I'd like to call to order this regular
meeting of the Boulder Valley School
District Board of Education for Tuesday,
February 17, 2026. Board members may
attend and participate in board meetings
electronically in accordance with policy
BMEA and state law. Laura, can you
please call the role?
Booker
here.
Chavez
here.
Medler
here.
Quinn Linua.
Raj Paul
here.
Tamuading
here. Anger
here.
Thank you. Like everyone to turn their
attention to the screens for our land
acknowledgement this evening.
Boulder
territorial.
Yes.
Foreboschas.
irresistible.
Resilencia.
I'd like to remind everybody that the
mission of the Boulder Valley School
District is to create challenging,
meaningful, and engaging learning
opportunities so that all children
thrive and are prepared for successful,
civically engaged lives. Good evening,
everyone. Thank you for joining us here
tonight um in person remotely. We're
glad to have you observe and participate
in our meetings. At this time, is there
a motion to approve tonight's agenda?
Moved by Anna, seconded by Jorge.
Laura, can you please call that motion?
Booker,
yes.
Chavez,
yes.
Medler,
yes.
Raj Paul,
yes.
Tamu adding,
yes.
Anger,
yes. Motion passes. The next item on our
agenda this evening is a superintendent
report. Dr. Anderson, good evening.
Good evening, board president Raj Paul.
Board members, great to see everyone.
Have a few remarks for everyone this
evening. So, uh board members, as you
know, Dr. Dea Cruz um and I along with
with you have been visiting schools. We
visited uh 10 elementary schools so far
as part of our elementary roundts. As
you know, this is the first step in our
engagement process around declining
enrollment
and how we build resilient schools that
can face today's challenges. Um, as you
might imagine, many of our educators are
passionate about their school. The some
things it's understandable given how
amazing each and every BBSD school is.
Is that Mesa?
That's M. Yeah, this is our first one up
here. This is Mesa. Uh many of the
teachers we've spoken um with up to this
point have shared that they're really
beginning to feel the impact of
shrinking schools. I think that we're we
we hear a general understanding and a
support for what we're trying to do. And
I think teachers are being thoughtful um
to to share with us what's important to
them. Uh, you know, it's important that
we protect quality education for our
students by ensuring through whatever we
do that we build the resources that um
kids and teachers need from full-time
school administrators, counselors,
specialists, interventionists. Um, you
know, we are definitely hearing that
that um that there's uh we're on the
right track in terms of needing to do
something.
We're going to continue these roundts.
We're also prepare preparing for our
bigger regional engagement sessions
which will be following spring break.
There'll be more information to come on
our declining enrollment plan.
Board members, as you know, we've got
some very talented artists here in BBSD.
All you have to do is walk down the hall
here at the ed center to get a glimpse
of their outstanding work. Every year,
our art teachers from across the
district select artwork to be displayed
at the ed center. And last week, the
installation was completed, and we
welcomed all the featured students and
their families here to celebrate during
a special reception last Tuesday. I
believe Joy was uh palpable as they
showed off their work. It was always
it's always nice to see students at
every level in our hallways and get to
congratulate them and their families.
And so I know many of you were able to
do that last week. Uh but an amazing job
both to our our art educators and our
student artists.
Sticking with the art theme, many of our
secondary artists received Scholastics
Art Awards recently. We had 25 artists
qualify for gold key awards which is the
top 5% in state and 15 qualified for
silver key awards which is in the top
10% in the state. Not to mention the 39
students who also received honorable
mentions. Gold key winners are now
advancing to the national competition.
Artwork will be on display at the Denver
Art Museum and 40 West Gallery
throughout March. Second way to go
artists. And then moving on to music.
We'd like to congratulate our students
who were selected to our all-state music
groups. Over the past few weeks, we were
well represented with 89 students
performing in the Colorado All State
Choir, Jazz Choir, Baz Jazz Band,
Orchestra, and Middle School Choir.
We're proud to have such great talent in
BBSD. And that's all for my remarks this
evening.
Thank you, Dr. Anderson. Board members,
any questions or comments?
Seeing as there are none, we will move
on to public participation.
The board respects the rights of the
public to speak on matters concerning
the operation of our schools. The board
does not endorse the comments of indiv
individual participants and reminds all
those who speak that you're responsible
for ensuring your marks are suitable for
an audience that includes
kindergarteners through 12th graders.
