001All right, good evening everyone. Uh, thank you for coming this evening. We're going to go ahead and get started with our work session. Uh, we actually already did a call to order and an agenda approval because we had an executive session before this. So, if you don't mind, please stand with us and we'll do the pledge of allegiance. United States of America nation indivisible. All right. Thank you. Um, Director Chavez is going to read our Hispanic Heritage um, month proclamation. Whereas, Hispanic Heritage Month is observed nationwide from September 15 to October 15th each year, celebrating the rich contributions of Hispanic and Latin Americans to business, the art, culture, politics, science, technology, athletics, and academia. And whereas nearly a quarter of all students in Mesa County Valley School District 51 and 35% of students across the
002state of Colorado are Hispanic or Latino American descent. And whereas Mesa County School District 51 proudly honors the cultural backgrounds of all of our students and foster an environment where students of all ethnicities learn together and from one another. And whereas district 51 is committed to serving its Hispanic, Latin, Spanish speaking communities as outlined in our three-year community-driven strategic plan. Therefore, be it resolved, the board of education and superintendent Hill proclaims September 15 through September 24th the Hispanic Heritage Month in school district 51. Let us join together and participate in activities and celebration that honors and recognize the numerous contributions of Hispanic and Latin Americans. [Applause] Right. Next, uh, Director Evansson is going to do our Patriot Day proclamation since September 11th. Um, will be coming up after this meeting before our next. Whereas on
003September 11th, 2001, the American people faced the worst terrorist attack on US soil in our nation's history with courage and heroism. And whereas in the aftermath of that day, our country stood united. Americans of all races, backgrounds, and religions join together to support the families of victims and honor the first responders who sacrificed their lives. And whereas every year since, we unite as a nation to honor the memory of the first responders and civilians whose lives were tragically lost 23 years ago in these acts of terror. And whereas on September 11th, we pay tribute to the first responders and citizens who answered the call to save lives with tremendous courage and selflessness. On this day, on this national day of service and every day, we must remember to stand united with understanding, love, kindness, and
004respect for one another. And whereas we must always remember the events of that painful day in our country's history so that future generations are reminded of the strength that comes when Americans from all walks of life unite. And whereas since since 911, we must also honor the military men and women who have answered to the call to defend our freedoms. Therefore, be it resolved, the board of education and superintendent Hill proclaim September 11th as a day to be forever remembered as Patriots Day. [Applause] Thank you both for sharing those. All right. Um we have our superintendent evaluation update. So the board um does the evaluation at the end of our school year in June. Um we do that in executive session. The board gets the evaluation ahead of time. We fill it out. We come
005together as a board and discuss it and then we meet with Dr. Hill. So that is concluded and we get the board signatures on it. So um did any other board members want to um say anything more about the evaluation? Nope. Just we have it concluded and we are done. So yeah. And um so tonight and George is on um virtually. So, if y'all remember uh last year, uh George Welsh, who works for CI now, but also was superintendent of Canyon City Schools and um prior to that, he worked with the board on um defining uh norms for the board, uh roles and responsibilities of the board and of the superintendent. Um and then also setting some some board goals. Um and so he did that work with the board last spring, uh which was
006great and it's something that we want to um talk about every year and see if we need to make adjustments to. But one of the things that we talked about was um the current evaluation, my evaluation um if we wanted to make any adjustments to it because it's an older uh well there was an older one that was being used and then I know some work happened with um some of the board members um not last year but the year before to update it and so George wanted to join and just see if there's um any work he could do with the the school board on um updating that version of the uh superintendent evaluation or enhancing it in any way. So tonight's not anything that you're going to have to vote on or make
007any decisions on. He just wanted to start that conversation with the board uh on looking at a potentially a new evaluation um rubric and system. So I think he's joining us virtually. George, are you there? Good evening, Dr. Hill. Hello, Andrea, Angela, Barb, Jose Luis, and Will. Good to see you all. Good to see you, too, George. Yeah. Um uh Dr. Hill and Andrea, if if uh you you guys would like, I can kind of present what I've um taken the work that we did back uh last March, I think it was early March, uh and uh and put it into a sample um evaluation instrument. And I also have information about a sample timeline, which probably doesn't match with what you guys want to do, but uh are you okay if I present this
008stuff? Yes, that would be great. Awesome. Uh, give me just a second. Uh, I'm gonna share my entire screen and I'll just be pulling some things up. Says can't share. Uh, Chrome might not have screen recording permission. Uh, Amy, is that something on your end? They're checking. What I can say is when this board met and we did look at the um evaluation this year, we kind of did self-critique a little bit on our evaluation of things we liked and some things we didn't like. some questions that we thought were more two-part questions or should have been separate. So, um I know we have that information, but I am interested to hear what George presents because we had done the work with him over that evening and he had, you know, spoke with each one
009of us individually for um some time so that we could work on getting those done and also the I think the um calendaring of that would be helpful as well for the board. There we go. I'm definitely able to share a Google um um frame. I'm not sure if I'm able to share my whole screen and the whole the whole uh reason I wanted to share the entire screen. Maybe I can go to window um is I wanted to I wanted to share some of the work we had done earlier show you how it all fits together. Guess guess I won't be able to. But um and so what what I'm showing you right now um is um a a draft of an evaluation process that's built off of the role definition that we built
010when I was there last. You might recall when I was there um we did that um sorting activity is what I call it. It's uh um you all have um post-it notes that indicate things that school districts do and you place them on a ven diagram and on the ven diagram it determines ultimately what's what belongs to the superintendent, what belongs to the board and what's what are shared duties and from that I actually built a a sample superintendent role. And so what this um becomes for uh Mesa County School District uh is uh um your unique definition of what the superintendent ought to be doing. And what I can then do is build an evaluation process out from that. And uh um so tell me if I'm moving forward in this. Do you see
011my next slide? Yes. Great. And so and so um what I did in essence is create a Google form out of it. And if I was able to show you real quick that role definition that we put together and I shared it back with you um at a uh at a digital meeting sometime later in the spring, but ultimately it has six sections. Section one is strategic leadership that you could see there. Um section two is um um support for governance. I'm scrolling across section three. Um so it gets broken up a little bit. It goes to next. Doesn't seem to be working right now. Um at any rate, section three would then um be what's on the Hang on. Yeah. Um, section three would be district representation. Section four would be workforce leadership. Section
012five would be instructional leadership. And section six six would be resource leadership. And um what you can see if you if you look at what I'm sharing with you here and I'm sure it won't let me go forward because I'm not actually filling out the answering the questions. So just for the fun of it, I'll just put effective on everything for Dr. Hill right now. But but what what this is designed to do is Dr. Hill would do one that would be a selfreflection uh evaluation. And so under strategic leadership here um the question would be asked the superintendent establishes committees um um um and that's that's a typo, I'm sorry. U committees are in place and guides their work to drive district level improvement processes. uh and if I were to to fix that
013I would take the students to the superintendent established committees and guides their work and you can say whether uh he's effective ineffective or highly effective on each of these um rubric items it's as simple as this from the board uh level thing and if I answered all effectives by the way a logical thing to do on the section would just put them right in the middle at effective and then I would even be able to type in as a as a board member, having read Dr. Hill's reflection, I would type in a comment as to why I think he is where I think he is in this area. And I'm just going to do something silly like that so I can move ahead. Going to go on effective, effective, effective, effective, effective. Put them at
014three. Type something in here. It should let me go forward. Yeah. section three. And at any rate, it goes through sections three, four, um, five, and six. Um, it then um um um breaks off into a section where every member of the board would be able to write, here's the five things we want you to continue doing, Dr. Hill, and here are the five things we think up to five things we think would be most important to focus on to support the district in being better. And then you would have at the very end an opportunity to write just a a passage about how Dr. Hill did uh in terms of uh the overall evaluation. Um so I'm pulling out of that. Something that I encourage districts to do when they align their evaluation process
015directly to their role definition is to also do a survey about the role definition. And so I'm going to switch over um to um a sample evaluation survey. Can you guys see this now? Mesa County Schools 2024 superintendent evaluation survey. No. Okay. Are you presenting tabs in your browser? Uh, I'm probably just Yeah, maybe if you click on a new tab, there should be top says present this instead or something like that. Yeah, that's the extent of my Okay, you see the different one now. Working. Yep, that works. Yeah. And so I'm and and so this is I and I know some people do all kinds of fancy things as far as um superintendent evaluation surveys, uh 360 things, uh some um uh pay for um survey um options. This is a simple Google form.
