001All right, it is 6:30 on the dots. Thank you. You hear me, Joe, when you're ready. Okay, we're good. All right. 6:30 on the dots. I'll call the regular board meeting of the Easto school board into session. Roll call, please. Mrs. Ayala present. Mrs. Eyala. Mrs. Hines here. Mr. Coleman here. Mrs. Lea. All right. Pledge of allegiance. To the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. All right, item C. Who's gonna tell me about our appealing qualifier? Richie. Actually, we'll let this board. So, Isabelle Ortiz has made it to National FA in Anaheim, California this summer for organizational leadership. So she will test and we will fly out June 28th and come back July 2nd. Congratulations.
002Moving on item D audience portion and slides. We have two people who have filled it out prior to the meeting. Just as a friendly reminder, there is a five minute rule for speaking. All right, Mrs. Ch. Uh, I'm Caroline Traver and I'm the instructional coach here at the here at this school at the intermediate school. I just wanted to publicly thank our interim committee, Heather and Richie and Jared for stepping up and I know you guys have gotten a lot of extra responsibilities lately which comes with lots of stress and everything. So I just wanted to publicly Thank you. Thank you. All right, Mrs. So thank you for taking the time to hear. Um, I know that it's not something that the school district can do, and I'm sure Richie's going to talk about this
003earlier, but I do want to share a concern that happened this weekend to my son at the high school area, um, with the house that is near the Tiger, um, stadium. And so, um, a year ago, my son was placed in the shed at track practice for a situation where a gentleman from that White House came over and attacked the coach. Um, the coach was very responsible, put the kids into the shed, locked down, kids called 911. He was attacked physically and um, handled it like a champ. And I recently found out the charges were dropped. Nothing was done about it. the DA chose to drop their charges. Um, I investigated that because on Saturday night, my son was driving on 10 22nd Street to drop off a friend. He had friends in the car.
004Um, they had another vehicle with him. Rocks were thrown at them. Not sure who it was. They were hiding in the ditch and he has a dent in his car with the trunk of the car missing. Um, as he came back up the hill to take his other friends home, there was a guy standing in the middle of the road with a bat from that house, a metal bat, and was fully ready to swing after my son. There was a car in front of him that was slow, so my son couldn't pass, couldn't do anything. Um, he did swerve into the the guy and the guy lost his balance but still managed to swing one-handed and broke the driver's window and hit the back connected with my son's face. So, we were um I was
005contacted by him. He told me that if he hadn't have swerved, he wouldn't be talking to me on the phone. Um that house has been a lot of trouble for my family and for friends. Um I know when my husband was track coach he he sat down with my son and they went through everything and created a list of what they had an itemized list what they needed and later they broke it into and it's a good thing they had that list to be able to get it replaced for insurance. Um my concern is student safety. Um it was random. It was not directed at my son personally. Um it is right near the school. Um that night police took the statement but were not able to do anything because we were told the road
006is please the house is counting. So police sheriffs came. They attempted to enter the house. They knocked. Nobody came. So they just left. And I ended up in the ER with my son having cat scans because the face injury caused numbness and swelling. Um they did CAT scans on his head and his neck as well. Um our kids are at safety as is a safety concern. And so I have made a a decision personally that I'm going to go to every city entity and every county entity and let them know that my family is not going to let this case be dropped. That we are going to be very involved in this and if things not aren't done through the city or the county then we will be going higher up. And so I just
007want everyone to know that and that I'm very concerned for our kids and having a school right there with nothing being done with the house. So just making it public knowledge. So um when people hear about it, you're aware that I'm not going behind anybody's back. I'm just doing what I have to do as a mom. So thank you for your time. Sorry that happened. Thank you. If we have any other All right. Item E, approval of the agenda. Any recommendations, gentlemen? Approve the agenda. Uh, I make a motion to approve the agenda as presented. I have a motion and a second to approve the agenda as presented. Any questions or comments? Hearing none. Roll call, please. Mrs. Aay, I. Mrs. Hines, I. Mr. K. I All right. Moving on to the consent agenda. recommendation
008includes personnel and stability as I make a motion to approve the consent agenda as presented. We just have one question. You got to second it and then you can stop. Sorry. Second. I have a motion and a second to approve the consent agenda as presented. Mr. Pullman's comments. Um I don't know. Is that a lot of out of district kids? It seemed like a lot. It's about Is that what we average over here? Is it? Okay. Okay, that's it. Any other questions? Hearing none. Roll call, please. Mrs. Ayola, I. Mrs. H. Hi. Mr. Coz. Hi. All right. Item three, minutes. Make a motion to approve minutes. Second. Good job, guys. I have a motion and a second to approve the minutes come from the April 28th, 2025 board meeting. Any questions, comments, or corrections? Hearing
009none. Roll call, please. Mrs. Ayala, I. Mrs. Hines, I Mr. Coleman, hi. All right. Item four, presentations. We have Tammy here. Come on up. Good evening. It's been two years since I spoke with you and your board has changed just a little bit since I was here. So, just a quick reminder, uh Tammy Ragnau and I'm a part of the Otto County Preservation Board. Two years ago, we wrote for a grant. Three years ago, we wrote for a grant to do a history book for Otto County. We received the grant and two years ago, we started and we have the books and um they are ready to go into the class ones all of 2025. So here you guys can look through them. If you'll remember, they were a consumable workbook for third grade. And
010in the process of doing that, we also said, we need a teachers edition to go with these books. And so, um, this was the teachers edition to go with the book. Goodness. The, um, the book could be a standalone. It's um written so that it's one one and a half pages of a story from Ouro County. Could be about a place, could be about a person, it could be about um a an event in the area and then there's a short activity that goes with it. when we decided to do the book um and the teachers edition, I said just we needed more. And so the teachers the the manual, you can just take a quick look. Um so it starts out and we followed the Colorado Education's um site for writing the uh lesson
011plans. And so you have your essential question, you have your supporting question, you have all your resources. So the teacher does not have to go anywhere to find anything. It is in the book. And at the back of the book, we also included a junk drive. So everything is electronic. So they have it in hard copy and they have it electronically. Um there's background knowledge for the teacher, there's background knowledge from the student. And then uh the glossery with all the terms that they would need to know for that book, strategies for instruction, uh differentiation for lessons for students that um varying levels. There's discussion questions, assessments, and then the Colorado state standards that that that lesson is tied to for third grade. And then all the sources that we used for that for La
012Hansa. So, this is Otto County, but for you guys specifically, um, page 23 is the Wickham House, and that's a cool one. Um, it sits at Otto County for the Otto Museum. And, um, we talk about what it is to be historical. So, these kids learn not only it's a place, but the activity. Should it be historical? Is it, you know, based on um the National Park Service? Is it a doesn't it meet the criteria for a historical location and they walk through that. Um we've spent a ton of time looking for all the the historical photos that go with that and those are included in that teachers resource book on page 49. The scam grocery store is included. The roar roar house um is also an interesting one that we included. this school to
013intermediate is included and that is on page 69 and it goes back and talks about the history of the school when it was built the state of the art. the um there were roughly 2,000 people that attended the opening that night of of the school when it was the high the high school and the lesson plan that goes with that is we brought in all the schools historical schools of county or of Wanta and they talk about why there aren't as many schools today and the process that this building has gone through and changed and what buildings are are present or not present. Uh we included the kashar ka and interesting enough the um the lesson plan that goes with that is actually around the air force base that was uh south of or excuse
014me north of the reason we do that is because all of the logs in the roof of that were the power poles or the telephone poles that supported um that that site out there. And then we finish up with Luna Livestock. And people might think, well, that's an odd odd place to finish with Luna, but it's not because we also include Mary's farm stand. We want people to know the background that they come from and the importance of a in this area. When you look at the title, Windows and Mirrors, we wanted to make sure that kids could see themselves in this book. whether it's when we talk about um San Jose which is Higgney Valley and the contributions of the Hispanics and we go far deeper than let's talk about the food which is
015not a bad thing but we want we want kids to understand that there are huge contributions that the Hispanic population have brought to Carol County and Colorado most people don't realize your state constitution was written by a Hispanic man and you wrote it in three languages. It's written in Spanish, it's written in German, and it's written in English. Uh we picked out key people in Ontario County uh that we felt they needed to know about whether they were business people or um uh people. We wanted them to understand that. We also bring in the Japanese uh with Rocky Ford Cemetery and we picked out five Japanese people who could tell their story about them coming to the United States or being a part of the um Arkansas Valley during World War II and what it
016was like. Uh Bill Tea, interesting. His dad and uncle come to the United States, 9 years old and 12 years old on a ship from Japan by themselves, no parents, and they're coming to Rocky, Florida, Colorado. So, the kids can read those primary sources of firsthand documents from them. We also do the dry which is one of three um individual native or excuse me black um settlements in the United States following the Civil War. Negative, Kansas, the drive south of Manzanola and Deerfield, Colorado were the only three all black communities. We talk about archaeology and careers in that area around uh the dry and then we we included Mohammed City Park and um as you see there's Vince Ford is in there and we we tied Shira Rocky Ford Swink um Fowler and Manzanola into
017that um book. So, they are ready. And I know that this building has um I believe five third grade classrooms. The books are free. We had enough money to print these for three years. So, they will go into the classrooms and the teachers can use them or not. Tiger Tree, I'm not sure if you guys have their grade out there. Okay. Just checking. Just checking. Um and and we're super excited. Um the covers were all designed by students and um it's just been a really cool process to to get to know the the area better and hopefully our kids will find that there are some really cool things right in their backyard. The fish that we start the book with, there are only three of those known in the world. one in Ottero County, one
018in Japan, and one in England. And we have it right here in Otto County that they can go visit if they want to. So, I just wanted to give you an update on on that and show you what we've got. And I'll be visiting uh with Huadia Aadaka and get those to the teachers now so that they can plan over the summer if they want to use this book in their classroom for next year. Any questions? I know that's a fast super fast rendition of what's going on. Did you print off any extras? So for for this for the grant for the students, but we are going to with our own funding, we'll go back and we'll print hard copies for other people that want to purchase them. And we'll we'll be looking at that
019somewhere around Christmas of 2025. This looks like a lot of work. Yeah. Yeah. These are really cool. They're very, very cool. Very cool. Very cool. I didn't grow up here so a lot of this stuff in here I'm like I don't know anything about really really have something that has all the history and there was a lot of there's we left out I mean it was hard to just p it down lots of cool cool sites and the list of people to thank you know from Hig to Sher to Fowler is is you know a page long because we were able to sit down in people's kitchens and discuss their family history. Shira was the toughest. They've burned so many times. There's not a lot of buildings left there, but they have a lot of
