001I thought so. Ms. Tanya Mendez will lead us in the pledge. 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. First off, I'd like to say Mr. Darren Horan, a school board member, has a family emergency and will not be in attendance at this meeting. I recommend the board adopt the agenda as presented. Move. Second. Second with a comment. I want to move action items 16 consent item 16 to action, please. That's the contract with the renewal contract with Amira Learning LLC. Any further discussion? You got it right? Okay, the agenda is approved. I recommend the board approve the minutes from the June 9th, 2026 school board meeting. So moved. Second. Any discussion?
002Any no votes? Hearing none, the minutes are approved. At this time, we have Ms. Kelly Keefe requesting 3 minutes. Wait a minute. Let me I'm going to read first before you start. Presentations to the board are limited to 3 minutes for each individual speaker and 5 minutes for the representative of a designated group. Transfer of time between individuals and, or groups is not permitted. Letters submitted to each board member and/or the board secretary prior to a board meeting will not additionally be read into the record. All statements must be directed towards the board. No person may address or question board members individually, and board members will not engage in a dialogue with persons making public comment. Furthermore, all speakers agree to abide by the Code of Conduct of Citizens Input, School Board Policy 0169.1, and
003will begin their presentation by stating their full name and their city or town of residence for the record. My name is Kelly Keefe and my town of residence is Key Largo, Florida. I'm here on behalf of the Coral Shores wrestling program. I am a proud mother of a actually, he was the first regional champion in over a decade, and it's because of Coach Dante. I want to recognize Dante Giovanetta for his excellent coaching that he's been providing to our children and our youth of the county. Again, my son took first in regions for the first time in over a decade. There are lots of parents who wish they could have been here this evening to speak on our we just want to spread awareness of the needs of the team. On behalf of Dane Pataboy,
004he wrote this, so I'm going to read this verbatim. His son is also a wrestler on our team, and he will be a sophomore next year. We are requesting a dedicated wrestling facility for Coral Shores High School because our current training space no longer meets the needs of our current student athletes. First, this is a safety issue. Wrestling requires adequate mat space for athletes to train safely. Our current space is overcrowded, limiting our ability to safely accommodate the athletes currently on the team and preventing future growth. Second, this is a student welfare issue. Wrestling requires strict hygiene standards. A dedicated facility would provide would provide storage for equipment, lockers, laundry, and access to showers, helping maintain a clean and healthy environment for our athletes. Third, this is an equity issue. Girls wrestling is one of
005the fastest-growing high school sports in America, yet we do not have space or resources to support a dedicated girls program. Our interested female athletes currently have no option but to train with the boys team, limiting participation and opportunity. Most importantly, this investment would support a program that has already demonstrated success. Coral Shores wrestlers have qualified for the state championships, proving that our athletes can compete at the highest level in Florida despite limited resources. And facilities. Imagine what these students could accomplish with a training environment designed for their sport. Wrestling is also widely recognized for developing discipline, accountability, perseverance, leadership, and resilience qualities that translate directly into success in the workforce, military, higher education, and community leadership. The lessons learned on the wrestling mat help shape productive citizens who contribute positively to their communities long after
006their athletic careers end. A dedicated wrestling facility is not simply an investment in a sport. It is an investment in student safety, equal opportunity, character development, and the future success of the young people of Monroe County. Thank you for your time and consideration. Next up to speak, we have Mr. Brian Keefe requesting 3 minutes. Hello everybody. As we said, my name is Brian Keefe. I'm a resident of Key Largo and my son is a wrestler that has been wrestling with Dante since probably he was about 12 years old through the club program and has been wrestling through now his junior year, which he had a very successful season. But along with other wrestlers that had a very successful season, they did it so because of Dante and all the support of any previous coaches that
007we no longer have with us who have left because of the lack of facilities here, being Zach Sherman and his buddy Blay, who were NCAA All-Americans and great wrestlers. We really need facilities to ensure the safety of our boys, but not only that, to grow our program. We have the ability and the strength and good enough wrestlers to be one of the top programs possibly in the state, but because Our program is so shorted and our space is limited. We cannot even provide enough space for a full team to wrestle and practice on a daily basis. Dante has talked about running two practices back to back just to be able to provide enough space for the guys to wrestle and practice safely, which. Is a huge commitment by himself. So we're just trying to make
008awareness to you guys. We have a ton of parents. Obviously they're not all here because they're working, but I know other people have been making you guys aware of our situation. But we wanted the parents to come out and say, currently we have 3 wrestlers that are ranked in the state, which is a huge accomplishment for a small school like Coral Shores. They could possibly place this upcoming year. So we just want to look for your guys' support and be open to ideas to helping our situation. Thank you for your time. Next up to speak, we have Mr. Jim Matter or Mateo. I'm sorry, I couldn't read the last Okay, Matthias. Hi, everybody. My name is Jim Matthias. I live in Tavernier. I'm actually the assistant coach. I help Dante. Sorry, I'm filthy dirty. I
009just came from a job. I own SaberCon, so I don't know, you guys have probably seen my trucks around. Just to Touch on a few things. Our practice room is a safety issue. That's the first and foremost thing. I wrestled my entire life. I wrestled Division 1 in college. I came in to help Dante this year. My son was the first sophomore to place in the state tournament, for Coral Shores this year, as a sophomore. Sterling and Kelly's son won regionals, the first kid in 10 years. We had 4 district champs. Right now we are the number, 2 team in the state, to watch out for, as per Cobra, which is the biggest wrestling, website in the state. We can't do it with the size of the room we have, point blank. We're, if you
010guys want to see the room, it's right across the courtyard over here. With 20 kids in there, it's condensed, it's small, it's extremely hot, the mats are slippery. You know, some of these kids are, you know, could get hurt at any time. So what we've had to do is we have to split the room basically where we have a 2.5-hour practice, but these kids are really only getting like an hour and 20 minutes of work tops. Because the room is split in 2, which, you know, which is a major issue. Just to touch on Bryant's point, Zach Sherman was a 2-time All-American at University of North Carolina. He was here. He was coaching our kids. He left, you know, because we couldn't get a facility built, and now he has a massive facility in Immokalee,
011Florida, where, you know, he's training, you know, 120 kids. And, and this is the type of caliber guys that we're losing because of this. Dante is a charter boat captain. You know, he's extremely busy. I have a company that I run. I'm extremely busy. Our number one thing is the kids. Like, it really is at the end of the day. I've personally over the last 2 years probably spent about $7,000 of my own money on equipment, on uniforms, which is something I still never understand. Like, I don't understand. In a town of you know millionaires, how there's no money for sports? I don't get it. But I mean, I know everybody has to fundraise and do everything else. But you know, it's something I don't understand. If you compare our facilities to Key West, we're
012we're not even in the in the same area code. Like it's it's bizarre to me the amount of money that's poured in down there. Their wrestling facility they have locker rooms, they have a weight room, they have a massive you know freestanding facility with with mats wall to wall. And I love Chaz, and we love those guys. We actually go down and train with them. My son just actually wrestled for them on an all-star team up in up in Miami. But the other the other issue too was girls wrestling. Girls wrestling is the fastest growing sport in in the country. It's massive. We have girls that are interested in our team to come out for our team. And when you put them in a room with, you know, 20, 20, 20 boys, you know, it's,
013it's, you know, it's a little intimidating. So I don't know if that means my time's up or but yeah, so that's really all I got to say. So just trying to bring awareness to the sport and, you know, what's going on. Appreciate it. Next up to speak, we have Mr. Richard Russell requesting three minutes. I'm Richard Russell, unemployed resident of Isle Morada, Florida. I first of all certainly didn't plan to, but I want to echo the sentiments of our wrestling parents. We have a very legitimate concern here, and it obviously involves safety and liability. We have a first-class program. I know the bigger vision is that we will have a great provision when we do the renovations and restorations, but we need a bridge somewhere in between. I have a couple ideas, and I'll throw
014those out later on at some point. The reason I came here is just express my appreciation. Thank you. To the school board, the entire school board, for seeing our baseball field through fruition. Hopefully that will be done tonight. I salute Superintendent Tierney and also Village Manager Ron Saunders for their proactive move in getting together and representing their respective entities. and pushing this thing across the finish line. I think that was sort of a critical step, and I thank you for being aggressive in doing that. Also grateful to our village and Mayor Don Horton and our Vice Mayor over here, Sharon Mahoney, for their spirit of cooperation. I think everybody came together here eventually because, of basically the overwhelming need, the greater need, the greater concern That being of our children, I think ultimately there'll be
015an enhancement for both Coral Shores provisions but also for village provisions, and they'll be enduring. They can they can weather storms. They can they can last for years instead of months. I'd be remiss too if I didn't say a special thank you to board member Conn. Mindy, thank you so much for calling. last week, that, that I was so honored and grateful for the you reaching out and soliciting, you know, my opinion, but as it was representative, I think, of our school as a whole, our administration, our staff, and I think our community in general. I think and I, I applaud you for looking full spectrum, trying to weigh every possibility. That's you know, that's certainly commendable. But I also thank you for your willingness and openness to, to listen to what I felt to
016be the finger on the pulse of our needs and concerns up here at Coral Shores and the Upper Keys. So I thank you all, and I look forward to hopefully the completion of a baseball facility that includes some dugouts and bullpens and, and moving forward. Thank you, guys. Next up to speak, we have Mr. Tony Hammond requesting 3 minutes. Well, thank you everyone. I'm delighted to be here. And for those who don't know me, I'm Tony Hammond and I've been a lifetime resident here. Also, I joined Coach Russell in the unemployment ranks as a no, I'm teasing. But I was a 2-time head baseball coach at Coral Shores and now assistant baseball coach at Coral Shores. Nothing new to add to this other than the clock is ticking pretty quickly. We need to get this
017done. We need to get it done tonight so we can be able to play. We have our first conditioning, I believe, is January 9th for arm conditioning. Obviously, the first games will be in that first week in February. So we need to get moving on this, and thank you for your attention to it, and I look forward to a good outcome tonight. Thanks. Next up to speak, we have Ms. Anna Richards requesting 3 minutes. Anna Richards. I'm still employed. Mother of baseball players and spent many times at this field. And I'm just going to reiterate what everybody else is saying is please finish this up. We've been working on this for over a year and it's really become quite tiresome actually. But I hope that you guys will finalize what's going on, make it agreeable
018to everybody. And I'll say the same thing I said last time I was here. It's not fair. These guys are saying the exact same thing. The amount of tax dollars that the Upper Keys people put into the school system is, you know, just like the Key West people do. And they should these kids up here should get the same facilities and same treatment that goes into all the Key West facilities. So I hope that you guys really, really think about that. And do what's right for the kids up here as well. That's it. Mr. Dick, that concludes citizens' input. It's up to you. You have any gems this time? No, sir. All items listed as consent agenda items are considered routine and non-controversial by the school board and will be approved by a single motion.
