Greeley Evans School District 6 Board of Education Work Session 2-24-2025

001[Music] a oh [Music] n [Music] n [Music] h [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] e [Music] [Applause] [Music] w [Music] he [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] e [Music] n [Music] y n [Music] [Applause] [Music] he [Music] n [Music] oh [Music] he [Music] good afternoon welcome to the work session for the board of education for gy Evans school district 6 today is the 24th of February um we will call the meeting to order and Miss lemon will you call the role for us please director Zari pres director Bentley pres director kampos spitzy pres director Mash pres director Matthews pres director Norwood pres director Sullivan present all board members present thank you Miss lemon um everybody please check your calendars first while we go through this uh you'll notice tomorrow we have a couple of events the my

002story culture assem culture culture assembly at uh it's at gy Central the gy Evans Elementary Coral Festival which should be a great show it's tomorrow night at the Union Colony Civic Center at 6 we do have our casby winter legislative conference coming up on the 27th and 28th uh G's state of the city address is on the 27th uh that's Thursday uh evening at 6 at ases this year uh then we have a school visit on Monday the 3rd to Bella Romero the the uh 4th through 8th Grade Campus then uh there is a world County Distinguished Citizen dinner that one miss lemon do we have everybody responded has everybody responded to that I believe everybody's responded who would like to go okay great and that gets us up to the to the next board

003meeting but there's a couple of things right after that board meeting that's a busy week for us uh the 10 10th uh we have the success Foundation breakfast on the 11th early morning at Northridge and then NE negotiations with GAA on the 12th through the 14th and we stop there um anything else that needs to be on our [Music] calendar I'm looking Mr President the Northridge Marine Corps Awards I believe trying to find it on good calendar I think is April 22nd I'm not sure so all right I'm waiting to hear back from major Kinley all right well if you will just communicate with Miss lemon and she can she can get that on our calendars as well anything else that should be on our calendar that is not showing up all right well moving

004right along we will get board member comments and reports and we'll start with Miss Sullivan um I was actually out of town for the last week and then came back and was joyfully sick anybody wants to have a good laugh you can pull out the Dave Ramsey Show which I was on I was a hot mess husband was calm cool collect but it was uh really good out there it was very positive environment it was amazing and then they did call me in and I interviewed with uh the Ramsay place so pretty excited uh but then on the fly home there was a bunch of people sick on the plane so our whole family was sick over the weekend so but good place to go oh congratulations on that Dr Camp spit yeah so Friday

005um most of us were able to attend the James Madison K through 8 school visit um it was really cool to see them fully moved into their new space um just a beautiful building um they talked to us about um kind of forming their identity as a steam Academy um and what that's going to mean for them and their staff um we talked about little things like School drop offs being a little bit challenging with how many students they have um and the parking lot situation and they talked about um plans on how to right size their school so that because they were so popular and had a lot of kids come in through open enrollment um how to M go back to the model that they were hoping for which was uh three classes

006per grade level um but it's a really impressive building it's prek through 8 um well through seven for now um but they're planning on starting 8th grade next year so that was exciting and then Friday night um I got to end my day at G West High School um I aaz on for that school and I was invited by their Future Farmers of America students um to attend their um Farm totable event and so they put on a dinner um for community members they partner with grey catering um the students who in the gy catering track um to put together a meal it was delicious it was very well attended they actually had us eat quickly because there were so many people there that they needed more space for people to sit at tables um

007they had a huge silent auction um and just a very successful event um I really loved that there was a bunch of CSU students there who were G West Alum um who are now at CSU and they came to just support the event and and came as volunteers and we're all wearing their CSU here so just cool to see that community and that connection great thank you Dr ke spitzy Mr noan I too um enjoyed the visit to Madison it's amazing what they've got going on there um to see the work that they're doing with all the students and how they handle even some of the work with the teachers is pretty incredible last time I was there it was still the round building so this was uh great to see the new building night

008before that I did get a chance to go out to the Northridge boys basketball game and get a chance to see the inaugural Hall of Fame duees for Northridge got a chance to catch up with some students that I hadn't seen in over 20 years um and visit with them and see what they're up to and uh kind of watch them bask in their Glory of being the first group to be um in the North Hall of Fame so it's pretty good to see it thank you Mr Norwood Mr Bentley um I got to attend the gy area Chamber of Commerce dinner uh that was that's always a good dinner um I think they set a record every year for attendance and just nice to be uh in there with the with the chamber and

009all the good work they do for the community and and help us with the stuff that we have going on and it was it was really nice to see John and Del H awarded that award that night um also got to go to Madison um this was my first time through the school since uh the beam topping and and just to see you know to hear about their challenges as with admin you know their their their principal they've had three in three years basically there and just to see that the the progress they're making towards stability and and just the home that they've made in that new building um it was just really impressive to see how far they've come in a short amount of time so it's fun to see the bond dollars at

010work and um those those teachers and students definitely appreciated it Mr aori like to went to Madison I agree totally with my other board members here very impressive School a whole new world uh for that school versus what they used to have I also went to the grey Area Chamber of Commerce annual dinner and um it was great that John and deia were honored it was very touching and Dr pelch presented that award to them I also had uh the opportunity to go to the district 6 honor Orchestra Festival being that I was once an orchestra director it was appropriate for me and it was really great to see the kid kids up on stage and all the teachers and uh to watch the new orchester director at UNC who was invited in to direct

011that group so continuing that partnership with uh the university I also had the opportunity to join Anthony aouth Overton and Nate fall and uh with two of our students to go down to the casby student day at the Capitol uh it was a great day and I guess we're going to hear from the students later uh down the road from what I understand uh in March Pro potentially uh I'd like to just thank uh Senator Kirk Meer for taking her time to visit with the students and taking them into the Senate chamber uh so that they could get a closer look at the way uh the Senate operates and our students spoke with her about the importance of school funding and both of our students represented the district District really really well they were they

012were outstanding finally this afternoon I did have a chance to hear this presentation that we're going to hear this evening and it was outstanding it's a great presentation I'm looking forward to it again thank you Mr oari Vice President mesh um I got to attend the community council for Education I've been invited many times but this was my first opportunity to attend and Nelson Rodriguez gave an update on um our internship program it was a really great uh information for all the leaders uh all the Business Leaders what that entails there was some good brainstorming about how we could maybe create even um a seminar or some sort of workshop for Business Leaders to know exactly how to make that a successful opportunity for them and how to how to reach out to more businesses

013cuz we have I think almost twice as many students as we have Physicians who are interested so um that really great partnership again with district 6 and the the chamber ases community colleges there as well as UNCC and everybody gives an update and there's you know some discussion on the budgets for next year for all of Education higher education preschool as well and just you know knowing that we're going to have to be creative um and also knowing that we have those Partnerships that hopefully we can work together um for when there might be a shortfall um I enjoyed the chamber dinner as well and the Madison visit where we did get to observe Miss osmus teaching her class um so always wonderful to have our own come back and and teach at District Six

014as well I really don't have anything to add I did enjoy the Madison visit um it it is true I guess if you if you build it they will they will come and they continue to uh pack students in and it is it is good to hear that they hopefully will be able to rightsize rightsize that um although it it's incredible that how many students have open enrolled to Madison and that that's great to see uh yes great to see John honored at the John Halley and dilia Halley honored at the at the chamber dinner and um yeah they've done so much uh for in the city in the school district and um um can be happier and more proud of them for all they've done I did get to go to the combin league

