001Mhm. >> Mhm. >> Welcome. This is the April 20th, 2026 S Park School District R3 Board of Education regular meeting. It is now 5:15 p.m. and this meeting is called to order. Please stand for the Pledge of Allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Chris, please conduct a board roll call. Director Ferri. Here. Director Schacket. Here. Director Wierzewski. Here. Director Weiss. Here. Moving on to approval of the agenda. Board members have an agenda before you. At this time, I'll take any comments or amendments to the current agenda. Seeing none, is there a motion to approve the current agenda? I move we approve the current agenda. Is there a second? I
002second. We have a motion and a second. Chris, please conduct a board roll call. I. Director Schacket. I. Director Wierzewski. I. Director Weiss. I. I's carry the vote. Agenda is approved. Moving on to agenda item two, public participation. We had no one sign up this evening. Moving on to agenda item three, spotlight on success. Engineering Brightest students, come on up. Can you play the video, please? Oops, sorry. Excuse me, sir. I apologize. Very often as a kid, do you feel like you can actually change the world? And that's why this project is really cool. We collaborate to try and build the most efficient lantern design, and then we send it to different developing countries and orphanages and people who just don't have access to electricity. You're going to make them. On this side right here,
003it has a solar panel. It has rechargeable batteries on the inside. So, when it's daytime, you can put it outside and charge it. You don't need to plug it in. You don't need to buy new batteries, okay? Somewhere in the world, someone's going to have light because of you. And when I tell you you're going to change their world, we don't really get it because we live with electricity all the time. But somewhere there's a kid that's going to be able to do their homework at night because you made them a light. A family's going to be able to cook their dinner because you made them a light. A kid's going to wake up in the middle of the night scared and be able to turn on a light cuz you made them a light.
004A mom's going to be able to feed her baby in the middle of the night because you made them a light. When I tell you that you get to actually change somebody's world, you do. This is going to change somebody's world. So, first of all, I have to give big props to Nick Gooch who created the video. Um he had a dog emergency and had to run. He did really want to be here tonight, but um had to run. So, um I'm Paula Greenblatt. Um this is my 16th year here in the Estes Park School District um along with Jen Mele. Um she is our district librarian and Estes Park Elementary librarian. Um I teach computer science and in 2021, uh Jen Mele, was that your first year? She said, "Hey, at my old school
005we did this really cool project called Engineering Brightness." And she told me about it and I was like, "Yes." But a lot of schools do this, first of all, at the middle school level and they do it as an after-school club. And I said, "Nope. I want every single one of the kids in the elementary school to have their hands on this project. This is an unbelievable experience and opportunity." Um it coincides with some fourth-grade science standards as well as you saw our global outcomes. Um so, this is our fifth year doing it and as you saw we've made close to 200 lanterns. Now, when you're thinking about 1 billion people that live without reliable electricity, that's just a drop in the bucket, but to let kids have the ability to change somebody's world, I
006mean, they see me tear up every time I talk about it because it's my favorite project that I do with all of the grades that I teach um because they get to make a difference. So, they have some lanterns up here. Um you also saw their practice project when they're learning how to solder are these little bugs that this one maybe the battery's dead. I brought one of those for you guys to see. So, um I will bring up a lantern and a bug that you guys can kind of pass along. Um but I think you probably want to hear from these guys. So, this is Quinn and Jordan. Um and I will let you ask them. Thanks for being here. Yeah. Had either of you ever done soldering before this project? No. And what
007did you think of the heat and the melting metal and all of that? When we first like heard of it, all of everybody in the grade was like kind of scared about being burned. But now that we got the hang of it from the doing the bugs as like a warm-up, we've like we know how to do it and it's like really fun to do. Do you know some of the countries where your lights have been sent? No, I do not. Do you? I forgot. >> That's okay. There's a partner teacher in Liberia, in Africa, that wants like 3,000 of them. Um and a partner of Engineering Brightness makes yearly trips over. He fills a big barrel full of them. Um so, most of them are going there. I think some of ours went to
008maybe Guatemala. I was going to say there was a year that they went to Guatemala There's a good partnership there as well. But, mostly Liberia. Have you either of you ever been in a situation where you didn't have lights and it was uncomfortable for you? No, not really. I mean, the biggest like thing that that's happened was like a power outage, but like I just read my books and just kept active. What did you read by? What kind of light did you use? Or was it still daytime? Um it was still daytime. >> Okay. Jordan, how about you? Um Can Can you say the question again? Oh, I was just wondering if there was ever a time where you did not have light when you wanted it. No, not really. We do talk a little
009bit about how like when our power goes out, we know it's coming back. I mean, even in like a hurricane type situation, they're working on it, right? There's people out there working on it. And it's not like you live our lives without reliable electricity. So, are the cases 3D printed? Is that what I saw? Yes, they are 3D printed with a really cool 3D printer. Yeah. Awesome. What was your favorite part about building the lanterns? Probably the soldering. It was like really cool melting the stuff and it was like really satisfying. I think my favorite part about doing the project is that we get a chance somebody's life. We get to make their day better. So, how long did it take you to make one? Well, we're still working on it. Some kids Yeah, some
010kids are still working on it. Um some kids are done with the inside, but some when we have another class soon for making these and that's when my group will put on the casing and stuff. And have you guys had two class periods already? >> We've had three. So, in each class period is an hour. So, looks like it'll be about a 4-hour Yeah. doesn't include the bugs at the beginning. Oh, okay. So, 2 and 1/2, 3 hours probably? Yeah, we do some basic circuitry um with snap circuits at the beginning so that they understand like basic electricity and the problems like short circuits can cause cuz when they're soldering if pieces of solder are touching and then something doesn't work. So, they're they're kind of watching for that. Um so yeah, like overall six,
011seven class periods, hours. All from start to finish completely. Yeah. Well, this is a fantastic program and thank you for bringing it to the schools and keeping it going and thank you kids for being so into it because you know, if it wasn't fun and educational for you, then it probably wouldn't continue. So, thanks for helping the people. You're welcome. Is there anything else you guys wanted to share about the project that they didn't ask? No. No. Just wanted to give you the opportunity. Good job, you guys. Yeah, you guys. Good job. Thank you for being here. Okay, any young guests are welcome to leave if they would like. Okay, so unfortunately there has been a mis- communication. We do have a public participation this evening. Corey Workman, I believe you mentioned you signed up.
