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Heat. Heat. I don't care. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. test. All right, we're um ready to begin. Are we good?
Okay. All right. Good evening everyone. I'm Jason Link, manager school enrollment and demographics. Welcome to this year's advisory boundary committee cycle for the 202627 school year. Um,
we'll first commence with uh introductions. Uh, first to our ABC members that are currently in person. Miss Beckton. >> I'm Cynthia Beckton and I'm a resident of Rivier Beach and I'm an appointee of
the superintendent. >> Yes. Thank you. And if you can also announce who appointed you, that would be helpful. Thank you very much. Mr. Cedric Thomas. Uh, I live in Riviera Beach and I'm appointed by uh, uh, board member Ferguson. >> Hi, I'm Steven Leaven. I live in the
village of Wellington, appointed by Marshia Andrews. I am Karen Lithco, uh, Mayor Tana Lantana, and I'm appointed by the, uh, League of Leg Cities, Palm Beach County League of Cities. >> My name is Carlos Carlos Sidel. I am in
Palm Beach Gardens and I believe I am appointed by uh, Matthew Lane. >> Recording stopped. recording in progress. >> All right. Now, we have our we have ABC members joining us uh via Zoom
virtually. So, um our members uh joining us virtually would like to please introduce themselves, your name, and uh informing us who appointed you. >> Hi, I'm Lindsay and I was appointed by Karen Brook.
I'm in Boason. Jason >> not good at all. >> We hear you. >> Jason, you can hear? >> Yes. Go ahead, please. I'm Virginia Ferris
live in Lake Clark Shore pointend I'm coming evening from Texas and there's a repeat >> okay all right we'll we'll try to work through that
Okay. And next member. >> Good evening. My name is Lyn and South County chapter of >> There seems to be microphone
and eating at Yeah, we're hearing that you you can't you're having problems hearing one another. Is that correct? >> It's repeat. >> All right, we're gonna we're gonna see if we can work on that. >> Yeah. >> Good evening. My name is Zuma. I'm a
volunteer. Thank you. >> All right. Thank you. We heard you loud and clear. >> I'm a resident of Florida and I am appointed by Superintendent Brook. >> Thank you, Miss Blanco. >> Any other members?
>> Hi. Can you hear me? >> Yes. >> I am Raja Rich. I live I live in town like Park. >> Oh, it sounds weird. >> Yeah, we're working on that. And who
>> who do you represent? >> Uh Palm Beach County Lego cities. >> Thank you. Anyone else? Any other ABC members in attendance? >> We have more than a quorum. So that's
that's the key piece. Okay, we have we do have a sufficient quorum. >> You have the count, Patrick. >> Oh, he's checking. Uh just want to announce for those speakers that require translation services, we're happy to have two uh translators in attendance.
Uh for Spanish translations, uh Miss Lauren Barreres joining us. That correct? Thank you. And then for Haitian Creole translations, Mr. Ronell Blaze. Thank you for joining us. We also have district staff in
attendance to provide information or answer questions as needed, including our chief operating officer, Mr. Joe Sanchez, and our North Region Superintendent, Dr. Camille Coleman. And I see online we've got our director of transportation, Mr. Shane Searchwell.
So, thank you for joining us. >> We also have our chief of staff, Dr. Jolanda Morgan, is here as well. >> Thank you. Yes, appreci >> and uh Tara Cobalt,
manager of choice and career options. >> Thanks, Sarah. >> Thanks, Tara. >> And I'm Holly Han, Office of the General Council. >> Okay. Any other staff? >> Jerry Nim, >> right? Jerry Nyman, also with the
transportation department. I'm here. Yep. >> Jason, I counted uh and Madam Chair, I counted 11 members. >> Oh, Miss Beck, >> 11 members. Okay, we're good. We've met
our quorum. >> Okay. Before we move on to uh number two, election of a chair and vice chair, let me just briefly u review the resoning uh process, the district's resoning process. So um the ABC is an advisory committee that makes attendance
zone change recommendations directly to the superintendent. So the way the process works spelled out um in this slide it's presentation of reasonzoning studies staff's presentation resoning studies to the advisory boundary committee to include community input uh ABC
recommends uh a final study to the superintendent the superintendent then superintendent's final recommendation to the school board which may be the same as the ABC's recommendation or may differ and then we move on to a schoolboard workshop and then school
board rule development meeting which otherwise is known as first read and then about a month later it's school board approval of adoption meeting or final reading which which case then the um reasonzoning becomes official would
take effect for August 2026. Uh and we've got a number of criteria in schoolboard policy 5.01 101 that staff the ABC are supposed to um review and consider when reviewing u proposed
resonings. The number one criteria that guides us is that is that a must review student capacity at each facility to attempt to achieve optimal utilization. So that that's the mandatory criteria we we we must attempt to meet. Then there are [clears throat]
10 I believe 10 secondary criteria. I won't go through them all, but those we we we try to meet as many as we can. They don't necessarily all have to be met if if uh you know it hampers us meeting uh a our attempt to achieve optimal utilization.
