All right, let's let Liberty County School Board regular meeting Tuesday, May the 13, 2025 come to order. We're going to open with prayer and a pledge. Prayer by Mr. Kever. Pledge by Mr. Jason. Our father in heaven, we're grateful for this day and our blessings. We are very grateful to thee for our
health and for our strength and our energy. We're grateful for thy love for us. We pray that we can be the means of doing good in this community and good for the kids and and all those we have responsibility for. We pray that we can share love for one another and respect one another and each other's ideas and opinions. We just pray for a good
evening this evening in this meeting. We pray that the softball game will go well that there'll be great sportsmanship there. We're grateful for all those who have experienced good health and good fortune and those that are that are healing up after after having accidents. We pray for those that have lost loved
ones that they may have peace. And we pray for these things, Father, and do so in Christ's name. Amen. Amen. Pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation
under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. On item number two, recognition presentation. We didn't have any. Item number three, public comments. We didn't have any. Move right on item four, superintendent's report. Mr. Tul. Yes,
sir. Uh, so I'll be reading the superintendent's report tonight. He left a few items for us to discuss. As you know, he's in DC um advocating uh on behalf of our district and other rural districts with forestry. Um, first item,
uh, Miss Katie Joe Harrison was named a top five finalist for Florida Teacher of the Year. Very excited. That was Monday. I know many of you were able to make that. It was a great event, uh, to surprise her and her students. So, uh, she'll be able to attend the gala coming
up in July. Um, and fingers crossed she's got a one in five shot. So, 20% chance to to win, bring it all home as a teacher of the year for the state of Florida. So very proud of her. As as I mentioned earlier, superintendent in DC
says his trip's going well. Had a productive meeting with Rick Scott and has already he has already signed on to Senate Bill 356 working with Senator Ashley Moody as well and Representative Dunn was unavailable but met with his chief of staff and personal aid. Um they're very familiar with the
legislation and um said he will be supporting it. Uh he will visit all 26 congressional representative for the next two days. So he's got a very packed schedule. really called me today. I think he was on his way to another meeting and he was checking in. So, he's got a busy slate of meetings up there.
Um, superintendent, as he said in here, um, emailed you earlier today, he'll be discussing the salary schedule with you next week. He'll contact you to review. Fieldhouse progress is slow but steady, still being assured by Co Pepper that it will be done in time for football season.
Um, our district has successfully partners with uh who we play for to provide free uh heart screenings for any student in LC, not just athletes. This was a new legislation that was put in place. Um, as you know, Chance Gainor, support St. Joe, a football player that
passed away tragically um last year. Um, so, uh, that's legislation that's gone into effect and we're we're partnering with them to provide those screenings, uh, for for athletes, but also any student. We had, uh, teacher appreciation week last week. It was a
great week. A lot of, uh, prizes and awards handed out. And just a small token to those teachers who do such a phenomenal job with our students. Um, he he wanted to make sure that we thanked you all for your donations. And uh if you haven't paid up to see Miss
Renee, uh uh regional softball uh tonight at 7 uh regional final. So winner here goes on to the final four. So that'll be shortly after the board meeting tonight. So if you can go out there and support the Lady Bulldogs as they look to make
another trip down south. Kindergarten graduation toll is Thursday at 6. Hosford uh kindergarten graduation is next Monday. What time? 6:30. I know they've been busy practicing for many
months in anticipation of that. Uh LCHS Jamberee at home on Friday at 7 is it? What teams? Do you guys recall what teams will be at the Jambburye? I want to say one of them Port St. Joe.
Okay. Senior awards at LCHS will be on the 27th. balorates on the 28th and graduation on the 30th as we wind down. Um so our end of year testing has been going on. Um some really good scores, some areas where we need to look at and
improve, but um we hope to have a projection soon of kind of where we'll land with each school. Um state testing will end on today, Wednesday, Thursday. Thursday will be the LA last day. So it's been a long month of
testing. So, we'll wrap up there. Um, and uh, just wanted to add that it's been a successful year academically and solid and extracurriculars. Thank you for your role in the district success. So, thank you for all that you do. Thank you, M. Right on item number five,
corrections to the agenda. Need a motion to add emergency item 10 A and B. Have a motion. Motion, Mr. Singleary. Second. Second. Second, Miss Jody. Any discussion? All in favor say I. Any oppose? Motion carries. Next item B. Need a motion to delete consent item 8B.
I have a motion. Motion. Motion. Mr. uh Singleary. Make second. Second. Second. Mr. Morris. Any discussion? All in favor say I. Any oppose? Motion carries. Item number six. Need a motion to approve agenda for May 13, 2025. Have a motion.
Miss Jody. Second. Second. Any discussion? All in favor say I. Any oppose? Motion carries. Item number seven, item A. Need a motion to approve April 8th, 2025 regular meeting minutes. Have a motion. Motion. Motion, Mr. Kever. Second. Second. Second.
