001Director Cole, would you lead us in the pledge of allegiance, Please. We should do roll call, please. >> Mr. Chavis, >> present. >> Mrs. Cole, here. Mrs. Evansson here. >> Mrs. Heights here. Mrs. Woods here. >> May I have a motion to approve the agenda for two uh February 3rd, 2026, please? >> Motion to approve the agenda from February 3rd. Yeah, it's a third >> for tonight. >> Yes. Motion to approve the agenda. We're just going to leave it at that. >> Can I ask a second? >> Second. >> Mr. Chavis, >> approved. >> Mrs. Cole, >> yes. >> Mrs. Evansson, >> yes. >> Mrs. Heights, >> yes. >> Mrs. Woods, >> yes. Vicki, would you please do the recognition for Black History Month, please? >> Yes. Whereas the origins of Black History Month date
002back to the early 20th century when historian Dr. Carter G. Woodson helped launch Negroes History Week to highlight the achievements and contributions of black Americans. This observance later grew into a month-long national recognition in 1976, honoring the lasting influence of black Americans on our nation's history. And whereas black Americans have contributed significantly to the growth and success of the United States, helping shape the culture and progress of our country. And whereas Black History Month offers a meaningful opportunity to learn from the past, celebrate achievements, and inspire future generations, it encourages our schools and community to engage in learning, dialogue, and reflection that foster understanding, respect, and appreciation for the diverse voices that strengthen our society. And now therefore, be it resolved that the Mesa County Valley School District 51 Board of Education recognizes February 2026
003as Black History Month and encourages our students, staff, and broader community to participate in learning activities, learning and activities that honor Black History and contributions throughout the year. Would you uh do the National Counseling? >> Yes. >> This week, February 2nd through the 6th of 2026, we celebrate National School Counseling Week, recognizing the meaningful impact school counselors make and their ongoing dedication to supporting students and schools across our education system. In recognition of this year's theme, school counselors amplify student success, the board of education acknowledges the important role counselors play in supporting student growth, well-being, and future readiness. Our counselors are essential partners in [snorts] helping students overcome challenges, build confidence, and develop skills needed for success beyond graduation. Aligned with District 51 strategic plan focus on well-being and belonging. Our school counselors help create
004environments where students and staff feel supported, valued, and connected and are integral to the work that we do every single day. Board of Education and Superintendent Dr. Hill extend their sincere appreciation to all D-51 school counselors for the lasting difference they make in the lives of our students and schools. Your work matters and we're grateful for all that you do to support our students, staff, families, and community. >> Thank you. Strategic plan update operations. And while they're coming up, uh, Dr. Christensen brought cookies for the board to celebrate White Ice. So, they're in the back and encourage everybody to come out Saturday for white ice. We've got a crew tonight. Good evening, board. Thanks for having us this evening. My name is Clint Garcia, chief operations officer for D51. And tonight, we'll be updating you
005on focus area 4, effective district operations. And as we go through the presentation, I'll ask my colleagues to introduce themselves as they present. So, this part of let me forward here. Oops. This part of the strategic plan is really about the district's function, day-to-day functions. We're focusing on effective district operations, specifically community partnerships and the support systems that allow our schools to operate smoothly and consistently. So, when uh I talk about effective district operations, I'm talking about the behind-the-scenes work. It's how we manage our resources, facilities, finances, and community partnerships so our staff and uh are supported and students can focus on learning. So this focus area really comes down to two priorities. Strong community partnerships and strategic support systems. Together they help us operate responsibly, use resources wisely, and make sure the district is
006positioned for long-term stability and success. And so here we have a list of our task force. These are the folks that have been working with us on this project. And tonight, uh, we'll have a couple of those task force members with us tonight to share just a little bit more about the work that we're doing. And with that, I will pass it over to Kelly. >> Good evening, board. I'm Kelly Bergson, the public information officer for District 51. Uh, before we dive into the goals of priority 1, community partnerships, I want to briefly acknowledge the group up on the slide that helped shape this work. This task force brought together a wide range of voices from school leaders and district teams to safety, mental health, higher education and operations. Many of these folks have been
007part of this work for years and that experience led to a te a clear takeaway to move community partnerships forward. We need to focus on two connected areas. Strengthening and educating our partnerships and improving how we show up through clearer communication, visibility, and transparency. So with that foundation, priority one within focus area 4 centers on community partnerships with the goal to strengthen community engagement by increasing active participation with local community partners. By 2030, D-51 will increase targeted events and campaigns with community partners by 10%. Compared to current levels, these collaborative initiatives will help promote and educate community members about the school district's successes, challenges, and needs. So, at the end of the day, this really comes back to a pretty simple idea. Strong schools don't exist in isolation. Strong schools build strong communities, and strong
