001Okay, I unmuted us. Oh, no. We welcome to this study session of this Creek School District Board of Education. Uh it is June 9th, 2026 and it is 4:30 p.m. Calls >> here. Kane here. Lynch here. >> No, I see it. >> Um, I'll look for a motion to approve the agenda. >> I'll second that. >> Yes. >> Lynch on. Thank you. Sorry. >> Yes. >> Nor. Yes. >> So the first update we have recognition of the class of 2026 and I if you don't mind recognizing the students and their accomplishment >> was it updates first >> now because um so yeah on uh thank you. You're welcome. The board of education would love to formally recognize the graduates of the Clear Creek School District, class of 2026, for their successful completion of graduation requirements
002and their contributions to the schools and communities of Clear Creek County. Uh, graduation represents a significant milestone in the lives of our students and reflects years of dedication, perseverance, academic achievement, and personal growth. The district is proud to celebrate the accomplishments of these graduates as they prepare to pursue post-secary education, career opportunities, military service, and other future endeavors. Members of the class of 2026 have demonstrated resilience, leadership, and commitment throughout their educational journey. Their accomplishments extend beyond the academic achievement and include uh participation in athletics, performing arts, career and technical education programs, community service, and extracurricular activities. We as the board of education would like to recognize the graduates for successfully meeting all district and state of Colorado graduation requirements, demonstrating academic growth and achievement, contributing positively to their schools and communities for preparing for
003success in college careers, military service, and life beyond high school. These accomplishments reflect the collective efforts of not only our students but their families, the teachers, the support staff, administrators, and the community partners who have supported their educational journey. The district celebrates the graduating class and looks forward to positive contributions that they make in the future. >> Well said. I mean, I think it's outstanding. We had, I think, 42 students about to walk across the stage uh in the end of May. um and the accomplishment of the each of the students is fantastic. They're all pursuing completely different careers and and post-secary options which I think is really incredible for our students to do so. Um we had the what two students that uh I'd like to just recognize the we have um uh the
004student uh >> so Maggie >> Maggie who got the Daniels fund scholarship full ride scholarship she's choosing to go on to the Air Force Academy um and so she'll use those funds to help her out with that. We have Donovan who got the Betcher scholarship which we haven't received since the late 80s. Um, and so now the challenge is for us to have more students of of that caliber graduate from our school every year to also receive the Daniel. He's pursuing his degree at CSU. And I'm excited to see what comes of that endeavor. So, and congratulations to all the students, the the students that all receive recognition, those who are pursuing military, those are going into the workforce, those going postsecary options. I just I'm proud of all of them. And so, thank you
005for highlighting that tonight. >> Thank you for the opportunity. It was nice to be there and to celebrate with them, >> right? >> So, I'm gonna do my superintendent update now. U So, this first part of my update is kind of proactive. Um, as we've heard, the governor of Colorado has chosen to um, uh, be part of the Educational Choice of Children Act, which is part of the one big beautiful bill that was passed last July, which allows uh, taxpayers to receive a dollar federal tax credit for up to 1700 $1,700 for donations made to approve scholarship granting organizations. Um, because of this, I want to make sure that we take advantage of if that's what our governor chooses to do. There's some discussion whether the the folks who are running for governor may choose
006to change that if that's possible. I can't speak to that, but I want to be proactive because um I believe that's something that will be coming up sooner than later that we need to be prepared for. So I have reached out to the foundation u to ask if they would be willing to be the collector of those funds if that is something that uh the governor approves and so um they've accepted that and so uh the foundation will be working towards creating a separate entity within the foundation because our current foundation gives scholarship funds for graduates and the way the guidelines are they can't also do funding for programming within the school district. So, they'll have to be separate entities. Um, we'll get more description of that once they define what that is. Right now,
007we don't have the parameters for that, but that's the information we've been told so far. So, um, I just want to make sure you guys are aware that I did reach out to the foundation to pursue that so that taxpayers in Clar Creek County have an option to contribute those funds to the district or to the foundation for the benefit of the district. >> I wanted to circle back to to graduation. Oh, >> Kianne said she was trying to ask a question, but we didn't hear her. She was asking about the graduation rating. I think it was 93.5. >> I can't speak to that. >> I know over the last few years. >> Yes. So, we last year was 93.5. We typically get in the fall. Um because it takes a little bit of time
008to get all the graduates through the process take summer school programs and so forth to graduate. Um so last year the 2020 class of 2025 we had 93.5% which is higher than the state average and we beat the state average for the last 10 of the last 11 years. So that's quite an accomplishment. Um I highlight my presentation to the community is that because 42 students if you think of 100% 42 students every one of those students makes a significant difference in our graduation rate. So to have a graduation rate higher than the state of Colorado shows the accomplishment of those students, but also to the work of our staff make sure those students graduate every year. >> Thank you. Y >> I don't usually keep my phone up, but since we're having trouble here
009in Kianne, I'm going to keep it. >> Any questions about the um the uh Education Choice for Children's Act or anything like that? Any questions before I move on? Um, I have a question about the foundation. They have a matching program for whatever donations they receive. Would that also be applied to this? >> You know, that's something to when we find out what the exact guidelines are from the federal government, I think that was something that Mitch mentioned to me that he does a lot of matching funds. So, um, whether that would be apply or not, there's, you know, there's proposal that there could be a lot of money that could come out of this plan. There's a lot of concerns too with this plan. I just want to make sure we're prepared so in
010case it does happen, we're not left not being able to reuse those receive those funds when it starts the process just as preparation, make sure we don't lose out those funds. >> Um, next I'll move to TLC survey if you don't mind pulling it up. >> So, I've shared with you the document. So, every uh every other year, uh, state of Colorado administered the TLCC survey. It's a survey of staff in our district. Um this year of our employees, 30 staff members completed the survey. Um and it really just tells you the professional climate uh of our district. Um the student supports received the support of staff well-being and the staff reporting of their perception regarding uh their experience in school. So in this PowerPoint presentation, I just kind of highlight a little things. So
011again, the survey is administered every other year. uh we had 30 staff uh complete the survey and it also it measures staff perception and the working and learning conditions. Next slide please. So strengths uh over I will say before I jump into the strengths and opportunities um I will tell you two years ago the results were much higher than they are this year. So I want to be very clear of that. Although in some cases we were meeting or matched the state average, um we do have some opportunity in in helping our teachers uh have a better perception or experience within our school district. >> Which results across the board, all of the results or >> in you have the booklet in your packet if you have a there's a link in there. It shows
012you the actual breakdown of it. But overall, yes, we were down and I would say >> that's a response everything >> pretty much. Okay. >> Yeah. So I want to make sure I'm clear with that before I jump into like I'll talk about strengths but there's still some decline from previous surveys. So our strengths are professional climate uh the teachers feel that there's strong professional climate well-being feeling supported by their peers and so forth is a strong part and supportive conditions. So mostly that's based on peer-to-peer um connections challenges. Our teachers are saying they need more time to do the work that they need to do which makes complete sense. We're a small district and so the the work that h being if you're in elementary school you're probably at the only one there's one
013teacher in that grade level so it's a lot of work you don't have a partner to pair with when you're in the secondary level you teach multiple content so it's a lot of work too so asking for more time um there is a concern about job satisfaction there there breakdown about concerns regarding um on how they feel about their their satisfaction job and then professional development We I will acknowledge that there was there's a lot of opportunity based on my experience this year and we're already working I'm planning to work with the principles to have conversations with them in planning that and also with teachers to make sure we're planning professional that really meets the needs of our staff. Uh we'll do the best we can in individualizing it but we won't be able to
014break it down to individualized specific needs but we'll provide more collaborative time for teachers to work together. So does that mean like a teacher from K Murphy working with a teacher from Carlson in Georgetown? I think that would be beneficial for those teachers to have that opportunity and also time for teachers and content at the high school and middle school to work together if it's if it's appropriate because middle school's one teacher per content right now. But having those opportunities to have those conversations. So we that vertical conversation. One of the things that we really outside of this is we realize our teachers don't have a real good sense of how we work from vertically from kindergarten up through to middle school up to high school. And we need to have a better conversations about
015that so that we we have understanding what is expected of a great next grade the kids are going to but also recognize the hard work the teachers prior to them are doing to make sure the kids are prepared too. All right. Next slide please. um staff retention. So in the that survey, 78% of the staff at the time plan to remain uh in the same position or similar position in our district. Um and one of the things that that came up was that uh opportunity was that compensation is a big one which we recognize recognition for doing a good job. So they feel that that there's not a lot of recognition for teachers and their hard work and they feel the district level leadership uh really has in this case they're saying needs better influence
016on retention of staff in our district. Uh professional development declined between 11 20 points from the prior survey. So we definitely know that we need work on professional development and I would totally recognize that as a need in our district um through my experience this year. So we are going to really work closely to make sure it's more meeting the needs of our staff and the needs of our schools. Uh need for personalized learning, coaching, instructional support. So as I mentioned in the last board meeting, um we do need to have an opportunity for instructional coach to work with our teachers to help them with their planning, helping them use the curricular resource to support the learning in the classroom, looking at the students they have in the classroom and how we can meet their
017needs. I I hear from parents too like how are we meeting the needs of my child? So we needed some of that instructional coach work. So this year we're fortunate received a grant. It's a an early literacy grant. So they'll work with preschool through third grade. So we'll have an instructional coach that will share between Georgetown Murphy and Carlson to work on helping the teachers with that. that person will be trained in best practices and then they will then train the teachers at the schools in those best practices too or during these professional development we do at the district level and really focusing on reading, writing, math um which are you know I would say we're doing a great job but we can also make sure we do more work to support our students. And
018then Jen has done an amazing job working with Kristen and and the principles to figure out how do we maneuver some funds that we currently have through grant funds. And so we're going to have a 4 through 12th grade instructional coach that will share between the three schools. So it'll be for um Carlson or I should say four King Murphy, the middle school, and the high school. And so that person will be working with teachers throughout the other day at each of those sites to work with the staff and helping them with some professional learning, some lesson design, maybe giving teachers some feedback on a on a practice they want to work on that helps them grow individually. So we're looking really to personalize that. So those positions are currently being posted and then we
019will uh also reach out to solicit them to apply if we know some folks uh because we want the best people to work with our staff and of course internal camps are welcome to apply for that also. So here are opportunities also to uh meet universities of our students. uh there's a real concern about teachers feel like they really they're struggling with that. Uh share responsibility for learning there and then uh supportive conditions to make sure they do best. So these are some opportunities um that as a district we need to help our teachers with and I I kind of mentioned with instructional coach diversity our students you know we are small schools so you have much more diversity in your individual classrooms because we are small. So if you're you're teaching uh biology for
020the course, you have a mixture of kids in that class because of their it's small and so you have every kid that can that it's that grade level for that biology class. So those are examples of the challenges our teachers are facing and so we want to make sure that we do we do a better support and so I think through instructional coach work through our work with the principles making sure professional development is more aligned and supported with teachers I think we'll see these go up through that work and also through our development of a uh strategic plan for the district will help us align that work too. One of the things that's crossed the state, this is a new uh survey question is AI readiness. So uh our teachers say there's a desire
021to we need better understanding of how to use AI, how to not use it. How do we help our students, you know, discern how to use AI or do we want not them using AI? Because we really want to know what they know, not what AI knows. And so there's just some areas for us to work on. We we talked a little bit about this year as we talked about technology in the classroom. I think we need to look at um best practices through organizations who work across the state of Colorado and across the nation um to help us in that lens of professional development. But this is one of the things that staff have asked us >> and we're working with CI and they were on the front lines of work for the state.
