February 25, 2025 Regular Meeting

001e e e [Music] I would like to call to order this regular meeting of the Boulder Valley School District Board of Education for Tuesday February 25th 2025 board members May attend and participate in board meetings by electronic means in accordance with BBC policy bmea and state law Laura can you please call the RO shabz here medler mnik here qua here Raj Paul here Sergeant anger here thank you this time I'd like everyone to turn their attention to the screen for a land acknowledgement this evening [Music] B [Music] recos [Music] is responsibil [Music] IND I would like to excuse me remind everybody that the mission of the buler Valley School District is create is to create challenging meaningful and engaging learning opportunities so that all TR them Thrive and are prep prepared for successful civically engaged

002lives good evening everyone thank you for joining us in person remotely we're glad to have you observe and and participate in our meetings board members may I have a motion to approve this evening's agenda with item 8.5 omitted as that item is not yet ready to be addressed moved by Jason seconded by Beth Laura can you please call the rle Chavez yes medler yes nnick yes Quin Lin AA yes Raj Paul yes anger yes motion passes this evening we will begin with our work session tonight we have one work session topic which is the review of Athletics and activity fees Dr Anderson would you like to do the introductions thank you board president Raj Paul members of the board good evening tonight we are going to uh dig in a little bit to some of

003our athletic and activity fees uh board members as you'll recall in our prioritization this was something that was of great interest to multiple board members and so so this was prioritized to discuss today uh today's a conversation uh as we think about our athletic and activity fees policy uh the the information and and guidance direction that we get from the board uh this evening will help um as we revise and update that policy uh have multiple people here uh to present this evening our uh School Board attorney Kathleen Sullivan assistant superintendent schools Robin Fernandez and making his debut at at a board meeting is our District athletic director Harry Waterman and so with that I'll turn the presentation over to the team good evening president Raj Paul members of the board and Dr Anderson as

004Dr Anderson said we are happy to be here with you this evening to share information about Athletics and activities fees with the board as this data is connected to ongoing policy work that the board is engaging in in the area of activities and athletic fees and with that I will turn it over to Council Kathleen Sullivan so as foundation for the board's discussion tonight I just want to remind the board you've actually worked in this fees area before the board will remember addressing this in 2023 in the area of curricular fees and the legal principles are the same because the governing statute is the same so when we're establishing fees there is Authority Under state law to collect Bond voluntary fees for participation in a school sponsored activity or program and then like curricular fees

005those fees need to be reasonably necessary and related to the cost for which they're being assigned the fees need to be used for that designated purpose and they need to be made available to the community with a list of fees including the purpose how the amounts derived whether it's mandatory or voluntary and specifically what AC ity that fee will support so this is the board's policy work from 2023 the board updated board policy JN on academic and curricular fees and the board focused at that time on embedding the board's beliefs around requiring that certain fees are covered by the operating budget of the district there was a Prohibition on the use of fees for discipline um the board really was careful in establishing policy guidance and then adopting a fee schedule that created ranges and

006caps for those fees based on careful estimates that our schools teachers and principals had done and then also putting in the policy the specific recognition that principles are authorized to Grant need based waivers of fees um and asking or requiring that the district keep data and documentation on that waiver so that it could be more closely monitored in the future like many districts bbsd has a history of establishing a participation fee in athletics this year the high school participation fee is $200 at it as it has been now for a number of years in addition to the district participation fee additional costs and fees are both developed and addressed at the school level however this year we've completed a more comprehensive survey of athletic and activity fees and Harry will speak more to that in

007just a moment so before uh Harry starts talking about fees I want to just take a moment and talk about how Title 9 connects with what we're talking about today because I know that that is also uh important important area for this board that has had a lot of focus so I think when you think about Title 9 there are really three ways that a district can show itself to be compliant with title 99's requirements that there be Equitable treatment in athletics and it really defines what those Athletics are for purposes of analysis of this regulation it establishes those Athletics that OCR is going to use to assess our our Equitable participation we will look forward to sharing more data in this area with the board at a future meeting but when we look at

008that proportionality when we look at the participation of our students we do see um that their participation by gender by sex is proportionate with our student enrollment so that really is where we consider this issue of Title 9 compliance when we look at that in the area of fees title 9 doesn't establish what fees can be charged for any athletic or activity it also the fees to be charged aren't contingent on a chassa designation so some fees become necessary because of chassa requirements around that activity or athletic event but it isn't a specific tital 9 direct connection so I want to liberate the board from having to be too concerned about Title 9 in the discussion of fees today because we're really thinking about now what what fees what philosophy are going to apply in

009this board policy as we look at creating opportunities to participate in athletics across our district good even Kathleen quick question can I interject here so when you're talking about this is just to make clear I think I understand it but to make clear for my fellow board members um something can have chassa rules and regulations around it but not be a sport that is considered by OCR when it comes to Title 9 that's correct and I think the one that gets the most attention is the Palms cheer dance um activity I would certainly never tell our students that that's not an athletic um Endeavor but I think OCR specifically has determined that cheer and Palms is not considered an athletic activity for purposes of this Title 9 regulation because I think the concern really arose

010when we were trying when Title 9 was put into a place to increase athletic participation and opportunities for women and had palms dance cheer which is predominantly girls had that been factored into this analysis of whether there was Equitable opportunity in athletics that it would have resulted in um a conclusion that they were Equitable perhaps before the intent of the statute had been achieved oh sir good good evening this I'm going to refer to this chart on this first slide so I believe you all have that in your in your packet but so as you can see on the chart that we we have collected from High School athletic and activities directors there are 40 items total listed uh the first 20 six on that left hand column are all of the chassa designated Sports

011and of those all of them are charged the $200 uh participation fee the remaining 14 below are activities that are offered that have fees and I'll talk about it in in the next item but these are not charged the participation fee they are not chassa sanctioned activities Athletics so they they don't have that attached to them you have a question I have a question clarifying question there um Esports uh student leadership Spirit are are considered chassa activities and that's why I'm a little bit confused about the if you go to ch's website um and even band so I'm just a little bit cons C some questions about that fair question uh those are Esports and student leadership do fall under the umbrella as does music and speech and debate along I think I said Esports

012now those don't have the operational costs which I'll talk about shortly that are attached to all of our Sports and activities and so we're not charging a participation fee for those but those are designated under chassa as well as um Spirit which is both included cheer and palm and we also do not charge participation fees for those so any of the designated activities are not being charged some of these additional activities listed here are clubs in the in the schools but none of them get the the fee that's how I separated them and some of them are co-curricular like student council is a class students take during the school day as part of a period so I think just the way that the activities are listed are a little bit confusing or at least for

013my understanding and I am still not clear the if it's a chass designated activity cheer and Palms speech and debate they still take oversight there's a cost Associated but the decision to not charge a fee for those is because chassa does not require one no chassa doesn't require the fee at all every district has fees that they have set for whatever that is and there is in a later slide you'll see some examples from other districts of what they charge and we're in this in the range of what those fees are we designate what that is that simply offsets the cost it certainly doesn't come anywhere near covering the cost for the for those Sports and so because student leadership and those that are listed here don't have officials fees Transportation very limited they don't

014have game workers they don't have all of those Associated costs we don't charge an additional fee for those does that help thank you for that clarification Alex and then L yeah so I realized that we have a free and reduced lunch um participation waiver but our discussion a year ago we had talked about recognizing how many families are financially burdened by paying the fees who are above the free and reduced price lunch and I was uh under the impression that we also had available waivers at the discretion at school level for families that had a financial need um but I don't see any discussion of that do we give any waivers for families that are above the frl cut off and the next slide will address that we'll go thank you bet okay lenia sorry

015this is for my own clarification it's probably a question for you Kathleen if I look at chassis sanctioned athletic programs not activities do all of those factor into Title 9 when I look at this list I'm curious if ice hockey factors in I would want to study that I can't identify all of them but off the top of my head but we can absolutely put that information together after tonight's presentation and the reason I think it's important is the reason I think it's important is that as Harry has tasked his ads with making sure we're spending money equitably I think it's important to know if any of those are not in that you know you need to be able to say to your 8s all all Athletics are in it or all except this one

016and this one and make sure your ads understand that um the activities are not in that I think it's the water's kind of been muddied on it okay so let's see the other fees as we get partially down that halfway down that slide uh these are assessed by individual teams so this has nothing to do with the participation fee it's just additional cost miscellaneous items that typically will stay with the student and that could be a range of things from workout gear a warm-up shirt that has their last name on the back uh socks and hats that you never want to rewear the following year and so so they will go home with them uh choreography tumbling camps and Clinics often you'll see uh breast cancer awareness so they'll wear do a pink out for

017any and all of those are additional costs that may be incurred throughout for the season and again those are items that typically will stay with the student and then you'll note there's two of uh the first the first bullet there is is the list of typically the lowest and they're not the only ones but the lowest charging fees that don't have a lot Associated costs that go with them or a lot of the activities that we have listed and then the highest which we talked a minute ago is H palms and cheer and that is the the primary driver of that is whether or not they attend the national championships in Florida that's easily be two 2,000 to 2500 of that fee and this go ahead sorry Jason okay this this next slide is the

018waivers uh and Alex to to your question if if you look at the that First Column the waivers these are waivers that are offered to at our high schools um for the $200 participation fee uh for anyl student or anyone who communicates a need for a waiver so that first column indicates this year up to this point right now how many um students who have requested an a waiver of their participation fee the second column is the you can finish describing this slide and then I'll go to questions the second column is the total number of participants at each school and and then the third column is the percentage of those participants who have received a waiver this year for frl okay and then finally you can see the school specific frl percentage overall so

