Board of Education Meeting: June 14, 2022

001time all right uh welcome uh this is the last board of education meeting like this last sort of business-like board of education meeting of the school year uh and we welcome you and thank you for joining us this evening this is uh at 6 30 p.m on june 14th i'll just remind everybody to mute your cell phone so we don't have interruptions like that and with that i would invite you all to join me in the pledge of united allegiance of america and to the republic for which it stands one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all great thank you all very much uh with that i will ask whether any board members want to make any changes to the agenda i should actually ask first we have one of our board

002members joining us remotely jess samora is joining us remotely and i want to make sure that she's actually on do we know that kristen i'm not sure can we okay so i'll just ask jess can you hear us yes i can hear you rob thanks okay thanks very much sorry about that sorry for that interruption but i wanted to make sure a you all knew that she was joining us and b make sure that she could hear us jim is not able to join us this evening so let me ask again would any board members like to make any changes to the agenda seeing none we will go on to our recognitions for the evening and i invite our superintendent to introduce that thank you this evening we have many exciting recognitions that we will

003be sharing through a reading due to folks summer schedules and their inability to be here unfortunately but nonetheless we are excited to celebrate them and sharing tonight's recognitions is executive director of communications ms madeleine knoblet madeline welcome all right thank you superintendent kingsley and directors of the board thanks for everyone being here this evening as superintendent kingsley said uh as we traditionally do for this meeting of each school year with folks out for summer vacations and just scheduling in general we tend to do this recognition as a reading and so i'm going to go through i'll read we have quite a few different staff and student recognitions and so i'll read them and then ask for some applause in case we have folks watching from home where they can watch the recording later and then

004that will conclude this evening's recognitions so the first was one it is the only one that we received this year and we felt it was important to highlight and this recognition is for character and our pooter high school girls tennis team received the sportsmanship award at the state tournament in may and it was special because it was based on voting from the other teams and spectators so that was a pretty neat deal and we wanted to make sure that the entire team was recognized for that accomplishment we felt it was important to give them that time and space so if we could give the pooter high school girls tennis team a round of applause for their sportsmanship award that would be great [Applause] all right the next one we get to celebrate our colleague kale

005wicker for a second time so some of you who come to our board meetings regularly and watch know that we recognized him for a state level award as the 2022 colorado assistant elementary school principal of the year not only that but he has been selected as one of the national outstanding assistant principals of the year by the national association of elementary school principals which is a pretty darn neat deal so if we could give mr kale wicker a round of applause um this one feels pretty incredible they all do uh we had 17 psd odyssey of the mind teams qualify for world finals world finals that's not just state national world which i know you all get but that's how it works uh but we had them qualify for the world finals after competing in

006their state competitions and nine of the teams went to iowa in may to actually compete in person at the world finals so that's pretty darn cool and let's give all of those teams and their sponsors a round of applause all right one of the things we like to do is take a moment and recognize some of the pretty incredible scholarships and appointments from our graduating class so from the class of 2022 so the first that we're recognizing this evening are our military academy appointments and our rotc scholarships so i have a couple of students here i'll read through all and then we can applaud so we have peyton malliker from fossil ridge high school an army rotc scholarship going to creighton university we have mr austin holt from fossil ridge high school army rotc scholarship

007for the university of wyoming mason smith from liberty common high school going to west point and the u.s military academy we have riley durant from rocky mountain high school going to the u.s merchant marines academy and matthew kinderson rocky mountain high school grad who is going to the u.s air force academy if we could please recognize them that would be great [Applause] all right so some of our some of the most prestigious scholarships uh are the next categories we'll go through so the first is the better foundation scholarship many of you are familiar i'm sure but sponsored by the denver based betcher foundation this is a merit-based scholarship available to colorado graduating seniors who provide service to the community in school are the top students in their class display leadership and demonstrate character only 42

008scholarships are offered across the state each year and four-year scholarships pay for a colorado school of the recipient's choice and that's tuition fees book allowance annual stipend for living expenses and this year we get to recognize melia henriksen from fort collins high school as a better scholar [Applause] uh the next one is the daniels fund scholarship these are seniors who have demonstrated strong character and a determination to succeed in life and they receive funding to attend the college or university of their choice and we have three so ezra black from liberty common high school another liberty common high school graduate schuyler maze and then kevin bruxfort from rocky mountain high school where this year's daniels fund scholars [Applause] so the next is a recognition for exceptional academic honor for the national hispanic scholars and this

009is part of the college board's national hispanic recognition program they recognize about 5 000 of the 250 000 hispanic and latino juniors who take college board tests and this year our own matthew kinderson from rocky mountain high school was recognized as a national hispanic scholar [Applause] all right next our are our national merit scholars these uh individuals score in the top one percent academically and they may receive three types of scholarships it could be a one-time 2500 award a corporate-sponsored achievement scholarship or a college-sponsored merit scholarship and they earn this elite designation through a two-year testing and application process and we have a number of students from our district we have christina kim from fort collins high school lucas demon from fort collins high school owen dorlak from liberty common high school lenoir lauing from

010liberty common high school sydney renke from liberty common geoffrey condell from pooter high school mckenna devore from pooter lucy gregory from pooter holden hall from pooter solea monster gray from pooter donovan myrick from pooter roxanne wessel from pooter high school natalie bella hobach from ridgeview classical schools natalie am ryan from rocky mountain high school and maxwell uphoff from rocky mountain as well [Applause] all right and then certainly um last but not least we have uh some of our individual state champions for the spring athletic season so we have for track and field we had quite an incredible uh rundown for the students who competed this year so we have brooke naughton from fort collins high school was a champion in the long jump triple jump and high jump we have i may get this wrong

011rise travis in the triple jump from pooter high school representing fort collins high school dante johnson was a champion in the long jump kevin buxworth uh who if you noticed was also in the academic accolades from rocky mountain high school in the discus laura davis from fort collins high school in shot put and then boys swim and dive state champions included jack ballard of fort collins high school for his 500 freestyle and 200 freestyle and carter rutheven from fort collins or fossil ridge high school excuse me in the 100 butterfly so if we could give all of our spring athletic champions around all right and that concludes recognitions uh for this school year so we'll be back in the fall and look forward to honoring all of our staff and students once again thank you

012thank you madeline appreciate it um so now we'll move on to our first set of action items and the first one of those is a resolution in support of juneteenth uh can i get a motion for the resolution in support go ahead kristen i recommend approval of a resolution in support of juneteenth um 2022. can i get a second dj has a second and would a board member like to read the resolution go ahead kristen okay resolution in support of juneteenth june 19th 2022 whereas news of the end of the enslavement of african americans did not reach the frontier areas of the united states in particular the state of texas until months after the conclusion of the civil war more than two and a half years after president abraham lincoln issued the emancipation proclamation on

013january first 1863 and whereas on june 19 1865 union soldiers led by major general gordon granger arrived in galveston texas with news that the civil war had ended and the enslaved were free and whereas african americans who had been enslaved in the southwest celebrated june 19th commonly known as juneteenth independence day as an inspiration and encouragement for future generations and whereas juneteenth independence day began as a holiday in the state of texas and is now celebrated in 49 states and the district of columbia as a special day of observance of sorry special day of observance and recognition of the emancipation of all slaves in the united states and whereas juneteenth independence day celebrations have been held to honor african-american freedom while encouraging self-development and respect for all cultures and whereas pruder school district is committed

014to providing an inclusive representative culturally affirming safe and supportive learning environment where all students employees and community members see the historical celebrations as an integral part of our district mission and values now therefore we had resolved that the pruder school district board of education does hereby proclaim the 19th day of june 2022 as juneteenth in pruder school district and encourages students staff and the community to support honor and celebrate the independence of of and the excellence and enriching contributions made from our african-american communities of the past and present great thank you kristen i believe uh superintendent you have some folks joining us to speak about this yes very excited to share that joining us this evening to speak to the recognition of juneteenth is psd's chief equity and academic officer ms marlena gross taylor along

015with our new diversity equity and inclusion coordinator miss delia mahani welcome to both of you hello my name is dalia mahani i use she her pronouns and i'm very excited to be here to ask that the board of education passed the resolution recognizing june juneteenth which occurs on the 19th of june every year juneteenth is a holiday for everyone regardless of race it is a great time to come together and learn about each other and our histories so that we can truly see hear and value each other it is not lost on me that this acknowledgement is taking place on flag day in the united states flags hold great significance for folks across our globe and represent so many so many of our values and ideas that are as different as they are the same

016tonight my shirt shows the juneteenth flag the color scheme was intentionally made the same as the united states flag red white and blue to signify that the formerly enslaved and their descendants were and are citizens of the united states it is affirming not just for me as the proud descendant of formerly enslaved africans and those members of our black community but also for our psd family in its entirety that this board recognized and embraced the momentous occasion when news of independence reached masses of enslaved people who bravely fought for their freedom and the future of our country thank you all right thank you very much i didn't i didn't know didn't know whether marlena was going to add to that no okay well thanks very much for that uh for that context and i would

017ask whether any members of the board want to make any comments here okay kristin go ahead all right i'll just say thank you so much for for sharing that with us and i am just so honored and proud to be able to pass this resolution today so thank you in the absence of other remarks i'll ask kristen to call the role on this dj anderson aye nate donovan aye kristen draper aye rob pederson aye carolyn reed aye jessica zamora motion passes six zero okay thank you very much kristen okay good good stuff so we have our a second resolution this time in support of pride month uh and can i get a motion in support of that resolution kristin you don't you don't have to do all of them you know no it's okay um

