001Heat. Heat. N. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. [Applause] Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. [Music] [Applause] [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] [Applause] [Music] Yay! [Music] Woo! [Music] Woo! [Music] Thank you. [Music] [Applause] [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] [Applause] Heat. [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] [Applause] [Music] Come on. [Music] Heat. [Music] Good afternoon. Welcome to the work session for the board of education of Gley Ever School District 6 on August 11th. Uh Miss This meeting is called to order. Miss Lemon, will you give us a role, please? >> Yes. and director >> present. >> Director Bentley >> Campus Fitzy >> present. >> Director Mash >> present. >> Director Matthews >> present. >>
002Director Norwood >> present. >> Board members present. >> I think you made it before it clicked 401. So good to have you, Mr. Bentley. >> Welcome. Our first item on the agenda is well, welcome back everyone. Hope you all had a great summer. Look forward to hearing everyone's comments. Um, first we will review our calendar. Um, which here we go. Um, couple of things to point out. Uh, the Casby Region 4 regional meeting, I don't know if anyone has attended that in the past. that we're host hosting um at Twiton Thursday, August 21st. It's an opportunity to kind of network with our neighboring districts. Um I don't know if there's a specific agenda. Do you know, Miss L? Printed agenda. >> Okay. Um yeah, like I said, a good opportunity to meet other folks in
003the area, see what they're um working on. Let's see. Um and then our CASBY fall conference and delegate assembly. I don't know if this would be an appropriate time to discuss who wants to continue to be the CASBY delegate this year. Um I know Dr. Campositzy has been that in the past, but um >> and I will be attending the fall conference. Um but I was hoping somebody else would want to be become a delegate afterwards. >> Okay. Um so we um each each board can send a delegate to a couple of additional meetings besides that uh winter big conference. Um at the fall conference and delegate assembly um each board can cast votes on resolutions that different boards have brought forward. Um sometimes then the CASBY lobbyists will bring those to the legislature. Um
004the fall conference often has the teacher of the year as a guest. they often have student speakers. Um, so maybe this is an opportunity just for folks to know that that is an option if anyone wants to become that person. And then obviously we'll be adding uh potentially some new board members in the fall in November. Um, so maybe we'll we'll put a pin in that. Um, if you have any questions about what that might entail, if if you became our delegate, you could talk to Dr. campos or I was um the delegate before her. Let's see. Dream Team Community of Champions Breakfast. That would be a great one to attend as well as the Gley Phil Harmonic Orchestra be breakfast. Um especially that all all of our different groups kind of are, you know,
005coalescing. I know the success foundation has specifically been raising money for musical instruments that Glee philarmonic orchestra partners with us as well. Um and then all the way down in October, the Weld Community Foundation spread the good lunchon is also an excellent event. Um as Dr. Pilch mentioned that the theme for this school year is better together. Um we continue to want to foster those relationships with our community partners. >> President Mash, just a reminder that at the Dream Team Community Champions Breakfast, um Dr. Pilt will be recognized that morning. Um, and with all of these events, if um, board members could RSVP as soon as possible, I'd appreciate it. >> Okay. >> Thank you. Um, I was wondering if anyone was planning to go to the CASBY region for regional meeting at that point.
006>> I just felt Okay. I just wanted to make sure at least one of us would be there since we are the hosts. >> I think we have several people registered to go. >> Okay. Okay. >> Awesome. >> Any other comments on the calendar? Um, Miss Papis is getting recognized here soon for women of distinct >> something. It's kind of what we went to for >> Dis West for Daniel >> West. Yeah, she pretty there's a potential new board member also being recognized. >> Okay. >> Yeah, I haven't seen anything about that. If anyone has those that those details >> just had an email about, but I can't find it. But >> I'll look. It's It's pretty soon. >> August 27th, I believe. >> Great. >> Thank you for that. Okay, we'll move on to
007board member comments. And Mr. Rosari, would you like to start us off? >> Certainly. Thanks, President Nash. It's uh it's been a busy summer. Um not just for for me as a board member, but for our family in general. My mother-in-law is now living in Gley. I think it's great for her. Uh but that took us took a lot of time from our family, but just the same. I attended quite a few events um on behalf of the district. And the the two that I will report out on tonight is uh first of all I attended the student health advisory council. Uh the students meet uh for a day in the summer to plan out their year and they asked me to come in and and speak to them briefly about leadership. And so I
008I uh I did that. But I also invited my daughter to come in. She's the student uh leadership programs director for CU. So, she came in and shared her insights with the students as well. And I'm very impressed by our student health advisory council students. Um, when you talk about leadership with a group like that, you might as well just use them as models of good leadership. So, very proud of those students. And then the second thing I'll uh report out on is um at the arts picnic. I attended that event and I was asked by the Gley Arts Commission to just uh remind the board or inform the board I should say about a program they have in which they um distribute art booklets out to every third grader in the district. I guess
