Board of Education Meeting: May 27 (Spanish Captions)

001can because you you helped us get there, but it's still terrifying. This district will be set up for success for so long. I'm not ready to cry. Like, there's going to be you're going to get like 12 more emails from me over the course of the next years probably as things happen. And as it occurs to me like how much you've changed my outlook. You've changed how I interact with being a board director as a community member. What I'm willing to try that I may not have ever considered trying. I look forward to continuing to talk to you and continuing to reach out and continuing to collaborate with you. Whether that's PSD related or not. This isn't the end. It's just a different chapter. No, go ahead, Kevin. Well, I was going to start my

002comments by saying that, and I gushed last week to you, so I'm not going to try to gush now. I'll try to be more eloquent. Um, I sent Caroline a pretty heavy-hearted text when I had all the feelings when she announced her resignation. Um, I'm still not ready, but I respect your decision, and it's your decision to make. And so I will say comments that I've made to you privately, I'll say now that I admire your over a decade of your life that you've committed to serving not only this district and this board, but the thousands upon thousands of students whose lives are better because you were here. They owe you a debt of gratitude. I owe you a gratitude. I'll miss since I'm on the theme of what I'm going to miss about Carolyn.

003I'm going to miss your calls, especially the days of meetings when I finally kind of wrap my head around what I think how I'm going to vote or how I'm going to think about an issue. And then there's Carolyn leading the trail of some other thoughts that I hadn't considered. I think, damn, I almost had it. I almost had it. But to continually push me to get my head wrapped around everything, all the McNuggets, I'll miss that. I'm I hope those calls will still continue and that you'll still poke me and prom me. Um, more than anything, I think I'm going to miss your moral compass that you add to the room and that you add to this board and this district and that your unwavering commitment to transparency and the legacy of transparency that

004you're leaving us with. Um, I'm going to try to continue that legacy of having difficult conversations in public that need to be had. Um, because that's important. It's important that we do the business of the public out in public. And um so I want to thank you for being the moral compass on that. Um and I guess I'll I'll just I'll close my own ramblings here by saying that I genuinely mean this that um I'm going to miss having a friend that I can talk to about some of these important issues on the board. And I truly truly hope that over my time spent on this board that I can measure up to a fraction just a fraction of the impact that you've had on the board in this district over the over the decade

005that you've been serving. And so with a very humble heart and a grateful heart, thank you. Uh Carolyn, your 11 years, you've just been such a force for good on the school board. It's just been amazing. and your experience, your demeanor, your inquisitive nature, and your teamwork just uh it's they'll just be so sorely missed. Uh one of the things I love about you is when you talk about the students, you always refer to them as our kids, and you really got me to think that way. Students, they're our kids. And uh thank you for that. Um, thanks you for all you've done for me. I've learned so much. Um, and I don't feel like I'd be the board member I am today without your leadership, uh, your curiosity, and your thoughtfulness. And I just

006wish you and David all the best. I'll go next. Um, you know, I have to say that you were one of the first members of the board to approach me. I was new to the board. Didn't know anybody. I knew I knew Jim and Jess, but I I didn't know exactly how it all worked. And you welcome me as an equal right away. um he really uh try to lead with an open mind in terms of you know who's this new guy where is he coming from and really gave me a chance to have a voice um but also show exactly how how things worked and I think our shared passion for uh getting students ready for the real world is a big thing that we connected on the CTE program I hope to continue

007your legacy I'm really pushing for that because I think it's so so important. Um, even the passion for dyslexia, uh, integrated services, those types of things, I will be pushing hard to continue your work in th those areas as well. Um, like Jim, I really respect your ability to ask probing questions. Um, do the research, do the digging, and then not being afraid to shake the tree. you know, it's it's something that you don't you do it very professionally but very direct and you get results because of it. And that's what I think we all have learned from you. So, I thank you very much for what you've taught me and what you've done for for PSD. Connor, are you here? Did you want to say something? Oh, you're on mute. We can't hear you.

008Yeah, am I on mute now? You are good now. Okay. So, thanks for letting me join remotely, Caroline. I wish I was there today, but I can't because of other engagements. But I wanted to reiterate what Scott was saying. I think that your long-standing commitment to CTE programs has really pushed the envelope for our district and I it's sad to see you go because I think all of your hard work is starting to bear fruit within the programs that um were highlighted over the weekend during graduations. Um you know, you've never taken your foot off the gas on CTE and that's something that I think will stand in the district for a real long time. Thank you for, you know, your your over a decade worth of time on the board. I've learned a lot

009from you and uh I wish you all the best. Thanks, Connor. Caroline, I'm still not ready to go cuz I'm not ready to have you go. You have been just an amazing support for me, an amazing mentor. When I first came on seven and a half years ago, you took me aside and you said, "You're going to be drinking from the fire hose for quite a while here, kiddo, but let me show you how to do it." And I couldn't have done it without you. We had to go through some amazingly tough decisions. And we always did it together. We always did it for the good of the kids. And that's what I I know about you with all of my heart is that everything that you do, you do for the good of the

010kids. And that is who you are. And I'm just so proud to have worked with you. I I'm so proud to continue to work with you in other capacities. I'm so proud to call you my friend. You are just an amazing amazing human and you are going to be missed. Did you want to? Yes, please. I'm going to miss you. This weekend I was uh doing a little bit of spring cleaning on Sunday and a little bit on Monday and I actually found my notes from my interview journey four years ago and all of the individual things that I was writing about all of well the two of you who happen to sit on the board at that time and it was really awesome to come across this because I knew you through Zoom. I

011watched you from the other side of the country. Um, I watched board meeting after board meeting. I watched presentation after presentation. And things that I wrote down about you, Carolyn, was that you have tremendous backbone, incredible presence and spirit. When you speak, people listen. Incredible intellect. You want to be innovative, but not for you, for our kids. Your heart for this community is incredible. And what I got a chuckle out of in my notes um is that I wrote down I need to get on her good side fast and stay there and stay there. And I'm hoping that I did a decent job of that over the last four years. You in the interview told me about the importance of partnership in this community and that there were proverbial brick walls built. You were my

012sledgehammer. You gave me permission to begin to create and co-author and work with this incredible team that's been here for a really long time and give them permission to work with organizations in new and innovative ways. That's to me one of the really important reasons we have the behavioral health connections that we have in this district that we didn't have four years ago. You told me your stories about how as a parent helping your own child learn to deal with reading difficulties and you were passionate and prioritized really wanting to think about how do we make sure other parents don't have to go through what you did. And I'm so proud that together collectively staff and board have really made a lot of progress in that particular area. We opened two more trades this year,

013pathways. You've been very passionate about that and you're going to continue to be passionate about that. Um, and you were the first person in Colorado that made me realize that when we buy land, water just doesn't come when you turn the spot on. And I had to learn because on the East Coast, that's very different kind of situation. And so I just from the bottom of my heart, not just person, not just professionally, but personally, you have been side by side with me through all of the things over the last four years. You have shown up for me, not just as the superintendent, but as a human being, as a neighbor, as a father. And for that, I will forever be grateful. And I'm hopeful that you will continue to want to stay in touch

014with me because I could really benefit from picking your brain learning from you. You have made this district stronger. And I will tell you personally, you've made me stronger, too. I have a lot of love in my heart for you and miss you. We'll quickly try to say something without maybe losing it, but I just want to say that I've really appreciated working with this board and with this staff and really with the community, too. I' I've learned a lot from the community, but I've learned a lot of things from everybody here in this room. And um you talked about friendships, all of you did. And this is this has been the best gift I guess I've gotten from this board is is friendships. Um, I've appreciated it so much. Um, I'm really going to

015miss everybody here. I'm going to miss these meetings. I'm going to miss not having conversations about education and all the great things going on in the community. But like I I said to um the news to Kelly as um I do really believe that this organization is in great hands. when I leave, the work is going to continue and that makes it makes it easier for me to step aside and let somebody step up and start doing this important work. I think that over the past four years, this group has done so much to to improve things in this district and for our kids that I am so proud of. And I'm always going to be proud of that. And I'd like to thank all of you for that. Thanks, Jill, can you call the

016vote, please? Jim Brokish. Hi. Kristen Draper. Hi. Connor Duffy. Kevin Havda with the heavy heart. I Carolyn Reed. All right. Scott Shamower. I don't want to but I Jessica Zamora I feel like I should be the one to say no just cuz I motion passes 70. Thank you. Um we will go ahead and take a recess until about 6:15. Um please join us if you can at the reception and uh we will be back here at 6:15 to start the meeting. Thanks. All right. Thank you for joining the board of education this evening. Please go ahead and mute your cell phone as we begin. Today is Tuesday, May 27th, 2025, and this meeting is now called to order at 6:18 p.m. For those attending this meeting in person, live captions are available on the TV

017in the boardroom and in the lobby. To access the live captions in a language other than English on your own device, please scan the QR code on the screen or on the table near the entrance and select the language of your choice. The live stream of this meeting is also available in English and Spanish on YouTube. For links to these live streams, please visit the board of education page of the PSD website or PSD TV on demand on YouTube. So, moving to 2.0, approval of agenda. Would any board members like to make changes to the agenda? Okay, seeing that none, we will go ahead and move on to 3.0 superintendent report. So, superintendent Kingsley will now make remark the board of education in the committee. Thank you. Yeah, thank you for having me. Good evening

018or good afternoon. It's it's it's evening, right? Good evening. Yeah, good evening everybody. It's it's it's a bittersweet day, right, in terms of being able to talk and celebrate our work while also uh honoring um fellow director uh Reed. So, he's um just got a little bit emotional about all of that. I was so grateful to celebrate our graduations over the past week and really want to say thank you to members of our board staff. Uh our school communities really showed out. whether it was at the Lincoln Center, it was at the Moby Arena, up at the football field in Wellington, which seems uh to have created a new tradition, our graduation ceremonies, and celebrating really the pinnacle event of what happens after young people spend 13 years of their beautiful lives with us in

019partnership with us. uh I was just really grateful to attend all of those graduations and in addition to that other types of ceremonies that celebrate our students whether it's our partnership with UC health and the project search internship program our transition pathways programs community connections coup uh opportunities unlimited it's just endless the number of celebrations that have happened over the course of the past week and I know that they're also happening in our elementary schools and middle schools as we speak uh right now uh I learned just this past week of a PD long-standing tradition that I really haven't been over the last four years had a lot of visibility into that I think is really cool which is this concept of grad walks uh where seniors have an opportunity to go back to their

020elementary schools and their caps and gowns and not only go back and say thank you to the teachers who served them throughout the course uh of time in PC but have an opportunity to inspire our youngest people to know that this is what they're striving for and so we'd love to start our meeting today by showing you a quick win uh video that talks a little bit about what that looked like at Polaris this year, which is one of I think it's one of our only K12 schools. So, an opportunity to highlight three students who spent 13 years of their life in one school. Check this [Music] out. Congratulations. [Music] I would say keep making things. Um I'm really into just I guess building things and being creative. So trying to foster that in my

021younger self or encourage that even more and try to build that habit I think would have been more beneficial for me in my later years. I definitely focus more on myself. Through my middle school years I was mainly focused on like what other people thought of me. But once in high school I figured out that doesn't really matter. I would say uh try cuz often times back in those grades I didn't really try and I didn't learn too much. I just was at school to goof off and maybe learn a little bit. One of the joys I think we have in a K through 12 school is that um I think a lot of other schools are put in a position to see kids as six years, three years and four years and we get

022to see them as 13 years um you know coming in with their backpacks that are bigger than them. You know they're hanging down knocking against the back of their legs and then they grow up and move on. And I think my wish for for these guys and all the graduates is to live the life you've always dreamed for yourself and um just be amazing human beings that you are and keep it going because the world needs [Music] you. Really want to thank our communications team who is just absolutely outstanding for continuing to produce content and share all the incredible things that are happening across our district. uh when I was having my coffee watching the news this morning, that actual story was on channel 9 news and so it's reached the Denver metro area which

023I just think is another awesome thing not just for Polaris but for PSD and we all know that Polaris has a very special graduation. Each graduation is special and unique in its own way. It certainly was a highlight last week amongst many others. I think we had at Fort Collins High School they had in my career the first ever Val SA that were twins which I thought was really really cool. at that ceremony was also the first in my opinion that I've ever witnessed the first JOTC color guard that were all female. Uh so I thought that was a highlight. The rose ceremony at first centennial was amazing. Sending off Dr. Woodall at Rocky Mountain High School with a standing ovation was awesome. And starting new traditions in Wellington and for Timoth and I want

024to thank uh our local media covering all of our schools. Uh those pictures and the stories really really do matter to everybody that's involved. real highlight at that too is when we were looking at a lot of our graduations, there were like these sea uh different colors of waves of different people that were standing for different types of uh awards throughout each of the ceremonies. A fact that I thought was really important to note is that we had over 20% of our graduates graduate with a seal of biiteracy. So I thought that was really really amazing. It was 416 graduates across nine of our high schools that are traditional uh high schools in PSD receiving a seal of by literacy and I think what was 12 different languages which I thought was really really impressive