018i i move that the board passed the resolution in support of pride month june 2022 we got a second from carolyn would somebody like to read the resolution you want okay all right go ahead kristen all right resolution in support of pride month june 2022 whereas pride month is celebrated in june to commemorate the stonewall riots that took place on june 28 1969 and their impact being in being a galvanizing force within the movement for lgbtqia plus rights and whereas the following year and every year since cities around the world hold pride marches and celebrations to continue the fight for equal rights for all lgbtqia plus individuals create a community of joy and acceptance and celebrate the history of the movement before during and after the stonewall riots and whereas pruder school district is committed

019to providing a safe and supportive learning environment where all students employees and community members are welcome for who they are regardless of their sexual orientation gender identity and gender expression and whereas the pudu school board wholeheartedly embraces psd's lgbtqia plus students employees and community members for their diversity they bring to our schools and workplaces and strives to ensure that they are seen accepted and celebrated for who they fully are now therefore be it result that the pooter school district board of education does hereby proclaim the month of june 2022 as pride month in pooter's school district and encourages students staff and the community and the community support to support honor and celebrate the excellence and enriching contributions made from our lgbtqia plus communities of the past and present and announce discrimination and harassment of the

020lgbtqia plus community excellent thank you very much and i believe we have a familiar pair of folks that talk to us about this brian do you want to introduce that no that is correct uh welcome again then we're really grateful that you're here to talk about this resolution thank you thank you superintendent kingsley and the pooter board of education for recognizing also pride month it is definitely an intersection between the two communities from our pride community and our black and african american community as well as other underrepresented groups that makes this month even more special as we heard pride month is celebrated annually in june and it's celebrated to honor the 1969 stonewall riots in new york city as well as provide a space for everyone to embrace who they are love who they are

021and be unashamed in letting the world know about it pride month celebrations include parades picnics parties workshops concerts and it attracts millions of participants across the world and also here in pooter school district and in our school community one of my favorite quotes that i'd like to share with you is by a former president barack obama he said that when all americans are treated as equal no matter who they are or whom they love we are all more free it would be remiss of me to not mention that on sunday was the 55 year anniversary of the loving supreme court case which banned all laws against interracial and that also affected and impacted our pride community as well our diversity and shared humanity make us better as a school community psd is committed to providing

022safe learning environments and equal opportunities for all of our students regardless of their sexual orientation their gender identity or their gender expression or their race but we will continue to enhance our services and resources in support of our private students as well as their families and our staff that might identify in that group so thank you so much and we encourage you to pass this resolution well spoken thank you uh would any member of the board like to make any additional comments kristin would like to say some more stuff um thank you so much for those beautiful words marlena it's um you know i think it's very important for us to note that the um stonewall riot um which was the first pride um was um started by a black trans woman and a latina

023trans woman so that intersectionality is right there so um and pride in fort collins will actually be held in july which i know is a bit of an odd thing but denver sort of claims pride for themselves and so if you want to go down to the pride parade there's a huge pride parade coming up next not this coming weekend but next weekend that you can always go to pride will be here in july and actually at the farmers market this weekend there will be a pride celebration at the farmer's market as well so thank you other comments yeah i'll just add that i think it's terrific that we're seeing um not only are we doing things like this resolution but we're seeing things in the community uh to in support of this and i've

024heard it on the radio and it's it's just terrific and i appreciate your coming to share additional contacts with us about this and i'm glad that we're able to uh to presumably pass this resolution so if there are no additional comments i would call kristin to or ask kristen to call the vote on this resolution dj anderson aye nate donovan aye kristen draper aye rob patterson aye carolyn reed aye and jessica zamora hi motion passes 6-0 excellent thank you very much kristen and uh thanks uh to you uh all for for coming to talk with us about these two resolutions i appreciate that very much next we have a report from our superintendent so i would invite you superintendent kingsley to take the floor thank you members of the board members of the community good

025evening it's great to be with you all tonight i know it's our last regular board meeting of the year can't believe that but i also have a vision that i'd like to share as a result of kind of a year in culmination i can imagine and dream of tomorrow's newspaper we all wake up and the front page shares that champion psd students and staff are recognized at the local the state the national and global level for character for leadership for their brilliance for their service and sacrifice to each other in their country for their scholarship and for their athleticism i'm so proud like all of you of all of the great things that are happening in partnership with our students to allow them to thrive there are so many celebrations at the end of the

026year and the things that madeline and other staff members alongside of you have shared it's really deserving of in my opinion a public campaign to lift up all of the people in this community for their resilience and their persistence to navigate really tough times that doesn't just include our staff our teachers our principals the people who help cultivate that excellence in our classrooms it's also a celebration of our families who not just trust us but partner with us and invest in their children to make them reach their very very their potential so i'm so excited about that and i don't know we have a reporter here tonight if you can do anything to make that happen i would just uh let me know if you need me to talk to your editor i would also

027say you know this is a time for rest for everybody i'm hopeful that our entire community can find time this summer to recharge to reconnect with loved ones to slow things down to connect with each other i'm really proud of our opportunity last night at bolt's middle school to engage with our community in an open civil dialogue centered on improving communications and transparency it was incredibly well attended i think we had at least 45 members of our community some here again tonight and shared their heart shared their mind and gave us really solid feedback as a school district around things that we can do better at and it's our obligation as a staff to listen and to put many of those things into practice as i shared with the community at our last meeting and

028i'll say it again we have to overcome our inability to address our differences it's not our differences that are the problem it's how we are addressing them or not addressing them together through dialogue and their community has been asking for that and so what happened last night is going to happen again on i want to make sure i get the date right at august 4th so super excited i think that's again from 5 30 to 7 30. and this will be something that persists our topics may change but continuing to engage with our community in different ways over the summer and over the course of the next year will be a new normal if it hasn't already been established prior to the the pandemic so super excited about that i would also share while it

029is the summer time of resting and recharging there's also a lot of staff members that i get a chance to be flanked by that are working really hard to make sure next year is successful that's even better than this year and that extends from our learning and teaching division to our operations division the acceleration and excitement around making sure that all of our our furniture gets delivered to our new buildings and we have hvac updates and upgrades and our facilities get cleaned and all of these things that are happening around the clock to make sure that when people come back they feel joy they feel connection and they feel like they're a part of something bigger than themselves i want to say thank you to all the staff who are working around the clock during

030a downtime to make sure next year is successful what you do every day doesn't go unnoticed in what you do matters i would also say in closing that recently we had summer learning institute that was incredibly well attended by both our licensed staff as well as our classified staff and their commitment to volunteer their time to continue to grow in their efficacy and be better as a professional in our organization after a school year and in the midst of a pandemic says a lot around our team and their commitment to being the very best they can be for our children and had an opportunity to personally attend that i know many of the board members had a chance to stop by and learn and connect and grow with some of our professionals and it just

031says a lot about the fortitude and the commitment to excellence that this district has while also recognizing as we engage with our community we have a commitment to doing things better we're not perfect we're learning from each other and we're having experiences where we do want to grow together as a community and i think those are things are happening every day and i'm very proud to be a part of it alongside all of you and that concludes my remarks tonight and thank you for giving me the opportunity to share my story with the community thanks very much superintendent kingsley really appreciate it as always i'll i'll uh just comment that i was one of the folks who had the opportunity to attend the summer institute and i i was very impressed with the kind of

032learning and dialogue that was going on where the the staff was learning from each other and from instructors and facilitators so i appreciate that work on on behalf of those who attended the next thing on our agenda is community comment and i will just say that keeping in mind the principles of respectful learn uh sorry listening and other protocols that we've discussed previously uh this opportunity for public comment is for members of the community who register to speak by the designated deadline those people will be called on to make remarks in the order that they signed up each speaker will be allowed three minutes to address the board with that i will invite our first speaker forward and that's jeff after heidi welcome hi my name is jeff after heidi from wellington colorado some icon

033thanks this message is specifically addressing the board of education and my themes tonight address unity courage and truth over the past year you've had an opportunity to bring this community closer together in the face of adversity and instead you've consciously decided to champion and implement policies that drive wedges between staff parents and community your policies divide us by race by sex by culture by religion by class and political affiliation you claim that you want to work with parents to build bridges and yet in the same breath you've threatened us with defamation lawsuits for bringing to light your behaviors lack of accountability and complete inability to self-govern instead you repeatedly label and treat anyone challenging your control of the narrative as an extremist as if somehow you have the moral high ground last meeting one board

034member expressed his anger on a situation and how it was handled in the publicity that came from it and i do appreciate him speaking with authenticity which is refreshing however it displayed that board members had the capability to respond to public comment for the past year for policies that you knew harmed the mental health of our children and what it really showed in my opinion is that you lack the moral courage to face our righteous indignation i've attended every board meeting this year with the exception of two and i can unequivocally say there's little to no debate on any agenda item no one has abstained from a vote due to a conflict of interest with the exception of dj anderson to my knowledge i've sent an email to this board on may 11th with the

035follow-up communications on june 1st and june 6 requesting you provide your annual disclosures provided by psd's policy 3.5 and the law i might add and to date you've not responded i've submitted a core request to see when the last time an annual disclosure was submitted and audited and the response back is that i received as there's no records on file the reason this is important is that a former library employee has been arrested for using her work credit card to make more than a hundred and ten thousand dollars in personal purchases this same individual runs a non-profit organization that tried to remove sros from our schools and finally it appears that this person may have multiple ties to individuals or directors sitting on this board of education the situation is a symptom of how sick