008communities in turn support our strong schools. So, now I'm going to pass it over to Angela to talk about how we are shaping those strong community partnerships. Thank you so much. I'm Angela Christensen and I'm the executive director of the D-51 Foundation. Building on what Calie shared, the work I want to highlight centers on increasing community awareness and understanding of both our successes and challenges and using that shared understanding to strengthen meaningful partnerships. We're excited to share some of the key wins we've achieved this past year through our community partnerships. Last spring, we hosted a brunch and learn that provided the opportunity for PTO's, PTAs, accountability, and D-51 ambassadors to come together to connect with Dr. Hill and share ideas and tips with one another. In addition, last August, we hosted our D-51 Foundation Ambassador
009meeting at Carboy Winery, and we followed that up in January at our winter ambassador meeting at Timberline Bank. In November, over 170 community partners and businesses attended our third annual Strong Schools, strong community lunchon, highlighting the vital role schools play in our community. sponsored by the D-51 Foundation. The event featured Dr. Hill and his state of the district address. In addition, CMU President John Marshalls insights on our partnership and student voices sharing a little bit about the impact of opportunities like concurrent enrollment. The lunchon was a clear example of the strategic plan truly in action. Community support is vital in our schools. In 2024, as you know, voters approved the bond and mill initiatives, bringing the needed resources to D51, including major updates at Central High School and Fruta Monument High School. The mill will
010continue to provide funding for updated curriculum and efforts associated with our recent academic achievement and success. Although the needs outlined in the 25-y year long range master plan are still significant, this will make a big difference across D-51. Strong, wellsupported schools are key to any thriving community. And we thank you to everyone who said yes to D51. The D51 Foundation is proud to sponsor the your bond dollars at Work banners displayed at schools receiving bond work throughout the community. They're a visual reminder to everyone how these updates are happening. We look forward to continuing our community connection with our 14th annual White Ice Celebration. This year, sponsorships, I'm so excited to share, have increased by more than 10%. A strong board of directors includes many key community and business leaders and continues to connect with
011people across Mesa County and in and share the important role that public schools play in the growth and development all across western Colorado. We invite the community to join us in our celebration of outstanding academic growth schools and our white iced award recipients at our gayla this weekend. More than 800 guests attended last year and we are on track for an even larger event this year. D51 on the circuit is another exciting example of connecting with our community. Dr. Hill and members of the senior leadership team will be visiting community groups and schools to talk about the successes and challenges in our district. And finally, we've launched a new weekly educational campaign called Did You Know? shared on Fridays to help inform our community about district 51 with a focus on budget priorities and current
012challenges. The work in this strategic priority area intentionally connect community partnerships back to family partnerships because one truly cannot exist without the other. And with that, now I'll turn it back over to Calie. All right. So, as Angela said, if we want to grow and sustain engaged and supportive community partners, we have to start by strengthening how we're connecting with our families. Families are our most consistent partners and they're often the bridge to the broader community. Since the beginning of the year, we've had several wins in communicating with our families and hence our community partners. The work highlighted high highlighted here, launching Parent Square, our new two-way communication system, increasing transparency and communication avenues around our budget and the ongoing bond work and making information easier to find and more accessible for both families and
013the community via our website is about trust and clarity. This is about this is less about tools and more about the relationships we're building with our families. When families feel informed, heard, and connected, they become advocates. And when our community trusts the system, it strengthens our ability to engage our community partners in a meaningful way. Looking ahead, we're excited to continue building meaningful ways to engage our families and community partners in the work happening across D51. And I'll pass it over to Sher. >> Good evening, board members. Thank you so much for having us. My name is Sheri Taylor and I'm the director for career and college readiness. Um I want to share with you a little bit about what we plan to continue doing in the future to build strong community partnerships. First of
