001Good evening, welcome to the St. Brayne Valley Schools Board of Education meeting of October 8th, 2025, please stand if you're able and join me in the Pledge of Allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Christy, would you please call roll? Sure, Mrs. Babs absent, Mr. Berthold? Present. Mrs. Gilligan absent, Mrs. Horanek? Here. Mr. Lechuga? Here. Mrs. Ragland? Here. Mrs. Weiss? Here. Thank you, and any changes to the agenda this evening? No, they're not. Okay, great. This meeting is being streamed on our website where a recording will also be available. If our live audience would please silence their device notifications, we'd greatly appreciate it. This meeting is also being translated into Spanish and
002headsets are available for anyone that would like them. I will begin tonight's meeting with our district's mission 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 of our purpose and our focus leaders make every decision within that context. First on our agenda we have the visitors. I do not see any on our list. Then audience participation. Is there anyone that did not sign up that would like to address the board? I would like to address the board this evening. Seeing none, we'll move to the superintendent's report, Dr. Jackie Capuchin. Yes, thank you. We are going to have a fairly short board meeting this evening because we have band night going on over at Longmont High School and
003we are all trying to get over that way to see our wonderful music programs. So I want to encourage all of you to scooch over there if you have a chance this evening, you will not be disappointed. I also want to congratulate the Meade High School golf team. They won the state for a championship yesterday. Yes, for sure. And we will bring them forward at a later time to recognize their accomplishment. Also, the superintendent update went out today. I would encourage everybody to take a look at that. There was a lot of great news, many things to be proud of. And then finally, today we, well, a couple of things. We administered the NMSQT, which is the National Merit Qualifier. It is 9th, 10th, and 11th graders. We had a 91.7 participation rate, which is
004outstanding for our students. So thank you to our assessment team and our school principals who managed that process. And then finally, next week I want to just invite you all. There is going to be a state of the city, state of education event happening at the museum from 11 to 1230 next Thursday. And I'll be giving an update about the state of education here in St. Vrain. So you're all welcome to attend that as well. Thanks. OK, next up we have reports. Tony Whiteley, we have our first 6.1 fiscal year 26 first quarter public gifts to schools. But I think that's fiscal year 25. Yes, school year 25, 26 for the first quarter. Great, great. That's right. So again, throughout the year, the financial services department tracks gifts and donations to our schools by the
005community per board policy KCD public gifts to schools. In addition, each quarter we bring forward a report on such gifts, giving us the opportunity to acknowledge the generous contributions made to St. Vrain Valley Schools by individuals, PTOs, booster clubs and local businesses and thank them for their support for the success of our students. We received more than $492,000 in donations throughout the months of July to September 2025. Just to highlight a few items received this quarter. Katie Shacklett, a community member, donated more than $1,500 to support the fourth grade at the Sanborn Elementary. Our Career Elevation and Technology Center received a vehicle worth about $5,300 from Patricia Patt, another community member. That vehicle will be used in their automotive program to help the students learn to train, to repair and work on those vehicles. Mark
006Young Construction donated $500 to support the Drama and Theater Department over at Frederick High School. And our own Costco Wholesale actually donated $1,000 to Mountain View Elementary for school supplies and backpacks. These are just a few examples I thought I'd highlight, but there are many more generous donations from PTOs, booster clubs, local businesses and community members that can be found listed in the board packet tonight. The support from our community has been phenomenal and we are deeply grateful for their continued support in contributing to the vision and mission and the educational success and well-being of our students. Thank you. Thank you so much, Tony. The generosity of this community never ceases to amaze me. So thank you for those donations and real big heavy hitters on that list that we greatly appreciate. Next up we
007have 6.2 New Sustainability Internship Bridging Innovation Center and District Operations. Brian Lammer. I'll just be brief to be honest with you. So sustainability. I should start. Ladies and gentlemen of the board, Dr. Capuchin. Yeah, sustainability has been an effort in operations really for the last 17 years. And I would argue it's it's a focus throughout the district. And if you think about it, everything we do has to have a sustainable component to it. And it's so much more than just saving energy, if you will, or saving water. It is it is far reaching. And so every time we do something, we talk about how do we sustain it? What does it look like? And I shared that vision with Kelly some years ago. And she said, you know, I think I can work with that.
