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MLO oversight committee: district says override funds aligned with ballot priorities
Summary
The Mill Levy Override Citizens Oversight Committee reported that fiscal-year 2024–25 spending aligns with ballot language, funding wages, class-size staffing, career and college access programs, textbooks, facilities, and safety upgrades, the committee chair told the board.
Gary Fuentes, chair of the Mill Levy Override Citizens Oversight Committee, told the Greeley School District No. 6 Board of Education on Dec. 8 that the committee’s fall review found mill-levy-override (MLO) expenditures for fiscal year 2024–25 “fully aligned with the ballot language.”
Fuentes, introduced by Director of Finance Andy Haidock, said the committee reviewed how district leaders used MLO revenue and connected that spending to the district’s Innovation 2030 strategic priorities. The committee’s written summary and Fuentes’ presentation said funds went to several categories spelled out in the ballot: competitive market wages for support staff (custodians, bus drivers, food-service workers); maintaining and lowering class sizes by adding staff; investments in career-focused learning and technical education and facility upgrades for those programs; preserving access to college-level courses (Aims Community College and the University of Northern Colorado) at no cost to families; updates to textbooks and curriculum; facility maintenance; and continuing safety and security system upgrades and staff training.
Fuentes described the oversight committee’s membership and meetings, and he said the group found the district’s allocations “clearly connected to many of the strategic outcomes outlined in Innovation 2030.” He urged that transparency and continued committee review remain part of the district’s financial governance.
The board did not take a formal vote on the MLO report at the meeting; the presentation was followed by thanks from board leadership and no questions recorded in the transcript. The committee’s remarks closed with a public thank-you to voters who passed and renewed the mill-levy override.
What’s next: Fuentes said the oversight committee convened this fall to review FY24–25 spending; the committee will continue its work and bring future reports to the board as required by the district’s MLO oversight practices.
