001like how the policies are made for the school and stuff. >> Sometimes we boss Jesse around >> Mr. Hall. Sorry, Mr. Mr. >> I'm Philly Damon and I'm also a junior. I'm also in American government and I would like to know like kind of what goes behind our school and all that, how it runs. >> My name is Sam Jones. Um I am in American government as well. I'm a senior >> and I want to just you know learn about the whole knowledge about the school and what's going behind it and I just want to learn about know everyone's different routes and like because this is cool how everyone's like connected here. I love this little >> intimidating you teacher >> American story. Oh yeah. Say >> okay. And Sam, why are you a senior?
002>> Well, I could have I could have taken it last year, >> but I took it this year. >> Learning is not a race. Learning is not >> It's not a race. I wasn't ready for it. >> Understanding is cumulative. Got it. Are there any other students back there? >> And there are a couple chairs up here, you guys. If you want to sit down and any more students I'll switch with anyone >> on the stairs. Okay, we're still we're ready. Okay, we going live. We're going live. Okay. Um, my name is Jody and I am going to call this meeting to order at 610. Would you all please stand? Face the flag. >> I aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation
003under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> Here, Dr. here >> okay next we're on to comments there are written to the board but we do have some public comments we have two of those a reminder is it's a three minute time limit and I am setting it up ready to go Okay. >> Yeah. >> Yes, we do. >> Okay. Here's what happens at school meetings. Robert's room order kind of gets me. I get all fired up. Okay. So, let's have board member comments first before public comments. Thank you. Does anyone on the board have a comment? >> I do. I just want to thank our principles and staff and teachers and everyone for getting through the next six days of school plus all the other stuff we're doing. >> I have a
004comment. I too want to thank all the staff and teachers and principles, everybody for their hard work uh this semester and yeah, good luck getting through the next uh six days, seven days shipment stuff. Um I also need to unfortunately announce that I'm going to be resigning from the board effective December 31st. It's been a great privilege and honor to serve in this role, but a lot of you know I've taken a job at Leville and I'm now spending a lot more time up there even my home still here. So, it's just becoming a a resource issue for me and sort of a fair thing to the community that somebody should be connected. still pretty connected here, but certainly getting a little more tenuous as the as the weeks roll on. Um, it's been a
005privilege and an honor to to serve in this role. I've really enjoyed working with my fellow board members. It's been we've had an extraordinary board. I think we have extraordinary staff, extraordinary students, families. Uh, it's just a great community all around. Everyone should be proud uh to be a part of organization and I especially want to give some credit to Dr. Dobburn who I don't think ever gets enough public credit for the phenomenal job he has done over the last what decade 10 years 12 years running this district and you you know there's there's a reason why we've been so high performing for so long and one of the biggest ones is is Dr. He's really been visionary. Uh you know, we go to these CASBY conferences which are coming up next week and you
006look around at other you know superintendent and get to know some and you realize what a special superintendent we have and Dr. especially wanted to thank you. >> Well, I didn't have any comments but now that you made that announcement um I want to thank you for the last few years pretty much. came on the board right after I did. Um, so I feel like all of our learning curve kind of happened together and there were some pretty big challenges right when you came on and I just really appreciated your knowledge. I've appreciated your friendship. I've appreciated your legal expertise. Um, I think it's going to be a big loss for the board to fill that role. Like I think you've provided like some really niche expertise for us. Um, so thank you. We will
007be very on the professional and personal level. >> I will miss this ro. >> I have three comments. Can I do that? Yes, you may. First, Matt. So, his role kind of on this board, we all have kind of little specialties, but he was kind of our attorney section. Not that he was an attorney for the school board, but he we could refer to him on questions. And you did that. you had so many pertinent good questions yourself that made me really think often like oh good point you know so thank you for that you will be missed and hopefully you'll come back and we'll see you or we'll see you in my bill so thank you for all >> second um I love that the students are here I wish you didn't have to
008get extra credit to be here but I understand you're busy I think you should just get the word out that this is so much fun to come and do this and Um, I've always thought it's important to have students here. So, thank you so much for being here. I think you should get double extra credit. And third, I just want to give the heads up to the board that I will be presenting in February. My passion and my um uh just a presentation how strongly I feel about the DI destination Imagination, if anybody's familiar with that, should be part of our activities um programs. U you know, we have a paid coach and because uh it's been on kind of on conversation in conversation for many years and we have given them some support but
009I'm going to push it one step further or ask that we look into that a little bit further and you know even Marco was saying we have we have a need for more activities you know some of it might be sports yes but destination imagination um if you're not familiar with it covers so many different aspects you know engineering and acting and music and it just has a lot of that in it so be prepared in February. I will have more information and maybe if you maybe your constituents have any insight or that you would like to bring to the table at that point, that would be a good time to um share either yay or nay or whatever so we can kind of have a good picture of what our community is looking for.
010>> Awesome. >> Thank you. >> I'd like to thank Matt for his time on board was a lot longer than I've been on, but I've appreciated you know your professional manner, your patience, your friendship, uh, your professional level sets up on those things. I think you're two things. The void you're going to leave is compassion and caring because that's how you approach the most niggling of topics is out of love and caring for first our students, second our staff and that's tough to tough to um my second comment is to thank Mr. Hull and Mrs. Craft. I have some high expectations for Salida High School and I've have since you guys were in grade school and they are really helping me uh understand um a scope and a sequence that I didn't understand before and
011I'm fired up and just humbled by the progress that you guys have made and the opportunities that these young amazing people have. So, thank you for that. Okay, I think everybody has Tiffany, do you have any comments? You don't have to. >> Um, sure. Well, not everybody was here at our last board meeting. Um, I did make a statement about my wise for running. Um, so I'll just quickly summarize that. Um, I'm really happy to be here on the school board as the newest member and this is my first official meeting. Um, and one of the reasons why I ran was because I have four generations of teachers um, in my family. my mother or my grandmother, my great-grandmother and my great great grandmother were all teachers. And so when I started thinking of a
012way to um kind of bounce back from some of the things that happened last year um and have some resilience um uh doing something to give back to the teachers and staff in the community that really showed um my son and I a lot of love um through everything that happened um supporting teachers and carrying on that legacy of my family, my the women in my family um was something that came to mind. Um so that is one of the main reasons why I wanted to be on the school board and I'm really happy to be here and um work for um keeping this a great school district which it has been thanks to the great board that um we've had in the past and hopefully continue to have. So thank you guys for having
013me. All right, the next item on the agenda is public comments. And I have three cards. The purple card indicates that you want to make a comment. If you didn't fill out a purple card, you can go back um by step and you can get your card and give it to me if you didn't know that rule. So, first up is Courtney Landry from Mon Salida Monasuri Charter School. Courtney. Oh, you have three minutes. Go. >> Great. I'm Courtney Landry. I work at Salida Monastery Charter School as you just heard. Um I just wanted to come and uh invite everybody to our open house. We just got our keys to our brand new building last week. Um it was crazy fast. We broke ground November 11th last year and um we did our punch walk
014through on November 12th of this year. So it's pretty fast. Um, but it's a beautiful space and we're just really thankful to be in a community that values education and we're really thankful for all of you and for all of your support and just wanted to. So, it's January 9th from 1 to 3:00 and it's 1108 J Street. So, come see us. >> Will you send us an email? >> Yeah, that would be awesome. Thanks. >> All right, you're still standing court. I'm Nice work. Okay, our next public comments guess appreciation. >> Do the next one. >> Okay, do the next one. Okay. All right. Our reading policies from Roslin. >> Hello everybody. My name is Rosyn. I'm the library person at the Salita Middle School. And I just wanted to let you know with