016It's self-created. It feeds into a spreadsheet and you can get pie charts, bar graphs and things that would actually say what folks are thinking about the role about the superintendent filling the role. And what you can see here is uh first question's demographic and then each um focuses on um the different sections of the evaluation. Uh Dr. Hill's work toward the strategic vision of the district would be question two. uh the support for governance is question three um representation of the school district and the communities question four and so what what I'm sharing is these go into the six different areas of the superintendent's defined role which then also feed into the six different areas of the superintendent evaluation ends at number seven and at the very end by the way um different districts do
017different things this is an example example of a linear scale where someone could just say, you know, I think Dr. Hill is an eight uh in terms of um um his effectiveness on on on how he's driving the school district forward. I can answer a short question. It's sort of like a 360 uh degree evaluation. I like it when Dr. Hill does these things. I wish or the most important things Dr. Hill could do to improve our school district. And some districts want to put in a final question that's just about the district and not about the superintendent. Um and so um um those things are created. And one other thing that I created and I shared with uh Amy to share with the board is a a process that looks similar to the Google
018form that I'm I just shared with you. um but it's in a Microsoft Word format that that has uh some of sample sections of an evaluation. Um but most specifically it has a timeline. Um most school districts in Colorado like to align their timeline for the superintendent evaluation to March 1, which is the uh timeline to generally act on the superintendent's contract. I know Dr. Hill has a multi-year contract, so that's not so much necessary. And so your timeline could be adjusted to what you're currently doing. It sounds to me like you guys maybe wrapped this thing up in in May or June. And you could certainly set your timeline. I I gave you a sample timeline in there. You could set your timeline for anything you want. and uh uh um would be happy
019to work with you to adjust that kind of language so that you could continue to do that. Um a lot of small districts in Colorado run their superintendent on one-year um contracts and so they need to make a decision by March 1st. If they don't, the contract automatically rolls over, which is why that timeline was in there. I'll stop presenting for the moment and be happy to answer any questions you might have thoughts or comments. So from the document that you shared with and I know the board has the the document that was shared if just to kind of summarize it if I'm understanding what you're saying as far as the timeline. So we would meet at the beginning of the year, set objectives, and then there would be a survey that goes out to
020the community where they can evaluate based on those objectives and then I would take that feedback and the board would see it as well. I would do my own self-reflection on that feedback, submit it to the board, and then the board would evaluate me individually and then pull all that together and have one comprehensive evaluation. So, it's there's like five or six kind of layers to this before you get to the final evaluation. Is that accurate? Pretty darn close. Uh um Dr. Hill, the um the survey is really aligned to the evaluation instrument and and the role that you've defined. It's not so much um um designed to measure the current year goals you have. I assume if they ju if the board just completed an evaluation of you, there may be a set of
021goals or priorities that you came away with out of that. And each year going forward, that kind of section can be added to um the evaluation process. Everything that you see in front of you in that link that I shared with you guys, uh all of it is um you're able to um um um change any any section that you might want to change. Be be happy to do that. But what it does is it creates an annual cycle where um you start the year with some specific guidelines. Um, in my evaluation process in Canyon City, it was always whatever the board came up with those five areas that they wanted me to focus on for the coming year and then I would develop an action plan for that and I would report back to
022the board at evaluation time where I was with that. I actually report to the board every week about what I was doing about some of them uh as as part of the annual process. Uh but then yeah um um if you wanted to do the survey, you could have folks do the survey. And you can see they're a answering questions that are pretty high level about what the superintendent's doing. And so I warn everyone that during the first year you get a lot of I don't know answers. People are going to say, I didn't know I should be looking for this. I didn't know I was supposed to notice how well Dr. Hill's supporting the board and its governance of the district. Um but what happens is as you get to year two and year
023three and beyond, it becomes part of the local culture. Um um surely staff members uh um parents and community members start noticing whether you're doing that or not. You start seeing a change in that data. Um and and uh and as valuable as anything is just those general um comments that everyone gets to make. I like it when Dr. Hill does this. And that's a great way for the board to settle on those things they want to want you to keep doing. Uh and uh and that information where the be the most important thing Dr. Hill could do would be these things. If you can distill that down to five um really powerful areas of focus that the board and you can agree on, um that would set you on a a good trajectory for
024being the best superintendent you can be for your community. What I would also add is uh uh two things. One is if you like your current format because I know the board has invested um time into that. If you wanted to share that with me, I could then take that and blend this recommended um format for you. Um my hope for you guys would that be that by the end of October, you actually have it determined what instrument you're going to use to evaluate Dr. Hill. Um and and and and that would be awesome. Um and any other way I could support you on that, I'd be happy to do so. I think what we could do I think well I'll back up. I think we're looking forward to a different format. Um, however bored,
025I would say that if there were some particular questions you liked, maybe we could just highlight those particular things because I I was getting the feeling that none of us absolutely loved the format that we had, but if there were questions you liked, we could send those over to George. He could see if he already has a question that maybe covers that or he could expand on it or he could add that question in. Would that be helpful? Well, I think just as as soon as we can spend a little bit of time with this, um, then we'll be able to we'll be able to see it if if we cover the things that were in the format that we were using prior to this. I don't think any of us were crazy about the
026the prior format. I like what I'm seeing so far, George. This looks great. Um, looks like what it looks better than what we talked about and what I thought it would end up being. So, Google form is great. that'll make this much easier. That'll make things so much more streamlined and and I yeah, I just like what I'm seeing so far, but I'd like to spend a little bit of time with it and not um and then there may be some other questions and we know we can reach out to you, which is great. The other thing I would mention too is I know we keep saying my evaluation, but this is really for, you know, I go ride my bike off a cliff and I'm not here anymore. it's for the next uh so
027we need you need something that the board feels comfortable with that would be good moving forward and I'm just wondering you know in the interest of time if it seems like it's harder to get that feedback I I know at one point George I'm not trying to give you more work to do but you did those one-on-one meetings with board members where you got feedback so even if we got down the road and we had to do something like that just so that board members can give you direct feedback that way and you could bring something back um incorporating all that because it would be good to have something in place or somewhat finalized by October I would think or like end of October. We can can do that. I think if we look at