015Honor Band concert and that's that's always great to see uh so many schools represented from from around um I don't know even know how how big the combined league is Mr zor could probably say it tell me better than uh but it's a number of schools from uh from Well County at least and uh that was at the um u c and so fantastic concert that they put on and great for those kids to get to work with with some of uh some outstanding uh conductors so um I think that's that is about everything and we'll we'll move on from board member comments and reports and go on to we're going to change our agenda a little bit so our students are not here um who are going to present to us I I've heard

016that they are uh they made the playoffs or or something um so they they've had a they've got a game that they they have to have to attend uh one has to play plan I think and so we're not going to hear from them tonight and we're going to move our Downtown Development information up on the agenda uh to let our guest leave early if they if they so desire and so Dr pilch I I will hand it to you for for introductions because I'm not sure exactly who all is presenting to us tonight thank you president Matthews um I'll just start by saying that I shared with you all um individually several months ago that we were in conversation with the city of gy and um with the developer on the possibility of being

017a partner in in a revitalization of downtown here of several blocks downtown that could involve us here in district 6 um an opportunity to build a new building and and to deal with some of the issues that we've dealt with with this building for quite some time now so that that project has begun to move along a little more aggressively and there's still a lot of moving Parts it's a complex project between the city of gy Weld County and school district 6 we're really the smaller player in all of this we're the smallest land owner and the smallest building owner in all of this um but we would benefit greatly from an opportunity to participate and um and we're you know we're really pleased that we were approached I'm pleased we were approached and asked

018to to consider the the the proposition for this and so I see we have folks coming from richmark I'll let them introduce themselves and um and then we've got U much of the Richardson family sitting behind us back here uh to show support and I suppose ask answer or ask questions to as we go but what we want to do with you tonight is really give you a high level overview of of what the project might look like and and kind of what the moving pieces are between the city the county and the school district here downtown um we're not prepared yet to talk about numbers and funding but we will continue to work on that and come back at a later at a later time to visit with you all about that but just

019to get you up to speed with where the rest of the entities are on this they're a little further along than we are with the city and the county because they're far bigger players in this with a lot more property involved uh and a lot greater oh look yeah a lot greater need and so a lot a lot more work to do probably there so I'll pass this to you all Adam and and let you get started well thank you very much and thank you uh board for letting us join and join your work session and show you some of our crazy ideas um this has been a whirlwind of work and trying to get uh talking to council members and Commissioners and staffs and um we really appreciate the time here uh my name

020is Adam Frasier I work for the Richardsons at ridgemark and uh really today I'm going to let Stephanie do most of the driving she's kind of our uh secret weapon in our office that she's a land planner by education and trade and she's been working really hard on this so I'm going to let Stephanie van Dy take thanks Adam yes as he mentioned my name is Stephanie Van Dien and I want want to first of all say thank you for your service uh I really appreciate you guys it takes a village to raise children and you are a very important part of that Village so thank you very much um for playing your role in that Village and and letting us come to you today we want to really work on the great momentum that's

021been building I mean district 6 has been doing so many wonderful wonderful things lately and we want to facilitate that we want to promote that we want to help that move along and so this project came up um and we kind of weasel our way into it where the Weld County had a master plan come up and they said well we're moving out to O Street and we're like well you know what about these other ideas and so the conversation really started with the county then it brought in the city um and then we heard from you guys that you know this building needed repairs as well and so what an opportunity where we have these three major players of the city and county all needing new facilities at the same time so rather than

022think in this little box in in this little box here in this building can we think bigger than that so we have some we have some big Ideas we have some Vision um and we're excited to share and then we would love your feedback as well and your thoughts as well so our gy Downtown Vision why now because all three entities need to move um and here's kind of those needs that they they have and here's the the map of who owns what in this area so the county is in the dark blue the city is in the light blue and then you guys have the 1.74 Acres there district 6 um which is is significant you guys are a significant player in this um and so how do we kind of swap here trade

023there to fulfill everybody's needs that you see on this list and only having to move once so the goal is that we could build a new facility and you guys could move in rather than having to move to Temporary locations first and why do we want to do this we want a vibrant we want a thriving downtown you know I don't know a very many cities that don't have that heart in the middle that Weld County Seat that that major heartbeat right in the downtown area that thrive elsewhere you know sure like there's you could have a little bedroom community but you don't think about going there for any any Services we could create create um this and and build on um the momentum of downtown and create a really thriving inclusive um spot for

024for our residents there's all the details and the weeds right because one concern that the county shared was well we can't have a big enough building um and what we shared with them is that we're actually in a unique spot here in downtown where a lot of the city code doesn't necessarily apply to these city blocks so we're able to build taller for example we're able to build to the set to the RightWay lines to the sidewalks rather than having to be set back so there's a lot fewer constraints as far as going through these City entitlement process getting those land use approvals getting the the checks that um we have to go through with the planning department with the city of gy no matter where you build so we have the unique situation of

025being located in the general Improvement District overlay which is going to be expanded um but that gives us a little more flexibility here so that's exciting so what can that look like you know I don't know if many of you have been to the dairy Block in Denver but they have retail they have shopping they have restaurants they have Hotel they have all of these really exciting um really active spaces and our city blocks are very similar in size to the dairy block so we can fit the dairy block you know on one of these blocks and the current where we are right now is right here on that corner this is another example that also you know that music Lane in Austin Texas where as you're walking through the alley you find these really

026special spaces you come around the corner and you see this new restaurant you're like oh I have to try that out like you know it's a really unique um experience and you know can we bring that authentic Weld County experience here we don't want to to replicate any of these projects but we want to point out that we do have the room we do have the the ability the space to do that so can we create our own unique Weld County destination here with all of these Partners But It's Tricky right there's a lot of players and the land swap going from the existing current ownership to making you know bigger chunks of single colors but having the ability to go up and out and however we need to kind of twist and turn to

027make the tetris pieces fit um so we're working through all of that right now and the big Vision which you know it is possible we are making these little steps towards this big Vision as we speak but what would happen is to orient yourself here is Lincoln Park and then we have the historic Courthouse right here and currently this is the Centennial Center so once this Justice new judicial Center was built over here the Centennial Center folks would move out and move over on this side and I'll show a better example of this for a phase one on coming up here um but then the city round building and what would happen is this is the new district 6 building here with City Hall private offices and a hotel and so we create really this

028mixed juuse um really kind of activated block here uh with um preferably a parking garage but this is just kind of our initial stab at it you know maybe we need surface parking maybe we need to this is an initial concept which can change but this is the Hope Stephanie go back and reference where the school district currently where this building currently is right here just move across so there so basically just across the street yeah so the juror parking lot is where this block currently is this is the juror parking lot does somebody who owns that it's like a house with a building attached to it I think it might be the Union offices who owns that Union the union so yeah there's a handful on the jury parking lot that have not haven't

029been acquired haven't been reached out to yet there's some work to do MH still on acquiring it but is those are those little orange those little orange they haven't been approached yet but a lot of that's I didn't want to shake their entire world until the county said yes right yeah that makes sense now that this is in the Press I probably should reach out to him and sorry we drew on your Aerials sorry I had you yeah doodled on your property so here's a concept of what this block could look like um we could have now North is pointing up so here is the school district building we're thinking that um activating the ground floor with retail or coffee shop or restaurant Brew you know Brewery Hotel restaurant and these not only face out

030but they also face in so as you see this green space going through and you're like oh what's that and you kind of want to wander wander down mid block and then you come across the coffee shop or you come across the restaurant um and having you know all of these people in one space can really support those restaurants and whatnot as well and then kind of back a house um where we we need that loading unloading all of that so question uhhuh uh can you uh kind of give us an idea about size what would be the what's the current size do you know of this building square footage versus the new one so if you add everything up here with the basement and the out buildings I think this is close to 880,000

