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to the repblic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all thank you very [Music] much superintendent we uh look like we
have a few presentations this evening we do have a couple of presentations this evening um to kind of preface these presentations I want to it's not really a big shock to any of you here um but I want to go on record as saying that never as a teacher have I
ever claimed to being the best or or brightest teacher brightest student best leader of any kind certainly not the best superintendent of any kind however my superpower is being able to hire and put the people around me that are the best and the two presenters tonight are perfect examples of that our first I
think Miss White's going to come kind of open up a little bit and as we're doing that I want to I want you to know a little bit of uh of uh history behind kind of our our ESC and student services department um it it has come an enormous
distance in in the last handful of years um Dr Staley uh as director really did an enormous amount of work Miss White has done enormous amount of work got a great staff around her Miss White is very very um uh versed very knowledgeable have a lot of experience
in multiple States and and handling students and the special popular students that really need the this special help we're honored to have her um over the last 45 days maybe roughly 60 days now even the Department of Education uh we engaged them with some questions and
some things with regard to funding and how things happened and they said well we'll just come down and we we want to see how y'all are doing things with your student services in the ESC Department as a result of that um they they left here in awe of the way that our district was handling the situations how we were
servicing the students and recently made a a very large uh Grant available to Miss White and her Department to be able to carry the work on and to be able to work with districts throughout the state to help spread the word and gather more information so we're very proud of the things that's going on in our student special services department we're proud
of Miss White we're proud of her department and tonight there's going to be a presentation to help you understand even how deep that the work is going and and the good things that are happening so from here I will let our one of our rock stars that's going to speak tonight miss white kind of lay the groundwork
for you thank you Mr Swindle that was very nice I did not expect those words so I appreciate it I'm going to bring up my awesome team so I have my lead therapist here for speech and language pathology Tracy Dalton if you'll come up we also have in our district we are
doing both on-site therapy which is one of the things that Tracy does as well as supervise those on-site uh speech and language Pathologists but we also have teleservices because it's very difficult in our area to get onsite speech and language pathologist so in order to
provide services to those students we had to get creative and so we do have t therapy and it's been a phenomenal um process in our district we've made some changes and this year we went with presents um and we've had a great experience and we're going to bring up
the presence team to talk about that and while we do that I also have my speech pairs there's two of them here tonight Michelle D if you'll come up as well and they're just going to talk about what that looks like in our district and if you guys will just hang out up here
we'll move on from there good evening everyone board and all the guest thank you so much for coming and um joining us I will talk quick past teacher so I can talk loud and I can talk fast uh my name is k stel I am actually the partnership director for all of Florida for presence um it's
my 26 year in education yes I um but my fifth year at Presence I was special teacher myself very proud of that and I brought with me Karen Diaz um who's also in Florida we both live in Florida Florida natives um she is an excellent uh Speech ler pathologist by trade she
is my expert and she runs all of my accounts with me because I you're not the smartest person in the room you bring the smartest person in the room that is Karen um I'm honored to be a part of Hendry um and that's why we're here today because out of 10,000 schools
we serve 10,000 schools in presence we've been around for 16 years 7 to 8 million therapy sessions we have done so we've not been something that's manifested out of Co um we built our own hipper compliant therapy platform by clinicians for clinicians only one of
its kind to serve our students so that's why we brought this to youo and we are very excited that out of thank you H that's great there you go there you go so we've been out this since 2009 uh over 13 years keep going so so talk a little bit about
partner of the Year there there's criteria that go into this and these are some of the areas dedications to students expanding access Innovation with purpose and leading with empathy if that doesn't describe this group of people right here then nothing else does
so when we went into we all have to nominate so out of 10,000 school districts we had over 60 nominations across the country Hendry County was one of six that won after our first year of working with you guys and these are some of the reasons why these are quotes
either from our um District the folks that work with your District some of our primary support people Etc the you guys can read them all um but these are the reasons that you all won it is positively amazing to work with people that you know care about the kids they're doing things for the right
reasons they're here for the right reasons and they want what's best and that is this group and it's been an honor to work with all of them this year so this is just and these are numbers actually from February February I need to update them but we served over 360
students in your District 5,300 therapy sessions have taken place and that is 157,000 minutes of impactful therapy that have been served in Hendry County and that big that also goes to these folks right here um their dedication to students and
all of that but their open communication they create a welcoming environment for all of our providers and the organization and structure that these folks have helps us ensure the partnership runs smoothly so with that working with Ansley where's Ansley why
are you not here Ansley lyette has been absolutely amazing um mostly because of their dedication to the students I have to say Dr Staley has been amazing with her experience her knowledge and her expertise she also has amazing guidance for all of us and we are so grateful to
think of her as part of our team team as well um and then I just have to say this though the only thing I need to figure out in this distri is how to Clum 30 of Tracy that's my only issue with you guys is how do we get 30 of her agreed
absolutely the most amazing person ever to embrace tele theapy bring in our clinicians to treat them just like her own clinicians she works alongside them her collaboration her dedication is is just there are no words so thank you for everything I also want to say that we do
have two of I'm just reading off notes y'all um two of our primary call primary support people that's what we call them through presence um PSPs so Dana Joe Dana Joe and Michelle D yep and I just
want to say thank you to all of them as well and these we have some gifts for all of you and that was pretty much and I will I will say that we also look at tele theapy is not for every student and so it is
individualized um we do try it we've actually had some success better success with students on tele theapy who were struggling in person um and we've had some that can't handle that and so we look at those needs and we plan accordingly and so it is individualized on what students need but some of our
students have shocked us that we were like not going to love it and they actually love it and have been producing more you know verbal and things like that so very exciting and we appreciate the partnership you want do a board picture yeah we're and we're also going to present you a little bit of a warden real
quick and we cannot do it without our speech pairs they're in the classroom the kids come down and they are helping the SLP making sure that the students are paying attention and participating in all so ask you sir
come get in picture I'll stand up I'm getting out picture [Music] coming you done a lot of work
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for this one as well um uh for a handful of years now through through a lot of hard work uh Hendry has been um setting the pace in rule Florida for um CTE Workforce Development um the programs the number of hours the um industry
certifications earned by our students in high school and post High School the quantity and quality of programs that we offer is just second to none in Rule and outpacing a lot of the urban districts that we that we have in in the state as well so um again uh Miss goof not only a
state teacher of the year finalist she was an exellent classroom teacher highly intelligent very very uh um good Steward of of the Workforce Development and CTE programs and so we knew that when we moved her into this position that we did
that that was the right move and again she's just been in the last one has been roughly 9 months or so she's been just an absolute Rockstar and so today she's going to share an opportunity that was made available um it was actually made available Statewide and she took the opportunity and went after it and then
she can tell you kind of where what it's led to so miss G thanks so he took a little bit of my intro for me but I did want to take a moment before I dived into the ACH accelerator and just share some exciting thing and highlight some of our amazing and teachers and students across our district we are ranked in the
top five for the amount of Industry certifications earned in Ru district and we are competitive right up there with some of the larger districts as well I think our 75% uh pass rate is a true Testament to the work that our teachers do and the fact that our students can do hard things these are industry credentials that get them straight into
the workforce and they're able to meet and exceed those um challenges that are presented to them so I'm a little biased to say that I think we have some of the best programs across the State of Florida if not the nation I'm sure most of you guys would agree uh but we never settle for that we're always looking for how we can expand and how we can grow