019we're gonna go Jason Beth Alex lania no no okay I thought I saw you jump so Jason Beth Alex sure thanks for this um my oldest son is or my oldest kid is in just in sixth grade so this is very eye openening to me to look at all this and how this all works um both as a parent and obviously now as a board member um I'm looking at this chart uh which I don't think is on the slides but the one that shows you know the $200 fee and then P by school and just as a kind of for you know maybe for my own information maybe for the general public I look at some of these obviously this is the standard District fee but then there's just really no logic uh to

020explain like why the fees are so to play basketball at Boulder High School would cost you almost $2,000 extra zero at Broomfield um but then if you're a girls volleyball player at Boulder it's very low cost and you know 400 almost $400 to play a Broomfield that's just so just you know can you maybe explain a little bit about why there's such huge disparities obviously numbers and there's other things that are school specific obviously some of our schools are unique but I just don't understand that and why that is the way it is and then maybe a followup question is uh is there logic to having this be a district level kind of setting of fees that's maybe a bigger question but me start with the first one and then we can get into the

021second one that's a great question and I can see why you would look at that and wonder um there's a lot of that's why there's not a you won't see a standard fee across any districts when it comes to those additional fees because everybody does it a little different part of that is could be how the size of your program you might have one level versus you might have four or five levels like we have in volleyball um what do they do in their off offseason for their camps and Clinics some some schools that are competing well not necessarily just have to be at a high level but some put in a lot of time in the offseason and have additional camps and clinics that add up and and cost more money versus some that

022do very very little to add add fees to those costs um some do for example that basketball one um Broomfield does a great deal of fundraising and so that fundraising goes towards offsetting personal costs in order to do that uh to play that Sport and so some some coaches love fundraising some really don't like to fund raise so those play pretty heavily and the difference between one one school and another are some of the factors but just on that is there a way you know I mean because we look at this and like just the basketball example I mean there's huge disparities obviously between schools between you know cities it's way more expensive to play basketball and B in the city of Boulder than it is in the city of you know Lafayette um or

023you know Broomfield uh and so maybe another column and I don't know if this is even possible but to to really understand kind of where the you know where the fundraising piece comes in and how that factors in here because I think that you know that explains a lot but I think that doesn't show up here and if you know if Broomfield successfully fundraises where their costs are really low and they can all the kids can play basketball a low cost we should understand that here and why that is not the case and I'm not I'm just looking at that example of these two schools because it's the top of the chart and why that's not the way it is a boulder high and maybe I you know this is just it's really really confusing

024and I think this just um makes this issue even more challenging at least for me that I I look at this and like this is you know just how do you get a handle on this and how do we ensure that there's equal access or you know equity and um you know and then understanding kind of all these different pieces that come into play Dr Anderson so I I think that you know as we shared uh we did not give any other direction to any coach any program we just collected what they're doing and we're reporting it out so what you're seeing today is is a system that has been designed where there's a standard fee a district fee and that fees above and beyond can very much be driven by programs by boosters by

025size by competitive nature by coach preference I think that there's a lot of reasons why these fees could be uh different and to your point Jason there isn't a standardized way as as as we look at this today um we haven't mandated fundraising we haven't mandated the opt that that you know here's the range of fees that you can charge we haven't done any of those things nor do I know what would happen if we would to do those things this is pretty typical as far as High School athletics and activities um uh goes what isn't typical is we're showing you like the thing that's different here is a level of transparency that um that shows the difference and so uh you know Harry's been an ath atic director um has worked with chassa for

026a long time he knows and understands kind of how this works across the landscape of um of Colorado you know as a high school principal and the president of the Orlando metro Athletic Association back in 2008 uh very similar uh and uh you know to the extent that schools tried to find their Solutions locally and it wasn't just something that the district took up and that's not to say that there can't be efforts to do that um but but what you're seeing here is a level of transparency that I think is ahead of the curve in regards to folks showing right you know what the the differences and fees are and then an opportunity right for this board as you think about policies you know what would be the policies that would make sense that

027would provide the right balance so we're not trying to get too far in the weeds without coaches run programs and um but also you know protect that sense of equity which what you I know is is important to this board um and for kids uh who they look at the fees and they don't even bother trying out even though they might make the team and it might be the best thing they ever did I think that that there's some truth in that but I'd also say and you've got young kids and you know for those of you have young kids if you want to be involved in any sport right it starts earlier it's more intense uh it is uh it is not hey I'm going to you know play in the recck league and

028then I'm going to try out for the varsity team you know it is that is not what high school sports is today for Better or For Worse and uh and so there's like a a larger ecosystem issue that I think that we have to recognize as well I mean literally uh where I live over in Superior there's a there's a complex that is designated for like all youth like you've been to the sports table you've seen it you've seen the conditioning that you know you have 10 11 yearold kids running with weight sleds and parachutes and I was like when I was 11 I was you know was not doing that but in any event I say all that to say uh this is we're being incredibly transparent this is where it is uh but

029I would say that if other people would even go to this length to show you what they're doing it would be similar to what we're looking at and the last thing I'll say because when I looked at it I had some simar I was like gosh that's you know I had some similar reactions and then you know thinking about um you know the range of reasonableness right I think per Sport and per like that's something we maybe could think about um or and like if if you happen to go to a program where there isn't a fundraising effort or opportunity uh for some of these additional fees how do you level the playing field there I think those are some things might be able to talk about from a district perspective I don't mean to

030cut off other folks had question I appreciate that and I and I in no way in no way mean this to be kind of critical I really appreciate the transparency and I don't want to call out you know particular schools or programs you know like you said this is kind of above and beyond the normal level of transparency so my questions were in no way to you know in that um spirit so just wanted to clarify that if if I may raise a question going back sorry I've been having some technical problems with my laptop um is for the if you go back to the previous slide that had the free and reduced price lunch waivers do we know what percent of the free and red reduced lunch participant waivers are F frl or notl

031so those are labeled as frl but you're suggesting that they are not justl do we know what the difference is between those two that data was not tracked uh at this time but it is predominantly f L there are if another student comes forward however and says we just can't we can't afford to do this they are granted okay yeah because my interest is in encouraging families to know that it's available regardless of whether they have forl or not um so it would be useful at some point to track which is which to know how we're doing at encouraging families that are above the frl cut off but that's still uh need help to ask for and receive the help so I think I again also appreciate the transparency uh but I would love to

032know what those differences are it would also be helpful to know if we're thinking about Equitable access where we see from some of the other data the discrepancies for frl students participating to really understand if those discrepancies are actually indeed even worse than what's there Beth and board members I know there's lots of interest in so I I'll continue to call on folks just so we um I have a running list so Beth and then Jorge um I also wanted to talk about this frl slide so I'm glad we got back to it I do want to say that I had a very very similar reaction to you Jason when I looked at this not having kids in high school feeling kind of out of my depth but I appreciate this conversation and I really

033do appreciate the transparency and I think Rob's completely right that it is a competitive world for better or worse that said back to frl I was just wondering if we could get this data more than one year snapshot I'd love a couple Year s snap points just to see this is trending if if more students who are on the slides are participating or not I'd be interested in that Dr Anderson and then Jorge yeah I I think we're happy to to to dig in and create any um data collecting measures we need to into the future and then go back and retroactively looking at any data that we may have uh for sure that's part of this conversation um you know this is the first kind of cut at at really kind of digging into

034this and so but we're happy to to to make those combinations thank you for the conversation this I really appreciate it it's a lot of data to make sense of um here it shows um waivers for middle school but we don't have any data on Middle School activity fees or sport fees on any of the tables it's just the high school information and so I'm kind of curious what the what that looks like at the middle school level um and I'm curious um I haven't seen any of the other slides either about how the information about waivers is communicated to parents um is it something that kids have to request and know about or is this something that's open and communicated at the start of the Year saying hey you know any activity you get

035involved in will weave the fee um and I'll stop that for now so we do have data on Middle School it's very similar per percentage of frl I think it's 9% and it was 10% um but it's just not listed on it's not in your packet but for Middle School oh no um I I saw the data on this on the frl stuff I'm saying um the fees themselves you have just the high school fees on the tables that we sh it's it's a $100 fee for middle school and Scholastic um for them to per school and and do we have comparable data about the additional fees like the high schools or there are no additional fees at the middle school School level that's they are charged to to families thank you you're welcome oh

036sorry Dr Anderson just in responding to you to your your other point um I think you're on to something there right to the extent that you know we've been really intentional as a governance team to to not have the opportunities for kids be Insider baseball like you have to know to ask you got to know you know what I mean like so I don't know we can check to verify how clearly we're communicating to the extent that if a fee if a family is unable to to to cover a fee that they're still able to participate I'm not sure what Avenues or channels how how clearly we're articulating that I do think that there's and if I don't know then that means there's probably room for improvement uh but I do think that uh you

037know as we think about setting you know revising this policy and creating intentional practices uh you know the idea that if if if that is the case and and to Alex's Point earlier um if for whatever reason you're just not in a space where you could pay for you should still be able to participate and how do we communicate that in a way that is accepting and welcoming and not you got to ask not to pay like I think that that that there's some opportunities there Jenia and then no thank you I I appreciate I think that's an important component of this right that we not just provide it but make it really accessible um but uh but the waivers for the $200 or the $200 plus $800 that's on top of that if or

038whatever the extra amount is what is the waiver cover yeah what ises the waiver cover the waiver is simply for the F the participation fee so it's 200 High School 100 for middle school and $50 in miral middle school so okay um that brings up for me Harry what you and I know from our other proportionality data that we do have this uh Challenge on free and reduced lunch but we also have a challenge on our Hispanic Latino population participating um and I bring that up because I think they're you know the $200 is something but it certainly we can't solve all problems right we can't solve the club sports problem that people are spending thousands of dollars a year for travel teams year round teams but are we um telling our ads that we

