001[Music] Good evening everyone. Happy summer. Even though it's been a little warm outside, either warm or incredibly rainy. Um it is summer and that means a few things that uh number one that the school year is uh over the 2425 school year is over and it's time for the June 2025 superintendent's honor role. My name is Rob Anderson. I have the privilege of being the superintendent here in BVSD. Uh this is something that we have a chance to do three times a year to celebrate students, um staff, community for all the amazing things that happen here in the Boulder Valley School District. Who's been to a superintendent's honor roll before? I love it. Round of applause for our returning guests. Um I I really do want to pause and just thank you for making time.
002I know summer is a time to rest, relax, re recharge. I know that we have some seniors uh class of 2025 make some noise if you're graduating that have come back to celebrate with us and so that's a big deal. So I want to thank you for that. Um and and just want to thank uh thank everybody for being here and it's going to be an exciting evening. Not too long, not too short. Hopefully we'll get it just right. Um, so we have a lot of folks that that were able to make it here today and then some unfortunately because of it's summer that weren't able to make it and so that's okay. So even if somebody receives an award or recognition and is not here, let's cheer like they're here. We are live streaming
003this event and so um and then it'll be on um in our archives. So if you want to show family members or others uh the incredible accomplishments uh from this evening, you're able to do that. Um, and then when if you are here and once we call your name, we'll just have you come on up and we'll just have you come on up to the front over here. We may ask you a few questions, have a little bit of fun, recognize you, take some pictures, and, uh, it shouldn't be it shouldn't be, um, anything but fun and exciting and celebratory. So, uh, we'll also be handing out, uh, certificates in a frame and I'll talk to you about your accomplishments and we'll talk to everybody about that. So before we start, I'd love to take
004this opportunity to honor and recognize our BBSD board of education. Uh so board members, when I call your name, if you can wave, if you're already standing, if you're sitting, if you could stand up so everybody could see you. Our board president in the back, Nicole Rajpaw. [Applause] I know we have a couple board members running late. Uh, Vice President Beth Nisnik, Treasurer Alex Medler, Jorge Chavez, there's Jorge in the back, Elenia Quinn Lenoa in the back as well. And then up here in the front with me who are going to be helping me handing out awards, Kitty Sergeant and Jason. [Applause] So, I I appreciate their service and appreciate them helping out this evening. Who's ready to get started? Yeah, let's do this. Okay. Um, if at any point I bore you or you
005just need to take a break, there's plenty of food still out there. Please help yourselves. Hope there's a lot. The chocolate chip cookies are good and there's a ton of them. So, um, you feel free to to help yourselves. And speaking of 90° heat, which is what we've been kind of experiencing over this past week, uh that has us here in BBSD thinking a lot about the pool. You like that? See what I did there? Yeah. Uh so we figured that'd be the perfect perfect place to start tonight. Recently, the Mohigh Monarch High School boys swimming and diving team won Colorado's 4A state championship. [Applause] So that's the signal for the entire left side of the room to come on up and join me [Applause] as they're making their way up here. Over the course
006of the state meet, Monarch won five of the 11 swimming events with the Yats kicking everything off by winning the 200 medley relay. the team included. When I call your name, uh, gentlemen, just wave at everybody so they know who you are. Ethan DeFrrono from Monarch. Not here. Not here. Isaac skillum. Where's Isaac? Homeschool is Centurus. Gavin Kio homeschools Peak to Peak. And Tobin How homeschool is Holy Family. And so Ethan, who is not here, but wherever he is, I bet he's swimming. really really fast uh because he won the 50 free and 100 free races. And from what I understand, he's already swimming at college. Is that right, Amber? Is he already swimming at college, Ethan? Yes. At Notre Dame, right? At Notre Dame. So, there you go. That's Isn't that amazing? Round of
007applause. All right, Gavin. Gavin won titles in the 200 free. And where's Gavin? And I think we've got a shot of Gavin. Um, there he is. Look at that. That's a champion right there. Duke. Duke. Duke. Got it. Duke. Good job. U. This is a shot of him. That was a shot of him celebrating. He set the state 4A and pool records with his championship 100yard backstroke. And he was named the 4A swimmer of the year. And then finally, and this is very important, head coach Amber Austin. Amber, wave, who is an amazing person, coach. We're so lucky that she works with our our student athletes. She was honored as the 4A swimming and diving coach of the year. [Applause] So, Gavin and Amber, if you could come over here, I'd love to ask you
008a few questions. And I was going to ask Ethan a question, but he's we've already established he's swimming fast at Notre Dame already. So, um, so Gavin, I from what I understand, well, first of all, what's up, man? Not a kid. Um, I understand you just got back from national championships. You got to tell us all about it. Uh well, so I went out to Indianapolis and competed there for a chance to compete for the United States of America and a chance to swim in Romania. And luckily I did make the team. Um so I'm super excited for that. And Ethan, for example, who is sad he's not here, but he went to Notre Dame to train there and get ready for the end of the season for some competitions, too. So, so, so you're
009going to be competing for a spot on the the US national team, Olympic team. Yeah. So, I made the United States team and then I'll competing for them in Romania. How about that? That's fantastic. Okay, coach, you had quite the team this year. You had 29 athletes qualifying for state. Talk to us about this team. And I know that you've been coaching them for for many years and have been doing a great job managing their club team schedules with their high school schedules with all the other things that all these student athletes do at their respective schools. Tell me about this team. So, this is a once in a-lifetime team. Um, we're made up of student athletes from six or seven different schools within BBSD. So, it makes it extra special that they get to
010meet each other and uh get to know each other. Um, this is my 11th season and uh I'll say Gavin's class, class of 2025, when they got here four years ago, uh, it was kind of on our radar that we could maybe accomplish this before they graduated and we did just that. Um, more importantly, the way that we won the swim meet, uh, we only won by seven and a half points, which is very small margin. Um, but it was a true team effort. um and one that really magnified teamwork and they each kind of you know they have to swim prelims and then they have to swim finals. So everybody had to move up from prelims in order to uh place better at finals and score us more points and that's how we got
011it done. So it was a true team effort. Everyone standing here had either a role as 12th man cheering or um diving like can we point out diving for a second because we have two phenomenal divers. one that goes to Centaurus and one that goes to Monarch. Um, and they scored us 35 points in the middle of the meet, which without their points, we definitely wouldn't be standing here today with this lovely trophy. So, um, diving is super important to the swim and dive team. And this is Casey. I'm pointing to him because he did amazing job. Um, so just a true team effort, uh, as you would expect to win a state championship. So, thank you for having us. How about one more round of applause for our 4A state champs? All right, let's
012reach in. We're gonna take a picture. I don't know how he's going to do that. You've been doing this little I think so. Good luck. Thank you. [Applause] Good job. off to an incredibly strong start. Um, amazing, just amazing to honor you all. Um, and I don't need a towel yet because we're gonna stay in the pool a little while longer. There you go. Right. See you. You see what I see that? That was There you go. Uh, all the dads out there, I know it was Father's Day. Dad jokes for all of you all night. You've We've got them. Um, so to so at this point, I'd love to celebrate our swimmers from Fairview High School. Why don't you come on up, Fairview Highs? Now during the 5A swim meet, the Knights won the
013state championship in the 400yard free relay. The team included Wesley Schlacker, Saurin Koshman, Anders Koshman, and Jack Garnett. We're missing somebody. Jack. We're missing Jack. Okay. So, why don't you guys come on over here? I understand there had been three years of heartbreak and you all were determined to win the title this year. Uh where are the Koshman brothers at? You two. All right. Talk to me about what it was like um as brothers to win a state championship. Um it was super cool because I had seen Saurin on his relay with the heartbreak for three continuous years and then coming in and being able to help contribute to the win as the freshman and as Saurin's brother was super powerful. Yeah. For me, um, it was kind of a surprise. Uh, Anders here and
014Jack both had amazing PRs and they kind of gave me the lead and when Cherry Creek was right next to me and they beat me last year, there was no way I was going to let them catch me. That That is fantastic. And that's the right answer. Cherry Creek never beats us, right? Another round of applause for our Fairview relay team. Let's take a picture. Okay, now that we're all dried off, let's stop by the library. Uh recently Monarch High School's librarian Cat Crowedale was recognized by the Colorado State Library and Department of Education for earning five of the highly effective schools through libraries or Hestl program. Cat, come on up. Congratulations. So she earned her credentials in planning, instruction, leadership, environment, and management. So Kat, how have these efforts impacted the work that you
015do with kids at Monarch High School? Well, when I first came to Monarch about what, two years ago, um the library the the previous librarian had kind of u retired early and so the library had been shut down for a lot of the days. Students were weren't really utilizing it very much and so I had a lot of work to do to just get it to be a place that was open for all students at all times. Um, and so I really worked hard to get students back in there. I worked hard to get the collection up so that students would be checking out books. And I got it to the point where our checkout rate increased by like 250% I think. So it's pretty good. And um, thank you. And then also when I