Furthermore, this is not an opportunity
for the board to hear from this is an
opportunity for the board to hear from
our constituents. It's not time for the
board to engage with our speakers.
Speakers will each have two minutes to
speak. You'll see a yellow card when you
have 30 seconds remaining and an orange
card when you have 10 seconds remaining.
If you run out of time or would like to
share additional information, you may
always email the board of education.
With that, our first speaker this
evening is Elliot Hood.
Good evening. My name is Elliot Hood and
I'm here to comment on the renewal
application for Horizon's K8. I'm a
former public school teacher and I'm an
education attorney that represents
school districts across the state and
I'm an elected member of the University
of Colorado's board of regents. But most
importantly, I am a proud BBSD parent
and an enthusiastic booster for
Horizons, which has been a phenomenal
school for our family and countless
other families in our community. There
are so many things that I love about
Horizons. It's teacher-led and many of
the educators at Horizons have been
there for decades, like my child's
teacher who's here tonight. The teachers
we have had at Horizons are truly
exceptional at what they do and the kids
love them. The educational environment
is both rigorous and collaborative,
helping students become self-directed
learners who really care for each other
and take ownership over their education.
There is a ton of experiential and
project-based learning opportunities
which keeps kids engaged and invested.
classes have combined grade levels which
allows kids to grow at their own pace,
reduces transition anxiety, encourages
mentorship, and fosters social
connection among students. And the
community is extremely welcoming and
draws from a diverse group of families
from across the district and beyond. The
thing that I love the most though is the
fact that my child loves his school and
he looks forward to learning every day.
Every day. We are so fortunate as
parents to be able to say that. And I
know that this sentiment is shared
broadly in our school community. Thank
you for the opportunity to give comment
tonight and I strongly encourage you to
approve Horizon's renewal application.
Thank you.
Thank you. Our second speaker this
evening is Crystal Chin.
Good evening. My name is Crystal Chin
and I'm a BBSD parent. Last week, I
placed my family's experience on the
public record and requested independent
oversight, including independent
investigation and independent data
collection and analysis.
Since that meeting, additional families
have reached out, describing similar
experiences.
Many want to speak, but they are afraid
of retaliation.
Tonight, we are placing one anonymous
parent statement into the record. Due to
the recent change in public comment
policy regarding regarding donated time,
another parent will read this statement
on the family's behalf. This is not
about one school or one employee. It
reflects a broader pattern families are
experiencing when serious safety
concerns are raised. After tonight, we
are formally requesting that this board
publicly indicate at its February 24th
meeting whether it will place the
question of independent oversight,
including independent investigation and
independent data collection and analysis
for matters involving student safety and
harm on a future public agenda.
I will now turn it over for the
anonymous statement.
Our
final speaker this evening is Techla
Ays.
Good evening. My name is Techla Ays. I
am a former BBSD parent and I'm here
reading an anonymous statement from a
BBSD parent who fears retaliation.
I am a BBSD parent speaking an
anonymously because my child is still in
this district and is afraid of retali
retaliation.
Last school year, our child in high
school was physically harmed by a
trusted BBSD staff member.
Other students were present and
witnessed what happened. Despite reports
to administration, this staff member
remains employed and our family was
given no clear indication that
meaningful accountability occurred.
I immediately reported what happened to
school administration and escalated my
concerns beyond the school because I
believe this crossed a line and put
students at risk.
Despite that, no visible action was
taken that gave our family confidence
that students would be protected.
My child ultimately stepped away when it
became clear the environment had not
changed. Not because they failed, but
because they realized the environment
felt unsafe. It is heartbreaking that an
an adult's behavior, not a child's
ability, ended this opportunity for
them.
I'm not asking for punishment of any
individuals tonight. I am asking for
systems that protect students and take
family concerns seriously.
When parents raise concerns about
student safety, we should not be left
wondering whether anything was actually
done behind closed doors. We should not
have to choose between speaking up and
protecting our children. I support
independent oversight including
independent in investigation and
independent data collection and
analysis. So in so incidents like this
are reviewed objectively, transparently
and without conflicts of interest. Thank
you. Thank you.
This concludes today's public
participation. On behalf of the board,
I'd like to thank everyone who took the
time to be here tonight to share your
comments with us this evening. Next item
on tonight's agenda is board
communication. Board members, does
anybody have anything they would like to
share?