031square ft a lot of it's not very usable space just if you you know you look at big hallways and these conference rooms over here are not closed off so you can't really do anything private in those conference rooms and then with one North being that just that big open space downstairs night shade it's not so this would be 65 to 75,000 Square ft we think with a more usable space more usable I think that would get out of the old Bank building here could fit the security um station downstairs be included be somewhere else no it would stay it' be included so everything in this building and across the street at the enrollment off the across the street with the family center enrollment all that would go we'd all come together into one facility

032yeah that's the plan right now is I'm always curious about underground parking is that it's really expensive okay yeah so it is easier to build up than or flat is the cheapest you know just these massive Walmart parking lots are the cheapest but then the parking garage and then underground does get more expensive so some precedent imagery of what this block could look like you know like these little restaurants and shops and everything um that are in these mid block Crossings in between all of these buildings so our phasing you know it's like okay great the pretty pictures are wonderful but can it actually happen you know I I have I have a blast do doodling on other people's property sure but what's real and what can actually happen and that's where we get into

033here is you know the if we take the juror parking lot in order to do um the development on this lot and move you guys across the street then we need to give them temporary parking somewhere else and so this is the old furniture store that we just demolished uh we did go in for to the city of gley for a pre-application meeting and they gave us the green light for a temporary parking lot here so we're able to you know that's already been given the thumbs up so that's real we can move and require some paperwork still but we can move that parking over to this lot um and then this is where the Public Works building and Weld County owns some of these Parcels here and that's where we can make up that

034second half of their juror parking lot so when we build the judicial Center the Centennial Center moves over City Hall then moves into their new city hall here and you guys can move in to the new district 6 building um once this you know block is constructed you only have to move once rather than into temporary facilities and so this kind of outlines the um you know the the total square footage so right now for we're proposing on this block about 67,000 ft that can grow um again this was just kind of the first stab we can go up we can go out that can that can totally morph um but we were just getting into that range of 65 to 75 and so that's kind of where it landed yeah would you mind going

035backwards sure so were you um across the city hall where it's in pink are is there a church that normally that sits there are they demolishing yep so um we're under contract to purchase the Methodist Church there okay mhm y so yeah that's our our brief overview um to kind of just give the the the big picture but um hopefully as some of these other pieces start falling into place we'll be able to come back with a lot more more detail for you and more information what we haven't shared with the board in detail is uh a review of this building uh Kent and his team brought in um a team to review this building and and to do a fac facility conditions audit to determine what it would take to improve this building or

036or what it would cost to replace this building so that is work that we have done and we'll continue to do so that you'll have that information to look at as well as we begin to get possibly more serious about this and speaking of that part of getting more serious on it do we know where the county is on this well we we were there today when when richmark and and others presented to the county to share their their estimate of the numbers um it would seem that the the reports that they've gotten back so far have not really been Apples to Apples and so I think what richmark was trying to do um was show them with a pretty extensive audit with lots of of different Architects and Engineers involved that um the numbers

037are really not what they've been projected to be and and so I think uh that Adam and and Colin did a really nice job today saying uh we just want to seat at the table we want to come in and and meet with your staff and and talk with your staff and have a seat at the table and and work through the numbers together and work through the needs together that's what we're asking to do and so I I don't you know I think we're hopeful all of us that they were receptive Logan was in the room as well and Tyler was in the um overflow space and so Arlo was there so I think you know I think um and Stephanie is brilliant she's their secret weapon um so I think you know I

038think it the story today would read a lot lot differently than the story that was in Bez West and in the gy Tribune about the cost difference between O Street and downtown I think the story would I don't think media was present today they were oh they were present oh yeah okay good so we'll see what gets printed next yeah if um and this of course is working way out if the county were to go with this idea what's the time frame look like for I mean obviously the school district would be a part of this so what are we looking at in terms of time on this project it's about three years from when we all actually sit say go go you have an architect ready to draw we know exactly what we want

039to feed the architect but if we know what we want we have an architect that we like we could get your building and the parking garage delivered in 3 years 3 years from now is when that construction from when you from when you may say yes so I think the the time between now and a yes is a bit unknown the County's said they're going to have three open houses in March and then they'll be they need to make they plan to make a decision shortly thereafter so um I think yeah three three years from everyone really sits down and there's a lot of paperwork that's going to have to get negotiated by some smart attorneys and U and then then the clock starts there's still a possibility of of us engaging in something um

040with the developer and with the city around this and with the land swap even if the county doesn't come fully on board and and they were to decide to go to O Street they have they have indicated they would still be interested in the property Swap and you know allowing us to build on their property and swapping our land for their land so um we'll see where that goes and I think the decision the board is going to have to make is um knowing that at some point this building I I is either going to have to have substantial improvements or subst or be replaced which the cost is pretty comparable and so um do do we stay downtown or do we you know do we look to build like out on the toon Academy

041campus where we do have 8 acres and I think our our pref preference has always been to stay downtown that we see us as a vital part of downtown and we have 150 plus employees in this building plus all the staff that we bring in here you know throughout the day for meetings and for interviews and for other things and so I think we feel like you know we're a vital part of downtown and it's centrally located for the district it's it's a good location to to get to most of our schools in a a pretty even amount of time and you know when you're looking at the farthest you have to go it's about the same um so I think those are all discussions that we we'll need to have and and work through

042and and of course you know do we invest the dollars in it and I I think you all are well aware of the condition of this building and we can have Kent and team come and share more of that um when you're ready for that it's you know last week when it was so cold in here uh or so cold outside we had some offices in the 50s and some offices in the '90s in this building I mean it's just you know and there it's one thing to be uncomfortable and it's one thing to have an elevator out which happens about once a week and you're taking stairs you're using the service elevator but it's another thing to expect people to work in 50° temperature or 90° temperature that's just those are not good working

043conditions for folks and so um we're we're going to have to do some pretty significant work here the biggest issues here are hbac asbest and the elevators all very expensive the most expensive parts of all very expensive yeah and then the flooding and the water stuff all the water stuff I'm curious um and this is from you know side conversations with uh folks in the county um have they thought so so they don't have to have all their cour houses like here they don't all have to be downtown they could have some here and spread out and actually make it more convenient for some of their um residents to access cour houses closer to like Southern W County that I'm just curious if they're trying to just consolidate them all into the same building when

044really they don't have to so the master plan that was done for the county did recommend that they were all Consolidated into one building and that was mostly for wayfinding where it's like okay I have jury duty which building which Courthouse do I go to and then what room is it in that building um so had concerns with just finding the right building if it was split up um however I would love to hear what you've heard as far as why that is maybe better you know because there's two sides to every every design challenge has two sides or more so I'd love to hear your the feedback that you've gotten too sure that could be awfully sure sure too if you want um what well I I don't want to out my source very

045enough Dr pil I don't know if you want to mention like the possible funding me mechanism for the districts well I think you know that those are still conversations that we're having and clearly we will need to take on more debt I mean that that is the reality of of how we would do that I mean there's you know there's we could look to some Reserve we could look um but I I think what we have most talked about is the possibility of cops um which would mean that we would take on debt and kind of like taking on bonded inde deadness but you don't go to your voters for voter approval um you know we we had the conversation when we had Bond Revenue that was excess Revenue in this last bond issue and

046and you know built a curent technical education center and an addition at Martinez and an addition at Meer and uh you know those you know expanded the projects we had going rather than building a new district office so that's an option down the road as well is to look to bom proceeds that's what most school districts do down the road we don't have those proceeds to do that right now so that would require another bond issue um but the reality is we would take on debt to to able to do this Dr Phil how much do we put into this building every year right now well we think we have that number yet right Megan and can of what we're SP putting in but it you know we're in the millions um or a million

