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Board of Education Meeting 06/10/2025

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Source
YouTube / Pueblo School District 70
Date
2025-06-11
Location
Pueblo County, CO
Material
Transcript
Extent
1,511 words · about 9 min
Collected
2026-06-15

Transcript

Verbatim source text

001I'd like to call the meeting to order and ask that you stand and join me for 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. I forgot. Do I have a motion to approve the regular board meeting? So move. I second. John Christensen. Yay. Chrisa, yay. AJ Wilson. Yay. Motion carried. Awesome. All right, we'll get started with some gifts. First up is a donation to Rye High School. Mr. Dejon. Good evening board. Um, so we had two donations that were made to the high school. One from Pate Construction for $1,200. One from San Isabelle Electric that was $750. Those both were made for our TSA program. Um, our TSA was

002a little bit in the hole and these companies came through and uh helped offset some of the costs for some of the activities that our students were able to do over the last year. um some of the costs from the national convention they went to last year, the state convention this year, and some of the supplies that they had. So, we're appreciative of them stepping up and making those donations. Thank you. Next up is a donation to North Mesa, Miss Morrison. Hi. Um I'm the music director at North Mesa. Uh April 12th, my choir performed at the Songre Cristo Arts Center and that was called the Market for the Arts. It was hosted by multiple nonprofit charities. Uh prior to the event, we applied for the arts award and my choir was selected and give

003the award during the performance. I have about 30 to 40 kids in choir and the $400 will go towards new music for next year and helping scholarship if a kid can't afford the fee. So yeah, we are really proud and wanted to thank that company for giving us the award. Thank you. Thank you. Next up is a donation, a couple donations to Pleasant View Middle School, Mr. Padilla. Good afternoon board members, Mr. Pre, Mr. Depro, Miss Ryan, uh got a few donations to um Pleasant View for incentive program. It's our uh incentive program where we buy the academic jackets and um just do all the awards and do um other things for the students in the class. Um so we had a donation of $1,250 from Above and Beyond Landscaping and $200 from 21 Steakhouse

004and that went to our outstanding Lions awards. So thank you. Thank you. [Applause] Have a motion to accept the gifts. So move. I second. John Christensen. Yay. Chris Duca. Yay. AJ Wilson. Yay. Motion carried. All right. Next up is information from the board and superintendent. Mr. Petri, we start with you. Have anything for this evening. I mean, I will say that I watched your talent show and you did a great job and the kids did a wonderful job. Um, and we attended a lot of things in that last week of school, but other than that, it's been a slow slower week. I don't have anything this evening. Oh, I I kind of do. County did approve today that PB will be getting their new courts. So, um, two two tennis pickle ball and two pickle

005ball. So, four courts, four courts total, new fencing. So, it'll really it'll jazz it up really nicely. So, um that should get moving shortly. Um we have to clarify a couple things with the county, but we're good to go. Cool. I don't think I have anything today as well. We'll go ahead and move on to discussion. Um first up is Mr. Whit. How are you? I'm good. How are you? Good. Um I'm just here to today to uh um talk about Jaden Artichoker. He is our sophomore um the very first student in U district 70 history to to make it to take first in state in Skills USA and make it to nationals. Uh he won for his t-shirt design. So he's a graphic arts student and he's he's done very well. Uh he'll be

006there um the uh June 23rd to the 27th with his uh accompanied by his parents. So they are covering their own costs and and um flying and chaperoning and hanging out in Atlanta in the heat of the summer. So but he's we're very proud of him. He's a very talented kid. Worked hard to get there. So yes, he's awesome. He was in the air. Thank you. Next up is between district 70 and erosce and so I'll just read this to you says thisou dated 10th of June 2025 is made and entered into by the state or not by the state uh into by and between PBLO county school district 70 and educational reinvisioned board of cooperative educational services Whereas the parties have enjoyed a history of partnering for the best educational outcomes for communities within

007the district. Whereas the parties recognize that a formal acknowledgement and a specific approval by the district for the erosce to operate a public school will ensure stability and continuity uh continuity for the students and families associated with Riverstone Academy. Now therefore in eration of the foregoing recital and the mutual understanding understandings contained herein the parties agree as follows. So one is the formal approval state law permits the erosce to operate schools with permission of the district. B the district recognizes that erosce has formally requested its express permission to authorize and to operate Riverstone Academy in the district. Um C. The district hereby confirms its agreement that erosis may operate Riverstone Academy at a location within the district boundaries for a term of 5 years starting July 1st of 2025 and ending June 30th of 2030.