Alex,
I just wanted to give a shout out to the
DAC last week. They uh hosted a meeting
with um uh great education Colorado to
talk about the various um financial
efforts that are underway with potential
ballot measures to deal with Taber and
with the income tax in the state in
order to try to improve school finance.
So hats off to Ali Brone and the folks
at the DAC for um inviting in some folks
uh to provide more information for us.
wasn't very well attended, but I still
think that kind of information is great
to get out there. And the more the
people in our community understand how
um inadequate public finances in
Colorado, the better, because those are
the kinds of things that affect our kids
and our ability to do everything we want
to do.
I just want to share I know our staff
are going to be meeting with different
municipalities to talk about declining
enrollment and the process there. And as
a there have been some social media
posts encouraging people to email the
board um with their thoughts on that.
And as as a reminder, we will have a
thorough community engagement process
coming up after spring break. And right
now we're really listening. There's not
decisions that were being made. So
emailing the board while is always an
opportunity and you're welcome to do so.
We don't have a lot to comment on at
this point. Um so I really encourage
folks to use the community engagement
process to the extent practicable. I
think that you'll find that much more
fulfilling than sending us an email and
getting my response. But that's all I
have today.
The next item on today's agenda is an is
information. We only have one topic this
evening, which is the legislative
update.
There are a bunch of bills that I saw
dropped related to education. I haven't
had the time to go through. I know Alex
emailed about one of them. Um, but Dr.
Anderson, do you have any updates at
this time?
Nothing much. I do. It's that time of of
the year, right, where folks are
starting to to to drop um different
bills uh many of which will die. Uh so
especially given uh this year's context
and so nothing necessarily new to
report.
Great. Well then the next item on
tonight's agenda is an executive
session. Is there a motion? Anna
I, Anna Tamu Auding, make a motion
pursuant to Colorado Revised Statute
246424B
to convene into executive session to
discuss legal issues and advice related
to charter school renewals for Horizons
Summit and Boulder Prep.
Is there a second?
Seconded by Jason
Laura, do you want to call the role on
that one?
Uer,
yes.
Chavez,
yes.
Medler,
yes.
Quinn Linua.
Rajpaul,
yes.
Tamuading,
yes.
Anger,
yes.
Motion passes. Board members, we will
convene in the glacier room.
Welcome back everybody. Calling this
meeting back to order. The next item on
the agenda tonight are action items.
Consent grouping. 8.1 personnel items.
8.2 approval of minutes February 10th,
2026. 8.3 acceptance of donation metal
school. 8.4 acceptance of donation New
Vista High School. 8.5 Approval of
contract with digital scoreboards LLC.
8.6 Authorization to transfer to to IT
network infrastructure refresh project.
8.7 community bond oversight committee
update. 8.8 grant strategic partnerships
21st century community learning centers
CDE. 8.9 Grant Student Support Services
Attendance and Engagement Boulder
County. Are there any items board
members like to pull from consent
grouping?
Hearing none, we need a motion to
approve the items and consent grouping.
Moved by Jorge, seconded by Anna. Board
members, any discussion on these items
hearing? None. Laura, can you please
call the role on consent grouping?
For the record, I'm going to add Lenia
into the roll call as she has joined the
Google Meet.
Thank you.
Booker,
yes.
Chavez,
yes.
Medler,
yes.
Quinnland Aa,
are you muted?
Are you muted?
She's having some technical difficulties
with audio.
You want to try one more time? Lolenia,
we're not able to hear you.
Does she have visual?
Can you give a thumbs up?
That looks like a thumbs up.
Thank you.
Raj Paul,
yes.
Tulading,
yes.
Anger,
yes.
Motion passes. Moving on now to the
action items portion of our tonight's
agenda.
We have the Horizon's charter school
renewal application. Is there a motion?
Deian. I Deian Booker make a motion to
adopt resolution 26-06
approving the Horizon's charter school
renewal application.
Is there a second? Seconded by Anna
board members. Any discussion?