028this the board can commit to taking some time and then we we can always ask George if we need to have a phone call or we can give feedback via email to him. Yeah. I I think we I'm I'm optimistic we can get optimistic just spending the few minutes that I have with this. How do you guys feel? You guys any other questions? No, I don't think I have any other questions. I definitely want to look through it. And there were there were a couple questions that were in the previous um evaluation that I think that we could float over to this one that might um uh cover a couple other topics potentially. And so um yeah, like just maybe thank you for doing this and give us just a little bit of time to
029chew on it. I think well one thing that I've seen as a good model for um moving forward is and you guys would have time to do this is if you played around with this and if someone from the board or maybe through Amy or or or Dr. Hill you could get um some of those questions to incorporate I can do kind of a a 2.0 no draft of this one and something that I mean literally if you wanted to go through it especially having recently evaluated Dr. Hill, if if the board at least went through it from the through the lens of here's where we landed at the end of last year, let me complete this um evaluation process based on that. In other words, we could do a a mock run, a trial
030run of it where I could work directly with the board. You guys could see how long it takes to do it and it doesn't take very long. and the way the the information is captured, I'm then able to put together for you uh a unified copy of the evaluation could share it back to you in some form or fashion and you could see what that would look like um having gone through it um sort of like in a test run, a trial and error thing and that would then be able to inform some final tweaks to it and you can say yeah by the end of October this is what we're going to evaluate Dr. Hill on based on this timeline that we would like to follow. So just as a thought we could kind
031of see what it looks like before we delve into it with Dr. Hill. The word I was looking for was pilot but it was escaping me. Pilot process. Okay. No, I think that's great. I'm excited with what we are already seeing and um yeah, I think this board is really looking at something that like Dr. Hill said can create longevity for years to come. uh excuse me for a board for other boards to use as well. Great. Well, I don't see any other burning questions. George, thank you so much for your time and all of your work on this. We really appreciate it. My pleasure. And I'll just look forward to hearing from you and and uh waiting for what you need from me. Remember, this is all part of our commitment to Dr. Hill
032um because of his participating in the Rural Superintendent Academy. So, we're not charging you for me showing up. Okay. Thank you, George. Bye-bye. Bye. Now, that's that's super helpful. That's a lot of work um to get done and that will be helpful for us and for Dr. Hill. All right. Next up, we have our strategic plan update on academic success. So, if that team is here and would like to come up to the front and as they're heading up, um just uh for the board and for the public a reminder that we're we're going into year three of our three-year strategic plan. And so, um every month we want to give an update on a different priority area. So, there's three focus areas. Um prepared and supported students, prepared and supported staff, and engaged and
033supported community partners. And then underneath each of those three focus areas, there's three priority areas. And so each month we'll have a different priority area that will come and um give an update on how we're doing um or or since it's so early in the year, what data do we have? And then what are the goals for this year? So um this month it's our um academic success folks that are going to be focused on prepared and supported students. So I'm going to turn it over to to Jen and her team as they give an update on where we are with academic success. lo. Do you need the light? Yeah. We just thought we'd all go backwards with technology tonight and uh show people what it was like 10 years ago. We'll just started. We're
034all We were off for the summer. I have something to focus on. What are you guys going to do? They'll chalk it up to that hell. too soon. Well, does everybody want to introduce themselves maybe while you're waiting? Sure. Oh, I mean, I think we know everybody, but Thank you. I'm Jackie Anderson, executive director of teaching and learning. Nikki Johnston, secondary director of curriculum and professional learning. And I am Curry Newton, the director of assessment. I'm Stacy. Stacy Cohen, the principal of Mfield Elementary. Danny Medvid, principal of Orchard Mesa Middle School. N Clmmeer, principal at Fruit of Monument High School. Jennifer Marsh, Chief Academic Officer. The one hill worries the most about when it comes to I do paper is just really good. There was no internet. Did everybody have a good summer? Do this
035weekend. I know. Have a good long weekend. Camping. Good. All right. Anybody get like any new pets or wrangled into that sort of thing? No. Everybody's on skates. Great. Good. She's got it. She's live. We almost There we go. [Laughter] That was Jess. Oh, soon. Yeah. Welcome, Matt. Good evening. There we go. Woohoo. I'm Jennifer Marsh, chief academic officer, and tonight I'm joined by members of our teaching and learning department and some of our building leaders, which have already introduced themselves to you. Tonight's update on the strategic plan implementation progress is specific to students academic success and the goal of ensuring that all students are academically prepared and supported for their bright futures. That is our promise to our community, our families, and most importantly, our students. The promise is reflected both in our vision
036and our graduate profile, which envisions every student as capable, confident, and and an engaged learner equipped to thrive in the future. Tonight's updated data story highlights how our collective efforts are driving academic growth and achievement. across schools and grades. We're excited about what we've achieved. From the promising early literacy gains to record high graduation rate, the successes we will share tonight are a testament to the engagement of our students. Our academic gains are also a testament to the hard work of our educators. The quote on the screen reads, "Effective instruction isn't about whether we taught it. It's about whether students learned it. It's a quote D51 educators have rallied around and together we share a collective focus on and responsibility for all students and their learning. Finally, our academic gains are a testament to the
037support of our community. As Jen said, our academic gains are a testament to the support of our community. It is important to recognize the way in which the 2017 mill levy has helped us be more strategic and resourceful. More specifically, the 2017 mill has played a role in providing the highquality resources that our students and teachers rely on every day. This includes aligned professional learning opportunities that have strengthened our instructional practices and supported our educ educators in their ongoing development. Also, the five additional instructional days funded by the mill have provided valuable time for deeper learning, ensuring that our students are better prepared to meet and exceed academic standards. We are deeply appreciative of the community's investment in our schools through the 2017 mill, which has enabled us to enhance the educational experiences of our
