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Board Meeting 3/11/2025

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YouTube / Levy County School District
Date
2025-03-17
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Levy County, FL
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6,285 words · about 35 min
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2026-07-02

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001we also want to thank you for the many blessings that you give us we also know that there are many in our area that need your guidance you need your we pray that you wrap your arms around them every day 247 give them the strength to face their demons and help them move on in their lives and as always I'll say again we do thank you for the blessings that you give us every day in Jesus's name we pray amen amen I pledge aliance 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 all right I'll now entertain a motion to adopt the agenda so Mo second a motion in a second all those in favor please

002say I I any oppos motion carries want to welcome everybody here tonight and we'll get started with our superintendent highlights the Highlight is Miss Hillary cribs bringing Joyce bulock Elementary um and her assistant principal Miss Stacy up to tell us about her bpis program okay so um obviously PBIS has uh been around for a minute positive behavior interventions and supports um we've had a solid plan in place for a number of years um but as we know the population of children evolves and changes every year and we felt um in the past couple years we've been struggling in the area of behavior and did it feel like our um plan was imped the way we wanted it to be so we took this last summer um to revise our plan and so that's what you're

003going to kind of see um in this presentation uh these are our our what we call our good behavior ABCs there are um non-negotiables um as you may say and every kid in our campus knows these and should be following these on a daily basis it's our tier one everybody is is um expected to do these three things we say that these things in our conversations with students and when we're providing correction on the sidewalk or you know for running hey that's not acting safely we're trying to reiterate these expectations and everything that we say and do um they're posted all over our campus um this presentation I actually morphed into this presentation this was the presentation we gave at the beginning of our school year to our students themselves um so we told them

004like hey we've got new signs everywhere to help you remember and we we just have made a big deal about the revamp um but these are our these are our core Behavior expectations this year we specifically based on referral data um from this past couple years we wanted to focus on showing respect for their actions in our words um and keeping our bodies and objects to ourselves uh at JBE we have all the little people and they have things and we have to teach it to them because they don't all to come in the door with those things um Master yet so um but that's something we've been working on with an extra Focus this year and it's something that we tell the kids we're not putting up with it um so um you see

005some of the evidence of that in our data um so this is our our tier one um color chart behavior chart every class has one um everybody starts out on green has opportunity to move up and move throughout the day um the conversations look different and the the chart is differentiated depending on the kid in our the kids in our classroom so we know that students who may have ADHD struggle to be redirected and so they may get extra warnings before having to move their color um because we we try to put those accommodations and things in place but this is our again our tier one that everybody everybody get so um it's a Common Language we've talked about we talked about it last summer as to whether or not as a staff we felt

006like we wanted to move away because it can have some negative there's some negative or cons to having um this chart in the classroom but we talked about how to make those um cons into just an adaptation um a lot of those things have been not calling students out in front of the class having a private conversation move their color um that type of thing and putting those supports in place for kids that may struggle um in general because they have a hard time staying in their seat um and what that looks like for them so we've added all of that to our plan um as well this year um so the next couple sides you're just going to see that we have PBIS represented in all areas um on our campus so the classroom

007the bathroom yeah we got to put some of those things out there um we definitely want them cleaning up after themselves and um Breezy no wipes and the toilets thank you we haven't completely mastered it yet the district hasn't been over many times to address our toilet issues our plumbing issues because wipes have made it into the toilet I just love that we have clean bottoms so we're working on it Brey I think we've done better in the last couple months um go to the next couple slides hway cafeteria our signs in our cafeteria are large because our cafeteria space is pretty pretty large and then playground and the buff go to the next one so we really wanted to ring up our rewards um we had what they call Star Charts or um tracking