See, Alex. Um, yeah, I would just uh
like to recognize that Horizon K8 has
been a part of our community for a very
long time and it has uh been dear to
many of our families and is a great
piece of the offerings that we have that
provides choice to our families. And I'm
excited uh by the procedure this board
has gone through as we've updated our
policies to have a more standard uh
renewal process with an application
process, site visit, and report from the
staff that involves quite a bit of work
and um uh going back and forth with the
with the school. So, I'm I'm glad to see
our process um move forward. And just by
way of uh background, I also want to say
that when renewal is for a school like
this is absolutely not an existential
challenge. Like this is a school we want
serving our community and doing great
stuff. And the renewal is a process by
which our board because we have a
relationship with your board of the
school to reset, figure out where we're
moving next, uh what it is we'd like to
do together and how we can support you,
what you need from us. And that goes on
through the contracting negotiation
process. So, I'm glad to see the um the
district enhance its capacity to really
come in as a good partner in that
process and I look forward to more
dialogue about it as we move forward.
But I'm happy uh to have this school
continue being part of our community.
Seeing as there are no other comments,
Laura, can you please call the vote on
the motion?
Booker,
yes. Chavez,
yes.
Medler,
yes.
Quinn Aea,
that looks like a thumbs up.
Raj Paul,
yes.
Tamuading,
yes.
Anger,
yes.
Motion passes.
Next, we have the Summit Charter School
renewal application. Do I have a motion?
Alex? Um I Alex Medler make a motion to
to adopt resolution 2607 approving the
summit charter school renewal
application.
Do we have a second? Seconded by Jason
board members any discussion on this
renewal.
Alex,
uh, similar to Horizon, I would like to
add for Summit that, um, I've been in
this community, uh, since Summit was
moved forward and approved. And again,
it's another powerful institution in our
community. It's been serving our
families for decades. Um, its record of
achievement is off the charts, frankly,
in terms of achievement. Uh, um, and,
uh, families have really come to know
and trust it, and it serves many
children as well. I I also um believe
strongly that it's great that many of
our charter schools are expanding their
ability to serve all the children in our
community and um Summit deserves kudos
for its ability to increase its
enrollment of uh families from
low-income children from low-income
families and I think that enrollment's
preference has helped which is why I'm
eager to see them get the rest of their
enrollment uh processes aligned with our
district's policies for enrollment and
I'm also gratified to see their
increased enrollment of students with
disabilities. reported by our staff and
their data. Um, I do believe, frankly,
and this is one of the things I'm glad
to see in the resolution, continued
attention to the issue of how we can
help Summit more successfully scurve all
the children in our community. And I
think it's uh its levels of students
with disabilities is still quite low at
just over 4% compared to 14% for the
district. and that I'd also like to see
the range of disabilities that are
served at the school expanded to to
represent the range of disabilities that
our community has. And I think a school
that performs this off the charts can be
effective at serving all our kids well.
And that it's incumbent on us as a
district. We are the LEA for special ed
purposes. Uh we do have relationship
with all our charters and how that's
worked out. And I look forward to uh
figuring out how to help and for my role
as a board member influencing the
district to partner well with that as we
move forward to help Summit like all our
charter schools um really do do well by
all our kids in our community. And I
look forward to another five years of
great contributions to our community of
schools.
Seeing that there is no further
discussion, Laura, can you please call
the vote on the motion?
Booker,
yes.
Chavez,
yes.
Medler,
yes.
Quinn Linua.
Thumbs up.
Rajpaul,
yes. Tamuadi,
yes.
Anger,
yes.
Motion passes.
Our final action item tonight is request
for board review under policy K and KE.
Do we have a motion? Jorge.
I, Jorge Chavis, make a motion to deny
review of the complaint filed as
described in this board agenda item 9.4
on February 17, 2026.
Do I have a second?
Jason. Board members, any discussion on
this item?
Seeing as there are none, Laura, can you
please call a vote on the motion?
Booker,
yes.
Chavez,
yes.
Medler,
yes.
Quinn Lawa, thumbs up,
Raj Paul,
yes.
Tamu Wading,
yes.
Anger,
yes.
Motion passes. Moving on to policy
action items consent grouping. 10.1
board policy DLB salary deductions. 10.2
board policy DLB-R salary deductions
regulation. 10.3 board policy DFA cash
management investment policy. 10.4
policy DFB revenues from licensing and
school facilities. Are there any items
board members would like to pull from
consent grouping?
Hearing none, we need to mo we need a
motion to approve items in the consent
grouping list. Moved by Jorge, seconded
by
Jason.
