05/27/25 Flagler School Board Meeting

001Tuesday, May 27th, 2025, 6 p.m. school board regular business meeting. Um, please rise for a moment of silence. Okay, we will now present the colors. Tonight's the colors are being presented by FPC Air Force JOTC, Cadet First Lieutenant Cassandra Buchanan, Cadet Master Sergeant Matthew Wickham, uh Cadet Colonel Elena Hoya, uh Cadet First Lieutenant Charlie to Torrren, and Adviser Master Sergeant Holland. We'll now do the pledge of allegiance. I pledge of 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. We will now have the national anthem played by our very own Indian Trails band quartet. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Applause] [Music] You may now retire the colors. Oh, and how about we have a round of applause

002for our quartet. Thank you very much for being here. You may be seated. Okay. So, we will start off with roll call. Danny Neves, FBC representative here. Jani Strong, Matanzas High School student board representative, present. Lauren Ramirez, District 5, present. Jamie Ready, District Three, present. Derek Bars, District 1, Christy Chong, Will Furry, Lashaka Moore. Okay, so we are going to start off with our spotlight section of our meeting. And uh first up, we have uh the Crimestoppers Art Contest presentation. So I'd like to invite uh Mr. Basedette and we also have uh John Reid here with the uh state attorney's office. Yes. And you everyone come on up. [Applause] Good evening, school board members, Chair Furry, and Superintendent Moore. Thank you for the opportunity for allowing us to speak to you guys this evening. As

003you know, Crimestoppers is an important community initiative operated, administrated by local citizens with the mission of making our neighborhoods and schools safer. More specifically, Crimestoppers of Northeast Florida proudly partners with the sheriff's departments of Valuchia, St. John's, Putnham, and Flaggler counties, as well as the Seventh Circuit State Attorney's Office to empower citizens through see something, say something campaign. This effort allows individuals to provide anonymous tips to law enforcement about suspicious or concerning behaviors, ensuring safety while preserving privacy. Tonight, I am honored to be joined by two outstanding public servants who share in this commitment. Chief Assistant State Attorney John Reid from the Seventh Circuit State Attorney's Office and Chief Deputy Joe Burilli of the Flagler County Sheriff's Office. Together, we are here to recognize and celebrate the winners of this year's Flaggler County Student Crimes

004Stoppers Poster Contest, a program that invites our students to creatively express the importance of public safety and proactive community involvement. These young artists have not only demonstrated creativity, but a deep understanding of the role we all play in keeping our schools, neighborhoods, and communities safe. Presenting the awards thising will be Chief Assistant Sage Attorney John Reid. Before I hand it over to Mr. Reid, I would like to invite Deputy Belli to say a few words. Good evening. I just wanted to thank all the participants. Uh I looked at the artwork and uh it far better than I could ever do. And uh I just wanted to thank all the students, state attorney's office, the school to get everyone involved and uh host all this. Thank you all for having us here. Again, my name is

005John Reed. I'm the chief assistant with state attorney's office and on behalf of R.J. Larza, you know, we appreciate y'all having us. This is certainly a nice change of pace to be able to do something uh you know, nice with the community. As you all know, we've been doing this for years. We have uh the different art perms from elementary, middle, and high school all present posters that are the anti-rime themed uh posters. We do it throughout the entire circuits of Valuchia Flagler, Putinham, and St. John's. Um and the artwork is amazing. Again, you way better than I could do. Um I'm I'm always impressed seeing this. I've been doing this for many years now. Um and then we bring different dignitaries, different people in to vote on the uh top ones. So, we have

006uh elementary, middle, and high school. And first place uh gets $200, second place $150, and third place $100. So, not bad, especially, you know, for probably the elementary and middle school kids. So, um if you all are all right, I'll just uh start with elementary and bring the students up. So, if y'all are here in third place, uh we have for the fifth grade, Old Kings Elementary, Mrs. Carter's class. Maya Berther. [Applause] Okay. I don't know how how do you all want to bring all of them up at once and do a photo or Yeah, we'll take a picture. All right, sounds good. And then for elementary and there's yours artwork. Uh and there I think so it's Yes. Thanks. That's why I'm sorry. And second place for elementary, Matteline Barnes. Fourth grade, Wadsworth Elementary,

007Miss [Applause] Byron. And in first place, and I'm sorry, I'll probably butcher this. Ecatina Sabelina. And I'm sorry. It's worth it. That is the elementary. Do you want me to bring all middle? Okay. And for middle school, third place, Declan Aine. Okay. I'm sorry. Then for second place, Arthur Leman Lima. That's Miss Shanley's class. And in first place, eighth grade, Michaela McDonald. [Applause] And finally for high school, third place, Aaron Perry from Kansas High, Miss Johnson's class. Second place, Miriam Sabic, Flag of Palm Coast. And in first place, David Hours, Flag of Palm Coast, Miss [Applause] Wilkerson. As always, Flaggler did a really good job. These are amazing artwork. All right, great. If you can come up for a picture one, two, sorry, one more. Thank you guys. Hold tight. Hold tight. No. Hold tight.

008Hold tight. Hold tight. Hold tight. Hold tight. Hold tight. Hold tight. Hold tight. Hold tight. Hold tight. Thank you. Thank you. Right here. Thank you so much. One. Look up your eyes. Hi. Big smiles. Now you're Thank you. Thank you again for having us and just we post these photos throughout cour houseses, the I think the schools and certainly at the state attorney's office. So we very much appreciate it. Thank you all for what you're doing. Thank you. Appreciate your involvement. I just want to get a plug here. He is how I'm a PTO board member for uh Wadsworth. I just want to give a shout out to my peeps. the one of two two prizes over there. They did amazing job. All the schools are great, but Worth just a little better. Thank you.

009Thank you, Mr. Filler. Okay, so um that leads us to our next spotlight and that is our uh superintendent strategic plan. Yes. And I am going to take this opportunity ahead of Miss Ruddy because I'm sure she's going to do it during closing comments just to say, was not the Indian Trails Quartet not amazing. Do it. Yes. Another round of applause for them. Such a good job. And I saw Principal Andrews in the background smiling as a proud principal. Um, they were absolutely amazing. It is an honor to have our students come and perform each time. So, tonight for my spotlight, we are going to be recognizing our two student board members. Um, two amazing individuals that have served here as student representatives for their high school, Miss Danny Navis and Miss Jani Strong. And

010they have been amazing representatives for their high schools. We cannot wait to see all the great things that you accomplish over the next few years as you go off to college. And we want to remind you that though you are going away to college, we are here for you. Um we are a part of your village. And so if you ever need anything from any of us, please do not hesitate to um give us a call, send us an email. We're here for you. And what we typically do is we allow for our board members to offer well-wishes and then we will present you with a gift and of course take a picture. So we will start with Miss Ramirez. Well ladies, I am very grateful to have met you. Would have never met you

011if I was not in this role. And I'm so proud of both of you. The second I met you, I knew there was something very special about each of you and the involvement that you have with your schools individually is incredible. You know, I have been at all the schools and every time I'm at Matanis and every time I'm at FBC, I run into you. I don't know how there's thousands of children and kids and teens and faculty, but I I see you. I see them in the neighborhood in the stores running, jogging. It's a such a small town and they're such hard workers. uh you go above and beyond the virtual teen hall. That that was a lot of work. I know that was a lot of work and you guys crushed it. It

012was amazing. So, I just want you to know that like Miss Moore said, we are here for you if you need anything. Uh we're here for all of our students and we're going to miss you, but we're very proud of you and congratulations. Yes, ladies. It's been such a great part of um this journey to have you uh represent your schools as my first year as well on the school board. Uh so we have uh um joined that path and it's wonderful. Um what I will say is that clearly your leadership um the conviction in which you speak and represent your ideas and well as the organizations that you all represented it are is just a small indicator of what I'm sure will be uh to come larger leadership roles and uh greater impacts that

013you will have throughout your life in this community and beyond. and I wish you nothing but the best and all the success. Well, as I told you earlier when I came in, we're not going to let you graduate and we're going to allow you to stay another term if you'd like to. So, uh all in favor, I'm just kidding. I am u extremely proud of you and I have six things that I wrote down here that when I first time I ever uh saw you and up until this day I believe that they hold true and they are strong, smart, determined community leader and caring. Those are just a few characteristics that I see in both of you. And when you leave from this DAS and you go out and to do the things that