019There 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 any item be moved to action item for individual consideration. That being said, I recommend the board approve the consent agenda as amended. So moved. Second. Any discussion? Hearing none, consent agenda is approved. We have 2 reports this evening. The first, we're going to talk about some of the work that the team some of the very high-quality work the team has been doing around kindergarten kickoff. The first iteration, the first report we had talked about the things we're doing to get students enrolled in This will be the ongoing conversation and coaching we're having with the 4th graders turning into or 4-year-olds turning into kindergartners in August. So
020we'll introduce Ms. Christina McPherson. Good evening, School Board Chairman John Dick, school board members, and Superintendent Tierney. Tonight we continue to highlight the outstanding work of our kindergarten kickoff events by sharing the wonderful videos and summer lessons for families that our Head Start and VPK teams have created this summer. I would like to personally recognize Ms. Jennifer Walker and Tanya Mendez, who is here tonight, For the vision and creativity that you will see this evening. The hours of hard work and dedication are evident even outside of the workday to make learning fun for our families. All the summer learning videos are published in English, Spanish, and Creole, and I think Ms. Mendez can teach Creole now. She's definitely worked hard. Maria? Go back one. As registration continues, schools provide every new family and student with
021a game board which highlights literacy and math skills with safety tips that will continue to increase our kindergarten readiness rates in the fall. We have even had grandparents and parents call in the community and ask where they can purchase one. Did they want to speak? As you can see, the lessons that have already been launched this summer my personal one is Name Writing Made Easy. It's messy but a lot of fun. They do it with shaving cream. It's a great learning tool. The summer videos include staff beyond the classroom, including our SROs, teachers, and our very own maintenance staff. Everyone in our Monroe County School District family has been engaged and building these personal videos for our families. And we'll continue to do this throughout the summer, as you can see. We currently have 411
022students, kindergartners enrolled. Today makes 420. So that's great news. And we are saving a seat for you, class of 2039. That's Key Largo School pictured. Parents may view the lessons through Facebook, Monroe County School District websites, our school websites, and currently in the short 2 to 3 weeks that have been out, we've had over 2,000 views of the videos. At this time, I would like to preview and highlight a short collection of the videos. He's got it downloaded for you. There we go. There you go. [VIDEO PLAYING] Do you have any questions? Work. Thank you. Thank you, Ms. Walker and Ms. Mendez. They've done a fabulous job. I think Ms. Walker is doing a fabulous job running around the world. All right. At this time, my understanding is that a couple of people wanted to
023get in to do public comment. So we're going to go back and open up the public comment. I was concerned because, Ed, I thought maybe you had locked your when I saw that you were here and didn't go up to speak. So we all need the pleasure of hearing you speak today. So please, Ed. And somebody else, right? There's 2 people. My understanding is there's another good person. I sent you all 7 pages worth of illuminating reading, which I presume you guys can read on your own. I'm just going to go over a couple of lowlights not highlights, lowlights. Emails have recently surfaced documenting that the village manager Ron Saunders has partnered with the village councilor Don Horton to cut an out of the sunshine deal with the school board that dramatically contradicts and extensively
024overrules the official baseball field license wording adopted twice, 5-0 and 4-0, after energetic Islamorada Council debate and extensive public input summarized by multiple lengthy meetings in an official Islamorada Citizen Advisory Committee, which you'll hear from soon. In his 27 April 26th speech to the Annamarie Parks and Recreation Committee, Village Manager Saunders revealed he had been privately carrying issue conversations between school board members, conversations and possible vote polling, which the Sunshine Law would seem to prohibit. Yet the Horton Saunders not publicly agenda, not majority vote authorized amendments. The thing that you're looking at today hasn't been publicly debated or voted in Islamorada. Perhaps school officials and lawyers have misunderstood the significant difference between the Islamorada mayor and the Key West mayor. The Islamorada is a purely ceremonial position, which rotates once a year on an internal
025vote, whereas the Key West mayor is a real office elected by an independent election, as I recall, and has some real longevity and some real authorities. Thus, the Islamorada attorney works only for the majority of the Village Council, not for the ceremonial mayor, who had no legitimate authority to unilaterally order the attorney and the village manager to officially proffer any written amendment to the superintendent. Not your fault, it's their fault. Yet at the recent 12 May Island Marauder Council meeting you guys didn't get to attend all these some such Sunshine contradictions were repeatedly described, with village officials adamantly claiming listen to this, Mr. Lawyer that they could legitimately interact with school officials outside of public venues as though they themselves were private citizens, when it would seem in fact that once elected or appointed to
026public office, they remain, like you all do, public officials bound by the Sunshine Law 24/7, 365, whether it's convenient or not. The 12 May Alum Rada Council meeting comment, public comment starts at 23 I'm sorry, at . And at , leading citizen ball field advisory committee member Jamie Engel asked publicly why the mayor and the village manager had ordered the drafting of that major written amendment to the ball field license wording already passed that conflicted with the 5040 Wording of record. It's the only wording of record. At , Councilmember Don Horton states that he lobbies school board members as a private individual. No, he doesn't. Despite his prior official permit wording, he voted for twice. During the 4 years I was myself elected, Keys White, to this school board, I had many professional briefings on
027the applicable restrictions of the Florida Government and the Sunshine Law by that lawyer. But for those readers who have not, here's a few possible relevant quotes from the Florida Attorney General's 2025 manual, which I'd be glad to loan you. Here's the best one. Sunshine law is of both constitutional and statutory dimensions. Florida Supreme Court, Town of Palm Beach v. Gradison. Write down Gradison. The Sunshine Law is to be construed so as to frustrate all evasive devices. That's pretty clear. Paris v. State is a warning about conducting private meetings through the use of surrogates. This situation may be barely lawful, but it's certainly ethically awful and needs a strong dose of sunshine-saturated attitude adjustment, and I will personally buy Captain LeFere a new set of Ray-Bans to mute the glare of such long overdue sunshine. Next
028up to speak, we have Miss Jamie Engel requesting 3 minutes. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Good evening. Jamie Engel, Islamorada. I understand that the school board district sorry, the school district attorney, the village attorney, and the village manager, with some input from the mayor, have negotiated a scaled-down version of the baseball field project at Founders Park. The revised scope now focuses on the baseball field itself, including artificial turf, field prep, drainage, and some of the bullpens, dugouts, and some new perimeter fencing. The baseball field license agreement currently on your agenda for tonight's meeting is not the same agreement that was unanimously approved by the Village Council on January 8th and again on March 14th with no changes, additions, or deletions by any of the council members. I understand that the Village Council gave the Village Manager
029the authority to negotiate the license agreement, Based on the twice unanimously approved village version. The original village version approved agreement still exists. It has already been reviewed and approved by the village council. This process does not need to start over with a new version of the baseball field license agreement. If your concern is getting the new baseball field at Founders Park completed so our kids and community can begin using it in January of 2027, The solution is really very easy. All you need to do is have your attorney go to page 3 of the village-approved agreement from January 8th, go to Section B under improvements, and strike out the items that are no longer part of the scaled-down project. That's it. You can then sign the agreement as written and already approved by the Village
030of Islamorada with only those necessary changes to reflect the scaled-down project. The project can begin. The kids in the community can have a new baseball field for next season. That is this is not about delaying this process. It is exactly the opposite. This is about keeping the project moving forward under the agreement that was already approved by the Village Council instead of delaying the project by starting over with a new agreement that has not gone before the council And does not appear to offer the same protections for the village or the community. We all want to see the kids playing on this new baseball field as soon as possible. We all want to see this project move forward, but it should move forward under the village-approved agreement that protects Founders Park, protects the community access,
031and protects Islamorada residents now and in the future. If you support getting the baseball field completed, And opening it up for the community and the kids' use by January of 2027. Make the simple edit to the improvements section, sign it, and let's get this field built for the kids in our community so they can play ball. Second report will be on Founders Park baseball field improvements by Mr. LaFere. Good evening, Mr. Chairman, board members, Mr. Superintendent. As Superintendent indicated, here to give you an overview on the Founders Park GMP that we have on your action item for consideration today. So as you all know, based upon the input we got from you all and from the village, staff was tasked to go back to our contractor and have them consider a reduced scope contract for
032us to consider bringing to you, which is what we've done. So that contract and the supporting documents were provided to us a week ago today, just in time for us to get them linked up to the board member for to the board meeting agenda for your consideration. The reduced scope of work for this particular project Is the artificial turf surface, the dugouts, the bullpens, the backstop, the perimeter fencing, and the knee wall. Not included in this scope of work, which was in the original scope of work of the project, is the concession and press box building, the bleachers, the scoreboard, major walkways, asphalt paving and restriping, and obviously any of the systems HVAC, fire alarm, all the building-associated systems are all taken out of that scope of work. The timeline assuming that both the school
033board tonight approves it and the Village Council at their meeting on July 7th approves this contract amendment, the contractor would go ahead and move forward with permitting with the village. They'd move forward with all their procurement that they need for the project, and their plan would be to mobilize on-site at Founders Park on August 10th, with substantial completed with substantial completion currently scheduled for January 15th and final completion scheduled for January 29th. One final note that kind of new development, we convened the Construction Advisory Committee meeting committee last night at a meeting. with the primary goal to review this GMP contract amendment. They did consider it at length, probably for at least 45 minutes, going over it, asking lots of questions, discussing it amongst themselves. But ultimately they did approve it on a 5-0 vote
034to come to you as a recommended project. So that completes what I've got to present today, pending any questions from the school board. I just had one question. What is the life expectancy of the turf? Remind me. I'm sorry, I couldn't remember. Typically, in our experience, the industry kind of standard is 10 years. Okay. Thank you. I have a question too. So this does not has not chosen the contractor for the turf yet, true? The price is based on an AstroTurf product that was presented to the Design Committee, but there were 2 other vendors that we will consider once this if and when the project is approved, we'll get back with the contractor and either select that product or one of the other 2 that we reviewed. We had some more questions of the contractor
035at that meeting. And did those Do the vendors vary much in the expected use or the warranted uses of them? No significant difference between the, the, the 3 products that we looked at. The one question we had, one had an environmentally friendly option that we would obviously want to go with, and we didn't know if the other 2 did, and that was being researched at that time. Okay, thank you. Anyone else? Okay. So just briefly, I'm happy to discuss it more in depth with you all if you'd like to at this point, but this license agreement that's being presented is the culmination of myself meeting with the Village's attorney last week and hashing out the terms of the agreement. What is presented is fully agreed upon between myself and the Village's attorney, with the exception
036of 4 items which I've pointed out to each of you. I'll just mention them real quick again. It's the I'm sorry. It's removing the Phase 1 environmental assessment requirement. prior to construction commencing. A provision in Section 4N requiring the village to pay for any changes it requests in its ownership capacity. A minor provision in 4O just requiring the village to reasonably cooperate with the school board in seeking government approvals. Provision 5B just clarifying that the payment and performance bond requirement can be satisfied by either the contractor or the school board. And the last one is in Section 10, which just clarifies that the insurance requirements apply equally to both parties. I didn't receive express approval from the Village's attorney on that, but Ron did tell me this evening that he believes those provisions are okay.