009they've been doing this for a long time. Yeah, >> they typically come to a board meeting also to talk about it. I don't know if they've reached out to Miss Lemon or not, >> but these art books are very colorful. This is from 2014. It's a good program. They have all sorts of local community art in these books. It's kind of like a treasure hunt. You know, they go around the community and see if they can find us somewhere around. So, I just thought that was very they're very interesting and I really appreciate the arts commission's efforts to help build our community uh amongst all the other things that I attend. So, I just wanted to highlight those two. President Mash, >> thank you, Mr. Ozari. Mr. Matthews. >> Um, first off, the I guess
010our first big event always of every school year is our backpack giveaway and fantastic event as always. Um, Miss Meyers that and your team. Congratulations and uh thank yous to to all of you and and all of the district. There there are a lot of people who show up and a lot of people who give a lot of time. Uh the Northridge football team is there every every year uh putting away tables uh making sure that that we're not our our district administrators are not there till 3:00 in the afternoon. I don't know maybe they're still there to 3:00 in the afternoon but only because of the haircuts but it used to be I mean 3:00 was pretty pretty normal. Um so again thank you to everybody uh and thank you to all of our
011partners in the city. U one I got to talk to was I spoke to a lot. Uh, one of the things I try to do is just thank them for being there and speaking with UNCC. I got to got to hear what again what they're promising with the Gley Promise and and how amazing that is for our students. And and if I'm doing the math and it's rough math, but if I'm doing the math right, if you're a free and reduced lunch student in in district 6 that you you probably can go to UNCC for free. Um, Brenda is nodding at me and she's on that board as well. So, uh, that that's a pretty I mean, not just fantastic opportunity, but an incredible opportunity for our students. And so, um, yeah, we we have
012amazing partners in this community. Um, couple other things I did get to go to Gley Central this morning. We have a French foreign exchange student in our in our home and so she just arrived on Saturday and we got to register her. But uh but as always and as expected, everyone there was so kind and welcoming to her and I haven't had a chance to see her afterwards. But um I can't imagine that it wasn't a a good day at Gley Central. I also got to go to uh sporting event today. We have golf. Golf has already started and um I I don't know. I think different high schools are playing different events this week, but but Frontier and Gley Central were playing uh in Longmont today. So, uh, if you didn't notice from all
013the traffic getting here, it we're we're back in school. So, um, uh, welcome back to everyone. >> All right, Mr. Norwood, >> want to say welcome back to the students as well. You know, gosh, it seemed like the summer flew by. Did visit with um had the opportunity to visit with some former students this summer just to kind of see what um their feelings were with the upcoming school year. and I think they were all anticipating good things from the district and um good things from us. So, it was great to visit with them. Um had a chance to spend a lot of time with family this summer, which I haven't had a chance to do much of in years past as I cut my business back quite a bit. And I took in a
014lot of baseball this summer. Spent a lot of time uh watching the Yankees. So, it was good. >> Thank you, Campos Spitzy. So yes, um happy first day of school for everyone. Um I also got to send off um my first grader to her second year of meer dual language. Um and my new 11th grader. I also have a French exchange student who's attending Gley Central. And actually Cleo helped welcome her. >> Oh, good. >> So um Mr. Matthews exchange student helped welcome mine this morning. Um, I also wanted to express gratitude for the D6 school kickoff. Um, it was again a huge success. Thanks to Teresa and her team. Um, as director Matthews already mentioned, they put a lot of time and energy into the event and I hope they know how amazing it
015is for our families to be welcomed back in such a special way. Um, I think the Gly Tribune headline was controlled chaos. Um, but it was such happy, energetic chaos. Um, there were haircuts that apparently go on till 3. Free haircuts, uh, free vaccines, school supplies. Um, one booth was giving away a $250 Walmart gift card through their raffle. And also love to see UNCC represented. Um, making sure our students and their families know how affordable a four-year degree can be. Um my kids favorite booths. I had them tag along with me. Um were the smoothie bikes and they've upgraded. Now they have a smoothie bike and a salsa bike. Um so those were manned by our very own uh Shack Student Health Advisory Council. Uh the Boys and Girls Club also did a very
016popular race track that the kids really loved. Um, over the summer since our last board meeting, I was also able to attend the UNCC legislative update and hear directly from Anne Barkcus, our lobbyist, about her advocacy around the new school funding formula. Um, I was able to attend the Pter Learning Center's annual fundraiser. Um, it was done on June 20th. It was a solstice dinner and was beautiful. Uh the following day uh a few of us got to attend the GAP graduation and then just at the end of July um we got to go to the Habitat for Humanity fundraising breakfast. So feeling grateful for the summer. Um my kiddo had a shorter summer because she did do summer school in June. Um as you will learn during a presentation today, summer school is a
017time for students to catch up, but there's also enrichment programs. So, her dual language immersion school um did a whole month of only Spanish June school. So, they spoke Spanish all day long um to fully immerse the kids, which is pretty cool. Um I am also grateful for all of our firsttime teachers. The personnel report on our agenda was a bright spot amongst many bright spots on our agenda today. Um and I was sad to miss the district leadership kickoff this year. Uh, on a personal note, my grandfather turned 100 on July 25th, and so I traveled with my family to El Salvador to celebrate him. Um, but I did get to watch the PowerPoint and all the inspiring video clips and love the theme of better together. Um, so excited uh about our up
