001clemenzi to lead us in our invitation and pledge please bow your heads dear heavenly father please be with us this morning mornings like this let us realize that not every child in our district has the same opportunities that at home please guide us to make the right decisions and do everything in your image during this beautiful Linton season guide us and protect us all in the lord's name amen please address the flag I pledge algian 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 thank you Mrs cinski now accept motion to adopt our agenda say move second there's no further debate all those in favor please say I I any oppos motion carries welcome everybody this
002morning it's going to be an exciting morning ready for your speech I'm ready all right Madam superintendent thank you Mr chair I have the pleasure of introducing a wonderful chelin Elementary team Dr Weber Mrs Rollins and M Weatherford to come up and present this thank you um good morning I'm Miss Megan um I would go by Miss Weatherford but there is is another Miss Weatherford that's been teaching for about 35 years and that is not me so um my students call me Miss Megan to conf to alleviate some confusions so today I wanted to present about our Avid career day for 2025 it's our first one at the school um what makes it a little bit different is our vision it's not to have outside um uh companies and businesses and and colleges come to
003campus it was to have our high school students present to our El school students because our cmhs um has uh careers that they they um sorry my words are failing me this morning but they have careers that they prepare the students for so our vision for C's career fair was to have cs's current CTE students present a career to the fourth and fifth graders at the elementary school in order to create excitement about attending cmhs entering into a CT program to pursue a career and to encourage Avid elect participation so our five stations we had were teacher Cadets Health Academy agriculture digital design and media and adid recruiting um so why we did it this way uh is so that CTE students could show their knowledge and pride about the careers that they're entering into
004um so that CES students could learn about possible career paths that our own high school can prepare them for um we thought that having CES students having passed C CES students present to current CES students would uh Pro promote longevity because the students have been there and seen it before so that later they could expand on it whenever they got in that position um CTE week and Avid recruitment week are both promoted during this event for our high school and so it benefits both schools in that way and it also covers 4.2.4 of the added CCI of um promoting colleges and careers at the elementary school level so we promoted this career Fair um by creating a remind message that went home to fourth and fifth grade parents just telling them while we didn't expect
005them to come to the school but their student would be going through this at the school um we also had this flyer that went home and we also uh posted it around the fourth and fifth grade hallway so that they would be prepared for it we also promoted it at our Scholastic Book Fair um at the parent night so we had this informational um board put up we also had Flyers to hand out and we were able to to talk to the parents about what was going to be happening along with our current AVID program at the school um so our first station was digital design and media and so the digit digital design and media students had a model of the things that they create in class along with a flier that they were
006able to show the kids um the agriculture had qu had many stations um so one of the stations was the students worked with Legos as a metaphor for problem solving that farmers have to do every day on their Farms um students got to build pizzas from the ingredients that farmers produce um they were able to wrap the leg in an injured calf so they had animals that they were able to look at seed planting and for our health Academy Health Academy had a presentation on a uh an informational poster board and they had um things that were used in the health Academy room along with a dummy which was the highlight so they had a medical dummy that they got to show some various things that they do in the health Academy there on the
007dummy um the teacher Cadets had a chain that the students were able to manipulate and it was to to show how teaching links the past present and future and then we have a video of one of the CH that was done 1 2 3 so the ad recruitment station um showed the importance of the Abid elective in the high school to help them pursue the college that they want to attend or the career that they want to attend we did the chant as a a signal to the rest of the group that it was time to switch so once they did their chant students got up and moved to the next station um this Avid recruitment station was followed up with an application for the fifth graders to apply to be in the Avid elective
