001e e e good evening and welcome to the March 18th meeting I'd like to ask you to stand and join me in the Pledge of Allegiance I pledge aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liy and justice for all okay may I have a motion to approve the regular meeting I second John Christensen chrisal Luca Kathy Helen hi an o y AJ Wilson motion carried okay we're GNA go ahead and start with our gifts um we have one item this evening which is a donation to V Middle School this is long hi guys nice to see you all again um I'm just going to open this up because I know how intimidating it is to talk to you
002guys um so I'm just here to receive a gift for Vinland Middle School um we've recently reintroduced a student of the month program to help highlight character traits of our students within the building um the goal of this program is to not only highlight our students but to emphasize the character traits that our staff bring to that building um and the things that they do and the positive impact they have on those students so we are just grateful to minqua Credit Union because they gave us a generous donation of $3,000 um a majority of that money will go to gifts towards the students who are recognized um and then some of that money will go back to the staff for taking the time to recognize those students um and specifically I just want to thank
003Nathan Cape the CEO at minqua because he's just been so great to work with and really believes in the positive impact that public schools can have for students so we're just thankful that he chose to work with us at Finland Middle School very nice okay do you have any plans for it yet yes um so we've already nominated 12 students they'll be recognized at the assembly tomorrow um if you'd like to come see them get those Awards you're welcome to um each student will receive a $75 Visa gift card um that they will sign out uh uh and they'll so they'll get to see the value um and I really just want to emphasize it's just great to get to recognize students for character we have academically successful students but academics doesn't always tell the
004full story and so it's really great that they're going to get something so tangible to take back with them along with some other gift certificates to some restaurants in town as well thank you very much thank you do I have a motion to accept the gift as presented second John Christensen Christa Luca Kathy Helen hi an o y AJ Wilson motion carried okay next up is information from the board and superintendence um let's go ahead and start with Mr Depetro evening well not much did have a chance to attend the uh drama performance musical at County High School this weekend Hades town and as always that group um does a tremendous job and this one was really it Incorporated a lot of um just from the music from the you know the the kids and
005the choreography and everything so Mr Miller's group and I don't know if anybody else from that but uh for high school I have quite a performance so it's like con congratulate them know the job well done nice well I was mistaken for a I I have to brag because I was mistaken for a um Middle School student that was there to read to Liberty Point Elementary students um I questioned that the teacher needs are I checked but I read to middle school I read to the uh kindergarten students and uh I was honored to be mistaken for a Liberty Point uh international student I also went to North Mesa Elementary and I saw our baseball students uh reading to our North Mesa Elementary students as well so the read Across America has been a a
006great opportunity for us to you know participate in this week and I believe you participated a little bit in that too huh Kathy well yeah I uh I was at Liberty Point um go ahead and let you give your SPI yeah we were probably missed each other by about an hour right well a week I I went the week before okay and Heather scanic and I had been talking talking talking and we finally got it together and I was set to buy a book and they didn't have it so I had to order it so it put put it back a week and I was able to read to her title one kids and they were fabulous they were absolutely rock stars and I I it's a it's a book that's aimed at middle schoolers
007and these kids did fabulous and we alter reading and it just it was just fun and the time went so fast so I'm going to have to go back there Thursday and do it again nice so it was fun I enjoyed it a lot so thank you Holly for letting us come in we appreciate that invading invading your school um I don't have a whole lot today it's nice to see so many people here though I appreciate you guys coming and I like all the preschool shirts too very cool I think I think every we every every month we should we should pick a different group to you know just see if we can stir them up somehow to get them motivated to come in here and you know talk to us so much um
008no it it is you guys do a great job and I I love seeing communities rally and it has definitely shown not just us but I think even the state level on how much PUO can rally to together and so I thank you guys for doing that and I'm excited you guys are here so all right thank you I don't have anything this evening okay um I would just like to say thank you to everyone that's going to participate on Thursday um at the state capital and I hope that um it helps with something um spur somebody to get something done for us so give them that P yeah that's that's right that's right I I did talk to um uh the 60 representative and she said the The Joint budget committee are like having
009many sleepless nights and they're pushing pushing pushing pushing hard for Education over uh Light Rail to Boulder so they're really trying very hard to make sure that we are fully funded and it's still good to know okay so don't give up we keep trying okay or I'll I'll come to your office and hang on your door all right we'll go ahead and move on to discussion um the first discussion is a presentation of the quo County high school trip Mr mher good evening board um my name is Mr Mueller I'm representing public County High School band we are trying to give our parents as much time as possible so as many students as possible can try with us next spring break to Orlando Florida um I'm going to take a quick note from Katie and
