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Part 1 (Video ID: aKPHDe1nUTk):
- 00:04:39: Call to Order, Prayer, Pledge, and Role Call
- 00:06:58: Agenda and Consent Agenda Approval Discussion
- 00:08:19: Odyssey of the Mind State Tournament Recognition
- 00:16:59: Mallerie Goddard Vocal Performance and Introduction
- 00:19:19: Mallerie Goddard's Opera Performance of Omo Babino
- 00:21:40: Memorial Day Proclamation and School Board Acceptance
- 00:24:47: June Joint Meeting Topics Discussion and School Zone Update
- 00:26:45: Florida State Science Fair Winners Recognition
- 00:31:38: Academic Games Recognition for County and State Participants
- 00:35:48: Reading Excellence Recognition, Math Counts, and Math Olympics
- 00:41:34: Cursive Contest Winners Announced With Guest Representative
- 00:51:36: Environmental Studies Council Check and Guy Harvey Donation
- 00:57:06: Retirement Recognition for Long-Time Educator Cynthia Dob
- 01:00:52: Public Comment - MCA President Kelly Williams Update
- 01:04:46: SPAM Robotics Team Update and Season Highlights
- 01:12:45: SPAM Continued - Autonomous Robot Success Discussion
- 01:13:05: Student Representative Delaney Miller's Final Update
- 01:22:24: District Update: New Website, Pathfinder Awards, ACE, Volunteers
- 01:28:29: Superintendent Update: Testing, Job Fair, Graduation Season
- 01:34:59: Action Items: Contracts, Purchases, Renewals, and More
- 01:42:07: Instructional Materials Adoption for Career and Tech
- 01:45:13: First Review of School Board Policies Approval to Advertise
- 01:45:58: Board Open to Discuss, Adjournment


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Good afternoon. Okay, we are going to call this regular school board meeting of the Martin County School Board to order. Um, I would like to welcome Pastor Anneil Singh from Trinity United Methodist Church for our opening prayer.

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>> Thank you for inviting me. Good to see you. Let's draw together in heart, mind, and spirit. Creator of our universe, author of all life, source of every gift and blessing. Thank you for breathing life into us. Thank you for the life we share here in Martin County. Thank you

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for our free state of Florida and thank you for our great nation. Especially, we thank you for the students you have entrusted to us. In this season, we celebrate their graduations and their ascensions to higher levels of learning. Congratulations to all.

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Loving one, as we now set our minds on this season of rest and revival, remind us still of our sacred mission, the future of our world. In time, the young people in our charge will serve as healers, caregivers, protectors,

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educators, innovators, entrepreneurs, and so much more. Their possibilities are endless, but their possibilities now lie in our hands. Grant us then the ideals, wisdom, strength, and unity of purpose to offer

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all of our students the knowledge and skills they will need to build a brighter future for all of us. Amen. Amen. Thank you, Pastor Singh. Please remain standing for the pledge of allegiance. >> I pledge to the flag of the United

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States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> Okay. Um, Miss Helvy, would you please call

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the role? >> Yes. Mrs. Powers, >> here. Dr. Morardi, >> here. >> Mrs. Roberts here. Mrs. Pritchette >> here. And Mrs. Russell >> here. >> Okay. Thank you. Um, now, can I get an

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approval of the agenda with the following items added? Item 7.03, items updated, 3.01, 5.01, 9.01, 9.02, 02 11.01 and 11.02.

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The following items moved to action 3.18, 3.21 and 3.20. Item 18.15 has been moved to 19.01 and item 13.03

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will follow the approval of the agenda and the consent agenda. >> Motion to approve. Second >> and items removed. >> Oh, sorry. Items removed 15.09 and 15.110. Does your motion include those? M. >> Yes, it does.

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>> Second agrees. Thank you. I have a motion by Miss Pritchette, a second by Miss Roberts. All those in favor? >> I. >> Any opposed? Motion carries unanimously. Do I have a motion to approve the consent agenda? >> Motion to approve.

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>> Second. I have a motion by Miss Pritchette and Miss Roberts and a second by Miss Pritchette. All those in favor? >> I. >> Any opposed? Motion carries unanimously. Okay. Now, we're moving things around a

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little bit. We have some students who need to get back to school. Um, so we'll take up item 13.03, Odyssey of the Mind State Tournament Recognition. Good evening, Madame Chair, Superintendent Maine, members of the board. My name is Paige McMahon. I am

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the coordinator of curriculum and instruction, and it is my pleasure this evening to present many different awards across various academic disciplines to celebrate our wonderful students in the Martin County School District. I am going to start off with Odyssey of the Mind, but we do have a few different events that are going to be highlighted and some students that deserve

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recognition this evening. So, thank you I'm actually going to start off with our science fair. Well, >> actually, we if we could take Odyssey of the Minds just first because we're going to move all of the other recognitions on the agenda where they were, but the we have two students that have to get back

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to their school by 4:30. >> All right, no problem. Give me one moment to reshuffle these. Okay. All right, Odyssey of the Mind. Students from six of our schools advanced from the Treasure Coast Regional Odyssey of the Mind tournament to compete in the Florida Odyssey of the

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Mind state tournament. Showcasing exceptional creativity, teamwork, and problem solving abilities. Teams work collaboratively to solve complex long-term problems and present their solutions through engaging performances. Odyssey of the Mind is an international program that encourages students to

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apply creativity and critical thinking to open-ended challenges. Tonight we are celebrating students from six of our schools who competed at the state tournament. Starting off with Felix A. Williams. The Felix A. Williams team was coached by Erica Anderson. And when I call your

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name, if you could please come up. We have a certificate. And then if you'll remain standing for a picture of all of our six state teams um in front of the board, please. So the Felix team was coached by Erica Anderson. Team members include Eric Kawa, Olivia Koeva, Sophia

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Zarbo, Emma Alexander, Joseph Gerski, and Juniper Urb. That is our team from Felix A. Williams Elementary. We also have a team from Crystal Lake Elementary coached by Brienne Bennett. That team includes Nathan Render, Bin

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Talon, Eli Soua, Renee Schwarz, Lily Aker, and Eleanor Benz. Next up, we have our team from Jensen Beach Elementary, coached by Jacquellyn Sugg, Sier Frell, Dylan Majesty Arensson, Gabriel Borges, Hunter Stocklin, Evan Roth, Haley Berdolini,

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and Reagan Slaggel. Moving into the middle school division, we are represented very well by our Hidden Oaks Middle School team coached by Nicholas Karanante. Team members included Preston Espazito, Evangelene Walker, Haley Hicks, Emerson Beasley, and Eden Gardy.

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>> Coached by Andrew Ramsey. >> Also coached by Andrew Ramsey. Thank you, And new this year to our district, we have grown our Odyssey of the Mind program all the way into our high schools. And two of our high schools did advance to compete at the state tournament. We were represented by the

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Martin County High School team coached by Christopher Kawa with team members Leighton Parker, Lazaro Rodriguez, Prangie Shaw, Reagan Cox, Lyanna Jackson, Sophia Michelli, and Kelly Kennedy. And finally, our sixth team to compete

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at the state tournament was represented by Jensen Beach High School. Our coaches there were Alicia Kerinante and Lauren Chadam. Team members included Kenley Warner, Elizabeth Roach, Laya Ford, Kellen Farro, Dalton Constantini, and Caitlyn Brady.

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Don't look here. Right. Congratulations again to all of our Odyssey of the Mind state competitors. Thank you. >> Don't smile. >> Go. Next up, we have um because we're going out of order, I apologize.