047at least a year of problems um you know most of the flood fling well not most a lot of the flooding issues that occurred with the basement is insurance but but the trade-off of that is we we watch our insurance premiums just continue to go up or get dropped by our insurance and so you know even if we're not paying for it on the front end because insurance is we're paying for it on the back end with our insurance premiums very likely and so you know there but we're working with with budget and finance to and with Mr Hanson's team to really look at what what is it costing us to keep these facili you know going and um what what are we putting in this facilities the one thing you can't really as easily

048quantify is just how much time our own District staff are here you know so one of the things on Tuesday or Wednesday morning when it was so nasty and they're texting me and you know we're always like schools first that I you know I need our team out working on schools first getting boilers in schools running getting power up in schools before they're worried about fixing this building um mean that that that has to our priority before they're over here and so just that human resource and and the money you know that the district is incurring just in wages when folks are out and when they're out you know working overtime because they're out on a a weekend making sure that and this building is one of our our biggest problems we able to fix

049a lot of our problems with this last bond issue and we still have a few you know spots where we we're really you know having a monitor but um it's usually a matter of like let's just get a boiler back up at Cameron but this building is just really complex it's old and it's big and it's not been well kept and since we're talking about that uh the natural question that flows from that is since the downtown has had such a significant issue with flooding this new construction I would presume would would answer for some of that would accommodate yeah that was one of the questions I had Doran so I I like that I their answer is interesting yeah and you know richmark fortunate to build a lot of stuff downtown that was all

050also in the flood stuff so with new construction you get a couple advantages you can build it about 8 Ines higher off the ground right and that takes care of most events and then you add storm inlets in your bargain Lots which none of this stuff does downtown and uh I do believe especially if we pull this off you're touching you know six blocks and everyone starts adding I think not only does it benefit these projects but it actually helps kind of the old town and the plaza really makes huge improvements and the city's pretty um excited about they want to do linoln park at the same time so it kind of just be this giant uh Improvement to the infrastructure in our downtown yeah so you can either raise your building above the base

051flood elevation and that way water doesn't get in your doors you'll just have some ramps and steps to the front doors or you can also provide on-site detention and that way you can hold that initial storm and then release it at the historic rate so and I would presume we would not have a basement then like we have in this building prob not you could um you would just flood proof it and so that water wouldn't get into the basement but then there's floodgates and doors and whatnot that you probably don't want to deal with so it's anything's possible but then you are adding dollar signs so I would say you know if if you want to look at the cost effective go up one go up instead of down build up yeah I think

052it's a district we've decided windows are pretty good thing right daylight is a good thing at least at gy West it's made a dramatic improvement with the the phasing um I think one of the potential negatives that was printed in one of the Publications was about just what will this do to downtown business flow of traffic all that kind of stuff so it actually improves it um so the reality is that we did have an econom an economist study what would those effects be and I I'm not a a numbers person and so it came back and it's like oh I didn't realize that construction actually improves the economy because you have all of those construction workers downtown that are buying lunch you have all those construction workers downtown they're like oh I should get

053my wife some flowers before I go home so they're stopping at the local businesses so the the downtown businesses would actually improve um and we saw that when building the Maddie the what was it the Roma's Pizza and Cha Hut those guys loved us they were very thankful right yeah it is there a temporary mess you know do we have to close down a lane to to get close you know and that construction absolutely um but that's going to happen either way that's going to happen no matter what we do down here and whether it's demolishing the buildings that's going to cause a little disruption in traffic so so there are certainly temporary inconveniences for those long-term gains but the economics actually um improves and traffic wise it looks like it's going to push a

054lot too 11th Street versus 10th Street because that's the access to the parking garages mhm yep so the other thing that we've been talking some about is just you know and when you bring candidates in for interviews you bring c new teachers in to do their fingerprinting and things I mean the ability to have a you know a a state-of-the-art facility for Recruitment and Retention I think really does matter and um it really does matter when we look around at our colleagues um around the state districts our size have have far more sophisticated facilities than we do we know that Windsor is redoing their district office so they're going to have a much more inviting space to bring people into and so you know I'm thinking about that too I'm thinking about employee Recruitment and

055Retention and um just that it draws people in and and I'm thinking about families that when families come in and they're trying to make a decision about where to go to school I think having a vibrant downtown is an important piece to that that we want a vibrant and attractive downtown that families want to be a part of and so I think only I think improving downtown only benefits District stes it's like you said president Matthews about Madison you build it and they will come you know we Madison Elementary School had declining enrollment at times um in my tenure here and now you know the families have come the Open Enrollment came the have come back I mean it's there's something about a new facility that really does attract and retain people and we just

056we just know that I did you mention I don't know if everyone heard so it would have our admin offices our Command Center our family center and our boardroom and we would share our parking garage with the other businesses and you know I know you just saw that beautiful new Command Center Wade's already said I'm keeping all my screens so all that we would you know we would just move all that equipment over um just to be clear I mean and that equipment should be good for 6 to 10 years so we should be able to move that equipment assuming the timeline goes sooner than than six to 10 years to do this what we know is the longer this gets drug out the more construction costs go up um we're seeing a much higher

057construction cost now than we were when we started our bond 5 years ago and so that's just the reality um I don't know Ken if you want to say anything about that I'm I'm we're not do a bond right now yeah I mean uh cost of construction has gone like West our cost per square foot was I think was $450 square foot and they're doing high schools now for almost $800 a square foot um so you know we don't want to wait I'd like to invite I mean we're not as formal as our meeting earlier today so if if any of you all would like to share anything else that you want to add and I know you've been really close to this and working on this and and have invested a great deal in

058the school district and the success of the district I know in in my time here and even before I got here Logan left who likes to talk Logan's the who hired me I don't think we have anything to add we've enjoyed putting all this together and doing these Stu studies and seeing how it can all work together it it would be this is like a once in a lifetime opportunity for three public entities to come together re new facilities and completely R the downtown stars align this so we're hoping we can get everybody what else are you all thinking about what are the questions I guess like the the glaring thing that the Public's probably going to ask is what's in it for you guys you know what what parts are are touching you guys

059and or what isn't or or what where where are you guys at you know I I kind of have an idea but I think that that question is G ask a lot oh of the a richmark a brimark yeah I'm working really hard to figure out how I can make money we've already put in a lot of hours have invested uh I mean a lot of money but just the amount of resources that they've put they've well all that list of Architects and engineers and wow our off they've the our office has been turned 100% to this right now and um it's been we every resource we can grab and find has been going towards trying to pull this off and answer your question I not sure how we make money yet obviously we have

060some apartment we own some land next door like and if this comes up that's hopefully the land appreciates and we're going to be able build some apartments on the furniture store block after after the wel County's done borrowing it for free which I offered him without the Richardson's permission today $1 I I told $1 I didn't ask Arlo about that before I did it so originally we talked about being a renter and and really about about richmark being the developer and we would rent from them which would they would then probably stand to to make a little bit of money and and once that I said you know I'd really like to own my own building is that a possibility for us to own rather than rent I mean they said of course um of

061course we want you to own your own building if you can figure out how to do that yeah so I think I always feel like I have a very biased view so I try to stay quiet with this conversation because I love downtown and um you know I'm fortunate enough to live centrally and really enjoy downtown with my family and so this makes me so happy so anything I can do to persuade others um into this Vision I am happy to be an ambassador well thank you we appreciate welome the team well I think at our meeting Logan was saying he's maybe not as much of a person who spends all of his time in downtown but he can appreciate from the just every time you think about an IC IC City like Austin like