014all, we're going to host three um open houses at our bond project um update schools. And so that way it will give everybody an opportunity to see and really get a sense for all of the wonderful things that we have been able to improve upon for our students. We're also going to host coffees with the superintendent. This will give um Dr. Hill an opportunity to continue sharing our message as well. I don't know if he knew about that, but he >> he he did. He did. [laughter] >> And so he will continue to um share a message and it will allow our community, families, parents, everybody to have an opportunity to have some open discussions with Dr. Hill, our superintendent. Um we will continue to provide additional updates on our um bond, our mill levy
015work, our budget, all of the things that we continue to share and make sure that we're transparent on. We will continue um doing those updates. And finally, we're going to utilize Parent Square, which is our new two-way communication system to strengthen connections and to improve communications with family and community members. We know the community partnership is extremely important to our students and our community and so therefore it will continue to be a priority of ours. At this time I am going to turn it over to Melanie Trillo. All right. Good evening board. Melanie Trillo the district's chief financial officer. Um the second priority in our focus area, strategic support systems for success, focuses on continuing to build stronger strategic support systems to ensure efficient operations, effective resource use, and reliable infrastructure supporting the work of
016teaching and learning. This includes maintaining healthy and sustainable financial practices, ensuring staff have the resources and physical spaces they need to work productively, and creating safe environments across the district. Together, these goals reflect our commitment to strong operations that support students, staff, and effective learning every day. The first goal under this priority is to ensure that staff have adequate instructional resources to support student learning while also maintaining healthy and sustainable financial standing. As you can see in the data, staff responses on the TLCC survey have steadily increased over time. This progress reflects thoughtful prioritization of limited resources towards materials, facilities, and systems that support instruction. While we still have work ahead to reach our 2030 target, the upward trend shows we are moving in the right direction uh by aligning operational decisions with classroom needs.
017And I'll turn it back to Clint. >> Right. Uh goal 2A is about making sure our teachers and support have staff have the space they need to do their jobs well. Over the past several years, we've seen steady improvement in our survey data, which tells us that our facility work and space planning are making a difference. This progress is tied directly to our bond work, addressing space constraints, and creating environments that better support collaboration, productivity, and overall staff's well-being. Goal 2B is focused on safety, making sure our staff feel that their their school is a safe place to work. And while our survey results are already strong, safety isn't something we can take for granted. It takes ongoing attention, investment, and planning, facility upgrades like opportunity rooms, security improvements, and day-to-day operational decisions all contribute
018to that. At the end of the day, this reinforces that strong district operations are foundational to staff confidence, stability, and long-term success. With that, I'm going to turn it over to Andy. Hi, I'm Andy Means, the director of safety and security. As part of our priority goals, we've started rolling out opportunity rooms across the district. This is a meaningful step toward creating more supportive spaces for both students and our staff. Right now, we have 16 rooms um are either in the design phase or the permitting phase at 11 of our schools. These spaces give students a chance to take a break, reset, and return to class, ready to learn, all in a calm, supervised environment that's built to help them regulate and refocus. Um, but just as important as our students, this initiative is also
019about supporting our staff. We've heard loud and clear that having a consistent, safe option in place makes a difference when managing behavioral challenges. These rooms are designed to be a pract practicable or practical helpful resource that helps our students and teachers feel supported in those moments. We're on track currently to finish construction on 11 of these schools by August 2026 with full implementation across the district by 2028. It's one more way we are working to build safe, caring learning environments for both students and staff. They serve them every day. So Tony Hello. [clears throat] Hello everyone. My name is Tony Marsh. I'm the maintenance coordinator for the school district. We we're really proud to share that phase one of our bond projects is officially complete and we finished $4.5 million under budget. That's a big
020win and speaks to the district's focus on careful planning and solid financial management throughout the process. Instead of just holding on to those savings, we've really put them to work where they're needed most. $3 million has been allocated to Fruit of Monument High School for some key safety upgrades and improvements to their career and technical education classrooms, both high priority areas where we knew the impact would be felt right away. The remaining $ 1.5 million is being rolled directly into phase 2 projects, helping us move forward on even more infrastructure and safety improvements without having to ask for additional funding. It's a great example of how we're working to stretch every bond dollar making sure the community that community investment continues to support safe effective and safe effective learning environments across across all of our
