001I'd like to call the Canon City School Board meeting to order. It's Monday, September 8th, 2025 at 5:33 p.m. Let's begin with the pledge of allegiance. >> I aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for it stands. One nation indivisible. [Music] >> These chairs are interesting. >> Mr. Alreight >> here. >> Mr. Alexander >> here. >> Miss Mary here. Mr. Mil >> here. here. >> Next, we have approval of the agenda. Mr. Hartman, are there any changes? >> See a mic. Can you hear me? >> Yes. >> Yeah. Great. Thank you for asking this research and the answer is yes. There are changes under two general A looks like two C3A appointments. Thank you, Mr. Harkin. I have a motion to approve the agenda as amended. >> A
002motion to approve the agenda as written. >> Second. >> I have a motion and a second. Further discussion hearing. None. Roll call, please. >> Mr. Alre. >> I. >> Mr. Alexand. >> M. Mary. I. Mr. Miley. >> I. >> Mrs. Reese. >> I. >> Next, we have a consent agenda. Would any of the directors like to pull an individual item off for further consideration? Hearing none. May I have a motion to approve the consent agenda? >> I move we approve the consent agenda. >> Second. >> Have a motion and a second. Further discussion hearing? None. Roll call, please. Mr. Albright. >> I. Mr. Alexander. >> I Mary. Mr. Miley. >> Hi. >> Mrs. Hi. Thank you everyone. Next we have the board members report. Who would like to begin? >> Okay, I guess I get
003to begin. Um I went to several things. Um fortunately again most of them high school related. Uh went to the first football game. I got to tell you I was impressed with several things about it. um when the football team lost. Uh the number of cheerleaders that we have was pretty awesome to see. That's been something that's that's been kind of uh well, I guess I'd say in the district. Um and that was cool to see. And um to some degree I'm wondering if Courtby isn't partly responsible for that because I know CCMS has a program after school program for cheerleaders and I think that's fed that and we're now seeing some results of that. Uh the band performed as well. I have a daughter that's in the band. So I've also gone to a
004couple other band things. Um one of them up at uh at Harrison High School. Um, so the band is rolling along um, quickly, I guess I would say. Also went to a volleyball game. Um, always good to see kids turn out, seniors, juniors, and sophomores sitting in the stands. We need a few more freshmen there, but they'll come. So, that was good to see. By the way, the team did win. Um, also went to my last Matt was sitting next to me, my last senior parent night at Canyon City High School. Um, where they did a really good job of talking us through um, everything from wrapping up what construction is doing to what it's going to look like to what we need to do as senior parents and just kind of talking us through
005everything. Um, so it was really good to to have that and have that conversation there available for parents. Um, so really cool to see that. Um, what's interesting is they're anticipating already that the number of concurrent enrollment credits that um that we get this year is going to be at least equal to what we got last year, which is I guess in the word record setting. So compass committee today. Awesome. Other people can talk about that. Um I um two things. One, we had our we had our first meeting of the staff appreciation kind of committee meeting to kind of look at what we're doing to support our staff this year. Part of our number two area of our strategic plan. And um we have some some great things planned for this year to show
006our staff that we support them and that was really great to be there. And also I was the fall delegate at the Casby fall assembly and so I got to go and and vote for our district's respective on several resolutions to for CASBY to present our legislators um and encourage them to support our schools in lots of ways. So that was really fun too. And I also went to college and learned a lot today, but I'll have somebody else share about that. Take that. Um, we were all at the high school assembly that recognized student achievement. It was a first for CCHS to recognize our CTE kids and also our academic community. And the recognition of Julie Biden as one of the eight finalists for Colorado teacher of the year was a great the whole
007assembly was a great win. When I experienced that though I watch these kids um being recognized for their achievements and I want to give a huge shout out because sometimes it's easy to forget. I think it's because of what CCHS does. I want to give a huge shout out to starting in preschool here. um our kindergarten, elementary, middle school teachers that put so much work into preparing kids for success in high school. We cannot forget to recognize that they are part of all that academic and CTE success at CCHS. >> So, a lot of the same things. Um again, last senior parent night for myself as well. Um it's really great to see the u direction and the guidance of the new pathways program and CTE again another record-breaking year in which I love seeing
008the that's probably one of my biggest bragging points and oh what's great about came city high schools well let me tell you all the first that we are we're first in this we're first in this we're first in this and they're all really really great things and we actually have a um our owners rep that helped make this possible um he's actually like really trying to get his kids down here because he's so impressed with our district, which is huge. Um involved in the construction meetings and the planning process and that which has always been great. Same thing assembly. Um I have to huge shout out just for the moment for Dalton Kurt who made the 1410 club who also had um several four fives or five fives on his AP testing. Um just off
