001[Music] Hello. Hey. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Oh [Music] yeah. Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Let it down. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Hallelujah. Heat. Heat. [Music] Good evening and welcome to the business meeting for the board of education of Gley Evans School District 6. This meeting will now come to order. Please join us for the pledge of allegiance. Pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Miss Lemon, will you please call the role? And Director Ozari. Director Bentley, present. Director Campos Spitzy, present. Director Mash, present. Director Matthews, present. Director Norwood, present. Director Sullivan present. Six board members present. And Mr. Ozari is excused this evening. Well, good evening. Tonight is
002the last meeting for the board of education for the 202425 school year. And so, a hearty congratulations to the class of 2025. As always, we thoroughly enjoyed and were honored to celebrate the graduations of our incredibly hardworking students. I think many of us shook upwards of 1,500 hands over the course of the weekend and we were inspired by the accomplishments and future plans of our graduates as well as by the vulnerable and hopeful speeches of the student speakers. Many of the student speakers uh shared their journey as English language learners and as children new to the country. They encourage their fellow graduates to make a new start in kindness and generosity towards others. And that while hard work is essential to success, don't miss out on the joy and beautiful relationships along the way. Our
003future is bright because the students of District 6 are going places and they care deeply. Congratulations to all of our graduates and their families, friends, and educators who supported them along the way. Tonight, we want to take some time to honor an extremely bright light in our community, former teacher, coach, and board member John W. Hafley, who passed away on May 31st after a year-long battle with pancreatic cancer. John taught in the district in district 6 for many decades. He was a tennis and baseball coach and a Chassa basketball referee, I believe, for 40 years. He met his wife of 31 years, Dileia, while they were teaching at Maplewood. John served as board director from 2013 to 2021. During this time, he helped to hire Dr. Pilch, mend the relationship between the district and the
004GA, passed two mill levy overrides and a 395 million dollar bond, and helped to update the strategic plan. The ripples of John's influence in the lives of so many students, families, and community members both in Gley Evans and around the state will be felt for years to come. At this time, I'd like to open it up for any board members who would like to honor John this evening. Dr. Campos [Music] Fitzy. So, um, I had the honor of knowing John for the last three years. I met him, um, when I began to think about running for school board. I had a friend tell me, "You need to talk to John Hayley." And um I remember chasing him down in front of the admin building in my heels um which he always made fun of and
005um and telling him I wanted to have coffee. Um after that meeting we met many many many many times. Um and uh things I just was trying to think of three memories about him. Um, I know he spoke about his mother being a legacy and um, a lot of people in the community spoke about his mother. Um, and I thought how cool that even sometimes it's really hard when your parent is a legacy to become a legacy yourself. Um, but John really did um, he is a legend and he is a legacy. He would speak about when he was in elementary school, it was during the Cesar Chavis um the great grape boycott and the uh when he was going through the cafeteria line, he would ask the cafeteria lady, "Are these grapes from California?
