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It's now 6:31. I'd like to call the meeting to order. May I have a roll call please? >> Hyle >> here. >> Levia Wright >> here. >> Ryan >> here. >> Thompson >> here. >> Withers >> here. >> Good evening everyone. Please stand and

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join us in the pledge of allegiance. I 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.

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>> With that, we are on to our first item, which is approval of agenda. May I have a motion, please? I move to approve the agenda as presented. >> Second. >> It's been moved and seconded. Any discussion? Hearing none a vote.

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>> Hyle >> I. >> Levia Wright >> I. >> Ryan >> I >> Thompson I >> Withers >> I. >> That motion carries. We have no one signed up for public comment tonight. So we're then on to consent agenda. Um, does anyone have anything they need

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pulled from the consent agenda? Hearing none, may I have a motion to approve all consent agenda items? >> I move to approve all consent agenda items as presented. >> Second. >> It's been moved and seconded. Any discussion

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hearing? None. A vote, please. >> Hy. >> I, >> Le Wright. >> I, >> Ryan. >> I, >> Thompson. I Withers >> I >> that motion carries. Uh we are now on to our updates and our first update is our

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superintendent update. >> Good evening punal superintendent and we are off to a very smooth start. There there are districts that don't even have students uh in in school yet and we are just about to finish our second week. Uh it's gone really well. We always have a few things uh happen as you start a

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school year. Um but it's been remarkably smooth. I know I should be saying that because it guarantees that something will be tricky. Um, but it it really has gone well. It's been really gratifying to see our buildings turn back into schools as students arrive. And that is

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happening all over the district. One of the things that was really um unique and neat for me personally this year is the because of the the way our calendar works. We are always having our final week of preparation the same week that all the school administrators from

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around the state are gathering for their case summer conference, the big case conference. And I've always gone to that. I've been going to it for I 25 years or something since I moved to Colorado. Um, this year I decided not to go and I stayed here instead so that I could attend things like the training for new uh pair professionals in

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transportation or the meeting kickoff for our for our food service professionals and colleagues. And I also got to go to all three of the zone kickoffs. Now, as you know, as part of our cost savings, we are not hosting our big peak view rally event this year. And

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so instead, we've kind of right-sized kickoff events in each of the zones. And so in the Falcon Zone, we had a great opportunity to have an Oscar themed celebration of each of the schools. And each of the school leadership teams came as a movie uh as did the district

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leadership team. They came as Jurassic Park. So Mr. Brian Smith came as a T-Rex uh in in costume. It was fantastic. So I thought that was really good. I really I was pretty sure you couldn't beat the T-Rex. But then I came down here to San Creek Zone and Superintendent Horus had

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a lot of good things. is a great keynote speaker and he finished the day with pictures of his new puppy Buffy. And so I think a puppy beats a dino. I I really do. And so I was I was all ready to to

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give the most movie celebration award to Dustin, which stunned me. And then we went on up to the Power Zone, didn't we, Teresa? And I say Teresa, but I could just as well say Grammy because she put up

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pictures of new grandbaby Ellie. And so from dino to puppy to baby, we had very warm and personal kickoffs, but also great energy, words of wisdom from keynote speakers and colleagues and

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>> just it was just a um it was the way that you want to feel about coming back from a break. It was energizing and optimistic. And so thank you to the leaders in in all of our divisions and departments. Great kudos for our

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leadership launch event, for our base camp event with new staff members. We really listened to feedback from previous years surveys and and interviews. Um, and we made adjustments that our people asked for. And so those those launch to the year things went

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really really well. Something that I was not expecting to be able to speak to you about and I can't give you any final data at this point. Um, but we do have preliminary still embargoed school growth data which we can now add to our school achievement data that we got back

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in June. And I can tell you that there will definitely be some new schools hitting distinction this year because we've had some incredible growth in some of our schools. Um, we did have one school that was able to improve

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performance in every test they gave. Last year you heard me talk about Evans Elementary going 7-0. This year it was Meridian Ranch Bulldogs going seven-0. So we once again we have role model schools, role model educators, role

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model students right here very close to home. So we know how to hit distinction. We just have to do it more consistently and at scale. And we will be moving forward. We'll be moving up this year in our pursuit of being a district of distinction with diversity. So that's

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exciting to talk about. Um really uh really positive uh on on returns. Our enrollment data is looking strong. Uh we will know a little bit obviously that gets a little bit more polished as students show up in other districts. Now we'll have some students that are dual

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enrolled and we have to figure out which district are they actually attending. So that usually creates a little bit of a contraction in our data and we're anticipating that. Um, but the early return returns are strong and and stable. And so those are all really

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really positive things. I want to finish with a uh a request or actually it's a recommendation. I'm going to make a recommendation to the board and uh it's possible the board will have some questions, but I probably will invite us

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to to have dialogue at a at a later date at a later time at a later date. Um, I will use a military acronym bluff bottom line up front. The bottom line up front is I recommend that this board schedule a meeting on Monday to consider the

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dissolution of the education reinvisioned Boseies. I have been in near constant communication beginning last Friday at 4:30 p.m. with a letter from our commissioner of education in Colorado.

