that that's a radio promotion. Uh really people, you know, when 975 blob FM, Bob Stock, it's amazing how many people still have foot two and two together on that. Not counting anybody in this room. Got that feedback. Um and I got the numbers this uh earlier this afternoon, 22,000 people showed up for that two-day event. >> Oh wow. >> So not bad for a small little radio promotion, you know, going on for, you know, almost two decades now. So, it's pretty impressive and I'm proud to be a part of it. Um, as far as my career is concerned, I started off at KLC back in 2001 and
005it was my first job in radio. I was green as a blade of grass back then. I worked for 10 weeks and then 911 happened and they they fired me, let let everybody go from there. Started my career and I pursued uh two broadcast um diplomas from trade schools. A lot of people talk about trade schools. They think about trades, plumbing, electricians, that sort of thing. Nothing wrong with that. All my brothers are in the trades that way. But I went into the radio trade. I did not go to traditional four-year college to be a broadcaster. I took a correspondence course through the now fund Columbia School of Broadcasting. And then I also went to the Ohio Center for Broadcasting, which is now the Colorado Media School in the Denver metro area. And I went
006through a year behind the scenes, the nitty-gritty stuff. Yeah. I didn't need to know the history of brand. I just needed to know how to work in radio. So, uh, got really right to the point and, uh, that's what started me on my career. And in 2000, early 2006, I came out to work for Wayne Johnson here at Medologic Radio for the first time back when he only had three radio stations. And I worked for him for almost 5 years, left, went back to Denver, actually taught at the school for a short time, so I was in kind of the teacher's shoes at that time. Uh, so I know what it's like hurting cats, if you know what I mean. And uh then I ended up getting a job being a radio traffic reporter in
007Denver and worked for stations like KOA and a lot of the other radio stations in the Denver metro area as well as Colorado Springs, Fort Collins, and Salt Lake City doing radio traffic reports from them. Uh then a few years ago, I decided to come back here. Wayne was gracious enough to hire me back as a news director here. He he said, "I didn't call you think you wanted a news director." Like I'll take it out of Denver, you know. So I came back and I'm very happy to have been back since. Uh the reason I say uh wanted to say this is that um there's a lot of opportunities if you're a creative person and you really want to try to accomplish something as far as behind thescenes stuff. You know, you can have
008all the talent in the world, but if you don't know how to piece things together and put it together in a production or in a way that'll showcase what your message is, what your entertainment is, whatever you're trying to do, really doesn't do much good. Um, you can have all the talent in the world, but if you can't do some of those basic things, it doesn't really mean too much. But I and I say this because there's there's not a lot of opportunities that big cities, much less smaller communities like this, have as far as having not one but two radio station companies that are based here in Fort Morgan. There's Northeast Colorado Broadcasting or competition, and then there's Meteorologic Radio. And if you were to mirror uh the big markets from the small markets,
009we mirror them. uh where I came from iHeart I work for subsidiary of iHeart which is total traffic and weather network iHeart in Denver have seven radio stations we have seven radio stations iheart streams we stream iart has an app we have an app so we can match toeto toe with whatever they have to offer in the bigger markets that's an opportunity that not a lot of people get a chance to just walk into a radio station and try to learn the business and it doesn't matter if they want to be in radio or if they want to be in television or they just want to be an influencer on social media. It's a great way to take an opportunity to learn some skills and to learn how to speak to people, how to perfect
010what you really want to do. So, I just got to put that out there as just something for you all to consider for teachers to consider. You know, think about that small little building with the big antenna out back that's down the road on Highway 34 past the Pizza Hut. That's where I go every single day to do what I do. Which brings me to my big announcement. Uh there's a lot of great talent here in Fort Morgan. There's a lot of cool things come out of this little community and hopefully I can add to that. Um launching on Labor Day weekend, I'm launching a nationally syndicated radio show from right here in Fort Morgan. >> It's going to be a 2-hour music show. It's going to be called the Tiger Rock and Oldie Show.
