001Good afternoon everyone. We're ready to start our regular business meeting and we are going to call the meeting to order with the pledge of allegiance. Mr. O' Fare, would you lead us? I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Mrs. Kahn, in reference to the agenda, I want to apologize. You asked me to remove agenda item 30 and I failed to do so. So, I'm going to request that everyone physically move that from the consent agenda, which is approve a safe school officer agreement between the Key west police department and the Monroe county sheriff's office to action item number four. And beyond that, no one has requested changes on this agenda. So,
002I recommend approval with that change. Do I have a motion? Move motion by Mr. Horan. Second by Mr. Dick. Any discussion, Any no votes? Hearing none. The motion passes. I recommend approval of the meeting minutes for May 1, 2025. That was the school board workshop meeting minutes. Second motion by Mr. Dick. Second by Mr. Horan. Any discussion? Any no votes? Hearing none. The motion passes. Next, I recommend approval of the May 13 school board meeting minutes. I'll move approval. Second motion by Mr. Dick. Second by Mr. Haran. Any discussion, any no votes? Hearing none. The motion passes. We move to citizen input. Do we have anybody? We have nobody registered. Thank you. There's John joking when you need them. Appears to be long gone. And that takes us to the consent agenda. All items listed
003as consent agenda items are considered routine and non-controversial by the school board and will be approved by a single motion. There will be no separate discussion of these items prior to this meeting. Board members have had the opportunity to review each of these items and may request that an item be moved to an action item for individual consideration. With the change that we made earlier, I recommend approval of the consent agenda as presented. I'll move approval. Second motion by Mr. Dick. Second by Mr. Horan. Any discussion? Discussion? Any? No votes? Hearing none. The motion passes. And so, Mrs. Kahn, we have our principals with us this evening. Two from afar there. We're going to hear from them virtually. We have Mr. Trevor Tyler who is with us in person. So, I'm going to turn this
004over to him. Mrs. Acevedo might want to say a few words in introduction. Amber. Where is she? Amber. You're muted. Mrs. Acevedo. You're muted. We can't hear you. Can you hear me now? Yes. Thank you. I would like to say good evening to superintendent and the board members and say thank you for supporting the efforts of our administrators to continue in their. Professional learning and growth. Our principals and assistant principals have attended several conferences and trainings and we're going to hear from three of them tonight and they're going to share with you the impact it had on not only their professional growth, but on their schools, the students and their colleagues. So, I'll first turn it over to Trevor. To Brian Desalis from hob. Hi, everybody. Can you hear me okay? Yes, we can hear
005you, Mr. Desilis. All right, sounds good. So, I was fortunate enough to attend for second year, actually, the AVID National Conference three years ago when I moved here and started. I had never heard of avid, as AVID has never made it up to the Northeast. So, I had a lot to catch up on. And I'm happy to say that I embraced it so much that I was able to be selected to provide present at this last year's conference in December down in Dallas, over in Dallas, Texas. So, I was excited about that. I presented with one of our AVID teachers, Holly Tacker, and our focus was on leveraging artificial intelligence and WICKR strategies to accelerate our English language learners. As you know, we've had a large influx of ells come to our district. So, I
006thought it was a great opportunity for me to present to a national audience to see what other issues that they're dealing with nationally and compared to what we're doing here in Key West. So that was a great experience. We talk about AVID strategies. I mean, it was an AVID national conference, so I got to do some other things. And every conference for AVID focuses on WICKR strategies. What WICOR strategies are, are something we implement in our classrooms every single day. And we do it throughout Monroe County. All the schools work towards this. And what WICKER stands for is writing, inquiry, collaboration, organization and reading. So, we try to implement those strategies in every lesson, every day. And what we do at AVID conferences is we learn strategies to bring back to our schools to help
007with our staff. My focus in the last two years has been on using artificial intelligence to do so. And AVID is very big on artificial intelligence. So, one of the takeaways or some of the takeaways that I am bringing back to our school district, the big one, is called Magic School AI and it's a free or a pay platform that really does a lot for teachers. It saves them a ton of time. It's an educationally focused platform and it allows teachers to save time in lesson planning. An example for lesson planning, if I go into Magic School AI, I click on lesson planning, it'll ask for a prompt and I'll give them a prompt. Like if I'm a teacher teaching ELA, please give me a 45-minute lesson utilizing Avid's wicker strategies with three different collaborative