016got there there was um, sorry Mr. Don there was zero research being done in the school at all. And now last year I taught a thousand students research skills. So that has greatly improved too. So another round of applause for Cat. Let's take a photo. Congratulations. [Applause] summary. Yep. So, we often say here in BBSD that our employees are like superheroes. And you might say that our next honore, Heather Bertoelli, is a bit like Superwoman because she has a bit of an alter ego. During the day, she's an art teacher at Peaktop Peak Charter School and she also owns a successful photography business. So, Heather, come on up. [Applause] Hello. Good to see you again. Good to see you. Recently, Heather was recognized by her peers at the state level. She was named the Colorado
017High School Art Teacher of the Year by the Colorado Art Education Association. That's a big deal. And this is Colorado's Professional Association for Art Educators. First, understanding how busy this season is for you as a photographer. Thanks for making us joining us tonight. So, talk to us about how your professional work influences the work that you do with your students. That's a great question. Um, well, so I've been a photographer and an art educator for about 20 years now, which is amazing. And I've always wanted to integrate my love for wedding photography and photographing families and also worked for Starbucks for a while into the classroom. And so I've often taken students on internships, had them second shoot with me at weddings, brought them along to really see that you can be an educator that
018also lives out your passion as an artist and really make a really awesome career out of both. and I've been at Peakto Peak since 2007 and started the whole art program there up through AP and AP art history and we have a brand new incredible facility that's a visual and performing arts center. Um and our very own executive director Jenny Klein is here so I want to recognize her and her love for the arts. Um yes, it's a big deal. Having support for the arts is everything and I love seeing a few of my students here as well. And I just honestly love it. And I hope to never tire of teaching. And students energy for creativity and manifesting and helping them develop their portfolios is really what I'm all about. Another big round of
019applause for Heather. What a huge accomplishment. Thank you so much. [Applause] Our next uh awardee is a state champion a state champion in the national civics be with independence day around the corner. If you're looking for a bit of a refresher about the good old US of a its institutions and democracy, Cameron Parker of Horizon's K8 is your man. Cameron, good job, man. Cameron recently won the state level competition of the National Civics Bee. Yeah, that's right. You can't clap enough for Cameron. That's right. Let him know. Okay, tell them. Come on. Purpose of the B is to strengthen students civics, public speaking skills, and to form friendships with other young leaders along other young leaders along the way. Event was MCED by nine news anchor Kyle Clark. Cameron, we know that this was a
020tough competition, but we also know you're the champ. So, what was the toughest question you faced? Uh there was this one question and it was used as an example for a whole bunch of news articles too. It was about uh a Supreme Court case called Gibbons v. Ogden and like what it would influence in the real world and it really stumped me and I think it stumped a lot of the other competitors too and that was one I got wrong and I think that even if I had done a lot more studying I still would have gotten it wrong. So I'm fine with that. So Cameron, from what I understand now, you head to Washington DC. Tell us about when that's happening and and what you're doing to get ready for that. Uh yeah, I'm
021going to head to Washington DC uh in November and I'm just going to study a lot more and relax because Yeah. Hey, you the champ gets a chance to relax a little bit this summer. What do you say? Another round of applause for Cameron. Congratulations. [Applause] Everybody having fun yet? Still cookies outside if you're hungry. Um, we've got uh a few more folks to to recognize, but what a great night to celebrate everyone. It's now my honor to recognize uh the Betcher Scholars from uh from BBSD. Since 1952, the Betcher Scholarship Program has existed to keep Colorado's most talented high school seniors in state for their postsecary years. This year, 1900 Colorado students applied for the veter scholarship and two BBSD students accepted for this year. Deakshuk Galli from Peakto Peak Charter School, come on
022up. [Applause] And Anna Gray Shore from Centurus High School, come on up. Somebody want to check out by the Cookies. see if they're out there. No, they're probably not with us this evening. Probably off doing amazing uh things this summer. I want to congratulate both of them uh for their earning the Betcher Scholars. It's a very competitive process. It's a it's a true honor. So, Diksha and Anna Grace, if you're watching online somewhere, congratulations. We're proud of you. And we're all going to give you a huge round of applause like you were here. Continuing on honoring our scholars, the National Merit Scholarship Program is an academic competition that began back in 1955. About 1.5 million high school students enter the program each year. Finalists are chosen based on their abilities, skills, and accomplishments by a
023committee of college admissions officers and high school counselors. So, I'd love to have all of our students who've been named National Merit Scholars to come on up and join me up here. Congratulations. [Applause] Congratulations. So, first we'd want to uh begin with the 2024 National Merit $2,500 winners. And so when I call your name, just wave or stand up or stand forward. Annabelle Eisner from Fair View High School. Annabelle, congrats. Joseph Harma from Boulder High. [Applause] Alexander Zang, Fairview High. [Applause] Ashikagani, Fairview High. Gia Ba Fam, Broomfield High School. [Applause] Leah Aspen Welner, New Vista High School. Ashna Sha, Monarch High. [Applause] We also had two National Merit Corporation scholarships. Davin Yin from Fairview High, who received the Jerry R. Juncan Memorial Scholarship, and Marin Bradley from Peakto Peak Charter. who received the Schneider Electric
024North America Foundation scholarship. And I would love to just hand the microphone down the line. Tell everybody your name and where you're going to school. And we'll start here. All right. Uh my name is Bow Fam and I'm going to Cornell University next year. [Applause] My name is Ashna Shaw and I will be attending UCLA. My name is Marin Bradley and I'll be attending Yale University. [Applause] My name is Alex Zing and I'll be attending Stanford University. And my name is Annabelle Eisner and I'll be attending Caltech. [Applause] How great is that? Seriously, another round of applause for their amazing accomplishments. Congratulations, scholars. We're going to take a picture and then uh and then celebrate a little more. Congratulations. [Applause] Every year, hundreds of BBSD students participate in National History Day, competition where 6th through
02512th graders choose a topic in history and dive deeply into it, conducting extensive research in libraries, archives, and museums. And then they present their conclusions and evidence through papers, exhibits, performances, documentaries, or websites. It's a great way for students to learn about history as well as well as developing communication, project management, and historical thinking skills. Tonight, we are celebrating our National History Day State Champions. And we've got a bunch of them. So, if you are here to be celebrated as National History Day State Championship, could please come on up and join us up here in the front. [Applause] And I'll quickly read through the titles of the of the projects and the names of the folks that were presenting. So first is the untold story of Colorado's incarceration camp America's abdication of rights and responsibilities
026at Camp Amache from Summit Middle School. Sir U Lee, Steve Zabo, and Blanch Lee. If if I when I say your name, step forward and wave at everybody. Congratulations. Redefining the responsibilities of the first lay Colorado's Eliza routin, the rights of women from Summit Middle School. Clara Bangaroo and Ruth Sin. The Farmington mine disaster of 1968, America's failed responsibility to protect minor rights from Summit Middle School. Will Apple and Cooper Mills. Great is the truth and it prevails. One man's responsibility to fundamentalize the rights of universal education from Fairview High School. Zoe Wang and Elise Rodri. Themine disaster from Fairview High School. Celeste Parkin [Applause] and rights and responsibilities in urban renewal transformative legacy of Roria Denver from Fairview High School. Andrew Louu. And one last one to celebrate when safety became law. How the
027Triangle Factory Fire and the 1911 factory investigating commission shaped modern views on worker rights. From Southern Hills, Mia Keller. So, I'm gonna Anybody here want to answer a question? It's not that hard. I promise. Here, come on over. So, what was the most fascinating thing you learned through this project? And and tell everybody your name again. Okay. Uh, my name is Blanch Lee and my project was the untold story of Colorado's incarceration camp, America's abdication of rights and responsibilities at Camp Amachi. What surprised me the most was that America had 10 concentration camps in the United States during World War II and the fact that we were never taught about this really in school or that we had one here in Colorado and it was recently actually made a national park and I found it
028so surprising that we weren't taught about this. So that's why we chose it as our topic and that's why we made a documentary about it to educate people about the importance of understanding this event to make sure it never happens again. Incred incredible. Great job. Anybody else want to answer that question? I'll give you a cookie. We got a lot of them out there. Okay, no worries. Uh so but raise of hands. How many of you competed at nationals earlier this month? Round of applause. Love to take a picture and celebrate you all. Congratulations. Hey, Blanch, can you come up here for a sec? This isn't a cookie joke. This is something different. Uh, I just was given word that you comp just com finished competing at the national spelling be history and spelling. Do
029you want to tell us about that? So on March 15th we had the Boulder Valley Regional Spelling Bee and it took like six hours but I did win that. And so end of May I went to DC for the scripts national spelling bee. And the motto of the bee is B week best week. And I definitely think the bee lived up to that. It was the 100th anniversary. So it was extra special. All of the champions from previous years were there. Like the 1960 scripts national spelling be champion was there which is crazy. Yeah. And he got to meet everyone and I got to compete on live television. Yeah. It was a very awesome experience and I'm very grateful that I got to be there. So, history day champs, spelling be champ, and TV star.
