001August 5th board meeting. I would like to call the meeting to order and ask that you stand and join me in the pledge of allegiance. >> I pledge algiance 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 importing? >> So moved. >> I second. >> Yay. >> Wilson. >> Yay. >> Okay, we're going to start with gifts. Um, our first gift items are in kind donations. Superintendent Ryan. >> Sorry, I heard something. So this week we had around 125 executive chairs uh delivered to um our warehouse and I made some announcements to our principles that if they wanted a new chair to take that take them
002home. Um, these 125 executive chairs uh were donated to us from Parker Excavating and so uh they had they had purchased a building and these chairs were all in it. They're basically brand new chairs. Um we still have quite a few chairs in our warehouse and so I had put that out to the principles, the secretaries and the counselors. Uh they took quite a few back to their teachers and then I will put it out to teachers this week if they want to come by and uh pick up a new chair for their um classrooms. They're welcome to do that. I mean, it's the little things in life, but uh a nice chair I don't know that I ever had as a teacher. So, anyway, we really appreciate uh Parker Excavating for thinking of us.
003>> Absolutely. >> And then, um you can go ahead on to the next. >> Uh yes, we had an inkind donation of 13 copies of the book, A Bushel and a Peek of PBLO's Best by Christy Quitek. And it was donated from the historical society and it had a value of $195. And so we put one copy of each of those in all of our elementary schools, including our charters. Um, and so, uh, if people went to purchase those books, uh, there's a insert inside there, um, that they could utilize in their classrooms. And it's kind of the history of PBLO. It's a pretty interesting book written probably around a second, third grade level. Any questions? Thank you. Okay. The next items are donations to Publo West High School. Mr. Baker. Uh, good evening. I'm
004Javin Baker, uh, AD at PBLO West High School, at least until action item 9.02. Uh, >> nice to meet you. >> So, yeah, a couple donations uh, for tonight's docket. We have a few coming in right now, which is very exciting. But, first one was a $5,000 donation to the softball program. We have a new coaching staff there with softball. very exciting, very high level experience, uh, with some nice softball connections. And so Leslie and Cherylyn Brown donated $5,000 for just general things from travel to new uniforms. Um, we're upgrading some of our equipment stuff for the girls in the softball. And then we also had a donation from Careers and Construction of $1,760. And this is for CT programs for kids that are in the construction program for uh industry certifications including like OSHA
00510 and there's one more I forget the name of it but we had a hundred kids uh take those taken pass get those certifications uh last spring. So those are the two we're requesting for pub right thank you >> okay our last gift item is a donation to Ry High School Mrs. fail. >> Hi, I'm Coach Lisa. I'm the coach for the color guards, both fall and winter at Ry High School. Um, our season is in the winter. It goes from basically the next to last weekend in January to the end of March. And one of our biggest expenses, um, is the uniforms and props and things like that. Our huge expense is, um, transportation to and from these competitions. competitions. You know, we are south of PBLO. Competitions are in the northern Denver metro
006area and above as far as Coline. So, we use a lot in in transportation costs. So, we are very thankful to San Isabelle who donated $500 to try to help us relieve some of that burden for that. >> Any questions? >> No. Thank you. Okay. May I have a motion to accept the gifts as presented? >> So moved. >> All right. Second. >> Chrisa. >> Yay. >> And yay. >> Agent Wilson. >> Yay. >> Motion carried. >> Okay. We're going to move on to our good news. Um our first good news item is the Governor's Distinguished Improvement Award. Dr. Martinez. >> Thank you, ladies and gentlemen of the board. Tonight, uh I have the pleasure of bringing you two Governor's Distinguished Improvement Awards and an John Irwin Award. So, our first Governor's Distinguished Improvement Award
007for 2024 goes to Bula Middle School. [Applause] >> Our second Governor's Distinguished Improvement Award for 2024 goes to Sierra Vista Elementary School. Congratulations. >> And our 2023 and 2024 John Irwin award goes to Connect Charter School. [Applause] >> Congratulations. >> They earned these awards for improvements in their math and their ELA scores on on the CAMASS assessments. And so by showing those levels of improvement or growth um they are recognized for their distinguished improvement. >> Thank you ladies and gentlemen. >> Wonderful. >> Okay. >> Our next good news item is um ELLL staff accomplishments. Mr. Herson. >> Check. All right. Um, well, thank you very much for granting me a little bit of time. I I wanted to talk about something I think that's extraordinary that my staff did. We partner with a group called