020history that surrounds that area. I just I'm on the board for the museum. So, just make sure we get one or we assign one. These things are cool. And we definitely So, the library has a copy. Um they will be going out to homeschool also. they'll they'll be made available to them and also to Pioneer Christian. So, anybody should have access to them. All right, I'm gonna collect. I'm sorry. [Laughter] Really cool topics of discussion at some time. How will you be letting people know that they are available? Um, so this the county has a website and we'll we'll definitely get them out and maybe um Adrian can help us out on that too. So look for it on sec. Yes, thank you for the plug. You're welcome. Always always I'll send you the link
021to this so you have another All right, Mr. McN and Mrs. Fox and Mrs. and Mrs. include your name. I apologize. I just found out. Thank you. Okay, so the first um thanks for having us. Um we were looking at a lot of our data um and a lot of you know that we have a lot of kids going online. there's a lot of different online schools popping up all over the place. Um so we wanted to share this the data with you real quick. Um at the top we have um just like our credit recovery numbers, our CDLS class numbers, our top which is our Tiger online already classes, Otto online classes, OTOR onampus where students go over to Otto just for those and then concurrent where we teach those um college classes but
022on on our campus and then how many hybrid students there are. So that all those numbers there are the students within those groups. And then for TTA, we broke it down um a little bit differently. Um so what we wanted to do is kind of share the numbers with each building. So when we're talking about loss, um we wanted to look at how many kids did we lose through the year so far. And if you look at our building alone, we've had 106 students leave our campus. We have 21 that we lost to another public school. So they've moved um those typically have moved to a different town, Denver, Springs, whatever. Um different states. And then we've lost 52 to online platforms. So Los Angeles online, go academy, those type of things. So that's where
023that number comes in. and then um three which was um went back to their home country and then we've had 22 that had transferred to TTA. So then when we go down and we look at numbers, they've had 36 so far that have left um the district, seven to another public school, six that transferred back to our building, and then we've had 23 that have enrolled in an online program outside of us. So when we add those together, we've lost 75 students to online schooling. So what we would like to do is open a conversation [Music] on possibly having our own online campus here. We do already have Tigers online. It's already approved by the state. It's already up and running. Um the camp used to serve on that years ago before we had Tiger
024Trades Academy. Um so that program is already there. it is available to use. So, it's not anything um with the statewise that we would have to go in and and revamp or post to them. It's something that's already there. So, what we're asking is um to really think about those 75 kids that are ours that are now online academy whoever else will really taking a look at that 75 and what can we do to keep our kids here with us? um a lot of them because we did not have that option of strictly online that's where they wanted to maybe work do something different it was outside of the realm of what we had to offer even with TTA doing a a hybrid online so we wanted to share those numbers with you any questions
025on that so the the tiger online that's not operational right is operational it is operational yes and it is served with the state but we're in the city. We are not utilizing it as an online like a fully online talking. So for when kids take German so so like we use we still use tiger online for like kids who want to take German or something like that. We still use it for that. So it's more of a hybrid option. No it's well right now it is we don't have any kids that are strictly uh online all the time. So in my building there are a set of kids we call them hybrid kids. They'll do their course online, then they do their electives with on campus, and then I have my campus kids who do
026their whole day on campus. And so those four ones at the Tiger online. Yeah. Well, we decide that we would think that those those hybrid kids might move online, they might say hybrid because they want to do the electives. What we're really trying what we're really trying to do here is offer another avenue for our kids, a fully online option for those kids who don't want to be hybrid, don't want to be in any kind of classroom. Correct. This is an option for them. Right. So that top that you see there for the high school, that's the six. So we have a lot of kids that are very interested in like computer science of some type. We I have them in there. So it might just this six might be six different kids in six
027different classes, but it's the classes that you're not going to really find at Otto or they're a freshman or sophomore. They can't go to yet, but they want to go into that. It just expands the opportunities for our kids like starting as freshman versus waiting until they get to be a junior to go to or something. And computer science is huge. Our kids want that. and nursing. With this new platform, they can get into the nursing earlier and see, hey, is that is that what brought me want to go? Because of our kids more opportunities to see what they want to do. Why did we steer away from it when we had it up and running? Was it just not as in high demand as it is now? Or I don't think it's ever been
028like a full kit online. It's always been there to add those extras. I think Kane could maybe she could talk about that because when we did have Tigers online fully like you're talking about that was the night school is what we called it in high school. See I knew I knew what I was talking about. I'm dating myself a little bit but that's what we called it. night school. When I ended up at the high school level, that was more a credit recovery style, but we did offer like Sean was saying, I recall kids speaking like Mandarin and just languages that we didn't offer and so there was just a lot more evidence for them to take what we used the top program. But I think the reason I don't not that it went away
029big reason that top is not as big as it used to be is because that's free tiger tiger trade academy for students. So top is still an use a lot of that for extra classes credit recovery things of that nature. So when we lost lose those 75 kids we lose that funding right. Yeah. But we got it back with Tigers online. We get the funding back. I I will tell you I will tell you the funding online is less than but some is better than nothing. This might question but I'll ask it anyway. I always ask when teacher teacher leaves our district, did we do an exit interview? When a child leaves our district, do we give them any kind of exit as to why they left or what they're happy with that they couldn't
030find within our district so that way we can try to make it all inclusive at our campus? Do we do any of those type of questionnaires or Yes. So, Miss Romero Romero, she put together like a interview someone. Yeah. So, when they transfer between um a lot of this usually comes up when attendance becomes a problem, they want to go online because it's easier. There's less control. Those are some of the words that I' I've some of my kids that I've talked with I've used. Um they like that they have some of the kids are working. Um some of them are helping with their families, things like that. a lot of the kids that's some of the things that we're that we're seeing um when they either they choose to go hybrid at CTA and
031then that becomes they want to go full bullying online and that's not necessarily an option. We don't have that right now. Well, then I'm going to go to Los Angeles online. arrow and go to bolding because I can that fits my needs a little bit better formal interview or exit type thing. I don't think they have that a lot of um some of the situations that I've been in a very quick turn around bring up questions and bring up what's going on and I say you know I'm getting a notification that they have enrolled in other districts. So to do with true normal exit I've not had I have not been able to do those with many of my kids through conversations. So a lot is um like she was saying u attendance but we
032do have a lot that social emotional um we do have some that are recommended now from some doctor's offices saying that fully online would be better. So we have this we somewhat have the gamut and then there's other places who do have a work schedule. They would rather be working and then they can do that online at their at their own time. Add to that co was really hard for most of us. Some kids fell in love with it. They like the idea that they can do their math in their pajamas. You know what I mean? I mean, they like that that flexibility. And I think that there are online places they're offering that more than we are. What do we need to facilitate this? Is it going to be in a night school setting
033where they come non-traditional hours or is this something they actually do from home on their own and we just kind of monitor progress? So we have a district license for Ingenuity which is what we use for our faculty. So the idea is that they would do that from home on egeneuity with teacher support. So to facilitate it, it's going to take it's going to take some some moving people around maybe and some hiring people, but we already have the main things in mind. We have we already have a school that this the state's given us a license for online, not a license, a number for it's not a license. And and uh we already have that school in place. Uh we have the place to do it, which is upstairs at TGA. Um so we
034need to man it and then we already have oh we already have platform we already have the genuity platform which is the same thing that go using that's the same thing that uh um LA online's using. So we already we have the place, we have the platform, we need the manpower and uh well that's and the kids in the seats. I think we already I think we can get those kids in the seats and talking with um some of the online too. The big thing is going to be communication. So when he's talking about man with really having people who are making phone calls, connecting with kids, creating those relationships, really getting in there to make sure that they are doing what they they need to be doing to get those credits. And a lot
035of times when you're online is just having that um sometimes a Zoom and or a phone call. So really making sure we hone in on those those practices. And so like uh my hybrids kits, they they operate on the checkin Zoom once or twice a day depending on their schedule. And uh that's an actual Zoom with the teacher. We would expand that to where we would expect them to log in at some point of the day and talk to a teacher. So how many teachers do you see? Are we okay? Yeah. Uh this is we haven't gone further than this, but I think that two general teachers, an administrator and a secretary So I mean that's about what we need to manage. I think I'm thinking 100 kids to be the first year. That's 50
036kids for each teacher. I'd like to have them general teachers and then if we expand that I'd like to go I mean if we expand this and it works then we would go four teachers. But what I'd like to start with is a general teacher that would do all would launch them through their entire board. So it' be four new positions. Four new positions. boarding positions for the online. Correct. This isn't to replace what we're already doing at TTA. This is to capture those secondary students who want a fully online option. This is really just to capture I mean really just to capture some of those kids that we lost and maybe gain a few. Um we don't I I don't think we want in the first year to offer it for everybody but if
037we get an odd we got an out of district kid we would folks have the same way we would approach out of district kid that came to Gmail what's the lead time do we need to link this out we're talking to you today we'd like to have it going by school year um is that realistic I think it's realistic I think it's I think we can think we can turn to Tucson to get it going. But we really got we'll have to we'll have to really get going on it. I think if if we want to continue this and you guys are open to conversation at the next board meeting, I think we would present some we present some some more hard data for lack of a better term. Um just to throw on you
038since I know I know u especially Jen and Ken have been really thoughtful about how we could unmold this and how we could be successful. I know we had a lot of conversations about how some of these I don't know if some of these schools have come on during that co time to offer these online programs were shiny and new but they lack the logistical support needed to to really support all the kids that they had. So I think there were a lot of individuals that kind of jump shipped from regular brick and mortar schools to these online systems and then they had some struggles down the road. Um and so we had a lot of those conversations. Um, I kind of had known one of the principles from LA online, uh, from from my
039childhood education. And so, we kind of started talking with some of these different schools and districts to see what they're doing to be successful. Um, when I looked at some of the numbers, it seemed like LA Online struggled at the first couple of years really trying to get things off and running. And right now, it seems like LA Online is pulling a lot of numbers from a lot of different districts and they're doing a lot of really successful things. And so, um, trying to do as much as we can, looking at the numbers we have here, the kids that we, um, pull in here, but also meeting some of these other leaders of these successful programs and see how they're doing it. Um, that's one thing that we really talk about was just that logistical
