001e e e right there good afternoon that was a look good afternoon today is Tuesday February 25th 2025 welcome to the valish County school board meeting the time now is 4:32 pm. and we're going to um in just a moment we're going to stand for the Pledge of Allegiance and the national Anthem the Pledge of Allegiance this evening will be by Reed patillo Elementary the national anthem will be um from students at Spruce Creek High following that will remain standing for a moment of silence and reflection so at this time would you please join me and we will wait until the students are on the video good evening School Board my name is Kelly Carter proud principal of repatillo rockets with you today I have Miss Castillo's second grade class and we are going to
002present the Pledge of Allegiance I pledge aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the for stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all e [Music] [Applause] ch [Music] a [Music] [Applause] [Music] thank you you may be seated at this time I'd like to introduce those that are here at the front with me I'll start over on my far left we have Mrs Donna brosmer representing District 4 Mrs Christa Goodrich representing District Two Dr Gilbert Evans our Schoolboard attorney moving over to the far right my far right we have Miss Celeste Gilmore our agency clerk Mrs Jesse Thompson representing District 3 Mr Ruben cologne our vice chair representing District 5 Dr Carmen Balaban our superintendent and I am Jamie Haynes um the chair representing district one items
003for approval on this agenda are items 1.03 2.02 5.01 7.02 and 17.01 through 17.06 public participation times for any item on the consent agenda you may go over and see one of the ladies here raise your hand and they'll give you a card if you wish to um provide public input on anything on the consent agenda prior to us voting on The consent agenda we also have a 6: PM or slightly later depending on how the um meeting is moving for items of general interest pertaining to public education in Valia County a total of up to 15 minutes will be provided for public comment at that time then time will be provided for public comment on any action item before a board vote is called on that item our item action items tonight are items
00417.01 through 17.06 and then time will be provided at the end of the meeting for public comment for items of general interest pertaining to public education in valuch County before any items from the board superintendent or attorney are up for discussion or announcement our district vision statement is to create lifelong Learners prepared for an everchanging Global Society at this time I invite my fellow board members to um go ahead and if they wish to speak tonight about anything that's been going on they can speak Mrs brosmer this was a busy week and uh and I had a great time um I started by going to the Morman Beach Middle School fifth grade welcome uh which was which is their way of welcoming the fifth graders who are going to be coming in next year as
005sixth graders huge turnout and uh and the performances were wonderful um and I got to meet Dr Ian Elli uh the principal I had not had a chance to meet her and then I spent part of the next day with her and got a tour of the camp and and what have you so I had a really great time at obms uh I also attended uh the VCC PTA um and that was also um really wonderful uh that was at uh tamoka Elementary and that was really wonderful performances uh and had a chance to uh speak with their staff as well and then the biggest thing was the the countywide social studies fair that was held at Hinson uh middle school I had uh I had been a judge at um I misstated the last
006time and now I'm going to do it again at one of my elementary schools I'm drawing a blank Pathways Pine Trail I'm sorry Pathways Pathways thank you I I always say Pine Trail when I mean Pathways at at I was a judge at Pathways and saw the uh the winning um entry from Pathways at at uh Hinson but also was able to see what the um other elementary schools and and the middle and high schools were able to do and and the level of imagination Ingenuity and and intellectual curiosity of so many of them was just fascinating so I had a really good time and just thought I would mention it that's all so I don't have a lot this week um except that we are looking for shoes if anyone wants to donate any
007used um tennis shoes we'll be doing a collection at tur te so feel free to let me know if you want to donate shoes but other than that just want to thank Karen Bishop for continuing to schedule me to visit all the schools and meet our amazing principals and staff and students and get to see all the great things everyone's doing thank you Miss Thompson thank you so you're right there is a lot going on I feel like it's getting up to that time of year and it doesn't slow down until summer um a couple really big things happened uh especially in District 3 Port Orange elementary school had their centennial celebration which is huge I mean it a hundred years and you're talking just wall to--all people of all ages you had your young
008students who were still there and it was really cool they had their oldest um surviving alumni with their youngest student from their uh VPK class and they took a picture together and it was was precious but just hearing all the different steps and stages that the school went through it was there before the railroad I don't know if anyone's ever driven past that school and wondered why there is a railroad track right on top of it the school grounds were there before the railroad so that answered that question for me um but thank you huge thank you to everyone who put that together because there were a lot of pictures there were newspaper articles I got to show my son a newspaper um there was just a lot of history there to be had and
009it was really really neat and I heard so many people that were older uh say oh this was my third grade classroom where oh I remember these hallways or oh I remember this Auditorium um it was just a really cool night um new sumera beach our girls basketball team is in the State final four which is amazing they have a fantastic team they have a great coach so super excited for them um if anyone from District 3 has felt called to give money to the basketball team they will need help going to the final four in Lakeland so just putting that little plug out there um I think most of us went to the love the bus uh we had our different bus terminals had the love the bus and so we went out there
010with Futures Foundation thank you Futures foundation for providing a beautiful breakfast uh for our bus drivers and the staff out there because they do so much uh and you know no one ever hears about it really what they go through and they're the first people that our kids see every morning usually the last ones at the end of the day so it's really nice to go out there and honor them and I'm sorry I'm going a little long this will be the end of it we all know we had the races that came through and I don't want to steal too much of Mr clone's Thunder because I know you love the races so much but I will say at Chism Elementary we got a book vending machine thanks to Eric Jones and Advent health
011and if you've never seen the book vending machines they are amazing and some of the kids got the little tokens and they could go up and they were so excited to get a book out of this vending machine and I just love that that that's a reward and they're just that happy and excited so a lot going on thank you to everyone who made that all possible thank you Mr cologne so a few meetings ago we had acapocalypse here which is the vocal I said that right which is the vocal Ensemble from pineridge and so they went to the state competition uh and they um qualified to go to the national competition and so they will be going to uh North Carolina in the coming days to compete as well we had Jack Lopez day
012Jack Lopez was a former student at Deltona High School and so uh they retired his jersey which was really neat he was out there with his family and his kids and and so of course a lot of the community came out to support and so uh that was great we retired his jersey our cheer teams both Deltona High and pineridge um made it to the finals uh and so shout out to them kudos to everyone who came together for the fact Fair uh that took place at Deltona Middle School uh shout out to our federal programs and grants and and those folks who bring together folks from the community to um have those offerings band so jazz band both at Pin Ridge and Deltona High got straight superiors yay and so uh that was super
013exciting I think Mr doer is over here somewhere okay there he is he's smiling so that was amazing I'm almost done let's see oh Mr and Mrs pineridge that is always so hard to judge because these kids are amazing you know and and it takes a lot to put yourself out there and so um these kids did an amazing job and so uh that was super exciting uh last but not least eltona High put together the Adams Family the play and to say that it was short of Broadway I mean it was the the props the the kids the lines the hilar they were hilarious um it was such a good show shout out to M who uh and what was really really cool is they hooked up with the kids from Timber Crest Elementary
014and so they they had you had like the adult cast and then you had the kids so there were two Wednesdays one the young one one the slightly older one and it was it was just hilarious and so uh the Arts are alive and well in valua schools I I tell you if you know I'm I'm looking forward to proposing ways that we could get our Chambers and those folks to show up to these events because they have no idea what they're missing uh and so um that's that uh otherwise I'll leave the You' mentioned the races shout out to Advent health and Eric Jones Foundation who actually has donated three machines I believe at this point uh to our schools and and not only does it come with the machine but it's also comes
015along with a $5,000 uh purchase of books to continue to fill that machine so um special thanks to them for that thank you you're welcome there's a lot of things to share but there's one thing I want to share this evening that um I have never in all the years I've went and judge science fair experienced this and I thought I just need to tell everyone because it was the neest experience so I was at Woodward Elementary on Friday morning for about 4 hours to judge science fair projects which are really fun but the best part of it was they brought students from D high so they had students from the IB program the ace and honors program dual enrollment students some of them were athletes and all of that and one young lady told
016me she said this is my third year doing this because I love it well who better to interview the fifth graders than students that attend the high school where these kids are going to go to high school the interaction between the students the fifth graders and the high school students was just amazing because they would sit down with them and ask them questions and the kids felt more comfortable talking about their projects I will tell you with them than they would with an adult and they could relate and then they would ask them things about if you were going to expand this next year when you go to sixth grade what would you change or what would you do differently and so they every student and we did four rotations was interviewed by at least
017three high school students and they got that interaction and the high school students each time when they talked to a group they got to tell something about here's what I'm doing or here's what I learned in middle school that prepared me for high school or here's where I'm headed to college and it was a beautiful thing matter of fact we had one high school student that had said in an earlier session that she's in dance she talked about like some of her Ives and we ended up in the last session of um the students that were um being interviewed one had done a project on Dance tights and which pair of dance tights will actually hold up the best and so it was so neat because we were able to pair that young lady who
018is a dancer at the high school with this young lady who's started in dance but is trying to figure out how her mom doesn't have to keep spending money on her dance tights and and you should have seen the little girl's face she just lit up when the young lady said I'm in dance now so I am so interested in your project I told one of them the most interesting part that I had and it had just happened to me that day is one of them did a thing on bananas and like how to keep the bananas from turning brown quickly and I talked with them about well when um they do you know I end up having to make banana bread at my house because I don't want to throw them out and so
019it's just it's so neat to see the conversations that can take place and if I could encourage any of you that are here tonight or listening if you're in elementary school here's a great suggestion pair up with one of your local high schools like where your kids are going to go to school next and see if you can get some high school kids to come out and judge your science for projects next year because that was the best thing and and Miss laraby um arranged all of it at Woodward she had something there for them first thing in the morning for breakfast and then she served them pizza and salad and um cookies at lunch and it was just it was the best experience and I still did interview some kids but just seeing their
020smile like one little boy he' done a project with um the bounce of like balls well one of the young men played soccer and he sat down and talked to him and I've just never seen kids come alive at fifth graders wanting to tell you about their PL is what I witnessed on Friday and so that's all I'm going to leave it at Mr clone wants to talk one last thing a lot of our schools participated this weekend in the Science Olympiad at Embry Riddle um that's put on uh by an independent group of folks who do that um however I know uh Delona High Pine Ridge Galaxy uh Deltona Middle had teams there in many of our schools and so uh shout out I know Jen Taylor and her team were out there with
021the stem bust uh and so shout out to them and all those students who are qualifying and going to the national competition now so it was uh either they're now I think they're going to States it was this was the regional competition and so shout out to them thank you okay and so since you gave a shout out I needed to end with not only did we have all the students we had their teach um one of the teachers at dantai agreed to take on this project and her name is Mrs Rizzo so she's the one that coordinated it and got the high school students over to the Elementary and then we also had Dr Harry price from ston University there and he was even interviewing kids and telling them about all the different fields