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Following on from that initial conversation and I and I spoke with her as well, um we consulted with our cabinet, we talked with our lawyer, we talked with members of the Boseies. We have had a a week of analysis and I can tell you with with pretty high

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confidence and collaboration there is not a legitimate responsible path forward. Um, and so to to quote Shakespeare, I come to bury the Boseies, not to praise it. But I won't miss the opportunity to say that the Boseies has

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provided desirable choice for thousands of families in Colorado for over a decade. And without the Boseis leadership schools like uh Mary Academy in Woodland Park or Orton Academy, all of the online schools that students and families have chosen where they have

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thrived. Those schools and those homeschool enrichment programs would not exist in Colorado. And so the the legacy is strong, but Icarus is coming back to Earth. And the question I would ask you to schedule and address on Monday is whether it is a a controlled descent or

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a crash landing. and we we can object to some of the timing and some of the the declarations and the late breaking nature of those. Um but but I I will tell you based on the consultation that I've had with with legal and professional and political uh leaders um

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the most responsible thing for us to do is in public to consider whether there is uh a way to to close carefully and and how do we do that? Um, and I think that we need to do that with some advanced notice to our community, to the

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state. Uh, but that is my recommendation and because we have previously discussed this, um, we've already had essentially a first read on this topic. So, as long as we are transparent and we've posted an agenda 24 hours in advance, um, my

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recommendation is that we move swiftly and get get to this on Monday. And the reason for that that timing urgency is you need to let families know uh so that they they can exercise the great choice that Colorado offers. So that is my final part of the update. That is my

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recommendation. Uh and I'm sure you have questions and and observations and questions uh about our analysis. I think those are best answered at another meeting uh because that wasn't on the agenda for tonight, but it is my recommendation.

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Thank you. you. There we go. Thank you, Peter. Our next item is our student board of representatives update and we have two students joining us tonight. Haley Slain from Patriot Applied Learning Campus and Lizzie Sone from S Creek High School.

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Welcome. And would you like to give an update or let us know how your first bit of school has been going as well? Um, we do not have any major updates with the SBOR, just that we met earlier this week doing formal introductions so we can be a stronger team and lightly

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discussing topics that we want to get at this school year. >> No, I have nothing to add. >> Thank you. I'm really glad you're both here tonight. And so then we'll move um to our first board member, Holly Withers.

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>> You guys did phenomenal just now. It'll it'll come to you. Um so here's my board update. I have, you know, a handful of things and they're all happy and positive. Um although I was really sad that I wasn't able to

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attend the Falcon Zone kickoff. Um that seems right up my alley. I was really sad. next time, email two weeks in advance. Um, but I did get to uh attend the San Creek Zone. It was it was really

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nice because my kids um principal, they they pulled me over. They gave me pompoms. They're like, "You're with us today." And I said, "All right. Um, let's let's roll. Let's do this." And the keynote speaker was really good. Although I left here in tears. Like it just put me in the fields and my nose

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was stuffy and it was so embarrassing. I didn't want anyone to talk to me, so I ran out of here. Um, and then that Friday, I had the, you know, absolute honor and privilege to not only attend the Power Zone kickoff, but I also was

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able to speak right after the keynote speaker and before Peter Hilts, which obviously I was definitely out of my depth there. But it was really um it was it was quite a delight and I got to offer you know the the silly assistance

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um for the teachers said hey if there's anything that's a time suck that you just need help with let me know. I already have two people who took me up on it. So I'm very excited. Um my first visit will be tomorrow at Sky View uh middle school. I'm going to go help a

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teacher do some last minute uh decorating. So I'm excited for that. And then uh we did the student board of representatives yesterday. So I got to meet everybody. I was I was kind of quiet but also everybody else was. We all had the first day jitters. Um I do

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want to give a shout out too to Stson Elementary. So today or this year was their first year that they had a kindergarten boot camp. And what that was is that all the parents go to the cafeteria and they give us kits that we take home. and one is for uh like

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language arts and one is for math and it's stuff to do at home since they don't do homework. And we uh or my son and I have done it all all but maybe once. Uh he's super into the math which I kind of knew he would be. And so that's really excited. I'm really happy

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to see that he's just enjoying himself. I was really concerned. Um and then I guess aside from that, that's that's really all I have. Sorry. and Lori, >> I will neither confirm nor deny that I

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really enjoyed having July with no meetings. Um, and I have to get Brian Smith's back here because Brian does have a puppy as well. And so the only way for us to really settle this issue is for Brian

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and Dustin to bring their puppies here so we can all share in the puppy love. So that is a request I will be putting forth. Okay. So um I did attend the S Creek kickoff and that was a very good speaker and I had to sit with the administration while she got to jump

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around with pom poms. I just think that's wrong. I mean but uh afterwards I really enjoyed sharing lunch with a couple of uh people from Spring Studio. We had a great time, great conversation and overall it was a wonderful kickoff. So, with the Falcon Zone kickoff, I

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couldn't be out there because I had a closing and then power zone. I was going to try to get there and instead I had to wait around for concrete lifting bids because apparently, even if you're working on the outside of a home, a human being has to be there for the bid on concrete lifting. So, instead of

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breakfast burritos, I had a to-go cup of coffee from my own home. So, someday, Teresa, we will have breakfast burritos. Okay. Anyway, um then we did student board and actually for our first meeting, you guys actually did participate a lot and I thought that was

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really good. I now know that Holly's favorite animal is a peacock. I don't know if she has a pet peacock, but you could bring that with the puppies, although the puppies might eat a peacock. Um then I had u the joy of being invited back to the teachers

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summit in Dallas, Texas. And I got to tell you, it was incredible. So I brought back a bunch of materials for the district and to share with my fellow board members. I do not know where I put it, but as soon as I find it, I want to transcribe my notes and hopefully I can

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make a presentation because when I got back in town, I immediately had in addition to work, I had two weddings. uh one for a young lady that I helped to raise and the other one for my granddaughter. So, it's been a really

