2021-06-23 Board of Education Regular Meeting

001Good evening Thank you for joining us this evening We are not going to we are called role and we said the Pledge of Allegiance this afternoon at 4 p.m When we began our regular meeting so we are going to jump right in John were there any addendums or changes to the agenda? There was an Addendum or a change to the agenda and that was that we moved action item 8.9 up to vote after the executive session. So that has already occurred. So we've already voted on 8.9. Thank you Appreciate it. We do have several people signed up to speak this evening the board does always welcome public comment at our meetings a Few housekeeping items each comment is limited to no more than three minutes for a total of 30 minutes We've had several people

002sign up this evening. So if you don't need your entire three minutes No worries and please note that it's not the number of people who address the board on one topic The board will always listen to all comments Greg is going to time the public comments this evening I will interrupt you at three minutes so the next person can come up and begin speaking All right with that We're going to start with I need to read the handwriting with Jen Picaric and I apologize, please Correct me if I say your name. I did. All right That might be my one my one One right last name this evening. So Jen, thank you for joining us again Three minutes and if you could state your name and your address before you've been again speaking. That would

003be great My name is Jen Picaric. I My address is one one one four eight East hundred and twelfth place Henderson, Colorado eight. Oh six four zero All right, ready? All right. I grew up in the st. Rain Valley school district and now I'm a mother of four and all my kids have two I've learned from some amazing teachers and watched my teachers have amazing teachers that have touched their lives in ways that they will remember Forever. I watched my kids fearlessly walk into their classrooms on their first day kindergarten And I watched my with pride as my daughter spoke in front of her friends family and all of her classmates at her high school graduation my half Mexican daughter That same daughter is about to begin her last year at CSU to become a

004teacher Not only because she has a heart to teach but because of the amazing support system that she's found inside This school district with teachers that she's that have had her forever Over the years I've always sent my kids to school with the blind trust that they're in good hands and the decisions that were being Made were in their best interests. I don't have that trust anymore. I Was around for the days that the schools informed the parents of curriculum that was coming and gave the parents the decision to choose What was right for their children and I've sadly watched as this school board has chipped away from those rights Deciding that they knew what was best for my kids our kids I'm embarrassed to say that as I watched the division happen between what

005I was teaching my kids and what they were learning in school I just kind of crossed my fingers and quite frankly Thanked my lucky stars that I my kids were almost out and I wasn't gonna have to deal with this crazy But yet here we are critical race theory is a hateful divisive Manipulative agenda that is designed to divide our country and pander to the idea that America is racist and despicable Even more importantly, it's teaching our kids to hate each other based on the color of the skin and regardless of the amount of effort They put in they will always be the oppressor or the oppressed for the rest of their lives. So why even try right? What happened to all you have to do is work hard and you can accomplish anything you

006set your mind to Those were the posters hanging in my high school, but we're in yours Because of dedication and hard work I'm looking at an entire group of different ethnicities and lifestyles right here on this board And that yet you're telling my kids that they can't reach for the stars because of their skin color seems a little bit disconnected If I'm honest We're at a fork in the road and in the group in front of me right now is driving for now. I Came here last meeting. I was told CRT wasn't snooping around st Vrain nothing to see here and then I do not join that zoom call the very next day you were on it I heard an entire did an entirely different song and dance actually from you Don I Heard about

007how you were forcing CRT training to begin with our teachers in June and about the future conversations You are so committed to having from this group from the NAACP That's not even in Colorado, but yet intent to say that we're a racist here in need need middle school. I Believe they were based out of Chicago Which is kind of a long way from the people that are actually voting and paying your addicted. Thank you, Jen. Appreciate it I'm gonna call up Cheryl Picaric now from our school Cheryl if you could please state your name and address and then we'll begin timing at that point My name is Cheryl Picaric and I live at 68 Sylvia Court in Loveland Okay Critical race theory is running through our country like a wildfire and you guys say it

008hasn't come here But I'm not sure about that. This is what I do know though It's ridden in Marxism and communism its purpose is to break families and divide our country It promotes fear hate division and violence It doesn't belong in our schools And if you try to allow this in our schools, you'll feel the consequences of your actions to the parents in this community I remind you that your job is to give our children an education and academic excellence, which doesn't include critical race theory slash Equity and I just wanted to tell you that there are kids in this community who have fought and died to preserve the freedoms that we all live in and we're not going to allow anyone to take those freedoms away from our kids and future generations and Banned

009CRT from a curriculum in this district and we will be here to support you in the fall Continue to lie to us and push this discussion agenda into our school and we the parents will be there to vote you out Thank You Cheryl Ryan West Ryan Actually, I'm starting Jen and Cheryl had reached out prior prior to that. So I'm starting at the top of the list I have Ryan West. Is he not here? All right, Heather McLean McLean You do not. All right, then Raul Fernandez We ended up there. Anyway, Raul, if you could please if you could please state your name and address Great. Thank you. My name is Raul Fernandez. I live in one seven zero three zero Pico Street, Broomfield, Colorado The reason I'm here. I don't have children's yet. My

010wife and I are starting to start a family. I'm an immigrant I served in the United States Air Force for four years five months and 15 days and It's really Derange what I'm what I'm seeing that is being indoctrinated I'm 51% African if we want to talk about slavery and from Dominican Republic October 12 1492nd is the day that Christopher Columbus arrived to the new world is when the first slaves were brought That's why I'm 18% Cameroonian That's why I have sickle cell trade among many other things for me to see That because of the race or how you look in the outside We all need to think alike or being oppressed. I am NOT oppressed I come from a terrible country and it's gonna be my seventh anniversary Here I became a United States

011Citizen upon nine months. I came here and it took me 18 years to legally come here Why would I come or why would I try to come to a place that it's so? Allegedly bad or oppressed oppressive to people of my skin color listen to my accent Jesus Christ I came from nothing and here I am living in a suburb in Colorado I never made I never made even a thousand dollars working 16 hours a day and here I am living the American dream that crap needs to win and that's all I have to say Thank you Jerry abshear that correct Pretty darn close. I'll settle for close on that one. You can correct me Jerry name and address and then please begin speaking Good evening. My name is Jerry abshear. I'm from meet, Colorado

012I have a half a dozen kids in the school district or grandkids. Excuse me Yeah, and I'm here as a follow-up to the last school board meeting which I attended and then the zoom meeting with the NAACP the following night And I just had some concerns and they're getting voiced already about What the school district in conjunction with the NAACP is going to be doing as far as the diversity equity and inclusion Mandatory training for staff teachers and faculty. I would like to know if there's any way I Can get in contact and who had whoever has this curriculum and see it See what it's about Another concern I had was See you you're in partnership with them. I've seen some really divisive stuff coming out of there from some of their professors Hopefully they're

013not the ones that are involved in this Some humanities people I'm not going to get into their names pretty divisive The other thing is are we concentrating on on academics at the same time we're doing all this training hopefully That would be my hope because that's my main concern for my grandkids is I want them to be top-notch Students so they can be successful in life I said, you know once again critical race theory teaches our kids To label stereotype and demonize each other and It's just wrong You know, you can't be tell people that you know because you're this color You're the oppressor and because you're you're this other color. You're the oppressed In America, it's not like that. I grew up in the 60s in Texas and It wasn't like that down there

014in the 60s. I played with kids of all colors Raised on an army base and yeah granted it was pretty mixed bunch. Well, we played and we lit and and we grew up honoring Martin Luther King That were to be judged by the content of our character not the color of our skin and that's about all I got. Thank you Thank you Natalie Abshire. Oh Okay. All right No worries. All right, then I'm going to I I Apologize I'm going to make a stab at the lasting Berg Bergstrom Berg first name Susan thank you Susan. I'm sorry. I Apparently needs a little bit of help in reading but Susan you're up next. Thank you Yeah, I just wanted to say that Well many years ago I taught in this district and it's gone only downhill