012We did not get a form, but whoever wishes to speak, please come up. And state your name, and you will have 3 minutes. And push that base. Yep, you got it. Thank you guys. My name is Natalie Workman. I requested to speak, and I'm sorry that it just didn't work in technology, but I'm here to talk about something that has been going on in our school district since we got the new band teacher. The band teacher has made many of us feel uncomfortable and unsafe in a place where we are supposed to feel supported. School is supposed to be a safe environment, but in band that's not been the reality. Students feel anxious, stressed, and even afraid to speak up because of how we are treated. That's not okay, and it goes directly against what
013I've read in the handbook and what it says about respect and safety. What makes this even more frustrating is that we've already tried to address this. We've been told that people have talked to him about his behavior, but nothing has changed. If anything, we feel like we're being ignored, and we are the ones who have to keep dealing with it every single day. Band should be a place where students feel encouraged and excited to learn about music, not a place that causes stress and fear. Many of us joined because we care about music, but now it feels like we're stuck in an environment that we dread walking into. That is not what education is supposed to be. The situation is not just unfair, it's unacceptable. When a teacher's behavior continues even after concerns have been
014raised, it shows a lack of accountability. The school handbook exists for a reason, and right now it feels like those rules aren't being enforced. I'm you to take action, not just conversations, not just warnings, real action. Students deserve to be able to feel safe in every classroom, including band. We deserve to be listened to, and we deserve better than this. Thank you. Thank you. Moving on to agenda item four, discussion items. Agenda item 4.1, quarterly financial report, Brian Lund. All right, good evening. Um in your guys's packet, there's a lot of numbers and check registers and deposit registers and all that stuff. Um but so far we're three quarters of the way through the year at the end of March. Um, we got our first wave of tax receipts. So, that's catching up. We'll get
015five more distributions in tax collections in the next 3 months. Um, so we'll get that caught up. But, we got the first half um, in March and we repaid our no interest loan which we used to operate once we used up our reserves in December and we repaid a little over $2.4 million in uh, money that we borrowed. And that is legally due back to the state and repaid within 24 hours of receiving property tax collections. So, we're in compliance with that. Um, but you can see we're only about 63% of our revenue collected within general fund. But, like I said, that's due to we've only gotten the first half of payments and we'll get um, another 6 million or so in the next um, distribution when people make their second payments and then the
016people that make the double payments will get that in June. So, we'll get all that caught back up and we usually collect 99% of our property taxes. It's pretty close to 100%. So, um, that number should be pretty solid at the end of the year. Um, our expenditures we're lagging behind just a little bit just because of the timing of teacher contracts. And then the centralized services, um, that's lagging behind too because that's where our contingency or unallocated funds with that program excess number that we're going to use for staff retention. Um, that's where that lives and we haven't expended that. So, that's why that number is lagging behind um, 75% of the year. Options is the only one that's close to being right around that just because all those employees are hourly and they're
017so their budget aligns with the school year compared to the other buildings. So, what we got. Um capital updates um over spring break um all of the lights in the high school gym were finally replaced. Um we got all those on hand and up and installed. So, that's where we are there and that's the sum of my report. Any questions? So, I think in summary what I'm hearing is that through March we're on track with our budget to what we expected. Um we have that teacher offset, so that's why we're not at 75% of spending so far. Um we're a little bit lower in that's but that that's normal, that's expected. Um Ruby Ruby question to you. Um in previous meetings we had talked about the high school locker room and the funds for making
018those um adjustments. Is that in this year's budget or is that in next year's? It is. Okay. That is in this year's budget and so that's some of the summer work that we have planned. We were looking at doing a full upgrade, but now that we're in master planning we decided we're going to just um upgrade what needs to be done like benches, bathrooms, access to the showers that needs to be wheelchair accessible, um redoing the showers so that they function better. Um what am I missing, Brian? Um a lot of it's just we can't do it right now just because we have to break up the concrete to redo the plumbing, so that's why it's going to be a summer project. And then it's redoing the um toilet and urinal in the boys locker
019room as well and getting that stuff squared away. So, in that capital in the capital that we budgeted, it'll come from that. Thank you. All right, thank you. Moving on to agenda item 4.2, superintendent council report. Um thank you. This is our April report. So, we are the Superintendent Council. Geneva Thomas is our chair. Michael Bertucci is our other chair. Niva Case is our social media coordinator along with Maya Breezy. I'm the treasurer. Noah Webster is our timekeeper. And Zach Zarda and Olivia Boynton are members. Um our Superintendent Council focus goals are to increase school pride culture and give the student body a contact point. Currently, we are working on strengthening the connection between students and admin. And we've been working toward our goals so far this year with Bobcat Buddies, bringing in guest speakers,
020and with our efforts to provide students insight and feedback into the school district. So, right now what's going on in the school is last week in the high school, we had the SAT and the PSAT, which was pretty awesome. And we have prom coming up on May 2nd. And then our picture here is the Youth in Action Bingo Night, which we do annually, which was pretty cool. It was pretty cool. We also had more people and raised more money than previous years, so yay. Well done, Youth in Action. Thank you. And then we're ready. Amazing. Yes, and the Superintendent Council partnered with the district and the hiring firm to have a student forum for the upcoming or well, the superintendent candidates. And so last Thursday during when students had the opportunity to get to know
021them with student provided questions, ask them questions, and provide their feedback on something that will impact them. Thank you. Any questions? I just like to say thank you so much for organizing this student forum and making sure that student voice was part of the process for the superintendent um selection. So, thank you for that. Oop. I just want to say one more thing. Um so, this is their last meeting of the year because they are not coming to the May meeting because it's the week of graduation and they're involved in a lot of things. So, we're going to have a couple more meetings as a council. I just want to say what a pleasure it's been to work with you. I'm going to miss you very, very, very much. It's one of the pleasures of