Singleary. Any discussion? All favor say I. Any oppose? Motion carries. Next item B. Need a motion to approve April 8th, 2025 workshop minutes. Have a have a motion. Motion. Motion. Mr. Kever. Second. Second, Mr. Moore. Any
discussion? All in favor say I. I. Any opposed? Motion carries. Moving on to item eight, consent items. Item A. Need a motion to approve 2025 financial report and transactions. Have a motion. Motion. Motion. Miss Jody. Second. Second. Second, Mr.
Kever. Any discussion? All in favor say I. Any oppose? Motion carries. Next item B has been deleted. Moving on. Item C. Need a motion to approve May the 2025 personnel consent table. Have a motion. Motion. Motion, Mr. second. Second. Second, Mr. Singleary.
Any discussion? All in favor say I. Any opposed? Motion carries. Moving on. Item D. Need a motion app to approve 21st cent person table for the period of 6 to 9th 25 through the 7th 31st 25. Have a
motion. Motion. Motion. Mr. Kever. Second. Mr. uh Singleary. Any discussion? Morris. Any discussion? All in favor say I. Any opposed? Motion carries. Moving on item E. Need a motion to approve May the 2025 update sub list.
I have a motion. Motion. Motion, Miss Jody. Second. Second. Second, Mr. Kever. Any discussion? All in favor? Say I. Any oppose? Motion carries. Next item nine, action item. Item eight. Need a motion to approve FOE project award notification idea part B K12 entitlement
program period 7 1st 20 24th through the 6th to 30th to 25. I have a motion. Motion motion single second. Second, Mr. Morris. Any discussion? All in favor say I. Any oppose? Motion carries. Next item B. Need a motion to approve SDOE project
award notification idea part B preschool entitlement for pro uh program period of 7 the 1st to 24 through the 6 to 30 to 25. Have a motion. Motion more. Second. Second. Second. Miss Jody. Any discussion? All in favor say I. Any
opposed? Motion carries. Next item C. Need a motion to approve 2025 2026 dual enrollment articulation agreement between the district school board of Leyon County, Florida through Lively Tech Technical College and the Liberty County School District. Motion. Motion.
Motion, Miss Jody. Second. Second. Second, Miss Singleary. Any discussion? Yeah, I do have a question. How how is this have have we is this a continuation of something that we've already had in place? Okay. Okay. Were there any changes from last
year's contract to this year's contract? Same. Same. That's it. Okay. I got you. How um as far as productivity wise, how how is this looking generally within the within the schools as far as people utilizing this this
I got you. Okay. Thank you. All in favor say I. Any oppose? Motion carry. On item D. Need a motion to approve and interact agency public works uh local agreement between the state of Florida Department of Corrections through its institution facility of Liberty Correction
Institution, Liberty County School Board. I have a motion. Motion Jody. Second. Second. Second. Mr. Kever. Any discussion? No changes to this. This is just the renewal again. Are there any changes in this in this agreement? What
else? Okay. All in favor say I. Any opposed? Motion carries. Next item. E. Need a motion to approve annual inspection agreements between advanced fire protection service incorporated and the Liberty County School Board for a term of five years to provide annual
backflow inspections at the following locations. WR Toller K8 and Hosford Elementary and Junior High have a motion. Motion Singleary second. Second, Mr. Moore. Any discussion? All in favor say I. Any oppose? Motion carries.
Moving on. Item F. Need a motion to advertise invitation to be up for fuel and gas for the 2526 physical year. Motion motion keeper. Second. Second. Second. M. Singleary. Any discussion? Mr. Chair, I got a question. Kevin, um,
I thought when we did the ITB last year, we didn't have a renewal clause in that, right? Yeah. It's the same company. Yeah. And well, it's it you know it basically you have when you when you do the it I think we talked about this last
year when we do the bid, you know, if we decide that we're going to do a renewal, we have to state that we're going to have to renew a new and they have to give an anticipated renewal process. I know that that is a volatile market and it it does move, but they basically, you know, they say what they can do then if
something happens and they can't guarantee that then, you know, we'll move out. But just I don't know. I I I every time I just see this over and over I I I ag I I agree. So, well, it it does and it you know, it
basically it you know, we lock in and I'm I'm not a big one for a year contract. I'll say that most of the states contracts were like three years with a three-year renewal or one year, you know, option to renew one year. Um, yeah. So, I just I just had to ask.
