001[Music] who [Music] [Applause] [Music] good morning everyone if you could please take your seats we'll go ahead and get started my name is Kelly Amy and I'm the manager of strategic partnerships for the district and I'll be facilitating our capacity interview this morning with southeast Volusia school of science and technology I would like to remind everyone that we are live-streaming this morning so we ask if there are any additional speakers that they come up to the mic so that we may hear them appropriately we do have more than 40 district staff members here who have reviewed the southeast Volusia application and they will be coming forward with specific clarifying questions that they have about sections in their expertise so they will come forward ask their questions and we'll move through sections one through 22 and
002as quick as we possibly can with getting that clarifying information um you'll see up on the slide that there are our next steps are listed there after we are through the capacity interviews our district reviewers will take their notes and do one last bit of evaluation before they head to the Florida Department of Education charter school evaluation instrument that is a standardized instrument and then they will submit their final evaluations to our superintendent mr. Russell for his review prior to going to the school board on April 9th where the school board members will have an opportunity to ask their questions and make a final vote that is all happening within the mandated time frame of 90 days as dictated by statute so that is our process that we are currently working through certainly we are
003happy to have our applicants here with us too and welcome their input as we move forward with this evaluation process I'd like to go ahead and just jump right in we are dealing with a two hour time frame we seem to hold to that quite well with our first application so I'm hopeful we'll have that same good luck as we move forward but it is our charge to make sure that all questions are answered so if we do go over that time frame we're certainly fine with that we want to make sure we get all the information we can are there any questions from the applicants before we get started okay if you would please introduce yourselves first of all I'd like to introduce the board members my name is John Massey I'm the president
004chairman of the board of southeast Volusia school of science and technology we have Oscar Zeller he's the vice president Sara Dougherty is unable to be with us today and she is our secretary treasurer we have Bob Vander Hoek and Jeff Landers who is not able to be here today we also have mister Taylor Smith he's helping us with his facilities development Johnson he is the attorney for the board and and then I'd like to what I'm yet Kim Bosley with Pascal they're design-build contractors out of Jacksonville and then I'm going to go ahead at this point and have dr. Jan McGee introduce her team that put this application together and the administration hey I am dr. Jan McGee and the principal currently had burned science and technology charter school and to my right is Mr
005Dan Hargrave and he is our assistant principal right now currently at the high school who has helped write the Charter as far as where the curriculum pieces mainly I also have with me Burnside tech board members I have our chairperson Bob Demers and I have Brent Appy who is our treasure we have quite a few parents here also so I did want to recognize them for being supportive I do have my IT person Lee Fox if there were any questions and we also brought a middle school teacher Angela Lee who was our language arts teacher who reviewed and helped us write several of the sections I have our parent support person Dana gray trucks so she is that paid position for a Burnside tech the ESC director for my school Tina Duncan and Annie se
006teacher who also does ESOL Sean Campbell and then I have my administrative assistant Judy Bordeaux so I and there quite a few others thank you thank you well we will jump right in as you can see those of you who are watching online you see the large binder that dr. McGee and mr. Massey both have this is a tremendous amount of work that they're bringing to the table it represents quite a commitment that they've made so we thank you for that and we're ready to start those questions from district staff in section one in particular mission guiding principles and purpose we do not have any questions from the district so we will move directly to section two target population and student body okay dr. McGee will take care of this one good morning my name
007is vince roche inc with CTE I'm a specialist here with the district on the target population and student body question I have regarding page 5 of the document you sent us the grow as we go concept does this mean that there is a limited access to stem at the southeast volusia school of science and technology which stem program will be ready for students in year 1 to enroll ok which section can I ask again page 5 grow as we go that is really referring to having limited grade levels we're going to start with 7 & 8 in the middle school and 9 and 10 in the high school that mainly was for to get the culture of the school ready to start with so that the leadership team can work with the staff and work
