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Hi, that's Liberty County, June the 16th, 2026 coming at 5:30. We're going to start with a foot prayer today. Pray. >> Let's pray. Heavenly Father, thank you Lord for the opportunity to be here uh Lord for our monthly meeting. We thank

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you, God, that uh Lord, we get to honor some folks, Lord, who've committed their life and their careers, Lord, to being with us in the school district. Father, we pray that you'd bless them in the in this retirement. Lord, I pray that uh God, you give them a good long life with their family, with their children, with

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their grandchildren, extended family. God, that Lord, they'd enjoy the fruit of their labor. Uh Lord, I pray God that uh you just bless them and God, we are grateful for their service. So, Lord, be with them tonight. We pray, God, that you'd help us with all the preparation. Uh we are grateful Lord for a lot of

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good things that have helped us going into the the summer. Father, thank you Lord for uh answered prayer. Lord, we pray for Eric Willis tonight. We continue to lift him up and we pray that Lord you do a mighty miracle in his life and Lord we just pray on his behalf

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right now as well. Lord, be with others that are sick and needy around us. Father, be with our kids that they're as they're off for this summer. Pray your hand of protection upon them. And Lord, pray that you'd bless us as we get ready for the school year a few weeks. Lord, we thank you for the opportunity to serve you. We thank you for the

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opportunities of leadership that you put us all in here tonight. And Father, pray that we'd be great stewards of that opportunity to serve in Jesus name. Amen. I aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic

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for it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all recognition. take. >> Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Um,

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it is u very humbling to how folks um work so hard for so long uh and at some point they say it's time to go home. And uh we have uh three uh long-term

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employees 30 plus years u who have put and dedicated their lives to the school district. We're very uh blessed. We have been blessed to have them. Uh they are a staple uh in our school system and they leave big holes behind filled. Um I

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remember and I don't know where best I don't my grand She's probably doing grand grandma duty. Um so so and then whether whe comes in late, we'll we will we'll do this again.

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But um we we want to talk about in case she's watching tonight. We want to honor uh four people who are retiring uh this summer. Uh Mr. Rebecca, if you'll come up, you've got first two. And I'm just going to have you say a few words about

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this best. Uh 37 years. So when I started teaching back in 95 here, uh Bess and Rita Rita uh we call Rita Lewis Rita Summers was out in an old building esse of course Bess had been teaching even

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before then but when I came on that's where they were and I don't know if it had heat I don't know if it had heat or AC or anything out there but they were getting after it with those kids and and I learned learned very quickly that that Bess was a a true advocate for for those special needs kids then and then had the

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opportunity to go on to be in guidance for a lot of her career and be an advocate for all kids. So, I'm going to let her principal come and share a few things. She got to work with her every day for the last couple years. I'm gonna let Mr. Rebecca talk about her uh and then talk about Miss Beth Brown. Miss Beth has been all over the place. She

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has taught at Hosford School. um Toller um has been at the district office as our 21st century coordinator and so she's got 33 years of service 33 years. So uh but and finished her career at Toller this year. So I'm gonna let Miss

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Rebecca talk about Miss Best and Miss Beth. >> So I did not get the pleasure to teach alongside Miss Best, but I wish that I would have. Um she definitely helped me when I came in as new principal um here.

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I didn't know the customs and things that you know we did at Toller and she very quickly and sometimes um gave me the rundown and I appreciate that. I told her every day I was I don't know what I would do if we're not here

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sometimes because definitely made my life a lot easier. Um she I could tell just like Mr. Katie said she cared about those kids. I have had the honor to work with many people over the years and she is one that I would definitely say is on

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the top of the list of caring about kids. And it didn't matter who they were, where they came from, who their parents were. She loved every single one of them and she could tell you anything and everything you wanted to know about them. I appreciate that as a principal because there's a lot of times that I

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didn't know the backstories and she was able to fill me in on those. So, we will definitely miss Miss Best. We've actually already started missing her um over the summer. So, I will I hope that she comes back to visit us because I do I do miss her already. Um and then Miss

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Beth, I got to have her. She was in our library. Um, but I remember the first couple weeks she came in, she, you know, had come back. She was trying to figure everything out, but she ended up really, you know, being a light in my life, which was kind of cool. She got to come

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in and every time she came in my office, she was always had something nice to say, which sometimes in my role, I don't get to hear very often. Um, but I did get to to experience that with her. I was super excited when she got to plan a wedding and you know talked about when I

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was pregnant. She asked me all the time about my baby and that was really nice. So I'm definitely excited for her. I know that she's got a lot of stuff coming up she's excited for. So I'm really hoping that both of these ladies take a very welldeserved retirement. Um

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if they ever want to come back and sub I'll give my hands Miss Bess has 37 years, Miss Beth 33, and then right behind Bess is Miss Laura with 36 years. Um, so I tell you a

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little bit about Laura. First time I ever met Laura or knew who she was. My brother was sweet on her as a ninth grader at at Liberty County School. And and um he told me uh she's a twin. Robert told me that and I said well

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Robert did you know the difference he said I'm almost there about figured out that there's Laura there's Lisa and of course Lisa's been a longtime educator I think she recently retires over in Calhoun County um we all probably knew their daddy before we ever knew them

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somewhere fishing uh he he was very good at checking them license so uh what a wonderful family uh the Smith family is And of course, Laura went on and and married Ronnie D. And we everybody everybody

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what a beautiful family. Um great kids, great family. And that family is just getting bigger and bigger. And I know that's a blessing to y'all. But you know, it's it's one thing when when I came in as superintendent, um I had some choices to make who was going to be a part of my inner circle. And Laura was

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already part of the superintendent's inner circle. And there was never a doubt that Laura was going to be on on my team. Um, she has been a principal. She's been a teacher. She taught my oldest girl, Maddie, who's now a mother. Taught her at Hosford School. Uh, she's

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been a principal at Toller. Uh, and so back along the way when I was on the board with many of y'all, we saw the need to create a ESSE director position because of the growing number of ESSE students. And so Laura is was the very first one for Liberty County School

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District. And so she has set the bar very high uh for Miss Stephanie and uh and I know Miss Stephanie is going to do a wonderful job and I appreciate Laura helping her prepare her for that. And and Stephanie's off on training getting credentialed for all the responsibilities she has. I can tell you

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from a personal side, Laura Laura's been part of my my team. U who we get together if I I was going to try to count up how many texts that we've had between me, you and Mandy, and then G and Gabe when Gabe was here before

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Mandy. Just just the ability to call them four in together and say we got things to figure out. She's a great sounding board. She she lets lets us vent but always committed to the the mission of the school district as good

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as anybody here. She's always been that up here. I've seen that firsthand and we're going to miss her. Um when she had her kind of her last day, uh I was we were all over the place. I come in and bless her heart she was in here and she said, "I didn't think it was going to be

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this hard." She was shedding a tear and had us all shedding tears. But that's passion. I always tell my administrators, uh, we go through a principal training, administrator training. I said, there's two big things. Number one, you got to have passion for the job. If you don't love what you're doing, you're not you're not

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going to be very good at, of course. Number two is you got there's boxes you got to check. You got to There's boxes every day. You got to take attendance every day. You got to make sure things are out on time. But Laura has always had passion for her work. She takes pride in her work. She takes pride in her staff making sure they get the job

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done. So, uh, usually the principles are up here talking about the people retire, but this is this is my honor to say, Laura, I love you. You're my friend. You're my Christian sister in the Lord, and we're going to miss you, but as Miss Rebecca said, you can always come back

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in summer about, and uh, we'll figure out you a long list of honeydew things around. He may want you to come by, but we appreciate you and and like these others, you you you've served well. We appreciate it. So, God bless. Come on up

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and get We have a little plaque, small small token of your your 36 years of service. Come on up here, buddy. You come. >> Well, Jeff, can you get a picture of your family?

