001[Music] may I have roll call please Chris Brown here Andy here Nancy Hopper K Jess here John proudy herey Smith here here you please stand and join me for the pl Allegiance United States of America and for it stands Nation God indivisible withy andice on the agenda we have approval of the previous board meeting minutes what is the pleasure of the board Mo to approve second have a motion in a second roll call please Chris Brown I am grand hi ktie Jess hi John Pry hiy Smith hi Sarah hi next on the agenda we have the current agenda with the removal of table action item B curriculum for counseling what is the pleasure of the board move to approve second we have a motion in a second roll call please Chris Brown hi amyan hi
002John P hi Smith hi sah next on the agenda we have a special presentation from the clay trap shooting club in Fort Morgan High School come on up guys hello good evening good evening uh so we're here tonight to propose a new club uh for trap shooting is the main one it's a clay target League actually there's actually several disciplines that we have the option to um oh there's so much information I'm just going to try to throw it out there and if you guys have questions I can revert back um so the clay target League was started in 200 what was it 13 or three I'm not sure there something um I previously started one with the new rer school I was the head coach there and that was one of the founding teams
003in Colorado that was in 2013 um several kids from Fort Morgan shot on that team that year as a Cooperative uh so it's fairly some of the families in this area so there is a you know a desire for that um one of the cool things about clay target shooting is it gives a lot of kids that don't have an opportunity to do other things that uh they're either physically notable to do or not interested in doing it gives them something to be active in uh there's some good statistics there of the participation of the kids that are in Shooting Sports uh it's I think it's like 37% are not involved in anything else so that's one of the things that I'm passionate about is reaching all kids uh my belief is if the kids
004are involved in something good then they don't have time to do something bad so I like to keep them busy so good opportunity for our community uh to give our kids some more engagement uh as far as what is needed from the school is actually very L uh literally the One requirement that we need is permission to use the logo and that you guys give us the blessing to start the club things that it is a high school shooting organization so we uh been working with the administration on you know some of the details there we've look through the insurance requirements the league has all its own insurance um as far as coing credentials uh I'm one of the key components of that liability buffer is I am very certified I've been a coach since
0052013 I think I got my official certification with the NRA and I've had several certifications in different leags that I've coached in since then so I've been coaching for a long time um and I'm going to get this program started and hopefully get some parents to step forward to keep it going stop there because I might I'll answer more questions you even have and I'll just fill them in the boxes so what I left for what I gave you as we talked about this this afternoon I left at your one of your tables here this is a draft of a of an mou um you can see like Mr said there's not a lot required from the school other than a few things that we put on there um a lot of things that we
006talked about through attorneys and through insurance and come to find out we really didn't need to because this has been established across the state already in various other school districts and um like you said the insurance our insurance is going to want to know but really he carries the insurance on his shooting club and then USA clay target pamphlet very detailed very um organized um and I'm this opportunity some our kids yeah I think it'd be a great opportunity couple of questions uh for weapons um are the kids responsible for buying their own shotguns for this or is there an Armory that's maintained it's so everything is uh owned by the by the participants we don't provide any Firearms there's a liability uh transition there so maintaining their firearm and all those things will be
007their respons responsibility we will verify that their firearms are safe um and handled properly but they own all of it and they're responsible for um even some of their ammunition contributions uh the base for most clubs is they provide their own ammunition one thing that's unique about ours is I have an established program um that is actually we own the range that we shoot at and I have funding and grants and whatnot that I can apply to this program through my organization so that will help with some of the people that can't afford ammo of the program is ammo is really the big expense you buy a shotgun once it lasts you forever ammo is our biggest hurdle um but we have a lot of very generous organizations that help us with that and and
008I have a pretty good surplus of an available for kids that I mean I think it's a great idea I think it's one this long I do just thr out some of the key points like I said I've been engaged in it for a long time um one thing that generally gets people kind of to take that step back when we're talking about play shooting leagues is that Firearms are involved um even the insurance when we put the request to them they called us a high-risk when I read all of their high-risk uh profiles of what it takes to be a high-risk activity Shooting Sports doesn't mean that the only thing that makes Shooting Sports high risk is the firearm um we have zero incidents uh when we look across the history of youth shooting