015From there it was bad then And Yeah, critical race theory is divisive And I guess I just want to say that I have friends in the district who work within the district and We'll be watching we'll be watching what happens and I have no idea what you're doing to justify that kind of salary All right Don cage Just watching. Okay. Thank you for joining us this evening Cynthia Gilbert There's a name in front of that. I can't read it No Alex docheff Alexa docheff Not here as well Shannon docheff So and then I have Matt menza. How are you Shannon? Hi Shannon Thanks, if you can please state your name and address. My name is Shannon docheff. I live at one three three eight eight County Road one, Longmont Thank you and thank you also

016for serving on the board my son-in-law serves on a school board In Wyoming and I know that it takes time away from his life and his family So I do appreciate your time I was born in Colorado. I'm a native all of my children are also natives and my grandchildren as well I did not prepare something to Say to you tonight and I just came last minute to mostly hear what everybody else has to say and To I guess keep more of an eye on the situation. I've been Interested in education for a long time was unhappy when my Children were of school age enough that I home schooled them and it does seem as The gal before me said that was she was teaching in the district or in the cult the state that

017things have gotten worse and it does seem like it has that The I don't know how it happened where the curriculum has been taken away from Parental input, but it if you are interested in what parents have to say Then I would like you to listen to what we have to say I wonder also are you here to hear us or are you here to also answer any questions? It is not our practice to answer questions during public comment, but we are here. We do listen in here Well during public comment. Okay, so when do you answer questions? You're welcome to reach out to us at any time. Our contact information is on the district website You may phone us you may phone the superintendent We're happy to do that. Okay My question is pretty

018simple is where did this come from? Where did this curriculum? Suggestion to add to our our children's Daily Schedule that's already so full. What are you gonna get rid of to include this and where did it come from? That's all I wanted to know Great. Thanks, Shannon. So you're telling me to reach out to What's on your website and you'll answer that question. I'm happy to visit with you If you'd like to call the superintendent as well But our our practice is not to make comments during public comment, but to follow up afterwards Okay, and then that question can you tell me is it already answered on your website and your public? The things that you give to us Is it already what's your question where this issue came from? Why is it even before

019you why are you even considering it who brought it before you Considering what critical race theory? We are not considering critical race theory Okay, great, thank you All right, if Matt Mensah is not here Okay. Hi Matt. I think you probably know the routine at this point Hopefully I can figure it out. Thank you, Matt Mensah live here in Longmont Parkview Avenue I wasn't planning on speaking tonight, but look I know how hard it is being a public I've talked to Don before I've talked to some of you You've seen some of my emails probably when I was running a campaign last year Look, the bottom line is a lot of us watched what happened during kovat to our children A lot of our children were set back sent home and put behind Especially a

020lot of the working families And so we're now a lot of us are awake in the community and we're watching you We're watching to see what direction you take this community. There's a lot of this is an inflection point right now This is a pivotal point for a lot of us in the community. We want to make sure this community stays Great and it grows in a healthy direction what these people are concerned about is is a disease the woke ism the garbage is Is Crushing America. We don't want to hear we want to be in a peaceful place like this gentleman who served in the Air Force I served in in the military for 20 years Retired Navy pilot. I understand what its service is about. I know you guys are trying to serve

021Happily and and successfully so let's let it give us confidence that you're doing the right thing Show us that you're gonna do the right thing. You need to end training for your employees. That is absolutely absurd waste your time Put your money and your time towards our families and our children our children Not this garbage Retreats where you're indoctrinating your teachers Let's spend our time show us that you're gonna do the right thing put out a public statement saying reject for grace theory and Give us confidence. You're doing the right job or else like somebody else said we're all watching. We're gonna get rid of you We the people not you Thank You Matt, I believe that brings us to the end of our public comment if there's nobody else that wants to make a

022statement this evening Yes, go ahead. Oh, I'm sorry. I I'm so sorry Susan. I apologize Can you please state your name and address? Yes My name is Sandra Moore and I'm a six six five five Saddleback Avenue in Firestone. Thank you I just want to commend everyone who's serving on the board We moved here from another state five years ago retired here so we could be with our children and grandchildren I think you have a solid school district I'm a former deputy superintendent of instruction in a large district in another state So I know the role you play. I know the hours you put in I just want to quickly share a perspective that I'm not sure you thought about it has to do with the requirements of Wearing a mask or being vaccinated for

023students and that perspective is this I went in and got the Pfizer vaccine and I'll call it a vaccine even though it was an experimental Medication it really wasn't technically FDA approved. I signed off on that as an adult and as a result I had an adverse effect that is lingering And it has to do with tinnitus hearing loss and I'm part of a support group that Has over 7,000 members in it that have either tinnitus hearing loss vertigo dizziness from this so-called vaccine You can go and register on the VAERS website VAERS. It's a government website That you have had an adverse effect and as of the beginning of June about 4% of those Vaccinated have hearing loss tinnitus dizziness vertigo Not to speak to the other complications such as heart complications and so

024forth in your thoughts of Whether or not you should get involved in mandating masks for students I would say this if you do that You will be putting undue influence on children 18 and younger Because what student wants to be the only one in his classroom or the only one of three in his classroom? That's wearing a mask what girl or guy wants to go to the prom and have to wear a mask Who wants to run cross and come cross country or track and have to wear a mask? These are children We're talking about and I took that responsibility And I'm dealing with it, but I can tell you tinnitus is maddening. It's a ringing in the ears You can't sleep at night people have committed suicide over it So if you go forward

025with that and I'm sure your legal team who is here tonight Probably will tell you you have every right to do so Doesn't make it the right thing What if I was a 17 year old from one of your high schools? Frederick High School and I stood before you and said I would have never gotten that vaccine If I hadn't felt pressure from the district to do so, I just couldn't wear the mask My friends weren't wearing it because I got the vaccine I begged my parents for it because the district made me do it now I'll tell you again from my experience as a deputy superintendent that Thank you, Sandra. Appreciate it. You can get sued as a district and as individuals So just be aware of that. Please do the right thing for

026children and for the district's financial situation Thank you. All right, that's everybody who has signed up to speak this evening. I will circle back to oh Susan I thought you spoke Susan. Is that correct? Yeah, that's fine great I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America One nation under God All right, thank you everybody who came and spoke this evening We're going to move on to our next agenda item, which is our visitors and this evening. We have the gear Alliance robotics presentation Don I believe you're gonna introduce this? Yeah, Terry. Are you here? Terry Olken Okay, great. Hi, Terry We're gonna we're gonna hear from this group. They're a group that's been in place for a while and they continue to win a lot of Local state national awards and

027then we're gonna get to see a demonstration and then we have a recognition for you as well Thanks, Don. Do you guys want to they're just gonna set the robots there so they you can see them great Terry take your time. Are you going to be turning the robots robots on this evening? No, we're gonna do a static static display. So just so you can see it. Okay, the students have videos so you can see the robots in action So you're going to be hearing from Upper Creek robotics and we have multiple robotics teams so you'll be hearing from students about their accomplishments and they have some videos to show you and they will be Expressing their thanks for your support Hello, I'm Michelle Gilbert, I just finished eighth grade at Flagstaff Academy and I'll

