001Heat. Heat. Heat. Hey. Hey. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Hey. Heat. Heat. Hey. Green. Heat. Heat. Hey. Hey. Hey. Happy birthday to you. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Dick. Yeah. Good afternoon. Welcome to the work session for the board of education of Gley Evans School District 6. This meeting will now come to order. Miss Lemon, will you please call the role? >> Director Zari, >> present. >> Director Bentley, >> present. >> Director Campos Spitzy, >> present. >> Director Edmonds, >> present. Director Lemos Garcia >> present. >> Director Mesh >> present. >> Director Roi >> present. >> All board members present. >> The first item on our agenda is our calendar review. And we have just a few things before all of the graduations. Frontier House breakfast this Wednesday. >> Mhm. Um, and then yes,
002hopefully you have all RSVPd for the to the graduations that you are able to attend. And then I will highlight on June 8th a retirement celebration for Mr. West Tuttle and we will all be excited to wish you the best in the next phase of your life. Um um we also did reschedule the retirement celebration for the rest of our staff retiring which I don't see that last >> Thursday evening. >> Yeah. So 5:14 >> it's not here. >> What time is that again? >> 5:00 >> at 5:00 at the UNCC ballroom. >> Correct. >> We received it in our email. Um, I will also share that there's another uh, so this is a retirement open house for Mr. Tuttle that we will share districtwide. There will be another retirement event and leaving event for
003Mr. Tuttle uh, chief of communications Miss Meyers and in-house legal counsel Nate Fall on June 10th. um after work. We're still determining the location and that will be more for friends and family of those three and our district leadership team, but they can come to either one. >> Okay, good to know. Anyone else have anything to add or any other discussion? President Mash may mention for graduations um I have your regalia here tonight. Okay. And so if you'll just um take that home, it's hanging outside of Astra here and if you have any questions or think anything's missing, please let me know. >> And if you haven't worn it before the sash, sometimes we help each other with that. So >> I'll dress you if you need help when you get there. We'll get you
004dressed. Don't worry. Don't you worry about >> It's kind of like trying to wrap something with cling wrap at the house and >> folding up inside out and sideways. So, we'll make sure we're all got that going the right direction. All right. Um and then we will proceed to our board member comments. Let's begin today with Director Lamos Garcia. I'm just pulling a name. >> All right, perfect. Um so I um was able to attend the early college um visit on April 28th. So um I think the m there was a good group over there visiting. Um had a tour of the school. Um went into some classrooms. Um students were so excited, so proud. Um it was great to attend that visit. Um and then the other uh event that I attended is was
005the rising artist project. Um that was this past Saturday. Um, I had no idea that that program even existed and how it uh how we collaborate with how it collaborates with district 6. So, it was just such an amazing opportunity to see that and to be there as well. So, those are the two things that I did this last couple weeks. Awesome. >> Thank you for sharing. Um, Director Ozari. >> Okay. Well, it's been a really busy couple of weeks for me. I've attended a lot of things. Um, so I'll try to make this report as short as possible. I also attended the Early College Academy and um, the students did a great job, including uh, Sarah, the student who sits with us at the schoolboard business meeting. I also attended the Gley Central High
006School Arts Magnet Gayla. They celebrated their 20th anniversary. And a shout out to all the staff and students at the council for putting on a terrific show. I also attended two elementary school events. First was Billy Martinez's Dia de los Ninos. Uh that was an exceptional event as well. Should I say an entire day of events at that school? I attended the cultural assembly where the music and the dancing blew me away. To say it was powerful would be an understatement. It was very powerful. I also visited their creation of a tree in their building on which the students hung papers which they had written down their wishes and hopes for the future. In most cases, those wishes were celebratory and expressed thanks for all sorts of things like their moms happy mother's day. But
007in some cases, those wishes address the students fears and their hopes for a brighter future for themselves and their families. So, it was very touching. I then attended Miker's leadership discovery night. Again, a big thank you to our community partners who were there, including the Girl Scouts, Smile Doctors, Nutrition Services for the Smoothie Bike, and the High Plains Library District, and we had many sponsors um that donated prizes for the students. And then on May 4th, I attended the visit to Scott Elementary School. I appreciated the candid discussion there regarding instruction, the culture, and their celebrations, including their growth in K12, K2 literacy, even though they've had quite a bit of staff turnover. And they're thinking through next steps toward making Scott a community school, which is really great. And that same day, I also
008attended the student wellness policy committee meeting >> as the board representative to that group. And once again, I was impressed by the content and timely flow of that meeting. They run a very efficient meeting. The uh student wellness policy folks are working on the trienal review which is a requirement of the USDA and towards that end they're determining how well our wellness policy compares to a quote model wellness policy. Suffice to say, from what I have observed, our district is a model standard and that has come through careful analysis and ongoing improvements in how we do things in this district regarding student wellness. And then finally, like Dina Lamos, Garcia, I attended the Rising Artist Project, which is a collaboration between the Colorado Dance Collective and our GT staff towards providing extended opportunities in dance
009to students identified as GT and I was honored to be asked to speak at that event thanks to our superintendent. In that speech, I spoke about our growing GT program, which has added 65 new talent area identifications. That's super. And how we include annual workshops, field experiences, and mentorships in collaboration with many people and organizations throughout our community to give our students opportunities to grow. And I also thanked our community. There were a lot of people there. uh and the Colorado Dance Collective. Wendy Sosa is their director and thank them on behalf of the district for being such great partners which they are. So that's all I have. >> That's all. >> That's it. Thank you, President N. >> Been busy. >> Yeah, for sure. Go back to you, Director Roi. Uh well, as some