025and the the great news keeps on coming. So, we're celebrating our students. And I would also tell you like just three or four hours ago, uh, from our communications team and HR team, I learned that our school district was named one of the best employers in America by Forbes magazine. Uh, especially for new graduates. Yeah, there are 500 employers that were named to Forbes list. We we were numbered 254 on that list. We were the only school district in the state of Colorado to be named and we were the second highest school district to be rated in the entire nation as one of the best employers for new graduates coming out of school. So if you're a graduate and you're looking for a job, this is a place that you want to be. So super

026exciting things. We have a great agenda tonight. We're going to learn a little bit about the work of our DAB. We're going to talk about our SRO contracts, all of the great things that are happening in our early childhood programs, as well as continuing to educate ourselves on the amazing things that are happening with concurrent and dual enrollment. I don't think I've left anything out, but I'm really looking forward to having a productive meeting with everybody involved tonight. So, thank you for allowing me to address the community. Thank you. All right, we will go ahead and move on to um three 4.0 community comments. So, welcome to the community comment section of the board meeting. The board desires to hear the viewpoints of all stakeholders, including students, employees, parents, guardians, and community members. Public comment

027is designed to address issues, not personalities, or personnel matters. Please keep your concerns and comments focused upon the district and appropriate for a K12 audience. Please note that the board does not generally respond to remarks made during community comment. Our lack of response should not be construed to mean that we agree or disagree with what is said or with the description or interpretation of events as presented by any speaker. Further, even if some remarks may be factually inaccurate, we generally choose not to respond or correct the record here because formal board meetings are not the time or place for back and forth dialogue. As we begin this community comment session, let us model for our entire community how to listen and how to interact respectfully, even with those with whom we disagree, for we all

028have students best interests at heart. So, this opportunity for public comment is for members of the community who registered to speak by the designated deadline. Those people will be called on to make remarks in the order that they signed up. And each speaker will be allowed three minutes to address the board. And first up, we have Kristen White. Welcome. Okay, so next up we have Tori Papus. Welcome. Good evening. Batty is receiving air conditioning this summer and our community is genuinely grateful. What many may not realize is that this upgrade has required our entire school to be packed up. Every classroom, every shelf, every drawer, and every book on the library shelf, and every book in the library, all of it has to be done by the last day of school. Batty staff have taken

029on this massive packing project in addition to their daily responsibilities. The library alone required a coordinated family volunteer effort of over almost almost 28 hours. It's frustrating and disheartening that these uncompensated responsibilities have been placed on Batty staff. We would expect would we expect doctors and nurses to do it on top of their medical duties without pay? Probably not. Projects of this scale require full scope planning and support from packing up to settling in. I'm no expert, but we started the library effort by sitting down with the librarian to develop a timeline and a plan of support. I also have this document that another Batty teacher shared with me around challenges they experienced during the packing project packing project that I'm happy to share with you all. In the midst of this, Batty continues to

030do amazing things. The fifth graders designed and edited this magazine, Batty Uncovered, and you all have a copy of it. It highlights various works of art among our third and fifth grade big horns. Additionally, Batty continues to demonstrate PSD's strategic priorities. According to the CDE, 97.5% of Batty students meet both expectations, helping us earn the governor's distinguished improvement award this year. Batty teachers consistently respond among the most positively and at the highest and one of the highest response rates at the district for the TLCC survey. Seriously, our teachers give Batty an A+ and you can feel it in the building. It's reflected in our 95% attendance rate, student attendance rate. And despite being a small school, we've expanded access to art as well as innovation technology specials. We're also the only elementary school to provide

031a dedicated health class in addition to be batty provides a thriving, robust, and supportive educational experience on a small school budget. The mil levy funding will be transformative next year. We're so grateful and excited to see what more equitable funding will further benefit our community. While we're gaining resources in one area, we're losing them in another. Last month, the Trump administration chose to end funding for the largest grant awarded in Colorado in 2023. This $9.7 million grant was given to PSD in partnership with CSU to expand student health services by placing Masters of Social Work students within PSD schools as interns and fellows. It's a tragedy that money belongs to our students from birth to masters. I hope there's some kind of plan or response. Finally, there should be remote comment available at these meetings.

032Thank you so much for the opportunity. Thank you. Next up, we have Wendy Bergman. Welcome. No. Okay. Next up, we have Tom Griggs. Welcome. Um, I have to uh first of all, I want to congratulate Carolyn Reed on 11 years. I can't imagine I I came thinking it was 10, but now I'm even more blown away to know it's 11 years that she served on the board, and I congratulate her on her service. Pretty impressive. It's when you think about it, not all of us get a chance, even if we want to serve 11 years, to do so. So, that's a great thing. Secondly, I've got to say I'm still getting used to the three minute timer and I got crunched last time and so I'm going to I'm trying to pull it apart a

033little bit and speak a little bit less at it per time. So, I apologize for that as well. And I I um I just want to say there will be some repetition, but this is something that bears repetition. The school closure and consolidation plan proposed by the superintendent, delayed for adoption by the current board, is a pivotally important issue for the new board members who will be elected in November. School closure and consolidation is just one of the tough questions the board is currently facing. Of course, close upon its heels as a critical issue is how we will most constructively use the resources from the recently passed mill lemmy. I believe my depth and breadth of experience at all levels of the school system will provide rich data to be used in helping determine that

034and I think that I can contribute that can complement the knowledge base that already exists on the board. My opinion of course is not the only one that matters. The process to be used to gather the data to make well-informed decisions must be as transparent and comprehensive as can be managed. As Miss Papus pointed out, the Batt the Batty school, the Batty Elementary School is an amazing school. I had the good fortune to substitute there a few weeks ago and I was again blown away by the the teachers work together. They work hard together. They they work to meet the needs of individual students very effectively. They have a system to do all those things. and and uh I I don't think we want to avoid learning what we can learn from schools like Batty

035about how to go about the these tough issues, right? How to how are we going to cha challenge the how how are we going to deal with the challenge of of having to face the possibility of closing schools and can we avoid it at all in ways that will undermine those those kinds of efforts like the ones that are going on at Batty. It takes the perspective of all the affected of all those affected kids, their families, their teachers and site administrators. There's a sense in which these decisions like the these decisions need to be made from the grassroots up so they can be truly made in the best interest of every child every day. I'm Tom Griggs, candidate for the district D as in David, seat on the PSD school board. Thank you. Thank

036you. Next up, we have Danny Lawrence. Welcome. Okay, these are heavy comments and I'm sad to make them. I have no relationship with anyone in PSC's administration to trust them privately with this information. I wish I did so I didn't have to come here and publicly ask for the board's help. Last week, I became aware of a text message thread between 13 PSD staff members that were using images of disabled students for sick and demeaning entertainment purposes. Pictures of disabled students in distress, pictures of those with intellectual and developmental disabilities with funny memes and the ribbing of other employees not in the thread. In your email tonight is a small fraction of the evidence that I have personally seen. Parents have this information and are too scared to go to school administration or to all

037of you for help. And I think that's a sign of a culture hurting in our district. There's obviously law violations here with Furpa and the Colorado Student Data and Transparency Act, as well as many district policies of staff behavior. After Zanella, I thought we had learned that nepatism hurts kids. PSD staff shouldn't be supervising their own children or the friends of their children. In one case, a student who's depicted in the thread hasn't been a PSD student for more than six months, meaning that some employee was hanging on and saving that image all this time. While the district is making cell phone policies to protect students, consider that you might need to make create a cell phone policy for adults who work here to protect children from them. The use of personal cell phones by

038staff is a dangerous liability that I have long discussed with the integrated services department. Clearly, no help is coming there. Most appalling to me is that individuals involved in who run unified sports programs or lead is teams for Fort Collins High School would be involved in this. I was utterly shocked by the names in that thread and I think you will be too. This isn't just an issue of new employees not knowing better. These are several decades long employees that are involved. And for me, while you're all boasting about improvements and progress for disabled students, I again don't feel it because of crap like this. No member of the public should be coming here and asking you to help regarding staff bullying children. And you shouldn't need a member of the public to tell you

039that distributing private and identifiable information of students is illegal. The images were taken in a learning environment involving the services needed for these students. No parent signs the media policy thinking they are giving permission to your staff to use their personal cell phones to take photos to humiliate and degrade their children. These student students deserve dignity. It's supposed to be an expectation here and that dignity was taken from these by these 13 individuals. Reading the names of these professionals would give me a great pleasure, but your public speaking policy protects the perpetrators over the victims here tonight. I am requesting an inte uh an investigation of the integrated services program at Fort Collins High School. This summer, I will be offering these families the assistance of filing their FURPA complaints and coral requests. If you

040are a parent of a student in this program, please reach out to me. I likely have images of your students with text messages that you would want to be aware of. As an alumni and community member of PSD, I am deeply ashamed. And if you aren't, I think it's time to get out of the business of making decisions on behalf of children. Thank you. Thank you. I'm going to move on now to 5.0, Board Topics and Committee Reports. This agenda item is an opportunity for board members to provide an update on committee work or to speak to board topics. Do any board members have anything to report? Go ahead, Kevin. I'll go briefly. Um, this time of year I always love I think everyone hates they call the 90 or 100 days of May. Um,

041I I feel that as a parent getting ready for the end of the school year. But one of the great benefits of having this position is getting to be um in attendance at our graduation ceremonies. I didn't get to go to as many this year for personal reasons, but those that I did attend, I love sitting back and looking at our graduating class and the staff and the teachers and the admins um and these these incredible moments. And there was one moment um when we were on stage um at Fossil Ridges High School and just listening to the accomplishments of these students. The validictorian had a had a GPA that was above a 4.5 which I didn't think was possible. But the one thought that I was I was watching and it's a really cool

042vantage to be on the stage and get to face the students as they're you know they're being celebrated and honored in this way. I had this tremendous for lack of better words of being trit. I had this tremendous wave of hope just wash over me because again we come to these board meetings with a lot of the the frauess of what happens in our community but also in our schools and and nationally. And so it's it's always present on my mind what's the work that we're doing here? Is it important? Is it meaningful? Is it moving the needle? And then those moments, it's a helpful reminder to look out and say, not that we're doing great, but they're doing great. And I look at the students that are going out into our world today, and

043I it's a renewed sense of hope and a tremendous sense of purpose that we approach the business of our kids. I'll use Caroline's words, our kids here tonight and every night. We're doing something right. They're doing something right. And so I just want to leave with that because it's a tremendous moment of hope looking at our kids in the face and seeing what they've accomplished and that they're going to go out into this world and we're going to be okay. And Scott, yeah, I'd echo what Kevin was saying. I was thinking about it a lot. Sorry. Um, you know, people saw the schedule. It was a pretty intense schedule. Especially Kristen, you were at every graduation. That's a big big deal. uh when you're having to hold a full-time job at the same time. So,

044it's it's challenging to be there. But, um people ask me questions like, "Why do you need to be there? You don't say anything. You don't do anything." And being there, I realize we're we're not there to do anything. We're there to see what's happening firsthand, to witness what's happening. It's so important for us to see that and really experience it. And like you're saying, Kevin, just to see the amount of different awards like it's all over the board and there there are kids doing you know I won't even go into the into all the different things but I mean the seal of biiteracy is a new a new thing that um is really important I think these days and um just recognizing those folks and the staff and uh even the music the music is

045always the highlight for me and and so um I think we need to be it and I'm going to try to be it as as many as I can to experience experience that and feel that. So, I appreciate you bring that up. Anyone else? I just want to echo that and I I feel like um that Brian, you had you hit the nail on the head when you told all the classes that this world needs you. Um and we do. And I am so excited to see what they bring to to this world because it was an absolute just showstopper um of a series of graduations of what the kids had accomplished what they want to do in the world. The thing that oh there a couple of but one of the things that just

046kept coming back uh again and again and again was regardless of the accomplishments regardless of where they were going regardless of what they were planning on doing every person talked about kindness. Every person talked about inclusivity. Everybody talked about um being the best that they could be, not even just for themselves, but for the others. And that's what I can't wait to see in this world. And I think my favorite uh graduation of of all. Um not to say that one's better than the other, but I got to go to Project Search. And every time I go to Project Search, it just lifts me up and fills my bucket. And uh this year was no exception. in Project Search was absolutely restored my faith in humanity to be able to watch so many people from

047UC Health support our students and just give them such a a gift and a lift. um you know the gift of being able to work uh and find something that they enjoyed within UC Health, but that lift just being um accepted for who they are. And I mean we there were five graduates and I think 10 departments and each department was fighting over who was going to get the graduates to come to their department. It just it was amazing. It was absolutely amazing to watch. So, um, I just want to say thank you for allowing us to see that, to be a part of it. And I think you're right, Scott. It we absolutely need to see those, um, not only to fill our buckets and and see, um, the the best of humanity, um,

