001and welcome to the November 11th meeting. I would like to call the meeting to order and ask that you stand and join me in the pledge of allegiance. I aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> Okay. May I have a motion to approve the regular meeting? >> So move. >> I second. >> Yay. Kathy, >> I motion carried. >> Okay. Our first uh gift items are donations to County High School. Mr. Delulka, you have a big list. >> Passel. >> Thank you for allowing me to address the board tonight. Um we've had an extraordinary amount of uh financial generosity gifted to us at Cobble County High School lately. Certainly, as all our
002district 70 schools pride ourselves on our commitment to the community and our connection to the community, um county high school certainly no different. Um have a lot to read. So, I'm going to go ahead and present these to you. Just give me just a second. Hopefully, I don't miss any here. Um first, donations to our um FFA program at Pogle County High School. We have $2,000 from Graham and Sandy Badger. We have $1,000 from Two Springs Ranch and $500 from Albert Dianio. Um, also to Public County High School athletics, we have $5,000 from Colorado Bank Bank and Trust and $5,000 from CNC Disposal. Uh, donations, multiple donations to our Publo County High School dance team, uh, $500 from Cave LLC, $500 from PBLO Trust Company, $1,000 from Thornton Medical, $500 from 3JS Farms and Cattle,
003500 from D. Mel Goza, 500 from Bonum Construction, a,000 from Thomas Rustler, 500 from Jones, 5 Another $500 from CNC Disposal, $1,000 from Ted Hernandez, 500 from Bradley Chevrolet, 500 from Veronica Montano, 500 from Mesa Fab Shop, 500 from Intredit Credit Union, 500 from Security Service Federal Credit Union, $1,000 from William and Velma Allen, $500 from Mark Muso, $500 from Drop Time Construction and $1,000 from PBLO Dodge Toyota. Um, also donations to our cheer program, 1,500 from Amigo Home Health, $500 uh from Thrive Medical Spa and Wellness, and $500 from Sonoris. And uh to our boys basketball program, $1,000 from CITE Incorporated, $1,000 or $500, excuse me, from Soul Granite and Natural Stone, $750 from FiveStar Automation, $900 from America's Best Contractors, uh donations to our uh Youth and Government, You and the Law program,
004um from $500 from McDivet Law Firm. So, we're very grateful for our community support. >> Thank you. >> [applause] >> Okay. So, our next um item is donation to Vinand Middle School FFA. Mrs. Btos. >> Hi, my name is Stacy Butos. I'm the adviser for our FFA program and the A teacher and we have received a $1,000 donation from Kathy and Don Gomez. And 500 of that came from their granddaughter Zoe Moore. She is uh one of our eighth grade kids students and she sold cattle and decided to take $500 of that and donate it to our a program which is absolutely amazing along with the $1,000 donation from this family. They um show up at all of our weekend events and after school events. They bring snacks uh for our kids. They transport animals.
005They transport panels. I just want to be I just I'm so grateful for all of the help and contributions that this family has made over the last two and a half years to the app program. >> Wonderful. >> Thank Thank you. [applause] >> Okay. Our next items are donations to Ry High School. Mr. Dejon, >> good evening board members. Thank you for the opportunity to be here. Um, in the interest of time, my speech is much shorter than Mr. Dilka's, but it's just as important, I think, um, usually. So, we had a $690.33 cent, which seems like a weird number, uh, the donation from Valley Backpacks. Valley Backpacks is a nonprofit down in the um, Greenhorn Valley. They are actually dissolving, so they're clearing out their accounts, and this was the amount that they donated
006to us this year. Um, it's going to a lot of it's going to our sources of strength program um to help kids be included and uh get some free gear and stuff like that. So, um just looking out for some of those kids. We also had a $1,200 donation from Power Motive Corporation. That's to the baseball team to help with some equipment. And then there's another $1,000 donation that I'm going to have Mr. Bean chat about. >> Okay. So that $1,000 that was to the Ry High FFA um was also from Power Motive and Jay Nielsen. Um Jay Nielsson's had his kids go through the program. Um his son is in uh his sophomore year currently with me. Um and that thousands is donated to buy our Greenhand officer belt buckles, which the Greenhand officers
007are our freshman officers that shadow our actual chapter officers. And our chapter officers every year do get their officer belt buckle. And Jay last year approached and said that we need to make sure that we're getting belt buckles for the freshman too to encourage that participation. And sure enough, we've had a really good um increase of applicants and officer act activity through those kids. So big thank you to Jay Nielson for making that happen because the belt buckles are very nice. So, [applause] >> okay. And then our last gift item is a donation to Cedar Ridge Elementary. Miss, >> good evening, board members. Thank you. Um, I just want to uh uh thank you uh thank Aaron Denosio for donating $630 to our hoot nanny. Our hoot nanny is one of our biggest fundraisers that
008we have and that helps with um our field trips. that helps with um school supplies with our for our kids. Um so this was um really nice to accept this at this time. >> Thank you. [applause] >> Okay. May I have a motion to accept the gifts as presented? >> So moved. >> I'll second. >> John Christensen. >> Chrisa Kathy. >> Hi O. Motion carried. Sorry. [laughter] >> Okay. Okay, our next item is our good news item. Um, the first good news item is the PCEA employee spotlights. This is paycheck. >> So, just a quick reminder that these are um nominations from other employees in the district and they're the PCA spotlight. So, first up, I have LJ Baka as she's from Vineland Middle School. As the school secretary, LJ is the first friendly face