Um and finally throughout the process at any time if anyone members of the community would like to send written comments there is the email address. It's public.palm comment at palm beacheschools.org.
Um, comments will be forwarded to the advisory boundary committee. If you have questions about the process, please feel free to uh send those comments to that email address and uh we'll promptly respond. And then to monitor the school resoning process, including
this study, any potential future studies and future meeting dates, please visit pbcschoolzones.info info and that'll provide you updates as to the current process. >> Excuse me. >> Yes, sir. Mr. Thomas.
>> Yeah. Um, is the public able to view this meeting through the schoolboard website? >> Yes, it is live streamed on on text through YouTube. >> Yeah, the district's YouTube site. Okay. It is being live streamed. >> Thank you.
>> Yep. You're welcome. Virginia, did you have your hand up for a question? >> Well, I was ready to make a nomination. [laughter] >> Cynthia, be ready. >> Okay, I'll Oh. Uh, Coulson, hand up.
Question. >> No. >> Okay. All right. We'll we'll make it official. We'll move on to number two, election of the ABC chair and vice chair. So, uh, do I hear a motion for election of the ABC chairperson? And I think I just did
>> nomination from of course Cynthia Beckton for chair. >> Second. >> Okay, that's a motion by Virginia, seconded by Mr. Levan. Uh, we have a motion and a second to elect Cynthia
Beckton as chairperson of the advisory boundary committee for the 2026 27 boundary cycle. All in favor, please raise >> Oh, any other nominations on the floor. All right, seeing none, all [snorts] in
favor, please raise your hand. Okay. >> All opposed. Any opposed? Those opposed? >> All right. I'm I'm not seeing any. Seeing any on your end, Patrick, on the Zoom side, you see you get the full view. All right. All right. Seeing none, the motion is
carried. Uh, congratulations, Madame Chair. Yes, I think now it's >> normal practice. >> Normal practice. >> Okay. >> Is it on now? No. >> Uh, good evening. Thank you very much uh
for the confidence and we'll move this forward with a asking for a nomination for the vice chair. Yeah. Can I >> mess nominate myself? >> I was want to do >> I was going to nominate Virginia.
>> Okay. Sorry, Virginia. Someone beat you to it. Okay. There's a nomination on the floor for and sec and and a second. Okay. Is there is there another nomination for the vice chair?
Seeing none, the the nomination closes on that name and we'll bring this to a vote. All in favor of Virginia Ferris as the uh vice chair. May I see your hands or your reaction
>> in the uh in the count, Patrick? Oh, I'm sorry. Any opposes? Okay. >> I I don't see anyone opposing that. >> Okay. So, we're going to say that that nomination has passed. Thank you so
much, Virginia, for that. We appreciate that very much. >> You make a good team since Yeah, >> I think so, too. Virginia brings the uh parliamentary um background to this whole process and we certainly
appreciate her for that. With that, we're going to move on with the agenda, the consolidation of Dr. Mary Mloud Bthun and West Riviera Elementary boundaries and all the other discussion.
Okay, move on to um discussion of the study at hand. So this is study RB1. This study proposes consolidating the current Dr. Mary Mloud Bethune
Elementary and West Riviera Elementary School attendance zones into a single attendance zone. So within this new structure, West Riviera Elementary will serve grades preK through second, while Dr. Mary Mloud Elementary will serve
grades three through five. Additionally, all K5 students in the Lincoln the current Lincoln elementary school attendance zone are proposed to be reszoned to this new consolidated West River and Dr. Dr. Mary McCloud
Bethune zone as Lincoln Elementary is being repurposed for the 202627 school year. I want to also of note West Riviera is currently being modernized and we anticipate that's the the brand new modernized building. It's going to
be a beautiful almost like beautiful brand new school to open for August 2026. Um, finally, the the last piece of this is a portion of the Dr. Mary McCloud Bethune zone north of Blue Heron, which is the
cross-hatched area on the map, um, is proposed to shift to Washington Elementary. So, students in this area would no longer have to cross busy Blue Heron Boulevard um to attend school. In addition, Washington Elementary is in closer
vicinity to students residing in this area and this shift would also better utilize available current available space at Washington Elementary. So, let's see. All right. So, the green outline, this
would be the new consolidated zone. uh bringing it all the way down. So this is what the new zone that's the new consolidated zone. So we've got again PK2 at West Riv 35 at Bethune. All
current link in K5 would be reszoned. Um that we would create this you know this new large consolidated zone larger um >> which road >> other way. >> This way. >> No, the other way. >> This way.
>> Yes. Keep going. Keep going. >> All right. Let me uh let me just >> like right there. The peak of >> Keep going. Yeah. Keep going. >> Keep going. Yes. Keep going. Keep going. Keep going. Get right there. >> Oh, th this uh I believe that's 95. >> So that's where the boundary is going
to, >> right? There won't be any areas west of 95. >> Think about that C17 canal, >> right? Okay. Because that's where the majority of the residential, >> right? So this is this is uh trying to
stay steady here. This is all I 95. So there aren't any portions of of these zones that are west of 95 and that would remain that way. >> Okay. >> It's all all east of 95. >> And then how far are we going? Are we
going all the way to the city limits for well actually it extends into West Palm Beach anyway for West Rivier or not? Right. >> There are right we checked there. I believe there are port it's mainly Rivier Beach but there are portions of West Palm Beach and then and then Magnolia, >> right?