036buddhist school district is and it underscores why several generations of coloradoans have entered this establishment but are now leaving in historical numbers i hope you take the time over the summer to reflect on how serious you take your oath of office you back my time thank you our next speaker is kelly holdridge welcome hi i'm here to bring light to a situation that has occurred within the district and i just wanted to make sure everyone is aware of it because i'm not sure everyone is always in the loop on everything last board meeting there was a non-peaceful protest that took place in front of this building there's a swarm of people showing their support of the lgbtq community which should be a good thing this protest was however never meant to be peaceful based on

037the social media posts asking people to show up not everyone but several attendees harassed threatened assaulted assaulted and frightened adults and children this was done by bystanders this was done two bystanders standing in line to get into the building signed up to speak or to just watch the protesters could not know what these people were there for but took it upon themselves to shove women yell hateful things at children and follow people to their cars as they tried to leave one family came to speak and ended up leaving in tears and fear before the meeting even began one particular protester was yelling that they hate us and that jesus hates us and don't forget the several people all dressed in black standing there in threatening manners saying they were part of antifa there were district

038employees employees and security guards present and nothing was done to these actions while we have gathered our own video and audio proof of these events i have requested access to the district security cameras in the front of the building and have been denied for weeks i have been asked why i want to see the video and i have to show the exact time of the incident the incident occurred over an extended period of time and to several different people and families i requested the video so the district and public can be made aware of the unsafe actions that are allowed to take place on the district grounds i have been denied my rightful access to the video footage and have to wonder why why am i forced to jump through hoops to see something we

039all have the right to see i have also been threatened with the footage being deleted why would you be so hasty to jump to deleting the footage i would think the district would be using that footage to condemn these individuals and their terrible app using this footage to make a district a safer place you tout wanting transparency everywhere but then we are denied our rightful access up to something of this magnitude makes one wonder again why and you know me and you know that i have planned several rallies here before board meetings we have been labeled terrible people extreme mixed to be exact extremists all because we want the best for our children and want to be involved in their education because we dare to express our opinions that differ from yours you are all

040here and you know that not one thing ever happened during my rallies we were here to support to show our support or non-support of something taking place in the district not one person was threatened yelled at or frightened in closing i will use the professional words of your own board member and say that we are all pissed off too thank you our next speaker is emily galachot i apologize if i'm pronouncing that wrong thanks it's galicious i apologize everyone gets it wrong yeah i know that problem p i get peterson a lot anyway welcome thank you yeah so my name is emily galashot i use she her pronouns i usually watch these meetings from home this is my first time speaking here so i'm excited to be doing that and i want to speak today

041specifically about the sustainability plan which you'll be discussing later on in the meeting i'm really involved in the city in sustainability efforts and climate efforts specifically through the city city council in the city of fort collins so i'm really excited that this is on the agenda for school district because this makes up such a large part of our community i'm from seattle where we don't get a lot of sun and those rare days are always really exciting and so the idea of utilizing solar in a place like seattle doesn't make a lot of sense here on the other hand we have more sun than we know it to and essentially it's this incredible resource that is just going to waste because we're not capturing that energy as a community we really need to be reducing

042our use of and reliance on fossil fuels reducing our energy consumption investing in green energy all of that and i know psd has really made commitments to to sustainability it's something that you and we believe in and value and teach especially to students and the next generation who are inheriting this world that unfortunately is not in the best right now and so i think it's really time that we take the steps to put all of these values into action and so with solar and electric vehicles which are two things that you'll be discussing today these are excellent things they reduce pollution they save money they get to teach students about these green industries which are going to become more and more popular and important as we move on and i think it's really important that

043we invest in this and i know cost is always an issue but we really can't afford not to do this there are grants there are resources to do this sort of stuff and ultimately it's what we need to do because if we don't we the kids that we're teaching won't have a world to inherit so thank you very much i'm gonna watch the meeting from home but i look forward to this next part of the meeting thank you very much our next speaker is fred kirsch welcome thank you thank you thank you for the opportunity to speak tonight um thank you for all of the hard work that you do i'm sure it's been a very challenging year for everyone so i just want to emphasize my thanks for that as you know community for

044sustainable energy has been knocking on doors around the psd district talking to constituents about going solar about psd going solar so far we've talked to over 10 000 constituents and more than 90 percent of people support and believe that psd should pursue best practices for solar to demonstrate that we ask folks to sign a petition and to write letters to the board here's a sampling of some of those you've received a few of these so far i believe to date we've collected over 5000 signatures and over 2000 individual letters from psd constituents i don't know if you've heard that much from people on other issues or not and collectively what we're doing is we're asking psd to move beyond remote solar gardens and to work to maximize the potential of rooftop solar for the district

045and the facilities department has identified a few concerns around this a concern that solar panels can lead to leaks on roofs and access for maintaining equipment that exist on the roofs and the good news is that building codes and standard practices in the industry address these concerns and there are some great examples of right here in fort collins csu's roofs are plastered with solar panels there are over 7 000 schools around the country that have solar panels on them and right here at psd bethke elementary has had rooftop solar since 2009 to the best of my knowledge there haven't been any problems with that project so um you know maybe a way to look at that is it's a pilot program to you know for psd uh let's see so along these lines tonight you're

046going to be discussing this and that's probably going to mention that there was a feasibility stun a psd solar feasibility study done in 2017 and that study identified seven megawatts of ready projects and it would be great if that study could be used as a jumping off point for 2022 to maximize the potential of solar to reduce pollution save money for the district and teach kids about solar opportunities and prepare kids for jobs when they get out of high school and this could be a really big win for psd it's something that can be done with zero out of pocket expense and it can save money that could be reprioritized to maybe teachers and um as i mentioned prepare so they can get jobs right out of high school in this new and grown well

047not new this growing industry um but you know maybe most importantly it's a quote from a young d student dear pooter board of education please add some panels to the schools it helps the environment and makes a better place in this world great little picture from the kids thank you very much for your time thank you our uh la uh sorry no we have uh mark again i'm going to get this wrong i apologize how how does sheld is mark here mark is not here okay then our final speaker for the evening is danny lawrence welcome thank you for the opportunity this past sunday the findings of the state's complaint i followed with the colorado department of education were disclosed and found that pooter school district violated the individuals with disabilities in education act and

048my son's rights under 300.323 that section indicates that teachers and providers be given information about who is responsible for iep implementation and their specific responsibilities additionally in the findings there is mentioned that psc also violated your own special education procedures manual and the colorado instructional accommodations manual that indicates iep accommodations are not discretionary we have written into our son's iep teacher training for electronic materials and accommodations in 2021 to help avoid this violation the department of education determined that psc didn't hold the training and the teachers didn't know what their responsibilities were psc didn't provide electronic materials maps graphs printed materials and vocabulary lists in accordance with my son's iep also new environmental supports from an orientation mobility specialist and progress reports from the teacher of the visually impaired did not occur that tbi is

049now refusing to work with my child next school year psd teachers get the autonomy to pick and choose which disabled students they work with even though disability is a protected class we had zero problems with the teacher of visual impairment this school year in fact it was a hug a sizable summer gift and a promise to my son that she would see him in high school next year psc teachers also have the autonomy to lie in the faces of the students they serve and the parents they collaborate with my child is heartbroken in stark contrast psc's human resources department issued their findings from the policy complaints i made at the same time in their investigation they found that blevin's staff were informed believed they understood the accommodations and implemented the iep perhaps the most important

050finding for me of that internal investigation is there is no policy to deal with written formal policy complaints no parameters or rules that you all need to follow no way for the public to object and fairly be considered in an established process so can i get some help now please preferably from someone outside of the integrated services department because they have demonstrated that they are unable and unwilling to resolve this matter the only resolution i have been offered is an inflicted agreement with the district limiting and restricting my ability to communicate why are special needs parents being singled out for this punishment what have i done besides exercise my right in the face of incompetence to protect my son retaliation is real we are experiencing it and no amount of gaslighting eliminates the fact that

051psd violated my son's rights our complaint is the first in five years to find a violation in your email tonight is the entire document set so you can see the complaint process this journey has been painful frustrating and now it's terrifying for 16 months i've been asking for the support and this help and the help of this board a 59 graduation rate didn't happen overnight and i think there's something you could all learn about the integrated services department from our experience please engage with us thank you thank you that concludes community comment for this evening now we have an opportunity for board members to provide an update on committee work would anybody like to do so go ahead dj uh yeah i wanted to let everyone know we student advisory council we had a great

052turnout for students signing up for that and i've notified 16 students that will be joining us next fall to start that process the i'll give a shout out to fort collins high school which had a lot of people volunteer for we are trying to keep it manageable and have students from every high school and every school there so i do have about seven on a waiting list if we don't get other students from other schools from fort collins to join us but we so this fall we'll be going out back out to pooter and our two new high schools uh to try to get some more volunteers to see if they would be interested in joining our student advisory council and i'm really excited about working with this group kristin and i will be heading

053that up again this fall so thanks thank you dj other comments or reports go ahead kristen so i just want to um give a shout out to everybody who came last night to the community event it was great we had about 45 people or so come out um along with a couple of students which was really wonderful so we got to hear some student perspectives so again it kind of goes in with what what dj and i will be doing this fall of getting student input so that we can really make sure that we're focusing what the students need and how they how they need to receive it so in last night's discussion it was about conversation and communication and that the um the students do get their communication differently so some of us older

054folks like to use email and websites and some of the younger kids of course do not so um so more ways for us to get um all the information that we need to out to um the the kids themselves and the adults who care for them so we're trying to work on that so um and i just want to you know say thank you to all of you who showed up um and showed up with a full heart and and expressed everything we were able to have some really great conversations and it was i think just a great community event so thank you so much thank you for that report other comments or reports all right seeing none we'll move on to the consent agenda there are as always in this meeting in june there

