001Well, waiting Next. Any public comments? Please turn in purple card. >> One. >> Can I say we're starting? >> Yeah. >> All right. Calling to order six o'clock. Uh, please join me for the pledge. to the flag of the United States to the Republic. >> You might know about our live. >> Oh, yeah. Sorry. Again, we have a live mic. I don't know how well it pick up, but >> just know it's >> careful of your whispers. >> It's always listening. >> Um, okay. Yeah, go ahead and call for assistance. >> All right. Dr. Breenidge Pettit is not with us tonight. Dr. Hill >> here. >> Mr. Hobbs >> here. >> Mrs. Lunberg >> here. >> Mrs. Pascal >> here. Miss Shookman >> here. And Mr. Smith >> here. Opening it up for board member
002comments. >> Um I can go first. So I have four four things I'd like to talk about. Um, first I want to take the opportunity to thank Joe um for his many years of dedicated service to the school district. Our district is unquestionably stronger because of Joe's unwavering commitment to our student, staff, and community. Under Joe's leadership, we've seen teacher pay increase by more than 30%. The district has consistently absorbed insurance premium costs, which have risen by 40% over the last few years, and we've been recognized as a district of distinction multiple times. Joe has provided steady, thoughtful, and calm leadership, often grounding our conversations with the questions, what will this accomplish, and is this what's best for students? He was instrumental in developing our partnership with CMC, creating college and career pathways, and establishing
003both a financial plan that positions us to meet future challenges without cutting staff, and a facilities plan that ensures we remain responsible stewards of taxpayer dollars while planning for growth. Joe's leadership has always been built on trust. trusting our administrators, staff, and teachers to do what they do best, educate and support students. He has led with vision, sound policy, and fiscal responsibility. Joe, we will miss working with you, and we are deeply grateful for your years of service and dedication. Sorry. Secondly, following the recent election, I recognize that some in our community are excited about change while others may feel uncertain about what lies ahead. So, I want to re reassure everyone in our community that my focus remains firmly on our mission statement. We will strive to provide a safe environment for all students
004and staff. We will seek meaningful opportunities and innovative educational programs so that all students may reach their learning potential. Every decision I make as a board member will continue to be guided by one central question. What is best for students? Third, as we move into budget season, I'd like to highlight an article that was shared with the board from the Summit Daily. The Summit School District has made significant efforts to raise staff salaries, which now account for approximately 89% of their total budget. This year, however, they've experienced a decrease of nearly 250 students. They had planned on a decrease, but this was even more than they were expecting, resulting in $222,000 less revenue than projected. They're now facing the difficult challenge of supporting salaries while maintaining their required reserves. Here in CIDA, we have also
005been deeply committed to increasing teacher pay while maintaining a long-term financial strategy that keeps salaries between 80 to 85% of our total budget. This approach helps ensure that if enrollment drops, we don't have to make painful cuts to staff. It's worth noting that for the first time in several years, our own enrollment is down by approximately 20 students. Finally, tomorrow I will be meeting with Alex Lensford, the vice president of the Chaffi County Democrats as part of my commitment to maintaining a nonpartisan school board. I want to have an open conversation about the role of political organizations in local schoolboard elections. Our schools are strong when our focus remains on students, not party affiliations, and whether a board member has a D, R, or U behind their name should never matter as much as their
006dedication to our kids. I value keeping partisan money and influence out of local school board races and I remain committed to ensuring that our work as a board stays centered on what is truly best for students. Okay, I have comments. I'm just going to read. Um, as we transition following this election, I want to acknowledge that this moment brings uncertainty. Change always does. For some, it brings hope. For others, concern. As a board, our responsibility is to ensure that through this transition, our focus on students and stability remains clear and unwavering. This election season was more politicized than I believe is appropriate for a nonpartisan student focused board. I was disappointed to see the local Democratic Party and other boards and associations become involved in ways that appeared more about politics than collaboration. I'll continue
007to encourage a future where board's service remains grounded in collaboration and independence, not political or organizational influence. I also feel compelled to acknowledge that for many in our community, last school year carried real pain. There are people among us who continue to feel that impact. To those who have reached out to me in the past few months, shared their stories, and confided that this period has been especially difficult, I want you to know that your feelings are valid and not forgotten. I want to take a moment to recognize and thank Joe Smith for his service on this board. I've always been impressed by Joe's quiet, steady dedication both to our students and the people of this community. He approaches every challenge with thoughtfulness and care, encouraging patience and understanding over judgment while always keeping the
008best interest of students, staff, and the long-term health of our district at the forefront. Joe's ability to listen and truly understand has strengthened our board and fostered trust between the district and our community. Beyond policy and finances, Joan is deeply engaged with students and families, often behind the scenes in ways that most people don't see, mentoring, attending events, and offering guidance wherever it is needed. His leadership is grounded in humility, integrity, and a genuine love for his community. Joe's contributions have bless left a lasting impact on Salida schools, and I am personally grateful for the opportunity to have served alongside him. Joe, I strive to carry myself with even a fraction of your patience, calm, and clear-headed logic. Not gonna happen for me. Uh, in closing, I want to thank our incredible leaders and staff.