018trending graduation rate. Um, that's I hear hitting 90% which is pretty incredible. Um, also excited about our renewed focus on early literacy this year. um and bringing us to tonight's meeting. Excited to discuss the downtown uh civic campus project with you all. So happy to be back. Thank you, >> Vice President Bentley. >> Uh summer was a blur, I guess. I didn't even know it really got going and now it's over. Uh when you only have your kids half the summer, it really goes really fast. So, um, between work and stuff, I I did very minimal anything that had to do with the school board except, uh, when dear dragged me in the office to give me updates. But we, uh, I did jo I did visit, uh, was able to attend a a meeting
019on this when they first kicked this the project off with the the weekly meetings. Very excited for the downtown project. And then uh attended a couple of u uh the council of education meetings downtown at the uh chamber offices and those are always informative and good to be at to see that collaboration between the three three big school entities the education entities. So glad to be back and looking forward to u Friday night lights. >> Yeah. Well, thank you all for your comments. Um happy first day of school to everyone. I do have a senior this year, so I'm excited. He went to Senior Sunrise and all of those last year things again for my second kiddo. Um, as some of you know, um, I spent a large part of the summer caring for my
020mom who has a new, uh, cancer diagnosis. So, thank you all for thinking of and praying for our family and please keep that coming. Um, but I was able to attend the Habitat for Humanity breakfast, which is just amazing. um the scale to which they've been able to grow that program and how many new houses are going up each year. I always love hearing from the folks who um who are are new recipients of of home and able to um build that, you know, generational wealth and and pass that on to their kids as well. Um I also got to again from the parent perspective have a student who had an internship this summer. Um and thank you for continuing that program. I'm excited for the person who's newly in charge, Lisa Hudson. Is that
021correct? Um maybe we'll get to meet her. Maybe we did meet her. I don't think we have yet. Anyway, um excited to watch that program continue to grow because I know we don't have enough spots for all of the interest. Um but again, another great partnership um here in district 6 and in Gley. All right, our next item is the an update on our board vacancy. Um as I mentioned um in a and a message sent to you all. Um board member Taylor Sullivan has moved out of town. That is effectively her um resignation and and um now we declare a board vacancy. So we'll do that in the business meeting. U because we're within 90 days of the election, we do not need to appoint um a new board member. I think that's pretty
022much all I need to say about that. If anyone has any questions or comments or um there's a resolution that will be read and then and then we will vote on that. Okay. Um discussion about school visit availability. Um in the past we have tried to sometimes alternate the days of the week that we visit schools and even the times of day based on people's work schedules. Um, so if you have a preference, um, this is the time to discuss that. My schedule changed this year since I have two school school age children. Um, I used to have Wednesday mornings off, but now I'm going to be working Wednesday mornings and we'll have Wednesday afternoon. So my I mean I hope everyone chimes in and not just me, but I have Mondays off, Tuesday afternoon
023off, and Wednesday afternoon off. Um, does anyone else have, you know, sort of like a set schedule where there are certain dates that don't work or certain days that always work? I think everyone else is pretty flexible. I um make my schedule in advance so I can kind of work around them. I'll do my best. >> Boss man, retired folk. Okay. >> Maybe Miss Rley, if you know >> I know that >> you're here. I do. >> And then share that uh with Miss Lemon and we can, you know, try to maybe try and be on >> some of those weeks that you're in town. >> Y have other days that you all prefer, let us know. We're going to start setting those up. Principles are ready for us to come visit. >> Awesome. Okay.
024Um and then also Miss Lemon has attached um our school ambassador lists. Um I think there are probably a few changes um since we now have six board members until November. Um so take a look and see if if anything has changed with you. And then um yeah, we just moved Mrs. Sullivan's uh ambassador schools to others others of you. If that I think I talked with each of you who we moved another school to. If I didn't and that's that's a problem, let me know and we can look at another option. And then when the new board is seated in November, sometime after that, we'll reassign schools again probably or at least get schools assigned to new people. Good. Um and that brings us to our discussion of the civic campus. >> Great. Well,
025um I'll invite um Mr. Henson, assistant superintendent of support services up. And then I'll I'll introduce to you also Kelly Johnson who's in the back here, chief of staff for the city of Gley. She's here as well, uh, should we need the city to weigh in on this. Um, and then of course, Mr. Fall is available if there's if there are legal questions that you all might have. And Mr. Henson and I are happy to take other questions um, as we go through the presentation. But I think you all have stayed pretty up to date with this. We wanted but we wanted to to come out publicly with everything share what what we know as of today. Uh what we do know know is it changes rapidly. So what you see tonight could change some