010look at my phone um the publico county band has consistently demonstrated Excellence not just for publico County but for our district in Southern Colorado we've grown from 20 to almost 100 kids over the past five years we've gone from literally the lowest score you could possibly get in a marching band competition to placing second and third in the past um three years um our concert band recently got a superior radio the first Super rating at the CBA Regional band Festival of any band south of Colorado Springs um ever in the history of those competitions so we are growing in part of um that is travel um one of the things it's it's an educational opportunity one of the things you get to do is see behind um the theme parks you get to go back
011and they treat you as cast members as performers you you march in a parade very short parade but it's in front of could be 30 40,000 people and um it's a kind of a once- in a-lifetime trip for these kids and I love I love seeing these kids get on a plane sometimes for the first time um see a beach for the first time and uh it's just a really good opportunity and I'm asking you a whole year in advance um really it's for the parents so they can start making payments and um and the kids can work jobs and we can do some fundraising to make it happen for all as many as that want to go so there's no beaches in in Orlando well we we take a bus on the way to
012the airport we we take little detour over to either clear water or um Coco Beach so but you're thank you thank you very much okay okay next up is a presentation of the d70 online Alternative School graduation date change good evening so and I'm assuming that's for this year that's for this year so just just an informational item um we are Chang changing the date of uh the Alternative Learning Academy graduation it was originally scheduled for May uh 21st which is a Wednesday which is normally when they usually do it on a Wednesday evening um that has changed to May 23rd so it'll be a Friday evening now and the reason for the change is uh in previous years we've utilized Memorial Hall Memorial Hall is a nice venue but it does come with a
013a substantial price tag and so um this year we we talked about having their graduation in another location and we we did talk about like utilizing one of our other auditoriums in our district such as P West High School um but you know Mrs Vincent said you know a lot of the students came to her and you know they they wanted to to have their graduation in a a location outside of um you know one of the other schools and and it again it's for them so uh I told her let's explore some other options of course we reached out to our partners at CSU PLO and as always they were able to accomodate us so we will have it at H Hall the only problem is they didn't have uh May 21st uh available
014so uh we'll have to move it to the May 23rd that is the same day as uh P West High School's graduation but po West High School does theirs in the morning and again this will be in the evening I think the tenative time is like 6:00 p.m. for that so we're glad that uh we were able to find that location and it it's a nice venue and uh again I think that's what the kids and the families wanted to see so any questions yeah is that going to be like a going forward type of deal they're going to try to do that too or are they going to go back to Wednesday's you know I I would think that you know working with the CSU P if whole call works out I think they'll
015probably try to go back to that that Wednesday because then each day there's a different graduation for our high schools and so this just didn't happen to work this time but I believe that's probably the direction that they would go again cool thank you thank you okay next is the Pres a of revisions to policy GCE and GCF Mrs Russell good evening Madame President members of the board um after our last board meeting and in our discussion and taking some suggestions from the board I do bring to you some revisions to policy GCE GCF professional staff recruiting and hiring um specifically the section on um selection process for hiring administrators so um the revision tonight that I am recommending is that we would continue to have staff input on the qualities that they're looking for
016in their building leadership that we would also have uh Community parent input on qualities looking um at what they're looking for in their building leadership then we would have a screening Committee of four to six people to include principles directors and coordinators as appropriate and one certified staff member from the school that would be in the process of selecting a new building leader um we would have an interview committee that would interview uh candidates uh sent to them through the screening process that would include um principls directors and coordinators um probably two of each two staff members from the building and one Community member appointed by the area director of the Board of Education and then two to three candidates would be recommended from that interview committee to our assistant superintendent and our superintendent for
017a second interview um professional references would be checked for all of those candidates going to a second interview and then our superintendent would make the final recommendation for hire to the board so those are the revisions that um I present to you in that policy do you have any questions thanks for doing that yeah yeah thank you okay you can move on to the next one all right I have a job description um revision uh we have had a clerical Aid job description for many many many years but have not had that position in our school so um this job description has been updated um a little bit um to um really reflect uh the updates would reflect a supportive position to assist in the efficient operations of the school office um sh should we