022my job to meet with you every Wednesday morning bright and early at 7:00 a.m. And I'm really going to miss that a lot. You're incredible You're incredible You are all an incredible group of young people. And so, thank you for being awesome and thanks for spending your evenings with us one Monday a month and telling us what the students have going on. Thank you all very much. Moving on to agenda item 4.3, superintendent report, Superintendent Body. All right. For facilities, this time it is the time of year where we proactively start planning for our summer's grounds and facility projects. We take advantage of a lower number of students and staff being around campus, but there's still a lot going on this summer. We have summer school in our buildings. We have a usually about 100
023students at summer school all of June at the elementary. We have boys and girls club that goes on all summer. It ends the first the week the week before school starts. They take a week off. Um so, we still have a lot happening. Athletic teams often will do some summer training as well. So, you're still going to see a lot going on across the district, but we have a lot of significant projects that are scheduled for this summer. One of them one of the very big ones is resurfacing we heard about the gym renovations or the locker room renovations. Um we will be resurfacing top field and that's planned to begin in June and it's estimated to be about approximately $50,000 to get top field back to where we want it to be. And so
024we're we'll work to restore the field and get it back to optimal playing conditions with grass. It's going to be Let me It's going to be shut down all summer. So, summer school, boys and girls club, they're not going to be able to use top field as we work to get that back revived. And then we are getting a new phone system and a new prox card system. So, that's going to be taking place. The phone system will be taking place the first 2 weeks of June. So, every staff in the district will be getting a new phone and the prox card system will be taking place in July when we have fewer things going on and need to change over the prox system in our buildings. So, those are things that we have planned
025for with our capital spending that'll be happening this summer. Um and then the preschool playground's going to be resurfaced as well. That's going to happen right when school ends. So, there's a lot going on in facilities and across the school grounds this summer. We've received some questions from the community regarding public access to our track. The track remains open for public use outside of school hours and outside of scheduled athletic practices, but to to maintain a secure campus, access is going to be limited to the gate near the operations building. It's on the southeast end of the track. So, we're asking people to park in that small parking lot rather than on the school campus to access the track to use it. That keeps our the remainder of our stadium secure and all the rest
026of our gates closed. The next master planning committee meeting with RBA and B architects is scheduled for May 11th. The committee's been meeting monthly in an advisory capacity and it's now narrowed the work down to what we looked at last time we met were two primary facility concepts that align with our potential future bonding capacity. So, we're working within our bonding capacity to come up with ideas. Prior to that meeting, on May 4th, all of the district staff is going to have the opportunity to meet with the RB+B team and provide their input. We plan to present an update to the Board of Education at our May 12th work session of of those concepts and get your feedback as well and let you know what we've gathered from staff and from the stakeholders on our
027master planning committee. For finance update, thank you Brian for your quarterly report this evening and providing all that information for the board. Overall, the district is projecting flat funding for next year. At this time, we don't anticipate any significant changes that would impact this outlook and so having this information early has allowed us to go ahead and move forward with drafting staff contracts sooner than in previous years when we were waiting for the legislation to end. Staff's going to continue to receive salary incre- increases through horizontal and vertical advancement. That is maintaining steps for years of service for staff, so they get raises there and then lanes for continued education and they'll be able to obtain raises there. However, there's not going to be any adjustments to the base salary schedule for the 2026-2027 school
028year. But, we are pleased to be in a position to offer retention incentives for our returning staff. So, our timeline is to distribute returning contracts in early May with a return deadline of May 29th and that timeline will allow us to determine what that final rescinded that final retention incentive amount is going to be depending on the number of staff that are returning and so we'll be able to determine that and then retention incentives will be included in the June payroll for staff. Under family and community engagement, I really enjoyed my coffee and conversations at the senior center last week. Uh there was a really great turnout. There there was a lot of community members that engage in meaningful discussion and I was really pleased with how much knowledge they already had about our school
029district following the newspapers and the um Estes Valley Voice and the Facebook pages and they they really had they knew a lot already and came with really thoughtful questions and we engaged in some real fun conversations. So, I truly appreciate the investment in our schools and the interest in our schools and thank you to the senior center for having me over and I also hosted a coffee and conversations at Starbucks for my just the ones I am getting out to coffee shops and doing the community. That had low turnout, but I still appreciated the opportunity for a few of the former parents that came to meet with me and it was especially meaningful to hear updates about their kids who are now adults and really successful in what they're pursuing and were once students of
030ours. On May 13th, we're going to host a combined schools concert at Hempel Auditorium at the YMCA of the Rockies. I really don't think this is one you want to miss. This is the event that got rescheduled because of the high winds in December. It was intended to be a holiday concert combined between all our choirs and all our buildings. We're going to have that on May 13th and it'll be all students from all our schools and all our choirs and also option school is going to participate as well. And so, our options program will participate. So, that'll be fun. I hope you can come. It starts at 6:00. If you want to put it on your calendar. I'd also like to thank the Board of Education for your leadership in the search for the
031new superintendent. Thank you so much for all the time you put in and the thoughtfulness you put in and the opportunities that you gave for staff and students and community members to share their perspectives. Um thanks for dedicating to that important process and your commitment for selecting the next leader for our school district and I'm excited about that. Under our focus areas for our strategic plan, focus focus area one centers on academic achievement and growth, which is measured largely through our district and our state assessments. In this last couple weeks, we've been deep in state assessments all across the district. We've been participating in math, reading, writing, and science in grades 3 through 11. I'd like to recognize and celebrate our school assessment coordinators, Andrea Sporletter, Ryan Harris, and Mary Barron for all the hard
