001Welcome, St. Brandy Valley School Board of Education meeting from March 11, 2026. Please stand if you're able and join us in the Pledge of Allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Okay Christy, would you please call the roll? Sure. Mrs. Babs? Present. Mr. Berthold? Present. Mrs. Gilligan? Absent. Mrs. Horanek? Here. Mr. Lechuga? Here. Mrs. Solomon? Here. Mrs. Weiss? Here. Thank you. Are you ever any changes to the agenda? No, I am not. Welcome everybody. This meeting is being streamed on our website where a recording will also be available. If our live audience would please be sure to device notifications are silenced with great appreciated. The meeting is being translated in
002Spanish and headsets are available for anyone in our audience that would like them. I'll begin tonight's meeting with our district commission statement to educate each student in a safe learning environment so that they may develop to their highest potential and become contributing citizens. This mission provides clarity to our purpose and our focused leaders may all make all decisions within this context. This evening we have a special guest with us. Our student advisory council representative Destiny Duran from LaunchEd. Welcome Destiny. Do you mind introducing yourself and telling us a little bit about you? Sure. So I'm Destiny. I am a junior in high school and I go to LaunchEd Virtual Academy. Some things that I've done is student council. I've taken many CETC classes and I'm currently in the CNA program and hopefully I pass my
003CNA exam after clinicals and my exam in April and May. I've also recently just did HOSA with the CETC and that was super fun and then also I was just nominated for the National Technical Honor Society and then other than that after high school I plan on going into pediatric nursing. Great. Super. Wow. Got more ambition than I have right now. So we start with audience participation. Well we're going to do visitors first. Okay. Dina. Dr. Capuchin and school board members, thank you for the opportunity tonight to celebrate Abby Martinez, choir teacher at Erie Middle School for her recent award The Best Should Teach. This prestigious award recognizes K-12 teachers who demonstrate exceptional pedagogy, foster inclusive learning communities, and show a deep commitment to mentoring the next generation of educators. The CU Boulder School of
004Education sponsors this annual recognition of outstanding educators. And I recently, come on up here Abby, I recently had the honor of watching Ms. Martinez in the Tiger Lily Choir perform at CMEA and the performance was nothing short of exceptional. I was so moved by the talent of our students, the range of their abilities, and the energy and choreography of the performance. Thank you so much Abby for all you give to this program and all of our students and families at Erie Middle School. Joining me tonight to help recognize Ms. Martinez are Janae Bird, director of Fine Arts, performing arts and PE, and Dr. Andrea Smith, principal of Erie Middle School who would also like to comment on some of the fantastic things that Abby has done for us. Thank you. Hello everyone. I am honored
005to be here tonight to speak on behalf of Abby Martinez. Abby was hired for her first teaching job out of college at Erie Middle School in 2010, where she began with just 75 students in choir. I followed her footsteps a year later when I was hired at Erie High School for my first teaching job and I still remember driving away from that interview when CR5 turned into a dirt road thinking, where am I? And then thinking, oh well, if Abby is my feeder school, I know this place will be great and it was great and is great. Abby and her work at Erie Middle School are a prime example of how a middle school program directly impacts the success of a high school program. She has built a choir community that is inclusive and fun
006but also has very high expectations and they continue to surpass every goal that they set. As you may know, over the years Abby has consistently exemplified excellence in her classroom. Her students make up a large percentage of our district represented at Allstate and this year her program earned the distinction of performing at the Colorado Music Educators Association Conference. As a music director, a key indicator of excellence in the music community is when your colleagues trust and respect you enough to invite you to lead their students in their district honor choirs and all state events and you're probably familiar with how we do that in St. Vrain too. And Abby has been invited to direct more than 12 honor choirs and festivals across Colorado and next year she'll even be directing one out of state. That
007is a tremendous honor and a clear reflection of the respect that she has earned from her colleagues across the profession. But what I think truly makes Abby special is the culture she has built in her choir room. Every student is included and every student finds a connection point to choir which is why so many stay involved year after year. Abby encourages students to try, to take risks, and to understand that it's safe to fail and keep trying. In her classroom students learn that growth comes from effort and perseverance and they don't give up when they don't have immediate success. And the last point I want to share is the impact that Abby has had on our district. Not only does she serve on our music leadership team and generously share her wisdom with her colleagues,
008she has also mentored and served as a cooperating teacher for many student teachers over the years. In fact, three of our current eight high school choir directors were student teachers at Erie Middle School with Abby. Her influence doesn't stop there. She has several former students that have pursued pursued music or a teaching career largely because of their experience in Abby's class. One of these former students is in her first-year teaching choir right here in St. Vrain, Michaela Schindler, the choir and theater teacher at Trail Ridge Middle School and I'd like to share a quote from her to wrap things up. Abby has made a lasting impact on my life as a music educator. She inspired me to pursue music throughout middle school which deepened my love for the art and ultimately led me to become
009a music teacher too. I still think back to my middle school choir days and share some of the things I learned from Abby with my own students. Her influence reaches far beyond her own classroom and will continue to ripple through future generations. I'm lucky to have her as a role model and I'm grateful for the ways she helped shape who I am today. Thank you for the opportunity to share the impact that Abby has not only had on myself but so many other teachers, students, and members of our community. Abby, we are grateful for your drive to be great, your instinct to inspire, and your patience while you work with middle school students. Congratulations. I know this is Abby's favorite when everyone celebrates her, right? All right, good evening. Thank you for having us tonight.