008for the high school and so we actually had 27 students apply which was phenomenal compared to last year last year we didn't have enough applicants to have a class so um this year we have enough to have possibly two classes so that was big um we also had a followup from the Cs students they did a um a feedback survey and so 100% of those students that presented felt that it was well received by the elementary school students and that they enjoyed it 90% said that the noise level could have been um reduced so they they felt that the noise around the cafeteria was a problem and um 50% said that they would shorter their presentation so that it would be more interact not more interactive but more um it would keep the kids attention
009better so with that followup we are thinking of improvements for next year and so we're thinking of a different venue this year we did it in the cafeteria and it didn't um it created a lot of noise lot of distraction and the setup wasn't great so we're going to do a different venue we're going to increase the setup time for the middle high school students to come um they felt a little bit rushed uh like I said they wanted to shorten their presentations along with increase the presentation interactiveness so that the elementary school students were more interactive with it um and then on our end we would like to have a teacher and student feedback survey so that we can continue to improve on it and see how they felt about it um but that
010that wraps it up do you guys have any questions great yeah it sounds great those young kids they'll listen to those high schoolers more than they will to an adult a lot of times absolutely right yeah so it was it was definitely a lot of good things that we felt like would come from having the high school do it right sounds like a great day and I added my email in case you guys had any um feedback or information or tips or things that you think could help us improve on that because we we really want this to be something that we continue to do in a very much all right Mr Gore come on down good morning board how are y'all morning good um it's uh set time again it's our quarterly report I
011will um give you a little bit more information this time um than I have the previous two times um we have the I shouldn't say we I should say the state has been quite busy since my last report um we have had seven State audits since right before um Christmas break so they start showing up about the week before Christmas break and we are responsible for Safety and Security at the charter schools as well so 11 total um since um right before Christmas break we've had seven total schools that have been audited wow uh during that time so they've been busy and that generally takes about 2 or three hours to audit one school um so they've been pretty busy visiting us lately um we have had three findings um I can't tell you the
012details of those findings but I would like to explain a few things in those in those findings some hypothetical situations that could be a a finding um uh one of them being it could be a clear documentation that we're required to um put up on the uh wall um um at one of our facilities and um if say this Podium is the the corner wall um if the paper is not on this side of the wall but on this side of the wall it is considered a finding even though it'll be about 2 ft around the corner um another situation could be it's not clearly stated in statute of what 60 days looks like um in some situations 60 days would mean 60 school days in other situations it would be 60 calendar days it
013all depends on the auditor and what um um you see you see the predicament we're in here so there's not clear language in the statute on some things but um um in my opinion um those things shouldn't be in question if they're not in clear but um so those are um you know a couple of things that myself and uh administrators are are dealing with um I do want to uh thank uh one person if uh Mr Stockman if um there's ever any kind of um safety that involves a mechanical issue or anything like that um we normally put a work order in I give him a phone call and they are on top of it um as soon as possible to get that remedied so I do appreciate him supporting Safety and Security and
014uh always uh putting that first with us but that's pretty much where we're at I'm hoping the other four get hit before the school year's over um uh but uh we will continue to do audits District um they are unannounced so they could they could Circle back and hit a school that we've already hit um it's we're we're completely uh at the mercy of them when they show up so that's kind of what's been going on since my last quarterly Report with audits yes ma'am I I was just going to say I guess you know that the house bill that U representative Brad joerger was sponsoring um I think it passed unanimously so that will allow you a little more flexibility yeah so to touch on that a little bit that involves uh there was
015some some um wording in there of our uh involving the guardian program with the sheriff's department but also for uh a lot of those um after hour Gates and door use and after hours and and exemptions that we um you know we explained in the past so that involves a lot of that so we're thankful for that yeah any any more questions anybody got anything everybody good can't answer nothing I mean I do my best to be in gray area over so but if you have no questions thank you'all so much and I'll see you one more time this year for sure thanks sir thank you got St St [Music] don't you have school to run yes thanks for having us thank you excuse me I'm take time you're doing a good job thank you
