001Okay. Um, thank you. As it is 5:31, um, I'll call this meeting to order. It's exciting to have a good crowd. Um, our first item is approval of agenda. >> Do we have a motion? I the board of education approve the agenda for April 22nd, 2006 as submitted. >> Second. >> In favor? >> I I All right. Our next is algiance. Join us. I pledge algiance 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. >> Thank you. And now for one of our highlights of the evening. We have students spotlight and our school tonight is Pinion Valley Elementary. So, I'd like to invite Principal Kim Sand. Right. Well, I have decided for my Jack presentation next
002year and bringing my students because it makes it so much more fun. But thank you, Board of Education and District Administration for allowing us. This is by far one of my favorite nights. Um, and I know we have some nerves going on in some little tummies tonight, but that's okay because they've been practicing. They've done a great job. So, I'll first introduce my kids. So, when I say your name, I just want you to stand up and then we'll start our presentation. So, our little kindergartener is very ill, so he is not with us, but we'll show his slide. So, then in first grade, we have Miss Odessa. Can you stand and wave? Yeah. And then in second grade we have Lily Welden. >> That's me. >> And in third grade we have Addie Bracewell.
003>> In fourth grade we have Erica Kinsman. And in fifth grade we have Levi Helms. >> And in sixth grade we have Charlie Cosby. >> Yay. Okay. And so our teachers um we've been doing a lot of teaching and a lot of learning, but we have a new math adoption this year. And so we decided to jump in and find a standard that was consistent from grades K through six. So we're working on geometry. That's the standard um we'll present tonight. And it's really how it develops from that kindergarten level all the way up to the sixth grade level. So we will get started first. Well, if you can Okay, here's our little Baron. Um, so he was going to use his robot tonight to show you how he could identify shapes. And you'll see
004a circle or a sphere and a cube there. And then he was going to show you how he gets the robot to go beside next to in front of and how that relates in kindergarten their world. So for example, if this teacher said, "Can you please stand behind so and so in line?" They would know what that means. or can you say next to so the relevance of words that was his little piece tonight so anyway but we'll go to the second side and Odessa are you ready come on face stand here and everybody Everybody can see you. Okay. >> Okay. Go for it. You're good. sides and zero angles. This triangle has three sides and three angles. And a square has four sides and four angles. I learned my shapes at school. I can
005learn them in a real world. A clock is a circle and table is a rectangle. I also learned that I can make shapes. >> Okay, Odessa, can you use the five shapes are right here making a house to make another shape? Can you make it into a tree? >> Mhm. I'll use this tree trunk and trapezoid for this rectangle is the tree trunk. And these two triangles are going to be the leaves of the tree. And then on top of these triangles, I'll put this triangle. >> Very good. Is there anything else you can make using those five shapes? I can make a segue using this trapezoid right here and this and this rectangle right here >> and use them to make a square and put them right there and this right here. >> Excellent.
006Any other shapes you can think of? Good job. Are you ready? My name is Lily. I'm seven years old. Go to second grade and Mrs. Christ and go to school at Pinion Valley Elementary. Today I will explain a math problem where the standard of understanding 2D shapes and their attributes which are sides, angles, and vertices. The evidence outlook is partitioning 2D shapes into equal shares and divide describing the shares using mass and ports and describing the whole as two halves three and four. This matters to the real world because I could use this skill and slicing my birthday cake into equal. I drawing a square slice of bread and then explaining what partition means and it means to divide. I will divide the square bread into four equal shares and label the parts. Each person
007gets four four 1/4 and all four parts equal fours. Is there another way to divide the bread into four equal shares? Yes. >> Horizontal, vertical, and diagonal. >> Where's my Okay, you ready? >> Hi, my name is Bristol and I'm in third grade at P. My teacher is letting I will show how I'm going to show how to classify shapes based on their attributes. I will show standard 3DA geometry reason with shapes and their attributes. I can explain that shapes in different categories measure attributes and that the shared attributes can define a larger category. I could recognize rhombuses, rect rectangles and squares as examples of quadrilaterals and draw examples of quadrilaterals that do not belong to any of these subcategories. We use this in real life when building and designing things. For example, rectangles are
008used in houses because they are strong and easy to fit together. Rhombuses are used in patterns and designs. Knowing the attributes of shapes helps us choose the right shape for a job. I looked at these shapes and notice that they all have four sides. That means they are all called quadrilaterals. Even though they are all quadrilaterals, they are not all the same. >> Do you want the here? I know that they have a picture too. So maybe we can use this. Oh, here we go. I know. Good work. >> This shape has four equal sides and it does not have any right angles because right angles you would could make a square with it. So it is a rhombus. Sorry. This shape has four right angles because you could see the square boss. So it
009is a rectangle and it has four equal sides. So even though these shapes look different, they share attributes like having four sides. That means they can all belong to a bigger group called quadrilaterals. We can also draw quadrilaterals that are not rectangles, squares or rhombuses as long as they still have four sides. If I were designing a playground, I might use rectangles for platforms and rhombus shapes for sorry decorations or climbing walls. Good job. And why is it important to be able to understand shapes and attributes in our real world? What can we do with that? >> We can use it for creating our imagination and turning stuff that we thought was not real into into things that into stuff that could actually be real just in the creator of the mind. Erica next. >>
010Hi, my name is Erica and I 9 years old at Union Valley Elementary. I am in fourth grade and my teacher is Miss. The standard is to understand concepts of angles and measure angles. The evidence outcome is to recognize angles as geometric shapes that are formed whenever two are common and understand concepts of angle measure. Today I will be finding the value of X in this. To find x, I will first add 64° plus 55°, which will get me a sum of 119°. Then I will subtract 119° from the whole angle, which is 180°, and this will equal 61°. So 61° is the value of x. >> Good job. >> She's ready for the problem. So, she's putting a solar panel on her home. It currently slopes at 25° and you need the total slope
011to be 55°. What do you need to do >> to solve this problem? I will subtract 25° from 55° which will get me a difference of 30°. So, I need to raise the solar panel by 30° to maximize the exposure. >> Beautiful. Happy birthday to you. >> Uh hello everyone. My name is Eva Helms. I'm 11 years old at Pinion Valley Elementary. I'm in fifth grade and my classroom teacher is Mrs. Nicks. Uh the fifth grade standard that I will be explaining is measurement and data geometric measurement and understanding concepts of volume. The evidence outcome is relating volume to the operations of multiplication and addition and solve real world and mathematical problems involving volume. Problem I got today was an ocean engineer is designing an underwater robot. The robot will have two pieces like the
012one show. What is the volume of the robot? In order to find the volume of the robot, we can break down the big rectangular prism into two smaller rectangular prisms. We can draw a line right here to what to just help my brain know that the dimensions are given for both rectangular prisms. So all we need to do now is multiply and add. 2 * 5 = 10. 10 * 4 = 40. And then 2 * 10 = 20 and 20 * 6 = 120. 40 + 120 = 160 cm cubed. The volume of the robot is 160 cm cubed. So what in what parts of real world could you use volume to solve an everyday problem? >> Uh one example is let's say you have two smaller fish tanks and you wanted to combine
013them and make one larger fish tank. You need to know the volume of both the fish tanks. That way it's not too big and you know the amount of water that you need to fill it with. Charlie. >> Hi, my name is Charlie Collie. I am a sixth grade student at Py Valley Elementary. I'm 12 years old and my math teacher is Mrs. Peterson. Today I'm going to be explaining the sixth grade standard for evidence outcome and how to solve this problem. The sixth grade standard is to be able to solve real world and mathematical problems involving area, surface area, and volume. The evidence outcome is to be able to decompose complex shapes into basic shapes. The problem I was given was Terrence wants to build a wooden tabletop shown. Each edge of the table