022if they're interested in science that they could follow through and so that's you know that's the best thing you can do bring your community members in but high school students coming to elementary schools there's nothing better than that so at this time we're moving on to item 1.03 approval of minutes board members you had an opportunity to read the um minutes from the uh last workshop on February 11th and the school board meeting on February 11th this time do I have someone that would like to make a motion to approve the minutes motion to approve second thank you Mr clone thank you Mrs brosme any [Music] questions all right then I'll call for the vote all those in favor of approving the minutes for the February 11th workshop and the February 11th School board meeting
023please say I I any opposed okay it passes unanimously we're now moving on to 2.01 Dr balaman are there any agenda changes before the agenda is presented to the board for approval no Madam chair I have no changes all right board members you've heard that there are no changes to the agenda as it was presented to you so do I have a motion to approve the presented agenda motion to approve thank you Mrs goodr do I have a second I'll second that motion thank you m Thompson any discussion hearing none I'll call for the vote all those in favor of approving the agenda for this evening's meeting as it's been presented please say I I I any opposed it passes unanimously we are now moving right along to item 3.01 announcements by Dr Carmen Balaban
024our superintendent thank you madam chair board members and for all of you in the audience it's so nice to see so many staff staff members parents and students and uh lots of pride in the audience I see that look at that over there Mr colog you should take a picture and for those of you tuning in thank you for tuning in listening to our board meeting couple things very short today um we do have February 27th it's considered a digital learning day um on March March 25th there are several things taking place in March women's History Month the entire month of March so to all of the females that are Trend Setters and and and Trailblazers congratulations to all of you the world is it just spins a whole lot more right but when when
025you've got females because they they just they just have it right ladies yes ma'am so it's women's History Month also music in our schools month is the month of March social worker month Monch of month of March and youth art month is the month of March March 2nd through the 6th we have read Across America week the 2nd through the E School social worker week and the 3D through the seventh it's National School breakfast week and as we all know in vucha County we have the universal breakfast and lunch program so we're very lucky to have that program the theme this year however is glue into your school's breakfast so you know we will have a great video coming up for that salt our student advisory leadership team we have 33 students from our high
026schools that are part of our salt student advisory leadership team this is something that we put together last I think two years now and these are students that we meet with very often throughout the year and we discuss different topics and it's it's really important to have students voice in the work that we do but all of you will have an opportunity to meet these 33 Splendid students they will be here next month and they will share some of some of the work that they've done so far in Valia County and what they're looking forward to as we move forward but as we all know they have been doing really good work and actually we have worked on some really good projects and they're just truly out standing students so I can't wait for you
027all of you to meet them so tune in for for next month um the board meeting coming up because they will be here and we will be recognizing them Chism Elementary you're absolutely right and I do have a video that captures that so I'm not going to say a whole lot about that but uh you're absolutely right and we're very thankful to Adent health because it's the fourth um book vending machine that we have in our County so far and I know it's not the last also love the bus and I know that all of you board members you were out there at the hubs and you were um welcoming our bus drivers and celebrating with them and I have a video for that as well so we have two videos that are queued up
028and ready to go and I think it really captures what I can say it's already in there correct guys all [Music] right how fast can you go in the last car um we're right about 200 mph yeah we got the chance to come out here with the Eric Jones foundation in Advent Health donate a book bending machine that's right behind us something we've been doing for a couple of years now with the foundation and Advent Health has really come on and wanted to be a part of it but just trying to spread reading to um the Next Generation and it's something I've always Lov to do and it's been really fun to just have a way to share uh my passion of it with some great groups of kids we're still a small organization we
029we only have really one full-time employee but to see it um just spreading through uh the country and the market we have a great platform on askcar we travel to so many different places and have so many different partners that are able to help us out um with all these different initiatives that we have um and with one of them being these book vending machines it's been a lot of fun and and again thankful to to Advent health for um Coming on and really helping make this uh make this reality I makes it more fun cuz it's like you're kind of getting a um book vending machine and it kind of sticks out more and it's colorful and it I feel like it ENC it'll encourage people to read more it encourages kids cuz it's
030a fun way to get the books and the books inside it's just like a real life thing how you go to a normal vending machine but they get to practice with books and they got to take it home yeah it's really trying to get kids more excited about reading um these are vending machines where kids have an opportunity to earn a token through their classwork through good behavior uh through good grades and and get these tokens to come over and get a book out of this vending machine and be able to take it home and keep it so really exciting and kind of a cool way to go about uh getting into reading and have something rewarding to really um be doing what you're supposed to be doing in class and then also uh get
031a cool book to take home with [Music] you love the bus week we love buses we love our mechanics we love everybody we have amazing people it's the people that makes the difference we are celebrating the bus drivers and transportation staff of gucha County Schools we celebrate our bus drivers because they do an amazing job of making sure our students get safely to and from school every day they take care of our Precious Cargo every day to get them to school on time and then take them thank you so much Mike I appreciate you thank you we have approximately 300 bus drivers and bus attendants that serves in vucha county and these are the folks that for many many of our children these are the first faces that they see in the morning the first
032Contact that they make and then the last also so it's really important that they understand how important they are to the work that we do and that they're truly valued and appreciated and they're an integral part of BCS [Music] and last but not least the spring is come it's right around the corner and we are going to launch our superintendent spring reading challenge so I'd like to invite parents for those of you listening at home those of you here in the audience and to all of our students it starts March 1st and it will run through March 31st students can log their reading minutes through bean stack and earn exciting rewards um including a $20 fund card and a for 400 to 599 minutes make sure Charlie knows that got it and a water park
033pass for 600 minutes or more um so get get ready guys because that's coming up and all you need to do is read read read and log your minutes in through bean stack and um we will be recognizing those students after the winners that's it that's it all right then we are moving on to item 4.0 one which I think um when we hit recognitions this is why we have a lot of people in the audience and we love having um especially students teachers staff parents community members here so our first recognition tonight is the superintendent winter reading challenge winters winners Dr Balaban yes you're going to introduce all these KS students yes we we do have a well actually miss rabinsky our coordinator for instruction materials is going to a assist us along with
034Heather Norris um our coordinator for ELA K through2 but question for you miss Haynes how many schools you think participated I'd like to say I wish all of them have participated but how about we'll go with 60% of them well we F exceeded that yay 67 of our schools participated in our um winter uh challenge guys would you like you have the names of all theud students okay go for it all right so some other um information is we had 346 students read and log between 400 and 499 minutes they earned an arcade card from family Funtown we had 767 students read and log over 600 or more minutes and they earned a 90minut jump session from Skyzone and we' like to thank those sponsors and we actually have here Lauren constant from skyone if
035you want to stand up um here to represent and we're so grateful that she donated those passes for our students I think we need to give her a hand [Applause] yes so tonight we are recognizing our top three winners from each um division so in elementary if you could please stand when your name is called we have Gordon Nichols here from Pine Trail with Mr B he is here the principal we have from Champion Elementary Nikita Malla with Mr mallerie Miss Fuller here [Applause] right she might be a little shy she's very back from Port Orange we have Juliana Turner and Mr zablo is here tonight as [Music] [Applause] well and our Middle School Division from Southwestern we have Dr swith here with Ronald Lundy our [Applause] winner our next two winners are not able
036to attend tonight but we'll still want to say their names we have Avery Peterson from [Applause] Creekside kawait from new samna mle and our high School Division we have Kristen Desmond from Pine Ridge and Dr Sparger is here he has two winners from Spruce Creek um I don't think either one is able to be here tonight but we have suprit Carr and Ava [Applause] Warner and you want to do the next and or you want to have them come up now we do that let's do this come so at this time but I think we're going to take them first Elementary if we could have our three Elementary winners and anyone that's here with them go ahead and come forward we're going to get the elementary picture and then we will do Middle School next
037and high school last and I think it's in order Mom and Dad any you guys would like to take a picture for you let me know better we have to get really close Okay get as close as you can did you find the three is that allbody yet EXA so we have everybody just take one big Collective step at grp this way anybody all right there we go we go all right everybody we're going to take a whole bunch of pictures one right after the other okay I'm gonna count down for you just keep smiling ready all right everybody ready three two one all right and one last one ready that's my face oh no all right ready three two one and then one more three two one thank [Applause] [Music] you helloing the phone
038hello hello [Music] a little bit of back Jam thanks yes ma'am you got it thank you congratulations such a job okay [Applause] same awesome thank you guys I app my mom my mom me I'd rather not for I am doing it in New York the rest are not he's here and they're both his both him hold them up how's that and the other so that one is not that one it's that that one and's Dr star's going to say all right everybody you guys this works [Music] thank you so much appreciate back to cold back to cold thank yes thank you thank you so so much if Delona is all coming there oh yeah the PBIS it's one two three four five six seven we're gonna be doing it very similar to that they're gonna
039come up and and Mandy Ellis is gonna okay that's fine okay at this time we are moving on to our next recognition which is item 4.0 two on today's tonight's agenda this is for our PBIS model schools Dr baban thank you madam chair I would like to ask our Specialists to come and join us uh Miss Mandy Dr Mandy Alice and this is actually a recognition this recognition really it's it's a testament and a commitment to all of the hard work and dedication of our administrators teachers and staff when it comes to fostering a positive culture C and climate at these schools so I will have Miss Dr Ellis do the presentation for us all right good evening Dr Balaban chairwoman Haynes school board it's very nice to see you all tonight my name is
040Dr Mendy Elie and I am the district coordinator for positive behavior interventions and supports better known as PBIS um before we recognize our student schools and my apologies I I knew the party was coming but I didn't know they'd be so decorated oh yeah um we've got schools that we want to recognize for being a PBIS model school but I also wanted to give you guys a little bit of background on what PBIS is thank you I always think I'm loud enough but um so I wanted to to just give you a little bit of information and know that when you're out in your schools and walking the schools you may see uh signage that say be respectful be safe be cooperative um we have re enforcement systems at every school so it's going to
041look different the thing that is most important and we are aligned with Goal three of our strategic plan the thing that's going to look different is this is not a curriculum we don't come in and say Here's your PBIS curriculum it's a framework for creating more successful students empowering staff creating a culture at the school what we do when we go through the training is they bring all of their information about their individual schools and they put it together and they say this is this is how we're going to do PBIS um it's really a very positive approach for teaching students what the expectations are so for example when we learn to drive we learn to follow the speed limit at least some of us do um we learn how to turn safely use our