008D. The term will automatically extend for sub uh subsequent additional five years unless notice of the desire to amend or terminate this agreement is given in writing by the superintendent of dis of the district uh to the director of erosce at least 120 days prior to the end of the current effective term. This automatic renewal process will continue as long as this agreement remains in effect. You guys have any comments, questions, do not do you have anything to share with that? I can share a little bit of information that I know. Okay. I mean, there really there hasn't been a school established yet. Um, but I believe that they're wanting to establish a school of 30 people or 30 students. And so that's that's really all the information that I have at this point, but

009we did not want to necessarily assume a charter. So um we we're releasing them to erosis. Thank you. Next up is bunch of wastewater stuff. All right. So, we are working on uh both the roof and the wastewater treatment facility at county high school and we have four change orders. We have the first one is relocation of the existing electrical services. Um we will utilize the current uh box to tie into the existing electrical feeder and reroute it out of the way of new equipment. And so that's a change order for $24,94710. We have um the rental of temporary 10 KW125 DSL generator. These are things I don't know about, but it's a generator. And it's a $24,947 or $22,16.11. Uh and then we had to price uh flooring pipe cleanouts, uh a mixer relocation,

010a burad airline installation, which was $52,72267. And then the actual purchase of the 10KW which we need that in order to run the operation system of the new treatment facility which is going to be $24,947. Um we did know that we were going to probably have things that we would run into and so we had put $450,000 in our in our owner's contingency. So, with these $111,000 in change orders, we still have a very healthy contingency plan um to to look on and to to draw from if there comes other issues. So, any questions? If we're renting for 22 and buying for 24, should we just get two? Well, they have to actually make it operate. So like they it I don't I can't explain to you the ins and outs of it, but it's

011apparently necessary. Okay. So any questions that I can actually answer? That's all I have. I I mean I know more about sewage than I ever cared to, but I don't know everything. It's messy messy business and speed. Yep. All right. Thank you. Next up, we have a tenative agreement between ECEA and Mr. Mrs. Russell. Good evening, Mr. Vice President, members of the board. We do have one mo one more for this uh school year to bring to you. Um we have added a definition to the negotiated agreement um that does define uh end of service with uh with our district when uh contracts are fulfilled or employee ends their contract with us. And then we did some clean up with language in article 107 to clarify the end of service payout. So when benefits will

012end, when an employee will get their final payout. And um there's also an option in there for an employee to request in writing to have one final pay in June rather than be split over June and July. Question approve it. Don't challenge us. Next up is a presentation of the revisions to the visual impairment orientation and mobility specialist job description. Yes, last meeting I did present to you that job description and this um is a revision to the job description um specific to the visual impairment orientation and mobility specialist. we have removed um the requirement for the master's degree and licensing in the special education part of hearing and kind of um have decided to move forward with the visual impairment orientation uh part of that job description and not combine the two and would

013you like to continue with the next one? Yes, this job description is for the coordinator of elementary instructional programs. Um the job does require a master's degree in educational leadership or curriculum and instruction. um a minimum of five years of elementary teaching experience and elementary principal or assistant principal experience. Uh this job uh responsibilities will include supporting elementary instruction, curriculum and development at the elementary level. Professional development will provide leadership in aligning elementary curriculum and instructional strategies with the academic standards and facilitate data informed decision making. You guys have any questions? Thank you. Thank you. All right. Next up is a presentation of the 2526 dues and fees. Dr. uh members of the board, thank you for letting me present our 2526 consolidated dues and fees. Um historically, every school has been able to set

014its own fee structure or fee schedule. Um this year the request was brought to us that we consolidate that and make just a single uh district-wide fee structure. So tonight I bring you a single fee structure uh that district 70 schools will have the option to charge. What we did was we sent the uh original fees out to all of the schools on a spreadsheet and asked them to show us in red what uh changes they want made, what they were hoping to do. We brought that together. Uh, Miss Kimberly Ryan brought that together all in a single spreadsheet and and produced what you see in front of you tonight. Any questions? Thank you very much. Thank you. Looks good. Next up is open forum. Do we have any comments today? No, we do not.

015All right. Unless somebody filled one out and left it back there. No. No. Okay. All right. We're clear. In that case, do I have a motion to approve the consent agenda? I motion to approve the consent agenda. I second. John Christensen. Yay. Chris Duca. Yay. AJ Wilson. Yay. Motion carried. All right. Meant to say move. Sorry. That's all right. Works for me. All right. Our next meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, June 24th at 20 2020 2022 25. Uh I put a lot of 20s in it. It's all right. At the educational services at 6 p.m. The meeting is now adjourned. [Applause]

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