028be starting at Niwa in the fall I'm a member of Upper Creek robotics So Upper Creek has 114 students and grades K through 12 spread across four programs So that's first Lego League junior first Lego League first tech challenge and first robotics competition I first came to Upper Creek and first Lego League, which I did for four years And now I've progressed into first tech challenge So last year our last season was my first year in first tech challenge and it was definitely a lot of fun But it was also very different from what I imagined most people's first years probably like due to kovat So So in a normal season our team of six mentors and 13 students would meet in our building three nights a week to design build program and test our

029robot, but this year We instead we had to rely heavily on programs like zoom and slack in order to make In order to maintain communication since you weren't able to meet in person Um the sorry No worries take your time um Yeah, we um rely a lot on programs like zoom and slack to maintain communication since we weren't able to meet in person um we used uh A program called android studio in order to program our robot together online and we used a program called on shape to design our robot together online and um The hardware team also built test bases our test robots so that The software team could continue their work while the hardware team put together our final robot Um, I think our robot actually made it to almost every single team

030member's house throughout the course of the season Just so that everybody was able to contribute to it, which I think is actually pretty cool Um meeting on zoom was definitely a little bit, uh disheartening at times But towards the end of the season when we finally got to start meeting in person again Um definitely like made all the struggle of the season worth it when we got to see like all the parts of the robot come together And just getting to see our whole team like our finished robot up and running um Yeah, one highlight of our season though is probably when we got asked by First to give a presentation at the colorado state kickoff to all of the other colorado ftc teams We're super excited to have been asked to present again this

031year for our third time So we're looking forward to that We also got highlighted along with five other teams in an international twitch live stream by this organization called fun I just think that's really cool and very unique to have our team Recognized on an international and a national level like that Um, yeah, but I think stan could probably tell you about our other achievements that led to that recognition Yeah, so my name is sam fallen and uh, this was my third year on the ftc program and i'm going to be a Senior at long run high school next year And so this year we competed in three virtual competitions. Unfortunately we're not able to go into any in-person competitions for the first tech challenge and At our first competition we placed second in robot

032performance and we also got the second place inspire award And so the inspire award is the highest honor you can get at an ftc competition and it is given based on a combination of outreach Robot design and how it performs and the documentation that process in the engineering notebook, which all teams have to create On the robot performance and a virtual competition was based on an average of six matches that we played on our field at our own facility And so at our second competition we again placed second in robot performance But this time we won the first place inspire award, which our team was very proud of And then at the state competition, uh, one of our software members rishi, uh won the dean's list finalist out of three in colorado And we placed

033fourth in robot performance and we won the first place inspire award For the first time in our team's history, which gave us our first orange banner and would have qualified us for the world Championship this year, though. Unfortunately, it was also canceled because of covid And so in the future, we hope to continue our success and qualify again next year and hopefully win it all this time And so now we have a video for you guys of our robot in a match So this video is a of the first minute of one of our high scoring matches this season Um from our practice Uh Yeah, it was working before let's go out of all the problems right No worries, we're flexible and you can just describe what the robot does. Sure. So our Our autonomous

034period is 30 seconds long and so that is when the robot is not controlled by any driver and so that portion of the match is done By only pre-programmed the instructions and sensor inputs So we use a lot of cool different sensors on our robot to have a more consistent and higher performing route And so we were we had one of the top scoring autonomous is this year And it's very fun to watch as it has some very smooth Actions and then for the teleop period We pick up the rings off the floor. I don't know if we have some of those here Um, and then we bring those to our top of to the top of our robot and then that shoots them out into the goal placed on the field And then in

035the autonomous period we have a mechanism that grabs the small goal here So hopefully we can get this video on Okay Yeah, so in the beginning of the match in autonomous You have to move the wobble goals from the edge of the field into one of the zones Which is determined based on the number of rings that are in the stack and so in this one we Grab these rings off the floor and then shoot them into the high goal Okay, that's really cool Thank you So a few of the cool features on this robot are that we have an intake on both sides So that allows us to get rings from both the front and the back Which would give us a competitive advantage in an in-person competition. Unfortunately, we didn't have one of

036those this year but That was one of our cool design features and then we also implemented a more robust drivetrain which allowed us to play more defense But also we didn't get to Compete in person this year. So thank you. That's awesome I am olga and i'm going to be a junior at now at high school next year And i'm going to tell you a bit about our robot and our meetings So our first competition team also got the chance to meet through covid and we were separated into our sub teams in order to allow for safety guidelines regulations Competitions that we went to were all virtual and we didn't go to any physical ones However, we were really grateful to be able to compete because many teams didn't get the chance to do that

037this year And whenever meetings were online or in person It was really important that students got this opportunity because we were able to find consistency in our meetings guidance in our mentors and friendship in our peers Which was really really important throughout this like unprecedented time and our mentors did a wonderful job of being conscious of everybody's different covid circumstances and they were As nurturing and supportive as ever if not more And robotics really became a home away from home for so many of us in a new sense as covid brought our team together in a new way now a different Benefit of our new meeting structure was that we were able to create and compete with a robot with a swerve drive Which has been a long-standing goal of our team While creating it

038is a technical challenge. It is an absolute design advantage and swerve drive Here's a swerve module for you to see so On a swerve module you have at least two motors. So that means that you can have one for steering And one for driving so you're able to do both the same time which is different from a normal From a normal drive Now our robot had three motors per wheel two for driving and one for steering Giving us a huge competitive advantage that we use to its full potential Our swerve drive along with other mechanisms and a huge amount of teamwork led to our second place finish at the rocky mountain regional Additionally, we won the quality award which awards robustness and concept and fabrication and the design award Which celebrates form and function of

039the robotic mechanisms? Next you're going to hear from caitlyn Yeah, so hi, my name is caitlyn fong and i'm going to be a senior at naiwat high school this year This season first introduced the a new challenge called the game design challenge this challenge Encourages the utilization of strategic and design thinking skills And it was an opportunity for teams to design and pitch their own competition game to the frc game design team Winning games or their elements would be used in upcoming or future game competition game games This season our team designed a game centered around aviation and we won finalists in our region This saturday, they will be announcing the winners for this challenge Another award that our team received is the dean's list award This award is an individual award that recognizes the

040leadership and dedication of students Who exemplify the core values of first and gracious professionalism both inside and outside of school and robotics? This season I was virtually interviewed and elected as a dean's list finalist and I was chosen as a finalist in our region Which is a huge honor for both our frc and ftc teams as this is the second time in our team's history of receiving this award I'll now hand it over to walker. Thank you Hello, my name is walker brandon and I will be a sophomore at silver creek high school And i'm going to talk about more awards that we won this year so So the main award that I was a part of was the chairman's award Which is the most prestigious award a team can win it like you need

041to write a 10 000 character essay talking about our team We need to answer 13 executive questions ranging from team diversity to how large our team is and Other robotics teams that we help create and then things that we don't cover in our essay or the questions we do a presentation for a panel of judges As olgas said we did not have in-person competitions this year. So we had at-home challenges And with these at-home challenges you had to do a lot of speed tests and with our swerve drive We could do a lot faster than some teams And with our swerve drive we won two out of five of these at-home challenges And I think that we have a video of us winning these challenges so Is it? Yeah, just tap it well Okay. So

042this one is just very speedy just completing the circuit around And you're not supposed to hit the pink codes. This one is just hitting crates Is that how fast it really is? Yep It's very light and very fast. This is just a speedy around go around donut thing very fun And then this is the main thing the light speed circuit I've seen this been done like a hundreds of times by our students. It was very awesome to see As a student driving that yes All right, that's it. And we just want to say thank you so much Great. Thanks everyone. Thank you so much Great and maybe don while they're they're coming around Um, I have one comment but you you go ahead and then i'll make i'll make my comment. I'll save it for