006Cuz I'm not eating California grapes." And so I I loved hearing him share that story. um loved cheering him on when he uh I don't know if he got out of his comfort zone because John was very comfortable in the limelight, but um at the Dancing with the Weld County Stars, he shone so brightly and raised over $30,000 for the Boys and Girls Club that night, just that night alone. Um, uh, I remember, oh my gosh, during my campaign, I don't know how many yard signs he gave out and how many times I went to his house to drop off more yard signs. And, um, I remember a conversation with him and Dileia in their kitchen. And um it to me it was so meaningful cuz I know that John and the Hay Fleas have
007always stood for equity and education and you know their opportunity fund and the scholarships that they um fund. But that conversation um is is so memorable to me. They were sitting they were sitting at a table. They were telling me at a scholarship event and the awardee um was being spoken about on stage and they were sitting next to the awardee and their family and they realized that the awardy's family couldn't understand anything that was being said about their own child. And so in that that kitchen conversation, they were like, why don't they have translation devices at all of our events and all of you know, and their passion um for equity in in our district just um shown brightly in that specific conversation. Um anyway, yeah, I I could go on and on. Um,
008I know right now I have a friend who will be running for school board and she came to Michael Matthews um, like honor event that we did not too long ago. And John looked at her and was like, "Where is your name tag?" And I think he's mentored so many of us through election campaigns and even just a month ago was still, you know, doing that. And um I I love that he went out on his own terms and doing everything he loved and traveling and being with his wife and going to the hospital with his dog Emma. And I admire him even for this last year and how he chose to live it. And so um we will miss you, John. We hope you're listening to another boring board meeting up there. Um but
009I will cherish his memory forever. Thank you for sharing. Mr. Norwood, I met John in the early 90s and I kept trying to remember where he was teaching. It was either Chapelo or Maplewood. Um, but he always had an infectious smile as he does on the the the pictures that we're seeing right now. And no matter whether you were competing against him or with him, he would always support you. what can I do to help you? Um, and when I decided to run for school board and I've known John forever, um, he extended himself more than any human being possibly should or could. U, and always said, "I'm a text away. I'm a call away. If you have any questions, let's go somewhere. Let's grab a glass of water. Let's sit down. Let's visit." But,
010uh, the thing that I remember about him as well too is that whenever he, um, refereed high school basketball was that if kids had questions, he took the time to explain it to them. He didn't just walk away and say, "I'm an official. I can't talk to you." He treated the kids like they were important. Um, and I watched him referee a lot as I had kids that came up through the the district and played sports. So, uh, but that's the things that I will remember about John as well too. never met a stranger, ever met a stranger. And most of the people that he interacted with throughout his life, he never forgot their name. And that always impressed me. So, uh, the community lost a very valued member and, uh, we'll all miss him.
011Thank you, Mr. Norwood. Pushing your button, Mr. Matthews. Okay. I couldn't find the button. That's right. I uh I think a lot of people here will uh will certainly miss John. Um knew him well. Uh he was he was a at such a huge part of of this district um at at every level and cared about every level and cared about every school and and seemingly every every kid and every school. and um he served on this board for for eight years. He served on the Ames board. He served on the United Way board. He was a very public figure and I'm can't list all the boards that he was on. Um, but I think what what is so impressive as good a board member as he was, as good a teacher, and if you
012if you want to see the comments on his Facebook page from from students across the decades, uh, just go go look uh to see the impact that he had on students. But as good a board member, as good a teacher, a as good a um public servant as John was, he was even better than that, just a better person. And uh as as was said, he never he never met a stranger because he made a point to to meet everybody. I remember when we were we ran together in 2017, he was running for his second term on the board. I was running for my first and it was my launch party and I thought he had been there. Uh there were a lot of people and I didn't get to see everybody and um and
013I saw him the next week and I said, "Oh, John, I'm sorry I didn't get to go and and talk to you. Were you there?" And he said, "Michael, if if I'd have been there, you would have known it." And and that was just John. Uh John, you his energy filled the room, any room. And uh he always made sure to meet everyone in the room. And every time we would go somewhere um together, there would be at least four or five people that stopped to say hello to to him. Um but it didn't matter who the people were. For for John, the the people who uh you know, if if the mayor was stopping to say hello to him, uh it was he was no more important than than the waitress. and he asked