018have that position so it's an updated job description for the CL any questions no no we're good move on to article 12 Okay so we've been working um all of this school year with um our negotiations team with with PCA and um District administration and um this article has been in discussion in whole group um we've had small group sessions we brought it back to whole group took it back to small group um small group met again um I present to you a tenative agreement with um several revisions to the article so we really wanted to ensure that um article 12 which is the U employee rights and representation within our negotiated agreement but it did reflect you know our uh rights to representation through labor laws the wine Gardener piece to that um and
019that the revisions really do give right to representation um we outlined that a little bit more specifically that the representative would be chosen by the employee um that the representative needs to be a district employee or a union representative another piece to that is notice of meeting um in every case as possible that uh an employee would be giving given 24 hours notice in advance along with the purpose of the meeting and a right to representation and then location and time would be announced in that 24-hour note notice to employees if there were to be a meeting we also put in there a notice to reschedule in that um an employee or if Administration needed to reschedule that we would try to offer the courtesy of 12 hours notice if we needed to reschedule the
020meeting uh article 12.6 is really um about the protections for public workers act and that provides certain rights to public employees regarding expressive and concertive concertive activities and that is um something that we did add to uh this uh tentative agreement uh in article 128 um the right to receive and respond documentation that would be placed in a personnel file which we had that in practice but we did add it to the language so if something were to go in a personnel file the employee has the right to receive it and has 10 days business days to respond to that um there are always unforeseen things that happen so 129 is an article for special circumstances if there's an emergency situation there are Provisions um to guide us through this article if there are unforeseen
021circumstances article 1210 is really in U alignment to complaints if there is to be a complaint or an allegation uh against an employee an employee would be notified within three business days of that complaint or allegation the supervisor would be able to determine the seriousness of the complaint or the allegation and attempt to resolve it inally or decide if it needed further investigation if further investigation is determined um the employee would then be notified within 10 days of the receipt of the complaint that there would be a further investigation um again anything that would be placed in a personnel file an employee would um have 10 days to would be notified and have 10 days to respond in writing we did put article 1211 in there to address Title 9 complaints which w we will
022follow our board policy acr3 which is in compliance with Federal rules and regulations um and then on um 124 we did adjust that language to it's the responsibility of the educator to teach content standards and utilize the adopted curriculum which of course curriculum is adopted by our board question um who determines kind of if there's a a situation where that 24 hours doesn't need to apply as far as having a having a meeting I'm just I guess my concern is you know with that safety of you know students or even other staff or right you know or you know the possibility of someone trying to go back in and take evidence or different things like that if there hasn't been a hearing you know different things like like that to where I guess who determines
023when that rule can be broken or not is it the per the employee or is it the administration or I think it's those you know intended for the administration and and I would say 99.9% of the cases I'm notified immediately if if not me our superintendent or assistant superintendent and we're directing the process from there if you know we feel that it's an immediate action needs taken we're not going to wait 24 hours um you know we direct the supervisor to take action immediately um I am always in communication with the association so you know I immediately notify them if something is occurring and we are not giving a 24-hour notice I guess and then because we already have everything in Black is already part of our current policy correct cor correct the language yeah
024and then on uh 124 as far as taking out the the final responsibility of determining the curriculum and course study from the board I I think we should probably leave something like that back in there even though it's adopted we want to make sure that it's 1214 1214 yeah that it w rest on the board did I say 124 sorry so you're saying that we shouldn't take out however final responsibility for the determination of curriculum and course study content shall rest with the board yeah I think we should leave that in there something like that should stay in there and then just add it is a responsibility of the educator to teach content standards and utilize the adopted curriculum yeah I think something like that would be better so we could add that and leave
025it the way it is is what he's asking okay so that why we're taking that out I think is this question yeah so just I guess different things like that I kind of wonder why we're adding some of these things I had a question too on um recordkeeping so we have that employee shall have the right to receive and respond to any documentation related to investigatory or disciplinary meetings before such documentation is placed in their personnel file responses should be received within 10 days we're adding this to that um we do give a copy but after it's placed in their personnel F currently is that correct um our practice is you know our employees know we're meeting with them and they know something's going to be in their personnel file and they're told that at
