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Terry Bates announced his candidacy for the Cherry Creek School Board in District D and said he brings time and \"financial expertise at a moment when state funding is declining.\" Brent Harris also announced his candidacy for District D, saying he is a longtime district teacher and union member and would run as an independent voice. Mike Hamrick said he was publicly announcing Mike Kennedy for the same board seat (comments were presented by Hamrick as recorded in the public record).

Separately, Alex D'Sosio, who identified himself as a substitute who has worked with ILC students and as a paraeducator, told the board that paraeducator vacancies \"are getting frankly out of hand.\" He said he had heard of four to six vacancies at many schools and warned that staffing shortages could create legal liability under IEP obligations if not addressed.

Board members listened; the public comment period is not a question-and-answer session and the board did not take immediate action on the staffing or campaign announcements during the meeting.","mediaType","Video","parentTitle","Board of Education Meeting | August 11th, 2025","oneSentenceSummary","During the public comment period several residents announced bids for the District D board seat and a substitute paraeducator raised concerns about widespread paraeducator vacancies and potential legal liability under IEPs.","taxTitle","Cherry Creek School District No. 5 in the county o, School Districts , Colorado","taxId",14273,"location","Colorado","headline","","shortSummary",{"_33":77,"_35":36,"_37":38,"_39":78,"_41":79,"_43":80,"_45":81,"_47":82,"_49":83,"_51":84,"_53":85,"_55":56,"_57":58,"_59":86,"_61":62,"_63":64,"_65":87,"_67":68,"_69":70,"_71":72,"_73":74,"_75":74},6499018,"Neighbors say Laredo Middle School rebuild began without adequate outreach; cite noise, privacy and safety concerns",690,3227000,3917000,"/Search/View?dp=1&key=5560389-f7bd9f3763c349a799154358181c5ea9&start=3227&end=3917","https://assets.pipeline.soar.com/5560389-f7bd9f3763c349a799154358181c5ea9/thumbnail_3227000.jpg","/articles/6499018/Colorado/Neighbors-say-Laredo-Middle-School-rebuild-began-without-adequate-outreach-cite-noise-privacy-and-safety-concerns","https://secure.pipeline.soar.com/6499018-bbe3c28df74c0a60d3b5755c8d3b7ba2/orig.mp4?Expires=1775217333&Signature=DHTDpnBhM3x4n4mqlf-DRUHcSulUEhIsmBVxr48jbAfQCxWQAcK8LWDjWcTsSInW5Mr2sX6j0rRtfR8yW~VwopolaQN8b9Twa59rCfYNp-wx151~EvjfPmmXsp~yEF4Ix2UKQkxYdRVY-Mivc-RqgDznqVYaNIIcBVyicsRSL7ME4Kplxx5s9n-dpI6G1smKfsBdjRagR-xRVgbvR7jZT73AS7q5ZlvaxNM2nLaCKhTfT445l9eRD48hutQKHhgX11G3F~2Ls8YkwnoCCutEt2jxmQHfwZt14DmbPpzi5-Fnw36VMi4aVp3XNz2XuoruQpGiXcP8~~g4XBeQv60Iwg__&Key-Pair-Id=KUT5TJCACFTXG","Multiple residents who live adjacent to Laredo Middle School told the Cherry Creek School District Board of Education on Aug. 11 that they were not given meaningful opportunity to comment on the school's rebuild and that recent construction has caused noise, dust and privacy concerns.

Melissa Jensen, who identified herself as a homeowner behind the campus and a teacher at Eagle Crest High School, said she and her neighbors were surprised by a new stadium scoreboard and by vehicles entering campus from a walking path. \"The scoreboard was a surprise. I'm the house that's right in front of that monstrous scoreboard,\" Jensen said, and she invited district staff to attend her homeowners association meetings.

Neighbor Michael Diebel, a retired educator, said a flyer shown to neighbors in the spring presented a plan they had not previously seen and that many neighbors had not received notices of earlier meetings. \"We couldn't believe what you were going to do to our homes and to our lives,\" Diebel said. He asked the district to alter plans to mitigate harms from construction and permanent changes to the site.

Kelly Lucero, another nearby resident, described long-standing impacts from school operations and emphasized that homes are neighbors' sanctuaries. \"All we want is the opportunity to contribute to understand,\" Lucero said, asking the district to include neighbors in planning.

Resident Yaltovar (recorded as \"Yaltovar\" in the public record) urged the board to pause the project for a real, collaborative conversation and said prior district meetings felt like \"presentations of a done deal.\" Laura Perinton (transcribed as Perinton/Perrington) said construction began the week before the meeting and described concerns about truck noise, truck backup alarms, truck exhaust and dirt entering private property; she provided measurements from the district plan that she said show the new school will be higher and closer to neighbor yards, including a two-level portion 38 feet high and a second story approximately 350 feet from the nearest property.

Speakers asked the board to meet directly with the Honey Creek HOA and other neighborhood groups and to consider design changes to reduce privacy impacts, re-route service roads and address drainage. Board members acknowledged the comments; no board vote or directive to pause construction was recorded in the meeting minutes.