and that's what led us to this connect opportunity specifically $1.7 million opportunity to increase um Ai and advanced technology in our agriculture programs and so as Mr Swindle said I did apply for this grant um through the cap Workforce Development Grant with the
state of Florida and we were one of seven school districts to be awarded These funds so super exciting for our students I can't wait to see what that's going to entail and just to give you a little bit more details on what that might look like um we collabor collaboratively worked with some of our local stakeholders our farm Farmers some
of our local producers and kind of got their opinion on what's happening in your Workforce what technology are you currently using and what technology do you see yourself using in the next 3 to 5 years and so through those conversations we were able to identify what areas of advanced technology we should be targeting through this and so
that is resulting in a lot of really fun tools so I can't wait to get some of this um some of the Drone technology is amazing they can literally spray Fields um through pesticide application with the Drone they can do um analytics with all of the drones the AI tracking for
technology they can tell you where every single one of your workers are they can tell you how fast your tractor is moving how fuel efficient it is and so we're actually purchasing all of that equipment for both of our LEL and Clen high school programs to have on site and be able to work with be able to um analyze and be able to troubleshoot
those systems so that when they get into the workforce probably one of the most exciting ones is the unman tractor and so this is actually so new that they probably don't have the size tractor we want but within the next 3 years through this grant they will and that's where we can literally Drive the tractor through our tablets and so set the tractor to
the stage we want it to go and we'll have students driving them with the tablets here in the next few years so super exciting can't wait to see what that's going to look like um we're hoping that this is the first of many grants of this time because our goal right is to meet the industry where it's at and even stay ahead of it for our
students we don't want to be teaching something we were doing in the fields 20 years ago because that's not going to help our students be successful when they get into the industry now so this is exactly the type of of initiatives that we're looking for and trying to keep our programs at and ahead of the advancements in the in the workforce so stay tuned come out and play with the
new toys as soon as we get them and I'll keep you guys posted on when we when we get our new toys thank you so what you're saying is I can fly your drones and drive your trackers come on we're all going to learn together bad choice I'm telling you right bad choice just say that um I do have a question
sure does any of this um Grant go towards like building Wi-Fi infrastructure so it doesn't for Wi-Fi infrastructure so my it department is going to become really familiar when we start to but I was um I have talked to a lot of the local producers and it seems
like in terms of the technology in the field we'll be able to picky back off of what they're utilizing cor um and it does I didn't mention that but it is going to provide funding for upgrades to our building and Facilities as well so we should have state-ofthe-art facilities on both sides of the district soat thanks thank you m great job
all right superintendent move on to Citizen comment do we have any citizen comment yes we do Miss Julia deploy filled out a speaker citizen comment card she should get an award there
should be an award for Mr I cannot remember can you'all remember the last time we had a assist comment it's been a while I remember we're excited though thank it's been a while we thank you for for coming and and we ask that you keep it to 3 minutes I will do my best um my name is Julia
dupoy I am a resident of kiston um and I also Sit On The Board of Trustees for Florida Southwestern State College which is why I'm here today um I want to discuss the I guess it's agenda item 5c um the potential termination of the ssw
Collegiate Academy at Leon High and it seems to replace it with an fgc pilot program I'm a graduate graduate of cliston high school I worked through college I paid for my own college so I know firsthand the transformative impact
fsw Collegiate Academy has on young adults in this community I've also had the privilege of meeting dozens of students and parents of the current program um who all praise fsw colit several commencement ceremonies I've attended I see firsthand
uh first generation graduates and their families and it's a true Testament to the program's success uh I did bring some facts for you all to review because I see in your board packet all you got was a proposed agreement from FGCU there was not
supporting document showing side by-side comparison I have what I put together do I think it's perfect no um I can hand those out if you guys like um they're in here if you want to open it up it also includes the 2024 fssw C cost breakdown
which I'll kind of give you some insight what you'll notice is the two programs um are not equivalent by replacing the fsw Collegiate with FGCU it looks like you're going to end up spending 40 to 60,000 more annually uh and you're going to have far fewer credits that the
students in this community are going to earn I've invited some staff here from fsw to answer questions but I am not an expert my concern is that FGCU currently has a lack of investment in our community they don't offer any night courses dual enrollment classes no
badging no micr credentialing um and I feel is if if FGCU wants to expand into our community why not have them introduce a program that doesn't take away something that's currently working but rather is complimentary
too my questions for the school board for the community uh fgc looks like they cost more so where is the clear benefit to switch the Academy Collegiate Academy with fsw is a high performing program why would you risk dismantling this and
can FGCU guarantee in-person courses rather than online instruction and what happens to Lael Collegiate since they currently operate within the Curtis Center which is owned by fsw right now uh fsw Collegiate
graduates earn an AA degree and they have a formal graduation ceremony at the Sun Coast Arena it looks like the FGCU uh offering is sort of you get a a celebration and maybe a certificate but I think our students will miss that
Milestone of earning an AA degree in closing um I don't think it's appropriate that kiston is a test site for FGCU I think they should try it in Collier or um Lee or somewhere else I don't think a vulnerable Community like ours should be uh the ones that don't
have certainty and consistency so thank you I appreciate it thank you thank you okay we move on to our consent agenda does any board member have
anything that they would like to remove from the consent agenda and make an action item Mr chairman yes ma'am I just have a um just a clarifying question on item H the Fat's health insurance Trust I just
want to make sure that I am interpreting that correctly but we're entering into this to expand the heal or the cost sharing pool that that's exactly right and so this is actually part of what we've already agreed to if yall remember the big long the big equation of that and so
this actually is the piece we started out and we are with fbit for the overall part of it but fbit does the um uh physical properties and things like that and could not take on the health insurance side so they're going to run it through what they call the fleet uh
which is basically through the Florida ass Association district superintendent organization and then basically that's going to house the cost sharing piece of it we're still not there we won't be eligible until January because that's when we started we have to have two years of data to enter that but we have to join this piece of it so that we can
be eligible to to join that when it becomes available in January so this basically is a document verifying that we're a part of it you're agreeing to join it when the time's right and data agrees to it so yes you're 100% right thank you that's [Music]
it any any other board member have anything else that they may want to move or have a question about he Mr superintendent we have a recommendation on the consent agenda yes sir Mr chairman I recommend the board's
approval of the consent agenda as presented second motion by Mrs Nelson seconded by any discussion no discussion all in favor oppos motion
carries move on to action items Mr superintendent we uh have a recommendation on action on 5A the electronic message center yes sir um Mr chairman and board members the electronic message center has been a project that was brought to us by board
members himmerik a year ago roughly can't or more um we know that it's getting more and more difficult all the time we don't have a reliable newspaper Network we don't have any way for our rural communities to get good reliable realtime news either uh just the news
that we're trying to push out or God forbid the emergencies whether be a hurricane or a school closure or something has to happen um this is an electronic Marquee that would be dedicated just to Hendry County School Board um and this is just one right now for the Clon side and it will sit where
youall see the school bus that's Park advertising that and um that would be the location of the board there uh this this the screen on the board would be an 8 by8 8T tall 8T wide and it would take minimal uh would have to be wired but
then it is controlled um through wireless communication and then we'll be able to advertise all of our district stuffs up there uh everything from schools start times jobs position needed bus drivers needed rather than a bus being there and stuff like that so having said that and this I believe the
bid was 67,000 and some change I believe off the top of my head we have an agreement with Lee County School Board who Mr Buon has a piggyback off of their bid bidding procedure so it is over the amount but yet we're in agreement with the piggyback bid that we have there um
so having said that I recommend your approval of action itm 5A the electronic message center from Le designs so second we have a motion by Reverend Brown second by M Nelson we have any discussion um just it's that's sales tax
money right that's correct okay so I would just like to mention we spend a lot of time looking at this sign looking at the locations and trying to get a good viable sign that we can not only use for weather events and stuff like community events but also for school maybe the safety board football