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exciting time with weddings and a lot of joy. At the teacher uh summit, I did get to hang out with a teacher from the Falcon Zone. Way to represent Falcon. And we had a great time swapping different different uh professional de

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development things that we went to. And I have great notes somewhere. Anyway, um then we did have our elections for officers at erosce and it was a very productive meeting and uh I know that it might be

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going goodbye and it makes me sick that 13 to 20,000 students who have enjoyed homeschool enrichment programs that they will not have an a effective exit ramp. And uh there's a lot that I'll have to

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say about that later, but when we impact that many kids, it makes me sick to my stomach. So that's all I've got. Thanks, >> Jack. >> All right. Good evening, everyone. So, I had a couple events I uh participated

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this past uh month or so. The first one I did, and I thought it was very creative, was Bob Feliz and the Chaos Leadership Team. We uh they walked one mile every hour for 24 hours. And so that was interesting. I was able to go first thing in the morning walk with

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them and I made a midday walk and then I made a 01 walk with them and then a 05 walk with them again. Just the way I look at it is I was just check on the troops when we kept walking with them. So that was a lot of fun to see them and that was August 1. The next thing that

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we I was able to participate in is uh spent the evening with the teachers at Bennett Ranch. Not only was it Bennett Ranch, but it was also uh the Falcon Zone visit or the Falcon Zone uh elementary school. So, getting to know both sides. Uh I talked to the teachers,

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I talked to um uh the uh parents of both sides and they're they're excited. What they weren't tr truly excited about was the the parking lot situation. Weren't excited about the before care and after care of just having our kids at that

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point. uh so we can drop them off earlier because the time also has shifted. So that's been a discussion with the the families. So we were able to do that. Then also uh an an exciting another point I was at was uh stopped by

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Slim Chickens and watched the Falcon football team had a eating wings contest between some of the football uh players and some of the coaches. Uh that was a lot lot of fun. They brought up big old trays from Slim Chickens in the parking lot and they all got to just chow down

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for seven minutes. Uh so that was fun to watch them. Uh some upcoming events that we do have going on is uh later this month we do have a Falcon's own visit happening in the end of August and uh Friday Bennett Ranch will be holding

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field day. So we're excited about the field day at Bennett Ranch and so it'll be interesting to see. I haven't heard if Falcon Zone is going to be doing that field day with them. So, a lot of participation going on. Thanks, >> Mike.

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>> I am shameless in enjoying my month off. Um during the month of July, I was invited to participate in a youth leadership program. So these were students that were um taking time out of their summer to um to engage in this

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program to to develop themselves as leaders. I was invited to speak to them which you know just warms my heart that somebody looks at me and says you know you would be somebody who would be a good influence on these students and please come talk to them. So I got to

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participate in a panel with those students along with uh two of our counterparts in D11 and one of our city counselors. Um so I just I really enjoyed spending the time with the students. They were very engaged. Um it was great to uh also network with my

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fellow leaders. Um so grateful to be included in that. Um, I heard football come up there and I just want to let everybody know that the season is kicking off on the 21st of this month. Um, and it's going to be a really exciting one. Um, especially on

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this side of town. Uh, so Vista Ridge, they're opening at home against Mesa Ridge. And I'm hearing through the grapevine that there's a conversation with, uh, our widefield folks about maybe turning that into some sort of a formal rivalry, you know, like a Battle of the Ridges kind of thing. Um, and

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Vista Ridge qualified for the playoffs last year, so we're looking forward to exciting stuff coming from them. Meanwhile, here at St. Creek High School, also opening at home against Douglas County. So, last year they went

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up until the very last game with a perfect season. And unfortunately, because of the division they were in, only one team got to make the playoffs and so they missed them. based on their accomplishments last year, they have been bumped up a division. And so they are going to be in a much more

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challenging division that last year sent four teams to the playoffs, one of which was Vista Ridge. And looking ahead at the schedule, I find that on Halloween in the afternoon, it's a 1 p.m. game.

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Vista Ridge is playing here in a game that will almost certainly have playoff implications. So, I will be here rain or shine. And that's all I got. Well, I too enjoyed July, but um as pretty much everyone knows, I literally

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wasn't here for the entire month because we left we started driving June 29th to get to where our family is in Michigan. And I got back the night of the 31st um and did one hour, the very first hour

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um over at Mr. Feliz's home because he had let me know he was trying to raise money to support schools and teachers. And anytime anyone in our community is willing to do something positive for our schools, if they ask me to be a part of it, I'm going to do my best. um my that

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weekend is my um caregiving duty and so we couldn't spend the day but I I was there um I believe I was there before anybody else got to Mr. Felissa's house and then you drove a golf cart over and a couple of other people and um Sean was

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there the principal from Falcon High and so that was kind of my first dip right back into doing some district business. I'm looking forward to the tour. Um, uh, Brian Smith has invited Jack and I to come do a tour of the Falcon Zone together. And so we'll be doing that

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later this month. Uh, so those are kind of the the big pieces as the beginning of the year gets to kick off. and and I will be doing the same thing next July because as anyone who has um lived in the generation now where our families are spread literally all over the

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country for my family July is the only month that we can seem to find that everyone no matter what state they live in um can find a way to be there without ruining their children's activities and all of those different things. Some people start school in August and get

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out in May. other people start school in September and get out at the end of June. But I had two family reunions. One from my mom's side that's rather small with my siblings and one where I got to see my entire dad's side which includes I was telling Mike my oldest first