Four members. Any discussion on these
policies?
Hearing none. Laura, can you please call
a vote on consent grouping?
Booker,
yes.
Chavez,
yes.
Medler,
yes.
Quinn Linua, thumbs up. Raj Paul,
yes. Tamuading.
Yes.
Anger.
Yes.
Motion passes.
We are now moving into the policy study
items of tonight's agenda. We have
a few policies to study this evening in
our um D chapter and
just the D chapter. I'll turn it over to
Kathleen for review of those.
Actually, no, Echapter and D chapter.
Sorry, I'll turn it over to Kathleen.
Thank you, board president Raj Paul. We
do have those first two policies on the
board's agenda are items that the board
addressed at its most recent meeting,
but as we looked at them again, there
were a few technical things we needed to
correct. So, looking at DLA,
we do pay by direct deposit. Now, it's
actually incredibly expensive to reprint
checks, and it's surprising how often
that that is requested. So, we updated
the language. If we move past direct
deposit or we want to use something
else, we need that broader language that
references another appropriate financial
instrument.
So, that is item 12.1.
Looking then at
12.2. two. Oh, I'm sorry. This is a new
one. This is the one that we didn't
wasn't ready for the board's most recent
meeting, but it reflects some changes
that have been made in the D policies
that you already adopted. This is around
employee expense reimbursements.
And I'm anticipating the question of do
we have to have this policy? Is it
legally required by law? It is not, but
it actually is a very um important area
where we need to provide some guidance
and direction to our staff to make sure
that we protect the public fisk. So,
those are additional recommendations
that were made by our financial
department.
Board members, any questions or comments
on the first 2D policies?
I guess not.
Okay, then we will start with the E
policies. The E chapter is really an
operational chapter. The first cut of
policies that we're going to look at are
these that are related to primarily to
transportation, although that first one
is a little different. So um as we often
do you will find that you're going to
consolidate a bunch of these policies
and I will talk about those and we will
be left with or the proposal is we would
be left with five e policies related to
transportation and we would be retiring
out of what you're reviewing eight of
those policies. So looking at them
individually 12.3 is EBCB about fire
drills hadn't been touched since 78 and
a lot has happened in this area. It is
all addressed in your board policy add
which pertains to safe schools planning.
So our proposal is that this be retired
where it just sort of randomly sits in
the e policy and we use ADD
as our primary driver around issues of
school safety.
The next policy then 12.4
this is really going to be the board's
umbrella policy around student
transportation.
So there is some language that's
reorganized or pulled over from some of
the uh policies that we intend to
retire. This policy was adopted even
prior to my birth which I know is hard
to believe. Um it was revised in 78 and
hadn't been touched since. Um, thanks to
Rob Price and to Brendan Sullivan, our
executive director for transportation
for their amazing insights and
willingness to really reduce this policy
to be the essentials of what we need and
not a whole lot more.
I have a question on EAR.
One sentence is retained. Are are we
really retaining that one sentence or is
that is that just not not stricken?
It it is incorporated into a different
policy. So that was a note for myself to
remember to include it elsewhere which I
did. So this policy is proposed
completely for retirement.
Great. Thank you for clarifying. Board
members, any other questions on those
policies? Alex,
is there any substantive change in how
who gets to walk and who gets to ride
based on these changes?
The red lines do not propose any
substantive changes to that element of
board policy.
So, no family would have a different
experience based on this in action.
They would not. Hopefully, they would
have a different policy reading
experience in that it would all be in
one place and might make sense.
That's what we're aiming for. Yeah.
That is the perfect aim for our policy.
Any other questions on those
and on 12.3 or 12.4 board members?
Moving right along to 12.5.
So 12.5 board member Medler is exactly
the policy that you asked about. This
policy looks like we're making a lot of
changes, but it really was just
reorganizing
and eliminating some redundancy. We had
those walk and ride ranges in two places
in a one and a half page policy. Didn't
seem to be necessary to do that. So, I
just moved the language about the
board's general expectation around
walkers and writers to the beginning. We
all of the other language, how we
measure, how we establish is exactly the
same as it was in policy previously.
The only other substantive change, and
it really isn't. It's just a language
change, is to take the appeal language
out of this policy and just reference
the board's existing K policy, which is
our general complaint.
Any
questions on that policy? EA.
Thank you for your work on that one.