055are a lot of things on the consent agenda in this case 18 um and i would ask whether there's any board member who wishes to pull anything from the consent agenda if not can i get a motion in favor of the con approving the consensus yes nate i move that the board approve and adopt the recommended actions for the items on the consent agenda thank you can i have a second dj's got a second there great um kristen if you would please uh call a roll call on this dj anderson aye nate donovan hi kristin draper aye rob patterson aye carolyn reed i jessica zamora hi excellent motion passes 6-0 jump in the gun sorry thank you kristen uh all right so um our first uh action item in in our second batch if you

056will is the monitoring and policy review uh el 2.1 treatment of students parents guardians and the general public may i get a motion regarding this uh monitoring report go ahead nate i move that the board determined that the superintendent has reasonably interpreted board education policy el 2.1 in his internal monitoring report dated june 14th 2022 and that the evidence presented supports the superintendent's conclusions stated in the internal monitoring report i have a second for that motion go ahead kristen's again just a second here is there a discussion of this monitoring report seeing none i'll ask you kristen to call a vote on this dj anderson aye nate donovan aye kristen draper aye rob pederson aye carolyn reed aye jessica zamora hi motion passes 6-0 thank you again our next action item is a monitoring and

057policy review of el 2.2 treatment of staff may i get a motion nate i move that the board determined that the superintendent has reasonably interpreted board of education policy el 2.2 in his internal monitoring report dated june 14th 2022 and that the evidence presented supports the superintendent's conclusions stated in the internal monitoring report second from dj there you go excellent any discussion of this modern report okay seeing none kristen if you would call a vote please dj anderson nate donovan aye kristin draper aye rob pederson aye carolyn reed aye jessica zamora motion passes 6-0 excellent thank you very much now we're on to uh our school resource officer contracts and i believe the superintendent has some introduction there yes this evening we're going to have matt bryan our executive director of operations speak to the

058positive relationship that we have with our various first responders and police departments and sheriff's office i personally as the superintendent of this district and being new to the community whether you're a member of the fort collins police services or our larimer county sheriff's office or the timnath police department i want to thank you personally for your service your responsiveness your dedication to being open to not just data sharing but to learning alongside of us as a staff as well as our community to be responsive to everybody involved for people to be seen heard and valued how you show up in the work has been quite significant and i know matt is going to alongside of us honor that through as we present our contracts here this evening but it's an honor and pleasure to work

059by all of your side just want to say thank you matt thank you superintendent kingsley for this time my voice is a little low tonight so i'll try to get out this as much as i can i have the pleasure tonight and i thank superintendent kingsley for this opportunity to recognize some folks that are in the room with us tonight and just recognize the outstanding job that is not easy it's stressful it's can be anxiety ridden at times if not all the time safety and security of our students and our staff is the number one concern uh of all of us um and we hear of tragedies across this country that break our hearts and we pray every night that doesn't happen here so it my pleasure to introduce tonight sorry my voice is really

060fading out fast here um from fort collins police services sergeant laura lunsford if you'll wave laura um i just want to say laura is an outstanding person to work with when we started this journey over the past year and a half to change our program our sro program and analyze how we are interacting with our our students our staff our community and what the importance of his to this program is laura was a key member in developing uh the sops when the initial draft of that she was also just a key member of putting the data together that you see quarterly that we provide you in those reports laura took the initiative to create that data collection process with her officers and put that in place and so laura thank you for that i know

061it's been a lot of work and you've done a great outstanding job and i appreciate that from a personal standpoint but also i think i speak for the district with that also here tonight representing larimer county sheriff's office is lieutenant brad harkin thank you brad we will hear more from brad in the future brad is newly to this position to oversee the sro program but i wanted him to come tonight if he could just to say thank you for signing up for this duty and and taking this on and we're we're looking forward to working with you in the future so thank you for being here um also tonight is somebody that i work closely with especially over the past year is sergeant robert cook with the larimer county sheriff's office sergeant cook again has

062just on the side of the sheriff's office part has been key in developing that data which is not easy when it's something new and it's placed in front of him but he's been working in collaboration with the fort collins police services as we've presented in your presentations to align that data together so that we provide as much of that possibility or as more understanding of that as possible so that everything aligns together and i appreciate his work on that and just also the work that he does throughout the county as you're well aware we have a big county and they have officers scattered all over and their response time is is awesome to see they've got great support for our staff and our students and just done an outstanding job as well as year this

063year as well along with larimer county sheriff's office tonight i'm i'm pleased to see that our sro from our wellington school nancy remington is here and nancy thank you for what you do out there and i wish every sro could have been here tonight uh to receive this praise because along with your fellow officers uh just outstanding work this year and really appreciate the the can-do attitude that everybody took on to to make this data collection work and to improve our system and to work through these sops so that we have some guiding principles on how we work in our in our district so thank you on behalf of the officers thank you for being here also tonight from timnath police department is sergeant robert wincoup timmith has been a newly sro program that started

064a few years back if you remember we added that contract out there first starting with a half time because we had elementary schools and their jobs just got just got a little bit more intense i think but they have been uh all on uh for the new high schools uh their own prospect at the timoth middle high school they've been they've been all in on this and they are excited and they've done a lot of pre-work to make sure that they have backup officers available for their sros that are going to be in our sro that's going to be in that building so robert thank you and your staff and please pass on my gratitude to them for all the excellent work they're doing out there and we look forward to continue relationships with uh

065with all of our agencies here tonight so again thank you for being here and with that i'll turn it over to our district leadership all right may i get a motion go ahead nate i move that the board approved the attached agreements between pooter school district r1 and the following entities city of fort collins larimer county sheriff's office and the town of timothy police for the school resource officer program and authorized the board president to sign the agreements attend tested by the board secretary second dj's got a second there is any discussion on this go ahead kristen i just want to throw my thanks out there into the room um i know that um a couple years ago and this initially came up it was a bit of a nerve-wracking um way to go and

066i just wanted the the way you all approached um working together and creating sops that benefit our students and benefit our schools and the way that they have been executed and and still you know we're still working on them we understand that and y'all coming in and saying you know if we could tweak this this would be a lot better for your students and you know same with our administration saying if we could tweak this would be better for the students and the fact that you're all student-minded and you are all doing it because you love the students i can see that i think the students can see that and it's making it better it's making the school district better it's making the environment for for the kids better and so i just wanted to

067say a hearty thank you for that not all districts have this kind of a relationship with their sros and we are very very lucky and it's very very intentional and i can see that from your side it is very very intentional as well and i just again want to say thank you for that it is seen well spoken dj yeah i'm gonna steal nate's ditto because that was done really well um i i again though thank you and and your team for um coming in to this process with an open mind and be able to work with us for the changing times to make this program better so i really do thank you and everything else that kristen said thank you other comments carolyn go ahead and i too wanted to thank you guys for

068your collaboration and for your sensitivity towards our students um i think you can see it in the schools when we walk the halls and we see the kids high-fiving you and talking with you and being engaged with you and for the um the support that you give the staff there i know that they really appreciate it we heard loud and clear that your presence is is really appreciated and so um thanks so much for for what you do for our kids other comments jess do you have anything you want to add i think uh it's been said pretty well but i will add my thanks as well because i know you guys have really done a lot to um just improve the relationship with our students so thank you for that effort go ahead nate

069thank you yeah go ahead so i need to ask a favor and this is not a quid pro quo for the contracts um well it's the local police benevolence fund annually has this incredible fundraiser called dancing with the first responder and as somebody new to the community this year i was asked to be a judge of that dance contest and i would share that i was incredibly unqualified to do so and i just tried not to screw it up but it was an incredible event in partnership with many of our first responders but i have been officially and formally asked to be a dancer in next year's dancing with the first responders contest and i'm asking all of you that are here from the bottom of my heart if you can please keep me off

070the dance floor i would really appreciate it and i really want to thank you for your consideration in partnership well i don't know what to say to that um i guess i would say i want to see that you pay lots of money for it too there you go having said that um i will also add my thanks i think it's been eloquently stated by my fellow board members so i won't repeat that other than say thank you very much and we really appreciate your partnership and we look forward to approving this contract with that kristin if you would call a vote dj anderson aye nate donovan aye kristen draper aye rob pedersen aye carolyn reed aye jessica zamora aye motion passes 6-0 excellent thank you very much if i if i can i ask

071one more thing um just to complete this process if it's okay and i know this is unexpected i apologize for that and i'm probably going to end up with multiple tickets on my vehicle from multiple jurisdictions after this but um if i get if anybody would like to join us up here and if the officers or representatives would come up here as well so we just get a picture to to memorialize this year that we had yeah if they're okay okay oh [Laughter] oh thank you guys thank you very much well actually all right thank you for for that um and now we'll move on to our next action item which is an agreement con sorry governing every child pediatrics provision of health care services to pooter school district students may i get a motion

072go ahead nate i move that the board of education approved the attached agreement governing every child pediatrics provision of health services to pooter school district students and authorizes the board president to sign the agreement attested by the board secretary and authorized the president to sign the school-based health center program at a station of memorandum of understanding second from dj do we have any discussion uh nope go ahead what i thought it was important for staff to request to the board to put this as an action item tonight um as we think about uh the launch of these clinics in our community the celebration but also in the spirit of transparency that many of our families have questions and we want to make sure that we in the sunshine are celebrating and signaling to our family

073that this is an extension of our contract with every child pediatrics for five years and look forward to continuing those services and providing in school health clinics but just wanted to make sure that the board as well as the community was aware that the spirit in which we wanted to make sure that this was an action item to signal to the public of our intent to continue but also do so in partnership and continue to have dialogue around these types of services to make sure people feel clear around what that means for them as a family what it means for our children and what it means for our school district oh we have several comments go ahead we'll start with dj and then they uh one i'm very excited on this brian i was wondering