009the charts on everything and so he just kind of broke a lot of records. We had so many other great students, but um he was kind of a big deal. So I wanted to highlight the Harvard. He was a band kid and he's been involved in so many programs. Um and he's a Casby kid as well last year. Uh so he's just a lot of great activities for him. Um so that was huge. And of course, Compass Committee for us this morning for the first Compass Committee of the 2526 school year. And lots of good positive things going in that direction. So we're excited about this year and everywhere we're going. I did a lot of the same things. I did have the pleasure on the evening before our assembly recognizing all of our kids
010and their accomplishments to drive our one of our state board of education with the state level uh representatives around the community. I I drove her by our employee housing initiative that she was super excited about. drove her by all of our beautiful buildings and how much we've accomplished over the years with construction projects and and we had dinner and I broke out the strategic plan and all the great statistics and it was I was so proud of everything that we've done in this community and she was she was so excited. She's like how are you doing all of this? It was it was a really great experience and it made me very proud of all of you. So, all right. Thanks everyone. We have no awards and kudos this evening. We're going to move on
011to the presentation and discussion items. The first thing this evening is the McKenley student presentations. All right. Okay. Um, I just wanted to take a moment to introduce I brought two fifth grade leaders with me this evening. Um, who are going to kind of highlight some things that we're doing um with our fifth grade kind of at this time and then I would like to kind of give an overview of what's happening K4 preK. Introduce yourself. >> Hi, my name is And um today I will be talking about safety patrol. Um for safety control in the morning for breakfast we have two students helping out. If um another student has trouble opening their milk or juice um they can help with the two students helping out can help with that. And if there's a conflict,
012they also help out with that. And if they can't solve the conflict, they will end up with both of the students. And um for morning recess, we have two students helping out. They will be helping keep um keeping their hands and uh their hands and feet safe. and h making sure everybody's safe. Um and um for afternoon glass we have three students helping out. Um for busy week we will uh be reminding of voices one or zero that means whisper or no talking and no food or drinks in the bus line or in those toys. for butterfly garden. We have two students that are um meet u meeting and greeting parents and making sure students get to their stu to their parents safely. And for um Colorado corner, we have two students making sure that
013other students are getting across the road safely. And um front door. Um we have uh two students uh holding the door for um kids for students to um to exit the building. And um we also have kind of buddy day. We will we are are going to be going um we are going to be leading up with uh first group of school. How many do we have involved in safety? How many >> we have 19 out of 24 students in safety. Um, hi, my name is Tay and I'm one of the fifth graders. Uh, I will be talking to you about the North Pod, which is the 10th and fourth graders pod in the library. Yeah. No, not the library. It's the art. There's also the art room. Um, there's three rooms not including the
014art room in the North Pod. The teachers are Miss P, Miss Bri, and Miss B. Miss Bradshaw. And yeah, Miss P. I don't know. There are names for each three rooms. Discovery again is when fifth and fourth graders can both meet. Wildcat zone is Miss P's classroom and it's fourth grade. Missy again is all of the teachers. And whispering is Miss Brady and Miss Bradshaw. And that's fifth grade. And we have three teachers and all sometimes we'll have five or 10 but like all the teachers combined are four. How does that help you? Uh how it helps us is since we have more teachers, one teacher can be speaking and another can be like talking to students about something just so like the teacher would have to stop didn't have to stop unless Thanks. [Applause]
015I just want to commend you gentlemen on a couple things. Um, one thing I've noticed both of you today through the discourse and the conversations is when you're asked the question, you oftenimes repeat the beginning of the question to introduce what your statement is. And I think that's really great. So, I just wanted to commend you on that. So, I just wanted to add to um just a little bit. Like I said, we did have four speakers kind of ready for this evening. I had two that were sick and one that kind of came in last minute and I asked him to to step in. So, um I asked my grade leaders to kind of help. We spent a lot of time at the beginning of the year with staff. Um, many of you know
016I'm a former music teacher and so we really leaned into the idea of we're all in this together and we had fun with Eiffel Musical and but then we really go deeper um into what does that mean being all in this together and really um finding common language and what does that look like to a three or fouryear-old right in preschool or a fifth grade leader. And so I went to our fifth graders and I said, "How can you help me get this to um our student body?" And one concern that CE had was assembly behavior previously and so we chose to do it as an assembly. Um we had fun with it. Do you boys want to talk about order assembly real quick? >> I totally put them on the spot. They didn't. So
017merry is where we have um three or four trades and um each trade has um one thing about it that it's safe or multiple things about it that are safe and um like safe hands, safe bodies. And um what we do is when we assembly. Instead of walking around the whole screen, we present it. We present it in the back. And um we have a speaker and maybe two, three or four actors that would act um like what they're what it's what it is. And if if it's safe, they will put some they students will put a thumbs up. And if it's not safe, they students will put a thumbs down. Great. You want to add anything to um not really. Okay. Thanks, so they kind of hit on the A of our expectations. A