014you're going to do, you're going to take those things with you and you're going to do great things and you're going to represent your community well. You're going to represent your family well and uh I just wish you all the best of luck and anything that I can do for you. I hope you will reach out and I'm sure everyone on this board uh thinks the same thing. So, God bless all of you as you go into the next chapter of your life and I know you will stay focused and uh I'm real proud of you. Congratulations. All right. Congratulations, girls. I am very proud of you and all that you've already accomplished um is such a testament to your future and I can't wait to see just what's in store for you. My encouragement

015to all of our students is just that you you go for your dreams and just try. Um all you can do is try. You might be surprised where you land and and where uh the road takes you, where your purpose leads. So, I'm excited to see what's ahead for you both. Um you can always come home to Flaggler County and make an impact here, but I'm sure you're going to make your mark on the world. So, congratulations. Excited for you both. Yes. Uh I just want to commend you both on being just outstanding student board members. You know it's been really a joy to serve with you um throughout this year and you know every time you come very prepared. You have great things to say and share. We learn a lot from you and

016I also know that you have been great role models uh for your fellow students at your schools and uh I have no doubt that great things are in store for both of you. Um you are both very strong, intelligent, confident and determined. So I know that uh you're going to achieve great things and I wish you many blessings on that journey. You we are so proud of you. We love you both and it is going to be our honor to shake your hand tomorrow as you graduate. Can you join me in offering a congratulations to our two amazing student board [Applause] members? All right. Absolutely. Absolutely. Okay. Another round of applause for our two amazing student board members and their gift is a gift that they will be able to use on their next journey.

017And so we we are so proud of you and we cannot wait to see the great things that you do and we say come back here to Flaggler County and continue to make your mark here in your community. Thank you. Thank you, Superintendent Moore. Okay, that moves us on to our next spotlight, which is the Flaggler County Education Foundation, and we have Miss Teresa Rizzo with us. Welcome. Thank you. Good evening. What a exciting time in the school district for sure. Um, good evening, chair, superintendent, and board members. May has been incredibly busy for us at the foundation and I'm so honored to be able to share with you just a few highlights of impact we've uh made together with our schools and our community. Um we celebrated student wellness with Rimfire Elementary students. You

018see them there practicing their CPR who completed their passport to healthier you challenge. The students were rewarded with an incredible field trip to Advent Health's simulation lab. I was there with them. The giggles, the excitement was just absolutely incredible where they were really able to bring those real world learning experiences um to life. At Wadssworth Elementary, we recognize an exceptional fifth grader as the Beaver Toyota Student of the Year, continuing our commitment to spotlight student excellence across the school district. There's a picture of that young man right there. And I he um I think held his breath through the whole thing because he was so nervous. Um but he is receiving a game system of his choice and a laptop of his choice from Beaver Toyota. We were also honored to join our Grand Haven

019Women's Club in celebrating their senior scholarship recipients. Um, I have to say a little personal thing here. It was actually Satie Shell who is the daughter of Nick Shell and Carrie Shell, two of our educators, and I remember her in kindergarten. So, um, we were able to celebrate that success with them. But of course, the highlight of the month and truly one of our most moving events as I've heard from most of you was our senior scholarship driveby in surprise nights. So over two evenings we were delivered 231 scholarships. That is an increase from last year of $191 scholarships totaling over $600,000 which is also an increase of last year uh of of $100,000. So without our community, the collaboration between the Ed Foundation, the school district, and our generous community, I love to say

020each honk, each cheer, and each scholarship um is confidence in our students future. And yes, we expect you to come back to Flaggler County with all of your knowledge and experience that you're going to gain and be our neighbors because we need good people taking care of us. Um, another proud moment of ours was our 35th anniversary annual dinner celebration. We had over 175 community members in attendance. We had a goal of raising $85,000 for our Make It Happen Fund. And because of the generosity of our businesses, organizations, and individuals, we were able to raise $95,000 that night. This money goes towards our make it happen fund and you're actually going to hear from one of our board members uh Rashonda Lloyd Miller here in a few minutes about the fit program here in Flaggler

021County and that is what a lot of those funds go to support those students who are experiencing homelessness. But some of the great moments of the night was hearing from our students, mentors, educated educators, and of course two founding board members who founded um the Ed Foundation in 1990, Miss Nancy Dance, who is an original school board member um and also Mr. John Gonzalei. And they just reminded us of why we continue to do the work that we do every day. So, as we look forward ahead, because yes, the school year may be coming to a close, but we're already getting ready for next year. We're looking ahead at our back to school stuff the bus drives. So, throughout June and July, you're going to see our stuff bus rolling through the community as we

022collect school supplies to prepare students for the upcoming school year. Our plan is to distribute over 2,000 uh starter backpacks for Flaggler school students, ensuring that they are ready for learning on day one. There is a dropbox on that bus, so you can drop school supplies off 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, wherever you see it in the community. Um, from the bottom of our hearts, we truly want to thank each and every one of you for supporting the education foundation. From attending our events to supporting our team, I have to do a special thank you to Mr. Furry for coming to our board meetings and engaging with our board members. Um, as he expressed in our last board meeting, we know that we're going to be facing some challenges in the coming

023years, but we really want you to know that we are here to support you. Um, we want to do what is best for kids. So, we'll be working closely with the superintendent and her team this summer to just make sure that the funding opportunities that are provided meet the needs of our students. So, just know that we're committed to that. So, thank you again for the opportunity to spotlight the generosity and commitment of our donors and our partners. Together, we truly make it happen in Flaggler County. Thank you. Thank you, Miss [Applause] Rizzo. Okay, so our next spotlight is a bittersweet one. It's for our uh school retirees, and I'd like to ask Mr. Joshua Walker to come up to present. Make sure you guys can hear me. Okay. Good evening, school board members, Chairman

024Furry, Superintendent Moore. Tonight, I have the uh great honor of highlighting our Flaggler Schools employees that are retiring. Now, the list I'm going to share make up uh the folks that have retired over the course of this past year. Um, special thanks to our Flaggler County Ed Foundation for helping us put on a special event tonight to honor our Flaggler schools retirees where we were able to invite them and their family to attend this evening's board meeting. I'm going to go ahead and get started by sharing the names of those who are unable to join us and I'll be asking those that attended when I call their names to join us up at the DAS for a picture. All righty. So, without further ado, I just want to spotlight Miss Kathy Buts, Miss Jen Dwise,

025Miss Regina Liceria, Mr. Joseé Ala, Miss Teresa Smith, Miss Heidi Abbott, and there's a good bit, so give me a minute. Miss Elizabeth Benoy, Mr. Perr Berg, uh Mr. Jeffrey Brown, uh Mr. Jonathan Ky, Miss Na Cologne, Miss Elena Ellie De Pasqual, uh Miss Carol DPro, Mr. Philip Drastic, Miss Marie Drum, Miss Janine Duckworth, Miss Jean Elliot, Miss Tamara Fields Pettit, Miss Isabelle Fondora, Mr. George Fondora, Miss Deborah Gats, Miss Buffy Hill, Miss Natalyia Hubenberger, Miss Kathy Jones, Miss Francis Nutson, Miss Katherine Luck, Mr. Antonio Marx, Miss Pette McDuffy Powell, Miss Melinda Miles, Mr. William Parks, Miss Moren Picket, Miss Robera Pritchard, Miss Ruth Reynolds, Miss Judith Rosselle, Miss Patricia Rustler, Miss Kathy Ryan, Mr. Robert Bruce Scott, Mr. Michael Screer, Miss Karen Smith, Miss Nancy Snell, Miss Elsie Stitten, Mr. Ronald Stitten, Mr. Richard

026Sepernut, and Mr. Brian Willard. Among those folks, they have over 300 years of service dedicated to Flaggler School students. So, I know they're not here to join us, but if we could give them all a round of applause, I would appreciate it. ours. So, I'm going to go ahead and transition to those that were invited and were able to attend tonight's event. I'll go ahead and start off by highlighting Miss Vicky Bennett with 29 years of service to Flaggler students. Come on up, [Applause] Vicki. We have Miss Jill Bisaya, 27 years with Flaggler [Applause] schools. Miss Renee Campaniro, 15 years. Oh, there go. First Sergeant Troy Carabalo with 20 years of [Applause] service. Miss Gloria Gibson with 34 years of service to Flaggler schools. Miss Maxine Grant with 35 years of service. Miss Sue Howell,