062Boulder like Fort Collins you're thinking of ult Fort Collins you're thinking of Pearl Street you're thinking of the music District um like those are the really special places I think most people enjoy the historic buildings and and the history and just um that destination location that place that's unique to just that place so whether you're you choose to go to the Rio and The Crest all the time or or you live in and you know West gy this yeah this this benefits the entire city um and yeah I think I think we take pride in gy being the county seat and that we serve the rest of the county in in many different ways and we want that to be a welcoming place for folks who you know probably it's not their favorite thing to

063come to court in gy but um maybe it can be a positive experience anyway and that's a good point too you know you mentioned those historic buildings we're not on just wiping out every single building down here um in this plan specifically you know we are keeping and repurposing several of the histo more historic structures that have that character that have that sense of place um so it's not just a clean slate it is it is still working within those historic buildings too are you keeping the First Baptist Church and that I think I saw that on one of the plans that yeah there it is y that one's seeing mhm so that one stays on this concept right yeah right yeah for today today's thought is yes that one's on the register so under

064any scenario answer is yes could we figure out a way to grab the claron and put it in here too you're not the first one to say that that's good I like it's gross haven't approached the local businesses yet what's that this you haven't approached the local businesses that would be not the not the property owners on the jury parking lot that we're showing a big building on no I haven't we have talked to the DDA one of them was there and we have been emailing with her yeah the chamber the gy area Chamber board and the Downtown Development Association are both really paying attention to this and very involved and really want to see this go um and so both have written letters to the the County Commissioners you know offering their support the

065Downtown Development Association has offered $1 million in support of this um the city of gy has offered 10 million in support of a parking garage for this and so the downtown businesses have offered the amount of the cost of the original Courthouse I thought that was clever that was aan idea and then is it opening up for additional businesses like abut restaurants and all that to be moving in because I guess I'm not seeing that go back to the first floor of the jur so this is the kind of the first floor plan of the where the school district City Hall thr a hotel maybe private office but this red here is kind of the first floor retail restaurants one of Lo Logan's other dream is once if we pull this off to wrap a

066bow around it he wants fat Alberts Kenny's and JB's right here so like that if we pulled this off with all these govern he's like that's how that's how you really get everyone across the Finish Line If you promise those restaurants potato brumas too any big comeback so if there was a little Mom and Pop shop that's like we need a space for this new ice cream store concept that we have we're like great how big do you need let's put it in the school dist you know let's put it here let's find a space for you let's figure out how to make it happen other questions or thoughts yeah just for fun talk about our ideas for theart courthous yeah um so one idea that we have is when we were trying to figure

067out how to talk the county into this and they it's been it's been a dollar a lot of dollars and cents is the kind of the thing they have this huge hickey with that historic couse in that maintaining it uh they have over they have a million dollars a year planned in their 2025 budget just for like keeping it together but one of our fun ideas is what if we can build a hotel kind of behind it on the west side of it and tie it into the historic Courthouse where we do an Adaptive reuse to turn that into maybe the banquet space for the hotel the restaurant space for the hotel all your kind of amenities kind of a Union Station in Denver idea of uh try to tie that all in together to

068make that and that the courthouse it wouldn't be just amities for the hotel too right kind of all downtown we see the Double Tree and tap into it for events your wedding venue wedding venues yeah like it's kind of a downtown public space Sim very similar to does I have a capacity um projection so I just know like every event that we try to host not us specifically but everybody's limited to basically if it's doesn't fit in the Double Tree they can't do it in town you know and I think it's 500 people or something which or you know it's not probably be less just thinking a floor plates but yeah this probably be L either Island Grove or you we're we're also solving that problem good we can come in and show you Logan

069has a Fieldhouse too we're throwing Logan under the bus chair a lot left what other questions guys let these guys go I will just say regardless of of what happens and hopefully hopefully all of this comes to pass when I know we cannot stay in this building um and so and I know we want to as a district um be in the in the downtown if we can be and so uh whatever comes to pass though I appreciate your vision uh for for the city and and for the downtown and um yeah we something that we can all I think I can't remember it was Colin that that said it but uh it's a it's a Once in a 100 year uh project where where we can all come together the city of gy and

070district 6 and in the county and so my personal hope is that it that it does come to pass so yeah everything our to make it so just to reiterate like to how lucky gy and well county is to have this family in in here and you guys' Vision um I knew where you guys' heart were but I just want to make sure it was out there that this is basically charity on on your end so it's it's it's cool to see and and it's it's one of my favorite parts of gy is is how much uh the community and and the people who have prospered here have have given back and do give back is there anything that we can do like like do we need a collective I don't think so yet um

071Miss Mash I think that eventually we may want to um the city did a letter of intent around this million dollars and to and the intent to participate so I think at some point we may want to do something like that do a letter of intent to par participate or um to to act in good faith as a partner so we may want to do that at some point and we can visit more about that if that's necessary and prudent to do that but we we sure could yeah maybe we should think about that more since the city went forward with the letter so we would need to come to the board with that with a resolution or a letter that you all would approve so uh we'll visit some more about that and see

072um if we want to go more formal on that we sure could look at that that might be a nice thing to do good idea um I think you know I I too want to Echo Kyle's words um you know I've worked in three other communities and and never have I seen uh the kind of commitment we have here for philanthropy and and deep deep dedication and just you know when it's really just a handful of individuals investing so deeply in a community and so deeply in the school district and you know most recently uh richmark has has invested in this Elementary Athletics program and and expanding the elementary Athletics and you know I think it's going to be a real game Cher for our kids here in district 6 and it's just thing after

073thing after thing and you know I only got to work with Logan for a few months on the board but he stuck around and still met with me for you know for several months after he was no longer a board member and he was really the one who you know coached me around this idea of that we needed more K8 schools and that families love k8s and that's really a big piece of my influence of um helping to lead mcalli to becomeing a K8 and looking at the new pre-eng engineering Academy being a K8 and Madison being a K8 I mean it just and it's proven to be a very very successful model and um so I you know personally and professionally am very indebted to the Richardson family and um feel like their commitment

074to district 6 has been significant to Our Success here and what we've been able to do for students here in district 6 and Logan did want to stay but he's on kid duty right now so he had to go take care of kids otherwise he still would have been here for sure by the way we all work for Logan that's how it always is right well if there are no other questions we'll we'll let you guys go and just say thank you for being here thank you for for this presentation thank you thank you thank you next on our agenda is our legislative update so Mr fall I think bring you up all right Mr F welcome and we will I'll just give it over to you as Dr PCH uh escorts Our Guest out

075what does go thank you president Matthews and members of the board um my name is Nate fall I'm in house legal council for the school district we are um talking about a legislative update for today and I need to pull up my notes I'm sorry I thought I had them up um so uh just a few things just to get us started and I did share an electronic version with you all so you should be able to access the links uh on your own if you would like to um there was a financial literacy bill that was introduced uh few weeks ago um so that's House Bill 25192 what this bill does is it does two things number one it creates a mandatory financial literacy requirement for graduation and then number two it requires that

076all students uh who are Juniors or seniors must complete a FAFSA form um but it does list out a number of exceptions um for individuals who don't want to fill out or don't need to fill out the fast form which leads to the question why even have it as a requirement if you can just exempt out of it but nonetheless um so what the financial literacy piece is that would require uh completion of a course in financial literacy as a condition of high school graduation and this would be uh Incorporated um through the State Board of Education would then be developing those rules that then we would need to follow whether or not we can incorporate kind of our own curriculum into that Financial literacy requirement is unknown it's unclear I think when you read