032work that they put into doing that. Also, Sandy Peach for being our coordinator for the co-op assessments. And for Nick Gooch for his technology support. They all work diligently to ensure that all aspects of testing are proactively planned, that all of our test administrators are well trained, and that we meet all of our compliance requirements for the state. And so, it's a big, significant undertaking. So, thank you to them, and they've done an excellent job. I'd also like to thank Debbie Compton ahead of time if in advance because when all this is done at the on Friday, which is the last day of the window, she plays a critical role in ensuring that all the assessment information is accurate and submitted on time to the state. And it takes a team, and I have a
033great one, and I'm just really grateful for all of them. In focus area two, I'd like to highlight the continued growth of our career and workforce readiness programs. This is an area we've really tried to focus with through our actions on our plan for our strategic plan, and we've intentionally trying to have been trying to strengthen this as well as work-based learning and have goals for next year as well, but thank you to Ryan Harris for his leadership in advancing this work. Our teachers have expanded opportunities for students, and we're seeing a much larger participation in the number of students participating in competitions. And for many of them, it's their first time. And not only are they participating, but they're excelling at really high levels. We talked last time we met last month about HOSA
034and how much participation we're seeing in that. And recognize some HOSA accomplishments, but since then, we have some more to celebrate. April Martinez is in our P-Teach program and she placed second at both the FCCLA regional and state competitions and she's going to represent our district at the national competition in Washington, D.C. in June. It's really exciting. Um that's for her work in early childhood education and her project she's been working on there. And then Cole Ingram competed in welding at the SkillsUSA state welding contest earning a bronze medal and he also received a big scholarship award to WyoTech. I believe it was $3,000. So, they I think just this morning at 8:30 they awarded that scholarship and that's really exciting to see and so thank you for our teachers as well, Cinda Bash for
035HOSA and Rachel Graham for P-Teach and Steven Shaws for our SkillsUSA welding. Um and then focus area three, we recently received our district results from our teaching learning conditions. Our TLCC is the acronym for that. It's one given by the Colorado Department of Education for staff to complete each year. They just released the results. This is hot off the press. And um our overall favorable response rate was 75.4% and our goal was 75%. So, we met our goal and so it indicates that we've successfully met our target on this staff perception measure. We also do give an in-district survey as well to our staff at the end of each school year as well. The TLCC survey provides valuable insight and helps guide our continuous improvement efforts by identifying both strengths and then the areas for
036growth that we want to work on. And um the areas of the lowest favorable responses point to opportunities for focused attention moving forward. So, overall as a district, those areas include effectiveness in our response to intervention or MTSS structures, uh staff compensation being adequate, consistency of all staff in enforcing student behavior expectations, the ability to secure substitute coverage when they're gone, and then staff influence and important school decisions, and access to personalized professional development. So, those are all areas that um I think we know already just through conversation with staff that I know I've had and that administrators have had, but those will be the areas that we need to hone in and focus on for the upcoming school year. At the same time, we saw large growth and overall favorable responses, or we performed
037above the state average in several key areas. Those areas where we had lots of big growth included um support for staff well-being, professional development, integrated use of AI, meeting diverse student needs, staff evaluation processes, professional climate, and the ability of sufficient the availability of sufficient time for staff. So, that's what we saw on that survey, and um thank you everybody. That's the end of my report. Thank you for your support of our schools. We're better together. Questions? I have a small question. Um on track access, how are we going to communicate that to the public because I think people who use the track may not receive school bulletins and things. Yeah, it's a good question. We could the the main tools for communication are through newsletters for parents. That hits a big community. And then
038um really our Facebook page and our website. Those are our main tools. I have I had an inquiry from two community members at the same time. I think the weather's getting nice, and so I we used to keep our before we renovated the stadium, we used to keep that unlocked. So, I think it was a matter of we used to keep that access lock unlocked. Now it's locked during the school day, um except for staff who have keys to open it. And so, just communicating the where we could do that on our Facebook page or or our website. I'm wondering if maybe we shouldn't put it in the paper because not everyone who's connected directly with the school uses Not everyone who uses the track is directly connected with the school, so just something to
039consider. Um And then I would like to say congratulations for meeting the target on the uh TLCC. That is fantastic news. I'm really happy to hear that. So, great work. Uh question on top field. Is there like sprinkler enhancements going into this, or is it just kind of grass resurfacing? Uh custom-made parts to fix the sprinkler system that we have. Yeah. Good old top field. Thank you. Moving on to agenda item 4-4, administrator reports, Ms. Miller. Hi, good evening. Um I knew there was a lot going on, but when I sat down to write this last week, I was like, "Oh, there's a lot going on at the elementary school." So, um just wanted to share with you like always our Golden Globe staff award. This month was passed along to Casey Rymer in fourth
040grade for her outstanding collaboration and the way she designs instruction that meets students' academic and wellness needs. And so, that was exciting, and today it got passed along to Seven Carvagal, our art teacher, for all of her hard work. Exactly. So, um hot off the press. Um and I want to give a huge thank you to the Lions Club for their partnership. They hosted for us on Friday a celebration for the end of CMS for our whole school, a big ice cream social with dancing and ice cream, and it was just such a fun celebration and partnership, and the kids were so excited, and it got younger kids instead of talking about, "Oh, we have to take state." They were, "Oh, this is so cool." And everyone was really proud and just a great environment.