015the reading policies being up for discussion, I'm available to any and all of you at work, outside of work to discuss any questions you may have. I am a resource. I have past policies. You may wish students. Um I have I can show you where I look at the Colorado education policies that I follow specifically for libraries. I just I know things for you and let me know if you'd like to talk at any point whatsoever. Thank you very much. >> Thank you for being an epic library. Well, we don't like cannibalize from our city, but we did take you from the main Thank you. Thanks for coming over to our side. And then, okay, Evelyn, >> now it's me. Okay, so staff appreciation. Tiffany, if you know, I am staff appreciation. I try to
016take care of about many people as I possibly can. This is December, so this is Christmas. So, I always bring something for you. Next month, and you're going to miss a really good one. Next month is school board appreciation month and that's when I provide you dinner and I'll bring you some gifts which I have some really awesome gifts and now you're not going to be here since I picked them out for beautiful and now you're going to miss them but anyway so Christmas I did little stockings you don't get one >> I should actually I'm really happy with Jesse because he is going to come and help be a is one good foot. He will not be driving an automatic. >> But anyway, so we have No, you're fine. I got I'm used to
017walking around here somewhere. You're welcome. >> I I got more sugar for >> Yeah. So, we have Jody. >> I'm just highlighting my gift from two years ago appreciation. >> And you should get a Christmas, >> but I do have extra for y'all. Apparently, she needs them. >> So, students, I'd also like to add that Evelyn is our transportation director. So, all of the buses for your activities and getting our um students into the buildings. And then she's also a trustee for Poncha Springs for that. >> I am. >> Right. So, high sense of service. So, if you have any questions about Poncha, we've got a we've got a um trustee. >> I'm also Right. She also does this driver's license training and testing parallel park one of the littleer buses and she also is
018a state and >> so anybody wants a CDL from you already got yours. >> Okay. Thank you comments. >> Let's see. Excuse me. >> Absolutely. Next next board meeting in January, we'll have the traditional sele. end of the year, we can use that. Thank you, Jessie. Jesse, now we just have to do a little bit of Robert's rules of order and I need a motion to approve the agenda with the following changes. Table item 4A, discussion of destination imagination until February. >> I have a motion. Motion. >> Thank you. Second. >> Any discussion? fired up in February. That's all I'm going to say. >> All right. Ready for a vote. Let me agend. >> Hi, >> Dr. Hill. >> Hi, >> Mr. Hawks. >> Hi, >> Mrs. Lumber. Hi, >> Mrs. Hi, Dr. Rose. >>
019Hi, Miss Shman. >> Hi. >> Now, we have some reports and some presentations. Our first one is from our accounting company. It's time for you. >> Thank you. >> This is where it all happens, guys. >> You know, it doesn't get much more exciting than this. So, I'm going to roll into it a little bit with uh with the students in mind. Um, but every local government in Colorado is uh required to have their uh finances uh audited if they're above a certain dollar threshold. There's a at last count that I remember 178 school districts. I think that's right. and many many more uh fire districts, water districts, sanitation districts, you know, that sort of thing. Um so they all have auditors come and look at their books and and report on their findings. Uh
020for the uh for your district here, we uh we uh audited your financial statements, also your compliance with uh uh federal uh federal grants. Uh so that's part of it as well. And as a little plug uh for students that are going on to college in that sort of thing, uh the accounting field is uh always looking for new young accountants. Um it's the governmental accounting is an amazing niche because not a lot of people do it. Same thing. I work with a lot of um uh water attorneys, that sort of thing. If you're uh legal minded, uh water law is absolutely an insane Y as well. So, lots of good stuff out there. But our team uh was uh on site uh for the audit in late August this year. Uh we began by
021uh testing and walking through internal controls. Then based our procedures on the results of those tests. Uh the finance staff as usual was uh was prepared. The audit went very smoothly. Again, uh the uh overall financial condition of the district is strong and the financial statements are presented fairly in all material respects. Uh so as we have in past years, we issued an unmodified or clean appeal. >> Within your financial statements, you know, you've got the the blue books, bound books in front of you there. Um there's two uh presentations in there. Um there's the uh governmentwide financial statements and the fund financial statements. So the fund statements reflect how the district uh keeps its books on a day-to-day basis. Uh reports you receive from finance or based on that fund presentation. Then the governmentwide
022statements roll all the the the fund all roll all the funds together into a single presentation. um but also bring in such things as uh capital assets, uh long-term debt, and other long-term liabilities that are not included in the funds. Uh so the first statement I'm going to uh hit a few highlights on is the statement of net position. Uh that is essentially the that's a governmentwide statement, essentially the the balance sheet for the entire district. Uh cash and investments for the year. Uh we're up about $3.1 million with increases to the uh general fund fund balance and capital projects. Uh capital assets uh were up 937,000 as capital outlays, capital purchases uh exceeded depreciation for the year. Uh liabilities, long-term liabilities stood at 47.6 6 million million at year end. Uh of that par
023liabilities total 27.7 million which was a decrease of about 5.6 million. This represents the district's proportionate share of PAR's unfunded liability. Um now that unfunded liability we talked about this in the past uh is uh uh a current year calculation of PAR's contribute your contributions to PAR uh payment of PAR liabilities um is limited to the district's state contributions required each year. Um so you're not it's it's basically based on your how much you pay in each year. Um, so it's a it's an unusual calculation. It's a rather large number that what is new as of about a dozen years ago, but included in your government uh governmentwide statements. Uh long-term liabilities are also part of your um uh total liability to total long-term liabilities. Uh they stood at $18.6 million at the end of
024the year. uh $2.9 million in certificates of participation were added this year. Otherwise, debt service was paid according to debt service schedules. Uh this year, uh all local governments uh were required to adopt Gazsby 101 uh which is related to uh compensated abs absence uh uh accounting. Um so basically but for for most organizations that increased your liability as you had to start accounting for um uh accounting for uh sick leave which often was not included in your long-term liability if it wasn't um if it wasn't payable. Um but now they've changed the definition. So anything that uh that is likely to be paid at some point even if it's not paid at separation is now part of your liability and I think that increased your your liabilities in your prior year fund balance or
025decreased pardon me by about half a million dollars or thereabouts. Okay. Um net position or ending equity in the governmentwide statements uh increased about $1.9 million. Much of that was related to uh uh parah uh pension liability approvals. Um as you uh you approve those over when there's changes from one year to the next, you approve those over about 5 years or so. Moving on to the general fund. Um in the in the schedule I provided you or the summary of my presentation, we show a ratio of your unassigned fund balance to expenditures. Um and this indicates that uh your unassigned fund balance would cover about 52 days uh worth of uh worth of expenditures for the year. um really a strong position for you all to be in that because again we base that
026we're basing that ratio on unassigned fund balance. So that means everything else from restrictions to other commitments have been covered already. Okay. And that's about um uh just shy 15% of of expenditures. Uh looking at a few funds specifically, general fund of course is your main operating fund. Uh fund balance was up 738,000. Uh is it was budgeted to go down about 652,000. Uh revenues were up about 8.3%. Uh which mainly included uh increases in property tax revenues and state equalization. Uh expenditures were up about 6.9%. uh federal grant activity very similar uh to last year. I think it was about a $50,000 difference which in those kind of dollars is our first one. Uh capital projects fund balance was up $1.8 million uh with uh $2.9 million spent on capital projects the year. Uh
027internal controls uh we had no findings this year. Last year we had a a relatively small finding actually had no impact on uh uh equity uh the finding we had last year but that was corrected very quickly. Uh again no findings at all this year. Uh also a big component of our audit is the uh federal grants compliance audit as I was talking about um that has been so so this year your financial statements look a little bit different or the uh the the booklet that you received uh because the federal grants are not included in that yet. It's going to be a separate presentation. So usually the the guidance that we are required to follow and we're we're required to follow this year's guidance even though it didn't change at all. Um usually that