014always asked about her day and what he could do uh to make her day better. Um and that was just the way he lived his life. And um yeah, that he will he will be sorely missed uh in this in this school district, in the city he leaves. Uh we we've had a lot of of great friends pass away our school district in the last few years. Uh but John John leaves such a hole um because he again he he filled every room uh that he walked into and um we will greatly miss him and our condolences to uh to darling Dillia. Dr. Pelch, did you want to say something? No. Okay, sounds good. Well, a story I just um well, for starters, I feel like um so blessed to have been able to know
015John for the past six and a half years, and I feel a little bit like um I I'm just I'm new to the John and Dia Faithfully fan club. Many people have been blessed to know them for for many decades. Um, but I was able to go with John and his dog Emma to UC Health, I believe, just two weeks before he passed away. And even though I knew he was low on energy that he was in pain, he just continued to to show that strength to um we went up to the ICU. I didn't know that dogs could go in the ICU. It was pretty fantastic. Um, all the nurses got down on the floor with them in their nursing station and yeah, John knew everyone's name. He knew to ask, "How was your
016vacation? How are you recovering from that surgery? Congratulations to your graduate." Um, just not just a champion for Gley, but absolutely a champion for all and just such a connector. And I think I'm stealing this from Mr. Matthews. He he just said at another opportunity to talk about John that he made everyone feel like the most important person in the room. and he was truly remarkable. Um my life has been greatly enriched um by my friendship with him and um he absolutely strove to live by the three virtues that he ultimately got tattooed on his arm just this last year. Um strength, grace, strength, and dignity. Um that was just how he lived his life. Um one of the graduation speeches this year was called don't be that person. Don't be someone who tears others
017down, holds a grudge, or is petty and mean. And the flip side of that would to be to be that person. Be a person like John Hayley who lifts others up, always encourages, and in his words, uses your gift to make the world a better place. Um, my friendship with John changed me personally for the better, but his work as a board director also shaped my understanding of the work in district 6 and the ultimate focus uh that I want to hold on to. Um the two things that John brought up in every conversation and every decision that we made was um first to ensure that every decision would build relationships and connections in the community that we were always working to build trust and collaboration with families and other stakeholders and the second was
018commitment to our value that all means all. we know that every child can achieve and our beautiful diversity is a strength and he worked to ensure that every opportunity was available to every student in our district that every student felt welcome, seen and safe. So, as this is our last meeting of the year, and we won't be seeing all of our students, families, and staff for a couple of months, I wanted to send you all off into the summer with a reminder that in District 6, each of you matters. Your work in District 6 matters. Your work as a student or an adult in our community matters. Gley and Evans are rich in culture, heritage, experience, and perspective. And we continue our commitment to ensuring that our schools are welcoming and safe and to our
019firmly held belief that all means all. Have a wonderful summer. And now we'll move on with the rest of our meeting. Um, let's see. Now I'll give it over to Dr. Pilch for her superintendent's honor role. Thank you, President Mash. I'm happy to introduce Assistant Superintendent Anthony Osmus to come forward. Um, and he will, uh, have some other introductions for the other folks we intend to recognize tonight. Thank you, members of the board. Uh it's an honor to recognize our all-state athletes and our groups. Um but first before we do that, um I just want to take a second and and just thank Chris Klene who is attending his last board meeting for us. He's retiring and making way for Sean Scrubick who who will replace him. Um so I just want to give him
020a little bit of gratitude and and I have this plaque for him. And the plaque reads, "Chris Klein, thank you for your years of service with deep appreciation for your dedication, leadership, and commitment to excellence. Thank you for inspiring greatness on and off the field. Chris Klein was a great leader for us and just kept things going um for all of our students, and we just want to thank him for his service. So, coach, appreciate you." Thank you very much. Thank you, Anthony. Dr. Pilch, board, I appreciate it very much. Um, as as Mr. Asmus said, I'm retiring for my second time. Um, I did retire once from the district already, but I keep getting these phone calls when people call, Dr. Pilch or Bob Billings would call and I came back to work as
