001Heat. Heat. All right. Heat. Heat. Goodbye. Oh, heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Hey, Heat. Heat. Hey. Yeah. Heat. Heat. Hey. Happy birthday to you. Heat. Good afternoon and 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 Ozari >> present. >> Director Bentley >> present. >> Director Campos Spitzy >> present. >> Director Edmonds >> present. >> Dr. Lamos Garcia >> present. >> Director Mash >> present. >> Director Roi >> present. >> All board members present. >> Thank you. First item is to review our calendar this week. We have a lot going on. We will be in negotiations Wednesday through Friday for those of us who can attend. Um,
002looks like the Gley Evans and elementary coral festivals Tuesday evening. Next week, school visit to Gley Central and the Success Foundation breakfast. Excellent event. Great way to start your Friday. Invite your friends, neighbors, colleagues. Um, and you can either RSV people through the website or some of us are table captain captains. So, let us know if you need any help with that. The Evans Chamber Dinner, I'm assuming we need RSVPs for that. Miss Lemon, is that has that come and gone or >> We have a table. Um, we do have some extra seats, so if anybody wants to attend, let me know. >> And then that gets us to our next board meeting. So, just keep an eye on your calendar whenever you know for sure that you can RSVP. That'd be great. Helps us
003know who will be attending. Any questions on the calendar? Okay. And moving on to board member comments, we'll have Mr. Aari start us off. >> Okay. Thank you, President Nash. I'd like to start by recognizing our students, Sarah, Abby, and Levi, who attended the Casby Student Day at the Capitol on February 12th. They did an outstanding job of recognizing our school district and our community and I was really impressed by their professionalism, their knowledge and their respectful bearing and their insightful questions and conversations with our state representatives and the CASBY staff. There is a Facebook video that Casby has produced about that event and our students and director Roi were featured on that video and they did an outstanding job representing our district. I also attended the Martinez Elementary board visit. Great work going on
004there as always. I'm very impressed with the work of the staff and the students at Martinez. They make that school a welcoming environment and it shows with their progress uh in their academics over the past several years. They do a great job. I also attended the Discover Six Academy, District 6 Academy that was held at Gley West last Thursday. I'd like to give a shout out to Jeff Cranston and his staff uh for welcoming the community into that school and and Mr. Cranston's uh wellp put together presentation about Gley West IB and all things that are happening at that school. And uh I'd also once again like to recognize several of our students that uh represented uh the four mainline high schools here in the community and they did a great job as a panel
005and I'm sure President Mash will probably talk more about that. And finally, I had the opportunity to attend the Gley Central High School Big Ben Boogie Ball. Uh that also was a great night, especially since I'm a former Gley Central High School staff member. I've always enjoyed that event. Uh it's a great school community builder uh for Gley Central, but it also featured Toon Chapel and University High, their band students. And I'd also like to thank our adult community band, the John Mills Orchestra, for their contributions to that event. It was a very, very good vet event, although it can be a late night for our kids. >> Okay, so that's all I've got. President Mash, thank you. >> Thank you, Dr. Limos Garcia. >> Yes, I um unfortunately did not do a whole lot.
006I did uh get to go see my brand new grandbaby in California this weekend. Um >> Kiona is a month old and so that was part of uh the reason as to why unfortunately I wasn't able to contribute a lot um to the school district this time. I did attend the Glee J Chamber um dinner which was really fun. A lot of networking fantastic MC um that evening. So had a chance >> so great. Um and I look forward to attending more events in the coming weeks. That's it for me. >> Um I was also able to go as well as director Rosari to the CASBY uh student day at the capitol and that was a wonderful experience. has got to ride down in a district suburban with the kids and some of our um
007important people in our district. And um I'm not seeing him right now. I'm trying to twist around. But um anyway, that it was really I was really glad I had the time in the vehicle just to get to know the students better and uh get to talk to um just kind of the interactions and the questions were very interesting. And um then on um Tuesday the 17th, I did my uh interview with um or not interview, I guess it was the Zoom meeting to get ready for the NE negotiations. So I got that done and then uh that afternoon visited uh Martinez Elementary and met um Monica Draper who's the principal and um Veronica Lucero uh who is the assistant principal and that was just a wonderful experience. got to learn about projectbased learning and
008um uh got to be with some of our other board members on doing that. And then um on Thursday the 19th, I also did the um uh District 6 Academy at Gley West. And that was really it was really helpful to me to have a presentation on what we're going for in terms of looking at graduates. What are we what's our goal? and and when we say someone's graduating, well, this is what we want them to look like. So, uh, Superintendent Asmus did a wonderful job and, uh, principal Jeff Cranson, I think, did a really good job of, um, highlighting his school and kind of the positive things about that. And then, um, that evening was the chamber dinner and, um, thanks to Director Bentley for opening a table for so that um, Mark could
009come with me. But we had a really nice evening and visited with people in the community and enjoyed that time. >> Thank you, >> Director Edmonds. >> Thank you very much, President Mash. So, uh, got to do some really cool things since last time we met. Um, President Mash and I had the pleasure of attending Gley Central High School's culture assembly, which was really excited to have that opportunity to be there, but didn't fully know what to expect. And when all the students came into the room with their um national flags and some of them dressed in their their cultural garb, it was just a very moving experience to see just the beauty of diversity within Gley Central, which was a actually a really great reflection of the diversity of our district. Um and one
010student in particular caught my eye. Um Mercy Lube. She's from the Dominican uh the Democratic Republic of Congo and she had this beautiful outfit on. She had face paint on. She looked very proud of who she is. And then she went and performed a dance from her culture in front of all the students. And so I just admire the courage of these students too to show themselves as they are to not try to be someone else but to be proud of where they come from. It just was another reminder of why I love district 6 so much. why I love Gley so much is that we are such a diverse culture here, a diverse community. And so just hats off to Gley Central. I think this is the fourth time they've done this, possibly maybe
011fifth. So I just I hope it's something they continue for years to come. And it'd be great to see that expand out if anything like that would be a a district-wide thing with other schools just to give them some opportunity. I think some students from other high schools joined some of the bands. So that was just really cool to see that to see the competition between the uh different classes. Although I was I wasn't keeping score, but it did there was there was some controversy on the score of which class won the won the trophy, but it was great to see President Mash's son too in his natural element of just being with his friends and being a leader. Um then after that I went to Fred Chartis spelling bee to watch my daughter compete
012in the spelling bee. Um, and they was just wonderful to see all those students try really hard and to be proud of themselves when they get up there to to do their best and and I think it was just a wonderful highlight of of something that's a timeless tradition now of all the official rules and you have to say the word and then spell it and then say it again. So, it's just really cool to see the kids have something more formal like that. Um, especially at Fred Chardis, it is a different type of school. So for them to kind of experience that as well was I think very nice. And then I was at the Martinez school visit. Um it was wonderful just to see uh that school and see what they can do
013on a 90% free or induced and 90% Latino population. So to see what a school that is often just it's an uphill battle when you have people that are in that their families are in that economic situation that they're in that they're in that cultural situation when they don't English isn't their first language to see them in performance is just incredible. Um, in talking with the principal, I think something that really struck me is she said she's been in education for 40 years. And when they got the um, money from the bond, extra money to build the expansion, she said that was the first time in 40 years she had all of her students under one roof. So, it really highlighted not only the impact of a bond issue, but also the impact or or