02724 years of Flaggler School [Applause] service. Miss Stephanie Isaac, 18 years of service. Miss Jan Canali with 16 years of service. Miss Nancy Moses Bennett with 21 years of service. And then lastly, I have Miss Kelly Cisco with 11 years of service. All right. If there are any administrators here in the audience that have their retirees up at the DAS, I encourage you to come join us for a group photo. So, as we get everyone up here, I just want to say thank you all so much for your years of service to Flaggler Schools. I hope you guys enjoyed the event tonight and thank you guys so much for being a part of it. Let's do this. We go by our retirees and we're going just on the end. Let's do Let's split you guys

028up just a touch. [Music] I can't get back to [Music] Keep moving for me. Keep moving. Miss right there. Perfect. Excellent. Front row. Go that way. You got to otherwise it's going to look really really funny and you'll say, "Don, what were you doing?" Come on, everybody. Come on. You could do it for me. Well, I need everybody to be able to move. So, or they're going to think we had a crazy party here. You can go down here. There you go. We'll try that. How about that? It's just a camera, not a magic machine. I got to move you. Smile right here. Look right here. One, two, three smiles. Thank you guys. [Applause] Congratulations to all of you. We wish you a wonderful retirement. Okay. So, our next spotlight is the fit program and

029we're going to invite Miss Tammy York and Rashwanda Rashonda Miller. [Music] Good evening board chairman Furry Superintendent. It is my pleasure to introduce um one of my team members, Rashonda Lloyd Miller. Rashonda is our homeless education liaison. And I just want to take a minute to say how fortunate our program is to have someone who is so full of energy and love and really wants to make sure that everyone feels included and seen. and what she brings to this program is phenomenal and she's been here with us for two years and this program has grown by leaps and bounds. So I just would like her to share some of the strides that we've made in the last couple of years under her leadership. Rashonda, thank you Tammy for that introduction. Um I'm humbled to stand

030before you and serve in the role as the families and transition liaison. It is a humbling yet rewarding job. I've seen a lot as a school counselor, but moving into this role, it's been quite different. Are you driving the car? Okay. So, just moving through our presentation, you may see this logo along with um brochures throughout our community. I've made it my mission to um create an army of advocates so that people are aware that this program exists in empowering our families um one at a time. We need people to be seen and that they know they have support here in the schools despite what their housing is at night. So an overview of our program for fit is that we support the students who are experiencing homelessness to ensure that they have full access

031to our school education and that their housing is not a a barrier. So some of the services that we offer for that support oh I'm sorry I need to go through the eligibility. So when we talk about fit, we look at the students nighttime residence. Is it fixed, regular, or adequate? And when I look at the first bullet, the majority of our students are sharing the housing of another family uh or someone due to a loss of housing or economic hardship. This is about 90% of our um families and students enrolled in the Fed program. affordable housing to me I feel like is an oxymoron because it it's very scarce. So a lot of our students they may live at one family's house for a week go to another family's house but constantly changing. We

032have a few families who live in the hotels or motel trailer parks and even the campgrounds. In Flaggler we don't have very many shelters. We have one domestic violence shelter and one other smaller shelter that helps with families. So, our families have to go down to Valuchia if there's space, but we do have a even smaller percentage that are living in their cars. So, you may see them parked around the community or in different places. And even in some of our substandard housing, we have students who live without electricity, without running water. And we know that's not safe. For this school year, we have identified 394 students um over our um nine campuses. 330 are still with us as of today. 34 of those students are unaccompanied students, meaning they're not with a parent or

033legal guardian. And this happens for various reasons. We have some little kids, elementary, where the parent may have abandoned them or the parent has passed away. And then we have our high schoolers who were kicked out or they left home for various reasons, but 34 of those students are without a parent or legal guardian. So, in my role, one of the biggest things is to get them into school. We need to make sure that they're safe and that they have access to food. So, if we get them in school despite them missing any documents or whatever, we work on the transportation. Even if they move out of the school zone, we provide that transportation to the school of origin because for some of the students, the school of origin or school in general is their

034only constant. So, we need to make sure we provide that along with the academic support. It could be tutoring or additional support during a school [Music] day. Additionally, we connect them through our community partners to some of the basic needs because we know that their needs go beyond the school the school building. So, making sure they have access to food, clothing, school supplies, um meals, breakfast and lunch, educational services, extracurricular activities, and then making referrals to community agencies as [Music] needed. At this moment, I'd like to highlight some of our partners. I know Miss Rizzo mentioned it before, but the Flaggler the Flaggler County Education Foundation and all of the donors have been so gracious with supporting students. And one of the things that I requested is that they allow us to support those students

035and families without spotlighting them because sometimes it's embarrassing what they may be going through and we don't need to put them on the spotlight to provide that support. And I do appreciate that I get to do that. We have our faith for Flaggler group which is 14 churches that supports us. The Samaritan Ministries has provided housing for one of our unaccompanied students along with the family life center. They have housed some of our families along with the um unaccompanied homeless youth. the shelter and tree. They've provided us with bikes and locks and bike lock I mean bike lights so that our students have some form of transportation and that has been a godsend. Additionally, we have the Grace Community Food Pantry. And through our Grace Community Food Pantry, they provide weekly bags to students and

036families in the FIT program of meals to cook throughout the week. But they also provide donations that we um put in our school-based shelters that I mean school-based pantries that I'll speak a little bit more about in a minute. St. Mark by the C Lutheran Church has provided our students at eight of our campuses each week. They serve over 200 students with snack bags to take home over the weekend. Shimento Cares has helped with raising monies that supports various needs along with the Hammock Doom Cares Foundation, the Zukowski Family Foundation, and this year the Delta Sigma Theta sorority had a sock drive where I never saw so many socks in my life, but our kids have socks. So, as I mentioned, we were able to help a family that has demonstrated that they could pay

037for a permanent housing, but that first lasting security deposit is a hindrance for many families. And our Shimento Cares was able to help a family move into um permanent housing. We had one of our churches helped to furnish a home of a different family. Within two days, they had everything they needed for that new house. Um we have established in eight of our campuses um a school-based mobile food pantry and it's not just for students in fit. It's for students in need. So if a student needs food or toiletries or what have you. We have it available on campus. Fed by grace is the program that I mentioned from Grace Food Pantry and Love in a Backpack. It's happening at all of our campuses. We have a couple who own a um wash, dry, fold

038service who have been who've been providing laundry support for our families. And I was without a washer and dryer for two months and I thought I was going to die going through the laundromat every week. And so I understand how how big this support is with our unaccompanied students. Uh many of them even if they have jobs, they don't have enough money to pay for housing. So just being able to find housing for those students and we also have the couple that has helped place some of our students in jobs along with the parents help them find jobs. And one of my biggest biggest success stories tomorrow I will attend both graduations along with you all and 17 of the students in my program will graduate despite all the hardships. Some of them are headed

039to college. We have Florida&M, Flaggler College, and Daytona State. And some are going to trade school from Flaggler Technical College. Some of them have earned multiple scholarships, which is amazing. And they all under the state of Florida have they they're eligible for a tuition and fee waiver. I know some of you may know me, some of you may not, but I am not above going beyond. And I show up at students school. I show up at their job, I don't mind. I'll go to their school. I'll talk to the principal, the assistant principal, whatever it takes to help that student and that family find success. There's my contact information. I'm all over the place. Uh I think I have wheels on my shoes, so I just skate about and I thank you all for allowing

040me to share about the families and transition program. Thank you, Miss Miller, for updating us on that. Wonderful work being done [Applause] there. So, that concludes our spotlight section of our meeting tonight and we are going to move on with our business. Um, and that leads us to the approval of our minutes. Uh, I'd like to entertain a motion to approve uh 4.01 through 4.03. Move approval. Have a motion by Miss Chong. Second by Mr. Bars. Any discussion? Hearing none. All in favor? I I opposed hearing none. It passes unanimously. Okay. So, uh, Superintendent Moore, do we have any adoptions or changes to the agenda? I want to bring your attention that we did, um, have, uh, two additional field trip requests that were submitted. Mr. Reeves does have that and can answer any questions.

