School Board Workshop - Oct 07, 2025

001move to the workshop. welcome to today's school board workshop. We're happy to have you join us and thankful to your dedication to our district. This workshop of the school board is now called to order. Our primary focus is to create a safe environment for all participants. Please notice the exit doors. While in the board room refrain from obstructing the exit doors. All ak pants must occupy a seat except for the media. Attendees will be directed to designated overflow area. Upon activation of the fire alarm system, please exit from the room in an orderly passion and remain outside until the authority has deemed the room safe to return. Board member bulman will now introduce her school to lead us in the "pledge of allegiance" to the flag. MS. Bulman. thank you, chair. I'm happy to have

002introduce joaquin, school, and they will say in spanish and english and will read a poem. And I would like to thank the principal and students for putting this together. please stand for the "pledge of allegiance". I mraoej -- pledge allegiance to the flag uft states of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under GOD indivisible with liberty and justice for all. [Saying pledge in spanish] you MAY be seated. [Applause] we are language class in joaquin elementary. [Speaking spanish] [Applause] thank you, thth was a betitifumemessagfofor day. As prprepare tobebegithth school board workshop, we're reminded that our vision is 100 percent efficiency for all our students. We will continue educating all students to reach their highest potential, our theme is believe and empower achieve one broward. Today's workshop will operate in accordance and

003the board will review the items as presented. The first item for discussion, is committee reports. We will now hear reports from the following, please add five minutes to the clock. Audit committee. Speaker: good morning, mary on behalf of the audit committee. We reviewed and transmitted five audits including a behavioral threat management report which will come to you at the next meeting. Also we reviewed policies 3101 and 1003, I would like to note that in the first two meetings, we already transmitted 10 reports to our board. We follow-up with issues and questions from previous meetings and we have an audit follow-up matrix to keep us on track. Our next meeting will be held in late OCTOBER. Our financial auditor will meet just prior to the audit committee to discuss the selection of the services of external

004auditor 218.39, this committee len sure that the main components required by statute are included in the rfp. The issues with msl, are successful resolved so the subcommittee will begin planning to ensure that the process to replace the current contract is in place when it expires in NOVEMBER 2026, and we expect to have a successful process. Thank you again for your support of the audit committee. Board attendees make up 75 percent of the the committee and you've done an excellent job. We look forward to a productive year. Thank you. thank you, so much just as a reminder, I would like our questions and comments until the end until we hear all reports. Next is student advisor to the board. thank you, MADAM Chair and good morning. We're excite today share some great updates, on what we've

005been working on the past few months. I want to first start by thanking the board, superintendent hepburn and our staff across the district for their quick response following the joint discussion held last week or two weeks ago. We had an incredible discussion and I would be remiss if I didn't highlight the fact that pretty much every issue that raised by a student at last time's workshop has been resolved. It was promptly addressed our staff and that receives a big thanks for their action. We, this is an exciting week for the superintendent student initiative. We launched 44 surveys across our traditional and non traditional high schools for the first of the quarter student feedback survey. This ai survey is really powerful because it's going to allow our students to provide to their administration and their thoughts

006on their school experience. We have seen that the second morning launch, we already received almost 10,000 responses to the survey. So we look forward to collaborating on reviewing this feedback and I want to take a minute to thank them, our principals and a Ps who have spent so many time on this. This is the first time that this technology has been used in this district and we definitely had some growing pains but they were instrumental in growing with us. So thank you to our school base administrator for their support on this. We have some great partnerships coming, we had a great meeting and I will continue to meet to discuss our joint parent and student universities. We're looking forward to that. And also with the human relations council and an opportunity to meet with chair

007frye to discuss how we can also partner and looking forward to bridging the gap between all the groups that do student involvement. We held our first meeting of the superintendent student advisory last week, thank you to DR. Fulton and DR. Wanza for attending and to the students. We had a robust discussion and certainly appreciative of that commitment. And finally I'm going steal a word from DR. Wanza and say, it's great to be a bcps kid, which I think it came from james griffin at boyd anderson, but I want to highlight the contribution that our students have had in the past month that we've been in school. Our students shined at our redefined, they were brave to go up and share their voices. This is an issue that is very challenging with them and for our

008students to come wup poise and confidence was really amazing to see. Many of them will be future holders of our roles and that was warming to see. And I want to congratulate on the win soul bowl this past weekend. It was a great game. And I look forward to seeing all of the amazing things that our B.C. Ps students continue to do because that is the foundation of our district. Thank you so much. thank you so much. District advisory council? Speaker: thank you every one, district district advisory chair. District advisory met on SEPTEMBER 10th, we had DR. Hepburn and along with DR. Grudge. We're thankful when staff comes out and partners with us at the meetings. Smft things that has come up in the course of the meeting and last month, are safety and security

009issues. there was an issue with intercoms at one particular school with the modulars not having intercoms. That issue was resolved however it piques our request. We did ask fauxer a list of, the school safety checklist. What is required in order for schools where that children are occupying required in order to be considered safe? Along with safety and security was an issue of vape detectors. Parents are excited about the rollout, however most parents want them to be ruled out at the high school level first. And in addition to the middle schools. There are concerns about, the use of the technology and invasion of student privacy and the other major concern is how the correct student will be identified so that those innocent bystanders not be penalized. We ask for advisory meetings at their schools so the

010feedback that they get can come back to us and we can share that with you ahead of the rollout. So we would like to know when the timeline is for the rollout of vape detectors. There were questions about broward estates. Overwhelmingly, the community felt like there was a bit of bait and switch. There is concerns of mixing of age groups where we, working with DR. Hudge whether that is happening and staffing issues in order to maintain issues and celebration of age groups. We discussed facilities, we're waiting on that facilities. I know there is information on redefining but playgrounds remain an issue. There are schools that don't have any. There are schools where playgrounds are outdated or schools that have agreements with those cities, those are pretty far from the actual campus. So we have shared

011that concern with facilities task force for them to work on it and provide us with more information. In terms of budget and finances, parents continue to be concerned about the enrichment in terms of specials that are provided, especially since there is a cut in the specials related to budget limitations. There is concern about sac funds, whether the carry over from previous years would be, provided back to the schools or whether the district would be hold on to that. There were concerns about students being required to access social media for, extracurricular activities or accessing certain curriculum or practice related items that are needed. And I actually got an email about wanting the, the consent form to be separated that they sign at the beginning of the school year so they can consent to the school related

012pictures separately from social media. We also had two motions that were approved at dac, one was to maintain the monthly committee reports, overwhelming the community wants you to hear what we're talking about every month and the second was to establish a minimum of 90 minutes for reports and to be able to actually have dialogue in between the reports so that the question that we have are answered immediately. And let me see, we've been working with cabinet level staff, DR. Fulton, cohen, MS. Hollings worth, to forward the communication to help strengthen the school-partnership and move our classrooms into the 22 century and implement the full use of ai once parents get on board. Thank you so much. thank you. North area? good morning, can you hear me? Our first in-person was on SEPTEMBER 19th, prior to

013that we had a virtual train ining AUGUST which was informative. Jackie spoke to our parents to info about the important updates and po to answer any questions they MAY have. There were quite a few questions and much conversation regarding cameras in classrooms, thank you jackie for attending. Speaking on focus, we had danny present the focus. We do have parents that are just starting kindergarten that knew nothing about focus, so we thank you for coming out. And there were questions on online forms and a few concerns around INTs having to verify the forms before records. This is taking longer than expected. Specific concerns around new health not immediately available to new nurses as the forms cannot be partially updated. There are concerns around 504s not being visible. A motion was passed to add a nurse to

014place a dedicated registered nurse in every school. There was a lot of conversation around hazel health, people still don't know how it works. Who facilitates the session if there is not a nurse on campus. Health screenings, there were concerns that they're not separate and an example is if you opt in, you're opted in for health screenings and your insurance can be built. Vape detector, so we start today have conversation in vape detectors but quite a few questions and concerns that we didn't have the answer to so we table the conversation, we invited chief gregory to come in and he's going to present to us and, and answer questions and comments and concerns. Social media, so there were a quite a few parents that have asked about why baseball coaches and cheer coaches are putting their,

015routines on instagram and asking the students to access the training there. And a specific case that a parent was told the coach that they want their child didn't have social media, so they were told to look at a friend's. So right now, in the state of florida, 16 is the legal age to have social media, we have a policy around social media. Soy hope we can make this clear that this cannot be. It can be a way but it can be "the" to access. Redefining. some schools were not advertised to. For instance, forest glen in the conversation, they feed 100 percent, choral springs was not invited to the conversation. So we had a quick conversation about that. A lot of parents are saying that having every year, these decisions come back every year is making

016it hard for them to want to en roll if they're about to go to middle school. Maybe they'll just go to a charter school because they don't know if next year their middle school is going to be up for redefining or closing. Lunch, if they don't qualify for reduced school lunch how do they go to put funds in their lunch account. My school is doing it but maybe some schools are not doing it. We're so still curious about the courtesy meals and what those look like. I know that in the past there have been a cheese sandwich or pe nut and butter sandwich. I know MS. Alhadeff had given direction to make sure that the courtesy meals resembled what the other students were given. We wanted an update. thank you, central area. good morning, excuse

017me. Good morning, my name is pamela taylor and I represent the central area advisory council. I'm going to piggy back off a couple of things stated. In particular the ai, and bathrooms about the use of ai to determine things. And also the vape, they want transparency before implementation. For the playgrounds, this is a pressing issue for our region in particular, we see that majority of the schools are from the central region. We want to make sure that there is equity, the equipment itself and also equity if there is been some playground update that's were scheduled or things that needed to be done, we want to make sure that those things are completed as soon as they can be done. When it comes to policy 1020, the central area approved a motion to maintain the monthly

018advisory committee reports. Our issues are month to month as that's how we meet. And the concern that the items members are bringing to us, run the risk of out of date or worse get lost in the emails. And also our current monthly meeting within the central region. If we meet to discuss issues in this level at all times, why is it that our paid elected representatives decline to hear our thoughts on the same term on timeline. For our SEPTEMBER meeting, we also had MS. Wilson and MS. Collins come out, they gave updates on the new district wide website updates. One thing that I do want to mention about that, we've had some concerns on the school level that some schools don't have access to their calendars which is why they have not been updated. When

019it comes to events, when it comes to different things. For example, my daughter goes to 6 through 12 school, they don't know about psd days, they don't know what times early released need to be done. We want to make sure that we're giving parents at least month's notice and if they don't have the availability, that's something that we need to look at. MS. Paul was also in attendance, and spoke to the new initiative, how it facilitates communication between parents and guardian and staff. The one thing that parents continue to see, is they appreciate the fact that they get responses back in this way and the turn around seems to be working at least for the parents that I'm talking to who have used the system. lastly, I would like to bring up magnet programs, there

020is one thing to be said for our attempt to bring people back and retain the students that we have. Parents in my region are extremely concerned about the lack of certified teacher for some of the magna programs. We're look for long term subs. If not we're getting daily subs in these very important classes. These have to be able to have the time and if they don't have a certified teacher who can then accompany them, to do some of the community service ideas and be credited through their arts this is becoming too much of a problem for some my parents. Last night I was on the phone late talk to go parents, who are trying to understand where is the communication to tell us what they're going to be done. It's almost like having a stem

021program and none of the teachers teach math. It's affecting the diplomas we have some saounl juniors and seniors needing that meme anand d ththeye unablele toto do ththat bebeuse e theywillll t compininthth y year. And also with that, you have troops that are nationally known who are not have thing ability to not perform at districts, which requires them now to be invited back, it's not automatic thing for them anymore. So these are just some of the issues affect the central region. Lastly, it was pointed by DR. Zeman that advisories do not offer the board assistance. What is it that these people can do to assist you in helping you make your choice. Thank you for your time. thank you, south area. good morning, or afternoon. I have the honor of serving as chair of the

022south area council. On SEPTEMBER 17, 2025, the south area council held its first meeting, during new chair was o futbolerly elected. During that meeting, parents and school reps expressed the school nurses at our campus. I'm not going to add to what my other fellow chair but the main certain is full-time nurse has shared one neighboring school, allowing for approximately 2 days of nurse coverage per week now that is cut in half to one day. And if there is early release day, that nurse does not show up. This change has generated strong concern among parents and school staff. family worry that students are health conditions or chronic needs, MAY not have access to a nurse when needed. While we appreciate that the office staff and teachers do their best to support students, they are not medically

023trained. To response to all situations to children requiring specialized care. We're very concerned because at the time we really think that we're not going to have a nurse eventually. That's it, thank you guys. thank you, diversity committee? Ese advisory council. Speaker: hello again, jackie chair of ese advisory, thank you for the conversation about cameras and classrooms, I know there was a lost back and forth but I appreciate where you landed on it, thank you. At our last ese advisory committee, we passed a recommendation, I don't think I've sent it actually, asking that there is a web page of some kind where parents can go to see how the consent process for getting cameras in ese classrooms is going. And I want you to know how it is going, which the updated at our last ese

024meeting was between 1 and 2 percent of ese classrooms are gained consent for cameras because that process, is so cumbersome, we have parents who are not even aware that they have received a form or emails urging them to sign it. We have parents who have mistaken those forms for the media concern film. We got people who struggle with language, challenges and so for all kinds of reasons, that's why this morning's conversation is so important. We cannot have a scheme that is exceptional and valuable and yet we cannot get it into classroom because of this cumbersome process. I hope that could be some, some process at the state but in the meantime if we can have some conversation where parents can go and look, is my classroom, red lighted, green lighted or amber lighted? That would

025be helpful. At our last meeting, we also had kathy and jodie washington from the school, whatever it's called now, student services and lauren, a specialist that we had asked along because of concerns we haver year, over students with with disabilities and behavioral challenges. Being suspended often through the back door undocumented suspensions or suspensions without process. So we had a good discussion about that and we also had some questions about budget and the 2000 dollars that is given to schools for classroom supplies for the ese teachers and schools not being able to account for it. So we had to jot down. I think we missed a moment about wearing pink today but it's also down syndrome awareness month. So I want today give shout out to down syndrome community. And also to, address the issue of

026cutting the committee reports. I saw the conversation that started after we left the room about cutting our time. And conception that we have been asking not to have to come here every month to report to you. Difficult as it MAY be, I never met another committee chair who has explained about having to do it. I think what the complained has been, get some answers, get some feedback. Get some engagement and for that committee time to be used to discuss with us, not among yourselves, I think that's where the frustration has been. Committee reports, please don't. I would like you to know, I don't think I have ever sat here examine advocated for an you shall that I alone have conjured up to you. So hearing things like well we'll something up if we're interested or

027look at a recommendation, but don't have to give an answer, I would humbly suggest that you look if he recommendations or ushz that we're bringing forward as communication from our responsibilities, respect that there are concerns that your community has and whether or not you support them as suggested for resolving them, please respect and entertain your community's concerns because they are multiple and I think just having some engagement from board members examine knowing that they are seen and heard would go a long way to assisting customer service. And thank you to diane and everybody who supports ese. Thank you. thank you, esol leadership council. Facilities task force? Gifted advisory council. good morning, I'm dan gifted advisory council chair. We had our first meeting on SEPTEMBER 8th, this is our first meeting and crash course into gifted.

028We had over 200 people join the meeting and 50 new sign ups. Our next meeting is OCTOBER 15th, plantation middle. It's going to be one of the largest meetings, we're going over our high school and middle high school programs. Lots of information for students transitions from middle into middle and into high school. Two more items coming up for us, we'll be voting our bylaws our next two meetings. You'll be pleased to get those. And I would like to speak on advisories. For us in the district, to help foster an opportunity to build trust and collaboration among us all. We don't get much time to speak but that time is really valuable to us. It should not be lost. So we don't lose our voices and diminish our purpose. Thank you. thank you, green advisory committee?

029Human relations committee? good afternoon, chair, board, superintendent and staff, nancy frye, chair of the human relations committee. Just for a quick update on our numbers, we're up to 66 council between our middle and high schools. Which is great, we were at 68 last year, we have two returning schools restill need to reach out and as well as expanding more schools. But we're in great shape already. A little of a downer note, our policy and bylaws have been stuck in legal for two years now to go the opposite route of gifted advisory, we're still waiting on those approved, if we can get that done soon, we really appreciate that. Other than that, I've been meeting outside of the committee, so there are no sunshine violations with the student advisor and superintendent, to see what plans we

030want for next year. I hopefully we'll some great ways to collaborate and congratulations MR. Spellbergh on the success of your survey. As far as our trajectory for the year, we decided to focus in two areas, the first is looking at the sponsorship for clubs and extra curriculars, we had a difficult starting up clubs and we're finding sponsors to support their club, some are based on the current climate others are based on simply teachers not being I believe to do it due to lack of pay so. We're trying to find different way to see support these students that want to take the initiative to start a club and enrich themselves and fellow students. So we're looking to get people from outside to help with that and in a safeway look at the policy what is allowed

031and what is in the best interest of the students. So that will be something that we're going to look at. Because that ties in from what we heard in the past, they just feel there is not enough adults that they can talk to if they have a need or need somebody to appear to discuss an issue, just how can we get more mental ors around, around more roll models more people go give guidance that si student is not going to be automobile to give. That's how how we can build the community. In a safe manner to help support our students. The other thing we're looking at this year is looking at our students to teach them for advocacy skills, very with a strong body can that is is a phenomenal tool that we can use

032to push the yened that our stud nt need. And to be able to use those voices to advocate what they need at every tool and give them those tools and empower them to be their own advocates. So we're looking into different ways to support them in that way this year. And because, I know you're running behind, I'll rest the rest of my time. Thank you all. thank you, multi lingual advisory committee. hello, I'm the chair of the multilingual advisory committee, we met on SEPTEMBER 17th at sea castle elementary. We have a tradition of meeting at different schools across the county in an effort to bring our mall community closer to the duel language families that are everywhere. We hope to have our next meeting somewhere in hollywood and the date for that is set NOVEMBER

03312th. So for our first meeting, we had three open seats and I'm happy to report that we filled those seats so we are now full, we could not sister of five parents and two teachers in the duel language program. And at that meeting we also held elections for the executive roles of chair and vice chair and secretary. And we also filled those roles. And at that meeting, we had an important discussion about the pending ending of the contract with I station, currently known as muiradd but former known as I station. That contract is is ending in NOVEMBER. And so that was brought up and I encourage the watch the space because we'll be collecting information on the REPERCUSSIONSst ending of that contract. To figure out what schools can families are going to do in the

034absence of the access to amira which is how students can reinforce their spanish at home especially those coming from non-speaking spanish and dove telling with that concern. At the meaning a parent called in and brought up the concern that students are entering middle school and duel language not prepared for the course pact way that is put in front of them. In middle school, duel language students are put on a pathway that very quickly includes, high school credit courses starting in 7th grade, four spanish speakers. And it came to light, that we're all sort of aware of this but we discussed it out in the open that duel language students are never assessed on their spanish language ability through elementary school. It is not used to advance to the next grade level. Teachers are not, given

035the tools to assess students spanish language ability especially now that I-station is being taken away. And so, we have this very real situation that very capable students are advancing in the program. But because of their spanish language ability is not being assessed at a point in time, that they're not prepared for spanish for spanish speakers come 7th grade. Solt that was discussed and we will be following up on that. So watch the space. Thank you. thank you. Parent community task force? we had a wonderful meeting last night and our committee is hard at work moving few initiatives. We're excited to be hosting our first parent an versity of the year focused on supporting families with students and application process. As landyn mentioned, we're excited to partner with the advisors. So that is event on the

03622nd will be paired with student focus and student-lead session creating a coordinated experience. Our thought is by giving students and families a shared information, we will deepen conversations at home and build confidence in navigating this process. Stay tuned for details on how students and parents can access those events. A big thank you for their partnership in make thising possible. And our hope is to extend this into readiness into next year. Our task be force revisited our goals and objectives for the year, adding a new priority to work closely with the district throughout the redefining process. And it will have a long conversation about that today. But we as a committee want to help ensure that upcoming decisions and the implementation reflect the needs of families across broward. We applaud the district for hosting and gathering

037feedback. This is a huge undertaking that will shape the future of our district and a multi fauceted approach is essential to ensure all voices are heard. So our committee has foind over the years that when volunteers help facilitate engagement, families provide feedback. Speak withing a peer or volunteer, rather than at a microphone, creates a comfortable environment for many community members. So to that end, they passed a motion to host a forum models after our secondary forum and develop a survey to broaden out reach, capture feedback from families that MAY not be able to attend meetings in-person and ensure that all ditsings made in this board room that after the decisions are made, fully understand how we can support families through the changes that are inevitable. We look forward to collaborate width board, staff and superintendent

038to not sure that all are informed, included and supported through this process. And before closing, I want to briefly note our continued process, regarding policy as a follow-up to our committees's conversation. And we yuft wawant rethe tatask force respectfully urges a thoughtful approach that -- to meaningful school events and the vital activities that strengthen our school communities. We ask that any revisions, never hinder our shared goal of sheltering families and community engagement. Thank you. thank you. Small business advisory committee? Technology advisory committee? Are there any board remarks on any of the items? DR. Zeman. unfortunately landyn is not here, so jcear we talked about ai survey tool, and every time we talk about ai, tlts one of 20 different way that ai is making things better for us. Can you share what it's doing to

039provide greater depth. so when doms to the survey, it's not providing them with this is the solution, but it's saying hey, we're going to let your principal know and refer to your principal to resolve that issue. so when landyn talked about this as a service tool, is there a way how you can explain to us how it's a ai serving tool? it would be ai driven because ai would let the principal of that principal did. It's relaying to the message to the principal. terrific, thank you. I want to address MS. Taylor's question. Thank you for brug it back. I want to be caer about the roll of volunteers and members and chairs, it is an essential role and it plays a very healthy part of our democracies of our elected systems, our hired system and

040like. It's the voice of many people. It's a voice of specific theme to come back to the elected leaders and give advise. So, I'm not going to give you advise on how to do it but I'm going to tell you that I got started in this advise in broward county by being in a advisory council. And I'll tell you what I did and to the extent that that is helpful, you can talk it for what it is worth. The first thing that I did, is I really focused insane leon the topic that I was assigned which is education. And I had the city which means I had no money, we had a superintendent that could ignore us. Because we were part of a system and we represented 27,000 students at the time. But we had

041to fight to get attention just for the system. We knew our role and we focused on giving them advise for SROs and transportation, because those were ushz that we as a city worked with prip. we focused on bring new pkt I have. O we had to do something that was new and principal. And we also followed an interest. What interest my boss fascinates me. We gave them more depth, more ammunition, more data to achieve what they wanted to do and after we saw what was on their team, we would listen to what we were bringing independent of theirs. We also learned a lot from the other 36 advisory committees in the city. Some were incredibly affective and some weren't. So we studied those that had great influence and practices and like. We acknowledged that every

042city staff member while not perfect was there for the right reasons, so we assume and that let us to not criticize them, other than we're trying to gt some thungz done. We never told a city commissioner that we were volunteered, we knew we were volunteers that didn't get paid. We fought for air time by having great ideas and as we had great ideas, the elected leaders wanted to talk to us more and more. Whenever an vuj citizen wanted help, we referred them to the staff and then we told this will. If you don't get answers, we'll try to gt MARCH sez. And nothing that and that was a lost voices and that their jobs was hard to balance the needs. So we true to recognize the humility everybody those one year but really this is

043a challenging publication. But none of us know enough to say we're an expert. We're just looking at one piece. So I love the fact that we have advisory committees, I'll fight like help to make sure that you have time. There are some amazing ideas that start withed advisory members. And mack sure that we're righted whenever we get off the track. Advisory committees are suppose to give good advise. And the in many many cases things that you have done lead us to do things differently not just elected leaders but people that we've hired because you brought new perspective. So I thank you for all you're doing and I trust that we'll continue to build a better relationship. I wanted to continue to emulate the best practices that we see from many of you. thank you. MS.