010of our other board members did, I uh attended the ECA on the 28th and that was it's always really fun to hear from the students and their perspective on their schools and um I enjoyed their presentations and kind of the reasons they had chosen Early College Academy and uh where how that they felt that put them um in position for continuing their adult life. So that was just really enjoyed those students. And then I also uh attended Scott Elementary and it was very um interesting to hear about you know kind of their their steps forward and uh what they're trying to accomplish in their school and uh felt like there was a great effort there and a great determination to move forward. and we again got to visit with some of the students and uh
011hear what uh some of those kids as fifth graders were hoping for uh coming up and where they did decided to go and why and um so yeah that was a a wonderful experience >> um director Edmonds >> thank you President Mash uh just a couple things uh one I I missed I forget which school visit it was because I was on a webinar uh that was hosted by No Kid Hungry. I was talking specifically about school breakfast programs, research done by Juliana Cohen. Um and it was just great uh informative presentation talking about the importance and benefits of breakfast programs in schools and evidence shows that kids who eat breakfast at school have improved diet and nutrition as well as improved attendance and academic performance. Um, so I'm grateful for um the voters for
012allowing free school meals for our kids. Um, we're two weeks out from summer break where those meals become inaccessible and so organizations like the food bank and community groups and church pantries and everyone steps up to make sure our kids are fed. I'm grateful that when they're in school, they get a wonderful breakfast, especially ones uh here in District 6 and Danielle Bach and her team, as we got to see a couple weeks ago, just the the love and care that they put into that. Um and just how uh how wonderful our nutrition program is. Um it's great to hear about Scott wanting to become a community school. I think that that's um a a wonderful step forward in just understanding how we as a district don't just serve the students but we serve that
013community especially in communities like Scott and you see that at uh Enk Heyman, you see that at at uh Martinez and all the schools. So uh it's very encouraging to see that that plan is moving forward. Um and then lastly, I went to Toy Museum night on Friday which was always really fun. Um the theme this this go around they do three museum nights a a school year and this this time it was on the future and so talked about this before they allow the kids to take the idea future and research whatever they want. So I saw a presentation on rockets um especially with Artemis 2 I think it got a lot of those kids really excited about that. I saw stuff on AI and AI art and you know ethical use of AI.
014Um, some kids use water filtration. So, just thinking in a state of like ours that's even though no one's seems to officially said it yet, feels like we're heading towards a drought. Um, and so it's allowing the kids to really think about that future focus because this is our future. So, these kids are really thinking forward. But I think my favorite part of the night is you when you walk in, there was a self-portrait gallery that every person in the school did one, including uh the collaborators and the the school administrators. And so they did a self-portrait of what they how they saw themselves in the future. Some kids did football players, doctors, firefighters, you know, all those things. But I think the general consensus that I noticed in all the pictures was there was
015just smiles on their face. So we do have kids um director shared the tree uh that he saw and that generally there's hope and I I saw that in the self-portraits that our our kids really do have a hope for the future and seeing themselves that they see themselves happy. Um, and so it again just brought comfort to me to know that these kiddos, as much as we get to see the news feed, we get to see the effects of when you don't actually read the news all the time, that you can actually paint a happy self-portrait. But, um, I encourage board members next school year to check out museum night if you haven't. Um, because it's really very interesting time and you can learn a lot of different stuff. >> Thank you, Director Campos
016Spitzy. Um yeah, so I was fortunate enough to have time off to uh go to the Early College Academy and the Scott elementary school visits. Um ECA always impressive. Um they have room to grow, which they call them, well, we call them the best kept secret in District 6, right? Like a free college prep school where you can learn Russian, German, Spanish. I forget how many languages they said they had access to. but they don't want to be the best kept secret in district 6 and in Greley and Evans. Um so you know if you know people out there who have a kiddo uh Sarah Venegas did a pitch on I think Dr. Pilch asked her who is the right student to come to ECA and she said anybody anybody can succeed in ECA and
017um and they're doing amazing. Um that very next weekend after our ECA visit, I was on the soccer fields because of my kids. And there was these two. So the the team my kindergartenner was playing against had these really young coaches. And I was like, "Are those like college?" It's usually like a dad that you know, like my husband, he's a volunteer coach, but it was these two young guys. And so afterwards I was like, "Are you guys in college? Are you in high school? Like you're coaching kindergarteners." Um and they were both ECA students. And so it made me so happy. Aiel was one of them who actually played soccer for Gley Central High School. Um they're both going to four-year universities. One of them wants to be an architect. The other one's going
018into accounting. Um but just made my day for, you know, them coaching these little guys out there. Um Scott, yes, amazing school, Scott Stars. Um I love just want to echo um Director Edmonds that they're becoming a community school. I think that's such a good fit for that school. Um, so looking forward to what they achieve. Let's see other highlights. Um, UNCC had their graduation ceremonies this last weekend. Um, and so I attended Saturday's commencements. Um, there were three student speakers in the commencements that I attended. Um, two of them were Gley Oven students. Um, and they were so good. They were definitely the two best. Um, one of them, Kira Varel, um, did K through eight at university, but then transferred over to Northridge and she played girls soccer um, for the Northridge Grizzlies.