041I also want to, um, make you aware that we did add the Atlasou. The dates um, were requested. That information was added. No additional um changes to the the agenda. Thank you, Superintendent Moore. Okay. So, I'd like a motion to adopt the agenda. Motion to approve. Have a motion by Mr. Bars. Second. Second by Miss Ramirez. Any discussion? Hearing none, we'll vote. All in favor? I I opposed hearing none. We will move forward with this agenda. So that leads us to public comment and this would be public comment for agenda items only. Do we have anybody signed up tonight? No. Okay. Then we will close public comment and move on to our consent portion of the meeting. And uh this meet this section may appear to move quite quickly unless there's additional discussion. Uh we

042have extensively workshopped these items prior to uh move through them efficiently tonight. So um we will start with our finance consent and um so I'd entertain a motion to approve 7 01 through 7.07. Move approval. I have a motion by Miss Chong. Second. Second by Mr. Bars. Any discussion regarding the minutes? Hearing none. All in favor? I I opposed. Hearing none. It passes unanimously. That will now lead us to academic services consent. I'd entertain a motion to approve 9.01 through 9.06. Move to approve. I have a motion by Miss Ready. Second. Second by Mr. Bars. Any discussion? All in favor? I I opposed hearing. None. It passes unanimously. That moves us to human resource consent. Uh I'd entertain a motion to approve 11.01 through 11.03. Motion to approve. Motion by Mr. Bars. Second. Second by

043Mr. Ramirez. Do we have any discussion? Hearing none. All in favor? I I opposed hearing none. It passes unanimously. So that will move us to our first action items. uh of the evening and we'll be moving through these individually. Um so our first one is 16.01 career source. Um do we um have a motion to approve? Motion to approve. We have a motion by Miss Chong. Second. Second by Mr. Bars. Is there any discussion from the board on this item? Hearing none. All in favor? I I opposed hearing none. It passes unanimously. Thank you, Miss Garland. And um so our next is 16.02. This is school choice policy update. Um do I have a motion to approve? Um I would like to ask some clarifying questions on this one. Do you want to do that

044after we do the motions? Yeah. Motion to approve. Yeah, we'll do it during discussion. Sure. So I have a I have a motion by Mr. Bars. Second. Second by Mr. Ramirez. and uh we'll go into discussion. Um I have two questions. Uh one I um recently was digging into what are the parameters around which students may use uh athletics as a reason to select a school. and looking in the Florida statute um as well as the uh Florida Athletic Association, which the Florida statute confers that responsibility to that athletic association. Um it really only covers if that student has been or tried to uh be coerced or recruited. And so looking in our policies, it really didn't seem very definitive um around utilizing athletics as a hardship. One could be said, well, I choose to

045go to FPC for IB because it's going to allow me greater growth in this particular career field that I would like to choose or academic pursuits. one could say well they don't have a particular position open on uh a sports team at one school and then want to go to that other school. So I think the first item is in un digging more into this particular school choice language and policy. Um, I personally would like to uh postpone the approval or voting on this particular item in addition to um digging more into the um changes regarding superintendent select uh setting capacity. I um recently received some followup data that I requested from the last meeting just today. So, I would like time to be able to um review that. Okay. Board, does uh anybody have

046any additional comments or um response to that request? Um Mr. Chair, just clarifying this. when we had when we had our meeting uh two weeks ago, we talked about um it that not being an actual reason for moving students around because of of sports and so forth like that. It was my understanding that we weren't doing that. Now, if a parent or whomever said, "I want to go to FBC or Matanzas for whatever reason," they're not they're not putting on a form to say that they are going there for um for that sport. Am I am I am I accurate in that or not? Yes. Yes. I'm sorry. Sure. So, if there uh was capacity and they were able to choose whatever school they wanted to through controlled open enrollment, they wouldn't need to say

047a reason. So, it very well could be that they are wanting to go to a different school for athletics or academics or um you know, perhaps it's closer for a family to drop them off, but it wouldn't require them to say why. I think the question is related to hardship reasons and there was a comment during that um board workshop uh that there is often the presence of athletics as a reason for that hardship. So that begets the question what is that policy and while you know from the state and the athletic association it says you may not be recruited it doesn't really say that the ch student themselves in their own power can choose to uh use athletics for their school choice. So, I have sent some information to our attorney and as well

048as the additional information that was sent um by the superintendent's office to be able to review both that as well as the changes in setting school capacity. Yeah. So while um it's not currently a um an acceptable hardship reason per se uh in terms of it being an athletic choice uh the controlled open enrollment if the capacity would allow it would it could be a motivator for a student to go to another school. So in that case it would be allowed but you're correct um in that it's not currently um under our guidelines of an acceptable hardship. And I think that I as took the understanding or assumption that Mr. Bars did that you could not use that as any reason whether you know um hardship or otherwise because it would skirt those lines of

049recruitment. But digging into that language, I feel that it behooves us as a school district to set that as the policy. Um, and I reviewed a couple of other policies from other school districts to just kind of scratch the surface, but also are we even allowed to do that? I don't know. So, I think that it would be wise for us to um either highlight what that policy would be if we are or um add stronger language uh around it if we cannot. May I may I add um something? Um currently the majority of our hardships do not come in the form of athletics at all. Um the majority of our families are one are submitting hardships or requests to go to uh to those schools for other reasons outside of um athletics. So athletics,

050if we were to increase the capacity and there was space, it would allow individuals to come into the school for whatever reason that they um are electing to go to that school. And athletics could be a benefit of of that. Um for for us with this policy, it really and and I think we're focusing more so on our high schools, but this is beyond our high schools. It is the opportunity to empower our families to um have a choice in which school their child attends. Um and it allows for us to increase the capacity that we have. The the board the previous board or at the time of setting that policy established the policy with that percentage. But there does not have to be a percentage there. um we can add a percentage if that

051is the desire of this board. Um it is our request that we be allowed to um collectively each year identify what that percentage is um in order for our families to be able to have some additional choice on which schools their children attend. Mr. Chair. Yes. So we don't have a number that is set at this point on based on this particular policy at this time. So we would just we would never go over 100% capacity. That's not something that we would want to do. Am I accurate in that statement? M if I may though 100% Wait a minute. This Mr. Bars has to answer the question if I can. So the the policy would in terms of we would not be able to go past the number of student stations that we have without

052a plan. The state statute requires us to have a plan. So that may be, you know, um allowing for concretables or whatever that could look like. Um but yes, we could not go past the number of student stations that we have. Okay. So where we tried to dig into this at the the meeting though, one of the items when we say 100% capacity, the state defines uh the ability to build another school based upon different capacity measures for different uh age grade levels. So high school has a lower maximum capacity than let's say a an elementary school. So if a high school were at 100% it would actually be something like I don't know I can't recall 10 or 15% above what the state is saying well yes now you're at the point where you

053can build an additional school and I do commend the superintendent and uh her office in trying to do all that we can to award and uh recognize school choice for parents. But we have to also respect the uh the space that the assigned students uh and and not compromise maybe the best possible environment for those students. And at that last board meeting, one of the simple questions was, well, if we what are the number of student stations and we received that information, I believe uh recently. However, the question was could that be modified or changed? Could that adjust in some way? And even the uh Mr. Bush at the time said, well, it depends. So what I fear is that when uh parents or students do not receive their school choice, there will be this

054built mistrust in not understanding um uh when there is this sliding scale when it actually has to be cut off. I feel having that particular ambiguity um as well as changing fluctuating perhaps um maximum capacity uh reduces transparency. Mong did you want to say something? I don't know if I'm not following um I guess I don't I'm not seeing the issue but I'm ready to vote when everybody else Well, I I'll say one thing. Um, you know, I I had thought about, you know, what are the merits of, you know, taking away this uh percentage limit and, you know, what are the consequences? But, you know, one thing that we've all been talking about lately is, you know, with the uh with vouchers and and uh having a decline in enrollment. And so if we

