001the May 13th board meeting. I would like to call the meeting to order and ask that you stand and join me in welcoming the Pleasant View Middle School Advanced Bands performance of the national anthem. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. [Music] [Applause] And did you have one more song for us? If you would like, if that would be okay. Yes, absolutely. They're itching to play another song. And I just want to thank the school board for allowing us to perform for you tonight. You've only heard from me with my technology hat on. And this is really who I am. And so I wanted to make sure that I got a chance to share with with all of you a group of kids who I just absolutely have a blast with. Many of these
002students have been with me two or three years. Some of them are on their second and third instrument. And uh I'm just I couldn't be more proud of them and I'm sad that my eighth graders are going away, but I know that they're also going into an amazing program at County High School and Central High School. So, this next song is Dance Song. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] I don't [Music] [Applause] Thank you much very much for this opportunity and just really appreciate our district and the support that they have for music programs. And we just ask that you continue to keep music in our schools because for some of these students, this is their only reason they get up every morning and come to school is for this class. And it starts
003in the elementary schools. And we just continue to ask for that beautiful support. in our music programs. Thank you for having us. Thank you. Okay. May I have a motion to approve the board meeting? So moved. Second. John Christensen. Yay. Chris Luca. Yay. Kathy Hower. Hi. Annne O. Agent Wilson. Motion carried. Okay. The first item we have is a donation to Desert Sage. Mr. Hyatt, good evening. Thank you for allow me to be on the agenda and speak. Uh we had a donation of $600 from a parent, Miss Keane, of a fifth grade student to help fund the buses for our annual Cam Jackson trip for the fifth graders. Two days in one night. They just got back this afternoon and they're going to have to clean the buses, I'm afraid. But they had a
004good time as we always do. Great. Thank you. Thank you. Okay, that was our only gift. So, may I have a motion to accept the gifts as presented? Second. John Christensen. Yay. Crystal Luca. Yay. Kathy Holland. Hi. And O. Yes. AJ Wilson. Motion carried. Okay. Next up is information from the board and superintendent. Start with Mr. Deichra. Well, this uh time of year is uh sports teams are getting ready to enter into uh the postseason, regional, and state competition. So, we want to wish all of those teams and individuals who are striving to to get that uh medal or to get on that platform the best of luck. I had a chance to attend the couple middle school track meets this weekend. We had our uh county one on Friday, caught a little bit of
005that, and then we have our city county one that was on Saturday and Mr. Bumgardner and his uh group, all the principles and APS from the schools did a great job of putting on another uh solid event for those individuals. So that was very nice. And we have county high schools performing arts is going up to the Bobby G awards on Friday and they actually get to perform this year which is quite an honor for the schools to be able to do that. So we want to wish them well and they do have a couple again lot of great things happening as we wrap up the year and so it's very exciting to see all these doing those things I have visited a lot of schools um was handing out awards at Publo West High
006School with Kathy um there were a lot of individuals with a long lot of longevity for our district. I will say that um I attended a concert at South Mesa Elementary. Uh and then um Bob and I both attended a dedication of the playground at North Mesa Elementary. I tested the slide out, but um Bob refused. Too steep. Too steep. Couldn't do it. I think he thought he was going to roll. But anyway, it it it's good to be in the schools right now. I mean, you see all of your um hard work coming into fruition that, you know, the whole reason that we do all of this is for the kids. And so to see all of these kids um excelling and doing such a great job in our schools is is amazing. And
007I can't wait for graduation next week in the next weeks. That's it. Um let's see. I always say May is like insane month because it's award season. graduation season. It's everything going on. Uh let's see. I went to awards at D70 Learning Academy, uh LPE and Aendale. And Aendale was wonderful because they were so thrilled because they were not going to be closed. That was that they were so emotional and it was it was really heartwarming to see that. Um, we also went to Pub West and then I was fortunate enough to make the decision last minute to show up at the uh, Colorado Teachers Support Award and hand out the award to Miss Kristen Johnson who was my granddaughter's sixth grade uh, reading teacher and she got her back into loving reading and I
008absolutely adore that woman. She's she's awesome. And the others, let's see, that were there that he won. Kate Paycheck. Kate Paycheck. Yes, she won one of those. Let's see. Carly Ethridge, Kristen Johnson, Kate Paycheck, Scott Wear, and Savannah Silva were and and it was just it was just a really fun time and I'm really happy to see the teachers get the welldeserved recognition that they get. Um, and Um I I took it upon myself with the help of Miss Janet to um we've been reading to her kids. Actually, they've been reading to us and they have exceeded all expectations and have done a phenomenal job. And we've been there like like seven times and two it'll be three times this week. And I'm coming back tomorrow, Thursday, and these guys have rocked it. Absolutely rocked