030Another round of applause for Branch. So proud of you. That's so great. Keep doing great things. So, as you might imagine, it takes caring and invested teachers to support students through their National History Day journey. And this year, Anna Royal from Summit Middle School was named the National History Day Colorado Teacher of the Year. Come on up, Anna. [Applause] So, Anna represented our state as a and as a delegate at the National History Day Finals, which were held recently at the University of Maryland. Um, and I want to congratulate Anna. Hopefully, she watches this online. And let's just give her one more huge round of applause. [Applause] So, last but not least, we want to honor a school nurse who did not hesitate to do what was needed when it mattered most. Her action helped
031to save the life of a student at Boulder High School. Mongwin of Boulder High, will you please come on up? [Applause] Gosh, incredible. Incredible. Earlier this year, Mong was called to the health room by an administrator. They just called 911 because of an ill student when the young woman took a turn for the worst. Mong called for an a an AED, an automatated external defibrill, and she got to work trying to resuscitate the girl. Witnesses say that she stayed calm under immense pressure, helped to control the scene, and ultimately saved the student's life. [Applause] So, Mong, I understand you were inspired to become a nurse because of your mother. Want to tell us that tell us a little bit about that? Yeah. So, um, so my name is Mong. For those of you who don't
032know about the Mong people, I'm named after a group of people called the Mong people who've helped the Americans during the Vietnam War. And my mom, um, a mother of, um, there's six, well, there's five of us. I'm sorry, I'm losing count. But, um, back in Laos, she was the oldest of eight, never educated. Um, she always wanted to go to school. So after the Vietnam war when we came as refugee families here to America my mom always pushed us to better oursel to educate ourel and you know being in the jungles of Laos she um basically helped other women she was um the midwife in delivering all the babies and doing all what you what you think of nurses do right so she kind of inspired me and being a caregiver myself in our
033community so I'm happy to be here um I love Boulder High School um been for four years that started in CO in 2021. But I've been a school nurse for 10 years, been a nurse for 20 years. So, it's been a pleasure working here in the school district. So, it's opportunity. Another round of applause for an amazing amazing professional and personal Well, I hope everybody's hands are a little bit sore from all of the clapping. Sorry to jump in. Dr. Anderson, can I have the mic for a moment? We would be remiss if we ended this evening without recognizing our own fearless leader and celebrating Dr. Anderson, who recently was recognized by the Boulder Chamber of Commerce at their annual leadership awards. And as you can see, Dr. Anderson and all of his 1920s uh
034glory, I don't think you can see the whole picture there, but in 1920s glory, Superintendent Anderson was among those honored. He was given the impact award recognizing his transformative leadership in public education, advancing student outcomes and equity across the school district. Congratulations, Rob. Thank you so much. Oh, I get a certificate, too. Oh, look at that. Take a picture with your board members. I was Okay. All right. Hold on. Okay. This is different. So proud. So proud I [Applause] know. Laura, I thought you were going to tell come over and tell me we ran out of cookies. So, they're definitely different. Uh, thank you all so much for being here. Another round of applause for all of our honores. Thank you for for all of your support of our school district, for your students, for
035all of our staff. Have a great rest of the summer. Thanks so much everyone. Take care. [Music] I would like to call to order this regular meeting of the Boulder Valley School District for Tuesday, June 17, 2025. Board members may attend and participate in board meetings by electronic means in accordance with BBSC policy, BMEA, and state law. Chris, can you please call the role? Chavez here. Medler here. Here. Nisnik. Quinn Aea here. Rajpal here. Sergeant here. Hunger here. Motion passes. Like to direct everyone's attention to the screen for our land acknowledgement this evening. [Music] The Boulder Valley School District resides and operates on land that is the ancestral homeland and unjustly and illegally taken territory of the Ude, Puebloin, Arapjo, Cheyenne, Apache, Navajo, and 48 other tribal nations historically tied to this land who have
036called this land home since time and memorial. [Music] We acknowledge the atrocities committed here, including the painful history of genocide, forced assimilation, and efforts to alienate the indigenous inhabitants from their homeland, supported by the policies of the United States government. BBSD is aware of the many indigenous peoples, past and present, and their dignified nations and cultures who care for this land with strength and resilience. BBSD recognizes the histories of the land in Colorado and the survival of many nations that carried their oral traditions into the present. It is BBSD's responsibility to educate ourselves, our community, and our students so that we can embrace the wisdom and knowledge of indigenous peoples and actively stand together to address injustices. [Music] In offering this land acknowledgement, we affirm and honor the history, wisdom, oral traditions, and resilience of
037indigenous people, and recognize the responsibility to care for and appreciate this land together. I'd like to remind everybody that the mission of the Boulder Valley School District is to create challenging, meaningful, engaging learning opportunities so that all children thrive and are prepared for successful, civically engaged lives. Good evening everyone. Thank you for joining us here in person and remotely. We're glad to have you observe and participate in our meetings. Board members, at this time I would like to make a motion to amend our agenda for this evening. We I would like us to remove item number 9.5 peakto peak contract from tonight's agenda because we did not receive a signed copy from them in advance of this meeting. So move. Is there a second? Second. Second by Kitty. Chris, you want to call the role?
038Chavez, yes. Medler, yes. Nisnik, Quinna, yes. Rajpal, yes. Sergeant, yes. Anger, yes. Motion passes. Board members and is there a motion to approve the remaining remainder of this evening's agenda with 9.5 removed? Moved by Jason, seconded by Kitty. Chris, can you Chris, can you call the role? Chavez, yes. Medler, yes. Quinna, yes. Raj Paul, yes. Sergeant, yes. Anger, yes. Motion passes. We'll now turn it over to Dr. Anderson for our superintendent report this evening. Thank you, board president Raj Paul. Board members, good to see you all this evening. Have a few updates uh to provide. I'll let our our presentation catch up with me. Uh so bond work is underway across the school district this summer board members with new playgrounds going into some of our schools and HV HVAC units at others. Perhaps one
039of the most traumatic scenes is on the new Vista campus where the old baseline building is being demolished. Thanks to communications intern and new Vista rising senior Lucas Friml for getting these drone shots. Speaking of interns, we this year we have 25 outstanding students taking part in the Grad Plus Leadership Academy. As part of the summer internship program, they're getting real world skills through mock interviews, resume writing, and soft skills training like how to introduce themselves, shaking hands, maintaining contact, and networking. Now, they're working at a variety of sites throughout the community. It's a great way for them to build confidence, gain experience, and be ready for whatever challenge comes next. I did have a chance to engage with uh the um Grad Plus Leadership Academy a few weeks ago. What an impressive group of
040individuals. Really, really excited that they're going to be getting the opportunities that they're getting this summer. So, as our administrators wrapped up the school year, we also focused on continuous improvement. All of our leaders, our school leaders and and district uh academic leaders took part in the BBSD leadership academy, which is two days of professional development, collaboration, and fun. All intended to help make leaders, schools, and our district stronger. Uh it was a great event. Want to thank all of our administrators for attending. And then finally, we're really uh really proud to be part of a a now award-winning partnership with the city of Boulder and Flat and Flat Irons Habit Tad for Humanity, which is the Boulder Mod facility here on the Ed Center that is focused on creating affordable homes for families in
041our community. It recently received the Eagle Award from Housing Colorado. This semester, 25 Apex students, formerly Boulder Tech, learned all about building homes, and this summer, their work will move from the warehouse to be placed on their foundations. I believe that the first house is going up August 15th. And this is not only a program that's giving our students a leg up and advantage, but also a chance for them to give back to our community. So, congratulations uh to Bouldermont for winning the Eagle Award. And that's all I have for my remarks this evening. Thank you, Dr. Anderson. Board members, any questions for Dr. Anderson? Seeing as there are none, we will move on to public participation. The board respects the right of the public to speak on matters concerning the operations of the schools.
