Board of Education Meeting: August 23, 2022

001you all right thanks for joining the board of education meeting this evening please mute your cell phones as we begin the meeting uh today is tuesday august 23rd 22nd and this meeting is now called to order at 6 33 p.m i apologize that we're a few minutes late we got uh got across late and had some things to take care of so now that we're rolling um would any board members like to make changes to the agenda seeing none we'll go on to our superintendent report and superintendent kingsley will now make remarks to the board and the community thank you good evening everybody i had a great day in our district today and a great week that i'd love to celebrate as we talk about the first week of school a little bit but i

002want to start off my remarks tonight by thanking the foothills rotarians who invited me to keynote their luncheon today at the hilton in fort collins i was quite struck by one of their mottos i'm also here trying to endorse one civic oriented group over another but it was really great to be oriented to their rotarians four-way tests i'm not sure if any of us in the community are familiar but i want to tell you a little bit about it and their four-way test is about really as a committee in a community thinking about the way that they think the way that they say and the way that they do things based upon four different mindsets the first one was is it based in truth the second one is it fair to all the third one

003is will it build good will and better friendships and lastly will it be beneficial to all concerned i thought that was quite profound especially at this time in our society as we continue to grapple with real complex challenges but what resonated with me is that our those are some of the things that i saw at the center of our classrooms i've as i've had an opportunity to now to visit over the last two weeks about 10 or 11 of our schools earlier this week on monday or just yesterday i guess i had an opportunity to go to lopez elementary school see their leader in me program in action it's quite incredible just after a few days many of their students had already been assigned or self-requested specific leadership roles in the school and so as

004you have an opportunity at lopez to go to a school they have a class greeter who will welcome you make sure that your name is known to the whole class and then have an opportunity to describe what they're learning about today so you're not a stranger you're actually an invited warm welcomed guest i thought that quite that stood out really really well to me had an opportunity from there to go to weber middle school and went from english language arts class to social studies class to science class and the level of instruction i was quite proud of and it was intense for the second week of school there was a lot of academic press which really to me shows a school culture that honors high expectations but doing so with dignity at the center of

005that johnson elementary school went to all of their third grade science classes and had an opportunity to participate in some science experiments watching kids wear work in pairs without being able to talk about science as they had actually problem solve through their body language and through some of their problem solving with their motor skills was incredible but what stood out to me is you can go from one third grade class to the other in the same level of consistency the same level of curriculum while respecting the uniqueness of both the classroom students and the artistry of the teachers was quite evident how they were teaching was different but what they were teaching and what they were trying to attain was consistent and that's very much an aspiration as you all know for what we want

006to accomplish as a system and i ended my day at rocky mountain high school yesterday where not only did i have a chance to visit classrooms but i'm starting as a superintendent to have informal chats with staff members across the community and i was really quite impressed that we had about 20 teachers and classified staff members had an opportunity to join me for an informal conversation that went almost two hours yesterday afternoon and i was able to real glean real insights around what people are grappling with there's a general enthusiasm and joy and calmness in this system but we do have to have continued conversations around making sure that people can afford to live in this community that came across abundantly clear they had really profound ideas around how we can think differently around professional

007development moving forward to connect the math department at rocky with the math department at pooter high school as they've had an opportunity last earlier this month on the ninth and the tenth to come together teachers are realizing opportunities to connect with other teachers around their content around our district priorities and i think that's really really special so all of the people who had an opportunity to come out to that those will continue my next one is at pooter high school i believe next monday so i'm really really excited about that and we'll continue to give you uh in the district more robust updates on that i would also share with you and for members of the community who may not be aware if you haven't seen already on our website we have recently posted our

008recent standardized test scores and one of the things that i think is important to celebrate and acknowledge is that our district continues to outperform other districts across the state while we continue to raise expectations for ourselves we're not complacent we still have room to grow i want to be vulnerable and honest and say we still haven't reached the levels that we were pre-pandemic so we need to continue to accelerate learning and cultivate a culture of belonging for all people in our district but i am quite proud of not just outperforming other districts but to see the rebound of acceleration and student achievement come back at a really significant level as a story that we need to continue to tell and celebrate there's a lot of great things that are happening in this district as we

009continue to strive for continuous improvement it's also important to celebrate what we're doing well today in our backyard and i'm really excited to be a part of that the only way that we're going to continue to get better is by engaging in complex courageous conversations with each other and so i want to close with my remarks tonight by saying that we are going to continue to engage this community thoughtfully and deliberately especially around the development of a multi-year strategic plan around our district priorities and we have upcoming engagement sessions that begin on september 15th so please be on the lookout for emails from our district as well as social media blasts that invite all of our community to be a part of that conversation so you can see your voice and your ideas and our

010plans moving forward and it's great to be a part of it and i think we're we're off to a really strong great start for this academic school year so thanks again for giving me the opportunity to address the community tonight outstanding thanks very much next we will have a community comment this is an opportunity for the public to come for public comment it's for members of the community who have registered to speak by the designated deadline those people will be called to make remarks in the order that they signed up each speaker will be allowed three minutes this evening to address the board our first speaker tonight is jim weinbrenner welcome thank you jim weinberger fort collins my wife and i taught our kids to be attentive to their intuition listen to their god give

011an inner voice and respect their sense of danger we taught them to appreciate the discomfort and remove themselves from a problem situation they understand that if a neighbor or a relative triggered their intuition they should come to us for safety they knew that if a stranger in the park exposed himself they should find us or call police however we have learned from the aaron lee narrative this past year that pooter schools are doing their best to suppress the very intuition inner voice and gut feeling that so many parents encourage the district has elevated itself above parents in the name of gender diversity you stress privacy about gender identity and their students not to talk with parents about these controversial issues rather they should talk with a trusted professional at school guilt a gut feeling is

012being sacrificed at the altar of gender diversity suppose a student is uncomfortable with a gender bread lesson to avoid being called intolerant speak with a trusted teacher not your parents if a girl is uncomfortable with boys in a locker room talk with a mental health professional at school to resolve these feelings in a gender sensitive way don't talk to mom and dad i taught for 30 years in public education i understand at the end there's an incredible reservoir of trust in public schools built over the years from ptas athletics scholarships musicals and much more how much of that trust reservoir are you willing to squander in your secretive progressive gay agenda how long will it be before you poke another mama bear like aaron lee a mom who taught their daughter she's a girl created

013in god's image and that marriage is between one man and one woman when that girl comes home and comes home and announces that she is a he is a transgender pooter schools will again make national news for the wrong reason will that be your legacy i may be wrong in what i'm saying but how would i know mr link mr kingsley go on the jimmy lakey radio show eliminate secrecy come out of your safe space directly answer questions mr kingsley will you accept that offer thank you our next speaker is jeff after heidi welcome i'll start when uh did every member get that we're not passing him out now we'll pass that out now okay can you restart my time please then thank you my name is jeff after heidi from wellington colorado for those

014of you in the audience i passed the board members a five-page packet of information containing the extremist flyers funded by political act campaigns of four current board members the funding they used to pay andrew kabza the husband of democratic state senator jesse danielson a facebook post of the board members campaigning on october 9th 2021 with the buddha education association an email dated three days later from the pooter education association president discussing how the psd board was concerned with extremist views overrunning community comment and a photograph of the national education association president becky pringle with the pa members without their masks on indoors after the mass were mandated by larimer county health director tom gonzalez now tonight i want the board to consider the content of their discussion about their new policy 3.13 in the last

015board meeting on august 9th the dialogue of several board members centered around limiting anonymous comments mr p peterson said quote we don't want to encourage the thinking that people should be nervous or afraid of retaliation by coming to speak to us that will not be tolerated in any way that folks are retaliated against for coming to speak to us and share an opinion we may not agree with that's not okay and if that were to happen we would have a big problem unquote vice president draper said quote we started in this last year following up with emails when people come and speak to us and it's difficult if someone is reading some for somebody else if we want to un follow up with them unquote but you do retaliate as an example last year many