014is the same length. The cost of the wood is 42 cents per square inch and he has a budget of $1,200. Will he have enough money to complete the project? Explain your reasoning. Yes, he would have enough money to complete the project. The first thing I did was going over the problem and finding out the shape of the wood and table top, which would be a hexagon. I then decomposed the hexagon into six equal triangles. I found the formula for a triangle, which would be base time height* 1/2. I then needed to add the formula to the equation by doing 32 * 27 and 7100s multiplied by base or multiplied by 1/2 which be equivalent to 443 and 36 hundreds. I then needed to find the area of the whole shape by doing 443 and
0153600 multiplied by 6 which would be equivalent to 2,660 and 1600s. I then needed to contribute the price into the project which would be 2660 and600s multiplied by 42 which would be equivalent to $1,117. If he wanted to know how much money would be left in his budget, he would do 1,1727 subtracted by 1,200, which would be equivalent to $82.73. Very cool. Why is it important in real life to understand not only measurement but your budget as well? It is important to understand the budget and measurement when making a project because the budget is the set amount of money that you are allowed to spend when making the project and the measurement is what helps determine the price of the project and how much you need to purchase to complete the project. I forget to
016do this teachers in here. Thank you so much for being here and reading your amazing kids to us. Um, but you can see from kinder to six and in the packet you have just the amount of when they have to explain their reasoning how it's just grows. So great job students, teachers, and again parents, thank you for sending us your amazing kids every day. Before the next one, we have all the students who presented and the teachers who are here to support with math and Miss Sandival and our board come up here. Moms, dads, you can get a picture right after I take the first picture. >> Good job, guys. >> You might have to move back a little bit. You did great. Good job. All right, we got to get like faces and all
017the things. You guys ready? Looking up here. >> Yeah. Look at all these mathematicians. I'm just saying. Smarty pants. Yes. Yay. Keep smiling. >> All right. >> You got this. Just based on what you just did. You got this. >> I can take another college. The amount of times me and mine went over, I probably have math students, you wait just one second. I do have a little sent for after this. All right, >> that was really wonderful presentation and I appreciate you all um sharing with us math that many of us up here didn't remember learning it. Um our next item is the purple star designation from Pinion Valley Elementary and I'd like to start off with Dr. Aldridge to give us some opening comments. >> Sure. I passed out a flyer from our
018Colorado Department of Education website about Purple Star. And uh when I shared this with principles last year, uh Principal Sandal was the only one that really wanted to pursue it aggressively. So this year I met with a couple of her parents who are here tonight that she will introduce us to. And although Colorado Springs is known as a military town, it is a special time when we can uh acknowledge a school that's gone above and beyond to be very purposeful in their actions uh in terms of welcoming military families and ensuring that their students and them as parents feel connected to the school community and they belong as long as we are lucky enough to have them in our school community. So at the past at the bottom half of your flyer you'll see the
019four components of the application that principal saw had to speak to in some pretty explicit detail. um she does have a dedicated liaison at her school and then we also have two military liaison that we work with um from Fort Carson who serve the greater Colorado Springs community. Student council at Pinion Valley and the Boy Scout troop are part of her studentled leadership who purposefully reach out to students and make them feel welcome. their website has gone kind of an overhaul in terms of uh addressing some of the gaps in resources that military families are often looking for. Uh and then in in school, what does that look like? you'll see that they are um most of them here today are listed because it's the military um child or mom of the military child. And
020I just want to recognize Kim's um perseverance through some technical questions anytime you're working through the gain schedule that now I live in quite regularly. It's challenging and parents were extremely responsive and I appreciated Kim's leadership to really set the bar for what our groupers can aim towards in terms of having more schools be recognized as purple star schools. And it was it was an honor to drive to courier principal sandball to Denver to be recognized by the commissioner uh Susanna Cardova and our governor and reception. I think she was pretty excited to be >> congratulations. >> So thank you goes to several people. One Dr. Aldridge because I know that was one more thing on her plate. Um, and Scott, I have to call you out. Sorry. But he also had the great had
021a really good idea that it would be good for us to be a part of that. And so, um, his wife Kayn, okay. Um, they supported us in making this happen. And I will acknowledge everybody else here. And I have my notes so I don't forget people. So, we will start with our liaison which is Donna back there in the back. Um you will be seeing her at many persons um at Pinion Valley because we will now forever invite you. So welcome. And then we have um some of our students you will see in purple. Uh this week is our um um purple star spirit week. That's a mouthful. And so we start tomorrow and we will end with purple for our final day to include an assembly on the 30th. Okay. So here we
022go. We have the Stinley family. So, we have um hold on Laura and Eric and we have Henry. He's in our school right now. And we have our honorary wolves. We have Jack and Miss Emma. And then, let's see. Moving back here, we have the Reed family. So, Cody has been a big part of it. Um and we have Dalton. Come on. We have sweet Dalton. And then we have Jordan that's going to be in kindergarten next year. and their daughter is soccer softball in the rain. Um, okay. Then we have Amanda Coin and we have her two guys. We have Brady and William. Wave, guys. Um, and they have also helped us a whole lot in getting the sun. And I think I got everybody here tonight, right? Okay. So, we couldn't do this
023without parent support obviously and things like the assembly um our board hanging in the hallway that represents all of our kids that have um somebody in the military. If you get a chance um I'll be we'll post pictures, but thank you Cody and Amanda. It's insane. Incredible. I mean, the kids with their parent or guardian that serves um so it's a pretty neat or that is hanging. So other than that, we'll be doing a lot um to continue to support our kids. We're about 38% military in belly. So our percentage is big and I haven't checked the numbers yet. Um so I think that's pretty significant to get this done. So super proud. So thank you um for being here again, my purple kids. That's awesome. So don't forget you got to wear those on
024Thursday. of our families come up and the liaison is smart and get another picture with our >> military now. Get out of the way in front of me. Take a picture. Everybody can take like two steps back. If everybody can take about two steps back in together. Cara, we need your beautiful face. My gosh, you guys look so amazing. Both purple stars. Yay. Thank you guys. Good job. Very good. Great job. >> Great job. It's so good. quiet. >> All right, now that now that the excitement has died down, um our next item is visitors. At this time, we welcome members of the public who'd like to address the board. Liz, do we have anyone signed up? We >> do. The board welcomes the comments of our Shy Mountain School District 12 community members to
025include residents of our district, parents or legal guardians of students currently enrolled in the district, current and former students of the district, current district employees and individuals invited by the board or superintendent to address the board on the designated topic. To ensure that the board can accomplish our work already on the agenda, we will be limiting each speaker to three minutes. The board reserves the right to set a time limit on total time for public comment in order to attend to the business already on the agenda. Pursuant to the Colorado Open Meetings Law, issues relating to specific district employees, specific students, and contractual matters are not normally addressed by the board in public meetings. The board requests that individuals addressing the board in public comment also follow this law and its guide guidelines. We greatly
026value comments from the public. And to be clear, this public to com comment time is for the board to listen to the community. So Liz, who is our first speaker? >> Mar electronic devices. >> I apologize right up front. I don't have um papers for everybody, but we can send electronic copies later. You can share. Thank you. Thank you. Okay. >> Thank you for reading our letter and for allowing us to present our concerns this evening. We have watched our children grow in innumerable ways in district 12 schools and we are appreciative of the board of education roles in creating an environment where our children can thrive. Over the past week, we have spoken with many parents about the role of personal communication devices in our schools. The response has been overwhelmingly engaged and thoughtful.