021schools. With that, I will pass this on the bill. Another success under effective district operations is the energy performance contract that the district entered into last month. After over a year-long process um the process which began with the energy audit deter determination of scope costs and financing and ended with board approval. The district is using an energy performance contract as a strategic approach to address critical facility needs and modernize aging building systems while remaining fiscally responsible. This work focuses on upgrades that directly impact the safety, reliability, and functionality of our schools. Rather than deferring maintenance or responding to repeated system failures, this approach allows the district to take a planned district-wide path to improving facilities. The project is also an example of responsible financial and operational stewardship. The energy performance contract is structured to be
022budget neutral, supported by guaranteed energy savings, and replaces financing from a prior energy performance contract that was fully repaid in November 2025. This allows the district to move forward with needed improvements without increasing local taxes or requiring other additional revenue. Districtwide lighting upgrades and LED retrofits will improve classroom lighting quality while reducing maintenance needs and eliminating obsolete fixtures. Lighting upgrades are scheduled to be completed by this time next year. In addition, 25 HVAC units across eight district sites are being replaced. These units were identified as past their useful life and in the poorest condition, requiring a disproportionate use of district resources to remain operational. Work on HVAC replacements will begin this summer. Together, these outcomes demonstrate how the district is effectively managing facilities, improving efficiency, and making strategic investments that support students, staff, and the
023broader community. >> All right. Starting in May, we'll kick off phase two of the district's bond projects. And in this next round of work, we'll uh we're continuing to focus on tackling deferred maintenance and making improvements that enhance overall learning environments across our campuses. It's about making sure our buildings are not only in good shape, but also better support the day-to-day needs of students and staff. At the same time, the district will move forward with the next uh phase of the energy performance contract that Mel just mentioned with upgrades coordinated alongside the bond projects. We'll also see major projects begin at Central High School and Food and Monument High School, which we're really excited about. Uh these two campuses will be among the first uh to receive large-scale improvements, which will have a big impact
024on both learning experience and daily operations. Together, these projects reflect our ongoing effort to invest in our schools in smart future focused way. Uh taking care of what we have while creating better spaces for students and staff moving forward. And before I ask for questions, I just want to say um while this work uh takes a lot of time and I know my colleagues would agree uh whenever a meeting comes up on the calendar, it's like oh man, another meeting to sit down and talk about this stuff. The reality is is that we have had some real tangible outcomes from all of the work that we've done over the past three years and the work that we're planning to do. This stuff really is making a difference in everything that we're doing. So, with that,
025are there any questions? >> Cali, I have a really quick question for you. Um, I have more, but it's this one [laughter] first. I'm sorry. Um, so I >> I thought you might have some questions. >> Those of you who were in the meeting with me yesterday. Thanks, Jen. Um, Parent Square, is that for non is there an option for non-family community members to be part of as well? So that's a little complicated. Yes and no. So it is mostly a family communication platform where um classroom teachers, school staff and then district level would communicate with our families and students. Um but there are a couple of opportunities where we can create things called groups and allows like our PTAs and PTOs to communicate within that. And so um while they are sometimes community members
026and community are communityf facing. It's still primarily an internal only platform. >> Okay. Yeah, that question was rooted in two things. It didn't want just community members having access to >> to whatever. I knew that that wasn't going to be a thing, but I wanted to make sure it was said and then also I am interested in finding more ways that we can directly communicate with community outside of social media and emails and things like that. So, it was just it just piqued my interest. >> Yeah, absolutely. It's it's been a great platform. Um, and I think I was having a conversation with Dr. Hill. There's a lot of different things we can do on the platform. I think there are a lot of things that we have not discovered yet. Um, but I'll keep
027you updated on what that looks like as far as community communication. >> Not sure. I think maybe you might be able to answer this on the opportunity rooms. Uh, just curious. Um, I I was in a school today and and saw one of the rooms that was being built. I think it wasn't finished yet, but how will this and maybe this is not the time, but how will this be communicated with parents for students who are utilizing those rooms in schools? >> Really no different than how we communicate with them now. So, if we have to move a child out of a classroom into one of these opportunity rooms, once the child's regulated, usually the staff or principal will call that parent afterwards. I think there's just more of a focus on and on those
