budget but to monitor a budget throughout the course of the year um so I just wanted to open that up to my colleagues and see if there's any uh interest in getting more detailed spend plans uh when we get these monthly reports Dr
heer I think he's referring to the colleagues in board if they want to see additional information for categorical department or or division spin okay point of clarification I just want to specify that I'm not attacking
um what's not in the budget or what is in the budget I'm attacking the process of how we're getting to that and that I just don't want to be a house um held accountable if this works up and the House of Cards doesn't fold in then that's wonderful but if it does I don't
want to be held accountable that's my only opinion thank you thank you okay so Dr Zeman is asking can you just clarify one more time so we have it for the minutes what is it that you would like us to wait in on exactly do you have specific things you're asking sure I
would love to use the format that we had for the last two years to get monthly spends within the major categories and function elements in the budget okay um do you want to make a motion I I think we're in a space where we need a motion
Miss Batista right I'm happy to do that I would I would um I would uh make a motion that we in addition to the monthly reports that we're getting now include the um categorical functional uh element breakdown as we have for the past two years in our monthly reports I
would second that okay so it's been moved by Dr Zeman and seconded by Mrs fam is there any uh public comment on the motion give it a sec two different got to give to the microphone
here we go um I understand Mrs fam's concerns you'll get no argument that we should see budget to actual as much transparency as humanly possible but you also have a fund balanced policy that
flows from state law which is probably Where Mrs fam's concerns are coming from that says that you have to present interum financial statements that show the projected fund balance that has not
been happening and I don't know how you deter if you fall below 3% if nobody can tell what they're looking at so Madam chair I'm going to be requesting a meeting with you to make sure that you are crystal clear on what the audit committee's concerns are because we're
going to have a special meeting about it at the audit committee on teams on the 27th of March to make sure that everyone's clear where we where our concerns are so that if as we're concerned about the House of Cards collapses everyone's informed thank you
thank you any other public comment sorry I thought she was going to come up uh board discussion on the motion okay all those in favor of the motion say I I any opposed motion carries
unanimously then we need to now vote on F the item F1 all those in favor okay Miss Thompson I just want to clarify because there's been a lot of statements about how we're not following State statue with this new reporting system and I
just want it to be cleared to the public if we are and if we are not Dr heer We are following State Statute to the letter of the law eyes dotted T's crossed thank you sir I just think that is something that's circulating in our
community and it needs to be put to rest that we are following State St statute I would also like to say I've heard when I visit schools that they actually like this new formatting not by a lot of people cuz it's not you know but the people we talk to they actually I think
it's more understandable it's talking in real figures um and it's a better convers we're better able to have a conversation about it than the previous reports so thank you thank you anybody else all those in favor of F1 say I I
any oppos opposed so pass oh yeah I don't it wasn't amended it was separate no no Dr Zeman's motion didn't
really amend F1 it just wasn't it asks for additional information so um F1 passes 8 to1 next item up is j3 can I have a motion in a second it's been moved by Miss Thompson
seconded by Mrs Leonardi board discussion is Dr Zan thanks chair could you tell me the difference between this uh language in the contract uh for the next 5 years and previous contracts with the city of mirmar Dr heer thank you for
the question Dr Z I know what you're alluding to as far as not having the red line um for these type of agreements have discovered that we don't usually put the redline virsion in there so we will do that moving board so uh board members have all the information at their fingertips to see the difference
between the contracts thanks chair um this puts the board in a pretty delicate situation um we can either read 16 pages of a contract understand the entire
contract um ask questions about anything that comes up uh become an expert in reciprocal use agreements and I don't I appreciate going forward Dr heurn that we will do that but I'm not comfortable voting for
this uh because we don't have the information that we need uh to decide whether or not this is in the best interest of our schools and our students um I'll just leave it at that thank you all those in favor of
item j3 say I I any oppos say no no no uh roll call school board members aha yes Bowman yes
fam I have a no no Hixon yes Honus yes linardy yes rer Thompson yes Zeman no 72 passes thank you the next item up is J5
I have a motion in a second to bring J5 to so it's been moved by Dr Zeman seconded by Mrs Leonardi Dr Zan hi uh thanks chair um I just want to uh point out that um the last time we did have a
Redline version of uh Rua with Weston it included a statement that said that Broward County would ask permission of the city to use our property um I never didn't think that was a good idea I'm glad that there's a 90-day extension till we can get this
right um and I look forward to this coming back thank you chair thank you all those in favor of item J5 say I I any oppos say no item carries unanimously the next item is 01 can I have a motion in a second on item
so moved and moved by Dr Zan seconded by Miss Thompson uh Mrs alh is this the doors I had 03 I'm 03 okay it had you as 01 not 03 so I'll
move it okay Mrs Fam thank you madam chair um through the chair I had a question for um Wanda Paul I just I know at our last meeting we discussed um upping the number of
vets veterans that are on our um vendor list I know we only had one and one we were the the veterans are the lowest the very lowest I I know you said you're very passionate about this I was wondering if you've made any type of
progress thank you Dr heer Miss Paul yes we're still working diligently to bring more veterans in uh myself Trey and many of our are Mr Davis many of us are veterans and so um we are still trying
to working towards um vamping up the numbers or improving the numbers uh since our last meeting it's only been about a month but we are is still at the Forefront we're still working towards that and through the chair I just wanted to thank the veterans that went out and
did forf free voluntary service and cleaned out the canals behind Piper High School um they did that all over one weekend with a lot of volunteers and equipment and they did that at their cost and without any payment from the school district so I think they should
be acknowledged and we do appreciate you thank you thank you all those in favor of item 01 say I I any opposed item carries unanimously the next item up is 03 can I have a motion in a second on 03
so mov second it's been moved by Dr Zan seconded by Mrs alhad Mrs Al thank you so my question is did we look into bullet resistant doors and done a cost comparison to wooden doors Dr heer
Miss Paul no we did not to my knowledge I can uh follow up with my team but uh uh the reason this bid particular bid was rejected was they did not meet our specification so that's why all bits were rejected on this but we definitely
can do some research on bullet resistance end doors thank you thank you Dr holess thank you madam chair I'm good on 03 appreciate it okay and I um will Echo Mrs alhad dev's
concern about wooden doors as we know that that's probably not the best choice I know these are to replace wooden doors we already have but if we're replacing doors we should be replacing them with something that's safer for our students
so um I Echo what she says thank you all those in favor of item 03 say I I I any opposed motion carries unanimously okay thank you this is the time of the agenda where we have split the general public speakers to
incorporate a morning session each registered speaker is reminded to present their agenda comments in accordance with policy 1020 we will now have our first Speaker which is Trudy Janovich my name is Dr Trudy Janovich thanks to
Scott Travis for the informative articles describing what's going on with sex head in South Florida schools this series is a glimpse on how the state Republican doe is interfering with community-driven decisions and changing
how Vital Information is presented to Broward and Palm Beach students time to email the Palm Beach and Broward School boards and state legis delegations to see if they can get the doe to change their strict interpretation and allow districts to bring back major components
of this important curriculum these curriculum materials have been used for at least 15 years and had been evaluated and approved by several parent committees as Scott discussed in his AR articles in fact there had been a comprehensive approach to sex education
allowed in Florida classrooms even in 1977 when I began teaching middle school science classes what he described in the Palm Beach program is appalling as it is completely stripped down and has turned the clock back to
1955 with all the chaos in the world I sincerely hope this informative program is not restricted this school year I urge all of you to discuss this at the board meeting on how the district will make sure that students don't lose a valuable part of their education
collectively you should make it clear that there will be an informative sex educ education program for Broward students this year this is only one of the many issues you must collaborate with the Broward delegation during your
rally to tally in order to deliver the best education possible for our students use some of your time in Tallahassee to work with the Florida de doe to get the sexed program appro approved literally this is an issue where our children's
lives could be at stake if they do not receive accurate information Florida statute 48- 001000 3.42 States Public Schools must teach
Comprehensive Health education that includes prevention of child sexual abuse exploitation and human trafficking let's follow the law this is part of the sexed
curriculum I also brought with me 200 words that the federal government just banned from use they are words that you wouldn't not believe but they are words that that are just incredible and I'll send I'll email
them words like and phrases like Community Equity diversity cultural competence cultural differences cultural heritage let's not go the way of the government thank
you thank you Natalie Lynch Walsh good morning morning again Dr Natalie Lynch Walsh um couple of quick things looks like we still have three minutes fund balance um the audit committee has more
degreed accountants and CPAs on it than uh your finance department the board or your cabinet of course we wouldn't know what we're talking about um your HR Chief is refusing to comply with public records law which is a state law and the superintendent is aware of course we're
following state statute DAC has been um looking at creating a student centered framework which would absolutely include Dr hess's item and I'm glad you tabled it because you do need to collect data and um we've also and the student
progression plan speaks to grading um and standards of service used to be part of the student progression plan fun fact the contract has six pages on students discipline two on curriculum and instruction maybe it needs to be changed
all right getting to why I'm actually here though today the debie Debbie Espinosa incident I thought you might like an update it's been 148 days since the only complaint that was specific to the person who arrested her was
submitted to the district and not recognized as a complaint you've got 32 days left to do something about it the PBA attorney that wrote that liist letter about me is very much aware of what an investigation looks like in
this District Mrs fam asked the superintendent whether an internal investigation had ever been done did she get an answer no what we got were uh was a memo from this superintendent saying why we'd be violating that officer's
rights if we did another investigation you have never done an investigation which in my public records requests you totally know how to do one in this District you just didn't do it where this incident was concerned 4.9 is
supposed to be followed but was not the only question is how many people were involved in covering up what went wrong at the beginning and then trying to drag me into it when on one occasion in one instance in answering Mrs fam and
recalling what was put in a Sun Sentinel article as as well as the Consultants report I uttered the man's name once because I tend to be Visual and his name was on the page I was recalling in my mind so um let's look at that report and
I'm going to be hitting reply all because I don't want anybody to have plausible deniability you need to do the right thing find your integrity find your moral courage and do write by Debbie Espinosa the district knows what an investigation is and isn't and it
hasn't been done thank you thank you Nicole Morris good morning Nicole moris Coral Springs less than two years ago against the superintendent Smiley's recommendation the MSD boundary change passed with a four-year phase out on the
basis of safety concerns even though Chief alberty the fire chief and superintendent Smiley did a three-day observation and saw no safety or overcrowding concerns and noted there were no incident reports to support such claims you'll remember that board member
alustin motioned to reject the superintendent's recommendation and after a 4 or3 vote it moved forward Coral Springs residents pleaded with the district to postpone the rezoning for a year to see if the new vouchers would have an effect as many suspected they may after the change those who were
rezoned begged the district to allow for sibling exceptions and extenda Circ cumstances but were denied so you can imagine how frustrating it was to find out that in the very first month of the new boundary change school year the principal at MSD was getting was asking
for reassignments because the enrollment had dropped so drastic so those who were not aware the district did not initiate the boundary change process themselves as MSD was not the only over enrolled School in the district but they were lobbied by Parkland officials and
residents the Superintendent at the time along with demographics and other staff attended multiple Parkland commission meetings where they discussed specific proposals from pass boundary change attempts The Proposal discussed would be the one that later passed the entire process was a farce now the district
wants to quietly open up reassignment seats for MSD less than two years into a four-year boundary process without even Consulting those families who were just rezoned to give them an explanation offer an apology or give them priority seats some have children children attend
attending two different high schools and a lot were Walkers to MSD who now have to take a bus to Glades they were forced to rearrange their everyday lives for what to give their seats away I believe the district has an opportunity to write a wrong by offering them a boundary
Choice area for the C4 Taz zone so that student siblings and future siblings will have a choice of Glades or MSD just like the choice area offered for the elementary schools in Parkland Glades is a fantastic school and most want to stay however there are families with current
eighth graders at MSD who should be offered the choice choice priority could be given to them this year in a boundary Choice area created going forward considering there are only about 80 kids per year in that zone and MSD is opening 148 seats this seems extremely fair to
ask now is the time to write a wrong please bring this as a board item so there can be open discussion on what has happened here here I have a question can you legally allow for reassignments within a 4-year process or would this undo the change and staff has made
concessions outside of policy before specifically during the boundary change process and even now with the brow estate's window thank you so we know it can be done please write the wrong thank you Renee Silva good morning Rene Silva corl Springs
Madame chair members of the board Mr superintendent today with the benefit of hindsight we can see the unended consequences that the boundary change that took place two years ago for MSD
has brought about to the school and the students it was trying to protect by its own admission the school has about 150 empty desks for the next school
year and in doing so it is at risk of losing funding because those desks are going to be empty so I ask you with your vision and Leadership to please consider as the school opens for
reassignment to allow the communities that were sidelined and the students and families that were sidelined two years ago to have first priority during that reassignment process so that those children should they choose can have the
opportunity to come back home to come back to msz furthermore I ask you to please consider making the boundary or making the Zone a choice Z so that the families
that have soon to be high schoolers can have the opportunity to go to MSD just like my 10-year-old neighbor whose dreams were shattered two years ago because now she couldn't attend MSD with her peers from elementary school there
is precedent for this because neighboring communities do have a choice between two elementary schools putting this as an initiative on your next meeting is worth your time is worth our community's time because it
writes wrong and it allows for the community to heal and it allows for the families that were sideline two years ago to not before they're victimized now the desks that were meant for those
children are going to be given away countywide how would you feel if that were the situation for your children so I ask you to please make this an item for your next board meeting so that we can have a discussion about
the future of these families thank you thank you next we'll have the superintendent report thank you madam chair and good morning to everyone here and also the public at large as we celebrate women's History Month I want to take a moment to
recognize and thank the incredible women across our district from our dedicated school board members to the hardworking women in our schools and in our offices your leadership and contributions make us all better and also I'll be remiss if I didn't give a shout out uh to my
amazing wife special thank you to her uh for her unwavering support um I don't get to sleep on the couch tonight so good take note man take note man uh this month has been filled with Incredible celebrations and I'm excited to highlight some of the activities that
took place across the district one of the stand out moments was the just do it Awards which was by far one of the best events I've attended as a superintendent seeing the Joy on our students faces and the pride in their parents eyes was truly inspiring it was a powerful reminder of why we do this work every
day with that I'd like to share a video recap of the month's highlight Beacon please play the video o o o o and that completes my report
chair thank you and um I sorry inadvertently we had someone on the waiting list and I missed her for public speaking so Lynn marzal if you want to come up for public speaking thank you so much uh Lynn marzel executive director of intergovernmental Affairs and