074if you could maybe touch on the misunderstanding that goes out there about the rules that we have to follow for our student privacy and stuff in there just mention that along with for the transparency aspect that you know we we are guided by state law yeah dj i appreciate you bringing it up i think what's really important is for our public and community to know that if you are concerned about the medicalization of children in our school district please note that these types of services that are being provided to our students are with parental consent it's incredibly important that we engage our families that they're aware and they realize they have access to these services but it is not something that's happening behind the curtain it is with their consent and we want to continue

075to engage families with acknowledging what these services are how to access them and make sure that we provide everybody almost as a universal right access to these healthcare services so we can have healthy families healthy children who can do well in school so i appreciate the question go ahead nate yeah i just wanted to point out that for those that don't have employment that provides health insurance maybe don't realize that health insurance can or i mean health services can sometimes be hard to get and so i just emphasize how important it is that these services are available to our students and and what brian said uh superintendent kingsley said that students and their families greatly benefit so i'm excited to have this agreement be extended thank you go ahead dj one one more little shout

076out then too is that uh for uh sports to get your uh student physical therefore this is a great place to be able to get that done taken care of so they i think they start signing up in july even on that so take a look at that thanks other comments yeah i'll just say in summary or it's not summary really but i'll i'll comment that i'm also very excited that we're able to provide these services to all of our students i know they're based at in lincoln and centennial but any student in the district can take advantage of them and uh to those who are as i say concerned or was mentioned concerned about parental involvement we are definitely running these clinics in accordance with state law and so yeah there is that i

077don't have any additional comments does anybody else have any all right with that uh kristen if you would call a vote please dj anderson aye nate donovan aye kristin draper aye rob pederson carolyn reed aye jessica zamora aye motion passes 6-0 all right thank you very much our that concludes our action items our next uh section will be an informational report on sustainability planning as has been sort of uh previewed if you will by a couple of our community commenters among other things and so we'll look forward to hearing about that superintendent yes back again reviewing psd sustainability planning is our executive director of operations matt bryant welcome back to the podium matt cheers okay thank you thank you to for the techno tech uh support there because i would never have gotten there so

078one of the directors asked me a while ago if i was done and little did you know i wasn't done so i'm excited tonight to talk about this this is something that i think is is near and dear to a lot of people obviously in the community we heard tonight how important it is community-wide we've also heard some values stated by the by the board of education many of you have stated your values around the sustainability pertaining to the two items that we're going to discuss tonight which are solar and electric vehicles in psd so i'm excited to bring this presentation to you this is a two-part presentation it shouldn't take more than about two and a half hours but i'll promise it's very an electrifying conversation we're going to have tonight bad dad joke

079sorry i try so so tonight i'll start off talking about solar and i do agree that uh we have a lot of opportunities in our community and within the district to be a part of initiatives that are not just uh nationwide but locally as well and so i believe psd has a great track record of being a part of that and we look forward to continuing those efforts as we work our way through discovering the best way to do that and our best practices around the district so key messages on this first presentation about solar what i would like to do tonight is talk about understanding our current district's sustainability efforts and how we're what we're doing with solar and vehicle electrification also the cost overview and purchasing options that we know are available to

080us currently and then the next steps for analysis and implementation the purpose of this would be to pursue further analysis and information so that we can have more solid initiatives and move forward with this in an expedient way while also practicing fiscal responsibility to our taxpayers so first i'd like to madeline how do i get that off or can i no that's all right i'll read it it's a solar portfolio is the title of this slide and this is what we currently have in in the school district you can see on this slide that some the oldest system that we have was actually activated in 2006 at fossil ridge high school up to our most current projects were solar garden agreements in 2018. you can look down through the far left column where you'll see

081the schools the sites that each one of these affects the size of the arrays that are in here for comparison's sake well and you can see where our annual rebates amounts and what the usage offset is but think about a 500 watt system so these are in kilowatts but think about a 500 watt system that's just about enough to power a laptop cell phone charger something small like that so these are fairly large systems that you see that we have on on some of our buildings and access to through solar gardens our oldest system at fossil ridge high school previous state has been in since 2006. it offsets about .005 percent that system was originally installed i believe for lighting to offset some lighting usage and things like that so not a not a huge

082system but was installed on that building bethgale elementary school has a 27 thousand kilowatt system and it offsets currently about ten percent of that building use uh and we do have an annual rebate of three thousand dollars from that and you can see the cost back in two thousand nine for that size the system was a hundred and twenty thousand dollars uh go into the partnership with excel the next two you can see the schools that those affect those are our solar gardens use usage there are some of you on this board that may remember when that was brought to the board in 2018 for approval so that we could join those solar gardens the nice thing about our our membership to those at the time it didn't cost us anything to join those but

083it was brought to the board because it was felt because of the length of the arrangement we did have to sign a rather lengthy arrangement to be a part of that garden uh that we thought it was wise at the time to bring that to the to the board to make them aware um but being that there was no cost to psd there has been a pretty big benefit to that where you can see the usage offset of those sites is about 105 percent of our of our usage at those sites again no cost and we have two different participants in there based on where these locations are at in the energy providers for our local areas so there are some in the excel area and then the oakley solar is actually located i believe

084in weld county but serves that eastern part of our district so why invest in solar our values and we stay and we've heard our values stated uh you know recently about how we want to move forward with this so we want to be a good steward of our community and state and climate action goals uh the community of fort collins has a aggressive uh action goal for for sustainability we want to be a part of that we need to be a part of that we we contribute a lot to this community in energy use and also in vehicle use so we need to be a part of that we do want to reduce our climate impact as is a goal of many agencies many companies and as we hear a lot of you know personal

085views on that and again i'll relate that we want to be fiscally responsible while we do that through reducing our utility costs in the system i want to also talk about our objectives in this this would be to participate in renewable energy initiatives and climate action goals so we would align with the community and state goals plus you know just national goals as well we'd also want to look at ways to decrease our energy use in buildings therefore allowing us to redirect funding to other district priorities if we can reduce the operational expenses of our facilities we can put more money back in classrooms and i think that's a great goal for us to look forward to on this next slide just additional considerations as we talk through this our buildings should be as efficient

086as possible before we add renewables so before we go to solar we want to look at what are we already doing in that building what's the age of that building do we need to look at window replacement and doors replacements you know if you want to spend money on a renewable resource however it's mounted on the site you want to be able to get as much out of that as you can and if we have other issues in that building that need to be addressed then we need to look at see what those issues are and address those first we do have geo exchange buildings in our district most recent ones are bamford wellington middle high school and 10 minute middle high schools that will open in august those have huge geo exchange sites here

087on this campus the operations building is a geo exchange site and canard middle school is a geo exchange site so we do use that we have used that uh in the past and in the future we'll continue to look at geo exchange uh in order to um address uh that need um yesterday i'm sorry to interrupt you just for the public will you help explain what geo exchange means yes thank you yeah i can do that so geo exchange is uh they're wells that are drilled um i'm going to give you some numbers here that i believe are correct without having them in front of me but the wells that we drilled say at the timnoth middle high school site for the new building out there i believe are about 400 feet deep there's about

088175 of those wells on that site that water is coming out of the ground at a consistent about 54 or 56 degrees that's recycled through the building that offsets energy use by keeping the building from getting to super cold or super hot levels because we're always able to maintain to that radiant heat being circulated through there we're able to maintain at least that level which reduces our need to have a wide gap in what we have to cool or heat during this during the seasons does that help yes thank you for asking that do you want to take questions now matter do you want to wait until the end of this segment i can leave that up to the board i mean this is i can wait till the end but i'm willing to take

089questions now some kind of questions sure yeah go ahead yeah on the on those uh geothermal wells is it water is it some other substance they are water but there is a substance called glycol that's mixed with that okay thank you go ahead matt um additional considerations so we've talked about what should you talk about the energy efficiency of our buildings what that should look like we also talk about and we heard we've heard comments and we've heard information about do we install them on the roofs of buildings it's been the the stance of psd for a long time now that we do not want to stall solar panels on rooftops we have done that in the past there are some sites that do have that uh that were in our inventory large array systems

090do concern us with maintenance issues there's also evidence that shows that it does reduce the cost savings over five to ten years when you do replace a roof so the roof life cycle may not be the same as it would be without those solar panels on there and it's also to access for our for our maintenance persons to get in and around our rooftop units and just the general maintenance that goes on up there that's not to say that we don't have some roofs that we are interested in possibly putting solar panels on and some sites that we will look at for instance we have some site we have some abilities on this campus to do that we have bus sheds that are metal roofs and that would be an easy and easy to look

091at to see if you know we could use cell solar on this site to offset some use here or to help pooter high school offset some use there so there's some there's some possibilities of doing some roofs and we'll continue to make that part of our research and our analysis going forward to what the best options would be as we do more site analysis around the district here in the future sorry i lost my place uh because of lower utility rates in colorado the we realized longer return times here we're not california where the utility rates thank goodness right um that our utility rates are pretty low in this state compared to other states that have some solar initiatives so it takes longer to realize the savings because of that gap is is smaller and

092it's not so large on the charges that we that we see so that's just some of the some a few of the other addition considerations we're looking at um across the as we go through this analysis uh next slide here this is sources for solar acquisition again i'm sorry that you can't read these up on the top of the screen so solar for acquisitions there are a lot of there's a few that we know about you know there's probably some more out there and as we get into our analysis and we start looking at what the possibilities are and our needs you know we'll entertain whatever's out there so hopefully once we move into a more thorough feasibility study that is site-based we'll be able to discover exactly what all is available to us out