026um the the big concepts will probably remain the same but some of the minute details definitely could change between the entities um who are working through all of this with us. And then what we will be asking in the the actual business meeting tonight is we will be asking the board to consider a resolution uh to authorize staff to continue to proceed with with planning and and contract negotiations. Of course, any final contracts, any contracts would come to the board for approval. Any expenditure dollars would come to the board for for consideration and and approval or not as well. Mr. Henson. >> Okay. Thank you, Dr. Phelps. President Mash, Board of Education. Uh we've had a really pretty busy summer um this summer doing a lot of things just around the district, but one of
027our highlights uh is that we've been working on this project. We've been meeting about three times a week uh with representatives from the city and the county uh and the private development and kind of rehashing uh plans on um how this uh project might come together. Um so the four major parties involved as I'm sure you know is Weld County and um these things in blue are kind of the main outcome not all of the outcomes but the main outcome that will benefit each of the parties with Weld County a new judicial complex. the city of Gley, new city hall and offices for us, a new administration building, and with Richark Vertical, the private uh developer, a new hotel and perhaps other retail space downtown. And so this is kind of a description of this
028project. This project is pretty unique in that it has all three public entities working together uh and collaborating and one private entity. And um you know I think if you look at the last paragraph uh the end result is is that all entities are working to stay downtown with a downtown presence and update their facilities and also add to the um um business businesses downtown and create a nice uh public corridor along with all the private buildings. So the project covers approximately four and a half city blocks as you look out the window here and approximately 16 acres of land. Our benefit as we mentioned before for district 6 is that it's allow going to allow us to replace this aging building uh that is as you know is needs needs some work on it
029without purchasing real estate. So if you think of any of these entities working alone, if they had to go out and purchase prop, there's not a lot available. So one of the advantages of this collaboration is that we can swap properties with each other and in doing that have the property to build. Also for us, um unlike Gley West where we built on site next to a building, same at Madison, same at McCauliff, um we couldn't do that if we had to rebuild on this site. So, it allows these people here to work through construction, and then we're able to open a building, move, demolish, and then get on with our life, which saves a lot of money um and is a lot less hassle overall. And so, here there's uh and maybe you've seen
030maps that have whole lot of things on it. I'm just showing you kind of the simple things that affect uh District 6. And so, presently uh we own the blue building. um they're what I shaded in blue and within this project we would end up being able to build on what's shaded in yellow and so it would be basically a move across the street and that would be uh the result of land swaps. Um so there that red arrow means we're move we would move there. I forgot my animation skills here. Um, and so this would become the new district 6 building. We estimate we would need about 70,000 square foot. Um, but we're not in design and an all-in cost of uh $50 million. So So that would include uh design, build, furnish, demolition
031of this site and turning it over. >> That include our portion of the parking garage >> and our portion of the parking garage. Thank you. And then this in the blue would become a shared parking garage with about a thousand stalls. And we would have about 150 uh dedicated uh for district 6. Um but that would also include stalls needed for the civic center uh for the county uh stalls for the city for their new town hall and also some stalls would be uh would remain for public use. Is that the only parking garage in the whole project? >> That is the only garage. >> And I don't mean like that that's a bad thing. I'm just >> Yeah. No, that is the only garage. We've looked at other places to put um surface lots
032and then also counted all the parking spots. Um and that was something that we spent quite a bit of time in talking about as as we developed this, not only the land trade, but how does all of these pieces work to have enough parking for everybody. So that >> is that >> pardon me. >> How many stories is that for a thousand stalls? >> Uh four. >> Four. >> Mr. Henson, how many how many stalls do we I mean how many parking spots do we have right now? >> I think there's about 60 out there. There's about 60 out there. And then there's, you know, street park in here. We do own the lot, little skinny lot that's not used very much across the street. And then we lease the lot down here next to
033the church. So, this would dramatically enhance our ability to park. >> I think it would give us more parking spots. I don't want to use the word dramatically, but >> Okay. >> I think it would increase our our ability to park. >> We utilize a lot of street parking. Yeah. >> As staff a lot. Um, >> and it comes and goes during the day. It >> It fluctuates quite a bit. >> Can you keep the spots for breastfeed or there's like a pregnant mother spot? I love that. We have all sorts of signs. >> I've ever seen that. >> Those are the small those are small details we can work out later, but you can create a sign for anything. So, um, and so our timeline really what we're doing right now is getting into
034the land swap language, the sequencing of events because that is a lot of uh property to move and who goes first and then how do you develop it? Um, discuss the new D6 block planning and collaborative work. So on the the block with the yellow um the other half of that may be city hall and uh perhaps a hotel. So how do we work together to develop one site potentially with two or three different builders at the same time and then parking is critical. The parking garage is critical to downtown. So, we are um in a position to move quickly uh so we can get our piece done because everybody needs needs the parking garage. So, that would that would come toward the end. >> Will there be parking with the new building? >> Nope.