042The board does not endorse the comments of any speaker or remind all those who speak that you are responsible for your own speech. Speakers will each have two minutes to speak. You will see a yellow card when you have 30 seconds remaining and an orange card when you have 10 seconds remaining. If you run out of time or would like to share additional information, you may always email the board of education. Board members and public, we have one speaker this evening who Mark Reinfield who was given two minutes by Ashley Budet. Yep. If you the want to come up to the podium and then there's a little button with a person on it. Push that. that the microphone will turn on and your time will begin. Uh hello, my name is Mark Reinfeld. I'm here
043to urge the board to follow other school districts in Colorado and allow medically necessary behavioral therapy to occur in the classroom. Our 9-year-old son has been attending the ILC at Lafayette Elementary for the last four years. He has been able to participate more in his typical peer classroom with the help of one-on-one supervision, which was deemed necessary by his IEP team. Our son has a rare genetic condition called Angelman Syndrome. He is nonverbal and lately has been exhibiting challenging behaviors such as hair pulling, self-injury, and elut. He does this because of his extreme desire to communicate and to connect. He's working hard to learn to control these impulses through regular therapies so that he can interact more appropriately at school and in public. On November 22nd, 2024, uh we received a call that no parent
044would like to receive. It was from the principal of Lafayette and a police officer at Lafayette Police Department letting us know that there was an incident at school with a pair working with our son pulled his hair several times in an effort to stop our son from pulling another student's hair at recess. We were deeply shocked and concerned about the incident and were asked if we wanted to press criminal charges. We declined out of compassion for the PAR and not wanting to create a huge negative media event for BBSD. We were more concerned with addressing the underlying behavior issues as well as PAR and staff support shortages. We were told we would be given the chance to offer input into the investigation process. We discussed with principal Weir and his teacher, Miss Weaver, some ideas
045to better support staff and prevent burnout. We also went to work finding behavioral therapy resources for our own benefit and to share with staff. We never received followup on how things had been addressed. In mid January, we were nonchalantly informed that the pair was not only back in the classroom, but was actually back to working with our son. We did not create any conflict at this point, hoping that we would be able to have a behavior therapist working with our son to address his issues. After a month's long process, we finally received permission that would allow for the medically necessary behavior therapy to recur at the school. We were extremely disappointed to learn during this process that the therapist would not be allowed in the classroom to directly coach staff and interventions, but that therapy
046would be required to take place in an isolated classroom. This does nothing to address underlying behavior issues that occur when our son is in the classroom or walking the halls with peers. In fact, he might as well be at home for that therapy if no one is there to address what's actually going on. Uh, we are working with the local BCBA who offers behavior therapy in two Denver school districts. She's currently providing the same therapy successfully in a classroom in 27J alongside peers and paras in compliance with 27J's policy JLCDC. We are petitioning BVSD to adjust the JCLM policy to allow the behavior therapists in the classroom to address problematic behaviors directly. This will allow him his best chance to fully access his right to public education without interruption. We sincerely hope that the district
047will work with us and school staff to follow through with an agreement to address the problem on a deeper level through both training and support. Uh thank you all for your consideration. Thank you board members. That concludes today's public participation. On behalf of the board like to thank you for taking your time to share your thoughts and experiences with us. We will now move on to board communication. Board members, who would like to begin? Kitty, I only have a couple of things to say. As I was looking through um the agenda today and I saw a donation to Centurus High School and I found out that there was a woman who name was Ruth Margaret Green and she died in 1986 and she created a trust fund to fund uh scholarships for centurus high school
048students. and I tried to find out a little bit about her, but I didn't try too hard and I came across a couple of people with the same name. But I just thought it would be nice to mention her since all these years she's been funding scholarships for centurus students. And the other thing I wanted to say, and Ginger, I forgot to ask if I could borrow the present I gave you, but at at graduation, Ginger had Ginger Ramsay at Broomfield High School. It said she doesn't completely understand all the slang that kids use. So, I got her a slangome meter. And it's from a company called Descent Pins. And it's a circle where you turn it and you have what baby boomers said, what Gen Xers said, what millennials, and then what um Gen
049Z says. And so for any parents or other adults out there who don't understand what your kids are saying, um you can get one of those from Descent Pins. I got one for myself, too. I didn't know about fire. I just want to say for anybody that was not able to join us here earlier this evening for our superintendent's honor role, I am endlessly impressed by our students. I say this every time. I do not think you will find higher caliber group of students in any other school district across the state. And um I'm just really proud to be part of this district. I'm really proud of what our staff and our students and our families like put towards public education here in BBSD. And congratulations to all of our athletes and academic award winners
050and staff who were honored here this evening. You do make BBSD the place to be. We will now move on to the information item. Board members, we only have one information item this evening, which is the community bond oversight committee update. Mr. Rob Price will be providing this presentation. All right. Good evening, President Rashbal, members of the board. Dr. Anderson. It has been two and a half years, I think two years, 7 months since voters generously approved our 2022 bond program. Um, and you will see tonight, um, I'm extremely proud of the work that we've accomplished to date. Um, the work that is scheduled to be accomplished this summer and the work that is already planned to take place next summer. The team has done an incredible job. So, joining me tonight, uh, Chris Stopenhagen,
051our executive director of bond planning and construction, and then, uh, John Stanton, who is our community bond oversight chair. They will both provide an update on where we are at with the bond program. And with that, I'll turn it over to Chris. Good evening and happy construction season, everyone. So, as the end of year uh approaches in our facilities here in BBSD, uh some the excitement of summer graduation uh summer break approaching our facilities is almost palpable. In the bond department here at BBSD, there's an excitement of seeing our design and construction planning implemented. It's when we feel we get to contribute to the district's strategic plan to improve learning spaces where students can explore their destinations and hopefully our improvements help them feel valued and included. So we get to improve our buildings and
052create renewed spaces where grad plus opportunities can be explored and these are the reasons we love we that we get to do what we do. So here you're looking at a timeline an updated snapshot of just where we are and what's happened since January. um where we are currently are in our phase 2 construction and the planning that is underway for our future projects. So phase three construction documents will be received in September after we open our phase one and phase two projects that'll be wrapping up in in August and then putting the finishing touches on our summer construction in that window uh between those months. will also be releasing our phase 4 construction do or request for proposals to our architects and general contractors for the construction that'll take place uh in 2027. So,
053and here's just a a quick reminder of uh where we are uh as far as the the projects that we're doing. So, the construction projects for phase one, the two-year projects that are they're wrapping up this year, uh our phase two that are uh kicking off, and then the design projects that I mentioned, uh that we'll be either in the middle of or or uh getting ready to start. So, uh our phase one projects with Broomfield High School's restroom group complete, we've begun replacement of the stadium lighting, the press box, and the bleachers. Interior work here includes completing our expanded business center and flex space in the 700 wing along with our continuing mechanical upgrades. Uh Centaurus press box is being renovated. Uh flooring on the first floor is being replaced along with our final
054mechanical upgrades scheduled to complete this summer as well. We successfully cleared the hurdle of asbestous abatement new Vista and demolition is moving along quickly as Dr. Anderson showed you earlier. So just wanted to talk about our pathway here to a project substantial completion. So our parking lot is scheduled to complete in late July and then our site grading, our landscaping which includes over 100 trees and shrubs being planted and then finally our turf field are scheduled to be complete in October of 2025. For phase two, uh we have a very busy uh sites at our phase two, including our second round of university accessible playground projects that are listed here at our six schools we're doing this summer. This is some of our most rewarding work product that we get to witness as students return.