077the law um uh a lot of school districts and a lot of the major um groups in the state of Colorado are actually coming out against this bill um and the reason that they are coming out against the bill is just for the fact that adding a new requirement means adding teachers developing curriculum you know it's going to take time it might take electives away from other requirements if we don't want to add on an elective um just kind of those practical implementation concerns I think are what a lot of these uh school districts and organizations are seeing uh our district is just in a position of monitor I'm certainly I would be interested to hear what this board's comments are on the financial literacy Bill I'm not sure if you've read it at all

078or if you've looked into it or read in the news about it um and certainly that's something we can have a conversation about later but I just wanted to share that that bill uh has been introduced um which groups have you said have opposed it um so I know that uh Colorado Association of school boards uh Colorado Association of School Executives um I believe Colorado Education Association the teachers union has come out against it let's see here Colorado or School Counselors Association is in opposition case um casby and CA education reinv Vision bosies um I thought I saw maybe maybe I should maybe let me take that comment back about CA I don't see them on this list me I thought I saw CE on here earlier I'm sorry and then Pikes Peak Area School

079District Alliance is also an opposition is that posted somewhere or is that a list you can send out via email you um you should be able I can I can send you a link put that in in our weekly bulletin for them to do so on the bill tracker that I sent you you have to kind of click on and I I'll walk you through it but you'll be able to see all the folks or organizations that have come out in support or oppose or amend or whatever um and I think it's also posted on the Colorado State's website but it's a little less easy to navigate so okay I was at the winter conference for the Colorado Association of school execs last week and what what I mostly heard was that I worry about

080an unfunded mandate that it'll come without additional funding for curriculum writing and curriculum revision or for additional teachers and then also the worry about um around the financial aid is again the unfunded mandate you know just keeping track of that and and the counselor you know council's already have a case load of 400 plus kids and now we're going to put requirement for financial aid on on the counselors also so I think um if there was money and if we weren't looking at a year of facing budget cuts there might be a little more support for this but they they are pretty adamant across the organizations that uh especially case and and casby um that they're just are not they are not coming out in support of this um Megan did you hear anything else

081from an today and your a new today okay how about it dbo when you're with them um I think another issue that around the financial aid requirement really comes down to undocumented students and at you know at that point they would hat it out themselves by as undocumented undocumented yeah Dr Pils they looked at rather than adding a whole new curriculum maybe adding in financial literacy to some of the business classes well that's kind of what we have right now we have not kind of it is so right now the financial literacy standards are in US history and then we've I sent you all a list out oh gosh SE few months ago with of all of the finance courses that include the financial literacy standards so those standards are in many of our finance

082courses at the high school level already um but you know this is really about adding a a semester of financial literacy with its own its own course with its own standards what's confusing and I don't know if they've clarified this yet or not they they'll need to is they say that is there's no change in the standards but if it's a whole semester of instruction there has to be a change in something because currently in teaching it in US history and even what we teach in elementary where we teach it in math and and Middle School we don't we don't teach a full semester of it would there be required credentialing for teachers to teach it I suspect there would be we don't know yet but I suspect there would be so would hence the

083addition hiring of additional teachers and then you know possibly the letting go of other teachers who aren't credentialed or who or their courses don't make you know this from being in a high school if your course doesn't make then you don't offer that course so and I do want to make clear in the record that CA has not come out with any position on this I don't know why I thought that so must been one of the others we were talking about Nate might be um but I think we'd welcome additional feedback from you all because it's been laid over right now but it it'll come back yeah as far as in where it was just introduced I'm not sure if I saw that it was in any committee at any I guess I'd be

084curi most curious about teacher support for it and parent support for it and I from the groups that are opposing it I didn't really hear any I mean the school counselor um sure sure that's for that fast a portion of it um but yeah like if I were to hear strong parent support and strong teacher support for it I would lean more towards do we have any indication of the any parent group supporting at night on the bill tracker I wonder um not that I saw and I know Mrs Sullivan has been you know she's been really clear about the her desire to see a financial literacy requirement for graduation I think Mr Norwood you've talked some about the importance of financial literacy I don't know where you you land on the requirement but yeah

085yeah you did have it in your courses what who typically decides like the graduation requirements that we have for the state of Colorado who usually decides that the Colorado Department of Education issues the graduation standards and then they say these are the standards for graduation and then we put together a committee here um locally with teachers and parents and students input and and then we determine how we're going to meet those standards so you may recall the last big change in graduation requirements was when um they added the requirements around college andc readiness and so you had to have certain ACT scores or advanced placement uh courses or advanced placement scores or um your um Capstone um completed so th those were all part of that that last graduation requirement revision it did not include

086additional credits for requirement but it was additional um like the financial aid form would be it was an additional act or action that the student had to demonstrate that they had performed and fulfilled for graduation so that I think those came out in about 2000 we could go back and look so then once we bring the graduation committee together um to look at that and make then they would come to the board typically with a work session and let you know what they're thinking and get your feedback and your recommendations around what you know their initially thinking around any changes in graduation requirements and then they would take that back to their committee and and very likely take it out for more input from groups like Dak or maybe to student you know student groups

087and then that eventually would come to the board for final approval so I just might U just my experience from being the casby representative um we're one of only I believe eight states that have local control for our school boards and these types of things that come from the legislation are generally um not supported widely um it's it's like nonpartisan it's rural it's it's large districts things that are imposed upon school districts from the legislation are generally frown upon even if it's a good idea um because it is like like we taking away local control it's taking away local control it's an unfunded mandate um so I think maybe just from that sort of casby lens I generally am like no no most graduation requirements do not come from the legislature if that's what you

088were asking yeah I was like this seems out of at the local level um you know changes in graduation requirements typically involve a lot of teacher input so the legislature it does pass this and says you know you're going to have a semester course uh and you know then hopefully they'll put some some fence posts around that about you know what the standards are what that curriculum should be we would then put a team together to to advise us on how to implement that course and what that course is and where that course is offered but that would be the level where staff would have input would be at that point yeah CD would have to implement some sort of credential re requirement as well if they if the if the legislation requires it yeah

089and you know it could be it could be they would require you know an actual lure in it Rob like what you carry or you know business licensure or it could be that they have a teacher has to take so many hours of you know training to to teach the personal finance class that you know there's several ways to kind of get there I think it would be better to try to incorporate it into some classes but agreed you know I'm not the state legislature well but I think the Dilemma is what class because not every high school has every class I mean that's why it's in US history US history is a Statewide graduation requirement so every high school has US history and every student has to take it so that's why the standards

090are there there is no Finance course for example or economics course that is offered Statewide now what our folks have said here just just anecdotally is that if we if we were to have this requirement and we had input and we had the ability we would probably look to to add a requirement for economics and then put it in the economics course that correct Dean I mean that's kind of what our teachers have said if there's going to be a finance requirement let's put in econ then you could have you know regular econ you could have advanced placement econ you could have concurent enrollment econ micro yeah does West have any of this in their High School of Business all all of our high schools have some some business courses that teach some of these

091standards and we're currently working with UNCC to offer a concurrent enrollment course that will where students for personal finance where students will earn college credit um also for taking personal finance at the college level which we think will increase interest in it you know because right now kids are looking un courses and weighted courses and do I take AP music theory do I take you know concurrent enrollment finance a minut Dr PCH I don't know if you were superintendent when we got high school 101 at Northridge no probably not that was in the late 200 8 9 10 somewhere there so no probably not I came in 15 that was that was yeah is was that but was that kind of their seminar program their home room program it was a program that we picked

