Board of Education Meeting: March 7, 2023

001foreign [Music] School District Board of Education meeting we are calling this part of the meeting to order at 6 37 p.m uh if you would join me in muting your cell phone so that we don't have any disruptions during the meeting I'd really appreciate that and I'd also just apologize to those in the room and online we were delayed a little bit at our dinner session meeting when we were talking about the uh the Strategic plan um so our first item here is to do the Pledge of Allegiance so if you would rise and join me that would be great to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all thank you all very much our next

002item would any board members like to make changes to the agenda seeing none we will go on to our next item which is recognitions and reports and I'll turn that over to our superintendent to introduce thank you president Patterson this evening we're happy to recognize the Fossil Ridge High School boys golf team leading tonight's celebration is our Chief Information officer Miss Madeline noblett Madeline welcome all right thank you superintendent Kingsley members of the board and cabinet and everybody here this evening as superintendent Kingsley said we are honored to be able to recognize Fossil Ridge High School's boys golf team for their 5A State Championship win and can I just say it is a lifelong golfer as I shared with the coaches just a moment ago very excited to be able to do this this evening

003let me close this thing that I touched with that I would like to go ahead and welcome up at this time my colleagues Mr Jamie Menefee and Shane Huska the coaches and then for any of the players who are here this evening if you could go ahead and join us as well we'll have you stand here in front of the screen do be aware it is a touch screen so if you back into it you will back into our dear board member who is virtual this evening so with that I'll go ahead and turn it over to Jamie and Shane to go ahead and brag on you all and I will say I thought about all the golf puns I could have used this evening and I didn't use any of them so I hope

004everyone's proud thank you and thanks for having us um I have coached High School sports for 27 years now and uh coach basketball as well as Golf and to get to a team in a position to be able to even compete for a State title is uh rare and special and even when you know you have a team that is in that sort of position it is it's still going to take uh some luck some good fortune obviously a lot of skill and to be able to represent these players and the other players that aren't here uh Kaden uh Davenport was another player on the State team who's not here to be able to just work with them and have them represent the school and just to be a part of it was the thrill

005of a lifetime for me as a coach and um it's I I know that there's lots of other coaches out there that that work hard and play you know have teams that that are together and fun to be around uh which is awesome uh that's been me most of my career it's also awesome when things do work out and and you can capture lightning in a bottle and win a State title uh it's just really been an honor I'd also like to thank Shane uh my assistant coach who was new to the program and probably it was he him who brought the State title our way so uh I'll let Shane say a few words as well so again thanks for having us here uh appreciate it uh being uh growing up in a uh

006you know a coach's household with my dad and have the opportunity to coach a team the one of the things that I think is great for High School athletics and extracurricular activities is we have great players which make great teams but it's the friendships uh in the bus rides to the golf course back from the golf course um dinners practices and the friendships they just created from you know a senior on the golf team to sophomore junior freshman and just the bonds they create and the friendship and help them you know integrate into a school and not feel like you're in a big School uh for a freshman it's neat and it's just fantastic what extra extra extracurricular activities do uh for athletes and students and their involvement so thanks for having us and it

007it was fantastic to be a part of this team [Applause] so on behalf of the board I'd like to congratulate all of you on your golf team state championship we're all very proud of you I know that golf is one of those games where some days you go out and everything goes really good for you and there's other days you go out and it doesn't go so well so getting out there every day and enduring and getting through all of this and getting to the state was really important and we're so proud of you thank you [Applause] a little bit more right closer excellent thank you [Applause] all right you are welcome to spend your entire evening with us or you may go ahead and take off we will not judge either way Jim's Wings

008sad we are all here no it's great thank you all have a great night with that we are done with recognitions for the evening and we'll move into our next item right that's great thanks melon the next item is actually the next couple of items are action items uh first the resolution in support of women's History Month can I get a motion in support of this resolution first and we'll read it after go ahead Kristen I moved that we approved the resolution in support of women's History Month March 2023. excellent thank you can I get a second looks like Nate who would like to read this resolution Jess can do it that's great whereas in 1987 the national women's history project now known as the national women's history Alliance successfully advocated the month of March

009become known as National Women's History Month to celebrate women of every age race class and ethnic background and whereas women of every age race class and ethnic backgrounds have made historic contributions to the growth and strength of our society in countless recorded and unrecorded ways and whereas women of every age race class and ethnic background have played and continue to play critical economic cultural and social roles in every sphere of Life of our community by constituting a significant portion of the volunteer and labor force working inside and outside of the home and whereas the 2023 theme for National Women's History Month celebrating women who tell our stories is a recognition of women storytellers from both the past and present and all forms of media including print radio TV stage screen blogs podcasts news and social

010media and whereas women of every age race class and ethnic background have been integral in the Art and Science of healing not only our bodies but our hearts and Minds as well bringing us hope in times of immense suffering and whereas despite these contributions and Milestones the role of women in history has been consistently overlooked and undervalued in art literature Education Health labor government and business now therefore be it resolved the Pooter School District board of education does hereby proclaim the month of March 2023 as women's History Month in pooter school district and recognize the importance of women histories month as an opportunity to ensure that the extraordinary and inspiring contributions of women of every age race class and ethnic background are included in our curriculum and instructional programs thank you so much Jess I

011believe we have someone from the administration to speak with us about this is that right yes we do thank you joining us this evening to speak to women's history month is our District's diversity equity and inclusion coordinator Miss Delia mahani to Aya welcome thank you superintendent Kingsley and members of the board I'd like to point out that a week from today will be the first of many women's Equal Pay Days throughout the year that March 14th will be the first day that women on average will have earned the same amount of money that men have they will catch up to men for the year and the last one happens in November for women who are indigenous it takes until November for them to make the same amount of money as their male counterparts so I

012just wanted to throw that out there I would like to thank you for making space to recognize women's History Month as my shirt says I want every girl to know that her voice can change the world and I wholeheartedly believe our speakers tonight will do exactly that Bella Andrews and Cali Medina are both seventh graders at Blevins Middle School and I am honored to have them here to speak to you to the importance of women's History Month tonight Bella's gonna go first followed by Cali [Applause] hi everyone my name is Bella and I cannot wait to talk to all of you about women's history month I would also like to thank Miss Delhi and Miss Jenka for letting us speak about women's History Month I am so happy that women now have a month dedicated

013for us sometimes it feels like men get all the honor and women didn't get recognized for what we have done women have impacted the history so much one person that comes to mind is Betsy Ross she helped make the very first American flag on June 14 1777. people didn't recognize her for a long time another person that comes to mind is Rosa Parks not only did she fight for a civil rights movement she showed women that we can impact and change things too another person that influenced people is Marie Curie she was the first person to win a Nobel Prize twice and the only person to win a Nobel Prize into science Fields these women have showed us have shown everyone that women can do all the amazing things that others can they have shown

014us to keep moving towards our goal and when we do we can do unbelievable things we are women and we are here [Applause] um hello everyone okay hello everyone I'm thrilled to be here to speak about women's History Month I want to start off by thinking you wait thinking Miss Delia and michenko for giving me this opportunity to speak about women's History Month why does women's History Month matter women's History Month matters because many women have fought for many rights for example in 1851 soldier of Truth native speech called anti woman she made the speech to persuade people that black women should be treated as equally as white women and men also Susie Anthony voted legally in 1872 some may say he was bad she but illegally but while she was in jail many many

015women started protesting for women's voting rights another important woman in history is Tarana Burke who founded the metoo movement and act advocated for women to use their voices women's history month is important to me because I'm a warrior like accepting of truth I'm a fighter like Susan B Anthony and I'm an activist like Toronto Burke I'm a woman thank you for this new speech today [Applause] we're gonna do a picture thank you for your speech ERS did you say warrior fighter and activists all right so are there any uh remarks uh from the board with respect to this resolution okay go ahead Kristin well I'm just so proud of those Warriors out there thank you so much for speaking and being Warriors and Fighters and activists um it's what we need so very proud thank

016you other comments all right well I'll add my thanks also for for the students and for Delia to come and talk with us about this uh and with that I'd like to have us get on record to supporting this so if we could have a vote Jill that'd be great DJ Anderson aye Jim brokish Nate Donovan hi Kristen Draper aye Rob Patterson aye Carolyn Reed aye Jessica Zamora aye motion passes 7-0 thank you so much Jill and thank you again all right our second action item in this part of the agenda is a resolution in support of neurodiversity week who would like to put a motion on the floor with regard to that Nate I move that the board approved the resolution in support of neurodiversity week March 21st to 27 2023. thank you so

017much Nate if I got a second uh Carolyn's got that one okay would somebody like to read the resolution go ahead Nate resolution of the Pooter School District Board of Education in support of neurodiversity week March 21st to 27 2023 whereas neurodiversity refers to the concept that neurological variations in the human brain are natural and it is common for people to have different strengths and find different things challenging and that these differences should not be viewed as deficits are abnormal and whereas neurodiversity can be used to talk about people on the autism spectrum those with ADHD and learning and developmental disabilities like dyslexia dyspraxia and Tourette syndrome and whereas these conditions impact the way people think learn communicate and perceive the world around them and whereas many neurodiverse individuals experience challenges not caused by their

018condition but are impaired by societal barriers that cause social isolation inequity and lack of accommodation for differences in Mission and behavior in schools and workplaces and whereas it is acknowledged that the school environment must be accessible to everyone and appropriate actions must be taken to ensure our students staff and families who identify as neurodiverse are able to fully participate in their school Community now therefore be it resolved at the Pooter School District Board of Education the Sierra Pride Proclaim March 21st through 27th 2023 as neurodiversity week in pooter School District we recognize the importance of neurodiversity week as an opportunity to acknowledge the societal challenges neurodiverse individuals face the Board of Education encourages students staff and the community to support accept and celebrate the strengths of neurodiversity and reflect on how we can work together