009students, staff, and families see when they walk through the doors. Her warmth, patience, and professionalism set the tone for the entire building. She consistently goes above and beyond to make sure every student and colleague feels welcome and supported. LJ's dedication and strong work ethic shine in everything she does. Whether she's managing the front office, assisting staff, or ensuring that the day runs smoothly, she approaches every task with care. She even comes in on Fridays when needed to make sure work gets done right, showing her deep commitment to her school community. LJ exemplifies District 70 and PCA through her kindness, dedication, and service to others. Her positivity, attention to detail, and genuine care for everyone who enters the building reflect the very best of what it means to be a part of our families. She is
010truly the heart of her school, keeping things running and making everyone feel at home. I saw her somewhere. Here she is. [applause] Um, and then next we have Holly Owens who is at PBLO West High School. Holly is an exceptional ESS paraprofessional whose kindness, compassion, and attentiveness shine through in everything she does. She builds strong, caring relationships with students and is always there to offer support, encouragement, and understanding. Her dedication to helping every student succeed makes her a true asset to our school community. Holly's willingness to help in any situation truly sets her apart. Whether assisting teachers, stepping in to support students, or lending a hand whenever she's needed. She always does so with a positive attitude and a focus on what's best for her kids. Her calm, caring presence makes a different every day.
011She exe [clears throat] exemplifies both district 70 and PCA through her commitment to students, teamwork, and unwavering dedication to public education. She puts students first in everything she does, modeling the compassion, professionalism, and collaboration that make our schools stronger. Thank you, Holly. [applause] Um, next up we have um our items for district performance awards. Dr. Ladies and gentlemen of the board, it's uh always an honor for me to be able to come up here and and hand these uh recognitions to our staff for the incredible work that they do in our buildings every day. Um principles and building representatives, when you come up, your your banners are over there on the end of that table where Mr. Dietra and Miss Ry are. So, they will give you those. Uh, Miss Bonfilio will give you directions
012about where you'll be taking your pictures and what steps we'll take. So, I will read those off. Um, first we have District 70, ALA, Miss Vincent, [applause] >> Cheryl, one other one. Bula Middle School. Would you like yours? You can get that from Michelle or Vincent out in the hall. [laughter] [applause] >> Congratulations, Perry. Thank you. Cedar Ridge Elementary School, Miss [applause] Crver Middle School. THAT'S COOL. [applause] LIBERTY Point International School, Mr. [applause] North Mesa Elementary School. Mr. House, [applause] Congratulations. Pleasant View Middle School, [applause] Prairie Winds Elementary School. Miss Barrell Congratulations. [applause] Publo County High School. Mr. Dila. [applause] >> PBlo West High School. I did not see Mr. Baker. I didn't see you walk in. [applause] >> Congratulations. >> Ry High School. Mr. D. >> [applause] >> Sierra Vista Elementary School [applause] on
013the other side. >> Sky View Middle School. Mr. Bril, [applause] Swallows Charter Academy and Swallows Charter Academy High School. [applause] uh connect charter school [applause] Vibella Expeditionary Middle School. Mr. Goldby Vineland Middle School, Miss Gibbs [applause] and Vineland Elementary School, Miss Padilla. We have an incredible hardworking group of staff, dedicated leaders and families who are committed to our education and um this is just one example and one of the highlights of the things that I get to do. So, thank you for the time tonight ladies and gentlemen of the board. >> Thank you. [applause] >> Okay. Well, we have information from the board and superintendent next, but I'm going to go ahead and move on because and then we'll come back to it since we have superintendent Ryan out there. Um, our first discussion item
014is a presentation of the Ry High School organizations and programs. Mrs. Jarbo >> [cough and clears throat] >> Uh hello and thank you all for allowing us to present today. We are a group of students who represent the career and technical student organizations from Ry High School. We are here to discuss the increasing issue of rooming numbers on school trips. >> You just tell me when not give me a look and I'll switch it. >> Okay. >> So, one of our problems is the financial burden. If we increase the number of students per bed from one to two, the cost will be cut in half for hotel rooms. decreasing the burden on the parents and the organizations to fundra. In some ca cases, families with multiple children attending Ry High School have an increased burden
015financially. Here is a statement from one of our current Ry High School parents. Good evening, members of the board. My name is Pamela Snyder and I am the parent of two daughters who are both actively involved in several CTO programs. Unfortunately, I am unable to attend this meeting in person due to an illness, but I wanted to share my thoughts regarding the current district policy allowing only two students per hotel room during school-related overnight events. As a parent of two children who participate in multiple programs, this policy creates a significant financial burden for not only my family, but several others in our school. The cost of travel, meals, and event fees already adds up quickly. Being required to pay for a hotel room for the two of them makes it nearly impossible for families like
016mine to afford. Allowing four students per room would make these trips far more cost effective, opening up opportunities for more students to attend without putting so much financial strain on their families. While I am grateful for my daughters are typically placed together in a room, I also recognize that this limits their ability to form the same friendships and connections that other students gain by rooming with peers from their group. These events are not only about competition or participation, but they are also about growth, teamwork, and creating bonds that last past high school. By revising the policy to allow four students per room, the district would be helping families manage costs more easily while also encouraging stronger social development and inclusion among students. Thank you for your time, understanding, and continued support of our students opportunities.