014the work that's that's left to be done to make sure that all of our principles can say that all of our principles can say we have all of our students under one roof. We're safe. We've got a good a good school building. So, it was just wonderful to see that to see the kids, the third graders in their tiny homes and trying to fit a pool and a two-bedroom and a kitchen and a bathroom. Um, but they are really proud of themselves just building those and learning math like how math actually impacts real life instead of just like why am I learning this? They get to see why they're learning that. Um, so it's just it's great to see that and then to be there for the free bike giveaway that they were doing with
015the second graders and to see some of uh my friends and contacts at Chevron. It was just a nice full circle moment. Chamber dinner was amazing. Yes, the MC. I feel like they now have a permanent MC from now on. Um although next year I vote that she's allowed not to be on script. They just give you the bullet points. >> Well, if I if id had >> more than just a couple of days, >> I would have been just bullet points. Yeah. >> Good. Good. But no, you did wonderful. And it was great just to see the the support of our community, how much they love District 6. I mean, the amount of people I knew in that room that kept asking me, "How's it going on the board?" And I was like, "It's
016amazing. Like, we have a we have a great community." And they all had wonderful things to say about our district. Um, and then lastly, didn't have an opportunity to do this because she wasn't here at the last meeting, but I want to extend congratulations to Danielle Bach for the Silver Plate Award. Um, nutrition services and and what we do in this district is one of the the leading reasons why I ran for school board because of the amazing things we're doing for our kids, uh, to just make sure they have good nutrition. So, it's a very well-deserved honor. Proud to have you as part of District 6 and feeding our students every day lots and lots of food. So >> that's it for me. >> Director Kempo Smithy. >> Yeah. So I got to join
017um a few of you at Billy Martinez and a lot of the same things um stuck out from that visit. One of them was that um we asked principal Monica Draper how long she'd been at performance and she couldn't remember. So that was pretty cool. Um and and yeah to see the the problem or project based learning um at that school. It sounds like Fred Chardis and Billy Martinez are are two project based learning um schools and and to see some of that in action, watching the third graders design tiny homes. Um we also got to see fourth graders go into second grade classrooms to teach them about wearing helmets and the importance of protecting their brains um right before the bike giveaway. Um which I believe the Eagles were the ones giving the bikes
018through Wish for Wheels or something like that. Um, so it was cool to watch uh the hockey players helping some kids who pro who don't know how to ride bikes just like around the gym and then the ones who did know how to ride bikes, you know, zooming around. Um, another thing that stuck out from that visit, um, principal Monica Draper talked about her community and family engagement through her cafetos. And she said, um, that this year they're planning to celebrate diia de los nños, which is nationally celebrated in Latin America. Um, it's a day for children. And that originally they were planning to get one piñata for each grade. and she brought that was talked about at one of the cafesitos with the parent group and one of the parents was like, "Oh, we
019can get you a piñata for each class. It doesn't have to be for each grade." And so that's what her and her daycare people are doing is making sure that all the Billy Martinez classrooms get a piñata on the de. So that was really cool. Um I I did drop by the big band boogie ball. Um it is long. There was programming from like well it starts at 6:30 but it goes till 11 p.m. Um and that is way past my bedtime. So um we participated in the silent auction watched a few of the bands. Um the Gley Central dance team or it's I don't know if they're a team or it's a class. Um performed this like 1950s fun dance. Um and my exchange student who is no longer mine was one of the
020dancers which was a fun surprise. Um yeah, but it is the way the Gley Central High School Music Boosters um fund raise and I think it it was a successful fundraiser. Um other things, yes, the chamber dinner was wonderful. Um that same day earlier that day, I was at a UNC board meeting. Um we had our quarterly board meeting was Thursday and Friday. Um as we all know, um big news came out of those board meetings. Um, but aside from that, one of the things we review at every meeting is enrollment, our our student enrollment at UNC. Um, and they show off their different ways, the swag they send our students, um, to convince them to make UNC their four-year university home. And this one's specifically for Gley High Schools. So, um, it says, "Our
021promise to you, Gley High School graduates receive up to 8,000 in UNCC scholarships." and it has the logos of all of our different high schools highlighted on the postcard that our students all get. Um, uh, one other thing university related, um, I got to brag about the Zello platform that I had just learned about at our last work session, um, with the Hispanic Advisory Council to the president. And so, President Feinstein meets regularly with Latino leaders in the community. And, um, I get to be part of those conversations. and we talked about how Zello might help connect District 6 to UNC even better. Um yeah, so those those were a few things and yes, please come to the Geekfest tomorrow. Um it is so wonderful. It you see a bunch of elementary school students from
022all of our schools uh performing in choir and they all get on the stage at one point. It's like I want to say like 400 students or more and seeing and it's fabulous. Um I think the the voices of children is just pure joy and innocence and all the good things in the world. So yeah, >> Vice President Bentley. >> Uh they covered most of it, but um I just wanted to mention I did make it to the Gley Chamber annual dinner. Um it was just kind of nice to see the the Richardsons u honored for all their their work they've done quietly around the the community throughout the years. U you know we're working with them on the downtown redevelopment in the in the new admin building and just to to see kind of
023their heartless acts that they they give back to the community and and most of it they do quietly. So it was nice to see him recognized. Um one other thing of of mention just kind of exciting in my life. Um, I was appointed to the UB Techch Foundation Board, which is my hometown's version of Ames, I guess, is is the best way to put it in in D6 terms. Uh, this the tech college. They only serve that that little community, but they're right across from the highway there or the right across the highway from this the high school. There's a walkway where the kids do their co-current enrollment, walk across, but that's where their welding and their construction is 100% done. They don't even have a uh a high school program. It's all done through
024the college. So, um it's a foundation much like the success foundation. They're they're but their goal is just to raise uh scholarships for kids, potential students. So, um just excited when I got in there and and you know, hearing some of the similar stuff they're doing and hopefully there's there's just some stuff I can you know, through osmosis bring or take both ways from here to there in that. So just a just kind of a little bright spot in the in the week. So exciting. >> Congratulations. >> Yeah, it's >> um Well, I also enjoyed the Gle Central Cultural Assembly and just two examples of of positive culture, meaning um where students can thrive and feel at home. I feel like watching all of those students do solo performances um or bring their culture to
025their entire student body like you you don't do that if you don't feel safe and um you know emotionally safe or um that that that's a safe place to demonstrate that and I love that they do make it a competition for cheering but I don't think they would have to. The kids are all cheering for every single group that comes out there. Um, so that was really special. And then I've mentioned before, any anytime I have the opportunity to talk to a kiddo in my professional life or somewhere else, I just ask where they go to school. So this little girl's like, "I go to Ankyman." And I was like, "Oh, do you do you like Principal Ramirez?" And she's like, "Yeah, she also keeps us safe." And that was just unprompted. This little girl
026feels safe and Kahheim. So I just love to bring those little stories. It's It's always fun to see their eyes get wide. I got to talk about um assistant principal uh Derek Lefbre too and I was like I was at his wedding I was at the birth of his children and they were like whoa we'll have to tell him. So anyway it's just fun to talk to our students out in the wild so to say. Um, and then yeah, the district academy at Gley West. It was fun to have a panel of students from each of our high schools and they each spoke so eloquently exactly what we want in our picture of our graduates. Um, but you know, highlighted what was special about each high school. So that was just really cool to hear