037If anybody has any questions on the license agreement, I'm happy to answer them now. Otherwise, that's all I have. And as far as the GMP for the project, there's a resolution provided for it so that the approval of the GMP isn't effective until the Village approves the license agreement and any other necessary approvals. Hunter, just for the record, we just learned that the length that the expected length of use of the Surface is 10 years. Is that what the where we get to a zero amortization? In the agreement that's currently on the agenda, it's set at 8 years. Okay. And then what happens at 8 years? So basically, as it's set out pursuant to the schedule that is attached, it, you know, starts at the full price of the improvements and then is reduced in
038equal amounts such that by year 8, if the village were to terminate the agreement, there would be no money owed absent any sort of major improvements or repairs to the property. Okay, and then would we be, if we wanted to stay there, required to make repairs on a field that was not No, you're not required to make repairs at any set point in time. That's within your discretion. You know, there is a provision in there saying that if basically there's a, you know, safety issue with the field due to its age or something of the sort, that You're the school board is assuming all liability, you know, associated with that. But as far as renovations and the useful life, it's contemplated in there that you go by either the manufacturer's warranty or an expert's opinion
039on the remaining useful life of the field. And then you may not know this, this might be a question for Pat, but what is the how long what's the expectation for the fencing, the dugouts? How long would those how long would those be considered usable? I do not know that off the top of my head. How often do we replace those in our district? They would certainly outlast the surface longer than 10 years. So the investment that we're making would go to zero, but there would still be a valuable field there? Well, yeah, and part of the discussion with the village's attorney was Well, what does this provision look like when the agreements are amended or there's a new agreement for the remainder of the improvements, such as the rest of the buildings and infrastructure?
040And, you know, we didn't really get to anywhere concrete there, but, you know, they acknowledged that the schedule would likely be for a longer period to reflect the, you know, the longer period of useful life that those improvements would have. Okay. Right. But so maybe these were questions I should have asked you before. But so roughly half of the investment that we will be making to the project is the field and a little less than half is to the rest of the but I think the field is a little bit more than half, right? A little less than half. And so the other things that would still be That's a break down from And for the new star, they have the field estimated at about 1.6, and the overall project is about 4. So Yeah.
041So we would have half of the investment still quite usable, but the schedule goes 2 years early for the field. So that would mean that the whole thing was still right. Yeah, that was the extent of what the Village's attorney was willing to agree to during our conference. I mean, there is a provision in there saying that upon completion of the improvements, each side will adopt a, you know, final schedule based on the useful life expectancy. So, I mean, there could be some deviation at that point when the final schedule is adopted, but it does say 8 years is the contemplated period right now. And in the 5-0 agreement, what was I don't believe there was any sort of schedule in the version of the agreement approved by the village in January. I think it
042was just that There would be an appraisal possibly. I could pull it up if you give me a few minutes, but I can't remember off the top of my head. Maybe before the item comes up. Thanks. So the way it stands now, if we spent this $4 million in 8 years, We could be thrown out. Correct. Actually, we have no three years. Yeah, they when can they throw us out of there? Either party can terminate at any time upon three years' notice. Which means we have three years. Okay, so that so if they say they they want us out in one year, then three within three years we have to be out. Yeah, it's 3 years no matter what. So on day 2, they could tell us that they want to end the agreement and
0433 years Why do they stick to that? Why can't they come off of that? What and then the 8 years, it's almost like automatic they're going to throw us out. And then what happens then is we're still in the same problem. We have to look for a place to do this, or are we being held hostage? I mean, we're spending money. This is I mean, it's taxpayers' money. I don't know why they keep why they have to have that. Just say, we're going to build a field, we'll do the best we can for it. I think we should do a first-class, you know, project there. But we have to have the ability to stay there. I mean, I can't see how do we tell, you know I don't know if somebody has an idea to
044do something else with that property. It just it's mind-boggling. I mean, I can't see if I asked the village of Islamorada to spend $5 million on some ways over here and say, look, you know, but we're going to throw you out in a couple of years, I don't think they'd spend the money here. Why should we spend the money there? I want to do this project. I want to see this happen. But I have to have a guarantee that we're there. I mean, it's And that we're not spending taxpayer money. And, you know, every time we try to change something, We send it back to Islamorada and then they come back to the original thing, whatever they said in the beginning. They never budged off of anything until a little bit this time. But, you
045know And to be clear, the village council has not seen or voted on this thing we're voting on today? Correct. I mean, I'm assuming it was shared with them, but, you know, I didn't share it with them. Yeah, I think we probably should be having this discussion at the item discussion item. I mean, we can add well, you guys will be around to have I mean, that's up to you, John, but I think that we probably need to And I figured, you know, I wasn't going to shut you up. I'd get into trouble. I'm always getting in trouble anyway. Okay, let's But let's make it short on the policies so we don't keep everybody waiting. All right? So, well, it's up to the superintendent to speak now. Thank you. I have a couple things and
046I'll be brief, but I'm going to start with 2 introductions. The first is the Southern Group's Kate DeLoach is going to give us a legislative wrap-up. So, Ms. DeLoach. All right. Well, thank you, everyone. I can't tell you how grateful I am to be here in person and not on Zoom land, as we have been for many, many weeks. But I wanted to take this opportunity I know most of you probably I don't know if you have heard this news, but we do have an addition to the Florida Keys office at the Southern Group, which is really exciting for me. Erin and I are joining forces again, and so Aaron will be working with me on all of our Florida Keys clients. And I'm excited to say we have another Monroe County Schools graduate working
047on the Monroe County Schools team. So I dragged Aaron up here with me to give me a little bit of support this evening. I think we all know who Erin is, but do you want to give her whole name? Sure. Hi everyone, my name is Erin Muir. I am a lifetime Florida Keys resident here, proud product of the Monroe County School System. I joined the Southern Group at the start of the year after spending my career in government and nonprofits, so I'm very excited to be able to work with you all. And now, you know, my life is coming full circle with my own kids in the school system. My daughter has been at PKS and my son just completed kindergarten roundup and is headed to PKS in August too. So really excited to be
048working with you all. Thank you, Sue. And we won't take up too much of your time today. We just wanted to, one, thank you again for the opportunity to represent you in Tallahassee. It was an interesting session. It was an extended session. I think when we finally came home, we had been through Special Session F, which is always a little bit longer than we usually plan to spend in Tallahassee. But as of today, the budget has officially been sent to the governor, so we should be seeing movement on that. I would expect this week that we'll see some development on that. So we wanted to take this chance. I'll be sending you all the full education silo budget analysis. It's pretty hefty. This is obviously one of the biggest areas of the budget in the
049state. So if after you get that you have any questions, please don't hesitate to reach out. But just a few things that we wanted to highlight. One was there is $200 million that has been allocated within the teacher salary increases, and the proviso in the budget this year actually stipulates that that $200 is directed to teachers with 10 years of experience or more. So it's not the full pot, but that $200 million is actually for those 10-plus years teachers, which was an interesting little proviso language at the last minute. Another issue that we've talked about before was the scholarship accountability issue, which obviously was a big topic during session. A bill was filed by Senator Gates. It actually passed the Senate, I want to say unanimously, but it did not pass the House. They were
050able to sort of incorporate some portions of the funding concerns into the final budget. So there are a few things there, including a $79 million allocation for districts with declining enrollment and $47.5 million to create a new education enrollment stabilization program to assist impacted districts. moving forward. Additionally in the budget, a little bit closer to home, were our budget projects. We were successful in getting $1.75 million for our Bruce Hall project. The Trumbo project was also funded at $5 million. And just a big shout-out to our delegation, to Rhett Mooney and Senator Rodriguez. This was a tough budget year, and the PECO list where Bruce Hall is is particularly tricky with the way that it's published, and they were both spectacular this year in making sure that even when it looked like something might fall
051out, they were always available 24 hours a day to make sure our projects stayed in. So always feel like we need to give them a big shout out for, for what they do up there. And then the last 2 things I wanted to highlight were just 2 bills that we've talked about before, both of which have been signed. One was the requirements for a standard high school diploma. That's one we'll work on over the summer. with the competitive dance team component. And then the other was SP 538, the Extracurricular Activities Bill. That's the bill that revises rules on funding eligibility and admin responsibilities for interscholastic and extracurriculars. That bill was also signed and is actually slated to be discussed by the Revenue Estimating Conference tomorrow. So we'll send you guys any additional information if that
052comes out from Tallahassee. But with that, we're happy to answer any questions, and hopefully we'll be able to report some good budget news, some final budget news in a few days. Maybe I have a question for you, Mr. Tierney. What's the plan? What's your kind of ideas about what we want to do to move forward on a platform? I know last year we wanted to do We just thought we would do it sooner. But I don't know if this is a good time for Kate to talk about what that process looks like or when that timeframe might be. I'll address that. I think going forward it helps us to codify what we'd like our legislative priorities to be in Tallahassee. That way it doesn't matter who goes because we're all going to have the same
053message to include any appropriations we'd seek. So Ms. Loach was very helpful this time talking to everybody to get those together, synthesizing them. Well, we were a little rushed this year, so we'll probably have either a workshop or retreat ahead of time to talk through that, but we'll end up with a similar product every time that the legislature is going into session. All right, great, thanks. And from a timing perspective, we do have a little bit of time this year. It will be a later session. We'll also have all new leadership new leadership in the governor's office, new leadership in the House, and new leadership in the Senate. So I think the summer will be a really good time for us to have that kind of platform discussion. Thank you guys so much. Have a
054great day. Thank you. Moving forward, when we hire new principals in Monroe County and I'm defining new principals as never having served in the role or not being a principal in Monroe County I'm going to ask that person to come and briefly address the board. So PKS has benefited from great leadership in recent history, and it was important to that community, to this community, to continue that. And we found we believe we found the perfect person in Ms. Maida Cort. So welcome. Thank you for being here. Hi. I'm here tonight to introduce myself. For those of you who may not know me, my name is Maida Cort. I'm going to read because I'm a little nervous. I'm not normally nervous. but y'all are pretty intimidating. For the past 9 years, I've had the distinct honor
055of serving as the assistant principal of the Plantation Keys school community, and I'm also a very proud local resident, and I'm also the mother of 4 Coral Shores graduates. And so all of that to say, my heart is completely invested in the Upper Keys. Today I stand before you with immense gratitude and honor to officially step into the role of the principal of Plantation Key School. First, I'd like to extend my deepest thanks to our retiring principal, Ms. Lisa Taylor. Along I have worked alongside Lisa for nearly a decade, and it has been a master class in leadership. She has left behind a profound legacy, and I'm incredibly grateful for her mentorship and her friendship. 9 years in the trenches will teach you everything you need to know about a school. I know our strengths