039care about race and ethnicity are we doing outreach are we saying to our booster clubs hey do you guys are you guys doing Outreach on with underrepresented populations so it comes up for me that we still need to have that Equity lens um not just in terms of gender but in terms of free and reduced lunch and underrepresented race and ethnicities was are you was that a question or you just resp no you and I both looked at that data I don't and the rest of the board probably doesn't see that data because it's just something we look at in an athletic Review Committee um but it's pretty glaring you could say more well we'll be discussing that in our April Arc meeting because that is the data that we're going to we're collecting now

040uh around that so we'll be breaking that down in April at our meeting and I will to add to that the best deal in town is when you look if you have kids in club sports high school sports is by far the best deal in town we're not even close to um what you pay to to play club sports unfortunately I mean it's good that we're not but it's expensive so the next slide is um I'm sorry sorry I have a question I think Jason had raises hand and Alex and then board members after these this last three rounds we're going to let the team move on I was going to piggyback a little bit on that Harry I mean as a parent of multisport athletes that play and do activities in sports in middle

041school and high school and outside of that I mean I look at the spreadsheet while it feels shocking um it is cheaper than what a lot of people pay per month outside of the high school experience and this is for a season I I would also say like I I agree we need to provide create a situation that does not turn people away but it's not just the fee like if you have K that are playing sports since the age of three and then you have a kiddo that's never played a sport before there's intimidation there when you come to a high school level activity that alone might be a barrier transportation is exceedingly challenging the district does not provide transportation to to um practices or activity or competitions that are not that are within

042the boundaries of the school district and so you have to provide your own transportation like there are multiple hurdles that are that impact um a student's ability to to participate in these activities even at the middle school level if you need to take a bus home and you don't have a ride I mean that there it's just it's not just fees and so I think the fee Equity conversation is important and it's all these it's the whole picture and I will say again wearing my um hat with some experience with these Athletics we have some of like the lowest paid coaches um in the metro area like we we have work to do to really if we want to celebrate our Sports and our activities like we we actually have like an hurdled overcome as

043far as what we're compensating folks and so it's a really complicated this is a really complicated conversation to peel apart and I'm really excited that we're having it but it's not just like what is the fee and we'll get to some of that cost moving forward there's a lot of there's a lot that goes into this um so I just wanted to elevate that a little bit and I appreciate the conversation around um you know fundraising versus waving some of these other fees that are not District or how how do we make it more manageable and recog ize that that's not going to create parody necessarily um so that was my thought on that particular side and then Jason and then Alex and then you can go to the next slide um like I said

044I my my oldest is in sixth grade so this is we're about to approach all this and I you I get all the context of underpaid coaches and um I actually had another question but Nicole your your comment just made me think about something um and you know compared to other sports and clubs I just I just don't think that's the standard that we want though is like oh it's cheaper than club sports and so I just look at this and you mentioned Transportation I just see so many barriers to entry for so many kids and that's a concern to me and so I do agree you know like sixth grade sports are expensive we're already there but you know there's a lot of other things um and I don't think like I said I

045don't think that should be our standard that we judge our athletic programs by is what the the deal compared to other private programs um and so anyway that I just want to make that last point on that um agreeing with everything Nicole said about all the you know the reasons for these costs but um that's that's still a concern to me and I look forward to contining that conversation I did want to ask one point um rob you mentioned maybe it was covered and I don't know if I missed it the waivers um you said something about anyone who wants participate if you know we make it I forget the word you use but we make it doable and so um I look at the just looked up the you knowl numbers and what it

046you know takes to qualify and a family of four is like just under $40,000 income and so I think about that also and you know I don't know where that line is when we divide you know is it like a hard line ATL numbers or do we kind of and so I just want to get some clarity on that you know obviously I think we you mentioned like our goal is maximum participation and allowing you know kids who want to participate for this not to be a barrier but just understanding that you know f frl is a is a number but it's like it's an incredibly low number and there's a lot of other families that are you know making 70,000 that would you know would be considered class by this federal poverty line and

047frl numbers that would definitely not probably qualify for any kind of fee reduction and obviously not counting all the other costs of participating so just want to get a little more clarity on that so the way that it stands and Harry correct me if I'm wrong if a family comes and says we um we need help with the fee no questions asked the fee is waved right and so we don't say hey let's see if you're free reduce lunch we don't check income we don't check anything right we wave the fee and then we move forward so so uh now but but what I was sharing is to the extent that people understand and know that that's our policy uh it may be underc commmunication there might be some potential uh or maybe not I

048mean I would have to check with Harry and check with our ads and I'm sure during their athletic nights I'm sure this is something they do probably do cover uh but if you don't go to the athletic night right because you can't get a ride or because something's happening right you don't have the information how do we think about multiple channels of communication that will we share that so uh you know and Alex had made this point do we know who qualifies for free and reduced lunch versus who just ask for the waiver uh we we don't have that data or information we would just have to be mindful of how we track those types of things because if somebody asked for help you don't want to start you know like I guess we could

049go back and maybe kind of look look it up we could try to figure that out uh but uh but we don't say nope you don't NOP you make $42,000 a year no waiver for you right we it's it's just on an as needed basis but I do think that there's some barriers even within that that I think we should be be um considered of Alex and then we'll move on yeah uh I guess I have two questions in that regard um uh so are we only offering the waivers for the $200 fee and not the additional fees and is there a reason for that and could we say if we're going to if we're going to support your act particip ipation and this activity will support all the costs in it um uh and

050then the second part for me would be really useful to I think to understand these fees uh is to get a sense of the the competitive versus no cut Sports and the amount of waivers and the um participation by socioeconomic status and race and ethnicity and gender for the cut versus no cut Sports um because it's one thing to be in a sport where you needed to have 15 years of expensive coaching in order to be competitive and it's another to be on the cross country or track team um presumably where anybody uh uh could do it and be participating at a lower level and still be there so I'm curious about both things why not um wave the fees for the everything over the 200 and uh can we also get a good analysis

051of this by cut versus no cut Sports and and I I just also want to say sorry I've got technology issues make it hard to connect but I I totally appreciate that this is um this is is really a complex topic again and I think I hear the board saying how much we want to make sure that you know kids regardless of their background have access to the fun things in our schools and we want to make sure that we don't have any unnecessary obstacles to kids having a good time and getting all the wonderful benefits of participating in sports and activities so this is all in the spirit of we want people to have a great time benef from this and we want to make sure everybody has access to it not in some

052antiport or activity way so so the first part of your question uh yes we absolutely wave those other fees as well in fact there was an example of one this speaking to one of our ads this week about a student that um could not afford to take a trip for that Sport and they scholarship that student uh and they that's part of the fundraising dollars that when they raise and they build up for students in need that that's one of the reasons they would have extra extra funds to offset costs for those that cannot pay for those so again it's if they approach and they and they show a need or request a need they don't have to show it um they get scholarship as well or offset and sometimes they'll say well you know

053help us with this fundraiser and come work maybe it's you know uh the parking it for one of the events you know come help and and help offset that by doing some service community service for us in return for for that as far as your second question um we did not uh differentiate that data between those sports that um are you know as you mentioned cross country perhaps versus tennis or something that would require many many lessons along the way uh when you were younger so we that is something that we haven't tracked different it it's just all um one one tracking right now of forl but something we can again we can look at if we want to look into that Dr Anderson Harry quick question so how would a how would a potential

054student athlete um you know a student who wants to get involved in sports how would they know what sports cut or don't cut and maybe you know for the general public who doesn't understand the cut those sport like talk a little bit about what that means and what that is and why you can have some that are no cut and why some you have to cut so in the 20124 I believe it was somewhere in there there was an OCR um investigation in the district and at that time uh one of the things that came from that was that there would be three female sports one in the fall one in the winter and one in the spring that would be no cut so that we could increase participation numbers on the on the female

055side so in the fall that's uh volleyball in the winter it's girls basketball and in the spring it's girls soccer and you'll see often we'll have four and five levels particularly in volleyball we have a great interest there in in those Sports and so that really allows more girls to participate um and that was one of the measures that came out of that OCR from from that time are there any no cut sports for uh for boys no no some that yeah some could but there's no none for boys nope so track track in cross country and Mountain bik cup boys so there's a a no cut policy for the girls in those three sports that you can't cut and in the boys there's not a some do cut because of just sheer numbers and

056we don't have the budget for five levels in every sport so it's just those three girls teams that we have a no cup policy to to generate more female athletes but yeah we we couldn't do that across necessarily across the board plus nor do we have the facilities to manage that many teams and every sport it gets very tricky with five levels of of volleyball to have space and time to get all those practices and games in so thank you for clarifying that I think it's an important distinction a lot of schools choose to operate no cut Sports outside of those three but those three are the ones that are required to be no cut Sports within bbsd that's correct yeah so thank you for that distinction I think that is really helpful and something

057for the board to consider and there are lots of schools that choose to have no cut Sports whether it's tennis or swimming or track and cross country they they do exist but it's not a requirement for the district so that's an interesting um distinction there and I appreciate you sharing that okay I did say um that was going to be the last question before we move on to the next slide so if it's a very quick one Alex otherwise I just I just I'm confused so when I say no cut I'm not thinking about the ones that are mandated by the district I'm thinking about it from the fam's perspective so my experience Fairview like cross country and track were were no cut Sports so all the kids who wanted to do them could do

058them is that only a Fairview thing and other high schools are cutting kids from the track and cross country teams or are those also no cut Sports even if they're not mandated by the title 9 settlement so some of those there's there's really no need to to make cuts for example cross country and track because it's outside there's plenty of room for everyone there's not a restricted space restricted number of teams so to speak so it's easily we can easily have over 100 kids out for those for those Sports versus basketball where five five kids are on the court at a time there's only so many teams you can have and and still conduct practice and and contests in one in two gyms is that does that help no I'm just trying to figure out