092up we went to um it was up Las Vegas there was a big convention that went on there and there was a guy that presented it to us and he actually came and set the program by force it included choices and consequences and communication skills and credit and buying a car that's a lot of the things that I Incorporated in a by class so but it was approved through the district back in 7 or eight I think boy that went fast yeah I don't I don't know about that but I can look into that thank you Dr pill currently the financial literacy standards are embedded in the in the US History curriculum that every student takes and it's really pre or k West K preschool K through K through 10 basically um we have we

093have financial literacy standards K through 10 and so there's some at every grade level in mathematics until you get to high school and then it's in US history presumably presumably because everybody has to take USS in school yeah all right any other questions on that one if not we'll let Mr Paul continue yeah and uh I appreciate this conversation a lot so um just know that I am but a mere lowly lawyer and I just do what you tell me to do so if this is something you want then just please but um I I appreciate the conversation um and so please um let me know if if you learn anything or if you want to take it position um cell phone banss not much has changed there school Finance uh not a lot has

094changed since our last conversation we still are just kind of uh it's unclear about what direction we are going to be going with a new school funding formula how it's going to be funded if they're going to include averaging and if they do how many years um it seems like we probably won't know an answer until that uh revenue forecast comes out mid-march so we're just going to kind of continue to be in this place for that okay uh and then uh accountability there was a bill that was finally introduced last week that's House Bill 25278 modifications to the accountability system this is the this one is going to involve a lot of conversations with uh Dr pilch and her superintendent group um and I know that a lot of folks are going to be

095looking at this bill um and there will be many amendments and revisions that are going to be coming forward um there's just a lot of folks that have interest in this bill but I know that a lot of folks want to have change to the system of accountability so this this there will be movement um and there will be change to our accountability system it's just uh a matter of how much change will come Nate I could add the big thing that we are really hoping for out of this is that we will get um more emphasis on post Workforce postsecondary Workforce Readiness and post Workforce Readiness activities that happen in schools and so that um in instead of just the T being such a heavy weight that we would also be looking at and

096we currently get we currently get credit for concurrent enrollment and CT certificates and those things but what we're looking for as a superintendent group is to have a really a greater weight on all of those things and the delicate dance then is the really small schools because they don't have as many opportunities as a large District like we have for kids to take concurrent enrollment and CTE certificated courses but that's the big thing we hope we can get out of this is that we're really looking at Workforce ready at a you know as a significant measurement in accountability um and not just the Colorado state test is really so we're looking more at high school or they're looking more at high school rather than middle and elementary yeah okay well the big thing at middle

097and elementary is opt outs and so really looking at how opt outs are manag CU you currently you can take um you could reach a school of distinct and then the next year you can have your students opt out and keep your rating at school distinction because opt outs don't count against you um as a school district and so what and then in some districts what they find is that some of their higher achieving students are the students who do opt out so it actually skews their their test results because of that so there a lot of conversation around opt outs and how we manage opt outs and um and can a school or School District get performance or distinction when they have high numbers of students opting out at the state test and and

098what we do with that so we you know we don't have a big opt out here in district 6 it's not been a significant issue here in district 6 in most of our schools and so um it's not as big of an issue as it is in in some of the other districts around us so I'll keep you posted it's iy there's a lot of stuff in that new accountability bill it's a really technical term icky um go ahead Mr fall the for the proposed legislation actually a lot of this is not new information so I just wanted to spend a little bit of time on the first two that are on this um the first one is House Bill 25210 what this bill does is it's just going to audit all of the data

099reporting requirements for K12 institutions and then it is going to see if there are ways to more efficiently report the data to collect the data if there's any way they can consolidate some of these data submissions uh if they can align some of the data so we don't have to multiple reports um we provide produce and collect so much data required by law to both the state and the federal government it is significant it is cumbersome it is hard to track it is hard to know what dat data fits where uh behavioral incidents we now have to track by demographic information and then Track by if it was harassment you know and then based on category subcategory of harassment and then based on subcategories of that subcategory of harassment you know and so just tracking

100that and making sure the reporting accurate information back to the state uh is cumbersome and so this bill is just going to review it and see if there's any solutions we can make uh and I think that that is a terrific idea um so we don't want to support that just go ahead and support it Mr fall I I could I me sounds like he would I think I know what I would do and I would support it um yeah it's I mean it really all it is is an audit so there probably will be a fiscal note attached so I mean however much money it would cost to do a review um but I I think that in the grand scheme of things that there'd be money well spent by the state to do

101an audit like that it's just gotten so out of control they don't even realize all the unfunded mandates that have been placed on us and um and on teachers well I don't know if Drew Palmer and chief corus and I and we have a team that meets monthly just even talk about the data itself and just how to record it report it and how do we get our staff to know how to do it and it's it's a lot it's a lot of work so um okay well I can certainly any other okay don't want to just speak for the for the board but unless there's unless there's some opposition to that idea yeah let's change that to support thank you um and then the uh the other bill I wanted to bring up was

102House Bill 25146 Juvenile Detention bed caps this is not a bill that has anything to do with school districts uh but we've actually seen a few school districts come out uh in opposition to this bill and in fact DPS is taking a very very very strong position of opposition to this bill um and essentially what this bill does is it increases the number of beds available for juveniles in the state of Colorado from 21 to 245 or 254 and then each year thereafter they can kind of increase that cap um as necess necessary because there aren't enough beds uh in the state of Colorado for juvenile offenders um the I will just say that what I've been hearing from these other school districts is the issue really isn't that these juveniles don't have a place

103to sleep in a detention center it's say they have nowhere to go once they're released from the Detention Center that there's not Community Resources available to actually provide that behavioral support uh to these folks once they are released um and so oftentimes a lot of them end up staying longer in beds before they can be released because there's nowhere for them to go um and so this is just kind of a conversation about where does money matter the most and you know would this be money that could be more useful for some kind of community services or somebody that a school district could partner with for our atrisk youth um to provide them with additional Services outside of the Juvenile Justice System again we don't have I don't have a position on this bill I

104just wanted to share with you uh just so you can see how uh there are some bills that occasionally um districts will take pretty strong positions on kind of surprisingly um and then when you kind of read into it a little bit further um there is some considerations to be had uh for for this bill I think it comes with the one.5 million increase I think every bet is about $177,000 a year um they're pretty expensive um but but we do also have a need for the beds themselves and I'm sure Chief corus would uh tell the other perspective here about why there may be a benefit to having more bets available so DPS is against this then where would they want those students that um need to be at a juvenile detention center to

105be placed yeah I haven't I haven't spoken directly with anybody at DPS but what I so what I understand is that they think that that money that could be used to buy more beds could instead be used to could be funneled towards Community Resources so these students when they are released I I'm calling them students these juveniles when they are released uh that they can go to some Center that can provide them with some support there but I I don't I don't know what what they would want instead of vs that's a good question I can definitely um find that out well based on previous legislation and previous years and who has opposed it I suspect they don't they they want to see fewer youth incarcerated yeah DPS probably yeah they want to see fewer

106they don't want to they don't they don't want beds because they don't want more kids incarcerated so they want those dollars instead spent on prevention and intervention or you know treatment okay that makes sense um and then the remaining bills uh I just there just kind of an update of where we're at um the core bill is at its uh second Senate reading is what I should say not second second reading uh the Library resources bill um just know that casby had introduced those amendments uh those were passed um and we are in support of the Amendments as introduced by casby because it doesn't really change what we do uh the safe to tell um has been assigned to the Senate Appropriations Committee um I thought our conversation at the last meeting was really productive