008And so this is kind of Kelly's Kelly's effort. And I'm going to hand it off to Kelly. Thanks, Brian. Good evening. Thank you guys so much for the opportunity to be here. We really appreciate it. Our sustainability department is housed within operations, as Brian had noted. And we lead an effort to create a healthier, more efficient and environmentally responsible learning environment for all of our staff, students and community members as well. We're grateful for the co-leadership of Curtis Leonard. He is our energy and sustainability specialist. And our team drives initiatives that promote climate resilience, educational opportunities for our students, which will be showcased tonight and also strategically reducing our energy and water use, minimizing our waste and promoting environmental stewardship across the district. I am here to introduce Curtis and his effort with the Innovation
009Center and our sustainability department. We are engaged in an exciting partnership with the Innovation Center, co-leading a student sustainability internship program that's carrying out right now this fall of 2025. So with that, I will pass it off to Heidi at the Innovation Center. Thank you. Good evening. Thanks for having us tonight. Currently, I am the post-secondary workforce readiness coordinator in the district. And one of my roles as I get to work with two of our internship facilitators that we are very grateful to have to begin to really connect the dots for our students to work-based learning. So last spring, you may recall we heard from two interns from Longmont Public Media and they were all out of our CTC program. So this year, we're really working on expanding our internships and our partnerships. And one
010of the focus areas and growth is to actually utilize our St. Vrain Valley schools and our departments within there to increase that. So Jamie Carias, who is our fantastic internship facilitator at the Innovation Center, I get to work with her, she collaborated with the sustainability department within St. Vrain and we created four internships for our students for this fall. It's fantastic. So really, this is just a model that we would like to continue to grow with departments within St. Vrain as well as in our community. So we also will be updating all of our internships and everything we're doing around work-based learning later in the spring. So this is kind of a midterm part of that. But we're really excited that we're able to offer these opportunities for our students. So I want to turn
011it over to Curtis and then you'll hear from our students to describe their experiences. And again, we're grateful for your support. Without your support and Dr. Capuchin, we couldn't facilitate and run these experiences. So thank you, thank you. We just hope to grow them and have more students have more opportunities. Okay, Curtis. Good evening, everyone. Good evening, Dr. Capuchin, members of the board and community members who took time out of their day to be here. My name is Curtis Leonard and I'm the energy and sustainability specialist within St. Vrain Valley schools. And over the past few years, the energy and sustainability team has been really enthusiastic about increasing the scale of its impact to reflect both the ever-growing cost of utility bills and the sentiments shared with us from students, staff, and community members alike
012about the importance of sustainability. As this department has mapped out its vision for what growth and success should look like, we relied on engaging with students, leadership, and key internal stakeholders. And the primary stakeholder engagement event we held back in April of this past year, it allowed us to realize that the most value-aligned way to carve out a uniquely St. Vrain approach to think about sustainability and practice is through this lens of job preparation. And with this insight, Kelly and I were really ecstatic to explore opportunities to put that into action within the district. And after connecting with Jamie Carias at the Innovation Center and thinking about ways to develop a student sustainability internship, we hit the ground running this past May to interview student applicants. And we ultimately received many more applicants than we
013had the capacity to accept, highlighting just how interested our students were in professional experiences and opportunities in the world of sustainability. And we've been incredibly impressed by the four phenomenal student interns that we have had the pleasure to work with this semester, and we have two of them here today. So to provide a bit more context about this opportunity, each student has taken ownership of a research project, and these topics loosely tie into our departmental long-term strategic goals. So the work that they are doing is deeply intertwined into the work that we do in our careers. So through the interns' research and their ability to become subject matter experts on niche topics like sustainable design, greenhouse gas accounting, the Colorado Seal of Climate Literacy, and indoor air quality monitoring, our interns are able to provide
014detailed and well-informed strategy recommendations that our team is taking seriously as we continue to pursue moving targets in the world of school system sustainability. So our interns have truly been an asset. As a team of two, just Kelly and myself, I'm not exaggerating when I say that their work is of such a high quality that it is actually assisting us with our roles. As part of the internship, interns are learning about sustainability frameworks that people use in the real world, like the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and a phrase from corporate sustainability called the triple bottom line, this lens that hinges on the idea that sustainability is contingent on balancing people, planet, and profits. Our interns are learning from local professionals in the field, with guest speakers attending our weekly intern sessions at the Innovation