009it. And their school scores show up. So, whatever they're doing is working 100% for them. And they love it because we're making it fun again. Huh. And uh the Mr. Janick is an extraordinary exception teacher. So, I'm very happy to that we we could do this. It's been a lot of fun. Okay. Um I got to attend a couple reward ceremonies as well and those are always fun, especially when you see the longevity that is in the district. It's really cool to see people with 20, 25, 30 years, you know, it's pretty cool. And then graduations are coming up. So that is going to be a crazy time, but that is probably one of my favorites, especially being in this position, is getting to see those kids graduate and being able to be a part
010of that and see it up close. It's It's really cool. That's all I me um we got an email today finally, not finally, but um the county is going to see if they can't subsidize some of the removal of the Pleasant View tennis courts as they sit. If they can, we may go for the six court. Then there' be two tennis courts, four pickle ball courts that'll be laid there. Um, if the county can't work with the vendor, we'll just do the four pickle ball courts and one tennis court at Pleasant View. So, that will eventually here shortly get wiped out and redone and hopefully make that look It'll make it look a lot better than it currently does. So, paid for by the county, huh? Paid for by the county. Paid for by the
011county. Yeah. No, no dollars out of us. So, that only took three years to get to get a little money out of them, but we did it. So, I mean, that's cool. Um, other than that, I got nothing else. Allergy season. Woo. I don't have anything this evening. Okay. Um, I just like Mr. Dietro, I've been attending some golf tournaments and, um, I was lucky enough to attend the last JTC awards for my daughter who's graduating this year. So, um, that was really neat to see. There's 40 seniors in that program that are graduating this year. So, It's a big program. So, it was really nice to see and I look forward to the graduations. Okay. Anything else? All right. We'll move on. Um, we our first item is a discussion of the presentation of
012the Po County High School TSA trip. Mrs. Frank. Hello. Thank you for having me this evening. So, um, as one of the adviserss of Polo County's high school TSA chapter, um, I'd like to give you some information regarding an important upcoming national TSA event. Uh, this year from June 27th through July 1st in Nashville, Tennessee, the Technology Student Association, so TSA, will hold its annual, uh, national conference. Our TSA chapter members uh, would benefit tremendously from attending this conference. STEMbased competitions, leadership workshops, special interest sessions, and opportunities to connect and network with students from across the country will be offered to all of those who attend. And I'm asking for your approval to take three TSA members to Nashville. Um, as their participation in the National TSA conference would provide a unique investment into my
013school STEM and CTE initiative. Uh, Public County High School took nearly 60 students to Colorado's uh, state competition in February of this year. We had 26 teams that placed in semi-finals in their respective competitions and six teams consisting of 17 students placed in the top three which earned them a spot at nationals. Um those events were audio podcasting, extempiraneous speech, on demand video, robotics, silent movie and transportation modeling. So you can see how those events can really translate to lifelong careers. Um maybe ways we could benefit our community. Um, so it was great to see that. Um, it is cost prohibitive. U, it's it's not cheap for kids to go to a national competition. We're trying to raise as much as we can, but due to that, I have three students out of those um,
014you know, 17 plus a lot of seniors and they're saving their money, you know, for college. So, yeah. Um, so um, I'm just asking for your approval to take my students to TSA Nationals. Thank you. Have fun in Nashville. Yeah, it'll be nice and hot in June, right? Nice and humid. One thing I want to say something. Oh, I did forget something though. So, um, this affects the people out east. They are going to redo Baxter and Highway 50 to look just like 36 lane and highway 96. So, that will be that's coming. No stop lights. It's going to be another merge and turn. So, we'll see how that works. Sorry, Amanda. That's all. Yours is way more fun than that. I don't know about that. I always say, how can I make this more
015exciting? I feel like Take it away. Maybe a little tap dance with it. But, um, the general fund, as you can see, uh, we are at the 75% of the year at March 31st. Um we're pretty close. Nothing in school finance does exactly by quarter. Um we do have a July payroll that will be um come back into June. So some of those numbers might look a little low, but come June and when we get the audit, uh those do go up. So that's one of those um things there. Go to page three with the graphs. I'm trying. I know. I blew it up and now I got a huge mess. Yeah, it's always a challenge with this report to get it uploaded and so um anyway, as you can see from the general fund
016revenues, we're right on track. Um the state did give our equalization over nine months rather than 12. So you'll see that that's really close. Um and then we also have property taxes coming in right now as well. So that number will grow. Um again, just we're right where we need to be. expenditures of the principles currently are spending their budgets. Um and then we'll start switching over to the new fiscal year. Um if we go to page, the other fund is fund 41 um that we've been spending money out of which is on page 22. So, fund far one um we're starting to spend the money on our best project which is the county um high school roof and sewer. So, uh the roof is um in progress right now and then the sewer we
