Superintendent's Workshop 12 p.m. 6-10-24

001e e e good afternoon everyone it is 12 noon it is Monday June 10th and this is the superintendent workshop for the school district of Indian River County we are meeting in the Joe and idlet Junior teacher education center and I'd like to call this Workshop to order at 12:00 um at this time I'd like to turn the meeting over to the superintendent thank you madam chair uh as always the standing first item is the purpose of this Workshop purpose of this Workshop is to present items that will come before the board for approval as well as other updates our first item of the day at the request of the board is a presentation from Florida Florida freedom freedom Faith Alliance these classes are really good when you put them on and I'm going to

002introduce Lynn and I'm say it with the Italian fingers and it balleta um for this presentation so at your request board uh we are excited that ly is here thank you you [Music] first not it's not on it's not on hold on it's not on it's not on it's not now it should there we go maybe I don't need to be so close to it let's do this okay think that'll work all right there it is get my slide show up so I want to thank you so much for having me here today and I've been working with traffic children for 10 years I also served on as the face on South Florida news to be the expert whenever they had a trafficking case and that's been that's been since I started my first organization

003in the early part of 2015 I'm also I'm the founder of visionary School of Arts and I'm also the founder and CEO of Florida Faith Alliance and Visionary School of Arts has collaborated with Florida Faith Alliance to get a focus on the schools and to bring our program into the schools so child trafficking prevention USA is a subsidiary of Florida Faith Alliance specifically formed for schools and to go into Statewide and also Nationwide and we work with local churches and synagogues under F fa but we are in schools strictly to prevent child trafficking and equip you to know the signs and to respond appropriately other states are now asking us to begin alliances and we are beginning in Maine and also Colorado next slide please oops that's me there we go so I'm here to

004issue a wakeup call and educate you and mobilize school districts to stop child trafficking and the sources for the stats and the facts that I'll quote are right there but let's go ahead and find out more because I'm going to click through fairly fast since this is a 20 minute presentation so what is the definition of sex trafficking for adults it's a form of modern-day slavery in which traffickers use Force fraud or coercion to control their victims for the purpose of engaging in commercial sex acts for a child no force or fraud has to be proven now any sexual activity involving a child in exchange for something of value or if something is promised that is trafficking an example would be trading a Happy Meal for sex or a place to stay so we call

005this survival sex human trafficking is a multi-billion dollar economic Giant and the Department of Justice has identified child trafficking as the fastest growing crime in the world and America is the biggest buyer of sex in the entire world demand for younger and younger children is growing at a very rapid Pace Florida ranks number three in the nation for trafficking behind California and Texas kidnapping a child off the street is not as prevalent now as the subtle devious methods that traffickers use as approaches Predators use them too to groom a child and to bait that child so they come to them voluntarily one growing trend is trafficking children after school without their parents knowing or families trafficking their own children now afroamerican and Hispanic children are high risk but know this that approximately 60% of all

006foster care children have been trafficked stats from DCF show us this one out of three girls has been sexually violated and one out of four boys and these children are susceptible and traffickers and predators know exactly how to spot them but every child is at risk our own children are at risk and you will see why so who is the trafficker it could be a boyfriend a gang an online friend a neighbor or even a family member traffickers are criminals who may operate alone or in organized crime gang and affiliation victims are brainwashed manipulated abused and conditioned to stay with their trafficker the average lifespan of a child is only 7 years they usually die from violence or from disease they can be used third to 40 times a day and remember a drug can

007only be used once but drugs are used to control them it's all about money to a trafficker most victims do not identify as being trafficked it's something that has to be recognized by someone who has been taught to know the signs and knows what to do one trafficker enslaving five children makes approximately a million dollars per year the younger the child the more potentially money they make potential money sexting and extortion is one of the leading causes now of suicide and is the fastest growing gateway to trafficking in every public school and organized crime is often involved so let's talk about social media children who have full access to social media means that social media has access to them traffickers and predators are constantly looking for new children and traffickers track kids their posts their

008friends list their location their tag photos and they use face recognition technology now the average Predator tries to contact a child 30 to 50 times a day so add AI into that equation and imagine how that's going to multiply I did an awareness training and Steward at the Women's Club a few years ago in Martin County and the high school football coach's wife came forward with her 16-year-old daughter and she said is this trafficking and she showed me an Instagram message and I said yes and I contacted the sheriff's department and it turned out to be a ring in California targeting girls in Stewart and here is the message and I don't have time to read it all but it applies to most teenagers and and they respond to this type of thing I went

009on national news with this mother and parents all across the nation started posting that their children had gotten very similar messages from Instagram and other social media so these are the apps that everybody should know about and new apps are popping up all the time knowing this that 50% now of all prosecutions involve online recruitment these are the apps if you want to even snap a picture of them for those of you that are parents that can help protect your own children or share with concerned parents so the new thing out there is now vaults and secret folders that can only be accessed by a code but bark and Net Nanny are two of the top apps that will tell you if this is being used so we recommend this phone it's a new and

010great tool it's a phone that saves space for a child it looks like an iPhone and has a watch but it does not have internet access and they cannot send pictures back and forth to each other and it might just save a life online gaming is another way to reach children this is a list of top games that traffickers used to solicit children you may recognize many of them a trafficker a predator will take up to two years to convince a child that they are the same age and many of these games have vaults a tip came into to us because a grandmother attended just one awareness presentation she alerted her daughter who lived in Virginia she had two children a 14-year-old who had just gotten a new boyfriend and she started noticing that the

01114-year-old was exhibiting all the signs of a child being traffic she was withdrawn she was depressed her grades went down in school she was falling asleep in class there was just a whole lot going on and so the grandmother preed asked her daughter you've got to find out what's happening with her and so they sat her down and talked to her and come to find out she had been in the game called roblocks and was invited into a vault and inside that Vault were violent orgies going on with adults and children and it affected her the same way as if she had been physically trafficked it deeply affected her well-being so only to find out that this boyfriend was most likely a recruiter they went to the schools they went to the sheriffs nobody there

012SE seemed to know what to do so we ended up calling it into the Cyber tip line for them and they actually had to pull their children out of that school just as the seven-year-old little sister was being invited into the Vault vaults can be in both apps and games and getting a paranal app like bark is super important as I said BBC just reported that over 200 children were found inside of a vault with violent sexual orgies going on in Sussex England see got this to go forward but now mind okay these are common symbols used by pedophiles they're often in tattoos or jewelry the Pedo Bear in the middle is a universal sign as many of these are worldwide we just turned in another tip having to do with the school where children

013were sketching these symbols and sometimes they may draw them this came from an FBI Workshop I have leaon with Sheriff's departments Homeland Security and FBI I up and down the coast here so traffickers have another method of praying upon our children children are forced to recruit recruiters are enrolled in school they try to get cell phone numbers and they try to establish friendships and that's how they start sexting rings and the recruiters also form these these rings and they talk children into sending the nude photos of themselves and then they begin this extortion now this is a rising cause of suicide and many victims have resorted to suicide in this situation and these recruiters and children are paid in cyber money and gift cards that cannot be traced who is the user well it could

014be a man or a woman a friend or a neighbor they could be married or single they could be a family member users could be Educators servicemen politicians just to name a few so we're going to take a quick look at the average pedophile website that is seeking to normalize sex with children and please understand there are thousands of these websites worldwide we're just going to look at one it's called pedo support there are over 54,000 posts on this sick website they have a child board here accessible only by Child by coding uh and of course it's child porn and this is just one example and I'm about to connect the dots of where this is all coming from the root of all this is pornography pornography is everywhere online increasing and violent acts and

015driving demand for younger and younger children Cambridge University along with many medical studies has proven that pornography changes the frontal cortex of the brain and children it leads to a desire for harder more violent material and it does the same thing to the brain as substance abuse and can be as addictive as heroin and we understand and this is a phrase I coined in Tallahassee when I presented to the Justice committee that pornography fuels demand and demand fuels Supply so we teach youth this is just not cool and it's part of our educational videos for schools the Department of Justice has AR arrested over 1700 people just over the last few years child porn was at the heart of all those arrests for trafficking so this escalated under the cloak of the pandemic America went

016up 98% as did the country of India on online child exploitation during the pandemic because what do people do when they're locked down they go online so excuse me there we go it's hard to do two buttons at the same time so so America after going up 98% these are the new stats I won't read them all but as you can see out of millions of viewers the largest viewing audience is underage and there is a national crisis recently brought before Congress of teens molesting young children because they're online watching this pornography understand that for every trafficker arrest there are hundreds of users involved there can be many victims County to County under one trafficker who is networked and we have many documented arrests throughout Florida and then we're going to bring it down to

017Indian River County so these are a few of the faces arrest from P arrested just over this last year from P County to Fort Lauderdale check out the Fort Lauderdale by thec City Commissioner and fire chief also the town Santa Claus arrested for child porn as young as 5 years old these are Martin County arrests where I'm from and these are for child trafficking child exploitation and porn there have been nine arrests over the last year that included three High School Employees two teachers for sexting minors and a High School Janitor for having violent infant porn the worst the sheriff had ever seen we were responsible for four arrests shown up there and the rescues of women and children just because we gave an awareness presentation and just because somebody brought us a tip so

018the three men on the upper right you can see them those that was the ring that was running from Martin County to Lake Worth and hundreds of users were involved wherever there's awareness there will be arrests and there will be rescues so in Indian River a man and a woman in 2022 were arrested for child trafficking and videotaping child porn and selling it in 2023 you have the arrest of a well-known millionaire businessman in Indian River County on child for child porn a boat arrived in March of this year on the shores of Sebastian Inlet and the operator of the vessel was armed with 25 individuals including five unaccompanied small children Daniel rhs a little over a year ago running a human trafficking ring throughout the Treasure Coast including your community was arrested on manslaughter

019charges as well running a hotel and motel ring right before the pandemic a Sebastian man was arrested for molesting a 12-year-old boy and other victims he's upper right then reported by Treasure Coast News in January 2024 child pornography investigation leads to Vero Beach man's arrest Dylan Lord who was using Snapchat on a sexual battery charge a Sebastian police volunteer was just arrested this April for 50 counts of child porn my homeland security liaison who's over five County sent me the picture of the guy in the middle there Cody alen Bates age 30 lives here in virau he was producing World Wide pornography using his own 2-year-old son and finally very own Sheriff's Office Deputy a 19 years old Kai chromer was arrested for possession of child pornography sexting children he coerced and solicited sexual content

020through Snapchat and there have been four victims located so far so would you like some good news I do have some okay so I began working with state house representative uh Toby overdorf in 2022 on a new law to shut down porn in the State of Florida as the state of Louisiana has done and since then governor santis has finded has signed five bills and it is starting to Trek forward we are starting to make some Headway now next I want to show you here we go okay the videos we've created are called don't take the bait and they are starring kids local students who are amazing and these state-of-the-art videos are designed to capture the attention of of children of teachers and of principles so the Martin County schools has just announced their full

021partnership with us to bring the full video curriculum in we are live training their principles and Under the Umbrella of Martin County schools in Sandy Pines mental health facility you see our second program this is where we train trauma and form teachers and teams to we are actually working with over 450 trafficked and abused children ages 5 to 17 with a very successful program that has been proven over the years it's called The Power of Art and we use drawing on the right side of the brain and uh principles of healing to get these children to a new level and a new place but for now I want to show you a three-minute awareness trailer video for elementary school ages let's go ahead and show that you go to the next screen and then I

022think you just um hit the next button and it should play okay [Music] my name is Aubrey and I'm here to educate you of how to protect yourself from predators and traffickers what is a trafficker it is a form of modernday slavery the trafficker takes money for this use of a child this could also be for a meal or a place to stay in exchange for a second act this is still trafficking traffickers use Force lies and trickery to get a child to do what they want them to do human trafficking is a serious crime so we are going to equip you to be safe this can help save a life for you or for a friend a trafficker will promise whatever they think you want but it has a hook in that gift have

023you ever been fishing what does a fisherman have to put on his hook the answer is bait and he throws that bait in the water just hoping that a little fish would take that bait and when the fish bite he jerks the hook and reels the little fish in now he's got her so what would it take to bait you would it be a poppy what if here she offered you money what if it was a new cell phone girls how about beautiful clothes or maybe want to hear I'm proud of you or you're beautiful whatever your dream is they'll offer it to you but just remember this don't take the bait you are one of a kind and beautiful in design real love encourages you to treat your body as Priceless a trafficker will

024take up to 2 years to convince a child that they are the same age and want to be a friend what is sex thing and sextortion it is when a friend or person you know asks you to send a picture of your body or private parts by texting it to them this is very dangerous and it may get into the wrong hands someone could begin threatening you that if you don't send more pictures they will show them to your parents and friends tell a safe adult about what is happening right away and get help this has happened to many children and you are not alone if someone asks you to send nude pictures of your body just say no don't take the bait [Music] be safe and don't take the bait the important thing to

025remember is don't take the bait don't take the bait don't take the [Music] bait you can go ahead and go on to the next slide okay so that is the elementary school trailer the actual video is about 13 to 14 minutes and then we have a middle school video and then we have a video for teachers but we've been doing live training I just trained all Martin County school counselors and social workers and nurses uh did an hour with them we don't charge for that we'll just come in and do it because you're close you're not so far away we have to charge for the videos but it's it's reasonable and we're getting Community sponsorships to help us with that and involve the community to support the schools so excuse me just a moment go

026back one so you have a brochure with all of the signs because there's not enough time to go through them but if you look at those signs you can see what they are so that you can begin that process of recognition and then this is what we give to teachers go ahead and go to the next slide oh it's me I'm so used to doing that hold on there it is um this is what we give to teachers with your security offer officer contact information we also Supply the new Florida state hotline which is brand new Under Ashley Moody and there's a national hotline and there's the Cyber tip line that we used to help the one student and then right now we're training art teachers right here in Vero Beach to be trauma informed

027to take our power of art courses into schools jails and organizations our jails are full of traffic children so we have a large volunteer Force here in IND River we also have an office here and a post office this is Tracy rman she's one of our County coordinators here and so I just want to thank you for being willing to protect the children of Indian River County and I'd like for you to all say something with me if you would because I do this wherever I go we're going to say not on our watch together are you ready one two three not on our watch thank you thank you so much now do you have questions yes yes um one thing that I attended I just went to fsba Summer Conference and the one thing

028I attended that was eye opening was called not on my watch and it was um a presentation done by two women that um do the same thing you do kind of in Orange County yes and they C they said a couple things that just kind of woke me up one thing is they presented probably to 20,000 kids over their time period of doing this over the last 5 years and they said every time they ask the kids has anyone ever sent you a DM direct message or a photo that you didn't ask for and they had 100% said yes yes well a child can sit in a in a cafeteria and ping everybody around him if those if those ping settings are not turned off and they can just drop it right into their phones

029well that's one thing they said is that um the first thing a parent should do is make sure that the air drop is turned off on their child's phone precisely uh that they check all the apps on their phone and make sure that they delete all allow locations and yes you never want to have any child do a Tagg location but most parents just don't know this they don't have this information it was quite eye openening the other thing is um there was an interesting video they showed that I highly recommend people see it's called um before you click mhm it's B the letter b and number before you click it was really powerful it's on um YouTube all right um the other thing that they mentioned was um they kind of do the same

030thing they come in and do presentations I I was I thought I knew a lot about human trafficking till I went to that presentation and I said they should be sitting here talking to every parent group we can get absolutely and this is what Lisa Estes just said at Martin County Schools after I presented the counselors she said our next step is to get to the parents we have got to get to the parents so we're coming up with a plan plan to First educate the teachers the principles and as I say we do those live but it was actually superintendent Main's suggestion that we do the videos because we can reach far more and there are a lot of teachers that can take the time they will watch the video because their own children

031are at risk and so this affects everybody and so also I do have uh survivors in the videos talking about how they were overlooked at school and it's it's a very important message to send to teachers so they can sit there for that that full 45 minutes to an hour and and watch that the children's video has questions tagged on at the end with a teacher curriculum for in-class discussion it would take about an hour to do this inclass and the teacher can then see if the children remember what they just saw in the video and just have class discussion about it two other things they mentioned I thought were quite interesting one um kids are digital natives adults are digital immigrants let that sink in for a second that's good that is why they're

032so addicted to it and they they showed all the addicted um personality issues with um electronics and phones now we have kind of tightened our cell phone use policy here but I noticed when I was at a change of class at high school recently um that when kids come out of the classrooms the only time they can really look at their phone is between changes of classrooms and lunch yes literally they walk and look down they're not talking to each other there's no conversing no social they should know and and Orange County totally did away with it they can't open them up and um until before after school they noticed a huge change in that and there was all kinds of data that they showed um between the use of cell phones and mental health

033we talk about the need for mental health support for kids all the time but we're not really shutting off one of the most dangerous things for mental health which is the cell phone are you familiar with hb3 that was just passed and so that it they proved and they had a panel that took over 3 hours of psychologists psychiatrists and doctors who proved that the algorithms in most of these social media platforms are designed to addict the mind of a child it's seriously addicting and I I think that's where we're going to have to go eventually but we we all we have to have awareness so that your parents would agree with that also absolutely all right board members anybody else have a question or comment Dr PCA no um thank you very much for

034being here today I talked to you a little bit before and and I think our main concern is how do we get this out to our parents obviously we have I'll have Dr Moore explain how we're doing it now as far as our teachers and making them aware but um making sure because they're the parents are the ones watching the cell phones you know at home and so forth but are you looking at Martin County with getting with your ptas or what are you doing okay so so the first step is train the staff and the second step is train the students students and staff need training once that happens the students are taking things home to the parents one of the little girls in that video took home something to her parents uh a

035number of years ago from a private school that gave her a human trafficking course and because she took that home and her parents talked to her about it she was uh a trafficker tried to pick her up in a gas station her life was saved because she recognized what was happening so I think we can get to the parents if we get to the students and they're taking something home saying look mom you know I got a human trafficking class on this I mean we have classes in slavery so this is part of that education and it's not going to be so graphic that a parent would be freaking out that their kid was exposed to this but it will be very informative and educating and interest the parents and then you call a PTA

036meeting or a parental meeting and it's all in how you put the information out there to the parents we've discovered I've given over a hundred live presentations and it it's when you present you have enough lead in time that the parents have time to plan and and all of that to come and it's interesting enough that they will come and I do little snippet videos so that they will get the message and actually say we should go to this and so that seems to work just one more comment uh we were talking about grandchildren Ai and what would what would be the world that they live in if you really don't have the protection and monitoring with their parents and um just to add to this you know sometimes we just need to get our

037heads out of the sand with with these kind of issues so we just have to be careful just last month there was a man arrested in Jensen Beach for taking a picture off of social media of a little girl that lived in his neighborhood and put through AI put nude children's bodies having sex with her face and blasted it all over the dark web he's up on 17 counts right now and I just one last thing I was at a mcam meeting about a month ago and Healthy Start presented and I hadn't met with him for a while but I got some really good information again it just it shocked me we have the highest teenage pregnancy rate on the Treasure Coast here in Inver County so these are the things that we just have

038to bring our parents and to make them aware what is happening all these things again I'm not I'm an immigrant on social media my kids and grandkids they're they're with you even my little grandson has a little bit of time you know when he can look at it but man just thank you and we've got to make sure our parents are aware and Dr Moore do you want to share anything about what we're doing at all with this in our curriculum or any strategies or out to teachers yet I think I'll let the the Board finish and then I'll kind of close out thank you Mr McDonald I just wondering what age level of child do you start approaching with this usually second grade um there are some programs out there that are very very

039basic for little ones but you know little they don't know what's happening to them but second grade they can process a little bit more so we usually recommend this video for second to fifth grade second grade h Mr Rosario yes um thank you for being here um Miss Baretta I'm I'm incredibly um saddened to hear some of the statistics that you shared um but I think it's really really important that we hear it uh because sometimes when we are out of touch we don't recognize that it's in our backyard and um some of the things that you mentioned really triggered um some experiences that have encountered um that kind of justify that kind of validate um what you mentioned there I remember uh several years ago when my son wanted to do roadblocks um I

040I realized that at first it was like oh well you know no big deal you know how dangerous can roadblocks be um but in the middle of I think playing there were these advertisements that came on and these private chat rooms that are the vaults they and then if you join the chat it's actually a world chat so you could be talking with anyone all over the world yes and it's really all about the game but you don't know who's on the other side of that screen so immediately we just we did away with it but um I can see how those could be doorways gateways into into hell uh because once a child gets there they can't get rid of an image or um um whatever has happened to them whatever is presented to

041them um I'm I'm my heart is sad my heart is really sad and I think that this is something that we we should do I think um hopefully the board will be in support of this program here I know that you received uh unanimous support at Martin County in Martin County School District yes and uh Dr Prince has just contacted us for St lcy schools as well I think that's wonderful um I think what I what I like about um what I've heard and what I've read about your approach is that it seems very age appropriate that video that we saw uh for a second grader to me seems very age appropriate up until fifth grade um it's not something that you know crosses the line between um what our statutes provide uh regarding whatever

