St. Vrain Valley board approves consent agenda, moves CORA fee language to regulation

The St. Vrain Valley School District Re-1J Board of Education on Aug. 27 approved its consent agenda and unanimously approved a recommended housekeeping change to how the district codifies Colorado Open Records Act fees.

General counsel Tim O'Neil told the board the statutory maximum fee for CORA requests appeared both in policy and regulation and recommended removing the fee language from the policy so statutory updates can be implemented by changing the regulation in a single reading, rather than changing policy in two readings. "Remove it from the policy so that when we get statutory updates, we can bring the regulation to the board and have a change in one reading rather than having it changed in two readings for the policy," O'Neil said.

Board members raised no questions before voting. The board moved to approve all consent items as listed on the agenda and then voted on action item 8.1, the CORA housekeeping recommendation; roll-call responses recorded by the clerk showed Missus Baps, Mister Berthold, Missus Gilligan, Missus Hranick, Mister Lechuga, Missus Ragland and Missus Weiss voting in favor of both the consent agenda and the policy change. Chair confirmed approval of both items.

The policy change is procedural: district counsel said the shift will let the district follow future state statutory updates more quickly through regulation. No changes to fee amounts were proposed during the meeting; the action was limited to where the statutory language appears in district governance documents. The board did not discuss substantive changes to public-records fees during the meeting.

The board also noted that no members of the public signed up for audience participation that evening. The meeting proceeded to announcements and the superintendent's report following the votes.