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October 2, 2014
Teachers warned McMinimee taps disciplinary actions in midst of protests By Glenn Wallace
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gwallace@coloradocommunitymedia.com For the second time in three weeks, schools in Jefferson County were closed due to a sick-out protest by teachers. In response, District Superintendent Dan McMinimee said the district will use the established disciplinary procedures written into the teacher’s collective bargaining agreement for absent teachers. He said that step one would be docking the protesting teachers’ pay. McMinimee held a press conference Monday afternoon to discuss the teacher protests at both Golden High School and Jefferson High School that began earlier in the day. For Golden High School, 52 out of 65 teachers called in absent. For Jefferson, 27 of 37 teachers were absent, forcing school to be canceled at both locations. Small student protests braved the wet morning weather to wave signs in front of both locations, in support of teachers. McMinimee said he believed that the school board’s recent decision to approve a teacher compensation package without the support of the Jefferson County Education Association was the motivating factor in both sick-outs. “I’m real disappointed. There’s other avenues to get to those concerns,” McMinimee said of the teacher protest. “The place where we draw the line is where they start taking things away from kids, and clearly today was taking an opportunity for students to have a day of learning in the classroom.” The district will not be applying those penalties retroactively to the teachers that participated in the previous sickout at Standley Lake and Conifer high schools on Sept. 19. Since Sept. 19, district students have also staged mass walk-out protests at nearly all Jeffco high school sites, specifically opposing a board of education proposal to create a curriculum review committee to evaluate AP U.S. History to emphasize positive aspects of American history and “should not encourage or condone” civil disobedience, social strife or disregard of the law. McMinimee said that he was in contact with the Jeffco Board of Education, and the Jefferson County Education Association about resolving current district conflicts. He said he would also try to convey the student’s concerns over APUSH at the Oct. 2 Jeffco schools board meeting.
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The commission asked several in-depth questions regarding sales tax related to marijuana that would include a county pot specific sales tax of 3 percent in addition to the sales tax in place for the county-wide Open Space sales tax at 0.5 percent and the 0.5 percent sales tax for the Southeast Jefferson County Local Improvement District for road improvements. Because of TABOR, state and local governments cannot raise taxes without voter approval. Taxing pot sales would mean that voters would have to decide whether the county should impose the tax. Pueblo and Adams County have already exercised statues to tax pot sales but “it is not clear that the counties had the express authority to impose the tax,” said Ellen Wakeman, county attorney for Jeffco. “Pueblo is proposing legislation that would specify counties’ authority to impose a tax on recreational marijuana, with a vote.” Regardless of preliminary calculations, which indicate $4.2 million in tax revenue for the county, conflicting data presented in the report from supporters and opponents muddied the topic about marijuana’s impact on public safety and teen use. Each report showing the pros and cons of allowing retail pot shops pulled surveys and statistics that measured marijuana use over different periods of time —from months to years — and which yielded different results. Traffic fatalities related to marijuana use did not clarify if the substance was used alone or in combination with other substances, yet other numbers indicated traffic fatalities in Colorado have plummeted, according to the report. “For public safety, we are going to see an impact -whether we opt in or opt out,” said Patricia Woodin from the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office and marijuana task force board member. Dr. Mark Johnson from the county Public Health Department stated the consequences of smoking or ingesting marijuana products has yet to be seen. “The data that I have looked at convinces me that we need a whole lot more data before we make a move to make such a social change that has such possible ramifications and consequences down the line,” Johnson said. “If you look at tobacco, it took us 300 years to show that it was dangerous to your health,” he said, with the last 50 years dedicated to proving it is dangerous enough to change society’s attitude about the product. “With marijuana, we don’t have that kind of information. We don’t know what’s going to happen; five years, 10 years, 20 years down the line — with this social experiment that we are running — trying to make this a more freely available thing to our population.” The commission asked for more information about the production of hemp and other marijuana-related cultivation. The board has until Feb. 1 to decide if it wants to extend the moratorium or to pass a resolution on whether to allow marijuana establishments in unincorporated Jeffco. To review the report presented by the Marijuana Task Force, visit: http://jeffco.us/bcc/volunteer-boards/marijuana-taskforce/.
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