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good evening and welcome to the March 25th 2025 meeting of the Maran County School Board it is called to order at 5:31 p.m. mirroring and modeling the way our students begin each day I ask that we observe a moment of silence at this
time please please join me thank you Reverend Cummings would you please read the board commitment statement yes ma'am we are the Marian County School District leadership team when we come together to work we are efficient effective and productive our three most important characteristics are
dedicated transparent individually responsible to work well together together we must demonstrate respect confront reality and be accountable we'll always put students first and we will leave a legacy of success thank you for the courtesy of those listening to the meeting I am requesting everyone in
the audience to please turn off their electronic devices and put them on vibrate later in the meeting up to 30 minutes will be provided for individuals to address the board on matters concerning the operations of the Marian County school system and or the school board only presentations to the board
are limited to 5 minutes and are televised if you wish to address the board regarding a public hearing or a student discipline matter please complete a lime green form these forms must be fully completed and received to the board clerk no later than 5:40
p.m. um good evening Miss Martinez please call the role Dr Allison Campbell district one Mrs Lorie Conrad District Two here Mr Eric Cummings District three here Mrs Nancy thrower District Four here Dr Sarah James District Five here adalis Diaz Westport HIgh
School khil Lawson lakare High School Dr Diane gullet superintendent here Mr Jeremy Power School Board attorney here thank you Miss Martinez Dr gullet who will share the inspiration and pledge uh for us this evening good evening Madam chair members of the board
great to see you tonight um pleased to have Dr Brewer come forward and we are going to be recognizing uh amazing students from the Flight Academy and so um and outstanding students coming forward now yes good evening chair
Conrad board members and superintendent Dr gullet I um have the pleasure of introducing Cadet Cen Briggs from Forest High School he is representing his flight Academy this evening as so many other students have other commitments with Athletics taking place in other
activities tonight so he is being brave and um representing everyone um I want to share just a couple statements and then I'm going to turn it over to Cadet colen Briggs for him to share more and then he will lead us in the Pledge of Allegiance the Flight Academy is an Air
Force sponsored summertime Flight Training Program designed for High School junior Roc students these students have a very selective process the application includes a physical fitness test score a standing a high
standing in the jrtc program a comprehensive Aviation focused online test and an FAA medical examination the process is extremely competitive and to earn a slot in the program is a true
amazing accomplishment so at this time I'd like you to meet colen bricks thank you good evening superintendent gullet members of the board and distinguished guests my name is Colin Briggs and I'm
honored to stand before you this evening to present our four Cadets from Forest High School Air Force jrc program who were selected to go to the Air Force's Flight Academy
program Flight Academy is a summertime program sponsored by the Air Force to where we will be receiving our private Pilots license across schools from around the country with Just 2 50
RC Cadets we will be culminating in a private Pilots license since 2018 Forest RC program has sent 16 Cadets and we'll make it 20 we're incredibly proud to be
representing our jrc unit Forest High School and the future of Aviation I stand before you not only to share our accomplishments but to also express our deep
gratitude this opportunity would not have been possible without the unwavering support of our parents school district teachers and of course the commitment of the board in expanding student
opportunities we hope that our journey serves as inspiration across the the district whether students hope to achieve um an education in engineering flying uh teaching and
Leadership we want them to know that dedication and with the right support anything is possible we thank you for believing in us and investing in our future
please rise for the Pledge of Allegiance I 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 thank you you may be seated will you hold on just a second so we can run down and get a picture with you for we go I'm slow still Dr gullet I understand we have one
recognition this evening we have a recognition Madam chair but I also want to provide an introduction if I may of our student um Schoolboard Representatives so if I may for just a moment I'd like to welcome back Myas who's been with us before we're glad to have you back tonight on if you remember
that uh missz is from Westport HIgh School and is involed in dual enrollment program and biomed major and a number of other clubs and we're just really glad to have you back here be back thank you and I'm pleased to introduce khil alwon
who is representing lakew High School khil is graduating this year he's a senior and he is very involved with student television network of which he is now president I understand is that true he's now president very seriously um taking that leadership role we
appreciate your leadership and you also have played multiple Sports including wrestling baseball football and track that's very impressive and we understand that you're in the Ace
Program and um very excited about your leadership and your future and thank you for being here having me so Madam chair I may uh go forward and introduce our recognition officially with winners from
the Southeastern Youth Fair which is such a beloved um activity in our community and we have some very very special guests that are going to be in uced by Miss Audie and I want to thank Miss Audie publicly for all the work you do behind the scenes uh we have
thousands of people that are involved in this uh Youth Fair and so thank you for all that you do thank you good evening chair Conrad Vice chair Cummings board members and superintendent golet as she just said we just wrapped up the South Eastern Youth Fair right before spring break and it was uh very excited we have
over 1,000 um public school students that have entries in the Southeastern Youth Fair so t tonight I have some very special guests for you guys I have some of our small animal winners from the Southeastern Youth Fair so I'll introduce them to you and let them come down first from dellan high school we
have Erica Estrada and her chicken Fuego Erica um and Fuego won first place in chicken Showmanship and second in the skillathon next from Belleview Middle we have Lauren Lewis and her chicken Lulu they won third place in their record book at
the Youth Fair and from aola middle school we have Quinn Jarvis and her rabbit Olive and she won first place in the rabbit poster contest so congratulations to all of these students we do have a goat that got a little lost on the way here so they may
walk in at some point but um congratulations to these students and everyone who participated in the South Eastern Youth Fair love it okay I have to say the those are the best behaved Southeastern Youth Fair animals I've ever seen because when you
go through um the Barn that had the chickens and the r it is a crazy place so really excited that you all um were able to join us this evening I know that being a part of the Southeastern Youth Fair is a big commitment that you have
your schoolwork other activities on top of what you have to do year round um to be a part of the South Eastern Youth Fair so we're very grateful that you took the time and your parents your family too I'm sure um for coming this evening bringing your your animals and
we would love to come down and get a quick picture with you okay all right lost you can all right here we go two c get under you wait okay good
thanks I didn't Alex GNA be here oh okay told come last on the agenda you might want to just tell oh only that might be the most fun we've had at a board meeting since I've been on the board so that was super great um
thank you uh for that uh as we move on WE graciously acknowledge the following donations made to benefit our schools students and staff members including eight l laptops valued at $4,000 to Reddit col your Elementary from Coca-Cola to be used for staff and
student utilization scorers table valued at $4,000 to dellan Middle School from Bird Insurance Group to be used uh for all the athletic events at dellan Middle School $11,000 to dellan high school
from dellan Community Thrift Shop to help offset the cost of the robotic competition $1,000 to North Maran High School from the Okala Preserve veterans Corporation to support the north Maran High School Jr junior ROTC program and
so uh we thank you all um for the donations our all the involvement we have from our community uh that supports all these extra activities um in our schools um Dr gullet I'll turn it over to you for the approval of the consent
agenda thank you madam chair I recommend approval of the agenda for the March 25th 20 25 school board meeting with the materials in the board packet those materials distributed to board members at the meeting and the audio recording included as part of the official record of the meeting with the exception of the
following items d9.1 d19 point2 D 19.3 D1 19.4 d9.5 D1 19.6 and d197 that have been placed under
discussion regular agenda items thank you yes thank you Dr gallet may I have a motion to approve the superintendent's recommendation motion to approve all right all right thank you Miss thrower a second from Dr Campbell thank you all
those in favor say I I motion passes 5 z may I have a motion to approve the minutes of the February 24th 2025 special administrative briefing and work session thank you Reverend Cummings thank you Miss thrower are
there any additions or corrections to the minutes seeing none all those in favor say I I motion passes 5 z may I have a motion to approve the minutes for the February 25th 2025 school board meeting motion to
approve the minutes thank you uh board member thrower may I have a second thank you Dr Campbell are there any additions or corrections to the minutes hearing and seeing none all those in favor say I I I motion passes 5
Z good evening Miss Martinez could you please provide the proof of publication for tonight's Schoolboard meeting notice for the March 25th 2025 Schoolboard meeting ran in the Okala Gazette March 14th 2025 the proof of publication has been attached in board Ducks under proof of
publication thank you good evening attorney powers can you explain the rules for governing um for those who wish to address the board this evening yes thank you in compliance with Section 2860 1114 of Florida Statutes the school board has adopted uniform procedures for
public speaking speakers who wish to speak at this evening's meeting either regarding one of today's agenda items or matter relating to the operations of the school district these procedures will ensure the public has a reasonable opportunity to be heard on school board and School District matters a written summary of
these procedures are available from the table on the lobby in the lobby public speaker forms are also located on that table the completed forms were due to the school board's clerk no later than 5:40 p.m. this evening speakers will be called prior to the business portion of
the school board's meeting in the order of receipt by the school board clerk before you begin speaking please State your full name for the record and spell your last name each speaker will have five minutes of time however if there are more than five persons who wish to speak the board May seek consensus to
limit each speaker's time to three minutes speakers please monitor your time speakers and meeting attendees are expected to conduct themselves in a respectful manner the board is here to listen to your comments only you may be directed to an administrative staff member following the conclusion of your
comments for further assistance to direct to address your concerns if there are matters dealing with student discipline including expulsions they'll be scheduled at the conclusion of the televised portion of this meeting parents May address the board regarding a discipline matter at
that time to ensure student privacy only a parent or Guardian may use a student's first or last name identifying references to or identification of other students or their families is is also strictly prohibited a speaker's speech does not reflect the endorsement
sponsorship position or expression of the school district and thank you for your attention to this board's requirements Madam chair that concludes my explanatory remarks thank you attorney Powers Miss Martinez do we have any speakers this evening yes Madam chair we have six speakers I'm sorry could you say that six speakers six
speakers okay thank you forward with that I'd like to um go ahead and stick with our five minute um time limit James Elmore good evening everybody um I'm here to bring up an issue I spoke to you about over a year ago before I do that though
I want to tell you I'm a teacher of more than 20 years here in Maran County Public School System I've taught in some of our roughest schools I'm read it highly effective I have been nominated for Teacher of the Year and rookie teacher of the year more than 10 times I'm not telling you that to brag of myself I'm telling you that because I'm hoping you're going to listen to me this