026the meeting and they do they get a copy of it and they do have the right to respond um in writing they do have 10 business days to do that that's been our practice okay so we're already doing that absolutely okay I I think Dr Wilson in regards to your piece on the piece I don't think there's anything that that we said we can't put it back in there for the board I think we we added that section about making sure the adopted curriculum so it was it was clear that that's that that was what the teacher should be following um but because not everything has a curriculum uh if if you um especially at the high school level not everything has an adopted curriculum they may be making up their own curriculum according to
027the standards and I think that's the reason for the addition of that piece to that give it some and especially especially whenever you're looking at electives too don't all have an adopted curriculum like a lot of the CTE courses don't have an adopted curriculum but there's standards that the kids the students need to know to pass and to move forward um and I think it's in board policy your curriculums um you know your recommendations on curriculum and so for us as the association and as teachers that line kind of gives the teachers the autonomy to teach the content standards and utilize the adopted curriculum I mean if I'm going to retach something and this math book doesn't have it then I'm GNA go find something somewhere else to reteach to my students so it's giving
028teachers autonomy um within their daily teaching don't we already do that for them don't we to give them that autonomy I'm just saying like do like do we have to have it added in there or can we keep it the same is my question because we should be giving the them the autonomy to do that to use the adopted curriculum and to get use resources that they find in their curriculum on 123 like where it says the principal administrator will provide at least one date I mean shouldn't the word maybe be should provide and because I mean if we're not going to follow that 123 seems like it's a full stop to me when I read it like that's what I need to do yeah that's kind of what I'm you know feeling too so
029and I know that there clearly we can we can we can get away from it but I'm just wondering if verbage change maybe instead of will so there are there are several occasions in the last few years where I've been called at 7:30 can I be there at 8:00 to represent a member what is it about we I'll tell you when you get here like there um and so this is coming out of those kinds of situations where and a supervisor wants to um uh reprimand or talk to an employee but the employee has no idea what they've done they don't like and so this is just excuse me isn't isn't that what a meeting is for is to tell them what's going on like isn't that why you would schedule a meeting with somebody
030but can you be it's 8 o'cl can you be here at 9 o' to have this conversation with this person like I I represent a thousand employees I don't always have time to stop and I it's it's just there's been so and also when we do this kind of language we're thinking ahead I'm not always going to be here Stephanie is not always going to be here you're all not going to always be here and so um to make sure that we have language that ensures that people are the respect factor is going both ways that if it's something now if there's a situation that's in IM a child is in immediate Danger I am not going to say oh no I can't come till tomorrow at 6:30 and meet with you you have to
031give me 24 hours I mean that's where the um the part where the supervisor gets the complaint so if a parent calls and is upset um I I don't know I'm going to go back to like the old coaching thing right kid makes a mistake the coach doesn't put the kid in we got to give them 24 don't contact the coach till for 24 hours like everybody has a little time to calm down that's where that comes in but if a a child is in immediate danger there is no way I'm going to say no you got to give me 24 hours until I can you know rearrange my schedule there I mean there's some professionalism in here um and professional courtesy so that our whole goal is to make sure that children's are children
032are safe that's the entire here let's see safety is the first thing on my mind ever since I don't know 1999 when I graduated with the teaching degree um and I do think that notice of meeting is you know our our standard of practice that we would like to have in place not everything is an emergency and has to be addressed today um so I think um you know having having a set time alerting the employee that we're going to meet with them giving them the opportunity to bring representation in a brief piece of information of what it's about like it's a parent complaint or it's a Time Clock issue or it's a I think it also adds to consistency right the small group did have um you know a principal on it and others
033so we were able to kind of talk through but I think that piece was like it does add consistency so you know one school or one person may be doing it a little bit differently this kind of does guide us in so that Mrs Russell always has that consistent piece or again each school because it doesn't always go to this so I think that's the key too is a lot of these are at supervisory level or building level so we did look at and sometimes it's often like a principal like hey Alison can I see you after school in my office okay you just show up and you think you're getting a compliment and then you're getting this whole this parent called and you didn't do this or you didn't do that and so I
034didn't I don't even know and a lot and yes the wine Gardener right say you could stop the meeting and ask for it to be rescheduled when you have representation but I don't know I mean that's really hard to do when your boss is telling you something and and you're not always I mean it's just it's to protect it's to protect the the supervisor so like hey this is how you have to do it and it's to protect the employee so those kinds of things don't happen where somebody's been reprimanded and they didn't have representation there and then we have to file grievance so these this is kind of laying it out so that it's fair on the and a procedure is laid out for both sides it's protecting and it was really important to
