we get started anybody off Dr we got one so far2 pray father thank you Lord for theity be here tonight pray God that you bless our time and fellowship together thank you God that we were able to get another month behind us father we thank you Lord for beautiful weather but Lord
we pray right now God that you'd help us to come together as a group make these decisions that be made for the school system father pray you bless us bless our staff bless our teachers and Lord everybody who is inal part of what we're doing father we pray you be with our
parents our students or be with them keep them safe father we love you we thank you for everything you've done Jesus stand presentation Mr chair I go ahead and Mr was here tonight he's been here before brings us a nice big check he called Mr
earlier and said he couldn't make it he get the check probably later in the week so I'll let yall know the amount everything can't be here but understand always appre for Florida contrive
[Music] [Music] project um first all thank you all so much for your time as you are very much aware because I hate [Music]
truly thank I know theer say try keep it within minutes I do ask it shouldn't take last time I was up here speaking to most you don't know my
name Watch Me Grow Up years know me as AEL those you who only met me in my professional world you know me as Mr Mor those of you who had the lovely satisfaction how you teach your children in math s Mar and
Mr I became a teacher knowing lchs because I felt called to do so and it is something that I never regreted last time as a matter of fact that I spoke up here was in 2008 as a student was Myst
that time the members of that board Mr one of them um I told you guys that Co was an amazing program it was just starting out VI wit with our teacher she told us thaty streaky wheel gets the GRE so she told you got go ask
them for money kids otherwise I'm not here to ask you specifically for money but I'm here with problem that c to that at the end of the day just for transparency I am at the base salary level as a teacher at school
that's not a terrible thing I'm father two and I'm married and I sustain my family off that income and I'm very grateful to have it and when I S aside to be a teacher this was the community I wanted to come back to I was influenced over many years over many amazing
teachers many college level high school level elementary and middle school and they've always told me the same thing go out in the world find what works come back make your community and a lot of you guys who I've been over the years have taught me that as well so
that's what I did that's what I will continue to do regardless of what decisions are made moving forward I love this board I love this school district I love my kids so this is the community that I choose to want to be at regard what Happ but that being said as
everyone knows PR of everything is going up and inot of everything the uh raises and ratification contracts have been going out here lately so I might pay briefly about my day uh we had that email out today about distra that all I
say and at the end of the day it poses questions I'm youngish now and I like to get educated as I always tell you I remain H learn information don't know what if you vote know it's very
generous us I not a member of the UN I have no problem saying that at all I voted for you guys I trust in you guys and it was met with some back all and at the end of the day if respons is like that that PR me to think to
myself well I know I reached out to some of yall private didn't take you I know I reached out the emails I what do I do next I I'm not mad I'm not angry I'm very sick that's why I'm shaking has nothing
to do with you but I'm just here to ask moving forward the plea is please do everything you can to bring that base out here right now it is not anywhere near legisl it's close as close as it
probably can be and I do not know all the numers that is something above my but end of the day every not only there was some good there were some teachers who reached out who have taught me when I was in that age group from I
was the same thing I'm glad asked don't worried being back yall know me I'm not worried I love me problem so end of the day just
forward understand the world is more exensive and right now as it's being position for being [Music] app Mr um few things here keep it rather short uh we got Li County High School
volleyball state championship ring ceremony at 25 in gy if you're available obviously any of these EV want you to know you're invited to come have you and that's that's a big that's a big thing
for we Bank put Monday message they made a call yes this time they I'm very very thank for that so we're going to honor them as well tomorrow special number two our footb B for the
high school Thursday night at Civic Center at 6:30 um that's also a great great night of recognition that you're more than welcome to come to um I am proud of our collective bargaining agreement with li be Education Association in the district
and Mr Mor said it's waiting ratification thing we wait it's voted on we waiting to get that that information move forward with those ra uh Miss Katie I know some of yall have asked for some specific requested Financial reports
Katie and I talk she'll have those at March meeting and so we'll get those on things that you've requested if there's anything past that you know very specific scard can do that um and so if you'll just let her or me know or both of us we'll make sure that we get those
to you 10 a time now uh she was able to hire a payroll person over the weekend to replace ranza uh and they were they were I over weekend they showed up about 30 minutes ago got got situated with IDs
finger Sorel um football field house upate Florida Power night have run the power this is what we've been waiting on for so long uh it's it's a little bit worth the wait because it Sav us probably $35,000 uh they run power from the LI County
