School Board Workshop - Sep 24, 2025

001testing testing one two three. good morning, welcome to today's school board workshop. We're happy to have you join us and we're thankful to your time and dedication to our district. This workshop is now called to order. Our focus is to create a safe environment for autopsy participants. Please notice the exit doors. While in the board room refrain from blocking the exit seats. Once the board room has reached its seating capacity. Attendees will be directed to overflow area. Upon activation of fire alarm, please leave in an orderly fashion and remain outside until it's safe to return. Board member thompson will now lead us in the "pledge of allegiance". I'm happy to introduce, flags under the leadership of foier and with the support of their principal, MR. Porter. guard. I pledge allegiance to the united states of

002america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under GOD inwill I visible with liberty and justice for all. [Applause] thank you for that. As we prepare to begin this school board workshop we're reminded that our vision is 100 percent proficiency for all of our students. As an a-rated district, we'll continue, we'll continue to motivate our stud epts to achieve. Our saying is one board -- please note that the our last item of the agenda policy 1,000 will not be presented today and will be presented at a later workshop. Our first item for discussion, is student feedback session. Just a quick note to my colleagues, I respectfully request you keep your questions to the end so that landyn and our students can get through the whole program. So when questions come up, please

003write them down and we'll have them at the end. I'll now go to our student advisors for presentation and discussion. Thank you. before landyn starts, I think DR. Wanza is going to say a couple of words. good morning, superintendent, DR. Hepburn, to all of our colleagues across the organization, both here in the board room. I'm valerie wanza I'm the chief strategy and innovation officer. It gives me great pleasure to support the work of our student advisors and they have assembled a representative of their peers representing schools to have this conversation with the school board memebers today. I want to thank MS. Brown the director of athletic and student activities as well as MS. Santiago who works closely with the group. We look forward to the conversation. Before I begin, the students had asked the cabinet

004members to introduce themselves so they can put names with faces as well and then obviously, they are looking forward to their conversation with the school board memebers today. DR. Fulton, you want to start? good morning, every one and so happy to see our wonderful students today. We're so he is ecstatic to see you today. I'm angela fulton, I'm the deputy superintendent. simone hogsworth student services officer, thank you for being here. good morning, I'm chief financial officer, brenaoer johnson. I'm wanda paul, chief operating officer. good morning, I'm dave rodes, chief auditor. good morning, tremendous davis, chief information officer. Welcome. welcome, good morning, lozano, officer. michael gregory, chief safety and security officer. so with that, and one? I'm sorry. the youngest chief. exactly you look like the student. john sullivan chief communication and chief of staff. with

005that, we'll turn it over to landyn and lecear. We want to thank the parents for making sure the students got here today. good morning, I'm landyn, I have the distinct honor of representing our 2000 students which include the students joining us here today. I want to briefly go over how our discussion will run today before it goes into the presentation and if that can be loaded up, that will be much appreciated. Today we'll focus on couple of different areas as well as topics that board memebers sudsing. Cabinet members does have the questions in your seat. We estimate that the student portion will take about an hour and 20 monies. So where we'll be discussing the various topics that you all have requested before we go into a open discussion and open forum. With that being

006said, if we can load the presentation. Thank you. Okay, so we'll start with introducing the students. These are the discussion topic that we will be having today. Innovative programs and choice, safety initiative, student service sxz support and campus environment and resources. And that is going to take the record for the fastest presentation ever. And we're going to start by introducing our students, we'll be going around the table. Students please take a moment to share your name and what school you go to and we'll start with you. Uh-huh. hi I'm mason from montessori village and I'm in Pth grade. good morning, I'm shah nel and I'm from miramarhigh school. good morning, I'm angie and I'm from silver shore steam academy. good morning, I'm stranhan high school. good morning, I'm jenel from son rice middle school. good

007morning, I'm haley sickle and I'm from choral glades high school. abby from choral springs middle school. hi I'm erin jones, and I'm from dill ard high school. I'm jacear representing south high high school. I'm nathan from cypress bay, I'm a senior. good morning, my name is lori houston and I'm from seminal middle school. good morning, I'm julian pierre and I'm representing high school and I'm in 12th grade. good morning, I'm dug also and I'm representing harry p education center. good morning, I'm ethan rodriguez and I'm a senior at broward college. thank you, and I realize that we didn't have the board memebers to introduce them so the students know who represents them. So we'll start with MS. Bulman. hi I'm nora bulman, so I have mason and douglas in my district. So welcome guys and

008welcome every one. terrific, alan zeman, all of you represent me. So thank you very much. And I'm really glad that you're here today you've taken some timeout to give us some education on how your education is going. I'm sarah leonardi. I represent district 3, so jenel and bryce, I'm your board member. good morning, I met some of you this morning, thank you for sharing your khaoerns. Howard hepburn, superintendent, broward county school. good morning I'm marilyn batista, I serve as the general counsel to the school board. Welcome. good morning I'm rebecca thompson I represent district 2, so shah nel and angie, I'm so excite today hear whauf to say. good morning, adam cervera from district 6, nathan and laura, thank you for coming and thank you parents for participating. good morning, I'm jeff holness, I represent

009district 5 and welcome erin jones and landyin is not here. So welcome erin jones, dillard 6 through 12 and I was a graduate of dillard high school as well. Zoo welcome. thank -- so welcome. thank you very much. lori alhadeff, district 4. Welcome. thank you, MS. Alhadeff. and we also have MS. Rupert who represents district 7. And we're going to get started with our discussion. Our first topic is innovative and choice. We're going to start with a raise-your-hand option. Raise your hand if your school offers enough cocollective and extracurricular activities. Interesting. We're going to go in the opposite direction, to talk about what are the things that make you excite today go to school. And he'll start with ethan. good morning, so for those that don't know the college academy is a full-time duel enrollment

010high school. The only classes that they offer is duel enrollment, as far as a p classes, it's limited. But as landyn. We have professors that assist us in publishing high school journal. We also have access to the clubs at the college and at the colligent level. I'm the PRESIDENT Of the club at broward college so there is more than enough despite that it's only two years. And the resource right side similar to most other schools. hello, when it comes to extracurricular, I feel we're lacking, we have three. They ended up cutting a lot of them and I feel like if they brought some of them back, that would attract more students. and douglas did that perfectly, you can talk when it's your time and things would you want to bring to your school. Thank you

011for doing that. Go ahead, julian. so our school has a lot of programs, we have engineer, fire fighter and medical. We have 100 percent passing rate for our medical programs and there is plenty of co-curricular. And we have stuff that help to get on track to graduate. we have multiple courses and extracurriculars that make students want to go back to school but I feel there could be more. In middle school you should be able to have a chance to explore what you want to do when you grow up. so I feel we should have more extracurriculars and courses. so I go to cypress bay, and one of the biggest schools, can you guys hear me? So despite that, we do a lot of extracurricular activities and clubs. One of the clubs that stands out, which

012have medical academy it's a program that allows students interested in the medical field to go shadow doctors and dentist sxz medical professionals and it's a program that sets us apart from other schools. The only thing it's a highly selective programs, because we do have a lot of students, so we have 40 to 80 kids that are allowed to do the program. It's a big competitive and we have 1,000 kids that migrate, 800 overall. So to get to that program, you're 80 students out of classing. And we have a lot of programs such as deca and skills U.S.A. And business class sxz what not. Those are pretty helpful and we have a lot of extracurricular active uts. -- activities. hello so my school, to me, I think our classes are very good where it's at right

013now, but I do think that we should have more inclusive elective. What I mean by that is coding, just different classes that kids like, like beauty classes, entrepreneurship and et cetera. That's it. good morning, and choral springs middle school, we offer a broad, we offer a broad unique programs and elective like speech and debate, robotics and bra ma. -- drama and I wish that some 8th grade classes were offered to 6th grader. Because when I was in 6th grade, I wish I could do a little bit more. Thank you. hi so at closer al glades, we offer a ton of programs which I know a lot of kids really enjoy. We made it a requirement a year ago, that you have to pick a program that you want to go into. I definitely want to

014do the medical field and I'm going to graduate with both ekg certification, which means I can get a job out of high school which is amazing. And our school offers a ton of clubs, if we don't have a club a student is more than welcome to start it. I know there is not a lot of push back on that, which is amazing because we want to every one to enjoy a program they enjoy going to. I do think something that I can implement in our school is fire fighting or cosmetology, I know there is a lot that like doing hair. And another ct program that can work very well. And also for clubs this year, something happened to our fccla program, program and I know a couple of kids were dis heartened by that. I

015think that's a club that kids like to be in. It's future, future -- it's something. I know it's business with business and culinary, I'm not personally in it but my class, kids have expressed that they wish there was a club again this year. hello I'm from sonrise middle school and first I want to say thank you very much for giving me this opportunity to speak out. I think my school has a lot of great courses, very broad. For example, like a leadership class, a debate club and club. So it's accessible to more people. A christian club and pride club and of course a lots of sports and I'm grateful for that. good morning, I'm str stranhan high school and I believe at my school we do offer a wide away of programs and cocurricular activities

016for students to take part in. There is a lot of magnets like utop, culinary, premed, engineering, et cetera. There is different magnet activities, like for example I'm part of the medical debate club at my club. And during that club, we do a lot of community out reach activities and we also do different certifications like cpr or like haley said, cte, um. And there is also different tutoring programs like as data that is for math and one for english. Yeah, that's pretty much it. good morning, my school provides many programs and sources, they provide mousse pick, arturo bot I can, research, pe and et cetera. I really wish they would put more effort into pe because since we have just became a k-8 and we're only being 6th grade right now, a lot of our equipment

017isn't standard, so I really hope that we can bring it up to standard and eco research really excites me the most, we get to help the florida panthers, bring them back, like help them before they go extinct. Thank you. in miramarhigh school, provides a programs selected for success. We have international baccalaureate program and it's I'm in the program and it sets us up when we graduate, it gives us education about global issues and expands our knowledge beyond just the school setting and the national setting. We learn about international things and we also have aviation and duel enrollment, which is great, you get credits before you graduate. And we also have other classes like health science, and criminal justice and culinary, that is also good too it gives students hands-on opportunities to understand it just beyond

018the educational setting but also the fiscal setting. And you have an opportunities to get certification, like in health science, cpr is offered as they take the classes, they can get that. And also the clubs, we have a good amount of club opportunities and if students would like to form their own club, they can definitely do that. We have clubs for high-end demand, we have knitting, gaming, chess club, just anything you can think of, it's most likely at my school. Speaker: at our school we have a great variety of clubs and electives. The thing that I believe would bring more students is to give more variety of clubs to younger students because we're a k-8 and I feel like k-5 does not have many options for clubs. So that would make a lot more students come

019back. awesome, thank you. Our next question is what new opportunities and you MAY have already touched on this and when we're talking about things you want to see. Think of your friends that maybe chose to go to other schools that didn't follow into your middle school or high school chatter, maybe they're at home now, what new opportunities would attract those students back that have left for those other programs. And we'll start with you, mason. And if anybody does not have an answer, that's totally fine. I don't really have an answer, because we good ways to get into c cbsbseven ifyou dodot t get s selecd.D. If u u n'n't get into that, there is a debate club. You're not allowed to join a club if you're not in the elective. There is not really much

020else we can do. ?Ment my school still, I believe that sports would bring more students, because a lot of our students at my school are athletes out of school. So if there were more in school sports, it would probably bring more students in. Thank you. Speaker: I believe if there were a few more certification opportunities throughout every magnet at my school. More students would be more incline to come to stranhan. Speaker: I don't have an answer for that. for me, one thing that the pride that we have at dillard high school is unmatched. Not only is the staff very welcoming, the teachers are very welcoming and that yeah. at my school, you need 25 members to make a club and that's about a lot of the population and you need a sponsor and 25 other

021things. One thing that would attract students back is if it's easier to make clubs, because it's interest tr and it's difficult to start a club for that niche club, if you wanted to. I do have an answer. Speaker: all right, so there are new opportunities that attracts aoem. We have a wrestling club so. If anybody is interested in wrestling, you can go, you can go and also we have a new dance scene, there is a lot of people. So there is this thing, it's a band obviously, you have ox sil re, certain dates where you have to try out and many people don't make those dates, so they have to wait for another time. People are eager to dance, so we created a dance club where people can come out and dance. And we have

022a boeing club, so if anything is interested in bowling, that's something new. But yeah, that's it. I'm trying to think of where to start. i feel that my school is lacking in extra ca lick lar activities and they have to do with the fact that they don't have the budget. I've been going to my school for three years, and I've seen a lot of them go but nothing really be added. Right now we only have a digital arts, which I feel it's a pretty good class and well done but some of the equipment is damaged and they cannot really get it replaced. And then for, our like, gym and everything, we don't have too much equipment for that. And we actually had a weight room and everything, but stuff was broken or like rusted and

023not really useable. And we don't really go outside at all when, we were suppose to like, the very first year that I went there, we were told that we were able to go outside but I still have not seen any progress on that. I feel like if they brought back the music program that they cut, that would attract a lot of people because I know people enjoyed. The people that were actually coming to school to do work. And it felt like a way to express themselves. One of the things that I notice,ed we tried to teach a foreign students or students moving in from other places how to speak english. But we don't really have any classes where we try to speak their language or any other languages as well which is kind of like

024that takes a chance away from us because that is helpful like in every day life. that's all I have to say. could you please repeat the question. yes. What new opportunities would attract students back that MAY have left for other schools and programs. I am that student. I would say. that's a good perspective to share. I would say the main thing especially since I went to western high school which is one of the bigger schools, the lack of personal guidance in terms of, it was very difficult for me to track down the counselor and I didn't go to a counselor that corresponded to me I went to somebody else and just guidance, more personal looking out, sending programs, sharing opportunities with students is the biggest thing for me. thank you every one. Our last question

025and we're going to do this with a scale from 1 to 5. How much does your school prepare you for your future goals? Put up your hand, a five, or three. Interesting. Okay. Awesome. Okay beinger was there anything on the topic that we missed that anybody wants to share. Going once, twice, three times. We're going to move on to school initiative. I want to remind the students and board memebers know that all of the students were given a sheet of paper where they can write down specific issues to their campus, we did ask to avoid any vulnerability, that students should not discuss public security publicly and they have this paper to be able to write that down and we'll be able to follow-up with the topics. I just want everybody to know that. We. It's

026like an echo. Raise your hand if you feel safe at school most of the time? Okay. All right. Where did we start last time? We started with you mason, we'll start with you aoegt on, our first question is what can the school do to cut down vaping and drug use on campus? All ideas are welcome? I think that's pretty difficult to do at my school considering that it's an open campus so for now I would say no comment. they do have a lot of presentations especially when they have somebody that has a vape, they give a presentation that mentions the dangers of it. One of the things I realize, and they don't do it because it MAY not be school appropriate is to show how the people end up medically wise, how they cannot breathe

027proper or speak, some of them don't keep to live anymore because of it. And then I feel that they can cut down on it more, a lost students feel like that they can getaway because security sometimes not really notice because they kind of just sit in different post, they don't really walk around the campus that much, so maybe if they surveyed the areas a little bit more, that would cut down on it. okay, so I would like to say, the education on vaping, it's presented to many students. I just feel like students really don't really take it as serious until something bad happens to them. But if there was a way, to have mental, not mental but metal detectors that detects vapes. I don't know if that is possible but if that is possible, that

028can help. I feel like, the district I've been to two middle schools so far. For safety reasons. They've been pretty well. They suspend students who have been caught and they do presentations, they show the effects and stuff, but that's about it. so at my school, I don't think there is much they can do to cut down on vaping. They have routine meeting sort of where they explain the dangers of vaping is and the effects. One thing is they start these presentation nz high school, but vaping often starts in middle school, 6th grade, 7th grade,LEth grade. I went to falt on, there was a larger vaping issue there. And there were no explanations about the danger and stuff. So by the time you get to high school, if you've been vaping through middle school, that's a

029habit now. So if those presentations started early on, like elementary and 5th grade, I think you'll be better. so at my school, we have a lot of presentations about cutting down on vaping. And drug usage on campus. Examine I feel like our staff does a really great job with that and staffed. Tonest, maybe broward county can use ai to our advantage, since it's growing in popular and stuff, but that's it. at my school, I know that there is posters put all over the school and I believe they do have assemblies. Me I'm a senior and as a junior last yae, I have not had a study hall the last two years, and in those periods is when they make the assemblies and presentations and me not going the last two years, means I have not

030quote unquote educated on that since sophomore year. So if there is a way to educate your upper classman who MAY not have assembly to get informed. And then I think student made ps As definitely help. Because hearing a public announcement, like an adult, is not going to do much from you. You're going to be like, okay, just another grown-up telling me it's a bad one. But if you have student made up, something like that, it gets students involved and if my friend goes and says, go watch this, I made it. I'm more inclined to watch that. So I definitely think that will help. I think that my school can be a little bit more, helpful with the stuff of like vaping. My school has an assembly every once in a while, but I don't think

031like haley said, hearing it from another adult is going to be, maybe, I don't know how to put this, maybe a little boring. And I feel like, we should dive a little bit deeper and like really think on why the students are doing that. For example, like mental health issues, educational issues and I feel it should get a little more personal with the student. I believe, well at my school, we have presentations about the dangers of vaping and drug usage. And I know last year, a few times, security would come to classrooms and do random bag checks. It would be beneficial if they had professions come and talk to the students about not just the legal repercussions but the con squensz of vaping and using drugs as well as giving them sources that they MAY