010My name is Andrea Smith and I'm so excited to join you in celebrating this amazing educator and person. Abby Martinez is an outstanding teacher. She's built a program rooted in high expectations, care, and joy. She challenges students to perform at a professional level while creating a space where they feel supported, confident, and inspired. Students come to her class each day and they have fun together but they also work hard and focus to collaborate to be a part of something they deeply care about. While the public sees all the big performances, concerts, and awards, we know that behind the scenes the real magic comes from the little moments that Abby pays such a close attention to. The little moments that help our middle schoolers feel cared for, valued, appreciated, and loved. It's not just about the
011repertoire and the vocal development, it's about the sense of belonging which is evident the second that you walk into her classroom. It's a welcome mat that you see before you even enter the room that says so happy you're here. A sign on the door that all students see when they walk in that says today I will be strong, brave, kind, and unstoppable. Today I will be fierce. A bulletin board with class pictures and it's hard to fit all the students into one picture that says the best part of my classroom is who I share it with. A canvas that says let's be weird and wonderful together. Large letters on the wall that say sing loud, sing proud. And my favorite is a sign on the exit door that says you belong here. But most of
012all a deeply dedicated, highly skilled, and profoundly enthusiastic teacher at the front of the room. An adult who truly cares about our students and gives so much of herself each day and makes Erie Middle School a better place to be. It's my pleasure to introduce Miss Abby Martinez as we celebrate her and the amazing things she does each day. Abby, when you retire I retire right? Come on up. Thank you so much to each of you for the introduction and thank you so much for the invitation tonight. It has been a really big year. The work that we've done here I've been thinking about all of the things that go into it and the work we've done here is only possible because of those who lift and love our student musicians. When I look around
013I recognize so many faces from community events and it is clear that in our district support for the arts isn't just shown through budgets or logistics which are important but through presence. I want to thank Dr. Capuchin, Dr. Perfetti-Dini, district administration, and the board. To put it simply you show up. You show up at concerts, performances, and community events and that presence sends a powerful message to students and teachers that our work matters. I'm so lucky to be surrounded by exceptional music teachers. My middle school choir cohorts are some of the best in the state and my eerie middle and high school colleagues especially Susan Mounts my accompanist keep me laughing and keep me grounded every single day but the real heroes in music education are elementary teachers especially the eerie feeder teachers who pour
014passion and create the foundation in our students that allow us to take them to the next level. Dr. Smith didn't know it but she has become the ultimate choir groupie this year probably way more than she ever expected she would need to in this job but she has shown up for our kids every step of the way. She truly loves our kids and if you haven't seen her expert dismount from a unicycle during seventh grade traffic you're really missing out. Her devotion to them, her trust in me, and the belief in our program have allowed all of us to flourish. I have never felt more supported as an educator. I could go on and on for hours about how Janay's work as fine arts director has impacted our district. Janay leads in excellence through example.
015She mentors teachers, advocates for fair pay for accompanists and support staff, creates meaningful opportunities for us to grow, and countless other ways. She, Chase McBride, and Melissa Lehman have helped make St. Rain the most sought-after district for music teachers in Colorado. I often joke that I could give an entire series of TED talks about why choir students are going to save the world. I truly cannot imagine a better way to spend my days than with these young, brilliant, messy, and kind humans. This recognition truly belongs to them. Thank you again for this honor. I'm incredibly grateful to be part of a district and community that believes in its students, supports its teachers, and understands that when young people learn to make music together they also learn how to lead, listen, lead, and belong. Thank you
016so much. Any board members have any questions or statements? I just want to say thank you as a parent of kids in this district who have all participated in choir since elementary school. I have been so rewarded by their participation and that wouldn't have happened without inspiring teachers like you. And I think that the other thing that I just want to say that I love about choir is the diversity in the classroom that every kid really is welcome there and finds a place to belong. And I just, I really appreciate it. I'm glad you are recognized for creating that space and I really appreciate all of the work that goes into that at the district level as well. Thank you. Thank you. So thank you so much Abby. I've been to I think all of
017the, maybe one, I think I missed one, of the middle school choir, all state choir concerts. And when I first went to that concert I didn't know what to expect but I was totally blown away and amazed that young people can belt out the notes that they do. It's so amazing. And then they do it in like I think two days. So all together. So that's truly amazing. It's a testament to all of the choir directors that help those students and particularly to you because I know you lead that organization. And it's a testament to your leadership and what you do every day. I've seen you in action with the kids from time to time and how you just, you can see the excitement and what you exude to the children, the students. So I
018thank you so much and I'm so proud of you for this award that you're receiving. You're so worthy of it and you're totally valued by everyone here. So thank you. Thank you. So once upon a time I had the pleasure of being one of Abby's colleagues and I just wish that you could bottle what you have and distribute it to teachers everywhere. When you walk into Abby's classroom it is like experiencing Disney World for the first time when you're a teacher, truly. And this is a little untraditional but I thought perhaps, you know, performer to performer, just going to put you on the spot, if you might teach everyone the eerie cheer. It's such a fun tradition that you have and you're known at Allstate for that cheer. Would you be willing? Sure. I'll cheer
019back. Okay so I'm going to say eerie eerie eerie and you're going to say oi oi oi. And this is how I get their attention. Is that, do you want this thing loud? The whole thing? Just the eerie eerie. All right. Eerie eerie eerie. Oh yeah that's what I mean about the magnetism of this brilliant educator before us. So many traditions that other teachers at other schools across the state see and think oh maybe I should try that. You're a leader in our field and I'm so glad that you have this recognition. Well congratulations. Except that's a simple question. I saw you coming in. Do you have family with you? I do. My children are here. Could they stand up so we can celebrate them too? You have something? I do. Abby, I want to
020say it is just like a humble leader to give it all away but truly you need to own what you have brought to this district and what you've brought to the lives of children and I want to thank you for loving other people's children the way that you love your own. So thank you for being in St. Brang. And can we get a picture? I was going to say the next thing is a picture so bring your children up. Yep bring your children. So we can get a picture with them too. You have to have somebody looks good in the picture. All right we're going to schedule now. I gotta look at it again. Do we have any, nobody scheduled for speaking? Is there anybody in the audience who would like to make a statement
021tonight to the board? No it looks not clear so we'll move on to our superintendent's report. Great thank you. It has been a fabulous couple of weeks in St. Brang. Last Saturday at the Future Ready event we had anywhere from 1,500 to 2,000 people who visited us. I want to thank the group that planned that amazing event. We're going to bring them forward to the board in the next couple of weeks so that we can recognize them as well. And I want to thank all of you for being there. It was, we didn't have a big turnout for our sessions but that's okay because they were there to see the schools and the students. And I'm always happy to be available to people but also very happy to see people so engaged with our kids