048but to know that our students are are well taken care of our kids. So, anyone else? Okay, moving on to the consent agenda. Would any board members like to pull anything from Ken? Seeing none, can I get a motion? Go ahead, Jen. Bring that down. I move that the board approve and adopt the recommended actions for the items on the consent agenda. Can I get a second? Thank Kevin got the second and then Jill. Can can you call the vote? Jim Brokish. Hi. Kristen Draper. I. Connor Duffy. Hi, Kevin Havda. Hi, Scott Shoenbower. Hi, Jessica Z. Hi. Motion passes. 6. Thank you. All right, we're going to move on to 7.0 action items. 7.1 District Advisory Board DAB's annual report and changes to DAB bylaws. Can I get a motion, please? Go ahead, Jim. I

049should probably do this one as a DAB rep. I move the board receive the district advisory board's annual report and approve the DAB amended bylaws. Can I get a second? Thank you, Jess. All right, there we go. Yes. Uh, joining us this evening to present the district advisory board annual report and changes to DAB bylaws is Taylor Richie, our DAB chair. Welcome, Taylor. All right, thank you. Um, so, uh, so I'm Taylor Richie. I was our chair for the DAB, uh, this year. I was the chair, um, chair- elect last year. So, uh, this year to start off the presentation, I did want to just high level update on the bylaw revision uh, that we were asking for you guys to approve this evening. So, I'm not going to go through all the all the

050wording verbatim in here, but you can see the the old phrases that were in here. Um, and then the new word that put into the bylaws. Um, one thing to highlight in the terms is uh we were trying to put in a mandatory minimum uh for any of the executive board that sits on the DAB. Um, and the reason to do that is if we do get an individual in there that that isn't showing up to the meetings, we really need to have good representation and it could cause an issue. So, um, we wanted to add that piece of it in there. Um, so really the the first section is changes to allow flexibility around officer nominations. Um, in the past this has been difficult. This year we did a reasonable job with it, but

051a lot of times it's playing uh, buler buler. nobody look at the speaker because nobody wants to put their name in the hat. It's a difficult thing to do. So um we want to update this make it easier and more flexible um for the chair to be able to get nominations for this. And then as I said the second piece of it is to allow the removal of an officer uh who's not attending meetings uh making sure that the duties are being met for the membership. And down below you'll see the process that went through we gave we had open discussion at the DAB meetings. we gave multiple um options to to go in and make uh revisions and edits. So, I feel like we gave everybody a really solid opportunity to get input onto

052uh the changes that we ultimately voted uh to approve as the DAB. So, all right. Um so, onto the new new piece of it. Um we start off the year with trying to set a tone for what is the DAB? And I really wanted to remind everybody that we're not there for personal reasons. Uh we're there to represent our schools. Just about everybody part of the DAB is uh part of the part of their school sex. Um is to represent our school, represent the other parents there, not just our own personal interests. Um I wanted to establish some leadership on making sure that we had good open communications, that we respected one another. It's important to hear uh both sides of the argument. that way um we can make informed decisions. Um really tried to

053push that we got to avoid dominating the conversations as part of the DAB. Everybody's we like to joke and say they're super volunteers. Um but people are very passionate. I'm sure you guys are well aware. Uh so we want to make sure that we did allow c um specific individuals to dominate the conversation. So make sure everybody got a a chance to talk um and offer constructive feedback. This is probably one of the hardest parts I would say for the membership because really easy to criticize idea. It's hard to give constructive feedback. So really tried to push that. That's our goal. We don't want to just criticize everything that happens. We want to give ideas and u solutions or or different ways to look at it. So and ultimately at the end day to learn,

054collaborate, communicate both amongst ourselves and then back with our uh schools that we each represented. So at the beginning of the year uh we took a membership survey on what kind of topics of interest the members had and you can see here we got a pretty list. This is consolidated down on uh topics of interest and overall I think we did a really good job of trying to address uh basically every item on our interest list. About midway through the year we did open back try additional interest um or if there's any new topics of interest as well um and then tried to address those. So, as you'll see in the list of our agendas that we went through, um there's some uh reim here. Spent a lot of time talking the debtree mill uh

055talking about um our students with disabilities and gifted identification. Uh as well as really a lot of talk about st um our budgets and and how uh spending budgets are occurring. Um, and that included everything from summer maintenance projects to uh what what our plan is moving forward as well as the oversight committees that um you guys are putting in place to help uh watch over the spending that we've got. And then going into the the end of the year here, we spent some time on uh dyslexia uh literacy adoption. Um we talked about the UIP and transportation schedule. And then we spent a bunch of time as well talking about cell phone policies, both middle school and school cell phone policies. Uh and then we were ended our year with a good Q&A with

056uh Brian. So um a few key takeaways from our year. Um really uh accountability and trans uh transparency for budget and mill levy spending. that's going to be really as the membership we feel that's really important to push to PSD and to the board here is that uh it's going to be a focus moving forward and we as uh parents and community members we expect that so um the long range planning process the oversight and communication um obviously that that's a big uh big topic so um that's important how that's going to get communicated and how the oversight's going to work with all that um a lot support for the phone policies. So, uh heard very very little feedback that people didn't like it. There was concerns brought up. I think the district did a

057good job of addressing those specific concerns in most cases. And then uh the final one is maintain focus improvement on our ac our kids' academic success and graduating with options. So I think we had some good progress this year. I think we need to maintain that and that ultimately needs to be the goal of this u of PSD and the board here is to continue to push that u future topics and projects the long uh long range planning the consolidation efforts and the budget moving forward are going to be um pertinent topics that the DAB is going to want to continue to to poke at work with hear from the so and then uh this is just a list of our executive board for this year. Um, want to give a special thanks to all

058of our DAB members uh that donated their time through the year. Um, I want to assist superintendent coming to all of our meetings and helping as well as Jim for coming to all the meetings. So, uh, thank you. And that's it. Thank you so much, Taylor. Other questions? It's not a question, but I just want to say thank you to Taylor. I mean, Taylor's just been a rock star as a leader this year for the district advisory board. Having been there is he's he's such a wonderful leader in terms of pulling out their opinions from the group, facilitating great discussions. He's you've been a rock star. Thank you, Taylor. Thank you, Jim. Hey, Kevin. I just want to also express my thanks. I think you touched on one key point for me, which is that

059the volunteerism that's display at these meets. It's a labor of love. So, I wanted to both thank you for the time, commitment, and helping to make this district better and also follow the question, just a real general one. What can we do to better support you going into next year? Um, I would say, uh, continuing to provide the resources. I think our PC has done a good job would would ask for topics, they'd provide good support. So, uh, continuing to to offer that and then to listening to our feedback is probably key. So, I mean, that's why ultimately why we're all there is um we want the feedback heard and I think you guys are in some of it. So, I appreciate it. Go ahead, Scott. Yeah, Taylor. I just wanted to also echo what

060the others have said that I really respect your leadership. I've heard great things uh not just this year, but last year. You really stepped up as well and thank you for that. And the bylaws go back to even Jess in my day is meeting updating. So, I'm really glad you took that. It's not an easy thing. So, um I'm sure we'll be looking at those and and hopefully approving them soon. Um and then in terms of we we the process that Jim has done in terms of giving us a summary after every meeting has really improved the the feedback. So, it's not just waiting for this presentation to hear what's going on with the AB. We do hear about it. Is there anything else that that you'd like or your members would like in terms

061of their interaction with the bird? you know, maybe another presentation earlier in the year or other ways to do things. Um, yeah, I think we could consider another presentation earlier in the year. It might also be interesting to have a, you know, one specific meeting where we have multiple board members just attend to. Um, for some of the board members that maybe haven't been to a DAB meeting, might be good for them to meet some of the membership and then uh just kind of see how the process works would be good, I think. So, I'm just gonna go. Oh, these are having fun tonight. Um, historically there's been sort of a wondering with DAB if whether they want topics from us or if they want to their own ideas and then just provide input. Do

062you feel like we've hit a good spot there where DAB is getting to have their voice on the things they want to have their voice on and or if we have topics that they are getting asked as they're coming up? Do you feel like that's been a good level? Yeah, I do think it was a good mix this year of um you know, we brought in some of the things we really wanted to talk about a lot of the budget, that kind of stuff. Uh as well as uh PSD bringing pertinent topics to the group as well that that are coming up. So, I felt like it was a good mix this year. Great. Thanks so much for all that you do. I I I know that it's it is a labor of love and

063it's a time inensive labor of love, so thank you for that. So, Jill, can you call the vote? Oh, I'm sorry, Brian, did you want to say something? Go for it. I just want Taylor for his leadership and partnership. um not just you individually but bringing along the collective it on behalf of the assistant superintendent and myself we're we're super super grateful. So thank you. Thank you. Apologies for that. Okay. Jim Brokish. Hi Kristen Draper. Hi Connor Duffy. Hi. Kevin Havda. Hi. Scott Shoenbower. Hi Jessica Zamora. Hi. Motion passes 6. Thank you. And thanks so much, Taylor. Next up, we have 7.2, Concurrent Enrollment and Dual Enrollment Program Expenditures. Can I get a motion, please? Go ahead, Jess. I move that the board approve expenditures in excess of 250,000 for programs detailed in the summary

064of concurrent enrollment and dual enrollment programs in PSD. Can I get a second? Go ahead, Jim. Thank you. All right. And we have a special guest for this as well. Yeah, tonight we look forward to hearing about the con the concurrent enrollment and dual enrollment program expenditures and an update on legislative action related to the ascent program from Tanya Alcarez, our director of career and innovation. Welcome Tanya. Good. Um, should I pull the presentation up? present. I don't use I use slideshows. Thank you. All right. Well, that's getting pulled up. Good evening. Thank you for having uh myself and Kristen Bassansy here tonight uh to talk a bit about our uh current enrollment and dual enrollment programs in Pter School District. Typically, this is a consent agenda item and these contracts andus with our post-secondary

065partners um are renewed annually. Tonight, we have a few changes to the program. So, we want to take a few minutes um to share what those changes are. The program that will have um the largest impact in changes is called the ascent program. Ascent stands for accelerating students through concurrent enrollment. Um, and this is a program that's available for our high school seniors the year after they graduate for a fifth year. This program covers tuition, books, and fees in their fifth year of high school to attend either Front Range or Ames Community College. Ascent began back in 2009. We had 14 students that participated and last year we had 2152 students participated in the event program. So a little bit over uh 11% of our seniors chose this as their postsecary option uh the year

066after high school. So we're going to start with um an overview of what we'll talk about tonight. We're going to review what those changes are. We're going to also identify what the impacts of those changes could be and then at the end we would still love for you to vote to approve our contracts or postary partners. So first the ascent program changes uh for the 2526 school year next year. The funding for this program will be reduced from $9,88 per student to $7,14 per student. Um, last week the governor signed SB25315 and this is the bill that um is an overview and uh legislates our postsecary and workforce readiness programs. The intent of this bill is to streamline and enhance our PWR programs, our post-secary workforce readiness programs, and the funding to increase the amount

067of students can access these opportunities. And there is a big focus on access before graduation. The ascent program provides opportunities and access to college credit in the fifth year. So, this legislation is um looking to reallocate the fund and put it more towards um while the students are in high school um within those 13 years um they're in K12. The next year 26 and beyond will discontinue and funding will be consolidated with our other post-secary and workforce readiness programs to support our high school students in completing one of what they're calling the big three um these PW albums. So, the goal is that the class of 2029 is supported and there's funding available um to support students in completing one of three things before they graduate from high school. Either earn an industry certification or

068earning 12 postsecary credits before graduation or participating in a workbased learning opportunity. So the funding they have available will be restructured to support the big three. What are the impacts? Um we have impacts for of course our students and our families and then also on the budget. So for next school year, 2526 school year, the student and family impact, we really excited to hear the funding would continue even though it's reduced and that there would be no impact for our students and our families next year who worked hard to qualify for this program and it was our plan. That 7104 is enough to fund the the cost of tuition, books, and fees for the 210 PSD students that applied and are qualified for ascent next school year. PSD budget impacts are we will have a

069reduced total program funding in the PSD budget of approximately $700,000 uh in our general fund next year. After that 26 beyond the student and family impacts will be um and that's in the way ascent will be discontinued. Um, sorry, I just want to make sure. Sorry. The student and family sent program will no longer exist, but as a district, we're going to work really hard to provide additional supports to some of the programs that the state has developed to support our students that need need it the most to access college credit. So, FAA in the state of Colorado with the CASA, which is a financial aid application and process for undocumented students and families. Um, empower ed, which is um funding for our students in the McKini Vento program to access um college credit. And

070then last is the Colorado Promise Tax Credit Reimbursement for families. Um and then the PSD budget impacts for 2026 and beyond. There'll be additional funding available from sustain and support the big three. Um and and that is for our students prior to graduation. Uh the good news is in Pter school district with our strategic plan and graduating with options, we we're ahead of the game are ready for these changes. Um, we have work-based learning coordinators that are staffed full-time in all of our buildings so that we can support students in accessing that. Last year, um, almost 50% of our high school students earned college credit through earn and dual programming. Um, so we've got a little digging to do and analyzing to do there. How many of them got to the 12 college credit um,

071attainment? And that's work ahead of us as as they streamline these programs. um get ready to support our students. So, um I'm gonna I'm gonna leave it there. I have Kristen here with me if you have any specific detailed questions, but tonight what we're asking for is that you approve the concurrent enrollment for 20 the 25 2026 school year and beyond. Um and there are no um large changes to to these contracts orus that are different than before. um we just have some different impacts with that ascent program and um want to share that with you tonight. So with that I will leave it for questions and discussion. Thank you so much. This is great. Um questions. Go ahead Kevin. You touched on the very end but I had it from the very beginning which

072wasn't in the materials and I think was a point worth highlighting. I think Bren and I were at a um Fort Collins leadership class once and we were talking about this very subject about how many of our students avail themselves of the concurrent enrollment. I think you said close to 50% which is the quick math I did at the time but do you have those numbers on the top of your head by chance about how many of our graduating this past year took the opportunity to to do the concurrent enrollment? Yeah. Yeah, we were close. I think just a little over 4,000 for like 40 I can't quote the exact number, but 4106 is what um I'm thinking in my head. And um for next year, we'll we'll have even more students earning concurrent enrollment.