044Alhadeff. thank you. Thank you, so much for coming today. My first comment is regards to a comment made with the that have been stuck in legal for the past two years, that say gazillion percent unacceptable and I believe that's human relation committee and gifted committee too? Every one, okay. I think it was gifted. every one's bylaws are stuck in legal? no. just human relations committee? I think most of advisory have bylaws that have been drafted and approved and not come before the board for approval or we don't know where in the process it is. okay, so, I know MS. Batista is not here today but MS. Jack-adams, this needs to be rectified, there needs to be a path forward. It's not acceptable for there should be such a continuous delay so. If you can give

045the board this week a memo and understanding of where we're at to bring these, this to the board for us to approve or how it's going to get done faster? MS. Jack-adams. through the chair. I will find out where those items are, whether they're in legal examine if that you are not in legal, kind out from the individual what if anything is going on with it and if it is in legal, find that out as well. my expectation would be whether it's the next board meeting or next board meeting after that, we're seeing all of these to be a by the board. My next comment is in regards to the courtesy lunch. DR. Hepburn where are we at with that and what does that look like? I made a note as she was speaking about

046courtesy lurjz, what does that en tile? Also, where are we, examine however students are taking advantage of courtesy lunches as possible. So we'll put as much data together. I'll record the same information. thank you. and then in regards to the nurse conversation, is that coming back to us in when we work on the budget? when we work on the budget, so the flow of the budget will be, multiple workshops. We'll talk about priorities and what we're able to fund. We'll talk about the ideal situation which we can't fund but we'll talk about and widle that down for what we can afford to do with our schools and make sure that we're funding as a board and district moving forward. But that conversation will come forward during budget workshops. thank you, and then my last comment,

047I was thinking if it would be possible if we were to have some smaller kind of table set up where we can have can maybe clockwise, but with you I think that taoup of collaboration back and forth conversation is what is needed. Thank you. thank you, MS. Rupert? thank you. My question is really for the multi lingual group. Was it I station? Okay. So the ending of that contract with making sure that the you had students have access at home what are we doing to counteract the ending and what forward can very brought forward? To make sure that our students are getting what they need? thank you for the question. I'll refer to a school member. Go ahead, DR. Cohen. Speaker: good morning, DR. Cohen, information officer. We're looking at a different source. As you're

048aware, district funding for federal grants has been reduced and some of the items are being revisited to look at other funding options. So our plan is get clearance where we're automobile to fund that. and what amount of money are we talking about? it's approximately around 808,000 for that particular item. 80? yes, ma'am. and 80,000 and to the superintendent what is is if the micro grants don't come there? How are we going to ak gair and we look at tradeoffs. So we'll look at things that we MAY not need and the team is aware. Everything that we bring forward, the strategies to look at existing contracts can see what the tradeoff is that we can get rid of things that we don't need anymore. got you. And just for public consumption, how many students are we

049talking about? duel language numbers? If you give me a moment, it's in the redefiebing. -- redefining. okay, heads up, I'm going to be talking about it. thank you, MR. Cervera? thank you, chair. North area. I thought I heard a comment in which you indicated that there were coaches on basketball teams and cheerleading that were putting instructional videos and telling their kids to watch their instruction videos in social media, you referenced instagram. Is this in lieu of having a practice or in addition? in addition. and was it a mandate like if you want to play next tuesday, you better go on and watch these social media videos on how to pass the ball correctly? it was mandatory and so the parent, spoke to the coach and said their was not allowed to have instagram and she

050suggested he use a friend. and what grade was this? 9th grade. and do you know one way or another, the instagram account, was this the coach's personal instagram account? Or a lot of our teachers have teacher smith from such and such elementary or is this a personal unsta gram for the coach. I will get that information. I would like all the information on when you're able. Thank you. if fick add MR. Cervera, for situations like that, you know, we do have variances when I would ask for your committee compares to please we because we don't do not condone for students to access. So if fyi if people come to you with that information, redirect to your principal and I'm sure the principal will follow-up with the coach. We'll follow-up online and make sure that stuff

051like that does not happen. well happens. And as somebody who used to be good in sports and no longer, I do remember you learn things from doing them. You learn how to dribble a basketball. Going online and watching an instagram video is not going to make you a better athlete. I'm preturbed about this. So, but, I think the superintendent address the point and I don't want to be labor so thank you. chair. I just wanted add because when we had that conversation some additional comments came up the use of outside ban or whatsapp where you have students and maybe just a teacher. I don't know how widespread it is, I will tell you when we had a conversation as a parent, our concern is, was, anytime there is exclusive communication with an adult is not

052involved. I don't know how widespread the issue is. But we have antidotal reports of it reports where students are required to be on what's app group for communication. and thanks for that information. We'll do it wide sweep to address that with memo to our principals. Gu again, if you see anyone else, please alert the principal but we'll address that communication and forum that involve students. thank you. DR. Holness? thank you, MADAM Chair, so I did hear concern from the south area advisory chair? And thank you for being here. Regarding nurses and I know that we are, due to budget constraints that we're looking to provide as much services as far as nurses but the concern was expressed that some concerns without a a nurse if there is an unexpected emergency, that can create a problem.

053DR. Hepburn, how do we handle as a district unexpected emergencies, where schools not having nurses or qualified nurses? Is there an option that address nurses? How are we handling that? I'll answer the question and I'll toss it over to MS. Holingsworth who will get more detail about situations. If there is an emergency nurse or no nurse, we call the paramedics, that's the protocol the nurse is there to assess. So MS. Holings worth if you can provide details how we're supporting teachers and new partnerships that came our way to help additional support. Anytime there is an emergency, we always call 9-1-1. What we have done is taken our 15 clinical nurses, rotating with the schools that don't have a nurse. We don't have a finite nurses, we have a student if they have a medical need,

054we then assess that and provide a nurse. So nurse right side there based on health need. We're also en gaininging with joe demaggio, and other ways to you know, provide nurses to schools that do not have via individual health need. So we're consistently and constantly engaging in partnerships. so if there is a particular school, that a situation occurs that MAY not warrant, it is not to the level of having, you know, emergency services come into the school, where there is some sort of a middle ground. Is there an opportunity for that school to have a nurse service readily available wnt region? To provide some sort of assistance. yes, so there is 1515 of those e nurses they have ururo fifi scscols thatththey'rrorotating chch day MAY be assigned, if I many one of those individuals, I

055MAY go to school a, and wednesday and thursday, school b. So that does not help with the emergency situation as DR. Hepburn, we would call 9-1-1 but for those schools that do not have a nurse on their site, we are having them attend those schools on a rotating basis to address and help with the clinic needs. And if there are schools that don't have a nurse and they have a student with elevated need, we meet with the clinical supervisor and nursing team every thursday and then also working with the schools and have contacted the principals that don't have them, if they need them, something for us to review we are reviewing the cases. okay, so every school principal understand the procedure THATs in place if there is an elevated immediate, that does not rise to

056the need of emergency, they're trained and understand what the process is? correct. okay, I have another question. In terms of the broward estates, I believe it was MS. Dominique who raised that issue regarding a waiting list for broward estates, there is approximately 57 currently enrolled. DR. Hepburn, is there a waiting list? so, MS. Hudge is not here. But I wrote down a question too, I don't know how they get 4,000 kids on a waiting list, that is -- extra nom cal number. so was there any, anything that would filter, students out because of space issue? Or available issue? not that I'm aware of but DR. Wanza MAY have contribution to this. thank you, DR. Holness to the question. I'll draw the board's remembrance back to last school year as we were finalizing, I think it

057was at the JANUARY board meeting when the board was finalizing decision sxz we were reminded and I said it, at the board meeting and then also in the community meetings, there were community members in the meetings, who and they referenced that throughout the central region there were over four to five,000 families awaiting childcare. And again those were provided by community but not the members. But to MS. Dominique's point, those mubz were said publicly at the first community meeting. Those were numbers that were communicated. okay, so DR. Wanza, that MAY be an expressed need but did we, in terms of our approach to broward estates, provide any sort of limitations or, or do we have any limitation on space from those who have already applied? Because, if we, advertise for parents to bring their kids pre-k

058children to broward estates and some parents MAY not elect broward estates, then that would be out of our control. But do we currently have any knowledge of parents who are applying and there is a wait list where they cannot get in. so I'm not aware of any, I would have to differ to DR. Fulton and MS. Hudge but I'm not aware of any. is that something that we can confirm? Nr might be a need in our community. But a need does not necessarily mean that, parents apply specifically to broward estates. I guess the concern is, are we, do we have anything in place that would prevent from broward estates because of space. not that I'm aware of. so parents are welcome to apply; because we still have a room? yes and a majority come from

059that specific. correct, so if they have need and I'll make this publicly known if they have need for pre-k, programs, broward estates, has availability, is that correct? correct. those are all my comments, thank you. thank you, MS. Thompson. I'm good. sorry, no, because just to be respectful of every one's time in the back, I would like to moving onto the redefining conversation if the chair agrees and the comments I'm going to reach out to the chairs individual re. Thank you. well I had some comments. So go ahead MS. Dominique. You want today say something. I absolutely agree with, I want to get to redefining conversation, I'll get with DR. Holness. I want today flag a few of the issues that our committee braupt. The issue of monitoring safety in our schools with the intercoms, I

060understand that we cannot go into specific details but I would like some reassurance from staff that we're doing regular monitoring with those things. that is correct and we can provide detailed information in our next security closed door that includes intercoms also. thank you. I heard the issue of vape detection and ai I don't want to get into it right now. But having some level of transparency and communication with our community about how this is how these vape detectors work this is how your child's privacy is protected. Could be helpful. I agree around the assessment around playgrounds. We have a five-year playground plan, I would request an update where we are with that five-year plan. I share the concerns between between adults and children. I understand, I was a teacher who had a teacher instagram account

061ten years ago. Things and laws have changed, our understanding of, you know, the impacts on social media on children has changed. I appreciate the superintendent, you know, reaching tout to principal to see clarify that communication. I also think, the conversation around like, cause I understand that coaches and some teachers who sponsor clubs need a way to communicate with students. But it is concerning when parents are not included in those conversations. I thinker it opens up the adults to all sorts of issues that they don't need to be involved in. So I think we need to have, some clarity around like the ways in which adults can interact with children electronically, and I know we have policies and things like that. But I think this is going to be continue to be an issue. And I

062agree with MR. Cervera, that you know, you become a better athlete or students when you're doing things in real life. So thank you for flagging those issues. And obviously, I hope when these issues come up, we're directing the parents immediately to the principal. I would like a follow-up on the progress around the school lunch accounts that we've given teach school. It's my understanding that some schools are halfway through. So I think that's a conversation we need to revisit. so I would like to follow-up on where the schools are with that money. The school nurses, piece continues to be an issue that is causing a lot of angst to our parents to the extent that we can think outside of the box but communicate and think of authentic ways to think about families around a situation

063with school nurses is important. I'm equally concerned about the contract 80,000 is not a lot of money in the grand scheme of things, it provides a vital service. And I think when I went and looked MS. Rupert's question there is a little bit over 4,000 students. My question is how we can better support those students as they're entering middle school. I would like to take a look at that. As well to our co-chair committee's point, figuring outweighs to assess not just spanish but, you know, creole, portuguese, assess those students in their home language. So I'm wondering if we can do something around that with, I think that's very important so we understand our children's academic needs. And then, I had one last question, kind of unrelated to anything anyone brought up but it has to

064do with the committees. I know we had the task force on our committees, come up with some recommendations for the committees and I'm wondering if we've revisited those recommendations? In terms of like some changes that the committees can make? If nobody is ready to respond to that I understand. But anyone that is on the task forced to communicate where we are with adopting some of the recommendations. So. Thank you. Any additional board discussion? MS. Bulman? I, all of my comments have been addressed and in the interest of time, I'll reach out individually. Thanks. anyone else? Okay. The next item is rule development, gifted advisory council policy. I now turn it over to staff for a brief presentation. Very brief. if it's okay with the board, I think we're ready to go straight into board discussion.

065okay, any board discussion on the gifted council policy? I do not believe we have registered speakers. let me just say it. Are there any public speakers on the gifted advisory council policy? none that have registered, ma'am. okay. so all they staff needs feedback on the board on the red line I believe and we're good to go. does anyone have any feedback on the red line? No? Sorry. DR. Zeman. just really, what the folks did to make this even better is terrific. i just want to compliment the staff. Every once in a while, the policy comes back and it's better and there is nothing to say. I just wanted compliment the effort because it seems like, by not reacting, there is no great news being shared. But I really appreciate all the work that you put

066into it. thank you. Any anyone else? All right. At this time, we will now briefly recess the meeting to reconfigure the room to accommodate the public and we [Board in short recess] at this time we will now resume our school board workshop. The last time is school board workshop 2. Today the school board is being asked to provide guidance on the superintendent on the final schools to be addressed in phase 2 in the amended timeline. Please if you're here for public speakers, make sure that you signed in so we capture every one who is here to speak. I'll now turn it over to the superintendent for statement. good afternoon, every one and all that are present and most likely watching online. Today we turn the page on redefining our schools phase 2 on our on

067going effort to strengthen academic programs and respond to community voice. I want to take a moment to thank our staff for their outstanding work and preparing this presentation examine for leading meaningful community conversation as cross the district. So that's a round of applause for DR. Wanza and her team. [Applause] Over the past several weeks, the team has conducted 8 community meetings throughout broward county and I want to thank our staff and parents and community leaders who provided thoughtful feedback. Your feedback has been valuable. It reinforces what we know our community values the neighborhood schools and wants what is best for our students. But to honor that commitment we must also be willing to have the tough conversations, we can no longer o ford to ve emptpty or half emptpty schools,s, we must fund students, evy

068y dollar should expand programs and expand education with our students thrive. Our guiding principal remains clear, to a realign resources sustain excellence and build a brighter future for our schools. At this time, I'll turn to DR. Wanza and her staff. Speaker: good afternoon, before we get start ited, I would ask my team to introduce themselves as well and in addition to the individuals who will introduce themselves we also have on our team MS. Patty brown the director of students activities, she is here as well as eric anderson the before and after school care programs. good afternoon, joe beck, demographics in element programming. adrian parker, executive director management. ?L good afternoon, willie wood performance management. good afternoon, kazan tra free, director of magnet and innovative programs. good afternoon, dante direct of management support department. as becon

069brings up the presentation and we begin the conversation, we would be remiss, although we're the collective group that was charged with facilitating this group, we would be remiss to the support as well as individuals who worked tirelessly with us to facilitate the 8 meetings, becon, marketing of commune kaix, strategic partnerships, physical plan organization, our language interpreters we're thankful for our teacher leaders and our variety of our pipeline programs for coming out and more importantly to the 8 high schools that opened their doors, welcomed us and just were gracious host for this process. So as becon brings up the presentation, as MS. Leonardi stated, our purpose is to have some conversation, dialogue and then finally hear from the board, the schools that we will go out in the next phase of this process, and have the

070three regional meetings and also look at the amended timeline that we have included as well. Okay. And this is walks us through the presentation is organized. Again, as the superintendent this was the meeting schedule where we conducted the 8 meetings across the community and we also met with cities that were, that are experiencing under enrollment, we met wlt city managers and some some instances, the mayor, some of the city commissioners, also the superintendent had a meeting with the city manager association and he also hosted the mayoral roundtable in SEPTEMBER. As we, engaged and engaged with the community, these six items here, pretty much en capsule late, the community does get concerned this annual process and they are really looking for some stability as we continue to right-size the district and they have to make decisions

071for their families. And two things that we need to understand is marketing facility. The next slide just basically talks about the process that we use to garner the thoughts of our community and civic leaders and I'm going to move through this, cause you'll see. This is the question that we asked individuals who attended the meeting as well on those who attended online, a variety of strategies will be implemented during the redefining phase 2 but not limited to but and we talked about the tough decisions, repurposing and gray configurations and more importantly what we wanted know from our parents and the community is what models, programs, and resources are important to family and the community. So over the eight nights, we had over 1,000 participants that gave us us over 1,000 thoughts and over 1,000 ratings

072for the thoughts that were presented. included in the presentation is a link for each one of the thought exchange portals so that parents can go in and see the thoughts and the interactive ratings as well. We also wanted to report out to the board and the community, both in-person attendance as well as those who watched each meeting online. So that summary is provided for you on slide 11. And also included in the appendix, you will see for each one of the schools, but as we walk through some of the strategies, you will see a number that says, fci and this is pretty much how the facilities index condition is computed. And as we go through the presentation and there are questions related to this, MS. Paul and her team are here to support us and

073we thank them for that. So the first meeting we had was at miramar high school, and you can see there were over 186 participants, this is their thoughts around the question that we asked. And the schools that we addressed at mira marwere fairway, son shine elementary and watkins and new renaissance. And the potential strategies, I will go over high level because I know we'll have greater discussion in a little bit. So basically, for this meeting, we talked about the potential or one of the potential strategies I'll say is to combine fairway and sunshine and for watkins, the city of pen brooke park has expressed interest to releasing some park to support not only the school but surrounding community and then mira mar elementary school is a school that has space to utilize space for either

074some community program or another district use. And then lastly, the one that garners a great bit of attention, is to repurpose glades middle school and technical college to expand workforce education, opportunities and partnership with the city of miramar and the business community. And this will require us, we think it will require us to expand some of the elementary schools in this pattern to a 6-8 model to accommodate for this strategy. And then the, the following maps kind of give you some enrollment data, some space utilization. Again at the bottom is a index and you can see the enrollment for fairway and sunshine and at which facility they will be combined. And the same is true this, this slide provides the same information for both glades, middle and new renaissance middle school. Okay. Our second conversation

075was at helendale high school and you can see again that 120 participant entered thoughts and the number of ratings, and this is just a summary of the thoughts that were collected that night. And then the strategy for helendale is to redesign this school similar to at pompano high school, however the design, we'll collaborate with local businesses and community, understanding that halendale is a current high school, unlike pompano high. How the students currently receive priority or if it is a phase out but it's really working to redesign the school to a four-day school week as well as do some community programming to attract students and then we'll work on entrance criteria and also to develop a very comprehensive strategy for the school and I'm sure members of the community will speak more as in the public

076speaking session. I keep pushing the button. Okay. I got to press it where? Okay. And this slide really gives again, some enrollment information for hal endale high as well as some information. The reason miramar high school is here, depending on the boundary and current students, it MAY bring into question or bring into the potential of actually reassigning some of the school, some of the students to miramar high school, which I'm a former student, I'm no longr a student, who once, obviously I attended miramar high, I resided in the city of west park growing up. At that time, it was assigned to miramar now the entire neighborhood is assigned to helendale. So miramar is here with the possibility that some of the schools, some of the students, rather MAY get assigned to miramar high school. That's

077why miramar is up here. the next meeting we have is at south broward high school and you can see the participants through the summary of the thoughts. And at south broward high school, we discussed the middle schools listed. And for these three schools, two of the schools add are in the city of hollywood and olson is in the city of dana beach. The community really expressed an interest to offer some workforce training programs, technical education programs at adex middle school so there is the potential to partner, collaborating with the community on the programming that would be offered and the city of dana beach has been vocal and supportive at occupying space at olson middle school, not only to deliver the but the programming will be to enhance the school. And the city of hollywood has

078expressed some interest at utilizing some space for some administrative needs that they have and they are very interested in supporting career programs that will added value. Our next conversation was at dillard high school and you see the summary of thoughts there submitted by the 80 participants as well as the 504 ratings. We addressed washer elementary schools and some of the strategies there would be one to combine north fork elementary and walker elementary, xwient boundary. For the north fork elementary site would be to enter into a partnership and build an educational career that would be utilized not only for the students but also in the community. The 'em fa -- emphasis is for the opportunity to perhaps, transition that school to k-8 gifted education in duel language academy. Obviously, support the elementary model and continue to

079enhance support and provide resources to the programs currently flourishing at north side elementary school. And for this model, you will see, both the enrollment, the capacity, as well as the facility conditions in the state of florida for the three elementary schools that would be part of some boundary situation depending on what strategies are implemented. The next conversation was at stranhan high school and you, there were the 111 participants, this is a summary of their thoughts as well as their ratings. And then for stranhan high school, the community is interested in offering a maritime marine magnet at the school. There is great interest as well as an opportunity to provide this in the neighborhood for students and one of the things that it would not do, it is not intended to compete or conflict with the

080marine that is currently at south broward high school, but this would have program and collaborate with the community as well as the local businesses in the area on the problematic design. And here again, is a call for another comprehensive strategy on the strategies that be offered at the school. The next is plantation high school, and you see the summary of the thoughts and ratings. And at plantation high school, we discussed middle and west plantation high school. One of the strategies is to divine plantation middle and plantation high school into a comprehensive 6-12 school. And the city of plantation is very much interested in developing, while the slide says public service because it leaves it broad, but the city wants to focus on a public safety type of career pathway to really focus on police academy,

081a fire academy, the wide breath of public safety, type of career pathways? But we left it open on the slide to say public service because they MAY decide to add on to that. But the initial focus is on the public safety. And then we would repurpose the plantation for another district use. There is also the potential to create a k-8 between horizon elementary which is east next to middle school. The city of sunrise also currently, they're utilizing some space where they have there's also the opportunity to keep panther run as an elementary school and co-locate a school within a school for student widths autism at panther run and then another strategy that calls two other schools into the conversation would be to combine them on either one of the campuses similar to the sunshine and

082fairway over on the miramar slide and repurpose whichever facility is not being used for students for another district use. Since there were a number of schools addressed, we would -- the board did give us direction to go ahead and study this to move the silver palms elementary school feeder pattern from the walter c. Young and flanigan feed tore the silver trail in west broward. Another option here would be to split the boundary of walter c. Young middle school into pine 6-12 collegiate academy and silver trail and create a a 3-8 gifted education and dual language academy. And then another strategy could be to split walter c. Young, again, into pines and silver trail and then part 234er with the city of pembroke pines to built attainable workforce housing on the current walter c. Young site

083and just for the board's remembrance and for the edification of the community, we do have a 50 year lease with the city of pembrook pines, the city owns the land, the district, you know, built the facilities but we do have a 50 year lease that -- it esing -- expires in the year of 2037. Then here are the maps for chapel trail and panther one, the strategy to combine those schools is considered. Here are the maps, if the potential strategy for extending those grades to 8th grade were to be studied deeper. And then here are the maps, and then depending on what happens in this conversation, we MAY or MAY not decide to now bring coconut palm elementary into the conversation because they would be the only school, even though those students are assigned to

084new renaissance for middle school, high school, everglades is their high school, so coconut palm MAY or MAY not come into the conversation. And here are the maps for silver trail and walter c., the maps and the corresponding enrollment and facility data. Then since we would move the student from silver palms other to flanigan to west broward, we did for the board's edification provide maps and data for flanigan and west broward. Our final conversation was that coral springs high school and you can see the summary of the thought exchange data there. The straragiesesfor cocoidererion, we scususse ththmidddd s schools lieded. Ththe cocommunitwawave chch ininterested in anan infusion of highly sought over innovative programs like cambridge, dual language, some highly sought after innovation programs into all of the middle schools in the area. And then another strategy,