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That's okay. That's fine. family. Why don't y'all come up here? Hold on. >> All right. Congratulations. >> I'm very grateful for that. You know, the first six years um started from a

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lot of roles every one of them. I have to say the last one was the most stressful. >> Um but It has been a great great career. Um the probably the best I was thinking about it um was that I got to take my

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kids to school with me every day. You know, that's a big benefit to education and having them and then now watching my girls go to school, my grandm.

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>> We love you. They love you. >> My email stays on through June 30th, >> but after that I'm >> this this last one, surely not least, um has not been with us that long. Uh only

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five years. But once again, this was another hire that I get to make for for helping us up here at the district office. Um, after the Marjgery Stallman Douglas uh high school shooting, uh, schools were u mandated by statute uh to

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have a district school safety specialist. uh that was open to interpretation for a lot of folks, but that person has a has a big responsibility to make sure that our schools are safe in concert with the sher local sheriff's office or police

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department of whichever municipality they're in and also working with the school board. And um so we had we had one when I got here and shortly after that, Pastor Daryl left and we had a note for for that position and we had

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some really good candidates. It was a it was a very uh there was just some really good candidates. But the person in my opinion who just stood out who I felt like was was going to do a wonderful job was Ricky Sansson. And Ricky come in and took ownership. He was like an old

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bulldog on the Hogs here. He didn't let go and uh and he took it and and done a phenomenal job. Now he had to make I'm quoting him on this. He said he had to make the transition from coming from the federal prison from keeping people out. I mean keeping people in to keeping

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people out. And so he did a wonderful job. I think the greatest the greatest testimony to somebody in his position is that we've not had incidents of school violence in our schools during his tenure here. So that's a success and I know he knows that. I'll tell you how much he's committed to it. He wants to

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continue in some in some roles, not in the same role, but some volunteer stuff. Well, we're talk we're still talking about that because he has some credentiing that we can still use. And hey, if you come to the ball game anyway, you're coming to graduation, coming to these things, we can use you

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in those those uh highly highly uh needed roles. And that's all I'll say about that. But he uh he he is credentialed on a lot of stuff, but u he's put in a lot of hours that he didn't get paid for. Um he uh struggled through kidney stones this year. just

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about tried to whoop him, but uh he's been a phenomenal friend of mine. Uh he's been a friend of everybody on this board. He's been a friend our district office. Um he's done everything from helping protect to put bleachers up. Uh

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whatever needed doing what ever needed doing and Ricky was there and and I'm gonna miss him. Uh I think I I think uh having having Walt come behind him is going to be a wonderful thing. W spending a busy summer getting credential because there's so much to learn about school safety and uh Ricky,

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you've done a phenomenal job and we're we're we're the beneficiaries of your professionalism and your commitment to be here and be faithful to your job. So he uh he had already kind of retired from federal system. So he's gonna he's going to take a little break now and we don't know what we don't we might have

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coaching basketball down there. He gonna be doing something. Ricky loves our school system. He loves children. and I'm looking forward to seeing his family grow as well. And that's an exciting thing. So Ricky, come on up. I want to recognize you for five years service again. Still do.

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Y'all give him a hand. >> All right, let's get a picture. Family, I want to get a picture from you. Come on. Geta say something. Uh, it's been a pleasure, guys. It really has. Uh, I appreciate the

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opportunity. I hope that that I set a good pathway to walk. Uh, I hope that y'all pleases with what I've accomplished and been able to accomplish. I am passionate about the district. Uh, passionate about everybody here. I've met a lot of good people. Uh,

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I enjoyed the time I was here. Uh, like I told Mr. Petty, I'm not leaving with any ill regrets. I'm not leaving mad at anybody. I'm just I'm just leaving. felt like it was it was just time, you know, for me. I had an opportunity to do

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something that I wanted to do for a while and basically work for myself for a little while and and help my son and my daughter and my wife and my mom and her mom and everybody else, you know, that's just what I do. I I enjoy helping people and I enjoy making sure everybody's good to go. So, it's just a

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a portion and part time in my life to where I feel like I could do it. So, but I do appreciate the opportunity. I hope to still be able to serve y'all in some way. >> Take a little reset. Take a little reset.

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Feel free to leave this rain. You got She got >> She got this for me. have a generated that I I'll get with you next week.

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Yes. Thank you. >> I don't have it with me. You can't teach today. try. >> All right, moving right along. Item number three, public comments. We didn't have any. Moving right on item number four,

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superintendent report. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Uh, very quickly, I know we got long meeting tonight. I've got a lot of stuff to approve just this the June meeting. Um, 25 26 school year was another year of academic extracurricular excellence. It

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really was. Our PM3 scores. We were getting those in real time. They're really promising. We saw a lot of growth in our kids. Sorry, I just ate a lifesaver. You called one student. I

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think uh fingers crossed a little bit. I think we're going to be a district again for the seventh straight year. Fairly certain of that. Um uh I don't I don't have the exact uh u confirmation of that yet. We should have we should know

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probably school grades and all hopefully by the end of the month. But uh I'm going to go on a limb and say I think we will be based on what we've seen. Very proud of our staff for once again getting it done in the classroom. Teachers have been phenomenal. We had a lot of staffing challenges this year. Uh

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I want to thank our administrators who were able to step in uh on both from on both school and the district level to teach. Um and those scores tell the story. Um you know, we had Miss Danielle over at Hosford who stepped in for

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kindergarten at Hosford. Um done a phenomenal job. That kindergarten class did really well. Also, she was able to mentor Miss Rogers who finished the year strong. Jeff, uh, Mandy went down and taught math. Rebecca taught, uh, and had a

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baby. I mean, all in the same year. Um, Tim Davis would go to helped out with algebra when we had that, you know, immediate algebra. I mean, th those kind of things mattered that our our administrators uh, once were teachers and still are, you know, and they they were able to go

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in and it really it really showed up on the scores. We're very pleased with that. And I want to thank all the administrators. I hope I didn't leave anybody out. They done a phenomenal job. Um, speaking of going into next school year, we're about one position away and I think that one's just we got it, but

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we hadn't got it in hand yet from being fully staffed for our school year. We'll have some uh some supplements and stuff that we'll still be filling, but as far as our instructional staff, we're doing really good. We do have a little bit of a pool now of applicants, people who

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have applied. You know, last year it was just like we couldn't get anybody, but this year we had a good group who who put in applications who wanted to come in and and so we were able to uh to make some hires. I'm also a realist that knows that it is June and the chances of

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us keeping everybody intact till August and slim to none. I mean, you just got people that things change, life changes, but we do have a little bit of a pool of some people to pull from and hopefully uh we'll be able to fill those if if if needed. Uh new leadership, we've hired

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Jackson Summers as the new assistant principal at Toller School and Rob Wheatley will come back as the as the new assistant principal at Hosford School. Their effective dates will be July 1. Uh mentioned this in my prayer. continue to pray for Eric's got to spend

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some time with him today and Tim uh at at the high school. Uh he told me that he'll get some more scans I think in August, but he starts chemo the peel chemo and then some infusion therapy next week at Moffett. Um he is working

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some he works as much as he can. Um I've allowed him to work from home, you know, as some as well. Um he he's just he's available. Uh it's just you know, I I want him to I want him to do what he can do. He is he is committed to to being

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there and we had a great meeting today and kind of called him up on some things and um I I reached out to the the education commissioner and told him about his situation and he's a believer and he called him and and wished him said he was praying for him. That meant a lot to Eric. I appreciate the

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commissioner for doing that. Uh Kyle Saps been named our new high school baseball coach. Um, leadership conference is July 27th, 29th. Uh, I know there was a few that had some questions about this. This is really a key training opportunity for all our

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school and district administrators. We can't all be gone at the same time except during the summer. Uh, Liberty County has been participating. This is 59th year for the leadership conference. We've been attending it for over 30 years. I know that. Um, I' I've attached

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a schedule if if I've got a page. It's got event agenda at the top just to let you know some of the things that go on uh for that conference. It is not a vacation type conference. It is work. Obviously, there's some time at night to get together and enjoy a good meal

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together, but uh it starts about Monday midm morning and gets through Wednesday around noon time. Uh all the superintendents in PAC will be coming back Monday because that's a mandated uh uh budget attended budget meeting. So uh