022and our programs. So that was a fabulous event. I want to congratulate Silver Creek High School. They are in the semi-finals for state basketball for boys and they play tomorrow at 12 45 which is very very exciting and if they win they play again on Saturday. Also we had a statewide job fair held at Frederick High School. We had a lot of, we had about 500 teacher participants for the entire job fair and we got a very large number of those to interview with us and we collected a lot of resumes and it was a very successful event. It's the largest job fair in the state. Frederick High School did a fabulous job supporting that. The staff there, the custodial staff and all of our support staff and our HR team put on an amazing
023event and hosted an amazing event. So thank you to that group. And then also we had a large VEX Robotics tournament at Erie High School over the weekend. Robotics in general continues to be alive and well. And then last night we had a middle school honor orchestra at Frederick High School. So it's just been a really fun fun couple of weeks in our district. Very productive and we need to all put our seatbelts on because that is what April and May and part of June look like. It looks like the last two weeks and we will have no shortage of amazing things to celebrate at the end of the year. So I look forward to that. But before that we get a little bit of a spring break. Get a little bit of a break
024so that we can rest and be ready to go. So I hope everybody has a great spring break especially those in our classrooms and in our schools who work so hard every day to meet the needs of 33,000 children. With that I will stop. Thank you. Thank you. Okay now we move on to reports. First up is the DTS cybersecurity report. A lot of familiar faces there. Lots of familiar faces. While they're getting set up for projection members of the board and Dr. Kaputian thank you so much for the opportunity to share an update on our work in district technology services and the work we do to support and enrich education across the district. Tonight you're going to hear from our information security team led by John Walker who will share information on our cybersecurity
025efforts and the ways that we ensure that the systems and data that are used by our students and staff are both protected and safe. And I'm also excited to share that one member of the team that you'll hear from tonight is one of four apprentices from our P-TECH program in St. Rain who works as a full-time member of our DTS staff and our apprentices serve for 12 to 18 months in full-time paid positions as they begin their career journey in IT. In district technology services we're proud to support the innovation and the amazing work of our teachers and staff across the district and as you hear from the team tonight you'll hear more about our three priorities in DTS. Supporting modern systems, ensuring our work builds empowered users, and providing access to data and information
026that brings actionable insights that guide our work district-wide. And with that I'd like to hand it over to John Walker to introduce his team and share more about their work. Thank you for that introduction Michelle. I appreciate the opportunity to speak about our cyber security program here at the district and the progress we've made over the last five years. I think it's important to start with the purpose of our cyber security team and that is the St. Rain Valley Schools Information Security Team diligently safeguards the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of district information for our staff, students, and community ensuring a secure and empowering educational environment. Over the last five years we have accomplished quite a bit and we use these values that you have on the screen here to kind of guide our work. Some
027of the major accomplishments we've had over the last five years is we've stood at multi-factor authentication, secure immutable backups, email security, device and identity protection tools, security awareness training, as well as other tools designed to protect the district. With that introduction I'd like to welcome up the rest of my team so I can do their introductions. Start in order of seniority, Patrick Conaway. He's our information security architect. He's been with our district about four years and he's a Skyline or Skyline graduate and then I'd like to also welcome up Alexia Blackwood. She's been with our department two and a half years and our most recent hire on the information security team is Bea. She's a Skyline grad as well as a P-Tech grad in our program. I'd like to have Bea speak a little bit
028about their P-Tech journey and what a day in life was like as an apprentice and then Patrick's going to speak some of the stats and tools that we use to protect the district and then lastly I'll give you an update on our resiliency project that we started a couple years ago. With that I'll turn it over to Patrick. Hello my name is Bea and I am the information security team's apprentice. I graduated in 2020 from here in the district at Skyline High School and I was lucky enough to be a part of the very first P-Tech cohort during my time there. When P-Tech was first starting out it was very rough but smoothed out more and more as time went on because my cohort was known as the trailblazers or the guinea pigs depending on
029who you asked. We all learned to adapt and grow in uncharted waters. While I did learn technical skills from the P-Tech program it also helped to shape me as a person along with my interests today. For example my P-Tech internship was with IBM's X-Force Red team. Red meaning the attacking side in cybersecurity terms. I spent six weeks training to become an ethical hacker and I loved every minute of it. I knew I wanted to pursue the cybersecurity field and after graduating and pursuing more schooling I landed myself a position as an apprentice for the information security team here at DTS. I start my day out with looking at what alerts we got overnight in our security consoles. Our security consoles are pretty important because they can give us information that leads us to find a
030compromised account or malware on one of our devices. Luckily our systems prevent most of these but occasionally we do have to handle some that slip through. I follow that up with going through my email as most people do at work. Going through my email usually leads me to go into our ticketing system and updating and closing anything that needs it along with looking at new tickets. After all those tasks are done I spend some time doing threat intelligence and seeing what sort of cybersecurity events are happening out in the world today. Not only do I focus on cybersecurity threats I also catch up on things that go on in other school districts as well. This helps me to learn and stay up to date with current events. Occasionally I'll have to occasionally I'll have a
031few tasks given to me to work on that usually relate to a project my team has like our cybersecurity audits and cybersecurity awareness training campaigns. After that I'm free to do my learnings and trainings for certifications I'm working towards. Currently I'm working on my Microsoft SC900 which is just learning security compliance and identity fundamentals. I've gotten three certifications in my time here so far and this is the last one I need for my first year here. These certifications have been super important in my day-to-day processes and have helped me grow in this field so that I understand what is actually happening and not relying on others to do the work for me. In my remaining time with the district I'm planning to learn much more about cybersecurity and other fields while also growing my skills
032in these areas. I found it's very important to have skills in more than one area when working anywhere but especially in IT and I'm hoping that after I finish my apprenticeship there will be a job open for me here in the district preferably as an analyst but if not I'd still like to find a job in cybersecurity elsewhere. Thank you for taking the time here to learn about cybersecurity and the work that my team does or our team does here in the district. I'd like to hand it off to Patrick now. Thank you. Yeah thank you Bea and thank you guys for the time that you're spending learning about cybersecurity and how it relates to the district this evening. I'd personally like to give a few minutes giving an update around some of the threats
033that the district faces and I typically prefer to use statistics just because I'm a spreadsheet person so I'll just be throwing out some numbers there for you as well. All of these numbers I'm giving you are for the last 90 days for the district so since this early December time frame. The biggest threat that we see today is around phishing emails. In the last 90 days we've blocked over 76,000 of these phishing emails. These emails typically range from principal impersonation attacks to fake job offers for students promising obscene salaries for two hours of work a week. Our tools typically are over 99.93 percent effective at stopping these kinds of attacks but we are working to help improve its effectiveness and make sure that we don't accidentally catch emails that are actually legitimate. We recognize no