008Flashlight Learning 360. They service over 170,000 ELLL students and over 22,000 teachers are involved in that program. And District 70 had four of its staff members recognized as top 100 performers in the nation. >> Um this is based off of student growth. Um one of our teachers was ranked in the top 25 and she had the student with the top ELLL growth in the entire nation. >> Oh my goodness. I um it was something that was staggering for me to see and I just am glad to give the opportunity to share that. So, thank you very much. >> Wonderful. [Applause] >> All right. Thank you. >> Okay, we're going to move on to information from the board and superintendent. Uh let's go ahead and start with you this evening, Chris. >> Okay. I don't have
009a ton. Um we did break ground on Pleasant View's new pickle ball courts. So, cut up the old tennis courts that we are getting rid of. They'll lay the new ones August 11th, I believe, and they should be able to play September, midepptember. Um, and then, uh, we did finally get a cell phone tower out on the Mesa. So, County High School had a brand new brand new lap pole um that will eventually host some service. So hopefully um in the event of any kind of a real emergency at any of those Mesa schools, we would be able to actually call out and not not have the issues that we've been having. So that's that's all for me. >> All right. And Pub West, too. >> Pub West got them to West High School. >>
010Last year though, right? >> Last year >> or did they? >> Yeah. >> It took these ones a little bit longer, but yeah. >> So, yay. Finally. >> Nice. Thank you. Uh, school's starting up next week. It came quick, so I'm excited to get back into the swing of things with school and see how it goes. >> That's it. I don't have much. >> Okay. >> Superintendent Rank. >> Well, I think it's key to say that we're not paying for that cell phone tower and we're not paying for that pickle ball. >> Oh, yeah. No, we're not paying for any of that. That was all >> that the county is uh uh giving the money towards uh the pickle ball courts at at Pleasant View. Um, and then Verizon is actually paying for that cell
011phone tower. So, um, we appreciate that from our community. And, uh, we had new teacher orientation last week and then we had, uh, district professional development today. So, it's been a busy week and it's nice to see teachers back in the buildings. >> Thanks. Just like to welcome everyone back from a summer break and hope everybody had a great summer and really excited about getting the year started. Okay. Right. Same here. I'd just like to welcome everybody back and here's to a great school year. So, we'll move on to discussion. Um, our first discussion is a presentation of youth opportunities through the Elks Lodge number 90. Mrs. Katherine McDribon. Hello everyone. I'm new to PBLO four yearsish. So, I haven't really gotten into the schools to see what's going on. I uh since I moved
012here, I've taken on the role of nana, so I'm busy with that. But I when I trans when I lived in California, I was a member of the Elks Lodge. And when I moved here, I transferred my membership to the PBLO Lodge. Um there are other lodges here in the area. uh Florence, Canyon City, Salida, Lamar, Rocky Ford, Laanta. Um and so there are many people around that you may know that are elks or want to become an elk. A lot of people um think that it's oh, it's just a bunch of old men. They just sit around and play cards or something. Uh but they do more than that. And it's not just men. It is open to women as well these days. Um, but when I moved here, this lodge it was, um,
013I think because it was still COVID time, uh, a lot of our older population did, um, pass on. And we have since been having a lot of new members, um, that are younger, but when they're younger, they're also busy working full-time. So, I tried I'm now retired. I am now trying to activate some of the activities that the National Elks does uh support and our local lodge also supports them, too. I'm going to have to look at my um phone here to to get them up. Um if there are counselors present, we do um college scholarships. The most valuable student is a scholarship that is um a four-year scholarship and the price varies from a th00and to 7500 a year depending on which school they're going to. They must be planning to pursue a four-year
014degree uh full-time. Um so that is one. if their parent or grandparent happens to be a member of the Elks Lodge, there's um a legacy award, which is a $4,000 scholarship to Children or grandchildren of Elk members. Um and I think that that they can reapply every year. So, if you're a counselor and you are working with the seniors that are getting ready to go off to college next year, um please consider um you know asking or inquiring or letting the parents know that if they're elk members. We have about 580 members in our lodge here in PBLO. Um, but even I was secretary for two and a half years and I would get to know some of the incoming people, but I'm not involved in all the other activities. So, I don't know who
015those other members are or if they have children or grandchildren. that you know that would be something worth asking uh the seniors um if they are also uh if their parent is a member of the Elks there is an ed emergency education grant um and that's for undergraduate um college assistants um there is a hoop shoot which is held annually many of the other neighboring uh lodges do have that but our lodge has not been able to kick it off. We were going to try last year. Um but we're going to do it this year. We're going to do it. And um Ty Shorn, who is a teacher here in um district 90 or excuse me 70. I'm 90. You're 70. Um so he is going to um take that on this year. So, what