015Center to share their real-world experiences as sustainability professionals, again, in our backyard, in fields like academia, local government, state government, and the private sector, and we also have a field trip planned for later this month where we will get to see what the City of Longmont's sustainability team does in their average day, just in our community. So being a part of a district that cares about innovation, job preparation, and forward thinking, sustainability is a pretty logical step that is already being championed by many people on a vast array of teams in St. Vrain Valley Schools, and this internship serves as a really unique and exciting opportunity to directly include young people in the processes that transpire as the district continues to pursue excellence in the world of sustainability. So each student here has an exciting
016story and a different reason for doing this internship, and I'm so excited and honored to be here with two of them today as they tell you their reason for why they care about sustainability and how this experience through the Innovation Center is setting them up for long-term success, and with that, I'll be passing it to our indoor air quality intern, Hanna Holensky. Good evening. Good evening. It's wonderful to be here with you all tonight. My name is Hanna Holensky, and I'm a senior at Mead High School. This semester I'm serving as the indoor air quality intern with the sustainability office in the district. I first learned about this opportunity through my energy and sustainability teachers, Ms. Crack and Mr. White, who encouraged me to apply. I chose to pursue it because it felt like a
017unique chance to gain hands-on experience in a field I care about. For me, sustainability isn't just a school project. It's about leaving the world better than I found it. One of the most exciting parts of this internship has been realizing that the work we're doing is meaningful beyond the classroom. I've loved meeting all these amazing people who work in the sustainability field as well as our district sustainability efforts and collaborating with other interns who bring different perspectives to the table. This experience connects directly to my path in the energy academy at Mead, where I'll graduate this spring with my energy capstone. It also supports my long-term career goals I hope to pursue business or the international side of energy and sustainability. And the skills and insights I'm getting here are preparing me for this exciting
018journey. I'm so grateful for this opportunity to share my work with you tonight. Thank you for your support. It means a lot to students like me who want to make a difference. Now I'd like to introduce my other intern, Alina. Hi, it is so wonderful to meet you all. I just wanted to take a moment to thank Curtis and Jamie for all the wonderful work they're doing and the sustainability department. My name is Alina Busser-Brink, a 10th grader at Silver Creek High School. My sustainability intern role is sustainable design, which is important to be highlighted in our school district. As a person with a large passion and value for sustainability in our environment, coming across this internship was super special to me. I came across it at the St. Rain career fair. The career fair
019is always a wonderful opportunity to put yourself out there, try new things, and learn about career paths and internships that connect truly to your passions. I applied for this internship knowing that it would be a great opportunity to help me expand my knowledge in the field, extend on previous projects, and start new projects with a remarkable new team. Through always having a passion for the earth, I knew that this internship would allow me to obtain so many wonderful resources and connections for the future. Sustainability matters to me because this awareness for the environment when making choices will impact our future along with all living things. The future of living things depends on our actions towards our planet. So now, shifting towards my intern role, which is the sustainable design intern. The sustainable design is the
020intern role focusing on the building techniques and strategies that are being used when building structures and school buildings in our school district. I look at if our schools have used sustainable materials or techniques during the building process. I've done a lot of research and have learned about other actions other school districts took to meet their sustainability goals, and I hope to take these resources and learn more about them and implement them possibly in our school district. Through this internship, I have already learned so many incredible things and have picked up so many wonderful resources to better help me on my current project and for future projects on future teams. One of the most exciting things that I have learned about is all the different areas that sustainability encompasses. My other interns, like my other my
021fellow friends, are working on different areas in sustainability, which is so interesting to me because sustainability is so large and encompasses so many different aspects. The internship also connects to classes that interest me and are helpful to achieve my aspirations for the future. Currently at Silver Creek, I am involved in the Leadership Academy, which is a program that is dedicated to raising young leaders through a professional setting. I have also taken entrepreneurial classes at the Innovation Center, better strengthening my business and professional skills. This internship is serving as a wonderful starting point to receive resources and valuable professional skills for my future career. I hope to become an environmental architect or some kind of career in the field of sustainability, which is why this internship ties into my ambitions. This internship has truly been an
022incredible opportunity as it has already opened up so many doors into the future, has connected me with bright minds, and has taught me so many valuable skills. Sustainability is so important for the future of the earth and life, and thanks to opportunities like this internship, we are working our way closer and closer to a brighter and greener future. Thank you. Do you have any questions? All right, so your futures are sort of planned out for you. Where would you attend and tend to go to? Which universities and what would your majors be? So for me, I was thinking about this a little bit. So I'm thinking about CU Boulder because it's local and it has a wonderful sustainability program. I've done some research about that. And I'm also thinking of possibly studying abroad in Sweden.