034tool will be 100 percent and so we want to just make sure that we do the best job that we can safeguarding the district. The threats that we see also aren't just emails that we receive in phishing emails but we also see a lot of spoofed email attempts. So in the last 90 days we've seen over 63,000 spoofed email attempts that were blocked by our email security systems and I would like to give a huge shout out to our system administrator team that helps us ensure that those systems are working and operating as efficiently as possible. Because no tool is ever effective we do have a lot of incidents that we work through on a daily basis. Thank you Bee for working through all of those incidents on a daily basis. In the last 90
035days we've actually handled over 1,100 security incidents inside of our security tools. So as you can imagine those kind of stack up and they typically arise from a variety of different factors. As you heard from Bee compromised student account passwords is a very common attack that we see and we also see impersonation attempts and malware installed onto our district devices. Typically our tools are effective at stopping it before it happens but we do occasionally need to go in and remediate those kinds of things. Another tool I would like to discuss tonight is around our web content filter. As you all may know over the summer DTS, specifically the information security team, in partnership with district and school leadership went through the RFP process to select a new web content filter tool and as with any
036tool there's been some bumps getting it implemented and we have made sure that we are trying to fine tune it as carefully as possible. So we just wanted to reiterate tonight that we are dedicated to handling any requests that we get from staff or teachers if that system isn't operating as expected and we work really hard to make sure that it empowers our teachers to have a productive educational environment. In the last 90 days we've dealt with over 130 of those requests and this school year we've dealt with over 500 of those requests as well. Finally I just wanted to quickly chat about a specific kind of threat that we've seen recently just to give a peek behind the curtains of the myriad of threats that we see and I wanted to talk about a
037threat called typo squatting. So typo squatting is basically where a threat actor will register a website or domain name that is intentionally super similar to our domain name. So for example svvst.com versus svvst.org may be registered and then used so that way if someone's trying to type in our website they may accidentally type the wrong website and get sent somewhere strange. In January we saw this exact thing happen with one of the services that the Colorado Department of Education uses. This one is called Panorama Ed and as you can see our teachers were sent in snail mail a letter with a URL to type into their URL browser for panoramaed.com and it turns out that there are over 40 typo squatted domains. The example I'm showing here is replacing the A with a Q. I
038would not recommend going to that Q website it will take you somewhere bad and we actually had staff members mistype that and that's how we actually found this. Thankfully our firewall systems knew that it's a malicious site and blocked them actually from visiting the site afterwards. So these are the sorts of attacks that we see affecting K-12 broadly as a whole and we are really lucky and we really enjoy being part of information sharing groups that help us share and understand what's going on in the broader world and so we use a group called K-12-6 which is the K-12 Security Information Exchange and they have been instrumental in helping us keep our ear to the ground in new vulnerabilities or hacks or problems that we're seeing in the cyber security world just to make sure
039that we are aware and can help safeguard the district's data. We will continue to invest our time and resources just to make sure that we have what's needed in place to safeguard our data and our systems and I just wanted to wrap it all the way back through with our mission statement I think is really important to us. So every day we're here to help protect our students and our staff and make sure that we're not a barrier but we're here to enable them. So thank you again for the opportunity and I would like to pass it back to John to do this resiliency update. Okay so in the 23-24 school year we had a near miss with our data center over at Clover Basin and it was at the time we kind of determined
040that was a single point of failure. If that event had gotten to the point that we had to shut down the data center we would have lost all connectivity in the district. That includes not just network access or wireless or internet. It also includes phones, building automations, door controls of all those types would have been impacted by this outage. So we started an endeavor to see what we could do to make our network more resilient. During that process we identified Meade High School as a location for a secondary data center. The primary reason for choosing Meade High School is its location to the in-city and out-of-city rings. As part of that process we began the site work. We got the construction done at that site. Thank you for Brian's team for that work and we
041ran about two and a half miles of fiber to connect the two in-city and out-of-city rings. So I'm happy to report that phase one is complete. We are moving on to phase two which is the commissioning of the equipment. Once that's done we'll go to go live and we'll start doing some failover testing. I am happy to report that on the phase one we've actually already had one incident that occurred that gave us a little more resiliency. We had some fiber cut on the out-of-city school ring and due to that work that we did that school never even knew that there was an outage. We were able to stay up and continue working and doing the teaching and learning that our instructors tried to do. I wanted to show you some photos so you can
042see the progress of what the Meade High data center looks like. Primarily everything you see in these photos is our network and fiber equipment. The network goes out is done and a great appreciation and shout out to our network team. Really appreciate their work on this. In conclusion I want to recognize that it's not just the actions of our team it's also the actions of our entire district and one way that we as a team try to highlight that work and to celebrate when people notify us of malicious activity that they see in their accounts as we provide them cyber smart awards. So this is an example of the cyber smart awards that we provide to all our staff and with that I thank you for your time and interest. If there's any questions I'm
043happy to answer them. I do I have two so I guess back to the the picture you had there the network center that you have there. What are we are we or what are we doing to kind of move things into a cloud-based network if you can speak on that. Absolutely we've been actively working on that that was part of the residency project is trying to move as much as we can to the cloud and only keep those core services that are needed for activities like DHCP DNS and those things on site. We will be doing a redundant storage compute both at Clover Basin and at Meade High School but the goal is to move the majority to the cloud. Okay thank you and then the other question I think goes back to Patrick. Yes
044Patrick. Do you have or do you do something like and I don't know what the probably the term would be called but it's it's like tests that you send out back to your example where you had the two different sites because when you look at it immediately you probably didn't wouldn't even notice until you really look at it right. Do you do some type of testing with the employees so teacher staff or whomever that uses our system to say okay these are just little tests to see if they are going to actually click on it or whatever they might do. Do you do things like that on a random basis? We have a two-pronged approach there we have our security awareness training that that's done annually and then we also do fishing simulation testing is
045our official term for that where we will occasionally send out what looks to be a phishing email in this track who clicks on the link just so that we can kind of keep an eye on our security training culture. That's the term I was looking for thank you. No more questions? No I couldn't even begin to know where to start to ask a question. I look at that that last picture you put up and it's like you guys know what I'd always look to me it looks like a bunch of wires you know it's amazing what you all do and the technology you guys have and the ability you all have and you keeping us our center of safety and our computers that we use you know protected so thank you very much for what