018is act safely. Um R is respect, O is ownership, and R is responsibility at the end. So we just kind of broke those things down, and they engaged with the whole student body on is this responsible, is it respectful? Um, and just getting that common language out. The big one we're working on right now is cheesing integrity. Um, that was big for the staff, but even our kindergarteners knew and understood what that is. Um, we're working on what that looks like at the preschool level. Um, and I think the last thing I just wanted to hit on was just to dive a little bit deeper into the teaming. We're we're finding many opportunities for our staff to team. So, we've created some additional PLC work. we have um dove in with lead teachers in our
01923 team as well as our 45 team and just really trying to meet student needs on a higher level. So I I almost call it like win time on steroids, right? We're we're trying to do that individual in in multiple opportunities. So thanks for being here. >> Well, we would like >> Okay. I try to stand. It's kind of >> two guys. >> Thank you. [Music] All right, thank you everyone. Okay, next we have the pulse presentation. Come on up everyone. [Music] a little taller than fifth graders. Not me. So, I'm Christina Daniel. I'm the chief operating officer for Valley Bal Systems and we're one of the partnership. I'm Mandy Kisner. I'm the CEO of Soul. And so we're just going to give you a little bit of an update. Um you just saw it
020in your work session, but if there are any further questions. Um so we're going to talk about our services, uh what the community advisory board does, the uh services that we actually provided in this year and previous year. Uh future things that we are going to do and then any questions as well as then a stronger behavioral health update. Um priority we'll start with medical and then maybe we'll cover behavioral health. Um this is our vision and mission for Valley Health Systems. Um and so what is a schoolbased health plan? You all know but for those uh who might not, it really is on an onampus healthcare facility that provides access to medical, behavioral and preventive services. Um the goal is to reduce barriers to care for students and their families to ensure that they
021get the health care they need to keep students healthy so they can stay in school. Um the services that we provide at the pulse right now are primary care who do well child visits acute care and chronic condition management. Um behavioral health services, counseling, brief interventions and referrals to other additional behavioral health services as needed. Preventive care which includes immunizations, health screenings, sports physicals, um and then students can do that sports physical through a wellchild visit or if they've had a wellchild visit within the previous year. And then we do some health education including nutrition, substance use prevention and sexual health education. The partners are Sista Health Valleywide and you all. So thank you for our partnership. Um I feel like it's been a really strong partnership as we continue to ensure that the services
022are what your students need and what the community needs. Um so we know the benefits include that increased access to healthcare. We want to make sure people can get the services they need. Hopefully reduce absenteeism if they can come to school and not need to take time away from school to go to the um to get the services they need. That early intervention hopefully they don't have to go to the emergency room as much and then really engaging their families in their health and wellness as students and encouraging family members to get care as well. So the whole family can get served. We do have a community advisory board. It is made up of three community members as well as the members from the pulse advisory committee which is represented by the partners at the
023table. Um they give us feedback on what they're seeing from a community perspective, things that we could add to and other um ideas that may make the polls more accessible and more effective for students and families. And so it's been really nice to have those three members. Um, at our meeting that we had last spring, we did have two students and they had some great ideas of ways that we can increase awareness and proper the student body. Um, we also have, as I just previously mentioned, the pulse advisory board that is made up of professionals from the school district, from Sistad, from LA. We meet every single month to talk about barriers that are happening uh within the pulse, things that are going well, other things that might need to change or shift in order
024to get people with services and support. Um this is our clinic team. We do have a physician assistant, Robin Chie. Um she provides the primary care. Nikki Reynolds is a master of social work behavioral health clinician. She provides behavioral health services there. Robin and Nikki are a really really strong team for the students and to access the pulse. Um we have a full-time nurse CJ and Dustin who is our receptionist who manages a lot of the relationship with parents and students. Um and then Anna Chen is our clinic manager. So they really make sure that students and families and everyone gets the services and support. Um we did serve 848 people in the pulse in 2425. Um the ages were from one year old to 77 years old. 594 or 70% were between the ages
025of 5 and 18. We had a total of 1733 unique visits. There were 15 confidential adolescent visits for fewer than 10 patients. And then we do see a mix of private and public insurancees. Approximately 34% of the patients use Medicaid as their primary insurance. This is just a breakdown of the different services that we offer. And then our prior year data you will see as our patients have gone from the first year to second year a big increase and then it's been up and down in the years since. We'd love to see more patients. Um we do have same day access for most things most times. Um so people can call and get an appointment usually within that day or the next day. Um and then we did see a decrease in in appointments from