016Mr stock just Mr St at this moment first of all I like ter return favor Mr Gore he's always helpful to the maintenance department I appreciate it um I come before you this morning to request the following maintenance position in the maintenance department be classified by the board as critical positions and I ask this due to the nature of the job restrictions and the training experience needed to fill them with qualified applicants uh these three positions or electrician plumber and HVAC Tech and we don't have currently vacancies in all of these positions but history has showed us that every time we do we struggle to get qualified applicants I mean just struggle very hard and we end up sometimes leaving the position open for a long time luckily we have found qualified applicants but we
017struggle through that interim and I think by designating this as critical positions according to board policy I think you'll have an attachment from Mrs Lake a it's a policy with our contract the it's under the part of our with the union and that if you classify these positions as critical need or critical positions then we can offer them one one to one on years of experience currently that's a big hurdle for us because we end up getting somebody applies and first thing they're going to ask is where would I fall on the pace scale you got somebody that's got 20 years of experience in say the HVAC trade electrical trade out doing whatever running jobs and we tell them well we give you 10 years and that's the end of the conversation you know you
018just you're not going to get anybody interested when they don't get credit for their work experience and it I think it puts us behind the eightball and these jobs uh you know we want to trct qualified people with skills we need then uh we need to have a in my opinion able to offer them one to one on their experience experience that's and which will I think help help us yeah that's what we're asking for got be got to be competitive I mean you got to be competitive to get qualified people I mean these schools I mean there's lots of Maintenance and we're still not going to be at the same pay right grade as they can make outside world that's just not a reality uh some of the other company big companies now offer
019same benefits we do uh but got people that want to work in the system live in the county yeah and would come work for leev County but the you know Financial right isn't there so never going to be able to compete 100% but this to make it more attc for sure yeah it it just doesn't turn them off automatically when you say we can't count your experience that's right I think this is greatly needed and I I I like seeing it here and then it's going to become part of our policy but I just have one question about the policy itself so they say they have experience how we uh how are they documenting that you know somebody comes to you and says I've been in business I had my own business for 20 years
020or whatever part of part policy part of the policy is we have to contact their previous employers we also have to uh submit they have to submit to finance no there's a form that's completed through personnel and um Miss Mandy Smith handles all certifications and all employment history this it is the same certification form that a teacher teacher would get okay and if it's a self-employed they will have to submit docents tax records such as that it's not just saying we got it right right so any other questions any other questions now will this just affect new hires or are we going to look at our current SE it's just affecting new hires as I understand because you know we got to start somewhere absolutely I understand it may not be great for everybody but
021we're trying to move forward I wouldn't mind seeing us do it with our current people that's just my opinion Le yeah show and I don't know if we can do that no that's handled through compensation negotiations with the union and they get steps that's how we handled that okay increase the base okay all right all right uh will entertain a motion second we have a motion in a second any further questions not questions but I wish we could add we've said this you know we say this through the years um not every kid is College Bound and if we could somehow Implement these trades into our school you know which we're doing a good job of that right now with with everything that we're offering but I wish we could do a plumber HVAC electrician
022those are good trades for's working on it yeah oh I do Doo I mean we we all do I think it's just a Financial constraints that we face yeah all right so we have a motion in a second and all those in favor please say I I any oppos carries thank you Mr do thank you all this is late good morning morning so we'll start uh quickly with the results of our financial audit for last school year um this one is is pretty quick so the summary page tells you uh that no uh deficiencies over internal controls were identified there were no material misstatements uh Federal Awards were in compliance so I'm happy to report we had no Financial AUD findings this we're happy too I owe that to my finance officer Pam Whitney she
023does all the financial reporting and so we're heavily dependent on how from the PO being put on all the way to our reporting they're all interconnected and that's why Finance sometimes uh has rules that people don't necessarily understand but it all helps us um tie the financial reporting and real quickly on that we're the only entity that's required to have our financial reporting done from uh July 1 and it's due September 11th other uh municipalities they get six months we l we we have from July 1 to September 11 that's why we have to cut off POS in April we have to start getting ready because it's literally like a horse race and we are all at the gate and the minute July 1 hits the race on so I thought that was interesting I