008with getting together our project based teams and our stem projects sure it's gonna be based on student interest of course the middle school the curriculum is pretty much established for that it does branch off once you get to high school and that's going to depend upon what student interest is many of the I know the robotics and computer science with the manufacturing its propulsion production propulsion a lot of the standards overlap and the certifications for the teachers also overlap so being able to be able to teach multiples pretty II would be pretty easy for those teachers and then for the bio medical it's a biology teacher which you're going to need for high school as well so being would have the staff to be able to maybe have more preps at the beginning but we
009plan to offer pathways okay thank you so that's the only question under Section two and if you don't mind we can jump to sections three and four I'll go ahead and start so the transition is smoother and then we'll get mr. milhollin to follow after and then if you don't mind I'd also like to since I'm up here I have one other question in section 20 and 21 based on CTE if that's okay sure okay so on the first question is on page nine ten and eleven you have tables with course progressions and also industry certifications regarding CTE drugs so can you explain the rationale for following the industry certifications for the MAS bundle which is the Microsoft certification quickbooks illustrator and photoshop and placing them in the Entrepreneurship program actually the Microsoft Office will
010probably complete it in the seventh grade that's when we actually have that but it'll be a follow up for those students I hadn't got to that point to maybe complete it it's we're not every student in seventh grade is gonna be ready to finish that whole suite so it'll be a time for them so basically the entrepreneur teachers course I used to teach will have to differentiate within the classroom they're gonna have to figure out where each student's available at so the students finished the MAS well they need something else so maybe they move on to QuickBooks or those kind of things so it's not basically for every single student it's gonna be based upon where that student is for that course so right now with the Entrepreneurship program I think when I was looking
011there are three courses in that are you going to be placing a first level like a di T or something that they can do that mas bundle in or are you going to be placing that in one of those in seventh grade it will be the di di T is when we actually have that course available to our students if they haven't finished it I would hope that we'd be able to have them do the Entrepreneurship if I think it should be able to fit within that coursework for that certification and phone correct if I not it would have to switch to it they may have to take that course over again if they didn't pleaded at the other time QuickBooks definitely I think follows fits in with the ownership the IT would probably be
012better for the MAS bundle if you are offering that's great yes we're offering that course so we're hoping the kids come in seventh grade will actually be able complete that but if they don't again we're gonna have to tail the curriculum to the needs of the student as much as we like to outline everything as you know we have every student is different we're gonna have to kind of cater to what their ad and what they need okay thanks Dan sure and right now in our current sixth seventh and eighth grade we do that bundle so usually by eighth grade they're finished yeah great thank you my second question is on page 14 it references PBL and Marzano training and page 36 RTI training for Entrepreneurship teacher so my question is where are these trainings
013and acosta so d associated for them in your budget so we're talking about the project-based learning a couple things one is that I have a passion for it so I'll be leading some professional development on this we've actually made a good partnership with the Space Foundation he was also proficient in being able to teach to teach this as well and they've it's gonna be a partnership so the funds it would be kind of they want to have their mission completed and so they're willing to help us complete this and if we're talking about Marzano is acting me for a different question yes for a professional about okay I can grab that this was my class that I taught at the University of Central Florida so I taught teachers and principals to teach and be in
014a Marzano evaluator so you're looking at the training right here so I could take care of country on teachers thank you and then in reference of for transition on paid on section 20 I just have one question regarding your appendix XC and there it sound you're but a budget and financial management so for the CTE computers you say can you explain to me where you intend to buy a computer for $275 like a high functioning machine because some of the programs that Dan had just mentioned might need a higher function computer genius when it comes to how do we get computers okay so basically we and depending on what the board would like burns we don't buy brand-new computers right off the factory factory line so and we really customize the the needs of the
015computer down to what the class is going to be about so it it really depends on who's offering what deals at what time and and all that and I and I guess I can adhere to we do a lot of leases right now I have every student in through eighth grade have a technology piece in their hand I'm able to work through the Apple computer people and have mini iPads and I only pay X amount of dollars per month and after three years they belong to me so there are a lot of deals and a lot of people we have met that have been doing a lot for us we also have a lot of businesses that have actively put things for us that we are able to use either by a donation or by