017Sincerely, Pamela Snyder. Another problem that we have um is the limited participation. Some students can cannot participate solely because their parents cannot afford it. Um if the cost is cut in half, the amount of students participating can increase which relieves part of the financial burden and allows for more to participate. One of our um largest field trips is the National Western Stock Show. Um, as the price increases, the participation will decrease, which will then affect our chapter's funding dramatically. This funding is used to support our chapter's teams as they make it to regionals and state. We have had three teams win state and compete at nationals. So, this funding is very crucial. I would like to speak on the last slide actually. So, the trip that we take with our FFA program. No, I'm so
018sorry. The previous slide. >> Yes. >> Um, that one works. Yeah. So, the trip that we take to National Western Stock Show, we go on with our FFA program and we normally or with the current cost of four students in a room. That's 44 students normally is what we take on that trip. And that brings it to 22 rooms being at about $150 per room. This is going to be $3,300 before shops. Our proposed idea would bring it to four students in a room, which will be about 11 rooms, bring it to $1,650. We will be able to save this money and reinvest into our competitions and opportunities. Thank you. Okay. So, we've had those previous issues, but another problem we face is the accountability aspect along with these financial burdens. Uh, say we did
019have two students in a room and they got into some sort of altercation. Let's say a fight and uh we are trying to figure out what happened afterwards. uh with two students, it's one person's word against another, while having three or preferably four students would allow them to have a witness to the situation so that we're accurately able to tell what took place. >> All right. So, our proposed solution is actually a waiver. So, what this would be is it would be per school. We would put out this waiver and then the school will actually be able to decide if they want to use it. It will have we can make it up but it will be for parents and students to sign allowing four same gender students per room. This will be designed for
020CTSO trips to maximize participation. This will also state the chaprons will be present and there will be clear guidelines and the waiver like I said will be optional per school and per program. So, we gathered some statements from parents and or teachers in our community regarding the rooming situation. And we received a statement from our former TSA advisor, Casey England, and her statement is, "I have taken students to TSA State for over eight years, and we have never had an issue with having more than two people in a room. We have we have blow up mattresses available and also get roll beds if needed, which is why we have never had a concern about capacity. I would also like to only two people in a room can sometimes create problems. If one person becomes upset
021with the other, it ends up being one person's word against the other without no neutral party to mediate. Allowing more than two students in a room if they choose can actually be beneficial. It not only helps reduce the overall cost of hotel rooms but also gives students a better opportunity enjoy the trip and support each other in any issues arise. We also received another statement from one of our high school student council adviserss and a math teacher Anna Snarich. She her statement is there are many things that concern me with only two students per room. The first being that it is simply not enough funding. With the hotel cost arising, this policy excludes economically disadvantaged students from opportunities because programs will have a have to rise student costs to go on the trips. Yes, there
022are some programs that allow students to apply for sponsorships, but those fundings will be drained at a faster rate due to this policy. Another issue I have as an adult sponsor for overnight student trips is a problem of he said she said situations that arise with only two students in a room. If something happened in that room, the sponsor has no way of telling which student is telling the truth without witnesses. This concludes our presentation. Um we'd like to ask if anyone has any questions. Let's go ahead. Of course, I always have questions. So, do you see this as being getting like two queensiz beds or you somebody mentioned ma, you know, mattresses? Um, how do how do you see this working? >> Yeah. So, our idea actually is getting the rooms that have two
023queen-sized beds in them. And then this will lead us to having four students in the room instead of only two where normally we get two queensized beds but there can only be one student per bed. Mhm. >> Um, but I don't know who mentioned it, but another option we might have is in that waiver, we might bring up the fact that if the parents would like their parents to or their kids to not be sharing a bed, we can bring in air mattresses or some hotels even offer CS, >> right? And I was would suspect that if a parent just simply wants few or two a room that they can provide the extra funding. >> Yes. >> For the extra room or or whatever. >> Yes. Exactly. Are there any other questions? >> How do