085both strategies would split in some way the boundary of the current forest glen middle school and adjust coral springs my l, ramble with middle or [Inaudible] To accommodate or allow for all of the students currently assigned to forest glen middle to remain in the city of coral springs for middle school and then the other potential strategy would be to split the boundary of the current forest glen middle school and assign the students into either coral springs middle or lie yo n's cream middle school and repurpose forest for another district use. Here are the maps for coral springers and forest glen middle school and then. And then one of the things we heard from the community is really the potential of having some type of a dedicated school or dedicated facility for students with autism, so

086there is the opportunity to co-locate a school within a school at coral springs elementary school because they do have space if that is something that the board wanted staff to further examine. And here's just for the board's edification as well as the public, the map of coral springs elementary school. As it relates to our non-traditional schools, there is an opportunity potentially to combine seagull and whiten in the central region in county. Some of the programming at seagull is situated op the whiten campus kurntsly, basically all of the astounds and programs would be transitioned to w in rogers, we would relocate the current adults with disabilities program to another site and then the seagull campus, we could potentially partner with the city of fort lauderdale for some needs they MAY have or we can repurpose that

087for another district use. So, the slide here just provides an initial look into some potential cost savings or financial impact if we were to completely close a school and off-line it. The superintendent I know will speak more -- or staff as questions come up because what we also have to realize is if we maintain the facility for another district use, we do not realize all of these cost savings. The next three slides just provide to the board and the public some information on the schools of hope legislation. I won't read the slide verbatim, if e questions come up, staff is here and we're prepared to answer them, with you the next three slides do provide information on that legislation as it relates to how schools are identified, what happens for facility usage and expanded right

088out of the statute explanation there but we are here and prepared to answer questions if they arise. And then for the timeline, we did make two minor adjustments, the first one, we have obviously we're here today on OCTOBER 7 for the second workshop, we have worked with superintendent's calendar as well as we had legislative affaire to reach out to all the municipalities so we have established the three diatheses for the three regional meetings, so we went ahead and adjusted the timeline to reflect those actual dates and then once we know the schools that are going to move to the next phase, then we will be able to actually create the school boundary committee and we are looking to have orientation with them in this month and then they would meet in the month of NOVEMBER

089to actually vote on recommendations that they believe -- recommendations that should come forward to the school, they'll be able to vote and give some feedback. We know in NOVEMBER will have its organizational meeting, and then we'll be able to finalize the actual DECEMBER and JANUARY dates. And grn -- again, as I said, these are the dates for the three regional meetings, the central meeting will be at dillard high school, the south meeting will be at miramar high school. And that is the extent of the presentation, we have a very extensive appendix, with that, MR. -- I'm sorry, DR. Hepburn and vice chair leonardi, we have completed the presentation. thank you. Thank you so much for that presentation. Okay, for the public speakers, I will be reading four names at a time, so if two could

090line up at one podium and two on the other, so we can move nicely and quickly, that would be great. So, the first four names I have. (Calling speaker names). So, just be prepared to speak when the other is done. We're doing three minutes, yes. Nicole nunuz. good afternoon, member of the bore, first I want to thank rebecca thompson for inviting me this afternoon and giving me the opportunity to shaur my family story. This is my son harrison, he is in the ese cluster program at sunset lakes elementary, he is not just a student here. He is a part of the very fabric of the school, he participates in school activities with all students, he is taught by exceptional teachers and he is supported by staff who is fully committed to making sure he is

091fully included. Because of sunset lakes elementary, he is thriving, he is learning social schools, he is playing with his peers, building confidence every day, his peers learn from him too, empathy, patience and acceptance. That is true inclusion. This is where children look and grow together. And that's not just a nice idea, it's the law. The individuals with disabilities education act requires that children with disabilities be taught alongside non-disabled peers whenever possible. That is the least restrictive environment, but if the only middle school option in our district is an autism sent or a charter school, that props cannot be fulfilled. Those settings isolate and instead don't allow for choices sh for my family and for children like harrison. that would be devastate, I'm here on behalf of so many working parents, taf and community members at

092sunset lakes elementary who cannot be here, we are asking you to expand it through a k-8 to avoid school of hopes coming into our community but also to strengthen the ese clusters along with it. My family and other families want stability. We want teachers to have their resources and we want our community to grow strong so that we keep our schools together in their home schools where they belong. I want dwrou all to look at this picture, harrison is not in the margins, he is at the center of his school community, to weaken it by stopping at fifth grade would not just harm him and his classmates, it would harm the culture of the entire speak, push family away from broward and our strict and not give us any options which I moved back to

093the district for those copings but if you expand sunset lakes to a k-8, you're expanding it and inspiring teachers in highest demanding field, we care, you have a job here. You're giving students opportunities like electives, clauses and community and you allow the school to compete with other options, this is about values and listening to our community and asking them to expand sunset lakes and keep our students supported and thriving. That you hear us, you value us, you value our kids and you're not going to uproot it. Please expand our school, please expand our ese clusters and give our kids all the possibilities. Thank you. thank you. Christine mcman. good afternoon, chair, superintendent and members of board, my name is christine and I'm proud to serve the students, family and is teachers at glades middle school.

094This work is deeply personal to me because I know just how much strong public schools matter. Glades is not a failing school, we have consistently earned an a rate, we have one of the newest facilities ins the district and a staff with decades of commit. This is a school not to close or repurpose but to invest in. Our proposal submitted to the bender on thursday offers three innovative pathways, an exceptional student academy, a stem magnet academy and a cambridge gifted academy, she expand opportunities for every learner and bring to western broward the kind of programming families currently have to travel east to find. These gateways will attract new families and create a new iep lao in to our feeder high schools. We are edt to grow enrollment, expand industry certifications and continue glades' legacy as

095a model of excellence. There's also a proposal from the board to repurpose glades as a branch campus for shared and technical college, moving middle school students to elementary campuses or giving them the option to attend new renaissance. Respectfully, I must urge you to consider what that truly means. Our elementary schools are not equipped for adolescence, they lack basketball courts, soccer fields, tracks, adequately sized gyms and music facilities like band and choir rooms, they were built for five year-olds, not 14 year-olds. This raises serious concerns about space, safety and developmental appropriateness. Middle school students need environments that challenge them academically, socially and physically, not spaces designed for much younger children. Many students have already chosen glades over new renaissance because they wanted a different environment. Forcing those students back or dispursing our students amongst elementary schools

096will not strengthen broward schools, it will drive more parents to charter options leading to further enrollment loss for the district. Glades has the facilities, the staff and the community programs in place already to meet the needs of learners by redefining glades instead of dismantling it, you preserve vital middle school students while still expanding workforce education for the community. In short, glades middle school does not need to be repurposed, it needs to be redefined. With your support, we can grow, innovate and remain a corner stone of the community. I urge you to support our proposal to redefine glades middle school. Thank you. thank you. Cindy kim or anna, cindy kim and penelope. thank you, my name is anna and I'm a painter of an autistic child in broward county public schools. I'm here today to support

097a south florida charter autism school in broward, it's important for the board to keep a few thing ins mind, one third of the students in the south florida autism school board drive there from broward county every day, but 100% of the families are there by choice, this should never be referred to as se segregating students. Adding this choice in broward does not affect or change any programs currently in place or do anything to affect the cluster classes currently servicing children on the spectrum. Before deciding what kind of program to offer for asd, I really beg you to look at the two pre-k models we have for autism, ark broward and [Inaudible] Are the two soukt after programs because they are providing better services, this is a fact. Please look into sfax, parents from your communities

098have brought this forward out of necessity. All we ask is that you listen to us and involve us in the decision-making process. There are so many options out here that we're sousing today for neurotypical students to choose from, autistic students deserve the same. I would like to point out the financial benefits partnering with south florida autism schools this accidenter would generate charter management fee that is would go back into bcps, the potential lease of an underenrolled or underutilized prapt could generate income for the district as well. I urge board member and is district staff to reach out and speak to current families from broward who have chosen to send their children to sfax and game perspective as to why this would be a beneficial model to offer in our own community. Thank you. thank you,

099cindy kim, then we have penelope aesha. I'm here today on behalf of glades middle school. I serve as our staff chair, as the ptsa vice-PRESIDENT And the sac gifted parent representative but most importantly as a pairn of an 8th grader who has attended glades for the past three years. I first considered glades after meeting with our cambridge director and my decision was u was truly confirmed after hi son's elementary school teacher toll me the curriculum at glades was far stronger than that of nearby charter schools and the teacher was absolutely right, glades has supported my son in ways that have helped him to thrive. So, MS. Mcman spoke about the proposal for the three kifrnt pathways and I'm going to focus on two, we're asking the board to redefine glades middle school as a dual

100magnet school for stem and advanced academics. And this makes sense because glades already has both the infrastructure and the teachers in place to deliver this curriculum at a high level. This dual magnet program will succeed because it's already working for students like my son. A lot of our public schools have the same electives and clubs but what sets glades apart is the quality of its edge kit -- emg -- educators and programs. My daughter wauz final I for the cte teacher of the year award, she provides industry certifications for her students and my son illiberal has certifications in powerpoint, html and css. His debate coach and teacher, MS. Mcman who just spoke, she is is a diamond level coach with 10 thousand debate and association points and through our team, we have a strong and

101active team of 38 student and is through our debate program, my son competes at monthly tournaments gaining nsda point that is follow him through high school. They have a competition today and I do want to mention that glades middle school is the only middle school that hosts an invitational tournament for all middle schools in our county. My son's biology teacher holds two masters degrees bridging advanced knowledge and passion to her classroom and he has been taught by a dedicated team of gem math teachers and participate ins the math club which participates in two national competition, the amc8 and math counts. So, glades is already providing a foundation for a true dual magnet program, redefining this school in this way would not only recognize what is already happening there but it would strengthen and open opportunities

102for many more students, so today on behalf of glades, we urge the board, please do not repurpose it. thank you. into a a technical college but redefine it into a dual magnet program for stem and advanced academics. thank you. [Inaudible]. good afternoon, members of the board, my name is penelope, I'm here today not only as a concerned mother but as a voice for the many family and is faculty members who make [Inaudible] Elementary the special place it is, a change needs to be made, I understand, I am here today to plead from my heart ux please klaoz the option that allows our children to remain at panther run, I beg you to consider it, that being said, I urge you not to overlook the students who are here right now with any changes that MAY

103come. Please understand any decision made should truly benefit the children currently enrolled as well. It should enhance their experience, their opportunities and the overall quality of their education. If additional funding comes in, it should also directly support our kids and help strengthen the programs and community that they're already a part of. I tried to come up with a list of why you should keep our school in tact, from the safety of the build tog the location, there is a deeper reason, I am scared, we are all scared, scared to see our children -- sorry, suffer the emotional stress of losing the foundation they've worked so hard to build, scared to see their relationships they of for so long suddenly torn apart, sorry, scared for them o to be placed somewhere new where they might lose

104their sense of belonging, we controvert look how deeply the emotional stress affects children. It doesn't just fade away, it lingers, when their safe place is taken from them, it shakes their confidence, motivation and he venn their ability to learn, our tamely's hearts are in that school. The safe panther run campaign was created, it is our way of showing the community what panther run mean toss us, families are shows videos and their favorite moments a at panther run. Rebecca, I'm sure you know what I'm talking about, ao ips for the instagram stases, we plan to let our voice and is our children's voices be heard, reminding how much panther runs mean to us, they deserve to finish their school year ins a place that fei feels like home. Please the home alive for their children, the

105future of this incredible community, I'm asking you to hear us and see our pain and let the children keep the school that has given them so much. Thank you. thank you. Aesha brooks. good afternoon, my maim is aesha, a proud parent a at pine stakes elementary and a proud product of broward schools, I know first hand the impact that strong neighborhood schooling can have on a child's life. I stand before you because pine stakes is more than just a school, it's a it is a place where people feel safe and supported and inspired. I understand the district is considering merging pine springs with lake cove, I want to share what makes our school strong and why we deserve to stay open. On pines lakes, we have met our enrollment goals, we have a thriving pre-k

106program, one of the only, our classroomsms are atat capacity d d at's's grad k-8.. Icich owows atatr r fafamilies continue to choose and trust our school. We have a thriving and an active pta, I know because I'm a member of the board. And we currently have over 11 thousand dollars and if our school is shut down, then we'll lose all the funding and forfeit all the money and everything goes away. Our pta's raise funds for our program and is the improvements of our school. Which are focused to help our kids grow. If our schools close -- I said that already. We've also additionally we've seen a steady growth with our parent involvement in our engagement. And this is proof of our strong family partnerships that defines pine lakes, our student body is beautifully diverse and

107we also have continued thriving programs, we have a vibrant music program that excites our students, we have a growing stem program is a competitive lego team we're starting for our second and third graders that builds team work and innovations. We are -- our students, they love combining here, -- coming here, our teach reser deeply invited. And I have two children that are attending, and both have been given exactly what they need to thrive, the teachers don't just teach, they care, they see every child's potential, I ask from my heart to keep pine lakes elementary hope because the school doesn't just serve our community, it is our community. Thank you. thank you. Maxine sing, cynthia dominique, jennifer and commissioner carol [Inaudible]. If I have called your name, please go up to the mic.'s. good afternoon, board,

108I think maxine is supposed to be me, commissioner laura, she registered for me. we have you on the list. separately, okay, it's not me, thank you. so, dominique, commissioner levie. I don't see cynthia so I'll go. My name is jennifer, I'm a parent of three bcps children, I'm here to advocate for an autism focused charter school on the coral springs middle school campus modeled after the south florida autism school to address an urgent need in broward county. This is not going the replace our cluster classes. If our cluster classes were doing their job, I wouldn't feel the need to be here today. South florida autism charter would address an urgent need in broward county. This would help fill the 1900 seats at coral springers middle school which is currently underenrolled but also provide broward families

109with a specialized autism charter which our current system is lacking. Miami has an autism charter, palm beach has an autism charter, st. Lucy is getting an autism charter, we have nothing comparable here which is concerning given that we are the sixth largest district in the U.S. And florida has the highest autism prevalence in the country. I particularly support the idea of a district managed autism charter in both the north and south because for families like mine, it's not possible to commute over 45 minutes to a school, since my son requires hour and is hours of therapy after school. Coral springs middle school has the capacity of 1900 students, currently enrolls 1024 with an increase of 49 student from projection, this school should not be considered for closure asitis one of the few broward schools experiencing

110growth. parents want this school. Penalizing the school because the building was biment too large -- built too large is not the answer, combining it with forest glen will create behavioral challenges as having nearly 2 thousand kids in a middle school. This avoids boundary changes, helps fund the campus and offers inclusion opportunity thens for all students. We keep hearing parents that are concerned saying an autism charter is going the segregate our kids, not with a school within a school, you will have inclusion opportunities for field trips, for special events and for a var roit of the day-to-day academics. Finally as a family directed by the msd reboundary process, I urge the area of rezoned out of msd to glades be made a boundary choice area, my oldest attends msd, without this option, my daughter will be

111separated from her friends at country hills and coral springs middle without the chance to remain at msd. No city should be allowed to save seats for future construction, we learned that in kindergarten, we do not save seats. Thank you for your time and consideration. thank you, commissioner carol schumann and we have [Inaudible] thank you very much, good afternoon, DR. Hepburn, staff and school board members. Again, any name is carolyn, a hollywood city commission and her here first and foremost to say thank you. I know this sometimes must feel like a thankless job but I really want you to know your work is so deeply appreciated by so many of us in broward counts ---- county who love and support broward county education and we know you're all working hard to ensure our students have exactly

112that. I'm also here as a holly paod commissioner, I'm fortunate to meet so many students who are thriving in broward's excellent school system and could not agree more with the goal to the keep as many of these schools open and thriving. In particular, our middle schools, nearby we have awesome olson and historic addicts but I want to talk specifically about mcnick kol middle school, there's extra space at mcnick kol, I want to assure you the city of hollywood staff is working with your staff to hopefully help to fill it ofng I can only speak for myself but I am aware and hopeful for partnership opportunities between the broward county public schools and our city and I know there are many ways to get a win, win for the schools, for our community at large. Thank

113you again for the challenging work and the critical work that you all do. Thank you. thank you. Good after the moon, school board member and is community, I'm here advocating for my son who has profound autism that broward schools are not currently meeting. My son requires intervention beyond what the cluster programs can offer. His challenges in communication and behavior demand require a tailored environment. I'm doing everything possible to have that support in this classroom. Today I was informed that the company providing the additional rbt services can no longer provide services for other reasons which leaves me scrambling once again to get him additional services in that type of a setting. This is not the first time I have had to scramble for more support. Finding replacements is is time consuming and costly for our family.

114We're urgently needing a district managed autism charter school much what south florida has to offer. It has the structure my son needs. The district overseen charter would ensure kids like my son who have profound autism get tailored education without having to leave the district. Please approve this for 2026. Our children cannot wait. Thank you. thank you. James sparks, then we have pastor sanders, [Inaudible] Gordon and [Inaudible] my name is james, I want to say hello, board members, hello, MR. Superintendent, I want to say hello to staff, I appreciate the district and the staff, we had 8 nighties, I -- nights, I didn't get them all, I think they did a great job. I want to talk about some history, I'm a little country boy, so here I go. This is one of the first times

115since 1995 that I feel a little comfortable in what we're doing. All the years before, my community went to 8 different schools on a two block street. We all went all the way -- my kids went out to pines middle and then there were years we'd be sitting around and they were trying to send us out further because they were trying to do racial quotas, this is the first time that schools need to come up and be closed and you're trying to work with us and get our input. We have to go a little further, we have schools here such as hallandale high, it got robbed on a lot of stuff, there's a lot of money we need in that community, there's a lot of things we need for the school, bob parks was the

116chair, I respected him and I believe every person have their own opinion, but when bob parses helped get pompano high started, when they came back and said they were short of supplies, they found out a way to get it to them. We're trying to put a model together, we're going the need money and teachers, and listen, every teacher is not the right teacher for a program and we need you guys to look at that. We got mcnick kol, we need mcany kol to continue feed toing the school and to be honest, this is one of the first times I have seen school and is other communities that you're talking about closing or redoing, it's always been in the black community, always. And I'm just telling you, I feel a little better. Now, I want you

117the keep me feeling better because I want you to go on and do the right thing because if you don't keep me feeling better, then I'm going to have to come back again and we're goipg to have to talk again. I really appreciate it, I will tell you for a fact, as long as we keep up, see what you have to raeltz is you're in one district, you're in one and you're in one but every kid in broward district st in your district, so if your district is doing good, help the other community, for years past, we were not getting that with the school board members. They only took care of their schools in their community. I got four kids, I never neglected one kid, they might not have got what they wanted at the

118same time but I didn't neglect them. Thank you. thank you. good morning. I'm sorry, it's afternoon, okay. Good afternoon, board members, superintendent, MADAM Chair, my name is kim dea gordon, I'm an alumnus of hol lin hallandale and I'm a proud member of the first bas kel bat championship, two years back to back, we brought that here at little old hallandale, that's what we brought, I'm here to support the redefining of hol lin dale magnet high school similar to the pompano model, I'm supportive of this decision. We are asking the district to please come with resorts and finances. I graduated 1978 and some of the school -- the surrounding of the schools still look the same. We're talking about 47 years. Some of those areas in the school are still looking the same so we want

119you to please come and do the redefining but we want you to level up. We wan -- want you to bring resource and is finances and upgrade the fields, upgrade the students so that when they're able to go to another school, they feel proud about hallandale high school. Right now we can't say that, administration can't really say that. The principal really can't say that so I'm asking you to please, to please reconsider in helping the resources for hallandale high school to be betterfinger we -- we want the redefining but we want to make sure money and resources comes with that. Our community visualizes partnerships with local businesses and industries for students that will make their life skills as they leave middle school, as they leave high school to be more than what they can accept

120here in our community. Please make sure that we prepare our students for the next generation, we're talking about leaders and industries that are here in our community. We have production in our high schools that we can partner up with local stations here in the community flt we have a film industry. I don't even think that broward county has thought about them. Let's help our students become more inclined of what is coming up with ai, computer information systems. Let's prepare our students for the next generation, the next generation of science and technology. School board members, we want that redefine but we want you to also bring finances where hol lin -- hol lin dale is in the way of being redefined. (Calling speakers). Er good afternoon, MADAM Vice chair, the board and to superintendent -- let

121me also applaud the work that DR. Wanza and the team has done, so I want to take my time to talk about building bridges for our students' future. Over the last few months, we've come together with our local mayors, with business leaders, community leaders, principals and students to form one message, to strengthen, not separate, to redesign, not retire. Our schools, hallandale high and mcnick kol middle are pillars of our community, they play a legated role in preprinting our students not only for graduation but also for life. Over this past month, we've had discussions that are focused on partnership, redesign and rev lance. The truth is clear, these schools can and must work hand in hand to create a clear community centered educational pipeline. Mak any kol middle build it is foundation and hallandale high advances

122it. Both schools deserve emphasis on targeted investment, quality staffing and strategic marketing. They need unified support, not symbolic gestures. Hallandale high is actively engaged in the redesign efforts focused on magnet style pathways in aviation, broadcasting, robotics and culinary art and is mcnick kol serves as a feeder to those programs ensuring and enhancing a continuity in aviation, emt stem focused programs. I want to talk about one key point that MR. Sparks brought up. Because we understand that education and vocational programs are vital but if we really are going to redefine the schools, there's a third part and that's the athletic. If we are really collectively going to do this, we need visible, verifiable, undeniable evidence because a all we've been getting is the promise but the check didn't cash, so what we're saying, we're not asking

123for promises, we're asking for a real partnership. Thank you for your time. thank you, janette. good afternoon, everybody. As parents, it is our responsibility to think about our children's future and ensure they have access to the best possible opportunities to succeed in life. Broward county schools share that is responsibility, that's why I'm here today. I'm a parent of a khiel of autism and I stand before you to advocate something we need in our community, a district managed charter school in broward county dedicated to serving students with autism modeled after miami-dade south florida autism charter school. It has become a beacon of hope for families like mine, it creates behavioral support tailored the neurodivergent student and is this type of school does not exist in broward. Our children are being left behind. Here in broward, we

124lack a dedicated learning environment where autism students can receive individualized support they need to thrive not just academically but socially and emotionally. We're asking the broward county school system to take action to create a school where our children aren't forced to fit into systems that weren't designed for them but instead are placed nr a setting built specifically for them, a school that will empower them to grow, learn and lead fulfilling lives. Today there are countless programs and magnet opportunities within bcps that are designed to give clear pathways tosing success. Our neurodivergent students deserve those same opportunities. Families shouldn't have to cross county lives to find a school that fits their children's needs. We're asking to build a future where all students regardless of their neurological difference ares given a a chance to thrive. Thank you

125for your time. thank you, commissioner laurie luelan, and [Inaudible] through the chair, MS. Cynthia dominique had to leave, she sent me her notes. Is it okay if I take the three minutes for her? are you on the list, did you register?Frjts no, she is. we -- the person has to be here to deliver their comments. that's why she said to ask, thank you. good afternoon, board, commissioner laura luelan, we have been very oh vo e cal in the city of miami-dade, I want to congratulate on doing this work and going out ask trying to meet with the cities, meet with the elected officials, meet with the city managers to find some solution tos this very large problem and I do understand it's a very large problem and it is countywide. But it's not something that