032help them like addiction centers to help the students overcome their problems. at my school, we have many posters along the hallway and we also have a club that is against drug use. And vaping and bullying. So we do have a club that is run by students, so it's more entertain anding we also, they create videos that we watch on morning news. So it's more entertaining when it's students not by adults. Thank you. to be honest, I don't think assemblies and posters are going to do much. The students know the dangers so to cut down on the drugs and vaping on campus, I would say to monitor areas where students go to use the vapes. Like restroom, I'm not saying go into the restroom but definitely monitor those areas where cameras don't have access to to

033make sure students are doing what they're suppose to. so at my school we have assemblies and don't do drugs, we have some posters and I don't think drugs and vaping have really been an issue at my school. I have yet to see anyone doing it. all right, thank you. We'll start with you mason, our next question is how can students be more engaged in creating a culture of safety. What are the things that students can do to make sure that their schools are more safe? I don't really have an answer for that. well when students see something, they can definitely say something. The school provides resource sxz they let us know that there are resource to see report something that affects students. So we have access that we can definitely report anything we see. we

034do use apps and we have counselors that tell to us report anything that we see. And we do have students that patrol the hallways and in the afternoon, just to make sure that nobody is doing anything wrong or doing something that they're not suppose to. Thank you. my school really pushes to see something say something initiative. And I also believe that students should be more watchful especially on social media something that MAY be a threat. At my school, there are resources that they can report these threats anonymously so they don't have to put themselves in danger. I feel as if if they see something say something is very important. But at the same time if somebody finds out you quote unquote snitched, you're going to get, not bullied but you're going to get some feedback

035from that. From personal experience. And patrolling hallways that's also very good. And the apps are also very helpful. And students should watch their behavior to make environment safer for other people. Sometimes people say very outragous things and I feel like if we watch ourselves, we make the environment better for others. you cannot expect every one around to you change your school's culture if you're not going to put a good effort into it. So I definitely think, the see something, say something is good but like jenel just said, you don't want to be the one caught saying something. I know it's there in every school but me personally, I don't know where I would anonymously report something. I know I would have to walk up to somebody face-to-face and tell them. So making that known of

036a thing would help the word spread faster about safety concerns. And then also, this is a bad example but elementary school, they have safety patrol, so maybe making more of a grown-up vision of this, but like a safety council in school so these are people that are well trusted among many of their peers and they know if they go to them, that when that person goes to that administrator, they're going to say that, they said that. But they will say, we got that concern and they can be involved in the fixing of the concern because these are people that MAY want to go to counseling in the future or some kind of safety conflict. So it's tying back to a future career and preparedness for that. I do agree with you, haley. But also, we

037should implement that and if students realized consequences for safety and security, like in the future maybe they would act upon it instead of getting bad mouthed. just to add to what janelle said, our staff they're very loving and you can always come to them and tell them about what they saw and also the security at our school are very a water and they know where to check where problems like that. the school does a lot for safety but at the end of the day, you spend like 7 hours. So a lot of the issues starts at the household. I don't think the schools do enough to educate parents on the consequences or things you do like vaping. I don't think my parents would know, they would, obviously but about the consequences like schoolwise or punishment

038wise. at our school we had the broward county sheriff come to our school and told us, if if you vapor make a threat, you get a punishment. But at the end of the day, that's, that's like a meeting with like 100 kids in the auditorium and one guy standing up there. And a student would take it better if it was their parent talking to them, hey, I got an email, if you do this action or that action, here are the consequences. my school really stresses the fact that take all threats seriously. Say a student gets a text about a threat and they think it's a joke and that happens, the student could have done something sooner to prevent the threat from happening. I feel security at my school is pretty amazing. Students also, don't talk

039about safety, I feel there is not much to say about this. I feel that speaking from like personal experience and what I've seen and heard, sometimes it has to do with the fact that students just do not respect staff, they kind of forgot how to be like at least somewhat respectful in the slightest. So they don't really go to seek staff for help because they don't t think of ststf atat all l begin it.. And a t of times, they tell their friends first if they hear or say anything. And sometimes, then people will just, not say anything about it or kind of just brush it off. A lot of times that people don't mention it, is because they either they don't see the person as making those kinds of threats, like they don't see

040them as that, they see them as their friend and they kind of get into this delusion that they're a good person, and also like the snitches get stitches that is very prominent. And sometimes staff, from personal experience, I've had friends reach out to me and I go to staff to deal with it. Because staff sometimes sees those people as not really untrust worthy but they can be a bit rambunctious so they don't take them as seriously. one of the biggest thing is having awe personal relating ship with the people in the office. At my old school, I don't ever remember anybody from the office outside of the office, and meeting people counselor or principal and having them present at the assembly and learning their name makes a huge difference when you know who you can

041come to. thank you. our last question on school safety and this is a quick round the table question to share one example. If a new student walk in tomorrow, what would make them feel like your was a safe and welcoming space? We'll start with ethan. knowing that every one there has a goal for the future is going to make you by accident succeed. I know when I first came to my school, I was not the best or most hard working students but that changed when every one around me was that student, I became that student. And having something to lose is going to make you much more risk adverse if you have a lot of goals for your future it's going to keep from you doing bad things in the future. So definitely giving kids

042something to work towards or giving them something to lose which works with senior privilege for example. Giving rewards that can be taken away if certain actions are met. I feel like maybe staff reassuring students, like that's a safe place. A lot of time when students first come to the schools, they don't really know where to go or who to see and they're just kind of walking around or at a loss. I know I always reach out to make sure that they know where they're going, if there is anything I can do to help them out with. That they can come to me, I can direct them to who they need to speak to. So not just staff making sure that they're attentive but also students giving them a helping hand would help. I see like

043this question, we have a club it's called student orientation leaders, I don't know if anything has that. We have a organization that makes new students feel welcome. And if you have school pride, it will make anybody safe, they will be like, oh I love that school, where everybody has the pride. You would not want to be at a school where nobody likes the school. if a new students walked in tomorrow, I feel luke -- feel like, if a teacher would tell them that thank go to them, I feel that would make the student feel accepted and safe at the school. I think if you walked into cypress bay, tomorrow, would you see the detectors and our principal standing there every morning at 7:00 am, and that's a big part at our school. Our principal is

044standing right there at 7:00 am on the dot and that makes you feel pretty welcome and safe. well for me, I feel like our school is already welcoming. When you get there, our principal is there, smiling and I think that brings the energy for our school. And also like just the pride, like I just feel like dillard, we have a lot of pride. we should implement like buddy system like walking to class, like the teacher says, hey do you have blah blah blah class. Just another idea. so I similarly to julian, student ambassador that give a quick tour offer them a seat at the lunch table to make you feel welcome. And definitely making a stop at your principal and your guidance counselor as in your a p would help, just them knowing your name

045and can put a face to the name, starts to establish that original connection. I feel like, one way that my school can be shown as very safe is, students seeing a lot of security at my school. I feel like that maukz a difference. And also the staff and every one like teachers, and every one being very welcoming towards the students. staff at my school is genuinely very welcoming. The principal is there every morning saying good morning, I hope you have a great day. Along with other teachers and administrator all throughout the school. They generally want to be a safe place and want the students to be safe. We also have the start with hell o initiative. And that includes activities to make sure that everybody has somebody. Hey day, everybody has an name tag so

046you can skip the awkward introduction. at my school, my principal as a speaker and always outside greeting everybody and making them trying to dance and sing with them. And a lot of the staff that works at the office, are always by the door greeting everything and even the teachers and we have a buddy system and include new students and sit with them at lunch. And my school generally, includes a lot of students. I don't think anyone ever feels by themselves or not included. at my school my principal and the staff is the main reason the school is so welcoming, my principal is always involved, always saying good morning, it's not awkward, he feels like one of us like in a higher position. And also the staff, also they're very friendly, they will always greet you.

047They also make sure that you're suppose to be where you're suppose to be, they check for IDs, generally they are welcoming but they also make sure that you're doing what you're doing. I like that about my school. at my school, every one is really nice, the kids, staff, principal, teachers, once you get to school, there is some staff, members right as you come out, they're all nice. And then right at the front entrance, there is always something there who is saying hi and stuff. And for any new kids, I've seen a lot of new kids come, anytime they do, they usually get like a friend by like the first week. all right, thank you every one. That was our last question on safety and security was there anything else that you want today bring up

048on this topic? Awesome. Our next topic and service sxz support. Raise your hand if you know where to go for mental health or counseling support when you need it. All right. Much better than last year, right? Making improvement. All right, we will start with mason, are there specific services, tutoring, counseling and mentorship you wish were expanded or offered differently? in my opinion, I think my school is doing pretty well on that. I agree with my mason, I think my school is doing good with individual, we have individual therapy and family therapy and if we have any losses, they provide emotional support which they started doing last year and I real other like that. there is lots of tutoring at my school. They will pull you out of class examine there is lots of mentorship for

049fourth through sixth but I really wish there was more mentorship for k-3 because I know some kids have issues at home and they just want to be heard. And I wish there was more than one counselor at my school. I love her very much, but I wish there was more of her for multiple students. ubl my school does very well when it comes to tutoring and mentoring. We have programs like mentor tomorrow's leaders where you help them not just academic, but socially. However, I do believe that my school can do better when it comes to counseling and therapeutic services for their students. I feel as if my school does a great job with mentorship, like counseling and everything, because we have, I think we have a few counselors per grade level examine -- and we

050also have the same club, ment organize -- mentoring the leaders of tomorrow, and I think that helps a lot. like it was said, they offer tutoring in every subject for the rest of the school year so. It's amazing, it's a huge list. But for counseling, I definitely think that it could be better. It is there, and it's provided but it's if you can get an employment at your guidance counselor's office examine they deal with a lot more than counseling, they deal with kids going in there for their future plans. Yes, that's all very important examine necessary in a high school setting. But if there is a kid sitting there waiting in the waiting room and they are considering harmful ideas or something going on at home and they're having to wait an hour even a

051couple of days because they cannot get an appointment, that's not needed. You can go to somebody else to scheduling, counselors are there to counsel you. I feel like my school does this very well. Like the anothers said, we have mentoring tomorrow's leaders, 5,000 role models and their door is is always open for students to come in examine say whatever they're feeling. well for me, I feel lie school is really good. Our tutoring, we have really good tutoring and counseling and mentorship, so it's nothing. so I believe the tutoring is really good. We have mou, math tutoring and science tutoring, we have faculty which like tries to reach out and help students, athletes that are struggling academically. Our school has more than 4800 kids. I say we have 7 regular counselor and about two college and

052career counselor. so that's for college, we have 1,000 seniors in my grade. And you all want help from the college counseling, I don't say it's impossible because they try their best but it's um possible to set up a date with them and set up a meeting and go there and get help. Our regular counselors, you don't feel like you know them, because they have a lot of other kids. So I don't know how you would improve that. It's easy to say get more counselors but maybe that's not plausible, but yeah, the counseling is a bit of an issue. we have many opportunities for tutoring. We have this after school program called fire wall it offers homework help. We also have a lot of opportunities for counseling and mentorship. We also have mentoring tomorrow's leaders, aka,

053mtl. With you one thing would I like to change for counseling, if we had sort of like a school, sorry like a student counseling program where other students can listen and provide their ideas to others because I feel like, younger, younger students would be more understood by older students who MAY have gone through the same experience that they're going through. Thank you. all right, so we have really great tutoring, at the school program, ymca, you have teachers that tutor for anything you need, math science and english and some student teachers that I see open for sat prep, sat prep, if you want to go on a personal level, you can ask the teacher, all you have to do is ask the teacher if you get tutored in a specific subject and counseling, counseling is also

054great, also. There is a lot of guidance, yeah, student guidance for every grade level. The only problem is, what haley said, the wait time schedule, you have to schedule, with your guidance counselor, so it's a big wait time. It's like every time I pass my where the office, you see a lot of students just waiting there and haley said, if you have things on your mind, you have to wait like an hour just to talk to somebody. I think that would help the school better. I feel like when it comes to helping students with their lessons and everything, the teachers do a pretty good job. If they don't understand a lesson, students can always go to the teacher and the teacher will try to make sure that they can explain it in a way that

055they understand. I know that we have, I can't remember like the exact acronym, I think it's called esb, which is like a separate class for students to not only catch up on any work that they're having trouble completing but also where they can go if they're having trouble understanding the lesson and a lot of students that speak english go to those classes, I have not heard anything about it recently, so I'm not sure if they still have it or not. And one of the problem with the guidance, I noticed a lot of times like julian mentioned that, you have to set meetings and so some of them times like you're going to be waiting for a very long long time until you can actually get seen. And a lot of times, that I've gone in

056there, sometimes, the guidance counselor is not in at all. So maybe if they have a second guidance counselor, like work with the same grades as kind of a back up for if the other one is not in, that would be very helpful. I would say that our tutoring is pretty good. We have peer-to-peer through our nhs and from teachers at the academic success center for college. Mentoring is pretty good. We have peer mentoring, it allows you to have a personal relationship with the first year students at our school. The only thing I would say for counseling, I understand that there are certain certifications or degrees that employee of the county must have before they allow to have that students, push thating so we have as many qualified people to speak to students as possible. thank

057you. Our last question is for this topic is if you can make a perfect support system in school what would that look like. I'll start with you, ethan? I think we already have it at my school. I guess, I would work on as i mentioned before, maybe having more guidance counsel oring. Another thing a lot of times students don't know who their guidance counselor is. So making students aware of who they need to see, if they need anything ak dem you can wise or even for other things, to help to plan for futures and stuff like that. A lot of students don't take advantage of those resources mostly because they don't know how to find them or that they're there to begin with. So if we can um proof on making that prominent that would

058help. so piggy back on ethan, my school does have a great support system. overall my school has a really well structured support system so I do not have a comment. as I mentioned earlier, our school does help all the students, so more counselor would be the way to solve but that but MAY not be probably. But one thing that MAY help is like an upper class man under classman system. So in a lot of clubs, they match you up like a senior or senior and they match a senior with a freshman or sophomore, that makes you feel connected a bit. Because you have an older classman that helps you. With so many students, it's hard to know if I take that class, I'm allowed to take that class. So if you don't take honors chem

059rieft, and if you had an upper classman to help you at freshman year, you know, okay, that's the decision I'm making and the affects of the decision. my school has a really good support system so I don't have a comment. I don't have a comment either. I would say my school has a pretty good support system especially administration, they have an open door policy so you can easily walk in to my of their offices. And it comes from the students that they need to be more willing to find their one person school, one teacher, one admin, one guidance counselor that they're comfortable with. I can easily walk into my principal's office and say how how is it going? But not every one is like that. Every student should have one adult that they're comfortable on

060campus. I think k my scscolol syst isisretty goodod and I want to d d to the question bebefore, how the student would be welcomed, a lot of adults have badges saying that they are a safe person to talk to and that's helpful. But like haley said, most of the students don't feel comfortable telling an adult their issues. That's something we need to improve but I don't know how yet. But students should feel more comfortable. like haley said, I believe each students should have their one teacher or administrator that they should talk to. I believe it will be beneficial if there was some type of student support group where if it's comfortable, they can talk openly about their problems and maybe find somebody else who could be going through what they're going through and maybe, even

061if they're problem is not fully solve, they can at least find a friend that could support them. my school has generally as a good support system, but I wish that during test week, which is really stressful that we had a support group or students that need today cool down because it's very positive. Like positive notes or stress balls, anything that calms somebody down. in my opinion, my school has a great support system. That system is not only limited to counselors, like students said. If you find an adult that you can talk to listening to your issues. So. at my school, we have two counselors, so you can go to either one and the one you feel more comfortable with. And if you're not comfortable with all of them, all the staff is pretty welcoming and

062open and so are the teachers. thank you. That was our student for student services and support. Is there anything that has anything on mental health that they want today share that we didn't cover? Okay. Our last topic is campus environment and resources. We're going to start with a rating question how would you rate your school resources which includes facilities, books and technology, on a scale to one to five, five wobble the best and one not good. Okay. We're going to start with mason, if you can fix one thing on campus, good options, wi-fi, sports, something physical what would it be? And it can be multiple things. I would say more varieties for lunch. There is not really that much options. So really that's it. I don't really have any complaints about the resources at my

063school. We have a lot of food option sxz textbooks and educational resources. Mable the one complaint I would have is access to library, sometimes it's hard to get to the library and we need the printors and other re -- printers to get our stuff printed. But otherwise the school is good with resources. like chanel said, I don't have any complaints but I would like if they fixed the sports field, the basketball, the rims are falling off which is a concern. And also the wi-fi has lately, like right now, it's been like going off and on which is, and we only have an hour and 30 minutes to do our work each period. So I wish they could fix our wi-fi so we can get whatever we need to do and we don't have to get

064another computer to finish our work. Thank you. I would probably fix the air conditioning. Like last friday, I think it was, the A.C. Was down in a couple of buildings and the teacher had to change classrooms and it was all very hectic as well as the football field and the track. It's kind of run down and the bleachers, they're very small, we cannot have home games there, it's not good. one thing or actually a cup I want to improve at our school is technology shortage. Most of our classrooms don't have enough laptops. And my classroom is lucky enough to have those laptops, in my class we have 50 kids because it's two classes combined. That leaves almost little to maybe 13 laptops for other classrooms. And that's why I bring my own laptop to school

065to give other kids the opportunity to use those laptops. Also, like, I forgot who, somebody said, I would like to improve the lunches at school, the varieties. And wi-fi p sometimes it cuts out and goes back in, and it's hard to do work. my campus is amazing, the one thing like bryce is the air conditioning. It's like every other day, one of the units is hot, so like me, I get hot easily, I say I cannot wear pants because there is no A.C. So you kind of have to sit there until it gets fixed. I'm only there for an hour and a half, the they're there for 8 hours. I have no complaints other than the wie fee, it's very buggy so you have to get 15 minutes out of an hour just to get