056because I have celebrated them in our classrooms. I know our challenges because I've worked alongside our dedicated teachers to solve them. But most importantly, I know our students. I know their names, I know their families, and I know their potential. And so this transition is not about starting over. Luckily, it's about leveling up. I can hit the ground running because I already know this building inside and out. Thank you for your trust and your partnership. Thank you for your shared commitment to our students' success, and I look forward to working with you closely as we lead Plantation Key School into its next great chapter. That's it. Thank you for coming. So there's 2 more things I have to cover. I'm gonna, I'm gonna cut my comments short because I know there's important business We have
057to get to, but there are 2 other things that I have to mention. The first is hard to believe, but my evaluation for the first year is due by August 1st, and that means by the 28th of July board meeting we have to have that done. So there's a meeting on the 21st and the 28th. I'm going to get the information that you need. I'm going to try to get it 2 weeks ahead, so to the 14th, so you have it for the 28th, so you have time to synthesize that. But I would just say it is time for you to start reflecting on that because as that will be here in no time. And the second is, a former superintendent of mine and mentor used to regularly say that public education is the genius
058of our democracy and graduation is its crown jewel. And he impressed that on high school principals, and I was a high school principal at the time, and his message was that it is incumbent on us to defend and protect the dignity and celebratory nature of that ceremony. And that remains with me. So I was so pleased and proud of the graduations that 3 high schools had in Monroe County. And I would like to thank the 3 high school principals for putting on such magnificent ceremonies. We did a video to commemorate that, and I'd also like to thank Mr. Damali Phipps for helping us with that, but I'm going to play that video to conclude my comments. [VIDEO PLAYING] Yeah, that concludes my comments. Very good. Board members, we'll start with you, Sue. You, you're talking
059a lot tonight. I loved the movie. Thank you for that. That's all my comment is. Anybody over here want to talk? Go ahead. I'm going to say what I have to say at the action item agenda. So it well, I got to say something. So anyway, I hope everybody celebrates the 4th of July with 250 years. And you know, summertime, 4th of July, America, it brings baseball, right? Not soccer. All these people with this soccer stuff. Baseball. Now I like wrestling too, but it wasn't in my, you know, but baseball was important. See, I, maybe around the 4th of July, well no, that would always be the All-Star Game, But sometime in July, back when I was a kid, I'd see the Dodgers play in Ebbets Field. Those were great days. Well, anyway, I hope
060everybody really celebrates and be very glad. See, I got my tie on for America and be very glad for being in the United States and being in Florida and being in Monroe County because this is a fantastic place. If we could only just get a damn baseball field done. All right. Anyway, Ed, can you just thank Damali for us, for the whole from the whole board to him, for agreeing? I certainly will. Thank you. No, that's fine. Yeah, okay. So, and open up for the, workshop no, it's the public hearing on the, what do we call those stamp things? Policies. The policies. Yeah, I don't remember the policies. So do we have anybody here to speak to the policies? Ed, do you want to speak to the policies? Okay, good. Well, I wasn't going to
061listen this time either. All right. And what about board members? On the policies relative to policy? It's human resource policies. Sometimes the more you say, the worse it is. Okay, there's nobody here to speak to any policies. Okay, does anybody on the board want to speak to them? Does anybody from the district want to present anything on any of them? These are working with Neola and to update policies that require updating. All right. So with that, I'm going to close the hearing on the policies and reconvene to the board meeting. And we have an action item number 1, approval of the revised license agreement. I recommend the board approve the revised license agreement with Islamorada, Village of Islands, Florida, for construction of a baseball field at Founders Park. So moved. Second. Discussion? Yes. So here's
062my problem. We keep getting documents from lawyers. Quite frankly, I'm not happy with any of the ones we've been receiving. I don't feel like any of the documents we've received are protect the students, the baseball team, and the school district. We keep arguing over money, but ultimately the money we are spending is not just village taxpayer money, but also Monroe County people money. And I can't In good conscience continue to put money in a project where I feel the village doesn't want to give us the guarantees that we need to spend that kind of money. I love the project. If it were up to me, we'd do the whole project. I've said this before, I wouldn't want to limit it to just the baseball field. I understand, because we want to get this done sooner
063rather than later. That people are willing to pare down the project, and I'm fine with that. But just because we're spending $4 million instead of $6 million doesn't mean that we can't be guaranteed that we'll keep the field, that we'll hold on to it, that it'll be kept in good repair when it's not within school district time of use. So for instance, the village maintains ownership when it's not baseball season. There's no provision in there for Island Morada as a village to take care of the field. And there's no provision in there for any kind of inspection to make sure that we're not getting the field for our kids in bad repair and then being asked to fix it because now it's our 6 months. There's a long list, honestly, of issues I have even
064with the pared-down version of the license agreement. There's nothing I want more than to give baseball exactly what it needs. I'd give them more if that were easy to do, but I just can't. I can't agree to this. What I would agree to is having the village and the school district sit down in a meeting in the sunshine so that. Everybody's talking to one another, and it's not lawyers throwing agreements at each other, because that's the way I feel it is right now. I know our lawyer takes a lot of input from all of us, but he can't put everybody's input in the agreement, and I'm sure it's the same thing for the village lawyer. So my preference is there would be a joint meeting. We could come to some agreement. I will say, as
065far as Baseball is concerned. I went to the construction meeting on Monday, and it shouldn't take less than three months to get the turf field in. So there's no reason why, even if the fencing wasn't done and the dugouts weren't finished, they couldn't have a great field to play on for this upcoming season. But I can't throw money at a project. without having a license agreement that I'm comfortable with. And so for me, I'd love to amend the action item agenda, and I'm not sure how we would do that, but I'd like it to be us agreeing to meet with the village, and then the village can hopefully have something on their next agenda, and we can do something as quickly afterwards as possible. So I am not going to, vote for this license agreement
066as it currently stands, and I'm not going to change what I believe again just to give the village something else to change. So I'm going to be a no vote. Board Member Conn, if you want to offer a friendly amendment after everyone has a chance to talk. That's the time to do it. Thank you. Then I'm done. I would like nothing more than to pass this today, but for me, there's, you know, as Mrs. Conn mentioned, we are responsible for taxpayer dollars, and they're all of Monroe County's taxpayer dollars. It isn't just, you know, limited residents whose money we're spending. So for me, I would like to see one that agreement changed to at least five years because it's hard to invest four million dollars with the possibility that we're gone in three. And secondly,
067I'd like to see the amortization schedule equal with the the lifetime of the turf. I mean, if we're still left with you know valuable time, then that has value. So to me, we're still leaving money on the table at the end of eight years. And we're asked to leave, we're still putting taxpayer dollars out without any guarantee that our kids can still use it. So if, you know, the board is willing to amend that item with those provisions for me, that seems to work. My last concern I did find, which was at the end of the lifespan of the turf, the maintenance part of it, I just want to make sure that we're going to have to come back in and redo the turf and The whatever repairs Doug I may need, which could be
068in the millions again since we're spending four in you know 2026. Lord knows where it'll be in ten or fifteen more years. I just want to make sure that there's a provision in there that we will revisit the negotiation for an amortization schedule for the money we invest. You know, ten, fifteen years from now when it's time to do those improvements. I just want to make sure that we are good shepherds of taxpayer dollars. That's all. And believe me, more than anything, all I would like to do is to give those kids. Exactly what they deserve, and for me, there's no kid. Doesn't matter where the child is, which school they attend. I want every kid to have the best that we can possibly provide for them, and I think we all want the same
069thing. So let's just find a way to make it happen. So you know we keep we we were told today that the easiest thing is for us to just. Agree to the 5-0 license agreement from the village, and that agreement was written without any input from the school district. So when that was approved in January, I believe, I felt that that was the opening salvo for. Negotiating. Since that time, the relationship from what I've seen, the perceived relationship of the school board and the Village of Islamorada has gone from being co-partners, 2 government agencies working together through an ILA for a responsible use of tax dollars to the good of everyone in the community to we're the renters and they're the landlords and we should just agree to the 5-0 vote because we're renters. We're
070not renters. We are 2 government agencies. So some of the confusion when we had our retreat when was that, February? and we went line by line through the document and came up with what would be our return salvo on the negotiation, you know, it was like, we're not going to listen to any of those things. We're going to go back to the 5.0. And even today Right. You know, we're being told that they want to go back to the 5-0. I mean, this is for ultimately maybe $8 million that the school district is going to invest on a piece of property that, you know, we have an ILA that just from a year or so ago saying that as long as we all cooperate, we can use it for 40 years. But now we're being
071told that, you know, it's their way or the highway, that we can get kicked out at different times, that there's an amortization that goes to zero when there is still tremendous value in the field. And, you know, I'd like to just sit here and talk about the kids. I would like to just Do the field. I would like to move forward with that, and I would be willing to follow, Ms. Talbott's amendments to bringing a return salvo to the Village Council for real consideration. And we have not yet heard what the disagreements from the Village Council are with our terms. We've only heard that they don't want them at all. And so I would like I would like to I would be willing to vote for those amendments to this licensing agreement with the understanding
072then that if there was not an agreement to That document that we could have, as Ms. Conn said, a very structured meeting to vote on the areas where there's differences. But I don't want to come back for a meeting after we've said what we want with an idea of we just want the 5-0 because there's no reason for us to go to that meeting. We need to know that there's going to be negotiation between 2 governing bodies. I mean, we're I love Founders Park and I and that baseball field is a bit of an embarrassment right now. And we're willing to make it fantastic. But it has to be a joint effort. It has to be in the spirit of the ILA, which is that we are equal bodies working together. You have the land;
073we have the money. We're going to do something really great for the community. That's what it's been from the very beginning, and I don't know where the hookups have all gotten. And if, and honestly, I I really wish we could just get it negotiated the way the ILA lays it out. That it is. supposed to be between the superintendent and the village manager, but it appears that we get no feedback. We put out our salvo and then we just hear, no, we don't want that. We don't hear why we don't why these things are not good, which things you might be able to work on, which are not. So anyway, that's where I am. Well, originally we as The plans were we were going to build the whole stadium and press box, and because of