043the end Great. Congratulations everyone john. Did you have a question? I did on the robot you're carrying right here that fired the rings was that autonomous or was a student firing the rings? It's amazing. I mean you're approving more's law the growth i've seen In this district and your talents are just phenomenal great job So and sam I couldn't help but notice your mom had a giant smile on her face the whole time And i'm certain that there are other parents here So if there are any other parents, uh of students if you could stand and we can recognize you that would be great Thank you and good luck saturday when you find out about that that competition Please do we would enjoy that. Thank you All right don Agenda item 4.2. We're going to

044honor our p-tech industry partners And brandon, I believe you're going to introduce this Thank you Yes, it's my honor This evening we're going to honor the industry partners that are collaborating with us on our p-tech programs In a minute, I will hand the microphone or the dais over to our p-tech program leaders Who to provide you with the details of their individual programs and to introduce you to the guests who are here with us this evening But before I do that I would like to make sure that you all and the members of the public who may be Either in the room or watching this on television at home know what p-tech is p-tech stands for pathways and technology early college high school and is a collaboration between a public high school A community college

045and at least one industry partner Starting in the ninth grade p-tech students enroll in college. Let me say that again. They enroll in college in the ninth grade And take concurrent enrollment courses that grant both high school and college credit The program is entirely free to the students and upon completion students graduate with both a high school diploma and an associate's degree Essential to the program is the role of the industry partner Industry partners help determine which associate's degree is offered through the program and in many cases they Even help customize the curriculum to ensure that it aligns with their particular industry industry partners also provide mentorships workplace learning opportunities and paid internships for students That's a lot. It's a huge commitment And it's a long-term commitment that's made by our local companies When it's

046all said and done working with both our higher education and industry partners Our goal is to provide students with as many opportunities as possible They'll have the opportunity to apply for jobs with our industry partners apply for positions with other companies in the same fields Or apply to a four-year college or university to continue their education P-tech was first established in colorado in 2015 through legislation that we worked on with ibm We were proud to partner with ibm in that year to submit the first application for a p-tech program in colorado at skyline high school In 2018 we added our second p-tech program at at frederick high school and later this year We will launch our third program at silver creek high school, but that's enough for me Please allow me to introduce greg stevens

047Dr russell fox and karen norris who will talk about their respective p-tech programs welcome No cheating or I should say that's not considered cheating um Thank you board. Thank you brandon. My name is greg stevens I am an assistant principal at skyline high school and also the program leader of falcon tech our p-tech program at skyline high school Just a reminder Our program at falcon tech we are a computer science program We are students can earn their aas degree in an associates of applied science in Four or five or six years. We have three different pathways. They can earn it in computer programming They can earn a degree in web development and they can earn a degree in a general cis pathway Our target population are first generation college students We uh, that is a

048the group that we are targeting that we want to get at that we want to Get approved to our program 70 is our target We are really proud to say that we dipped a little bit below that this year But of the 250 students that we have in our program almost 70 percent of them are first generation college students The first in their family to go to college and that's something that we are extremely proud of Um Just some celebrations a little bit of fun celebrations are fun. And so we're going to have a little bit Falcon tech some of our celebrations this year 46 of our students graduated in may Last year with the last year's cohort we can say we have a hundred percent high school graduation rate In falcon tech and that's

049something that we're going to And that's something that we're going to keep striving for and that's something that's very important to us Of those 46 seniors, um this year 26 finished their aas their aas degree in four years Including last year's cohort that means 46 total students out of falcon tech have earned their aas degree from front range community college This class is last senior class. They earn nearly one million dollars in scholarships We had our first daniel scholar winner luis borrego jimenez Um, you um, you all met jose cuero siennes earlier this spring, um earned a full ride scholarship to harvard university We have 90 students this summer completing their ibm internships. Um That started on monday that you'll hear from our industry partners here in just a moment 12 falcon tech alumni are

050currently working full-time at ibm We have several Falcon tech alumni who are doing co-ops that means they're going to school full-time and working part-time for ibm virtually and so I say all these celebrations and I and we talk about these celebrations because they're fun But I also want to say that without ibm who is our industry partner. None of these celebrations would be happening We wouldn't be talking about this. We wouldn't be talking about louise. We wouldn't be talking about jose We wouldn't be talking about lexi chaparro who earned a full ride scholarship to colorado western university as well So IBM created the model 10 years ago. This is our 10 year anniversary and we're going to you're going to hear more about 10 year anniversary P-tech celebrations throughout the year. We're going to invite

051board members. We hope you can join us We are extremely proud to say ibm is our partner as they created the model They believe in the model and they have invested a ton of resources to to this model Probably the the most important resource that they have Given to us, obviously you wouldn't hear resources from ibm. It's it's pretty awesome and it's pretty Incredible, but it's people and we at falcon tech We talk a lot about people and we talk about how we care about each other We talk about how we treat each other We talk about how we love each other and like a family and and it truly is how we treat each other and we we We consider ibm and our industry partner part of our family Um, I want to introduce

052and I think this is when I do it right brandon Um, I want to introduce our industry partners who are here from ibm. Um tracy nick if you would come up, please Um tracy nick is one thing ibm has done is they provided a program manager to our school and so Tracy nick works for falcon tech full-time. She is invested in our schools. She knows all of our students. She actually is managing all 90 of our interns that started this this this week for their summer internship and Tracy is one of our she's she's one of our family members Tracy has a background in education and now she has a background in industry and you put those things together and we get awesome Stuff and so we're really excited to have tracy nick as our

053program manager from ibm The next gentleman we want to introduce is ray johnson I'm gonna let ray say his own title Because it's really long and I always mess it up. So ray, what's your title at ibm? for 17 states So let's not forget that and ray j Sorry ray johnson. He is the reason why p-tech is in st. Rain several years ago It was just a side conversation that was happening between ray johnson Former area superintendent regina rinaldi and patty canyones They were sitting and patty was the principal at skyline at the time and they were sitting talking and ray j said hey We have this p-tech thing. Maybe that would be a good thing for st Rain and infer skyline and so they started talking and and six years later ray j look

054look what we have Three p-tech schools in st. Rain, which is really cool. So I can't express enough what what ibm has done for us. They created the model And this model is not only changing our students lives. It's changing the trajectory of their families lives and quite honestly It's changing the trajectory of our whole community and that's what matters the most is is this community is is special and ibm and what they have done for us has just Just made that even more special. So ibm. Thank you for everything you've done and Pretty awesome. So thank you. I got so excited talking about ibm. I want to introduce russ. I'm dr. Russ Russell fox leader of warrior tech My mom texted me to speak up she's watching from montana So I better do that

055for her because if mom's not happy nobody's happy, right? Um, so anyway, I want to thank you board for having us here. Um Warrior tech has many of the same celebrations that falcon tech has and it's an amazing program We have been grateful to have greg and and the whole skyline team to follow And and warrior tech is an equally amazing program We specialize in biomedical manufacturing and we have three partner companies that we work with Um tomar pharmaceuticals Agilent technologies and kbi biopharma so you can imagine in the past year They've had some really interesting change of work experiences As they manufacture many important components for for different vaccines and and medicines that we're creating in this country um Our p-tech students at frederick high school are really thriving in every possible way some

056quick stats This year p-tech students completed 98 percent or past 98 percent of their courses. They aimed they earned over 200 ames credits Their cumulative gpa was point seven five points higher than the general frederick population all while similar to to greg's program having um Traditionally underrepresented populations in stem be a core component of our of our kind of tenets of how we are building this program Right the same way that greg says that falcon tech is changing the community I know that warrior tech is changing the carbon valley community for the better And it works for a lot of reasons because a lot of people are dedicated and a lot of people care It works because parents care and because students work their butts off It works because we have the best teachers in