023My mom is from Sweden and I can speak Swedish fluently and I'm hoping to possibly move to Sweden in the future and connect with my culture. I'm going to try to use this one. I recently got, I'm a senior, so I recently got into Montana State and I'm looking at, I'm applying to Purdue and Colorado School of Mines as well as Washington State. I'm planning on pursuing business, hopefully the international side of it, along with energy science because that's more of my passion. But yeah, I don't quite know yet, but that's the goal. Thank you. Wish you all luck. Thank you so much. Sure, sure. Kelly and Heidi and Curtis, thank you all so very much. Brian, you have an amazing team. And it's pretty special that we can embed some opportunity for our students
024through your leadership in trying to ensure that the work that you all do in the operations department and in sustainability and energy can create opportunities for our students. And to take on students and to provide that mentoring and to share your expertise is really a beautiful thing. So thank you to you three and to our students. Thank you for taking a risk and applying for something that is fairly new for us. But I love to see students taking advantage of every opportunity. So good luck in your pathway. And I hope that in some way we have contributed to your passion and to your talent as well. Thank you so much. Can we get a picture? Yeah, really quickly, I have some remarks. And then we'd love to get a picture with you and your families
025if they're here with you. I just wanted to call you out. You women are wise beyond your years. And you have such a professional presence. I wouldn't know how old you are by looking at you. When I was your age, caring for our earth meant like not littering and turning the faucet off when I was brushing my teeth. And so it's just so inspiring to see your generation caring for our earth in such a global and strategic way. So thank you for that great work. Thank you, Heidi, Curtis, all of your teams for supporting them. And just thank you for doing what you're doing. Do you have parents or friends or supporters in the audience? My family is right there. Well done. Well done, family. Okay. If we can get a picture. You know, and
026while you guys are lining up for the picture, they're halfway through their internship program. And so they'll be finalizing December 9th. So, yeah, I don't know if you heard me. But so they're finalizing their programs December 9th at the Innovation Center. And they'll be there. Oh, it's here. And all of the interns will share projects. Thank you. Thank you so much, Kelly. Thank you. Okay. Next up, we have our consent items. Would any board members like to pull any of our consent items? No. Then I would ask for a motion to approve all as listed in our agenda. So moved. Second. Mrs. Babs, absent. Mr. Berthold? Yes. Mrs. Gilligan, absent. Mrs. Horanek? Yes. Mr. LeChuga? Yes. Mrs. Ragland? Aye. Thank you, Christy. Next up, we have action items. 8.1. Amanda? No admin. It's fine. Good
027evening, President Ragland, esteemed members of the board, and Superintendent Dr. Caputian. I am honored to stand before you today to celebrate the classified employees of St. Green Valley Schools. Annually, we present for your consideration a proclamation in recognition of Classified School Employees Week to be observed in this year. That's from October 13th to October 17th. And we're very excited this evening to share and honor the great work of our classified employees by sharing a little bit more in depth to the amazing work that they do. Within our district, we are fortunate to have a dedicated cohort of over 1,500 classified staff members who play pivotal roles in our educational ecosystem and supporting and advancing the mission of St. Green Valley Schools to educate each student in a safe learning environment so that they may develop
028to their highest potential and become contributing citizens. Represented this evening in our classified staff are paraeducators, community school workers, secretaries, nutrition services personnel, campus supervisors, custodial staff, groundskeepers, maintenance professionals, bus drivers, and transportation support staff, and the list goes on and on of our amazing group of employees. Each of these individuals contribute significantly to our schools and by extension our students, teachers, staff, and community. So a little deeper look into our nutrition services and warehouse staff. These individuals are represented by about 250 individuals. And each year they provide nourishing and nutritious meals to our over 33,000 students. When you think about the number of meals that they serve each year, we're talking about 3.4 million meals. And each of those meals serve and support and nourish our students each and every day. In fact, we
029often say that this is the largest restaurant in town here in St. Green Valley Schools, serving over 18,000 to 22,000 meals a day. And of course our 54 cafeterias are represented across our large square miles of 411 square miles. When we speak about our amazing transportation staff, we do have a cohort of our bus drivers, of over 180 bus drivers, and many transportation support staff who help in the safe transport and scheduling of our bus routes each day. So our bus drivers transport over 6,000 students daily, over 2 million miles driven, which is pretty phenomenal when you think about circling the globe. And that could be around 80 times a year in the number of miles driven each year by our transportation staff. When we equate and think about the mileage and the service of