019to create a more inclusive environment for everyone thank you Nate and again I believe we have somebody from the administration here to speak to this yes we do joining us this evening to speak to neurodiversity week is our District's director of integrated Services Mr Dennis rats ratstatter Dennis welcome glad you're here well thank you good evening superintendent Kingsley Board of Education members mcginn my name is Dennis raster I'm the director of integrated services and it's my honor to speak with you a little bit today about neurodiversity I decided to use a format that I use when I communicate out with staff I send an email called take five which usually includes five points points that I want them to consider and think about or inform them about as they continue their work so so if

020my take five for all of you around celebrating those who are neurodiverse number one neural differences are recognized and appreciated as a social category similar to differences in ethnicity sexual orientation gender inability number two there is no single definition of normal for how the human brain works number three neurodiversity movement emerged in the 1990s aiming to increase acceptance and inclusion of all people while embracing neurological difference number four neurodiversity describes the idea that people experience and interact with the world in many different ways there is no right way of thinking and learning and differences should not be viewed as deficits number five is important for all of us to Foster an environment that is conducive to neurodiversity and to recognize and emphasize each person's individualized strengths and talents while also providing support for those differences

021and needs thank you very much thank you appreciate it thank you thank you [Laughter] thank you Dennis thank you all right are there any remarks from the board on this resolution before we take a vote go ahead DJ I just want to take the opportunity to also I guess point out or acknowledge that you know this is one of those that uh can be invisible to a lot of people and um and so as the shirt or bumper sticker says be kind um be kind to our fellow people and and you don't necessarily know what difficulties they're having to deal with so yeah that's it thanks other remarks go ahead Jess um I really just want to I appreciate that we're at this point where we're acknowledging and also valuing that their neurodiversity isn't a

022deficit um the number of friends I've had who grew up in a time when like when their education did see it as a deficit and they were put in separate classrooms and they're learning opportunity was diminished because they were seen as different and to know that while we are not perfect we are striving to see it as a strength and appreciate the whole person um I I can't say how much I appreciate the direction we're headed great yes other thoughts all right with that I will call for a vote on this resolution jail DJ Anderson aye Jim brokish Nate Donovan hi Kristin Draper aye Rob Peterson aye Carolyn Reed aye Jessica Zamora aye motion passes 7-0 thank you again Jill all right we'll be moving on to the superintendent report where superintendent Kingsley will now

023make remarks to the board and the community thank you appreciate it good evening everyone it's great to be here tonight uh I always loved starting off our meetings with celebrations you know being a part of this governance team is a blessing in so many ways because every other Tuesday we get to engage our community and listen to your stories we also have the opportunity to engage in governance about our work to our barriers our challenges but also our strengths and we have opportunities to celebrate the people who make this District strong both internally and externally you know tonight we're going to have a very very important update and a discussion centered on how we assess the quality and the effectiveness and the efficiencies of our District's facility needs our district has a responsibility to our

024community to maintain all of our schools and our facilities we have hired an outside company named mckinstry who you'll hear from later on tonight to assess every one of our sites this is really exciting work because we are going to ensure that that assessment includes solar feasibility which we know is incredibly important to this community we will be updating a 2015 study on adding air conditioning yeah I said it air conditioning and a retro commissioning study on buildings for recommendations on how we can glean further efficiencies across our school system it also will include a full condition assessment on every building and all of our Building Systems this is the most complete assessment my eyes are going bad I'm getting older uh this is the most complete assessment of District facilities upon which we've ever

025embarked as a school system I'm really proud of the staff in the community for pushing us to get this work done it's important to discuss what we've what work will be done in the future and you're going to hear more about that tonight I'd also say as we engage every other Tuesday here these types of Engagement sessions don't just happen on Tuesdays they happen across the community and across our schools and that had the pleasure and the luxury of joining two of our board members with many of our staff members with about I think 20 to 30 community members last week at Boltz Middle School where we had a robust conversation about the importance of mental health in the various mental health supports that are available to students and staff in our community I'm really

026proud of the work that our team is doing to support students and their families and we know that not yet every we know that everyone at this point in time still doesn't know how to access help so if you're watching our board meeting tonight and you have a child a young adult that attends one of our schools that is in crisis and needs support or you're just curious around how to access support I really want to encourage you to reach out to your school ask to speak to your school your child's school counselor and or your school principal and really engage with our school system in Partnership to be able to provide your family with the supports that you need we're very lucky to have the supports that we have in the school system to

027provide help to our family but we also recognize that the demand for those supports far outweighs the staff that we have available and we're going to need to continue to work in partnership with our community in creative ways to figure out ways to make that happen I want to invite the community if you weren't able to attend that session we're having various Community engagement sessions on various topics that are priorities in our school system and we will have another one coming up on April 13th that is focused on school safety and if you are interested in attending I ask that you go to our school district website for more information I had an opportunity as always to get into our schools I've probably been in seven or eight schools in the last week and a

028half and I highlight from one of my visits was I had a chance to go to tavelli elementary school yesterday very special neighborhood school and as you know they focus on a steam approach to their education which is focusing on science and technology engineering the Arts as well as mathematics and depending upon the grade level that I was in I met with many of their first graders who have been working really hard growing basil understanding through Sciences of not only how to grow basil and I have some for all of you oh absolutely excellent yes we actually had a chance to have together I was spending some time with some six-year-olds it smells so good uh we had some pasta with pesto but it wasn't just about growing it was the whole process of Farm

029to Table and recognizing the significance of being self-sufficient and growing food for yourself and how to enable that and the importance of that as a community you know what stands out for that school is to me is that the students are truly invested in their own education they have a tremendous amount of personal agency and out of all of our schools something that I think is super significant there is their data informed practices that are led by students after I met with these first graders who gave me basil and we ate lunch together had an opportunity to meet with a panel of their fifth graders and they were talking to me about the significance of being a fifth grader in that school they knew their data in terms of what they learned and what they

030were still needing to learn as a fifth grader going on to Lincoln Middle School in the year but what was really stood out to me is that they understood the significance of where they were trending so they could talk about their trend lines and the various data points and realizing that the aspiration was not Perfection it was simply progress they modeled as a result of the care that their teachers and the compassion that their teachers provide to them on a daily basis the positive self-talk that realizing that failure is a part of learning that they're not always going to get 100 they're not always going to get an A and that's okay but they need to figure out through feedback and partnership with their teachers around how to get better they're also really excited that

031I guess it's Tradition at the school that at the end of the year the fifth graders do a walk of of Fame basically across the school where every one of those elementary students across to Valley come out and high-five every one of the fifth graders and I had a chance to meet Ken in one of the fifth grade students and he was telling me as a fourth grade student having an opportunity to realize that next year he was going to get a high five from every single one of the students as a fourth grader he actually teared up so just the opportunity to know that's on the near Horizon as we get close to finishing out the school year was super significant and my school visit ended with a concert you know they're one of

032our few schools that invest in what used to be called little kids rock now called music will and their music program is as strong as their science and their technology and their engineering program and I had a chance if you check out on my Twitter feed where we were rocking out together was one of the best concerts that I had an opportunity to attend what's happening in this district is special it's not just at taveli I had a chance to read to fourth graders at Cruise Elementary School and be silly and have an opportunity to connect with them and had an opportunity on Friday to read every one of the first graders at Warner Elementary School which is such a joy and a pleasure to see the work that's happening not just with our school

033leaders but our teachers and our classified staff who are truly focused on not just accelerating learning but centering an environment in a culture that's focused on belonging you know whether it's our state championship golf team at fossil or this basketball team that's a how to approach the final four at fossil these schools are not just great at Athletics they're strong academic institutions you got Preston Middle School right down the street from fossil that has a science Bowl finalists that are about to go to a national competition I can go on and on about the various things that are worthy of celebration in the system I'm just happy that you'll allow me to be a part of it so thank you for allowing me to have an update tonight I'm really looking forward to a productive

034meeting excellent thanks very much Brian really appreciate that and this is a terrific precedent I assume we're going to get uh snacks every time is that carrots in two weeks oh there you go healthy stuff I love basil anyway uh on the next item on our agenda is community comment and I would like to remind us all for our hopes for this section of the agenda the board desires to hear the viewpoints of all stakeholders including students employees parents and Guardians and community members input that is most helpful to the board of education and District staff is that which identifies the problem and proposes a solution for us to consider that ultimately improves the educational and or social emotional experiences of our students public comment is designed to address issues not personalities or Personnel matters

035please please keep your concerns and comments focused on the district it is important to 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 although we may disagree on some things I know that we all want the best educational experience for our students and as we participate together in this community comment session we should model for our students how to listen how to interact respectfully even with those with whom we disagree and generally how to show up each day and I with that I would like to remind everybody this opportunity for public comment just for members of the community

036who have registered to speak by the designated deadline those people will be called on to make remarks in the order that they signed up each speaker will be allowed three minutes to address the board and with that our first Speaker this evening is Jim weinbrenner welcome Mr Peterson at your board meeting on May 24th many parents Express concerns regarding pooter school's sexualization of our children you then made the following promise quote we are going to go forward with Community engagement activities you can be assured that they will exist and they will be opportunities for us to have the kind of dialogue that folks were talking about here back and forth dialogue about difficult issues and how we're approaching them unquote difficult issues like 8 000 pooter students that identify as queer gay or non-binary five

037thousand of those students thinking about hurting themselves or committing suicide in two personal emails to me and in board meetings you have attempted to redefine your promised engagement sessions your new narrative is that the engagement sessions on Elementary literacy graduate with options mental health and school safety satisfy your promise of back and forth dialogue about the sexual sexualization of our children but you know I know and anyone who saw that board meeting on YouTube knows these new engagement sessions are not the back and forth dialogue you promised in fact on your web page literacy engagement sessions are described as vendor presentations explaining the literacy adoption and questions directly to vendors parents get to fill out a comment card as they leave Mr Peterson is filling out a comment card on the way out the door