Communications for the City of Coral Springs I do thank the board and superintendent heurn for all their work that they do for our 19 traditional Public Schools inside the City of Coral Springs jurisdiction we enjoy that relationship with you you regularly see
April white who could not be here um she's commonly here to advocate for our schools and advocate for our programs you've heard from two of our residents about the MSD reboundary process C4 last week our commission hosted a workshop followed by a commission meeting in
which they adopted a resolution 20255 requesting this board to bring forward at a future meeting uh conversation about Pro providing priority to the families that were impacted by the C4 reboundary process so
I am here speaking on behalf of our commission and speaking on behalf of those families to bring that uh forward I did want to let uh Madame Lori aladea know that we did receive your memo this morning outlining the reboundary process and what seats would become available
and also wanted to let this board know that through our own communication channels we are communicating with those families who are impacted about school choice and and when it opens on April 7th we will continue to do that and we will continue to advocate for those
families so again I'm here requesting that this board bring this forward at a future meeting on behalf of our commission thank you very much thank you um we have a a presentation by Broward Education Foundation but I don't
think they're quite ready for us yet so we're going to move to our open items and then we'll come back to be F presentation when they are ready so this part of the meeting um is where we will consider all of the open Agenda items
the following open items have been identified for discussion so the items that have been pulled are aa1 BB2 D D1 and two ff1 jj1 2 and three and then 14 15 16
and 17 o1 through five double P1 and rr1 and rr2 which are a special order at 12:30 at this time May the chair have a
motion in a second to pass the open items that have not been pulled for discussion which include H1 through 7 a A1 double B1 and three ff2
gg1 jj4 through 13 jj1 18 O2 and ss1 uh aa1 was pulled oh okay so we'll move that on I know it's all the way on the right side I get hit over there they didn't put oh
yeah a they they have it as pulled and then they have it as not pulled but yes we we it's pulled sorry about that okay uh can I have a motion in a second so second it's been moved by Miss Miss Thompson seconded by Dr Zeman are
there any registered speakers for the items that have not been pulled no register speakers thank you all in favor of approving the open Agenda items that have not been pulled for discussion say I I I those opposed say no um motion carries and it looks like
Broward education Foundation is ready now so we'll call them up for their report good morning everybody uh sorry we're a little bit late and and a little bit frazzled but you guys are actually moving faster today than normal so that's on me I told him a different time
so kudos to you not to me so uh Juliet's you know over here like but you told me this I was like it's an anomaly I don't know what to tell you but kudos to everybody there on the day so I appreciate it um really excited today to be here because we get to uh do what we really love to do most which is give
back to the schools give back to our students and give back to uh to our families here at the district to improve what it is that we already know we do well um which is educate that's why we're in a district that's why we have the best faculty and staff uh in the entire country in my opinion so what I
wanted to do today is express my thanks and my gratitude to one of our greatest partners that we have at the foundation at the school district and it's FPL so we got Juliet rou back here from FPL she's going to talk a little bit about just just share that we're going to do a check presentation to three different
schools um today which we're really excited about but this has and I'll ask if I can actually share some larger news that'll be coming a little bit later but um this has spaed off into an amazing partnership that we're excited about and this continues to be uh fruitful for us at the district and contining to give
back to our students so I'll I'll introduce Juliet roulette good morning I came in and our worldman thank you for your patience this morning but hopefully the weight will be worth it uh so I so proud to be here uh at at Florida Power and Light
Company we're powering strong communities and making BR an even PL better place to work live and raise a family and one of the ways we do that is funding Youth and wellness programs and we understand that our students need to be healthy both in mind and body to
learn and be great students we're excited today to support three schools in their unique initiatives and thank the Brad education for foundation for their incredible support in facilitating this effort the district and Foundation
are critical for the important work that they do to help our students and teachers first Boyd Anderson High Principal James Griffin I've worked with him and he has the mind and body wellness program at Sanden Spurs Ranch
in pompo this Innovative program has fostered a love for horses while strengthening connections with mentors and partnership development with orrian Club the students have had the incredible opportunity to care for ride
and bond with these significant magnificent animals and leading to a profound sense of tranquility and balance in their lives the experiences offered not only creating strong bonds with the horses but also cultivated a
supportive Community among participants the second School Dillard High Principal Bloomfield has a Whole Health wellness program created and calls it the panther
zenen I love it this mental break and relaxation room provides opportunities for students to engage in activities that will help with anxiety uh difficulty with sleep and overall quality of life the program goal
is for students to gain better brain health High self-esteem reduce stress and anxiety and stronger mental health we all need that and finally Plantation Middle School working with principal cim
he created the Patriot providing academic training resilience inspiration and opportunities for transformation it's a mentoring Alliance program that is to empower students with a growth mindset and life skills by
fostering skills conducive to growth and achievement cultivating resilience motivation and personal development the school aims to create a supportive environment that enhances academic skills by Transforming Our this school
with a multi-tiered approach to nurturing positive mindsets and help mental health within the school Community I am so thrilled to be here to be part of these three initiatives and to give back to our local community by
supporting these schools I would also like to say that last week FPL called upon the broad Education Foundation to identify a school for us to partner with during our companywide week-long power toare employee volunteer initiative and
we had several FPL employees reach to students at Watkins Elementary in Pembrook Park and then help with donating plants and planting them in beautifying their property I had the pleasure of reading whoosh a story about
a child inventor and was truly impressed by the students engagement and thoughtful questions this year as FPL celebrates at Centennial we are pleased to support brow schools that proudly serve our children contributing to a brighter
future for our students FPL is proud to be working for you our customers and our community every single day thank you thank you so much so we're excited to have obviously principles and the assistant principles from these schools we'd love to to take
a photo um really quick can I mention the 50s so in this partnership um we've also continued to grow but we were just actually um awarded for two of our schools at the school district to 50,000 so totaling $100,000 next year that will
be going to two two schools to redoing Media Center we're excited about it so through FPL and what it is that they do so I I was hoping I could talk about it but she she allowed it she's the boss so I just wanted to say thank you guys so much and this is exactly what we love to do through the foundation is being able to take the time effort energy that our
schools um continue to put in and hopefully uh get to fund them so if we could just take a quick photo and then let you keep moving as fast as you've ever moved in your life in this in this meeting I love it thank you so much we're we're very proud for the partnership as well and thank you for supporting our students we will take a quick recess for a photo thank you you
guys so thank you everybody thank you oh and welcome back to the regular school board meeting next we have uh Copa Madam chair board members superintendent Dr heurn I'm Dorothy
Smith Dorothy Davis Smith uh representing the confidential employees of the school board of Broward County and I just wanted to come and address the board again uh today uh and have an opportunity to say thank you uh
for making salary increases a priority this year it really means a lot to confidential employees um to have a salary increase this year especially um in the times of UN certainties that we are living in
right now it'll go a long way in helping us to maintain our homes and our families so just quickly we just want to say thank you again and as always we look forward uh to continuing to do our
part to keep Broward an a-rated School District thank you thank you very much next we will move to the remaining open Agenda items so the first agenda item to come to the floor is aa1 can I have a motion in a
second it's been moved by Dr Zan seconded by Mrs alev Dr Zan thanks so much chair uh we're going to spend $31 million on uh on textbooks um I remember from last year we were making some tough budget decisions and we kicked back science for one year uh we are moving
forward today with that adoption uh is if this passes I'm curious about the impact though of that year suspense what was the impact on our student students of not having science books for the one year Mr Sol we're going to turn it over
to uh Dr uh fton our Deputy superintendent so I'm going to pass it on to Mrs hollandsworth who's going to give a more detailed impact so we didn't have the newly adopted textbooks but we still had the textbooks that were in adoption prior to that I would just
second that yes so they weren't without sorry microphone's going over they were not without textbooks materials we were in that Gap process during that one year where we were waiting and chair I'm curious what impact that had on our students of having the dated book instead of the new book last year Dr
heer Miss hler we certainly would like to have the new material so we want to make sure that they get the most current information so that was uh definitely not the the decision that we wanted but we went with it and chair what was the cycle between the last science book and
this science book Dr heurn Miss Hare I'm going to call on Dr Wilson I believe it's six years but I want her to fact check me just talk it should be cor we have a fiveyear cycle and with three years by Statute to extend those
materials to still be in compliance so we were on year six terrific I just um want to always keep that front of mind uh these books are absolutely Central to our core Mission and delaying one year may not have had a big impact but I
think we're wise to generally not do that uh whether it's science or English or math or civics or Global Affairs uh great resources for our students allow for great learning I also do not want to send the signal from this table to Brower County community that we think
it's okay to cut Corners about our core Mission we're here to educate students sliding a book One Year might be okay but I don't want the community to think that we did that without you know being over the barrel budget wise and really having to do that and that the impact
was relatively minor because we just kept a book for one more year we always had enough books uh for every student which is critical um but given that this is Central to our core Mission uh I'm going to be continuing to watch this to make sure that we get great resources for our kids all the time thank
you thank you all those in F favor of aa1 say I I I any oppos say no motion passes unanimously next can I have a motion in a second on item BB2 so move it's been moved in it's been moved by Dr
Zeman seconded by Mrs Leonardi uh Dr holess he's not here um Miss Thompson I had my question answered by staff so I'm good thank you okay Dr Zeman thanks so much chair I have no issue with this issue uh I do want to
point out though that it is not uncommon for school boards uh that have five seven or nine members in Florida to share responsibilities for things uh I am concerned that we defer to our chair uh for virtually everything where
there's somebody to stand up and we have an amazingly talented chair it's not an issue with an ability it's really kind of a division of labor because we have eight other eight other people here and whether it's negotiating a contract or meeting with a key constituent group or
representing bar County schools at a Town Hall I want to make sure that all eight non chairs are fully employed to the extent of their energies and abilities uh on future things so I'm just opening up chair a concept you know the state statute requires the chair to
run meetings uh but this is a board of nine people and Broward county is a big place um and in the future uh I might propose some alternate Staffing to some of the responsibilities uh that have um just historically in Broward gone to the chair not again because there's any
issue with with our chair uh or our system but because I want all of us to be able to do all that we can to make a difference and in some cases uh we may have a huge security conference that we need to attend and we might want Miss aladea to go or we um might have an
issue in central Broward and we would like Schoolboard member holess to represent us uh but I just want to open up to us to think a little bit about these assignments and make sure that we're assigning an attorney when we need an attorney assigning uh somebody with long history on the board because this
is an issue that has you know goes back decades uh those kinds of things will allow the community to see us putting our best uh Schoolboard member forward for each one of the tasks thanks chair Dr holess we're on BB2 thank you madam chair
I'm prepared to go you you can you can take famine and I'll be well I don't have Mrs fam on the list you w but Mrs Leonardi okay that's fine is next I'll put you next Mrs Fam thank you um just a a point of clarification the
the chair negotiates the contract does the contract come to the board um subsequent to approval Miss Batista thank you Madame shair yes the contract will come back to the board as
you are maybe may recall and then um board members sometimes will have some additional changes at that point that was going to be my next question is do board members have the ability to uh make amendments and motions on the contract when it comes to us miss
Batista yes ma'am they do thank you and um I I was curious uh I know for the city of Fort Lauderdale has a new city manager um does anyone recall who negotiated that contract Dr
heer for the new city manager I'm I'm not aware it was the mayor um so I I think it's pretty standard procedure to have the the chair negotiate this contract um and other contracts and then it comes to the board and the board of all of us
have input on on those contracts um so I support uh the chair's authority to do that thank you thank you Mrs Fam thank you um actually I'm and the adverse I I do not think that we should be negotiating the contract because specifically this board and I am an
attorney and I did make a recommendation that when it came to the pension for the superintendent Lata that we do it in a step up mode as opposed to getting all or nothing and what happened he resigned or after 10 months and was
eligible for a full pension had we done that per my suggestion and maybe perhaps 25% if you stayed a year 50% two years 75% this is Dr Lata we're talking Miss SW Miss
PA or 100% after 4 years we could have saved this District a lot of money that was that wouldn't have been renegotiable but it was voted down therefore I think we should have someone an attorney that's experienced in
negotiations um to handle that I have sat in When Miss Batista was negotiating with um superintendent Carter um I'm sorry um I'm going to say Carter but it's the wrong name cart right yeah when
she was leaving and one of the statements I heard as being an arbitr and sitting in on many negotiations because I was the person making the decisions Miss um Batista said well I didn't say that was my final offer and I thought you never bid against yourself
that's like rudimentary you never do that so I would feel much more comfortable and I'm not trying to be critical of anyone we have to be objective here the subject subjectivity has to be removed and that's what happens people are boning with their emotions with their
friendships with their loyalties this is a billion Dollar business we representing billions that's why it it is upsetting that we don't have a CPA running our our team you know this is a billion dollar business I don't want to make mistakes so anyway I I would feel
much more comfortable if we had an outsourc resource that was an expert in it and they conducted the negotiations and then came back to the board as a whole and they made their recommendations after going through the contract thank you thank you Dr holess
thank you mad chair so I just want to give my feedback on um the performance of our superintendent and I am supporting this um that we begin discussion on contract negotiations with the superintendent the superintendent has been very responsive
in a majority of uh what this board has requested we have become an a district um as a result of the the the the team under the leadership of our current superintendent um I think we have improved significantly in how we Market brh
schools um you hear Mr Chisum uh uh repeat that over and over choose the best choose BCPS and I strongly believe that we are getting to that place um in addition to that he has shown significant uh Improvement in how we deal with our our parents our
stakeholders in terms of customer service I I am so grateful for the formation of the stto um um office uh that we look at our um schools that are um lower in performance and how we can improve those schools so there are just
so many things and I think that I would love to the discussions to start on a longer term contract for this superintendent and also um uh items that would be favorable to making sure superintendent continue to do the good work he's doing so I am supportive of
negotiation thank you thank you and I'll um just say that the reason that this came as a b item is because outlined his current contract there's a provision requiring the board to vote on a super majority termination Clause after the first year and we're coming believe it
or not to the end of the first year of his contract so I really wanted to have the discussion and bring it everything at one time to the board um I'd also like to say that negotiations is with an attorney it isn't just me
sitting in the room with Dr heern he has an attorney we have an attorney and I'm there to represent the board and just remind you that you all voted for me to do that and I take that very seriously and appreciate the confidence um I also
wanted to bring the contract part forward because as Dr holes just mentioned given Dr heurn Strong performance and the need to continue the stability that we have in the forward momentum I think it's in the best interest of our student staff and our