059when so when we say no cut Sports do we have a language issue where sometimes there's a technical term for no cut means the women's basketball uh soccer and uh uh versus from the community I guess in my perspective uh families talked about the track in Cross Country for example as being quote no quot Sports so I just think we might be cross talking as all as we as we try to get information on different things and opportunities uh I'm particularly interested in when we deal with pre-introduced price lunch or or racial and ethnic discrepancy IES of focusing on the sports where the obstacles around competitive training may not be an issue so to me talking about it not from an Title Nine but from a free and reduced price lunch or Hispanic participation perspective

060it's good to know what sports we should be targeting uh so that where there's a lot more slots that are available if we were doing recruitment or helping with the fundraising and that kind of stuff you know I would just I appreciate that point Alex you know just just to clarify there are the the sports that Harry referenced there is a district policy in place to ensure that there isn't any student who tries out that isn't able to participate on some level of Team there are other sports that lend themselves to lots of kids being able to participate and don't necessitate cutting the team down because of limited ability to facility uh equipment so on so forth um um but those are really at the discretion of the individual school and Coach some of those

061have become uh known maybe within the community as these are the no cut Sports at name your school but if they were to decide to cut next year there's no District policy that that that enforces that local school decision um but I do Alex I do appreciate kind of where your head is going which is if we're trying to find lower thresholds for previous experienced High School sports that kids could be a part of um then then then maybe there's something we could do with identifying and supporting and promoting there as we think about this policy mve forward okay the this next slide is how are our fees used so uh participation fees that we've talked about the 200 and the 100 Middle School 200 high school that accounts for 25% of the athletic budget

062while the remaining 75 is from gate revenues and the district general fund uh and again I've mentioned it earlier but these are the essential items so this doesn't cover those extra other items that we've already had discussion on this is the essential items like coaching salaries and benefits um that it goes towards officials Transportation game workers security equipment uniforms those are the essential items that are needed to to run that program uh in other words um what I said uh essential in the other fees that we referenced on earlier they're to be used for individual purchases and as Kathleen mentioned earlier that stay uh that are to be used in that year by that individual so and then the final bullet there the addition uh in addition to the sport previously named participation fees also

063help the district uphold our commitment to chassa by following the bylaw set forth by the Association uh this includes hosting quality and safe events for our athletes and Spectators as well as committing to travel when required by the Association so I have a question and then Mia um I appreciate the breakdown of percentage of the revenues I went back into Bill's LLY budget book and Bill if I'm reading these numbers incorrectly and you want to clarify um for the 2425 proposed budget participation fees come in at around a million dollars annually and transfers from the general operating fund come in at $2.8 million annually and so as we're thinking about any potential shifts you it's important to think about the actual dollars in a year where we are fiscally um limited potentially by the state

064and other things um it is a big this is this is a lot of money that we are talking about and so the dollars themselves aren't listed there just the percentages I just wanted to make the public aware of what it costs I mean so the some of the costs and the revenues for operating these programs total expenditures for the projected budget for this year $4.1 million for activities in athletics so it is it is a big dollar item for us and I appreciate you clarifying that last book because I was like what fees help us remain um or fulfill our commitment to chassa but it is like having quality like R um umpires and officials that are um capable of doing that it's providing transportation to the way meets it's those kinds of things

065it's not like chassa requires us to pay a fee to them is that the we do pay fees for each individual sport minimal fees to chass but you're correct is providing a facilities that are capable of hosting a a quality event thank you and then I lenia this may be more of a question well it's probably a question to both of you guys first can you tell me um where booster fees are used is that just in the additional travel out of season fees the booster fees are used boosters fees can be specific to a specific item it could be uniforms it could be equipment item it could be okay to help offset any number of things so it could be in the leftand column there of additional season fees boo booster fees could be

066used there or it could be used in additional travel out of season fees they could be used anywhere right for for a particular team or whatever yes and and they have the right to designate if they if they should wish okay and so then um I guess my question on this is if we have participation fees gate revenues and general fund equaling 100% then where are the booster fees in here there's do you know what I'm saying that I understand that they're above and beyond what we know to be happening but are we seeing those booster fees anywhere on the chart I guess is what I'm asking they would offset some of the other fees that are listed here for instance when we have a basketball camp one the discrepancy that Jason was referring to

067one school may have put a lot of booster fees in into offsetting that amount and the other school that didn't do as much fundraising or get booster fees may be paying more and that's why we would have zero to play at Broomfield but 1690 to play at Boulder High because somebody was else was doing that and I guess then I guess I still wish I could see booster numbers I have to say that I really would like to see the booster numbers Rob and then Jorge and then Alex just to be clear students don't have to pay a fee to a booster club right let's so booster clubs raise funds on behalf of teams right and to the extent that students don't have to pay those fees those are done through fundraising efforts and you

068know the mattress sales or you know just you know to be able to get the things above and beyond what your basic fees would cost sometimes those dollars that are generated by these parents are used to offset fees for students who can't afford to pay the fees but what we have listed are the direct charges to families and kids to participate in the a activities and Athletics listed yep okay just want to clarify and then the booster club and donations and fundraising would show up in the athletic director's budget so it wouldn't be part of the fees but it would be part of the overall budget and do we know what those are from our previous year I'm confident that we will know that this year I think in Prior years we've come up with

069as much of the data as we could pull together to be really transparent um but schools have had a lot of discretion just in how they documented and recorded that Jorge thank you for raising the uh dollar amounts Behind these fees and kind of what's covered and and just that 3.8 million that's covered by the fees um and the general fund doesn't include the additional fees for in season that in many cases doubles the ex the existing required $200 fee to maintain these programs right so we're really looking at at $6 million maybe including those additional fees to run these Sports so I just want to want to point that out that the fees are bottom of the barrel there's a lot more costs you to here uh but I wanted to go back to

070point Dron made that there's probably there's a lot of barriers here right for participation for students it's not just the cost and our free and reduced lunch information kind of looks provides some of that um but I'm curious if we have comparable participation information for the other activities that don't charge these fees that looks at how many kids are participating in those activities and how portion free introduced lunch kids are able to participate in those that might be an interesting comparison to see maybe there are other batteries to address in addition to the cost and part of it maybe that communication issue if we're seeing the similar pattern in our in our not in our lowc cost activities as well Alex sorry Dr Anderson and then Alex I just want to capture that for the

071team right we're I see the jaw writing this down I think this is a very interesting point to go back and see to the extent the kids that are participating because we should have rosters of those kids participating right schools are required to keep those rosters to the to the extent that they're accurate and go back and track to see what percentage of those students qualify for free reduced lunch it's different than I've asked for a fee waiver right because they're low cost right so you might not necessarily need to do that but what would the percentage of students um who would qualify for free and reduced lunge in in in those measures participate in those Sports versus the ones with these fees I think would be very telling so we we will work on

072getting that information Alex yeah I'm I'm also interested in in seeing the money that's raised through the activities fees added with the money that comes from the boosters and I would say as a parent of high school kids who did activities with great booster clubs behind them like the Fairview marching nights go nights um uh that money that's fundraised is coming out of the parents too so ultimately the burden on the parents is to pay the fees to participate in the fundraisers to volunteer at the fundraisers to put in the time to do the work to keep something fantastic like the Fairview marching nights going that creates just a tremendous burden on the parents financially and TimeWise that then creates an extra burden on single parents or uh parents who don't have the liberty of

073of contributing to the fundraisers and contributing to the work of the fundraisers so I'm like it's the whole package that creates Equity issues and then at the same time it's the whole package that makes it a fantastic thing that you want kids to have access to because it's so cool um so I'm totally torn by trying to understand how we get to removing obstacles to the Excellence and the opportunity while also being honest about how big these burdens are on families for their kids to access it Harry um one thing I keep thinking about is you a lot of the fees that the board board members are talking about are consumables or individualized often in the form of merchandise is what I'm hearing um one of the things has the district ever explored um direct

074sponsorship so saying Speedo or something like that is going to Nike we're going to only do Nike exclusive rights deals because it can bring the cost down purchasing power of the district is large versus like individual teams contract like getting their you know boys T to fa uses Nike and girls tennis uses Lululemon and every whoever the the teams get to pick it's nice for the team captains to be able to have that autonomy and have the fun thing but there is a a cost systemwide cost and if we're thinking about a systemwide approach potentially to a site-based decision like have you ever explored that as an option to bring down some of those fees so when I opened a new school at Riverdale Ridge we did that and we we did did have a

075contract um with Nike and everything at the startup was very easily purchased under one one vendor but right now our schools are using so many different vendors and it would take some time to recycle through the reality of of that many vendors to come to one and and eventually get everything to be won um after you've worn out the current uniforms that are there it's just it would decrease it does give you a a discount and allows you to buy additional items with those you don't get a a monetary refund with those you get credit and you can purchase which is nice you can purchase equipment and different things when you do that but it's not a it's a discount by getting in bulk but uh it's a temporary it's not forever and so that

076first go around of uniforms would be discounted but then you're going to be back to um paying a little bit higher price after that if does that answer your question it yeah no I think it's just it was just a thinking of a systemwide approach to help a problem that is my sight Bas so I that makes sense Dr Anderson I would say that uh that's a procurement issue right to the extent that we have a district contract for X whatever in whatever um uniform that might be you'd put that out to bid did the same thing when I opened up a high school we went all Adidas and uh but the but the kids on the bowling team had Adidas shirts and it it created a level E of equity um that was great