035>> What about >> Well, I don't think we know yet. >> Yeah, we I'm I'm saying no. We may have a select number of parking spots. Um but we also we have to be able to get to trash recepticles. We have to be able to accept deliveries and things like >> we know is there won't be enough for the entire staff. >> No, >> during demolition there won't be any parking here. >> During demolition, we won't be able to park here. So, that is something that we will have to work out with everybody else and everybody's going to go through that. Um, the city and the county. Um, we're going to be move moving around um with parking. remember from the May 12th meeting was that across so across 8th Avenue so just east of
0368th Avenue that that might become a parking area. Right now it's an empty lot. >> there has been discussion that that may become a swing space for parking. >> Okay. >> Um but nothing's nothing's finalized yet. a lot of that uh those details still need to be worked out in addition to where the layown space for you know all the contractors and will be for each of these projects. So you know we'll have to be flexible um as will the city and the county as as we all go through this >> what's the timeline look like >> well right now >> it's funny you should ask Mr. Sorry. >> I'm sorry. I always think in advance. What can I say? You guys have Q cards or what? >> Wildcats. It's Wildcat telepathy. Yeah. Um, so
037what we are doing, you know, pending your your resolution tonight is we would like to get out in front of this and put out an RFP for design build for this site. And so hopefully if we get that under contract this fall, we still have to work out details on the block and we might there might be a collaborative advantage for us to do some of the civil work together. So we're not doing three things different things that we have part of this in common. So those are some of the details we're still working out. But I think the things you really would like to know is construction start there on this plan would be a year from now with the start and then a substantial completion which means our building would be finished in
038February of 28. After that then this building has to be uh demoed abated I should say its abatement and demo um this site uh filled and then ready for the next move. So really what our target is are the last two dates. This may slide a little bit depending on all the discussions of other sequencing and how this fits in with everybody else's plans. >> What's GMP? >> Um that is where you're really getting your your final cost for the project. Are we completely independent in this process as terms in regards to our building or are we still working with the city and the county in any additional negotiations concerning the parking garage? >> Oh, and other such >> Oh, yeah. >> buildings there. there, like as I mentioned, there's details where maybe it makes
039sense to share do some sharing like with the civil layout of that whole block there um to make sure that what everybody puts on there somehow is compatible like with the sewer and with the utilities um and things like that. Um the parking lot in terms of how that is going to work, we've had a little bit of discussion on that. more details need to follow. Um, what we would like to do though is once the site and the civil work is done is we'd like to be kind of in charge of our own building, but we have to work through all those discussions yet. >> There's significant agreements and contracts to work through still. >> Yep. And so, uh, part of tonight is, you know, with this resolution kind of allows us to go
040forward with some of that work. >> And to kind of to bring you up to speed with the county and the city just a bit. So, the county has has uh they fulfilled a resolution to to direct their staff to continue to go forward with their planning um, and their their contracting and begin the processes. And then the city has also all that has been presented to the council and the city staff has been authorized to continue with planning and develop developing contracts and working out the plans as well. So we're we're we're because we we were off for the month of July and the last part of June, we're the last to come to the table to consider this piece, but they're just they're just a few weeks ahead of us because they were
041in session. >> Yep. and our director of facilities, Jeff Curtley, um has been working on the process to get this out um so we can start getting people involved as we continue our communications with the city and the county. So project cost, uh there's our kind of our budget. Um you know, 35 million for construction cost. Um so with about 70,000 square ft that's an average cost of about 500 square ft² you know we if you think about years ago we brought in Gly West you know at about 450 construction cost maybe a little less but that's right in line with our builds the um main schools large schools that we built a few years ago. So depending on inflation, I think this is a good a good target. Um sometimes high schools are a
042little more complicated to build. Um but that's kind of our budget budget goal there. And then the total cost including site demolation and parking garage is the $50 million target. >> And uh just refresh our memories, um we're saving a lot of uh dollars in doing it this way. versus had we have had to build an administration building or re uh you know revamp this one. >> Oh well revamping this one the the price of fixing this was uh see was it almost $30 million$25 to $30 million and that doesn't give us that doesn't fix any of the inefficiencies of this building. So sometimes >> it's just repairing systems. It wouldn't be fixing, you know, closing in areas out here that are open that are unusable or the the main area downstairs. So it's not
043it's not helping us with facility use. >> You you'd still end up with a 70 year old building that has a lot of inefficiencies and >> new carpet. >> Well, we wouldn't be able to house >> flooding either. >> Yeah. we wouldn't be able to house the family center and the enrollment the enrollment and family center um either who are across the street. We plan to move them into the new building uh which we we wouldn't be able to move into this building because that cost does not include any restructuring of this building. >> Right? If you look at the first two floors of this building, not counting the basement, but the first two floors of this building is terribly inefficient when you're trying to have people. So really with um moving this building to
044higher ground uh we don't solve the flooding issue of this site even once you repair the you know the systems inside the building and so I don't know if this is in this presentation but from the May 12th presentation um so yeah it was the repair would have been 23 million but it doesn't count remodeling and redesigning the building so pointed out >> or open space you know from when it was a bank would still be there. Um and and it wouldn't account for relocating people while this place was getting repaired. >> Um or um >> everybody here would have to move out for two years, >> right? >> somewhere. >> And then at that presentation, you talked about the facility condition index and it was 0.64. Um so I looked up like what's a
045good what's a good FCI, what's a bad FCI. Um a good FCI is less than 10%. And so a poor condition building is between 0.25 and 600. And when it's above 60, it's called critical condition. And so yeah, >> we are currently in critical condition. >> CDE CDE uses 0.5. Anything 0.5 or above is, you know, fit for demolition. >> Yeah. My only concern is like, oh, 2028, you can't get it done sooner. But >> ours, too. Let's hope there's not another fast storm. >> We're moving fast. >> Yeah, this is fast. >> Two and a half years. >> But so just want to make sure from the public's perception, this is a really good deal that we're pursuing. this this opportunity >> I think this opportunity is a in my opinion is a once