042we present as age appropriate uh but you are we're not you're not asking uh essentially to present to Children you're asking to train the adults and then eventually the parents is that cor well there are three videos that Martin County Schools is bringing in starting in 2024 fall and they will be shown to every second grade through fifth grade and then there's the middle school and high school and they will be shown to every teacher and then in addition to that we've already done the training for their counselors their nurses and their social workers and then I'm also booked to train their all their principles to give the 20 minute presentation you just got to their principles and I'm happy to come up there and do that as I say it costs us in in

043your packet you'll see our cost what it's going to cost us to do our online platforms go out and present this have technical staff available this is an online platform that teachers can access and so it's a it's just a a downloadable thing that you get online and it's it's done through learn worlds and so there are costs involved for us and that's why we charge per School however uh Martin County Schools helped us develop the price on it because we didn't want to go so high that we couldn't get in everywhere right and I'm also working at the state level with the Florida Alliance to end human trafficking and um they're making connections for us as well yeah I believe that this actually satisfies and um I know that Dr Moore is going to

044talk um more on this after board members but I believe that this kind of presentation could satisfy our requirement with uh sex trafficking um information because we're required to provide um this information to our to our district globally and obviously to um our staff and then ultimately to ensure that kids are aware and as you are happy with that we have another program for mental health that we can introduce to you at a later date that we're using with our traffic and at risk children that's wonderful um I'm also reminded of you know this isn't new you know trafficking isn't new you mentioned something about children recruiting other children once they're recruited yes um you know this happened way back in the 90s starting with Jeffrey Epstein yes right and and recruiting children and galain

045Maxwell so that the children the kids can recruit their friends and this is how the entire sting kind of kind kind of happened um so yeah I I think that this to me is just a no-brainer we as a board can make the decision of you know where our priorities lie and to me this a topic that can make me cry is a priority that's why I'm here if it if it's I could just imagine you know my son or any of his friends in this situation and I almost have no words to describe how terrible it is it did dawn on me that we did have um some concerns recently with our Sheriff's Department finding some uh boats of and I don't know if there were immigrants too right I know you mentioned one

046in Sebastian one and they had unaccompanied children and one of them had very small children and they had terrorist weapons yeah so two is four yeah so I'm glad glad that our Sheriff's off our Sheriff Office you know uh was on top of that but um it it is coming into small little buau little by little and um obviously the numbers that we saw up there were not as great as some of the bigger cities but um I don't think that this is something that we should close our eye to I think it's incredibly important and for a time as this I'm I'm I'm glad that you were able to present so thank you for that thank you so much yeah I'll just uh Dr okay yeah thank you for coming and presenting today I

047really appreciate it um and uh you know I mean this is a difficult topic that I I think part of why it doesn't get as much attention as it should is it's just something that nobody wants to talk about It's upsetting um as a parent like you know listening to this it's deeply disturbing but um clearly it is a major issue across the country it's a major issue in Florida um and I I I would like to also support using your organization here in Indian River County um I think that would be very beneficial so that's where I stand with this and just appreciate you coming here since that movie sound of Freedom it seems like people are waking up and rising up and so one thing we're seeing is we have hundreds of volunteers

048we have an army of people that want to volunteer and do something and this is a place where they can get some traction you know and actually get involved so I think more and more people are becoming aware and wanting to do do the right thing yeah mhm yeah I too support it totally and thank you for doing this um the other video they showed at that other presentation I don't know if you've seen it America's daughters somebody told me about that I hav't seen that one wow it was moving but I wouldn't show that to kids I think that's more appropriate for parents for parents or maybe older teens um so that's another one to look into I like to do live presentations to parents because they can ask questions and get you know

049more engagement absolutely all right thank you so much we appreciate you being here just just closing remarks M Madam chair first uh Lynn thank you so much for coming and and taking this on I don't know what drives you to do this work but I'm very thankful that you do absolutely call good answer um very thankful that you do uh and when it comes to the Treasure Coast and the schools or the districts on the Treasure Coast uh Indian River county is is the district that stands in front and you can tell both superintendent Maine and Prince that I said that um and we're looking forward to uh continuing the conversation to get in front of our community uh evaluating our current practices we do as Mr Rosario was saying required instruction uh and we

050have a very comprehensive system in which we embedded across curriculum so it's just not a requirement that the state says but embedded in a way uh that allows us to make sure that it is absolutely uh connecting in every grade level as appropriate based on the age of those children um and in terms of our partnership with the sheriff's office I don't think you find a a stronger one um and our opportunity to engage uh our entire Community uh around as as Dr PCA was saying a difficult conversation but a much needed conversation I think we're organized in a way uh really for you to be saying in a year Indian River County uh is the the district that you need to look at in terms of how this work is done so thank you

051and we'll following up thank you follow up if I may Madam chair Dr Moore it um it seems there is unanimous support on this board um for this program is this something that would need to come to us for a vote or with the unanimous support here do you just go with it how does this work um as I've said before this this is this is all the direction that that I need so uh I will obviously keep the board up to date in terms of what our implementation I think there's work needs to be done over the summer uh so we can get in front of some of our student services team going into the upcoming school year but um beautiful we we will Dr Moore if I may I'm sorry uh Martin County

052schools actually did a presentation where they had all the community a big board meeting and they had me do a presentation not as a vote but just to let the community know and then it was on the TV screen that this is what we're doing and uh that was U very supported by by the parents that's a great idea I think we should do that right away I um Dr Moore I know like September parents are really paying attention because school's starting maybe that's a good time absolutely okay all right so items um B through e will be presented by Dr Jacobs and she'll present um and I'll come back on when she's done good afternoon through the chair the first item that you'll see today that we're presenting is the 2425 Treasure Coast Technical

053College calendar we bring this calendar to you on an annual basis for approval of the calendar and you will see in your backup that we have provided information regarding the dates um specific dates including opening of schools closing of schools for Treasure Coast Technical College any questions the next item is the career source facility use agreement with Treasure Coast Technical College this agreement essentially provides office space for career source to meet with our students provide career counseling advisement um help link them up with work and so essentially this is an agreement coming forward for your approval for us to continue to work with career source and offer them that office space at Treasure Coast Technical College any any comments board members no ma'am I have I have one I I want to the manufacturing boot

054camp um start and career source is very much involved and they're very supportive and I'm so glad to see that they're putting their efforts right there so thank you thank you the next item comes to you twice a year however the largest number of uh authorizations for Grant awards for our entitlements happens in June we are bringing to you 12 entitlement grants for multiple sources of funding this includes our title grants our Ida grants which fund our students with disabilities um and also some grants for Career and Technical education this item is simply for us to be able to accept those funds that we've been awarded through entitlement grants board members uh question um I know a lot of those are reoccurring you know you just reapply and everything is there any a grant that

055we got that's kind of unique and new not this year okay all right the next item is coming to you it's a piggyback agreement with power buying group power buying group is a um collection of districts in the State of Florida who have worked together to negotiate pricing for food and nutrition services this is actually they um their vendor is Cisco Corporation and based upon a cost analysis that was done with our food and nutrition Services they anticipate significant cost savings by joining this piggy um back agreement through an amendment okay board members questions um question I don't think by board does Food Services but um have we looked into by board at all are you familiar with them Bruce um somewhat a lot of municipalities use them more and more school districts are using

056them it's kind of the same thing where we can piggy back and get better pricing on a lot of things for the district not food I don't think but other things I just thought thought of that when I saw this one yeah that's what I say I was kind of familiar with it in other areas but I am not familiar with it with any food service products but I'll definitely look into it and those are my items thank you Dr Jacobs than you Dr Jacob now move to Mr Seymour items was your items f and g uh through the chair um and ually we do uh approve our extended day program and and uh it's about that time for us to um have the 2425 new program data information and agreement signed uh we also

057have with that um the fee structure which there are very minimal changes for the fees as far as um parents and also staff members members so the rates are pretty close to what they were last year considering I think um everything is included in your packet thank you board members um I have a question and it might not be related to this Early Learning Coalition I'm I'm not sure where where where the prek program falls into this does a prek program fall in through the chair no but I am going to give a little presentation on prek later today okay okay I'll hold my question until then though just comment Miss Borg I'm just glad we can keep the rates where they are because it really helps our families and I obviously know with grandchild

058in Orlando we have really good rates thank you Mr Seymour um now items H through M uh presented by Mr Green did he cover extended day two okay all right I'm just curious h3m presented by Mr Green thank you through the chair so the first item is the um typical renewal uh of your disposal of surplus property so we do that monthly and the list this time is mainly technology items that are 11 to 20 years old servers battery backups you'll see a uh a large chunk of 20 or so smartboards that are not so smart anymore because they're 11 or 12 years old um and you'll hear here through the IT department especially instructional technology they're upgrading those to the vonic boards so the next couple of property records that you see coming through

059you'll see more and more smartboards as they're replaced and phased out at the schools okay board members any questions on the Surplus uh I always like to pick out one or two items on Surplus because they're so entertaining sometimes but um on number 39 it says software Focus SIS project management M data Gap analysis training how can training be outdated yeah well so this was already given and delivered but because it was over $1,000 at the time and we do this with a lot of Technology if it includes any piece it'll get a bar code so it had a value but the training happened a long time ago when we initially brought it through okay thank you and following up on that is um once a year then we go through our 13,855 Rec capitalized

060items that have barcodes on them and all of the schools and departments they go forth with scanners and they scan and find those devices and mark them off in the system and what happens is a device something is missing sometimes a table that had a barcode that uh the school was not aware of that may be a picnic table outside and it got old they threw it away so um once a year we write those off any of those items have to have an incident or a police report written up as to what happened to them so this year out of those 13,855 items there were only 20 items unaccounted for and all of those 20 items have a police or incident report a couple of them were actually metal picnic tables that rusted outside

061and they threw them in the dumpster not realizing it had a barcode on the bottom um but then those 20 will be written off um of the records so once a year we clean up that inventory okay board members the the percent uh the percent is uh yes. 144% of the items were unaccounted for thank you Mr math just a good job 20 out of 13,000 14,00 14,853 all right have have we done any training on when you are going to throw something out look for a barcode yes and we've actually implemented with the incident report we've implemented some um new training through that so that's going to help as well great thank you and so the next item is your annual fire safety casualty and sanitation inspection reports so this used to be solely

062fire safety life safety and Hazard then in the past few years it's added casualty and sanitation so you'll see all kinds of stuff on there you'll see a very large report back in 2017 just to give you an idea there were roughly 1,500 open violations after the first inspection and by the third and final inspection there were 178 items still left open this year we started off with 639 and after the final inspection we have 13 items open it is the lowest amount I've ever heard of um since I've been here and some of those items are out of control of the school you'll see some rusted fascia gutters at a couple of the schools so that becomes a physical plant project that we'll put in into the maintenance work order system and we'll fund

063and we'll take care of that from the school um so there are 13 items but you'll the entire packet because we're required to have the board approve all of the um cleared violations you have the entire packet of all the various inspections throughout the year board members just why do you think it's gotten so much better what is happening um a little more accountability and um for me being new this year coming in um got the initial report and said we can do better and we did a fourth inspection so um emailed all of those schools with those violations pictures of them worked with our um code enforcement and our maintenance department to say anything that we can clean up let's get cleaned up thank you anybody else we don't play okay um as you

064know I always ask you when I see this report about open doors and my concern is we put all this into place for saf for kids and then somebody props a door um you told me the answer what is the answer to how many doors were propped this year the only door was a restroom which is an issue with um the stall so it was allowed to be propped open but all of those other prop door issues are zero this year thank you please tell everybody thank you for that and to continue that because you know we can put so many things in place and spend so much money on safety but then a prop door leads to all kinds of problems so we appreciate that your next item is your annual um I generally

065call it the recurring vendor list so as you heard from Dr Jacobs um we have items that we need to purchase throughout the year milk and bread we have fire alarm systems that need repair we have um air conditioning systems that will need repair so if the AC went down at a school we can call in the vendor so what this recurring vendor list does is gives the superintendent Authority beyond the $50,000 in statute and in board policy to readily contract with those vendors when needed it does not mean we will spend the amount on that list it just means based on historical views we look at how much did we spend on air conditioning repairs and we get that amount pre-approved it's not a purchase order it's not a guarantee of a spend it's

066just purchasing authority to be able to do that work custodial several it has to do with environmental let's say we had a a a leak or a flood and we needed to fix the carpets you'll see carpet cleaning on there in an amount so that's the recurring vendor list and I can tell you through the savings um with the power by group through Cisco the list is $1.3 million smaller than it was last year again it's not a spend list but an authority list but we're asking for Less Authority because we are um realizing some cost Savings in several areas board members okay the next three items as we've mentioned several times is we putting items out to bid to get the lowest possible price and the best service from our local vendors so L

067M and N are all invitations to bid that we've been talking about and now those committees have met and have selected various vendors L being carpet cleaning with an estimated cost of $50,000 per year a three-year contract track with 2year optional renewals um Stanley Steamer of Fort Pierce was the um best responsib bidder for that for M you had pest control and that's a about $150,000 a year three-year contract with two one-year renewals we had two most responsive biders huet and Massie that we'll be using for that and item in is pressure washing at an estimated cost of $75,000 a year for 3 years with a 2year renewal and a company with by Local Company by the name of mains was the most responsive for that so those three items will be before you um

068this evening just to approve those vendors to be selected for the year when we need that work we can contract with them and we have the contract in place uh Dr Jones um Mr Green how many bids do we usually get on these type of um areas so it ranges there's um some of them where we only get two and some we get 12 or 15 I would say the average like tree trimming we got six so it really depends on the area um painting we didn't get too well so we're putting it back out and it really just depends on the the local um vendor capacity um if they want to participate in that or not but I would say four to six is a good response number on most of these thank you

069okay any other board members we're good thank you Mr Green o through R uh would be Miss basur good afternoon through the chair I have four items that I'll be bringing to you for approval um the first is the purchase of go Guardian teacher that is something we currently have in motion uh this request is for approval to purchase Gog Guardian for another year it's designed to support effective teaching strategies um stopping any internet access for students real time limiting that website access um it ensures on task learning and even prevents the ability to go to spefic specific websites the next oh hold on okay board members any any concern all right I'd like to make a statement about go Guardian okay um a lot of teachers when I walked through classrooms um and talk

070to you know concerns what you know they'll bring up other things but this comes up once in a while is how many kids um can go bypass our protections that we have and can get out to the Internet it's very concerning to me especially with everything that we just heard so um you said it can stop them on a lot of stuff but there I'm hearing that it doesn't stop them on everything so um the training that we give our teachers to make sure they're on go guardian and make sure they're up to date can we double it up or because I'm not sure every teacher is doing it so through through the chair um different system go Guardian is the system that allows the teacher to see what the students are doing at their

071specific desks but Mr GRE you want to talk through no I know that but that's how they're catching them from going out to the internet and things like that right gardian allows the teacher to see from her desktop the what the other students in the class are doing so it's a system that allows us to evaluate and say okay you're not on task or you in fact are on a website that's not there in terms of filtering what students have act access on our system that's something different that's light speed that's light speed so I'm hearing kids are getting around it like crazy um but I'm also hearing heing that if a teacher doesn't monitor on go guardian or isn't really up on it um it's happening a lot more than you think so I

072think that we really need to buckle up on this and make sure that every teacher is using go go Guardian if we're paying for this and it's out there they should be trained in it and they should um our Administration should be checking that that's happening uh when I walk through classroom and see students that aren't doing what the teacher doing I'm wondering is that teacher paying attention to what's happening I usually go to tell them you know you got a student over there that's not doing what you're supposed to do but that's not my job you know I'm walking through and just visiting and who knows how often that's happening correct very concerning is there any form of centralized access Beyond just the classroom that could be initiated so that somebody who's not trying

073to teach instruct the students would be able to monitor that through the chair that that's what light speed does uh it is a filtering system and it is a system that we con L evaluate in terms of what is being viewed and not viewed and then blocking sites um that are coming online or not inappropriate and just to be question just to be clear um what we're talking about is when a student has their laptop up in front of them and they're doing some work here not that we're we're not talking about cell phone usage in the classroom right correct because they're not going to have the cell phone out you know it's it's one of the frustrating reasons um I would think this is one of the frustrating reasons why remaining in the teaching

074environment in the in this career is so difficult nowadays because you not only need to be a you know focus on teaching the content but now you have to you know have your Spidey senses up for literally everything um which we would have done anyway if they were you know we should be walking around and check to make sure that they're on task but the moment you pass a kid I mean it's very easy to just get back on another site but um it it's it's it's not easy um so but I but I do believe that this is something that we need to kind of I don't know if light speed has an ability that if a student goes on a site that they're not supposed to be does it shut the student down

075right away does it you know immediately say you have no access to this or you know something to that effect um but whatever it is you know I I want to show some um sympathy and empathy you know in this task because it's it's Monumental it is one one thing that was brought to my attention where the kids were keeping their cell phones turned off so you couldn't hear them but they were still on and they were using Access VPN on their own so they were bypassing the system that way um that's a concern you know they're using their own hotspots or own devices to to be able to get around our stuff I can see that done can I can I just say since we're on this topic and and and due to the

076presentation um I saw and Dr Moore I don't even know if I sent it to you but I saw a video uh interview of some students I may not have I got to try to refind it um some it was a high school um and they were interviewing a uh group of students in this High School the High School removed all phones completely complet absolutely completely you were not allowed to have the phone um out or on your person or anywhere visible from the moment the first bell rang until the moment the last bell rang and some of the students expressed some Growing Pains at the beginning you know what am I going to do um this is crazy this is insane but after they kind of got over those Growing Pains uh just a

077few months in and video was taken of their cafeteria alone just the cafeteria did I send that to you I that sounds familiar I don't think you did send it to me but I I I have seen it maybe somebody and and everybody was talking and they were playing card games and they were having discussion and it was like none of that had happened before so it was all new to them and it just completely changed the culture of the school it completely changed obviously academics it completely changed the focus um and I believe parents even were extremely pleased and there wasn't a concern about security either so which we'll hear nowadays if God forbid there is an emergency how am I going to get in touch with my our Stu my student I'd like

078to I mean if the board is uh interested you know uh see about you know going in that direction uh and removing phones Al together and I'm not talking about um um that would be up to you to kind of provide for us some research in what school what districts are doing and what schools are doing it well what that looks like um certainly uh if if it could provide you know if there is any data you know with with regard to attendance or anything else um but you know uh I don't know board members I I'm certainly willing I've been willing to do this for the longest and I was told oh you can't do it because of the security issue that parents want access to their kids um which I get but um

079you know on the other hand there there is this addiction to phones so I'm not sure where this will end but it seems like an appropriate time to just kind of bring this up so through the chair um you all have kind of led the way in that work we made modifications to our code of conduct last year uh so that environment that M Rosario was just referring is in fact our our middle schools the phones go away they are out of sight the entire day including lunch um and you capture the conversation very well there were some transitional issues as we implemented that um at the beginning of this school year but the overall culture uh absolutely drastically increased the conversations at lunch uh there was a lot of oh my gosh how are

080we going to do this in in Middle School space um but after the end of the first week uh absolutely outstanding the data is clear in terms of the number of incidents you all recall the number of times you received uh mass communications from me or board alerts from me regarding uh this student was video during this or that and it was a constant thing in the middle school space Miss christop Foley how many did we end up having now that the school year is officially over yeah all together all together throw them in there all start middle schools Middle School is barely any all right see see so uh you should be very very proud what was that I'm sorry hardly hardly any she can't think of any so she issues issues this year

081with the cell phones yeah I know I haven't I know the state hasn't released the data uh yet but in our initial look at what's taking place in middle schools and as I reported to the board at the beginning of this year middle secondary schools improving instruction was a key area for me uh we're seeing significant improvements in uh outcomes more time on task less time off task uh less disrup there um no that's what I'm I'm leaning toward I'm leaning towards that so uh same thing in in the high schools it really has been and this is kind of I'm like hurry up let's get to the the the fun stuff on the agenda which is the the next coup items um talks through um having an high expectation having an unwavering High expectation

082and then creating the systems in support um so that can in fact be implemented in our schools um I'm gonna stop there because I feel like I'm going to do my little reord presentation um so I I think what we have done truly has been uh in terms of academic Improvement as I think Miss Baron Borg referenced we were at M Rosario myself and Terry were at the uh superintendent and board member uh conference this weekend in terms of what we did with cell phones I had the opportunity to share um with with superintendent that yes in fact it can be done um as well as some of the systems and structures we have around academics using data to drive instruction um so some of the work that we've initially invested in uh we're getting

083a lot of acknowledgement in terms of the the academics out and outcomes that it's producing so um yeah can I just follow up on that um since I initially made the comment um you you are correct I have usually I get you know inundated um with videos or some some of something of the sort that have been put out there from the middle schools for sure um and even sometimes from the high school but it has it has indeed um drastically reduced so what I'm hearing Dr Moore is that this is uh and the high schools are still an area of improvement through the I the behavior has drastically changed in high schools uh the devices are away during instructional time uh and it has it is being upheld so I I say that in