008charts we had charms we had a mismatch of over the years of what was happening um all over campus and nothing was happening with Fidelity across the campus so we just what can we do to make it easy for everyone um and enjoyable so we came up with them just classes earning compliments um points and their teacher got to choose how they track that so they gives them a little bit of autonomy so they may have brownies on a pan or they may have um little stars in a jar they got to pick their method of cuteness to match their classroom because you know pre two people much about what their classroom looks like that's right um so they got to track their compliments they earn compliments just by walking about on campus maybe in

009a nice line or behavior at lunch um or picking up trash as a class any any type of um positive thing can count and they will ask you was that a compliment I don't know tell me they are working for the compliments um we had we had um the good old flinko board JB knows about those those days where when they earned their compliments they got to play Plinko and they put the parties or the rewards that they wanted at the bottom we have gone digital now to make it very convenient because no one had the time to pull the PLO board outside of the cafeteria to play it every day um that was a barrier we found out we're like really okay well we need to make it more convenient Tech is the way

010to go so we have um a wheel with some schooled options for them um through our PBIS account like cookies and milk party PJ party which we wouldn't have to fund just some general ideas and they always can add to the wheel so if the teacher wants a fund a pizza party because they've really been working on on XY and Z then they can add that it's just at their own cost um but we provide enough options for everybody eating with the principles is um believe it an option they really like um in elementary they are very excited to come up and say we get to lunch with you and we have these great picnic tables outside now so we pick a nice day and of course they get popsicles at the end of that

011um so as a class they're working together to earn those compliments and they get to play with the wheel of portion when they get 10 to start the school year and then we increase those increments as we go throughout the year because we expect it to take a you know to work a little harder to to to earn those points um they also have um a 10 frame outside of each of their classrooms and that is for our custodians to to reward them for coming into the classroom and seeing that the classroom is well cut and um picked up they're not having to spend a lot of extra time in there because our custodians work very hard and do not have extra time to pick up all the crayons and pencils and markers and all

012the things on the floor um that don't get sucked up into the vacuum so um our boys and girls work hard to keep their classrooms clean and they are they every day and they're looking to see how many are on um the 10 frame and once they fill those up then that's um more points towards their overall compliment or their overall Wheel of Fortune party that was the thing before is we had all these separate things and now everything marries together and supports one another so when they get their 10 frame filled up then they get two points to go towards their compliments they need a 10 that's a good little chunk so um so then we have also a ton of individual rewards and that um that is something that I feel like so

013many times we focus on all the negative and the behaviors that are happening on our campus we need to be recognizing all the positive things that are happening um on our campuses and so daily rewards could be blue or purple um that students can earn that color chart and then teachers have um different rewards within the classro something that's um happening across campus positive behavior referrals is just any type of above and beyond um write up from any teacher um any staff member for them doing something positive or kind or showing our monthly resiliency word um that I read on the announcements and they get to come up and we honor them in the front office safety Rangers is contingent on positive behavior so those are only students that are recommended um in our second

014um to be safety Rangers if that they've had positive behavior throughout the year so that's something that they're working towards Cafe cash has been our latest and greatest um take on and it came from the mouths of our par support um so our pars run our lunch duties bless them um we have the best pairs there are on the face of the planet I'm just record um they our second to none so we have two to three people in every lunch duty and they were struggling with behavior at the beginning of the year we had a dojo board that we tried this year in the cafeteria we had um one of the tech boards in the cafeteria and they could earn again points to go towards their compliment goal um and it was just hard

015to get over to the board or it was hard to hit their phone when they're trying to open a banana um it was just hard to do the things consistently so we met with them and I said come with your Solutions because I really don't know and that's okay not to know because someone came with some good uh solution so the cafe cash actually came was birthed out of that meeting that we had with Paris um from Miss Crystal head that's one of our pairs on campus so she had an idea and we kind of morphed it into what it is now and pretty much students can earn Cafe cash for for doing the right thing in the cafeteria and um then we come every two weeks and they get this shop for free no