009Your dedication, professionalism, and care for our students are the heartbeat of this district, and the quality of these schools is a big part of why I moved my family to CIDA. Being recognized as a district of distinction reflects your hard work, collaboration, and commitment to excellence. As a board, we remain committed to being a stable, steady presence, privileged to guide this district thoughtfully, and to ensure the well-being and safety of our students in every decision. Together, we will continue to navigate challenges, celebrate successes, and ensure that Salida schools remain a place where students and staff can thrive. I would just like to thank you, Joe. Uh, I think Joe's been a a great leader. Uh, he knows a ton of stuff. He knows a ton of people. He is patient. Uh, still moving in a
010good way. Uh, not not drawn to agenda or silly ideas. Um, it's funny that when I look for people for wisdom, it's usually gray-haired people. And, uh, Joe's got a little bit, but here he is quite a bit younger than I am, and I absolutely can look to Joe for wisdom. Uh, so I appreciate his heart. Uh, he's a good minded man and a good person to work with. Um, I think that a good leader doesn't necessarily have to lead. A good leader wants the people he cares about to be led well. And I think he was also uh played that role. And I do think just because we have a a great board, a great group of people, I think we'll be able to carry that judicial. But I also know that somebody is
011going to make out like a dog because Joe is going to end up spending his time doing something else and uh those people are going to benefit. Um, yeah, I'd like to thank you too, Joe. Um, I've really appreciated your leadership over the years. Um, you know, the community really needs to know how much a board president does versus the rest of us. It's not a significantly amount more work uh than other board members. You know, we probably all put in 20 to 40 hours a month. Uh I would say not every month but certainly there's some months where it starts with 40. Joe probably consistently does you know somewhere in that if not more every month. So it's a lot of work and uh you know I think the district has grown improved as
012a result of your leadership. Uh your financial background will be sorely missed on this board. I think that's a it's a big hole that's leaving that um you know none of us have have that background and I think being able to view you know that's a huge part of our job is dealing with the finances in this district and I think you've done a good job I you know you've been incredibly patient you know over the years we've had some some phone calls and I I've always appreciated your level had interest to to to situation even when I got a little spun up, which um you know, I think you've done that with all all the board members. So, thank you. I think you've been a great president for the the board and for the
013school district. Um unfortunately, this election has also reopened both recent and long-standing worms for survivors of trauma and their families and members of our staff. Uh I acknowledge the outcome may have been harmful impact on some individuals and may have caused some renewed pain, anxiety and uncertainty. As a board, we have a duty to ensure that every person who has been affected knows they are seen, respected, and safe. I know everyone's live school district carries a commitment to the safety and well-being of our students and staff. community expects and deserves nothing less. Moving forward, this board will continue to be guided by integrity, fair, and accountability. Concerns expressed by survivors, families, and staff regarding the election are real and must be heard and taken seriously. Regardless of who serves on this board, they know the
014board will remain steadfast in its responsibility to protect students, staff, and continually rebuild and continually earn the trust of our community. One conversation. >> Thank you. >> My turn. >> You can have your turn. >> Um, thank you. Seriously, from the bottom of our heart, you have done so much for our students and our community. And it's all been said, not all, but a little bit. I don't think you can make a list of everything you've done, the time you've put in, the passion you've put into it. And I know I'm going to miss you immensely. You have so much background knowledge and patience, and what everybody has said is so true, and I'm personally going to miss that. um being on the facility committee with you, I don't know half the time what's going
015on, so I go to Joe and he fills me in without making me feel like an idiot. Um I think that's just part of who you are. You never put people down or judge or make people feel bad. So going to miss you and hopefully we'll see you um in the community. I know I'll see you at the bank, but um thank you so much. >> Thank you. Not good when people talk nice about me and goodness. Um, thank you all. It's been a lot of fun. It's been a lot of challenges. It's been a good thing. It's been a journey. Um, yeah, I don't want to get too tired of that. Maybe I'll say it more by the end of the night. But, um, I have one thing to say that's not the most
016popular thing, which is fine. Um, and I would just say taking issue kind of with some of the things that have been going on with some of our local reporting. Um, you know, I'm not thrilled and pretty disappointed with Mountain Mail. We're kind of going down the path of publishing a pretty private personnel matter by going through a coral request to put out the resignation separation agreement with our athletic director. um had a conversation with county commissioner today and they also had a separation agreement with one of their elect one of their leaders and Don Rymer um a few months ago and I just got dropped and nothing was published about it. So um you know that was very disheartening. Sucks to think that you know besides the private matter and everything else that we
017went through with Marco that like that's now in the paper and published and he and his family have to deal with that. So sorry to Marco and his family. um you know three, four years, five years, I don't remember. >> Four years. >> Marco did a lot of good things. He grew our programs and you know it's a mutual decision that time to go separate ways. He's gone through some things with his family and personal life and I think the district had some different thoughts and ideas and these things happen especially with executive leaders and it's real unfortunate that the male decided to go out and publish it by doing their quarter request. So, um hopefully do better um for those things. Um and then also, you know, my goodbye, but also we all know
018Will's got two more weeks with us. I think sometime this meeting Kim will give us some updates of maybe some goodbye lunchons and things of that nature, but talking to Carrie a little bit and obviously his health and whatnot. Hopefully going to Arizona, smaller, lower altitudes will help him, but who knows how that'll all go. I heard he'll be around for the holidays cuz Caroline will be here. So if you don't see him for his getaway dinners and things of that nature, you may see him downtown or something throughout the holiday season. So um yeah, I don't have much more else to say. I'll say more probably to close up the meeting. So good enough. >> Good enough, Scott. >> Um I will say one thing because Cory's here and I don't expect him to
019be here at full and I forgot to tell David. So, I'm like telling Savannah this. Like I told Corey when I was there last week, like my daughter in first grade was like in title reading and now in third grade she's like on the cusp of GT. So like the improvements made and how well we do in buildings and how great the staff is like yeah I was sitting there and I was like wait my daughter we're talking about remember a couple years ago. So, um, you know, obviously there's some ethics at home, but a lot of that happens here at the school. So, appreciate you guys and lots of good stories of kids and all the things, but let's get back to business. So, thank you all. Please don't ever publicly congratulate say such
020good things about kids. >> Okay, >> I don't think we had any written messages. >> Written messages to the board. >> I have one public comment unless there's others out there. >> Feel free to stand, feel free to sit, do whichever you need to. I never watch Catherine for years. My goodness. In order to tap out, what an impressive group of people. I served 17 years on the Chapter Fire Protection District. I was the treasurer for 16. The budget when I left was 1.2 million. Not nearly as big as yours, but significant. Well aware of what public service does to your private life, to your public life, and to your souls. I've had the opportunity to work with Karen when she was in the hobble over there. Well, was my hollow because I was out
021there. I'm a music person. My goodness, what a change for Chris. Well done all of you. Um, I do have some notes here just because I want to remember the things I want to say, but I need to tell you. I have a degree in teaching. Yes. Surprise. was an English teacher. I taught in Steamboat Springs. I taught one year after the kids threw my keys out the window. I walked out the door and said, "I don't think I can do this. I'm not a teacher. I am not a teacher." So, I went back to school, got a master's in music, went on to study at the Metropolitan Opera, and I studied with her for three years. lived in Europe. I speak French, German, and my native language is Swedish. I'm very proud of that.
022I'm a second generation Swedish person and I am told I can move back to Sweden if I desire. I don't. You are my home. I've lived in this community for 29 years. I know Joe very well. I know Karen really good. I know Mandy's kids and the rest of you, I don't have a clue, but I do know your service is quite extraordinary. And so from that standpoint, as a taxpayer, as an educator, I want you to know what my history and what your history is. I have extremely long students. They start when they're in kindergarten and they usually go through senior and high school. those students. I have three graduates, you me, three graduates from DU with master's degree, two from Harvard, one from Rice, one from Calpali, uh probably missing a whole bunch
023more, a diesel mechanic, a massage therapist. Um, what an extraordinary thing we all have done because it takes all of us. It's not just me. It's not just Joe being in the leader, which he is, or you giving the support. You need to stand and work together. Sometimes extremely difficult because on a fire protection district, it's basically a man's world. And I'm blonde. And you I'm The joke really is. You may laugh because most people think blondes are pretty stupid. And I will tell you there are times I'm dumber in a box of rocks, but I believe in education. I believe strongly in what you contribute to this humanity. And so let me read this. But before I do that, Lerno, >> yes. Yes. Do you have any idea of the history of your name
024at all? >> Bits and pieces of it. Yes. >> The Lerno Wheel. >> Yes. >> That is absolutely incredible. A lot of people here aren't familiar with it. So, >> wheel is a hydraulic mechanism and wheels that lets the wheels operate independently. And without that, we would not have Hoover Dan. What an incredible gift that name because not me personally but by people. Yeah. >> So um so as a taxpayer I'm here as a taxpayer educator uh person in the field and now I have to put the glasses on. There's always a tendency for taxpayers to idly sit back and take pot shots at you at the school administrators. These are my pot shots of appreciation. Number one, thank you to all of you for your tireless service to the community, to the children of
025our community. The endless meeting, I know you have them, and long hours you give in your service are not made, these services are not made aware to the public. And so, thank you. Thank you members. Number two, thank you Joe for your years of constant good sense and leadership. You are appreciated by me and I know by many other members of this community. Thank you administrators. I guess these are the administrators back here. The only time I was there was when I was in detent. So here the thank you administrators for calm and consistent awareness of our children to know that the children are safe, protected and educated are very important. Here are some thoughts for the future. Continue the transparency of your efforts and leadership to hide difficulties is not the answer. I have
026found in the past that your presence, the board, the administrators and teachers and the honesty and the transparency you give the community is vital vital for maintaining trust. This is my first priority and concern. When leadership comes into question, stay focused on your board priorities and your oath. Remember, school administrators are obligated by law to report any unlawful behavior, whether by child or adult. And this also goes for me. I'm a private teacher. I teach a lot of kids. I've taught Mandy's kids, Karen's kids. I don't know her kids, but anyway, I did a lot of teaching in her school. So all of us all of us must maintain that standard and you cannot must not lie. Lying is the first way into predition. Believe me. So when leadership comes into question, please let me
027repeat this. Stay focused on your board priorities and your oath. Remember the school administrators are obligated by law to report any unlawful behavior to by a child or adult. This is not something you can finesse your way around. Be a student with money and be open to inform and educate the public. We can be a dumb lot, but bear with us. Thank you board. Thank you administrators. Good luck Jesse with surgery. Joe, good luck for the future. I hope all of you maintain good faith and just damn it, hang in there. And I've been going all day long and I have to go cuz I'm really hungry. >> Greatly appreciate. >> Joe got as small as you. Welcome. >> Thank you. Yeah, you can still >> just one last question. What is the board budget?