>> Yeah. >> And uh I thought the Pinewood area also some Pinewood area. They're not >> uh in terms of the community name. We'd have to check on that. I'm not not 100%. >> You thinking Long Pine? >> No, no, no. Um
you know, actual Pondwood like right across from the cemetery, that back road back there, the tracks, and then you have it over by the port. Yeah. >> Yeah. Some still in there, right? That's the name of the community. The P, you know, we can check on the
>> street. I don't know. Pinewood. >> We can check on that specific. It may not be. >> I'm almost sure that they're >> Yeah, but just >> some in there. Are they going to stay >> down? Whoops. Sorry. >> Yeah. Right.
They do. Is that 09? I can zoom in. >> Okay. Right. So here this Oops. That goes over to you see where 099A is. >> Uh 099A. Yes.
>> It goes all the way. Is that Broadway? >> Yeah, that's Broadway. So it goes all the way. I didn't know we even went that far. It goes all the way over to Broadway. >> 099. You're right. This is Greenwood Avenue here. >> This is Broadway
here. Just to for the bearing Australian is here. That's 45th. Uh this is Dr. Martin Luther King Boulevard along the east west >> Tiffany Leak,
>> but y'all need to talk into the mic >> because it's it the the conversation is significant. Please sure that >> I'm just trying to I'm I'm trying to understand and Dr. Coleman just told me that it was no additional impact that was already um there which I I wasn't
aware of. So that's going all the way that takes all of um Mangonia Park and I'm speaking of the uh um Tiffany I believe it's Tiffany Lakes area as well as that area by the um Highline.
>> I'm not sure about Tiffany Lakes. Tiffany Lakes is is uh is south of 45th >> is No, I'm speaking of the area. It's Yeah, that's the That's the area I'm speaking of. That's area, right? That's area I'm speaking of. So, it doesn't
pick that up. That little >> like where it says 102 right there. >> That's what I was thinking was >> exact. Now, again, these are the existing zones. So, West Riviera, so there isn't any shift >> aside from that the consolidation, but I
know Patrick, are you able to zoom in on the uh smaller roads by chance? >> Yes. So the southern border there of West Riviera is 45th Street, >> right? >> And then around uh sack uh 102
uh that's 95 to the west that let me see if there's another. >> So that portion where you have the cursor where like right where your cursor is not that that little dip down there, that's the area. I'm trying to figure out what what is that area.
>> Just a second. I'll find that out for you. Okay. That's what you're talking. >> Are you trying to determine the roads or the the actual municipality of that area? >> Well, just the Yeah. the impact of Okay. >> where that is if if that was Tiffany Lakes or not. >> If if if it's Tiffany Lakes, it is Mangonia Park,
>> right? >> Just so I'm clear, Jason, this this doesn't that's the current existing border between West Riviera and Northmore, >> correct? >> There is no Yes. additional turf in this
map being included in the uh resoning redistricting of of those two schools. >> Correct. >> The PK2 and the 35. >> Right. Thank you. >> Right. West Riviera is not changing aside from of course as I mentioned
shifting all of the current Lincoln zone which will become part of that new consolidated zone and then I'll as I'll get into in a bit just that portion of in the blue in the crosshatch area that Dr. Mary Mloud Bethune area north of Blue Heron. That's the only piece that would actually um change schools, but
there isn't any any change to the West River area um current uh borders attendance online and Patrick will >> Okay.
Yeah, I I can confirm that the the streets that are in like 097C um that's Tiffany Drive >> that's here. >> Yeah. So that that does encompass that community. And then what about 102? Is that presidential?
>> Well, that may not be the name of it, but is the >> community right after the Echol Lake area or is that the Echol Lake? >> That is Echol Lake. That's that's that's right. That that 102 is almost sitting right on top of Bach Middle School of the Arts.