019Um, and will be going to CU Anshoot. She wants to be a physician and a PhD and um, and she's going to shadow me in clinic in a couple weeks. So, I'm excited to have her. Um, and then Jasmine. Um, I didn't get to talk to her after the ceremony, so I don't know which school she went through, but her speech was just phenomenal and made me so proud um that they're D6 grads. Um, I got to go to MER discover leadership discovery night because my kids go to MER. Um, it was so cool. Uh, probably two highlights. They did an egg drop. And so, um, so they, you know, you would go into this room, they'd give you things like pipe cleaners and paper and tape and bags and balloons, and you had to
020come up with contraptions that you thought would protect an egg as they threw it off the roof of the school. And ours, uh, I am not a engineer. It it broke right away. My kids were so hopeful. Um, and then my second favorite thing at the discovery night was, um, snag. Um, so it stands for Starting New at Golf. And so it's part of the Michael Ray Lee Foundation. Um, so Michael Ray Lee um was a Gley Central High School graduate um who was also an avid golfer. Um went and got an engineering degree from the Colorado School of Minds and then passed away at at the early age of 28 years old from complications related to CO 19. Um and so his family has built this um legacy and this foundation um to teach
021kids how to uh play golf and to make it accessible to all kids of all incomes. Um so Michaely's mom was at Mer with all the golf clubs teaching all these little kids on how to play golf um on this little field and it was beautiful. Um I just thought what a way to honor honor her son that way. Um, let's see. Because I did have a UNCC board meeting last week. We talked about enrollment for the coming year and what those numbers are looking like. Weld County, so which is Gley Evans. I mean, we're the main contributor, continue to be the the largest enrollment of all the counties in the state into UNCC. Um, so I was really proud to see that number continue to grow and it was credited to our direct admissions
022process that we're working on. Um they also mentioned that in 2025 they expanded um the eligibility zone to allow students to not um have to live in the dorms their freshman year. So right now at UNCC um if you don't live in the eligibility zone you mandatory have to live in the dorms uh freshman year but we have expanded it so all of Gley Evans District 6 if you're a student here and want to go to UNCC you can live at home and don't have to live in the dorms. Um, so I thought those were some highlights. Let's see. Uh, last Friday night I got to go to Chapel's Balorico. Um, I'm friends with their dance instructor and so um, it was beautiful. I think Kim Desmond came and took some pictures. Um, they they
023just did such a phenomenal job. It I brought my mother-in-law who is visiting us from Mexico and she lives in Masatlan which is in the state of Sinaloa. And the way they did the dances um, they split them up in grades. So it was like kindergarten to second grade and then third to fifth and then sixth through 8th. But they also split it up according to regions of Mexico. And so um the kids would come and read in English and Spanish like the the region they were representing and what their costumes were or their dresses were like and why and and then they would do the dance. And so Masatlan got a shout out. They had a whole dance and it was all carnival. So like Marty GR in Mexico is called carnival. It's in
024February and it is a Un spectaculo. It's just a spectacle. Um, and it was so well done by the students. My mother-in-law was thrilled. Um, so kudos to Chapelo and their staff. Um, it the the audience, it was full and they were way into the performance. I mean, people were clapping and and um shouting out encouragement to the dancers. Let's see. I guess last thing, um I'm like I scribbled notes and I can't read them. Um this last week there's a semi-professional soccer league that is starting in Gley and they had their pre preseason inaugural match at it was done at UNC at one of the stadiums out there. But one of our Gley Central seniors was playing and I didn't even realize it. I just kept looking at this kid and I was like
025he looks so familiar. um while I was watching the game and then at the end I asked um Luis Gutierrez who's leading this I was like is that a Johnny Alcantara and he's like yeah I was like oh my god I thought so so how cool one of our wild cats playing semi-professional soccer right here in Gley and I think that's it Director Bentley >> there's nothing left to say um I uh I only attended the ECA tour with everybody else it was a great tour they always do a great job and very impressive bunch kids. So, um, other than that, I just been busy with with my personal life and work. So, excited for graduation season, though. It's always a lot of fun. And if I learned anything last year that I can share
026with you guys is to put some sunscreen on your head. >> Bring sunglasses. >> This bright. >> Yeah, we're waiting. We're hoping Amy brings us some other ones, which we had some orange ones for us last year. >> I know. Yeah, we got Gravy Central >> sunglasses before. Um, well, I enjoyed attending this the visit to Scott as well. And um, I the the highlight of all of our school visits is when we get to speak with students and their fifth graders were just fantastic. Um, I especially thought one little boy repeated each question every time we asked him a question, well, what I want to do when I am done with school is, and I was like, as adults, we're constantly asking people to do that. So, I don't know, they were all very
027well spoken. They knew exactly what they were going to do, and it was a wide variety. And so very excited for those students. Um the other unique thing that I got to do, um Franklin Middle School is my ambassador school and they had a disaster day. So they partnered with the Red Cross, UC Health, um and the Greatly Fire Department. And first they had their students create a video of like a news report that this big flood was coming. And then they set up their their gym was as a shelter if people had had to be evacuated. and what would that look like? And the Red Cross gave them supplies and bags. And then they went out and they got to go in the water rescue truck from the fire department and learn about fast
028water rescue and standing water rescue. And they all got to like toss a rope as how they would help somebody who was floating down the street, you know, in a flood. They had um a bounce castle that was an obstacle course and of course that was super fun for them to just get some wiggles out. but they had these giant stuffed animals that they had to try to rescue. Um so it was a really cool event and um Dr. Lester would like to recreate it next year and maybe you know invite other middle schools as well. And then just because Dr. Lester is amazing, she she cooked Greek food for all of the volunteers and I got to taste her homemade >> um family recipe euros and it was pretty fabulous. So, I was very
029impressed with the event and um lucky that I got to eat some yummy food as well. So, all right, we will move on to discuss some policy updates. >> The Nathan fall hour. >> Mr. Fall so much time with me. >> Glad you're feeling better. >> Thank you. >> Is this >> That's right. >> Thank you. Good afternoon. Um, President Mash, members of the board, Dr. Pilch, uh, my name is Nate Fawn. I'm legal counsel for the school district. Um, we thought it might be helpful to walk you through the policy changes that we're proposing to the board just to lead to some more discussion. You might have some questions around some of the policies. So hopefully we can use this time to talk through that. I just want to let you know that this