027One theme emerged again and again. As adults, many of us struggle to build and maintain boundaries with our own devices. This leads us to ask, is it expect children to manage devices engineered for distraction in an environment that demands sustained focus? We come before you this evening requesting that district 12 consider adopting a bellto bell policy. This would require that personal communication devices are off and away between the first spell and the last bell of the school day. This includes passing periods, lunch, and all school-led activities. A consistent approach across classrooms and schools would establish a clear universal standard which supports staff by providing a definitive boundary. This would allow our teachers to focus on instruction and connection rather than competing with devices designed to capture and hold attention. While we acknowledge that social sci
028science research is rarely universally conclusive, we asked the board to consider the body of research we have shared, the personal experiences of families and educators, and the potential positive impact of a bell-to-bell policy on student attention, connection, learning, and well-being. We've we formally request the committee be established to review the available evidence and consider strengthening the current policy. This committee would support the implementation, enforcement, and community education of any change in policy. We recognize that there are diverse perspectives on this issue, such as the expectations for parents to be able to communicate with their students during emergencies. However, school safety experts assert that personal devices function as a distraction that makes emergency situations more dangerous for students. This example illustrates why a thoughtful research-based pro process is essential, one that ensures staff, students, and families
029understand both the reasoning behind the policy and its intended benefits. We understand that change of this kind may bring some friction, but we also believe a committee would help our community navigate this challenge successfully. District 12 has long been a leader in education. By taking this step, we ensure our schools remain a place of deep learning and true connection. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Our second speaker, Lindsay Olsen, electronic devices. >> Thank you, Meg, and thank you to the board and Dr. Peak. Uh we're mindful of your time this evening, but we just wanted to take a few moments to share the voices of the community through a few relevant personal testimonies we've received in the last few days. One parent shared, "A somewhat unique viewpoint that I had to offer is that of
030a substitute teacher in our district. I have witnessed the phone pockets that were mentioned, which sound like a great idea, but are not being used. Even when I substitute teach alongside the actual teacher in the classroom as a parah foram example, I have never seen a classroom where this phone pocket policy is enforced. The phones are in students laps under the desk. They're in pockets. They are sneakily slid out during times when students think nobody is watching. During passing periods, phones prohibit students from talking and interacting with one another. They keep students eyes glued downward instead of up. They keep students from mentally being present, always checking their phone, always clicking. I've seen this firsthand countless times. A parent of a sixth grader shared, "My sixth grade child always feels like he's missing something. He
031came home the other day and said, "Mom, my friend said that he had 125 text notifications at the end of the school day from a sixth grade group chat." A parent with a daughter in high school wrote, "As for high school, I wish my kids checked their phones in before school and out after school. My child has told me she's seen other students tell teachers, my phone got taken away from my parents when it's time to turn in phones before a test and then proceed to use their phones to cheat during the test." Another high school parent shared, "Students are also scrolling their Instagram feeds during lunch. When Shine Mountain High School gives kids unlimited access to their devices and less phone-f free time to chat with friends, are they preparing these teens to be
032socially and technologically healthy adults and mindful citizens in this world?" An elementary parent shared, "My fourth grader took a recent field trip to Denver and was allowed and encouraged to bring electronic devices on the bus to keep students quiet and avoid from distracting the bus driver. It concerns me that we are teaching our children that device-based entertainment is necessary for them to remain calm and respectful rather than helping them learn to engage appropriately with peers during an hour-long bus ride. And finally, one parent and educator wrote, "I'm a parent and current teacher in another district in Colorado Springs." Because of how I have set up my son's phone, I can tell he is playing Clash of Clans, looking for jobs via Indeed, and doing non-school related things during actual class instruction. He refuses to use
033the restroom during the school day because he is scared of being recorded or photographed and posted to social media. time. Most students remain tethered to their devices, missing vital opportunities to build the community culture youth strive for at Chine Mountain High School. In contrast, at my high school, since students can't have their phones, their lunch times are spent talking, engaging in book club discussions, or tossing a football or frisbee outside when weather permits. We've shared just a few of the stories we received, and we'll share the rest electronically after the meeting. Thank you. Liz, do we have any more speakers? No. >> All right. Thank you very much. Um, our next item on the agenda is approval of consent agenda. Is there a motion? The board of education approved the consent agenda for April 27th,
0342026 as submitted. Do we have a second? Second. All in favor? >> I I >> I. >> Thank you. I Sorry. The motion's unanimous. I forgot. Um, all right. Our next item, uh, is new business. And our first item in new business is 2026 back parent survey results. So, I'd first like to call on Steve Parker, our >> Did I skip anything? >> Can you read your comments? >> Oh, I just slided right over that comments. Sorry, Steve. Hang on. Um, so do we have any board comments? All right, superintendent. >> I really just want to share. >> I'll try to I'll try to roll quick. Um, this Friday is National Principal's Day and Teacher Appreciation Week is next week. So, if you see a principal or see a teacher, please say thank you. Uh,
035district attributes um of a graduate steering committee. As you know, one of our two significant uh initiatives uh through the work this year are coming very close to uh anticipated final recommendations and likely we'll bring those forward to the board for your review and approval at May 18th board meeting. So, we're excited about the work of attributes of a graduate. We did send out a survey to several and the feedback has been overwhelmingly very favorable. So, excited about that. I also want to just provide an update regarding our facilities master plan. Uh so Natalie and I have been uh very busy working with CRP architects and DPR construction formerly GE Johnson along with our supporter Dusty Black as you gotten to know Dusty from our owners rep from Weimber defining scope of projects developing some