035us um from the administrative side that that 129 that flexibility and special circumstances be outlined in there we have to have the ability to say we we have to move from these specific outline and guidelines and move in this direction due to you know an emergency or um some sort of event that needs to happen right now we and often times Stephanie I've I've had the conversation where it's we need to get Mrs Jones out of the building because Mr Smith's coming in after her so she's going out the back door while the parents coming in the front door okay we got it we'll figure it out later that's that has happened with us like we're protecting the employee also um with this and so that would be that would be a special emergency circumstance
036or a child is hurt like this is I mean there is some common sense to it um or professionalism I would I would say I think we um we did a lot with this and this has been going on for the entire school year that we've been working on this one article on oh sorry sorry just one more on 129 so that D um the law enforcement piece the have reg request legal representation and broke their Fifth Amendment right their right to remain silent do we have to spell that out like that I guess that that part just kind of confused again as an employee like I don't know I I would if it's my principal is sitting there and the Sher the SRO comes in and we're just we're just trying to figure out
037what your side of the story is when that happens anything they say to that police officer even if it can be used in the court of law and yeah it kind of does have because people don't know that they can do that because here I am at work and it's my boss and an SRO and okay I feel like anytime law enforcement's present but I mean if we have to spell it out by all means I'm just asking yeah don't they already don't they say that to them in the situation no it's not that they're being arrested it's being that the the the school resource offic talking about the principal or the administrator nope we just want to hear what your side of the story is okay okay and if I haven't gotten to them
038or their Association rep hasn't gotten to them and talked to them and said I'm on the I'm calling the legal department for you don't say anything until you talk to your lawyer if that hasn't happened then this is something that an an employee would not know to do and we I mean you can educate all you want but when you're in that situation and being called on the carpet it's one one more thing p is because this has been a long process we did work a lot to make sure that again this is this is within our negotiated agreements so article langage within our negotiating agreement but we made sure that this didn't conflict with with board policy when it comes to you know complaints and how we receive them and deal with that so
039that that was quite a bit of a lot of discussion to ensure that again we didn't have two different things that were conflicting with one another so my only question is why why did it take so long to work on this when 90% of it is covered under the protection of public workers act I mean most of this is spelled out right there with the Department of Labor so because pleas our negotiated agreement is really the our handbook for them for our employees and for our administrators and I think that this you know rather than just referring to that act on the Department of Labor we we've kind of outlined it for them here and what our expectations in our process will be and again I I feel like it's in practice sometimes we have
040not um followed our own practice so putting it in language makes it um everybody's aware of it our employees as well as our supervisors are aware of this as our practice when one of these events is occurring and and we have to meet with employees because you would be amazed how many people don't know that law even exists that are employees well I guess is this read to them then when they get hired is that what you're planning on doing the negotiated agreement and you know their role as the association so and so this will be part of that yes yes okay and it will also be part of our next principal's meeting um to really help all of our supervisors understand the process that we've agreed to and you know and that we will
041follow and honoring employee rights in representation when is your next principal's meeting uh April 4th I believe what April 4th if that's a Friday so would it be helpful for our board to to write down um the things that they have concerns about and for us to address that uh and potentially change some of that language if it if it's not in line with what you guys are um wanting to see as part of the agreement I think so and then we could come back to the to the small group with some of the some of the questions and concerns that you guys have okay absolutely you guys have questions okay so can we can could we just maybe have one of you send what what the collective is for the um the issues with
042this and then we could we could work with that small group um to see what we can do okay thank you thank you thank you thank you okay we'll go ahead and move on to our next presentation of the preschool options and budget Mrs Ryan and Dr Martinez thank you ladies and gentlemen of the board tonight uh superintendent Ryan and I are bringing for you some options to review for adjustments to our our preschool schedules and recognizing that there's been some changes in terms of our um students number of students who are enrolled and and some of that decline in enrollment I don't know about you but I really can't see that far away uh but that that's our current plan this is what we currently are operating under and and so that shows every
