001Good afternoon. I now call to order the Tuesday, June 10th, 2025 3 p.m. school board workshop. Uh please rise for a moment of silence followed by the pledge of allegiance and the national anthem. Please join me in the national the pledge of allegiance. I pledge algiance 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. Oh, say can you see by the dawn early light so proudly we twing who bright stars through the lights for the grand we were so Now let me stream and the rock is red [Music] through the night as our flag was still there. Oh say that stars spangle better yet for the land of the free and the home of the [Applause]
002[Music] Thank If you please be seated. Okay, we'll move on to roll call. Starting at the end of the table, Lauren RmIrez present. Jenny Ry present. Derek Mars Christy Chong Will Furry Moore and we have uh Superintendent Moore uh on virtual today along with some additional staff who are at a conference. Um and um so we will uh move forward to additions uh or changes to the agenda. Are there any additions or changes, superintendent more? No, I do not have any. Okay. Uh then I'd like a motion to adopt the agenda as printed. Motion to approve. Motion by Mr. Bars. Second. Second by Vice Chair Chong. All in favor? I opposed. hearing. None, we will move forward with today's agenda. So, that leads us to public comment. Um, do we have anybody sign up for
003public comment? No, there's not. Okay. So, we will close public comment and move on to uh finance consent. Uh 7.01. Um we have a request for board approval of Imagine Charter School Financials. And uh do we have um Miss Warmarmac on online? Yes, I am on. Yes. Okay. Good afternoon, Chairman Furry, board members and superintendent more. I will be able to take any questions on finance consent at this time. Okay. So, uh for imagine, are there any um questions or concerns for the financials there? There was a question brought up by uh Mr. ready earlier today that I have reached out to the regional finance director. It's regarding um the capital outlay on page two and once I get a response I will be sure to um update all of you. I do believe I
004need to get a corrected statement from him. Okay. Thank you. We look forward to that. Are there any other questions or comments on this agenda item? Hearing none, we will move forward with 7.02. Uh this is a board approval of purchase orders over 10,000. Just just to be clear on the Howard Industries, can someone just give me an overview of uh that one? Um what that's what that's for. I'm assuming that's for uh computers, which uh can you tell me the vendor name again? Uh Howard Industries Industries. I'm sorry. Is that on this one? Oh, yeah. There it is. That is um sales tax. It's for 32 tablets. Uh it's it's actually a total of 150. It's for 32 tablets or also referred to as notebooks. For who? It's computer tablets, which is also referred
005to as notebooks. Okay. It's um actual carts that carry all the tablets as well. Okay. Thank you. All right. You're welcome. Any other uh there carts that carry the tablets? Probably like a charging cart. They store the the tablets in and for 32 in little storage spaces I guess you would say. How many do we get? Right. Is it 32? 150 total. 150. They hold 32 tablets per cart. Per 150 of them. Got it. Thank you. All right. If there are any other questions, we'll move on to 7.03. uh vendor payments. Um I did have a question uh that I think Mr. Bush can provide some context to regarding the $900,000 plus that uh was provided to 4C's trucking and excavation. Yes, I would let Mr. Bush um explain that. I know he did email
006earlier about that. Yes, I did email. I'm not sure if you did receive that. Um, so there was a couple things that happened. One of the major things that the lighting in the front parking lot, we we had problems with that that went back to the factory. So, there was a long time of them trying to figure out what was going to be the resolution and some of their fixes we were not okay with. Um so 4C's was not um they were working with us and did not want to build that until even though it really was not their responsibility. It was under the project them being that main one. So that's one of the reasons and then with ODPS and the close out paperwork and documents and things just took a little bit longer
007than it normally does. But that was the reason why there was a 10-month delay between one payout to the to the final payout. Okay. So, you're saying, so just to give context, this is in relation to the parking lot improvements at FPC. That's correct. And that um there was a payout 10 months ago for part of the work, but some of it was withheld because of final requests from your team. And even though those items were light related and maybe not the equivalent of $900,000, that that chunk of money was held until we were satisfied. And because 4C's employed, I'm assuming subcontractors, they took ownership to fix that before that payment was made. Yes, ma'am. Okay. Gotcha. Thank you so much. Thank you. Yes. Okay. Any others on vendor payments? All right. So, we'll move
008on to 7.04. Uh, this is for deletion of inventories. Uh, long list this time here. So, we got a bus going to be auctioned. All right. So, um then we'll move on to 7.05, approval of uh finance budget amendments. I I think I would love to have Miss uh Warmek just speak to the adjustments on here uh from the third calculation to provide um and educate us uh around where those came from, why those are negative amounts and what the overall impact to our finances are due to those. Okay. So, sure. So um I do have a calculation that I can send you all for a better visual. This is the net effect of the third C. When the budget is first done in the first conference report, the scholarship vouchers are included in that
009as well as the um holdback funds that they do to try to protect the school district to make sure they don't overspend. So in the third C the scholarship vouchers come out of our revenue which is part of that large number there the 11 million the total was about 14 million. Um and when you net out the discretionary piece of it that's how you get the net amount. Um there's also other things involved there as our revenue changes. There's a few categoricals and there's still mental health, safe schools, um class size reduction. As those are reduced, we have to reduce the revenue as well. Also, the expense side of it, as we have to include the scholarship revenue, we also have to include the scholarship expense when we do the budget because we know we're
010going to lose that money, but if we don't include the expense in the original budget, it's going to understate our expenses. So the result of what you're seeing here primarily is the impact of scholarships on both revenue and the expense side of it. This is to get our revenue back in our revenue and expense back in line. Um as you'll see on our district financials, the um actual FBFP revenue is now more in line once we take the scholarship funds out. Thank you so much for that context. You're welcome. Great. Any other questions on this agenda item? Hearing none, we'll move on to 7.06, approval of district financial statement. There aren't any um questions or concern. We'll move on to uh request board approval for the 202526 tenative trim calendar. I will state that um