066the right compute tore load to the home screen. I will only say that we need a new scoreboard for our football field, it's like really bad and really old. And I think we need a better technology, because our computers are not good. Like with the keyboard, sometimes like the keys fall off, it's really bad. So I would say, we need updated more technology and a new scoreboard. I'm sorry I have to jump in here. I think there davis is going to jump up and down, I want to say some good news is that new devices are coming. They're under way, that's the thing that I should have said at the beginning, it's great feedback and that's why there are new dwiesz coming. I think one thing about our school is the textbook supply and making

067them more up-to-date. We have a lot of textbooks and they're accessible, all we have to do go to a teacher and tell them you want a textbook for this class. The only thing is, for some of our more popular courses, there is not enough textbook and out of date and not up to a p curriculum. And one issue is technology regarding the record ex. And for a lot of teachers, it's really helpful, it helps them display the lesson on a huge screen. Some teachers use a projector and you cannot see them that well. We have up-to-date computers and brand new and every class has any awe computer. similar to what nathan said. We don't have that many text bixer we cannot take them home which is not unfortunate because a lost students don't have access

068to computers at home and they will not be able to finish their work on time, leading to, not failing but maybe not the best grades that they can be going. all right, I'm going to go based on my notes, we do need better bathrooms, it's low quality. Janitors can't do much. The food options can be better, I feel like you can have a great meal but also low in calories, no wi-fi connections, it could be a lot better. Many places in my school where the wi-fi is poor depending on where you're at. I feel like the wi-fi can be better. Also our football field, so we don't have turf yet, but yeah, it's coming next year when I'm graduating. [Laughter] But anyway. Yeah, it could be a better, there is a lot of holes on

069the field. I got a friend he got injured because of that, but I think being improved and also our scoreboard on the football field, it literally glitches. It literally glitches, you don't know what the score looks like but yeah. so part of the problem that I find with the utilities on the school and everything, is that they are not really taking care of by students, like the bathroom situation. I have not really heard smraints from like other girls of the girl's restroom but the males restroom, it's more to do with the fact that a lot of people are disrespectful and not think of others, they will rip the doors off the hinge so a lot of times the bathrooms are constantly breaking down, so it can be kind of a pain. And a lost students

070don't really like the schools supply seriously, so pencils get broken and stolen, textbooks are constantly written or ripped apart. Computer have been breaking down and on top of that, a lot of computers are also kind of out of date. So they're very slow and it's hard to keep up and finish work in class because you wait for 15 minutes waiting for it to load a single page. So I feel like not only having more of a budget to fix these problems but also making sure that the students are a bit more respectful will help with these situations. bft only thing was one of the room was really hot so it was hard to concentrate but now it's cold enough to store ice creams so no complaints. the next question is what part of your makes

071you proud? Is there a type of technology that your school has that makes you proud to attend there? Start with you ethan, other than the ice cream cooler. to be honest, I don't think we have enough time in the meet to go tell you what I'm proud of. To me, it's the personal relationship and access. The opportunity that you chose to be there, filters out a lot of the bad energy to skip class. Our principal has worked hard to give us access to programs like junior achievement to start an nhs chapter in our school to have the benefits of the college. I feel like I'm a college students and shows the difference and being prepared makes a difference. The second two years of high school being more of a transition airy phase, definitely prepares students

072for more college. So I think the proudest thing at my school is feeling ready for going to college. the hardest thing about my school is the relationship with the staff and the students. Like because I've been going there for so long, I've gotten pretty well-known among staff. So they'll come and look for me if they need me to help somebody or help a new student and they recommended me for other things as well. That's actually how I got here is because of mia -- my assistant principal. The staff if you treat them with respect, they will show you respect as well and they will show you the same amount of kindness. Everything is reciprocated. all right I'm going to start this off, obviously, I think me, I don't know your name but you go to

073dillard high school, I thought you were going to say the same but the pride accountser the pride is there. Everybody loves the school. Different opportunities at my school. I think we have this new duel enrollment, we have atc and B.C. And newly fam you. And I love the band, I love the band also, the band is great and everybody is welcome and you also have to challenge yourself to be better and I love my principal. My principal gives us an opportunity. He's very open, you can go to him and give him ideas, yeah. I have many things at my school that make me proud to be there. One thing is definitely the students at my old school the students weren't the best. That's part of the reason I didn't transferred schools. But at the school,

074but at seminal middle school, the students show kindness and they will be very welcoming and show respect towards teachers, which I don't really see now at schools. It's very, it's very yeah, the students make me proud of my school. the number one thing that makes me proud would be the teachers. Our teachers are great at what they do, positive for a p exams like in the high 90s every single year and they make sure you're prepared for every exam you take. Any test that they're going to give and it's really a warm environment. I had a teacher freshman year and to this day, he's always saying hi and it's great environment. so, if I feel like that's difference between every other high school. And I feel proud of the accomplishments that we make. A lot

075of people think bad things about dillard but they don't know the pride that we have. And I'm proud of the band since I'm in the band and I'm really proud of all the scholars and everybody, so. I'm very proud to be a stallion and reassuring to know that our district our school are an a-rated school and district. And I would like to take a moment to thank each and every one in this room and outside of this room, that make our education better for our future. I can't follow that one up. [Laughter] I would say one thing that makes me proud, like nathan said, the staff and teachers especially and then the students. Me and all the kids are very, what is my word, I just went blank after hearing that. Here, we spent more

076time at school than we do with our family, so definitely feeling like the teachers and your coaches or your advisors are your home away from home. It makes me proud, and makes me more willing not willing but more enticed to say and not be like, oh I have to be at school for three more hours after 2:40. So I definitely think that the teachers giving the students the drive and initiative to take charge of their future and make it the best they can be is what definitely makes me most proud. some things that make me proud of my school are opportunities, friendships and sports and connections and I feel that's important in an environment where you stay there almost most of your day and 12 years of your life. I feel very essential and I'm

077pride, pride is acronym, positivity, integrity, I feel that's motivating for students and I love that about my school. there are many reasons why I'm proud to be a dragon but a few of them are oncinger the teachers are there are very passionate about what they do. They don't just, think of just a regular job like they just, okay, let's get the day over with. They want the students to be engaged in what they're learning. Along with the fact that many of the students they want to better the school. They really want to talk this year to show how much our student gem is. our school is also a of rated which shows teachers are doing their job and there for the students. More teachers get called mom than their actual names. I think the students

078really appreciate the staff and and everybody that works there. My school promotes like saving the planet and steam, bullying is something that my school is very against. And, we also have a lot of pride, love to chant in the hallways, so that's really good. I have a lot that I have to say about the staff. Opportunities for community service hours internships and scholarship opportunities, sometimes we'll see security guards handing out flyers and it makes me proud that they're that involved beyond the security guards. They're there to watch over the campus but they keep watching over the students and their education as well. And like I said about my principal, he's very cool. You can talk to him about anything. When you see him, he's like your friend. And the clubs, I feel like we have

079so many. If there is anywhere that you want to go. There is a safe place and also our patriot pride. Like our drift, discipline respect integrity and pride. so at school we have a lot of pride, I mean a lot, I mean a lot. Once in a while, 'll haveve ththistttt c cart that thehe beginning ofththe hohool d d you can buy beach side merch so that's school. -- cool. Thank you to ptsa for that. thank you so much to all the students who came today. This is a representative group across our entire district and really all I can say is wow. Did you have something? [Applause] Go ahead mason. so going back, if we can fix one thing on the campus what would it be, I would say to get a gym really, we

080don't have a gym. Like, we can use it to practice and spshl for games, because we have soccer games but because the weather lately, they are regularly canceled. That would be really good. thank you. So I want to thank the students who came today as well as the school administrator who were integral, the parents and family members, abby's sister has been sitting here the entire time, we'll be selecting you for the next one. And you know, this is a team effort to make sure that a representative group came. So thank you to all the students and administrators who supported this process. I want to assure the board memebers that we've been taking notes and note down to create an after action report for the superintendent and cabinet so have access to. So know the concerns

081and feedback that have been shared have been recorded. And I want to take a moment to thank our staff and superintendent and cabinet members for after the last joint discussion, I want the board memebers to know this, every one so quickly jumped into action to remedy the issues that students brought to the table. We heard, we did feedback, a feedback rum reafter the students came back. And the number one thing that student participants said, thank you for making me feel like my voice was acted upon. They didn't just feel like they were listened to for an hour and a half and nothing was done. And I feel, that they had productive conversations and all the issues that herp facing were resolved. So I want to take a moment to share that gratitude. With that being

082said, I'll turn it over to vice chair leonardi and board for discussion. Thank you. DR. Hepburn. before discussion, thanks land -- landyn for facilitating. The staff and I we don't get a lot of news, and especially from the media, we don't hear good news about public education, period. The media highlight the 00001 percent when there is 99 percent great things happening in our school district. And I'm just so happy to hear about your experiences with your teachers, with your administrators, with your peers, you know. It's the people that keep this business running, right. At that keep us progressing and addressing the needs of our students, day in and day out. I don't get emotional but I did get a little emotional listening to you. And abby, it reminded me of my own daughter, who was

083just dropped off at college, her name is abby too. Thank you for being brave and coming here, and providing some accolades but also feedback to help us get better quicker. Landyn, is going to communicate to make sure if there are anymore gaps, your voice is so important to us. We pride ourself in a student administration, because everything we do is for betterment for you for whatever path you want to take after high school. Thank you for providing the feedback, much appreciated. thank you, we don't have any registered public speakers. So we'll go back to board discussion. thank you for being here today. Special shout out to haley and abby, great job. So some of our take away is that we need to improve our wi-fi and computers. I know DR. Hepburn is working on that.

084That our security team needs to be not so predictable and walking around to be more randomized. To have a psa from students on vaping would be helpful to push out. And that's a good idea, haley. And just so you know, we do have the safer watch app that is on your computer where you can report something anonymously when you see something, say something. That was kind of where to report, that is there on your computer and parents can download the safer watch app and can report something on the safer watch app and their concerns and you can report it as yourself or anonymously. And then, one really important thing and big take away for me and I'm sure our teachers and administration is working on it, is knowing teacher's names is important to build that

085relationship. But also the students knowing the teachers names. i don't know if we can make little magnet batches but to have the name on there, it really helps to build that relationship and that connection with the students and with the staff and vice versa and with the parents. And I know so many times when I go into a situation, somebody MAY know my name and I don't know their name and I'm like, oh I wish they had a name tag. The buddy system, mentoring program I thought was great. And when we talk about the school safety, one thing that I do through nonprofit organization, we have moss clubs, where students help to build a culture safe within the school. And we have a lost clubs here in choral springs high school and many more schools.

086So there is more information at make my school.Org if you want to start a moss club at your high school or middle school. And then, I did think that it was a great somebody braupt about parents being informed about the consequences with if they're vaping, but I think it needs to be a more robust conversation or casual conversation with parents. I know as parents, we sign off on the parent student code of conduct which has those consequences in there but it's probably like a 400-page document I'm not sure how much people are reading that. So to have a round taubl with our parents to have those open conversations. You know and also there is things that parents might find that in their school is a safety concern and their hesitant to say something, so it

087might bring out a better conversation how we can fix that. And lastly, I would just say, having oh -- guidance counselors, that was a big take away. We need more guidance counselor. I know when we do budget that could be a priority and to have some place, somebody brought up, to have a zen type of space where there is stress balls or a calms notes or some type of calm area where students can go to destress, when they're testing and have to deal with problems. And DR. Hepburn, one of the students said that they go to the guidance counselor and that nobody would be there. I think we need to have some type of sign to say, say I'm in like high trauma level, and then I see nobody is there, that could be a

088real problem for me but maybe there could be some type of sign to say if you're in this high-trauma state, you need to go see principal blah blah, so we don't let the kids down, thank you. thank you beinger MS. Alhadeff. DR. Holness? thank you, chair. Leonardi. So I just want to say, thank you all so many for coming today. I certainly appreciate your presence, thank you parents as well. And siblings for being here. So I wanted to also thank, you know, all of the students who commented but I know that, i believe it was julian, that made reference to the pride and being proud, right. And I know ely is very proud parents and I know erin mentioned pride first. So I would say yes, I would agree that both of those schools have

089a lot of pride. And julian yes, ely has a great band and football team, they're almost as good as dillard now. So just wanted to comment on a few things. I think it res mates among all the students that there are concerns with, number of counselors and accessibility. So DR. Hepburn, I know that, we've had this conversation many times. And I did hear one of the students mention, I think it might have been haley that says, that of the counselors if I didn't, maybe I heard incorrectly but I think you mentioned something about some of the counselors doing other things like scheduling and maybe not as readily available for counseling. I know that we had changed the job description and we had initiatives in place to make sure that our counselors are counseling and they're

090not engaged in other things that are outside of the scope of the job responsibility. So, how are we ensuring that our schools understand that our counselors will need to be there 100 percent for the students and they are not being pulled in my direction and the leadership, the school base leadership is conform to go a job description that we recently changed? thank you for the question. What you're describing is part of the job description, we took out all the other duties so they will not be on lunch duty or cart lunch, academic counseling as well as providing ment allege health is part of their job duty. What I've gathered from the students the most is that our ratio of counselors to students, the number of students per counselor is too high. I know that's something

091that we're trying to tackle as we develop a budget, and also staff and allocation models that we're currently looking at. Across the nation, it's high. But we can make a dent in that to, you know, be the model for what we're trying to create for our students. wonderful, so DR. Hepburn, looking at the ratio of counselors and looking to address that issue, is there any other structure that we can put in place where it's not necessarily, it could be an assistant counselors that would handle lower level concerns because I know financial there is concerns how many we're able to properly fund but could there be, consideration in terms of assistance to the counselors that would have lower level, so counselors are more moderate concerns. so give us some time to research as we tackle this

092research danny shapiro is and his team is looking at all possible options. We have certifications and diploma from college level be it masters or bachelor's. so if the board gives us sometime we will come back with some good strategies as we talk about how we fund for strategies. wonderful, yeah, I do, I think I heard it all across the room that counseling is a concern and I think as we move forward as a board, we might want to look how we can provide more funding for this possible area because it certainly, permanented the room from what I've been listening. Now in terms of vaping, I did hear the concerns with vaping. And, and I also heard students mention that sometimes they don't necessarily want to hear lecture from adults right to say, stop vaping these

093are the impacts. They more want to hear from their peers, they want to hear from younger folks, within their age group who might have been impacted by vaping. So I know addressing this issue is to have the adults and leadership, encourage students not to do so. But it seems to be the least affective approach because the students are telling us, it's not entertaining, so there might be ways in which we can reach our students by their having their peers and other students at their level who have been impacted by vaping to sort of help them to understand the affect of vaping and negative affect of it. So DR. Hepburn, they mentioned that one of the solutions could be to have speakers for younger that could come in and speak to students regarding the significant negative

094impact of vaping. Is this something that we're doing and if not, how can we get this done? I know jodie washington and her team, they do a lot of out reach, I don't know the age group, some of the things that we're working on right now, we met courtesy of landyn helping to facilitate this with all the tv production or media production programs high schools that have those programs, we met with them about two weeks ago. And one of the asks from them was to help us out creating students lead content ps As not just for vaping but concerns that we MAY have to have students create psa's videos. So we already got some things in the works that are eager to assist us and leverage. so let me ask this question, because I know

095vaping is a major issue not only in high school but in middle school, correct. So what I heard from the students is having younger speakers come on campus and speak to them, I don't know if this would be in an auditorium, that would be very helpful especially if these are young speakrs who have been impacted. So, is this something that doable that can be across the district and would this create a financial sort of concern to be able to do this? Because, I'm hearing from the students that would have been affective way or could be affective way to really reach the students, when we have speakers that come on the school drop. so can this be something that is implemented on district wide on a yearly basis? through DR. Washington department and then she can

096gives the feasibility of what can be done versus what is being done. I appreciate it. What I can say and then I'm going to move on to the next thing. They don't necessarily want to hear lecture from adults so we have to reach them where they are. So in terms of, I also heard one student mention, that they were able to shadow were able to shadow doctors and it was about 40 to 80 students, I think it was cypress bay but they didn't have enough majority of the students who would have interest were not able to go through this process. Is this something the district can consider not only from medical program but other programs where students are able to, I know we're doing some of this but we're automobile to sort of expand on

097this and provide access to through partnership and medical field can shadow these professionals who'll they're in school. yes, we do a lot of that right now. I want to say most of all our medical programs with clinical experiences like blanche ely can have with the new family medical program that we just opened up, that community can take advantage of it too. But we do that. We have great relationships to help us facilitate those opportunities for our kids. So we'll just have to do some research on school specific programs to see what their limitations and help them expand if it's feasible to do at those schools. great. And can we somehow have for example, our superintendent explore areas where we can expand on this or improve to bring accessibility to students across the district to different

098programs of interest, it does not have to be medical it can be law. we're doing that through redefining. few more things, and thank you chair for allowing me. There was mention of equipment not being up to standard as far as you know, equipment pertaining to physical education and so on. I know that in the part all of these equipments and I believe it was student angie about equipment. So DR. Hepburn, I, is this an issue across the district where there are concerns with physical education equipment? That was mentioned by a couple of students. Because I was under the impression that the smart program and what we did addressed most of what we consider priority needs that we've done? so we'll have to assess. I did write down angie and douglas about equipment at both of

099those schools that they mentioned. as far as now, we have the team, and make those updates as necessary. got it. And the last couple of things, DR. Hepburn. I heard multiple students mention concerns with the wi-fi and that is concerning. If that's really accurate. We do need to ensure that the quai fie is up to speed up to par. And to be able to accomplish the academic goals. I also heard mention of the restrooms and I do notice when I visit different schools, sometimes, we, you know, the smart projects and other projects that we've engaged in. We've done a great job. But some of the restrooms do need to be upgrade. And I hope that as we move forward, I know funding is a concern but as we move forward, this can be part of

100the plan to get our restroom up-to-date. And lastly, DR. Hepburn, I heard of the aviation program mention by chanel, I think that's a great program. I actually went there and visited myself. And I hope that they expand this program. I know we have some other programs but they're not necessarily comparable to of that miramar. Thank you. thank you, DR. Holness. MR. Cervera? thank you, vice chair. First and for most, big kudos to the parents and for attending, and obviously the students as well. I thought this was very informative and insightful and dare I say way more fun than our regular school board meetings. And I'm glad to have you participate. Bryce, the say hello initiative, I think that's fantastic. No one needs alone day, over at stranhan. Small acts of kindness can go a long

101way especially in the high school settings. There MAY be students that do not feel welcome and a simple smile can go a long way. Thank you for sharing that with us. That did bring a smile when I heard that, and custody kudos to the folks for doing that. That was really fantastic. Erin, dillard high school, there is a problem with the scoreboard, on that beautiful beautiful new field that you guys have? That's, DR. Holness, we got to do something. That's too beautiful of a facility, I had the pleasure of attending some football games there and you're blessed to have that field. That's awesome. We're going to have to work to get that fixed. We cannot have a beautiful field like that and have a malfunction field. you and the board already did something about it.