community to discuss a longer term contract right now it's a three-year contract which means it will end in 2026 if I'm not mistaken oh 2027 so we'd like to just look at what um what we could do to make that a little bit
longer so that's really why I brought the B item forward to just ask your authority to go into negotiations and see where we land um with the superintendent and I'll wrap this up with Dr Zan again I appreciate uh chair
um again my comments uh were not specifically about this item or this task it's about uh doing the best thing for brard County schools with all nine people on the board uh given their various expertise um in uh my own extension of
Dr hess's comments um it may very well be that things that were agreed to at the very beginning of this three-year contract Dr heurn would like to bring up um like Dr holess I think that we ought to be as flexible as possible and uh
extending the contract is certainly in the best interest of Broward County Schools but also listening to him about pieces of that contract uh to make sure that what we have in our contractual relationship with our superintendent um allows us to get the greatest benefit from the superintendent for what we do
uh our job is K through2 education centrally with a lot of other things added on um but for things that don't pertain to the core Mission I hope that we remain uh incredibly Flex fible uh during these negotiations thank you chair thank you all those in favor Madam
sorry Mrs um just wanted to uh but point of clarification um the contracts uh the employment contracts for the superintendent historically and including the one for Dr lar and now Dr hebburn when there is a resignation Clause the um the individual does not
receive any Severance so the only thing that is in the contract for a resignation that is stipulated there is just vacation which is earned by the individual while they're employed in the district and they um their sick days and
that's all they receive thank you all those in favor of item BB2 say I I I any opposed okay the motion carries 8 to one the next item to the floor is item dd1 could I have a motion in a second so
moved it's been moved by Dr Zan second and by Mrs leonardy Mrs fam sorry was the dd1 um through the chair this is for Dr he I know that um Watkins Elementary had the greatest amount of equipment losses
I I just wanted to know um what guard rails if any um have you requested to be added so we don't allow this to go on um and perpetuate to such a large degree Dr heurn defer that to Dr fton in the
applicable regional office for Watkins for the property inventory audit sorry I apologize yeah out of all the schools Watkin had the greatest losses that was quite large and went unidentified for a long period or longer period appeared to be
unless that happened over the short term I'm just wondering what guard rails you since put in place or recommended so what we have actually with all of them but I will speak specifically for Watkins and I will have Mr Strauss who's also the regional superintendent that may add anything that I may miss with
property and inventory we're starting to see some of the the controls for when we were doing Co laptops and now at that time we were Distributing laptops to families that needed them and so a lot of those um were not being able to capture them today so we have been
working with the chief auditor to ensure that they are not on the list for the p&i so therefore schools are not getting hit with that in additionally there are other controls not just for Walkins that we're doing we're doing for all of our schools and we are doing our own controls internally before um the chief
auditor and his staff comes out to do the property inventory Audits and those are done on a quarterly basis and we just do spot checks we'll take the entire inventory and pick a few items that may be on there and spot check to make sure that we have proper controls and making sure that they are where they
are supposed to be and if not we're be in proactive to ensure reconciliation of the propit and inventory uh uh database system that we have thank you so much okay thank you all those in favor
of item dd1 say I I any opposed say no motion carries unanimously the next item is dd2 can I have a motion in a second move it's been moved by Miss Thompson seconded by Dr Zan uh Dr Zan thanks chair and I apologize for
slowing us down here a little bit today but this is U an audit with a finding um that got some discussion at the audit committee certainly got um some uh push back from the principal
from the BSC from the regional superintendent and from the director and at the end of the day if you look at the standard practice bulletin that we put out to our schools through the business support center and through I
think chair does the do uh SBS come out under the signature of the Chief Financial Officer or under the signature of the business support center Dr heurn BSC BC so uh BC puts out the standard practice bulletins in this
particular case there's a key word that the princip principal the director the regional superintendent and the director of the BS Keon which said you should not you can't but you should and so allocating funds according to the
standard practice bulletin where it says this is something you should do is different than what you can or cannot do I am not an edit an auditor uh but I do have some degree of Common Sense and I'm hoping that um we can talk a little
bit about this get a deeper explanation of why there's an exception in this audit and we will think about it uh in view of this exception and chair I just want to make sure that my information is correctly on this when there's an exception of a school-based audit that
gets listed on the principal evaluation is that correct Dr hipper that's correct so uh the consequence of this which I believe uh after spending several hours on this is uncertain I don't think it's
an exception I don't think it's not an exception it's just a it's like the the rules say you shouldn't spend more than 15% on something they spent 50% of it uh the principal felt it was a critical need for the school um and I think the
principal's letter to the auditor was pretty clear um and and my read of the the principal spb uh again it says you shouldn't but it doesn't say you can't do this and I don't want to Mar a principal's record
who's been teaching for decades and and leading for decades over something that's ambiguous and I think that our audits ought to reflect that an exception on a permanent record of a teacher is a scar it would prevent them from lots of other
things in their career um and I just uh I just have tried to figure out a way to understand this it certainly came up for a discussion uh at the at the audit committee there's plenty of things in your attachment uh on pages 110 to 118
that that talk about this uh but I just need to learn more about this and I guess the first question I have chair is what's the authority of the board uh on this item if we don't agree with one of the exceptions in the audit report Dr he
I'll defer that to miss Batista Miss Batista thank you madam shair so the um action that is here for the is just receiving the internal uh funds audit report it is not to um accept the
findings necessarily or reject the findings it's just to accept the the report um as far as you know if if there is um information that you feel um um needs additional um either information
information or or uh action then uh you would go through the process that you are going through now which is discussing it here at the board and um perhaps asking for um some more information from the auditor and I intend to do that but after we do that
what Authority does the board have uh if we vote against this item and not accept the audit um uh is it substant is it um if in in fact we don't agree that
that this finding this exception is appropriate and we vote against the item uh what happens to the audit so again the you know you can't really vote against the item um it's not
What's um on the item today um so you know it's the the audit is done through the discretion of the audit um experts um that put it together so um I'm not sure what you what would be your
recourse uh if you wanted to reject the audit itself since that's not even the action that the board is taking at this point well I'd like to imagine that the elected School Board of bar county is more than nine house plants who look at documents they don't agree with and pass
them anyway like at some point we have to look at Audits and say somebody's career is being damaged by this and there's no evidence that this is a black black and white exception and we'd like to do something about that so what do we have the authority to
do so again um you know other than receiving that's the requested action is to receive the audit um I would have to research if you have any other authority as to that particular audit or finding to make any type of um you know
rejection regarding that particular finding I'm sorry so you would need more time to research that to figure out what our authorities are correct I appreciate that I am very very uncomfortable with this um again the The Guiding bulletin says it's something you should not do
not something you cannot do this is a $10,000 expense that a principal did she got permission from the BSC to do it she got permission from her director to do it and she got approval in the end from her Regional superintendent to do it that's a lot of heft like if I ask Alan
Strauss about something like 9,000 times I get the right answer he's been around a while if I go to the expert in the staff it's going to be the BSC who wrote this bulletin right and this principal did all that and now we're still going to to in essence Mark her career as having an
exception to an internal audit so uh chair I'm uh interested in any other comments that we have for the board and I'm ready to make a motion Mrs Bowman um thank you board member Zan for bring this up um I agree
with him um and I think that the response from the BC is very uh telling I think they set forth a good a great argument um that this should not be uh Mar on the principal's record and the
actually the language it doesn't say should it says it it is generally acceptable for schools to utilize 10 to 15% of the general fund balance to pay for school improvements so generally acceptable is even more vague than
should in my opinion and so having sought the Council of various um leaders from different departments and relied on that I don't see how we could um put a blemish on this principal's
record so I I also would like to see how we can move forward to object to that Miss Batista if I may offer uh perhaps um then there would should be a motion or you would like to make a motion the board would like to make a motion to
um uh table or to postpone the item until the next board meeting so that I have an opportunity to see how um if there isn't you know anything that the board can do as to that particular finding I appreciate that and with your do you mind if I take back the microphone I would like to do that uh
General Counsel on again um I have been through several thousand audits and although I'm not an auditor I have a lot of experience with Audits and lots of times an audit ends with seeking more
clarity you know going back to the principal going back to the BSC director Mr Smith going back to the director to the regional superintendent to the CFO to anybody and we own the bulletins that we give principales so if in fact the bulletin said it's generally accepted to
do something that's different than saying you may not or that you may or or or the like and in this case I think there's just a lot of subjectivity you know about this and and a $10,000 expense where there's no missing money there's no uh gross mismanagement of
funds from one account to another um I think that this is not the appropriate conclusion to come to in an audit uh and I'm glad that the audit committee flagged this and as did other people who sit on the audit committee and I moved to table this till uh uh April 15th to
learn from The General Counsel um and to learn from the chief auditor uh together what we can do about this audit so that it uh reflects um a uh potentially a different outcome on this particular
exception second it's been moved by Dr Zan um seconded by Mrs alhad to table the item until April 15 is there any public comment on the motion any board discussion on the motion all those in favor say I I any
oppos say no motion carries unanimously thank you the next item up is item ff1 have a motion in a second second uh motion move it's been moved by Dr Zeman
seconded by um Mrs Leonardi and this is my I pulled it I just wanted to as I like to do monthly say thank you and congratulations to the Grants Department this month they have brought in 223,000
$161 of additional money to our our district for different things for our students and we appreciate your time and effort for that so thank you all those in favor of ff1 say I I any oppos say no motion carries unanimously the next item
is jj1 can I have a motion in a second so moov it's been moved by Dr Zan seconded by Mrs Leonardi U Mrs Leonardi thank you um so this is a a change order for North Side Elementary um and on the change order it
says the contract time will be increased by 1,272 days um I'm just wondering if that can be if someone could explain that a little bit Dr heer Miss
Paul good afternoon board I'll have uh Mike McIntyre from aaom uh speak to that item Michael McIntyre AECOM uh through the board chair um on this particular change order it is adding time that's
already been used up the time was needed to change the design on the mechanical system uh the system was designed to be an exterior system uh the manufacturer of the equipment did not allow that to occur they would not warranty the
equipment so the system had to be redesigned um and and then permitted and then installed so that's what the time is it's a cumulative of previously used time thank you um and I I think this for
me is symbolic of some larger issues at North Side um you know Northside was routinely in the conversation about redefining schools um and I would argue that the facilities issues at Northside which is you know a
beautiful historic uh beacon in the city of Fort Lauderdale um but a lot of the facilities issues I think contribute to um some of the enrollment issues we see at the school um I visited the school a couple months ago uh speaking with the
former principal um she pointed out uh building three um has been in construction um for quite some time they haven't been able to use the building in several years um she was not clear about what the hold up was um she pointed to a
roof leaking destroying some walls um in in the building in cabinets um and that really contributes to the curb appeal of the school um she you know noted that the school needs to be painted um and
then there are some issues major issues with the playground there um and so you know again when we talk about enrollment um you know when a parent walks through a school and there's a roof leaking or an entire building is
unable to be used because of delays in construction um you know we're really not helping ourselves um so I just I wanted to When I saw this on the agenda I really wanted to highlight those issues um because we
are really doing students a dist service by not getting a handle on the facilities and and these projects thank you dror Zan thanks so much chair um Miss lean already took all my great bullet points so I'm G to be even briefer than I would have been but I
will point out that that a change order took three and a half years anybody on this board happy with a three and a half year change order the community is really angry and and we just can't keep seeing these things and not express their anger uh
publicly um in this particular case is a Historic Landmark you know and uh not being able to use that school and then demand that they become an a school district when they're 100% Title One school um just doesn't make sense to the community and we've got to figure this
out I recently Miss leardi got made aware of a change order that had been put in for $5,900 and 6 months later it got approved at $5,300 like was the six month really
worth the $600 difference and what I want the board to think about as we're going through the transformation to an all y'all get it out spend the money kind of program is you know we hire contractors for
critical technical skills that they want to provide to us and we need but they get paid by the month not by the job contractors get paid by the job right the gc's so what's the broken incentive there anybody tell
me we hire contractors who get paid more if there's long delays that's why we need a robust government staff to make sure that things like $600 don't hold up a project for 6 months that's a tiny one right but
this one is a big one and three and a half years is just too much I cannot wait to see what the new structure will look like between government Broward County Public School staff and contractors um the need to dramatically uh increase spend to think deeply about
facade upgrades like we asked the superintendent to bring us a-rated district schools we really want to be the best school district in the county but do have we done facade upgrades that encourage people to come and visit our schools because once they visit our schools to my knowledge they're they're pretty excited they meet the princip the
AP the the the the academic coach they're far more likely to enroll in that school but how do we get those uh potential students to come visit our schools that has a lot to do with how it looks we have too many schools where the front of their school is a chiller we have too many schools where the old sign
is still up because we replaced all the signs after Ivan but we didn't fund the tearing down the old crappy signs and so you drive past the crappy sign to see the nice sign those kinds of things I think we need a cohesive approach that is uh inclusive of our construction spend to help us achieve our strategic
goals three and a half years wait uh for a change order at Northside is not acceptable the community is angry and they should be uh and we have to keep talking about it until the change orders come back in a much more reasonable time frame thank you chair thank you all those in favor of jj1 say I I I any
opposed passes unanimously the next item is jj2 can I have a motion in a second so move second been moved by Dr Zan seconded by Mrs rert this one I brought up so I have a a question in
the executive summary it says if the board votes yes the contractor will be granted 30 days of delays that were unforeseeable and Beyond its control but then when you go down to the change order items this is actually a
consultant Omission so either it's un foreen or it's a consultant Omission so this is conflicting information Dr heurn can someone explain why it says two different things Miss
Paul Mr McIntyre Mike McIntyre aom chair it is an Omission um on the first question on the contractor will be compensated as unforeseeable it was unforeseeable to the contractor but it is a design
Omission it will be carried as an design Omission there is no there is no liability to the contractor on this one and we will be looking at the architect for Recovery okay um thank you but that's it it needs to be worded different then I think because initially it said
unforeseen and I keep track of this I agree so um and I'll just point out that there were three consultant omissions and I part of that is because it it comes we're looking at it as somebody missed something but if it's really
unforeseen that's different right there are a lot of unforeseen things that happen so I think it's important we get it right um but there are three consultant omissions for a total of 38,46 94 which was way better this month