024you choose who gets the call? [laughter] >> I would not. >> Well, some of them have some of the rooms have a couch as well. >> That's true. Yes. always steal this whole thing. >> All right, I would like to bring Mr. Bean up. He would like to say a few words. >> Okay, >> great job, guys. >> Yeah, good job. >> Yes, >> evening board. Um, first things first, I do want to say that I'm very impressed with these guys. Um, they are all my students, but they're not just representing FFA. That's why they're not an official dress. They are TSA members. They are uh members of FBLA, all of these organizations. Um, so I'm very proud of them and I'm very proud that they chose to wear professional clothes as opposed to a
025FFA official dress because they are representing so much. So, um, with that being said, I want to make it abundantly clear that I had absolutely nothing to do with this presentation. Um, these guys were told that their trip to TSA was going to cost about $600 a kid to go for their two nights at the Gaylord up in Denver. um and to represent Ry High School. And they came to me and they said, "What are we going to do about this?" I said, "I don't know what you're going to do about that because you're the ones that are going to do something." Um a little bit history of the FFA for you, those of you that don't know, the FFA is a fully studentrun organization. It is not run by me. It's run by the
026students. However, legally, it is a requirement of my program through public law 740 that was passed in 1950. it is an integral part. We are not extracurricular like sports. We are intracurricular. If I don't do it, our funding doesn't happen. So, I have been very fortunate um through the support of our community over the years that for any time I've had a kid represent us, whether it be at the national, state, or local level, I have never charged those kids to go on those trips uh because our community is that awesome. However, if our costs go up drastically, our community that's so small and being pulled in every which way is not going to be able to help us. And these kids are not going to have the opportunities that they do um through a
027community like ours that we're so lucky for. Um once again, I think they did a phenomenal job. They laid it out. Um but I do want to tell you a true story. Um, and I'm going to leave out a lot of the details because it is a horrible story and these guys have never heard this story. But when because I wouldn't tell this to a student ever, but when I was in college in our methods of teaching agriculture education class at CSU Fort Collins, we had an a teacher come in. Not going to say where he was from, but we were discussing hotel rooms because we're in hotels all the time. And he said how you never put two kids in a room. Not that you shouldn't. He said you never do. He said you
028should rather put one kid in a room before you put two in a room. And he laid out a story of where his students were on an FA trip and one of them woke up. There were two boys in a room. One of those boys woke up being grotesqually sexually assaulted. And that kid rightfully so, hit the kid, threw him off of him, and went to the egg teacher. Well, the only kid that got in trouble of that whole situation was the kid that was being sexually assaulted because the other kid had the marks of being hit to get him off of him. So, not only was that kid shunned by the adults and had no support from the uppers, he has to live the rest of his life knowing that he was sexually assaulted
029and nobody had his back. So, I am very very completely against putting two kids in a room um let alone being a mandate. So, I really appreciate what these guys said. I think that waiver is a great idea. That way, it's not trying to change a rule, but it's giving an opportunity um especially to keep our organizations going, but also to give us that little bit of coverage because he said, he said, or she said, she said is a terrible situation to put these kids in. So, I appreciate you all listening to these guys. I appreciate all you did a great job. Um, I am going to ask, um, if you don't have any more questions that we let these guys get back to Ry. They have a long drive home at night. Um, but
030I appreciate you all listening to them and [applause] great job. >> Thank you guys. >> Okay. Yeah, we'll go back. >> Superintendent [clears throat] Ryan, are you >> all right? We'll go ahead and move on to our first quarter financials presentation by Mr. >> Weer as soon as I get up. >> Don't make us fall asleep. Thank you, Madam President. Good evening, board. Um, I think you have a packet in front of you. There's a lot of information in there. So, I won't go through, you know, line by line, word for word. But there a couple things I'd like to point out and if you have questions, obviously the first quarter's only will be the same with school finance. A lot of the timing issues maybe at times payments 12 years maybe some things that
031look like it's but it's not. But I mean we're doing really well right now. So one thing I wanted to point out that kind of sticks out on this page is on the right column it says annual budget. Um like the four column from the right um income loss it's 2.7 million loss that is for the the county [clears throat] invest grant our match our side of our match. So that's why the you know the annual budget is more than revenues that's coming out of fund balance. So we agreed to that when we took out the best grant that we would use that 2.7 million for the best grant. So that's why if you have question why isn't our budget balance that's why um that's general fund any questions on that um the next few