107and certainly would be um we could change that to support if that's the direction that you would all like to go um and then the tech accessibility liability Bill uh passed through the whole house so now it's to the Senate and that bill should probably pass without any issues okay um I may be test on that one anybody want to change our position from monitors to support on the safe to tell how you want to make that case I I mean just like I um I guess I voiced my opinion last meeting I I can only see it as benefiting the student to have more awareness around their home life and um possible incidents happening at home so I would support but is there an opposing view we all good the the negative for the

108the potential question I guess is the Bill acts immunity protection for staff actions taken in response but I mean we already have protocols for how we treat our students right like yeah I again that's just me wanting to protect uh School staff at all possible cost like what like what types of like if they did weren't handled with care somehow like could we be liable that's that's my question um but you know there are still there's you know Good Samaritan laws and we have immunities um in school already and so maybe those protections would still apply in a case like this but yeah if we were to receive a Handle With Care notice and we didn't Handle With Care you know I just I don't know what that yeah it might be a little too

109early for us to jump in I was going to say it sounds like that we haven't quite made up our mind as a group so um what I would like to do because I did hear from another superintendent whose district is very similar to ours that they currently do this and works really well but I didn't have an opportunity to really dig in with her and ask what how it works so what I'd like to do is you know how do you do it like what is the system once you know that you get the you know Handle With Care notice what do you do next and then how do you follow through with that so let let me just some work on that and then I'll bring that back okay thank you Dr P

110and would you all be comfortable if I felt like her response was appropriate that we're not going to be hanging on people out stright that I went ahead to support moved it to support I'm I'm I'm a fan as as it's presented I think I said that last time too so okay let me talk with with her and see kind of how it plays out on the day to day support somehow okay to the law support yeah did we did we say how we are as a board for the very first one of financial literacy I didn't know I don't believe so oh we said monitor right I thought or I thought we had a monitor on it yeah I wanted more information on parent input and teacher input well I don't think they're Gathering

111parent and teacher input unless a parent group would come out and support or opposition to adhere they're not I don't or CA woulding yeah I saw standord children is in support and um there was one other children succeeds I think Colorado succeeds no Colorado succeeds is the other or that's in support of it what are the two again CA hasn't taken a stance CA has not um they were Colorado succeeds these are just the children's orgs a stand for children Inc um and then there are many Financial instit in support National Institution of Insurance and financial advisers uh Colorado Bankers Association Bankers yeah so a lot of the financial institutions it sounds like casby's already made a a decision to to oppose they are in opposition I suppose we could try to offer an opinion

112but I don't I don't know that it if casban Case are opposing that I don't know if it um we need to do much more okay well we I can continue to Monitor and do some information gathering it looks like there is a hearing set for next week on uh the 6th I've told miss barcus our lobbyist that I I wasn't comfortable with Nate and me saying oppose or or support knowing that our board is not you know completely together on this that some of our board would like to see a financial literacy requirement and some would not so I I felt like I I didn't feel like I should take a stand knowing that yeah we can't take votes in in the work session so I mean we really got to get like a

113general kind of like yeah hey we we all really support or oppose and so I just say we stay where we are tday okay great Mr fall have you this was something that a Community member thought was potentially affecting us House Bill 25 1169 um housing developments on faith and education that's the one for to sent me yeah so I didn't know if you know anything about that I I had that written on my paper too I I don't have any information on it but I I did hear that Dr Camp spitzy wanted some information on it so I will I will we need to do some more research my legal understanding is not allowing me to come away it look I told my husband I was like the legal Lee was over my head

114this says the bill aims to streamline the approval process for residential developments and ensure that they are not unduly restricted by local zoning rules so what I'm thinking of is like I know in the neighborhood where ncmc is the hospital it can't be higher than five stories so I think it's trying to remove some of those kinds of housing regulations in order to develop more housing options and so like if wherever our school or faith could this is just my but anyway so yeah if you look into that yeah we need to learn more all right well let's debrief the work session we're at 5:32 thank you Mr fall sorry uh just trying to move us along uh so we can get started with our next meeting uh Michael is hungry uh Mr aori well

115obviously it's exciting to think down the road in terms of uh the School District administration building and what potentially could happen and uh regardless of whether the county uh goes along with uh the plan put forth by richmark I think that's something we have to continue to think about um moving forward I think that has provided a a kind of a push for us to look down the road and then thanks again Nate for all your help with understanding most of this um sometimes it can get pretty confusing so I do appreciate that very much thanks Mr President thank you sir Mr Bentley yeah yeah I kind of just Echo D said U what a what a exciting time to be part of the district and and gy in general um families like the Richardson

116and and and many others that just continue to pour back into the community um you know I'm from an actual small town and it doesn't feel as tight-knit in as small town as as gy does and gy isn't small anymore so yeah I'm I'm happy to be here I'm glad that life brought me here to kind of open my eyes to to see the the Wonder and the good side of that and uh appreciate Nate always keeping us up to Snuff on on what's going on down in Denver it's not my favorite place to be but now I feel like I'm well aware what's happening thank you Mr Bentley Mr Norwood I agree watching the development of the downtown area is fascinating to me and I know what it did for Oldtown Fort Collins and

117I'd like to see you for downtown Gand um Dr P thank you for answering questions about financial literacy appreciate that and Nate as always appreciate you thank you sir Dr K spitzy yeah um I already voiced my excitement about possibilities for our community um and I'm glad um that Dr pilch brought up the Richardson's contribution to our after school sports programs in fourth and fifth grade because um like I I just think it's so cool that that we're doing that and I came home and was so excited about it and my husband asked me how is that being funded and I was like it's Richardson's help with that so um yeah feel grateful to be in a community where we hear about each other um yes and Nate thank you for keeping us up to

118date and um letting us um voice our stand on on some of these things happening in Denver Miss suvan um I do like the idea of the downtown as well um we don't have that developed down here they've tried years that for years to try to create that old toown feel of what for Collins has and maybe this is what we need is just the whole facelift and to get the whole Community understanding what changes could be possible down here so that's exciting and um on the financial literacy thank you for bringing a lot of the information up front and whatnot and I do have a couple meetings and I need to set up one with you as well Natalie um just to present with you is the U information I have but to me

119um when we look at our district and we have such a high poverty rate um this to me just because I've talked to some students um who've recently graduated from other schools and I've asked them what they've had for financial literacy and even though they're getting those standards in the um the CICS classes they're not really applying it um as the front knowledge of the understanding of what it could do and you know how it changes their their life and whatnot but I've spoken to kids that have taken an actual financial literacy class when it's a personal financial literacy over courses of a semester they're understanding more of the impacts as to what it does for them and I would like to help break that cycle with um our families here in this district and

120maybe change that uh that poverty rate with some of our families I think that would be very impactful thank you Miss Sullivan vice president M yeah I'm very excited about the downtown um project I'm with with Brenda that we spend all of our time in downtown we have invested um personally and and um yeah so I'm really excited and I do very much appreciate the richardon family who um you know has has been blessed and is extending that blessing to to the city um I hope that they they've done so much research in all of the the numbers and the math and um really want to make it um doable for all of the entities so I really appreciate all their time um and yeah the legislation is always is kind of fascinating and um

121just interesting to see what bills where the passion for change comes from and then yeah how it affects education it's really interesting so thank you for helping us to understand that thank you Miss mash and yeah I'll just again echo my my support um we like to say as the as the school district goes so goes the city and I I believe that's true but the reverse is also true and we need a strong gy uh to be successful in this in this district and this without a doubt makes makes this community and uh stronger and creates a center of gravity and a city center um in the downtown and so very thankful for the Richardson for putting that putting that forward um and sorry Nate to Usher you off unceremoniously U I did I

122am getting hungry so uh so this uh this meeting is adjourned great [Music]