028rooms in all of our some equity across all of our all of our buildings. disruptive students. >> Correct. Instead of evacuating an entire classroom, so it disrupts the learning process for all the students. Just going to remove the one student now and give him the opportunity to to regulate himself in these rooms. >> And I don't know, I'm looking at Jen and Tammy if there's anything you want to expand on that because it's impacting the schools. So share on that. Um, I don't know if I could expand here. It's a massive issue and it involves a lot of special education law. So, I'd say if you have questions, just reach out to me and I can explain what we're doing and notification and legal requirements. It's not just for any student typically. So, >> thank
029you. I I think that was the clarification that I think it's important for us to say at a meeting like this. Um, I would assume that any student that would need an opportunity to use this type of that families would know that that is going to be used. students >> by law. Yes, they have to be present with them all the time. >> I do have just one more question. So, as as this work moves forward, what might be most helpful uh for you to move forward in this priority in these focus areas for us as the board to be able to help you do this work? So, are there any ways for us to help ensure alignment or accountability or even long-term success where within our work as a board? >> I think as
030as we start to to organize and as was mentioned already, go out into the community and share some of these things, I um I think supporting us in that and being available even for some of those events would probably be helpful. I don't know if there's anythingbody else has. Well, and [clears throat] there's so many moving parts to all these things, too. So, you know, one example is when we have savings from other bond projects, um you know, being able to share that with the board and say, can we utilize these funds for something else so that um that is tied back to the strategic plan or tied back to the long range facility plan that makes sense. So, I think accountability around that is helpful as well. um so that we when we bring
031those um requests to the board that y'all understand it and can speak to that to the community about that as well because we want to [clears throat] you know obviously we want to go out for other bonds in the future. And so um we want the community to feel like um they understand how we're utilizing those dollars and then when we do have available extra funds um that we're still taking care of that next set of needs and that prioritized list. So um communication around that helps as well. I think just a last maybe comment is I really appreciate everyone that's here tonight and saying because I think this is the behind the scenes that um the community often doesn't we know it's happening but you're putting faces with it and you're stating very actionable
032items that's happening in our district. Um I was able to see the um sorry the CTE career and tech ed work that's happening in schools which relates directly to the bond work that you're referring to and you know I think for me it was just to see it happening and in action so I appreciate all of you coming and showing us what's happening there's many I mean from communication to community partnerships to making kids safe in our schools so thank you for that Thank you. >> Central High School Mate. All right, I'm back. Um, just a quick update on Central High School and where we're at and uh just some updates on on the work that's taking place, our monthly report. And with that, I will turn it over to Micah Adams. >> Hello. That's
033it. Great. All right. Uh, thank you for having me again once again. My name is Micah Adams with Dynamic Program Management. Uh DPM being the owner's rep on the bond projects. Um and we'll go ahead and kick things off. You can go to the next slide. Um so once again, just a general overview of the bond program, 190 million split into number of different buckets. And it looks like the uh numbers aren't showing up on the screen. Uh but that's all right. Uh the big red area is uh is central. [laughter] So sorry about that. >> We're not trying to hide anything. >> Okay. It's on your slides. Great. [laughter] Yeah. >> Um so the the big piece of the pie on the left side is is Central High School, which is what we're here
034to talk about tonight. Um so this is a little bit of a deeper dive into the schedule and the budget. Um there on the left hand side of the screen you'll see um a little bit of a breakdown on the phasing. Um there's actually quite a few more phases that go into this project and what's shown there, but I didn't want to get too into the details and bore you. Um so this is like I said a general overview. Um the key thing to point out is that work is starting in March. Um, and we'll uh talk about that a little bit more here on the next slide. Um, oh, sorry. We'll stay on that slide for a second. Um, so, uh, big portion of work will start in, um, March, followed by this summer,
035and, uh, then we'll get really into, uh, the big construction portion, uh, this coming, um, December time frame. budget there on the right side. Um total committed to date. Uh just a quick note on that. A big portion of um the construction budget was committed here recently. Um what's being referred to as bid package one um which is a renovation of Feder Hall uh which is scheduled for the summer. um selective demolition, site work, and um quite a few of the mechanical, electrical, plumbing systems um are included in that. So, it was good to get a good portion of that under contract, which means um purchasing of equipment can begin. Um some prices are locked in, which is real great. Um total expended to date about 2.3 million. um primarily design other soft costs like