011this trim calendar has to follow a very strict timetable from the department of revenue. in trying to schedule the meetings. I believe I was able to get every single public hearing and budget meeting on a Tuesday where we already had board meetings. The only thing that may change on this tenative um timetable would be the time. Once um we are able to meet again in senior cabinet next week, uh I will go with the superintendent and firm up the times to make sure I've left enough time in between board meetings. Other than that, every Tuesday meeting uh will fall on on a board meeting date. So there's no additional days where these meetings have to be scheduled outside of our normal meetings. Okay. All right. So, um, hearing no questions or concerns on this one,
012that will close out, uh, finance consent. Thank you, Miss Wack. Thank you. Now we'll move on to, uh, academic services. Um, request approval for Flaggler Youth Orchestra 9.01. And we have Mr. Jeff Reeds. Welcome. Welcome. Good afternoon, Chair Murray, board members, Superintendent Moore. Uh before we have a few items for us today. Uh beginning with Player Youth Orchestra. Uh this is going into our third year of our new alignment and the contracts are before you. There is one edit that's being made. Miss Ray pointed out to me that uh everyone would like to have Mrs. Burke's contract is $1,83 per hour. It's actually per month. That is being corrected. I'll be that once once she signs that'll be updated. I'll tell my references not to call you again anymore. Good catch. Okay. And um have
013have we how have they been doing with uh the fundraising um to to to cover their side of the They've done well. they've lived within their means as well as far as both utilizing the resources from the district but also raising their monies through the program. We've increased ticket prices last year, this year for them by $2. They hadn't been raised in years to more closely line and reflect what's actually happening and it did not impact their their attendance at all. They they've done an exceptional job and averaging about 200 students per year in the program. uh we did uh work with Miss Warmarmac worked to uh as budget constraints we did reduce their budget by 4% along like everybody else did and we worked it out what I did with uh Dr. Loose who
014was the executive director of it and alliance so we can continue to provide our services for our students in a little more cost-effective manner. Okay. And when will we I I don't know uh when will we see sort of the the uh the financial update of the program? Is that plan to come back before us at any time? We can certainly arrange for that. Okay. I just like to see how uh since we brought it in under the teaching and learning um how it it's been progressing and how the the fundraising and finances are uh flowing. Absolutely. We take care of that. Mr. I would recommend that probably comes sometime in July after which in July or August after all the expenses are through for the fiscal year. Yeah, self contracts for June 30th. That's
015per I'd prefer to see a complete picture. So that would be great. Thank you, Miss Hormet. Thank you. Any other questions about FY? No. Okay. So, we'll move on uh to 9.02 and this is a request for approval of University of Florida and Flagger School dual enrollment articulation agreement. This this is the continuation of the agreement uh with two options to us and we're doing a shorter version to it just to attach an amendment to the document to extend it for two years. Uh we've been doing this now uh since Mr. Tega was our superintendent and each school was allotted 10 student slots and almost every year those slots are filled and our students get to experience the dual enrollment opportunity with the University of Florida. There's been no real changes to the contract as
016far as cost or any of issues for that. So, this is just a continuation for two years. Okay. No, no cost. No additional cost. That's what I'm saying. Sorry. Is that like remote? Just curious. Yes, ma'am. All right. So, uh we will now move on to 9.03 03 requesting approval for the 2025 2026 Daytona State College and Flacker School dual enrollment articulation agreement. And this again is a continuation of our agreement with them. This we do ours annually with DSC. Uh there's no major changes uh to the program as well. Uh no additional costs. It's a combination of both virtual and face toface. Uh just a couple things. did some minor tweaking to some language of the names of programs that they've changed on their side of it, but there's no reflection or change for
017us on our side of that. Um, there's two appendixes, A and B. Uh, A is the equivalency of updating the sheets, and we don't get that from the state until like July or August. And once we have that, that'll be uploaded into the documentation. It happens every year for us and with every other college uh from the state. Uh PennXB, the only change that that did come up from them was that if we were to lose our employee, our flagger schools employee who was administering uh the DSSE courses on our campuses, if for whatever reason they were to leave, then and we didn't have someone to back them up, then they would revert to DSC's as far as the instructional component of that. But Miss Bosch, I work closely on it to make sure that
018we have that our principles have people on our campuses to back that up so they stay on our our campus with our teachers. Very good. So then we'll move on to 9.04. This is student travel consent for field trip. It is the FPC show. This time we have six field trips uh total. Four for sports and two for SBA. H. All right, board. If there's no other um questions on this agenda item, we'll move on to 9.05. Our last item is an opportunity for uh Scott Reynolds, our coordinator of assessment accountability. He is also the president for uh FCTM and is going to the national conference with them this year and it's a great opportunity for us to send our staff to experience like we did Miss Alves and others to extend and have those
019opportunities for growth to bring back to our district. It is at no cost to the district. There it is. And uh so if there aren't any other questions on that, we will close act out academic services. Thank you. Excellent. Thank you, Mr. Okay. So, we will go on to operational services uh consent 10.01 proportionate chair mitigation and we have Miss Deina with us today. Thank you. Good afternoon, Chair. Doing my day free as possible. Thank you, Mr. And um today I bring with um to you the proportionate share agreement for um seminal palms phases two and three. We've already had um mitigation for phases one and four. This one's the second and third phase. They have 292 units in the project and um it's expected to generate 64 students. Um we don't have any capacity
020in the high school or ele um middle school. So they're going to mitigate for 39 student stations and that's about $1.43 million. Um it's going to be spaced out in three um direct payments to the district. Um three 30% payments of $425,100 every payment. The first payment starts um 60 days after the um final plat 21 months after the second one and then um 42 months after. Um normally they do prepay um at the rate they build. So if they build if they have if they build faster then they prepay. Um the last amount the 10% is um paid directly to the city um in the course of business of applying for building permits. The overall was 1.4 million. Yes sir. Um it's um based on the DOE um cost factor. What you said earlier