017hope will start that first week in June when we can get out there. So, you will see this starting to be spent down. Um we did finish the bond. This is the other part that comes out of fund 41. Um, and we will be using some of our fund balance uh to cover those projects. So, you have any questions? All right. All right. Well, thank you. Thank you. Okay. Next up, we have a presentation of the athletic participation fee increase. Mr. Bumgardner. Yes. Uh, good evening board and everybody in attendance. Um, I stand in front of you today to review the opportunity to increase our participation fees. So, this year we were at 60 for middle school and 100 for high school. Uh, the proposal is to go up to 75 for middle school and
018150 for high school. You'll also see I noted down there as far as students who are out of district, we are able to charge them a little bit more. although the state law does put a put a cap on us to where we can't really blow it out of the water um with that. Um as far as topics with this um fee increase, obviously our last year we went uh we we did cut down with this increase. It is going to provide about another $100,000 into our athletic budget where about a third of it will go to help offset some transportation and then the other two/3s will go back to those schools to help with maybe a little bit more of a supply budget uh versus what they just went through this year. So, any
019questions with the the fee increase? Have you gotten any kickback on that for 150? Has have they seen it? They they haven't. As far as our community, they officially haven't seen it. As far as discussions with um administration and and building principles, they're they're on board, okay, with it. As far as I know maybe a question may come up as far as where does it relate? Uh where do we stand amongst the other districts in the state? Uh we can take out some of the outliers. Mr. Terry and I were just talking. There's some school districts that actually charge per sport and some of them, you know, to play football at at I'm not going to name the school at one of them is about $700 for your kid to play. They'll have over 150
020kids out for football. So, you take that extreme away, you take the extreme of zero and by us going up to about 150, that puts us in I I don't see another adjustment coming with it. Okay? There's a lot of them that are over 200. Um, and then there's few and far between, but put moving us to the 150 for the high school piece um, does set us up. A lot of districts don't offer middle school um, athletics, but I think if you were to ask around uh, even some of the people in here as far as what middle school athletics does for our kids in that school and the parents and the families, uh, it would be really hard to say to say no to those kids. And Mr. I I did as we
021were discussing this uh back in March, I did run it through our district accountability committee to get their feedback and uh they all were in majority of to raise it and we we we've looked at several things. We offer transportation, some districts don't. We talked about do we start cutting back on transportation and in the end we wanted to try to create the safest and uh environment for our kids. And so we decided no, we didn't want students driving up to Colorado Springs or kids car pulling like that. So we made the decision to how do we offset some of that? And so that's where we kind of landed on and that group did feel like that was more adequate to raise the fee versus trying to cut back on services. This is per sport
022though, per kid. Like per kid, correct? Yes. Yeah. So right now we sit um for middle school it's $60 per sport per kid and then then the high school is the 100 currently per sport per kid. So next year it would increase with that remember we as I said I don't remember what we paid because it feels like I mean I guess it has been 20 years it's only gone up $100 so that's well the other thing I will share as as we know some of our our families may be in a little bit more need and we'll still offer and provide those scholarships for those kids. Um um and that'll be based on on the school as as well as the that need. I have any other questions with the fee? I know when
023I submitted the piece for the board meeting, there was also the tobacco violation. You want me to cover that now or is that not need to is it? It was on It was on the same sheet just a little bit lower. Oh, okay. It's just not on the it's not labeled as part of the name and I can update that. Okay. Can I go ahead and Okay. Share that. Okay. Perfect. So, the next piece kind of falls under our our discipline piece in the student code of conduct through a variety of conversations with ads and administration and and the help with with Mr. Subatnik. Uh we were looking at this policy that was approved or the as far as the discipline pieces and essentially what was happening is our tobacco violation was matching the alcohol
024and drug violation and how it matched was if a person got caught with alcohol and they took a class they were able to reduce their punishment down to 50% for one sport versus 50 for for the for 365. So, as we had discussions on this, we kind of landed on this. So, essentially what it does is on that first tobacco violation, um the parent and student would have to pay for their educational program once they pass that educational program, that would reduce their single sport down to 25. So, we don't have the same same consequence um issue. Questions? Other comments? Did I miss anything? Mr. I know alcohol have any questions? Awesome. Thank you. Ready to dance. Uh oh. What? All right. Next up, we have a presentation of theou regarding the 2526 compensation package.