046ina-lifetime opportunity to stay downtown with the other businesses and the other civic partners for all of us to stay downtown and support downtown if not this there's not other property we would have to go to property that we own on the corners of the district that you know wouldn't wouldn't I don't think benefit the city of Gley as much. >> One other question, the the building that's across the street >> that was the family was that the family center, >> what is there and are we responsible for any of that? >> We don't own that building. >> No, we're leasing that building. >> It so it would go back to the owner and they they would probably they've talked about redoing that area across the street as well. Mhm. Okay. >> So, funding this project,
047Dr. Pelch. >> Oh, you turned the course over to me. >> So, you were Megan for funding. >> Yeah. Um Megan's on a on an Alaskan cruise. So, it's me. Um she had to postpone a trip from when her husband got so ill and so it landed now. And so, we're glad she's off. Um but we're funding, we would fund through certificates of participation. Uh you've learned a lot about those I think over the months, but but the idea is we would sell um those certificates of of participation much like you sell bonds and then we would pay those back over 25 years at about three and a half million a year um that we would budget into our annual budgets. Uh we've begun to work with Stipple on what that that would look like
048for us and uh we have a a pretty good bonding rate still and so uh we would get pretty good rates on this and would make these attractive uh certificates to purchase. As well as we've shared in the past, we use certificates of participation when we built the district athletic complex. So, it's the these are typically used for something that you would not, you know, go to your voters and and put on the ballot like like we did with the district athletic complex. And sometimes smaller districts will use uh coops for things like a new gymnasium um or a sometimes a roof that's been damaged at the school. So, they're they're often used for critical uh repair kinds of things or critical needs in the district. that we've we've built a schedule with stiffle um
049on this the certificates of participation and the the letting of those and um we would actually come to the board at the second meeting in October to share with you the final plan on those um and to to seek your approval at that point. So you're not approving the sale and or the purchase and sale of the certificates of participation tonight. You're just approving for us to continue to negotiate that. Um but it would come back to you in October for final consideration before we went forward. >> And from the May 12th meeting, um we talked about an existing building would be collateral. >> Yes. >> Would it be just one building, two buildings? >> Uh we are not we're not certain yet. Um Megan is still working on that piece. Uh there's it'll pro
050you know we're we're trying to determine do you which building is the best used or multiple buildings. We haven't made that decision yet, but it's probably a building. Um, and it is probably one of our newer buildings. >> Okay. Um, and then I from that May 12th meeting, it does talk about uh that the certificate of participation is taxexempt, which makes it attractive to those who could buy our debt, which is really nice. >> Yeah, they're very attractive. Uh, and we still have a really good debt rating and or bond rating. So, you know, the these will be attractive, I we think, for investors. >> And here, while we're looking for the at a possible 25-year repayment, um we talked about at the May 12th meeting that we could it could be paid off as
051part of a future bond. >> Yeah, we would have to in the future, we would have to structure the bond language to allow for that. So, districts who haven't structured their bond language that way, you know, can't 10 years later decide they want to pay it off with a bond. So, we would have to be certain to work with legal counsel in the structuring of our bond language if we ever wanted to pay it off. Like, say with future bond proceeds. You wouldn't want to, you know, you'd want to first take care of your buildings and build new buildings and those things before you would want to pay this off because you we've committed to this if we do it. Um, but then we would, you know, we we could look to bond proceeds, I
052think, in the future. So, um, just to review, so we're looking at $50 million, but if you know 25 years, three and a half million, that's $87.5 million. >> No, it's 70 million is what we're totally all in at 70 million. >> Okay. Um, that's the parking lot. That's demo of this building and the new building and all the furniture, fixtures, equipment, everything. Uh, the maximum we would go is 70 million. We we just we feel like we just have to stay under that budget in order. Did I saying the wrong number? >> So, it's not really a 25-y year repayment. >> A 20ear repayment >> at 3.5 million. >> Well, I'm guessing that's interest. I don't know. >> Megan provided this. So, I don't know that. >> Yeah, because that's 87 and a half.
053>> Yeah, I would guess that's interest. >> I think that's because of interest, right? So, if we could >> and then three and a half million is really an approximation, too. And just to put it in perspective, our budget that we approved was $465 million. So this is less than 1% of that that we'd be paying annually. It would be 0.75% of our budget >> without considering bond dollars. >> Yeah, it's 50 million, not 70 million. I apologize. 50 million. Sorry. >> I apologize. >> We tried to get Megan to spend 70. It's 50 million, not 70 million. >> Yeah. And I think this math works out just because the interest that you just >> Thank you. >> I think to Mr. Zari's question before, if you think about Heyman, you think about Bella 48,
054you think about Winterrad, those are 25y old buildings, good shape, solid shape. When you think about paying this off in 25 years, you have a new building that would be 25 years old versus a building that would be approaching 100 >> and probably should not be on the historic registry. >> That's my other life. >> Yeah, >> probably not. >> Yes, that's a good point. Yeah, I think uh I would encourage anyone listening to this work session to also look at the PowerPoint from May 12th because it goes into a lot more detail including that the building was built in 1956. >> Well, that that's why I brought that up because we got to keep that in mind going forward. It's this is not just something new. This is something that's been based on careful
055thought and the school district is prudent in moving forward with this project. And we continue to >> remember back >> when choices >> CFO says to me um D we we have to have a new building. We we don't have a choice. This building is not going to make it. And the expense that needs to go into this building is not not something we we want to invest in. And if we just even think about an new elevators here and the tremendous expense of those and and trying to to figure out how to retrofit and make them work, you know, the architects and engineers estimated what it would cost. My experience with significant renovations of buildings is that they they rarely cost what you think they're going to cost. You run into so many things