126I think is going to simply go away by closing a few schools. I am peful based upononthe e lalate discscsionons that son nolongerer onthe chopping blblock, given the fact we have done so much work and we have aligned our words with action, we are investing millions of dollars into the park next door and trying to do what we can to be good partners with the school board in order to make sure our schools remain, but we were even named as your community partner of the year this past year and next thing I know, I see that olson is back on the list of schools that could potentially be closed. It's very frustrating for us as a city to see that, to do the work and put the effort in and really try to work with

127the school board, with everybody trying to make this happen for our community. I can only imagine what it's like for our parents and the students because each year, they think their school is safe and then the next thing you know, they're seeing an article in the newspaper, hearing something on tv or hearing from their neighbors or hearing from their teachers their school might be closing. It's hard, we heard -- I know we heard one parent here earl ler who was upset of potentially having to mover their child. That's one parent. There are lots of them out will and it's just not healthy for these kids to have to go through this over and over again. So, we need to not continue this. It's going continue happening, you will continue to see less enrollment when you

128see schools are being put up there as potentially being closed. It makes parents move their children to other schools so then those same schools continue to decrease their enrollment so we need to fix that problem and stop this vicious circle that keeps happening. Something else I want to suggest to you, I know you are trying to develop these partnerships with cities and I do appreciate that and I think it taoes best thing you can do because your cities out here really care about these kids and care about their schools and they want to make sure they thrive. I've heard a lot of success stories here today, I have heard a lot of really positive things going on in our schools. I would love to see the schools partner with the cities to sellcelebrate those, to

129celebrate those successes, advertise them, market them, brand them and then maybe you'll get more students who want to enroll in broward county public schools. Thank you very much for your time. thank you, mayor felicia b are runson. good afternoon, chair, board and superintendent, I'm felicia, mayor from the beautiful city of west park and glad to be here with you today. I also wanted to thank our very own valerie wanza and all of the hard work she has done through this process, west park zone, I have to throw that in, I stand before you today to talk about redefining. For west park, growing up in the city of west park, our students including myself have had the opportunity to go to schools pretty much all over the county. But there are some particular schools that if

130you are from the city of west park or from south county, you know those are your schools, whether you went to them or not, you supported those schools. And so those schools are watkins, mak anymore kol and hallandale high. The unique thing about the city of west park, our students go everywhere but we have a large percentage of students that do attend all of those schools, so I am asking for you to redefine those schools because for generations, you know, schools were simply defined as a place where children came to read, to write, to learn, but today education is far more, it means much more than just that, and this ever changing world, we have to redefine what a school truly is to keep up with the world and so we recognize that it's not

131just a building but it's a living, breathing part of our community and so if we want our children to drive, we have to be able to move with the times to ensure that they are thriving. We understand that education is the anchor of stability and identity in a community. Our school is the heart beat of our community, particularly in west park. Everybody is family and you support family except during times when we play against each other. But other than that, we have memories, we have milestones. My parents went to these schools, my family, my aunts, my uncles, everyone, we all went to these schools so we support these schools. We want them to remain within our community because it preserves that sense of identity and that sense of pride. Anything else would disrupt that connection

132and weaken our communities' collective strength. So, schools carry legacies so we ask you to allow us to continue that legacy and redefine our schools. Thank you. thank you. We have mayor joyce davis and then we have city manager david lynch and felicia schumann coming up. good afternoon, school board, superintendent, especially I want to give a great thank you to DR. Wanza as well and our school board member bulman, I'm not just coming to you from the city of miami-dade beach, but in 2005, I came here to start my career as a broward county public schools teacher and so you all know that -- who are in the field of education, once an educator, always an educator, that will always be my perspective when looking at our community and leading our community but what I will

133tell you is that in listening to my colleague and in listening to the parents and to our communities as we have been through this process not once but twice, that our awesome olson middle school is now on this redefining school list. I was a middle school 8th grade language arts teacher and I know how pivotal that age group is so we have built a family, not just a community but a family in the city of [Inaudible] Beach, we have invested more in our school system in broward county public schools financially, emotionally and with our partnerships. We have -- there -- what I want to do is tell you a quick story from a a teacher's perspective and I'm going off my scift here, but -- script here, but three years ago, our students came to

134the city of [Inaudible] Beach and they had a line like this and spoke to us as the city commission, we had a a 7 acre property that was adjacent to olson middle school and we asked our students, what is it that you would like the see in the 7 acre property and they had two different teams, they gave their ideas, they proposed, they argued, they had powerpoints, they showed us they wanted a community center, they wanted track and field, and I will tell you that in this 8 million dollar park, their ideas have come to fruition. What they have done, what they have planned, what thae f they have invested in is now becoming a reality in the city of diami beach, so that what it is all about, real world education. That is the

135future of education when children can plan and see their visions come to life, that is when we make a difference. We are making a difference in the city of diami beach and we would like for you to look at us as an example for par ner ships and cities and county moving forward. thank you. (Calling speaker names). thank you, superintendent, board members and staff, my name is dave lynch t the city manager from pembrook park websinger had a lot of municipal officials come up to the dais today and talk about how important these schools are, in our town, we're a small town and watkins and lake forest are an essential part of our local e economy, our culture and providing vitality to our community. We've gotten a lot of support from MS. Bulman sxwe thank

136her for supporting our community, our commission committed itself long before to be a strong municipal partner with the schools and I'm going talk about that, one is that one of our commissioners brought to our commission ewe nan nosily supported a financial literacy program which our town created as part of municipal government t the kids go from the elementary school over to our town hall where we've assembled bankers, they teach the kids financial lit ras si. When the kids finish that class, our local government, our town government gives them a $100 bank account, one of our local financial institutions, these kids open their eyes, they turn their mom and dad and they think about what their life's going to be like as they manage that $100 into maybe something even grander. Secondly, before all of this

137came down on this level of concern, our mayor jeff jacobs sponsored a major ewe -- ewe man nosily supported by our commission, when the school lunch program presented with one that was underfund and had some kids wouldn't have a fully paid for lunch, our town was writing a 100 thousand dollar check every year the subsidize that lunch program so that no kid in our town at lake forest or over at watkins elementary school has to pay anything for lunch. Last point I want today mention was something that was up on the board on strat jibing one thing was the idea of our train having an interest in some kind of community program. Our commission is fully committed, we want to open up a senior citizen program and I've already been through the ring over at

138watkins, it is perfect, we don't have a senior program yet. I think we're about to with your help and believe me, our community is commit dod the schools, we appreciate the hard work you have been doing and all the municipal officials we join you together to recognize how these municipal governments are committed to making these schools thrive. We're only as good as our schools and we want to keep them strong. Thank you so much. thank you. Felicia schumann and don goldstein. good afternoon, esteemed board leaders, my name is felicia schumann, I'm from coconut creek, florida. Thank you for the opportunity to speak today regarding redefining phase 2 and the feedback from our community conversations. As the district considers potential school closures, I urge you the make these decisions with the utmost care and deliberation. Schools

139are more than just buildings, they are the heart of our communities. They provide stability, educational opportunities, and social support for students and families. closing a school without fully considering its impact can destruct neighborhoods, increase travel burdens and prague community cohesiveness. Community feedback shows many schools offer specialized program such as stem, dual language and cambridge curriculum which can be preserved or thoughtfully relocated to ensure equitable access for all students. Enrollment data and facility condition indexes should guide decisions but the social and educational impact cannot be overlooked. I respectfully ask the board the carefully weigh these factors, prioritize equity and community needs and ensure that any changes strengthen rather than weaken our schools and neighborhoods. Thoughtful deliberate actions now will benefit students and family for years to come. Thank you for your time and consideration. thank you.

140We have don goldstein, DR. Anti-thy sanders and catrice johnson. hi, good afternoon, I just wanted to share this sweet picture, I would like you to meet this little 7 year o el boy, this is my son lang don, also he's in second grade at the broward count pi public school park set elementary and happens to be non-verbal autistic, I'm an advocate for him and what he needs. So, good afternoon, my name is don xwoeld stao en a meer ofz the 7 year o el autistic boy, he's in the second green in the broward school system but he's working at a prekindergarten level, not because of his ability but because the system lack it is the training, resources and specialized programs to meet his needs. Right now his classroom has become more of a baby sitting

141environment than a place of learning and the educational gap is widening each year. Lang don deserve sos mump more, he has the right to an education tailored to his needs. The autism charter school has prover an specialized managed charter works and changes lives. Families here in broward desperately need the same opportunity as none current ri exists. A district managed charter school for autism would give children like landowning don access to education, therapies and individualized attention they deserve so they can grow, learn and reach their full potential. Broward county must replicate this model to ensure that equitable education based education tuned ada, our kids deserve more than excuse, they deserve dignity and respect and a school that works for them, please help make that a reality, I implore you to shadow our children for a day

142in the life of the public school system to get an inking of what we deal with as family and is what we have to advocate for on a daily basis and what bha is lacking. We wouldn't be asking for a charter school and alternative ifs the public school was providing the appropriate resources and education to our ese community. Thank you for your time. thank you. DR. Anthony sanders. I have spoken. catrico johnson and then theresa johnson and mary verdic. thank you to DR. Hepburn, school members, DR. Wanza and the redefining and right sizing team. My name is catrice rene johnson, I'm a community organizer with faith in florida. I am a proud product of the broward county schools and a very proud graduate of hallandale high school. I would say the year. In the right

143sizing and redefining of the current endeavor, I am here today on behalf of district 1, particularly hallandale high school, and mcni ch ol aniseed l school where there is great innovative learning experience in process -- in progress even today. In recent visits and tours, I was able to personally experience and witness the improvements and excellence of these two schools. I was even able to fly a simulation plane where I'm waiting on my wings and if anybody want to ride, see me after this, but I was able to have that experience at mcni ch ol middle school in their aerospace technology program. These two schools are an intricate part of our neighborhoods, schools and family, I know the strong impact and value of having quality educational opportunities in our own community and I stress, in our

144own community. As a part of the redefining process, I highly favor and support the full magnet high school operating -- high school operating on a four day week schedule, singing the framework model of pompano beach. In order to give hallandale high an equal fighting chance of survival, it needs to start with upgrades and investment of money and budget priorities and facility conditions and infrastructure. To be fair, this school needs immediate attention. There has been no upgrades at hallandale high school since its inception in 1973, let me let that rest right there, I ask hear that buzzer, I want to end with this question right here, is that anything good that could come out of hallandale, the the city of hallandale, here I am. thank you so much. Theresa johnson, mary furdic, then we have city

145manager mark, aaron goal and [Inaudible] Up. is it possible for me to switch with nicole morris, she has to leave and I'm planning to stay. Can we switch? absolutely. am I up now? yes. nicole morris, coral springs. I have a quick suggestion, looking at how this has been done the last two year, I think it would make sense if we did regional approaches where in the northwest, you just did one sweeping change, southwest, one sweeping change, rather than spot checking. Last year it was coconut creek elementary, this year, that feeds into margate, now margate's underenrolled, next year is going to be coral springs high school because these are feeder schools, they're at 73% of their capacity, if we do one sweeping change in the quadrants, I think that would be less heartburn for everyone tc4

146boundary khoiz proposal could not go to community conversations because it was not advertised on the flyer as a potential proposal, we got to coral springs high to find out that lion's creek had been add today the conversation, there was no one there to speak for lie yo n's creek, we hadn't come for any information, since then I looked at the feeders, you're going to take forest glen that has a 100% feeder pattern to coral springs high school and split them between lion's creek and coral springs middle school, lion creek feeds into monarch, now they're going to have a foururlit fefeed pattern, cocoral springs ementatary, I' en lklking abt t cocorasprings elementary since last arar, they are the most underenrolled school in the district, we were told we weren't going to talk about coral springs elementary

147but now it's on a list, tell us what you're going to do. They could easily [Inaudible] With parks t capacity is there. Brand purple for my friends who are here to support an autism charter school inside coral springs middle school, they would much rather have an autism charter or something similar inside the school rather than giving them another 5 or 6 hundred kids, we had major disruptions with behavior there, coral springers pd was out there because they couldn't manage dismiz sal so giving them another 500 middle school kids doesn't seem like a good answer. On SEPTEMBER 24, the city of coral springs sent an e-mail to the board and the superintendent requesting that a clear process and timeline for creating a boundary choice area for c4 was established. The district has said they don't have

148the desire, staff said they don't have a desire to get into a turf war with coral spring and is [Inaudible], we were asking them to give it back to establish a choice area, I hope someone today will advocate for that because we were told we were but now we weren't and it's frustrating. If we're going to look at a regional approach, I want to mention that we have an overenrolleded west glades at 115%. You said marjory stoneman douglas was overenrolled at 115% websinger ear not adding our overenrolled schools in the conversation, thank you. thank you, we have city manager mark, aaron gold, DR. Bernard jennings. good afternoon, mark, city manager for sub rao iz, my comments will be brief today. I want to thank the board and administration staff for their communication and their collaboration

149and transparency during this process. The city of sunrise has a longstanding history of celebrating and partnering with our schools here in sunrise. Most recently, we've partnered with the school board regarding west pine middle which is adjacent to our sports plex park, we're going to be investing several million dollars into open space areas, track, open play and also some pickleball that will be a shared use between west pine and the city of sunrise. When we heard about the consideration of the school closures and sunrise, we did some tours of both west pine and also bear, we do believe there is an opportunity for the city to further part mer with the school board to take over some of that space for community programming, so my messaging here today is that we're here to partner, expand our

150relationship and hopefully work with you to take over some spaces at one or both of those schools. Thank you. thank you. Aaron. thank you, I am so pleased to see this room so full today. This redefining process is so critical for our district and in order for it to be successful, the it is vital to have many deep and at times hard community strife -- driven community feedback. Similarly, it has been inspiring to see the enthusiasm at stranahan high school for the proposed maritime trades and culinary programs. These kinds of ideas rooted in innovation and directly aligned with community needs and local workforce demand are exactly the kinds of programs that will thrive and remain relevant for years to come. As you make decisions throughout the redefining process, I urge you to not only think

151about the immediate logistics and variables but also about the cascading impacts these choices will have on communities and over surrounding schools. I also ask that you look beyond grade reconfigurations and focus on building programs that define a school's future, not just their structure. The programers that succeed are the ones that happen to authentic local excitement and resource and is we see some of that here today. They meet real needs and are marketed in a way that genuinely reflects the value, not just a glossy flyer but marketing that highlights the voice ofs the students and staff who are having these positive experiences and we saw some of that at these community meetings, utilize the student and staff ambassadors of these programs. And finally please continue to find ways to engage communities meaningfully throughout the process especially

152as we move from ideas to implementation. We know and recognize that you are going to have to make hard decisions. The district should continue current and add more avenues for information sharing and gathering. If redefining is to result in parents selecting bcps above all of the expanding choices we are seeing, this is so critical. Please, please find ways to make the community part of the path forward, thank you. thank you, DR. Bernard jennings and then we have [Inaudible] And samuel smith. thank you, MADAM Chair. Members of the board, thank you, especially MS. Rebecca thompson, the superintendent, I come here today with a couple of hats. I'm the initiative of the good dads act, the lemg slaying in florida that gives equal rights to fathers to their children, and my book named after my son ethan

153here, as well as I'm vice CHAIRMAN Of the florida memorial university board of trustees. I'm a proud parent of a fifth grade student at pines lake elementary school, ethan, I'm a member of the school's pta and I come before you today not only as a parent but also as an advocate for students, teachers and staff whose voices too often go unheard. It is just a school, it's a neighborhood anchor, it's where families goths, where children discover their children and parents and educators come to invest in their faou klur and build equity and opportunity for the community. Closing this school or cutting its dedicated staff and administration would unravel a fabric of community of support that have taken generations to weave. We had staff that went to elementary school and have been 20 year employees at

154the school. Let me be clear, it is not a failing school, it shows academic stabilization, strong pta engagement and readiness. Our parents are financially committed, our community is deeply involved, the school's facilities remain strong and adaptable for innovative programs like stem track, dual emersion that can drive enrollment in the future, I'll compare this to palm cove elementary which faces atsi designation, federal oversight and targeted readiness interventions due to systemic deficiencies, pines lakes by contrast has not been flagged for these issues it is prover for the base of growth and revitalization, education is more about numbers on a spreadsheet, it is about children, about families and the more obligation to have a support of communities that are fighting for their schools. The parents, student and is staff, some of the other parents are here, I'm not

155sure the if they're speaking today, pine lakes elementary have shown their willingness to inv is their time, money and energy, what they need now is your commitment to stand with them. Today I ask you to reject any plan that would close pine lakes elementary or terminate its dedicated educators or administrators. I ask you the seize this moment to revise will liez it as a model of community driven success in broward county. Er thank you for your time, for your leadership and ensuring pine lakes remains not just a relic but are ae vitalized corner stone of educational excellence for our children and our future and I'm not sure if I can use my last two minutes to my son, no, we don't have two minutes. we'd love to hear student voices. Go ahead, david. thank you,

156my name is david, I'm a father of four children, I have gone through the broward county system. Three of which are autistic. There are five people enough to pitch a new charter school and thaing's ridiculous, 27 schools in broward county are charter, they have over 10 thousand astounds -- registered in charter schools. Broward county is going to be paying those charter schools an additional 100 million dollars plus that they say they need in addition to referendum we voted on a few years ago. 100 million plus. We don't need more charter schools, it enrages me trr so many people getting up here trying to pitch that especially because the supposed need for it is the one that I never saw with all of my aught t is I -- autistic children, with walter c. Young school,

157we're talking about closing it, one of the options they offered was demolishing it and building new housing and I'm not sure I understand the logic in considering that as a possible, if we're going to demolish the school to bring more logic in, when we bring people in with that housing, where are they going to go to school, we're going build a new school after that? It doesn't make any sense to me. I really loved hearing all these communities say that they want to pitch in and help out with all these schools. I think that's great. But then I hear them saying we're going to use these facilities to do things like new senior centers and they're going to pay for that, they're going to pay the schools for that if I'm understanding that correctly. My

158thought is if they can pay for these facilities, can they not pay to help keep the schools in their original function? I don't understand how some of these ideas are working but I feel like we're -- as has been said by some of the commissioners here, we're kicking the can down the road, with ear going to have keep closing schools unless we address the real issue which is that we're not fulfilling the needs that the schools have right now, we're not giving them the support they need, we're not standing up for them, we're capitulating to charter schools, we're capitulating to a lack of funding that wre ear not fighting for and when we should be fighting for the schools and what they need and what they've been begging for with all the people that have

159come up here. thank you. (Calling speaker names). good afternoon, board. Good afternoon, broward county pub luck schools, my name is sam smith, I have a sixth grader at coral springs middle school. I have two kids at country hills elementary school and my wife had to pick up the children so she couldn't be here to speak as well. But I'm here to express my disagreement with rezoning of coral springs middle school and forest glen middle school. Education for parents, I know for myself, and our family is first. We have education is number one, it's the number one thing, and I'll just say that coral springs middle school and all schools should focus -- for redefining our schools should be on expansion and educational excellence and that's not what is in the proposal for coral springs middle

160school and forest glen. Not regression and degradation of taking students and stuffing them -- and GOD bless them, they were at the coral springs high school and I think we all expressed our satisfaction with the education at both of our schools and I don't think it would be in either community to stuff these kids into coral springs middle. So, the proposal for rezoning forest glen, middle and coral springs middle does not -- it does just what I spoke to before, it's regression and degradation, it's not progress and focused on excellence. There's 25 plus kids in these class -- classrooms at coral springs middle school. Crowd control as was mentioned earlier was a problem last year. You know, we had police there. But we have a terrific team of educators, a terrific team of teachers, our

161principal, MRS. S, in could be junction with the parents that are there working with them. They're focused on excellence, and so coral springs middle has a great team and they're focused on educational excellence and this wouldn't do anything for the school, it would actually degrade the school, it would be sad, it would be a sad thing. Rezoning would not -- would break up the community, it would bring the kids from -- it would bring the kids from forest glen into that and it just wouldn't be right. Give me a couple of minutes. I would like to say that coral springs middle is getting better. As I said, the team of educators and the leaders and teachers are working together to make this opportunity. High achieving educational opportunity and excellence is a community need and a

162societal need, not only an individual need. thank you so much, sir, thank you. focusing on bettering our schools and making improvement tos schools like coral springs middle. thank you, sir, your time is up, thank you so much. [Inaudible] next up, we have christine williamson and then noel spence, then michael owen and jackie lescom. my turn? yes. good afternoon, I want to say the fire chief, khaoefp goldman wanted to be here but he had an emergency, you have deputy [Inaudible] That is taller and has a killer mustache as well so that's pretty good. I want to say thank you for the work that you all have done and the leadership you have shown throughout this process, the decisions that have been presented today is best in the long run for our students, our educators and our

163community as whole. As a broward county public school resident, our family has attended bcps. I'm personally invest ined the continuing strength of our schools and I serve as an assistant chief with fort lauderdale fire rescue overseeing the training bureau and special projects. It's in that capacity I stand before you today with a deep sense of gratitude and optimism for what this new chapter represents, the opportunity to partner with broward schools on the see agull school property is truly transformational. This collaboration between the school district and the city of fort lauderdale will provide a support training facility that serves not just our city but the entire region. It is well suited for this purpose, located in a primarily commercial area, close to fire station 3 and easily accessible for training operations. Its proximity allows our units

164to remain close to response areas and approving city fire and ems services. It will be a modern equipped campus under one roof. It offers classrooms, offices and intooter space that is will enable us to provide high squalt from ai simulation drives, to medical sources, it could serve as a permanent home for public education programs, cpr and first aid, along with growing engagement initiatives like our explore program. This partnership and facility will make us better at saving lives. Beyond its operational benefits, this facility will strengthen our regional partnerships, it will allow us to host multiple agency training exercises and enhance collaboration across jurisdictions. And with firefighters and police officers trained daily on-site, local businesses will feel a positive ripple effect and we'll keep the nearby rest ran busy, firefighters love to eat. It continues the seagull

165school's legacy of public service, this property was built with public funds to serve the public, through this partnership, it will keep doing exactly that. Been oh b e half of the city of fort lauderdale dresses cue, we're ready to roll up our sleeves and work side by side with you to bring this vision to light. thank you. Jackie, rene and mary. thank you, jackie lescom, as chair of ese advisory, I want to be clear what district managed charter managed is, very different to a regular model and I don't want anybody to feel what they've called for today is disrespected or misunderstood. I want to urge you to take seriously the appeals from the parents of students with disabilities who came here to consider a district managed autism charter. And some specifically named which operator. I

166know the district is also considering a bcps run autism school and I think it would be wise to do side by side comparisons, not for there to have already been decisions made, choices taken and entrenched attitudes, I think it's really important these parents have you consider fairly and fully what they're asking for. The concerns they've voiced also speak loudly, it's not necessarily because there's -- this is something that they wanted to have to do but also the reasons that they are looking at not wanting a bcpc school, I think it's important. Also I want you to be mindful when parents for disabilities are being spoken at in this process, on the information sheets that is were spread across the tables in the redefining community meetings, there was a space on each sheet for programs, not

167a single one listed ese programs. Also the information on this presentation here referred to pre-k students and out of boundary students, magnet students, students attending chart and he iser other bcps campuses but when it came o numerics around ese, the figures that were given were the number of ese classes, they cannot be spoken of asas collective classes, they should be spoken out dividually anand I'i' disappoioint to not see e numb up on e listfor eaeach scscolol. In coidideration a district managed autism charter, it's a school of choice, it's for parent would want their children there, 96 of whom compute to miami-dade every day, it is parent founded and parent governed. It is not the usual charter set up of a fox guiding the hen house and having zero accountability, it would be collaborative, not predatory,

168please explore it, please also consider other -- nicole messenger regionalization of this process and I think there were other disabilities to look at too, for example, you have centers for deaf and hard of hearing students where kids are having to sit on a bus for an hour and a half to two hours a day to get to the one and only center you provide. There are a lot to parse here and I want to appeal for when you have a partner that is potentially reaching out for partnership with you, please do not snub them but entertain them and give these parents the consideration they need. Thank you. thank you. Rene, mary and nicole. good afternoon, my name is noel spence, I'm currently the eye zone representative for the school advisory committee for mcnicol middle as

169well ass the parent rep for the feeder school, today I'm here to talk to you about mynicol of course, it is the feeder school for hallandale high. I know it was up for consideration possibly closing, who knows, I we're all happy to see we've reconsidered that idea and come to an agreement as far as recommending that we redefine by strengthening our current programming and allowing district and maybe city offices to come and utilize our school property. I just want to urge you guys to provide the resources and the money to help us strengthen these programs because the problem at mcnicol is that not that we already have great problem ins existence, people don't know about it. We need to put more money into stronger marketing effort sos that other parents and people in our community

170know programs available to them. We have an a if basing and aerospace technology program, we have an engineering technology program and a robotics technology program. In those three programs, we have state of the art top of the line innovative technology, the same programs, the same tools that they're using on university and college campuses across the country. Our middle schoolers have access to those same tools in their classrooms at mcnicol, that is nos something you sea in browardbacker broward county, the school we feed into which is hallandale high school will be implementing and starting their aviation and arrow naught I cans program next year, this will provide an continuation of the education that our students are receiving at mcnick kol so they can continue on that pathway of continuing in engineering and other stem programs. I

171also want to remind you that we're not just here to fight for our middle schoolers of today but also our middle schoolers of tomorrow, not only am I a mother of two middle schoolers that at mcnick kol middle, ie aem mother of an an elementary schooler, she's building robots and coding web pages, doing things that most 9 year-olds would never think of doing or even imagine doing. Where is she going to go if mcnick kol changes their programming or is redefined to offer a different program, where will she goes? She want tos continue with robotics and engineering and so do the other children. Let's keep these programs in our community so our children can continue on these pathways. Thank you so much. thank you, we had you earlier, so thank you for coming. Rene silva?