028is released in May. Uh this year it was released a week ago. So with various uh slowdowns with the government, we know about the shutdown but then things were slow rolling out before that. So, we'll be issuing a standalone report with any luck um by the end of this month, but if not, uh pretty early in in January. Um but we had no compliance findings. Again, we looked at Head Start. I think we've looked at Head Start every year because that's your your main uh program uh in past years. We did look at ESSER funding when it was new new grant dollars as well. Um but no no concerns there. No compliance findings. uh no issues of internal control over grants. Um so again, great work. Good job Sheila. Uh went very very well. But
029really want to express our appreciation um to to your your finance staff, to Aaron, uh to everybody here that that that prepares for the audit. Uh, and when we, you know, we send this laundry list of things that we need to audit, it's there and ready for us when we get here so we can hit the ground running and and get it done. And it's it's always a clear indication of of what kind of shape uh the district is in and the finance department is in when when all that stuff can be provided and we're just asking clarifying questions as we go. So, another good audit. Nice work to nice work everybody. Thank you, Eron. But I'm happy to answer any questions if anybody has any. >> You said we have essentially 22 days in
030reserve after >> 502. >> Yep. Yep. I think it's 52. >> Yeah, that's all right. >> Do you think that's a a good number or too many days? >> Um I wouldn't say it's too many, but it's a strong number. Um I I I think you were just shy of 15%. Um one of the uh budgeting requirements is that you you don't budget for more than 15% of unsigned fund balance. Um so you're right at that number which means you're in good shape. Um could it be spent spent on if any you have anything worth spending it on? >> Wanted to highlight since our union president is here Mr. middle school. Um when the when um the government shut down, I freaked out. And so I came to Erin and I came to David and
031I'm like, "What happens if we don't get our head start funding?" And he was able to explain to us that we would keep those doors open, we would be able to pay for the incredible staff that's there. Teresa's there. She is. Yeah. So and and because we have that healthy I wanted to fill in a couple of acronyms for our high school guest today. Para is pension for our retired teachers and staff. So our teachers and staff do get a pension. Um I also wanted to ask you Tom, what percent of all the school districts that you or let's just throw all those public entities. >> What percent do you think get a clean audit? Well, most of them get a clean opinion. Um, I would all right, which is different from there being other
032issues as well. So, you can and sometimes that clean opinion happens because we help you get there, >> right? I mean, we're independent, but having a not clean opinion means you're refusing to make corrections we think you should make. Okay? >> Right? Um but other things that go along with that is uh you can have a district could have a lot of internal control comments where they're not following appropriate they don't have appropriate policies over cash management over how they use their grants over over various things where so clean audit and then a dozen >> findings not so good. kind of we're kind of teachers bet. >> You're right there. We've got we've got a couple favorites, but you guys are in good shape preparation wise. You're in great shape finance wise. >> You're neither
033have massive massive reserves that you're not spending, right? Um or and you're not starving either. >> Right. So, I want to highlight some executives that need to be thanked for this. Those are our principles. So Teresa right back there from early childhood early childhood center. Corey right there. I've got middle school is Michelle. I've got Alts back there with service. And I've got high school with you. But also grants with Sheila >> and budget manager budget and business manager Aaron. And then of course you don't make it easier because you get so many grants and go after Nicholas times. So, highlight to all of you guys for doing such a great job. >> For sure. >> I do want to get I do have a big question. >> Sure. >> And it's it's got multiple
034colors. So, our long-term debt is 18.6 million, >> right? And that's the bonds. We have a best grant which Courtney Miss Landry over there with the Monasury School got a best grant. The state helps us build our buildings. So, Slide High and then we have Longfellow and then we have our for this building. Um that is that's and they're they go they finish off in 30 33 and 34. Is that too much debt for a district our size? Is that right the right amount? How how do we assess that? Those are for facilities just living in it for that. >> You know I worry. So how how do you see that? >> Sure. Well I mean I think you you at the the reserves as well and see that you're not from year to year
035you're not eating into those reserves to pay your debt service. Okay. >> Um this is also mostly um non-bonded debt, right? I mean you have you have some go but like the this the cops are all based on current operations. So that you have the the attorneys and the really, you know, smart numbers guys looking at that saying, "Hey, you you as a district based on your your your student population and what you're getting in for uh per people revenues, you've got the wherewithal to cover. >> You're not sweat. You're not losing sleep. >> I'm not." >> Okay. And you know, you have been you've been our um accountant for a or auditor for a long time. So you just get a little swag. >> All right. Um, purple down when you put that sticker
036on your water bottle. Go Spartans and then tattoo. >> All right. I'm not telling you where that's going. >> Those accounts. Okay. Any other any other discussion? >> Any other questions or comments? Okay. It is an exciting field. You guys should consider it. >> All right. I know they're laughing. They don't believe. >> Can you raise your right hand? Raise your right hand. Look, he's an accountant and he went to Mount Princeton Hot Springs today. >> That's right. >> That's what an accountant is. >> This job is in demand. >> That's right. Thank you so much. >> And thanks for the Thanks for the hard work. >> All right. And then we have um every month we have specific Thank you, Sheila. >> Thank you. Thanks, >> Tom. >> This one is going to be
037really interesting for our high schoolers. Cory, you are up next with for your detailed report for Longfellow Elementary. Did you all raise your hand if you went to >> So she's working on the >> tech. >> Beautiful. You guys welcome everybody. Tough act to follow. Coming on the heels of the accountants. Do my best. Uh I've also been asked I always tend to be long-winded. So that's like shuffle kind of try and keep it short. Uh this is our beautiful school. This is kind of one of our just focuses that we talk about a lot. Every kid safe, every kid learning, every kid loved. And as long as we stay focused on that, uh that keeps us successful. She asked me to tug my ear, but she's not like >> we need the clicker. Uh,
038and so this is and it's tough when you do these reports year after year and then you have new members and you want to keep it fresh, but you also want to make sure our our returning or our new members are up to space on what we're doing. And so this is just kind of a quick 10,000 foot view of what we do at each grade level. uh kindergarten we start you know it's really about social emotional is is learning to be at school learning to be a friend learning to raise your hand all that kind of stuff uh and letters numbers foundations of reading and you go down that hall it is a you have to turn your brain developmentally those kids are still very egocentric and are very the world is about them.
039And so kindergarten is a beautiful place. Teresa does a great job of getting them ready as do all of our preschools and stuff around. Uh and then you can go ahead and enroll if you want, Kim. As it grows, you know, we get to our fourth grade there and developing time management on their social emotional. We're trying to prep them and get them ready for Aaron and Michelle over there. uh organization, independent learning, collaboration, communication. Right now, our fourth graders are gearing up for their Hall of Fame presentations. And so, if you haven't been, I'll let my name and I'll you can send out. It's a it's a really fun opportunity to come walk around in our building. Uh each of the kids represents a historical figure. It's kind of like a wax museum where
040they hit the button and they give you some facts on that person, they dress up as that person and it's just prepping for those years to come. Uh specials, I want to highlight specials because my friend Chris came here. We kind of got hit by the sick today with some of our staff and so more of them wanted to come. We were we had doors open and that kind of stuff. But specials is and it's I really have grown to like the name specials because it gives kids an opportunity to shine where they maybe don't shine in other areas. Not every kid is good at math. Not every kid is good at reading or writing or whatever, but specials gives them a place to where that that kid that maybe doesn't fit other places has
041a chance to shine. And so thank you. Uh so these are our grade level teams as I am highlighting this. You know a lot of it being small town and us knowing each other and you know just like Sam I don't know if Sam remembers me but I he was little and it's just like it's great to see you know you like pulling out chairs for people. Those are these these are the kinds of things that we want to raise in our community. And you know, something that's part of my announcements, it's just teaching them the value of please and thank yous. You know, in this day and age is we're all, you know, we have our differences of opinions and that kind of stuff, but man, please and thank you goes a long ways.