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I'll be going down there and then I'll zip back over here um and and be here for that budget hearing on that Monday. It just happened to work out that way. It's a little later in the year, but um I I we re we get we get a lot of

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guidance from DOE. They'll be in attendance. Our legal staff, Bob Harris, is there. One of the great things that they do is he puts on a thing on how to keep lawsuits to a minimum. Here's what here's some things you need not to do and why he's got us all together. They do a lot of Q&A. It's a great time to have us all their conference gest they

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bring in. Jeff has taught at this event for two or three years and um uh they are covering our PAC's covering through a grant covering our registration. So we're just covering for they'll reimburse us for that. We're just covering hotel expense with for a couple nights. Um, those funds are paid for

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through uh a title two federal grant and I confirmed that with Katie. I thought it was. Um, I put on here our a school rating is the return on this investment with our administrative staff. It's a great investment time with our staff. Um, I'll be on vacation June 21st through 28. If you need immediate

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assistance, Jeff will be available. Uh, if there's an emergency, you absolutely call me. If it's not an emergency, do not call me. Uh, but no, I'll I'll have my phone with me in case of an emergency. But I I hope I can get some time off and be able to cut that thing off for a little bit. Guardian training's going great. They're about,

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this is week three for that. I appreciate the Liberty County Sheriff's Office um for their assistance in that, teaching that. Uh Bucky and and Sydney have done a phenomenal job so far. I've been able to spend some time with them in the training. We've got five great

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candidates and very proud of their efforts. They'll graduate a few weeks and we'll have five more guardians in our schools. Lastly, legislative funding update. I was talking to a couple of y'all before the meeting. The governor has not signed the budget. So, um, tell you kind of where

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we're at as far as our budget request. Number one, we did a LBR for $120,000. It is in the budget. It made the final budget. It was in the House side. It was in the Senate side. We're just waiting for him to sign off. He will veto many things this year. I don't think this

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will be one of them because it involves school safety but there's never any guarantees right now. Uh this funding will enhance classroom safety security at WR toller hos and high school. Specifically funds will be used to retrofit classroom door side lights and

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install bulletproof film on the classroom windows that are vulnerable to outside threats. This means increased safety for our students and staff. Ricky helped me write this before he left. He's already got it with the contractor. They've got the material. They're ready to go as soon as we get everything uh

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approved that they're going to hope hopefully start and maybe get this done before school starts. Uh they'll replace the frames and everything in these classroom uh classroom windows. Number two, we had asked for some money for hos the Hosford roof and those chimney

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issues that we've had over there for a lot of years. Absolutely. every one of those historical projects u and I Kevin and I mentioned to him every one of them now got did not get funded and there was multiple ones on there if you took what

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they spent on historical grants preservation money last year we we were well within the bounds of that they didn't fund any of them not one so I talked to the guy uh he said look we're going to we're going to redo applications for this next year resend me what you sent uh tweak it a little

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bit tell me where to tweak it and so that is due July the 10th and I have it ready now. So, uh, we'll get back in there. Hopefully, we'll get funded maybe for next year. Jason Cha has assured me things like rural renaissance, a lot of the things that will help rural

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districts will be funded next year. But, as long as current leadership was in there, it just wasn't going to happen. It just not will happen. Uh, it's affected a lot of rural school districts, especially special facilities money. Uh, some of them did not get funded for their year two and year

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three. And I don't know how you finish your school after you've already started and you don't fund them. So I don't know what that's going to look like moving forward, but that's a there's just a lot of stuff going on right now in the legislature. U last I did put on here I want to congratulate Mr. Ben Marx on his

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re-election to the school board unopposed this year. So congratulations. >> Um that's quite the accomplishment and appreciate all the years I got to serve with him and now serving in a different role. Congratulations. We're proud of you.

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>> Thank you, sir. >> Yes, sir. Mr. Chair, >> moving right on item number five, addition to agenda. We have a motion to add. Have a motion. >> Motion. >> Motion is a second.

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>> Second, Mr. M. Any discussion? All say I oppose motion carried. Next item B. A motion for addition to correction to consume it 8. Have a motion. Motion >> see

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any discussion all say motion car next item six approve agenda motion to approve agenda for June 16th 2026 I have a motion >> motion Mr. More second. >> Second. >> Second key. >> Yes. >> Any discussion? All

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>> I post motion car. Item seven. >> The motion to approve May 12th, 2026 regular meeting minutes. Have a motion. >> Motion. >> Motion. M. Keer. Second. >> Second. >> Second. M. Jody. Any discussion? All in favor? Say I. Any oppos? Motion carried.

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Next item B. Get a motion to approve May 29th, 2026 special board meeting. Have a motion. Motion >> motion Mr. Singleary >> second. >> Second with Kever. Any discussion? >> All in favor say I. I oppose. Motion

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carries. Next item eight consent items. >> Item eight. Need a motion to approve May 26 financial reports and transactions. Have a motion. >> Motion. >> Motion. Mr. >> Second. >> Any discussion? All in favor say I. Any

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oppos? Motion carried. Next item B. Then a motion approve June 26 personal consent table with additions of correction. Have a motion motion. >> Motion more. Second. >> Second. >> Singleary. Any discussion? >> Mr. Chair. >> Um I spoke with Jeff earlier today. This

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is I mean these personnel consent tables fall over and kind of into our supplements. And I just wanted for our conversation, my conversation with Jeff, let the board know that there's going to be a supplement change coming. Right.

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>> Right. Yeah. Typically in in July, um after the roll over the fiscal year, we'll reach back out to those people that did athletic supplements, make sure they want to continue um post those that do not those those supplements. And then also we have um some people that are

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employed outside of the school district and every year we have to post those. Um >> are you referring to in addition to or the change after we're going to look at tonight for the salary schedule revisions pertaining to supplements? >> Well, that wouldn't that wouldn't affect the amounts that will just affect so

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that it wouldn't affect the salary schedule as far as the amounts in the the salary schedule for the supplements. That'll just be who's receiving subs. >> Yeah, I understand. I understand what you're talking about. Okay. All in favor? Any oppos? Motion car.

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Next item C. Need a motion to approve the V schedule for the 256 fiscal year. Motion. >> Motion. >> Motion. Have a second. Second. Any J. Any discussion? All say I. >> Any opposed? Motion carried.

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>> B. Need a motion to approve first mail list for the 26 27th fiscal year. Have a motion. >> Motion. Secondary second >> second any discussion all in favor say I

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motion carries >> item eight motion approve revised travel form have a motion >> motion >> secondary second >> second any discussion >> yeah Mr. Chair, thank you. Uh, Kyle, your team, I like this. I do think there

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needs to be more room for the justification or, you know, the benefit. I think there's only a one line, but it looked really good. Um, and I appreciate that. I think it's I think it's going to be a key tool for for us to use in the future. >> Well, the practice going forward that that I remember you had really talked on

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that I really like was putting the attachment of everything that's happening behind these travel forms, right? That way we can have a pretty good review to see what what's happening, the purpose and so forth. Right. >> So that's going to continue to be the practice. Is that correct? >> Typically that I would, you know, I have to verify. Okay. I thought we always had

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to turn in like you put like an agenda with it. >> Yeah. We always put an agenda with now some of this will be after they come back like you know the pdiums right that's after they come back if um so some of some of the travel will not not

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have to be approved. The instance like we talking about for PDM would be like for instance um if we go to a conference and they feed us lunch well then we want you to be reimbured for lunch >> but we would know that before you went to lunch provided it's on the agenda you

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know that >> we'll go ahead we'll go ahead and cover it on there like as if but then sometimes you'll get there and they'll say hey we're doing breakfast every morning so there won't be as much to >> reimburse into that travel estate but but I think that it's important that the

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board if we're approving track >> that the board know how much it's going to be spent because that's budget. >> We we do we put that up front. >> Okay. >> Rene goes and figures up the meals. All that's put in there. It's never over that but it's oftent times under that if

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somebody provides me >> but we've never but the travel request we're seeing does not include the per deal. That was my whole thing. It's like when you and I'm I've got two guys over there that work for the state. So when we had a travel reimbursement form, we

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had to do that. We had to justify give a benefit to the state. This is 112 stat learn statute and we had to basically state what our prede. Now nine times out of 10 you going to spend less, >> right? Right. you know, and if they're

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taking a state, sorry, a district vehicle, then they put they they're taking the district ve vehicle, but that's kind of where I'm going because when we look at these travel requests, the total amount of the budget is not there.