172MADAM Vice chair, members of the board, MR. Superintendent, DR. Wanza, community members and stakeholders, as you continue to work hard to crack the redefining nut, I would like you to consider the following, coral springs school should not close, [Inaudible] So it should not be considered as an option. Closing forest glen will gravely affect the feeder pattern to coral springs high school, currently it feeds 100% of its student tos coral springs high school and it will make a logistical mess at coral springs middle school. Also children's friends will be scattered over three or four high school at a time when making and maintaining relationships is vital for the development of their social skills. The community has been told time and time again that feeder patterns and keeping communities and neighborhoods together is sacrocent, let's not change

173that now. West glades is at 115% of capacity while the neighboring coral springs middle school could use some students. They both have or share a feeder pattern to msd, why not share some students with coral springs middle school, have you considered this? Coral springs middle school can also be leveraged to create an opportunity for autistic children to have a campus dedicated to their commitment, similar models have been successful in palm beach and dade counties and they seem to have high impact and high value for the community. Regarding the boundary choice area for the families has got rezoned during c4, I'm going to say the quiet part out loud, msd has empty seats sxit's currently enrolling students from the c4 area. I know this because I have spoken with several neighbors who within a year after

174the rezoning got the students -- their children enrolled in the school. Let us have boundary choice. School closures should be the last resort. Let's talk about redefining the board, let's talk about finding resources for teachers and students and avoid additional costs on contracts which can help us resource the schools. Thank you. thank you. So I've called mary, nicole and then mary furdic, gary and lair are the last on my list. If you heard your name called, please approach the podium. Go ahead, MS. Furdic. thank you for giving us this opportunity to meet as communities and discuss the future of our schools, as a long time supporter in broward county, it has been inspiring to see neighborhoods of our neighborhoods in fort lauderdale and schools, communities as well as alumni come forward to discuss how to

175address declining enrollment at [Inaudible] Elementary, we discussed a sports academy on this site for reasons which we've previously articulated, this program would continue in our feeder pattern. We've come before you twice to discuss this so I'm not going to speak on that as much but I am going to go to stranahan high school. Stranahan high school sit ons property donated by broward's first school teacher, ivy van hanh in memory of mark stranahan who ran a ferry on the river. And in honor of frank stranahan and in honor of all in those community, we have reached out to the marine industries association of south florida to discuss creating a unique maritime industries program at stranahan. i say unique because we don't intend to compete with south broward high school. Maritime industries are an 18.5 billion dollar

176business and they have an 18.5 billion dollar regional impact, 121 thousand jobs in broward county and a 9.9 billion dollar impact in broward county and I could go on and on, but you get the idea here. This is a big industry, there are many different things that can be taught and many different courses and pathways. And we are looking -- we are excited to be able to create something unique that will help children to graduate and get jobs, well paying jobs and support our local industries. When we were at stranahan since I have a few minutes, let me tell you, this district owes stranahan high school a huge marketing campaign and you owe them that because if you look at what happened with what you talked about during the bond program to sell that smart

177bond, you will see the decline in stranahan, and I just thank you for everything you did through that program, but you owe stranahan a huge marketing and we saw how you can do that because astounds of stranahan came to the meeting and they spoke and there wasn't one of us that didn't look at each other and didn't say, you know what, put those students up on tv and everyone's going to want to send their kids here. Finally I want to suggest that as I look in our community and others, analyze data before putting any programs in which are going the draw students from underenrolled middle and elementary schools. At least one of your proposals proposes a k-8 and a community where surrounding elementary and middle schools are underenrolled and they'll back to you next year,

178so thank you so much. thank you, laurie. good afternoon, everyone, laurie, PRESIDENT And ceo of junior achievement of south florida, school board members, DR. Hepburn, DR. Wanza, first I want to say thank you, this is hard work but you have done it with strategic focus and most importantly compassion, and always making sure that the vision to prepare our kids for the future is front and center. So, as you know, junior achievement is interested in continuing to build on the work that we have been doing together for many, many years, decades, and focusing on the secondary high school students as well as young adults. This center that we are proposing to build for you, with you, for your students, for our students would encompass a mandate just like the biz town in finance park for elementary

179and high school, it would expand the preapprenticeship which this year put 87 students into the pipeline working with your cte people, we recruited 300 students but we oar at full capacity. It would also allow us to continue to build on the employment program that we've been working with cte on, this summer we put 315 students into jobs but again, that limitation and capacity of space, squinting to work together on 3-d e, with you the center was well received from what I understand I could not be there that night, our chief program officer spoke with many of the parents nr that community, they were excited about this for their children, they were also interested in how we could use this center for them and that most excited us because that opens up so many opportunities for

180collaboration with other organizations that I've already started working with, there's opportunities to serve our community in the evenings and on weekends, so again, we are committed, we have a a donor who has committed ten million dollars to helping us to build this building. we have several others we're working with who have already committed verbally if this should work out but the ten million dollar donation does have a timeline on it. I have shared that with you all, the donor has expressed an urgent desire to make this happen. It's going to be named in her husband's name and she wants this to happen before she passes away as well. And so there is the opportunity, we are thrilled to be able to even sit down and discuss how you might want to also use this center

181to build on. So, thank you for opportunity, we look forward to partnering, continuing to go deep especially for our high school students. This is where it really counts. These kids are disengaged, we know that, this is the kind of education they're looking for, continuing to partner and connect them with academics and the real world. Thank you. thank you, that concludes our public speakers, so now we will go to board discussion. First I have MRS. Alhadeff. thank you. So, first I would like to just give an overall comment, thank you so much to everybody that came today and the elected officials, thank you to DR. Hepburn and DR. Wanza and your team for all of your hard work. I do think that career training programs, wherever we can implement them into our schools is something that

182is very up and coming and that is something that we should be doing. I am on page 23, a yes to the junior achievement of south florida, on the north folk almost ri school site, and I'm going to focus on district 4 and then I would like to hear from my colleagues, your comments in your district as to what you believe should happen. So, in regards to district 4, so coral springs is home to public schools serving more than 18 thousand students. The largest in broward county with 17 rated a schools, and the other schools just a few points away. I would like to thank the city of coral springs, they have invested significantly in strengthening the learning environments. For my new multigenerational facility at wi wan nis park which will benefit ramblewood mid 8

183school, ub graded pickleball courts, and nearly 4 thousand for renovated tennis court and is new pick.L ball courts and addressed seating, so thank you so much to the commissioners of coral springs for your collaboration with broward county public schools. So, forest glen middle school, I would just like the speak to some of the programs that they currently do have. They have cambridge international school, culinary, speech and debate, journalism, artistes, spanish, peer counseling, foundations of web design, pe, leadership, global perspectives, one of the things that they've had in the past but is not currently being offered, so, my suggestion is going to be adding additional programming to forest glen middle school. So, to bring back the marine science and forensic science classes as far as bringing that programming back to the school. And they've also have

184hosted special olympics for the last five years and they also have a boys and girls wrestling team who won the middle school ka frp championships last year. So, one of the things also forest glen middle school, and thank you to DR. Anthony zolar, he's the course director, he wrote me an e-mail and explained how forest glen has over 300 students enrolled in band and chorus, their chorus's award middle school coral program in broward county over the paz dozen year, no other school has earned as many superior rates at music performance assessment, they've reformed the national anthem in front of miami heat, mar lan, disney world ten times, they're the om middle school in the county to offer a boys chorus class, they have four levels of band including a jazz band for students who take

185two band programs per day. This obviously is not a school that we're looking to close. So, my proposal, my ask to the board is that we go back to the community, have more conversations, look to do more programming at forest glen, you know, maybe we'll explore some sort of arts magnet program. I know that there's been a lot of conversations about creating an autistic run school, whether that's at coral springs middle school but we need to look at those options, whether it's district run or charter run, whatever is going to be more beneficial for broward county public schools. Soya, one of the things, i don't know if staff -- MR. Sullivan, if you're able to print out the middle school number of students, if we can get that to the the board. So, we have

18636 middle schools, outs of the 36 middle schools, 19 are underenrolled more than forest glen middle school. Forest glen is at 439 students, so 19 middle schools are more underenrolled than forest glen middle school. I think that it's ridiculous that we would even be thinking about potentially closing forest glen middle school when compare today the other middle schools within the district, they are at a higher level than 19 other middle schools. So, granted can we look to add more programming, more innovation, absolutely yes, I would love to see that, and so I think my suggestion is to the board is that we go back to the community, have those conversations and see how we could bring additional students back to the schools in coral springs to just help to increase that enrollment beyond what it

187already is and I think that there is a tremendous amount of more other middle schools within the district that we should be focusing on. Those are my comments right now. Thank you. thank you, so to my colleagues, as you give your comments, please keep in mind MS. Alhadeff's proposal about forest glen. DR. Zeman? thank you, chair. I'm going to start with a shout-out to my colleague, great article, great, great article, and what's fascinating ababt. Thompsonon article e juju atatit inin out wh's's bebeme inevitableororththe health of our school system. As we have mentioned for the past several years, we have more buildings and more campuses than we could possibly afford and the cost of keeping too many campuses and too many school buildings and too many facilities of all kind and too much land of all

188kind, we're misappropriating our resources to buildings and grounds when we need to be spending money on students. And that's what we're doing again today. I just want to add something to MS. Thompson's article though. This year we lost ten thousand students in broward county public schools. MR. Superintendent, how many elementary schools is that equivalent to? go ahead, DR. Wanza, MR. Beck? it's approximately 15. great. In one year. so, let just center our comments on the problem that we have. In one year, we lost the equivalent of 15 elementary schools last year, we closed one school, had this year, the superintendent's proposing 7-10 depending on how you count. I'm going to argue that there's some value in thinking very hard this year about ripping the band aid off and doing more and I'll explain a little

189bit more why. First though, props to everyone involved led by DR. Wanza with the community meetings. They're the best I've seen, best I've seen when we've done dod repurposing of bases, when we've done other districts have been to go through some of these similar things and certainly the best that I have seen in broward county for the past ten years. We got to a lot of frank and honest discussions with the community about things that mattered and people were getting more and more realistic about the kinds of things that we need to spend our money on. I also want to thank MS. Paul for the fci data, it was a lot of work to xwet the contractor to get that to us, those 34 schools are going the help us make great decisions. I can't

190wait to get the balance of that data, it's awesome to that that. Just lastly in terp tof preamble, there's a vl of thinking of two sets of decisions, one is the school board's which is DR. Holness and everyone here has to do hard thinking and say this is surplus land, this is surplus schools, we want to spend our money op the student, not on the buildings. The second decision is what do we do after we've surplused the lands? I don't think that's our county school board's decision, ipg that's the school board in conjunction with the xlaount and particularly the cities knowing how much work they put into their planning for all of the land and how much they know about development. For the autistic students that have gained so much attention today, well deserved. I

191think we need the learn from miami-dade and palm beach, I think we need to learn from other districts, there are more districts in the united states han that and we need the come up with thoughtful data driven parent involved solution flt it MAY be one central autism school with autism related plus sda iblt salters, it MAY be one north and one south and four different center schools that do it for the parents who want to send their autistic doids a school that also has gen ed, we have to recognize the diversity of thought amongst the parents and what works were all the students. There's a lot of other things done by this board instead of closing schools, programs matter. Vr headsets matter, sports academies matter, making sure we're deliver thing vocational and technical education parents

192want, all of those are the changes we're getting with DR. Hepburn and this administration, we have to think about that because we are operating with much greater speed and agility than we ever have and we've responding to what the parent and is students need and I hope we'll continue that going forward. I think that there's other space uses that we could think about as well. We have a a number of schools even if we accepted all these recommendations plus the ones I'm going to subjecting, we have schools that will be operating at 60-80 per of capacity, that opens up some temporary solution that is we can do to help us achieve our strategic goals. In the end though, I think we leap in, there's 7-10 schools on the superintendent's list, that's not enough. If we

193don't make the decisions we're supposed to be making today, I don't know how much autonomy we're going to have next year to doing anything with the land we can do lots of things with. I would like to see 5-10 more schools, some ideas to consider in terms of getting to that. I would love to do some forward looking demographics. Not backward looking demographics, not snapshot of today, in downtown fort lauderdale, more in downtown hollywood, both cities are adding 7 thousand unit and is we're blowing away the demographic projections because families are moving there but we've got to make sure we solve that. That's a lot of kids in two concentrated areas. This morning for those who read the sun sentinel, the galleria came forward, 9-30 story buildings, another 4 thousand housing units on top of

194that all on one site in east fort lauderdale. Where are those kids going to go to school? We need to think about thing ins the future, not just today and in the past. I'm going challenge the superintendent and staff to do something they haven't done too which is to think about our successful schools, the ones with the waiting lists, the pompano high schools t marjory stoneman douglas, I know we have spaces there but there's going to be a big demand for those seats ins the next five years as things change up in parkland, it is cypress bay and other schools for which there is a a strong demand to go. If we can sell some land and get capital money, can we satisfy the communities's demand? It's something I haven't seen here before but I

195think it makes great sense, and just so I make sure I make the local newspaper, I'm going to propose for the 93rd time we sell this building and we create a kc wright building and campus at plantation middle school. I am tired of people looking at a glass palace and wondering why we're spending money here when we could be spending money at schools and I can't justify to anyone living in broward county anymore write wee have 100 million dollar property on the new river in downtown fort lauderdale. Last I checked, this is not the center of broward county sxit's not I don't think an o efficient use of taxpayer dollars. I'm yes on a lot of things, MR. Superintendent, thank you for bringing these to us, I believe as you and I have talked that

196great organizations have a buy a store action and this represents taking real action, thank you and your staff very much. I'm yes on hallandale high school become ago full magnet, there's nothing special about a four day work week, there's great leaders and great standards but I'm worried that the pour day school week is capturing a lot of people's attention and I don't think that's really special about pompano high school. I'm y on addicts, got to work with the community to figure out what the best use is, forest glen, pine lake, walter c. Young, seagull and whidden rogers, we need to make bold moves. We're right on mcnick kol, we need to learn more about that and I'm also right, thank you to our fire fite and he iser our public service folks involved in that,

197I just got to tell you, someone's going to have to buy the land for us to do this. We cannot give away land given the hole wre ear in with resources. I hope that multiple cities come together and figure out how the buy the land we have so we can do something really special there, just like we're doing for the hospital up in parkland if we ever get that closed. I'm no on great expansion. We need fewer campuses, fewer schools and fewer grades. Every time we add grades, we're compounding the problem. I'm no on moving too fast on a single site, preapprenticeship program. We've got to think hard about that, that's a real complex puzzle. Who's responsible for preapprentice programs, vocational and technical education, a lot of people are. Broward has a big role on

198that, broward college has a a big role in it, the private sector has a big role on it t marine industries run their own, I sit with senator gel lar on the trades council, there's 200 people working that puzzle. I think we naod to know more about that before we make up our decision and I'm anxious to hear what the city want tos do with north poke elementary school, I like all of these, on my list, that adds to ten schools. I also think we should sell kc wright, this particular building and start a new kc wright to move to more humble space in a place where we don't make people up in parkland drive an hour and people in deerfield drive 45 minutes, this is not the right place for broward county schools to

199be located. We've got to make sure we're serving our student tos the extent possible, thank you, chair. thank you, and just so I have this correct, you are a yes on forest glen, pine lake, seagull and whidden rogers and mcnick kol. yes on hallandale. yes on admits, yes on hallandale. Were you a no on ja in north oak? I don't think we've squared that yet, we don't know enough from the city, we don't know enough about the entire preapprenticeship program. are you a yes on surplus of that property?Frjt I'm a yes on north folk, yes, I am. you want them to examine it. what I don't know and this is an interesting question, the same amount of funds could put ja, a very auk senseful apprenticeship program at lots of our high school that is

200have space, and people are driving to what're now north folk to the attend those programs x those are five days a week programs, and that's a lot of cars on the road. Thank you. thank you, MS. Bulman? thank you, chair. before you start, in our comments, please consider also DR. Zeman's proposal on selling kcw, thank you. And whidden rogers. okay, I will. thank you, chair, thank you, DR. Wanza, and your team, you know, everyone has been commenting today about the great job that you you all have done and it's really true, we've been through -- this is I think year 3 that I've been experiencing this. I went through it, you know, five or six years ago, and this iteration has been very excellent. I know you've been working so hard so I really appreciate

201that and all the efforts of all the staff. And I really appreciate everyone that came out, I know a lot of people left already but I think the number of paem that came to speak today really shows us how invested people are in our schools and how important they are to the individual families and to the community. I know from my district 1, there's probably a lot of parents that weren't able to come today but we had an excellent showing from our representatives, our elected officials and from community advocates and that just is so important to know and for everyone to see, and there's so many people out there that really care about what happens to our school, what happens to our neighborhoods b, so we can't take these decisions lightly and I don't think

202we can look at them just as buildings, but we are in a situation right now where we're going to have some tough discussions and make some tough decisions and it's certainly not because of the quality of any school. There's a lot of forces that are working against us right now in terms of enrollment and everything else, so I appreciate having all these different possibilities for us to look into and to really try to figure out what the best way forward is for our school district. You know, each of us knows our district well and I appreciate -- I know that my colleagues are all very hardworking and that they know their district so I'm going to focus on mine and I'm going to wait to hear from my colleagues to see what their opinions are

203about their particular districts before I make any decisions, so I would like to first of all, I'll start with hallandale high, their community has been supportive of doing a pompano lake model there, but I think you heard from them that one of the issues that has been plaguing them since the place was built in 1973, there hasn't been any money put into it, it's difficult to attract students when your facilities are not attractive, so we have their support but we need a commitment that we're going to fund that program properly. I think it can be an excellent force to attract students from other -- from charter and from private schools as well in the south part of the county. So, I appreciate the opportunity for that, we really need the fund it and make sure

204the teachers are there and able to provide what they need to for that program and we also -- we don't need to replicate what's happen ining pompano, the south side is the south side, so we can take the community recommendation ins terms of partnerships, the kinds of industries that are in south side of the county that would be useful, partnerships for us to have with our students so they can can join our local workforce when they get out of school. I really appreciate pembrook park stepping out to be an excellent partner. She are funding our school lunches at watkins and forest lake elementary so none of the kids have to pay for school lunch and is they've stepped up again and want the take space in watkins elementary to start a senior program and I

205think that there is such a synergy there with the students because the seniors can read to the students, the f, there's all things that can be done interactive in a program like tha, I think that is a perfect fit, I'm grateful to pembrook park for coming up with that solution and being a great partner. And mcnicol, again, these were in talkers with the city of hollywood, I met with the city manager, there are some really good ideas that are being proposed for that and you hear from -- this is a really important school for the south side of the county. There isn't another middle school that really serves that, so to be able to continue to keep that pipeline going from mcnick cal to hallandale high is very important. In hallandale high, we have to

206remember to keep a certain amount of students from our local boundary reserved for hallandale high. Addicts middle school, I support having the technical school and having other like workforce training, I think that's really important. I think that community will really benefit from that and I think they will come to it and they will appreciate it, so I support that and then olson middle school, you know, we've said this on multiple occasions but the city of daubl beach has been an amazing partner with us. They came with a solution to do a partnership, they're building a state of the art athletic facility next to olson middle school which our students will be able to use during the day and that the community will be able to use in the evening and they're also going to take

207system of the space in olson middle school that will allow them to do a teen program after school which will also be serving our students at olson particularly because right now they get out of school very early. We MAY want to explore that not bingeing the case for next year, but that's another topic for another day. You know, I'll be interested to hear everybody else's opinions about the autism school and maybe have a little bit more of a side by side comparison of what that would look like as a charter -- a district charter versus a district run and what -- you know, there's kind of a competing voices here between the southwest and the northwest that seem to be interested in having this model. Is that something we would only have one in whole

208county or is that something we could do a school within a school in two different -- so, to help with the conversation that I expect from all the board members, just fyi, at the next redefining workshop, we will be bring ago side by side comparison, just so the board has a full understanding of the benefits or even the detriments just to compare and contrast district operated versus a district managed option for both, so that you are well informed so you can provide some guidance on what sepses we should pursue. And also the specific schools that could possibly be in the north or in the south because we don't want the parents all the way to the north coming all the way down south and also additional information, we plan on serving the parents that their

209student would be eligible for such a school to glean more insight, we're going to provide as much information as possible at the next workshop for the board to get some direction of where to go next, what option to exercise, if it's one or both. thank you, so some kind of broad things I think we really need to look at, just conversations we're ago about ai, technology, where the world is going, I've said this many times, technical programs, vocational, trade programs, sms something our public schools are uniquely situated to provide and I think it is so important we invest in that. That is going the distinguish us from all of the other choices and I think that's where we need to be making investments. I also think that we've traditionally been a county of magnet programs

210and I think we need look at how we're doing that a little bit differently, localized programming so we have it situated into regions so that we can -- that would allow -- and also streamline programming, there's feeder pat -- patterns that don't make sense, we'll save reducing buses routes, this is a big picture thing, this is not just closing schools, we need the figure out how we're going save money and we have to be serious about it. The community has spoken. I don't think they have the stomach to come back year after year to beg for the lives of their schools so we need to really be prepared to make our decisions. I think this is the third year we've been having these same conversations and we need to really get serious about making all

211these changes so that we can move forward without having to keep revisiting this every single year, and finally nce we're e lking about clososinour school e everyone's mimi t t totatalk out t it, I very much looking forward to seeing what we are doing as a district to cut our costs, so that we can show that we are also participating in the process as our communities are sacrificing and being impacted by this, we need to show that we're serious and that we are doing everything we can to reduce our budget so that we are running -- ready to align with the number of students we have now rather than ten years ago. Thank you. thank you. So, just so I have this correct, I didn't hear any new proposals from you, correct? Correct, okay. MS.