036in-depth comprehensive plans to include preliminary design cost analysis master timeline currently Miss Morren and I are finishing our presentations of our D12 master facilities plan to all of our school staff members and parent groups, our DAC and our D12 foundation have also received this presentation. We'll be also forming an initial design advisory group um in the vernacular of architects and builders. They call these DAG groups. Uh so for the month of May, we will have an initial DAG group from Skyway to just get the ball rolling. Moreover, we'll have a special article summarizing our D12 master facilities plan presentation in our spring CM news issue that should drop uh and mailboxes the last week of May, right after graduation. So, that will also help to get out to almost 10,000 uh residents will receive that
037fifth sixth grade field day. If you look outside right now and you can see a little bit of our weather. So, we're grateful for the rain, but also moves us back a little bit. So, field day that was scheduled for this Friday will be moved to next Monday. A big kudos to um our incredible art teachers, district art show last week. Huge turnout and just received lots of positive feedback and as you know over over the last few years, there's been a shift to having more hands-on experiences. So truly students and families and staff from across the district get to experience art in just a fantastic way. Like one of my personal favorites is watching the easels in a circle and they have a task of painting and they only have like 20 minutes in
038which to paint. Uh just incredible talent. Last Friday was the last day reserved for our professional learning community work. And so, uh, I know we had lots of, uh, activity going on across the district. And that principles and teachers really appreciate, um, that time together in collaboration gives families an opportunity to take that extra day for a little longer weekend. This Wednesday and Thursday, our high school will be hosting our 2026 Chasset uh show choir festival and jazz and ac capella festival. And I believe that this Wednesday and Thursday and I believe that Miss Wisdom forwarded to you a schedule. So if you have a chance to swing by the high school, if not, let let me know or let Dr. Aldridge know. We can get that to you. A special congratulations. is um actually
039on a consent agenda for Chimon High School Knowledge Bowl team which they are going to their first uh high school national championship tournament which will be held uh Memorial Day weekend in Atlanta, Georgia. Important note, seniors will come back on this Saturday evening so that they do not miss graduation on May 24th. Uh robotics. Our robotics team placed third place uh uh just in our recent regional uh tournament which was outstanding. Lots of spring athletics going on. Baseball, boys and girls lacrosse, soccer, tennis, swim, golf. We've got ranked teams uh in the state and uh we're making a good um run for tournament play in multiple sports. So, if you haven't had a chance to catch some action, please encourage you to do so. And then finally, uh I think some communication with Liz and
040I relative to your gowns for graduation. So, for the newbies on the board, um be sure you get with Liz. We want to make sure the high school has sizes for gowns and hoods. Remember, graduation will be once again uh the weekend of Memorial Day on Sunday, May 24th uh at the World Arena. Please arrive no later than 100 p.m. The ceremony starts at 1:30. And that's it. Thank you. >> Thank you. Sorry, I almost skipped over that news. Um so, back to new business. Our first item of new business is the 2026 DAC parent survey. And I would like to call on Steve Parker, the DAC chair. >> Good evening board members, administrators. Steve Parker, I know you are familiar with me. Um, thank you for uh having us on the agenda tonight. Um,
041Erin Elmas has been our chair. Thank you, Michael. Yes. Um, some other individuals to recognize that have helped us through this uh, survey season. Jesse and pardon me, I'm just giving first names for now. Jesse, Becky, Kim, Jen, Lori, Carrie, and on the that volunteer side, and the board and administration side, Jessica, Betsy, Greg, David, Stacy, and Mike. What a team. And it was a great uh year this year. So Erin is going to present the 26 survey to you and Greg has volunteered to uh help with the slide advancements. But at the end I invite you to acknowledge our subcommittee members and also to accept the 2026 survey. So thank you for your time tonight. >> I apologize in advance for a little bit of formatting. It's definitely not Aaron's. >> Well, I can
042show you my version if it's really that bad. It's fine. >> Um, I'm Aaron Elnis. I have the privilege of actually knowing many of you and this is a much smaller group than the DAC group. So, it feels better. But, um, just for a little background, I am a D12 grad, went to Broadmore, the junior high in the high school, 1996 grad, and I have raised three kids in this district. and my baby will be walking across the stage shaking one of your hands um on that Sunday which is hard to believe but um I've been on DAC for 15 years maybe um and it's a great privilege. I always tell people sack is the place to start um because we get so much great information. So, I'm excited to um share with you guys
043the information that I really feel like is like the guts of what DAC does and then helps each of our buildings and the administration really move forward and um keep doing what we do well and improve upon the things that we see in. So, um this is the survey results. Um a quick overview. Um, I'm going to just remind you how we do the survey. Um, then we'll go through understanding the results. We'll talk about participation. Um, then look at the actual responses and then some key takeaways and some time for questions if you have any. So, this year's survey process was about the same as 2025. We continue to use survey monkey um as our tool and um parents were welcome to take a survey for every single student even if they are at
044the same school. It wasn't highly encouraged and in the past we have said one per student. So that could play into some of our low participation numbers. Um but I'm not fully sure on that. Um the survey was organized into six sections with comment boxes and the multiple choice questions. And we did continue with D4 point micro scale that we had last year. Um the surveyed areas are going to look really familiar to you. Um you're a couple ahead of me, I think. There we go. Um this is what we're focusing on, right? academics, teaching and learning, social, emotional, technology and college career readiness, communications and operations, districtwide focus questions that everyone answers, and then each school had the opportunity to ask additional questions. You're just running ahead of me. Um, okay. So, understanding the
045results, like I said, it's a four-point liyker scale. Um, and the satisfaction rate being the highest at four. So the the answers were strongly agree, agree, disagree or strongly disagree. Um if there was a neutral answer then that answer is not included in our results. So it sticks to that four point and I would say and Greg and I will talk about this in the future. We already have a upcoming meeting um that there are several questions that we can improve because everyone can answer a curriculum question. Everyone can answer um academic needs. NA should not be an an option there so that our our data will be that much stronger in the future. Um moving on to the comments. Um what we did was we have the whole committee that Steve just mentioned and
046we take all of the survey data um comments and I got them redacted. the principles all get them with the the actual names and stuff, but the survey committee takes those redacted comments and we group them on spreadsheets, big spreadsheets, and they're about 50 plus um topic areas um that we categorize them into. And actually, it's a positive and a negative. So, it's actually more like a hundred categories. Um, examples would be social, emotional, lunch, curriculum, specific subjects, teachers, school, all I mean you name it, it's there. And so if a comment had more than one topic, so for an example, if someone mentions that students are on their phones during lunch and I'm concerned about their social emotional well-being because of that, that was tagged in lunch, social emotional, and technology. So that's that's