021a stadium manager in a neat when they had a need. Now, I've come back to do the district AD for a couple years as a need, and I'm looking forward to what Sean Scribbik's going to bring to the district as in a full-time position in my role, which is is duly needed. So, I appreciate the time, and I've it's been my honor to serve District 6 and I will always be available if there's a need again. So, because it's a wonderful place to work and a a wonderful community that my wife and I have really enjoyed being part of. So, thank you. At this time, thank you. At this time, we would like to recognize the students for the spring who have achieved all state or state place or have had a chance to qualify
022for state uh tournaments and we honor them. We've done our fall and our winter and we honor the spring athletes. It's always tough because coming in June, school's out, the students disappear, and trying to get them here on a on a Monday night has been difficult. But we do have some here for you tonight, but not all of them. We wish all of them could be here, but they all had commitments. But we'd like to honor them and and and have them recognized before the board tonight. So, our first honores will be from Northridge High School. And for them, I'd like to recognize Jeff Collins, who will introduce the Northridge students. Thank you, Chris. Thank you once again um for having us here. I wanted to second or echo um we made a lot of
023effort to try and get our kids here today. It just they like leave at graduation. We can't get them back. Um although they aren't here, I do want to mention we had a great girls golf team season. uh placing second at regionals, fourth at the state tournament that we were lucky to host here in Gley at Boomerang, which is a pretty cool honor. Also, I'd like to acknowledge our track athletes who competed at the state track meet. We were represented by 11 student athletes, three relays, and one competed in an individual event. And then the folks that did show up today um our FC CFCCLA um participated in a state competition with their food innovations project. Uh they are in first place in that event and are traveling to Florida for nationals here pretty soon.
024So congratulations guys. I told him that maybe the board would have questions. Yeah, I would love to hear about your project if you would like to give us a little snippet. Um, oh my gosh, I'm so sorry. Maybe you could tell us what FCCLA stands for and what maybe the purpose of the club is and then a little about your project. Okay. Um FCCLA stands for Family Career and Community Leaders of America. Um you can talk about the event like food innovations. Okay. So we competed in food innovations as you know we got first place and we also got a perfect score on our rubric which was pretty cool. Um, basically what we had to do is we had to get uh we were given a prompt and the prompt was to create a healthy
025drink alternative um for students of all ages. And we created a decaffeinated mango and pineapple green tea with um orange boba in it. And it was pretty good. That's amazing. Thank you. So, that can replace like the Celsius and the Monster and all the things that our students are currently consuming, right? Yeah. That's awesome. Maybe we can uh taste that, test that at some point. So, you do a similar Do you bring your current creation to Florida or will you compete with a new prompt? Um, we bring what we competed at state with there. All right. Well, thank you for sharing and congratulations. Did you have anything else to say? All right. Well done. At this time, we'd like to recognize uh JJ Baron, the athletic director at West to introduce his students. All right.
026Uh thank you again for this opportunity to showcase uh our students and our athletes at Gley West and stuff. And um I also want to say uh thank you to Chris Klein as a new AD coming in two years ago. Um you really don't know what you sign up for um and stuff. And so he has been very patient with me. Um helped kind of guide me throughout everything and stuff like that. So I want to say thank you. Um I got four groups I'd like to highlight tonight. Um our first group would be the tennis group. Um Coach Pace uh qualified two athletes and our doubles. That was Hayden Aley and Sophie Harold. Um next was our swim. Um they qualified two, four, six, eight athletes. Um, Shahal Kern, Alexander Calhoun, uh, Sam Sam
027Sasaki, Christopher Greenberg, Ian Spooner, Timothy Kingsburg, and Hayden uh, BL. Um, they had a great season this year. Uh, they broke numerous team records this year. Uh, one of the records was had been in uh, school record had been in place for over 30 years and that was our 50 free uh, that was broken by Timothy uh, Kingsburg. So, um, our last athlete to to kind of showcase is, uh, Valeria, uh, Cassada. She qualified for the state tournament in, uh, discus and shotput, uh, through her personal bests, uh, the last day, uh, she made the finals in shotput and placed fourth and made the second team all state. So, um, and the last one I'd like to highlight is, uh, Iet Gagos. Uh she uh placed second in fashion sketch for FCCLA. Thank you guys.
