All right, let's Liberty County School Board special meeting Thursday, September 18th, 2025. Come to order. Second, public comment. So, I don't think we had any. Moving right along to item three, addition correction to the agenda. Need a motion to approve adding
emergency items 7 A, B, C, and D. Motion. Motion. Motion, Mr. Jody. Second. Second. Thank you, Mr. Any discussion? All in favor say I. I. Any opposed? Motion carries. Next item four. Need a motion to approve agenda for
September 18th, 2025. Have a motion. Motion. Motion. Miss Singleary. Second. Second. Thank you, Mr. Morris. Any discussion? All in favor? Say I. I. You oppose. Motion carries. Next item five. Uh, need a motion to approve budget amendments. Have a motion. Motion.
Mr. Moore. Second. Second. Second. Mr. Kever. Any discussion? Yes, Mr. Chair. Katie, can you can you kind of give us a heads up on what these budget amendments are for? Just to realign the expenditures at the end of year to get the budget, you know, have that particular line not in the
negative. Just get it to realign for the whole budget. Okay. You're just you're moving money from moving within to within. We're not doing anything. Okay. All right. Okay. That's just it's just a little clarification. I think it helps for the public to hear that as well. Thank you.
All in favor say I. Opposed. Motion carries. Moving on to item six. Item A. Need a motion to approve the 2425 annual financial report and program cost report for submission to the Florida Department of Education. Have a motion. Motion.
Motion secondary. Second. Second. Second. Mr. Morris. Any discussion? All in favor say I. Any oppose? Motion carry. Next item B. Need a motion to approve strengthening career and techn technical education for the 21st century act. Perkins 5 rual
innovation career and technical education FDOE project award notification motion motion miss Jody who a second any discussion all in favor say I any opposed motion carries moving on to
item C need a motion to approve title two part A supporting effective instruction have a motion Mr. Singleary second second Mr. Any discussion? All in favor say I.
Any opposed? Motion carries. Next item seven. Emergency items. Moving right on. Item eight. Need a motion to approve first reading of revised policy special update UGG Edgar revisions. Have a motion. Motion. Motion. Mr. Moore. Second.
Second. Mr. Singleary. Any discussion? Yeah, I do have a question. What is the difference in the categorization of this first reading and the other first readings I know that we receive in in bulk. So so the other first reading is the bulk um I get two a year. This is more
aligned to a legislative the bulk one. So the volume 26 number one is based on legislative updates. This one which is uh Edgar was based on an audit recommendation through Katie's office of finance that they our policies to be
more aligned indirect cost indirect cost. Correct. Understood. But this one was more specialized based on an audit recommendation. The others are understood. Thank you for that. All in favor say I.
Any oppose? Motion carries. Next item B. And a motion to approve unfreeze prek pair professional position. I have a motion. Motion. Motion. Miss Kever. Second. Second. Second, Miss Singleary. Any discussion? All in favor say I.
Any opposed? Motion carries. Next item C. Need a motion to approve personnel consent table with addition to corrections. Have a motion. Motion. Motion. Miss Jody. Second. Second. Any discussion? All in favor say I. Any opposed? Motion carries. Moving on
item B. Need a motion to approve termination recommendation of Carlos Williams. Have a motion. Motion. Motion. Mr. Simary. Second. Second. Second, Miss Jody. Any discussion? All in favor say I. Any opposed? Motion carries.
Moving on to item eight, board policy item. Uh, need a motion to approve first reading of volume 26, number one, July 2025. Have a motion. Motion. Motion, Mr. Moore. Second. Second. Second, Mr. Kever. Any discussion? All in favor say I. I.
Any opposed? Motion carries. Item nine. Board member concerns. Mr. Kever. Uh, no, no concerns. I'd like to say thank you to Katie and the finance team for getting our budget and everything together. I know that's a many month process. Thank you for doing that and
all your hard work and your time. Um, Miss Ricky, again, thank you keeping school safe. That's number one on everything. and I appreciate that greatly. And uh I'd like to thank all the teachers. I know we had testing and I know that that administration has really been working with teachers um to
make sure test scores are reviewed and action plans are being made are taken to to help every one of the kids as as best can be helped in their unique situations. So I appreciate admin teachers, everything's being done to help educate the kids at this time. And go dogs tonight. Looking for a W.
Looking looking forward to that. So two W. Well, yeah, two JV Baron. So, thank y'all very much. Thank you, Mr. Keer. Miss Mr. Jody. Um, anything up on the the the gold bulldog? We have every
um Donnie, we're putting a committee together. Uh he's paying for it, so he has chosen a few people and we're going to get together in the next week or two and kind of find something that is affordable but still will stand the test of time. Right. Right. Okay. Good. Um, secondly,
Senator I mean, it's not Senator, excuse me, Congressman Dun um called me right before the meeting. Actually, one of his uh aids, Senate Bill 356. This is the forest bill, correct? Pass the Senate by unanimous vote. Right.