030our bus drivers and transportation staff in field trips, athletics, and activities, that's over 250,000 miles of transporting our precious students to and from school and to their activities safely. Our building services, grounds, and maintenance employees also play a positive role and impact to our school system. And they are comprised of over 200 employees from our classified group. They not only keep over 4.9 million square feet of clean spaces for our staff. When you think about that, that's 20,000 square feet of space daily, or for each individual, it's equitable to 13.5 houses that are maintained and cleaned. And I don't know about you, but when I walk into every single St. Rain Valley space, I have never seen a more impeccable, well-kept space and hardworking staff of our maintenance and grounds and building services employees. And
031that is over 71 maintenance team members. And these individuals work on preventative maintenance when there's a utility outage in the area. Any major repairs, they support with our snow removal in a seconds notice. And they also serve in our after hours response and support, all to make sure that staff and students are able to come to clean, safe, and secure buildings. And of course, this is done over, when we think of our grounds employees, they serve and maintain over 893 acres of grass and other grounds like asphalt and so forth. Or if you want to think about it in a different way, 677 football fields worth of service in our system. That is extremely impactful, and we are so grateful to have them. When we shift to our instructional support staff within our schools, when
032we think about those individuals, that's about 640 paraeducators, support staff, who serve our students daily. These individuals are inclusive of behavior coaches, braillists, child care group leaders, our crossing guards, community school staff, educational interpreters, paraeducators, media clerks, and so on. And each individual, they serve and support from an academic sense, and also in supporting our students to make sure that they have connections, both socially and academically in our schools. When I was so grateful to get to work with our payroll staff in determining the amount of hours that these individuals have served our students on an annual basis, we're looking at almost 500,000 hours of support to our students. And our IEP students, the students who have individual education plans, their impact spans across almost 5,000 students. And it equates to 78,000 hours when we
033think of our preschool learners and the early childhood setting. And then our community school staff who works early in the day and late into the evenings providing wraparound supports and helping with homework support and enrichment experiences. They are often in their 9,000 hours of service, the first faces that our students see at the beginning of the day, including with our transportation staff, and at the end of the evening. So we appreciate their dedication. As we look at our school-based support staff, these individuals are inclusive of our registrars, the 270 school-based support staff, also our school secretaries, and all those friendly greetings and faces as you first walk into our school doors. And as we started to quantify that, that's over 500,000 greetings and doorbell welcomes and screenings to make sure that we are here to
034serve and support our community members and into our schools, our employees, our students, and our families. We know that our school staff and our principal secretaries and office support staff, they are that front door, that heartbeat of our schools. Our registrars are also hard at work each and every day. And they enroll our students in over 200,000 courses or classes annually. And without their support, it would be a lot more difficult to get students enrolled from the semester, quarter, or daily in our grade levels. Our campus supervisors, our 70 campus supervisors, are a critical member of our team. And these individuals, when we equate their monitoring of student safety, the drills that they support with, and the other daily support with our staff and students, they walk over 245 million steps a year. So I'm
035thinking they're pretty in shape at this time. This is pretty amazing. We also are really excited to be able to honor our health clerks. And of our 53 health clerks, they help with bumps and bruises. They help with individual student health care plans. They help just day-to-day checking in on the health and well-being of our students that equates to over 180,000 visits to make sure that our students can receive the service and care and support when they need it, and then to allow them to get back into learning and engaging in our schools. Shifting to our central office support staff, which equates to about 100 central office support staff. These could include our payroll technicians, our help desk specialists over in DTS, substitute guest teacher schedulers, other secretaries and executive support staff, also business services
036technicians. The list goes on and on as well of their positive impact in our system. Our payroll technicians, in fact, have processed over 55,000 paychecks to make sure that our employees can have their well-being and can count on their paychecks and to be able to support their families. And we are so grateful for them. Of our five human resources technicians, they worked on over 4,000 different transactions, whether that's a new hire, a change of assignment, or any other employment status change, a name change. Our accounts payable technicians over in the business services department, there are over 70,000 different transactions in order to support the fiscal responsibility of our school district, so we are grateful to them. Shifting over to DTS, we appreciate our help desk technicians in that they receive requests and support requests from