030isn't a time to talk about positions and to say if you're going to vote yes or no against something. So just to keep that in mind. Um, this is just kind of an info session. um but definitely willing and um open to your questions and feedback here. So, in front of you tonight, there's going to be four policies that we're um going to be talking about. The first one is the student dress code policy. So, at the last meeting, we had a pretty robust conversation around the student dress code. Um and so after kind of hearing your feedback about what to do, we went back to the drawing board and we provided two separate versions. So, um, tonight in front of the board, you'll have two different versions of JICA. Um, it would be my
031advice to make a motion on one or the other. So, I I move to pass version two of the policy. So, that makes sense. So, version one is the committee's recommendations. So, this is all the work that Chief Corus did uh over the year with uh the committee to look at the dress code. Um, it's just that same policy, but then it's been updated now with the board of education comments. So, um there was the grammatical error on the sunglasses or dark glasses. Um I take ownership of that. It's my job and responsibility to draft policy and I didn't do my job. Um and so that has been fixed to say sunglasses or dark glasses worn inside the building during school hours unless required as part of a class or activity. And there's a little
032bit of confusion because hats, hairsets, hoods, and other hair recoverings had that similar language. So, that's been adjusted to be consistent. Um, I wasn't sure if there were other errors throughout the document. So, that was kind of one of the main areas that we did adjust. Um, made some other adjustments with your comments. We moved the exceptions all the way up. So, it'll say this is the expected dress code standard. These are the exceptions. This is when you can wear something else. And then it goes into what students um may not wear. Um, we did kind of add some language. there was some confusion around the shoulders. So just straps over the shoulders is the expectation. It doesn't have to be any particular size. Um and sorry I should have known some other things. Oh
033uh there was another comment about we had professionalism kind of a sentence around an expectation that students are preparing themselves for a professional future. Um and we got some some feedback from the board that that wasn't language that you would prefer to have in the dress code. So, we removed that language and then just kind of made some other red line formatting so it reads a lot better than it did previously. So, again, I I take ownership for uh how these policies are presented to you and and certainly uh I think the last version wasn't uh a proper version. So, um do you have any questions on kind of what we've done or any other kind of concerns about this policy? It does seem to flow like as I was reading through it, it seemed
034like it better flow with this updated version. Okay, we I was going to propose a third and fourth version to you all and um I was talked down to just providing a few and so we I did have another example that um kind of flowed the same way, but we had stripped out the graduation adornments and the gang related behavior and moved them to another policy that would have just required then you to adopt three other policy revisions and then make adjustments over the years if we're going to be making an adjustments to those policies. So you'd have to be making adjustments to multiple policies and it just seemed like it'd be a lot. It made more sense to kind of contain everything in one. Um, so >> does the gang related somewhere else too
035or this is the only document that gang related sits in? >> So we have a a secret society's gang policy. Yeah. Um it's like JFCA or something like that. And so that that addresses just secret societies and gangs um and that it's prohibited in the district. Um, and it doesn't speak about dress code specifically. >> That was my curiosity. >> So, the second version that's going to go in front of you is a simplified version. Um, and essentially if you look at the red lines and you look at what the policy is now, it essentially is just the preamble. Um, and it just says we as a board want to have a minimum standard of dress. Uh, we don't want clothes that are disruptive. um schools, you may adopt uniforms if you choose to. And
036that's very specific to what the Safe Schools Act requires boards to do is adopt adopt a board policy that has minimum standard address and prohibits disruptive clothing and allows for a uniform. So that's what that second version does. And then everything that goes under that preamble would move to a regulation, meaning that then district administration would be responsible for making revisions to the dress code. But there would be no board oversight for those kind of specifics that are currently in the board policy >> per school. >> Well, it would be we would have a district-wide regulation which would just mirror the current dress code policy, but it would be it would be something that the district administration would have the flexibility to make revisions without bringing it in front of you all. So there would
037be no it would strip all oversight from the board and go to district administration. So, as a reminder, regulation lives within our policy documents, but those are administrative. They're not board approved unless state law has required that that regulation go before the board of education. So, what the second one is proposing is that we shorten that policy, keep all of the specifics about dress code over in regulation, which would allow administration to make changes in a timely manner over time if needed. Would would that be similar to the cell phone policy? >> Yes. >> So the regulation is what happens on the ground dayto day, >> right? >> Which you guys can change is necessary. >> Correct. >> But there's an overarching policy. >> Correct. So, but my understanding was is that with the first
038one, the attempt was to get basically all administrators on the same page with what they were so that the district was districtwide in what the expectations were dress code. >> And this one doesn't do that as much. >> Yeah, that's I'm sorry, I'm not being very clear here. So, this this No, I'm I'm not. So, this would be uh we would create a regulation and you can see language in here. It says the board directs the superintendent to develop and implement a comprehensive dress code policy through accompanying regulation for all district six students in or district students in accordance with law. And so the way a board policy manual works is the board has policy that it adopts um and then it also directs the superintendent or whatever department to develop regulations to meet kind
039of the board's needs. And in this case, the board would be directing the superintendent to develop a dress code policy for all district 6 students. So it would be it would be a consistentwide regulation students >> which at this time would be the language that's in the first proposed >> okay >> policy. I I that would be the language I would recommend we put into the regulation. >> Okay. >> So that there would still be the ability to work with building level administrators to to really work to get consistency across the district in the implementation of that. >> Okay, that was my question. Thanks. >> Yeah. And ultimately the goal of the revisions to even begin with if we just go back to September whenever Chief Cor started all this work, I mean it was
040really for consistency across the district was ultimately the goal. So I think we're still meeting kind of the goal for consistency. Um but just know that there are I think four buildings that do have dress codes um like uniforms and so and that's perfectly fine. um it's perfectly fine with the policy with the law as it's currently written and it would be fine moving forward um either way you go. So, but that that's a more restrictive dress code than what the regulation is. So, I think as long as it's more restrictive than the dress code, then it's okay. It's if you're trying to kind of create some flexibility outside of the regulation, then it probably wouldn't work. >> Okay. >> So, from an administrative perspective, Dr. Pelch and Chief Corass, what's better for you guys?