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Mallerie Goddard as she as Mallerie's making her way up for a performance. Um, we probably need to get the microphone back over. And Mallerie Goddard is a senior at Martin County High School whose passion for vocal music has been shaped by years of training,

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performance, and leadership. She found her love for singing at Crystal Lake Elementary and continued at David L. Anderson Middle School and is proud to have participated in music in our schools for eight years at MCHS. Mallerie serves as the Opus Student

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Conductor under the direction of Amy James and studies voice privately with Reva Rogers. She has been selected for the Florida Allstate Honors Choir for six consecutive years and was most recently named one of the top 25

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sopranos in Florida for site reading and earning a place in the Florida Allstate Reading Chorus. Mallerie has received consistent superior and superior with distinction ratings at district and state solo and ensemble festivals and made history as

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the first Martin County student accepted into the Palm Beach Opera Studio where she is completing her second year of study. Her recent honors include winning the Coral Society of the Palm Beaches vocal competition, earning second place

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in the Pathfinder Scholarship Awards, and placing second at the Schmidt vocal competition in Atlanta, qualifying her for the national finals. Mallerie plans to continue her studies in v vocal performance in opera at Stson

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University. Tonight she will perform Omo Babino Caro by Giao Puchini from Giani. Okay, I give you Mallalerie Goddard.

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Oh The bee This is our voice. The gra strong. Glory. Beautiful. Thank you very much, Mallerie. We'll see

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you at graduation. Okay, next up, um, as discussed at our last meeting, we have a Memorial Day proclamation. And I will read the proclamation and then have the board accept it. Um, this is a proclamation of the Martin County School Board

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recognizing Memorial Day. Whereas the last Monday in May is set aside to honor our fallen heroes who answered the call of duty and made the ultimate sacrifice to maintain the security of our nation and the excuse me, and the liberties we hold dear. And whereas since our first

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Memorial Day in 1868, we have honored the selfless service and sacrifice of those who have fallen in the line of duty and acknowledge the debt of gratitude beyond our capability to repay. And whereas we are grateful for the soldiers, sailors, airmen, marines,

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guardians, coast guardsmen, and merchant mariners who died in service of our nation that we might continue to enjoy the freedoms we so deeply cherish. And whereas on Memorial Day, as throughout the year, we honor and pray for our gold

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star families and show our respect for the sacrifices their family members in uniform made through the flying of the honor and remember flag. And whereas with more than 1.4 4 million veterans of the US armed forces

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currently residing in the sunshine state. Florida is proud to strive to be the most veteran friendly state in the nation. And whereas we encourage all Floridaians to participate in appropriate ceremonies, activities, and

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programs to demonstrate support and recognize the contribution of our fallen warriors. And now therefore, we, the Martin County School Board, by virtue of of the by virtue of the authority vested in us, do hereby proclaim Monday, May

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26th, as Memorial Day in Martin County in recognition of all those who have made the ultimate sacrifice in service to our nation. And ask all residents of Martin County to pause for a moment of silence at 3 p.m. on Monday, May 25th,

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2026. and direct all school district flags to be lowered to half staff from from sunrise until midnight on Monday, May 25th, 2026 in memory of the fallen heroes of our armed forces. In witness

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whereof, I have here unto set my hand and caused the seal of the school board of Martin County, Florida to be affixed this 19th day of May of the year 2026. Motion to accept the Memorial Day proclamation. Second.

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>> I have a motion by Miss Russell, a second by Miss Roberts. All those in favor? >> Any opposed? Motion carries unanimously. A very special thank you uh to all of our veterans and their families who paid

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the ultimate sacrifice. Thank you. Okay. Uh next up, we have item 12.02, 2, which is our June joint meeting topics. Are there any topics that members would like to bring up at the

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joint meeting? >> Um, Miss Dr. Morardi. Uh, yes, I'd like an update from the county on the Citrus Grove uh school zone situation. Um, we had brought that up at the last meeting about the traffic being very aggressive in front of Citrus Grove, a lot of

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people commuting. Um, and uh, I think this entire board uh, was felt very strongly that we want to make sure that that traffic slows down there. Um, we suggested a school zone. I think the county might have had some other ideas. I'd like to know what those are from the

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county and if they're being implemented and if not if we could bring back up a school zone because the safety of our kids is paramount to this board. Thank you. >> Yes. So, thank you for bringing that up. I did have a long conversation with one

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of the county commissioners and they um I think the county engineers did decide that it would not be appropriate to add additional signs um to that area because they felt like it would cause actually more issues, but they did commit to

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having the sheriff's department out um patrolling the area during school uh school pickup and drop off so that um people will hopefully slow down and I'm sure we'll all hear about it when the tickets start being written, but it's

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the price you pay for breaking the rules, right? So, I will ask um I know uh Commissioner Campy's been working on that and so we'll I'll get with him too just to give him a heads up. Any other topics for the meeting?

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Okay. All right. Back to our regular agenda for recognitions. We have item 13.0 1 which is the Florida State Science Fair winner recognitions. Dr. McMahon. All right. Good evening again. It's a

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pleasure to be back. 11 students from our schools recently participated in the 71st Florida State Science and Engineering Fair held in Lakeland last month where they demonstrated outstanding achievement in scientific research and innovation. Competing against top students from across the state, several Martin County students

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earned high honors for their original projects spanning disciplines such as environmental science, engineering, plant science, and biomedical research. Two students were also invited to advance to compete at the international level of competition. representing both our district and the state of Florida at

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the Regeneron International Science and Engineering Fair last week in Phoenix, Arizona. And now to recognize our winners from the state fair and our international participants. When we call your name, if you could please join Mr. Moore up at the front, he'll hand you a certificate.

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And if you can remain at the front for a picture at the end, please. From Jensen Beach High School, Maline Parr received a $2,500 scholarship per year from the University of Florida College of Agriculture and Life Sciences for her project. From South Fork High School, Rohan Call

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received the Office of Naval Research Medallion and Certificate, as well as a $75 award from the US Navy Science Awards, Office of Naval Research. from Hidden Oaks Middle School. Evelyn Gettings received a $50 award from the St. John's Regional Science and

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Engineering Fair. From South Fork High School, Julian Seabilierro received a $50 award from the Penllis Regional Science and Engineering Fair. from Hidden Oaks Middle School. Liliana Rapetto received a special recognition in the junior chemistry category

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from Hidden Oaks Middle School. Stella Dyscowski received a special recognition in the environmental engineering category from Hidden Oaks Middle School as well. Zoe Kappler received fourth place in the junior earth and environmental science category.

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From South Fork High School, Ahana Estana received fourth place in the senior plant science category. From Martin County High School, Nina Goyle received a $250 renewal scholarship from the University of Florida Plant Science Program, as well as a $19,760

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scholarship from Florida Polytenic University, the opportunity to attend the Florida Youth Institute at the University of Florida, and second place in the senior plant science category. And our two student representatives who competed last week at the international science and engineering fair would be

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Nina Goyle from Martin County High School and Verun Singh from South Fork High School. And Nina also placed second in plant science at the international level. Congratulations. Right. And these are our state science

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fair winners. Thank you so much. If you'll stay there for a picture, All right, Madam Chair, may I move to the next item? Okay. Uh, next up we have our academic games recognition. Our mountain Martin County School District students participated in academic games competitions this year, demonstrating

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exceptional achievement in multiple subject areas. Our students competed at the county level and the subjects of equations, linguistics, and social studies, which included topics such as Norse mythology, US presidents, and current events. A number of our students actually advanced to the state academic

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games tournament held in West Palm Beach in February, proudly representing our district. Tonight, we'd like to recognize our district's top students for their performance. First up in the social studies competition, our elementary division. In fifth place from Jensen Beach

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Elementary, Dylan Majesty Arensson. In fourth place, also from Jensen Beach Elementary, Gabriel Borges. In third place, also from Jensen Beach Elementary, Connor Guthrie, which one stand up there.

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In second place from Palm City Elementary, Haley Shaw. And in first place from Jensen Beach Elementary, Sharon Frell in our middle school division for social studies. As well in third place from

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Steuart Middle School, Jackson Molino. Third in second place from Hidden Oaks Middle School, Corbin O'Hara. And in first place from Hidden Oaks Middle School, Camden Ziegler. All right, moving into our linguistics

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competition in the elementary division. In fourth place from Jensen Beach Elementary, Gabriel Boures, there is a tie for third place in the elementary division. From Pinewood Elementary, Mia Chen. And from Palm City

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Elementary, Mox Patel. In second place from Palm City Elementary, Sam Rajal. And in first place from Palm City Elementary, Haley Shaw in our middle school division. In second place from Hidden Oaks Middle

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School, Camden Ziegler. And in first place from Anderson Middle School, Sonia Chen. And finally, our equations game in the elementary division. Finishing in fifth place from Palm City Elementary, Sam Rajal.