008opportunities for students. In a third grade ELA class focusing on ELA standard, you can put the actual standard in and within a click of a mouse the entire lesson will be on their screen. And they can cater it to what they want and what works for them. But they have the framework in less than a minute, so it really saves time. It gives teachers opportunities to try different things in their classroom that engage students. Another piece is communication. This same app you can type into a email prompt and ask and tell it. I want to write a welcome email for my students to their parents, but please do so in three different languages or please do it in English, Spanish and Creole. And within seconds they will have an email prepared for them with the
009criteria that they put in in three different languages. Huge for our community, huge for our teachers to be able to communicate with staff in such a manner. So that's just some of the things that we do. We do these activities in our faculty meetings. I try to give them a new tip every month to work on from either Magic AI or from avid, but to enhance their classroom. So really excited to continue with that work in our district. And I'll pass it on to Tara, who attended a Blue-Ribbon school conference. Thank you, Brian. Can everybody hear me okay? Yes, we hear you. Thank you. Thank you. Good evening, members of the board. First, I'd like to, of course, express my appreciation for the opportunity to invest in our continuous growth and not just myself, but
010all of our educational leaders. As educators, we strive to create environments where both our teachers and students can thrive. And in order to do that, part of that journey is making sure that we're equipped with the latest strategies, technologies. Just some of the things that Brian just mentioned is perfect. That's exactly what we're looking at. And also, just innovative ideas that will shape successful schools. One of the opportunities, of course, is the Blue-Ribbon Schools of Excellence conference which I attended in December. This event was dedicated to exactly that. Sharing best practices, networking and school culture strategies. The investments that you guys provide us is not just theoretical, but we also want to put it to practice so we have tangible application in our schools. And that's what you're hearing about today. For instance, and I
011can't see the PowerPoint, but if Trevor could click on the PL on the go. This is one of the examples of what I had actually learned at the Blue-Ribbon Schools of Excellence conference in one of the sessions. And PL on the go really just brought back and kind of renewed what we already had in place, which was the view. So, it brought that back. And the way that it kind of helped is to make professional learning accessible to all of our teachers and staff. It asked two questions, and each teacher could answer what they felt and they didn't have to. I think we got about 15 teachers that responded. One question was, what do they feel that they do very well in that they would like to share out to our school community? And the
012other question was, what was something that they would like to actually be able to view internally and grow from? And so, with that, I was able to get a little Excel spreadsheet that listed their names, and I copy and pasted it right into our weekly update. So now every teacher knew where they could go to see certain things, and if somebody else had something that they wanted to learn, they could also be reached out to by the other teachers. So, this was one of the wonderful things that I picked up at the conference and then shared with our leadership team at one of our principal meetings. Also, the blue-ribbon Schools of excellence conference video. This was a suggestion at one of these sessions as well. And it was just a way to reconnect me to
013the staff when away at conferences and to share with them what I was doing and why I was doing it and that I was excited to be there while they're still, you know, boots on the ground, working at school. I don't know if Trevor's able to share this with you. Should I keep going? It's not loading. Oh, there it was. It just came. It came up. There we go. Let's try that. We've had interesting problems all day, Tara, with the Internet. No problem. If it's not working, I can move on. Happy Thursday, y' all. Oh, okay. There we go. Hopefully you guys had a nice week. Coming back after ours. It keeps interrupting, Tara. So please move forward. Okay, thanks. Another great. So, I had the opportunity to address another great thing that I picked