041>> Well, so we and this is why we brought you two. Um, the first one I think does what the committee recommended and so we want to honor their work and their recommendation and I think that both Chief Corass and I would recommend the shorter second policy. Where'd he go? He's over there. Yes. Right. He's always by the >> He and I spoke today um and have spoken over the weeks and I think we both would be supportive of the shorter policy allowing you know regulation to be where the the really the meat of the practice is >> and as you in the future make changes you'll still do it with the same process that you've >> you've done >> so that be committees and teachers and principles and whatnot. >> Yes. >> It just
042wouldn't be us having to talk about shoulder strap length and all that stuff. >> Correct. Bor I think benefit from where way I look at it would be is if there is something that we see as a minor change that may need to be in the in the game category that we can edit and make that change and that the whole policy doesn't have to go before the board again would be would be an advantage in that in that scenario or if there's a recommendation for changes to be made the whole policy doesn't have to go before the board again. Does the um graduation dress code policy because we do we have a separate one or we don't? >> We have we have a we have a policy for graduations. >> Um but we don't
043like the dress code language has just been in our dress code all along. Um and so that was that was what I think it's IKF was what I had kind of moved the dress code language into that policy as kind of another option. So, but but this version this version that dress code language for graduations would just go into the regulation. >> So, it all still stay in kind of the same place. >> And as far as graduation goes, from what I recall, there's some wiggle room in there for each individual school regarding their graduations. >> So, that's not detailed >> right >> to an extreme, >> right? What you see in the policy language around graduations is really what was required by state law just a few years ago that we we add >>
044I'll let Nate state the language. >> Yeah. It's uh for for cultural or religious expressions. Yeah. It's it's kind of the ideas that some >> some students wanted to decorate their graduation caps with something that was culturally significant was kind of the meaning behind the law. So, and that's that's why that language is in here is to permit that behavior if it comes to it in a non-disruptive way. >> Any other comments on this? >> Okay. The next uh policy just letting you know ECAF is our video surveillance policy. Just state law prohibits retaining surveillance footage for more than three years. So, this is well within that. just know that this is uh not legally required that we're doing this change. It's just more of an administrative impractical burden. Um also just having all that
045storage over the years can take up a lot of memory and cost money, right? So we're just kind of limiting the amount of time that we have to retain surveillance footage because we have all these cameras now. We get a lot of folks that want to look at them um often. Um, of course, if it's something that's important that we want to retain, uh, I know that Chief Coros and his team have a really good process to make sure that we're retaining videos, um, if it's happening within that 60 days. So, that's what that purpose of that changes. >> So, do we have a limit now or we don't we just do we just been saving files since we installed the cameras? >> I'm not totally sure the answer to that question. not talking. >>
046You want to come over here? >> But I know that Chief Kurles and and Mr. Henson both their departments deal with this. >> Yeah. >> So, so right now uh the storage is just basically based off of the servers >> and how much time that our servers are able to retain. And the problem is is the more camera footage that we get, we are the length the length of the the amount of video that is retained, it it's it's not consistent. >> And so we're really working towards some consistency um with our with our camera retention. Now, if it's there's an incident that occurs, we save that footage and that footage is saved forever. So, it's not like that footage only is there for 60 days and then it's gone, right? >> But it's just
047for that running footage. and our our cameras only record when they detect movement. And the purpose for that is to to save space up on our servers. Um so what we're trying to get where there's consistency of those 60 days that we're guaranteeing and and it comes down into a budgetary piece of it >> as to we buy new servers. We're we're buying servers with the amount of storage that can only retain up to 60 days. So, right now it some of them go a little bit longer than that 60 days, but we're just trying to bring all of them back to where there's some consistency districtwide. >> Do you guys need a data center? >> We need a data center. Moving on. >> Thanks. Um, you may want to stay here for this one.
048Wait. Um, for KF, uh, community use to school facilities. This is just our school facility. So, we we do allow third parties to use our facilities all the time. Um, we are just wanting to limit folks being able to stay at our schools overnight for a number of reasons that you probably all can dream up in your head. Um, and so again, this isn't a legally required revision. It's just something more from an administrative practical standpoint. That's why this is being brought in front of you. And it had some caveat like if there was some like crazy natural disaster and people needed a safe place like right >> yeah we added um and if you look down thank you Dr. Campos Spency. So if you look at down to the you might have missed it.