time since you didn't listen to me last time when I came to you over a year ago I st came to speak to you about an issue that is causing our children to be abused at home we continue to send our report cards home on Thursdays and Fridays and I told you last time I was here statistics have shown that child abuse
goes up at a rate of four times when report guards go home on weekends since then I've done a little bit of digging I found out that Maran has 7882 abuse cases per 100,000 children aged 5 to 11 and are our Statewide average is
5399 that means we beat the state average every single year and we are 20th out of 67 counties in Florida for rates of child abuse okay so at this point I don't have any other conclusion to draw other than the fact that this board doesn't seem to care about the
welfare of our kids changing the day we send our report cards home will not cost the school district one single Cent it won't cost you any money there is zero reason to be sending report cards home on the weekends when our kids are getting
abused for it so unless somebody up here can give me a reason we need to stop doing that right and if my statements upset you then please prove me wrong and change it this is a simple fix let's stop having our kids be abused over report guards please thank you that's
all I have thank you sir Dean dooga good evening thank you for having me my name is jeie darl I that is d r r o u g h and I'm proud to speak on behalf of a teacher tonight Josh wheel he's a
candidate for Florida's Congress uh congressional district 6 to go to DC and this matters very much to him what I'm about to speak about I'm here to tell you about fessenden Academy there are a lot of people who would point out that that Academy is
actually in District 3 and it's really not our business but we were contacted by constituents of District Six who are very concerned they're graduates of that historic Academy they are people that work there now and they're people who
have always taken great pride in this Academy existing in the city of Okala those people matter to us and they certainly should matter to all of you as well that school was founded in
1868 it was the union school then later it became the fendon academy and now it's fendon Elementary but no matter how much that name has changed the spirit of that school has not in 1994 it became a nationally
registered historic place and it should be protected because of that that's 150 years of History that's 150 years of representing access to education for every child and every student that
should be important to the people of the school board and that location ation is important as well there are families that walk their children to school because they don't have extra cars it's
becoming harder and harder to afford to have multiple cars in one family right now and when you tend those children by bus somewhere much further away you are disconnecting their families from taking part in their education because they
won't be able to go there anymore right now Maran county has a great opportunity to show the entire nation that they care about this community and about that population that they care about the history that that school
represents so I hope that you show the whole entire nation how much you care because the nation is going to be watching this thank you have a good evening thank [Applause] you Reverend Leroy
Chandler good evening good evening thank you for my name is Reverend Leroy s Chandler c h n d l r uh I too am here to speak
on the continuation of fezen school uh the first issue I will bring to attention is the mar County Public Schools Community engagement meeting
letter which I understand was received at uh our schools on Monday afternoon but not early enough really to get to the parents until today
these meetings are going to take place on uh Wednesday March the 26 and on Thursday March the 26 7th now there's very little time for then the community the
parents the students and the teachers to come together and collect their thoughts their ideas which they would like to present at this meeting and when we're talking about transparency we certainly want to have
the amount of time given to those of concern I know that there are other meetings that's going to take place and that is good but I would say to you that these meetings that are scheduled for March the 26th and March the 27th are
really meetings that are really too soon for those that are concerned to be able to collectively bring their thoughts together to be able to bring them to the meetings that are now scheduled and I would ask the board if they would
consider consider truly looking at this situation now also the students were out of school and only returned my understanding on Monday would have been I think quite
good had this letter gone out before the time that the students were out so that the parents would have had additional time to talk about these things talk with each other talk to teachers talk to the community about about it and then
when they come back they would have had ample time then to come to these meetings having their thoughts together second thing I want to talk about but it's also including fezan there is an old African proverb
that says when elephants fight it is the grass that suffers in a sense the grass represents our children when caught in the middle of a war or battle we can see this more clearly in
the eyes and faces of children in countries where two Nations decide to go to war with each other these decisions are made by people who sit behind desk and in chairs just as you sitting right
now I have and perhaps you have yourself heard the voices of these children say I just want to be free and safe and play as other children children need a safe a stable
and wholesome environment where they can feel free to learn play and grow for over 157 years fezen has been the educational facility that has provided these attributes for both its
students and its teachers Reverend you have one minute remaining the parents the teachers and the community while you may feel justified in actions to dis to discontinue this
great school if it has provided all of these things if it has not then please tell us and if it has then question yourselves on why are we looking to close it finally we would request that before you place a
vote to close this great institution that you would take a look into the mirror but not this mirror not a mirror like this that only reflects physical attributes and expressions we
ask that you would look into this mirror this mirror that reflects and exposes the true thoughts and the intents of the heart this is the only time time when truth justice and righteousness can come
forth and this we request we make this especially on behalf of our children and our community I thank you thank you Reverend [Applause] Chandler Sandra Henderson
good evening my name is Sandra Brown Henderson I say brown because that's what most of the people behind me know me um and uh I'm not a graduate of fezan I was forced to go to North Marian High
School and I can tell you some horror stories on that one but I'll save that for another day I'm here to support Fan's uh belief that it should still exist uh it's a viable working school and my
rearch shows me that if you're going to close a school usually there's a closure committee um composed of community people teachers students alumni whatever in order to discuss why this was
necessary usually you use things like uh low test scores old and unsafe conditions endangering health and safety of the staff and students and plain old shortfalls in the budget actually I haven't been able to find any proof that
there are any these none of these things are true I should back up and say I have over 30 years of experience in education uh I have been a school counselor from elementary schools on the east side of Gainesville up through dual enrollment
so congratulations Miss dual enrollment okay um and I've seen all kinds of kids I've had kids walk right out of dual enrollment at Santa Fe College into the University of Florida's engineering program so we didn't
play and if it if feend is not meeting the criteria of low test scores unsafe conditions whatever then what's really the reason why it's being closed I tried to to attack this from a logical
perspective but I it doesn't make any sense to me and I want it to make sense I want to believe that the reason stated is the reason why it's being closed now one we had a few questions
and we looked at things like um why is fezan being targeted and I hate using the word targeted I was an old eeo officer at one point and and I don't like using things like a sacrificial and lamb I I don't like using those words
because they're kind of negative I don't want to walk away from my home county thinking wow that that really wasn't very fair I've always been an advocate of students and my thoughts are what's going to happen to these kids I know
what happened to me when you go from a a home a school you know away from home and and you go to a different place where nobody knows your name and you're placed from an honor class into a class
where there was a 12th grader in there repeating English 10 and I thought I have gone straight to hell did I dare go home and tell my mom and daddy no my mama was as short as me but she was fiery and she would have been
mad but I am honored to to say everything I learned at Fein which was be patient and wait on time I learned that effectively it has gained me opportunities that I can't tell you
about but I can say that it it Grieves me that this precious school this gym this light on the hill is going to be extinguished and many of us are grieving but we're not talking about
the history we're talking about the future of these students and what it's going to be like when they go to a school where nobody knows your name Miss Henderson you have one minute remaining thank you sir finally if you're talking about money what about the half cense
tax sales tax that was allocated I read some place and I'm sure it is an exaggeration that you're going to get $300 million and you put down specific goes for that money it's not going to be earmarked for for other things but
things like this case if if that's the question you have about viness so in short I thank you for the opportunity to speak I am not a public speaker uh but I felt like I had to say these things we
want to know what was the DAT data used to make this decision who made it when will you make a decision because it shouldn't be like the sword of d hanging over our heads okay and this shouldn't come up time and time again I
thank you for your time thank you Miss Henderson Erica De La Cruz hello my name is Erica de Cruz last name d space La space c u z um I don't have a speech prepared I mostly wanted
to ask a question um with everything going on right now in the government and um the disillusion of the Department of Education um what is that going to look like and how is that going to affect our kids specifically those who are on um
individualized learning plans Etc um that that's it I yield my time thank you thank you Mel James good evening board uh my name is Mel Pastor Mel m i ke L James J A
mes uh good evening distinguished board members Dr gullet chair Conrad I stand before you as a pastor in this community um but not only as a pastor but a pastor who represents um individuals who uh go to
my church that goes to fezan elementary school students parents and staff members and I come today with a deep concern about the manner in which the information regarding a community meeting regarding the Norths Side schools was communicated and tonight I
feel compelled to express the frustration and the concern regarding that meeting I understand that some communication was sent out on March 14th to students and their families if we look at the calendar we understand that
March 14th was the day that they went on spring break giving families no really time to really process the information or the school staff to make sure that the families got that
information furthermore I checked the district's website just before I came and to my surprise I found no immediate mention of the upcoming community meeting regarding fezan Anthony or the
North Side schools instead the website highlighted upcoming events such as the early release on tomorrow a Family Focus event that's going to be held at Belleview and the school holiday which is uh scheduled for April
18th the absence of the information concerning a community meeting from a place where the community should be able to go get it is quite frustrating and alarming furthermore what I find to be a
little more perplexing is the fact of where this meeting is located we did not select fezan or Anthony the schools in which are affected but we decided to go to North Mar middle and North Mar High
School trying to make that make sense so if we really want to have Community input and we have it on two different days shouldn't those meetings be held at the respective campuses just asking the
question lastly what I would like to bring up and have the board to consider our District's mission is helping every student succeed however at some point we must
pause and think not just about the students that make up this District about the faculty and staff that helps make sure that they actually succeed how do we think they feel about the idea that their place of employment might be
closer yeah I understand we got two new schools opening up on the other side of town and easy easily they could be transferred or sent over there but think about the insecurity that provides for their family how they have to rework plans for their family to get to and