038students and set them on a path toward continued success. Thanks Nikki. This is really far away. Okay. So, our ambitious goal is very clear. By June 2024, 90% of our schools will be at the performance or improvement levels, which are the two highest levels on their school performance frameworks or the SPFs. And by June of 2025, we aim for 100% of our schools to achieve these high levels of performance. Um, in year one, we exceeded our goal um of 80%. Uh, that was our target. We received 83% of our D-51 schools finishing the year in the highest two levels. Year two data reflective of last year's strong finish is embargoed until this Thursday, September 5th. So close. Um, but we do anticipate that the positive trend will continue and our optimism is based on the
039data that we're going to share with you tonight. Our data story often looks at years long u trends and that's because we're mindful of two specific uh very significant benchmarks in time. The one is the pandemic, so 2019 to present, and the other is the passing of the 2017 mill. Uh for as Nikki just explained, the mill has really had a significantly positive impact for us. And so to begin our data story, uh Stacy's going to take over. One area where we've made substantial progress is in early literacy. The data show that our youngest learners are effectively moving through the stages of reading development where in 71% of K3 students scored at or above benchmark on measures that assess the acquisition of literacy skills requisite to reading and future academic success. 71% is an all-time
040high since 2016, up 9% overall and 1% improvement on last year's mark of 70%. Early literacy is critically important because it serves as a cornerstone of all future learning. When students develop strong reading skills before grade three, students are better equipped to tackle more complex text and achieve at higher levels throughout their educational journey. This progress in early literacy is thanks to the targeted strategies we've implemented and the hard work of teachers who have aligned their classroom practices with what research says works best. to tell you more about how our intermediate elementary students and middle school students are growing and achieving. Here is Danny. District 51. Oh, here we go. Sorry about that. Um, District 51 is one of only three districts in the state of Colorado to have a positive trend line in academic
041outcomes since 2019. See the graph up there? Um, or since prepandemic times. And that's what you'll see reflected in that graph. On screen is CAMass data in grades three through eight for both literacy or ELA and math. Two years are represented. 2019 is pre- pandemic and 2024 is current data from last year in April. The state is in gray. D51 is in green. Okay. While the state is in decline, D51 is on the rise. While D-51 still trails the state in overall achievement, D51 is quickly closing the gap. And in 2024, METR exceeded the state in four categories. Fourth and fifth grade literacy or ELA and third and fourth grade math. Those are measures of achievement, but there's also notable gains in our growth data, too, where students are scoring in ranges consistent with one
042year's growth in one year's time. That's what we want for every student. We're proud of the ways in which our elementary and middle school students are accelerating their learning. And to tell you more about that, at high school, here is N at high school. And against the PSAT and SAT assessments, D51 students have made substantial progress in closing the gap between our district and the state in the mean score, showcasing our commitment to continuous improvement, excellence, and opportunity for all students. On this graph and the next two, you'll observe the gap between D-51 mean scores and state mean scores since 2018 when the state of Colorado shifted from the ACT to the SAT. Notice a significant gap in 2018. Note how it shrunk over time and this year our 9th graders outperformed the state. And
043yes, let's applaud. In 10th grade, notice significant gaps since testing began and note the accomplishment of last year's 10th graders, this year's juniors. Yes, again. And in 11th grade, there was wide disparity between D51 and the state in 2017. Then nearly a 100 point difference. and last year a gap of only nine points which is a 90% [Applause] improvement. Because the SAT is used by the state as a graduation proficiency and a marker of readiness for careers, college or the military, it's no wonder that we are also celebrating the highest graduation rate we've ever seen in D51. In 17 years, 81% is all-time high. and we're so excited for what that means for the futures of our students and our community. These successes are not just about numbers. What we're really celebrating are the stories
044behind these numbers. Students who have overcome challenges, educators who have gone above and beyond, and families who have supported their children's learning every step of the way. We're glad to be celebrating all of these academic achievements with you tonight. And we also know our work is not done. We remain committed to further improving these outcomes and ensuring that every student in our district has the opportunity to succeed and reach his or her fullest potential. To tell you more about how we got here and where we're headed next, here's Jackie. Thank you, N. So, as N just noted, we have work yet to do and it's important at this moment to pause and think about both how we got here and where we're headed. Our commitment to continuous growth is grounded in providing every student with
045high quality academic experiences and we remain focused on the strategies that will sustain and build upon our students achievements. The four key resources that drive highquality academic experiences according to TNTP's the opportunity myth are consistent opportunities for students to work on great appropriate assignments, strong instruction or students do most of the thinking, deep engagement with what students are learning, and teachers who truly believe in every student's ability to meet grade level standards. In district 51, we're deeply engaged with these strategies, ensuring that every student has the opportunity to thrive and reach their full potential. And deep engagement is a theme for us this year, especially and and that is evident in other initiatives too, as with our cell phone policy. uh in reaching the academic goals of the strategic plan and the benchmarks requisite to
046high performance on a school performance framework. We need a clear vision for teaching and learning, what it looks like across D51. And that's cast by our teaching and learning framework. Updated this year, it names 48 specific practices that guide our work in the classroom. And by embedding these practices into our daily instruction, we ensure high reliability and consistency across schools and classrooms. Our teaching and learning framework is valuable for its specificity in naming practices and making recommendations. However, it is more than just a guide. It's a commitment to excellence anchored in the belief that kids can and our educators can too. Uh so now and going forward, we're committed to ensuring that all students regardless of the D51 school they attend receive receive the same highquality educational experience. This is how we're building a strong
047foundation for continuous growth and success in D51 to describe what we ultimately hope to achieve with the strategic plan focus area. I'll now hand it back to Jen. As Jackie said, moving forward, our focus remains on maintaining this momentum and continuing to build on our successes. Again, our goal is clear. By June 2024, 90% of our schools will be at the performance or improvement levels. the two highest levels on their school performance framework or SPF. And by June of 2025, we aim for 100% of our schools to achieve these high levels of performance. In year 1, as Curry noted, we exceeded that 80% um goal with by 83 and school finished um in year two. We'll be ready this Thursday. Um and you can see why we anticipate the positive trend will continue. We believe
048that with the dedication of our educators, the engagement of our students, and the support of our community, the strategic plan goal of 100% of our schools on the top two tiers of performance by by year three is attainable and will become a standard of excellence for our ma for all of our schools in D51. Questions? I really don't have any question. Just thank you for the nice report. I really this is wonderful news and I do want to thank the teachers for all the work that they do. Without them doing boots on the ground and taking the time and having the passion we wouldn't have this report that you have given us. So I really want to thank them and give them props for all that. Yes, agreed. our educators and our community affording us