074the bickering back and forth and the time schedule to get it done in time for baseball season, it's now pared down. And if we stall it even further, we're going to miss that opportunity. And I personally am willing to go forward on this tonight. And approve it with their changes. Again, I think people can't understand why anybody would think we would spend money and not have some guarantee that we'd be there. I mean, it just how could I do it? I mean, it's just crazy. So that's our problem has been that all along. And I think if we Dirk give us the right language on that. What we want is I mean, I want more than 8 years. I gotta tell you, I'm looking for 15 or 20. You know, I mean, we're gonna baseball's
075gonna be around. It's gonna be around. You're gonna have a team, and that's where they're gonna play. Again, we've been looking, you know, as this thing became more and more of a problem, we've been looking for alternative places to do it. There's really not a lot of choices around here. What about the Mets? So, you know, you're going to put them really into a big bind or we'd wind up doing something in the back and it's not going to be as good as somebody's going to get hurt in it, meaning the track will lose something or somebody's going to lose some or everybody's going to lose a little bit to the different sports we put back there. So really we need to get this in Founders Park and we need to, you know, scheduling a
076joint meeting, you know, could be a problem, could take time, people are away. If we could get them to approve that they don't throw us out of that place, we'll spend the money. We'll spend the money as soon as possible and get this thing done. But, you know, realistically, I cannot approve that we will spend that money with the possibility that we'd be thrown out. Now, you know, and even the council members and the board members. First of all, I'm going to be unemployed in a couple of months, so I'm going to join these 2 characters. So, you know, but anyway, but and the Isla Morada board is going to be different. This board is going to be different. So we really need to protect the school district and the taxpayers' money. Mr. Mayor, Because
077it's money. Yes, some of it's coming out of Isle of Marada taxpayers. A lot more is coming out of other areas. So but that's the way it is. We want to get this thing done. And so I would like if Dirk you could give something that would satisfy Miss Talbott and Miss Conn as best we can and Miss Dr. I would send that to them. Let everybody know. I don't know what they're saying, why we're what we're doing that's holding it up. Let's let everybody know it's because we want proof that we'll stay there. That's it. That's all it is to me. I have a list that's a bit longer than Mrs. Talbott's, and my issues are with I'm okay with the 10 years and the decline. My issue is with the material breach because
078that breach only applies to us. It doesn't apply to the village. They want final input pre-design, which I'm totally happy to do, but once we have a final design, I'm not willing to change it. The 2 the 3-year termination notice, even if 5 years doesn't satisfy me. Because we're looking at 10 years for a turf field and more than that for the other things. They want the right to approve the contractor even though the contractor is insured, is allowed under school district and government requirements, and then only if their withdrawal is unreasonable but it doesn't say what unreasonable is. So is unreasonable we shouldn't have a Key West company building something in the Upper Keys? That could be unreasonable. That's language that's in this license agreement. There's no provision for inspection at all at the
079end of the village use before We take it on as a baseball field, and I'd be happy to have that provision apply to us as well, but there's nothing in there about that either. And I'm super nervous about on the fly here today coming up with a new agreement that we all agree on and sending it to the village again to either agree or disagree. And if we don't propose right now and make an agreement as a board here today saying to them that we are willing to meet, then they don't have to make that decision at their next meeting. And that's what's going to postpone. Because if at their next meeting they look at the changes we want to make and say, I like this one, I don't like that one, I'm not willing
080to change anything, we are back at square one. And that has been my issue all along. What's been happening is that we keep giving them things. We're like, this is our final best, and they keep saying no, and then we come back and rewrite everything. I'm not doing that anymore. I'm not going to change the agreement on the fly, and the only way I'm going to pass something is if we are going to agree to meet with them because it needs to be in the sunshine. The discussion between the board and the village needs to happen so everybody can hear what everybody's saying. And even if I 100% had the belief that everybody on this current board was never going to do any of these things to us, the board changes every 2 years. Doesn't
081matter. And 2 years is not enough of a guarantee for me to put $4 million taxpayer money in a project. And I also don't think we should pass a GMP without a license agreement. So I'm going to be the very, I guess, hated one tonight, but I'm no on everything unless it's to have a meeting where we have a very specific agenda on a very specific project. That's certainly something we should be able to agree upon at the very least. before a joint meeting, but that's where my votes are going. Is it possible to wait, I'm sorry. Is it possible if you were talking about going to 5 years, but to go to 10 years if we make amendments here? Yvette, would you if we're making a Sending something over that could potentially be approved.
082I think hearing John, 10 years would be what he would want. We believe that the field is going to be still valuable at 10 years. So without a major breach of some kind, that we would be able to stay in the, you know, guaranteed to staying in the field and for 10 years and then a you know, as I don't even know how to say that, but that's what Yeah, that is proposed by Mrs. Talbott, or simple enough to make for the notice provision. It's 2 provisions, so that could be changed. I can do it on the screen for everyone to see if you guys would bear with me. Same thing with the early termination provision from 8 to 10 years, that's simple enough as well, and I can do it up there. I think
083probably the best way to go is that if there is going to be any recommended changes to the license agreement, that each change just be by individual motion. So Why would we have a 10-year agreement for a 40-year ILA? Why would we have what? A 10-year agreement when the ILA says 40 years. It's all right. And that 10 years is only the life of the turf. The life of all the fencing and the buildings and the other things that we're doing in order to make the field great has a longer shelf life than 10 years. And that's only one of the many provisions that I find concerning as an attorney. And it's unfortunate that Darren had his financial his family emergency, because as a fellow attorney, I would hope that he would see some of
084the same problems that I do. And I kind of feel like I'm left swinging here on my own, and there's just no chance without us as a district being protected that I want to postpone again in the hopes that the village will give us something. thing, finishing our founders' project. If the village turned down what we're proposing here tonight, there would be no sense in ever meeting with them 5 on 5, because there's no way I would back off of the not having the security of being in that park. So I think she's sending it to them, and if If they turn it down, then it's over, and then we have to build it in the back. I would say let's do that. I think if we had there would be no reason to have
085a 5-on-5 meeting if we all agree. But if it turns out that there are specific parts of the agreement where we don't get agreement on, that would be the reason. And we would need to know what those were before we held a meeting, and we would need to meet on those things, not move the bar, change the thing, just vote on the things that still need to be discussed. We're now going to sit here for the 3rd time to come up with an agreement that we're giving the village in the hopes that maybe they'll agree, when in fact what they gave us is less than what we asked for. And I'm tired of doing it. Well, if they do it again, it's over. Go ahead. Okay, so there was no motion? We have a motion
086and a second, and we have who moved and who seconded? The item is on the floor, but no motion for an amendment. Right. Right. So Sue, you were the movant? What? You were the movant? I made the motion, yeah. Okay, you can amend your motion if you wish. I'm the only one who can amend it? We need a motion to amend that will be voted on. Okay, I want a motion to amend to Increase the guaranteed time on the field to 10 years or whatever the kick-out date. And to what else do I want, Yvette? What's part 2? The amortization schedule. So these go the length of the useful life of the turf. Yeah, but in this case, if we have a 10-year thing, then You can show it up there. Yeah, put it up
087there. Do it up there. This way she'll say, we'll go with that. I've got it up there. It's up there. In the folder? No, it's displayed. It's ready to go. Just hit that Word icon at the bottom. This is going to be slow because I'm going to read everything paragraph by paragraph again for the 4th time. Okay, so at this point, don't any of the motions to Yeah, but he's going to make it official what they so he needs to second the amended motion. You want to only change those 2 things in the license agreement? I said at this time the motion is to change those 2 things. It won't be if you would like to amend it in a separate motion, we can do that for you. So again, I think it would probably
088be cleaner to do it one section at a time. So the first one, if I'm hearing everybody right, would be motion to amend Section 3B, changing the non-renewal period from 36 months to 5 years. We have a 40-year ILA. Why would we do anything less than But there is a separate help. That's the problem. There are so many paragraphs in here that address more than one thing at a time. We want that for 10, not for 5. I thought she said 10. I said 10. We want that for 10 years, not 5. I don't think it should be 10 years. I think it should be longer. So this is just providing the notice of non-renewal. So this is saying that when the optional renewal periods come up, they have the ability to give 3 years
089advance notice saying we're not invoking the renewal option. So I heard that being as 5 years. Okay, that's so at 5 years they could say, at 10 years So it correct, correct. They'd have to give you a 5-year 5 years you have to be out. They'd have to give you a 5-year heads-up to terminate the agreement. 5 years from date 2 of the life of the agreement. So if they say they want us out, then you're talking 5 years, not so I want to see 10 years. I wanted to see that no matter what happens, we're there for 10 years. Except by mutual agreement. I mean, if we want out and they want out, that's, that's a different story. I agree with that. But as long as we can't be thrown out in 10 years
090from the day we start working on it, that's all I want. Whether how if they wanted This actually Whatever they tell us that they want us out, you know, so I would hope I hope they give us some sort of a warning in 10 years. They say yeah, I don't care if they give us a 3-year warning on it. If I could show you a little bit just to maybe clarify. So it's set up as a 20-year initial period with 2 10-year renewals that are automatic unless they give the 3-year heads up. And that kind of just ties into the termination provision at the end, which, you know, basically says that either party may terminate at any time. upon 3 years advance notice. It's not as simple as looking at just one paragraph. That's not
091how the license agreement works. Well, right here. We'd have to go paragraph by paragraph like we did at the first retreat that we sent the village on this and make sure that It's all stated the way that we feel is safe. And if you guys want to do it now, it's , I have no problem. I'll stay here until if that's what it takes. But I am not going to on the fly do a paragraph here and a word there, and I can't even imagine our lawyers would let us do that. Yeah. Just as I understood Ms. Talbott's comment, it would be changing this to 5 years, so they have to give a 5-year heads up to terminate the agreement at any time. It would be the same as the previous provision I was just
092at, which would be 5 years before really doesn't matter, it's the same because it's 5 years either way. And then as far as the termination, that would go from So 8 to 10 years, right? That's, that's what I understood Mrs. Talbott's comment to be. Okay, that's fine. But Hunter, that means that we move in and day 2 they tell us they're giving us notice, we only have 5 years. What we're looking for is to stay a minimum of 10 to through the and I don't know why anyone would disagree with that. So in that instance If they, you know, if you approved it today, they terminated tomorrow, then the early termination schedule would be about at about 50%. So they'd have to make a payment of about $2 million, give or take, if they were
093to do that. I think what we are discussing is having the security of knowing we're there for a minimum of 10 years, right, before we can be removed. At that point, we've used the lifespan of our turf and, you know, 50% of our investment. That probably would be more of a structural amendment because the way that, you know, termination provisions are set up now and stuff. I mean, I could definitely rework that here, but it's going to take me a little bit of time. Okay. And I don't mean to speak for everyone, but I believe that's what I'm hearing. Yeah. 10 years. That is, we'd like to have an assurance that we make this investment, that we will not be terminated before the minimum of 10 years, even though we have a 40-year thing. Yeah.