077and then but you get a coach who wants they want Nike they want you know I it's it can be it can become very autonomous super quick uh and that's just part of the nature of how it works but that that wouldn't prent us from trying to get some some District contracts out there for folks who wanted the best price they could order from the district contract I I I do think there's some things that we could talk about potentially there as we always like to do uh board members we've given you a comparison with some of our neighboring districts as to how they approach this fee issue you I think you will find that uh comparing these fee schedules is pretty interesting Dr Anderson already explained that this effort to really be transparent is

078it it's where the edge of the field is it's where we're really pushing to try and um look at this same issue with a different perspective when you look at the feast schedules across our neighboring uh districts like I particular particularly love the St brain one because it fit right in the middle of the slide this is their entire fee schedule for athletics and activities and it includes football all other Athletics cheerleading and forensics and it identifies a participation fee and doesn't attempt to look at what those additional fees could be which I think has been a important discussion for the board I think the other thing that I would note is that there's some variance in our neighboring districts with establishing caps un partici participation fees for multisport athletes or for families that have

079several students participating um it was about half and half across these districts with establishing that cap um and a few I thought pter maybe led to your question about ice hockey because they are closer to the discussion that we're trying to have which is what is the participation fee and then what other fees are families going to experience around certain activities and expressly called out ice hockey cross country skiing and golf as um athletic activities where families could anticipate those additional fees and that concludes the information that we have for you and we are happy to answer any additional questions that you may have Kath can you go back to the last slide in part because I I I looked at the Westminster and I was like that's not really necessarily as comparable it is

080proximate but not really comparable and so I went and kind of looked at fees from Cherry Creek and LPS because those are on schools that we typically use with other types of comparisons and a littleon public schools did similar to pter calling out ice hockey which I thought was interesting they have um a 50 per sport per season and a 1250 Max so I thought that was interesting little bit higher price calling out specific Sports and then Denver public schools like they're just really explicit and say varies by grade by sport by school so you know across to your point it is across the board here um Cherry Creek had a pretty low fees I was kind of surprised and then said varies by sport by school so I think we're all in this together

081into the earlier point about being really transparent about the others that are not just those District fees nobody's really doing this some will allude to it by saying it varies and others don't even include that language you have to really dig for it so um I appreciate the comparison I think it is helpful Westminster is not necessarily like us I just wanted to throw in like that's really low there are other ones that are more in the middle um but thank you for that slide I appreciate it Alex I saw your hand come up yeah I mean to that point I'd be really curious in districts that have a a if districts have a higher proportion of their low-income uh kids and low-income families participate what the their fee structures are not just for us

082from school to school but if Westminster charges 50 and they get 90% of their frl kids to play a sport and we charge 200 and we get 10% then maybe the 50% $50 fee is the way to go elenia Kathleen can you remind me because I know this all always leads back to policy can you remind me on what JJ something you'll remind me of the policy um where we talked about the expectation for our sports or Athletics was to not be traveling extensively I don't remember how we worded it yes thank you thank you for that question so in October we did start to look at this issue and looked at um the student fundraising policy and then we had a related fee uh policy that talked about athletic fees and in October the

083board had some discussion around preliminary red lines that we had prepared that just attempted to raise these issues up for board discussion and because we know that travel as Harry indicated can be one of the things that drives up those additional costs there were efforts made in that red line to just try to capture that to try to say we don't want to presume that we're going to have very high fees related to this every year we want to make sure there are Equitable travel opportunities I think one of the things that's come up and when we look at other school districts and how they're approaching this is that there are really some um things that our students do that don't have a tremendous amount of instate opportunities sort of back to Pal and cheer

084and dance as Harry indicated their season is really about leading up to Nationals and then having an opportunity to compete at Nationals so we did explore some language and I think what's important about this discussion today there's been a lot of of really good board input so time for us to reflect on how we make sure we're offering programs that give kids these really important opportunities to engage how we're making sure our programs are competitive and high level and um that we Factor fees in as we try to achieve those multiple important goals in this area h uh you raised the issue of maximums uh at some of districts and just to be clear we don't have a maximum in our current policy right now or or do we I wasn't sure it wasn't elsewhere

085but I wanted to check on that and I'm not just asking three kids in high school in the next three years thanks for bringing that up we do have a $500 maximum for f for a family okay per year per year correct thank you Jason just on that so $500 Max F that doesn't include the like there's going back to that chart there's a lot of other sports that are way over 500 so how does that work based on participation fees so if you play multiple Sports it's 200 each season and at two and a half or two and one middle schooler two high schoolers one middle schooler you're capped can family Ames choose not to wave that let's say we have families that can afford to pay pay all the fees for their six

086kids and they really value Athletics are they automatically capped or can they just continue to you know hit that $200 add to cart button yes they you're not capped automatically it's the same thing with a waiver once you once you reach that you let them know um the school would then be responsible to look and make sure that you've met that requirement and then it's C I would say also since we're talking about this issue that there are there are federal laws around the way we use frl data you can't just generate a list of families or students who have that status and if we want to use frl or that meal eligib that meal benefit eligibility families actually need to give us written consent and we did update that process about three years ago

087to make sure that it um really honored family's ability to D to decide when that information would be used and also makes it part of the application so that we're getting that information right up front and families don't have to come back and prepare another form and then I have one more question on the chass website it lists unified bowling as a as a fall sport sport I believe it wasn't on our list anywhere is that something we charge a district free for or not if chassa considers it a fall sport so we don't uh we're not under chassa for Unified sports we do it within our own district and we have a a very good strong program right now that we just keep it within our own District because we have six schools that

088are comp are participating and so this so far this year we've we've had flag football uh we've had uh we're going to have upcoming we have a basketball uh event coming up and we've had bowling and in the past we've had soccer in the fall so we we run that through our UniFi program within the district and we do not charge fees for that thank you Jason um just back to the f frl um issue Kathleen if you don't mind um can you remind me I know it's come up in other context but you know there was a concern when we went to Universal meals across the state that you know we would have you know fewer lower participation rates Etc um can you remind us how you know what we saw the district you

089know when that transition happened and um if that is maybe one of the issues here with our you know just general people are not signing up because they get meals anyway I don't actually have that I don't know how that has changed since the law changed but that's certain yeah I think I think it's gone up I think we're at 27% of students who qualify or certify it do do we do anything to encourage participation or how does that work I I'd have to get you more information on that but but the kids direct cert like the way that yeah they direct CER now so it's not they don't have to fill out the paperwork per se do I have that correct there is still direct certification yes and we still need consent to use

090that data for fee waiver but but yes a significant percentage of our population is direct CT board members any closing questions for a staff Dr Anderson so first of all thank you all for this in-depth conversation around um activity fees we really appreciate your commitment to equity and uh the thoughtful questions that you asked uh we are going to take the conversation that we had here go back and begin to think about revising policy and then thinking about potentially other opportunities uh to get at some of the other things that we discussed around participation and you know um you know Gathering some data on you know what is what can we do a little bit of a deeper dive on on some of the other um participation you know by free reduce lunch for some

091of the other lower activity fees uh and then this comes back do you all want this to come back as a policy draft or another work session where we can kind of show you our work and when were you thinking that would come back I I'll lean in with a preference because we've had kind of two work study sessions on this already I think it would be helpful to sort of collect our thoughts and reflect differently seeing it in a policy format and I also want to appreciate that the timing of that returning really is dependent upon windows um for reassessing if anything is going to change significantly what window do we have to have a policy change by we did academic fees we were very clear that those academic fees any changes needed to

092happen by X andx date if similar is the case for athletic fees I given the board conversation I don't think that anybody's really excited to rush something through there's still probably a lot of things to think about um but it' be helpful to understand what kind of timeline and window we're looking at if it has to be done within the the next two weeks I don't know that we could turn that around that quickly so then does it is it fine to take a little bit longer because you know the the school ads the district level they they um you know we've missed a window and it has to go the next year that's kind of where I'm thinking about that Cadence do that work okay thank you that was um a lot we took

093a lot of time on that which I totally anticipated um lot of interest and a lot of really great information prepared um and shared so thank you guys for that presentation board members we will now take a short break to reset the Board Room e e e [Music] I would like to call this evening's meeting back to order the first item on our agenda will be the superintendent report Dr Anderson good evening good evening board president Raj Paul members of the board uh happy to give some remarks this evening evening uh so Monarch High School for um our first theater showcase Monarch High School hosted an inspiring bbsd theater showcase a couple of weeks ago middle and high school students collaborated in a day of performances and Hands-On workshops King off with a dynamic opening

094act featuring Monarch Broomfield and Boulder high students the event offered middle schoolers the chance to explore stagecraft through special effects makeup set building theatrical combat and much more huge thank you to bbsd theater teacher students and volunteers for making this event a huge success board members yesterday the Ed Center was a busy place as bbsc hosted the regional science fair sponsored by Cordon Pharma for students in grades 6 through 12 and bbsd and surrounding schools students that compete will have the chance to compete at the state level in April and the international level in May some projects included a self-closing pet F food bowl prototype I could use that uh using not me my dog but there you go important important for to clarify uh using fruit to display the effects of the on the

095body in outer space the use of AI to predict wildfires in the regions of Colorado and a novel machine writing framework for optimized school funding allocation and we need to meet this student uh thanks to all the students participate as well as volunteer judges and staff who put on the event and finally board members we hit exciting Milestone this week as students started working in the new modular home Factory board members as you know Boulder mod is a partnership between bbsc flat irons's Habitat for Humanity and the city of Boulder project will provide affordable modular homes for local residents and authentic hands-on experience for construction trade students at Boulder Tech students were on the factory floor working alongside volunteers from Habitat for Humanity there are currently two houses under construction in the factory students will