011It's going to showcase the rock and roll, rhythm, and blues, rockabilly, soul, and blues from the late 1940s all the way through the 50s and well into the 1960s. It's going to feature a lot of think of the oldies format with deep album cuts, obscure tunes, and true blues. But it's going to have some obscure tubes, but it's also going to be a bit of a history lesson as well. You know, I mean, to this day, I remember counting by threes from watching Schoolhouse Rock on Saturday morning cartoons when I was kids. Yeah. See, everybody knows what I'm talking about there. That's going to be kind of this show as well. It's going to be entertaining, but it's also going to be some education as well. a little bit of history about music from the
012mid- 20th century which kind of gets glossed over. We kind of go from the Sinatra big band era. We jump into the Beatles and move forward from there. This is really going to concentrate on that segment in between jingles. It's really going to sound like you tuned turned on the radio back in the 50s or 60s. Anybody remember the old Kimn out of Denver 950 on your radio? It's going to have that feel to it, that old school. And it's called the Tiger Rock and Rolly Show because that was a sling back in the days. Tiger meant you had the number one station in town. So KINN was the Denver Tiger. So that's kind of what this is coming from. It's going to make its debut on Sunday, Labor Day weekend. It'll be August 31st.
013I believe it'll be on Sunday from 2 to 4:00 p.m. There's no football that weekend, so you don't have an excuse. No, I'm just kidding. But, uh, for this one time only two, we're I'm going to have an encore presentation of the show on Labor Day as well. So, Sunday 2 to 4:00 p.m. and then Labor Day Monday, it'll be on from 2 to 4:00 p.m. on KFTM. And we're also going to be airing it on our sister station KRDZ out. So, it's actually going to be on two meteorologic radio stations for that weekend. And it's going to be weekly shows. It'll be on from 2:00 to 4:00 p.m. every Sunday afternoon. I already have a couple of other stations outside of of Colorado that I'm talking to to get the show expanded. So, I
014plan on taking this national and starting off from here and we're just going to go from there. So, I hope you all tune in, can enjoy it, listen to it, and the key thing about production is that I can have the biggest music collection in the world. All the jingles, all the elements of it put together, all the talent the world, it means nothing if I didn't know how to edit audio for radio. Exciting, isn't it? Editing audio. Huh. But really, that's the foundation for what I'm able to do. Those are the kind of things that we can teach young people if they're interested. If anybody wants to come out and I know that Wayne love to have people interning out there, we got sports department. If they're interested in sports, boy, do we got
015sports. You all know that we care for the sports. So, anyway, just want to let you all know about that and hope you enjoy this because it might be a while before I get back to That is awesome. Thank you. And we are always looking for opportunities for students. We are grateful that you presented tonight. Thank you. >> You bet. >> And best of luck. >> Thank you. I appreciate it. >> Right. We will move on to section three reports. We have our high school representative, Kenzie. >> Hi. Um, so we have our first game at Skyline this Thursday, which I'm really excited about. And we just got our teams on Thursday last week. Um there's an upcoming football game on Friday that's at home versus Buffalo East. And so we're excited to see our
016boys on the field for the first time this year. Um right now in Student Senate, we're working on setting up um Mighty Mustang mentors, which is just meeting with kids at elementary schools and just to talk with them at lunch. We did this a little bit last year, but we only went to Baker and because that was the only school that really um reached out to us, but we're working on setting that up right now. And anyone is welcome to join that's um good with kids and is in the high school and willing to talk and is outgoing. We had our first drama meeting on Friday just to get to the feel of like what's happening this year and what's going to be going on and whatnot. Um, we had our choir preparation today for
017All State Choir that's coming up here soon. And Patriot League choir is another thing that's also coming up soon with auditions. All state, we're all working right now to make sure we have all of the knowledge that we need going into state for choir since it's a pretty rigorous task for us. Um, our first week of school has been going good. I know a lot of kids have had some hard adjustments though with a lot of the new rules that we've had, but we're all working towards figuring it out and coming together. >> Thank you. We look forward to your reports at every of our all of our board meetings. And you know, society works based on rules, so it's a good thing, but it is hard sometimes. But they'll adjust. Next, we have uh
018the board of education. I will start off that we had our CASBY regional meetings. The Fort Morgan meeting was here on August 13th in this room. Uh we had good attendance and then the next day we went to Holio and um had a regional meeting there. The regional meeting was room uh 4:30 to 7:30 in Morgan. I'm going to ask Mindy and Chris attendance as well as the superintendent if you'd like to say anything. So yes, um I this was my first regional meeting and um it was more of an intimate setting with regional school district. So um I enjoyed that and um obviously hearing um what their struggles are and and um what mountains they're climbing right now. Um funding and legislation was a heavy topic which was no surprise. Um and they feel
019like there was a sensus of that these rural districts want to keep their leg their legislation more local and the decisions not have it at a higher level. Um it was a lot of good discussion. um I was able to have a breakout session prop so we kind of discussed more together um everybody else and then we came together um as a whole group and talked about um some different topics which pertain to legislation um and resources for the this um rural districts um resolutions that we will um that are going to be presented at the in a few weeks. Um, and I'm going to let Rob piggy back on this, but um, he Nancy asked us a question about how we are networking to our community to get more information out to our community.