>> Okay. So, that means that it's more space down there. So they're picking up students from >> or it's already existing students from that community as well go to West Rivier. >> That's correct. >> If you can just just for the edification
of the people and myself um that point there if you can kind of just tell us that point because that seems to be the barrier um at the bottom like right above Roosevelt. Um like right above that V. Yeah. If you can just sit because I see it's a body
of water trying to Yes. >> That would just help me understand the boundary of the residential areas that it's picking up. >> Yeah, that that where that makes that point is the is like the corner of
Northshore Drive and Echo Echo Lake. So the body of water is Lake Mongia to the south and then as it goes northeast there's a canal that connects there. So if you know if you're familiar with
Boach Box campus >> yes yes sir absolutely >> but at the south it's right at the south point of that that like I said northshore road northshore drive and echo lake. Okay, [clears throat]
>> thank you. >> So, you're you're pulling that up. In the in the meantime, are there before we um you know, move forward, did you have anything else? Because I have a couple of questions. >> No, I was just going to then briefly,
you know, as we see it on the map, this this is the area we're looking at of 6X. This is the portion. And um as you can see these students are closer to Washington and um this is Blue Heron. >> Now this is Blue Heron here and this is
the this area is the portion of Bthune that we're proposing to shift to Washington closer in distance you reduce that hazardous walk zone. Of course our transportation department would fully look at you know the area to deter determine if there are any additional hazardous walk areas but um
and then we better utilize space at Washington. So this would be the portion of the bethune zone that's um really the ex any existing portion aside from Lincoln that that would shift in this proposal. >> Did you did you have anything else
Thomas? Did anyone I have a couple of questions please >> before we move on to the numbers? Sure. >> I just want Okay. The questions that I have uh center around the um the consolidation of West Riviera and
Bthun with West Riviera being the PK to two and Bthun being the 3 to5. So that and and I understand the proximity of the schools uh and they they really
cuz here's here we have West Riviera at Australian and here we have Bthoon nestled in a community and in order to move from Westworthy era to Bthoon
it takes going um no kind of you know coming out on a very busy highway moving in and going into the community it's not an easy connect between the schools. So it really is a
separation. So, when you're talking about uh kindergarten to second and third to fifth, if we if there's a family that has uh children in the two different age brackets, you really
talking about two different schools. Okay. So, >> and I think that needs to be we need to make sure that if there's there's some uh some comments people need to really really fully understand that because
that's quite a dynamic. Now, what's the rationale and I know capacity is it. So, what's the rationale? >> The capacity is not the driver in this discussion. Dr. I'm I'm turn over to you. >> Okay.
>> We have um several things in play at this point. Um the first being that Lincoln was would would be impacted by Riviera Beach High School and the proposed Riviera Beach High School. So Lincoln would always have been a school we would have needed to address the
student population there and to divide those students up to a school closest to their home. Now the reconfiguration of going K2 through five is in an effort to address um our students and their academic needs. Um it provides us an
opportunity to address preK to second early literacy really tackling what students need in those early emergent grades but also to provide the supports for our teachers as well. Um the 35 at Bthoon um I think Bthoon because of the
structure of the building um uh was more appropriate for grades three to five but also the separation was to provide um that tailored support for the tested grades. Um it's kind of um an opportunity to really have our
intermediate students together um to um give them the supports they need in terms of maturation in terms of academic needs but also again to support our teachers and the needs are so different K to five and we're complex um you know
we're uh our needs are complex within the city and we want to be able to address those students appropriately. >> Okay. Have you had have you received any comments from the Rivera Beach Education Advisory Committee?
>> We have um presented um there have been several um community forums um held with board member Ferguson to share with the local community. It was also presented at the Riviera Beach Education Advisory um this proposal and um there were
questions um the questions were about transportation. how would parents how would we navigate you know parents going to both schools and we've talked about that and some of the ways that we would address that in terms of transportation >> um but also in terms of start times of
the school to provide parents with enough time to um take care of the little ones first and get the older students to bthoon. So those are some of the questions that have come up. >> You realize some of these things I want on the record. >> Okay. [laughter]
Okay. >> Just I just Okay. Just um >> um certainly >> unless someone else anyone else have questions before we go to the U public >> I had my hand up. I know it's hard.
>> Sorry, Virginia. >> You may need to do that. >> You may need to do have your hand up and talk. [laughter] U I wanted to to continue on with the discussion that Cynthia started. I wondered if you had talked to any of
the specialty teachers. Um I know of schools that switched to this this model and had to switch back. It was very very difficult for say a specialty like a
librarian and that's that's where I'm hearing the the uh comments from they have to repeat the exact same lesson maybe 27 30 times depending on how many classrooms are in that group and that is
really really it's really tough. >> Okay. So, I'm just wondering if you talk to the specialty teachers, uh, naturally those who have a their own classroom, um, their lessons just get
repeated once, but when you have the the music or the library or some of the other specialties, it really does become ownorous. So, I'm wondering if you had spoken, and I know that's not our purview. We're just look at boundaries.
This is an educational decision, but um I did mention to some of these people that I would ask the questions. Currently the school West Privier um has 430 approximately 430 students. Pathoon has
approximately 470. We have elementary schools within our district that exceed 1300 students and the fine arts teachers at those schools are um you know responsible for providing the instruction as a part of
the wheel to those those students. And so we would um expect that based on this new configuration, we would increase in enrollment, but we are still nowhere near our largest school population within the district. And so I would say
that um for the fine arts, teachers, media, PE, music, um we would provide them with the supports to ensure their schedule is appropriate. in in terms of allocations um and the number of teachers provided
with each within each school it would be based upon uh what we receive across the district as a whole. So by percentage it would be the same number of classes each individual would see each day. >> Different the difference is you have
different a different class comes in a different age group you have a different program. when you have the same age group coming in, coming in, coming in, it's the exact same lesson that you're presenting every single time. And that
was the concern that was uh given to me. >> I think that's would be similar to what teachers in the fine arts wheel are experiencing now. Um, some of our schools have 13 kindergarten classes. So, a fine arts teacher would still see 13
kindergarten classes. So, this is it wouldn't be different. >> Well, I I'll I'll repeat back what you've said and we'll we'll see what that comment is, but I thank you for taking the time to answer that. I appreciate it.