038the back and forth dialogue you promised some might call your assurances of back and forth dialogue a broken promise I remind you of the comment by your fellow board member Mr Anderson at the same board meeting on May 24th but for people to con in quote for buffer people to continue to say things that are not true and to drive that wedge between parents and teachers in the educational Community I get PO'd unquote Mr Peterson breaking promises drives that wedge between parents and the educational community thank you for listening thank you our next speaker is Jeff afterheide welcome my name is Jeff afterhuddy from Wellington Colorado last meeting my public comment address pooter School District's Grant Award of over 1.5 million dollars for addressing mental health services at the district have dulsa discovered through a

039core request that summer Stone Health Partners in every Child Pediatrics provided letters of commitment as part of the Grant application process in the support letter dated September 28 2022 Summit Stone indicated that if a grant was awarded to PSD they would be pursuing or signing a memorandum of understanding with the district they also described embedding their health care or sorry their care coordinators within PSD as I expressed last time the situation creates a potential conflict of interest if Miss Reed has any decision-making power or influence over the district's Mental Health Services and that is because a month later on November 1st 2022 Carolyn Reed indicated that she is a board member for Summit Stone Health Partners also in November Buddhist School District started planning an executive an exclusive invite only event called the state of

040our youth this event discussed topics that included how to best Market mental health services to our students the district spent well over fifteen thousand dollars to hire a facilitator for this event and it is still unclear how this specific vendor was selected then in an email dated January 20th 2023 the PSD board's president former campaign manager Deidre Sullivan and director Kailyn Reed are listed as the planning team coordinators for the event so in summary Kellen Reed serves in a role influencing Mental Health Services with PSD boards president former campaign manager she sits on the board of summit Stone summitstone plans on embedding their care coordinators within PSD and Summit stone is likely a beneficiary of the Grant and District's future marketing campaign the situation smacks of classic nepotism and current state of affairs at Purdue

041school district and as far as mental health it goes you all had a decision to make a year and a half ago last year there were 474 suicide risk assessments and 131 threat assessments that happened on your watch when you decided to implement mandatory masking and isolation policies for our children well-knowing the mental health impact in our community I know this because I was here with other parents at this very Podium telling you and it is the same people making all the same decisions so what I want to know is when are your conflict of interest statements going to be present on your website and then also when is this grant information going to be present for public inspection on your website as well thank you thank you our next speaker is Jamie Amaya I

042hope I got the pronunciation right in any case welcome I'm not trying to stop crying so I'm here tonight because I know PSD has received money for bullying and for mental health I want to make sure that some of that is being used not only for the students but for also the adults of PSD to stop sorry let me take breath being used to also stop the adults in PSD towards the students my girls have been bullied on multiple occasions by their coaches the last couple of years and it has been been reported on multiple occasions the PSD employers have done nothing and I have not received any feedback and what feedback I have received they told me that my girls needed to go to counseling instead of dealing with the adults that were making

043the problems for my girls my children were blamed for the problems on top of this there has been retaliation against my girls again nothing was thin I do believe PSD can do better at handling situations as they arise when a student or a parent or anyone comes with a complaint about teachers coaches or adults and PSD I believe this should be taken more seriously so that students and their mental health become more of a priority like you're a grandson said that they would be taken care of thank you our next speaker is Fred Kirsch welcome foreign thank you for the opportunity to speak tonight my name is Fred Kirsch I'm here representing the community for sustainable energy and I first want to thank the operations staff as well as everyone else the board everyone who

044has helped to bring the um who's helped to maximize the potential for solar on the Purdue School District in bringing mckinstry here tonight I'm really excited to see that mckinstry is a part of this project they bring a great track record their recommendations are seen to fruition so we're really happy that they've identified 51 sites to be evaluated for solar potential one thing that they also mentioned is that they're looking for stakeholder input and establishing goals and working towards best practices of community for sustainable energy I would like to remain informed and involved as we go through or as mckinstry goes through their five-phase process I have a list of questions here tonight that maybe mckinstry will be addressing tonight are part of the study or maybe are things that you know need to be

045brought up in the future first of all of particular interest or concern is that projects not be rolled out due to obstacles that might have Solutions so for example if if the roof of a school is very old it's too old for solar we would hope that it wouldn't just stop there but instead we'd identify things like can roof replacement be financed through on the solar project that would be put on that roof similarly when evaluating solar parking canopies will ancillary benefits such as shading of cars reduction of parking lot maintenance be considered in the financial analysis and if a if a project is identified as currently being too expensive at what price point will that project become feasible and what will Trigger action to pursue that project and along those lines we don't want

046to miss the boat when it comes to solar incentives so we'd like to know what actions can be taken to secure Federal incentives before the next federal election you know just in case um so uh also we wouldn't we wouldn't want any delays in the Solar study to influence say the air conditioning study and vice versa so we'd like to know what kind of assurances can be made that the solar study will move forward independently of circumstances that might be affecting the rest of the study um oh and also I didn't see any mention of the Colorado energy office and the Consulting agreement I'm sure there's a reason for that I would just like to know how the CEO would fit into this process and lastly um does PSD have to wait for the entire

047study to be completed before starting a project so if an opportunity came up to do a project this summer would PSD say no we can't do that we have to wait for the study to be completed um so thank you very much for your time and here's the next batch of letters and signatures from support from the community in support of PSD maximizing solar thanks again thank you our next speaker is Clay Curry nope Clay is not here our next speaker then is Kurt Castine welcome thank you for the opportunity to speak tonight yeah my name is Kurt cas9 I'm a resident of Fort Collins I was here a couple weeks ago to suggest better Partnerships with parents in the mental health care of their students I'm back tonight on a similar theme um there

048was a story reported in several National media Outlets this last week but an incident that occurred last year at Laurel Elementary in that instant uh there were some emails exchanged between the assistant principal and staff asking what to do about a child that declared their gender and pronouns and that the wish of the parents were opposite to what the children had requested and um I found some good information online and on the PSD website um there is a gender support frequently asked questions document which explains the policy very well I appreciate the transparency I think that's really important thank you for publishing that but I think the policy is wrong in a couple of key areas and I wanted to point that out so I want to talk about the email I'm not I'm not

049trying I'm going to leave people's names out I'm speaking to the email just to really point out the policy and and how you know the difference that of opinion that I have there so the assistant principal at Laurel Elementary asked I'm wondering about what to do when an elementary school student has expressed their pronouns and chose a name but their parents directly tell School staff not to call the student by those pronouns tough question for a for an assistant principal to answer the response from staff was schools should use the students affirming name and pronouns at school and use their legal name and corresponding pronouns when talking with the family until they are supportive of the student's new name and pronouns I also then uh went to the frequently asked questions and I found this

050question and answer it says to these guidelines and I should say that the answer that was given to my staff were really right out of the guidelines they really followed pretty much exactly what what the guidelines for PSD say to say to um how to answer that question do these guidelines direct School staff to lie to parents Guardians about their students gender identity the answer on the on the on the facts was no School staff shall respect the degree to which transgender and non-binary students are out but School staff will not lie to parents Guardians about their students gender identity so I think this really creates a conundrum even though the answer that was given um you know college students by their preferred name and when you're talking to the parents use the name that

051is their legal name you may not consider that lying but it is ignoring at the very least and and very and really defying parents direct instructions on how to deal with their kid it creates an adversarial teacher parent relationship that I don't think anyone really wants to see so I would ask that the board and administration rethink that policy I think there must be a better way to empower parents and unite families and tap in to the abilities of PSD mental health professionals at the same time thank you and our last speaker this evening is Danny Lawrence welcome thank you for the opportunity I came here tonight because I thought as Bor as board members you should be aware of a possible discrimination that's taking place in the district on February 1st I attended the

052graduation with options Community chat Mr Kingsley and a couple of board members were present the meeting was the most important piece of information I've received since coming to the district two years ago I've had over 30 hours of IEP meetings in the past two years where District employees outnumber us considerably and none of these meetings have the graduation with options Choice has ever been communicated to us including the transition meeting from middle school to high school in our case the district's alternative programs transition coordinator also serves as our District representative on our IEP team and is participating in every single meeting not once did anyone mention a program like Ascent or t rep to our family despite our son's expressed interest in being a teacher instead last year we received a full court press from

053Rocky Mountain High School staff trying to seclude our son to receive his Braille and assistive technology services in an IEP from the environment hours of argument because we didn't want our son to sit aimlessly in a credit recovery class that is completely inappropriate for a 4.0 student just because that block of time best fit for administering his Services the block schedule itself prevents disabled students from being able to participate in the AAA pathway that that their general education peers have access to in that schedule my son could never meet the program requirements and still be able to participate in his needed Braille instruction our ask for credit for Braille and Technology instructions have been ignored all year so unlike his general education peers he doesn't get credit for literacy or computer skills while he's wasting

054his electives to meet the demands of your SAS availability the following event the following evening on February 2nd I attended the transition Pathways event for special needs students put on by PSD at Front Range Community College unlike the previous evening there was a huge turnout unfortunately none of the graduation with options information was presented to families of disabled students at that meeting there were lots of vendor information but nothing about college-mound opportunities noticeably none of you were there there was no superintendent cabinet level PSD employees or board members well admittedly I have a chip on my shoulder as a parent of a Disabled Student just know that it looks and feels awful that I don't see you engaging with our community like you do the general education Community our graduation options that include that fifth

055year college choice not being presented to disabled students because you've already assumed that they're just not College Bound how is it that an involved parent who's up in this boardroom every two weeks with frequency sitting at an IEP table with a transition specialist would be unaware of these college-bound options consider that inclusion as a concept means presenting all options to all students all the time and on a side note I'll start celebrating your special education graduation statistics when your identification rate matches the State national average saying you're improving while you're under identifying children with disabilities in this district is gaslighting and lacks integrity and I think it's time to start looking at inclusion training we need it at every level of this organization thank you that concludes Community comment for this evening our next item