040need of what our numbers are going to look like. It we're hoping it's going to grow. I anticipated it's going to start small and and grow. But um you know I can say that we've had a lot of conversations of how we can do it um as strategic as possible so that we um have less frustration at the beginning like all things I think we'll have a little bit but I think having some of those meetings with those other districts and students um will help us out. So I would just add kind of tail off of that. um we get kids back to graduate class and sometimes those kids we would be more in control of those kids graduation plan than trying to uh fold in school or LA's into our graduation plan. So we
041would keep the same graduation plan for these kids as we do for GTA or for the high school. Um I think that we would have a little more control of that. I don't know if that's a good word, but we at least I think keeping in mind same in our district with whichever platform just like you were alluding to oftent times the kids that we do lose are because of TRC and they'll go over to somewhere else and then they get there and then we say we want to come back. Well, now they're back at us and we're sometimes a grade B9 and we're grade and a half behind. So I think with the alignment here, if we have kids that want to flush it away from online to back to the brick corner, we'll
042still have that alignment and still be within the grade level that they should be and we wouldn't have that struggle of trying to catch them up and doubling them up on credit recovery and things of that nature. So that's just my two cents. So we're talking through in here is our target window not any younger than that or we would have to to pose it out like right now can how many do you have totally online totally online? I mean I've got four kids who are homebound but that those are those are different home values. So uh but I have but my hybrid kids are are 34. So I have 34 kids who are doing their core at home and they're elected. We do have the capability to resume. We do. I think with capturing
043the junior high earlier, you take less risk of losing them early. So like we let that seventh or eighth grader not do it. You could already lose them to Los Angeles online and we're not going to get them back home high school. So it couldn't go lower than seven. Yeah. So, we're talking just the June to senior high building as a whole, 7 through 12. Yeah. Do we know what funding looks like for those online kids? We don't at this point, but that would also be something that we would look at and have to put into this budget if we were starting let's say August. So, then it would be it will it like Ken said it is less for online, right? So then depending on how many we have that we our overhead cost
044essentially more program is essentially just the staffing. Yeah. The buildings there plat we're going to have that platform anyway whether I have 10 kids in that platform or 300 kids in that platform and we're well yeah well that's next. How does this Jared this is probably the question. How does this fit into the scope of what we're trying to do with our district? Because we are going through such an overhaul basically from the primary all the way up. Um are these kids going to take state testing? Yeah. If we get 300 new children in a program that they come in and maybe they're the children that don't go the regular school route and their scores start to drag down our entire district. How does this fit into our plan of what we're trying to accomplish
045right now? Because we we're we're on turnaround here at this building, but we're on watch as the whole district. Isn't that correct? Yeah. Yeah. Can can I help Dutch a little bit? So, we would be This would be considered ABC. That gives us a little bit of Yeah. break it down for us. So it's AC is alternative education campus. Okay. So what I am what a TTA is in AEC. So I get a little bit of leeway on state testing. Um I don't get thrown into the uh bad frameworks. I'm put on watch. I get a little bit of leeway. Not a lot but I do get a little bit. So um instead of having three things I get four things to look at. And and um well you guys have seen my framework. So,
046you know how that goes. So, this would be an AEC. We get a little bit of leeway on the state testing. Um, and if it's So, that's just that help you out a little bit. It's not it's not perfect. They expect them to test, but they don't but they don't bring the hammer down near as fast on an ABC. But we are in fact trying to get TTA on a proper testing schedule to have results that we can look at. we're trying then we can compare them to what we're trying to structure within the district so we are all on the same page and get everybody off the watch. Is that what I'm understanding we're trying to do? Yeah. So just for the next meeting I'd be very interested. I think it's a great idea
047to try to capture those out of network students that don't want to go to a traditional classroom. It's good thinking. I'd be very interested to see how we can tie it in to this overhaul we're already doing as a whole. I mean, if we're going to do it, let's do it. But I I think if we can pitch it to other communities, maybe those people going to Los Angeles maybe want to come to Lana instead. Um, just kind of circle back to that question with how it would affect test scores and things like that. Um, Brian, I think it could have a super great benefit and it could have a negative impact to it. I think that's where we kind of as as educational leaders have to look at the data and see what's going
048on. I mean, if we have 300 kids flood this program and we're looking at their test scores and it's tanking us, then we have to look at logistically of what our systems are there and whether we have to fix it or not. I mean, it still seems like our goal is to to really educate all the kids in this area and support them. You know, our goal, I don't think right now, is to pull a bunch of kids from Denver to join. It's still to support our kids here. And part of this conversation was to get it out to the community to say, is this something that Laana really wants? We see a niche we think could help. Could this do it? And so, as we start to increase these numbers, I I see it
049just like that same way where, you know, it makes me feel uneasy that it's adding some choppiness to the water. But if it's a need for our kids and a need for our family, then we need we need to find the best way we can do it, be most effective at it, and then collect data and see what we need to change from there. Um, you know, and right now every school is working on these 90-day plans that are looking at strategically what you're doing on a day-to-day basis and progress monitoring it. And I don't see the system as anything differently at it. We hope we can support the needs of everybody in the, you know, in that area and then collect data on it and see how we can be effective at it. So
050essentially, we would just roll this into things we're already doing and expect the same. I mean, everybody is going through a systemic change right now. there's no reason to not include them and get them on the same path. Yes. Okay. I think one thing like Ken was saying um the 75 are students. So really looking at in district first this first year just doing in district. That way we're not doing like we said and taking orders from the outside pieces right now or we just in district. Yeah. That's to be really done. Find the best way. Well, we haven't been able to essentially establish any testing data yet at TTA. So, we're still trying to work that piece. Okay. Yeah. I I still have a lot of optouts and and so I was still probably
051I'm thinking right now my friend will be in sufficient this year. Okay. If we do get this up and running and we have more of the same I mean opt outs. that's something you see a lot of that also affects us quite a bit and please know that we we realize that there's there's a lot of logistics we got to look at I mean I even think about the code on the technology side and making sure that we can you know we have the the wireless capabilities we have all the technology so there's a lot of that it's just kind of trying to get rolling to see if it's indeed I think our our day stuff as well looks a little bit different as far what they look at as far as each typically it's
05210 days before and after bottom line I think it's a bit different we have to look at the hours of that that's logistical we'll have to take a look at as well but and on the other piece of this Mrs. Frank, I understand that it's not just some of the struggling students. It could be any student that wants to take any additional anything. Yeah. Now have that opportunity at their fingertips. Yeah. So it just gives them extra pathways to go. So it doublesided. It benefits everybody. Okay. So that kind of leads us into our next little piece that we wanted to talk about. Um we had talked about e dynamics a little bit before. Um and then their question name is why why do we need e dynamics if we have edgenuity dynamics please? Yes.
053So let let me go through this to get to there. Okay. So when we're looking at um our graduation pathways we do have the two different pathways that we have across the district and then um going through there each student has to complete a a capstone. So, if you flip over to the next page, this is the um college and career readiness demonstrations that the state of Colorado has put out there. So, they have to have an assessment score, concurrent enrollment with a English or a math class that's passed with the C letter does count as that assessment score and or they have to have an industry certificate and or they have to do a district capstone. We put together some great a great presentation with the capstone. Then Shauna has all of that ready
054to go. Our kids do go ahead and complete that. But if we go back up to the industry certificates, um that's where e dynamics comes in. So with egeneuity, kids can get can print out a certificate to say they completed the course. What e dynamics does is it gives an industry certificate. So if if we had a kiddo who was wanting to go in for Microsoft Office, let's say, they could complete the e dynamics course, take the industry certificates and receive that certificate of completion. So now that they have an industry certification, that's where this e dynamics comes into play. The other thing is why we like e dynamics is once a kiddo completes that course they take that industry test that certification test if they do not pass it e dynamics will pay for
055that student to take that course again that's how much they believe in so in in going through there um what we wanted to do was this this next page is the the district IAP process slashcap sorry That's just all of the different things that Sean thoughts about without going all the way through there. And then if we want to go to the next one here, this is where we're talking about the um the quality and in demand non-deree credential. to really looking at those instead of a student having to take a college credit to receive an industry certificate, they can go through e dynamics, take a course that they're interested in, take the certification test, if passed, then they have the industry certificate. So then once they go out into the job site, now that
056gives them a leg up on those who do not have that entry certificate and it counts as on our pathway of completion. And the nice thing about E Dynamics, we have a lot of kids that think they want to go into the nursing field. E Dynamics will allow these kids as freshman and sophomore to take some pre- n nursing stuff to see if it's what they really want before we send them over to Otto their junior and senior year and they get into the nursing thing and they're like, "Oh no." So this gives our kids like a prerequisite of, "Hey, I think I want nursing, but they could take that pre-class and it may not be." So it really helps them explore all the different pathways that they want and cyber security and game design
057are huge. Um and that's one of the main ones that e dynamics has. And some of the difference between uh my certificate and u uh industry certificate um the industry certificate the state will give us some cash back. I don't know how much because that's it depends on how much kids get the state take it. It's just one pile of money just divvy it out. So we get some of that money back. How much is just at the end of the year when there was 2,000 kids in it and they just divy it up that way for per student. There's the word. But then you could also use this um new certificate, the industry recognized one on a job application as actually having Yes. Okay. This would be a certified HVAC admission. Yes. So reading
058this really we could have kids getting their CNA while they're in high school. We we already have kids doing that through OT, but this gives them the upper hand of as a freshman, they could start the medical terminology and all that and go this way and then transfer into but you could get somebody to do cyber security. Cyber security is huge. It's getting bigger. They can do it all on the dynamics. So, it's building their background knowledge before they actually get to the on current and or college campus. And these classes would fall in line with these prerexs or would they be considered electives? Most of them would be electives just more more information at their fingertips earlier if they want it. It's there. Yes. Okay. About 300. Correct. There's a lot of Yeah. So