016we would need for that, and he's going to explain that a little bit more, um, is some support from the teachers, um, maybe athletic directors. I think the hoop shoot is 8 to 13, so it' be elementary and middle school, maybe. >> Um, in addition to the hoop shoot, and Tid's going to talk about that in just a minute. I just want to finish what I have. Um we have a soccer shoot which is very similar to um serving kids that are um up to age 16. So there's different categories. Um there's no fee for kids to join and participate in this. Alls we would need is um so participants and then the ELPS covers the rest of that. My page two is not going to open up so I don't know what happened. But
017I don't have my hard copy with me. Um, but we do also have um drug awareness programs. If you're interested in seeing those, you can go to elks.org and then there's several um lots of tabs, lots of pages. Um, if you want to get in touch with me, um, I can send you directly to that or I can give you more information um, about that. their red ribbon week that we support that we have a trailer to take to events to hand out little, you know, trinkets and this and that. Um, and I'm trying to think what the other Oh, there's there's there's other youth activities like catch a calf and um oh, the heers. I can't remember all that because I'm not I'm not a part of that. But if you guys have a
018strong FFA or an A department that they would maybe be interested in finding out. I'm gonna let Ty go ahead and take the stand and talk about the hoop shoot. >> Thank you, Joyce. The big thing we need out of the district is the support from the schools that we haven't for the Elks. We haven't done the hoop shoot in probably eight years. We just haven't got the support around town. So what I am trying to do starting with district 70 is can we advertise, can we put flyers out through the schools and I will myself out here on the Mesa get with our athletic director Brian Robboto and Sandy Gibbs and we'll open up Vinland Middle School to do the hoop shoot when it's ready again for the three groups. There's 8 to 9,
019there's 10 to 11, and there's 12 to 13. And there's boys and girls in each group, and it's first, second, third place. We do a regional, and then once we get done with a regional, then it goes to a state, and then after that goes to a national. But our big thing is we want to get it going throughout here in Pueblo again. So, it's something that I'll start and if we can get someone out in Pueblo West to maybe do PBLO West, someone out in Ry because we know the hard part about District 70 is trying to get people from Ry from Colorado City to come out to Vinland Middle School to do it is going to be tough. And same thing with with Pueblo West if we can do it like that. And
020then after that, what we get here as well, Joyce and I will probably go to district 60, a board meeting as well because we're trying to get this throughout the whole city where we get district 60 schools involved for all this. So the big thing we just need out of this is the support from the board that we can put the Elk Swoop Shoot flyers and all the schools and advertise it with StuCo, with principles, with athletic directors, all that. And then once we get down to when we know we need to do our our regional competition, we'll have all that set up. So that's our big thing to ask for you guys. Thank you. >> I did remember one more thing if I if I may just add on and this would be for
021middle school teachers, uh, language arts. Every year the Elks, the National um Elks Foundation has an Americanism essay contest and um there is a flyer that I brought down this morning and it'll be in the packet and that has more of the information and the title of what this year's um theme will be. And those um if if teachers are interested in getting their students to participate in that um they can send me their top five or so, however many they think are really good um essays and we'll have a committee at our lodge uh go through them and then see if any need to get moved on to the next level. U so I just wanted to share that as well. Thank you. Thank you. >> Okay. Um, our next item is a presentation
022of the Pubo West High School cross country trip. Mr. Baker. >> All right. Uh, thank you again. We're excited to uh ask for the approval of uh our cross country athletes going to Portland, Oregon for uh a prestigious cross country meet uh on September 25th. And um or 25th through 27th. This uh will take 10 of our male and 10 of our female athletes, so 20 in total will get to go. Uh it is paid for out of the fundraising efforts of the cross country team. Uh cross country is a sport that uh doesn't demand a lot of infrastructure from uniforms and equipment and such. And so um when they they put their fundraising to a really cool opportunity for kids to go do something on a national level uh with some of the top