016a lower cost thank you thanks Lee and that's all the questions I have I appreciate that and I'm gonna go ahead and call on mr. Millhone to complete this section thank you good morning good morning my name is Robert mill Holland and I am the curriculum specialist for secondary social studies and advanced programs and I will be going through the other academic areas the first question I have is excuse me you indicate the first-year enrollment will be approximately six hundred and forty students and that's on page page four or page eleven depending on appendix X a on page 515 and the budget indicates a five thousand function for academic programs needless supplies and materials at about ninety six thousand this averages out to about a hundred and fifty dollars per student how will you ensure
017there will be enough funding for the textbooks and classroom supplies in excess of that average for example a a middle school civics textbook runs roughly about sixty four sixty five dollars so that would leave you know that'll take up almost half of that one hundred and fifty eight dollar average right what we want to do is especially in middle schools have our students be able to learn how to develop study skills and be able to help take proper notes so it may be at the very beginning that we're talking about class sets of books and having students learn how to take those notes and be able to then check out textbooks when they feel like they have the need when working at burns it's kind of the same system that we have right now and
018the teachers have been very successful in the students past and of course exams especially for civics and some of the other courses if you also use the software that's available will also help students be able to use those kind of things at home if they have it available and we plan on having after-school tutoring once a week by the teachers to be able to fill in the gaps for students that need a little bit more help with that subject area so I know it's tight at the very beginning but we've seen it work in the past we're hoping that it will work again for school okay so you'll have a printable version of the correct correct and we use a lot of hands-on resources to I think a textbook is always meant to be a
019resource and we have trained our teachers very well with a lot of programs that can be utilized that don't necessarily have to have that textbook in hand although there will be a set of textbooks for each grade level you know after disposal but over it'll be online okay and then going back to those same kind of figures on page four to indicate your second year enrollment for 11th grade will be approximately a hundred and seventy-five students in appendix X be in function 50-100 object five twenty textbooks indicate about forty six hundred dollars if enrollment in grades six through ten remains the same and no new textbooks are purchased for grades six through ten excuse me and the one hundred and seventy-five students have moved up from grade ten to grade eleven that gives that leaves
020you with about twenty six dollars and 71 cents average per student for textbooks in in that new grade so there's a dramatic drop in funding for textbooks moving from tenth grade to 11th grade right and I know that some of the teachers like to have their own curriculum is developed and don't have a set textbook I guess you could say per se I know that when I taught I actually came up with my took the state standards kind of came up with my own modulars modules and then taught from that based on finding my own resource and up-to-date resources to be able to teach it is very helpful especially when you have the state standards that you want to mean the textbooks already have that curriculum developed for you but as you get into the
021Levithan 12th grade there's any more state tests and the teachers are going to have to then use other resources to be able to move students for one year of growth especially with their software program so they'll be using within the classroom to help move students from where they start out to the end of the school year so it's gonna have to be different resources once they get to that 11 12th grade year that's really the years that we start into our manufacturing building and a lot of the project-based and a lot of the hands-on lines that the students themselves are finding and discovering and working out issues and problems and then kind of using the same the same kind of context the the next year the next year indicates a third year enrollment for sixth
022grade so brand new students coming in for sixth grade and twelfth grade so those new sixth graders coming in and then those already established 11th graders move you know textbooks the previous year up to a much larger number correct manufacturing hands-on stem and and really do their courses a lot of it also will be the soft skills that mr. Hargrave talked about so we have a whole course in that that he is putting together to are you talking about the the soft scales of course well that's just gonna be starting in sixth grade seventh grade eight eighth grade it's personal development and part of that it's going to be doing the skills necessary to be successful in academics and also in careers and in life so that curriculum is going to help students have that