042Uh on our kindergarten team, I'll just highlight a few things. We have two new members. Our first is the same crew as last year. Our second's the same crew as last year. Our third has two new members. Our fourth has two new members. Our special has one new member. Uh special ed has one new member. Our title and math intervention has one new member. ELELLL's the same. Uh our speech OT's the same. And our pair professionals have three new members on that crew. Office team pretty consistent. We've all been there for a while. Kelly Gary's our secretary. she with Emily jumping over to admin Gary's been and she's wonderful and she helped me put this together and you know it's just she's just we had it with Emily and we have it with Kelly too
043those kind where they've got some time and some bandwidth and and just that creative ability to hand some things off to them custodial is always a moving target I'd like to especially highlight Sean Gary and Josh Gilbert because like you know they're kind of our unsung heroes of our buildings uh you know what they do for kids and and just making our buildings and keeping things you know as we have sick going around and all that kind of stuff and when you get the you know I hear them do the we have a wet cleanup in the nurse's office at at 2 o'lock and I hear them doing that phone call to our custodians and they don't you know I can just feel them on the other end of the line like but they do
044it. Uh our kitchen staff, Bobby Newell down there at the bottom is our kitchen manager this year. She's a fantastic human being and just loves and cares and knows about all the kids. We've had some folks move around. Lisa and Zavi are both new to our staff. Uh Lisa's had kids go through our school district. She her son has graduated. He is successful. So it's just that community thing. uh lunch and recess crew and paraprofessional, they kind of wear a couple different hats on them. But over the years uh just this year by luck we have three fellas that are out there and it's and it's it's just it's interesting and it's you know they if I look at our data and I we analyze our behavior data as part of our positive behavior systems
045and those meetings and stuff the biggest the number one issues happens at unstructured times that shouldn't be a shock to everybody uh and recess is one of those And then, you know, as Teresa highlighted in her report last week, play is so important. So much is learned through play. And so, you know, those guys getting out there and actually working with the kids on how to play football. We have a new gaga pit this year that uh LPA helped bring in and it's really cool, but it requires a lot of management. Aaron's laughing over there. He probably hears about it at night. it does cause conflict and how do you manage that and and so Dean Lane she's at home because she's taking care of her daughter but she uh just working with our recess
046staff and little adjustments you know so we're fourth grade we said okay we got to take a step back and we got to look at your class can be in the dog up on the day you have PE and some of those sorts of things uh with so much new you know one thing that we just hit is we get so busy and we go go go and just and us connecting as a staff is important. And so at our last staff meeting, you know, as Miss Kelly Hamilton, our counselor, and Dean Lang and myself were discussing, we're like, man, we need to kind of come together. And then Miss Lang had this map idea, which was really cool because it just lets us see who we are. So over here's our Colorado map and
047we got the US and then we got our international and where you were born, where you went to school and coolest place you've ever been. And it's this especially uh is a really cool thing. This is Salida right here. And so just the number of staff that are from Salida. I highlighted that a little bit last year, but the number of natives. And so over here you can see some of our staff's number of staff internationally born and raised in the slide of vicinity is 10 21 for Colorado natives which is a cool thing. It it kind of builds that community school. We took it because our staff meetings, our teachers, but then we put it up into our workroom and our paras and our lunch staff are all we've got our stickers out there
048and they're wanting to add because, you know, it's all of us working together. Uh so on that with all the new staff, we uh one of one of my goals for the year was just like creating systems. I'm a systems guy, David. Sometimes he's like, "And you're a systems guy." uh new hire packet identification of mentor and int induction ASAP access to the classroom. And so that's a big one for anybody who's been a new teacher is you're coming into a community and the first thing they want to do is get into their classroom, get their keys, get their computer, start diving into the curriculum if they're worth their grain of salt. And so that was me over the summer. And you know, thanks to my staff for for my existing staff for saying, "Hey,
049come on out, let's go have a coffee and uh and let's discuss, let's get into the curriculum, let's look at this sort of stuff. And so just that that team mentality has been really great. Uh I'll touch more on that new hire packet. Uh and then prioritizing new staff members for initial observations. That's been done. We're getting some uh we're getting our middle of the year dibbles and right now we're in our NBA assessment. And so just kind of doing that quick So, we're on on assessment. Good job. We're doing a really good job. So, I'm proud of it. Multi-tered systems of support uh implementing class-based interventions before bringing up students to the MTSS team. I can go into MTSS. I won't go too deep into it, but this is one. And as leaders, you
050got to be willing to admit like, oh, I pushed too hard on this one. And that kind of stuff. And this was one I I leaned into. staff is doing great. It's just, you know, education is one of those things, like it or not, it change is a constant. And so, this was one, you know, and it's having varying levels of success. Some teams are really good at it. The schedule is a tough one. All these sorts of things. Go ahead and hit it. Okay. So, I have that what the new need to know. Uh, this is an example of Kelly Gary. I was like, "Hey, I've got this hairrained idea. I've already developed this document. Can we start putting it into a handbook?" And so then she started putting that all into a handbook.
051Here's just some examples of the things that have gone into it. This is a 10,000 foot view. You know, even talking to Dave is a good idea. You know, there's a district staff handbook and ours needs to tuck in underneath. We don't ever to have confusion on that because the district level handbook I probably won't say it right but it feels like it's there's some legal ramifications around that that we want to make sure that we're honoring as far as HR and this is just more of the nuts and bolts how to you think of a new teacher for a classroom teacher for example they're learning five new curriculum you do your social emotional literacy math social studies science so they're doing those and then we've got our uh student database system, Infinite Campus. Then
052we have our leave and HR system, Time Clock Plus. And those are just systems that they have to become familiar with. And that's not the fact that when you go on a field trip, you got to bring your roster down to Miss Betty. And it's also nice to have another roster for the bus drivers. And those sorts of things are chipped. It's drinking from the firehouse. So, I'm proud of those people. They're doing a good job. And I'm really proud of the veteran staff for wrapping around these people and showing them some love. Uh, so one of our big things schoolwide behavior, you see your girl there service, uh, is our roar. Uh, but so this one over here is our paw pride. That's one that I kind of adopted and we we tweaked it
053so it fit into our award. So when a kid gets a paw pride award, it was an acknowledgement for above and beyond. And we just put in there what is really showing respect, ownership, always safe, responsible. So that part and if you click on the link, this is some of our students explaining >> elementary The whole school we have remember and show responsibility. If an adult sees you following these expectations, you might have a purple ticket. >> Purple tickets go on your class's couch, usually right outside of your classroom door. >> At the end of each week, we count up how many tickets are earned. On Thursday, Mr. Trump announces the class that you may have noticed that this year there's a big next color theometer to show how many tickets. >> Our whole school
054will work together to earn 5,000 tickets before the first trimester is over. If we reach our goal, the full school will earn a special party in the gym. So get out there and earn those tickets. >> We are the mountain gear. >> So that's our system. That's our schoolwide positive behavior system. There's a lot of research around it on teaching the expectations that you want to see as opposed to reacting to misbehaviors. And you know, I always make the the analogy of my dad teaching me to change a tire and, you know, basically throwing the jack and the wrench at me and saying, "Go for it." And then cussing at me every time I did something wrong, like, "You're going to kill yourself if you put the jack there." And that kind of stuff. And
055so this is more like, "Okay, here's a jack. Let's talk about how the jack works. Let's that kind of stuff." Down here in the yellow is is a new program or I guess it's kind of a returning program, Chris. it was in existence years ago. >> Uh Miss Schmeckle came up. She's like, I think we need to bring peer mediators back. And so it's a leadership opportunity for some of our fourth graders. They are out at recess for kindergarten and third, if I remember correctly. And it's just fun. They are working through problems with kids. Chris is keeping some data on that. How many problems they're working with on kids, how's that look, how's it feel? It it gives them a sense of pride. We're kind of wrapping up our session here, you know, in
056a few short days and then we're going to have another crop coming through. It gives them those leadership opportunities. It's and and we've done this on so many different levels where if we have a kid who is a handful in the classroom for whatever reason, it is amazing when you put them with younger kids how they turn into a role model. And so we're just always kind of playing that back and forth. Uh and this is some of our staff, you know, on what makes Longfellow so special. Right there is Miss Bobby. She's our kitchen manager. It's the food, it's the kid, it's the people. Uh Maggie is one. And then I, you know, we kind of tried to mix some old and new. She is uh our ELLL teacher, people, staff, kids, and parents.