020And um, he had some really good ideas that I'm excited that I hope we can implement to um, get some more information about our district and what's going on in our district um, to our community. Um, and the presenters just really um reminded us that we really need to lean on CASBY. They're there for a resource. They're there to help us um as a support system um take advantage of their trainings um via podcasts and recordings online. >> Pretty much echo what Mindy what Mindy said. I thought it was a great meeting. Uh I was really impressed with the attendance. discussed all well was there. It was amazing. Um it was really cool to be able to um talk to um the people around us and and get the feelings and of what they've got
021going on and kind of compare notes. That way we're kind of all in the same boat. >> Yes. Hillary Daniels, uh she is one of the attorneys at CASBY. she was present as well as Christine Gutter. So, she is a policy writer and so they were really heading up the meeting. They did an excellent job um guiding us. Our royal voice is really important and they acknowledge that which I'm very appreciative that John will be going to the delegate assembly which is September 5th and 6th. We have 10 resolutions that have been brought before Cassie for us to take if they pass delegate assembly to be lobbyed for at the state level by the legislature. And so it's uh when I looked at those 10, more than half of them were from rural Colorado. And
022so we have a voice. We just need we need to make sure we use our voice and so forth. So I appreciate that. And Rob, did you want to piggy back on that? >> Sure. Um you know, I've been to a lot of CAP regional meetings in my years as a superintendent. Um, I've seen them do it a lot of different ways and this year I felt was better in that there was a lot more interaction between people rather than being fed a bunch of information and then have to digest it. It was more an interactive thing between people where you can actually there's topics discuss and you can and everybody uh have an um one of the things we talked about was how do we get information to our community about um school funding
023for example a lot may have the belief that schools in Colorado get any money. It's not a it's not a it's not a mighty it's a spending problem. But they don't realize that even though we paid back or say we paid back the negative factor, the BS factor, that that only puts us at 1997 spending levels. And so we're still way behind what we could actually do with money. And and one of the questions came back, does money really matter in education? I don't know, maybe Massachusetts, who has the highest test scores in in when you compare them to the world um and they are the highest per pupil um state in the nation. Um, but we talked about how do we get that information out to our communities and no, we don't, you know,
024we can send a long newspaper, we can send a long uh something, but I've always thought if we can do some captive audience and a captive audience is typically at our athletic events, activities, plays, things like that. And I actually did go sit down and talk with our athletic director this week, Mr. events and and I just said can we find space on our programs I don't care what program it is that every did you know and we they can be high school specific they can be district specific they can be pioneer specific whatever we want to do it but did you know that 70% of funding for state of Colorado or 30% comes from Morgan Leave it at that. Did you know that we have close to 30 languages spoken in for Morgan? And
025just just little blurbs like that that go in every program and when you're sitting there waiting between games or you're the timeout and coming through looking for your kid's name or who's advertising, read those things and hopefully they we can change those every week or every activity and probably at every level, junior high, high school. Um, so I thought that was something positive that would would come out of that and hopefully make it happen. So it was good. It was good. >> I agree. Okay, we'll go on to your report. I believe this All right. Well, you just tell me when. >> All right. >> It's your turn. >> All right. Thank you. Um I just wanted to um update you, but I don't necessarily update you. We our teacher alternative teacher license program as
026you know the the four years but it's starting to gain some statewide and nationwide kind of exposure and I just want last one from the department of education. Um they're looking at um cut off on my um they're looking at doing some stories in the in different media publications that highlight great dis work that districts are doing around the state and especially around alternative lensure pathways because there's such a teacher shortage not only in the state but in the nation. Um, and so what they were looking for was uh from the state from the Department of Education was one English speaking and one Spanish speaking teacher who was enrolled in our alternative life program on it. Um, the next one is New America and I'm not sure who they are, who they represent, but they
027are does things around um the alternative license program, but they're doing the same. They want to interview some of our licensing people. They want to have some conversation with them to see if they write some about it. And the other one is the third one is career-wise and they actually want to come visit us and spend some time with us how maybe they can um start their own programs at other places. Um and they really want to look at teacher apprentice programs and how how we're kind of doing some of that stuff. And so I thought exciting and it's good for good any press is good press uh and especially positive press. So that's uh really positive I believe. So um on construction if you don't mind that we have as you know quite a