021that this mitigation know they were doing middle school there wasn't room. That's the first time that's been brought up in a mitigation. So can you clarify that a little bit? Um normally our capacity is districtwide. We um review concurrency districtwide. So um if there is no capacity at one school level, let's say elementary, then we look at the rest of the district, the elementary schools. Um in high school and middle school, we don't have any capacity at all. So that's why um they are mitigating for each student station. We do have um a middle school or and a and or a high school in our 5-year work plan in 2029 2030 in design. So um those monies are going towards that. Okay. No, I just the reason why I I you know we getting different
022um timelines on when that middle school or high school might be and you know it's got it's been five then it's 10 and now it's sounding like you're saying five again. So I guess that there's uh yes the well the our work plan the five-year work plan is um it's a matter of it's kind of like a moving target with so as the numbers keep changing we're always just you know but but so are we looking now more are we looking at five years out for for a middle school now again that is the plan in the program we um it depends of it right we do have the funds if we do have the funds. Okay, great. Thank you for that clarification. But can I just a because I thought the last meeting I
023heard 10 years and then so it is five years and it's if we have the plan or the the money I don't think there would be a concrete number as I think it's very fluid right now enrollments right and the enrollments are have been flattened which kind of puts it on the ball and based on our the five-year plan the capital plan and the work plan I mean we've we've been at five years Um, last year was five years. It's still at five years. I'm not sure where the the 10 years came in. Um, I haven't heard that one. I have seven. Well, and and that may be as far as opening because what we're when we're talking five years, we're talking about our plans to start building, which then would take two to three
024years depending on what that would be. So, I guess Well, I think it has something to do with the with our enrollment numbers. um you know being that a lot of the reduction in enrollment was actually in well in this in it was in high school it wasn't in in the elementary or middle school so that would make sense that the middle school would come sooner than a high school that those numbers are correct but as I know this is this this is a fluid oh yes and and you know and I guess the hardest thing is that you know we can't my understanding in the time that I've been on the board is that you know we we can't build the schools until we the need is there. So we can't build an a
025school and correct and and then fill it up. We have to have the need and then build it. So the it's a time crunch, right? And and again, you know, I'll be bringing the five-year capital plan to you all sometime around in July and then the work plan will be in October after the count. So I mean, I don't see that that changing at where we're at with the numbers right now. um or however you know it would be nice if we enrollment would would increase. So and you know and that could h you know this is just the beginning of the you know I think we're feeling the the the the beginning of the of the vouchers taking the full impact and you know we just don't know how parents and students are going
026to respond to their new choices. You know they they could say you know what this it was fun to try this out but you know what it's not for me and let's let's send them back to 500 schools. So, I think we're going to really keep a close eye on on those numbers for sure. So, um how are you when you have a transfer of leadership at a a school and um you have an established five-year uh capital improvement plan? How do you um typically because we have some transfers and some uh changes happening specifically Matanzis with Miss Boseman. So how do you then um sit down to get the new vision of the uh new administration coming in but also you know reconcile what was previously requested. Um well I'll try to meet with
027them but we do have facility meetings monthly where the super my supervisor they meet with the sta their staff there go over if there's any needs different than maybe what is on the five-year plan. We also have a project request form. So, if there's something that they're wanting that may that's not been captured on the 5-year plan, then we ask them to fill that out. Um, what does that look like? How, you know, what is the urgency of that? And then we have to look at funding. So, the current plan doesn't get scrapped. It's just like let's evaluate it and you can start adding your items to it. Gotcha. Unless the new administration were to look at something and say, I don't feel that that's as important as this. I would like this to move
028to the right. So, it would have to be a pretty big um correct. So, but that again is us working with each administration um at that facility and what their wants, needs, etc. And and beginning last year, what we've also done when we hire a new principal is uh Marcus schedules each department in a rotation very similar to the onboarding that you folks had where each department goes through the the top topics. Gotcha. Yes. Um with regard to the um agreements and the impact fees here, are you still seeing that the numbers are pretty much holding true and these developments are coming in in terms of the number of students coming to our schools? They are coming in but um where they're going to is um the growth is more towards the private the private
029schools because of the vouchers. Um we do have meetings with other school planners and um the consensus is um within five to six years the the absorption rate of the absorption in private schools will reach a plateau and then um the growth will come back to the public schools. So are these developers um asking for adjustments in the impact fees because of that or no? right now no just because we don't have it will have to be based on a another review of the impact fees but right now what we have now is in place I don't know if um because we we still have that um over capacity in the high schools and the middle schools and how often are those impact fees evaluated it's every year or if there's a no the student
030generation rate is um reviewed every year but that's um in concert with um sometimes with the impact fee review right now um normally a review of the impact fees would be by directive of the board oh change uh yeah because you know when was the last time the impact fees were evaluated then 22. It sounds about right. Okay. Um, okay. Last question. Uh, sorry. Um, have you noticed uh, and I'm not sure if you have this information. Uh, I think Dave might be the one who typically keeps his finger on the pulse of that. In terms of the number of applications for future developments, has that started to slow? I've heard rumors that the housing industry or sales this is we're now seeing more um supply than demand. So is that slowing at all or