084in middle school it is creating the environment of of knowing how to use the device for what it's intended to while teaching the adults that if it says it in the code of conduct it's going to happen um and the adults run the schools um and just being honest there was a transition from oh no no no oh we can't do that oh the parents are going to call I I don't care it is creating the expectation to to follow through what happened in our high schools this year uh equally impressive and the data is even better than it is in in Middle Schools um so the time on task I think your your teachers would come in here uh Inay raise you because let's be honest this was action uh by this board it

085was it was I think it was Dr B who who made the the initial push uh to make this a reality um so thank you yeah oh it's working really well so so one of the things last year and I'll end on this one of the things last year that we talked about um when we looked at the data on this is that um our data only showed um I believe the name was insubordination but it didn't actually show self usage like if you were sent to the to the office for a particular Behavior it didn't actually identify that if that behavior was because you were on your cell phone or misuse of cell phone and what we talked about was that needs to change that capturing the data in the odr which is the

086online referral system has to really be specific so that we can identify oh look you know we've got an issue in this particular area and that's how we can address you know bringing down you know the the odrs in that area did we and maybe that has been you know um something on our part that we just didn't bring up throughout the year as a as a check a regular check but did we change the OD we did we do so that we can actually look at if a child was sent out of the room because of a cell phone we did through chair and Miss Christoph can can jump in at the end we we had to because the code of conduct ultimately changed um and one of the things that I'm extremely proud

087of is we held you know uh everyone's feet to the fire in terms of making sure uh what happens with the code of conduct so as you recall um or or you all know the code of conduct ultimately leads to uh when you take it out um during the day there is a consequence which leads to an alternative Ed placement if you can't simply follow that rule if you're so addicted you can't put it away um and how how many do we actually end up sending to the alternative school 40 thir over the course of the Year 30 students ended up simply because of a cell phone the cell phone and it it just reinforces that first presentation because we are sending you to and I'm love alternative Ed principal alternative Ed if youall ever

088get tired of me I'm going to go be an alternative Ed principal um we're uprooting their lives but they simply can't follow the simple directive of putting the phone away but what that did for the other 8 th 7 8,000 kids in middle school like oh they're not playing away um so I I I think it was a bold move uh courageous move um but some of the data that we'll be celebrating uh towards the end of the summer when the state finally releases academic outcomes well we'll have some academic outcomes at end this month um there is a direct correlation uh in terms of the increase of time on task and the DS escalation of the Ridiculousness that happens around the uh the texting back and forth the cyber bullying uh it just changes

089the environments in schools so it's it's been done very nicely yes Mr just for my information so what period or when during the class day do they still have remaining access to their phones zero zero okay are you talking about middle school middle school zero he asked instructionally instructionally uh there are in some very very high level courses AP Bio comes to mind or some biotech where they use apps um our code of gex says if that is the case you you need to notify and get approval from the principal so you can't you know from you you had to monitor everybody so administrator walks in the classroom and they're using the phone the teachers can't oh they're using it for this out or the other nope it has to be approved how about for

090high school that that is the high school and and and middle school it's away from the but high school they can take it out between classes in between yes and at lunch and at lunch Middle School they cannot we need yeah um I I'm going to tell you um Orange County talked about because there was a chance for sherik for small districts and I brought it up that we had in in really um you were with Orange County no no no there was a share like for small districts and I brought it up that you had we had really buckled up on our cell phone um policy and people were really um paying attention to that and then and then somebody mentioned that Orange County which is a bigger District um had had went uped

091us on their usage in other words they made it even stronger and more strict so I went to Orange County people and I asked them about it um I didn't get the specifics about their policy but I thought it was really interesting they said that the high schoolers were now SP starting to socialize a lot more between classes and at lunch I walk on those campuses I see the kids come out of their classroom classroom immediately open up their phone and that concerns me um you know we do that as adults too why we're checking our messages that's what they're doing they're checking their messages they're checking their text their social media that sort of thing is that what they need to be doing between classes instead of socializing I don't know you know they

092don't have any time to socialize they have to get to the next class you know what I mean um just a comment about light speed I have heard that a little bit from teachers about students getting around the filter because they know these C names for certain things that it doesn't look like it's bad but they've got this code in there and they can go in there so maybe something we can tighten up a little bit and then as far as the phone I I think I was almost my last year at sebas River High School when they said phones were allowed and it was for Safety and Security if any of you remember that for the most part and I knew right then it would be an issue so I know we've done a

093good start with our middle schools and high schools but maybe we can talk about that more but um just getting kids off of them would help a little bit any other board members one yes to that point it seems like perhaps There's an opportunity as the middle school children get acclimated to that as a process it opens up the opportunity to continue that process as they enter High School it won't be as much of a change as it is to current students who've never experienced that no no that that is that is correct um in terms of improving the quality of the environments I think we've done it both in the Middle School space as well as the high school space um and I think the 30 that have had to go to Alternative Ed

094because of that my expectation is because most of those were ninth graders um overwhelm right um that's fair it's almost like saying mostly accurate but whatever um is because they come from that environment uh you know part of Miss christop Foley um metric on on how I evaluate hers is is that number going down and if it's going down that's a validation to us that the structure is right and if it's not going down uh then we should have the conversation about going to the next step that's that's those are my thoughts M so my next item is uh asking for approval to purchase the Ann the annual refresh cycle for Chromebooks um we this was previously approved as a refresh cycle where we we refresh the computers for 2 grade sixth grade nth grade

095and that also includes the protective cases um and just to piggyback on that we also are in year three of the busonic panel uh implementation we are asking for permission to purchase the 52 remaining busonic panels for Vero Beach High School and the flick campuses um this is as I said year three and Sebastian high school will be finalized next year any questions on those two okay and my last item is uh request approval to purchase the to extend the contract to purchase the student ID cards this purchase includes the the annual fee the printing services the supplies uh to go into effect for the 2425 school year this is a an extension to a current contract currently Borg yes um Miss B what are the costs on I'm sorry I didn't pull that up

096right there on the student ID cards let me that one up sorry so we're requesting permission up to a 100 thou not to exceed $100,000 because until we have to start purchasing materials and replacing lost ID cards uh there's not a set number for that and I know this past year we ran into a little problem with having to replace ID cards and continue that purchase and one of the reasons I say that we talk about safety in our schools and having that information are these the cards you're asking the students to have on them at all times okay they're not on them at the high schools they are not and I've been there several times and I remember when they used to be I mean you didn't walk on campus uh what what you

097guys just approve your code of conduct where they have to have them I'm telling you when I go to the high schools they are not on them and I thought they were always going to be on them we're spending all this money and you know when you think about our our high schools especially and the doors that can be pushed open not the ones that you have to go through but a student could push open another student come on or anyone come on and as a high school principal you get to know most your kids except the Freshman it takes a while it is essential that we have that so that we know who's on our campus AB absolutely um I'm I'm going to bring up a point and that is when you go to

098our hospital and you check in right and you show ID they give you a little sticker and you have a visitor pass if that falls off you or something you're stopped by somebody along the way and they say excuse me who are you and I know in our elementary schools they do a really good job of that um but these middle schools and high schools are bigger campuses and not every adult knows every kid we need to start enforcing it not only that but I'm hearing from elementaries that they're having to make um passes for the same kids over and over again like 15 kids a day every day a new pass and new pass and new pass pass so is that cost reflected in here that or is that going to be extra charges

099no that is reflective in this total amount okay and is it they wear it on the bus too right so they're supposed to have it on during the bus getting on and off the bus for the bus for the cafeteria um yes and library and Library so how can we do a better job of maybe making sure that what we're paying for is being implemented and done that seems a Dr Moore job well I know and Dr Moore just mentioned that that is written into the code of conduct this year for this upcoming school year and I know in his get more connected video message watched it I was one of the people um he addressed that very fact so at our high schools which is where it's probably the most egregious at the moment

100they have to go through now the security entrances and that'll be one of the things um so were you getting that message out to parents that we're going to crack down so through the chair as Miss berser just mentioned she was one of the people that watched get more connected which was the closing of of school years uh very clearly stated by me in that presentation a you will be in dress code meaning you will have uh you will be fully clothed uh and you will have your ID on you at at all times making sure parents as they go into summer shopping to buy clothes for the upcoming school year that they will in fact by clothes that are full length uh and they cover um all of the parts of the body and

101then on the flip side making sure they have that ID very easy to enforce part of my I I took all of our secondary principles to schools down south um and although we were going there to look at instructional systems I wanted to highlight uh in this inner city school you're going to see absolutely 100% of the students wearing an ID and then I want you to explain to me why we can't do that and the answer is uh we're not going to have an adult problem um they've already problem solved we met with principles last week kind of reflecting on the structures and systems uh that were in practice this year to kind of identify priorities going into the next school year uh and we have a three-day retreat with our leadership teams where

102we're going to be very intentional helping them operationalize that system in all of the schools and and again the same 15 kids that show up every day without their badge well the cost will ultimately be extended to um the the parents you know we'll go through we we'll do some Replacements but at the end of the day if it's the same 15 uh students there's a level of accountability uh that it's collectively uh enforced to make sure that the parent has the the ID on and it's just simply following through and being consistent okay can I can I inquire about that um so you just mentioned a little bit there but is there a specific cut off if there's a specific student or group of students um losing badges how many will we replace before

103it we ask the parents to start replacing them they will come into the school year and they'll have the the ID that they have left over from this year we will upload all of the new IDs as we take the pictures and do all that uh then we'll replace it the the first time this is more a a problem in secondary school than Elementary School um and then after that you're going to have to pay the $5 to to replace it at the end of the day um the money that we get from the state there's no line item that says IDs um so at the end of the day we want to make sure it's a $100,000 well invested the cost should not extend beyond that okay yes question Dr Mo do you know

104um since you just met with the superintendent are all counties requiring the IDS now I would say in most in your your small smaller districts that's not the the the case districts are size uh it's probably about 50% where they are and are not thank you um you mentioned clothing does that include not wearing pajamas that is clearly stated in our code of conduct Mr Rosario thank you so much all right our our next item is very very exciting for me to present I am going to set it up and then I'm going to give it to the very capable Dr shafty to present it is the followup uh to the board regarding the surveying of an additional magnet school where that magnet school should be and should it be a classical school or another

105design uh I'll begin this presentation by saying if we continue to do what we've always done uh we will not be in service of this community we have to reform what public education looks like uh we have to be responsive to the needs of our community in create programming that is in fact attracting every child to our schools and we were four and a half years ago one of the first actions I asked the board to take was to embrace change make every single School in this County a possible choice for our community uh and we need to continue we had a few things happen in between that approval and now but now is the time in which we have to get back to that reform uh and rebranding and recreating what public education looks

106like um coming off that conference um if if we're just going to say hey we are the choice of a segment of the community to go to this particular School schools will continue to get smaller smaller and smaller and smaller uh but if we are we being the board and myself and my team creative uh in terms of what we're willing to do and create we can in fact stabilize and ultimately improve enrollment uh by embracing Choice uh the survey that went out asked a number of questions and I'm going to give give some high arching uh findings of the survey and our initial next steps and then Dr shafty uh will give a thorough presentation it validated that there is a need for an additional Magnet School in the uh in the north uh

107that was an assumption that I presented to you it was validated the data clearly said that the data also clearly validated uh of um community members and parents who are not accessing our product our schools uh they would consider it or want to be a part of what would be a classical school um that tells me there is a need or a demand that we are not meeting um so those were both validated it also unintentionally brought a level of awareness to me that there are opportunities to improve our choice programs so when you looked at the Choice offerings or or what do you want this Magnet School to be uh Choice was um classical was clear for those not participating our product but for those who were participating our product it was equal between

108classical and um steam which to me says well okay that that makes sense because we don't have a classical option but we do have four steam Elementary options so my reflection there is that we need to do a better job of supporting principles so what I did four years ago was say hey principles go and make a choice program based on what you're currently offering um and we'll talk a little bit more about how we're going to support the redesign and recreating uh quality Choice programs across our community uh because it is a big piece if not the driving piece um of the redesign of the school system we're going to create ourselves in a way uh so we can be intentionally redesigning schools uh over the course of the next five years so we're

109reforming the this entire system so it's not just a metrics that we're going to put into uh the Strategic plan it's going to be a constant conversation on reform so we looked at what we're doing uh in the center of the county which was Dodgertown Elementary School uh a handful when I say a handful I think four or five kids actually are participating in Steam Choice there uh so we're going through an initiative right now as soon as I got that data back I took Innovation uh reestablished that under what would be Dr shafi's office uh as well as what will be her team she'll talk a little or I'll talk a little bit about that during the reort to support that school in creating a true steam school that is the model that we

110will follow to recreate what um Choice looks like and re Envision what instruction looks like around a theme uh to uh provide that offering um so we are excited to present uh the classical school that will have a K12 option uh and give it up upate on what we're doing to Rebrand and recreate and support schools around their choice options Dr shapy thank you Dr Moore um throughout the presentation Innovation truly takes a team so you will hear me thank so many of our colleagues along the way starting with Dr Bean who has been a fantastic thought partner in this journey so you'll hear her contributing thoughts as we progress through this presentation um leveraging the moment uh the Monumental academic improvements by the district we are at the intersection to elevate decision- making from

111the lens of improvement to Innovation you hear Improvement and that's typically making something better or improving what you are already doing Innovation requires a new idea method or device and the introduction of something new if we think of a real world example the very first I'm Apple so you can make this Android the very first iPhone would be Innovation each subsequent release after that is is Improvement to sustain the positive academic achievements of the district we will seek a balance between Improvement and Innovation through the theory of action um posted here if the school district of Indian River County invests in strategic supports for Innovative and responsive academic programming then families will be empowered with school choice options that are designed to accelerate their Learners abilities interests and Passions so in March of 2024 the

112offices of superintendent and curriculum and instruction began collecting Community opinion to obtain insightful data through the design and methodology of a quantitative multiple choice survey the communication plan for the survey used multiple platforms the SDC website focus portal School messenger phone calls and additionally the survey was distributed directly through our families through the Focus Parent Portal the questionnaire survey was a multi-stage community assessment designed to collect input and data focused on analyzing results for the model school program we used a survey tool and repository to ensure procedural safeguards for accuracy validity as well as Anon anonymity of anonymity sorry about that for data collection this application also provided a mechanism to help prevent multiple submissions by a single user as well as settings for IP address validation Additionally the survey required entry of an email

113address and duplicate surveys responses with the same email address were removed the survey deployment oversight and data security were ma were maintained by our department of accountability and research so I was very grateful for the Insight of Dr McMahon and Miss Beck in that process a very intentional methodology and survey design are required to authentically assess the various components at the board's directive the desire for a magnet configuration models including the K8 and instructional magnet programming to ensure surve survey respondents logically evaluate the intended Concepts a preliminary survey one and a follow-up survey two were developed note that the full text of each survey can be found in today's meeting backup documentation survey one was Des designed to Garner overall interest in a magnet school and programmatic themes it was designed purposefully with brevity in

114mind to capture a larger response survey 2 was designed to collect more specific feedback on instructional preference location and learning size because the specific feedback is relevant to those individuals who have school-aged children as well as have expressed interest in a magnet school a second survey was required to Target those indiv indviduals fitting the design here are the survey results and uh just as shared during our board member briefings we had really strong momentum with 828 distinct responses 87% of those responses were received within the first two days of the surveys launch with only 25 surveys received after the end of March when you look at the respondents 83% of them indicated they had a student enrolled in a traditional SDC school with the top preference for magnet programming evenly split as Dr Moore said

115with between classical and science technology engineering art and Mathematics which we will refer to as Steam moving forward 8% of the respondents indicated students enrolled in a charter school VPK or no school-aged children and a distinct count of 76 surveys were uh homeschool private schools and Virtual School families the K8 model was uh indicated respondents were either very or extremely interested on a lyer scale for that model and then exactly as Dr Moore said the survey really showed that the need for two Magnet School programming options one of which is a K8 model and as you can see those respondents who preferred classical programming also indicated a stronger willingness to travel to North County because we needed to layer not only the programming but willing of families to provide transportation to available programming being that

116it will be a magnet school and some of our cost savings would come from transportation and respondents preferring stem or steam programming showed a greater willingness to travel uh to the central part of the county so what we have uh we will present as we move further along is a programmatic theer pattern which really elevates what choice is we hear a lot from our families that a choice option should spand across the K12 space so when we think of feeder patterns we think of geographic feeder patterns but what we will present today are two distinct K12 feeder patterns the first being classical and the definition based on House Bill 1285 of a classical school is one that implements and provides professional learning in a classical education School model that emphasizes the development of students in

117the principles of moral character and civic virtue through a well-rounded educ ation in the liberal arts and sciences that is based on the classical Trivium stages of grammar logic and rhetoric and then the secondary theater pattern that we will discuss will follow a steam trajectory which is really an integrated approach for student Readiness for steam majors and career moving forward you'll notice the concept of the classical education Magnet School K5 would continue to be structured through a multi-year phased rollout expansion adding grade levels each year continuing with an instructional materials review and the process of a facilities Master Plan Building toward expansion to a K8 model this timeline would be replicated with a feasibility and cost analysis for the high school expansion at a secondary satellite location the proposed timeline by year 8 2030 to

1182031 would provide a K12 classical education educational experience each four-year grade level segment intentionally builds upon the cumulative three stage methodology grades K to five would be the grammar stage grades 6 to9 logic stage and grades 9- 12 rhetoric stage the secondary curriculum would also include coursework with an emphasis on foreign languages Humanities Socratic methods debate and the virtual Arts classical education demands that students strive for excellence and academics but also in areas embedded in the areas of ethics and character training the comprehensive years 1 through 8 can be found also in the school model briefing as we move forward and take a look at the classical programming Community tour you're going to notice we've broken it out into three specific areas Community benefits and each pathway is going to have several different Community benefits

119talking points specific to that type of programming pathway as well as the target audience a communication timeline plan and public relations campaign have been developed to promote the introduction of each new programming meeting the needs of existing students as well as attracting new enrollments the timeline and plan centered around the values of tradition excellence and the SDC Community this plan outlines our approach in providing clear and transparent communication as well as fostering strong Rel relationships with all stakeholders the model School survey provided Clarity focused on community voice determining the feasibility in location and it also guided Outreach efforts to support site location and facility efforts as each classical education pathway the k through eight building the boutique High School is developed SDC will provide guidance and support in all areas classical education seeks to transform

120the whole student the classical education foot for the district will emulate a vision to operate a classical K12 public school that emphasizes virtuous living traditional learning and civic responsibility during our previous presentation we shared the example of this K5 curriculum Matrix as well as instructional materials and as shared by Dr Bean the concept of the classical education magnet school would continue to be structured through the multi-year phase rollout expansion adding grade levels to include an instructional materials review and continuing the process of a facility's master plan of the model to assess the impact of the K8 expansion the prioritization of a community tour approach will be followed by a K5 instructional materials review in accordance with board policy 2520 selection and Adoption of instructional materials during this review and adoption Pro process stakeholders including SDC

121staff parents and community members will review instructional materials in accordance with the tenants of classical education programming as well as FLD dooe instructional materials rules and statutes all aspects of the timeline will demonstrate the district's commitment to State and local policy IES the development of the Innovative academic programming for the K through 12 steam personalized pathway will include the reimagining of steam park at Dodgertown Elementary opening August of 20124 including the opening of the science lab at Dodgertown Elementary expected in August of 2025 connecting the Hands-On learning space with the existing science lab Lab at gford middle school you'll notice this is a 4-year Continuum on this slide starting at years 20 of 23 that uh we've previously been in in terms of the design and the um structure leading through 2027 of steam park

122at Dodgertown to expand the programming through a designed approach including instructional materials and curriculum while feeding into the advanced Learning Academy and Marine environmental robotics Studies Ms at gford middle school with a planned pathway for the 9 through 12 Scholar Academy offerings at the boutique High School the expected outcome of this Continuum will be the increase increase of student enrollment in the K12 steam pathway buildings over time you'll notice also in the school model briefing this has already been observed at gford middle school over the last three years with the number of students choosing gord's programming with a projected student Choice enrollment increase for the 2024 2025 school year from 37 students to 53 students and still counting which represents a 43% increase once again this slide for steam programming is also going to break

123out the several Community benefits that'll be addressed by this pathway programming as well as the talking points specific to this line of education and also the target audiences you will note that the target audiences mirror the responses that were captured in the school Magnet School survey once again a comprehensive communication timeline plan and public relations campaign have been developed to produce the introduction of the new Innovative academic programming and the responsibility to prepare our students for the businesses of tomorrow meeting the needs of existing students but at the same time attracting new enrollments for the district to deliver the highest quality of academic Services it involves two ways open communication with parents and the community being a primary consideration the timeline and plan center around the values of tradition excellence and the sdirc community this