042turn signals that's what we want to do with our staff and students is these are the expectations and they're all really sa soft skills um walking in the hall safely being cooperative with your with your friends being respectful of of others so those are the kinds of things that we teach the teachers and Empower them and then they go forth and have lesson plans and things like that that they um teach the students what the expectations are along with the signage um we really want to be able to to respect the Dignity of the individuals so while PBIS is a schoolwide approach for behavior and discipline at tier one we also work towards a tier two where where we're supporting small groups of of individual students um or small groups of students that may have
043similar um Behavior similar similar needs and then we also work at tier three where that's that individualized support it's all part of that mtss framework um we always use a systems approach when we think about Positive Behavior Support so um what is our schoolwide system going to look like how are we going to proceed how do we um we involve the parents how do we respect each other in the parent pickup or the parent drop off Loop so we want to incorporate not only the students and the staff but our whole school community so when you're visiting with your your um your principales and and administration you may hear a little bit about that how um the school community and the parents can become involved um when we look at supporting staff Behavior we really
044look at those systems but we also want to make databas decisions so there are two points in the school year where the school teams will come together and they submit um in the fall a PBIS implementation checklist where they kind of self evaluate how they're doing where they need to grow or where they need to focus I do a a walkthrough at every school where I look at their signage I talk to kids I talk to adults is this really part of the culture and they get a score from that but additionally they have three assessments that they do at the end of the year called their benchmarks of quality where they're looking at their entire year that helps them to to again look at their data how they're doing things but also say okay
045what do we need to address next year because this really does need to be involved in the school um we also look at practices of supporting that student Behavior additionally we want those schoolwide expectations to flow into the classroom so every classroom has the schoolwide expectations posted but we ask them also to to develop practice in their classrooms to support those those soft skills those those expectations when we have those things in place and when we're implementing with Fidelity we have better student outcomes we see reductions in referrals we see um increased participation based on what might be a reward system um not to say that we've been able to address every student but schoolwide 80% is what we want to really buy into what we're doing and then we'll do those tiered supports for
046students that may be struggling there are 10 critical elements to PBIS down at the bottom right hand of your of your um infograph teaming is really important when we have a PBIS team comes together for the training we want them to work on a Common Language so if I go into a school I look at their language and I'm going to use their language but we want that consistency with this these are our expectations this is what Tim Crest Elementary or Deltona Lakes Elementary This Is How They involve PBIS we always want that commitment so we'll develop a mission statement what is our commitment to this initiative and what are the outcomes that we're we're hoping to see when we think about discipline um we want consistent discipline practices in the school we have our
047discipline office we have a m Matrix but we also want to have things such as a hierarchy of consequences a phone call home a time away um maybe it gets to an office referral but we want to have those consistent practices as well I mentioned data entry and Analysis they also look at their discipline data they look at their attendance data side by side with um what they have submitted to the State of Florida um their Rewards program their inis um sorry incentive programs we have Bobcat bucks we have PBIS rewards we have a focus reward system so they align it with what is best for them developing their plan we want to know how we're going to proceed and build on that plan year after year teaching the expectations and we retach the expectations
048when needed believe it or not we we teach them at the beginning of the year we teach them after hurricanes we teach them after Christmas break we teach them after things we've got to keep just like you would your classroom expectations we've got to keep reteaching so that it becomes part of that that system I mentioned that the classroom system should be based on those schoolwide expectations and then I've mentioned the evaluation system that there required to go through so when we get ready to recognize our model model schools every year based on the end of the year date at the benchmarks of quality this the Florida PBIS project which with we we have had a collaboration since 2011 looks at the criteria looks at their discipline outcomes looks at different things did they meet
049their data guidelines and they can nominate they say okay we've got these schools in your District that can be eligible they worked very hard this year they submit an application and depending on what criteria they met they can be bronze silver or gold so we've got a little bit of everything tonight and without further Ado I would really like to recognize our schools and we're going to go in alphabetical order correct Celeste remember the alphabet of quarter so we have I have it I have it Champion element Elementary so we would like to they get a banner for their school my apologies to Timber Elementary [Music] [Applause] yeah they need they need a new one Jo us he we're gonna stay up so here's what we need to do we need to make sure that
050these other schools are ready call them darling is calling them everybody side down a little awesome there we go there we go all right guys ready three two [Applause] one I think we have cyp Creek [Applause] you all right you look good ready three two one legs legs what you balance we balance in our you guys knew what to do I didn't even have to instruct you all right ready guys look at me three two one didn't really know [Applause] what this way make sure okay let's have everybody step forward a little bit and then can we have this side of the sign P see can everybody two one and you guys don't need to go second phone hold take picture with your banner and we can always CH thank you right Lin it's like
051congrats Lonnie J job good job proud of you actually can we FP this so it's blank on the back and not be able to you have to do is change the top wait it would be easier the was we just need to phot name yeah EAS it's the white you take the Logo put it right on yeah guys I'm sorry she's gonna phot I'm gonna photosh it we're GNA phot it'll look better this is Tim I my roommate sorry I was getting excited I was talking to my roommate does my hair look good [Applause] all right 100 Years thank Youk conratulations coming you guys come on in got two PHS you guys smile for a second okay and let me get my phone to hold on for just a second all right ready [Applause] [Music]
052conratulations oh thanks sir awesome I know so at this time we're moving on to item 5.01 administrative appointments or transfers Dr Vin do we have any administrative appointments today Madam chair I do have one and at this time I would like to ask Miss Hy George crims to join us I will share a little bit of uh background with you regarding Miss KMS she's obtained her bachelor's degree from the University of Central Florida go nights um her is doctor's degree from Barry University Orlando certification she holds the Florida bar us Middle District of Florida July 2012 she started as a law clerk slash Legal Assistant with the law office of Jeffrey clean in Daytona Beach became a supervising attorney for the State of Florida Guardian at lighting program in Daytona Beach went on to becoming
053an assistant state attorney for the State of Florida State's Attorney's office office 7 circuit Daytona Beach became eminent domain attorney for the State of Florida Department of Transportation District 5 Delan Florida currently serving as the assistant state attorney for the State of Florida State's Attorney's Office uh the seven circuit Daytona Beach with your approval um I'm recommending that today that Miss Heidi George scrims um is designated as a staff attorney in the chief's council's office and if approve her effective start date will be March 3rd 2025 thank you board members you've heard the superintendent's recommendation I have someone to make a motion I'll make the motion thank you good thank you Miss brosmer anyone have any comments Miss Thompson so I I know someone who used to work with and casually we were just talking
054about this because I like to know you know the background of people more than just just what it says on a resume and the feedback that I got was you were extremely hard worker went above and beyond and were a very nice person that people would be sad to see you leave and so I'm sad for other people that you are leaving however I was very excited to hear that combo in a person because it's kind of hard to find and uh I'm really excited to see what you do here so congratulations I'd like to add to that that when I reviewed your resume all of it is wonderful but the piece that stood out to me was um when you were the supervising attorney for the State of Florida Guardian at Liam I don't
055think people understand how important that piece is and I have had friends who were teachers that when they retired chose to take on and be a guardian at lightam for a student or a child here um in valua county and it's always something that I've had on my list that it's like okay once I retire that is the position that I would like to do I'd like to be that advocate and be that Guardian for our children so that they have a voice and so I think the fact that you've already worked through that piece too gives you a piece to moving into working with students which is what we do every day it already gives you a framework for that and so I was very impressed when I reviewed your resume any other comments
056okay then hearing none at this time we have a motion in a second so I'm going to call for the vote all those in favor of Heidi George kriens becoming the staff attorney for valua County Schools please say I I any opposed it passes unanimously welcome and [Applause] congratulations can I get a witness school board members Madam chair Dr balabin I am deeply honored and grateful to be appointed to this position I'm enthusiastic about the opportunities that lie ahead and committed to working diligently to serve you and the students of Luchia County Schools to the best of my abilities I would like to extend my sincere thanks to all those who have supported me and believed in me and there are a lot uh particularly my family accompanying me tonight is my husband Jim and
057my sister Holly their unwavering support in encouragement are always invaluable to me becoming a lawyer is my second career the majority of my legal career has been dedicated to public service by accepting this position I believe I am contributing to the highest form of service by supporting the students of alucha County who represent the future of our community thank you once again for this significant honor thank you and you don't get away quickly you have to come forward with your family for a photo okay so only hello hello welcome can I just this you you together a little bit a [Music] little just a little little and I'll just you right [Applause] here oh you have no idea the pr one a good one it it's not yet 6 o'clock so we are moving on
058to item 7.01 which is removal of any items from the consent agenda Dr Balaban do you wish to remove any items this evening from the consent agenda no Madam chair board members do you wish to remove any items if so U Miss brosmer I have a few and and none of these are for separate votes these are just all a couple of random questions uh that I have on a couple of items um the first one is uh 10.01 10.01 correct um 11.02 okay and 12.03 all right do I have any other board members that wish to remove any items um for discussion separately 10 point Z I have one um 13.01 just to draw people people's attention to that piece okay then um we're going to go ahead and start with item 10.01 yes
059I would like to ask um Miss copelan Jack Weis coplin I think she's here in the audience Miss brossmer I think I know your question but you may want to ask for the record okay um thank you I hello hello um mine is really um just looking for an idea some of the the wording in this is very Broad and so I was looking for an example of um for instance um uh the purpose of id idea I'm understand I'm not supposed to say idea so the purpose of Part B is to provide additional funding to meet the need of providing special education and related services to children with disabilities can you give me an example of how that would be applied yes so we use these funds to sponsor uh professional learning for teachers
060these are how we pay our pray pair professionals we also use these funds to um hire District placement specialist that coach teachers in the ESC classroom and to um also so we use this for technology needs that our students have okay and do I understand correctly that that the only portion of this that we're uh going into is the 28,000 that the rest of that has been allocated already all of the funds have been allocated but we had an allocation adjustment so there were two grants the first one is the Ida Part B in our preschool and so we um gained $228,100 and3 7 in our K12 we did have an allocation adjustment of over $400,000 which we had to decrease and we had to make budget adjustments because of the decrease from the state
061how do those uh adjustments happen so what happens is it's part of our role for so we project we projected for um our K12 that we were going to have a roll forward of $1.5 million but our expenditures were only um over a little over $900,000 so the state came back and took back the portion that we did not use so we had to readjust the roll forward piece okay I think those are all my questions on that one okay thank you thank you m you're welcome we're moving now on to item 11.02 the budget amendment for fiscal year 202 2425 through November 30th thank you Miss Haynes and I know Mr CE is here yeah there he is welcome yes welcome um we actually had a chance to talk about this before the meeting