High School gy Transformer to the new Transformer at Fieldhouse um and that was a big big huge blessing for them to run that and not make us have to pay for it all the way from the gym uh I did uh I said very special thanks to school board member
amerus J flowers I called him and I said we you know I need I need some movement up there uh Bradley got pushed through I appreciate both of them I told him i' buy the cheeseburger down TJ uh but anyway or not anyway T sorry R um but they got
they got on it last Wednesday so they're they're running electrical drops and data drops Lyn came with her her folks that she contracts with to figure out where all the data drops need to be that thing will be wired we have a plas in there uh for Allied Health we we'll have
a it'll be sa art on the inside as far as connectivity appreciate ly being a part of that they were working on that the last two days I went over there after after lunch and saw that they they were working on it hard so um they've already got
the duck work in the attic space and so hopefully the next step after they get all that punched in and we'll they'll put the ceiling once we get some power going softball Fieldhouse update February 21st will be a ribon cutting that be before blunstone game uh and
again I left this in from last month possible Poli expansion will have to later don't even know what that's going to look like we just we just don't have time and resources to kind of do what we originally plan we still have about 130 in the budget less than ice machine and
S system uh and we'll have all those those invoices this week and and hopefully get sound on that advance but I just last 30 minutes you know I've been working on another for the
bleachers I official and one of his main things was Mr Trump president Trump doing what doing ter on Ste and all that he will give us a quote way L3 press I don't want sayoud
said in him great news said talking he take BS or whatever we do one he wants to order the material he ree everything at this and he's got a cran
truck come here Place probably him about 8 weeks so ref the um press all ready concrete we concrete
person for we have some build a little so we use the bleachers we have we use the bach so and then one other St I got from another I'm for to get back me after my what but I have a very good
quote Word of Mouth be well pleased I promise you let me ask you a question so you said um did nothing wrong there so so this is going to be approximately 100,000
as far as your Bing goes and I don't know we have to talk about that but we have that's not you just got bud here's the problem and ier a little bit they gave it
cck is us and I just want to make cheap we have to do it hey Heather this is Jody and you're gonna have to talk into your M I know don't like those things but can you hear us yes I can I am
having a hard time hearing the discussion though because it like she said I don't know if it's because your to your mouth guys okay so basically what we're sitting here talking about is you know we have been working we' got about $130,000 left and we have been
working on um trying to get budgetary quotes for the platform to raise the bleachers on top of the softball [Music] complex excuse me just so it looks like
it's going to exceed our threshold of bid um um but again this is an everchanging cost because of metal and the tariffs and things like that that's going on the government so we can't we can't do it under our Construction contract which is with Co
pepper correct I just found out about yeah we're just we're just kind of having a conversation right now but it may be a possibility to roll this under our Construction contract um otherwise it it exceeds our
formal threshold for formal bid are you in agreeance with that or you have any problems with it rolling under the contract or you want some time to look at it you don't have yeah I think I I would need to have an opportunity to look at your contracts and what you guys have currently um all
sorted out for that before I can really give an opinion on it but um I mean I'm certain there's a way I just would need to be able to look at it um in detail before I could give an opinion okay um touch face with you maybe are you g to be in the office tomorrow yes I should be I'm actually at home with the
flu right now but I am hoping the tlu is gonna start kicking at any minute and I'll be back at the office tomorrow I hope well I'll just text you and if you feel like talking you talk but um anyway get feeling better and don't worry about us we we'll take care of this but we'll get we'll be in touch with you soon okay
okay that sounds great I'll be happy to look at it feel better thank you I fast and this is and Rec talked about but we're really kind
of trying to figure out a solution for that now right Mr P and the board agreed to how set of plans drawn up and we presented those plans toer you be you Beed okay so number seven that our
legislative meeting this past Friday um Kevin came list8 probably fac list time we just said look we got this is list we have slow been checking those
things off and it's a list just as valid day as it years ago so on this one we had asked for an appropriation request ,000 track high school $155,000 for a new school
bus we did get the new bus I think you text to that it'll be on the route tomorrow and that that's a blessing uh so you know we just we just need I wasn't originally put that on there but Afters fa mot blow
up just look you got money know that they've already funded one of them it's worthy of an ask I'll get down to some more bus news here in a minute but y'all being there makes a difference uh some people may not think so you don't have to come to I don't