016of us came and questioned your mask policy you didn't go after your opponents you went after voters and concerned parents used the pooter education association to stack public comment and then spent over thirty thousand dollars to put out extremist flyers that's retaliation would you post their picture on a flyer do you think that this woman on this flyer is okay with what you did that's retaliation what about inserting your statement about subjecting speakers of public comment to a possible defamation lawsuit that's retaliation do you still wonder why people want to remain anonymous the point is public comment is for the public there are many things that the public doesn't know about the inner dealings of the board and it kind of seems that that's exactly what you want you don't want the public to know

017lastly miss draper you stated that the board wants to follow up with speakers if public comment my question to you is when will the board follow up with my request i asked repeatedly for you to follow up with your own code of conduct policy for submitting your annual conflict of interest disclosures when will this happen thank you our next speaker is fred kirsch welcome thank you for the opportunity to speak tonight um i'm going to be a little bit critical today because now is the time for critical input into the solar feasibility study process i want to preface this by saying that i recognize psd as a partner in this project i know that the past few years have been challenging for the district and i don't fault anyone for a lack of action on

018solar during that time however now is the time for action and c-force is here to help facilitate implementation of solar best practices in a timely manner there are a few things that we want to be sure are included in the feasibility study and one thing from psd's history that we want to be excluded first of all the study should identify projects that are ready to proceed in 2023 and identify conditions that need to be met and set goals for future solar installations solar developers recommend that whoever is awarded the rfp has a portfolio including not only feasibility studies but also robust results in projects completed as a result of their studies now you might be thinking of course staff is going to include these things but there is a history here which concerns us and

019directs us to follow each step of this process through to implementation one example is the 2016 preliminary district-wide solar study that identified potential projects equivalent to the size of 35 bethke elementary school projects and that was back in 2016. this study was not just put on a shelf it was put in the trash can i was able to provide matt and brian with a copy of that study earlier this year they had no knowledge of its existence and psd has no record of it ever happening this kind of history doesn't exactly instill a whole lot of trust in the system the other example which is particularly troubling is psd's claim to energy offset credits through solar gardens psd contributed zero resources to these projects gets no savings from them and does not appear to own

020the renewable energy credits yet somehow psd claims credit this is fairy dust it's an accounting trick there might even be civil liability if someone else owns those credits and psd is using them pst staff has not responded to questions about this back in 2009 both psd and denver schools installed solar since that time denver has grown their projects to 46 with an estimated million dollar annual savings psd has not grown the solar program and it's saving about three thousand dollars annually for these reasons we will continue to raise public awareness organize support and influence the process to recap we are asking that the rfp be awarded to a company with a track record of successfully implemented solar projects that the study identified ready projects and set goals for the future projects and that accounting tricks

021like energy offset credits be excluded from the study matt mentioned the rfp will be issued sometime this fall or winter we'd like a commitment to issue it before the end of 2022. thank you thank you our next speaker is jackson littlewood welcome thank you very much for the opportunity to come and speak to the board today uh so i'm going to be speaking um on behalf of the solar on schools project as well and i just uh want to start off by saying that you know i'm somebody who's grown up in the area gone through the uh pooter school system and um i just wanna i'm doing um i'm an organizer for this organization because i wanna make sure that we um keep northern colorado beautiful it's a fort collins in particular is a uniquely

022beautiful place and i want to start out by reading a few letters this first one is a little bit on a lighter note and it comes from a young student of the district please maximize solar potential at our schools and maintain transparency through public updates please stop using non-renewable energy sources because it hurts animals plants and you enter a nice little picture here for you guys this next one says please consider maximizing the solar potential in the pooter school district as one of the sunniest states in the country colorado is a great place for solar energy to be harnessed and used for powering school buildings as someone from washington where it rains often my house has had solar panels installed and currently is powered by only solar energy it is important that everyone do their

023part in reducing the carbon footprint and solar power is one of the best ways to do so furthermore students can be involved in learning how solar energy works and why it is so important to be conscious of where energy is coming from i urge you to consider expanding solar projects in district-wide uh district-wide it will be it will ensure savings that can be put towards other areas in needs of funding i anxiously wait a reply and this final one says dear members through the non-profit community for sustainable energy we recently learned that psd is significantly behind when it comes to use of solar for a state that has roughly 300 days of partial sunlight per year with the rising cost of utility rates it would seem prudent to go beyond a feasibility study and put

024in a plan to face to move forward understandably there is a significant investment to implement solar on a widespread scale however there are solar financing options available that allow students to begin saving money without upfront expenses also with two new high schools and middle schools i am honestly shocked that solar was not a part of these the development of these schools this seems like a missed opportunity our children now 22 and 20 both went to through the psd system our oldest recently received a bs in bio resource engineering and will complete a master's program in chemical engineering with a focus on biofuel fuels this fall her passion is sustainability and becoming more dependent on alternate energy sources she is disappointed that her own school district has been slow to act in this area we are

025asking the board to follow through on their initiative to pursue solar for the school district and maintain transparency through public updates we have heard nothing of this to date and don't believe we need to attend every school board meeting to be appraised those are just a few comments from fellow concerned citizens about this issue and i thank you again very much for allowing me to speak on this thank you our next speaker is tori egan welcome hello um my name is tori and as you've heard from my fellow associates with community for sustainable energy the overwhelming majority of the citizens here in pooter school district believe that it would be in the best interest of the students teachers community and the environment to prioritize the implementation of solar into the district-wide energy plan some of

026our citizens say it best so i will also be reading a few of their letters thank you um yeah he says it pretty well solar panels at pds for sustainability uh dear psd i am in elementary school at psd and this community this city this world matters to me and my family each day i hear news of climate change getting worse and i want to do better we have sun in colorado and why not maximize our energy potential to use a resource accessible to all there is no reason the school district should not use solar panels on every school district building it is a waste of future energy and sustainability not to now is the time to help my generation and to move more to more renewable energy sources the answer is right now sincerely

027a worried fifth grader hopeful for the future to the pooter board of education i'm reaching out on behalf of my sons both students at an elementary school and psd it is they who ask curiously why they don't have solar panels at school our conversations about solar power and other alternative alternative fuel sources are becoming more frequent as we watch more of our neighbors supplement traditional energy further expanding our conversations is the knowledge that they're bringing home from school they are quick to turn off the faucet if i leave it running too long they ask why we drove when we should have ridden our bikes and they are constantly picking up questionable trash in the street to recycle it they care they care about their neighborhood and they care about the future of the only planet

028that they have to grow up on it's because of them that i ask you stewards of my tax dollars to have a conversation with denver public schools and the colorado energy office to learn how pooter schools can follow suit i urge you to make these conversations happen as soon as possible i'm also requesting public updates to main trans uh maintain transparency thank you for all that you do i look forward to your response for the sake of our climate our student education and for the available funds of our school districts we respectfully ask you to maximize solar potential we believe backed by environmental science that this is vitally important for the city of fort collins and for the future of our youth not only is solar energy vital to our lovely city but it is

029also vital to our planet and it is the least we owe to the millions already affected and displaced by climate change thank you for your opportunity and uh for listening thank you our next speaker is tristan jones welcome thank you for the opportunity to speak tonight i appreciate your attention my name is tristan i'm a concerned citizen and a community organizer and i'll be relaying some messages from pooter families tonight dear pooter school district board of education members i'm writing this brief note today to ask that you please hold wholeheartedly consider transitioning our schools to solar energy not only would this be beneficial financially but it would serve our great state of colorado by protecting our air quality as we know all too well funds are scarce and difficult to generate for education as a