023one period every other day since we're an alternate and blocks schedule to help with those study skills and to make sure everything is in order for the you know whichever course they might be struggling within we feel there's enough money in there and if not we'll do it the same way we did at burns we run a fundraiser we do donations we have such great business partners behind us that all's I have to do is go and say hey I need and I usually got ya the concern was in that first year and the budget for textbooks was relatively high and then there was quite quite a decrease the second year and then back up to a much higher level in the third year on page 14 in section 3 you reference okay that's a
024good a good point that John's pointing out that that first year is planning year we don't have any kids so when you're looking at the first year we're buying ahead of time so we have no kids that was a good point and when you get to that real first year for when teachers come because the first the first number the first columns of planning right and this ahead okay so we're planning ahead and so every year we're buying books for the next year and that's okay so it sounds it sounds like the $4,600 is more maintenance of what you board out correct okay on page 14 section three you reference PB out quite a bit is in PBL was is gonna be an overarching learning model what is your plan to train implement and continue
025to train your teachers you had mentioned that that you have taught PBL this are you are you buck Institute certified or its I am NOT PUC Institute certified I was part of the academies for thirteen years at New Smyrna Beach High School I was part of the process of creating the interdisciplinary units and I had I was a leader of one of the academies for the marketing and also I added an entrepreneur ship at one point I also helped develop all six academies at New Smyrna Beach and then I went to the assistant principal role in helping with the scheduling and the staffing and the hiring and the training of teachers on how to develop that model to me this is the next step in that process it's kind of the what I learned through
026the Ford Foundation when I went to Detroit and they trained me on some of the techniques that would use in the curriculum that you would use to then be able to put all these things together I've done these kind of events and stuff within my classroom when I did teach I would like to take it where I can involve more classes or more areas of study versus only had was able to do maybe two at a time I would love to be able to do full-fledged so my whole passion from when I first started from teaching biology to them moving into marketing was being able to do in discipline units and then making it as authentic as possible making it as real-world as possible and through the help of bringing in businesses it really makes
027it more authentic and their program of read multiple books on this to further my understanding of how to put this all together and it's a pretty simple process from where I had it to where it needs to go it's just more structure and putting those things in a place I feel like would just be an extra large achill step and we've got some support from other organizations that also help us implement this as well and I might add we have a very good connection with georgette Yacktman and she is the co-founder of steam she has been down at our school for two summers in a row this will be her third year that she'll be with us she has trained every one of my teachers in the steam process which is project-based and in order
028to get steam certified the steam certification follows the teachers and the teachers had to create their own lessons project based including all subject areas and including the arts so once those lessons were accepted each of the teams then themselves got certified in steam it's like the blended teachers the certification follows the teachers so every teacher down at burns I'm happy to say is steam certified because all their lessons were approved and on georgette yeah Commons website now so they've been in this project we have worked with this this whole concept and the school is a accredited stem school already so we've gone through the process a lot and on page 34 you indicate that American Sign Language will be the primary world language and with the rationale of students and teachers ability to communicate in
029loud environments do you anticipate instructing teachers in ASL in addition to the students so not only the ASL teacher but but the other teachers as well I think that would be a great you know professional develop I having the teacher actually teach some basic signing to everyone on campus I don't think it's a skill that I think it's a skill that translates very well I can't tell you how many parents have taught their infants how to sign and to be able to use that into real-world situation so we're gonna highly encourage it we're not gonna making a requirement but we're gonna highly encourage other teachers to also pick up some sign language as well okay all right thank you thank you hi good morning Eric calling them the assistant director for digital learning and assessment
030on page 38 in your word document you describe students who are on grade level or above to maintain one year's worth the truth I was just looking for some clarification are are you using learning games for that calculation don't be like scale score okay in the same section you describe students below average as becoming on grade level the following year is it your goal to move students who enter your school at a level one or two to become a level three the following year we would really what I find is is that if you keep letting a student fall don't if they don't make at least one year's worth of growth they're gonna get further and further behind as they go so at some point you're gonna have to put in some pretty major interventions