have to make a presentation me it's a lot somebody know but they don't have to look at you in the face and y'all being there it really makes a difference oh you're welcome welome you welome and they could for a
reason well U I wouldn't want to come that's okay team excited thank um number eight speaking of buses we've negotiated with W County this been something Kevin and I have been working on through cousin
Stephanie our former his cousin and our former Finance director uh I've got a really good relationship with Russell Hughes who's a superintendent so we've been kind of using those relationship to say look they just got so much money it's just amazing and I'm not we're not
Cherry case but they we knew we were aware that Frank County got bus shortage what three years ago of and so I asked we just kind of been working now for a few months and it came through so um we're going to get
four buses from them and they are currently on the route they're going to replace them I think they're waiting on buses waiting on bus soon as they get two of 2011 I understand
day I several of them and the least is 160,000 most is 200,000 but the 2011 which is better than what we got m
r Miss you know know town no they stoping 500 times a day breaks air Chambers we just had chers on [Music] this
andema you know if you buy you got about we got we need get up start but you take right nowt School
Soft School four trips a day so they all leave the r over we do not have enough next week you know that's something working on the new bus be and then you'll see
I'll take well we had [Music] a911 we knew and $1.99 probably one of the best buses we got Noir it's oldfashioned arm
this is one reason I requested a workshop because this is what it's going to take is a round table to sit down come up with some solutions figure out what we can do we may not fix it
we and it's not I mean Kevin probably the expert you know knows what's going on and call you second or what there together but I think that we need to understand as a board what this looks like in five years
15 years and and you know I've made a proposal put count they may not buy every year but it's in that budg every single year a line we start talking about that and that's not going to fix it but it might
just put a little bit this is you asked email about comparing I don't have that y'all tonight sent it to you the new contract cont
[Music] we yeah they keep them and when out 16 okay so just for clarification we we have order in three years we've gotten two bus this is year four we get the bus
last year been in so what I told we at least minimum one put we got we able ination correct and with me with
but I think bra say we don't [Music] and turn around that's Sil question [Music] I got [Music]
20 years percentage years know and that's what you know we''ve always talked about but that you this mat computer here's the thing F
computer not you know there's a lot of 052 driving right now she's driving 052 the first number on bus but um so we are trying toide
bu always $25,000 now of that's the whole thing and then you know you send you know I'm talking about schedu trying to can you leave a little bit later or I
can put you little [Music] how many be on getting to the point where we feel comfortable our facilities are being maintained where they need tocuman we very beneficial seems like a
discussion really do some preliminary budgetary Mee we I interested to see are St might will to sell us buses that
are gently used so they can go bu buses I would just Beed there's a Miami or or a man or somewhere that would be willing to do something like that say Hey listen here's our here's our situation we're going to guarantee you we're going toy
two buses from you three buses from you every year for five years if You' be willing to hit us at this price point with this with this with Mile and with this year model just to see if there's anybody that and then when we come at budget time we'll know hey there way
that's possibility we're going have to budget $17,000 bu or hey you know what there is a Poss maybe we be at $100,000 range in $170,000 range and we can get exponentially more buses over a 5 period
than we would have otherwise so Ian maybe % more so they keep them until they you know W County probably one of the richest coun in the State of Florida if they don't TR probably
this is first time and they 5000 at least now and they also told me they give a lot of buses to whatever or super AC florid then I
mean you so I understand you've been this road bought that t-shirt wor out I get it we so you know I at I at a diesel you never know I looked at a diesel I own one a diesel
truck and they told me but more to it there's more it so what I'm saying is we need to all but on thebody but when you run down you know what I'm saying or you got but I
think about we you since 17 big gap2 and that's probably just I don't know what happened was any alloted for budget for plan for
but you know since been here we got a 22 two 22s 25 and then hopefully on this that be that'll be four and five years so um we're and you know W counties are not we're not expecting them to
you know going be I need yesterday because when all these [Music] right understand these do not have or not easy
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stuff that's why we're here okay number nine make this as brief as possible I'm excited so issue just so many starts stops another issue is you know what we're cutting
with you a few years ago we got some lawnmowers at all school that that was a huge blessing but it takes a special more to to do our our ball fields and um Thon and Tim
Davis have worked on they make some equipment that come over and show it to us I mean a lot of know good good
thinga C basb field cut football field 8,000 we just don't [Music] [Music] Havey try to keep more operation so we have met a guy and I've met him