I saw that bid and I was like, I thought we did a renewal for that, but didn't do it. Need to be done in this. Yes, sir. Okay. What do we What do we do to do that? Right. This is This is a price plus. Is
it a price plus per gallon? Something like that is what we're looking at. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And and I know you probably have looked. Does And I haven't looked in a long time. Does the state of Florida have a fuel bid? Don't they do a fuel
bid? I would think like a state contract that we can we can we actually have the authority to ours is cheaper. Okay. Gotcha. Right. From the from a state contract. Yeah. Yeah. And
you're right. And well, you know, the state is buying for a much bigger um entity of course for these state agencies, but you know, if if and I was just wondering, you know, I hadn't looked in a long time, right? Pilot pricing. Pilot pricing. Are you
getting it? Do you have a dispenser out there? You talking about for the 330 gallon we buy gun. And another thing, if a contractor knows, you know, they got the contract, they're they're not going to, you know, because they're going to try to keep our business. Nine times out of 10, they're
going to try to keep our business, right? Right. We just just that we have the right to renew if we want to, you know, that does not guarantee anything. We're doing like a three-year option. Yeah. the state the state tried to when well
again I it's been a long time since I've been at state but um we what we would try to do is we didn't we stopped the fiveyear going into the five you know making it 10 years we went three and then with an option to one two three and this is a volatile market you know fuel
is it changes daily you know you just the markup right he they can state what their markup is but that we just know that going into this if we did do a renewal that that price could go up or it could go down, you know, but what their markup is. So, I'm I'm fine with
changing this to a three-year like up to a three-year. You know, if I don't know if we need to change the motion to add that in, but I'm fine with doing that option or a new for probably just need three more years approve bidding it out now and then maybe add that on the bid
on the paperwork. Mhm. Yeah. Probably don't need all say I I'm good with it. Any opposed? Motion carries. Item G. Need a motion to approve disposition of property. Have a motion. Motion singing. Second. Second. Favor.
Any discussion? All in favor say I. Any opposed? Motion carries. Moving on. Item H. Need a motion to approve out of state trip transportation for Liberty County Project graduation held in Dothan, Alabama at Fundzone Skate Center. Students will be leaving for the trip at
10:30 p.m. following graduation on May the 30th and scheduled to arrive back at Liberty County on June the 1st at 7 a.m. Have a motion. Motion. Motion, Miss Jody. Second. Second. Second, Mr. Kever. Any discussion? All in favor? Say I. Any oppose? Motion carried. Next item. I
need a motion to approve district tribal expenders for attendance to the 2025 Famous Conference located in Orlando, Florida, June the 23rd through the 25th. Have a motion. Motion. Motion, Mr. Moore. Second. Second. Second, Mr. Kever. Any discussion? All in favor say
I. Any opposed? Motion carries. Next item J. Need a motion to approve travel expenditures for three administrators to attend the 2025 Florida school safety summit in Orlando, Florida, June 8th through the 11th. Have a motion. Motion. Motion. Mr. Singleary. Second. Second.
Second, Miss Jody. Any discussion? All in favor say I. Any opposed? Motion carries. Next item K. Need a motion to approve superintendent travel expenditure for a flyin of secural rule schools authorization act of 2025 to Washington DC May the 12th through the
15th. I have a motion. Motion first Mr. Kever. Second second. Second Mr. Morris. Any discussion? All in favor say I. Any opposed? Motion carries. Next item mail. Need a motion to approve track team travel expenditures to attend competition in Jacksonville, Florida May
the 9th through the 10th. I have a motion. Motion. Motion Mr. Kever. Second, Mr. Singleary. Any discussion? All in favor say I. I. Any opposed? Motion carries. Next item. M. Need a motion to approve high school campus course and instructor request for
Chipola College dual enrollment fall 2025 college algebra and spring 2026 statistics. I have a motion. Motion. Motion. Jody. Second. Second. Stever. Any discussion? All in favor say I. Any oppose? Motion carry. That's item end.
Need a motion to approve high school campus course and instructor request for Chipotle College dual enrollment fall of 2025 English composition one and spring in 2026 English composition two. Have a motion. Motion motion mver second.
Mor any discussion? All in favor say I. Any oppose? Motion carries. Next item, O. Need a motion to approve the following summer program interventionist teacher recommendations effective May the 30th through July the 30th, 2025. Alicia Bath, Cara Brown, and Desiree Su.
Need a motion. Motion. Motion, Mr. Kever. Second. Second. Second, Miss Jody. Any discussion? All in favor say I. Any opposed? Motion carries. Next item P. Need a motion to approve the following summer program. ES ESY teacher recommendation. Jessica Kramer Wrer K8
Amanda Shyber Liberty Early Learning Center PreK I have a motion motion motion with more second second second Mr. Any discussion? All in favor say I. Any opposed? Next item. Q. A motion to approve the following summer
program esy pair professional recommendations. Elizabeth Curry uh WR Toller K8. Jamie Davis Liberty Early Learning Center PreK. Jasmine Fields uh one and one at WR Toller. Miss Sander
Brown one and one at WR Toller. Have a motion. Motion More second. Second. Second. Miss Jody. Any discussion? All in favor say I. Any opposed? Motion carries. Next item 10, emergency items. Item eight. Need a motion to approve the
2025 26 contract for PAC support service. I have a motion. Motion. Mr. Moore. Second. Second. Mr. Singleary. Singleary. Any discussion? Yeah, I apologize y'all. I I should have paid better attention to my texts and
emails. I did not have a chance to see this or review this. What can somebody give me a summary of what this is referring to? I mean, is this like standard renewal contracts? I mean, like I I've seen some of it, but is there anybody
that could summarize it? Yeah. I remember. Yeah. Yeah. And then HR side like didn't we just renew like the Skyward contracts for the accounting softwares? I mean, is this like just trying to roll all of these services?
Huh? It's through the consortium all districts and you just review that through the PAC that this like some of these I want. Okay. The services they provide.