032pages are just graphs you can look at those at your leisure if you go to the insurance reserves page um our insurance is paid the beginning year in July that's why there's a negative income loss so far but over the year that'll be refunded you know, replenished. Um, we also are looking at doing an RFP for a new property and loss and workman's comp broker, kind of like we did with health insurance. Um, we're going to put out an RFP here in the next month just to see what's out there, making sure we're getting the best deal um for our property loss and workman's comp insurance. So, that'll be coming soon. Um, preschool fund is the next page that's doing really well. Um, we bought playgrounds a month or so ago and there's that balance
033is doing really well. So, they're doing a great job managing that um managing that fund. Let's see. Go to food services, please. And I did ask Mr. Axworthly to come give you a little update on our food services. He has a lot going on, so he gave you a separate packet. So, I'll let you take over. Good evening, Madam President, members of the board. Um, so I was asked to shed a little bit of light on um how LL and MM has affected our our [clears throat] nutrition services department. Um, basically we we are about 44% free and reduced as a district. So more than half of our students are would fall under the paid category if uh the LL and MM ballot measures had not passed which means more than half the students would
034be having to pay for a meal. Um what uh what healthy school meals for all what the program does is it provides not just free meals but it provides the nutrition services department the the free amount or free allocation for every single meal. So, we get $4.69 for every lunch. We get approximately $2.94 for every breakfast. Um, we make approximately $40,000 a day with the meals that we serve. Um, had LL and MM not passed, the Healthy School Meals for All program would have been uh dissolved as of January of this school year. >> [snorts] >> And uh our revenue per meal would fall from roughly $2.94 for every breakfast down to $1.98 and $469 for every lunch down to about 360 because of that that pay differential that that we would have to charge
035parents. We obviously wouldn't charge parents $4.69 for every lunch that we would serve. We would charge them a lesser price and that would lower our revenue per meal. Does that make sense? >> Okay. So, it's helped our program sustain itself. Uh, we have a a good positive um fund balance that we will maintain for emergencies and any revenue generated beyond that fund balance is reinvested into our program. Um, we have some projects that we have budgeted for this school year. Uh one is uh to develop a pubo west co pobo west high coffee shop uh for the students to offer another uh um area of of service for those students. It would actually be built in the media center. Um that comes out to almost $300,000. Uh we have a a walk-in refrigerator and renovation
036um for the freezer and refrigerator at County High School. That's approximately $60,000. We're continuing to um produce murals and revitalize the cafeterias in all all of our schools in the district. Um we've done some over the last few years. We're hoping to finish all those this year. So those are all funds that we're able to spend and utilize because of the excess revenue from the healthy school meals for all program. Um, if you look at uh our financial synopsis brief and you and you break out the expenses for every meal um or expenses for our our our program, about 46% of our expenses are food cost. 32 to 33% are labor cost. Then you have supplies, equipments, and other costs. And any profit, like I mentioned before, any profit is reinvested into the program. >>
037You guys have any questions? >> Um, I kind of have a question on the food that's going to be provided. It have you seen an increase in the healthy meals? Um, or is it kind of the same that it's been over the past year or two? >> So, that's a good question. So what we serve in our schools currently is whole muscle chicken products. We serve uh whole muscle beef products. We buy in top round whole muscle meats and we braze those overnight and make barbcoa pot roast. Uh we do I mean all of our chicken products are similar to Chick-fil-A. So it's whole muscle chicken breast, chicken bites, not chicken nuggets, not that processed highly processed stuff filled with a bunch of binder. Um we were joking around earlier today. I could probably put
038breaded chicken on the menu every day and the kids would love it. But we try to we try to offer different things and and broaden their pallet a little bit. Um, sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. We did chicken tacos with pineapple salsa. Didn't didn't go as well as I thought it would. >> It didn't right. Keep it. [laughter] Um, but uh we we do we have menu items that that run about 30% food cost and we have menu items that that can run as high as 70% food cost. And what I do is I balance balance our menu mix in order to to meet our our our budget. >> The budget. Okay. >> Yeah. So I don't I'd love to take you out to lunch and show you what we do dayto-day if if
039you have any questions about our food quality. Okay. All right. Thank you. >> All right. Thanks. >> Thank you. >> Okay. Um, the last one I want to just go through quickly is the student athletic fund. It's like two pages back. A couple things I want to point out. Is that it? So on the again the fourth from right column annual budget. I just a lot of people ask like how our athletics teams and are funded. Um so if you look at that the 697,350 that is our fees and our gate from games. So the fees that students pay to play basically and the gate from the games that's a six 697,000. The 1.5 million is a transfer from the general fund. So that's the amount that the district puts into our athletic fund to