027somebody talk about the STEM program and why they specifically chose it and came from a neighboring district so they could go to Northridge for STEM and how they realized they really weren't into technology and mechanics but love the science. Anyway, um that was great. Of course, Sarah Venegas is always just a walking billboard for ECA and some people were like, "How do we apply for that program?" She's like, "It's a high school." She's like, "Do not overlook us." Anyway, so that was great. And the Gley Central student saying, "Do you know how hard it is to walk into your rival high school in the middle of the day when there's not other people arriving?" >> So that yeah, that was a lot of fun. And we got um the catering was done by the Gley
028West um catering department. And I think maybe they're providing us dinner tonight. So I'm excited to see what they brought us this time. >> All right. We've all done a lot of great stuff. It's this is a fun part of the year where there's so much going on and it's just like going to get faster and faster until it's summer. Um, but thank you all again for your jumping in with both feet and supporting the district. And now we will receive an overview on negotiations so you all know what to expect. >> Yeah. So, uh, Assistant Superintendent Wes Tuttle and Assistant Superintendent Annette Overton are going to do just what you just said, President Mash, um, give some overview of of what y'all can expect at negotiations. And could you all just remind me who's
029there and when? So, >> okay. Do you just want to go around? >> Yeah, I'll be there uh, Wednesday, Thursday, and then I've got to leave by like 11:30 on Friday. >> Okay. I'll be there the whole time. >> Yeah, me as well. I'll be there. >> Me, too. I'd like to leave Friday early, but I can stay at that. >> I'll be there Wednesday and Thursday, although I have to leave for a lunch meeting on Thursday and maybe Friday. I'll be there in the morning. >> I'll be there Wednesday morning. I'll be there Wednesday during the day for the whole day. >> Thank you very much. >> And we did update this slightly, so Amy will send out an updated, but it's all the same information. This just has pretty graphics that Annette put
030in and some things like that. So, but Georgia, do you want to start out? >> Sure, I'll start out. Um, I think what you want me to talk about here, Wes, is that um when I came to the district, um, and I saw what was happening in the district, um, I called Diane Groves and I said, "Oh my goodness. um let me tell you about my new job and I'm going to send you some Gley Tribune articles. That's our local newspaper. And then I'm going to need your help. And then I said to her, "It'll be the best work you've ever done." Um, so, uh, before the night of, well, like a week after my contract was approved, the former board president, Roger Dwit, called me and said, um, sorry to to share difficult news,
031but we're currently being sued by our teachers association. And so, um, that was one of the issues we were able to work on once we brought the consensus work in. Um, we did the very first consensus circle um, in late July after I got here. Um, I had been advised to stay out of it. We were almost to impass on our teacher contract. we did not have a teacher contract and we were headed near impass and um I had been meeting with the then president of the association Pat Otto and so I had a sense of what she needed to be able to come to agreement um Annette's predecessor Dr. Kevin Aton uh he and I and Pat Otto and Kelly Longacre who you all will meet on Wednesday. I invited them to come into
032a circle really just weeks into the job and it was a a big risk. Um but it turned out beautifully within literally within 60 minutes we had an agreement. Um and and the reason we had an agreement was because I had I on it frankly I had taken the time to really listen to what they needed and and when we were able to give them a piece of that or give them that they were able to meet us part way. Um and so since that time in 2015 we've been doing consensus negotiations for our teacher negotiations. We practice um consensus practices outside of negotiations. We have uh ongoing committees and teams that use the processes as well um as are solving problems that come out of negotiations. Um we have trained every district leadership team
033member uh and every department in the district and every school has a team trained. Typically we do training about annually. there's been a few years we've skipped um and so we'll bring in the administrators with a teacher team or a a support team when we do those trainings. So several of our people have been trained multiple times which is really good because it you'll see as you go through this um over the three days that uh it's pretty complex and although it looks easy, it's pretty complex and it takes a lot of trainings to get >> Yeah. to be able to really use the processes. So that's part of why the three days takes so it takes three days to do what we're going to do is because we're we're being trained along the way.
034With that, I'll turn it over. Is that what you wanted me to do? >> Thank you. >> I'll take it. Um the things Dr. Pilch just talked about, that was one of the things that we have we have on our list here of consensus and action. So over the years we've done these things. Um we talked about she talked about the lawsuit and then um we've used it at the district level for >> we made the lawsuit go away. Yes. >> We didn't have to go to court. >> That's right. That's right. Um we did we had the distribution of title funds where we had the um group of people come together and talk about how we can use title funds at with people at the district level, principles. Um and then we when the
035there was a bell change uh uh bell times the that was another option that we used for it a new salary schedule Megan used that and worked very closely with the association to um create a new salary schedule that was affordable and sustainable. um when we have budget cuts and we have to make um staffing changes and things that happen at the building uh that they know they're going to make program shifts or staffing the principles will bring their leadership team in and then use this process to have those critical conversations of course negotiations as Dr. Pilch has already talked about. And then we um Wes and I have participated in um uh staff communications where there was conflict where we needed to have them uh be able to talk with one another and we
036went out and did that together and then u operated as the listener so to speak. Uh conflict mediation, same thing. So yeah, I did it with the I did it with the parent to parent. So it's one it's not just a few of us that do it. It's actually a a wider scope of people that do it, but there are key there is a group of people that um are key um users of this process and they will help um navigate or coach people along the way. So So the what you can expect in negotiations is that 3-day window. You've heard Dr. Pilch talk about that. So three days, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday of this week. Wednesday, and Thursday is really where it happens in the circle where we'll sit in the circle. Um, just
037for those of you who are new, I would encourage you to wear business casual or just be um comfortable and uh because we're in a circle most of the day without a table. Just saying I it's really comfortable to wear pants. It's you feel a lot more comfortable if you're wearing pants. Um the uh meals are provided. That's just housekeeping um for you. Meals are provided breakfast and lunch all three days. And then um the patience is necessary. It's one of those things that Dearra started talking about just a minute about how long um the the process is complex and how the conversations can be really long and we'll take time to really just listen as she did when when we were um when a lawsuit was filed. And so we we spend time and
038sometimes we think, "Oh, we could just solve it if we say it this way." But we really want to listen and they listen to us as well. So, it's a really um nice good process that you know, iron sharpens iron, so to speak. So, it's a it's a great opportunity for you guys. There's not any preparation that you need to worry about there. Um you just come and listen and have conversation. You'll know um what to say and what to do at the time because the um the c the um facilitators will give us that information. And then uh the day three, the 27th is work time. We'll be big circle the first two days and then we'll be in small groups the last day. And so that will time will determine whether or not
039there would be um time that you would need to be there. We'll make that determination when we're in negotiations. Okay. And then that first morning there'll be grounding. Um so everyone when everyone gets to know who's in the room, we'll go around the circle and introduce ourselves. We'll talk about how we feel about being here. What are we thinking about that? And what what is your what are your best hopes? At some point, we'll be talking about that. Best hopes about being in negotiations, worst fears. And that will come through Diane Groves and West Tuttle who are our facilitators. So, you might ask, who is going to be sitting in the room? There'll be all of you negot um uh the school board. There'll be district level administrators um from the instructional side and from