028I know you're finding it right now. >> 18 20 >> 20 1,752,985 >> roughly >> 1 million. That's that's an awesome budget. And uh I'll just I know if you get ready to do any kind of a bond issue, please don't do it in May. People in May tend to be angry. I know some didn't know that. Good. >> I had also had to deal a lot with Dola. So Dola is the people you go to when you need to know information. May is not a good month to get people out for a vote. It's November. And so if you want a long issue to pass through November >> and thank you again and goodbye. >> Thank you. >> Said that for a while. All right. Um, no more public comment. I need the motion
029to approve the agenda. No changes. >> I'll move to approve the agenda. >> Seconded. >> Discussion. >> Vote. >> All right. Dr. Hill. >> Hi. >> Mr. Hops. >> Hi. >> Mrs. Lunberg. >> Hi. >> Mrs. Pasco. >> Hi. >> Miss Shikman. >> Hi. >> And Mr. Smith. >> Hi. >> No guest report. Campus report. >> Hold on. >> We're going to try something cool and new tonight, guys. Look at this. >> So all our folks at home can see this. >> Yeah, this is so the people at home can now see the presentation that you guys get to like I'm glad I went last. >> No pressure. And we have a clicker thing. Hold on. It's this. It's at this point it >> did it work. Ah, >> here's my thoughts. Please put them
030in the mat. Thank you. >> Okay, maybe maybe just >> tell me you tell me when you're ready. >> Just give a bend your wagon and we'll do it. >> Okay. Yeah. >> All right. Okay. Hi, I'm Christy Sus. Um, I'm the principal at the Crest Academy and Horizon's Story. >> Sorry. Oh, wait. There we go. There. Yeah. >> Um, okay. Well, we are graced um with the presence of two of my staff members, >> Courtney Ber. Um, Samantha Bond. They are two of the four general ed teachers of the math department. >> Um, they are the math department. Yes. Um, so we have four gen ed teachers. We have um a special ed teacher um and a special ed professional who go back and forth between HA and Crest just like myself. Uh we
031have a school counselor, we have a HAB secretary. Um we have myself and we have Jessica Bennett who um helps us out quite a bit um as our school district psychologist but she is that prest. Um we are luckily we've kind of been able to kind of take a pause and um do some vision work. We actually did our vision work in conjunction with HA. Um the thought being having like who are we as our non-traditional schools and figuring out like what that looks like does not mean we are becoming one school but what connections do we have? and both teams got in the same room and had a really um great experience with um Cindy Ward and Jackie Webb um helping us and we Wordsmith and we have our first draft essentially of our
032non-traditional vision statement which is that both HA and press seek to provide a dynamic learning community that is individualized, inclusive and innovative so that learners have a broadened understanding of the world and their place within it. Students are equipped with the abilities to overcome challenges in all domains while living with curiosity and joy. Um that is why we do what we do. Um we are super passionate about the work that we do. Um the crest vision in particular again we've kind of started to words smmith it a little bit and kind of we really just we're all bought into what we do but it was well what exactly are we doing? So let's stamp it. Um, Crest Academy is a four-year public middle school community that nurtures kids that nurtures, excuse me, kind, courageous, unique
033thinkers through engaging academics and stewardship of the natural world. And so, a lot of what we do, as I will talk about in um future slides, um is nurturing the whole student and giving them hands-on experiences. So, um we are essentially project based and we do a lot of experiential learning. Um as much as you know it might look like oh they do a lot of field trips. Yes. But in said field trips there is a ton of learning and experiences um it's really important for us that students whether they're walking away with social emotional growth or academic growth that they are um growing from every experience that we do. And every experience we do is a lot of work and a lot of preparation both for staff for students. Um, literally the kids are
034gonna get to sleep in the Cheyenne Zoo. Like, what? Like, how crazy is that? Um, they're super excited about it. Some are a little nervous. Um, but it's going to be a very unique experience and our teachers do an amazing job of finding different ways every year to really get kids out of their comfort zones. Um, and so again, we're pushing the development of a whole student um through various experienc we're we're in. >> Oh, wait. Oh. Oh, wait. Hold on. >> Back. >> I don't know how my back There we go. >> There we go. >> One more. >> There we go. Okay. >> So, I think it's about two years ago at this point. Um Samantha started the eighth grade internship program which has really um prepped our kids for when they go
035to SHS and then ultimately experienced Fred Maxwell's class. Um we've worked uh hand inhand with these organizations, a couple of other schools which we are so grateful for. Um and it allows our eighth graders to build you know their durable skills and just get get themselves out there a little bit. Um and it's it's a good first um you know try at um internships and they love it. They do all sorts of things depending on where they are. Um at AH they were literally driving like excavators the other day like obviously supervised in that safe way but I was like wow that's amazing. Um, so we just want to shout out all of those organizations um and companies for helping us and um our it's been amazing and thank you to for essentially creating the
036whole program. >> That's I'm teaching an intern how important it is to wash dishes. >> Yeah. >> So I don't >> uh additionally we've intentionally built in an eighth grade leadership class. Um we started it last year and it's um grown even more this year. Um Samantha and Katie kind of co-e and and lead that. Um that's when we try to get in some of our Spanish development with her students. Um but the students have a lot of leadership opportunities. They're leading whole school meetings. Um they're coaching and supporting other students with our projects because fifth graders are like what is this project thing? Um so there's a lot of support there. um they're organizing and coordinating in the school store which um they receive tickets essentially through our PPIs system and even middle schoolers
037love buying stuff at the school store. Um they lead various field trips. They participate student council. So, there's a lot that we're pushing with eighth graders to make sure that we're continuing to keep our eighth graders because historically we've had a lot of eighth graders leave for the middle school because they want to try out the school before they go to the big high school. Um, but we've retained a lot of our eighth graders this year. So, it feels like it's working. Just sharing some of our academic growth. Um, CAMAS scores achievement and growth. Our achievement as always is is fantastic. Um our growth sure isn't as high as we want it to be in um our couple of grades for math, but also our amazing math teachers like never settle and we're constantly differentiating
038or diving into the data to ensure that every student is being challenged. I was just talking to a student at the bus stop. He was super excited because he passed essentially his pre-EST. So like he's skipping a whole unit of study. Um and so huge props to Courtney and Samantha for like figuring out what that looks like and um making sure that every student is being challenged so that those growth scores continue to grow. These are our math scores. This is our um math results. Again, higher like high achievement. Our kids are rocking at 83rd and 79th percentiles and a little bit lower growth 40th percentile. Um, but again, we're continuing to dive in and make sure that we're pushing every individual individual students. Reading scores, higher achievement, 78th and 80th percentiles. Um, and achieved
039medium growth 54th percentile. Again, she she runs essentially a four-year program, so it builds on itself. So sometimes we don't see all the growth that we want to see in those middle grades. It tends to show up um for our grade. Uh our priorities for this year um it's really important that every student is getting um the support that they need. So we're just being really intentional with our MTSS process and making sure that kids needing extra support are getting it and it's very intentional and it's not just willy-nilly. Um we also as mentioned we're really focused on um growth on map tests uh making sure that every kid it is growing. Um and then the last priority that we're really excited about is we're creating essentially unified character strength language. Um so that as
040a unified school student staff we're all talking about the same character strengths. Um so for example if we're using the word grit like what does that mean? We're defining it with students. We're making sure they know what it is and all staff is using the same language. That unified language just really helps students like internalize the internalize the strengths and then um it just it creates a unified front. Um we are a little bit behind on our timeline for that but we will catch up and we are excited to figure out what are the strengths that we're going to put in um for students. lots of pictures, lots of experiences. Um, it's been a really awesome, fun school year so far and it's only November. And I just want to thank parent and community volunteers.