game tonight boom boom you know we can stin this you know what we have lost a lot of contact with our community newspapers both sides but we had AEL paper we had a clu the newspaper people look at that newspaper find out what's going on well that's not available
anymore so we have to reach out somehow and this is just one in the medium this doesn't cover it all but it's a good start I believe and I certainly think this is a good idea and and the location for that side we looked at the locations and right where that school bus signs I
used to have the tree sailes there that's they're coming down uh Sugarland Highway in either direction they won't be able to miss it and that's what we want we don't want the LEL Community to think that we have uh forgotten them or we're not servicing them we wanted
somewhere on 80 but we are we cannot find a site on 80 that we own or that we have someone that's willing to work with us to put that there so our plan is to either wait for the new high school or put it one at the current high school and then one at the new high school so we're still kind of fleshing through where the correct location for the Lael
would be and then we'll come back to you with a second of time on that too that's probably taking the most time the most time we spent was looking for MFL will the messages be in English and Spanish see no it can yeah it can be I mean we'll have the
ability to program and put it any way we would like be helpful right and I'm not trying to throw any shade but um I did notice that that the outside they have an electronic sign or sign outside the courthous that we got kicked out of so
[Music] um I see the you know the value people are getting on board with this kind of messaging so I've got a question on that are we going to
offer any type of advertisement for outside businesses it's it's possible but really the focus of it is school and so we don't we don't need it to pay for itself we using other funds to pay for it um if if there's room there and we're struggling with content Poss but I really don't want that personally to be
the the purpose of why that's there it really needs to be there to get the message out about our school school information promotion of our schools and things like that you won't if that was something we can always look into at a later dat time yeah no I mean I just think that's an option we need to kind
of leave it laying on the on the side there to uh never reverse we can always money in school yep you that's true there's so many activities that need to be recognized in our school that nobody has any idea what how many VES we have
how many sports we have and things like that and this is an opportunity we have a science club we have a j Club I mean we have so many things going on for our students I mean I think I can fill up that sign for the next two years right
now and all the things we got going sure can we get rid of that clothing Dropbox as to not to detract from it's it's an eyesore I've have never like seen anybody you I'm I do but I'm ashamed to admit I don't even know whose
that is it's a offenders we've had it removed from there before and they just come back and like put it on the site yes I was told yes thank you for making my dreams come sometimes the direct communication
with the directors don't go so good all right very good so uh all right so we have a recommendation do we have a we have a motion on that we just need a vote now all right so all in
favor say I I oppos motion carries 5 we will move on to action item 5B the 2526 board meeting calendar superintended yes sir Mr chairman and board in front of you you have two options uh for board
meeting calendars um we have become very streamline in the business and how we do business and what we bring to you um we believe that we do have the ability to stream line to one meeting on average per month but yet leave a placeholder where if we had specific business that
came up or a contracts or for some you know reason we needed to meet as a board that we can meet on the second uh week if necessary um this is an option that we believe strongly uh can help and then you know as we make the meetings we can
you know we can push business into one meeting if so if we had to make one meeting a little longer uh we could do that as opposed to having two meetings per month so uh again that's kind of the overarching reasons why I think did you want to add to it or do you have anything you essentially said everything that I was going to say I'll telling you
that it's something that I floated to superintendent Swindle um a couple of weeks ago a lot of different boards will do this throughout the state the statute holds that the school board is required to meet once a month so that's all we need to do the second one is really
optional um the concern would be whether or not we would have time to address everything or if something comes up not having the opportunity to address it and vote on it until the following month however like Mr Swindle said we would have a placeholder on the same month for
a second meeting and it'll be up to the superintendent whether or not we utilize that meeting if there's certain business that needs to happen then but otherwise it would be a standing enoll one meeting per month unless an additional one is needed and that would be an alternate
size of the count that's correct they're alter yeah and so with your packet there are two different board calendars for your review the first is a traditional like we've been doing with two meetings a month and then the second would be that one meeting per month with an
optional second meeting and it says on the calendar whether it be in LEL or poon it alternates just the same it's just Viber alterations because what's the ahead of time if we're going to have that second meeting don't we have to post that ahead of time you'd
have to know by the Tuesday before for for the purpose of public notification okay they're still going to get it they're still going to get it in legal acts just as attentative and if we're going to do it it will be posted the week before just like before that's thank
you so it's entirely up to the board and you vote on it and you can decide what you would want to do but you do have that option again under the statute you have to meet one time if you want to keep things the way that they are then you vote against the new alternative calendar um but if you have any
questions just let me know okay Mr chair i' like to make a motion that we do the alternative Board calendar and see how that goes for a year and we can revisit it in Year we're happy with it so that's my motion we have a motion we have a second for the
year second by Mrs Nelson okay do we have any further discussion on on the C Mr chair I do okay my feelings are hurt a little bit that I would want to go to once a month um I'm very sensitive I was actually
looking forward to three of mine we can spend more time together but you know I heard what you're saying loud and clear I'll be okay Mr you're going to have to Cle her
tonight like that on your index card all right any discuss any any other discussion here no discussion all in favor of Mr sik's motion opposed motion carries we'll have
a new calendar I didn't hear a name down there right I was just being hilarious I hate they always have to state that every meeting that I am hilarious so there's that
all right we will move on to action item 5 C the FGCU the Clon Collegiate Academy deal here Mr superintendent we have a recommendation yes sir Mr chairman um before I get the recommendation again
I'll lay some ground workor uh on where on where we are um since this Inception the uh Collegian Academy has been um uh in in anou agreement with Florida Southwestern State um through that time um the they have provided a good quality
education we've gotten I don't know an exact number but there have been um a a lot of AA degrees and students in Clon that would not have gotten a uh any college education uh without that and so the founders of that and fsw uh as a
provider and the and the staff that works there uh have just done a remarkable job over the years there have well since my tenure at least in this seat there has been some concerns um and it deals more along the lines of the business and the business management of it um I have worked uh on those concerns
with some of the staff some of the staff in the room and then some of the leadership from fsw as well some of the um some of the concerns have been addressed and handled and especially the folks that are in the room have done a really good job of being responsive some of the ones such as some of the business
practices and how we're build was not handled and and we were not treated as a true partner um so as a result um we have the opportunity uh has arisen for us to be able to partner with Florida Gulf Coast University Florida GF Coast
University has an unbelievable uh campus and and an unbelievable educational system um they uh do offer many of the things that Mr Co was uh mentioning earlier and as a result um we have the opportunity to have them as our provider
going from a state college level to a university level obviously the rigor uh is is a much more intense much more uh University level rigor uh rather than what our students and staff have been accustomed to from fsw um along those same lines uh the
entry the entry to get in will be more rigorous so providing our students with a more rigorous everything from entry and a better uh higher quality University level course as you go through it and then courses that are aligned with University with a path
forward in a university I think is an unbelievable opportunity that we have before us to provide for our students so um with all due respect to fsw very happy with the folks that we have with regard to the folks in the room I know they work very hard for us for a long time but at this point in time we're
faced with the opportunity to make a decision that's better for our students uh to provide a better and a higher level of education learning so um it is without hesitation with great enthusiasm and confidence that I recommend your favorable consideration approval of action 5c the FGCU mou which will allow
FGCU to be the Collegiate Academy provider at Clon High School um with that being said it will not impact uh The Glades I'm sorry the the Lael um the dual enrollment it's not a true Collegian Academy there are two different animals the students in label
just take college courses and they either go all of them now at this point in time I believe are going to um the Hendry Glades campus the Curtis Center actually to um for those this one does not impact the other we're strictly talking about the Clon campus and the CL
Academy cohort that we have in cleston so at this point in time um so having said that I do have uh Miss Becky Jones uh Miss Jones is the also number one I want to say I want to point out that Miss Mandarian is here and she is the hendri Glade Regional partnership