055have a student that wants the choice into that school and we don't allow them the choice because it it that the threshold is uh been been as at capacity by that percentage limit, then that's a person that might choose to go away a voucher because they're not able to choice into a school that they would like to go to. and if we actually had the seat, why would we want to drive that student away to potentially go to another option? So, uh I think we have to weigh that out because that's a new dynamic that we are facing um as a school. I do hear you there and um you know that's um subjective. The reverse is could also be said. We already have very large school environments. um larger numbers of students and parents

056uh lunch lines uh car rider lines if increased concentration of students at a particular campus um could increase tensions that could be a driver in which people would be would choose to move away. So I don't have the research to determine that. uh I don't have any um case studies to review in terms of how they've changed their capacity or aotment or uh enrollment numbers within that confined square foot space. So I think on both ends of that spectrum to be fair would be conjecture. But um you know what I what I do know is that the wisdom of the previous boards set a particular limit in order for transparency as well as um the ability to not a maximum uh or put a school and its resources to maximum capacity um before there's an

057ability or a slower ability to um address the space needs or the student seat needs in those particular areas. Very good. Mr. Chair, one last question related to this too. If I could have Mr. Moore just talk a little bit in regards to that if we get to a point where we were have the staffing and what that would look like from from a staffing level based off of enrollment and how that would uh how you would handle that issue because we were talking about actual seats. We're not we're not over capacity at our schools based off of our last um meeting that we had. So, we need to fill seats and I can just say from experience based off of conversations that I've had with parents who have reached out to me that that

058is a driving force. If they do not have that choice, they're not going to be in flag schools. Now, whether they do that or not, that's that's I can't make that determination other than what I was told. So, I would just like for you to maybe explain a little bit what would happen and what that process would look like as far as staffing. So our staffing is based on the number of students that are um there at the school that are um enrolled um at the school and we adjust our staffing accordingly throughout the year. And so if a school um saw an increase in their enrollment, we would staff that school according to the number of students that are there. That is for instructional um that includes our support staff as well. And I

059appreciate um the comments of of of all of the board members. And I want you to know that we are not um asking this to be irresponsible with our resources, but to say if there is there are seats available within a school, we want to allow for students to be able to go to that school. And if there are no longer seats available, then we will go back and the statute, I'm sorry, statute outlines what those processes will be for any students beyond that. And so that is our thing. We understand that um the previous board made a decision, but I believe that that decision was based on the times that they were board members. When I look at where we are now, um there needs to be additional flexibility within the public school system

060in order for us to continue to adjust to what education is is currently. And so, um it is our request that we be given the opportunity to identify what that is in order to meet the needs up to 100. Um we aren't going to go over the capacity of the school, but um it is our desire uh for us to be able to set that based on the needs of the schools, the opportunities that that are there because we do have families who are right now, you know, there are many families who have emailed and they're awaiting this decision because for them they want their children to go to a particular school that right as of right now based on the current policy are not allowed. not because there are not seeds but because of

061the threshold that the the the current policy has. And so um that is our request. We respect um the authority of the board to make that that decision. And what this does is this allows for us to advertise this policy so that those families and those students can start day one in those schools. I understand waiting and pushing it um further out, but that just prevents us, unless you give us the authority to go outside of your policy, that prevents us from allowing those families to come and be a part of that school day one. And I have one remind our board too that this is something we can revisit as needed in every year. If we need to make changes, we have the ability to do that. So just keep that in mind. Also,

062just one last question if I could, Mr. Chair, is And just for transparency purposes here and at the request of any one of us board members, we will make sure if we can come back and say what our capacities are for each one of these schools as we go through um through the year, if you will, and where we are and and provide those numbers to us if this were to pass. And we are required every 12 weeks to post what the capacity um is for our schools. So on our website, we currently um have to post that and we will continue to do that every 12 weeks, but we can bring it forward to this board if that is Can I clarify just a few things? Um so I know we had our workshop

063and um since the workshop, interesting enough, you know, community members, they reach out to us with questions, comments, which is what we want. Um so from my understanding, if this were to be approved, we would not go over 100%. Um, however, if it were to, you know, get close, we can always ask every 12 weeks. I know, and I know we can always email. Um, and as a board member, I think, you know, we could talk to campuses and interview, I guess, you know, just see how are things going. Um, but I think from a parent perspective or guardian with a child, and I'm just, this is the feedback that I've been hearing since our last workshop from multiple families. It's not specifically this school over this school being better. Some have different programs and

064not I'm not talking high school, but I'm thinking elementary. So, for example, Rimfire has specifically classroom to careers. So, a family member may want to go there and they research Rimfire. You know, Belter Elementary, you know, they used to have a Lego club, you know, just like different things. So, I can understand why families may want that. And then the voucher program. So for those listening, this is a big thing and we do need to be flexible, but I think whatever regardless is voted on, I think from my understanding and from the staff, everything will be monitored very closely because we don't want to, you know, obviously overcapacitate our schools, but um, you know, I think every 12 weeks just asking, you know, if you had questions in regard to the numbers. Okay. Yeah, we

065can get updates. I'm sure I I'd like to see that as as we see this if it passes how that rolls out. So, but we do have um uh the motion and seconded we've discussed. So, I'm going to call the question. All in favor additional counterpoints though. I've called the question uh all in favor. Why can I not ask two additional counterpoints? We we're not it's not a debate. We're we're then I would like to ask to debate it. I've called the question, Miss Ready. All in favor? I I I nay. Okay. Uh uh opposed. Nay. Okay. Thank you. So the the motion um passes 4 to1. So we will move on with the agenda to our next agenda item 16.03 [Music] Atlasou. So I would entertain a motion to approve. Move approval. I have

066a motion by Miss Chong. Second. Second by Miss Ramirez. Any discussion? All in favor? I I I opposed. Hearing none. It passes unanimously. So that will move us to 16.04 intensive instructional materials and personal finance. Um I'd entertain a a motion to approve. Move approval. I have a motion by Miss Chong. Second. Second by Mr. Bars. Is there any discussion on this item? Hearing none. We will vote. All in favor? I I opposed. Passes unanimously. So, um that takes us on to human resource services action and that's 18.01 state of benefits and insurance rates. and entertain a motion to approve. Motion to approve. I have a motion by Mr. Bars. Second. I have a second by Mr. Ramirez. Any discussion on this item? Just real quick, I just like to thank uh the work that

067uh Miss Gillette has put into this and the work of our uh staff related to this. This has been a great work and uh by the board members bringing up a lot of uh good ideas during workshops and so forth to get us where we are today with uh to help our families and our also with our I mean our our staffing families if you will. So thank you very much to the board and for Mr. You let your your group. Yes. Thank you Mr. Olette. Uh if there are no other uh discussions then we will call the vote. All in favor? I I I I opposed hearing none. It passes unanimously. Um so we will now go to 18.02 Marathon Health Contract Amendment. I'd entertain a motion to approve. Motion to approve. Motion by

068Miss Chong. Second. Second by Mr. Bars. Any discussion? All in favor? I I I opposed hearing none. That passes unanimously. Okay. So that has uh completed our action items and uh that now leads us to the our second public comment that can be about any item. Is there anybody signed up for public comment this evening? Uh yes, Jeffrey, there is Courtney Van Bundy. Miss Vande Bundy. Is that how you say it? Yes. Forgive me. Vanderbunty. Okay. Welcome, Miss Vanderbunty. My name is Courtney Vanderbunty. Good evening, Superintendent Moore and members of the board. In honor of teach and staff uh teacher and staff appreciation month, I'm here to recognize a few of the educators who have made a positive difference in my children's lives. This is too short. As a former educator, I know how impactful

069a little positive recognition can be, especially in these trying times when the future of education is so uncertain. In a country where something as innocuous as hanging a poster promoting inclusivity in a classroom, resulting in reprimand due to political differences of opinion, it is vital as ever to recognize the hard work and dedication of our educators. So, starting with my oldest daughter who attends Indian Trails Middle School. I would like to recognize her science teacher. Am I allowed to say names? Okay. Mr. Kennedy, whose patience and commitment to student achievement showed my daughter that every student can be successful if they have a teacher that cares enough about them. Even though she's a naturally gifted science student, seeing his kindness and dedication to her peers who struggled with science not only taught her lessons in