047the process of telling the comments. Um and then what the committee did was we to kind of find trends, we took the top three comment thread uh categories from each school and within the district and and defined that as um threads to um have a better idea of what we're looking at. I I will say that those one-off comments are really important too and the principles will be able to use that as they go down the road because some people had great advice but it wasn't necessarily bubbling to the top of others. Okay, so participation this shows the last four years and um obviously we're not really happy with the participation this year. If you can't see it, 1335 people responded. 2023 was really high, 2400 people. Um, I would beg to say that this
048is most likely because we were coming out of COVID, lots of changes, transition, that kind of thing. People have a lot to say. Google getting positive Google reviews is big business. And so most of the time when people talk, when they get feedback, it's normally negative when you're pretty fired up. Um, I think in 2023, people had a lot to say. We could look at 2026 and say maybe there's less to say. Things are going well. I don't want to sit there and assume that. We really need to dig into this. Ask ourselves as a committee, what's going on. Did we not communicate early and often enough? Did we not give reminders? Did we did our messaging come out at a conflicting time with other times that we're asking for more feedback? Who knows? It's
049something that we'll continue to work on and hopefully do better next year. The next slide shows that across the board, I just used the high school as an example. um within grade levels there was no outlier. It wasn't like all the sixth grade parents responded across the board. Every school it was very equivalent in terms of responses. Okay. So getting into the actual results if my computer um okay so academics teaching and learning uh this first slide um is in regard to academic needs being adequately met and again this is every respondent for the entire district. Um you can see that over 90% of our respondents agree or strongly agree that their students academic needs are being adequately met. That's fantastic. I mean that that's a huge win. Um I would say across the board
050for those four um years that we're looking at it stayed pretty much the same. So we're doing what we are supposed to be doing focusing on academics. Um districtwide the curriculum is developmentally appropriate for my student. Again 93% of respondents agree or strongly agree that it is developmentally appropriate. It's stayed fairly consistent over the last four years. Homework. Um, the amount of homework my student receives is appropriate. Homework continues to be a hot topic. Um, but just shy shy of 80% of respondents agree or strongly agree that homework amounts are appropriate. However, out of all of the questions asked on the survey, this is the lowest response we got. Um, if you think about it on that four-point liyker scale, we're really close to a disagree. Really, really close. Um, I say that and it's
051a really hard one to tackle because this is districtwide and if you if you just look at the high school, you've got AP students and you've got kids who are needing extra assistance. And so to ask everybody that range, is it too much? Is it too little? You're going to get all of the responses. But the real thing, it was interesting because um the kids kind of talked about one of the things I was going to highlight that a lot of parents in the comments talked about is homework actually helping my kids. Is it just busy work? How is it pertaining to real life? So I'll talk about this later, but how we communicate what we're doing, I think will actually help some of these issues that came up. Um all right, next slide. This
052is specifically academics at Shine Mountain High School. So on the left you can see all of the subjects and then it's the average liker scale and then the satisfaction level. Um so you can see for the most part we're 80 85% satisfaction level except for science. Science was a real dip um this year. It's not new. I'll show you in a minute um that it has been lower but um 75% satisfaction level um for science at the high school and the comments were really strong in this area. Um so something to definitely take a look at. Uh this next slide just shows the rate of change um from 2025 to 2026 in terms of um uh satisfaction. Not major. We're looking at my my scale is 0 to four. one way or the other. So,
053we're talking about in world languages, it went down 3%. In science, it went down um just less than two, but something to take note of. Everything else actually increased. The next slide is Shy Mountain Junior High. Same thing. We're looking at the subjects. Um and once again, science is below that 80% mark. Um as well as almost all of the world languages. Uh we're going to talk about this a little bit in the comments and I think you guys have already heard some of this in some of your other meetings but it's worth noting and also the junior high is a feeder to the high school and so we can see a trend that what happens in the junior high moves into the high school. Um this next slide shows the rate of change. Um
054I do need to note that I didn't have two 2025 data and so this is actually comparing 2024 to 2026. Um, and you can see that there was a decrease in satisfaction on most of those. Okay, for the elementary schools, I actually chose to combine all of them because I figured they're like entities. Um, and you can see that academic wise, people are really satisfied with um the curriculum, the materials, and the instruction kind of across the board. Um, so that's that's good news at our elementary schools. And the response change was for the most part all positive. Moving on to the social, emotional, mental health, and wellness section. Um, districtwide, the question is, "My student has access to mental health support when needed." Um, couple things to point out on this. 81% of respondents
055agree or strongly agree, but almost 12% of people marked NA. Again, this is one that Greg and I will talk about. Um, but I would say we need to reword this question because if my student, we could say something like if my student needs access to mental health, I believe the resources are available. If if you're not in a position where you believe your student needs access, you're probably unaware. So, NA makes sense, but that's not getting us a lot of information. Um, all right. Um, my student feels emotionally safe. um say about the same as last year and 92% of respondents agree or strongly agree that their students feel emotionally safe. That's fantastic. We've been focusing on this and that's a strong number. Um this is tremendous. Uh physically safe. My student feels physically
056safe. Over 95% of our respondents agree or strongly agree that their students feel physically safe. I believe this is a huge win for the way that Carlos's team has adjusted things that we've improved upon number of staff um resources what we're physically doing. However, I also believe a huge part of this is the way we have been transparent in communication about what we're doing for the physical safety side and I would say we can learn from the results of the physical safety results for some of the other things that have come up this year. um just in terms of communication, but a huge win for Carlos and his team. Um my student has a strong connection with at least one trusted adult. Again, this is tremendous. 92% of parents agree or strongly agree with this.