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So I I that's what I had intended and hoped that the travel reimbursement form would do which would be tell the board ex even if it's a little over it' be great if it's over but you know we know >> because it's we're budgeting so

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>> okay >> so in other words what you're saying is it'd be merging in the financial documents that Katie's given it would merge that into this document here we could see it easier when we're reviewing these >> well they'd have to try I don't know if we're saying the same Okay, Mason. But it what what it would do is you have a travel reimbursement form on top of your

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agendas just like we had, you know, with the state. That's what we had to turn in to get our travel approved. >> Did we not? >> Okay, Jeff. Did we not with the state? >> Well, as far as some things, but then like so I mean I worked a little bit

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different. I worked through USF, which was a grant through DOE. >> Okay. But but many times sometimes with the the vouchers as far as the reimbursements, we would have to have those received from turn them in afterwards to know sometimes the amounts for certain things.

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>> That was typically a grant. If you're using a grant, it might operate like that. Um but anyway, I mean I I I feel good. I mean, we're good. Sure. I'm good with this. So >> all

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motion carries. Moving on item F. A motion to approve budget amendments. Have a motion. >> Motion. >> Mr. Mor second. >> Second. >> Second. Any discussion? >> If if you don't mind, either Jeff or Kyle or whoever's been privy to most

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information pertaining to this. I think it would be an opportune time for the public, those individuals that I know watch our meetings to hear about things. I know I get a lot of conversation. There's a lot of discussion pertaining to dollars and budgets um how it affects

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salaries. That's that's probably the number one thing I hear. Uh and when we see budget amendments, um that are that are being proposed that either increase or decrease certain line items on the GL. I think it could be beneficial if if we just take a moment to discuss some of

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these. Uh I know Miss Katie has prior obligations and I completely understand that. Um, but I think it could be helpful to the community and those that watch just to discuss, you know, discuss the highlights or some high points on on this if if one of you be willing to kind of make a comment or two or lead a

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conversation on it if you don't mind. >> Um, well, I mean, it's a it's a typical thing that she does, you know, when she gets third cal is she starts making adjustments. Uh, that's all I see her doing by looking at it. um

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is just shifting some things around to cover. Uh we got some class size reduction operating funds. Um she made an adjustment there. She made one on FFP uh which is because of third cap. Um,

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and then it looks like one of the federal grants she adjusted she put 20. It was a decrease of 20 um and an increase of 530. So I can't tell you exactly what those are without

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her being here, but um that's that's typically what we do this time of year to get everything uh evened out. Yeah. So, I noticed some of the items um I didn't have a chance to speak to her directly. I noticed some of the item adjustments had to do with with count, right? It looked like we had to make

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some adjustment on those. It looked like we were losing maybe 10 or so kids from anticipated which those dollars that and that and and that proportionate relationship and then the it looked like the the forest money um it looked like I'm assuming that was the forest money

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that he had for those that came that was put in correct >> that that basically was a offset to a lot of these a lot of these items. >> Um there was one particularly that that I was asked about and had a a question on maybe we can get more answers

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pertaining to salary adjustments that move down into the capital non- capital dollars. Do we know do we know details on that? Did that have to did that have to do with the the supplemental adjustments associated with I know a

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position and and that ES supplements is that something that correlated with that? >> There's nothing that comes out of capital that goes to salaries, >> right? So I mean what what I'm seeing I mean a particular item I'm seeing is a decrease on salary side and then an

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increase on capital and other dues fe substitutions which I know there's a condensation there's condensing of a lot of items. I didn't know if we had any detail per se or those specifically. Um, I'd like to say I didn't have a chance to speak with her personally, but kind

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of my assumption was associated with the salary schedule adjustment that had to do with the the the ESC ESC position and the supplements associated with that. I didn't know for sure. >> That could be, but I wouldn't be able to speak without >> Well, maybe when details

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>> maybe when she's back she can maybe fill us in on the details that way. >> She can give her a holler. I know I know I know a few of y'all will send those questions ahead of time and I'll try to get you answers before the meeting or we can discuss that at the meeting but uh specifically I can't tell you exactly where

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>> where that came from. I see I see at the general heading but I can't tell you exactly where the where the savings was here to be able to put it here where the need was there other than what I see here on those those funds. >> Can can I make a recommendation Kyle? Yeah, Jeff. Um,

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again going back to state and and running finance offices, when we had f we had a budget amendment, there was a budget amendment memo that went on top of their actual figures and it it bulleted out. You know, if you were moving money from this fund to this

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fund, what happened? Why are we moving it? And it was I'm talking about a bullet. It doesn't have to be, you know, it don't even have to be one page. It could be half a page. And it just stated why and the justification of why removing the money.

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>> And I I I think I tal even went I'll go back as far as Sheila. I talked to her about this when she was here. And it it just gives a a a trail, you know, and and we can go back and say, "Hey, this

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is why we move this money." And it it's just further explains everything because again we're in an election year and there's a possibility we could have I'm just you know not not anything but as we move and new board members

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come on it's going to be another these are going to be just questions that are just continue to rotate and and so I just want to make that recommendation >> you know so kind a thought I Love the recommendation and looking at these

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amendments. Everything seems on the up and up. It makes sense. All everything that's happening from the things I know have been discussed in the past that are leading up to this this point. I think it would that that documentation that Jod's talking about for the general public that review this information that

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I know look at it that I know I received phone calls about and Jody Knight's mentioned that people have asked her about dollars. Probably all of us have man. It could be very helpful for us to say, "Hey, listen. These are all required. They're necessary. Everything's on the up and up. This is a

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great we've got things planned out, managed like we need to." And they can they can reference this. They can look at this. Anybody can pull this up at any time and see exactly what's done and why why it has been done where when when we're screening those calls, we say, "Hey, you know what? Just just pull up

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our agenda, take a look at that, and you can see exactly why we're doing what we're doing." And it's it's as easy as that. clear as that simple as that. Um >> I I would ask you just refer those calls to me and I'll make sure Katie answers those people's calls and make sure y'all get CC on every response. Um that's

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that's probably the best way to do it is get Katie involved, you know, on the front end and we'll make sure everybody's your questions get answered. But we can do that. We can absolutely do that. >> Thank you. >> All in favor say I. Motion carries.

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Item number nine, action item eight. Need a motion to to transfer one on one pair of professional position for foster Liberty County High School effective December 1st to 26. I have a motion. >> Motion second. >> Second key. Any discussion? All favor

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say I. B. made a motion to approve travel expenditure to provide soccer safety security special for required attendance to the 26 Florida model DTMC training in Bradington Florida July 14th to the 16

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motion motion second >> second Mr. Any discussion? All in first I opposed. Motion carried. Moved on item C. A motion to approve travel expenses of superintendent and 11 administrators to attend the 59th annual PAC summer

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leadership conference July the 27th through the 29th Mar Beach Florida motion. >> Motion keeper second. >> Secondary discussion. >> Yes, Mr. Chair. I was actually I don't know about other board members but I was I did call and talk to Jeff the day

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about this um when you have you know 11 administrators going to a conference it raised my eyebrows um because of the times and you know the budgets and things like they are and salaries things like that. So I did call um thank you

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for providing the information you did Jeff >> and knowing and you you explained the breakout sessions and that benefit you know what our our staff will be obtaining from attending these conferences. So thank you Jeff. Um I feel confident that it's going to be a

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good conference and look forward to hearing what all you guys learn from it. All say I motion carried on item B. Motion approve travel expenditure of Stephanie Davis direct BSSE to attend

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the 26 for our annual assessment accountability meeting in Lake Valitor July 21st to the 23rd. I have a motion J have a second. Second Mr. Any discussion? All post say I. Any opposed?