028Thank you. I think it's still you, right? Or is that It's a special item. It is still me, but it's a special item. And I don't know if you want to start or you want me to. I don't know if I have I think we're on next to the approval of the agenda. On what? I'm sorry. Approval of the agenda. Okay. I move that the board of education of Gley Evans School District 6 approves the agenda as presented. Second. Thank you. Is there any discussion on the approval of the agenda? Seeing none, will you please give us a vote, please? Director Bentley, I. Director Campos Spitzy, I. Director Mash, I. Director Matthews, I. Director Norwood, I. Director Sullivan, I. Motion carries 6. Okay. The next item on our agenda because we will be passing our
029district budget. Um, pursuant to Colorado Revised Statute 2244 1110, any taxpayer residing in the school district is entitled to register his or her comments on the proposed budget with the board of education either in writing or in person at a public hearing. The proposed budget for the 2025 2026 fiscal year has been posted on the district's website for review. I do not believe that we have anyone signed up to speak with us this evening. Okay. All right. Moving on to our special item and I'll give this back to Dr. Pilch. Thank you, President Mash. If I may, I'd like to go to the podium for this item. President Mash and members of the board of education, I would like to invite to the podium with me Mr. Steven Pollson, who is a semifinalist for the
030Colorado State Teacher of the Year. [Laughter] It it is truly my honor to get to recognize Stephen tonight as a semi- finalist for teacher of the year. Um, I want to tell you just a little bit about this. There were 419 applications from 106 school districts in Colorado and 22 semi-finalists were selected. Um, and so there's now another round of application that Stephen must go through. I'll let him talk to you about the process a little bit, but um, finalists will be announced in September uh, or September and then the actual winner will be announced, I understand, in October. Um, this is this is a significant honor uh, for Stephen for Gley Central High School where he is a teacher and for district 6. For 14 years, Stephen has been an educator. He's a social
031studies teacher. Um but most importantly he teaches students and he teaches students to be um college and career ready. He is an avid teacher at Gly Central. He's an advanced placement teacher at Gley Central High School. Um he pushes students uh to do more than they thought they could do before they met him. Uh he is a first generation graduate himself and as such he's a significant advocate uh for firstgen students. He he sets his expectations high and he provides high support. Um you all know that we have o over 3,000 total people in our system and and about 1500 of those are teachers and I I am proud to say uh that Mr. Pollson is one of the finest in district 6 and it's been my honor and privilege to get to know him
032and watch him lead um as an educator here in the district and in district 6 and and I you know I believe he probably has on shorts tonight in honor of Mr. Hafley who I would be shocked if he if Mr. Hafley was not one of Mr. Pollson's mentors uh here in District 6. Um I I think a lot of you know Steven, you know, he's high relationship and and that he not only expects uh to form a relationship with his students first. Um but then he's going to push them and help them to build resiliency and grit uh so they are successful and that they're ready for their future. He really does exemplify our mission here in District 6 um and our vision to make sure that all students are college and career ready.
033It's truly my honor to recognize you, Stephen. and I'd like to give you the microphone if you'd like to take it for a moment. And I I would guess the board may have some comments to make as well. Thank you, Dr. Slight height difference, I guess. Um I am wearing shorts for Mr. John Hafley. I found my best cargo shorts. So, um I worked with his wife and then he was a great mentor to me and he means a lot to me. So, I'm glad we got to acknowledge him. Um this doesn't make me very comfortable. So, I really don't want to stand up here very long, but I just want people to know how much I love District 6 and how much I love our students and the opportunity to work in the district.