102look at that, I am ahead of myself. That is a beautiful facility and thank you for being in the band and keep up the good work with that. DR. Hepburn, julian, fantastic point about the low calorie meals. You know, a lot of times we get complaints this does not taste good or I don't like the way this looks and I have not heard anybody explain about low calorie. We've got to do something about that. Obesity is a big problem. I think I have put on some ten pounds since I've been on the board but in all seriousness, what can we do to get the foc to us get some low calorie options for the kids that are willing to partake. great question and comments julian, so we'll pass the information over to MS. Moulder, our

103executive director for food and nutrition. I know they already have low calorie options, making sure we're expanding the options at more schools and finding out how your presently educated about those options and making sure we're doubling down. I know we have them, probably not just at every school every day. We need to make sure that is happening every day. thank you, DR. Hepburn. I think julian signed up for more work, we have a student that sits in the wellness committee and I think you got yourself a spot. That would be a great opportunity for a student to share input, I'll get in touch. thank you for that. And couple last things, ethan, I missed your introduction, college academy, good for you, your mind set and mentality on how to approach school is mind blowing, it

104really is. The way you approach this and the plans you have. it's very very impressive young man and I wish you all the best and kudos for you for having that mind set. I get it, sometimes it's hard. I was in high school too, it was a very long time ago. My mind, so kudos to you and thank you for sharing everything you're sharing. And last but not least, nathan, I'm going to do it, I'm going to put you on the spot bud, I'm going to put you on the spot. Colleagues and those in attendance, I'm very proud to advise everybody that nathan is a national merit scholarship semifinalist! [Applause] That is a huge, huge, deal my friend. I'm very proud of you. I know this entire board is proud of you. I know cypress

105bay is very proud of you. So keep up the good work. Nathan has aspiration, we're going to put the positive energy to go to duke university for college. So I wish you all the best my friend and good luck to you, okay. Thank you. [Applause] sorry and good morning, just flew back in to town. Next is becca, sorry MS. Thompson. either or. I just want to say thank you guys for coming out. I have a couple of comments and you have a few questions for like two or three of you, just being mindful of the time. I really appreciate the comments about clubs being in younger grades as a mama three elementary students, my kids are bummed that you can't do clubs until third grade. And you think if you're well acclimated, you do bert.

106And also I hear you guys on the counselors, that's big a toing of discussion and I know staff has been working on it. I just want to, not only are our counselor overburdened, one of the ways that we can look into the situation is increasing the number of social workers in the district because they're also mental health professionals, they're equally qualified to handle mental crisis and one social workers has two to three to four schools they're not able to utilize as a resource and that MAY be more financial doable than expandable. We do have a team that our district counselor, they're school psychologist and your family therapist. So we still need to work to expand that. So you need to do that but we do have making so there is one social worker per school

107is a lower cost rate to address this issue. And then, julyiansinger I love your shout out, the school can promote the schools but, your the best. That's why I'm asking you to go when you're in your churches or synagogues or whatever you're doing, is talking up the school is the way to bring people back in the system and you get new friends. That works as well. So I have two questions, we got a lot of feedback particularly from teachers about testing. And I want to feel some of your feedback if you feel that you're over tested, if it's the right amount of testing? If there is anything you think we can do to improve or not touch that situation? Can I call on people? Douglas. one of the things that I realize, I feel like

108there is a decent amount of testing, it's not too much. But some students aren't aware of who they need to see whether or not they need to take a test where to check for it and everything. And they don't allow, they don't give out too many chances for retakes, they give a decent amount, some students MAY not be able to make it on a certain day and they MAY MISS A chance and that MAY keep them from graduating as well. thank you. Nathan? so, with test like ap testing assess, you cannot change the dates obviously, but I think one thing that really helped me is like towards the end of every year, you have use for a p classes, the only issue those are limited spots and I think it's maybe one weekend and if

109those were held more often throughout the year like when mid-terms are coming up, if there could be like a review for that and then multiple for the end of the year, that would be helpful. haley? just piggy backing what nathan said, the sessions cost $10 and only at one school. I went to it this past yae, and yor what school it was but it was like a 45-minute drive for me, depending on where you are, so making them multiple times a year but maybe putting them at three different schools so it's accessible, I'm a senior but some of these kids are freshman and their parent have to get them there and maybe sponsor some kids. They are $10 and if you go multiple times and three sessions a day, that can add up quickly. thank

110you, anybody else? Can a middle schooler give a shout out about testing? Go ahead. I think my school has good amount of testing. It's very scheduled out. We have lesson, we have a test. Next lesson, next test. That gives us a point of where we're at and where we need to improve during the year. So that's helpful. thank you, I appreciate that feedback. We hear that there is a lot of testing and we want to make sure that teachers don't feel overburdened but I also feel like students, you are pretty used to it, not we. It's good to hear your authentic feedback and I like the idea of more support during the testing time so like the therapy puppies, everybody loves puppies and some maybe lavender senate that we can help schools incorporate so your

111mental health will not be impacted. let me jump in there, I just want to record the notes, what is it sat prep? ap. got you. that's okay. The other I wanted to hear your thoughts. As a district, we're going through a period of redefining and great configurations examine one of the ideas that we did last year, which is so silver shores is creating k-8 and there is talk about increation the number of k-8 through the district. I just want to hear, is that something that you feel like your parents or peers like that kind of model. Do people prefer traditional people in your experience or what is your general thoughts somebody in high school or somebody in k-3 right now. Go ahead. for me, it's really beneficial also for my parents, because I'm in OFth

112grade examine my brother just started kindergarten, so my parents don't have to go for my brother examine pick us up at the same time. And I get to see my brother and he says hi to me, so I get to see him every day. mason. just the same reason as her. and go ahead. I think being at a separate school, for example my little sister she goes through a k-5 and I'm a 6 through 8 school, I feel it's better because the age difference is different and people's opinions and there would be a little bit more bullying from kids, and I also like how the timing of the schools are different, her school starts at 8 and my school starts at 9. so it's convenient for my parent. thank you. Nathan. I'm kind of against,

113k-8 because I think a lost siblings, have elementary school, it allows for siblings to create their own identity. I think when me and my sisters, having different schools, create our own self, join our own club. When you're in the same school, you're urged to go to the same club, because your parents can pick you up at the same time, you don't have the option to choose different things. steven? I'm pretty much against k-8. One of the beautiful things about elementary school is that it's sheltered and exposing young kids to certain things is not something I'm for. K-8 is not a good idea. haley. sorry I know you want today keep this short. no, I love this. it would apply down, my sister goes through a 6-12 and considering, pushing back in the public school. bring

114her back. I know, I'm trying. Because when you make a friend group in 6th grade this applies for younger, and you lose that friend group you're trying to join a new friend group and you run out of schools, the class size is smaller, so it's hard to lose your funding if you make one wrong move. So that can happen just because, say third grade, something happens and now you're dealing with those kids that hurt you for the next six years. go ahead. to add on to what ethan said, I kind of agree about the k-8. At my school, we have 6 through 12 and sure and they're a little bit more mature but at the same time, there is some stuff that they should not be exposed to. So if they had a way more

115like a tentative monitoring system to keep a closer eye on the what the students are being exposed to and how they're enter acting, that would be the only way I can see that working. thank you so much this was super helpful. Thank you, chair. thank you, DR. Zeman? thanks chair. Thank you landyn, you and jacear, thank you for putting this together. We forget the countless hours that goes into putting this together. This is not something that has the least amount of students. So we would give these guys a five. Much praoefp the time and energy and thought you put into your comments, for you it's not trivial, parents can you raise your hands, all the parents that are here. Look at you guys. [Applause] Thank you. I appreciate that. A couple of things I want

116to share. I wonder if the students here who kind of insinuated something as potential solution to what you talked about more programs examine things, of the 14-15 students, how many of you would prefer for to you have input on what kind of clubs and programs would be at your school next year. Might be a nice process improvement. You know, we can't always meet the needs, you know, there is sometimes two kids in a school of 4800 in cypress bay that want left handed fencing club, and it's like, we can't do that. But there is actually like this easy process that some districts use where they at least survey the students that want to come back. And here's ten other programs or clubs that are feasible that we can afford to do and that we have

117the space and all the equipment to do it and other schools offer it as well. Would you be interested in these. And new clubs to start it but I'm always fascinating at how rich the data is for student input and then we don't ask for it. And so, I'm fascinating by that. Later today, we're going to talk about the school calendarer, we're went out and got 16,000 parents to vote on different options with the calendar. But I feel like the students whether it's through peoria nounsment or whether you want to give feedback at the end of your middle school or high school what might be, the exciting thing MAY be. Ethan is there a club at broward college for students? all clubs araropen bubut t is ththe a cufofor cocoege e acememy. yes, nhs. yes,

118terrific, that's good to know. I heard too many comments about food and I'm a little bit of a data guy and I heard about another district that measures something recently that blew my mind it's under the mantra of feed the kids don't feed the trash cans. What it measures if you have 1200 cuds, how many of them eat the food? And how many of them get the food but they feed the trash can? So what the dust did, they weighed trash cans and they want today weigh food that kids wanted to eat. If kids eat, they are more alert examine all of these things happen. It's a nice way to twist gathering so it's related to what you want, which is you want good nutrition, or after breakfast. So the idea is to feed the

119students don't feed the trash cans and you can measure that. The last thing I wanted to ask DR. Hepburn, when we voted, this is now our second year for metal detectors in all of our high schools, there was talk about it being good enough to detect vape pens and now I keep hearing from students and teachers that there is this expanding vaping going on in schools. I understand the physiological thing that happens. You can put it in the class of things that are just not good for any human being to engage in. but is there a setting that would detect vaping pens. so I'm going to be careful with my answer because I don't want to expose any vulnerability with the use of metal detector. But I can give you this data. We've seen the

120vaping data decrease at the high school level. when we have the appropriate venue, I would like to talk more about that. yes. I will put two pieces together without disclosing anything can security, but there is a problem with vaping pens at schools. If we have a way to decrease it, I'm going advocate whatever technology. We do have new tech knolles that will help. I think those are planned for next year. And, and we'll learn more about those. But all for your frank honest, I will tell you that there is a lot of students that get very intimidated just talking to adult and superintendents in the like. And when you put them in the room with parents and staff and school board people, all listening, it's hard sometimes to share. And you did great. If you've

121been in broward schools for a long time, I'm proud to get you to that point. I'm incredibly proud for you to speak up for yourself, some warmed up a little bit but you did warm up. And you have really impressed me with your thoughts. and it will influence this board, last time we heard the office about mental access and this board took action. And will continue to take action. We heard more of you know where to go. Our ratio of licenses clinical therapist which is what we need. We need licensed clinical therapist, to be up-to-date. Our numbers are not up to standard and I'm confident that this board will do what they can. Broward county gave us 4 million dollars last week to continue the fight against mental health. I'm looking forward to see what

122we do with those funds for those that actually help you with therapy not get you into college. There is number of people that do a lot of help on test prep and college prep and light prep and all that. And then licensed certified therapist who can actually help you. Who can get into the root causes of what is going on and can help. You look forward to that discussion, thank you all for coming today. thank you, MS. Bulman? thanks, chair. I'm not going to go through and repeat everything that my colleagues have said. Just a few take aways. First of all, thank you to landyn and jacear for organizing this. It's very impressing that you're all here and willing to talk in this forum is a great experience moving forward. But not every one is

123willing to come out here and put yourselves out and talk and be in this public facing setting. So you should all be very proud of your selves. I would not have known this. So I'm impressed. And I, I think that you know, from the session that we had, the end of last year, it is so cheering and DR. Hepburn, like we said before, to hear such positive feedback, obviously, the, the district has taken some steps to improve things and the fact that you're all here saying such positive thungz is very heart warming for us. You know, there are negative commentaries and narratives out there and to have the people that are actually in the schools, going to schools, you guys as leaders coming back with positive things to say about your school and having such

124pride in your schools is very wonderful to hear, onestly, it's very motivating for us moving forward. And I think one of the take aways that I had from listening to all of you and it's very important as leaders and people in society moving forward is, the fact that you all value your relationships. With your peers, with your teachers, your administrator jurors, your club leaders and coaches, and that's like a very basic fundamental thing to having a good school experience. And the fact that you all recognized that, you're out there valuing those relationships and reaping out to many students that MAY not have that right now. Speaks involves and that's going to connect, and allow you to have an impact on other people having good school experiences. I really appreciate that you're here doing that. And

125I also really appreciate the school pride. There is something to be said and I think never forget we have very rich history here in broward county and the fact that you're all clubbed in to that pride and your schools and the history of the bands, the taemgz, the clubs, the academic success, I think that just really speaks involves and to have you all as our ambassador for broward public schools is going to make things better for all of us who get the word out and keep up the good work. And thank you so much. thank you, MS. Leonardi? thank you. Haley, I noticed at the end of the conversation when nathan was adding something, was there something you wanted to add? Sorry to put you on the stop. he said the gym, and I was

126going to say our auditorium. This is my last year, so does not really affect anymore. do we have an update on the choral glades auditorium. I believe we're still in design but I would have to look at that to give a more detailed foum. There will be auditorium at choral glades and it will be spectacular. do very with expected date? I would have to look into it. It's not based on the timeline that I provided earlier. If you give me a minute, I can look it up. thanks. And landyn and j is cear, thank you share how these students got here today. yes, there were ten students that applied and there were some schools some districts, because we selected one middle and one high from each district where there were not any students, so we

127reached out to principal for recommendations but majority of the students self applied. So we have, a very, there is only one requirement to participate is that you have not been externally suspended at the spring semester, no gpa, no leadership and no club requirement and we did that purposefully because we wanted make sure that the group in here is well represented of the entire district. thank you and I ask that question, because it demonstrates the kind of feedback that we got how it is authentic and unique to the feedback that we get as a school district in these workshops. Like my colleagues, thank you all for being here. To the parents here, I hope you're so proud and you're getting another side of your child that you MAY not otherwise see, I hope that we can

128all recognize like, the excellent communication of every one at this table. Abby, it's not often that we hear thank you from anyone in this room and that's not why we're here. we're here to serve, but I've been thinking a lot about and I think there is a lot out there how we can communicate in government, and the way all communicated, your needs and your experiences in a way that was productive, and respectful, is really incredible and it's not something that you see often so. Thank you and I hope that you're all really impressed with yourselves today. Some I kind of identify some common themes that I heard today. School pride, the visibility of school leadership, the connections with students, having a sense I have of purpose in our schools and knowing that there are adults

129that you can lean on. So first and for most, what I heard was the important of hearing things from your peers and like how that is so much meaningful as a teacher, I understand that too. But even beyond the stutd enter connections knowing that there is a safety net of adults that I can lean on is very important. And those themes are going to drive a lult of my comments today. So the the innovative piece, what I took back, knowing that they can drive your a radioer, knowing that they can provide you opportunity ar school. So we heard, medical, cos molg -- cosmetology. I hope we can take that away and push that in your schools, it's not test thating drives student engagement, it's giving them a sense of purpose through their academics. The, the

130community was also another piece that I heard throughout but especially in the innovative programs piece and the safety piece. I think in the world that we're living in right now, we're, we're seeing that institution that's historically gave us community institutions of faith, community spaces and things like that are dissenting grating a little bit. And our schools can be homes, erin and also julian talking about the school pride at blanche ely is unparallel and that gets people to school every day and it creates a sense of community and purpose in their schools. Ethan talking about going to a different counselor because that individual was more welcoming, I think I go back to having trusted adults who are a safety net. And we just heard generally when kids come to into school and they see the principal

131and staff welcoming them at the school day, I've been on the receiving end of that, and sometimes kids would just ignore me but I would still say, hello welcome to class. That's such a valuable piece to this. And I'm so grateful that we have so many schools and staff members that are providing that sense of welcome and community and safety in our schools. To the vaping piece, I'll reity vait some things that I heard. Haley talking about student-made PSAs, I hope we can take that and run with it. Jenel talking about judge kids are vaping and the mental health issues that are driving that. But also in the student lead psas, bryce talking about professionals who specialize in addiction and medical professionals coming to speak about that. Again not hearing from the same people examine