049um that the mill from 2017 definitely has um provided um a perfect foundation for what we're what we're experiencing right now. I think that was going to be what my question was um which I think you just answered is do you think having that consistent curriculum is what has really propelled this? I mean, especially for some of you that have been in the the district and seen this for a while, you know, I know many of you were teachers in the classroom, principles before this, you know, like what do you what do you feel is sort of the biggest driver, you know, pushing us to this point? Yeah, I can start and then you guys can fill in. Um certainly five additional days in a in a student's um academic calendar year most certainly has
050um helped and then um having the mill that we're we've been afforded the opportunity to purchase highquality resources. So high quality meaning they are grade level standards with grade level rigor that certainly is exactly what has helped us with this. and then our grounding in these four um tenants of what it takes and these are researchbased and so we've worked on this a lot as a as a as a district and as individuals and I'm sure our principles would be able to add exactly what they've been doing in um in their buildings to ensure that we've been our students have an opportunity to reach the highest potential that they Go for it. So, definitely time. Time is one of the most important things that we have and we're really grateful for those extra days. Um,
051not just for kids in seats, although that is number one, but time to help our um our staff really develop their knowledge around effective practice and the resources that we've been gifted that um, as Jen already said, meet the demands of the standards. Um it's that perfect formula and uh I know it's made a huge difference for us in early literacy as well as in intermediate literacy. I think there's a nice balance of and a sustained focus like we haven't kneejerked as a district. We've been on a journey for these years and I think um there's a nice balance of schools need the district to help set a direction and northstar to provide us resources. Um, but the district also needs to kind of create that space. And I think the the balance of sustaining
052school teams, getting teachers, ultimately teachers do the work in learning communities. So, are we buying them time and the dayto-day, week to week, do those professional learning days come where we can kind of recalibrate. Um, and and it's it's culture, too. You know, I think schools are they're safe first and foremost, and kids are there to learn. And so, I think there's a nice balance between the district role and school role. And I would just add to that a level of intentionality. Um, similar to what you were saying, Mr. Chavez, that you know, the teachers are the ones who lift this up. At the high school level, all of the principles, we all did something like an SAT matters campaign in our schools. That's what we called it at Fruit of Monument High School. So
053creating the intentionality and the purpose for this work um so that every student has the opportunity to grow and meet these grade level objectives. Um but you know without the teachers doing it it wouldn't have happened. That's one thing we talked about on our admin team is just this is a whole school celebration, whole district celebration. I really like the strong instruction that lets students do most of the thinking in the lesson because if you actually look at some of the competing nations um like Japan and China, um when you look at how they actually make their kids actually struggle through the problem, um there's something to be said that when they have to work it through, they work as a team. They talk to each other. Um, so I'm really pleased to see that
054because that is when I think you get that deep learning because you've had sort of an experience and and there's there's more tied to it rather than just reading something. Um, it becomes more ingrained. And so I love seeing that on the list because I think that and then I think you can actually develop a a love of learning because you're like, "Oh, this was a challenge and I worked through it and I figured it out." And then things don't become so intimidating and you tend to push yourself the rest of your life. So, I think it's great word. Any other thoughts or comments? Well, thank you all for your work and our educators work. Um, it's awesome to see everybody kind of moving forward together and getting all of this done. I'm super excited.
055I think we can make year I know I know we will make year three. Well, and I just to piggyback off of that, I do want to point out we have never achieved that as a district. So this is a pretty lofty goal to say we're going to get 100% of our schools at the top two levels because we've not we've not done that before and actually most districts are not there. So I think one it's a testament to um when we created that strategic plan that we set some really lofty goals and that the board agreed to those. Um and I I just I think as a district we don't always do a great job of pointing out the good things that are happening. Um partly because it feels like it's bragging but then
056also you're always cautiously optimistic. It's like, okay, but we did that, but we still have work to do, right? Highest graduation rate in 17 years, but we still have some kids who aren't making it. And so, we don't always do a great job of um highlighting um that progress and the things that are happening really well. Um but this is this is really great data. This is the work of these folks up here presenting, as you mentioned, our teachers in our classrooms, our principles, like everybody being on the same page and focused on on these goals. And so, I I do want to commend uh Jyn and her department and her team. Um but and then all of our campuses for really being laser focused on on what matters. Um keeping the main thing the
057main thing like uh Doug used to always say. So I just um I really want to just make sure that we highlight that work that we celebrate these things that are happening but also know that we've got work to do. And I know all the folks up here would say the the same exact thing um because we've got some really lofty goals that we've set in the strategic plan. And so um we still have some work to do. But thanks for all the work that y'all are doing. And I would like to just add um some of the the data that we're not allowed to to share publicly, but of course we know um and will be released on Thursday. We have even more to celebrate. There's some really exciting news. And Director Chavez, one
058of the things that you always ask us is about our diverse learners. This this is about all of our students as an aggregate as or in a as a whole. And we're seeing some great data come back with our diverse learners that we'd love to be able to share with you and and what that looks like and how we're seeing growth um across all of our our populations. We just can't tell you right now. I'm looking forward to Thank you. And I think with all everything that you do with curriculum and trying to get it the right one so the kids will learn and grow and the principles who also support it and options that principal give I look at you Danny of the option that you that you have at your school when you're
059telling people your teachers look at uh kids that are have potentially be honor students and put them in there and honors and challenging them. I think that is exciting and it's worthwhile that people should know that that's something that that you're doing in your school. So kids who didn't think that they could do it also in their challenge and they're in honors classes and they grow and that improves the grades. I think our community needs to know how well our our principles are making options for our kids. So thank you for that. Um now might be a really great time if you want to do the Google form that George had on Dr. Hill. Go ahead and do that now. Just a thought. And that's why I said it has nothing to do with me.