041Um, we have to farm out our specialist classes um to community folks. So like Ryan, O'Brien, um, Bones, um, Zel, um, we're grateful they're coming, they're helping us with music and art and yoga. Um, obviously you guys are huge supporters. Our building is amazing. We're grateful. Um, we're I think we're finally feeling settled in the buildingish. We're in the fifth fourth year. Fourth year there, fifth year. Um, and then my staff, amazing. Love you guys. Um, and our grad students, they're awesome. They're great humans. They are super excited about learning and they just they want to grow and be middle schoolers. So, it's fun. That's all we got. Any questions? questions. >> Thank you, sir. >> Thank you. >> Is not here to grill you on. >> Are you at 60? Yeah, I know. Very
042well. 15 for grade. >> Yeah. >> Okay. Thank you. Um, district reports. Aaron will be talking to us soon. David sent a lengthy email. So if there's any questions, comments for Aaron, Savannah, principles, now be time other than budget stuff that Aaron will talk about. Wait for me. >> Unless you guys have an update about tomorrow, the game's at 7:30. >> Sorry. Sorry. Wrong hat. Priority. >> Is it at Western? Is that there might be a salita coach who's complained a lot of chass might not be allowed to talk with chass. >> Most importantly there's a soccer game we're going to go into tomorrow. So >> anything no questions from the board. >> Yeah. You got easy tonight since this will be my last meeting with you. you will see me as dad which might
043be more fun unfiltered and just you know whatever. So you'll see me plenty. >> Thank you all for all you do. I appreciate you greatly. Um we'll take our five minute break and let people that don't want to stick around and talk about the last few things get on with their life. to be. Okay, we're back at five. I'm assuming you've motioned and seconded the consent. We included the interim activity director that got added to this, correct? >> It is >> kind of got included personnel last minute. >> Yes. And this one. Oh. Uh, no. I should not. We should have added that to changes. >> Well, but it'll it'll >> in the next one. Yeah, usually like that one just came to me today literally so I don't catch all those. Okay, >> but
044good question. >> Concerning, but that's not it's still streaming but it just we don't need to see what's on my computer anymore. >> I would love to know >> Unless you want to look at yourself and enjoy your chocolate screen for me to manage. So >> we like to eat on the live. >> I'm still watching. We're still live on the WebEx. So >> all right, no more discussion. Ready for a vote? All right. Dr. Hill, >> hi. >> Mr. Hops, >> hi. >> Mrs. Lunberg, >> hi. >> Mrs. Basel, >> hi. >> Miss Shookman, >> hi. >> And Mr. Smith, >> hi. >> Uh, discussion items. >> Me. >> Coach Dobson. >> Beard is what everyone calls me downstairs. It's disgusting. >> Is it like it's on your hockey? will be repealed immediately. You
045can pass those around. >> This is a very basic. I mean, the good news is we are a month ahead of schedule on our amended budget. Um, which means I'm three months behind Sheila's typical schedule on a budget. That's okay. You didn't laugh. I thought that'd be funny. >> I don't worry. >> We'll carry on without the jokes. Um, so we are No. So, I'm usually I bring this to you starting in November and then we kind of give you a finalized uh look in December on the amended budget and then you need to vote for everything on January. So, you'll still be voting in January on the amended budget. Um we'll do a more in-depth work session I would imagine either next month. Yeah, next month is December. So, next month we will likely
046do a more in-depth work session. Um this is just the the basic changes that we go through. So kind of in the first part where I've taken everything that we know is changing from the start of the year and every single line item that we go through and I've adjusted those. So for example, the biggest things that change um is people who we budget for like a when we have a vacant position for a teacher for example, we typically at the start of the year budget for a master's seven which is kind of right in the middle somewhere because we know there might be somebody who comes with a PhD 15, there might be somebody who's a BA. We've tried to find out the most common and that's kind of the best way to do
047that and then as the error happens and you hire people then you can actually go and put the person in there and figure out exactly how much you're budgeting for. So um so but when you anytime you change salaries that also changes parah and that changes Medicare and things like that. So um each of these represents a lot of line items and we'll go over that next month but basically um the different salary pieces that have changed. We're down $45,000 and that means we're down about $17,000 in the benefits. um overhead miscellaneous expenditures that have changed. We've come in under on some of our CAT projects and they are closed out at this point. So, we know we're going to be down um a little bit of money there. There's a couple uh question marks
048around the lighting project, things like that, but at this point, from what we budgeted and what you proved, we are definitely going to be below what we expected. So, that's that line number five there. And then the line that I'm most excited to get you analysis for because I think it impacts uh future years is the PTO sellback which is something that we voted on two years ago in this this is the third year basically of the payback. Um and then it goes forward but this is we're now to a point where I can tell you definitively at the end of the year we're buying everyone down to 45 days and I know exactly who that is and we're not having to buy down to 60 and then 52. So going forward we'll be buying
049everyone down to 45 every year at the end of the year. Um so this year it was initially we had put everybody in you're kind of budgeting how many hours are out there. Um we're at 270,000 to start the year and now after we've seen who's taking PTO we've been able to kind of predict. Um we right now our max liability is 220,000 but that's it. No one took another day off that's in that category of people. That likely won't happen. So I've budgeted a little bit more aggressively there. And so we're gonna, you know, that's about 70,000 less than we had on the initial budget, which saves us quite a chunk of money. But what it really does that I think is important forward to hear for future years is now we know the
050total liability of this program going forward. We've the past three years we've had about 60 people every year who are over 45 days at the end of the year. Um, and so at the beginning of the year they'll get 10 days and then at the end of the year you'll buy them down to 45 and get 10 more days at the next year and then you buy them down. And so, um, just doing that math, like your max liability every year is $17,000 on this policy, but that's those people that have been in that s group of 60 have on average taken two days off per person per year, which is 20%. So, I was able to figure out basically we can budget about 135,000 and that'll be pretty accurate for the PTO seller. So,
051go ahead, J. >> So, does that mean at the end of their career when they retire over you, you're only paying them out 45 days? Um well so it depend if they so if they start the year at 45 days >> and then they get 10 more days you buy down any hour but it depends on how long they've been here because if they've been here for the full 20 years plus then they get bought down the entire amount but that goes into a medical trust at that point. Everybody else is on a different scale. So like you have to work here six years before you're eligible to have any hours purchased. >> Okay. >> Um and if you've worked I think it's 6 to 10 it's 10 days can be purchased. So it's be
052be anything above 45 at the 10 days basically. I don't know if I'm speaking that correctly, but that's the idea. So there's like a staggered buy down and then if you work your whole career, then at the end of it you retire, we do buy that down into a medical trust and that that money is then yours that you can use for medical expenditures and retirement. So yeah, so it's a I mean it's a liability, but it's also something that it's a really good benefit for staff. We actually are paying staff every year now. So, it's a there's a decent chunk of money on the table for people who are able to work. And at the same time, we're providing, you know, up to 55 days off to start the year um paid. So, that's