046you do I had it I think it's a great report though it's always good to find the progress being made on the backup system because that's really important I'm sure so thanks again. Anybody else? Nope you're free at last. Thank you again for your time. So next we have our annual nutrition services report from Katie Cassette. Welcome. Thank you. You got the floor. See if I can multitask here. Why not? He's making noises. Throw it over to my handy-dandy DTS team to help me out. I asked him to stay for a minute. All right. All right hi for those of you who don't know me I'm Katie Cassette I'm the director of nutrition services and warehouse this is my fourth year with the school district and it's been amazing to see the progress that my
047team has done over the course of the last four years. I will apologize in advance that there are tasty pictures on here and I know it's dinner time so hopefully it just leaves you salivating for more maybe you'll join us for a school lunch one day. I'd like to start off with the mission and vision statement that my team created my first year here our vision is dynamic school meals that nourish our community and our mission is creating a welcoming environment that supports the education and well-being of students through nutrition. We have it posted in all of our kitchens and it's something that we want to leave as a reminder to our team as our purpose and value within the school systems. So I know you didn't expect a pop quiz today but does anyone
048know why the school lunch act actually came into fruition in 1946? No and it's actually interesting of course World War II had just ended and it was actually put in place as a measure of national security because so many young men were being denied military access because of malnutrition so it was actually put in place to ensure that our students and children growing up had access to nutrition through an institution where they had to spend most of their day and it's been a benefit to kids across the nation since then. The biggest things there is a lot of studies out that show there is improved academic success in terms of behavior being able to concentrate I don't know about you but when I'm hungry I'm not paying attention when they have that safety net of
049knowing where their next meal is going to come from and being able to have a full belly they can concentrate on their schoolwork. Nutritional support we have very very strict guidelines that we follow in order to stay compliant with federal regulations to receive reimbursement including whole grains, lean meats, milks, fruits, and vegetables offered at lunch every single day. You can see that tray there is an example of one of our meals. Reduced food insecurity and hunger obviously reduced stigma so in this state we elected Proposition FF back in 2023 which allows all of our students in the state of Colorado to have access to meals for free. We are one of nine states in the country that do that. Basically our state reimburses us up to the free rate for those students who don't qualify
050for free and reduced price meals so students that used to have to pay for meals now don't have to because it's coming from our state taxpayers. Reducing stigma allows every kid access and it also makes those kids on free and reduced lunch not feel like they're receiving something less. It also helps those kids that maybe forgot their lunch at home know that they have something that they can have while they're here. It's also an economic benefit to families so free and reduced meal applications obviously provide a lot of benefit within the school district but also outside. Additionally if families don't have to spend the money on breakfast and lunch they have the ability to spend more money for nutritious meals at dinner as well and put more money back into our economy and extend that
051dollar as far as they can. So our daily impact on students we serve about 20,000 meals a day. I like to call us the largest restaurant in town because we kind of are. Last year we served over 3.4 million meals which is a million dollar a million meal increase since before meals were free to all students showing that there's a need in our community and that our families do access that benefit. So the team that supports I have an incredible team that works miracles in my opinion. We have about 240 employees from kitchen managers and staff we have about 210 that work out into the field. It takes a lot to turn those meals in so they they get in they open up we set up for breakfast. Once breakfast is over they have two
052hours to prepare lunch for kids because once lunch starts it is it is chaos so most of the things need to be ready or prepared or cooked in between meal services and for a school like Soaring Heights that's over 800 meals served in that meal plant meal service that they have to prepare for in two hours. So they work some magic and I'm always impressed by what some of our schools can actually do. We also have warehouse delivery team that services our schools nutrition services but also central warehouse things in mail and then a pretty lean administrative team that supports everybody ensuring they're getting the foods that they need the training the support and all the materials needed to be successful during the school day. So we follow the school lunch act specifically healthy hungry
053free kids act that was enacted in 2010 it is over 2,800 pages of legislation that regulate our department and that is what I'm supposed to know frontwards backwards upside down to ensure that we remain compliant to receive that federal reimbursement protecting the meal program for our most vulnerable students. We meet or exceed the guidelines that are there and the guidelines do change with the dietary guidelines of America so it's not like it's been set in stone since 2010 it changes when those guidelines change. Again we provide whole grains lean protein low fat milk fruits and vegetables every day there are age-appropriate calories for each grade level not really grade level but elementary middle and high school. There's limits on added sugar sodium and saturated fat and in the last few years USDA has put an
054emphasis on local foods and homemade or scratch meals as well. We love to listen to our students because there's a lot of noise out there with what people think school meals should be but it's not nutrition if it's in the trash can our kids need to eat it and what's been an important thing for me in my career in child nutrition is to change our relationship with food and that takes time to change a culture. It took 10 years to get kids to accept whole grains from 2010 to about 2020 is about the time where we actually had a market with whole grains that kids were like this is good enough to eat and they got used to doing it. So I also know that we have a pretty diverse cultural district and I want
055all of our students to feel included in our meal program so we actually have recipes from all over the world represented in our cycle menus. We do seasonal rotations so our meals are put on a like four week cycle and we try to do that in relation to what's available especially locally but also our seasonal favorites right like we're not going to have soup in August nobody wants that but you know something about chicken noodle soup on a snowy day is a great great meal right. We do student taste tests so we call it tasty Tuesdays and our executive chef and usually dietetic interns will pick a site and we try to travel all over the district to have kids try new recipes new ingredients new items sometimes vote on a name for the recipe
056or even tell us that they like this type of ranch or whatever it is better than that type because we're trying to figure out what's the best mix for them. We also have fresh fruit and vegetable bars in all of our schools some of them look like those little cups in the top right corner because they just don't have the infrastructure for a salad bar but a lot of our schools do have self-serve salad bars providing two fruits and five fresh vegetables every day and homemade salad dressings for them to use as well. So we're moving some barriers to learning so we talked about healthy school meals for all we saw a participation jump increase from 45% to 64% meaning a lot more kids were eating and it was kind of on a dime it
057was voted in November and went into place in August so we we had to kind of adjust for an unknown which has been great. We like to call this past year to play but we work really close with the CETC school. I have always as a chef I was a chef for a decade before becoming a registered dietitian and coming into this world and I've always really loved celebrating our local agriculture but also connecting people to where our food comes from because all too often you see it in the grocery store and you don't relate it to like the person who picked it or the animal that gave its life for it so those students who are interested in agriculture or veterinary school actually get the opportunity to raise duroc hog and lamb that nutrition