056um just like we've run into with our repairs across the street after the flooding. We're still not open over there because of what we've run into with the renovation that has occurred needed to occur over there. So, um you know when we all have a lot of trust and miss sponsor, but you know I this is you know $50 million are real dollars and that those are dollars that would go to a district administration building and not to a school. I want to be really honest about that and when I have to consider that I think you know Megan looks at me and says J this building is not going to make it and we hope it makes it till 28. >> So she you know she's the youngest one of us so she's thinking
057longer term about what this district is going to need I think too. One other question, Kandon, that is and you may not have an answer to this. This might be more of a city question, but uh the infrastructure about the flooding >> this broader project >> can help mitigate that into the future. >> Please, Kelly, >> I'm presuming that's all part of this bigger >> picture. Jeff, you want to join us? Well, we good. Okay. >> Okay. Good afternoon. Thanks for letting me join you. Uh the city has made a commitment between all of the partners. The infrastructure has been a topic of priority uh concern here. So the city has already planned for $500 million worth of infrastructure work. We are sequencing that as well to align with the sequencing Kent was talking about
058in terms of the project and the partners coming together. Uh making sure that we get some of that infrastructure taken care of alongside the project. Also noteworthy is that we've already started that work. So flooding happens upstream, right? We get flooded because we're in a low spot. Downstream. We have aging infrastructure. Much of our work has already started in other parts of the community, but specifically the aged infrastructure, which is a huge contributor to what we see downtown when we get that heavy rainfall, too small of pipes, too much water, too many people, too many obstructions. So we'll be fixing that. >> Thanks, Kelly. >> Good to know. >> That's something we talked about pretty early. Yeah, >> pretty early on. >> President Mash, I wonder about just going around and hearing from each board
059member on questions or comments they might have um around this because it's, you know, it's a significant project. It's it's a big ask and I want we want to make sure we've heard from each of you. >> Do you want to start, Mr.? >> Sure. I think I've asked most of the questions that are on my mind. I I just wonder I'm I'm sure as all the public does as to the commitment of all three organizations in making sure that this gets done. Uh it's a it's a big undertaking and uh we're just as Dr. Pelch said early on we're a very small piece of this puzzle but an important an important but where I think we're the first one to jump in once this thing is goes. So I'm just I do worry about
060the larger picture of it and the funding mechanism behind everything and our little small piece uh we can control but like the parking garage and and the infrastructure which you've already answered. So that's that would be my only concern and it's almost impossible really to answer that. I I could just comment a little bit for you. Ken can can say it too is that the exciting thing is that you have um city, county, school district, and private development all very committed to this project. We've been working for close to a year now, working in different committee meetings, working at uh political levels to really try to ensure that all of these entities retain what they need in their new development respectively, but also what's in the best interest of our community or the desired interest
061of the community, which is to retain the presence that we all have in downtown while also committing and opening up land for more development, more residential. So you bring in density, you bring in business, and the economic cycle continues. And I I can tell you with confidence that I truly believe all of the entities involved desire that. We do have a lot of mechanics to work out. We have a lot of steps to get through, but I see the commitment there and I'm very hopeful for it. Yeah, I think going through we identified everybody kind of identified these are this is a hurdle or this is a kind of a non-negotiable you know that we have to get and you know they've all been worked out so far they've all been worked out >> and
062every time we meet project goes one step one step um I can't say it's ever really taken two steps backwards um it might have taken well a little longer to get to that step but I think everything so far has worked Um, you know, like I said, we meet three times a week and everybody's committed to this and there's a lot of details that have to get worked out here, but I think the biggest hurdles have been met. >> That's my only concerns. >> Okay, Mr. Matthews, >> yeah, very much in favor of it. I always think about um well recruiting teachers and the last number I saw was that we're up to 3,800 employees. Is that did I see the right number or was that a misprint? >> Sorry, it was right around 3,000.
063>> Right around 3,000 3,300. Okay. >> 3,300. Okay. Maybe I just maybe I misread that because I was like, wow, that >> eight. >> Yeah. But e either way, I mean, we're we're one of the largest employers in in Weld County and and in the last 10 years, we we have become a destination district. This is a place that people want to work, >> but it's also got to be a place that people want to live. People have to want to live in in Gley. And um this is good for this city, for for our county, for our city, for our school district, uh for private development to to make this kind of investment in our downtown. This is this is good not just for district 6. This is good for Gley and for us
064to be successful in this district. I gley has to it has to be a destination city. It has to be a place that people want to come and want to live. So again, I'm very much in favor Mr. Norin, >> I know we had some couple of visits this summer. Mr. Henson, I've been a small business owner for over 50 years. And I know we visited about sometimes if you have equipment and if you have to pay more than 50% of the value of a new piece of equipment is better off just to try to buy new equipment. Um, I've experienced both where I patched them together and then broke down way out in the middle someplace and call them for help. >> So, I support it simply because um, I think it's good for
065the district. I think it's good for the community. >> Um, and when you're having to throw dollars into repairing something uh, when you could get something newer for less than 50%, I just think it's I just think that's a must. So, >> yeah, I also think I asked most of my questions during the presentation. Mostly um to echo Director Matthew sentiment, I'm excited about it. I think it's really an extraordinary opportunity for the three uh different public governing bodies to collaborate on this. um looking forward to kind of a cohesive design, not just peace meal, but something beautiful and aesthetic. And I think the heart of our city and of our community really deserves uh the facelift. So, um we're a a half a block of four and a half city blocks, so we really
066are a small player as director pointed out. Um, yes. And and this building is old and I think the other options for me like going out west just is not an a palatable option in my opinion. It's not centrally located in our city for our families. And we're hoping that the new building will also have our family center enrollment center all in the same place. And to ask our families who live close to Bella Romero to go clear out to, you know, 69th Avenue, I think um would not be fair. Um so I think doing it this way is uh like director Norwood just said, will really be a cost savings um with the amount of work that would have to go into retrofitting this this building. I I call I text or call Dr.