016charge cash cart outside the cafeteria um with their with their money um it's not anything that's conflicting with anything that's happening in the cafeteria in Julia I promise [Music] you so they're they're using that money that they earned during those two we per that two we period and they like every day are you coming on Friday are you coming on Friday so we know that it's something they're buying into and it's the kids the kids that are shopping are the kids that we know are doing the right thing so um our little friends that struggle in the cafeteria from time to time they're like I didn't get any cash I I'm how do you earn cash it's an opportunity for us to review and go back over those expectations and some of our some of

017our most struggling behaviors in other places on campus you'd be surprised to have the most money because they're saving and and I'm like you're you're not going to spend like that instant gratification that you feel like our little people want no um I've got a friend in second grade um who is saving for the mystery prize for a 35 um total Cafe cash and he he's not budging so I haven't told him what that is I told him what it IA it possibly could be but they're buying in they're very excited um they have to have a minimum of three to spend so that gives the if you're thinking about you class I need to make sure that I'm checking in on those on on those friends multiple times to see that the the rate

018is getting handed out and we I think the um Paris have been doing such an amazing job of going oh I didn't go look at that class today I need to make sure I pay extra special attention to them tomorrow because they were so good sometimes again the good doesn't get recognized so I think they're super conscientious about that and just having that cash they went ahead and signed it all copied it have it ready to go so that it's just super convenient and they wait until the end of the lunch period because you got to be doing the right thing all the way up until the end so um because they get it in their hand and they think oh I can act however I want so we had to make some some changes

019to that um PBIS events we've moved from where we were having one a quarter to two of two per quarter one in the middle of the nine weeks one to the end um and that is simply because they are little people and a 9 weeks is a long time and so we want to be able to give them an incentive to have revised and reviewed and and bettered themselves to um make it to that next event in a four-week time span versus a nine week um time span and we again have seen um a lot of kids working really hard because they want to go to the next one um our you'll see some pictures I think I put of our glow party that's one that we've now are putting at the end of every

020nine weeks and that that's the most coveted event um our computer lab um Tech she is amazing goes all out it looks like you're in our space in her room um so they get super excited about that event and and all the others that we've had um and then you'll see the rag tags are just it have to have the lanyards with their um ID on it so we've been giving them brag tags to add that's kind of bling for those things um as as well um bu books is the other thing that has really taken off and we do drawings with those once a week um as well and then the next are just like our posts throughout the year I thought Facebook thank you for keeping all these um because they are no

021longer in my phone because I cannot afford the space um the events soon of the month is something that also we do but you can just kind of flip through some of our positive office referrals that safety Ranger Bill exchange is so precious and they help each other put it on so that's one nine weeks passing it off to the next n weeks and now what grade is that second second grade i' see it back I'm glad to see safety Ranger back there was a couple years oh yeah yeah well it's we tag team Miss C really heads it up um I make sure we get the belts out and I look at the list but she madees sure that they know where they're going and really it's pretty when you build in good safety

022Rangers from the previous nine weeks they take them to their spot of where they're supposed to stand and they're they they teach them what they're supposed to do which has been to totally cool to see them the ownership of the role May loved you know but then when Tucker was there you know we cple years we didn't have this I Ranger it's a big incentive seriously glad to have it back and you see our lunch outside um just lots of positive office referrals uh bus bucks at the top uh the left is like a classroom incentive she she had a winning table group competition so even on top of the the that I just named they're doing they're doing things in their classroom Mr Steve came and was um Mr Steve the Science Guy um

023was an incentive for us this um this I like it was midc n weeks midc nine weeks I think um and then the first picture or the the picture with the ladies in red that some of our um wmhs friends they came over that was our first pbci event and they played they played um um outside with the kids and helped us make them snow con so that was their first um event some of the cheerleaders so they were um I had one first grader tell me he was in love remember was it was I me then that's our very coveted glow party at the top and it you can see how cool it looks in there with Miss Dixon but she really goes she really goes all out okay I'll let c talk about