030second grade teacher who spends much of her own funds to buy things such as school supplies for students books for classroom libraries and various classroom resources it would be incredibly beneficial to ease the pressure on student on teachers if more funds were available saving money on energy could potentially allow for funding not only in the classroom but for much needed areas as mental health much needed classroom interventions and so much more on to the next one dear dj anderson and the pooter school district board of education i'm writing to encourage the board of education to research and consider utilizing solar panels on the various psd schools to increase environmental sustainability and to decrease energy costs for the district over seven thousand schools around the us use solar energy and save money on their energy costs

031denver public schools has over 40 solar projects which saves the district over a million dollars a year they have done this through a power purchase agreement in which a solar company owns and manages the solar panels on the school buildings and then sells the electricity generated back to the schools for less than the excel energy rates dps also owns some of their own solar panels financed through the colorado energy office if pooter school district initiated these same energy sustaining practices they could save hundreds of thousands of dollars per year by installing solar panels on school building buildings throughout the district i'm asking you as a parent of four psd graduates to look into this option for the district i as a citizen cannot vote on instituting this option but you as board members can please

032consider this option for our wonderful district as we move forward into 2023. on to the next one poudre board of education on behalf of our family and future psd student please do your part to boost green energy and utilize solar energy in the schools if you have any questions please contact us also a note from our daughter i've saved the best for last dear pooter boe come on now guys let's do better solar is the way to go you know it i know it come on thank you very much for your attention thank you our next speaker is kelly holdridge welcome hello again um now that fall sports have started i cannot attend these meetings often i'm sure you're sad about that but due to that i'm going to talk about two things both topics

033deserve their own three-minute community comment so make note that neither of these things are any less important than the other first i would like to talk about our school safety the district has tried very hard to get the community to know all the ways they can report an issue most recently the district focused on see something say something this is a reporting system designed to let students report an incident and hopefully get help or answers well i guess that is all on the surface because i submitted a legitimate incident report on july 12th at 1 49 pm i waited for a response and on august 3rd i sent an email to two email addresses provided by the district one email address was bias support psdschools.org and the other was psd incident report psdschools.org the incident

034report email was returned to center twice and i still have not received a response from the bias support email obviously this is not good practice students or staff community members who fill these out who fill out those reports are expecting a response from the district if a student is being bullied or is afraid at school and no one responds how is that going to make the student feel student needs to feel safe and not receiving response from the safety department is doing the opposite the second thing i would like to talk about is the new community comment policy what better way to make community students and parents feel like they are welcome to come express their concerns but to enact a policy like this this policy on the surface is no different than what you

035have been saying to us that sign up for the last six months however those of us that pay attention can speculate that this is only the beginning this will allow you to censor whomever you want whenever you want what a sad day there are several concerning parts but the most concerning part to me is the no stand-in part of the policy again we can all speculate as to why this was done for two years of hearing anonymous statements i imagine you want to put a stop to that the majority of the anonymous statements were from teachers we can guess that the district does not like hearing that teachers don't agree with how things are going so the district removed the stand-in comments to probably do two things one to stop hearing that teachers don't agree

036with things and two not being able to discipline said teachers for not agreeing with those things for two years i have been reading anonymous statements because teachers were afraid for their jobs but still wanted to be heard what does that tell us do those teachers feel safe in their own district do those teachers trust the district there are plenty of stories about teachers getting disciplined in their schools because of them expressing their opinion if it differs from what the district wants i was in a meeting last year talking about connection survey and there was an example of a student who ended up feeling not safe and uncomfortable i asked the presenter if they were going to talk to the parents about how that student felt i was told if that student wanted you to know

037about it they would tell you so i guess if this the teacher wanted you to know about how they felt they would tell you thank you our last speaker this evening is danny lawrence welcome good evening thank you for the opportunity i have two children in the district one who is visually impaired so i'm often here making comments about integrated services in the last board meeting you all requested feedback regarding the public participation policy 3.13 and tonight i wanted to offer a couple of observations about secondary speakers that i hope you will consider for the sake of being inclusive to those with disabilities i feel compelled to let you know that there are several disabilities that might limit an individual's ability to make public comments themselves some community members may need someone to deliver their

038comments for example i've asked you several times to provide a sign language interpreter for these meetings and for someone who's a deaf individual to present their comments they would need that they still deserve to be considered in this public space so this is true for so many others who are autistic have adhd have anxiety have mental health issues um as written the policy only allows for someone to be accompanied to the podium and that doesn't address the scenarios where these ada matters should be considered folks shouldn't have to request accommodation from the district to participate in a public meeting if inclusion was important to the district we should be looking for opportunities to improve accessibility rather than limiting it with a 59 graduation rate for special needs students in this district it is past time

039for psd to make cultural changes toward inclusion that are long overdue and the board has an opportunity to send a powerful message that everybody's voice matters even those who can't use theirs also i wanted to address the comments about retaliation you should be aware that after the cde findings of the non-implementation of my son's iep the district has inflicted a communications plan on me i've never once threatened i haven't called names i've never been hostile i've never been dishonest and i've never called anyone out in this boardroom in public comments by their name but i am restricted and it makes advocating for my son difficult which was probably the intent through choral requests i have found that six other families in the district also have restrictions placed on them from the administration regarding communication for

040me after a summer massive legal expenses to protect my family from this district i find it feasible that pdf psd would attempt to restrict my abilities to speak in public and that i would need someone to speak on my behalf i feel retaliated against by silencing voices like mine i don't think the board would have an accurate picture of what it's like to be a community member consuming your services on august 4th i attended the district's fort collins high school chat and i saw a community begging for your interaction and transparency i also heard the lip service from the district that you wanted that too while simultaneously developing policies to limit public participation and issuing communications restrictions on parents desperate for help please understand none of it makes sense to me you can't have transparency

041while limiting a message morally culturally ethically i am more worried about the tone being set by this school district than i ever have been and personally i think it's disgraceful to limit the voices of constituents who voted for you and i am one of them thank you that concludes community comment this evening we have next on our agenda board reports does anybody from the board wish to share thoughts or report go ahead dj uh yeah i just have a couple of shout outs that i wanted to do real quick and one is the united way um becoming partners with the dolly parton library and i want to make sure everyone has an opportunity to uh if you have kids under the age of five to go to united way and sign up and get some

042uh books so you can have little books for that little person so i thought that was a great program and so excited that it's coming to our community um the other one was that's pretty exciting is uh we have a school celebrating our 50th uh anniversary this week maybe which is going to be pretty cool and i think that's kind of a cool accomplishment that's been around thanks thank you for sharing that any other reports from the board all right it looks like not in which case we'll move on to item 6.0 which is the consent agenda can i get a motion for the consent agenda nate yes i move that the board approve and adopt the recommended items on the consent agenda yeah actually i should have asked does anybody want to pull anything

043from the consent agenda looks like not in which case we'll leave that motion stand do i have a second for that looks like jim has a second jill will you please call a vote on the consent agenda dj anderson aye jim brokish hi nate donovan aye kristin draper aye rob patterson aye carolyn reed aye jessica zamora aye motion passes seven zero thanks very much we'll move on now to action items we have a resolution to allow for the possibility of implementing remote learning option day or temporary remote learning uh first we'll ask for a motion in a second and then i know the superintendent has some direct remarks on this so can i get a motion go ahead nate i move that the board approved the resolution of pooter school district r1 board of education

044allowing for the possibility of remote learning during the 2022-2023 school year thank you very much to have a second well we'll say uh jas has got a second there and i know you wanted to say something about this superintendent please go ahead thank you president pedersen i just wanted to send an important message to the community to contextualize why this discussion and or vote tonight is important without signaling that our district is going to be moving to remote learning we've learned a lot through the global pandemic around how to leverage technologies in creative ways and we know that we have per state statute certain amount of instructional minutes that we must adhere to throughout the course of the year and so in the event if we have inclement weather unfortunate or any kind of scenario