049So if you look down to the second page of those red lines on KF you can see that there was a line superintendent maybe this policy due to extenduating circumstances. So, um, >> and it would be an emergency or or even a a really, you know, significant event for our students. >> Um, but but we would we would manage that at the superintendent level rather than right now anybody can um fill out the facility use form to request an overnight stay in our schools. And so, you know, they have to provide proof of insurance and all of those things, but it's really um really quite cumbersome and and it has comes with some safety concerns, too. So, we'd like to we'd like to stop that practice. >> And Dr. Pilch promises not to make exceptions
050to throw a party with all the best friends, >> maybe. Um Okay. All right. The last one. I'm going to invite um Mr. total up here. So for ICA, this is our um instruction time policy and also goes over school year and school calendar. We're making pretty significant red lines to this policy. Um and so I just wanted to kind of walk you through a few of those. So first of all, we we defined what a certificated or licensed teacher is. The Colorado rules and regulations um allow boards to define who that is. Um, and then we're also, I think what's key here is kind of redefining what the educational process is. Um, we're making some changes around recess time. Again, the rules um for what counts towards instructional times is as long as the
051board specifically uh Oh, thank you. >> as long as the board specifically includes recess time in their educational process definition, then it then you can count that towards your instructional minutes. Um but then we've also um added this language around morning routines. Um some folks refer to it as soft start. Um and so that's also been defined as well. And then we added work study time. I will say I met with our CT leaders today. They mentioned that it's work study might not be the right nomenclature. It's work-based learning might be the appropriate way to refer to work stud um work study time. Um and so we wanted to define that. And the only reason I bring this up is we haven't actually come up with any plans for work study or for credit for
052work, but I think this opens the door for the opportunity to talk about it um for next steps. So I know that Lisa Hudson who um supports our business development and then um Jenny Schilling and Jordan Carlberg who are CTU leaders are really wanting something like this. We just we don't have any actual plan to do it. We just want to kind of open the door to to make that an option. Um and then we also adjusted some language around remote learning for public health emergencies because that language was added during COVID. Um and then other kind of stylistic changes. So um Mr. Tuttle, I don't know if you had anything to add to that or not, but no, I can just add just real quickly. So recess is important to think about. We have
053a house bill policy um 1110 1069 that requires 30 minutes of physical activity for elementary school students per day. And so recess is one of the things that can count towards that. When we think about SEAL and some of our development of self-control and self-management, oftentimes those happen for kids in unstructured times such as recess. So it's a perfectly appropriate thing to be thinking about an instructional component at the elementary level. Um several Front Range districts have added recess just in the last couple of years to this policy. So just know that there that's happening in several other districts. And then through negotiations, you heard about the soft start. And as we talk about wanting to include that as instructional time, um when we talk about the morning meetings, our staff really value that time
054and see the value of that. So that's the reason we've included that here as well. And sorry the I know you said the norman nomenclature of work study might not be correct. When I think work study I think college when I got paid to like you know study at work. >> They're getting paid with college with high school credit. >> Okay. And they may be getting paid by their employer as well. It's just not the district is not paying it. >> Okay. So that's >> so yeah work workbased learning I think is a more appropriate >> I think so. >> Is that reflected in this? >> It's not. So, we would need to make a motion with the expectation that that would be corrected. >> Yeah. If the board >> agrees forward, I would that
055would be the probably the best move would be to >> reflect kind of the more accurate statement there. Sorry. And I mean to cut you off >> or we could table it tonight and fix it and bring it back in June. Whatever you all prefer. >> So, you touched on this uh Mr. Tuttle. Uh but I'm going to make the presumption that this is uh this policy is not going to add any unrest uh to negotiations. It's going to benefit >> and this was part of what was rolled out to the teachers association um as part of this. So I'm looking back at Aaron. >> It's kind of what I assumed. >> This was part of that mutual agreement. >> Yeah. Great. Thank you. I am curious the um recess is that for K through
05612 like is that like off-campus lunches? >> Elementary. >> Okay. >> you might also see some changes around passing time between lunch and just know that the rules are very specific that if you're going from class to lunch >> that can count but if you're going from lunch to a class it cannot. So we kind of cleaned that language up a little bit too. So >> between two classrooms or >> yeah, >> not that it was necessary, but just to for for clarity purposes, we we made those changes. >> I just want to say it's funny the use the the use of the word certificated. I'm like, why isn't it just certified? >> I don't know. And it's hard to say. >> Yeah. It's like certificated or licensed teacher. >> Yeah. I feel like the
057same thing as certified, but maybe it's not. and and you know if we're talking about things like work-based learning, you know, that would be a key inquiry is are they certificated or not? Um, >> right. >> So, >> any other thoughts or comments for that? >> Okay, thank you. >> Thank you. >> Yeah, I think you're still on deck on at that. >> I am. And I did not print this out for you. Um, but I hope you're able to pull up. I sent uh just a PDF of the outline today. >> So, um, just giving you a legislative update. So, we know that Wednesday is the final adjourment day. They are still doing a ton of work. Um, it always surprises me how much work they managed to get done in a week. Um,
058and kind of what all that all that time was spent pre previous to this, right? Um, so just wanted to cover just a couple of bills we've been talking about, talk a little bit about school finance. I know that I I completely neglected to talk about initiative 195 on here, so I apologize for not adding this to this because it is super important and relevant. Um, so just to talk through some of the proposed res uh legislation, the school finance act, there were several amendments that were brought forth and passed this morning. Um what I can say is an area of concern for us is cost of living factor has kind of come up um as impacting our bottom line pretty significantly. Um, and I don't want to botch the sponsor's words here, but um,