024we've size but when we look back at some of the referrals so from the 20 last year 23 24 school year we had total 302 referrals for the first semester um and that might seem like a lot but again we're looking at kids necessarily have the communication skills yet to communicate their wants and needs or how to express their feelings we have friends who've never had a classroom structure they never hads on them so they the they can do like sometimes sometimes they move out of it and sometimes it takes them a few years to get on that track um but our second grade for instance um if you know if you look at 23 24 they had 106 referrals coming into the of last year first graders this year down3 is Improvement for our

025second grade or sorry 142 a hug Improvement I had a friend that for the last two years I probably saw her on average 50 times per year I've seen her once this year so she's to do all the things and participate all the things a lot of our has been a reflection of um feedback from our parents our staff and then just self-reflection on what we can do and that's one of the reasons EV forter is that if they on the firsts that's a long nothing to lose essentially in regards to making choices so they always have an opportunity something else and I think' sh asequence reward for for doing the right things um pre- referrals were less last U last year however one of the things that I've talked to a lot of our

026teachers about is empowerment because I tell them as soon as you call me officer you lost your emper with students because they that you can't do anything you have to have so a lot of these free referrals are actually reflections of documentation that they had discussion with with the student this is what needs to change so we have seen and a lot of this is handled inside the classroom pre referrals they very rarely get involved unless they the first referral of a minor interaction the teachers those things they communicate parents they assign consequence so they have the power student knows that I mess up with you know my teacher she's the one that's going to be giving the consequence upon as well so they have that in their mind better choices and they have for

027sure um and when we look at students with multiple prer referrals we go back to first grade last year in 27 and when I'm talking dozens for student in some cases and we only have one student digit referals year we have interv office feed our second team says it's not just enough to consequence they need to break it down so they do something called a behavior reflection sheet that they critique their own behavior their own choices think about what they could have done and then they have to present that to parents it and bring it back and they do that before able to go playground so we have something a little bit different for kindergart firsters because of are just developing but they have something very Sim so we've seen a hug decrease in amount

028of sign behaviors we' seen I feel now Cafe there places that having a lot of trouble with behavior we're seeing a decrease in the behaviors there because they have something that motivates them and at this age it's obiously it's all about motivation you know as we towards the value andk you do anyone have any questions for them I just think it's great I'm going to steal a couple of those ideas and pass it on to your [Laughter] sister thank you'all appreciate it all right Mr Stockman hello uh come before tonight uh in place of Mr Eastman feeling a little under the weather last couple of days and I'm coming to ask for the board to award the bid number 24-9 which is for the re roof of Building 13 at Cedar Key uh we advertise

029this beginning of February for a couple of weeks two weeks which we have to uh then we had a mandatory prebid meeting on February 20th and out of this meeting we had three vendors attend we reached out sent the vid packet to seven vendors and only three of those come to the pre-bid meeting and all three of the ones that attended the pre-bid meeting uh did place a bid I think you have the bids before you yes sir and as us looking at the bids between Brandon and myself and Mr we uh recommend going with gville roofing for this project they were the low viid they a local company two of the three companies that did bid we've worked with before and been satisfied with their work so uh gville Roofing submitted the low bid

030and there was basically a $6,000 difference between lowest to highest which is pretty tight numbers and they also provide squirrel guards yes and for free yes that's something over those uh lead pipe flashings off I just thought that and we had the one uh uh company that submitted the bid they didn't complete all of their obligations in the bid packet but it didn't come down to that because they the high spit also just some of the policies that we require that they did not you know being new probably a new vendor to us we're used to but it didn't affect the outcome I don't think so my my recommendation Brandon's recommendation to move forward this project it will be done over spring break which is the week of the 14th through the 18th but I