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cousin is 70. My youngest first cousin is 33 and there are 31 of us in that group. Um, and the oldest elder in the family now based because of those who have passed is 83, which is my dad. And

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but we were able to get all of his siblings together. Oh, no, actually his brother is older. The oldest is 86. Jerry is 86, I think. So, we had multiple gener we had probably four generations together at that park in Michigan. Um, and obviously with folks

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that aged, we don't have very many opportunities before we won't have them. And so for my family, July is the time that we can make sure we get all of them together. So I really appreciate that. Um I won't try and get into a littles contest um even though I have lots of

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babies and littles pictures from those reunions with um Teresa, but um I'm sure hers are just as cute as mine. I'll just kind of leave it at that. Um so for district business end first board members please um let email Lynette

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later and let her know what your availability is Monday night so we can look at getting a special meeting scheduled for Monday. And as a backup also provide times for Tuesday because I know that's fairly short notice and we're all volunteers and we can't

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necessarily move work commitments and things like that. So, if you can give her her your availability on Monday and Tuesday um tomorrow morning, either tonight or tomorrow morning would be best because she'll need to get it posted before um she leaves by the end of the day

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tomorrow so that we're not asking her to work outside of work hours. The other thing I wanted to point out to everyone is that Lynette has emailed us the uh information for the CASBY resolutions. So, we have the delegate assembly coming up where Mike will be representing us.

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He will need our feedback on those resolutions so that he knows where the board stands. We will be discussing it um as a group at our work session. So that will be one of our lengthier discussions. But you have all the information now so that you can start

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thinking about it now even well before you get the work session packet. That way you can read them, think of questions you have, submit questions to Peter or the relevant staff members if there's additional information you want from them. Peter will also be able to

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provide us administrative when we have the discussion at the meeting. He'll be able to also give us administrative perspective on those so that way we can really have robust input on that. But I wanted to give everyone as much time as possible to kind of review those, think about them, and have an opportunity to ask questions. I believe it's in your

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email already. Um, and if you want a printout sheet, let Lynette know, and I'm sure she can do that as well. Uh those are the only two kind of administrative updates I have. And so with that, we are going to be on to our action items. And our first item is 7.1.

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May I have a motion, please? I move to approve the edits included in the June policy and procedure review. >> Second. >> It's been moved and seconded. Any discussion? Hearing none. A vote please. >> Hyle >> I. >> Levier Wright

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>> I. >> Ryan >> I. >> Thompson >> I. >> Withers. >> I. >> That motion carries. We're on to item 7.2 proposed revisions to board policy CBI with Mr. Anderson. May I get a motion please?

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>> I move to approve the revisions to policy CBI as recommended by administration. >> Second. >> Any discussion? Hearing none. A vote please. >> Hyle >> I. >> Levia Wright

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>> I. >> Ryan >> I. >> Thompson >> I. >> Withers. >> I. >> Motion carries. We're on to item 7.3 Pioneer Technology and Arts Academy contract. May I have a motion, please? >> I move to approve the Pioneer Technology

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and Arts Academy contract. >> Second. >> It's been moved and seconded. Any discussion? Hearing none a vote please. >> Hy >> I. >> Levia Wright >> I. >> Ryan >> I. >> Thompson

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>> I. >> Withers. >> I. >> That motion carries. We're on to item 7.4 director district resolution. May I have a motion, please? >> I move to approve the resolution for proposal one for the new director districts.

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>> Second. >> It's moved and seconded. Any discussion? Hearing none. A vote please. >> Hy. >> Larry Wright >> I. >> Ryan >> I. >> Thompson >> I. >> Withers. >> I.

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>> And that motion carries. We are now on to our information items. Um you'll note we have item 8.2 here as well. Us which is the student handbook. In past agendas or past years, we've seen that brought

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forward as an action item um just for discussion and action. It isn't this time because my understanding is we didn't have any substantive changes that needed to be reviewed. Um but remember last year we did also add a cell phone

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policy that restricted cell phone access to our students. And I know I as a technically I'm still a parent at Falcon High in an ancillary way and so I receive all of the welcome emails and parent instructions and all of those

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things. And I noticed that at Falcon High um they are going the extra step of now having cell phone lockers in the classrooms. Um, and everyone is expected to put their phone in the cell phone

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locker before they go to class to help um, enforce that expectation uniformly. And I know we expect our staff to also have them off um, while they're in their teaching space. And um so I also wanted

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to kind of bring it to the board's attention that we may want to think about whether we would like to set an example by doing the same thing and holding ourselves to the same standard as we hold our students and staff. Um

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any comments? Lori, I guess I'm Oh, there it's back. It was really interesting listening to the student board last year because when they talked about the cell phone policy, they talked about how often their

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teachers were on their cell phones during class. So I found that to be very interesting feedback. But then I also heard from a teacher that most of the text messages coming into the students were coming in from their parents. So I

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think it is a good idea that if we are going to tell the students we expect you to do this to pass on that example through our staff and as a reminder to parents unless it's an emergency that it can wait until the end of the school

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day. So I think that uh and I'd have to hear more from administration but I think that uh the cell phone policy has reduced some of the really poor behavior we saw a few years ago. Um and uh it was actually very difficult because they

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were posting videos of fights. They were arranging fights, filming the fights and posting them and as soon as one site got shut down, they would put it to another one. I cannot imagine the desire to shame a teenager that way and the kind

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of impact. We talk a lot about mental health and I've got to tell you that bullying is a perpetual problem. But to publicly shame a teenager that way, it's cruel and it's incomprehensible. So, I'm glad we have our cell phone

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policy. That's all I wanted to say, >> Holly. >> Well, yes, I agree. And then we also got to see the in-depth data at the student board meeting, but also to kind of to circle back so and address your issues.