009sports uh because we have a firearm involved we are very very intentional about our safety programs and training um monitoring so uh that element that makes people uncomfortable I can tell you the most comfortable I've ever been around Firearms is around a bunch of kids that have been trained because they are so well disciplined with it uh and we don't give them room to make mistakes uh it's we have that buffer that we don't get a chance to make mistakes in this sport so we are very intentional about it um you know when we go to the National shoots that we compete in uh in like Sparta Illinois there's 4,000 kids walking around that complex with shotguns every one of them has the ammo in their pocket and the shotgun uh and it's it seems
010odd when we explain it to that because of the image that we have of you know kids and Firearms uh but when you teach them to be responsible about it it changes the whole approach to the problem um when you have a when you have any individual whether it's a child or an adult that responsibly knows how to handle a firearm uh not only do they become safer when they act with they fire be it by intentional or unintentional there's a value that adds to it so that one risk factor that generally stops the conversation uh when you look at our statistics we have the best statistics of any sport anytime so thank you so much thank you thank you thank you TOs and next on the agenda we have the opportunity for the audience
011and comments they're coming up I'm just going to read our little policy so the comments are limited to 3 minutes per person or group and um members of the public are welcome to speak before the board um as long as everything is not too lengthy and maybe cut off or terminated if there is anything that's direct personally abusive Oben repetitive or irrelevant look forward to hearing from you hi we are from student Senate my name is elizabethy and we are here today to talk to you about our California Wild Car fundraiser so we are doing a fundraiser at the Fort Morgan High School where we have a bunch of boxes set out with a bunch of teachers faces set on them where people can put money in them and the whole point of this is
012that we are trying to have students from our high school collect money to put towards the Red Cross and so far we have $574 right and our goal was like $700 I think so I think it would be really cool to get up to that and we brought it to you guys today to see if you guys would want to help Don name um in a way that we've decided to incentify these students to get the top three teachers most them get tied in the and I know a lot of kids would put money towards that right now in the lead we have Mr Mr wall is number one miss kangro is number two Mr stream and then we have Mr Anderson who's number four and then and Mr Brent Anderson is number five so
013let's keep it at go like he would get that and you know it's right over there you guys always change that you can change it when are you planning on ending it so it's ended at the high school so we're done fundraising at the high school and um I think after like today and stuff after we've done getting for um it would be those top three and the teachers will be probably like I said during the Spring assembly at High School so today the last day oh just offered to leave it here for one extra day for the we can also just leave it here we'll send an email out to the district support center staff and give them an opportunity to contribute as well yeah I'm leaving right after this meeting so I need
014to give you guys each five bucks and I want you to put it in your the one you want [Applause] [Music] remember I have to work with him so thank you so much on the agenda we have reports we'll start with our high school student representative good evening everybody so so far Sports have started and girl soccer is hoping to have our first game tomorrow but weather stays how it is hopefully get canel I wouldn't be too upset if it didk their first playoff game um Thursday atosa spring so just everybody wish them a good luck for making it to play reports absent tonight does any other board members have a report for us we have these superintendent report thank you and I'll be quick here um we as you see in my report here
015we received three bids on all the roofs I think we're doing all the roofs not the middle school I'm not 100% sure which one's pie bits and pieces but it's quite a few roofs that are being replaced as you've seen in our JS we need new Ro at this those bids range anywhere from three just over three million to under 3.2 million um and at this point they're so close that um really leaving it up to uh the committee got together and really out what who might um hopefully that work gets started here real soon and it should take most of the summer to get it done U and hopefully we have le roofs at uh uh beginning of school year um last week last Thursday I believe it was or Friday I can't remember
016Dr Frasco and I sat down with the commissioner of education and She interviewed us our efforts to school and attendance and we had an opportunity to talk to her about some of the things we've been doing here in Fort Morgan which has increased the amount of daily tenants that we see with our students now given this last couple weeks we've had some different illnesses go around so our numbers might get a little different right now but um in the last couple years we've really seen change and um we're pretty proud about that very um complimentary about the things that we were doing so other than that that's my Mr Sanders next we have the assistant superintendent of culum and assessment Dr Rea frco good evening everyone um tonight uh we did I decided to table