094That's what I want to see, guaranteed that no matter as far as when they tell us ahead of time, that's not all that important. important. I guess a couple of years, you don't want to be 9 and a half years and then somebody comes and say, hey, you got to get out, you know. Okay, then what I would need to know after So I want to make a motion to postpone our decision on the floor. Address the chair. What motion are you seeking? If we're gonna try and amend this, I don't want to do this on the I think that we should all give our input and have something different written. And if that's what the board members feel that they want to do, then I guess we postpone it again. I don't know, but
095I tried not to. Are you making a motion to postpone? I am. That's a higher order motion, so it needs to be considered before action. If you get a second, that is. Then I make that motion. Is there a second? Is there a second? Then I'll second that so we can have a conversation. Okay, converse. So discussion-wise, my concern is that we're going to try and fix what's a lengthy multi-page agreement with paragraphs that refer to different things and overlap in many ways, looking quickly at a meeting And I have more than 2 concerns. And so I just don't feel comfortable from a legal perspective deciding on something that quickly. So that's why I made the motion. Any other discussion? You're talking about a postponement, but are you suggesting that we air our concerns here,
096you go back and rewrite this, and then we revisit it again, and it won't happen before their, their meeting unless we have some sort of emergency meeting? I understand the time constraints. Is that what we're talking about, and is that possible? Their next meeting is the 7th, so yeah, I mean, it'd be an exceedingly fast turnaround. Yeah, I mean, as far as the 10-year provision you're talking about, that would be that would change the structure of the agreement and be a little more substantive. I can definitely do that tonight if everyone's happy to sit around and wait. But, for what it's worth, that wasn't included in the previously board-approved March agreement, so that would be something new. Just like the village keeps coming back with new stuff, not to mention the fact that they want
097us to indemnify them no matter what happens and when. I mean, there's so much in here that I find problematic, and I just don't see how nobody else thinks that's a problem. And we agreed at the last time we discussed this that once we approved a price, that we were going to hold to that price. But this new license agreement says even after the price, they can make changes. And there's no inspection on their part required when they're done with the field. So if they have a giant event like the Founders Nautical Market and something happens to the field, it's our problem. And just, just to clarify, based on this license agreement, just to clarify on that point, There is provisions in there that if they, you know, if either side uses a field that
098doesn't comply with the, you know, specs and warranty, that they're responsible for that damage. And then as far as the maintenance, it's contemplated that the school district is responsible for year-round. So school district always has its eyes on it, and then the village just pays for the cost of that maintenance during the time that they have the field. But who's inspecting it and when? Well, I mean, whoever's doing maintenance for the district. So the district's going to be on Founders Park property year-round taking care of the field? Yeah, that's what it does right now. That would be a question for Mr. LaFere, but I'm not sure how often maintenance workers would be out there doing We don't do anything on the field right now, is We are in the process of taking over the maintenance
099of the field year-round to have one team working on it and then working out compensation with the village. And price changes? What's unreasonable and where is that defined? There's a provision in there currently that says if they, they make any changes to the planes in their ownership capacity, that they're responsible for that price increase, if that's what you're referring to. Say that again. Let me give me one second. I'll pull it up here. So it's this section here. I can certainly read it out if you'd like Yes. But it's essentially saying that the school board is responsible for all costs related to the construction and renovation of the baseball field, except in the event that the Village in its property ownership capacity objects and recommends changes to the submittals, which is the, you know, design
100documents and what have you, that the Village is responsible for the costs, fees, and expenses associated And then what about their denial of our contractor? I mean, I think the language is that it can't be unreasonably withheld. That's the unreasonable part. Yeah, I mean, I'm not aware of anyone having issues with the contractor, but I will go to the language. And I thought they were responsible. I had a discussion with that they would be responsible, for instance, if the during the seafood festival or whatever they had, the nautical market, that if they had like a grease truck, you know, somebody cooking and the grease got on there, that they would be responsible for fixing that. Yes, there's language to that effect in there, and I'll scroll down with it if Mrs. Conn's done with this
101section I have up there now. What are we on? The contractor. This is the contractor about I know your understanding is they have no problem, but if they have no problem, why is this paragraph in the agreement? It's just what they requested. Exactly. Here's the provision you're requesting, Mr. Dick. It's use of artificial turf. Says, licensor and licensee shall not permit the baseball field to be used in contravention to any applicable specifications, warranties, and, or manufacturer instructions. And the parties shall be solely responsible for all damage caused by such prohibited use, and that licensees shall provide licensor with a copy of the applicable specifications, warranties, and/or manufacturer instructions. So we covered on a couple of these points already. As far as the contractor, they to me, I don't believe they're going to, you know, say
102that our contractor is no good. They have to have a real No solid reason. Then why have it in there? Well, you know, they wanted it there. I'm not going to fight over it. They're not going to be unreasonable, and they're fine with our contractor. We don't need it in the agreement. And then once we pass this, we still have to come up with a use agreement. Well, to me, the use agreement is a calendar. It's my understanding If it were a calendar, then we wouldn't need it because there's a calendar in here. We get it from January to No, the use agreement is essentially a calendar. I would hope that the baseball people would nod their head if that is the case. It's a calendar of what year, what the date that's that the
103practice starts, which days we have games, when we're expecting to be finished with the season. That is what the use agreement in the past has been. Yes, Hunter, can we get back to the contractor? Yeah, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, no, finish. Just thinking about that, the contractor is there some is there a deadline? Like, if they have an issue with our contractor, what is the time frame on that? At what point? Because if we don't get moving on that shortly, we'll never make a deadline anyway. They have 60 days. We've already We have, right? The, yeah, so it, it mainly talks about 60 days as for the periods for approval by the village. You know, I spoke with the village's attorney and, you know, let them know that time is of the essence as far
104as that goes. And I spoke with Pat as well so that if If this were to be approved tonight, we would get those submittals over to the village so that they could hopefully approve any and all of their submittals by the July meeting. Do you have any idea why that stipulation is in there? I mean, the contractor that was chosen is licensed, bonded, has built an airport and many, many other things, has insurance. What would be a reasonable objection? I mean, I think this is a, you know, a lot is a creature of what this original agreement was back then. Let's take it out. Remove it. Let's remove it. The peanut gallery over here. All right, remove that. Let's get the 10 years in. We don't even need to come up with something. Let's just
105remove the whole paragraph. I think we do have a motion to postpone first, so. That's true. That is true. Okay. Again, I'm happy to I'm happy to amend all that. Discussion on the motion I get a dispose of the motion to postpone unless there's more discussion on the motion to postpone. Is there any further discussion? Call the roll. What are we voting on? Motion to postpone. [CALLING ROLL] Motion. So the motion fails. All right, let's get back to the motion that okay, that with the adjustments. And you want to add you want to add removing the contract clause where they have the right to I want to amend my original motion to Whatever it was, to include whatever paragraph. Why don't we do this? Wait, wait. Why don't we do this? Go through it all.
106Go through it all. No. Okay. And when you do the edits on the fly like this, go through it all and then move to adopt it as edited. That's the cleanest way. We've addressed a lot of your issues, right? Do all your changes. My original. Then I need to withdraw my amendment. Yes. Motion and and. So my new motion is to make edits here as best as we can and And then move forward with that to be adopted. And readopt the amended motion. So withdraw your prior motion. I'd like to withdraw my prior motion. And whoever seconded, withdraw your second. I withdraw my second. And then I would like to make a motion to Wait, wait, wait. Don't you want to go through So you want to go through it first, make all your changes,
107and then move to adopt it as amended? Yes. So the contract Yeah, yeah. Okay, so go through your changes now. Get rid of that one where they have to approve the contract. What? Do, do we want to start at the beginning and work through it, or do you want me to just jump around as you guys point something out? I would like to start at the beginning and work through so we don't miss anything. Certainly, certainly. You know, I'm feeling the room and we all kind of feel it that way too. We have no idea what provisions we're talking about now. That's why we're here. I'm feeling the room. We have no idea because we have heard nothing about whether these things would be approved or not when we have presented to you guys before.