from work how they would have to pick up their children or establish other plans board I I just want us to pause for a moment and think about every person that's affected by this issue and not
just our own individual ideas or plans that we may have we're not looking back but we are going forward and I just want you to pause and think about these things thank you thank you Mr James no more members okay all right uh
thank you to all of our uh speakers who came forward this morning um board we're going to read on uh move on to item 9.1 recently the facilities procurement Review Committee developed the construction Management Services request for
qualifications selection process procedures based on that manual the designed service request for qualification selection process manual was updated the Design Services manual mirrors the construction Management Services with only minor modifications
that had to be incorporated to comply with the requirements of Florida Statutes 28705 55 additionally clarification was added when meetings will be open to the public and when they will be recorded based on Florida statute
286 uh 0133 these procedures will allow the facilities Department to proceed with the selection process of Design Services as outlined in these procedures The Design Services request for qualification selection process
procedures can be located on the facilities Department web page the construction of the new central warehouse at the Phoenix Center requires a Perpetual non-exclusive easement between the school board of meing County Florida and the City of Okala this
easement is necessary to allow the power company to have access to the newly installed Transformer that serves the new Warehouse it guarantees the required access for the power company to the easement area for installation repair
and maintenance purposes the construction company of the new gymnasium of Oola Middle School requires a Perpetual non-exclusive easement between the Schoolboard of Marian County Florida and the City of Okala this easen is necessary to allow
the power company to have access to install a new Transformer that serves the new gymnasium it guarantees the required access for the power company to the easement area for installation repair and maintenance purposes board
this concludes our information uh items for today we're now going to move on to our agenda items May I have a motion to approve consent agenda items C 11.1 through C 16.1 with the exception of items
d9.1 d19 point2 d193 d9.5 d9.5 D1 19.6 and D1 19.7 that have been placed under discussion regular agenda items May I have a motion motion to
approve the consent agenda uh second thank thank you board member thrower and thank you Reverend Cummings all those in favor say I I motion passes 5 Z before addressing expulsion matters I wish to acknowledge the board me that board members have received the
alternative placement list for students through February 25th 2025 Miss Martinez are there any parents who have submitted a timely request to speak on their child's disciplinary matter no Madam chair may I have a motion to approve the expulsion of
student JD 25 -1 99 JD 25-28 JD 2520 d209 JD 25- 210 JD 25-24 JD
25-220 J d25 d221 JD 25- 224 JD 25- 225 JD 25- 226 JD 25- 227 and J j25 d228 for the remainder of the 2024 2025 school
year and the 1 2 and third quarters of the 2025 2026 school year may I have a motion approve thank you Dr Campbell second thank you Dr
James all those in favor say I I I any opposed motion passes 5- Z may I have a motion to approve the expulsion of students JD 25-21 JD
25-22 JD 25-24 e JD 25-26 JD 25-28 JD 25-29 JD 25- 222e JD 25-
223e with off-campus virtual learning for the remainder of the 2024 25 school year and the first 2 and third quarters of the 2025 2026 school year may I have a motion motion to approve thank you Dr Campbell may I have a
second second thank you Dr James all those in favor say I I any opposed motion passes 5 z may I have a motion to approve the fourth amendment to agreement with ESS
Southeast LLC motion to approve thank you Dr Campbell may I have a second second uh thank you board member thrower Dr gullet do you have information you'd like to share regarding this item yes I do thank you madam chair members of the board U you
are very familiar with ESS um is is the service that we provide to get substitute teachers in our classroom this would be the fourth amendment at a cost of 8.5 million and Mr Carlile is here from Human Resources to share some more with the board tonight thank you
good evening chair Conrad board members superintendent Dr gullet we're pleased to request renew of the district's contract with the SS Southeast LLC for the 2526 school year in addition to requesting additional funding for the 2425 school year request for additional
funding for this school year will ensure that we are able to utilize our substitutes to cover absences and vacancies for the remainder of the school year fourth quarter to that end we're request an additional $2 million which would increase our total annual cost for the school year to $6 million
this additional funding request is largely due to the success of ESS in filling teacher absences and vacancies today ess's ess's fill rate for absences is 86% which is a 6% increase over this
time last year this increase is notable due to the 133% increase in demand for substitutes and the fact that ESS has filled 5,172 more assignments than this time last year we believe this increase in fill rate is due to the efforts of our
dedicated ESS team in in more than doubling our our substitute pool speaking of our ESS team they provide daily support to our schools and our substitutes by making regular campus visits to provide onsite and Hands-On assistance and support our ESS team has
also made a commitment to being a part of our school communities they attend Our Family Focus events they attend school-based events and also our Career Fairs hard work of our ESS team has been noticed by our school sites where 75% of
them have rated them an A on the last report card for me it's been a pleasure working with our both our local ESS team and the corporate Regional leadership in addition to the funding requests for this year we're requesting renewal of the district contract for the
2526 school year you'll see that our funding request for 2526 will increase to $6.5 million this is due to an increase in our daily sub rate and also the addition of a hard to fill rate first we'd like to increase a daily sub rate by $3 for a
full day $150 for a half day and $8 for our long-term continuous substitutes last time we increased our daily rates for substitutes was during the 2223 school year believe this will assist in attracting quality candidates and also retaining our substitute Workforce we're
also requesting the addition of a hard to fill rate to be utilized to add up to 10 of our schools each year although we've seen a substantial increase in our overall fill rate we do still have schools that find it difficult to fill their vacancies this hard of fill rate would
be $15 more than our regular daily rate for our daily subs and $5 more for our long-term continuous Subs ESS has utilized this hard to fill rate in several of the districts that they work with and has been a game changer we're confident that the hard of fill rate
will have the same impact here in Maran County we look forward to continuing work with the SS during the 25 26 school year and I am happy to answer any questions you may have thank you Mr kly I appreciate the update and I just want to say all the
decisions that we make every time we're together um this decision um to add es ESS um I hear positive things about every time I step into a school so uh thank you for bringing that um presentation forward and board are there
any questions or concerns uh just just one quick question can you clarify you you said some numbers but can you clarify is that um an hourly a $3 an hour or is that $3 a day per day per day so the rate will now
be $120 is what I see correct and it's 17 right now okay I guess do we really think $3 a day is that significant I'm not I'm not trying to be funny but I I mean I really thought you
were saying per hour like $3 an hour okay well at8 hours I mean we were talking a little bit of chump change but like $3 we we do think it'll be significant all right I can't wait to see it all right that's all I had board member
thrower thank you and I had a similar question in in my mind and my expectation would be is that we're looking at the going rate you know for similar like siiz District and and needs Lisa I hope that's the case correct yes ma'am still
seems extraordinarily low um for for what they do of course I'm incredibly grateful for that and but also a little sad at the same time that we're in the position that we're in which is not unlike you know across the country um so I it would be my Hope prayer and
expectation that we continue to look for the root causes of of why so many teachers are needing so many mental health days and and FMLA days and other kinds of days and continue to do everything that we've
been doing and even more um to elevate their their work and and reduce their workload as best that we can um and just work together to continue to try to solve this teacher shortage the good news is we have two student board members sitting up here and I've been
hearing Rumblings in high school from other student board members that they're some of them are really starting to think about teaching which is which is new so hopefully we'll come full circle and we'll get ourselves out of this thank you that's all I have any other
questions okay all right thank you board um all those in favor let's see um all those in favor please say I I I any opposed motion passes five thank you Mr
Carlile may I have a motion to utilize tips contract 23031 for furniture furnishings and services may I have a motion so move thank you Reverend Cummings thank you board member thrower
Dr guller you have information to share with us regarding this item I do thank you um Madame chair members of the board Miss Bach is is forward at the podium the the uh request for this item is at a cost of $550,000 that'll allow us to purchase
furniture and other services for not only our new elementary schools W andx that are being built right now but also Liberty Middle School Wing So Miss boomul has some additional details thank you good evening board chair conr board members superintendent Dr gallet this
this is actually one of the exciting parts of of my job when we come together after a school is planned or an addition is planned and uh we see it come you know in the final stages and we finally pick the furniture and we can see the
students actually utilize the spaces we have designed for them and it was really fun to meet on on a brand new school and look in every single area and look at the furniture that is needed um I had help from three um Elementary School um
principles and I really appreciate their input um was really fun to see um how they utilize and how the kids will utilize and how teaching has changed over the years and what the need is for the furniture um we have put together
the furniture package for both elementary schools and Liberty Middle School Wing um and uh with help of purchasing we have found um pigy bag contracts we can use to maximize our savings um this is for the uh tips
contract and it's um just part of uh some of the furniture that had to be split up um this is 550,000 and and the next item um on there if I can go ahead is um $2.5 million um on the State of
Florida contract and all this includes um at Liberty Middle School we have 16 classrooms we are adding for offices for teacher planning rooms they're matching the existing schools Furniture so they have flexibility if they have to move
things around at school W and school X um is starts from the pre prek um kindergarten uh regular classrooms we went through the art and music classrooms um the stage the cafeteria furniture and then going into the admin
areas the resource rooms the library the clinic even the conference rooms um also there we providing soft seating for the little kids on on the floors um that will be really fun for them um
also uh the teachers will get the podium um to be in front of the class they can stand they have a chair there if they need to sit um and then we have um have two color schemes too so each uh school they did not look alike they they have
their distinct colors um and we're also hoping to have uh the logos um maybe finalized before we order or finalize the cafeteria tables and we can have some fun um putting them on there as well some branding for the for the kids
in there um that's all I have on that thank you Mrs bomach um board are there any questions or concerns no okay seeing none um we're looking at our first vote is for the tips contract
23031 um all those in favor say I I any opposed motion passes 5 may I have a motion to approve the expenditure increased request State of Florida Florida alternate contract sorry 5612
-24 dny DS for furniture all types may I have a motion motion to approve thank you Dr Campbell may I have a second second uh thank you board member thrower um since we've already um talked about that any
questions okay yes absolutely just can you clarify the funding source for the xw and Liberty are all from the um the loan that we took for this furniture that is correct um if there there is some um Capital funds we have set aside