028few things going on right now. We've posted our RFQ for Pioneer. Um, it is posted right now and it's due here shortly. That's a picture. We've got the drone footage here. You can see here, this is a overhead view of the whole facility. The new baseball field. So, you can see the new baseball field lights that went in. All the roofs were were switched over to matched to the same color. Um, we put we resurfaced the track. um did all the dirt work um for drainage. There's new bleachers for the home side or for excuse me the visitor side. The visitor side restroom was remodeled. The um halftime shed was painted. Uh we have a new concession stand as well as restrooms. And I believe now there are 19 bathrooms or stools I suppose for
029the ladies out there. >> Sweet. still not enough. Um, you can see over over at the the JV baseball field, we put in new bleachers. We put in new um dugouts. We got new throwing pits. Um, and then there's our soccer fac. We are 99.995% done. We have a few extra pictures that we'd like to show you from a little down lower. So, here is a picture of the uh um home bleachers, I believe. >> Oh, no. This is just an overhead picture of of the soccer facility. >> There you go. >> That's the the home bleachers. Those seated 500. We could not go up to the 750 because we two more stalls for bathrooms at a cost of about $500,000 to the building. So, it was like, "No, we're we're not going to do
030that." So, the next picture is the actual concession stand and the uh restroom. So, the restrooms on the south side, that sign on the front there is is lit up. It's an FM light. Uh they just replaced it and put a new one in. Um, really here the gates right there. I the the boards I don't think are in there yet, but that is supposed to be a replica of what it looks like in a Kentucky Derby gates. You see up top there's the Mustang up top. We've got lights in the ceiling. We got the ticket booth to the right and then also with the concession stand in there. There's inside directly out to the parking lot. I didn't get the the fourth one that is right next to the the window there on the
031right hand side there. And then the concession stand, we've got a Pepsi machine in there looking in. There's going to be a TV out there hanging on the wall that's going to have so ordering. You can watch either the soccer game or the the football game that's going on. Um we're actually getting huddle cameras put in the junior high as well. watch the junior high games from Connecticut if they want to. This is another view of the inside of the concession stand. Another one. They turned out really nice. This is the family restroom uh that is that's connected to the uh building. The women's restroom. Um I think this has turned out really great. And then of the men's I think had some people in it. It was busy, but you can see kind of
032that they haven't finished, but yeah. So, it's I think I got a picture of it anyway. Yep. But that's the men's restroom. And then I got a picture of this is the new visitor's side men's restroom. The women's is on the other side. I could not get in there because the padlock wouldn't open up. I think it was too hot. The sun was on and things just wouldn't wouldn't. So, s taking a picture of that. I think that's the last picture of that. Y >> um so any questions on that >> dirt area? Are we going to rock that? Are we going to grasp it? What's going on with the like the just the dirt where they dug and >> around >> which ones >> around the concession stand? >> Oh, so that dirt was
033actually the hill has been taken down and it's been actually put underneath the fence so that critters can't get under fence. >> But you see what I mean? like where your mouse is at in there. >> In there. >> Yeah. >> Oh, that's grass. So that's that's that's the long jump triple jump long jump triple jump area that's going to stay like that. >> But then right where the mouse is now, that's it's already got spring system in it. There's a fence going to be put in there to keep people separate from the halftime shed. But then there's going to be grass put in there. There's grass going up there. grass over there where where everywhere she's got her mouse going is grass and a sprinkler system was put in and it's also on the
034east side of the soccer field as well and the north side but they're all going to hydro seed that here come September and we should it should be able to grasp at this time next year. So I think it's going to turn out really nice and look really good. uh the field. We took this before we actually did quite a bit of work on the grass, but the grass is starting to come back. We're following the protocols we have been told to follow and it's starting to look pretty good from the stands. You go out on the field, it's still pretty um so that's that's out of Legion Field. Um gym floor, I sent you a picture. I didn't put it in here, but I sent you a picture and you all see have seen