212Thompson? thank you, chair. And I hope my colleagues bear with me because I will be a little bit more long winded esspshlly because the majority of the proposals are affecting district 2. So I think this is incredibly a hard decision we're having today. Before I go into my questions, the data behind these proposals, I want to thank our students, our parents, our principles our teachers and community members for reaching out to me and my colleagues and advocate ifinger your schools. I want to thank the individuals that came all the way from district 2 to speak for you schools, kcw is not an easy location for us sxit's a difficult time especially for our parents and staff members to come out and speak. But they make sure their voices were heard through their e-mails they've sen

213to the board, through virtual town halls I hosted and also being the well attended town halls we had in the district all together. And I want to encourage my colleagues to make sure they're watching all the recordings of the town halls I have for the desire district sos you can hear directly from my community. After visiting every school in district 2, I have seen firsthand that each one is a special home for its students filled with teachers making an incredible impact and principals who inspire their staff to always put students first. And buzz I spent time in these schools, I understand how deeply connected our families and staff are to them. These are not just buildings, they're places filled with memories, friendships and pride. This is all happening through no fault of their own, not

214our students, parents or staff at these schools, so I think we can say the decision is difficult for us as board members, it's truly the community, the families, the students and the staff who have to live with them. You're the ones who have to tell your fourth grader their final year at their beloved elementary school will now be spent somewhere new or your sixth grader who found their footing at their middle school that they're going to have to start all over at a new campus. We won't be in the room with teachers who have to pack up their classrooms or where office staff wondering where they go next, or when principle pals have to face the parents with the news we closed the school. I think it is incredibly important throughout this conversation to recognize

215that. How did we get here. There have been warning signs for years, but the previous school board and district did not act. I don't believe this was out of malice, but because it is incredibly hard to look at families and teachers and principals in the eye and say that our district as it is currently operating isn't sustainable. And at the same time, we need to take accountability. We didn't adapt quickly enough to the educational landscape, the growth of taxpayer funded vouchers, the expansion of charter schools and the shifting enrollment patterns. And we consistently under-invested in our buildings in ways that could have brought our families back and kept the families we have. So, today it is this board's responsibility and our superintendent to finally face this reality head on. Since I have been elected, there

216have been several conversations that we have had as a board to direct the superintendent and his staff to find cuts but it isn't enough. We have been making cuts just to stay afloat, not to make better investments in our schools, and in many cases, our students are already feeling the impact through larger class sizes and fewer programs. Going forward, we need to make strategic student-centered decisions that protects what matters most. Smaller class sizes, strong extra curricular and same and supportive learning environments. Our focus has to remain on what happens in the classroom, not the next new initiative or gimmick, but the real work of teaching and learning that changes lives. So, before we get started and specific proposals, I would like a summary of what cuts we have made at the district level before we

217are looking at closing schools. DR. Hepburn? thanks for the question, MS. Thompson, that's a follow-up, I don't have that information in front of me. That would involve the last two years since I've been here of cuts in -- I'm having a brain freeze, on our org chart, thank you, on our org chart plus some cost savings and getting rid of certain contracts and programs, but we can provide that in a follow-up, I don't have that information in front of me. . Er are we looking at selling land? whatever pleases the board today, this is what this decision is about. sorry, can I cut you off? yes. I think it's important we have looked at surplusing land in our community because there's this dialogue out there we're not looking at selling off our additional property we

218haven't closed build? sing that's correct, we are in direct negotiations with broward health, parkland wesinger are surplusing two of our admin buildings, tssc annex and the other building and if there's any current recommendations based on the presentation. I think it's important that there's information out there that we are looking at cuts to the district level because our community members aren't hearing that and I think that's because we don't generally need community input to close a staff building but we are doing that as well. And I just want to echo my colleague, MS. Bulman's points, if we're asking our families to make these sacrifice that is we're prepared as district to make hard choice tos our central system. So, now two specific proposals, so the sunshine fairway in the pines lakes, palm cove consolidation, I would

219really like to hear from staff if we continue forward with those proposals, how are we choosing between schools? go ahead, DR. Wanza? so, thank you, MRS. Thompson, the first thing we have to consider is which facility obviously can accommodate combined populations, one, facility condition, two, those are the two main things, right so, when you look at sunshine and fairway, we know that both schools are located, I'm going to say in the same block the you will, one's on the north side of miramar parkway, one's on the south side, we would have to look at capacity, we would have to look at facility condition. Those would be two of the largest contributors and then obviously if it's the board's will that those are two schools we continue to have conversation, we will obviously listen to the

220community but we also have to look at capacity, facility condition would be two of the largest drivers. so, I would make a comment that I think we also need to look at what families are already choosing that school and not going to charter because if you were to close one where the majority of kids are choosing to go to that school that are neighborhood kids and the other one MAY be larger, but the community is already choosing not to go to that one as much, I think that needs to be a factor in our conversation with that. thank you. same with -- I want to say parental involvement as well, though I do know that communities for many different reasons aren't necessarily involved in the pta, I don't think that should be a hindrance, I

221think looking at what communities are choosing charter already and making sure that we don't accidentally push them to charter schools esspshlly in my district, there is plenty of charter school options. I also want to know, when I talk today the city, there was interest in partner witching the senior center for pines lakes. What happened with that? go ahead, DR. Wanza. we did have a conversation with the city manager and the assistant city manager, we are scheduling a visit. I've been kind of busy, so -- doing what? [Laughter]. We are scheduling a visit, I want to thank the legislative affairs department, they sent an e-mail I want to say yesterday making sure we coordinate the date and time, we're going to schedule a visit to go out and look at the pines lake facility because that

222is the facility that is adjacent to the senior center and they were looking at potentially utilizing -- partnering with us to utilize some space on the pines lakes campus for partnership with the senior center. so, then if we continue with this proposal but then there is a better opportunity for partnership with the city, would then both schools -- what would happen with that proposal if we have at this workshop said we wanted to close one of them? so, if I MAY, I want to draw what I believe what we asked -- that the staff asked, we're not asking which school to close today. I understand, so the proposal is to consolidate schools, correct? so, these two schools remain in the conversation, then we will definitely have all of the information, consideration input from the city,

223have the regional meeting, that would be at miramar high school, then all of that would factor into what would eventually become proposals for the boundary committee to consider and for the superintendent to make final recommendations to the board. okay. And then so moving on to glades middle school, I do think there's a very compelling argument to to convert glades middle sb a technical college especially because they're strong municipal support, there's also strong business support, there is something lacking in the west side of the county. However, I do have some concerns and a question. Is it possible to have the technical college on glades campus while maintaining it as a middle school? Did I stump you? you didn't stump me. I would be concerned about having that age level of student on a technical college campus

224and we have more than enough current waiting lists for technical college to fill that campus up plus more. Our only limit with our technical collages is space, the demand is high. A lot of business for collaboration business partners, shout out to fort lauderdale greater alliance, they reach out to us about demands, I would be concerned if we had middle school students and college campus in the same college. and a lot of people would -- how would the cambridge be maintained because they chose it for that reason, so where does the cambridge go? cambridge today and tomorrow won't be a unique program to an individual school. Cambridge is for middle schools will be districtwide eventually, you have a lot of middle schools offering it now. The whole concept around a cambridge magnet is going to be

225obsolete pretty quickly because it's just the way we do business when it comes to accelerated opportunities moving forward, so those -- that type of course work will be available to those students if they go to another school. okay. And then the there is a large population of out of boundary students, so how will these families be looked after to prevent the displacement if their schools close and will they receive priority in future school salaries? and I will let DR. Wanza provide information on that, it taoes same thing for us when we went through the broward estates transition where we had a lot of -- I would say the majority of the students were out of boundary and you can go over DR. Wanza, how we took care of those kids. thank you, you're spot on,

226approximately half of the student population at broward estates were students from outside the boundary, so, what we would do is whatever decision is made, then we would work with families around unique choices and unique needs of families. We'd -- we worked with the broward estates community, with the school choice options and so it would just be meeting with families, looking at what their unique situations are and doing personalized services. thank you. And then on to the expansion of k-8 since you're recommending I believe five. I know we talked about this earlier, I would just like you the clarify more my colleagues, bh you say you're looking at five, do you mean we're going to have five new k-8's? go ahead, DR. Wanza. thank you, MS. Thompson. One of the things that we know and you

227kind of alluded to in your opening comments was the k-8 model is something that is desiree by many families and -- desired by many families, so when we look at -- if the board so chooses that we are going to off-line -- transition glades middle from a traditional middle school, we have to look at what we're going to provide to families for the middle school grades if that area. So, once you -- glades middle is no long err traditional middle school, now you have silver trail, you have new renaissance and so many families would not want that option. They would ask and we have heard they would want to potentially extend the grades so we looked at the elementary schools west of I75 so that they have the option of remaining at their elementary school

228with extended grades or if they wanted the traditional middle school model depending on where they lived, it would be either silver trail or new renaissance, so that's why we would look at extending the grades of those elementary schools so that parents do have the option, as we had the conversation, it MAY not be as many because more parents MAY say, no, I want the middle school option so there MAY not be as many but at least we want the recognize we know that has been something that that community in particular has been desiring for quite some time. so, I would like to give my opinion on this. I don't believe there is capacity in the community for that many, I would say maybe one, potentially two depending on what the community says because ill like

229to remind my colleagues, coral cove and silver shores are already a k-8, that would create 7 in that community. And the reason we're looking at cosigning schools in my district is because of lack of students, so I think that would just continue to hurt the middle schools that remain. And as we pursue the k-8, there's an issue which I'm sure you know of already, the pick-up time at schools, so I've had principals who are considered to be k-8's reaching out and saying they don't want to be a k-8 if this issue isn't resolved prior, so it's the elementary kids being picked up at 2:00 and the middle school kids being picked up later, having that shared dismissal time. Can we get an update on what's happening with that. go ahead, DR. Wanza? I know MR.

230Strous has been working diligently, and he can probably give that update, what I will say and I had the conversation with my colleagues that while we go and visit other places, we do have a school right here in this district that has has been doing that model successfully since its inception. We probably need to study what beach side is doing because we never had that complaint from them. We need to study what they've been doing, they've been a k-8 model with the same dismissal time for k-8 since they opened in 2010. MR. Strauss and his team will work with them and we will obviously initiate what are the appropriate steps to bring rez lacing -- resolution to the concern. so, if this moves forward the broader, I would like that rez lacing to come with

231an idea, I can't support a k-8 expansion if I don't know they're going to be properly taken care of. thank you. so, then moving -- and I also think with that k-8 expansion, we had MS. Mcman at mcglades say that many of our almost ri schools are not equipped for elementary school students so how are we going to support that in a k-8 school as well. Moving on to walter c, there are two proposals, one would be closing, so I want to talk about that first, so as we heard t city of pembrook pines owns that land. They also own the library that walter c. Young is using which the lease is up next year, so the library lease but not our campus, so if we maintain it as a campus, we need to start

232looking at that issue. Just for my colleagues' knowledge, commission and the city manager have publicly stated they are not interested in expanding their charter schools. But is there a way that we can legally put that in a contract if we were to return that land to them that they aren't allowed to put it in -- he can't put a charter thing in that space? through the chair, so, we would have to take a look at the specific restrictions that you would want to put many my contract that you have with them. I can't say as I sit here, yes, definitively, as we craft contracts, we discover certain things can be done, cannot be done, maybe there's an alternative way of doing it. a charter shape thing. yes. so, I think that is something I think

233we would want to protect ourselves with if we do go por ward with closing walter c, and then I do have concerns wiwi closing g waltlt c becauau it would d a a lolossof a tradaditiol ddle school and pipes lakes foug very, very hard to make sure that their dual language program had a continuation into the middle school and if we close it, where do all those kids go? And I know you're going to say, well, we're proposing a k-8, however, that's going to have a dramatic impact on lakeside which has a very strong dual language program. So, I guess two questions in that, if we were not to make it a 3-8 and were to close walter c young, where would the families that is want a strong dual language middle school go? so,

234if we closed walter c, what's proposed is to split the boundary and the students will go either to silver trail or pines 6-12. So, then we would have to make some programmatic considerations around will a dual language, can silver trail and pines 6-12 support, deliver, you know, with all the components a dual language academy, I'm sorry, a dual language program, right, so that's the first part of if we were to close walter c all together and it's no longer an option, if walter c remains open, I don't think it would necessarily have a negative impact if you will on lakeside because it's more than dual language that's being proposed to be offered there, and it would also ensure that both lakeside and pines lakes have that middle school component, just something to consider. and so

235a 3-8, you would test into or what would that look like? so, for the gifted academy part, that would obviously require some type of assessment if you will but the dual language would not require a testing option. alright. And then so for panther run, I know we are going to come back with more information about the autism center to another board, so I will leave my comments there. However, I think I'm interested in keeping panther run on the list as a potential full center or to have a school within a school. I think we really need to consider the impact of it because what I don't want to happen is tell my panther run families that their school is safe because we open up the school within a school and then next year we come

236back and say just kidding, this is not sustainable, your school is closed. My community just can't do that anymore. So, then I have a couple more questions and then I'm done. Just in general, I've had a lot of staff reach out, so the staff members that are not tied to students because we've been telling families that teachers will follow the students, so our school counselors, our reading coaches, our math coach, the media specialists, the tech person, where will they go if we close a school? great question, so we're depending on attrition for those individuals to fill voids, we're trying to be very strategic with our hiring practices also. Sol f our school base administrators, principals and assistant principals, we're not filling those by going out, doing a traditional interview and all that, the only school

237we've filled is cypress bay high school, it's super large so we have to do something different there. For the rest of the schools, we're filling those voids with people who are in the leadership ship pipeline program so when these final recommendations are executed, we have places to staff individuals such as our guidance counselors, school techs and things like that, we have a lot of attrition over the year, we're hopeful most of those individuals will be able to find a home. so, I would like a staff follow-up on the attrition rates and how many people we have hired to fill and if there is -- how many staff are potentially displaced because what I don't want to do is say you're going find a a home and they call me because we closed their school and

238we can't find them a home. I'm hopeful but I can provide a follow-up. so, when we -- if we're expanding our k-8's, does that -- what happens to the schools that have pre-k ese classes and vpk? go ahead, DR. Wanza? k-8 obviously is what we normally call the school but many of our -- at least I would say several of our k-8's have pre-k, they all have space and availability for our ese programs, ese classrooms, it is a full school. And then it just -- we look at enrollment, we look at demand, I can tell you you look at many of our k-8's, they have pre-k components. and then my final question, I appreciate my colleagues for giving me more time, a lots of our speakers have asked for additional funding and a lot of

239times when I have gone out to my community, I have said if we close schools, that means we will be able to pool our resources. Is that true? Because I feel like we're also trying to fill funding gaps, so I just want to be abundantly clear if we go out and say if we close your school, you're going to have smaller class sizes and a new playground and new programs, that is a promise we can fulfill. I'm sorry, I thought you were making a statement, not a question. Yes, it would be pooled into the bucket of either a budget that's applicable for capital or general and the board would give us direction on how we use that money. so, if district 2 is primarily affected by all of these closures, like we did for broward

240estates, will that money stay within that district or will it be expanded throughout? that's a board decision. That was a board decision for broward estates also. okay. I can summarize if you would like, chair, unless you -- go ahead. alright. So, for panther run, I would like to continue the conversation with a true outlook on if we have a school within a school, if we'll be able to maintain that school community. For walter c young, I would like to continue the conversation both as a 3-8 and potential closure and bringing in our city partners. I think I said my k-8 stance, I did not believe we need more than one or two at maximum. I'm interested in pursuing the glades middle for the technical college and then I would like to continue the proposals to

241look at consolidating sunshine/fairway and pine cove making sure we're talking to those communities and looking at who's choosing to leave that school already. Thank you. thank you. DR. Holness? thank you, MADAM Chair. And thank you to everyone who came today to speak. Please understand that your input is very valuable to us. Thank you, DR. Hepburn, DR. Wanza and your team, we appreciate all of the efforts, and DR. Wanza, I know you've been to all of the community meetings. thank you so much, as well as your team, for what you have done. So, you know, I believe that as a school district, we're at a junction where we must make the tough decisions. I believe some of our decisions will not be popular but the consequences are real. If we don't make these decisions. And these

242consequences are at our borders. It is responsible of us to redefine broward county schools to save our schools. I am not in favor of selling any school property when we redefine our schools including in the context of what we term to be closing specific schools but using those properties for other purposes such as staffing and so on and so forth because I for one believe that while we're in this current situation, none of us can predict what the next 20 years will be from now when we will possibly need these properties again should we start to see an increase with enrollment with families moving into florida or the birthrate going up or whatever it will be. So I'm not in favor of selling any of our schools but repurposing them. I believe if we don't

243act immediately, others will act for us and so we must make these decisions. I have a few questions before I talk about the specific schools. DR. Hepburn, is it true that in the last 20 years or so, broward county schools have lost approximately 40-50 thousand students? that's correct. okay, and currently how many approximately empty seats do we have in broward county schools as opposed to where we were 20 years ago? 50 thousand. so, what current or pending florida bills or laws or statutes that MAY impact us if we don't act swiftly and comprehensive in broward county schools? go ahead, MR. Sullivan? the more recent one is the school of hope and it's a change of eligibility into the number of schools that could potentially be co-located by those operators. So, they would give us a

244notice of intent for facilities that can accommodate them and that notice has to be at least a year and up to two years. and DR. Hepburn, if you don't mind, MR. Sullivan, so that the general public can understand, if that should come to fruition, what would that mean for example with schools that are underenrolled or significantly underenrolled? again, those hope operators can give us a notice of intent to co-locate into those buildings. So I think it's important for the board to consider that as they consider how schools look like and what programs and people are placed in those buildings. okay, and MR. Sullivan, from your understanding, should schools co-locate into our traditional schools, who would foot the cost of these students? my best understanding of that is we cannot charge them to utilize the space

245in terms of some sort of rental or rental fee and we have to maintain those facilities including the portions that they use. okay, so if a school is say 60% enrolled, technically an al al -- al tern tier options of schools can come in there and occupy the other 40% and broward count tu schools would accommodate the cost to cover this? correct. DR. Hepburn, would it be then in the district's best interest as we mover forward to utilize as close as possible 100% of our facilities? yes, if that's the will of the board, to utilize 100% of our facilities versus surplusing them. so, based on mr. sullivan's comments, would it be fair to say if we don't agent as a district, there's a possibility and a strong possibility that others MAY act on our behalf?

246yes, that's affirmative. okay. Alright. So, I am going to -- and I just want to say to the public, based upon what we are getting and the feedback we're getting, it would not be responsible of us.We don't take action and if we don't make tough decisions because one way or another, we are going to be impacted as a district and if we don't act, then we are looking into the possibilities of other actions being taken by the state and so on and so forth, so I think it's really imperative we make these decisions and some of them as I said will be unpopular, so I just want to -- and DR. Zeman, you must have been reading my mind or my notes, but I have it here in my notes and I have met with

247a few others and I've also spoken to some city leaders as well including council member ryan stein of plantation regarding the kc wright building so we're looking at -- when we look at the kc wright building and MAY I say that wherever we should locate our school board head quarters, my hope is that kathleen c. Wright wre mains because the name travel widths the headquarters and not to a specific building so DR. Hepburn, what I would like to ask many element with DR. Zeman, we get an appraisal for the kc wright building, is there one that has been done? I are searched sdsh researched that this week, there hasn't been a current appraisal since it's been purchased so I've had MR. Ak baous koe start the process o get an appraisal for the billing. so,

248I hope DR. Hepburn, once we have this appraisal, I would love for you to present options for us that would be financially beneficial and support the redefining efforts, should the board approve the selling of the kc wright building, would that be -- noted. okay. And hopefully, you know, I would suggest as a part of the redefining process that the headquarters for broward county schools be located in a central location to echo DR. Zeman such as plantation middle school or any other central location we MAY consider in the redefining process. I believe I'm going the talk about their middle as well and to utilize existing space at any schools that we will be potentially cosigning for staffing that MAY not be essential to be within the headquarters of broward county schools. So, DR. Hepburn, I'm just

249providing my input. Would that be something that could possibly be considered? yes, so we'll start with the appraisal first and get that information to the board and then look at options that are available at that time if the board wants to direct us to go out and exercise an option to find a different space for our headquarters. okay, so I want to talk about north folk and while I -- and I appreciate the comments made on north folk, and while I appreciate the urgency of receiving 20 million dollars donation and having a time constraint to it, I also caution that this does not in some way create such a sense of urgency that it would preclude others from providing proposals for that location, so for north folk, I would suggest, DR. Hepburn, that we get

250additional proposals from stakeholders and consider those, or ja wall, so that proposal be considered, that it's reflective of other community programs that would be based on community input in addition to what they're proposing. So, I do hope that we are not considering north folk simply because of the 10 million dollars and simply because of the urgency that is expressed to move ahead in order to utilize this money. It is important that as a board, we consider the community's input and I'm not sure if we've gathered enough input on north folk to move ahead with ja wall, while I'm not in a position to ja wall, I would like to see we exhaust, DR. Hepburn, all options of seeking proposals from community stakeholders of that location before we move ahead with ja wall. If we do

251move ahead, eventually with ja wall, that ja wall consider programs within north folk that will benefit that community or even consider additional partners locally from the community that could utilize space in north folk as well. And I just want to mention that north folk and I had asked [Inaudible] To provide me with some demographics of north folk and north folk is 84% blacks, 12% whites, it is a title 1 school, 12% hispanic, so it's really important and by the way, as well, DR. Hepburn, north folk has a significant number of homeless students which is an anomaly compared to some of the other schools so I think it's important when we're repurposing north folk that we understand the community, that we value the community and value the kind of challenges they have before we take any

252action to move forward with any proposal. So, that is for north folk. I'm going to continue with -- let me see. I'm going to continue with [Inaudible] Marshal. The suggestion here is to transition fair good marshal to k-8 gifted education. What impact will this have on enrollment by enrollment in the surrounding elementary schools? as far as a k-8 gifted, dual language focus, it wouldn't have much of an impact. Parkway was the actual gifted school that drew kids from all over the county. I don't know the history but it kind of fizzled out so we're trying to rekindle that because in many of the meetings I've gone to if r the gifted advisory committee, they're asking for such a school so we're looking at options across the district so it's not one location, this would be