073Our career tech center campus um every single student that's attending there is earning college credit and we're expanding through Ames Community College. So, and that was that was for the prior year. This this year will be more. I appreciate that. Do you know where that makes us fall in some of our other companion districts as far as the participation percentages? And the reason I'm asking is that I think that it's it's an important point to distinguish ourselves that our commitment to graduating with option but just by the numbers that you're talking about and I think it's worth a little time if you if you have a little time to talk a little bit more about those numbers and our comparative analysis. Yeah. Yeah. We're we're definitely top five in the state for percentage of students

074earning uh college credit. Um, I also know that specifically Pter High School was ranked number four in the state a few years ago. Uh, Pter High School has really led that initiative with expanding concurrent enrollment through Front Range and Ames Community College and um we're investing quite a bit in our career tech center because have other schools where it's harder to access these programs at Centennial, at PCA, PGA, our smaller schools. So now all of those schools have access through the career tech center to earn college credit through computer science, medical assisting, automotive, and all of the pathways that we host there. Final point is thank you for that. Thank you for the work that you're doing and please keep it up. Yeah, other questions. Go ahead, Scott. Yeah, I had a question a question

075for Kristen. um with ascent. I know that some of the students like that are juniors or were juniors this year going into their senior year were kind of planning on this with the changes. What kind of feedback are you getting and what kind of guidance would you give those families in terms of how to navigate this new dynic? Yeah, like Tanya said, the work ahead of us really is going to be educating the students on the options that are available to them. And this was the first year that FAFSA was required for the ascent application. And it was really eyeopening to see how many students were really struggling. What is FAFSA? How many of our students were eligible for a PEL grant? And they just need a lot of education in that area. Right now,

076they really understand ascent. They do not yet fully understand a PEL grant. So, we have some work to do in that area that will help a lot of our students. And again with the Colorado Promise and Empower Ed, these are good programs that are going to help our maybe partially Pell Grant families and our Mckin Vento families. And we also want to just encourage students at every class that you take is saving about $1,500 just in tuition alone. So when students are able to graduate with maybe 30 credits, they're saving 25 to $75,000 on college tuition. And so we're going to continue to encourage them to take those classes that are going to carry into the future regardless of where they go and what they do and looking at earning those industry credentials because it

077helps them to get a job more easily, be um more readily available for promotion, maybe get paid more right off the bat. So, we're going to be focusing on encouraging to continue to do what we really do well and hopefully improve some education around FAFSA and Colorado Promise and that kind of thing. Yeah. Fantastic. Any other questions? So, Tanya, I do have a a question. Um, first of all, I just want to say that I'm extremely happy that the SCN program is continuing for one more year. And I think that has a lot to do with that's a lot of credit to you and to other people in this room who were very vocal about that to our state legislators. So, um, kudos to you for making and and others who helped with that to

078make that happen for next year. Um, when we say 2026 and beyond and we're looking at additional funding will be available to sustain and support the big three. Um, is that money that right now is for Ascent and and is the state planning on basically divvying that up proportionally? Is that how that's going to go? Because right now it's per kiddo who goes to a scent. So, is it just going to be a proportional divide? Yeah, there there are a whole host of of um PWR funding streams. There's the concurrent enrollment grant, the AP incentive grant. Um, ascent is one of them, another one called CIP for industry certification. So the goal is to streamline all of those funds including ascent into one um one funding stream and the goal also is to reduce barriers

079and administrative burden. You can you can have coffee with Kristen about the administrative burden of um you know K12 receiving the funding and then having to work with our uh post-secondary partners for tuition books and fees and and all of that. Um so yeah, that is that is the goal and take all of those funds to streamline. Um and the the other reason they're doing it is um it's not equitable across the state. Our rural partners don't take advantage of these programs. We are number two in ascent participation as state just behind Jeffco. Um many of our partners Windsor um John'stown others don't ha don't participate in ascent. there is an administrative burden and we've been really lucky to have support our IT staff Kristen on our team lots of others to be able to

080provide this opportunity. So the the larger districts are benefiting at a disproportionate rate. Tanya, thank you for saying that. I just want to highlight and I think Director Aldo was was was bringing this point earlier that I just want to reinforce. Jeffco has about I think three times the amount of students than PSSD and we are second to only them in the participation in the ascent program. So again I just want to congratulate you not just on figuring out ways to earn with students and families to get them enrolled in these amazing opportunities but we have built out system infrastructure that with this change we're well positioned to continue the work moving forward. So and that's a result of your thoughtful collective leadership. Awesome. Well, thank you. And if there are if there are ways

081when we're talking about how to um make sure that that funding is coming down to help streamline administrative issues and that sort of thing, if there's something that you would like us to talk to legislators about, please do let us know on that. Great. We'll do. Thank you. And with that, um, any other questions? We'll call the vote. Okay. Jim Brokish. Hi. Kristen Draper. Hi. Connor Duffy. Hi. Kevin Havda. Hi. Scott Shoenbower. Hi. Jessica Zamora. Hi. Motion passes. 6. Thank you so much. All right. Uh, moving to 7.3. Resolution declaring vacancy on the board of education. Can I get a motion, please, Kevin? I move that the board adopt the attached resolution declaring a vacancy of the board of education as presented. Can I get a second, please? Thanks to this. Yep. Go ahead and

082call the vote. Jim Brokish. Hi. Kristen Draper. Hi. Connor Duffy. Connor Duffy. Thank you. Kevin Havda. I. Scott Shoenbower. I. Jessica Zamora. Hi. Motion passes 6. Thank you so much. Moving to 7.4 SRO contracts. Can I get a motion? Okay. I move that the board approve expenditures in excess of $250,000 and authorize the board president to execute three separate contracts with the city of Fort Collins, town of Timnith, and Lamour County in the form of presented. Can I get a second? Thanks, Scott. All right. And we have a special guest. Yes. Uh this evening, we look forward to hearing about our SRO contracts and their work moving forward from our current SRO and PSD's new director of student safety and emergency management, Jared Sergeant. Jared, congratulations on your new role and welcome to PSD. I

083was gonna say I'm loud, but I wasn't hearing the microphone. Guys, thank you for having me tonight. I'm here to do the 2024 2025 SRO update for you guys. Uh, for those that who have been around the district for a while, you know that the district partnered with Lmer County Sheriff's Office and Fort Collins Police Services in 1995. We added Timnith about five years ago and been working with a great partnership with these agencies uh since 1995. Going to give you guys a couple updates from this year uh and some new faces uh at least this new face for you guys. Um so starting direct from you know that corporal for the west side for Collins Police Services for the last six years. Prior to that, I was at Pter High School and have uh

084gladly accepted a position for uh student safety and emergency management here with you guys. So, look forward to move uh taking new challenges with you guys. Uh this is my family, of course, my wife Lane, uh who is my backbone and support and my twins who both attend PSD schools here. Uh these pictures of course are from when I was at Pter High School. Uh part of the best part about being and I think this s can can attest to this was getting build those relationships with students uh and seeing them through and in this case these two students getting to the finish line at Booter High School and handing them their diplomas. So that is one of the things that we do and one of the things I enjoy most about my roles in

085SRO and looking forward to uh helping keep our schools safe in a different capacity and continuing to get to work with these fine agencies that we continue to work with in our district. Most of you have worked with SSRO and may have a good understanding of the foundation or it stems from NRO National Association of School Resource Officer Officers and we call it the NASRO triad and essentially there are three components to a good school resource officer. The first one is a teacher and I've got another slide about teaching that we do. Um the second part is formal counseling mening and so much of what our SRO's do is that counseling piece meeting with kids who might be struggling at school, struggling at home or struggling in multiple facets of life and having them be

086that positive person in the school. I think school resource officer is the the resource in that phrase is key to what the SRO's do and part of that is being that support. Part of that is also being that resource for our kids. Whether that's finding supports in the school or finding supports outside school is a big piece what we do and building those relationships and keeping our schools safe. The last piece of course is the law enforcement piece and I have some slides about data. Uh and the goal for that is also to keep our schools safe and uh make sure that we're getting the best outcomes for our our staff. The goal of our unit as in our contract in our SOP is essentially to provide a safe learning environment to help reduce school

087violence while building relationships and community collaboration between student staff, Fort Collins, Lammer County Sheriff's Office and Tenemouth Police Department. To note, this picture is of Pter when we did uh community engagement with uh toy distribution Santa Cops. It ended uh and I took this picture at Pter High School when we were giving out toys, which ended up being a very big event for us. Um, so let's get to law enforcement piece because we want to talk the stats from the Yes unit. Um, most frequent calls that we've seen this last year and these are going to be up to date roughly early May from our three agencies. We're looking at salt assault. Um, thirdderee assault generally is the the number one. Um, we're going to be going to assisting schools. That one's pretty broad. That

088one could be uh students having an issue at home with family. um could be a variety of of issues for assist the school harassment, mental health, uh drugs, disorderly conduct, and welfare and theft. Rounding up the the end of that terms of citations this year, uh and this is going to go up for Fort Collins. We have 23. So now 24 uh in the last year uh with two days left, that's probably going to stay there. That is a decrease 15 from the previous uh Lamur County's got 18 this year. uh 11 of those that's an increase from 11 from last year. Um what's important to note about that uh this year for county schools we're seeing an uptick in assault cases and so we have more assault this year. Uh one has resulted in

089five student being charged for assault. So that's part of the reason we're seeing that increase in citations uh up in the county. And then Timothith has 10 which is a a decrease of two this year. Moving traffic for traffic safety has been a big goal for us the last few years. We really stepped up efforts last year and and made uh greater progress this year for our traffic enforcement for Fort Collins and and just so we know kind of the difference between traffic related call and traffic stop. Traffic is what you see when you see officer pulling a car over on the side of the road uh talking to the driver. Usually for this and our stops for SRO's they're going to be speed related in our school zones. So oftent times we're talking 15

090or 20 per hour over the school's speed limit. Traffic related is going to look more like when you see that marked patrol car in front of the school and it's there for visibility. It's there to get our drivers to slow down. It's there so students and the parents feel safe getting their kids to school. So that's traffic related. We've had a big increase across the board for all up to 244 stops. U part of that was doing like resource uh with our each each team having um specific stops at schools. So one day the westside group went over to Blevens and we did radar enforcement and had SRO's conduct stops which for the most part for our SRO are educational. Uh another day we moved over to like the Bennett and Polaris area. So each

091side had different uh goals and objectives and schools that we were working and then again go ahead on page when you're talking about stop are these specific stops or these just community stops? So with all of our traffic related stuff this is community specific. That's what I thought. Yeah. the students would uh could be captured in this. Uh although it wouldn't be under our juvenile summons, this would be communitywide. Uh for our county, we had about 97 stops and community in our county schools. Um that one also includes our traffic unit from county and those numbers doing uh specific stops near our school zone areas. And then our Tenith Police Department had 27. Again, an increase from the previous year. Any questions on traffic stops beyond that? Teaching. We talked about teaching. One of the

092components of the SRO triad. Uh this is also one of our primary goals and it really it's one of the tenants of any successful SRO. You've got to be able to be to get into the classrooms. You have to be able to teach to your parents and in our SRO and the district. We SRO to be able to safety to our teachers and our administrators. Uh so this year we had about 274 different teaching events for the city of Fort Collins SRO's. Uh teaching about 7,200 individuals in total. uh really getting out there and getting education, whether it's safety, whether it's classrooms, uh norms, whether it's teaching parents about drug and alcohol or internet safety. Those tend to be the topics that we're going to be teaching on. We got 21 through uh Timnith and

093then 25 through Lair County. Uh another good example of teaching, we'll be doing response to school violence next week for our administrators. And then uh this year we taught standard response protocol to every secondary uh and next year we will teach standard response protocol to every primary school in the district. Those are just some examples what our teaching across the district uh pictures there that's Kane over at Rocky and that's going to be our standard response training that he did at Rocky Mountain High School and then I think we had Meg here in this lower one uh at the crisis conference in November. community events. I will say this is one of my fores uh one of the things I enjoyed the most about being an SRO and I hope to help the the SRO

094units out this coming year in that uh that transition. But we had a couple uh that we planned earlier this year. This one was Amberly with our SRO's and really was trying to connect with our Spanish speaking population. I will say I talk about resource uh and relationships. If it weren't for our relationships with our family liaison, putting on an event like this would be nearly impossible. So, we have family leison on there. Uh, they helped get everything set up and promote the event. Uh, and then had coffee and talked about what SRO's do, what SRO's don't do, and answered questions for our families that had them about our unit. Uh, in May, some of you stopped by, thank for the SRO two barbecue. I think we had 100 people there. Uh, Officer Mike, if

095you know, Officer Mike from Weber grilled burgers and hot dogs and then made this wonderful pork. If you missed it this year, I recommend you guys show up just for the pork. if nothing else. Um we do that of course with Lord and the activity center or the center for family outreach that was in May. And then every now and then we have these events just kind of pop up uh you out of nowhere. Uh in December I got a phone call from Osborne Farms and they sell Christmas trees and they had extra trees they want to donate to needs. So me and Otter Mike uh loaded up my trailer and went to different schools and dropped off Christmas trees for for schools we thought would need those. So we gave about 60 trees out.