031to really try to close that learning gap what those students have well it always happened no but is it our goal yes I would love for our students to have a plan on one if not two years be back on grade level but it's going to take a plan for that student to reach those goals we can't let them keep falling further and further behind can i clarify that too on the scale of one in two we realize that we just want to see continual growth too so if they're at the bottom one we would like them to be at least the top one or move to a two in the real world so it's going to be eventually to get to about three so in one year to go from one to three is
032it's not a probable place so this more or less is we want them to keep moving forward so in year one you'll have particular in high school ninth and tenth grade students but you may have students who are in grade level nine or ten but really should be in grade levels 11 and 12 so my question is how are you going to help these students get back on track for graduation well since we're gonna be having eight credits a year and if you do eight times four is thirty-two credits so if they're already we can almost get them 16 credits within a two year time frame just like that and if we actually look at an 18 credit option it gets them very close to where they need to be with just within two year
033we're hoping they come with a 2 or 3 credits when they come by they're their cohort of being able to graduate within that time but by having a 8 credits per year and maybe looking at that 18 credit option that's kind of what our plan would be to try to catch them up okay that's all yeah next next up is Section six miss Kim Gilliland [Music] hello there Kim Gill and director of ESC and Student Services and I actually do not have any questions in Section six but I do have questions in two other sections they should be brief questions the first one is on page 27 of section 4 the application references screening for all students who determine I'm sorry to determine who will need additional supports what screening measures will be used for
034this purpose page 27 of section 4 under the RTI section it's your application page number yes we're do so 27 okay on screen I'm gonna bring Tina Duncan up here who is our educator for our ESD director sews on page 27 and which part is the donors in the response to intervention part yes that's correct and then which part of that is the oh okay there it is oh that's the screening is really just your progress marketing of students that's I'm sorry that's not the way that it should have been been written it should be more of all students have progress monitoring to see if they're making gains and stuff like that so it's more in reference to that than I would say a screen test does that kind of make more sense or is
035that I understand what you're saying I guess then what will you use for progress monitoring curriculum based measurements or a specific program of some kind that will track student progress so for the students screening it's all state approved diagnostic screenings like you we use the I ready currently and we used the fare previously and then for RTI for progress bond and train we work with Volusia County Schools and we monitor based off of decision trees and that you guys currently have and we follow those to make sure that the students get what they need okay and I think you may have just answered this question but let me ask it in case you want to add anything to my second question is how will specific evidence-based interventions be selected and a follow-up to that is
036who will then be the provider of those interventions okay so as you see director and I work with the ESET Chur we work with all of our teachers for looking at the problem-solving team processes and again we use those decision trees and if they are below the certain number for example this year's I ready we follow up with what they need and then the teachers use the progress monitoring tools you know the qpa the dibbles all those type of things and we use it all the way through eighth grade currently excellent thank you my next question is on page 39 of section 5 and this should be probably a just brief response but under placement and progression there is a reference to an es plan can you please define what that is yes okay thank
037you those are all the questions that I have today thank you for section 7 English language learners and for section 8 school climate and discipline the district has no questions at this time next is section 9 supplemental programming and miss katlyn dis lair hi good morning my name is Caitlin declare the coordinator for learning technologies dr. Kitty Dyer is unable to be here this morning but she did prepare some questions in her absence so I am going to ask if you don't mind questions related to supplemental programming and then also to professional development just to ease with transitions so there's just one question under supplemental programming and this is related to information that is on page 64 for the sports that are allocated in the timelines we are hoping you could just please elaborate on
