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Outgoing Director Kristen Allen says she skipped June budget vote to protest limited virtual participation
Summary
At the Cherry Creek School District Board meeting on Nov. 10, 2025, Director Kristen Allen delivered her final remarks and explained that she withheld participation in the district's June budget meeting because she believed virtual attendance options were not meaningfully supported for a vote involving roughly $1.76 billion in resources.
Kristen Allen, who said Nov. 10 would be her final board meeting, told residents she chose not to attend the board's June budget meeting to avoid lending legitimacy to a process she considered insufficiently inclusive.
"I communicated that under those circumstances where virtual attendance was allowed but not supported and where participation was unnecessarily limited, I would not attend and confer legitimacy on a process I believed was…
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