035it. It looks terrible right now. I know it. Everybody knows it. But the reality is we found a couple of things that we're excited about with this gym. And when we pulled some of those boards up, we found out that the there's enough wood left to do a whole floor sanding rather than to replace the whole floor. So, we'll be able to do it a turn key on the on the gym floor and we'll sand it down to that nice looking white wood. Seed I think it's a cedar wood underneath there. Maple, sorry, maple wood. That's right. It's a maple wood that's underneath there. And it's a really nice looking wood, but then we'll be able to repaint it and restain it and do it how we want to. But at the same time, what
036we're going to do is the auxiliary gym as well because that is the original floor and you're supposed to do a turn key on a floor about every 15 years and that floor is about 20 22 years old and never has had a turnkey done on it. So, we want to get both floors cleaned up. We know the main floor I know that Mr. Edson and Mr. Anderson put out a little bit of a thing on Facebook asking for community input on what that floor is going to look like that was a really good thing to do because people now seem excited about the possibility and they're willing to overlook how bad it looks right now. Um, but I will tell you it's extremely functional right now. It works. It's solid. It may not be
037the best thing in the world, but when it's all said and done, it's going to have the wow factor this year. It's going to look really great. So, really excited about that. Um, next thing is the HVAC. As you can tell, it's working pretty well in here tonight. Um, so we've had a few issues here and there, but Baker, we got it back up and running. It's running great. Building, I believe, is running and operating the way it should, except the high school. We're waiting for one control unit for the wait room kind of concession stand area down there, but once that comes, that should work just fine. Um, and again, we're 99.9% done with all that work and and once that's done and that piece, all we have left to avail is any kind
038of warranty work or punch list items. Um, and so I'm getting where I'm getting happier with the way things are turning out because as times goes on, you know, when you're doing construction, you get a little impatient. Um, I was certainly getting impatient, but right now it's starting to pay off and things are starting to work better. I do know that the middle school has had an issue in the eighth grade wing this last week or last couple days. I think they got it fixed today, but that's not on construction. That's on us. That's on maintenance. that machine 10y old machine >> 12 and so you're going to have maintenance natural things on that so that's kind of the update on our construction >> 10 or >> oh 10 I thought it was 10 or
03912 I couldn't remember the other thing just you know that first week we had the first couple weeks we had with staff I was feeling really positive about um the new staff that came in and and I was feeling about good staff. Um really about the start of the school year. Um I think for the most part we had a pretty successful um first day of school other than having to lock down but and that was totally out of our control and I think we handled as well as we could. I think the first week of school went pretty well. Um and um just excited for the whole school year. So with that being said, I think this is where Nancy might have something. >> I think so. >> I think Nancy might. So if
040you want to >> Yes. So every year if um CASP sends out notices and if there's any recognition of board members that have done an outstanding job and really contributing above and beyond and those awards are handed out at our regional meetings. And so I would like to announce to the staff and the board and anybody else in the community that we have a special award going to Katie. So I'm going to present that to Katie. Where's the photographer? McGuffy pin. So what they call it is the McGuffy award. And so the verbage that was submitted. >> Yes. >> Too late. No, just I can't presenting it to her. >> Katie Jess is a great member of the Fort Worker board of education. She became a member of the district team in 2021. She's actively
041involved in all aspects of board work, most particularly area sports. Katie is an assistant volleyball coach, volunteers on the sports booster club, reviews applications on sports scholarships, just to name a few. She actively builds positive relationships with building administrators, athletic directors, and coaches. I guess I need to get started. Thanks. Katie has served on several committees in the district over the years. She was on the hiring committee for our superintendent search and as a new member and she helped establish our strategic goals for improving student achievement. Katie also has two kids in the district. So, we wanted to acknowledge and thank you for your work. Thank you. [Music] >> Thank you. Moving on to assistant superintendent of curriculum is not here this evening and so we really don't have unless she filling out something. So
042we will go to assistant superintendent of human resources Mr. >> Good evening. Um we have the uh personal auction report in front of you guys a little bit longer um this uh this time of the year with uh late movement um especially on our classified side coaches out of those positions and so forth. So a little bit longer um our our department's been pretty busy over the last month or so and trying to uh stay on top of all that. So hopefully next month will be a little shorter for us. Um, as far as active job postings go, uh, we have five certified openings. Um, as of Friday, Thursday, um, we we only had three and they were real hard to fill positions. Looks like, um, vision hearing, um, and then one special ed position.