coordinator that they have hired and put in place to help do the micro credentialing the badging certification things um for CTE as well as adults and we've been working very good with her throughout this year and getting those programs up and running within our systems and we also have Miss Becky Jones she's the director of early
college programs with Florida Gulf Coast and I would ask her to come forward at this time to give you kind of a synopsis from FGCU standpoint um from where they are and their excitement and being able to work with us and our students to provide this
[Music] opportunity good evening everyone I'm Rebecca Jones you can call me Becky I'm the director of early colge programs at FGCU um so for the last about seven years I've been overseeing the dual enrollment programs that we have here on
the M campus um as you know we in the last couple of years have got a new president so president turr um has come on board and has really um done a lot to strengthen the Partnerships with not just Lee and CER which are close to us but outre to our other communities in
our service area um and I know that that is something important Amanda's position is Testament to that in terms of being the non coordinator I believe um and so I was approached and asked to consider if we were to do some sort of dual enrollment out here with Henry County um
what that might look like um traditionally dual enrollment at FGCU has been full-time um we partner with fsw on a lot of things um but uh the state college system is primarily where dual en rment lives in the state um f FGCU we've chosen to keep our program
relatively small and manageable um one to not compete with fsvu but also to provide that true un University Head Start and so as I was compiling the potential program having conversations with superintendent Swindle um Amanda and our team at ftcu um what we have
proposed there is an opportunity for York students in high school to earn um a minimum of 48 ftcu credits um there is the potential for them to earn up to 60 um pending uh some online course availability but Our intention is to
offer a cursing courses at Clen High School Top by our full-time faculty um or our instructors or ad jobs um and so all the instruction the the uh intention is for it to be on campus and cl in high school um now this first year we we'll work through but that is the
intention is to make sure they have that um our primary focus even with our full-time dual enrollment students in residents on the fgc campus is always working them through the general education program um and so that's 36 credit hours um that is transferable to any of the universities in the State of Florida and it really helps those
students to have that seamless transition obviously we want to keep them FGCU we love to keep our native tadin students um we do uh will offer guaranteed admission to FGCU following their completion of the Collegiate Academy program um and then also consider them for scholarships the
numbers that I've presented there um that $3,000 scholarship is right now obviously there are things that could change in the future and it would change positively to more um but that is simply earning 24 FGCU credits and maintaining a b average of FGCU coures and so students would receive that automatic
admission to FGCU so they can continue their degree program with us and then um we would also offer financial support from them to complete their degree um that is in combination with PR teachers so um students hopefully will be able to attend fgc free of charge um in terms of
the general education piece uh sometimes when we're talking about earning credit especially in an accelerated manner um dual enrollment AP IV that sort of thing sometimes students end up taking courses that they don't necessarily need for whatever their intended degree program
is um so I was intentional working with my team to keep it at 48 credits um with the option for students to take additional virtual courses if they would like to make sure that they don't run into that situation where they're taking classes that aren't necessarily going to apply to their future degrees um I'm
well aware that 15 16y olds don't 100% know what they want majoring in college or what career they will pursue um but that leaves the opportunity open for them if they do transfer elsewhere to continue to take some exploratory class classes or really to kind of fill in those major prerequisites that maybe we're not able to offer here out of the
Clos so um we're excited we've got the support of the president and the cabinet and so um we look forward to Becky um don't kids who already go through the Collegiate Academy or students I you call them students who already go through the Collegiate Academy aren't they are eligible for the
scholarships that you're talking that you spoke to right in your presentation uh through so we do offer a couple of other colies through Lee County and yes those students are eligible for that scholarship and yes
our our students who are in cliston are currently eligible for guaranteed admission and a scholarship with the 3.0 so our intent is to have the same offering but they'd already be in the system um and also as part of evidence
to fgcu's uh commitment to the area we open that up to LEL students this year as well and I met with tried to meet with all 21 of them um who were in that position from LEL earning an AA even though they were not in a Collegiate to offer them that and I'm working with
some of those students to connect them with that funding to move forward at FGCU how many courses uh do you total courses offered to our students yep so this
initial year would be eight um on campus on in the CL and high school facility um as we build out to the second year so as they get into that Cort we would pursue um that sa COC accreditation to offer I think it turns out to be 16 or 17 different
coures sear make sure you make the correlation there that because until they get a complete sax accreditation you can't offer more than correct which will the same as fsw as well when they started there was a number where they can't te you except for x amount of hours and that would be supplemented with online so that they were doing five
classes a semester if that was the student's desire so I just want to clarify you don't currently have that accreditation we have approval to offer up to nine unique courses on the CL SCH campus for this Academic Year and are in the process of pursuing
um so we would add senior year when FS started it was just saying they don't get the creditation they onite doing so they had to come get the accreditation there the same how many other districts does FGCU partner with for Collegiate Academy right now we have a Collegiate Academy program with Lee County um so
we've got three high schools that are Incorporated in that um they're closer so those students take fewer classes on their high school campus um they're coming to the ftcu campus mostly full-time especially for senior year because of the geographic location um we do have some part-time dual enrollment
opportunities with CER County and then all five counties are um eligible to apply for our full-time Ace Program our accelerated Collegiate Experience program and so those students come to the FGCU campus and are fully immersed there in courses um we do have a handful of um Hendrick County students that
participate that each year mostly fromel all right because our kids here in Clon are not only geographically isolated we are you know one of the most fiscally constrained you know average household medium household income is some of the lowest in the
state and so they wouldn't be able to get the same benefits as those kids or students in Coler and Lee County that you're speaking of but just so three in Lee County um as I'm looking through
this contract Collegiate Academy principal would be hry County's responsibility I I think that was meant to be the design okay yeah so it could be
mosis um who's the administrator currently operated correct we've used principal term primarily but or doesn't all right so on this cost breakdown here
[Music] it you know I'm worried about propos osed the a proposed cost versus actual cost and so is there a guarantee that this for it wouldn't go over $77,000 for
20627 I can say that yes um right now we have plans to hire a full-time English professor and a full-time math professor to Ser as CL in high school um so those would be the only full-time faculty for the next couple of years um you will see on here I believe us I left us history
that way um potentially as the program grows we would look to fill a full-time US History faculty member so at that point that would be the adjunct status and would move into the full-time faculty but yes this is the plan that we would um follow for 25 26 and 26 27 so
I'm having a hard time comparing where we're at and what's being prepared going forward um like mloy said like in our packet it was just ftc's plan it's not like it's
so it's very I I I always like a comparative analysis um you mean financially like I just want to put Apples to Apples like I I want to talk about like your admission requirements
and and that was you know one of the things you said that it was going to increase rigor it was going to be harder for these students to get in is that going to be prohibitive from students who may not be able to like I'm I'm going to be honest I'm not
trying to be but I want to be honest and you know we don't always have the best academic outcomes in inry county and Rural counties in general um you know I think of all the the districts we Face instructional you know recruitment of of
quality instructional um at a higher rate instructional staff at a higher rate than it may be bigger dist and so a concern is you know how much is the increase of admission requirments and is
that going to be prohibitive to helping students who may be able to do the work but you know we talk about all the time you know one of the things I hear is some kids just don't test well um you know when when the the
PM 3s or the FSA or the fasts or whatever it was before um they come out is that going to be prohibitive to including kids in that program so so the short answer is know the uh I believe that our kids are just as
intelligent as any kids anywhere and they will step up and they will do it in fact um with the increased uh requirements going from this W FGCU um I had Miss Joseph's look and the kids that we've already that are applying for the Collegian Academy coming in as Juniors
next year there's only a small handful that that would have to retake some of the test to be able to so like 75% of them already qualifi for the FGCU requirements to get in so no I do not believe that the increased rigor to get in would be a prohibitive factor get students qualified to be in there and
