001first board meeting. I'd like to ask you to 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 meeting? So move second. John Christensa. Yay. Kathy. Hi. AJ Wilson. Yay. Okay, let me get So the first item we have is a good news item of certificate of life-saving awards. So Mrs. Kilpatrick. Good evening, Madame President, members of the board, superintendent. Thank you for um allowing me to come and speak tonight. Um we have had a an extraordinary year um so far and I would like to share with you some of the things that um have
002happened that were brought to my attention um not only because I was also there for um two of these events but um because um people have shared um some amazing things that have happened um throughout the year um in recognition of extraordinary ary courage and professionalism. Uh we honor a few of the remarkable staff from Liberty Point International, Desert Sage Elementary School, and members of our child fighting team for their swift and compassionate response to medical emergency at their individual schools involving two students and one new parent to our district. On separate dates during this school year, when faced with critical sit with a critical situation, our district 70 staff exemplified heroism by providing vital care to a person in distress. The quick actions of these individuals were supported by additional members of our district
003community who then ensured the safety of other students and family members during these events. These teams work together to grab to gather essential medical information, supplies, and contact emergency services in the in uh with the invaluable support of our staff members who administered emergency medical attention and assessed the situation. The team worked seamlessly to provide critical care until emergency medical ser um services arrived. These events occurring at a crucial time during school hours showcased the unwavering dedication of our educators, administrators, and nurses. Their selfless actions not only protected the injured parties uh in crisis, but also ensured the well-being of others within the building and of each other. It is with the deep gratitude and respect that we present the life-saving award to the following district 70 employees. Your commitment to the safety and welfare
004of our school communities exemplifies the highest standards of professionalism and compassion. I would like to thank you personally for your bravery and dedication in a time in a time of need. If you don't mind, I'll read the names first. Please um wait to clap. they are receiving tonight um as a token of of our appreciation a certificate of life saving and a little roll of lifesavers because it's always nice to have a sweet treat. Um but we appreciate everything they did. To give you a little bit of background before I call them up, I can tell you on September 30th, we had a medical emergency at Liberty Point International uh with a 14-year-old student who um had a history of seizures. uh the students in her classroom um notified the teacher who immediately took action
005and grabbed her school safe radio and asked for help in her room. Um myself and um others that were that I'll I'll read to you um immediately went to that uh situation. It happened at the end of the school day. So we were getting ready to release. So there were a lot of different things going on with parents outside. We had to get emergency services into the school. We had to get those students out of the classroom and maintain a safe environment for everyone. Uh along with that, those students needed some care as well. So, uh the team from emergency or for sorry, from uh Liberty Point International also met with those students to make sure that they were okay with with everything that happened. The second event happened um February, we believe February 20th
006um at Baxter Learning Center um in Childfind where we had a student that was um being assessed for Child Find. His parents were there with him um and uh the one of the parents um was not feeling the best and she also has a history of seizures. Um, so, uh, she knew that there was something happening, but she wasn't sure. And this team immediately, uh, went into action to assist her to come and get, um, someone else with with first aid experience and then also had to um, speak with the other parent and have control over the child that was uh, in the room as well. Uh, so that was incredible. The third incident happened at an elementary school with a student that was new to um to Desert Sage Elementary School. Uh the school
007did not have any background on his medical history. Uh he was very very new to the school. Uh again, a medical emergency occurred and they immediately went into um first responder mode, which I think a lot of times we don't. I get it. I'm a first responder. I went to college for that. I went to school for that. I expect that um at some point in my life I might have to provide emergency services. Our teachers don't often you know with when they went to school they wanted to teach science and they wanted to teach social studies and they wanted to have an impact on education of our students not knowing that at some point in their career they may become a first responder and a lifesaver. So, I just want to thank everyone for
