001adjourned. thank you and we welcome back to our regular school board meeting and next is MS. Leonardi for discussion or student successes. yeah, I had a question regarding the policy ed-10 I know we just talked about not being able to give priority to a geographical area per policy now that we passed that several months ago. It's my understanding though that at least one of our schools that I can think of does give priority seats to a geographical area, so I just wanted clarify that and see if we need today take any action with the change policy. DR. Fulton. DR. Wanza? good afternoon, thank you, MS. Leonardi. So I'll have MR. Beck come down. So when boundaries were established for certain schools in the in the boundary that the board approved the a ttendance, there are
002a few schools that have a prescribed choice area that but it in the boundary process for those years and they MAY carry on for subsequent years, particularly when we have years where the board adopts as the next year's boundary or the current year as the next jeremiah. Year. But those are described in the a official area. So when a address a is signed in a school I MAY have a choice of selecting one or two schools because of some decisions that were made by the board. got it, thank you for clarifying that. thank you, MS. Thompson. MS. Thompson. thank you, I just wanted to give a special shout out to kay lien jew phene who finished 8th in the state of florida for wrestling. And special recognition for our kcw staff, we do monthly employee
003of the month and it's nice that we shout our staff for working hard. thank you, MS. Fam. thank you, MADAM Chair, I just wanted to do some clarification, while with I was in the restroom there were? Some conversation about the smart bond. I just want to say and reviewing everything, the impact analysis affects all items that were prior to me being there, start ining 2021, and then going through the beginning of 2022, and that's what they looked at for these delays. I want you to know that that predates when I was here so I would not have any information or knowledge about that. I did quote on the record that this particular contractor is in litigation and it is district policy that if we have something in litigation and that we are not able to
004discuss it, so I'm sorry, I cannot give any information about this because it's going to be incorporated into something that is already filed. But what I can speak about it, I certainly will and I want to thank MR. Zeman for bringing that to every one's attention that he concured that 634 additional days was way too long. thank you. And I will close this part out by saying, congratulations to all of the athletes who participated in the special olympic track and field and I think cheerleader was also this weekend. But louder hill this was their first time participating and their athletes did really really well. So congratulations to them. And I have a question in line to what MS. Leonardi was asking, broward estates, we're going tlut repurposing and they were priorities to go in the
005schools based on the fact that they were closing our school. Does our policy speak to that? Because I still don't understand why we can't make the students that were affected a priority for reassignment? so what we did with broward estates, we did not have to impact if you will, right, the school, the choice process at all. So let me, let me start with that. And when we said priorities, we mean, we prioritize the way that we handled the families, not necessarily taking a seat from another child. If that, if that makes sense one. Number two, the board gave us direction to make sure that we have concierge service which is what we did. And we made certain that we spoke to and we were able to have a an application on file and things of
006that nature before we could not concluded the choice process in the first application window which closed on, right after the showcase, it was JANUARY 21 or second and so parents are start to go receive notifications. And then, let me go read there is something in a d10 that talks about a school closure. But there is something that talks about a school closure and their school while it was repurposed, it is being closed as a k-5 school. And I'm going to get that specific language, give me 30 seconds and we'll we can say it on the record. so here's a different question then, because reassignment falls under the boundary. reassignment falls under school choice but there is something in a d-10 that speaks to when a school is closing. right, right, this obviously isn't that. So
007I question I'm asking is what would pro concluded us from bringing the school choice policy so we can ask priority for reassignments? I think that was DR. Zeman's question, his question was exactly that around the rule-making process is the time that it takes to go through the rule-making process would get us pretty much into the summer or the beginning of next school year and we would have already concluded the reassignment process. That was his question specific. so why couldn't we do t instead of the boundary part of it, do a reassignment piece for the following school year. So we have options. okay, so even if we started the rule making process for policy 6200 today, we would not conclude that process and be done before AUGUST. I know, I'm saying not for this coming school
008year. if the board. 25-26. not a problem. If the board is -- policy 6200, we would do just that. okay. Thank you. MS. Alhadeff. thank you. So I would ask the board and the superintendent that today, there needs to be communication out to district four parkland and choral springs specifically to all the commissioners, the city managers, to the parents, to the public, because what this board just did right now, it was guessed in a public meeting but now the outcome needs to be effectively communicated today. Thank you. okay, thank you, I think we all agree. MS. Bulman. can I make my little announcement. thank you, thank you, chair. I had the privilege of going to water matters day through broward county on saturday to present some of our studenen th prices r having done infographics
009and planting fo r r future. I just wanted to give a shout out to julian from meadow brooke elementary, and kristin, lucia, and absana, ri a from south plantation and laura tejeda from south bay high school, they did a tremendous job and it was nice to hear them. And mira marhigh got honorable mention. at this time, we're going to have an attorney-client session. Sorry, DR. Zeman. it's out of my skiel but it's one of these announcements, to follow-up that their marching band did the farther louder saibt patrick and they won best in show. I was able to walk with them and to announce them from the bandstand but when they took all the votes, stranhan was the best in show. Way to go dragons. chair. yes. through the superintendent, if it's okay, I just want
010to make sure that staff has clear direction of communicating to district four. go ahead, MR. Sullivan if you have any specific questions. I'm going to say what our understanding is, the superintendent will establish a choice boundary area for the 26-27 school year to present to the board for vote. we'll be part of the boundary process. it would do. c-4. This will be specific? does anyone? We're good? thanks. and then a really brief update for the next week on the board the superintendent asked me to provide, what to expect for the board members. There is three prevents, there is broward days which all the local leaders go to tallahassee and school board association going on. The meetings that we're requesting are primarily for the students and those groups which board members would have an opportunity to
011attend those meetings but outside of that it could be difficult for us to secure individual meetings. So I know other board members are going back to tallahassee so that's the better opportunity to have individual meetings with elected officials in the board. Thank you. thank you. Okay. And MS. Batista, I believe we now have an attorney-client session. thank you, MADAM Chair. Would I like to request the school board convene in attorney-client session, in order to discuss the 17th judicial circuit in the following matter, bird construction inc. Against the broward school board case number 2022-013053. The following persons will attend the attorney-client session, school board members, beb ra hixon, sarah leonardi, lori alhadeff. The purpose of the attorney-client session is to discuss settlement negotiations and/or strategy relative to the pending litigation. A certified court reporter will record
012the session only those persons noted in the advisement will be permitted to attend. Thank you MADAM Chair. thank you, at this time, the school board of broward county will recess the school board meeting for an attorney client session. The attorney-client session will be held in the first floor of the kathleen administration center south third avenue 3301. The attorney-client session will take approximately 15 minutes. At the conclusion of the attorney-client session, the regular school board meeting will reconvene. All not scheduled please exit the room at this time. [School board in attorney-client ssion] The regularly school board meeting is now reconvened and the work has been completed. Seeing no obligation, I now adjourn the meeting. let the record reflect it's 2:16!