031have with Mr Kennedy and he wants to start on Saturday the 12th to ensure he gets finished for that project before spring break is over so it's my recommendation our recommendation to be the GV do you have any questions for me I was just wondering about when it would be done and how long it would take that was the only question I had any other questions I'll entertain a motion for the recommendation make a motion to recommend G rof for the project second we have a motion a second any other questions all those in favor please say I I any opposed like sign motion carries thank you Mr stop we've been for a long time yes sir appreciate it thank you all right Madam superintendent yes before you you have a layout of the school

032board meeting dates and deadlines for the 25 26 school year and you will see that we've worked with Mrs Lake on this of course to get in all her requirements for us to um meet the trim adoption and of course all the timelines that we have to meet at certain times and that will give us one two three um I'm sure you've already looked at it three of those board meetings that will be held in July yeah keep us in compliance keep us in compliance now do we need a motion to approve this or is this just information we need a motion yes sir so I'll entertain a motion I'll make a motion to approve the calendar do I hear a second second motion and second audence meeting dates any questions seeing none all those

033all those in favor of the meeting dates please say I I any opposed motion carries all right now we'll move over to Mr Wayne oh there he is I couldn't see he was hidden good evening good even good evening good evening so we have a junk bus we want to donate to the um EOC and the fire stations and they can practice disaster cut on it flip it on its side and work with emergency exits so this bus is 21 years old it has over 230,000 miles we borrowed just about everything that was good on it the tires have been swapped out to junk tires and we're borrowing a lot of electronic modules off of it we're finding those are hard to find for the older buses we don't feel this bus has any value

034and uh it wasap of Chief and fire rescue he's very interested in this project so we're asking to this chunk bu you scrapped everything you could off of it just about okay good deal all right do I hear a motion I make a motion to approve Don right do you hear a second second we have motion and a second any more questions for Mr Wayne no I think that's wonderful yeah I do too all those in favor please say I I any opposed motion carries Mr Wayne all right Madam superintendent yes the next item that you have um is the Levy County Planning Commission letter and this has been a committee that Mr lot has been on for eight years eight years and they are requesting another nominee we have another nominee that meet may

035be stepping in um that could take his role and be appointed to this board I don't believe they meet very often it's normally the assistant superintendent wink wink he's not listening that he got but based on that information you can go ahead and nominate someone for this board and then go ahead head and vote on it all right do I hear any nominations for that role on the Planning Commission I'd like to nominate Matt mclen all right have a nomination for Mr Matt mclen are there any other nominations if there are no objections I will proceed to close nominations and we will vote all those in favor of Mr mlen please say I I any opposed congratulations Mr mclen he's got to pay attention better than that Mee know you got big shoes to fill

036I can't fill his shoes but I'll do the best I can that's all we can ask of that's right okay at this time we we open the floor for public comments if anyone's here and like to address the board uh now is the time need to remind you of a couple things we allow you we we open the floor for three minutes board can't vote on anything that's not an agenda item but we do love to hear from you so if anyone would like to step up to the podium now is your opportunity I'd like to talk come on one up your name just please introduce yourself G I have multiple kids in school um we've had multiple problems with the principal over there we can't seem to come to a resolution together um from

037her racial comments to my kids to my kids coming home with bruises on them and being told well there's no camera so we can't tell who's telling the truth on it to then lying on my kid's paperwork and then saying well we messed up on the dates we'll change the date on it um what can I do to get my kids out of the school because the principal obviously has some type of grudge against me and my children so where do we go from here Miss Cheyenne I will I can have another meeting with you as Mr mlen and I have already done and I been more than welcome to have another meeting with you and can call you tomorrow and set that up and we can give you all the proper information that you

038may need thank you thank you ma'am anyone else all right we'll now move on to our approval of our minutes has everyone had a chance to read over the minutes yes sir all right I will entertain a motion to approve make a motion to approve do we have a second second have a motion in a second to approve the minutes as printed all those in favor please say I any opposed like sign motion carries all right we'll now move to our consent agenda uh I'm assuming there are no changes or anything to the consent agenda uh I'll start with Mrs Campbell Mrs Campbell do you have any questions or concerns on our I do not already to thank you madam Baer Madame superintendent has answered all my questions very good Mr whst my question been