058services supports and actually processes and puts back into our meal program for promotional meal days. They just got a farm box that hydroponically grows lettuce and so that just got turned on recently. Next year we plan on getting about 12,000 pounds of lettuce from them to serve on our salad bars so students getting to enjoy the things that they're learning about and connecting with as well. We are a leader in local foods in the state one of the first districts to really expand on it. We put over two million dollars back into the local economy every year predominantly in produce but we also do minimally processed foods like tortillas where the grain is actually from this area from Weld County. We have breads, we have bagels, sauces and we're always looking for more opportunity. Through
059Proposition FF there is a grant for local foods that is coming into fruition. Next year it's finally funded. We are expecting $685,000 from that grant to keep supporting and sustaining our local foods. So we receive $4.69 each lunch and that is not just food we have to supply that for our entire operation from uniforms to salaries, benefits, chemicals, equipment, small wares, disposables. All of those things have to be paid for with that $4.69. So for less than a latte we're working some sort of magic in our buildings. I did want to remind you that if you want to watch and follow some of the things we're doing we have great social media channels so please feel free to like and follow and see what we're doing. I'll open that up to questions now. I'm sorry
060what was that? The follow channel, is it just St. Brain School Meals? Oh yeah it's at St. Brain School Meals. It's not on our screen. Oh I'm sorry. And you're fine. So I had a question, how often are the menus and and sources and everything evaluated? Like how often do you change or update or and that kind of thing? Constantly and it takes about six months for us to enact a change. Our products that we purchase are specialized to K-12 and so they're a lot harder to get. So we may have General Mills cereal that you recognize but it's formulated for K-12. You can't buy it in the grocery store. So it's a low sugar, it's whole grain, yada yada, all the things. It takes about six months to source new items. A lot of
061times it's a bid process or commodity processing. So like right now we're we're given money entitlement to spend on items that we can commercially process for next year. It gives us a discount per case which helps stretch that dollar further. We have to plan what we want to buy for next year right now and then we're locked into that for all of next year and that's about 1.2 million that we have from the federal government that has to be planned out for next year. So if those items are a hit today and not tomorrow we're kind of stuck with it for another year. So it's always being evaluated and we're always working towards things but we're testing things out on our for next year's menu but not until probably about November time frame is when
062those items would even appear on the menu. Thank you. That's amazing. I mean it's very fascinating to me that process. How do you receive input from the community or stakeholders like if it's parents or remember I hear that the kids are having a little bit of a say in what is on the menu but what's the process for the community to participate in that? We do put out surveys to parents. We have a parent advisory committee. The attendance for it has kind of dwindled so we're looking at how we can revamp that for the future. We're also required with that local foods grant to have an advisory committee so that'll incorporate staff students and parents so we're really excited that that may be a great opportunity to expand that. Really the last few years we
063had audit last year a big state audit last year so it was making sure everything was in compliance everything was good to go and now that we're through that we're finally taking a breath but excited to get more input but also educate our community more about school meals because there is a lot of false information about the foods being provided and social media can be exciting with things that are unfavorable so you know I feel like there's there's a mixture of things and we have some ideas for the future that we're excited about. Yeah it's a constant challenge to counterbalance the myth with the reality and on the social media in that universe. My last question is around you were talking about how long it took for to get the kids acclimated to whole grains
064for instance what were the strategies like how do you how do you do that? The biggest piece is like we can't educate we're not in the education space nobody on my team is a licensed educator so what we do is it takes a dietetic school you learn that takes kids about 10 times to see something before they may even try it so it's being consistent and persistent it's tasting and trialing things the biggest piece was that our manufacturing companies were not prepared for the switch that happened immediately and USDA had to roll a bunch of stuff back and then they learned how to formulate things to make wheat a little bit softer and more appealing so the market had to get there as well but being consistent and persistent and taste testing and creating a
065environment where kids feel safe to try new things is really the the biggest piece that we can put towards that. Okay thank you absolutely thanks for satisfying my curiosity about all that. Absolutely. In line with the Healthy School Meals for All, what have our district what have we done to ensure that the meals that the students are receiving are less processed? I know that a couple years ago that was a huge concern that the students were eating way too many processed food so that will go along the line of canned foods which is tend to be have a lot more salt or sodium in them. What have we done to progress from that maybe about four or five years ago now? So there has to be a balance because four dollars and sixty nine cents
066doesn't go very far. We do buy only K-12 provided things so none of our canned fruits are in high fructose corn syrup it's all in just juice and we rinse them before that we use them. We have moved to more frozen vegetables which are picked during the highest point of right there they're left on the vine a little bit longer so they have they're more nutrient dense than some of the stuff that's picked early because it has to be shipped fresh places. We don't do a lot of canned vegetables at all that's as a chef not my my favorite thing it's not as fresh and it's not as delectable as things that are you know maybe made from a frozen state. There is still some processed things but we look for things that are minimally
067processed that don't have added colors sugars. We look at the ingredient deck we're really mindful about the things our community is expressed as things they don't want in their foods but our manufacturers as well they have to know that information and it's been something especially with the Maha movement growing as much as it is that our manufacturers are listening and they are moving their products to more clean label decks. We moved to a pizza this year that has really the same ingredients as it was in the early 80s it's a family recipe and it's very clean label so we do pay attention to a lot of those things. Scratch cooking is a balance we look at things that matter on the plate that are scratch cooked and we try them against you know minimally processed
068things to give that balance because again nutrition isn't anything if it's in the trash can it's constantly something we're working towards and expanding on but it's less than probably it was but it's still something that's in our system nationwide it's still something that remains in our system. Thank you. You had mentioned something pretty interesting you know I'm with you I think I always tell kids if you eat right if you sleep right if you drink right that's a recipe for success right and so you had mentioned the Maha movement and so forth and have you seen more people I guess just in general be more cognitive of what's in their food reading labels I mean I've heard about this the Yucca app you know the things like that have you seen seen more more influence
069on that? I think what I've seen more of are influencers a lot of times spreading false information that's coming from a dietitian standpoint there is a balance to everything and if we are so fearful about things but we don't really know the science and understand what it is it can create you know a false sense of security with eating certain things over other things I have kind of dived into it more and more myself because I want to understand if the Maha movement and Secretary Kennedy who don't oversee the school lunch act but are creating some noise within it if some of those things come into fruition how does that impact us but also how can I speak to some of the foods or ingredients because some of the things are vitamins that are added
