A letter from Sabrina Bates, Principal of Teller School.

November 21, 2019
Dear Teller Community,

We need your help!

As you are well aware, after more than two years of effort on our part and over $200,000 in funding we now have our beautiful artificial field. Our students finally have a safe place to run and play. However, it has come to our attention through many different sources that our brand new field is not being respected by members of the greater Congress Park community after school hours and on the weekends.

It is being reported that community members are bringing their dogs on to school property and allowing them to use our new field. This is problematic for a number of reasons:

1. Per city ordinance, dogs are not allowed on school property.
2. The dogs claws are already starting to tear up pieces of the new turf and causing irreparable damage.
3. Not only are community members letting their dogs run wild, the dogs are peeing and pooping on the new field. To make matters worse, we are finding poop on the field every morning that the dog owners are not cleaning up.

This behavior is unacceptable, and our kids are the ones suffering. Additionally, we cannot afford to replace the field due to negligent behavior.

We are asking for your help. If you see dogs on our field, please report them and their owners immediately. After talking to the city and county of Denver, the only way in which they can help us is if this type of activity is reported in real-time.

To make a report:
1. Call 311 immediately and select the option for animal control.
2. Make a report in real time as you witness it.
3. Animal control will hopefully respond in time to ticket the pet owner.

Thank you for your help!

Sincerely,

Sabrina Bates, Principal
Abe Janson, Assistant Principal