A bill that recently passed all three senate and house readings in Colorado will allow public institutions the option to withhold names of all but one of the final candidates during the hiring process for top leadership positions.
But Matt Gianneschi, Chief Operating Officer & Chief of Staff at Colorado Mountain College, said the bill wouldn’t have much of an effect on CMC.
“Our board of trustees is the only body that has the authority to hire a president. And to produce an employment agreement … that’s about as far as our rules concerning the (CEO) go for us, because the board itself conducts that search,” Gianneschi said. “We have an elected board of trustees, that is one of their responsibilities, they take it very seriously and I don’t know that this does anything to interrupt what they would otherwise follow in their procedures anyway.”
Kendall Reiley, the new incoming assistant principal at Crystal River Elementary School.
Aimee Brockman, the incoming principal for Crystal River Elementary School, announced that Kendall Reiley, a teacher for Glenwood Springs Elementary School will be taking the role of assistant principal in the upcoming school year.
A news release from Roaring Fork School District on Thursday, April 29, included an excerpt from a letter Brockman wrote to the CRES community about hiring Reiley.
“Her reflective nature, commitment to continual learning, and ability to find joy in hard work are key strengths that she will bring to the Crystal River Elementary School community,” Brockman wrote.
A lawsuit filed by a former Glenwood Springs High School student and her family against the local school district and a GSHS administrator/coach is headed for a settlement.
In the lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Denver in January 2020 Jane Doe vs. Roaring Fork School District and Patrick Engle the family alleged district and school officials mishandled a student harassment case involving their daughter and other students in the fall of 2017.
Plaintiffs said their daughter was subjected to ongoing harassment stemming from a sexual assault incident in which she was victimized by a male student in October 2016. The male student was a junior at the time, and the female a sophomore.
The price of single-family homes in Glenwood Springs and the Roaring Fork Valley has always run higher than the average Colorado home, but some say it’s now hit a crisis point.
The median price of a Glenwood Springs home was $713,500 in March a 24.2% increase from last year’s median price of $573,500, according to the Colorado Association of Realtors.
There have been 39 homes sold in the first three months of 2021, up 9.5% from last year at the same time where 32 homes had been sold through March of 2020.
March had an inventory of 26 homes for sale, which was 53.6% less than the inventory for March of 2020, where 56 homes were listed for sale.
How can Roaring Fork schools make best use of $4 million?
That question drove discussion among school board members Wednesday after the Roaring Fork School District received its third round of Esser federal funds (Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Funds). The district is currently planning how to spend the surplus in a way that is best for the district, Chief Financial Officer Nathan Markham explained at the board meeting Wednesday night the parameters set in place for how the funds can be spent.
“We have to spend the money in a, quote, ‘reasonable and necessary manner’ and they have some definitions around those, and it has to be in response to and in prevention of COVID-19. … We can spend them in a wide variety of ways,” Markham said.