Okay. Provide a lot for us. I understand. Okay. All right. I got you. Okay. And I think PEC is great. I was just making sure I understood what's happening with this. So, this is a continuation of the the services that they provide for us on an
annual basis. We're asking them professional development, all those services that they provide. So it's it's divided out proportionally by all the districts that are in the PAC. This is our proportion of share. How long have we been a part of
that? I know since I've been on the board. Long time, huh? I was on the board. Yeah. Really? I didn't even know it existed that long. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Huh. Oh, I know.
Really? Wow. No idea. Wow. All of us. Well, I tell you, John that I've had the opportunity to speak with a lot of times, sell over, he's he seems like a great great guy from there. So I would I would imagine you are getting
great support from Yeah. Thank y'all. I appreciate that. I apologize for not seeing that come in. All in favor say I. Any oppose? Motion carry. Item B. Need a motion to approve contract service agreement with Premier Therapy and Rehab PLLC DBA tester for the occupational
therapist service during the months of June and July 2025. I have a motion. Miss Jody, second Mr. Kever. Any discussion? All in favor say I. Any oppose? Motion carries. Item 11, board policy items. Don't have any. Moving on to board
member items. Mr. Mason, three minutes. See what you did there, Mr. Go ahead. Hey, I appreciate y'all. Thank you for putting up with me, everybody that uh that has to hear from me. I appreciate all you do. I I I I clearly see there's a lot of work that that comes in on this side, and I know there's so much more
that all of you do. So, thank y'all for that. Um, you know, I just want to say congratulations again to Miss Katie Joe. She's a great lady. I know I know uh my youngans love her. I think that's a great accomplishment and it's great to see Hosford School um be recognized for
all the good that they do and their hard work and the leadership there. I appreciate that greatly. Uh also grateful to see um the EKGs coming into the athletic screenings. I think that is a great thing. um the who we play for in Kier and East. Um the the people the
organization seems like a great organization. I know that this is catching hold on a lot of counties round about. I I appreciate Kyle helping spearhead that and whoever else that I do not know helped out. Thank y'all um for getting those EKGs scheduled. um
kind of a wakeup call um seeing something like we saw happen in a team that we played that you know this this this may may not but may have have been a game changer for for uh for Chance Gainer and his family. So I'm grateful that that that benefit's coming to
Liberty County School District and all the students. Um, if I understand correctly, maybe tell me if I'm wrong, it legislators pushed back maybe till when the end of June. Is that correct?
So then we won't, it sounds like we won't know a lot of our final numbers and things of that nature for the next fiscal year for budgets until until right around that time. Um, you know, if if possible, I'd definitely like if we can to maybe have some preliminary
workshops pertaining to the budget. I don't know. I I think they were supposed to be coming up soon. I'd really like to to start discussing things like there a few items um again that I think are important to discuss. Football bleachers. I appreciate you bringing it
up. Do you do you have something for me there? Yeah. Okay. Mhm. Mhm. Do we have an idea on what it would cost for the labor and materials to actually put something around? Got you.
So, we're looking at $30,000 to keep a young and safe as what we're talking about. Maybe. So, I guess thinking about it from a budget perspective, right? We we kind of have some estimations. Maybe that's where it come in. Or instead of spend 30
plus $40,000, maybe we look at grant possibilities, legislative appropriation possibilities to maybe do something to that whole set of bleachers is what it sounds like possibly. So I mean, in other words, if you try to get that where it is ADA compliant on the ramps,
safety on the fencing, and you have 50 plus,000 to reshape, redo for the compliance for the slopes. I'm pretty sure the slopes are out of ADA compliance. It's a big cost. So, it might be something we say, "Hey, what's the overall cost to completely redo this?" Maybe have somebody work that up
where we can actually go to legislature to see the side ramps aren't out of compliance. I got you. So, that doesn't affect the bleachers then as far as So, hold on. The slopes can that we got to fix the
slope, but a rail fallen off the back we don't we don't need to fix by compliance is what I'm understanding. Hm. Interesting. Okay. So, anyway, I I I would like to keep that thought out there. I still think it's a safety problem. And that's just one of the things pertaining to budget. I mean, I'm
just one I I think it's worth it to keep a kid safe. Kind of like the EKGs ain't never been done, but would this kid be alive if EKG had been done to him? I ain't never seen a kid pass away on a football field before, ever. But if it happens, maybe things need to change. And it sounds like legislator is doing
it. I think I think it's a great thing and I think our kids are protected. So maybe it's something we can toss around and maybe we can get an idea. Just my one fifth vote on it to to really see what could be done. Thank you. Thank you for checking on that. I I realize we're strapped for cash and there's a lot of
things we need to do, but in the back of my mind maybe it's something something to consider budget. Um school bus. So if if I understand has that have we put in an order for a new school bus yet
at this time? There has been no order for a new school bus. So is where are we at with the the the request the legislature and the funding? Is that still in the in the works as that would be earlier?
Yeah. I mean are we still is it looking is it looking good though from what we hear? Yeah, it was in there. It was in the budget. I don't know if it's been been kicked out, but I know there's a lot of turmoil. So, let let me ask you this. So, how long does it take us to get a bus?