043school with the programs that we currently are um that we're currently operating with with the expenses and then it shows the number of students that we have signed up to go to preschool at this time and with that um with the expenses versus the revenue that we would be bringing from those students who are enrolling currently and and mind you they they increased by a lot last week so we're we're happy about that that the preschool numbers did increase by quite a bit last week but that still puts us at 400 $171,000 into uh fund balance and we don't have that much in fund balance at this time and so we we thought of numerous scenarios uh to try to make this work and so a lot of the things that we were talking about
044is where are we losing our kids to and we're losing our kids many of our kids to full day programs um because many parents want their students to be in full day programs some of them don't um and so what we looked at where we looked at two different options uh we looked at Plan F and Plan F shows only Closing one preschool program at Sierra Vista but it converts avendelle into a full day program it converts one program at Liberty Point into a full day program uh one program at Prairie winds into a full day program and then one program at South Mesa Elementary into a full day program and we don't have those kids yet but we're willing to gamble on that or to invest in that program those four programs so that
045we can potentially draw those kids back that we keep losing to full day programs um throughout poblo so we don't have those 10 kids and 10 kids is um you know like we can take up to 20 but we're hoping to get at least 10 in those uh full day programs in order to make it work I think they'll I think we'll get them I mean we do know that many of our kids qualify for those full day programs but since we didn't offer them um we would have to actually call each one of those kids who qualify and see if they want to be in one of those full day programs so we would offer it to those kids first who qualify for those full day programs um so Plan F still dips into
046our reserves uh up to uh $41,000 hang on let my glasses on $415 um but we do have reserves to to invest in that and then if you look at Plan G Plan G doesn't close any programs but it still has the two full day programs one at avendelle and one at vinand or I'm sorry at South Mesa and then another full day program at Liberty Point and one at Prairie winds and so two on the Mesa and to in PLO West and we really do believe for the most part that we are going to be able to bring some of those full day kids into our program and if you look at that program that investment will be $137,000 into our fund balance but even if we were to draw 25 more kids into
047those full day programs or even half day programs I believe we would break even so I really know that there are a lot of parents right now it's end of March who haven't even considered preschool yet I know we were talking about this uh you know when you're 20 some years old and you have a three or four year old you're not really thinking about preschool yet you will in like July or August and so we really are banking on getting these preschool programs filled up and I do think that we would be able to meet um plan Plan G or Plan F the locations that we've selected for our 30 hour our full day programs are areas that are high need they high poverty already so we're confident that the students will qualify for
048that 30 hours and the rate that we receive in terms of funding for those students will help to lower the amount we would have to dip into our reserves to cover the cost of the overall program so really we benefit all of our staff by keeping our solid teachers in place to really build our kindergarten we benefit our community and we're able to draw families and keep them in our district from preschool right on up so it's really it's a benefit to all of our community all of our education our school Community our school district as a whole and then once we filled all of those full day programs to the most we can I mean because I'm not certain that we will fill all of them up to that full 20 I mean we
049can potentially put some of those not fully funded kids into those programs to fill the program if we need to because at that point it after 15 we are really work it it funds itself so after 15 kids in a full day program it it is it's going to fund itself so we really feel like we're investing in this but you know rumor has it that there are going to be preschool programs in another District that are closing and so I do feel like we can draw some of those kids with this investment is there space for ESS students in those SCH day programs there will be space for ES students yes there will be some space because there there has to be a specific amount that you allow of ESS students into those full
050day programs um but is it we're looking at four four out two out of two two to 10 or four four to and we worked with Miss Alonso on that to make sure that's the appropriate number and and with Miss keing as well do you think we would advertise the full day if we decide to go with that oh we certainly heavily yeah heavily this this team that's here today has been advertising heavily already for us and I I want to compliment our our Preschool teachers because when we brought them to the table a few weeks ago and we talked about you know what what it was looking like $471,000 in the Hole uh the first idea was to if you just went with the numbers that we currently have and we don't invest in
051anything it would be closing Five programs and so that's 10 people potentially losing their jobs and and that was hard to stomach um not necessarily losing their jobs but being riffed into different positions and and that's really something that we we really would hate to do and we didn't want to do we feel like we can invest in this with a a a smaller investment and keep our teachers and we realize the value they realize the value of um those preschool students being educated and not just in daycare it this isn't daycare this is teachers teach teaching and they did an amazing job several of them I I saw their videos and they just do an amazing job teaching kids and preparing them for kindergarten they make them prepared to go into that kindergarten classroom