055Uh we also moved uh Netherlands track and field forward uh in the bond due to a need to replace that prior to the 2027 construction season. And there were playground items that need to be addressed at Jamestown that we're doing this summer as well. So for awareness, I just wanted to let you all know that we were made uh aware prior just a few weeks prior to summer uh that there are some production delays for HVAC rooftop units. So due to a shortage of compressors that are uh usually acquired from outside the United States as well as um the new refrigerant that was mandated by the EPA at the beginning of this year we had some delays. We are anticipating that that trend will continue with all the other school work that's going on um
056in other districts which is why we're bringing an early procurement package for your view tonight and that we did in prior board meeting for for Fairview um so that we have these units for next year's delivery and uh those projects are are on time. So the impacts for this summer projects are Broomfield High School's rooftop unit will not make it in time. Uh we will have other work in place though so that uh weather permitting we can install the unit over winter break and if the weather does not permit we have we'll be ready to push that into another break in 2026. So Casey Horizons and Pioneer will also experience delays but we do uh anticipate installing those those this summer barring any other further setbacks. So we are working diligently with staff and coordinate
057make sure that they we are able to open each of these schools and that impact is very minimal. So our newly branded Apex uh campus which is also houses Arapjo Ridge High School and Boulder Universal is making great progress in our initial phases of this two-year project that will see five phases of construction and continue throughout the school year. So we began phase one in March and here you see photos of our architectural rendering that is coming to life where Early Connections was formally housed. These classrooms will be the future home for our biomed and criminology pathways and will include an outdoor scenario space that you see here that's underway for both crime scene and EMT simulations to occur upstairs. Uh our former library space is being transformed into a college career connection space with
058adjacent offices for counselors as well as our teacher academy. We're simultaneously renovating the spaces north and east of the cafeteria where Arapjo Ridge High School new classrooms, administrative offices, counseling, and a heart space will open for uh fall semester of 2025. Some action photos from around the district here. Here in the upper left, you'll see the Ned track uh being demoed, some playground demo in the middle, and some roofing replacement. In the lower left, uh you see Boulder High School's auditorium, uh being restored. We have a about a 40 foot scaffold uh setup in there right now. Um some classroom space in Boulder High being renovated. And then, uh that's the Monarch High turf being uh pulled up and replaced along with the track in the lower right there. Uh so phase three, we're continuing
059to meet with our design advisory teams. Uh our design development packages have been delivered and we're in our final phases of design for these projects and are on schedule to start bringing the contracts to the board in October and November. Uh Parkdale school uh status update. Uh the town of Erie has approved the preliminary plat uh for the property where Parkdale is located. Final plat approval will likely take place next year. Uh there are still a number of oil and gas wells in the vicinity of the school site as well. The developer is working to decommission these. However, the process is very involved and can be lengthy. So, while the Colorado Energy and Carbon Management Commission lists setbacks for new wells at 2,000 ft from schools, no similar distancing requirement is provided for plugged, sealed,
060or abandoned wells in the proximities to schools. However, ultimately uh prior to the acceptance of the school site, BBSD will will require that the developer provide documentation that oil and gas wells within 2,000 ft of the school site have been plugged, sealed, and abandoned per the specific regulations governed by the Colorado Energy and Carbon Management Commission and that they do not pose any hazards to public health in the environment. We are monitoring student population growth uh here as well, which is slower than expected. We have always anticipated that this school would be in the latter phases of construction of our bond. So, uh the timing of acquiring the site doesn't appear to be an issue for us at this time. And with that, I'd like to reintroduce uh the chair of our community bond oversight
061committee, uh John Stanton. Good evening. Excuse me. Um I am pleased to represent the community and the oversight committee as the chair for the second time. Um and here to give you basically an update to where we are this year. U since the last time we were here in January, we've met twice, once in February and once in May. We met at Centennial one time and over at the culinary kitchen right back here the second time. And I just will say this once, I'll say it three times. I do invite you to come on out um more than Mr. Chavez because what we see when you walk these spaces is what is really going on with the money that we're spending at all these meetings. We review the financials which we'll talk a little bit
062about. We've heard progress on updates on all these different projects and we received actually a a presentation on enrollment trends and our decarbonation efforts which you know why would the committee want to know that? you'll actually see because it's very interesting for us to know what are all of our uh financial investments going toward and what are we going toward for our other goals not just the actual infrastructure as of the May meeting expenditures totaled $115 million outstanding contracted commitments were 84 million and forecasted remaining expenditures totaled approximately 190 million also at the May meeting the committee considered two action items for Fairview High School and New Vista High School. One of them you've already seen, but I will just recap what we looked at. The first one was Fairview. It was actually approved by
063the board back in May. It was a transfer of 3.148 million from our bond premium to provide for the rack track reservicing, the field turf replacement, and the rooftop units. Um let's just jump into that a little bit. But basically what we found was that the track which was like the net one one was installed over 12 years ago and it was already at the end of its useful life. And due to the future anticipated um performance and safety issues, the committee basically decided to go ahead and advance this instead of waiting for the next bond. go ahead and advance this into this bond since we had um bond premium. As of the May meeting, there wasn't a $6.4 million remaining bond premium as well as 7.7 million in reserve. So with those two balances,
064we actually looked at that. Let's go ahead and move this 4.1 or 3.1 million over and accelerate the track replacement. Um, Fair Vote Fair View also has had HVAC problems. Um, as you if you've ever been in there, it's that center core and we got a really nice deep dive on that. And you guys probably got that unit um, review last time, last U meeting, but basically we have to replace the big units that are right in the core of the building. Instead of the refurbishment that the original bond called for, we just the team basically said that we can't actually add air conditioning to these units. and they're going to have to replace them. And we wanted to go ahead and move it forward because the lead time on some of these, I can't
065remember how many months about 10 or more months on the lead time on these units. And these these are like trailer size units. These are not like the ones ones that we have at our house. So, we went ahead and approved that um on and and basically that was to really just future proof the air conditioning in this building. Shifting gears over to New Vista. This is a totally different thing. This actually came on the heels heels of our decarbonation report. And so what we were looking at is that New Vista High School when it was built was actually built for solar panels. It was solar ready, but the bond didn't have the solar panels in the bond. So we weren't going to buy the bonds or buy the solar panels in at that time.