057the world But it also works because these students have mentors from different partner companies to look up to it works because they can see someone Who is doing things that are something that we can't really comprehend in a in a traditional comprehensive, you know high school And so I am so grateful for our partner companies and I want sylvia to come on up. Uh, dr sylvia robinson from tolmar It takes an awful lot of work on sylvia's part and for joe guiles from agilent who can't be here sally dyer and also linda from kbi Uh pharmaceuticals and so we have really great partner companies and and without these people We wouldn't have this connection and without that connection students wouldn't have that thing to aspire to they wouldn't have those connections of people to email

058And and help for homework if they need and and meet for pizza and games or do our mentor events so I'll end with sharing one one quick story for anybody who's ever been an administrator in the room You know that oftentimes crying parents means angry parents And I walked into my office one time and I saw a crying parent and um when we sat down together I realized quickly that the the crying was not anger. It was just overwhelming gratitude and what she said was She she expressed that she had no idea and she couldn't envision the future that her son is is now looking at For her son as short as two years ago And she was so thankful for the program and that work couldn't be done without our partner companies So thank

059you sylvia joe sally and linda. I really appreciate it Our our newest p-tech group has the most guests. So i'll invite karen up to the microphone Thank you russ And thank you for having us here. I'm karen norris assistant principal at silver creek high school and i'm the administrator for raptor tech We are a cyber security p-tech program and I know if you have followed anything about the news. It's a very important Program we're going to be educating and putting out the leaders in four years that are going to be Solving all of those cyber security issues and problems that we see on the news So i'm here tonight. Also with my raptor tech colleagues. We have eric fenestad principal silver creek We have erin baskin. He is our raptor tech counselor And we have

060carmen robino. She is our academic raptor tech Facilitator And yes, we're the new kids on the block We're the baby of the family Kind of so to say to to p-tech and we don't have all of those successes to share with you yet And I say yet because we will we will be back and we'll be sharing those successes with you So, I don't know if you've noticed but raptor tech is coming to you in numbers And that might be visible to you But I think coming in numbers speaks to the importance of collaboration and the Interdependency of a cyber security team And steve jobs is the one who said Great things in business are never done by one person They're done by a team of people and so if you look at the sea

061of maroon behind me We are raptor tech a team of one and it's my honor and my privilege to introduce that team to you Who we have first we have cisco and if you all want to come up while I Speak a little cisco is no stranger to saint brain They manage saint brain's wireless all of their data management their all the cyber security products our web ex which we So dearly depended on recently Our phone system and much more So we know they're very well acquainted with saint brain we have greg bruggemann He is our public sector account manager And he is our main raptor tech contact We have kathleen crocket. She's our security account manager And we have kyle von. He's a systems engineer. And as we found out the other day, he

062knows About he's kind of like google for cyber security. He knows everything So we learned that on tuesday because last tuesday we enjoyed a cyber defense clinic our kids If you can envision this especially anyone in education 33 13 year olds Engaged for two and a half hours and they did not pick up their phone To see, you know, what's going on or contacting anyone? So that was that was that was an absolute labs absolute accomplishment there Next we have comcast we have nick neilson He is a fellow and chief tech advisor at comcast, but he is not new to the saint brain scene He had a son graduate from erie high school in 2019 And he has a daughter who will be a senior at erie high school this year And we're looking forward

063to our visit with comcast next tuesday Next we have tom brenniger with peak resources Tom is the vice president and ceo of peak resources And I will say what makes peak unique Is that while on a smaller scale than other industry partners? Peak is able to bring to the table the perspective of an entrepreneur startup So if we have kids who are interested in cyber security maybe wanting to do their own business They have someone with wealth of knowledge to ask those questions, too We traveled to peak last week and had a great time with them I know that when we walked away jeopardy was something the kid's favorite. That was very cutthroat Competition that went on there And then we have demetri black sleep from seagate And demetri is a staff product security engineer

064and seagate's no stranger to silver creek. In fact, they are our neighbor They are right across the street and they've always been a strong supporter of silver creek high school And I do have to tell demetri this that after you presented and told us stories Because one of the things that demetri does is he hacks his own products So after he left we have this room full of kids who now want to be hackers white No, but I have to say white hat hackers. So that's a good thing So we're very thankful to our industry partners and we're very thankful to saint brain For supporting us and getting it started And I do want to also let you know I do have some raptor tech stickers for you, which I will give to you Thank

065you. Thank you so brandon have some uh recognitions that we'd like but one thing that uh I don't know if you mentioned it but Saint brain valley schools. We were the first school district west of the mississippi to bring p-tech to Colorado and one of the things that I I think has really been Noteworthy Is a number of years ago when we started thank you when we started to think about how do we move our graduation rate from 55? among our minority students And 75 among all of our students How do we move that up? And today our graduation rate is over 90 percent and we actually have among the highest graduation requirements in the state And then for our hispanic students, which is our largest minority group. It's nearing 87 percent So we've seen

066and what student after student tells me is that the opportunity to go to college To get a badge to get a degree to get a certain certification something like that has given them the inspiration to knock out all 24 and a half credits and then to move on and Go to places like your companies. We have over 95 Business and corporate partners in saint brain and we are very grateful to you for what you've done for our children. So thank you So i'm brandon. I wondered if I are you going to give oh, sorry don I forgot you were going to give awards Thank you Brandon thank you Don before we do our before you give your superintendent reports. I'm going to give todd an opportunity Todd, I believe we have four new hires to

067recognize and introduce this evening Thank you and good evening president sigris members of the board superintendent haddad It's my pleasure to introduce to you And i'm gonna have brian young dr brian young as principal for me high school Dr Young has graduated from southern illinois's university with a bachelor's degree in biology He continued his education at the university of colorado, denver where he received his master's degree in educational leadership In addition, dr. Young has received his doctorate of education degree in educational leadership from the university of northern colorado Dr. Young has worked in the saint brain valley school district for 20 years For the past five years. Dr. Young has been the principal at frederick high school where he was part of the climate and culture shift both within the school and the community from

068from Which sorry increased student open enrollments and decreased? student the students leaving the feeder from 2010 to 2016 Dr. Young was the principal at coleridge middle school and prior to that he served as the assistant principal at sunset middle school from 2005 to 2010 Before coming in becoming an administrator. Dr. Young taught science at sunset middle school from 2001 to 2005 And throughout his career. Dr. Young also coached wrestling diving and rugby So i'd like to introduce dr young to you to say a few words. Sorry That's all good Thank you, todd I want to first thank you. Dr. Haddad, dr Capuchin and school board for for your support and giving me this opportunity Before I talk about me that I do want to Acknowledge how proud I am of my time in frederick high

069school and the work that we did there over the last five years I'm confident that i'm leaving it in a much better place and I have comfort knowing that the leaders that are taking over who you'll meet here in just a second Are going to do great things there I'm excited. It's been a great week as i've transitioned over to to meet high school I have been welcomed by every staff and student and community member there We've had great conversations. They're excited to to work together and partner To to enhance the already strong academic and extracurricular programs they have at meet high school And taking them to the next level I want you all to know that I will be taking this position and giving it the same level of energy And passion and dedication