023athletes around the nation. And um I would I would add that coach Tilman, who is now our cross country coach and track and field coach. Uh they did it through a mostly through a fundraiser with the golf tournament just this past Saturday and we had over 30 teams in that tournament. And um he makes all their kids show up at 7:00 and they stay till 2 to greet every golfer that comes through and I think it's a great thing that he does so they don't just get the benefit of the money but they have to put in some of their own equity to uh and see the people that are helping make that possible for them. So, I think that's a great touch that he has there. And these kids have been out at six
024o'clock pretty much every day all summer, uh, preparing themselves for a season. So, uh, it's a great carrot for for kids that, um, do a pretty tough sport day in and day out, not just in the season, but throughout the year to prep for. So, uh, we'd love to have that approved and send our kids to Portland. >> Great. >> Okay. >> Thank you very much. >> Okay. Next up is a presentation of the Craraver Middle School Greenhouse RFP. Mrs. Good evening. I'm Jodie P, principal of Craver, and we have Ashley Termaine with us, our um FFA advisor for Craver Middle School. um last year she had put in for a um grant for $75,000 for a greenhouse for our FFA pro program and she was successful in um getting that grant. So we have
025been working since then to get everything in order for us to um be able to make this happen for Craver. Um we put in she created an she wrote an RFP this spring. we put in. We had two people uh interested. Um one was really a quote and the other was from a construction company. Um and so when you we looked at it um we scored it. Uh the construction company uh is Baja and it is in PBLO. It is local. Um they outscored and so we did have some questions and concerns and so we've been working with Kathy Grassmik from Baja. Um, and this project is kind of near and dear to her heart because she is from a small town and so they really want to make this work for us. And so,
026um, they, uh, their bid came in. Um, we negotiated. If you would have told me when I wanted to be a principal, I've been negotiating portaotties and cement, I would have laughed. But we got it where we needed it to be. And we hope that you um, will approve that tonight so that we can move forward with the good news. Great. Thank you. >> Okay. Our next presentation is the student smartphone survey. Um, third through 8th grade. Mr. Spodnik. >> Oh, wait. I'm sorry. >> Mr. >> Go ahead. >> And then I'll have you go, Mr. Petra. >> Sorry. >> Good evening. 1987 um regional hoop shoot champ. >> Not to toot your own horn, but >> no, I mean, you know, >> congratulations. >> Um so, um uh in January, Dr. Mestus received a
027grant from the Colorado Department of Law for $50,000 for a smartphone aware smartphone awareness campaign which we were able to receive through our our smartphone um policy that we adopted last year. Um with that um grant we are required to uh run a student survey and I've given you those surveys. I need to uh do those surveys before midepptember. Um but this is just me presenting this uh for your questions or what have you and uh we'll bring it to you again uh at the next board meeting. We will have an opt out policy as we do with any any survey that we have and I'll it's uh just a one of the same forms that we use. We'll just tweak it for this survey. But um it's pretty straightforward four question survey. Are you
028wanting some of the board's feedback on it or just if we have any questions? >> If you have any questions, okay, >> we can we can do that. It was uh dictated to us in the grant, so I didn't even write the questions. >> Gotcha. Okay. >> Thank you. >> All right. Now, it's Mr. Dietro's turn to do a presentation of revisions to policies JH. >> I could have just had Mr. Sabonic stay up here. He's he's been doing a work this summer. He's been working with uh our admin team, our social workers on trying to uh kind of just revamp a little bit of our attendance procedures um as we do, you know, every so often. And so, as we were reviewing all the uh things that they had talked about and what we
029might want to look at changing, uh one thing popped out at us, uh policy JH, um our language for chronic absenteeism did not meet the state, uh what's in the state law. And so, uh, state law states that it's 10% of school days enrolled, uh, which for us would be around, uh, 15 days. And so, we're making that change from 12, which is in our current policy, to 15. Um, this 12's been around for quite a long time. So, we're just matching it up to state policy. So, that's the only change is just that one section. Changes 12 to 15 for chronic absenteeism. >> Okay. All right. Thank you. Okay, next up we have open forum. Do we have any comments? Okay, John's not here. So you it's your responsibility, right? >> There's none. >>
030I back up. >> Um since we're calling right now, we could let you do that. You have three minutes. Um and do you want to start the timer? >> I can start the timer. It has to do with something that's with our policy behind unless it was pre-approved by the board. >> No, it's not on the agenda. I wanted to ask question. How can I get something on the board and that students who worked really hard to get into the programs at county that do not live in county that's now we were notified as a new student coming in that >> let's um so let's go ahead and we'll let you we'll give you three minutes to tell us and then explain to us and then um you can also email the board members and