108In fact, we've heard that they are that no one is interested in improving it. And we heard tonight from public speakers that public speakers didn't want to approve this. So we're going to try to improve this. I'm sorry. So it is agreeable to everyone on our side with an idea that we will send that to the village and see what parts they will are willing to approve. And if there are sticking points on some parts, then we'll come back in an agenda meeting with both groups to discuss those sticking points. The parts we agree on, we'll just agree on. Are there any proposed changes to the recital section? No. Okay, hearing none, on to paragraph 1, grant of license and use. I imagine the first one we have is or sorry, I wish I could
109see this as a single page. There we go. Okay. Anything for paragraph 1, grant of license and use? I guess that's my question. It states there its hours from January 1st to May 31st. So what's the use agreement, if that is an agreement for the use of the baseball field? I believe it's really just a calendar. I think this is as I understand it, this is essentially Okay. Am I good to move to the next section? Yes. Okay. On to the next section, which is number 2, license fee. I don't imagine that there's any changes there. Okay. On to Section 3 term, we have the initial use term and renewal options. Well, this is a part I want to look at. Yeah, so again, this is really just saying that it's a 20-year initial period
110starting on July 7th with 2 automatic renewals for 10 years each. And it just gives the village the option to, just basically rescind the renewal on 3 years' notice. Really, it's, it's kind of just extra language. The, the point I would like to get across here is that the termination provision is really the main one to look at, and that is the one that just says they can terminate at any time on 3 years' notice. Yeah, the initial use term is fine. I don't like the language regarding provided in the other paragraphs because I'm not happy with the other paragraphs. So that's my only issue with the initial use term. Like, it's referencing the other paragraphs that everybody on the board wants to change. The other paragraph. So how about this? How, how many years
111advance notice would this board like either party to be required to provide? I believe 5 was what you guys approved in March, just for reference. 5 years notice after the 10-year mark, right? We have to have 10 years. I don't care that You're mixing the notice with the time. We have to get 10 years. Now, if they're going to throw us out, I don't care if it's 1 or 2 years. It's got to well, it's got to be probably more than a year. But why would they tell us if we sign the thing today and we're starting on 10 years, do you really think that they would come to us the next year and say, we want you out. And so whether it's 5 years, I mean, 5 years, if it's 5 years, it's going
112to be a different council that said that'll be sitting when, when the 5 years is up and they might change their mind. It's just as long as we have 10 years, I don't care how long they give us to tell us, as long as we have 10 Right. In there, that they cannot take us out. Okay. That would probably be addressed in the termination provision, but again right. That's where it's going to be, not here. Right. Right. But just as far as, you know, assuming the, you know, 10 years passes without a hitch, what do we want for the advance notice? Are you guys okay with 3 years, or do you want it to be 5 years? I think we need 5 years to build a baseball field somewhere else. Yeah. The ILA says what?
113The original this I thought we were changing from 5 to 3 to make it to align it to the original ILA. Is that is my memory incorrect? Well, the license agreement that the village passed in January was 2 years, and then This board went to 5 years in the version that you guys passed in March, so I think 3 years is kind of just a middle ground. I think 3 is okay. We need 5 years to rebuild and find another property. So we want 5 years. We want it at 5. 5 years' notice. 60 months. If you do the math. Which means if we're here 10 years and at that the end of 10 years they say we want you out, we have another 5 years. Right. But they cannot so if they wanted to
114throw us out the earliest possible, they would have to, 5 years into it, say to us, we want you out in 5 years. Right? That's the dirt. That's what I want, that we are guaranteed 10 years. I mean, if you're reading the law The initial term is 20 years. Yeah, but we have to renew it. Right. I imagine the way I imagine that is just revising the termination provision, just putting language in there that you know says something to the effect of after a period of ten years, the parties can terminate at any time upon five years advance notice. Basically, that's that's what I imagine we will do when we get to that section. I'd love to get to twenty years, but whatever somebody's got something up their sleeve that they want to do. This
115section isn't really where you're focused. This section here, if you read it. there it's a 20-year term that can be terminated with 36 months' notice. So it says license not material upon the expiration of the initial period, which is 20 years, it should be automatically extended upon the same terms and conditions for up to 2 additional 10-year periods unless the licensor delivers written notice 5 years in advance. So what that says to me, and I'm trying to make sure I'm reading it right, Is the 20 years is ours. But they could throw us out. They could give you a termination. Well, that's a different section. Get rid of that. This section says 20 years is ours, provided they give us 36 months or 60 months notice, whatever. So the initial term is 20 years. The
116real problem is the termination section, correct? Yes. Correct. Okay, so But we do want the 60 months in the renewal. Fine. Right. But your initial period is 20 years. Right. But whenever they don't renew, we still have to find and build another baseball field, and we need 5 years for that. So that would be 60 months. If the term with this 20 years, they could still the way it is written now, they could throw us out. That's, not this section. The termination section is where you want to focus on. For this section, I think the 3 years is okay. 20 years, 5 years notice. And the 5 years' notice applies to the not initial term. It applies to the 2nd and 3rd renewals. Right, exactly. So your issue is going to come at the termination
117session, not here. I think the fee renewal options, in my opinion, it should be 60 months. Yeah. I think we this is like the one thing that we have Compromised on through negotiations is the 5 and the 2, and we are going back to 5, so we are sort of doing the same thing that we were saying was happening before. So if that is a sticking point, you know, I mean It is a sticking point for me because we have been what is essentially bargaining against ourselves. We keep giving them new options and new proposals. if I may take a little straw poll. If it's 10 years initial guaranteed, what is each of yours' vote on a 3-year notice of termination? This is 20 years initial guarantee, right? Right. You guys suggested 10. Okay. Again,
118just stick with me on the concept, not the language for now, for purposes of this. So if you get it in there that you have 10 years guaranteed use of the field, how much advance notice do you want after that? What is everybody what's it whether it's 3 or 5? I'm at 5 simply because there's no way for us to build a new baseball field without 5 years. That's the only reason I'm at 5. You're at 5, you bet. I'll go with 5. Leave it at 5. Ok. All right. Well, I think we can move on to the next section then, which is construction and renovation of improvements. Any suggested edits as far as A or B, since they are what fit on the screen right now? So one of the things I've been hearing
119is about bleachers. So I guess my question is, are we fine just not adding bleachers to the baseball field? My understanding is that bleachers aren't a part of this phase of construction. I understand that, but one of the Ron, don't be rude, please. You said bleachers were one of the big problems, so now bleachers are no longer an issue on the field? I said the placement of the bleachers in the plan with the stadium were an issue. So it's not about the safety or the number of bleachers that are currently there? Once we my understanding is once we build bleachers, we have to build bathrooms. That's what happened with Tommy Roberts. So if we leave the bleachers, we can't do the bleachers without the bathroom. So it makes sense for the bleachers to come in
120as the amenities later. Okay. Move on. How about 4C? Okay. Going back to improvements, we are solely responsible for and shall have sole discretion to determine when the improvements are in need of modification, renovation, and, or replacement. So that is not a village option? Because I'm fine with that. That's correct. Okay. Move on. I don't I just, you know, logistically, because this is a narrowed-down license agreement to just this baseball field and because we have a time constraint, I, you know, I wonder if we should go from If it's reasonable to go from 60 to 30 days so that we can get the plan the approvals done in a timely manner. You know what, you don't need to put it in there. Okay. We'll just encourage Everybody wants things done as fast as possible. Okay.
121That's fine. I don't think we need to write that out. Okay. Contractor, I believe I believe the request was to delete that section. Is that correct? Yep. Get rid of it. You can do that right now with the magic. Track changes. I sure am, Pat. So has the village already had their required Or optional right to review the design in an open public meeting. Have they done that already? I do not personally know that. That's their thing. Village manager is here. Did you already have an open meeting on the design? I'm asking. Is he not allowed to talk, if I may ask? The chair has to recognize him. Yeah, I will recognize Ron Saunders, Village Manager, but let's keep that to a minimum. Go ahead, Ron. Just asking the one question. What was the question?
122In Paragraph C, approved plans, there's a paragraph, second paragraph, saying that the village shall at its sole option have the right to review the designs at an open public meeting or workshop and to solicit community input in the designs. Has that been done? Because that affects whether or not I'm going to approve the GMP. I believe this language was put in there when we were looking at the concession building. Now that the building is no longer in consideration, I don't think that's applicable. Our building officials have already been meeting with the contractor. And by the way, just for the record, we have no objection to Keystar. I assume that's the contractor you're talking about. We have no problem with Keystar, and we've been working with them already. I've already we've already kind of pre-approved the
123plans for the field and the fence and the dugout. I think this language is more applicable to The building where we want to input. We don't need the building we don't need input on the field. So if you take out the public meeting, I think we would be fine with that. Let's remove those paragraphs. Thank you, Ron. Is that consistent with what you're we're requesting? Removal of the paragraph starting with the word prior. I think you can get rid of the whole paragraph. Right. Anything for performance or construction liens? Just a quick question. We've already noticed them with Keystar. That's taken place, so we've met paragraph D. D is deleted. Okay, so that's the one we took out. Yep. Right. Okay. Performance. So everything's 60 days, but are we hoping or assuming that it won't
124take 60 days? We're just giving them 60 days for everything? Because 2 months, 2 months, 2 months, 2 months, and wear it next year for the baseball field? You know, quite frankly, the village attorney I met with on this was not their usual attorney, John Quick. It was a different one. So I don't know how in tune they were with what was going on. They were insistent on this language. But, you know, I think, I think it's just good faith that everyone's moving as fast as possible on this. Okay. So let's go to the early termination payment. Aye. Okay. Everybody's good with standards of construction and comply with applicable law? I am. Anybody else? Everybody's fine. Okay. Early termination payment. This one you got to write correct. We're going to need an amortization amount based
125on different things. If we're going to do the turf field to the 10 years that it's warranted for, because the other buildings have much longer lives. And this one says 8 years. It doesn't even do the life of the baseball field. Right. Okay, so what is the period of years you would like to go off of? Well, that's what I'm saying. 10 years is fine for me for the turf field, but it shouldn't necessarily be for the other improvements 10 years. Or if they want to make it easy and make it one number, then we need to figure out what the life of the fencing, the dugout, and all the improvements are. Well, we can leave that at the 20 years. Okay. So this is going to 10 years? 20. Okay. So is that kind
126of like a buyout provision? So then When they own all of our improvements, it wouldn't matter because then they've essentially bought them from us? Because J Improvements says they get to keep and own everything. And I don't have a problem with that as long as Right. That's how it always was. I mean, this the concept of this early termination period, The payment was really just to ensure use of the field for a certain amount of time and, you know, disincentivize. So you'll fix Exhibit A according to the 20-year decision by the board? Yeah, I'll do that at the end. That'll take me a few more minutes. But are we good to move on from here? Yep. Improvements, ADA, access for inspection. Any, any comments? Let me just quickly read the access for inspection. So what