031No, it's still it's stable. Um we're receiving at least um one or two um request for concurrency review and um reserve capacity um one or two per month. Wow. Okay. Some one is sometimes a non-binding which means they're still exploring just curious the u potential of that development and what it means to what the impact is to our capacity and if there's going to be mitigation that's involved. Normally, if there's mitigation, they look at um how much it's going to cost them. And sometimes they do change their models. Sure. And and um some of these that we that we approve here, you know, they they they could they could wait, you know, 5 10 years to even start the project, right? Typically, or or are they ready to break ground usually when it gets to
032us? um when it gets to us that um before final PL like for example um seminal palms was the it the last mitigation agreement was in 2023 so that was probably in 2022 or 2023 that they were approved so it takes a while right so it's like just because they come before us that it could still be years before the first um house is built yes before they go through but isn't this one already like because I live over there So this is where they already cleared all that land and there's like they've done the the like the water system and everything the phase one and the phase four has already gone ahead. So they have the utilities there. Okay. So about a two years between they decide to build start to pay and now
033they've established the the underground infrastructure in which they're probably starting to do those houses. I see. Okay. Okay. Any other questions? Until they start 3D printing, right? It'll be interesting to see if that comes to Flagger County. Extrude it. Yeah. All right. Uh All right. Thank you very much. Appreciate it. Bob, you're going to stay with us, right? Yes. All right. So, we're going to go on to human resource service consent and uh 11.01 uh student teacher uh affiliation agreement with uh St. Petersburg College. Okay. Um, first thing, the one with St. Petersburg College, we have already uh approved. So, there's a little mix up here in that this one is for UCF. Um, which I've actually had our um district attorney take a look at. So, this is not the one that will be
034presented for UCF. I'll be presenting that one at the next board meeting. Okay. So, 11.01 will has has been presented or will present. Okay. So, SPC has already been presented and approved. Um, and this one here, there's kind of a mix up. And this is one for UCF. So, it's titled just wrong. They're all the same. Yeah. But this one is uh this is this is one that we will be presenting at the next meeting um because there are some changes. I had our district attorney take a look at it and he had some changes on there and so the updated version of the agreement with UCF will be presented at the next meeting. Okay. So, we're talking about 11.02. Then we're now we're talking about 11.0. Oh, that'll come to the to the 100
035p.m. workshop before our next business meeting. Is that what you're saying? Okay, great. Okay. All right. So then point 2 is the one with UF. Mhm. Okay. So Oh, I understand what you're saying. So 11.01 was just Okay. Now it was just titled wrong. We're still reviewing 11.02. 11.01, but we will review 11.02 because this one has been vetted by our district attorney. uh we have already made the necessary adjustments to it and now we just need approval from the board and so in 11.2 to this is a flagger schools has the opportunity to establish a partnership with University of Florida under which UF students may participate in teaching internships, practicums and classroom observations at schools located in Flagler County School District. The partnership will support the professional development of future educators and serve as
036a strategic initiative to recruit highly qualified teachers to the district. uh what we will be required to provide is um we'll be assigning students to school sites and so that will be our purview to figure out what schools these students will be uh working at. Uh additionally we'll provide that supervision. Um UF will provide us the evaluation forms for which we'll be evaluating those students based upon the criteria that's established by UF. Is there any um you know we may get students or we may not. Is that how that potentially would work? It's not like we're guaranteed a certain amount of students or anything like that. So, typically when a school has um students in our general area and they feel like we're going to be uh they're going to need our support, they'll reach
037out to us. So, for example, UF has a couple students that they feel will benefit from this partnership uh with Flaggo County Schools and they've already got a couple students that we'll need to provide some type of internship for. Um UCF as well. they feel like they've got a few students that as of April 1st they will need um a school or two to to place students for their further development because a lot of times they allow at the university level for their senior internships to go back home or where they'd want to be looking for their job. So this is actually good news when you know the bigger universities reach out means that somebody want probably wants to come home. That's what I was hoping for. Okay, great. Back in the day, you had
038to um when you uh were a student teacher, you had to be under the supervision of an established teacher, but that established teacher also had to have some sort of credential in order to have a student teacher under them. Is that still a thing? Do we have enough of those teachers around? We actually have a pretty good pipeline for clin better than some of the other districts. Uh so, um we have quite a few folks that are that are clin trained. Um in in addition to that though we also you know um of equal proportion is is is the mentor piece where um our alternative start folks uh we have a lot of the mentor piece uh folks as as well but Clintet is actually uh u luckily solid nice well this is very exciting
039especially since I think what was it last year the year before University of South Florida almost closed their whole educational preparation program so the fact that um maybe there's There's maybe a resurgence there. I don't I don't know. I don't know. Well, I'm like you. I always on page two for number nine, uh this the site background check. So, it states they do not perform background checks on students. Um however, we are able to is I'm assuming yes. I just want to just clarify like what background check will we be performing or oh, we will send them through our um background clearing process. um they're responsible for paying for the fees, but we'll send them through the same background process that we sent. So, if they were an employee, so those students even though so
040I figured I just wanted to see what because it says they don't require under the recent changes um beginning July 1 pretty much our volunteers, our interns and our employees are going to are lockep the same background process. Yes. I'm so glad. But there's a cost factor with that. Yeah. It's like $22 or or something or Well, the $22 is like a There's five, isn't it? 70 70 75 72 with with a 5year duration. Okay. And then it goes into the clearing house. So actually let's for our interns um yeah the these interns in fact will will definitely benefit from this because let's say they go through their internships here at Flaggler and then the attorneys can get hired by us they would not have to be um reclared because it's a 5-year clearance process.