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In fourth place from Palm City Elementary, Mox Patel. In third place from Jensen Beach Elementary, Mason Patel. In second place from Jensen Beach Elementary, Gabriel Borges.

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And in first place from Palm City Elementary, Haley Shaw. And in the middle school division, we had one first place winner from Hidden Oaks Middle School, Camden Ziegler. And these are academic game champions.

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Congratulations. If you'll stay there for a picture, please You'd like to be >> Can we get our academic games coaches from the district up here as well, please? We'd like to celebrate our three district coaches who organized this

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competition for our district. There's the All right, next up we have a very special recognition for a very special third grader from Crystal Lake Elementary. Crystal Lakes's Max Bonado has read the entire collection of Mensa books in one year and has been accepted

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to the Mensa Foundation's Excellence in Reading Club. Let's congratulate this exceptional third grade student on this outstanding achievement. Moving into our Florida math count state competitors after securing the top two team spots at The Treasure Coast

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Regional Math Counts Competition. Students from Hidden Oaks Middle School and Anderson Middle School advanced to compete at the state math counts tournament, demonstrating exceptional mathematical reasoning and problem solving skills. These teams outperformed public and private school students from across St. Lucy and Martin counties and

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earned the opportunity to represent the Treasure Coast at the Florida State Competition where they engaged in rigorous individual and team-based challenges against top performing students from across the state. from Anderson Middle School, our second place team at the regional competition and our state competitors coached by Kzel Joy

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Andoy. Team members include Sonia Chen, Bentley Smith, Lexi Vanderwalker, and Abney VC. our Anderson Middle School team. And our first place team at the regional competition from Hidden Oaks Middle School with coach Marie Eli and team members Kayla Glansancy, Brian Wang,

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Jackson Friedri's, and Connor Delbarco Angar. The Hidden Oaks Middle School math team. Congratulations to all of our middle school math count state competitors. And finally to our Martin County School District fifth grade math Olympic

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champions. Elementary students across the Martin County School District participated in our district's fourth annual fifth grade math Olympics, culminating in a championship competition that highlights their mathematical knowledge and problem solving abilities. After multiple rounds of team-based and individual challenges,

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one school emerged as the district champion, earning the Math Olympics trophy and recognition for their outstanding achievement. And for the first time ever, we have a back-to-back champion in our district, coached by Stacy Joel from Felix A. Williams. The

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winning team consists of Jeremy Bruno, Lydia Cam, Lucas Sebuk, and Sophia Zerembbo. Congratulations to Felix A Williams. Congratulations again to our fifth grade math Olympic champions. And thank you to all of our students who worked very hard

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this past year for all of these wonderful accomplishments. Uh we have the 2026 cursive contest winners, Mark Cows, and I know we have a special guest here with us. We have uh Representative Toby Overdorf from uh

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he's one of our Florida um state representatives. Uh, Miss Representative Overdorf, would you like to come up and present the awards with um, Mr. Cows? >> I had all that covered. >> Thank you, though. We're good. We're good.

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>> I'm going to let if you would like to say something either before or after you. >> We'll part up. We don't need that anymore. >> That opportunity. >> We don't need that part. And that part can go away. Good afternoon, Madame Chair, uh, members of the board, Superintendent May, and everybody in

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attendance, everybody watching online. My name is Mark Collins, coordinator of executive initiatives, Martin County School District. It is my honor to announce our 12 school site winners in top three in our inaugural cursive contest. Very exciting. We know there's going to be a a focus on cursive writing

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in the future here in the state of Florida. It's needed. I did a little research, went into Google and said, you know, asked it, does uh cursive writing really help development? And it said yes. It it said a lot more, but I stopped reading after yes because that was good

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enough for me. And I recently got back uh visiting uh my niece and some relatives in Wisconsin. It was her graduation up there and she she did wonderful. She's a student athlete and she was the me she was the uh boys basketball student manager and they gave her an award on a basketball and it was

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with all the players supposed to be autographed. Cursive writing is needed and I will tell you that because she was so she was really excited. She was like uncle Marky. She calls me Marky. It's not my name. I don't know where they came up with that but I've never corrected him. I feel bad. I think they think that's my official name but there

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is no IIE on the end but we'll just we'll let him continue to do so. She showed me the ball. was beautiful. And then I looked at the writing on it and I said, "That's awful." And she's like, "What?" I said, "It looks like cavemen wrote on your ball." And and there's no

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cursive anywhere. It was just like marquee was written in just block print. So cursive writing is very important. And as you learned earlier, yes, it helps in development. You can do the research yourself on exactly what it does, but the answer is yes to that. So, what we're going to do with the help of

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Representative Overdorf is we're going to announce all of our winners and the top three there will be at the very end. But, I wanted to thank Executive Director Dan Moore. He was a judge. Uh, Representative Dana Trabolski was a judge. And before we do the winners, obviously right here, another one of our judges, repres Representative Toby

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Oberdorf wants to say a few words. >> Thank you, >> board members. Thank you. Um, Superintendent Maine, thank you for for having this competition as well. Um cursive is not just for writing anymore. Uh it actually is for brain development.

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It also helps with uh looking at right to left uh actually formation. It helps with hand eye coordination. Uh it also helps early diagnosis of dyslexia. So that's why it was important to me to make sure that the legislature mandated that cursive writing is back in our

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school system. And I'm proud to report that the governor signed the bill. uh it is now in law and we will have cursive writing as a requirement for third through fifth graders with reaching a proficiency at the teachers discretion in fifth in fifth grade. So, uh, you can

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look forward to, uh, the ability now for your students to be able to sign their name on a mortgage, to be able to have an autograph, uh, to go ahead and also be able to, uh, read the Constitution in this this year of the, uh, 250th anniversary, read the Declaration of

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Independence, and have some opportunities. Then also, if they'd like to volunteer for the National Park Service, the National Archives, they're looking for scribes as well. So, but that being said, uh again, thank you for the opportunity to have this competition to highlight the importance of cursive writing. Your students did a really good

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job. I'm just saying they did a great job for this not being a statewide mandated uh issue and mandated requirement. They did a really good job. So, you should be proud of that. You should be proud of your teachers that are investing the time to be able to do that. And thank you again for that. And without further ado, let's get to the

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winners. He obviously read beyond yes. So that was good. Thank you for that for all that information. That was good. All right, we're going to start. Now what we'll do is when we announce you, we're going to have you come up. Uh Representative Overdorf will hand you the certificate in front and then we'll put you up front for a picture later.

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Like I said, we're going to start uh with the school site winners. There's 12 alto together. The top three will get two certificates. And the top three, you're going to want to open up the white envelope because there was a uh a donor, anonymous donor wants to remain anonymous. They put something pretty nice in those white envelopes that uh

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you can check that out when you get there. So, first up from Pinewood Elementary, we have Ada Adala Mora. Adelaide Mora. If I say your name wrong, correct me, please. Adelaide.

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>> Adelaida. Okay. >> Ada. I got Ada back here. Ida over here. Ada. Ida. Ada. Ida. What is your name? >> Idola. >> Idola. Mora. Congratulations >> from Crystal Lake Elementary. Sydney

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Mailman from Port Serno. Elizabeth Montejo Via Hope Sound Elementary. Vivian Melicott Felix A. Williams Robert Dupri. We're gonna butcher this one from JD Parker. Anaheim Miharez. >> Ana Maharez. That was close. I I got to

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get that because you've been winning award after award after award. So, I I'll get better at that one. I promise. from Warfield Elementary. Evelyn Diego, Jensen Beach Elementary. Nia Miranda, she's gonna come up and correct me. I can see it in the walk.

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>> Miranda. >> Nia Miranda. Sewin Elementary, Madison Trainer. All right, now our top three finishers in the inaugural contest. In third place from Palm City Elementary, Nora Bennett.

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In second place from Bessie Creek Elementary, Elise Chandler, and I don't think she is here tonight. And our first place winner in the inaugural cursive contest from Citrus Grove Elementary, Isla Bart. All right,

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silent s. Congratulations to all of our school site and district winners. Great job by everybody. And remember, cursive writing is important in development. Guys, go. Thank you. I think we're good.