024didn't realize we were the only ones against that all right so next we'll talk about the third calculation it was late this year usually the third calculation drops in January the third calculation is is based on what we call survey 2 so there are five surveys throughout the year so those are under the perview of Mis Morgan handles those and those are where we count the kids heads so survey two would be the October count and Survey three would be the February count survey two kicks off what we call the third calculation mid year the calculation that I use to build the budget that will be coming before you pretty soon is based off of the legislation legislative session and our forecasting FTE that we just submitted to the state and that's called the second
025calculation the fourth calculation is due soon it's earlier this year because it's an odd Year and that is based off the October and February count and you kind of can get an idea of some of those surveys are estimates and some of them are projections and some of them are actual and so we call it TR up so that's what happens at the third calculation we find out how good our FTE estimates our forecast really was so the next page I'm breaking up the calculation that I do to to look at the variance so I can do a budget amendment and I'm going to piec meil it and we'll just walk through it this first chunk is simply looking at your base student allocation your BSA and you can see it's very misleading so let's
026just walk through it it's presented as having a growth we're presented as having a unweighted increase of 19.06.13 we've had a growth of 206 I'm sorry $2,968 the additional weighted funding reduction is part of that 211 and we pull that out so that those particular programs that are funded with that additional waiting you can see what's happening in those programs the isolated school is funding attached solely to Cedar Key based on the 9 through 12 population cannot exceed 100 students or we would not be eligible for that funding that funding has been in a continual decline because we do not have a lot of 9 through 12 students and they seem to be um reducing the industry serve is the CTE program and I think you would AP and dual enrollment are self-explanatory so you
027can see that was a reduction of 163 757 so you'd have to add that to the 211 that's because it's embedded in that that's a net again keep keep in mind that if you were to pull this off the state of Florida's website you would think we had a growth so let's go to the next page my page is see what thats okay this is just what's left of the categoricals uh what's remaining two years ago or maybe it was yes started last year they took categoricals and moved them into the base student allocation again the made it look as if we had a a huge growth we did not they had just taken money from what we call under the line and put it above the line so all the teacher uh tsia money
028went from below the line to above the line well those were funds already spent they moved the reading allocation that that governs our reading coaches it was below the line now it's above the line that money was already spent they did that with instructional material so it's quite misleading if you were to just look at a calculation as posted on doe without having your finance department discern it for you so here's our categorical so after our categoricals and growth in those categoricals you can see it looks like uh grow state and local ffp dollars have grown by 3177 almost 318,000 okay go to the next now we're looking at the required local effort this is what we get from local property taxes that we have to commit to the running of the school district in
029order for the state to make up that additional 35 million so there's no change in your required local effort there's no change in your local dollars throughout the year that is set in your second calculation so you never see local change only state continues to change there's a pration of 400 almost uh a little over 424,000 prorations come because by Florida stat they build a budget the budget is fixed so as and it's built on the forecasted FTE so if school districts over or under estimate and really it's not us we're kind of bound the state kind of tells us what to do when it comes in the thought is if they'll wash L is over gilis is under elula is over Citrus is under we're all going to wash right well there's this thing
030called scholarships and they don't have a firm grasp on what those scholarships are going to be so when there are more students in our system than the budget can support the state comes and takes money back at a pro-rated rate based on our FTE from every school district in the State of Florida so they can balance that budget they don't go back into session and do a budget amendment this is what happens so every District was hit with a pration to help offset those scholarships so you can see when that's all done we were at 3177 we thought growth now we're at 174 and I will remind you again the FTE includes scholarships and the FTE includes uh charter schools so the district itself is in decline not in growth and we'll get to that