014up at a conference that I could then bring back to our principals at our principal meeting. So, this investment, of course, that we all have taken part of, help our educators stay informed, motivated, and making sure that they're leading our staff and our teachers and our students at our schools. So, again, thank you for making this growth possible. I'd like to hand it over to Mr. Trevor Tyler. He's going to talk a little bit about what Mr. Jacob and Mr. Trevor did. So, thank you to the board. And I know I'm the only one here, so that's kind of weird, but I Appreciate you guys. And also, to Ms. Superintendent Axford and to Ms. Acevedo. Jacob Polma, who is the assistant principal of Coral Shores and myself were involved in the Chancellor's Leadership Academy. That
015opportunity was all year long, gave us the opportunity to go to Orlando three times and to then also have site visits, one of which was at Coral Shores. And principal leotard and Mr. Palma and the rest of that staff did a great job showing off what key schools does on a daily basis. So that was really, really nice to bring in not only the state, but also all of our cohort, which is from Miami and here, just to show them what we do and how great we are here. The other things that we learned while we were there were development of mission and vision, coaching and leadership styles, recruitment and retention, walkthrough documents and tools, and then also those site visits. And so, the biggest takeaway that I had from those that we did was
016looking at those visions from the field. And you can see on the, on the overhead, it's really, really small, but it's all about instructional practice inside the classroom. And how do we want that instructional practice to look. And then the rest of your actual SIPP then follows in suit and that, that just drives is the engine for what you want to do. One of the things that the superintendent has done in our district is we have walkthroughs. Not only from our formal walkthrough or documentation, but also informal. But then she and her team from curriculum would come in, they would do walkthroughs with us and then give data to us that this is what we need to be working on. But going through the Leadership Academy, the biggest, biggest takeaway was not, not just that,
017because that's wonderful. And then we have a plan. But how do you then take that plan and get the teachers on board and the buy in from it? And so that, that piece, they, they talked a lot about look fors what is evident and what is not evident. How do you then create that? With the trusting of the nature between not only teachers, but an admin district, looking at common language, trying to make it so that it all, it all comes together. And so, with the way that she has, has given that everything that we did, it was almost like, yeah, we already have that in place. I mean so thank you to her and her vision of what she has for us here in the schools. But just taking that and making it our
018own there at the school so that the teachers are involved. So, bringing it back to the BLPT, talking about those Instructional practices and what they are, what those walkthrough indicators are and what's evidence and what's not evident. And so that then allows for the big conversations that need to happen, which are, what if it's not evident once you have that, you can have discussions so that you can then move education and that practice forward. So, using those and developing those rubrics with staff would be. Would be a powerful thing. And that's the biggest takeaway that I had from this. Because if we're moving instruction, we're moving towards that a every minute of every day and moving those kids towards growth. So, thank you again for the opportunity to be not only a part of this
019leadership academy, but all the leadership opportunities that you give for us as principals. And we're so thankful for all the things that you guys give to us and offer us so that we can do these things. So, for me and Jacob Polma, that was a great opportunity this year. And thank you so much. I'd like to now turn it back over to Ms. Whitehead. All right, so as we continue to participate in the professional learnings, and we're in one right now, we know that it is very important to enhance our leadership skills. We know it's important to bring our strategies back to the other principals. And we also know that it's very important to make sure that we're sharing this out with our school community. So that is definitely something that we can promise you
020that we are doing and we will continue to do so that we can have the most successful schools in Monroe County. I just wanted to reiterate or thank you guys as well and mention that while I. Because I was selected to present at the national conference, I was able to make. To get two spots that were paid for by Avid for us to be able to send extra people. So, it's a. It was a great opportunity, not only for myself as a leader, but also for me to bring other people with me to get them that leadership experience with AVID paying for it. So that was. That was also a plus. That's what we have for you guys. If you have any questions, I'm sure Tyler up there, Trevor, would be happy to answer them