070that i've given to the same brain valley schools for the last 20 years And you will have I appreciate your support as there is no other school district that I love to work in more than St. Vrain valley schools and I appreciate my time here. Thanks to an excellent school board and strong district leadership Amazing staff and outstanding students and parents and community support. So thank you again for believing in me and giving me this opportunity Uh to become the leader at meet high school I look forward to coming back and reporting out on all the amazing things that we have going on there. So thank you Congratulations brian russ I'd like to introduce to you. Dr. Russell fox is the principal for Frederick high school and I want to acknowledge also in the audience

071is his Uh wife lindsay attending Uh, and now we found out his mom in mantana is listening also So again speak up again when you talk rust and so mom can hear um Dr. Fox graduated from the university of colorado boulder with a bachelor's degree in english literature and education Dr. Fox continued his education at colorado state university where he received his master's degree in curriculum and instruction In addition, dr. Fox has received his doctorate of education degree in culturally diverse educational leadership from the university of colorado at denver For the past two years. Dr. Fox has been the assistant principal at Frederick high school from 2018 to 2019 Dr. Fox serves as the dean of students for colorado middle school prior to that. Dr Fox served as an english teacher ap coordinator and ap

072capstone program leader from 2011 to 2018 He has also served as a specialist and after-school assistant director at friends elementary school in boulder And a youth corps leader at boulder county parks and open space. So introduce to you. Thank you All right. Thank you. Todd. Um, yeah, so I i'm so excited. I can't tell you how excited I am for this So thank you board. Thank you. Dr Dad and dr kabushin for having faith in me and trust in me. Um, i'm gonna take just a moment There's a million people I could thank but I do need to thank three people in particular first is lindsay We know that uh in addition to being a world-class teacher herself, um, it's you know being Married to someone who spends as much time as as we do

073at schools is a sacrifice And so she's also the person who reminds me all the time that you know teaching is really hard Remember that teaching is really hard and take care of your teachers. So, uh, thank you lindsay um Uh, I also have to take a moment to thank thank jackie. Um when jackie and I went through our doctoral program together We spent some sundays working on uh essays and tests and statistical analysis and I think for jackie She got some help and some you know thought partners on a novas and ranked correlational coefficients But uh for me really I got to listen to a really truly world-class educator think about And talk about education and that's an experience that is invaluable to me and and I can never repay But i'm super grateful

074for it And I also have to thank brian brian was actually my science teacher in eighth grade At sunset middle school so I can attest that he did actually work there But I don't remember too much about eighth grade science But i'll tell you that that brian was truly an exceptional teacher to me the last couple years I know that his teaching has not stopped and that I will wear him out Texts and and phone calls, but he really is an exceptional leader and And I hope to follow in his footpaths in his footprints. So i'm so excited about frederick We have incredible student body amazing community teachers admin team So to the board I can promise you that i'll give everything i've got and I can't wait to share the excitements and successes of

075frederick High school for years to come. So thank you Congratulations I'd like to now introduce. Uh, miss jennifer santos is the assistant principal for frederick high school and so jennifer if you'd come up and Um again joining her is her now principal. Uh, dr. Russ fox Miss santos graduated from the university of northern colorado with a bachelor's degree in kinesiology physical education She continued her education at the university of colorado boulder where she completed her master's degree in equity and education for the culture of the diverse Miss santos also received her administration degree in educational leadership from the university of northern colorado and is currently working Towards her doctor of education for the past year. Miss santos has served as the dean of students for frederick high school from 2017 to 2020 miss santos served

076as a science teacher at frederick high school Prior to that, she served as a science teacher at berth at high school in the thompson school district Miss santos also Uh has also served as a science teacher at fort lupton high school in the weld re8 school district So i'd like to introduce to you jennifer santos Good evening. Uh, if you remember last year, I ran away from the podium before it was time So this year I said i'd stay up here and answer any questions if I needed to but I just wanted to say Thank you very much. This last year has been Very challenging. Uh, I didn't get to say goodbye to my teaching career But I couldn't ask for a better admin team to work with at frederick high school Um, I don't

077have family here tonight But my husband is also one who is very understanding about the time it takes to be An administrator, uh at a high school and also be going for your doctorate degree at the same time And he's a wonderful man who's also been in education for 20 years Uh, I would like to thank brian young specifically, uh very much for all of his help and guidance this year if it wasn't for him I learned more in the last year than I probably have In the last 10 years about what it's like to be a leader and truly understand how to lead, uh, not just students But adults and i'm super excited to work with dr Fox because he was my next door neighbor this year and I could just yell out questions

078from my desk And he was more than willing to help me with everything that goes along with being a dean So i'm excited for the new leadership, uh position. It was unexpected, but it's one of those things that you say Once you get used to the idea you're super excited and I do love frederick frederick is a very special community with very special kids and a very special Team of teachers and admins. So thank you very much. I appreciate this opportunity Congratulations And i'm gonna have taro smith and kim come up last but not least i'd like to introduce to you Miss taro smith as the assistant principal for eerie middle school and joining taro today is uh her principal kim watchery So miss smith graduated from nebraska west london university with a bachelor's degree

079in spanish and english with a minor and secondary education She's continued her education at new mexico state university where she received her master's degree in curriculum and instruction With a specialization into his soul Miss smith also received her principal licensure from the university of colorado at denver For the past two years miss smith has been the dean of students at fairview high school in boulder valley school district Where she supervised school activities was responsible for attendance and discipline for all students And built a home and school built home and school partnerships in support of student success From 2018 to 2019 miss smith was an eld teacher at niobot high school And prior to that she was an eld teacher and spanish teacher at boulder high school from 2017 to 2018 in 2014 to 2016 respectively

080Miss smith has also been on the on-site on-site coordinator for adult basic education ged program and a middle school teacher, so Thank you, um, I want to thank the board dr. Haddad and dr. Capuchin for this uh opportunity. Um, it's been quite a challenging Year with everything that's going going on I Look so forward to being able to join the eerie middle school team and help support kim and her great team out there And i'm very very happy to be back in st. Raine. So thank you Congratulations Todd thank you for those introductions and congratulations to everyone on your new role in the district Don that it brings us to agenda item seven, which is the superintendent report Yeah, well I was gonna talk about some of the hiring but that's been done But I

081really i'm going to just leave it at a very short report with two students former students That we're very proud of valerie allman and alice cranny. You might remember those names they're two recent graduates from the st. Raine valley schools and valerie was the olympic trial winner trials winner and so we'll be representing the united states in the Discus as the the number one american in the in her sport And then alice cranny She also was the top winner in the olympic tryouts and she will be going to to tokyo as well as the top american in her sport, so those are two and Ironically not too far apart between silver creek and naiwat high school So, you know, it's uh when we see all these state championships that our children have been winning the

082teams Both teams and individuals for the last several years Um, they've gone on to do some pretty incredible things. So very proud of those two Thanks don appreciate it Brings us to our reports this evening, which is into the item six and six point one Specifically is the district financial statements for may 2021 Greg the board and you met prior to the meeting we met at 5 30 during the meeting technically At 5 30 to discuss the financial statements Yeah, so we covered them fairly in depth I would say that we're right where we would expect to be um Based off the amended budget and so, you know we continued continue to monitor the community schools and their nutrition service programs primarily because of the Let the lack of participation early in the year when

083we're in remote learning due to the pandemic Thank you Appreciate it All right, agenda item seven begins our consent items. Do board members wish to pull any of the consent items this evening? All right with that then I would entertain a motion for approval for agenda items 7.1 approval of waiver from liability insurance requirement for frederick high school education foundation Approval of waiver from liab pardon me 7.2 Approval of waiver from liability insurance requirement for longmont high school education foundation 7.3 approval of waiver from liability insurance requirement for skyline high school education foundation 7.4 approval to accept every student succeeds act Essa federal consolidated grant funds for fiscal year 21 22 7.5 approval of superintendent contract 7.6 adoption of resolution to appropriate funds for superintendent contract 7.7 approval of recommendation to hire principal for frederick