>> No problem. >> Thank you. Did anyone else on online have a uh question or comment? >> Madam Chair, >> was there additional presentation on the growth and the adjustment and the year-over-year? It seems like there's other pages of the slides that you
wanted to share. Jason, >> you have you have other >> Right. Right. other components of the study, the projections and >> yeah, >> drive distances, etc. So, go ahead. >> I'm most concerned I'm most curious
about the drive distance from the extreme of the West Riviera district picking up the the Lincoln district. I realize it's not a heavy elementary population in the Lincoln district, but that uh seems to be quite a distance from one end to the other
>> go to my car for something. Which what are you talk are you referring to the southern portion of the west Riviera zone such as like sack 102 >> or >> well the the the school facility is located in in the central portion of the west Riviera district but if you're
picking up the Lincoln district >> and all those sacks up to 78 84 78 >> u you add significant drive time cross a bridge and so forth. So, I'm curious how
the younger kids wind up, what what the drive time becomes and so forth and and I think you just have more of the study that you want to share. >> Sure. Yeah. And we'll we'll arrive at that uh the drive and again it's estimated drive distance but we'll get to that. You know, the transportation department will do their due diligence
on the actual um distances. But let me move on to the next. So, this is the the projections. All right. So, I just want to add that um for the Sachs proposed to shift from
Dr. Mary Mloud Bethune to Washington. And the projections assume that as we've done with other studies that current fourth graders entering fifth grade in SY 2627 and their current K through third grade siblings and incoming
kindergarten siblings will have the option to remain at either Dr. Mary Mloud DeFune or West Rivera depending on the grade level and then also West Riviera is projected to open with five units of prek. So that's also included in the projected figures.
I'm sorry, Mr. Link. Uh you you said that if it's going to only be K through two, how would those um how would three through five be able to remain at West Riviera? That's just that's rising. That's the
four current fourth graders that are going to become fifth grade instead of that's only that portion that's shifting to Washington. So if they if those fourth [snorts] graders that are rising fifth graders choose to remain would like to finish their year at Bthoon and
they have let's say you know a first grade sibling that's also at Bthoon that you know the parent have to make decision that sibling would attend West Riv but they would remain in that consolidated zone if if that's what the parent chooses. So the student, the fifth grader could remain at Bthoon and
if the parent so chooses, the sibling could then if it's a, you know, K through 2 grade sibling, they would attend West Riv. >> Okay. So maybe I just misheard you wrong. So I I thought I heard you say um
that if they had a sibling in a higher grade, they could still remain at West Riviera. No, only if this only for fourth graders that are rising fifth graders. So, you've got a elementary student that's
been at Bthoon for five years already, this will be their final year to provide that parent the opportunity for that child to then finish their final year at Bthun, which is going to be a 35. But if that child has a sibling that's you know
entering kindergarten first or second obviously they couldn't attend Bthoon because it's going to be 35. The parent would then have the option to enroll that child in West Riv or they can or they can they can shift to Washington. You know they can attend Washington. So that the parent would
have in essence have a choice. >> Right. I and and I I guess where the confusion is lying for me is when you were just giving your explanation. And I thought I heard you say that if the student if they had a sibling right >> that was going to be in the higher grades that they could still remain at
West Riviera. I'm almost sure that's what I heard. >> Yeah. Um >> yeah for for Sachs proposed to shift from from Bthoon to Washington. The projections assume fourth graders
entering fifth grade in 2627 and their current K through third grade siblings and incoming kindergarten siblings will have the option to remain at Dr. Mariam Mloud Bethune or West Riv
depending on their grade level because you we're not going to have kindergarten through second at Bthun. Now you're we're we're creating one consolidated zone K2 West Riv 35 Bthoon. So just in that that area shifting to
Washington only. If a child wanted to finish at Bthoon, they could and the parent would have the option to then if they've they have a K through 2 grade sibling, they could attend West Riviera or they could attend Washington. So we're giving the parent essence the choice >> depending on the grade. So if that if
that sibling of that rising fifth grader is going into third grade, they can also go to Batoon. If that sibling of the rising fifth grader >> is in second grade, he's got to or is in is in first grade, that that child is going to have to go to West Riviera,
>> right? And so I just want to I just want to just make sure that there's no ambiguity, anything here. I just want to make sure that you're saying, "Hey, look, it doesn't matter. West Riviera is just K through two. If you have siblings at a higher grade, they still have to move on to one of the schools that are
offering the third through fifth. They're not allowed to stay at West Riviera. >> There's going to be no third through fourth or fifth grade. >> I didn't want that to get out because that's exactly what our >> I appreciate you asking the question because some other people may have that
same confusion. want to make sure. >> So, I just wanted to make sure that that we understood that the choice is going to come if they're three through five with Bthoon or or Washington, you can't stay at West Riviera because
we no longer the district no longer offers three through five at West Rivier. >> Correct. And if they have a a a you know if they're current fourth grade going to fifth and they have a happen to have a third grade sibling that sibling can also join them and remain at bthoon.