070science, but in kindness as well. Speaking of science, part of the reason my daughter doesn't hate it is because of this district's wonderful science curriculum specialist Heidi Alves. Miss Alves's dedication and commitment to bringing back the science fair for fifth graders wasn't just a victory for my daughter who earned first place, but for every student who participated and learned that they can be scientists, too. My youngest daughter being diagnosed with ADHD has struggled here and there. But thanks to guidance counselors such as Ashley Nemanin at Old Kings Elementary who have been advocating her for her since she started, she has more confidence than I ever did at that age. And last, but not because I don't have positive recognition for all of my kids educators, but for lack of time, my son's fourth grade teacher,

071Mr. Knox, who helped turn him into an avid reader and now an avid writer. Mr. Knox's passion for writing and firm but kind encouragement has given my son the confidence and motivation to write his own book. So to sum up, educators make the world go round and put up with a lot. So let's recognize their differences so they don't quit. Thank you. Thank you, Miss Vanvati. Are there any other commenters? Okay, then we will close comments and um we will move on to board member requests. Are there any board member requests for agenda future agenda items? Okay, hearing none, we will move on. I do have a couple dates that we need to to address. Okay. Uh, you have the floor, Superintendent Moore. Um, okay. Board. Um, a few dates that we need to to

072look at. We attempted to do this um um through email, but just a reminder, June 10th um that meeting um I will not be present, but we will have um someone that will be here in order to take notes and um we will follow up on all items. Two um items that we need to address will be um the Neola policy review was requested for us to have a separate meeting to go over those policies. We need to establish a date for that. We also need to establish um a a few date options for executive session related to safety. Okay. So if we could start with Neola, um for that we would need a time block of at least two to three hours for us to review all of the um policies that have been

073requested for review as well as to bring um the community up on other policy changes. Are we only looking at Tuesday's board? because I know that's typically but I'm just wondering if it's ideal. Is that ideal? Just want to check. Preferably on the same day. Um do we want to do June or July? I don't prefer the same day for both of those to have them all on the same day concurrent. Um for the the Neola and the executive session, you want to hold both on the same day back toback? No, I that I do not prefer that. Thank you. Okay. Um, so are we looking in in uh in when are we looking for this? And um we prefer June. So it for the policy um portion of it. Um but I know that

074there are several vacations that are coming up. We just running out. If it's a Tuesday, it doesn't look like it will happen just because I'm just I just from everyone's schedule. So if in June at least unless there's another day of the week. So you can't do the 10th cuz you won't be here. So that one's I can't do the the 10th for Neola, but um we probably could do the Neiola on the 10th. if that works. But I think Miss Ruddy was requesting not on a day that we have a she said for have both of them on the same day. So Okay. So split one on one, one on the other. We can split the two different executive session on a Tuesday. If it is on a Tuesday, we we need afternoon for

075Tuesday executive session related to safety. Not July. We can do July. Can you remind me what the conflicts for June 3rd is? I won't be here. Graduation. Yeah, I I won't be here either. I'm not available June 3rd. FTC graduation is at 6:00 that day, but our executive sessions are usually earlier in the day. Yeah. I'm just saying that's what I'll be I'll be out of town now, so I won't be able to do the third. Yeah, we did not have enough um for we didn't have three that would be present on June 3rd. That was the conflict for that day. July 1st. Anybody? I mean, yeah, that works for me. Yeah, July, it's a Tuesday and it's not a workshop or board meeting day. Sounds good to me. Um, hold on. But it is

076July, but it's the first day in July. Bear with me for a moment. I have to look through some things here. I will get babysitters. Yeah, summertime and child care is difficult. June 1st does not work. I mean July 1st does not work. I think what was the original date was the 17th we were looking at. the 17th we were looking at for Neola and I think it was the 17th for um executive session as well. I can do that. I just need to work out child care. I cannot do the 17th. I can. I would like as many of us available though because I think it's really important if we're going to make decisions on this. What about can we look at them separately? Can we look at the Niola first? Are we able

077to do Niola on the 17th? I can I am out of town from the 14th to the 28th of June. Yeah, I am out of town as well. So then basically June is like a tough month because I think unless if you can swing not a Tuesday maybe I mean I know it's hard but well I did I have some other days but it sounds like they won't even be here. So um the 18th. Yeah. Everybody's out. I mean the 18th I'm out in June in order for your I know Mark is probably cringing in the back. In order for the policies, the board policies to be approved and ready for the beginning of the school year, um we do need to try to get the Neola policy review in June. If not, it it's

078fine. The the current board policies would be in place, but we would be switching them within the first couple um weeks of the school year. So, what about Niola June 10th? I can do I'm between the 9th and the 13th of June I can be available 10th preferably same with me. Um otherwise what was June 3rd? I know I'm not available in the day but I could meet at night. I'm not well I'm not out of town. Yeah the 10th really is the only date that looks realistic here. Yes. I just don't want to do the Niola plus the executive plus uh a schoolboard meeting on the same day. So two is fine but not the three like we did previously. Is the uh the security meeting is this is just information. Um th this

079is um all things safety. Mhm. So, it would be um how long do you think that that meeting can we just cuz if it's a if it's a is it a lot that we're reviewing cuz if it's not a lot maybe it's not the last one I know was a lot. We had that was some but I mean if it's not a lot I think it's going to I mean there is it's it's going to be about safety so it's going to be some heavy topics that are on that. So it may be one that you want to do on a separate could do the 9th. I could do the 11th. I could do any other day if we could spread it out just Well, do could we stack it with the the do one

080on the 9th and one on the 10th like that? That's fine with me. I I work I mean I work we did say the 10th we you said that 10th was okay for one additional meeting. Correct. So, um, can we look at doing Neiola on the 10th and then we can arrange for a later date for, um, the executive session or on safety? Does that work? Yes, I think that makes sense. Let's do that. Okay. And so, is there are there any restrictions around time because I just want to make sure that we can work with Mr. Delaney to get the the appropriate time before that. We'll make sure that there's a break between this um agenda meeting, but the 10th, the earlier the better. Yeah, I'm flexible on the time. I know it's difficult,

081you know, trying to coordinate these things, but especially in the summertime when we have our children out of school, it's just easier to do as much as we can on one day. Okay. So, we will do um we will schedule Niola for June 10th. We will send out a calendar invite um to you once we have an opportunity to to meet with attorney Delaney. Okay. Thank you so much for that time. then we will um get together for some additional dates in July for safety. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. All right. So, that leads us to closing comments. So, we'll start down with our student school board members. Okay. First off, um like normal, thank you again for uh letting me sit on the stasis. Um especially today, um as this is the last time

082that I'll be here. Um, I want to say a big thank you, especially for all the opportunities I feel like you get for being a student school board representative. Um, from the teen town halls, the teen summits, um, and just the amount of people that you get to meet that kind of work behind the scenes. Uh, I will say, um, being a student and getting to see everything from this perspective, I think it really is emphasized that um, no matter what position uh, of anyone who works with the schools, you guys really do care about the students. Um, and that is always like your number one priority. And I think that's something you kind of know when you're a student, but you don't really see, especially sometimes when you might have, you know, a teacher

083you don't like as much or anything. I feel like uh being in this position really did make me uh see how much you guys care for the students and how that's your number one goal with everything you guys do. Um I think that this is a like I said, a wonderful opportunity. I will definitely be recommending it to all of my uh rising seniors to apply for. Um, I think this was just I I'm so happy that I chose to do this in my senior year. I think a uh I I learned a lot from it and um yeah, thank you guys so much. All right. Thank you, Danny. I'm going to keep this short and sweet, but first I'm going to beat you to it, Miss Moore. And happy 179th day of school. Love

084it. Taking over already. So, um, from class of 2025, I just want to say congratulations to all of our graduating seniors. I know that it's been a a tough time for some of us and some of us we really just worked our butts off to finally walk that stage tomorrow. So, being able to get our that diploma in our hands. We're really looking forward to that day. Um, in regards to being student school board representative, this really is one of the best opportunities I have ever been granted. I want to give a special thank you to my principal, Miss Boseman, in the back. This opportunity would not have been granted to me if it were not for you and your team. Matanis High School as a whole. Absolutely amazing. All the staff, faculty, and students,