041So, we're really grateful for that partnership and for the Lions Club for all they do for us. And for Lisa Meacham, cuz she really worked in partnership to create that and works with them and and with us. And then another thank you to the PSCO and our amazing parent volunteers and Severn with the student council for kicking off our fourth annual PSCO family dance on Saturday. From my perspective, it was the best one yet that we've had. It was just so joyful and great turnout from families, and just a great annual experience for our kids. And I did get pied in the face again this year. And I did make Officer Paul do it with me, cuz if I So, I did post those on our social media this morning if you would like to
042You can see Officer Paul with his pied face. Um and then also just a huge shout-out to Katie Corbell and to Stephanie Hudson. We had an amazing junior Bobcat roundup experience on April 5th or 4th on our It was the 6th. My congestion is taking over. And it was a wonderful day, and it just keeps getting better and better, and we brought in our incoming preschoolers and kindergarteners this year. And Stephanie and Katie just did a fantastic job of organizing all of it. So, huge kudos to them. There's a long list of events coming up that I'd invite anyone to come and join us to. Our career Our annual fourth annual career day is coming up on April 29th. April 29th is a really big day. You can just spend all day at school. You
043can come to career day and learn about watch all the kids. It's the most wonderful day with the kids learning from our school from our community partners all about different careers and getting to meet them and see things in action. And then that afternoon, you can head on over to Lars Fine Ice Cream and taste the six finalist ice cream flavors from the persuasive essays over at Lars Fine Ice Cream. And then you can come back to the school at 5:00 for the annual kindergarten music performance and celebration of learning about bees and plants. And so just come on over. It's going to be a great day. And then May 1st is the kickoff for our art show. Seven Cargill has been working with the art center downtown and it'll be going on for a
044number of weeks, but May 1st is the first day for the kickoff. On May 6th at 6:00 p.m. is our Bobcat Beats for the spring. And then on the 7th and 8th, our 5th graders are going off to their annual High Peaks Camp Retreat overnight field trip. On Friday, May 8th, you can join us for Books and Breakfast. Rachel Graham, that was our one that was scheduled the day that we had the snow day. She's coming to talk about services for our high potential learners and gifted learning at the elementary school. So she is going to come on Friday the 8th to Books and Breakfast. And then on the 9th, you can join us at the marina for the Bobcats on the run 5K. You guys just every day come on over. So yeah, we'll
045be at the marina starting at 9:00. And then on the 13th, like Ruby said, our combined choir concert. And the 15th is field day. So you can plan to either be there or it will be a snow day. It'll be one of the other. And then 5th grade promotion is on Tuesday the 19th at 6:00 p.m. So, long list of events coming up for everyone. I just want to echo what Ruby said for our um for our assessment coordinators and for Andrea Sporleder. Her attention to detail and organization skills really let us through such a successful CMAS and really her hard work this uh CMAS season making it such a positive and encouraging. Kids were so excited to do well on CMAS and we see them learning every day single day and we can't wait
046to uh have them show it off and and get to celebrate that uh when we get all the their CMAS scores back. Um then I also want to share we had our you know every 6 weeks we do our reading flooding um PLC meetings where we go through all of our students and make sure everyone's learning at the rates they need to in reading. And so we had our last one 2 weeks ago with our last final push of these last weeks of school making sure everyone gets what they need in these last few weeks. And then we were excited uh Andrea Sporleder and I met today with Carmen Williams and some principal elementary principals in Windsor to share our flooding uh model and practices for them to be able to use some of in
047their schools in Windsor which is exciting to collaborate with them. In the area of real world learning, we have a lot going on right now with our PBL projects. Third grade is doing their annual project on Estes Park history and they've developed such great partnerships with our community that every Friday for this month they're out in the community doing hands-on learning at the YMCA museum, at the Estes Park museum, at the Stanley House and every Friday they've a field trip out learning in the community to bring back to their class during the week. Third grade is also learning about life cycles with their own chicks that they are raising and it is just so awesome to go by and see kids with chicks reading to them and taking care of them. So they're learning about
048life cycles and science, but also our global outcomes of compassion they are learning so much. And so just thank you to the Milliken Foundation for the money from the grant for this great opportunity for our kids. And then around the school our annual shoe project in first grade is ongoing right now. They're having their celebration next week and then our kindergarteners I shared about their celebration and our preschool is learning about reduce reuse recycle and having a big celebration of learning coming up on books and breakfast day and our fifth grade is they're learning about influential people in American history and going to be hosting a live wax museum as the people in American history. So excited for that for them to celebrate. And I shared a little bit about the career fair already. In
049the area of wellness our MTSS team is really you know, they have just there's they work so hard and they you know, we had our two MTSS days back in February to try and meet with families and make intensive plans for everyone and we are having MTSS day tomorrow with meeting with families making support plans for all of our students before the end of the school year. So excited and just so proud of their hard work to and dedication to make sure that we have a plan in place for every single student. And then we are finishing out the year strong with attendance. We had that dip in third quarter. So we brought back our annual spring attendance challenge the grade level that has the highest attendance rate gets a bonus recess on Friday. And