025Mrs. Russell. Good evening, Madam President, members of the board. First of all, I I do want to recognize the negotiating team for their dedication and professionalism to this process of negotiating um our compensation package that I bring to you tonight. So in front of you for compensation which um Allison Ballas has just let me know that it was ratified by the PCA membership. So the next step would be our presentation and at the next meeting then you will take action on this uhou for the recommendation. So, uh, compensation for the 2526 school year includes steps and lanes for eligible employees, um, in the classified certified preschool and article 15 salary schedule. The money budgeted for article 15 supplemental stipens, which is $40,000 this year, will go towards the article 15 step. Um 2% would uh
026be placed on the base of each of the following sal sal sal sal sal sal sal sal sal sal sal sal sal sal sal sal sal sal sal sal salary schedules certified classified and preschool um a step on the administrative salary schedule will be granted 2% on the base of the administrative salary schedule um added to those administrative salary schedules in theou we also have um that we will reconvene in January of 2026 to review enrollment and funding If additional compensation is considered, um the team agreed to prioritize our classified salary uh schedule and trying to get to a $16 per hour base salary for our classified. And then we also agreed that a committee would be organized um within this next year to review salary schedules um perhaps looking at condensing some of those
027columns um in order to best utilize our district 70 financial resources for all employees questions. I got to listen in um as a guest and it really was this was a great year of negotiations. It was very collaborative, very positive, very teamwork like so kudos. Thank you. Okay, you can keep going. All right, the next uhou um from the negotiating team is that in January of 2026, the negotiating team will in begin uh will engage in discussion of extension of our negotiated agreement. So we we won't um continue to have conversations about that extension of the contract until January of 2026. In the meantime, we would like to establish a working group um combined with uh District 70 uh leadership uh PCEA members and board members in order to uh collaborate and build relationships over
028our common interests. Questions? All right. And then next up we have um a presentation of the tech job descriptions. Just making sure we're doing order here. All right. So um a few months ago we started talking about the technology job descriptions and I had explained to you that on our salary schedule right now we have tech one, tech two, tech three based solely on um education. uh no bachelor's degree, bachelor's degree, or master's degree. And as we started looking at ensuring that our job descriptions really outlined the job duties, the responsibilities, the education, the certification needed for each specific job. Um and to comply with employment laws and ensure exempt positions were meeting the exemption rules. Non-exempt positions were um employees that were utilizing the time clock system. Um this has been a process for
029for a year or two and I think tonight we're presenting the final um job descriptions. So these are not new jobs. These are jobs that are currently within the technology department. Um but they are new job descriptions and um they look a little bit different on some of the salary schedules than they did before. We've taken away just tech one, two, three. Um several of the tech positions did move to the classified salary uh schedule because they do not qualify for the exemption under the computer exemption. So they will go back to classified hourly. And I did present um I think four of those to you a few months ago and I have one more tonight that would also go back to that. And that's the system tech student information enrollment position. Um, this position
030really supports our system engineer with our student database system, P school, which we use now. And then this position creates and manages and maintain student and staff accounts across all district platforms. There's a lot of other specific technology duties in here that Mr. Gates can explain if you would like, but that's the general broad overview of that job. Thank you. All right. So, we'll go to the next one. Central central administration support. Again, a tech a job currently in our district, but defined job description um for this current position. This uh position uh is a handles server administration, low voltage system management. Um works to enhance security networks and systems to ensure optimal operation performance and security of the district's infrastructure and online platforms. The database administrator maintains software systems used in instruction. So for
031the department of instruction and provides support for specific applications of those software and is the administrator of software systems specifically to the department of instruction. And our system engineer is responsible for designing, planning, implementing, maintaining and supporting technology to ensure limited downtime. contributes to enterprise system design, planning and implementation and assists with implementing our policies and procedures for technology. Any questions about those job descriptions? Those three will remain on the administrative salary schedule specific um within that new salary schedule. Again, not under tech 123, but the specific job presentation of CTE. So this uh job description and uh Dr. Martinez and and Mr. Yates have worked with this with our high school principles as well. Um this position would support our work-based learning um would be the supervisor at our high schools um provide that