041So yeah thank you. All right uh Bryce we have one last um thing here 11.01 01 um approval for personnel items for early stages of the uh personnel items. This will be the the larger one that we will include um once we get closer to the board date um all the reappoints. Okay. And so it will be a big one. And I um spoke with Miss Moore earlier. I was um uh encouraged to see some of the strategic thinking around um some of the con consolidation of certain rules in order to be more fiscally conservative um and meet our changing demands of the budget. Um and so some of those things that we spoke about at earlier meetings are taking place even though maybe it's not apparent right here um on the personnel changes. So,
042I'll be interested to see how that also it's a fine act, a fine balancing act because we want to also make sure that people have work life balance and they're not being overly um tasked but you know try to be responsible at the same time. So, absolutely. Okay. Any other questions on human resources? Right. Thank you, J. Appreciate it. Okay. Okay. So now uh that leads us to uh finance action item. This is permission to approve policy 716 authorized travel expense. And Mr. Warneck and attorney uh Spence Smith, thank you for being here. Um M who's leading that conversation? This was okay. I'll just add the intro and Mr. Smith can definitely answer any question. This was previously advertised um two months ago. Um, we got board permission to advertise. The 30 days has passed
043and now we are just asking for permission to adopt the policy. Uh, Mr. Smith had several conversations with board members prior to us advertising. So, if there are any questions at this time, uh, he will be able to answer them for you. Okay. I thought I was just having deja. No comments came in. No. Thanks. All right. Anything? No. Thank you. Thank you. Okay. So now uh that leads us to academic services action items and um so this is the uh FCA contract ratification. Um to minor error we we placed him on the academics. They should have been an HRM. Um this is the culminating uh work of the two bargaining committees. um the contract has been like combed through for all the errant edits and corrections and so it's going before the board for
044um ratification by you folks and I will add that both of these contracts have been ratified by the bar bargaining unit so they are now ready for um your approval and the FCA was uh over 70% yes and the FESA was at 84%. That's great. That's and as you know, these were both full books, so there was you a lot of lot of work. And I just want to I think make mention regarding to some of the faculty salaries, specifically the teacher salaries. I know a lot of times people focus on the percent increase which is you know under 3% but when combined with their step if you're making 55,000 that's a four over a 4% increase I know it doesn't keep cost up up to date with cost of inflation but that is actually
045endemic with pretty much all salary ranges even out in private sector business sector nobody's getting a 10 12% unless you're changing roles. So, uh I I I'm pleased that uh we were able to provide that. Um I'm uh hopeful that everybody can interprets that as looking at that salary increase together and not just what is the that that raise. Remember the raise also includes that that step. So, I think that's great and I really um uh I thank you Mr. San Filipo for walking me through the FESPA in the alignment of the salary bands. I think that was smart and also recognizes the extra certifications and um does what we can at this moment in time in order to um appropriately compensate individuals who hold certifications that will directly impact the work they're hired for.
046So, I think there's a lot of wins here for our faculty and staff, but again, all contracts are compromises. Uh, and you know, um, but I I think I really applaud the the work of everybody who worked on these as well as um the the unions and the representatives who are representing their constituents fairly and doing all this work. It's hard. It's hard. Yeah. Okay. Are there any questions on 16.01 or 16.02 for the ratification of these U contracts? Okay. So, that'll move us on to 16.03. All right. Thank you. You dropped something. Uh, Advent Health uh Palm Coast Project Searchou and we have Miss Holidayiday and Mr. Smith and uh do we have uh Dr. O'Brien online as well? You do. Okay. Very good. Good afternoon, chairman, board, superintendent. I'm here to um very
047excitedly share with you an updatedou with advent health help for our project search program. Project search, if you are not aware, is a program for our young people that have deferred their diploma and are seeking employment. It is held at our host site which is Advent Health and we collaborate with vocational rehabilitation employee view and Flagler school schools to help our young people move through a series of um a series of vocational training opportunities to find employment. Okay. Any questions for staff on this agenda item? Good opportunity. Yeah, good opportunity. All right. Thank you very much. Yeah, chair. Thank you. If I may, I just want to recognize um Advent Health um and this partnership. We just recently had the uh graduation of these students um from their work program there at Advent Health. And
048the amount of faculty that came to this graduation for these students was just overwhelming and they got so many different experiences. Um Dr. Holidayiday, if you would just briefly share um some of the experiences that our students had with this partnership. Um, so I just want to just recognize Advent Health for all that they do for our students um, and especially this program because they truly embraced our students and gave them a great opportunity. That is great. Thank you. Um, thank you for that. Our young people have been able to work through a variety of different um departments at Advent Health. And how it works is our young people do an interest inventory and then we match them with one of those departments. They've worked in food service there. They we have one young man
049who basically took over um the whole section on um laundry. Like he just took it over all by himself. It was not a real um he didn't need a lot of job training on that. So he he took his pad. He was able to go into all the rooms, get all the laundry, take it, take care of it, bring it back. Food service, they were putting together the meals for those folks that were in the hospital and also those um that were in the cafeteria. So that's two totally different rotations. We had one young man who was been offered a position with Advent. So we're very hopeful for that. But he is helping with with some um waste management work for them. all of them. Uh, as Miss Moore pointed out, it was it was