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Motion carries. That's it. E. Need a motion to approve travel expenditure of Jessica Bennett supervisor PLC and attendance to the 26th new world's reading conference June the 25th in Gainesville, Florida. Have a motion. >> Motion. Second. >> Second.

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>> Second. M. Ke. Any discussion? All in favor say I. Any opposed? Motion carries. That's a motion to approve products. Incorporated to the master license agreement BAC3

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as executive by focus school software and the Liberty County School Board beginning June the 1st 2026 motion motion be secondary second discussion all in favor say I. opposed.

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Motion carries. Moving on item G. Then a motion to approve the 2627 DAC FBS virtual instruction contract agreement between the Panama Area Education Control and the School Board of Liberty County for Katrina Rodenberry direct the

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activities of the contract. Have a motion. >> Motion. >> Motion. Second. Have a second. >> Second. >> Second. M. Keeper. Any discussion? All in favor say I. >> Oppose. Motion carries. >> Okay. on item H and a motion to approve

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2627 Gbased student accident policy renewal. I have a motion >> motion key second. >> Second, Mr. Morris. Any discussion? All in favor say I. Any opposed? Motion carries. Moving on. Item I need a motion

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to approve 26 2700 county contractual agreement between the school board county and the school board of Liberty County for the transfers of sectional students. I have a motion. Motion Miss Jody, secondary. Any discussion? All I motion carries.

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Next item J. Need a motion to approve the 2627 PAC professional learning catalog. Motion motion motion. Second single. Any discussion? All in favor? Say I. Any opposed? Motion

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carries. Next item. Okay. Need a motion approve panel a ed educational consortium PAC risk management agreement for 26 27 fiscal years have a motion more second >> second Mr. Any

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discussion? All in favor say I. Any opposed? Motion carries. Next item. Then a motion to approve panel education for PSA contract agreement to commence June 1st 26 until June 30 27th with Troy P

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direct the activities of the contract. Have a motion. >> Motion with secretary. Second. Second. Miss Jody. Any discussion? All f. Any oppos? Motion carries. That's item M.

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Need a motion to approve 2627 contract for PAC sharing services. Have a motion. >> Motion keeper. Second single car. Any discussion? All in favor say I. >> Any opposed? Motion carries.

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Next item in need a motion to approve performance contract with exceptional student education consult services between the Liberty County School Board and the Washington County School Board representing the panhandle area education consort

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from July 1st 26 to June 2027. Have a motion motion tomorrow. Okay. So, seeing discussion motion approved. I hope that a motion to approve the

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approval request of Miss Mary adds seam to be effective June 1st 26 with the final retirement termination date to be effective later than May the 30th 2034. I have a motion second.

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>> Second. >> Any discussion on the first side? Motion carried item P. Need a motion approve drop northwest with m flower effected the 1st 26 retirement termination date to be

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effective no later than June the 30 2034 have a motion motion secondary in discussion. All in favor say I. Any oppose? Motion carries. Next item Q motion approve agreement for

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contracted services between me county school board and Dr. page blank ship LLC Arthur House Psychology I have a motion J have a second key any discussion all favor any opposed

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motion carries Nick motion to approve the 26 27 agreement for therapy service between Liberty County uh school board and premier therapy and rehab P LLC DBA test motion

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motion Motion with second Joe. Any discussion? All in favor say I. Any oppos? Motion carried. Next item. Motion approve 2026 27 corporate agreement for physical therapy service between Liberty County School Bo and Mil Walkers

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Physical Therapy LLC. I have a motion. >> Motion. >> Motion secondary. Second keeper. >> Yes. Any discussion? All oppose say I. Any opposed? Motion carries. Moving on item T.

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Need a motion to approve 26 27 cooperative agreement with speech language pathology service between the Liberty County School Board and Roberts Therapy Solutions. Have a motion. >> Motion. >> Motion to keep second. >> Single car. Any discussion? All in favor say I.

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>> Any opposed? Motion carries. Next item you need a motion to approve the 2627 psychology contract between Liberty County School District dula compa cypress psychology services have a motion miss any discussion

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>> yeah I told Jeff and Kyle and I'm not sure if any psychologist psychology team over here so got when I talk to Kyle he gives some insight to me on why we had to have, you know, two of them out there and things because we had somebody else

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doing it for how long? How >> Dr. Bon was a bless and of course he retired, >> but he did them all. And then when he retired, he still worked for us now. He still does our I I do go through men to do our guardian evaluations and he likes

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doing those and uh but we're on a time crunch with a lot of these. So we try to get those done and we don't have Dr. B anymore. All any opposition autism spectrum disorder endorsement

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continued approval of Liberty County School District approve by field June the 30th 2023 motion second >> second any discussion all f >> any opposed to car

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a motion to approve Comprehensive evidence-based reading plan CP 26 27 school year have a motion motion motion secretary second >> second Mr. Morris. Any discussion? All in favor say I motion can carry it.

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That's item X. Then a motion to approve MU between community wellness counseling and support services and nobody county school district for the 26 27 school year. I have a motion for motion. Second Mr. Kever. Any discussion? All say. Any

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opposed? Moving on. Item one. Need a motion to approve the 26 27 assessment calendar. have a motion secondary discussion. we see this going to be changing or

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>> uh not really. I mean basically what we have to do is um the state issues windows and then from those we kind of select dates and we also have to look at how we do that around some of our district assessments. Make sure that we don't overlap a lot. Give our

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students plenty of time and teachers. Um and then also kind of see kind of what works with their day-to-day schedules. um you know take some of their considerations they want to see into account too. So um for instance like PM2 gives you the option to do it before

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Christmas or after Christmas. Our teachers have always chosen to do it before Christmas. They just won't get that good solid. Um so taking some of those things into account with the windows we're given. We set our assessment calendar and then about September I have to report those

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dates to the state. So this just kind of sets our schedule for the year. Um, so we go when school starts. >> I'll add one thing to that. We like to do PM2 before Christmas because if we see significant decline or there's

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significant issues with the teacher, you could you see that coming because you get those scores in real time and we've done this before. We all all of our team gets together right after Christmas between before New Year's and we say we got to make a change in the classroom. That way that new teacher we can make

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those adjustments with the principles meeting with us and we make those adjustments and that teacher starts January. That's only happened one time in the last four or five years, but we did have to make that due to some just score >> and we have to be strategic about I mean given our personnel and our size and

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then sure L could talk about some of the technology things but we don't we don't want to lump things all up together you know we want to try to space those out so that we have plenty of personnel to cover those administering those assessments and then also make sure we

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don't bog down things technology. So Am I right? >> Yes. >> Z the motion app to approve leadership commitment to to uh Wy County School District in support of my participation

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as a partner in Florida State University submission for rural health transformation program grant funding. Have a motion. motion sing any discussion all f say I any oppose

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moving on aa need a motion app to approve memorandum of understanding between college and the Liberty County schooling district to share a commitment of expanding healthcare career pathways for rural Northwest Florida students and building substantial local healthcare workforce

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pipeline information second keeper any discussion All in favor say I. Motion carries. We a motion approve agreement between L County School District and death and

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hard period education solutions for 26 27 fiscal year. Have a motion school year. Have a motion. >> Second key. Any discussion? All in favor say I. >> Any oppose? Motion carries. on CC made a

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motion to approve the 2627 CHP champions partnership continuation agreement. I have a motion >> motion >> motion to keep second. >> Second single discussion. All in favor say I. Motion carries. Moving on to DD.

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Need a motion to approve nomination of the board member and business owner to represent Liberty County School Board on the value adjustment board for the 26 27th term without a nomination. Any y'all want to try to keep boomers?

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What about business? >> Keep Mitch and him been on together the whole time. >> Mitch Willis been ready to do it. Mitch Willis. All in favor? I. >> Any oppos? Motion carried. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Thank you, sir.