021for you. Brian, who'd you take with you? Well, there's a whole group from Monroe County. I took Holly Tacker actually presented with me, but Amber was there and there were several others there who actually attended my presentation. So that was really good, too. Thank you. Can I ask, how did you? Well, Brian, you were actually presenting, but how were people chosen to go to which things? Maybe that's a better question for Amber. I can answer for me if it's okay. Amber. Holly's our AVID teacher. She teaches AVID at hob. So she was who I selected to present with me and the other part with avid. I'm sure it's with Amber and Sarah Adams. We have discussions on which teachers are going to go. For example, we're going to the Summer Institute. I'm not, but I
022have two teachers who are going to the Summer Institute because with the budget, we had two spots. And as an admin team, we meet and we decide who would be best suited for the training that they'll be getting and what they can bring back to our school to improve our student success. No, I just mean that the three of you want to very different sorts of organizations and how much of that was. You know, AVID is our longest professional development program. I understand why we went to avid. I don't. I want to know how Trevor and Jacob were chosen for the Chancellor's thing and why Tara Chozoar was chosen to go to the Blue-Ribbon School. I can't answer that. I can answer that. Dr. Voltanski. The Chancellor's Leadership Commissioner Academy allows a principal and an
023assistant principal to go. It's several of us as administrators went when it was started in the late 2015. 2020, and they began it three years ago. So, three years ago the superintendent and I sat with. We had very several new principals and we selected a team to go based on the newness and the materials being presented and what we thought they would walk away. So, in that year it was Heidi Roberts, who is now on curriculum, and Tara Whitehead. They attended the Commissioner Leadership Academy. And then the next year, Christine Paul, she went with one of her APs, Kirsten Burns. And this year we took again Trevor was selected and Jacob Palma. And again, we were looking at administrators starting out in their roles that had little experience, but not extensive because some of the
024more extended ones Laura's already been, Lisa's already been. So that's how we have chosen. And if the commissioner continues this, then we'll continue to provide those opportunities. With the Blue-Ribbon School, for example, the Blue-Ribbon School was something that several of our schools key Largo had been at one time. HOB had earned it many, many years ago. And in looking at those concepts, Poinciana had made an A status. They were building and demonstrating that strive for excellence and Blue-Ribbon School seem to fit where their next steps were. So that is why Tara was selected there and for The FAFSA conference, for example. Here we are being privileged to be part of a special coaching cohort offered by Florida Atlantic University through FAFSA. And again, Superintendent and I met and felt that we would begin with the
025elementary school principals to attend that cohort. So, I have Melissa, also Brooks and Linda Diaz and Tara Whitehead on behalf of the principals, along with Heidi, because she does literacy coaches and that's coaching. And again, Brian wanted to attend, hadn't been to FAFSA conference before. And every principal has the opportunity if they budget to attend. That's their professional growth to choose. So they have some self-choice and then others indicate places that they would like to attend. And so, we try to give everybody an opportunity with the opportunities that are provided to us. Thank you. Any other questions? Dirk? I'm not sure how to address this, but there was an item that was supposed to be pulled on the consent agenda that wasn't. And we just passed the consent agenda as is. That's one of the
026reasons I was asking the question. Yeah, you can vote to reconsider. I need a motion from the May. Sands lease addendum was supposed to be pulled completely. Standing. Was that. It was supposed to be on there now. What changed between our meeting and now? The conversation at the retreat was ultimately to leave it on, have a board approved, then engage with the school on their ability to move forward. That was the direction received at the retreat. So, what we just passed then? We have a board approved leased addendum and that's what we asked for at the retreat. Okay. And the addendum states that the lease agreement is what we talked about as opposed to what was in the past. It's the annual rent increase that we. Typically, every year of a thousand orders a month
027sometimes. Okay, so we're not going to discuss it again because originally when we talked was before the meeting when you and I had that conversation. So, during the retreat, my understanding was that we were going to go ahead with it as it stands because it's $1,000 increase, period. Okay. Because when I was looking, I was. I thought we were talking different numbers than what I was seeing. So, I'm just trying to figure it out. But I guess it doesn't matter if we do it this meeting or not anyway, right? Because it's already passed. I mean, it's not agreed to by them. It hasn't been agreed to. No, it's just our documents. So, you can reconsider. You need a motion to reconsider. Second and a vote. It was staff's Request. I don't understand your direction, Dirk.