050a a wonderful experience having all of the different administrators join us for this graduation as well as the uh the leaders for each of the departments. I think that if they could have hired all of our our our students, they would have. Um, but they didn't. They they've got one or two. And one of our previous just for full, you know, to bring it all full circle for you, one of our previous project search students is now a mentor for our current class. So that's pretty wonderful. That is great. Just another example of the many pathways we have to success for our students. Yes. Thank you for all your work. Thank you. Thanks for that context. Thank you, Mr. Smith. Thank you. Don't go anywhere. I think you're next. Yeah, we still need you for
051we got knee fact coming up here in operational services and board chair I have asked um Miss Louise Boserad to join Mr. Um, attorney Smith for this topic. Very good. Welcome. Thank you. Um, so as you see before you, you have a renewal of our contract with NEC. It is broken into the various services that we have with NEC. And you can see the breakdown of the fees in the table below uh broken out by main contract, instructional services program, enterprise resour resource software, risk management, document archiving, virtual instruction. Do you have any questions at this time? Yeah. So there's been some discussion in the past on is it still advantageous for us to have this partnership. So if you could illuminate a little bit about like when we are let's say Skyward what is
052the cost savings for us to have this negotiated through NE effect versus us purchase purchasing those licenses which is you know essential for our our functioning as well as anything else that you feel maybe is advantageous for us to stay in this agreement with them. Well, so part of the benefit of being part of the consortium as a relatively small district, we don't always have the ability to hire all the personnel that would be required to support all the different areas in which they support. Um for example, in the previous agenda topic, uh the question came up about do we have the teachers who have the credentiing that's required in order to support um other teachers through NEC. We have the PLCP, which is the professional learning certification program. We have the ability to have
053uh clined training. So the train the trainer model that they've supported us for for several years in um grant support data visualizations that's under that instructional component. Um in the Skyward realm in addition to the hosting and helping secure our data and keeping with data privacy elements um they assist us with providing all the support anything that comes out from the DOE pushouts topics the just the help ticket system alone. Um, I can't tell you how many tickets we do submit to them. That might be something that ranges from, you know, the state just recently pushed out the seal of fine arts. So, it's developing the reports that come through there and all those other elements that we collectively as a consortium can put together, but independently would take additional manpower. So, while it might
054seem like an expense, um I don't necessarily I can't necessarily tell you the cost savings if we were to break apart from them, but the services that they provide to us are are invaluable at this point. And is there a different level of um partnership that you can have, for example, uh as we continue or grow, right? uh is it all or none or is it that you can partner with them for those particular um elements as oo but maybe break off in some other areas that might be more advantageous. So on that overall table with the program there are some pieces that we can restrict and pull back from. Um, for example, actually in the if if you'll go to I think it's around page um around page 13 or 14, it breaks down
055some of the pieces for the uh if you'll scroll down just a little bit further right in there um like the Skyward annual licensing fees. It includes in part B that RTI module. We're actually in discussions with NEPAC. We haven't used that component because we've outsourced and built something inhouse. So we no longer need that support piece. So that is something that we're asking for them to remove. So as we continue to find other elements that we don't really need them for, we are restricting some of those components down. Um a question did come up previously and I please understand I'm not an expert in risk management, but you've asked if we can parse some of those pieces off. Previously someone did ask on the board if um we were able to separate some of
056those components of risk management. It doesn't offer an alleart option. So it's a wholesale component and I'm sure uh Mr. Smith can speak. Do you know more about risk management? You know a lot more. That's exactly right. So like there's some technological pieces and other services to which you can you can excise if you're able to provide that yourself and and NEAT gives us that opportunity as it does to like all the other districts. But uh when it comes to the risk management piece, it's it's a all or nothing thing. Okay. Yeah. But it works out to our benefit, you know. How are are we one of the larger districts in in NEC? We are we are the largest or no we're one of the largest. I see. Do you know who the who the
057largest is by 82? Probably we are the largest. Behind us is um Nassau County behind Nassau is largest. I thought we were second. We were first. Gotcha. Yeah. I mean, it's a it's a valid point that we need to continue to evaluate, you know, that as we're, you know, as we're getting larger uh on when that breaking point is for us to be out on our own uh potentially from a from a cost differential, but um we are one of the larger ones compared to those counties besides Nassau for sure. Yeah. Right. Right. I mean just looking at these individual costs I mean clearly in time past this was a huge benefit to us but as we grow you know we just going to get uh see see the benefits of it financially and um
058Mr. Chair if I may um to Mr. uh attorney Smith's um point. Um when it comes to risk management, it still is definitely a benefit for us to be a part of the consortium. Um and we definitely need to, you know, continue to look at cost, but I want just also add the relational piece with NEC and being a part of the consortium to have a group of individuals um and districts as superintendent that can come that we can uh lean on um for different things. And so there are many things that come up throughout the year that we need support with. Um as Miss Foster stated that we can call NEC and they are able to support us with especially around our professional learning plan and the opportunities that we offer to our teachers.