034Um, I've been in a few different places. Um, but I love this district and I'm going to stay in this district till I get kicked out of it. But, um, I really didn't want to do the application to be honest with you, especially as I'm writing my seventh 750word essay. But when I did some research, no one in District 6 has ever won and this award started 19663. So I hope something positive comes of it for district 6 and more importantly for Gley Central. So thank you for having me here tonight. I appreciate it and thank you Dr. Pilch. Congratulations. Um so I met Mr. Pollson not too long ago. Um he was advocating for his avid sophomores. He was trying to connect them all with a career experience that aligned with their interests. Um,
035and when he was um coming across some difficulties finding health care professionals who would um be mentors for these kids, he went on Facebook and um posted a request um for for career mentors. And to me like just that in and of itself posting on Facebook for his students. He is not a teacher who clocks in and clocks out. You know, he's taking this passion outside of the classroom and and reaching out to his community network, which I think wrapped around his project and and we got his students connected. Um, but just high praise to Mr. Pollson. Um, Director Matthews and I were commenting on he's only been at Creley Central for two years and is already leaving a mark. Um, so I think that, um, speaks, you know, in and of itself. loved your
036your post on Facebook that you recognized every other school in District 6 that you've worked in and that the one thing that all these schools have in common are our amazing students and that that's why you're here. And so, thank you, Mr. Pollson, for everything you do. Thank you. Thank you, Dr. Campos, Mr. Matthews. I had a quick question, Mr. Pollson. What What percentage of the students you teach are freshman or sophomores? Too many of them. Most of them most of them I would probably say 80% 90% are ninth graders. That That's what I That's what I would have guessed because Mr. Pollson teaches AP human geography. It's one of our our first AP classes that students get to take and uh he's done that at Gley West and now now at Gley Central. Uh
037you've taught two two of my children and have a third uh coming coming up this year. But um that that class is is really one where we try to find students who who are smart and don't know they're smart who can who can do AP and might uh might go on to college but don't yet know it. And and I suspect um Mr. Pollson is responsible for for sending a lot of our students to college who otherwise would not have have gone to college. not only through AVID, certainly certainly through AVID, uh but but also through AP human geography and just teaching, you know, doing the hard job of teaching freshmen. And so, uh this is a welldeserved and and thank you for all you do for us. Thank you. I appreciate it. But now
038that you've honed your your essay writing skills, maybe you can help the seniors with their college essays as well. Yes, unfortunately. Well, thank you very much for being here. Congratulations. Um, best wishes in the next steps. Thank you. Thank you, Dr. Bill. Our next item of business is to adopt a budget for the next school year 2025 2026. And this will require a motion. I move that the board of education of Gley the board of education of Weld County School District 6 approves the budget proposed budget for the 2025 20226 fiscal year. This includes a total appropriation of $465,41,286, the transfer of funds from the general fund and the use of the beginning fund balance where required as presented in the proposed proposed budget document. Second. Thank you both. And I see Miss Sponselor coming
039to the podium. Good evening again. Thank you for having me. Um, we had a lot of time at the work session to talk about the budget and then I have had the opportunity to meet with most of you individually to answer any questions. So, I didn't really want to go through the same information again, but I did want to just let the audience know that the budget and a lot of financial information is available on the district 6 website. If you scroll down to the bottom, there's the financial transparency link and you can click on that link and you can discover a whole world of District 6 finance information. So, if you ever need something to help you go to sleep, it's out there. And I'd be happy to answer any questions you might have
040about the budget. if you have anything that you're still just really curious about. I would just reiterate to the public to district 6 um staff if you have never taken a look at the budget document that Miss Sponsor creates each year. Um it has demographic information on each and every school. It um has a line item for every single position in the district. So, if you are a teacher at this school, you can find yourself in the budget. Um, it shows uh the funding formula that we've been working with for the past who knows how long. And then it explains the new funding formula that will be phased in. Um, there's lots of great graphics and the information presented in multiple different ways in order to make it clear. Um, so yes, please do check