039answer thank you Mr White Hurst and all of mine have been answered I will entertain a motion to approve the consent agenda so move second we have a motion in a second if there are no further questions all those in favor please say I I any opposed like sign motion carries we'll now move to our finance consent agenda are there any questions Mrs Campbell Mrs Baxter Mr whitear yes sir Mr asbell has none either so I will entertain a motion to to approve the consent agenda Finance items motion and a second there's no further debate all those in favor please say I I any opposed like sign motion carries we'll now move over to our superintendent's comments Madam superintendent thank you for um you have in front of you a list of the Swan River

040Fair animals that have been purchased by the school board in the past so last year we actually purchased two as a board we did Williston Middle High and chiefin Middle High um I do know that this year Yankee Town does not have any many animals in the fair but looking at this list possi like a recommendation um I recommend that maybe we look or you look at Cedar Key as opposed to what's been bought at the different um schools in the past but as I said that's your that's your call and what you like to do moving forward I know I was thinking rson because that we have 11 and Chief 11 in willon 10 in Bronson but I mean key is okay too I just saw that we did purchase sear key in 23

041we Haven purchased Bron since 22 correct that was just a thought M um we've done Wilston kind of Senor wi I thought I get back to yes sir don't have anything just rotational wise I like be two cents I'm always from Wilson [Laughter] too being fair being fair I feel you know I you know how I feel I'm um I'm for all of them right I know that shocked y'all yall thought I was going another way on that um I don't have a problem with cedar keth Bronson wilon Yanke Town what you know Yan Town doesn't have one this year do we have any idea what each town has and I know that Bronson has uh six animals from their FFA chapter I don't know what Chand Williston C has a goat one a chapter

042do you think we have enough to get V by Two Goats aren't usually terribly expensive no it's about 100 pounds the last time I checked Maybe maybe we could we've never bought a goat looks like maybe we could crazy um maybe we could look at buying a a a a goat from Cedar Key and a goat from Bronson because Cedar Key Cedar ke came late to the party and so it's impossible to catch them slam up on the party but they are a little bit behind and it is as Mr White point out kind of Bronson's turn but I know Bronson has a goat I think I think there's a kid showing goat um goats and pigs are fairly affordable big steers we ain't got the money for No Big Steer tragedy no you will

043you will be bidding for us Mr asell oh well then I don't believe I this is a terrible idea possibly Mr White Hurst will help you because we will be there if Mr Whitehurst will be there to help me we we can fig all right y buy us a couple of go well and you should know this about asell Cameron asbell is hey if somebody else happens to out bid us I'm okay with that as long as people get good prices but I would like to see us represented over there it means something yes absolutely and and go goats we might can afford a goat or two yeah I it have a BL do we have a budget we we can get a budget we can get a budget we get a bud we can

044make it work get a budg okay I like your confidence I like your confidence we can't we will Okay so goats for Cedar Key and Bronson moving forward okay and and now we've told the whole world that we're gonna do Drive our John will be over there running the process um and the reason this year why you won't see some of us here from the board is that Mrs Campbell and Mrs Baxter and myself have to be present from the 18th through the 20th in Tallahassee again and it's the second part of their new school board training um which rolls into um some neek training and it rolls into rural days and something else a day in the legislature so everything is going on so we will be busy we will miss it sorry represent

045as well y'all take care we'll handle this y'all take care of that y'all like going to Tass show good good we're making friends making friends influencing uh it will probably come a little bit later in the month uh I know yall know Tina Pinson from Florida Schoolboard Association she should hopefully be presenting us but I just wanted to share the good news to everyone that your wonderful board here has been certified again as Master board and we've done some extensive training um more so than in the past as myself as a school board member and it was um I would say enlightening and just uh it was a great experience straight a straight a straight A I cheated over you except for the bean stock that we had to build from the ceiling down looked