056is board topics or committee reports does anybody from the board have anything they would like to report on go ahead Kristen so I would just like to take a moment to say thanks to riffenberg who allowed me to come in and do some reading on read Across America day to The Kindergartners and I was able to hand out books and that was a great time but I would also like to go ahead and say thank you we had a wonderful um back and forth with parents at our mental health meeting we were able to go ahead and have an actual discussion where we talked to you know parents went ahead and said asked for what they needed in mental health and one of the things that came up was that it was hard for them

057to figure out how to access this and so that was a learning opportunity for us and so that was it was much appreciated with the different approaches the well the what of what they were asking and then how we could get it to them so um that was a that was a great um event that we had the ability to attend DJ attended with us and I think we had a very nice dialogue going on so yeah so I just want to say thank you for that sorry other uh remarks on the board DJ um I got to attend the district Advisory board on last night yeah last night uh with with Jim being gone I had to fill in on that one and it was uh there was a great presentation about restorative justice

058and I'm gonna make sure that I get the slide deck because I think it would be great for all of us to see that because it's uh she did a great job of breaking down um where we're heading and what she's already accomplishing her team of one uh and and getting through so I thought that was a great conversation with parents last night and uh brought up definitely some different areas that we as a district can work on and I'm excited to see us keep moving forward and getting better excellent other remarks Jim anything okay all right in which case we'll move it to the consent agenda with any board members like to pull anything from the consent agenda seeing none can I get a motion in support of the consent agenda go ahead Nate

059I move that the board had proven adopt the recommended actions for the items on the consent agenda thank you a second from DJ all right Jill if you would call a vote on the consent agenda I'd appreciate it DJ Anderson I do want to also point out the excitement of the camp Soul agreement with Alpha best and wrap around service and I boy I Jim brokish Nate Donovan hi Kristen Draper aye Rob Patterson aye Carolyn Reed aye Jessica Zamora aye motion passes 7-0 thank you Jill our next item on the agenda is the uh I guess the big topic for tonight which uh Brian already alluded to and that's the comprehensive assessment of District facility needs and I'll allow allow I'll ask Brian to introduce that and get us going on this important topic thanks

060thank you president Patterson I really appreciate that this evening we do look forward to hearing more about our comprehensive assessment of District facility needs and joining us to introduce the presentation is our director of special initiatives Brett Larson Brett welcome welcome right there hello directors super Chang Kingsley thank you for your time I'm super excited about this and Brian did talk about this in his superintendent remarks a bit but met our Board of Education meeting on the 7th of February you approved contract to embark on work that will help us develop comprehensive facilities Master plans and that includes solar feasibility study and air conditioning study a retro commissioning study of all PST buildings and a full facilities condition assessment that will be carried out by the mckinstry company and tonight we're joined by representatives in

061the company and they brought like a party with them if you have a question they have the person with the expertise to answer it so I want you to know that right now we've spent a day in the field together already they're really fun and they know man a ton of stuff it's great so please come come on with your questions so right now I'd like to introduce Tracy cousins a senior account manager with mckinstry who will begin this presentation and who will introduce her team to you welcome welcome I don't want to mess it up okay well good evening everyone thank you for allowing us to come and speak to you about this exciting program I better stay in front of the microphone because my voice does not project so it does okay I'm

062so used to moving around it doesn't work well so um so we're excited we've been talking about this putting this program together really since last May our first conversation really started with Trudy with the Retro commissioning and the efficiency Works program and it just really evolved into something much greater and bigger partnering with Brett and so many great members of the team so excited to come here tonight and go through the program with you and yes as Brett mentioned ask away because we have we have members for each program so as I mentioned I'm Tracy cousins senior account manager I've been working with this program kind of putting it all together and then tonight I have some very very skilled people here with me so I have Matt McCool check he is our existing building

063program manager so he's going to be able to speak to our retro commissioning part of this study I have Lauren Bridgers she's our Project Director so she is going to hold all of this together everything that we have going on she's going to make sure that um you know we proposed a synergistic approach here for you she's going to make sure it all comes together it all lines and you're getting what we have been talking about we have Martin he is our Renewables program manager so he is going to be the one to ask solar questions too because I heard you Fred and then we have John so John is going to be overseeing our AC study so those schools that are still needing air conditioning and that study really revisiting that 2015 study that

064was priorly Prior performed and renewing it refreshing it and getting a fresh you know look at it John's going to be speaking how we're going to do that and then we have Devin who is also here and he's going to be going over the facility condition assessment asset tagging and really what that means so this is about pooter School District not about mckinstry however for those who may not be familiar with who we are or may just need a little bit of background I thought I'd spend a quick minute and just tell you a little bit about who we are so and why we're excited about this work so we have a large footprint within K-12 we we love working with school districts because it changes the built environment it changes the learning environment for

065our kids and um it builds trusted Partnerships we're looking at things like connected and intelligent buildings we're looking at stem all of those things that you know are for our students foreign for impact why is this important this is important because our goals align with pooter School District's goals in the fact that you know we know climate crisis is here it's a problem and we're here to help address it we're here to partner and address it with the district so we know affordability is a problem especially here in Colorado so how are we addressing that mckinstry has some very strong initiatives how we're partnering with our clients to help them work through that and then Equity Equity is an issue we have to make sure that we have equity for all that we're making sure

066that we are inclusive that everyone has the same opportunities and this just gives an overview of kind of who mckinstry is we have you know over we've secured over 13 million dollars in Grants and rebates just here in Colorado you know over 40 million dollars worth of savings achieved you know 100 million dollars worth of work that we've performed just here in Colorado just through the the state so that gives you kind of an idea of where mckinstry is located just because we're in Golden we have a lot of our members of our employees that actually live here in Fort Collins so we are also members of the community and this is my favorite part um so we have a huge commitment to stem and this really does come down to our kids and our

067students and this is really why we're looking at our buildings and our facilities and making sure that we're improving the environment um we're creating that environment for our students making sure we have indoor air quality making sure our buildings are efficient we have the latest technology we have good lighting we have Renewables we have good teaching opportunities for our kids so we are engaged in a lot of our K-12 districts with stem we have a lot of stem mentorship programs and this just kind of shows you a few and um and I know I know there's a lot of different programs here at pooter School District as well so that's something that we'll also be working with the district throughout this process to you know give the students some learning opportunities as we're maybe completing

068some of these studies all right now this is every what you came to hear so I'm going to go ahead and turn it over to Lauren Bridger she's the Project Director and she'll probably do a better job standing in front of the microphone um no but I'm gonna try to order she's going to walk through the program what really started with the conversations to get us here to where we are today um we're going to roll that into Martin coming up and talking about the solar than John then Matt and then Devin for the FCA so please stop ask questions we want we want everyone to be excited about this project because this is something that it's a journey for the district it's a journey for all the parents and for the students and so

069we want there to be some pretty exciting outcomes here so thank you please go ahead Nate what's an MEP contractor thanks Tracy I appreciate it um so as Tracy mentioned earlier we really want this project to align with psd's goals as well so we are very much aware of your high performing facility goals your Capital planning goals and being a leader in the community and that is our goal to help you support support you reaching those goals foreign we've got a lot of experience in K-12 so we really understand some of the heartache around facility maintenance challenges so we understand some of the facets that go into kind of delaying maintenance and being reactive there's expanding expectations there's aging infrastructure and aging Workforce and then there's accelerating system complexity so we definitely understand that and

070our goal here is to help you become more proactive as opposed to reactive so what does this look like this journey to high efficiency buildings it's a thriving Planet without impact to climate so it's a really near and dear to mckendree's Heart being having a thriving planet is a part of our mission statement so the ideal future State we've got reduced in body carbon we have highly efficient buildings we're renewably powerable so this is really looking at electrification renewably powered as well as integrating whole systems for decarbonization so we're verifying performance with that we're looking to get to that zero carbon emissions over time and kind of a holistic perspective and that's really Our Hope with this program project is to help you guys help support you in that Journey so as Tracy mentioned we've

071got four facets to this study there's the solar feasibility study the air conditioning study the Retro commissioning piece and the facilities condition assessment so I'll have Martin come up and join us to kind of talk us through solar enter all right so so with a solar feasibility study mckinstry's done a number of these for school districts and sorry and yep and University there we go and University campuses yep so you know we want to first start with engagement of our customers in this case pooter school district and you know just want to understand what the goals are of the study so you know we're looking at you know things like sustainability goals what are the financial goals behind the project and then you know making sure that whatever portfolio of projects we recommend are projects

072that integrate with the facility needs and also facility lifespans roofs that sort of that sort of thing um great so I'm just going to actually can I go to this one first so at this point we have kicked off the solar feasibility study we're working with the district already and you know they are really you know the the key stakeholder in this study we are ultimately going to uh be moving forward you know this is really the the beginning of our sorry of our the development process the first part of our development process is really you know the learn audit analyze and Report stages and so that's what we're engaged in as part of the study um you know ultimately the process will lead to a actionable plan for implementation where we say Hey you

073know here are the projects that make sense to to move forward into a final Development and Construction phase uh you know part of the you know audit and analyze phase which we've just entered is that you know we're going to be you know looking at all the sites we're going to be putting those sites you know there's roughly 60 sites that we're looking at and we're going to be putting those sites through various filters to make sure we understand you know are the roofs new enough to rationalize new solar going on top of them you know are there parking lots that make sense to apply solar canopies to are there areas of open ground that make sense for for ground mounts and you know ground that can be locked up for the lifespan of a

