001I call this meeting to order. It is 7 o' August 21st. Roll call, please. Chris Brown here. Andy Bren here. Nancy Hopper present. Katy Jess here. Smith. Sarah here. Next we'll 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. You have before you approval for the previous Move to approve. Second roll call, please. Chris Brown. I grant I Hopper. Hi. Johny. Hi. Smith. Hi. Hi. Next to A, we have a special presentation. We have Alo communications presentation of donation. Mr. Gay Thompson. He is I'm sorry. I should have caught your name the other time. It's Bob. Bob. Bob. Okay. Front and center. Sounds good. Um, yeah, introduction first. My name is
002Bob. I'm the Colorado general manager for Alo communications. So, uh, thanks for having me and us. Um, this is Maria. And what we have for you tonight is something that we think is kind of special. And we're presenting money to the school district in the amount of $1,400. Um, how did this come about? Well, we do something called Aloe for Education right down there. And, uh, last fall into the fourth quarter of last year, um, everybody who signed up for ALO service could then, uh, determine and share with us where they would like a $50 donation, which school for that money to go to. And so, um, $1,400 made its way to, uh, district. You are the most mature uh community that we have in our portfolio of communities here in Colorado. We have 11
003communities now. Uh you were the very first community uh that welcomed us into your community and allowed us to build um here. Uh what that's done for us, we have over 50% of your community on the residential side. Uh take us up on we have the opportunity to serve more than 50% of your um your residents in this town. So, uh, we're pretty excited about that business. Um, we're, uh, coming up on 38% of the business, uh, community as well. Uh, so we'll be that continues to grow and grow. So, um, but a big thank you to you all for having us, allowing us to come in and serve the community. Uh, it's been a wonderful partnership. Uh, we finished up uh, we got to our coming up on our sixth year of since we
004completed the actual network. So, we're at a wonderful spot. This is kind of the sweet spot for us and it creates wonderful opportunities for us to continue giving back to the other thing I'll toss out is that being local is one of our four core values and what does that mean well you hear that from a lot of people coming in a lot of businesses that come into your community and sort of yeah well we'll see about that so we hire locally we have a storefront right downtown uh we have folks coming in on an ongoing basis into the storefront as well it's a wonderful do business and uh we got probably 10 employees here in that live in or right around Fort Morgan as well. So that's all part of being local, but as
005importantly is making sure we're sponsoring the kinds of events that are important to the community and education is one of those key things for us. Uh we'll always be here to help support education and if you have ideas, thoughts that we could be that AW could be assisting with, please, please, please reach out. Let us know how we can assist. Um, so that's my presentation for tonight. Appreciate you allowing us to come on in, share a few thoughts, and then love to get a picture, Nancy, if you're open to that. I'll come up. Oh, All right. So, thank you so much for allowing you to come in and spend some time with you tonight. For the record for you, thank you very much. And we're glad you're part of the community of Fortuc. So, thanks.