062and um and so I want to thank Mr C for two things one is for the narrative that goes with the the budget amendment I think that's extremely helpful and the other is we talked about uh the possibility of making that budget amendment public uh whether it's in the board docs Library which still doesn't have any documents in it or on the website which um I I think may be more practical however that's done I think it's really helpful to the public to be able to access it so I just um unless you have something to say that I just wanted to say thank you we'll take it yeah thank you I just want to share we have a fiscal transparency page so what I'm going to do is create another page on there and
063then put my monthly financial statements and post them there if if that's okay I I think the narrative is especially helpful because for people like me who look at a at a budget and have no idea what it means uh the The Narrative is really helpful and I especially appreciate that you did that okay thank you thank you Mr C now we're moving on to item 12.03 contract amendment to MSA d225 d7001 agriculture Education Services and Technology okay Miss core we have someone here oh Dr Pierce I see Dr Pierce good evening good evening this is probably a really quick question um I was just curious to know since we just approved if I'm reading the agenda correctly we just approved 50,000 at the last meeting and so I wondered what this is so we
064did approve the door Dr baban approved the 4999 n right um but we are anticipating a 35% increase in the number of AG associate tests so there are six different tests in a so we're looking at 80 to 85 90,000 at this point that that we're anticipating and we only buy these as needed so we don't stockpile any of any of the exams this is Christy grala she's our industry search specialist so I'm GNA let her add her two cents thank you board uh yes so we are just uh ordering the exams as the teachers need them and we're following our purchasing guidelines uh to make sure that Dr bin signs off and then as we feel that we need more we reach out work with our uh purchasing team and they put forth a
065contract uh at a higher rate that needs to be board approved so we can continue to purchase our exams for our teachers and students and this is all for agriculture well that's one of my my pet areas so agriculture is one of our biggest CTE program areas in the district we have the most number of students middle and high school so it's definitely a win-win for us agriculture well I love hearing that okay that's all I wanted to know just how we went from one meeting to the next with the same amount and I just wondered how that happened so thank you thank you thank you ladies and that's all I have okay thank you the um one item I pulled was just really to let teachers and faculty and staff know out of the
066school that we've heard them and I have to even give um Mrs Bernett a lot of credit because she kept saying which we agreed with her why are we blocking out days like for makeup for hurricane weather and things like that when we already know that people anticipate having the full week off for Thanksgiving and they make their plans early to fly somewh where or to be with family and so um the calendar committee came back and they met and we have removed the Thanksgiving break from being weather set aside days so that people will still have their full week of Thanksgiving they don't have to worry about if I make plans and then we have a hurricane and the board decides to use one of or two of the days during Thanksgiving week now
067you know I'm stuck because if they buy plane tickets and things like that and so we talked a lot about this last year and just said we just need to leave Thanksgiving week alone and allow people to have that time off and spend it with their family so they met the calendar committee met and they came up with a new plan so I just felt it was important that everyone that works on our schools hears that it's okay to go ahead and plan for your Thanksgiving break and I was afraid they may not read that piece on there and um it's important and Dr Babin I would like to request um that this information possibly go out in an email to all employees so that they have it now and know that next year we're
068not going to hold any of the days during Thanksgiving break for weather May we were waiting for approval before we could well I know and I'm anticipating there's going to be approval but um I do think they need to know that so board members any other items okay then I need someone to make a motion to approve the consent agenda as presented motion to approve second thank you Mrs Goodrich thank you Mrs brosmer and no further discussion all right hearing none I'll call for the vote all those in favor of approving all of the items on the consent agenda for this evening please say I all I any opposed then it passes unanimously all right then we are still not at 6 PM so what we're going to do is we're going to take a
069break and we will be back in here at 6: pm to do public comment I currently have three cards if anyone else is needing to fill out a card so we'll be back in here at 6 pm thank you e e e welcome back we're now moving on to item 15.01 which is public participation time I currently have four cards and so I will call the first person and name the second person so the second person is ready when the first person finishes you'll each have three minutes during that time um I need the audience to be respectful and not call out making any sounds noises if you want to show appreciation for what the person's speaking about you can do a thumbs up or jazz hands if you disagree you can do a thumbs
070down but at this time speaker number one this evening will be Elizabeth Albert followed by Patricia Stevenson okay the first one that I have for you is for yourself thank you Madam chair members of the board superintendent Dr balabin members of the audience I would just like to take a moment to remind everyone who is here tonight and those who are listening at home that this week yes this week is public schools week what a fabulous week I'm so glad that we're stopping to take a moment and celebrate All The Fabulous work that's done in our Public Schools public schools week is a bipartisan celebration of our nation's Public Schools uh it is designed to honor the dedicated women and men who work tirelessly to provide for the education and holistic needs of our children
071because as any great Educators know Maslow's comes before blooms we all know our basic needs have to be met before we can learn so public schools are the foundations of our democracy and the Cornerstone of our communities 87% of America's children are educated in our Public Schools how about that and so just want to give a quick shout out to all the valua County Schools teachers support staff administrators and leaders in our our district who do what needs to be done every day to make sure that our children are a priority so I hope that you will join with me in being Public School proud thank you thank you Patricia Stevenson is next and then miss Albert you'll follow her welcome resident at 29 Sanctuary a I'm speaking tonight president and not a representative of
072my Council or my city and I am opposed to item 17.01 the sale of the Buckley property first of all thank you chairwoman Haynes for addressing my question that I emailed to you from what I understand uh committees have not been able to resume and so I would like to address you all as a board and encourage you to please back committees I was one of the appointed persons from my c Council to be on the committee to improve the communication between the school board and our city um it was a meeting normally with the staff not with the board and the staff would communicate plans that might be related to our city we related what things were going on in our city as far as development and um I think that that's very important
073um I think we should all strive to have better communication with our constituents and leaders for all of our respective towns and cities so please try to reinstate committees one of the most difficult but also most important leader uh jobs that a leader has is to make sure that everyone on their team has the same information committees and better communication between the board and staff as well as between our different boards will only improve our ability to serve the residents I agree that we need another school in DeBerry all of my neighbors agree we need another school in DeBerry and we were very excited when you guys purchased this property over on Buckley we have a lot of new residential construction going on in the south side of town and a new school over there
074makes sense some of the commonalities I know you guys have the pros and cons some of the commonalities between Springview and Buckley that I feel like were ignored is that both would require a school zone on 1792 there's not that much difference in the distance from 1792 for either the Spring View or the Buckley site they would both require a stoplight as well as a crosswalk and and probably crossing guards a process that with V with fdot is going to take time um on my way from De here I drove through two such school zones on 1792 in Orange City it can be done it can be I've also seen the ground study that you did for Buckley site that would require some landfill uh require some fill dirt and muck removal but has a
075similar study also been done on the Spring View s because there a large portion of that property was previously used for storm water collection and might also have the same kind of muck and fill needs to be fair I feel like we need to evaluate the costs for both sides objectively and not just have speculation for the numbers speaking of costs I can also understand why the school board would be interested in working with a developer because who doesn't want a brand new state-of-the-art school in their Community my opinion Buckley site is superior and I ask you please do not sell this site we do have plans um that we could share with you that might help make it a better thank you Mrs Albert followed by Diana farity this time you're speaking for someone
076else yes that's correct so thank you for that good evening board Dr balabin I am at a meeting today so I'm unable to attend this meeting in person but I would like to comment on two things tonight first I listened to the last Schoolboard workshop and it's amazing to see all the wonderful things we are doing to support our students with disabilities and exceptionalities I'm also excited to see the differentiation plan for the upcoming years I have a few suggestions I have 159 students as of today of those students 36 have an IEP seven have a 504 six are elll and one has a bip I can explain those later if you need them I love the ability to go above and beyond to differentiate for my students however most of my students students who
077need extra help are shoved into two classes in one of my classes 17 out of 30 students have an IEP I have an amazing support facilitator who helps me to differentiate for my students but she is only there two days a week unfortunately with budget cuts last year we have had to cut a lot of our support staff in order to meet the requirements of their IEP where support facilitators are required they had to put more students within IEP to in in these classes battling with behaviors on top of distractions is extremely challenging my suggestion would be to increase the amount of support facilitators next year so we can spread out our students who need the help second I would like to talk about Ed modified I have become increasingly frustrated with the system the
078old way a classroom teacher could document was through Focus I would put comments in the assignment such as student refused to get off technology and work on assignment or student refused to do the work now with this system it shows up as a large log daily which is hard to look back and see my notes my suggestion would be can we make it where we can document per assignment rather than per day for secondary world at least make it an option some assignments take multiple days but the same accommodations are used each day additionally we have additionally can we have the system talk with focus and automatically make kids who are absent absent when I would document in Gradebook it would show a red dot if a student was absent so I would know that
079they would need additional time on top of extended time to complete assignments now I have to go back and forth and it is very time consuming thank you for your time this evening and for listening Mrs L thank you next up is Diana farity welcome evening members of the school board superintendent educational staff members of the audience I'm a resident of Worman Beach I am an Avid Reader I was an editor for 40 plus years I love the written word I love books that's why I'm beyond distressed when I see the list of band books in vuia County grow and grow and grow and now you have added The Kite Runner which I think is a very important book for our time I believe you're robbing our school children of a critical part of learning
080particularly learning how to be critical thinkers you're robbing them of well-rounded education which will hinder students from bloa County who plan to go to Institution of Higher Learning in other states because they're not going to have the background that other students have in those colleges I understand that you are still reviewing policy 320 which determines how books can be challenged and removed from school campuses my understanding is that the policy does not allow for an appeal process before a book is removed and that there is no policy for reinstating a band book in a timely manner that to change our teachers and our media Specialists know how to do their jobs I certainly hope you do not view them as groomers as a recent speaker labeled them they are professionals who are trained to review
081and select age appropriate books I urge you to rely on their expertise and let them be the guides and please revise policy 320 to include an appeal process and a way to reinstate books in a timely manner thank you for allowing me this time to speak thank you all right at this time we are now moving on to the first presentation 1601 Dr vamin thank you madam chair I would like to ask Dr our chief technology officer who will be joined by Jolina zco senior instructional technology specialist um they are going to share with you a little bit about our Tri systems filtering committee research and they will explain to you what that is welcome good afternoon Madam chair members of the board superintendent Dr baman uh today I'll be giving you a presentation on