085my fellow peers. Um, especially here on this board, all of my six peers or co-workers, shall I say, for today. Um, you guys have all been um, absolutely wonderful individuals. You all really, really strive to make Flaggler schools the best district that we can be, and I really, really appreciate that. um not just from speaking for me but from my students as well. Um I also want to give a huge shout out not just to the amazing faces of Fler schools but to everyone in the back especially Mr. Joshua Walker. I've known you since I was a lifeguard. So and here we are. So thank you so much to everybody for all the amazing opportunities, all the relationships, all the connections I've made, um all the friends, all of the family. and you all will

086be receiving postcards from me from Florida International University in Miami, Florida. So, I'm excited um to see you all tomorrow. And thank you to everybody, everyone watching, all the students. Um if I'm going to leave you with one thing, it's believe in yourself because you can do anything that you put your mind to. Thank you. Awesome. So, first I wanted to say uh it's been a really long week for everyone the past two weeks and everyone on the board. I want to thank you all and you know for coordinating like working through all the promotions, graduations and then the staff like and I know Miss Moore, you'll have a lot to say about promotions and graduations. So, I'm going to leave that to you. But it's just been incredible the faces and getting to know

087all the staff and then the board. I know I know I'm busy and I know all of you are busy. We all have children. We all work. And everybody, every human is very busy, but somehow Flaggler County is making it happen, but we want to make it happen. So, thank you everybody. It's been a lot. Um, but good things. And then awards. I know a lot of kids have received awards and they win. They win first place, third place, this athletic award, and this scholar award. But I want all the kids listening that didn't get an award, right? that you you're awesome, too. And we're all awesome, you know. So, just know that sometimes it's just not your time, but your time's coming. And I promise you, because you never know. And I know some

088kids, you know, you see it. And even as adults, we see it. And uh just know if you did not get that award for whatever it was, football, soccer, um all A's, right? It's coming. it. You may be 41, you may be 52, you may be 18, but it's coming. So, please know that. And um I wanted to just talk about uh solution tree. Again, I mentioned it at the workshop, but the district really invested into this simple program that you may see on the budget and it's not free. Things cost money, but we have staff that they look for grants to provide things for our district. And I don't think people realize how hard behind the scenes works cuz I knew everyone worked really hard until I was in this role. So I want

089the community to know that Flaggler schools works very hard to get everything that our educators need. And the investment is working because Matanis High School, they now are a PLC, promising practice school, which is the first step to becoming a model school. And this is what we want. So, this is proof right here that what Flaggler schools, our public schools, we're doing something that you can't do other places and they're not doing it in other counties. So, investment is working. PTO, someone mentioned PTO. I want to say every PTO is amazing. And I'm telling you, I guarantee next year all of these PTO's are going to blow it out of the water even more. They are raising money for these schools and it goes right back into them. I'll give you an example. Beltier, $37,000

090went right back into the schools. All right. Wadssworth, Rimfire, all of them. And that's one example. So, it's just going to get better. So, we need people to continue volunteering. It's not for everybody, but for those that it is for, then do it. Okay? You don't have to be a PTO mom or a dad, but if you feel the urge, do it. All right. Um, Miss Brandy Anderson got to say we know from Indian Trails, uh, five teachers in the state and we're one of them. So, come on, just think about it. Do the math. This is where you want to be taught. Okay. Um, another thing, mental health staff. I see her. Miss Brandy Williams. Thank you. So, we have had some tragic things happen just this year since I've been a school board

091member. And bad things happen every day and we're always going to remember the bad things. We do have good things, but when we have bad things, Miss Brandy Williams, she took phone calls on weekends, Sundays, all right? I mean, does she have to? No. She's a a wonderful person, her team. So, if you have things that are happening, those that are listening, reach out. There are people that will help. You just have to let us know. So, thank you for that. There's so many good things. Um, I just I'm going to stop now because we have so much more fun things happening, but thank you all for the support in Flaggler schools. And yep, tomorrow's the big day. We're going to watch you. Thank you. First, we uh I would like to take a moment

092to remember David Morris and Reverend Emanuel uh who our Flaggler County family recently lost. Uh I'm sure that their impact on the lives that they've touched will continue to ripple and this world will have been a better place for them being in it. Um and I uh am exited about attending the graduations tomorrow. Um clearly looking forward to that. Um I do want to revisit the uh school choice and my perspective uh just on the basis that a clear definition of capacity was established. Are we talking about the state capacity? Uh are we talking about capacity with the current number of teachers at that particular school? I have been in a school where 100% capacity was reached. And that means you don't have an art class in an art room. You have an art on

093a cart. You don't have music class in a music room. You have teacher trying to get from one class to another to service their elective and special area needs. There are real consequences with oversaturating uh a a school uh with um verging that capacity uh which could happen at the turn of a dime under the current policy. And to say that we're going to change the policy uh throughout the year does not build trust, which is what I'm trying to advocate for so that parents see Flaggler as the best choice because not only of our academics, but their ability to trust us to do what is fair. I've asked for transparency in the lottery system. I've asked for transparency in the capacity seating in which we're speaking about. And I think that those are simple

094things. And when I sit here as a board member and asked to debate an item and the board chair refuses to bring that up for a second motion, that is a failure of his board chair duties. And in fact, when I wished to discuss this item further during our agenda meetings, then I was told that I can do my own research on my own time. So I feel at this point there is a clear line being drawn in in deciding when to be casual in our conversations here when Robert's rules of orders are going to be f followed and clearly some prejudice on which voices he wants to hear. And so I'm going to be following that very directly and I'm calling that out on the carpet right now as inappropriate. I do want to

095finish my statement of um just being in awe of all of the amazing things that have been going on here. I don't want to end on a negative note. One of the most positive changes I've seen here is the school discipline policy. Uh this uh I was brought this question recently uh during an interview uh from the observer especially regarding bullying. If you look at our revised policy, bullying is the largest section of that discipline policy. It has been revised to meet and exceed the Florida statute. And we do act on and are required to act on every bullying charge as well as keep records. If you feel that something has gone ary, you're not being heard. There are multiple channels. There are anonymous channels that you can report to, both students and parents. However,

096I will caution just because a child wasn't arrested or immediately kicked out of school does not mean that the students behavior is not being dealt with. Bullying is a serious charge. If it were adult to adult raising accusations of that level, those are the types of accusations that in our adult lives would lead to lawsuits. So bullying must be proven beyond that doubt. And so just because there's an individual incident, it must uh occur over a span of time, it doesn't mean that the behavior wasn't addressed. Even if it's a one-time behavior infraction, the students behaviors are addressed, but we cannot put it on the headline of the news and we cannot report it to the parent or the child affected. But please, if you feel like an incident has not been investigated, bring it

097forth. Thank you. Thank you very much. Again, I'll just kind of reiterate today was a great day for so many promotions across this county and seeing so many smiling faces from uh starting off at Indian Trails to uh Banell Elementary School with the V PreK and then to Rimfire Elementary and all of our other board members up here uh representing um this board at those other schools today and as they move on to the next progression in uh in their education. I really all look forward to tomorrow shaking hands with every single one of the graduates that we have that are going across and I look forward to shaking these two ladies hands as well as a part of that. I just want to reiterate a couple of things or or say a few things

098about the community support. It was mentioned from the uh our education foundation. I think we have some of the the greatest community partners around and the support that they provide to our community and to our district is uh second to none. And so I want to thank them for what they do and the continued support that they do through our education foundation and other uh supporting organizations throughout the county. Um we are a special place to educate our students. We are the best choice and that's what we say that's what we continue to do is to try to be the best choice for uh students to come. And I've said this before, I'll continue to say it again. We will always improve and we will go by the guiding principles that is always brought up

099in what we do and I and I I believe that very wholeheartedly that we are the best choice based off of what I see in the classrooms and that what I see that our staff are doing. We will always have room for improvement. But I know that we have a group that is wanting to wanting to do that and that we will do that. I also want to thank uh Miss Miller today. I think she's already left for uh families in transition. I look forward to talking with her more about that and the great work that they're doing in that particular field. The walking a halls event, man, that's a pretty emotional thing. Good gosh, if you never done that, you need to go do that with these little kindergarteners walking through and then the

100seniors coming out. Oh my goodness. So, I am uh want to thank uh Mr. Foley for capturing those special moments through walking the halls and your staff. So, I really appreciate uh that as well. scholarship drive. We mentioned that. And then I would be remissed like Miss Ramirez mentioned about Miss Brandy Williams and her her team and what she does after hours to to help support uh Flaggler schools. And so and I do want to address a little bit what was mentioned earlier about how we govern ourselves in this particular body. Um we are lax. However, if we become the way was mentioned before me, some people are not going to like that because there's too much openness that it goes on. It's not too, you know, talking over one another and things of that