124plan outlines our approach to providing clear and transparent communication as well as fostering a strong relationship with all stakeholders so you have heard us uh share a little bit about steam part Park here is a blueprint of steam park at Dodgertown Elementary we will start in the top left corner and I would like for you to think of your traditional media center and completely wipe it so we have in the immediately when you walk in the media center a technology coding programming and digital literacy space followed by computational thinking which will look like Hands-On robotics 3D printers going uh as well as mathematics you progress through maker space where aligned to the learning that is happening in the classroom students are creating Hands-On projects uh followed by the Drone Launchpad you'll also see it's a

125little bit difficult to see on this visual but around the space you do still have your library media materials but they are organized by the themes of the spaces in the room um so you would imagine around technology where there's coding programming and digital literacy you will have books um science coding and programming they already have many of those books organized from the bottom for their pre students with fifth grade at the tops of the bookshelf uh the lab site learning is what you would think of as the model classroom Dodgertown has a really unique space where it's already set up for an observation deck of a model classroom there is a small office with a a glass window a see-through glass window so you can actually have the model classroom happening in there with

126without interrupting the instruction that's happening and you can side by-side coach an adult in the observation deck without interrupting instruction so the last thing I'd like to draw your eyes to is where it says spark team professional learning and training uh the Fantastic car wall and team have already immersed themselves at Dodger toown for a 2-year residency because we are not doing something to a school we are doing something with a school and we will support true steam inter ation um but the best way for you to tell for us to share about Ste Park is through the voice of the principal Miss Bagley so uh can we play that video please [Music] imagine a choice School centered on educating the whole child with an educational approach to learning that uses science technology engineering the

127Arts and Mathematics as standards for guiding student inquiry dialogue and critical thinking the end results are students who take thoughtful risks engage in experiential learning persist in problem solving Embrace collaboration and work through the creative process Miss baggley welcome to steam Park [Music] Steam Park a state-of-the-arts steam center unlike anything Indian River has seen before also thank you to miss Maddox for helping make that video come to life there's something about just seeing it in video form that changes the whole feeling um so as soon as the presentation comes back up we will talk about it's not just the revitalization of one space but it's about a systemic approach to Innovation and this is how we will approach it at Dodgertown Steam Park will be ready and open correct Miss wall August 2024 okay and

128if I encourage you to take a look and it the progress has been amazing and it's been a short two weeks when you look at the environment we have to transform those spaces because with any sort of programming branding has to be all the way through that space you should feel it the moment you walk on the campus so those are actual photos of the landscape at Dodger toown the before and what we would like to turn it into after and if you look at the it's just aesthetically pleasing you can make sure that it's connected to their behaviors their their values their PBIS I mean there's so many opportunities to connect what the outdoor spaces have into the insides of their classroom there could be Service Learning we talked about that's their uh United

129day of caring project so so so Monumental and such a such a small change and very cost economical when the tires are donated then we have instruction and it's about the alignment steam isn't something that they just go to as a special it's looking at their core instruction and making sure that what's happening in the core classrooms has the integrated approach with arts and content areas through the standards alignment our schools have done a fantastic job being aligned to the standards in collaborative planning and what you see in instruction so we're just ready to take it to the next level here at Dodger toown as well as the community approach yes that's Mr Seymour in that photo at um Jackie Robinson's playball event there's a great partnership with right here in our backyard with playball

130event there's such enthusiasm so not only with Innovative steam programming but we can have Innovative physical education and health programming with the expertise that's right here in our community as well as the highway men and the culture that falls in such a critical piece of the community and that's actually a Water Ventures bus that Miss wall has already signed up for that will come out to the school and really provide handson science-based experiences that are linked to what is happening inside of the classroom so we were very very excited and we couldn't wait to get started so we absolutely have and um it's exciting to see the changes that are happening at that school already to have an authentic steam school we want to be we want this to be the school that when a

131district says what's your bragging point come and see come and see how we do this we we do steam really really well and we'd love to take you on a tour so with the balance of the classical pathway this is how we feel that we can do the K12 steam pathway um the way that it was intended to do and progressing from Dodgertown Elementary into the programming that's already established at gford middle school with their fpnl Grant into what we will talk about as the boutique High School so taking into account both Pathways looking at the classical education pathway along with the K12 steam having the choice option of the boutique High School would have the ability to offer smaller class sizes with a college like experience focused on personalized learning Pathways SDC shares these

132characteristics and they are uh dedicated to providing students with the opportunity to create learning opportunities in a facility that more closely resembles workplaces apprenticeship experiences or research Labs through establishing collaborative community business and entrepreneur opportunities our students could continue to earn elective or vocational credit certification toward college level advancement or trade experience as well the Treasure Coast Technical colle college and both high schools at uh SDC high schools currently offer multiple Career and Technical program Pathways that are designed to guide students to help find their unique potential their talents and their purpose students would have the opportunity to experience authentic learning opportunities through internships apprenticeships as well as dedicated employment partnership pth Pathways in pursuit of transformational innovation at the intersection of students technology and curricula this creates a connection directly to the mission of

133the school district of Indian River County in transforming education to inspire and Empower all students to maximize their full potential and in summary before we transition to questions here's another visual of what the programmatic progression would look like K12 so on the left side we have the classical education programming in the K8 space those students would uh should they so choose go into the choice High School uh Boutique high school and continue their classical education programming through an academy approach a cohort comes rain a clustered cohort where that uh the tenants of classical education would continue uh layered with advanced studies and dual enrollment on the right side in the lime green color would be the steam progression with steam park at Dodgertown Elementary is the K5 space Advanced Learning Academy at gford Middle School

134in the 68 space Also progressing to that Scholar Academy Approach at the boutique High School through a pipeline approach whether it be higher ed medical biotech certification whatever Community Partnerships we see along the way to make sure that our students are academically ready whether they pursue college or career and you know hopefully they stay in our community and and give back full circle as successful citizens um so that is our presentation so before we open it up to two questions hopefully one of the things that you you realized as um the presentation was being provided it's not being done in isolation need to speak closer to the microphone because of the rain it's raining um multiple offices almost every every office here uh has been involved in some way or form so this is uh

135redesigning our school system to support Innovation and change um this is really really exciting uh work for us this is what this work really ultimately needs to be about uh at the end of the day we are going to bring an item back to the board in October um for where we would need board approval so when you're looking at Pelican Island and shifting some of the boundaries which would be two or three four years out based on the transition plan so let me say it now no student will be displaced no family will be displaced if you're happy with Pelican Island as it currently is you can continue um from first grade all the way through in that uh traditional environment those children in that Community those families will have kind of first right

136of refusal um prior to choosing another uh another school and will phase into what would be our Classical School uh we'll bring back to the board uh the feasibility study and the action that we're going to take to create the 6 through eight space with a timeline because right now we're good K5 the buildings are there the school is at 50% capacity uh we anticipate uh significant increases in enrollment over the next several years uh but the board will need to approve the action plan on how we're going to create these six through eight uh facilities at that particular School School uh and then really also coming back to the board regarding a feasibility study regarding this Boutique High School uh and the truth is we've been speaking about this experience um we have two

137standard K12 traditional experiences uh for our students we're losing kids we're we're losing kids and I've said it a 100 times fold uh our opportunity to produce ivy league kids uh needs to increase we have them they're they're living in our community uh but our pathway needs to accelerate them uh so if that's their choice that's where they want to go we have a space or an environment for them um that is ultimately the the goal um in addition we're being very very aggressive you saw Mr seamore's picture uh we're working with the Jackie Robinson Foundation uh really to explore how do we we use that state-of-the-art facility uh and one of the ideas that we have is they have Jackie Robinson has his guiding principles uh that he used to drive his life um

138and we embedding a a those guiding principles into the school and maximizing partnership in the use of those facilities to highlight what it means to be a member of the team uh special special programming we we mentioned the program at gford Middle School gford Middle School uh has revitalized that advanced academic scholar program like something I've never seen before um and to say that people won't go to gford middle school is fictional there's over 60 75 students uh going into that school for that advanced academic programming scholarship one if we can tell our community hey you know what you want guaranteed entrance into that little carrot start here start here and we'll pathway you through and then we'll continue it with this Boutique High School experience uh same thing as Dr Bean mentioned we need

139a structure for the classical school we need to make sure it is a 12year experience that builds upon itself so we need to have the space available uh going into 12th grade for for that so this is very very exciting can't thank the team enough for its presentation and and we'll be happy to answer any questions you may have well I'm sure every board member wants to speak on this so who wouldd like to go first Dr PCO yeah um thank you for the excellent presentation it was very informative I think um I as well as the community who watches and listens to this they're going to have a really good understanding of what we're looking at and exploring right now um and I think you know based on the survey results I think that

140um the community has spoken you know I think that they they want more options and uh I think it's in uh everyone's best interest to give it to them so I I'm very excited about both the steam pathway uh as well as the classical education pathway so I look forward to following it okay Mr Rosario yeah um I'm excited I'm super excited I you know got to the edge of my seat because I just I can't wait I just want the school to open already um so a few things I think that are very important as we move in this direction when the Strategic plan comes to us Dr Moore it has to have the classical model in there and and the um I guess the the the redesigning of steam as we know it

141or however way you want to put it um but definitely the classical model needs to be in there um specifically because we are also going to when you bring us the feasibility uh projections uh however you're going to craft that um our budget uh a new policy um I think procedures on training and what that's going to look like in terms of curriculum um selection of curriculum because it's going to be different from the standard curriculum path that we have traditionally taken with all the other schools I think all of that is so critical to the creation of the classical model so we have to include that in the Strategic plan um it is also a uh part of The Five-Year Plan I suppose you know the the next five years if that's what you're

142going to bring to us um so it just seems to make sense in that in that space um the other thing that I was going to and I'm going to say this again it's very very very important very important that curriculum is selected to be classical curriculum because otherwise it doesn't matter you you can use any other curriculum and then call it classical it is not the same it's all because of the curriculum that makes classical work um along with the framework of rhetoric grammar rhetoric and and civic responsibility um ethics character logic you know all those other things um so but but all of those things are tied into the curriculum so whatever the curriculum is going to be that's the only um in in terms of uh you know my view it's it's

143one of the non-negotiables I believe um you know it's not like you're opening up a a general education school I mean this school is very specific um so I think everything kind of needs to be through that lens um there are teacher training programs that are available um to help teachers and and I'm mentioning that here because I don't know if you want to kind of look at that at least offer it to the teachers who might be interested um if they are wanting to get a certification in I see Dr shafty shaking her head she's already probably looked into that um if they want to get a certification in classical education learn how to teach classical um I know Hillsdale College announced a new classical education Masters program which is pretty interesting uh so

144there are way there are other ways of you know training our teachers in this model which will look very different from what we currently teach um so I think there that a that that a great um part of the budget for this should go in the training piece obviously um to prepare our teachers um the other thing that I'd like to see in this model which I didn't see here especially since we're going to do the K through 12 which I'm super excited but even through the elementary is the CLT right I think that part of the plan should emphasize to parents that the recommendation would be for students to take the CLT because it best aligns with their curriculum right all the way up until CLT by the way is the classical learning test

145um that is the alternative it's an it is an alternative to the Act and the SAT not prohibiting the SAT and the ACT clearly if a parent wants you know by that time for their kids to take the s or the ACT sure why not but the recommended one in this case I think makes the most sense for the curriculum that they've been learning for the past 12 years would be the CLT um the other thing that I was going to mention with the CLT and I'm sure you've already done the research Dr shafty is that the CLT isn't just for college entrance they also have Diagnostics along the way so there's a a a an early Elementary Diagnostics there's I think there's one in grade three there's one in maybe six and eight and

146then there's a grade 10 um and it certainly is a great way which is different from the SAT and the ACT there aren't any kind of standardized tests along the way nor are there Diagnostics to help prepare kids for that final test to get them into college um this at least gives them you know a pathway to see what testing is like obviously what the questions would be like preparing them throughout their 12 years to take the cltc successfully um and learn some of those strategies so I think that should you know is is very important to the model the classical model I cannot tell you how excited I am about this um over and over again I will will be happy to drop the mic you know at that moment and I know Dr

147Moore you're laughing because you know what that means um I am pretty curious though and I know you don't have the answer to this Dr shafty but it's pretty interesting that 76 surveys were of hom school private school or virtual school which is kind of interesting that's a lot of families that might be interested in kind of moving away from what they're currently doing to come back to the public school environment if it's classical that's that's incredible to me um so I I I know there's no answer to that but I just wanted to that out there that that seems quite interesting okay I'm going to shift to Dodger town now so um thank you for doing all that work by the way um so the uh Dodger town I think it's a um I

148love the presentation I love everything about it um one thing board members I've had conversations with Dr Moore on this on many occasion and I am I just think first of all that Dodger toown should be changed I think the name should be changed to Jackie Robinson Elementary School um I think it makes a perfect match with obviously Jackie Robinson Stadium um it's something that I have mentioned in the past it's not anything new if we're going to recreate or Rebrand the school why not it does give the school an opportunity to keep its its um um not the motto the the baseball which is the emblem the theme you know because it has the baseball um it does align well with Jackie Robinson's um you know character traits um his sports model and I

149would and I actually think and Dr Moore kind of hasn't he knows I'm gonna I actually think this should be steam Sports Park I I think it should be I mean I just think it's just a fabulous idea first of all when you focus on Sports um everyone's happy right everyone has you know obviously it shows in in uh in their grades um in their participation and attendance um but again what a great way to memorialize Jackie Robinson Elementary School with an additional focus on Sports um and collaborate possibly with the Jackie Robinson complex um in this area um I know Mr Seymour we saw saw him there in the Jackie Robinson complex I me I just think it was just so fabulous like to me it's just like a no-brainer um I'm hoping that

150board members would kind of chime in and say yeah that's a great way to go so we can add the sports to it um because it just it just seems to make sense right a holistic approach you have Steam and then you also have a focus on Sports I mean that could be as simple as saying that instead of your traditional calisthenics and gym we're going to play a sport right you'll play basketball or you'll play baseball or you'll learn um what is that new game that's now up no the other pickle pickle ball you know you you just pickle pickle paddles and balls are not that yeah they are see um they're not that expensive you know and it could mean just that right where we are giving kids an opportunity um to engage

151in sports early this is an elementary school and then um Steam and Sports Park just I just love it so I'm throwing that out there for you all um if you all are uh interested in um the renaming as well which I think is just I I love Jackie Robinson I love his story um it there is a policy of course Dr morz you know that we you know uh um created last year I think it was you know in the the renaming in the motto so there was a process that has to go on with that but what do you all think okay would you like to go next actually the sports ideas is a pretty good one that's uh pickle ball is becoming very popular with the older set but I don't know

152how many younger people get a chance to play it but they will want to know how to play it because it's that or golf um but I also very excited to thank you Dr shafty and everyone who's been doing a lot of work on this pretty exciting um looking forward to the classical education appr uh moving ahead but also was very impressed and excited by this the steam project it's really interesting um looking um idea and approach and I also see the opportunity there for um reaching certain groups of students and families who that's going to fit better their future life path um and it makes sense to to allow different um families different students to decide they need a different kind of Education particularly as I've mentioned before in in River County which doesn't

153have a lot of corporate headquarters but has a lot of other kinds of positions that might allow those those students to to stay here remain here and have their families here so I think that's very exciting and the idea of a sports Focus would obviously be good because children children are we all tend to like sports I'd be curious to to hear more about what our curriculum selection process is both for classical Ed but also for the the steam um direction to see how we determine that and what options we're looking at and I'm also curious as to I mean the boutique High School is an interesting idea is do we have a physical location planned for that would that be in the uh you're Beach High School or it um so we'll bring that

154back to the board so typically looking at the technical college there's a lot of space not necessarily used in combination with some space that may be at giord and pulling them together um to have it Sally located right there right great I'm excited about it I think it's it's a it's a great looking plan and looking forward to seeing this roll out quickly thank you doc thank you for all of your hard work on this um I know it takes a lot of time uh I attended the administrative Retreat last week and a district person said stop by Dodger town so I did and what I saw there with Carrie wall and her team they were getting everything set up I mean this this blueprint doesn't do it justice oh okay it it really doesn't

155do it justice I got the tour because this place really lends itself to what we're going to do there and I think our major hope is for all other steam schools to maybe look like this and have this ability but what these children are going to be able to do is absolutely fantastic um you know Mr McDonald asked about the boutique high school I know we talked a little bit about Treasure Coast Technical with G for middle and wherever that goes but I think that's a good um feeder program there um I did visit pineapple um Charter classical school in Melbourne a while ago at K8 and dynamic principle there uh they did teach us standards that are required by the doe and um one question came up so would we still be using our

156amplify for our standards or can you answer that for me do the through the chair two-part answer we we obviously still have to adhere to the standards but we're going to go through a curriculum adoption process um so allow us to identify what is the absolute best given this new model okay and I think you need to say it clearly to um teachers will have the right to stay or not to stay is that correct at Pelican Island oh uh 100% And we have to keep in mind we're going to grow the enrollment right therefore you grow instructional staff by by 50% uh so ultimately there's going to be opportunities to move into uh those teaching position and make a decision whether to stay or find other opportunities within our system in a few questions

157I've had Parents may stay or they may choose to go if they do not want that as far as their program no no one will be displaced okay good um one thing we always have to remember is a federal geg order as far as our population in our schools and that that's the same for magnet so that would be the same and um now I went to that I went to that HBCU game with Mr Seymour um Jackie Robinson Center and it wasn't very well attended but um Dr Moore you threw out the first pitch well you tried to which why I was glad it was which is why I was glad it wasn't very well attended I threw out the first pitch at a veral beach baseball game and it was a lot okay

158all right but anyway um but you but you won the Derby the Derby run right no we came in fourth awesome no um and I know that you have us on here and we'll start getting questions from parents and so forth but I think the key will be and I've been through some magnet Transitions and in this district is just making sure we get all the information out there to our parents because they will want to make sure that they are making the right decision for their children um when I went to Pineapple Charter K8 principal is absolutely Dynamic and you know it's a public charter just like ours would be a a public school has there been another Public School classical right now there's one in the designs following the same time frame as

159us but that would just be a K5 that's actually the one in Miami that Miami um not the school that we visited but obviously the district this would be the very first K12 approach um in as a public school okay so when you look at the um I'm sorry I'm sorry as a public magnet yes as a yes public school magn because there are public Charters is that what I said no no you just said public in general no as a public public school I was driven by the school district K12 okay so I obviously that information as soon as we can when we decide to roll this out get to the parents so they have a have a great understanding but I I encourage I know I went there early to dodger toown but

160uh I encourage people to get there because our it team is already there they're already uh working um diligently on everything that you see here and I know it's going to be a um a great significant impact of Dodger town and I think it'll be an impact on all of our other steam schools if we can carry that on can you explain a little bit more to me Miss wall saids about the bus what's that bus GNA do again would you like to form that's the one thing I wasn't sure oh okay go go ahead go ahead you you want no go you'll do it better so what the steam bus would be it would be our in of our students going to other locations for Hands-On field trips Dodgertown will be the premier location

161that they can take a field trip um through our own transportation to our own space their teachers can come with handson so at some point we would like enrollment to be so full in at capacity that we have a dedicated bus that just purely has the best equipment the best model classroom teachers can learn students can learn all at one place which is our own place um there at Dodger toown in a in a bus bus like the school bus like yeah not the learning on the bus but they take the bus to the Magic School Bus yes one last question I thought when we were first starting that the survey um and this is the first time I saw all the specifics the survey talked about Steam and classical was it combined at all

162or were you're separating steam to Dodger town no they as we surveyed them they were two distinct options that came back um equally desired um with the one exception the new people who are not accessing our product a very very high interest in classical in classic okay that's all for now thank you Dr Pasa I I already I started started oh I'm sorry it's been a while all right um couple things one I'm excited about both schools I think it's great you know we need to listen to our audience which is our community and we need to listen to what people want I'm going to stress over and over again that this classical school model does not include religion and I think that's what people think of when they think of um we're going to

163move to a classical school and they're very worried about that we need to stress that that's not going to happen um with their resources I think I figured this out they're going to have uh on their wheel like foreign language uh Fine Arts and PE right okay and then um going over to which I think is a great use of that building and a great use of uh our North County Focus so that's great moving on to uh Steam Park so I think I'm what 25 years ahead of my time there because I worked at that school and um when our librarian retired and they couldn't find anyone I was asked to go into that spot for a year and instead of being the media specialist I taught Steam and it was very controversial at

164the time because media Specialists wanted a True Media person and they're teaching you know reading books and I realized kids needed Hands-On a spark with along with books and so um but I didn't have the money and or the support from the district like you guys are doing so I think that's wonderful we did start a science lab there and it did really well with a lot of little grants that we wrote and things like that uh I still have a lot of connections with the kids that I taught while I was there and a lot of them said it was the Hands-On learning that was so meaningful to them and so I'm so happy to see that this is happening uh ironically I wrote a grant for St Lucy County for a bus and

165I still have the grant so if you'd like it um a Grant application was for a Honda Grant we didn't get it we kept trying um but we were going to repurpose one of our school buses and working with the and they're very interested in working with with us the Orlando Science Center um um on making this truly happen for our kids and it had some really unique things that they were doing there that we could put in the bus for kids and it was all handson it was like a field trip that came to the schools um so I do have that um all of that worked out and you can take it or leave it whatever you want I'll give it to you uh Jackie Robinson name we've been talking about this for