022>> That is true. >> I think >> yeah, >> we might be able to get some help there. >> Yeah, I I didn't want to mention their name, but yes, they're one of our resources. >> No, that's fine. It's fine. So, no, I don't I don't that's fine you did that. I just want to make sure >> I can say that I worked with them on that work. How's that? >> We'll make sure we reach out who's the best practices. So, and they and they're included in Yeah. >> So, uh next steps for us is to analyze the results which I've given you a copy of those to go through. Um we can talk about that now. We can think about that as we start looking into next year. Uh we'll be using that for
023developing the strategic plan. We need to improve our time for teachers to collaborate which I mentioned earlier for doing professional development to lower our time for planning. Um we need to definitely adv enhance PD effectiveness and then we need to strengthen our recognition our teachers and our retention efforts and I'm committed to doing that moving forward. Um and we will do what we can to make sure that the folks we've hired and we support them and make sure they have the resources and the support they need for an instructional coach and administration to be successful next year as we go forward. I would also like to point out that we haven't talked about results of the evaluation. Okay. >> You just spoke to some of the the biggest concerns. >> Okay. >> So, thank you
024for already recognizing. >> Sure. >> Those are some opportunities for us, >> right? >> Do you have questions regarding the survey? say, I think we probably all will have questions and I welcome everybody to spend some time on this over the summer and we I think this will help with the strategic planning, >> right? >> Unless you have any huge questions right now. It looks like I've got something from Kianne. Oh, just a thank you. Um but yeah, I would just ask that we take a little bit of time to look at at the responses. U say is there any chance that we could look at the questions that were asked? >> You should have the entire >> Oh, okay. I saw the results, but I must not have opened everything. >> I've done a
025summary pages. >> Okay. >> So, I I chose to do this >> and then I'm highlighting some of the some of the opportunities. Um I've done a summary in your cover sheet and then you have the pull. >> So we don't have the actual survey instrument. We just have like question response. >> Yes. >> Okay. >> Which is basically survey instrument. So you >> it it it breaks it really down and you can see like where those individual opportunities. >> Okay. Do you know if it was short answer or if it was multiple choice? >> Is multiple choice. >> I found Yeah. Miss Electric. >> Yeah. Okay. Thank you. >> Because Yeah. All of that plays into how people respond. So, thank you. >> There's there's a lot of information to be had. >> That's
026I know that I haven't had a chance to really >> the overall results, >> the one that you're just talking about, if you continue to scroll. >> Okay. >> Every individual question is in there. >> Right. So, like on my computer, I can by clicking on the links, it drills down further, but I gave you the full report. >> Oh, thank you. >> Yeah. So, you go through it. >> Well, there you go. you know now that I did not read the whole 41 pages. I looked at the first few pages and then I read your cover sheet and I said, "Okay." But thank you, Sydney, for having made it through further. Um, yeah, I know you've got more. >> Any questions about the TLCC survey besides the >> No, I think we're going to
027give ourselves space to come back with questions in August. Yeah. My biggest question is what are we going to do with the results? >> Yeah. >> So, >> I think you spoke a little bit to it, but yeah, >> we have work to do. >> Yes. The results are no surprise. >> Um, all right. So, next one I'm presenting to the board is um senior gold card program. Um, it's a concept I like to introduce to our school district. The senior gold card program is a community engagement initiative designed to recognize and thank senior citizens for their long-standing support of public education. Similar programs implemented by school districts throughout Colorado and across the country provide uh eligibility for seniors residents with complimentary um admission to district sponsored events and activities helping strengthen connection between schools
028and the community they serve. Um, under the model used by Douglas County, uh, they have a website for this. Um, that's not where I got the idea, but I did search with other schools and that came up. Um, go-karts are available to qualified senior residents and provide access to many district sponsored activities, including regular season athletic contests, performing arts events, concerts, and other student activities. Uh, subject to facilia capacity and event restrictions. For example, playoff games. One of those things that CHASS is really strict on those. wouldn't allow that for free admission. Uh the program serves both a community appreciation initiative and an opportunity to increase attendance and engagement at school events. And so I talked to principal Andreas and um she's excited about this. Um they have extra cards. So she's going to work
029with the ID card print company that we use for that and see if they can make some light cards that they can run to the printer that they can hand out to senior citizens in our community. Um, and then she's also willing to work with possibly the um the bus system, the roundabout, uh, to maybe work on certain events that they're scheduled during the year, like the let's say a performance in the theater that then they have maybe a special route for that evening for to pick senior citizens up and bring them to the event. So, um, it's non- transferable, but it would be for that individual to, you know, take part and be more engaged with our school community, many who maybe gone to the school district themselves or raise their family and and
030you get a chance to re-engage with see what our amazing students are doing. >> The truth is it's already our practice. This is really just a communication piece like you're welcome here, >> right? uh which I I think we've always at least my practice or experience has been we've fallen short on. So this is great. >> Okay. >> Thank you. >> Sure. >> So I will then move forward with uh working with Maria to get that rolling out and maybe we have our students go to the senior center center or go to places where they can connect with senior citizens and hand out the cards to those folks so that they make facial connection with students here at the school and it kind of builds that connection between the two. Yeah. So, >> and and
031not just website access like to to sign up. >> I'd rather have paper >> or we need to make it this extensive. Can we just start the communication piece of if you're a senior citizen, you don't have to pay? >> Yeah, I mean you could. I just >> Do we need to make the expense of like cards and stuff like that or can we just really turn anyone away if they don't have a card? >> No. So, >> I'm just trying to figure out how to make them kind of special >> so you feel like you have that card and kind of it's something you can be proud of. >> Okay. >> I mean, that's that's I'm trying to get a sense of ownership, but I mean, no, >> like a paper card so it
032doesn't cost. >> You could do a paper card and laminate it. >> Yeah. >> Okay. I'm open to anything. She said she had extra cards so we could use the extra card she had. So, but you're right. We could pay for ones, laminate them. I'm I'm good with that. I just want to make it something that they go, I have this. >> Yeah. It could be something on their phone if they've got a phone. Yeah. Whatever the lower the barrier. >> I know. You go to you go to Goodwill and you say, "Can I get the senior citizen discount?" You said, "Sure." >> Yeah. >> Present company. >> They don't have >> No, you're not 65 yet. >> Well, 60. >> I don't think you get the discount. You've been in the trenches though. Does
033that count as my show? >> Um, but and I appreciate the idea. That's great. So, thank you card. You know, we can do something. So, we'll work on that. >> We should reach out to the PTAs because they >> I think they're going to be like the Evergreen Lake concert series. >> That might be a good time to reach out to some of the community >> and have them pass those out as well. I I don't know if I'm ready yet for this summer to do that. >> Fair enough. But >> yeah, >> information could be shared. >> Yeah, >> we could have we could have a Let me think about how you work the PTAs that they're going to have a table. They could we could have a table stand that could advertise that.
034>> Great. >> Yeah. >> I love it. Okay. >> Yeah. You got a lot of parameters on here. I say >> oh as far as where they live and age things like that. >> I mean age like you know my kids grandparents don't live in the county and as much as they don't need a discount I'm sure they would very much appreciate it. >> Yeah. >> And it would make them feel more willing to I don't know spend money on merchandise or donate or something like that. But do we want I mean not to be a jerk to the opposing team or like if say it was a game, not a performing arts. Um and then we're not judging their senior citizens. I I don't care. I don't think it's like going to break the
035bank because I don't even know how many would come. But um then does that kind of take away from the people that were our community that we're letting in? >> Um >> so I think with the params you're referencing I took this from the school district i.e. Douglas County because I'm I found a website that had all their information and so I took that to create this because I'm sure they have a lot of folks turn out to their events because they're bigger schools schools than we are. >> So I think that's I agree what you're saying. We're small. So um >> you know maybe what we do is they have a driver's license. Maybe you can take that as like you're you're a county you know citizen you're good but if you're from like
036Fort Morgan maybe you know >> or if you're from Fort Morgan and you're a guest of of a >> clear creek student like if your your kids grandparents but if it's the opposing team's grandparent >> they pay whatever >> I mean I don't know if we have to do that >> so that'll be like an honesty rule >> okay >> or something like that >> watch Um the la last thing I have for you is at the last board meeting it was asked about puttingou together for compensation and I did do some research and um the guidance I was given was that well intention the concern is that if I create an agreement uh with staff regarding compensation um it holds future board of education to that agreement. And so the concern is is that
037something as a district we want to do because >> you can't. >> Well, I can't. So it's not >> it's not or can't. So >> the guidance is we can't do that. >> Yeah. >> So I just want to make sure you're aware that I look into it. So >> you said we appreciate that too. Um but yeah, I mean future board. >> What about that? >> Yeah. an informal email that says we'll sit down and like I intend to discuss this before >> January >> or January. Yeah. >> So if if the ballot measure passes and I I've said to people verbally but I have no problems sending emails saying that we can discuss in January >> package if it passes. >> Yeah, it's absolutely our intention to to do the most we can.