040the operational side of the house. And then there'll also be um representatives from district 6 um uh GA. And what's in what I really am appreciate and Erin and I talk about this regularly is that we are a team. We're one team. We're not the admin team and the GA team and the schoolboard team. We are one team solving complex problems together. turned it over to Wes. >> And that's one of the reasons we sit in the circle is dear models for us taking off the hat of the superintendent and and sitting at that circle in a in a fashion that equalizes the power. >> Um, so everybody does have the voice and we truly listen to each other. >> We don't wear badges. We don't wear our badge so that there's not it's we're
041just all of us are sitting there together solving complex problems. What'll happen is we'll have several committees report out to us. So after we do the grounding the first morning, we'll move other things and then we'll have some committees report out to us. And so some of those um committees are compensation, soulcom, um systems of support or SOS, time and learning, professional development, and then there may be some additional ones that'll be extensions of some of those. So you'll hear from each of those committees. you may hear um some ideas of next steps. And so you'll start to hear the workings that have been going on all year long and then leading into this next upcoming year and the work that we're going about and the problems that we're already solving and maybe the next
042steps that we're needing to look at. So some of the protocols we'll utilize. Yeah. >> What is soulcom? >> Um good question. And >> solutions committee. Yes. Okay. And it's it's um a small group >> that kind of have extensions in each one. So Megan, Annette, Deardra, Aaron, Kelly, Longacre, Don, I think that's the team >> and so and then they just kind of make sure that the some of the stuff is continuing to work and so they solutions committee and you'll hear more about that. >> Thank you for stopping. >> Sure. >> Um when reports are shared there's going to be different things that we'll utilize some of the protocols. So one thing is listeners. There'll be opportunities for some of you to at times be listener and all you are doing is echoing
043back what you hear. Sometimes if if Brenda is talking and I'm going to use Brenda as an example because I get along really well with you. But let's just pretend I didn't like Brenda. I might not hear it from Brenda, but then when Robin echoes those same words, I have relationship with Robin and I can hear it. So, there's a lot of different reasons that we use these protocols. And so, that's an example of why we might have somebody else also echo the same information, but it also verifies that did we hear it right? So, we use listeners. And as listeners then report out, they'll have a backup listener to allow them to say, "Okay, I I try to remember it all because we don't take notes. We just try to remember, we just absorb
044it." And so you'll have a backup listener that then can fill in some of the holes when you're listening there. And we'll stop it in short segments. So it won't be 10 minutes that you're having to recite everything from. But that's two of the protocols. And then the responders, there'll be times then that there may be an idea, a suggestion, something we're wanting to do. and we'll have then somebody respond and you'll be able to add your own opinion as far as is is this something that makes sense to us and we'll try to have different perspectives respond from different avenues as to before we go down that path is that the right path for us to continue or what advice would you have for this small group that's going to be working on that.
045um some of the things we'll be doing. There may be times that we come to an agreement in negotiations where we all different parties sitting around the table come to an agreement of here's the next step that we're going to do. Sometimes we might say, "Boy, that's a great thing, but we need this subcommittee, time and learning to continue to explore that for us or compensation is going to continue to do that work. And then eventually all this is going to go into some work and it's going to continue working because as you know and we shared with you the we don't have the state budget situation finalized yet. So there's some pieces of the puzzle that aren't going to be final for a little while. So that will come back to you and back
046to GA membership to vote on once that is finalized. And so you'll have an opportunity to um approve then those contractual things that will come to you and Annette and Aaron will bring that to you later this spring. Those of you who have participated in negotiations, what other comments, advice do you have for those board members that are new joining us for the first time this week? >> The whole listening thing, like I've admitted to you guys, I'm not the best listener. Um, but it's it's crazy how much you might miss because there's like you literally have to say exactly what you think the person said. It's not like you're summarizing it or you're like trying to include every detail. Um, so then having that backup listener is really nice to fill in all those
047holes that you might have missed. Keeps us awake if when it's after lunch. Um, I'm actually really glad for the venue change because we're going to have windows. Um, so at Ames it's usually no windows and it's a little bit it feels a little long and it's a little bit cold. I wonder if the panorama room will be warmer. >> To the listening piece, guys, and and some of what um you've heard, don't let this cause you anxiety, please. >> Really and truly, >> it is not a test. It's not um it's not a performance. I mean, you do not need to prepare anything. And Diane is a beautiful facilitator. Um she she will put everyone at ease. So, I don't want I don't want that to cause you anxiety hearing about this or wondering
048if you can do it and how you're going to do it. It it goes the day goes really well. >> I would just reiterate which I think we kind of have like pounded into everyone from day one to stay out of the weeds. So, we will get to hear the struggles, the priorities, the challenges from our teachers, but we're not the ones that are going to be on the committee solving that problem. So, that's not to say that you don't have the opportunity to make a suggestion or give advice. Actually, that's the word that's often used is what advice do you have for the group moving forward. But, we're not going to get into the nitty-gritty of well, what if we shaved off minutes here and what if we change the calendar there or could
049we give everybody this much raise instead of that? Like, that's what the committees do and the board's role is really to be listeners to again we are that high level mission vision value. So, we need to know what the mission and vision is of our staff as well and make sure that we are listening and hearing and able to support with decisions that we make. Anyone's welcome to agree or disagree with that. Yeah. No, I think I pointed it out at our our last negotiations how brave it is to have your entire board of directors listening to teachers talk about the parts of their job they're not satisfied with, right? Um like we don't necessarily go to negotiations to talk about everything that's going well. We talk about how we might improve um their work
050life balance and things like that. Um, so I have always thought it's so brave of our superintendent to allow us to be there to kind of hear not the worst, but like the complaints, right? Um, and and I think to put it into perspective that that that is what we're there to do, not just talk about all the great stuff. Um, meaning like it doesn't mean that all our teachers are terribly unhappy. They're just bringing up things that they would love to be better. Um, and so I, yeah, I think it's very vulnerable for our superintendent and the cabinet to let us be there and brave and fully transparent. And so I I really appreciate that we get to be part of this every year. >> I would just say um, be patient. the the
051first day can can be slow and it's a little frustrating when you feel like you're in there to get some work done and how long that process takes to develop, but just know that once it develops, you're going to you have an aha moment and you'll really be thankful that it it went the way it did. It really it really lays the foundation for us to be able to work together and to kind of take all the um the unknowns out of the air. Um when there's unknowns, we we all human nature's worst case scenario. So, we get those out of the way and and kind of realize we're all just humans and and people again. Um I' I've found personally so much value in this process that I've I brought Diane in my own
052business multiple times and and she will be back more. So, um you know, you you'll learn some things that you can take home and and use like with your spouses and and all sorts of things, co-workers. you know, it's a it's a very valuable tool and I think you guys will will be very uh very thankful to have gone through the process and very appreciative of it once once we're done. >> Well, we are looking >> So, um I want to say just a couple more things. >> Um thank you Brenda and Kyle for what you added and Natalie. Um I uh the their the the association's role is to bring concerns. I mean they survey they survey their membership. They talk to their membership and then they they bring issues. That is the goal.