057Uh and then on far right over there is Hayden Snider. He was one of our Alpine Achievers uh members who came in and came as a pair professional. Staff really connected, cares about their job, best intention for the kids. And so like you'll see in there, everyone said staff people, kids, uh community partners, we have a ton. Everybody reaches out. This is just a laundry list and there is somebody that's forgotten on there. And if you're listening in internet land, I am sorry. Tried to we try and quantify everybody. Uh you know, our fire department came out and had a a session with our kindergarteners this year. Uh that next one over, you see one of our officers uh and she is working on our bike rodeo. They something that uh Sean Gillis organized years
058ago that just puts a helmet on every kid and works to teach them that. And that is a multi- agency one. We've got right there, ML. And she's with Guidest Stone. She does stuff with our classrooms. Kids go out to the garden. And I believe that one, if I remember correctly, is one of our rotaries. And Rotary comes out every year and they do a book give. It used to be a dictionary. And then we kind of started feeling like that's a little dated, but kids really want chapter books. And so they made that shift with us. And so tons of community organizations. I mean, I could go on and on about one of these LPA. One that I just need to say is like incredible year in and year out, you know, from our
059dog outfit. We're going to get a funnel ball that we've had that we're just waiting to get put in. And they just do so much for our school. And this is the question. >> Okay. I'll be a little >> a little on PC here, but one of our other teachers like the kids at our old school called it don't drop the baby and it is this funnel >> and it's got three shoots and so the kids shoot a ball up into it and then it comes out one of those shoots and the goal of the game is to catch it so it doesn't hit the ball and you shoot it in. >> Cool. >> I know. I know. >> Actually, Corey, I do have a comment. I should have brought it because before I came
060to the meeting, apparently Gardinho handed one of my drivers an envelope. >> Okay. >> From Luca from Miss G's class. >> Okay. >> Saw the Santa hat thinks I'm like really connected to Santa. Um, in this letter he said, "Miss Evelyn, please. I don't like the bus seats. They're too hard. We need comfortable seats in the buses with a PS4. And and that's a great example. That's part of the beauty of elementary school. And and for my high schoolers, yes, you still will get acne and cold sores into your adulthood. And an elementary kid will point it out every single time. What is that red thing on your face? Why do you have that? Like my little moles in the back. What are those? Why do you have those? And uh and you just it's
061raw. >> Well, you need to get a you need to get a program going because >> you got to get a program going because he said he was going to help build it him in his class. >> Um >> uh 332 no 432. Sorry, wrong number. 432. I think that is I was at 431. We added one. Uh I think it's just been one since then. We're kind of on that slow creep. It perks up, perks down, perks up, perks down. >> Because for a while I felt like it was every board was like cramped on space on space. >> That was my first year. Yeah. And we were at that point we were hitting 460s. And you know the conversations you guys aren't a part of is David and I and David saying, "Okay,
062Our biggest limiting factor is the cafeteria and we were like we're getting close and now some of that breathing room and stuff but you know still it's it's just tough with the best grant and Courtney you'll find this Courtney's Courtney and I usually connect I don't know after school ends and I really appreciate all that they do over at Monasuri and they have the same message as families sometimes cross in between like yeah Monasuri has expectations and she has the same Longfellow has expectations too. >> But uh yeah, so >> couple things. Um yesterday I was walking by Longfellow and it was recess. >> Yes, >> I believe it was Hayden, >> but he that was out there was the monitor. I think just for the picture that was on your court, but he was
063hyper. It was just like um the Charlie Brown illustration of chaos that was around him and he was just drinking it in. It was just beautiful to see. >> And I also really thank you because um at the beginning of the school year, you know, we were worried about all the new staff at Longfellow. It had been stable. You know, you guys were top 1% of grade schools in the state. All this kind of epic Longfellow love. And it it looks seamless from a board perspective, but I know you put a lot of emphasis on how to bring in the fold. And I I can't I can't be more appreciative. >> I take a little credit of that, but like really it's the veteran staff, >> you know, being a part of a team. That's
064one of the strengths of Long Fellow is teams. And so, you know, I >> you you guys, you know, you have the PLC's and those kinds of things. We don't what you don't hear is that most teams are eating together or connect running into each other's rooms during lunch during that time. That's not the contracted time and we just we truly love and care about each other and they're looking out for each other. >> Absolutely. Start. >> Yeah. Okay. >> Excellent. Anything else? >> Any questions from um high school Spartans? >> I've got just a few things just for campuses. I don't know if there's any from the others, but I want to make sure Jeremy had a chance to introduce himself. He's our intern um athletic activities director. So Jeremy, I wanted you had
065a chance to stand up and say hi and introduce yourself. Yeah. So I think most of you probably read my resume or seen the article in my paper. So I won't go into all that. Um I just kind of want to let you know um I don't have to work. I'm retired. I live comfortably on my retirement. I only do things that I'm extremely passionate about and I've always been passionate about helping develop young people. Um, so I thought I was going to take some time off and just hike, which is my other passion. Uh, but this opportunity presented itself at a school district that I've always been very impressed with and in community that I spend a lot of time in that I enjoy. Uh, so I jumped on it. Um, and so just
066so you know, I'm extremely passionate about it. I'm drinking through a fire hose right now, learning everything. Um, but extremely excited to be here, excited to work with all these young people and help develop programs we have here. So, thank you for the opportunity. >> Would you say your last name three times for me? >> Greer. Greer. Greer. >> But I'll I'll respond to Grier all day long because I had to deal with it most of my life. So, >> next come to me if you're concerned. Okay, >> February we're doing DI. So >> all the smarties are going to be >> I was in the DI program and it was amazing. >> Come back in January too. >> January too. >> Okay, coach. Yeah, >> that was >> Thank you so much. Um I'll
067just real quickly Aaron's got a lot. He's already gone through the budget. So, we'll just start. Was there any additional questions you wanted Aaron and his team go through? >> I would just say too thanks to Tom for coming. You're supposed to come last month. Had some stuff come up, but um they're great to work with them. It was the fourth year we've worked with them and they've been great every year. So, um and I was Yeah, we didn't It's a stressful week when they come in, especially this year. I think David was like the two weeks leading up to he's like I don't think you're quite normal right now. I was like I'll be fine. Just give me some time. Um so but it was yeah it was it was a good experience but
068I hope to answer any questions about that. >> I just want to pass on one of the lead auditors who's on site. Um when they came got done with the week she said it was the easiest audit they've ever done. They're further ahead than any audit they've ever done. It was that clean and neat. It wasn't just kind of in order. It was the most in order. So we do that. >> It's an unusual thing, but as a superintendent, I think it's important. I check all of our cash every month. So they have to do um they have to look at what our books say have and then what the banks say we have. Um I actually checked through every one of those, all those millions of dollars. And this was the first month ever
069in years where I came down to Aaron was like, I I actually don't understand every single number and every comma is in place and every there. That's the first time ever. So, things are in good good shape that way. >> Super uncomfortable. >> Let's give him another hand. >> Savannah. >> It's really important you guys are tracking that. We can talk more about CASBY because that's about our main mission. Um, academics really starting to understand. I want to get you back into the WHHHHW and point at that poster. something at CASBY. I want you to get better at that. We're in good shape. We get to choose what we want to be great at as a district. And so, she'll be in February kind of talking about that, but I don't know if there's anything