031next so here we're going to look at the family empowerment scholarship you you don't want a negative number the negative number simply means the budget that we started with or the estimated scholarships the state told us to use as a placeholder increased by almost 641000 and that's on top of the pro rati so when you come down we're now at a decline of $451,000 again that's including scholarships too next I'm sorry that's removing the scholarships so that's a loss to the district so you can see there the class size reductions simply estate categorical had a minor reduction so now we're at a reduction of 44,000 almost and if you go to the very bottom you'll see that that 454 is a loss to the district because that's after that change in the uh FTE for
032I'm sorry change in scholarships so what they did is keep us at the same funds per unweighted FTE and I think that's how they arrived at some of those different educational enrichment numbers to keep us at a loss of just 44,000 so that has that's a budget amendment that I have to do and I have to go in and I have to reduce the revenue for the year and I'll set some expenditures to to um Encompass that loss now again this is only third the third survey two survey Three is coming and we can expect more loss there and that will show up next year all right the next one oh my goodness so how that impacts us is it is our fund balance currently the board approves compensation packages based on more than just
033the growth in our budget if there is any they also allow us to use to a certain extent uh fund balance so you can see this year through the loss of Revenue and in the compensation package that was approved by the board is a little over 2 million you can see we're showing anticipating a decline in that uh Financial condition ratio from 18.4 to 14.4 and there's still a lot going on within our budget that is an estimate all right so let's look at the students so again you you see that we had a growth of 19.06.13 [Music] and adopted um last January or February the district really has a loss of 63.2 n in FTE right we next one so let's look at enrollment because we all know enrollment and FTE aren't quite the
034same they're pretty close but they're not quite the same so this is taken a snapshot in time and this is showing you what survey 3 what we can anticipate with survey 3 it's showing the change between uh enrollment as of date certain of October and as of date certain in February and the uh peach color orange line you can see the changes at Bronson L Bronson Middle High School you can see it resulted in another loss of 42 and a home school increase of 48 real quick so you can get an idea of what we're up against with the scholarships you can see in 2020 this this is just showing you the total dollars lost to scholarships the 2004 would just be McKay somewhere around um well 2020 is when fbes started and then right
035after that is when they rolled in Garder and another uh scholarship into uh total scholarship so now it's just one FBS and inh that encompasses everything but look at that 2025 line next so just to give you an idea of growth I've been here since 2017 so it seems to me there's a little bit of a pattern when the scholarships started to Flatline to decline uh the state came up with new programs to encourage growth in scholarships and so if you were to you know see each dip you would know or each in uh increase you would know that there was some kind of change in those scholarships they either broaden them FES broaden them and allow people that were never in our kids that were never in our school district to enter so we've
036never even seen them uh FES allowed those who did not have unique abilities or uh ESC students with IEPs McKay only allowed that so you can just see and then they had caps to cap how many students could enter into the scholarships and that's continue to increase so again this is just another way to look at the loss in funding to feses in particular and you can see the red line shows the percent variance from the prior year so there's a growth of 72% in scholarship funding from this year for this year and you between this year and last year and the blue line is simply the dollar amount that never enters our district for those students that get scholarships and scholarships is open to those that are in home school as well and that
037was all the the good news I had great that's good news so does anybody have any questions there a lot pretty fast but at least they released the third half relationship they did they released that late they were they were trying to figure out how to handle scholarships because I think it took everybody by by surprise I I heard a rumor there are some districts in the state that actually were going to owe back um money they were in negative and that's never been the desire of the state to um take us negative but the pration in and of itself means that we are serving students with less than what we what we had at the start of the year so we just have to account for that produce those revenues and try to figure