059we what we did is this next page is the CED certific certifications of what Ken was talking about. So this is what the state says um different certification routes that kids can go. This is a whole big listing. Um and then the next page is the e dynamics. So within here these are the ones that they have tied and the list is getting bigger. So these are the ones that e dynamics has that actually are with the state already. Eynamics will not replace eenuity. No need. E dynamics is for your CTE and your electives where has push your four. What is the cost of this? Okay. So we sorry is that we we didn't want to overwhelm tonight but at the same time wanted to give you all the information. So, um, Ken and I
060kind of we talked with one person from E Dynamics and then they got their Salesforce in. Right now, what we're doing for next year is we can have unlimited full access to the junior high library to the CTE electives and then the high school electives. So, with that, it's like 27,000. What we'd like to do is pilot it for next year, see how it goes, see how many kids are actually taking the classes. Do we need a full lot online access? Do we need all of the junior high electives? Do we need the high school electives? We know we want the CTE route for sure. So the question is is kind of how we other ones because the cost is so low this year and then see what we truly want and be going off
061of where the kids their their needs and interests are. So there was a $40,000 bid, but then when we had the conversation about being able to use it, getting to know it, it's like right at 20 spread out under 27,000 per year for the first year. For the first year and if it's great, 40 well on what we decide we actually want. It'll probably tailor to our needs then. Yeah. Now it's still unlimited or needs. Well, it depends on actuality. And then if we looked at it and we go, we only had so many kids, then we could go a different route. I mean, the unlimited thing is is nice as many kids we want and they take retake stuff. Or if we look at next year, we say, oh, you know, we only have
062this many kids and we can do it for. So my concern as mom that who is going to be recruiting these kids to to partake in these wonderful electives that we are now able to that freely spread because do we have a GT program at the junior senior high? This would work hand in hand with that. This is great. Well, not just necessarily GT. This would be any kid that maybe they just aren't the regular learner, but they want that hands-on like go out into the world not college son like kids could walk out of high school with these certificates and get a job. So it's not just your GT kids, it is everybody too, especially at kind thinking about our type of traits and knowing that we do need to have more CTE in
063a place where for where our kid was there. This would be an avenue to basically really get into what it is that they want to get in, what their interests are. They would know right away if they wanted to go to search. So it really opens it up for our our um all students like Sean understand really helps out um since these are all online classes. Do they do these online classes on campus or they could so we would we would have to discuss that on um if we were going to do that with the online program or if we were just going to do it on campus. But the nice thing about it, even if you didn't have a kid that was doing everything online, you could have that one kid that says, "I
064really want to go into cyber security, but I still want to take my highle maths and stuff at school." we could still offer them this month kind of like what we're doing with this talk just a higher level of learning through e items. I think we could open up our electives a little bit to where four or five different things could be going on in classrooms. So one elective class but you might have a kid in Microsoft and you might have another kid in medical assistant. Do we have the staff to confidently answer any questions in these very varied fields? So my understanding when we watched when we talked to the lady, everything is given to the teachers. So there is a library for the teachers. So say I went in there and taught something
065I didn't know anything about. It's all there that you could research and help the kids. So it doesn't have to curriculum right one designated special professional who knows this and one over. It can just be a blanket. we get the resources we need. Yeah. There other what other districts are using this for me? I do know that Rocky Ford is trying to get it because when I went to the CTE meetings, they were really trying hard to get it and so is Sherlock. Um I had a conversation at our last superintendent meeting where it was kind of introduced to see what districts were um contemplating using it. And I think that's a discussion that we're going back to visit um the superintendent to kind of see who all is interested to see if whether this
066could be at a district level or maybe if there's enough interest that it could potentially be like a Boseies level. Um and so I know that's up in the air right now for discussion as well. I I like the innovative thinking going on. I really appreciate the leg work you guys put into this and trying to be inclusive to all of our students no matter where they are. I would also like to know how this fits into the framework that we're trying to develop. I think it's good thoughts. Looks good. It sounds good. I would be happy to have that at our schools. Thank you. You guys probably weren't ready for all those questions, so sorry about that. for 100 more. So more to come then on that next one both items have to we
067do have to vote for E dynamics now um when we have to decide on that by June was it June 30 uh June 30 yes and if if we go beyond that that 27 is off the window and it goes to that 40 okay so can we just plan to have that at our next meeting would that be enough And I think we can get together what the person will cost. Well, thank you guys. Appreciate it very much. All right, moving on. Item C, Chartwell Service. Amanda, I'm gonna face the table. There. Okay. So, as Richie says, which I think is hilarious, I'm gonna try to keep it under 45 minutes. Jill told me he likes to keep it under an hour. Every time I watch this, hold my mic up knowing Rich's going to
068talk for like five minutes. So, say I'm going to talk for like five minutes. Um, so this year we uh we've gotten some new equipment. Nothing crazy. No new freezers or refrigerators which would be phenomenal. But we got some uh new shelves and carts and cables for primary. Um some of that stuff I think there's been there since the beginning of time. I don't know entirely, but I know the walk-in and freezer pretty damn close. So, uh we did get a new warmer for TTA as well. Um keeping the food hot is very very important. They're not terribly expensive things, but just little things that do improve the quality of food service. So, just so everyone's aware, we do get new things, just nothing crazy fancy, but new things that do make a difference. So,
069new shelves for the free or the walk-in primary makes a difference just to be able to store things like reasonably. I'm pretty sure the shelves are in there were as old as I was. So, those stuff needs to go uh reel in the summer, which is very recent, but we did do about 650 meals for reel in the summer, which is pretty awesome to feed that many adults and kids from the community. Um, it's a really great event and my kids absolutely love Breland in this summer. So, I'm so glad we get to do stuff like that and feed all of people at the same time. So, um, one thing, the primary freezer has been down for about a month or so. Um, and if any of you have ever had an appliance down at
070your house for any amount of time, whether it be a washer or dryer, refrigerator, it's sucks. It's really hard. Um, so we've had to go back and forth for the freezer at the warehouse, which I'm so incredibly grateful for those freezers at the warehouse. But right now they are packed full of commodities for summer um and bonus commodities too. So they're like doubly free commodities which are just we're required to get commodities from the state but um when it's a required component. So right now we have like frozen fruit cups um but those freezers are literally I capacity. So everybody think happy having thoughts about those freezers since they go down I quit. We cannot everything from commodities is like 30 or 40 pound boxes and there's probably about 10,000 pounds of it at the
071warehouse right now. So happy thoughts. Everybody think happy thoughts. So going back and forth is really brutal. So I've been working with Chrisman to try to get that freezer fixed as soon as possible. Um down the road I would love to I know you guys got way bigger fish fry, but down the road we do need to think about replacing those that refrigerator and freezer because they are OG to the building. like they were not replaced with the remodel or renovation, whatever happened at Primary. So, those are those are OG. They've been there since Patrick. How much do those cost? Oh, it's like $45,000. There's different things you can do. You can like put a new like coat of paint on them, you know, for like 10 grand or you can replace them entirely for
072like 45 I think was the last pro quote that Chrisman got. We can get equipment grants from the state, but it's no easy feat to tear those out of there and completely replace them. So, it's definitely like we have to talk about it now, plan it for next summer, maybe execute it summer after that. Like, it's not a, oh, we're just going to replace the refrigerator at your house kind of situation. Is it going to live that long? Um, that's a great question. They have absolutely been just slapping band-aids on them for the last few years. I've only been here for three obviously, but again, that condenser makes a sound that if your car was making that sound, we would take it to the mechanic for it just rattles and it and it's fine. Like
073it still works. One of the hardest things in some of those freezers because there are spring guards at the end of those freezers. So when we take those out and replace them, those spring guards have to obviously be fire system. So that is one of the biggest feats of doing it in the summertime is we have to shut down a section of water system be able to pull that and put it back in slowly. That is why it's more beneficial to try to do that during the summer as opposed to obviously when the kids are in school. We need to have that system. Yeah, absolutely. And we do summer food service program to some extent out of that school as well. So it would shut down that for the summer too if we did that.
074So, so, so is there I don't know who to look to, but is there a plan to like it sounds like this is not something it's a hope and a dream for sure. Currently, we there is a part that has been ordered for the current situation. I talked to Chris and that is it and that will be put in in the coming days. uh when I give my report I'll talk a little bit about our fiveyear projection and those are appropriate to that as well and I think some of those funds may be a little you guys as well. So yeah, we did start that in OK5. And the last thing I have is summer food service program. We will be doing we say SFSB, but summer food service I know education loves acronyms. So
075does CD like with food service too, but summer food service program. We will be doing it um June 2nd through August 1st and we serve Monday through Thursday. We'll do the community food service mostly here at the intermediate school prepare and pick up loop like we did last year. Um very similar. Um to my knowledge, we're not really doing summer summer school food service per se. Um there is we think we'll do it at primary later in the summer, but for right now, that's the plan for summer food service. Um we will do it the entirety of the summer and July 4th is on a Friday with this year, which is really cool. So it won't really affect summer food service at all. Normally we take a couple of days on either side, but since
076it's on a Friday, we don't really have to worry about it. So that is all I have. I told you. I have a question. Yes. and I would be in trouble probably if I didn't have you sitting right in front of me and ask did we ever address the food situation at the primary school. The teachers thought that maybe some board members should come and have lunch one day. Yeah. I mean we don't feed nearly as many teachers as we have in the past because we the teachers pay for meals now um instead of it being free through extra funds. So, um, mostly what the teachers eat is just the same things the kids eat and, um, I mean, I think it's great. My kids eat in these schools, um, like a lot of other
077parents. So, I mean, and and my staff and I eat it as well, too. So, it's not just the teachers and the kids. Like a lot, we have a lot of people that eat the food as well. And I I haven't gotten complaints about it. And again, I eat it as well. Like, I came for career day. I had lunch. I did. I did. It was okay. Um, we had also received uh let me let me filter this real quick. Um, when we went to co when we went to co like it was optional, huh? When when co happened to us, we went to lunch bag meals with a lot of prepackaged food because they didn't want you touching or breathing on anything. Have we gotten more back to actual food options? I mean, my
078kid really loves those Uncrustables. They're not really that healthy, though, if you read the package. Have we gotten more into hot lunch? When I came for Career Day, uh there was this cute option called a Lunchable. It's not a Lunchable, but that's what the kids call it just to make it easier. But it is a it's a it's a pizza pizza pizza bento box, but it's essentially the same concept as a lunch bowl. And a lot of kids do take that, but it's essentially like a make your own pizza with flatbread and mozzarella cheese and and marinara. It has all the components for lunch, but it's it is the gateway between the Incrustable, which a lot of kids do. Go to the Incrustables. Heck, at the end of the summer, I had two staff members.