132seeing the same faces but hearing from trusted authentic sources on these issues is really important. Jenel, I'm going to put you on the spot, you talked about the fear of snitching. And as a teacher, I experienced that too. And I wonder if any of you have suggestions to addressing that. I think the apps that are on clever are very useful. But in-person, there are reports, like honest reports but it's not very anonymous in a way. For example, like, if a person sees you walking to the office, they're going to put some pieces together and oh, she just told on me. And online it's very safe to do. thank you, for that. And I think has alhadeff addressed this too, it's trouble thating there is not enough awareness of these apps, sometimes that over communication kind

133of drowns out -- yes. I'm so sorry to interpret but I also think that most of the times teachers warn us to use those apps only in emergency and sometimes we cannot identify what exactly is an emergency, so that's why. I see MS. Alhadeff shaking her head. so it's not just for an emergency, it could be for bullying, it could be so if you click in the safer watch app, there is a whole list. And it's not just an emergency. I would say look at the list examine something that you might see is going to be on there. If you have a concern about something, you can report it on there. Don't be afraid to do that. and maybe on our job end, we need to communicate that that can be used for anything. So

134thank you for highlighting that. Oh nathan great. I just want to say, we had these boxes in the school, like somebody is doing this to me or something. got it. So it's another thing that we can try to implement. I really loved haley's idea of the safety council, so updating it for middle school and high school as oppose today elementary safety patrol, I think that's really cool. Ethan, talked about like shared goals and high expectations, making people feel safe in school and you can that's something that as a district, in our schools we can rally take seriously when we talk about our school culture and how much school culture talks about school safety and the visibility of leadership and staff. I also wanted to highlight for the mental health piece the difference in the positive

135feedback from last year. Now it was not perfect, we stul have work to do. And you know my colleagues have said this, but I want to 'em fa sues at the last student workshop. Like he has a whole page of notes and we heard lan done examine jcear talk about the after action, I cannot many fa size how much your feedback is to helpful and productive and how we take it to heart. And thank you. And just as my colleagues said, it appears there is a supply and demand issue with counseling. As a side note, we did hear down that counselor are bogged down with scheduling, and I hope ai will help us with scheduling to save time with counselor. And again, talking about student counseling and finally for the campus environment. I know some

136of my colleagues mentioned this, but the food piece p I am italian so food is central to my identity and soul. Food is so much part of making people feel comfortable and at home. So whatever we can do to try to improve or expand the variety of food that we offer at our schools and make students feel really, like a sense of ownership in the food that we serve is important. Chanel is talking about access to the library at school is very troubling to me. I worked at a school where the library was closed except for testing, this is not in broward schools. But having students having to access the resources in the library is important. So thank you for highlighting that janelle. bryce highlighting, my colleagues talked about the A.C. And wi-fi issues. The

137A.C. Issues are concerning because we as a district have invested a lot of money. So I hope we can do go back and do research why these systems that we have invested in, are not performing well. So thank you all for coming and speaking today. These are my favorite workshops, they're the most useful that we have. And just thank you so much. And also, you can reach out to all of us, we're all here to serve you, our contact information is on the school website. So please use up to help implement change in your schools. thank you. MS. Rupert. Thank you to my colleagues, I want to thank the parents and guardians and you guys for comimi here anbebeg g soopop d honestananreallyly joyous abt t yo school. I kind of got a big grin

138when julian was talking about school pride, and erin also, and all I can think of is so bold baby, we're there. And I think that's a great tradition and I look forward to that. Moving back to julian again, sorry, I'm not pick on you. You made me laugh a little bit because you reminded me of my brother because when you asked about low calorie food, and you did mention the w word, wrestling, right, my brother was little, he was tiny he was always thin. but we had to make sure that we had special food for him when was traoug to go up or down a weight for his wrestling match that week. And I thought that was interesting, you sharing about the wrestling before you shared the low calorie stuff, made me feel like I

139was ten years ago. Wrestling is awesome examine I look forward to coming to a game. When we talk about vaping, I have a pretty good mind of what that would be like, what it looks like. I've never smoked, anything in my life and last year, I was hospitalized for pneumonia and my doctor when I was in the hospital had asked me a couple of questions, one do you smoke? No. Two, do you vape? I said nope, didn't do that. And then he said, do you have copd, I didn't know what that was, I said I don't think so. And then he put up my x-ray and showed me my x-ray and it was a hot mess. And he said what do you do for a living and I said I'm on school board and he

140said vaping is a epidemic of major proportions and we have to stop it now because the kids don't understand how serious and long lasting, your lungs will look like. He came back into the room, put it up on the screen thing so you can see the x-rays and he put it next to mine. What I thought mine was a hot mess, the other one looked like cottage cheese absolutely like cottage cheese and I said good lord, what is that, a 14-year-old kid's x-ray and I said he has pneumonia. He has more than pneumonia and he had only been vaping for nine months. And you have to have it hear it for yourself, have you to make it real and looking at the x-rays for me really made it real. And, most of us are visual

141learnings, so when you see something like that, it stops you cold. And that's part of you all being ambassadors really for broward county schools and to make sure that you're getting the information that you need to be able to share with your friends. And I know that we as a board have certainly reached out to parents and I think the student aspect of psa is going to be the action. I didn't want to scare anybody but that's for real. Let me see. Oh, one thing I was really happy to hear about was how, welcoming our staff is to you guys. That's great. We've been work oning customer service and that sounds so disney like, we all have to be this way, it's not that way. It's being kind to each other, making a difference every

142day and you all know, that it's, sometimes it's just that hello, sometimes, or just a smile. All of those things really help and thank you for sharing them today. And I really enjoyed listening to you all. Thanks again. Thanks so much. thank you, and we will end with MS. Alhadeff. yeah so real quick, some on watch apps, animal abuse, battery bullying, arson assault, child abuse, claiming false identity, corruption, cyber bullying, dating violence, addiction, eating disorder, fraud, guns, hate speech, hazing, hit-and-run, identity theft, kidnapping, lgbtq harassment, mental health concern and then they have an other category, just to name a few. okay, thank you and I apologize, I was out of town just flew back in and I sorry I missed the conversation but thank you for coming today and sharing your thoughts and some of

143our concerns and answering the different questions that were here and just opening yourselves up to being here as it was mentioned sometimes public speaking in front of the school board can be a little, I don't know want to say scary but sometimes people tell us that. So I appreciate you coming and sharing what happens in our schools. Because you are our customers, you are who we want to make sure we're meeting all the needs that you have. So thank you so much for coming today and sharing with that. And with that, we end this part of our workshop. Thank you so much. [Applause] ? . and if we can have a brief moment to take a picture with the students. we're going to take a short recess. thank you and welcome back to the bro

144card school workshop. Our next item is legislative priorities, I'll now turn it over to staff for a brief presentation. super, do you have anything? yes, I'll turn it over to MR. Sullivan. thank you. So the board has a copy of our legislative platform. Precommittee start early OCTOBER and with the session start ining SEPTEMBER. So our goal is to capture feedback from the board to present this for final board vote on OCTOBER 17th. , let me introduce your new director of legislative affairs, MS. Knolles, we're expected to have her on. [Applause] We won't haze her too bad on her first workshop. We want her to stick around. And I want to thank MR. Hill for providing leadership, he did great work for us and I know he'll continue to do great work, so I want today

145thank him publicly for that. And everybody knows our government armando he is with us as well. And with that, the board has our presentation and draft, chair did you want to us briefly go over it or go into feedback. You also have public comment as well. I think you have two folks signed up for that. let me ask the board do you want them to give a brief presentation? okay, we'll go to public comment. as we, I know smz lumexcuse me is here, we had a conversation prior to today, so she is going to bring this up in her public comment. I think she stepped up about the language as it relates to cameras in our classrooms. I agree with her assessment of mirroring it to what the language was during the pilot program and

146not what we have on our platform which would be an opt out. I have a public comment on that, it's my time to speak. Carubo. welcome. Speaker: hello I'm ana barujo broward parent and chair of the board. So a lot of what I'm going to say does echo what jackie was talking about. The hb1149 which covering one-year pilot never provided a opt out. So the language as it reads right now goes into legislation that includes opt out should be along the lines of support legislation to permit audio visual recording in self con stained ese classrooms as a safety enhancement. Right now, what we're seeing is the program has rolled out and a lot of, the ushz that they're having is with the failure to remrie rather than people explicitly opting out of having a camera

147in the classroom. We see students with many back grounds, some people don't return the forms because of language barriers or simply students that are not placed with their parents so they have no one that is really looking at the forms and we cannot mitigate for every different scenario but that does not mean that we should compromise on safety, hb149 was very, explicit in the sense that it was a safety and security measure, we don't currently offer people the right to opt out of any other safety and security measure whether it's a metal detector or cameras on buses or even walking in and out of the building. Soso I don'n'sewhwhththe is anany upsitoto hing atat language inin there we can advocate or, or have it on the legislative platform to remove any ob sticks to just

148having the cameras rolling, maybe having, some sort of a visual that says, recording is in progress in these classrooms. That should be the goal. I definitely would advise on taking anything that allows people to opt out completely out of the language. That's it. Thank you so much. thank you. Is MS. Lucescum here? she has left the building. okay, I guess that is it for public comment. I know she had interview to do today. So if any of my colleagues, MS. Alhadeff? thank you. So my first comment is on the federal legislation regarding the federal legislation priorities for alyssa's act and staff added the word alyssa, it's alyssa's with apostrophe s. i have drafted out the language for alyssa's act and it sum it up, it helps create standards around emergency response. So if you remember,

149years ago, they created standards around fire alarm pole station so now we have fire alarms and sprinklers. So this would be around emergency response with panic buttons and mapping systems so. This is language that will be filed by congressman owens probably bit end of next month in OCTOBER. And then my second request to the board is, in regards to adding on the state platform, the funding that was left over from taking down the 1200 building and building the new building, if that money can be requested by the state to be, to go to the off-campus memorial for the 17. It will be 7 and a half, 8 years this FEBRUARY since the tragedy and we need to get that off campus memorial up and going and running. And even though a million dollars was allocated

150with the stoleman douglas act, this money that we have left over from taking down the building and building a new building will help tremendously with the off campus memorial so. My request is that we add that to the state legislative platform, thank you. DR. Zeman? thank you, MS. Alhadeff. What are the funds that are left over so we can be specific? if I MAY, so originally, I believe the allocated amount from the state was about 25 million dollars, we've drawn down the majority for the 1500 replacement building so a little over 1.6 million. and that's left over from the state allocation for the demolition of rebuild? that's correct, has house and state, we have not drawn down because we don't have the need for it anymore because we've already replaced the 1200 building with the

1511500 building. can it will me why we need to ask permission, is that something we need to do as a board. no, you need the legislature because the wordings is for the 1200 building. terrific, also MS. Alhadeff. The act is already in it, so what you're doing to pass it out is to read what is already in there or do we need to do this? it says alyssa and it needs to say alyssa's, apostrophe s. but nothing else. no, I just wanted to give it to you. yes. On a bigger issue, I want to suggest to my colleagues, which I suggested last year, which is to get real with what we ask people more. My view, we have a party that is in a super majority in florida, we have a party that has today,

152a very slim majority in the house that is getting smaller by the month, by the way but they have a slim majority in the house, a slim majority in the senate and my sense is that we have not adjusted to the majority and in terms of what was asked for. Just as an example, asking for an increase for federal, pupil funding per title a, and another formula which many of those have been reduced or have been reallocated to civics instructions and the like. I think maybe we can ask the same funds to be provided in block grants estates, we can do a lot of things, but I think if we don't have a sense of, who we're asking this stuff of, and we just go blindly to tallahassee and dc, we're going to get a

153predictable response. So in my view, I would love this list to be rewritten and gets a lot smaller and ask for things that are reflecting what is already gone on and what the most likely things are and try to tilt those things back to where we have some very clear small number of priorities. I would think of, you know, something like five would be a maximum number of things we can rally the troops around those things. But I would like them all to be smart goals. And I don't view these as smart goals because they're not realistic. We're going to ask for things because of the party that is in control this year has campaigned against some of these things explicitly. So I forgot my first thought chair by the way which is I got

154a call from senator commissioner gellar and he was very upset that we stole his lobbyist from broward county. So I know it's a great hire, when somebody calls well I'm so disappointed with you. So I gave him the reaction that you would expect. so I'm o so -- so I'm glad that you're on our team. Welcome to the team. I would love to see this reduced to something like five specific things that realistic, measurable, achievable. But that's, I'm one of nine but I wanted to make sure I got that out. I said that last year, I did not win enough support to change it but it's still my opinion today. thank you, MS. Leonardi. thank you, for that and I appreciate the very concise document that's we were given and I'm very excited to have

155you on board MS. Knolles. I did want to flag two things. One issue that I think would be useful and one issue that we had on our flat form last year was funding for paid family leave, I would like to add that to the flat form, I don't know if my colleagues would like to as well and I think it would be fit on high-quality instructional workforce. And then there was an issue that we talked about a few months ago, that I believe my colleague MR. Cervera pointed out when we were voting on an item dealing with the collection of student data. And I would really like to see, these issues added to our platform both state and federal when it comes to commitment to school safety security and wellness. So one, advocating for the

156development and enforcement of clear age appropriate regulations governing the use of ai accessible to minors. so, obviously, we talk about how we're, you know, leading the world in ai as a district. I do have real concerns about the access that minors have to ai as it relates to what we give them access to. But just in general, so this could be requirements around content filtering, ethical design and transparency around data usage and ai generated content. And use and sharing data by technology companies. And requiring vendors and platforms, education, to clearly disclose data practices, so sorry. Lost my voice this weekend. And, I have a lonsengen toddler, right. And data usage. I don't if I got my point across. yes, you sure did. thank you. thank you, MS. Bulman. thanks, chair. Thank you. Welcome, MS. Knolles.

157So you know, I agree with DR. Zeman in terms of the current climate and the being realistic of what our legislative agenda should be and drilling down to things that we find to be the most important and that we think that we can reasonably have an opportunity to advocate and make progress with. So I don't not agree with everything that is listed but just being realistic, I think putting our energy into things that we can potential lea chief is a good strategy particularly right now. Priority number 2, I particularly agree with. i think you know, with the way that the funding is going right now, I think it would bee bee behoove us, we're the only one that are really accountable and we play by different set of rules than every one else. So if

158we have these different options for, you know, people school choice, I think it would be in the best interest of all students and for the parents to know, to have some data associated with their schools and to make that, for anyone receiving tax dollars. That would be any number one priority for this year. Because I think it helps every single student and all taxpayers know where their money is going and how it's being used and whether or not a school is successful so people can make informed choices about that. So that is my comment, thank you. chair, if I MAY. go ahead. just to give some perspective of what the legislative priority documentation, how it's utilized and how we use it as either district staff or contract lobbyist. So unless it's on the historically speaking

159unless it's on this platform that gives us the ability to advocate for the board in tallahassee. So if it's not on here, it makes it difficult for us to advocate. Now to DR. Zeman's point, you didn't fail completely last year, we're down to one. And then, we use this depending on what is moving or not moving in tallahassee. And then if it's outside of this platform, then we really don't have the authority to advocate on any position outside of what the board has approved here, unless we could consult with the superintendent and chair, there is issues that we will not be able to come to the board to ask permission to advocate. So unless it's on here t does make it difficult for staff to advocate. At least that's how we've historically done it, because

160we're representing the board in tallahassee and dc and for the most part, if you have more than one-page, it is a difficult because you guys are elected officials, you know how it is. You don't have time to read pages and pages of documentation. So we did try to keep it as concise as possible but that's how we've used the platforms historically. I want today give that perspective. thank you. MS. Thompson. thank you, that was my first question, so thank you for addressing that. And while I recognize that, I also want to echo MS. Bulman and DR. Zeman's comments that I think narrowing it would be better because that helps us have a stronger message. And I kind of want to give overview to my colleagues about kind of what is coming down the pipeline, because

161there is so much news. lately it's hard to keep track. So PRESIDENT Trump is proposing a 12 billion dollars cut to public education which would eliminate funding to many of the different programs including services for students learning english, migrant students, arts and technology, programs to improve teacher effectiveness, summer programs, et cetera. On the state level, the state is also projecting to go into a fiscal only, I don't know if they call it a crisis but a period where they're going to be about in a 6.5 billion dollars whole in the 2028-2029 fiscal year. I think when we think about advocating, it's really important to have the context of what is happening and understanding that while we MAY want funding for certain programs, the likelihood of that is not happening. So why would we spend our

162time and energy and our money for our outside consultant to advocate for something that is not going to pass in this current environment? I also spent sometime looking at county's districts throughout florida priority which is why I asked staff to pass around sarasota schools. I think, not that our brochure right side beautiful, I zoomed in, beautiful. I do think that having four priorities which encompasses what the board general feeling for is easier and more digestable and they're all very catchy titles, and I think when you are legislator in either tallahassee or dc to have a pain -- paper that is like oh, adequate funding, that's helpful. And I know it's important that we're funding, and I know they do a great job to greater city schools consortium, those guys, also do a great job of

163trying to collectively advocate for the whole group, however, if we could also echo what other districts are saying because I think we know that there needs to be a fund anding special needs programs need to be fundedet. -- et cetera. So I would like to make some recommendations at least on the state priorities, and get my colleague's opinions on potentially cut something areas. In particular, the last bullet strategic right sizing and ebb rollment enhancement. This is something that we're already doing and like, as a board, as a board we're making decision to see right-size the district right now, to spend time in tallahassee asking for help with by the time they pass anything, we have already made these decisions to me, seems counter productive, would it be amazing for legislation to come and give us

164kind of a fall back or some more support of course, however? By this time, we're done. staff is not opposed. I have a quick question. It says preserving the authority to oversee the processes. Was that put in here because, they've taken away, I know that there is some issue with local authority and things of that nature. so was it just to ask them help us resize. it was really both. But to MS. Thompson's point, there is really no limitation currently now for you to do that. The biggest challenge going forward is, as it relates to this, probably the first bullet in the first bucket which is when, some entities can come in and use, or under utilize space and how that would cost and what not. But that would be taken care of with the

165first item. and. you don't want to bring to their attention with the last bullet? I appreciate that comment. And I also really like the first bullet, I think that's something that is very in tune with what is happening and in fact, sarasota calls the school of the hope but I like ours a little more general to manage. And then, I had a question. So, how is the item 5, different than us advocating for increasing the student allocation, student health allocation. Is that, I don't want to offend anything, that virtual signaling? I think you know that as a school board we aunt all of these things, we're advocating for more funding. I guess, what is the difference? I see where you're saying, it could be perceived a little bit repetitive, we have always called it out.