060It's the folks that might be a good time to fill it out. Thank you everybody. [Applause] Well, the sign of a good leader is you pick good people to work with you. So, all right. All right. So, we have our first reading this evening of our FCB policy, which is our school closure policy. So, um just real quick a recap. You know, when the school closure um conversation was presented to the board a couple of years ago, um there we went through the process of a committee. Um and also you know so identifying metrics for closure and then out of that as well the board felt it would be good to have a policy that would give the sitting superintendent or any superintendent in the future some guidance on what that needs to look like
061and many other districts do this. It just helps and I think it also helps give the community some guidance of like what the superintendent is um required to look at each year and uh needs to be able to make decisions and then bring recommendations to the board. So um so tonight we do have the um first reading of that policy and all of this is on the back table for anybody who's here and it is also posted online if anybody wants to read through it. So, I won't be reading it verbatim for anybody, but board, did anybody have any questions or comments yet this evening? Okay. So, we will likely adopt this one um at the business meeting in two weeks. So, if you do have any questions or thoughts, make sure that um you
062get those to Tammy and we can look at those within the policy. And yeah, the only thing I would add to that is um you're right, this is just it's the the why, the what, the how, the when um those pieces, but we obviously have all the other work that's been going on. Um as you mentioned, we've been talking about this for close to two years now. Um so it's not a surprise to anybody that we're still dealing with issues around declining enrollment. Um but the board did make a commitment to um adopting a policy before uh anything else happened. And we still have other work to do as well, like we still have to have um our demographers come back and give us pres updates on where our enrollment is, especially those October counts.
063We have that EDC criteria um that we've been working through. And so there's still some steps left. Um but this is really a first step, I would say, in this um section of the process is really getting this policy adopted. So definitely want feedback from the board between now and two weeks on if this is what you're looking for, if this makes sense. And if you get feedback from folks in the community, um, you know, share that with us so that we can make sure we have something that's solid in in two weeks. So appreciate all that in advance, the feedback we'll get. Yes. So the community can email the board with with feedback. Yeah. I liked about this policy is a communication plan. Yes. I think that was missing before, like how are we
064going to communicate or how are you going to communicate to the schools and the staff. So, I really like that it's laid out. Yes, good point. Yes. So, so the community can also um send emails to the board in the next two weeks if they have any questions or comments. And then there's also public comment um at our business meeting as well. All right. So, item eight on our work session is just a notice of a charter school application. So that is really all that it is tonight is that we are just being notified that there is a charter school application. I think there's still some work for the team to look at and take care of. So we'll get an update on kind of where that's at, but we at this point the board
065is just being notified that there is an application and the and for the public the reason why is because we are an authorizer, right? So um if there's any charter that ever wanted to open up and within our boundaries they have to come to our board and they have to um present the things they're presenting all that and then the board has that decision to make because we are the authorizer it and that changed back in spring of 19 I think is when it the change happened. So this is all part of a process of any school that would want to open up in the area. Thanks for that background. Okay. Then item nine, the Orchard Mesa pool intergovernmental agreement discussion. Um, so this will actually be an item that is voted on in our
066business uh section here. Uh, I do know that we there's just a couple of items that I think our attorney are still finalizing um and working through, but did anybody else I'm glad that we were able to work through this uh for our community and for um what we're able to do as a district without really being um our concern was escalating cost and I and we've we're working on those fi finer details with the city to make sure that the district is not out any more money than we would have been today if we had taken care of this. So, I'm excited to know that as from a district, we're not in two years from now not going to be in a different spot, which is what our hope was. And I would say
067on this one, too, thanks to, you know, President Heights for the meetings that we've had with the city. And yeah, you you summed it up, but essentially, we're trying to figure out a way because we own the pool, the community pool building, is how do we not add any cost to the district? And so the city um working with the city on a plan that would not add any cost on our end, but then would still allow them to figure out what that future use might look like for the pool facility. So if folks are wondering what would be in that, it's it's really looking at um them taking on all the the costs to operate it for any sort of cost that would happen between now and the the end of that IG agreement
068um would all um uh rely with the the city. Um, and then we would only be responsible for any cost that we would have had in today's dollars anyways for um, since we own the building if we had to demolish it. So, again, I think it's a good um, uh, win-win for both the city and the district uh, in the end. And I know the city's going to take some action tomorrow night as well on on this. So, that what you're voting on tonight gives us the authority to sign off on that. I like you said, there's still some minor tweaks that we're making to it, but gives us the authority to be able to sign off on that once that's all finalized. Um just to be clear, right? And some of those details were
069getting the gym demolished, which the district would um take care of because the gym was of no use to the city. Um making sure that the entrance area was obviously cleaned up because the gym and the pool were kind of adjoined there in that breezeway area. So, um getting that that taken care of, which the district is working on. And then if at any point, you know, the city will now have two years to determine whether it's something they want to take on completely as full ownership or whatever may come. Again, we just wanted to make sure demolition costs for us did not increase substantially because they had already increased double from the time that we first started this conversation. So, and and that's why the um demoing the gym ASAP is really important. Obviously,
070because we've talked about this, the majority of the cost um the inflated cost would come from the asbestous that's in there. So, the longer we wait, the more expensive that gets. So, because there's no future use for that um from the city, we um we've agreed that we would move forward on that immediately while they figure out what they want to do with the pool long term. So, and I should also mention that Mayor Herman working closely with us as well on all this has been been really helpful. Yes. Yeah, that's we've been we've had some really good productive meetings um with the city. So board, any other questions or discussion on it? I mean, we're going to vote on it. We'll make a motion second. There can be additional discussion if needed if you
071think of something. Okay. All right. Well, that concludes our work session. So, we're going to move into the business items. Um we already called the meeting to order and approved the agenda. So um this evening we do have um the second reading uh for one policy and a removal of another policy. Um so I will make a motion uh to vote and approve on item D1 which is the second reading of policy DFA DFAA which is the revenues from investments and the use of surplus funds. So do I have a motion to approve um that policy? Motion to approve. Do I have a second? Second. All right. And then we can have discussion. So, we're talking about DFA right now, right? Yeah, we have DFAS and then DFAA together, but yes, DFA. So, I know
072that we've had a lot of back and forth and conversations, you know, to clarify this. And you know, I I have someone that handles my my financial planning, you know, so when I go to the bank and I have a conversation with that financial planner, they give me, you know, we're going to get from point A to point B. And they give me a couple different ways of how I'm going to get from point A to point B. They give me the pros and cons of each of those. and then I make that decision because ultimately I'm responsible for whatever happens with that money and I approve it. And I'm reading this and I'm just not feeling that because just in the short period of time that I've been on the board like when money