in in case we need it but I think we can um accomplish it all in the loan okay thank you for that clarification thank you anything else okay all those in favor say I I I any opposed motion passes
5 may I have a motion to approve the First Amendment piggyback agreement with Miller Electric company motion to approve thank you Dr James May I have a second second uh thank you Dr Campbell Dr gullet would you like to provide some more information on this item yes
certainly thank you board um Mr Ben vui is going to come forward to talk about this item and it's and it really coexists between Technology and Safety but as part of our safety plan as you know we are purchasing Access Control items and this this uh request at a cost
of 600,00 would allow us to provide um to purchase some Hardware so Mr Ben vudi will Pro provide some additional details thank you thanks good evening board chair Conrad superintendent gullet and board members um the safe schools department is requesting an amendment to the
current piggyback agreement with Miller Electric Company this amendment will increase the spending amount from 200,000 to 800,000 this will allow the safe schools Department to begin to address control features to selected School sites within the district Access
Control control will provide secure and controlled access to your buildings in other specific areas ensuring that only authorized Personnel can access specific locations this is this is our start so we're
excited he board any questions okay hearing none all those in favor say I I I any opposed all right motion passes 5 Z thank you Mr Ben vudi may I have a motion to approve Professional Services selection
recommendation for construction management services for new Middle School DD project 24-13 0 motion to approve thank you Dr Campbell may I have a second second uh thank you board member
thrower Dr guller I Dr gullet I believe you have some information regarding this item yes thank you actually and and misser is here um and she's going to share some information perhaps with Miss bomach about the U recommendation for the um Construction management for um
School DD thank you thank you Dr gullet good afternoon board chair board members I'm Angela Usher from operations um the agenda item as Dr gett mentioned is to approve scansa USA as a construction manager for the new Middle
School DD this is the lak wear middle replacement to provide some background on February 19 there was a selection process for the short list um the the short list vendors or whatever uh firms and scansa
out of the first the four firms received the highest but there was a concern about whether it should have been recorded or not so on March 3rd the process was repeated and it was recorded and again scansa received the highest um
number and therefore the item is before you um just a little bit of update on the project we did an environmental study and there are go for tortoises on the site so we're relocating them we it also showed that we have sand skinks we
applied for a permit to move those and um as a result of that we had to apply for archaeological permit these permits we're hoping will run concurrently but it could delay the start of construction but we're hoping that we can work around
this and start maybe um site work and do different things around um what while we remove the the um not we don't have to remove the skinks we just have to mitigate it and pay for to provide more habitat for them it is really important
that this project moves forward we're trying to keep it close as possible to schedule as you know with additional tariff and with inflation the cost of construction is escalating so I would really appreciate us moving on as quickly as possible so that we can still
build the school have the funds that have been allotted to it and use it for the school thank you thank you um Miss Asher um thank you for presenting um I do I do have a statement um prepared
that I want to say uh and um I just I I know you're new uh and you're replacing another staff member um so I don't want you to feel that this is directly you know directed at you specifically um I also want to share um that I didn't take
it lightly composing this statement but at this point um where we are and in the construction process I feel that we should be doing a better job um at at this time I'm going to be voting in favor of this agenda item
despite the district's failure to adhere to our established procedures my decision is based solely on the direct impact this item has on our students here in Marian County given the recent update stes to the procurement process I expected the procurement for the new
Middle School to proceed smoothly however I was disappointed I was disappointed to learn that the state statutes were not followed therefore having to restart the process this is deeply concerning as a board member I was not
informed that interviews were taking place and nor was the legal department without transparency and communication regarding the project timeline how can the board stay properly informed about the initiation of the cone of
silence this issue was discussed extensively following the last procurement leading to the formation of a committee and the hiring of a consultant to ensure that we were in compliance despite these measures the
same mistakes have been repeated this calls for question in the effectiveness of the safeguards and their intention additionally during my most recent agenda review critical information regarding the middle school project was not
disclosed it appears that the contract was going to be brought before the board without disclosing there is approximately a 10-month delay because of environmental challenges the continued lack of transparency and ineffective communication regarding construction
projects is in my opinion unacceptable moving forward I expect the facilities Department to uphold the highest level of Standards so that we are in compliance with State statutes and establish procedures we must do better
our community and our children are counting on it thank you and with that I'll open it up to board comments Dr James thank you um yes thank you Miss Usher You're new to us and so you're coming and coming in we check have touched base about that and
stepping into some major projects so um Miss chair Conrad painted a pretty a pretty clear picture there but uh I think my primary disappointment is that we spend a lot of time as a community restructuring our procurement
processes and in a recent past we even had the new procurement manual for design on a board agenda and miss bombach and I discussed that that needed to be removed because this was very timely after we were having to redo the
interviews um due to failure to follow State Statute and so we also failed to follow another piece of our procurement manual that we created which was that it clearly outlines that the facilitator is someone from our procurement Department
it doesn't say or designate and we have a really jam up procurement Department that do a tremendous job of procuring all kinds of goods throughout Maring County and we are now spending north of six
figures for a another firm outside of us to facilitate when the procedure which I'll appreciate it's a superintendence procedure and it was simply on a board agenda for transparency purposes but
then when we don't follow it and the board has to find out in the rears about it it feels like there's a lack of transparency and so again for the purposes of moving forward with this I agree I will vote Yes and it is evident in the repetition of scores which did
not change very much there was about a 30% change in scores from round one to round two that scansa is is the um winner of this competition whatever interview but my concern is that we're
not following the procedures we have set in place and this board member wants to see that change so that is going to be my concern also I feel pretty strongly that if I had not sent an email on
Monday morning that said please give me an update on where we are with the environmental concerns this board would not have received that information before we were voting on this tonight and I'm sorry but knowing that there's a potential almost year delay is important information for this board who likes to
be informed to know about so that delay in information as well does not appear transparent to me so those are the concerns I have the only question I have is if we are removing gopher tortoises right now what are we doing to ensure
that they don't come on back is there is there something we can do to make because it's not cheap to remove a go for tortois you're correct and that's why it's imperative that we start construction when a site is left on used then it's very possible that they'll come back and um board member James I
really believe in transparency we did not have the schedule change we're still getting the studies from our Consultants so we did not have a definite update and I did not want to come here and say it's a 10-month delay when it might not be we might be able to work around the Sans
Kings like I did in my previous County and the school open on time in regards to the selection process I must say I have worked for school district for 30 years and in one school district we did record in my last school district we did
not record there are two statutory requirements 287 and 286 287 governance Professional Services which states it's a public meeting and does not have to record 286 governs negotiation with a
contractor and it says that these meetings could be exempt and if they're exempt then they have to be recorded I listen to the audio and the facilitator there did say it was an exempt meeting and therefore it was recorded and therefore we did comply with all the
statutory requirements but if there is any change in scope or change in schedule and we have a definite information certainly let the superintendent know and we'll bring it to you a 10-month delay I am not certain about that we just said that's a possibility we're talking about staff
it's very possible we can start construction as scheduled in August if we can phase it and work around the skinks we're currently moving to go for tortoises but the thing is here because of the high cost in construction we need to start because then we don't want to lose this project and not be able to
afford it so my just last follow-up question would be if we cannot start construction for whatever reason environmentally what are we going to do to ensure the tortoises do not return We I'll have to work with the fish and wildlife conservation and see what how
we can prepare the site to prevent that maybe we can do some type of fencing or something to keep them out because it's it's it's a it's I mean we're 5,000 plus po per tortois so we don't need to be doing it twice that's correct so that would be my hope that we can focus on if
we have a delay in construction thank you thank you thank you one I'm sorry just sorry real quick um I just and since you've worked Miss s your for a school system before you can understand the challenges um the board faces when we attend Community meetings and people
are giving us information about our own project that we're not aware of so when I talk about transparency um and increasing communication I I just wanted to give an example of how that affects me personally as a board member when I'm out and about in the community uh and so
thank you that and I appreciate you um answering and um G um giving discussion to us yes Dr Campbell thank you uh thank you Miss Usher welcome to Marian County Public Schools what a wonderful welcome that you've received this evening uh but I do want to say thank you for your
update and for your expertise and for bringing that into our community and just for further clarification for the public to be aware I have an email that was sent to All board members 10 days ago that was included in the mcps highlights of the week that we receiv received from the superintendent every
week that included much of the information that we've heard this evening inclusive of the need of archaeological study you didn't have that information quite updated yet we wouldn't get that for several weeks so while I understand that there was some concern brought forth this evening 10
days ago we were made aware of these issues and so I I don't believe that was completely transparent this evening in the way the communication has occurred perhaps the the folks that are speaking had issues and altercations prior to March 15th or perhaps they hadn't read
the depth of the information that we had before us I absolutely will be voting in favor of this understandably that archaeological and environmental concerns at times can alter construction timelines anyone who's worked in development understands that however
also with your expertise and those that are working with us this isn't their new their their first radio this isn't a new ball game if you've ever built a school in the state of Florida you've dealt with these kinds of issues and I have full confidence that we'll get this done on time thank
you anyone else yeah board member th um first I'll say that I was reflecting back that I had heard this information and it a while back and so thank you um board member Campbell for clarifying where and when
that was and I do remember getting that email and and reading it um I wasn't all that concerned because there were go for tortoises in the on the high school um property but the problem with that was it was winter time and it was getting cold and unless temperatures above 50° I
believe you got to wait to move them plus they walk pretty slow so I don't know how far they get taken away but I would imagine it would take him a little time to get back and give us a chance to you know provide some some mitigation also I didn't hear anything about Scrub