038I think people would Yeah, >> I think writing it down would be very well received >> from the board or combined board and superintendent. >> Uh well, it's you that are that's doing the meeting so from you. >> Okay. >> I think you have say with the support of the board. >> Perfect. Yeah. That's why I was asking for the support of the board. >> I think everybody's okay with that. >> Yeah. >> Okay. Perfect. >> And that's my report. >> I'm okay with that. >> Thank you. Thanks. >> Thanks. See, we're not voting in this meeting, so you know. >> Thank you. >> You're welcome. >> All 41 pages. >> That's right. >> Thank you. >> And thank you for everyone finished all of these questions. Wow. >> Yeah. >> Is Bill with them?
039>> Yes. Yes. >> Oh, excellent. >> So, do you want to know what's the next item? Yes, please. >> So, um the board of education um hired Bill Ray to from WR Communications to conduct a poll of the community. And so, we have uh Bill come online here and share the findings of his of the survey and give us some guidance on next steps. I believe he's going to talk about also a potential polling that will occur, a second set of polling will occur in July. So, I'm gonna turn it over to Bill to talk at this time. >> Uh, thanks, Wes. Everyone can hear me? >> Yes. >> Great. I might turn my camera off at some point if my internet connection gets wobbly, so I apologize for that. Um, >> say, Bill, we're
040not actually seeing you on this end. We've got you just the the presentation on the screen. So if that >> camera better, go ahead and and turn it off and we'll ensure a better connection for you. >> Camera's off. Um is it easier if you run this or should I share my screen? >> Uh right now Kristen's running it on the screen so we can see it very clearly. >> Okay, great. I Yeah, it's hard for me to see what you have up. Let me try and change my screen at my end. I apologize. >> No worries. >> Like it's kind of cut off, but I think it's okay. I know this stuff. So, let's let's just jump into it. Feel free to ask questions along the way or we can save them till the
041end. So, uh so we put together a survey working with the district team and with you all the board of education. Uh the survey was put out um May 6th to June 2nd. Um there was a postcard sent out. We did a text. I believe the district did some other comms out to the community and the school community to inform people about this survey. We got total responses. Um, and of those responses, I broke out the demographics uh here for you to see. So, as far as age range goes, we were fairly close on several of the age range comparing it to the voter file for your district. So where you see LV, that is your likely voters in your district that will vote in this upcoming election and the proportion of votes. We can
042see our survey was a little light on 18 to 34 year olds, but that it was within pretty good ranges in all the other um age groups. When we go to zip code, a lot more aligned with your zip code spreads here. So that was great to see especially in their largest zip codes like 80439 and 80452. Um I'm getting a lot of feedback wondering if >> maybe >> I think we're good now. >> Okay. a lot of feedback. Okay, that's better. Um, the one thing where we kind of had an imbalance in this survey is 62% of our respondents were female and only about 30% were male. A lot of times I see in surveys on school districts that we get a little higher percentage of female respondents to male respondents. Um like so
043this one was especially higher here at 62 and a half% this feedback is me. >> I think if you turn your volume down it will help. Is that a little better? >> Yes. >> Okay. When questions come up, maybe put some of them in the chat just because now I have my volume down really low. Okay, next slide. So, our our first question in the survey was how confident would you say you are that the district handles taxpayer money wisely? You can see here that about 42.8% said they felt confident. 42% were not confident. Um, a little more intensity on the not confident at all versus very confident. U, the confidence number is a little softer at somewhat confident. Next slide. Throughout the survey, um I broke out different um some of these questions by
044um some of our demographic measures. So you can see our confidence by age range here. So some of our highest confidence is in that 45 to 54 year old age group. Um great to see older voters. sometimes they're a little less confident of government. So 65 and olders um your 18 to 34 year olds uh had a high number of unsure here. You can see it by zip code. Uh pretty high confidence in that 80439 which is your largest zip code. So that's that's good to see. But you know that's balanced here 8042 which is Idaho Springs which is your second largest. That's where you see that biggest area of not confident at all. Go to the next slide. Okay. So, we asked a question to ask people to rate on a scale of one
045to five with five being the most important some of the priorities uh for the school district's resources. Next slide. We stacked them all up. Um there you can see um provide um competitive um compensation to attract retained teachers that was by far obviously at uh almost over 58% most important. So the respondents definitely felt uh those uh that attract and retain teachers is critical use of the district's priority. Second was uh CTE programs and career getting students ready for their careers. But definitely um the teacher retention uh was po was important and it was important throughout the survey. All right. So, here's your mill bell mill levy ballot question. So, we asked a a sample ballot question, probably fairly close to what would appear on uh the ballot. And you can see here 53.6% were
046favorable, 40.3% were uh not. supportive of it. Um, one of the things that I definitely like to look at at any survey is the balance between people who are definitely yes and definitely no. And you want at least definitely yes to be higher or equilibrium with the definitely no. Uh, those are people kind of who already make up their mind. they they they don't change their mind. They already know where they're at when the ballots arrive. You don't want to be upside down on that number. So, it's positive here that those are fairly close and the definitely yes has a slight lead. The other thing I would say is that the conventional wisdom is that you want this number to be 56% or higher to feel that your ballot question um will be successful at
047the election. So even though this is 50 above 50% it's still um you know this is not a slam dunk. This ballot question would need community outreach, engagement, further education, probably a campaign. So, um it's u it's positive numbers, but it's not home yet. Next slide. So this slide what we did was since we had such a um imbalance on our gender statistic, we did take a look and we put a waiting on this statistical measurement where it kind of balance out uses statistics to balance out and um that um kind of additional response rate from emails. And when we kind of uh weight up the male responses and statistically weight down the female responses to umulate the actual percentages in the voter file and the likely voters, you can see there's a decrease here
048down to 51.6 and an increase uh on the no. So it, you know, it's still over 50%, but I wanted to show you that uh just just to give you some, you know, idea on how that might look in a little more balanced uh perspective. Here you can see the mill levy by age range. Uh much more uh supported by those younger voters. Um uh let's talk about the 55 to 60 year old all across the state of Colorado. Every community I've worked with over the past two years are are um pretty tax sensitive right now. uh pretty wary of tax increases, pretty opposed to those. So, not surprised to see that here. Um I think from working in other places and and looking at surveys there, this age group, they've got kids in college,
049they've got more expensive houses. That's there there's a high tax sensitivity in this age group right now. We normally see that in but it really made a pronounced shift into those 55 to 65. Next slide. And here you can see the mill levy by zip code. So you know the three most populous zip codes 80439. Uh you've got pretty good support 57% plus there. um 80452 that's your second most populous about 30% of your electorate um a little closer to the line there that threshold. So um you know obviously 80439 is pretty critical to this passing but so are you know Georgetown and Idaho Springs areas as well. We asked a question uh would you be more or less likely uh to support um a $4 million per year mill levy knowing that it only
050increase taxes by about $29 per month. So trying to give folks that fiscal impact and you can see here about 35% doesn't change their opinion. And actually you got um a pretty good number here at about 30% saying it actually would be less likely. So it's not a great argument to go out to the community. It's not a not a needle mover here. Next slide. We also asked folks would it change their mind if we reduced the mill levy? uh ask and obviously that would reduce the tax, but it would also reduce the school district's ability to accomplish what they're trying to accomplish. And we asked this question of people who were no or unsure to see if this kind of moved the needle with them. So you can see 55% of those uh doesn't
051change their opinion. So, I would not just reduce your mill levy uh in order to build support because I'm not sure it would build enough support to make a significant difference in the numbers. I think doing more community outreach, education, um work like that would have a lot more to do with improving these numbers than reducing the numbers. Yeah, probably a lot of these folks a tax is a tax is a tax. Tell me what it's for, why you need it, and why I should trust you to spend this money. Next slide. >> All right. So, through we also asked some different questions about what the mill levy would support and how that um impacted people's um consideration of supporting it. So you can see here, would you be more or less likely to support
052it knowing that it would make more general fund dollars available for teacher staff recruitment? Clearly, this is an important issue to get out to the community to share this broadly. 66% said they'd be more likely to support the miling it. Very important message for the community. Next slide. You can see I broke this out by age group as well. uh much more important among younger voters probably because they have kids. >> Bill, we lost you. >> Oh, you lo can you hear me now? >> We can hear you now. We lost the point about the folks who uh in the 18 and 34 and then you stopped talking at that point. >> Oh, sorry. Uh yeah, I just said, you know, 18 to 54 year olds, that's a much more important argument probably because they
053have kids in the school system. Um, next slide. And here you can see it by zip code. Uh, strongest in Evergreen, but also pretty well supported in the Georgetown and Idaho Springs zip codes. Next slide. According CTE, this was the second strongest at 64%. So once again, really, >> you know, not as strong, you know, those 55 to 64 year olds, not as responsive to that, but still pretty good across age range. We can scroll through the zip codes. The next slide. There it is. By zip code. So, pretty strong across the zip codes in the district. Next slide. There's a lot of slides here. I want to be respectful of your um time tonight. Uh we asked this u compared to the state average and being able to have a multi-year salary program to
054keep and retain teachers. That's even stronger message at 73%. Really kind of making that connection um on our teachers gallery with that message. You can see once again uh that's strong across all age groups and to the zip codes likewise should be pretty strong across all the zip codes. Um let's see. He asked a question about uh uh our school buildings, our learning spaces, our physical needs. And so we can scroll through those as well. This leaded led up to the pond. So you can see here climate controlled spaces uh pretty strong 65%. Go to the next slide. Improvements to aging buildings also really well received at six adjust at 64 and a half%. Next slide. Caring plumbers boilers that was very strong almost 96%. A technology also strong 76%. So, a lot of agreement
055from folks about ongoing maintenance, improvement to the buildings. They want you to take care of the buildings. Let's keep scrolling. Trying to be respectful. Then we asked the bonding question. So, a ballot question very similar to what would be on the ballot. And unfortunately, they that was not as well received. Only guess 55.6% no. And you can see those definitely yes and definitely no is, you know, that's way out here by age. There's not even an age group that's at 50%. Let's go to zip and not even a zip code that was at 50% even the the heavily populated um zip codes. But we tried to see if the cost of the bond at $753 a month would move the needle and it does. 47% said they'd be more likely to support that, but I