059it sounds like around February, we got some numbers to kind of work with in terms of setting the budget. And we got new information just recently, this just this past week. Um, and the cost of living factor impacted what we're going to receive this upcoming year pretty significantly if it was going to be rolled out the way it is. Um, we know that the cost of living factor really helps those districts that have a high cost of living. Um, and this school district doesn't have as high a cost of living as those districts in the Denver metro area and some of our Summit County and Mountain School District residents. So, um, what they did today is they passed an amendment to essentially hold harmless the cost of living factor and delay it for another year
060so that we're not going to be kind of saying this the significant decrease that we once did. What did I miss? >> Oh, she's coming up. >> Yeah, she is. Oh, she came printed out prepared. >> Thank you, Miss Sponsor. >> Miss Sponsor likes paper >> and electronics both. >> I do. I likes to write. >> So, the School Finance Act we thought was on kind of a smooth path to approval, but last week we kind of hit a bump in the road. And so some information that we learned had been held at CDE since February was kind of suddenly brought into the formula and we were not aware of the impact that that data would have until last week. And so districts like ours that were facing a drop in funding because of that
061information, we said time out. we need to have more conversation about this. So, several districts kind of got together. Um, case was a driving force behind this. And so, we got together and we said ultimately, let's not try to fix it because we don't have time to fix the problem right now. This is going to take some time to really study the unintended consequences of the cost of living factor. So, let's just go back to the cost of living factor that was in place last year. it's been in place the last two years. Um, and let's just go with that number. And so that helped our district not lose. It was over a million dollars um of an impact to the district. And so even districts that were going to be winners in that scenario,
062they were like, "This isn't right. You can't spring this on districts at the last minute and expect them to figure out how to make this work." So, I think everyone was on board with uh supporting this kind of change. So, um we were kind of I was kind of waiting all weekend. They thought the amendment might come on Saturday. It came today along with 10 other amendments to the school finance act. So, I've been trying to get my arms around what each of them really means. One is the cost of living factor that we were just talking about. That is what we expected to see and we're thankful for that. Another amendment has to do with the smoothing factor and so we've talked about how the declining enrollment causes kind of a fiscal cliff. If
063you drop in enrollment and then you don't have any kind of buffer in your budget um to help have a soft landing that creates a problem. And so rather than going around and around with the concept of phantom kids and and getting paid for students that aren't really there, we've said, "Okay, let's come up with a smoothing factor." And so, uh, there's been kind of a work group the last year that has studied this issue and made a recommendation. And so, that recommendation has finally made its way into the bill. So, that's what we expected to see. I think it's probably the best we can do. in terms of that topic. So hopefully that will put the phantom student conversation to bed. And then the last amendment I'm still honestly trying to get my arms
064around has to do with um charter funding and how we pass through the funding to our charter schools. So since I don't really understand yet what that looks like and what that means, I'll just tell you that it's there and I will continue to evaluate this. So any other questions about school finance >> for the smoothing factor is it? So I know that we used to average five years and then it was three years. >> Is it threeyear average? >> So this year going into next year will be three years. Um if the new funding formula is phased in at the 45% level, which it's scheduled to do a year from now, then the smoothing factor would come into play. And so it's basically taking your current year enrollment, half of that, 30% of the
065prior year, and 20% of the two years before that. So trying to smooth that out over time. >> Yeah, the cost of living thing is is surprising. I felt like that's what this the whole point was to have the dollars student, not the cost of living. >> That's exactly it. And what we saw are the the small rural districts that have a different cost of living. They were negatively impacted. Districts like ours, we were negatively impacted. So, we need to just have a a better understanding and conversation about how that cost of living factor should work and is it doing what we think it should? Are there other ways to offset that? um to be determined, but we at least got the fix in that we need for this year. Anything else? >> That light
066reading reminded you for 135 this >> Yeah, >> I'll stay. >> I I lean on the expertise of the sponsor all too often. Um as we all do. And so the next bill we just wanted to briefly talk about was that 135. that is the uh initiative to withhold some Taber refunds and then create that kind of positive factor that'll flow to the districts. Um they have adjusted the language pretty significantly. Um they made some amendments to the bill to make it more clear about what it's funding and what it's being funded for. Um I am a little bit confused about how the interest is to compound um every year. It's a 2% compounding, >> right? Um and so what I can say is this is still the the underlying issue with all this is
067if there's no refund to to be given then there's no money to be had. Right? So um this is just assuming that there is a refund every year that we would be getting that additional funding. Um but this is a much better version this amended version than the previous version that we saw. I don't know if you had anything else to add to that. >> I think this helps get us to a place where we can support this um going forward. I think the the reality is any additional money into K12 is helpful. And so even though this is not really clear about exactly how much funding there would be from year to year, it's something. So that's helpful, >> which um and then if we were talking about uh initiative 195, I I think
068that there's actually more potential for benefit to the school district than than what 135 has to offer. Um, and so just know and I and I again I apologize for not including that um as a topic of conversation for today, but I think we would stand to benefit more from that ballot measure passing than than this one. >> But if they both pass both >> Okay, thank you. >> You're welcome. >> Um, and then just so you know, I I added a couple bills that have been postponed definitely or are no longer on the table, right? So 26176 that's at civil rights enforcement that's at OCR light the kind of state level office for civil rights that bill has been postponed indefinitely. Really anything that had a fiscal note attached to it this year didn't
069go through. There wasn't a lot of legislation that's going to really create any impacts for us in terms of policy development um or kind of trainings or things of that nature. um which I find to be beneficial um because year after year we have to kind of make a lot of adjustments and this year we just didn't because so much of the focus has been on finance. Um Senate Bill 26193 at risk public school program and public school accountability. I bring this bill up. Um case originally opposed it. They have now moved into a monitoring position. Um they made some adjustments to make this a little bit more palatable. What I can say is this bill would have created more work for our finance team to demonstrate where money is going and that it's being