066Um what we're looking at is what we're trying to do from a sustainability goal is to reduce overall greenhouse gases by 14% in 2026 and become carbon carbon neutral by 2050. The new building construction since it's a new building. This allowed us to basically look at this could we accelerate and start moving toward that goal a little faster with a brand new building with new Vista with the bond premium we basically think we wanted to go ahead and install a photov voltaic system and it actually predicted offset 99% of the building's electrical use which was pretty amazing. uh past attempts to secure grant funding basically have been unsuccessful. And one of the concerns that we wanted, the staff came to us now, you know, if you've been around for the last bond, we waited kind
067of to the end to do these add-on projects, but the staff came now partly due to what's happening in Washington with all of the potential changes to the green energy programs and the rebates. And we thought we would go ahead and accelerate this and uh basically move transfer up to $1 million to from bond premium to go ahead and secure the photovotayic solar panels to go on the new Vista and go ahead and get it done. So we kind of capped it at a million dollars and what we're looking at it basically aligns with all the sustainability goals but also has a nice return on investment and payback period. But we also thought it'd be a good nice I don't know what to call it as a showcase site to you know be able to
068show what you can do with solar when it's designed into a new building. So that was a recommendation that will be coming to you today. Um our next seabach meeting is in September after all this big rush that you just saw on all the screens. Um and I I do actually invite you to come out. We're going to go back to New Vista. I was just talking about it. We've actually been to New Vista before it opened. So, we saw all the walls open and all the but we didn't see it finished. So, we're going to go back and we'll have our September meeting at New Vista. And I do say come on out, look at some numbers with us, but also tour New Vista with the committee because it's really exciting with all the
069committee members from all over the Boulder County. Any questions? I just thank you very much. And that's my update for today. And those are all the bond updates we have you for this evening. So we'll open up for any questions you have. Thank you for that presentation. Board members Kitty, what is DAT? Great question. I have to get better about my acronyms. Design advisory team. So we uh we meet with we have those gathered at each of the schools usually just for input on what we're doing so they see that we're satisfying all the critical needs for the bond and then put give their input on all finishes and things like that they want you bet. Thank you for that presentation and for the offer to invite us out. board members, if more than Jorge
070decides to show up, just be mindful that we might have to post that as a public meeting depending on um how many take you up on that offer. Uh I have a couple questions. Um part of it relates to the the PV for a new Vista that's on our agenda later tonight and then part of it is about phase three and four projects. I appreciate how you referenced how with this BR bond and the uncertainties you're approaching things differently than the last bond and I that's something I've been thinking about as we expedite projects versus waiting kind of dragging your heels and slow rolling projects with the COVID uncertainties of the last bond very different than this one and I was just with the the solar units in particular are we anticipating potentially using any
071rebates for the purchase of those And and if if so, if none of that goes through, are we still comfortable meeting a contract or the whatever the RFP price is for those units without any additional savings from rebates? I know you said grants aren't really available, but otherwise, yeah, so the the total purchase anticipated at this point through the RFP would be, you know, roughly a million dollars. We do anticipate that we could get back 33% of that investment from current rebates. Um, a lot has to be vetted out still through the design and with our contractor on that and then through the energy savings that John mentioned. Then we would we would hope that over the next like 15 years that the rest of that payback would happen through the energy savings. So yeah,
072the rebates are significant if we can offset a third of that. And then with the tariffs and what feels like a I mean or the threat of tariffs and this high degree of unpredictability with these phase three and four projects are yet to begin. Are you experiencing any shrinking of design or changes to original planning with the within individual schools and their design advisory teams? And how is that looking knowing that while we have bond premiums now, we're expediting some projects now, when we get to three and four construction, um there still is a a degree of uncertainty. So, how are you working with schools through that potential? It's a Thank you. And that's a great question because there's a lot of talk of that in everything that we do every day, escalation, inflation, and
073tariffs, right? Um we do not anticipate changing anything from the bond promise. We haven't yet. We won't we won't take anything away from the critical needs plan, the master plan that we have and we still do currently have uh inflation and uh uh program reserve are contingency within each of those projects available. So when I work with my team on a monthly basis, sometimes even more forecasting these uh we don't anticipate uh losing any scope within the critical needs. In the design advisory teams a lot of what we do is we look at how much uh else can we do beyond the promise. So right now I have all the confidence we will satisfy the bond promise and we'll do everything we can to to uh do anything else with that we're able to with
074the budgets. So but I speak with confidence that those budgets are protected and I just want to extend my gratitude for the folks on Seabbuck. We do rely on your recommendations and some of those decision points when it comes to us. I know I did call Jorge and I was like when this agenda came out and I was like I have some questions because I don't go to Seabbuck. So, can you talk to me about what the conversation looks like and and um how some of these decisions are made or you know what that looks like because I have a high degree of faith in your work and understanding the dialogue there really helps me make my decisions. So, thank you for continuing to show up um for multiple bond projects and and and lead
075those discussions. Any other questions, board members or comments? I don't see Alex raising his hand either. Thank you. Thank you so much. Oh, Alex, I spoke too soon. Alex may have a question. Alex, this is just reiterating a little bit and following up. Um, are there other things you would like to expedite that might allow us to do more than what's in the initial scope if we said, "Hey, is there anything else we could expedite or do more quickly in this world of uncertainty that might allow us to do more?" Or is that um not something on the agenda? Uh currently we don't have anything um that's that's on our radar, but we certainly uh do track that within the project. With where we are in design currently for phase three, I feel like we've
076vetted a lot of that out. There are things within those projects we are able to do that don't go on to like a seabach action item or something, but we can we can still fit within the budget and within that those contingencies. Uh but most certainly we do keep that in mind. We bring those to to SEAB. I also have a a forecasting sheet for Sabbach for those kind of items is hey this is what we see might happen in phase three this is what we might see in phase four try to assign a dollar value to that just so it's on everybody's radar sometimes those come to fruition sometimes they come in lower we're able to capture them within the current budget so um appreciate that we will certainly uh always bring that for
077consideration if there are and and to John's point the reason we are bringing it forward is because we do have I mean it's economiesa scale effic efficiencies while we have people on site. How much can we do now to capture either the rebates or um just the longevity of our school to be greater? Thank you. Thank you for the time. Four members, the next and public and guests. The next item on this evening's agenda is action item consent grouping 8.1 personnel items 8.2 approval of minutes May 27th 2025 8.3 approval of minutes June 10th 2025 8.4 acceptance of donation Aspen Creek K8 8.5 acceptance of donation Aspen Creek K 8.6 acceptance of donations in High School 8.7 acceptance of donation fireside elementary 8.8 acceptance of donation Mace Elementary 8.9 additions to the 2025 2026 benefits
078agreement 8.10 10 amendment to the contract with Amperand Therapy LLC. 8.11 amendment to Gart Gartner contract 8.12 amendment to Rebel contract 8.13 amendment to the contract for Plat Middle School bond project 8.14 approval of common lit contract ELA digital materials purchase 8.15 approval of superintendent annual evaluation 8.16 authorization for of transfer to new Vista High School 8.17 Boulder high school construction change order 8.18 Centaurus High School construction change order 8.19 contract approval for Sgage for Gale databases 8.20 2020 contract of optimum 8.21 power school fiscal year 26 contract renewal 8.22 resolution 25-15 adoption of the 202526 budget 8.23 resolution 25-22 202526 cash management 8.24 resolution 25-23 ratification of the negotiated agreement with Boulder Valley classified employees association 8.25 resolution 25-24 ratification of the not negotiated agreement with the Boulder Valley Pared Educators Association 8.26 26
079resolution 25-25 ratic ratification of the negotiated agreement between Boulder Valley School District and Boulder Valley Educational Office Professionals 8.27 Resolution 25-26 adopting proposed salary increase for administrative professional technical and non-represented employee groups 8.28 resolution 25-27 ratification of the negotiated agreement between Boulder Valley School District and the Boulder Valley Education Association 8.29 grant federal programs title one CDE Are there any items board members would like to pull from consent grouping? Could you repeat that? I'll need a very big glass of water to repeat that. Hearing none, we need a motion to approve items on consent grouping before we begin discussion. So move. Moved by Kitty, seconded by Jason. Four members, is there any discussion on consent grouping? Looks like there is none. Um, I have a couple things I just wanted to say. There are a
080bunch of negotiate agreements here on this agenda this evening. And I really just want to thank BVPA President Lisa Larson, BBCA President Beth Stevens, and BVA President David Stewart for their leadership. Negotiations are never easy. It's never easy in a time of fiscal challenges. We do value the partnership um and the ways in which you worked with our district staff to get these agreements to us and to help us pass a bal balance budget. Leadership is hard. I know not everybody is probably thrilled within the bargaining groups. That's kind of how these shake out. But I really do appreciate and I know our board members really appreciate the work that went into getting those negotiations ratified. So, thank you so very much. I also wanted to just acknowledge the board did approve the superintendent's evaluation
081and I'll just read the closing paragraph from that. Dr. Anderson is committed to improving outcomes and opportunities for students and staff. He excels at articulating the challenges and leads stakeholders through the necessary changes. He takes the time to improve individual board member capacity and consistently reflects the will of the board in his decision-making. The board commends Dr. Anderson and his um the progress he has made toward this year's benchmarks and is grateful for his leadership this year and into the future. So, thank you so much for your service um of this district. Dr. Esen, that is all I had. Board members, seeing as there are no further discussion on consent items, Chris, could you please call the role? Chavez, yes. Medler, yes. Quinn Noa, yes. Rajpaw, yes. Sergeant, yes. Anger, yes. Motion passes. Moving on
082to action items this evening. Board members, we have first up is the approval of the super uh superintendent's contract for 2526. Is there a motion to approve? Moved by Lenia, seconded by Jorge. Any discussion? Board members hearing none. Chris, can you please call the vote on that motion? Chavez, yes. Medler, yes. Quena, yes. Raj Paul, yes. Sergeant, yes. Yes. Motion passes. Next item is a cancellation of the June 24th, 2025 regular board meeting. Is there a motion? Moved by K Lenia, seconded by Kitty. Any discussion? Board members. This is our last big one. It was worth reading that con that big list consent agenda. Alex, uh, in light of moving the Boulder uh, excuse me, peakto peak uh, contract renewal out of tonight's agenda and not having a signed contract from the school. Uh, do
083we have a plan for when we might reconvene to sign that? We will sign that. um or reconvene and hopefully have a signed contract to approve on Friday, Alex, at our newly posted meeting. Any other discussion on that item? Board members Chris, can you please call the vote? Chavez, yes. Medler, yes. Quinn Aea, yes. Rajpaw, yes. Sergeant, yes. Hunger, yes. Motion passes. Our next action item this evening is the extension of the Boulder Prep Charter Contract. Is there a motion? Moved by Kitty, seconded by Jason. Board members, any discussion? Seeing as there are none, Chris, can you please call the vote on that motion? Chavez, yes. Medler, yes. Quinna, yes. Rajpal, yes. Sergeant, yes. Hunger, yes. Motion passes. Next item on the agenda this evening is our policy action items consent grouping. 10.1 board policy
084DJ DJ purchasing and contracting. 10.2 Retirement of Board Policy EA-R student transportation services. 10.3 Retirement of Board Policy IGDE student activity fees. 10.4 Retirement of Board Policy IGG Student Activities Feed Management. Are there any items board members would like to pull from consent grouping? Hearing none, we need to make a motion to approve. Moved by Jorge, seconded by Lenia. Any discussion, board members? I'm I'll just say I'm very glad to retire some of these policies that are process and not really policy and um it'll just make the work of everybody easier moving forward. So, thanks to staff for for recognizing those and putting some of that language into more appropriate policies. Seeing as there is no other discussion, Chris, could you please call the vote on the motion? Chavez, yes. Medler, yes. Quinn Linua, yes.