070specific, Savannah, you want to add or anybody else. >> I just was very impressed that your May deadlines are all going to be accomplished by February. >> Yeah. >> Thanks. >> Very, very pleased. It's not just that we were thinking just the first W what do you teach would be done by May and we're actually going to have the first two aspects which is really a true guarantee about which is the assessment if you've done education for a long time to have all the assessments in place will be pull off it's amazing it's going to open us up to do professional development we all would like to do for our staff so super happy about that >> yeah and like I said you and April I didn't have a lot of faith in you and
071anybody being able to work with all the personalities, all the levels, all the curriculum, all the technology. I was like, "No one can do that." Her name for all pulling up so good. Yeah. >> Round of applause for Savannah. >> I want to deal with a few other things. I'll be able to talk to you. It's not public yet. We're still trying to get through drafts, but the initial drafts of our newest enrollment studies in um trying to understand that space, which is super critical. We learned in the work session about how budgeting goes. We will continue to see a 1%ish increase in our community. I don't think that's going to change. Um this year that 1% all went over there to Courtney's house and so but the community is of its own is still
072growing. Um and so we that will still continue to pressurize our system but in a positive way. I think we've got plans in place. So I just wanted to let you know that that's kind of there and we can talk more as I get the details. We're looking at the ins and the outs trying to figure out who's going to online. Um, one of the online schools in the state is considered a Boseies, which is not what we call legal, trying to fight that legally. Um, they're trying to co-op that name to draw in students. Um, their performance is miserable. I don't want to sit show the community how other people are doing well, but that might be something we're losing a few of our high schoolers there. Not like we see in places like
073Summit where they're seeing 150, 200 students losing to these things. We're seeing five, six, seven um more in that range. We'll call 10 to keep it easy. But a lot of work going into that. So you guys will have good predictive qualities. So >> I mean I did notice the conference that there were a couple of sessions on how to start a strong online enrollment program >> for your district. >> Is that because that's kind of the state trend? Um, it's because these online paras I don't have a single good word I can say about them ethical. Um, I think they're illegal. I think they're unethical, immoral. Um, I think they're robbing. If you want to do your own thing, do your own thing. Substaining taxpay dollars and tanking kids. Their results are horrendous. Um,
074but that being said, it's part of the way the systems run. We have had an online school. We started one during CO, but it was noting for our kids. So, I would not support that space unless we're going to go bankrupt. I just think we proved it and again we had Longfellow bring it up. You would like the fourth grade scores as you're exiting that building. That is the best option you can make in the state of Colorado. You cannot go a different place, a different space. So >> and if our kids do want an alternative high school or an alternative middle school, we have great options and >> so sorry I got passionate about that. The answer is we're not seeing too much of it. >> We're tracking it. your school districts like Son
075and Jeffco they are being it is it is a significant factor that's driving all the decisions to figure out how to deal with that competitive space >> yeah I was surprised to see multiple times discouraged >> David I want to say we we researched a little more last year too and Durango actually cut their program because they were actually losing money like they the amount they were bringing in wasn't feasible and they lost a ton of students on their overall count um but they cut the program entirely because they felt it was financially not worth it to do it. So I don't know I think if we're going to look into that we'd want to dive deep into why uh other districts have done gone that route. It's a there's districts that are in a
076lot of question marks right now finances. So it's a great thing can look into it but I would just say co was the great experiment for decades like oh technology is going to make this happen and then we ran co and everyone went to other dining tables and it was not a win. it was not successful for kids. just I was just going to say financially it's not good but it's not good for kids right um you know I I don't have the data but just anecdotally um often our kids that are struggling or challenged at the high school in a traditional high school and go to an online program fail miserably right and then they come back to us after a semester to an online school in a worse spot um before they left
077because now they're credit. Um they don't have the supports that they have in our high school with tier one, tier two instruction, you know, staff that support them every single day. So, you know, I've been down the road school district and it's not >> so good question. >> Well, I mean it's not something I was excited about, but I was just surprised to see it's clearly how many >> it is. >> Well, yeah. And the other thing is too, if you're a school district, right, and you're losing kids to outside online programs, it makes perfect sense to be like, we need to create our own Right. It's not for kids. >> It's not for kids. >> They're losing out on the social and emotional development that they did in school. >> On that note, I
078do want to note the principles may be aware, I guess, there was a little bit of chatter on some Facebook stuff from Healthy Kids Colorado survey. That data did go or that test assessment did go. Um, so I just want to make sure comment would do it. It's the only data piece that we have preventive to say how are the human beings doing in our space obviously we're highly responsible for any bullying and negative things despair substance abuse particularly in a community it's important to know that in our community kids are exposed at a higher rate to drugs and alcohol and substance use than anywhere else in Colorado or than the state norm I guess is a better way to say that state average and we see higher usages of substances in so wildly successful
079these are important things um and of Of course, if we would like a lot of people, it's because it's scariest things like active shooter, but most likely we're at graveside because of substance use and a rollover accident. We've had two rollover accidents impacting kind of our student body this year. No one's passed away that was a student of ours was a student connected. This is our number one concern is the keys, the car keys. It's the most likely place that we end up graveside or hospital. Second place is despair. And we mix substance with either one of those accentuates those things. And so I just want to make sure we always name those. And so this is that space. I know not everybody agrees with it. Did have our psychologist, lead psychologist went through the
080survey this year and pulled out any test or rewrote test questions. Um those tend to be the test questions that make a lot of other people uncomfortable. And so she went through and tried to find ways to pull up ones that may have a negative perception or might be unnecessary or there's different things. So we had her curate that space, but it is the only thing. It's also the number one piece of data we have that brings in outside grants. It is there's nothing more important data wise for us to access exterior money and bring it in to support whatever program we want for our community. And that healthy kids Colorado survey data. We are doing the smart source. It's all run by the anshoots foundation um which is important to me that's run by
081high high reputation highly regarded other words um uh organization smart sources in addition that's more the wellness side. So think questions nurses might have question nutritionists might have because part of our priorities this year is to rework our wellness policies which is going to be around those and so I wanted some more data that the counselors recommended to try and see if that helps us get to right policies or anything else what's really going on for kids I just wanted to name that I guess there was some chatter about that so I want to make sure people were aware of it um and obviously anybody can always come and talk to me and talk through it it's one of those opt outs you wants to take it all. There's no requirement. It's the only thing