I will say than um the trends were going the last couple of months so I hope it stays in the low numbers as we move forward but thank you for the EXP ation all those in favor of jj2 say I I any opposed say no passes unanimously the
next item up is jj3 can I have a motion in a second so move it's been moved by Dr Zeman seconded by Mrs leonardy U Mrs Fam thank you madam chair this some inv olves um I think it's Parkway Middle no
Parkway Elementary School hold on Central Park Central Park Elementary schol elementary school and the reason I I'm really concerned about this is because we just got a recent request for 634 additional days to be added it's
almost two years this is um construction work has been going on at least and looking at the records since 2021 um I it appears that the contractor is already in litigation with us in reference to another buildout and I just
wanted to know the records seem to indicate that um this change is being supported by Acom and it's going to be uh determined as part of or included in the litigation possibly that's already pending but I just want to know if at
this point in the game if if we need to this is phase two we're starting get an alternative contractor to step in to at least expedite this because this is going to be really realistically five years or more and as we've all been
discussing of course we want these schools to be done um we want to attract other parents and and it's not fair to our children as well so through the chair if aom can at least see if this is a consideration or or why this wouldn't be a good idea but um it just seems like
this is a really getting out this is also the eth change order oh Mr McIntyre Mike McIntyre aom through the chair um these 634 days are not additional days going forward they are
in the past they they are work days that have been acred to this point um the Tia review has has been performed and a total of 634 days is needed at to be added to the contract to
bring the contract date up to up to the real timeline up to to reality so we're not adding an additional 6634 days going forward this is this is to contractually um add the 634 days that
have been acred to this point okay point of clarification um if aom could um advise how 63 4 days of additional work was done without coming before the board to even get that or seek that approval Dr
heer Mr McIntyre the the additional time was needed to complete the original contract work so there were this is a basket of of Errors associated with typical um
renovation work the roof the roof permitting took a lot longer than it should have um so that delayed the project uh we had a lot of existing conditions that existed that were unknowns um associated with plumbing and
the Tia found basically that the time was not was not acred to the to the contractor the time was AC accured to the owner for delays and the AE for delays additional point of clarification
please um when you say to the owner does that mean us and contributed to us and that my um question to you was how come not that there was these delays but how come these delays did not come before this board in order to get approval for
almost two years of work that's now where you're telling us in hindsight we owe this retroactively Dr he Dr heurn and I'm call on you in a minute Mike for further clarification but if you look at Miss fam if you look at the executive summary on the left hand side under total
project budget you'll see um change order dates that came to the board 62 2019 um 71823 91223 so it's come before the board about three times before for for previous change orders is change order
eight there because that's what this is labeled change order number eight go ahead M this this is the first time this changer was coming to the board there have been previous board approv of change orders of whether it was
additional funding for work additional work that was found to be needed because it was unforeseen or there were correction of Errors um tias are traditionally done once on a project uh we have been doing more than one ta but it's usually a TIA a Time impact
analysis is done to capture all time elements that are delays uh and then assign ownership of the liability at one time so that's why a TIA of this size comes Now versus doing
it peac meal because the unknowns are too great until you get to the end and then you do a TIA at the end we are presently at the end we're at 98% complete and you're correct this is this is in litigation this contractor has a number of projects in litigation uh but
you bring a t Tia at the end so you can capture all delays and assign the responsible parties their liability thank you for your response sure oh sorry thank you all those in favor of item jj3 say I I I any oppose say
no motion carries unanimously the next item is jj4 can I have a motion in a second moved it's been moved by Dr Zan seconded by Miss Thompson Mrs rert Mrs rert I'm sorry jj1 14 sorry sorry
um yep I got it right here um J 14 about pompo Beach Middle School change order credit 85373 um my question and I I was trying to get into the email but I wasn't able to my question was why is the installation of three dampers in
building five and two lers on building six which was included in the original scope not required any longer Dr heer Mr McIntyre Michael McIntyre aom through the board the louvers and the dampers
are no longer required the the engineer of record has made a determin that they're not necessary a determination that design was made they were but now it is not necessary uh for the systems to function properly through the
superintendent another question yes go ahead miss m rert um okay so you're you're stating that there this is not a safety issue um none of the above and that what they thought was required or was required at one time but now it's
not any longer so as long as we're not correct item item one is a safety issue item two is not on this change order item two item one has the structural elements right and that is being carved out to be done separately okay otherwise otherwise it would extend the project history right duration longer than it
needs to so item two isn't needed any longer and it's not a safety issue item one is a safety issue it's structural upgrades that are necessary for the for the building to be utilized that was a great answer and um one that was required to so I could vote on this so I
appreciate that um and then I have part two of uh of the same item is uh the credited amount of the 85 blah blah blah will be returned for what aspect of this program or is it going to go in for the
um it goes into the carbo correct okay there there you go with that thank you thank you mam chair thank you all those in favor of jj1 14 say I I I any oppose say no passes unanimously the next item up is JJ 15 can I have a motion in a
second so second it's been moved by Dr Zan seconded by Mrs Rupert Mrs Fam thank you madam chair um I had propounded um a request for information from staff and references I want to thank you for getting back to me the
answers were really thorough and complete really um uh was enlightening I want to thank you for that and I just asked one thing one additional thing if you wouldn't mind saying to the public um on there there was one vendor that was certified and the other vendors were
not would you just explain the difference between the vendor that was certified as compared to uncertified thank you Dr heer Miss Paul so basically the certified person uh company goes through our process works with our staff to get certified to
understand what the rules are in in working with us and it just uh makes it a lot easier for them to transition and and work with the district through the chair if you might clarify even more provide more details um when you said they're certified what
is that process what kind of certification or documentation do they have to produce do they have to have a higher level of insurance what is involved with that it's not a higher level of insurance and I can provide you with all of the background of the certification process as a followup I I
thank you for that but is there any way you can just read it to the public now because I get asked that question I'm not sure if Miss Andrea was here she just walked in okay thank you ma'am go ahead U Miss Andreu good morning Jennifer Andreu executive director operations in terms
of certification they do have to supply additional documentation online they have to supply their Sun bids their tax returns all of the required information to become certified uh to answer your question doc uh Miss fam you asked about
the criteria used and um is there a preference in terms of certific someone that's certified over someone that's not certified yes that is Project Specific based on if any goals from the goal setting committee were assigned to that
particular solicitation then there could be uh preference points or Price preference depending on what the solicitation calls for and how many vendors we have available uh also um in reference to your question we also
explain that per policy um through our supplier diversity and outreach program we are committed to ensuring that small minority veteran and women-owned businesses have an opportunity to bid on all solicitations with Broward County
Public Schools and they are trustworthy experienced and reliable I thank you again for your response your written response as well as your oral response thank you so much for providing that additional information thank you all those in favor
of item jj15 say I I I any opposed say no motion carries next item is jj1 16 can I have a motion in a second to move second it's been moved by Dr Zan seconded by Mrs leonardy uh Mrs bman
thank you chair um so this is a additional funding request for South Broward High School to complete Life Safety repairs um which I fully support I was just wondering because it it states here um structural repairs and
Replacements necessary to ensure the safety of students and staff I was wondering what um the timeline is for making these repairs Dr hurn Miss Paul Mr McIntyre good morning Sonia Cole through the
chair I'm sorry what was the question again U what's the what's the timeline for the anticipated timeline for making the repairs um proposed in this item so there are three separate projects here okay um we're going to combine two of the projects we have the drawings we
have not put the uh the solicitation out yet or the through uh uh Construction Services minor project until we get the funding approved so once we get that the funding approved then we can get a a time frame so we can follow up with
that do you okay so the what would be is there a of estimated timeline or I mean are we talking months years no uh the the I can't give you a time frame right now we have to get with the contractor but I would say no more than uh maybe six
months to get it done I have to follow up again with you on that okay thank you um and then there part of this has uh one of the projects is as best as abatement in the auditorium there's currently an auditorium renovation in
progress is that going to delay the renovation uh they have to do the abatement so there may be a little bit of delay in that how much how much time do you think uh I don't know I'll have to get with I'll get back to you on that and get the schedule from from
environmental to determine how long it would take them to do the abatement okay and was that just discovered cuz my understanding was that the um the project was going forward and there was work being done on the auditorium so I uh it was probably
discovered after they remove uh some of the panels but I'll have to again follow up with that okay thank you you're welcome thank you Dr holess thank you madam chair um so while I will be certainly supportive of this item I just have some questions I know it mentioned
necessity of structural repairs and replacement and transferring some of these um from po uh due to the complexity of the work to um to Capital programs um so I I just wanted to find
out when a facilties assessment was done um regarding uh South Broward um Can can the staff explain why um these weren't these uh concerns cuz it's $3 million weren't discovered
during the facilities assessment does it have to do with the quality of the facilities assessment how it was done and then um obviously we if that's the case we have a lesson to learn going forward Dr heer yes I um ask Miss Paul for any
providing any details but you hit it on a nod the quality of the assessment um that was done did not it didn't go beyond scratching the surface so to speak to identify a lot lot of issues that have plagued this U program Al together okay so Dr heurn based on your
response as you mentioned this this has been an ongoing concern districtwide in terms of the how the uh assessment of the facilities um and if if uh you know as as we go forward you know I think
it's important when we go and we ask taxpayers for money to do work that it's important that we assess the work to be done properly right um because that results in delays increased cost all these things and we we look at this this is $3 million I'm very supportive because I want the work to be done but I
think it's a lesson going forward that we really have to have um Quality assessment done and I I don't know if this was as a result of the company we hired um or this was as a result of how we needed the work how we decided to
have the assessment done and are you able to speak to that I can't totally speak to what happened in the past but I can speak to right now um we have higher expectations and better expertise um on the district side to ensure that the work is done properly
this time that we'll present um in early summer for for the for the for this facilities condition assessment that's being performed right now okay so for the facilities uh condition assessments done in the past was it done by one company or more than one company and who were
these um Miss Paul I can speak a little bit to it I think it was done um uh by uh one uh company with the collaboration of the of the district
so I was not here and I can't speak to the past but you know I know that in many cases you you and I've done a number of Assessments or work with companies you you kind of get what you pay for and so I think that it was a little bit of both and in terms of uh
how it went U but I think one of the most uh important things that we we look at you know in our current space is uh what Dr heurn uh alluded to earlier that our expectations are a lot higher I
think uh we learned from the district as a whole learned from the previous assessment uh and uh what's currently happening now with a bureau of veritis is the right way to do it and so you know I can't I can't
explain since I wasn't here what happened in the past all I can do is read documents but I know that we're going in the right direction uh and I think um the the current approach is the correct approach for the district going forward but also keep in mind the
assessment was done in 2014 you know we're 11 years removed from that assessment and so you you our buildings we just can't freeze our buildings in time and say that 2014 should have caught every single thing that happened over the 11 years that that's not how it
works uh but you know one thing that we're very um uh confident about is that we learned from the past and as we move forward uh my expectation is that we won't have the same difficulties that we
had over this last smart B program okay so Dr heurn I I do agree with Miss Paul that sometimes you kind of get what you pay for but at times you pay more for what you get and so I don't
know which of those two happen here did we pay more for what we got or did we get what we paid for Dr heer sounds like we got what we paid
for as as as as Miss Paul just said we've been documents um ever since I started ever since she started just to Lessons Learned From mistakes that have happened in the past just to make sure they're not repeated uh but through Miss Paul's expertise and several other large school districts that she's done this
work um with great success um and have a a clear understanding of directions that large school district should take when it comes to performing facilities conditions assessment I'm and also updating the board about um the next steps after that process is complete so we can make the best decision decision
possible moving forward especially for our taxpayers okay so thank you so much Madam chair I will be supporting the item but as I mentioned for the record I am really concerned about the facilities assessment and uh any company that was involved in doing so um and going
forward I hope we can correct that in terms of good use of taxpayers dollars thank you thank you Dr Zeman chair thanks so much uh $2.7 million um for Life Safety chairish is there any higher priority in
our construction budget than life safety Dr heurn I would say no this is the one of the highest priorities to keep our staff and our students safe at our schools I appreciate that um chair I wonder if given that this is life safety that me
might we might think about accelerating this process to Max Speed uh I appreciate a quick estimate of six months I mean that's that's great um I was kind of going to be snarky and ask my colleagues if anyone thinks it'll
be done in 6 months but I'm not going to go there today I will go though the other way which is it's it's worth thinking about you know what is the fastest um uh authorized process we have to get a contractor out there for a life
safety issue so I'm going to watch this project and I'm going to report every time we have a school board meeting about where we're at and I'd like to know how fast we can improve this life safety issue at South brard High
School I'd also like to know a couple things uh the item says that uh the rain gutter is going to be descoped from the renovation project and included in the railing replacement project will that cause a delay in this life Safety project Dr heurn Miss Paul
Mr McIntyre through the chair no it will not that was a no it it will not oh thank you so much M Coy um second question uh I swear this board has given the the superintendent the authority to do a lot of stuff but this item says he
can't spend $10,000 on a life safety issue uh general counsel why can't the superintendent spend $10,000 on a life safety issue Miss Batista so there there is no prohibition for the super intending to do that um
there is depending on whatever the uh particular contract or or you know agreement says um there may be Provisions that the the board has not delegated to the superintendent to sign off on and that's the reason it would have
to come to the board for approval chair is it your general understanding that we've given uh the superintendent the authority to execute money particularly for high priority items like a life safety issue of $10,000 it is my understanding but I know there's also a cap so I'm not sure
if that plays into why this has to come back to us I I hope that U I hope we can look at that in the future and think about it because uh if there's a life safety issue in one of our schools I sure would love the um maybe
the I maybe Miss Coley should have the authority or the chief financial off facilities officer somebody should have the authority to execute public dollars when it's the life safety of our students involved um I hope that chair we also can look at the general authorities I think we approved things
and then they had caps and then had exceptions and then footnotes and things like that um I I know that in an organization this complex and this big there are things that the superintendent ought to be able to uh approve and get done and again when we did that chair we said come back and report to us when you