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All right. Again, thank you to our state legislators, superintendent, and school board. Everything that went well with this, please thank them and congratulate them. If anything went wrong, please email Derek Low at lwed martinschools.org. lwed martinschools.org. organ. If he

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doesn't happen to answer you, then you can email me, but I'm not going to give you my information at this time. Thank you. >> Thanks, Uncle Marky. >> Thanks, Marky. >> Thank you, Representative Overdorf, for being here today. That was meant a lot to our students and parents. So, thank you.

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And I have to say, the girls really dominated that uh that award. So, congratulations, girls. and our loan um male per uh winner. Hopefully, we'll have more next year um as they start a

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little bit sooner and uh focus on cursive writing. So, thank you all for uh for that. It's awesome. Okay, next up we have uh our envir environmental studies council check presentation.

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Miss Gainor, >> good afternoon. This is a tough act to follow. So, uh, good afternoon, uh, Madame Chair, Superintendent Maine, and distinguished board members. Thank you so much for having me. I'm Valerie Gainor from the Environmental Studies Center, and I have Carrie Paulus here

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with me to present a $50,000 check from the Environmental Studies Council. We're proud that we have this partnership and these funds will help support a portion of a teacher's salary, ensuring that children's continue to a access

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highquality educational experiences and inspire curiosity and stewardship and the love of their natural world. We're grateful for this partnership between the Environmental Studies Council and the School District at the Environmental Studies Center, and we will continue to

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support opportunities that benefit our kids. At this time, we will have Carrie present the check. >> Perfect. Thank you. >> And it's a big check. >> You guys want to come up and stand up here? We'll get a picture. Thank you. >> Thank you.

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>> Now we have Miss Gainor one more time. >> Okay. Sorry about that. Thank you. Yes. I'm gonna do one more thing. Uh tonight we recognize that we are have another partnership and this is with the Guy Harvey Foundation and a long time ago ago you sent me to uh Mexico to uh not

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on a vacation but going to do research with Guy Harvey and bringing relevance of research back into the classroom. That was when I was still in the classroom at Jensen Beach High School and my marine science teacher students uh ended up getting Guy Harvey shirts and it was a great experience. So, uh,

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we've been carrying this tradition on and we've been working with, uh, Dr. Harvey for many years. We had the inaugural, uh, teacher ambassador training at the environmental studies center. And now we are considered in our school district, we have just become a conservation

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district. And we currently have 13 active educators in our district, but we just trained at the professional learning in February 37 more. And um we are constantly going through and we have teachers going on a regular basis to

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these professional learning opportunities. We have four different schools that are conservation schools that are recognized by the uh foundation and that's Jensen Beach Elementary, Jensen Beach High School, JD Parker and South Fork High School. There's two marine science teachers at uh Jensen

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Beach and at South Fork that have been doing the professional learning and carrying this throughout the school district. So it's really exciting. All I did was the paperwork. They do all the work. So, um, in addition, uh, they're going to be able to

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teachers that have been to the trainings are able to now go to the summit, which is going to be this fall at SeaWorld. So, um, they have provided a very, very nice, uh, donation to the school district, and we're going to have to

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find a place to hang it. Oh, I don't want to drop this thing. >> Oh, beautiful. >> Beautiful. Thank you. and we'll be delivering not the big check but the other check to you Carter. >> Well, thank you Mrs. Gainor. We really

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appreciate all you do at the V environmental studies center and I know what an impact you're making on students including my own children who she taught at Jensen Beach High School and they still talk about your class. So that's a that's a testament to what you're doing and the work that you do. So, thank you

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so much. Okay, next up we have Mr. Raymond with retirement recognition. >> Good evening, Madame Chair, members of the board, Superintendent Maine, and all in attendance. Um, it's a special time to be back at this podium because less

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than 24 hours ago, I was speaking to some paraprofessionals who are about to start their career in education. And fast forward almost 24 hours later, we're going to celebrate an amazing educator who spent 31 years, I'm not going to steal all of Mr. Forte's um

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content, but 31 years serving students in our special education program. Um, so I know you have a very proud principal in attendance and our director, Miss Elmestica Sanchez, cheering on the ESSE family, but I want to let you have an opportunity to hear about Cynthia Dob,

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who started out as a wild cat briefly, but then spent her entire career as a shark. Principal Forte will do the honors of sharing her story, and uh, Cynthia, if you'd come up so we can be next to you for this presentation. Good evening, Madam Chair,

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Superintendent Maine, and school board members. My name is Chris Forte, and I'm the proud principal of Hidden Oaks Middle School. Today, I have the honor of briefly speaking about Miss Cynthia Dob, a teacher at Hidden Oaks Middle School as she enters into her new chapter of retirement. Miss Dob has

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served 31 years as an educator, all within one county, which speaks to her extraordinary dedication to the Martin County School District, its students, the community, and her colleagues. Even more remarkable, 29 of those years have been spent at Hidden Oaks Middle School,

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where she has served in several different roles with our ESSE department. Over the past two years, I've had the privilege of serving as Miss Dob's supervisor, witnessing firsthand her unwavering compassion and care for students, qualities that shine

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through every day. Her dedication to her work, her willingness to support colleagues in any situation, and her commitment to building strong relationship with families have had a lasting impact on our school and community members. Miss Dob's character, compassion, and commitment have shined

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through these past 29 years at Hidden Oaks Middle School and 31 years in Martin County School District. We wish her all the best in her next well-deserved chapter. >> Would you like to take a photo? >> Sure. >> I don't know where I'm going. And if

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there's family in attendance, if you want to get closer for this photo op with the board, that'd be great. Okay, next up we have uh public comment. We're just a couple minutes late, but um citizen input is vital to the

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improvement of our district. Most times your remarks may be listened to without comment from the school board members or superintendent. This does not mean they are heard with any less intensity or concern. Where appropriate, the superintendent and staff will investigate your comments and report

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back to you and the school board with an answer. We thank you for taking the time and having the concern to make our district better. The Martin County School Board respects your constitutional right to free speech. At the same time, politicking by members of the public or

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by members of the Martin County School Board is not an exercise of the right to free speech when addressing the Martin County School Board on matters of the boards or district's governance of our students education. That was a lot. The

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public and school board must refra refrain from engaging in any politicking during a schoolboard meeting. Politicking is the advocating for the election or defeat of a candidate for public office through the use of words, dates, signs, props, or wearing apparel

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expressing advocacy for a person or group or people appearing on a ballot. Your presentation should not exceed three minutes. Welcome to election season. And oh, sorry. I have only have one. So, if you would like to speak, get um your

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comment card um to um our clerk, uh Kelly Coleman. >> I know I teach civics, but it's not about the election. So, um good evening, Madame Chair, members of the board, and Superintendent Maine. Um, as we come to the end of the

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school year, I wanted to take a moment to reflect on my time serving as president of MCA and provide an update on the progress we have made together. We all know I stepped into this role under less than ideal circumstances, but as a 25-y year employee of this

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district, um, I chose to see it as an opportunity to help create the kind of positive change I've always believed was possible. Since November, my primary goal has been to build stronger relationships and improve communication between MCA and the district. I am proud

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to say I believe we have made significant progress. The open lines of communication we established, the consistency of our labor relations meetings and successful settling of both theou and contract by February demonstrated

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um we can what can happen when we work collaboratively and with mutual respect. This year also brought challenges. MCA faced an election challenge from UTMC, an intervening union. And I am proud to report that our union members spoke

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clearly and confidently. MCA won by a landslide, reaffirming that educators in this district want MCA to continue representing them. In addition, our membership has grown tremendously. We are now approaching the 60% threshold required by the state. Um, which

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reflects the trust and confidence our educators have in the work we are doing. As I look ahead to the next school year, I am excited about continuing to work with each and every one of you. I look forward to beginning negotiations, strengthening trust, and continuing to

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build productive relationships between MCA and the district, always with shared goal of supporting our employees and students. I appreciate your partnership and willingness to continue these conversations and I will be in touch over the summer to schedule a second meeting with each of you. Have a great

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summer. Thank you. Thank you, Kelly. It has been refreshing working with you. So, we really appreciate all you're doing and your leadership. Thank you. >> Thank you so much. >> Okay, next up we have the spam update. Dr. Miller.