028I don't know what we're trying to do. I don't understand if they want to vote on it again or you just want to talk about it. Which, which one do you want to do? Well, we may not need to vote on it again. So really what I'd like, what it. Is, is it's an increase pursuant to the addendum to the amount that I believe we had established was going to be the increase? And whatever desire was for it not to increase is not being addressed. So the ball will be in their court now on whether and whether they agree to it. But yeah, we've got, from our side, we've got the terms that we're comfortable with. Right, I believe everybody's comfortable with. And then it's up to them to sign it and honor it. So,
029I guess my other question then is why is it an addendum? Because it's my understanding those were always the term. So, my concern is that it's an addendum specifically. That's how we've handled every increase that we've made since the original contract. That's the vehicle to handle the increase. Yes, absolutely. Okay, I feel better. Thank you. So, we're not needing to go back. Okay, great. Okay, thank you so much, Trevor and everybody, great presentation. Very interesting. Okay, so that's on to Dirk. We had two doozies on today, so I'm kicking the Tommy Roberts thing to next meeting, anticipating the other two big items that we've been working on for the last several weeks. You have the superintendent's contract on here today, which we were able to pull together and post yesterday. And you have obviously the
030Trumbo interim agreement to start negotiations for a ground lease. So that's really what we've been working on. I do talk to all of you before the meeting, and I think that's all the updates that were on this agenda for legal, as I said. I'll be back with the Tommy Roberts recommendation at the next meeting. Questions? Superintendent. Of course, we're watching the legislation and everything that's going into law right now. One of the interesting things for all of you is that we're going to have to develop a school board policy on cell phone use. And elementary and middle school students may not use a wireless device during the school day, except in certain cases. So obviously they always look at kids who have an IEP, kids who have 504s, kids who have doctor's note. But all
031of that's going to have to be Built into policy. And then high school students may use a wireless device when directed to do so by the teacher for instruction, but only at that time. So, schools are going to have to set aside some areas where wireless could be used by a student with an IEP or a 504 and so forth. So, I think we'll be asking Neola, you know, what other districts are doing and how that policy should look. But I think that's an interesting thing that's come out of this session. Mrs. Axford. Yeah, it's my understanding that they passed on elementary and middle school and that high school has a pilot program in five districts and actually six. Yeah, we're not. Are we participating? We're already following the rule that, you know, you don't
032have a cell phone out. Correct. But I don't think that's part of this bill. Oh, it. I'm just looking at Brian Moore's update. So, he did include that. All right, interesting. I'm sure we're going to hear more about it, though. And really, other than the $3.5 million, that's it for me. It looks like that's going to be happening for us. And it mentions specifically for the refurbishment of Bruce hall, and that's what all the documents say. And so, of course, we're going to have to follow exactly, you know, what we committed to do in terms of that money. But it was really a group effort. We got letters from the mayors of the county and the city and, you know, lots of folks wrote letters in support of this. And of course, Anna Maria Rodriguez
033and Jim Mooney were absolutely wonderful. And so Kate DeLoach and Wendy dodge were really right there with us every step of the way. And so we got it through. And now the governor just needs to sign, so. But it looks like that's what he's going to do. So. Thank you. Dr. Woltanski. Yeah, I just will repeat congratulations on that. That was a heavy lift over many years. And, you know, she persisted and success. Right. I did not pull things from the consent agenda, but I thought about it because, you know, once again, we've got all these education technology programs, and when we purchase those programs, we're promised a certain amount of success. We're told that this is the success we'll see. And we never get feedback on whether those programs are effective or not, whether
034there was a chance to. Whether, you know, we considered switching to something else. We don't know what. You know, I think when we purchase the products, we should have an idea of what we expect they're going to do. And then we. Because those companies need to really be held accountable for giving us accurate information when we purchase these products. And, you know, I didn't pull it today, but I, you know, we evaluate our students on test scores and our schools and our teachers. But, you know, these are products that are often now being tutors to this. You know, they have incorporated tutoring, and we should be comparing whether it's effective and whether it's giving us what we want. So, you know, moving forward, you know, you know, the next iteration, I think we need to