085Rajpal, yes. Sergeant, yes. Anger, yes. Motion passes. Board members, the next item on our agenda this evening is policy study. We have several policies to study this evening in our H category. We will begin an HR H chapter is our negotiated agreement or policies governing negotiations and I will hand it over to Kathleen Sullivan who will work us through this. Thank you board president Raj Paul. So consistent with the board's establishment of a goal to make sure you review all your policies within that seven-year window. Um, we made a little shift in our process knowing that the board was intended to study your D chapter on financial policies right now and with all of the work in negotiations and budget, it just wasn't something we could put on our financial team. So, we moved forward
086the negotiations policies. This particular chapter has not been reviewed or revised in some cases since the 60s before manual adoption. It really is one of our uh most long-standing chapters of policy. As the board knows from working through the negotiations process and looking at our negotiated agreements, these policies are really intertwined with many of the negotiated agreements which put some constraints on the amount of revision that we can do in policy. But as we got into study and see where we could streamline, just modernize the language, make the policies more efficient without undermining any of the elements in our negotiated agreement, we have sought to do so. Um, and I will say we are studying these policies now. The board will look at them again when the board resumes in August. So, we do have
087a lengthy time for public comment. And I know um David and Katie are in the room and we haven't had any conversations about this yet. So just making sure you know we did build in that window to make sure that everybody feels good about the work. So based on our initial first cut and with some permission, board president, I'd like to roll through these items without calling each category forward. So our first um policy is really a weird one. It has one letter. It's just board policy H and it really just provides cross references and notes. It's almost like a cover page. So you'll see that we've proposed to redline this because we think it's important to reference the agreements and to embed these notes through the policies itself. So we're not proposing any substantive
088change just to make sure that that language is across all of our negotiations policies. The next policy is HA has not been revised since 1977. This policy really establishes principles around the negotiation process. So the board will note that here we've only really modernized the language, making sure that we're referencing our children as students. We also as part of the board's policy style book, we have replaced the word citizen with community members. Um, and again just overall trying to just refresh it, make sure we reference the board's vision which we begin every board meeting with. And I'll pause. I see board member Sergeant has a handout. Kitty. Yes. I wanted to ask it while we're still looking at this document. In the second paragraph, um the last half of the sentence says, "Taking into account
089the needs and desires of the people of the school district and their abil ability and willingness to support such a program of education." So what exactly do we mean by people of the school district? Kitty, is that policy HC or HA? HA. It's the one we're on right now. That's in their in the second paragraph. Yeah, the second half of the second paragraph. As as I review that, what it suggests to me are um are voters who would vote to support various bond measures and individual board members. Should we change that? I've just it just seems ambiguous to me because people of the school district could include everyone on staff whether they live in the district or not. Um, thank you for that point. Yeah, that's all I have on that one. Board President Morash
090Paul, would you like to take board member Medler's question? Yeah, Alex. Yeah, thanks. Mine is similar. Um, I appreciate moving away from residents to the broader language. Um, is there a legal term of art for students of the district or people of the school district to to um uh to rep uh board member Sergeant's question? So, I know that there's like technical questions around a school of the district in Colorado law, but does does the is it normal reading like in normal language or does a student of the district mean a district does that include an open enrolled student in the district? And does people of the district include non-residents of the district too, regardless of citizenship, but people who've open and enrolled? I think those are really excellent questions. We definitely transition to student
091for multiple reasons including the one you just mentioned which is to make sure that we are also referencing students who choice into BBSD which we encourage them to do because we're the best. So um we have we've gone to the word student for that purpose. But I definitely agree with um board member sergeants and your observation that that people of the district is it just rings a little strange. It sounds very old to me. So with the board's permission, I'd like to really take a long look at our board policies, see what language we use, and come up with a suggested replacement for that clause. Okay, then I will move on to HC if the board's ready for that. HC was an interesting policy. In fact, originally I think I had identified it for just
092a small red line to add some content and then board president Rajball pointed out that the entire paragraph of HC is repeated currently in board policy HJ. So the proposal here is to keep the language in board policy HJ that applies to negotiation meeting procedures and to eliminate this policy that is redundant. We would be taking the very last redlin sentence of of policy HC and placing that sentence in HJ so that we don't lose it. That sentence is that it shall be the duty of both parties to negotiate in good faith and in a timely fashion. But the rest of that top paragraph we already had included. So looking next then at board policy HD. Um, the only thing that we've done here, this is a policy that references the school board's authority and
093the school board's rights and powers and obligations. The only change we we made here was to the a reference to Taber because that is an important constraint I think around the for the board as it looks like it's at its fiscal obligations. We just added the reference to Taber there. Um, looking next then at board policy he board negotiating agents. This again is a policy that's pretty intertwined with our agreement. So I'm not recommending significant revisions. We did clean up some language. uh board member sergeant will be glad to see I caught the witch in these but this policy and made sure we updated those. We also replaced chief negotiator with lead negotiator to modernize that language and eliminating reference to four men and chairman and just making those genderneutral. Looking next then at board
094policy HG. Although this is a pretty old policy, this is one that we've used recently. As the board knows, we've had um new employee groups who've had elections and been represented. And this policy really lays out our election process. The main changes here were just to make sure we were referencing the district as the school district and that the superintendent has the ability to designate or delegate all of the ministerial uh functions around convening that election. Kitty turned it off instead of on. I have a question about this one when it talks about the runoff election and it seems unlikely that this would come up very often, but instead of having a runoff, could we possibly do some kind of instant runoff as in rank choice voting? That would save time and probably money for
095the district if that could happen, you know, in one election rather than two. Thank you for that suggestion. I'll need to look at that board member sergeant. Thank you. Thank you, Alex. Yeah. Um I totally uh make sense to add the superintendent or their designate. I guess my question would be, don't we kind of assume he can designate people to do all sorts of things and do we need to put that in policy or is it sort of an assumed um you know prerogative of the superintendent generally to designate to staff to do things on his behalf? I tend to fall in the second camp where it is presumed that the superintendent can designate or delegate as appropriate. Um I would say that the board style book is inconsistent. There are places where it will
096say uh it will name a particular role and then say designate and then times that it doesn't. I do believe that when the board revisits the C chapter we started to look at that that's about the superintendent and the superintendent's authority. It would be a great idea for the board to place in that policy that the superintendent has the authority to delegate and designate as needed to accomplish the work of the district. And then if there are places that the board believes would be inappropriate to delegate, we're just clear about that. Yeah, I I guess I'm on the on the same boat. I would hate for something where we say that or designing like this policy to be implied elsewhere that that it would be inappropriate to designate elsewhere. So I appreciate the sort of
097comprehensive approach to it that allows him the superintendence to do the right thing in terms of getting such complex work done. One question I have is as we're working through actually utilizing this policy right now, if as that process continues to go on, if there are through through the summer potentially other changes that we might want to make to this policy or are you aware of any things that might want to be changed as a result of working through the process with the new negotiating groups, you No, I at this point I'm not. But that really is as as the board knows. There are times that we visit with staff and other people who've been impacted by our policies before we bring it to the board and then there are times that we come to
098the board first to make sure we hear from the board. In this circumstance, we came to the board first. And as I already referenced, needing to talk with David Stewart and Katie David, I think that our our human resources team has really overseen these elections and we need to spend some time with our staff and our um association representatives to make sure we get that right. Jorge and then Alex, I have a question might just be my own ignorance. I don't know if it's this is defined elsewhere but in the groups in the unit it's A B CDE E um we got central office administrators yada yada certified teachers at least half time regularly employed regularly employed and then just pair professionals so I don't um understand the different designations and if if those are