079We had roasted chicken and hot dogs, and both of them sat there and ate an uncrustable sandwich. guys, but sometimes it's just what you're feeling that day for sure. But yes, we have gotten away from COVID was really brutal. We did have to serve a lot of prepackaged stuff. And it's the same reason that a lot of school districts now require when you bring things to the classroom that they have to be storebought. It's the same idea. It's because you want to know for not only for prepackaging for your safety, but now allergies are so prevalent. Like that's a huge part of prepackaging. But no, we've gotten away from that as much as possible. And principles are the one I don't even want to say like bad thing in that. No, I won't. Oh, no
080way. I'll be they'll drive me out of town. Are you kidding me? But no, crystals are the one thing I would say that that's going to that's going to live through all of that. But we do offer homemade, you know, hot lunch every single day. We do have cold sandwiches for those kids that don't like biscuits and gravy or if they don't like the pasta or whatever it is we're serving. I try to offer those options to get those kids to eat because we are C so all kids eat for free and healthy and healthy meals for all like all kids eat for free. So the con so my idea is the more options I can offer them, the better chance we have of feeding all of those kids and not having kids bring home
081lunch because when they bring home lunch, that's what I see. I see hot Cheetos and Uncrustables and soda or lunch. And don't get me wrong, I don't kill too, but feels like people eat. But so I try to offer those options so we can capture those home lunch kids too so we can feed as many kids as possible each day. So, as much as I I personally actually really don't like steak, like in my whole life, I've never been able to eat them. But there's so many people, my husband and my daughter included, that absolutely love them and would be heartbroken if I took them away. So, we I try to walk a very fine line of offering things that I know kids will eat, but also those homemade options that, you know, the pastas
082and biscuits and gravy and enchilada casserole and things that I know kids like as well. And try to get the kids to eat those things, too. and nachos and things that that will never go away from school lunch. But is there um I sort of vaguely recall a couple years ago the legislature passed some legislation about buying local or local produce. There is by American which is a by American provision. So a lot of so most everything we buy has to come from the United States. But they do have funding for local foods. Ironically, the salad that Miss Ayella had for lunch that day is hydroponic lettuce that is grown in swing. Uh we do buy hydroponic lettuce for swing from swing. Um it's called the summer house. It's the best lettuce I've ever had
083in my life. And truly we buy like commercial lettuce and that lettuce. You could tell, even the kids can tell the difference on the salad bar between that lettuce because it's like pale green versus the high fine flex which is bright green. It's really good. It's really great lettuce and I I have salad all the time for lunch just because I know how good it is. Um we do pay more for that lettuce, but it's absolutely worth it. There is funding for local foods, however, it recently was cut. Um so it's kind of they they gave it to us, they dangled it on a carrot and to threw it away. So we do let that one local food that we do purchase is hydroponic lettuce. Unfortunately we all know from living in the valley the
084growing season is during the summer when we do do summer feeding program but we don't purchase a lot of produce necessarily during the summer um just because it's hard to purchase what I need to purchase the amounts I need to purchase um to feed the amount of kids that we feed for summer feeding program. But lettuce is one thing that I stick with. We we give families the whole head because as we are allowed to do that as a waiver give bulb ingredients. So I do like the kids because the hydroponic lettuce does still have the root bowl on it. Um so I do like to give families that full head of lettuce. Not to mention once you cut it up starts to you know get brown and gross and too so that way they
085can use it for whatever they like. But we do continue to serve the hydroponic lettuce during the summer just not in the same way that normally kids see it. So we do use the hydroponic lettuce. Um other districts Shurah and Crowley County also purchase local beef um which is is a lot is a lot more expensive obviously but you are purchasing a local product. We get a lot of our beef um we use a lot of beef from commodity uh USD commodities is where we have a lot of our beef but some districts are gravitating towards the local beef as well which is totally an option. In Wyoming we went to purely we use local pork and local beef. um because both were graced in Wyoming very close to the school district. So it is
086an option however it is there is a higher cost. Okay. Thank you guys. All right. Moving on. Item five. committee's report and recommendations. Oh, Don, I'm so sorry. I clicked on it and then I skipped right over it. My bad. Okay, we have Don Ortiz, our human resinator, giving us an update. Sorry, Don. Um, I just wanted to give you guys a couple of quick updates, things happening, things in past that have been resolved, um, type things. Um, I know Para has been a question, a hot question lately. Um, we're completely caught up on par. The issue was a lot of the things were pending because when I submit the contributions to be paid, we have a lot of student workers, mostly at PTA, and they don't pay the contributions if you're under 18. So,
087when I do that, I have to make an adjustment to it. The adjustment has to be reviewed. It has to be approved before the payment even processes. So, it's kind of a process when that happens. Um, so it kind of puts a delay on things for a little bit. Um, also our representative um has moved up the chain and is no longer a representative. Our new representative is currently on maternity leave. So we have a temporary fill in. So it's kind of been like the perfect chain of events, you know, when you try to reach somebody and you can't reach them and they say, "Oh, well, I'm not doing that. So let me pass you off to soand so." So, um, everything has been resolved and there is still a December one that is floating.
088It shows that it's paid. I go on the portal. I have the receipt that says it was paid on December 20th. I've sent two different emails now or sorry, two different representatives. Um, so I'm still waiting to hear back why that one is still kind of floating. Um, but it was paid. Um we are also trying to get a representative to come down from PAR hopefully in August when we come back to our back to school um staff meeting to kind of talk to employees especially new employees employees getting ready to retire the PAR portal has really fantastic information on there. Um if anybody's who's ever visited it it's just copa.org. um on our monthly newsletter, the information is also linked there, so employees can check it out there. Um any questions that they have,
089you know, when an employee starts with us, of course, we give them that information. That's part of that packet. Very overwhelming. Let's let's be real. Um so we I always try to refer to the website. Hey, this has really good information. I know what I'm going to tell you now. You're not going to remember in 10 minutes. So, um, that's there all the time. We have very knowledgeable employees who are very interested in helping with that information as well. Um, so if anybody ever had questions, I could direct them if there's something I didn't know, if they're more comfortable talking to somebody in person versus the website. So, but that's kind of the idea of hopefully getting the representative down here to be able to be available to talk to people in person. So, um,
090right now we currently have open enrollment for all of our health, vision, and dental. That started on May 1st and it will run until the 15th. So, all of our employees get an email with access. It's all online. Um, the benefits to make your selections and stuff. Um, we use the east portal. Our insurance broker, sorry, I got to think of the word. Um Mark Kubie was actually here on May 1st and was available to all of our employees to meet and have conversations if they had questions or comments, concerns, anything, you know. Um we had two employees come in um and one who wasn't able to make it but did reach out and he provided the contact information. You know, please he's he's very open says if anybody has questions at any time, please
091just feel free to pass along my information. He was like at central office and they had to come to him. Yeah. But he was definitely willing to go um to the other buildings. That was part of the information that was put out ahead of time. If you can't make it to the building, please let me know. I'll make arrangements for him to come to you. Was it like during a regular workday? It was during the regular work day. So if somebody had a planned time, you know, um and they knew I'm not going to be able to get out of the building, but can somebody come talk to me? He was available for that. Do you think it would be better attended if it was on a day like Friday? Not necessarily. Um or if
092we put him in a place where we already require them all to be. We have talked about that as well. Um potentially him coming kind of at the beginning of the year when our open enrollment is our we start our new plans on July 1. So it's kind of a weird time. So if we have him come in August, we've already missed that enrollment period. Um, so it's kind of hard to catch everybody all at one time, but again, he's very open um open to passing on his information. He'll have a conversation with anybody at any time. So, he's been very good to work with. Um, for the benefits, we chose those. Uh, we had an insurance selection committee. We do every year. Um, different members from every building come together kind of and discuss,
093you know, what works, what doesn't work. He takes that information goes to different insurance carriers, you know, kind of shops around for us. Um, as well as whatever we currently have, um, it brings them back. And this year we had no increase on any of our plans, which is great news. Um, so we were able to stick with all the same plans and all our same. So that is currently happening now. Um, also happening is our American Fidelity open enrollment, which is our supplemental insurance. Um, so it's not required for anybody to have, but it's supplemental if anybody was interested in picking it up. That's accident, cancer, um, life, disability, things of that nature. So, a representative comes to the building and if an employee would like to, they can talk about it and enroll,
094change, update, things like that. Um, they get to make their own appointments. Uh there's a little bit of a representative shortage. So normally we kind of do it like all in two weeks for all of the buildings. So two weeks ago they came for a few of the buildings and then next week they'll be here again for to finish up the enrollment. But each employee can select their time on those specific days to meet with the representative. Highly utilized or highly. So they did take advantage of it. We do have a lot of employees that do sign up for the supplemental insurance. Do you know why the supplemental insurance meetings are highly attended and then meeting with their friends for their actual insurance is not? Because when you do the actual like your health, vision,
095and dental insurance, you get to make those decisions on your own. Um it's through an online portal. American fability does require that you sit with a representative to make those selections. So, choice. Do you think there's any confusion with anyone who's just presented an email and has to try to figure it out on their own or do you think it's pretty self-explanatory to walk it through yourself? Um, a lot of it is pretty self-explanatory. Um, we do throw it out there that again I'm available, Mark Kubi, the insurance broker is available for any of those questions. Um, especially with new employees, we do get a lot of questions on, you know, how does this work? What does this look like? Portal is very user friendly. Um, it opens with, you know, welcome to your insurance
096benefits. Um, the district is gracious and pays, you know, up to $800 for the insurance branch towards it. Um, it lists out all the different plans. You can do a comparison all of the plans even. Um, you can play around with it and if you want to add beneficiaries and independents and things like that, you can. And then off to the side, it lists all of the costs. So what the plan would be before the insurance fringe, then once you take out the insurance fringe, so what you're actually paying out of pocket. So it's pretty um self-explanatory for the most part. But again, of course, we have questions. Are we able to make it a requirement at least for new staff that they have to sit with the insurance rep at least once? Wait, that
097could be something that we simply because some of them aren't even aware how to fill out a W2 and some don't want to ask the question so they just don't opt in. Some are not techsavvy. Some just don't understand what they're doing. And that's okay. I mean, it's you're overwhelmed. It's a new space. You're trying to do a new thing. I get it. But at the bare minimum, make that initial requirement. Hey, I you might feel comfortable in the portal, but just in case you're not, Mark is here and he's going to help walk you through your initial one time for the one time. So, you're set from here on out. Then then we build our own competence individuals. We do have um several employees who are not so techsavvy come to central office and
098uh we kind of sit with them and help make the selections or kind of talk through it. Um if you know so that does happen but yes um having Martha more is not a terrible thing. I would rather have and not need than need and not have. I agree. I agree. Um the other thing that's happening is the administrator's contracts have already gone out. All the administrators should have received all of their contracts by now. Um the certified ones were approved at the last board meeting. So those are in process and should be all out by the end of this week. We have a lot of vacancies to currently fill. So, we've been advertising a lot and um interviews have started in several of the buildings for several of the positions we have available. So,