056don't think that gets that number still over 50%. I think a bond would be a pretty tough ask right now with this election. Um, we also asked would it make any difference similar to the mill levy to reduce the amount down to 20 million also reducing what we can accomplish with the bond and wized 54 and a.5% that it did make a difference. And then uh we wrapped up the quantitative part of the survey with question about what's your main reason for no unsure. Um a good note here is the biggest one was other and and in the coming slides it'll show you some of those comments but the second biggest was they need more information. That's that is kind of a positive that folks, you know, really want to learn more and understand more
057about the bond and the need. Um I won't read through all of these. Um you have this in your packet, but I I tried to group them up. Um and you know, people just wanting to share, you know, they some folks said, "Well, I I support the mill levy because I want to support teachers, but I don't want debt. I don't like the bond." And then, you know, concerns overall about the bond, about um debt, uh and finding other ways to accomplish these projects without having more debt for the school district. You know, it's it's tough the way ballot questions have to be written using the words debt in there. Just people have a visceral reaction to that, especially when gas is 50 a gallon right now. So, I'm going to pause there um for
058any questions and apologies for the feedback on the audio. >> Um I have a question. Bill, based on the time period, the period of time that we did the polling and the responses you're receiving, does that mirror other polling you've done for other uh um public entities in our community? So like for the county or for any of the cities or fire or police or anything like that, is it is it pretty similar the the response rate or is it different? So I no the response rates I've gotten for the county, the fire district or the fire authority have been very similar. It's important not to focus on quantity. It's quality. >> It's do we have a good balance of age? Do we have a good balance of our zip codes which we did? We
059got pretty good balance on age. uh our survey was pretty heavy toward weighted toward female respondents. Uh but I I really look at the balance of the respondents more than I look at the quantity of respond. >> Thank you for clarifying. Appreciate that. >> See, Bill, this is Jessica. Um, my question is, do you think that there's a chance that more people who would just vote no just threw the postcard away and and didn't respond. Does that make sense? >> I usually find people who want to vote no want to have their voice heard and they usually take the survey. Actually, it's the yes voters who are the silent majorities in a lot of these surveys. Actually, those no voters want their voices heard. No taxes. >> I appreciate hearing that experience because I admit
060that was a little nervous. >> Yes, Kianne. >> Hi, Bill. I was wondering um you know, just looking at the survey and having answered Wes's question about what some of the other um surveys you've seen and the resulting um measures that they were able to pass. Are we as a district anywhere near ready to go for a mill levy or the I'm guessing you know we we have a strong response on the um the strongest response on the four mill is that what you're seeing as well. >> So I you know the con so clearly you're not ready for a bond. We I think we can all agree on that. So, we just move that to the side for now. On the bill levy, I think you're close, but I think you have work to
061do to educate and outreach to the community. I think you need reading your open-ended comments, the the which I I'm probably you had shared with you or will have shared with you. you do have a like a fiscal transparency, fiscal accountability gap that you have to overcome a bit and I think you need to get out there and talk to the community and share any success that you've had with fiscal transparency, fiscal accountability, and then you transition that into new levy and why you need it and how it allows the school district to do more. There are these two really retaining teachers and supporting CTE. I would not make your mill levy much more than that. All right. I think that's what might be prioritizing. That's what they value. And so I would keep it
062pretty focused on those in that fiscal accountability message into that. Um the district itself has until when you refer a question to the ballot to still do community outreach. You can do mailers. You can put stuff on social media. can host open houses or town halls. You can go speak at every organization or anywhere you can find that'll let you come and make a presentation. It all matters. It all moves the needle in the right direction. Um, you know, so, you know, kind of close. It's not a slam dunk, but it's might be worth continuing that engagement and conversation with your community on these needs because the needs aren't going to go away, right? Not like if you don't do it this year, all of a sudden it's not a problem next year, right? So,
063you have to have the conversation with the community. >> Any other questions? Thank you so much. >> I agree the the survey responses align with what I'm hearing from folks who attend my presentations. The compensation for staff is the priority. CT programming for our high school students is secondary. So it aligns completely with questions and the nodding of the heads I see in my presentations. Uh we are just having a conversation here offline. Um we have created a website or web page on our district website. It's not active right now, but it kind of outlines the the needs of our district. So we're still working to get that up and live. And um I just asked Jessica and I I know we mentioned previous board meetings groups I need to talk to. I need to
064get those scheduled um as we're going through this transition with administrative assistant. Um I need to get that coordinated. So, um, we'll get that going here. They'll be hitting it hard in July for sure. >> Kion. >> Yes, Kian. >> I was just going to say, I mean, it is a little frustrating with all of the efforts that we have made on the financial transparency side of things, but obviously we haven't missed we haven't made the mark and I know that we just have to keep trying on that. But I know Jessica, Marcy, and I and and the new ladies, yes, you're on it as well. But, you know, we we've spent years now um changing how the the financials are presented, where they're presented, allowing for questions to come to us. We changed our
065whole budget. What I'm getting at is people obviously aren't catching that. And maybe if we just put together a list of all the things that we have done as a board the last three or four years to accomplish those transparency things, maybe they just don't even know that it's it's being offered. Well, and Wes last night off the record too suggested maybe like a quarterly some posts on our website and social media just getting it out to the community of um our financial information just, you know, bullet points or something really easy to understand, really easy to read. Um >> just improving that accessibility, >> right? so that if they can't come to a meeting or they don't want to listen to a meeting or um yeah, it's just like a quarterly update of how
066we're doing and something that's really easy to read. >> And maybe we can put a link in the board communications to the community that there's links there they can click on to see that so they can the the reports given out to our families. So we'll have to figure out how we get beyond that because clearly we're missing a number of folks in our community who are not parents or connected to our school district. So trying to figure out those what that looks like is going to be the challenge we need to face. And I I agree the board has done a lot of that work unless you're watching this meeting or you're here in the room you're not. So how do we get beyond the four walls of our district to connect with those
067folks who are outside? So, I think a quarterly or annual report would be a great way of doing it. Clearly, we need to do it sooner than later because people are wondering that's still a question. So, we've got to figure out how to get in hands of our families voters. >> Yeah. >> The stakeholders >> stakeholders. Thank you. >> Any other questions or comments? Thank you, Bill. Thank you. Appreciate it. >> Yeah, we appreciate your time and yeah, this is this is some heavy stuff. But thank you for letting us know that there's there's a chance if we put some work in and we'll look at those numbers again in August. Yes. Okay. >> Yeah. So, some work to do in July, >> right? Yeah, and piggybacking off of Bill's B while Jen comes over
068here. J didn't set up did send an email to the board uh thinking about ballot measure, what the language we'll use. So thinking about what was shared tonight, start thinking about what you want that ballot language look like. So when we start reconvene in August to look at the updated results, kind of have an idea of what we what the voters will what res what will resonate with our voters, our >> stakeholders. Yeah. Welcome, Jen. >> Hi. >> Do you want anything shared or not yet? >> I don't think for this piece. >> Okay. >> Um, any questions that you received for >> I did not receive any >> monthly expenses. Kianne, did you have any questions? >> I do. >> Okay. Just a just a quick one and it's it's a followup from um
069a previous question I had asked Jen. What the threshold was for when an IT component becomes a capital expenditure and or just a supplies like I think I saw a $14,000 supply for it and that that feels a little off maybe I don't know but I don't know. Um that was a combined purchase that was actually 38,000. Um it was the DAG that Kristen had presented at the prior board meeting. Um and we received approval because it's to be reimbured by >> Thank you. Yes. >> Was that clear, Carrie? No, I'll ask offline. Thanks. >> I just was wondering um the Biddler water company, the water rights, just is that just an annual payment that we make? >> It is. Yes. >> I probably ask that question every fills the the ret the pond that
070waters all of our fields. >> Yes. >> Irrigation. That's the word I love. There's a word. >> Yeah, there weren't too many notable expenses on this. Um, a lot of the expected monthly reoccurring and end of year, you know, kind of supply wrap up. Um, I did I always end the recap of the expenses over 10,000. Um, though most of them have already been approved, I don't think any of them are um outside of budget or without prior knowledge from you guys. Um there was the Flagstar payment for the TMF loan. Um Blue Sky Boseies is a monthly expense, the DHE. Um and that was approved prior for the reimbursement by EATE. Um there are three that went under or two that were the insurance claims. Um and I have received a good portion of
071that reimbursement from them. There's only a handful of um lingering um payments that we have submitted that we are ready to be reimbursed for. Um and then a few that we have not submitted payment for as the projects have not been wrapped up yet. Monthly um expense for UM um monthly expense for soaring the Viddler uh water annual expense for water rights. um a final grant spend down um that was funneled through the bond for the Clear Creek Schools Foundation reconciled to the penny that will be off the books for next year and it's not included in the adopted budget um or the proposed budget. It's still in the post state. Uh core is a monthly expense over 10,000 and I think that was it. Um, there is one a 10,575 purchase. It's going up
072here in June since we're not having a meeting. Um, thought I would just call it out now. Uh, BTS for Ke Murphy's repairs. Um, since we don't have a monthly June Q&A, just put that on the on the books that Adam's going to be hitting. >> Thank you so much. >> Sure. See any other questions? Seeing none, we'll move on to the the budget presentation. >> Okay, we can start with just the very first FY27 general fund. >> This one or this one? >> Um, we just pick one and see if it's the right one. >> Let's do that. That doesn't it look like it. There we go. Okay. Um so I'm just going to highlight uh the changes on the summaries of um that's not it. I'm sorry it's >> Oh, sorry. That's okay.