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>> Moved on item 10, emergency items, item eight. Need a motion to approve a goal count 26 27 instructional calendar. Have a motion. >> Motion. Motion >> keep

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any discussion in favor say I. Any votes? Motion carried. Item B. Need a motion to approve contract with Capital Solutions LLC to undertake representation of the Liberty County School District concerning interest in the state of Florida as it relates to obtaining financial grants and lobbying

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services. Have a motion. >> Motion. >> Motion to keep. Second. >> Second. this thing any discussion >> his uh this fee for this has not changed since I've been on board >> it actually is lower I mean >> than when he first started

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>> it was >> $3,000 a month there since I've been on board >> so that's with everything else going up I was expecting this to go up too >> he was $ 3500 when he first started >> and we went down we kind of talked to

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him and he come down Yeah, I'll tell you I really appreciate he and uh and his organization doing what they can to help the financial grant side funding. That's a great thing. Great to see it continue and expand. >> That's company as well. They're welcome.

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>> Well, I know substantial he appreciate group. >> Appreciate it. I any opposed? Production carries. Moving on board policy item prep update

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for discussion. Mr. Superintendent. >> Yeah. So I I got you a hand out here. It says executive summary in the upper leftand corner and I'll make this very quick. Um I can get you that. Um I can send this electronically so you can

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click on some of the links. Um so I know Mr. Keeper brought up, maybe the last four, maybe the long four, I can't remember, about a possibility of adding some uh recruiting representation or somebody that could come in and help with that. Um, I've looked at it pretty

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hard. We've got uh Coach Tranquil, Coach Soul both get uh as part of their contract, they get some extra hours per month to do things just like this. and they they do spend time doing this. The

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other thing was, you know, what's what's the portal or what's the format for doing something like this. So, this thing here, this executive summary for this is something called Athletic Academy. Football has purchased this. It's $3,000. It's about a thousand. They got a three-year contract with it. Uh

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kind of tells you about uh uh implementing a platform for football only. Uh, this will be you can do other sports. You can pay Gerald told me you can pay 5,000 and do some of the other sports and some of the other sports want

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to get in on it once they kind of see. I think football is going to be the guinea pig to see. But it tells you everything that they do. Um, you're going to have to have somebody on staff who can do this or somebody you bring in. My thing is I I don't I don't really want to create a position for this. Uh, I've got

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somebody working at LLC who has the time to be able to do this. Uh, I've talked with both coaches. I sat down with Gerald and Jennifer, uh, and talked with them about the possibility of getting that going. They seemed excited about that. Um, and so,

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so anyway, um, this kind of tells you what they do and some of the the things that the the, uh, the program offers or what it kind of covers. It's basically a blank slate. you enter the information and then that's able to get out to those recruiters and those recruiters could

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access that information from that. I I I said this to to Mason, you know, the biggest biggest thing is the coach. You know, the coach has got to be an advocate. I want to see our coaches um I'm not going to say they've done a bad job. I want them to even do a better job. I want this to be at the forefront

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of trying to get uh people to to get some college paid for. I I feel the same way about academics as well. Pushing kids to, you know, guidance counselor staff on teach kids make, you know, real high grades on their ACTs, SATs where they can qualify for academic

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scholarships. Same kind of thing. Um, we there is some Zoom training. They do not know how to use this yet. Gerald said there'll be Zoom training that'll take place in July. Uh, I do want to get John Brock involved in that. He's my person at LLC that can is very good with

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numbers, very good at statistics that I hope can help build this thing. Um, so that's my that's my plan for him. I gave you some information u of of some people that we've had go on to play on the next level. Uh, these are coach on the back

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page. Coach T signes. I got those four plus track with Trey Bryant. And then uh, believe it or not, Jennifer's been coaching for 20 years. It's hard to believe, but in her 20 years, 25 softball players have played at the next level. 13 volleyball players. Um, this

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kind of gives a breakdown of what they're using currently because volleyball is using something similar. It's not this doesn't mean they can't use this, but that they currently use Huddle Silver and Huddle Assist. I'm familiar with that, but both of my girls was part of that stuff. It records

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games. It does stats. So now the just the camera you the huddle camera you set up does all the all the statistics for the game. Um athletes have each have an account they can use to make highlight videos send to colleges and uh college coaches can also follow an athletes

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huddle. So if they they feel like we want to you know we want to see Morris uh they can go to his pa his huddle page and they can see his highlights that has been created. Uh, and the kids really do that, believe it or not. They they they get involved in that. It's kind of a

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neat process for them. But I want I want there to be some organized uh structure for that. Softball use game changer. They use it as well to make highlight videos for colleges and they use they just email those. Uh, also each athletic team for volleyball softball pays for uh

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Florida's athletics coaches association membership where players have now a chance to be a district player of the year. We've had that and also coach of the year. Uh we've had that. They have the opportunity to participate in a senior all-star game which is a lot of recruits come a lot of recruiters come

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to that that uh game. Basketball uses NFHS network to d to download live events. Uh in FHS we utilize those cameras where people can pay and watch that but also records. Game film can be emailed to coaches. We actually had two

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recruits this year. here. I talked to Coach Kent U Rogers and he said that he had two recruits that he sent film to and continuing try to get them on somewhere. Uh baseball got a new coach. Met with him again today. Uh Tim and I

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and Thornton and um had just good conversation about that. What they would use, I don't know what they're going to uh use yet. Uh in in the past they've used Game Changer as well. I think they've used u yeah game changers sorry views game

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changers the one they use as far as what it does for videos and all I I can't tell you uh but we'll figure out what what's going to be the new format for that. So that's a little I can give you links to this and you can kind of see what the what the blank slate looks like for the athletic academy. Um so that's

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that's that. Any questions or concerns, comments? >> Yeah. So this that's about the fire hose. Um so we're looking at this as something for football. Okay.

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How much are we pay? Who pays for this? >> Okay. That's what I said. Football's already paid for. It's 3,000. They pay for it out of football. >> They Okay. >> $1,000 a year. They did a threeear deal. Okay. >> They did athletic >> football. Football did that. They've used up in the past.

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>> Yeah. we've done. >> This is a this is kind of the the next step of being able to get that stuff on a portal where people can access it outside the school district. >> Yeah. So, did um sorry to catch y'all was with the football was it only

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football? My understanding was that other other sports were accessing it or that that payment would allow other sports when they were ready to tap in. They would have to pay. >> Okay. Okay. So, that hadn't been that that upscale. I guess >> they have not paid upscale. Football

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paid 3,000. They go up to five and have the other sports do that. The other ones are already used for mats. They want to see how football before they went paid a thousand a piece for it. >> And you mentioned the John Brock. So,

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are we going to be paying him a supplement to do this? Okay. >> So, Kyle, I appreciate you you bringing this up very much. Thank you. So the the idea and the thought I had about this and I I think you all remember the conversations I brought up before

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pertaining to recruiting and help helping athletes be noticed. So the idea that that I had wanted to discuss pertaining to a recruiting coordinator was basically a supplemental position where an individual will be focused on stats, focused on speaking with coaches,

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coordinating communication with our coach and other coaches, right? they would be coordinating or facilitating others coming into the school and and the information coming from the the students in the high school being pushed right to other locations. So, a lot of

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the from what I've seen a lot of the students that don't understand how to use this, they kind of hold back, right? And they don't say, "Hey, can you show me how to do this? Can you show me what I'm supposed to do here? Can you show me how this works?" Right? And I know I know personally many of the coaches are

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like saying, "Hey students, look into this. Sign up for this. Put your stats on this. Do this." And then there's some confusion and they don't make it happen. So another thought with this coordinator, right, is that they could they could be used as a marketing tool

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for the kids that are in this county to stay in this county. Right? We're here to help you get recruited. I'm here to help you get recruited. They could also be used as a marketing tool for outside the county saying, "Hey, look, we have a designated person that's responsible for

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this. This is who they are. This is what they do." I know Kyle's brought up marketing campaign to try to keep kids in, bring kids back. I think this could be a very good I I guess another another arrow in the quiver, right, of of the benefits that we have marketing to kids