057And I would say we know through DAC at least that this is something that uh buildings continue to work on and we're seeing strong results. Um it's improving and what we're doing is working. So like at the junior high there they do that tally system where they send out the list of all the students and just check who you connect with. That's that's working. Um and it seems as though other buildings are doing similar things. Moving on to technology and career career sorry college career readiness. Um technology integration within classrooms is positive positively impacting my students learning experiences. I was a little bit surprised knowing that top that um technology is a hot topic that over 80% agree or strongly agree with this. Um it is dropping but not overly significantly but comments are super
058strong in this area. Um and I think it's fascinating that our visitors were talking about um technology. Um this specifically was more asking about within the classroom and educationally. Some of the comments that we'll get to later talk about the personal devices. Section four, um, communication. Uh, please rate your preferred way to receive communication from the school. This didn't change from last year. The top three are the exact same. Email being number one, then text, then the infinite uh, campus portal. The other three are quite low as you can see and I apologize for the order of my um list but um I just went to an Elmar fellowship reunion last week and our um keynote speaker spoke about the different having multiple generations in the same um in the same venue basically. And one
059of the topics she talked about was communication and how we use different modes. we communicate just the way we receive things are so different what how if I don't respond what that means if if a teenager doesn't respond what that means to that all the different things so with that said it's not just mode of communication it's also how it's received um this is not going to change I mean actually it's changing constantly faster than we can keep up with and so communication is probably going to be a topic that you all are talking about every single year not because you're not fixing it, but because it's changing faster than the survey comes out. Um, and it will and I'm guessing I don't know, but I'm guessing you have three generations of guardians, which makes
060it very difficult to have one or two ways of communicating. Um, so just something to constantly be looking at. Uh, the school building and grounds are adequately maintained. Okay, this one blew my mind. 93% of respondents agree or strongly agree with this knowing that we have said some very old buildings. To me, this means that our your parents really actually value your job as good stewards. Um, and I believe this is really going to help with what you trying to do next year. Um the the real negative ones were obviously more like Broadmore and Skyway and it seemed as though through the comments that it was specific issues. Um but I think people I I I do think it shows your stewardship which is amazing and helps for next year. Um the current level of
061campus security provided is appropriate. 95% of respondents this goes back to the safety. I mean it's the exact same percentage. This has increased Huge thanks to Carlos and his team. Thanks to you guys for making decisions. And again, I think the way it has been rolled out has been communicated really, really clearly and early and often and recycled and repeated many, many times, which is helpful. Okay, moving on to the district-wide questions. Um, everyone was asked, "What should mountain school district focus on in the next school year?" And there were five options. self-regulation, emotional regulation, perseverance and grit, problem solving, task initiation or organization and executive functioning skills. Um the the top three were the same as last year. The orders just shifted slightly. As you can see, problem solving state as number one and
062then perseverance and grit versus organization and executive functioning skills um flip-flopped just a little bit. But I do think problem solving stands out a little bit and that connects again to curriculum. Homework is what they're doing. I loved that the kids reported tonight saying, "How does this pertain to life skills? How does it what what does this mean in my life?" Because I do think sometimes >> even a senior in high school is like why does this matter? You know, or for a second grader to be like, why does this matter? So I think parents are saying why does this matter? And I think it would be helpful again if we communicate that. So um just another thread uh next slide is looking at the list below select three issues where district administration should focus
063efforts to improve. So there are 11 options on this question. It's another one we're going to maybe mess with a little bit. Um but with 11 options 20% of respondents said academics um is the number one. Um, if you look to the left of this slide, those three things look pretty familiar because it's what we've been focusing on. Um, which is fantastic, right? And people want you to continue to focus on that and we're seeing results. Um, again, I would probably not have no improvement needed as one of the options because people click that wanting to get through the question and you can't get through because then you have to pick two others. Um, that's a problem that we'll fix for next year. There was an other option. So we got some additional comments. Those
064top the top three comments in other were whole person teaching once again um tech concerns and then lunch meaning quality length of time and technology. Okay. So the school specific questions as I said um there are school specific questions that the principles and the sack chairs or the whole sack will be looking at and diving deep into and um responding to those. But we're going to be looking at the comments um that people um talked about specifically actionable comments um at the bottom of each of those six um areas that we just went through. So, Shy Mountain High School, I I before I go through this, I want to point out that in all our time, to my knowledge, of having these questions. Um, every single building has always had appreciation for our teachers and
065schools as the number one comment area. This year, that was different. Um, and it's only at Shine Mountain High School. Um, and I mentioned that science was big. Um, but I science is a big issue. So, I don't want to gloss over that, but at the same time, I want to point out that um the science comments were 7.6% of the comments. 7.1% of the comments were kudos for the school and the staff. So, there's there's still a lot of appreciation for what's going on up there. Um but science is a big concern. After um kudos to the school and the teachers, uh it was homework being too much um overall being too much. Of course, we got a little bit of everything. Uh, Shy Mountain Junior High. Okay, I'm gonna sound like a broken
066record from here on out because it was kudos and appreciation. Um, wonderful comments about our teacher in schools. Um, but that was number one at Shine Mountain Junior High. And I would say the number of positive comments for the teachers in school more than doubled the next category at the junior high. So, that's fantastic. um parents had really strong feelings I think about a topic you all have already heard about but some um admin decisions related to world languages and performing arts um that that percolated a lot. Um and then the third um category that rose to the top was technology. Too reliant um on tech. My computer There we go. Gold camp. Okay. Gold camp again. Um kudos to the teachers and the staff in general. Um gold camp stood out a little differently.
067um technology was a hot hot hot topic primarily probably because of a couple of specific incidents and we have to realize sometimes one or two incidents is what people are going to talk about but we we still have to acknowledge that. So, um, our guest mentioned the, um, an incident where kids were encouraged to bring personal devices on a bus for a field trip to keep them busy and quiet and cooperative. That came up a lot. Um, lunchtime TV being used to keep kids quiet on Fridays um, as like a reward um, came up. So this I would say technology at Gold Camp was talking more about kind of not not use during teaching but actually downtime um inappropriately. Um, and then school to home communication, um, was primarily regarding wanting more. Um, which is
068hard, I know. Um, and then delayed communication from teachers regarding grades and feedback and how if it's too late, it's it's too it's too late. Um, and not helpful. Skyway Skyway Elementary, people love Skyway. Kudos for the school and teachers was a major outlier. Um and um then uh technology people are concerned about too much use and the harm that it causes. I I do think that Jonathan height might have come out with something right before the survey. So we can you know wonder if circumstantially we have really well read parents um and that's one set of research but um again technology is not going away and I think that parents want some actions taken we'll talk about that in a minute um and then those were the two outliers like substantially and I group
069together curriculum and communication because nothing else really percolated to the top um and primarily that new math curriculum stuck out as being challenging for parents really, you know, like they didn't know what was going on and they didn't know how to support their kids. Um, and then more communication and less delayed communication from teachers um to home was what that communication was. So, Broadmore again um teacher and school um kudos. I will tell you that there were approximately 600 comments for Broadmore Elementary and over 70 of them were kudos to Linda and her staff. If we had any question that Linda was going to be missed, there's no question. Um, so um, and then the next categories had more than 50 less comments than all of the kudos. So we're talking substantially above everything else