096Those are just some of the events that uh we worked this past year. Questions about at all. All right, more in connections. And I have this slide in here because I love talking about SRO. I I know that world really well, but I think it's really important to highlight how SRO's work in conjunction with the community and our school district. I center for family outreach because I wanted to know how many direct referrals SRO's had made to the center for substance abuse issues at home. And Lori Cliff emailed me back. She said, "I wanted to give you all of it." And what's important here is that we have a total of 160 referrals basically during our school year. Of those 33 were from the district court. So they were kids who were summoned into court

097and referred directly back. But the vast majority were 122 were open referrals and those are from our SRO's. But those are also from our teachers, from our mental hospitalists and counters and people in the district that are looking for supports for these kids outside of the four walls of these schools. So that I just wanted to present that slide because it really points to how we're working together with people in and outside of this district to support our kiddos. Um and finally, I've got the last slide here. Uh there's two parts to this slide that are super important. The first one is um this year just SRO specifically for Fort Collins had 14 referrals to restorative justice or conflict resolution. 14 likely summons if we can't get victims and parents on board to do this

098process. And if you've been a part of an RJ circle, they're fantastic. Um they're they're much more effective sometimes than just a fine or a summon. They're way impactful both for uh the police who did the rural or committed the crime and the other people involved. So wanted to share that with you guys as well. Before I go on to questions or answer any questions, comments knock stuff over. Um, there's one more slide here, the center of the picture. So, uh, many of you might see that that's Deputy Nancy Remington, uh, in the center of that picture. And I want to talk a little bit about Nancy Remington, Deputy Remington right now because, uh, Nancy Remington started her career in law enforcement, uh, in Junction, Colorado in 1981. Been a minute. uh moved to Larry

099County and started her career with the sheriff's office in 1986 in the jail and then started her work in her schools as a dare officer in unincorporated uh schools in 1996 and then row in 2001 serving unincorporated Lammer County multiple skates since 2001 multiple staff members students and I know that you are connected with Wellington like nobody else in this room so I just wanted to congratulate Nancy u she is wrapping up her career uh with the SRO unit and the sheriff's office this spring and thank her for her service to our schools and our communities. So, thank you, Nancy. All right. You want to give a speech, Nancy? No. Okay. It's been an honor working with you. All right, guys. Questions for me? All right. Anybody have any questions? I have one. I I

100I'm not used to this without your police uniform on. So, when does that come back? I was really debating like, God, do I wear my uniform one last time or not? Uh, so I've got a couple days in uniform. I'll be with the police department uh through I think June 30th is about the the offic. Uh, but to be fair, outside of response to school violence next week in that training, I think I got about a day and a half in a uniform left. So, uh, catch me this week if you can. will do. Um, just want to say welcome. Um, and we are absolutely thrilled to have you. So, excited to be here. Yes. Questions for Let's see. Scott, go ahead. Yeah, Jared, we're really excited to have you in this role. I think

101you're perfectly suited. You know, the community, the community knows you, so I think it's perfect. Um, one thing that I'm curious about and challenge you and the administration on is finding ways and talking to our staff and teachers who are feeling challenged with they feel like their hands are tied. I hear that feedback a lot um with a lot of the the new ways new um standard operating procedures and things like that. So finding ways to tweak those so that they can still feel like they can control their classroom and and command the respect that they they deserve. Uh it's a huge challenge um these days especially. Um so have that listening ear and be open to to hearing even criticism, you know, because I think it's it's really valid. Absolutely. And I think that's

102part of taking on this role is, you know, figuring out what we're doing well, but how do we get better? And uh that's going to be a lot of listening for me. I know this world, I know the SRO world very well, right? This is going to be a whole new thing for me though to step in these schools uh in this role and get that feedback. So, I'm looking forward to it though. Go ahead, Kevin. Um the reason I was asking about the traffic stops, there was a reason for it. Um, not only as a director that obviously puts safety first, but as a parent from this community that has a kid that stops at school buses, uh, school bus stops, excuse me. Um, I I travel Malbury every day to work. So, I

103passed by Don and there's a stop light at Dawn every day. And when the stop light goes, it means there's students and families that are crossing. So, it's not been once, but twice I've I've been parked with horror as a car will blow through the stop sign looking at its phone, etc. And I'm not going to deputize myself, although I wanted to in the moment. So, um, just a message for our community, too, that during the the time when our schools are letting in and out, please be vigilant. Please be careful. Um, nothing is more important, I assure you, in what's going on in your life than being vigilant about those small humans that are crossing streets, that are on their bikes, etc. So, I want to thank you for your uptick in efforts and

104all your confrs and being mindful about that. I am not in any way displeased with the uptick in traffic stops around schools, just to let you know. We're going to keep pushing for that. So, thank you. Oh, that's a rose, I guess. Anything else? Just I just have a curiosity. So, you said there's 274 teaching events and I never quite fully know what that means. Can you give me like just some examples of what that looks like? So when we track teaching events that could be SRO 101 which would be in most sixth grade or almost all sixth grade classes or nth grade classes and so that is one teach like one event and that uh that would be talking about what SRO's do what you're not supposed to bring to school uh what SRO

105don't do and just uh that would be an example uh DNE and me did a presentation on internet safety recently so that would be one for the community that we're tracking as well and then when we do all of our standard response protocols for our schools. That would be an event where we're teaching as well. So, those are kind of the those are the examples that I would use um in in the different ways that we're teaching both in the schools and then in the community as well. I love all of that. I remember back when my oldest was early in elementary school, an SRO came and talked to the PTO about cell phone use and apps and whatnot. And I think I I'm pretty sure it was just by invitation like some the PTA

106president knew or had an older kiddo. And so I don't know what it looks like. I don't want to put it on your plate, but also any way to educate parents on some of these things, especially as we're adopting cell phone policies and marrying the things that you guys do so well because that was a very memorable and important presentation for me to hear when my kid was six, right? Because now he's 13. Yeah. Um, so I just want to put that out there. But I really appreciate because it sounds like you have a standard practice for like sixth grade, nth grade. You have some standard things you do. So I don't know what that looks like, but I'd love to see it. I think there's always room for opportunity to give these presentations to

107other age groups. I was talking with Officer Mike right before I walked in the building and he had been talking to fifth graders who were getting ready to leave Johnson to go to Weber and talking about the fact that they're no longer elementary kids and that they're going to be middle schoolers and kind of trying to set the the foundation for what it's like to be in a middle school and some of those expectations and responsibility and those things and um some of it is relationship based, some of it is standardized. Um but I agree absolutely I think the more we can get into these classrooms to teach the better. It's always better when you can do it on the front end. So, anything else? All right. Well, thank you so much. Wonderful first presentation.

108Thank you. Looking forward to many more. Sounds good. Wonderful evening, guest. Thank you. Yes. Now, we're going to call the vote. Jim Brokish. Hi, Kristen Draper. Hi, Connor Duffy. Hi Kevin Halda. Thank you Connor. Hi Scott Shenbower. Hi Jessica Zamora. Hi. Motion passes zero. Thank you so much. All right. Going on to 7.5 early childhood annual report and annual Head Start and Early Head Start baseline grant approval. Can I get a motion, please? Joe. Yes. I move board approve the annual Head Start and early Head Start baseline grant approval. Can I get a second, please? Thank you, Jess. Brian's hand go up. I was like, no, you can't second. All right. And I believe we have a special guest for this as well. Hello everybody. Um, want to thank you for um having me tonight.

109And um the Last time I did this in May, it was a much later night. Um, so I'm very excited to be in the seven o'clock hour. Um, and uh, it will be similar but not exactly the same. So I'll kind of walk you through some of the the differences this year. Um, we had two originally we had two presentation goals, but I'm going to focus just on the annual grant application. Um, this is something that needs a board approval vote for us to submit the grant for our August one grant submission for Head Start. Um, this this year is a little different than last year because every five years we do a reset in our Head Start overall head start grant. So the this is called a baseline grant application instead of a continuation

110grant application. So every five years you'll see the baseline. We do the whole grant uh reset and then each year when we renew the grant it will be continuation for the next five years. So our current grant is getting ready grant cycle is getting ready to close and so this application will be for our 2025 through 2030 grant cycle. Um this will be for year one of five. Head Start is a little tricky because it does not match our school year by any way, shape, or form. Our grant funded year is November 1 through October 31st. So, our timelines don't match up with any of our state timelines, but um we submit our grant in August. That's the normal process. And then we receive feedback, modify our grant, and have an approval by November. So

111the dollar amounts that come with this grant um make up half of the early childhood budget. So this one is a very important um grant for us. Um the Head Start total award that's for preschoolers three through five um is 3,450,475. And the Head Start TNTA that stands for training and technical assistance. It's money that must be spent on professional development related to our grant goals. And then the third line here is our non-federal share. That's our agreement that we make as a school district. By accepting these federal dollars, we are also agreeing to commit a certain amount of money. It's 20% of the grant um in our services. So those might be things like transportation um that are covered by other funding sources but required by our grant. Um the early head start uh

112is a little different. They are two separate grants but we've turned them in together as a package. The early head start grant is for our program services 0 to3. Um so our total award there is a million300 12 or 312,756 also has a training and technical assistance component of 24,424 and a non-federal share component of 334,287. So you may have seen this graphic before uh but we are at this every five years section where we are developing long-term goals and measurable objectives for each five-year cycle. The goals that we create are designed to be enduring goals for all five years while the measurable objectives can change from year to year. and they allow that so that we can have kind of stretch goals, huge targets, aspirational dreams for those five years, but we also have

113the ability to change course or work on different areas within those goals. Um the best example that I can give is the last five-year cycle. We wrote the grant before COVID and things changed um dramatically and it allowed us to respond regularly and change course corrections um and rep prioritize as we need. So as we these are all um goals, we will continue with an achievement goal. Head Start requires one achievement goal for each of the developmental domains for early childhood. And then we will continue to focus a goal around access. That will be student health and safety. It will be about how do we find the kids that need us the most and get them into preschool seats. Um, and it will be trying to make sure that our processes are fair and equitable

114across the district. We then create an action plan, implement that action plan, prog monitor with all of our data, do that monthly with our policy council and yearly uh with a self assessment process. When we see that things are working really well, we tweak. When we see that things aren't working the way that we would like them to, we are allowed to ditch course, rewrite a new objective, and then can do the next year. We continually evaluate. Every year we have a self assessment that community members and parents um participate with us to evaluate how we're doing on our goals. And then every five years we conduct or update our community assessment to make sure we're still going after the right things. What matters to um parents and families in our community. So we're here.