253one of several. right, so you don't anticipate this impacting the enrollment at dillard elementary or any of the other schools? The gifted students ar spread outhrorougho the coun,, ey're e not jujust -- thers s not 200 gifted kids at dillard elementary or at walker elementary, they're spread out throughout the county. regarding there and west pine middle, I did notice one of the potential strategies is to combine [Inaudible] School and west pine middle school, looking at the numbers on the bear and west pine, when we look at inbound and out bound students, if students were transitioned to bear to west pine in the ideal sense of the word, then there will be 1271 students, west pine has 1193, so can you expound on what challenges that would create should we move ahead with that option? I

254think it proposes a lot of benefits. When you have a school that starts getting 80% and above capacity, that provides opportunity to offer more programming, more specialty type programs within school because it's funded correctly. You're not utilizing just half of the space of the school and spend a lot of money on maintenance and operations for something you're not using so I don't think will be a lot of detriments. I guess you misunderstood my question, if we take all of the students at bear currently, the inbound and out bound, it would exceed the capacity of west pine it appears by a small margin, how would we deal with that challenge? go ahead, DR. Wanza, most of that is reassignment. thank you, DR. Hepburn, you hit the nail on the head, we would certainly limit -- thank

255you, joe, it would be under by 20 students, so we would definitely look at limiting to a greater degree the ability for parents to choose the school as a reassignment option. That's the biggest thing is that the school would not be one of those schools now that could accept a large number of reassignments because we've essentially changed its boundary so it has more students in the boundary to take up the seats that are there at the school. so, DR. Wanza, if at any point west pine should increase the enrollment where it's above capacity, would it then be considered to sort of reboundary some of those students into plantation 6-12, should plantation become a 6-12? so, there would be a school that would cover up now because of significant overenrollmentment, the board would have the option

256of exercising one of the strategies in the policy which is obviously a boundary change, we cap enrollment, there are several strategies we would have to then look at, realigning boundaries to accommodate an overenrolled school. correct. And DR. Wanza currently, with f we combine plantation middle with plantation high school, there would still be adequate room to acod -- accommodate additional students, correct? yes. so, I have a few suggestions, and then I wanted to make some general comments if you don't mind on the other areas of the district. So, number one, I am supportive of combining plantation middle with plantation high and plantation middle being utilized by the city of plantation that would enable opportunities for them to utilize the space as well as for them to offer -- I believe DR. Wanza, was the city going

257to offer some additional program at plantation 6-12 so they become a 6-12? yes, the city is very much interested in working to develop a public safety career pathway. and that would provide opportunities for the students should it merge for plantation 6-12? it would be at plantation high school, whatever grades plantation high school would serve, if it's 9-12 or 6-12, yes. and they would occupy if we so choose to proceed down that road, plantation middle school, the city? no. okay, so plantation middle school would become what? it would be another district use. We know that we have security operations there, so that could probably expand but it would be for another district use. The board obviously and the public sews in the appendix section, we have a slide that talks about all of the staff that

258have to be relocated from different administrative buildings. The two that are up for sale, one that has already been sold, to it would be whatever is determined operationally, but it would not be occupy -- occupied by the city. we would be able utilize 100% of plantation for district use? yes. and if we combine, DR. Hepburn, bear and west pine middle, we would be able to utilize all of bear middle school? yes, we can utilize bear middle skaor ork would with the city of sunrise for use too. I understand. So, MADAM Chair, I am also supportive of combining bear and west pine with the understanding that bear is utilized by the district for district purposes and that there's no intent to sell any of these properties. Number 3, I want to explore the selling of the

259kc wright building relocating the district headquarters possibly to the central area and keep kc wright as the name of wherever we relocate the headquarters. Let me see what else I have. And I just wanted to make some comments on the other areas of the district. I am supportive of hallandale magnet to mirror pompano beach. I wanted to ask a question about mcnicol, for mcnicol middle, does any of the potential strategies include the closing of mcnicol or it's partnering with hollywood to include community programs and career programs while the school remains open? so, there's no emphasis on closing that school. Those are partnerships and also district use. as long as there's no emphasis on closing that school, I am supportive of the partnership. Forest glen and coral springs, I noticed the fci is 29%. What does

260that mean, DR. Hepburn? i know we've looked at it before, so that means the school potentially has used its useful life, correct? repeat that question. for forest glen, it has the fci is 29%, I believe 30% and above is when it has exhausted its useful life, so 29% would mean it's -- it's close to being that within the next ten years or so of goipg beyond its useful life, but some caveats there, it MAY be specific buildings on that campus because I know we've built buildings on certain campuses over the years so the caveat would be there MAY be buildings on the campus that is not beyond its useful life but overall the school MAY be beyond its useful life but it MAY be buildings that are not. I understand, for forest glen, I am

261not supportive of the students going to lion's creek, if a strategy's going to be exercised, I will be more supportive of the students going to coral springs, ramblewood and saw grass springs, for coral springs elementary, is there a reason that we're not concerned merging coral springs elementary which seems underenrolled into parks elementary? I think that was add jis sent capacity issue. go ahead. it is an adjacent capacity issue. We did bring this up as part of the conversation last year and remember, it came off because of the adjacent capacity issue. okay. And for sunshine and fairway, fairway seems to have a greater capacity with a lower fci, so is there a reason that it appears that either one of those schools could merge as opposed to the one -- as opposed to keeping the one

262with greater capacity and lower fci? go ahead, DR. Wanz?A thank you, that was the part of the conversation and my response to MS. Thompson's question and she asked us to look at another element. We did say that the two driving or leading criteria would obvious be capacity and looking at the fa sit condition. fairway would have a greater capacity with lower fci so I'm assuming that would be in a better condition? according to the data, yes. right, so I'm just wondering why that decision wasn't made and it's still up in the air which of the two schools. well, the proposal obviously is to look at combining the schools into one and then using the other as a district use, so as we have the conversations with the community, we will speak to the facility condition

263and all of that and that MAY get us right there to that end. I understand, I'm wondering if there was an additional factor because I did see that fairway had a greater capacity and a lower fci, I was wondering if there was some other reason why we didn't support fairway being the choice of school to remain open. But okay, so for whidden roj and he iser seagull alternative high school, can you sdroib the population of seagull, we're looking at combining these two schools and I'm wondering woo kind of challenge would come about if we do that. DR. Wanza? seagull and whi drk den rogers are two of the districts four alternative high schools. Seagull, the major difference is seagull has the teen parent program, they both have the same academic programers for the students in

264grades 7-12, unlike cypress run, linear james, these aren't because of behavior infractions, these are kids that are overage for grade, looking to accelerate themselves, work at their own pace, graduate and move to whatever is their next post secondary option. Currently the child development program at seagull is housed on the whidden campus, so seagull has one program that we talked about the adults with disabilities program that we would relocate to another campus essentially located in the district but as far as the grade 7-12 student population, it's pretty much the same student population and programming opportunities and if I misrepresented anything, DR. Tumor who's the regent superintendent can fill in any apses. I'm supportive of that merger and I'm supportive of glades middle into a technical college in terms of its -- I believe it was sheridan

265that you mentioned, so I'm supportive of that as well. That's it, MADAM Chair, I hope you captured all my points. I believe I did, thank you. Now we have MS. Rupert. thank you. And I wanted to thank any parent and community members that are still back here with us. It's been a long day and we really appreciate the conversation and especially your time here. On page 23, I'm a yes for the sports academy. Also junior achievement, enhanced resource and is support for some programs offered at northside elementary school. Yes to plantation middle with plantation high. Yes to whidden rogers and seagull and I did have -- and yes to the maritime magnet program there too. Also number 4 would be hallandale. i had a question about how a full magnet program like pompano beach would

266work at hallandale being currently it's a magnet school and programs that their magnet programs they currently have there right now that are especially attracting people there, how will that work with the school work magnet or will that discontinue and it becomes a full school magnet, how would that work? And I know this could be a follow-up because we're going to have that conversation. DR. Wanza? thank you, I was going the -- I like the latter part of what MS. Rupert said, a a follow-up, because what I can tell you and MR. Strauss can chime in is currently the school, it is called hallandale all magnet high school and it does have some programs there that there is some student attraction, but I think the school and the community is looking to completely reimagine its entire

267magnet portfolio, I know some of their interests and it wouldn't be an exact mirror of the perms at pompano, it would be what's more attractive and demanding if you will in that part of the county and I can give two examples, for example, they back up to channel 10, they have a full broadcast journalism studio on campus and how does that become a pathway. They're right there two, three blocks, country blocks, country blockers -- blocks down from the city, coupled with other local businesses but they want to reimagine the entire magnet portfolio within the framework of how pompano operates and that is what seems to be attractive to the community in the city and MR. Strauss can fill in any gaps I MAY have missed because I know he actually toured pompano with them. and

268I wanted to give a little caution on if we're going to mess with what is special sauce of pompano beach high school, you can't do pomp -- pomp knee beach high school like phrase with a a friday, it's monday through thursday which attracts the tenured teachers that are all vying to go there and on fridays, it gives the students available to mentor, to tutor, to take accelerated classes and that is in essence something that really can't be broken up that way. I would be very supportive if we had another pompano-like that would be right for the community and would be very supportive of that. When it comes to margate middle, when I was going through this, I didn't quite see part of the conversation that did happen at coral springs high school which was --

269and I think you put it in but it didn't specify margate, that they were very amenable to having workforce careers and a true partnership with atc, and I don't know what that looks like for a middle school, I mean, do we currently have that right now? . Er? I'll let the regent sup speak, there MAY be some assemblance of it around the county and I tried to -- and I apologize because it wasn't as descriptive as that, I know you are absolutely correct, at meeting that evening, there was great interest and that's why I said an infusion of innovative programs, so we can certainly look at what does that look like, a partnership with atc as it relates to margate middle school. we're going bring information about the autism options that works best for the

270board, in ta same workshop, thanks for [Inaudible] Who's a director of magnet in those sorts that we will be bringing that type of information to the programmatic components because we're still meeting with partners who want to partner with us in scaling out and implementing new innovative programs in our schools that are meeting in high paying industry needs in the area or beyond also, so we'll bring more information about specifics in the next workshop as we move forward to talk about programmatic options. great. Thank you for that. So, I know that was a big part of the conversation there and I also want to caution us on making decisions boundary-wise that we have to truly count on joe and his team to really try to foresee into the future what would happen, and case in point,

271it was a surprise to me that lion's creek is down a little bit. So, I was a little surprised with that. I would not be supportive in having more kids go to lion's cream that way. I think that's disturbing neighborhoods and honestly as someone who went through it, we never in coconut creek talked about the city except calling it coconut creek. We all had our schools and is we were all in coconut creek, the boundary issue split us right in half, so I feel the pain, rebecca, because we lived through it and we still do, but it is good the know we have to truly as board members know the enrollment for all our schools even if it appears that your school is overcrowded and it's not. There's an issue there, so I would assume

272that it would be open for choice. So, that would be available for students that want to go there at this point. But that's really all I have for now. I did want to say yes for the extra programs with cambridge, I wanted that superintendent when we come back to it to make sure that people are going to know easily by the summer what programers are going to be at their middle schools because that's -- we want to get them to make sure they're either staying or choosing our middle schools. great point, they'll know way before summer. did I answer the questions? I think I'm going to go over some of the newer proposals at the end to get some feedback from the board because there were a few that many of us have not weighed

273in on yet. I think that's good for me for now, thank you. thank you, MR. Cervera? thank you, chair. Some general comments and thoughts about this whole process and what this board has to do here moving forward. First and foremost, DR. Valerie wanza, a special kudos and thanks to you for all of your hard work and putting all this together and your entire team. The meetings up and down the county over the last -- it feels like it's been like six months but I know it's only really been since SEPTEMBER, so thank you for all of your efforts and your preparation and ururard rk. All the e pares who paparticipatedinthose meetings, your engagement, your thoughts, your comments, your feedback was really just overall tremendous. I had the pleasure of attending the session at coral springs

274high school. I also made it a point to watch the remaining portion of those sessions on the becon broadcast either live or over the feed and I cannot say how encouraging it was to to see those parents, to see those community folks and to see our students engage with us in this process, their comments, their feedback, their thoughts and their suggestions. Just overall very, very encouraging and I'm fwlad -- glad that they were able to be a a part of that process, I'm glad their voices were able to be heard. To the folk that is attended the session today and spoke, I know most of you have thinned out, beat the traffic, probably a smart move, with you to those who came today took time out of their day to speak. We appreciate you, we

275hear you and most importantly I want to thank you for coming and for sharing your thoughts and your insights with us, again, very encouraging to see so many folks engage in this process. MS. Thompson, your article yesterday, I want to thank you personally for writing that. Er I think it took a lot of courage and a lot of guts to to put yourself out there. I know I speak from my folks if district 6, thank you for your trance plainer -- trance plainer and I and openness, thank you for take thing time to write that. These decisions this board faces are difficult ones and they're hard ones. I understand the loyalty that the parents, the neighbors, the relatives, the student feel to these schools, these local schools. A a lot of you, you know, it's

276a generational thing. Your mother went there, your cousins went there, you have family members that went there, you have a lot of friends that went there, it's deeply rooted into the community. I can certainly praoesh that. I understand the history and obviously I understand the loyalty and the desire for those institutions to remain open, for future generations, for your kids, for your grandkids. I went through the pipeline when I attended bro urtd county public school system, went to ramblewood school which is one of the schools that is on our list and I finished at jp terra vel la high school in 2001, I went through that feeder school pipeline and quite frankly, this is how things are poised to work in a perfect world. But today we face the reality that we're not in a

277perfect world anymore. We're far from it. We know the numbers, we've heard about it, my colleagues have talked about it, thousands and thousands of students have left our district or leave our district every year. I think the superintendent mentioned 50 thousand over the last 20 years. That's a lot and we did that analysis in comparing how many elementary schools tla would equate to, so clearly we've been on the decline for many, many years at this point. Yet despite all this, we still hear or are operating since it's the early 2000's and this has to stop. Drastic change in these situations is in fact needed. We have to give some very serious thought about closing these schools. If we don't and we heard, DR. Holness mentioned it, we heard from MR. Sullivan, if we don't act,

278we face the reality that the state might act for us. So, certainly while we still have the ability to do what we believe is right as board members, we have to take swift action. And before doing this in all fairness, I think it's only right and proper that we look at the financial impact and the financial benefit of taking such drastic type actions that are being contemplated in these meetings and in these discussions and in these conversations. In looking at the presentation that was prepared today, there's a slide, it's on page 45, and what that talks about is the savings value, the financial impact that the district would realize if in fact we closed our institutions. For example, if we close an elementary school that leads to an estimated savings of 1.8 million dollars. If

279we close a middle school, that would lead to an estimated savings of 2.7 million dollars. If we close a high school, that would lead to abestimated savings of 4.3 million dollars. So, MR. Superintendent, we have those breakdowns that are provided to us in the presentation here but there's some things I'm missing that I would like to know and I think my constituents and the taxpayers of broward county should know as well as my colleagues on the board. I would like the know the fair market value for some of these buildings that we are contemplating closing and how much that could generate for the district, whether we decide to ultimately sell those or lease those. So, what I would propose, DR. Hepburn, and hopefully you'll tell me this is possible, that we engage a real estate

280professional or use someone we have access to, or a consultant, bh it comes time that we aoefr putting this list together, this final list if you will, before we vote on anything that's final as far as closures or concern, I would like the know the fair market value of some of these schools.If we were to sell either the building and the land or combined or whatever, or if we were to lease. I would like to have an idea what the financial impact of taking these measures will be to the community. I want people to understand what we potentially have the ability to recover, I would suggest hundreds of millions of dollars depending on how many buildings we close and we sell off, and I think perhaps if we're going to make the hard decision to

281close some of these schools, perhaps the pill is easier to swallow and folks understand the amount of money that we are going to be recovering for that process and how we can reinvest those dollars beack into the community. I think we've heard and I know we've gone over with broward estates about there's certain funds we have to take and it has to be used for that and I think it was MS. Thompson who also had that as part of her presentation about how we're going reuse the funds and at this point, I would agree we should probably go back into those communities but I think in all fairness, I would like to know, MR. Superintendent, if this is something that can be accommodated, so we have a real world understanding of the dollars that we're

282talking about before making these ultimate decisions. so, if you go to page 54, the presentation, it already has the leasing rates annually for an elementary school and a middle school, so roughly about 2 million dollars annually as far as our revenue from leasing an elementary school and roughly about -- let's call it 3.5, 3.7 for a a middle school, but -- you're talking averages. I'm talking specifics. shocker let me ask you this, I want to make sure if I'm correct for the ask, for the schools in this presentation that we are recommending, to close to k-12 students, you want the annual leasing revenue and also an appraisal for those buildings? okay, let me go back for a sek. -- second. I appreciate the average number is in here, I did see those, but what I

283would like when -- before the final decision is made, I would like specifics, so for instance, and I'm not going to the call out any specific school by name because I don't want to do that, so if we're going to say school a, school b and school c are going -- there's going to be a decision that's going to be made by the board as to whether or not we're going to close school a, b or c, before that vote comes to had board, I would like a real estate professional to report back to us and tell us that the fair market value of building a is 50 million, the fair market value of building b is 75 million, and the fair market value of building c is 20 million, within that fair market value

284report, I would also like to see the fair market rental value for building a, if you were to do it on a standard 12 year lease with a three to five renewal option, it would be x dollars a a month. understood. I would like to see those specifics as opposed to just -- I appreciate the averages on the page but I would like the see the specifics as on an institution by institution basis before we make our final decision in DECEMBER or JANUARY, whenever the final -- understood. So, I know we can most likely get you the leasing information because we can do that in internally. The real estate professional or appraisal, that will bear a cost, so I want to make sure as a board, do we have consensus for that aspect. And then

285I'll lean into MS. Paul to find out a timeline, could we appraise that many buildings prior to bringing the final recommendation in JANUARY? let me clarify because obviously I understand what goes into a real estate appraisal, I'm not looking for a detailed real estate appraisal, I'm looking for in a residential world, we would call a comp, right. It's just a basic sliding scale type number, like we think this building is between 50-60 million dollars, I don't want a full out appraisal we're going to have o do inspections, I don't want all of that, I want a commercial building comparable number of what we have on the list and that sliding -- it's usually between 10-15 thousand in the residential world, I would imagine in a commercial world, it's probably close to that as well, not

286a formal, I don't want comparable. I realize -- understood, it still bears a cost, I want, MS. Paul, if there's additional information to weigh in on timeline. yes, sir, to revisit, what you see on page 54 is that scale that's based on a commercial rate for leasing, so, what we would provide is pretty much the same as what you see on page 54 for each building, so we would go by the commercial comps square footage, that sort of thing. And I would have to respond back to the superintendent in terms of the time element associated with had this. is there a cost for not the leasing part but the actual value of the -- the value of the school with a commercial real estate professional. if we do it internally, we can just look at

287some of the comps, but typically for something like this, we do get a company, we have a couple of companies on contract to do this. so it would not be an additional cost? it would be whatever spending authority we have on the contract. alright. so, it sounds unlikely this is a real possibility, that's fantastic. I know the ask -- I thought I heard the ask was made with the kc wright building as well as far as the comp and that's great. DR. Hepburn, following up still on the kc wright aspect, I heard from obviously DR. Zeman and DR. Holness about potential desire to have that building sold, doctor o this building I should say. If that is the case, I guess the next obviously question is where we would go, wherever we go, is this

288a situation where we would be moving into a space that is not being fully utilized that we can just kind of slide into or is this something where we now have to go and rent another building that's going to be more cost to the district and to the taxpayers? we will find a space that's not fully utilized. If the plantation middle school option is supported by the board with transitioning the middle school into a 6-er 12 with a high school, we MAY baibl, we need to evaluate how much space the security team will occupy to see how much space we have available for board meetings, house some of the cabinet and other staff, so we will have to look around to make sure we can accommodate ourselves in that particular space, it's centrally located. That

289conversation's been brought up before, that's probably the 30 I've heard this conversation, let's see if we can accommodate in that space. If we have to find a space outside of the school, we would have that conversation with the board, but we would look at our space first as centrally located. thank you, and DR. Hepburn, we heard from a lot of parents this afternoon and I've heard this from some of my constituents as well about the autism charter. Realistically and understanding the different needs that would be required to go into a fully functional autism charter school, what would be the time range in which we can get something like that operational assuming that is ultimately the will of the board and we go in that direction? so, for district operator, we can get that up and

290running for this school year, it's 26-27 school year, for chart er options, we would have to talk with charter schools that MAY be interested in working with us and having us manage the charter school to see what their timeline would look like to xwet it -- get it up and running. For district operator, we can get it up and running in the next school year. this is something we can turn around very quickly? yes. thank you, nothing further from me. thank you. Before we go to a second round, I would like to go. So, I will reiterate my appreciation for everyone who has participated in this process, from our staff to the community to the parents, especially to the students who at every meeting I was at spoke really passionately and eloquently about their community,

291so thank you. I kind of want to start with some big picture pieces. So, number one, as we go through this process moving forward and for future years, I want us to think about communication. It was really encouraging to hear MR. Sparks say today that this is the first time he's felt good about this process and that we don't often hear feedback like that regarding painful decisions we've had, so kudos to staff for making that happen and having members of the community trust us a little bit. With that said, we did hear from the city of [Inaudible] Beach, I heard from different school communities, algt bit about being blindsided so they showed up to a meeting, the first they heard about a certain proposal was a flyer being handed out. So I just want us

292to think about -- I know that staff and the superintendent went and met with the cities but ill like us to think about overcommunicating in the future. One thing that really resonated with me especially during the stranahan meeting was around marketing and I think we have an incredible opportunity with our students to do some student generated marketing, so hearing the students at stranahan high school talk about the amazing things happen at stranahan high school and seeing the band, it really, you know, got people excited especially the alumni about sending their own children to stranahan, so I hope that part of when we're talking about redefining, we're redefining our district centering on student voice and I think a lot of student centered content and student generated content would be really interesting and fun because kids, we

293heard in the workshop two weeks ago that they trust each other and take their word for it better than when it comes from us. So, I just had to make that point. I think to repeat something one of my colleagues said earlier, MR. Cervera, I think you read my notes because I was going to ask about the financial impact of each of these proposals. I think like moving forward, I would really like to see for each of the proposed strategies what would be the financial impact of that and I want to come back to -- no, aisle say this right now. Does the slide on page 45 about we would save x amount of dollars if we close an elementary school the tell the -- I feel like we're missing some context there, so, for

294instance, if -- and I want to -- before I say anything, I do not support closing forest glen, but I'm just using this as an example. If we were to close forest glen and utilize it for another district use, are we saving, what is it, 4 million dollars or 3 million dollars? if we -- there's -- the context is different per squaol because we have a different of support support staff, so if we go by the average that's listed here for forest glen, if it was to close out to k-8 students and is not utilize for district use, it would save about 2.7, depend on the context for that school. If it were to be used for district use, because we are still utilizing ewe tits, we MAY still utilize custodians, it will be less

295because it's not kids in the building. Conversing with the team to get some numbers, you can minus 400 thousand dollars, just call it 500 thousand because of -- you have to pay for utilities, you have to pay for maintenance operations and things like that, you're not paying for a a principal or assistant principals and other support staff and the additional needs of custodians based on the number of kids in the building so you would have some savings but it wouldn't be the same amount of savings if it were being used for district use. I want us to be real about the financial impact. Let me go back, on slide 45 where it says to close an almost ri school, we would save and this would be to full out close, not for other district use,

296we would save 1 million, is that annually or a one-time savings. technically it's annual because you're not paying for the principal, tiets principal for that for every site. so, if we were to do the proposal for forest glen which would be to use it for another diststct use, we wowod d save anannually about 500 thousand dollars? no, you would save about 2 million dollars. we were going to use it for other district use?Frjts correct, right now the average is 2.7 based on our rough calculations. If we use it for additional district use, now you're adding back in the cost of utilities and some maintenance, so take off 500 thousand. I misunderstood that, okay. So, I think next time, it might be helpful to -- well, I think I would ask that next time when you

297have these proposals, we have an exact -- not an estimated dollar amount to the each proposal, we expect the financial impact of this to be this. I would say the same thing for enrollment projections. So, which brings me to my next question and I kind of go back and forth between these two issues. Have we done a an after action report based on the changes that we made in redefining last year? yes, the increased enrollment at those particular schools, so there is an increase in enrollment. I think the goal for many of those schools is 75-100 for the grade level ban, so how many for the students for sixth grade to pay for some of the transition of those costs, so those schools have met their goals of 75 students or more. okay. I would

298really be interested in next time also being presented with that information but moving forward for these -- for these proposals, I think it would be very helpful for us to to have some enrollment projections for each proposal, so just to go back to the forest glen, just because that's easy, again, I do not support closing forest glen so I want to be clear with that. If we were to do that, what would be the impacted -- the impacts of that, as well as the impacts of expanding the k-8's, so I think for me, a financial impact for each proposal, an enrollment projection for each proposal, as well as looking at some sort of after action report from the changes that we made last year by expanding some k-8's and the changes made at broward estates.