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coming into the school saying this is our success. This is what we still do. The coaches will speak with coaches and colleges, but they'll also you're going to have this recruiting coordinator, this person be able to help facilitate those conversations, facilitate that

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data, facilitate the meeting. And it's impactful if that individual comes in, say to every single one of the different athletic rights sports that we have, say, "Hey, baseball, this is what I do. This is kind of how this is how I'm going to help you. Softball, this is what I do. This is how I'm going to help

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you." Every single one of them all year round. So these kids know they have somebody specifically working on their behalf. Now whether it's a a supplement per se that we add, I'm not opposed to it, right, for a a reasonable amount or whether it's someone that's willing to

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do something like this. I know there's a lot of ways to benefit someone and pay and time and otherwise if those adjustments needed to be made. I'm opening I'm open to speaking about it, but I do think that

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this is something that is the future and what schools will be doing and will be will be catering to athletes doing. So, I mean, for example, with this new application, our software as a service that Gerald just procured, one of the questions they ask is, "Who is your high

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school recruiting coordinator?" Right? like and that was before I even knew that that we were going to get this, the school's going to do this, right? It was a term that I thought up maybe by luck and then they mentioned in their software that I found out two months later when we did this. So, it's

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something that's out there. And the bigger thought I have here is we're marketing to kids and we're marketing to parents and every kid's $8,500 comes into the school. And when you lose a kid that's $8,500

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because they are being recruited by some other school's recruiting coordinator or head coach, which a lot of times it it is, but when they're being marketed, we don't want to lo we want to keep our kids and take care of our kids is my fault number one. But when they're being marketed hard in other locations,

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they're going to be inclined to go. Obviously, championship teams, right? That's a big deal. That's going to bring That's going to You got to win, right? You got to win games to be able to bring kids in, >> right? >> But even when you're winning games, kids are constantly looking what what's good,

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what's out there, what's available. And really, there's a lot that's available to kids these days. So, I know I've spoken a lot, but this is my my thought or my mindset in why this would be a benefit. I believe this would pay for itself, bringing kids in and keeping

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kids. I mean, say if you had a three to $5,000 supplement and you keep or bring in one kid, you have a supplement that benefits a whole school and you bring one kid in and it pays for that supplement. >> Now, you can't recruit kids. >> Well, I understand. >> You can't recruit kids. Now, the

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recruiting unless I'm the recruiting is to help them be recruited on the on the next level, >> but you can't recruit high school kids. That's >> that right. So, you're So, that's wrong. You're marketing, you were sending marketing material to families, to the communities, the individuals saying,

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"This is what we offer, right? This is why we're so good." And then they send it and they say, "Okay, we want to be here." And then those recruiting coordinators are speaking to colleges to help them reach the next level. So, thank you for clarifying that. That was good. That was perfect. Thank you.

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>> Yeah. Keep keeping in mind. >> That that's my thought. So, how we accomplish that? Obviously, I'm open to how we accomplish it, but I guarantee you if we're not doing something in that direction, we will we will not

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we will not be keeping as many kids as we could or bringing as many kids into the system as we could. That's just >> this is going to play into with I believe House Bill 538 transfer rules just signed in. >> You better do it at the beginning of the

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year. You better have done. >> Yeah, they are. Absolutely. >> The recruiting is not going whatever >> I mean recruiting. >> You can't recruit, but that's what people are doing. We don't do that because you can't do that. We're we're marketing. We're we're providing

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information about our benefits of being here is what we're doing. And this is the marketing benefit of being at Liberty County High School is we have a we have a system, a program in place to help a child that desires to further their education be able to do it through

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athletics. It's all about life building character building experiences and education. This is this is it's another component of what we just approved with Chipole memor memorandum of understanding with the workforce. It's moving forward and bettering the kids at the county.

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So, any thoughts on >> I hope to have a little bit clearer what this looks like and and what what I'm going to expect from Gerald, from Jennifer for that extra pay that they're getting and I've been getting >> and then from what what how John can

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play into that. So, hopefully we'll we'll meet here in July and get get a clear picture and report back to him. >> You want to say something? Did you want to say something? No. Okay. U second. Okay. Any other questions for that?

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>> Any thoughts? Comments? >> I was I was just thinking if John's going to be having a hand in it, maybe he could, you know, something stands out to him, he can reach out to the coach or the kid or the parents say, "Hey, you need to need to go to the next level."

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>> Do other do other school districts have this Mason? Yeah, >> they they have Yeah, they have literally title it specific. They they absolutely have people that are >> I mean sur you you talk to any of the big athletic programs in surrounding

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counties and they have people assigned to that task. Now, do they have somebody with that title? >> Talk to a person like that. >> I'm going to say something. I said there's two there's two gentlemen that work for me. One of them's in college, got a daughter right now and one's going to be in college. You know who does

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that? the parents. >> You ask anybody that their kid go to school, everything sitting right there. That's who doesn't all this doesn't matter. >> I disagree with completely disagree. >> Totally disagree with that because when

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Britain played Britain played ball, you let me tell you who who promoted him. >> Treyum McLemore. every single night after those baseball games. It wasn't. It was Kyle Sap Brenton Bailey number one in the districts and and every night

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trainer went home and he put it down on a computer every night. Kevin, that's how he got the repos. That's how Faulner came in here and wanted to point Britain to go play. So, and I mean coach, but I'm saying and and we didn't

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have me and Andy didn't have time. And I I mean I'm being honest. I was working. He was working. We didn't have time. If if this could be an added benefit to the dis to our district, I'm not opposed to it. I just don't understand it. >> I don't I don't think it has to be either or. I think this this is another

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tool in the tool box to help to help do that. I I do I do I all three of my kids play college ball. There is a lot of parental getting them to where they need to go. >> It's good for all that stuff. So, I I think it's a it's a it's a it's a it's a group effort between everybody.

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Everybody's got to be on the same page. Yes. co coach especially parents and then if this adds another layer of of help I'm I'm okay with trying to figure out what that does. I just want to >> I don't know the model. I mean we don't Yeah. >> I don't and I'm not I'm not a sports

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person but I >> Well, we're developing it. We're going we're going I told Mason Mason and I talked about this and I and so I sat down with with Gerald and Jennifer and told them this is the direction I want to go. They've got the time. They're getting paid extra money per month to be

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able to do this. Now, obviously Jennifer's in a little different boat because of winning, you know, and people are >> it's kind of go back and think about when Sneez was so good in volleyball. You may have never went to a SNES volleyball game, but you knew they were state champions about four or five years

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running. So now now our girls program is kind of like is like that and we're winning in multiple multiple sports programs and the boys, you know, hopefully are moving that in the right direction. We're going in the right direction. I believe we have good we had a winning season in basketball, winning

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season in football and uh we're going to get baseball turned around. So anyway, that that breeds a lot. Uh you got to win and so that makes people want to come play there, you know. But anyway, no, I I I want to I want to keep working on a plan and we'll have it on paper and

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be able to show y'all this is this is this is our goals and here's our steps to to try to achieve that what that's going to look like on a a monthly basis. >> Thank you for thank you for spearheading that. I really appreciate you into it very much.