>> Understood. I understand that. [snorts] Okay. So we'll So the top portion zoom in so this these numbers can get tough to see if they're too zoomed out. All right. So the top portion is is
that's what it would look like if we we didn't do anything. If it just we continued status quo. That's what the projection would look like. And this uh middle section, let me just grab the uh you know these this is the the projected
figures. So you can see without a change bathoon's at 61 with first year this is the first year next year 76% Washington projected at 52 Washington at 82 West Riv 66% West Riv with the change
at 75%. So, you know, we're better utilizing space at at all of the schools. And of course, Lincoln will be um repurposed. And then as we go across the years, you know, you can still we can compare all five years and and each of
the schools and even we go to the fifth year. Um theme would have been 57 projected at 66. It's Washington's the middle 57% utilization now projected at 89% and Westward VR would have been at 60
projected at 68%. Now would be projected at 84%. So we're better utilizing, you know, the three schools, you know, the space at the three schools. And then this chart also shows estimated free reduced
lunch and the estimated net transfer and we'll move on. [snorts] Yeah, this is just this is school data. This is just you know current capacity uh current enrollment students attending outside the zone students that live in
the zone that choose to attend elsewhere. So this is just giving you, you know, the, you know, some of the key benchmark information on each school, the ESSE population, current preK, and these are the number of students residing and attending each of the
individual sacks for each of the four schools. And now we'll move on to these are the elementary to middle school feeder patterns. So Washington's changed. They'll add a
feeder to Watson B. Duncan Middle. They're currently feed 80 about 82% to John F. Kennedy middle, about 18% to HL Watkins. And with this change, you'll have Washington feeding 54% uh to Kennedy, about 40% to Watkins, and
about 7% to Watson B. Duncan. Um now and now the new consolidated West Riviera Bethune zone you would have about 10% of the students feeding to Bear Lakes 15% to HL Watkins and the
majority 75% would feed to Kennedy which is the case with the current if you look at the current Bethun and West the majority of the students do feed to you know Kennedy in those schools. So that would increase that percentage from elementary to middle
and as Mr. Levven had uh raised this earlier these are the [clears throat] estimated drive distances. So I want to preface with a disclaimer at the bottom. These drive distances are
measured from the center of each sack and these are not the official distances measured by our transportation department and distances are approximate may vary by specific residential locations. So we just pretty much took a distance residential u you know home in the middle of each sack and estimated
the distance. So this this first area this is all the areas shifting from Lincoln to the to the either west rivera or bthune. um either of those tools in that in that similar uh consolidated zone. So you can see the current
distance for each and every sack and then the proposed distance and then the change. So, you know, it is a a bit of an increase for for most of the Sachs, but we're, you know, this very small 3/10en of a mile, you know, to
each of the schools. 3 4/10en of a mile here, 3/10 to West Riviera, 710 to Bthoon. So, current mileage is 1.8 for the sack 89. With the change, it's two miles, 2.2 miles. So, the these aren't
huge increases. And I I'll just go back to that very far, you know, >> and just as a reminder, if you live more than two miles, you're going to get transportation service any. So, right, if you if you're two point miles or 2.2 miles, it probably doesn't matter unless
make the best difference. >> Thank you, Mr. Sanchez. Right. So, if you're if you're above unless there's a hazardous walking condition, you're less than two miles, you may, you know, there may be a bus provided, but you know, these aren't the distances. It's they're not big differences. For the most part, it's less than a mile for each sack in
the current Lincoln zone. And then we we look at the area proposed to shift from Dr. Mary Mloud Bethune to Washington and you can see for each of those areas there's a decrease in distance. So um you know we've got one point for most
areas we're anywhere around a mile mile and a half. I see the most the largest is about 1.7 and now with the chain proposed change you know half mile 310 the the the longest you know is 1.3
would reduce 3/10 to a mile so you know it's a reduction of distance and then the key point is this students no longer have to cross busy blue herren you know it's Washington is closer it may negate the need for for a bus in that community you know for those students to attend
school at Washington and these are the walk zones for each of the schools. So this is zoom out. So this is the two-mile walk zone for West Riv current two-m walk zone for West Riviera Elementary. And then of
course with the proposal you can see it's this the green line and it uses the real time you know actual tra walkable um areas. Um so that's the current the green that green outline is the current two-mile walk zone and again our
transportation department would look at if you're within two miles but there is a hazardous walk area. you know, students in those areas maybe >> before you leave that. >> Yes. >> Uh the um the walk zone you're saying that's
am I seeing it that 0 o 082 over there to in the um >> in the Lincoln zone? >> Yeah. Yeah. >> Uh is that 082? >> Is it this one? >> Yes. >> Yes, that's 082.
>> No, I was just I was just trying to get the sack. I wanted to know the number. Okay. >> Correct. >> Yeah. Because I I I can clearly see that's Old Dixie Highway. So, no, that >> Yep. It's just east of Old Dixie. >> Okay. >> I would think it would be because Old
Dixie is, you know, it's Yeah. Old Dixie and the railroad tracks. So, you got two two factors, >> right? [snorts] I don't I'll have to defer to Shane or or Jerry then to let me know if if 18 if 182 is currently being bust.