040help balance all the coaches salaries and busing and everything else that comes out of it. So that's where that the 2.9 2.297 2.197 million is where that comes from. Okay. And questions on any of that. Like I said, there's a ton of information. So if you see some this evening or whatever and have other questions, please reach out. Um our audit is finished. It went really well. Um actually our charter schools, our Zilla Bell is done this week. We already uploaded our data pipelines. Like I know the last year, a couple years ago, it was we had to get an extension and it was a kind of a mess. This year it's been super smooth. So thanks the charters for getting their stuff done and everything everything's going really well. So, >> yeah, it might
041take some time for us to digest this. >> Yeah. So, >> yeah, there's a lot. So, >> let me know. >> Thank you. >> Okay, we'll go ahead and since we have the superintendent here, we'll go ahead and go back to the information from the board and superintendent. Um, let's go ahead and start with John this evening. Uh, I just got to say this [clears throat] is my last official meeting and it's been a pleasure working with y'all, a pleasure serving y'all out there and um I just wish could say it again next month, but you know, I wish the new upcoming members the best of luck and uh they'll be nice to them. So, this will be I wrote something. We'll see if I can get through it. So, first I want to thank
042everyone, our staff, teachers, families, community leaders, and my fellow board members for the opportunity to serve. It has truly been an honor to work alongside so many dedicated individuals who deeply care about our students. Together, we've achieved some incredible milestones. Strengthened student safety measures to ensure child every child feels secure in our schools. Expanded career readiness and vocational training opportunities, giving students real pathways to success after graduation. We supported our teachers with resources and initiatives aimed at retention and professional growth, maintained fiscal responsibility while investing in programs that matter most. We deepened our community engagement, making sure voices from across the district were heard and valued. Being a board member is so much more than attending monthly meetings. It's about being present in the community, listening, and serving on other boards and committees representing District
04370. With the same pride and priority we bring to this table as I step away, my hope is that this board continues to fight for what truly matters, our district, its kids. Let's keep the focus on education and student success, not on political agendas. Our children deserve nothing less. I'll leave you with this thought from Nel Nelson Mandela. Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world. Let's never forget the impact we have on shaping f shaping futures. Thank you again for allowing me to serve. I'm proud of what we accomplished and I look forward to seeing this district continue to thrive. >> Thank you, [applause] Kathy. >> Well, I didn't write anything out because I thought maybe I'd say something next week, but I guess I won't. >> I
044can say both. Yeah. I I first off I wore the sweatshirt in honor of Mr. Dilka because his band won the state state championship and I went up to him and talked to him before because he's been we've been goofing with each other whether I was going to wear the sweatshirt or not. I said I promise I'm going to wear it. And so I'm very proud of of of and they're they didn't get the really the recognition before that they they the state band that that their their band won the state championship which I think is awesome. Um this has been an exceptional learning experience for me. I thought I was too old to learn anything new but you always learn new stuff. I've had met some absolutely wonderful, wonderful people and had the opportunity,
045I hope, to change some things for the better. And um I'd like to continue even after I'm off the board because schools always need the help. And I've tried to push that in everywhere I go. The parents need to show up and read to kids. Reading is my passion and I still believe that if when kids learn to read young enough, they will succeed later in life and that's that's so critical. Um I was so pleased with Miss Gerjanick and her class and seeing those kids like double their reading scores like in a month, right? I mean that was that was absolutely amazing. And I'm I she she's an absolutely wonderful teacher and my dear friend. We we did a lot together, didn't we? >> We got >> and I there it was a lot
046of a lot of fun. appreciate your passion for our school. >> Yes, I have a lot of passion for that school and the learning academy is is is more than just a place to dump kids that that are not quite cutting it otherwhere otherwhere. It's it's a place where students are allowed to grow and evolve at their own pace. and some like really exceed exponentially than in a big environment. Smaller schools are very very very important and I think that Cheryl has done a phenomenal job with the responsibility she's been given for two schools. So, um, I've I've loved every minute. I There are parts I've I'm going to tear my hair out. I've been back and forth. I've wanted to cry. I wanted to laugh. I parts of it have been so much fun.