093there but this site represents some of the more common uh processes that are used 90 of the k-12 buildings in the state or in the maybe even in the nation with our research and that what we've learned from going to other meetings and talking with experts in the field are power purchase agreements so lovingly known as ppas so this is an agreement with a third-party developer that includes design purchase installation maintenance of the solar system on our property so this would be a big system that would offset you know a big percentage of our usage for that for that site or maybe multiple sites we would purchase the kilowatt hours from the third party developer in order to offset our energy use at the end of the ppas there is usually a buyout contract that

094can be as much as 10 percent of the original installation at that time it's normal to make an analysis of that system to see if you remove it or if your panels show that they're still having significant output that you go ahead and you complete that contract agreement and keep those panels in place so that you realize those savings over time and i think that's very common to see that through these uses the other more very common way of doing this is epcs which are energy performance contracts this is the budget neutral approach to solar initiative it makes building improvements that reduce energy and water use and increase operational efficiencies what i referred to earlier is if you've got an inefficient building because we have old doors old windows and they're leaking all the time

095this would help us address those issues this would help us clean our buildings up tighten our buildings up to where they could be more efficient it requires an upfront and district by the by the district but then the offset costs we'll realize that later on through the solar energy use solar community gardens we do as we saw in our inventory we do have that's our most recent access to solar initiatives and those are owned by private groups or investors sometimes communities or municipalities they they put the initial investment in and then individuals can pay participate or pay a fee to participate in this usually receiving a discounted rate from the utility providers and a lot of times when you hear i got my rebate from my solar initiative that's what you're seeing is those participations

096if you're involved in the gardens the community gardens there's limited possible there's limited opportunities on the market right now for us to be involved in those but we are at a wait list pvra is looking to develop a community garden and we have entered into conversations with them about being a part of that again so we are on a waitlist with that and and and in conversations with them um we'll go back to the epc just real quick uh the the energy performance contract and talk about some use for some recent uses that we discovered while we were putting this presentation together denver public schools is using this energy performance contracting right now they did a 10.3 million dollar project for five one megawatt systems on 17 buildings one megawatt equals a million watts so

097these are really rather large systems large installations that provide a lot of power and we're anxious to get more a little bit more detailed information on those about the return on investment and how the construction on those is working so that we can make sure we're making the best choices for our district as well i think i missed a slide hold on yep there we go so sources for solar rebates nope here my apologies i'm not sure if i'm out of order hold on just a second i mean i'm out of order but okay we're good presentation just got shorter uh current initiatives uh to continue the uh to pursue our participation solar gardens um current sites under discussion include the timothy and wellington middle high schools of course right there we're talking about we

098do have geothermal there so we want to make sure that we're doing the right thing if we if we're going to work in those areas the conversations with the energy providers to provide or identify pso bsd open and vacant land to potentially support renewable energy products such as solar gardens this is one of those things where if we have property within psd that we know is is is possibly not usable for educational purposes and maybe not going to be used for schools and yeah property comes to us in donations and in other ways but there may be a use for that property for us to have a partnership with a solar provider to build a solar garden and thereby you know have those benefits from that so that's one of the things we're looking at

099also we looked at we talked to one of the municipalities then asked him you know what would be the possibility of installing solar over our our detention and retention ponds or especially our retention ponds on our sites we've if you go out to the tennis middle high school site there's a there's a big retention pond there for storm water we can use that space possibly for some solar panels instead of putting it on the buildings we put it on the ground and we have the same effect of having solar available to us through that project so we're excited about maybe exploring those more deeply as we get into our analysis and then this this next one is a new one that came up this year that our energy manager trudy chairman bath is a part

100of she's been going to these meetings as they get this set up this is the colorado association for school district energy managers there's a new regional project that evaluates the possibility of a solar co-op the casdem project is looking at the possibility that over several districts committing to solar projects through a bid process and thus receiving greatly reduced costs for solar systems so it's a co-op this project is looking at district owned systems possibly ppas so the cost impact is unknown at this time but we expect this project to ramp up in the fall of 2022 so works again another great opportunity for us to look at that in the near future so how should psd proceed from here um we're proposing or not proposing but we're we're pursuing uh the the possibility of doing

101another feasibility study there was a feasibility study mentioned earlier that study was done in 2016. it did have some great information but there was not site analysis done it was it was done using google maps and doing some aerial photos the provider of that we've been recently in touch with it's something that we've been provided with that i have my my staff recently so we really haven't had a point to make a thorough analysis of it yet but we're going to work through that we do think it has some some value to us though moving forward with expanding that feasibility study as we start exploring more deeply into this so we appreciate that having that information this would what we would propose or look to do would be a third party selection with an rfp

102a request for proposals this would give us the ability to analyze the return on investment of purchase installation and ongoing maintenance we would also ask that they explore power purchase agreements energy performance contracting and any other available resources that might be out there for funding and completing our our our sustainability benchmarks for that the evaluate the solar system efficiencies will it offset our so other solar efficient facility inefficiencies like boilers chillers doors windows roof installation again with some of the age of our buildings we have you know we have a consciousness about that we there's other changes to be made to our buildings there's other needs um that would also help improve efficiencies in our energy use and then it would use some benchmarking data to identify building efficiency priorities like our current energy use

103of those buildings and what what changes we have made and has that made an effect on our on our building energy uses we look at ground mount options and use of again of the detention ponds like i just mentioned solar canopies with existing sites but maybe there's an opportunity to partner with somebody to build additional solar canopies uh some additional covered parking somewhere uh to to enter into this and then integration with our electric vehicle charging stations which we will talk about here in a few minutes when we get into electric vehicles but we'd love to know you know what what the possibility is of using that kind of power to help us charge any type of electric vehicle that we may pursue in the future so i'm at the end of the presentation for

104the solar part and i know there were some questions asked during that but there are any questions at this point any further questions go ahead nate and then dj yeah don't you don't necessarily need to answer this if you don't want to but i wondered if you had an idea of a range of costs for a feasibility study i don't right now okay we have not explored to to that depth yet to see what that would be thanks go ahead dj so um one of my first i have three questions here uh one is you make a you comment in there a few times about tightening up our buildings and sealing it and and to me i at least for me i kind of look at it separately as um you know our energy use

105in general has expanded just for you know laptops more computers more stuff like that and so i i kind of wonder if we could see what you guys think our energy usage is for um the environment in in the building especially since we we aren't ac filled uh and and so i wonder if that would make a difference with our study a little bit too on understanding how much a difference it can make and you didn't mention in there at all about if if these would look at battery systems too or if they would just be pure solar and we wouldn't store any of this stuff if we could and we've had those talks internally but i do believe that that would be you know something that we would talk with the consultant about and

106make that part of that study and information about you know how do we store that and what are the what are the storage requirements are we building another building which again you gotta offset that cost to build that building for storage and then what's the maintenance on the storage and depending on what kind of contracts we go into is that on us or is that on our energy provider so i believe all that can be part of the discussion we do have the ability to trend analysis all of our building energy use so i will work with my energy manager trudy to see how we pair that information down to where it's not too big or maybe take some sample sites and show you what that looks like yeah the the other part of that

107and i'm i am not an engineer uh and uh anything i have fixed has definitely been jimmy rigged um the i'm a little baffled by by the roof comments that are made um one i i i did ask when we were building the new high schools uh that and from my understanding they said that they were prepped for it that they could do it so they were set so we could do that there um and then secondly um i've had the pleasure of being on a couple of roofs uh and especially the ones that we did in 1988 series whatever they have a lot of those windows that were angled and put up not necessarily towards the sun correctly on some of them too uh but you know it seems like we have certain spaces

108that would work really well for it and still give us a lot of access to the roofs and so i i really have i can't fathom that we couldn't it might not be enough power but it seems like we could at least make a dent in a lot of those and so i would really be interested by the study by having individual sites look at that i think that would be a great opportunity to really get a better understanding of what opportunities we have there i guess and i agree and i and we've talked about that as well as you know we don't want to be too close-minded right and this is a policy or a guideline or not a policy but this is a stance that we've you know was taken years ago and

109that we've we've stuck to because of that reason because of the reasons that i stated we do still see uh current information that we've that we've learned through some organizations and through some meetings that the rooftop units are not necessarily as efficient as the ground mounted units but we want to know we want to know for sure and i think you're making some great points that let's look let's make sure and let's re-look at you know how we how we determine things and see what's best for the district what best practices may be and i would hope that through that feasibility study we could identify those things all right thank you other comments kristen go ahead one other thing that really intrigued me actually was you said um you have the flat roofs for the

110bus terminals and i i would love to see something like that for current bus terminals future bus terminals and then i thought to myself staff parking if they had covered parking that was actually solar right you know we could run the building on it and when staff comes out after the end of a hot day they have you know it's it's shaded and or no snow right no snow yeah no i think that's exactly it and again cost you know return on investment all those things would have to be look like on those types of systems but um and thank you for recognizing that because we do have some roofs that definitely we have room to to look at other comments i'll just add that i definitely appreciate that you're moving forward with the feasibility

111study i think it's i think it's uh i mean you said earlier that you think you've heard from the board about values relative to sustainable energy i'll just add my voice to that publicly i definitely am in favor of what we can do here i understand that there are constraints and i understand that that we need to be fiscally you know good fiscal stewards right and i think it's important that we find a way to move forward on this so i appreciate your report and look forward to hearing more this is a new area for me so i'm excited to learn more um to engage more with experts in the field and and be a part of this as well so thank you for supporting that great okay you're going to talk about it like