059Okay. Yeah. And and and the value efficiency and operational services is definitely part of that weight, you know. So absolutely. But just something that it, you know, it it's come up before on in in previous uh boards, the previous boards and and this one. Yes. Or we're talking about it now. So I think and the question will probably come up again. So absolutely. But glad you're you guys are are are taking a pulse on that. So okay, any other questions on mute tech? Uh just a statement. So when um so when I was following the board, you know, like last year and year before they this came up a lot and um so I had a lot of questions with this more and then just different departments and I feel you know the pros outweigh
060the cons as of now. Also, I like and I really like how this document was, you know, it kind of shares like each little point, but just for like the public to know too, it really as of now from my like research and opinion and like just talking with different departments, it it does benefit us a lot. I know we're on the bigger end, so I'm curious when it we won't be in it anymore, but I feel like we're doing good things with what they can provide. Thank you for Thanks for that insight there, Mr. Mayor. Um any other questions? Okay. Thank you very much. Thank you. Okay. So, uh that leads us now to our uh final public comment opportunity of the meeting. Do we have anybody signed up for public comment? No, we
061don't. Okay. So, we will close uh public comment and um we will move on to board member requests. Are there any requests? Um, I just wanted to just remember or remind everyone, you know, so for public schools, you know, we're really trying to like share the wealth of our communication of all the great things we're doing. So, just keeping up on that communication tab of, you know, like why is Flaggler the one, all the great things that we hear that we're doing. I just just uh just requesting it again. Just making sure everyone I think we're doing a good job, but just getting the word out for the summertime when people are deciding about the previous board member request regarding the marketing materials. Like wondering when that's going to Yeah. So FSBA has like a
062toolkit and um it's free. Well, free meaning they it's it's all in one. Yeah, it's our it's included with our fees, right? Um, but I think summer would be a really great time to market as best as we can all the great things we're doing like the high school activities where students can, you know, take more classes at this college that, you know, you just I would love to see the communication aspect of the toolkit out there this summer so we can try to get more students that may want to start high school or middle school or elementary with us fresh. So, just piggybacking on my previous request. There may be more videos of baby. Yes, I think um I think all of the staff that was Yeah, I I think Mr. Dawn did a
063great job. I thought that was very do one with every staff member, you know, just just to just to tag on, you know, that since since I got on the board, I've been really trying to push out, you know, we need to get more creative with the way we market like other private enterprises do. And I thought that was a great venture into what everybody's expecting right now. And it got so I don't know how many views, 20,000 views. So, you know, as we want to to um uh keep the public and our parents aware of what the great things that we have here, we need to get more creative with our marketing like that. So, I and summer's the time. So, that's so that's my request just to focus on, you know, we had
064it on our list, but I think summertime this is when we need to shine and share all the good things each department has done. Like, why why this why this school? Why this school? And this is why and then let everyone know this summer so they can start with us in August. Okay. So, um the the board wants us to do more marketing. So, let's move that forward. Um anybody else have a board member request? I have um two. Um I would um like for the board to consider uh making adding the following transparency to our school choice process where we um align our school choice pro process with our district goals. Meaning obviously the first and foremost are the hardship um um uh school choice priority according to Florida statute. However, after that, prioritize
065u the maybe choice of unique academic programs as a reason why a school a student might want to choose a different uh u school from their home base. And then in research, while a student cannot be recruited to an athletic program, there's nothing precluding a student from choosing a school based upon athletics. And if we make that transparent and open, um I I think that it would add a lot of clarity to parents, uh maybe some unnecessary, uh pain points that maybe they were trying to overcome at this point. And then beyond that, the Florida statute states that really the lottery system does not require any additional explanation of a hardship reason. and then they go into a lottery system which I understand right now is a um uh th all of those names are
066put into a randomizer and those names are selected. Um and so I really would like us to essentially make a little bit more clearer um uh that policy and prioritize uh hardship academics and then athletics uh barring uh of course not the recruitment piece. Okay. So superintendent Murray noted that for a future agenda item. Yes. So what what I um did have an opportunity to speak with Miss Ready about um her request for some addition as you know that policy is sitting now um for advertisement. When it comes back before you for final approval we will capture um some of the language of of what she's requested in that policy um for transparency before it comes to you for final approval. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Um my second request is um in uh ensuring
067that we uh in our uh increasing our capacity to 100% to allow school choice uh I was hoping to have us define our capacity in terms of a balance between both square footage as well as staffing ability. Um, and I don't have the proposed answer right now on what that might be. Um, however, I think that we need to ensure that when we are allowing and taking in school choice that perhaps square footage um or those designated student stations established when the school was erected not be the only reason as we don't want students going to a school where maybe there u is a a lack of teacher in a particular area. It may be some uh unique uh uh solutions like incentivizing teachers to split time, you know, between schools such as like foreign
068language or something that's hard to fill. But uh I I think that we've got to make a definition of capacity that's responsible between square footage and staff alone. So definition of a capacity is a board member request. So got that. Um any any others, Miss Ready? No, sir. Um Mr. Bars, I don't have any today, sir. Okay. Um I'll just share just because I've received multiple emails. Not that I necessarily am interested, but we had an offer to purchase some property. You might have gotten that one to um your FPC. Is that something that the board wants to look at or who should I forward that to? I had forward that on and I hadn't heard back about that. that came in and um they keep sending it to me and I sent it again.