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So, if teachers are on them and staff is on them, um I think because she mentioned it, I think we should as a board put our cell phones away. Um they can't have it during instructional time and anytime we get like a public

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speaker, anytime we have a presentation, I think that that should just be the expectation that we all put our phones away, we don't look at it. I mean, we only have to be here twice a month for a couple of hours. I think we can all live, right? Yes. Everybody nodding.

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Okay. Um because it really does just like in any work environment. It really is like top to bottom, right? It it starts with us. We set the example. Um and then hopefully that'll trickle down to our staff and then to our our

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students and we will have less bullying and less mess around. Yeah. Mike >> and I agree that our cell phones do need to be put away so that we can focus on

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the business of the district. Um, and you know, I had people during our um, conversation on erosce at our last meeting trying to send me things in real time to help me. Um, but I was not looking at my phone at all because I really needed to be focused on, you

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know, the communication that was happening up here. Um, with that said, I do have to ask for a little bit of forbearance from the board because we all understand that this is volunteer work and we have to, you know, pay our bills before we can volunteer. And it is

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the nature of my career that I am 247 on call. And I did have one instance where I received uh a call from work um uh during a meeting and I had to take that call. It was very brief. I was able to just redirect um the person to another

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resource. Um but those things can and will happen for me. And so um as long as the board understands that and respects that, I absolutely support the the policy. >> So would it be fair to say you could have it in your phone on vi in your

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pocket on vibrate? So if there was something you needed to go check, you could excuse yourself and go check. Would that be a fair expectation? That is that was my behavior previously and um yeah, absolutely. >> So Mike sounds like he's in favor of imposing that on ourselves. Holly

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certainly sounds like she was in favor. Jack, you're the only person we haven't heard from. What do you think about setting the example or standard that we are asking of our students? >> I think it's important as we as leaders and parents, we lead by example. Done it

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for many years in the military. So I approve that as well. Um, so lead by example. >> And Lori, >> just to kind of add to what Mike said, there are very rare occasions where I have deadlines that have to be met.

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They're not negotiable. It's part of contract law. And so there was a case once where I had to deal with something during a board meeting, but luckily it is rare. So I guess way There we go. So, I guess my question

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is, so like I have a little purse that usually I have in my pocket, but it's in the bag that has my phone and my phone's on vibrate because um I have someone I'm a legal guardian of and if they have a medical emergency, I have to be able to go, but my phone's on vibrate in the bag and I leave the

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board dis. Is that a fair expectation for all of us if there's something that we need to respond to on our phone that we have our phone on vibrate either in a pocket or on something that's against our bodies so it's not out in a temptation because our students are expected to keep them

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put away and if there's something that if it vibrates and we need to go check it we leave the dis out of respect for everyone who's on the space is that a fair expectation Holly you had your hand up >> yes no I I don't think we all I mean this is like honor system here. But

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honestly, like I I think the main thing is like I said, when we are being spoken to um we need to lock in. And so I I just think that having them off the table like cuz you know they vibrate, they light up, put it in your pocket. Um

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if it buzzes a billion times, then you know it's an important phone call and then you Yeah. Excuse yourself. And yeah, >> Lori, >> I don't have any pockets. >> Would you like me to bring you a cute little cell phone bag like the ones I

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have that you can have on your side? >> That sounds wonderful. >> I will buy you one. Okay. Yes, Peter. >> You also need to know that our security system, particularly our Raptor alerts, run on our mobile devices. And so, um, I

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I will not have it where I can't where I can't detect it, um, for that reason because I even checked the door tonight. This is supposed to be a secure environment. And so, that would be that would be a caveat that's operational and security based. >> Yep. Okay. So, are we all okay to move

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on from that piece? Yes. Students wanted to share something. Go ahead. >> Um, I just want to say that like I do think it would be a good idea to hold teachers and staff to the same standard. um as we get more into it, I from a student perspective is what would be the

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consequences if a staff were to abuse their phone in class? Cuz as you know, students depending on their school have different consequences and different penalties for when they have their phone and how they use their phone if they use it incorrectly. So, how would that work

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for staff? That's like my only um take on that. Yeah, that that's probably their supervisor handles them in terms of what their job expectations are, but Peter could probably provide clarity on that if I think I'm correct.

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>> So, before we had a policy, we had guidelines that that included that element. They included that provision. And there are there are legitimate instructional management tasks that teachers use their phones for. And there is a difference. I I I I I don't want to create a false equivalency between

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students and teachers. Um we are expecting teachers to be leaders in the classroom um to have access to both technical and kind of professional resources. And so uh I think there is a difference between the adult who is a paid professional in the classroom

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charged with using the phone for their professional purposes. And I acknowledge that there may be adults who are using it for personal purposes. But one thing I know about students, particularly high school students, they're really good at holding us accountable once we set the standard.