084high school 7.8 approval of recommendation to hire principal for mead high school 7.9 approval of recommendation to hire assistant principal for eerie middle school 7.10 approval of recommendation to hire assistant principal for frederick high school 7.11 approval of change order three to lions middle senior high school auditorium addition and renovation project 7.12 approval of change order 2 to the general construction contract for the chiller replacement project at Northridge Elementary School. 7.13 approval of change order 2 to the general construction contract for the chiller replacement project at Longmont Estates Elementary School. And 7.14 approval of architect selection for the global acceleration campus branding project. So moved. By Jim. Second. And by Karen. And Karen, can you please call for the vote? Mr. Aarons is absent. Mr. Berthold. Yes. Mr. Garcia. Yes. Dr. Marder. Yes. Ms. Pierce

085is absent. Ms. Ragland, yes. Ms. Segrist. Aye. Thank you, Karen. Agenda item 8 begins our action items. 8.1 is a recommendation for the adoption of the superintendent's budget, all funds for fiscal year 2022. Welcome, Tony. You've been here frequently to discuss the budget over the past several weeks. That's right. Good evening, members of the board. This recommendation is for the adoption of the superintendent's proposed budget for St. Rain Valley schools for the 2021-22 fiscal year. I know we've seen each other on this budget for a number of times, some of you more than others, four to six times, I think, by this point. But as expected and as predicted, this budget has been revised once more, somewhat, compared to the version brought forward most recently at the public hearing at the last board meeting on

086June 9. This budget summary was also shared with our finance and audit committee on Monday, where they were given a brief overview of these changes. I would first like to provide the board with three primary changes to the general fund budget compared to our study session two weeks ago, and then give a brief recap of where we finally landed compared to FY21 in light of all these changes. So the version of the budget brought forward at the public hearing on June 9 contained a spend down of reserves in the amount of $25.4 million. While it had a complete picture of compensation changes as a result of the completed negotiations with the St. Rain Valley Education Association, it only contained revenue estimates for total program due to the belated passage of the School Finance Act. So

087the first item I would like to mention in these changes is that this version now reflects the final School Finance Act revenue numbers as passed by the legislature. Incorporation of this change resulted in an increase in revenue of approximately $3.3 million, which is net of the portion we allocate to our charter schools. The second change to this version compared to the most previous version is a result of information that the Weld County Assessor's Office shared with us regarding the impact of the pandemic on oil and gas production this past year and how it affects our assessed valuation and corresponding the levy override revenue. They shared with us that the decrease in the Weld County portion of our AV is anticipated to decrease by 2.74%. If you recall, we had included in our previous budget version

088a conservatively estimated 5% decrease in AV, and that was across all counties. So as Weld County only accounts for about 45% of our AV, and Boulder County has a lower concentration of oil and gas activity, we feel confident in revising that estimate upwards and resulting in another $1.6 million in increased revenue compared to the budget we brought forward on June 9. Finally, there were some also last minute expenditure approvals in the amount of $1.7 million incorporated into this budget, partially offsetting the aforementioned increases in revenues. These expenditures included such items such as additional telecommunications needs, resources for support services for the opening of Highlands Elementary, impacts on coaching compensation as a result of negotiations, and additional FTE for various instructional needs across the district. As a result of these changes, the budget before you this

089evening contains a lower spend down of reserves of $22.2 million as opposed to the $25.4 as previously presented. Now, as I mentioned earlier, while I provided info on the changes compared to the previous version brought forward at the last public hearing, I thought I ought to give a final recap on where we landed compared to the current FY21 year, now that all the volatility and all these changes have finally settled down. Our current FY21 budget had a spend down of $19.9 million. And compared to that spending plan, we are anticipated to budget an increase in revenue in the amount of $16.8 million overall compared to the current year budget. As well, we are anticipating increases in expenditures in the amount of $19.1 million. Those two changes combined are what bring us to the current budgeted

090spend down of fund balance reserve of $22.2 million. The overall anticipated general fund revenue next year is expected to be almost $363.5 million, which when combined with the use of reserves will fund an expenditure budget of $385.8 million. This budget would result in the spend down of reserves from approximately $141.6 million to $119.4 million. That is about 30.9% of budgeted expenditures. And again, a reminder, this number is before any mid-year amendments to the budget, which we'll be bringing forward in January, as well as before any potential outperformance compared to the budget. Aside from the general fund, of the other 11 funds combined account for an additional $178 million in planned expenditures. The budgeted revenues and expenditures for each of these other funds can be found in the subsequent pages of the published document. Finally, the

091overall appropriation brought to the board tonight, which can be found on page six, comprises all of the resources for all 12 funds in the district, both anticipated revenues as well as all reserves. This represents the totality of the district's resources for the coming year, whether budgeted to be spent or not. This combined appropriation is approximately $804.69 million. Since the public hearing, the finance office has not received any subsequent comments or questions from the public regarding the proposed budget. But as usual, it would be my pleasure to answer any questions by the board at this time. Thank you, Tony. Appreciate it. So the board has reviewed the budget in detail at a study session more than once, actually at two consecutive study sessions. And then we also did discuss it at the last two regular meetings.

092Is that correct? And then the Finance and Audit Committee has been along every step of the way. Karen, you attended that. You met on Monday and reviewed the budget as well, and there were no concerns. All right. Any other questions or concerns from board members this evening? Dick? Just say, I guess, a question and maybe a comment after that. As I look through the budget, it was, well, first of all, I really appreciated the detail and clarity with which the various expense and revenue items were presented. And I was particularly interested in the final budget for salary and benefits for our very hardworking teachers and staff. And I was wondering if you could share the summary of the total amount, or the average amount of salary and benefit increase that we're providing in this budget

093as proposed. Sure. So this budget, as proposed tonight, contains the results of the negotiations with the St. Green Valley Education Association. That compensation package is approximately $14.1 million, I believe, in increase in expenditures. And that's paying for an additional $1,000 on the base in our salary schedule, plus a step, plus some structural changes to the salary schedule to accommodate some of the desires of the negotiations process. It also results in a 5.78% average increase for all the other employee groups. And that totality of the salaries and benefits impacted by that is incorporated in this budget. Thank you very much. 5.78% is a significant, I think, increase for our employees, and I think, in part, recognizes the tremendous work that they have done as part of our district, both for our students and communities during the

094last year and a half. So I'm very supportive, of course, of that and want to just call out that, in fact, we are further investing in our teachers and staff in the way in which they have invested in us over the years. Thanks, Dick. Any other board member comments or questions? All right, Tony, thank you. Please pass along our appreciation to the finance department. This has been a particularly challenging year with many different scenarios that were brand new to the district. We appreciate you managing everything so responsibly and successfully. With that, I would entertain a motion for approval of action item 8.1. So moved. By Dick and a second by? Second. Jim. Sorry, call for the roll. Mr. Ahrens is absent. Mr. Berthold? Yes. Mr. Garcia? Yes. Dr. Marder? Yes. Ms. Pierce is absent. Ms.