082digital content filtering systems three of them how they are similar and how they are different with me today also is Yelena jco and she is a instructional techn senior instructional technology specialist in the its division's edtech Department she is also the chair of the committee that we'll be discussing the uh Authority for this comes under policy 527 software selection adoption and retirement and software 219 student technology use it's also in the CTO job descrip description especially software systems uh selection and evaluation uh for the entire district and these systems definitely cover the entire District the goal of course is for all students to engage in high levels of learning every day and these systems have a very large impact on that also guard rails two and three providing conditions they provide the conditions that enhance
083student learning and improve operational efficiency and maximize resources to support student learning all right now let's talk a little bit about what these things are so these three digital content filters are similar yet different they all filter and scan the internet they have very similar programming code but what they look for and what they do with it makes them a little different so the big internet web web content filter that one scans and filters everything coming in or out of the school district from the outside world so that's the one that is legally required by sipa the children's internet protection act uh and it keeps kids from going to inappropriate websites essentially it does a little more than that but it's that's its main purpose the safety filter also scans our digital content but it
084does so internally so it's all of the things the students write send emails anything they do digitally and it's looking for evidence of harm either to themselves or to others and then it alerts the appropriate authorities the filter is the classroom management filter it's much like the district's internet filter except for just for the classroom and it's controlled by the teacher themselves so it's for just their students and it comes with extra features to help this the uh teacher manage the behavior in their classroom direct learning keep students on task when they're on digital devices so all three of these systems work in tandem um because they are so similar and when they all work well they do a good job job keeping our students on task in their learning I'm about to turn it
085over to miss jco she has the committee that she chaired and she was given this committee for a very intentional reason she knows all of these filter systems but especially the one we were really concerned about which is the classroom management filtering system she had a representative committee and I'll turn it over to her now good even Madam chair members of the school board and Dr balaman I'm Yelena jco and I'm honored to have served on the committee or the chair of this committee as Dr mentioned the purpose of the committee was to research and vet softwares for these three critical related systems two of these systems have contracts that are ending soon we reviewed the vendors that offer one or all three of these systems just to reiterate a District web filter is the
086system mandated by the federal children's internet protection act to scan and filter digital traffic within a District's domain blocking dangerous inappropriate and malicious content a safety F alert filter is a system that scans digital traffic within a District's domain to alert on dangerous inappropriate and potentially harmful content written by students using their VCS accounts the classroom behavior management filter software helps teachers Monitor and manage Student Computing behavior in a classroom setting the system can limit and direct digital traffic on student VCS accounts allowing teachers to control the digital content students see and use for instructional purposes similar to a District web filter but specific to one classroom under teacher control I am grateful for the classroom teachers and the District employees serving on the committee who dedicated countless hours above and beyond their normal workday
087to research these vendors and put forth some recommendations the committee began by gathering information and evaluating 16 leading vendors that offer these types of systems through our process we gained a clear understanding of the technical landscape of these vendors offerings and how their products function in a school environment we compared the features of their products to our current systems and to each other we considered many many factors such as interoperability between the systems and within a Microsoft environment cost reliability and how the data used by all three can provide a a holistic understanding of student online Behavior we also took into account the performance of the three products we are currently using we hold high standards and aim for all three systems to perform at an aggrade level additionally as part of our vetting process
088we requested vendors to complete questionnaires we met and interviewed each vendor at the FC conference conducted live demos and provide they provided references from neighbor neighboring like-sized districts from for us to contact as a committee we reviewed the data engaged in discussions and formulated our recommendations a I presented the committee's recommendations for all three major functions to leaders from tll Safety and Security and its to consider this slide illustrates the list of vendors which we began our journey the committee completed four phases of evaluation which included research vendor surveys product demonstrations and reference context to narrow down our recommendations as referenced in the last column of this slide want to reiterate that uh missco did a great job with this committee and the people that were on it did a very good job too they
089didn't get extra pay to do this they just did this because it's the best thing to be doing for our kids as you could see they narrowed things down quickly down to three recommendations go Guardian Gaggle and light speed three different companies and those were then considered even further after their recommendations to narrow them down to the exact choices on this slide you're seeing what we currently use and what we chose to use going forward now almost exactly to the day three years ago you received a presentation from my predecessor and the previous superintendent on these three systems uh they used uh a much briefer way of determining those three they basically asked a consultant to give them a package of three and then went with that uh we chose not to do that we
090went with a more thorough an internal process more inclusive of many different groups within the the uh educational Community including teachers Safety and Security tll and its Personnel uh we made sure that we interviewed everyone and we also interviewed other school districts that use the products to come to our own conclusions so when the committee gave us the recommendations we decided that we would go with light speed for our District web filter continue with with Gaggle for our safety alert filter and classroom management filter would be also light speed you can see that the price went down by almost $100,000 uh that was not our only consideration uh but it did go down and it was a consideration because of course we want to get the best bang for our buck uh this is guaranteed
091pricing for three years from Lightspeed uh that's in the contract and this contract is actually already authorized you did it last meeting when you authorize CDW which is a reseller of light speed and they have a discounting contract that um is already in place we just completed their data privacy addendum for student data privacy so we're ready to start implementing the cost will come on this summer after the implementation is completed the implementation will be at no cost no additional cost we're very happy with light speed and gagle we're happy with uh the new systems in light speed because they come with a lot of great references these are just four that fit on this slide from Florida school districts they have international and National clients across the country uh they have two others that
092you're not seeing here from Florida one from Manatee County and one from Clay County uh the manatee one I want to really point out it's from a friend of mine Scott Hansen who was the chief technology officer there we got on teams with him and he brought on 12 of his senior staff and Engineers which we did not realize he would be doing so he had a big group with us and really went through it very thoroughly they implemented light speed about a year and a half ago so their recommendation and their information was very key to us in Manatee County Clay County uh Duvall Palm Beach Sarasota and Maran all of them had good things to say about light speed now these are the this is a very dense slide it gives the main
093features of all three systems I'm not going to go all through all three of these with you but I do want to highlight the most Innovative piece which is the light speed classroom management system this is going to be a game changer for our teachers we had of course wanted this to be a game changer three years ago at least my predecessor I mean uh when they put in another system called impuro but impuro never worked well as you might have noticed in previous slide we gave that a D minus uh we attempted to get it to work many different times but it was built for private small schools in England uh it was not made for large Enterprise environments in the United States and it never just it could never really work well for
094us here we we could get it working for a few months at a time and then it would break again so we are going to something that is much more reliable and hopefully will be that GameChanger we want it to be and it's very modern more modern than imperal could have ever been it comes with some really cool features screen monitoring now that means that as a teacher I can see what's going on on every screen in my classroom through a dashboard I could put it up on the TV in the classroom or I could look at it right on my own computer web access restrictions I can restrict the web so if I want to do an activity for example with artificial intelligence but I don't want them to get on artificial intelligence until
095it's time I can restrict the artificial intelligence do the activity and then get the input from the artificial intelligence when I turn the web back on for my students direct messaging the teacher can direct message any machine in the room if a student is misbehaving they can get them back on task with that message or they can say are you ready to share your work I can mirror your work to every device in the classroom as an example uh that's the screen sharing they can also screen share their own screen so if the teacher is trying to model instruction for instance they can take over every screen and model what they're doing to teach the students AI insights and alerts think of this one as a mini version of the safety monitoring system the safety
096monitoring system is for the entire district and it alerts authorities like law enforcement for instance or principles but the AI incense insights and alerts alerts the teacher and it may not be something that is big that Gaggle might find but it may be patterns that are still concerning about what that student is searching for or writing about or do doing inside the classroom environment that the teacher still needs to be aware of customizable class controls teachers can lock devices Clos tabs or limit web access for secure testing so for for instance if they're in a particular test and they don't want the students cheating or going anywhere else on the internet uh they can just lock them into a particular test and the students can't do anything else until that lock is is taken off
097and then finally uh the last two integration with Microsoft that's important to us we are a Microsoft district and integrates seamlessly with Microsoft teams and other education tools and group management for Cooperative learning we can put them into sub particular groups and then the teacher can do things with just those particular groups for instance they could allow one group to be sharing with the rest of the class while all the other ones are locked off their computers at the moment so that they can be focusing on that group's content it comes with many other tools but those are the main things that we hope to give our teachers so that they can better manage the behavior in their classrooms a lot of our teachers love educational technology but the biggest complaint we get is that
098it can sometimes be a distraction or hard to manage for them from a behavior point of view so this gives them that tool that alleviates that concern now we'll open up questions for myself or Miss jco Miss brosmer I was looking at uh thank you for this because this is uh an area that is uh as you know unfamiliar to me so I appreciate your explanation um I I was interested in the web filter um system to Scan Digital traffic moving in and out of the district's domain to filter out dangerous inappropriate or malicious content uh I think we probably can pretty much agree on what's dangerous or malicious but inappropriate tends to be uh almost a subjective or have a subjective definition so does the filter uh does the filter work by text so
099if a student downloads a book uh is the title uh restricted because the district knows that it would be inappropriate and and it's programed that way or is it uh is does the filter work by the text in the book and how how is that implemented that's an interesting question be I I've not heard that one before um I do know ways that the filter works I'm not sure if it works to that depth uh if the student searched for a title of a book it certainly would work on the title so if the title was had inappropriate words in it it wouldn't allow that it would allow the search but what would come up is that this is blocked okay um in terms of the actual content of a book if the title of
100the book was not anything that would normally get caught by you know inappropriate words or something like that it probably would allow links to that particular book to be found uh I don't think it would scan the actual content of the book unless the book was in a particular format like for instance let's say the book was published on a website and it can read a website but if it was say a PDF and it was just a file download of that PDF it probably would not be able to scan every word in the PDF so it it's very dependent on what format uh that text was in another way the Filter Works is it works on known um dangerous uh servers so for instance let's say that uh students are searching for something and