115You are here. If there's a little star, this is where we are. This is all the things that are your packet. You're welcome. Um there's a lot here, but the reason why I have put this in order is just to kind of talk you through um when our parent governance boards have approved these documents um and how involved they are in this process and our board's responsibility as the governing body to approve the grant before we send it off in August. So all of these are requested today. Um, but our policy council has done this throughout the year and we do that so that our families have a chance to engage, ask questions, tell us when we've missed the mark, help us offer feedback, um, and just let us know what's important to them. So,

116the community assessment we always start with in the fall, proceed through our self assessment, which is our personal data. Community assessment is more like the Fort Collins and Lmer County surrounding areas. But our self assessment is about our goals from the suggestions that our family and comm community families and community members make. We create our goals and measur objectives. Our action plan addresses our goals and measurable objectives. Then we decide, okay, what are we going to need in order to be successful in terms of our own learning for our training and technical assistance plans? And we turn in both cost and no cost. So for example, an example of no cost trainings would be when we go and train our own um personnel in transportation about early childhood specific procedures that it doesn't have an

117additional cost. Whereas the cost items could be having an outside presenter coming in um about a type. Then we work on our selection criteria and that is to make sure that our families have a voice in how um we prioritize our weight lists. Our weight lists are not first come first serve. So a family is placed on the wait list based on need. Should a slot open, the family that is most in need of a preschool slot is offered the slot first. The transportation waiver is a document where uh we asked for a little um it's a difference in the Head Start performance standard. So the transportation waiver um changes the Head Start performance standard that requires an assistant on every bus that has a preschooler. Our waiver is so that we can have an

118assistant on every bus that has more than four. The driver has the four seats right behind them. um really covered in terms of buckling kids in and supervision as soon as we add that next row of seats. That's when our three-year-olds and four-year-olds might need an extra um bed of super waiver and that's been approved for years um with our grant. Then we develop a budget. I have this on here because I know you're missing it from last year. Um the COLA and quality improvement requests are when new funds become available. We ask it's okay for us to go after them. Um I think it's important for the board to know that no new federal funds are available this year. We are held at flat funding. Now that is really good as as you know

119that the political climate has changed a little bit and discussions around funding educational programs. However, flat funding means we still exist and we're still uh applying for the same amount. Um this is subject to change should um Congress make different decisions about how they want to appropriate the money. However, uh we feel we're sad that we don't have a COLA this year. So, there's no cost of living increases or any new money coming in um for the grant from the federal government. Can we interrupt for just a second? Yes, I want to say thank you for informing the board and the community around that changing landscape and what it means to have flat funding. Can you clarify a little bit more knowing that we are applying for a five-year grant and we're looking at one

120year at a time? So, just for the community that's paying attention, our board, myself, um when we say flat funding, is that for the next five years or do we know that to be true going into just next year only? Um I would love to say it's for fully year funding. Um we are applying for this grant. Uh should we get the grant for the five years, um it is renewable as long as those funds are available. um every time the uh budget goes into needing to extend the the budget ceiling um this comes up for negotiations. So I will tell you just over our last year cycle uh we were awarded our dollars in November. They only gave us half of them and each quarter we had to wait to see if the debt

121ceiling was approved enough to cover the grants. um that has created um where ordinarily this would be like a super stable funding source. We've never had question it before. Um wondering if if the funding source will be available. Um this spring we went through a portion of time when the there was a leak about the budget that had eliminated Head Start in general. Uh when that leak came out um the nation responded and in one week they had 390 contacts to legislators and um people showed up and stood up for Head Start and uh when the guinea budget was released, Head Start funding not impacted. So that is a very very good sign, but it is something we want to watch very carefully because should Head Start money go away, that is half of the

122early childhood budget. So that is something that is very very important and very dear to our hearts. Um and we we are writing this grant like the money is going to be there and um and I am planning on it. So thank you. Um for each budget we have to do a narrative or justification that tells uh the feds how we will spend our money. The grant narrative describes every single portion of our program. So, if you don't know a lot about early childhood, the grant narrative, 60 pages, um, is the best way to learn a lot about how we do business. The annual report actually you guys approved in September. I came in the fall to start the year off with the annual report, so it's not so old by the time we get

123to the end of the year. Um, and then, uh, should we vote approve this grant, we'll need asurances letter that just says that we've participated together in the process and that you guys had a chance to ask as many questions as you need, offer suggestions, um, and that we've co-created this with our policy council and parents as well. Um, if you look at the um document itself, I believe that our grant total pages is over 400,000 or four 400,000 feels like that. 400 pages. Um, we don't typically ask our parents to look at all 400 at once. And so that's a lot of burden on you, but I am really appreciative. Um I also want to thank Jess for helping us at policy council. Um every month she's there participating in the discussions, listening, answering

124questions for families. Um so this really is a process that is co-created. Um so thank you Jess for your help as well. Questions? Before questions, I just wanted to say Becca and her team have done an amazing job every month. I like I appreciate your I was like I was gonna do it first. Have done an amazing job of collecting parent feedback, answering questions, being very authentic, asking for any feedback, not trying to just garner favor, right? very intentional with anything that anyone has a suggestion or a wondering on or needs more information or more time. They do such a good job of breaking it up, explaining it in a way that's easily understood as well as garnering as much feedback to make those 400 pages as robust and thorough and as community focused as

125possible. So, I just really commend your work, your leadership, your team. There is probably no other building that brings me more just joy, whether it's the littlest or the adults in the building. You guys do such a good job and I'm I know our littlest people are in the best hands. Thank you. If I can just jump in on there, too. I know we've got more to go, but I just want to say about the baseline grant application, um, thank you for approaching it as if the money will be there because I know it the 400page application, it's very easy to be like, Well, the money's not going to be there, so why do it? Because it's 400 pages of applications and it's got to be exhausting to be able to do that. Um, so

126thank you for approach having that approach to it and you know, just we will will that into the universe that that money will be there. Um, and that our our littlest and most um needed will get that. So, thank you. Go ahead. Go ahead, Brian. Sorry, Becca. I just want to thank you for your leadership. I we are so lucky to have you and the broader team uh just providing remarkable services not just to our youngest children, but to their families as well. Um I do think Becca's tone around us staying vigilant and paying attention to what is happening in the midst of the changing landscape is really really important. uh as I've had an opportunity to grab information from her department as well as finance like to humanize this in terms of what the

127potential impact would be is this is almost 400 young children that are being serviced in an exemplary way just through our head start funding right so I think it's 383 students if I'm not mistaken and it's about 76 positions so when you think about not the impact to our school district but the economic impact to our community to kindergarten readiness. Uh this is one of those things that we have to figure out every way possible to figure out how to support you, the team um in this effort moving forward. So I really want to thank you again for educating us tonight. Okay. So are we do you want us to take the vote now or do you want to finish the presentation and then we'll take the vote? Um sorry, wait, this isformational. My Nope.

128Nope, it's not. She needs us. She does. I need you. No, I just want to make sure. Yep. Okay. No, I just want to make sure um we finish the presentation and then take the vote. Does that sound Yeah. May I say, please? So, our intention tonight was to provide the mandated information to you so you were equipped to have an informed vote, but the other information that we provided you is almost like as an appendix. Um that there wouldn't be any further uh formal presentation on that tonight. if that's the will if that's okay with the board. That that's that's great. I just wanted to uh make sure we did have, you know, seven or eight more slides. So, I wanted to make sure that I wasn't cutting anybody off. Do you want to

129be here till midnight tonight? Well, I'm sure you've got enough. Enjoy your company. And if you have questions beyond today, you can always send them through Tracy or email me and I will be happy to address them. Perfect. No, thank you. I thank you for that clarification because I was unsure. I did not want to cut you off, Becca. And I also know that yeah, we don't want to be here all night. So with that said, would everybody like to go for the vote? Excellent. Let's call the vote. Jim Brokish. Hi. Kristen Draper. I Connor Duffy. Hi. Kevin Havda. Hi. Scott Shenbower. Hi. Jessica Zamora. I. Motion passes 6. Thank you so much. All right. Now we're going to move on to 8.0. Now we get to theformational reports and discussion items. Apologies for that.

130Uh so this will be for the board of education's budget 8.1. And we have a special guest. Yeah. Joining us the evening to present the board of educations budget is our chief finance officer Dave Mononttoya. Welcome Dave. Okay. Um so tonight uh we uh we're at the phase of viewing the board of education. So this is not confused with the overall district budget. Um this is the board of education's budget. So um really not a whole lot of change or activity. Uh it's pretty there's not a whole lot of fame to this budget. It's pretty small. Um we have a couple of things that we take care of this budget. Um we have software for the board meetings. Um we also have uh closed captioning as you can see that that's that's some of what's

131coming out of that software budget. Um this the board of education budget also helps support negotiations process. We have a budget for our negotiator. Um that was John Weathers this last year. Um we also have budget in the board's budget for the legislative work or our lobbyist. Um so that basically remains unchanged in the next year. Um CASBY dues comes out of the board's budget as well. um as well as travel and conferences and and sometimes that like the big one in there is the uh the CASBY the CASBY event that happens as well. Um we do have a small budget for boardroom technology that that helps us support uh microphones, all the different little pieces and devices that you have um that that help uh the public witness the board meetings. And then the

132final one is that there is a supply meal copy budget toward the end. Um majority of that is the meals for the dinner session and the board the board uh for the meetings. Um but uh yeah so so basically the entire budget uh that's that's the categories that we have. The only change from this year into next year is that I have increased the software budget or the line item for software budget by $8,000. And that is to add ongoing port for not only the transcriptions that we have going but also the Zoom meetings that we're actually using some of that tonight too. So, um, so those are those are kind of the, uh, the two items that, uh, that had changed in the board's, uh, budget, but everything else pretty much remains the same.

133Questions? Yeah, go ahead, Kevin. Sorry, and I was absent when you went over this. Um, the budget line for negotiations. What is that detail? Yeah, so that is uh that's the um the facilitator for negotiations. Um, that was John Weathers, and he basically charges us when he comes in and facilitates the negotiations. Other questions? Connor, did you I know that you have to leave at 8. Did you want to uh did you have any last questions before we before you go? Sorry. No, I went through the presentation. Everything looks good. Excellent. All right. Thank you so much. Great. All right. And I guess we can just move right on into 8.2 proposed budget from board budget to big budget. Yes. Right. Good evening everybody. Thanks for another opportunity to be here with you. Um gosh,

134I I reflect back and we were able to do some budget series way back in the fall and all of a sudden months and months have passed and here you are with a proposed budget for fiscal year 26 in your packets. And so I'm going to touch on some highlights of what's in there and of course um answer questions as as we go along or at the end whatever your preference might be. And we wrapped up the the legislative sess session. It came to um really looking for PSD at comparing the new school finance formula with the current school finance formula. Remember we have two running concurrently now for next year. And that new school finance formula is the one that's going to benefit our district the most. And in that formula really what it

135determines is it's kind of working backwards. It's determining a funding amount and then uh we look at the number of funded pupil counts we expect and then arrive at a per pupil revenue dollar. So the the new the new formula really for us means about $11,248 per pupil per funded pupil. And that funded pupil count now going to a four-year average next year hasn't changed since we talked to you with the preliminary budget or even earlier. Uh overall in the district about 28,613 funded pupils in our non-charter schools. That's a reduction of about 371. And in our district charters, that's an increase of just under 136 funded pupils. Overall, in the program funding, remember that's the big formula, just under 11 million of new funding in the formula fiscal year 26 over fiscal year 25.

136And the primary difference in that is about a million and a half dollars more because of that new school finance formula. So, um, some other things that we're we're kind of watching as as now this is is in effect for next year and we're moving on into next year, but also continuing to think about the future is late in the legislative session, there was a kids matter fund, excuse me, established in within the state education fund. Okay, that will be some additional funding off of income tax revenue that uh looks to impact the formula starting in fiscal year 27. So that's uh that's the high level on the program funding look at things. What are the big differences? Yeah. Sorry, Brian, can we interrupt for you? I'm sorry. Can you go back a slide, please?

137Of course. Thank you very much. I just wanted to signal to the board and members of the community around the district charter school increase. That number is kind of an outlier uh based upon the increase of charter schools over the past several years. And I want to just name that Liberty Common is opening a middle school in the year ahead and that's what that uh increase is attributed to. That seems atypical from prior years. Thank you. Okay. So as uh we looked back preliminary budget which really identified a separation of the projected revenue and what and also market adjustments for integrated services about extra duty compens 4.8% 8% similar Colorado districts. So that's that's some work that resources folks Colorado districts. So that's that's some work that resources folks and the administrators have done to

138to do research and take a look at what the market professionals. So that's about another 67 additional funds side of things. Can we interrupt percentage in additions to extra duty compensation on the elementary side of things that on the elementary side of things that to step one column one of about $250,000 to address type of needs at the secondary levels. Okay. All secondary levels. Okay. All of those all of those uh in that preliminary but declining enroll side but no premium grades really the increase hopefully see some of the the tie in here talk about the ascent program and that reduction in what we expect that and zerobased budgets net of about $1.3 million additions in the budget and in the previous presentation balance that out at the end of the year knowing that there

139are some uncertainties uh in in the future potentially we want to really make sure this is explicitly in the budget our district portion to support Head Start and Early Head Start and the Early Childhood Program. Additionally, uh we we anticipate about $700,000 of increased utility insurance costs and some central department critical needs uh that uh that exist. thinking about things like ongoing investments in district marketing, some one-time investments in multi-tered system of support, and then while this $293,000 doesn't quantify or capture other critical needs, we know that others are coming. things like uh dyslexia screener, um CPI training, NWA map costs, some other things that will likely have to be addressed in our budget revision as we move through fiscal year 26. So, a quick tour of the budget document. You don't necessarily have to

140follow on. You're welcome to if you'd like, but I'd like to just point out a few of uh the pages where things fall within the document. Your revenues and expenditures fall on pages five to eight in that document. And you'll note that expenditures exceed revenues by just about four and a half million dollars. That means that when we submit a resolution or a couple resolutions to you in in the board meeting, June 10th board meeting, uh there will be a res a resolution to ask for the use of reserves to to balance that out. Also, the other funds are identified there on your on on the screen, but in the document as well. And I'm going to point out just kind of a quick way to summarize the amounts that are associated with those funds.