041that out if you have any questions. And I would just like to mention yet again that district 6 has received a clean audit every year for all of the years that I've been on the board. Um there's also a financial health um survey that the the state does and um we always receive um a healthy report there as well. So thank you so much to um Megan and to her team and um yeah take a look it you you'll learn something. It's not it's not all, you know, boring. It's really interesting. It's fascinating to see where everything um lives. And um as I've always been impressed with Miss Sponselor, she understands that those dollars are people, that their programs, exactly how they affect our students. So, thank you very much. Not seeing any other questions,
042will you please give us a vote? Director Bentley, I. Director Campos Spitzy, I. Director Mash, I. Director Matthews, I. Director Norwood, hi. Director Sullivan. I. Motion carry 6. The next item on our agenda is a superintendent report. Thank you, President Mash. I'm honored to first introduce um some of our our latest hires, and we're getting close to being fully staffed um with our administrative team. I'm first going to introduce a couple of folks who weren't able to be with us tonight. Brian Devo, who will be the new assistant principal, athletic director at Girley Central High School. Uh Brian has been in uh district 6 for some time now. He was a teacher at Jefferson High School. Um and then he became the the dean of students at Jefferson here two years ago and is happy
043to move over to Gley Central High School. And then Victoria Baker is our new assistant principal at Madison Steam Academy. Uh Victoria comes to us from having been a first grade teacher and a lead teacher at Centennial Elementary. So, we have hired her from within and she couldn't be here tonight um either as she is having a new baby. Um so, welcome to both Brian and Victoria. And then I'm happy to introduce with us tonight is Mr. Austin Colem uh who is the new assistant principal at Twiton Academy of Pre-Engineering. Uh and I will tell you Austin already hit the ground running. Uh he was at our district leadership team meeting last week. Um, so so they're they're moving quickly, uh, getting him involved in the district, but he comes to us from the Thompson
044Valley School District where he was a math teacher. He does have some previous history in in District 6. Taught math at Jefferson High School um, almost a decade ago. So, welcome back to District 6, Austin. We're really glad to have you at Twiton Academy of Pre-Engineering. Yes. And then and then finally, I want to introduce to you our new director of special education, Tabitha Miller. Um Tabitha comes to us having been the executive director at in the Johnstown Milikin School District. And so she was she was in charge of all things special ed and much more um in Johntown Milikin and a much smaller district, much smaller team. So we are so excited to have someone with her level experience join us here in district 6. She was also a special education teacher uh working
045with resource students as well as students with effect affective needs. Um and she also was a second grade teacher and a preschool teacher. So lots of background and experience she brings to District 6. Really glad to have you Tabitha. Welcome. Okay. I just uh first want to say um thank you for recognizing Mr. Hayley in the way that you did. Um and thank you for those of you who shared comments. Uh he leaves quite a legacy here in District 6 and uh we look forward to continuing to honor him um in the days and weeks and months to come. Um I want to celebrate on his behalf uh that we had 1423 graduates this year. Um right around 90. So you had that about right? 90 more graduates than the previous year and we'll have
046yet another 120 graduates from GAP um on that June 21st graduation. So we'll come over 100 uh plus graduates. Uh so really excited about the numbers we're seeing in our graduation rate um in summer school right now. It's it is going K through 12. Um and we have over 3,000 students involved in summer school. So, when we talk to educators and we think, "Oh, it's summer. You're off." Um, it takes educators to run those summer schools and and it takes nutrition services and custodial and secretary and health services. And so, uh, we've got summer school in full swing and we'll have it in full swing really through July. Um, and then we have over 180 interns in internships right now in local businesses and community and industry. and and I'm already hearing back from some
047of the businesses about how excited they are about their interns and how impressed they are with these young people that we're putting into their businesses. So, that's that's super exciting. Um, and then I I will just point out that on the consent agenda tonight, there are two items um of importance that that I want to call out. One is is the contract with Ames Community College for early college academy concurrent enrollment. And I I just want to remind everyone that, you know, we have we had this year over um 1,200 students in concurrent enrollment courses. That means those students were earning college credit while still in high school. We could not do that without our mil levy override dollars. and and we approve this contract tonight with AS for $700,000 of concurrent enrollment that students