112oh nate's going to ask another question no i just wanted to make a comment that when we were talking about the geothermal aspects of tim nith and wellington that was really huge i mean that's uh we have opportunities with new building to do some things that we may not have uh with existing buildings so let's keep pushing the envelope with new construction as we can thanks and thanks for bringing that up and dj i apologize for not referencing that in my answer to you but you are correct those buildings were built with the structural capability to hold the weight of the solar panels the wiring the infrastructure for solar was not installed in the building but the structural components were there based on that code that requires that you know that's to me that's foresight

113you know looking into the future where we may change you know the next administration or the next feasibility study after this and or even this one may show that it's that you know it's doable or that structural ability you know has probably increased our ability to to insulate more those buildings are at a high lead level they're in the silver category for that and so those that's why things like that were done hopefully with the foresight of looking into the future what we may have to do or may need to do so all right so thanks for bringing that up again member donner excellent so you have some information on electric vehicles i've got electric vehicles mainly we're going to talk tonight about school buses because that's that's a hot topic you're seeing advertisements that

114there's money available to buy buses uh it's exciting that uh that that's been made available and psd has an opportunity to hopefully participate in that and i wanted tonight just to bring some information about again about our current fleet um our current practices uh some of the terminology that you're either hearing or will hear as we move forward with this and hopefully you'll find this some good information to move forward as we start to make decisions around electric uh buses in the near future is my desire so as we start to get transportation geared up again and operational with a new director here in the near future i'm hoping that we'll have some good talks about the priority level of electric buses going forward i've ridden in a few electric vehicles we own one uh

115here in the district that we bought several years ago they're pretty peppy so you can get in some trouble in those um so i'm excited to test drive a bus we did have some staff go down and do that and they said it was uh it was a nice ride so not that we need fast buses so some key terms that we'll hear tonight battery powered electric vehicles ev so you hear a lot about evs because we're going to shorten everything right so ev when we say that it's a battery powered electric vehicle most of my presentation again tonight if i use that term uh we'll be referencing school buses uh d def or as you'll hear it called def that's a diesel exhaust fluid just to give you that's the blue boxes you see

116sometimes sitting at gas stations and guys that own diesel trucks are buying it and they're dumping it in a tank on the side of their trucks we do use that in some of our buses as well just to give you kind of what that is uh the diesel exhaust fluid is a non-hazardous solution it's 32 urea and 67 deionized water it's sprayed into the exhaust stream on the bus and doesn't mix with the diesel so it's a pre or post post treatment in the into the exhaust system and it breaks down the the hazardous dangerous emissions into harmless nitrogen and water the systems can be complicated they're not maintenance free they're they're not fun sometimes they can cause a bus to have to what they call regenerate on the side of the road sometimes and

117that that can be a interruptive depending on if you're on a route or not most of these systems are found on 2010 and later model year trucks suvs and of course school buses and things of that nature the def system has proven to reduce harmful emissions by 80 to 90 percent depending on the vehicle so it is effective in reducing emissions uh and that's why it's it's it's stuck around uh when it came out in 2010 you started seeing it on 2011 model years and then from then on he started seeing a lot of it there was speculation about it was just what was going to be the effects of this but over the years has been found to reduce those emissions by 80 to 90 percent our current fleet i'm sorry let's get to

118this our current fleet exists of 188 total school buses and multi-purpose buses the multi-purpose buses are the little white ones that you see running around they're 14 passenger buses that are used for various uses there are 24 of those in that 188 fleet the average age of the psd fleet is around a 2011 model so it's around 11 years old we have 41 buses however that are over 18 years old um the 24 of those multi-purpose buses those 24 buses are all uh over 20 years old and currently we're looking at an initiative to replace those there's only a couple that are diesel most of those are gasoline engines so we have some options there as well to address that pre-def so we just talked about what the def is we have 110 buses that

119currently are older than 2010 that do not have the submission capability our post death is 47 buses currently which again reduce our our emissions by about 80 to 90 percent our propane buses we did start purchasing propane uh probably around 2013 i believe is when we took our first order we did a few more i believe around 2016 2017 so currently we have 12 buses there we were able to take advantage of some grant opportunities at the time that were very heavily on cng's compressed natural gas and the propane and we took advantage of those grants and were able to you know start a propane fleet of buses that all changed to where the propane now is not as prevalent in that those grant possibilities the concentration now is is moving more towards electric vehicles

120so we'll talk about that as we get into that and then currently we do not have any electric school buses which of course would help our reduce our emissions by 100 percent if we could get into that so estimated operational expense comparison and this hopefully this chart is something that can provide some good information on you or for you so what we did today the board recently approved purchases of new school buses they were all diesel um and we know so we know that purchase price is accurate the today's electric bus cost from the information we're getting from vendors and going to uh talks about this and conventions and looking at you know what's going on in the electric v the bus area right now looks like the minimal cost is about 350 000 for

121an electric bus of the same size the 77 passenger which is our standard bus here in this district uh for set for uh to and from transportation of regular um ed students today's diesel cost for maintenance this is based on a 16-year operational cost so this would be buying a bus now and in 16 years we will have spent 90 000 on maintenance again this is based on current fleet we went back we looked at 16 year old buses we looked at 20 year old buses and we settled on 16 because it was kind of that medium range of cost comparisons that we wanted to do so we took that and we increased the cost of what we know a 16 year old bus right now has cost us we increased it two percent per

122year uh that's based on on known expenses for that tires and oil and fuel and parts have gone up annually for that 16 year period and then for fuel cost a diesel bus will average about eight miles per gallon we went ahead and went high on our cost per gallon at five dollars per gallon our most recent purchase of diesel this this this school year that we did um was 3.98 cents a gallon and that is because we have tax rebates as a school district we don't pay the total pump price so it's always that's one of the reasons we like to use our own fuel deposits because we can save money with that but we did use five dollars a gallon just just to kind of figure high because we don't know where fuel

123prices are going to end up in the future right now so a total of diesel costs for that 16 year period would be 332 000 to operate that diesel bus these estimates for both electric and diesel do not include any potential potential grant awards for the purchase so this would be 100 psd purchasing the bus without any grants today's electric cost again 350 000 for that same bus equipped the same way we know that the chargers takes one charger per bus it's twenty thousand dollars the one unknown we do not have yet that we will explore again through uh the another feasibility study or an in-depth analysis into these vehicles as we as we move towards getting one or two is what is the true cost of those chargers what is the life cycle of

124those chargers we don't know there's been estimates as much as they last eight years and you have to buy a new charger but we don't know that because they haven't been out here eight years old you know i think they said the same thing about electric cars years ago and i think some of them are running a lot longer now what they originally said they would so um the battery lifespan uh on those again kind of matches that with the eight-year lifespan those batteries are 50 000 each and since this is based on a 16-year operational cycle we do have the cost for two of those batteries in there so that'd be a hundred thousand maintenance we don't know we can estimate seat repair based on uh you know the diesel buses that we have

125the electronics brakes and tires are unknown at this time talking with industry experts we've been told that the tire wears a little bit more on these buses because of the weight the batteries are very heavy these buses tend to weigh a little bit more in a diesel bus so tire wears a little bit more brakes you save a little bit on brakes because they have a regenerative braking system so we don't know what the trade-off is on that so that's an unknown cost at this point we are estimating that it's about 80 000 electricity this again comes from our industry experts and our vendors as we talk to them uh what they're seeing around the country the districts that have already installed these we're anxious to get into some of the districts that have ordered

126these buses and work with them to see how they're actually performing and see what these electricity costs are but that annual annual range is usually between five thousand and ten thousand dollars a year bringing that bus to five hundred and fifty thousand dollars again with no grant incentives so the clean school bus program i mentioned this just a few minutes ago that you're seeing a lot of advertisements you're seeing a lot of information that there's money out there to buy electric vehicles and electric school buses are part of that and again that's an exciting opportunity to take advantage of if we can and we will these are for 2010 and older buses so they're they're they're not looking to replace the death system which is already shown to have that 80 to 90 percent reduction

127uh they're looking to get rid of the old vehicles like those that we have in our fleet that are that are you know older than 2010 which would be awesome um there's five billion dollars available uh four electric school buses um to the two school districts to take advantage of half of this is that is designated solely for electric so there's two and a half two and a half billion dollars there and the other half is designated for alternative fuels which again could include propane cng and then they said they would possibly have the opportunity to get more electric capabilities there as well it's a lottery based system like most grants can be cannot be awarded with other federal grants like the daira grant which i will explain here in just a few minutes the

128majority of our clean bus program recipients will include the rural and low income and tribal districts that's by grant design so psd will not be a priority in the grant awards for the lottery psd would only qualify under the non-priority school funding level of about 250 000 per bus so the other districts that i just mentioned the low-income districts they could get a 100 funding we will fall probably into that 250 000 per bus and 13 000 per charger cost of the charger and the cost of the bus there are mentioned and you can see that if awarded we would still be responsible for about a hundred thousand dollars plus seven thousand per charger which brings you to the cost of a diesel bus purchased outright so there's so they've tried to equalize that in

129as much as they can this is federal funding or state funding this is federal funding but the state the state gets the money and they're responsible for that distribution is this under the under the current um [Music] programming that or uh that was just passed is this under the um so the infrastructure is if this is under the current infrastructure plan so there was what 2.5 billion dollars allotted for to electrify 11 000 school buses and and this is the program this is the program okay yeah additional inform information cause or different additional infrastructure cost again is unknown we don't know what we'll have to modify at our different parking sites we don't know what the cost of putting these charging stations in or what modification we'll have to make to our electric um like