166a long time haven't we Eric um because I was at that school and noticed that that family was very involved in the Community I've worked with a lot of the Dodger toown people I was very involved when Craig Callen was there when uh Tom Simmons was there um my kids grew up at that campus they grew up going to the ball games all the time for 35 years we've been going to the school or that campus and and knowing this community and knowing that need I think it's a great idea but I also know that you have to be very careful when you throw that out there timing is everything we need to make sure that you know they are on board too before we start throwing that out there um ironically when I went

167on my little cicada Safari here the last couple weeks um we went to Jackie Robinson's birthplace on our first time we stayed in this little town it was his birthplace it's not there I think there's just a pad there there um unfortunately but um then we went to uh Cincinnati Reds and sure enough their Museum half of the stuff was about Jackie Robinson you know everywhere you go his name is synonymous with change in baseball and I think it's great that that name is there for us to maybe partner with and so I'm all for that um you know the question I have though is what are the resources going to be at this school daughter town because when I was there I was the resource steam person but I tried to get the teachers

168to do it too and to come into the lab the problem is when you have an open lab and you have no one to um kind of work it it kind of you it takes a lot to keep it going so let me let me answer the question part of the redesign is the reestablishment of innovation and what this team will be doing Carrie Wall's team which is Carri uh which is the mother of innovation as well as her team which is four individuals uh have relocated we've assigned them to Dodger toown so rather than do a professional development at the beginning of the year do some PD on Tuesdays after school we are going to embed the support throughout the school year um we are going to create uh the ongoing opportunity to build

169the capacity for instructional staff and we're going to hyperfocus that support over the course of the year so we're not going to do it in drops uh or in isolation we're going to do it over the course of the Year using all former high yield effective Master Teachers around instructional technology to support them and move from the introduction of the strategy uh to the support of the strategy to sustaining the strategy over time um so providing that support all year long so rather than taking a four-year process to innovate something we can hyperfocus that support and make it something that's sustainable as we move into next school year and then we'll be looking where else is that team going to go where else are we going to who's next to reform and transform okay good

170um um one of the other things that I had a responsibility for in St louy County was helping to um secure a 14 million doll steam Grant um which we got and that was to innovate three different schools and the project I was responsible for was Sam Gaines and that was a K8 um steam magnet within the school so in other words the kids could be either in the magnet program or they could be from the community they both went into the same school um kids from the community could apply to be in the magnet program no problem but it also had this magnet within the school was very successful um that school went from an F to I think there a b now something like that um but the other thing it's so unique

171about that the money that we had was really nice um but the makeer space there is phenomenal uh we had enough money to make it phenomenal so um I don't know if you've been down there I know there was a group here that went down there one of my first years here Kelly were you there yes you saw the maker space and you know it's just kind of a unique thing to look at what what is a maker space and and why is it important to make it what the kids me not what the adults think and so that's the that's the piece I would start looking at some other maker spaces around and that's a good one to look at I don't know if they've kept it up I haven't been there in the

172last year or so but um it's really impressive and that's all I have I think it's great both schools are great I'm excited about the boutique High School um I know like Lincoln Park Academy I'm just going to take that as an example it's one of the top schools in the state if not the nation um if anybody's ever heard of it or gone to it you need to go down and see it it's amazing um it's very much aligned with the classical type Focus as far as traditional academic Focus high they they hire people with MERS and phds to make sure that they they're getting the the most intense instruction for highlevel kids uh it's a incredible magnet it's hard to get into um year after year after year because of and you know

173Eric I'm speaking to Eric was at that school um so I just think about that because it's a boutique high school they don't have a football team and so I think it's really interesting that we have this huge long line of kids trying to get into a school that doesn't have a football team so um that's out there parents want that they want choice so I I embrace it all I think it's great all right yes Mr Zario um so I want to bring it back to the sports because I only heard two board members um talk about sports with this school if we were to look at the mascots that are now a part of Dodger Town um the mascot is the ball what I it's a little Dodger it's a ball it's a

174a little man a little boy man called a little Dodger it's a kid form of the head is a baseball okay and with a baseball cap on it right so that's the current mascot um of Dodger Town um and then we saw up here a new um logo or mascot which is now this uh the baseball diamond and it said uh Ste park right welcome to steam Park on most of the slides that we saw and even the the principles so now you have two modotto that are sports related right baseball diamond and baseball Ball but the focus is going to be in Steam so there's no correlation between the two mascots and steam there should be a rebranding to remove the baseball or the steam park or the the park whatever the whatever that

175Park is right the baseball diamond if it's going to be completely steam or add Sports to it so they can keep the same Mo motto or they can keep the same mascots because it it just doesn't it just doesn't match the other thing is that the title Dodger Town um before Jackie Robinson became Jackie Robinson it was Dodger toown we no longer have Dodger toown so now you have a name for a school that doesn't actually correlate to what it was originally intended to do which was baseball so you have these disconnects in the rebranding of the school and I think when you're rebranding you should Rebrand like really Rebrand you don't do part rebranding and then hope that the rest just kind of fits in you Rebrand as an advert as an advertisement for

176the school to say this is what we are about so I'm going to put that back out there in terms of getting specifics you know feedback from board members on adding Sports to it or rebranding you know reang the motto you know changing the name rech I mean there's a lot of different options here but I think that they all should be the same somehow or another yeah I um I think your points are well taken I if we're going to going to go to the school and kind of fundamentally reimagine and innovate what's happening um it's a natural progression that we consider re rebranding um so I would support um that consideration as well you know I don't know that we need to get into the specifics right here but um just in general

177that we should look at rebranding um which is going to obviously include the public Outreach component to see how they feel and all that stuff uh on an appropriate timeline just a couple things just like um Dr bacon gford middle did with the gford alumni Dr Moore and Eric Seymour and bringing the community in will be very very important if that's the Avenue we take I also agree that's a a real good suggestion particularly since Dodger Town currently does not have a stellar reputation in the community you want to really make that an obvious change rebranding obviously would be an important one and consider considering whether we need to be still be tied to Dodger town at all since they've left us it's okay that we leave them but um uh and the idea of

178I think the idea of sports are something to consider and take a look at um but the rebanding obviously is is really significant it's one thing to go from a a good reputation to a different uh pattern but if we're trying to separate from that past reputation that will be a big powerful uh impact um I'm fine with that I just think I think I agree with Dr PCA you know you need a lot of community input um you don't just five people decide that um the other thing is if we're looking at getting Jackie Robinson's name involved I know that takes a lot more than us just saying let's make it that happen so I think we need to investigate that part of it before we even bring up renaming the school because you

179know I don't want to step on any toes there and I know that's kind of you've been working on that so so I'll just follow up um we do have a policy that I brought forward last year on commemoration of school facilities it is policy 7250 um it does um Talk specifically about renaming schools um and the process in which the district should take um the sole responsibility for the naming of any and all district facilities rests on the board upon recommendation by the super attendent school buildings outdoor facilities and Facilities within a school campus such as a stadium a media center gymnasium an auditorium or any other component part of a school may be named for geographical location General features of an area developments in which the school facilities are located individuals right so

180in this case it would be Jackie Robinson or you know something of the like and such other names that in the Judgment of the board are deemed appropriate um and then for existing facilities in this case it would be an existing facility um these requests must be reviewed by the name selection team so there has to be a name selection team um in the same manner as outlined above which is in the policy that looks at um uh possible names of schools so in essentially it's a name selection committee basically um and these people who are part of this team include but are not limited to the principal of the school district employees community members parents students representatives of the school advisory Council PTA student government and student council um the name selection team will

181recommend a name by majority vote of the team the principal will then forward that name uh recommen recommended by the majority vote of the team to the superintendent within 45 days of the decision of the team and then the superintendent will forward that recommendation um to the board for our final vote for or against so because this is in policy I don't mind bringing in action tonight and just adding it on to um the agenda as an action item just kind of charging you with creating the selection committee um I guess I'm going to throw this out to miss shatak um is that something that because it is connected to policy is that something that sounds like it would need to come if we are approving for this committee to be selected by the superintendent

182should that come as an action vote thank you um through the chair so for this I would say if you were going to do an action vote on it it would make sense you know if possible to wait for the next agenda because then you could have it advertised you know with the seven days in advance that you have that as an action item generally you only want to put things um last minute if it's an emergency because you don't have the same opportunity for public notice and then public input if people want to come and speak to it um so but certainly you know having the conversation today you all can talk about whether or not you're in agreement with this so that it can be on the radar to move forward with it

183but does it need to be a vote at all or can he just move forward with consensus in today's Workshop it doesn't say anything about needing a vote to tell him to do this basically yeah I don't think that you would need a vote to tell him to do it um okay so Dr Moore through the chair We are following a design process so I don't think that we're there on the name yet I I I don't think anything that was said is anything that I disagree with um but as we go through and create Partnerships we need we need to ensure that we're exploring all options and creating the design of the school and then go through that board Pro uh process and and I think what everyone says is is accurate uh but

184I don't think we we necessarily need to start with the the school I think we designed the school as itself uh and we look at Partnerships um and quite honestly um it is a honor and a privilege to have a school named after you um and that is marketing and branding for that person or that organization uh until that name changes I want to have a conversation uh what's in it for this District what are we going to get are we going to get that partnership are we going to have access to those particular facili uh does it come with some kind of financial contribution to this unique programming that programming that we're going to discuss where Mr Seymour is is good we've had some initial conversations but those are all conversations that are yet

185to be had so um I'll keep everybody up up to date like October is I know some of you may think October is a long way away um but this is a heavy heavy heavy lift uh so in that item uh would be the initial next steps uh whether it is the initiation of the procedures established within that policy um or whether they have been completed you will be uh informed as we move through the process and you did hear consensus by the way on the sports adding Sports to it I I think Sports is is as we've had that conversations uh the uniqueness of of that partnership with that school uh is something very very uh easy to do I like the idea of saying rather than just be overarching being specific and Broad

186uh around the physical education opportunities uh and although it is a steam school it could be um very very strategic in marketing to uh all kinds of kids to explore is this a school that I want to go to because it has this partnership uh with the state of the-art facility whether it's baseball pickle ball or whatever you paddle ball whatever it may be there may be unique opportunities that just make it even more appealing to attend the school got it okay I think you're ready all right um next is is the it's my item and it is the reorganization of the district this is something that I historically do um to be quite honest this is the least amount of of reorganization that I've ever done uh but it does yield the highest P

187um dollar return back into ultimately classrooms so what I'm looking to do um from a systems perspective is to build capacity across the entire organization um and what that means is we have been very very focused in on the instructional systems and the data around improving the quality instruction building capacity at school sites creating worldclass educational leaders while at the same time creating the system so the teachers have all of the support and time needed to create worldclass lessons to improve the quality of instruction C uh we have uh built those systems and we are moving the organization to sustain those systems while at the same time using that same theory of action with the rest of the organization um and that's kind of the theme that I'll talk through at the end of the

188day uh we are reducing salary uh at the district at this office by almost $900,000 uh in addition to a reduction of $900,000 in salary that will not be allocated for next school year at the district we've also reduced $1.6 million in discretionary funding from the district uh Mr Green has referenced that before that's going and saying uh line by line item by item are there opportunities um to reduce expenditures aligned to this school board's strategic plan um that results this reorganization results in about a $2.5 million uh reduction in District cost if you look back over the course of the last four years uh we have already reduced uh through other reorganizations almost 2 million so over the course of the last four and a half years we've reduced District budget by $4.5 million

189uh and that is extremely important to me as we look at the school system and we lose this funding or or shifts or declines in enrollment you you look at your own house first before you look anywhere else um so I would be hardpressed to find uh someone else who's cut more than we have at the district uh in order to ensure that we're protecting what is absolutely most important which is where our schools at at the end of the day what we are doing here there are is reorganizing the district based on the reduction of District staff uh the deputy superintendent position has been deleted that was deleted when Mr bash retired and we redistributed his responsibilities across everyone who's sitting at this table um so a lot of this has been in place

190almost all of it has been in place um for the last three or four months and we want to continue to move forward we're making Minor Adjustments to uh District staff positions based on the redistribution of responsibilities so some people taking on a little bit more responsibilities a slight shift uh in their position whether it's a junior network technician uh procurement and contract manager that ultimately is a shifted position human resource specialist is a shifted position meaning additional responsibilities coming to to those individuals the best way to talk through this reorganization is just to kind of go through each of the different offices to have a better understanding um when you look at who directly reports to me it's always been cabinet I am uh adding Dr Cara shafty and Dr McMahon's direct reports to

191me why because you look back at the majority of this conversation it's about Innovation it's about reforming and transforming the uh experience in our K12 space Dr shafty will lead that work and Report directly to me and I think if each and every single one of you look or interact with as you have interacted with Dr shafty uh she has abil ability and skills to report to me also Dr McMahon uh Dr McMahon has been under curriculum and instruction where we've built data and drive accountability around data uh those systems are some of the strongest systems uh that I have seen even though I came from a system that had strong Data Systems in place what we do here around teaching and learning uh is not comparable to other districts we want to embed that

192accountability across the entire system uh and Dr MC man will lead and create those dashboards out uh under my office that helps us realize cost savings I believe I keep saying it there's a million dollars of efficiencies uh out there for us to claim when we're effectively and efficiently uh managing the resources that are available to us and we have the dashboards to do it on a daily basis uh we can improve efficiencies also transportation and food and nutrition will also report to my office through Dr Jacobs uh and those are opportunities just to distribute the assignments uh and really look at in innovating practices within those two specific areas the office of curriculum instruction a a shift to miss Bieber's um assignments and that really kind of goes into what we're calling infrastructure uh

193School infrastructure so maximizing FTE reporting to the state uh District budgets um Master schedules all of the things that absolutely have to be done uh and ensure that principles can stay in schools uh we need higher levels of accountability in that specific area and we can sustain the academic structures that we've put in place over the last four and a half years so a minor shift to her responsibilities um Miss NE U Nick westenberger will take over the facilities and support services uh and we will shift a position down from what was a director of the warehouse and purchasing uh to report to Mr Neck W westenberger that's just an efficiency and a even distribution of work assignments uh under Mr Green's shop uh and then little and minor changes to Mr Seymour's uh assignments

194the director of student services um used to oversee uh Charter School charter school will also go to miss Bieber uh and she'll oversee uh Charter School Miss Holden has done an absolutely outstanding job with um Charter Schools but we need all of her focus in and around student services in that specific order um and that really is the the bulk of the uh reorganization you have no principal moves so all of our principles exhale um and there's only one assistant principal uh who requested a a different assignment we have three current openings one of them is at Sebastian Senior High School those positions are posted we're getting ready before going out externally to interview we offered it to current assistant principles uh she was inter uh interested in that particular position met with the principal

195and it's a perfect uh assignment so we will come back to the board with three assistant principal positions in our upcoming Schoolboard meeting we have to go through the interview process there and that that is it in its totality be happy to answer any questions thank board members any questions yes DRC Jones uh with Miss Bieber making the move who's going to do high school so Miss B will absorb some of that the K8 Spa the Middle School space will be moved to U Miss Garcia so she'll be able to manage the instructional course of the four middle schools and Miss B will be able to lead just the the the two high schools anybody else um I have a question about um person sitting in front of me Miss christop poy when I look

196at you I think of Human Resources but technically she's going to be working with principles right so yeah so miss christop for the last year has been the direct contact for principles that work will continue uh one of the shifts that I made and continue to support over the course of the last four years is that accountability uh needs to be under supervision and when you have a investigation or there's discipline that isn't something you Outsource as a leader that's something that you must do as a leader and this design has always been uh which was one of the biggest flaws in moving the system forward is that when you need to have a punishment or be disciplined uh you were sent to the district office which made absolutely no sense so miss christop fo

197over the last three years has really been building uh how we go through high levels of accountability to hold employ employees accountable uh while at the same time being fair and honest and ethical with our employees so she'll lead that work as well um this operations office is a higher level of efficiency at the same time and one of the things um that I have learned from a principal's perspective is you have to streamline the communication from the system the district to schools and when you're getting an email uh from Mr Seymour an email from Mr Green an email from everyone here you'll spend hours trying to filter through who do I respond to what's the most important so one of our efficiencies next year is to streamline the support that all of these people

198are going to provide to principles uh while at the same time that's what Mr christop Foley reports directly to me uh ensuring that all of the support the guidance and development is being implemented and acted upon and when it's not there's a level of accountability uh because she is sitting with with me as we do the evaluations of the principles so it's creating the balance that I've always spoken about between support and accountability and then creating the dialogue in my shop around support and accountability if something isn't being done and I'm talking about it at the end of the school year Based on data then I have failed we talk about it each and every single day regarding the reality of what's taking place in schools whether it's their budgets whether it's their discipline procedures

199whether it's their academic support uh we have the ability based on our design to have those conversations constantly and then Define is it higher levels of support which may be uncomfortable conversations for some of these folks about improve the quality of support or is it a conversation with the the person who's not following through and implementing the program or the initiative correctly well that was a short answer to my question yes we're very proud of Miss Christal Foley so so I understand then um Mr Green then is going to be responsible more for the um Human Resources part of it the human resources part um we have been very strategic over the last six months uh across the entire system on it being efficient and effective and getting folks hired processed and in their position

200as quickly as process so quickly as possible so significant work that's being done there uh the hiring of individuals has um been a a constant Improvement when you look at open positions right now we're down to a handful of positions so we typically hire 100 to 110 uh instructional staff this year you're looking at schools with two openings no openings three openings that's it and this at this time of the year that is absolutely amazing which goes back to our structure which is invest in those who have hired okay thank you anybody else Mr Rosario okay so Dr Moore can you just uh review again what is the total cost savings um in terms of these positions that have either changed shifted or will not be renewed the in salary there's a $894,000 or almost

201$89 $895,000 reduction and District salary in comparison to this specific year that's a reduction we also are cutting uh District's spending by $1.6 million um so those two numbers add up to 2.5 million not in our budget from The District's perspective which cost which realizes savings uh closer to kids um the system that we use here is we're going to cut the district this is a shrinking model as you build capacity you have the system and you could hold people accountable for implementing the system you need less people away from kids to manage those systems um and that's why we have gone from 28th in teacher pay to sixth in teacher pay because we're saving money uh to pay our teachers more um what where where do you expect to see some of these Cuts

202where should we all expect to see these Cuts well the they listed oh I'm sorry the coordinator of stem Deputy superintendant the director of you said of spending the one just the one point 2 million you said in addition there will we will be cutting spending by 1.2 million so now 1 Point 1.6 um and I don't think you're going to see the impact because it's efficiencies uh it's questioning and going back to zero base balance there's nice to have and there's absolutely required uh I need to have to support the district's strategic plan um it is irresponsible of or of of me to provide an individual with a budget and not question how they spend every penny within that budget um and at the end of the day if we're going to move the

203needle and we're going to fund the priorities of of this board as you were talking we're getting ready to completely recreate our district strategic plan um it's really nice to have some of the things that we need to have but I need to fund the priorities they're going to move the system forward uh and it's a hard conversation uh but over the last four and a half years uh this team has embraced that way of thinking um and we're able to realize the these savings so I I don't think it's it we're not I'm not putting us in a St a strenuous situation oh we're we're cutting we're cutting we're being efficient so the zerob based budget um you know in in my opinion at the school level it's not like at home right you

204budget to spend $50 at the supermarket and if you come under yay you have you know $10 extra um you can probably save that but in the school district my view is when when if you're given a $50 budget you should spend it that's to zero so that there is zero left over we know that you have spent it for that purpose um it's a slight shift from what you know at least that's in my view it's a slight shift from what we do personally um but that's what we're giving the money for we're giving the money from the state from the government from Grants to spend it on kids to spend it on instruction to spend it where it's needed um and so it's great when we still have you know when we have

205left over they haven't spent it all but then who who's missing you know the kids are missing out on that right well the theory of action is almost flipped as you create your budget we need to identify what you're going to spend those dollars on and give a justification or R rationale for for that dollar and there that that's where you get the separation of nice to have or no you you you don't need to have so now that we have done that yes we should be uh much more efficient of coming down to the to the zero dollar of of those allocations or those position or of those discretionary funds because some of that oh I'm going to pad my budget which everyone is probably done it it there's no a middle manager padding

206their budget is hurting the mission and vision of the organization um so we need to be able to make sure we're maximizing the priority the spend of each and every single dollar well I think this is this is where the Strategic plan should come to us first before the budget and that and I've said this from the from day one our strategic plan drives the budget not the other way around we don't create the budget first and then create the Strategic plan you create the Strategic plan identify those goals where the priorities are and then create the budget so I hope that we're going to work in that order um you know at the very least we should have a special meeting so that you can hear our priorities or present a preliminary to help

207guide the budget because I know the budget you know that that's coming up quick um the presentation of the budget at least the tentative budget is coming up quick but we can't create the budget until we do the Strategic plan first so I I agree and I think we've approved and we update the Strategic plan every single year but I I would bet you that every single person sitting at this table can quote their area of their strategic plan because when they're creating their budgets that strategic plan is out so yes we load the budget based on state requirements um but you're not when we go through a year-long process next year of updating the Strategic plan for the next five years because 20 we have a strategic plan plan from 20 to 25 we

