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003Thank you. And are you aware of any changes to the agenda this evening? No, I am not. Thank you. This meeting is being streamed on our website, where a recording will also be available if our live audience would, please be sure that device notifications are silenced, we greatly appreciate it. This move, this this movie this meeting is also being translated into Spanish and headsets are available for anyone in our audience. I would like them. I will begin tonight's meeting with our District's mission statement. Educate each student in a safe learning environment so they may develop to their Highest Potential and become contributing citizens. This Mission provides Clarity of our purpose and our focused leaders make all decisions within its context. We have no visitors tonight in that quiet. Um, boardroom is the sign of all
004the work being done out in our schools sports and everywhere else. So we'll move on to audience participation. I don't have anybody signed up on the sheet. Is there anyone in our audience? I would like to address the board tonight. Okay. Then I will turn it over to Dr. Jackie Capuchin for the superintendence report. Great, thank you. So, um, I have just a few updates. We've had another busy week, but we had a great start to the school year. Um, I've been to about half of the schools, with some of you, uh, and we'll get to the other half of the schools tomorrow and next week, and then we'll have been to all 60 schools. We when we go to the schools, we're walking through. We're talking to staff checking in on classrooms, just really
005um connecting with students and with with staff as much as possible. And then we're also recognizing 1 of the staff members of the principal's Choice. Who really contributed really went above and beyond to get the school year started, and that's been really fun for us to, to highlight those staff members to have the principal brag on that staff member and, um, to have you all, take a picture and to just be able to publicly recognize the hard work. That's that. Many of our staff members have gone to all summer. In order to get the the schools open, we've been able to recognize a couple of custodians. Uh, some of our groundskeepers. Uh, yesterday, we recognized a counselor at Frederick High School, who spent all summer planning. Some of their ninth grade transition work for students
006entering ninth grade for the first time, and so it's just been really fun to to hear about those. Um, the work of those staff members and to give them some added recognition. Uh, also tomorrow evening, we have the topping out ceremony at the new K8 in me that starts at 5, uh, 4 p.m. and we will, Just look at the progress out there, bring the community in and then uh, we'll have an opportunity to sign 1 of the beams before it gets all enclosed. So it'll be a moment in time, it'll be a memory, it'll be a great picture and it'll just be a celebration of a new school building going in. Um, and then at 5 5 PM on Friday Lions has their big community barbecue. Unfortunately, I have another work conflict that evening,
007um, but it is always a great event. So if any of you have a chance to get out to lions for their community barbecue, it's, it's really fun. We also have been meeting with a lot of community organizations. We've had lots of people reaching out who want to partner with us from the Longmont Community from Boulder County and Statewide. And so I've been um, now that we have the school year started and we have our schools up in up and running. I've been meeting with some of those Community groups. We met with rotary today. They want to partner with our students, on some projects, um, American Heart Association. Um, CU Boulder, I have a dream, our own Education Foundation. So, just really starting now to, um, connect with some of those Community groups that want
008to continue their partnership work with all of us. Um, in general, it's been just a really good start to the school year and I want to thank all of you for your support and for going out and visiting schools, you know. It it really, it doesn't probably feel as important to us. It it we enjoy doing the work and being out in schools, but it is really important to our staff. Um, to see our board members, and our administrators in their schools, offering support, checking in on things that are going really well, and celebrating those things. But also checking in, on any challenges that they, you know, may be having at this point, not hearing a lot of challenges but um, always good for us to check in to make sure that transportation is working.
009Well for kids that the nutrition programs are working well that they have the furniture, they need, they have all the curriculum. They need all of those things. And it's good for us to be in and to see that firsthand. So I just want to thank you again for taking the time to do that. I know you're all busy. You all work different schedules and it's hard to give a whole day away, but thank you for that. That commitment. Perk of the job. Thank you so much, Jackie. Next up, we have um 6 reports. Well well not 6 reports but number 6, reports and that uh is Tony Good evening members of the board um throughout the year. Um the financial services department tracks gifts, and donations to our schools, by the community per board policy
010kcd, 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. Frank. Valley schools by individuals pto's booster clubs and local businesses. And thank them for their support for the success of our students. We received more than 440,000 dollars in donations from the months of April to June 2025 this compares to just over 305,000, for the same time, period, last year. Um, this brings total donations for fiscal 2025, so the entirety of last fiscal year to almost 1.1 million and I just wanted to add that, um, about a third of that million dollars is, uh, entirely attributable, to parent organizations, like pto's foundations, and booster clubs. Um, to highlight a few other items that we were, we received
011this past quarter, uh, my book pal, donated more than 3,300 to, um, of worth of a books in a bag to Mountain View, Elementary first graders. Uh, the career elevation and Technology Center received 3400 in medical equipment and supplies from Lutheran Medical, which they can use in their health services programming there. Um, Stapp Interstate Toyota donated thousand dollars to support the future Business. Leaders of America program at Meade high school and, um, in Edco, or innovation education Colorado. Donated more than 1900 to the student drone performance team at The Innovation Center. These are just a few examples of the, there are many more generous donations from pto's booster clubs, local businesses and community members. And that list can be found in the board packet. The support from our community has been phenomenal and we are