073Um highlight the changes from the proposed to the adopted. Um, and I will go by the funds that were affected. Under the general fund, there's several tabs across the bottom that are by site and location. Um, I did not highlight or call out any of those um, details because they're kind of obvious what's going to happen. salary and benefit lines are going to obviously increase as well as um the high school is going to see increases and things like that, but they're just going to fall in line with what happens on the main general fund um changes. Um so since the um hold on, I actually have a better note. Um since the proposed budget uh the district recognized modest increases um in both revenues and expenditures. Um, so the revenue increases are approximately $210,000
074and those are driven by $200,000 increase to the federal forest funds. Um, I did speak with Colton from the county and he confirmed we do expect to receive those um next spring as well and he does not see any reason why um it would not be renewed this November for um further years to come. So one day we can start to consider those federal forest funds as um more of an ongoing revenue instead of one time dollars. >> Is that okay? >> Can I ask a question now or should I wait? >> Oh, I'm fine with that. >> So in November when you find out more information, will you find out like how long we can rely on this? >> I believe they would have end an end date on it. >> Okay. Unless they
075do like an evergreen encompassing thing, but um historically they've had year annual blocks. I think it was five years the last time. >> Okay. And they give like a general range. >> No, it it it goes up and down. It it's kind of driven by our assessed valuation for the county. >> Okay. Do you feel like you would have a idea >> well of what you would expect? Our valuation this year was the highest it's been um since 20189. Um >> that was a multi-year payout. >> What's that? >> Wasn't that a multi-year payout? >> I don't believe ours actually was. I think we received the funds. I don't think we got um any retro payments of this. I think ours only increased >> simply because of the increased um assess valuation. >> So do
076they owe us I don't think that they do. Our I looked at our historical amounts and they were pretty comparable to what we got this year. Slightly lower, but because we had um lower valuation then too. Um so we increased uh the FY27 revenue line um $200,000. It had already been budgeted at $144,000. Um so that's having us receive 344,000. Um this year we received 488. So, is it a very conservative increase? Yes. Is it likely going to be more? Yes. Um, but the county um also budget is pretty conservatively because you you don't know exactly what you're going to receive. So, I think that's a fair place to put us. Um, knowing that there's a good chance we're going to come out ahead and that's going to help our bottom um line at the
077end of next year when we're looking into this. And we're also budgeting to spend a little bit more then. >> True. We do in a negative um position and I think what we would gain from that is going to be enough to offset that. So I think that's a good thing to keep in mind when we look at the bottom line here that that change is unbalanced that there's a good chance we'll >> we'll come out ahead. Um, Colton also confirmed that the uh, BOCC is going to be meeting next week and um, the IGA will be coming soon to us for FY26 and there's no reason to believe that um, the 50% wouldn't be given to the district again. Um, another revenue increase is uh, $7,99 um, dollars from the school finance act. it
078has um been finalized. So, these numbers are concrete and what we're going to receive um just pending enrollment. Um we also create increase our uh mill levy override adjustments by $2,000 um from that school finance act change. Um our expenditures increased by approximately $37,000 and that includes increasing warrant tech tuition $114,000. The salary and benefit adjustments um the steps and colas is going to be $179,000. Um the numbers presented in the past was 218 but that included the um rei revision to the uh classified salary schedule. Um, however, that had already been accounted for in this budget. So, that's where you're going to see a little discrepancy, but that's because it was already accounted for. Um, 14,000 is going to be an increase for the retention and recruitment statement. Um, I think I said maybe
07910 or 12 at the last meeting, but um, with the ASD program, the need for pairs is going to increase and that's going to be out of next year's budget. So it's going to be 14,000 for the retention recruitment statement and FA27. Um so the net impact um overall budget changes reflect a net reduction of 97,815 from the proposed budget. Um if you scroll down just a tiny bit. Um That doesn't work right. Let me scroll up a little bit. Oh, we're not on the right document. >> Do we go to the other one or a different page? >> Yeah, the general the general fund. Um, but not the one with the high school. It starts with just general fund. That's the one. Yeah. Um, so that $97,000 difference that a little more about it.
080It should be titled FY27 general fund. I see you on my not that all other times it's the lower down one. >> Yeah, that one. >> That's the one we Is that what you want? But it doesn't say that title at the top. >> Our packet has general fund board budget adopted detail and then adopted summary. for the summary. >> It's a summary. There we go. Okay. And we just scroll down a little. Okay. So, there you can see that net change in fund balance. Um the original proposed budget had a positive um ending fund balance of I think it was 55,000 and now it's in a negative deficit of 41,000. Um you can see that's comparable to years past. We had a $31,000 um deficit in 23 24, no 2425. Um that one was
081originally adopted and projected at an $800,000 loss and came in at only 31. Um this year we had originally budgeted with an operating loss of 154,000. You can see we're actually going to assumingly end the year at a um $500,000 increase or positive position. And so I feel like FY27 though it's in a negative position as of now. Um with any luck or cost savings or um an increase in that federal forest funds, we're going to in a positive position as well. And that includes the onetime increase cost for Warren Tech. >> It does. Okay. >> I have a general budget question, not to nothing to change this or anything, but for for future or maybe amending later. Um, have we ever considered um putting aside dollars for our educators that have children that are
082not at school age but want to participate in our programs um but can't afford it and have to and therefore are going to another district that provides that for a question? Um, not school age children. >> No, so like like preschool. >> Oh, like um like a scholarship. >> A scholarship or some sort of a benefit that we would be able to provide so that they can continue to stay in our district and teach instead of teaching in a neighboring district. >> Yeah, I have not. Um, I mean I want I thought of that idea when I had Noah in this thing or I don't get a discount but um it hasn't been brought up before but >> wouldn't we just put that as like basically we would take away from our preschool funding knowing
083that we would maybe have some scholarships because obviously that would take away some of the funding. So we would look at our budget and say, "Hey, we're going to receive less because we know we want to offer this to our employees." And certainly it's a discussion among the board if that's an incentive we want to offer. And I think it's I agree with Marcy. I think it's something that needs to be looked at where, you know, we lose educators in our district. We are going outside of our district because the other districts go there and we are student centered, child centered. It feels a little weird. >> Yeah. If we're um speaking strictly like the prek age uh to offset that expense, I think we would have to increase maybe our transfer in um because
084the prek account itself is still operating at a deficit. Um, and so it's it's supported through our transfer in. Um, but I think perhaps our transfer in amount has been reduced from two years ago. >> It just seems, you know, it might cost us money, >> but it's also costing us money to lose uh educators who are fully trained up and and certified and licensed and everything, >> you know, then we're stuck. We're stuck h trying to hire and train up and certify. So we're I mean it might be a wash. >> Yeah. >> The UPK program also helps considerably with offsetting that cost. >> So but that's what that's like four. What's the what is the age on that? >> Um yeah it's four. You can enroll your child in preschool at three in
085the district, but you don't get the UPK unless your child's on an IEP at >> or have two qualifying backers income. And there's a couple of other I think multi- language or English being a second language. There's a couple factors that can do that. Even Noah, my daughter, she came at um in October, but because her birthday was October 16th, I paid the full amount um for free and for so I could see a great benefit to that and I think it's a nice thing to offer our educators. So um helps with retention like you're saying, which is >> something earlier. Yeah. So, if that's something the board would like us to pursue, if you could give us kind of an example of the school district that's currently doing that, then we could look at
086modeling ours and then present it to you all. The wonder is the timing. We'd have to do that till the August 12th um what that package would look like because there could be a cost that we would incur. But that's what the board wants us to do. we can put something together, put a proposal together so that staff, whether they're classified or certified staff, could apply for that that scholarship or that program >> and then we can make sure that we have a place of structure for that. >> Kianne has her hand up. >> Go ahead, Kianne. So, we can't hear you. >> Okay, let me try that. >> There you are. >> I'm trying I you know, I'm I'm going through all of the whatifs. Um, and I think that maybe this this gets
087to the level of a bit of an employee policy situation because we don't know whether or not our program is going to be pulled and do reference um for a future at least hold one spot and if there isn't one then we release it. You know, we we hope it's a successful program and that it really is going to be good and that that's probably where we have a flex. So, what I thought I heard was what would it cost to just hold a spot for educators and if it isn't used then we can make it available to the community. >> I just think that if if our program is full can't offer it to them, right? So, our to hold a spot and make sure that we're holding and reaching out and if it
088doesn't get filled, then we we put it out to the public. We want our our program to be successful, but it's, you know, I think we have to be aware of the fact that we may be full what we're offering in how do we handle that? >> That makes sense. >> Yeah. >> The numbers are always changing so frequently though. So, >> they do change regularly. A lot of parents are shopping for preschool programs because they want to make sure their child's accepted to a local one. So, we have a lot of crossing district and areas to get their student to a program. So, I hear what you're saying. Agree what you're saying. >> Yeah. So I think again I'd like to do some research and put the prop proposal together and also my wonder
089is >> I'm curious how many staff members would want to participate in this or would it help us recruit staff members to work in the district especially in the classified realm or potential postings right now for open teaching positions that they might apply because it's availability. So I think it is an asset. I just need to get some scope of cost number of folks >> right >> parameters as far as full programs and so forth until we can present that in August. >> Okay. >> For the first meeting to get some approval because school starts very soon right after that. >> Say is it with the timing of when people enroll in preschool is it already kind of late in the game for August? It is. >> I don't know. >> It is. Yeah. And
090so I'm just being conscious of our time where we are right now. You guys maybe want to discuss in July. U maybe that's something that comes up then and then we get the word out sooner because there's potential you guys might have a conversation. >> Yes. >> So that could be part of a topic that's added to that agenda that then if we get in early July then we get word out soon enough that people would know about that option. So you're right, August is really late >> and so I think maybe using July to do that. >> It is really late. However, the numbers the ECE enrollment for the summer has skyrocketed >> really. >> So even though it might be late, it still could be advantageous, >> right? >> Yeah. >> I was
091thinking for planning purposes. Yeah. Even our educators like they probably already know where their child's enrolled for next year. Yeah, it might be a slow adoption of thinking. >> I think it'll probably cost us less than we're anticipating because of the BPK. >> Yeah, I agree with you. >> A good topic. Thank you. >> Um, speaking on the prek piece, um, this year's um, budget would have us uh, and having a net change in fund balance of only $200. that's with the $100,000 transfer in. Um, however, the resolution does encumber the fund balance that has grown a little bit. So, they have a small um, projection for fund balance and so that gets um, appropriated in the resolution. So, there is wiggle room without having to uh, amend the budget. Um, if we needed to