208update it every single year um but that is the driving force so as we update that specific plan we're never walking away and we don't create the budget uh in isolation we create it on the priorities that are defined by this board uh through that strategic plan well the one thing that we just added for this new for bringing it to us would be the classical for example um that has to be added to this new updated version for this upcoming year right that that would be there and as we engage in the dialogue regarding the next five years it's going to be heavy on Innovation yeah but that should come to us before our budget process that's my point we need to see that we need to be able to approve and provide our

209priorities in and it's not your strategic plan it's the board's strategic plan I mean we work together obviously and you present it but ultimately it is the board strategic plan that actually helps to you know for Doc for Mr Green to create the budget and align the budget so I mean in years Pat last year I think we did it well you know we we had it we had the the updated version first and then we um worked on the budget but we we've got to get that right because then we're going to be chasing our Tails um later on and I don't want to do that Madam chair yes go ahead this might be in Mr Green's area later but when we we looked at our um student allocation model how many Cuts did

210we have just generally High School Middle you know because I know we were lower than the uh class size but that's important for our student teacher ratio so Mr in Mr Green's presentation he's going to go through the The Continuous budget cycle on how they allocate but as we created the the budget this year uh we base it on enroll and we want to make sure when we're going through the funding process you know in February you're funded in October you're funded um so we we make slight tweaks in order to ensure that we are going to get as close to class size as possible with exceeding that class size so that we we continue to look at that and go through this regression study each and every single year to make sure that we

211get it right because at the end of the day we want to project the number of students that we're going to have because once we hire the teacher we can't unire the teacher um so we got to make sure that model is as accurate as possible so we're not um hiring too many or too few teachers and I remember when we had site based budgeting um 70 to 75% would be salaries you know just even within the school so you do have to know that model you need to know your enrollment thank you absolutely and with that Mr Green you're up thank you I was going to say we we are way over the 2hour mark But I know we have a lot more on the agenda so um board members we're going to keep

212moving but if you have to go to the restroom get up and go thank you Dr Moore and Madame chair through the chair um so I think as M Rosario alluded to um very quickly this summer will be coming up and we're already in the midst of developing the 2425 budget however um to kick that off um each summer we usually start in May or June with a an overview workshop for the board and for the community to get an idea of what the budget looks like how it's created and some of the budget impactors that we'll be facing for 2425 so with that um we're going to review that overall budget process today we're going to take a look at the 2324 budget and review that we're going to look at the um ffp

213or the Florida education Finance program and that is the formula by which we are funded and that formula funds us on our full-time equivalent students or a formula around um waiting our students to get those fundings we're going to move into the initial budget planning for 2425 discuss some budget impactors and our next steps so one of the things that is uh often used in education are acronyms so um I thought I'd start off just putting some of those up there before we start using a lot of FWS like the ffp um the FTE for the full-time equivalent students we talked about FES for family empowerment scholarship sometimes um referred to as vouchers you get into UW FTE or unweighted FTE calc is kind of a local term we use when they calculate our budget

214in October and in February and in the summer we're produced a document actually called a calculation and we use those um as our budget is adjusted throughout the year and we call those CS individuals with disabilities idea we um have talked a lot about Esser funds Elementary and secondary school emergency relief sometimes people had called those covid relief funds pandemic funds and then specifically um one area in that was the American Rescue plan or the arp so just some acronyms that we will be using throughout the presentation so one of the things I did add to the presentation most of the presentation will look similar to last year updated is just a flowchart to um give us an idea of how we go through this process and how it's a continuous process throughout the year

215so you can think of last year even or this past uh March or may legislation ends and the House and Senate comes together and you get your cont conference report whether that's Senate Bill 2500 or this year was house bill 50001 that is your initial funding and we call that the first C and that's what we have here and that's what we start building the budget on um called the Appropriations and then sometime last year was May the year before it was June this year it's June we kick off a budget Workshop just to overview where we're at and to kick off the budget development cycle July 1st will begin our fiscal year and uh by July 19th we have to have our certification of our tax roll and that'll kick off a second calculation

216based on that certification by the 19th of July we'll spend July August and September board together going through the tenative budget and the millage rates and trim ads and advertisements in the paper and special meetings all to come around to adopting a final budget in September for the 2425 school year which will not be a final bud budget because it will be modified throughout the year through various calculations such as in October a fifth calculation from the year prior which will adjust our new budget up or down based on the summer findings that we'll go through in the next few months coming into October we'll have the third calculation of this particular budget 2425 and that third calculation this is what I like to call musical chair chairs so our students have been moving around

217they're going in courses they're going on the virtual they're going between schools in the district and all of the sudden the state says stop everybody sit down and let me see where you're sitting and we will send those schedules through Focus through what's called a survey we will send it on a date certain and they will use those minutes that each student is sitting in certain courses that qualify to develop the funding that we get or a full-time equivalent student a third grader here the whole time and one of our schools could be a whole student um two high school students one taking three periods and then the rest H school one taking three periods virtual those two students together could combine to create a fulltime equivalent student so not the same as enrollment then

218we kick off the spring with legislation sessions which start talking about new bills and impacts that come along we we start conducting budget and allocation meetings every month where we're meeting with them reviewing their budgets looking at their allocations in February we have another calculation um it's the third survey of students and it's the fourth calculation of our budget which we don't receive until April or May and then we are working on that staff allocation model so that we have a mechanism in the spring of the year to anticipate enroll rment in the fall of the next year sometimes that's a growing enrollment sometimes it's declining enrollment and we use a staff allocation model formula for how many counselors you get how many teachers you get how many core non-core assistant principles to help guide

219that um prediction for the fall and to help Drive the budget that would need to fund those allocations at the school and then of course we're back at our um legislative for the following year within our budget there are some key funds our general fund is the one we talk about the most it's the one protected by State Statute and it's the one that pays for those salaries and uh electrical services like FPL instructional materials that's uh the bulk of 55% of the budget we have special Revenue those are your title one two 3 4 your food service these are federal dollars and these come with specific restrictions the majority of them are restricted to supplementing the budget and not supplanting meaning you can't just pull out an assistant principal here and pay for them

220with these dollars or you can't pull out a school counselor and pay you have to say oh you don't have something that you need and now you can supplement and then when you get into Esser and art funds those are specific funds to help recover from learning loss over that time and and they had specific requirements along with them we have Debt Service to pay back our debt such as buildings of Storm Grove Middle School and Vera Beach Elementary and a wing at Treasure Coast wherever those construction projects have we also have some electrical engineering type um rebates where we look at FPL and they come in and they'll redo all the lights from T4 to LED and we'll pay that back over time and we'll pay it back by the saving things that they

221guarantee through that then you have your capital projects and this is where your local 1.5 mil uh tax comes in for um buildings maintenance roofs school buses computers and the people that um operate those or support those or maintain those buildings and buses um and transferring out to pay that debt service we have an insurance fund we're selling insured so the premiums collected by the employees along with the premium contribution provided by the school board go in to fund that and we do things like our health center that you know we're in the middle of transitioning and all of the premiums and costs of the benefits to the employees and finally our extended day or Enterprise program which is collected through participation fees you heard a little bit about that earlier today to pay for

222those salaries benefits and supplies so when we we look at our 2324 budget and we're looking what was published in the budget book at the beginning of the year you can see this is how that breaks down across those funds with the largest portion being the general fund or 55% of the overall budget the total budget being $386 million and you follow it around your special revenue or your federal programs at 7% special Revenue Food Service 3% your debt service 8% Capital project 17% Health 9% and your extended day Enterprise at 1% so as I said we talk around the general fund quite a bit because we're required to have a Balan budget we're required to anticipate unforeseen events we're required to do budget amendments throughout the year which you receive monthly on the board

223agenda we're required to maintain by State Statute a 3% fund balance and by District um board rule a 5% ending fund balance um and so we're required to con to have the funds necessary for contingencies and emergencies and normal operating um salary payments that go out so looking specifically at the general fund this is how that breaks down or that 55% and you'll if you go back to this slide you'll see that general fund was $212 Million out of the 386 this is the breakdown of that $212 million 5% fund balances is budgeted um necessarily Central Administration 1% facilities and maintenance 14% And these um to miss Rosario's Point these are all tied through account strips that have been tied to the Strategic plan that have been tied to areas such as instruction instructional material

224So within that 80% 61% of that is going directly to instruction teacher salary and then you have various other percents 3% going into Transportation instructional materials and what so forth to make up that 80% going directly to support teachers and students in the classroom our second biggest fund that we talk about is our Capital fund and that's where we do programs such as buildings or additions or maintenance to our buildings we buy our school buses we buy our White Fleet technology and those are planned out through our cap Capital 5-year plan and laid out approved by the board each year we have recurring Capital maintenance items and we pay for um certain employees that support those things their salary such as maintaining the buildings or driving the buses or whatever that they do to support

225those items we've purchased with those dollars one thing new um and I know that Mr Fagan had mentioned it to you but it went into effect this year and that is the sharing of the 1.5 mil when I was here here a long time ago it used to be called 2 mil money because we got 2 m for our Capital it was then reduced through legislation to 1.5 mil so what um the new legislation is uh we will be sharing that 1.5 mil with Charter Schools through a series of 20% at a time until we're at 27 28 and 100% funded so what that means if you look at the first chart for fiscal year 23 24 our current year the two blue items the 43 million and this chart is not to scale there's

22620 million below there but then it would make it so small we couldn't see the buckets on the top the 43 million and the6 or the 600,000 the 43.6 million is what we generate in our 1.5 millage for Capital outlay this year however we had to carve out 600 ,000 to share with the charter school so that's why it's a little bit lighter color the number on top of that is our local impact fees and we get impact fees for new student stations um and that's 1.3 M roughly 1.3 million a year and then the lightest color on the top are the state Charter School app um Capital outlay funds of 1.3 million so those are capital funds that go directly to Charter Schools from the state so in 25 you'll see that 44 plus

227the 1.2 or 45.2 is our local 1.5 and we'll be sharing 40% 60 80 and then by 28 100% or the full funding for the charter schools unweighted FTE the 2100 students that they have generate the 3.1 million that'll carve out of the 53.9 million that we generate through our local 1.5 mil and then just a highlevel overview we talked about full-time equivalent students so each time in October and in February when the musical chairs stop and everybody's in their seat and they count the minutes that we have them those students are then multiplied by program factors maybe they're in speech and language maybe they're an exceptional education student so there are programs that weight students differently based on the needs that they academic needs and the other program needs generating our weighted to FTE

228that weighted FTE is then multiplied by the base student allocation for 2425 $5,300 per student multiplied by what used to be called the diff District dis District cost differential which is gone now the comparable wage factor which do not affect our district so we're a 1.0 to give you your base funding about $105 million That Base funding is then has categoricals added along the way if you have DJJ which we don't safe schooled allocations which we do our ese guaranteed allocation educational enrichment which used to be your sa dollars federally connected students which we don't your student transportation mental health comes into your gross state and local ffp dollars at the bottom I just highlighted some categoricals that we use the terminology have been rolled in into the base so in certain years the state

229will say wow we're going to have historic increases in the base student funding the base student allocation and what will happen is some of those categoricals that were previously added on top of your base funding get rolled into your base funding and increases it but then you are still required to carve out in your budget and maintain and pay $300 per student for classroom supplies or $1.1 million for teacher salary increase or however much money you need for instructional material so those are categoricals that got rolled into the base that we still have the budget for and fund and I won't go in detail here but that total grow state and local minus a required local effort the state tells each district how much we are required to Levy of tax dollars so that all

230students receive an equitable education across the state regardless of the property value um of the district they live in that is then adjusted through the formula to give us our total State funding that funding then is multiplied by the FTE for the traditional public the Charter Public the family empowerment all the various individuals or groups that receive funding from the state so for us the non-charter and non-family empowerment this is our FTE from 1718 through 2425 this is um unweighted FTE meaning it hasn't been multiplied by ESC factors or what have you um and for 2425 that is the projection 14,25 4 so roughly FTE um Less in 2425 than in 1718 and each one of those FTE are multiplied by that funding if you take a look at the other two groups you have

231the charter which is the top line which is um down slightly to 2167 FTE and the bottom graph represents the family empowerment which historically had some students receiving scholarships through things like the McKay Scholarship hope scholarships you'll see those lower numbers and then you see as that graph starts to rise that's when family empowerment encompassed all of those together so the projection for 2425 is FTE or um $14.8 million in our budget for family empowerment just taking a look at the revenue per student this graph just represents that in Indian River County we are property Rich property value Rich compared to other districts meaning our local taxes pay for the majority of our student funding and the state funding pays less so approximately 76% paid by local funding 24% through State funding um now kind

232of looking ahead as we said it's coming very quickly but we have been preparing for this since the day I stepped here and I know they were preparing for it before every month preparing for impactors that come along for the 2420 budget so that top one is your increase in FTE for your family empowerment that will have to be transferred out as those students um as we transfer those funds to those two different scholarship agencies throughout the year your anticipated salary increases which still are in negotiations and have to be negotiated but a portion of that is allocated through the state statute that determines an amount that's required to be given to teachers to reach a base um teacher funding which we already exceed so then can be used through negotiation to improve the salary

233for all of the teachers on the salary schedule your performance and retention pay which was previously negotiated that will be due in August health insurance so we've had a 6.8% increase in health insurance the majority of that coming from prescription drug increases and the impact of glp drugs that's 6.8% um we are working through negotiations we do have a tentative agreement with irca but this represents the board's portion of that impact there's also a portion to the employee in their premiums um our property casually we have almost $6 million in insurances that cover these buildings and our vehicles and our people and Casualty Insurance student accident insurance that was seeing a 99.9% % increase which is the $590,000 um just in the incre think of your homeowners insurance at home going up each year when

234you have natural disasters and whatnot um so that increase is a necessary portion of doing business as a school district and then we have inflationary increases so as Dr Moore spoke to we actually through zerob based budgeting of District departments not schools district departments through zerobase budgeting we actually cut $2.5 million from those budgets however those budgets had to add some things back Waste Management has a 6% cost um you know of CPI Consumer Price Index we have to pay that energy might go up property all so there a thing we have to do our audit this year as you know the auditor general did the audit this year the next two years we will have to pay an auditing service of around $108,000 so that's an increase to the budget so at the end

235of the day that net was 1.6 million savings but it offset the $900,000 of new increases as well um many of you have probably heard of AA or the agency for healthcare administration some people call it the Clearing House so starting January of 25 anyone who touches students law enforcement our people volunteers coaches will have to be reinger printed through that system which has some charges $67 for fingerprinting and $32 $30 for 5year retention rate and $24 for FBI and so $130 $140 cost times 2200 employees there's a cost and um to get those people through the system and that will put them in this this clearing house that can be shared across agencies and has some benefits for um monitoring individuals who do not qualify to be hired and then the um f FRS

236the initial legislation was going to be extremely impactful in the millions of dollars and after that legislation was changed it's a minor impact of $80,000 and then finally you have your final srn ARP funding or your um emergency relief dollars expiring September which our salaries expire June 30th we will have some roll for that we will expend by September 30th but any positions and anything that we're on that will then return to its previous funding source or to the general fund so the net impact of anticipated budget impactors of $14.8 million what have we done to mitigate that we have gone through the zerob based budgeting of all district departments and as we spoke that was 2.5 million offset by some increases or a $1.6 million realized gain we've reviewed an aligned the staff allocation

237model in the spring to predict some declining enrollment possibly in the fall we have reviewed our use of federal and supplemental funds to make sure that we are most efficiently using those to support things closest to kids at our schools we have issued multiple rfps and bids we've talked aled about those the last few just to try to realize cost Savings in our services that we um hire we've used our Esser funds to build those funds along the way and to supplement what we do to mitigate an impact to the general fund and we have continued to do a reduction of district office positions and reorganizations to help fund those things out closest to kids and with that we now for the summer will be spending some time with you board members get input and

238feedback as you said then aligning to strategic plan or other initiatives such as uh what we spoke about at Dodgertown and other areas Safety and Security as we talk through those things we'll be advertising Our Truth and millage how much millage will we be collecting and and the majority of that is set by the state we'll be advertising that in the largest publication which is still TC Palm we'll have some special uh meetings to approve the tentative and millage budgets all with the goal coming into September to adopt a final budget that will not be final because it will be modified throughout the year but at least it will be final because I will printed in this nice book and we will be able to look at it all year um as we go forward

239and with that we will open it up to dialogue all right who would like to go First Financial questions anybody I'll go first so thank you for that presentation it's it's certainly a lot to take in um I remember when I first joined the board and I wish we could get back to that place where in probably March or April we were we had Financial workshops um to prepare us for the the budget um and we literally went line by line um and what was presented to us could have been uh tentative because obviously we didn't they you know you can't predict exactly um how much money you're going to get and uh what will be the allocation but there was an understanding line by line and it wasn't presented to us like here is

240the budget and now we need your approval it was an explanation literally of every single line um it was so great I remember coming in as a new board member not really understanding all of these lines and I'm I'm grateful for that opportunity because it gave me a different perspective I wish we can go back to that I wish we can go back to just here's a general perspective of what our G you know the buckets essentially of what is required for each of these areas um just so that the board for for me so that I understand um um the the greater impact right the specific impact um I just wish we can get back to that I don't understand why we don't um I think it's incredibly important for board members because you

241know our one of the biggest decisions that we get to make is approving our budget um and and having a better understanding of that looking line by line would be incredible help incredibly helpful for me um so I don't know if we could get to that um before the presentation in June um but if we can get as close to that that would be even better I'd like us I'd like and again I we talked about this Mr Green um the in the prior I don't know if you were able to find it there was a sheet that uh Mr Fagan provided you did see it there was a sheet Mr fan provided that actually aligned the Strategic plan within the budget yes um it wasn't in the previous years it wasn't included in the

242book itself it was is included as an a an external handout essentially um and I would like to see that included within the budget because it is what drive it should be the driving force of our budget so if you can include that within the budget book um that would be incredibly helpful and and we do have that and that's on track to be included and then as you shift your strategic plan moving forward we'll shift that and make adjustments awesome um and then uh the eser and the arp um the American Rescue plan and then the uh monies that were provided eser funds as a result of covid and the the lockdowns and all that other stuff um I know that there are and I know we've been audited on this or we we

243we were about to be audited I'm not sure exactly where we were on that if we haven't been audited do we plan to be audited for those specific funds and are we ready to present exactly what we spent those monies on um we are absolutely ready for any audit that comes the financial transparency and fiscal transparency is um Immaculate here I can tell you um there is nothing undocumented so we are totally prepared for any audit um I'm not sure if one was done along the way you've had it for three or four years the audit that we just recently had went through our financial audit and it went through um food service and ese Federal so each year you get a financial and then what's called a single federal so they could do a

244single federal on Esser funds um I we did not do that this year though okay so the um the Esser funds and the ARP fun I don't know about the ARP I know the Sesser funds are set to Sunset in September correct is that did I get that right you must have those the any remaining dollars expended by September so most of ours will be expended by June 30th just because that's the end of our fiscal year but there will be some just some reconciliations from then until September but yes all of those funds must be encumbered and expended by September okay and the positions that were covered by the Esser funds can you talk a little bit about what would happen those positions if those positions are still um in place in September are

245they then you know encumbered in a different funding can you talk a little bit about that and there it goes um through the chair um I I think what we've done with Esser is absolutely Stellar everything that we added was a planned expense so there are districts and I'm sure over the last 4 days when you're at the conference uh superintendent and board freaking out because they they added they used Esser as part of their general fund and because they did that that was that was the appropriate phase for that um they now are in this uh position in which oh we have to close schools or we have to reduce this or we have to let we're not in that position because um of the leadership of of of Mr Fagan uh before we

246put anything in the budget what are we taking out so and then looking at how do we keep the things um that we absolutely need to keep and how close are the these things to kids typically overarching my strategy was and it was great that I came here when Esser actually hit well I mean I've never said that before it wasn't great at all um but the reality is the design was to build capacity so a lot of the things that we're taking away that we've added was as a result of eser and now that we're taking them away uh we no longer need them because we built the capacity and we can sustain those particular practices so we used Esser for what it was designed to do build capacity to be more efficient at

247improving the quality of instruction in the environments for kids so we're not in that situation um we've absorbed those particular dollars of C they're not part of our budget next year uh and we find the things that the ways to fund the things that absolutely matter the most to this board so yes thank you for that I do remember the conversations I know um I was one of the board members who actually um had some serious concerns about using Esser to fund positions because we knew that it would sunset at some point and I and I didn't want that to happen I know that the board spoke collectively on that um so I'm glad and you're right some of these other districts I don't know what they were thinking but I'm glad that we're not