166But we don't have to. It's part of the safe school allocation and the final point above it and invest in public schools finance and fap priorities. and I'm, I'm not saying to remove it or not remove it. But again, I do think. we can combine it with the other section to streamline it further. uh-huh. I know, I know we're asking, I personally don't want to combine school safety and security anywhere else. I think it needs to be c cled out by I it lf. We c could rept.T. isn't there hand signs now? no, we didn't. that's fine, that's why I wanted this. In the interest if people wanted to narrow it down, I, I understand the calling it out and the importance of that, I just wanted to point that out. And then my other,

167comment is I think there needs to be a prioritization of how we're listing these education, budget finance is absolutely number one. And when, as a legislator, I would be looking at a document, I think there have been some prioritization of how we are ordering these. And I think give my suggestion. we'll order it, however, the board would like. you said that, I would say safety first. my argument if we don't have money, we cannot invest in any of these. I would say it's in the top two. if our students and staff aren't safe, we wouldn't need anymore. okay, but, I don't want to have a back and forth. And I obviously feel safety and security is very important, and in fact, in this list it's at the bottom. So I think there should be prioritization

168of the item list. And that's it. I don't see anyone else, I'll go next. I don't mind prioritizing it. To MS. Tom's son point, it probably makes sense. I think this is shorter than what we've ever had. So I like all the things on there. And if you mentioned, if it's not on this list, you don't have our authority if it comes up in conversation. So doesn't mean you're going to talk about all of these per se, but this is what we're saying are things that we would like to have support from the legislation. yeah, I just wanted to say this MR. Sullivan, this is a comprehensive list. I think the third slide of the presentation, does mention campaigning tools that we're going to create such as the tri-fold brochures. So we will taylor and

169pick different ones depending on the audience that we're going to have. But we wanted have a comprehensive list that will open up the conversation, but again, we'll shorten it depending on the room and stakeholders that speaking to. thank you for that. I have something that I would like to add on the federal legislative priority which is the eagle's act. and the eagle's act is proposed legislation design to expand the secret service national threat assessment their to prevent targeted violence in school violence. it's on the list. it's already there, chair. It's in the last bucket. sorry, I focused on the state. Then we already have it, thank you. State wide, to point of couple of things. So on our state one, where the second bullet in academic excellence for students says support legislation that includes an

170opt out option for audio visual and regarding and ensuring that parents and guardians have the flexibility to to streamline the process. We had this discussion before although, I don't necessarily agree with the parent, the parental rights, it's in our policy, I did have the opportunity to speak with the commissioner of education, he agreed with me that, that didn't make sense to have an opt in that it should just be a waiver. So I think, two things. I think that part should be in safety and security because it's about video, video for safety purposes. But in the parental rights in the section, 1014.04, I, little I, it's all the waiver, like the reason, so it says the right to consent in writing before the state, or any of its political subdivisions makes the video or horse

171recording of his or her minor child unless such recording is made part of a forensic or department of children of family investigation or to be solely. And it lists five of them. Purpose related to regular classrooms, security or surveillance or grounds, number 5 is a photo identification. So I would say, we should be advocating to add a number 6 and just say, video audio, audio video record in self contained ese classes. So if it's a waiver, we dont have to opt in or opt out, it's just like having video cameras in the schools. we're fine with that. I believe that's the discussion that's being had. Yeah, MS. Batista can weigh in because I believe the state did reach out to you, route? To talk about what we wanted to do. only a few hours ago.

172awesome. thank you, MADAM Chair. So yes, I what you just proposed is what the discussion was at the last workshop, that the board was going to try to place that on the legislative table, you know to the laej slate I have agenda from the school board was to add one more exception to that particular section of the statute and yes, did speak with the general counsel from the department of education, and he tend today agree with my readings of the statute as it is now. But he did say, now that obviously the board was able to move forward and try to implement na change legislatively. chair, can we talk about that for just a bit. sure, if I'll just ask, originally, MS. Batista and then you can add into there. The conversation that I had

173with the commissioner said that he thought he could just do a rule that we wouldn't have to wait for legislation, was that part of your conversation? no, the general counsel did not mention anything about a rule. thank you. DR. Zeman. I'm trying to think how we can do this in a reasonable amount of time which is to go topic by topic, this is an interesting issue because I'm not sure we need unanimous consent. We have to decide today? based on today's discussion, we will make the changes based on the feedback and then present it during the OCTOBER meeting for final adoption so they can get to work. so you're looking whatever you take away from our draft, you're going to take a draft and then at the next meeting, you'll hash it out. yes. the

174law gives, you don't need to give permission if there is any condition in the law. that are waved. that waives permission for your child. I want to understand as a board what we're doing, if we give this a waiver, we're saying parents don't get the right to opt in, there is just going ob an automatic waiver to these ese classrooms to record kids would a parent opt out? no, if you want to go to that. but we had a pilot program. I'm familiar. for the pilot, once the parent made a request, we would install and notify the parents in the classroom but there was no opt in or opt out, just a note fickation. so under the pilot way was directed bit state, did they also direct those conditions like that? That if somebody asked

175for it, we turn it out and there is no opt out? under the pilot, there is no opt out. and I will do some thinking about that I'm just not necessarily thinking about that is something the community could support. There are some parents that they deserve the right to opt out being recorded. I'm laying it out, I'm not convinced that that's not the best thing for us to ask for. I understand the way to get that done if that is the will of the board is through a waiver process and I get that, but I'm as one member here not convinced that we want, not to have the ability for a parent to say no. I just need to learn more and think about that. and just to, to go to that, they're not being

176continuously necessarily recorded, no one is going to be viewing that unless there is an incident, I mean we've written that out in the policy and somebody asked to see it, it's not, that's the only time somebody would be viewing the video is if there is an incident in the classroom. and again, I think there is another side to this. I want to make sure that they're comfortable to say, you have no rights to have your child recorded. I'm there is a balance here between parent rights and safety and security and I want to make sure we're laying it in the right place. MS. Leonardi? I just had a quick question about timing. So we will be voting to approve this on OCTOBER 14th? When are the committees meeting? OCTOBER 6th. OCTOBER 6th is the first

177week of committee examine then the 13th, those are the two. so is this being done in a timely manner? it could have been done a little quicker. is there a way to get this approved earlier? we can bring it to the OCTOBER special school board meeting, if that's the will of the school board. I would appreciate that. as long as there is will of the board. thank you, anybody else. Thank you so much. Oh. Okay. thank you, ma'am. Where we might trim a little bit of these things. One is, state increase, support this is legislative number one on money, third bullet support, increased to provide free. Is there that they would go into that if they passed it. no. I would ask to you flag that. and I also think the last clause on the

178academic category second bullet, there by streamlining the process and enhancing inclusivity, is not something that we would want to write down in a piece of paper, if we wanted to get that one. reword that. I 1,000 percent in agreement with my colleague MS. Leonardi on family leave and I hope we can get financial support for that. I love what, sarasota has done on leveling the playing field, this is a great way to talk to people about it. I didn't recognize there is going to be cloys in florida for education, I just want it to be a level playing field. I'll continue to remind people that four billion dollars was given to kids already attending private schools. So there is some changes to that. I would not recommend we add it to our legislative priorities but

179I think that, MR. Sullivan, not only does this limit what your lobbyist and staff can talk to legislator's about, this limits school board members in terms of what they can talk about, am I correct? I differ to general counsel? MS. Batista? well there is always been limitations on certain things that can be discussed at a, you know, school board meeting or within the bounds of I don't think that this particular would have a impact on school member speech. so a if a school board member took government money to go to tallahassee and attend a conference, they're okay to use their first amendment right to talk about anything they would like? I mean the answer is yes, however, if you are going and I think we MAY have had this discussion before, where if you're taking,

180if you're going in representation of the district, you should be representing what the district has approved and nothing outside of the balance of that. I want to be clear then. In my own view of when you're representing the district is when the city pays you to go somewhere, you're representing broward county. Would be restricted to advocating to things that broward county had approved. right, so if you're representing yourself and you're there to represent the district, then you should be also advocating for the items that are on that list. terrific, so if you're at dinner with an old friends from years ago that is also at at the same place at the same time, that's fine. Is you're talking at a public forum, you're restrict today advocating. Last question, and then we'll get to you MR.

181Cervera. Can we talk to you to the 14 billion dollars as a way to pay for these things. Even the 4 billion is not part of the agenda. can you give me a little bit more. I think we have a high priority on funding. We're going to go look, a lot of things can get better. a lot of times we're 50th depending on where the group is counting the money. But in other groups, so if we go to tallahassee, hey, we don't get enough money, it's hard, could we also say even though it's not part of the agenda, that a way to pay for public education, could be to do something different which would take a billion dollars out of that and you can put a billion dollars into traditional public education, can we say

182that even if it's not on the agenda? that's a good question. if you can let us know later, I appreciate that. On the federal one. Does the federal government currently invest in transportation services for disability for students with disability in after school program? MR. Sullivan? I would have to check specifically what ida funds. our chief financial officer is here, I wonder if federal government pays for transportation for needs kids. yes, they do. Not federal government but the state. federal? no. so if we can tighten up the language maybe. If they're not paying for it, we're not going ask, say invest the first time. I would also, thank you, that's all I have. MADAM Chair, if I MAY, just some clarification on the capacity in which one is acting if they choose to go to tallahassee

183during this, this upcoming session this year or whether when you start meet ining OCTOBER. Is the threshold solely whether or not the district or the county is paying for your flight and hotel as to whether or not you are an advocating representing an individual capacity or on behalf of the district? MS. Batista? that's not the only, that's certainly one of the factors that could be important to take into consideration, however, if the board member is there in representation of the district, then, the idea is that that person would be advocating for the what the district, is advancing. okay, but I guess my question is, who gets to determine what happens? If I want to go up to tallahassee and I want to take a meeting or meetings with legislator and advocate for a position that

184let's say maybe is not on this list or contrary to this list, I'm not suggesting that's the case but if I wanted do that and pay for my own flight and in my own hotel, am I permitted to do that? so the answer again, deals more with, are you there in representation of the district, are you taking on those meetings because you're a school board member of the broward school board or you're there in your own individual capacity. I guess what I'm having difficulty. regardless of who pays for it. understood, but I guess I'm having difficulty understanding is let's say, a crazy example, I want to put 5 school boards or score boards at dillard because I really really like their field and I think it's great what they've done to it. I know that's

185the district's position and if I wanted go up and speak to legislators that I had relationship wz or to pitch for my five score boards can I do that at an individual capacity? And where is the line as to whether or not adam cer very ra, school board member is asking as opposed the cervera resident is asking? In fairness and in light of some things the last time the legislative was in session, we need some clear guidance what we can do and cannot do when we choose to venture tallahahase. ay, we can dedenitelylytrtry to put somethintotogether. Whwhat I would say is a a lot of it is also honor system in the sense that you know, if you are representing yourself when you're speaking as a school board member from broward, then you should be

186aligned with the, the priorities of the district. If you on the other hand, when you speak, whoever whatever capacity you're speaking, you're saying, I am not representing the district, I'm here as here as a citizen. so a sheer pronouncement before awe dress any subcommittee will do the trick? well I think that and the fact that if you're paying for your own way, yes, that would go a long way in separating, you know, which had the person is wearing. yes, and for the record, I don't want five score boards, I just wanted an example. but we can research further and if there is anything from what was said, I'll be happy to put something together. MS. Alhadeff. thank you. So I just wanted to say that I agree with MS. Leonardi on adding the paid family

187leave. And I also like my colleague's to weigh in in regards to taking the funding that is that is left over from taking down the 1200 building, building new building and to put that funding to the off campus memorial. okay, so let's look at that, anybody opposed to adding the paid family leave to legislature, is that state wide or federal? I'm curious how does that play out if we're rebuilding a building and we come in under budget, at budget, at 11.6 billion left. the building is up. I thought this was an additional building. so the 1500 building is done. so we're done. yeah, the district has no more need for those funds. and just as a caveat to that, the district was initially holding that money to do on campus memorial. They've decided to do

188a less extravagant one so that the money can go towards the community one that is going to be at a different spot. love it. everybody is okay with that? That talks care of that and the paid family leave, everybody was okay with that? Okay. Good? Do you have any other questions. the last thing I have to add to MS. Thompson's lengthy update, one of the things as well is taking place is property tax. Some kind of reform, so at the will of the board, we would like to add something as they have the conversations, the impact of this educational funding? I have two quick questions also before we go, did you jot down putting the ese and safety and security as oppose -- then the other question is, there was a big, a big debate

189in tallahassee about changing the way schools were graded in terms of make thating a 97 do you see that coming up in conversation? I don't see it coming to fruition, a lot of members don't want their schools to be. just because it's not on here. And the students did a fantastic job, by the way last yae, of explaining to the committee why they didn't think that was a good idea, alana did a fantastic job. So if you thought it was going to be an issue, I was going request we add that but okay. But thank you again. and JANUARY is the start of legislatation. I'm not really done, MS. Bulman. hi, so I would like to get the opinion of the colleagues as well for the level the playing field does anybody else agree with

190that? I think it's, basically, kind of at the core of what we're going to do need to be doing. sarasota priority number two. is there any objection?Z we were going to re -- are you talking about prioritization of the items? this is really not on the items right now, it's definitely a concise -- . oh for priority number 3, sarasota one. number 2. we'll come up with some language. We something similar last year, with any taxpayer funded educational system should have the same accountability. So we'll add that back then. we should be paying attention to that. unless there is opposition. I think it could fit under academic excellence for all students but catchier title. level the playing field. we can steal their title, that is fine too. they stole it from us. maybe they did

191steal it from us. well you're pretty smart. they have not stole me yet. yet. MS. Leonardi. sorry, and I didn't know if my colleagues agreed with the, advocating for the development enforcement of age appropriate regulations covering the use of ai as well as regulating the collection use and sharing of student data by tech companies. unless anybody opposed, we took that down. yeah. okay, thank you. and then when we bring this back to the board, OCTOBER 7th, they have the ability to modify via motions. okay. Thank you. All right. So thank you, very much. MADAM Chair, you're going to recess until 11:00 o'clock. before you recess, can I make a quick statement about when you bring this back to my colleagues. This is going to be one of those cases where if you want to bring

192something, this is an item MR. Sullivan that can take three our four hours if we go through open debate about it. So I would ask if people want to change something if they can bring in a written change we can get through it in a reason change. If we bring these two sheets back. that's the point of doing it now. no, no, we'll take the feedback as we understand it. We'll present it as a normal board item for OCTOBER 7th meeting and as with any item, the board can make motions. and what I'm recommending if you're somebody that does not agree, recommend write it down as alhadeff would have told me to do and I would have followed her advise. and I'll just say though, before we close this item, if you have big things

193that you think like now, would be a better time than three-hour long school board meeting which I will not be at. but now would really be the time to so that there is changes that need to be made when it comes to us. MS. Bulman. I guess, the one other thing that I think and I don't know if it's worded kind of open-ended purposely but the first one in the first topic, you know our properties asset management, our ability to do that? do you have a suggestion? What you want them? I would like to have more power over it. we try it to leave it open as open-ended as possible because it gives us the runaway to advocate but if there is different language, we can definitely modify. I just think, well I'll look at

194it and I can get with you but I definitely think that is a priority that we need to be having as much control over our facilities as possible. yes, we agree. thank you. okay, anybody else. so chair, you have 14-minutes for the closed door or you can go into the calendar. let's start with the calendar and see what we can get done. So the next item, thank you very much. The next item we will be discussing is the proposed 2026-27 and 2027-28 school calendar options. I now turn it over to staff for a brief presentation, I think that will take a minute. alrighty, we're ready whenever you are. DR. Lozano and team. thank you, ernie lozano, team human resources officer. I would like to start this conversation by thanking the 26 members of the cajj

195committee. Made up of advisory committee members, there is a representative from each employee group and district staff. And coming up with woun concise calendar that meets the needs of our district. The committee held five meetings from APRIL through SEPTEMBER. We were directed by the superintendent to work on two school years of calendars so today we're having conversations around 2026, 2027 and school year calendar 2027-2028 and without further ado, I'll have the team introduce themselves and MR. Azzarito will take over the meeting. good afternoon, if they can pull up the presentation. The presentation, will be quick and we'll go into questions because that has been there for couple of days. Looking at the guidelines that the board has given us in the past and also direction from DR. Hepburn. We wanted develop two years of options,

196end the semester before the winter break, the full week off thanksgiving and when NOVEMBER is in an even year that election day is a teacher workday for the presidential and govern elections but on the odd years, we MAY not need it because we MAY need that 84th day to fit in. And then there is the other days off that we have throughout the year that are going to be on operation. So those are planted throughout the school year. So based on all of that, the, the two options for 26 and 27. Both options had to start. The first semester is the same for both options, the difference in the second semester is spring break. So in option one having spring break that also includes good friday, and therefore that saved us a day. So that

197ends the day on friday MAY 28th before memorial day. Option two, moves spring breakup a week, and that for that reason, we have to add MARCH 26 as an extra day off, that puts the last day of school that day after memorial day weekend, that's the only difference for the two options. And for 27-28 the differences are at the beginning of the year where AUGUST 10th is the earliest that we can start and actually there is a MISS Print here. So on option one, monday AUGUST 10th, sorry. On option one for 27-28 starting tuesday AUGUST 10th and option 2, it's tarting a day later on wednesday AUGUST 111. -- 111. -- 11th. We're going into that week right before the christmas week that is wednesday DECEMBER 22 and also determines what day we come back

198from the break, JANUARY 4 or 6th but then spring break and last day of the school year are the same. So we sent out that information in a survey, we had 26,000 responses and for 26-27 this was added yesterday to the item, so for the 26-27 school year, it was about 80 to 20 that shows option one, 80 percent shows option one, about 20 percent voted for option 2. For the 27-28 school year, it was 60-40, 60 percent for option one and 40 percent for option two. That's our presentation so we're open for questions. okay, we have public comment. MS. Felicia shoeman. good afternoon, MADAM Chair, I'm felicia coconut creek florida. I'm here to speak regarding the proposed calendar options for florida 2026-2027, and 2027-2028 school years, listed as topic 3 on today's workshop agenda.