038out how to off set that in expenditures to hopefully not erode the fund balance the fund balance is vital in so many different ways um we've had heavy insurance claims this year that's where we have to take money sometimes to do permanent transfers to insurance to cover those insurance claims there's hurricanes we have to front all the front money for the Hurricanes we front all the money for our federal programs um we are not Revenue positive until we start getting local dollars so usually we are are using that fund balance to support operations all the way up until December or January saying claim medical claims medical insurance claims medical Claims can have an impact on your general fund because we have to do permanent transfers to make sure that Insurance Fund balance is at um
039I think two and a half an average of two and a half months of claims so when they Skyrocket like they did this year the two and a half is going to go up you can um we we would work through with the Union through negotiations if we were going to increase the employee side but it's not always enough and so you still have to give money from the general fund sometimes to Pro that any other questions thank you Mrs L thank you apprciate it okay all right at this time we welcome any public comments see anyone have anything they'd like to address with the board all right we'll move on to the approval of our minutes as everyone had a chance to read over I will entertain a motion to approve the Amendments so
040move second have a motion in a second all those in favor please say I I any oppos motion carries we'll now move to our consent agenda uh we'll start with Mrs Campbell Mrs Campbell do you have any questions no I do not Mrs back all my questions were answered thank you Mr White I'm good Mr all my questions are answered all mine too I will entertain a motion to approve the consent agenda I move second we have a motion and second if there's no further questions all those in favor please say I all any opposed like sign motion carries we'll now move to our finance agenda does anyone have any questions see none I'll entertain a motion to approve the finance agenda second motion and a second have further discussion all those in favor please
041say I I any oppose like side motion carries now move over to our superintendent's comments and recommendations Madam superintendent thank you um Mr Wayne may I mention the bus or would you like to do that no I'm sure you all noticed that there is an activity bus that's parked out here and that is what you all approved so you're welcome after the meeting to go out and take a peak inside the activity bus and I know Mr Wayne is on top of um and Miss Tanya is on top of those who will be driving it will get a little extra training and so forth before they um hit the road with our students so that's being done also I received an email early this morning from NE Dr wck and if you haven't heard yet
042the rural renissance bill that's going strong up there it has passed in the house committee yesterday um so and if you wanted to do a little bit of research you'd be looking for um House Bill 1427 and the companion to that is Senate Bill 110 so you can do very excited about that and they are looking um at the last NE meeting they're looking for some superintendents to sit on a committee these monies will come directly to the consortiums okay in the state and then the consortiums will then determine um what the districts get but the districts will then be able to distribute those funds so the committee that they asked a couple superintendent I volunteered to sit on that committee and what that will do is and please you're welcome to give ideas to
043me that I can bring to them we're trying to find ideas when we I'm going to talk like we're getting money when we get these funds um to show them in the following year so that they're reoccurring funds that we are held accountable what we did what we did with those funds they want to see stud student achievement they want to see um programs that we give to our students that are going to improve from prek all the way up so that's what that's what they're going to want to see and that's what the committee will help determine hey let's make sure we do this so that there's accountability as to good use of the funds make sure investment Roi mhm absolutely um so that's exciting and thank you for going to the fair and
044representing us I know you had a long day appreciate that did day um Miss Linda and Miss Lisa and myself we kind of conquered Tallahassee again they had a lot going on um they went through some more new school board training and I know they had very long days um but we are able to see representative Johnson we just kind of walked up there and he took us into in this office and we sat down and had a great meeting with him we were able to see Senator McCain uh quickly at a reception and without even offering any mention to um Senator mlan about the Appropriations Bill he brought it up and he said I have you know we have our eye on it which I thought was great news for him to mention it
045and Mr mclen and I were able to attend the chiefin prom promise so that new assistant um principal there Mrs Barry she With a Little Help from the other admin she put together a prom promise in I don't know maybe a week's time I think and some of the um SOS were out there in the field with goggles that you could put on that would actually simulate drunk driving and the kids had to take the golf cart and Cones were set up and go and see what it would feel like and they I mean they were having a good time they did they they did um different sessions so some were in the media center they broke them into small groups and they just rotated Juniors and seniors and it was really quite interesting although