017the counseling curriculum as an action item um first and foremost uh we've been looking at aperture and character strong and after speaking with um Mr Sanders and just thinking through um I've not come in front of the board because honestly the cost is a lot higher than I want it to be I've tried to go back to those companies and so we have a counseling meeting set up for Wednesday and because most of those curriculums now are digital um just to have another conversation about it and then you will see tonight um industrial Arts curriculum is up for adoption um a majority of the adoption is actually not going to be funded with general fund dollars it's going to be funded with CP so we've already purchased um some things for Mr burrito um so
018he is actually going to get a brand new computer lab that is going to and that's actually out of CP money um the um industrial certificate money that we get we got like $90,000 this year it's a very good use of the money um he's going to get certified in solid works we've been talking about it for a couple years it's an industry certificate that uses very specific software for 2D and 3D things and so we needed to have updated computers so we've already purchased the solid works and the uh the computer lab sorry out of seed it money and then the only additional piece that he needed is he needed some new drill presses from Woodcraft so those are the things that you would see that it's a very minor actually small amount of
019money for a curriculum adoption so I have checked in with Mr rson kamanga he is the industrial arts teacher at the middle school and right now he's just he's good with the equipment that he has it's still in really good shape so there was another um so questions for me in regards to ccum adoption thank you the agenda we have the assistant superintendent of Human Resources Mr Jason frco good evening um kind a few things here on the agenda for you but uh start off with the personal action for report um trying to see some movement especially in our classi we're starting to see a few certified um for us as well which was kind of normal for this time to monitor that and and hopefully kind of stabilize that to the next couple here
020um active postings we have one administrative posting We have 34 certified postings a lot of those are our um critical shortage or from the substitute postings that we posted years um we have 15 classified and then six others as far as subs and those standard ones that we have excuse me um next up we have the CIT renewal um B's going to throw up a few for me here uh this first one is our renewal rate um really good news um we came in at a 5.5% renewal rate um which is about uh if I remember right about $47 a month per employee um increase compared to last year was a 7.9% I believe so some really good news there that our rates are dropping um can you go back to that one just for
021a second the big one there if you see about 34 way down the initial loss ratio was 82.6% um the next one down says claims over 100 to 750,000 um that's a benefit of our trust and any claims in there are deducted you see our claims Dro down to 66.3 that's what gets us into that category category one rate um so really good news um for us as we move forward with for next year um the next one is just more informational um these are all services that are part of our CIT um uh insurance plan um Lantern used to be called surgery plus T do things um but really if you start looking at the numbers um from to now you'll see an increase um in those and an increase in those means that
022those services are being used which is also decreasing our out of pocket for the district um which is really good things so um hopefully we can continue to progress in in the right direction there um job fairs um we attended one in uh Dakota rage High School the surf one on Saturday um I think we saw good number of candidates a few possibilities that we might be able to trct that are either moving here or have spouses that are coming to our community I'm so hoping to tie those in we'll still go to Wyoming here in another week and a half and then the end of the month so um offs are just tough anymore there's just not a great turnout on them but but you also don't want to miss out on possible candidate
023if you can get them so uh critical shortage hire um we started that process of hiring folks backs that that are on critical shortage that um are very solid teachers that have given us lots of time over the years I think we've processed 14 of the 18 um that have um showed interesting to Mo back to this point time um saer schools Grant just an update I briefly told you about this earlier um this is a grant that's going to be potentially in a 750 to 800,000 range um 800800 uh it'll be a fully funded Grant it's not a matching Grant um it'll be an opportunity for us to put uh radios in every school which would give us emergency access in the case of an emergency um many schools greed this direction have gotten
024it we have engaged with a grant writer to help us with that process so U but we feel really really good that that's a possibility that we're going to get that um the next one is um subtitute pay for cost fight employees I just kind of talk through this a little bit and just more informational I think than anything but uh our current rate for a substitute teacher for a one-year license substitute teacher is $163 I did um I'm we have a number of of classified classified Tas who um also hold hold a substitute license through CD um we have one and it really just came to light the the day uh sub for a teacher um her daily rate is $164 30 when she subed for a certified teacher for the day she got