do it right so it's not like he's doing this and and in the dark of night he does it because we need uh a CEO to be able to do that and then he puts it in I think we said his weekly report within a week something like that uh the last issue is a big deal to me because I hope
we can think hard about Roi we're about to make some big decisions about either facade upgrades or capital projects we're going to look at next year's and maybe even the next two or three years budgets and start to uh approve design projects things that the board might
think really important and we can actually um execute design of those things so that down the road that we can make decisions uh separately about constructing them but we have to do something about Roi if this is a life safety issue I suspect there is an Roi
with this like a very immeasurably large one um but excuse me not immeasurably large but measurably large you know if if this allows for an area of the school to be used safely rather than uh otherwise um I hope that we think a little bit about doing that work superintendent so that we can help this
board make decisions about uh you know based on the FCA and the ROI where we get the greatest bang for the buck thanks chair Dr heurn you wanted to address something no no nothing to add Paul oh go ahead Miss Paul Dr Zan as you
recall it's a 3% cap on the project and that's why you get these type change orders and what we're trying to do we'll bring it to the board is to increase it to 5% which will be equal to the retainage and I I and chair again I'm a little bit out of order here but to the extent that you know we can get that on
a future item as a staff item and not a BB item that would be great but I think um it would be a good solid discussion on this board to ensure um that we're giving our superintendent and you frankly the authority to make decisions to get things done uh it's frustrating
to hear about you know uh three and a half year change orders it's uh frustrating and I'll tell you br of fam's not here but it was in Miss fam's District District where uh Plantation Park Elementary School waited 6 months to get approval on a $5,000 change order
we've got to make those decisions fast it just doesn't make any sense to the community you know community members spend $20,000 on their bathrooms and and when the plumber comes to them and says oh my gosh we tore the floor open and there's no subfloor you're going to have
to spend another ,000 on uh Grade B plywood the owner goes well of course get on it you know but we spent 6 months looking at a $5,000 change order at Plantation Park Elementary School and Miss fam should be hearing about that from everybody that you know uses that
school because it's not acceptable to the community thank you thank you and I have a quick question so we approved I think at the last school board meeting a large chunk of
money for minor contract issues right so that smaller things po couldn't do these companies that were listed could do it is this an item that would fall under that contract
no' Miss Paul no no ma'am okay um what can you because so po handles minor construction projects uh and basically uh the
separation is the dollar amount uh as well as the scope of the project so this is part the the the uh Broward project is part of the overall project so often times when we come to the board and we give you whether it's a TIA we
give you the history of a project and stuff this is part of the Broward project of that school so this I would not recommend trying to carve this out for PPL to handle they have enough in terms of uh emergency work orders that
they work on and so forth so Min and construction uh projects are just that minor construction projects okay because in the discussion here I heard someone say minor Pro construction projects with this in mind so that's why I was asking
all right all those in favor of jj1 16 say I I I any opposed okay it's unanimous 60 next item is jj1 17 can I have a motion in a second so move second it's been moved by Dr Zan seconded by Mrs
rert Mrs rert thank you um this is Margate Elementary School's Edition I would like to thank um Dr heern Dr Lata aeom Lego construction Atkins and Miss Paul and her team for moving these much
needed projects to be completed I'm hoping before the end of the school year do we have that bit of information through the superintendent Dr h repeat that question Miss ruper I'm sorry are we going to have the um the
finishing touches on this before they get into a next school year Miss Paul if you're asking uh will the building uh be occupiable for the next
school year uh based on the comments uh yes um and based on the project timeline um so I will go to Mr McIntyre and see if he has any concerns but I I think they it will be uh completed for the upcoming school year that's what I was
hoping to get on the record and I appreciate that Mike McIntyre a come to the chair building is occupied the building is complete punch list is done this is the contractor's Final close out because the punch list is done right so
that's a awesome thing and I'm telling you there will not be any any principal in this District that's going to be happier than uh Tommy Scher at morgade L because he has been a tremendous leader um just getting there on Saturdays to
make sure the construction people showed up I mean he if someone was pushing he he was definitely pushing it and um he even became an a an a school again during this whole process so kudos to him thank you to our team and I look
forward to um seeing it as soon as I can thanks thank you all those in favor of item jj1 17 say I I any opposed say no passes ously 8 to
Z the next item is um 01 can I have a motion in a second been moved by Dr Zan seconded by Mrs Tom Miss Thompson uh Mrs rer hold
on I got it right here I think yep okay so when I was going through it um I got a little confused can you please explain what the first two sentences mean under the background and History Section so that was in my original
original question because the when you're looking at the background history it was a little um conf fuy there and um it said FNS intends to replace 27 aging Vans over the next 3 years which are
quote 10 years and and we don't know what 10 years 10 years old 10 years in the making uh 10 years old okay um and as you know we're trying and perhaps we can make that a little bit clearer uh in the
future but we have really old vehicles within the fleet yeah and so my expectation is that we upgrade our Fleet and then we exit the Aging vehicles um uh that we currently have over uh over
uh this time period uh and not to continue to have them in the fleet going forward so uh it's part of our strategy to um make sure that we provide reliable vehicles to our team perfect thank you
and then one last question um through the superintendent have the Technical College Programs replaced any trucks or vehicles within this current school year Dr heer Miss Paul so this particular um purchase is for uh driver
ed vehicles um and uh and you know we're we've completed uh uh the delivery of them but yes we we are still needing additional uh uh Vehicles throughout the district okay so we do take that in into
consideration perfect thank you so much I appreciate it um thank you madam chair thank you Dr Zan how many vehicles are we buying with $5 million Dr heurn Miss
Paul we for 2024 2025 73 thank you and this item is proposing to use a piggyback contract did we shop around uh uh a dozen or so piggyback contracts to see which one had the best this is a state contract so
um uh we tend to get the best prices uh going off a state contract thank you chair thank you and I'll just say I'm very glad to see this moving forward we've been asking that they have been asking for new drivers at vehicles for a
little while so I know you've just made a group of people very happy so thank you all those in favor of item 01 say I I any oppos say no motion passes unanimously um the next item is 03 can I have a
motion in a second to move it's been moved by Dr Zan seconded by Mrs rert Mrs Fam thank you so much Madam chair I just have um two quick questions for oh this is transportation I'm assuming for field trips and
and no this is not that's the next item is three is Construction Services minor projects oh okay um sorry here's my note down here for O3 with the construction um amount I think it's either 7 million
or 7.5 million that would be allowed per project or would that be per contractor for one Dr heer Miss Paul I'm not sure where you're getting it figure from uh this Construction Services minor projects I
think is what uh Miss Hixon was alluding to previously and the these are projects that are uh physical plan operations Department uh is responsible for they tend to be minor projects um uh that
deal with you know all across the spectrum of um uh services for our schools so would this be I think the the cap that is allowed without coming before the board it's either 7 million or half million am I right so projects
funded in an adfp and estima it not to exceed 7.5 million per project in construction cost okay uh so that gives po the flexibility of assigning projects to vendors uh we don't have those
internal resources or staff to do the the scope of these projects so we're able to go out to contractors uh uh to do them for us good and two questions wanted I I just wanted an assurance that um these vendors specifically they have
a prior um proven track record with the school district yes we we we we uh we look at that as we assign projects and so um many of our uh firms we have
long-standing relationships with them some are um SM U veterans and minority business businesses and just a whole gamut of firms and in many cases we use them for minor projects as well as some of our um and the second thing I'm
afraid of U things being broken down into peace meal so a a specific contractor could collect massive amounts of money over the Year by peac mealing a project for this or that are we the ones that are outlining the projects yes to
assign not the contractor yeah we scope out the projects we give them very specific uh uh guidelines of what we need uh on these uh CM or csmp projects right thank you thank you Dr Zeman uh thanks so much
chair I'm really excited about this uh item uh to my knowledge uh chair this is going to fill kind of a gap right we have small projects poo can do uh they're generally not $7.5 million do uh and we have a lot of companies in BR County uh that would like to do the work
fully capable of doing the work and get the work done uh chair I'm curious are these vendors uh well let me just start with the contract question how many people bid to be part of this group Dr heurn Miss
Paul I'll have Miss um U our procurement executive direct director acts that but it just depends Tri typically on the the the uh particular job skill set or the item some like re Roofing uh we have may
have more contractors electrical more just depends on the uh specific trade that we're looking for I appreciate that I'm I'm curious about the answer because um there's been a concerted effort amongst a lot of people to uh one make
Brower County Schools a better contract partner you know pay on time uh to uh show up for more and and more timely inspections uh and and so if you could get back to me and let me know how many people bid on it it' be nice to get a report card back on on how that uh is
going like I said this is exciting because it fills a gap it's not it's bigger than po but less than a formal uh acquisition chair do you think that there is a way that we could accelerate the procurement and Contracting with
these 17 firms so that we might get more U mediumsized projects finished Dr heer Miss Paul so uh po uh collaborates uh very closely with aaom to help fill
those gaps um and so that relationship is already there um and I think because you know we meet every week and we talk about any concerns we have on the um on the uh
smart side or Capital side as well as on the PO side that collaboration is actually working and so so some of this acceleration that you're seeing is a result of that thank you and chair how does the process work um somebody identifi let's just say there's another
life safety issue that comes up at Fort Lauderdale high school and it's around a $5 million project not big enough that a major construction firms going to you know move out their tools and people to work on it but kind of perfect for this sweet spot of 17 vendors how do we select a vendor to come and do a project
of that size Dr heurn Miss Paul so I have Miss Andre you speak to that but uh we do have vendors that are um uh have been brought to the board uh this is an example of those vendors and when we have uh uh
emergency projects uh you know we we have to get somebody on board and these vendors have been very reliable for us but miss Andrea you can speak to the process a little deeper thank you Sonia Coy through the chair so with the
csmp process we actually send out a uh request for estimating order uh because we already have them on bid so we just have to get that request from them and chair how long does that roughly take that it's lovely right like like Broward
county is so excited that there's 17 pre-approved vendors you throw out a task order the ones in the right categories that can do that work then respond how if you don't mind how long does it take before we identify a need before we get a contractor under
contract uh so typically what the estimating order will give we'll have drawings already prepared and we will provide them with the drawings and they have 30 days to give us a estimate between and some get it back within 15 days I appreciate that and I asked how
long does it take to get them under contract not not how long they have to respond s my apologies it takes probably about 30 days to get them under contract that's that's that's world speed in County so uh thank you very much Dr Zan if I may add we work very closely
obviously procurement is under my umbrella but we work very collabora uh collaboratively with uh Miss Andreu and her staff uh if we do need to accelerate something based on you know whatever U the situation is emergency uh she's
always in the room with us and I appreciate that I one that's wise to always have Jennifer Andreu in any meeting uh second she's our head of reement so that's great um I'm just going to put a couple items here together why didn't we use this list for South
Broward so again South Broward was a a smart program a large uh renovation and then it it it depends on at what stage when you discover that there's an issue ESB bestas abatus is a very specialized skill set uh as I said before it was
already u a project uh under AA com's control uh and so throughout the I think throughout the project and Mike McIntyre could probably speak to this uh there were certain discoveries uh it wasn't in the original
scope of the project uh and due to the size of it uh it was decided that it stay within aom scope terrific and the only reason I asked chair is it sounds to me like this is fast like 30 days under contract mobilize give them a plat
area move out get things done sometimes the bigger contractors you know because it's a small piece of a bigger project uh may not have that same kind of urgency to get things done and get paid uh like one of these smaller contractors so I'm not saying that was a great idea
I'm just trying to connect the dots here between we had this need at South Prower it's 2.7 which is under the 7.5 we have these 17 contractors uh possibly they could have done it faster I'm just raising it a rhetorical issue not not anything beyond we have to be cautious too of the bandwidth of Po and and and
them uh managing projects they just I think recently hired a project manager which they never had before and so again you know we have to balance you know um you know the the amount of work across
both on the capital side on the Acom smart side as well as the needs of our uh individual schools that may not have a smart project going on and so forth that's terrific and I chair we do have one outstanding issue from our last school board meeting that we just have
to think a little bit about bringing it back related to this which is if in fact we want to get going if we want to spend to get better if we want to work toward a 2028 Bond and we need to spend more money do we want to have the board authorized the hiring of new positions
uh now or at the next available Schoolboard meeting rather than waiting till July 1st so that would give us about three more months of of interviewing and hiring time for what we know to be needs on Project managers construction man ERS building department and the like um and I'll I'll sit down
with the superintendent and see if there's a way to identify some of the minimum needs that we have and what the cost for that is and bring that back at the next school board meeting on the 15th thank you thank you I just want to clarify though because it sounded like Dr Sean was asking what I asked and you
said no these contracts couldn't be used for that but he was really excited that they could be so I'm can you just clarify that it's a dollar amount so we have a certain limit that we don't go above uh for uh csmp contracts uh and then it's the scope of the project and
the extent of the project keep in mind that PO is tasked with doing uh maintenance regular maintenance uh and so when they have a A csmp is for a very discret specific need uh so we do not
utilize PPO similar to what we utilize Acom to do right I get that but he mentioned like a $5,000 emergency project and the indication was yes this could be used for that but I don't think that's what you're saying but you said
yes to it so I just so we have we have projects that come up at our schools something happens we're able for instance canopies right uh uh we're able to exercise a contract under csmp to get
canopies canopies installed at schools uh uh or particular schools so it just depends on the type of project uh the timeline of the project and the dollar amount of the project I think chair what's what's fascinating about this item is there's
now 17 new vendors that we can put a task order route for 77 half million or less and we can get contracts awarded in 30 days and because they're smaller firms they're much more likely to mobilize quickly and get things done so these are all good kind of indicators of
how you giddy up and get going going on things and we already have one sitting right in front of us that'll that'll add a lot of of uh commercial Contracting construction capability uh to Brower County Schools the 2.7 just happened to fit but it's it fits better with some of
the other construction folks that already mobilized there and I get that I just wanted to kind of put those two points together so that we can uh see how cool this item really will be for bar County Schools thank you and I is is it not a standard practice I remember voting for these on a yearly basis we
traditionally this isn't a new idea this is something we've we've always had this uh but what we're trying to do a good example is pressure washing where we were able to bring on the Mom and Pops to help us with some of the pressure washing across the district but we don't
want to run po as a construction company I their role is maintenance yep I just wanted to clarify because sounded like we were asking the same question but we got different answers so um all those in favor of item 03 say I I any opposed
great next item up is 04 can I have a motion second it's been moved by Dr Zan seconded by Mrs rert Mrs Fam thank you madam chair just quick question um I'm assuming that this Transportation budget that you're looking for additional funds
400,000 um 200,000 um is this for field trips and light things Dr heer yes that's correct this is for transportation to um field trips and other activities that we
typically typically can't do with our own school buses due to time constraints and this is for 2025 2026 or this is 2024 2025 field trips Dr hipper this is for current year and into next school year and I just wanted to ask the budget