045that would force or put us in a situation where we could not house instruction in our brick and mortar facilities we want to leverage this policy to have flexibility to make sure that learning and instruction continues for all of our students but there's i want to be really clear that we are not intending on moving our district to remote learning this is not to send panic this is also not a cancellation of snow days so i want to be clear about that too i'll have a full inbox in the morning in my email if i but i do want to make sure that we have flexibility to keep learning and this system moving forward regardless of the circumstance and i believe this policy and its language outlines those circumstances so thank you again for the

046opportunity uh to talk about this item excellent absolutely thank you very much for the clarification do we have any questions or do we have any discussion from the board on this resolution go ahead nate yeah just a question about emergency closure it doesn't seem to be defined and so i wonder if we want to delay some legislative history about what emergency closures might include can i speak to that yeah absolutely i didn't know whether you or autumn were going to speak to that question uh nate thank you for the the comment i you know as i look at the current policy language some of the things that are are outlined as examples are inclement weather excessive snow school flood nearby wildfire certain things that can potentially make attendance at school unsafe it certainly doesn't preclude

047it from other circumstances to be included in that space but that was the spirit of what we were trying to kind of frame for the public but certainly open to feedback on how to make that uh stronger headache yeah i was just wondering uh we've contemplated the possibility of having heat days if that's necessary and so i just wanted to i don't recall whether the policy speaks to that specifically but it seemed like that was something that was a possibility so i just wanted to include that yes i am hoping for very cool temperatures for the next four weeks um but i you know that is something that would be considered under inclement weather if we want to call that out specifically it is something that we could consider but we as a system again

048i think we have less than three instructional days that we have some flexibility with and so if we were to leverage this fall as a result of heat and that's a very real issue in this community we have 33 of our 55 schools that do not have air conditioning throughout their entire facilities we are going to need to have community conversation around how best to approach that over time because that's a systemic issue so i you know for those that are working in those types of conditions you know empathy is not enough we need to identify ways of not just making our school buildings more comfortable to start the school year but investments in ac throughout all of our facilities allows us to keep our school buildings open in the summer it allows us to

049think about extended day programs in different ways but so heat can definitely be a part of that but i want to make sure that i'm not sending a signal to the community that you know they should anticipate that in the next week or two as temperatures fluctuate as we close out fall and get into or as close out summer and get into fall dj did you want to add something yeah i just i wanted to clarify for the public i guess that you know the the state had recommended and kind of put this out there for us that this might be a policy that we should look at uh something that we learned from covid and um and so i i do support it i think it gives us flexibility to make sure that we

050can count our days uh for the cdes requirement of how many days our students are at in their seats so i just want to put that out there appreciate that any other thoughts anybody wants to share all right seeing nothing else jill if you'll call a vote on this resolution i'd appreciate it dj anderson aye jim brokish hi nate donovan aye kristen draper aye rob patterson aye carolyn reed aye jessica zamora aye motion passes seven zero thanks very much jill all right so our next action item is on our colorado association of school board resolutions and really just our general legislative and policy agenda for the school year uh we all have copies of it up here it will be in the packet uh it will be retroactively put into the packet after the meeting

051probably not tonight probably tomorrow it's just as a way of introduction it it is roughly the same as last year if you saw last year's there's one significant addition and that is support for the healthy school meals for all ballot initiative but mostly the rest of it is exactly it was last year except for some things taken out frankly like so with that as sort of a broad introduction can i get a motion in support of this legislative and policy agenda and yes this in support of this legislative and policy agenda go ahead nate yes i move that the board approved the proposed pooter school district board of education legislative and policy agenda for 2022 to 2023 and i apologize that it wasn't in the packet uh we were making changes as recently as today

052dj yes dj has a second thank you thought you wanted to comment does anybody have any comments or questions go ahead nate yeah i just thought i'd uh quickly go through uh to give an idea what what the issues are first category is state of colorado funding impacting pre-k through 12 school funding first one talks about the taxpayers bill of rights and this one's pretty short so i'll read it the pooter school district board of education supports current efforts to build a coalition addressing colorado state funding requirements resulting from tabor or other provisions that may result in a future statewide referendum or initiative for a ballot measure amending the colorado constitution and the reason that this is in here is several constitutional and statutory provisions exist that restrict school funding and is largely the reason

053that school districts and schools in colorado were underfunded and so that's why we would support that a ballot initiative or referendum to make changes so that we could come up with more funding second one is the pooter school district board of education recognizes structural changes as needed in how the state of colorado funds k-12 education which i just addressed there's been a mechanism that the state legislature has used and the colorado supreme court has approved that even though there are constitutional and statutory provisions that require additional education funding the money's just not there and so the state legislature is authorized to go below what those requirements those funding requirements are in terms of school funding the public school finance act of 1994 is the mechanism by which schools in colorado are funded with state money

054state and local funds and the third one is the pooder school district board of education support board of education supports adoption of policies to change that act to provide more equity among districts generally and more support for rural school districts there's a big difference in how districts are able to provide the services that they do in colorado and we feel that that needs change the second broad category is improving mental health and this resolution says that the pooder school district board of education supports adoption of policies and legislation recognizing the need and providing funding for more mental health support for students teachers and staff especially in the wake of covet 19 related changes to learning environments and i would also point out that we have a process with the colorado association of school boards that

055we're a member of that has a policy process that districts can can propose policies to be considered and voted upon by all member districts and so we would be submitting these to the colorado association of school boards and then they have a process to consider and adopt those and use those as guidance for the upcoming legislative session so the third major area of emphasis is educator evaluations and this resolution says the pooter school district board of education supports continued reform in the teacher evaluation process to encourage courageous conversations between administrators and teachers that leads to effective feedback and continuous improvement in teething teaching methods and outcomes evaluations are more effective when trust and communication are paramount rather than rigidly imposed accounting accountability measures there have been some attempts at changes in the accountability system uh

056recently with the state legislature but we feel like there's more to do there the next area of emphasis is school meals and this resolution says the pooder school district board of education supports the healthy school meals for all ballot initiative on the november 2 2022 colorado statewide ballot this measure was referred by state legislation hb 22-14-14 which would create the healthy school meals for all program to provide funding for meals to pre-k to 12 students whose families do not qualify for the federal funded free and reduced meals the recent federal funding that provided no-cost meals for all which is expiring highlighted the issue that many students and families cannot afford the cost of school meals which are critical to help students learn and grow this funding would be provided by adjusting the state adjusted gross

057income threshold to three hundred thousand dollars above which limits on state income detect income tax deductions would apply and this uh i'll just add uh anecdotally that when i went with the superintendent to olander elementary school on the first day of school i was speaking about this proposed ballot initiative because we were eating lunch and one of the staff members said that the attendance at lunch that day was less than they would have expected and wondered if that was in part due to the fact that there's a cost to school meals and those students and families on the margin may not be able to afford it uh then so that's the end of the state level initiatives there are federal issues that the pooter school district board of education supports action on one is the

058individuals with disabilities education act idea the board supports full funding of that act and requests that congress more fully funded currently the pooder school district receives approximately 15 cents for every dollar the federal government requires we spend on education under idea last legislative session the state of colorado added a bit more but that it is time to increase funding to the minimum of the 40 cents of every dollar initially promised by this legislation more than 40 years ago and then the last issue is also a federal issue that the pooter school district board of education supports expansion of and funding for the e-rate program for school broadband connectivity to include efforts for students lacking reliable internet connections in addition pooter school district supports the expansion of category 2 funding to include hardware and support for

059essential cybersecurity services so i appreciate the time in going through those that is uh our proposed pooter school district board of education legislative and policy agenda for 2022-2023 thank you nate kristen thanks nate and i just wanted to point out to everyone too that um these were all done in our legislative meeting um which was held last week um and that that is a public meeting that we discussed what was going to stay what was going to go and then that the new one as far as the lunches go so you know this was all done um in our stated meeting so just wanted to throw that out there yep so uh and i'll just say generally the legislative uh meetings are uh are public meetings there are more than two of us there usually