070was the appreciation for the school. Um again concerns about too much technology that was more what's interesting is if you all remember Linda did a deep dive into how technology is being utilized for um teaching and um parents are still concerned. >> They may not know because I think it was only presented in deck so I'm not sure the board is aware of that. >> Oh correct. Correct. So it may be useful just to >> um Broadmore recognized that technology was a hot topic in their survey and so you know Linda she loves data and she loves to go deep deep deep and so she did and she did um she actually videotaped all of her teachers um and they timed how like they actually I think they worked with you and and and teachers
071were supposed to recorded how much how many minutes per day per subject the kids were actually on technology and it was way less than what the teachers or Linda thought. Then Greg actually compared what they recorded with the actual data looking at random computers and they had recorded higher than what they had actually done. Is that correct? >> Yeah. Just like the amount of time that was active. >> Yeah. And it took off like board time like what you would chalk board or what would have been you know the video projector. Yeah. No longer laminates. They kind of put that as chalk time. So took that not as screen time when she's writing on the on the board. But >> but she and then she reported that to Dak. I would assume she reported that
072to her parents. >> Do we know? >> She did. Um, so it's interesting >> that she did all that work and it was less than anticipated and parents are it's still an issue. Like I think I think part of this is parents want to know the wise. So my kids's on a computer all day all day at school and my kid comes home and is on a computer all day doing homework where they're swiping. I'm doing homework. I mean it's really we all know we're parents. It's hard to manage. So those were the things that were coming up. Um, and it continues to be a hot topic and I don't think it's going away. Um, and then for Broadmore, it was pretty clear that the building situation, um, and I think you all probably know
073there was a boiler issue and what seemed to rise to the top more than anything was parents didn't know if that got resolved in a safe manner. So again, a lot of this is all intermingled with communication. Um, Shine Mountain Elementary, kudos to the school. um was number one. I don't want to gloss over that, but it is the same thing. So, I apologize. They're doing great. And then, um curriculum, you got across the board on this. This was curriculum's too hard. Curriculum's too easy. It's not aligned with standards. It's not aligned with real life needs. That's why I loved hearing these kids talk about how we use this clock as a circle. Um again, that could be a communication issue with parents. Um and then um the next thing was really supports for learning
074which included differentiation uh for students on all ends or all parts of the spectrum. Pinion Valley um overwhelmingly the highest number of comments were gratitude for staff. Um and then parents question the overall amount of homework being too much and its purpose um mentioning research and data that shows less is more in this category. um in technology. Overwhelmingly people are concerned about the negative impacts of too much screen time at school and then they come. Um Canyon Preschool, onethird of all of the comments were praising the teachers at school. Um and parents want more more communication, specifically more progress reports, and there really wasn't anything else that the parents are happy. Okay, moving on to the school specific questions. Um this is where the principles and the um sachs will really dive deep and look
075into that and give us as back um probably you guys later um insight into how they utilize that data um through their reports. It is we are so fortunate to be in this district. You all know that because our our staff, our administration are really utilizing the research that we get and and making changes based upon what parents are saying. What I think is so important is that you all in this room know that. I'm part of that. So, I know that. I'm not sure the general population of parents always receive that um message that their voice is being heard. And so, maybe figuring out how to better communicate. I know it feels like maybe it's adnauseium but doing it better. Um so key takeaways. Um these are the areas where the committee feels the
076district and the schools may need to consider getting attention. Each of these are not new. These have been on the list several years in a row which may mean we need to pay even more attention. Um many of these things um are ne are not going to go away. as we already talked about ways of communicating, technology, everything keeps moving forward and we just are kind of playing catch-up. How do we get ahead of things? Culture and technology continue to evolve more rapidly than our annual survey zoom. Um, and we thankfully have a group of staff that are willing to continue to pivot and adjust where needed, but to but to stay strong in the fundamentals. So once again, our greatest strength is our staff and our schools and our teachers. Um, safety and security.
077I remember the days where that was a negative. It's a positive right now. A massive positive. So that's amazing to have it up there, but in a different realm. Um, let's keep it there. Technology we've talked about. Um, again, I really think that the way we communicate um is important. A lot of people would like to be a part of um decision m like maybe we need a new policy. I know we have policies but readress as things have changed and how do we not just not just the um admin but engaging parents in making some of these decisions. School to home communication more how do we do it better? And then homework and curriculum. Um, some of that is maybe adjusting, you know, um, like the science, we really got to dig into that.
078Um, it's, as a parent, I can tell you it's a it's a struggle. Um, how do we how do we, um, empower our par, our teachers? Um, and how do we make sure that our homework is not a waste of our kids' times and possibly checking them out completely. Um, and just to end on a really high note, this is the grade that um, 93.6% of the respondents give the quality of education either an A or a B, which is fantastic. Not many districts can say that. Um, and I think Oh, so then now the principles get to take the action steps of taking their top three trends and celebrating looking at the um celebrations, looking at areas to improve and um digging deeper as we said Linda did and that the other people do.
079And then as a DAC, as I've said, we get to learn that just because that's part of the reports every single year. I would really encourage our staff to somehow work on getting not just this report out, but the results of this report um to a greater community um because parents want to know that they're being heard um and that changes are being made because of their feedback. Think that's it. Oh, and I want to thank Jessica. Jessica um and the subcommittee and honestly my 21-year-old college student helped me quite a bit on top of the good to have a kid that can be like there you go. So any questions you have any questions from >> Thank you for your >> great job. Yeah, I just want to say thank you so much Erin
080for all of your hard work and thank you to your committee for all of their hard work and um Steve, thank you. Um the board um happily accepts this survey and really appreciates your insights. >> Great. >> And you want to also make a quick comment to send the thank yous as well and especially to Greg for helping because every year we do surveys a lot falls squarely on his shoulders. I wanted to also just uh remind the board if you were not aware and and for Aaron and others this survey results then will be out on our website and so that's public for the entire year um at so previous surveys so this will now be out at district in each of the school sites so we will be updating that as well >>
081so it's it's available um through the course of the year >> I think one of the things that came to mind um Erin as you were talking about the decrease in the numbers of respondents whether that was something about the formula and the way that parents were given the opportunity to respond from one or many students. The other thing is I think that maybe we need to think about like >> are we culturally exasperated by I am personally every time you go to some place that you and they're like can we want your feedback we want your feedback like I don't want to give you feedback everything was fine or it wasn't or I don't want to talk to you I don't want this to be you know sold to every other >> retail outlet
082or hotel chain or airline or whatever it is that you're interacting with and I I don't know that that is measurable or how we would find that out. But maybe there is just anecdotally perhaps some sort of like I'm exasperated by surveys. >> Yeah. You know, >> oh yeah, >> but if we if we are doing a good job of saying this is what we're doing with the data >> and you said this, so this is happening. >> This matters, >> I think more people will, you know. >> Yeah. >> Want to be a part of it. >> Our commitments from a few years ago around teaching, learning, student staff well-being, safety and security were derived directly >> Yeah. from previous deck surveys. >> And thank you also for your long-term dedication to this district.