That's the question, right? I I don't know. I know if Jerry if you or Shane do you know Z82 and their current school is Lincoln. Yeah, Jerry here. Yeah, let me look into this to see if they're transported.
Yeah, let me look into that. >> Okay. >> Right. And with Lincoln located here and and you know, you've got this is Blue Heron, >> you know, I would guess probably. I'm not I don't want to speak for transportation, but I'm assuming likely
So yeah, to answer your question, if there you know, if there's a bus now, most likely going to be a bus, you know, transporting the students to either Dr. Mary or West RIP [snorts] >> anybody. I don't know if you heard that question.
Would anybody be losing transportation because of this consolidation? That's there's there's probably somebody, but there's probably but there may be somebody who's at um who's at 2 miles and now they're going to be
under two miles. So there could be somebody. It's a possibility. >> It it might be in that area up there by Washington, right? >> Because they are um they're not crossing
Blue Heron now. Well, if you look back at you can go back to that slide that that one there was I think I saw one that was Yeah. Go back to the one that you show the the travel distances >> right here.
Um yeah, go below. So there's nobody there that's more than two miles. So they will all be walkers. They should all be walkers. They just all cross currently cross Blue Heron, >> right? So if they are provided the bus to get to to get to Bthoon right now, um
we won't need we won't be a bus for them to get to to Washington. [snorts] >> Okay. And then uh we've this is the Dr. Mary McCloud Bthoon walk zone in blue. So you get a sense of you know the This
is the school location. That's the current walk zone for your third through fifth grade. And then finally, this is the Washington Elementary walk zone in purple. And this is the Washington's
location. And of course, you know, the area is well within the walk zone as also the drive distance chart indicated. Okay, that covers it for the study materials.
>> You must have had fun with that. Okay, any questions, additional questions, comments? Okay, then we'll move to the public. >> Yes, we had one public speaker sign up
in person and then we had one on the virtual side. So, you want to start in person? >> Yes, please. >> Okay. Uh Carl Muhammad. >> Absolutely. Yes, sir. [snorts] >> Oh, we're gonna make sure that's on.
Where's the god? [snorts] >> [snorts] >> check [snorts] call Muhammed. I just wanted to make a comment from the community perspective and [clears throat] that is that um when you have these kind of moments when I heard that you were having a meeting
tonight for the boundary. I thought that you was going to invite the community. I understand how difficult it is to deal with the community a lot of times and we make a lot of decisions in the these little small rooms and we really don't have an understanding of what we're actually doing. I know I know that
you're hurting the children right into different carters, but I thought it was going to be based upon some kind of academic excellent or some kind of way that there were going to be some kind of special way that they were going to metriculate through the community and find some relief. And those schools that
you're talking about, those have have been in the past some of the biggest problem schools inside of Palm Beach County. And we need um we need you to engage the parents a little bit more than what you're doing. And I believe um because we need some excitement inside
of our community so that we can change possibly the attitude between the teachers and the schools and if you're shifting people around and don't tell the community really what it is all about, they don't know. I know that um um Camille said that Mr. Ferguson had
had a few meetings in the community, but the meetings that he's having is not community meetings. Those are schoolboard meetings. And I believe that you need to have a community meeting so that the community can have an input in the reality of their children. That's very important and that's been one of
the major problems inside of the relationship between the school district and our community because we don't have any kind of real conversations on a level that our our community can understand. So I'm hoping that you'll take that under consideration and uh
don't just do it by yourself. allow the parents to be involved and some of the community people because I've been around here for a long time trying to help. Thank you. >> Thank you for the comments. >> Online.
>> Thank you for the comments. Yes. Uh Don, do we have our um virtual? She declined to speak. Okay. >> Okay. All right. Um, we are back to the
committee as it relates to the study. It's an interesting study too. Study RB1 school attendance zone consolidation. Where are we committee? Online and here Virginia, is that your
hand or is it from the other time? >> No, that's my hand. >> Okay. Okay. I don't know. Ready for a motion. >> A motion is in order certainly and then we can have discussion. >> Go ahead.
>> I move that we go forward with the the plan as presented. >> Second. There's a motion by Virginia, seconded by Cedric that we move forward with the plan as presented. Discussion.
>> I have one question. Do we still require a community input meeting? >> I think this Jason, please answer that. >> Well, as we include the community input meetings with the ABC that that was uh you know part of the policy change years
ago. So, um we we notified um you know affected families residing within the these these areas. Um, but you know that's determination of the ABC.
>> It passed this night. It could go right to the school board. >> The superintendent. >> Superintendent. >> Correct. Thank you. >> How are the parents of the affected schools notified? >> That that was one of the reasons that I asked the question that I did about the
advisory um board. I do know that uh um chairper is she the chair? Shirley Shirley Laneir has been very engaged with parents about things that are going
on with the Washington the Bthoon and the West Riviera uh schools. There's been a number and Cedric you you're aware of this over a period of months about the um the high school and the the
high school in Riviera Beach. So this is not a new discussion. Um I don't disagree with brother Carl at all. Uh I don't care how much you talk. There's always a need to have more conversation.