099hopefully we'll we'll start hiring for those very soon. How many vacancies do we have? A lot. I know. Um I couldn't tell you right off of the top of my head um just because of the different categories we have. Um but we have probably about 15 to 20 Um but please keep in mind with those some of those are returning staff members who were not licensed who are required to apply for their job because they were itinerate subs. So in the event that we find a licensed teacher who is nor qualified you know they may take one of those positions where where and how are we advertising? Um well I don't know if you've seen it on Facebook we have done it on Facebook every time I see it. on the district. It's on the
100district website. Um we do lots of the local newspapers, Rocky Ford, Lamar, uh PBLO, of course. We've gone to um K12 job spot. Um Indeed, there's a lot of online platforms that we use as well. Are we skydiving or skydiving? I have a son who just finished up his first year in college and uh we made flyers for music because he goes to a school that has a lot of music majors, music education majors and had him put some of those out there. So, you know, job fairs when we have them usually gotten a couple of there. Have we seen an increase in applications since switching to the new Absolutely. Since the since our online um application process started, we have probably tripled if not quadrupled the amount of applications coming in. It seems every
101day there's a handful. It's easier to track. It goes straight to who it needs to, you know, as well as myself. Um definitely worth the time that it took to learn the program. For sure. All good things. Sounds like it's happening. Any other questions? Thank you. Okay. Now, now, right operations update, 45 minute updates. Wait, before you start, I'm supposed to tell you you have to speak louder because the people watching at home can't hear you. You got it. You got it. I just want to touch base a little bit on what Mr. J. Um, I had a meeting with Sheriff Mumb today along with Chief with concerning our neighbor across the way over at uh 22nd. Um, as you guys may be familiar, we've had seven major instances in the last two years involving
102whe it's damage to our property, theft to our property, assault to a track coach, and now recently an assault to a student. And I'm just at the point right now where I did attend the county commissioner meeting this afternoon, shared the same information with them. I want to share the same information with you all as well. And my plan is to go to the next city council and share the same information there as well. Um, in my humble opinion, the clientele that comes and goes from that location over there has caused a lot of heartache for our school district, more specifically the junior senior high school. You know, we use we use the stadium a lot for our our PE classes or our football games, our track meets, our graduation that's coming up here. And
103just some of that clientele, they they have wandered over 100%. Our foot traffic behind that school has probably increased to over 100% just in the year alone. I intentionally have my camera set up on the high school alone to notify me between certain periods of time at night to tell me when there is movement behind the high school. And I wake up every morning with numerous notifications of foot traffic behind the high school. And so I I humbly believe after looking at footage, it they come and go from that location there. So I along with what Mrs. Rimik is doing is I am reaching out to our constituents and our governing bodies to say what can we do? We need help here. Our hands are tied. We are the victims in a lot of this
104stuff. Uh again, this is not a complaint on any of our law law enforcement partners or anything of that nature, but it is time that um something needs to be done with that resident over there. And I don't know what that could be, but I am going to shout it from the hilltops until I can ensure that our kids and our staff are safe. We have come up with different recommendations and protocols as far as what we have track practice there that gets things locked. Um, but we have done things to ensure to increase the safety of our kids, our staff, our property, our everything. And so with this recent event, this is again something that really, really needs attention. And I'm asking for everybody's help on that just to kind of put our minds
105together to see what we can do to ensure that we are no longer victims of anything from the clientele that comes from that residence. So I understand the properties in the county So yeah, so if you basically don't correct, this is not 100% accurate, but if you basically take Smith Avenue, 22nd Street from Smith down to 22nd Street, if you divide that roadway in half, the south side of that roadway is considered county and the north side is considered city. It's just a jurisdictional line. That's been that way when I was a police officer. So the folks that come from that place, they come from a county jurisdiction, but then when they come over to our area, it becomes a city matter. So I know our local guys are being inundated with having to deal
106with the situation that comes from over there. And again, this is not a complaint on, you know, the sheriff's office, the PD guys. We've worked with them very closely and I talked to both both heads of those departments today and it's we're teaming it up just to see what we can do. And so, uh, again, that has been heavy on my radar for at least the last two years to see what we can do about that. Unfortunately, we have to this weekend that that took place. So, uh, just so that you guys are aware of that, that is my plan. Um, I am not going to be able to make the city council meeting coming up next Monday as I will be out of the country. However, I plan on maybe going to that one
107the following win follow. That being said, moving on. Uh I've got a list of things I've talked to Chris Ben about. Um beginning this summer, we're going to have the installation of the flooring here at the intermediate. Continue on what we have already started from on the second floor. Uh painting and hallways will obviously resume here at the intermediate as well. Um replacing outlets and switches and whatnot over at Kins building. Yeah, I mentioned replacing ceiling tiles at the high school and obviously the roof that we're working on here, but we'll find out from Grant on that deal. Plumbing records at the high school. Um, you just got some rings and some of the journals that need to be replaced just fixed up on there. Uh, some additional outlets and switches that need to be
108placed at the high school. Concrete recur outside the high school gym there. We have a tree that the roots have caused the concrete to to come up there. So, those are tripping out there. So, we're going to fix those. Uh, mainly we have some touch-ups, painting at the primary, outdoor basketball nets, hoops, back works. I believe it's for this building here. And then I know Stacia talked to me about crosswalks. I did have a meeting with the city this weekend and talked about get those done. So, we'll aim for those late July, early August, just so that they're fresh um when it's time for school. Uh, couple things not to forget. Um, obviously graduation is on the 18th beginning at 7:30. Ken will have his awards beginning this coming Wednesday. Correct. At 12 to 4.
109Orange and black ceremony beginning 2 to 4:30. Jen's place. Correct. 2 to 4. And then um graduation is Wednesday. Jen's yours is Thursday. I believe you have already had your award ceremony and please forgive me but I think intermediates is 21st May 21st intermediates award ceremony on that as well. Um the last thing I wanted to say I know I we want Jared and I have talked we want to put together some sort of response concerning the meet the concerns of the Phil I know Mr. Schmidt had addressed what I just talked to you about our neighbor honor. That was one big thing. Um, so we are going to work on that. Unfortunately, after tomorrow, I won't get to see him for a week and I won't be out of the country for a week.
110I did provide Jared and the staff, all the principles with kind of my Bible as far as what they need to do in the event of my absence, such as alarms and whatnot, but they are aware of what they need to do to do that. That is all I have. Any questions for me? Uh I know that when we had that first instance of a problem a year ago, I do know there were some letters that were written from city. I think um if you need any of us to write a letter of our concerns so maybe we can get eyes on them faster and get a faster response or help everybody collaboratively come up with a plan. I'm willing to do that. Anything would help. Um you know I I I don't know if
111some of the stuff I think could potentially fall under the health department guidelines and talking to me that might be something there. I think land management might be an issue. Um, coincidentally, I did talk to Joey Gastik from the USDA because we have a pack of dogs that seem to be coming up around the high school um at night getting into our dumpster there. But he's actually eyeballing those packs of K9 that may be involved in shadow walling up near the area. So, he is actually, you know, I call him totally separate from us still. He is going he could potentially be a resource for us as well to help as well. But um again, this is I I want to make a big deal of this because we need help whether it's from our
112board, council, commissioners, anybody that can think of something or we can approach this. and not by any means to we're not in the business to tell somebody, hey, you have to move out of your house or you're not allowed to have so and so over for a barbecue part time. But the fact remains is we have traffic that happens at that residence that ends up leading over into our property that affects the safety of our staff students. I would encourage my fellow board members to write a letter that we can then get to Richie to help express our concerns about the situation that's been happening and it seems to keep recurring year after year. Uh encourage some expeditious action to take place before something more serious happens or or we're talking about loss of life
113or you know really a huge tragic incident that we could have got on top of and prevented. Anybody have any questions? Did we have the list of rotating building improvements? Oh, I'm glad you brought that up. That was that's the other thing I had. So Chris and I actually started that fiveyear capital improvement plan. We found the B document from 20 I think it was 2124 and kind of thinking at that deal I'm pretty proud of us because pretty much everything on that thing we have completed and they were pretty major projects they were and so right now as we're starting to build this I think I forwarded it to Dean I think she was going to share it with all of you but we have just started putting some numbers into that so we
114can start building off that and looking in in the exception of maybe the roof at Jen's place, some of the stuff that we're looking at might just be simple improvements to keep things going. And so, yes, this is a very, very, very fresh document that we just started and we'll be adding to that. So, we want to continue that five-year outlook for capital improvements. So, that we just started that. see we'll have that completed and some my goal is to try to have that completed by I do believe Chrisen comes in August for his general report. So hopefully by then if not maybe next month I think back obviously for my real side of my job portion but we have started that that project intermediate school staff in developing how was the sewer smell. Has
115that improved? I am the worst person to ask. I don't have a sense of smell, but Oh, from watching people's reactions when they walk in the building, all it's been bad. Um the And I don't know that it was the sewer smell. It's been more the bat smell in the last couple weeks. So, but there seems to be a smell issue recently. And I know that's a work in progress. Yes, ma'am. Okay. I do know that bill they did find I think the initial entry point here. It seems as though maybe we have found another one. So we'll look at that. I do know part of the sewage smell at one point was pipes that was broken outside of the school. They did locate that to fix that. That did help that. We often times
116do have drains that if they are not exercised a lot. The PE traps will tend to give off an odor. So we did start talking to the custodians on maybe every Friday. We're putting some of that mango smelling stuff down just to kind of keep that going. But we do see that often times. I remember at the high school we didn't exercise those drinks over the summer. We'd come back in and be breathing with an unpleasant smell. So we are working on that as well. Did you send out that list? I didn't. Can we get that out? Quick question. How did the high school roof hold up in the rain? What's happen? How did your roof hold up in? Yeah. You had buckets, trash cans, everything. Actually, Jeremy's there today and I was showing him
117where some of the tiles were gone. What's interesting is There was a skylight underneath all of the tile. That would explain why there's a lot of on the second floor. Yeah. Yeah. In the library. Well, there was that one. No, this is like down. Just got to ask somebody from that time. I know. As soon as I say that, I'm like, "Oh my gosh, I'm opening myself up." Not all collected, but there was a big We have not had that before. What we saw today was um new old new new tiles that have fallen and then when you look up through the tiles, there's actually a skylight up in there, but there is plumbing and pipes all the way around it. And then the fall ceiling. So, it's like a skylight falling. It's weird. It