006Nothing better than education. signed up as usual. We can take it up tonight. Maybe you get to be front and center. So, let me tell you something. Okay, sounds great. Thank you. [Applause] [Music] How cool is that? [Music] Wow. All right. Thank you again everyone. Okay, I need to go back to have approval of the agenda because So excited for the presentation we just went to the board. Move to approve. Second copies. Chris Brown. I Smith I next 3A public comments. Anybody in the [Music] audience? Always try. Next we are going to 4 A. We have our student representative. Um on Saturday we have the brush track meet and they have multiple topers. Uh soccer and baseball both have two league games this week. One is this Saturday and seniors are counting down their final
007week. our senior class meeting tomorrow and then on Friday our enter chapter is elected the next year's officers really fast for you. Next we have for me the board report and I have a report to give. Um I attended the Boseies meeting uh last Thursday and I just wanted to make everybody aware that uh there are several superintendent searches that are in the process right now. Just so we are aware Sterling, Alt, Eaton, Fort Lton, Yumi, San Louis, and Jillsburg. So there's a lot of turnover coming across the state. Also there's going to be um Windsor and Fort Lton are also looking for executive or directors for special ed. So, the competition is out there. Um, keep an eye on the states. There going to be a lot of debate in this legislature with the
008shortfall in the state budget. Uh, and we're also seeing, you know, because of co and all the esester monies and everything else that's going on, there's kind of contributing to the budget issues as well. Um, Eric Dorne gave a financial update. They're creating a website and they're looking at maybe creating a consortium. I don't that's something we're But I'm throwing it out there. It was a report. Also, um Mark Wrangle said the jet trainings will be taking place this summer. And then he indicated something about a brisk teacher program. And I heard something about that. So I just got a vision. Okay. And um mainly that was about it other than I will tell about the COSI high school graduation is on May 13th. Bose's uh high school in Longmont is May 14th and the
009icon which we're a part of is May 23rd at the high school and our very own Chris will be handing out the plans. Next we have 4C superintendent report. Thank you. Um you had mentioned the brisk uh program. So our actually we were kind of ahead on this because um brought to us by team Edson they've been using it exclusively down it's a program it's an AI program that you can actually go in you can uh like a YouTube video video you can say create a lesson plan and you can say create it for a fifth grader or create it for a third grader and it will turn around and create the entire lesson plan. It will individualize it for students um and it will also then differentiate for students who might have special needs.
010And so we jumped on it about six months ago, I think. And so we've got 20 trial licenses right now that we're playing with it particularly in our special ed, but it might be something that we really want to push to get for our entire staff because it's time saver. It is quality stuff. Um and it it it really saves time for the classroom teacher. Um a lot of the u the differentiation and individualized instruction takes time. Um you should probably look into using it and that's why we're kind of piloting it right now. and the Boseies jumped on about three months later and so we just had the brisk people come to our um northern soups or our sack meeting two weeks ago and talked to us the whole group about it. And I
011think there's only Wel Valley Fort Morgan and I think maybe you might be be doing well has a full paid version because they've been doing we're just trying it out right now trying it out. I'm not sure it's going to I think uh be the range education that sounded really interesting as I was sitting there where I was teaching kind of Um, so I wanted to let you know about um the the the field. We're doing some more work on the um ground work. The we're just not happy with the way that it's draining right now. And so we're we're looking and regrade everything with big equipment because what Mammoth was doing was coming out with skid steers and smaller equipment and it wasn't really I guess doing a great job. And so we're going
012to make that pay for it, but we're going to have someone come in or that's the least the plan right now is have someone come in and finish that out. Um and then the lights right now on the baseball field just in case someone calls you or they're going to be out of commission for three days this week. We're we should have them ready by Thursday night baseball game, but they the muscular light installers are here to all the wiring get it. So what happened is we have a transformer out there. I don't know if you all talked about how to get a new transformer or not. They decided that we could keep our transformer but um I don't understand all the language but it's a onephase transformer. We needed a onephase um box uh
013for the controls whereas most are threephase um and so they had to custom build the box and so that's taking them so long and they finally got the box in this week and now they're have them running on a temporary basis, but now they should be running after this week on the cell phone or how that they monitor it from Kansas or some place like sure, but I got a call the other day and said, "We're out here to work on your soccer field lights. Uh, something's out here." And I said, "I didn't even know it was out, but take care of this warranty. So, anybody ask that's what's going on and it should be done hopefully by Thursday. So, that's my report. I just make a comment. I'm glad somebody else came for something.