101a hit com up that is coming from a server in say uh China and there's a lot of bad stuff on that particular server then the filter will just block that entire server and it'll just say you know there's a lot of malicious things that t typically Come From This Server so we're just not letting any content come from there so it kind of cataloges the whole internet in the world and knows the good guys and the bad guys and keeps the kids away from the bad guys the other piece to this is the tuning process um many of these systems pretty much all three of these really come with a tuning time that's where during implementation during the first six to nine months uh you have to adjust it back and forth so for
102instance something might get over filtered or under filtered uh games is a good example we have certain educational games that our teachers use that we authorize because we like them they're good they're curricular they're they're effective but there's other games that we don't authorize because they're you know they don't have really great academic content and they're they're kind of a waste of time and so to figure out which ones to tune into the system and which ones to let through takes some adjustment there's also manual adjustment our cyber security team is that last line of manual adjustment they have something called the allow list or the block list so they they can always take something that the filters are not automatically catching in just plain filter it or plain allow it uh that can sometimes
103happen for example in specialized classes we just recently got a request from a social studies class at a high school that is uh researching something that has some Native American massacr in it and those massacres are getting caught by the filter because of the many things inside that material so we have opened a few websites up to make sure that research can happen to override the filtering so there there's a lot of ways this gets done but after the tuning gets done uh it starts to become better and better at its job and then do teachers um do they approach you to say we I was thinking of the games in particular um we want to be able to access this game can you change the filter yes uh usually that's done through an incident
104IQ technical support request we get them regularly and then those get forwarded right away to our cyber security team and then they evaluate the request sometimes it comes through other channels uh sometimes it's through tll for instance they may have a curriculum that they're about to adopt and they already know certain things in that curriculum we need to be checked by the filter so it depends on the source but it's mostly through the technical support system okay thank you Thompson thank you and I want to thank you guys for doing very very thorough research on this I think I can speak for many people to say thank you and I also did enjoy how diverse the committee members were and that you had teachers on there really in there because I feel like we hear
105from teachers constantly about some of these issues that seem to be addressed by light speed um also I do like the cost savings I I don't think anyone's gonna say they don't like the cost savings but I'm gon to say it out loud I really appreciate that I'm glad it wasn't the focal point I want to take my a moment for a second to correct myself on the teachers part that you just mentioned uh they were paid extra to be on the committee not the others were not the District staff were not not but the teachers were well lovely thanks for adding that in there um I loved going through um everything with light speed and how much the teachers can control I know I've heard from parents and teachers before where they're nervous about
106their students being in screens if a teacher has you know multiple students that they're trying to Monitor and walk around they can't always catch everything and that's been a big concern so I love that there is you can turn off the web and you can monitor the screens you can pull up the screens so very excited about that glad we're keeping Gaggle so just thank you guys so much for being extremely thorough on This research thank you Mr colone and so again I you took my thunder because I'm always big on ensuring that folks know who are the folks who are a part of the decisionmaking and so thank you for including that in this presentation um I also want to say thank you uh I am a huge fan of Gaggle uh not only
107because of the work that it does but the amount of time that it saves our folks yes there are other companies who are able to bring raw data forward however thought that Gaggle uh and I'll give you an example they had you know we had a student who let's say was looking up you know what are the suicide rates in teens in Florida and that research may be research related and so the fact that somebody looks at that and says okay this is not someone looking on how to harm themselves this is someone who's in high school age appropriate and so then can forward that information to to us um you know I I think that's invaluable in a world that we always add more and more and more uh and so I'm grateful that
108you all brought that forward as a recommendation uh and I am hopeful I know that gagle is offering a lot of other services in addition to these and so I am hopeful that uh we are also looking into some of those as well but I am happy with these uh three recommendations and we'll be supporting it thank you um I want to give a shout out for gagle too I've been very impressed with um how that system has worked so my question goes back to on slide nine where you said if you were to grade the current three systems that we had that we were using in the grades that you gave them so did you set up some type of criteria in which you Ed to come up with those grades no the the
109I said if we were to grade them so this is this is pretty subjective okay uh I would say that this is based off of our experience with them over the last three years um content keeper giving it a C+ you know we we have some reservations about its capabilities and its U modern modernness um it it's it's it's lacking in some ways um and we've had some outages that they were not as quick to uh support us on as we would like you know hard to get a hold of people that sort of thing so you know that we're looking for a higher standard with filters and and I have experience with a lot of different filters and other uh school districts that I've worked in and and so I know what I could
110be expecting and I'm not getting it uh at the level I would like um D minus for impuro is is almost generous um it that that software has been really problematic um when it was chosen it was uh chosen in such a way I think that it was not really looked at very thoroughly like like their committee did okay so my question is moving forward because looking at all of things that light speed offers they offer things that do make a lot of this easier because you know prior to me getting on the board we would have teachers sometimes call in and tell us you know could we look at a specific time to see what's student was doing because it didn't appear the student was accomplishing the task and so you know we were
111able to log in because she would give us the time and you know that the student was going to be on the computer and we were able to log in and see oh yeah very quickly they would put the screen up of what they were supposed to be doing but they had how many things open behind that screen which is what they were actually doing and at that time our only option was to throw up a sticky note that said close your other tabs or something like that you know we see what you're doing and let the teacher you know know that yes they're not doing what you've assigned so I like that piece of it but my question would be if is the plan to implement this in the fall so our implementation plan
112is the uh gaggle of course is already implemented right so that that's kind of easy for us we're just rolling along with gagle and we'll knew it this summer so there's really not a lot of work to do there there's one little piece we have to decouple it from content keeping but that's that's not a big deal we can handle that technically um the filter is a very big deal to us because like we said it's legally required so we can't go without a filter for any amount of time or we would be breaking the law and it would cause Anarchy so um that is our first uh implementation starting next month so next month we will have a team of Engineers coming for three days to do the light speed content filter we're not
113starting with the classroom one for obvious reasons it's not as big a deal right now and uh impero is still working in some of our classrooms it's it's not that it's completely unfunctional it just breaks a lot so it's still being used and can still be used for a while longer uh but once the content filter the web filter has been implemented we will be pivoting right away and the edtech department is already doing their research and getting ready with their plans to implement the classroom management system we'll be putting out the communications in the its spring newsletter uh and we'll be doing lots of training over the summertime and it's meant to be start of day one for next school year that you could be able to use the uh classroom management system so
114is your intent on the filter piece to do at over spring break when everyone's off campus and yes as a matter of fact those uh three days that their Engineers are coming are the three days before spring break but we are not necessarily going to turn it on during spring break it kind of depends on how that three days goes so we we did that as to have the option if we need to test some things when nobody's around during spring break just as a testing environment uh but when the time comes and we feel really comfortable with it it'll probably be over a weekend and nobody will even notice okay so what I'd like to encourage you to do is after you've implemented this and you've had it access to everyone using it for
115a full year could you go back and give it a grade also because I read all the recommendations and I appreciate the fact that you went to that many other districts that were using it and you talked to them and found out their feedback I mean that's what we should always do because if someone's using the product nine times out of 10 they can tell us if it's working or not but I'd just like I'd like to hear back you know a year not a year from now because you won't have had a full year of implementation but you know like maybe a full year from the summer end of next school year would be good yes that would be good to just hear how it's worked and and you know has it come through
116with everything that we thought it would I'll make a note of that we'll give you a progress update all right thank you very much any other questions thank you very much for the presentation thank you thank you thank you Dr Co thank you so at this point we are moving on to item 16.02 the Valia Sheriff's Office and vucha County Schools the 20124 year in review Dr balaman thank you madam chair and we already have our presenter almost seated uh Captain Todd Smith he will share with you a presentation about our partnership with the Valia County Sheriff's Office good evening superintendent Madame chair and board members I'm captain Todd Smith the director of Safety and Security for Valia County Schools this presentation is in alignment with policy 511 this presentation also aligns with guard rail
1172 providing conditions that enhance student learning let's start the trip down memory lane we'll start with a short video [Music] [Applause] [Music] that's what happened look what is not happen what is Happ [Music] [Applause] [Music] so this is a review of the collaboration between valua County schools and the Valia sheriff's office during 2024 please remember that this is the year 2024 not the school year so the mission of the safety and Security Department is to provide a safe and successful learning environment for all students faculty and staff through respect cooperation and Trust Sheriff Chitwood brought c comstat a performance management system used to achieve Department goals to the vuia Sheriff's office there are four components to comstat that we follow timely and accurate intelligence sharing rapid deployment of resources effective tactics and Relentless followup so
118during 2024 we literally saved lives although we have numerous examples here are two the first was from a young man who wrote this is blank chances are if you're reading this I'm already dead so don't go doing anything after catching the communication we were able to contact the parent in real time and prevent the child from killing himself in a second case a student wrote I'm in class I can't and I'm thinking about suicide and I can't stop I'm thinking positive please help me stop it using our Cutting Edge technology we were again able to catch the communication and get the child to mental health treatment that they needed it isn't every day that you have the opportunity to see how clearly a life is saved and this is a glimpse into what we are
119doing and we are and what we are capable of doing there is a lot invested into this partnership between the Sheriff's Office and vucha County Schools sometimes we lose track of the accomplishments with that in mind I wanted to go over some of our most notable achievements for 2024 K9 Maverick bla County schools now as an employee in the vucha Family Resource Center to bridge the the Gap once a child is arrested no longer are kids sitting at home waiting to be cleared to come back to school Dar is back we implemented House Bill 1473 more seamlessly than many other counties in the state all school resource officers school and school resource deputies are ADH trained we did awesome with our auditor general audit all school resource officers and school resource deputies received specialized training
120in Crisis Intervention our audits by the office of safe schools have been great we've done 35 internal audits with no deficiencies deputies went through sorat training random metal detector screenings were implemented the volucia Sheriff's Office developed a firstof its kind gun safety for parents and Guardians brochure to provide to parents whose children have made a threat of violence we integrated Cutting Edge mapping into cic so law enforcement and Fire have access to the best mapping during a high stress incident all secondary schools were staffed with a school resource officer or Deputy all law enforcement jurisdictions agreed to staff their jurisdictions with their officers we added a second school resource sergeant and a second Lieutenant we are implementing a new school Guardian inventory database with the help of Our IT department 10 elementary schools were outfitted