035start looking at that. The only other thing I wanted to say is tonight, as we're talking, the Village of Islamorada is getting a presentation from their village manager about the status of the football of the baseball field. And so, we should know, you know, soon about what they're, you know, where they are on that. That's. That's exciting. Yeah. That's all. Mr. Horan. Just real quick, I want to give a special thank you to the housing selection committee especially. I think Brian's back there. I'm not wearing my glasses, but I think it's him back there. And Debbie. Debbie Batty. This is their second go round with this. I'm sure it has been wonderful experience for them. They've enjoyed every second of it. But I appreciate them hanging in there and getting us to where we are
036today. So, thank you to everyone involved. Ms. Talbot, I, too, would like to. Congratulate Mrs. Axford and her efforts. Her perseverance and persistent over the last few years to make that happen was seen firsthand by me in Tallahassee. I was so happy to be there with you and the deputy and watch you at work, and you were relentless. And I am so thrilled, not only for the district, but for you personally, because I know how much this meant to you and how hard you worked for it. So, congratulations, and we're all going to benefit from your efforts. I also wanted to say that I had the opportunity as a new board member, to attend all of the graduations in Monroe county just a couple of weeks back. And it is amazing to me to see
037how many fabulous students we have coming out of our public-school system. And we should be extremely proud, as their parents and teachers are. Their accomplishments are remarkable, and it was so wonderful to see it up close and personal. I had never had the opportunity to attend the Upper Keys and marathon graduations, and those students are just delightful, and it was a wonderful experience. So, congratulations to the class of 25. They were amazing. Mr. Dick. Yeah. I also would thank Ms. Haxford for that hard work on getting that funding for us. It's very. As I said to you earlier, the timing was right, huh? So very good. Thank you very much. Dr. Wolchanski. I think you've given a lot of credit to this village of Islamorada. I'm not so sure they'll figure it out. So. But
038also, on what you said, I've always been questioning about all these different IT products that we purchase and the different curriculum things. I can tell you from experience of a long time ago when we had to do some serious reductions in the district, and we found there were so many different things they were using and who wasn't using this and who, and it was crazy. And so, I think a good thing would be to look at them all, see which ones are really working and doing something, and the others get rid of them. Stop it. But we slashed a lot of money on that when we did that before anybody else was here. But, yeah, it might be time to do that again. Maybe what we could do is in the future, get a report
039at the end of the school year on the effectiveness of the programs that we employed. Dr. Woltanski spoke with me about this. So, we're prepared to do a report next meeting on the efficacy of the programs, as you requested, Dr. Woltanski. So, we're preparing that right now, and we'll be able to talk to you about definitely the ones that we presented here tonight. Okay, but we wouldn't have results on ones you presented here tonight. Or are these renewals of programs we already had? They are, and there are efficacy studies that we look at to make decisions. But we also have a learn platform that allows us to see the amount of usage a program gets, and it helps us to decide whether or not we want to continue using that program. Okay, so. So, we're
040just going to show you what we've got, and then you can ask for more or, you know, see if that services what you need. So, this is just on a consent agenda, Dirk. So essentially, we've now decided before we're getting the information to renew the program. Well, so it depends on what version of what contract we've done, but if it's our typical version, we always have out clauses. Okay, I'm going to ask hunter on the ITS where they have the 30 day out or the 60 day out. As you can see, there's a large number of them. You know, I can't tell you right. Now if every single one has the. You know, termination at will for whatever. Reason clause in it. A lot of them do, but, you. Know, some of them don't. You