026last year to this year. So we do have space for people to access here. Um we do want to make sure that the district teams um the students the parents everyone kind of knows what services we have at the post. So we're going to create a cheat sheet for them. Um, we did talk in the work session about for the younger kiddos, making sure you're a prek uh family to know about those services. So, making sure that that advertisement is out there. And we just really want to make sure people know about the pulp, they know the services that they can get there and that we provide back to your school community as well as the community. Yeah, I just wanted to add a little bit more and maybe a little side, but um one
027of the things that we're really working on and have worked on this last year is really reducing barriers to care and increasing access um reducing weight times to accessing behavioral healthcare. I think it's a huge need for the state of Colorado. We've made big strides in that. Um, one example that I shared is that three years ago we were looking at about a six to eight week wait list for behavioral health services and now we can proudly say that we can offer that within the same week. Um, we also have expanded urgent care access on the behavioral health side. So that means same day access and or next day access for people which I think is a huge um improvement into behavioral health side of things. And then also youth voice. So we started a
028youth advisory council that we launched back in January. Um immediately the youth feedback was to bring back the youth mental health vouchers which we also have launched uh this year and look forward to hopefully you promoting some of that. That basically is a voucher that shows the youth that they can access at least two free sessions. Of course it's really not limited to sessions. It just helps the youth to um get to where they need to go so that we can u offer more services for them and just really very thankful of this partnership. I am time and time so I just celebrated as of yesterday 20 years of commitment to Soul Vista Health and improving every single year. It started when I started at Soul Vista, we were less than 50 employees. Um, and
029we really have had a commitment to improving access and um, doing more capacity and I'm just really proud about the work that we do for a small community with a limited amount of resources. Wow. And that's thanks to all of you and the support and the partnerships that we've created. Um it just even though times have seemed dire we have funding cuts it's always so good to know that we can just rely on those strong partnerships and we will do dynamic things in spite of all that. So thank you very much. We also very much treasure the partnership. Thank you organization. All right. Request to address the board of education. Mr. >> Mr. Can you hear me? >> Yes. Closer. There you go. Guess I would like to start by acknowledging the space that we're
030sitting in. I joked during work session that I had never been sent to conference that particular conference room building upon a man Jayce who said he had never been to the principal's office. The reality is there never was a conference room and we never had it. McKinley didn't have this space either. So I think it's just important to be appreciative of that. Thankful yes for the McKinley staff that serve the building right now and making the space available. But thank you in an even bigger sense to the community because this wasn't the best grand project. This was the board's decision to look at the whole of the school district, assess great needs, find areas where we could improve upon them and turn our dollars into opportunities for kids. And that's where we sit right now.
031So I just think it's cool to be in here. Jamie asked me quietly. She said, "Why don't they have Wildcat?" I said, "You do, but it's on the court." Whereas we're blinking at ribbon cutings tomorrow. The gorilla is on the wall. Well, but the wild cat is cool. It's the old school wild cat. I think it looks really sharp on there. So, Cy, thank you for hosting us tonight. And we recognize two that sometimes it's hard to get kids to all of their commitments, too. But the two young men you had here, they did a really nice job. Scott, I was wondering if you remember Chase was he because he would have been here. He would have been a little kid. I wasn't sure about that. So, okay. Without further ado, I would like just
032to run through a few things that are reportw worthy on my end. Um yeah, it's Kansas City schools. We've had a lot of nice things that we've been able to showcase and that's true for the beginning of this year too. Um Julie Milin is a very fine teacher. She's a super exceptional recipient of a recognition of being nominated to be teacher of the year, but to make it to finally wonderful. And it's also a win for the school district. When we have people inside of our own system that we can hold up like that as being exemplary when we have people in there that have just bought in different with us for a very long time now. Um I just think that really says something about nice about who we've been able to attract as
033talent and how to help them to be successful. So it was wonderful to be part of that. I appreciated Mr. summers as well as this this student body of CCHS and their patience for waiting because we were visited two weeks ago by the former DPS superintendent in the form of Senator Bennett and last week also by the former DPS superintendent the commissioner of education Dr. That's a big deal. I enjoy Carla Esser being there as well. All of this is good for K City Schools win. Thank you, Julie. We'll continue to work for you as we move forward. I believe what we heard is October is when they're going to make um secondly, and you guys didn't call it out, the region six convening that we all got to do recently. Yeah. You know, our