248in that position um the other thing that I um uh wanted to ask and it really had to do with the salaries in there um when we talked about negotiating the salaries um I have a question that might not pertain exact I know it doesn't pertain exactly to the budget um but it has to deal with Union uh Union certification and so un the union certification is supposed to be 61% um how do we know that that is exactly the case are do they provide provide the district with all of their signed requests what how does that work they actually send it to and Miss chrisly correct me if I'm wrong they actually send it to the the state um that we are able to to verify it has gone to the state um and

249then they able the state follows up a as needed so so what are they sending just so I well for for our particular District um they asked for actual signatures so they went through they asked our union members this is CWA that I'm referring to actually to have what they call a wet a wet signature a irca sorry um to to actually sign and they had to drive those cop physical copies to the Department of Education and drop them off so they can they they can then look at that do we get do is there a followup on that from the Department of Education does someone actually contact and say or copy us and to you know email them and say say congratulations you've reached 61% or what if they don't reach 61% the the

250state would let us know right now they're currently looking at it to determine um and they're doing it for multiple districts to look at those actual signatures uh is it in fact aligned to the bargaining unit as a whole so they it is a the state is being extremely thorough and looking at each of the individual districts to make sure um you you meet the requir of Statute uh to have the unions in place so I always wonder um you know obviously um I wonder about that if their certification date is October I think unless that was moved or maybe last year it was just October I'm not sure how would that affect like if October date comes and I might be wrong with the date of certification but if the October date comes and

251they're not they did not reach 61% but we've already entered into an agreement obviously I mean my guess is we'll keep the agreement I mean that's not we're not going to go back on our agreement but how does that affect what happens the rest of the year that might be another discussion for another time but I think it just kind of jogged my my my thought process when we got to that when Mr Green got to that that portion in the in the um in the thing so uh Mr Green I'll just end so if we could please get the budget book and all the information not a week before as soon as we can because it takes a long time to kind of go through that and be prepared with our questions I really

252hate it when I get stuff that's you know like a week before and then it does I am working with Mr Seymour for Psychological Services for the finance staff it is a Herculean task um it is a Herculean task and I'm going through it um deeper than ever for this time and um trust me we are working diligently as quickly as possible but it is quite a process so we will get it as soon as we can and we will see I guess in there special projects such as the classical school the um whatever monies need to be in place for the transportation survey of changing our bus routes I mean changing our school times um and the steam related change you know any of these other special projects that we have going on in

253the school district we'll see that in there so I'll will say yes and no because um you might see some of those in the capital 5-year budget if it was going to be like an upgrade to the facility for the classical that would be in the capital 5year budget but if it's going to be something like the purchase of materials out of General then you would see it in this book yes you will see it one way or another just some of it might be on the capital side okay but the capital side is going to be included in the budget Workshop yes okay so we'll see it in there yes okay Mr McDonald um just to get my head head around some of the first budget here you go no not hard just I'm

254still trying to get my head around just the top level numbers um we have uh 386 million in uh total funds in our budget and you your chart shows 14,250 well that's for next year 14, 310 for this year uh students that doesn't include Charter so we quote that 177,000 couple hundred number that does that include Charter uh students or the 177,000 does and then those students so when you add actually family empowerment Charter and traditional public non-charter all together and then you wait that so A student that may be on a high Matrix level within the student students with disabilities they might get upwards of $18 to $222,000 per student instead of eight because of the resources go with them that FTE jumps up into the 19,000 for everybody for total funding okay I

255S of running the numbers and I used a figure to number a little over 177,000 into that 386 number gets us to about $22,000 per FTE student in total is that something am I understanding that right so and you're you're you're doing that with the $386 million yeah yeah and so that is across everything that's your health insurance switcher premiums paid that's your debt that's your Capital those are all funds where the general fund itself might be $165 million which generally focuses in on the student related stuff right okay so I'm just trying to get a feeling for what the incremental not really incremental but the the summary incremental um cost or or value or expense for per student is and it seems like it's about doing the math that way it's about 22,000 okay

256it's fin only question thank you great presentation by the way uh Dr PCA no question uh Dr Jones just a couple I remember talking to Mr Fagan last year about this time Mr Green and our base student allocation went up 12% but when it went to the categorical and so forth we were only making about 7% so that that tells a lot there or Dr Mar I know Miss chrisop just left what is our percentage of Union people I mean did we make the mark and what percentage was it through the chair I think we were above the the 60 I want to say 63 64 but I I'll check and I'll give a I'm going to provide some additional information to the board just based on that initial conversation um obviously our Esser funds

257are coming to an end and we have one more year with the millage and I guess this is kind of an open in question Mr Green but when we look at that and keep our fingers crossed on the Millage are we planning for um something if if we don't get it I mean where are we if that happens and obviously this is something I know we'll be talking about with our community but anyone can answer that so through the chair that's always a a contingency so as we're creating a budget that is a a a shift of approximately $14 million uh it's in the hand hands of the voters so as we go into budget creation or development for next year uh until we have that vote which will be in November this year uh

258in our systems that we think through we're going to we're going to go along parallel tracks of of creating budgets until we get to November and then um God willing the one has the $14 million stays uh and that that becomes a driving force historically this county has done an absolutely outstanding job it was 75 6% approved and in our previous uh presentations I've given that presentations multiple times we we just took it to the County Commission to pass on to the voters uh last Tuesday uh it was fully approved unanimously so we're we're we're we're going to be positive thank you I guess just my last comment on Sam as far as um staff allocation model and so forth um looking and predicting for this year um obviously our our student teacher ratio may

259go up a little bit because we'll still be in that realm but that wasn't looking at teacher cuts am I correct through the chair it the better way of looking at that I should have Mr Green explained because he'll do a better job than than me it it's that's not to produce the ratio it's the it's to produce the number of teachers that we need throughout the year so the only shifts in those allocations is based on those number of kids per grade level is it in order to ensure that we do a better job of forecasting how many kids that we're going to have and just to follow up I think where you were going that simply might mean we need to hire fewer teachers going forward it doesn't mean that we're cutting people

260there may be fewer allocations throughout the system because of the reduced enrollment right which would just mean we wouldn't have to hire as many The 100 50 annually that we need to hire to staff we may only need to hire 80 or 100 or whatever that number would be and we're still going on average as far as a teacher I mean at one time on his principal it was that amount of students in the room period it is a School site average not this great thank you um I guess my only question is uh it looks like the zero based budgeting in the district was fairly effective it sounds like I mean you're able to eliminate a lot of stuff have you given um consideration to do zerob based budgeting kind of throughout the whole

261school system so the answer to that question is is yes and and as I presented in the reorg um we need to provide the support on a monthly basis uh and M Miss Bieber will kind of serve multiple hats next year but in that specific one Mr Green I'll I'll create the dashboards to help them phisically figure out how to create the budget and then uphold the the budget so we've been doing at the district level for a number of years so we created that practice over time and now we're going to do the same thing at school sites which is that at least a million dollars that I was referring to on savings okay um two questions one on slide four one with all the arrows looks like a spider web yeah that one

262um where's survey one on there survey one survey one so yeah there are actually multiple survey one in July there's actually multiple smaller surveys I didn't put all of them on here there's a summer one there's I know two and three are the biggies but the two and three are where we're that's the big you get half your FTE and half your FTE but yes there are some survey ones in the summer there's a survey four and five so smaller student surveys some of them only collect certain things about virtual or what other but your survey 2 and three your correct are your bulk and that's where your funding is generated I think we should just say you know we do look at that in the summer as well absolutely um and then Sesser 3

263uh we kept asking like have we received all the funds I know we we we have earmarked where they're going but have we received everything by now yes okay it's all been received yes great all right thank you um board members the next item is the board had a conversation I think it was a discussion item plac by Mr Sor if I recall correctly it was like 11:48 in the p.m. so I may be off um regarding the citizen input form uh based on that conversation I made the modification to the citizen input form uh which is posted for your review uh I will capture what that change is it it's not on the screen but ultimately when you all have board discussion not taking public comment um because it's not an item in which

264you are acting upon um that would be the form so if the board has any additional conversation regarding that item that would be the now would be the time to do so my intention after you review this form is to look at impacted policies and align a policy change uh to this form mrar go first um Dr Moore I'm looking at the form that is on board docs um it indicates on the bottom I wish to speak during Citizen and input or I wish to speak to an action item as printed on the action agenda or I wish to speak to public hearing item hold on but how is that any different from what we had before that sounds exactly like the current form right and there's go ahead what am I looking what am

265I missing yes it is slightly different than the current form so the current form that last item said I wish to speak to a discussion item okay and now the action item and the public hearing item is parsed out so you have a separate action item and then the I wish to speak on a public hearing item has been added but public hearing items are all they're not a separate item public hearing items are in action correct I think the intent of staff was to make it very clear to the board chair when they are organizing public input that that particular item is going to happen during a public hearing but they would say that on their agenda anyway right they would I think it's just a I mean not on their agenda on their

266request they would say that anyway sure but I think it's a just an attempt for further Clarity from what we had previously all right I just don't know if that would be needed but um thank you for that I have some concerns um so I'm glad that this was changed but uh board members the form doesn't drive policy and we have to change our policy to include exactly this um that discussion sessions are not and and help me um um Dr Jacobs because I might get the wording a little you know off I know that you and I talked about this um and based on the feedback that we received from Mr ansbacher discussion sessions are not uh we do not take formal action in discussion sessions therefore citizen input is not mandatory um that's

267really the the the general basis for it we don't have citizens coming up and speaking at workshops during discussion items um we shouldn't have the same at our board meetings and I'm 100% in support of Citizen you know First Amendment right and citizen input and speaking at board meetings but if it is clear that we're not doing it at our workshops it shouldn't be done at the dis this isn't anything new it's not anything that I have um not shared before um and so that's the language that needs to be added specifically to our policy so my suggestion even though this is great um the the my suggestion is um that the policy needs to be changed the policy needs to address exactly what we are addressing now just to make that clear um let

268me pull up the policy here because the policy also make sure I get it the policy is right now it in C of our policy and by the way it's policy it says procedures or forms for an individual to use in order to inform the board of the desire to be heard attendees must register their intention uh to participate in the public uh portion of the meeting by completing and submitting a speaker's form speakers speaker forms may be found on the board web page and at the entry of the meeting Hall speakers forms may be submitted electronically no later than 400 p.m. the business prior uh the business day prior to the board meeting or in person no later than 5:45 p.m. the day of the board meeting now I have um I this specific

269area with the forms really needs to also include that any changes to this form um needs to be voted on by a majority of the board this form has been changed multiple times over the last last several years and consensus doesn't wasn't there and it was changed by previous chairs who just decided they wanted to change it whenever and that's not the way that it works I think that we need to capture in here that when a the form EXA since it's in our policy when the form is actually changed um that it is voted on by board members I also wanted to bring attention to um a section f um underneath section f it says the requirement for public comment on action items does not apply to and this is of course the requirement

270for public comment does not apply to an official act that must be taken to deal with an emergency situation an official act involving no more than a ministerial act a meeting that is exempt and it says what it's exempt for or a meeting at which the board is sitting in a quasi judicial capacity I'd like to add their discussion sessions um because it's not a requirement for public comment during discussion sessions um and so I think that either we do it simultaneously but like we're putting the cart before the horse we're kind of approving the form and not approving the policy the policy doesn't support the change of the form even though I think it's we we need it I just think that we should do the form at the same time or you know

271do depends on what you all want to do you know um but I it's just it it makes sense to do it simultaneously anyone else yeah I would support um changing the policy with some of the recommended changes you've stated um I think I think it makes sense cuz we I think we've discussed this exact topic probably like six times in the last 14 months already um so I think we should change policy and move on so we don't have to keep having this conversation Dr Johnson if we're going to change the policy again I think we need to make sure that we put that information out there have exactly what it's going to say and just not do it quickly like in one night so we can put it out there and make sure

272our our CI take a look at it just like any other policy we give them um time to take a look at it and then if they want to speak to it so through the chair just to respond to that question I'll bring this back um this will give us the time to look at the specific policy I'll bring back the policy for board approval uh to send it to public hearing and what I'll bring is the actual policy change uh aligned to the actual form itself that way you can see are the two actually uh Jing um then you would approve it at the next board meeting and and then uh prove it to send it to public hearing that addresses Dr Jones concern making sure the community has plenty of time to review

273the policy prior to final approval which would be in August um that's fine I I will say this about the citizen input guidelines I appreciate that being shortened it's a very long thing to say um but I also think that in there you should have the statute number at least um that we refer to for removal of someone because I think um you know we do that for other policies so I think we need to put that in there in the guidelines that that's said that we're following the statute um other than that um the only other concern I have is the the or or it says I wish to speak um at the citizen input or action or public hearing what we're doing with this form I'm just kind of putting it out there

274is that people can only speak once period I know we wanted to kind of limit it to discussion items and you know because it's hard as the chair to get it all straight and everything else and I think Michelle and Dorian have done a really good job of of helping me do that a little bit better but um I think that we got to be careful of limiting like if a citizen wants to come they get three minutes right and so we're saying with this new form they only have three minutes to speak to everything they want to speak to and in the past they could speak for three minutes to everything so we've gone from three minutes to everything to just three minutes period um so that's what it says it says or or

275or so I think no no because you fill out a form for each time you're okay I wanted to make sure because I I just don't want to limit somebody's speech if they want to speak to books and then they want to turn around and speak to you know uh some sort of item that we have for Action okay uh may I follow up on that um the second bullet on that form it actually says persons may speak up to three minutes at the beginning of the business meeting during citizen input as indicated on the order of business and up to three minutes to each action agenda item during the action agenda or during public hearing as indicated on the order of business and this was the other thing that was the major concern is

276as indicated on the order of business it's not what has been changed at the dis it's when you walk in what is printed on the order of business you can't put on there when to speak to any item that has been added it has to be when you come in because we hadn't gabbled in yet when they submit the citizen form and you know nobody knows exactly what we're speaking about so or what we're adding or what we're not adding so it's really on the order of business is on the order as you walk in so that needs to be clarified in the in the in the policy too but um I I do understand um what Mrs Barbor is is saying is that when you look when the citizens look at just the bottom

277portion of this form it kind of gives the impression that they're only speaking to one of those without reading you know the the above second bullet so I think what we need to do is the above one or something about um where it says please fill out one of these forms for each item I think put that in bold tight agree um that would help and also clarifying that second bullet point I think you'd put it in there that to submit multiple forms for multiple applications yeah that's fine and I get not having somebody speak to every single discussion item because literally we don't act on those discussion items we don't vote on them right um so I understand that and I and I'm fine with that all right final item for me before we

278go on to um discussion items in which we'll have no public comment is the policy um 91 50.2 which is political activity the board had a conversation at its last convening uh to clarify that policy because it was a bit confusing for the reader regarding what an individual organization an employee can do around political activity so what we've done is captured that conversation meet with board members uh review this particular policy and if there's any additional conversation now will be the time to have it if not I will bring it at our next board meeting to send it to public hearing the intent clearly is to clarify make it easier to read and understand so in that aspect um so the way I'm reading this is say no one can put like a political t-shirt

279on correct you talk to you want to handle that yes or a button attached to a shirt yes you may um so part of the attempt in clarification was previously with the language that was included in this policy there was a clause that said wherein and I think that created some confusion among um staff and members of the public as to whether they could wear temporary expressions of or passive Expressions is really the term that's used in this policy um on school grounds and in fact when you look here um on section two our section D2 We have tried to make this super clear for readers and we have indicated so there are prohibited political activities on school and District facilities however this prohibition shall not include passive political Expressions such as advertising on items

280of clothing personal vehicle magnets or bumper stickers sun shades or other signs temporarily or permanently affixed to a personal vehicle which are legal for um roadway traffic so so that means they can wear the t-shirts corre even during school hours during on a campus I think that yeah yes so that is correct go ahead yes sir I'm just seeing this based on your question but do we want to specifically address other student particularly students um or or teachers uh expression relative to stickers and other things that they might have on a laptop or on their a carrying case or something so um section B really refers to the political activity by students and it indicates that they have the right to express those um preferences for political parties however and then it provides the caveats

281of those um if they're serving as a official representative they're not of the school district they cannot do that if it's disruptive to the educational program or um if there's reasonable cause that failure to regulate that expression would create some type of disruption in the school environment so we do address students in there as well um on C that really is parsed out to specifically refer to employees so in that um they retain all their rights however they're not able to use their official position to influence or attempt students to support or oppose any party or candidate okay so it looks like and based on this wording it would appear that a sticker on a laptop for example would qualify like a bumper sticker my concern is and I'll defer to legal counsel a laptop

282to technically is District resources therefore that's not their personal possession that's District resources and we're not to place those things on District resources so something like a knapsack or something a personal item they could have some right or it was their own personal computer okay yes go ahead um Dr Jacobs on D2 uh this prohibition shall not include advertising on clothing bumper sticker sun shades or other signs temporarily or permanently AIX to a personal vehicle okay so are you questioning the permanently yeah I was trying to think wasn't it just temporarily or something guess would think of for example the vehicle wraps are becoming very popular now so that would be technically something that's permanently on there where if they had a political vehicle wrap um job okay all righty anybody else Mr Zario yeah

283and I I'd just like to say that um 95% of section D2 is still the same it doesn't change the only thing that changes is what's in red um and so that the the red is just clarifying so all of that was already in there I mean it was already allowed um the problem wasn't the in was the interpretation of it so what's in red here is just making it clear that these are not prohibited now um and so it's kind of like you know um I mean my easiest thing is like wearing a cross if you're wearing a t-shirt and it should shows some kind of political expression um to me if you're wearing a cross and you're show you you're showing your faith doesn't necessarily mean I'm going to start prizz you know

284I'm not going to pull out the Bible and start reading and preaching but when you we in the same thing should happen when you're wearing a political shirt you know it's your personal expression but you're not actually using it as a campaign the whole idea here is it cannot be nothing can be used on our campuses as a campaign tool as a campaigning an active campaigning thing like you're not recruiting someone you know for one side or the other um so otherwise all that is still basically the same so with that understood then a clarification for that if they have like vote for um was that from that funny vote for Pedro okay if they have that that's okay because they're not asking for for joining a campaign they're asking you to consider voting for

285Pedro yes and I'd like to defer to legal counsel for that ped you know what I'm talking about right the movie I know but yes that's correct Napoleon Dynamite there you go that's the movie so that's okay all right Madam chair the remaining items are to discuss all right thank you I'm I'm sorry Dr Moore is this coming to us tonight I don't I think it comes it comes in not I I'll get back to you on that well I believe you asked for the policy also to come with it right no that was different that's a different it I'm sorry I'm tired that's a different item this is already this is like the second or the third time that it's before us we're now looking at the changes I think but because there's no

286there there isn't any feedback here so I don't see why I can't come to us tonight yeah it's 405 so we need yes it's it's on the agenda for tonight to set a public hearing perfect okay thank you thank you all right so discussion a every year um fsba asks for um boards to um choose by vote an advocacy Committee Member in an alternate um the responsibilities of this position are based on the following criteria participation on this committee with Statewide representation there's one representative from every school district uh interaction with policy makers and stakeholders to promote public education the opportunity to be considered to serve on a legislative or federal subcommittee uh monthly meetings and additional meetings for subcommittees uh advocacy in communication leadership and Reporting advocacy efforts back to your respective boards um

287I did serve on this committee fsba is asking for us to um choose a member and this year in alternate as well and the term for this committee is July 1st to June 30th fsba uh then will be appointing its legislative and federal subcommittee members by September 1st so um with this understanding and I I thought it was going to be like four meetings the year six meetings year it was all the time yeah um it was weekly sometimes bi-weekly monthly for sure it depended on the time of the year whether or not um legislation was um happening at that point and also um there was a lot more to it than I thought was going to be so I just a heads up and um it says that you would be appointed to legislative

288or federal subcommittee I've been asked by fsba president uh Tim Bryant this year to serve as the chair for the for the legislative committee for the State of Florida so um I assumed that role over the week um that's last week I was uh asked to do that and so that if it's not me in this position then that person probably will not serve on legislative just so you know so they would just serve in federal okay with that discussion I I'm sorry go ahead M yeah I don't even we're we are members of fsba um I have a problem with this we had a problem with it last year as well um our focus is not their platform our focus should be our platform our focus and our legislative priorities which by the way

289Dr Mo we haven't received our legislative priorities according to our policy it needed to be before us and we needed to vote on it in April didn't we do that yeah yeah we didn't but it didn't come back to to us so we didn't officially vote on it so we need to vote on that but that's our priority is our legislative priorities is should be our priorities not what fsba does um there's a lot of things about fsba that I I I love and I think they're they're great at and then there are a lot of things that I don't agree with um and I I don't believe that we um as a small school district that we are certainly we are not a large School District there was a point where I think when

290Mr Bass was here he talked about the small school districts Consortium or something um which might have aligned better with our um platform you know with the things the way that we do business and um but but I this is this is an option this isn't mandatory um this is not something that I I personally think that we need um and and so that's that's that's where I stand on it Mr Borg um I had the opportunity to serve on advocacy uh than a State Legislative platform and federal and the one thing that I understood obviously what Miss barenborg just said it's it's quite a few meetings but they were very very good for me as a school board member because when you look at the platforms federal and state they really do align well