118does look like they engineered in a way that I would not have. Again, I don't, you know, I do not have an engineering degree, but it is all that we do have a skylight. And then we have um plumbing looks like whether I believe it's plumbing for water um electrical electrical and fire that all run underneath the skylight. And then below that is where we saw um I think a lot of the false ceiling stuff came into play years ago to kind of avoid the best pieces. So at that point now it's being hidden in there running. They had to put a skylight in to make up for the little things that they then covered with a false make. It makes sense. Makes no sense. Is the I mean that two days solid of rain
119that we got was amazing for our farmers, but it sure woke up a lot of people that owned a building or had, you know, who thought they had no roof issues and now all of a sudden we're like, oh my goodness. Does that help expedite the best grant process? I mean, do we get to a stage where it's a critical need? Because I think we've surpassed that stage. Um, it's definitely something I'm going to discuss um whenever I present the best grants on Thursday. Um, this Thursday. Yes. Um, yeah. Yeah. Uh, it's this Thursday. And so, um, yeah, it is something I'm going to, um, present with. As a matter of fact, as I was going off to today, I was trying to find a plastic bottle somewhere where I could capture some of that
120water and just have as part of my presentation and go, "This is what this is what my people um was dealing with last week." Um, we um, have we brought anybody in from the health departments? And I'm I I dare to say it out loud. Uh if the fall ceiling is in fact covering up some of the asbestous stuff, uh those tiles are now exposed and it's dripping all over our students and our staff and the floor and our equipments. And at what point does that become a huge health concern? Um you know, prior to me being here, I'm not sure if we have brought in since I've been here, I don't think we have brought in anyone from the health department. seems like it might be a a great opportunity to do that. I
121mean, that that's a double-edged sword because we don't know what they're going to tell us and we hope that they give us an opportunity to keep the school open and fix the roof, but I I was recently in the building before the rain and I took a stroll around the hallways and it is becoming a very dire situation that we are in. Yeah. Good luck on Father's Day. Thank you. No pressure. Come visit us on a day of three. Do we have anything else for the operations update? All right. Financial update. Financial update. Um on the audit process, Dimmitri came to our auditor came to the office on last week and met with Shay and myself and he said he should have the 2223 single audit completed quickly. Um I'm hoping by the end of
122the week I'm keeping my fingers crossed. Um he also said he is beginning he's working on our 232 24 audit and he is giving us roughly a month is what he thinks he'll have that done and then I can submit it to the state auditor and they will release our taxes and and then we're all caught up and then we will be all caught up. Yes, that was a long road. Yeah, good job, Heather. Um, but I will keep you updated if as he sends me any more information on that. And of course, when it's completed, I will let you know that, too. Um, like Amanda had mentioned earlier, the summer food service, we have submitted our application for that. Um, it was returned for a couple corrections and we will resubmit that for our
123funding through the summer food service program. Um, what else? Abacus uh has finished cleaning up our accounts in SDS. We went from about 64 to 65 pages of account numbers to 29 pages. So I mean it is has been a complete different world in SDS for us now. That was fast, huh? Oh yeah. She spent 12 hours she said working on it. Wow. And she couldn't stop because if she stopped and we happened to go in there to do any work, then it set her back even further. So she had to once she started, she had to go until she completed it. And so she worked straight 12 hours getting those cleaned up. So which makes life easier for Shay and I in coding. It makes life easier for our bookkeepers in each of the
124schools and even just submitting like the audit through the pipeline for CD makes everything a lot easier. Um, she also balanced our general fund, so our reconciliations should go so much quicker now. All of the accounts were balanced except that one, and the accounts payable one is now finally balanced. And it's I'm excited to do April's. Um, last week Jared, Richie, Shay, and myself also met with Kim from Avacus and Sarah and we went over the budget um, line for line pretty well pretty much. And at the same time, the day that day, the state funding had been approved and she said we were pretty well aligned. Everything was aligning well with the budget and the numbers. So, so that was a good that was a good way to end last week. So, other than
125that, um they did complete the budget as you've seen and I'll talk about a little later, but we did have that budget started and in SDS, we've been busy cleaning up and getting ready for the new year. Perfect. How often do we do prepare financial statements? That is good. Quarterly, I would have been doing it quarterly. She is still working on the one that she was going to have me present today or tonight. Um it would was also she was working on getting the budget done first, but I will have get her tomorrow. So those are done quarterly. But she said we could do them monthly once she gets the reports created in SDS. And we can do them monthly too. One time we did monthly and that that is probably easier. It's a quicker
126report to give from month to month. I I'd like Yeah. and helpful in taking the applicants because she showed some of the some of the things she did within this SCS system is just some of the reports that can be run fairly instantly for in there. So that would be very simp. So, I will get I will email her tomorrow and ask her to and she may already be doing it. She hasn't contacted me, but I'll tell her that we'll we would like that. Other than that, that's about what's been happening in the financial department. All right, any questions? Thank you very All right, moving on to the chief academic officer. Um, so I kind of touched base a little bit um, just a few minutes ago. The best grant interview is going to be
127this Thursday. I've seen a couple of different timelines. It seems like the turnup for whether or not we're going to know it's pretty short. Um, should be I don't think it's instant, but it's going to be pretty close to that on whether we're successful or not. Um, as soon as I have any information like that, um, we'll make sure we get it to everybody that we can present on that next board meeting. Um, feeling pretty good for it, but again, it's it's up in the air. Um, I've done a lot of research where just looking at kind of like you said, that critical need and seeing where we fall and seeing everything that I can do to justify putting us in that highest need category. Um, I I I can't think enough to some of
128the surrounding superintendents, everyone that I've kind of reached out to and said, "Hey, I've seen that your school has gotten this. Um, what can I steal from you? What can I what can I what can you offer me?" And I've done that with quite a bit of different districts, talked to a couple of different leaders that have been through that process, worked on that. Um, it's really shaped um what I'm saying. I feel great about that. Um, when I look at kind of the different entities that we're working with, I don't have a ton of updates. I know TNTP, like we spoke last board meeting, um, I have meetings coming on the 28th and then we have our June um, conferencing with them week in I believe it's Denver and then UVA is in July.
129So, we'll have those. Um, SAP is actually um, kind of the same exact time in June. It's that first week of June. Um, I've been communicating with leaders of ESCAP. Um, they know that we've kind of been on the fence whether we were staying in, not staying in. Um, I think that, um, it's good to kind of open up that discussion from our school leaders, make sure that we're getting what we want out of ESCAF community, see if it's going to be as beneficial as possible. What I've been doing is um, keeping that door open, making sure that we're communicating with them. I know right now we're kind of in the phase of looking at all of the best cap opportunities that are going to be available as far as going to schools next year
130and trying to strategically plan so that um you know we're not sending groups over to Durango it you know where we can send them to where it's a little bit more cost effective time effective so that we can um be intentional but also not pull our resources in our people. Um, what's the I know what's I'm sorry, but what's the timeline for making the decision whether we're staying or going? I work as as far as planning um for them. I think that they would like to know by that June meeting whether that we are in or out. Are they still planning on doing a redo of our most recent one? Yeah. Um, I believe so. I think either way that we'll be able to work that out. Um, it kind of just depend how how
131we negotiate that out. I know that that's where we had left it that they were going to come and do that today, but that was also where we were fully on board with everything. Um, and again, I think there's a lot of pros and a lot of cons. Um, I just would like the opportunity to pick some more people's brains besides myself and see um, see maybe what I'm what I'm not seeing or what might not know and go from there. Make the best decision. Did we rely upon or basically any of our uh state board hearings on ESCAP findings or ESCAP participation or anything along those lines? Um I I I do feel like that it was contributed and if anyone has anything else specific that they want to look at, I think it
132it did contribute. It wasn't like a a sole piece of it, but it does contribute. I mean, as we talk about needing to improve our academics, that's part of what um ESCAP comes in and watch as they see, you know, our online systems all aligned or is your community and your culture aligned to allow kids to learn. So, it's not necessarily that we have ESCAP um labeled in our presentation, but a lot of what ESCAP looks at allows us to collect data that will in turn let us identify whether or not we're meeting the goals that we're looking to. That makes sense. It does make sense. Do you think it's an integral part of keeping that in place so we can properly use it to help restructure the framework that we're undergoing as a district?
133Um, I think it can be. I think any piece of data that we can collect um is useful. right now it's just weighing the the cognitive tax that it's putting on the leaders and people and deciding if that data is going to be good enough or not you know it's kind of and that's where you know I look to to look at my leaders like I want to trust them on whether they're able to take that data and use it and make it meaningful or if it feels like it's another thing okay that makes sense I just want to make sure that I'm making the best decision they're Okay. Yeah. And then um other than that, we have summer coming up, summer programming. We're going to put a higher emphis on curriculum mapping, breaking down
134the new curriculum that's coming in, looking at we're prioritizing ELA and um math and kind of looking at how these programs are aligned, how we're looking at them for the first school year next year, kind of identifying whether there may be gaps, there's not gaps, when we're going to um kind of do our interm assessments and things of that nature and be as intentional as we can be with our professional development for this summer. Did I hear Amanda correctly? We're not doing summer school. Um yes. Uh we are looking at um some back to school events, some like kickoff events, but not doing a traditional summer school program. Um but replacing that with this um curriculum mapping. I know within our secondary level, we're still talking about doing some enrichment programs as well as credit
135recovery opportunities for them, but that's that summer school program is going to look different. Um, one thing that I've been working with talking to Boseies and some of the community um, opportunities for what we can do to support kiddos so that we're not just pulling everything. Um, I want to be able to give them as many opportunities even if it's not coming from us, but helping share that information so that they can take advantage of those resources. Are you guys doing the tiger tots program? We are. We are hope that is um, still on our plate for doing. I know right now um with some of the changing inert funds, looking at where that money is coming from, it's kind of been my biggest struggle. Um but when meeting with Mrs. Miller, it seems like
136that's a huge want from from our community and so we don't want to pull that. Um I want to see how we can we can provide that student to I know at time there was some talk about how long have we been on turnaround at this building? Seven years I think so if I'm correct it was like there was some on one off some off like intermittently seven years um has anybody looked the data correlation between when we went to a 4 day school week and being on turnaround for almost every single year that we've been on a 4 day school week. Um you know it's not something that I've pulled. I'm sure it's something that we can um I think it's one of those things that uh we can definitely look at data and
137see if it's a correlation, you know. Well, right in the middle certainly didn't help everybody. Well, that and right and that's the piece that that as we look at this that I think you could look at data and say, okay, we went to a 4 day school week. We've also been struggling, but does it necessarily mean handtoand, you know, just because it's there doesn't mean that it's connected? And so, um, but I mean, there there's other there's other statistics and data that we can pull as we continue to look at that. I I do think that, you know, even when you look at curriculums, there's a lot of curriculums that are all mapped out for a fiveday school week. So, as we look at this math curriculum, we're going to have to look at condensing