130our circuitry and things like that but we will explore that as we get into that diesel emission reduction act grant the dare grant that was mentioned in the previous slide we have uh been recipients of this grant in the past we bought propane with this grant so we have been successful we did apply this year for the 21 22 school year and we are in the wait list so we weren't awarded but we are on the wait list but this is a grant that comes up several times throughout the year on an annual basis so we'll be looking at doing that again we cannot combine dara with that federal grant though so we've got to be careful about what our use is there and how we do that uh so we'll work through that these

131are annual awards and lottery based for 2006 and older buses again not trying to address the death buses it's a reimbursement grant there you can see that there's 60 000 available for electric uh buses which bring that bus down to about 300 000 dollars and then 30 000 for propane and 20 000 for diesel which we did apply this year for the diesel uh part of that um and we'll pursue again in the future feasibility study so we've been working this year to develop the scope and the means for doing a feasibility on our entire transportation system we want to look at our routing systems we want to look at how we are going to address equitable busing in the future what our staffing numbers look like so we want to do a pretty extensive

132study of our transportation department so we're really close to completing that development of that our next step is to look and see how we fit within the strategic plan and have that be a part of this study to make sure we're addressing those needs but in part of that we're going to put in the electric buses to that now in order to take advantage of the current funding that's available that we just talked about my desire is to pursue the grant for the electric bus this year uh before the end of this this school year or this this year um it's available come august for applications we do have our grants department working with us uh currently on that application on how to do that i would love to get at least one electric bus

133in the fleet as a pilot type program so that we can take a look at how they operate that we can get used to and we can see what kind of routes they best function on and what our best use of those buses would be and i will keep the board updated on the progress of that we're looking also what well that's the we don't know our cost yet so that's going to be grant dependent i don't know that we can pursue this pilot program without the grant so that would be our first step is to see if we can be awarded that grant of the 250 000 and then use our capital money to offset the rest of that cost to at least get one bus and with that i'm open to more discussion

134around the board's values related to the renewable energy and electric vehicles go ahead nate the last slide what do you mean by equitable busing so our busing in this district is is based on home schools so we have busing areas for each school identified if you live depending on your age if you live within that distance you walk other than that you're eligible to ride a bus but we all know that we have extensive programs in this district that are available to students and sometimes they have to take advantage of those through school choice and then sometimes through school of choice transportation is not available for the students i believe there's a desire to find a system that would provide the opportunity to increase our busing availability either in-house in district or with partners in

135the community there's other options with that that would be looked at in the feasibility study to how do we increase access so a lot of times equity comes down to access for for some things and i love transportation to to be able to re solve those access issues not be the issue thanks i'm glad i was wondering if um i i know you're you're looking to do this study but have you done like back of the napkin how many bus routes can actually work with a electric bus that we for how many miles they have to drive and and be able to have enough time to charge aspect of it i have i have an electric vehicle i enjoy it but there there are some stuff you have to be prepared for and make sure

136that you're charged up if you want to go down to denver so have you done any calculations like that we have done preliminary calculations like that i think you and i are on the same wavelength here because that was my first question is how many can we put in the fleet regardless of cost let's say we had a generous uncle that came along gave us cash and we buy as many as we want but does that mean we can only have 12 does it mean we can have 80. i do not believe we can be 100 electric at this point with current technology because they're not going to be able to go on the long field trips and make it back without charging they do have charge times that we need to be able to

137make sure that we're getting maximum use out of these buses if the charge times two hours but this route runs every hour and a half if it's three-tier route and then it does a mid-day run and then it does the pm run and then it does activity trips after that you know local in town like middle school sports it's probably not the right vehicle for that because we won't have time to fully charge that vehicle during the day so we have to look at things like that so that's a great question and we will get deeper into that as we as we go forward i don't have a number that i could really actually give you for right now thanks go ahead kristen so i noticed you said that there are um the 77 passenger

138buses that are electric do they do they make the 14 passenger buses that are electric they're they're starting to make electric buses in all capacities i'm not so sure about the 14 passenger buses at this time i think there's a little bit more challenge the smaller the vehicle the less capacity you have for the battery systems and the charging systems and all that so i i won't say that i know that for sure but i do know that the manufacturers this this is the thing right this is where i believe we're going in the future um again i don't think it's 100 percent anywhere but i do think that we will see multiple vehicles available and part of why i focused on school buses tonight because we know that grant will address that but there's

139not a reason either that we shouldn't be looking at some of our service trucks for our outdoor services guys or our plumbers or our electricians is what are the possibilities to put vans and service trucks into our fleet that are also electric powered and so do you think then that the the 14 passenger buses that are out there do would not qualify then for that bus um for the federal bus grants i'd have to look and see what the i know that there's 65 passengers there's 40 something passengers there's a 72 passenger bus i believe 77 maybe the max if you get over that like into the 80 passenger buses or more um the weight becomes an issue okay i mean part of the reason i'm asking about that as well is i mean it's

140an older fleet but also um correct me if i'm wrong but you don't need your cdl to drive the 14 passenger so it would make it the bus driving situation maybe ease help ease that as well we thought so too and we actually have created that position in the last two years we've created that non-cdl bus driving position i'd like to say that we've had people lined up out the door to do that but that's not true either but we are we do have a replacement plan this year for i can't remember the exact number but our current transportation director jake bell has put in a plan to start replacing some of those those older small vehicles because we're seeing extended uses on those for activity trips integrated services we also use minivans for integrated

141services and i know they make electric vehicles for minivans so again i think we're starting to see wider and wider availability of electric vehicles that would fit into not just our bus fleet but our support fleet as well yeah i'll just say when you do that rfp i'll be interested to see it include some of these other kind of vehicles i i also have an electric vehicle and it's a lot smaller than what you're talking about a lot smaller than what you're talking about here but i get somewhere around 350 miles per charge so i know that's probably not the same for these buses and whatever but hopefully the technology will help to move the larger vehicles in that direction as well the electric buses are using kind of a range right now they're not

142manufacturers are not going to guarantee a certain amount of miles and range because also because of the size of the vehicle and the duty of the vehicle kind of depends are you stopping and going a lot are you climbing hills a lot do you have other equipment on there like air conditioning or lifts and all that that uses power so what we're seeing is anywhere from about 85 miles to 125 miles currently thanks for that thanks for that context i appreciate it and yes it definitely depends on what you're doing if you're going 75 miles an hour down to denver i don't get the 350. but i thought i can go back and forth if you charge it up so anyway nate go ahead um if you talk to other people about the performance aspect

143for a route bus like a 77 passenger route bus is the performance similar to a diesel or propane bus or are there differences or do we know our only experience is the staff that went down to a presentation in denver where they had electric bus that you could test drive and i got that they were very impressed that the power was very good our propane buses are limited you know as well as what how many of those can we have in our fleet you know that was a big question when we started down that path as well i don't believe we've maxed out that fleet either but we don't put them in the hills we don't put them in the mountains because they're very underpowered what i've learned from the electric vehicles is we're curious

144about how they'll do in the hills because the power range seems to be very strong and again that might depend on that'll have an effect on your battery sure duration do we have a propane fueling station now or do we still okay we do uh on this site we do have a 2 000 gallon tank that we uh fuel our propane buses from okay thanks carolyn i believe you have something yeah so i'm looking at an article here um there's two of our school districts here durango and kremling have both have electric buses and they were asked about whether or not they handled well in the mountains and their comment was it handles better there is more power so they they handle better in the mountains actually it's from this article so it's called new

145electric school buses in colorado provides safer cleaner cheaper rides it's open it to you guys it's interesting it's from the environmental and um energy study institute so it's got some it's common that electric vehicles even cars that when you drive them they're very peppy they're very they've got a lot of torque they've got a lot of direct power they don't lose a lot of power through drive shaft systems and things that you know your traditional uh combustible engines do so i yeah i'm encouraged by the possibilities excellent so thank you very much matt for that presentation i know it's been a while getting getting to us you know getting it on the agenda we appreciate your patience in that and thank you for for the information and we look forward to more as as you

146have it i look forward to coming back and talking more and hopefully have some good news about maybe some grand awards that would be excellent thank you so much thank you all right so our last item of the evening is an executive session around school district negotiations related to the 2022-2023 collective bargaining agreement or employment contracts uh i believe kristin you have a motion i do i move that the board enter into executive session for the purpose of developing the strategy of the school district for negotiations relating to the 2022-2023 collective bargaining agreement or employment contracts as authorized by crs 24-6-402 subsection e3 those invited to join the board in executive session are superintendent brian kingsley chief of staff lauren hooton executive directors brett larson and dave montoya and assistant board secretary kristen bezanski um

147do we have a second okay that's from nate all right so we have uh uh uh uh i'm i'm gonna propose an amendment that we include the 2023-2024 collective bargaining agreement in employment contract years because that's what superintendent just whispered in my ears so uh can i have a second for my motion to include that kristen kristen's second set yes we have to vote on the amendment first so can we vote on the amendment to the motion kristen dj anderson thanks for jumping in and doing this tonight i know it's awesome i was trying to follow what the amendment was so i could put in the amendment is to add well got it i'm just going to add i'm just going to say we're going to add the 2023-2024 in addition to the 2022-2023 years

148okay thank you thank you dj anderson aye nate donovan no kristin draper yes rob patterson aye carolyn reed i jessica zamora motion passes 5-1 okay so now if we could have a vote on the amended motion dj anderson aye nate donovan aye kristen draper aye rob pedersen aye carolyn reed aye jessica zamora all right so with that i apologize for the confusion there uh we are uh gonna go into executive session we will start our executive session at quarter to nine promptly please this will be the last agenda item that we're going to have for this meeting and we will come out into this room to adjourn the the meeting as a whole but there will be no substantive work done at that time so thank you all for joining us this evening