001e e for good evening uh it is Thursday February 27th 2025 and I am calling our uh school board meeting for our special school board our special Schoolboard meeting to order um if we can start with a moment of silence thank you uh please stand and join us in the pledge I pledge aliance to the FL flag United States of America to the for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all thank you Miss backer if you can call the role yes Madam chair here Miss Burns here miss Cooper here miss dly here Mr Morris Mr Meyer here miss Richardson here and Miss Torres yes thank you thank you um may I have a motion to approve our proposed agenda so moved is there a second second all right
002we've got a first and a second all in favor say I I I any opposed wonderful we have a proposed agenda um now we'll open for comments from members of the community starting with any students Mr Pomo anybody joining us by Zoom all right any members of the community okay moving on to public comment on our proposed 2526 budget okay uh Dr Gurley I will hand it over to you for number seven all right good evening Madam chair members of the board and those assembled um this evening I come um asking that you propose the budget as presented during our last session um there have been no changes since that time thank you um is there a motion to approve the 2526 operating budget as present presented so moved we have the first is there
003a second second second for Miss Richardson and now I'd like to ask if there's any discussion from the board Mr Meyer we can start down with you yes thank you uh I'm excited about this budget I think it again continues to put our division on the pathway to get good educational results uh it does not have specific things though that we discussed with the city council in it because it's a budget and not necessarily agreements but uh you know we had discussed with the city council and I guess Mr Sanders specific around new formulations in the coming years and or again also a uh construction plan and or a remodeling long-term infrastructure plan um is there going to be a way to I guess legislate that or how do we formalize that and ensure that
004we actually get to execute on those two items um and I think um I'm trying to remember my calendar um we have a meeting coming up uh we have a standing meeting so um that is on my list of how do we um codify what happens next in terms of um what happens with the CIP so that it's always in front of us um we know how we're directing funds to the CIP we're keeping track of um what projects are we're prioritizing those things that move up down um so I don't know if that necessarily answers your question but that's on my list of next steps I me we've talked about it and I and again I don't think that he wants it to be something that's just talked about I think he does want
005to see action as well thank you thank you for that question Miss Burns nothing Miss goer have nothing Miss Richardson um um I just wanted to say I really appreciated collaborating with city council And discussing the bo um the budget I was interested in hearing about the extra money that um they was able to to find and moving forward and figuring out how to move forward with the money and putting it towards the things we need for our students in house thank you yes and and just to dub tail on that we are um again um making sure that we call out specifically these are some things from the safety audit that we would like to see if they could put some funds so that then that would help us out in prioritizing the projects
006moving forward just taking some things off the list now thank you Miss Torres so for a followup to that comment and question so and help me out everybody was there a sense that they felt like they could tackle some of those items with their Surplus or were they still trying to just make sure that they could meet our our budget ask I got the sense um um and Sam will tell me differently when we meet but I got the sense that we could at least address some things off of there I think the manner in which I presented it to them probably was a little too lofty and so I'm going to narrow it down to specifically if you can address these three things these five things off of the list I think we we
007pulled out components of the audit that we felt um that we felt um it fell within their portfolio of things that they should take care of um but I want to make sure that we are specifically outlining like these are some things nowh hanging fruit that you can take off your list things that you probably should have been addressing all along anyway so and I was very um appreciative of their their response and and them being and I felt like they were receptive and wanting to move on that a little bit with us um I'm just letting you look at what you need to look at sorry there's I know we have stuff Chuck is texting me we have an active situation going yes sir you need to break or you no I'm good I'm
008good I think Kim's copied on it okay um I was curious and again don't know what your plans are I know that we have the wonderful opportunity to come before Council I believe on the 4th is that right yes ma'am next so looking forward to um supporting our our chair and everybody um in that endeavor but I didn't know if any of those items were going to fall within that presentation just so that we can get some help from Community as far as we don't have I looked at the presentation and I don't know if it's appropriate or not but yes the capital projects are the last two that those last two slides are still on there yes okay so we'll get to reiterate the capital projects again okay okay you know and as always
009I mean we've got typically a a pretty good turnout of people of community members who come to help advocate for things for the schools so if that happens to fall within um you know that as they're as they're working through their budget looking at their surpluses so maybe there's some things that the schools could benefit from anyway um and then the only other comment that I was hoping to make and and again this is our first um go at collective bargaining in our first contract um and realizing um that this was a first time for both sides as you all worked through that contract but I personally would love the next time a contract is up or being worked through that that the timing of that be done before um you start your budget work
010with us so that and I appreciate the fact that you all have looked at it and feel comfortable with wherever it's at but I would feel better if it was kind of like this is it because I know we're still working on a few Kinks absolutely I thinking we we've learned a lot um and so as we the next group that we will um do the bargaining with are the um support staff and so I think we've learned a lot we I think we can definitely address that in the next go around yeah okay great thank you sir thank you to piggy back on Miss torres's comments um I like the idea of I mean they've asked for us to prioritize from the safety audit what we need I had read somewhere that the city
011manager was wanting to withhold or hold back the Surplus um for fear of federal money being cut in our current environment and so I think to the extent that we can pull out the items that are kind of non-negotiables on our end of like these have to be remedied um I would like to see that as we move forward just so that we can't be kind of pushed aside with well well we're uncertain we need to you know hold on to money yes Miss Burns did you have something you wanted to chime back in okay any other comments all right well we have uh a motion in a second to approve the 2526 operating budget uh Miss backer would you do this as a roll call please yes Madam chair Miss Burns yes yes Miss
012Cooper yes Miss yes yes Richard yes yes thank you thank you team for your work on this um moving on we have another opportunity for comments from members of the community still quiet crowd tonight okay uh moving on 9.0 board member comments start again with you Mr Meyer any comments yeah I I just like to note I think uh those who have followed this process over the last months um and there will still be a couple maybe another month maybe as we get more numbers back from the state but that uh they recognize I think some of the concerns that were addressed or given to us the last meeting about the rezoning around resource allocation ations uh to certain schools to address uh educational gaps achievements uh that we're making a budget that reflects those
013and and it tries to address those so I guess I'm Discerning said I'm a little disappointed that the same people that were worried about that at the last meeting aren't here speaking on that right now but um I do hope that they understand and know uh that we are concerned about those things and addressing also it is a I think a package uh not just one thing that's going to again help address all the educational challenges our students face thank you very much Miss Burns okay uh Dr Gurley any comments from you no okay um okay our upcoming meeting we are meeting again uh Thursday a week from today um back here at 5:00 pm um for our normally scheduled board meeting uh with that we are adjourned