032support to students with hands-on learning um industry aligned experiences across technology um supports of business operations and computer graphic design. It is a hybrid role. Um in this new job description um they would be supervising students, coordinating tech support projects for um those buildings and those areas that we have one in each of our areas and manage instructional technology logistics. This position we would like to um move to our teacher salary schedule as a CTE license through the Colorado Department of Education. Um it has been reviewed by PCEA and approved as well. um it would work the teacher contract and additional days because they do all of those um computer repairs and repairs getting them ready for the checkouts the following year clean off the senior computers get them ready for the freshman and so
033they do that in the summer so there are additional days to that job as well questions okay and then you're going to move on to to the presentation of coordinator of assessment and secondary instructional programs. Ladies and gentlemen of the board, thank you for having me tonight. Uh tonight, I'm bringing in front of you for your review a coordinator of assessment and secondary programs. Um there it's really bringing two jobs together into one. It's uh a support role for our middle school and high school uh principles, assistant principles, and our staff with training uh with curriculum support, data analysis uh at the school level. So on the instructional side, but this person would also be responsible for all of coordinating all of our assessments, our state assessments for the district. So our SAT, our PSAT
034at the high school, um our CAMASS 3 through um 11th grade because we give CAMass all the way to 11th. Our access assessment, which is our ELLL, our English language learners assessment, um supports the ESS department with the co-alt assessment and any of other uh NAP, for example, when we get selected to do NA. Uh this year we had a person in that role part-time um on a transitional contract who came in and worked just under 70 days for us to manage that. So this would kind of be a balance between managing all of the district assessments plus supporting secondary instruction, secondary curriculum on my side. We don't have that person right now in our department. So this would bolster what we can provide at the school level. Any questions? Very nice. I appreciate it.
035Thank you very much. Okay, next up we have a presentation of the registered nurse job description. We currently have a job description for our registered nurses. Um the job description does require um applicants to have a BSN RN for nursing in order to be CDE licensed. Um that has changed a bit over the last few years and a BSN isn't required. They could also have an associates degree. So the only change to this would be um an associates degree and it would be placed differently on that administrative salary schedule based on education. All right. And salary schedules. Um I believe you have all of the copies of those salary schedules um in front of you. Again, those are the proposed salary schedules for the 2526 school year with 2% added um to the base of
036each schedule um which does reflect the language in theou for compensation and also um those new admin technology job descriptions moved into those into that admin salary schedule um taken out of just tech one two three. So, you don't see those on there anymore, but the specific job listed where um is placed on the salary schedule. Thank you. Okay, next up is open forum. Do we have any comments? Yes, we do have one, Miss Allison. All right. Good evening, board um and members administration team. Um, so tonight I'm going to do two things. I know I have three minutes. Um, but first of all, um, I want to thank the administration and the negotiating team for the good work that we've done this year and in the past three years. Um, next year Kate Paycheck
037will be the president of the association, taking over um, this summer. So um, good for the public, less of me. Um um but tonight I'm here to uh spotlight an employee who was um nominated in our PCA spotlight. Um Trish Aragon from maintenance and grounds and she is new to district 70. Um so the person the nominator says every time I see Trish she is working very hard on our grounds. She's always improving the environment of our schools. She's all pulling weeds, cleaning gutters, or maintaining our landscaping, and they have never not seen her busy. So, she's a welcome um as asset to our team here at District 70. So, thank you. And this is Trish, if you just want to stand up. [Applause] Thank you. Thank you, Trish. Okay, that concludes our open form.
038I was already there. You are. You can move on. Okay. Well, um, our next item is an approval of the tenative agreement between PCEA and District 70 regarding article 12. That I recommend that the board approve the tenative agreement regarding article 12 as presented at the previous board meeting. Okay. Thank you. Do I have a motion to approve the agreement? So move. Second. John Christensen. Yay. Crystal Luca. Kathy Helen. Hi. And O. Yay. AJ Wilson. Yay. Motion carried. Okay. Next up is our consent agenda items. Is there a motion to approve these items? Second. John Christensen. Yay. Christa Luca. Kathy Howland. Hi. Ann O. AJ Wilson. Motion carried. Okay. The next board meeting is scheduled Tuesday, May 27th at the Educational Services Center beginning at 6 p.m. A regular meeting is now adjourned.