096be involved in every phase of construction of the new homes and the first completed home will roll off the line this spring and I think we need to all be there when that happens that is all for my remarks this evening happy to answer any questions board members any questions for Dr Anderson seeing as there are n we'll move on to public participation for this evening board the board respects the right of the public to speak on matters concerning the operation of the schools the board does not endorse the of any speaker and reminds all those who speak that you're responsible for your own speech speakers will each have 2 minutes of speak you will see a yellow card when you have 30 seconds remaining and an orange card when you have 10 seconds remaining

097if you run out enough time or like to share additional information you may always email the board board members we have one speaker um for public participation this evening who is attending remotely Kristen kren King hi on February 11th my second grader had five Subs our math interventionist the instructional coach the teacher who works with English language Learners our assistant principal and another adult he didn't know the next day when I told him he'd have a sub again that day he replied only one that is not an anomaly last school year teachers covered 6,374 hours for classes without sub this past fall teachers covered 5,6 hours that's almost as many hours as the entire previous school year as a school district your number one goal is to serve students but are you serving students when

098they have a revolving door of teachers and staff during the day or when interventionists have to reschedule their time with students in order to cover classes Dr Anderson during the District parent council meeting on February 5th you said that people don't understand the financials so I'm asking you help me understand the numbers because when the district is paying teachers almost $41 an hour to cover classes that's far more than the average pay under last year's sub pay rate I am willing to listen to anyone who can explain to me how the district isn't losing money with a reduced sub pay rate it is my understanding that there's anou with the bvea to address this issue however since Subs have no representation we are at the mercy of whatever is decided behind closed doors as you

099establish the budget for next school year I urge you at a minimum to reinstate sub pay to last year's rates of $150 or $170 per day do away with the differentiated pay for specific positions and do away with a bonus system finally consider paying Subs a rate that is comparable to local districts like DP s and Westminster thank you thank you that concludes public comment for this evening board members we will move on to public part uh board member communication who would like to begin jge uh thank you for the opportunity um over the last couple weeks I had a chance to participate in our youth Equity Council um and see the work that those students are doing there and that was a a really great experience um they're so invested in the work they're

100doing they're building Community with each other and they're asking questions about the viability uh that how we can make our district stronger so we looking into kind of retention um and recruitment of Staff of color and teachers of color um culture and climate across schools in the district um how to better engage students for mental health and well-being as well as teachers um and developing curriculum for ethnic studies programs at our high schools so they're really kind of grappling with important issues that they are seeing at their schools and that we can kind of work on so I'm really kind of very impressed by the work that they're doing so that was a great opportunity so I want to thank them for my chance to participate in that and and and I think that really

101speaks to the values of our district despite the current political climate that we're continuing to do this work um and that we're Something That We're investing in and that we have to kind of keep um doing to support all of our students across across the district um I was also able to participate in the community Bond oversight committee over the last couple weeks and it's exciting to see the tremendous work that's going on on now that was supported by our local communities um we got projects in All Phases one two and three some are wrapping up some are starting in the spring break uh more will start in the summer and we're planning for a third wave but I've been so impressed by this Committee in terms of the oversight they're doing the attention of

102the details trying to save money every chance they get watching inflation um and trying to keep cost down and for everybody out there um there's information about um the bond work that's going on at your school on each of your websites there's communication going on now and you're see across the district I mean the stuff that I've seen in terms of the playgrounds so New Vista the facilities it's it's been great so I really appreciate that opportunity to do so in that so thank you thanks Jorge and thanks for highlighting that schools can see that information on their website we do get a lot of questions about that and it is publicly available so check out your school website board members any other comments this evening Alex uh thank you yeah I just wanted to

103say um uh I have heard um via the Internet from a few different families about Open Enrollment this year uh for people um whose students have individualized education plans or IEPs um I am a strong believer that bbsd should have in place practices that align with the state board rules on this topic and I'm not sure that we're there yet so I look forward to working with um the board and Dr Anderson uh so that we can move forward with policies that align with um the state's expectations for How We Do open enrollment for students with disabilities we have you know 35 to 40% per year of families who exercise open enrollment we have another 10% 12% we may lose to choose to not attend our schools and I think as long as we have

104a system with so much Choice going on uh we really need to make sure that those choices are open to all kids equally and uh the state board has waited on this um with uh expectations for how to handle the open enrollment of students with IEPs and I really think we need to make sure that we are making those decisions based on the kids individualized needs not blanket needs about where our staffing is that's what the state expects I think that's what we can rise to that challenge and I look forward to hearing more from uh Dr Anderson and staff about this over time but I really look forward to us um getting closer to living our ideals of making sure that the options we provide to our families of kids with disabilities are um

105on par with all the other options we provide everybody in the district so I just want to put that out there and I look forward to I will mention it prioritization later uh but I think it should be um something we turn to so that um as soon as we can we can improve the way we're doing it as a district seeing as there is no additional board comment we will move on to our one information item this evening board members which is the legislative update Dr Anderson I will let you take this away thank you board president Raj Paul $1.4 billion is the budget shortfall that our legislature will be wrestling with um over the past couple of weeks I've continued to engage um other superintendent other districts uh trying to get a handle

106and understand how this is going to impact all of us um you know it's it's really going to be tricky for us as as we head through this session not knowing where our budget may fall I will say that uh $1.4 billion is a lot of money um that they do not have the money to implement 1448 as it was sold to folks in the legislature and across the state of Colorado so now they're trying to adjust it uh there have been two technical amendments that have been pushed forward that were stopped uh that would have taken out the trigger language which says if um if you don't have the money to implement 1448 we go back to the old school Finance formula I think the benefit of that is we may get less money

107but we will still have a budget stabilization Factor so we can know and understand understand precisely the amount of money that is being proposed to be backed out of K12 education which is anywhere from $40 to $190 million if we push forward with 1448 or some new version of that that eliminates averaging and takes away the hold harmless and Spins it over a few more years uh that $190 million will be gone never to be seen again in k12 and so I think that many of our um professional organizations uh case casby cea are standing firm on this idea that you said you were going to implement 1448 you said you had the money go ahead and do it I just don't see that that there's any possible way that that happens so I'll continue

108to stay engaged I think this this is the topic that our community needs to be paying attention um to in this legislative session board members quite frankly we have been I've been engaging with our lobbyists and well-intentioned um uh Folks at the capital keep running bills our way to see what we think and my response is pretty much the same uh we have a budget issue we need to focus on that and anything that would require any fiscal note of any shape kind form no matter how good the idea we pass we need our delegation we need the entire legislature to focus on fixing this budget and holding K12 harmless like they said they would would when they decided last year to pass a new Finance formula what we said they didn't have the money

109for they said they did and so now uh we're in this place so that is all I'm focusing on uh and it's pretty clear-cut for us I'll continue to update the board in our community I will say um as we're preparing for our budget this next year um and I said this uh last year I think that our community needs to Bear be preparing for something very different the latest numbers that have come out have said that if if 1448 is rolled out with zero averaging then we lose $4.1 million that's 43 people I don't know what people where they're at I mean that's that's a lot of money and so as we get to start to roll out Staffing and start to do those those practices our team we are um looking to be

110incredibly conservative uh because we just don't know how much money we're we're going to have and we don't know when this will be settled so uh our team is working on that to develop a plan we will bring you a balanced budget that is my job um but it may take some things that we're not used to having to do here in bbsd to make that happen that's all I have for the legislative update thank you for that Dr Anderson focusing on the work and it is true I'll just add we do get requests for feedback on bills and we are pretty clear that if there's a fiscal note even if it's well- intended we're going to stay out of it and board members you will notice that on our legislative um list from policy

111matters there is one that we have decided to oppose because one of our members of our local delegation ran a bill with a fiscal note didn't ask us it doesn't really align with our principles and it does not align with the fact that if that we we need to fund education adequately before we continue to ask districts to fund more and provide more at this point so you will notice that oppose on one bill presently but otherwise we are just trying to stay out of the ones that we haven't already talked about PK accountability and um School Finance questions for Dr Anderson it's a tough session Alex yeah I was the specifics of the bill that had fiscal note that we're opposing it was a bill on um reporting digital some digital transparency juny Joseph

112ran it um I can't remember the fiscal note all the testimony that I can get the bill to you all the testimony that was provided was for grandparents for kids which is an interesting side note if you look into that um organization uh but it would require the school district and individual schools to provide notice of any links that are embedded in our um platforms from Publishers or things that we use um for digital media but I can get you that bill number I off the top of my head I don't recall okay seeing as there are no additional questions board members we'll move on to action items consent grouping 8.1 Personnel items 8.2 approval of minutes February 11th 2025 8.3 approval of minutes February 18th 20125 special meeting 8.4 batement at Boulder Tech campus

1138.6 approval of contract for nland High School track and field 8.7 purchase for fiscal year 26 Chromebooks 8.8 cancellation of the March 25th 2025 board meeting 8.9 contract Amendment for construction es esquea bingu Pioneer 8.10 contract with Bower Community Health for athletic trainers 8.11 final acceptance of Fairview High School tennis courts Bond funded work 8.12 Network equipment licensing 8.13 new Visa High School Construction contract change order 8.14 Tiff agreement Broomfield urban renewal Authority board members are there any um items you would like to pull from consent grouping seeing as there are none we need a motion to approve the items on this list before we can begin discussion move by Jorge seconded by lenia board members you have any questions or comments on any of these items um I just wanted to say kudos to