199At the reviewing both set of options, I strongly support option two for 26-27, it offers a more balance semester configuration, 95 days in the first first semester and 85 compared to option one. While neither is perfectly equal option two, minimize the instructional gap and better support for core subjects, test and schedules and curriculum delivery. For the 2027-2028 school year, I recommend option two again, it provides an 86 first day semer and and 94 day second semester which is more balanced than option one. This configuration reduces the strain on our teachers trying to compress content in a shorter semester and ensures students receive more consistent construction across the year. Instructional time is a function -- foundation of academic equity. When semesters are uneven it affects everything from lesson plan to exam preparations. These calendar should reflect

200a commitment to fairness and academic equity and well being of education students. Thank you for your time and dedication to our district. I'm out of breath, I just got back in here. Thank you all, have a good day. thank you. Board member discussion? DR. Holness. thank you, MADAM Chair, MR. Azzarito, can you tell me in a concise way the difference with the 2026 calendar for option one and two, and I know you mentioned the public is 80 percent of supportive based on your survey option one. What is the basic difference? the basic difference is spring break. so that's the only difference. correct. can you reiterate that difference so I can make sure understand it. yes, option one spring break is MARCH 22, through 26 that's a monday through friday and option two, it would be

201a week earlier MARCH 15th through the 19th. So by having option 1 through 22 through 26 that friday the 26 includes good friday which is normally a day off for us, so it's two birds with one stone. The kids would have that week and then friday the 26th is another day so that pushes the last day of school past memorial weekend. got t.I have another question, I know that we've had each year made an attempt to make sure that based on advocacy from different groups that we have, days off that coincide with specific groups. I wanted to know if those options included those days off that would coincide with the specific advocacy groups that were here, for the OCTOBER NOVEMBER period and also the MARCH period. yes, sir they do, unless it occurs on the

202weekend, those are the days off. okay, I believe the particular group for OCTOBER NOVEMBER, that occured on a sunday, in 26-20, so was not included in the date? right. that will be NOVEMBER 8th. correct. okay and then for the MARCH, day off, when would that be? MARCH 10th. okay, and that's considered for all of these three years. two years. I believe in 27-28 it's the MARCH day off is on a weekend. On a sunday so it's not here. got it, thank you. MS. Rupert? thank you, just one quick question, when do we have graduation scheduled? DR. Fulton. DR. Lozano. I know DR. Wanza and her team worked on the graduation, so I'm not sure that is done yet, but know that will be done with enough time to prepare. right, we'll be voting it on

203the next board meeting? So, part of my vote really for the timing of the ending is, important -- hi, DR. Wanza, I was asking about the graduations and versus option one and option two. I wanted to see if it made, ifif it chahaed anythingng r r ththgrgraduation tim you know, sometimes they start at the ebbed of MAY sometimes JUNE. so DR. Fulton? Okay. Valley wanza chief strategy and innovation officer. So the graduation schedule we don't build until we get the final school schedule. So whatever is the this district schedule for the year, graduation is usually we start from like the last day of school and back it up about four or five days and it's in that window, because we have to complete graduations by the last day of school because obviously, we want the

204teachers on calendar so they can attend and be part of that culminating activity. So just to reiterate, the graduation schedule is not built until we know what the annual calendar for the school year is. so basically after our vote. yes. I just know it's important to ask already. thank you for allowing the application. thank you, we're going to recess the board workshop to go into closed door and then we'll come back and DR. Zeman will have. thank you, chair. (Meeting in closed session). thank you, and welcome back to the school board meeting. We will continue with our proposed 2026-27 and 2027-28 school calendar options. And I believe we stopped -- we are starting with DR. Zeman. thank you, chair, so much. I'm curious why you think the vote shifted between the first and the second

205year and the day they went from 80/20 to -- in favor of option 1 to 60/40, can you give us a short summary why you think the vote changed the second year, what are the characteristics that you thought made it a close vote in the second year? thank you for the question. I believe in the second year might be because the start date was either in the 27-28, the options were tuesday or wednesday start and so more people MAY have chosen the wednesday start. The only real difference besides that is the end date of the first semester twaoep friday 17th or wednesday the 22nd of DECEMBER. the gap there for the total time off during the winner break is different as well, so the 60% might have been persuaded by having a couple more days

206between the 17th of DECEMBER and the 14th of JANUARY, it makes the holiday three days longer. yes. so I totally understand that. These calendars are also subject to any kind of collective beer gaining -- bargaining agreement that we have still to negotiate. DR. Hepburn? staff? so, not the start dates and stop dates. There's the planning days in between, the early release days are part that are negotiate. but those parts that are subject to the bargaining agreement are included in the collective bargaining agreement, should there be change ins the collect I ever bargaining agreement, the calendar would also change? correct. Er okay, I look forward to going through that when we get to closed door for negotiation ins the future, but I think in some sense, this board is well advised to listen to 26 thousand

207people who both said these two feasible options, all legal, starting on the right date rkts clearly laid out for them in one year, a gross majority of people favoring one, and the second one, three days extra of the winter break is kind of nice and same end date, just one day different in terms of starting, so I feel that this calendar process this year has been so much more efficient and that the folks ta vote are the ones that care the most about it and I feel like those two choices of option 1 for both years make a lot of sense. thank you. I don't see anybody else. I have a question, I'm going ask you, maybe if the student advisors can hear me wherever they are, if they pop in to answer the question,

208I'm just wondering for the 2027-28 school year if you know why the students seem to be overwhelmingly not in favor of that. So, students were at 47.8 for option 1 and 52.2 for option 2. So, do you have any inkling why it was students were more in favor of option 2 for that year? Especially to DR. Zeman's point, everybody was very clear on the first year that they wanted option 1 but the students -- it was kind of half and half. The 27-28, were the students -- it was almost half and half for option 1 and option 2. sorry, I stepped out for a moment. Option 2, and this is for 27-28. right, in the first year, 26-27, overwhelmingly the students were for option 1 but on the second -- the 27-28, it's kind of

209half and half which is a big difference than being 80%, a little over -- almost 85% maybe if MR. Azzarito can help me out here, the difference is the week of spring break. in 27-28, the difference is the start date. winter break. so the start date would be AUGUST 11 instead of the 10th, it's a wednesday start date instead of the tuesday. The first semester would end DECEMBER 22 which is a wednesday as opposed to the 17th which is a friday. Then the second semester would start JANUARY 6, and option 2, JANUARY 4 in option 1. got it, thank you. MRS. Hixon, I would need to follow up on this and see, you know, it's difficult for me to generalize what a large percentage of students were saying in their response, so I don't want

210to misspeak, but I would be happy to follow up with you to get some more information. My only guess from very honestly quickly looking at this is that the perception MAY have been that it's a longer break for option 1 but ill need to do some more research. [Inaudible] For option 2. yeah, I would need to do some more research and follow up with you. Er because personally, since everyone seemed to be in the middle on this year between the two of them, I would like to get a better understanding of the students in particular because they have to live the calendar. I don't have an issue giving you an opinion on the first one but I'm not sure where I mike land db might land on this without having the information as to why

211they might have -- and maybe that's something going further in the survey, we could give them the option to tell us why, so that when we're having these conversations, we can have the anecdotal information as opposed to just the raw data. Okay, thank you. Anybody else? what's the path forward today? Are we okay with doing two years or are we going to -- okay. Well, you can answer DR. Zeman since he asked and then I'll go to DR. Holness? so, going with option 1 on both years. Is that the will of the board? DR. Holness? MADAM Chair, just a cup ofl things, ask by the way, MR. Azzarito and DR. Lozano and jose, thank you so much because I see the surveys were all over the place. I get them on my phone, on social

212media, so jose did a great job, great job, I saw it everywhere, so thank you so much, I appreciate it. So, board member hixon, I think traditionally what I have observed since I've been here, the calendar normally goes to at least the first week of JANUARY, right, so, it appears or it could be that students are so used to getting that first week in JANUARY and having to go back at the beginning of JANUARY might be a factor because the option 1 for the 27 school year starts a few days before christmas eve. In the past, it usually starts closer to christmas eve and it extends quite a few days beyond new year's day. So, maybe it's their family dynamics and how they take holidays or whatever it is that the students find it more

213appealing to extend into JANUARY as opposed to stop earlier in DECEMBER, that would be my take on it. Thank you. okay, thank you. So, everybody -- I want to clarify the chair 's question, how many students voted? It's not that many. jose perez, through the chair, we had -- let's see, students, -- I mean, parents were 70 per of the survey group. 1116. Er 500 voted one way and the other voted the other. We have one thousand out of 180 thousand. of 180 thousand students, yes. yes, sir. And they were 50/50. they were roughly about 50/50. the 70% which are the pains are 62/38? correct. Er what's the next step in this, chair, when do we approve calendars? we'll give them a consensus and then I believe it comes back for a school board vote.

214okay, do we have for both years or just one? I was getting to that. I apologize? Landyn? the if I can provide additional context, thank you, DR. Wanza for your support and quickly looking at this with me, I think the difference we would have seen more for option 2 is because of the three days going into the first week of JANUARY of winter break. That would be -- that's very appealing to a lot of students because you still have a little bit of time after the holidays before going back to school, so that's one part, and then also the perception more day of summer, wednesday rather than tuesday might have been the rationale behind students. I do share DR. Zeman's concern and the small amount of students that were surveyed and I'll definitely be sure

215to talk with MR. Perez and the team to see how we can raise that response rate in future years because this is definitely an issue that like MRS. Hixon said, impacts students tremendously. Thank you. sarah is not here. So you're good. yes, ma'am, good. so the next item is proposed revisions to school board policy 8020. I now turn it over to staff for a brief presentation. thank you, chair, as the has transitioned, I'll turn it over to MS. Paul and MR. A a acabuzo for 8020. they're outside, let me go get them real quick. superintendent hepburn, MS. Hixon and board, we have facilitron here to presentation MR. Ciz acabuso will lead the presentation. good evening, director of plan real estate, to my right is MR. Chism who is director of nurse and then can you

216guys introduce yourself. I'm jeff. jeff benjamin, ceo of facilitron. jen ford, head of facilitron. okay, I guess they're going to upload a presentation. What we're trying to do is summarize the presentation. Kind of front-loaded, the issues so we don't have to go line by line in ternlz of what was added or stricken. What we're going -- if click for me please. As you know, we have the introduction and what was revised or to provide additional clarity in terms of rational. For the clarify, the rules as pertaining to the school ally groups and for clarifies provision sxz then revised exhibit 2 which is the matrix that shows who is paying and who is not paying. And again the goal is for the school boards to give us direction hopefully so we can bring the policy for

217adoption, later on in this month. Slide number 3, pretty much gives you a brief table of context, so I'm not going to go over it, and slide number 4 it gives an overview of who pays what. And as you can see, just to summarize for the areas that have concerns, the goal again, oh I'm sorry, in terms of it's pretty small, I'll read it. The goal is for any user for students in our facility. So in this particular case, for the group, they have to fill out an application and facilitron is here to show us how easy that is just to establish presence. The school group, during school days, they don't have to provide a set of insurance because they are having a meeting, no custodial, during school days. After school hours, again, they have,

218you know, fill out an application, provide us a proof of insurance, no rental costs, no activities, as in court, the same thing with personnel. For pi-1 days, again they have to fill out an application, school days, providing coi, no utilities, no custodial, no consumable. After school hours, fallen application, provide a coi, pay reduced rent, paid utilities, and then, no, that's pie 2, and then pay custodial as needed and in court. Those are the your key components in terms of the concerns from the board. If you go to slide number 5, what we did just to show you some of the definition that's we revised and then on slide number 6, I'm going to specifically not talk about sag, whether they're paying or not paying. So this rules, as the dedected ide number 6. So lele

219numb 1, lelenumb 1, 2, and 3, number 5 and 5-a to specify the following. Upon consensus, meaning they're going to go to the brin pal, they want to use the facility then sag moss, documents the usage in the system. They should then sign ab an application that they shall not pay rental or custody -- custodial during non operational hours when conducting the business. The following rule should also apply when they have a fundraiser, fill out an application, not pay rental or custodial and as needed and provide coi. So again, they're not paying the costs, they MAY being paying, they're not paying the fees but custodial, personnel and those are costs, that MAY be needed and then security, because we know security is important. Also, there is this rule that we all understand, sag is here

220to benefit our schools, that's why they're get thising break. Slide number 8 for pie 1, actually for pie 1 and pie 2 schmidt a certificate issue by broward public schools. They must again document their presence, pay reduced rent, provide coi, reduced rent is $200 a year. They qualify for in kind must provide a incline that provides 50 percent of rent or programs that benefit the student that is going to participate. Required by school principal pay for personnel as in court and then pay for security. They shall not pay for utilities or consumables. Pie 2 which is on slide number 10, when it conducts business, should pay reduced 50 percent and then 50 percent is based on the value on what the product is given to the district and that they're qualify for the 50 percent,

221again if the initial cost equals to 50 percent of the value that they're providing. They pay utility an consumable, fees and personnel and security. And that's pie 2. Pie 2 is mainly the nonprofits, organization civil groups and then on slide 11, based on the meeting we have, we listen and we struck the 501c3 school board members, you suggested that, we listened, we took it out. So now the nonprofit and 501c3, they point together, but the policy kind of accounts for the difference in between both. And then we deleted 501, you know, rule 5-d and then made some minor revisions the rest of the policy. So slide number 12, we just wanted give you a brief summary on the current groups that currently utilize facilitron. As you know, facilitron is the software or instrument that we're

222using to pretty much enable the rental of our facility. So all the 25 entities that are listed, that use facilitron, some are transitioning and then approximately 99 entities using facilitron in the united states. Pretty much that's the presentation. And in the appendix, we have the actual structure on the line. So right now, on slide 13, facilitron is going to give us a quick demo. Before they do that, real quick, I just want to go to slide number 14 in actuality for data, those are the percentage of users that are utilizing our facilities. So as you can see, in both 2024 and 2025, the majority of category of users is nonprofit. As you see in 2025, so far, you don't have the sag. Now depends on what happens with the policy, then, that MAY further diminish.