074system 25 30 years or so we're going to be you know besides the project sighting we're also going to be looking at some initial design you know how big are these projects how big could projects be we'll be looking at you know how much energy the projects could make as well as putting together initial costing assessments and then you know really moving forward from there into a final report of recommended projects so can I back up here yep so um some of the things we've learned you know as we've moved into the implementation stage the final development and implementation stage uh are items around you know equipment procurement so uh this with supply chain constraints within the solar industry and with just in general Commodities you know there's a lot of there's been a lot

075of tumult in the Solar module market so Rising prices decreasing prices availability long lead times up to six months or so from placing a PO to actually getting that equipment on site you know there's a lot and St and the racking systems that support those modules particularly ground Mount or canopy racking you know steel can be really expensive and you know it steals a commodity so we've seen steel prices go up quite a bit so we want to make sure that we're ordering equipment you know well ahead of the timeline that that equipment is needed on site and then for flexibility you know working with schools you know there's the summer period there's you know interconnections that need to take place for um for uh just connecting a PV system electrically to the to the

076school we want to make sure that those types of operations are happening when it works for the the school district so weekend interconnections or holiday interconnections when the school's not otherwise occupied unforeseen conditions you know this is really something that our due diligence process really tries to eliminate as we do development and you know those types of things you know unforeseen conditions really is I think of it in terms of you know what's underneath the Earth what's underneath the ground so we try and do it you know we do a geotechnical study to make sure we understand you know subsurface risk we'll do a private locates to make sure we know what utilities might be in the ground we're looking at we do a pre-installation rooftop inspection making sure the roof surface and the roof

077system is adequate and in good enough condition for a new PV system and then after the installation we'll do a post rooftop inspection making sure that any warranty is maintained uh and you know working with the Roof System manufacturer to ensure that and then you know any sort of uh you know scope gaps again kind of back to that de-risking of sites making sure that we understand what those risks are and and have mitigated them to the extent possible okay I'll move through that one and then I'll actually bring Lauren back up for on this topic um so we know you had some questions around funding strategies and grants particularly related to solar so one of the neat things about solar is the rebates we've got we work really closely with Excel on their Rec

078program so we're very in tuned with that at the very beginning of the project we're making sure we're hitting those deadlines so that you guys would get your wrecks during that time I don't know if there's more you want to add to that process Martin sure you know I think the um you know the incentive programs that are available particularly through Excel Energy um you know I think just there's a process that mckinstry is you know really familiar with we make sure that we you know typically manage the administration of that process making sure we get all the documentation in and that you know through the technical final closeout processes where as the system is being commissioned uh that you know we've sort of satisfied excel in particular for those wrecks to make sure the

079payments start to come in but there's a Performance Based incentive with Excel whereby every kilowatt hour generated generates a certain amount of incentive dollars um and as far as grants we are very familiar with state grants such as the best in Dola Grant we know that those aren't a kind of a cyclical cycle and we um are watching those closely we have a whole other slide to just talk about the IRA which is really exciting the federal stimulus grants and then other options where you can definitely help with those and if the grant funding and rebate funding isn't quite what we need for the project we are very familiar with third-party financing options as we've mentioned there that help the cop so we are definitely well versed in the different funding strategies that are out

080there and then here's our slide on the IRA as we mentioned this is a new exciting program I'm sure everyone's heard of it um but we are looking at this there's still lots of details to come out but it's very exciting because you guys will get the tax credit directly um it's usually about 25 to 30 percent discount from the product or from the projects there are a bunch of different add-ons we kind of have that at the bottom there for different where we choose to put the solar so lots to work through on that lots more details to come but it's it's very exciting we have a team at MC industry that's dedicated to following this act following the you know important things that we need to be watching so it's it's great that

081we've got that resource and we can work very closely with you guys on that as well that yeah gets us to the end of solar questions directly to solar we want to bring up right now yep go ahead Nate uh what's the time frame for completion of the solar aspect of it yeah yeah I think we're we're aligned I think with the rest of the the study to be uh early summer completion okay thanks yeah go ahead Jess as a School District you may know that we don't have all the money in the world how many districts have been able to actually Implement your solar plans sure so uh we worked with Denver public schools in 2019 and 2020 to implement uh 17 site rooftop portfolio so about five megawatts of solar for them we're

082currently working with Salt Lake City School District in Utah to implement about a six site portfolio projects and those two examples and are those are you anticipating those being like phase one with either of those districts or is it ongoing or is that kind of like what's gonna stick yep for DPS I know we're in development of an additional eight sites canopy portfolio working in partnership with the city of Denver on some Community solar garden projects and then yeah the Salt Lake City project is certainly anticipated as a as a phase one the economics in Salt Lake City with Rocky Mountain Power utility are a little more challenging than they are in Colorado but yeah we're hopeful that there'll be another phase as we move forward they certainly have the district you know has sustainability

083goals that you know really align with renewable energy production sorry um so those are both I I mean DPS is obviously a large one I'm assuming Salt Lake City is also a very large school district and we're large we're not that large um so I guess I'm kind of curious how do we have the same do you anticipate us having the same level of ability to actually get that done based on our size comparable sure yep um yeah I think it weren't used at the very beginning stages but you know we've we've seen you know quite a bit of data you know I think starting with roughly 60 sites you know we'll put the those sites through you know multiple filters to figure out hey you know where are the viable you know solar sites

084and you know we'll really distill that down to what we think are you know what the best sites for solar be it you know new rooftop solar or canopy or or ground Mount and you know we'll present those those findings um you know I at this point I can't say how many sites will recommend for solar but you know it really comes down to um you know figuring out what is optimized from a financial perspective where the value is as well as you know meeting sustainability goals yep if I may Rob yes um building on Nate's question I'm just trying to figure out in the summer report that you're targeting uh what's the level of detail that we're going to be getting in that I mean will will that have the uh how much power

085things are producing what are all the costs how much the rebates are that we're going to get from all the different Government funding and all those kinds and grants and such and and uh just try to get a little more on the level of detail you're going to provide us I'm it's an exciting uh project yep just to answer that question yes all of the above um yep you know definitely the the report will will include all those things and you know it'll be uh you know in association with you know how many sites are gonna you know be recommended you know why the sites that aren't recommended were were eliminated from consideration uh the and then a you know a capacity of uh that recommended portfolio how much energy a generation will be associated

086with that and then the you know the Energy savings that will be associated with with that portfolio and and on a project by project basis uh and then the the overall economics of the recommended portfolio thank you and just maybe one follow-on you mentioned that panels have been going up and down and I I'm aware of some of that how how do we how do you help us mitigate the the risk in those kinds of uh Dynamic cost environments yep uh you know mckinstry works with a number of preferred you know vendors for um you know solar modules inverters racking data acquisition systems and you know we when we go to construction we purchase the major that major equipment so we drive a lot of volume nationally through those vendors and work in close concert

087with them you know just trying to keep our finger on the pulse you know we've got a procurement Department that really specializes in that they're in contact with those vendors all the time and you know getting you know future forecasting on pricing as as it comes in we can procure equipment you know in advance of the the construction you know sometimes we'll even go out you know and you know we'll work with our customers to you know uh prior to a Construction contract to get a limited notice to proceed you know in situations where we really feel like we need to procure equipment before our price increase happens you okay thanks Jeff sorry there's just some of these things on the IRA that I'm wondering if you can help just clarify what they mean like

088what is domestic content requirements or energy communities like those extra add-ons what do those mean sure yep so for you know the bonuses that are stackable on top of the 25 to 26 to 30 percent ITC base ITC those you know energy communities are really I think of them in terms of coal impacted communities so areas where you know you've got a power plant shutting down for example and then you know there are other communities travel communities low income communities where if the projects are implemented you can you know apply for that additional 10 to 20 bonus and then domestic content is is really you know solar panels or steel racking or other equipment that is produced domestically all right let me go ahead thank you thank you well we'll hand it over to um

089John now to talk through the AC study thanks John evening everybody happy mustache March how are we all doing I figure we're all uh aware of the 2015 study that we did for AC is everyone aware of that because that's I'll just do a quick yeah I think I think a quick overview would be helpful we were broadly aware of it but it's been a while and not all of us were on the border or engaged at the time absolutely so in 2015 Horsetooth engineering came out surveyed a number of sites and provided recommendations on uh what you could do in various buildings to implement some air conditioning as you're aware things are getting hotter in the summer I'm from Colorado and I went to school in a place without AC and it was okay

090and I don't think I could do that now earlier start times we're trying to make things a healthy learning environment right so 2015 we had another engineering firm come out and produce a report and the AC study portion of this deliverable is going to be refreshing that study so we're going to go out to 30-something buildings verify things that have changed I mean it's been eight years things happen and make sure that we have a good understanding of different ways we can Implement um AC in those buildings so our Engineering Group at mckinstry uh is really cool we have an entire design Suite so not just mechanical electrical Plumbing we've also got structural architectural and because we're really integrated with our other offerings we're able to offer really good value in terms of more of

091like a holistic look at things which is a basically what this slide is talking about how we have the ability to interconnect things and one of the things I'll talk about too when we talk about deliverables is that when we look at that in concert with our other different you know retro commissioning facility conditions assessment it should give you a really good idea of where and how to approach those one thing I'd like to mention at the beginning too just because we are really about Energy Efficiency is that adding air conditioning won't necessarily lower your energy use right but we're going to try our best to approach this in a way you know with with Energy Efficiency in mind we're not going to try and put in a solution that's going to just be a

092burner of energy yeah we're trying really trying to find engineering Solutions Holistic Solutions not just something that's going to work um talking about what we're planning on doing for this AC study so this is a picture of Horsetooth engineering's study so we're going to go through identify all the different things that have changed there have been a lot of buildings that have had a lot of different additions over time so just making sure that we really understand each building the history behind it the conditions that it's in so we can offer a really good recommendation for how to approach it with AC um we're going to go out and visit each site uh all of our teams you know are working together to make sure that we do that in the way that we can