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Good afternoon, Madame Chair, Mr. Superintendent, members of the board. Tracy Miller, deputy superintendent, and it's my pleasure to introduce to you a group that really needs no introduction. Our very own SPAM team is here, led by current but outgoing president Zack

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Dean. He is going to be graduating this week and we'll see him pretty soon crossing the stage and then attending Georgia Tech. He'll be joined at the podium with Matthew uh Marine Marini, the new incoming president and also

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Paisley Kemp, the social media representative. So, Spam, take it away. Okay. sit down for this feel like I'm in Congress. Okay. Uh hello Madam Chair, uh Superintendent Maine, members of the board. Uh my name

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is Zachine as she's introduced and as I've talked to you guys many times. Um and proud and sad to say it's my last presentation with the SPAM team uh to you guys. It's been a good four years. Um it's been good serving for two of those years as president and um yeah, so

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we're going to go over our season. I'm going to start by saying this is our robot. Uh we named it Batman because it's black and yellow. Um so in the background of that picture, you can see a bunch of these yellow balls. They're 15 cm and they're made out of foam. The goal for this year is to pick up uh there's about 600 500 balls on the field

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and you had to pick them up and then shoot them into your into what they call the hub uh while you're playing. Um and this year a robot could hold about uh 40 to 50 of those. And at peak we shot 16 of them in a second. And this robot uh got us the win in Orlando and South

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Florida. And I'll see you guys uh on Thursday when I graduate. And here is Matthew Marini to president elected there. >> Hello, my name is Matthew. Uh, this year we attended the Orlando and South

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Florida regional. We went undefeated at the Orlando regional as well as getting the excellence in engineering award being recognized for our team and robot. At the South Florida regional, we also won. We weren't undefeated. It was very close in the end, but we won the autonomous award and qualified for the

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first championship in Houston, Texas, where we got finalists in our division. Here are some pictures from the season. We're also sharing our next outreach event where we're going to be hosting uh 180 hours of outreach to try and fund raise for our offseason. Our goal is to

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raise $10,000 in 180 hours. Thank you guys to thank you guys for your support. We would love to give you um a medal from when we won our division Houston Texas and we would also love to give you a spam can award.

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Um one more thing I would like to mention that um my class of 2026 was the winningest class in spam history. Um that's where all these medals came from. 13 across four years. And I just want to thank you guys because a big part of that is uh from the facility and the the

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last two years we've done really well at world at the World Championships which is a big push for us. We've we've normally done really well inside of Florida but now we're competing at the highest level entirely at um World Championships. So I want to thank you

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with our get our spam up here. >> Oh, it really is fancy. Yeah. There's a scam. Congratulations. >> Congratulations, >> Zach. Zack, can you talk for a minute about um autonomous because I know that

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it's something that spam is really good at. like over the years. It's something that um the other teams don't even come close at and I think the board would be interested. >> Sure. So um at the beginning of the game

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uh this year particular there's a 20 second period where the robot is not controlled by a driver but it's uh controlled by some pre-rogrammed instructions. Um sorry these are heavy. Um but it's not like uh like with the Lego robots where it's like go this way, go that

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way. it um uses camera tracking and um the relative position of the robot on the field to go about and and pick up the fuel. So this year I think we were we're in the top percentage of um of autonomous around the world and we've won um

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like I think four autonomous awards across the last three years what I can remember I think. Um yeah so I'm not a programmer myself. definely don't have any programmers here, but um but that's definitely been one of the the staples for spam. Um and a lot of it comes from the camera tracking and the the time we

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put into it. Um yeah. Was there anything more you want to know? Um and then we also have a certific certificate of appreciation to give us. >> Thank you. Thank you.

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Okay, next up we have our student representative, Delaney Miller. And um Delaney, when you're done, we have a little something special for you, too. >> Good evening, everyone, and thank you. This is my final student representative

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update for the 2025 2026 school year. It has been an honor to serve for this board. I'm so thankful for this opportunity, each and every one of you. Um, for everyone that has listened to all of my reports, I'm so thankful and I'm proud to close out the year by

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highlighting the continued success of my peers. Starting off with Jensen Beach High School. Jensen Beach High School's National Honor Society is proud to share that this year they awarded scholarships to six members and presented graduation stos to 77 seniors at senior awards

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night. Congratulations to freshman Shaunie Scott who won the supervisor of Election High School I voted sticker contest and her design will be featured in the next election. Jensen art students had an outstanding showing at the 40th annual Marvin S.

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cone juried art show with 12 entries selected. Honors included best of show for Nina Puma along with multiple category awards and recognitions including a superintendent purchase award for Alexia Aong. Five seniors were

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recognized in the prestigious Pathfinders awards program and Elizabeth Fitzwwater and Danielle Bell were named to the Florida Dairy Farmers academic allstate team earning statewide recognition and scholarships.

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Ninth grade JBHS student Shaunie Scott I think that's on there twice. Oh well, I was I'm not going to repeat it. It's also about Shaunie Scott winning the I voted sticker contest for Martin County High School. Martin

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County High School students showed up in a big way for teacher appreciation week from May 4th to 8th, organizing meaningful activities to recognize and thank their teachers for the difference they make every day. Student groups including HOSA, debate, Spanish honor

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society, SGAA, leadership, and national honor society played a key role with support from families and administrators. Four MCHs seniors were recognized in the prestigious Pathfinders Awards program. Congratulations to Sydney Spears who

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earned fourth place in community oh community involvement, sorry. Mallerie Goddard, second place in vocal performance. Maline Busam, second place in sports, and Ella Mor who earned first place in forensics and speech. And I'm

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so thankful for all those people to be my friends. I have such great friends. They're so talented. For MCHS, student artists delivered an outstanding performance at the 40th annual Marvin Esone High School jured art show, earning top honors across multiple

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categories. First place winners included Caitlyn Sparco for drawing, Noel Busam for mixed media, Brooklyn Kelly for painting, and Suanna Jasmine Doris Capra for photography. Several other students earned top three finishes, honorable

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mentions, and special recognitions, including purchase awards, and the award of excellence. Huge shout out to our Tigers baseball team for capturing the regional championship on May 9th and advancing to the Final Four, making an exciting

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achievement for the program. They made a few a huge comeback in the regional game and they made it all the way to the first states game. Congrats to our team. At least 16 student athletes have committed to continuing their athletic careers at the collegiate level, officially announcing their college

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decisions during two of our signing days. At regionals, Adrien McClean placed fifth in the triple jump, earning a mark that qualified him for both state and nationals, becoming the first Tiger in the past four years to achieve this exciting milestone. And last, but not

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least for South Fork High School. South Park High School's FFA program will be well represented at the Florida FFA Convention this summer with alumni Haley Louning earning the American FFA degree, the highest national honor. Elizabeth Hannon and Katherine Frank will receive

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the state FFA degree and Sailor Murray has been named a finalist for a state proficiency award. Southwork student earned recognition at the 40th annual Marvin S. Colin High School jury art show, including Bella McGee, who won second place for sculpture, Ace Campy

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for third place in drawing, and Katie Johnson for third place in sculpture. On May 5th, South Fork hosted its future ready/CTE awards night, celebrating more than 400 student distinctions, including CTE, AVID, and JOTC completers, dual

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enrollment, AA graduates, and students of the year. The inaugural Pathfinders Franklin Vocational Grant Scholarship recipients were also announced. IB junior Bianca Burnernhard earned first place in the high school division at the youthdriven cinema film festival

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for her original film on the environmental on environmental awareness. Her work stood out for its creativity and impactful message. The AVID class of 2026 reached several milestones, earning nearly $1 million in scholarships, celebrating the program's

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first students graduating with AA degrees, early graduates, and student committing to mil military service. Additionally, 51 seniors earned over $370,000 in scholarships, reflecting the continued support of community partners