060and they are posted on the website and you are certainly welcome to attend and observe um yeah we covered we covered the the topics on this dj yes go ahead yeah i just i want to clarify something on school meals on number four the recent federal funding that provided no cost meals for all which is expiring that should be as it's expired and i just want to make sure that we do everything we can to get the word out nate you kind of mentioned about the they were concerned about not as many kids there and um for the kids that do qualify there's paperwork for the families that we need to make sure that we get done so that we can get those kids their lunches it would be great hopefully we can pass this

061and we don't have to worry about in the future but right now we do need to have those families fill out some paperwork so that we can get the feds to cough up some money so if you're out there and you can do that that would be great thank you i'm sorry go ahead carolyn yeah i was wondering matt do you can you tell us how much a school lunch cost i was like i'm sorry i put you on the spot there i don't think i have that number right now give me a few minutes i will find it though i'll get both these students i'll get free reduced i'll get thank you nate i did ask that question at olander and they had a schedule um so matt can get us the full details

062but what i saw was about three dollars and ten cents for a student that doesn't qualify for free and reduced lunch and adult cost is like four dollars and fifteen cents something like that so that's just lunch not breakfast so i don't know exactly what that comes out to for a whole year but if we think about a single mom with two kids in school who might just be over that threshold for free and reduced that can be quite a significant expense for for two kids to be having lunch at school and so while three dollars might not seem like a lot but added up over the year for two small children with somebody who's on a really tight income that can be really devastating so people having lost this benefit is it's pretty concerning

063other comments or questions on this all right jill can we call a vote on this please dj anderson aye jim brokish hi nate donovan hi kristin draper aye rob patterson aye carolyn reed aye jessica zamora aye motion passes 7-0 thanks very much uh next we have 8.0 informational reports and discussion items and 8.1 is board consideration of the new policy gp 3.13 a few things first of all i want to acknowledge obviously we had some comments in the community comment with regard to this and i'm sure the board will take those into consideration when we vote on it next time this is primarily in the in the packet here to make sure that the public knows that the document is available in fact the version for the last sorry the version we talked about at

064the last meeting was retroactively put in the packet and is available the version as it currently stands is in this week's packet and it shows the changes from the last one and when this is submitted for consideration for a vote at the next meeting the version as it stands then will be in the packet also so there are plenty of opportunities for the public to look at this and to provide additional feedback through either email or i suppose a community comment at the next meeting as well this was primarily added so that people knew that i mean we can talk about it if you like but the intent really was to make sure that the public understands that the document is available and that we welcome uh comments on it and the plan is to

065have a full discussion before our vote at the next board meeting our folks go ahead nate well i would like to talk about potential changes so that staff has direction to include or not include those for next meeting well we can do that but the one in particular that you had mentioned earlier we uh with regard to the stand-in policy which is some of the comments that made were made we left in there because as you had suggested at the last meeting we could make an amendment and vote it there to be clear about who's supportive of it and who's not supportive of it and you're not going to understand here but well i guess i guess we can do it either time but uh i thought the idea was that the next time we

066dealt with it that we were going to provide direction to staff on what to include or not include so um that was my i was anticipating that we would have an opportunity to get it if you'd like to share your thoughts go ahead but we don't have a way to resolve it is the problem because we don't have a vote okay right well i think that uh you know we did talk about the standing placement other clause and i repeat my concern that i don't think it has been an issue and it actually can be helpful i i did expressed to the board that um i do believe as kelly mentioned that uh teachers may not feel comfortable speaking in a public meeting especially if they're uh not in agreement with what some things that

067are that are happening in the district uh that are happening and so there's that and i think we saw um tonight it was another example with the people on the solar issue that to me it didn't seem like a problem that uh they were sharing uh uh words from people that they had met at the doors so i would i i'm ready at the next meeting to propose an amendment that we strike that stand in place of another and i'm i'm fine i anticipated that would it would be in this draft that we that we're looking at tonight but i think other than that it looks okay and i don't anticipate that it in practice will change our practice to any great extent and so but i think it's good to have so thank you

068go ahead thanks nate and i just want to point out too that um in this version that was in this week's packet we did redline a few things for as changes and one is community comment will generally be limited to no longer than 45 minutes with individual speakers typically given between and we struck one to three minutes and put in two to three minutes which was requested last time and the other thing was that was mentioned earlier was during community comment only the current speaker is permitted to be at the podium unless a minor wishes to be accompanied by the minor's parent or guardian notwithstanding this rule sorry this is what's been added notwithstanding this rule translators and other individuals needed as accommodation may accompany the speaker so i just wanted to point out that

069that was placed in there as well and then um oh yes there we go and then um the one thing too that was redlined was um during community comments speakers shall not and one of the things was advertise or promote specific products or services and we added for sale or purchase so it the whole thing then reads advertise or promote specific products or services for sale or purchase so those were things that have been changed since the last version so if you want to go ahead and take a look at that and then so as you suggested nate we will look at striking um with an amendment uh proposed proposed amendment of taking out the read a statement on behalf of another individual does that sound you have a comment jim yeah i'll go ahead

070and comment i i just wanted to last meeting i was uh kind of on the fence of the whole stand-in or not stand-in thing and i just want to after community comment tonight i just wanted to come out more in support of allowing the stand-ins and basically what nate said so thanks well go ahead carolyn and i think maybe i was kind of in the same camp as uh jim you know because i i have thought of times when somebody was standing in and reading a comment and i found myself wondering you know was this really a comment for somebody else or was this was this um maybe not quite exactly what happened because there's no way to go back and find out from the person who's standing in about exactly what happened so sometimes

071some of the comments would make me a little bit uncomfortable for people who are standing in but i think not letting people stand in is not the way that we fix that you know i don't think that that's a really a good idea for something that hasn't really been an issue you know um so i i think i'm in favor of allowing stand-in did you want to say something kristen say do do we want to just redline that as well and pull it now so that we don't need to do an amendment for the next time i mean i am i'm still on the fence on it one of the things that i had heard with the um with from jackson today was one of the things that he read was one of the families

072hoped to have frequent updates and i don't know how to get them a frequent update um if i don't know who they are so there's still a little bit of concern for me of if somebody's asking um to be updated on something or if we want to follow up with them that we don't have that ability but um this is not something that i i feel that it has to be in there either yeah i mean i can see how the trend is going here i'm still i would still prefer to leave it in there to be honest with you and mostly because of just what happened tonight we had folks read letters from other people we get those letters we have lots of letters in fact we have those letters here i would rather

073have heard those peop those individuals thoughts on the the issue in question and i would rather hear directly from all of the individuals on their thoughts and question but i'm one vote out of seven and i see how the trend is going here so unless unless i'm sensing any change i think we can save ourselves some time and and just pull that out by the way just to be clear i do acknowledge what uh danny lawrence was saying about about uh different kinds of disabilities and the need for support in terms of that kind of speaking so even to the extent that i would have preferred to leave some version of this in there i would have looked to some way to amend it to to make sure that we are covering all of the

074needs of our constituents to be able to address us um having said that nate do you have something else yeah i just wanted to repeat another thing that i said last meeting is if someone stands in place of another just as we evaluate the credibility of the person that's speaking directly to us we can evaluate the credibility of whatever statement is read to us on behalf of another so there's that as well it's a fair point as noted i think we've given autumn direction to pull that part of the statement is there anything else that anybody wants to say about this okay so our next informational item is the fourth quarter school resource officer presentation and uh our superintendent will lead us into that discussion thank you again here this evening to give the board