138and prioritizing what, you know, what we want to have just because of the amount of days that we have in the instructional minutes. And so, um, I do think that that's, uh, that's something to look at. As I've kind of just looked out into the world and kind of read different articles. I think that there's a lot of people that are, you know, a lot of sell points for folks week, the saving, you know, the opportunity to give teachers to meet with doctors, things like that outside on those Fridays. Um, opportunities for professional development. I don't know if those are still the same, um, needs. Uh, and you know, it's I think it's one of those things that now daycare has become a little bit more difficult for people. Um, I think a lot of
139doctor offices don't don't do the Fridays. I think there's a lot of people that have all shift to that kind of 410 um work schedule that, you know, I'm not sure. Um, I think it would be something that we could look at, you know, and really speak to our community and see if that's something that they want to change. I'm not saying that. Don't look at me. Yeah, I I'm saying that very I'm saying that very openly that I'm just looking at the data. That's all. Yes. You know, I would be very interested to see looked in the room. They're all like I felt it. I was looking this way. I did feel it. I'm not suggesting that. It's almost done. Hang in there. Um but so yeah it like I said it it is
140something that we could definitely look at but there's going to be so many pros and cons both ways and certainly that need your attention. So just put it in the back of your mind. I know there was some talk not from me about um maybe looking back at a fiveday school week. I mean, because some of those perks that were initially intended to be a great perk for our teachers, whenever district goes to that model, you no longer get that little shiny I got into the doctor on Friday because everybody has Friday off. So, you're still competing for that spot. Um, just looking at some things like that. I know I sat in a meeting where that was of discussion. So, yeah. in the gallery. Jen, did you have something? Yeah. So, if we are
141going to look at that data, I would suggest looking at what they change from TCAP to CMA to park to CMAS because all of that would fall trigger into that same time frame of seems like a long. Anything else to share? Any other questions? All right, we're hanging in there and we're just chugging right along. New business side of A presentation of the 2526 premonth budget. Um, this is the new budget that Avocus has created in STS and um I feel it's easier to read and understand. I feel um it's pretty self-explanatory when you're looking at it for the most part. Um and just so before we start with it, just so we know this is still a working document. Changes still may be coming um until we do the adopted budget in June. Um
142and then even after that, we'll have changes once October count rolls around and things like that until January. So this could still be changing here and there. Um but this is she has put um a couple different columns in the middle. As you can see the proposed 26 fiscal year 26 budget is the first column. The second one is currently what we've done from July 1 until March 31st or maybe she has made it May 5th or May 8th whenever she created the budget. Um then there's the fiscal year 25's budget column and then fiscal year 24's budget column. Um from there on it is broke down by each account number and each department such as uh the tens are all the general fund, 21s are the food service, 22 are the grants, 31 is
143bond. I might have missed a few couple in there, but 18 is insurance, 19 preschool, and 43 capital. And it should after each section, I would say there's a total of revenues and then a total of expenses. So if we look at our first if we're looking in the general fund with the tens on page two you have a total of the revenues that are sorry there's 85. And then when we go to the bottom of our expenses, which is page three, page 24, it will show that we have a total of expenses of 16. But those are where changes will be coming in as we're working on it between now and next to see state re and then each fund will be pretty well broke down that way. The next one is the 18s
144which is insurance. Um that's what we're guessing since it or what since is and the expenses be of course if we have anything an insurance claim or something like that that might change it a little bit but we can't ever to meet our deductible but we don't know that will or won't happen. [Music] um preschool there is 20,000 in there but we're not sure on that if that will happen depending on how preschool revenue goes that's state yes um 21 is food service that is both our claim is for food our reimbursements from that and let me know if I'm going too pass through it or if you have any questions. Um 22s are the grants and they are basically in and out. This is what we've projected for the revenue and our expenses should
145equal that at the end of the fiscal year. So that's a pretty in and out count. [Music] Um, some of the things that we can expect to change. I don't even know what page I'm on. I'm on page 24 or 45. It says activity gas and oil. The 24 budget was 125. 25 budget was 24 you said. Yeah. And then budgeted for 26 at zero. So th those numbers I assume are going to be updated where we've always budgeted high amounts. Those will come, right? Yes. Yes. So a lot just a lot of the whole document a lot of the in the 26 budget where there are zeros that's just still yes. Yes. And that will reflect more in June. So this is just the premium. We'll go further in depth in that next month.
146Because after we do this, then we have a 10day till is it? Oh, we'll open it up tomorrow. Yeah, we'll we'll do the legal notice send to the papers tomorrow and have it publish two to three times. But if anybody wants to come in the office and see the budget, yeah. Okay. And then in the June meeting, we'll have a public hearing. Okay. But this is giving you an idea of where we're going and what direction we're going. So on in the grant section, so a lot of those in the 26 budget where there is zeros, does that just mean we're not we don't have that grant or we're not we won't have that grant that means or we might not know what the grant is going to be for. You know, it could be
147maybe it was $1,000 that we got this year. Maybe next year it's going to be well there. Okay. And we will know those as we go to and as we get into the year so that we can fill those figures in. Okay. or it may be a grant that we're not that we don't. Any other questions? Yeah, I just have two two more things. Sorry. Okay. The sod walk me through the I guess it's on page one. um on the revenue the the local the just walk me through the local. So the property tax those those first the the first three that are out there is our property tax, our specific tax and our penalties and interest on the tax. So when we get those from the county every month, that is how they're broken
148into those three categories. And that's how I code them into. So we will know we're getting 2.673 of property tax. And then we will have 371 of specific ownership and 10,000 roughly which would give or take on the interest part of that. And that equals what our revenue taxes al together. And then on the the health grant revenue, what is that? That is and Jen just left. Haley can kind of give a little bit. Yeah. The school health professional grant through um those leads. It's helped us pay for a lot of our curriculum resources uh various different things. Each building each year is a lot of amount that we can spend. um we purchase through the district. What uh falls into that category has to be approved by goes before we can purchase and then
149they become it's a reimbursement proceeds or reimburse the money um through the amount that we allotted that for grant you were telling us about um different than totss that I presented about and this one is focused more on um and and things of that nature. We purchased stuff for our um sensory room in at the primary school. The speak life and bullying curriculum that our junior high is working on. Um weekly various presenters over the years uh just collecting data on our tier one, tier two, tier three, uh mental health supports, social emotional learning, different things like that. Sorry. Apologize and just ask. At some point, this is great and this is a lot of work. At some point, can we get a budget for like by department like transportation, maintenance, um, and by building?
150I is that I couldn't figure that out. And that is and it is tricky. The second set of numbers is how it's broke down. But if you had like 10- 650, that's central office. The 650 part is the central office. But we can I can have her create it to where it's broke down. Yeah. At least if we can get an explanation of what they are mean. So we can Yeah, we can do that. It is because you're seeing these account numbers. I figured there's just like copers. So each one of those related to a building like 10-11 is intermediate. So when it's 111, the copers are here at this building. When it's 112, it's the primary school. 502 is the high school. 509 is TTA. Okay. We would have never heard that. Thank you.
151Any other questions? Thank you. All right, moving on. Item B, make the recommendation to approve the revised exhibit GQ on the first revised final reading. Make a motion to approve the revised exhibit GQ-E on first reading. Second. I have a motion to approve exhibit JQ- E. Is it on the first revised and final reading, Joe? Yes. Do you want to amend your motion because you just said first reading? First and final. Still seconding. Second. Yes. Great. All right. There was a motion and a second and I think we're all good there. Does anybody have any questions or comments? This is just increasing the fees appropriately. Correct. Okay. And the theater one is a new one. Is that right? This is Yeah. There used to be a drama for the class itself and that got confused
152with the drama. So they created the drama. All right. No questions or comments. Roll call, please. Mrs. Aial, I. Mrs. Hines, I. Mr. Kitz, I. All right. Item C, classified staff employment resolutions for the 25 to 26 school year. I will make a recommendation to approve the classified staff and fun for 25 includes a critical shortage as well as the list of classified staff. So moved. Second. We have a motion and a second to approve the classified staff employment resolutions for 2526 as well as the credit reportage. Questions or comments? Hearing none. Roll call, please. Mrs. Aila. I Mrs. Hines I Mr. Colemans I All right item Dwell I do recommend approval for the 2526 chart wall renewal. Make a motion to approve 2526 chart wells renewal. Second. Have a motion and a second to
153approve the 2526 Chartwells renewal. Questions or comments? Hearing none. Roll call, please. Mrs. Aayol I. Mrs. Hines. I. Mr. Cole. I. All right. Item eight. And lastly, I do make the recommendation to approve the annual renewal in fus student data information. The amount is $33,668. Make a motion to approve the renewal of Infinite Campus in the amount of $33,6. I have a motion and a second to approve the annual renewal of Infinite Campus in the amount of $33,668. Questions or comments? Do you know how much we paid last year? If there was any increase in that good question, I do not know that at the top. I think a safe bet to say is yes, there probably was, but I'm not sure. It went up minimumly. Um, see if I can find it. While you're
154looking for that, Joe, I know we had talked about potentially doing a different program. Am I mistaken? Yes. I believe that came up at one point in time, but I don't believe it any further. Okay. Last year, the renewal amount was $33,28. 460 bucks. Any other comments or questions? Hearing none. Roll call, please. Mrs. Aola, I miss I. Mr. Kovitz, I made it. Board comments have any uh reeling into summer was last Friday. Wanted to say thank you to the staff who put that together and we worked it. A lot of fun that kids had with us. Um and it look like there's some pretty cool stuff that the kids got to do and take home. So kudos to all the people involved in that. Um, couple congratulations to the seniors that are graduating on
155Sunday. Um, want to thank Heather, Richie, Jared for stepping up and taking on extra responsibilities. And so what I'm going to say is just my opinion and it's not have it's not a reflection on the great job you guys are doing. my opinion, we need to um start a search for a superintendent as soon as possible. And I believe, this is just my opinion um that we need to search for a interim superintendent as we search for a permanent superintendent. Again, it's not a reflection on anything you guys are doing. You guys have your plates completely full. um in addition to what we're asking to do and I just think that's my personal opinion. I think we need to leave one sole leader um as soon as we can. I would like to say um
156that I have someone approach me in the community about music at the younger levels. it is starting to have a significant impact on the number of children in theater and drama um at all levels. Um this children's theater um that's happening this summer. My kids have three roles a piece because they don't have enough children auditioning for these shows to fill out the show in its entirety. Um so I just want to bring that top of mind. I know it's not us. if we had somebody applying, we would hire them. Right, Don? Right. Um, so I know that it's just a rural thing and we're not at the top of everybody's bingo card, unfortunately. But, um, encouraging people and our students to get involved in that secondary theater piece is important. It really, I can't
157tell you how much it's benefited my children. um participating in theater is being open to talking to adults and speaking in public and really carrying themselves like they've held a conversation in their life is amazing. Um so I just wanted to share that with my fellow board members that I did receive that from um someone in the public. I'd also like to say congratulations to our senior class of 2025. And all three of you, good job. Thank you. Thank you for your work. Teachers, we're almost there. I think of you every day and I send my kids to school. You're almost there. Hang on. Hang on. Thank you for your work. We appreciate you. Anything further?