Jays and I think we had those on the high school property so hopefully we've got you know that base covered um I'm definitely going to vote to move forward obviously because that's what's best for kids I'm a little concerned
about hearing that there was conversation in the community um about any of this Kona silence is a thing so that is probably the most concerning piece of this whole presentation that
I'm walking away with so far I also I'm just looking back um 2002 we had audit findings on our construction management process and it really wasn't even a process back then it was pencil and paper and consensus
and uh lots of room for improvement shall we say so I guess I'll just end by saying I know we're moving in the right direction um there's a lot of pressure that comes from a lot of places but we're here to serve kids open schools on time help the
wildlife get to where they need to go so we can keep going with what we need to do that's all I have thank you and welcome aboard you thank you board member throw anyone else okay re com at sh is has it all right board all those in favor say I I any opposed all right motion passes say
5 Miss Usher thank you very much for presenting for us this evening may I have a motion to approve the first amendment of Okala Consulting and prevention LLC so move thank you Reverend Cummings thank you board member
thrower Dr guller Dr gullet you have some information to share with us regarding this item I do thank you board uh this item is regarding Mental Health Services Miss Delo doll's already here at the podium and this item is the
request is $1.8 million and uh is a portion of this is required by the margerie Stoneman Douglas High School public safety act so um providing those Services Miss D no doble provides some additional context thank you I had a long walk so I started early yes you did
good evening chair Conrad superintendent Dr gullet and board members as a district we currently partner with local Consulting and prevention or better known as ocp ocp is a community based mental health services provider that delivers individualized mental health Counseling Services on school campuses
ocp's Mental Health Counselors work in tandem with our school-based mental health professionals which include our school counselors our school social workers and our school psychologists to provide additional support to schools identified as having high needs ocp counselors are able to provide on-site
services to students thus helping to mitigate some of the barriers that families encounter with regard to accessing these Community Based Services students are typically referred via the multi-disciplinary team when a need of this level of mental health support is
identified by School staff we currently have 14 Mental Health Counselors providing services on 24 campuses throughout the district and they serve 336 students our MDT teams also identify students who may need ongoing support
through the summer and we have ocp counselors working along with school social workers to provide those services for the 25 26 school year we will continue to staff 14 ocp counselors providing services on 24 campuses again prioritized by identified level of need
lastly we conduct surveys every year with our school leaders for feedback regarding these services that are provided I'm happy to report that we typically receive overwhelming positive responses about the counselors and the services that they provide thank you Miss n Del Del noell
um board do you have any questions or concerns at this time okay thank you very much board all those in favor say I I I any opposed motion passes 5 thank you may I have a motion to review select
or reject offers regarding sale of central warehouse property so move thank you Reverend Cummings second thank you board member thrower Dr gullet or attorney Powers thank you I got it do attorney Powers if you have some information you'd like to share with us as indicated in the best
practice on board docs the school board hired attorney John McGraw to assist with the sale of the central warehouse property attorney McGraw and attorney Alex scales uh will present offers to the school board for its review and determination as to how to proceed the board May select one of the offers or
may reject all offers um should the board accept an offer uh the attorneys will proceed with repairing the paperwork to move forward with the sale of the central warehouse upon acceptance of an offer attorney McGraw and attorney scales will seek permission for the board chair to have permission to
execute all documents necessary to move the transaction to closing okay one of each yes ma'am do you need a copy me one more no that's
yours there you he good evening school board members attorney scales for uh mcgraa melli before you you have two offers for
the warehouse one is from one Remington LLC the offer price is for 2.4 mli milon this offer is on the Schoolboard um agreement for purchase and sale of real estate that you guys have approved
in Prior sales the only change that was made to this contract was one Remington has requested a due diligence period of 30 days instead of 15 days and then we have a second offer from Palm Capital
Partners LLC their offer is what for $1.4 million they have made no changes to the contract and have fallen within the 15-day due diligence period that was originally located within your contract
quick question yes could you clarify for me on the first contract um the change for um the time for inspection you said from 15 days to 30 days to 30 days yes they requested an additional 15 days to inspect the property okay thank you very
much um board I open it up there any questions you want to take a minute to look it over further I have a question um I just did a quick sunbiz because I didn't see a print out of one rington LLC so they're out of New Yorker
or so they do have a floral location for the registered agent but their president is located in Syracuse New York and I know under the terms of the school boards agreement they do have to have a um company that is located within
Florida yeah I mean I found them on sunbiz so they must have done quick sunbiz filing or something they have um my only question is 25,000 in Earnest on 2.4 million feels a little light they're actually going to put 75
in after the due diligence expiration so it will be 100 total okay 25 initial and then after due diligence expiration they'll put another 75 in for a toal and then what's the what's the term for closing well one of them has I believe a closing date in it specified and the other is
going to have a 30 days after expiration of new delance period 60 days to close 30 days and then another 30 correct 60 days to close okay and I'm going to ask if you guys could both when you're speaking make sure to speak into the mic for me please thank
you and just for a point of clarification is the title and closing happening at your office Mr McGrath yes it is okay um is that fee included in the fee that we're paying you for your services or is that an additional closing fee that would be included in
the services okay well to be clear the there would be a title insurance premium it would be in addition to the hourly rate that's the answer I was looking for okay so we're going to have separate separate fees for closing correct okay can you remind us
what that closing cost is going to be it's it's based on price correct it it is as a prob rate based on Florida Insurance Commissioners rates and I don't have the exact rate off the top of my head okay is it a certain it's probably yes it is a percentage Yeah it's it's going
to be what percent a decent amount of money um yeah I would say it's somewhere around $4,000 okay and then what's the percentage we are doing for the the Realtors the Realtors were at um I believe it was
3% because they took a reduced um rate commission Aaron and sandon took a reduced fee I'm just trying to backwards into how much we're going to walk away with so if you have that number handy that's great but let me try I'll try to do some you could do some rough math real quick I'm just trying to figure out
on I mean obviously for me personally the 2.4 offer is more palatable um than the 1.4 I feel like getting an extra million dollars would be a good thing um so I'm just trying to understand what we'll walk away from the deal with as all
so yeah I'll do some calculation on that I'm seeing a commission of like 72,000 probably if we're at 3% and then you know if we just round it up we're looking at you know about 75 $80,000
less that would be correct and just to be clear the school board would not be paying for any of the documentary stamps which are a significant cost for a $2.4 million deal or $1.4 million deal that is going to be on the buyer so the
school board will not be responsible for those costs that are typically placed on the seller yes Bo M threr thank you and thank you for your great work on this so far I'm I'm just kind of interested to hear your thoughts on 1.4 million it's a
15 uh day due diligence and on 2.4 million it's 30 is know it's like why yeah that's a big swing um I would obviously give you the advice to move forward with the 2. uh 2 million doll deal with a 30-day due diligence over
the 1.4 thank you yeah yes yes Dr Campbell thank you um based on the prior conversations and whenever we just had put this out the first time without actually having a
realtor and all the 2.4 million is higher than anything we had seen um from the closed bid process and and all of that so chair I would like to make a motion that we approve the agreement for purchase and sale of the real estate from one Remington LLC for
$2.4 million thank you thank you all right is there any further discussion all right all those in favor say I I any opposed motion passes 5 thank you the board if we may if there are any additional issues that one
Remington has as moving forward is it acceptable if Mrs Conrad works as the chairperson with Mr Powers if he reviews any changes that they request and if Mr Powers gives Miss Conrad the go-ahead is she have full power to sign off on those
changes I would say that those changes would the only changes that I wouldn't bring back to the board are if they're non-substantive if the changes are ones that are a matter of U changing a a date by by a date certain or you know some
small um matter like that that's within the discretion of the attorneys then I would I would bring that to the chair was anything that had a substantial impact or altered um significantly anything about what we're talking about here then I would only be comfortable bringing it back to the board right we
in consensus on that well I'd actually have a counter recommendation if that's okay just for the ease of the work because they may find something that's not incredibly substantial costing and this is a significant offer that's much higher than our previous offer I mean I this board member would be comfortable
setting like a threshold of I don't know $50,000 or something so that if it's a so that we don't have to come back to a meeting to have another discussion and if if we're willing to give the chair some level of discretion to say okay we can do something up to x amount of dollars just so if it's a small amount
she could just take care of it but that would be my counter argument I guess I don't know and I would expect that most of those things things aren't actually going to be monetarily based they're terms based like U one on our previous one it had to do with uh mineral rights
um yeah it was just a signature a signature or a date is basically what we're talking about yes I was just expanding so that if if it if monetarily attached maybe we could give her some leverage to make a decision as well but I'm cool either way board member yes you know the basics simple
things no big deal at all but this board is not afraid to have a quick special meeting uh if it's something substantial and and I'm going to put the trust in our Schoolboard attorney and you to decide what that would be okay if it's something that's going to give me heartburn I will definitely me too me
too okay all right thank you all right thank you okay board um there's a special board meeting on M do you need signatures tonight or you need signatures on anything tonight okay just want to check before we go ahead sorry
no that's okay sorry I didn't see you in my peripheral vision that you were you were needed to speak so I apologize there's a school board meeting on April 3rd 2025 at 7 a.m. followed by an administrative briefing and work session at 900 a.m. the next school board meeting is
scheduled for April 8th 2025 at 5:30 p.m. and at this time I'll take board comment um Dr gullet thank you uh Madam chair just a few items I just want to provide clarification to the item you all just
spoke about with uh Construction Services for Middle School DD um I will follow up with attorney po as your school board attorney I think because you issue the cone of silence guidance on that right I think I've issued no guidance at all on we got we got nothing
oh okay nothing on no information no information on cona silence for that project that doesn't come from you okay I'll so I'll follow up we'll we'll talk and I'll just make sure that there's a follow up to that um also wanted to share as you all know tomorrow is early
release day for two hours for our students and so and tonight is uh Barb Dobbin speaking of operations and construction and all of that barb Dobbins this is your last school board meeting after working for the district for decades so she's she's smiling