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>> The other thing and I'll be very much more brief on this one is the PP thing. Um, I have shared with y'all that uh, one of the things that um, the legislature has changed is, and again, it's not been signed. I don't know if this part's been signed. Hall 538

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covered a lot of things, but a lot of a lot of school districts will charge athletic fees for their FTE kids, their regular kids. We don't. Lot a lot of your Tallahassee schools do, but a lot of your panhandles rural schools, they

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they're not charging people for that. um because it's just so easy for somebody to cross the river and go play. So they just don't do it that way. Um so part of that legislation said 400 the new thing for PEP scholarship people is 400 per

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sport. We've been we were doing like 250 basically 250 a semester. The most they would pay for us would be 500. Um, this this is my my recommendation moving forward is because that's not settled and it's June and people are making

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arrangements, those that are are doing homeschool um, and making those commitments if they hadn't made them already with whoever's doing their homeschooling stuff, leave it like it is and then we can take it back up and then that give if we say we'll talk about it

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kind of like we did with the fleet insurance stuff, we'll talk about it closer. I mean, give them a good runway to make their plans accordingly because if they've already obligated their funds to their teacher, then yes, this this would the teacher may require, but I you

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can't take it out of out of this. And I don't I don't want to I don't want to I know that was an issue last summer was that we didn't have enough time enough notice to implement this to begin with. We didn't take in but about $3,800. Wasn't a lot of money. Nobody had problems paying it. We were working with

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them. They come in at their leisure. you know, some of them did it after the seed started. We were very, very kind and cordial with how they paid and nobody had a problem with that. So, anyway, um I continue and I know I've had some conversations with some of y'all. I don't want to be a vendor. I don't want

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to make that process easier for them, but I'm not trying a hard time on them either. I just don't want us to have to be responsible for something that we're not getting remunerated for. Um so, anyway, I'm I'm I'm I'm not for moving it to the 400 per sport uh this year. I

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say let's let's finish because we're so close to uh you know kids be back on campus practicing in July. So let's leave it like it is and we'll talk we'll take it up down the road. >> I'm good with that. But I I do want you to clarify something. you you touched on

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it, but the 400 that in the bill it says that you can't charge more than 400 per sport, but a homeschooled kid has to pay no more than a than a regular student,

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>> right? But that's >> that's if you're there already >> for the schools that charge to play sports. Correct. >> Since we don't that doesn't apply to us. >> Correct. That doesn't apply to us. We don't already charge that to our FT. >> Reading that bill that's kind of misleading. >> It is. There's an assumption that you're

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already charging your FTE kit. We don't charge them >> and we're not. So that that sentence does not apply. >> If if you're doing that, >> I agree. >> You know, a general thought I have and Superintendent Betty, I really appreciate you giving us a lot of

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runway, a lot of time to think and consider and stew over this. Um, so thank you very much for that. A general thought I have is if we did consider something like that as far as more dollars there there are a lot of things I would like to see talking about like recruiting coordinators, athletic

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benefits, things of that nature, marketing campaigns, surveys, knowing where students stand, parents stand, what are the concerns, what are we doing to market and benefit the the schools. There are there are certain things progressions I would like to see us make

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moving forward before we get to that point to start start to charge something of that amount. In other words, I personally would like to I would like the general consensus of everybody in the community and I I think we got a lot I think not everybody is that the

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school's in it for the best interest of the kid. And I and I don't want us to be perceived with us charging more that we're just trying to do something for do retaliate against the homeschool kids for not being here. I absolutely do not believe we are. I don't believe that's

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the harder thought of anybody up here, but that doesn't keep me from saying stuff like that. I I've heard it and I don't believe we're doing it. I I do believe and that's why I voted on last time that if you're not in the system and you want to come partake be a part

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of it I do believe it's only fair in my opinion to be paid to do that but I do think there are limitations of the amount amounts that should be charged and I would like people to feel that wow the school is offering so much and doing so much and benefiting so much there's

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in other words honestly way more positivity way more than any negativity that could come saying we're going to charge you more. That that's just my thought. I'd like us to work more in that direction with our marketing campaigns with us with our offerings, which seven years as

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an a district is amazing. That is a great testament to really what we are doing. You're always going to have some people that say negative comments or do negative things. That's just why. But I would absolutely want it to be clear as day in our marketing over the next year. This is what we're doing in addition.

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This is what we're offering. this is how we're benefiting and have more positivity out there. So if we do make a change like this, if we desired, we have spent a whole year making adjustments and changes and marketing and surveys and hearing back from parents before we

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get to that point. That's my that's my heart on that item 12. Well, I just appreciate everybody's hard work this summer. I know everybody's got everything they have going on. God's

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going to be on vacation. >> Easy after that. Uh now, one thing that one thing that's been kind of really been on mind a lot and everybody's heard it with the property tax bill.

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It's going to be on the ballot. Um no property tax. I just I like for each one of y'all and anybody listening to just everybody think about the ramifications of what what all going to happen. I'm not going for against or anything. I just said just kind of do some research of

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>> what's what could transpire in your own county wherever you live at. We worried about L County. Just just do some research on what you think is going to happen or how things may may pawn out and just take a good look at it because It

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it's coming. It is coming. Other than that, I appreciate all y'all and let me see again. Got question. >> I'm good. Mr. Chair, >> Mason retirees again. Thank them for all the years service. Appreciate them.

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Thank you, Mr. Chad, to join us tonight. Appreciate our staff working on ass for doing a good job for us. a big congratulations with tomorrow. Appreciate y'all. >> Thanks. >> You know, I uh I know I talk a lot. I know I do a lot. I appreciate y'all put up with it. I hope everybody knows I

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sincerely appreciate y'all. I appreciate the board admin. It it is an amazing thing to have being so strong in our stores and I am sincerely grateful for that and I'm grateful for everybody getting to that point. Uh the retirees, Bess and Laura and Beth and Ricky. It

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it's great to see people that love kids so much, that want to devote so much their lives, changing lives. I appreciate that. Sheriff's Office, thank you very very much for for keeping us safe. You know, I want to share a quick experience that I had and I haven't had the opportunity to keep safe. And I

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think it's a testament going back to why I love this district and why I think this school district is doing so well. If anybody had the opportunity to go to the kindergarten graduation at Tollwood, I thought it was amazing. And I'll tell you why. Number one, the little kids are

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awesome. All right? They're amazing when they sing, when they're dancing, everything they do. A child is innocent. And it is a huge task that those teachers have to take care of innocent children. But what made this particularly special to me is Jennifer

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Joiner graduated with her degree and began to be a teacher. and she was not able to walk during graduation when she got her degree and she walked with those kindergarteners. >> And whoever facilitated that in our school district to make something like

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that happen, that's an awesome person and awesome people. And this is why Liberty County, this is why Liberty County is an awesome place. When we go out and do something like that to recognize our teachers, make it make them feel special, the kindergarters, kindergarters feel special, them being

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special together. That was an awesome moment, y'all. It was >> and and I it was probably personal because I've known him my whole life and graduated high school with her, but that was something special and I think we do so many special things every day and I'm grateful for all those that take part in

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those special things. Thank you all very much for that. >> Thank you. one. >> Um, do we have the do we have any count on the kids that are not coming back for next year yet? Have any kind of

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>> They have until the end of this month. >> Yeah. >> Okay. >> So, um, Manny Manny's keeping a list. >> Okay. Can we can we >> I'll send you actually got a spreadsheet on. I'll send it to you and it breaks it down by traditional homeschool, PE, all the different things. Have that on

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Excel. Okay. >> Yeah, I do know a few coming back. >> You do that left and coming back. >> Yep. I do know three. >> Okay. Um and the 1% that get back on the ballot. How long do we have to wait? I

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mean half. How long we have to wait? You said a year. Two. Two. >> Two years left. >> I missed the question. >> Yeah. >> Um you have to do it a year in advance. You have to start that process with an

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APA audit and a declaration. We have to do a >> Are we getting in that time frame? Are we getting close to >> So the the the next time you would do it would be in the November 28th election. >> 28th. Okay. All right. That's my question. Um thanks.

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>> How are we going to do that? So need to >> that that's a board decision. I'm g >> I'll be here for >> I want to go back for it again. I hate that we can't lobby for it. Um and and put some information out there. I know

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you you hired a guy like we got a guy last time. >> Um and it's it's sad, but I that's that's good money. I mean, I'm being honest. And especially with the new dog stores coming in and things like that and hopefully some new industry coming

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within the next couple years. I I would love to see it. every other county you have around here. >> Well, Franklin County knocked walls down and theirs pass and ours didn't. So, >> they actually hired a lobbying firm >> and do theirs work >> and it, you know, it's sad because the

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board members they lo, Mr. Chair, thank you. >> Thank you, guys. Comments 14. Make a motion to journal.