083For sure >> and your great kids. >> For what? >> Pinch hitting jumping in here. >> Thank you. >> And it always lands around spring break. >> But we were planning ahead a little better. >> Thank you guys as well. Yes. >> Thank you. >> All right. Our next item of new business is this 2026 37 consolidated grant assurances. So, Dr. Albert on starting on page 35. This is an annual form that we have to submit as part of our consolidated applications with our grants. Uh there's nothing really new in here, but for those of you who are new to the board on page 36, the first bullets at the top, the LA will administer program in accordance with all statute regulations. When the grant typically gets printed, we do that as few times as
084possible. I think it's a it's pushing a good three4 of an inch. So, if you'd ever want to take a look at it, I'm happy to supply that for you, I'll loan you mine so I don't have to print it again. Um, but this includes title one, which Skyway gets the majority of the funds. And I will have final numbers in September when I do my formal presentation. We're just really excited that we got the money now and not in July because that was a real challenge last fiscal year. Our title one is has been has decreased about 4,000. Um, title 1 A, title 1D, which encompasses part of how we support Zeb, decreased by 7 or 7,600. Title two which is about um professional development decreased uh around 650 650. Um EL title three
085went up which is our to improve the education of English learners. Um that went up $1,100 and our uh immigrant supplemental which was zero last year went up $317. Um and then title four stayed about the same. Um so once we have carryover from this school year, which should be very minimal, I think uh I'll report out those 20 members in the fall. The second bullet on page 36 is what uh Natalie is primarily responsible for. And then the second to the last bullet on page 36, I will share uh a brief summary on the consolidated application at DAC next month. And then um oftentimes because it's late in the school year, I uh talk to principal Don Browski about just pulling a small group of people who represent their sack. Their sack is pretty
086small, so that's typically easy to do. and just share with them this is what she's thinking. Do you have any feedback? Same with prof title two and professional development. I'll be asking talking to leadership tomorrow. So that's I'll be looking for feedback on how we're spending the money. And then on page 37, um, we're lucky because all of our not just it talks about, um, safety with schools, but another part of title one is all of our schools are performance schools. If we were in a turnaround or priority improvement situation, we would actually turn around. We would have to offer students at Skyway to be transported to another school. Um it's a very painful conversation as a building principal that we're far away from that but that the insurance asurances say that we would do
087that for them and I don't foresee that to be a problem. Uh the second bullet on page 37 which is one of the biggest pieces that we ensure through the narrative that accompanies the fiscal part of the grants is this supplement not supplants concept which is sometimes really hard for folks to understand. Um and that's what Skyway is living right now um with the loss of their second technical interventionist. So, it has to be Natalie and her team complete the comparability report and we are comparable to all elementary schools in the district and we just have to be careful with that bullet that we're not supplanting what we would normally allow everyone to have access to. So, thanks for considering a signature. >> Any questions? We'll just make sure we follow the laws and rules,
088>> please. >> You're welcome. >> Yes. >> All right. Thank you very much. Our next item is action regarding course proposal submitted by Shine Mountain High School, Dr. >> We just had one elective this spring um from Jans Cena and she wanted to continue or add the next semester of creative writing and this was all student requests. Um, it's pretty straightforward. I included the course proposal packet for you. >> Any questions? That's exciting. Okay. Do we have a motion? >> Move that the board of education approve the new course proposal from Sh High School. >> I'll second. All in favor? I I >> I. All right. >> Thank you. Our uh next item is second readings of board policy. >> So uh you'll notice we don't have first readings because um springtime we are we're
089in full effect. So I asked for a little first reads right now just with some of the demands to get through the end of the year. Second read DKC was the only one going forward. The rest of the first reads from last month were review only, so those were peeled off. No changes to DKC, which again um is shown as DK expense reimbursements. Natalie and I reviewed this. This is consistent with CASBY. And again, the updates accordingly um hadn't been looked at in quite some time. So, uh no changes, no action unless you have any questions. anything on the second read. Okay, let's move on to third reads. >> And third reads the same. No changes for any of the third reads. Um they are as presented to you from second reads, just moving forward
090to third reads for each of these particular items. again consistent with statute, consistent with CASBY, obviously we have a couple of them to be retired and a couple of them we're seeking enough changes that are title changes andor legal reference changes. But unless you have any questions on any of those, these will be for your approval. >> Do we have any questions on the third read? >> All right. Thank you. Move that. The board of education ad block provisions to policy DA, fiscal management responsibilities. Policy DI, fiscal accounting, formerly DE, fiscal accounting and reporting. Policy DID, District Assets, formerly DG inventories. policy D I A D IE annual audit formally D components and DJ G vendor relations formally DJ vendor relations and retire policy DC grants from private sources and policy DI-R report of vandalism
091or theft upon third readings. >> Thank you. Is there a second? >> Second. >> All in favor? I >> I All right. Up next is set and announce meeting dates. >> So, um probably what is most pressing is our next time that we gather. So, in consultation with um Natalie, we're uh in my conversation with Susan, we are requesting that we cancel next Monday, May 4th, and also cancel having a work session and just focus on special meeting. It's not uncommon from one year to the next that the May work session sits as work session andor special meeting. it usually defaults to special meeting for the purposes of approving the following year's salaries. So, we are tentatively seeking that we would have a special meeting Monday, May 11 at 5:30. We have a DAC meeting
092before that. And there's also that same night, academic awards night, that starts at 6 pm. We would only need a quorum and only Natalie and I would be need to be present with Liz for recording for said special meeting simply um your approval. The big question mark is whether or not we will know enough by the 11th of May. So, we're just asking if there can be a placeholder and again at least a quorum would be needed for us to be able to to do that and then just as soon as we know we'll get back in communication with all of you but for now we'd like to make that adjustment. >> Sure. And I told the board before this meeting and it looks like the 11th will work for everyone if that ends up
093being when we are. >> Great. And again that would just be for a special meeting only. It would be five 10 minute tops and we can head straight to the high school for those of you who want to participate in academic awards. The rest is a retirement celebration. We have a regular board meeting on Monday, May 18th. We'll celebrate those subs that worked with us for over 100 days this year. We'll also have junior high has a spotlight. I think it's rescheduled junior high with jazz band and we're thinking that they might play out in the courtyard which would be a lot of fun. So, I got to follow up uh with Miss Johnson, make sure that can still happen. I'll connect with her tomorrow about that. We have athletic awards also. And of course,
094graduation, we talked about that. Uh it's noted at 1:30, but again, if you can be there by one o'clock, that's that's great. Um and for Dr. Layman and Miss V Hall, we come in the side door at World Arena. So, if you're not familiar, we can help make sure or if you settle up with one of us or I can meet you there. Um, but we don't go through the front door again. >> And we'll get parking passes, too. >> So, when you come in to the main entrance, you'll actually park to the right instead of following the masses on the left for parking. It's much more. And then there's a side entrance there also. and then you go down in the basement. But we'll make sure one of at least one of us um
095will be help you out with that. Um, and then we have a work session for June 8th and that um will be um Natalie will cover some budget stuff and also we're I think we'll may add um >> your evaluation >> exact session for evaluation. >> Yes. >> That same night. So we do budget first and then slide into my evaluation that night. >> Yes. And then uh regular meeting on June 29th, remember we moved that back to the last Monday in June, fifth week in June, so that we could get the budget completed. And um that would be also when you officially vote on my evaluation, I believe. And that would be the meeting to take action if we're going to in fact be on the ballot. So June 8th or June 15th? >>
096June 29th. >> 29th. Sorry. The regular board meeting. >> Yes. >> Uh I'm not going to go through unless you have specific questions about 26 or 27 as of right now. Viz is do you have any updates for >> just they did come up with the staff picnic date actually for you guys who like schedule ahead August 13th which is a Thursday. The support staff picnic. It's actually on the calendar number two now on Thursday. >> And then just a, you know, we'll talk more as we get closer. Reminder though that we intentionally have back to school nights all on different nights because we fully anticipate seeking you to come join us as we start to lay more track presumably about going forward. So >> what was the name of the staff? It's number two
097on the draft. Um it's it's going to be page support staff technique Thursday, August 13th at Bear Creek Park at 11:30. I think that's team anybody anything else dates good and we will as soon as soon as Natalie gives me a green light I will text or communicate or send smoke signals or something that says but for now if you can just placehold at least three of you place hold for May 11 at 5:30 that would be fantastic. >> Thanks very much.