047Other parts not so much fun. And it's just like, you know, it is what it is. And four years went like that. It really did. And um I just thank you all for allowing me to be a part of it. >> Thank you, >> Superintendent Right. Well, first of all, thank you, John, for serving uh and and representing the right community. We appreciate that. And I appreciate all of your um common sense that you've brought to this table and I just thank you for serving. and Chris, you've done an amazing job helping our district to um be represented throughout PBLO and as well as obtaining things for our kids like the pickle ball courts. And so, thank you and we appreciate you. Um and thank you for always being a wonderful listening ear. And Kathy,
048thank you for serving the PLO West community and always remembering our kids and those kids who are uh less fortunate and need help. And I always know that your heart is with our kids and that you are serving our children. So, thank you. We appreciate you. That being said, I we will miss you all. This last the last meeting since then, we've had a lot going on. We had Halloween, >> which was a real good time. Uh I love it. Uh you're right. We won a state championship at Bubble County High School and uh the Space Cowboys uh they did an amazing job in their performance. I watched their performance, their last performance uh on Thursday and it was amazing. And then today we celebrated our veterans and Po County High did an amazing job
049also of celebrating our veterans and a very heartfelt remembrance of those who served our country. So uh we do great things with kids and those kids are the ones who do all of this. They they do such a great job. We love our kids. Our kids are amazing. >> I want to echo what Miss Ryan said. John, Chris, Kathy, thank you for your service the last four years and and you know, helping us uh guide and and lead the district in a a positive direction. you know, been an administrator, worked in this district a very long time, worked alongside a lot of individuals and so I've enjoyed my time um working with you three and um again, thank you very much and wish you well as you go on to your next dinner. I think
050Mrs. Vincent will have some things for you to do, Kathy. >> You don't worry about she'll keep you busy if you want to. >> Absolutely. >> Along that Mr. Young a fifth place band finished >> fourth place their third year back. >> So [applause] wrapping up fall uh sports seasons. Uh so again the band from county championship rise band. We've uh had uh several schools advance into the districts or state rounds uh to volleyball very good volleyball matches. I I caught uh both schools playing county and west playing this. last weekend and I know Ry had uh games as well that went down to the wire and so uh we still have two football teams playing. Uh Ry had a hard game this uh last weekend against was a Ray but again going from a
051three- win season I think to a six or seven win season was a good accomplishment and of course we still have Weston County advancing and they'll both be playing on Friday. So, wish them well and just congratulate all of our um fall teams and activities for representing the district in a positive and and great way. >> Absolutely. >> Just to kind of back on that, we also had swallows. It was in 2A regional volleyball in Holio. So, um my daughter plays, so I was I was there this weekend and they did a great job, but some of those teams are tough, especially the small town teams. Um >> they play to win, huh? >> Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. So, I just want to thank um our outgoing board members for their service. I don't want
052to get emotional. Um it's been a great four years and to get to know you um and work with you and I just am so thankful for your dedication and time. It's been it's been great. Like she said, it's been tough. hard on us, emotional, but we always work together and we always found a way and I just want to thank you for that. So, I don't want to be too emotional because we have newborn members coming on and they're welcome as well. Ag and I are still going to be here. Um, so and I I just want to also um thank our veterans because it because it is Veterans Day. I think that's it for me. So, >> thanks. >> Yeah. >> Okay. Well, we'll move on to the I guess boring stuff, you
053should say. Um, [laughter] so our next one is a presentation of revisions to policy ACR-3. Mr. Dietro, >> boring. This is title N stuff. Nothing boring about title N. Uh so the the revision to policy AC uh-R is uh it's due to uh the um FBI has changed their uniform criminal code uh book this year. And what that means is that's basically what law enforcement goes off of of how they categorize crimes and where they fit. And under um sexual assault, they've changed they've made a change and so we did have to adjust our policy. uh before uh they had forceful fondling as part of sexual assault in their code. They removed that and they replaced that with um sexual contact. And then you can read what what they go into as far as what
054can constitute sexual contact. And so uh because of that change in that uh book and code, we just had to update our documents. So this policy has been updated to reflect that change. And then our uh handbook as well that we use and our administrators use to guide us through uh the procedures uh has been updated as well. So that's the only change in regards to this policy. >> Okay. >> And then I believe our next one is J A JRC and that's just student release of uh records and release of information. Uh I won't go through all this because a lot of it is that the the grammatical uh corrections or updates. So a lot of changing uh letters uh you know uh capital uh changing the words uh to capital letters on all
055the headings. Uh changing some colons to semicolons, some shells to must or shells to wills. Uh replacing like school with district. Uh several of those type things in there. Um just one addition uh to note or a couple additions to note on on page two. We did add the request to amend a student record must be made in accordance with this reg uh with the regulation accompanying this policy. We do already have that. We'd already have a policy in place but that's just added to that to say if you want uh to amend a record you have to go through the proper process. And then the other uh significant change and not very significant but just one to note is um on page I think it's five where you get into disclosure of directory information