034whole board was there plus, right? like there's a we show up as a governance team and quite honestly I think that we do good work um all the you know here here but we do good work when we have an opportunity to be with other board folks too there were some really great people in the room that night and I I still would like to see a little bit greater pleasure participation but I just wanted to thank you not only for showing up being together I mean there's a reason for running as smoothly as I do with our government team is because we're investing in one Thank you um Todd and I had the opportunity to be in Loveland, which it's, you know, more or less like when you get to the embassy suits in
035Loveland, you're almost to Fort Collins. It's like pretty far north up there for the Cassie delegates. And I said it in your board notes, but I said it. Todd did a nice job representing the school district. Um, there it's a cool event. And what's really neat about it is that no matter how big or how small, every district has one vote when it comes to actually setting that legislative thing at that focus for the year coming up. Um Todd and I met the week before to review all of the resolutions. We did that. We thought that they were smaller than member. Thank you. And we thought that they were less controversial and I think they were. It doesn't mean however though they were really interesting. two of the most interesting kind of playouts that I've
036ever seen actually occur for a Saturday morning. Um, and I was really proud of the delegates at large. The whole thing was just that there was a lot of people who let me say there were a lot of people from all around our state who seem to really be focusing on issues around kids and supporting them and it's warm to me and that I appreciate it. Um, and then lastly, compass committee today Mr. friend told me in the hallway said, "Ad, nice job. That went well." This morning, I said, "Thank you. I appreciate that." But really, the first one of the year in part is really just for onboarding and bringing on some more people. And last year, it's not just what it's about, but getting kind of comfortable with what we can do. Last
037year, I had received some guidance from you and then also from the committee itself around diversifying perhaps getting bigger numbers. It wasn't my idea to host that at the high school today. That was Mr. Moore's idea. That was a great idea. Really enjoyed being at Compass today and to be able to talk in an honest way about areas where we're doing some things well and where we need to get better, but also to celebrate some of the things such as the facilities um that getting thrown in a tour like it was great. I really enjoyed the compass, but I'm kind of I'm kind of geeky about stuff that probably is boring. I don't know. I I thought it was terrific. So there's a superintendent support. Thank you. >> I just I'm sorry I was caught
038off guard. I should have also talked about at the fall delegate assembly there were probably just a handful of superintendent who took the time to come to that too. So I'm very grateful that Adam still comes to that. I'm going to tell you the first time I represented um and I kept my phone just like this to watch very carefully on everything to see what Adam thought I should be doing and and this time it was a lot because I I pretty we were we were together on everything but it was nice to have something like that really kind of take me off and it kind of and you know lots of things happen in that it's it's an important part of representing and I'm glad that our districts made that a priority. Um, I
039learn a lot every single time. So, thank you. But I'm really grateful that Adam is the superintendent that goes. [Music] >> Thanks for going to that. >> All right. Next, we have very little policy work. This is foration purp. So we have file CCA program supervision reference chart presented to the board for information to ascend policy not required as it's fully addressed through existing internal practices. No vote necessary amendment. So we have no old business. We do have a few action items this evening. The first one is request for approval for cancellation of schoolboard election. >> Yes. Sure. It's recommended that the board approve the resolution approving the cancellation of the 2025 school board director election. May I have a motion, please? >> I think I think I should introduce myself. >> Maybe I motion
040to approve the cancellation of the school board election for 2025. >> Second. I have a motion and a second further discussion hearing. None. Roll call, please. >> I pass by happen stance today. I happen to see court and uh Thank you. >> Okay. And now I'm glad at this point now that board's gone through the resolution, he's anticipating that he'll be here so that go ahead. So appreciate that. Thank you. >> All righty. Next is approval of non construction. It's recommended that the board of education approve the selection of non construction to provide construction services for the construction of the Kansas City High School stadium improvements for a total cost of 3,248,242 to be paid with bond funds. Can I have a motion, please? I move that we approve none construction the selection of n
041construction to provide construction services for the construction of the Kenyon City High School stadium improvements second >> I have a motion and a second further discussion hearing none please >> I motion passes Yay. Next, we have approval of a new K through 12 SSN resource teach. It's recommended that the board of education approve the purchase of a new SSM research resource teachtown for use in grades K through 12 in Canyon City Schools. I have a motion, please. >> I'll move that we approve the new K12 SSN resource teaching. >> Second. >> Have a motion and a second. Further discussion hearing none. Roll call please. >> I Mr. Miley. >> Mrs. Hi. Motion passes. All righty. We have no further business before the board.