053a good starting point. I think it's been a really I think it's been successful. We've seen um less PTO taken over the past couple years, which is allowing us to have a smaller substitute budget as well. >> Um not that we don't want people to take PTO, please don't hear that. That's not the goal. The goal is to have PTO and use it when you need it. But at the same time, if you're not using it, we want to reward you for that by finding ways to provide you a little extra income. So, I'm really excited about that because in the future years, it's going to be a lot of money that over the past few years, you remember, we budgeted about 400,000 the first year, about 300,000 last year, we're at 270 to start
054this year. So, that's a chunk of money that's coming off our budget in three phases that now is going to be a lot smaller that we can put towards some other stack projects. So, >> what do you remember like what the liability was when we first started this? Was it mysterious and nebulous or was >> um well yes the answer for that um because yeah I mean so three years ago there you were allowed to crew up to a certain amount of time but you were also allowed to earn time off at different areas that's either went to your personal time or your sick time and we didn't have a good tracking system. So we had some people that were well above the amount that was allowed by policy but at the same time I
055earned it and so yeah it was a bit nebulous for sure. Um, I'll be able to give you by next board meeting a total amount that we've basically been able to pay out to get down the river. So, I can if you like, >> but this is about what you're anticipating for future years. >> Yeah, even a little less than the 200. I'm injecting my 140. So, all right. Um, so that's an exciting thing to me. But so for your amended budget this year, you're already down on expenditures 144,000. Um revenues, we've really only adjusted one revenue in a really positive way. Um and that's our Medicaid revenue. We consistently get more than what we have budgeted in the past. That was the line I kind of brought you um when we did the initial
056budget that I wanted to dive into and I was able to really dive into our Medicaid revenue and get some clear answers on that. And I think that we were able to increase that by about 100,000 this year because we've been getting close to 250 to 280,000 a year um for the past couple years and we've been budgeting about 180. So that was a line that like I said we did the initial budget I felt like was a positive change that we'd see by the admitted budget and I feel good about that after doing a lot of research on it. Um some revenue changes that you should still expect a couple changes because obviously this is just the initial look. We're down 20 kids. So that is going to affect our revenue projections for this
057year. Um there's an averaging over three years at this point. So it would probably feel more like a more like 13 kids that were down in terms of how much we get funded. That still means we're going to get more money than last year. That's still fine. We're going to be able to push through that. It's going to probably be about 150,000 less than we expected, but there's a lot of pieces that go into that. I think that our specific ownership taxes have actually been higher than we've been projecting over the past few years. So I want to dig into that still. I think there's some money there that we can add into revenues that'll kind of offset that balance. Um, and also once we find out what the actual assessment values is, then I
058can calculate the MLO and the MLO is going to help us understand did we get more money off of our property taxes locally or not because we do have the mill overrides that are percentage based. And so if our property taxes locally go up, that's the only way we get any more money is off that envelope. I am anticipating based on what everyone tells me that we should expect property values across the state to go down. I don't know what's going to happen globally. So not ready to make a prediction on that till I see the numbers soon which should be very soon I should be able to project that. So those are the big changes that I would expect. So um the big fear is that if we continue to have declining enrollment we
059can end up in situations like summit that you brought up earlier Mandy. Um certainly not something I'm concerned about yet, but I think we should start considering as we're building the next budget that we may have a declining enrollment of even a few kids. Uh we're seeing that especially at the high school. We saw a lot more kids go online this year than have in the past. And so we're digging into each kid trying to figure out what might have caused that. Not that we're chasing down kids, but just trying to get an analysis of of what's happening there because obviously that's our only way to make more money. So, we don't get to go out and sell cheeseburgers on Saturday to make more money. Um, so we do, but that usually goes to sports
060programs. So, um, so that's the biggest things you should expect that we should see changing in the coming months. Um, I'm really excited that, like I said, there's only four or five big changes that I still need to get more information on before I can bring it to you. I think we have a really healthy budget. If you look at the bottom section here, the lines 20 through 26, um, that's the same graph I've been trying to bring you each time. due to our with our financial plan. You can see the goals on the right are what we're trying to bring in. But our total revenues right now on the amended budget are about 21,130,000 and our total expenditures are 217 which is less than 3% above our revenues which is great because I also
061told you I thought our fund balance would grow by about $600,000 and it grew by about $700,000. So that covers that problem there. Um and then but we'll get to that in the audit next month, but we've kind of been talking about that the past couple board meetings. Um our staffing because you can see the top most of our changes have been through salaries, benefits, and then PTO, which is coded as a salary. >> Um so most of our most of our decrease is in is in salaries and benefits right now. We're still above that 80% threshold at a minimum. So we can look at what we want to do with that. But we're still in the in the area that we wanted to be. Yearly overhead, honestly, the yearly overhead didn't change hardly at
062all, but because um because you have your revenues are slightly different, you see a small change. I think a couple small changes were made in maintenance and things like that, but nothing major. And then the the last two lines, line 25 and 26, you will see this next month. um you approved a stud room for the middle school and that came in significantly more expensive than what we initially thought and so we have not started construction on that and they are working on getting you a plan and a cost for what that actually will be. it's not going to happen this year. And so the way that I've coded that for now, and you can decide what you want to do with it, is that we push that into a cap renewal fund where you
063basically take that same money you've put towards the project and save it for when you're ready to do that project. Um, you have the right to decide not to do that if you want to, but that's why you've seen the savings for future needs go up and the onetime cap projects go down. So if you look at the percentages on the original budget and then on the amended budget, that's why they've gone up and down by about the same amount. It's that one project. So, we'll have to decide what we want to do with that. David will have a recommendation with Sean next month, but it's pretty substantial. It's a need that the middle school has. There's no question about that. I'm sure Eric would agree with that. Um, but it's an old building and