that also doesn't preclude us from doing some summer prep work with those 10th grade students to make sure that they do meet that bar and get the extra assistance they need to meet the bar um rather than just having a different bar so and they're two different tests um so
I I know you want apples to apples but um unfortunately on that one they're just two different tests well when I look at what's proposed here the the course offerings we don't have you know Apples to Apples here don't have as
many as FSU or FSU sorry flid um I'm interested in the faculty composition and um and then the proposed offer of of 177 because when I'm looking at that I
asked for the actual um invoices that we've paid out to fsw and they're both for both um fall and spring are below
177 did y'all get [Music] that but the one I believe the 177 was that for the whole year it was for right yes but that's what this looks like too cuz a whole year here versus a whole year here so what I did was just to kind of help break down the math a little bit
if you take uh the two different uh invoices what we actually pay to FS then take the proposal from ftcu bear in mind that there was 62 credits from the I'm looking at the fall 23 for example and so for the fin 23 is
62 credits if you divide the bill which the total bill the one I'm looking at let me help let me get help $124,500 n per credit hour time okay if you do
the same with the FGCU proposed but it's only 48 credits cuz remember they're only offering to begin with because they can't offer the same amount till they get accreditation on campus and you divide that by their proposed bill it comes out to $1,843 per credit and so that was been
part of the rug that I've had all along that really started this conversation was because it was stuff like uh they were charges the full price for a professor no matter if they were sitting they had made the trip here or they lived here and they're in front of our kids and teaching from fsw or they're
teaching from the comfort of their classroom or home to our kids that cannot be Equitable there's no way that's an equitable charge but they insist on charging us the same price for that so the contract for fgc is the same thing it is not the same thing and they're going to make allowances and so
what's going to happen and I'll let you know Miss Jones address that because that was one of the sticking points that I've had and kind of started my conversation with fsw there's no way that that can be there's no way that that's equable to us whatsoever so part of the bill and part of that you know the whole building was what got me even
thinking that we should look in a different direction and the leadership at fsw just said no you know you're going to pay it's the same value us one way or the other when it's truly not our kids sitting in the room you can address the difference between you know what are you going to
pay how do you Bill for a you know a class with a professor that's in their comfort verses that's made the trip to HRI teach yeah so this is the bill for FTC faculty being on the CL high school campus if we end up using any virtual course or FTC it would be the basis question right this standard that and
then so any students that maybe want to take in addition to the 12 credits after two credits that so here under Section 10 of the contract section 10 subsection B if Collegiate Academy instruction occurs on the campus of FGCU or virtually through FGCU the
district shall pay to FGCU the FGCU standard tuition rate for that's not this credit hour noted that right now is 10332 so do you think you're going to be
able in find think like it's a demand um to put qualified Personnel in front of our kids because online learning has not gone great I mean we saw that in Co we see that
in our schools um it's it's not an ideal learning yes that is our plan 12 in person on the ground s credits guarantee I'm looking for Guarantee not PL I don't think she's going
IND I'm not I would never guarantee it I don't think they are either nor as fsw right now they're fully staffed this year and this term but they haven't been you know in the past year to two years there's always been some virtual and there will be here as well it that's that no matter which provider we have
that's the way that's going to go that there's just no getting around it because of where we are with regard to the teacher availability so they're going to do everything they can fsw is doing everything they can as well to make sure we got professors there neither one's going to be able to have them fully staff very sem so this is an
action item so public comment is allowed we've certainly heard from M Jones is there somebody else here that would like to speak for we have several Representatives I think here and have all of the information that I and history that
I it's an action item by the district so I will were allowed to have comment thank you Miss Jones while they're getting prepared I do want to direct statue on this because I review
I'm not the to tell you how to vote it's not my place this is your but my job is to review the contract to make sure law so I want to direct your attention to what statute we're looking at here which delineates some of these terms that are in the agreement for example when you're
talking about the standard rates that are paid that's a provision of the statute so you want to look at that it's for to statute um 17271 and mou I know you have questions about the rates that's under subsection that will be under
subsection 21 in is that right I'm s Republic comment State her name what else you state your name and then with and each one
is to minutes three minutes per person okay so I'll be the time keeper okay so Dr Gus Cameron I am the associate dean of skill of cure and Appliance Sciences fsw I taught out of the CL and clich for 5 years I've I've had some of your kids in my science classes um we've L
teaching them we do have full-time faculty who are part of our communities here in hry county and they are in the classroom with your students just now um I don't want to talk to any of the financials but I will talk to some of the general education the courses that FGCU are offering are the same course
numbers we offer they're the same courses the same rigor um small class sizes lower entry requirements like you are going to lose some students in this program with their higher entry requirements you just are and so I would like to help as many students as
possible and with that I will pass you on to Dr carer hi I'm tny carer I'm the director of accelerated Pathways otherwise known as dual enrollment I'm Becky's counterpart of fsw so I oversee um the dual enrollment program across the five counties um I do want to just share that we have had a long-standing
relationship with Henry count schools and um it is our service district and we are required to have an articulation agreement with the school district um so it is our pleasure to have um Henry County as a part of that um overall the
cost is lower with fsw and I think Dr newart may speak to that specifically um our experience as you've heard um with our with your students is almost exclusively face Toof face I believe we're currently at the point where we have one section of Economics that is a
a lie of live online class so it is a synchronous live online course um and that is something that we have um you know been working to recruit an economics professor for a couple of years um predating me in the position um
something else that I think is important to understand about fsw is that because we are a state college we are really focused on our first generation college students we're not the big university we are the focus is on students that are
coming from your population like Henry um where their parents may not have always had College they may not be prepared to support them and that is our focus at a state college we're not the big you heard um Dr Cameron mention smaller class sizes we have the supports
in place to support your students one of the other things I think is a big important thing to kind of point out to you and I know that Mrs Mrs deoy mentioned that our trustee um is about the AA um comparison at FGCU they can
apply for an AA degree if they return to um the university we automatically award that AA it's not if you apply you're going to be awarded your AA at the completion of the 60 appropriate credits and you have the opportunity to to participate in that commencement
ceremony that's a big deal for students that's a big Benchmark in their careers many of us I'm an Edison graduate I have my my AA degree from fsw Edison back then that was the first big Benchmark in my in my continuing education and I
think we want to see that for our students in time um one of the other things I think we need to think about is where are the students going to be best served for the future when we're talking about the cost of college and the cost of postsecondary Education overall fsws
cost when they continue is much cheaper the cost is less and so are they going to come back to fsw where they already have Services they're already known they already have process and procedures are they really going to continue on to FGCU and it's not an us against them we
really are partners with them you heard earlier about the scholarship we call it destination of GCU so when our students finish the AA program across all of our degree programs um I know Miss Le mentioned the um working with Lael high
school that program has opened up across all of our a AA grads for dual enrollment every student has the opportunity to get that $3,000 to $55,000 scholarship I know my time is up but I just wanted to clarify it's not just cliston high school students that
that scholarship is awarded to um I'll end thank you thanks tamy my name is Dr Ryan Newar and the Deputy Chief of Staff uh at Florida Southwestern State College I don't have a tremendous amount to add I just want to say that we value our
partnership with Hendry County School District we value our partnership with Florida Gul Coast University and for us this isn't really about any kind of a competition um we want to provide you with all the information you need to make the best decision for your school
district and the students in your school district so along those lines to make the Apples to Apples comparison a little bit more clear our cost per credit hour is $71.98 I believe Florida Golf Coast the standard University credit hour rate is
1057 or less our adjunct rate uh for a three credit hour class is 2510 and um the FGCU rate as you can see on your chart $3,600 and then if we were to plug in