053So there will be issues as Brenda indicated. So just be prepared for that. um and and know that we have solved some very complex issues using these processes. Um in particular getting a contract every year and getting a new salary schedule and fixing the lawsuit and there will be new issues yet. I mean, we still have not solved the issues that exist around um time and teacher time and the the stress they feel about all that is on them in the time that they have. And we've not solved uh the student um social emotional issues, the behavioral management issues. um all 30 plus years I've been in negotiations time and it used to be called classroom management then it was student behavior now it's social emotional but that's always an issue both of those things
054will always be an issue and then um and we still continue to work hard on solving issues around professional development and having the right menu there for our teachers and so um you'll hear some updates on those areas but there's that you will also hear that there's still work to do there. Um, Doran, I'm just curious cuz you were a teacher. Um, and you and then you came into this process with I'm just curious. Do you want to share anything that you didn't get to share? >> Well, and I I always say the same thing. Uh, we had huge issues uh for many many years in school district 6 between the district level administration and the school board and the teachers. And um, since Dr. Pelch has come into the district that has changed. >>
055I'm always leerary of it going back. But I believe that if we um are open and we do listen intently and share ideas in a positive way and I think West does a very good job along with Diane Groves of setting that tone in the room. I think that this positive consensus building way of doing business in school district 6 will continue and I hope it does >> and I think we have buyin from the three entities the the board the admit and the GA and you kind of talked about this with previous board members like we want this is the way we do it in district 6 and and that is what we're going to continue to pass on to new board members to new GA um membership >> to new admin like this
056is this is the way we do it. This is the way that and you'll hear sometimes from people who have come into our negotiations from other districts or like the uniserve person um who works with other districts and they're just kind of like you guys are a unicorn. This is not how it goes in other places. And so I think as long as the three entities can remain committed to this process, um, we'll continue to be really successful. >> As we're wrapping up, any questions from anybody. >> Amy keeps us going with good snacks and caffeine. And so >> Zary does a good job. >> Oh, Zry. Yes. >> Zry does all that. >> Yeah. >> Well, we look forward to seeing you. Will you guys review um parking and times, please? Are we really
057starting at 7:30? >> We'll start with >> 8:00 is when the meeting will start. 7:30 is when food is available. And I would encourage you to participate in that. It's a chance to Diane shared with each of you food is on site so that we don't leave. We get chance to interact with each other all the way through lunch and everything together. So that's important. And then Amy, I believe you've sent an email out um with all the information for parking and what their what the directions are. That's what I >> It's in your calendar invite also. Thank you. >> There's a special code. >> Yes. >> Sounds like you need to download an app or something. >> Yes. Yeah, there is a a parking app that you'll need to download before you get there.
058And then um you'll add in the code for free parking, but you will still need to add in a credit card. So, it it feels weird, but you will it won't let you get to the checkout process until you have a credit card entered, but then it won't be charged. It'll be a zero balance. >> Yeah. >> Can you park on the street? >> Absolutely. >> Yeah. And I would I'd also encourage you just to plan for parking and walking in. I mean, it's a big campus and I was there for an event, a meeting today and you know that lot on the other side of the campus commons, that's the sea lot that they're offering us is almost always open. I mean, we were parking way in the back of it because there was
059so many events going on today. So, just plan for that. >> Um, >> it'll be closer to the ballroom. Do you hear the old ballroom? >> Yeah, it's over on the ballroom size. I was thinking it's on that side. >> It's on that side. And you go in and there's like the chimney, the big like fireplace >> and go upstairs >> like on the main level of the university center. >> Um Yeah. And then to your right there's some stairs that go up to the panorama. >> Yeah. >> I think I've been there >> and an elevator. Yeah, >> it's real easy with the elevator. >> Well, we look forward to being together. I'm going to head out and go plan with Diane meeting tonight. She just >> Thank you for this. I know it's
060an, you know, we've been training Wes up. Tom and Danielle have both um been trained too quite a bit. I mean, a lot of our team have Vanette, the the HR directors. I mean, we've got several people in the district that have, you know, have really done a lot of training so that we can deploy folks. >> Thanks for doing that, Wes. Okay. >> I could help you with the app maybe during dinner if you want or we could carpool. >> Download an app. I'm >> or park on the street. There really is parking. >> Very close. >> All right. We will move on to our legislative update with Mr. Nathan Fall. >> Yes, sir. Mr. Paul, you mind taking one Good evening board directors, President Mash, Dr. Pilch. My name is Nate Fall. I'm
061legal counsel for the school district. Uh I have provided you just an outline. Um I provided a more detailed copy, but I just felt like it was a little bit easier to follow along. I'm just kind of adding on bills as we go along through the year. So that's why you have what's in front of you. But if you do want to pull up a little bit more information, uh I do encourage you to share pull up that memo that I shared with you earlier today. So uh on the outline and as included in the report, there's three new bills that I wanted to talk about today. I did want to mention that I think after we've had some time during negotiations to talk a little bit more about school finance and give you some
062of that more foundation >> as well as waiting for the March forecast to come out. Okay, >> which should come out in several weeks. We should have a better understanding about finance and I think it would do us some service in March to come back and just spend a full work session just talking about school. Well, not the full work session, but >> Oh, you can have the whole >> during I would prefer not to and and I would certainly lean on Miss Fonsler uh during that meeting. So, just know that is coming and certainly if you do have any questions around school finance right now, I can do my best to get some information over to you. So in the outline just you know some updates some some past bills that we've already talked
063about that first bill 1050 option optional individualized readiness plan that was supposed to go for second reading in front of the house today meeting in front of the entire house to review that bill. I was just pulling it up to see if they actually voted on it. I don't know if it was laid over. They don't have any updates on the website. I wasn't watching today to see if they voted on it or not. Um, just know that this bill was pretty heavily amended. I am looking there is a fiscal note that's been attached to this bill. You know, I think the bill sponsors are arguing that this is going to really significantly reduce workloads for administrators. And according to CDE, about 15% of kindergarteners were identified as having significant reading deficiency and would continue
064to receive that individualized readiness plan under this bill. Um, but the majority of kindergartens have already passed. As I mentioned with the amendments, parents can still make the request. Districts could still produce these individualized readiness plans. I don't know if it's going to really affect us regardless of how this goes. Um, but nevertheless, I just thought that was a little interesting to just kind of get a little more insight into why the bill sponsors are willing to move this bill forward. So, we'll see. Uh, my assumption is that this bill is probably going to pass through the House with those amendments included. they might continue to amend the bill and we'll see where it goes. The next bill, the Senate or House Bill 1028, that was that second language educational program for high school students.
065That's just been assigned to the appropriations committee and we don't have any updates on that bill at this time. The next one I want to discuss is 1141, discriminatory practices in public schools. Um, I did get a chance to really more thoroughly review this bill. At the last um time we met, they had just introduced this bill. I met with our lobbyist Ann Barkcus at the last uh on last Friday to kind of talk through this bill a little bit more. I'm hoping to set up some time with Representative Jennifer Bacon who's the prime sponsor on this bill. she's really been the one advocating to get this legislation passed. Just so you know, this is a bill that kind of creates a new OCR light through CDE um for civil rights discrimination in public schools.