092spend outside of that, >> would the foundation be willing to partner with us on some of that? >> They do scholarships right now in the community for the preschool. >> Oh, okay. See, because you did for staff already, too. >> There were staff. >> Yeah. So, I think >> is it you just have to qualify for it or >> an application? I'm not even sure if there were particular qual qualifications for it. um you didn't enter a lot of personal information, but um the scholarship at our school was lo was awarded I think eight scholarships. Um and then I know he does it with other um prek or child care in the community outside of just um the school district as well. And I believe he said that he was intending to offer that scholarship
093again next year >> for step two. >> There there were there was an employee I believe that received it. So I don't think that disqualifies you. >> Okay. So maybe we can look at expanding that as a way of helping with the cost. >> Okay. Um so taking the total expenditures um and the remaining fund balance you can see the uh general fund resolution there um before we get we'll get to another page that has a summary of these for all the funds. Um if there aren't any other questions regarding general fund, we can move on to um the other funds that were affected by the changes since the proposed. Um so now if you'll pull up the one that was all other funds. Thank you. Okay, there were um no changes to the building
094fund. Um would you tab over to the one that or scroll down to the one called capital reserve fund? Perfect. Okay. Um so on the capital reserve fund, uh the changes that um you'll see here from the proposed would just be um expenditures reduced by approximately 235,000. Um, and that just includes the $235,000 uh budget being removed from the vehicles line. Um, the net impact of that is just that the um projected use of fund balance um went from a $240,000 net loss just to a $5,000 net loss. Um if there's no questions on capital reserve, we'll move down to food service. Um so food service um is impacted in the expenditures line. Um it increased by $6,61 and that's just a salary and benefit adjustment um for the steps and colas. Uh there are
095no stipens in this as that's going to be located in the grant fund. >> Um >> say all of it's in the grant fund. >> It is. >> Okay. Even those dollars that were So we'll move dollars into the grant fund to cover those that aren't covered by the grant. >> I from what I believe I think we will only have 6,000 um in those stipens. So that's going to be uh fully funded by the grant. If somebody leaves mid year and we hire somebody else on, then this fund is going to be impacted, but I didn't account for that because there's normally uh cost savings with the salary and benefits anyways. >> Thank you. >> Yes. Um so the net impact here is just a net reduction of um $6,61 from the proposed budget.
096And the last fund that was impacted by the changes would be this preschool fund. Um the revenue increased by approximately $1,500 and that was primarily driven um by a recent release of increased EPK uh contribution rates from the state. Um and based on the current projection of what we have um that will be taking the UPK um we increase that line just $1,500. Um and then the expenditures also increased uh 9,661 for salary and benefit adjustments. Um so the overall uh budget changes reflect a net position of 8,161 from the proposed budget. Um the fund balance shifted from uh positive gain of 838,366 to just $25. Um but we were still able to maintain a positive fund balance even with the compensation increase in this fund. And the stipen is not in this as it
097is all in FY26 for um retention instead of recruitment. So those are my notes on that. Did anyone have any questions on any of those changes? Um, I think I didn't tell you to pull up a document, but would you be able to? >> It's okay if you can't. >> No, I should be able to. >> Okay. In the bud in your folder. >> Mhm. And it just should be titled adopted budget resolution 2627. >> It could be in the business meeting. >> Oh, we're doing that then. I will pause. Okay. Okay. That's all I have for the adopted budget. Any questions? >> I just appreciated the budget update summary step. >> Thank you again for dumbing it down for us. >> Appreciate it. >> Good. But I don't want to spend another two hours
098on a lot to digest. Sorry guys. My goal for next year is to scale those down a little bit. >> Uh yeah, now we're on to the ECE resolution for the playgrounds. Um I'd like to say that we just got an email saying congratulations that we have received the funds or that we have been selected. >> Thank you. I should have read it directly from um yeah um for here we wanted to to just look at the resolution see if there were any questions um I know there have been questions about um Mitch had broken out um 42,000 and change that was uh some indirect funds and I just wanted to confirm with you that those were indeed revenue funds to us, not funds that we were going to be spending to make the grant
099happen. >> Yes. Um, specifically when it comes to the the DOA grant that we're um discussing, the total operating expense is 486,000 and the DOA grant does allow for a 7.5 indirect cost rate um which would generate uh 36,517 in indirect revenue to Clear Creek. If you um add that revenue as well as the uh 6,240 reimbursement revenue um for our faculty um or facility staff support that would come to that 42757 um that's proposed revenue in that um grant budget. Um grants uh fund um mostly for the direct cost of the program. So that's what the operating expenses that can be salaries, training, supplies, equipment, purchase services. Um but every program relies on the district services that support it behind the scenes. Um that can be business office doing payroll or accounts payable, um
100processing invoices, HR, technology, utilities, um audit services, and all those other administrative functions. And that's where indirects are um federally approved method uh reimbursing the district for those shared support services. Um with this particular grant um it would most likely offset um the general funds administrative costs associated with supporting this grant including um district leadership and finance. I know Wes is going to be pulled into quite a bit of those kind of conversations and meetings and then um there's often support from myself, Kristen, and Tammy. Um and that's how they come up with that percent and a fair amount to reimburse us for our work on these grants. So it is in fact revenue. >> Thank you. Any questions? If it's all right, I'll I'll read the letter. Oh, go ahead Kianne. Thank you. I
101don't necessarily have a question. I just I I've been struggling with this the last few days. Um certainly after reading the survey and looking you know in the future and joining Long Range. Can you guys hear me? Okay. >> Yes. >> Okay. Um, I I just, you know, our our community is overwhelmingly telling us to focus on our teachers and retention. And I know that this is kind of a free project, but it's not really free. Um, you know, even in the budget for the grant, it is calling out the minimum of $7,000 a year for our maintenance. And then probably in a 10 10 years or so, we're going to have replacement values. Um, and I think 7,000 is probably light because we haven't we haven't incorporated insurance into that and we're opening up
102to the community to use. I just I'm having a really hard time accepting this right now, especially with everything else going on in our community and what they're telling us. >> Thank you. Like I I hear your question or concerns. I would say that we have this public space that this grant is going to help us to complete and finish and make usable. So, working with community partners to help us finish those spaces will be valuable to us and will pay us back in dividends. Um, >> but how how does how does a playground help us get get a return? Well, it it's not only I mean this some of this is playground, but the project as a whole um prek requires outdoor space period to open a qualified preschool space. You must have those
103playgrounds. and our community partner has gone after a a a grant and we've just received word that we have been selected. So, it seems >> that's amazing and I I get all of that, but also our community partner is is our tenant and hasn't started their functionality of that program. Um, and I just have a hard time like we always want the programs to be successful and this is a tenant on a lease. What happens if that lease dissipates? >> Right there. >> This is going to improve our space. So if down the road if if what I'm hearing is that worst case scenario happens and they aren't able to maintain their lease, we still have an improved space that our children can use >> and and it is our practice right now for the
104community to use playgrounds and the spaces around the school. So again, why would we not accept these funds to improve those spaces for better outcomes for the whole? >> I think the public would receive it well. You know, they would be excited about a new playground. And while you can't put like a financial number on that, it could potentially create interest in coming to the school district um or, you know, changing where their kids enrollment is. or just people's view in general of the school district. So potentially even like helpful towards ballot measures honestly. >> Yes. >> So it might not be financial but >> right. Well and if our tenant situation falls through >> we then already have a preschool playground which is the logical fill for that space whether it's this tenant or
105a different one. So, I think that could have some long-term benefit as well. >> And worst case scenario, if we have to like buy out the remaining co the remaining cost, at least there was a significant amount that was covered with the grant. That would be worse concern. I yeah I'm I'm just I'm just relaying and repeating what the what my conversations in the community are when I'm discussing this and people are not stoked about us taking on another capital project. I'm sorry I can't say all people. I can only say the spoken on that, you know, and our survey has shown they don't want us to do any more capital um addition. I I I'm still struggling to see the the significant cost to us by allowing this partner to improve our space. I
106I think the cost is essentially $10,000 a year at this point. And I think that that's probably more than we should be contributing for something that we that our community is telling us overwhelmingly that they don't want us to do capital projects. If it leads to one additional student, it pays for itself. So we we pull in one prek and it brings an older sibling back into the district. It's paid. >> Well, no. And I I get it. I get the feeder program, but I don't think that the the playground is essential to the feeder program. I think we've done a lot as a district. We've given up a lot to supply our partner with an amazing space to complete. It hasn't been started. Um, and so I'm I'm I'm just, you know, cart horse
107things >> was the feedback for um the ballot stuff. So it said no more capital projects, but did it say no more bonds? >> Oh, did it? >> No, it didn't. It it Well, yeah, it did say that, but it also said um spend money on like teachers, people, not buildings. And we do that by increasing students. >> Didn't they say though that um they are okay with improving spaces just not on the dime of the ballot measure. >> That's kind of how I interpreted that. >> Improving spaces was >> so like improve it without using that money. >> Yes. >> We need to make it clear that it's not coming from our budget mostly. I I understand the maintenance end of it. um and make sure that it's clear that there's a grant and
108a partnership >> and and once that is up and going, they're paying us rent. >> So, it's going to pay those maintenance costs. >> A very nominal rent. >> You know what? It is paying us back in spades and other ways. It it it truly is. >> No, I get and I get that. And that's exactly why we negotiated the contract that we did. Um basically giving away the space so that we could have that feeder program into our school system. I I'm very proud of that project and and getting that going is fantastic. I just, you know, I'm having I'm really having a hard time expending any more money on a space that doesn't necessarily Yes, I know that they need to have a play schools or a play area, but it it should
109I I don't I don't feel comfortable >> we're spending on like I I heard that the potentially 10,000 in maintenance insurance. But what what is the other cost that you're concerned about? >> I think that isn't that enough of the expenditure of our staff maintaining it, putting it on our long range capital planning, you know, >> going to be greater than that. >> So Kianne, if they were already moving forward on their tenant relationship with us, would you feel more comfortable if the playground was like the second step? I would I would feel more comfortable and I would be able to argue to the community that you know this is a space. We are working towards a space. But right now I don't I don't see that we're actually working towards a space. >> That
110would be my question is if for some reason it did fall through and we moved forward with the playground do we like how what does that look like? >> So the playground doesn't have to be completed and it's in a different form and I don't have it in front of me by 29. Correct. So, it does not have to be the first thing that's done, but we would kind of be crazy not to accept this grant that will help us complete these spaces. >> Wasn't there a caveat? We could accept it. We could also give it back. >> So, we can always give grant dollars back. >> Well, I guess Yeah. Sorry. Go ahead, Sydney. I didn't mean to interrupt you. >> There wouldn't be like a a net cost on like taxes or whatever.