our average faculty salary into the proposal that you have where uh the FGCU proposal is based on $70,000 um our average VY salary is about 65,8 125 so again that's coming in
less so if you do the math with the 65,0 125 and the uh 2510 you'll see that the numbers come out to about 149,000 on that proposal as compared to the fgc proposal our numbers are different because we have higher ratios of
full-time faculty we offer more courses and so when you try to look at what we're currently doing versus that proposal the numbers are speeded we'd be happy to come back at any point in time if we can't answer your questions tonight whether that's a workshop format or some other format to be able to
assist you in making the best decision possible for your constituents do you have a contract that you have proposed for the next year that you can put on side by side is that available we are currently in a two-year agreement with Henry schools um and that agreement
doesn't expire until 2026 so what's being proposed tonight would would I'm guessing end or overlap The Early College part of that agreement so you you are already in an agreement with us thank my name is Dr Tom rth I'm the HRI
blades Curtis Center Director it's could meet everybody by the way and thank you for your kind words so about our work together and I assure you just like Dr har says I I work with just about everybody in the room on the college and university side in fact many many people here are part of gr teams that we're
working together uh through future makers so I do value our partnership great greatly I'm going to take a little different perspective I'm a father of a precocious and inimitable 15-year-old daughter who just lights up my life and purpose of my life and if I were in a
parents perspective I understand what you're doing um but I would want certainty I want to know what is going to happen not potentially happen as far as my daughter going into a program like scho and so I'm not making any
assertions or aspersions about what could happen I just know what we offer is excellent and the students go out that come out of that program come out with much higher outcomes than many of you may even think in terms of success rates in classes and their educational
experience and the other because uh we recently we just had hting Commission on on C were told tell stories so on the story that I want to tell you is the past 26 years that I've been working in fssw seeing the graduates come from
Henry County from clist and C when it came in force seeing them at the ceremony for commencement seeing them together as a group and that cohort getting their picture taken with a diploma cover by their side throwing the hats in the air that's a qualitative
experience um that I think that would I wouldn't want to give up on if I was acquisition that's all about oh BL side paint positive I forgot Mr chair I have a question for the superintendent yes have you spoken with
our students or the parents or the community to see how they feel about the transition so at this point in time what we're doing is mve we're hoping to move forward with theou and to miss carer's Point what will happen if we can uh move forward tonight um the junior class
would start with FGCU and we would allow the current mou with fsw to Sunset set and then teach out the seniors through next year so the senior group would finish and so so hopefully we'll able to move forward tonight and then we will meet with those group of sophomores coming to Junior to inform them of the
transition and change and what that looks like and the difference we've already started looking again at who where theyve scored and who qualifies and who's going to be able to just you know be able to start you know based on the current qualifications but we have not met yet with them until we make sure we're solid with regard
toou I said something there chair yes so I've heard the term rigor thrown around a lot tonight oh more rigor at the stage uh at the University in the State College I I'm a associate graduate
from a local state college and I thought it was hard I thought I got to go to the university it's going to be so hard I got to the university the riger was not as hard as it was at the State College and I'll testify to that anytime also my
daugh uh foster child went through the program I don't know if any of you had a sh a few years ago she was there and she had really difficult times but she she got such support she loved that
she loved her program but because she did so well she went on to FGCU so I over to fpcu for a couple of years she thought it was harder at fsw she she she said I learned more
there so I you know what when we're throwing rigor around there's a lot of rigor at fsw and I don't want to dismiss that as an important feature of that and I got to tell you she loves something else to consider in that when you're
doing your first two years those are generally the core courses not necessarily what you're wanting to Aspire to be when you move on to a university it's more your Forte therefore it may seem easier because per you're more interested like it so that
was my experience y Mr chair yes ma' I want to share um a true story because I've heard about storytelling who I got one and um so I was at Special Olympics this year for the at
the pre Center and this lovely young lady comes up to me and said hey Miss bu you remember me I just told her I'm old you probably grown up some so you got to help refresh me and she introduced herself and she said do you remember you
came and talked to our class at the Collegiate Academy we were the very first the inaugural Collegiate Academy class and she we took a picture and me when she said I was like I know exactly who you are and then she was she's like you know always remembered that she goes
and then she jog my memory she goes I'm your Brilliant Orange teacher of the year for Henry County District y I may or may not have had an allergic reaction in my eyes got super watery but it was I mean I was just like man so when we
talked to rigger like that like that's our top first year teacher coming out of this program and that was profound um another thing I want to speak on is fsw um you know you never forget who
helps you when you're having a hard time and so um we're not as Co he said we're not doing as much work as we used to but the education task force and that was myself and commissioner Carson Turner um Antonio pre Molly Gardner and we
identified back in the day that you know started it in like 15 16 that the Clon students were not getting Equitable opportunities just based on our geographic isolation and um we went and
approached the superintendent Mr py and laid out our case for this is what we need to find a way we didn't know how to do it but we needed to find a way to bridge that gap for them and um he worked with us and we he actually took
it to FGCU and couldn't do it and and Florida Southwestern came in and said we don't know how we're going to do it but we're going to figure out a way and like I think created that collegate model in
cliston and you've seen it replicated throughout the state and like I'm I like I love my community I feel like you know so we're some of the biggest underdogs in the state I mean based solely on our geographic isolation and them stepping up and creating a
model to fit and when we were having those initial conversations it was like we don't know if we can get 10 kids into the program and we're like if you put the program together we will make 10 kids show up and then every year
when you see the pictures of the graduation gets my allergies flared up all over again like it's just amazing and just a third point I want to talk about is getting that AA at the complete successful completion of
fsw and what I have learned in life and what I've learned from families is life's out there lifing and um you may have every intention of going past like like if you get your AA
you may have every intention of going hir education getting your Bachelor but sometimes life is just out there lifing and there's things that prohibit that or or slow it up and I just think it's a
value for those students to have that AA no matter what where they can put it on their resume as opposed to credit hours and um and then I've course appreciate the
mobility of an AA degree to take it anywhere if you would like to make like poor choices and go to Florida State or University of Florida I know I'm sorry I'm just trying to be funny again my bad but I just like the mobility of that and so um you know I
appreciate I have a like I sometimes think these kids are my kids and they absolutely are not they're AB they're my clients but I just appreciate fsw coming in there and helping my in my community and I've seen the impacts and I've heard the
testimonies from parents and I'm the fsw supporter I've had the opportunity to to be here when it started um I Pastor the church pretty good size um I have a awful lot
experience of sitting and hearing children who literally come from nothing and to get a chance to go to college while they're going to school and then to have them come and say I got a graduate two times I'm like two times
and so what they get is is sense of accomplishment that when I leave school I'm going to have I can go to whatever kind I've already started and it it's not going to go over as well in my opinion that when the kid graduat says I got college courses won't have the same
effect that's Happ that 8 and I don't know all particulars about what happen between I know all I know is those kids are vastly affected by walking away with that inre in their hand them go on some don't going but they have a good start
and I all that's been explained tonight I just I just don't see how we cannot work out some kind of way that they can walk away with a AA in their hand if that's not the case then it's better talk some thank you
okay well been a lot of discussion about this good discussion I have children that went through the uh through fsw all three of my children went through
fsw they uh one of them is now works in the medical field one's a teacher and and the other one took his AA and put to the side and does what I do for a Liv so he doesn't use it um but that's okay he he was very proud when he got it I think
the collegate academy were offering these kids at our school system regardless of which way we go is just phenomenal you know this is giv these kids a head start that uh they didn't have prior to this so whichever way we decide to go with
this I I I commend everybody in the room for stepping up and helping us give our children this opportunity you know whichever whichever way the decision goes tonight I think it's just great I didn't have that that opportunity when I was in school probably wasn't smart