141On page three, you'll find a draft fiscal year 26 resolution. Just a draft because this information item tonight. The two columns identify the dollars appropriated in each fund and then what's currently budgeted in each fund. So for example, the first line in this table that's on the screen, the general fund, the proposed appropriation would be just under $524 million. That includes expenditures and reserves. The budgeted expenditures that we anticipate here to start out fiscal year 26 are $442,212,650. And then you can go through each of the funds that follow. For instance, the debtree mill levby fund we're calling fund M. Uh that slated to grow by the rate of inflation. So that's a little higher next year than where we started it off this year. and we anticipate that to be an appropriation of just

142over $50 million. Some of the others I'll point out, if you look under special revenue funds, the food service fund, we know that that's a fund we've got a monitor with potential changes coming in the healthy school meals for all program midy year. And right now that appropriation is just over 17.1 million with expenditures of just under 16.3 budgeted. So that gives you a a quick look at each of the funds for a total as you look across all funds in the budget for next year. Total appropriation of just over $833 million with budgeted expenditures to be just over $661 million. And back into the general fund as we go through the document, there is a reserve summary on page seven. And this uh like the other portions of the the document will compare prior

143year um well actually the actual from fiscal year 24. The prior year would actually be fiscal year 25 here. Prior year budget the estimated actuals for the prior year here in fiscal year 25 and then the budget that uh we propose for fiscal year 26. This reflects again the reserves and I'll I'll uh bring up those definitions of what each of these reserve categories are here momentarily. But I want to point out uh line 62 and line 62 is a new assigned reserve that we're adding into the budget this year. And this goes to a couple of the comments and questions earlier in the evening uh about how are we going to plan for some of this uncertainty, especially in some of the the budgetary and fiscal realms that are beyond even the the Colorado

144scope of things. Okay. And that uh is really we've created an assigned reserve that we're calling with for lack of a better name right now reserve for funding uncertainty u of $4.3 million in the budget first year. Basically we're saying okay let's uh call that a specific purpose but we're not really restricting those dollars or committing them yet. We'll see what happens. Whether it's healthy meals for all impacts or additional grant changes from federal or state levels, whatever it might be, we have that set aside so we can address those those issues and be agile next year. Go ahead, Brian. Thank you, uh, Brian. Thank you so much for making that really important point. I just want to signal to the board and to our community that us putting unassigned dollars in reserves is one-time

145dollars that potentially would be put towards a recurring problem or challenge that we deal with in the event that this landscape results in any of these particular ongoing expenses going away. So, I just think that's really really important to say that we could potentially soften the challenge uh and potentially create an honor offramp for us to be able to think thoughtfully as a system around how we deal with that changing landscape, but it's not going to solve or stop or prevent the pain in the event some of those dollars at the federal or state or even local level go away. So, I just want to really make sure that we're aware of that. I think it's really fiscally responsible for us to do that to be able to have a measured approach and begin to

146contingency plan. Um, but I just it's it's it's never a good situation when you're using onetime dollars to solve a ongoing challenge. And I just think it's really important to reiterate that with members of the community. Go ahead, Kevin. I actually had a question on this exact. So, I appreciate you calling it out. I was when I was doing my review, I I looked at line 62 and it jumped out at me for one other reason is that it doesn't look like we've done that in the the previous years. And so, one credit to thinking creatively about, you know, forecasting uncertainty and having a softening cushion. I I I appreciate because I was going to make the same point, Brian, is that at least from my understanding, this is a one-time deployment. So, we have

147to be very judicious about how we're going to do that and we'll have discussions, I'm sure. The other thing I want to make sure that I understand though at least while we're on the general funding and if this is getting ahead then just tell me you're you're going here but some of the changes that I that also pointed out are that if you're looking at the estimated and the real budget of 2025 the delta between the budget you're proposing for 26 looks like around a for I wrote the number this is a rough math but a 14.3 million increase from the estimated budget from 2025 and a 15.2 2 million increase in general funding for the current budget. So, help me unpack that a bit because of that number, what I'm looking at is that

1484.3 would would still leave a $10 million delta in the estimated and like 11 point 11 million and change on the on the actual budget 2025. Is this strictly due to 4A funding or what? I mean, I understand the revenue drivers there, but is there there's a difference between those two numbers in the general fund being so much larger? Makes sense. I'm sorry if that was a convoluted question, but I'll I'll see if I I can capture do your best. Um what so on on this screen, let's just look at the reserves line and then we can always look at the the revenue expenditures. The reserve line you'll see really here is an ending reserves of less in fiscal year 26. Um and and so it's it's more helpful to segment them out and break

149them up. Um and so that number at the bottom in line 66 is the combination of expenditures plus reserves. So we really do have more expenditures budgeted, but we plan on using some reserves to get there. And part of that is the impact of debt free mill knowing that some of the the carryover funds that would typically be in some of the departments like facilities and operations that's all shifting to a new fund. So there's actually going to be fewer dollars here in the general fund that are held in re for those kinds of things. Yeah. So that that's one thing that you would note in line 61 that that's an impact to fund them as well. So I hope that starts to address it. I thought that was the case that we're it's because

150reallocation of where we're from for the expenditures, but that clarified it. So I appreciate and and we're anxious to get into next year uh get get this year wrapped up, see audited figures on this year to see, okay, where did things really end up, especially with adding a new fund. Uh and then that will help us be um even more informed with how we plan for 27 and revise the budget next year knowing that okay now the new fund is rolling now we're hopefully getting through some of the the questions at at different fiscal level federally and state and have a idea of kind of where this sorts out. And one last point on that and I do I want to harp again on the reserve for funding uncertainty unassigned. I think we need to

151be collectively somewhat comfortable as a governance scene that this may in our vocabulary for the coming years. And so I appreciate the efforts. I think it was a very prudent thing to do. Um I don't think any of us have a crystal ball, but you know, I I think anticipating some of that uncertainty is the most prudent thing that we could do. So if we could make that an exercise each year, depending on how the numbers shake out, depending on true ups, I think it's something that we should be conversing in. Thanks. Other questions while we're here? So, I won't go through each of these, but just as you review those those reserves, uh remember there are the different types of fund balances, uh whether they're restricted, assigned, or unassigned. This is something we we

152shared with our budget advisory committee and budget design teams. and it's always a good um board policy to to reflect back on and and help really understand an important part of the budget. The supplemental information later on in the document as I described it previously are different ways to slice this budget, different ways to look at it. And so on page 19, this is uh a way to look at the expenditures from more the CDE what we would call program and object lens that it's a different reporting element that goes to the department of education each year. Here at PSD, we like to show a little bit more um I would guess I guess a different way to look at things is we like to show different detail uh based on locations primarily as opposed

153to programs and object which are a little higher level. But this is a way to look at it gets to that total expenditure budgeted of just over $442 million. And this the graph the pie chart on your screen basically divides up okay what do those programs uh look like when it comes to expenditures. A program would be classroom instruction. That's the the primary driver of of how we spend dollars. Okay. So this isn't really looking at staffing or or things. It's looking at that kind of the the categories the big CDE categories. the the chart and and the table that's above it really compare um in district expenditures to per uh pupils in the district. So we do add in an allocation to charters at the end but if we were to spend 100% of

154the budgeted expenditures in fiscal year 26 those district funded pupils of 25,634.6 six students, we would spend just under $15,600 on each of those those pupils if we were to spend at 100%. So, it just gives you an idea of of how we're budgeting the dollars with rel uh relation to CDE's reporting conventions. Okay, another way we like to carve it up and and look at things is on page 23. We like to break it up and look at, okay, how does compensation uh look and compare not only year-over-year, but with those employee associations and groupings that I talked about earlier, so licensed, classified, and administrative. Here in fiscal year 25, our current budget for total compensation is $328.3 million. And in fiscal year 26, the uh budget proposed budget for adoption is $335.8 million.

155Again, there's some significant changes here because of moving some compensation in the fund down. This is just general fund dollars. But when you get down to the bottom and you look at total expenditures again, you get to that $442.2 million. So just another slice. And then one last one, and this really matches up what's earlier on kind of our primary reporting method here, and that's a look at location types. So okay, we see how how much we're spending on programs or we see how much we're spending on compensation. How about what do we expect to spend at elementary schools or um in integrated services or transportation? So, this is just a different way to slice things up and look at it. And this should match the the data that's earlier on in the budget document

156with regard to location types. Again, coming to general fund expenditures of just over $442 million. So, that's a a big big overview of of the proposed budget. What's next? Of course, this is an information item tonight, but uh on June 10th in your your packets will be a fiscal year 26 adopted budget resolution as well as a resolution authorizing use of fund balance. Those two items then really would help us to to make sure we have a budget adopted by June 30th for fiscal year 26. Additionally, we'll have an idea which is federal um sort of level of special education funding certification dollars that we submit for those those funds um in your packets as well. So we can make sure we're going after those dollars that help our our grants fun. What questions do

157you have? All that questions, anyone? Scott, go ahead. Yeah, thanks Brian and Dave for putting this together. This is really informative. Um, one question I had and Dave, you might be the one to answer this. We we've talked in the past about our reserve. So, the the 4.6, six. I think that's the number for the uncertainty um commitment there. Um where does that we want a healthy reserve which I can't remember what the percentage is if it's 3%. So so the fund balance policy that Brian was referencing up here um would call for a and he's got it up here on that slide. So it's that appropriated uh that last line item there is that 3 to 5% of which is recommended, right? Um, we also we also have other other sources. When we set

158these a long time ago, we looked at uh government uh GFOA. I forgot exactly what that stands for, but they provide a lot of accounting information and they had talked about having a three-month reserve of which would be fairly large for a school district. So we after a lot of conversation many years ago with our audit committee, our bond underwriters and multiple uh different stakeholders, we landed on having a 3 to 5% contingency reserve and that would be the sweet spot. So that the fund balance policy would talk about if you exceed the 5% that you should spend that down on one-time funds. But if you go the other direction, you start to use your appropriation, the fund balance policy is very prescriptive on how quickly you have to restore that. the deeper that you

159go, the faster you have to restore it. So, so with this budget, with with that uncertainty as well as any other difference between funding and expenditures that we might have to dip into reserves, are we still going to be in that 3 to 5% window? So, the So, we'll still be I think we're at about 4 and a half% on the on the appropriated reserves. So that's that 3 to five and then the 4.3 million that we have reserved would be in outside of that and as a separate line item and that's why we displayed it as a separate line item so that it didn't get co-mingled with the other reserve the unassigned comes to about 4.9% of those two items and then you told me this before and I think in in in a

160meeting but maybe we should reiterate it just in this discussion the federal funing I know We have the 9 million for the grant, the mental health grant. Um that looks to be going away. Um what other including Head Start. Um what other federal funding do we have like a big number that we know that Yeah. is how much goes into our budget? Maybe I'm not saying this is at risk, but we should just be aware of that. I think the public needs to be aware of how much we're talking about of our budget. on on page five um is which is really a summary of of the district revenue. It's not the specifics so much that federal revenue is primarily Medicaid. So a and you know it's qualified. It's considered federal. It's really reimbursement um

161from activities we've already worked through. But uh that program is tied to federal DOSs and based on on federal federal funding and legislation. So that's really the bulk of our general fund federal line item. That is about $3 million for next year. Go ahead, Director Show. Can I just ask a clarifying question because I I want to make sure that your question is getting answered and I think Brian just did a really good job of of getting you a response. Are you looking to inform the community on where our federal funding is going? Not where it's going, but just how much of our total budget is from the federal government because I think there's, you know, there's heartburn out there for changes that are happening there. Uh so there needs to be understanding of what

162that potentially could impact us here. Okay, that that's helpful. Dave, do you mind if I talk to that just for a little bit? So the one thing too in your question around the mental health grant that we had to support our social work pipeline in partnership with CSU, that money will sunset in December of 2025. So that decision has been made. It's not in flux. Uh we are aggressively trying to figure out alternative type financing solutions to keep that uh afloat. Um and so stay tuned. I don't want to overpromise there, but we are looking to be creative uh partners and trying to figure things out, but it does look like we're going to have to scale back pretty significantly there right now. Beyond that, we receive approximately $30 million in federal funding annually that

163is supplemental to our district and it funds primarily four big things. About $7 million of it is tied to special education funding for IDEIDA dollars. Um there are no signals right now that that is going to go away. That's pretty deeply written into law. Um, but again, stay vigilant and we need to make sure that we we're paying attention to that. Uh, Brian did a great job speaking earlier on the healthy uh Colorado Healthy Meals for All Act. I think what's interesting as I talk to members of our community, most people don't realize that that only funds the money that we get from the state of Colorado, if I'm doing the math correctly, only funds 46% of our total child nutrition services program, which means that we're really dependent on federal dollars, which is approximately,