111It would just be like it's grand. >> Never mind. >> Yeah. >> Um if the project is only a three-year timeline and if we get the 42,000 in indirects, that would give us 14,252 in revenue for those three, you know, per year. I don't know if that gives Kerianne the peace of mind of what what expenses you think we're going to incur if that 14,000 is enough to offset it >> and that's just for managing the grant. Is that >> the indirect? >> So that's no the foundation is managing the grant and they're getting $60,000 to do that. that under the grant we are obligated 60ome hours in our facilities um employees to contribute towards that and I'm hearing now that the 42,000 is coming back to us from those 60 hours >> I don't
112that's what I'm understanding um but still you know that's a lot to ask our maintenance facilities team to do when there I mean have we asked them That's okay. Um, it it it's a lot to me. It I I would feel, and thank you for the question, I would feel a lot more comfortable with this if I saw any kind of construction happening on the space that currently is being leased. Is there is there a way for us to not allow for the playground construction? And we have discussed this before and we were assured that we could get this, but I'm not sure I see the vehicle for it. Is there a way to ensure that the construction of the main project is substantially completed before they start? I thought that there was a note
113about that. Let me >> There was there was a note and some words, but I'm not seeing where it's written anywhere in any of our like >> so we do that in ourou and still accept these funds in our business meeting. Uh the suggestion of significantly completed. >> Should we define that? >> Yeah. Or does it have to be like close to completion? Could it just be started? >> Would our staff have the bandwidth to do the building and do a playground at the same time? >> Well, it just gives them a little bit of wiggle room for how they want to manage their time. >> And they'll have different teams doing those different projects. People who build playgrounds do not typically build. >> There might be like a weather timeline, too. >> I would
114feel better about it if it was at least started building project. >> I think that seems like a fair ask, >> but again, that doesn't really affect our ability to accept the funds from the grant. But um >> accepting the funds and approving the contract, >> two different things. >> Yes. >> The funds for the contract. So >> yeah, I think accepting them would be something we're comfortable with, >> but having that discussion of we want to see progress before movement on the playground seems like it would alleviate >> Yes. Yeah. >> And and I thought that we had at least a handshake agreement that construction internally would be started before the stuff outside that they have three years to complete that outdoor work and it won't take three years >> to complete a playground.
115I I would like to just read the letter into the record. Congratulations. After a thorough review, I am excited to offer a grant award for the community schoolyards grant program in the amount of $392,559 to assist with the construction of the abovementioned project yard 26-1 clear school district schoolyards Carlson Elementary. This grant is contingent upon submission of a signed resolution and a signed community use agreement by August 1st, 2026. Your project was reviewed based on a variety of factors such as demonstration of need, design features, measurable outcomes, amount of requests, relationship to community goals, level of local match and community support, readiness to go, and clear alignment with statutory goals to address inequities in communities impacted by mineral and mineral fuel development. This grant offer is made from federal mineral lease FML proceeds. Please contact
116your anyhow the rest of it how to accept those. But again, I think it's a really big deal that we received these funds um that that we made it through the the process. So, um, if there aren't any other questions, we'll discuss this again in the the business portion of the meeting. Anything else, Kianne? >> No, thank you. Thanks for the discussion. >> Yeah, thank you. >> All right, on to theou for Colorado adventure guides. So, um, to support our outdoor wreck and tech program, uh, the administration is recommending the approval of the memorandum of understanding between Clear Creek School District and Colorado Adventure Guides to provide outdoor vocational education, industrial industry recognized certification opportunities for students beginning in July of 26. The partnership aligns with the district's commitment to expand peer technical education pathways
117and provide students with authentic placebased learning experiences connected to the outdoor rec recreational industry uh a significant economic sector of our community. Through this partnership, students will have access to professional uh level training in avalanche safety, rescue operations, river guides, swiftwater rescue. uh successful purchase will earn industry recognized certification including uh sorry I can't see all those things uh but basically they'll learn how to do a lot of these uh safety uh rescuing efforts um and they will also get car state river ice qualifications which helps them whether they choose to go into that industry when they graduate or to pay for their college education or things like that while they're going to college. It's a great opportunity for our students and it's a wellrecoognized organization here in Click Creek County. >> Thank you. So,
118it would be your suggestion that we sign this. >> My recommendation is that it's been reviewed and uh my recommendation is that it be signed. >> I just would like to know how it's going to be communicated to families that after this coming year, Warren Tech is going to be a little bit more. >> This is part of the outdoor wreck and tech program. It's hosted here at the school district. This is outside of the tech, >> but this is going to cost us more money. So, we need to make sure that we're offloading the cost of Warren Tech >> to budget for this. >> Um, this should not take away from the current allocations of Warren Tech students participating in that program >> for future years. for future years. This is a commitment through
119uh the district through enrollment and also uh where we're now Jim's created a uh partnership for students from other districts to come here >> to pay for tuition be in the program and some students are going to withdraw from their current district and enroll in their district to help pay for that too. Um, and the foundation's also helping with this funding, too. >> But these price per pods are that's the part of their fee that they're paying to be in the class. It's not correct. The district's not paying it. >> Uh, it will be part of the the t the $500 tuition cost that we pay for students who are in currently in the district. It be part of them staying enrolled in our district, pay for part of that program, but also we're recruiting
120students from outside of the district to come in. Um and uh that'll be that'll that money will pay for this expense too. It should not my I can't guarantee but my hope is that this does not take away from any students participate in more tech programs with this is to be eventually self-funded program >> and the goal the intent or the goal is to get kids to be more involved in our program as opposed to something like >> this is true. Correct. >> So that's kind of what I'm >> Oh thank you. I see what you're saying. >> The balance. >> Yeah. >> So, I just want to make sure that it's communicated clearly to families. >> Yeah. >> More intact is going to be a little bit more >> a little less going forward.
121>> Oh, again, we're not we're not taking away from students. This is encouraging kids to participate in our program. It may pull some kids away from going to Warren Tech, but it's not saying you can't go to Warren Tech because we have this program. >> That's not Yeah, I think I understand what you're saying. >> Okay. She's maybe saying like enticing the like letting the parents know and we need to start this communication very soon. Um that ne you know next year it's going to be application based and you know everything we've already talked about and so maybe that will draw some kids over to this. >> Correct. Thank you. >> I think is what you're saying. >> So overall it's more opportunities the more students really. It's just different routes. >> Right. >> Yeah.