046like an alien I thought she said it was the best one to that's what I'm saying um and she said hi I just wanted to also make mention um quickly I had the chance thank you Mrs cribs and M de for your presentation today but I wanted to let you know that um I briefly had the chance to give the um oh my gosh the ring School related employee ran down there and Mrs cribs asked me if I wanted to stand at the school line um pick pick up and it is a well willed machine I have heard that it is wonderful and I had a kindergartener I told everybody at the staff meeting um she was kind of looking at me and I said have a good day and everything and she walked over

047to her vehicle being escorted and turned around and looked back at me and said you look just like my mimi oh and I told everyone at the at the faculty meeting that yes I said I go by the mirror and I'm turning into my nana every day and there was proof today I am turning into a Mimi um and so thank you for letting me visit and doing that and thank you for your presentation this afternoon I appreciate that very much and that's all I have Mr chair thank you mayam you're welcome uh Mrs Campbell okay well first I I would like to compliment the presentation from Joyce bulock um and what I noticed throughout the whole uh presentation was the word all all all everywhere everywhere everywhere and multiple multiple multiple and I think

048those are all the keys to a successful Behavior plan and I love seeing all that because if we don't have consistency it's not going to work if everyone's not doing it it's not going to work and if kids don't have choices it's not going to work but You' got it all so congratulations and I hope it continues to to work for you um I enjoyed very much the training to become a certified uh Master board member it was very enjoyable most of all be because we got to know each other and uh I know who I'm working with and I like who I'm working with and and it was a very positive experience I'm looking forward to being in Tallahassee uh and getting some more training because I still have a lot to learn um

049but as far as Cedar Key goes today we had a fun run um the kids ran to uh earn money for um the end of the year uh activity where they have uh um their uh uh fun day at the end of the year they they're earning the money for that which I thought was great and what I thought was so good is there was so many parents out there cheering them on so that was great to see um I'm happy to know that that our goat is being considered by the school board to be purchased and I thank you Cameron for taking care of that since I will be here and uh another thing going on at Cedar Key is uh the second committee is working on somehow um getting Cedar Key School designated

050as a historical uh building and a historical school which will be uh in the long run very valuable to us because we will be eligible for a lot of Grants and and a lot more funding so we hope that that continues to move forward and that's it thank you so much thank you Mrs backer well I too enjoyed the master board training and I feel like that it that we really became a team during that time so I thought it was great I'm looking forward to going to Tallahassee um and advocating for our schools here I think that you've already accomplished a lot and um looking forward to that Hillary you you guys are doing such a great job over there I'm very impressed with that and your dad is showing that what you're doing

051works but you're a very positive person and you know that's um that's great that it's going so well for you tickled as far as chaping goes um the elementary school is just clicking along trying to get ready um to for crunch time for testing and um at the high school something that I thought was really wonderful that they're doing Miss story has um an es class and they've been busy learning life skills and what they have done is um they started cooking meals on Thursday and I think they get donations for it I think it's what they get every two weeks but the kids actually have to plan the meal go and shop for the food then come back and prepare it and serve it and they're getting um you know lots of good reviews

052on that and um you know they're learning proper food handling techniques I'm sure you've probably helped them with it that they you know have the hair nets and the gloves and all and so they are really enjoying it the kids just light up every time that they have the event where they serve um so I think it's a wonderful thing they're doing thank you man Mr W um I too enjoy Master board like getting to know everybody um Miss Linda Miss Lisa you know getting I say just the bond you know it's important to you know know who you're serving with and I truly feel everybody on here has the Heart for Service and for the kids and the students and everybody in the school system so it's a good feeling you you think you