075an update on the fourth quarter sro partnership is the chief of secondary school scott nielsen and chief operations officer matt bryant i want to thank you both for joining us i also want to thank miss laurie cliff our executive director for the center for family outreach for being here with us this evening thank you for your tremendous partnership okay hmm well good evening president pedersen and uh superintendent kingsley gosh there's something else that's our own presentation that i just cannot get through we're gonna have to we're gonna have to switch and let matt start i think um it is uh it is a pleasure to to talk with you tonight when we we can take a look at data for entire school year um we have to go back quite a ways and as you

076saw the presentation we shared um you know we're comparing this year's data to to several years ago so tonight we'll go through um several different uh uh pieces of data that we talked about and tracked throughout the entire uh 2122 school year we also as uh as uh superintendent kingsley talked about we have with us um lori cliff from the center that's going to talk with us briefly about the partnership as she's seen it over the last year because we feel like we've made some strides and we have a great opportunity ahead to continue that partnership so without further ado as we have talked about this the la i think three other times you've seen these before but just for the public that's watching to make sure as we go through this um we've just

077got some common definitions and we tend to talk in acronyms in education so this defines some of them we talk about sops it's our standard operating procedures obviously as we talk about sros we're talking about our school resource officer program fcps is fort collins police services larimer county sheriff's is lcso our department of human services is dhs you'll see matt talk a little bit tonight about calls and assists and he'll also talk about dispositions and how we we uh our data looks in both of those areas we also wanted to reiterate um a conversation we had with the board in dinner session to close out the 22 spring of 22 just so you can see as we're thinking about this rhythm here we are tonight we're doing a board of education update and we're doing

078a close on last year's data we will continue to meet with the steering committee and that is truly taking a look with our law enforcement partners at what are what we're seeing as trends in our buildings across the district as we move through this year and we will do that in that late september early october time frame so roughly the end of first quarter we'll do that again roughly the end of second quarter with the board update around that time that we talked about being part of dinner session we will continue with the steering committee roughly the end of third quarter coming back to the board with uh some analysis we've done and looking forward to whatever the contract changes are as we look forward to the following year so that'll be the rhythm that

079we look forward to this year pending changes we hear from you as we move through that'll be the what we look at in terms of sharing what we're learning and our growth with this with this group as you saw what i presented we wanted to close the year by showing um some of the data we've we've watched all the way through the year in this pie graph and what you're looking at right now are major discipline events that happened for all students across the district on the left side you're seeing what happened in the the entire school year of 2018 2019 which again as i remind the board is the last entire school year we had students in the building with us all year so our discipline looked quite different when we were in only

080part of those other years we're comparing that to what we saw in 2122 as we've made some changes as we've had conversations but also as we did some training around the standard operating procedures and and tried to work with our all of our schools to talk about how we want to respond and what the line is for sros to be involved and you can see it's quite different as we take a look at the major incidents in 1819 about a little over four percent of the major referrals were referred to law enforcement in 2021-22 just a little over one percent were referred to law enforcement and you'll see matt talk about all of those in just a minute again as we've gone all year long we have taken a look at our hispanic group as

081that's our biggest subgroup we wanted to have some comparison um as to what that looked like and what kind of uh disproportionality or not we were looking at and you can see here that in 2018 2019 we had about four and a half a little over four and a half percent of the overall referrals for our hispanic students referred to law enforcement dropped down to a little over 1.3 percent in the current school year which is roughly the same percentage referred to law enforcement as for all students one slide before which was 1.3 again trying to to give a comparison as you look at that you also see the overall referrals are down from 1819 to 2122 and that was true if we go back one slide as well the overall referrals are down by

082about a third so we've seen a drop in overall major referrals but also a dramatic drop in the percentage of referrals that end up referred to law enforcement we think that's a positive trend we want to continue to monitor that but we do think this partnership played a role in that and as we take a look briefly at the data we shared with you at the end of third quarter at that time we had 55 students who we had direct referred to lori and her team at the center for family outreach at that time we had 20 students who had completed we had 14 at that point that had been revoked or for us that meant they were either unsuccessful or they never engaged with laurie and her team so they were given the option

083and we withheld the the consequences at the school level pending an intake meeting with laurie and her team and in in in the case of uh some of those they they made a decision not to engage at that point as we look back at the entire year we had 64 students who agreed to participate so think about that 64 students that did get referred to law enforcement that likely would have in the past um we had 40 of them that completed we had 17 that were revoked again the revoked is they were either unsuccessful or they did not participate in the intake we had 10 students that did not participate in the intake and we still have seven students that are the difference there that are still in the program or awaiting a drug test

084or but still completing and still participating in school for us so the program for us didn't end um lori doesn't stop working with students when school ends um her team works with students when they need to be supported and so for that we appreciate and again i think for a pilot year for a year where we sat and tried to figure out how to make this happen it felt pretty good to us to see the direction things were going last year and with that i would like to to see if lori would come up and talk just briefly about the partnership but i also want to as laurie's coming up i want to also introduce mckinley abbott who is the the individual that's running the case management for the program the the partnership with us

085so mckinley i want to thank you for your work as well i'm so excited to have a second year doing this but the first year was a deep dive we didn't know exactly what we were trying to do we knew that the curriculums and things that we had would fit but then we had some children that came in that had a really high level of mental health and drug and alcohol and so we had to adapt our curriculum and make it a little bit the criteria a little bit more strict so that we had more classes and and what was nice is that we had individual and family therapists there to help us do that assessment as well i'm sad that the the 14 didn't come but i think because i think we would have

086gotten them all through we still have seven that are waiting for uas but i can tell you when we first started we didn't really exactly know how the parents were going to react to all of this with children being expelled from school but i'm telling you the relationship they had with the families was wonderful in fact some of the families have continued to call us and say what can we do we've hit a bump again you know and what can we do as far as parenting kind of thing so our parenting program has really grown because of this and i think because of the trust that we have with them i think now they're starting to understand that we really are a coalition and a partnership and that we really do care about their children

087getting an education they need to be in school they need to have success so that they can graduate not having that opportunity being in the community you know using drugs and doing the things that they do doesn't help them one bit so the kids are feeling good about it they've learned some great things in life skills about peer pressure when they're getting involved with drugs and alcohol and what that looks like and the parents come and say we've had a lot of parents kind of really upset because they've never thought that their children weren't going to be expelled so they got they got a lot of support which was really wonderful and thank you for allowing us to do this again a second year this year is going to be much better because we've got

088a more comprehensive program so thank you for allowing us to do this we love prevention and and i'll i'll just say quickly i'm sure on behalf of the entire board that we are super thankful that you're partnered with us on this and for all the work that you do for the students in this district and your organization does thank you so much well if i could put in a word for scott too scott has been i mean the first year when we were doing that deep dive gave me a lot of information about where we needed to go with this so thank you for your partnership and i brought some flyers thank you so much thanks lori and we really do look forward to your number two so all right with that i'm going to

089turn it over to uh my partner matt good evening thank you scott and i don't want to go first because scott gives me so much material it's so fun but thank you for having us here tonight the next set of slides you're going to see are familiar and i'm hoping that they're not too crowded for you there's a lot of information in here when we talk about four quarters of information so hopefully we've we've done a a good job of making it clear and having these colors pop so you can see the differences so our first uh slide that we'll go over here is how the fort collins police services sros were notified again just to give you an example of the dispatched area that is if someone calls 9-1-1 during the day or even

090at night whether they're on or off the property that is tracked because it is one of our students so this data includes those calls that come in on weekends or whatever else so you can see that most of our categories are down and i think this will be a trend that you see in the for the following slides as well but again there's no new categories in this uh so that's why you see uh there is some data but some of that data like runaway report is pretty low so trying to get it all in here uh those numbers that graph is a little low there but hopefully you recognize this slide and the information on it this information is from march 21st which is right after spring break to june 8th and that's when