enough to make it in class but that's that's another story different intelligence but uh I think it's just great that that we're doing that for today so um well before the board votes I want to give
the superintendent an opportunity to answer one of the questions that I had about this because the statute supports multiple different programs and to give our students a variety of options when doing this so something that I asked is why is it one or the other why can't we
offer both and the superintendent had a reason for that and I think it's important for us to be knowledgeable about that because again the statute says certain things and under the statute it says District school boards may not refuse to enter into a dual enrollment articulation agreement with
the local Florida college system institution that if that Florida college system institution has the capacity to offer coures so it is the intention of the legislature for boards to approve these kinds of articulation agreements
between local colleges however I understand that there might be a reason why we cannot offer both and if there is that reason the superintendent can speak to that and that way we're elevated from the violation of the statute in
approving one and not the other so uh from my standpoint from a business and school management standpoint there's no way to offer two collegii andies and so if you tried to offer two um either we're going to split the student that we have into two small
collegii andies um or you're going to have uh 50 additional students a year per class want to do that and that becomes even further damaging to Clon high school with regards to the students that are enrolled in those courses and and that becomes damaging to the high school and then expens difficult uh exp
expensive to us as a board and so running two side by side dual enrollment Collegiate andies I would absolutely not support or recommend to you as a board um um however to to attorney um to the attorney's point we can and do offer the
opportunity for student you could be in a colian Academy and we we do have students now that are not in it that do take dual enrollment matter of fact I think we have some that do some dual enrollment through FGCU and take classes U we may have some Bill students that take classes from both so we do have M us and stuff in place to allow to take a
class but not not to dual uh operational uh Collegian Academy courses or programs okay very so that's that's what was yes sir is any way that u university can't
offer an AA there's no way that can be done if they enroll so University I can just because I've dealt with dealt with this long enough now I think I can answer it please correct me
from wrong either either educational institution so the short is uh if through the through the model that FGCU has created if a student stays with them so let's just say they're going to do it in in four semesters or two school years if
they enter the fifth and if they become a full-time FGCU student as a junior they then can apply and get their AA degree but that's if they stay there the University Systems do not offer an AA degree at the completion of the the 60 credit hour just general education
course only if you stay with them so if you stay with them into your junior year you could apply and be awarded that but that's the only way that they can did I represent that correctly yes okay but if you wanted to go to a different school not with an not with an AA you cannot not through them take your credit hours
but you won't take you won't have an AA degre that's right my son's a good example of that he didn't get his AA degree but he took his credit hours and was accepted into a university with what he had and so you don't have to have an AA to be accepted into a university it isn't a graduation Milestone totally get
that totally you know understand that but it's not requirement for a said student to move forward uh and do transfer to other school University or whatever it may be but they will not we have to wait with the na from Pon High School colian Academy
right they will [Music] not is there any way after having all of this discussion you can go back with fsw and renegotiate I I I I've always been willing to do that with regards to the
people you have in this room have been nothing short of very professional and good to work with and deal with the people on the uh administrative level the ones that have just been egregious to deal with and have put their foot in the ground and said nope you're going to pay it you know and then and then
there's way more I don't want to get too far into those weeds right but my experience with them you know has been just not you know we I don't remember which one said that you know we valued the partnership here I can assure you that I have not been in in in Hendry County schools has not been
a valued partner from the administrative level from fsw with regards to what's happened on campus I got a problem but these people have been wonderful here and I've met with Miss deoy a year ago or a year and a half ago and I told her these you know concerns and you know and
you know I don't know where what what the outcome is other than it's still going on and we still to this day I don't feel I can value business partner with that fop on behalf of you as a can I make one last comment I think after we met it was a state
statute thing that fsw was under charging and then only later brought the fees up to what state statute dictates so it wasn't anything other than that as far as your concerned and
then when it was explained to me I was like oh everybody's good that was and after that I never heard anything until I saw this board agenda item which flored me so and there's other parents here who do nothing about it that their kids are in Collegiate and they're
accidentally hearing this right now so I believe where there's a will there's a way to make it work so so I do have a question though to that you said you brought it up as State Statute allows so there wasn't a
need to bring it up other than the fact that state says you can I mean we we losing money why did what was the decision to eras it I could speak to this fully but I do see as On The Board of Trustees I do see and I do see from a
business standpoint essentially fsw or any institution who comes in and does a collegate is not making any money they're technically losing a little bit of money and so whoever is here that can speak to what the state statute says it's not it's there's not OB can charge this or
this fsw is charging what they are supposed to be charging it's the statute that I reference to you all all right I just intered a little bit differently so thank you for
clarifying and correct me if I'm wrong but FGCU would be using that same Fe structure as well by Statute so that should be abely opposite the on and the biggest rug there college
and university so the fee structure is different isn't it not well it is but the way they do the way they charge for the Collegian Academy is slightly different because they charge differently than just an credit hour and so it's a little bit different but nonetheless both of them would charge
the same there but but again the whole thing you know one of the robs like I said was and there is some flexibility there such as how can a professor in a classroom be worth the same thing as a professor in his office in Fort Myers yeah and they do have that flexibility and that's where you heard Miss Jones
you know State yes we will gladly charge you the credit hour fee for that not the entire course fee you know for the section that we were charged for Professor driving here and that was where fsw and I just started the conversation of that's where we had a major disagreement how many of those
classes or how profoundly impact was that scenario it was and so it's been off and on this semester I think they're staffed it was my understanding I don't think there's any or maybe one of the most but there was a time when it was half or more where you know you had
almost half the professors not there uh and the same thing at the dman we've not even talked about the Lael side yet but there they're almost half of our students that we have there that are taking we're paying them they're going and they're taking an online class and we're still having you know so that's
the rub there but it it's Hit or Miss depending on semester by semester I mean I would assume that these um institutions have the same challenges we all have good intentions of putting people um qualified people in front of kids but it
is um I think you they you do your best to do that isn't anybody's intention like we're going to put um you know give these kids online instruction yeah we we even even even in our business right we want a hire qualified teacher and we we
just simply can't and and either either institution is going to struggle with that it doesn't matter so we still have a contract with fsw until the end of 26 is that correct that's correct and what're what the proposal is is to enter into anou immediately with FGCU to start for the
June coming Juniors and then that will allow FS to teach out what would be next year's seniors and that would be the end of that so it's called Sunset and teach out of the current M they're in for the Collegian Academy so my question is is
to the board then is there any other information that we would like to have a little more time to B us over um maybe we want to have individual meetings um with each organization to help us have a more informed decision we're not on a
stringent timeline with this we are on a stringent timeline either both universities both institutions right now are setting their courses schedules and professors up for the fall and so we we we are on strange town we need to move forward tonight one way or the other
with whichever educational institution you choose okay all right is there any uh we have we have your recommendation already or no on record we have a recommendation from the superintendent I'll repeat I'll
repeat it if You' like just for clarity if you would sure absolutely my recommendation is uh the board's approval of action item 5c that to approve the the FGCU memorandum of understanding to provide the Collegiate Academy provider for cisson high school
okay so we have a motion by superintendent do we have uh a recommendation we have a motion okay we have no motion so uh if we have no motion then the recommendation
does right okay recommendation do move on to the next uh to the next one I don't think we have any so sir oh okay yeah we got uh under old business we've got the uh the new Lael High School
[Music] update so for the uh Mr Buon uh and and team have been working very hard for the new Lael high school we are in motion um we're between 30 and 60% drawings from the architect on where we are it is