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and donors. Finally, congratulations to the track and field team who competed at regionals. Several student athletes broke school records and three students earned podium finishes. Serving as your student representative has been a very meaningful experience and I'm so grateful for the opportunity

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to represent the students of Martin County. To our school board members and superintendent Maine, thank you for your continued support of our community school students and our future. Thank you. >> Thank you, Delaneie. And Delaney, I want to say on behalf of

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the school board, it has been an honor to serve alongside you um representing the Martin County School District and the students that you represent. We are very thankful for that. And I also just want to share I don't know how she has time to to do this because Delaney is

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very busy and very talented as well. Uh Delaney is a senior at Martin County High School who has made a lasting impact through her leadership, service, and commitment to her school and community. On top of being our student representative, she serves as student government vice president, green club

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president, and key club vice president, and has been actively involved at in MCHS leadership, national honor society, and science national honor society. Her dedication to service was recognized as she was named Martin County High School

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student volunteer of the year and she continues to extend that impact beyond campus as a leader in her family's nonprofit organization, the Enchanter Foundation. Delaney's a achievements also extend to academics and leadership

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at the state level where she was selected as the as a Florida girl state delegate and earned a scholarship for her participation. She is an ACE diploma recipient and she is graduating with a

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4.5 weighted GPA. Between academics, volunteering, and roles in leadership, Delaney somehow managed to be a member of the girls varsity lacrosse team for two years. This fall, Delaney will attend the

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University of Miami, where she plans to study marine biology. Delaney, thank you for your service, your leadership, and for representing the students of Martin County so well. We wish you continued success in all that lies ahead. Thank you, Delaney. We have a little something

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for you. Come on up. We're gonna get a picture. >> I'll try. I'll try my best. >> Yes. You guys will be there. We'll be there. See you soon. Okay, next up we have our district

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update. Kirsty. Good afternoon, Madame Chair, Superintendent Maine, esteemed board members. It's my pleasure to bring you this month's district update. I'm Kirsty Germaine, coordinator of public information and community relations.

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So, if you haven't noticed yet uh by viewing tonight's agenda, we have a new website housing schoolboard documents such as agendas, minutes, calendars, and board policies. It's called Community by Diligent. We wanted to bring this up today because we know community members

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in the past have asked for a way to get notified when agendas are available, and this new site has that capability. So when you go to the website, you simply hit subscribe on the homepage of community by diligent. That website can be found on our website

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martinschools.org. And then follow the prompts. You can choose what new documents to get notifications for like agendas, committee meetings, and more. We are proud to celebrate 11 outstanding Martin County School District seniors

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who were recognized in the 43rd annual Pathfinder Awards. These students earn top honors across academic, artistic, technical, athletic, and service-based categories, standing out among their among their peers from both Martin and Palm Beach counties. I will say since

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I've been here, I think this is the most amount of seniors we've had placed in this prestigious competition. So, I would like to try to name them all. Congratulations to this year's Pathfinders. Ella Mory from Martin County High School, who earned first place in forensics and speech. Sonia

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Olman from South Fork High School earned second place in history and political science. Mallerie Goddard from Martin County High School, second place in music and vocal performance. Maline Busam from Martin County High School, second place in sports. From Jensen Beach High School, Nina Puma earned

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third place in art. Jackson Markley placed third in literature and Theodore Smail placed third in business. Uh the small Brun sing from Southwork High School earned third place in computer engineering and technology and Sydney

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Spears from Martin County High School placed fourth in community involvement while Jensen Beach High School students Maline Par, Zane Price and Zay Price earned fourth place in science and instrumental music. Congratulations to these students for earning scholarships

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in one of the region's most comprehensive and competitive recognition programs. South Fork High School students recently earned first place in the regional ACE competition competing against teams from across Palm Beach County. The winning

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team, Mia Howell, John Jackson, Lud's success, Eden Gomez, Payton Dimbeek, and Rosaria Antonio Diego captured top honors for their project, the Astrop Peak Planetarium and Observatory. Their design highlighted creativity,

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collaboration, and problem solving centered on a facility focused on science exploration and community engagement. The ACE mentorship program connects students with professionals in architecture, construction, and engineering, giving them hands-on experience and exposure to

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real world career pathways. Southwork students were mentored by industry professionals from Morganti Morganti and supported by their teacher Mark Tur continuing a strong partnership that brings real world learning into the classroom. I know board member Roberts

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was also a guest judge at this event, too. Uh we're proud of these event uh students for this outstanding accomplishment and for representing Selfwork High School and our district so well. Each year, the Martin County School District takes time to recognize the

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individuals and organizations who make a meaningful difference in our classrooms and across our campuses. At this year's volunteer and community partners awards ceremony, we celebrated the impact of more than 4500 volunteers and partners who contributed over 71,000 hours of

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service during the 2526 school year. These individuals represent the heart of our community supporting students, staff, and schools in countless ways. Each school also recognized outst an outstanding student, adult, and senior volunteer along with community partners

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who go above and beyond to support student success. We want to especially congratulate our district volunteers of the year, John Michael Tilllet, our student volunteer of the year, Amy Friedri, adult volunteer of the year, and Joe Flanigan, our senior volunteer

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of the year. Their service along with the work of so many others reflects a community deeply committed to education and the success of our students and we are very grateful for their continued support and the difference they make every day in our schools.

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And lastly, the city of Stewart recently officially recognized Spectrum Academy, formerly the Steuart Training School, as a lo local historic landmark. During a Florida Emancip Emancipation, Emancipation Day, sorry, uh ceremony,

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city leaders unveiled a commemorative plaque that highlights the rich history of the site, including the different names the school has held and the many purposes the campus has served over time. This recognition honors the generations of students, families, educators, and community members

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connected to the school's legacy. It's a meaningful reminder that the story of Spectrum Academy continues to shape our community today and will remain an important part of its future. And on the outside of that, while you see the plaque, you can also see a beautiful

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uh mural that the Spectrum Academy students have been working on with a Hopes elementary teacher. More to come on that because it's really pretty. And that's all I have for this month's district update. Until next time, you can find us wherever you fall. Thank

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you, Kirsty. >> Thank you. >> Uh next up, we have the superintendent update. >> Thank you, Madam Chair, members of the board. Um want to start off by thanking Dr. Laws and his small but mighty team as we have been undergoing state assessment testing for the last two

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weeks. Our last day to wrap up is Thursday. uh they've been working incredibly hard to make sure that everything is running smoothly. Uh materials, all the things. Uh little hiccups here and there. Uh but hats off to you and your team. Thank you, sir, for a job well done. Uh once we wrap up

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on Thursday, we will be able to come back to the board with a more comprehensive view of where we stand uh as a district. Moving into joining our A-rated team. On April 30th, we hosted our annual spring job fair, connecting with a strong group of candidates interested in joining the

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Martin County School District. As a result of the event, multiple letters of intent were issued that day, and candidates are continuing through the hiring process for roles including ESC pair professionals, an intervention support technician, and classroom teachers across different grade levels.

