001Good evening and welcome to the September 23rd board meeting. I would like to call the meeting to order and ask that you 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 board meeting? Uh, Madam President, I would like to ask that we take a moment of silence for a couple weeks ago with everything that happened between the Evergreen shooting and Charlie Kirk's assassination and um, honoring 911 as well. Take a moment of silence. >> Okay. Thank you. Okay. Do I have a motion to approve the regular meeting? >> So move. Second. >> Chrisa, >> I motion
002carry. >> Okay, we're going to start with our gifts. Our first item is a donation to Vinland. This is Katie Long. >> Awesome. Um, I'm just here to accept a gift of $1,800 from Minneall Works Credit Union. Um, they're supporting our student of the month program. Each month, six students are nominated BA by their teacher based on an identified character trait. And at our quarterly assembly, um, these students receive a gift from the donation that Minqua Works gives us. >> Very nice. >> Yeah. So, they receive the $1,800. >> The school does. >> The students themselves do. It all goes back to the students and gift cards. >> Yeah, it's great. It's wonderful. This is our second year doing the program. Um, and we're just seeing the positive effect of it. Students talk to each
003other. They like to hear the feedback from their teachers when they get nominated. It's been very good for our school culture. >> The parents are really happy, too. >> I hope so. >> That's great. Thank you so much. >> Awesome. You're welcome. Okay, the next items are donations to Public County High School. Mr. Dela, >> thank you very much for allowing me to be here with you this evening. Before I get to my public county high school donations, I have some uh Ry High School donations. I'm actually pinch hitting for Mr. D. Young uh today who couldn't be here because they're covering events at Ry High School. Um the first and I have a few notes from Mr. Young. The first donation is a $1,200 sponsorship from CIETe Incorporated to go towards their athletic programs
004at Ry High School. And he says that their admin team has also met with them and are looking to partner with them in the future um in an outside classroom uh at Ry High School. Uh secondly, they have a $1,500 donation um from the departed golfers from PBlo County Memorial Association and these funds are being split equally between Ry Boys and girls golf teams. Uh, and this comes from their large golf tournament that they put on each year. And lastly, from Ry, an $800 sponsorship from Kevin Moron's Edward Jones office in Colorado City. Uh, Edward Jones has been a longtime sponsor and Riot High School appreciates their commitment again this year. >> All right. And you can continue. >> Thank you. And moving on to the PBLO County High School donations. Um, exciting time. School's
005back in session. Everybody's excited. We get a tremendous amount of support at Po County High School. Um that's evident every fall when we come back and and uh we we we're contacted by our sponsors and get donations. So um we have first from Publo County High School, we have a $5,000 very generous donation uh split between our speech and debate and drama programs uh from Mr. Ted Hernandez. Uh Coach Ted, great supporter of Po County High School arts programs. A donation of $3,150 to the Public County High School Dance Team from Jury Brothers Roofing. Donation of $1,000 to Po County High School Dance Team. Another donation of $1,000 to Po County High dance team from Jury Brothers Roofing. And $1,000 to our dance team once again from the Gray family. $1,000 to dance team from
006Culver's. $1,000 to our boys tennis team from TR Toppers. Uh $500 to PO County High School football from the Bell family, $500 to our football team from FiveStar Automotive, $500 uh to the football team from Park West Vision and Dental. $500 to the football team from TNT Electric, $500 to the football team from Common Spirit, Mike Kafaso, and lastly, $500 to our football team from Behill Farms. Again, tremendous amount of support, and we're happy to receive it for you as >> Perfect. Thank you. That was quick. All right. May I have a motion to accept the gifts as presented? So >> move. Second. >> Crystal Luca. >> Yay. >> Kathy Howland. >> Hi. >> Ann O. >> AJ Wilson. >> Motion carried. >> Okay. Next up is information from the board and superintendent. Uh let's
007go ahead and start with Mr. Petro this evening. >> Nothing for me this evening. >> Okay. spent some time in uh most of the PBLO West schools last week and uh Mesa schools the week before. Um I'm not able to get into everybody's classroom, but I am in your building and I can get into as many classrooms as I possibly can without interrupting you. Um but it's always enjoyable to see what kids are doing, uh watch teachers teach and to interact with kids because that's why we come to work. So thank you for let letting me come into your build in your classrooms. Appreciate it. >> Nothing yet. Just happy to be payback. >> I don't think I have anything either. >> I think they started painting pickle ball courts today. >> I'm pretty sure
008they plugged in a tower. >> So, they got the fence up. >> Yeah, fence is up and then they were I think they started painting it and the rain ruined that for them. But as I was driving through the farms, I didn't lose cell phone service. So fingers crossed they plugged that cell phone tower in. So >> that's it for me though. >> Yeah, I'll have to confirm that. >> Yeah, it looked like it did today. >> And I don't have anything. We'll move on. >> Okay. Our first item is a presentation of the public West High School JOTC Raiders trip. >> Sorry I do not have a presentation. Um however uh well good evening. Um, first John Lam Master from Port West High School. I'm one of the uh JOTC instructors. I am um