164I think, another seven, I could be wrong on the amount, but we're spending $7 million from the federal government annually on just purchasing food. So I think that's really important to know that in the event that that landscape shifts in the year ahead. Um another one would be Head Start. We had a really detailed presentation on that as I shared with you. Uh in the event that that money uh becomes unstable that is funding today 383 children ages 0 to four um and hiring 76 I think 76 teachers in our district. Um and as Becca shared right now we we're getting signals that we're receiving flat funding. There was an article published a month ago uh in the Wall Street Journal that I think she alluded to because people responded that signal that the federal

165government was considering eliminating that. So, we'll have to kind of pay attention. And then the last uh bucket is our federal grants that our title one schools receive. Title$2 dollars, which primarily goes for professional development. Title three dollars, which funds services for multilingual learners, uh, as well as title four. That's about another $7 million in in totality. Um, there are signals that title two, title three, and title four dollars may go away. We'll have to see how that shakes out. Um, what I've read in terms of the recent Secretary of Educin's address to the House of Representatives was signaling that what was most stable are our title one and IDEA dollars. um which is also signaling instability with those other funds. Um and that's not that's not just services, that's people, it's children. Um there

166there's a significant economic impact to our district, to our community. And I think it's also important to note that we are not the only institution in our community that is dealing with this instability and the changing landscape. It is uh directly impacting our land grant institution in our backyard, Colorado State University, who receives a significant amount of federal dollars um as well as our city and county because this these things uh have implications on families and jobs and children. It's it's it's interesting to see the interdependencies across all of the largest employers in town, including our medical health providers, especially UC Health, uh, who is dealing with a lot of those implications, but for PSD is primarily $30 million a year. Other question, Kevin? Uh, thank you for that insight too, Brian. Um, one thing

167I want to pivot to which I again maybe this just is clarifying for process. So my understanding is next step at least for us in this room is June 10th we're voting. Correct. Correct. Okay. Um so I want to shift a bit to and I appreciate director Shonar's comments because I think there is a lot of anxiety as to shifting earth beneath us and what we can't predict. And so I again appreciate the reserve conversation. I'd like to shift back a little bit now to our locus of control and the things that we can control. The last conversation we had on a budget in this room, we spent a significant portion of that discussion on the 4A spending for small schools. I want to know where we are on that because what I don't want

168to do is leave that discussion feeling uncertain. I feel uncertain right now in this room. I know where we're landing on that. I think we had discussed definitional criteria for who's going to receive that. But what I don't want to do is be in a position where I'm voting on a budget and I don't know how we're allocating that amount because while it is a smaller subset of our of our overall budget, it's a very important one and it remains important for the schools that are going to be affected and I'll I'll go out on a limb and invoke director outgoing director Reid and saying that one of the tough things I think needs to be said is that the larger we draw that circle for who's going to be the recipient of those, the

169less benefit, less impact it's going to have for those schools that need it the most. And I'm very concerned about that and I don't want to punt that discussion to we'll see how it shakes out in a year. We'll see with the long-term steering committee. I think we have an ownership and a control in this room to start having that conversation. And if it's not tonight, that's fine, but I'd like to have it before that June 10th vote. So, that's a long question, but if anyone wants to take a stab about where we are, where we're landing, and kind of where that has evolved, I'd appreciate an update. Well, what I can tell you in this budget that's proposed is there's no funds being taken away from any schools. Uh, right. So, what uh and

170hop in here, Dave, what I'm looking for here is how do we reallocate if there's going to be reallocation? And we can do that either prior to June 10th or we can do that in a mid-year budget revision that would happen before January 31st. Before Dr. Ggo, I I'm not trying to force the conversation to granularity, but I do think it's a it's a fairly important conversation that we had last time and I want to make sure that we revisit it. Um, and if it's tonight, it's tonight. I think um like just to reiterate where we left off, like what we did as a small schools committee is we landed in the space that that we felt like the schools got what they needed from the the MIVI dollars. And so the the money for

171the staffing for operational expenses and all of those things have been allocated out in the SBB. And so it sounds like the point of the conversation is essentially not pulling that money back from the schools but but relooking at where would it come from if it wasn't from 4A. So then it would have to come from, you know, another funding source um to be able to um redirect that to um the and we recognize that the next step in the work for the um for SBB is to look at the size factor adjustment. That's going to take a much larger process than we have time for this spring um because it requires us to reconvene groups of principles to study what is an appropriate staffing model and then to readjust the size factor. So right

172now our plan is to do that um expeditiously is to readjust that size factor which then have an implication to that for spending dollars. So, that's where we're at currently in this state is that everybody has um utilized the funds as they've been distributed to hire staff and to plan their budgets for the next year. And so, we're seeing it as like the next step for us to take would be in the fall is to relook at that size factor. I appreciate the answer. I think my concern, which I just but um I was thinking about it, chewing on it since last meeting, and I want to use the word draconian, but the more restrict it so severely that we start with the schools that were named for. And so in my view, if it's

173going to do the most good, those schools that were identified ought to have received the most significant portion of that fund. Otherwise, to me, it just has a dissipating effect where when I was looking at some of those numbers, I was alarmed to see that some schools are getting 40,000 for the general and then um a higher percentage for assistant principles, which they need, and that's their that's their prerogative under the the schoolbased budgeting. But $40,000 is not going to solve that problem for some of those schools that have I mean, we just looked at numbers of what 300 something students that are are not in our district this year that were down from last year. So presuming that trend does continue, I for one don't think that a $40,000 uptick in a school's budget

174is going to make the difference. Now, I think there's other levers we need to be thinking about. We need to be pulling. But as far as just the true what 4A was designed to do, at least at least why I I believe it was on the ballot was designed to prevent or at least stave off that discussion so we could find plan B, plan C for some of those schools. And I'm just I just want to express concern, I guess, tonight that I don't I'm not sure if the process that we're undertaking is going to have the true benefit um of what I believe that that it was intended for. And I could be in the minority on that and if I will, I'll stop talking. But I'm I'm I'm I have a concern. Well,

175I I do think that we have to remember there's a three-prongong approach to this, right? So, that's one of the prongs is that size factor adjustment that we're talking about. Then the other two were very determinant on um other criteria. um and if we're going to be looking at the size factor adjustment in the following year, I mean, these schools already have their um their budget. And so if we start adjusting their budget now, that's adjusting their staff now for fall. And that's not I don't see how that can possibly work well. Um to tell a staff two days before school ends, by the way, you're not going to have what you think you've got. So, I don't think that that is an appropriate way to to go about that. Um, and if we want

176to talk about a school adjust, you know, the the size adjustment, which is what you're talking about, um, I think that's appropriate for the following year. Um but I do think that the schools that you know were talked about um that get the most benefit from steps two and three um are the schools that were named are the schools that were um that have the smallest. So I the the smallest number. So I do think that they are getting what it is that they need. So and you know Tracy I don't know if you can speak to to those. I know that there were two other steps um that were looked into and if if if you don't mind. So the we started with the criteria as far as like which schools were identified for

177for benefit within a couple of buckets. So started with strictly enrollment. So um elementary schools that fell below 400 students um middle schools that fell below 700 students which is where um the criteria was developing in the spring. And so that was the group that we started looking at to receive the benefit of the um for a um millie dollars. And then we divided that group then into three groups then even further. So there was more intensive funding support for the smallest of those groups. So if you think about like CLP middle, CLP um was probably the most significant in that group that received um a substantial benefit of what we would consider um a tier three level of funding and that primarily is our zerobased schools. Um tier 2 then was what we called

178our foundational and that had a large influx of funding. So that was the next level of support. um schools like Batty, for example, were in that level of funding and received a substantial amount of support to get to a foundational level of funding. And then we had a group of schools that we called the tier one schools, which I think you were kind of alluding to is like that $40,000. like is that really an influx that makes a difference for those tier one schools that have closed the gap between what we analyzed was um between what their current state was and what they felt like they needed like it it really was to close the need gap for them. There could always be more like we can always offer more programs and services. And so

179and we want to make sure in this first iteration that we made a plan for five years like we want to be looking five years into the future. And so that's why those three buckets were designed is to give us not only today like what would we need today, but also could we forecast as best as we could those five years into f into the future to make sure that those same number of schools that we currently have will be here five years from now. And so I think that's the the work that we still need to do is like looking ahead that five years and knowing that those three buckets that I defined, schools are going to move in and out of them as their enrollment changes. So they're going to meet different criteria.

180More are going to fall into that foundational funding bucket as their enrollment declines. And so that bucket is probably going to be the one that grows the most and right now has the most substantial amount of funding into it to close that gap for the school. So it's sort of got this plan to have an accordion knowing that it's going to expand at those three levels where it's needed over the course of five years. One last point that was very well explained. I really appreciate it. Um, and I I like how you ended it with the five-year forecast because 4A is going to last in perpetuity, not necessarily the schools that are receiving these funds. And so I think that's something I'm trying to reconcile in head is that necessarily, I mean, use Darwinism if

181you want, but if a school closes, that eliminates the need for that school to be eligible for a tier one bucket, which augments the pie for the remaining recipient school. So I I understand I appreciate you're looking at that tension. The followup question is how much did the enrollment trends for each of these schools in the last previous five years inform the decision about where they would be in tiers and do we even have that data? So we used the five-year projections that we had available to us at the time which would have been given to us in June of 2024. So to do that evaluation of five years from now would this would this methodology work that was the number that we had at the time. We will now have the current iteration of

182fire projections. So we get the annually to then do that analysis. Okay, based on what we now know, what would that projection um scale it to five years from now as far as the sustainability of that funding model that we put together so far? there wasn't a look back on the prior years of fiveyear like five-year projections because they're adjusted annually and so the it based on those how we created that criteria for the different tiers we had to create some framework of cut scores and so right now the the primary cut score for that most intensive zerobased school is 200 and so if we did a look back a few years before we probably wouldn't have seen very many schools that fall into that 200 bucket. Whereas now we do have um more than

183at the time it probably would have just been the mountain schools that fell in that below 200 bucket. Now we have more schools that are in that below 200 bucket that have realized and are actually there. Like we have actual numbers of students sheer who are in that below 200 bucket. And so it's it's a matter of using like current today data which was that was the primary part of the process that the committee used is like students in seats today like how many would be in classrooms right now as well as looking ahead a year and then five years in in advance. question I promise on this subject um I do think the model we've undertaken will lend itself to naturally the follow-up question is going to be we may defining threshold criteria for

184certain schools that need a certain percentage to remain in tier one if their enrollment keeps dipping at what point is the cut off going to be so that it doesn't exacerbate the pool for the other schools I don't know the answer to that I don't know if you're looking at that but that the followup question I've got is at what point does it devate so far from that threshold to receive the tier one funding that it no longer makes economic sense or it's going to pull so many strings from the other schools. And I think that may be the conversation I think is what I'm I think happen if if I got it right. Yeah. Go ahead. I really appreciate the questions. I think we're at a starting point, not the end. We're going to

185have to be really judicious in looking at this on an annual basis. And though we're doing our very best, I think Dr. guy and the team and this committee has done really really great work to get us off the ground. Um, but I think what's challenging and a part of this story is every single school is experiencing declining enrollment. So those pain points, nobody's immune to it and there is great consternation when you don't benefit from a financial distribution and somebody else does when you are starting to feel a different reality than you did what you were accustomed to. I also think as we're continuing to have this conversation, another piece of context that's important is we can do all of these projections mapping out the next five years, but we have other things that

186are unstable around this. We're seeing signals of potentially the end of averaging going away over the next several years. Like our district is set to benefit from a inflated bump in our general revenue in the amount of I think 590 per pupils per pupils not per pupils. Um that's significant that that would represent probably just you know 590 is probably the fourth largest elementary school and we're expected to decline by another 500 students. So I think they're things that are part of the story that will impact how we have this conversation as other things uh begin to deteriorate. um 4A is stable. That $4 million will always be$4 million. Um but as those other things bump up against those challenges, it's going to be even more complex. And I just think it's important that we

187as a community look at the whole chessboard um because it's not something specific to just a subset of schools that are under 400 or under 700. This instability is really impacting the entire community. just want to say thank you for the time for this part of the conversation that was not a part of the formal presentation. I appreciate it. Go ahead. Jen, um yeah, just curiosity uh on the timing of the next or when the 4A oversight committee is meeting. So, I want I wanted to know when that's going to happen because you guys will probably get asked this question in that meeting specifically. So, so be ready. Uh, and then the second question is the the I always call it the wrong name, but the long-range steering committee. When's our next meeting for that?

188I'm just want to put this out into the public. The long range planning committee's next meeting will be June 13th. And so, right now, we've had this will be our second meeting of the long range planning committee. And Scott, to your question about the debtfree milvy oversight committee, um, they have had their spring meeting already. The board will hear an update from the co-chair of that committee at your June 10th meeting. They will not meet again until the fall. Thank you all for that. Other questions? Okay. Well, thank you, Brian, so much. I apologize for a lack of introduction there. We just kind of slid right into the next thing. Um, thank you. And uh I can't actually believe I'm going to say this, but this meeting is now adjourned at 8:51 p.m. Yeah. So

189uh thank y'all and have a great night.