050so our first week was the winner was third grade with 95.7% so excited for them to carry that through these next few weeks. So that's what's going on the elementary school. Questions? Um during the junior Bobcat round up, did we do the screenings again for those students coming in to our school? >> Yeah, we did. We did the speed dial, which is we assess their gross motor skills and their language development. Um and it's just been great feedback. This year we also for students who were in our school before got teacher feedback to really get a comprehensive assessment and um it was way more streamlined this year and I think you know, last year we got feedback of delays and people had to wait and this year the longest somebody had to wait was about
0515 minutes to get the feedback and they get a report to take home of here's some things you can do this summer before your child starts preschool or kindergarten. And it's also it's been so great for us um especially with so many young kids coming in needing speech language support that we get an early screener for child find and can do referrals for early intervention right away. Yeah. Thank you. Yeah, thank you all. Ms. Greenway. Good evening. I'll start with events and happenings. Like Erin said, there's a lot and I'm sure I'm going to miss a few. May is really packed. On April 9th through the 11th, one of our students, Jayden Hawker, played the bassoon with the All-State Concert Band with students from all over Colorado. It's a huge honor for him. I talked
052to him today and he said it was really quite amazing and the director was really something else to work with. So really proud of him for that. Um our choirs competed at Shasta Vocal Festival. I can't remember if you talked about this trivia or not, but um in their set they earned a two, which is an excellent rating, and then on their sight-seeing they received a superior rating, which is a one. So, that's about the highest rating you can get. And that was related to Ms. Gress's classroom goal for achievement for her students was to improve the sight-seeing and she did it and they did it as well. So, great way for our students to have ownership. Um the bingo night was really a lot of fun um and a big success, even though I
053didn't win the Folk Festival tickets. But Ms. Bashed it, so So, maybe she'll take me. I doubt it. I doubt it. Uh but it was really, really fun. Um and I'm glad you made a ton of money and those grants will be given out um Yeah, this Yeah, on the 22nd. So, great to give back to the community that way. Prom's May 2nd at the Stanley. Excited to attend that. We have an environmental film festival um this Saturday at the high school from 2:00 to 4:00. I think there eight to 10 films, student films in that showing. For academic achievement and growth, testing is over. We finished. I think we had one more CMAS to do and we got that done today. So, we are finished. Um we are aiming to beat the state again,
054hopefully in multiple categories. The students suggested that the principal challenge um was that I dye my hair purple. And the fall. So, I will. I'm sure I will. I hope I will. Um and then if we really excel, I'm going to make Ms. Baron dye her hair as well, so that'll be fun. Um Don't think I'm going to do the lime green half and the purple half. That was a suggestion um by a seventh grader, but I think it'll look fantastic. And maybe wash out. Um or not. Could be all year. Um our juniors took CMAS science on April 8th as well. And then high school students did PSAT and SAT testing this week. Um we learned that if you do really, really well on the first half um that it gets a little harder
055on the second half. And so, even though that may have felt stressful in the moment, it's actually a really good thing. That means you're moving into those higher scoring areas. So, that's what we want. So, we're glad everybody worked hard. And I'm really hopeful about those results. We've been doing um CMAS and PSAT prep and working on vocabulary. And I think it's going to pay off. Um our leadership team met to discuss priorities that were established at our district leadership team meeting. And accountability for mastering standard was the top priority um as well as continuing um to work on project-based learning and our MTSS process as well. So, we'll be um putting action steps together for those priorities. Um I want to shout out Miss Caracello's um ELD students. They engaged in an activity called
056a roll a story to really work on writing. So, you're rolling for your plot and your settings and your characters. And they really pushed their extended writing abilities there. And was just really fun. Um they also made really amazing progress on vocabulary goals this year. Um first semester, 56% of students had mastered vocabulary. And as of today, 86% of students mastered the vocabulary for the year. So, really proud of them. And shout out to Miss Caracella for her hard work with students on that. For real world learning, um, high school students engaged with our superintendent candidates. Um, I was really proud of the questions that were asked. I'm sorry about the backpacks, guys, but that came up. Um, but I thought, um, great way to engage and um, and really hear and have a voice
057in what was happening there. Um, Ruby shared this, too, but April Martinez competed at the FCCLA, so super proud of her. Going to Washington, D.C., so that's really exciting. The high school's having an ICAP team on April 30th, so students come work on those individual career and academic plans. It's a student-led project by Miss Klein's interns. It includes a lot of different sessions and panels, so resume building, college planning, um, strength finding, budgeting, um, home apartment maintenance 101. That'll be a fun one, I think. Um, building your four-year plan, driving rules. So, I think all these were student-generated and what students wanted to learn about and a job fair in the gym in the afternoon. The middle school STEAM classes are going to hold their second STEAM market next month. They're busy creating products and