So, the next item 12.6 that has to do
with scheduling and routing. The
language from this policy that's
important in terms of not establishing a
route on a dangerous rightway or any of
that language has been moved into EA.
So this policy is proposed for
retirement.
The same thing is true with item 12.7
school bus safety program. Your umbrella
policy EA establishes the expectation
that there be a comprehensive
transportation safety program and it
specifically retains the requirements
that were listed in this policy in EA.
So requirements for bus evacuation
drills, making sure that everybody knows
what they're supposed to be doing,
vehicle maintenance, all of those are
detailed in EA.
Looking next then at 12.8
E A special use of school buses. Another
oldie and not a goodie. It's from before
1969.
I don't know what was happening in ' 69,
but it doesn't matter because that's not
what it looks like now. So, we're
proposing this policy for retirement,
which probably raises a question for you
about why we would then have board
policy EA.
And I did not create any of these
letters. These are the letters that were
assigned.
We actually are required by Colorado law
to have a board policy that addresses
the use of school vehicles by community
groups and it requires that policy to
specifically address
community groups of senior citizens.
So that language is not mine. that
language is really there in the CASVY
sample to make sure that we capture the
requirements of state law. Um I did
retain the language that's in the
accompanying res regulation that
requires any group to pay the full cost
of their use. Prevents them from
prevents us from sending groups of
senior citizens into dangerous
conditions in our buses. Um, and just
making sure that there's adequate
insurance coverage.
Lilia,
oh, is it in the chat?
Oh. Oh, can you say it in the mic so I
can hear you? Thank you. So, Lenia's
question was, "Do we ever have senior
citizens use buses?
Candidly, the pressure on our
transportation department is pretty
extensive. just meeting our student
needs. As this board knows, um finding
drivers and buses and capacity to meet
those student needs is such a challenge
that we don't have recent community use
of senior citizens going to things. We
certainly do see our buses and our
drivers perform really incredible feats
when this community needs them. I think
about the Marshall fire. I will never
forget the video I watched that a driver
drove into to help our community in one
of our buses. So whether or not this
regulation specifically references being
there for our community in times of
emergency, that is a place that you can
count on BVSD showing up.
So we are proposing then to retire
EADA-R
back to the community group issue
for item Oh, sorry.
I have one question. Is that the same
code that they use in the CASBY example?
It is.
Okay.
And that's that's really the reason that
I don't go back in and propose that we
reletter
policies. it gets very hard to track
them if we change the letter references.
And we also do try to use the CASBY
reference system because it's based on
the National School Boards Association's
reference system and it does help
community members uh find our policies
because they know where it exists in
their current district or other
district. So the proposal at this point
is not to reletter.
No, I think that's great. And there are
some policies I know that we that the
board passports had relettered and it
does get it confusing. So whenever
possible reverting back to the casby
lettering on our policies I think is
great practice.
Okay, sounds great.
Um the next item is 12.10 EAC.
This has to do with student conduct on
school buses. this uh the BBSD board
really overhauled our student conduct
and discipline policies in 2020
and this policy could have been retired
at that point because we do make clear
in those policies that student conduct
is student conduct and we expect it to
be addressed by the school in
coordination with our transportation
employees to make sure that we have that
consistency of practice around
discipline. So this that policy is also
proposed for retirement.
So getting down then to our very last
two, we have item 12.12
which is EA
EAA
and bingo has a nameo. Um controlled
substance and alcohol testing. We are
required by law to have this policy and
this language I really did not
substantially change because
um because it was really fine as it's
written. The only real update is to
those legal references. So on page two,
the board will see that there are some
updated legal references.
The amazing Laura Schaefer tells me that
I skipped an item.
What did I skip?
12.11.
Oh, 12.11. E AE student transportation
and private vehicles.
So, this is an interesting policy. It
had been updated in 94. And this is why
one of the reasons I really appreciate
the review process that Chris Bret helps
me with because we got feedback from our
schools that this particular policy is
really critical to some of our groups.
When you think about plat choice, the
amount of trips that they take and some
of our smaller number of trips, we do
have a reason to maintain this policy,
but we have tried to simplify, straight
line, and clarify what the requirements
are when it can be used.
So, I'm going to read Laneia's question.