046I didn't get to drive the golf cart next year I don't Mr M did you drive the golf cart with the and um I was fortunate enough to attend two of the proms so far so Willison mid in Gainesville and then Chief in Middle High and they were the kids were beautiful I mean they you know and admin dresses up really nice too but they all had a wonderful time and there's two more proms to go and hopefully I'll be able to peek in on those you're more than welcome to prom and that's all I have thank you ma'am thank you now move to our board comments Mrs Campbell um well I did enjoy Tallahassee very much learned a lot um the uh Florida school board training was excellent and whipping us into shape so
047we're going to be ready to serve well don't you think Lisa yes um and also um neac what what they had going on we got to attend uh the superintendent's breakfast and and met with uh some people that uh I'd worked with years ago as a teacher um at neic and and that was that was uh very enlightening and see what's going on and and the hopes that we have um and then the the bills that uh the safety bill and the rural Renaissance bill um it was it was interesting to see uh our legislators uh reaction to our questions and our requests and um and so I I came away feel feeling um I I I made one I committed one sin while I was there though I actually tried I did get on
048an elevator which I did not know was reserved only for senators on representatives and I got scolded big time they were right yeah they were right behind me but you were saying oh no let them see my name t I said well they already saw mine it's leing County but anyway but um but I was encouraged to see that they were in in discussion and seeing um you know how they operate up there there are some really good people with good hearts and who have a a stake in education they either have some kind of background a family member that was a superintendent or their wife was a teacher some connection and that made me feel better made me feel better that these there were people up there who were making um decisions with a
049a frame of reference um and of course there was still those that I looked at and said H but in general it was really a great experience and I was proud to represent Leva County there um it's Cedar Key um our prom's coming up and um we had a uh fundraiser Deca held a cornhole uh event and a barbecue to raise money for um for them to go to their National Conference and also for a scholarship for for a parent who has passed away and I thank you for representing us at FFA sale and I was happy that cedar Key's goat was purchased by the school board thank you very much yes ma'am Mrs B well I I too enjoyed Tallahassee um both times I've left there and I feel like my head is just
050so full of information I was so impressed with Senator Albritton who's president of the Senate with his Ral Renaissance bill but he came and spoke to a group of Educators in a room 1/4 the size of this with about 20 people in there and he started out his speech with a Bible verse and you know he is so well respected and so well liked by his PE in Tallahassee but this rural Renaissance bill is going to affect us greatly and I'm so glad you're sitting on that committee um it was nice to see Senator mlan and representative Johnson as well um so it was a great trip thank you Cameron for going to the fair I was thinking about you sitting up there while we were sitting in class um also Tammy kind of um
051uh already told you what was going on at chief Middle High School that prom promis was apparently I didn't know about it until after it was over but um it sounds like it was a great event and um and of course chiefin Elementary just shared with you what's been going on at their school with the Avid career day so that's all I have thank you ma'am Mr W I don't have a whole lot um I said Wilson had the prom went off with the a lot of hits um and I said war Fair last week certainly um ie has a school board us allowing the uh you know some days off of school having three kids in the Le school system you know trying it's enough trying to do the pro fair projects and everything
052without having to worry about missing school and getting behind on you know academics and so I appreciate the school board us voting on calendars that allow that so um like I said starting a new nine weeks last week and this Wilston baseball softball all in the all in the works but it's about all I have thank you thank you sir mmen um yeah it's a busy time of year I was a stalker prom night chiefin and Willison like you said they they had the same same night as proms on the same night so I sat on the corner after I we took pictures and look with my binoculars at all the but um I love the idea of the prom promise that's a great idea and I I was around a lot of teenage boys
053this weekend and and hearing them talk about the coaches that all reached out to say if you guys need a drive a a ride tonight it's just um that was special but I love the idea of the prom promise thank you for SW River fair I know knowing you you enjoyed every second of it though being in the mix um what else do I have get we over there we were there weren't we we were there thank you Mr Deon too yes um I think 21 days until testing starts about so it's we're in the thick of that also so just busy all around the district and Thursday night is literacy night in Yankee Town and there's a program out of UF called the world reading initiative and they're going to provide food and get