So, is there do do we pay for a bus up front if we order a bus? So, what's the problem with us ordering a bus, right? If we're not paying up front, if there's 15 month turnaround time on getting a bus, wouldn't it make sense to order a bus? And then if we don't have to pay
for the but in the worst if we got it didn't have the money for it I would think we could sell it right and if do we so the question is do we need a bus that bad? I bring this up because I know we had a bus breakdown and bus had to go
pick up youngans and do we need buses that bad where we need to think about in budget processes considering within the next month possibly putting in a order or orders for buses, right? And then what's the contractual obligation we
have to take possession of that bus if if we make an order, right? Are we contractually obligated to take it if the legislature doesn't fund it? Right. Are we obligated to do that? And I don't mean to interrupt Jud. No,
please. Please go ahead. What? We were going to do a workshop on this. I don't remember cuz I mean we had gotten together. We got some numbers. We got right. You sent all the information. Um
yeah. Can we can we look into that? Um Mr. So, can we look into that about a workshop and you get with Kyle on that? Cuz I know we had but they said we didn't do that workshop because we got those buses from Walton, but that mean Yeah, but now Yeah, but really ain't got
them. Yeah, we we need Yeah. I Yeah. So, all right. So, instead of me talking about this more, I think that's a great Thank you for for saying that. I'm 100% on board to doing a workshop and maybe it's a separate workshop for the bus or a budget workshop to talk
about all the things financially that we may need to be doing coming in this ne next year. Maybe it's bleachers. Maybe it's buses. Maybe it's multiple buses. Maybe it's one bus. I know the toller gym seats from what I hear that there
there might be a a hazard down there. It seems like it could be a good idea to see. I know I could benefit from knowing all the absolute necessities of expenditures that we need to put in a budget for this next year to see where we're at.
We're talking about all the Yeah. list, so to speak. Yeah. I I would love that. Yeah. Mhm. Yeah. The old You're talking about the old football field house. Sorry. Concession.
Okay. Concession. Okay. And that same company. Yeah. something like a concession stand. Old concession stand over here. That's is it stand seam or just regular galoon? Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's gonna the roof's going to end up rotting is what's going to happen when you end up tearing it off and redoing decking. Mhm. Yeah. Yeah. I don't I don't think that's bad. Yeah.
Yeah. So, speaking personally for me, I think it would be absolutely beneficial to have that list so we could look at it coming up in the budget where I I completely trust Miss Katie. I see all the hard work she does in keeping the numbers together and we can say, "Hey, this is this is where we're sitting
financially. These are the options we have." Um, that way we can start making some choices now before we enter a fiscal year to start needing to make expenditures in a new fiscal year, you know. Okay. Yeah. Yep.
Yeah. Are there outstanding work orders right now that have been in place that we just don't have the money for? Okay. Is there any way that you could kind of get us a list of those? I know it's but
Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Gotcha. Is that something? Did they say they thought they could match that roof that color? I mean, I know it ain't going to be perfect. But it'll be one side and then the other side. So, it won't be like two or three
sheets. So, they'd like pull from one to that thing. Yeah. Right. Yes. Okay. The company is Yeah, I got it. It didn't leave this weekend. It
must be fixed. Gotcha. So it would we'd email you a a maintenance and an equipment list so we could think about both whatever you want to see. Okay. Okay. Kind of a spin-off of that and
going along with that and and kind of dollars and budgets coming up from a curriculum standpoint. Are there like dollars coming up in this next fiscal year that we that we can talk about or need to talk about budgetarywise of things that we feel we absolutely need to do to stay competitive by curriculum,
draw kids in? the governor established. Yeah, you have to to get that has to be on. You made with teachers. Teachers review all options. Okay. So, so what's coming up? You say
now is this like going to be an additional construction welding. Okay. So, smaller dollar pieces. I got you. Okay. So, kind of where I'm coming from, I when we're looking at equipment
maintenance, I don't want to pull away from education, right? Unless it's like an absolute blatant safety issue, then in other words, if you can help me out being new to this, I'd appreciate it. I don't I don't want to be trying to say, "Hey, look at this and there's something I don't know about from a curriculum
standpoint." So, locked in. Yeah, there's a handful of options, but after that Okay. But as far as like a wish list of technology or bringing us into a a new
future or Yeah, we're ahead of most districts. Okay. All right. That's great. Okay. All right. Great. Like we need to do with school buses. Yeah. Bus cost a little bit more there,
huh? Well, it's volume. Yeah. Per kid. Yeah. Per kid. We're looking at We're looking at volume when it comes to that, right? Yeah, technology is Well, thank you. Thank you for that. All
right. So in line with that, we had talked about um last last meeting going out with a request for proposal possibly for grant writing engineering services. When when do we anticipate put like advertising for that, reviewing that and advertising for that? It seems like something that could go hand inand with
our equipment maintenance, things of that nature. In other words, if we know that there's dollars out historic preservation for the roof, we don't need to be spending dollars that we're going to get from historic preservation that we could be using for something else. So, it seems if we get get on with trying to find someone that can help us
with the maintenance and the drainage and the facilities and the things of that nature that can write grants, it would be good to have someone on our team when we're going into this budget process because I would hate for us to spend dollars on something we could have gotten grant dollars for or if there's matching dollars that are out there. Do
do we have an anticipated date that we'll I I remember I thought the superintendent was going to talk about that and discuss it like at a workshop. I thought it was the last time he said that he was willing to discuss that and what that would look like, but that was as far as I thought. Was it just somebody was going to meet? Was it Justin gonna meet with him? Yeah.