114the school district um the approval early approval of Chromebooks the foresight to think about how tariffs might impact our school district negatively and getting a PO in advance um of those tariffs coming to place saved us roughly $200,000 we do talk about how our Administration um our District staff really are stellar and like having the foresight to do that is just one other reason to to really highlight the work that they are doing um to support our students and their educational needs and our budget which we know is really challenging at this point so I just wanted to highlight that one Laura can you please call the role Chavez yes medler yes nnick yes Quin Lin NOA yes Raj Paul yes uner yes motion passes we will now move on to policy action items for

115this evening we have one policy action item the adoption of revised board policy kja distribution posting of non-curricular materials and retirement of kj- R is there a motion moved by lania seconded by Jason any discussion on this policy board members is there are none Laura can you please call the RO Chavez yes medler yes Nik yes Quin Lena yes Raj Paul yes uner yes motion passes board members next item this evening we have several policies to study um our first step into our policy review cycle which is really exciting for us um board members be as we as we get these larger chunks of policies coming to us from different chapters within our um board policies the process might look a little different might be a little bit more messy we might have a lot

116of board conversation in ways that we don't when we look at one policy at a time or we're you know we have have a lot of previous board discussion on a topic to really guide those discussions so I would anticipate tonight and evenings ahead as we look at several policies at a time um that ones that are not prioritized the board by the board the conversations might be more involved and so just wanted to put that out there for everybody's notice uh with that I am we will begin with board policy ECA access to facilities and I will turn it over to Kathleen for that presentation thank you board president Raj Paul we are really happy to be back um to review some items that have been prioritized for board study either because staff Advance

117them as things that we really need to clarify what our current practice is or because they are part of the board's policy maintenance review protocol that Chris breed um and I were able to share with you at an earlier work session so um I want to thank my our colleagues our coo Rob Price his team was up first on this policy maintenance work and did a really amazing job working with Chris to make sure that we efficiently took in that staff input and then we're able to turn this around and get it on a board agenda so as a person working within that new process I think um at least this first round has been a really positive experience so these first couple of policies we'll start with ECA ECA is an access to facilities

118policy this was one that just hadn't been touched since 2004 and a lot of things have changed around access to facilities so this was prioritized by staff what you have in front of you is a proposal to reduce the policies by eliminating the regulation and incorporating that content into the policy draft so this one really just addresses the expectations that the board would have around the security of that facility around how we're controlling access to that facility it's really a nice partner to board policy Ki which is the visitors to school policy that then talks about how principals and building administrators really um exercise their supervision and this is really more with the operations Focus the regulation that we're proposing to retire that I realized I didn't give the board as I typically would with

119an entire striketh through just had much more detailed cont content than we currently need around keys and access so this policy really expresses the board's belief that we expect that staff will act to make sure that our students and staff have secure safe um and appropriate facilities for their use that we control that access by all people seeking to use it while also balancing the fact that we do recognize that our fac facilities and buildings are an investment of our taxpayers and so this language just really tries to balance that need for secure safe and appropriate facilities with that Community interest me board members any questions on this policy or thoughts Jason yeah thanks um you know I understand it actually thank you for for kind of providing even more context that this is really

120coming from a kind of Safety and Security perspective um but I do you know I look at some of the language and it does seem a little bit kind of unnecessarily limiting and I know we've um I think we've talked about this and if not you know I think some of us have um expressed an interest in you know being a better or being kind of a a more um just better Partnerships with cities communities in accessing our schools and Facilities Athletic Field fields and obviously the priority like I said is in this policy is safety security the process but I I do worry that I look at the third paragraph it just says you know um shall be limited to Personnel whose work requires it and that just seems um you know I understand

121that and that I think that's should be our policy in some ways but I also want to make sure we leave space for those Partnerships down the road and maybe it's not in this policy um but I think it's a priority I think we have you know 56 soccer fields across our district and um you know for those parents who play soccer in Bolder like everyone goes to the same soccer field and it's crazy and why not seems like there's opportunities for better Partnerships to spread out some of those games and maybe potentially even as a revenue source for the district so um just want to make sure we don't limit ourselves too much with that language um understanding of course you know the priority here thank you for bringing that up Jason actually it

122was I'm going to piggyback um on that a little bit my concerns around the changes of this policy were similar in part because we change the title from buildings to facilities it is more encompassing but the inclusion of the word grounds not only our our flat field like our fields for sports our tracks our playgrounds our regular grass fields are used by members of our community rather consistently that they don't get permission in advance um they don't they're not necessarily affiliated with Community Schools and getting the permits you know the the jar joint use agreements and things of that nature and so how can that language be better reflected in here to understand that yes we want to make sure our our grounds are safe yes we there are probably some liability issues that we

123want to be aware of and our schools and our grounds and our facilities are taxpayer funded and so the use of tennis courts tracks Fields playgrounds that is an expectation of our community and something I don't think is our intent to take it away within this policy so balancing the language to reflect safety security and that Community interest would be great Alex yeah I'd go one step further um uh when we enacted our cell phone policy a tons of parents talked to us after they' read Jonathan he's book on the anxious generation and the cell phone banss are one part of that I enjoyed the other part of the book which was getting at the lack of unstructured time for our children and youth and how great it is uh that we live in such

124a wonderful place for kids can play outside and do such cool stuff and at the meantime uh the policy I think Jason and Nicole are hitting on the right spot entirely when we deal with our grounds and our facilities uh I would like all our playgrounds to be open to kids before school I'd like them to be open the kids after school and on the weekend um and I think we can balance safety and the responsible use of those facilities by actually encouraging children to play on playgrounds and encouraging children um to play soccer in our Fields uh and teenagers to hang out on the weekend um sit on our swings and talk so um I'd like to include something in the next version of this that speaks to our affirmative desire for our community

125to use our facilities and for children to be able to enjoy our playgrounds in unstructured and unsupervised time even and I realize that that's radically different from the direction that this is going from but I think our playgrounds are paid for by all our community and that we can balance safety while also encouraging kids to have free time to play in a playground after school um rather than being taken to their by their parents to one of those expensive competitive Sports we were talking about earlier in the meeting so I'd like to see this um not just anticipate that somebody might play in a playground but that we'd actually love it if they would and that we should figure out our schools having an affirmative interest in the children at the schools playing and the

126people in the community enjoying our facilities and I don't know what the other regulation was was like but like I'm I'm interested in moving this um Beyond this to support and affirm kids playing on playgrounds molia Alex you just beat me to it yes I agree with that and I also agree um I might not put the word unsupervised in there specifically but I do really agree that we need to encourage the use of our outdoor spaces for all of our kiddos um after school hours and on weekends I also would like to put a plugin for having our signage reflect whatever we come up with because I've seen signage at different schools um some of it being so far as to say no don't come on our playground so I just would like our

127signage to reflect whatever our policy is that we come up with I actually have a question relating to this conversation um you know it is the unfortunate fact that for example one of our turf fields kids regularly light fireworks off of and can and melt and damage the turf um it is the case that you know graffiti happens on our playgrounds and it it relates to a policy coming up so it's balancing this um and we're are talking about the video and surveillance but do we have are do we have surveillance and we have surveillance outside of our buildings but that might capture some of the places where there is destruction with some regular Cadence to our facilities that we might might be a way to mitigate some of some of these things um I

128did also one time see a fight club in GaGa ball pits so it's not like all of the use of our facilities is for the is positive um and so I do want to be mindful of that and the liability and the actual real cost and have it be open in particularly in ways that are supervised and age appropriate and are using the facility as in as intended um so I don't know that if we can answer that today but it is a question I do have whether if it's for this policy or the video surveillance policy um that that's a question that's lingering for me I think we can take a look at that and I appreciate the board's stance on um our schools being centers of community uh there is risk for sure

129right um but there's risk if kids go to any park or they're by themselves and and uh and so I think that that's that's just kind of um you know part of letting kids be unsupervised and play uh so our team will look at it uh if there's any massive liabilities that we see we'll share those with the board and to the extent that we want to that those things still allow us to move forward then then then we're happy to do that uh but yeah we'll check we'll check with the team on this on I think it's site specific like we didn't develop those um surveillance systems for this purpose but they may some may and some may not and maybe there's certain facilities where the the cost to to um replace or the

130the likelihood of uh of damage is higher we we can get that information too all though thanks for that Alex you're muted Alex one other issue as you look into it I might um suggest in include in that is um our playgrounds at the elementary schools that house uh preschool programs because I know there's likely licensing requirements for the preschool to have a protected space that's separate for the three and four year-olds and I think um one of the reasons the sign popped up at Community Monas in my neighborhood I think was because their their preschool after school program went quite late so they were like hey the whole place is closed so we're done at 5:30 whereas the actual area that the preschoolers staying after needed was a quite small and discret part of

131it so I think understanding what's what's the actual usage over different times including for our preschool and after school area in our elementary schools is part of that discussion and that we don't want to get the protection of three or four yearolds in a tiny playground leading to the enclosure of an entire campus so I would just add that to the analysis board members any there questions or thoughts on this policy thank you for these initi redlines Kathleen the next policy we have on for study this evening is board policy ecaf use of audio and video surveillance yes so uh board members I realize I did not send you an email explaining that this ecaf that is not presented in Red Line it did not present it in red line for the board though most

132of this language was pulled from other policies and regulations and Consolidated when we looked at this policy around video and audio surveillance and monitoring it was sort of mixed in within access to facilities so disentangling those was a bit of a challenge um the language that's truly new in this policy the last sentence about um not subjecting students to monitoring facial recognition location tracking that's obviously more modern language that's not from 2018 um and then the remainder we are taking again the regulation we are reducing some of the unnecessary detail and the proposal is to consolidate all of the language about where the uh video and audio monitoring is placed how it is used how that information is stored and managed and then how families um or other individuals can access video recordings when appropriate