009hopefully getting your approval tonight to uh take 14 cadets to uh Fort Knox, Kentucky uh to compete in the uh 2025 uh Raider Nationals. Um the Army is uh funding this trip for us. Uh the only thing out of pocket to the students would be $50 um for the uh meals traveling to Fort Knox and then traveling back from Fort Knox. Um this year uh we are taking a mixed team uh competing in the mixed division. Um we're taking 14 cadets, eight females or excuse me, eight males and six females. Uh last year I took an allmale team. Uh we placed 15th out of 50 for our first time being at uh at Raider Nationals. Hopefully this year uh we can place in the top 10. Uh the students will be staying on Fort Knox
010in barracks. Uh along with myself, I'll I'll be the male chaperone. My wife will be the female chaperone. Um medical facilities, uh they're on Fort Knox. Uh so we will have medical uh coverage at every event. Um, really that's all I have. Pin in your questions. >> Yes, ma'am. >> Do you get to see the gold? >> I'm sorry, ma'am. >> Do you get to check and see if there's still gold? >> Do I? Well, I I'm pretty sure it's empty. U They're wasting government funds uh securing something that's really empty, I'm sure. >> But I wish I did. >> Private tours. >> Well, sounds like fun. >> It'll be a great time. >> Keep us updated. >> Yes, ma'am. Thank you so much. Oh, by the way, I'm really happy to hear that you
011you've included like six women because I I' I've been told that women are often better shots than men. So, >> they are in shooting. Uh, absolutely. And uh you you will see me again in a few months uh seeking your approval to take uh uh archers. We just started an archery program at PBLO West last year and we actually made it to nationals. Uh we shot pretty good. We just didn't place in the top 10. But uh hopefully this year uh fingers crossed we will definitely do that. Bring home some trophies. >> What are some of the competitions that you do for Raiders? >> For Raiders? Yes ma'am. So uh so if you take a mixture of tough mutter u you know cross country and uh crossfit and you put it all together that's what
012we do right. So it's all phys it's physically challenging for the students. Uh you guys have all seen war movies where they carry litters uh taking the wounded from point A to point B. Well, they do that with about 250 pounds on the litter itself. They carry rucks sacks. It's just it's it's taxing but rewarding and the kids love it. They think I enjoy watching them suffer. It's not it's not the case. I promise you. >> Sounds exhausting, >> but it's fun. It's really fun. >> Well, nice. >> Great. Thank you. Let us know how it goes. Okay, next we have a presentation on the North Mesa and South Mesa playgrounds. Dr. Martinez. Thank you, ladies and gentlemen of the board. Um, tonight I get to bring you good news. We are with your approval
013going to put some new playgrounds at our preschools at both North Mesa and South Mesa. Um, North Mesa and South Mesa preschools will each receive new playgrounds partially funded by a grant and then supplemented with carried over uh carried over district preschool funds from last year into this year. Uh construction, we're hoping to start the construction um by mid November and uh take us about two weeks to get those opened up. Um the projects at $292,972.37. Um, Game Time gave us a grant of 100,97237. So, bringing the uh bringing our cost down to just 200. So, $200,000 for two playgrounds, which is, if you've looked at pre preschool or playground equipment, you know what it costs. It's pretty high. Um, that uh $200,000 cost will give each site a structure. Um, the main structure looks
014like a like a train. They've gone with a train design and so that looks like a train. They'll get a dual rocker, which in my day we would have called that a teeter totter, but now it's about this high off the ground. So, they have a teeter totter. Uh each of them will have a bench uh for the children and families to sit on. Uh that'll include our pearl. Uh we'll use pearl because it doesn't blow away. Uh it'll include the border all the way around the pearl. And then we will have fence replaced, but that'll be replaced by District 60's maintenance department. >> District 7. >> So, I apologize. my >> by our by our maintenance department. >> I know, right? >> I was thinking >> I don't want to I don't want to
015get emails tomorrow about why we're hiring district. >> That is true. >> Um we were able to make this purchase happen and do this work through Omnia Partners. Uh they are a uh group purchasing uh that we work with to help us get the uh most affordable prices on the things that we're doing and speed up the process for RFPs. So through our Omnia partners, we were able to make this happen as quickly as as we were. We started talking about these a year ago and to see where we are today is quite uh it's a proud moment for me to be able to stand here and to tell you that we're moving forward with your approval. >> And does this include any handicap equipment for >> It's all handicap accessible. Okay, good. Y >>
016Yep. Children uh who are in wheelchairs can access all of the all of the sites and equipment. Are they just going to be replacing where it's at or rebuilding anymore? >> They are replacing. So, they're removing the equipment that's in place, uh, moving the fences around and then putting it in in place of where those ones are. >> Okay. >> All right. Thank you. >> I appreciate your time. Thank you. >> Okay. Next is a presentation of the activity and athletics game worker rates. Mr. Bumgardner, this sounds pretty important. >> Yeah. Well, you know what? I am pretty excited to go play on the new preschool playgrounds. So, keep me posted. >> I want to see you go down one of those slides. >> Yes, Dil, you can join me. >> Um, yes, thank you.