031the superintendent and um we can also work with you that way as well >> but go ahead They're the blue ones. >> Okay. >> So, I just kind of wanted to bring attention to the board. Um I I'm not sure because I wasn't notified that there wasn't going to be transportation from Pablo West to um the Publo West High School when my son um got into the AAC program as a freshman this incoming freshman year. actually seen it on Facebook is how I found out that there's no transportation over that. Through that, I have found that a lot of families are now affected. Um, some students may be having to transfer now back to their local schools. They've worked really hard. These kids worked really hard to be accepted into these programs. My son came
032from Connect. Um, so it was quite a disappointment to him when I let him know that he possibly won't be able to go to county because I work full-time, have other students that are out in Pablo West. Um, and so I just don't know if the district has any plans on how we can help the impact that's having on the parents and students that have lost that transportation. If anything has been put in place or suggestions have been made, I I have no idea. I've had no communication other than other parents talking on Facebook. So, I just want to know if there's something like that or, you know, what we can do to try to help these kids get to these specialized programs that aren't offered at other schools in the district. >> Okay. Um,
033we usually don't give um a response. >> Okay. >> So, um it's just your chance to tell us and then um if you want to email us and then we can discuss it with you. >> Sure. Okay. Thank you. >> Mr. If you want to leave your your name and your phone number on that sheet, then Mr. Dieter will reach out to you and set up a meeting with you. >> Okay. >> There was a comment. Sorry. >> Okay. >> I failed. First day on the job. No. >> Right. >> All right. We'll move on to um our action items. So, the first one is approval of the director of business services, Mrs. Russell. Good evening, Madame President, members of the board. I would recommend that the board approve the recommendation for the director of
034business services. Okay. Right. Do I have a motion to approve the new director? >> I don't know about this one. >> I move that we approve the action. Okay. >> I'll second. >> Chris Luca. >> Yay. and OA >> AJ Wilson. >> Yes, sir. >> Motion carried. >> This will be a good one. >> We had to give you a hard time. >> You're stressing, Madam President. I'd like to introduce Jameson Wagner that you just voted in as the director of business services. >> I'm going to do great. >> Russell, >> got a big speech for us. >> Just a little short one. >> Uh thank thank you to first of all, I'd like to point out um 1986 national runnerup Elsio. four time state North Dakota champ. >> So I >> there's a lot
035of shooters I haven't seen. Uh but thank you to the board. Thank you to Miss Ryan, to Mr. Petro. Um I'm super excited for this opportunity. I know it's it's a big job. I'm doing everything I can to learn as quick as I can. The good news is the team over there is amazing. They they've been welcoming and answering all my questions and taking as many trainings as possible. Um, I also did not want to leave Quolis High School high and dry. So, with the next action item, you can see that it's perfect timing. Um, he'll be amazing there as well. So, thank you to my family for all the changes I've put through the last few years and supporting me. So, thank you [Applause] >> and thank you for your service to Public High
036School as well. >> That's crazy. That's awesome. Yeah. All right. So, we'll move on. Um, our next action item is approval of the PBLO High School principal. >> Madame President, I would recommend that the board approved the uh recommend recommended candidate for the interim principal for West High School for the 2526 school year. >> Okay. Do I have a motion to approve the new principal? >> So, moved. >> I second. >> Chris Luca. >> Yay. >> And O. Yay. >> AJ Wilson. >> Yay. >> Motion carried. >> Okay. Madam President, I'd like to introduce Jayen Baker as interim principal for POS. >> Uh well, thank you. Definitely inex unexpected and kind of a whirlwind here as of late, but uh very excited to be back at PBLO West. I taught there when our family first
037moved here in 2008. So, um thankful to Superintendent Ryan and all the leadership at the district level for placing their trust in me. Uh we had a great day one. Uh yesterday, obviously, we had to get things kicked off. uh even before this, but uh staff seems very responsive and um uh we're very excited about it. So, um you know, Mr. Wagner pulled a bait and switch on me. But, uh anyway, uh he's been very helpful in the transition and I think pretty much every day, at least once or twice a day, uh we're we're communicating and making sure things are handed off smoothly as we can as we can make them. So, thank you to everybody. I'm excited to be here. >> Great. Thank you. Welcome. [Applause] Okay. Next is the approval of the
038consent agenda items. Do I have a motion to approve these items? Moved. >> I have a second. >> Crystal Lucas. >> Yay. >> And O. >> Yay. >> AJ Wilson. >> Yay. >> Motion carried. >> Okay. Our next board meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, August 19th, 2025 at the Educational Services Center beginning at 6 p.m. A regular meeting is now adjourned.