082we have to figure out if our kids are okay or not. Um, yeah, we mentioned so have that ready, but I already mentioned Sam was there. You went to Globals long time ago, my family's team. And then I just want to say thanks to Matt um on so many levels. You came a really tough time um in our district, things that you helped me understand our need for new lawyers. I don't would have made those shifts and those changes when we needed to. You helped me navigate that. I learned a couple things that I didn't know. I didn't know. And then a couple other times where I was elevated and I was able to go, Matt, I need you to to be the stable one. So, you helped all of us in I appreciate learning
083stability. It's a loss for us. Just to let the board know the way the policy works. So, it's December 31st is the end January board meeting. We'll post it. will take an action to post that vacancy. Um, and normally we have here's what we want for people who are interested, which is norally essay of why do you want to do this February board meeting or work session we'll be having whoever submits a letter then you'll be able to talk to them and wants to take action. It can be awkward because you say you have 10 people interested you have to publicly >> choose on somebody and vote and um >> at the February meeting >> the February board meeting will employers and make sure that's probably that's what I would expect. January then is announced
084in January you would post vacancy 30 days later 30 days you would select people interested and that's all I had. Was there anything else reports come around? Anything else you guys need to check into or questions you might have? Okay, this ends the more entertaining part of our board meeting. Principles are excused. Mr. Greer, you're also, you know, you're welcome to stay. Everybody's welcome to five minute break. We'll see you later. So when you said you were the >> at the middle school I was like the papers. >> No it's on my murder in the paper. >> We love I love library mommy where she's like I'm a proud liar. >> You're a child in the paper. >> Thank you. >> Newspaper child. here. >> We're so ready. >> We are live again. >> All
085right. Just going to crank out a few things. Um, I'd like to have a motion. Hold on. >> Wait. There we go. Here we go. I was I turned too soon. >> So, consent agenda. >> May I please have a motion to approve the following consent agenda items that you see on your Jim, thank you. >> And thank you, Mandy, for a second. Is there any discussion or area of concern? I mean, the only thing I was going to say is that with the calendar, um, it still says a two-day Thanksgiving week. So, we're going to update that for next month because now we have a day. Okay. >> And then the, um, because we copied Weld County School District, >> that's all taken care of now. I I was just saying it was taken
086care of. I'm thanking you for it. >> Okay. I think >> um Go ahead. Can I on Jay? Um I My understanding was they weren't asking for funding. They were just asking for approval. >> That is correct. For them to travel outside the state. They need your approval. >> Right. Okay. >> Yes. >> I think it's a great idea. I think >> they grow a lot there actually. >> Oh, they do. >> It is actually the last Gathering of Nations ever. So, this is the last one possibly ever. >> Oh, vote. >> Dr. Hill. >> Hi, >> Mr. HS. Hi, >> Mrs. Lumber. Hi, >> Mrs. Hi, Dr. RHS. Hi, and M. Okay, next we have action items and I need a motion to approve the following policies on their second reading. So let's first
087go through I the CASBY updates. Do I do them? I lowerase I and lowerase. >> I set them all up as just one second. >> Okay. So we just do I first and then we we put purchasing on its own approval. I need your guidance on >> correct um >> that yes separate them. >> Um you can do it either way. Someone wants to make the motion say I would like to approve all approve. >> Let's try all. We have a motion to approve both the CAS policies and the purchasing bidding procedure. Second. >> Thank you Mandy and Karen. Any discussion on that? Dr. Hi, >> Dr. Hill. >> Hi, >> Mr. Hops. >> Sorry. >> Hi, >> Mrs. Lumber. >> Hi, >> Mrs. Pascal. >> Hi, >> Dr. Rhodess. >> Hi, >> and Mr.
088Hi. >> Excellent. Next, we're going to um have a motion. May I have a motion to accept the 2425 excellent audit as presented? Thank you, Jen. Second. >> Sorry. >> Thanks, Matt. Anybody want to discuss that more detail? >> All right. Scroll down section here. Dr. Pettit. >> Hi, >> Dr. Hill. >> Hi, >> Mr. Hobs. >> Hi, >> Mrs. Lumper. >> Hi, >> Mrs. Pasel. Hi, >> Dr. RHS. >> Hi. >> And Miff, >> hi. >> And I'd like to explain to audience members out there in YouTube land and you that we had a work session and we talked about this in great detail. We're not just it's not just wait because we went into the drops as well. So may I have a motion to certify the mills as presented? >> Okay, Ben
089second. >> Second. Yeah. Okay. Ben and Karen, thank you. >> Um any discussion on the mills? >> I think the only thing I'd say because I I sent I mean I sent a video to you all. So you have that but just so that it's public. Um you can look at the mills as we get there. We have to increase our mills by one every year for the next five years. That's a mandatory thing by the government. Um that was voted in three years ago. I think it was five. >> Was it five years ago? >> And it wasn't voted. >> Not well. It was they were told Yeah, we were told that we had to do it. That's correct. But it was it has to be done. But at the same time, because of
090the changes in our uh property valuations, even though we increase that mill, the way the rest of the formula works out, we're actually only increasing our total mills by about.3. Um, which is exciting, I think, for the local community because we're generating more revenue. The downside is we're generating a higher percentage of our revenue locally and so we will see a smaller state share, which will continue to potentially impact cash flow going forward. Um, so Dr. Rhodess, this is new to you, but they um whatever that we don't generate locally, the tax bills and that's usually done over the first nine months and then all of the property taxes come at the end. We're to a point now where roughly 80% of our revenue is coming in at the end of the year. So, we're
091kind of using our own cash that we built um through the the COP process for last year as our cash flow. If that ever goes to a point where we don't have that cash, we may have to look at a cash 0% cash flow along with the government that the state government offers. We're not there yet. I'm not concerned, but we are seeing a change in the percentage. Um, >> and Tiffany, we we actually did that one time. I think >> we did it two years ago. Yeah, >> one time. Two years ago, and it is work, but they they're proficient at it in the office. >> Yeah. If we need to, it can be done. The only concern is a lot more districts are having to do it. So, I don't know how long
092that money is going to be there, but right now they're still operating. Um, so that was the other big piece of that. And then I think um there was a a piece last year that we talked about and it's probably everyone's forgotten because it's been a year but where on the bottom of it it says total program funding is 31 point I don't have the exact number in front of me but something mills. Um last year we certified 29 mills and that number was 28. What that means is for us to be fully funded locally just the total program piece would have to be 31 mills levied on our local citizens. This year we're at 29, but that includes our bond. So we're actually off by about eight mills. So that's the difference between the
093state share and our local share. But last year we actually were saying we doing 29 and they were and then on the on the thing it said well to be fully funded you only have to do 28 mills and that was really confusing locally. None of you will have to answer that question this year because the total program bills went up. So you won't have to answer that question which doesn't maybe doesn't affect you but don't worry about the question. >> Right. Right. Right. Right. You can do it in the baking. >> Yes. >> Okay. So, Tiffany, just with a little bit of historical context, >> um, six years ago, the state um was trying to get more money, as it should be, from local property tax. The state couldn't fund um all the other
094things they're funding and so much education in their mind. So, we had, correct me if I'm wrong, the highest mills increase. So, it was the tax increase that anybody who lives in this lightest school district has ever had and we never voted on. So it's 10 mills as you're listening to Aaron, you know that we only have 28 all altogether right now. So we're only halfway through that. So there's still going to be five more years of a one mil increase that the state put around our necks as citizens and as a school board. So, it's it's it's really tricky and it does impact our fixed income. It's a lot of And then when you increase the property value and you're increasing a mill, you you'll start to see it on your >> double equal.