066This bill is specifically for public schools in the state of Colorado. So just like the Office for Civil Rights under the US Department of Education, this would create kind of a new mechanism for folks to bring discrimination complaints under Colorado law. Um, again, the district does not condone discrimination. We work very diligently to ensure that our staff are aware of what those laws require. There was some legislation passed several years ago, Senate Bill 296, that prohibits discrimination and harassment in public schools. So, we've already been doing this. We've already been training our staff. We've already been aligning with these new state standards. I will just say it can be quite challenging for school staff to keep track of all these discrimination and harassment laws to get new trainings to know what is acceptable or what
067is unacceptable. Again, discrimination and harassment is not condoned. That's something that we find to be unacceptable in this school district. But just a few pieces that I pulled out in terms of areas of concern for this bill. There's another standard in here where it's unwelcome, objectionable, unacceptable, or undesirable. uh could be considered discrimination or harassment in public schools. That's quite vague. I know that a lot of groups have been moving forward amendments to this bill just to provide a little bit more consistency between state law and federal law if ultimately that is what the purpose of this bill is trying to do. There's also kind of this tacking on or tolling to bring a claim. So, ordinarily you have 180 days from notice of harassment or discrimination to bring a claim. If you don't bring
068a claim within that 180 days, then you're time barred from being bringing a claim forward. Does that make sense? >> So, this adds another 60 days to even if another agency has already reviewed. So, let's say you bring a complaint forward with OCR. OCR completes an investigation, they don't reach any findings on the merits. Perhaps there's some procedural reason for them to uh end the investigation, then this bill would add another 60 days for somebody to bring a complaint through this bill. So then there would be an additional investigation that we would have to file a responsive answer to. We'd have to do a lot of additional work. Hopefully, if we've been working with OCR or whatever agency, that we' already have that information readily available. But you can just understand that this just creates
069a ton of administrative burden uh in terms of responding to the same complaint through multiple agencies because really with OCR oftentimes that's kind of it. You have your opportunity to bring it through them and if that is ultimately determined if there's an investigation then it's over. Now we'd have to kind of review it again through a different agency who's then going to review it through a different standard uh that might have a different outcome or finding here. So again, uh I'm not trying to say that we don't want to oppose legislation around harassment or discrimination, right? Um but nevertheless, this is just creating a little bit of confusion and I know a lot of groups have been having some concerns around this bill and what we need to be doing with it. So we're going
070to be working um with lawmakers on potential amendments to this bill, hopefully to align it closer to federal law. There's also a provision that guarantees attorneys fees uh in cases if there is merit found for harassment or discrimination in these cases. So kind of that fees shifting burden uh applies under this law. There is some good though with this bill. It does give agencies an opportunity agencies like Gleven School District 6 an opportunity to cure. So if we receive a complaint, we have 60 days to essentially cure the harassment or discrimination. And if the division determines that we have cured the alleged violation, then they won't proceed with an investigation and findings. So, I mean, there's a little bit of give and take with this bill, but um at the end of the day, I
071just have concerns as an attorney, as somebody who represents the staff of this district, that it just it's just adding a lot onto the plate of teachers and staff. Um, and you know, they're not charged with being attorneys and understanding all the laws, right? they're here to teach uh and teach effectively and efficiently. So, um it's just a little bit of a challenging bill. So, I don't know if anybody had any comments on this bill. Uh our current position, we don't have one. Um I recommend we just monitor this bill. Um or or recommend an amendment. Again, hopefully I can get a chance to meet with Representative Bacon just to kind of share some of the concerns and that if there are amendments proposed though, hopefully she'll be, you know, open to amendments. >> There's
072just so many questions surrounding it and so much it's not clear. So the federal level is the civil rights folks at the federal level going away. I don't think so. Are they? And then if they are going away and this doesn't pass, then what does that mean for civil rights investigations? I mean, it just it's very convoluted right now. Wouldn't you agree? >> Thank you, Director. I I agree. I mean, in in >> you know, it's it's unclear what is happening with OCR. I mean, I I got to be frank about that, but at the same time, you know, we already have the Colorado Civil Rights Division >> that already is charged with reviewing and investigating claims of of discrimination. There's also EEOC that reviews employment discrimination cases uh in public schools. So, you know,
073I would agree to the extent that it just kind of adds on to the burden and confusion around kind of what are the standards and what are we supposed to be doing? You know, again, what is undesirable behavior, right? I think that's a pretty vague term that could be interpreted in many different ways. We don't have any statute that defines what undesirable behavior means. And so, I just think it adds a little >> Well, and also the word severe and pervasive. So, severe, what is that? >> Right. And severe severe and pervasive is is generally defined by state and federal law, right? Um, and that's more of a an objective perspective, right? But it brings in some subjective perspective as well. But what state law does is it's not severe and a >> wait, sorry.
074>> Or or it's an or. Sorry. >> It's severe and pervasive under federal law, but state law says severe or pervasive. >> That's right. Yeah. >> Right. So now we kind of have two different routes to go. Um, and so one incident could be enough under state law, but it might not be under federal law. Right. And I don't want to claim any right or wrong with that, but at the same time it just makes it a little bit more challenging to know when is a single incident certainly discrimination under state law and when do we need to kind of cure that deficiency. Uh the next bill um Senate Bill 004 expand list of petitioners for a protection order. Just note that that has been assigned to the House State Civic Military and Veterans Affairs
075Committee. that will be heard on March 2nd. That's the bill that just expands uh who can bring an extreme risk protection order uh forward, which would then include institutional petitioners like school districts uh for an individual that they fear maybe of a harm to themselves or others uh and have that kind of 72-hour hold so that they're not they don't have access to firearms. Again, I know we had a pretty spirited discussion at the last hearing around this bill. Um, but just be I just want to kind of be mindful less about kind of the issue of guns and more about the obligation, right, that this is going to put on school districts. I think in terms of kind of relationships that we have with the community, this could cause a lot of issues, right?
076One way or another, whatever side you're on, I think folks feel pretty strongly about gun rights uh in this state, in this country. Um, and certainly I think it could just lead to some pretty complex relationships um if this is something that we could bring forward. Of course, if there is an instance where we would prefer after going through a threat assessment, for example, that somebody really is at a risk of harm or danger to others, you know, maybe uh there would be an opportunity under this law if it were to pass. So, um but just know that there this will be heard on March 2nd. Right now, we don't have any official position on this bill. >> Do you really think that it would change? How would it change what we already do now?