056uh it talks about uh prior uh you could include an email address and a date and place of birth when you're sharing um that directory information and uh this now changes it eliminates email address and it eliminates date and place of birth and so those are two things that would cannot be shared in a directory. So that's those are the major changes in that policy. >> What um remind me again what is included in that then? >> So it it talks about things like uh uh like field of study, photographs of course you know like share things like that. Um could be like height, weight, like in an athletic program, things like that. Um or like programs that we might be distributing for different events. Uh, so those types of things would be considered like
057a directory. We're handing that out to the public and so technically it has to fall within this policy. So like a football roster has a name, might have a weight, might have something like that. So uh, honors, awards, anything like that, those would all be considered in there. And that whole paragraph just talks about what is considered like a directory information. Again, this would be information that doesn't fall under like FURPA or HIPP or any of those things that we couldn't share without permission from. Okay. >> And and we always have the if they don't want their photograph included, parents when they do their info snap enrollment and their update can check off that they don't want like their child's photograph and that type of stuff included uh in things like that. >> Okay. >>
058Any other questions on that one? And then the I got to look on my phone because I forgot to print it out. So uh on KLG uh relations with state agencies again one change to that uh and in that first paragraph it talks about uh both state and federal agencies. Uh so that does add that to that policy uh just in regards to how districts may work with uh different agencies within the you know the governments. That's the only change on that one. >> Okay. >> Thank you. >> All right. Thank you. Okay. Next up, we have some presentations um from Mrs. Russell. The first one is a presentation of the pair professional route driver job description. >> Good evening, Madame President, members of the board. Um this is a sort of a new job
059description in the fact that occasionally we do have a a need for a route driver to drive routes in the morning, in the midday, and end of day. and that in between time then they're assigned as a paraprofessional at one of our schools. And so in order to post a job that um is very transparent about the route driver expectations and qualifications as well as the paraprofessional um job description and expectations. We felt that it would be important to have um that specific job description if it's not a parapro or a route driver but one that would combine both. So, nothing new in those, just we've combined them, so it makes it a new job description. >> Okay, >> go on to the next one. >> Um, uh, the Colorado minimum wage will increase 2.36%
060on January 1st, 2026. So, um, we would, uh, propose that we increase our minimum wage salaries from 1481 to 1516 an hour. And that includes, um, our classified substitute rates. Um the rest of our positions are over that 1516 per hour. So those are all listed there on that recommendation and that would be effective January 1st if the board so approves. [clears throat] The next one is uh the next three are really language uh cleanup in our negotiated agreement. So the first one is in regards to horizontal movement um for our classified and our certified staff. We just aligned um that language because um our practice is we have the same dates and same expectations for those two classifications. And we also aligned the language um with the effective dates for those salary increases to
061align with our new August to July contracts that we've had for a year. The next one is a language cleanup on classified evaluations. And that does align the language with the three-year evaluation cycle that we do have for classified employees. And so we needed to change that language if an employee is not on that three-year evaluation cycle. Um how an administrator or supervisor could then notify them that they would be evaluated off cycle. And the last piece for um is anou. We currently um our current calendar did change literacy testing days um although we have language in our negotiated agreement. So thisou um outlines that for this year we will adhere to what we've agreed to to those two half days um for literacy days. But we will spend this year gathering some input and
062additional information and data and um we will make decisions regarding literacy testing days for future calendars. Okay. Any questions? Thank you. >> Okay. Next, we have open forum. Do you have any comments this evening? >> Uh, no, ma'am, we don't. >> Okay. You got off the hook. >> I have. >> All right. Um, our first action item is approval of revisions to policy AC-R3. Mr. Mr. Pra is my recommendation that the board approve uh revisions to AC-R3 as presented. >> Okay. Do I have a motion to approve the revisions? >> Second. >> John Christensen. >> Yay. >> Chris Luca. >> Kathy Howen. >> Hi. >> And O. >> Motion carried. >> Okay. Next is approval of the revisions to policy JR-JRC or excuse me, J-JRC. Mr. Peter. >> Yes. So, it was my recommendation that
063the board approve policy JR-JRC as presented. >> Okay. Do I have a motion to approve the revisions? >> So, a second. >> John Christensen. >> Crystal Luca. >> Kathy Howen. >> Hi. >> Ann O. >> Motion carried. >> Okay. And our last action item is approval of the revisions to policy KG. >> My recommendation that the board approve the revisions to policy KLG as presented. >> Okay. Do I have a motion to approve those revisions? >> Second. >> John Christensen. >> Yay. >> Crystal Luca. >> Kathy How? >> Hi. >> Ann Oat. >> Yay. >> Motion carried. >> Okay. Next is our consent agenda items. Um, do I have a motion to approve these items? >> So moved. I second. >> We got move backwards. [laughter] John Christensen. Yay. >> Chris Luca. Yay. >> Kathy
064Holland. Hi. Ann O. Motion carried. Okay. The next board meeting is scheduled Tuesday, December 9th, 2025 at the Educational Services Center beginning at 6 p.m. Our regular meeting is now >> adjourned.