Fort Collins
PSD board pauses Bamford move to Bacon, shifts two Warner areas
The Bamford transfer is on hold unless the board approves it later, leaving Eagle Ranch and Mountain Shadow in Bamford during boundary work. The Warner changes take effect July 1, 2027.
The Poudre School District board voted Thursday to pause the planned July 1, 2027, move of grid code 1254 from Bamford to Bacon Elementary, and to move two Warner Elementary grid codes, 1313 and 1314, to Bacon on that date.
The amendment pauses the Bamford transfer unless and until the board approves it at a later date, Director Ozlem Gurkan said. Gurkan said the Eagle Ranch and Mountain Shadow neighborhoods, which had been slated to move to Bacon, would remain part of Bamford while boundary work was underway.
"Now there is an underpass. And now it's very walkable to Bacon," she said of a neighborhood that had previously attended Warner. She said keeping it in Warner would require additional busing, based on her talk with transportation staff, and that Warner families had told her they would lose some students because of the boundary change.
Gurkan said the Bamford pause was kept separate from the Timnath change so the boundaries could be worked on independently. The initial plan was meant to make room for Timnath students by sending Bamford students to Bacon, she said. "Now since we're not moving with Timnath for a year, Bamford will lose 41 kids to there," she said, adding that she wanted to avoid that so the school would not struggle with its numbers.
Gurkan said she hoped to finish the boundary work by the end of the year.
A board member said they had advocated moving the Choice application window to give people more time because of Blevins and to let the effects of the board's decisions settle. The superintendent said the district would work with its vendor to modify changes in the Choice platform. The superintendent said they hoped to make a more formal public announcement on next steps for the Choice application process at the next Tuesday board meeting.
Gurkan said she had collected 12 questions from community comments and emails, sent them to Julie and planned to raise them Tuesday after receiving additional questions from SEAC. Vice-President Kevin Havelda said taking them up at the meeting would require a separate motion and vote to change the agenda, and suggested addressing them Tuesday.