017Uh, >> it'll be a lot of fun. >> Anyway, um, thank you. Um this conversation as far as the game worker rates has started uh well last year and then has kind of continued on through this year, the beginning of this year. And where it's come where it's kind of stemming from is some of our um need for workers at at some of our games and gates and and all of the variety of things. So as we looked at it, um we looked at something that hadn't been updated for a while. So, with that in mind and then trying to recruit more of our certified staff as our teachers, um we looked at trying to up it to where you see in front of you, uh for the most part it went up about $10,
018um at that at that game one phase. Okay. Um as you look and you go on to like game two, game three, how that works, for example, if public county is hosting a volleyball game, often times they host three games in one night. So it starts at their C level, their JV, and then their varsity. So if they're there for all three games, it's not like they get game one pay and then on top of it they get game two and then three. It's that third three threeame payment piece. Okay. Um, as far as all these discussions with with this pay rate, we've had with our ads across the district and then we've had a couple meetings with our uh superintendent's cabinet um and discussed this path forward and hopefully this will help solve some
019of our game worker shortage um that we faced throughout the district. Are there any questions? >> Yes, >> there's a couple of them. It looks like two game and three game is cheaper than one game. So again, that's that combo piece with it. Or it could be the JV and C. For example, if I'm doing as what you're looking on there for a high school score clock, yeah, the high school person is going to get four or 40, excuse me. If they're doing just a JV game, they're only getting 20. The C game is is uh 20 as well. >> Okay. >> Does that make sense? >> Obviously announcer, it's if they do all three games at 7, >> correct? Yep. So without muddying that template, it's just easier to kind of bracket that. >>
020That makes sense. >> Okay. >> Anything else? >> No. Thank you very much. >> Okay. Next up, we have open forum. Do we have any comments this evening? >> We have one check. You start when I start. >> Start. I start. >> All right. I'm Kate Paycheck. I'm the PCA um president and this is my certifi our certified vice president, Adrien Badulla. We're here to uh recognize a couple of PCA members in our spotlight. It's an honor. They're nominated by their fellow um colleagues. So, first we have Natalie Hatcher who was nominated. She's at Prairie Winds. And it says, "Natalie shows up every day with a smile, ready to support students in the in the SSN program. No matter how tough the behaviors are, her patience, kindness, and steady presence make a huge difference for
021kids who need it most. She helped get out brand new SSN program, helped get our brand new SSN program off the ground, and has been allin from day one. She works directly with students who have big challenges and meets with them meets them with care and consistency. She even started working toward becoming an SLPA to keep growing in how she supports the kids. She lists up voices and often that often go unheard. Natalie helps students connect with their teachers, their peers, and their school so they know they belong here just as they are. She makes Prairie Winds feel safer and more inclusive. when she joins a lesson, it's not just to support, it's to connect. She helps every student feel seen. I have a shirt for you, too. Um, and then we also have Janelle
022Griffin. Janelle demonstrates remarkable dedication by supporting both elementary and middle school students. As our ESS teacher, she consistently goes above and beyond to ensure that students with diverse needs are given the tools and encouragement to succeed while also supporting colleagues with patience and care. Janelle's ability to balance the demands of kinder through 8th grade students while still making time to provide individualized support for both students and teachers is what makes Janelle stand out. She's not only knowledgeable in her field, but also compassionate, always stepping in to help when extra attention is needing needed. Janelle exemplifies PCA's mission through her collaboration, dedication, and support for others. Her kindness, professionalism, and willingness to advocate for her students and assist her colleagues reflect the very heart of what it means to be a dedicated educator and member. [Applause]
023We also have a t-shirt. >> Would you mind showing us the t-shirt? I'm just curious. Thanks. Thanks. >> Wait, they're different. >> That's what I was wondering. >> Natalie, what does yours say? >> Natalie was an ESP educational support professional. >> That's cool. >> Okay. >> Well, thank you. Okay. Our next item is approval of the consent agenda items. Do I have a motion to approve these items? >> Some move. Okay. Second. >> Christa Lucas. >> Yes. >> Kathy Howland. Ian O. >> Yes. >> AJ Wilson. >> Yay. >> Motion carried. >> Okay. Our next board meeting is scheduled Tuesday, October 7th, 2025 at the Educational Services Center beginning at 6 p.m. Our regular meeting is Now the turn.