008um what they did and what they continue to do on a daily basis because that is the safety of our schools is those first responders who don't know that they are first responders until it happens. So, if I could read these names, um Katherine Guthrie, I don't believe she's here here tonight, so I'm going to bring that to her at school. Abigail Johnston here. Jill Best, I don't think she's able to be here tonight either. Karen, can I jump in? Yes. Can I ask everybody to land so I could get a group picture? Uh Karen Encas, Shannon Martinez, Megan Trey, Principal Pat Hyatt, Kathy Canana, Candace Martinez, who is a nurse within our uh within our district. Uh Kirsten Redell uh who is also an a nurse's aid who was working at um at Liberty
009Point International that day and knew exactly what to do. It was great. Um Adam Bella, he is unable to be here tonight as well. Ryan Gret, Sarah Salazar Parsons, Sarah Sandstrom, Rebecca Valencia. Incredible. Kim Richardson, sorry. And if we could give a round of applause to these incredible [Applause] lifesavers. Squeeze. Do you have any questions? No. Thank you very much. Thank you. I love you guys. No, you're a Okay, we'll move on. That's hard to follow. But um our next item um there's a couple donations to PLO County High School. We have Mr. Beh Hill and Laura Mrs. Guondo. Yeah, we can't switch up uh roles here. So we could go after that. That is a tough fact to follow. Um no fair. As far as being thankful again um back for the athletics at
010Public County High School, um we have a longtime donor in Above and Beyond Landscaping, Kyle Swanson. Um I grew up with them and and he's a a big supporter of county high school um and continues to be. So he donated $5,000 um to the athletic department, which we will put forth to to facilities that we need or or any needs that the teams have. This evening I am presenting a $5,000 um donation from the Kirkland family who are great supporters of district 70 all the way around. Um county high school is one of the few schools that even put on a balora anymore. Um I'd be hardressed to name another one in PBLO. Um don't quote me on that but um few and far between anymore. Um so every year when we do put on
011that tobalorate there is an expense to that because all of the students get a cord. Um this year um the back or the Kirkland family have um graciously donated money to purchase cords and we will also be extending an invitation to students across district 70 and the city to attend our balorate that evening. So, we are very thankful for their generosity and their continued support of District 70. Um, I also have a $1,000 um donation this evening from the Hollowman Corporation, which is our local American Family Insurance um $1,000 to our um Pub County High School FFA program um to help us uh complete compete um in our various events. So, those are the two I have this evening. Great. Thank you. Okay. Um, our next couple items are donations to Right High School. Mr.
012Bon, evening board. Um, thank you for having me again. We had a very successful oyster fry on the 19th, the Wednesday before spring break. Um, after all is said and done, the actual monetary turned in was right at $30,000 and that does not include a major donation. Um, we had a new platinum sponsor that did about $1,400 in food items. Um, and I'm going to go through those. And the sponsors you see on the board are the sponsors that I actually had the monetary um donation from. But I put in front of you to hand around our example of our docket from the evening where we list all of our sponsors. And once again, there's a lot of sponsors that do items as opposed to that money. So, I'd like to go through um just
013a little quick of my platinum and gold sponsors. Um my silver and bronze sponsors as well as my platinum and gold. They will be all posted on our chapter Instagram um and posted to our Facebook to make sure they get the recognition they deserve. Um but I'll go through the platinums and um s or platinums and golds which platinum is $1,000 plus. Gold is 500 or 50099. Um and a lot of these are longtime sponsors and big people up there in the community. It's been awesome the support we get. Um so Becker Pit um the Clintons huge sponsors. I have their kids in the program. They've been sponsors long before their kids run the program. Um, absolutely awesome. Uh, Copper River is the new sponsor we had this year. They um ordered all of our
014food. We paid for the Rocky Mountain oysters because they're actually more expensive than all the other food combined, but he um covered everything else. And like I said, it was about $1,400. Brand new sponsor. Great guy. He came to the event, had a good time. So, thank you to Copper River General Air for every year donate over $1,000 worth of items for our silent auction. Um, do a great job up there. The Warfano River Ranch, um, they donated $1,000. Uh, Native Lumber, thank you, John. Um, we had a donation of $500 to $750 buyer's choice of wood from the mill as well as a monetary donation. um to get to that point. P Construction was $1,000. PMC, we actually take all of our sponsors throughout the whole year and highlight them here. So, they actually
015purchase those buckles that I was here to visit you with you guys um a while ago, but they also donated items for our silent auction, little toy tractors and hats. Um and then Rustler implement every year gives a $500 check and they provide a riding tractor that's worth about $460 as well as hats and other little toys for our silent auction. So, um a little pedal tractor and we live auction it. We don't do it on silent auction. When it comes to our gold sponsors, um four rivers out there in Publo um Publo West, John Deere, they're excellent sponsors of ours. They've been there the whole time. Bank of the San Juans, that location in Ry, the Clinton Ranch is back from at our homecoming barbecue. They donate the beef for our sloppy joe lunch.