farther enough along we have had a subcontractor meetings starting last week we've got another one this week for local vendors local contractors that want to be providers for the sources of the construction site um within the next hopefully 30 to 45
days we will have um that 60 plus% drawings done and then you will see yellow Machinery hopefully in the month of June early July on site preparing the pad for the construction site of the actual School itself so we're moving along very rapidly and we hope uh that we will be in front of you every board
meeting giving you some type of update um Miss SC and the IT crew is going to create a site um on the website where it's going to be a a new Lael High School where you can go there and click and follow the progress follow what's going on if you're a vendor or you're a
subcontractor how do you get registered how do you get into play and and to get in there and we want to try to do a good pictorial all the way through there so we can kind of people can keep up with it in real time on the website going to ask when's ground breaking we'll probably plan A fall so they will do the technical groundbreaking and you'll see
stuff working but right so sometime in August and September when school starts back then we will have things happening we'll have Machinery there we'll get the hard hats and the gold shovels and then we'll do a formal people riding on horses Cowboys C and all that good stuff
the Reverend Brown on a horse I think I got one question though based on our political environment that we have we projecting anything different we looking out for something uh with all the things may be happening where the price and good buying and material stuff like that
you had to ask that didn't you so so um yes so um uh our team has been working with uh our lobbyist in Tallahassee and we uh have had we are having request in for a $33 million additional dollars because of the
inflationary cost of what the school is expected to cost as opposed to what it started off at the proposed cost 2 and a half years ago at this point in time it's in the governor's budget and the Senate's budget so we think we're okay uh we're not all the way at the end
of that yet but we do believe at this point in time we're okay with that with regard to the funding the school uh now as you well know and you said the words this political environment we're in everything is T to Herby who knows which direction it goes but I'm confident that we have the right team and we're working
on it we're going to be just fine I'm not panicked yet thank you I've had a few heart murmur but not aut complete panic attack make sure the batteries in the a machines are yes Char completely please all right very good so that was
just more for informational update and no action required none on that n none of this time so uh all right well we will move on Madam attorney do you have any updates on anything for us just a brief update you all know about the ongoing doj matter I've received great
news from doj Council that they are um going to circulate a motion for me to achieve full unitary status which if I agree to the motion they we submit it to the court and if the court grants it they're out of us that's long story
short something that I've been working on it's been a goal of mine I know superint superintendent knows I've wanted this to go away it's been ongoing since 1950 something so hope almost 1970 to be exact okay there we go so party
get done but but it is something that discussed they've been very pleased with Mr all the work on this provide information that we can get this point so I will keep you all updated but that
is positive news that should be forcoming here shortly the ball's in their rept right now they're drafting a motion that I have [Music] say long there's not not many things longer
than that and nothing else for me thank you ma'am all right we will move on to board member business wait miss one well no that is underboard member business I'm sorry okay I I know me too I'm the one losing
it should put my glasses on now okay under board member business attend we have a sedexo summer food program information yes we're roughly 40 total days out maybe under that now before now on the end of the school year and I know this is the time of the year when we
start looking at what the summer looks like and uh last year I think you remember seeing the data we had an unbelievably phenomenal feeding um data statistically wise and the number of meals that was served last year comparably to the years before team sedexo has has looked at that and
they're even going to increase more routes and do more the the big bang for the bul was where the meals got delivered out into the community and so they're going to add routes and add some of those um they've already put advertisement up in the schools um and on Publications there's a board right over
here if you want to take a look at that on your way out of the things that's already gone out there's already things you can scan and it tells you all the data all where everything is and so they're already really really ahead of the game this year and we're super proud of that so we wanted to share that with you and let you know that that's already in motion things are already getting
mailed out uh pushed out out all the faith-based groups on where they are and where the where people can get where the school age children can get the food and stuff like that so we're proud of that um and glad that it's on on very organized and off to a good start awesome great
news all right well um you have any board new board member business you'd like to bring now that you mentioned it I do just one quick thing um we have a um uh our strategic plan is uh been through uh we've been working on
it for a handful of months now and we have the it would be the 25- 28 plan the 25 through 28 strategic plan um uh in final edit form and what we're doing is we're pushing out through our schools tomorrow and the teachers and staffs and they're going to get the opportunity to
look at it and give feedback and weigh in and make edit and changes and help us refine it next board meeting you're going to see it and we're going to present it to you to give you the opportunity to look at it and see what you like don't like or need to edit and change and then on the 28 8 and 29th of this month um we're going to do
superintendent Forums on both sides of the district a morning one and an evening one for people that are juggling work life balances and um the purpose of those is going to be the Strategic plan let the community weigh in on it and see it also uh kind of brag on ourselves a
little bit about the academic growth that we've had um over the last year and over the last three years and the student growth uh the student growth that we've had in numbers and what's going on we want to make sure everyone knows about that and at that point in time we'll be talking also more more to you and the community about our school
start times and school calendar for the following year next year's set we're good there at least for the calendar start times mayor may not change at this point in time but we're going to do some community events on the April 28th and 29th in Lael and Glon respectively um to
to give the community input time we got some very nice uh uh Miss Watson and team have put together some very nice Flyers we're holding on we don't want to put them out too early and they get to be kind of St people forget it so we're going to advertise those when we're closer to those events so you'll see those just so you'll know that they're
out there and that's what we're doing they live they are going to be live streamed yoube on the with a QR code and they'll be able to respond um on QR code into a Google doc so we can get all of
their information y all their questions will be answered that's awesome Prett there you go that's that's not that's not possible not an option for me that's all thank you all right well uh I just want to say how
excited I am to hear that we continue to grow on in the CTE uh just amazing you know that's anybody that knows me knows that uh the vocation side of things is where my heart is um you know the trades and just
showing these kids are nothing against you call College folks but you know us us uh people that aren't College Bound can also make a nice living and we're making that difference in those kids' lives with these CTE programs it's just unbelievable so you know I'm I'm so
proud of our district for being at the the Leading Edge there on everything that we're offering to these students is just incredible so thank you very much for that and you need help spending any of that money I'll be happy to help guide you in that area Mr told him no he
doesn't need any help but you know just want to throw it out there so Mr quickly I just I'm really glad that the the board voted on the sign I think the sign is going to be a great thing I
can't wait to see you and that we voted on we go to both graduations so this will be the first year that the board attends able to attend both graduations CU I have a lot of friends and students who were in Clon but that we
toon graduation we to LEL graduation so we get to see them both I'm really glad we made that decision had several years do that we used to do that yeah well I've never done that so I'm glad we're doing [Music]
it I have nothing nothing all right R uh the bus the bus uh I've been Halloween and watching the bus they are doing an awesome job with putting up sometime our children get a little
excited in the evening time but but um they have the kids very well so we give words to the bus driver that they doing an awesome job really been watching you start yeah and it's hard our kids are sweet and they're lovely but they're real busy
to eat you know they do a good job let know go ahe two minutes two minutes no I only have one thing so I'm following up on a um board member business from our last meeting when we
when I discussed um the ordinance that I was lobbying the City closing commission over about extending the uh distance between where from where uh sex offenders can be live from uh
like bus stops schools playgrounds and areas where kids are um reasonably expected to congregate and so I'm happy to report um that I went to the first reading and it received unanimous support and we just got one more reading
to go until that's put into official ordinance and it extends that um distance from 1,000 to 2500 ft and um I just want to take the opportunity again to thank the uh city of Clon for when an issue was brought to them to be
rectified they moved swiftly on it to to fix that and to help be good Community Partners in protecting our children and with that that concludes my uh board member business all right well thank everybody for showing up this