054a lot of kids signed up on reading programs and prizes and um I'm just very appreciative they're coming to Yankee toown it's it's an exciting night so um everyone's welcome if you guys want to come that's all I have thank you ma'am uh M will be I'll be brief um I'll make a deal with y'all I'll gladly go to fair if y'all handle the okay you know what that's a deal deal down there I'll hang I'll hang out with my P hang out your oh but we do have a story to tell you okay which we will do later okay about somebody who was your senior sponsor when you went on a cruise and I had a good time ain't going to lie ain't going to lie I having a good time we'll talk about
055that later um that that's why I should stay at the SW room that's right okay uh that was a great experience thank y'all for entrusting me and Mr WHUR with that I tried not to pressure him too much because Mr White Hurst has kids in it I'm I'm done but now I will tell you a great tragedy many of you don't know about the tragedy that struck the Swan River Fair no on sale day at the end of the sale this one young lady she came up to me and she goes I really need some help with my go Mr asbel I like okay we'll hook you up and then her mama came up and said Cameron I really appreciate that you don't know how much this means to me well no problem no problem
056then the tragedy struck she says you know I remember being a senior over here and you been on my animal then and she'd been out of school 25 years so tragedy struck right there and the white hair is not just for looks it is what it is I was like dang it's been that long but yes give me the fair over to alasse I'll deal with those animals I got you back as long as I'm here we can track that deal right now um kind of on that same uh I'm put you on spot what do you think about this bill that's coming down about the with cap funding and changing those technical courses and how the credits and all that what do you think of that the Emoji I used in communicating with Miss
057fo is the one that is a green face um definitely incredibly concerned about it I feel like it doesn't make any sense especially when they're offering three funding for program completion it feels like we're Robin Peter to playay PA yeah um so I know that our industry Partners our industry certification agencies and um like Florida FFA R csos FBLA are all at the table having the conversations about it um so at this point I'm just incredibly nervous and trying to come up with a proactive approach of this pass he is there anything we can do um did you want do we need it sure I had asked um Miss Taylor that when it when we first when she texted me we were up in Tallahassee so she put together basically some of the negative impact
058a little one pager and Kim waited on it as well and then when we sat down with representative Johnson it I mean it was what 2 less than 24 hours since all this unfolded and we mentioned it to him it appears that he's on one of the Committees that this might go before and he I emailed him what you had written down and Miss Kim as well and he emailed me back that night when I got when I actually got back from Tallahassee and said that he is beginning to research and go to the table and talk so fortunately um we are lucky they they didn't put him on any AD committees that he's you know so where his background his background they actually W wound wound up putting him on this Workforce committee and
059he appreciated go I I did want to say though if you get a chance to read that bill in its entirety it is not limited to CTE huge impacts for Morgan huge changing the survey Windows of the annual FTE audits it is going to impact these small districts Beyond just C I mean so just even if you just read what's underlined right just on the surface I was like why are y'all talking about both sides of your mouth like Tallahasse has been known to do one minute is ay vocational vocational and then next it's yeah vocational vocational and that's why I should stay at the fair and I and I know this about me I can't go up there and play that game because I have no problem looking you go hey qu on my
060leg and telling me it's raining okay um so y'all keep doing that I'll stay to say that in other words yeah and see I don't I don't have that in me to not say it that way uh so so I was troubled by and yes I believe it reaches much further than that and it uh I think we need to realize and you can look at the numbers we can look at all this stuff we're in a battle we're in a real battle and um for a thing that we love well I I just want to say when Miss Bo mentioned to him that you had a one pager that he was all about that he he appreciated that they have so much to read and and that was very helpful I think I'm happy
061to create 17 of them we can all send individual we can S no problem board members and you know just hit them up other than that we got we got prom coming in Bronson it's exciting times I'm also fascinated kind like Mr whitear said seems like just the other day the school year started and and then somebody the other day said you know we don't we graduate I'm like whoa so it moves fast um but everybody's doing a great job and I appreciate all of you thank you for going to Tallahassee again and uh nothing else meeting the jour