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And so this is something I actually sat in this auditorium and heard the administration here at Sank Creek talking with students about how they want to model this as adults. And so this is I I I think that the administration and the teacher leaders in our buildings are already looking at

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how they can model this. I'm happy to learn more about the conversations they've already had, but this has actually been one of our points from the beginning. What what we expect we need to model, but there is a difference between the student in the in the classroom and the

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teaching professional in the classroom and I want to respect that difference. >> Okay. So, I think we're good to move on from our information item that turned into sort of a discussion item, but I think it was good. We're now on to item

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9.1, a new job description for special education pair professional for the deaf blind and Dr. Nancy Lamond will be presenting on that. >> Good evening. >> Good evening board. Dr. Nancy Lamont, deputy superintendent and executive director for individualized education. I

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want to very quickly go back to the student handbook just to let you know we will be adding in the updated student technology agreement into the student handbook on the website. I will notify Lynette whenever that is added so that you all know that there's been a change. We expect that to happen probably within

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the next 30 days. Um so regarding the um job description that is in front of you, this is for a very specific type of paraprofessional. Um the pair professional is referred to as an intervenor. Um this is for a student who

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is both deaf and blind. Um this is also a job description right now that we need to have within our uh resources for job descriptions. Um we have a number of students that are attend schools within the region. Um and we also have students

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that are moving into the district every day and we believe that this is one that we may need um sooner rather than later. So we wanted to make sure that it was approved by the board um before we needed it. Any questions I can answer for you? So, I was going to ask how we were pro I

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was going to ask how we were providing those services um beforehand, but what I'm think I'm hearing from you now is we have not encountered this need before, but this is more of a forward-looking action. >> That is correct. This is specifically for a student who is deaf and blind and we have not had that need within the

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district as of today. >> Thank you. Any other questions? Are we all good to move it forward for action in September? I'm seeing Holly nod. Yes. Remember, I'll speak into your mic so there's a record of it.

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>> Yes. >> Lori, >> yes. >> Yes. >> I want to move it forward and Mike. All right. So, we'll put that on our September approval agenda. Thank you. Our next item is our operations performance report from nutrition services with Miss Monica Danes

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Henderson. There we go. Good evening everybody. I'm Monica Dines Henderson, your director of nutrition services. I'm here for our annual update and let's see if I can find the right button to push.

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I'm a Dell person, not a Mac person, just so everybody knows. I will look back to David. David, do you mind? Thank you. Um, quickly, one thing I always like to do, I like to do a review of the fact that the child nutrition program is

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actually authorized by the United States Department of Agriculture. We are set up to operate as an enterprise fund inside the school district. Thus, we are basically a business working inside the school district. We

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are set up to be self-supportive 100%. Thus, by the charter of the full congress, we are tasked to break even. And even though we're not for profit, it does not mean we cannot make a profit.

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We cannot make an overtly large profit. Put it that way. By the way, the government has a setup. The entire Congress gets to set our meal patterns. So, the child nutrition program in this

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nation is the most regulated under the United States Department of Agriculture than any other department that reports to USDA. So that's just the quick review of who

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we are, what we do, but overall we feed kids and we enjoy it. Okay, for department staffs, 103 people. When I wrote this, we had three openings. As of today, we only have one.

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We serve meals at 24 sites. We transport to two charter schools. The rest of them we cook on site so the children get the freshest meals possible. Well, when you add up the numbers here for amount of breakfast, amount of

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lunches, and our summer program, you will see that we served over 1.65 million meals last year. I I should say 1.765

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million meals last year. For revenue, we made 7.7 plus some change million expenses 7.1 plus some change there. So we did at the end of the day come out with a net profit of

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5.5,000 or 550,88195. We had a summer administration review. So that's by CDE. Holds us in compliance with USDA regulations on how the summer meal program operates. We had zero

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findings. I like to say this every year, some of you I've been talking to for quite some time now. I look at this as like the annual PBS contribution drive. What's the donation this year for our

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department? We are able to contribute to the district in indirect cost recoveries $785,46152. Um, can you skip past the questions for me real quick? This is one fact that I find

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very important. I think everybody in our community needs to take a moment and recognize that of our student population when I turn this report in at the end of July over well one out of every third

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students or child in our classrooms is living in a household with food insecurity. And I think that it's extremely important for people to stop and keep in the back of their minds when it comes time to why is Johnny behaving

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the way he is. Johnny may not have had a meal the entire weekend. And I think it's is one of those important things that we need to keep in touch or in mind when we go to interact with why our students are behaving the way they are because we really don't know what

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they're coming from. And other than that, time for questions. >> Lori, >> um, first of all, I want to give you kudos as I have before and let you know what we got when the student board last

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year did the listening tours with elementary schools and middle schools that one of the things we kept hearing was that the kids liked their lunches. Um, and I had just one question I had is

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how do they determine whether or not a household has food insecurity? It it's based on economic status. So the government looks at the consumer price

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index. It it looks at some other factors and then decides what level of poverty is in this nation. It's a nationwide one. There's two outliers. Hawaii and Alaska, but otherwise nationwide it's it's based on a status that the

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government sets for poverty levels. And if a family and based on how many people in the family and what the whole household income is, is what sets if a child qualifies for what we know as free or reduced meal benefits.