I've been to a in who does probably gol 200 mil ever play golf play golf that's best
looking grass it's cut off fertilized it'ss in that kind of stuff well he found a program that Toro has that teaches school that go through
and we kind of research that watch video and St processs manage okay so there are jobs believe it or not a lot of per jobs that
and again part of so anyway this guy go joh de he goes John and they show said why do so the bottom line is United States which means they will give
us first plus the bues the field so anyway it's going to be a lease program where they they'll do all the M they will work so [Music]
one of looks like that so they're us students OPP it's not about C that's a huge part of obviously there's believe and just little weeds that
grow anyway I'm excited about that I have I knew about this in the but I sure pely he's got so anyway that's that's on the horizon
they'll know I'm excited is there more in selection when would it begin [Music] [Music] programs but it's really good and
involved doing things around numberology [Music] [Music] and we have trouble find someone that work on and you got have I29
understand now anyway like I I've been to the shop been inside a shop and he's he he's the one that says I'll all right um number 10 I sent y email this
afternoon for about DJ very proud CH came last week [Music] record tolder did too uh this Friday is a half day for students um and so I wrot
Val honey all right next Monday is pres day which is February 17th there be no school nor work everything's CL down for that day uh then from Tuesday to Friday I'll be going to Orlando for The Fad spring
Leadership Conference um those things are long I do take my laptop with me I am set up just like I am now if you need me shoot me a text it's a little harder for me to take calls but shoot me a text or shoot me an email I immediately
respond to you while I'm in there so make sure if you need immediate assistance if there's any kind of immediatey here Jeff obviously will be here so be sure sure to call um so here's my plans for the March meeting
after the meeting I'd like to by your request U talk about the naming of facilities came up a couple months ago so if there's no objection that we can do it after the meeting that under any kind of time constraints and then tonight if we can
do the April me about we're most of talk about make single subject Workshop are y put bus Workshop to research and
hopefully we do that Workshop meeting and then a mar Workshop about facilities again fac work yeah we ad everything it be after yeah I know
there'll be a lot of people a lot of on that it be to hear up front rather than decision later on motion approve car item number six a motion to approve for February 11
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discuss I have a question on as far as financial transaction probility to be detailed like not just not just check like memo it look like this is all check stop where when you key this in the print
there like a memo line a detail of what this is what it's going to is there possibility being able to have copies of that detail all the request tuss SE the motion approve February 202
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board county and internal control motion discussion question iiz I to ask about others do we have found extremely beneficial thirdy
come in look is this the only person that does that contra [Music] is there any other that Finance for anyone else to come in to look at any
anything else or this is discuss discuss came to me when I was actually riding riding from work are C points where the parents and students
meet up certain locations on certain RS is that correct so I don't know why thisit random are there just thinking about like early morning in the winter time it's right are there street lights
like lights off of H anything like that hased C we' approach listen we got bus routes that Dro off in the early morning would y'all be will to show support towards the
schools that Shad particularly was a really dark Road teral right and people in the foggy whatever else count pole it's lit up where you see doing whatever just thinking about
I think I'm run into before because we discussed about these kids come little cover and all this fought for months straight
months they and they actually did they cut off our school signs our school zone sign because we had to P the bill and they sending bill I don't care it's a contract
but the school was refle well a lot of that a lot of you're cutting power off that's probably just one person in the office if youbody aard meeting let know
if yall will help me you'll say look I drove and I know you're very rural going home hey came by this area here water whatever this this is area that [Music] you
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I feel it's my duty to kind of return report sent me to a training games B Finance just kind of return let you know how that went I thought was great um it's great to be able to make connections in other counties hear about other things that are happening in other counties see that we're uh very very
different some ways very similar so learn learn some good things about ft dollars budgets um things of that nature um heard some some pretty good ideas one of which um this would be a budget budgetary budget time process but I
really think it will be a great idea to have someone that comes into Finance addition position that can focus on grants that can help Katie focus on budget dollars and reports um you know she's just one person and she's running the finances it would be great to have
someone she'd be responsible for or over um that can really help provide monthly finances to us but that really primarily could focus on grants you know sitting here this evening um I've heard about car grants I've heard about bus legislative budget requests I've heard