052and not all daycares do that but preschool does and these these ladies have put together open houses at the drop of a hat they have just stepped up to the plate and we appreciate all of their hard work so I thank [Applause] you what other questions do you have for us I'll start with this one too um so it looks like the only difference that I'm seeing between f and g is the additional program at Sierra Vista correct from the one to two classes so that would give us basically to meet that capacity on the on the one program would be 5 kids and I I think that could be a potential that they could hit that and then it would be completely full so would it benefit us to keep that second program there
053in order to try to entice more kids into that program so the reason we did two scenarios on that is because you have to remember that some of those full day programs are going to pull some of those kids from the half day programs too so that was just our concern is that Sierra vist could can take 64 and we're at 27 and so if if it did pull several of those kids to the full day programs then that lowers that 27 number but I really still once again if if another area closes preschools I really feel like what we can build it and they will come yes I just I know two of my kids went there and they they do have a phenomenal preschool team um and they they really pushed my kids
054as well which I was happy with a GL ad upk change some of their age groups otherwise my kid would still be there probably but it is what it is and you got to deal with what your dealt so we we didn't have any control over that one so yeah we heard that a lot yeah so cool what other questions do you have I have a comment if that's okay Lynette and I meet with K do in the morning so we're looking at a commercial so we may we have a creative meeting so I don't know when they'll get to shoot but we may that may be the idea for that first commercial would be if we go with this for that full day preschool and our half to program so um there's some digital
055signings going up to so that'll be good once it's all finalized so that all depends on our vote and then we'll see where the advertising takes us but there is some opportunities for commercial depending on what we meet with that creative team tomorrow so L will get back to whomever whatever will both come back with ideas if we need a classroom or something if they come down to shoot or they may have like a b-roll or something that they already have that they can use so we'll try doing that though too on that first round of commercials I think for TP any other yeah how do we make it work with out of County um kids cuz just thinking of you know R pretty close to the warano line and so we can't start taking
056those kids until after April 1st so after April 1st we can then begin taking the out of area kids so but they do allow they do make it so that those in area kids uh get their first choice well they get first dibs at where they want to go and then April 1 it opens up and that's why it's so important that we have these profiles um in as soon as possible technically these profiles were supposed to be completed by February 24th and so Angie shehorn has been very um very kind and generous to us and we appreciate her working with us because she really is an advocate for this preschool program and making it work and she works her tail off to make sure that um these kids are taken care of so she
057is as she's actually the one who has to make the profile from this point because we're not able to any longer so whatever we decide tonight we appreciate you Angie yes anything else so yeah we could take worin thank you not what I me can can I can I just say something because I just noticed somebody in the audience who I absolutely adore Miss Cindy Mrs keyling is probably one of the most fabulous teachers my kids ever had and I owe a lot of their success to you and I want to thank you because I know you're doing a wider scope but as a preschool teacher you walked on water well and I think you guys should know too that like C Cindy and I have lost a lot of Tears over this uh because
058we get that you guys care about your preschool kids and that this job is your livelihood and it's a calling I could not be a preschool teacher nope it's a calling so good we appreciate you thank you okay thank you we'll go ahead and move on to open Forum do we have any comments we do we have one miss ballis um for the sake of our constituents who don't know three minutes is played on the TV 30 second warning and the topics have to pertain to um what's on the agenda um and employees so take it away so I'm Alison ballis I'm the president of pcea before I Spotlight our employees I want to Spotlight two things one Taylor Morgan Brook me Josh Mueller fantastic Hades town if you did not see it you completely
059missed out um and also uh Cedar Ridge did an awesome job at Peter Pan I got I was all full of theater this weekend um so I'm here to Spotlight for incredible individuals that are employees who have been nominated by other people within the district um so the first is Shannon Frasier shanon works for our maintenance the ground crew he's hardworking dedicated he takes pride in maintaining our school grounds and making sure they look presentable and safe for our students no matter when you see Shannon he makes time to stop by our building and help whatever he can issues and concerns that he arise and he was a custodian at Sky View when I was there and my room was always spotless um um I only have three minutes uh next is Diane petoff um
060she's a security guard at prob West High School and a swim uh swim team coach she and some of the members of the girls swim team have dedicated and volunteered their time to coach our ESS Boys swim team from prba West High School she made arrangements with a why to use their facilities and she's purchased materials for them with her own money her selfless acts um are the reason for her nomination um Amber Valerio is a par professional from vinand um she's very dedicated and hardworking perah who who connects um to the students is working with with compassion professionalism and her passion that is an inspiration to the others that work with her thank um and we take nominations for members and non-members and this is for Miss Kim Richardson who was a behavor specialist