041know, I just say I don't expect we're going to find. I think Christina a year ago went through and did some of this. So, I don't think we're going to find ones that are not effective. I just would like in the rationale to say, this is why, you know, this is what we are seeing and this is how many are using it so that we get some information so we can say, oh, yeah, we'll continue to do this because you really only hear about them when a parent doesn't like it. Right. You don't hear about it otherwise. So, it's just to give us the information that we should have when we're approving them. And then the other concern I spoke with Mrs. Axford about is that school's been out for a couple of weeks. School
042in Florida has been out for more than a week now. The state testing is done. The schools all get those results instantaneously, but the results to us as a district, you know, haven't been released yet. So, I don't know what the. So, some of these things, like it had those results been out on time, you'd say, oh, things are going great. We're going to stick with what we're doing, whatever. But there's some delay in getting the instantaneous test scores released and which would be helpful to this whole process. I think the student growth is really what you want to look at in the classrooms that are using those products. So, we're going to be prepared to share with you what we've got next week, next meeting on the 24th. The state, you know, isn't giving
043us a report card or anything yet. So, we'll see what happens when they put it all together. Thank you. I also would like to thank everyone involved in Bruce Hall's money. Keeping my fingers crossed that it passes the last hurdle, since it seems like it will. I also, in regard to the graduations, congratulations to everyone. But seriously, thank you to all the communities for the just millions of dollars in scholarships that they give to our students every year. It's incredible, and the generosity is just overwhelming. On another note, maybe this is more of a me problem, but we've added to the consent agenda out of county travel for district employees. That wasn't on when you and I went over it. I just compared the two, and I don't have a problem with that. I would
044just like to know in the future. It's one of the reasons I asked the question before the meeting, because the numbers weren't matching up. And when we do get these, if somebody's already traveled in April, it doesn't help us to consent to the travel in June. On my first copy, number eight was approved annual requirement contract with United Data Tech. And on the live version, it is Monroe County Schools district funded travel, which wasn't on the original agenda when we reviewed it at all. So, it looks like the item was created and it was modified on the third your meeting happened, and it was reflected on as to why need to use the microphone. Oh, I'm sorry. Sorry. So, it looks like the item was created prior to your meeting as to why it never
045reflected. But according to the item history, it was on. Okay, well, I have my copy with me and it's not there. I understand. And so, I just want to make sure when we're reviewing agendas that I actually know. Because a lot of times, since we go so deeply into the agenda together, my review is just uploaded documents and not the entire review of the entire agenda again. But if I have to do that, I will. And then my other issue is on the items specifically. We just consented to April 27th of this year's travel, and it's now June. The office manager of that school did. Not send it to me until. The day before publishing. I'm not looking to blame you, honestly. I just. It upsets me when we approve something after it's already happened.
046So, for instance, when we give an employee a different job, they've been in the job for two months, and then we're approving the personnel recommendation. I've complained about this before and I just. Maria, you know you're an assistant. This isn't a your problem, so please don't take it that way. This is a problem with the way we get our information as a board. And we need to get personnel recommendations, we need to get requests for money, which is ultimately what district funded out of county travel is before the things happen. Unless it's on an emergency basis. Yes, ma' am. Thank you. Nothing else for me. So, pending we have affordable housing. Are we going to talk about this here? For the action item? Okay. Should we wait to discuss it till then? We usually skip
047the pendings and go right to the meat of the coconut, if that's okay. Okay, so action items, Ms. Axford. Okay. I recommend approval of the adult education lease renewal four of four with Mark Hardin for 927 Eaton Street. So, moved. Second. Motion by Dr. Woltanski. Second by Mr. Horan. Any discussion? Hopefully this is the last time. I have a question. Do we have a plan for what we want to do after? Do we think it will get to Reynolds soon enough, that this would be the last time, or will we need to look for another location? I'll Refer that to Mr. Yeah, we. Might need one more year, but we're moving fast on the Reynolds design based on some discussions recently. Okay. Thank you. Number Action item number two. I recommend to approve the recommendation.