121with highdef cameras bua County Schools joined the Florida's school safety specialist compliance committee and helped draft the first ever school safety specialist handbook developing the stir-up standards for Florida school safety a school School Traffic Safety volunteer program was developed training volunteers to help students cross driveways CICS was implemented on all deputies computers cutting out all middlemen and alerting all deputies in real time to a threat all school resource deputies were trained on and provided with autism kits to assist with daily activities as I conclude tonight I want to reiterate that these are highlights just from the last year we will continue pushing forward staying on the Forefront of state and National Best Practices we are always striving to be the best in the business and we will continue pushing forward thank you do any board
122members have any questions we appreciate everything that you do and your team and I think it is time to talk about the successes Miss Thompson thank you I just wanted to say thank you to you and your team because I feel like I hear about something that's happening in a different District that sounds really cool and I come to you're like oh yeah by the way we're doing that or we're about to do that or we've already looked into that and actually this is better than that so I feel like you're not complacent and okay we're doing well this is fine you're constantly looking to improve everything that we have going on there's so many different things um safety wise so I just I love how much you love making our school safe I really
123sincerely do and so thank you so much for that thank you thank you Captain thank you for your support appreciate it at this time we're moving on to item 17.01 um response to the unsolicited letter of intent to purchase property I have one comment card on this um so we have one public speaker Miss Allison root if you'll come forward to speak please hi good evening board members um I just had some concerns regarding this I mean the property was purchased in December of 2023 is when we agreed to purchase it and everybody was ecstatic that we had found it and then apparently took six months to close because it was July of 24 when we actually obtained it in January we put it on here that we're going to possibly sell it and it
124was tabled for a very good reason and that reason is more information that information to my knowledge has not been shared with anybody in the public um furthermore I have concerns on on where is the where did the money come from to purchase the property and where is the money when we get the proceeds going to things of that nature so I just hope that you guys will take the time to reconsider and maybe inform the public of what we're doing with this let us ask questions give us time before we just go negotiating getting rid of land that we know we need a school into Barry for thank you thank you so at this time we're on item 17.01 Dr baman yes I would like to ask Miss Patricia core our chief operating officer
125and I think she's here with uh Mr Ron young they're going to share some information regarding the de property good evening chair Haynes school board members Dr Balaban super attendant I'm Patty core the Chief Operating Officer and I am joined with Ron young our director for um design and construction and business and planning for Val County Schools um what what you have here at 1701 tonight is um we have received from um person or a company who is interested in purchasing the property that we own on Buckley Drive in DeBerry and because we received an unsolicited meaning we didn't put it out there we didn't put it on the street it came to us um we do have to present it to you um that is Our obligation and so I'll at this time turn
126it over to Mr Young that can speak about that so the reason that we are interested in entertaining uh selling Buckley is because of the cost uh that it would take the monies that it would take to develop the site um we've had many Community meetings uh we've met with the city several times and um I'll just lay out some of our concerns the traffic for Buckley Buckley is off of a four-lane road that is um heavily traveled and uh experiences many uh traffic backups in the morning uh an early estimate for offsite improvements for that Buckley site by do was $10.2 to15 Million for offsite improvements um like I said that that property is fronted by uh four-lane traffic uh 50 mil an hour there's a rail station um so turn Lanes would have
127to be added sidewalks for two miles in every direction uh the city has shown us a Google Type image with yellow lines on it that that represent egress paths these lines are drawn through environmentally sensitive areas and we have met with the county about that image and we were told that this will not happen [Music] um storm water the site the water table is about 12 in below the surface on Buckley we would have to dewater the site over for 22 to 24 acres and after dewatering we would have to demu the site removing an average of three feet of muck and dirt sand across the 22 to acres and then we would have to backfill that 3 feet but on top of that because of srf and statute Florida building code that we have
128to follow that other people people don't necessarily have to follow we have to build that site up to one foot above the crown of the road so we would have to bring in thousands of truckloads of cubic yards of dirt um an average of 12 fet across the 22 to 24 Acres um at a cost of about $20 million for us to get ready to come out of the ground with a school that that's no construction that's just to get the site ready um the spring Vista site the water table is about 15 ft below the surface uh we also received after uh reviewing the site with the Department of Education we received a letter from the Department of Education rejecting the site because the site does not comply with 10333 or the anal local
129agreement that says that we will build sites adjacent to neighborhoods and they cited a lot of the uh problems with the site itself okay Mr colone has a question so I I appreciate the presentation and I think that we are still in good faith negotiations with the city um and so given this some thought again the property is not for sale this is just someone who sent us an offer uh for the property I I will share with you that at least me personally you know th for this was an investment we knew that we had the option to purchase a property that was worth more than the cost that we were paying for it not to mention there is limited land in DeBerry we know this so what we have right now as you
130can see by the offers that we're getting are you know you know we're not selling it for five million it's not for sale that's just a number that we arbitrarily got and I will share with you that I was very clear with the city manager personally where I let him know that now with that being said um we received this offer and and I think we have two we have three choices we can accept it we can reject it or we can allow it to expire and I am of the opinion that we should just simply allow it to expire so that we're not saying yes or no and we'll continue our good faith negotiation with the city of deer as we move forward again I think uh there's an opportunity to continue to work
131through the mitigating costs and try to come to a conclusion on uh which site is better or not or what will it take I don't believe that we've gotten there yet uh with uh the council members and so um that's my suggestion that we take no action and simply allow it to expire it expires sometime in March and that way we're not going to ruin our good faith uh negotiations as we move forward because I think everybody agrees that we need a school in the barry and so that's all I have thank you Miss brosmer I like that idea uh I have a few thoughts um and they have more to do with the property itself and and what to do with it as opposed to comparing it to any other site or anything like
132that uh my thought was because of its location a and its proximity to uh future development the the the uh DeBerry downtown project that the likelihood for appreciation for this property is significant and so we don't really have any good reason to rush into making a decision about what to do with it uh at least I'm not aware of one and and I was also thinking of uh the fact that we learned uh since the real estate crash in 2008 that there's a big difference between appraisal sometimes a big difference between appraised value and market value and before we were to make any any decision about what to do with the property I want to know what the market value is in addition to uh the appraised value so I would hope that we would
133do both analys analyses I guess um before we made any decision uh I I do um I do like the idea of letting this expire also because I prefer for us to at whatever point we decide to do something with this property I would rather we were the ones to Surplus it and and to request bids and and what have you um I understand that developers um may approach us but that doesn't mean that we have to take what they offer I would rather that we took the lead uh but before we do anything I really would like to kind of default back to uh something that we raised uh I don't know a meeting or two back and that is to look at the the district as a whole get an idea of where
134the growth numbers are because right now I don't know I our our uh student population hasn't necessarily grown but I think its location has changed the areas that are growing are different than than they had been over time so um so I'd like for us to do that before we make a decision on the property too and that also means that that the offer would expire so with all of those things considered um I like your suggestion Miss goodr uh Miss core is there anything that would stop us if we continue to sit on this property from looking at other areas um not necessarily sorry to say in DeBerry but in other surrounding areas that um we could build in if we just continue to hold this property no okay nothing would stop us all
135right it's my turn so um I want to clear up some misinformation of what was stated um this evening so first of all we have had public meetings with the parents in DeBerry and even this past week we met on Tuesday night at Enterprise Elementary and invited all the parents that live in DeBerry to attend that meeting then on Wednesday night we held a meeting at DeBerry Elementary and we invited parents and then since then the parents that came to those two meetings have been sharing with parents that did not come to the meetings and or I've been receiving quite a few emails and yesterday I spent my day talking to parents on the telephone and explaining to them what was happening but on February 6 we finally had a meeting where um the um
136city manager of DeBerry finally came to a meeting for the first time and actually brought um documentation of things that he had been stating and I I don't know for sure but I know that you guys have been meeting with them about all of the like properties in valua County right now that we currently own whether we own them in Deltona or new samna or orand and I think you were going to share this you know with them along with some information about um what the 264 page engineering report you know said about this property here's my thing about the property all this did and I said this at the last board meeting is it opens it up that they can start looking at negotiating offers it doesn't mean it's being sold it doesn't mean
137it's going I would absolutely not sell it to the people that submitted and unsolicited because why wouldn't you look for other offers um to see but what we're up against is we're up against the halfon sales tax and Enterprise is one of the projects on the half cense sales tax and we have to spend it within the time frame that is there so it's not like you can wait till the night before it's going to expire and go okay we're now finally going to build the school that is needed let me stress there is not a single City in Valia County including the city of Pearson the city of Pearson that only has how many residents has an elementary school and a middle high school combo Deon Springs is unincorporated valua it's not a city
138it does have an elementary school but there's a plan even for that area of what we're looking at but I also want to state in my meeting with them and I'm assuming they shared the same information with all of you we've got other areas right now that are growing and developments are coming into especially down on the Southeast end up on the northeast end and we already have developers that have set aside property because of the number of homes they're building so that we can build schools in those communities I would say if any one of you were right now a parent and you were sitting in DeBerry and only a portion of the DeBry elementary students stay in De Barry and everyone else is bust out and all middle is bust out and all
139high school is bust out you would be wanting a school in De Berry that's why we proposed a cas eight the families in De Berry which we've heard from by holding these meetings and listening to them they want a school in Berry they want and they would love to have a K8 they actually and Miss core was going to go back and look at it they'd like all the Middle School they'd like all the elementary kids to be in DeBerry and stay in their community and they would really like all the middle school kids to come back at this time that's not the plan we're bringing about half of them back but where we're at at this point a minimum of 20 additional Million Dollar on our part and what we were given to look
140at and I asked this question repeatedly do you have in writing that you have permission to do this no do you have in writing that you have permission to do this no do you have in writing that you have permission to do this no do you have in writing from the Department of Transportation that they will reduce the speed limit to 35 on 179 to no so everything we were finally given for the first time at the February 6th meeting is all hypothetical none of it and just to do the parts that after they sat there and explained what the engineering reports came back with we don't have an additional $20 million to put into this project nor do we have the additional two years it could possibly take to get all the permits done