064there's a lot of electrical engineering that we didn't know about that needs to go into it. Um, and so it's a pretty it's going to be a more expensive project. We thought we're going to have to decide what we want to do with that. So there's no sped dollars that come into that from the federal government in terms of the capital. How does that work? >> Um I mean so we we get sped dollars in. So far we're spending sped dollars on um our spend programming >> specifically for the construction project. >> No, we've looked for grants for the past couple years and haven't been able to find one. I still have Jackie kind of looking into it where she can um but we haven't found a grant specifically that's going to cover that. So,
065um, it's a it's a challenge for sure that we we're trying to solve. If we could buy it with grant dollars, that would be my preference, but I don't like moving out of the general fund for that type of thing. But there I don't know if there's a way around it at this point or not. So, hopefully we'll have a better answer for you. The other things that are out there are, you saw the board last month, um, we got the lighting project that needs to be all of our lighting needs to be updated. We're to a point where they have an emargo on all of our current lights. So, as long as we drive in New Mexico, we can order them and have them shipped there and pick them up, but we can't order
066them here, which is fun. >> Well, and I think I mean I think one thing in the work session like Jesse definitely talked about how actually it's starting to really impact them. Like they have a light in the office that's just been buzzing since school started that they can't replace. He said the lights in the gym are super super dim. So, it might I think to some people are like, "Oh, this is stupid. You guys are going to spend money on lights." But like Jesse said, literally by the next year we won't be able to host basketball games in that gym most likely because it's that dark. >> Um, so it's not just this frivolous let's update our lights. It's becoming sort of a safety concern and a quality of work concern and it's kind
067of a big deal. >> Yeah. And it's it's a total requirement at this point that we have to have done and what we're trying to do is find the best way to do it affordably. >> Yeah. >> And I just wanted to kind of clarify for the community like this isn't just that we've decided we want to update all of our lights. Yeah, good point. >> Like we don't want our It's playing in a gym that's so dark that we can't have them be in there safely. >> That's true. Lead >> certified. >> Pretty high priority schedule. >> Yeah, that one is Yeah, that one is one of our top priorities because we literally can't get the lights right now. >> Um, so that's number one. We're also looking into the BAS system because as
068Jana can tell you, it turns out that elementary school is very hot the first few weeks of school. At sometimes it's very cold now and hot in some rooms and cold in other rooms. Still hot. the seal on. >> So, um, one of the solutions to that is basically the brains of your agent system. It's called a building automation system. Um, we did a quote with Schneider Electric initially on the contract that you had had us go out and look at and, um, we think it's way too expensive. So, we're putting out a new bid process on that, a new RFB. I already know um, we can do it substantially cheaper. So, we do need to do something with that because it's not functioning the way it should be. Um, so there's going to be
069some cap project, but that probably won't come to you until we have a full solution and that'll be a summer fix. That's the earliest they'll be able to that would be my guess because the RFB has to go out. There's process involved with that. And then obviously there's lots of cap projects that we've discussed that'll be coming to you in the next few months that are likely next year slashs summer type projects and it sounds like a great work session. >> Robust. Okay. Excellent. Well done. Happy work session. Sorry, I missed it. I'm not >> priorities. >> Erin, one of the questions I had is did we do the transfer from the HA sale, the monies into the fund like fund 10 or whatever fund? >> Yeah, that is so so when you transferred the
070or when you sold, you're talking about the old HA. >> Yes. >> Yeah. that all of the assets that you're selling right now, including that one, once they sell, they're going into fund 43 because the strategy was to basically have that cash to pay off um that you're taking. Now, if we we're not currently advising that because currently we're making more money on the cash than we would are losing on our interest rates. Um but actually Karen asked a great question. When does that flip? Right now, on average, we're paying about three and a half% on our two loans for the coops. Um, and we're making like 4.2 roughly on average. So, if it ever went below 3.5, it'd be something the board would want to discuss. Is it more financially reasonable to just pay
071off the loan or does it make more sense to um to keep the cash for the cash flow purpose? So, right now, we're basically using it so we don't have to go to the state is another piece of it. We're able to make money on the cash and we don't have to do a 0% cash flow loan since most of our money comes later in here. So it's Yeah. But we did transfer that. >> Is that still available if in case we do need it the 0%. >> Yeah. Yeah. All that money is available and we're and I mean we still have the um the sale. One thing that's not in the budget currently for fund 43 is the sale of Spartan Heights because I believe it's still happening in probably February. Um so I'll
072have a more firm answer on that, but that'll be a chunk of cash that's there as well that you can either pay off the loan or use as cash on. So, and that was an inhibiility plan initially when we're talking about taking out the loans was selling those assets specifically to cover those loans. >> If you had to do the 0% loan again, do you have to redo the whole application and everything or it's like you did it once and just update? >> No, we'd have to redo it and we we you have to know before the year starts. I mean, you can come back into it in January, but it's much harder if it's easier if you start the year. Um, at this point I'm not concerned. If we started spending a bunch of
073cash down out of those accounts, like if we decided to take that money and spend it on something else, then we wouldn't need that the 0% lock in. It's 0%. It's not a big deal. My only concern with that loan long term is the state budget. I don't I don't know how long that money is going to be available. They say it's 0%, but double the districts are using it as they used to. So, I don't know how long they're going to just have free money lying around while they're telling us that they have no money. Seems counterintuitive. But maybe I'm not wrong. Maybe the state's not telling me everything I know. Maybe there's more money than I know. >> And I've been curious. This is kind of off topic a little bit, but how
074do you stay on top of all the changes? And do you do you have like a newsletter? How I mean, >> how do you stay on top of all of it? >> Yeah. I have I get six news letters and then I read a lot of bills when they're talking about the bills and so >> a lot of time on a screen >> when the bill passes or do you >> No, typically I'm reading it as they're talking about it as they're adjusting and trying to keep up with it and then you get a new run every month or two. Um so for example, the governor just passed a new or submitted a new budget request for next year which I think is great for us. He actually is highly supporting education and not cutting
075into um the new formula that they passed last year. And so diving into that, trying to figure out what that means. And so they'll send you a spreadsheet saying, "Well, if you have same amount of students, it'll be this amount." But then you try to dive in and figure out how does it impact you with ELLL kids and things like that. So it's time with Jim. Um because Jim's the best and knows all of our data. So once I have formulas and spreadsheets, we can usually figure it out. But I hope >> And when you say they, not Casp. Okay. >> Yeah. The fake legislator. And then we have Elsa Tracy Rainey with the school finance project. Um, I lean on her task force pretty heavily. They're they're in every single group. >> Thank you.