that you had set aside for 2000 25 2026 and also for 2024 2025 is it 200,000 or are we looking at um you coming back at some point for additional funds this is uh money that's already in school budgets and Department budgets for
certain activities and engagements um so they'll be paying for the the transportation out of their existing budgets but will there will you be coming back will the um schools be coming back to us for additional funds or that's all that's needed for the year the school year we typically bring this
back every year to approve the vendors so we can not so our students can take advantage of the opportunities and so they they it will be in their school budgets for transportation costs and things like that yep thank you thank you uh Dr holes thank you madam chair so on
the financial analysis worksheet um I did notice that none of the 16 awarded vendors um appears to be mwbe firms um and I know that we're just looking for additional spend but um out of my own
concern um is there any of these 16 companies or are there any of them that are considered um mwbe firms and if there is none um can you um uh tell us
why Dr heer see Mr jel back there go ahead Mr jel thank you for the question um there are mwbe firms listed I believe Atlantic Charters is an mwbe firm and they did
receive payments um in upwards of $220,000 okay so thank you Miss Andrea but is there a reason that we didn't identify that under mwbe status in the financial analysis worksheet otherwise you know I would not have had the
questions Dr heer Miss Andrea thank you sir superintendent um it's recognized in the executive summary so my apologies um we could maybe add another Aster on the financial analysis but it is on the
executive summary okay and besides Atlantic Charter is there any other mwbe firms as you know sometimes um certain firms May expire at certain periods so looking at the list I can tell you there
were I would have to check to see if their kings College was I would have to see if they're currently to date um still certified because sometimes they expire and have that lapse in time but
they were previously one as well okay okay so I appreciate that Miss Andre and I just like to say as as we continue to attract um vendors to BR count schools we have 16 vendors providing bus providing transportation services we
have one that's confirmed as an mwbe firm and possibly there could be another um I still encourage the district to make sure that we are um providing opportunities for mwbe firms to do business with BR County schools because out of these 16 we only have
one so I I think we can do better thank you thank you all those in favor of item 04 say I I any opposed say no okay the motion carries eight to zero next item is item 05 can I have a
motion in a second it's by move been moved by Dr Zeman seconded by Mrs rert Dr Zeman chair thanks a lot um for uh people who love to think a little bit outside the box now and then related to data and things like that this is
really exciting it we bought this uh software we've used it for a year it's tracking uh our consumption of electricity as you all know from your home bills but also from the bills we get the price of kilowatt hour is going up and it's going up astronomically the
only thing that goes up faster than the cost of electricity is the cost of water and since those are two things that we buy in huge amounts uh those are things that we have to think about uh in future budgets in this particular case though what I'm curious about chair is are we
using these data to find like buildings that have either a lot of electrical use or just a little bit electrical use so for example if we're finding some you know we have a whole bunch of 20 classroom buildings all over Brower County Schools if we put them all into
one column and looked at their electrical usage are we trying to learn from those that operate the same kind of building at a lower electrical footprint than those that don't Dr heer I have Miss Paul I'll talk about how her team utilizes the data and react to it so th
this is actually pretty cool because it tracks and analyzes our utility cost cost and usage it looks for spikes uh uh uh at Norm abnormal spikes uh that occur so we're able to kind of uh utilize this across the district to look for those
very same things that you mentioned uh also it identifies duplicate bills so we don't pay bills twice uh or missing bills so it gives us basically uh a vision across the district as it relates
to utility man management and just as a a item to be responded to later this is all part of activity-based uh costing so we have water usage electrical uses uh Waste Management kind of expenses and
because we run such a huge organization with 239 campuses this is kind of the beginning I think of looking at activity based costing I would love to see a handful of like buildings that we have like compared in terms of their energy
usage and just to get an example of where we have made changes so that those that are wasting energy through keeping doors open and having old windows and keeping the thermostats in the wrong places and things like that uh have made adjustments that lower the cost to
Brower County school it's it's a big question it's not something that we ought to be able to answer quickly uh but I'd love to get that as a followup just because it's so exciting to be able to go to our schools and go to our communities and say guess what you know this Middle School had a building it was
out of the normal bounds of what we thought and what we found is you know they had uh different policies about door openings and things like that we changed those policies and their price came way down I'm just keep looking for more and more examples of us doing right uh so that we can get out and advertise
those opportunities uh as well thanks chair thank you all those in favor of item 05 say I I any opposed say no passes unanimously the next item is PP double P1 um can I have a motion in a
second so move it's been moved by Dr Zan seconded by Mrs alad we have a register speaker Madam chair okay Trudy jimage doctor right you got it my name is Dr Trudy Janovich um this
uh there are a lot of changes on here that I think you have to be really careful about looking at this is um not only looking at how we register uh students but how we deal with homeless
students um whether students um do have a Social Security card or don't have a Social Security card um I saw a lot of things that made me queasy because I worry about an executive order saying possibly we might have to look
differently at the way we um do this policy and so I think one of the things you're going to have to do is make it so that it can be change either changed quickly or you should um you know try to
make it so that it's kind of a little little more vague I I don't know how else to put it IM immunization status is another issue that's brought up here and I thought I had heard something about
that was um changed at this state level uh where immunizations were not required so those are just all things that as I read this I I um worked they
they forced me to be an AP for one year because they couldn't find anybody else and one of the things that I had to do was this kind of thing and it's so difficult with homeless students with um students that may have weird immigration
ation status um it's one of those things that I had to deal with years ago and I really see this as an important important policy so please read it carefully thank you thank you Mrs
Bulman thank you chair um my questions were as answered by staff already so thank you okay great all those in favor of item double P1 say I I'd like to speak oh okay sorry I thought I was on here yes no I'm not oh yeah thank you um
I just got the um I reviewed the Amendments um that were just recently more recently changed because at one point in time we took out the word um we were substituting the word live live somewhere so anyway um I have serious concerns about this because um we
already heard today from um Nicole Morse and speaking about at margerie stowman Douglas the bar um the boundary controls are are not effective it's not fair to the other students that were attending there and now it's open where other
students can come in under this now we've changed the language where it says um hold on let me just pull it back up I know we're using residents in one area and then we're using primary residents somewhere
El so that's SC eror we need to be um actually very specific so we're not ambiguous but what we have here and we have taken out of um more than 50% of the time wait a minute parent um the
primary residence and we address now we're using address instead of live there so someone can use an address where if they're staying at a hotel on weekends if they're staying with a grandparent so it doesn't have any kind of restriction as far as or definition
what an address is it's not even right here um just is primary residence doesn't say primary address you can use an address for your driver's license you don't um I can use an address a PO Box you know to receive items you know
it's not even that's ambiguous now you've spread it where it can be someplace that's not even habitable you know what I mean where someone could just use an a church as an address so I
would dispute that language I would also it says here um with parents if applicable I think we need to say what what does that mean if applicable is that applicable in your definition or by court definition that they're no longer part of it I disagree with that too I am
for taking out of all the ambiguities within this and until such time I I can't support it because I think it would be challenged and I would love to be one that challenged it Mrs fam did you want to make motions because we're voting on the actual policy so it won't
come back to us again and my motion would be to one in find of any place where it says residents primary residents would the word primary would appear okay so that's throughout the document um in addition I would
remove the word address because normally um a boundary state boundary country boundary it's you're residing in that country not you're coming to visit that country and you're at that address so I
would say that we use the word the term remove the term address and stick with primary residence as we did and or um domicile if you want to add domicile too primary residence or domicile so that
would be my motion so it would be um motion to substitute resident for primary re residence and or doic or domicile in L of residents and address
Andor address throughout the document is there a second oh miss Batista uh Mrs um Mrs Hixon um can we have the exact place where these changes um are being proposed I think staff may
need to respond to some of these items okay Mrs fam can you tell um whether you're on the redline version or the clean version and what page I'm on the on the redline version okay so what pages are you looking I'm looking at um the definition specifically in the
beginning so that be page one of 16 okay and it says now address Andor residence so it's my motion that that be primary residents Andor
domicile and that would be consistent where any wherever that appears throughout the policy it is definition a so you've crossed out primary residence and right under it it says
primary residence Andor addresses it's it's right above it it says address Andor residence so you would actually have to have the word Prime primary residence and remove again address and it would be primary residence Andor domicile so right there in the
definition title number two a and then throughout the document thereafter so you have fourth letter fourth sentence or fourth line down says primary resonance but you don't State F primary resonance in the definition itself in the title of
the definition that all has to be consistent Miss Batista can can you indicate is there a difference between saying address and doile I think staff is here to um discuss the
language go ahead Miss hollor thank you I'm going to introduce Dr Danny Shapiro to go up to the podium our director of School counseling Miss hi qu water did we get a second we did not nope okay okay we did
not well I think we were trying to clarify before anybody second her so Mrs fam's motion was to um put in Prime well primary residence is there but take out address and add domicile instead of
address in that particular place or domicile yes and primary residence is not in the fourth sentence down just says residents so you went I'm sorry you went from not having primary
to and then um you do have primary and the fourth down so they're not consistent the title is not consistent with the language contained in the chapter okay Mrs bman I'll second her motion okay so Mr
Shapiro or Dr Washington I'll go good morning everyone jod Washington task assigned executive director student services initiatives uh I think a couple of things um that we have to be mindful of we have we do have students who share housing and may not
have may not be in the fortune to have a primary residence and we need to be mindful of of those particular students um and not limit their ability to register within our schools as well just for the education of the board or clarification can you go through the
step of this student in that Sim in that situation how do we um register them how do we um identify their address that they're registering with all those things yes thank you for that question um we do have a shared housing questionnaire that students do complete
as part of their registration they actually complete it annually so that we can assess the needs of our students this is one of the ways that we identify students for our heart program our homeless resource initiative um and in order for them to be able to register in school they do have to either fill out a
share housing affidavit so if they're staying with family or if they're staying with a friend that there is an affidavit that they have to complete that is signed by a notary um they also may be residing at at that moment in a hotel um they may not have a primary residence they may be sleeping in their
car um but we do connect them with the resources there is a process that we go through following the the results of the shared housing questionnaire to make sure that those students have access to schooling thank you is there any public comment on the
motion yes I I I was going to say similar to Miss Washington uh you're required by law to provide for the homeless and so that that is you have to be careful about how you word the things
because of that um the other thing is there are people that live on boats um I have had some when I taught at Sunrise Middle School so there are you know it's difficult for them you they might have a
post office box but you know so that's I don't know how they figured out you know where that person on the boat I guess where the boat yard was or where you know the the boat was anchored but anyway there those are all kinds of weird things that happen within this
policy so I'm glad you're looking at it thank you point of clarification yes ma'am uh the definition now contained there describes an address refers to the home not a boat not a post office box
it's saying a home all I'm saying that that should be removed because it creates ambiguity because an address can be used when it's not at home but if that's the definition the school district wants to give that when you use that address then it there therefore
becomes your home and that's in the definition section number number two section A and it says address and/or address refers to the home where the student and if applicable a parent reside okay so if you're calling that
that has to be somewhere where they're staying and then it goes on to say more than 50% of the time so if that's they're living in their car that can be a residence okay Mrs Bulman Mrs Bulman I'm not commenting at all on the
right for any homeless student to be enrolled in a school I just think that the two sentences and the definitions of address and residence are a little confusing um and so looking for clarity so if a primary residence or address
refers to the home where the student and if applicable parent reside the majority of time um typically more than 50% right that's the primary resident or address now then the second sentence
says address and or residence shall mean the home location where the student and a parent are primarily living I guess I'm confused about the distinction between those two sentences is it redundant is it are we supposed to draw
that primary comes in this primary residence definition in the sentence above it just is unclear to me Dr heer go ahead Dr Washington so in this particular definition the home is being defined as
where where you lay your head at night right where you sleep so we think typically of a home being the house we own the house we rent some people where they lay their head at night is a hotel so I think if we get too specific we're going to limit um and
put unnecessary barriers in place for our most vulnerable students and if I may Mrs just to address uh Miss bulman's uh question the um the language in the second sentence uh actually this was Mrs
fam's question as well um the language that um discusses it says um address and or residence and that being different from the initial sentence where it talks about a prime Mary residence that second um address on
our residence is referring to a court order so the first part of the of the definition is the definition for purposes of the district what what the district considers um the place for an address or residence it would be the
primary residence and or address refers to the home where the student and if applicable a parent resides the majority of the time typically more than 50% or as specified by a court order in cases of share 50% custody it will be the
address Andor residence shall mean the home location where the student and a parent if applicable are primarily leaving so again it doesn't even though the word primary is not there it's defined within that sentence at the End
by saying they're primarily leaving there so I don't think that there is any uh problem with saying primary adding the word primary residents to after 50% custody um stating address on or primary
residents is if that's the motion I think that's the motion correct yes okay yeah because the following sentence again goes back to Residence and it says uh residence does not refer to citizenship so that would be primary residence but the motion said primary
residents and to take out address and put do instead of address the second part of it was yes to replace the word address with domicile because I know there's definitions clear and unambiguous definitions for residency and for uh
domicile no question about it and the difference would be I'm sure as everyone knows our president in Washington that's his domicile his residence is palm Palm Beach he resides in Florida his intent is to return to
Florida okay um any other board discussion on the motion okay all those in favor of the motion say I I all those opposed say no no motion fails so back to the original um double P1 all those in favor of
double P1 say I I all those opposed say no no motion carries 8 to one okay the next item um can we take them together or okay so the next item up for
discussion is rr1 can I have a motion in a second move okay so it's been moved by Dr Zan second and by Miss Thompson although uh let's see Dr Zeman uh thanks so much chair um just a lot of money here you know the
community sees these agendas they see 225 million 115 million I understand cops and gobs um I'm not sure um you know that the item is particularly clear what I'd like to ask chair is that somebody give us a plain English sentence or two that describes what