broadly out there because she's retiring but has great things ahead and just want to thank you publicly this your last um board meeting we'll C be celebrating with you later this week but board I just wanted to to recognize her work and her leadership for our
students Miss Dobbins will you stand up and tell us how many years of service you have with Marian County Public Schools you're not allowed to dance y all right thank [Applause] you thank you thank you again and last
but not least because we always start with students and end with students I want to thank the Maran County cultural Alliance uh today one of the school visits I had the opportunity to engage with was a thank you as of a gift um they do incredible things for our students and today they they gifted one
of our takestock students with a flute she will be playing the flute at the University of Florida and uh really excited about providing opportunities to students that don't have access to to the equipment that they need to to thrive and so really want to thank them and all the benefactors that support our
students in Maran County thank you so much thank you Miss Martinez no Madam chair thank you thank you attorney Powers nothing further thank you all right let's go to our student Representatives we'll let you go first um yes I just want to go back to 19.6
which we did discuss in our meeting today on Mental Health I like to consider myself as an advocate in my school among mental health and how important it is to have teachers and staff members who are trained and equipped with dealing with mental health it is such an important necessity I
believe and within all schools especially with the increased demand for tier three mental health interventions and to have something like this where our school board is truly prioritizing our students above all else I am so happy to see this within our
schools all right thank you going to discussion 19.5 about Middle School DD um um me I was formerly a student at Laker middle school and my little sister currently attends lak gr middle school as a sixth grade student
so really hearing that I new Middle School is coming to our County for as replacing Laker middle school is great and I wanted to say thank you for that and thank you for having me here today thank you both we really appreciate your Insight and your input
thank you we look forward to seeing you again Dr Campbell sure thank you I'll I'll also say welcome to K and always good to have you back with us Miss Diaz as well U for those in the community who may not be fully aware a year ago the
school board did enact policy for us to have student representatives from the board and so we have one each quarter from each School two each quarter but one from each uh high school and because the students in the second quarter get
short changed their meetings because we only have one board meeting in November and one board meeting in December they kind of get short changed and so I'm grateful that we're bringing those uh quar or two students back to join khil here at for our board meeting so so you'll see another board member as well a student board member uh but always
grateful to have your insights and perspective as long as we're keeping students the focus of everything we do then we'll definitely succeed because we want to help every student succeed a couple of things that were brought forth tonight first of all I want to say thank you to miss Barb Dobbins you're not
allowed to dance dance you're not allowed to dance yet I was you're back there almost doing a jig is so excited this is your last board meeting um but I know you were grateful you didn't have to address us this evening so um but very very uh
grateful for the work that you have done in this District I've only been a part of it for four and a half years but knowing the Legacy that you've left you have a lot to be proud of so you've had your fingers on not just schools but many different departments in this District that have all been better
because you've been there so thank you Miss doin uh also wanted to mention because we had several community members speaking tonight wanted to mention just a bit a lot of focus certainly has been
on closing of one particular school but I want to continue to say the thought process behind that is not because of that school it's because the school up the road Reddit call
is operating at 50% capacity that is the reason that this even came forth from this board memb perspective we don't have a solution for a school that is a hundred years
newer uh than fezen essentially built in the 90s and that doesn't sound like a very new school it does it built in the 90s but we haven't built a school here in 20 years so a school built in the 90s is actually new to Maran County Public
Schools apart from the two new schools we're about to open this year so when we have a newer School built in the 90s that is operating at 50% capacity that also operates in the current as we know Farmland preservation
area the whole Zone unless something changes in State Statute this next year I'll just leave that out there uh right now the way our county has set up the urban growth boundary and the
comprehensive plan there's not a lot of opportunity for growth and again Reddit Coler is operating at 50% capacity so this board has to have real hard conversations about what Solutions are for that there have been solutions that
have been posed as questions but similarly to the way this board had very dedicated conversations to a com combination of 8ighth Street and Oola we had a lot of folks come to us a year year and a half
two years ago thinking that was a done deal just because this board had started having a conversation and clearly it wasn't a done deal because it didn't get done it it didn't combine we heard Community outcry and that wasn't something that happened but the only way
five people up here can have conversation is to do it right here in the public we can't have conversation behind closed doors we can't go out and seek somebody else's thoughts and or ask somebody did you talk to another board member tell me
what they said we can't do that that's against the law so we want to make sure that we are doing our due diligence and getting the community feedback I want to speak to the communication timeline on the meetings
this week because I want to say goal five of our strategic plan and the conversation that has happened tonight continues to highlight the
significant communication challenges we have within this district and that includes internal departments if we have something as important as Community input that this board asked for very
diligently and it's planned in one department and another department creates the flyer and another department that needs to get it on the website doesn't do so and another department that sends out the sky alert and then we find out about it in an
email that is internal communication that is not working I know that I'm a communication professional and I know that it is completely unacceptable and I cannot as a board member continue to standby knowing that goal five of our
strategic plan that we put in place four and a half years ago is the worst outcome that we have of any goals in our strategic plan we we cannot continue to do it Dr gullet I don't know what it's going to take to change it but before
you leave I hope we have some change because it continues to be a challenge we had multiple community members tonight addressing it but from this board seat I'm done I am done so all of the Departments
internally that work on Communications y'all got to get your acts together okay moving on the last thing I wanted to mention today uh was I had an opportunity yesterday to watch back our meeting yesterday because
I needed to process a bit of what we talked about and I'm not going to talk about that because we've set another agenda item to talk about that in the future though the community certainly has been talking I went out to social media as Dr James was mentioning yesterday I've seen a lot of talk on
social media there there's a lot a lot of people have a lot of perspectives it's kind of interesting but what I want to say about watching back our meeting yesterday on YouTube actually my husband walked in the room room so we both had the same
thought cuz he couldn't believe it chair I want to ask what our update is on our stage remodel because the wrinkled tablecloths that we have as our dis continues to make this school board
look like the Little Sisters of the Poor you watch it back you watch it back we were on a wide shot the entire meeting yesterday for two hours and all you see are wrinkles all along this step what in the world are we trying to do these black boxes that are all scratched up
and not we we don't look like the professionalism we want our Educators to have in the classrooms and we need to fix it so chair I was wondering if we had an update on that and I would appreciate it we I don't have an update for you but it is in on my list for my oneon-one with my NE next one-on-one
with Dr gullet so I'll have an update for you soon unless Miss Dobbins if you have um I don't know if you have update that you'd like to share with the board not to put you on the spot no I'll put her on the spot it's her last meeting come on we wanted to hear from
you thank you chair yes good evening happy to be here to discuss it and you know it's coincidential because Ivonne came to me just today and uh our new design coordinator who just recently started
had mocked up some options for us and it looks it looks great I'm very proud of what that team has developed what I asked her to do is then turn it over to Mr Duncan and our maintenance department to cost out what the furniture building would do
but essentially um what we're talking about is removing some of the chairs here on my right and left in the front and building a uh a low platform to where we then would have customized uh uh furniture for you uh everyone that's
on the board that would be able to be moved and pushed up to the stage if there's an event going on on the stage um and then it would have a removable portable background that um you then would see when you're televised it will
take coordination of course with um the audio and visual portion of it um so we've yet to because it's just hot off the press we've yet to work with Kevin's group and also uh work with the county on how they do theirs as well so it it's
it's moving along we had to wait for our design coordinator to get on board and she has sketched out a beautiful design it's in pricing and we need to work with audio visual as well and then it'll be brought to you in a work session um for
you to review and make decisions because we then have to talk about the funding source for it as well thank you very much Miss Dobbins I know you've been working on that for a little bit so thank you all right thank you that concludes my comments okay
thank you Dr Campbell um Dr James thank you um thank you for that stage update it's good to get that um I did want to give Miss Dobbins um a well a couple things we're celebrating her on Friday um in
her service I before the meeting we were discussing um those who have been in the district a while miss dobins has worked in just about every single Department um except CFO because Miss Boston Ellis has probably been around longer and in that department longer but um Miss Dobbins
has served in a significant amount of capacities and has really had impact in a variety of roles um I did want to mention she did send an email well attorney Powers via Miss Dobbin sent an email on 1220 about a cone of silence
that email did come um I think if if I were to put my perception on it I think the the cone of science started in 1220 and we're at the end of March and so understanding the processes that were in
play and then making sure that we felt confident in our procedural manual being implemented were some of the shortcomings and so um but I wanted to acknowledge that facilities did send that email out on 12:20 uh we had a
parent um or guardian or Community member tonight share concerns about the Department of Education and I have renewed confidence that in addressing some of the bloating we have at the Department of Education um will allow
more money to come to the local counties and to the state government um that is my confidence I I saw a I saw a comparison today that said the doe was like Ticket Master you can pay the
person directly for the ticket to the concert or you can pay ticket master and they're going to add a and there was money getting taken off the top at federally at the doe and I I have confidence that we're going to see that money now come directly to our
students that is certainly my expectation as an elected official in this community that we are going to continue to meet all of our students needs and have more funding to do so I would like to see um we did some expulsions tonight I've seen some conversation online there was a
conversation recently about um you know have we really expelled over a 100 students at Westport this year Well when you do the math that's only 3% because we got almost 3,000 students at Westport and 3% is actually not an incredibly inflated number when you look
across at expulsion rates um but I want to see a conversation this board engage back in regarding our most egregious offenders and where they go I think sending kids to their
house is not the best place for kids um and I want to see us re-engage um I'm going to put the terminology wrong but put out a RFQ put out a bid whatever that looks like to engage Our Community Partners to see who would be interested