And so regardless of this, we need to we need to continue the dialogue. Um I don't know what more we can do at this at this level. But yes, there is a need for more dialogue with the community, with the parents, and with the community. Yes,
>> Mr. Le for this particular meeting of emails and text messages went out. And there has been there has been engagement in the community. Appropriate notification, appropriate engagement, appropriate invitation to participate has happened as they have with all of
our studies. >> Yes. Yes, it has. It has happened. >> Thank you, Madam Chair. >> Yes. >> I would also be remissed if I did not um disclose that, you know, when I had questions about this u Mr. Leven that um
I called um Dr. Coleman and she was just great on top of it. Spent time, gave me numbers, answered questions, even single questions that I got from the community. She did personally. She also went a step further and say, "Hey, if anybody has any
questions, give them my cell phone because I don't want them to get caught up, you know, in the bureaucracy and don't feel like their questions are being answered." So, and I should have said that and put that on the record that um, you know, the North area and Dr. Coleman have been just great at it
working with the city of River Beach, working with our chairperson um I ask some of those same questions and even as you know I get uh questions um you know asked of me it's never been a time on Sundays on Saturdays whenever I've reached out that she wanted to make sure
I you know she's even some of the questions I was asking her about some of the parents she's had already talked to them you know personally to make sure I was very impressed that she knew hey five students are walking from this area, talk to that parent. We're providing this for them. We're making
sure it was. So, you know, I was, you know, I was, you know, thankful that she was uh doing that. And I did not I should not allow this to go by and not put on record the work that her and her team have put in, you know, to make sure. But it is it's a lot of people and as people find out about it, as the news
is putting it on, questions are still coming in. So, I'm not saying that we need to stop. We need to continue. But I I just don't want to sit sit back and not say on record uh the work that was put in and the effort um that was put in by Dr. Coleman and our team. >> I appreciate you recognizing Dr.
Coleman. The the comments that you had earlier were uh thoughtful and impressive uh the knowledge and of the study that you have and and how the community has been communicated with. I I just want to make sure that we've done
as a as a committee what we're supposed to do. >> Yes, sir. >> And make that information available to the parents that are affected. >> Well, I I want to uh let you know that um we have a very
verbal community. [laughter] So, the we we'll hear about it. >> [laughter] >> It's okay. It's okay. Any other discussion? >> Patrick or Don, do you see any other
hands up that you can see on the Zoom that I we can't see? You've got the clear screen. Okay. Just checking. >> Okay. All right. any since we have a motion to move this study RB1 uh forward
to the superintendent as is um we're going to ask everyone in favor of that motion to please raise their hand, show the reaction or whatever. Okay, I see Jerry. All right, you have it, Patrick.
>> Okay. >> All right. Just to be on the safe side, anyone in opposition? We can see the room in here. Okay. All right. We don't see anyone opposed.
So, that motion has passed um uh unanimously. Okay. Thank you so much. Um we uh we appreciate everything that you're doing and I can assure you that we'll get busy
making this a positive decision. Okay, with that we have a uh and other business ready. >> Yep. I just want to reiterate I put the um the screen up for any comments please send them public comment at palm
beacheschools.org. We'll answer any questions that you may have. we'll forward it to the appropriate um member of our district staff. So, please feel free at any time ask a question if you have any comments. Um there is the
email address and and keep keep track of the process at pbcoolzones.info. No, the only the next so the next step would be the schoolboard workshop which we'll let you know that's typically the ABC chair
andor vice chair would sit at the front as we present to the school board for the remainder of the committee attendance is optional but we will let you know as soon as that is scheduled. Um and that would be the next step in the process. Usually, not all the time, usually we do the workshop and first
read. We try to do that on the during the same meeting, but uh we'll again soon as that those days are solidified, we'll let the entire committee know. >> Okay. Did we have to do anything with this? >> Nope. That was just comment.
>> Good. >> Oh, excuse me. >> We just like to post it all anything we receive just for the committee. >> Okay. >> Keep it transparent. No, I there was a another item that was attached and I just wondered if if we had anything to
do with this and and of course we don't. So that's a good thing. Any other um any other discussion? Any comments? >> I have my hand up. I know how >> you just go just Yeah. comment. Go ahead, Virginia. >> I just wanted to wish everyone a happy
holidays and I'll see you all next year. That's I think we dittoing that, right? >> Yes. Hope hopefully everyone has a very safe safe and happy holiday because safety seems to be a big factor these days. We
certainly want to have safe our for our children to be safe. We definitely pray for that. Anything else? >> Motion to adjurnn. >> Motion to adjurnn. Oh, who was it? Frank. He's taking over Frank. [laughter] >> Sorry.
>> Had an opportunity to visit with Frank and Marcia recently. It was a lot of fun. [laughter] >> Okay, there's a motion to adjourn privilege motion. All in favor? I >> I do have a mint if anybody want