we're doing in rr1 and rr2 Dr heer Miss Johnson we have a qu a number of bonds that are called for July 1 and what we're doing is like for example refinancing your house we're refinancing those bonds to have
savings to the district terrific so I think in a plain English term we have bonds um because the interest rate fluctuations the value of those bonds go up or down and we're picking a date and saying hey we want to do the bonds now and we're going to make a little money
on it because the interest rate has gone down and so the value of those bonds has gone up and so we're selling them and making a little money uh I just want to be really clear about that we're not taxing anybody uh $340 million we're just executing some bonds making a little money on the side which is great
it's a heck of a side hustle you have Chief Financial Officer uh making us eight figures uh on the timing of the bond thank you very much for doing that okay great all those in favor of rr1 say I I I any opposed say no great passes
unanimously the next item is rr2 can I have a motion in a second so move move by Dr Zan second seconded by Mrs Leonardi I don't have anyone speaking on that so all those in favor of rr1 say I
I rr2 chair I'm sorry RR two I'm sorry rr2 I I all those opposed say no motion carries unanimously thank you very much for that
um I res for the court ss1 was not I'm just okay yes so we we have exhausted all of our items very excited to say that but we do have some other business so before we move to that other
business uh when free time comes up I'd like to uh add a couple comments thank you chair okay that that's where so um in order to to expedite afterwards we're going to move to board member comments um so let me get to
there at this time do any of my colleagues have any discussion or student successes to bring forth to the superintendent for consideration Dr Zan I do and and I appreciate the introduction but uh general counsel this is still an open Schoolboard meeting right now is that
correct yes thank you very much uh there's three things I want to bring up uh one um is is a little bit of a rock the world thing that we learned at our legislative session last week which is the state has both a house bill and a
Senate bill to mandate repurposing in counties throughout Florida the intimation at our legislative meeting is that they're going to set a capacity limit and they're going to set a number of years and districts are going to have to comply with that uh by direction of the
Department of Ed uh to me that's important for people to know whether you're in favor of it or not in favor of it your representatives and your senators are going to be be debating that over the next couple months and it's very uh possible that something like that could come down uh from
Tallahassee I know that a lot of us will be up there talking to reps and to committees and to senators and to Commissioners and anyone else that uh is appropriate uh but that's a big deal if the state tells us to go to 90% that means 33 schools of Broward County will
have to close so uh I want everyone to be aware Pro con or somewhere in the middle uh you've been warned second chair I'd like to get a current status as of 1220 today on Broward County's
ability to offer sex ad curriculum this year Dr heurn um thank you for the question thank you for the segue also so I'll turn it over to Mr Sullivan to talk about that issue and also give a uh since we're talking about legislative days give an update about legislative
days for next week too thanks to thank you superintendent John S Chief communication inl slave Affairs officer as it relates to our reproductive health and prevention uh curriculum the team continues to work closely with uh our uh Partners up in Tallahassee in the
Department of Education we do believe we will receive feedback later this week we're not entirely sure if that feedback will be one of approval or we would need to make further adjustments but we will be hearing from them uh later this week as it relates to our curriculum but we
cannot offer it until we get an approved curriculum thanks chair just one more item and I appreciate the the last comment Mr suan the the law is very clear the law says that you will submit uh sexed Curriculum
by level it turns out that as we are and have and we will get approval back do we have chair any approval for sexed curriculum in BR County right now Dr heurn no we do not so uh did we get any feedback from
the state on through three sexed curriculum that we submitted Dr he Dr heurn Dr Washington morning yes we have received feedback on K through 2 and 3 through five I've not yet received feedback on 6 to8 depending on what I get for 6 to8
will impact what is submitted for 9 to 12 but we have received some feedback and chair does that mean K through five has gotten State approval for the sexed curriculum that we submitted Dr heurn no that doesn't mean we receive state approval and if I may go ahead Mr suan
just just to add um historically we don't give these uh and Dr Washington correct me we don't give this instruction to our uh students until about May the last quarter of the school year so we still have time to do that so that's why we are ensuring that we're
continuously having Communications with the state so we're able to offer that curriculum to our students in this current school year terrific and last question on this topic chair what's Plan B we do not get approval from Department of Ed what is Plan B for Broward County to educate our students in comprehensive
sex ed who the chair Mr suan there is really no plan B um I'll Mr Batista can stop me but the law I believe is pretty clear not only do we have to submit to the state but we have to have their approval before we can offer um that
curriculum to our students terrific and and chair I'm going to submit a question formally on this but I'm going to ask before the next school board meeting what the predicted implication is of not offering comprehensive sex at in Broward County uh this has a lot to do with the
health of our students uh both through their behavior and behavior of others and uh it'll be an interesting question for the staff to uh come back and talk to us about uh implications of that lack of Plan B uh last question chair is really about margorie stowman Douglas
and boundaries what Authority does the school board have to do things like uh provide priority enrollment for the people that were uh moved out of the MSD district for last year it's a great question I have the same one Dr peer i'
defer that question to miss Batista thank you Dr heern Madam share um so the there is a very specific uh policy that the board has um the boundary policy that process has been completed as as you all know and then
the next steps um right now is that the uh reassignment process or there would be a reassignment process because there are uh seats that are empty so that you would have to abide by your policy related to reassignment so there isn't any
leeway um to you know change that um sort of like Midstream uh without going back and changing the actual policy and making amendments to the policy so chair let me just just play this out um we had a very lengthy fully informed decision
about the boundary from arrey stow and Douglas the board made a decision our projections of enrollment were as accurate as they were but now we have you know seats available for reassignment and if I understand the general counsel correct this board has no authority to provide priority
reassignments to the people who got moved out of margorie stowman Douglas boundar condition boundar area that is correct the pro does not provide for uh reassignments uh priority based on those categories terrific and um what is our
what would our current policy say about people who apply for reassignment what is the criteria used to determine which students get to go to the school that they would like to go to so just the the scenario is I know that a speaker said there's 150 seats available that's might
be 40 per year though it's not not 100 no just thank you I appreciate that you corrected me and helped us out thanks so 150 seats available now for a freshman right and um you know there's going to be more than 150 that are likely to want
to go to marger St and Douglas what criteria does our policy say we must use for selecting who gets placed at marger St Douglas okay Dr hurn yes I'm have Dr wanza um educate us on that so um good
afternoon Dr Zan I was not correcting you so I'm hope you didn't take it that a lot of people do though and it's good Valerie W's a chief strategy and Innovation officer so a couple of things the school has requested reassignments not just for 9th grade it could be 9th and 10th grade um but it's wherever they
have um availability based on their projection and right now it's it's it's 147 that's why the memo says approximately 150 and so according to um the policy that the board adopted
on October 15th of of 2024 so in the first um semester of this school year the policy is very specific and it says that when when there are seats available at um any school for
reassignment the priorities are honored the these priorities are honored prior to a randomiz um wait hold on let me get to the right one reassignments so we know that we have um students of military uh hold on one
second we know that we have um also in the ctive bargaining agreement particularly the pro the collective bargaining agreement for teachers it speaks to employees children um in the in an innovation zone so if I'm if I'm
an elementary teacher in The Innovation Zone and you know my child is a high school student so I get a priority as well uh and it is so dependent children of military Schoolboard full or part-time
Schoolboard employee students who have been relocated due to foster care placement students who move subject to a court order change in custody uh then we have
um lastly it's students who reside in the county so we have very specific um uh assignment priorities that are predicated on Law and then also on what the board did in policy there's nothing that speaks to students impacted or
affected by a prior boundary change we know that siblings is also a priority in the policy as well thank you very much chair so Dr wanza so Appley identified some uh conditions in which people would go to the head of the line to enroll is
that correct chair Dr Hepper Dr wo so th those are the those those are given priority yes prior to and then the last one is everybody else who does not
meet one of those criteria terrific so I think you had five or six different criteria from military member down to court ordered uh change and custody and things like that those folks would get a seat and then after that the list goes in random draw on a certain date and and
some people you know uh it's almost like a Waiting for Superman model right you know they're all just waiting for that ball to be pulled out and if their balls pulled out they get to go to MSD in the movie it was Harlem children's Z schools
um I don't think um given the start date today that we have enough time to change our policy is that correct chair Dr hurn yes that's correct on L Miss Batista says otherwise um you you would not have time
to do it before the end of the school year before the the process is over terrific and I remember reviewing the policy Dr wans I remember thinking about all those conditions and they all made sense failure on me not to think uh um
in the opportunity set way of thinking and a little bit of positive psychology of what other groups might make sense I think had we done that we might have put people who just got bounded out as having a higher priority or even Geographic proximity uh as as something
that might have made sense but we did not do that in our policy and according to our general counsel we don't have time uh to do what some of the speakers and and emailers have asked us to do which is to open that task back up for priority enrollment um chair is there anything else that people in that area
who got moved out of the boundary could do uh in your knowledge to um get any priority toward the reassignment seats so I I guess I would jump into your your time to ask a question because in our policy it does have boundary Choice it
as defined so I guess I would ask the superintendent would could we do boundary choice for that group of students to allow them to either select um Coral Glades or MSD in the upcoming school
year um from my understanding it's we're going by policy so that would not um be applicable um if M Batista wants to weigh in to say otherwise well I'll just say on policy C 10 uh
8010 letter D says boundary Choice area I guess it's just definitions but I don't know how a school gets assigned to be a boundary Choice other than the the school board saying that
that area could be a boundary Choice go ahead Dr W so miss Batista correct me if I'm wrong that is established during the boundary process a boundary Choice area is established
when we go through a boundary process and that is why um it was expressed that the boundary process was concluded on January 22nd when the board officially voted and established the attendance
areas for the 2526 school year so let me borrow some of Miss hixon's time back that was a decision of the school board MH could Schoolboard Miss Batista bring that item back and redo the boundaries for next year Miss
Batista you would be able to do that but you're not going to be able to do it for this year in time to make the um enrollment for next year could you walk us through the calendar that suggests that we don't have time to do that I think we have a Schoolboard meeting on
April in fact we're in a Schoolboard meeting right now yes but this is not a regular policy this is a bound boundary policy so the choice of boundary process is a whole entire boundary process that comes you
know within the boundary policy and I don't know if um I don't see Mr Beck so Mr Beck will be on his way down but in in the in the policy revisions that the board approved back in September for
policy 810 it prescribes the full boundary process the boundary process in and of itself is Ru making so we would have to follow the process that the board prescribed in its policy in ad10
if you want us now to reconsider or redo a boundary thank you and I I I view this as the end of that discussion so I appreciate the the the Deep knowledge and the collaboration between our attorney and and the uh deep experience
we have on senior staff I still would like uh to think about it between now and April 15th and see if there isn't some way to um uh uh determine whether or not we
could give priority enrollment for the assignment seats at margerie St and Douglas so uh I'll just leave that up and we'll have separate conversation unless you wanted to add more Dr won well I just want to go back to policy
810 and in the policy it expressly says the super superintendent um shall no later than the second week of March of every year bring the final recommendations to conclude the process so I I I I I just
and that's why I keep deferring to miss Batista around the policy revisions that were approved by the board in September as it relates to the boundary process I'm with you but that date is not dispositive in the sense that the superintendent can't right now say hey
that task is reboundary to uh for choice to that because the rul making prohibits us from making any actions beyond the ones that we already took that is correct yeah so I that that's awesome and it's just amazing we are in the second week of March so uh you you might
get excited thinking that that actually allows it but that doesn't govern what we're able to do as much as the ru making policy does which has very strict timelines and deadlines for public hearings and and the like so uh I'm resigned to that right now but I'm going to continue to work on that between now
and April 15th to see if there isn't some uh opportunity that we have to uh make some changes thank you so much chair thank you Dr holess thank you madam chair and I'm I do have a separate comment but I just like to um concur
with Dr Zeman and I would like actually um to take it a little bit further the C4 um area um I would like regardless of whether or not it occur it can occur this year or not I would like for for
the superintendent to come back to us um with some timelines as to when this can be accomplished where the C4 becomes a choice area um um as far as um those impacted students um I hear Dr wanza and
I understand uh the process but I still would like to have some detailed timeline as to when this can be accomplished and if it can't be accomplished this year um then what's the inhibition in moving forward to make it a choice area for subsequent years so
I'd like uh this superintend bring back a timeline as to when we can accomplish the C4 being a boundary Choice area Dr heurn if it's the will of the board then take direction from the board I think I am for that everybody
okay with asking Dr heern to come back with the timeline for when we can look at do you want that in a in a Workshop are you asking to have a discussion about it in the workshop or you just want to follow up with the Tim well I I from what I'm hearing from members of
the board it appears that we would like to see C4 being a boundary Choice area but the inhibition here is the timeline and getting that done for the upcoming year so if the superintendent can bring back information as to when that can be accomplished and then it can come back
to the board for a vote and and just to expand the thinking a little bit I would ask Dr hus to think about um it coming back under a variety of options MSD now has seats available right so is it a school choice is it reboundary back into MSD is there more space that can fit in
there to fill up that amazing school um I think all those things the board should think about again if we're going to go through rulemaking and look at the 26 27 year uh we have a lot more options than just a choice boundary understand so hold on yeah understand I am just I
would just be cautious in terms of the less complicated and the the most straightforward path we can take to for those impacted students in the C4 to be able to have a choice I think it's the direction that I would prefer that we we
proceed okay so let's take a con consens is on that I'll put you on the list Madam Sher just to clarify so the there are two policies right one of them talks about boundary Choice areas and what that entails is an a whole entire
complete boundary process to begin from beginning to end uh and that is that would be the timeline so the timeline is the same timeline that we've always had for boundaries which takes you know quite a bit of time you know the there is um meetings with the community and
and we are all familiar with that process as we just recently had it so that would be the timeline to change um the C4 to a choice area that would be for next year here and I would have to go through the boundary process and then we have the other policy which is the
reassignment policy which we've just talked about which talks about the priorities for this year you know what what are the priorities how how they are um uh stated in the policy and uh Unfortunately they do not have anything
about you know they don't have any language about geographic geographic location or any of that sort okay so let's um take a a consensus I guess to to if if everybody's interested in having the superintendent bring back to
us um C4 C4 as a as a choice area boundar area so we'll just Mrs fam are you are you agreement with that yes Miss Bulman Dr Zan Mrs Leonardi AMA yes um Miss Thompson I had a question before to
give consensus cuz we're discussing as a larger picture redefining our district we're having another interation wouldn't this be a better suited conversation for that process so that we're not looking at one specific School we're looking at the district as a whole and I would like