058really shining in the global outcomes of collaboration, creativity, critical think- critical thinking, problem-solving, and perseverance. Miss Sunday's creative media class is on advertising and packaging and they created their own chip flavors and packaging exploring communication through marketing techniques. They learned a lot there. Um, Ruby mentioned that Cole Ingram, um, competed in the SkillsUSA welding and we were able to be with him and his family when he received his scholarship and talked to the rep from Wyotech about his possible future. They're really exciting, um, for him. Um, Students in Mr. Verden's high school classes and Ms. Berryhill's middle school classes engaged with the town in some future planning and working with town planning there. And so they heard some student voices started with one of our parents, Brian Berg, who works with the town. And so
059they set up a time for them to come in and we were able to get him into several classes and the kids were really engaged and felt heard. And then I think one middle schooler said, "Well, that was just a lot of fun." Like, "Okay, that's what we want." The high school's Purple and White Awards are at high school tomorrow afternoon. And we continue to recognize our students for demonstrating So, I think I skipped ahead. I'm so sorry. I'm in wellness now. Demonstrating Roars and our global outcomes in both schools. We're recognizing staff with our lateral pass trophies. That's for our staff who demonstrate model our global outcomes for students every day. We've awarded it to Ms. Wendy Bender and Ms. Gresset high school since we met last. And then Mr. Schoff and Hunter Hamilton
060for high school middle school were awarded that trophy today. Our honor society held a clothing drive to help support the High Peaks Camp. I think they really collected quite a few bags of clothes. So, those will go out to the camp. And we are preparing for teacher appreciation week coming in May. Our PTO is going to support that and we'll be treating teachers throughout the week. And thanks to grants from EP EF, we've kept our happy cart going all year and we will bring the happy cart out again for teacher appreciation week. That is secondary news. Any questions? I'd like to hear more about the interaction with town and what kind of things they were asking the kids about. Like did they ask them how they felt about the police station positioning and things like
061that or >> Yeah, I wasn't able to attend, but there are the survey too. So when I get that information, I'll share it and I apologize it's cut off in my board report. So I will correct that. Thank you. My question. So what's it going to take? You said that if they do really, really well and beat the state on C-math, then Ms. Barron also dyes her hair purple. So like what's the benchmark? Cuz I'd really like to see both of you dye your hair purple. And I'd also like pictures sent to Arkansas. I was thinking we could have Ruby to >> You may see me in Arkansas with my hair still purple cuz I have family there, so. But I will send pictures. Um we always say beat the state, so I think if
062all three grades beat it in at least one category, we would go for it. It's better than me hanging from the ceiling in a hammock. That was another one. That the kids suggested. Actually, it might be nice for me like work from a hammock. The roof was nice. Thanks for picking the hair dye cuz I don't think our insurance covers a hammock hanging from the ceiling. So. Or a bouncy house. I can't wait to see it. Okay. Thank you. Thanks, Sonia. And Ms. Boyd, would you like to do the athletics report? Yeah, I'll read Nolan Ober's athletic report. I'm really excited to read this report because there's a lot of winning in this report tonight. So baseball has seven wins and three losses on the season and has been ranked in the top 10 of
063the 2A all season with wins over top ranked Walt Central and Lyman. Junior Noah Webster leads the team in pitching while Graham Stafford, Drake Kearney, and Grant Maxwell lead the team offensively. The team is headed to the Flatirons Academy tomorrow for JV and varsity contests. Boys swim and dive had their final regular season meet last week in Thompson Valley. The team will compete in the Northern League meet on May 1st and 2nd with the hopes of qualifying for state on May 8th and 9th. The team is led by Evan Marcantonio, who has already qualified for state in several individual events. Girls golf is headed to the Sterling invite on Wednesday. This will be the team's fourth golf invitation invitational of the season, and then we are hosting our Estes Park invite on Wednesday, May 6th.
064So, come watch the girls golf. The team is led by Jillian Maxwell and Kyle McCowan, who both hope to qualify for state and have a good chance. Girls soccer has wins over Gilpin County and Nederland and one tie with Twin Peaks Academy. The team is almost all underclassmen with only one junior and no seniors. So, and they're winning. That's pretty awesome. Good job, girls soccer. The team is um led in defense by freshman goalkeeper Lily Beers, and sophomore defender Haley Downey, and the team is led in offense by sophomores Yolette Avidea Fernandez, Lia Moore, and freshman Melody Espahal. The team will play Union Colony at home tomorrow. So, come out and watch the girls play. Should be a nice day. Track and field competed last week at Centaurus in Platte Valley, and they're working towards
065several state qualifying events. The team's led by Brynlee Betts, Colby O'Brien, and Caleb Estenahl, and the team travels to Longmont invite on Friday. Did anyone qualify over the weekend? Oh. Colby's got an update. State qualification. So, for track and field for state, you have to be top 18 in the state. So, we have Jed Kim, who is ranked, I think, 10th in the state for the triple jump, and then our 4 by 100 meter team is ranked 15th in the state. And then, I'm ranked 19th in the state for the 200. And then, we have I'm not sure about the girls. And then, our 4x200 meter team is also ranked 19th in the state. Nice. Awesome. Sounds like the weekend meet went really well. Um and then, for middle school, girls soccer has big wins
066over Bellevue Christian in Fort Lupton. See, all this winning. This is just a really exciting report. The team is led by Linnea Schmelzer and Payton Hanson. The team's playing at Liberty Common tonight and will go to Frontier Academy on Wednesday and the team will be attending the Denver Summit FC professional game on Saturday. That sounds very Oh Oh, that's the new That's the new soccer team. Yeah. Oh, cool. I read that and like, what what middle school is that? Got it. Okay. They're going to go watch some professional soccer. Track and field competed last week at Weld Central. The team will compete at home on Wednesday. They will have seven other schools in attendance at our home meet. The team is led by Betty Hawker, Lily Lily Oriana, Gabe Sanchez, Jack Bories, and Nate Shoemaker.