Justin, did he meet with him? Yeah. All right. Understood. So, from from a board perspective, is the board are is everyone on board with seeking seeking someone for grant writing engineering services? US us going out for a proposal? I think I need more
information on it. I I would love to hear what Kyle's, you know, and Justin talked about um and and kind of understand the aspects of what we're doing and you know, is the is it worth it? Because again, and I said it in last
meeting, you know, with with Washington with, you know, President Trump doing what he's doing with education and, you know, cutting federal funding or either not maybe necessarily cutting or moving it to the state. I don't know what that looks like right now and and that's just
me personally. Sure. But I would like to I'd like to hear more about it, you know, and what what it could possibly lead us into, but you know, I don't I don't want to add any extra burden to our administration district office that's already handling these grants and
working and you know, so I I just I need more information. I'm at a I just need more information. Yeah, it's a good idea. I think I don't think it's a bad idea. I just don't know if you know I don't know what it looks like. My feelings
are we can get somebody to get us free money and it doesn't cost us money. I'm all for it. If if that can happen, but like Miss Jody
said Yeah. Yeah. If it doesn't call out of these 80,000 matching, they're matching. Well, yeah, they're matching grants and we may not have the money to do that, but I mean like a commission they get paid for what
money they can bring. That's what I That's what you were saying earlier, right? You sit in your office. You get on computer. That's what I was saying. Yeah. You get a percentage. When you when you get a grant, do most
grants, and I'm asking y'all, grant getting people, do most grants come with like an administration administrative fee fee? Some of them knew. They got it into it. Yeah. you got into it as a grand. So now I appreciate you sharing that and
that was kind of one of the things I was thinking about. If we have a maintenance list, right, and there is something out there but we have to put in X dollars and we've already planned to put in X dollars and we can double the amount of money we get because we're putting in a h 100,000. They're going to give us a h 100,000. It would be good to know about
that before we put in a hundred. And then they tell us, well, hey man, we would have given you a hundred to go with it. Yeah. But but you had to ask for it. So in other words, I don't want to miss that opportunity if it's out there. So a brief conversation I had with Justin at Deubberry. So obviously
if we RFP, it's going to be an open invitation. We're going to get a lot of different people saying, "Hey, we would like to write grants for you. We would like to provide engineering services for you." Right? So I mean it would be the board that would pick and it could look different for different companies, right? But from my conversation with
him, the way this would look is it would be no cost to the district. They would write grants for us. If grants were approved, then they would be the ones that would have the opportunity to get the engineering, right? The the engineering costs that would be paid out or the admin cost associated with it. So
there'd be zero dollars that would be paid by the district for them to provide those services. And there would be the only extra burden that might be there is poor Katie. They'd say, "Hey, can you provide us financials on this, this, and this, right? They might need to turn something turn something in that we
would provide to them from from finance or something like that." So, I I would imagine from the experience I've had, yeah, there's going to be a little bit more burden, but it could maximize the cash flow we have come in where we could use that cash flow in other in other locations. So yeah, I would definitely,
if y'all are open to it, like to like to hear that conversation. I know money's out there. I've seen it out there. Yeah. It's not being left out there. And sometimes there's a grant here that paperwork
did not worth the money. It's not so strange. I mean, if they come in here just like you has to be done. Cost of $100. You got to use this side board and this side. It tells
you over that way. You have to let Can I let me let me um because I I want to make sure that you guys and what you're saying is Mr. Kever I don't think anybody in the room would say that that
we don't want grants. We we absolutely want we run on grants. I mean, I don't know what percentage our schools are running on grants, but I I hear a couple of things is is that there is no company out there, and I don't I I would be very interested to
see Deubberry in here telling us they're going to do this for nothing. Okay? And I've talked to other companies, too, about this. It it it would be very rare that that would happen. These companies are in a in the business for a business. They they do it
to make money. somewhere somehow. So the way I see it and I'm going to go back with Katie about the you know we we there is a and I I think that we need to be very conscious about the finance office and even Mandy these people that
go out there and get these grant I mean we go out there and we get these grants that sounds beautiful hey we're going to get $30,000 $100,000 whatever but it comes back in the paperwork has got to be done the tracking, the reporting has
got to be done, the payments have got to be done. It is I mean it then there's audits that's going to be done on that. It is a backflow of m of of paperwork and a trail that just goes on and on and on. Now I could go in there and say, "Hey, if Jody writes you a grant, you
give me the 5% administrative fee and and I'll write you a great grant." You're going to get the grant. And you get the grant. Guess what happens? all that money, all that paperwork, all those audits are coming back to this this school. We're still going to have
to handle it. So, they're getting money to write the grants. So, it's not like a free service. Again, I would love to hear more about it, but there are stipulations. There's matching grants. There's all this. We have people now that are going out there looking for
grants. I've not personally heard that we are such in a and I'm just talking from Jody. Mhm. Nobody's come and talked to me and said, "Hey, we are buried in grants. We are we can't get out of our own way. We can't pay bills. Um, you
know, we can't do our bids. We can't open bids because we're too buried in grants." And so, I've never heard I haven't heard that. Now, you know, and I do know that our finance and and curriculum and others wear a lot of hats. They do.