It is now in the House. House Bill 1333. Dun is a co-sponsor of this. Um he said it's well supported. It's been referred to the agriculture committee and natural resources. Chairman of the House is is a co-sponsor. Glenn Thompson. It's kind of
I think everybody's on board to pass it. Um I did talk to them about the president getting behind this. He said that he didn't he hasn't heard anything. I said because I know he's done a lot of federal cuts and we lost and I told him I said we lost a lot of money in the
21st century program. Um he said he did not anticipate at all there being any any opposition to this. This was basically everybody's on board. So we're hoping it'll go on through. Do you have any anything other to add about? Yeah. So so um it's been for 25 years a
nonpart you know it's bilateral you know support. Um and we just need it to get to the h the house floor for a vote. It is on the house floor. It's it's got a house. It's in committee, but they need to get it to the they need to get it to a an agenda item to vote on. That's
still the problem. Okay. Um Dunn has has uh he I guess it was back in August. He co-sponsored it. We just need them to vote on it. That's the thing. And that's the speaker's uh domain. Um, but I I was I think I shared
with Jody earlier in the week that we're as of this month, I believe in a rears for 2024, which is about 350ish, something like that. Maybe 53,000. So maybe 300. Yeah. Yeah. Um and then and then what would come for 25 year would would come
now. So we're looking at 700 plus that we desperately need. So yeah, I explained to him that, too. It's huge. And and here's where it really affects a lot of you school districts out west where they have the big forest. I met one school superintendent that said 99% of our
school funding comes from obscure rural schools act and when we don't get it we can't run any schools because their their school is within the forest and and that's non-t taxable land so they don't have any advorum taxes and I I just couldn't fathom that that you
couldn't run a school you know but that's it's yeah so we need it we need it bad. Nice. So, but I wanted to follow up from Dun's office. If y'all if y'all can if y'all can, you know, got any connections from Patronis. I talked to talked to George yesterday. He was with him during the weekend and
he said he was working that hard as well. Okay. Trying to get Jimmy Petronis to help us even though he represents a different district now. He's still one of us from over on our side, you know. So, and and wants to. We just got to get him to I need somebody to nudge uh Speaker
Johnson. There you go. All right. But thank y'all for the work. Problem. Is that it? That's all I got. I'd like to thank everybody for what the job well done they do every day. Thank Mr. Renee what she does. Proud she got
certified. Thank Mr. Smith for being here today with us. That's all I got. Uh Kyle Kevin City spoke to you, but he asked me to share with the board in case you forgot. Uh the van at the boys and g
girls. Oh yeah, there was a uh the van over there is belongs to Donnie. It's an old Lake Mystic Baptist Church van, but they're going to move it. Said he was going to move that and he said he had a guy coming to look at the football bleachers. The
that the guy was complaining about Yeah. letting us know about the other the last meeting. Yeah. He's got somebody coming to look at them this week. Tomorrow morning. Tomorrow. Tomorrow morning. and somebody to come look at the girls to maybe all tomorrow
leaving the bleachers at the girls field where they are but jacking them up where you can see them I guess over the dugouts maybe. Yeah, they're coming tomorrow to do all of that. He said all that was supposed to be done this week now. Not the van but the bleacher stuff. He just wanted me to share that with
with the board if he wasn't here. But uh other than that, thank y'all for all your hard work. Miss Katie, I know you can take a deep breath maybe for a day or two. Start working on next year. Yeah.
Appreciate y'all. Boo. Well, y'all took about everything. I was just going to say I went out there last week and looked at the football bleacher deal there. There's there is concern there and they've made some repairs. The next
day after the meeting, they they've did some repairs. There was quite a few of them. Quite a few of them. Four rows of them. Several of them. Congratulations, M. Renee. I was very pleased to get that email. Certified. And thank you for the cold
water. Yeah. Dirty Katie. Thank y'all. Appreciate it. Mr. Chair, I got one quick thing. I've tried all day for Miss Carolyn Sanders to get a certificate to for tonight and she said they're being cut uh tomorrow
maybe. So, at the October meeting, we'll we'll make that official. So, fair speech. Oh, yeah. We'll have a speech ready. Trust me. Very proud of that. Very proud of Renee. She was certified.
Yeah, the category might want to adjourn this meeting. The meeting. Bye Ricky. Closing comments. None. Item 11. Need a motion to adjourn. Motion. Miss Jody. Make a motion. Second. Second. Second. Miss Kever. Motion. Meeting now
journ. Thank y'all. Off the record,