048We just haven't asked for any. No votes. Oh, sorry. Any no votes? Hearing none. The motion passes. Action item number two. I recommend that we enter into negotiations with TVC Development, Inc. For an RFP, which was numbered 2025007. Trumbo, affordable workforce housing. Move to approve. Second motion by Mr. Horan. Second by Dr. Woltanski. Do we want to discuss this? Okay, if I may. Please. There's just two. It's kind of two things. It's the one, approval to, you know. Approve the recommendations with TVC as number one. And then the second thing is the interim agreement. So, if you're going to do them. Both, you know, just make sure each specified. Yeah, there is an interim agreement attached, so I think you ought to. Since that's not referenced in the rationale, I think you approve the interim
049agreement. I'll reframe that recommendation. Mrs. Kahn. Okay. I recommend that we enter into negotiations with TBC Development, Inc. For the RFP 2025007. Trumbo, affordable workforce housing, and that we approve the interim agreement as presented. So, moved. Second. Motion by Mr. Horan. Second by Mrs. Talbot. Any further discussion on that particular item? Hearing any no votes? Hearing none. The motion passes. Hooray. And number three, this was our tentative add on. I recommend approval of the employment contract for the Superintendent of Schools, Mr. Edward Tierney. Approval. Second motion by Mr. Dick. Second by Mr. Horan. Any discussion? Yeah. When exactly did we put this up on Maria? When did this get what? Yesterday afternoon. Okay. And then there was a modified of was sent. Yes. Late yesterday afternoon. And then it was briefly modified by. Mr. Hendricks
050this morning. with one term, I believe, that was listed. It was typos and grammatical corrections. There was nothing substantive that changed from the time that was linked yesterday afternoon till the second linking, which was when? Last night or this morning? This morning. But it was no substantive changes, just titles were modified, some commas, some periods, some. You know, we had his name as doctor. He's not a doctor. We did fix Stuff like that. Nothing substantive. Substantive. Okay. I don't have any problem. I just wanted to make sure that people had a chance to see it. And I couldn't tell from. You know, I couldn't tell myself. So, thank you. I'd like to say that I think that Ms. Kahn and Mr. Smith did a very good job representing the taxpayers of Monroe County. And I
051also think it's a fair thing to Mr. Tierney. I think every. Everybody should be happy with that. I think you all have. You all. That was the discussion. Any no votes? Do we want to take the role on the superintendent contract, please? So, do you vote on it before he signs the contract? You can vote on it and send it to him to sign. Okay. Call the roll, please. Thank you. [ CALLING ROLL ] Congratulations. All righty. And number four, which was consent item number 30, I recommend approval of the safe school officer's agreement with the Key West PD and the Monroe County Sheriff's Office. Oh, I'll second. Motion by Mr. Dick. Second by Dr. Woltanski. I'll ask if anybody else has discussion. Discussion I do have. I just want to remind the finance department
052that once we close out this year, they. I need. We need to put on an agenda of what we collected from the taxes and from the state and what we spent on that, because that's a promise that we made when we asked for that point zero, and that needs to be the accounting of what we got and then how we'll go forward for the following year. I'll get with Dr. White and we'll work on that reconciliation. Any further discussion by anyone else? So, the reason I had this pulled from consent to action, and I do this every year, is because we have no choice. We have to use the sheriff's department and Key West Police Department and. And I just feel like we have to go to the community for extra money. But the sheriff's
053department returns money every year to the Monroe County. That money does not go back to the taxpayers. So, they've paid into Monroe county, then they've paid into the school district, and then we get charged what we get charged, and we have very little say in the matter because it's an all or nothing and we have no other opportunity for SROs. So, I'm going to put it out there that I'm asking the city and the county to think about the fact that this is a school district, that we love our police, we love our sheriff's deputies, we absolutely Think they're an important and a part of our schools that we couldn't do without. But I'd like to see a little bit of negotiating based on what we have, what our restrictions are in terms of money
054and knowing what money you have. Also, I think it was last year we discussed keeping track of hours at the schools versus hours that they get paid. Because our school year is very different from full time employment with the sheriff's department or the city police department. So, I'm wondering how are we tracking that? We're paying for full time equivalents in both organizations and we have them all year long. Right. But they don't come for school holidays. Correct? No. And we do pay them extra to come to sporting events. Correct. Separately, not via this contract. Yes. So, I guess that's my point is full time with the school district does not equate to full time with the sheriff's department. I think it does, but let me see if I can. So that's what I'd like to
055see. I'd like to see. That's what we're paying for and that's. What we expect of them are off for the summer. For example, we make sure every one of the SROs we pay for is employed. We work with them on training over the summer. But the times when we're out of school, the SROs are accounted for. Okay, I just. If we're going to pay for a full-time position with the sheriff's department or the police department, I would like to know, since there are times when we do pay extra outside of that contract that we're getting, that. Absolutely. That's been our goal from the very beginning, since we first started, you know, since we lost the argument on full time equivalence, so. Okay. Thank you, Sue. Any further discussion? Any no votes? Hearing None. The motion
056passes. That concludes our business. This meeting is adjourned.