299if I can add, MADAM Chair, so some of this will be slightly about enrollment projections, more so -- and some of it is about consolidating because there's just been a perennial loss of students in certain pareses of the district, so when we're consolidating schools, it's not so much more about increasing enrollment, more so than doing something has's more fiscally responsible and consolidating schools for maximum impact of the funding but we do for programmatic changes of schools that we're not consolidating, those would be more so about -- just to clarify. yeah, no, I hear you. we'll have all that information in there though. I guess I should use a different word, so -- enrollment change estimates or something like that. Like, for instance, if were to do an autism school, a special autism school, whether district

300managed charter or something else, what would be the impact we would expect on our clusters? There are several schools in my district that have substantial thriving clusters. Would we expect that autism school to pull from the clusters, just so we can make a fully informed -- absolutely, once we give the survey to the parents that have eligible students that can go to a program like that, it will be better data for the board to make a decision. If we have -- send that survey out and 98% of the students will say, no, I'm not taking advantage of that, that's a different decision rather than if 20-30% say yes. Er in addition to changing the boundaries and things like that, I would like so see some projections how that would play out. I agree with MS.

301Bulman in the idea that, you know, we are asking the community to up-end a significant part of their lives and if we are going to ask that of our communities in closing a school or consolidating a school, we need to do the analogous thing at the district, so for back of a better term, closing departments, and I know that sounds scary, but I think both symbolically and financially and pragmatically, that's what makes sense. So, I think that we really need to look at that as we do the org chart and the budget. To speak to the whidden rogers/seagull proposal, to be very transparent, seagull has a special place in my heart and I would encourage all of my colleagues to go visit whidden rogers and seagull because I would anticipate you all have students from

302your district attending those schools and the things they do at those schools are very -- they're beautiful and I invite you, I hope you all come to their graduations next year as well. So I just need some reassurance about a few issues if we are to move seagull to whidden rogers. Would the services for our parents students be maintained at whidden rogers if we were to -- yes, we have evaluated the possible consolidation and it more than has the facilities to meet the needs of the current programs at seagull. okay, and so I know that both schools have extra support for students. Would those supports follow the seagull students? Yefrjt. okay. And we would still maintain the child care aspect for the students and our employees at whidden rogers? yes. we don't plan on diminishing

303any program from seagull during that transition. got it, okay. I do not -- I believe one of my colleagues, I didn't hear consensus, I do not support giving up both of those properties. I think these schools really -- I encourage you to visit, they really provide important programs for our students who might otherwise be overlooked and they do really incredible things. So, and I support if we are to move the seagull students to whidden rogers, I would support allowing the city of fort lauderdale to use the seagull property. What would that look like, would we be looking to sell or to lease, what is the goal there? the initial thought was to lease, so we can maintain that property. The case down the line, if the pendulum swings and people have more babies again, the

304gen alpha, come on, and if we need a property we could always negotiate and do what we need to do, if we need to built additional schools in the future. got it, thank you. I am with DR. Holness on the idea of not selling our school sites. I'm very interested in as we consolidate properties or consolidate schools, I'm very interested in leasing. I do very much support the idea that the people who currently work in this building should work at school sites. So, I'm interested in exploring what can be done with this building, whether that's selling or leasing and doing affordable housing and doing a profit share, I would be interested in multiple different options in that given that the kathleen c. Wright legacy is carried on wherever the headquarters for the school board is

305moved. I do not support the expansion of additional k-8's, I support the partnership with pembrook park. I think that was incredible, that's something I learned today about the school lunches, very cool. I support seeking additional proposals for north fork as DR. Holness suggest, that's a very important piece of land and I think that exploring everything available before making a decision would be wise . I think that's where I a am now. I have MRS. Alhadeff on the list to speak. if I could, before we transition, so, and you could help me out here, DR. Wanza, walter c. Young, I haven't heard about that, but if the board is entertaining something different than where walter c. Young is right now, additional k-8's will be needed because of -- if we're closing xwlaids glades, yes, if we

306close glades, the transition to [Inaudible], you would need the additional k-8's, so I want to make sure the board is aware of the purpose of the k-8's is to accommodate more middle school grade level ins the south due to glades middle transitioning to something else. thank you for clarifying that, I am more flexible on that depending on the decisions that are made, thank you. And I support MR. Cervera's wanting kind of an idea of what everything will cost, so I have MS. Alhadeff on the list to speak and then MS. Bulman and if anyone else wants to speak again, please. to speak to the k-8's, I know the experience many my district with the k-8's, the middle school part of it wasn't funded appropriately, so they weren't getting specials and then it ultimately failed. If

307we're going to do the k-8 to mod dl swre, to make sure we're funding it appropriately. In regards to the kc wright building and selling it, I am open to that opportunity. I think that having our staff in our schools is going to make our schools stronger and so ill like to see what that would look like. And then between the seagull and the whidden rogers, I would say look at the facilities assessment, see which one has a better building to combine the two. And I think that wasn't really talked a a lot about today is the facilities assessments that we've done. I think that is a strategic part of this whole conversation with all of these different schools and so when this comes back to us again, that we really need to look at

308that part of it and also to look at feeder patterns and the financial savings, specifically on each of these decisions that we're making. Thank you. thank you, MS. Bulman? thank you. First of all, I wanted to add because I was going to ask this question anyway in a request, so, MS. Thompson had made an inquiry regarding attrition and so I wanted to add to that because I think that hers was -- I don't remember what you asked exactly, but I wanted to add to that to ask how many positions with ve fill internally since JULY 1, 2025. When a current employee resigned, retired or otherwise left their position, if we filled any of those externally, if you could provide a list of those positions and the salaries. I support looking into salary and kc wright.

309The north fork, if we're going to get into business here, the north fork situation, I would like to get a little bit more information because we're throwing around this 10 million dollar figure but I was never under the impression we were getting the ten million dollar, okay, so just everyone knows, we're not getting ten million dollars, ja is fweting ten million dollars. Additionally, my understanding that I just learned is that we pay ja to provide our students with the services. So, I'm having a hard time understanding why we would be giving land to ja potentially for free, just wondering. My other understanding is that that's a prime piece of real estate there. So, I support DR. Holness, I think we need to look into other opportunities. We've got plenty of places that we could put

310ja if they're looking for something, but if we're going to get down to business and people want our spaces, then leasing opportunities are definitely something we need to be exploring. And I think that was all that I had. And then with the seagull/whidden rogers, is it an either/or for the fire department? it's seagull. they want seagull. and westbound hidden rogers is the better of the two, if you go to seagull, it's more module and more portables and whidden rogers has more permanent buildings that more recently received a lot of construction upgrades a also. . Inger okay, so I support that and then I think what my colleagues have said, we can't ever make a decision on anything until we understand the financial impact. If we're moving all of these pieces around, we heard from the

311community and I think we did a good job last year, the k-8's were funded well, the schools got a lot of attention they needed. I know I can speak to that personally, so, if we can -- we need to make sure we're able to do that so we're accomplishing what we're doing, otherwise it's kind of an exercise in futility, so we need to look at those. I think that that's correct, we need the to look at the financial impact. And then ultimately we're going to need an overarching business plan for our property and ill really like to have a an idea of what it looks like, what the projection is of schools, of hope, if that is a threat in broward county, if that's something we need to be preparing for or if we can

312take a different -- if the market is saturated in broward and we need to be looking into a different direction and figuring out how we can lease some of our properties and make some money off of them. So, I think that -- I mean, I don't know if we do that internally or if we hire a consultant to do that, I think we can make a lot more money if we were doing this quickly and acting and if we had a professional that was well versed in this doing that because we need to figure out how we're making our assets work for us. so, I would say the first step is we have to get some buildings off-line if we're going to lease them first. The second thing I want to point out to the

313board, on the OCTOBER 21 workshop, the first iteration of the fca reports, MS. Paul and bureau ver right tas going through that to see how that process works, what does it sbal, more reports will be coming out over the next few months. They are going to -- they're many the process of rfp for a master planner that will help a lot with what you're discussing as far as do we utilize -- and the board needs to make about our priorities, the one that is have an fci index or are close in the life and what do we do with those properties because it doesn't make a lot of sense to continue to pour money into them. There are a lot of decisions to make moving forward. I can tell you that they're not going to

314want to rent a space that is not useable, if it requires a lot of money to maintain, they're not going want to use that space. I would like to get an idea? absolutely. and then another point to the master. What kind of a position is that and excuse my ignorance, it seems to me that we have a urban planning situation, so is it the same thing? We have a lot of green space. There is a lot of potential partnerships with all of our municipalities can our master planner be a urban planner? I can get information on it looks for the times. good afternoon, again, board chair, superintendent, hepburn and board members. So you pretty much hit on all of those things that a master planner will do. They will engage with the community to to

315get additional information, start by conversation about what community needs, that are most important to the various cities, communities and so forth. They will look at the fc a da that we have selected and work in concert with staff to also come up with a priority list, based on the input we get from the communities, the board and so forth. So it's just that what it says in the title, a master facility planner. I'm looking at the whole system of our buildings from administration buildings to schools, to you know, everything that, every property element that we have and come up with a help us come up with a plan. And present it to the board and more importantly too, it, master planner also looks outward in terms of where do we want to be e next

316five oror ten years a school diststrict ththey'll ininrporatate whether intend to go out for a bond in 2028 and those kinds of things and look at what makes sense in terms of our footprint as a school district and just give us a 360 view of the school district. So I'm pretty excited about that peace. that sounds great, how do we select said master planner? I am going to say it, an rfp. okay. that is it, thank you. MADAM Chair? all right, DR. Holness. thank you, MADAM Chair. So, I do support the superintendent look into district manage autism charter for possibly the south and north. I am not and I will reiterate, I'm not in favor of selling schools that we're repurposing, if we consider selling the casey right billing rights and moving to these locations.

317I think it's important that we understand that history tends to be cyclical, where it repeats itself. So we MAY be under enrolled today, but if we're not careful and we're, we MAY become short sided and 20-30 years from now we're over enrolled and we don't have space for students in broward county schools. So I think we have a responsibility to not only think of the moment but to think of generation to see come as we move forward. Just like population trends is cyclical, the stock market is cyclical, these are things that we have to consider. And DR. Hepburn, from what I heard, I hope if we're going to have another phase that we don't call it phase 3, we call it phase final. I don't think we want to keep doing this over and over,

318so I hope the next time we do this, it's final phase. And, and no longer in numerical progression type, because I think the community can't observe too much of this. That's it for me. Thank you. thank you, MS. Thompson? I just had a follow-up question about getting a master planner, an rfp would take six to nine months? Or faster? How quickly could that be done? our intent is to put the rfpl this month. And typically, you know, it should not take as long as other things, because we're just, looking for a firm to do a specific item. so I don't foresee it taking six months. I'll follow-up with a time line for the board expedited timeline. but then, it would still not be done by JANUARY, correct? so quite honestly, what I believe is important

319is we go through this process the master planner is looking at kind of where we are now and where we want to be in ten years. So it goes in concert with this conversation is happening right now. So you don't need the master planner in place by JANUARY. ?Fm I was going to reiterate that too. This is about addressing under enrollment and master planner is going to be way beyond that. You MAY have a school that is over populated by it's, the facility wise, does not meet the needs flt students in the community. So in those situations, the board will have to make a decision about how do you build a replacement school and those things? So a master planner is a wider scope than this. I just have a problem, if we are going

320to my community and saying we're about to close five to six schools and now we're going to get a master planner and maybe this master planner, will say, actually you didn't need to do that. I'm struggling with that. not to the master planner, our struggle right now is that we have perennially under enrolled schools. So that is what is in front of us right now. a master planner will most likely give us the same information about under enrolled schools that we need to do something to lessen our footprint but in addition, they're going to give us information about what we need to do about all of our existing buildings. If you have, comparable enrolled school, and this building is too old and you need to build a replacement school. So what we're facing right now

321is under enrolled and we're dealing with that and use being all the data available for the 34 schools that need to be addressed. So that's what is informed, the master planner is a wider scope of work that we're dealing with right now. Of the under enrollment in the last few years. If that helps. okay, so I'll probably need every one's help but I'm going to try to land the plane about getting information about the new proposal and if I don't capture that, I hope you let me know. But I heard the majority of the board support the expansion of some career vocational training? I heard one objection to that but I'm hearing additional objections to that? MADAM Chair, I just want to find out do we need a motion to extend the workshop? I'm not

322sure if we're within the guidelines? MR. Sullivan. the policy will change next week but until then, it's two separate meetings so that would be about 7:45, because the workshop started at 11:45. I heard some expansion career education. I believe, oh -- I was asking for my objection, I heard yours. I believe I heard the majority of the board support the idea of exploring closing kcw either selling or something else? Do I hear an object jebsing. Okay. I heard some of my colleagues want to go reexamine the north fork situation, do I hear an object jebsing to that? objection. I have one objection. Yes, MS. Rupert, soy hear two objections to exploring more things at north work that I'm still hearing the majority of the board would want to pursue that. And then, MR. Cervera, proposed

323getting some estimates for our school sites. Do I hear any objection to that? no. and I heard MS. Alhadeff want to go explore extra programming, do I hear an object jebsing to that? Okay, was there anything else that I left out? Or that DR. Wanza and staff need? Yes, MS. Rupert? same as MS. Alhadeff, more problematic, situation happening on margate middle? do I hear an object jebsing to that? So I don't hear an object jebsing to that. Okay. DR. Wanza, is there anything else you need from the board? are we okay with it? With the recommended modifications for the timeline? is every one good with the recommendations to the timeline. so essentially it's moving the community to the 3-dates that we specified in the timeline. OCTOBER 27, NOVEMBER 7,. where we're consolidating schools. Looking at

324-- DR. Wanza, can you go over what was captured? so if that's the consensus, then when we meet with those schools we will not talking about boundaries. We will not be part of any boundary change process. When we get to the central, now that the board has asked for more proposals. you need to stop right now ,z we need consensus on that part about taking that building off the current k-5 students. yes. I would like clarification. we need to do everything that is recommended. Per MS. Alhadeff's recommendation. Let me clarify that. I am supportive of both looking at programmatic options as leaving the option on closing on the table. three objections. so I just want to be clear. Saw gres springs 16.2. the school has exhausted its useful life en roll that those students are

325transferred within the schools within choral springs. This around in schools that suggested. i'm not supportive DR. Hepburn of those students going to lion's creek but stay within the three schools mentioned. So yes, MADAM Chair, I would support for us to consider closing forest glen not selling the property and using it for district use. I 00 percent disagree. We have 19 other middle schools that are more enrolled than forest glen. I heard son census glens glen middle. objection? okay. watkins, I heard the board appreciates the partnerships of whatever is going to be pursued with the town of pen brooke park. And then new renaissance would result in the boundary in the glades conversation so they would stay in the glades, around the around the redesigning the school as it relates to how the boundary would be

326drawn. Bennett would stay in the support for elementary for the sports academy. But nothing around the boundary. North fork, they would stay and we're going to continue them for possible for the boundary for consolidating to another school. And then proposal and I'll have a conversation with DR. Hepburn what the proposal concept will look like. and just to add to that, I would be very interested in also, affordable housing doing some sort of, that would be one of the proposals I would like to see. okay, thank you. north side, nothing. Boundary wise just continue to support enhancing programming. Walker would stay in, because of the relation to north fork. And third gate marshal, that's the one that I did not capture in that conversation. I need to hear that one. does anybody need to offer their

327views? I did ask some clarifying questions to ensure that it will not reduce the surrounding student population. I've been assured that, that would not happen for the surrououing elememtary school. So DR. Hepeprnrn thatat'scoect,t, thth k kwiwill be fusused. The students that are outside of that boundary will be focused on gived in duel language. Which those students across the whole county, it's not just you have a cluster of large kids. They don't have large clusters like that. okay, so I'm supportive of that model, k-. -- k-8. I will support that as well. Are there any objections? for stralthan, that would not be a boundary conversation like halendale this is for stranhan. And this for plantation high, they would all stay in the conversation there is the plantation for the comprehensive-12 working for the city of plantation.

328And then, the bear, middle to west pine. And then, the last one is in the southwest, so the conversation around looking to expand the k-8 becaused of what happened with glades middle school, that's one. And number 2, as it relates to walter c young we will keep it in the conversation and bring back whether it's a transition, extended graze or completely repurposing the facility. I have a flag. can I add that looking to make one if we don't make walter c the gifted academy, making the k-8 that we create a gifted and duel language academy, because that's something my community wants. Just maybe not necessarily at walter c. is there an object jebsing? that is great? What did you capture? walter c young, we're going to keep it in the conversation for the either gifted.

329For completely off lining. so what I would prefer is we choose one of the two. I would prefer we don't, because we don't have information from either. And potential partnership with pines lake for the senior center. It's not fair for my community to make a decision right now, thank you. got cha. we're good? Okay. I'm glad we're all clear on that. DR. Zeman. thank you, we started today's conversation with schools that have been explicitly called for closing. How many did we end up with? the only one according to my notes I think we're at 6. Forest glen came off. that was it. the rest are still there. DR. Hepburn, do you see something different? which one came off? forest glen. there is a maybe, isn't maybe two? In MS. Thompson's area? Walter c? all right,

330every one has their thoughts out there? Okay. At the direction of the superintendent the following are scheduled to come up at future workshops. Fca, policy 1,000 on rule making and a budget update. NOVEMBER 4th, rule development oversight quarterly update. Collective bargaining discussion and policy 1070 on advisory committees. Please know the order of topics remain tentative. Is there any are there any suggestions for future workshops from my colleagues? chair, you said collective bargaining agreement? Is that open or closed door? I imagine that is closed door. for this one, it's probably of an open-door discussion. But if it goes into the realm of closed door, we'll do a closed door. can I recommend doing both just as a matter of being prepared. does anybody recommend? I don't see DR. Lozano but I remember asking about bringing information

331about all the contracts to the workshop. does anyone else have any suggestions about future workshops? I just have one more chair, there is been some really robust conversation by MS. Thompson and others on this idea and MS. Bulman, that if we're going through repurposing, we've got to make sure that we're cost-saving measures internally as well. So if we're doing the budget in NOVEMBER, I hope a section is how are we really answering the question that was differed today on reductions. I know there is a great list but we need to include that in the budget conversation when it comes back in NOVEMBER. can the superintendent accommodate that? yes, so we're going to talk about cost-saving measures. The only thing we will not talk is personnel that will come in spring, just to put our system

332in upheaval in those discussions this time of year. and just to clarify, the superintendent wants to do that in the OCTOBER 21, not NOVEMBER. I want to be clear, in NOVEMBER I suspect what this board is asking for maybe explicitly, on more cuts and planning for budget cuts for NOVEMBER is my recommendation. yep. MS. Bulman. I appreciate that, DR. Zeman, I agree with that as well. I think in one and yor where we stand in this, so please correct me if I missed the email. I believe we asked for a transportation, plan. again we have a lot of things going on. Just to make sure that this is being addressed and that we're not. so there is a couple of things. I have the follow-up on that follow-up, just to be, the specifics were on

333that. But I do know that transportation is working collaborative with the magnet office as we set consolidate which would decrease transportation costs. So there MAY be some information that we can provide but not a lot right now because they're in the midst of working through all that and just to let them know the changes that is going to happen at some of the magnets. can we do a workshop? I don't want to get to a point where we were last year? no, a lot of that stuff will come early. My hope is that before the end of the calendar year, we can bring some information back about. Because we have to get this information out to our principal and how the magnets are changing which is going to impact the conversation. Across the district that

334is going to reduce transportation costs. right, and we have to get ahead of it so that we, our students and parents know what we're going to be offering and there is definitely a way to again, market it with our students. I think that was brilliant and it's obvious, and how did we not really think about that. Good job, MS. Leonardi. Because once the choice window opens, you know, we're not on top of it if we don't have these things in order already. absolutely. this is like an emergency. it's urgent for us too. well for you. so I'm hearing that we'll be having a workshop on transportation? we'll be having a workshop about magnets and all that, which includes transportation. We cannot have the conversation without transportation. got it. Anyone else? I would like to propose,

335this is not immediate or urgent but I would like us to have a better understanding of the college preparation that we're doing for our high school students. I've been hearing for years now, that our advisors are amazing and they are overworked and a little overwhelmed. And while I feel very passionately and very excited about what we're doing with career education, I don't waunlt us to forget about college prep. So I'm wondering in the coming months, maybe even this year but sometime next year, if we would be interested in doing a workshop. absolutely. cool. Anything else? MADAM Chair. DR. Holness. I have some comments. I was going to get to that. DR. Holness. I dillard on their well earned victory in this year's soul bowl, give them a round of applause, they deserved it. And as

336she said for me to stop t but as a board member for district 5, dillard is awesome. And ely is great too. The game showcased skill from both teams. Thank you to the community for their passionate support filling the stands and celebrating this tradition. I commend dillard. Congratulations once again. thank you, DR. Holness. MR. Cervera. congratulation to see principal turner and the entire central park elementary school for winning the how low can you go challenge. This is a B.C. Ps challenge which is now in its 13th year. Which encourages students to reduce their energy and water con assumes throughout the school year. Central park reduced its energy usage by 35 percent. Resulting in a cost-saving of nearly 19,000 dollars. See the kids with do it, we can do it too. And to celebrate the win,

337our students took part in a miami heat extreme team. Bernie was in the house. I had the pleasure of attending, we had the mayor which is the mc at the heat games. The kids had a really really good time. Really cool way to celebrate the victory and good for them for lowering their energy consumption last year. thank you, MR. Cervera. ms. Bulman. I just wanted to highlight really quickly our alternate student advisor who is the PRESIDENT Of south broward high school who did it an amazing job at homecoming, but they were a little bit worried about the dance, they pulled it off, everybody had a great time. Excellent leadership skills and it's great to see how much respect you have among your peers as well as us. So keep up the good work. [Applause] all

338right, any other of my colleagues? The scheduled order of business for this school board workshop for the school board has been completed. Seeing no obligation, we now adjourn the meeting.