The district did approve the meeting's consent agenda later in the session, but the consent vote did not include any formal change to the rebuild schedule or project design.","Several residents told the board they were not notified about the Laredo Middle School rebuild plans, described surprise construction activity and a new stadium scoreboard, and asked the board to pause work and engage neighbors for alterations to design and traffic routing.",{"_33":89,"_35":36,"_37":38,"_39":90,"_41":91,"_43":92,"_45":93,"_47":94,"_49":95,"_51":96,"_53":97,"_55":56,"_57":58,"_59":98,"_61":62,"_63":64,"_65":99,"_67":68,"_69":70,"_71":72,"_73":74,"_75":74},6499025,"Cherry Creek Schools outlines districtwide safety upgrades, drills and technology overhaul",1359,1253000,2612000,"/Search/View?dp=1&key=5560389-f7bd9f3763c349a799154358181c5ea9&start=1253&end=2612","https://assets.pipeline.soar.com/5560389-f7bd9f3763c349a799154358181c5ea9/thumbnail_1253000.jpg","/articles/6499025/Colorado/Cherry-Creek-Schools-outlines-districtwide-safety-upgrades-drills-and-technology-overhaul","https://secure.pipeline.soar.com/6499025-6c6cac57cc6e6974f97e446c1f387dd2/orig.mp4?Expires=1775217333&Signature=mLRGa0K8YEVkxMnMIJUmtYJ1G9fKbRzx6jRMW18s2bRIdbzbEzZWhF~fmb5mmnCDYi-b~PUt1PQL-O5tvMODYfSfx1YsKEk-9Snb6slYNmR6qYVzJzsQT75epSNeLyQPKFt0wwdbETkhhWbUFlNpPsXm9xJEN00XOTycd7w0kG01AXmNLVTFyViHpOs3XB3pK5lk4qI1llnjNnG9Vw2UbCoOMr6QAdeoltikfq4K0TslZPahdwqDtTAhHZo3ycGnesd8jy60ikveH2nVVaDn7TQ2F59v~uXnADncEZuLh0~R2MWu7HnjW2KRi4j2n2zSloRiCyaBKS0fDwcFdt0MAA__&Key-Pair-Id=KUT5TJCACFTXG","Assistant Director Ian Lopez and district security staff briefed the Cherry Creek School District Board of Education on the district's safety and security work on Aug. 11, 2025, detailing planned technology upgrades, training and operational changes intended to improve response and reunification in emergencies.

Lopez told the board the district serves about 53,000 students across roughly 101 square miles and works with four law enforcement jurisdictions and two fire departments, which complicates coordination. \"We're trying to provide safety and security, and we provide an environment within the schools that makes the feeling of safety pervasive throughout the district,\" Lopez said.

The presentation listed several projects funded by the 2024 bond and ongoing operations work: replacing and increasing the number and quality of cameras, modernizing aging access-control readers, integrating alarm systems, testing security film through an RFP process, and evaluating visitor-management systems (the district currently uses Raptor). Lopez said the district is working with a vendor called Convergent on a redesign of the security technology infrastructure.

Lopez described the Red Bag system as a classroom-first-aid kit that also carries a QR code staff can scan during lockdown to open a two-way communications channel with district security. \"Red Bag was born of that,\" Lopez said, describing the product's development with a vendor and its expansion to include accounting and reunification features so parents can be registered and tracked before arriving at a reunification site.

On operations, district staff emphasized the emergency operations plans and the use of the Standard Response Protocol and the Incident Command System. \"It is state law that we participate in the Incident Command System,\" Lopez said; the district is emphasizing practical, tiered training so building leaders and staff can manage the first five critical minutes of an event.

Lopez and staff described the district's training and exercises over the summer, including more than 600 drills in recent years. They reported incident statistics for the prior year: 904 medical calls, 7,739 security-based calls, nearly 13,500 transportation calls, almost 10,000 maintenance calls, 29 holds, 37 secure directives and 16 lockdowns. District staff said they conducted 406 student searches and recovered five weapons; the presentation reported that searches with recovered weapons represented about 1.23% of students searched.

Board members asked about coordination with multiple jurisdictions and about Red Bag's next development steps. Lopez and other security staff said relationships with Aurora Police, the Arapahoe County Sheriff, South Metro and fire agencies are built through regular meetings and joint training. Lopez said Red Bag's next step is to expand attendance accounting and reunification workflow to reduce manpower needs at reunification sites.

Other operational work described included rollouts of building renumbering, continued dispatch improvements after merging security, transportation and maintenance into a single operations center, expansion of radio infrastructure, and an RFP and early testing phase for security film. Lopez noted improvements to reunification processes after several recent events demonstrated both strengths and gaps.

The board did not take formal action on the presentation; the item was for information and discussion. The district said additional public updates on specific bond projects and technology procurements will follow as design and procurement proceed.

Lopez closed by thanking staff and the board for support and said the department will continue training, technology upgrades and relationship building with public safety partners.","District security staff described upgrades to cameras, access control, visitor systems and emergency procedures and described the Red Bag classroom communications system and unified dispatch work that responded to thousands of incidents last year.","actionData","errors"]

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