069Okay. Yeah, I thought I Well, I know I did forward that on, but I didn't see hear any followup that just for clarity with the whole board here. Um we will bring it before you. Oh, so you do have that. We will add that. Okay, good. I'm glad you just so I can Okay, let them know. I just didn't I didn't get an acknowledgement that that uh that the administration was working on that. So, okay. Thanks. Very good. Um so then we will then now go to closing comments. Mr. Mayor, do you have anything to close out with today? Yep. So um the graduations were amazing and the promotions. So want to thank all the teachers. It was really fun to go to uh uh the FTC one recently. Then the next day I was
070at the store, I saw one of the grads and she recognized me. I recognized her and it was just, you know, you could tell like they're just so happy. So, I think Flaggler schools is doing a great job with those promotions. And um there was the Penguin Project. I just want to thank Benell Elementary School for hosting that for the second year and Miss Jerry Barry did a wonderful job for Aladdin for those uh students with disabilities and ran into Dr. Holidayiday there. So, that was awesome. And I do appreciate Flaggler County uh schools rotating camps. And I know I said it a lot, but even this morning, you know, having our families like with our school districts caring about people with children and families and rotating different affordable camps throughout our community, it makes
071a difference to to do that, I think. Um, so I just want to thank FTC for hosting that camp, space camp, and then the district for rotating it between our small little town of Palm Coast, but driving across the street then across the town is a great difference. But, um, yes, thank you for everybody and the support staff for all the help with the policies. So, I think we're getting somewhere and I'm excited to see where we end up. So, excellent. Uh, yeah, I also want to shout out everybody for having a great start to the VPK. um uh program uh over the summer program that's being held. Um and that uh it was really nice to see it was a bunch of administrators and other folks from across the county helping to support make
072sure that that uh started off uh as well as the summer camp. So um it's really nice to see everybody pitching in. I also want to congratulate um our FPC team uh in their future problem solvers competition. They came in first place uh which uh in the what they call global issues booklet writing. Um this is a year-long competition. Um and uh we're very excited. That's kind of that's a really big one to to win. Um and I think it's been some time since our uh high school has won that. Um uh so congratulations to those students. We appreciate that. And um yeah, I just want to encourage parents to uh pro promote some exploratory learning and experiences with their children. you know, they have a a term called the summer slide where students obviously
073sometimes uh regress in some of their academics. Uh but there's no reason to be bored over the summer, right? You'd be doing stuff like go pick flowers and take them apart and figure out why they're different. Um take different samples of dirt, right? What bait works better with certain fish. Get them out away from the screens. um have conversations, do some reading um you know and and just experience the world around you. That can do so much for a child. So, uh please encourage those activities and um you know, spend a little extra time bonding with your kids this summer and doing so. Thanks. I'll be pretty brief. Um I just want to kind of piggy back off of what uh Mr. Ramirez was talking about with our marketing piece. We've got so many so
074much information is being put out uh on our social media with our team that what they do and I want to thank them again for the work that they do. But there's a lot of information on there for parents to look at. But I just ask that they take the time to really look at our website, look at our Facebook pages, and all of our social media with all the different events that are happening happening across the the district, especially during the summertime. Um, again, just uh I really appreciate uh graduation for what I have now. This uh great cold I've got so uh that I can't seem to shake. Um but I'm so proud of uh all of our graduates and the work that our staff has put into preparing our students and for
075the next chapters of their lives. And so again, I just a shout out to all of them. But then just making sure that everyone is looking at uh our communication that we do have. We have really good communication. So just take advantage of that please. And I will yield. Just not much to say. Enjoy graduation and another year to share that with our students. So hope everybody's having a great summer. Yeah. And I I just thank you all for sharing that experience cuz you know this this is this graduation we had three board members that that was your first graduation as board members and I remember when when I experienced that and it's something special and uh so I'm glad you took away the same uh feeling that I did and uh it it just
076it just keeps getting better. you know, every year see uh students that we know and parents that we know just uh with with full excitement and then seeing all these kids' faces with smiles of joy and some fear and everything else and all the other emotions that go on with moving on to the next chapter of their life. But, you know, that's a big day where we can say, "Wow, we we we did what we were what we were commissioned to do is get these kids and launch them into the next chapter of their life." So, um just grateful uh for staff and all their work on getting this uh we for the benefit of the public. It was not aired live, but it was recorded. You'll be able to watch it. We had a
077a policy review. Uh we are reviewing all of our policies and and updating them. And this is a big heavy lift for the district and the board. and the district really pulled out the stops to get it us to this point here so quickly uh so that we could review these uh in a timely fashion. So I thank all the efforts of the team on on that. Uh and also to the board for coming in early and and doing um all the things we need to do and we had some great robust conversation. It just shows that your commitment to making sure we get this right. So thank you for your efforts. Um, and I'll uh yield from there. Superintendent Moore. Yes, it is a great time of year. Um, lots of great things happening
078over the summertime. I want to take this opportunity to recognize for the final time. Um, Miss Boseman at Matanzis High School and Miss Cara Kron at Buddy Taylor Middle School. um which have served extremely well as principles and they are moving on to the next chapters of their life and we are um just proud of them and the work that they have done for the students of Flaggler County. I want to associate myself with what Miss Ramirez said about Aladdin. If you ever have an opportunity to go and see the penguin project put on by our Flaggler Playhouse, you want to take advantage of it. It is such an amazing opportunity where our students with disabilities are the stars of um this live um performance and they do a phenomenal job. They are assigned mentors
079that help them to prepare and it was such an amazing show. Want to um shout out to Advent again around our physicals and ECG evenings over two nights. Their team saw over 800 students here in Flaggler County, ensuring that those students have their physicals as well as their ECG so that they are in compliance. Um, as for July for the July one expectation for ECGs, but also for their physical so our students can be um, able to participate. If you need help or have questions around additional opportunities to get your ECG done, um families can go online and find uh different areas where they are being hosted, especially through um the organization who we play for. I want to say to the board, I know it was very difficult to make the decision around the
080around ECG and I will end with this Sunday. I was um visiting a church in Valuchia County and I had a grandmother walk up to me with tears in her eyes and she said at first we were very frustrated that this was being um uh required. She said to me though her grandson, a student here within Flaggler County, um was flagged as having a heart disease. that student is now going to um a cardiologist um at the University of Florida. And this parent, this grandmother looked at me and said, "I know you guys continue to say that even if we just find one, said it means something different when that one is your one." And so, um just wanted to say thank you to the board. Thank you to Advent Health for their partnership to
081ensure that we're able to reduce that barrier for families and get them their physicals and ECG um program ECGs. Lots of things happening over the summer. We are here over the summer. As mentioned, we have an amazing summer program for our um younger students that is happening at Beltier Elementary School. And I do invite the board to come out um each morning or each afternoon, be a part of the the arrival and dismissal process um there. It is amazing to see all of our schools come together into one school in order to put forth a great program. So I invite you board members to come and be a part of that. And I thank you for your time. I thank our team for helping to ensure that we could still have this meeting though many
082of us were um away at conferences. So, thank you and I hope you guys have a great rest of your week. Thank you, Superintendent Moira. This meeting is now adjourned. Thank