053know somebody but you know it gave us a chance to even know to the better so um enjoyed Hillary's presentation George bu only school is still active that I when I went to school so all the others have been torn down or sold or whatever so y George B the last standing this thing um we certainly enjoy that we know from expulsions and different stuff how important positive behavior is we see these kids aren't getting it at the house and the school is one of the only places where they get you know Behavior you know not the consequences too you know discipline but you know reinforcement of positive behavior and how important that is because like I said discipline good behavior food I mean all these kids have some pretty tough environments they're living in

054that you know you know you don't people don't see you know and it's just U it's just good that we have that and I appreciate it that's all have thank you sir uh I enjoyed masterboard also strangely enough I I found out I'm different than the rest of you just never know that is that you laughing sorry had that t board thing to know that I got a little different person than everybody else um see and I was going to compliment you cribs ordinarily at this time she did a great presentation and you know this time I would say you know she got a lot of training at Bron but I'm not going to say that because I know where the secret to her success is and that's in Brian cribs oh okay okay now

055hear me out hear me out we have people here who have served in a in in a uh capacity as a prin principal multiple people here you got to have a good home the support of a spouse is crucial to your success and but Brian being super smart he I know he sits there and helps you with all those things I'm probably 90% of that stuff was Brian's idea I had to give had to give that toing all right now I had a you trying to get him as a client or something Ran's my boy anyway I had a I had a I had a big big conversation I was going to have with y'all uh about history and about how we're celebrating things and about Vanishing history and all that uh but I decided

056to scrap that and I'll tell you why um 90% of the general public has no concept of one of the most important jobs a school board member has uh typically before our meetings we have a executive session that's completely private to the public concerning expulsions of children and it's for the that people don't get to see it but it's truly tragic that people don't get to see what I as a board member get to see from my fellow board members I don't need to go to master board to know the people I'm sitting here with this very day I witnessed compassion wisdom Grace courage and a whole lot of optimism in the face of some rough stuff um and people want to be a school board member all that nobody tells you about that and

057there's there's five six with the superintendent that make a decision and nobody warns you about it nobody can share in the struggle of it because we we have to keep it to oursel and I want to let all of you know I admire how you've handled the ones we've been through the ones we had today and I know we're going to do we look out for kids on every one of them U every single time um and those are tough decisions and I appreciate y'all's hard work and I appreciate it and I wish everybody knew the anguish you go through and how much you can you can watch the hearts of these people as they face that so I appreciate you that's all I have oh oh what's cool cow okay if you don't know

058I got the bad add my man and I saw it I was like what's cool cow it's a cow that's cool that's my kind of cow we we are we're Dairy Farmers I'm 7 years old been in the M business all of my life my mil business and uh I grew up a lot of weekends in Florida live in Hill County my Granda I've been forunate enough to have aight amount of success what used to be walk fishing club turned the fish that name but we make live mil County we process package School mil in Temple terce H and the first time that we ever going to have opportunity to sell milk in one of my favorite counties and I'm just almost well we glad to have Julia so now when we drink good milk

059we'll go we know the man that's right that's right thank you for coming we look forward to a long and happy relationship we we actually you gave me we actually fight large companies sometimes because we have to we are mom andp my grandparents broke in 1979 I was able to money and re up in 1987 we had like me and two other guys in one truck and now we employ 250 people and drive 65 trucks a day the state Florida wow it's so amazing that I believe that's great work hard to do it and my last name I heard it behind me my our last name I should say is M so I want to know there's anyway thanks for asking we uh but it's a big thing now because we've been selling School milk

060for uh School product since 87 and um when you sell School M products the name of our company people know us and when we started a retail program recently we tried to get our name out there because we have cool mil but nobody knows who it is and we are proudly trying to get some new uniforms and get that name out there raised my awareness level working at FL State Fair last year um there comes this old guy about my age and he's got a kid with him probably Grand kid and the old man said I've never heard Co said oh had school for years and I'll just put it out there because it's at this time we serve more than 80% scho kid right fantastic glad to have you with thank you Miss J

061you know what this is one ex can't believe thank you all right if there's nothing else meeting and journ

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