070that people are fearful of because they can't pronounce but it's knowing that information more and educating people when they fear what may be in their food thank you okay well thank you very much that was really detailed and informative thank you so much I appreciate you yes before we move on to consent items we have several new hires or rehires in the building so um Nandy you want to come up and do your introductions thank you yes thank you good evening Dr. Capuchin and members of the board it is my pleasure to introduce you to five amazing administrator individuals coming to us within our district and from outside of our district who will be in new positions next year first of all I would love to introduce you again to Ms. Ashley Swanson who will
071be our principal of Frederick High School next school year she brings a depth of educational background to this role has a bachelor's degree in communication and two master's degrees both in counseling one is in school counseling she also is a licensed counselor and school principal and she's currently working on completing her doctoral program at the University of Colorado Denver in leadership for educational equity she's been a long-standing employee of the St. Green Valley School District since 2015 in her third year serving as assistant principal at Frederick High School and previously was dean in the same building in addition she's also served as principal for summer school programs e-learning coordinator mental health and wellness counselor and intervention teacher culminating over seven more years of experience at this time I'd love to invite Ashley up to say
072a few words well thank you to the board of education and to Dr. Capuchin I am both honored and grateful for the opportunity to serve as the next principal at Frederick High School over the last five years Frederick has really become a home away from home and there's not a day that goes by that I'm not appreciative of the students and the parents and the staff and just the community at large that that make Frederick the really incredible special place that it is so I'm excited for what's ahead and looking forward to just continuing the great work that's already happening at Frederick High School thank you next I would love to introduce you to Shannon West as the principal of Mountain View Elementary School effective July 1. Shannon graduated from Northwestern University with a bachelor's
073degree in environmental science earned her master's degree in elementary education and also obtained her school administrator license and certification. She brings over 25 years of experience in education beginning her career as a fourth grade teacher in North Carolina Colorado and then has since taught fifth grade worked as a classroom teacher in a STEM lab served as an instructional coach and currently serves as the principal of Thornton Elementary. She also prior to her career in education served as an NCAA division one head coach for field hockey in Missouri and participated in STEM summer programs in China helping develop curriculum and teaching intensive courses in the area of science. It is my pleasure to introduce you to Ms. Shannon West to say a few words. Good evening Dr. Capuchin in school board thank you for the opportunity
074to speak and the privilege to join the St. Rain Valley School District team. I am honored for the opportunity to lead and serve Mountain View Elementary. Jennifer and her team have done incredible work there and have built a really strong foundation and I am committed to continuing that excellent work there. As a leader I my mission is centered in delivering an exceptional educational experience to all students. I am passionate about elementary education particularly in cultivating environments in which curiosity is sparked and a love for lifelong learning begins. I am excited to join the the Mountain View community in the coming months and join the St. Rain team and I just want to thank you so much for your trust and the being really welcoming so thank you. And next it's my pleasure to introduce you
075to Mr. Andrew Moore in his role next year as principal of elementary number 29. Mr. Moore graduated from St. Edwards University in Austin Texas with a bachelor's degree in English literature, continued his education where he earned his master's degree in teaching in elementary education. He also has been a long-standing employee of St. Rain Valley School since 2013 and in he is in his 13th year as principal at Lyons Elementary. Previously he also had principal experience at Flagstaff Academy and over 10 years of teaching experience as well including outdoor education program director, curriculum developer, and dual immersion primary teacher. He is very well rounded and is very well prepared for this opportunity. Andrew I welcome you up to the podium to say a few words. Just a huge sense of gratitude for being up here tonight
076and speaking in front of you. Board of Education thank you so much. Dr. Capuchin thank you so much. So much to be grateful for. It's a humble pleasure to and privilege to work in St. Rain Valley Schools and tonight was just another great opportunity to showcase some of the wonderful things happening. Nutrition services and also technology with cyber security and Abby Martinez what an incredible educator. So just always reinvigorated being here. Thank you so much the Board of Education for all your years of service year in year out. I'm perennially impressed with the work you do and the way you stand up for education and your strategic vision and communication is so good that it just gives us a lot of pride to serve. So thank you so much. With this new opportunity I think
077what I'm most excited for is meeting my first future Collier Hills parent. So any not yet I'm so excited to get into the community and work to kind of merge together Collier Hills priorities in the community with the St. Rain Valley Schools vision and mission. We're not just building a school but we're building a community of learners who you know get to demonstrate who they are and step into civic responsibility within the Erie feeder. Board member Babs I'm so excited to get to work with you and so grateful for the opportunities and the connection between Lions and board member Weiss. She's been a great steward of the district in the Lions community so it's been incredible. Yeah so excited to work with you Dr. Profetti-Dini. It's going to be fantastic. I had so much written
078down but I think I've said enough. Thank you so much. It's going to be a great ride. Next it's my pleasure to introduce you to Amy McElroy is the principal of Niwat Elementary starting next school year. Amy has a background in a bachelor's degree in biology and also a master's degree in leadership of educational organizations along with her principal preparation program completion. Her depth of experience is in leadership and also in the area of STEM. She's been an educator since 2008 as a secondary science teacher at Columbine High School for 12 years and then she began her journey into school leadership roles serving as K-8 dean at STEM School Highlands Ranch and is currently in her fourth year's elementary principal at STEM School in Douglas County. Amy come on up to share a few words
079and welcome. Hi members of the board Dr. Capuchin. Thank you guys so much for this opportunity. I'm truly truly honored to be a part of St. Vrain. It's something that I have kind of wanted to be a part of since I heard about it back in like 2018 when I was going through my master's program and so I'm just so excited to join the team here and to move my family up into the area and so my kids can go through St. Valley or St. Vrain. I know that Niwat is a really special place. I know that Nancy has done a fantastic job in her years there and I know that they are so strong in academics and community and I promise to just continue with all of that as I you know lead this
080the school. Again thank you guys so much for this opportunity. I'm truly I'm humbled I'm honored and I'm so excited to get started so. And our last but not least introduction for this evening. It's my pleasure to share with you about Stacy Horton and the role of principal of Spark Discovery Preschool. Stacy's background is in elementary education and also earned her master's degree in the area of education as well. She has a strong background in early childhood education. Her primary teaching experience spans 21 years including teaching first grade, owning and facilitating her own local preschool for over 12 years and serving as a kindergarten teacher in our district for seven years. She's in her second year as dean of students at Highlands Elementary and Grandview Elementary. She also brings experience in preschool program development, instructional
081coaching, and designing programs for inclusive learning environments for all students. I believe her family is here with her this evening as well. Come on up Stacy. Thank you. I'm truly honored to be stepping into role as the principal at Spark Discovery Preschool. I would love to begin by thanking our superintendent Dr. Capuchin for her faith and her trust in me and for this opportunity to continue to serve our youngest learners in this amazing capacity. I'd love to thank the school board as well for your opportunity and for just the respect that I hold for you guys. I would love to express my gratitude. I've had two incredible mentors in this district. I've had the opportunity to have a great leadership under two principals and not just once. I've been able to see such multiple different