133to do so so we wanted to put all of that content into one place so that our staff and families can better understand our overall approach to this issue thank you for that overview board members questions or thoughts on this policy I have the policy outlines um a minimum amount of time that the video footage will be maintained sort of like with our board meeting footage um similar policy about timeline there's never a maximum identified do you have an idea about a maximum and is there benefit for outlining that is there or not is there a benefit of you know clearing clearing that data um the recordings after a certain amount of time or not so that is something that actually changes a fair amount the cost of storing video is actually extremely high um

134and the length of time that we will keep something does sometimes vary for example we still have in place a litigation hold related to the Marshall fire because we're involved in litigation so there are times when we have to hold on to something much longer than you would expect I also think that it can be difficult to fully establish that routine of eliminating unnecessary records including audio and video sometimes when we're really working on very active issues that task of deleting or recording over or no longer storing may take a minute to get to so we don't want to violate policy simply by prioritizing other maybe more s safety sensitive tasks the minimum storage time frame is intended to notify both both law enforcement Community Partners and Families how much time they have to request

135that video before it will be naturally eliminated or recorded over so that was really the purpose of making sure we put the minimum in without a maximum thank you for clarifying that board members has other questions on this policy I really appreciate the condensing of policies so thank you for doing that seeing as there are no further questions or feedback on the video surveillance policy we will move on to board policy ebce school closings and delays thank you again this was a policy and regulation that was prioritized by staff to bring um to streamline the guidance and to clarify and align it with current practice so this policy addresses school closings due to inclement weather or some other sort of emergency it is unrelated to sort of planning around enrollment and how we use um

136buildings or operate schools so this is specific to that operations perspective and it also includes then the the delayed start which we do know in Colorado that we um that we need to use it sometimes Friday had 8 in driving in and no snow going home it's amazing um originally we had some discussion about trying to put a real detail into an exhibit or some other part of the policy ultimately when I got into the drafting I thought that that would really limit its usability by our staff and by families who find themselves then having to click open multiple policies on our website in order to access all of the information so I do see that this one does include a little bit more detail than some of our higher level board policies but as

137the board knows from your email school closings and delays are a very big deal in Colorado and it's the staff recommendation that we do move forward with the level of detail proposed in this policy board members any questions or comments on this policy which we touch with rather frequent Cadence I feel like this policy gets tweaked regularly just checking there's no board desire to take this over no no double checking you okay all right I have a question same same idea on page two both under um Mountain schools and prek program we do list specific schools by name I I wonder generally I think think for policy longevity not including the names of specific schools we are on declining enrollment who knows or maybe ilc programs will open up in different facilities or so I

138wonder if there's rather than calling out the specific school names I mean even for Mountain communities saying schools in the communities of Netherland Jamestown Gold Hill rather than those specific schools for the preschool ilc programs just leaving at preschool ilc and removing the two specific schools in case that changes we don't have to come back and revisit board policy just to make sure the school name aligns that's just um something I consistently look for and so if it's at the um District staff agree with that one I would um put forth that suggestion anything else board members jge and as a part of that do we want to include the lifelong learning also like just after school programming just not to make it more General ALS for any of that stuff moving right along we

139will discuss board policy fa FB facilities goals and planning so the f chapter is on our policy maintenance review cycle the board currently has eight policies and regul ations in this area a lot of them are um have been it's been a long time since we looked at those so uh the package that we've put together there are two policies for the board to review tonight we are working on a third that would be the sort of real estate transactions around facilities which I think is an important topic we're getting some additional legal advice on that one so we're here tonight to study two the first would be really the big overarching policy in this chapter so this is Fab and in this policy the board establishes facility goals and expectations for the facility planning

140process so this is relatively high level and you can see that um again I apologize board members I didn't put in board policy FEA which is one that will be retired it really includes the detailed educational specifications we're moving away from embedding those in board policy and really identifying goals and the planning process to accompany the board um advisory El committee so that our focus is really on uh strategic planning and use of facilities and not prescribing level of detail that you will see in rfps and really construction planning documents Alex yeah um I guess I would like to see uh in the next version of this some reference to our um uh green planning and our resolution for climate change um uh and the goals board members any other questions or feedback on this

141policy I will say I really appreciate the fact that it C that this policy codifies and articulates our need to continue to with a regular rhythm assess our facility needs that deferred M looking at deferred maintenance is really important it is a big fiscal responsibility of this board so having that in there I think is really helpful um and I so I appreciated that addition there um other things that I was thinking about I mean yeah Capital Improvement needs that the running list of ongoing maintenance it's really important for our community to understand that that is there is a process behind that and it's not necessarily nitpicky but we we have a process that outlines um how that will occur and when that will occur Jason I just have a very uh small question on

142in number one uh just the term efficiently hous first of all maybe we could find other ways to talk about that but um just the the phrase permanent facilities is that as opposed to Temporary kind of portable facilities or what um I'm not aware of that we have a lot of that but what what is what's the logic behind including the word permanent some of that language I believe comes from the casby sample I agree with you I think that that frankly I just think it could have more modern language which is one of the challenges when we're studying some of these policies that are a little bit older so um I don't honestly know that there's intent behind that language that would be important to preserve so I think we could update that anything

143else board members I have a feeling we might end up having to see these policies in action you know down the road so it's good that we're getting a a preview now when we don't have any decisions to be actually made other than the policy itself so then the last policy for us to study tonight is board policy FF naming of facilities so in keeping with the other two policies we just reviewed or discussed here we were modernizing the language looking to streamline this again was a policy and a regulation and a topic that is important but in this case I did leave that regulation we proposing to retire shown in the struck through red lines on the second page and you can see that it had a lot of detail about committees and who

144does what and what happens first I think we're learning in the modern age that it's important to establish the board's principles here but that the actual process itself may depend on exactly what is being named so that we need those important board guidance in this area but we are able to reduce the content down just to one policy without a regulation that dictates a specific process Jason um I just have a question on the um I guess it's in the third paragraph um uh name a facility after a person that has made a significant educational contribution to their school um do we I I'm glad we took out the earlier language about an economic benefit that the contribu or the naming um individuals had provided but um I don't know is that is that limiting

145is that I guess I don't know what my question is exactly but I think um what if we just take out that made a significant educational contribution but just you know after a person schools sorry schools periodically desire to name an area of their facility after a person um yeah I don't know what my questions I just I find that language a little bit like strange it's limiting it's uh um what if there's other things that they contributed besides educational you know I mean I don't know I I feel like that's limiting sorry I don't know what my question is exactly but I I think the intent of that language was to try and separate out what might be a sponsorship or something that would show up in our K policies around third parties and

146revenue sort of like the community use language so I believe that that language is intended to dis distinguish from the donation as opposed to a you know a contribution but that is currently so because it shows up in that black uh font here that is language that's in our existing policy but I do not disagree that it could be improved I agree it feels kind of odd when I read it as well I was like okay what does this mean I'm glad we got rid of the economic benefit portion but this also felt limiting in some way I totally see what you're saying saying M sorry have no nothing to offer just hoping that we can maybe make that better I think the third paragraph stood out to me as well and I was thinking

147about in the UNC decoupling of the sponsorships which potentially could have some signage and then naming of these facilities and one of the questions that I have is what are we trying to prevent like are we trying to prevent you know a part of a facility from being named after an All-American athlete are we trying to name prevent the naming what are we trying to not like what where would we want to limit a naming in a situation that might be have unintended consequences or reverberations in the community maybe what when we thinking through that we can help better figure out better we can find better language for that third paragraph of who might be we be able to name facilities for if it's not significant educational um contributions and so that's how what are

148we trying to prevent and what are we trying to allow if the staff can provide some guidance there Jorge yeah back to that third paragraph it is a little awkward in places and as you noted that there's no process for naming any smaller areas in a school but it dictates a process for naming a school and I don't know if we want to go into that level of detail to address that issue um and and it says major areas of school so I guess guess you can't have like a locker named after me or something it's got to be something big I don't know if that's something want I consider as well in terms of language Locker right like I think of Sundance is coming to town if they want to give us a lot

149of money just lots and lots of money to update all of our theaters could they be the Sundance Theater I don't know might be a sponsorship though Alex I see your hand up well yeah I was I was gonna say I don't think we should totally rule out sponsorships I mean I think that's part of the other discussion we've had about activity fees and stuff I would also add um yeah on that third paragraph uh I spent a lot of time as grad student eating at the Alfred eacker uh you know Grill at CU so I even appreciate naming things for a good sense of humor um even if it is a culinary contribution to the school board members any other questions or feedback for board policy FF um I think the question from the

150Das is when we going to see these again that's set the will of Staff you might have a return on some easier easier edits sooner rather than if it takes more significant edits but if you can answer that now great if not they can come back to us I don't I I think that there is not a ton of legal research to be done certainly some as we talked about the access to facilities playgrounds that would involve a little research I think we had identified that we wanted these to come back in March so that means you will see them again on March 11th we would expect at that time that we should have the other the final proposed F policy which would address the real estate transactions as well thank you for that moving

151on to our final agenda item for this evening board members it is that time when we um are able to bring up items we'd like to add to the list for our next board priorization meeting which will be coming up this spring board members are there any items you would like to prioritize I see Alex's hand up yeah I just wanted to follow up on the statement I made earlier I'm interested in us talking through our open enrollment policy for students with IEPs Jason um you know what I thought this was already on our list I know this came up in the conversation around cell phones but um just the kind of agenda item with Chromebooks and that um has prompted um I I would love to be have a kind of overall review of

152our technology policy Chromebook use outside you know computer use um and I think I thought like I said I thought we had discussed that during the cell phone discussion but I don't see it on our list except for kind of followup on cell phone so I'd like to maybe have a broader more expansive conversation on technology any other items board members seeing as there are none that concludes our business for this evening and board members we are aded e