014So, thanks. Yes, that's assistant superintendent of Uh just wanted to update you. Last week, last Monday, we had our professional development and we had a really powerful keynote speaker named Gayen Elmore. Um he did a whole thing on the sense of a sense of belonging. Um it was pretty awesome. And then in the afternoon, quite a few folks participated in watching a math documentary called Counted Out. um it's all about um math and how it's changed and how we're teaching kids the same way. Um and we should maybe be we maybe should be doing more real world application and things like that. So that was pretty cool. Um people even got popcorn and snacks from the high school. So and that was pretty great. Um just a quick assessment update. This is our last week
015of CASS testing. Yay. And now we're just pretty much catching up makeup students. Um and then of course they had um PSAT SAT last week at the high school and there were like no issues and there really haven't been any assessment issues. So um pretty great. Um and then just finally um you you all approved um counseling curriculum and it was way over my budget and uh so I was on a call with Character Strong the following week and I had literally just put the requisitions in and I was with one of the main people from Character Strong and I said, "Well, here's the deal. We had to buy Aperture because they wouldn't, you know, they wouldn't just do the screener for us." And well, come to find out, Character Strong Tier 2 has a
016screener, a universal screener. So, I pulled um the $100,000 Aperture requisition out just in time before um so now I have to meet with that company and tell them that sorry um but we're not using the the universal screener in Character Strong's a little shorter. Um but I met with counselors and I said listen I mean I understand they like the universal screener from Aperture but it just wasn't you know, money that money we we saved essentially. So there you go. Questions? So you're telling me we saved 100,000 because the other one was already embedded in the program. So we had no addition expense. Chris and and and the the craziest thing was I think my job out dropped on the floor. I mean you can ask Rob. I was like I went into his
017office and the lady was like I said where do you advertise that you have this universal screener and how did I like how did all the counselors and everybody when we were demoing stuff missed it. So, um anyhow, so yes, but we are moving away from DESA, but um we're still planning on doing the universal screener in May. So, I'll have data for you and I'm I'd be expecting Character Strongs to be about similar like a bell curve, you know, where you have some pretty intensive needs and then hits the and it really what I also love is just character strong just aligns with the whole screener. So, you pull out all of the lessons for tier 2 um that you need for small groups. So, I'm pretty excited about that. Questions for me? No,
018I just want to save more money. So, I try to help. Oh, are you? Good evening. Um, not a lot on my report, personal auction reports there for you guys. Um, we're not kind of movement. Um, as far as resations and stuff, that stuff slowed down a little bit for us. Things that weren't surprising to us. A few permits that were different direction from um we uh are are starting to make some progress on certified hires for next year as well. If you remember last meeting, we were sitting about 36 certified postings. We're down to 24 right now. Um, and again, a few of those are contract employees that we post for just in case we can find, but we have contract backup. Um, so we're we're starting to make the progress that we're looking
019for. So, active job postings, we have two uh administrative, 24 certified, 10 classified, and then our standard subs and so forth. This is the good news. Um I I have talked for our principles on the classified employee side and we aren't planning unless we're in a situation where we have to hire any classified employees for the TA positions um that we have open um and that'll be cost savings to the district um until July hire um it just doesn't make sense to hire them for a month and asking that for three months without pay. So um and so that's where we're sitting there. Um we do have our recommendations for advancement for our classified protek uh employees and those are up for the board approval tonight as well. Thank you. Uh we have chief financial
020officer. [Music] Kind of an update on a couple things. You know we've had the three building projects going on and just to let you know where we're at with all three of those. The first one was the LED light project that also contained stage lights and I believe the chiller rotation at the high school. As far as I know, all the work's been completed there and we're in the payback phase of that. Um we have two payments a year due on those. Um for the first um funding, our payments for the year are 431,000 and for the second funding it's 110. Legion Field, it's my understanding that we're in phase four and they're doing mostly the track resurfacing is what's yet to be finished there. And as far as I verified this with Milick, we