048at Early College Academy will earn at a discounted tuition rate because of our relationship with Ames and so so grateful for that partnership with Ames. So grateful to our community and then the other contract I want to point out is the contract with North Range Behavioral Health. We have a significant partnership with them as you know and they do provide u mental health specialists in in all of our schools and support to all of our schools and um we couldn't do what we do for our students and and their emotional well-being did we if we did not have this partnership with Northrange and just really grateful for that partnership and and grateful to be able to um have the board consider the contract with Northrange so that we can continue that partnership. Oh, and then
049finally, the Gley West Car Show. Uh we announced it uh last meeting, but uh this Saturday, June 14th, 10 a.m. to 1:30 Gley West Car Show. Uh $35 to enter your vehicles. Uh and it's free admission and lots of fun to be had there. And it's a big deal uh to have a summer activity going on this soon right after school gets out. So, uh hope you'll join the car show at Gley West High School. Thank you. Thank you, Dr. Pilch. Our next item is public participation, but we do not have anyone signed up to speak with us this evening. So, we will move on to our consent agenda, which is an action item requiring a motion. I move that the board of education of Gley Evans School District 6 approves the items presented on
050the consent agenda and authorizes the officers to sign any and all contracts. Second. Thank you both. Is there any discussion on the consent agenda? [Music] As Dr. Pilch mentioned, it's the end of the year and then, you know, making plans for the next school year. So, there's all kinds of contracts um being renewed and our um things that make our district run. So, um please give us a vote, Miss Lemon. Director Bentley, I. Director Campus Fitzy, I. Director Mash, I. Director Matthews, I. Director Norwood, I. Director Sullivan, I. Motion carries 6. Thank you. Our next item is a call for elections and this is also an action item. I move that the board of education of Gley Evans School District 6 calls for an election for the purpose of filling vacancies that will occur as
051current members terms of office expire and direct the designated election official to notify the county clerk no later than July 25th, 2025 that district 6 will participate in a coordinated election. The designation election official designated election official is further directed to publish a call for nominations no later than August 21st, 2025 in the Gley Tribune. Second. Thank you. Is there any discussion on the motion? Seeing none, please give us a vote, Miss Lemon. Director Bentley, I. Director Campus Pitzy, I. Director Mash, I. Director Matthews, I. Director Norwood, I. Director Sullivan, I. Motion carry 6. And then we need to designate an election official, which is also an action item requiring a motion. I move that the board of education of Gley Evans School District 6 designates Amy Lemon as the district designated election official and
052Lindseay Richards as the alternate designated election official for the November 2025 election. Second. Is there any discussion on the designation of election official? Seeing none, we're ready for a vote. Director Bentley, I. Director Campos Spitzy, I. Director Mash, I. Director Matthews, I. Director Norwood, I. Director Sullivan, I. Motion carries 6. Next, we will revise um our policy JKBA, disciplinary removal from the classroom. This is an action item that requires a motion. I move that the board of education of Well County School District 6 approve the revisions to policy JKBA as presented. Second. Dr. Pilch, did you have anything to mention on this policy? These are revisions that we make each year. Are there any questions on the motion? Miss Lemon would give us a vote. Director Bentley, I. Director Campus Bitsy. I. Director Mash. I.
053Director Matthews. I. Director Norwood. Hi. Director Sullivan. I motion carries 6. Next is revisions to our G personnel policies. Someone would give me a motion please. I move that the board of education of well county school district 6 approve the revisions to the G personnel policies as presented. Second. And is there any discussion on the motion? Mr. No, I I didn't have a question. All right. Um, seeing none, will you give us a vote, please? Director Bentley, I. Director Campos Spitzy, I. Director Mash, I. Director Matthews, I. Director Norwood, I. Director Sullivan, I. Motion carries 6. All right, that is all the business we have for this evening. Again, please enjoy your summer and we will be back for our next meeting, August 11th. This meeting is a drink. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. [Music]
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