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Proud to announce that we had several teachers from St. Lucy and Palm Beach counties that were hired uh at that particular job fair. And to those who joined us and are beginning the hiring process, we look forward to officially welcoming you to the Martin County School District. Thank you for choosing

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our district and our students as we know you do have choice amongst the school districts on the Treasure Coast. For those interested in joining our A-rated team, applications are still available. We positions are posted for the 2627 school year and you may go to

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martinschools.org. org. Um, I also do want to give a special shout out uh to all of our parah to um paras that went through our parapro program and graduated yesterday. Um, and I do I would be remissed if I didn't give a

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special thank you to executive director Jeff Raymond who made a really special moment last night uh for our graduates. They work extremely hard. Uh but we were successful in getting 12 of our paras across the finish line to become teachers fully certified and they're in

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v various stages of the hiring process. Six have been offered positions. Uh a few of them are going through the process now and a few others have interviews. It is our goal that by the time we are done we will have placed all of those paras. So thank you to the

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board for making a um an investment in in our paras. You mean all of those teachers? >> Teachers. Yes. Yes. Yes. All of those teachers. So, thank you. Congratulations. >> With that having been said, uh this brings me to a special note that we're

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taking the time this evening to make a recommendation for hire to the board to fill our open executive director of operations and infrastructure position. Uh for Mr. Jim Liil, who is in the audience tonight, uh thank you for joining us. Um he is currently serving

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as the facility superintendent for Martin County where he oversees 34 county sites leading large capital projects driving consistent increased performance across all areas of the county. Mr. Liil has experience leading contract management, capital planning,

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procurement, and overseeing vendor performance. One of the things that stood out specifically in his interview was the level of accountability and execution that he requires of his entire team in the county. If approved this evening, uh Jim would like to finish up

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a few projects that he's working on with the county and his first official date would be June 14th uh with the team. We did have 31 applicants for that position. It was very popular. Uh we vetted all of the candidates. We broke

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it down to the top 15, brought those top 15 in uh for interviews, and uh Jim, you you led the charge there. So, congratulations if if approved by the board, and thank you for being here this evening. As we celebrate graduation season across

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Martin County, we also had the opportunity to highlight the voices of our students in the latest episode of uh all our Allin Martin podcast. This graduation edition features conversations with seniors from each of our high schools, Martin County High,

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Jensen Beach, and South Fork, who reflect on their experiences, the moments that meant the most, and what lies ahead after graduation. They share the impact of their teachers, the programs that help shape them, and advice for students who will follow in their footsteps. I also take a moment in

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the episode to reflect on our 2526 school year, recognize the accomplishments of the class of 26 and share a message to our students, families, and staff ahead of summer break. I hope everyone takes the time this summer to relax and recharge. And please check out that episode if you

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have not already done so. And last, but certainly not least, we will be celebrating our class of 2026 beginning tomorrow evening, uh, Thursday and Friday. Speaking of graduations, we are very excited, uh, to host the

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commencement ceremonies. This week has already been filled with wonderful ceremonies, including our adult education and spectrum academy graduates last evening, as well as our project search graduates yesterday morning. Uh, and Clark was last Saturday. Now, it's

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time to celebrate the Falcons, Bulldogs, and Tigers as they come across that stage. And for those of you who cannot join us in person, we do have a live stream that will be available and links to those live streams for each of our ceremonies on our website at

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martinschools.org. And we do want to unveil uh our theme for next school year. As we are nearing the end of 2526 and gearing up right away already for 2627, we want to share with the community that

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next year's uh theme will be Martin means more. Um I truly believe Martin means more embodies what we stand for in the Martin County School District. Everything means more. more success, more support, more innovation, more hands-on, more possibilities, more for

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our students, staff, and our families. So, more to come on that as the months progress. Thank you. >> So, good news. You are already approved, so it's official. >> Oh, that's right. We do. >> You don't have to wait. It is official.

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Welcome to the Martin County School District. We're happy to have you and um look forward to working with you. Okay, moving on. We uh are there any other questions about any information only reports from the board?

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Okay, seeing none, we're going to move on to Oh, this was the item 6.01 is the current five-year educational plan survey. Um I don't know if there were that was sent out per our last

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workshop um about what facilities we have um that type of thing if you had any questions to get with either the superintendent or Mr. Serest and um but that was really just for your information. Okay, now mo moving on to our action

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only. We're going to take up item 3.18 which is thatou with PAL. Um, I think Miss Roberts, you pulled that item. >> Um, yes. So, if we can take 318, 320, and 321 all together. >> Sure.

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>> Um, those three contracts, 318, it appears that the contract might be missing the fingerprinting and the public records section. 320 looks like it's missing the fingerprint and public records, and 321 looks like it's missing the public records. So I move approval

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of those with the with the addition for whatever is necessary. >> Second. >> I have a motion by Miss Roberts, a second by Dr. Morardi. All those in favor? >> I. >> Any opposed? Motion carries unanimously. Item 18.101. There is no schoolboard

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travel. 18.02 requisitions to be approved for purchases over 100,000. Move approval. >> Second. I have a motion by Miss Roberts, a second by Miss Pritchette. All those in favor? >> Any opposed? Motion carries unanimously.

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18.03, uh, request approval to renew St. Lucy County Public Schools ITB 23.09, fresh produce and pre-cut packaged items. >> Motion to approve. >> Second. >> I have a motion by Miss Pritchette, a

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second by Miss Russell. All those in favor? >> Any opposed? Motion carries unanimously. Item 18.04, request approval to piggyback St. Lucy public schools for dairy products to school cafeterias. >> Motion to approve.

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>> Second. >> I have a motion by Miss Pritchette, a second by Miss Roberts. All those in favor? >> I. >> Any opposed? Motion carries unanimously. Item 18.05 5 is piggyback Martin County Board of County Commissioners for heating, ventilation, and air

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conditioning HVAC installation, repair, and maintenance. >> I have a question about that. >> Okay. Um, so I move approval of that, but can we get a list? I know that HVAC was something that we had discussed before and there was a priority list of those projects. So, as we continue to do

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this, um, if we can get a list of where we stand with those priority projects. >> Second. I have a motion by Miss Roberts, a second by Miss Pritchette. All those in favor? I. >> Any opposed? Motion carries unanimously. 18.06 is a piggyback with Valuchia

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County School Board uh for new and recap tires and related tire services. >> Move approval. >> Second. >> I have a motion by Miss Roberts, a second by Dr. Morardi. All those in favor? >> Any opposed? Motion? >> Go ahead.

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>> Motion carries unanimously. 18.07 07 is authorization to utilize Florida Department of Management Services term contract for uh there's a long number for agricultural and lawn equipment. >> Move approval. >> Second.

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>> I have a motion by Miss Roberts, a second by Miss Pritchette. All those in favor? >> Any opposed? Motion carries unanimously. 18.08 08 is request authorization to utilize Florida Department of Management Services term contract for flooring.

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>> Motion to approve. >> Second. >> I have a motion by Miss Pritchette, a second by Dr. Morardi. All those in favor? >> Any opposed? Motion carries unanimously. 18.09 is ratification of emergency

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purchase purchase order for transportation. >> Move to approve 18.09. Second. >> I have a motion by Dr. Morardi, a second by Miss Pritchette. All those in favor? >> I >> I and I have a comment. Any opposed? Motion carries unanimously. Miss

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Roberts. Um so I'm concerned this was an emergency order which had to do with tires. So I'm just concerned um how it gets to the state where we need to do an emergency for tires. So, if you can um just to be sure that we have somebody

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who's looking over our fleet and I guess I'm looking for what your process is for how we take care of tires so we don't end up in this situation at some point. You don't need to address it now. Thank you. >> Okay. Um item 18.10 10 is updated

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mandatory basic student athletic accident insurance and voluntary accident insurance renewal through July 31 of 2028. >> Second. >> I have a motion by Miss Pritchette, a second by Dr. Morardi. All those in favor? >> I.

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>> Any opposed? Motion carries unanimously. 18.11 state requirement for educational facilities SREF fire and safety report. >> Second. >> I have a motion by Miss Pritchette, a second by Dr. Morardi. All those in

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favor? >> Any opposed? Motion carries unanimously. 18.12 is school health plan for 20 2026 through 2028 renewal. >> Move to approve 1812.

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I have a motion by Dr. Morardi, a second by Miss Roberts. All those in favor? >> I. >> Any opposed? Motion carries unanimously. 18.13 is approval of school opening and closing times for school year 2627.

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>> I have a motion by Miss Pritchette, a second by Miss Russell. All those in favor? >> I. >> Any opposed? Motion carries unanimously. 18.14 is Steuart Middle School building number 10 phase two final payment approval.

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>> Motion to approve. >> I have a motion by Miss Pritchette, a second by Miss Russell. All those in favor? >> I. >> Any opposed? Motion carries unanimously. Item number 18 or I'm sorry 19.01.

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Um, this is an instructional materials adoption for career and technical education 9 through 12, performing and vis and visual arts K through 12, and world languages K12 instructional materials adoption.