073goes ary like I feel it, you know, I feel the burden. I feel that we're supposed to be the fiduciaries. We're supposed to be the good fiduciaries. And I guess that there's just like and I guess just after reading, you know, a little bit here and there, even today and throughout the past week or so, I guess I'm just missing where and it, you know, it says things like, you know, through this policy, through the um the I'm sorry, I'm trying to find the specifics on it, through the physical oversight committee procedures that are established. Um, and so I'm reading those and I'm like, okay, well, what are those? And so I feel like I need like more clarity on that. Like what exactly are those? How how is the board responsible for this? If
074something goes ary, you know, who is ultimately responsible for this if a decision was made and I'm I'm just struggling with it, I guess. So I'm not sure how the rest of you feel. Maybe somebody can give me a little bit of clarity clarity on it. I Mel, I don't know if you want to respond any of that. And obviously the board had has opportunities to ask those questions, but we can um address anything we we need to tonight. I just want to give a little background of kind of why it's in front of you guys is we have this policy already. Um it's one that was in place several years ago. And so with the fiscal oversight committee when we started looking at interest rates being decreasing um and earned interest revenue is about
075a three and a half million dollar budget line item to our general fund every year. And so we were looking ahead to how do we continue that funding stream. um how do we not just let it be in cash and those interest rate reductions um reduce our revenues immediately but looking at some longer term investments um and some of those things that we haven't had the opportunity to do in a while. Um so really it's just to revise the existing policy and more current language make it closer to some of the policies of other school districts. Um but then the fiscal oversight committee that we meet with they are our district's investment advisors um of how we invest those funds and so they would be uh we have a draft right now. Definitely can send
076that out to you guys. It is in draft form but it goes through just um what percentages do we feel comfortable as this type of investment? How long can the maturities be? Um but a lot of that is also guided just by state statute. Um, so there's not a lot of flexibility in the things that local governments can invest in anyways because security is of course the number one over yield. Um, is security, liquidity, and yield are kind of the three main tenants of how we invest our funds. Does that help at all? And I understand that. I guess that when I when I read something like, you know, this policy and the procedures established by the physical oversight committee and like I just haven't seen the physical oversight committee procedures. And so it's like,
077okay, what are those guidelines? What exactly does that entail? So it's almost like I'm voting on something that I haven't actually seen. And then I'm like, and then how does that affect the board? because you know and I understand that uh we will receive um uh quarterly updates. Um, but like I said, when as a as a member of the board, I feel like it and I like you're amazing. Don't get me wrong. Like I trust you infinitely, but we're not always going to have you. And I I want to know that as a board we are getting, you know, all the nitty-gritty, all the pros and cons, and we know how we're investing that money, and we're making the decisions that are best for the district and that are best for our taxpayers, and
078that, you know, all of the the funding that we're getting that's sitting there that we're going to be investing and and like I said, you know, when I go in and I talk to my wealth management lady, she's like, "This is our goal. You know, this is where we could get with this." And I guess this is me not understanding also um totally like what the state guidelines are like the state restrictions. Yeah. Restrictive. So I guess that I guess one of the things that kind of got me today is I was like okay well the physical oversight committee procedures like what exactly are those? Yeah, we can definitely share those drafts. Um I hope at our next fiscal oversight committee meeting that we really just finalize those. And so that's what we' kind of
079been waiting on was that piece of it. um because those were a piece that was missing in our past like we weren't able to find the regulations or the procedures um where it has been some time since we've invested in anything that wasn't just liquid cash pools. Um so definitely can share those with you if that would help. Um, I guess the way I see this policy is it just basically says that we're going to comply with everything that we need to comply with um, when considering our investments and make sure that the district is valuing safety above all in taxpayer money. Um, and then also that we have the funds available as we need them so we're not overinvesting and then we're short on cash on hand either. So, I guess those are the
080main things I see in the policy. Um, and again, it's an existing policy. It's just a revision to that to change up some of the wording and some of the structure. So before where you would have seen like a a paragraph that's more bulleted um for ease of just readability. I think I don't know that anything really is changing as far as the requirements from what's current. It's well I think this one compared to the one we had is like you said it's structured better for it to be more understandable. And secondly, I think there's there's more clarifying language here and I do hear what Barb is saying. Maybe could you walk us through maybe a little bit of what the procedure is. So when you get the the advisory group together, you you guys
081are going to look at some investments and obviously it's only certain ones because we have state statute. We're not going to start getting real like brave and and risky with our You're not brave people. Well, and and so um right, we're still good stewards of taxpayer dollars. We're not we don't generate our our own funds, but we can take these funds and invest them wisely to obviously help create some additional funds that we can, you know, what what do those funds get kicked off to. So maybe if you could give us a little bit idea of more of the procedure, maybe that will help answer sort of the step by steps for Barb to understand how does this go along because I get it from the board level. you know, we want to, you know,
082we're the elected ones to make sure that these funds are being used well. It's not our job to obviously get into your day-to-day job. I think having an understanding though would help us, I think, have some some peace about how this process works. So with the fiscal oversight um committee and their role and that's another piece that was not in the old um policy that we had was just that they exist and have a role in this um we kind of look at so already in your quarterly reports is an investment report in the back um at this point it's pretty short because we invest in like Cafe and Colo trust and we have cash on and our bank um and so the uh earning rates are included in your quarterly investment um reports right
083now we're Actually, we sent out an RFP for a portfolio funds manager um when we're doing the interviews tomorrow, a couple board members on those as well as fiscal oversight committee members. And the real intent there is just to get advice like say we have x amount of dollars that um we aren't anticipating using at this time in the cash flow and what are some of the ways that we can maximize our earnings. Um in the investment procedures it also details out a certain percentage of thresholds for diversification. So not overinvesting in any one area. And then there are also some max lengths on the terms for the different types of investments. So like commercial paper is one that's uh really safe. A lot of local governments invest in that. That would be one that
084we would be looking to. Also looking at like CD lading similar to how you would do with your own personal funds. Um there's some requirements that the banks need to be headquartered in Colorado. Um there's some uh cash requirements for those banks to have. They need to follow PGPA as well. Meaning that um it's kind of like FDIC insurance but like the next level. So not only are they in uh insuring that up to 250,000 but they're carrying cash on hand for the whole amount that we have invested with them. Um, we can also have a custodial account manager actually hold the investment paper, the notes themselves, um, rather than having like a funds manager hold them. So, there's definitely some protections that are outlined in the procedures just to make it as inclusive of
085a process. No one person is making any decisions solely amongst themselves. Um, and just looking to not overinvest in any one area. Um, so I would imagine that we'd be looking at pretty short terms, honestly, probably one to twoyear terms of any investments. Um, just because, as you know, the state of uh K12 funding is not always so uh set and secure. Um, but things like our Taber reserve that we know we need to have um held back anyways, those would be funds that we could definitely seek to maximize our investment earnings on. Does that help? It does. And you know, from looking at the old policy and this policy, this does definitely give more structure, if you will. Um, as opposed to the previous policy. Yeah. I guess that I guess that my biggest