But I ju I think we just need to we need to be open-minded. Okay. Open-minded to hey, that might be a possibility. It sounds really good. It does. It sounds wonderful. But there's going to be some calls somewhere. And if most of these
companies are going to want to contract with you and you pay them typically. So pay them how? It may be the administrative fee. If that's that administrative fee, then our people still got to pay those bills and that's just put more work on them. So, we just
losing money there. I'd love to to have a a person that goes out there and searches them and contacts us and says, "Hey, y'all know about this? Y'all know about this? Y'all know about this?" But I think we I think we got that staff here. But I'm not I've never heard
anybody holler, you know. So again, I don't I don't I think we need to hear every side of it, but I want to say this out loud. I don't think one person in this room is saying this is not it's a good idea. It sounds like a good idea. We want more grants. We do, but it's a
lot. Wait till Mr. Petty gets back in workshop. This idea. Yeah, I want to hear. Yeah, that's what I think, guys. You know, I'm good with that. And we can invite we can invite whoever we want to invite. have him invite whoever from wherever to kind of walk through what this thing what it would look like. got
to be very let me let me caution you again and I would I would ask our attorney and I want I do I we do need to move on but caution caution caution if we're going into a competitive procurement here be careful with that
because the company if the company comes in I mean would you would you come in and show your colors and show what you going to do and then we put it out for an RFQ is that fair you have to be very careful what you say or not you got to be careful Oh, we could do an RFI. We
could do some other things. Let's Let's get with Let's get with Kyle. Okay. And let's talk about this thing cuz I I don't want us to get in hot water on this. Do that guy when he gets Great. I think that's a great idea. Okay. Um last thing and I'm done. I promise. So, I talked to Kyle a couple of times about
the fieldhouse. The fieldhouse is getting the finishing electrical work done on the back. There's two wall packs on the back of the fieldhouse that have lights coming down the walls. One idea was to have those those light packs shine out and be brighter. A thought I had was we're in an opportune time to
put in about four more lights on the back of the fieldhouse that would make it illuminate or be way brighter out the back of the fieldhouse at the football fieldhouse, the new one that's being built right now. So, they're still wired in on the electrical. So, in other words, it's not all wired in. We're not going to get out
there and realize there's only two lights on the back. When you're coming in with a bus load of 40 something kids, there's not enough light for people to get their equipment in to get in and out of the fieldhouse as good to get their cars as good, mom and dads to pick up the young guys. It might be a time to wire in some more lights on the back of
the fieldhouse. Um, that would be my suggestion. I don't know if the board would be interested in in discussing that or looking at that option, but I think it's an opportune time while they're wiring it right now to make a modification to that to make sure it's lit up and and you can see what you're doing. I know at our current fieldhouse
when we come in at 1:00 in the morning, damn dark. There's two lights. It is pitch black dark. You can't see what you're doing. You can't see the kids. You can't see stuff off the trailers. It is pitch black dark. Even with those lights, fog, humid. I mean, it's just that time of year. So, it'd be safer.
There would be a price. Maybe a change order. I don't know. Um I don't know what options we have, but I mean that just just my thought. Um, I I think it should be addressed now. If you wanted to address it 100% now would be the time to do it. I mean, it's they're working
on they're pulling the electrical now. They cut a hole in the middle. They'd run they they put a box there and they'd run the wires where they needed to go and we'd put some of them outside. It's opportune time to I I think it would make it right. But again, like I say, if you modify the plans, you got a change
order possibly, you got all that stuff involved. That's just my thought. Um, I just wanted to bring it up. the the metal's not poured solid. You wouldn't go in the block walls. You'd go in the metal on the top where the other lights off the front were beast. You you you'd drill through the metal is what
you'd do. And there's some insulation. You'd cut out. You put boxes and you'd run the wires. The ceiling ain't in yet. So, you ain't got to fight the ceiling. You ain't got to mess with that. It'd be up higher so it illuminate better. Well, there's it's all in the metal on the front right now. If you look at all
the holes and all the covers that are taped over right now, there's I think six. There's six across the front, I think. Yeah. Now, the wall I'm pretty sure the wallpack lights are on the actual block. They got them on the bathrooms. They got them on the back. I can't recall the front to be honest with
you. There might be some of those, you know, like that the high school at night that shine straight down the wall and you can't see you can see if people around the wall, you know. So, this will basically give you the option of having brighter light casting out. That's what's on the front that design right now. Um, from all those holes and it it
could look the same way on the back. So, anyway, board, if you had the interest, something to think about. I I think it'd be a great time great time to do it. And I'm done. Thank y'all. Love y'all. Appreciate y'all. All right. Miss Jody, two things. Um, Renee, would you mind look, we talked the other day when we
went over for Katie Joe. Would you mind getting some um figures together for possibly us having a table at the um uh what is it called? The conference, the gala. Yeah, I think it would be really good if if we had some representation. I
don't know if some of the district staff would want to go or anybody else want to go. I think there's a table of 10 that during the Destin Con July 17th. July 17th. Yeah, I think that's when the leadership conference is in Destin. Yeah. Okay. We can talk about it for
sure. Board members just Yeah, I don't know. There may be some board members interested in going um and and I think it would be good for to represent Liberty County um to have us down there if that this is a big deal. Um I want to wish luck to the lady dogs tonight and
and um I I believe we're headed we're headed back where we where we like to be state. So um that's it. Thank you. I'd like to say I thank Mr. Jar for filling in tonight and thank Mr. Petty for going to Washington, working on our behalf in the district. Thank y'all for all y'all
do. I appreciate the hard work y'all do. And thank you, Mr. Chad Smith, for being with us tonight. Brother, it's all I got. Mr. Jason, bring it down. Congratulations again to Miss K. I was able to go see the shock and the excitement on her
face. And that's just I didn't realize how big a deal it was until I got there and saw all the reinforcement laid down for. DOE did a great job making her feel special and and making us feel special.