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Mr. more. >> Good evening, Madam Chair, members of the board. Superintendent Maine. I am um back after our last presentation at our last meeting to do our instructional materials adoption. And so, as a review, we are adopting instructional materials

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for several areas that are non-core. It is career and technical education, global languages and performing and visual arts. Where we are in the timeline now is for me to present any public objections or public comments. We received none. Um and then for the board

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to vote to either approve or not approve the instructional materials. And so our recommendations are outlined here in the presentation. I won't go through them again because I presented them all last time. Um but for instructional materials for CTE, it's everything from aerospace technology, medical programs,

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hospitality and tourism, veterinary, welding. Um, for global languages, it's all of our foreign language and global language programs, Spanish, American Sign Language, and then for our performing and visual arts. It is our elective courses such as music theory,

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drama, theater, chorus, so on and so forth. Again, we receive no public comment during the window and no objections from the public. Miss Roberts. >> So just to be clear there, this is a noncore. So there is no window that you're speaking of. Correct.

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>> Correct. >> There there's no window. So all we're really saying is I don't want to give the public the wrong idea that when we're adopting core materials, there's a window that opens and then that window runs 30 days where they somebody can

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have an objection and then it can go to a um administrative hearing, etc. But in non-core materials, there really isn't a window. We have a a public hearing, we receive comment, etc. But then we just adopt. Correct. >> Yes. It is not a statemandated window

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for non-core materials, but we wanted to keep it consistent um have full transparency. So we we provided a similar timeline for our non-core so that the public could see what we were recommending and um have an opportunity to provide input. >> Sure. I just want people to be clear

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that when it's noncore, there is no window that triggers that hearing phase that comes with that. That only comes with core material. So, when we're using the same terminology and trying to keep it consistent, I don't want to give people um the wrong impression. Thank

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you. >> Second. >> I have a motion by Miss Pritchette, a second by Dr. Morardi. All those in favor? >> I. Any opposed? Motion carries unanimously. Okay. Now we have um items in the 20s. Our first review of

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schoolboard policies and this is simply to approve the advertisement um of these policies. We have uh all reviewed them at a prior workshop. And if are there any questions? We could probably take them all at once unless

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there's ones that anybody wants to pull out and have any discussion about. But we can probably if not we can approve them all approve the advertising all at once. >> I move to approve 20.01 to 20.18. >> Second.

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>> Okay. I have a motion by Dr. Morardi and a second by Miss Roberts to approve the advertising of policies 20.0 items 20.01 through 20.18. All those in favor?

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>> Any opposed? Motion carries unanimously. Open to the board. Miss Russell, >> I just want to say congratulations to all of our graduates. I am so proud of all of you and I hope you have a great week. And I also wanted to say that I

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hope everyone enjoys their summer and um I hope our teachers get plenty of rest this summer and come back ready for great things next year. M. Roberts. So, I just want to thank the superintendent and um curriculum and instruction and then all the people with

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the boots on the ground. I think the numbers that are coming back are very impressive. I especially the gains numbers for ELA, that 8% gain number across the board and then the 11% for the lowest quartortile are really numbers that we haven't ever seen

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before. I think that's um that is a testament to the amount of work, the amount of attention that we're paying and the focus that we have and I really appreciate that. Thank you, >> Dr. Morardi. >> Uh, I want to commend Mallalerie Goddard

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for that incredible performance earlier at this meeting. Um, I thought she did a fantastic job and has a very talented future. Uh, I was surprised that she only won second at the Pathfinder Awards. like was Pavarati in the competition too or uh that was

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surprising but uh I think she gave a first class performance here and will do a lot of great things. Um also want to congratulate all of our graduates uh this week as it's a very exciting week for the school board as well to attend.

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Um and I'm very proud of all of our graduates including Delaney down there. We'll see you Friday. And um last um myself and uh Miss Roberts and Dr. Miller were able to attend the uh IV banquet for South Fork uh last uh what

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was that last night? These days are all going together. Um at uh at Monarch and it was a fantastic event and kudos to Principal Thompson for uh putting on another great event and her team. So uh congrats to all of those IV students who

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worked so hard. U they deserve that recognition as well. Thank you. Thank you, Miss Pritchette. >> So, when you go second to last, you don't have a lot to say because everyone has said it already. So, I would just add that it's been very

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enjoyable to be in the community these past few weeks enjoying all the different celebrations from Spectrum's uh emancipation to their barbecue to the awards last night. And I really want to

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stress as as Superintendent Maine said, we we gave an opportunity for a homegrown situation for our paras to become teachers and stay in the district. And I think that's a wonderful retention piece

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that we're creating. And I know it's going to get better, but I'm really I'm really proud of that. And on another subject, I wanted to know if we could put something on either the workshop or the regular June meeting to

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discuss the email that we all got regarding one of the properties that were we might be selling. Someone expressed some interest in it and I didn't know what the next steps were and maybe Tyson could come to a future

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meeting and tell us what those next steps are because I don't really know because the Last time we spoke, there was no offers out there. Now we have one, and I imagine at some point we'll have more. So, I just want to know where

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where we're going. >> Well, and I think one of the things that we had talked about at the last at the workshop was um that we're in the process of getting those second appraisals and I don't know that we're there yet that we've received all of

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those. So, I think that's really that I think we and I guess we can ask Tyson, but I think we sit tight until we have those appraisals in place because we're required to have the two. And I think it's going to be important because the offer that we got was about half of what

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the appraised value came back. So, I think as a board, we're going to want to have as much information as we possibly can before we start talking about those things publicly. um and understanding, you know, and giving everyone the

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opportunity because a lot of people probably haven't even heard about those the potential that we're going to sell those properties. So, I think um I think that's the first step is getting those appraisals and then getting the word out to the community that here's the list of

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properties that the school board has committed to offering up for sale and then that information will be readily available to the public as well. Um they can have that. >> Um Mr. Serest, you had said that we're

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having a problem getting second appraisals because of conflict. Are we any further along in that road? >> So, we contacted two other firms this week and we're trying to get them to give us proposals and then we actually are trying to get another proposal on

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one of our other properties that wasn't on the first list. >> Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. >> Okay. U is that all? Did you have anything else? Okay. Um I just want to congratulate so far all the graduates

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that um I got to attend and everyone knows that Indiantown High School is near and dear to my heart. That is my hometown. Um they graduated the first cohort of students that started at the Boys and Girls Club and their first they

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had their first official senior graduating class. So it was a wonderful celebration, a great community event and I was so proud to be there and be a part of that. Um and then of course Saturday we had Clark Advanced Learning Center.

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We had Spectrum um and Steuart Community High School which was um just an amazing event. I it's always one of my very favorites because the students that attend those schools are not on a

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traditional path. um one of the graduates from the adult high school that spoke, she she was 53 years old and it was eyeopening and to hear her story of bettering herself um to to to be

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better for her family and for her children. And it was just heartwarming and it was heartwarming to hear from the students that um didn't graduate from their traditional high school for a multitude of reasons. It's not all

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discipline. It's um things happen. Road roadblocks happen in in children's lives, in famil family's lives, and they all were amazing. Every story, some of them were holding their children while they were there. It it was really just

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it's just an amazing thing to see. Um and to our pair of professionals who are now teachers, that was really special. Um I know this board um we all were very committed to offering that to our paras

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and um it really paid off. Um, we had 12 graduates and it was heartwarming to see and they were so happy and their families were there to support them and it was really amazing and thank you Jeff for that and for that was a nice surprise at the end of the spectrum and

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uh Steuart Community High School graduation ceremony was to recognize them and recognize their families as well because when you get to that point in your life, it really is a family. your family is committing to that as well because you're giving up things um

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your family is giving up a part of you so you can better yourself. So that was pretty amazing. Um PM3 data is really really really impressive. We've already started analyzing at least for at my other work

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we've started analyzing all of the prek data and it is extremely impressive and it's very impressive in our lower performing schools. So um where we have really focused. So it's very amazing. Great work to everyone who has worked so so very hard and I we recognize it and I

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think the teachers amazing work. I I can't even say enough. We're I'm so excited to get the the final results. So um we look forward to that. And I think that's it for me. I hope everyone has an amazing uh summer. I think this is our last meeting before

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school is out. So enjoy enjoy a little bit of downtime. Um, Superintendent Maine, did you have anything? >> All right. Well, that being said, this meeting is adjourned.