086struggle was just, you know, the procedures established for the oversight committee and just fully understanding that. Yeah, I certainly want to respect your comfort level with it. Um, we can get you those procedures as well. um whatever is helpful to you at the time. I think when we also get the updates from Mel and we look at that portion of the um the update I would ask about those like that would be a great time for us to say okay what are just ask about those investments. So when is our next update? Um, so our next quarterly reports will be shared in October. And would that be something you could just regularly present? Just add that piece into a little more detail about the investments. Yeah, definitely. There'll be more to tell soon. We could
087see it. Again, if they were super long-term investments, I would be much more concerned about it, but they're pretty short term. And so anything that you know we say we don't want to do that again or whatever always give some feedback on that but I I feel like we've got good people on that committee to guide us in the right direction. Yeah, we had a couple of really strong firms respond. So hopefully um to our RFP so hopefully we'll be getting um some experts to help advise us as well and make sure that we're um in compliance with all the requirements. Thank you for that discussion. Thank you for those um answers. Is there any other discussion? Do you feel okay about it or do you I think I I think I feel okay about
088it. I just feel like like I would like to have maybe a I'm sorry. Are you are you feeling uneasy about um the rewrite of the policy or some of some of the specifics about the policy itself? Because I mean we can pass this policy, let Mel come in and present a little more information on the investment piece of it and then if there's something missing, we can do it again, right? And you know, we can we can right side that as soon as we if we see something if we if we see something. Yeah, I think that's where I'm at. And I just felt like um and I really honestly like my apologies. I didn't really feel it until today when I was just like, okay, what are the procedures established by this, you
089know, this FCO and I'm like I kind of felt like it was a cart before the horse thing kind of sort of like I would like to see what those are because I feel like it kind of runs parallel with this policy. We feel you. there's a lot to learn um in this position. I mean, we're on year three year three and there's still some things that we try to get our head wrapped around. So, I know Melanie has always made herself available to us to um answer any questions. Honestly, all the staff has. Um so, I would encourage you like this might be just a longer conversation to go through and um you could do that. And then like like Angela said, um for this purpose, I just say if there's anything that is
090really hanging you up, but if you're thinking we're missing something, we can always come back and revise something. And I had a really long conversation with Mel um last week or week before last regarding exactly how all of that will work on the other end of this policy. And it makes total sense once you really walk through the whole process. I'll be scheduling a meeting, Bill. Thank you. You're amazing. I appreciate you, though. I just want to make sure as a as you know as board president my job is to make sure that when you're able to express board members are able to express any concerns or hesitations and I know um you know if there's if there's things that can be answered or if it's really something you need to be paused on like
091you know can we get you with Mel and that will help answer those those procedure you know procedural questions for you. I think that I could vote on this this evening as long as I have that conversation in a pretty rickety ticky fashion so that I understand it and as long as we're all willing to if there is some sort of hangup having a revision if need be. I think the board would be open to I think if any board member came with a big hang up on any of our policies, we have that conversation. So we'll leave it up to you to get with Melanie at some point. You guys can go through that. Okay. All right. Do So if there's no further discussion, we can call for the vote for this just for
092Sorry, let me just reiterate the motion was for the um DFA and DFAA revenues and investments and the use of surplus funds. That's what we're voting on. So go ahead, Mr. Chavez. Approved. Mrs. Evansson, yes. Mrs. Heights, yes. Miss Lima, yes. All right, 40. And I apologize. I forgot to um mention earlier that director Jones was coaching a football game today and was not able to the time conflicted. So that is why he is not with us this evening. Um all right. So the second uh motion is the removal of policy KCA um complaints regarding library media materials. Um so this will just be a removal of a policy because there's a redundancy. So do I have a motion to remove this policy? Motion to remove policy kea. Second and discussion. So in looking so
093we approved policy ke um what was it May or June? Okay. And this one there's just redundant information that um is really already clarified in KEC. um there was a regulation and an exhibit with KECA and those will then be tied to KEC. So again, we're just trying to clean up um and work on policies so that we don't have too much redundancy. It can also create confusion with staff because there's a lot of policies that and statutes that you have to continue to refer back and forth to. So what was stated in KECA is already taken care of in KEC. So that's why it's being removed. Any questions, discussion? Okay, we can go ahead and call for the vote for the removal of KECA policy. Mr. Chavez, approve. Mrs. Evansson, yes. Mrs. Heights, yes.
094Ms. Lima, yes. Okay, passes unanimously. All right, then. Next up, um, everybody did get a copy of the Orchard Mesa Pool Intergovernmental Agreement. Um, do I have a motion to approve the IGA for the pool? Um, just to just to clarify, the resolution is just um to appoint a designate to sign the IG. Yes. Yes. So, the Yes. So, as we mentioned during the discussion earlier, um the IG the board is now giving Dr. Hill and andor designate staff approval to sign it once they've gotten the other details hammered out. And I just wanted to make it clear for the community that this is we are not approving it tonight. This is just allowing you guys to go forward, you and Dr. Hill to go forward to sign the agreement once it is complete. Once
095it's complete. Yes. Correct. Do I have a motion for the Orchard Mesa pool IGA approval? Motion to approve the IGA. Second. Okay. Any discussion? We kind of did that earlier during the work session. All right. Seeing no discussion, we can go ahead and call the vote. Mr. Chavez, approved. Mrs. Evansson, yes. Mrs. Heights, yes. Miss Lima, yes. All right. And that is approved unanimously as well. So, all right. Oh, yes. Yeah, you'll want to come up and speak in the microphone just so everybody can hear. So, our attorney is going to add something real quick. Just not that that's the case, but it is as long as we agree to details, right? So, just so there's no misunderstanding that just because this has been passed means it is automatically agreed upon. If for some reason
096we came to a position where we could not agree, then it would not be executed. It just gives the authority at this point for them to take it forward and this is just for the public in case no you voted to approve it, finalize it and sign it. Well, it's only on the conditions we come to a terms of agreement. Thank you. Thank you for that clarity. Again, as we had mentioned, there's still some items that need to be finalized and agreed upon, but this is the board giving that once those items are taken care of, then the IGA can be um signed. All right. Uh board open discussion. Any anything the board anything discuss? I know we're getting our um student advisory groups and times for the board to meet with them. So thank
097you Amy for all your work in coordinating that. Um and Grand River um is also so GR um is wanting to participate as well. So that's exciting uh to be able to meet with a group of students from GR as well. So the board will have a chance to meet with groups from all of the high schools uh R5 and the four main high schools and along with GRA. So, I had an opportunity, I believe it was Wednesday of last week, to go to Orchard M School's back to school night and admin staff over there always does a fabulous job of getting things together. They had food trucks out there. They had games for the kids. Um, they had sign up for athletics, things like that. So, just a kudos out to the admin staff
098over there that always work so hard to provide the families and the kids for the Orchard Mesa Middle School. Awesome. Thanks for going. Okay. All right. Since no further discussion, uh do I have a motion to adjurnn? Motion to adjourn. All right. Thank you everybody for your time this evening.