016So, they get in there. Same with the Nio Farms. They donate all the watermelons. They donated an entire bin which is about 50 times more watermelon than we could possibly need at that time. Um but we sell them as well. Um Greenhorn Valley Ace this year donated a entire patio set with a fire pit and a nice little bench. Um High Country Fence $750 sponsor. Um Highline was a $500 sponsor and San Isabelle Electric as well a $500 sponsor. Um and once again we do this as an advertising for them. So they are purchasing that location on the docket as well as our platinum sponsors. For the first time this year, we made actual banners 4 foot by 4 foot. They hung at the event. They're actually going to hang in the classroom all year
017long. And we will be looking for more next year. We go out and have a great time finding sponsors. Um and I and oh I'm sorry. And I see that I have Ciete there. Um CITE once again the Kirkland's unbelievable how much they sponsor us um as a district. and I had their daughter in class. Awesome, awesome folks. So, thank you to them as well. Um, but I appreciate you guys and thank you for all the support. Those of you that could be there next year, we'll come and bring you tickets. I hope all of you can make it. So, thank you everybody. Great. Congratulations. Thank you. Thank you. I have a motion to accept the gifts as presented. So moved. I second. John Christensen. Yay. Chris Duca. Yes. Kathy Holland. Hi. and OJ. Yay.
018AJ Wilson. Motion carried. Okay. Next up, we have information from the board and superintendent. Um, we'll go ahead and start with Mr. Christensen. Um, I just have one little thing tonight from Mr. Watson, our music teacher out there. I'm just going to read his email or a portion of it. On Sunday, March 30th, Ry High School Thunderbolt Winter Guard competed in Denver at the Denver Coliseum at the Rocky Mountain Color Guard Association Colorado State Winterguard Competition. Competing in novice class, the Thunderbolts took first at state with a score of 86.1 and the rest there's some other schools mentioned. Um, this is only their second season, so it's quite an accomplishment for our local color guard, winter guard out there. That's awesome. Yeah. Great. That's all I have. All right. Nothing for me. I don't have
019anything yet. It's going to be a busy couple months coming up. So, yeah. Well, let's see. When I first thought about even running, what I thought about was my passion for reading. And I figured we've been doing a lot of different things and hadn't really been involved in that much reading. And Miss Janick and I have discovered that we both have a passion for it. And I've been fortunate enough to have her invite me into her classroom. And we've been reading to her her kids and it has been a joy, an absolute joy to see the smiles on their faces, see them goof around, to see them pay attention, and to see them actually reading what is a middle middle school book, not not a elementary book. And they're doing extremely well. And I'm really
020happy to see that. I'm so happy to be involved with you. Thank Thank you so much. So we appreciate that she comes. So, it's amazing. Thank you. And I'll be there Thursday. And I'll see Gino tomorrow. Is that it? Uh, well, first of all, thank you, Lori, for recognizing our staff as first responders because we call an ambulance in our district almost every single day. um literally almost every single day and sometimes multiple times a day we call an ambulance for something. And so we appreciate our first responders, but teachers and nurses and our principles and all of our staff truly are first responders. And I think we'd be hardressed to find a teacher who hasn't had to have a situation where they're taking care of um a kid or a parent or something that's
021happened uh at their school with someone in need. So, thank you all for that and thank you for recognizing them. Nothing for me to see. Okay. Okay. Same here. Thank you for that and I hope to see some more um within the next Well, we only have a couple more months of the school year. So, I hope we don't see that's true. Well, that's true. I hope to see awards. So, okay. Well, we'll move on. Um, next up we have a presentation of the Pleasant View Middle School trip. Mrs. Gomez. Hi. Hi. Good evening, members of the board and Superintendent Ryan and distinguished guests. My name is Lindseay Gomez. You see me every year now. Um, I'm the social studies and history day teacher at Pleasant View Middle School. And, uh, by the way, side
022note, history day is taking three projects to state this year. Um, and I appreciate the opportunity to speak with you today. Um, I'm here to request your approval for the educational trip to Boston, a city full of history and culture that would provide an invaluable learning experience for our students. Um, so Boston is a city deeply connected to our nation's past, and visiting it would allow students to experience history in a way that textbooks simply cannot. From the Freedom Trail to the Boston Tea Party, ships and museums, students will walk the same streets as our nation's founders and witness firsthand the places where pivotal moments of American history occurred. By visiting historic sites such as Massachusetts State House, Paul River's house, and the USS Constitution, students will gain a deeper appreciation for the struggles and