223Okay, so I just wanted point out this data, this is the data that we pulled off from the system. So I'm going to go to turn it over to facilitron, they're going to give us a quick demo how you can utilize the facility. thank you. Just to real quick background, about who we are, technology company started 11 and a half years ago, really tackling community use of facilities, I have three kids all pretty active. And we were going to different sporting activities, my daughter is a dancer, so we would go to theaters and found the process was pretty broken, a lot of time applications paper and adequated software, so it was the idea to improve. Since then, we have expanded across the country, we do work orders, building automation, even collect property taxes in a

224couple of states on behalf of different school districts and counties. So what we're going to show you right now is what we call our schedule reservation system. What we do is build a district site, part of this is we're going to see pictures of rentable facilities. But keep in mind, we list all the facilities so. It can be managed from internal purpose, so you know who is on campus and at what time, so if you do need a bond measure or justification, for another gym, you can actually compare and contrast what is happening at your different sites. So we build a district site, we also built individual girl sites. So if you're an girl scout at an elementary school, you don't have to go searching through a district site, you can go to a school

225site and have a link and search for the classroom or cafeteria right there. Jen is going to search for a gym here, facility. You can go ahead. thank you, so much jeff. So as jeff mentioned, we have our implementation team as part of our boarding process. We build out each of your school site so if you have a rent or organization that knows which school they want to rent at, they can select that school. I should mention that our website does link from the broward county public schools facility page. And so, if they know which school they want to go to, they can select it or if they're just interested in rent a gym in the district, they can search for a gym and that's going to bring up all the gyms that are available

226for rent within your school district. So once they find which gym they want to rent, they can go ahead and pull it up. So we take 360 photos of our interior spaces, this is a 360 photo of the school gym and we also take several other photos. So this is really to reduce that back and forth questions from the renter organizations to the school admin, asking what does the facility look like, what amenities, what is the capacity? So we collect all of those details as we walk through your campus and you'll notice to the right, is availability calendar, and you see the first date available is OCTOBER 8th, so this really shows the grayed out dates are not available and the lighter shade of green have more availability. So as jeff mentioned, this is after

227school hours, when your school groups are not use their different facilities for internal use. Also to block off availability, facilitron encourages as a best practice to put all of your internal schedules so. When a renter is look to go rent, they look at dates and times that are actually available. So here I'll go ahead and select friday, and the dates that I'm interested in using, I will continue and add that one date to my cart. At this time, the system prompts you so you can add additional facilities. So if you're a church organization and you want to rent multiple facilities, you can go ahead and do that or you can continue with the dates that you requested for that one facility and check out. At this time, this is at mrikation page. So it represents

228which organization I am with. And what type of event it is. So we'll say, basketball. and that's really important because what you just went through with all the different rate categories, is something that we can accommodate. So if you're not suppose to be charged during the week but on the weekend you have to pay for utilities and custodial, that's all customizable and those are unlimited. So we can accommodate, literally every special case as possible. Same thing with the coi, certificate of insurance. so all of these questions were requested that we add to our website and these can always be modified. We can ask different questions on a per facility so, if would you like to ask different questions for your gym,er for -- gyms, for your fields, for your classroom, facilitron will facilitate that. I'll

229go ahead and continue. The next page is insurance page. So your renters can view your district insurance requirements. Keep in mind, facilitron does do all of the, verification of insurance. So we have ai technology that initially scans the document and takes it back to the rent fehr there is anything wrong with it. So if they have a typo, if they forget the insurance page. If their limits are not accurate. We will kick that back to them, asking them to update or upload a new certificate of insurance. We also link directly to an example of what that insurance needs to look like. This is very important because often times renters don't know what the insurance document needs to have, accord to go your district policy. Every district is a little bit different in terms of their

230requirements. So that's really important for them to be able to view that. And then also, on this page, you'll notice, the dates and times that are confirmed for rental to the right here, we have the capability of adding mant tory services as chris mentioned or optional services. So for your district, for renting the gym on this date, there is an energy cost that goes along with that. So we automatically add those prices to the check out process so that when the renter does submit the request, it's as accurate as possible, accord to go your board policy. Facilitron does not set the dates, we just go in direction of the district and board. Here's where I have to agree to your district terms and conditions, prior to checking out. And then finally, the last page is,

231the payment page so. Facilitron does all the collection of payment, your renters have the opportunity to pay with a credit card, with an e check, just to really make it as easy as possible. We can also take direct deposits up front. And once I submit the request, it will go through a routing process where the district will have to approve the reservation and the renter gets an email confirmation that the request has been submitted but it's still a waiting approval from the district. So this is the community face ing-side, this -- facing-side, this is how you submit a request through the system. Anything else to add? Okay. Yeah, at this point, we can take any questions. can I, MADAM Chair, to add something, only the presentation that is on going, weekly two thank tutorial to

232help the public understand the system. I want to point it out and note ited on slide number 11. thank you, any board memebers have questions on the presentation? Or on the policy itself? we're still talking about the policy not the contract, right? this is just about the policy. Just about the policy. okay. I want to say thank you for the demo, it's clearly more of a, it has more functionalities that we were aware of before and you know, that's a good to know. Thank you. MS. Bulman. number 5. So when we did the banner policy which I can't remember what the number is at the top of my head. 19 30. 1930, we re, we were revised the partners and education definition? So I think that it should be mirrored here. This is a little

233bit, odd like b does not make any sense. So if you go back and look at what that says, I think that would be the more acceptable definition for that since we already proved it in the other one. through the superintendent, chair. go ahead. absolutely, and we're finalizing policy 1930 with legal so we have updated that language and it's timely that we'll be able to incorporate it in there. and then just my over arching comments on this, I don't think that it's ever been the program it's just to make sure that the policy is doing what it's suppose to do so that we're not alienating our sex and other community members. I said this at every workshop and meeting we've had, but as long as we're accomplish thating, I guess we can bring it back

234if we find that's not the case, but that's the goal. Thank you. thank you, any other board memebers with the question on the policy. landyn. thank you, MADAM Chair. One recommendation or actually more of a question, because it MAY be something that is already in place. Is there a ability for fa sil ton to integrate with internal school calendar. A lot of feedback that I'm here from school administrators, they run a very complex, at the high school level internal calendar that MAY be on office 365 through share point and they have to do cross-reference. If there is, that's something our administrators would love. yeah, we have that capability. So we can, best practices is to put it in facilitron and we can push out to google and microsoft, and we have a pi, tip ypically,

235we're assigning services or utilities whatever that MAY be, so that's the best practice we've had. But we can accommodate with trainings and however we need to do it. thank you. but if I MAY, the idea is for facilitron to become the district calendar and be the school calendar too and that way from the district-level or from any level, they can see what is going on at different schools. Right now that visibility is not, the district does not have that visibility. And so, yeah, if you, if you are, an individual school, you can only see your stuff but if you're the district, you can see every school and I think that's something that the district would want. just a piggy back on what he's saying, that's exactly correct. I know the school districts are working the

236visibility of the calendar was facilitron sted of -- instead of it being housed at the school. You can figure out how we can make that easy process for our schools to get that into facilitron. yes. So if if you don't have a reason to use facilitron but still using a calendar, you can prescribe to a calendar and then see everything from facilitron. thank you. And my last question, a concern and there could totally be a reason behind this, so it's more than of a question. For school advisory councils, mainly, being under the definition of a school allied group, you know, in my mind and I could be wrong for this. but in my mind, a school advisory council is a function of the school. It's a no different than a club of the school is

237what I equate it to, yes under the definition that it exist under the school. By school advisory council and plc are the kind of same thing, and you don't use facilitron to book a poi, is there a reason why the school council would be subject to the same requirement that's another ally like a pto would be? I'm looking -- . go ahead. I'm sorry, we MAY have taken it out because it's an internal function of the school. not in the red line. I know, I know, that is off site, definitely because I remember we talked about it and it's an internal part of the school so it doesn't belong so we're going to strike it out. thank you so much. and the staff too. Same thing. and thank you for all the work, I want

238to say as somebody who has been part of the public input process that you've done. It's been great to see, and I've seen this daily, it's been great to see the collaboration that's been done. Lots of how wider talked about this but big compliments to MR. Akagluso. I asked about this when facilitron came to us the other day, because I was hearing from principal, the issue of their calendar and if students were having band practice, they want today know if there was a way to approve or disprove, and the superintendent said that happened at the area. So we got a different answer today, that's something that can go to facilitron, so can you merge the two answers. no, I think landyn's question was about facilities, not about approval. correct. So once it's approved, once that

239is approved, then typically the person, the clerk that is assigned to the activities office, would enter that it into the internal calendar. landyn, the question that landyn asks and that our school calendars are not public facing. Nobody in this room has access to a school calendar right now, right? You have to pick up the phone and email the principal, so to create more vivibilitytyoror the e public a a r ery one whwh goininon, isto upload their caleararto f facilitron. But for your question is more about approval process and the principals involved? not necessarily them approving it, but the idea that there is a way that, those two things are seeing each other, so that. correct. I guess the approval part is because the principal is going to know, he would override an outside source using

240the, auditorium if he knew that it was play practice on his, but facilitron MAY or MAY not know. I guess that's what. we're saying the same thing, yeah. MR. Davis and facilitron can get together to talk about that technology so they can get that information in there. that illustrates the importance of internal schedules. If it's in facilitron, then the request cannot be made bit request because the availability would be reduced and taken away. yes, less instances of somebody notifying the principal. okay, that's the concern I heard is that they felt they lost the ability to ensure that the students were getting the use of the facility over somebody that was going to pay for it. and the added benefit you end up knowing how many hours of play practice that's to have the utilization, you're

241trying to track how many hours are in them to see if they're going to be out of warranty and knowing when to resurface the gym floor. It has the power to give the whole district a number of hours on all of after school use. so when, what I'm getting out of this is something that can be done, are we question number one are we going to do it? And question number two, what needs to happen for that to occur? the answer to the first question is yes. The answer to the second question, I'll let MR. Davis and facilitron team answer that. we can do that fairly fast and to put context on it, the internal schedules, the public can't see them, they can see the facility is blocked but they cannot see who is using

242them. That's number one, and number two, we have the capabilities to turn on air or on lights when the facilities are being used. That's the best practice because you have everything, maybe not during the school day but everything outside. So you know how your buildings are being use asked the ability to save be significant energy and all of that good stuff. so my question to either DR. Hepburn or MR. Davis, what's the next step? How do we move that into action? we're here to help, so we get access. I mean it is a process, it is a process to try to get people to move towards putting it in their internal schedules in. Like jeff is saying, if you can have the air, the way you get air for your event is you've got to

243put it in facilitron, suddenly everybody is willing to put it in fa -- facilitron. If football practice is every day from 3:30 to 5:30 until DECEMBER, that's 90 seconds of put iting in facilitron, or if you have game schedule, it is part of what you do. The schedule can be sent to us and we'll help put it in. that's my question is, what, what do we need to do, is that something the school does on its own? What as a district do you need us to do to get that in motion? so MS. Hixon, they'll get it done. yeah. I just want to make sure we all understand what needs to be done. superintendent? go ahead, MS. Paul. so part of the process is making sure that we, that very with a solid policy and

244that's kind of what we're doing in the back and forth that we've gone through. And we'll work with them, with the facilitron make sure that we have a gradual approach 'cause we have to train people along the way. This is a culture shift in terms of how we manage our facilities. So, everything is possible, the first step is obviously getting the policy approved. so I'll end with this, not to keep pushing the point, I know it can be done but I want to know that we're all on the same page and steps are going to be taken as we leave here, do the principals need to have a memo? So that's what I'm trying to find out . we're committing to get thising done, we're getting in the weeds of the process but we're commit

245today get thating part done. okay. Thank you. MR. Akagbosu? a memo went out for them to start putting stuff in fa cilitron. So that process already started. very gao.D DR. Zeman. thanks and I think, I don't want to go with the chair's questions but I think they were really good. Like in the sense, the community can hear this discussion. We're setting new expectations for them, that they can have this clean crisp data system that allows them to have access possibly for and, this is a big shift, you know, having school scheduled has always been an internal school function. And now to different that up and work with administrators making sure that they use policy rules when you do you say things are available and when do you say it's not? And not to play games

246with the data and not to do things, and just to get the system up and running. So I think it's legitimate for the board to set expectation sxz say, we want it up by the end of the year or JANUARY so everything is humming and schedule aring in without the details of how it gets done. I think it's fair to represent the community and say we need this by a certain date and I would encourage us to do that. I'm curious, maybe MR. Akagbosu, if a student wants to stay after school, say this is a park area that is going to turnover to the community use at 6:00 o'clock, but they're going to stay after school and go out to their own tennis courts and play tennis with somebody who is volunteer in the community

247to come on, and legitimate lea loued to be there. Where do they fit this policy in terms of paying for that tennis court? I think, I think that's the key to blocking off, if that amenity is available. So if it's available, all equate it to paying for an airline seat, if it's not open, it can't be rented. So if we know in advance, per internal communication that the students, students come first. Want to use ten advertise, which is one of the wonderful work MS. Bulman is doing, then it's going to be blocked off then the students has the ability to use that facility without having to bother. So that's the real thing to making sure that date is available or not available. so if a student coordinates with the administrator of the school to use

248their own recreation facilities before it gets turned over to public use, the principal can block that off to allow the students to use the facilities. correct. in the same way that the soccer team is practicing every day, if they block the field, the basketball team blocks the baseball field, it just shows up and facilitron is not available and there is no charge to the student, is that correct? that's correct. When there is an extracurricular activity, then it's not available. It's in the policy already. And some of the point out, the principal is always in the loop in the rental process and also charts, any communications comments that you make. The principal is in the loop and if it conflict, then it's not available, we can deny. and DR. Hepburn, you're commit today that student-first policy

249that if a student wants to use a court, wants to use a field, any one of their traditional recreation facilities, their priority comes first? students first. thank you very much. any other board memebers? Okay. I think we got it right this time. Thank you so much. I just want to say thank you to the board and I think it's a great collaboration and we just want to do our best. So thank you so much. thank you, and thank you for facilitron for coming out and giving us that demonstration. I think it's helpful when we see all the pieces to it so we know all of what it does. So thank you so much. Okay. So, I believe that that was our last item for today. So, at this time, do any of any of colleagues

250have anything to bring to the board for student success. I know DR. Holness, I'm not sure that he's on the line. I think he said he had something. He wanted to, do you know if DR. Holness? Yes, ma'am. Yes, go ahead. I just had a question regarding a first-aid cpr follow-up that I had and it speaks to training, that our students will do online. And I was just wondering, cause from the time I was trained on it was hands-on in-person, using mannequins are we going to try to use that method, possibly working with our police, our ems, to help do this training to our students? For our students? thanks for the question, MS. Alhadeff, I think, I think the follow-up that I saw was speaking to more of the training for the teachers and the

251students are doing it hands-on. I read it quickly so I MAY have misread but that's I got out of it. The teachers get the training on our platform online and then they're training the kids hands-on in health or pe. okay, I guess if you can double check that cause there is a lot of training through that link. And then, yeah, I just, I would like to see our experts in the medical field do the training and it seems like a big different the for our teachers to have to do this unless they're trained to do it. yeah, I think majority of them are trained to do this I know as a kid, I got trained from my pe teachers and my observed teachers were on cpr either nat gym or classroom setting. I know we

252partner with, organization that gives us the physical mannequin devices to train the students in the classroom, also. right, I was wondering, do we even have the mannequins? yes, american heart association, thanks DR. Wanza. thank you. and they are always here to help us, if we need more they will supply us with more. DR. Zeman. thanks real quick, chair. really excited next week, our investment in virtual reality with ai baked n two teacher institutes, they're going to train hundreds of our teachers on how to take advantage of this technology. When we get done with that teacher institute, I would like the board to think about what our expectations so we set expectations with the superintendent for that investment and the speed for which we would like it implemented and outcome. I just don't want any surprises

253at the end of the year. We're the first district in the united states to buy more than 50,000 students worth of head sets and so this spacetial learning is going to be exciting but as a board we need to be clear what we're looking at and trying to measure to make sure that we implement it in the right way for next year. Thank you very much. thank you. DR. Holness? hello, can you hear me? yes, go ahead, DR. Holness. okay, thank you. You can hear me correct? yes, sir. I just want to say a big shout out to mira lake elementary school, I was wearing a miralake spirit shirt. It's with great joy and appreciation that I extend my sincere congratulations to principal beliz on her well-deserved retirement after 27 years, including 11 impacted years

254of miralake elementary. Under her leadership, mira lake elementary has thrived as a place where children are not only educated but truly nurtured. I want to thank principal beliz and I want to give a big shout out to the wonderful ap. Thank you chair I appreciate it. thank you and we would all concur and congratulate her on her retirement. MS. Rupert. yes, I didn't get a chance to ask, how come the item was withdrawn today, item 6? MS. Batista? ubl there will be additional fox provided on that item the next time it comes to the board. So it needed to have more information? we're preparing a flow chart to help understand the better the time frames that are spelled out in the policy when it's suppose to be advised. -- advertised. so when can we expect

255it? I believe next month. I just want to get you the right dates. OCTOBER 21. thank you. one last thing, I got an email from student, his name is julian, I'm a senior at monarch elementary, and I have prompted to to a project civic action. On school uniform policy 5309 and they'red voluntary -- advocating to make uniforms county wide. I told him I would bring it to my colleagues, would you be, willing to have this policy come back so we can have a discussion on it? Is that okay? With everybody? yes. survey from the district? Okay. how about if we direct the superintendent to do a survey of the parents? yeah, so just to claire fight survey last time and the reason I didn't want to bring that forward, there was no disqualifer in the

256survey, it didn't asks the parents about, I can't remember the specifics but there was no disqualifer in the saur way. -- survey. So the survey did not support any decision for the board when we did that the survey, I think it was about a year and a half ago. so can we bring that workshop and that have that data. so we can develop a survey with the same team, and make sure there is a disqualifer in there. thank you. Okay. chair. yes. do we know what we're covering in workshops the next couple of months? I don't know if we got an updated. you got for SEPTEMBER and OCTOBER, that we sent out about two weeks ago. yes, OCTOBER was already provided at the board at the last workshop. and how about the one after? for

257NOVEMBER? We can provide that asap. and going forward, can we make this part of the routine, in wrapping up workshops, we said we were going to talk about the two workshops. when we bring 1020 back at the OCTOBER 14 meeting, that will be the practice of the board. yeah and then just a question for the board, how would you want that? Would you want us to print that out? I think so. no. email. and I would say, just in the script that because we, in our policy it does say that we would go over it, maybe end the script with the upcoming workshops will include. for the next month or just the next workshop. The policy says the next two workshops. yeah, that wai, so you can add it and then we don't have to

258print it, we can just say it out loud. totally. My point are we talking about the budget in the next two workshops? OCTOBER 7th. yeah, OCTOBER 7th. yeah. Okay, anybody else? Great. And I didn't have to ask to extend. The scheduled order of business for this school board workshop of the school board of broward county florida that's been xwlaoeted. Seeing no obligation, I now adjourn the meeting. And remember next week we don't have a meeting. So the next one will be OCTOBER 7th.