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The other part that I wanted to touch on, um, and by the way, we have some amazing food pantries around Colorado Springs, it is very important to support them in the work they do. We've got Southeast Colorado Springs, we have Karen here, we have assets at Falcon in

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the Falcon area, we have assistance um, over by Horizon Middle School. Those are very important things to consider contributing to. Um, one of the classes that I attended in Dallas, and this was just worth noting because you talk about

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kids, but also they talked about teachers and nutrition and the importance of eating whole foods, multiple colors. And a lot of time teachers have a very limited time to consume a snack or a meal. And most

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teachers lounges have a lot of processed food. And so one of the courses I had, they encouraged people to stock lounges when possible for teachers to have nutritious quick options when they have limited time to eat because that can

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prevent a afternoon crash and also have having our teachers remaining healthy and having the energy to get through the school day with all of our wonderful students. And so it was a really good course and I hope I can find all my notes on that when they talked about

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eating multicolored whole foods and reducing the amount of processed foods that are available. ahead Mike. >> And I want to um I want to give you a shout out, too, because the comm's department put together this wonderful

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video of um you know, asking students as they were returning to the buildings, what are you excited about for this school year, and the very first student was like, chicken fingers. [laughter] And um I also wanted to reinforce the

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point that you made about the the numbers um for food insecurity because not only was it one in every three students, but also we saw a sharp uptick just in the last year, it was about 28 and a half% and it

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shot up to 34. So, um, our our students are under stress because our economy is under stress. And so, yes, absolutely. Um, I hope that everybody in our buildings is is giving these students the grace that they need. Um, and then

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finally, I wanted to because I think you only talk to us, you present to us once a year, right? >> Yes. >> Just wanted to give you the floor if you wanted to plug your event. >> And I know which event you're talking about. In April, we always have what we

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call the Tasty D49. It is our annual food show where we invite all of our manufacturing partners to come and show off the new food products that we are considering to put on the menu for the following school year. And we ask the

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entire community to come, especially the kids, so that they can vote on what foods that they want on the menu coming up. So, and I just also want to again thank you and point out that Monica is truly

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the premier nutrition and food services director. If you take a look at other districts around the state and really in other states, in other places, um very few are giving paying back the

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amount of indirect costs that we're receiving back. In fact, many aren't able to do the the break even as easily. So, Monica is a master at making the system work, making it work well,

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and ensuring that as much as she can can also come back in those ways. And I it's I don't think people realize how unique that is and how how well D49 Nutrition Services runs comparatively, especially in such a highly highly regulated

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environment. It's incredible. And not only do they give back in those ways, but they support our students in other ways as well. So, their department is open openly welcomes transition students to come work and prepare food um and

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learn some of those work-based learning skills in our 18 to 21 transitions program. It can be hard sometimes to get workplaces to give those students a chance to continue working on those skills and Monica's staff is always welcoming and willing to work with those

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teams. That's amazing. It's just yet another way in which you support our district and our kids and I truly appreciate it. And then commenting on the little the the food insecurities piece when people say things like well

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why do you need a a pantry in Falcon like or you know out at near in the modular out at Falcon Middle where we have a pantry and we have a pantry in each of our zones. This is why and you can't necessarily tell by looking at a

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kid and what car they were dropped off in or what clothes they happen to be wearing um what the actual statuses in their home at that time. We know the majority of people no matter how well they appear to be doing financially tend

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to live within just a few paychecks. And that means that they're within a few one parent being sick or having a job transition or having something happen is enough to take someone and shift them right into that slot. And learning how

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to access those systems can be really difficult. And um when our pantries when the pantries that we have volunteers at in our that are run within our district are open, we have families show up in each of our communities. And um that's

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an indicator of that need as well and and that answers a part of that question. And so thank you for helping to continue to keep people make people consider that and be aware. And also when kids bring things to school to eat,

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um before you criticize what a parent may send as a snack, I would ask you um to go work at a food pantry, volunteer, and see what comes home in the boxes that they send families because for many, you know, when people donate at

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Halloween, tons of people donate their Halloween candy to the food pantries. So you know what half the box is in October and November Halloween candy and pastries that are the the ones that you know wonderfully it's appreciated that the

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grocery stores and Panera and all these places donate their bread and their pastries. But that's what's coming in those boxes. Candy, pastries, bread products, processed foods, not a lot of fruits and vegetables, not a lot of meats. And so for some of those

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families, it might have been they were sending the pastry or a candy bar for snack because that's what came in the food box from the food pantry. Um, so there are pieces of that that that tie into that as well. And so I appreciate you continuing to make folks aware

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because if you have haven't lived in that situation, you don't know. Lori, I was hoping that Marie could also touch on because she does such a great job of it. Um because we have the school lunch program through the state of Colorado, a

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lot of people who previously could have applied for free and reduced meals don't always do the application. And I was hoping you could touch on the importance of why they should. Sure. Just briefly, if um if a family

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qualifies for free and reduced lunch, there are filling out that application triggers a whole other set of benefits. Some of those benefits are districtbased. So, for example, fees um that the district charges, the board of education covers for that family member

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at either a free or reduced rate based on how they're classified. There are also other programs that will use that information to qualify for you for other benefits in the community. Um at one point there was even um discounted internet programs. I think that one has

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been um some of those things are no longer available as the government has shifted resources but lunch breakfast and lunch aren't the only things that are attached to that application. The application is completely confidential.

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Only the people who have an absolute need to know have access to that information. Teachers don't know who's on that list. Only people who handle finance do. and you get to choose who sees it. So you can say yes, I want my information shared or no, I do not. And

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that information that will be respected, but it isn't something that that goes out to where a general group of people can access the information either. But it can provide needed benefits and services and relief for your family and allow your children to participate in

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things that you might not have tried to sign them up for because you knew you wouldn't be able to write that check. We don't want kids to not have those opportunities. So, please let us help you help them and provide those opportunities and partner with you by

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filling out that application so that we can partner with you on that part of your child's development too because those extracurriculars are just as important for those kids. Yeah. And student board, did you want to comment? First of all, I just want to say thank

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you so much. I speak for the people at Patriot and I haven't had a single student complain about the school food that you serve them. So, I just want to thank you so much. Um, as a student, there isn't much we can do. But going