025paid $163 um which is all right um and we need to address that um what I'd like to do and and it's been somewhat of an Unwritten practice in the past of adding a hour of time to a classified employee who subs for a certified teacher um what I would propose is uh that we if you have a classified employe a teacher assistant as for a for a certified employee that we pay them one hour of additional time for the day at their daily rate so if they're making $20 a day or $20 an hour it'd be an additional $20 to to do that that duty if they're certified emplo if they hold a a license through CDE we would pay them two hours of additional time the net profit is about 120 to $1
026to $120 sub cost us 163 we pay a certified a classified employee to to work for two hours um we're we're still 100 ahead there so um that would be my proposal how we handle it it makes it a little bit cleaner on finance and payroll side U to do that as opposed to go in and um do a dock day and then a repay day and it it gets a little bit messy um so if there's any concerns or questions I'd be glad to answer that last one um we uh added a little bit of change as I reviewed the S Bank policy and uh just add a little bit of a change to the um was number five number five just change that up just a little bit to give a little bit
027clearity details any questions for me thank you Mr CCO next we have the Chief Financial Officer report who out of town so we will move on to the discussion items for counseling and Industrial Arts is there any further discussion discussion Item B the second reading of District revision policy g c c b r administrative staff we is there any forther discussion okay discussion item C the first reading of District policy revisions policy ikf graduation requirements policy J IA student dress code and I kf- graduation retirements D retire is there any discussion so I did have some discussion points on ikf and Mr Anderson's here um there's a couple of things that one if you look at on there towards the bottom where it says the total required credit credits um should probably read 35 to
02839 so that you can actually reach the 48 credits because if it's just 35 and N that's only U 44 credits so um the other thing is is uh the business or computer credit I don't believe is required anymore so I think that needs to come out and then finally um if you go under science where it list out the students are required to have 10 credits um I guess my and and certainly Mr Anderson can look at this my recommendation is just to take that statement out because otherwise you have to list it separately for each um halfway that we have which changes which makes it really read um so I just got those three changes in there that need to be made and I've already let I will review this with Mr Anderson
029and take his Direction then I wanted to throw a little bit in there about the student dress code on the first reading there the jici um that was actually created by the um District committee a really great group of people we get together um we got together more than we have in the past but we spent a lot of time looking at dress codes and we came down to this one so really kind of like the visual with it um and again this is the first reading so if there's things that you you don't like or things we need to do differently between now reading we should probably get those in there um but we were pretty comfortable with where it landed so so is it DB that worked on this yeah it was the
030district accountability committee and again my thanks that group it's a big tack did a good job so under the minimum requirements we're listing the minimum requirements and then where it says Administration need School reserves the right to determine what constitutes appropriate address that is anything beyond the minimum requirements corre some of it comes down to you're trying to create a policy for all K through 12 kids and what's appropriate in elementary may not be appropriate in high school or vice versa and um you know there's one one already suggested uh one already suggestion came in we'll try to get on the next one and I know they've done a little something different with hats at the high school and there may be in here it says no hats and I'm not sure about putting that
031in there for the next meeting I can't remember what I said but we talked about it presented in part two of this in the second reading we have the consent agenda before you we have the Personnel action report and the we don't have a list of checks we have the personal action report what is the pleasure of the board move to approve second I have a motion and a second or a roll call please sorry Chris Brown hi Amy gron hi Katie Jess hi John proudy hiy Smith hi Sarah Whitney hi okay next we have action items item a the clay trap shooting club what is the plure of the board move to approve second we have a motion on a second is there any [Music] discussion start this spring I believe so that's real
032soon this month roll call please Chris Brown hi Amy Gram hi ktie Jess hi John proudy hiy Smith hi Sarah whitne okay we are going to skip action item adoption for counseling and next is item C curriculum adoption for industrial Arts what is the pleasure of the board move to approve second have a motion in a second is there any discussion Chris Brown hi Amy hi ktie Jess hi John proudy hi Smith hi Sarah Whitney hi next we have all and advanced planning spring break is March 10th through the 14th and the next Board of Education meeting is March 24th if there's no further bu to