127exactly are we indemnifying the village for in that paragraph? Basically, in the event hazardous substances are discovered I think it's basically implying that in the event you start digging up stuff and it's, you know, hazardous or something, that, you know, You're responsible for dealing with that hazard. So if hazard conditions currently exist at Founders Park, we're responsible for paying for any problems that arise from those hazardous conditions that are preexisting? Well, I mean, the way I read it is it's, it's saying basically if you discover it, you're not, you're not obligated to remove it, but whatever you did disturb or partially excavate, you got to deal with, right? And, you know, part of what was in here was a requirement that the school board does a Phase 1 environmental study prior to commencing construction. I
128received direction to remove that. So, you know, that would So is nobody doing the environmental study? Not to my knowledge, no. Well, then we should be splitting the cost of any hazardous conditions at the very least. I think they own them, not us. They own them, not us. That's not what this says, though. This says the licensee. That's us. So it's indemnification. For all costs relating to inspections in connection with the property. Licensee hereby indemnifies and holds the licensor harmless. If licensee discovers hazardous substance as a result of inspection, blah, blah, blah, then the licensee shall also be responsible for the removal, remediation, disposal, et cetera, et cetera. Right. So, before they do construction, they're going to test the soil, right? No. That was a that was a provision. I thought there was an environmental
129study there was some sort of an environmental inspection that had to be done. That's correct. There was What does that do then? At the end of this sentence, it did say that, you know, licensee, the school board, will do a Phase 1 environmental study prior to commencing construction. Right. I received a request to delete that provision. If you guys want to add it back in, The village had requested that provision be included, so Well, I mean, if it should be inspected, and if there's something wrong, well, that can put the squash on the whole thing. I mean, if there's something wrong with the ground, I mean, nothing's going to happen afterwards. I mean, you know, I don't want to see us, you know, doing the job and then somebody comes along and checks the soil
130and says there's oil here or something. I mean, the my understanding, I thought the environmental study would check that because what else is there to check other than the ground? Right. I don't personally have any issue with it being included. The only thing I would check maybe is how that may affect the timing of things. Pat, if you want to speak to that at all. Well, we would get it done, you know, Fine. We'll just do it. I mean, do the environmental study. If there's something wrong, we're not going to do anything there. So we requested to have the Phase I removed. We typically only do Phase I any environmental site assessments at locations where we know we have contamination. We have no indication of any contamination at Founders Park. So we asked for it
131to be removed in the interest of time. So let's take out the power line. Indemnification paragraph, then. I agree. Yeah, then take it out. I mean, if you don't want to do it, then take it out. Yep. Take it out. Sounds good. All right. Notices of commencement, cost of design and construction, governmental approval, joiner. I'm all the way on insurance requirements for construction contracts. Anybody have anything for Section 5? Nope. Nope. I don't think anybody's going to have anything but me. Any comments for Section 6, Compliance with Governmental Procedures? No. I'm on Move on. Maintenance of Improvements, which is 8. Okay, it's up there. So here's my issue with maintenance of improvements. We're maintaining it even when it's in village control, so we're paying our people. How's that working? Yeah, so the school district maintains
132the field year-round. And for the, you know, period of time that the village has use of the field, they pay for the cost of that, the maintenance that occurs during that period of time. So they'll pay some fee to us for our maintenance people to take care of it? Correct. Okay, move on. And same thing, utilities, only for the period in which we're Yeah, I mean, it's mentioned in the maintenance and improvement section, but it, you know, says it includes utility consumption in that kind of same general category. Thank you. Going down to 11. All right, it's up there. So no matter when the damage occurs, it's our responsibility to fix it in these minor and major damage paragraphs? Right. The thought was to just keep it consistent with the maintenance where we would, you
133know, deal with restoring the property, removing debris, what have you. But the cost is just basically equally split for anything not covered by insurance because, you know, both the parties would have And which paragraph references that we're splitting that? The second sentence in 11. It says, licensor and licensee shall bear Equally bear the cost. Okay, sorry, I missed that. That's why I don't like doing it quickly. It's okay. All right, termination. Can you fix this? I'm not a lawyer. I am a doctor, by the way. Can you fix this? Can you fix this by just saying after the initial 20-year period, the agreement can be terminated by either party by either giving written notice. And it'll be five instead of three. Yeah. As in legally, does that work if we say you know following the
134initial twenty-year period termination could occur after that with five years notice? Five-year notice. Yeah, I certainly can craft some language to that effect. I so we're not going with ten years anymore, just to be clear. Just go with the initial. 20 is what we put at the top, so 20 is what we want a paragraph to be consistent. It's 20 in the top and 20 down here. But the termination still allows them with notice 5 years. It's 5 years. So then we're not guaranteed the 10 after the term, after the first after the 20 years. Yeah, she said there's my point. After the initial, put that in after the initial. That's what you put that in this, in this paragraph after the initial term. So you're guaranteeing 20 years. All right, will do. So you're
135saying we can't terminate people now? I didn't say that. I know, but for 5 years. In termination, if we're going to give them 60 days, If we have 60 days for everything, we should have at least 60 days to remove our tangible property upon termination. Yes, putting in after the initial term. After the initial term? Of 20 years, 5-year notice. That's what we're putting in. Okay. Unless you want to do 10. No, I'm good with 1. And can you explain the counterparts, paragraph 14? Yeah, I mean, the way I understand is that you can sign essentially 2 different documents, and as long as they're the same document, everybody has Okay, that's what that means. Thank you. Is it upon or following or after? Is it is it I mean, upon Yeah, of the initial period.
136That's it. Okay, I'm done. You wanted this to be 5 years as well, correct? Yeah. Thank God we're almost done. Sir? If I want to postpone the GMP until we come to the license agreement, does that happen before the GMP? If you have something to approve of the license agreement, then you read the item first. Right, but I know you can move on to approve it. Is everybody good with this section? Yep. Move on. All right. Dr. Walchanski, you have anything further? I would like to make a motion. Okay, make the motion. That we Amend the license agreement as How about this? Let me take a stab at it for you. Go ahead, Dirk. That you would make a motion to approve the edited version now just done on the record. Okay. As modified here
137on the screen live. All right. I'm going to make a motion that we approve the The edited version of the licensing agreement that we just agreed that we just discussed. Second. Yes, as portrayed by Hunter's document on the screen. Did you do the amortization schedule? Working on it now. It's going to take me a minute. Okay. 20 years. The motion is premature then. Okay. And how do we incorporate if they don't agree with this document to have that meeting? How does that get done? That's a separate thing. That's a cover letter. Okay. Yeah. So we don't have to agree on that here? I hear what you're saying. Okay. I think we'd agreed on that. I guess we'll see. It's gonna take him a while. Yep. And now you have to reread it as written to
138make sure that it's I mean, we're gonna be able to save it and distribute it. Okay. I'd say now is the time to go to the restroom. I was thinking about that too. I can't wait. Excuse me. It's so funny. I'm gonna run out of room on this piece of paper. Yeah, you are. Those are your important notes. I think I've got to go from circles to squares now. See, Louie, this is what you're gonna do, you know. Now that it's complete, I'd like to make the same motion. Yeah, I need a second. Second the motion as per the changes discussed by this board during discussion. And live edited. And live edited, assuming review at a later time. Roll call. [CALLING ROLL] Motion passes. I recommend the board approve Resolution 2026-002 titled A resolution of
139the School Board of Monroe County, Florida, approving the guaranteed maximum price from Keystar Incorporated for Founders Park baseball improvements contingent upon village approval and providing for an effective date. So moved. I'll make a second, but I also want to have some discussion. Even though we know it's contingent, I think we should postpone this motion until the village Agrees on the license agreement, because we have a meeting 2 days after that. It literally would take up no extra time. We have a meeting on the 11th of July? On the 9th. No, we don't. If you're seeking postpone, that's a higher order motion, so you have to dispose of that first. Okay, when's our next meeting? You'll need a second. July 21st. Any discussion on the motion to postpone? Call the roll. Ms. Talbott. Just the GMP.
140I understand. It's too late to go back to discussion? No, on the motion, you can discuss anything. I didn't know. She started to call the rules. I didn't know where we were in the process. Okay. No, I was asking for discussion. I understand. Okay. I just I guess I'm not aware of what the pro and con is to the postponement. For me, it would just be that it's possible that they're not going to agree to the license agreement, then we're going to have a meeting, and then maybe there's something else we need. And we've already voted on a GMP. Just the order of things makes me uncomfortable. The contingency makes me less uncomfortable, but I personally would rather vote for a GMP when I know that we have a license. But it's contingent upon their
141approval, correct? Yes. So there's no purpose I can see. I'm just speaking out loud, I guess, for my own vote in the postponement. So, okay. Thank you. Okay. Call the roll now. [CALLING ROLL] Okay, back to the original motion. We don't have to restate it, correct? No, sir, it's on the floor now that the higher-order motion has been disposed of. Okay, any discussion? Call the roll. [CALLING ROLL] Motion passes. I recommend the board approve Personnel Recommendations Addendum 2. So moved. Second. That was your right, Dr. Walchanski, you pulled this. No. Okay, any discussion? Any no votes? Hearing none, the personnel recommendations are approved. I recommend the board approve 2026-2027 contract renewal with Amendment 3 of 3 with Amira Learning LLC. So moved. Second. The reason I wanted to bring this up is Amira is a
142someone can correct me if I'm wrong, but it is a science of reading program that the school has the district has found success in. I don't I'm going to vote for this, but Amira uses Yes. And the other one is AI chatbots that are cartoon avatars that speak to children. They don't write it. And there are many parents who are concerned about the use of that kind of chatbot. And as I discussed with Mr. Tierney, before the start of the school year, I'd like us to figure out a way to make people aware that there are these and to allow parents to opt out of the chatbot portion of the program if they choose to. So it's nothing that has to do here, but I think there's a lot of concerns right now about AI
143and screen time, especially with really young children, and we need to work on a program that will allow to, you know, get all the advantages of these programs without their parents being concerned that they're gonna have the negative effects of AI chatbots, which are kind of in the news now? I'll address that. So it's 3 of 3. We have been pleased with this program and seen documented success. It's an adaptive program. So adaptive tests, they become harder or easier based on the answer given. This is an adaptive program that changes based on what the students read to this AI bot. So it's a closed system. There's a lot of safeguards in place, but I do understand the concern and support parents' right to know about it. So there is a white paper that the company
144gave us that we can disseminate to parents. The this interactive portion is a critical part of this program, so we can't turn that portion off. But if a parent didn't want their child exposed to it, we would find another way to support the reading. Thank you very much. So if there's no further discussion, are there any no votes on this item? Hearing none, motion is approved. At this time, we, we can say the meeting's over.