021have about 9 about another 943,000 to pay on leion and then we should be finished. And um I'm pretty pleased that we haven't gone wildly over budget with that because you know that was wrong folks. And so we've kind of stayed in our lines there and that's made my job a little easier. Then the last one was the best grant HVAC project and as you know we had two separate awards. We had the first one and the second supplemental one. The total best reward awards that we're going to be getting is 3.4 million. The total project costs are estimated at 6.2 million leaving the district share at 2.7. We have re received our first best reimbursement grant. Um on March 12th we got 1.6 million. Last week I submitted another request for 896,000. So, um,
022the balance that's going to be built to us on this vest grant is 1.5 million and then we also have another 935,000 that we can draw on that best. So, we're in good shape there. Just kind of an update where we're at with everything. I appreciate the fact that the um Jins Hoskins I deal with him at CDE. He's great. if I have something out of whack or whatever, he writes back and we they're pretty quick to pay us when we submit an application. Um, an update, the other thing that's going on in my world is budgets. We're in budget season. Um, one thing that Rob and I talked about and mostly from a county standpoint point because we were going to initially pay our share of the best grant with Esser funds. We were
023funding that out of general funds, but that didn't exactly work out because of the timing. So, I'm moving all the HVAC to the building fund. It's cleaner, tidier. So, next meeting we will have a supplemental budget reflecting that movement over to building funds. The 25 26 budget. Um Rob and I have been working on that. Uh you will receive a copy of the preliminary budget before the end of May. I will email that to you. You need to look it over and suggest any changes, questions because we have to have it approved by we'll also make notice on our web page that there's a copy that's going to be at desk if anybody wants to come in and look at it. It be available for public viewing. And that's where we're standing on budgets. Any
024questions? Moving right along. We have the consent agenda of the board. Second roll call, please. Chris Brown. I ran. Hi. Nancy Hopper. I John. Hi. Smith. Hi. 6A renewals of at will classified staff for the 2526 school year. Pleasure the board. Move to approve. Second. Roll call, please. Chris Brown. Hi. Amy Grantham. I Nancy Hopper. I Smith. Hi. Hi. Next we have advanced planning. So I'll read these. We have Board of Education meetings in May are May 5th and May 19th. School bus driver appreciation day is April 22nd. What's today? Tomorrow. Tomorrow. Okay. Fort Morgan High School Mighty Mustang awards ceremony is April 30th. The last day of school for the Fort Morgan High School seniors except our board representative who must still continue to come to our meetings will be May 7. The Fort
025Morgan High School senior banquet is Thursday, May 8th. National Teacher Appreciation Week is May 5th through May 9th. Um, and National Teacher Appreciation Day itself is May 6th. The Lincoln High School graduation ceremony is Friday, May 9th. The Fort Morgan High School Balora is Friday, May 16th, and the Fort Morgan High School graduation parade is Saturday, May 17th. We have May is a busy, busy month, isn't it? Um, the Fort Morgan High School graduation ceremony is Sunday, May 18th. The Fort Morgan Middle School continuation ceremony is May 29th. The last day of school is Thursday, May 29th. And the end of the year picnic and making a difference award is Friday, May 30th. This concludes the regular board meeting of education. I want to clarify in the record that the board of education has issues
026to discuss an executive session as follows. to convene an executive session pursuant to Colorado Revised Statute section 246 402 subsection 4 subsection E subsection I and subsection F subsection I to determine positions relative to matterners that may be subject to negotiations develop strategy for negotiations and instruct negotiators as well as to discuss personnel manners specifically related to superendent Rob Sanders, his contract, and potential terms of addendum. Do I have a motion to go into executive session for the previously stated purpose? I move that the board of education convene in executive session pursuant to CRS section [Music] 24-6-402 subsection 4 subsection E subsection I and subsection F subsection I to determine positions relative to matters that may be subject to negotiations develop strategy for negotiations and instruct negotiators as well as to discuss personnel matters specific
027specifically related to Superintendent Rob Sanders, his contract and potential terms of addendum. Okay. Amy Grantham, board of director, has made a motion. Who seconds the motion, please? Second. Mindy Smith, board director, has seconded the motion. Any discussion? Roll call to convene into executive session, please. Chris Brown, Iantham, I. Nancy Hopper. Hi, John. Hi. Smith. Hi, Sarah Whitney. Hi. Only the board of education will attend the executive session. We are also going to invite Mr. Sanders in for the board of education will limit the discussion to this topic. There will be no action taken in executive session. We are adjourned at 7:27.