095Ragland, yes. Ms. Segrist? Aye. Thanks, Karen. Action item 8.2 is a recommendation for approval of vendors providing purchase services over $100,000 for fiscal year 2022. Yes. And Greg, this is something that we routinely see from you. Yes, absolutely. We do it every year this time of year. And there's two reasons. One is the fact that you have to appropriate the budget, which you guys just did, before we can put this forward. Board policy DJA specifies that the board must approve any purchase over $100,000 from a particular vendor. We have many of those types of vendors. And we also don't have a board meeting until the second week of August. And so we need to have this approval tonight, because there are several vendors that we need to pay between now and August. This just streamlights

096the process so that you guys don't have to approve these individually. Thank you. Any questions or comments from board members on the appropriation? All right. Then I would entertain a motion for approval for action item 8.2. So moved. By Chico? Second. By Karen? And Mr. Arendts is absent. Mr. Berthold? Yes. Mr. Garcia? Yes. Dr. Marder? Yes. Ms. Pierce is absent. Ms. Ragland, yes. Ms. Segrist? Aye. Action item 8.3. Greg, you have quite a role here. Action item 8.3 is a recommendation for approval of vendors providing purchased goods over $100,000 for fiscal year 2022. And again, this is something that we routinely see from you. This is very similar to the previous agenda item, only it's for goods as opposed to the previous one was purchase services. Questions or comments from the board? Dick, were you

097going to ask a question? This is 8.2. We're on 8.3. 8.3. Sorry. OK. OK. All right. If there are no questions, I would entertain a motion for approval for 8.3. So moved. By Jim? Second. Karen? Mr. Arendts is absent. Mr. Berthold? Yes. Mr. Garcia? Yes. Dr. Marder? Yes. Ms. Pierce is absent. Ms. Ragland, yes. Ms. Segrist? Aye. Action item 8.3, pardon me, 8.4 is a recommendation for the approval of list of requests to grant exception to board policy GBEA staff ethics conflict of interest for fiscal year 2022. Thank you. So board policy GBEA states that no school district employee or firm owned by a school district employee shall be allowed to sell to the district or schools or staff goods or services of any kind without express prior consent, written consent of the Board of

098Education. The people that are listed on this sheet are people that were approved either many years ago or just recently as recently as this past year. We treat them very seriously. We keep them under $5,000 or they have to come back to the board. We also put stipulations on them based off the types of goods or services that they're providing. And so we would continue that process with these people. It's just kind of streamlining it so that it gets approved at one time because you have seen all of these previously and it's approving them for next year. Thank you. And just to confirm, as we are re-approving this list that we've seen before, have there been any substantive changes in the work that these individuals will be undertaking? No, there has not. Thank you. With

099that, I would entertain a motion for approval of action item 8.4. So moved. So moved. Second, sorry. And Mr. Arends is absent. Mr. Berthold? Yes. Mr. Garcia? Yes. Dr. Marder? Yes. Mrs. Ragland, yes. Ms. Segrist? Aye. Action item 8.5 is a recommendation for approval of request to grant an exception to Board Policy GBEA Staff Ethics Conflict of Interest for Barry Young. Yes, so again, back to Board Policy GBEA. Barry Young is the husband of Mindy Young, a teacher at Indian Peaks Elementary School. He's a sound technician and will be providing services, including but not limited to filming, editing, and producing performances at various locations, primarily community schools, but other schools may reach out. And so we're recommending approval for this, again, as long as he stays underneath the $5,000 limit. And again, this is for

100the rest of this year. His name was on the list for next year. But this is a new one, so we're bringing it separately for this year. Thanks, Greg. No comments? Then I would entertain a motion for approval for action item 8.5. So moved. Chico? Second. And Karen? Oh, I'm so sorry. I'm falling asleep at the wheel here. OK. Mr. Aarons is absent. Mr. Berthold? Yes. Mr. Garcia? Yes. Dr. Marder? Yes. Ms. Pierce is absent. Ms. Ragland, yes. Ms. Segrist? Aye. Thank you, Karen. Action item 8.6 is a recommendation for an adoption of resolution and oath for the appointment of designated election official. And Greg, my understanding that you've agreed to serve in that capacity again? Yes, I have. Great. And so can you just briefly explain what it means to fulfill that role? Yeah,

101the uniform election code requires that the designated election official be formally appointed by the Board of Education. And so I have to sign an oath of designated election official but you're going to, if you approve this, you're going to be talking next about having me enter into agreements with the four counties. But this authorizes me to do that, to enter into an intergovernmental agreement with each of the respective counties. Thank you. We appreciate you serving in that capacity again. If there are no questions about that role, I would entertain a motion for approval for action item 8.6. So moved. Second. And Mr. Ehrens is absent. Mr. Berthold? Yes. Mr. Garcia? Yes. Dr. Marder? Yes. Ms. Pierce is absent. Ms. Ragland, yes. Ms. Segrist? Aye. Action item 8.7 is a recommendation for approval of the official

102notice of intent for St. Rain Valley School District to participate in the November 2, 2021 coordinated election. And this, Greg, would be the reason why we appointed you as the designated election official. Correct. And you're doing the official notice of intent because we have to notify the school district, or the school district has to notify the counties by July 23. This is the last meeting prior to that. So we need to state that we have an intent to hold the election even if we get later on, something happens. But I just need to have permission to notify the counties that we intend to participate in the November 2 election. Great. And the timeline on that is you notify them by July 23. And then the district does formally open a call for individuals to come

103forward and run for those seats on August 4. Correct. Great. And then the election would be on November 2. Absolutely. Great. Thank you. I would entertain a motion for approval if there are no questions or comments then for action item 8.7. So moved. Chico? Second. And Jim? And Mr. Ehrens is absent. Mr. Berthold? Yes. Mr. Garcia? Yes. Dr. Marder? Yes. Ms. Pierce is absent. Ms. Ragland, yes. Ms. Segrist? Aye. Thank you, Karen. Greg, appreciated. Oh, you're up here for the next one, right? OK. Sorry about that. Action item 8.8 is the recommendation for approval of IDEA funding eligibility certification. Yes, so we receive federal funding for the Individuals with Disabilities Exceptions Act. And that's through the federal government. But the Colorado Department of Education has monitoring oversight. And one of the things that they are

104required to do is to verify that we are spending at least as much money in the current year as we spent, or for next year, from a budgetary point of view as we spent last year. And so this form just allows us to confirm how much is in our budget for maintenance of effort, which means that we're spending at least as much as we did the year before. So we have our budgeted number. We have our actuals from last year. Thank you. I just have a question. So the amount that we're seeing under the state and local level, that's a consolidated number that includes, for the amount requested, we have one number, but it's not broken out for the local amounts. Do they only require that one, the 35,925? That's the important one, because that's

105what shows what our categorical money that we get from the state is, including what we spend that is an unfunded mandate. I mean, it's an unfunded mandate from the federal government. And so this is just showing you how much we're using of our local and state funding in order to provide special education services to our students. So where it's broken out, that's what we are spending. Yeah, the 26.1 would be what our budget is that's not accounted for from income from the state. Got it. Thank you. Yeah, that's exactly what I was asking. That's a good clarification. Thanks, Dick. Appreciate it. Anybody else? All right. With that, I would entertain a motion then for action. Item 8.8, 8.8. So moved. Second. And Mr. Ahrens is absent. Mr. Berthold? Yes. Mr. Garcia? Yes. Dr. Marder? Yes.

106Mrs. Ragland, yes. Ms. Segrist? Aye. As stated at the beginning of the meeting, we did actually convene at 4 PM this evening with a roll call and a Pledge of Allegiance, as well as voting on action item 8.9. So that brings us to the end of our meeting this evening. We will be convening again here in the Board of Education room for a special meeting executive session tomorrow on June 24 and again on July 2. And then we will reconvene for a regular Board of Education meeting in August. That will be Wednesday, August 11 at 6 PM. I would entertain a motion, please, for adjournment. So moved. And all in favor? Aye. Aye. Good night, everyone. Thank you.