067Pilch every time there's a storm. Is the building okay? Um so uh I think I think it is it is time and two and a half years sounds like a really good timeline. It's nice to be in that first phase of the project. >> Mr. Bentley, >> uh I guess I just have a little bit more color to add to Doran's questions. Um the the county is in a position where they have to move or they have to build. They they got a new district. They're they're out of room judicially. So they're moving either to O Street or here anyway. So that that part is handled. Um they just had to justify the the cost to get it in their brain that the same because they operate on cash. So they have like the cash
068ready. They're they're they're doing something. So we just kind of had to urge them to stay downtown and to and to participate. So, so, so the biggest player is on board. That's that's a pretty big hurdle um as far as confidence for us. We're also the first phase. So, even if something deteriorates down the road, more than likely our buildings are going to be in process and done and the paperwork will be signed. So, um there's there's a lot of the stuff that plays into our favor. Um outside of that, it's the city is was willing to do it without the county, too. So, we would we was they they brought up suggestions of, hey, if this county doesn't want to, then the city and the district still does it. So, I think it's gonna,
069you know, we're gonna we're going to have help over the finish line. um as long as everybody's happy and and comfortable with with the dollars and and everything. But um you know, that's why we have Megan and and her team and you know, she says that we can afford it and I think that you know it's it's a home run as as far as getting something like this done in in a positive light and fashion. So really exciting for the city as a whole. I think one of the Richardsons brought up that the Gley is 60% of the county, you know, just residency wise. So that's that's the majority and that's kind of how politics work. So I think that was pretty uh that was that was good timing when when the county was pushing
070in one of those meetings about and you know they well we got to answer to 31 other municipalities and he said well 61% of your your voter base is in the gley city and and Michael says as a city the district goes so goes the city well so as a district goes so goes the city so goes the county so pretty pretty easy to map. I think I agree with all that that has been said. I'm a huge um fan of downtown. Spend all of my time and money down here at the local businesses and excited for um that to to be elevated. And um I think it bodess well of um our leadership here in the district that we were invited to be a part of this and it is a unique opportunity. Um,
071as far as I know, all of the community meetings, there was a lot of support for this project as well, um, when when the county was asking our community. So, um, I've also been, uh, privileged to be on the board through all of our our bond decisions and our bond build. And I have confidence in the team that that we're on time and on budget. and um it went really well with such so many projects that um I have confidence this one will go well as well. Thank you all of you for your comments. And I'll just say, you know, that we are really honored to be a partner with the the private developers as well as the city and the county. And um it was the city who first approached us over a year
072ago about would you even ever consider and um I'm just grateful for that relationship and that partnership and all the work that has gone into this. And I I am really hopeful about it and I look forward to what it will mean for the the community and for the city, our city for really for decades and decades to come if once we bring this to fruition. >> All right. Thank you for being here. Thank you for answering all the questions. >> Thanks, Kelly. Thank you so much. >> Somehow this session went really long. >> I know, man. Sorry. All right, it is now time to debrief the work session. And I guess we'll start with you, Dr. Campus Spitzy. >> Sure. I've a lot already this meeting, but um thank you, Kent, for laying it
073out. I I love your your aerographic. That was great for that land swap. Um yeah, I'm happy to to be back in the boardroom and excited about this school year. >> Summer sure went fast. It is good to get back to work and um I do have to say thank you to Kent and Dr. Pilch for the meetings this summer that basically enlightened me about the new building and um again I would encourage anybody if you've ever ran a business if you have to pay more than 50% to repair an old one you just patch it together it's going to break eventually any anyway. So look forward to seeing the plans for the new building. I really do. >> Mr. Matthews. >> Um, no, just thank you to everyone for putting it together, getting us
074back back going again. Good meeting. >> Yeah, thanks to everybody involved uh in this project. Thanks to the city. Thank you for being here tonight, Kelly, in answering our questions, and we look forward to working close with the city and the county as we continue to move forward through this project. And thanks, Kent, for all your work. Uh once again, we thought we were done with all these buildings. >> He's got Jeff behind the scenes working pretty hard too back here. >> Yeah, Jeff. Thank you. >> That's it, >> Mr. >> Um yeah, just glad to be back. Um I heard a thing in in a meeting the other day. It was it was about cells, but it's it's pretty applicable here, but it's it said if you had a 500 ton train, it ran
075into a 4ft cement wall, you wouldn't even know it. It was like piece of paper. But if you had that same 500 ton train at a stop, a 1 inch by one inch wood block could keep it from moving and and the moral of the story was momentum is important and really think D6 has got a lot of momentum and it's pretty exciting just to kind of be beyond that train and just to see where it's going. So glad to be here. >> Always love your word pictures and thank you for that. Yeah, it's great to be back. excited for this school year and um fun, you know, exciting work ahead. We get to to see those design build and the and the progress being made. So, thank you for all the information. Uh this
076portion of the meeting is now adjourned. We'll see everyone back at 6 p.m. [Applause] [Music] Heat. Heat. N. [Music]