Dr heer's recommendation on that Dr heer that would be the process I would like to follow right as holistically a look at the entire District instead of just focusing on on
one area so that's just my take um I'll just throw I did ask that question because I don't disagree and I was told that this area probably won't be impacted by redefining so it wouldn't fold into the conversation so
that's I'm just going to throw out that was what I was told I'm still no thank you Mrs Al Al no Dr yes yes okay okay so it sounds like we all um consensus is yes that we would
like to see this come back and what it would look like in terms of I'm sorry chair can we just make it clear for the for the public I know this is a especially for some our Municipal leaders this would impact the 26 27 correct um boundary process we're not
talking about this school for this next upcoming school year which would be 25 26 right because we have to go through the actual process so but if I may Mr super Dr superintendent but to add to that when you talk about a timeline it is it is exactly what Miss said it would be a part of next year's boundary
process correct so but that is the timeline and we're we're happy to lay it out so that people don't have to dig through policy we're happy to lay out what you know what the timeline and the process looks like great thank you okay Madam chair I'm I I think I'm okay so um
uh for my comments um you know I um I know that uh Dr heurn um Dade County and other large counties um seems to have a different um Board office model than we
do and I know that we have um a lot of constituent concerns we also have governance concerns and often times we have somewhere between 3,000 to 5,000 pages to go through and so on and we have one secretary right so I know that
Dade County has um a secretary uh legislative Aid and budget for their office and all of that I'm not saying we should go full scale uh but I'd like to have the superintendent review the Miami date County Board office model as well as similar government models such as our
brow County Commission um specifically focusing on their office staff structure and budget allocations the goal is to evaluate how these models address efficiency in managing the high volume of constituent concerns and government uh workload uh the superintendent can
bring back this information to the board and share it uh via uh the board follow-up email process um preferably by March 18th Miss Batista do we one we keep getting stuck in this
because I've seen a different ways one board member can give a direction then I was told they cannot so one board member is asking for something do we need a consensus here to ask Dr heern to do what's being asked yes you would need you would need the rest of the board to
okay great I'll go this way Mrs rert how do you feel about Dr hess's suggestion bringing information back that's it bringing information back I I didn't hear what okay she said no this is Al no this is Miss Thompson okay I'm a no Mrs
Leonardi yes yes no 54 so Dr heurn I think it was a four yes five I think it was five yes I believe it was five yes yes
so so just on timeline um March 18th um maybe too early okay um yep we're in Tallahassee and and we're going to be making phone calls and trying to figure out other structures and so if we can get probably like um two weeks that's
fine uh I oh it is spring break I'm taking my time ail 1 of April yes fine that's fine no problem thank you okay thank you I have to we have to go back and do the leasing Court meeting and then I'll come back to everybody else who had something to say I I haven't had
the opportunity to speak yet on this issue we're we we are done we we vote voted on it so I had asked you and signal to you several times you down for well I'm just going to put this in the record that I've been asked by the audience that um the board please
consider the boundary making um a choice area for future siblings so they can choose between Glades High School Mrs we just discussed that we agreed but it's it will be for next boundary we we had a whole discussion on that and will that
be for 2026 25 26 or 26 277 we just clarified that okay so thank you that was my question the we have to recess the regular school board meeting um so and I have one more thing I wanted to put on
the board I didn't get a chance to open when it come when we come back you can do that we have to go to the leasing Court meeting we're late for can I ask sorry chair because sometimes gets complicated we reconvene and all that with um the technology I was going to ask Miss Batista are you allowed to do this portion of of the meeting at the
conclusion of the leasing Corp so we can um end this meeting that's can you re rephrase what you just said I I only have a a few minutes it's not long Mrs fam we have to you're you're next on the well you're a
couple people down on the list there's a there's a list wej can we adjourn this meeting and have board discussion in the leasing we we can adjourn this meeting because we need to have the attorney client session during the board meeting so okay and and Mrs fam also has
to speak so that yeah well we have a list she's third on the list okay and others okay so um do I need a does Beacon need a minute for us to recess and us do the the board okay so we're going to recess
the meeting so that we can do the board leasing Court meeting that was a time certain thank you W yeah yeah W yeah yeah the meeting of the board of directors of
the Broward Schoolboard leasing Corp is hereby call to order may have a motion and a second to approve the minutes of the last meeting and held November 19th 2024 so moved moved by Miss Thompson second by Dr Zan all in favor please
signify by saying I I all opposed say no motion carries unanimously the purpose of this meeting is to consider the following the adoption of resolution 25-1 authorizing the execution of amended and restated schedule 20005 A-1
amended and restated schedule 26-1 and amended and restated schedule 20007 A-1 to master the lease purchase agreement approving the form of a series of 2025a supplemental trust agreement approving negotiated sale of
certificates of participation Series 2025a 2025a in an aggregate principal amount not to exceed $225 million approving the use of a preliminary offering statement in authorizing its dist distribution use
authorizing the execution delivery of a final offering statement authorizing the execution of such further agreements and amendments to other agreements as shall be necessary or desirable to carry out the purposes of this resolution is there any board discussion is there any audience
discussion is there any board discussion yes ma'am Mrs fam sure um I have here are we also doing the leas in court meeting right that is what we are doing right now exactly I never got the separate script but says SE separate script so I'll be a no right off the bat
thank you thank you for your feedback is there a motion in second oh may may I have a motion and second to approve the resolution 25-01 second moved by Miss Thompson seconded by Dr Zan all in favor please
signify by saying I I all oppos say no motion carries unanimously there being no other business to be brought before this board the president will entertain a motion to adjourn oh sorry no we still have calling
discussion we just did discussion no okay oh go ahead Miss yeah I was just following the script okay thank you we'll continue um this discussion of my colleagues so next up is Mrs
leonardy madam chair I apologize you have to end this meeting then we have to reconvene the regular school board meeting we're in the leasing Corp right now I thought that's what she did okay no she was about to end the leasing sorry I'm sorry go ahead okay um there being no other business to be brought before this board the president will
entertain a motion to adjourn moved by Miss Thompson seconded by Dr Zan the motion having been made and seconded the meeting is adjourned oh thank you and we welcome back to our regular Schoolboard meeting and next is
Mrs Leon nardy for um discussion or student successes yeah I I had a question um regarding the the policy 810 so I know we just had talked about um not being able to give priority to a
geographical area um per policy now that we we passed that several months ago um it's my understanding though that at least one of our schools that I can think of does give priority seats to a geographical area so I just wanted to
clarify that and see if we needed to take take any action with the changed policy Dr F Dr wano good good afternoon thank you Mr Gard so um I'll have Mr bet come down so in so when when boundaries
were established right for certain schools in the in the boundary that the board approved the attendance area there there are a few schools that have a prescribed Choice area but that is established in the boundary process right for those years and then they they
may carry on for subsequent years particularly when we have years where the board um adopts the previous year's boundaries as the next year's boundaries or the current year as the next year but those are prescribed as official um in
the official attendance areas for the school so when my residential address is assigned to a school I have I may have a choice of selecting one or two schools because of some decisions that were made by the board got a okay thank you for
clarifying that thank you Miss Thompson Miss Thompson thank you chair I just wanted to give a special shout out to Flanigan high school student Kaylee Eugene who finished eth in the State of Florida for Wrestling Championships and then also uh special
shout out recognition for our staff our kcw staff Employee of the Month Troy weaton who's an instructional facilitator in the applied learning Department because we do monthly employee of the months and I think it's just nice that we shout out our staff for working so hard that's it thank you Mrs
Fam thank you madam chair I just wanted to do some clarification while I was in the restroom there seemed to be a conversation generated about Central Park Elementary and some delays and and work that was performed there from this um smart Bond uh I just want to say um
in reviewing everything the impact analysis affects all um items that were prior to me being being there starting in through 2021 and then going through the beginning of 2022 and that's what they looked at for these delays so I wanted
you to know that that predates when I was here so I wouldn't have any information or knowledge about that in addition I did quote on the record that this particular contractor is in litigation and it is a district policy that if we have something in litigation
and um that we are not able to discuss it so I'm sorry I I can't give any information about this because it's going to be incorporated into something that's already been filed but um what I can speak about it I I I certainly will and I want to thank Mr Zeman for
bringing that to everyone's attention that um there was that he concurred that 634 additional days was way too long thank you thank you and I um will close this part out by saying congratulations to all of the athletes who participated
in the Special Olympics track and field and I think cheerleading was also this weekend but Lauder Hill 6 through 12 this is their first time participating and their athletes did phenomenal they did um really really well so congratulations to them and I have a
question kind of on the lines of uh what Mrs Leonardi was asking so Broward toates we are um we're going through the repurposing part and they they were given priority in order to to go to what
schools they wanted to based on the fact that they were closing their school so does our policy speak to that because I still don't understand why we can't make the students that were affected a priority for reassignment so what we did
with Broward Estates we did not have to um impact if you will right the the school the choice process at all so let me let let me start with that and when we said priority we mean we we
prioritize the way that we handled those families not necessarily taking a seat from another child if that if that makes sense one number two um the board gave us direction to make sure that we have coner service which is which is what we
did and we made certain that we um spoke with and we were able to have a um an application on file and things of that nature before we concluded the choice process in that first application window
which which closed on uh right after the um showcase it was January 21st or 2nd and so parents are starting to receive notifications and then um let let me go
read there is something in 810 that talks about a school closure there is something in 810 I want I want to read it first before I say it specifically on the record but there is something that talks about a school closure and their
school for you know while it was repurposed it is being closed as a k to5 school okay so okay so and um and and and I'm going to get that specific language give me 30 seconds and then we'll we'll so that we can say it on the record so here's a different question then because
reassignment well reassignment falls under the boundary or reassignment fall s under school choice but there is something in 810 that speaks to when a school is closing right well this obviously isn't that so I guess the
question I'm asking is what would preclude us from bringing the school choice policy back so that we could ask about priority for reassignments so I think that was Dr Zeman's question his his question was exactly that around the
rulle making process is is the time time that it takes to go through the rul making process would get us pretty much into the summer or the beginning of next school year and we would have we would have already concluded the reassignment
process that that was his question specific so why couldn't we do it for the instead of the boundary part of it do a reassignment piece for the following school year I mean so we have options so we okay so even if we started
the rul making process for policy 6200 today we would not conclude that process and be done before August I know I'm saying for the not this coming school year but the school year if the board is 26 27 not a problem if the if the board
is directing the superintendent to initiate rulemaking for policy 80 I'm sorry for policy 6200 we would do just that okay thank you U Mrs Al thank you so I would ask the board and
the superintendent that today there needs to be communication out to District 4 Parkland and Coral Springs specifically to all the Commissioners the city managers to the parents to the
public because what this board just did right now it was guest done in a public meeting okay but now the outcome needs to be effectively communicated today thank
you okay thank you I think we all agree Mrs Balman um this Bulman can I make my little announcement okay thank you chair um I just I had the privilege of going to water matters day
um through Bower County at Treet toop Park on Saturday to present some of our students with prizes for having um done infographics on planting for our future so I just wanted to um give a shout out to Julian MOA from Meadowbrook
Elementary Kirsten day Ferrari from Griffin Elementary Lucia skoko from Tequesta Trace Middle School Noah Vidal from Tequesta Trace Middle School abana Ria from South Plantation High School and Laura Taha from Cypress Bay High
School they all did an awesome job and it was great to see them also they U Miramar High got honorable mention for the emerald Awards which was also very cool awesome very good um at this time we are going to have an attorney client session oh sorry Dr Zan sorry about it
it's out of my style but it's just one of these little announcements um straight ahan High School won the 4A basketball championship which is phenomenal but then uh to follow that up their marching band uh did the Fort Lauderdale St Patrick's Day parade and following that they won Best in Show so
they were not only fabulous I was able to walk with them throughout the parade and to announce them from the band stand uh but then when they took all the votes strain of hand was the best in show so way to go dragons excellent okay CH chair yes I through the superintendent
if it's okay I just want to make sure staff has clear direction of communicating to District 4 consentant go ahead um Mr Sullivan if you have any specific questions uh just I'm going to say what our understanding is just so we're clear so the superintendent through the boundary process will
establish a choice boundary area for MSD and coral Glade for the 26 27 school year to present to the board for vote we be a part of the boundary process for C4 just to be
specific so anyone just so we're good thanks and then just a really brief update on next week for the board the superintendent did ask me to provide uh what to expect for the board members who are there so there's a lot going on because there's three events there's Broward County Schools
event we take 50 high school students up and then there's Brower days which all the uh local leaders go up to Tallahassee and then there's the School Board Association events going on um the meetings that we're requesting through Broward schools are primarily for the students and the um those groups which
board members would have an opportunity to attend those meetings with students but outside of that it would be really difficult for us to secure individual meetings only because of the packed week so I know other board members are going uh back to Tallahasse through the consortiums event which is a few weeks later so that's probably the better
opportunity to have individual meetings with elected officials for the board thank you thank you okay and Miss Batista I believe we now have an attorney client session thank you madam share um I would like to request the school board convene
an attorney client session in order to discuss litigation pending before the 17th judicial circuit in and for Brower County Florida in the following matter Burke Construction Group Inc versus the school board of Brower County and the school board of Brower County versus
crane Atlantis engineering Inc case number 20 22- 01353 the following persons will attend this attorney client session school board members Deborah Hixon chair Sarah Leonardi Vice chair Lori alhad Mora
McCarthy Bulman Brenda fam Esquire Dr Jeff holes Nora rert Rebecca Thompson Dr Alan Zeman Dr Howard heurn superintendent of schools Thomas Cooney Esquire and Marilyn Batista Esquire BCS in anticipation of this request the
attorney Cent session was properly advertised for today March 11 2025 at 1 p.m. in accordance with Section 28611 perent 8 of the Florida Statutes the purpose of the attorney client session is to discuss settlement
negotiations and or strategy relative to the pending litigation a certified core reporter will record the session only those persons noted in the advertisement will be permitted to attend thank you madam shair thank you at this time the school board of Broward County will
recess the regular school board meeting for an attorney client session the attorney client session will be held in the boardroom on the first floor of the Kathleen C W Administration Center 600 Southeast Third Avenue for lale Florida 33301 the attorney client session will
take approximately 15 minutes at the inclusion of the business of the attorney client session the regular school board meeting will reconvene all persons not scheduled to attend the attorney client session please exit the room at this time oh
that you he he he for for for he he he
e he he he he e the regular school board meeting is now reconvened and the scheduled order of business for this regular school board meeting of the school board of Broward
County Florida has been completed seeing no obligation I now adjourn the meeting have a great day let the record reflect it's 216 e e e
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