036site survey um investigatory work stuff like that. Um go ahead and hit the next slide. So some things recently completed was over Christmas break Federer Hall had some abatement work done pretty minimal. There was a couple rooms that had some floor tile that needed to be removed. Um the design development estimate was was done and as I mentioned FCI's amendment one or bidpack one was executed um and some existing uh furniture was inventoried um you know as a part of this project there will be new furniture um in all the new spaces or spaces getting renovated but that's not the whole school. Um, so we did some inventorying and are working with the district to figure out where um, good furniture can be reused in areas that aren't getting new furniture in progress. Right now,
037the uh, final design documents, the construction documents are just about two weeks out from getting completed. And immediately following that will be uh the the final estimate for a for the project. Um, so we're getting pretty close to being able to lock in that that pricing. Furniture design is underway. A lot of site investigation um coordination as well as I mentioned earlier um here in March. There's uh abatement starting in the existing locker rooms, the twotory locker room area there on kind of the east side of the main building. Um, and I've got a site map or a M map here on the next slide that will um show you where that's at. Admin modular is uh currently in progress getting procured. Uh, a lot of coordination going around uh for the Verizon cell tower
038that has to be relocated. Um, and then upcoming, I think I I touched on most cities already. Um but one other thing to highlight would just be that uh there is a good amount of furniture that has to be purchased here coming up soon as well. So that procurement will kick off um in about a month. So here's a slide I mentioned uh with a little bit of a overview of what's going to be starting. Up the top right corner the area highlighted in yellow is the twostory locker room area. That is where abatement is going to start here in March. Immediately following abatement, um FCI is going to begin uh renovating the interior area, um doing some selective de uh demolition um and getting that area ready. starting this summer um are the two
039pieces you see more towards the bottom of the screen where the two admin modulars will be set out front of the building. Um and then there on the left side where the athletic edition will begin. Um, so that addition is scheduled to be completed uh before the Warrior Classic here this next winter um so that it um can be used as a part of the Warrior Classic. And then um once that area is complete here this winter is is when the twostory construction there in the center is really going to start to take place. Um once again just a general overview um the some of the most recent floor plans. Uh and then I think we've got another slide just of some of the the renderings. I think it's been a couple months since you
040guys have seen these. Um with that I believe that's the presentation. Do you have any questions? Only question I have just I'm curious uh the cell tower >> who pays for it and what's the cost if we have to pay wondering. >> Yeah. So it's currently under negotiation but Verizon that the cell tower tower provider um will be paying for that. >> Do you haven't we haven't discussed the cost that they're paying but they're covering the cost of that. >> We just have to we just relocated to a different spot. It's currently sitting just to the east of the main building and we're moving it closer to um the track and field on Grand Mason's property. >> We um we have cell towers throughout the district and we actually receive funding from correct that we
041can use for different things. >> All the sort of surprised questions. Thank you so much. >> Yeah, thank you guys. >> Our next item is a business item, approval for sales of career center property. May I have a motion to approve of the sale the career center property and a second? >> Motion to approve the uh to sell career center property. Well, and I just to clarify because that title's misleading. We're not selling career center. [laughter] So, there's any reporters here. Um, so it's the the students that build the houses through their construction program, then they sell the houses afterwards. So, I just want to be clear, we're not selling career. Yeah, I was gonna in our discussion I was just gonna say yeah the in the um in the resolution it's it's 2887 Presley
042Avenue if you it's on Zillow if you want to look it up. It's a really beautiful house. You can see what our students did. Um and so everything is in the resolution if you want to take it. So the board past approved a couple of these houses that our students have sold. So thank you Dr. Hill though. So we don't want to we are selling a house that the students have built via career center. So >> Mr. >> approved >> Mrs. Cole yes Mrs. Evson Mrs. Heights yes Mrs. Yes. >> Discussion from anybody because it has director Heights is correct. It's at 2887 Presley Avenue uh in the mountain is about $10,000. Is there any discussion on that? I think that's the that's for just in concession in concessions. Looks all pretty straightforward. >> It
043is. >> Future meetings. Our next meeting will be on February 17th, 26 is a board business meeting at 5:00 at the Harry Butler room. Then we have one March 3rd, 26, a board work session at 5:00 pm. It's the Harry Butler room. Can I have a motion for journ Oh, no. Never mind. Scratch that. >> Motion to return. >> We're done. Everybody drive home safe. Thank you. And remember, we have quite nice this Saturday. Please join