Mine is related. Lania is asking private
vehicles in practice are people are
folks getting forms from the principal
to use these and
mine is related given the transportation
challenges particularly for sporting
events there is a lot of private vehicle
transportation
and are is this something we expect of
people are people aware is this just for
employees is it like how I'm trying to
understand this policy a a little bit
better.
My understanding as to how this policy
is actually implemented is that when we
have a school event that we would
provide the transportation for a field
trip. Um that's my best example honestly
field trips because it's a school event
the whole way that we go to the field
trip and come back. It has not, I don't
believe, been read to apply to things
like high school athletics where kids
are working out their own
transportation.
I think from my experience, these uh
these things happen actually quite
frequently with really small groups. So,
you might have two kids that are
participating in the spelling bee and to
order a bus would take your entire
spelling bee budget for the year. So you
get a parent to be the driver or even
the teacher, it becomes the driver for
those kids, but it's usually really tiny
tiny groups of people
and and they are going through the full
process. So our principles and schools
work with our team in HR to just go
through make sure that the background
checks have been accomplished that
insurance requirements have been have
been verified. There is a form that is
an exhibit to board policy that goes
with this. I didn't try to redline the
form before the board gave direction
around what you'd like to see in the
policy, but I do recommend, of course,
that we make sure all our forms are
updated
to implement this policy. I also hear
that it would be helpful to explain when
this is required and where it would not
apply.
I think that'd be exceedingly helpful. I
mean, we used to provide buses for all
all the sporting events, but I mean, me
myself, I imagine Lolini is in the same
boat. The number of times we've
helped car poolool people to tennis
matches or swim meets or places within
the district that this we do not provide
transportation, like it feels a little
bit gray the way the policy is written.
So, some clarity there would be
exceedingly helpful.
Anything else, Sellenia? I was hoping I
captured what you were typing on this
chat.
I have one more suggestion that won't be
popular.
Um,
in in my private school when we do this,
there's always two adults and one child.
So, there's never one adult, one child
in a car going off by themselves to keep
the child safe. I think that's actually
a pretty good policy to make sure
everybody feels like this is going to be
a safe and productive time.
Yeah, that'd be aligned with safe sport
practices. Uh is that also the case if
there if it's just one student or if
it's multiple students?
If it's one student, you would never
have
you never have a teacher or a an adult
and a student alone in a car together.
Never one to one. Yeah. Great.
Any
other questions or comments on this
policy board members?
And the lady says she's all good. Alex,
do we ever need to define vehicles as
having four wheels in the world of
electronic everything else out there?
Well, now that you've said it,
definitely we don't want motorcycles or
ebikes probably being used in this
capacity.
The one-on-one thing won't work either.
Okay. And then the fine if we're ready
board. I'm sorry. Yeah.
Yeah. Do we want to go back to 12.12
since we kind of started and then
reverted?
Or do we want to finish discussing
12.12?
Absolutely.
Great. Board members, any questions on
that one? I didn't ask for questions, I
don't think, before I we went back to
12.11.
None. Okay. 12.13.
Um, so this regulation is about the use
of warehouse vehicles. We don't have a a
need to be this specific about delivery
trucks or warehouse vehicles. They
understand how they operate. So, this is
proposed for retirement.
Any questions or comments, board
members?
Seeing as there are none, I just want to
say thank you to Kathleen and Chris and
everybody for helping winnow this
chapter down. There's a lot of policies
that are old that are not relevant. And
um I was just even thinking today during
our charter as I was evaluating the
charters, we ask our charter schools to
have replacement policies for a lot of
our policies. Um and and even updating
which ones we have in place. I mean
having fewer policies is going to make
life easier for the board, for our
partners that are charter schools, for
everybody. So, this isn't always the
most exciting work, but it's important
and it's going to, I think, pay off in
dividends moving forward. So, thanks to
the team for for keeping us on track
with this.
Okay, final agenda item tonight, board
members. It is future agenda requests.
Are there any items board members would
like to add to our list for future items
to be prioritized? Alex,
thank you. Um uh I've been really
enjoying the development of our charter
process and policies. I think this is
another um year to learn from and that I
would like to revisit policy LBD and see
if we can continue to update it.
The charter school policy. Is it LBD?
Yes.
LBD and LBDR. Yeah, both.
Thanks, Alex. Anybody else?
Well, with that our business for tonight
is concluded. Meeting is adjourned.