095>> Yeah, exactly. So, so that's we're halfway through though and we're still standing. That's right. >> Um, okay. So, that's the end of the discussion I think. >> Let's go ahead and have a vote. >> All right. Dr. Becker Rich. >> Hi, >> Dr. Hill. >> Hi, >> Mr. HS. Hi, >> Mrs. Lumber. >> Hi, >> M. Hi, >> Dr. Ro. >> Hi. And Mrs. >> Hi. >> Excellent. Okay, we're just down to the board communications and committee reports. And the really the only action item we can take is we're going to arm wrestle about positions and ideas at CASBY, but also at our January retreat grind. and but the only change would be Mandy your excellent service as our post representative is coming to a close so thank you for that thank you and
096I think Tiffany is interested in maybe taking that um taking on that um role I have heard that it is a great place for me to learn so sure >> it is yeah absolutely and so then thank you for being willing to do that I'm willing but also it is a great resource and it really helps explain how get the economies of scale for our special needs It's not really too complicated or confusing, but it is another 1 to 3 on Zoom, but it's not every month. Is it like six year? Five or six. >> Five or six a year. So, you'll skip a couple months. Y thanks for what you've done. And if anybody else is fired up or passionate about something, chew on those ideas and we'll talk about it at our retreat.
097Okay, turning the page. Future business, the CASBY conference. Is everybody tracking all of that? There is an app for that and it took me a while. my hand and I got through called WOVA >> W H O VA. >> But is that different than the QR code they sent us to check in? >> That's your name. >> I couldn't get it. So, I'm just go there. >> Unless we have Okay, I will check on that. I just have to make sure I register someone else's interest, but that was my assumption, but I wanted to confirm before you >> just for the delegate confidence eight. >> Correct. >> No, I mean the overall >> Oh, okay. Got it. >> But I will double check the schedule. >> Are you ready to do that? Unless there's something
098big that we're doing. >> Let's see what we're doing. I've got the most efficient. >> Okay. Do you want to guide this herd of cats about what we do >> for Madam Secretary? >> So I think tomorrow a lot of actually talk more today because there's some hurting that's happened. Um but they've been awesome. We've made a couple changes. Um so I will final things tomorrow so far as our schedule watch Google calendar links everyone's been that seems to be working um so I'll refine that tomorrow a little bit um I think everyone I sent for hotel resum to us >> like when I first >> a long time ago >> long time ago we have to register so early >> and you got Yeah, we're all in. All the things should be good. If
099you have any questions though, when you get there, all stuff should be set up. If you have any questions though, I will be trying to be down there tomorrow. >> I don't I will probably it should all be set up for you. You should just be able to check in. >> Um that's all you should need and I'll be behind all the credit card to make sure everything's taken care of. >> If there's a problem or one of the two people you should call try and get up there earlier and check on make sure everything's in order for a credit card for and you bring your QR code or your email on your phone and they'll make you an Sorry. I'm sure we're not the only one having issues. >> I could mark some of
100you. >> Well, I don't think we're supposed to print anything. I think you're supposed to take the QR code and show them. I think >> they said you can print it. >> That's Yeah, >> but they said print the email. >> They said print the email of the QR code, which is really dumb. If you send a silly phone, >> we all just have to be aware. We just have to be aware that there's a couple of times where we're going to pull out of all sessions and do some grinding. >> Those are all those are all going to go >> through a swim. Last year was just great. There were some great sessions. It >> was great. >> I mean, I will say all of the beginner board memory policy and stuff is really
101good. So, you'll unfortunately probably be set, but going by yourself. >> David's I'm also I also get to be um your battle buddy. >> Okay, good. >> Yeah. I don't know if I want to go to it. >> I did mark I put them in the app and I did mark all those little beginner sessions in my app. >> Those are I mean they are they are super >> a lot of water pressure. what you say in the wa >> with that information. If not, let me know and I can somebody probably just needs to tell me where I need to be >> for the first place because I'm not sure I can I I haven't figured out how to get in a Google calendar yet. >> First thing to get there, >> um the
102only the first thing you need to be at will be for breakfast. >> Okay. >> And then we can go up there. Aaron and I can show you after the service and three of us can show you. >> Oh, that I can show you. Yeah, for sure. >> I got him the share drive. I was proud of >> I thought he thought he meant something at the hotel. I was like, I don't know. >> Happy to help. >> So, let's So, Mandy brought up a good point. Plus, I think we need to represent anyway um the the rural school alliance for this. It's an important It's an important We're we're kind of the best. >> All right. Can we everyone get their calendar? So, we're now we're doing um >> lowerase I Yeah. This the
103January >> affectionately named the retreat, but it's >> here and it's a grind. So, the priority for David is January 30th. Not only for policy, but just for the staff. Does January Saturday Friday, excuse me, Friday, January 30th? >> I'm I'm meaning to ask our vet and opposition. Are you guys okay with that? >> I'm okay. What? The 30th of what? >> Oh, January. >> Sorry. The January retreat is the 30th. January. >> Right. Are you okay? And are you okay until you know emergencies come up in both cases? So, okay. So, January retreat, what type? What is it that does the 30th work for everyone? >> Okay. And at um >> Okay. So, then it's the third then it's um the 30th. >> Okay. And what kind of time would you like to start?
104>> 8 8 to 4 we'll put on you'll probably um I'll talk to Jody and figure out if that's when you want to do my evaluation or you the February board meeting, right? There's that choice to do either one. That's a big lift. So that Mandy, if she continues to help with that, that'll be something in the timeline there. But then obviously, uh, we'll be focused on our priorities. I think do we want to keep the same, we have the same trajectory or people thinking differently? We've got kind of a new team. Some things will shift around. I think it's also an opportunity to talk about how they want to divide up the work, right? You know, Matt's going to step away. So he doing who might fill in those shoes achieve Dr. Rose coming
105on. So just thinking through how do I want to divide up the work facilities finances those kind of questions those things are in order but I want to look at priorities how you guys want to divide up the work and then my evaluation three big topics and whatever else you guys bring to Jody we'll try and put together >> think about where you want to lead as board member for that now I we've had some great to have that dry and be somewhere else, but I think it's better for staff members to have it here so you're not loading it. Okay. So, let's just we'll just do it right here. And then we'll our regular meeting in January is on the 13th. It's in the great room because we have the high schoolers come in.
106We have in small groups. Would anybody like to do do agenda with review with David and me? >> I know you can. fired. Is anyone fired up to do it? >> Would you do it? Okay. And we'll work around David's >> here. I won't be here in January. >> Okay. Do you want to come? You just want to be absent or would you like to attend? >> Can I have >> You're correct. >> So, everyone else must The difference is a >> regular meeting. But that's the only piece when you don't have as many people those absences. We'll just have to be really careful about the agenda. >> January meeting >> and actually I'm looking I won't be able to be on the road. >> That's not available. Okay. >> But hey, way to look
107into it. No, no, it's no problem. We got that. >> Have a grandbaby. >> Yeah, I've seen her for a month. >> It's awesome. Okay. Are there any other outstanding hanging chads or anything else? >> Sorry. Okay. Loose threads. Um, missing mittens. >> The only thing that I really quick I forgot in my district report um is I will need to get with Ben, Jody, and Mandy in the next couple days and get some signatures so we can bank signatures. >> Did it not work? Did it not? >> No, no. I got signatures for that, but now I need to get some signatures because I have to take people off of our accounts and add you to the account. So, the signatures are just to use your signature. Now, you have to sign a bunch.
108>> Now, I have to sign and I know that I have some things to sign for mills and audits. >> Yeah. So, I So, just probably at the retreat I'll get with you and there's just a couple documents you have to sign. It's you know your whole life away. Other than that, nothing. >> Business. Okay. >> But the signatures were great. They worked. Okay, they worked. Okay, >> now I need more. >> No trouble. >> All right, may I have a motion to >> adjourn? Don't need a second. >> Well done, Madam President. >> Oh my gosh, >> you did perfect. >> Board member comments totally blew it off. >> So, we'll see everybody. Um, >> Casby, just keep a bit of texture going with everybody.