061across the district um the person that nominated her had these words to say she goes above and beyond on a daily basis working on behalf of the district's most challenging students the word no is not in her VOC vocabulary when she's working with colleagues and there isn't a center-based program that she hasn't covered subbed in or coached in and under the most precarious and difficult situations weekly she shows up with social stories visual schedules token boards and any other color printed or laminated tool that one might need to work with the most difficult students she's collecting data going um doing observation determining functions helping write Behavior plans coaching support staff and then collaborating with teachers and related providers to put together the best interventions to make students and staff more successful there's no job or
062task too big or small or too gross she will change diapers or train staff on some of the most critical and litigious areas like physical holds for safety student safety everything she does is to benefit the students although is always students first and never about the uh adults she does things every day to support teachers and related service providers that make our job so much easier so thank you I hope I didn't go too much over my three minutes but um good again there's so many people in this District that this is just one small section of the people that love our kids in District 70 thank [Applause] you okay we're going to start with our first action item and it is to approve the week of the young child resolution and we do this
063every year so I'm going to go ahead and read that resolution real quick so week of the young child is April 5th through April 11th and PUO County School District 70 recognizes the complex and diverse needs of infants and young children from birth through the early primary grades we support efforts that Prov Prov for the celebration of the week of the young child as means of acknowledging the contribution of child care providers to grow to the growth and development of young children Polo County School District 70 supports the efforts to involve child care providers in developing a Continuum of instruction and social emotional development opportunities for young children in close communication with their families District 70 supports the goal of building public support for the important quality Early Child programs in our community and the
064significance of their contributions to the growth of children and poo County School District 70 supports programs that address the individual and family needs of the young children through a collaborative effort within the community therefore be it resolved that we the members of the Board of Education of poo County School District 70 do hereby Proclaim April 5th through the 11th of 2025 the week of the young child and urge the community parents students teachers classified employees and administrators to join together in recognizing the contributions of Early Childhood professionals throughout the [Applause] year so with that do I have a motion to approve the resolution so moved second John Christensen y Christ LCA y Kathy Hollen hi an o y AJ Wilson motion carried okay our next item is approval of the revisions to policy GCE and
065GCF this Russell Madam president I would recommend that the the board approve revisions to policy GCE GCF as presented okay do I have a motion to approve the revision soov second John Christenson y Christ Luca Kathy Helen hi an O AJ Wilson motion carried okay next up is approval of revisions to the clerical Aid job description I would recommend that the board approve the revisions to the revised clerical Aid job description as presented okay do I have a motion to approve the revision sove second John Christensen yay Chris luga yay Kathy Helen hi an O Yay AJ Wilson yay motion carried okay item 84 is approval of the tenative agreement regarding article 12 uh I'd like to move that we table uh action item 8.04 I second that AJ Wilson oh sorry let me get
066on the right line not what I'm writing John Christensen yay Chris Luca Kathy Helen hi an O Yay AJ Wilson yay motion carried okay so we'll go ahead and move on um to item 8.5 which is approval of preschool option G you want to vote on we want to vote on either one or do we want to do one and if it fails go to the other I would start with f and then if it fails go to G okay okay just that was the two that presented okay so yes so start with f so I do I this is for approval of preschool option F Ang G and Dr Martinez ladies and gentlemen the board I recommend that you vote for and approve either option F or option g u based on the presentation
067we made this evening okay okay do I have a motion to approve this option which one option f f start with f he presented to that's why I'm asking no I F sorry so start with f okay do I do I have a motion to approve that no can I recommend can I make a recommend I I would recommend that one of you move to uh approve preschool option F and then you vote on it and then then then you would make a motion to approve preschool option G and then you vote on it right well she just asked for the motion but the motion wasn't carried so it fails G sounds good approve preschool option G okay I second John Christensen yeah Christa Luca y Kathy Helen hi an o y AJ Wilson y
068motion carries W now now that comes with the cave we're going to need your help still nervous drag those kids into class all right we'll move on to item nine which is approval of the consent agenda items do I have a motion to approve these items so move ni second John Christensen yay chuga yay Kathy Holland an O Yay AJ Wilson yay motion carries okay our next meeting is scheduled if I could April 1 um for April 1st at the Educational Services Center beginning at 6: p.m the meeting is now adjourned for