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back to the food insecurities, how can we all make sure that um, everybody gets all the food they need to go home to a full stomach? How can we give back to this? That is a very challenging question

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because your caveat was to make sure everybody has all that they need to go home with a full stomach. And so that's going to be a scale because every child's going to be different. Every student will be different. Um that really in my mind is where the community

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needs to step in versus the school. So there are things that communities can do like backpack programs for weekends. Just little little things like that is where you can step in. The food pantries

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that our schools have created are huge. So, as students doing something like organizing food drives so that those foods are available and then maybe your counselor has access to the pantry and they because they have access to confidential information and sometimes

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are the first people families contact when they're struggling will know who they have to discreetly try and send a bag home for things like that. But being involved as students in volunteering in some of those places, helping get the information out and helping organize, collecting things that can help people

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can be one way that you as students can also help. Any other comments or questions? >> I have one thing I wanted to add that I forgot to add. We have um found a way in a creative

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partnership with the culinary thirdyear culinary program at Patriot to bring back the nutrition department's catering program and it will be run by Eric at the culinary classes and his thirdyear

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kids will be our employees operating the catering program. We may be able to put that back on the list for board meals when there was a catering program before. We used to purchase through them and where it would be students cooking on top of it. That

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could be rather exciting and I was excited to see that partnership too. Yet another way you support kids. Anything else? >> I don't have. >> All right. Thank you, Monica. >> Thank you. Good night.

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And our last item is our August policy and procedure review. Did anyone have any questions on those changes? As a reminder, these are all things brought to us administratively um either as edits because of staffing shifts or

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legal changes. I had one clarifying question that I had sent um to Lisa Fillow, but I'm not sure if she was able to get an answer from the state. Uh you'll notice on the graduation requirements policy,

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they the state has now added the same social study essentially the same social studies requirement that we did in the same years. Um what I don't see and don't know um from the state is what

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happens if we have a transfer student um because they've specified the year. And so I did ask um I did ask that question. Lisa probably hasn't heard back from the state. My guess is some of the folks who make these decisions don't

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necessarily think about the high impact areas like we are where it's not necess because it's statewide. It's not an issue if someone's transferring within the state. But for military families who have children who attend multiple high schools in their four-year career, it

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can be if they end up transferring middle of junior year or middle of senior year and their classes were taken in a different order because of some other state's requirement. So, I did ask that question and I think she was working on seeing if the state was going

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to give her guidance because I'm hoping there'll be a way that we can make administrative exceptions for them in in those circumstances so that we're not messing those kids over because the state didn't think about it. Um, but that was my only question on this. Um,

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I'm hoping that basically as a board we can just make the exception without the state caring, but it's always good to have some clarity from someone above us. >> Lori, oh, I just wanted to say thank you to all the teachers that volunteered their time too when we added these

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requirements. There were several meetings where teachers had a lot of input when we were looking at our graduation requirements. So, any other questions or comments on any of these? Are we good to move them forward for action?

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>> Yes. >> Good. >> Yes. >> Yes. Yes. >> All right. So, we'll move those forward to action. Okay. We had no one signed up for public comment. Do we have anything miscellaneous? >> Um, in terms of just scheduling

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um, we can do that. >> Okay. So, then let's go through. Mike, you said you had something to add. >> Yeah, I just needed to let the board know because you talked about Tuesday being a backup day and I'm I'd have to check, but I'm pretty certain that that's when I'm attending the DAC.

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>> Well, let's see if All right. Uh, let's see if Monday works first because then we can have the date and time already set and it'll already be publicly announced even though Lynette will need to um get the official publication up tomorrow. What? Holly,

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any conflicts Monday? >> Okay, so you're free no matter what time, right? Okay, Lori. >> Okay, while Loriy's checking, Jack, >> is it virtual or in person? Um it can you can join virtually if even

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if we um I I would suggest the meeting itself be in person but if you have to attend virtually that's okay. Um so is there a time frame that works for you on Monday? >> I'm good for Monday. >> Okay. But is there a time what what time

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after what time? Okay. >> Lori 6 or 6:30 is good for you as well. Mike, >> uh, I can confirm that the the DACK is on, um, Tuesday. Um, I can give you a tenative yes for Monday. I have a some calendar

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information that's available at home, but I believe it's clear. >> Okay. So, do we want to say 6:30 Monday because that should be past everybody's work hours. >> Okay. Right. I think we'll have a few um and

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we will have the opportunity for public comment. Um I think that's always important when you're you have something that impacts other people. So on this special meeting, we'll ensure that that's there um before our discussion [sighs] and um Peter will clarify with

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Lynette what our specific items need to be and we will see everyone at 6:30 on Monday and Lynette will also have a link just in case anybody has to chime in virtually. >> Sorry, Jack. >> So we'll allow the public to come speak at that point.

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>> There'll be a public comment. Yep. we'll have a a public comment opportunity before at the very beginning of the meeting just like we do at our regular meetings. >> Okay, perfect. >> Um so I'll ensure that that's there as well. They'll have to sign up in advance just like we do all of our other public comments. So the public comment link

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will be available um in the same place it is for our regular meetings. Lynette will make sure that's all set up for us. Um, so if someone's interested in being able to and obviously people can also email us. So public comment isn't the only manner in which people can let us

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know kind of um what their concerns are. Email is also always available and everybody for the most part I believe every board member I know actually does read all of them. They might not respond to everything because that gets a little hairy, but they do read all of the information. So you can email us if

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you'd like. There will be an opportunity for public comment as well. And so anything else? All right. Then we are adjourned.