037all throughout our system, from every single employee, every department, and every school. And they work very quickly and diligently and thoroughly to ensure that of our nine field technicians and help desk staff to resolve technology needs that equate to over 8,000 help desk tickets in such a short period of time. We do have a front desk receptionist here at our ESC building, who is that first face and voice that our individuals see, and she is here this evening, and we'll have her come up in a moment. In one week alone, she had answered about 300 phone calls and got them to the right place or department or questions answered, so as we think about it in a month, that's over 1,000 greetings and supports to make sure that our community staff and our families have
038the service and the answers that they need. During Classified School Employees Week, yes, that is one way that we want to make sure that we are serving and supporting and honoring the immense amount of work and exemplary work that our classified employees do, but really I encourage each and every one of us and everyone in our school system to honor our classified employees every single day of the year, because if it were not for them, we would have so many other needs and our students would be impacted, so we are so grateful to them. And we have various ways that we do support and show our honor and gratitude to our classified employees, whether that's throughout our schools and departments, recognizing in their years of service to our school district through our upcoming annual Bell
039years of service ceremony. We recently had our Classified ProTech Welcome Back event as well, and this evening we are really pleased to be able to honor some of them here today, although today and every day we honor all of our classified school employees. So it is my honor to have, as I call your name, our individuals come up that are here this evening, that thank you to our leadership team and others who helped nominate these individuals as representatives of their department and their individual exemplary work. I would love to welcome Mr. Gene Harris to come on up and join me. Many of you know Gene. Hi, Gene. Gene is one of our custodial staff members who have been with us in our school district since around the year 2000. And Gene, we are so grateful
040for your service and support. Every day I love and I look forward to when you come in and we get to connect and have conversations, and you always are here with a smile on your face, working so very hard, and I am just so grateful, for the service and your hard work here in St. Frank Valley Schools. So thank you so much. Jackie, do you want just to stand off here together? Wonderful, thank you. Thank you so much. Ms. Vi McHugh, thank you for joining me up here. Vi also is one of our district level office custodians, and Vi, you have been with us since 1995, I believe, and we thank you for being with us through 2025 and well beyond. We are so grateful for you. Vi, as I drive in and drive out
041each day in St. Frank Valley Schools, you are always working so hard. I see Vi polishing the windows every single day and just straightening everything up, always checking in to see what anyone needs and setting up for our meetings and events. We are so very grateful for your dedication here, and we are very lucky and thank you so much for what you do. Thank you. I would love to welcome up Ms. Heather Covington. Heather is our human resources secretary and also serves at our front desk, district receptionist. Come on forward. And she has served in various classified roles as front office support in one of our schools in the past and also as a paraeducator, and we were so grateful to get to have you come join us up at ESC and our district offices
042within a recent year during a difficult transition, and we are so glad that you chose to come and serve as that first face and voice of our school district. You always have a kind face. You're smiling. You bring a creative flair, and you are just the right person to be welcoming every single person into St. Frank's. So thank you so much for what you do, and we're grateful. Thank you. I would love to welcome up Colleen Campbell. Colleen is from our school business services team. As one of our technicians, thank you so much for being here. And Colleen consistently excels with a positive attitude, strong work ethic, empathetic approach, drawing on 21 years of experience, thank you, to our support staff, students, and parents. You effectively assist multiple schools, manage financial tasks, serve as a
043trusted resource for our administration. You are knowledgeable, so adaptable, and you have so much initiative that allows you to handle new challenges confidently in such a professional, collaborative, and highly valued way. Thank you so much for being here, and thank you for your service. And I would love to welcome up Tristan Harrow. Tristan is one of our field technicians in our district technology services department. Tristan, thank you so much for being here. And Tristan provides in-person assistance and support to schools and departments all across our school district. You are a proud graduate of Skyline and our P-TECH programs, and you are one of our four P-TECH graduates working as classified staff members in DTS. Thank you for continuing to serve and make a positive impact in our system. We're so glad that you're here. Thank
044you. And I'd love to welcome up Katherine Werner. Katherine is one of our bus drivers from our transportation department. Hi, Katherine. Yay, Katherine! She has her fan club here this evening. Come on forward. In two days, Katherine will celebrate her 31st year in transportation. Thank you. As the most senior driver in St. Rain, you continue to exemplify your commitment to education in the community that you serve. You drive out of the Erie feeder and services the Red Hawk Elementary and Erie Middle School areas as well. Katherine is often called upon to help mentor other drivers who need extra guidance, and you can always be counted on to do whatever needs to be done in the best interest of education. Thank you. Katherine has a passion for driving and models a standard of excellence that we