in providing services for our most egregious offenders face to face I do not think sending them home and then expecting them to return to base ready to rock androll a year later is putting them in a most advantageous position so
I would be interested in and engaging in discourse as to ways to improve our most egregious offenders consequences so that they receive face-to-face instruction on a daily basis from um a human being who is not only going to deliver them instruction but also provide
remediation and Rehabilitation for the human being because what I see Ronnie Jones doing on this campus is remediation and Rehabilitation and he is truly course correcting many students and helping them find ways to make better decisions so that they don't land
back here but our most egregious offenders can't be here if they've I mean we had maybe six or seven tonight that we sent to Virtual learning because they offended here and then we had a couple that it was like their fourth
offense at their base school so they got to skip here and go straight home and I can understand that they can't be here because this is not the right place for them but their home with no supervision is not the right place for them either and so I want to see us
engage in some discussions about that board um we're we're going to quickly approach a critical time like we did last year where we're going to miss the opportunity to do something different and I don't know that I want to let that go and then we're just keep doing the same thing because I the data will
support those kids are going to come back from home and they're going to reoffend at base and they're going to wind up right back there again um and that's not what's best for kids um and finally I want to I want to just highlight a couple things um I Community I appreciate you coming out tonight to
share your thoughts I this board came to consensus that we were going to address fesan and Anthony no sooner than the 26 27 school year so we came to consensus on that as a board and we said that this was not about next school year but that
when Mr SS comes before the board in January and talks about rezoning that's for 18 months away as a very proactive measure so the the adust adustment to fe uh fezan and Anthony was for 2627 at the
earliest now regarding a community meeting same as you very shocked I got an email yesterday um I think yesterday I got an email yesterday afternoon um however when I got into the nitty-gritty
of it the date for the meeting was not approved until the Wednesday before spring break so this staff members in charge of approving a meeting can't communicate that information if the information is
not approved until the Wednesday before spring bake so I 1,000% agree with you a 2448 hour notice is is not ideal at all and to be honest if we do the meetings we're going to just have to redo them because they're not going to be
effective because the people who need and desire and want to attend are not going to be there um so that is my first point of just measure is that and by the way there were other dates that were provided that would have been way more
long range and way more appropriate but the date was the dates that were chosen were these dates so when that happens staff then has to Pivot and make a flyer and do all the things and then we're sending out a sky alert on a Thursday afternoon and then here we are the flyer
doesn't actually go home until today and I totally agree why are we doing the meetings I was I was confused when I read it and it said north Maran middle and North Maran High maybe because they have an auditorium or a gymnasium but fesan has a gymnasium that can seat plenty of people so I don't know why other than like an auditory component
why we wouldn't but fesan holds all kinds of events I was just there for a black history event I don't know what was that less than a month ago so I don't know why we couldn't hold it at fezan and Anthony's cafeteria was has a stage it was an auditorium so or a gym
and so I don't I don't know why those two places would not have been chosen so so my recommendation board um I'm I am not a fan of canceling anything late because then the people didn't get the message and then they'll still show up and then you do it wrong then too so what I would say is we proceed and then
we repeat that would be my recommendation because canceling it is not going to put us in a position where we're effectively communicating so because there will be people who show up tomorrow night because they miss this memo and the last thing I want is people to show up to a meeting that we're supposed to all be at and then people
aren't there so I would like to have meeting and then I would like in my opinion no less than like 3 weeks awareness so that people can adjust their schedules accordingly and then we repeat the meetings and and my understanding is the meeting is simply
to share facilities and um facility improvements and enrollment and have a discussion about the state of the facilities and then in a further meeting we'll have discussion about what would be next and so I would that would be my recommendation board um certainly I
guess it's up to Dr gullet but that would be my recommendation as the the board member who sits in in that area and in that community so um with that I think I conclude my comments thank you Dr James Reverend
Cummings thank you madam chair um good evening everyone um to our um board members our student board members welcome for to to be up here with us on tonight and we look forward to the input that you guys are going to bring to these conver conversations uh to miss
Dobbins thank you Miss Dobbins for all of the um the many years and and commitment and sacrifices that you made in serving um Maran County Public School System I appreciate everything that you've done and
um hope you have a next good next chapter good next chapter um Miss user um you just got a taste the Marian County School Board tonight um at its best so um welcome I'll just say it that way
welcome tonight we heard um we heard some um comments from our community um and I went back and I was listening to I've been listening the whole meeting and um there's two words
that jumped out at me tonight that I've heard one word I've heard eight times tonight and that word is transparency we I said it first in our commitment statement because it says um
our three most important characteristics are dedicated transparent and individually responsible after that after that one time I said I heard every board member up here said except for Miss thrower every board member said that that word
transparency somebody said it more than once transparent transparency some of us said it more than once tonight and then the other word that I I was looking at tonight was community community and I looked at the
flyer that we received on yesterday um and that word Community shows up on that flyer seven times seven times so that means that these meetings that were scheduled are
supposed to be um for the community for the school district and I have to say that we have not been transparent in how this was communicated to the community um and we have not been
responsible not jumping on anybody or or any department or anything like that but there is a um there is definitely some some issue with the communication in how this flyer got out and how um this information is supposed to be
disseminated to the community in being transparent a sky alert is not a mode of communicating to the community everybody does not have receive Sky alerts the community as a
whole does not receive Sky alerts if you're a parent or a uh professional within the district yes you may receive a sky alert but but if you're not a parent and you're not attached to the school district or school system you
would not receive a sky alert to receive a sky alert on the day of spring break the day the releasing for spring break in the afternoon is not fair to the community furthermore the group that we
we're trying to get to come to this meeting is in a a very large rural part of our County a a rural part of our County that don't even have internet and so we're we're saying that
we want to have Community input yet we have not did the work to make sure that we get the community to come I'm bothered I'm more than bothered I'm the word I want to say I can't say
it because um this is not the first time that this has come 4th just last summer when we were communicating the issue about moving to year round school with wyam Park we had the
same same issue yep same issue I'm I I I I promise y'all I promise my folk I will not cuss but I feel like cursing because it's that serious that we are not communicating to communities and it seems like to me the communities that
get left out are the the disenfranchised communities the communities that look like me the communities that where the students look like me and it's unfortunate that we don't have enough um it's it's unfortunate that we even
having this conversation so I'm going to say and I've heard I've heard my board members say what they' said I'm going to say that this needs to be a reset a huge reset because you can I have a conversation about
Anthony Spar reck or fezan without having the conversation with the stakeholders you cannot have a conversation about those schools and the
and and the uh the flyer says that it's about the North End Elementary Schools well if they're not there who we talking to and what do we talking about because it tells me that that this group this it
it gives the perception that decisions have already been made it gives the perception that um no matter what's being said by the community that that is not valuable and we need to make sure that any conversation whether it be this
year or 26 27 that the community is involved in this conversation you have parents you have um Property Owners you have a lot of stakeholders you have alumni associations and we see
them here tonight we have um you have people that have been uh uh attached to these schools for for decades we we've heard it we've heard it tonight so we need to make sure that we do what I don't I don't and I I don't know who
does this communication piece it it really doesn't matter I just pray that we get it right going forward and making sure that this information gets disseminated to the right the right way to the right people and that um you can have engagement you can't say you going
on flight say you want Community engagement and the commun ain't there it just doesn't make sense to me so we've heard some we've heard some impassion um comments tonight from the community I thank you all for coming tonight be honest with you um
it's unfortunate you had to be be here to address this issue but we as a board we as a district we owe the community much better than what we've given them much better than what we've given them so I'm just going to say I'm going to close with this we got to do a better
job we have to do a better job the other part of that that that um that um statement that I read tonight the last part of that three most important characteristics individually responsible so I have to take some responsibility on
this and every one of us five have to take some responsibility of this because we are the board that they elected to do the right thing thank you Reverend Cummings board member thrower thank you and thank you to the
community and and everyone that came out tonight uh maybe the reason you didn't hear me say transparent tonight is because I wasn't feeling it exactly um when a school is already on the national register of historic places
that means it's already been recognized as being something incredibly special and I don't understand why this is so complicated the problem is crme IC low enrollment at reic that's the problem I don't think we
have a problem with enrollment at Anthony or or feein we have a problem in reic and problems wouldn't be problems if they didn't have Solutions so I think it's high time for this board to shift the conversation get
our heads together and involve in the community of what can we do to solve the problem where it is and it's not in Fein and it's not in
anthon the next thing I'll say is that there are still a lot of Apartments being built in the area not that far from fezan and not really that much further than than reading so the area is
continuing to grow um it's a conversation for another day to talk about opportunities uh for reic um it has its own appeal as a as a community and it certainly has its own proud history that
we can work to cultivate and celebrate in in my opinion um I have no interest in attending any community meeting because I don't support what's been talked about what's been proposed so I have my same
confusion as other board members spoke about you know just finding out last night and I was like this is ridiculous this is nonsense and no I'm not going so if you don't see me there tomorrow night that's why you won't see
me there tomorrow night or the next night um I agree with board member Cummings it's time for a complete reset we have accomplished a lot of goals in our strategic plan we've come a long way in so many areas um but the but the
communication piece is one that you know no point beating it anym to death uh we we've just got to do better so I'm looking forward to um it was already said tonight that this wouldn't get talked about until 2627 so you know the
teachers and staff and principals at Anthony and fezan that have been thrown into such a tail spin these last weeks uh but that's not good enough for me I I really would like to see some cons strong