082ways of how the schools can be run and that is an invaluable experience. Also I've had the privilege of experiencing the school district as a parent as well. We have two of our three children have gone all the way through St. Brandon and have graduated and they've been more than prepared for their college careers and that's the testament to this amazing school district that we have. So I'm excited to partner with some talented educators and families at Spark and I'm excited to continue the great work that's already happening and to continue building a program where every child feels safe, supported, and valued. So thank you again for this incredible opportunity and I'm honored to serve and eager to begin this next chapter in St. Green Valley Squis. Thank you this evening for your support and
083as you can see we have some exemplary leaders stepping into some new roles. Our students will have a wonderful school year. Yeah thank you all and welcome to your new positions for all our new principals. Looking forward to spending time with you all in the future. Good luck to you all. All right so then on the consent items. The board members have any items they'd like to pull from the consent? No. Nobody'd like to do that so I'd ask for a motion to approve. All consent items is listed on our agenda. So moved. Mrs. Babs. So moved. Second by Gina. Okay all. Mrs. Babs. Yes. Mr. Berthold. Yes. Mrs. Gilligan. Absent. Mrs. Horanek. Yes. Mr. LeChuga. Yes. Mrs. Solomon. Yes. Ms. Weist. Yes. Seven ten. All right there are no action items and this time
084so do we have any board members who would like to make a report on some of these activities you've been attending? So I've been able to attend a couple of activities over the past couple weeks since we last met. Just last night as you heard Abby speaking about it the middle school honors orchestra they sound amazing as always. You know as a musician myself who's not able to practice right now but definitely did for a long time all the way through college. It's always amazing to see our young young people partake in all things that they they have the possibilities for. I think what I saw last night and what I heard because the music is always about the hearing and not just the seeing they they have such great talent and I think wherever
085they decide to go having that music ability behind them is going to push them even further. So appreciative of that. Also attended the gala which was very nice and successful. I hope that the numbers that they were able or wanting to reach it they were able to reach that and then I attended the Erie High School's academic letter ceremony where my child received an academic letter and other students as well and that's just a testament to the hard work that each of our students are putting in every year every day. We need to make sure that we not only celebrate our students on the field and in those extracurriculars but also in the classroom so those students who are doing the work who are participating in making sure that they are in their AP classes
086and coming to school on time and being present. So that was a very good ceremony and then finally I attend and I'm on the the committee for the Student Advisory Committee at Erie High School and we talk about several things as it relates to the school but one of the big things that they talk about and I think since Principal Griffin's been there is attendance and I think what we're seeing there is that he is really trying to from trying to promote being in class being on time for all of our students because if you're there in your seat you're actually receipt hopefully receiving that the learning. So those are some of the things that I took part in over the last week or so. So lots of stuff going on and I know April
087and March, May get really busy. Really busy. Yeah I'm just putting down my calendar. Anybody else want to make comments? Yeah I just wanted to give a huge shout out to everyone involved in the Mariachi Festival at Skyline. It was a really beautiful celebration of that art form and it was a competition in its nature however it really felt just like a celebration of that form of music and it was such a joy to get to experience that and then this morning I was so proud to speak with some of our students at Doing Democracy Day. Our students are often more well spoken than a lot of us adults and it's just so energizing to get to interact with them and thank you to all those involved in making that event happen. Yeah I just
088want to say thanks to the Education Foundation for putting on a great gala. That was a lot of fun. It was great to see everybody there and then last night's concert I was there for a little while and wow amazing. So looking forward to the upcoming months and a lot of graduation stuff coming up. A lot of basketball still to be played and still a lot of fun. Thanks guys. Yeah I had a great couple weeks too doing some things around the district. The gala was great and I think they exceeded their goals for fundraising that night which was a great achievement and it's just nice to see how much public education is supported. We did some school visits. Dr. Capuchin and I last week. We didn't get to all of the schools in the
089NYWAT feeder system but I enjoyed the ones we got to. We'll schedule some more. Looking forward to meeting Amy as the new principal of NYWAT and then lastly I was at the Future Ready event on Saturday and I just I guess two things. One of them was it was great to talk to some educators who are running some of these programs and some of the students who are participating in them. I learned new things about the way that Rafter Tech for instance might influence a student's trajectory that it's not necessarily even just technology that she's going to go into law and around cyber security and this was a foundational program for her. But it also highlighted the fact that there were a lot of people giving up their Saturdays to do this and talking to
090some of the teachers there that were there with great enthusiasm and just really really appreciate that so thanks. Well you know I got to go back to Saturday as well. That was phenomenal. I think like I said before I think it had a bigger turnout in the Chinese New Year which was a lot of people but and it was so good to be able to talk to all the different parents and all the different parents and everything that are there and it's a great community way to function. I also was able to attend Leadership St. Frank the day before and there was quite a quite a good presentations but the one that really knocked me out was the one that our assistant superintendents did presenting to the parents how they're tracking our students progress. They
091detail that and all the forms and all they do and how you know the reason we have 96 percent graduation rate is because we pay attention to the graduation rate and never realized I mean I know you had a lot when you start getting involved at that level on a daily basis almost I'm sure. I want to give a lot of thanks all to our assistant superintendents that do work in the school so you guys do a phenomenal job. That was an amazing presentation. I think people walked out of there with their jaws dropped because they had no idea and I think that's what Leadership St. Frank is about getting everybody involved and understanding what our district is doing for their community and yes indeed the gala did substantially go over their goal for that
092evening so everybody helped raise the money up in there. Thank you so much on behalf of the gala. I know they'll probably give a report in more detail eventually so all right we'll go back now we're going to go back to our student advisory council rep and you have everybody's ears and also their eyes are on you so anything you'd like to comment about what your experience was or any suggestions or any questions were open to open to your your time. So yeah I just wanted to say like I think it's really amazing all the things that I heard today. As a student you don't get to see or hear a lot of the stuff like the nutrition and things like that. Some of that's behind the curtains and I think this was a wonderful
093opportunity to just see how our district works and I think it's really amazing what the stuff is what we are doing. I think it's really amazing. Okay well thank you for your participation and you're actually willing to come to any one of our meetings or our study sessions the whole community is so we could fill this room up and sometimes we do so anyway thank you very much. I wish everyone has a happy and wonderful spring break. It is time for that. Our next meeting will be Wednesday, March 25th. A study session and a regular board meeting because it's the end of the month so we'll be going over financials and with that I'd look for a motion to adjourn. Moved by Myosha, second by Jackie and all those in favor die. All those opposed
094I dare you.