043Special ed position is only classroom position that's open in the district. And so, when you talk about hiring, we've been very, very lucky, very blessed to be able to fill our positions. um in all our classrooms. And so um we did hire or did open an SLP SLPA position on Thursday, Friday last week uh to address some needs that came up and how we staff um that position especially to the elementary plan of attack in place to to address that. So um other than that we have seven classite positions open um and the rest of them are just our standard um alternative apprentichip resumes um positions that positions. So uh we did go uh we did put an RFP out for um information to come in on looking at a different entity to oversee our
044HSA or I'm sorry H and our flex spending our section 125 accounts. Um, there's just been a few things that popped up that just, you know, I think so we did go out. Um, and we selected American and so they'll uh there'll be no charge for them to oversee our our flex spending or H stuff. Um they do have an HSA option to them if if staff choose. The nice thing is is they will come in they will handle allation and enrollment for that. Currently the district handles one thing come up off of our plates which would be nice. Um but it also give us a little bit more hands-on oversight uh at the end of the day too. Um so no charge for that benefit. Um the uh the other benefits that along with
045that is there's a $3,600 kind of risk management for us. If for some reason employee leaves the district prior to the contract here and has over spent their account cover employee for $300 um coverage. So that'll be nice having that that security. Um the only thing uh in return is um allowing American facility to come in and um provide their information through a portfolio presentation to our staff. Uh and that can range anywhere from um accident cancer 43b 437 financial wellness disability staff want to take place or take advantage of it or definitely I think the the understanding 403b and 457s um are are good for our staff from that but maybe give you some financial planning that maybe they haven't had to background knowledge on. So um I don't think it'll be a high
046pressure situation more so just provide an opportunity for them to present a couple different avenues over the next few years and then um that'll just be new staff as they come along. So um we are at that time where we're rolling out our evaluation stuff. um 1338 committee is part of the evaluation. We're going to meet on Tuesday uh tomorrow afternoon at 10 I think. Um that'll take 20 30 minutes to kind of just go over what the percentages what we do with that in some aspect because they're district employees. But that'll be kind of the real start and roll out of our evaluation system for the year. Um no big changes um in regards to how that that'll be handled. Uh and then the last thing uh just upcoming for us um is that
047time here when we do the statements in September in front of the board longevity bonuses come out in September as well. Questions for me from our department. >> Thank you. And chief financial officer John. >> I just wanted to give you a quick update on how our transition to Skyward is going. We are just about finishing our second payroll in the new software. I think it's just really uh it's just so much better than what we had. The transition was a little I mean it's a lot of work for payroll people. They've done all the heavy lifting. I just kind of come along and take credit. The other thing I'm very excited about um on the AP side, we I can't believe I'm actually excited about this, but when you look at a check that
048we've printed, attached to that check will be an invoice, purchase order, and any other things that led up to that payment. It will be in the system. So, you don't have to go to a file cabinet, pull it out, hope it's filed in the right place, find it. It will save so much time, and it's a very smooth I think the trans just the way transactions flow is a lot smoother. The girls did a really excellent job of putting together a training manual for the principles and their secretaries and we had a little training and you know I haven't heard any negatives so far. So I love the way the recording looks and um we'll be moving the budget and balances forward for general ledger I think in another week. So that's really when I'll