070given for our atrisisk students. Um some of the adjustments that were made is if you already have a priority improvement plan for example then you don't have to do any additional reporting. So it took some of that reporting off the table but it's still extra work that is unnecessary. We might need to adopt a policy or make revisions to a policy. That would be the only bill that I saw. Um, Senate Bill 26145, charter school involvement in local ballot questions. This bill did pass both chambers. Um, again, I don't see any need for immediate changes, but if we do move for another mill levy or bond, um, then we would need to involve charters a little bit more in that decision. I know we already have in the past, so I don't think it's going
071to change um our practice as much in this district. Uh, Senate Bill 26170, Task Force to expand effective public schools. This is a new bill. Um, and it would just create a task force to study equitable education resources. It's moving it's moving through both chambers. So, everybody seems to to like this bill. Um, and we like task task forces a lot to study things. Um, Senate Bill 26189, automated decision-making technology. I also bring this bill forward to you as an FYI. In 2024, there was legislation passed around artificial intelligence that created some pretty strong requirements for developers of artificial intelligence as well as consumers of artificial intelligence. So, this bill is kind of a response to that bill. Really, they're going to be moving um disclosure and implementation to January 1st of 2027 for companies
072that have AI. for the consumer like a school district there might be some issues where we have to make sure that any software that we're working with that it has artificial intelligence embedded in it doesn't contain things that have bias. So making sure that it there's no algorithmic bias with the artificial intelligence. Um and so we have developed a pretty robust software review committee that looks at every software that comes in front of us that we might pass. So, this will be another layer that we're going to be adding is making sure that it's not using AI that could be biased. So, um I don't know if there is any actual immediate changes for us as a school district, but it's certainly something that we've been monitoring because we knew that there was going to
073be some language coming forward around AI responsibility. Um and Colorado's the first one of the first states in the nation to have kind of legislation like this. >> Um then just two more. Uh House Bill 1078. This is that off-campus concurrent enrollment program. This also passed both chambers. Um the way I see it is this is just going to expand opportunities. Um and so uh right now for post secondary institutions, four-year institutions unless they're participating in TREP, you're not technically students aren't allowed to attend courses off-campus at those institutions. This would just allow for more programming and opportunities for students who attend classes um not provided directly at school. um we would need to address that with UNCC or whatever four-year institution that we would be working with. So that's that would be more contractual
074in nature if anything. Um and then of course we'd have to go through curriculum to make sure that we're doing that appropriately. So the last bill is 1292. This is that scholarship granting organization bill that was postponed indefinitely. So that was the bill that I was um really hoping for would put up some guard rails around these SGOs, but um it sounded like Governor Pulse was going to veto this bill anyways. So maybe that's why they decided to go. >> Um that's it. There's probably more to talk about, but I didn't know if there's anything else you had any specific questions about. Do you know the time frame of the is it 195 to get on the ballot to like how many when does signatures have to come in? >> Yeah. So, um July 13th
075is the day they're giving us. I think technically they said it was actually August, but July 13th is like so they need um there's 35 Senate districts in the state. um they need 2% of registered voters in each Senate district to sign the petition in order to get it on the November ballot and then they need an absolute number of at least 30,000 signatures. >> Okay. >> So for Senate District 13, it's about 2600 signatures, but if we can gather more to add to that 30,000 um minimal requirement, that would be great. To be clear, there are two potential ballot measures that could potentially benefit K12 and the and the state budget and other programs for children in the state of Colorado. The one is is the the ballot measure uh that is proposed as
076a possibility based on the signature gathering that Dr. Campos Spitzy just spoke about. The other is um 135 uh which is actual legislation uh where our legislators would refer that to the ballot and then there would be a vote on that in November as well. So there'll be more to come. We'll know more by our next board meeting and we'll bring you more information about both of these for the next board meeting. >> All right. Thank you, Mr. Thank you. >> Let us debrief the work session and we'll start with you Dr. Camp Spitzy. >> Yes. Thank you for giving us a chance during the work session to look at some of those policy updates. I know there's more than we usually have on the agenda. So, thank you for giving us that opportunity to
077ask more questions and to get more clarification. Um, and then as always, the legislative update is uh always a thrill and um getting the most up-to-date information of the amendments even from today. Um, thank you for for keeping us up to date on all of that. um as we stay hopeful for the budget. >> Director Edmond. >> Uh yeah, I just I'd like to say another thank you to Chief Corass and the committee for all the hard work you guys did for starting in September. I heard that a lot that you guys have been doing a lot of work just to make sure we get to that that place and make sure we've got the right policies that make for the best learning environment for our students and easy for our teachers. So, thank you
078for the time you put for that and keeping our schools safe. Thank you, Mrs. Sponsor, for taking on the trying to understand 10 amendments in one day and um I know everyone likes puzzles. Mine usually involve pictures, but um I appreciate you just taking the time to help us understand that a little better. Um and I'm just uh yeah, I'm holding on to hope. >> Thank you. Um, director Roi, >> uh, just appreciate the information and just trying to take it all in. So, um, just appreciate everybody's work and time. >> Director Larie, >> same. I really appreciate, um, all of the conversation around the policy updates and the legislative updates. I just learn every time we come to a meeting and we get policy and legislative updates. And so, thank you for spending the
079time with us. Director, >> once again, I'm glad that there's a light at the end of the tunnel in regards to the finance formula for this year. Looking forward to getting that done and appreciate all the work towards that and the work on our policy statements. Real important. >> Director Bentley >> Ditto Dorren said it great. So, not much to add. >> Yeah. Thank you. Thank you for the team that keeps us informed. I I understand that other districts don't have such a robust team of folks to help their boards understand. Um so yes, thank you for all the updates for waiting through the information and we will reconvene at 6 p.m. This meeting is adjourned. Heat. Heat.