076I mean, what a >> Oh, yeah. They're volatile. >> Crazy. >> No. Yeah, it's it's absolutely. >> Yeah. One of the other things we talked a lot about is, forgive me if I say I'm wrong, FF, free food for all and whether or not we should participate. Um, I know Jody was wanting to have that conversation, but with LL and MM passing, like maybe FF is not a dream on our budget. Like I just it's just so unknown that >> Yeah. I mean, I I can answer that pretty well. I mean, Mandy asked me before that was on the ballot, how does this affect our budget? It doesn't really. All it does is keep them being able to run it the way it is being right now. Um, basically when we passed FF, one of
077the things about Colorado is you can pass laws that tell the legislature that they have to spend money a certain way, but it doesn't tell them how they're going to have to find the revenue for that. And so, basically, they have to do free food for all because we passed it, but they had no revenue that was equal to that. So, it's turning our budget upside down at the state level. Um, so we were able to go national. We began a C program, which means we could get most of our money from the National um food service. I don't remember what it's called, but the national we can get funds nationally. Um, and so it was working for us. It doesn't really affect us. We're going to get the same amount of money per plate.
078Um, so it's not a huge deal. It's just going to operate make sure the state has enough money to continue running it. We'll still have to decide if we want to do that or if it costs us more. It does cost us more than if we were to come up with a cost analysis and say we're going to charge $5 a place like we used to or whatever. We could come to more of a break even point. The problem is that's the question is how much do you want to spend it? How much do you want to do that to the community versus how much do you want to follow what the state's done and the voters have done by saying we want a little subsidy. We are having a subsidize and almost every school
079district free food still means that the district has to subsidize in order to make it work but we get a chunk of money >> and but that chunk of money has to go to food. >> Yeah, >> that's what you're saying on that. >> Yeah. Yeah. And so we we transfer money every year from our general fund to our uh fund 21, the the lunch fund. And that's to cover our expenditures. >> Yeah. Was what 30,000 this year? >> 300,000. >> Yeah. We ended up it ended up being 250 last year at the end, but we budgeted 300. We were able to do some cost savings along the way. Um we used to do roughly 200 to 150 to 200 when we actually charged per plate. Um, but the free food for all basically mandates
080that you get paid a certain amount per plate and that you serve. And so it's not a way that you can say, well, it costs us X amount to prepare a plate, so we need to charge Y like you would at a restaurant. And so, you know, if you're losing slightly per plate and you're selling more plates, then you have to you have to fund that some way. But flip side of it is kids are eating for free and there's a lot of people who need that and it's a great benefit for a lot of people. I mean there's a lot of staff members how their kids can be and I think that's a benefit. So it's you have to weigh the pros and cons of that as a board and decide what you want
081to do. We can always come up with another solution like Jody's asked us to. Um I don't know politically where that where everyone wants to go with that. >> I don't think we've ever been like we subsidize the food program regardless. >> We always waste and everything else. So >> yeah, we're just subsidizing it more than we're used to. >> Yeah. So, >> I would like to look at that, too. >> Okay, I can do that >> because it Yeah, the waste and the not everybody needs a free lunch or I don't know. I'd like to look at some other. >> Yeah, I recall like two years where we're really thrilled because we were like out of budget, but it was still under 50,000, >> right? >> To cover for waste and all the things.
082>> It also affects anytime the biggest expense you have is staff. So anytime you the people preparing meals and so anytime that we do increases the staff in the lunch fund that's going to be your biggest cost. Um so just something to >> so the st the nutrition salaries are out of that bucket versus >> everything except for um Head Start, not Head Start but UPK. We get some money from UPK for um for UPK lunches and so those are actually in the general fund. Um, so I just think for always um I don't know it'll come back something. Okay, let me think about it. >> Always over. >> Oh, I know what it was. >> There we go. I'm ready. >> Do do they still have to serve the nutritional to every child also?
083Yes. >> Is that state mandate or >> Well, that's an Andrea question. I just know the answer is yes. There's specific things they have to serve with every plate. But I >> I think it's federal, but I could be wrong. >> Yeah, >> that's an answer. Yeah, >> I think that's what goes on. >> Yeah. Not in the environment of what you what they put on them. >> But they also have exceptions for kids with dietary. >> Right. Right. Like vegetarians don't have to take that. They get something else or whatever. >> And we do do the waste with um Julie Mock. Correct. Is the waste going to compost? Composting. Yes. >> Elemental fire. >> Is that every building now? Yeah, I mean we have composting in every building and we do it as much
084as possible. I mean I don't know the answer. I can't tell you. I haven't been like I've been in the lunchroom multiple times for Thanksgiving and things like that, but I don't know how much they're actually how much is going into each like the trash can versus the complex. >> I mean that might be interesting too to see how much waste is >> anyway. Yeah, >> I can get over that. >> Thank you. Sure. Okay. Any other budget questions? >> You will get a big video, by the way. Okay. You'll get a big video next month, I assume, for all the budget stuff and audit stuff that I have coming soon >> and some fun music >> and you will get page against the machine. >> Oh, >> Yeah. Just the trophy in the background.
085Yeah, the trophy will be back. >> He's got to decorate his office somehow. >> Disgust though. We've got all sorts. >> There's two of them in there. Like, aren't these supposed to be with the high school? I like they supposed to be. >> I'm sure they're okay. >> Yeah, they're on their way. They're just taking a deep >> like when we did that 50th year celebration, Anna took the thing and like everybody signed it. We had it for like the weekend. It was >> Stanley Cup. >> Yeah. I was like, "This is a big cup." And I'm like that. I'd like to >> drink all my coffee out of it. >> Okay. Thank you, Erin, for shifting priorities for just a moment. So, >> oh, we don't actually have any second. I thought you up
086to that and we don't >> I know. So, action items. We don't have any second readings. Need a motion to approve with ice rink for Chaffi County. >> So, moved. I'll second. >> Thank you. Um, as we talked about in work session, um, I believe this is a two-year MLU, correct? >> Pull it up. >> I think they wanted a multiple year commitment, but this is kind of a temporary structure. Um, there's a lot of long-term planning that the sites and the electrical that they're going to put in there. >> March 31st, 2027. >> Yeah. >> So, two years. >> That's one of this one. And I know that there will be conversations with long-term how guide stuff plays into that like the refrigeration from the electrical upgrades and everything else. Great benefit to the
087district for some of the we'll just say excavating that's going to need to be done for the ice rink anyway. Great for them to have a location for the next couple years as they continue to wait through where they can find their permanent place. I see John was on that line earlier here. So, he's going to be sitting at home waiting for this. Any other questions, comments? >> I think it's a great idea, and I'm glad that uh uh that we're working with those guys on it, and that they brought it forward. And uh it seems like almost everybody in the town wishes we had more activities, more of a kind of a rec center or something like that. And this isn't exactly a rec center, but it's a pretty cool thing. I'm not into
088skating myself, but I think it's really >> it's a win-win and I'm super glad that we get to be part of happening finally. Yes, it's a time. >> Glad I get to be part of it. >> Good thing. >> The other thing I would say too, there's no there's no financial impact and I think that's one of the reasons that I would we we supported it as a staff is because they're bringing the money to to do the work and it improves our facilities. That's the nice part. And Jesse was mentioning a couple of months ago just how one of his goals is to try to find more activities for kids in our town. I'm noticing that that's kind of a big concern of his. So big kudos to John for reaching out and being