101nature that happens. And the way that is Robert rules of order and I'm sure our attorney can discuss that with us is there's a time and a place for people to be discussing and talking and be given that information by the chair. So we need to be how we want to govern ourselves and how we want to work together with this board. We need to be thinking about that as we move forward. So I just caution us because we we are lax and we are not strict by the rules and when persons and persons on this board are allowed to speak and when they can't speak. So we do this collectively. We work together. I've seen that over and over. We don't always agree and I'm sure we're not going to always agree moving forward,

102but I think as had been mentioned, the best thing that we have at our heart is trying to do the right thing for Flaggler schools. And I know that's what everybody on this board wants to do, regardless of whether we agree or disagree with certain topics. So, I yield back my time, sir. Y'all forgive me. I'm just really cold right now. Um, I just want to extend condolences to um the family of the sixth grader at Buddy Taylor uh recently. As as a mother, that just it breaks my heart. Um, my heart goes out to the staff and the students and also even the hospital staff, the ER that had to intake that student. There's there's just nothing more difficult than losing a child and um, you know, just want to keep that family in

103prayers. Um, I'm looking forward to tomorrow. Um, you know, we we I feel like we play such a small role. I know, you know, our students get to be there because of our teachers and our staff. Um, all the hard work that you all have done to invest into our children. And it's an honor for us to to be able to just stand there and also shake y'all's hands. Um, I'm grateful that we get to be a part of that, but um, again, it's just a small part for us and I'm just grateful that we get a chance to be there and experience that with y'all. Um, yeah, all the walk the halls videos. Um, it just makes me think like one day it's going to be us seeing our own children walking old kings

104and bananel and yeah, a day I hope it slows down a little bit. Every year goes faster and faster, but I'm looking forward to tomorrow. It's been another great year. Thank you to everybody who's worked so hard. Appreciate it. Yes, thank you everybody. Um, thank you board for another great meeting. And um, I do need to respond to the comments that were uh, directed at me as uh, the board chair. And um, I will say this that uh, Mr. Bars is correct. We, you know, we have Robert's rules and they're here to help us run an efficient meeting, but we are a small board and it uh for the public to know that this is this is our voting meeting. Uh not every district does it the way we do it. Uh we invest a

105lot of time before today uh to make sure that we have all the information that is available uh to so we can make a conscious decision on our when we vote. Uh we've workshopped this on the fir first Tuesday uh sorry second Tuesday of every every month and then we have another um workshop before this meeting typically uh this is an exception from today because of all of our promotion ceremonies. So a lot of work goes in and and every board member has plenty of time to access staff before today's meeting. And I do in our workshops try and be a little flexible because I believe that the a collaborative environment which we rarely get to have as board members because of sunshine law. Um I feel as the chair sitting now that that that

106collaborative feeling in our workshops is healthy and it helps us learn and it helps us get to the point where we can come to this dis and make a decision. So, if uh Miss Ruddy's used to that and and uh when we're here in a more formal setting and we're here to make our votes, uh I gave everybody time to speak and if I I would argue that Miss Ruddy occupies the majority of that discussion time. So, I believe that the board I have to make a determination. Does the board need any more information to come to a vote? And I looked at this board and I could see that they appeared to me they were ready for a vote. When I called the vote, there was no objection. There was no objection. If there

107was an objection, we would have we we would have um addressed that. Uh and I'll remind um Miss Ruddy that she can make a motion anytime she wants. She didn't make a motion and so she had plenty of time to get her statements out during that period of time. And furthermore, if you have additional things you want to speak into the record, this is the time to do it during closing comment. You can add extra to justify your vote. You can speak against the the the votes of your colleagues if you wish. This is your time to express as you did. And I welcome your speech on that. Um, but we need to move these uh along and sometimes votes are going to go your way and sometimes they're not. And but if we if

108we're honest, a majority of our votes are are are 50, right? But it's just not going to happen every time. So, uh that that's all I have to say to that matter. And um uh but I do want to say that uh today has been a real joyous day uh going to uh the different promotions. All of our board members were very active today. We were sharing pictures with each other. Uh we were all celebrating. Some of us had children promoted from fifth to 6th and from uh 8th to 9th and just very exciting and and uh you know even if they're not our uh our kids that they're all are our our kids. We we love all of our students and we're happy for all of them and today was just uh full of

109joy and um I will say at least for myself and I'm sure my colleagues would agree for all the effort for all the debate for all the the the everything that comes into being a board member you know this is the time when we really feel the reward for our efforts is and tomorrow we are going to see uh our young scholars uh go off into the world and graduate high school. And uh that brings me a lot of joy. So I'll yield any additional time to Superintendent Moore. Good evening. Um I won't say it again since Jahan's already said what day it is, but happy almost last day of school. Um, it has been a great year and I cannot believe that today was the last full day of the school year. Um, I

110want to say again to our amazing student board members, you have been such a delight to be able to sit here with to see um, learning and growing and we are so proud of you and we are so proud of your peers as well. We are about to go into summer and contrary to what some people may think, everyone isn't off during the summer. Um, and so I say to our students, to our families, to our community, we are still here. The board um is still here. We'll continue to meet during the summer. If there's something that we can do for you, please um reach out to us. Life continues to happen during the summer as well. And so if there's a service that we can provide to our students over the summer, um please

111reach out to us. Um I just want to also encourage our students to continue learning over the summer, continue reading, um accessing the learning platforms that you have um available to you. Today is promotion day, you know, extraordinaire, though we had some approach promotion ceremonies last week as well. Um, but tomorrow is graduation day and I am so excited about graduation day. Today I had an opportunity to sit at our middle school and watch our students that will be leaving our middle schools and going to high school. and um having served in this organization for the number of years, I know so many of these students and it is an honor to see them and um watch them grow over the years and see them transition um throughout the school years. And so it is

112my honor. I cannot wait for graduation tomorrow as well as June 3rd. We will have graduation for Flaggler Flaggler Technical College and some of our additional programs on June 3rd. We're super excited about that as well. Um it's been mentioned here um tonight. We have experienced a lot of loss this this year from um students um to staff members and I do too want to thank our team um through Miss Brandy Williams office as well as our faith for Flaggler team um and other community agencies that come alongside and support us when we are um moving through loss. And so as I stated before, life continues to happen during the summer. And so if there's something that we can do for our students, for their families, please, please, please reach out to us. The foundation,

113thank you so much for all of your hard work this year. Um, I love scholarship night for sure. You know, I do. I'm going to just keep saying it. I love scholarship night. It is one of my favorite nights. And you talk about the impact of a community. I mean, these are local scholarships being given out. $600,000 worth of dollars from our local community investing in our students. This is not something that happens everywhere. I was at a scholarship night at one of um our neighboring districts and um nobody does it the way that we do it. and um the community. I just want to say thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you to our community that trusts Flaggler schools, that trusts the Flaggler Education Foundation and continues to support us, be it in

114scholarship, in time, in their treasures and donations, so many different things. This amazing community just stands alongside of us over and over again. And I just want to continue to say thank you to my team in the back. you know, the ones that you can't see on the camera. Uh, we appreciate you so much and your hard work. And I know everyone isn't here, but we have amazing principles, directors, chiefs, coordinators. We we talk about amazing um faculty and staff in our school, but we have some amazing individuals leading um the charge. And so to our coordinators, to our directors, um our principles, assistant principles, chiefs, uh thank you so much for all that you do um to invest in the life in the lives of our students. Thank you to our to our community,

115to our to our students, to our families. Um I am just overwhelmed. Um today has been a great day. Today has been a great day and tomorrow will be even better as we go into graduation and I have to because it is almost the end of the school year. Leave us with our guiding principles because they truly are what we do every single day. And so to hear you as student board members say to us that you see that we put this forward is important to me. And so our guiding principles are children first, trust and respect for all, empower others, teamwork, excellence, quality and consistency, commitment to individual needs, and my favorite, get to yes. Have a great night. Thank you, Superintendent Moore. This meeting is adjourned.