093get all the information we need with the least amount of impact to the schools and to the students and we'll we'll go through and we'll make sure that we verify and validate the uh 2015 study and offer new or refreshed or sometimes would probably be the same recommendations um but just making sure that we look at everything and and give an actionable plan to move forward um one of the things that we will do differently if you've had a chance to flip through the old study they kind of broke everything out into like a structural bit or an electrical bit or um you know different uh appendices we're going to change that around and do it as a building by building study so that way you don't have to flip through a bunch of different

094documents you can kind of see it all together that's definitely something going through their old stuff that's been a little bit of a pain point for me but um yeah but we're uh also going to not maybe as many as on this next slide but we're going to look at a couple different options um some buildings there might be a slam dunk where it's like this is the best solution this is the way to go forward but I think most of them are going to be maybe a couple different options like here if we just need to get AC in um be aware of our budget constraints that sort of thing we can have one solution or we can have another solution where we say okay if we have a little bit of extra budget

095and these systems are not to be changed out for another 10 years maybe we can look at a more holistic more building level change out but for each building and it won't look exactly like this but we will make sure that we tailor our recommendations to each individual building each individual case and there have been some really fun even just the first site visits that we've been on we've heard that sometimes there are even things like communities that don't like to have loud equipment around them so we're going to try and make sure that we take in all that sort of information site by site and offer a good recommendation that you'll be able to move forward with um with an idea of what that's going to cost and especially when we look at retro

096commissioning and the facility conditions assessment um things you'll you should be able to have a really good idea of where is going to be most important where do you have opportunities because equipment needs to be changed out already and how to move forward but I think that's all I've got if we have any questions before we move on yeah I have a question um there are some buildings which currently have air conditioning or at least Cooling where that has either recently broken down or is not very effective uh are you is that part of the study to look at those buildings or only ones that don't have anything right now it's my understanding that for the AC refresh we're only looking at buildings that don't have air conditioning at this point or have very minimal

097air conditioning but our retro commissioning team will very likely be looking at those buildings and we'll be able to offer some recommendations okay that's good because there were two of them last year that or earlier this year that had problems so go ahead DJ mine is a little bit on that same note because I was part of that the committee looking at this eight years ago and stuff um about my wondering then is the the buildings that have they're not air conditioning they're cooling there you know and so if it got up over I think it was 87 degrees it really didn't cool at all it was bringing in hot air again because as I learned at that time that requirement of how much air gets turned over in a building so I my guess

098my one question was are we going to look at that also and so from my understanding is that would be more of the other uh the retrofitting aspect that would look at that or for buildings that um for buildings that have existing cooling systems that aren't keeping up I need to double check actually and we'll probably Circle back about this but um at least for the AC study we're looking at kind of like ground up things okay I know that there's uh in the previous study a difference between a tempered building and a cooled building yeah that's something I'm still kind of digging into yeah um but I will make sure to give you an answer on that once I you know once we know for sure what's going to happen but um yeah we're

099I mean we're definitely looking at how the current buildings are performing and finding different ways you know to increase the performance of all the buildings whether or not they have cooling currently um and then any solution that we're going to propose for AC we're going to make sure we'll be able to meet requirements for whenever your guys at school starting schedules are and we'll probably err on the side of you know a little bit earlier or a more difficult design condition to avoid that kind of thing happening should you change schedules or should the weather continue to get hotter that's definitely how we're planning on going forward a second question I had was are you are you guys going to be able to take in or take in consideration some of the data points that

100uh I know different schools have tracked some of the heat during August I think operations altogether has too are you able to tie that into looking at some of your data that you'll have and and to analyze are they able to share that with you and you'll be able to pull that in yeah we're planning on any kind of information that you have like historical data or or any kind of BAS system we definitely will leverage any data that we have to make a better decision or make a better study I know that data is a huge part of what we're doing and I know that Devin's gonna to touch on that for sure so I'll let him speak to that because he's way smarter than I am for that sort of thing for sure

101thank you other comments or questions for this part Jim I'll take that as a no why don't you go ahead then thank you all right good evening everyone I know we're getting late here so I'll try to get through this but be informative as possible um so yeah Matt McCall chicken I'm program manager of our existing buildings group I'm representing the rear retro commissioning study um for those of you that don't speak that language as often as we do that's really a you know kind of what it says here systematic process of optimizing your buildings operations and so we're really focused on these low-cost no-cost measures we're you know the goal of this study is not to go recommend to you replace all your equipment right we want to take what you have make it

102run more efficiently and save energy with you know the least least amount of cost impact and so a lot of benefits of this is obviously Energy savings we typically see between seven to twenty percent sometimes greater depending on the opportunity at the facility we're also focused on increasing occupant comfort you know reduce those hot cold calls for your for your operating staff keep those operation and maintenance costs down but also improve you know indoor air quality as well you know make the learning environment for the kids as best we can um so I'll move on so what is a typical kind of rear retro commissioning process look like uh really starts with an initial assessment so some of the things we've been doing even last week and this week Thursday will be at Preston Middle

103School uh you know I heard that mentioned earlier in the meeting um and so you know that's a lot about Gathering the data we need reviewing drawings reviewing your Bas information interviewing the staff and occupants of the buildings you know are there problem areas trying to get an idea of you know where are the opportunities in that building and where are some opportunities we can improve you know not only Energy savings but comfort as I mentioned and then you know we usually do an initial sidewalk with that and then kind of get some ideas and then really come back for the more detailed investigation phase so this is where we'll actually be doing some testing in the building um you know calling for heating or cooling opening dampers closing dampers opening Valves and and actuators

104things like that and you know seeing if they actually work you'd be surpris eyes something says it's fully open but it's actually you know jammed closed and we've seen all sorts of crazy stuff brooms stuck in you know dampers I mean there's a lot of different things you could find so then you know at the end of that investigation phase we really come up with a set of recommended energy conservation member uh measures or facility Improvement measures and then we provide that investigation report and again we're we're collaborating with the staff at all times so this process we want to make sure we understand the operation of the building understand if you're running it from you know seven to eight pm why is there an after-school activity is there something there you know we want

105to understand what's going on not just say you know don't run it then essentially so then at the end of that investigation we're really going into implementation so again we're focusing on these low-cost no cost measures might be able to be performed by Pruder School District staff potentially by some of our staff or you know some of the contractors might have to bring in larger Control Contractors or Mechanical Contractors so then again we're implementing some of those measures and then we are doing measurement and verification of that so if anyone is doing the work we want to verify as done correctly things are operating correctly for fixing dampers and everything they're moving and actuating now and that is part of the utility program efficiency works that Tracy mentioned and I have a few slides on

106that to talk about it but so you know that is part of the requirement of the program is verifying all this stuff is actually done correctly and is going to save energy improve comfort and then as part of that we do do some Handover and training so if we're going to be recommending um essentially changing operations or changing how things are done you know make sure your staff understands why and like how to do that so not just kind of handing you something and and saying good luck and leaving and then we do have you know as additional service um not part of this but a project but we do have some you know ongoing support so what we call monitoring based commissioning or Active Energy Management where we can actually you know have Engineers

107eyes on the buildings from afar you know with monitoring dashboards and data analytics um again kind of a add-on for some projects not currently included here but something we can you know discuss for future um so quick example uh for CSU I mean just down the road here we've done 15 buildings with them already through the efficiency Works program we're well versed with the program we interact with the all the utilities on a regular basis um and so just to kind of give you an idea of what this might look like uh so here's Gifford Hall I mean 92 000 square feet kind of lecture hall office typical kind of higher ed building they spend about 200 000 a year on utilities and you know I won't get into all the specific systems here but

108um you know I guess high level is here's some examples of of some of the things we find again you're not going to see replace your air handlers or install more efficient boiler Chiller um you know we're finding things like well fix a heat exchanger that might be a little broke that's pretty easy for a maintenance staff you know optimize your schedules change your set points you know Implement some some lockouts and different sequences to help your building run more efficiently again without major Capital upgrades that's that's the entire goal of this this process um and so kind of the meat and potatoes of the end of this you know deliverable is really table like this so for Gifford Hall you're going to see you know we came up just under 50 000 and has

109over 20 savings on that building um and we kind of lay it out by each individual energy conservation measure um what's the budget cost to get that done what's your savings looking like you know on an annual basis and then we ultimately come up with you know a return on investment in Roi and so for rcx we're typically targeting that two-year or less so this one actually came out to just under two years um so the the other benefit of improving comfort and getting Energy savings is it pays for itself right pays for itself over time and the goal is you know that two to three year payback range for retro commissioning so for you know for every one of the buildings we're going to be doing the study on I think we have 53

110um you know we're going to end up with something like this and again it's a very actionable list of things we can go do and so what is efficiency works so again this is all kind of under you know prpa the Platte River Power Authority they work with Estes Park City of Fort Collins Loveland and city of Longmont so any buildings within the service territories qualify for the utility that funds us essentially pays us to come do this study for you it's quite honestly a pretty pretty lucrative program it's very very beneficial it should be very uh you know lucky to be in the service territory because we work a lot of utilities a lot of incentive programs and this is this is one of the best we've seen so um for this project I

111mean we're getting over a million dollars of incentive so you know you're getting quite a bit of for the amount of money you're putting in um and then again some more specifics on the program there's essentially two paths the building can take and it's we consider an rcx light or an rcx full it's really dependent on building size you know number of equipment how much energy it's using so you know smaller building less equipment less energy use you know really qualifies usually under the rcx light path bigger buildings more equipment more energy use generally qualify under the rcx full path and so what that essentially means is how much money the utilities going to give us to go do these studies so the rcx full studies we can get up to forty thousand dollars from