077Like I assume if one of our teachers or counselors feels that a student's at um a danger to themselves or others, they would alert Chief Corus and we would take that from there. Do you really anticipate that it would change >> it would >> our process? >> It would just change that like we would have an opportunity to file for that emergency risk protection order, right? Like because right now that would just go through the police department and maybe that's just where we kind of end up anyways. This bill does have immunities kind of built in. So we don't have we don't have to do it ever, right? But we can bring some question marks about why didn't we in a situation, right? And I think there might be some folks on one side of
078the fence who would be really concerned. Why didn't you file for an emergency risk protection order, >> right? And so I think it would just kind of create some questions about our practices and our decisions. And a lot of these decisions are really split second. Um, and I think it could it would just it would just put a little bit more pressure on school districts that I don't not I'm just not sure if this is an obligation that we need to be having, but >> it is a whole process and a court uh decision. So, it's it's not like if you ask for it, you just get it, >> right? That is true. >> Okay. Um the next bill uh Senate Bill 57 that's an elector uh school board elections director district bill that will
079be heard by the Senate Senate State Veterans and Military Affairs Committee tomorrow. Most school districts are coming out in opposition to this bill. We've also registered a position of opposition to this bill. Um Senate Bill 2619. I think I'm on my numbers a little off here. Early childhood local system consolidation that went through the whole Senate. So that did pass through the Senate just as an update and it has been assigned to the House Education Committee who will be reviewing it. That's not on the schedule yet. Um Senate Bill 68 modify administration of education assessments. Uh this is the bill that would kind of we could make request a waiver from summitative assessments uh from the federal government. Um this has been introduced in the Senate and there still doesn't seem to be any committee
080that's been assigned to this bill. Um same thing with Senate Bill 60, youth athlete mental health training. This is that concussion bill uh that was introduced way back in January and um it's now with the Senate Health and Human Services Committee and I'm not sure if that was um on an agenda yet and I maybe I missed something there but so on to the three new bills that I wanted to touch on with you all. Uh Senate Bill 100, youth sports safety requirements. So, this bill would require that uh any organization that has youth sports, like District 6, would require that at least one adult, like a coach, possesses a current first aid, CPR, and AED certification. Uh that is something that we're already doing. So, great job by us. Uh it would also require
081that for overnight trips, if there's a chaperone assigned um to the team, that they would have to pass a criminal background check. Um, right now we just require coaches pass background checks. You know, a lot of chaperons are parents, uh, community members, things of that nature. I'm not sure if we are requiring background checks for those individuals. This bill would make that a requirement. >> We currently require them to go through the volunteer background check. Okay. But that is not a criminal background check. It is a a check for sex offenders. >> Correct. Wade. >> Does that import policy? >> The volunteer background check. >> Volunteer background check. No, it does not. It does give us more than just >> volunteer program. Yeah, it does a full criminal >> so it does do a full
082criminal background check. Thank you. Yeah. So we currently do that. >> Is that in board policy? Excuse me. Um >> the volunteer background. >> Okay. Thanks. >> And and I think that's KIA visitors in schools perhaps or volunteers >> and and it also has the criteria in which we go by >> and the policy. >> Okay. >> Um it does create a cause of action though for failing to conduct a background check. So, if we have a chaperone assigned and we don't conduct a background check for that individual, it could create a cause of action for failing to uh do that. Um, and then it also adds crime of violence and other violent crimes as a list of disqualifying offenses. So, um, right now, you know, there's a list of what would be a disqualifying
083offense for working with or around children. Um, crime of violence is not currently on that list and so this would add that to the background checklist. Um, I think this bill is great. I think that there's a lot of reasons why we support it. We already do a lot of this work. Uh, I'm just generally hesitant to advise supporting legislation uh without adequate financial compensation. Um, and there's no liability protections embedded in this bill. You know, it would create additional workload for us just to make sure that everyone's going through these background checks. You know, a lot of these decisions can be made rather quickly. I know that we do have a very robust process with chaperons. We're not just letting anybody kind of willy-nilly um go in and be around children, right? But like
084of course uh this would just again add that kind of um cause of action if we fail to do something along those lines. Um so it could create le uh legal and liability costs uh for responding to allegations of non-compliance and things of that nature. Um again, this is a bill that I think we can monitor or potentially support. Again, we're doing a lot of this work and I think there's a lot of good reason why we'd want to support a bill like this. The next bill, Senate Bill 104, require key boxes at schools. So, this bill would require us to install a key box that contains keys and other access control devices necessary for law enforcement agencies to access each building and room located on school grounds. Um and we could use school security
085dispersement program money to install those boxes. I spoke with Chief Corass. This is again something that we are already doing um in the school district which is great to hear. Uh there are funding mechanisms that are already included. This is something that we would um probably support. But I would just add that there are a few kind of specific provisions around what needs to go in the key box. Uh including things like accurate maps that kind of set forth the building's interior. Um names and identifiers used by staff to identify rooms, doors, stairways, and hallways on the map, locations of critical utilities, things of that nature. Um so, you know, I think we might have to make some adjustments around kind of what's included in those key boxes. Uh but I again I think in
086the interest of safety and security this is certainly something that we could consider supporting uh especially because um Chief Corlo and his team have already been working really closely with law enforcement to do uh great work like this. And the last bill today is uh Senate Bill 107 modify Colorado Open Records Act Kora. Uh this bill makes me super excited. Um just so you know that uh Representative Kathy Kip or Senator Kathy Kip who um just was appointed as president pro proterm of the Senate um has been working diligently for several years to make revisions to Kora. Uh this bill actually did make it through both houses last year with a ton of stakeholder involvement and then Governor Ples vetoed the bill uh in the interest of transparency uh things of that nature. So, um,
087kudos to Senator Kip for coming back to the drawing board and trying it again. Um, there's just a few provisions in this bill that I think would make it super workable for especially me and my department and communications when we are responding and finance really. Um, we spend a lot of time responding to core requests. Um, so this would just give us a little bit more time to respond to open records requests. I can say in this district we are very transparent. We respond to open records requests with fidelity. uh we provide everything that's asked of us. Um but again it would just add two days to actually respond to it. Right now we have three days to respond. This would make it five days. Uh if we have extenduating circumstances we get an additional
088seven days. This bill would give us 10 more days. So just or I mean sorry three more days. So we'd have 10 days instead of seven. So really it's a few extra days. And I cannot emphasize how nice that is to have a couple more days to respond to these open records requests. Um, and it creates additional extenduating circumstances. If our records custodian is not working that day, we can say, you know, they're not here, we need a little bit more time to respond for when they return. Um, there's some flexibility for right now under Colorado law, no matter what, if somebody is making an open records request, we can never disclose student telephone numbers or addresses under any circumstances. Uh this bill would add a prohibition of any other student information that could be
089used to directly cond contact, address, or send a message to a student through any means or method. Uh which would be super beneficial. Um not that folks are really trying to do this for nefarious purposes. It's really for marketing reasons. They want to sell their stuff or get information out to students, uh which we just find to be unreasonable. Um, and then one other area that I thought was really um, important about this bill is it adds kind of this 30-day response time because a lot of folks we get for open records requests, especially our businesses that want to see all the contracts that we get so that they can work with other businesses to work on invoicing and pricing and things of that nature. It's really only for business purposes is the reason that
090they're making open records requests. And so this would give us 30 days to respond to those requests because a lot of times those requests are asking for 15 contracts, right? So then we have to go and we have to dig through all these contracts. A lot of them contain provisions that there's non-proprietary information in the contracts. So then we have to send the information back out to our vendors and say, "You've identified that this contract is nonproprietary. Can you tell us what's non-proprietary? Redact it for us." Then we'll get that back and then we'll send them a copy of a redacted version. Um, and so it does just take time. >> I'm curious, Nate. Um, I I correct me if I'm wrong. I would think in the past, um, there were more corora requests when