012deeply grateful for their continued support in contributing to the vision and Mission and the educational success and well-being of our students. Great, thank you, Tony. The the generosity always amazes me of our community, the pto's, um, number is just astounding and I I had flagged some of the similar ones as you. In addition, I noticed a few car donations, you know, for the um Automotive program to work on, which is always a great way to donate to the schools if you have an old chilapi out there, that's exactly right. That's a great opportunity for the community members to give some experience. Some real hands-on experience to the students there at the cetc, The board. All right, thank you so much, Tony. Thank you. Next up we have consent items. Do board members have any questions
013or want to pull any consent items? Okay, well then I would ask for a motion to approve all consent items as listed in our agenda. So moved. Second. Mrs. Baps yes. Mr. Berthold. Yes Mrs. Gilligan yes. Mrs. Herran yes. Mr. Looga. Yes. Mrs. Ragland II. Mrs. Weiss. Yes. Thanks Christie. Um and finally we have our action items so I would call Tim O'Neal. Please our general counsel up for action item 8.1. Thank you, madam president, members of the board. Um, here we have a bit of housekeeping in our policies. We have the statutory rate maximum rate for Colorado, Colorado, open records, act requests and it was set forth both in the policy itself. As well as in the regulation, we updated the regulation. Uh, we did not update the policy but the uh The advice
014um, from the administration tonight is to remove it from the policy so that when we get statutory updates, we can bring the regulation to the board and have a, a change in 1 reading rather than having it changed and 2 readings for the policy. So that's the recommendation tonight. Okay. Great. We'll do board members have any questions? No. all right, well then I would ask for a motion to approve 8.1 So moved. Second. Mrs, baps yes. Mr. Berthold. Yes, Mrs. Gilligan, yes, Mrs. Hanic Mr. Looga yes, Mrs. Ragland, I Mrs Weiss. Yes. Thank you. And while we don't have any discussion items, I just like to call attention to 1 of the um uh consent items that was just approved. And I would like, to personally congratulate Carrie McDermott for her new position as our
015chief of staff, and invite you to share any remarks. oh yeah, Amanda Sorry. No, no no problem at all. Good evening, president Raglan members of the Board of Education and superintendent, Dr. Kaputian it's my pleasure to introduce Dr. Kerrie mcdurmon as our chief of staff. Starting August 2025, a little bit about car's, wonderful background and experience. She graduated from Colorado, State University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration, continued her education at Green Mountain College, where she earned a master's degree in Environmental Studies. Additionally. She completed her doctoral program in leadership for educational Equity with an emphasis in executive leadership from the University of Colorado at Denver. She holds a Colorado administrator license, through the Colorado, Department of Education, a graduate certificate and women in leadership from Cornell University and is currently enrolled
016in an education, policy graduate certificate program through the University of Colorado at Denver. Dr. Mcdurmon has been a long-standing employee in St. Rayne Valley School since 2015 Served in her seventh year as Chief Communications and Global impact officer prior to that. She served in other roles, including executive director, and director of communications Communications manager. And online Administration and web coordinator. Dr. Mcdurmon is also a leader in our community. She currently serves as an executive committee member on the board of directors for the Longmont Area Chamber of Commerce. And she formerly served as vice president, at large for Colorado, schools, public relations, Association, and was a board member with the city of Loveland, cultural Services citizen Advisory Board, It is my pleasure to have Carrie Dr. McDermott! Share a few words with you. Thank you. Thank
017you Amanda, um, Dr. Kapuche and president Raglan Board of Education members. Um, I truly love this district and I love this team and I love this community and it really is such an honor to continue to have the opportunity to serve alongside our teachers and staff. Our administrators, my amazing colleagues on cabinet and um under Dr. Coppices leadership to continue to advance success and opportunities for our students, it has been such a strong start to the year. And I really look forward to continuing to work hard for the saint ring Community because I believe so strongly in the public school advantage. So thank you so much for this opportunity and I am so grateful to all of you for your ongoing commitment to our mission and to the success of our students. So thank you.
018Carrie. Congratulations, you bring so much knowledge and wisdom and expertise through all of your experience, in business and, and marketing and Communications, and just your, um, nationally known for the work that you're doing for public education. We are so fortunate to have you. Thank you. Would like to recognize Miss McDermott Dr. McDermott. Um, Carrie is wicked smart. And she gives a lot of really good thoughtful feedback about things. You know, I can, I can bring hard things to her and she helps frame them in ways that others can hear and receive the information. And so I count on her a lot to just bounce ideas and um challenges and to think about the best ways to communicate those things. Carrie was instrumental um across the state and helping to change the narrative around public education.
019She's done a lot of extensive work in that area. Um she has made herself available 24/7 that's not always a good and healthy thing but it's a reality. And when we run public schools that our schools are open 6 days a week and in the evenings, and on weekends for activities and events. And um, anywhere there are lots of children things can happen and we have to be responsive to our administrators, and our staff and those students when those things happen. And so it's nice to have somebody again that I can call on. Um, and many of our team is a lot of our team is that way not just Carrie, um, but I'm, I'm happy to be able to lean on her in that way. Um, she's very strong with her organizational skills and
020often thinks about things. I haven't even gotten a chance to think about yet, so she's 1 step ahead of me looking, um, you know, to the Future looking to the next week. Trying to keep us organized around a lot of events and a lot of activities and a lot of speaking engagements, and it is just so incredibly helpful to have somebody to lean on in that way. So, um, I'm appreciative That um, Carrie was willing to accept that that role in that challenge and um she is an asset to our system, so thank you Carrie. Thanks for that and again, sorry for skipping over. Well that um concludes our business of this evening. Our