112the utility to go do that study so we have 11 sites under that currently and then on top of that you do actually get rebates to implement some of those low cost no cost measures so an additional 10 000 for each of those facilities so all in you're getting about fifty thousand dollars per facility straight from the utility for those rcx full studies and and then we also have 32 buildings in the rcx light study so it's a fifteen thousand dollar rebate amount from the utility and a 2500 rebate for the implementation um so that's 17 500 for each building under the under those as well and then we did have nine buildings that weren't in the service territory so we were still going to do our rcx studies at those buildings but they're not

113under the efficiency Works program but all of our deliverables and process will look essentially exactly the same for those for those buildings and I think I tried to keep it quick I know we're getting late uh so any any questions on the the Ria retro commissioning study Nate yeah can you explain what asset tagging is oh well my colleague Devin will in a second okay DJ um I I just wanted clarification I guess too on making the building sufficient are you looking at just the hardware that's in the building and the building itself versus uh when we were doing the air conditioning thing before we also talked a little bit about you know some of the south facing painting the the tops white or planting trees does any of that type of stuff go into

114yours yeah really for these studies we are focused on like MEP equipment like the big energy users so just for reference you know about half the energy in most buildings is through HVAC you know that's where that's where half the energy goes so if we're looking for Energy savings that's what you really find the bulk of it um so it's typically you know how are you Heating and Cooling um and then you know if there's pumps and motors and other things like that we're looking looking at that main big equipment where you're going to find the savings so it doesn't include some of that ancillary benefits of like planting trees or anything and um yeah the utility I guess really wouldn't be paying for us to do a study what about to plant trees what

115about insulation or um so ceiling that will actually probably be more covered through the FCA study as well they're going to identify what's there and and all that so all that all that diamond cover that thanks any other board member comments or questions all right why don't you go ahead thank you all right turn it over to Devin [Music] all right thanks very much everybody I'm really excited to talk about this stuff so ask lots of questions um the uh FCA right I'll use that camera a lot the facility condition assessment is about documenting analyzing and benchmarking what do you have right now what is our starting point for whatever it is that we need to do in the future and we want to create this story in a way that then you can do

116something about it you can do something with it we want to make all this data that we're going to be collecting and aggregating actionable right let's turn this into movement the benefits that start with the FCA so informing Capital planning that's usually the um the basis right what is it we need to replace when is it going to reach the end of its life how much does it cost that sort of thing and that's good but again that's just the Baseline I like to focus on the high performing assets what are the things that are performing better than expected they're lasting longer than they're supposed to have lasted let's see what's going on there that can inform repair and replacement decisions maybe there's information here about how something is being being used that would inform

117something doesn't need to get replaced yet maybe this gets Band-Aids because so I can replace this other thing I'll dig into that a little bit more effective preventative maintenance programs so knowing what you have it seems like a very simple concept but just making sure that you really do know the sizes of all the pumps and motors what's the PM schedule that's needed am I appropriately staffed to be able to do all of that work better warranty tracking once you have all of this data in place it's more easy to incorporate that information that's coming from all of this new construction that's going to happen Inventory management same way once you have a list of everything you know what you have you can plan better you can plan the work and then work the plan

118so you'd ask a question about FCA functionality so first I'm looking at the data collection piece let's start qualitatively right we talked earlier about the learn audit analyze and report this is very much a net learn stage very first thing that we're going to do is talk to the FM staff we're like the general practitioners right we want to know tell me where it hurts tell me you know what's going on with your building and that can point us in the direction of understanding what the issues are in the building what are the problems that are being faced in that building it may be that things are all brand new but nothing is communicating or working correctly and that's where the recommissioning process identifies some of that as well from our perspective everything's new but

119it's not necessarily functioning right we want to make sure we get that information that goes into the asset condition piece is something you know is it in good condition but it's just old or maybe it wasn't installed right and it hasn't been operating the right way and it's actually in bad condition even though it's not that old there are other qualitative aspects to planning we want to look at occupant impact what is the impact if this widget were to fail if this error Handler goes down does that make the entire building you know uncomfortable or is it more like it just serves the gym and we can't use the gym understanding those nuances lets you plan more effectively for how you're going to use the capital that's available similar to that energy and carbon impact

120you want to be able to understand where are the the assets that have the biggest carbon impact if I want to factor that into my Capital planning I need to have that information and that's what we're going to gather very qualitative that way quantitative so then there's all the other numbers that go with it make model serial number right how big is the thing when was it installed what is the remaining life what is the expected remaining life you know our assessors will look at the asset make a judgment based on feedback from the FM staff based on observed operations how long do we think this asset is going to last based on how we see it operating and that's compared to what we would call like a book life right ashrae says that this

121thing is supposed to last 18 years and that's based on a lot of averages right a lot of median values and that's not necessarily the case you know for for your particular buildings um so the the table here is just a representation of what is dozens of columns and thousands of rows of all of the individual data but the point is that with all of this data and with the qualitative discussions and Analysis we get the complete picture we understand what the operating conditions are in the buildings we can provide what the replacement costs are going to be for those assets and I want to highlight these are very much budgetary numbers we definitely do include some contingency there we don't want to I don't want to give you numbers that then you come up

122short I guess that from a planning perspective that's the the opposite of what I want to do and the last piece is the priority being able to aggregate all these things together to say I want to factor in asset condition I want to factor in the occupant impact how can I be most impactful with the funding that I have we want to give that information to you to make those decisions so then the deliverables so what do you get first thing well I really talked about the table right that asset data is something that you also get any this analysis that I'm going to talk about now is based on the same data so when we're at this point this is information that can then be uploaded into cmms right it's all in Excel it

123can be put into other tools used for analysis so assessment findings so we have an example here of a building report this is very much at a high level system operation how is each system in this building operating what's the overall building condition and what does the future need so this is a summary this strikes a good balance because we have specific deficiencies you know we list for each building top ten here are the photos like the examples that I showed in the previous slide which are the safety issues we identify all of those and that that's sort of easy that's almost low hanging fruit but to be able to give the big picture we want to be able to show here is the overall state of the systems in this building and what's that

124look like then over time what does that future need when am I going to have to address these issues included in this report here we rank the priority uh based on all of those scores that I mentioned so talking about replacement costs talking about asset condition talking about the occupant impact talking about carbon impact how does all that factor in and ultimately things like fire protection are going to come to the top because they're so critical to the operation of the building but that's just at the building level right this needs to expand and go up so to make this data actionable this gets aggregated right how can we support the operational efficiency this is where we talk about how many assets do we have how are you applying that to preventative maintenance programs prioritizing

125asset Replacements this is where you start having to make those tough decisions between which school is going to get priority over another school and being able to have the data in front of you to make those decisions that's what the FCA is intended to do ultimately align with the future plans right you have a vision for where you want the district to go and this Capital plan needs to support that vision so the analysis that I alluded to there I'm going to dive into it again in a second here but we utilize this tool it's not software but a tool called reveal and this is the dashboard that we were kind of alluding to earlier Matt had mentioned about the remote monitoring and that sort of thing so the software or excuse me the tool

126itself has lots of capabilities in terms of dashboarding and monitoring for energy my focus is just going to be on the capital planning piece that goes with that but it is very much cloud-based the idea is that all the information is out there again it's the same information provided in the workbook in this Excel sheet you can create different scenarios you can share it with the staff you can play what if what if we include these buildings what if we take out that system what does that Capital plan look like then it's intended to be this integral approach it's intended to be data that's shared and utilized and available and we have deployed this with more than 40 clients across various geographies Industries this is K-12 this is higher ed so why does all this

127matter here's Capital planning in 30 seconds it says 30 seconds I know it's kind of covered up um and this is it's more complicated than this but this is boiling it down let's start with visualizing the data right so this is what reveal does let's put everything together and let's start to group it let's start to filter it out so we can see all of the individual assets here we have grouped by building so you can see one building relative to another based on the priority scoring that's been established this is where it is here's the red to Green here's the the bad to good in the same dashboard is where all of the impact ratings are so you can say I want to pay more attention to the occupant impact or give me a

128scenario where carbon impact doesn't matter so I can compare one version to the other how big is that impact this is where you can do exactly that let's visualize the data let's establish those priorities and the relative weighting one aspect over another okay but then we got reality right all of these things that we want to prioritize have a certain amount of life that's left so we then consider the years remaining this is very much just an Aggregate and you can see year two that's that's big dollars year five that's another one probably not going to have 30 million dollars just available to go ahead and address all of those issues right but this is where the prioritization comes in so you can budget according to the priority actions so now in reveal you can

129put the numbers in to say okay I've got 12 million dollars what can I do and you go through the priorities and you knock down everything you can until the money is spent and at that point you have to say there's no more money and either borrow from a future year or you start making those hard decisions to say I can repair and replace these items but these are the things that just aren't going to make it right now and so you make those decisions to say are we going to I mean potentially run these to fail is that going to be the approach that we take it's it's very data driven right like you can't argue about how many exhaust fans are in the building because we're going to say this is how many

130exhaust fans are in the building but you're gonna have to make those choices about um you know which ones to repair replace or not and that's all we're doing is giving you the data to make that decision so that was longer than 30 seconds um let's see so any questions on that next slide is asset tagging okay very good okay so the asset tags so this is an example of the specific tag this is the design that we've described you know reviewed this is what it will look like the specifics on the tag very thin foil metal photo tag resist chemicals abrasions solvents UV so it's good all-purpose in every location um and long life 20 plus years life this is the standard that we use for our clients it's got the QR code on

131there so scannable by mobile devices various applications we do we have done pilot testing and we will test here as well for the mobile app before we actually go and put these in the field so we have these tags now on order we did not put them into the buildings that we just did as part of the pilot audit but we will come back and apply those tags and then make sure that everything is working the way that it's supposed to um and I'm going to highlight the reason that we do tagging while we're doing all this assessment while we're doing all this work in the building is it just reduces the tagging cost we don't have to come back and do these things again and it increases the data accuracy we're putting the tag