089proactive and glad we were able to get to this point very quickly because this kind of idea came up day before last meeting I think. So >> yeah, >> kudos. Good job everybody. Ready for vote? >> I need I need to be here. Dr. Hill. >> Hi. >> Mr. Hobs. >> Hi. >> Mrs. Lunberg. >> Yes. Mrs. Pascal. >> Hi. >> Mrs. M. Shikman. >> Hi. >> And Mr. Smith. >> Hi. Okay. Uh, board communications committee reports. Mandy. Anything? >> I have a meeting Thursday. >> I don't think there's anything more to discuss on facilities. Uh, communications. understand that Kim >> um I think the Go ahead. Are we discussing on the calendar today? >> Consent. >> Thanks. >> No, I have nothing. I think the only kind of big project that's coming up really
090fast that I will dig into this week is our annual report. Um so if you haven't got a couple of story ideas kind of prepped and incubating. Um, but if there's anything in particular that you want to make sure goes in the annual report this year, recommendations, suggestions, uh, let me know. >> I would also love a situation where we all could read it. >> Yeah. Thanks. >> Yeah. Okay. >> Or anyone who's interested. Do you have uh if you have like an outline of you know just bullet points of what you think is going to be in there might help germinate ideas >> tomorrow I have a bunch of stickies on my board that we'll go through and I will >> write them type them out so you can go over what I have
091already. >> Yeah. Um but things like and without going to look uh facility use um kind of with outside organizations as we talk about all of our kind of partners and wreck things that have come up. Um love to highlight the ADA play structure at the middle school. Um those are kind of the two that are top of my mind right now. >> Yeah. >> Yep. I'll I'll send you guys an update or a list of can talk. >> Yeah. Um but I'll Yeah, I'll shoot you guys a quick >> And is it going out as a copy again? >> Yeah, it'll be >> Does that every year go out as a hard copy? >> Um Yep. It'll go out again as a hard copy to every address in the district. Um make sure everyone
092gets get one. >> Okay. >> Um but it's one of those I think it continues to be wellreceived and people feel connected to the district and what's going on and >> certain part. um >> yeah has some very positive comments about >> about it. So >> y want to highlight some stuff going on in the schools and um >> broad broad >> maybe an article on sleeping at the Cheyenne Zoo >> better museum or like come down and we used to do that at the Denver Zoo. Yeah, >> an adventure. >> I can think of >> Jen. Anything to Casby? >> I mean, it's happening next month, so see you there. >> I hope one of you carries my tradition and enjoys Casby, but not Casby. >> I've already drunk. Uh, let's see. >> A
093lot of networking. Good opportunities. >> Ben, I assume nothing. >> Nothing. Cool. Uh Kim, I know we're talking about it later, but anything else election updates? >> Yep. I think just that we're waiting officially the clerks have until Thursday. They have eight days to finish curing the election. Um and then the 26th is their deadline to get me certified election results, at which point we have 10 calendar days. I did confirm that with the lawyer today. Um which means our regular December meeting will not meet that deadline in terms of swearing in. Um, so we will need to schedule a special meeting to get everyone sworn in >> like the first week of December then. >> Yeah, like it has to assuming my assumption is they'll take until the 26th and in theory they could
094come in earlier than that but >> but it's Thanksgiving so >> yeah. So my suggestion re put it on the calendar was maybe the 2nd which is also a Tuesday still. I don't know if that works best for everyone. Um, I don't know if we don't have any CBT things that we have anything else that we need. In >> 21, we did some other CBT things because we needed to get that done during a special meeting, but I don't think we have any other business items that we need to address that night. So, >> um, it would really just be the swearing in as far as I know. So, >> done that before. >> So, if the second looks like it kind of we can kind of pencil it in with the assumption that I'll
095get results within a 10day window. That's that. >> Well, even if you >> It could be any time of the day. >> I mean, really, that works regardless, right? >> Okay. As long as my >> as long as they don't come back the you know, 14th. >> Yeah. If they come back the 14th, we have 10 days from the 14th. >> From the 14th. >> Last time I think they took the whole time. Um, and that would be my expectation. >> I mean, this if I pencil in for the second, does that feel good? >> Okay. Um, I couldn't do the last week of the month if that happened. That matters. All right, that gives me something to work with. I can't do the last week of the month either. So hopefully it's >> I
096have to do that. I don't think so. >> I'll think so. But >> maybe only >> Yeah. >> So 6 p.m. still >> my feeling is after work is best for you guys. I mean you guys kind of tell me >> 5:15 later >> 5:15 so you can just like come straight from work and go home. >> Tiffany, what time do you usually get done at the end of work? >> Yeah, I I make it till 5, but I should be able to make it by >> like 5:15. So we can >> Why don't we do that? Because then we can go home for dinner. >> Yeah, it'll be 10 minutes. >> I can always give snacks. >> Okay, >> I will pencil that in and then with the assumption that everything >> I get
097stuff back from anticipate then we can >> having that kind of casually on the calendar right now and >> as I get information back from them I will. >> Did you guys hear that? The second 5:15. >> Okay. You don't have >> agenda review. Mandy, I'm gonna volunteer you. >> Okay. >> And then you can figure out who you want to be with you. Unless you got somebody else has the capacity the week before, too. >> Could be right before swearing in. Could be easy that way. >> Try. >> I haven't done in a while, but >> I'm open. Whatever you want. >> I'm gonna put Ben in. >> Maybe Ben. I'll make sure we get that scheduled. >> Uh I assume more communications to go after everybody for Casby, especially Tly, so she knows
098what's going on. >> Um I don't know if you guys date. >> She's got she's got the basics yet. >> I don't know if you guys really want to set a retreat date. It's on here, but >> and it's one of those it's on our board monitoring doc, so it's Did >> we do one last year? Sorry, we didn't do this sheriff. >> We didn't cuz I think we felt like >> we kind of get some retreat time at Casby. >> Um, if we make it that decision after Casby. >> Yeah. >> Is that too late? >> Um, if we make it at the >> the December meeting would be great, which is before CASBY by a couple days, but just so it's on the calendar. I think >> we can put it tenatively correct
099on the calendar. settle for December. >> Okay. Um, thank you guys. It's been fun, you know, reiteration of a lot of different people in the seats and it's like thinking back of like relationships and I think I told a few of you I called Joel McBride and he was like slapped me through the phone of like Joe like done good things, move on, enjoy your more free time and find your next thing and all the things. and even throughout the whole last few months of like just running into former board members and different things and it's been just cool. So really rewarding. Uh eight years ago when I started I never thought I would enjoy this as much as I have. It was just like this sounds like a great thing for my career like
100growth and community things and it was a lot more encompassing than I ever thought. Maybe I took it that way and so on and so forth. I mean there's make of it. So, but you guys get on >> how long each of you have been here with me. But >> I know I've been here the whole time you've been here. So, >> you're commentating. >> So, I just I what it really was I just couldn't work with Aaron and Savannah because we just all >> to go back too far. So, no, you guys have been hustling. This community has been great. Bober's been great. And as always, I don't really want to stay involved to some degree, but I am a resource of information and I'm always able to help cuz still care about this
101place and I have four kids that are going to be running through it. So, I don't want things to just fall apart by any means. So, yeah, I don't care if I'm breaking rules of Robert's rules. I'm a journey this damn meeting. Amen. >> Amen. All right.