But and I'm I'm with Jody. I would love to go down there and support her. However it goes. If if she does win at all, I would I'd love to see the look on her face. But uh I I just thought that was a real big deal for Liberty County and for
Hosford. Go Bulldogs. Let's go to state. When do we go to state? I think if they win, they play today. They play Tuesday. Yeah, they got to win the day. But if they win, I think they play Tuesday. They don't know the time yet. Depends on seating and everything. And they've moved it from where it's been being to
where? Yeah. It's outside of Orlando, which is got to be better than that old place. Yeah. So, you figuring on going, too? We're going to go. I was just wondering when it was. Jennifer wouldn't like when when is it
when is it? Tuesday. Tuesday. We got We got Hosford graduation Monday. Is that correct? Yeah. And and those playoffs will be over Wednesday or Thursday. I think they I think it's Tuesday and Wednesday. That
championship game will be Wednesday. And we have back Thursday. It's on the following week. Oh, okay. Okay. Okay. 27 2830. Gotcha. And thank y'all
for everything y'all do. I know y'all don't hear that every day, but I appreciate it. That's all I got. Well, just Kevin, let everybody know what a bus when you order bus. What's the cost of that bus? And I'm just just go ahead and say with the cameras and
all that stuff. We didn't even We took somebody's acquisition 160,000. Oh, plus the camera. I mean, totally finished out deal, cameras, everything. You're pushing
200,000. Got to be real close though. Um, and it's and you you're lucky if they don't run into a problem during frost year. Wanted y'all to kind of understand that that if if we're going to be talking this in a workshop, we
need to make a decision quickly on, hey, are we going to be orders from buses or not? Because if they go up here, you're looking at 10 to 13 to 15% on in my market. I don't know really on buses.
Yeah, we need to come up with something. That's why we got to lean on you. Absolutely. Absolutely. And what he's saying there is I've been on the other side of that where we've had to wait for buses to get back while I was coaching and you know then this and that and
then it really gets to be from two, three, four, five. How many good buses do we have? Need 15. How many would you say are good that we have now? I I That one I run, it leaks a little
bit, but it runs like a champ. 1710s a little bit. Well, the thing is to you got to you got to take in consideration too. You need 20% of your fleet could be down at any time. I mean, you just don't even count that 20%, right? You don't you don't even count that.
down. And he said four coming from him. I agree. Sounds like we need to work out everything. If you can't get them to school, what can we do? Mr. So, could you could you arrange it where we can have a workshop pretty
quick? I'll talk to I'll talk to superintendent. We'll get something set up. He's all we're supposedly I think having one on the salary schedule. Yeah. Soon. Okay. Maybe we could bump that in. We can workshop multiple items. Okay.
One workshop, right? Yeah. I've got a note. I'll gonna talk to individually about that. I probably will. Let's do that. Yeah. Minimum.
Minimum. A year. Yeah. So, if you got a bus that's going to be wore out in a year, you need to be replacing it now. Yeah. 18. Yeah. I'd say 18. And we got to do some budget planning. Talk about that,
too. We got to we got to look into one I drove, you know, start out recording mileage and then we got to have some standing 12,000 miles on them a year. Not going to work. Yeah, we got got to be there. I don't care if it's just one. It's got to be there every year. Every year. That's what
every other other districts do. I mean, payment and a lot more than we do, but you know, it just needs to be in there. I mean, you don't afford. Congratulations to Miss Katy Joe as well. Y I couldn't make it
there in Florida, but I like the post that they put up everybody on it and my excitement in that whole room, not just in her, you all smiling and everything. And kids, it was awesome. Kids were great.
It was very obvious how much the kids loved her. And I know they love most teachers, but that was very obvious. That's all I got. 13 closing comments. None. 14. Need a motion to journ.
Motion. Motion with Jody. Second. Second.