132on we're taking the pictures we're document it all down and that tag number is one of those columns in that big workbook that you have that can go right into school dude and all of your information is right there and you get the photos that you know match up a tag to an asset and of course extra tags will be provided to you for future tagging on you know next assets that come in foreign so any any questions on that yes I actually have a couple questions one of them is um the reveal uh technology or Cloud app whatever whatever it actually is is our continued use of that part of the package that we're that we're buying here um yes so you will have uh access to it um I I think at least

133through the duration of the project I think then it just becomes a question of uh if it's useful to you right is this something that you want to utilize an ongoing manner it is something that sits on top of the data so the data will need to be updated at some point really it's just a matter of then saying how do you want to move forward do you want us to continue to help you keep that data live and utilize reveal great love to do it if you have processes in place that say you know what we've got the data we can take it from here then great I'm happy with that too I just want to make sure that you guys have what you need to make the decisions [Music] okay and how how

134you talked about establishing priorities or priorities being established how are those I mean what what factors go into that and what role does the school district play in establishing those priorities or is it simply your assessment of the of the equipment or what what is it um there are a couple of different ways that we can do this so there are what I would say that the standards the stock ones that's going to be the assay condition that's going to be a replacement cost higher cost is a higher priority generally because you want to know when those things are going to come due occupant impact is also one that's fairly common because you want to understand which of the assets that directly influence your you know the students right which are the ones that affect

135staff um beyond that that's when we can start to get a little more specific so I mentioned the carbon impact and energy impact that's a very frequent one something else is more like a um uh what's a like a social index so uh for example DPS has their index of for each school and that's just a number minus one to plus one right it's all in that range that's something that we could go ahead and incorporate right we know that it's at the building level but if you wanted to factor that in then that could be included so really it's about dialogues just like this you know during the Pilot We identified just these uh asset you know or these priorities is impact metrics but if there are others you know that's something that we

136want to to incorporate it's all about your planning now in terms of who who makes that decision that's based on you know what our our judgment for seeing how something is operating you know who does it serve what area does this widget serve and then we apply that rating so we put the numbers on there but then it's up to whoever is doing the capital plan to filter that out to say I only want the ones that are you know three four and five what are the biggest issues or what's the relative weighting that I want to give I only want to give this one 20 but I want to give this one 50 that kind of thing that's all within the tool to be able to say what if what if we do this

137what if we do that and that's not something my default is always going to be equal across all the factors because I think they're all equally important okay one final question and then if there are other board questions um you talked about speaking to the maintenance staff I think early on yep uh is there any expectation that you're going to speak with the administrators of the building or others to get their impression or is it simply the operation staff that you're going to be talking with um I'd say it's going to be primarily the operation staff one of the things that we want to do is be as unobtrusive as possible as we work through the buildings we want to be cognizant that the staff have a lot of priorities and so we want to

138be as efficient as getting that information as we can in most cases the issues that they may identify or that we feel that they would identify have already been communicated to maintenance staff so if there is benefit or if there are other things that maybe the maintenance staff aren't aware of certainly we would want to know about that I think beyond that there's a lot of just coordination so that the administration knows when we're going to be in the building and when we're going to be walking through it as a team so they would have that opportunity when we're checking in if there are issues that they wanted to communicate to us or specific areas they wanted us to look at all right thanks very much are there other board questions or comments on this

139section Jim no I'm good Rob okay thank you very much okay I'll turn it back over to Lauren unless we've got just two more slides so we're getting really close um so I know we talked a little bit about timeline before as we mentioned we've got kind of a goal for the solar and the FCA and the AC study to all be complete around the June time frame um the rcx is going to take just a little bit longer as we mentioned there's some back and forth with efficiency works and with you guys making sure we've got the right ecms in place so we anticipate that's going through December um and the the cool thing about this study that we're really excited about is the synergies we are very into being integrated at mckinstry as

140John mentioned and so we are meeting weekly you know as we talked about we want to bring efficiency to your buildings but we also want to visit your buildings efficiently so we are definitely have that in mind and have a great group that's going to make sure that we are not impacting you guys as much as possible as we mentioned so that is timeline I believe after that we've just kind of got a summary here of all four of those offerings and we'd like to just open up to any other questions you guys have are there other questions for members of the board go ahead DJ this isn't here I can make it a question um do you know what county you're in do I know what county I'm in Larimer right yeah your map's

141wrong on me so okay we will make sure we correct that thank you not nothing against Weld County but I just you know you guys want to update it yes I do that other questions for members of the board I I would ask a little bit about your perception of the scope of our current agreement that you know um a lot of the presentations uh tonight some of your peers talked about you know uh obviously the analysis and providing the report but also you know if something was actually implemented coming back and make sure it was implemented correctly and all of this kind of thing how much of that is within the scope of what we've actually already agreed to and and paid for and how much of it is beyond that yeah so for

142the rcx portion um everything that we mentioned besides that one little section at the end the AEM active energy management is already included in the scope so recommending those measures implementing those measures and then going to verify them now we understand we'll probably recommend way more measures and we'll be able to accomplish but that is going to be a very iterative positive process with the school district to make sure we're implementing the measures that are most important to you and then obviously share continuing to give you that information for what else could be done beyond all right the thing that strikes me as interesting about this is obviously there's a lot of this would depend on for example passing a bond or a mill Levy at some point in the future and that's not something

143we have in plan right now but may arise from this if that's the if that's the case it will be several years before some of this some of these recommendations are implemented and you're what I'm hearing you say is that you're prepared to stay with us through that interval is that correct um so if I if I understand the question correctly so you're wondering you know what could are we planning for the future so I guess I want to answer that you know we're definitely making sure that our numbers that we're presenting will will last um we had a really good conversation at our solar kickoff on making sure that we're planning for the right year for implementation as far as budget goes um I don't know if you guys have more you want to

144add to that because I hear what you're saying so let me just try to see if I can answer that for you so you know part of this approach was we had to start somewhere we had to start with their studies so we had a clean slate of understanding what are our Baseline assets what are we looking at can we identify some of those early low-cost no-cost Majors through the Retro commissioning however this is a journey and we don't want to just give you studies so after the studies are given then what so we're going to be with you on that Journey so we're going to help provide okay these are the the projects that we that were recommending or this is where you can go with these studies we're also going to help you

145with funding mechanisms because we understand most schools don't just have a checking account that they can just you know write a check for so we partner with a lot of school districts that we help with different funding mechanisms that could be through an energy performance contract if that's something that you're open to that could be through funding through grants through Dola through um through multiple different programs where we can capture some money to be able to help Implement some of those projects no that's that's excellent that's I really appreciate that understanding I I and and it answer it does definitely address part of what I was asking I guess I'm also asking if we don't get the money for something until 2025 is the piece around um for example is the piece around um you

146know we'll be with you as it's implemented and you know uh ensure that it's implemented correctly and all that kind of things still part of the deal yes so mckinstry has we're we're here with the life of your building so we are a partner not through just the study but we're a partner through implementation if you decide to stay with us through the construction of the project that's the one unique thing about you know with mckinstry being a design build company is we can not only have the ability to do these and perform these studies but we can help Implement them and construct them obtain the rebates obtain the funding follow up on warranty stay with you through the life of those assets in that program to make sure they're being maintained being sure that

147they're running as designed because needs change from year to year so yes all right I appreciate your answer thank you are there other yeah sorry are there other questions from the board oh absolutely please do Brian so just super brief I I just want to thank you for your partnership you know when I think as a system we think about what a partnership means to us you're bringing advisement you're bringing consultation you're bringing deep analysis you're taking an integrated approach you're obviously passionate about the work and very informed and have a lot of experiences so I think I'll speak on behalf of our entire system that we're incredibly excited to go on this journey with you this is an award-winning District especially in the space of sustainability and energy management and Trudy trimbeth I want

148to thank you for your leadership in being a part of this important work and for being a part of it tonight I think your vision and opportunity to step into a leadership role in partnership with mckinstry and our operations team is going to help make sure that we don't just do this analysis but we do some really cool work on the back end of it so I just want to say thank you to you too all right thanks very much we appreciate your partnership as Brian mentioned and we appreciate the time that you all have taken to come up here and share this with us and with our public tonight so thank you very much thank you very much for having us all right now we have two executive sessions that we're going to do

149shortly here uh can I have a motion to get us into those executive sessions please uh yes go ahead Nate I move that the board in her executive session for the purpose of developing the strategy of the school district for negotiations relating to the 2023 to 2024 collective bargaining agreement or employment contracts as authorized by CRS 24-6-402 for E3 and for the purpose of determining positions relative to matters that may be subject to negotiations developing strategy for negotiations and instructing negotiators relating to a possible intergovernmental agreement regarding the Southeast Community Recreation Center as authorized by CRS 24-6-402 4E individuals invited to join the board in an executive session our superintendent Brian Kingsley Chief officers Lauren Hooten Dave Montoya Eric Von Savage and Madeleine noblett director of Athletics and activities Brandon carlucci and general counsel Autumn

150Aspen do I have a second from Jess thank you very much can I have a vote Joe Henderson I Jim brokish Nate Donovan aye Christian Draper aye Rob Patterson aye Carolyn Reed aye Jessica Zamora aye motion passes 7-0 thank you very much Jill and I believe uh Kristen would like to make a statement at this point yes if you don't mind um before entering into into executive session I just wanted to make a brief statement uh on the record for policy GP 3.12 to avoid even the appearance of a conflict of interest I will not be participating in the portion of the executive session regarding the Southeast Community Recreation Center thank you for sharing that and for taking that responsibility very seriously appreciate it with that I'll just let everybody know that the executive sessions

151that we're going to enter now are the last things we're going to do at this meeting the only thing that's going to happen after the executive sessions is I'm going to come out here and pound this gavel on this table and say we're done so you are of course welcome to stay in the room if you wish to see that but uh I just wanted to let you all know that that's the case and to wish you all an excellent evening and welcome back to our meeting two weeks from now thank you