099defined elsewhere or if those should be in here or if that's um these are important distinctions I wasn't clear kind of where those lie. Yes, thank you for that comment. So, these are important definitions and um classifications that I did not attempt to redline because they really do underpin our negotiated agreements, but I do understand um needing a little more context perhaps and I'd be happy to get that information and make sure I bring that back to the board. In dovetailing on that a little bit, one thing I thought because we do refer to unit B employees. I mean that is language we use but the lowercase I mean you see in this policy that our teachers BVA unit B employees but if B was capitalized or you somehow referenced that in a way that
100was really clear that they are the units do correspond with those lowercase letters. But I think cleaning that up and then being really consistent in sort of the references at the bottom of all these uh agreement references on you know who that is and are we using the unit name or the acronym for those bargaining groups and that could be made a little bit more clear and then Alex you had your hand up. Yeah. Uh this is related point of clarification for the new units we just added those are subp parts of these like we have some pretty small units coming online right I'm just thinking in the long run I totally support the unionization of the people and getting to negotiate collectively to take care of our interests together. Um, one of my questions
101in the long run, would all parties be better served if we had bigger units and didn't have to negotiate five different ones and uh could consolidate some of them? And I recognize that the other units would need to approve the new people coming in, but is there a way to encourage or facilitate having a few fewer units but larger ones that are more inclusive so we don't have to renegotiate with everybody uh separately? Yes. Thank you. I would we will absolutely be having that conversation this summer as we work through ongoing negotiations with the newly represented groups and working through these policies. I think it's an important discussion board member Medler. So, we will make sure that we keep that um as a live discussion as we look at these items. And I'd be curious
102as we come back um to see, you know, proposed final red line if there's anything we can do that facilitate or encourage that on our side of the policy just in terms of the burden on our staff and uh the burden on the um the organizers. Kitty. So, I had already suggested this to Kathleen, but I wanted to say it out loud at the meeting. On page two, number five, placing the name of the organization on the ballot. In that first paragraph, it talks about non-discrimination. And my suggestion was to make this language there match the language we use elsewhere in our non-discrimination except excluding students because obviously they're they're not going to be part of our employees. Thank you for that comment, board member Sergeant. That's in that in paragraph five that talks about
103making sure that any organization that would be considered to be a representative group is committed to non-discrimination as this board has already adopted in policy. Okay. So, three to go. So HJ this is the policy that we are recommending retaining and incorporating the language from HC and then we'll talk about HN in just a moment. So the very first paragraph of this policy is that entire paragraph from HC that talks about the scope of issues to be negotiated. Um, negotiations and impass procedures are addressed in all of our negotiated agreements, but they weren't previously listed as issues that are within the scope of negotiations. So, I've added them there. And then just that uh commitment to negotiating in good faith and in a timely fashion. Um, I did make a reference at the bottom just
104to negotiation meetings because this particular policy had not been updated since 1969. And we have had a number of changes to the Colorado Open Meetings Law and the law that applies to how negotiations are conducted. We tucked in that reference to applicable law so that we could make sure our commitment to staying consistent with the law is represented. Looking next then at HL question. Sorry. Thank you. Yeah, I just had one question. It was really clarification. And it's in the last paragraph where it talks about prohibit prohibiting unilateral communications by the board to organization members or by the organization to the board or its individual members. So in the first piece of that the prohibiting communications by the board does that also mean by individual board members and if it does do we need to
105specify that we could definitely clarify that language. Thank you. Okay. So the next policy HLHM talks about preliminary dispositions and announcements of final negotiated agreements. Um really there was some very old language in the middle of this policy about how um tax levies are certified. We were we proposed to remove that. I also just am personally opposed to hereby and hereins and anything like that if it's not Shakespeare. So we've struck those. Um the one uh potentially significant change is in I think the first paragraph where we talk about the organization has 30 days from the date that an agreement is presented to file a written reply. I think we are all aware that business just really continues. Summer is short and brief, but that's not something that I've talked about yet with our staff
106and with our associations. So, we will take a look at that language, but otherwise, this is just modernization and cleanup. And then the final policy in this chapter, HN, establishes procedures for impass, which perhaps made some sense before all of our negotiated agreements actually included impass procedures. So, um, the risk of having a policy that then becomes inconsistent with negotiated agreements would put us in a place where we potentially have conflicting language when we're already in a difficult negotiations posture. So, I'm recommending that we retire that policy and reference the negotiated agreements themselves. And with that, that is the board's oldest policy chapter now reviewed. Kitty, I just wanted to point out it's so old that the last two um HJ and HLHM, I was in grade school when those were adopted. I think it's
107great that we're revisiting this chapter. I think doing it on the heels of negotiations makes sense. It gives us some breathing room before that continues. So, I think timing of this is ripe. I would be curious to hear what our the folks from our bargaining groups and the HR department feel about these policies. And I will say as a board member because so much is actually in the negotiated agreements themselves, I think having fewer policies cleans it up to some degree, but really the bulk of it's the negotiated agreements themselves that really have all the bulk of um that contained. So happy to hear what everybody has to say or staff and um have to say about what else we could do with these policies. question. Are we also engaging outside counsel to help with
108these policies as we sometimes do with negotiation negotiate agreements? Yes, we have. We have just in preparing the red lines and we'll continue to do so as we look at some of these more sophisticated questions that the board raised tonight. We also will be making sure that these are posted under policies under review page. So, if there are members of the public or other interested parties who want to provide that uh feedback, that will be on the board's that will be on the BBSD website in the policy section. Thanks for reminding everybody of that, Alex. Yeah, quick question. I really appreciate um the special situation we have here where we have the consensus based process, but I'm not sure I is there anything in the policies that address the consensusbased nature of our negotiating procedure?
109Nothing in our board policies. I think those references are in the negotiated agreement, but I will I'm happy to find that language and make sure that we can point out where it is. Yeah. And if well and and a follow-up question I guess would be would we want to say something good about that in policy? I recognize I like to maintain the discretion in case we go another 70 years without updating it. Um but I'd be curious if the HR team uh thinks there might be something useful there. So and to clarify, not all of our bargaining groups use consensus. Is that correct? Do we not do some bargaining groups use a slightly different process like interestbased bargaining or do they all use consensus or are there different models that are used? James do or
110Dr. Hill? Yes. And the reason I ask is because there is not a whole there's a lot of places of disagreement between the different negotiated agreements themselves. And so whatever goes into policy has to be really consistent across all of those negotiated agreements. And so that's why I asked. So over the past three years with all the bargaining units, we've been using some form of consensus. you know, we we fully use consensus with BVEA, the uh teachers uh bargaining unit, but with all the other groups, we've adopted some form of fashion of consensus, which has been great. That is great. And if we would include that, I think we'd have to be really clear what the form of consensus means if we're defining it in policy. So if we're going like if you I hear
111you saying that it looks a little bit different has a different flavor with the different groups and so I I would just want to be really clear on what it means right and I and I say a form of it because officially we haven't adopted them in the negotiated agreements so um we use you know the circle the consensus the small groups the best hopes and worst fears but sometimes we we we use a hybrid and and you know use other models as well to, you know, get some interested. But, you know, um, from the last three years, you know, all the groups that we've used seem to, you know, uh, adapt to it and like it, embrace it. So, um, if that's something we continue to do, we definitely have conversations about getting them
112in the negotiated agreements. Thanks for clarifying, Alex. Yeah, I just want to clarify. I'm not suggesting that we do codify it. I just wanted to figure out if we did. and uh what our team thought about whether or not we might want to, but it seems like we want to keep our flexibility and have our policy be about, you know, sort of the principles that go into it. And I totally support us having the flexibility to do what makes sense um with each unit, but I also am appreciative of the work that goes into our consensus models and appreciate everybody who's doing that. And since I'm up here, um I just also wanted to acknowledge uh BVOP, our office professionals, and Chris Bholz, who um also helped lead that during negotiations this year. Thanks. Sorry
113for missing that one earlier. Board members, any other questions on these policies? Seeing as there are none, we will move on to our future agenda requests. Board members, we just had our agenda setting, so we may not be full of ideas for future agenda topics, but if anybody has any, now is the time to bring them forward. Seeing as there are none, this meeting is now adjourned. Good evening everyone and have a great month of July.