067All right. And that's it. The high school spring awards night is at 5:30 on May 7th. 17th, sorry. May 17th. Any questions? Nope. Well done, athletes. Moving on to agenda item 4.5, board reports. Mr. Schocket. Uh most of these have already been commented on, but um finance meeting. Um we have our monthly finance meeting. We talked about, you know, budget decisions and making sure they remain sustainable for the long term during that. Um went to the elementary school movie night where students and families were able to watch Wall-E in the in the gym. Uh high school bingo night um where students raise money for local nonprofits. Several facilities master planning meetings where we're down to two two options for consideration. And then last is the elementary school dance that had a space theme this year.
068Thank you, Director Reederski. Just the superintendent. We had that all day Saturday and so and what last week too. Director Weiss. Thank you. I attended the elementary school accountability meeting and the staff evaluation committee meeting. And other than superintendent reporting covering a couple meetings for bread, I think that's all I did this month. That's it. That's it. Moving on to agenda item five, consent agenda. There are four items on the consent agenda this evening. 5.1 meeting minutes, March 10th, 2026 and March 23rd, 2026. 5.2 April 2026 personnel list. 5.3 ELA asset protection. 5.4 ELA nine school safety. Are there any items a board member would like to pull from the consent agenda for discussion prior to approval of the consent agenda? Seeing none, is there a motion and second to approve the consent agenda? I
069move we approve the consent agenda. Is there a second? I second. We have a motion and second. Chris, please conduct a board roll call. Director Perry. I. Director Shaukat. I. Director Reederski. I. Director Weiss. I. Eyes carry the vote and the consent agenda is approved. So before moving on to agenda item six, action items, I just want to say a few words. Uh the board would like to express our sincere appreciation to Superintendent Body for the many positive changes she's brought forward and for helping set this district on a strong path for continued success. So, thank you for that. Um the board also wants to extend its gratitude to the outstanding candidates who participated in the final stages of the selection process. We're fortunate to engage with three highly qualified finalist. In addition, we're grateful
070to Brian Ewart and David Bow with HYA for their expertise, professionalism, and guidance throughout this process which helped ensure a thorough and inclusive search. Finally, we extend our appreciation to the members of the community, the students, the families and staff, and other stakeholders who shared their time, their feedback, and perspectives. Your engagement played a vital role in shaping this important decision. So, thank you all. So, moving on to agenda items six action items, agenda items 6.1, the board may approve a resolution appointing a finalist as superintendent of the Estes Park School District. Is there a motion? I move that the Board of Education approve the resolution appointing a finalist as superintendent of Estes Park School District naming finalist David Grubbs as the superintendent for Estes Park School District. Is there a second? I second. For
071discussion? Uh I would just like to say that um Mr. Grubbs came to us highly recommended and through his consistent demonstration of professionalism, heart, and leadership, he earned the support of many members of the administration, the faculty, student body, parents, the community, and members of the board. He showed up with thoughtful questions about all aspects of the district, and I believe that he is the right person to lead the Estes Park School District in its continued success. Any comments? As we bring this important process to a close, I want to take a moment to thank everyone who contributed to the selection of our new superintendent. We've tried to make this a thoughtful and thorough journey. To the staff, students, parents, and community members who shared their input, attended forums, and provided feedback, your voices were
072essential. This decision is stronger because of your engagement and your support of our schools. Thank you to everyone behind the scenes who helped organize, coordinate, and support this process, especially Chris and the HYA team. I also want to recognize the candidates who stepped forward. It takes courage and conviction to pursue a role of this magnitude. We had a great slate of candidates, and we are grateful for the time and effort each of you invested in visiting our community here in Estes Park. I believe David Grubbs should be our next superintendent. His listening, calm demeanor, and efforts to fully understand the details of the situation should lead us to solutions that can continue our upward trajectory and continued improvement. He comes highly recommended by many people that know our district well, along with the positive impression
073he left on our community last week. 20 years in his current leadership role speaks to his longevity that provides consistency for students I look forward to supporting David as he learns about our district and the details of the superintendent role. Thank you. Any comments? No. I'm voting for Jeff. Any other comments? Chris, please conduct a board roll call. Director Free. I. Director Shocket. I. Director Wiederski. I. Director Wiss. I. I secure the vote and the motion passes. Moving on to agenda item seven, upcoming meeting. The board work session is May 12th, 2026, 3:30 p.m. at the admin building. Moving on to agenda item eight, adjournment. Would a board member make a motion to adjourn? I move to adjourn. I second. Thank you, everyone.