049start diving in with budgets and things like that. So overall I think it was an excellent choice for the district. >> Thank you. Sounds like it was a great move. Next, we have discussion items. So, um 4A policies. This is the second reading. Very briefly read through these. ADF student wellness second reading ADF-R student wellness. Um GDQCB-E1 supplemental retirey contract. uh retiring BDFA-R district personnel performance evaluation council bylaws and re retired we're going to retire BDFC-R preschool council these are all of these there's a lot. Um, second reading on a bunch of these. Please make sure you yourself kind of go over these. I think some of these are mandated updates and so that's why there's such a big list. It's things that we have to do in order to be compliant with state federal
050laws. >> Yes, these these did come from CASPY and um trying to figure out the best way to mark them in our new system so that we know they're required by law. So if you don't like them, we can have discussions and that's the way we're seeing policies district revisions. These are the first readings and so it would be JKA- E-1 student restraint incident report form JKA-2 complaint procedures and regulations regarding the use of restraint JKA- E-1 student restraint incident reporting form JK A-2 brief restraint notification form JKEA-3- or E-3 restraint incident review form and JKE-4 for restraint informed consent. So our new special services director Healey has been working with our attorney and she got these with they worked through this and created these. So our two policies are in existence. Those first two
051we didn't make the changes in there because we'll just eliminate those and put the new ones that she recommended. >> So this is the first reading. So after we pass the last four, then we'll retire the first two sort of they'll just automatically Place those discussion 14 for Morgan Middle School handbook. You have before you a summary of the changes for 2526 as well as the complete handbook itself. Any discussion? or E, the Fort Morgan High School student handbook summary of changes for as well as the entire student handbook for the year or F form and high school athletic activities handbook format. You have the handbook, a summary of changes for 2526 as well as the entire activity athletic activities handbook or G student uh the children's center summary of changes for 2526 as well
052as their handbook. Moving on to the consent agenda. Pleasure of the board. Second roll call. Chris Brown. >> Hi. Amy Brandon. >> Hi. >> Nancy Hopper. Hi. >> Katie Jess. >> Hi. >> John Brown. >> Hi. >> Smith. Hi. >> Sarah Whitty. >> Hi. >> Six. Uh, action items. Fort Morgan Middle School Handbook. Pleasure Board. Move to approve. >> Second. >> It's been moved and seconded. Roll call, please. >> Chris Brown. >> Hi. >> Amy Grantham. >> Hi. >> Nancy Hopper. >> Hi. >> Katie Jess. >> Hi. >> John. >> Hi. >> Smith. >> Hi. >> Sarah Whitney. >> Hi. >> 6 feet. Fort Morgan High School. Handbook. Pledge of the board. >> Move to approve. >> Second. >> Okay. Roll call, please. >> Chris Brown. >> I. Amy Grantham. >> Hi. >> Nancy Hopper.
053>> Hi. >> Katie Jess. >> Hi. >> John. >> Hi. >> Smith. Hi. >> Sarah W. >> Hi. >> 60. the former high school athletic activities handbook with the pledge of the court. >> Move to approve. >> Second. >> Roll call, please. >> Chris Brown. >> I am Amy Grant. >> Hi. >> Nancy Hopper. >> Hi. >> Kitty Jess. >> Hi. >> John. >> Hi. >> Vinnie Smith. >> Hi. >> Sarah. >> Hi. >> 6E. Donations from Blue Horizon to various teachers. >> Oh, I sure did. Let me go back. 6D Children's Center Handbook. Pledge support. Move to approve. >> Roll call, please. >> Chris Brown. >> Hi. >> Amy Grantham. >> Hi. >> Nancy Hopper. >> Hi. >> Katie Jess. >> Hi. >> John. >> Hi. >> Mickey Smith. >> Hi. >> Sarah. >>
054Hi. >> 6E. Donations from Blue Horizons to um a couple of different individuals, teachers in the district. Go to the board. Move to approve. Second. Roll call, please. Chris Brown. Hi Kantham. Hi >> Nancy Hopper. >> Hi Katie J. Hi John. >> Hi >> Vinnie Smith. >> Hi Sarah. >> Hi. >> And I kind of wanted to go back before we go into advanced funding just a reminder that this is an election year. So, we have opened the the nominations for board directors and that um calling closes on August 29th and so there you go. Advanced planning. The next board of education meeting is September 15th. The high school homecoming week is October 7th through the 10th. Our Fort Morgan High School Mustangs will compete against Mountain View High School Lions on October 10th. Go
055Mustangs. And the homecoming dance is on October 11th. There's no further business to come before the board. are adjourned at 7:47.