091things were a little bit more heated on the school board. I'm curious what the current situation is, how many requests you guys get and is it mostly from journalists, reporters, or just if you can. >> Yeah. So I would say we are getting less targeted requests for I don't know if a good word is for ideological purposes right >> um we get a they're mostly business related requests so it's a lot of me sending an email to Miss Sponsor and her team saying you know we just got another core request actually we got another core request today asking for 15 contracts related to this kind of one specific issue and so a lot of those are really more the type of requests we receive maybe one a week right now. Um, but we do occasionally
092receive very, very interesting requests asking for every single policy, all of our practices related to this one specific issue. You know, maybe once or twice a year we'll get a open records request from a university for research purposes that's requesting a ton of information. Um, usually it helps I'll just pick up the phone and call them and say, "Look, I know what you're looking for. This is going to take us a ton of time. if you're willing to kind of wave this three-day response period, we'll get you what you need on kind of a rolling basis. Most folks are pretty agreeable to that, but every now and then we get some push back um and some demand. So, we have to meet these records requests in a specific amount of time. So, yeah, I would
093say by and large right now it's mostly business related. We do get a lot of requests kind of for staff emails and things of that nature, staff position, staff salaries. Um, and again, a lot of that is for marketing purposes, so they can send staff information about all the great products that are out there, um, that their staff should suggest that we buy uh, for them. So, it just kind of depends, but right now, that's mainly what I've been seeing. >> So, Kora requires that we that as a district, we have to provide that information to anybody that asks, >> anybody that asks >> if it exists. And they don't even have to put their name. They could just put Batman. >> Thanks for telling the public that, Brenda. We do get >> This just
094like blows my mind. >> We We have I I call them frequent players. We have a few organizations that make open. They're based out of like New York, right? They're they're not even local. Um so it just it's very strange, but you know, I I'll see an email and I go, "Okay, this is this company." And >> yeah, >> they're asking for this information again. >> But sometimes it's parents, sometimes it's local organizations um wondering what we're doing. I mean it's it's not all business >> right and it does get tricky with journalists and things of that nature and if they are requesting kind of confidential student information for example and >> you know then it becomes a question of what we can and can't share and you know and >> and sometimes stuff is
095so redacted then you can't even it makes no sense I mean you you all had a parent in front of you at the board from one of our charter schools talking about information they had and they didn't have all the information because we had to redact so much of it >> it becomes is especially tricky too with emails, right? If they're requesting every email from August 1st, 2022 to present with these key terms and then we have kind of a robust process with our IT team and we have bought this technology that we use to help kind of um coal all this information. It'll be 7,000 emails, right? And then we'll call it and then we have to kind of actually pick through every single email to determine if there's confidential information or if it's
096not public information or if it doesn't meet the request itself. We can charge a reasonable fee for that time, but it's it's not an equal, you know, it's the the amount that we can charge >> financial burden seems like it would be tremendous, right, >> for all of that. So, but you can charge it's if if um you can charge for the time that it takes to get that information to people. >> Yes. And it's every so any request it's going to take us longer than one hour and then we just kind of like give them an estimate. We say this is going to take 10 hours, you know, and we've we've you know done this so many times we have a pretty good idea of how long it'll take to review emails. So, we'll
097say it'll take 10 hours. if you once you remit payment, then we'll start the work. >> And so, um, but more often than not, we kind of underell the amount of time. Um, if if we ever do say it's going to take 10 10 hours and it only takes eight, then we would offer a refund. Um, but by and large, it always ends up taking more time than we estimate. We don't ever go back and ask for more money unless it's really a significant amount of time. But yeah, the staff time to actual charge fee like ratio, it's it's way more money to respond to these requests than what we get back. >> Um, so that's it unless we had any other questions. I did want to say that um the future was bright. Uh,
098I had a wonderful time at the CASBY student day at the capital with you all. Um, Sarah, Abby, and Levi were tremendous. they kind of cornered Senator Bright for about 15 minutes and really asked him some pretty direct questions and I, you know, I think Senator Bright did a wonderful job of responding to their questions. Um, but I just was so impressed and so proud of them for for coming down to the Capitol and kind of putting themselves out there in that way. Um, something that I never did in high school um, and would have never thought to do when I was in high school. And so I was just like I just left with such an amazing impression of those kids and um I just think that they're going to go do great things
099and it's so exciting to see that we have students in this district that are so capable and amazing. Um and so again I just one of my favorite days of the year is to be be with students and in that capacity and it was just a really amazing experience. So thank you all who were there and um I'm sad that I won't be able to do that again. >> So that's everything. Thank you. Thank you. All right, let us debrief our work session and we'll start with you, Dr. Campus. Um, thanks Nate again for all that information. Um, it was nice to kind of go through a lot of these a second time. Um, now that we've digested more of the information, um, yeah, and, uh, the overview of negotiations was a good refresher. And
100I learned something new that one of the reasons we have a second reader is in case you really don't like the first one. So, or listener, that's >> director Edmonds. >> Uh, yeah, I'm I'm looking forward to negotiations. I think it's going to just be a great time of conversation and to to hear from our teachers and grateful for the work that uh Mr. Fall has done for us uh with a lot of these bills because again just even just looking at them and having to sort through it would be um incredibly arduous task. So to see uh just but it's also encouraging to hear the things that like District 6 is already doing. um when I saw this come through this afternoon about the sports safety and you know my son's really big into
101flag football and so trying to keep him with flag football and not contact because of all the things with CTE but so just to see we have that in place and strengthening student privacy when I saw that I underlined it I could highlight it if I could um just that's I think incredibly important so um yeah thank you for those updates and for all the work you do for open record requests I can only imagine especially when you talk not marketing. Goodness gracious. Didn't think that was most of them. >> Director Roi, >> again, just a a a learning opportunity in terms of understanding um just our approach to negotiations. I'm really looking forward that on Wednesday. that will be I just think um just fascinating to see you know what the the conversations are
102about and um just again the focus on listening I think is um super important and then uh the legislative stuff I just amazes me how I guess just from my perspective how much um I guess government oversight is within everything we do so and that I I think that is concerning, but I sure appreciate uh Nate's work and keeping us up on all of that's going on at the state capital. >> Director Garcia, >> same um as everyone else has had. I appreciate the update on negotiations and I'm really looking forward to learning more about how that works and then the update um with the legislative and Nate putting it in layman's terms so that way then I can understand it much better than I did before. Thank you, >> Dr. Rosari. >> Not much
103to add. Um, I too am looking forward to negotiations, listening to the voices in the room and appreciate Nate's um, uh, updates on the legislation. Uh, there is a lot out there and many bills that he did not talk about. Uh, but I'm sure those will pop up. Um, and I also want to extend thanks again to Annette Overton for going down to Denver, Tony Czech, and Nate makes a very good tour guide of the Capitol. if anybody is ever down there and he's there at the same time. >> Vice President. >> Yeah, Ditto. Um optimistic for negotiations. They've kind of grown to become one of my um top favorite uh things that we get to do as a board. Just finally, it's a it's a couple days where you can really see some tangible
104work getting done. uh some of the work that we do so big that it um I think one somebody told us one time it's like staring just you know like a an aircraft carrier it just takes a long time for it to turn. So to sit in those rooms and see something get done and and maybe add your your opinion and hear it be heard and utilized make you know kind of gives you that I'm doing something factor. So it's exciting. Um, and then just as always, thanks Nate for all the the detail and the hard work he puts into this. Um, it's a big time of year for him and for the state. Um, it's nice to be a breast of everything that might affect us. >> Yep. Thank you for the update on
105negotiations. So, I'm looking forward to that. Thank you, Mr. Fall, for all of your work. So much that we probably don't even know. Um, this meeting is journed. Let's eat. Cricket.