291with what we want and I can't remember exactly but mental health was one last time we always had issues with transportation and getting more money um from the federal and was great listening at the federal platform as so what we could do or how we could make some of these things better for our state uh I'm not interested in serving this year because it takes a lot of time but I do think that they're a learning experience for for us and our state really works well with our legislator the fsba they're meeting with Representatives all the time even some of those our representatives were on the uh Zoom meeting it was great hearing from them from our local Representatives so I think it's a learning experience and sometimes we can promote to them what we

292think is important not just what they think is important and for me as a school board member um it really was a plus uh to be on those and to listen uh to people across the state and then it's the federal government thank you back to Pas okay um so I did attend this small uh District Consortium meeting there you go there's a packet I picked t one for everybody and they do work in collaboration with fsba and they meet there's one for you too Dr Moore um they do meet with um fsba to work on the platform and the other thing that I find really good about this and you know you change from within if you don't like something within an organization get involved and and speak your mind and talk about what's

293important to our district there are power and numbers and they kept saying that over and over again with this small District consort Consortium uh especially with talking to our local legislators and working on special projects for Grants and um Appropriations money there is a big effort to have um kind of a collaboration with the other small districts to kind of have like-minded grants out there because I do know that when um the legislators are looking at the final budget in uh the end of the session they look at Appropriations and if they see a lot of the same Appropriations popping up then they start to kind of gather those together and make those bigger Appropriations so it does help to have a voice in fsba it does help to have a voice with the other

294small districts to be able to say the this is our need and it's also the need of them the more they see that pop up the more money um can be generated towards those smaller districts so I I do think think we're still members of fsba we still should have some sort of say and a speaker there on our behalf all right so that um item will be coming to us tonight free kindergarten Dr Jones yes I just asked for a quick update on this um I know uh Mrs BL will come to us and give us updates on prek and our ese classrooms and sometimes they will come to us with m Seymour on we need to add another classroom here and then speaking to principales the last couple weeks um with some open

295classrooms that we now have are we going to have more available do we have a waiting list just give it to us miss flood all right so let me or Dr I'm sorry I'll do a little update if there's any specific questions just as as an overarching update we do have seven sites that provide um vbk or prek 21 classrooms in total of those 21 classrooms 10 are ESC we service about 311 students this year and our anticipated enrollment will be 311 for next year so we're right on target it's important to note that of our 21 or our seven sites there are an additional 35 programs across our County who are in the VPK or voluntary prek program um so there's a number of sites across the county uh we only receive 50% funding

296or half day funding for these specific specific programs so it is a very costly Adventure because we do offer a a full-time service for our students but in terms of looking at enrollment one of the things that we've done is maximize enrollment at our Charter Schools um I'm sorry our um magnet schools none of which are actual sites our sites are Dodgertown felir Glendale Ira Pelican Sebastian uh and vbe so going into next school year you will anticipate changes because we have one two three four five classrooms at Pelican guess what we're going to need those rooms um so we'll be looking and working with Miss flood to determine not next school year but the following school year where those actual classrooms would would go so if there's any additional questions I would be happy

297to um have Miss Miss flood answer those questions Mr Rosario yeah um Dr Moore you said that the prek program um uh that we only have 50% to cover uh this program where are we getting the remaining 50% so we we balance that within our budget so our hours don't we receive a halftime funding so a basically enough to cover four hours we go how many hours six hours six hours so we have to cover the cost for for that and it's just a you know the that's just what we need in order to provide the service I no but where where are we getting the extra money so budgeted into our our our money based on everything that Mr um green just just went through it's it's a line item in our budget to

298make sure that we have those funds available do we get any grants uh we are always are seeking grants uh that is something that we we continuously do um for those specific programs as mentioned 10 of these classrooms are ESC so there's additional funding aligned to the needs of those students based on their Matrix or IEP what do we get seesac money for this um no not not during the confines of the day there's step IND Decay which is a summer program which we'll have that going into next school year uh in terms of the operation of this program no we don't receive any seesac funding because I thought somebody presented at seesac just now that is for the summer programming which is run through an outside organization that's step IND Decay so step IND

299deay is a preparation program for our students who are walking into kindergarten to get them conditioned to the routines of kindergarten to make that transition into kindergarten much smoother so this is not part of the school year experience it's a summer program so how come I wasn't aware that we had that this school district was going before seesac and asking for taxpayer funded money to do a program that we approved so this is there something's not right I was completely thrown off on that so uh Steph in kindergarten has been in this community for I don't know how long yeah um and seesac had always funded that particular program uh about a year or two years ago they changed the ordinance to ensure that any funds cannot we can't because we receive funds from the

300state that we would not be able to receive them so what they did at that time was have an outside organization at this time it would it was going to be the Learning Alliance for the next school year was going to be the environmental learning environmental learn the environmental Learning Center so as it stands right now I'm looking at that specifically to determine do we go to the the county and ask for those particular funds to run that specific summer program or we seek to fund it ourselves I'm sorry I I just got to wrap my head around this because I didn't I heard part of what you said and then I didn't understand the rest so years what I'm understanding is years prior the school district requested of seesac for funds for stpp into

301to kindergarten correct two years ago that changed and could no longer seesac funds can no longer could no longer longer come directly to the school district for this program it now had to funnel through another organization yes last year was The Learning Alliance actually requested year this year would be the Learning Alliance the previous year was the Ed Foundation but that that Foundation no longer exist so it was the Ed foundation and then this year was Learning Alliance so the Learning Alliance then goes to seesac asks for money The Learning Alliance essentially Cuts us a check for Stephen to kindergarten which is a summer program only right they they facilitate the the payment of those individuals they hire uh teachers to to run the um the program itself and then next year you're saying it's

302the environmental Learning Center it would be the environmental Learning Center if the environmental Learning Center receives seesack funds they would essentially cut us a check for next year's step into they wouldn't cut us a check they would pay the employees that would work for them to offer that program oh so they would offer it under their name steepen kindergarten would be hosted and offered by the environmental Learning Center correct not the school district of Indian River County but we had an employee they are are presented right because we facilitate that deploy was was Miss Miss flood because this is the program historically of the school system has always run yeah but just but you see none of this to me what I understood or I I was aware of this is the first I'm hearing

303I'm like what are you talking about why would we be no no the school district went before and I'm like no way we didn't yes but we were in as a maybe it wasn't clear we weren't asking on our behalf we were there what what were you there may I ask what were you there to request the funding to help us support our step into kindergarten program so it was presented the district which is well the school district Works in collaboration they would be with Learning Alliance or with the environmental Learning Center for 2025 to be able to host this because of the ordinance we cannot pay the employees so that funding that we get from seesac would pay those employees to present the program to 212 plus students and so which I think is

304important for us to have um but now that now that I know um what in the event that let's say um the environmental Learning Center or some outside organization receives whatever funds they receive right but it's not exactly what they initially asked for it's less than what they initially asked for and it only would cover their programs and doesn't cover our program or step into kindergarten program not ours it wouldn't fund let's say they didn't make they didn't receive enough to fund the step into kindergarten this is wor let's look at the worst case scenario what would happen with step into kindergarten so it's funded for this year that one of the advantages of of the program is that it's it's funded this time for the following summer so if not if not funded we

305just established Our Own Foundation um so that would be one of our priorities to do it and at the end of the day um if we can be in control it that's what I would prefer uh because I don't like to walk around with my hand down yeah I'm not I'm not really I mean that just kind of threw me off I think that there should be much more transparency or maybe you know letting us know FYI this is how it's I and and I may have missed it my mistake if I if I did if it was explained this way but this is the first that I'm hearing it being explained this way and it really threw me for a loop to hear that the school district was before seesac asking for money for

306our prek program I was like that that that could just can't be true I'm gon work I'll work with the presenter well I think it's important because a lot of people had raised eyebrows what is this about you know um the other thing since you mentioned the direct support organization or the the Ed Foundation which is our direct support organization I just want to throw it out there um because we we did approve the three initial um board members board members I was going to say presidents board memb members um I I just wanted to reiterate that that DSO direct support organization has to be in the sunshine has to be all of their meetings have to be held in the sunshine so other than the exception is the Don the donors don't have to

307be named um that's the exception of what can be withheld from public but I just want to make sure that there aren't any other meetings cuz you know I haven't seen anything out there yet but just moving forward with that so you that they're they're yet to advertise and me okay thank you sorry um since I was here in 178 I was pretty sure step in Decay was always funded by Ed Foundation if I remember correctly but one of the reasons I brought this up because we're talking about you know um getting students in our public school system I think this is a great recruiting tool if we can get VPK students and then do our best right now we're fifth in the state and third grade reading and we all know we all know

308that getting our students early getting them ready for kindergarten their tests now the first week are you ready for kindergarten I mean I think this is crucial for what we do and when I talked to a few principles I heard them saying Miss flood we've got a couple classrooms could we get a VPK and I understand the cost the 50% cost and it's kind of like a private public um you know connection like we have with our Learning Alliance and and our moonshot school but those are the kind of things that I think we need to always look into if we're going to really promote our Public Schools say we're the best in in the county and we want you to come here but getting our our students into VPK when we can obviously it's

309a financial um issue sometimes for us but um I think it's very very important that we continue to promote that and Miss flood do you have so we really don't have a waiting list because we can tell them this is how many we can do right but do you do you hear of more interest I hear more interest schools that don't have them right now there's a lot of in a lot of interest currently uh our wait list that's is sure I just had it we're at about 1:30 but today we were able to call five more families so and yes we there are other preschools sure that we do say hey give them a call and see if they have spaces especially for families who aren't able to do just the 6 hours that

310we provide because we don't have transportation correct or anything of that or the wraparound so it is helpful for a preschool if you have to have your child there from 7:30 to 5:00 would be best served in the private setting um and then as Dr Bo talked about the 35 nonprofits that work with us and this is great getting our students ready for kindergarten but it would sure be nice if we could get a little bit more on that weight list if we could figure out the finances I'm Dr B so when I was a principal of a really high need school um we expanded from one to four prek programs within a year after I got there um because we saw the need and it made a huge impact on raing scores just a

311couple of years down the line but we used title funding for the second half of the day so that kids were there for the full school day that helped parents with their jobs uh are we using title funding so we have three classrooms that are funded through Title One Two at Dodger uh I'm sorry one at Dodgertown and two at felir and our day is 8:45 to 2:45 so it's pretty close to a full school day some schools it does merge into 3:00 and we couldn't use title funding for the others for now this is what we've been allocated okay just curious because a lot of those kids it's kind of a title need but that's why we were able to use it okay I have another question for the VPK programs um Miss flood

312are are the children um taking naps in the beginning the day uh in the beginning we start the day with a morning meeting getting to know one another breakfast actually breakfast typically comes first then their morning meeting some schools they do the cultural arts or the specials then they come back for a whole group and then a small group instruction there's lunch there's recess there is a small rest time especially in the beginning of the year because these little ones are exhausted by 1:00 uh a small rest and then there's an afternoon small group Andor whole group and a closing Circle where they discuss what happened in the day and then dismissal so what's a small rest what does a small rest look like about 45 to an hour and then eventually weaning them out

313of that so what is a rest it's is it a nap some fall right to sleep okay and some set they read or they work with the teacher it's prime time to work with a teacher to do some um interventions or even some enrichment for some of our little ones who do not need that brain break and then in kindergarten why don't we nap in kindergarten I mean a million and one pre and it is so important because it keeps them energized I mean then you have kids bouncing off the walls because now they're over tired and then we wonder where the ADD and ADHD comes from and we're not providing kids with just a good nap time my goodness what can you explain when that stopped and why is it mandatory to have stopped

314that because I'd like to bring it back that I'm not aware of when I began teaching in The District in 1996 there was rest time in kindergarten okay so can we find out I don't know when exactly it can we find out if that's left mandatory or not well I'll provide information you have the instructional hours I mean it is so important it's really important it's like we're overstimulating babies when they really need that nap time they need it I cannot tell you how insane my son was without his nap time I mean I know that there are a lot of children out there I mean we don't they don't all fit the same mold I mean Dr PCA has some little ones I don't know if they still take notes I mean notes if

315they still take naps but there's definitely some napping going on it is so important it really is so can you find out Dr Moore I think that's yeah I I could provide the board the required instruction the minutes in which we're funded uh and how those minutes are used because if we can implement I I I'll bring it back as an action item I mean if it's supported you're laughing Mr Green is it about my nap time we all need a nap time during the day I want a nap time in the work the workshop in the workshop about three be good no we do I mean I think it's so important for us to take a look at that because again if you look at the whole picture the whole picture is preparing them

316for not just prek but also for first grade if their brains are not getting the rest that they need fully in prek they're not going to function 100% in K and clearly if they're over tired in K it's not going going to benefit the children first second third fourth like we want the best out of them in the later school years in my view play and rest in prek and K is critical it's critical would you not agree no honestly the play is important yes okay there's a state initiative on that so there's a what State initiative it's okay to play in VPK is it a new initiative it began the school year yes interesting how they're bringing back play because they realize you cannot overstimulate children with computers and iPads and wow I mean

317we need the kitchen back in the classroom we need the the the the dress up the creativeness honestly I don't mean to say that you know we need all of that in there so that it's in prek so worry beautiful yes yeah when I was you're welcome to come visit whenever when I was a principal I had a bad day I'd go down a preamp housekeeping come to anytime there 11 there's 21 to visit would help me cook yes Miss Rosario your item is next oh what's my item Proclamation and support of foration yes sorry I'm sorry School Board attorney School Board attorney oh School Board attorney okay Dr Moore uh board members so obviously Mr ansbacher has um resigned from his position here with us as school board attorney um I'm going to ask

318Dr Moore to give us an update I know that we have um Mrs shatak here miss shatak as a I think temporary position fill in I'm not sure Dr Moore I'm going to add it to you and then I'm also going to um at the end of what you say I'm I am going to talk about an RFP process so Dr Moore what any update all right so I did meet with one of our managing Partners uh sniffin and spell and Terry Herman who uh just as he did before will follow the same process he did which led us to Mr ansbacher so um he has initiated that process I believe we spoke last Wednesday or had to be Wednesday of of last week um so I'll schedu with him to get updates as he

319seeks another individual who he could contract with uh to serve as board um attorney keeping in mind sniffing and spelling we work with them from the our contracts and all other matters so in terms of uh what Mr an ansbacher did he was representing the board during the board meetings themselves um and then we worked with a number of different attorneys from stiffen and spellin regarding the actual operation of the school school system so as sniffing and spell sniffing and spell I'm sorry sorry Molly gotm wrong I as information becomes available I'll provide updates to the board regarding um who they you know where they are in their search process no Dr Moore this this has been um a week or two now um since the resignation how long did they say about how long

320it would take for them to um come back with us I mean we we can't just be on hold without a steady he we described the same process he used Mr anacher which was pushing it out there through his different networks and advertising interviewing uh and then coming back I think all things considered it took over a month to find uh Mr ansbacher uh some initial concerns that he had is summertime so apparently in summer um you know maybe harder during the summer to to find an individual um so that his was his initial concerns uh the length of the last board meeting was also a obviously a a concern um but he said he would do his due diligence and keep us in in form so at the same length of time I would

321say in hopefully five or six weeks hopefully he's identified somebody um but as I said I'll keep the board informed in terms of you know how his progress is is moving along yeah I I just think think this is another this is a critical position for us as a board um and and if we have to go through the RFP process I think that we should do that um if if we have to go with another firm I mean I I I understand that we have a part we already have a contract with them um but if it's necessary for us to find a an educational you know a permanent educational attorney um I I think it's just it is that important we and you use the same attorney for a lot of things uh

322because we have one attorney for both you know for the superintendent and for the school board um and and it is um it is very important so my my feedback is is we we do have a contract with the law firm it itself so um it is not we use three different attorneys based on the scenar based on the scenario so obviously for the litigation uh with the desegregation order uh that's Matt uh and with contracts or different Personnel issues whether it be Molly um oh gosh what is Mitch um Mitch for for for different issues and then um Mr ansbacher sat here and then followed up on some of the the items that came from the board items them themselves U my recommendation is is you know place an item on the agenda in

323July when we come back see where they're at and then the board can have a a deeper conversation regarding uh potential next steps okay all right I'm okay with that board members I don't know if anyone else has anything else to say okay item D all right is that me yep all right the next one is um my item it's a proclamation um it doesn't proclamations whenever the superintendent puts a Proclamation on the agenda um it never comes to us in Workshop um I put it on Workshop today cuz just did out of you know transparency um but it is I think it is a long um needed Proclamation essentially the gist is you know um honoring what we already have which is a policy to support um parents parental rights um noting that they

324have a fundamental right to the upbringing of their child but in in essence the end of this um basically just sets October to be a parental rights month um and so why not use a month to celebrate parents to honor them to appreciate parents and Guardians I would say parents and Guardians um and then also use that month to to to um publ publicize or you know help educate them on what their rights are believe it or not even um this many years after the bill was passed there's still a lot of parents who don't know what their rights are um so I just think it's incredible other than having one day for Father's Day and one day for Mother's Day um I just think that this is long overdue for our district we would

325be I think the first of our kind I know that there are several other board members who are wanting to do the same thing so um you know making a stake uh putting a stake in the sand and kind of you know standing on what I know that we all uh believe and trust um in this um in the statute and in this um in the purpose of it it is also a great way if we choose October it is a great and only and I only suggest October because Dr Moore and I and I believe Dr Bass last year we talked about this um what months would be good and you know I I actually thought August was good but there's a lot going on in August same thing with September but then October

326seemed to be a good month and then it why not you know enter into November in the month of you know uh beginning Thanksgiving you know giving thanks to our parents and Guardians and um of appreciation to them I do I will say that if you are all um okay with this there are a couple of changes that I'd like to make suggest to the therefore at the end of it um and it says and obviously as I was thinking through this therefore be it resolved that the Indian River County school board affirms our commitment to honor comma celebrate comma and appreciate parents as well as their fundamental rights to direct the well-being and education of their children and then the rest would stay the same so that would be my um and then of

327course instead of just parental rights month take the stigma of the politics out of it and just say parental rights appreciation month I could go with that M barenborg go ahead um yes because House Bill 241 went into effect three years ago some may not realize all of the rights but when you said parent appreciation I I could go along with that I think that's a time when we not only make sure our parents know their rights but let us appreciate those those who are out there volunteering every day our booster club presidents our band parents our PTA our sack parents and bringing representation in from each school because there are many many parents who give many many volunteer hours every day to our schools and yes I know they're recognized at the schools but

328if we could do something with parent appreciation to make sure that they know they are being acknowledged by the district I think it's very very important because I think most principles would tell you the parents support at the schools really really make a difference uh I agree um I think it's a great idea to educate um particular as as uh new parents come into the school system it's good to educate them on on their rights and help them understand their rights but also help them feel um both involved and embraced and fully understand you know where they fit in the community because you know we've gone from being a monopoly to more like a business as we've talked about because we we have customers who can choose to go elsewhere and we want them to

329choose us so you know every business I've been in we've had customer appreciation days and months I think it's good to help them uh help them and us remember that we want to appreciate them and they're an important part of our organization not only as customers but as parents and how they how they are involved in their children's uh lives in education and also um how they're involved in the school so I think the more we can do to to build that relationship through appre appreciation and recognition um the better our chance of an outcome in terms of how they input to that final oncome thank you for bringing this forward I think it's a great idea um and I'm looking forward to signing it and uh I'm glad that we're taking a month to

330not only remind parents that there are parental rights um and hopefully educate them of what those rights are um but also like you're saying to respect them and and honor them so I think it's a great idea okay Dr Moore I have a question for you um I'm all for this the uh only question I have I have two yeah two and a suggestion um October has been typically vaping awareness month is it okay to um be aware of two things in one month every month is at least seven eight nine 10 Things I mean that's fine I mean we might have two proclamations at night that's what I'm getting at okay we've done that before and then um some in some aspects you have parents/guardians in other aspects it just says parents could we

331make that um kind of the same throughout the proclamation um no it isn't I said you're asking for it to be consistent yes yes I'm asking for consistency on that and then um you know it's nice that another thing I thought of I like the recognition of parents and things um you know it was nice of graduation to hear the principal say students turn and thank your parents yeah and I think we could do a better job of doing that more often um top 10 nights um award ceremonies at schools you know remind our administrators to you know tell kids turn and thank your parents or your Guardians because I think that helps the connection between school and parents um knowing that we're very aware that they have a partnership with us so those are

332my suggestions a what we'll do is capture those changes and we'll print it uh and put it on your stations maybe with the highlighted section you each can read um and as we would just have to make a motions to approve as as R because there's some slight changes that you just made and that would take care of us having to go back and change the agenda if we can just do it that way that would be perfect you want it so tonight we it's on the agenda for this evening so we've captured the changes Miss Rosario recommended a few and you add to add Guardian we'll make those changes uh and then we approve the item tonight we're going to approve it as as read into the record okay sounds good all right anything

333else all right then um I'm going to adjourn this uh superintendent Workshop it is 443