about grants for Ms I've heard about the mckin vento scholarship grants Heroes and classroom grants I mean if if you think about all the dollars that are coming to our system grants is significant I realize man is only one person as well one person can only do so
much and only T so much so I think that person if we could find a right person in budget dollars maybe pay on performance lower based salary U they could really make a huge difference um for our our County um um for our County
Schools the district to really bring in a lot of dollars I don't know have the perfect vision for it yet but I think with the right person focused on the right things it would make a world of a difference you know it made me think about how many dollars we put forward in the teacher salaries and it would be an
amazing thing to see a person that could bring in 10 times that amount that's put in salary to pay for the thing so you could see more buses you can see greater salaries you can see more safety protocol procedures um one of the things that was discussed was um gun detection
systems and counties they said to lease them they're about $20,000 per year to have a gun detection system that also detects Vapes I know that's a problem too so it if you have some dollars spare dollars it makes a world of difference an extra 5,000
10,000 20,000 here or there um school resource officers that was brought up I think all of us would love to see two in every school so I think that position could really make a difference dollarwise we could focus on safety um
longterm planning and benefits to to the schools and facilities and buses teacher salaries I think it make a difference so again returning and Reporting just some conversations and some some things I've thought about and learned there but I think I think it's worth investigating
budget time when the board looks at the budget at a position that we want to add how can we make something like that happen and is there a benefit do so that that was aers my thank you very much for the update on that I appreciate that
information it's good to see it moving forward I know there are a lot of parents that want to see that so thank you for doing that um this is a one okay so just bear with me on this having four kids in the middle of school it is
extremely difficult to remember a calendar changes and schedules things like that if the schools could have a districtwide calendar that was in some type of a format right may we have a g
with this that you could see everything going on with every school admin train sponsor and a list of everything that's happening on a particular day for the whole District that that parents have a
resource too that be an amazing thing keep up with activities maybe aware it squ does have a calendar feature some schools use it more than others um but that is an easy way you
know if if it's updated within parents where most parents 95% already have that anyway and if we just utilize that part better you can see basically conflict with with the high school we
don't have a high school because we don't see your look at that and then before you know what you're conflicting against to in high school with something that's happened inos because of a dance or a b or or an athletic activity the reason it came up and another thing I'll
do is the football bank it's like what day would be a good day for that if had one source that you can see everything going on it would be a huge benefit I think strategy wise a maximize time one thing I know I don't have enough of is
time and a calendar like that really really make a difference for that it wouldn't quite work because like if Jason only has a kid at hos he's only GNA see hos school and now of course we do have the
district website um the calendar on there um I'm just mentioning this is my time to let the board know kind of some of my thoughts and feelings obviously I'm here but this is a conceptually something I think that could be a huge benefit to
all the parents in the count um to really maximize particip events so I appreciate all you do say thank you and I realize certain systems have certain limitations right so I I
appreciate that but anyway maybe maybe something research um like I say I football Bank come on come on out and have have some culinary class is going to be for
everybody sincerely appreciate that happen I think that's pretty big deal I appreciate County Commissioners it's nice to see the school and the community together so last Robert should be
cleaning up a little bit around the old shed tractor shed behind the old Field House up and looking a little bit better while working on while working on 12 so they'll get out there and help us out that appre to
[Music] do getting those reports and if you have any questions about kind of I think I'm not going to say that the report you come out with not M TW um but I do like
the fact that if we can get it in a spreadsheet instead of just because I can I can do more I know I Jason computer but I I like the spreadsheet because I can filter things
you know work my stuff better um but thank you so much that's going to be that's going to be huge did a great job at the legisla delegation meeting um again I would not ever come behind you sound system for the softball
complex I saw said you told us that it was I just got same okay thank you go ahead first of all I thank everybody they still talking about moving
but they've been ordered solar SCH solar schools at to SCH part of that project I went to the traffic safety commission when it first started and asked could they do that that I talked to Jared the other day he
said that's one of the last things that they're going to do is put those up working in the but it'll be brand new solar LEDs at the high schools we don't [Music] we
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