091the sros go off a contract the types of calls and assists so another slide that we've shown before this one is probably the most crowded slide because there's just a lot of information on here when we talk about all the different incidences and and calls that the sros record they record everything even if it's a a talk in a parking lot which you see under mentoring uh here on the next slide but a lot everything's recorded and everything's collect data so that's why you see a lot of different things in here you can see again that there's not very many categories that are up uh one that sticks out maybe to you is the disorderly conduct was up just a little bit we're hoping again with this year with the success that the sros had

092in building relationships with our students that we can see a drop in some of that this year and also just the mental health supports and everything that the district is doing to make these kids feel more comfortable in our schools and around staff so hopefully to see some more trends that are just dropping but you can see down through there not not very many categories went up in the fourth quarter and that's good news uh total calls sorry i missed uh i want to make sure i total those calls in the right hand top corner is uh 1869 total calls for the year matt can is it okay if we ask questions in the middle i think so yeah yeah go ahead carolyn so regarding referrals um do we break those down for for um

093i for sped students do we break that down for special education students to referrals not specifically for sped but those are included in these numbers so we don't have specifically that information broken out but any student that is that a call or assist goes through no matter whether they have an iep or not is included in this okay i think that would be an information i would be interested in i'm just surprised we don't have that just for feedback thank you right go ahead matt thanks okay and i'll make a note of that and we'll see what we can do for you next slide is dispositions so this is kind of where we figure out what we're going to do once an incidence is reported and it's starting to be addressed and investigated you can

094see one of our biggest categories is no charges a lot of these incidences can be handled just through conversations and through some mentoring which you'll see the mentoring line from third quarter to fourth quarter went way up i think that's evidence of the sops and the ability for the sros to to build those relationships with kids in their schools as the year went on students get more comfortable with our sros and they start to have conversations with them so those mentoring numbers should be high we hope because that's that's that's the good part of the work there referrals to schools you can see they were really high at the beginning of the school year and then kind of stabilized and then come and then came down again results of the sops and the school administrators

095and sros their partnership just learning how to use those sops to address issues and and provide assistance to students let's see that's about the only categories that had some differences but you can see down through and across there kind of the the dispositions and the results of investigations and handling the issues but there's some good work going on and i think we're seeing some positive results through these numbers as well juvenile citations and tickets again you'll see that these are totaled out on the right hand columns for both the left and the right side you can see that we had a total of 62 juvenile citations and tickets issued for the year you can see a drop in the citations from third quarter to fourth quarter and about an average for the fourth quarter if

096you look at the entire year there of around 14 and then those numbers change just depending on the types of calls and assists you can see some categories have increased some have gone down to some have none uh it just changes of course as the as the incidences happen uh you do see that the assaults went up in the fourth quarter um and that's probably in conjunction with the um disorderly conduct investigations that's those kind of go hand in hand so that may be one of the reasons why that that went up and then on the right side you can see it broken down by race and ethnicity this is taken from our synergy system so that's how the sros obtain that information about the race and ethnicity but you can see again that numbers

097declined from third to fourth quarter and 62 total tickets for the year these totals do not re represent unique students and 43 of the 62 citations and tickets were issued based on victim-related crimes there was a question about non-victim citations from the board about which ones these are i was unable to get the specific categories here but what i did learn is that it could be categories like the marijuana not a victim related crime trespass may not be victim related so there's a there's a few other the categories there that may not be victim related and that's where those numbers come from if the board is interested i can try to get the breakdown of the numbers if that's something you want but i thought i'd just share that tonight with you yeah sorry that

098gives me a general sense i'm the one who asked the question i think the other the other thing i'm curious about actually that i didn't send and i apologize is how many unique students are in here how many people are we actually talking about again if you don't have the answer now that's fine if you could just get it to us because i think that that would be interesting to understand and to see the breakdown of those by by race and ethnicity sure we can do that um i'll give it the uh sro uh sergeant and uh she can break down that data they'll have to go back and look through investigations and and see but we can we can get those numbers i think it's an important thing to understand so i appreciate it

099okay not a problem kirsten you wanted to ask something yeah but i was just curious um interference with the school that category what constitutes that interference so that would be if a student disrupted the learning of the school if there was maybe a lockdown or a lockout because of a student mis behavior issue then they would determine whether that is an offense that would be ticketable or is that a mentoring option possibility or you know there's other services with restorative justice that we can use to address those issues okay any other questions okay again on the felony filings so this is when something reaches the level of mostly you can see over there they're all based on victim-related crimes victims rights will sometimes dictate that we don't have a choice but to go to felony

100filings plus the investigation may show that it is appropriate regardless but all these are based on victim-related crimes and you can see that for the year types of calls and assists we had six total for the fourth quarter we had one assault one theft again the same data i can ask for the uniqueness of students on that and then race and ethnicity you can see the breakdown of that information as well in the bottom graph i think your first chart it's not six it's eight sorry that's okay it should be eight yeah yep we will make that correction that's fine thank you so i can read but i'm not sure about adding we'll get that taken care of as jess points out none of the rest of us caught that bill now thanks for catching

101it lcso data again ending the school year they did not have their system in parallel with fort collins police services but i have been told that that is now in place so they are doing data collection very similar to fort collins police services so in the future reports we expect to see probably more data looking like that but for this year they did they did totals for the year so it's not broken down by monthly or quarterly but you can see they had 59 calls and assists for total and their engagement events which teaching sporting events and mentoring 116. so it's always good to see that number bigger than the top number but you can see the things that uh that they re that they did record and again we'll look for that data i

102think one thing i would like to mention about the data collection for this year we now have a full year of data in the system where before we were going back to 1819 and we didn't have years to compare with really because of the new system so now that we have the sops we have a full year sops we'll have another this year opportunity we'll have some good comparison data going forward for uh quarter to quarter or year to year which i think is going to show some some value so we're looking forward to sharing that with you throughout the year i want to take another opportunity tonight to promote plus report to you our sro interaction feedback form again since it went live on march 4th there have been no reports we continue to

103promote that with business cards with students and with the community if our sros come in contact with that it's on the website it's part of that reporting mechanism that people can find so we're encouraging the use of that positive negative and as soon as those reports start coming in we'll be sharing that data with you to show what we're hearing about that it is interesting as the year ended i got emails from parents and students but i didn't get a feedback report but all those were positive about thank you to the sros and we really value them and it was great they helped my students so much so things like that um but yeah those those interaction feedback forms are available and we hope that those will be used maybe a little bit more this

104year for positive but we'll take the negative because that tells us where we need to improve and then again we want to end the presentation tonight just thanking our our community resources you heard from the center for family outreach tonight which is a great partnership and you saw the great data that they have and the work that they're doing in partnership with us along with them is the larimer county hub summit stone safe to tell all these organizations are a benefit to our students they are benefit to us as we learn and as we strive to improve our processes and our in our protocols so we value these relationships as well because they give us feedback and they tell us where we're at and what we can be doing and i know the sros all

105appreciate these resources as well so to that we come down to the last slide about what resonated with you tonight i know that you've already had a chance to ask questions as we went along but i'd be happy to answer any more that you have or any other discussion points before i end i just want to say thank you to our sros again and our csos as well our own security forces they all do such an outstanding job and they all do care about our students and i think you're seeing the results of really good work from from those individuals and those groups so thanks very much matt and i'll i'll just uh before i open the floor for other comments i'll just add our thanks on behalf of the board to our sros and

106csos it's it's really important we get a lot of we get a lot of good feedback from the community about the work that you all are doing and thanks for your partnership with us to to make things even better for our students so thanks very much dj it looks like you wanted to say something yeah i want to start off by saying a big thanks to you and your team and the sros for sitting down and diving into that sop i think i think what resonates most for me on this is the fact that having clear direction and understanding of your responsibilities for the sros and for administrators administrators has really helped and i think the numbers really show that and i think it it is a great work and flexibility that we've had with