045are all very proud of. Katherine, we're so grateful that you're here, and thank you for being here for 31, I'm going to say, and more, and more, and many more years. Thank you. At this time, I would love to, first of all, give a round of applause to our classified employees for this evening. And I would love to welcome the resolution first. Okay, yes. And prior to presenting our classified honorees with a next step, we do have a proclamation for our Board of Education to consider. Resolution, Classified School Employees Week, October 13th through 17th, 2025. Whereas classified school employees are an essential part of the St. Brain Valley School District's educational system, and whereas classified employees are dedicated to assisting in the provisions of safe schools for the students of this district, and whereas the
046classified employees of our school district perform the daily cleaning, maintenance and delivery of school property, safely transport students, prepare and serve nourishing meals, maintain records and reports, provide maintenance and support in the field of technology, assist in classrooms and school playgrounds, and perform a variety of other tasks on behalf of our students, and whereas we recognize the important role of classified school employees and the invaluable services they provide to the students. Now, therefore, it be resolved that the St. Brain Valley School District Board of Education proclaims October 13th through 17th, 2025 as Classified School Employees Week in the school district and urges all parents, students and staff to join in saluting these dedicated staff members. Board of Education and Superintendent of Schools. Thank you. Thank you very much. Yeah, yeah. I just want to say
047that the, you are the gears that keep the district moving so clean and fast and smooth, and we see you and we appreciate you so much. It's quiet, but it's very powerful work, and we see that in our district. Vi, you could probably write a book on the things that you find on the floor of a middle school. Congratulations to our finalists, and thank you for the other folks in the audience that are here representing the classified staff. Thank you. If I may. I've had the pleasure to work with several of you, as you know, if you remember me. It's been a while, but this is so important, and it's, to me, it's, I'm really enjoying the way we're doing it this year. We're just not reading a proclamation. We're giving you all honor like
048at the, when we did the welcome back, and we presented awards to all the classified staff who were selected by their peers to be recognized as outstanding in their different positions. So this really highlights the fact how important you all are to the success of our students, because it's what we're all about is our students, and so it reflects greatly on the effort you all put in, and I'll be quiet. Thank you, though. And when I think of a school, it's so much more than just the instructional staff and just the teachers and administrators. I think there are many students who look forward to going to school to see their special person, and oftentimes that's a classified staff member, and so seriously, like every single person who works in our district is just such a
049warm and welcoming presence for our students, and we couldn't appreciate you anymore. Hi, thank you so much for being here. I'll echo what my fellow board members have said, but also I have a story for you. I'll make it quick. My phone sometimes agrees with what I tell it to do, and sometimes it doesn't, and I have alarms set every day of the week of what time to go to school, reminding me to pick my children up on time, and the other day it didn't go off, but the kids know that the bus comes by our house. I don't know how it comes by at the same time every day. It's magical to me, because as much as I try to be on time, it's not like the bus, and the bus came by, and
050I thought, well, there goes the bus. Where's the alarm? There's no alarm. Thankfully, the bus came by, and whew, we hopped in the car and got to school on time, but your impact goes way beyond, I think, what you'll ever know, for instance, on days when the alarm doesn't go off, but I have never driven by a school that looks subpar. Everything looks great, and I like to tell everybody that everyone that comes in contact with our students, be it the first smile of the day, the first welcome of the day, are all educators in their own path, and I want to thank you and to all of your teams for being there for our children and our community and our parents every day, all the work that you do. We appreciate it. Yeah, I
051just want to echo what everybody else said. You guys are amazing. Thank you for being here tonight. Thank you for your service. Thanks for all that you do for the students of St. Vrain and the faculty and us board members as well. Thank you so much. And I'd also like to thank you all. You, our classified staff, are the quiet heroes in our organization, and it's an understatement to say that we could not do our work or experience the success that we have in our school district without you. You are the St. Vrain advantage, so thank you so much for your service. Thank you. We would love to... Just before we do that, I'd just like to entertain a motion to approve 8.1. Second. Mrs. Babs, absent. Mr. Berthold. Yes. Mrs. Gilligan, absent. Mrs. Horanek.
052Yes. Mr. LeChuga. Yes. Mrs. Ragland. Aye. Mrs. Weiss. Yes. All right, can we get a picture? Yes. And then Dr. Capuchin would love to share something with each and every one of you as well. Yep.