023triumphs that shaped our democracy. So, this trip trip aligns directly with our curriculum particularly in social studies, government, and American history. Not only will students reinforce what they've learned in the classroom, but they will also develop a critical thinking skills, hands-on skills, and analyze historical events in context. So, um, I understand that student safety is always important and I am fully prepared to ensure that all necessary precautions are taken. I have partnered with School Tours of America, a reputable travel company. They help me to implement clear guidelines to ensure safe and productive experience for all. Um, I've done this trip several times and always wonderful success. Um, and the kids absolutely enjoy their experiences every year. Um, an opportunity to visit Boston is a great experience for our students, one that ignites curiosity, deepens historical
024understanding, and fosters a lifelong love of learning. I respectfully ask for your support in making this trip possible. Thank you for your time and consideration. I am happy to answer any questions you may have. Do you know how many students are interested? Um, I have uh 13 kids. going. One of which is my son who's an eighth grader with me there at uh Pleasant View Middle School. How neat. Thank you. He he's been with me on a few of the trips and he just he loves going. He's learned so much. He loves history. He's done history day with me. And so being able to foster those that kind of love in my own son, let alone other students love for history makes my heart glow. Yes. Wonderful. You'll see Plymouth Rock and it like used
025to be really big, but now I guess it's in enclosed in the fence. has gotten really small because people would go there and chip off off rocks and little pieces souvenirs. I'm very excited to see Plymouth Rock, especially since I got to see um when I was in college, uh where the pilgrims had left England. So, being able to see that part of it as well on both sides of of the history will be amazing to see as well as this is my first time to Boston as well with the kids. Um done Washington DC several times, but Boston has always been a bucket list. um for me and um students. Excellent. Thank you. Great. Thank you. Okay, we have another presentation of a Pleasant View Middle School trip. Yes. Hello. Uh my name is
026Carrie Cyp and I am the music and TSA TSA advisor at uh Pleasant View Middle School. And as Lindsay, I've seen many of you before. Um, I will I am uh requesting uh permission to take my technology student association students to the TSA National Conference held in Nashville, Tennessee this summer. And um we've had a very successful year at Pleasant View with TSA so far. We hosted the uh district regional conference at our school in um January and we had um Pleasant View, Vineland, LPI, um Sky View students participating and we had students from Central High School's TSA and PBLO County High School's TSA serving as high school mentors and judges and runaround help and do all kinds of things. We had I I don't even remember the number, but it was a lot more
027students than we've ever had before participate. Um we also just participated in our TSA state conference um where many schools from district 70 do an amazing job at representing uh southern Colorado at our TSA state conference. Pleasant View alone had um let's see one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10 events place in the top five. And I had two events, uh, Junior Solar Sprint and the Construction Challenge take first place in their events. And so, um, these kids with the top five finish, um, are invited to represent our school at the national conference. Um, according to my calculations, this is the seventh year we have taken students from Pleasant View to the National Conference, which is kind of like going to the Olympics for these kids. Um, we went last summer to
028Florida and there were just under 10,000 students at this conference and um, we did have a top 10 finish in our inventions and innovations um, category. So, Pleasant View has had one national winner and several national or um top 10 finalists. So, it's very exciting to be able to take six students this summer um from sixth, seventh, and eighth grade. It's very exciting. My sixth graders are just on fire. They cannot stop doing these things. They over spring, Miss Hype, can I do this? Miss Hype, what if I do this? Can I can I do this to my project? I'm like, you bet. Just work it out. And so to see that kind of fire of kids um dreaming a project, drawing up a project, fleshing out a project and seeing if it actually can
029work is just exciting. Um the conference is at Nashville, Tennessee at the Opryland um Gaylord Opriland Event Center, which on my music hat side of my existence. I'm very excited to be able to take my students to Nashville and uh just kind of the heart of Music City and be able to um do some music experiences. We've talked about that and I'm I'm looking into being able to do maybe some songwriting experiences with them with some professionals while we're out there on top of it. still trying to figure out the details on that. But I thank you for your time and consideration in giving our students this opportunity to not only represent PBLO in District 70, but the state of Colorado at the TSA National Conference. Is there any questions? No. Sounds like fun. Yep.
030Thank you for your consideration. Okay. Um, next up we have open forum. Do we have any comments? No, ma'am. We do not see any. Okay. Okay. Item nine is approval of the consent agenda items. Do I have a motion to approve these items? Second. John Christensen. Yay. Christa Luca. Kathy Holland. Hi. And O. Yay. AJ Wilson. Yay. Motion carried. All right. Our next board meeting is scheduled Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at the Educational Services Center beginning at 6 PM. A regular meeting is now adjourned. Yeah.