107our sros to be able to accommodate the changes and work with that so big thanks and please pass that on how many new sros do we have this year new yeah i believe we hired mostly counting the two new schools i think we had three so i think there's five new sros five in the system so it'll be interesting you know to build their uh understanding of the system that we have and being able to see how well that coordinates next year and be able to see that but i think having that at sop has really helped us and so i think that'll be really great um can we go ahead a couple more questions um the the timnith i just want to clarify about tim nith where does that fall in for any kind

108of data that we're going to be tracking we'll work with them this year of course in past years there really hasn't been any data so they are aware of the data collection that's going on by the other two law enforcement agencies and we're working with them to see if they can borrow that from another agency and make that work for them so that's a great question but it'll be pulled out separately i believe that yeah we'll have to have data for that high school as well i mean we need to have that or that middle school high school so great question thanks and um and then um the scott the next question comes to you is the um the chart we saw that the the students that went to the center and you said that

109you know 10 didn't engage i i was just wondering if you have data did did we lose those i mean did they do did we lose educating those kids too did they come out of our schools or did we at least get to keep educating they just didn't go through uh yeah the dj i think it's a great question and uh the majority of them ended up going into the expulsion track and worked directly with troy um so the beauty of of our expulsion process in this district unlike many others is that when students end up being expelled for us that just puts them in a different learning opportunity in many districts it's 365 days you don't have anything for us you see every year at the end of the year what a good job

110troy does um and so you know that's another connection and ironically for us troy is the one that made the connection for the center because he works with laurie in the center directly from his population also so i don't know that when they have it engaged you know we went in i think we were pretty transparent when we made this policy change we were more aggressive when you think about the policy directly we didn't have a three strike and we're moving forward we were more directive and we wondered on the front side when we gave students a choice which is really what's happening right you're either expelled or you can go into the program i remember the conversation with laurie directly we had no idea what percentage of students and or families would say we're

111going to engage with that we made an assumption that many families would ask for help would be in a place where they could ask for help and i think for year one that's what we saw i don't think we're happy that we didn't get ten to engage so i think as laurie talked about we'll continue to try to get better but troy doesn't stop engaging with families and if you talk to the families that are around troy is like a woodpecker with a family right he just continues to to needle him and engage so um bless troy he does a phenomenal job but that's i think the answer that dj are you so confidently you can say that all ten of them i i can't say to tonight confidently all 10 end of the year

112with us but i but i can say a good chunk of them will and i can ask troy to find out exactly what percentage that didn't engage engaged with him okay thank you thank you go ahead nate i think the woodpecker quotes the quote of the evening [Laughter] i'm sure matt will find a way to bring that one back up too i was about to say ditto on dj's comments but i just wanted to follow on those i i think it's really important that we've evolved this sro program to a place where we're constantly uh evaluating the appropriate role the sros and how they interact with the school and so i appreciate the data because that helps us shine a light on what that role is and should be so i'm glad that we're in

113this place uh different than where we were several years ago thanks ditto jess yeah i did sorry if it's not clear i forgot uh so i have one like question comment um so as we go through this year and i'm still looking at this slide so we have 40 kiddos that have completed successfully going through your center family outreach is there any anticipation of kind of tracking data on the kids that we do have this alternative path for and kind of see how they do see you know do they get referred less are they does that help them sort of not recur i think that's going to be important for us to pay attention to yes we know who they are i do think it's important for the community to know that when it says

114they have completed successfully completed that program that means they have a clean ua and that's a big deal when you're talking about any students that are entered into that process 64 students that were involved at some level with drugs at least 40 of them were clean when they ended the program and i think that's a big deal but yes we need to pay attention to what are we seeing in terms of follow-up i think lori if if you had a chance to hear her talk when they go through her program in general they tend to have less issues going forward but not no issues going forward right so they continue to need support and and to be wrapped up and and have a general amount of support to keep them going in the right direction

115i really think the students love the classes because they interact with each other and it's like the things that they learn about life it's like they're not on an island by themselves there's a bunch of them that make the same kinds of decisions and i think that's kind of reassuring for them that you know what i'm okay i have a whole class here we're all right we make decisions that sometimes are not the best but they learn from any other comments from the board yes carolyn go ahead so i would really like to thank you for the work you do for the community lori and for our children um i've been to a couple of your community breakfast where we get to hear from students and families about their experience with you and those testimonials

116and the stories that those people tell and how life changing it has been for them going through the program i mean are really inspiring and i i really am so grateful for you and the work that you do for our families and our children thank you yeah i just want to reiterate a couple of things one um i just thank you all for i know what three three years ago with the sro when we were looking at this and the sops and i think we were um you know we were in a rough place and so i just want to say thank you for sticking with it for you know allowing the community comment to come into play and to taking all of that community comment and taking all of that those thoughts and putting

117it into action and i think what we're seeing right now is just how much better that made the sro program and thank you to the sros who who are willing to make the adjustments as well because i know that it was not only an adjustment for the board an adjustment for administration adjustment for the schools but it's adjustment for the sros too so and everybody was you know trying to figure that all out and i feel like we're in a like you said we landed in a pretty good place and now it's just a it's going to be a constant um making sure that we make it even better and better each time um and lori and the center i mean you know how much i love you and what you do for our children

118is nothing short of amazing miracle work and i know those kids work hard for you and they earn everything that you know we see up there that you not you do you give them nothing but you give nothing away they earn every bit of it and it's you can tell and so i think the partnership here is just fantastic um and this is i think this is something exemplary we can hold up and say this is what we need to be doing more and more in our community with our community non-profits in the school together because the services that are provided for these kids is just amazing so thank you jim i just think this is a perfect example of a learning organization which is exactly what we're striving to be so thank you excellent

119i think everybody's spoken now and except superintendent kingsley would like to say something so go ahead yeah it's it's really a ditto statement but you know it was 15 16 months ago that i was deeply studying this community in this district and this was a hot topic in hot contentious conversation that i was watching from the periphery and realizing relationships were at stake and so what i would love to celebrate in addition to staff and partnership in our resource officers and csos is our own ability to work through complex problems like if there's anything that i think we learn is how we approach this we should start to apply to other problems that exist in this district data informed leadership clarity around explicit standard operating procedures frequent monitoring and sharing with the public in the

120spirit of transparency which drives accountability which led to results in one year i think it's absolutely incredible work done by staff and our community partners in our various law enforcement agencies as we are talking and thinking about other complex problems through the development of our strategic plan i want to use this as a vote of confidence that we can do this we can do hard things and we know how it's just a matter of engaging the community doing it thoughtfully strengthening relationships but being explicitly clear around what's expected and making sure we provide the resources that are necessary to carry it out so i'm just encouraged and i want to thank staff and everybody involved for this incredible work and just for bragging rights for psd not for anybody individual or any one group but

121for psd we did have a request this summer from another school district on the east coast that they wanted to borrow our sops because they saw the good work that it was doing so i'm so filled [Laughter] all right excellent so thank you scott and matt appreciate the update we look forward to the to the these quarterly presentations to see how we're doing and as jim said uh learn from them and and uh getting better for our students all right so uh the next item is an executive session can i get a motion to go into executive session go ahead kristin i move that the board enter executive session 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

122intergovernmental agreement relating to the southeast community recreation center as authorized by crs 24-6-402 subsection 4e individuals invited to join the board in executive session our superintendent brian kingsley chief of staff lauren hooton chief finance officer dave montoya chief of secondary school scott nielsen chief operations officer matt bryant director of athletics and activities brandon carlucci general counsel adam aspen and board secretary jill berner can i get a second for all that dj yes thank you uh jill would you please call a vote on this dj anderson hi jim brokish hi nate donovan aye kristen draper aye rob patterson aye carolyn reed aye jessica zamora aye motion passes 7-0 great thank you very much i'll just let everybody know that we're going into closed session for this executive session topic this is the last item on the

123agenda this evening when we finish the executive session the only thing we're going to do is come back out and adjourn the meeting so we wish you a good evening thank you for attending you