038the sports fees that are being collected if these would be used to budget for fields or rental spaces for some of the sports that might require a facility if that was something that was incorporated within the budget and we weren't sure if that was included elsewhere in the application now what's in our budget is part of facilities and that is that we're going to start with athletic fields okay and that would be for these sports that we have filled here okay so four years four and five where there's mention of a swimming potential swimming team is that something that would maybe be built on at a later point in time or utilize another facility well or we will develop more facilities you know depending on you know obviously our budget enrollment the interest in participating
039in this program thank you very much I just have a few questions related to professional development for section 13 and these are not in reference to any specific page numbers just general or questions related to professional development one question is how will you introduce new teachers or late hires to the topics covered in the first two weeks of that professional learning that's occurring so if a teacher comes later in the school year or the following year how will you ensure those teachers have the same information that's necessary depending upon when they come we take new teachers very seriously and what we would do is first of all offer a mentor everything we do has a team concept so we do like even at my school we do a k1 team a two three team there's
040a leader for each team so usually it's the team leader that takes that person right under their wing they would spend some time with me or the principal at the very very beginning and gearing them up to ethics giving handbooks doing all the general stuff but we have also done Saturday workshops with with our new teachers depending upon how many we have had them stay later we have worked with them and and a lot of times I find even teachers that might have just came in that same year could use some of the same things that they need I find technology especially you know so we would bring somebody in and we would do something for just them on a Wednesday when other people are doing team time or you know early dismissal will either
041do department heads instead that'll be time that they can spend with our ESC coordinator and get up to speed to whatever they need thank you and I just have one other question within your monthly plan for professional development I know that there are some times that were t be determined for topics and we were wondering if you had any idea now maybe on some topics that could be offered during that March April and May time frame towards the end of the school year I think we talked a lot about and I'll let Dan talk a little bit on this too but a lot of this will be project-based so depending upon how fast the team grabs that concept or how many speakers we have coming in to work on different topics I mean it was
042just last week that space foundation was here and they have an amazing program and we sat we signed the mo AI MOU MOU already and we're excited about this so next week we're planning all that not only in my school but for the future high school so we're we're excited about finding new things so this just came up last week this will be part of that to be determined we'll bring them in and have them work with the staff and we're not done finding more partners thank you I appreciate that we're going to resume with section 10 for governance thank you Thank You Nathan Pollock school district counsel question on the articles and the corporation and the bylaws and I don't have pages on the bottom but attachment H articles it's three or four yes
043sir in page three or four is how it's numbered attachment each okay and then it just looks like there's an amendment article three in that second line it talks about the organization is organized exclusively it has a couple different things one of them's identified as religious and then on the bylaws which is attachment J it has a purpose and religion is not in there why the difference and does the charger charter have any religious portion because that was the can language right from the IRS instructions okay so there's no plan but religious enough that's my question thank you sections 11 and 12 management staffing and employment has no questions and we're moving on to section 14 no questions and set by the way if I can make just one follow-up we do have a draft
044of the 120 10:23 in there for the application for tax exemption yes sir and that and it goes on in shows that the tax exemption is going to be for a public charter school which has to meet all of the state statutes and laws with respect to that public charter school thank you sir section 15 community community information no questions and section 16 were with facilities good morning Erica zelphia Planning Department my actually my questions have to do with the sections I guess the 12th and 13th page of addendum XC okay no attachment X X see the 12th and 13th page of that we have an X it's the construction budget I think it was like the 12th and 13th page tell me when it starts yes I was looking for a way in purchase
045cost in the section for facilities you identified the area of 442 and Airpark Road that around that area as the location and I didn't see that's where you're where you're right what you have to do this is a template provided by Florida Department of Education so the applicant has to if you look in the far left column under the gray which says false false false false false if the if the Inc was gonna build their building then that would be where you put the budget with the land the building in there soft costs etc because we're doing it as a lease in our lease rate I've got the land the building costs the soft costs and everything built in so I had to go through that all last year this is literally a hypothetical not