consensus and Leadership from this board that we are going to focus on the area of concern which is [Music] reic I don't know if the board is prepared you know to make that
commitment tonight or not um but that's exactly where I sit with this oh yes sorry Dr Campbell I I'll be happy to have that conversation and I completely agree reic is our problem that is low enrollment that's what I said tonight to address that issue we
have put uh magnet opportunities there already with very low applicants as we saw in the recent information we received the only fix that I see today if we were to get real down to Brass
taxes is that we rezone and move some of the kids to reic that are currently zoned for other schools and that's honestly the only way we are going to infill that school that I see perhaps you guys see something else but we are overcrowded in
fendon we we are and so if we infilled with some of those students that would be a whole another rezoning conversation that I think might be one of the opportunities that Mr SS presents to us so we can have that conversation for 26 27 but that's the only other solution that I know at this point but I am open
to conversation Madam chair we and I know people could saying that um that because of the farm preservation area that there's little growth on that side that's not necessarily so when you look at um the Pine Oaks Golf Course where
they just built all those apartments when you look at 326 and there are stuff going up there on 326 there there there there is growth coming in that area that's within the boundary it's within the boundary but those kids got to go somewhere they can't go to forom because that's a early learning
school they can't go to oakrest they can't go to either one of those schools they're not going to Cal Springs they're already zoned for somewhere I don't know which I would have to pull up the map but as you again you just said fean is full and and is is at capacity so
there's more coming so we we got to look at again truly where are we going to send these kids you have kids that's all the way out there in that come to Fez you got kids that's on the line on property on the county line that comes
to fean we got to look at not closing the school but readjusting some things to make sure it fits for all the schools and when we do that then we will solve the problem but we can't create a problem to solve a problem and it seems
like that's what we're trying to do is create a problem to solve a problem I really appreciate the the conversation um you know we have uh very concerned citizens that are coming back you know week after week and
at some point you know this this board has to be definite you know and I am definite that feend in will remain and that Anthony needs to remain
as well I think about the trailer park that's across from there um you know we're talking about people where it's just not that easy to go here go there go everywhere you know
um and there are many things that have been lost through the years because of kind of knee-jerk shortsighted not Visionary thinking so let's learn from those
mistakes and and rededicate ourselves you know we've done a pretty good job I think as a board you know working with the community and reaching in so let's not blow it now um so yeah that's I guess that's all I'll say for tonight and and I
appreciate some of the conversation that's already been had it seemed like a pretty quick rezoning to Zone those kids right out of NH Jones into other places years ago that they couldn't even go to their neighborhood school what is that that was that was that was the
desegregation order that was out of our control it was out of our control but it happened and it took a long time to fix it I it did not change until I got on the board that's right and that was years and it should not have taken you were out from under that for a long time before that conversation happened so you
know it's it's Old Wounds right and it's hard to talk about but the the things that are the hardest to talk about are probably the things that need to be talked about the most that's right you know it just is what it is and and all we can do is what you know is do
better when you know better you do better better and and and you learn and you go and experience these places and you get to feel the heartbeat you get to hear the whisperings in the wall so to speak and and hopefully it it changes minds and and and hearts and and and we
do better and I also know that we have programs that are at all clear other ends of the County uh you know there's people that have been kids that have been going to IB programs and all kinds of you know programs that have come from long distances to do things
so where there's where there is commitment and and the right Spirit you find a way to get things done so I'm I'm not going to continue to belabor the point what I do want to move on and say is um Miss Diaz I think you need to know that when we went up to
Tallahassee we spoke of of you specifically as a student board member and how important mental health is and how you raised awareness to us we we obviously were aware but it this is the beauty of having student board members because it resonates with us and then we
take it forward and we take it up the chain and they are listening they are hearing so please know that by your participation and others uh student board members you're making a difference okay thank
[Music] you um couple things uh the uh statement on what's going on with the Department of Education you know right now it's it's all in flux um but I think I do know that this board and superintendent
and and staff are committed to serving each and every child so as this continues to unfold um it's it's uncertain and and when things are uncertain it's scary um but there is also laws in place to protect kids with disabilities and with IEPs um for them
to get what they need and I feel pretty confident that this board is going to continue to Advocate and and fight and do what needs to be done um it's easy to get upset about it and nervous because there's just no concrete answers yet but as they begin to come out you know we'll
hopefully do a really good job of communicating them all right uh I want to share that um The Black Stallion reading project is uh beginning again and that is sponsored by the Okala horse alignment Alliance uh
led by Ellie Truman and it is a fantastic group that donates over 3,000 books every year reading the book The Black Stallion it is a well- Lov project and I'll be helping put the uh book plates on for the farm Partners on 3,000
books this Thursday and Friday so if you want to help y okay so you guys have been made aware um that's a great one and then they'll be bringing horses around to the elementary schools and talking about all the different careers and and just being very encouraging it's it's just a wonderful Gem of a program
and it's been around a long time with Maran County Public Schools um want to thank a teacher today at uh Vanguard High School which is in my district in Miss sensal she's a math teacher you could just tell by walking in there you know how amazing she is and the kids really do care about her and they're
learning a lot so it's it's fun to thank a teacher and that's a partnership with HCA Florida great Community partner um I'm using a fort King Pen tonight and Fort King is also in my district and the Falcons are on the rise they have a new AI program that's going to going to
start next year and the principal reached out to me and he said because he knows I like good news and who doesn't like good news I think they've already accepted 32 students and a couple of them are starting early so we've got amazing kids that are just so smart and and so capable and thank you Dr gullet
for all of the the programs that you have encouraged with your staff to grow and pipelines to get make kids interested in school and and start finding things that they might want to do in life I also wanted to finally share that a young man named Austin I had occasion to be at the permitting and
Licensing uh Department of maring County um the county uh earlier this week and a young man named Austin uh took care of me and he's a permitting and Licensing technician he's a graduate proud graduate of Forest High School young man very capable you know answered all my
questions gave me what I needed and it just made me feel so good it's like you know these these are our kids and they graduate from our schools and they go out and they get jobs and and just now being of service you know to someone that's an adult like me so pretty neat
um I just I'll end by saying um thank you all again for being here and uh don't lose the faith you know keep the faith from Hard Times come better tomorrow's thank you board member thrower and you guys have just about
covered my list so um I do have a couple of comments um another Community member spoke I guess I believe it's for the second time about report cards and when those are sent home and I just wanted to remind theu community that all of that is available online through their portal
there you know parents students can look at their grades every day if they want to when I taught fourth grade that was we did it once a week we got on we checked to see if they were missing assignments they log in themselves they check their grades all of that is
available um online they can do it at school or at home on their phone um so anyway I just wanted to share that in case there was someone that was not aware of that um and and Reverend Chandler did talk a lot about communication um I agree I'm not going
to really spend a lot of time but I agree with what was the board has shared um we have to be um we just have to plan ahead better and we have to be considerate of those that we are serving and the needs of those that we are serving so I will leave that
there I also wanted to um I forgot to thank on item 19.6 U Miss Del noell I forgot to say thank you because I can't see if she's still here she she's gone um I I just wanted to tell her thank you because um I did have quite a few questions about
that item and she spent quite a bit of time um going through it with me and so I forgot to thank her when she was presenting so um I wanted to be sure and say that um attorney Powers I just had a quick question um I've been in conversation with you and Miss Boston
Ellis do we have a timeline that we we have to turn in our sales tax committee names I don't know I know that we're we're up against the timeline I just want to make sure that I can help the board in getting that um completed I have gotten all except two names that I
am awaiting and I've reached out so um as soon as I have those I've prepared everything else that we need and I the board asked for me to send a list to all board members I haven't yet sent it because I am waiting on those last two names okay as soon as I have those I'll circulate that and uh then we will be
setting our sales tax committee meeting so okay I would anticipate that that should come this week very good thank you very much attorney powers and Miss Boston Alis might correct and that that has to be turned into the state yes okay thank you I yes oh he
will he will get those names I'm I'm the two names he didn't say it he didn't say I'll say iten listen transparency accountability so um I did get some names today that you'll get all right thank you Reverend Cummings I appreciate
that um oh I wanted to say thank you to the public Ed Foundation they had a bowling event um the Thursday evening before spring break and it was a phenomenal event um for our staff and during the
school year there's just not a lot of opportunity I actually can't I don't I can't think of another opportunity where any teacher any principal from across the district gets together in one place um and be in fellowship with one another
with no training um No Agenda except for to come have a good time and enjoy each other's company so that was a really great time um I don't know how they can make it any better cuz it it was a phenomenal uh event and hats off for all
the work that uh went into that um right along with that we had breakfast with the superintendent on the teacher work day I wanted to say thank you to Dr gullet um she uh always makes it a priority to show up um for that event with our golden apple teachers and it
truly is a safe space for teachers to come and share challenges uh that they're facing either in their classroom at their school um within the community and so she always provides that opportunity to listen uh and allow some problem solving um to take place so Dr G
again we thank you for your commitment to um taking time to spend uh with the foundation on that uh um with that I'm going to finish up um with a quick apology to the
facilities Department about the cone of silence there is an email I was trying I'm not as um I'm not so good at multitasking when I'm running a meeting so you don't see me on the computer too much usually but there is an email from
from um December 19th I do believe and so I do think that 3 months is a long time uh for the conus almost three months for a cone of silence to be in effect I see I see uh Dr Campbell kind of shrugging her shoulders but I'm I'm
just sharing how I feel I think that's a long time but I regardless of that um I want to thank you uh for sending that out and apologize for saying that it wasn't sent out and so um I just wanted to state that publicly and so with that
uh if there is any further discussion um I will have take a motion to adjourn motion to adjourn second thank you board member thrower and thank you Dr Campbell all those in favor I I motion passes 0 and this meeting is
adjourned at 7:47 thank you [Music]