122>> Thank you. Thank you for clarifying. >> Yeah. Any questions, Karina? >> All right, then we will >> I'm good, thanks. >> Okay. Uh on to the designated election official. >> Yes. So, >> congratulations. >> Well, it hasn't decided yet. So, the purpose of this uh this uh uh item on the agenda is to designate the election officer uh for the upcoming November 3rd, 2026 regular school district election. So, if the board uh chooses to move forward with a ballot measure, uh we need to have a designated election official u do that work. And so Jen has volunteered to be the designated elected author if the board of reh board of education would approve for her being the selected person and appoint her to have continued conversations with the county to make sure that all
123of the deadlines are met um and moving forward with ballot measure. >> How does that affect hiring somebody into Lor's role? >> This is just a role. So this is an additional responsibility that if >> the duty is assigned to it rotates >> just for this this only done with that to like a a board election hopefully that would other position because I I did serve as um the deeo for um >> your election and kads of re-election. Um I believe uh in hindsight I did not do my best during that time. I believe I was quite pregnant and suffering COVID simultaneously as well as just was throwing kind of some random documents um due to the transition with Athena. So I hope that doesn't serve as um a reflection of my capability of performing
124this. Um I have already been working with Brenda at the county um and you know getting our notice of intent over um and she's working on the IG now. There is no penalty to withdraw if we choose not to go forward with initiative. Um Kim Crawford we met with yesterday. Um, and her and Brenda are from the county are both sending me different timelines and to-do list um to keep uh on top of everything that's acquired inquired of this um required of this election because it it is different than um like a typical board election. So >> I was just asking out curiosity not to make you feel like I had a concern cuz I don't >> Oh no, that's fine. I I reflected on myself today and I was like >> I didn't know
125any better. So I didn't know you probably did though. I know there she was appointed so that was her first election as well. So okay >> it it wasn't my first election. >> Well it was you're true for the >> but I will say that Jen did an amazing job and thank you Jen and thank you for volunteering to do it this Oh my god she volunteeredish to do it again. So >> yeah, I heard guest want to do it. So no, I think thank you. I appreciate it. And you were you were always very professional with my questions and and and even when you didn't have an answer, you always went to Brenda to find the answer and that's always the appropriate thing to do. >> Okay. Thank you. >> Questions? >> I think
126that's it. onto the workers comp insurance contract renewal. So tag teaming Jennifer Kristen. >> So I'm going turn this over to Kristen and Jen to explain comp renewal. >> And the reason we're uh bringing this forward is um simply because of the cost associated with it. I like I said when we did um SIDS SIP I don't know if insurance uh premium renewals were often brought to the board or not um but they do exceed um like a contract threshold. So um we just wanted to kind of touch base on where we um have landed in our decision with the renewal and kind of explore the cost with you guys. Um we received two renewal quotes this year. Um, we received one from Copper Point who we are currently with as well well as one
127from WCF. Um, Copper Point renewal came in at 48,000 and some change. Um, the WCF came in at 36,000. Um, this year our renewal was um, for FY26 it was 52,000. So no matter the option we choose um they are resulting in cost savings. I know when you see like a reduction um from 52,000 to 36,000 um it can be more like a one time to get us to sign and that the um premiums are going to skyrocket but it's um more based on our district's eod um which is favorable at a 0.96 um and that's just due to the low claims that we've had throughout the years um and um Copper Point once they received word that um WCF had come in lower and we were considering them. They did um come back with
128a counter of 43,000 and some change. Um so we're looking between the 43 and the 36, but um we did our due diligence by reaching out to um several school districts who are with WCF. Um, we did a lot of research on WCF and found not only was the uh, premium renewal um, more favorable, but outside of the financial gain from that, um, WCF was um, does focuses really on just workman's comp, whereas Copper Point offers a broader spectrum of insurance. And a lot of school districts have moved to WCF just due to their um time claim reaction and then um their uh what is it called? Return to work programs and their dedicated claim support. Um so when we were comparing the apples to apples really WCF shined a little brighter anyways and then
129the compensation savings um of 16,000 uh were also enticing um and the claim coverage was uh the same between both providers. I just want to add that Jen really did the bulk of the research on this. >> Thank you both though. Doing this work is not fun. I know. >> I will say every year since I've been here, our claims have gone down. My first year I was shocked. It has sign decreased. Kianne, >> I just want to say that this is another fantastic example of our financial transparency that hadn't been happening prior. Right. So, thank you, Jen, for bringing this to the board and and to the public and and and explaining it all. I think no that's just another aspect of what more we can do. >> Perfect. Thank you. Okay. So, we
130will go ahead and proceed with that contract. >> We'll officially vote in the next in the business portion. But thank you for your suggestion on >> what which to select. We we do appreciate all the leg work. >> Um I got to have learned the procedure. >> Um so moving on to policy work. Uh these first reads are an emergency passing. Uh we did an audit of all of our policies and CASBY pointed out that these five policies here and sub policies were not in our in our collection of policies. Uh so I'm not expecting everyone to have read everything and understand everything. We'll come back to this in August and really dig in on on any that we we need to clear creek up on. Did you want to add? >> No, I just
131I I think you clarify that these are Cassie policies that when we did an audit of our policies, we don't have these included. So this is a chance for you to get a preview of policies we'll be reviewing in the fall to make sure that we comply we're in compliance with state statute and recommendations from CASBY and we will look at other districts policies to help guide us in making sure that we make it sensible for our public and for board of education and the district to understand. >> Does anybody have any questions? This is information only. We're not voting on policy. >> Say we we'll pass it like on an emergency first read but tonight and then >> do we have to >> say it's just it just puts them in place >> in
132case there was anything that that needed. Nothing's going to happen over the >> It does not put it in place on an emergency first read, does it? >> We've done it before. >> It still has to have a second to have to be in place. No, when when Mike gas was here, we had a few that we had to to put in place. They can be acted upon, but then we go through the full pro process of the first second read. I it's just because I haven't spent much time looking at them. >> I just don't see the utility in accepting it or accepting these right now if we're likely not going to be meeting them until August anyway. What it helps with is that there's something in place in the fall so that we
133can then have something to edit. >> Okay. >> I mean, it's not ideal. >> Like, could we just do it this way, but in August? >> I don't know what the difference is. What was the CASBY message from us? It just says that the CASBY recommends the policy and regulations that are current currently absent from the district policy manual and seek forward direction regarding the adoption of these documents. >> Okay. >> I'm at the pleasure of the rest of the board. >> Because yeah, if they haven't been there for a couple years, I hear you. It does feel a little weird to place them or whatever app or approve them without really reading through them. And what if something did happen and then we you know I don't know it just seems a little >>
134backwards especially >> I'm sorry Nikki go ahead and finish what you were saying. >> I shouldn't say the criminal history record information like as we're hiring new people that really could affect some of that. Um, so going and putting that into place seems a little bit preemptive. >> Um, so I would, yeah, I would hesitate with new hires and such to put something in that we haven't thoroughly vetted. I mean, I doubt there's something we're against, but >> yeah, >> most of these are state statute. Sorry. >> Yeah. So >> just the wording of it were >> where the >> go ahead. >> I was I was just going to say that I would feel more comfortable if we knew that it it actually would put it in place and placehold it and it would
135be in effect. But I am not convinced. But you can convince me. I wouldn't be opposed to like if we really can approve something on an emergency basis doing something for this in August. But I just don't love the idea of approving something just to have it in place. It feels like I need just a little bit more awareness before I can do that. >> Did we post this as an emergency um vote? So, we haven't put it out to the public yet. >> But the agenda is the agenda posted for our business meeting as an emergency first read. >> It is the This is me and the study session are posted, but I don't know if it says emergency. We're looking right now to see what it goes to. >> It says that we
136as a board can suspend the rules. um for this >> just says the it said the the public not just says list the policies. It doesn't say emergency. >> Is it an emergency right now >> or is it an emergency in August? >> That I don't know. >> I would feel like >> did you find the rule or something? May it just says that uh we can fast track. It generally requires a formal motion to suspend the normal policy adoption rules and again with the the intent that in August we really dig in, talk about it, redline into the business meeting and and do that formal community feedback piece. I think just because of the process, I would feel more comfortable if we approve this on an emergency basis in August >> instead of right
137now. >> Not that I have any concerns with this, just like a general process. >> And I mean, some of these I think go back to 2024, so I don't see what four months >> or less than four months. Oh my god. It'll be two months. All right, Carrie. >> I think Nikki brought up a good point and I'm wondering if Kristen had any insight on whether any of these policies puts us at a disadvantage in our processes right now >> if we don't do this tonight. >> Honestly, I haven't seen the policies. >> Okay. >> I mean, I can look at them, but or what if itaus? Yeah, that's more >> we already have I don't get hiring process go through the criminal history. I know teacher certification >> I do know >> requirements
138are already there so we're already kind of covered but if any of the wording is a little wonky >> we're aware >> compared to what we currently have like an >> so I'm probably doing all of this >> yeah I think you already are it's more contradictions in wording or >> my guess is >> minor things that could become a big thing >> we do have some sort of a policy and I can go back and find it that I have updated since join the district on our criminal history background. But I do know that the laws have changed and we are following the new laws, not necessarily what's listed in the current board policy >> and that's it. We don't have one is what they said. >> Yeah, >> there's something that talks about
139background in our hiring. Okay. >> And that's what we've updated. >> But it's there's some things about how far we go about the criminality and hold it against not hiring someone. All of that >> we're up to date. >> So what I'm hearing is let's let's hold on this in the business meeting. So, >> let's not vote on this in the business meeting with the intent that we likely will in August. >> Visit it in August. >> Not visit, just we'll do it. >> So, you someone will need to just make a motion that all of these move forward to the August agenda. That's how we handle it. >> We have to read them all. >> I would like to make a motion to make Oh my god. Motion >> in the business meeting. You
140can do it. >> Okay. >> So, you can practice your words. >> Okay. All right. Uh, any other discussion? Otherwise, we'll move. So, there are two policies that we do have on second read on the business meeting that aren't on the study session in case there were any other questions, comments about those GB, GH, and J GBGP. >> They're on the study session. >> Not on the agenda. >> I'm not seeing them on the agenda, >> but they're in their packet. >> Okay. So, yeah. So they're they're not there, but I I >> we've already discussed >> are there we have they're all both on second read. So I just wanted to offer space just in case there were any other questions or concerns there. Um say I do see future agenda items on our
141study session or is this the business? >> It's on the study session and I'm ready. >> Okay. Um, say we typically don't do it till the business meeting, but I I will welcome it since it's there. >> But are we vote is that something we vote on and so it has to be at the business? >> I suppose it is. That's why we moved it. Okay. All right. Then I would look for a motion to adjurnn. >> I will make that motion. >> Second. >> Sorry. Um, >> Yes. Lynch, >> yes. >> Mhm. >> Yes. >> North. >> Yes. All right. Does anybody need a bio break before we move into the executive session? >> I need a minute to stop. >> Yes. Okay. Um I'm going to go refill water and then Would you
142like anything, Kristen? Refill your water. >> It's full. >> Okay. >> We got through a lot. I was worried this