046used section of the budget okay so an either/or in the template okay so then Haskell will be doing the design and build yes for me for me so I'm the landlord so I'll be the landlord for the school and then I have engaged Haskell because last year Sarah Lee was concerned that the board had an experienced developer or orchestration it's probably a better word and experienced designer and builder so that we weren't the board wasn't heading down a road of without expertise in school construction they have development expertise in the area so this year we brought the team together to show you who that we had experience me and my resumes included and then hath great so yeah Pascal will do the design and construction and we've got two local civil engineers we're kind of
047using both currently Haskell has internal civil engineering as well on staff but we're gonna use a civil engineer of record locally depending on which cycle to pick okay so all those numbers are rolled up then translate to their lease costs which is in the budget annual lease costs okay and then I have more of a comment rather than a question having to do with section 16 sections you well the facilities okay sure soon you estimate 55 square per square foot per student station for your construction on average yes but it's a 600 square foot room so really when you're trying to put twenty something kids into a room it's much less than a student station you're you're talking about your overall yes sir to clarify it yes sir building square footage overall just as a
048test when we take the program building and then divide it by the population okay we're comfortable within 55 to 60 square feet per student but that would include a little cafeteria the hallways and everything so the classroom sizes size just off the standard Bern's classroom and average charter school classroom sizes and those are 600 square feet so obviously those are a lot less per student right inside and that technology building is in phase 2 correct so then you would be offering it it's in the square footage of phase 2 right 5,000 square feet if you subtract that because it was 42 I'm always using your one is the planning year I'm sorry okay first year of operations it's just like he said okay the other question that I had had to do with your 3.5
049million in construction site costs that's not applicable again because of the fossil if you don't put something in there the template spits out incomplete so that's where we Excel on site cost for sure well my question had to do with your athletic facilities bit more than the cost because are you planning on doing competition level facilities including you know if they were to play in a championship level and Ken's here from Haskell he's an architect the plan is to have a regulation mixed-use soccer regulation soccer mm-hmm and that field will also have a softball incorporated into part of the outfield but it'll have softball softball and soccer regulation and then the flag football and other sports will use that multi-purpose field we won't have a regulation football field because the school doesn't plan to have
050tackle football okay because I would eat up your entire cost there it would yes sir yes sir we we do a lot of multi-purpose fields that don't eat up the budget okay those were my only questions section 17 transportation and section 18 food service both have no questions and we're up to Section nineteen school safety and security all right hi I'm Craig Pender coordinator emergency services and school safety after reviewing this year's and last year's I did note that you did try to fix everything that had questions about I only have two questions for you one I think you pretty much want answer anyway what are your plans to identify bullying and an anonymous reporting I know you put in Crimestoppers but you know we have the new thing if you could just elaborate we
051do a lot in bullying and my doctorate is in the study of bullying oh I do a lot of activities and workshops for our kids we've done many gold programs which are girls only Leadership Development which we we hit hard on that building relationships we do a bold program for the boys so we had our thing is education of what to look for and a lot of times it's education of the adults not so much as the kids because the adults have to see it as an issue so I say if you walk into a school as a teacher and you don't think it's not a big deal boys will be boys and if you think it's they're not big issues you'll never see it so you really have to educate the teachers and the
052staff to build those relationships with kids and notice a change of behavior if you come to Byrnes you will see a very open policy door open it's part of our culture kids will come and talk where we don't give them decisions as to what they can do we lay out all the things and of course my last one is I'll be glad to step in and after we've talked about several different ways that they can not be involved in this they kind of work out their own solution and they're able to handle it but we always are right there to be able to step in ourselves we also have a reporting system we have bully boxes all over the school where anybody can drop anything in we have a place in the office where they're
053able to drop in they can also email anything and and we can be contacted at any time so we do have ways for our kids to let us know that the problem is happening the other thing is we educate our our parents a lot of times kids won't come forward but I say if they said something to you take it serious and let us know and we're able to do it where we do not put that kid in harm's way but we put ourselves where they're saying it's happening when they're saying it's happening who what where and how and we're able to see it ourselves or have a teacher see it themselves and step in without ever letting them know that we know that the child reported it and two other things I think the
054district uses fortify as possibility and our student information system we use Jupiter also has an anonymous bullying report system through that so the kids are checking their grades they can use that system to anonymously report something okay all right last question I believe may be holy just an oversight said that you mentioned having a guardian and that it's in the budget but we didn't find line we have SRO okay [Music] function 7800 object 310 if you look at the budget you go down under 7800 to the line item professional and technical services that line item is an SRO and that number came from the contract that the school district has with Volusia County thank you thank you this it was before year one it's fifty seven thousand seven five dollars good now we're on to
055section 20 and 21 budget and financial management good morning dad Muller chief financial officer and I just have a couple of questions in section 21 which is attachment X you referred to the schools of Hope RFP response and included that one hundred per FTE for back-office services however when you look at that document there's no date on that but it does refer to software being available in 2017 so I can't confirm that that cost might be higher or lower but where would the additional expense if you were to go out for another RFP before you actually opened where would that additional money come from to now the money that if the if it came in at higher than $100 per student mm-hmm well we if you look at the budget obviously a year at the
056end of year one there was not a lot of surplus in the way that we budgeted however that was only utilizing $300,000 of to startup loan commitments of $500,000 each so if that was the case we would go in and make an evaluation based upon the situation at the time for example we don't know what the f EF P is going to be for August of 2020 at this point governor's talked about increasing it for august of nineteen we don't know how much they're going to approve it you know depending on what that number is it could you know make a big impact on that first year surplus so it's a wait and see until we see what the legislature does and then once we know that then we just the amount that we draw
057on that startup loan which we have an additional $700,000 that we can draw on but we feel at this time we're in communication with building hope on a regular basis they have not indicated that that number is going to change at this point okay thank you the only other question I have is just to note that on page five sixty five-year insurance coverage does not state that your business automobile policy would have a deductible of no more than a thousand dollars so you would need to bring that into compliance the whatever the requirements are we intend to meet the district policy as well as any state regulations with respect to those insurance policies okay and I could say I was already at ten pages for FF so I couldn't add the whole policy in there
058so it just added parts of the things that I thought were important okay thank you that's questions I have h98 I don't think Caitlin you don't think she did I don't think okay sorry there's a CTE question in appendix XC actually it was page 98 beginning teacher salary check what's that that's okay we were just confused okay and in section 22 for the startup plan there are no questions in this section so that concludes our district questions however I would like to open it up to district staff are there any additional follow-up questions resulting from the questions and answers that we heard okay hearing none we are wrapped up as far as the questioning portion does the application team have any questions for the district at this point I guess the other thing they're gonna
059put this on a week ahead of time so that we can prepare for anything when it goes before the board now will the superintendent make his recommendation prior to the board meeting so that'll be when the the agenda goes live when the agenda goes live you'll be able to see what the recommendation is okay and also I heard you tell the last applicant that the meeting starts in the morning it does cuz I was under the impression it was like 3:30 in the afternoon no we are starting at 8:30 on that day we will get with you on the exact time for you to come so you don't have to come and wait it's our intention to try to streamline that process so that we're not there until the middle of the night and so
060that's why we're trying something different this time just start early and hopefully you know not be so late well the agenda be in its normal format yes the normal school board format okay yes and there will be other school board business and that has to occur on that date as well so it'll be woven into that meeting but it will start at 8:30 in the morning okay well thank you very much thank you and district staff we are adjourned until 1:45 our last applicant will be coming in for their interview with us at 2:00 p.m. so enjoy a little bit of free time and get some lunch and we'll see you back at 1:45 thank