141in order to build it here and now we have students that we have run out of seats for in that Community we are busing North into Orange City and we're busing East into Enterprise we're busing every middle school kid out and we're busing every high school kid out and I will tell you right now that wouldn't fly in any other community and it would have never reached this point in any other community because when we've got developers already setting aside land for homes that may not be built until eight years from now and we don't have anything here the traffic study that was presented that night our traffic study for the spring Vista site showed less traffic than what the city approved a traffic study for three years ago and the attorney representing us asked
142why did you approve a traffic traffic study but you just keep talking about us causing traffic but our traffic study is less than the one that you approved three years ago finally at the end of the meeting what we learned was that traffic study was approved with the idea they would put fast food restaurants and it would just be constant traffic all day so that's why it would increase be higher than our school traffic our school traffic would just be first thing in the morning and one time in the afternoon we heard we heard from someone who owns a business there who said you'll impact my business negatively their business isn't on the street outside of that school either of the main streets and their business doesn't open till 4 o'clock in the afternoon so
143what we're trying to do is we're trying to be honest to the parents because if we can't build on an appropriate piece of property in DeBry un with the costs that we have set aside to build because we already know what's happened with what the costs have gone up then our only options are to move back North into Orange City and find another piece of property or move East into Delona I will tell you right now this is what I've already heard from from parents some parents have already put their home bought their home found out their kids would be bust out and put their house back on the market for sale because they thought their kids would stay in the community look we just brought all the CH te kids back to their Community
144that's what we've been trying to do what I've heard from parents is you go forward with this and you don't build us a school in DeBerry one we're either moving out of DeBerry or two we will put our child in private Charter or virtual school that's the point we're to so I don't understand and I don't understand people that have gotten themselves involved in this that don't live in De Barry know nothing about DeBerry aren't raising their families in DeBerry that think they know what's best for DeBerry because I would never think that I would know what's best for a community that one of you represent and where you live I would believe you would know what's best for your community my stance on this tonight is this is not a sale to the Falcone
145group this is an opportunity for them to start looking at who we could sell the property to and I'm going to answer the questions you wrote on your card tonight Mrs root the money that was used was the money that we have set aside to purchase property if this is sold it's going straight back into the property purchasing budget and we will need to have this money if we can't build on this property which at this point I don't see any way of how to because we have a four-page letter from the Department of educ ation that says it doesn't meet any of the requirements okay so we will put that back in because we're going to have to buy a piece of property somewhere to place these children we have and we have to
146do it before the sales tax runs out it can't be at midnight the night before it runs out the school has to be built in a timely manner and within that framework and so I personally am in favor of moving forward with this because we're going to need this money to buy a piece of property to build the school Miss brosmer I maybe I misunderstood the uh agenda item I thought it was uh as I said in my initial comment I'm not looking at this as in reference to a comparison of any properties I'm only looking at this as a standalone issue and it's my understanding from the question um that was asked earlier that there's nothing with regard to this decision that stops the the board from looking for other sites and negotiating on
147other sites and and all of that so I'm I'm trying to figure out exactly um I I don't contest anything you said I'm just trying to figure out how it relates directly to our decision ision tonight and and um I I will say I I don't know the impact of the half cent um issue uh so maybe you can elaborate on that but um but my my instinct just from a real estate standpoint is that this is an asset and so we have the opportunity to make to do other evaluations about the overall County and and where we need growth you know we've asked for that before anyway um while we uh look for a better offer or or offer it for sale uh do our own evaluations about its value and things like that
148so I'm just trying to separate out uh the the question of a school in DeBerry from the decision that's before us tonight as I understand it you want to explain I guess I can maybe put it in the form of a question what is our direction is our direction that the board would Surplus the property and we would go out and do a market study and and a and an appraisal or are we just letting this expire with no action we haven't voted on that correct so that's what we're seeking tonight um the recommended action is to to respond on to the unsolicited letter we did receive one and there normally would be a response I know there's talk of not responding at all and just letting it expire that's board decision um and then
149any other offers because since we've gotten that one we have received others um and for us to be able to it says commence negotiations to sell meaning that we wouldn't go get an appraisal in a market study it costs a lot of money if you're not Surplus it there's no need for us to do that at this time all right Miss goodr so if we do open it up to other people to bid on it during this time could you guys come back to us um in the next couple of meetings and give us ideas of other places that we could build because we do have the house set sales tax issue that we're up against and there are I know you mentioned a few cities but the school is named Enterprise um and Enterprise
150is nearby as well that has lots of land available so could you guys come back with some ideas that we could look at and then in the mean time if if this was to go forward we'd have other bids to look at and while I do agree real estate hopefully does appreciate I'm a little biased in that um but I don't think we can just sit on property because we would always sit on property based on that you know if we if this dollar amount is specific to be used for this building of a school we have to look at this dollar amount um so oh um thank you for saying that because I was going to mention too that um once we Surplus property if there's property we know um and we've shared with
151you guys between last week and today um with the board that that list of properties we have we do have vacant property that were're holding for future growth because we know growth is coming we have that we have Surplus property that the board and some was Surplus 20 years ago or one property in particular was surplused in 2019 we had a buyer Co hit they pulled out and it hasn't sold yet Surplus property that is on our books is a liability to the district one of our properties we we had to go in and clean out there were some issues happening there so if we know it's not in our interest and we're not going to build on it because the population has moved and we can certainly share that it is in the district's
152best interest to release and sell that property it this I'm talking specifically about the property we've already surplused anything we carry that we're not going to use is can become a liability but just to clarify on my question if we do put it out for others to bid on it we do not have to accept a bid correct we would Surplus the property do an appraisal on a market study we would not put the property on our site for sale until the board acts okay but and that action could be that you direct us to put it up for sale to the public no no her my question is if we if we let's say got five offers on it and we don't like any of the offers we do not have to accept the
153off correct correct correct sorry I'm sorry yes that's okay that's correct cuz ultimately we still have to approve the sale of it that's correct yeah all right M Thompson love everything that was said there and I agree I just once again on the record we cannot build a school on this site the doe has said for multiple reasons we cannot build a school on this site correct correct okay and can we bring back like the different property ideas for because I I think all of us yield to one another when it comes to our different districts because we live there we're around the people constantly we see what's going on and so I do like to do this in this case and you do live in De so I do you know you talk to
154the people that are around there the parents the teachers people in the grocery store um and I hear you loud and clear that there needs to be another school in DeBerry so if we could get the different ideas brought forward alongside all of this of where we could put a school um and kind of what the options are if we cannot build a school on this property would you like for to Workshop it absolutely Mr clone and so again we're still in good faith negotiation with the city and I would hate that this would send a message that we are I I think having the opportunity to share this information with the council members which has not happened um having the opportunity to ensure that we're all on the same page this has all been
155done via proxy and so ensuring that everybody is on the same page I am I I do agree with you let's let it run the normal process where we Surplus the land figure it out but to your point this is not about any other property this is about an offer we received tonight and I don't necessarily want to say yay I don't want to say nay because that also sends a message saying say no sends a message uh which I don't think we're prepared to send and so uh with that being said I'll make a motion that we not respond to this and continue to explore the options as have been discussed tonight thank you I'll second that okay we'll call for the vote all those in favor say I I I all those oppos
156say Nay Nay n did you hear everybody two to two to one two to three so we had two eyes and three nays I'm an a all right not moving forward with the possibility of surplus this property is what's got parents in very confused because they have people telling them no it can be built build on and even though we have now gone back out to schools and held meetings and we have shared the doe letter we have shared the results of the engineering report and everything they now realize that we can't build on this piece of property and even if we had 20 to30 million and had two years to clean up the property and prepare it it still won't meet the doe requirements to build there based on the four-page letter that we
157received from the Department of Education facilities which they sent people to DeBry to evaluate the properties this was not done by us this wasn't done by Patty and any of her team even the engineering report that's 264 Pages done was done by an outside Engineering Group so we hired we've already hired all these people to do this analysis and so my my nay was because as long as we're holding it there's this thought that we can miraculously wave a wand and have the money have the time and get doe to change their mind and build on this property and my understanding is doe is not going to change their mind and we have different codes that we have to follow Mr Miss brosmer I don't contest any of that um the the only distinction I
158would make is that uh I'm not sure that by not s not deciding tonight to Surplus it uh we are telling DeBerry that that we're still trying to build on it I don't see it that way at all uh I see it that the the uh district will continue to talk with DeBerry but the district has also already told de Barry that this property is not going to ever have a school on it so I can in my mind that's decided and so all we're trying to figure out now is the timing of what to do with this one and and that's why um my thought is um I I like the idea of just letting this offer go away um if if the timing works and we're not talking about holding on to for
159years we're talking about weeks or months I I would assume while while we figure out what we what we want to do I just prefer it to be District driven rather than developer driven and if we don't have extraneous uh pressures on us and I don't know that we do um then then I I I don't see the point of pushing this tonight um we talked about Surplus it uh I'm completely okay with that I I like and I would want the analyses done and and um I like the idea of getting multiple offers because I believe that it's in a location that would draw multiple offers but I don't think any of this has to take uh years to happen and so I I don't want to give the impression that we're trying to
160string this out for some prolonged period and it's not with the idea of dangling it as as a we might build a school here because it's my understanding that that that's not going to happen so if all of those if my understandings are correct I'm not sure why we have to make a decision tonight I I'm trying just trying to figure out what the rush is there's not necessarily a rush it's the fact that we did receive this I believe back in December and we've held it December I think when oh sorry we already we had this on an agenda and it got pushed already right so and it got pushed already I do believe that when you receive something from someone even if you want it to expire you do you should have communication
161with them I don't I think it's rude to not respond in some way but I go back to which is exactly what I said at the last board meeting it's to be able to respond to the people that submitted this and to respond to any other offers that have unsolicited offers that have already been received and commence negotiations on the property with people that are interested in purchasing it because as we stated even in the February 6 meeting we were in with the city manager other people don't have to follow the same codes that we have to follow to build the other thing is when we're building whatever the cost is it even and University high is a good example from years ago the cost was supposed to be this the cost became this we
162have to spend whatever is needed and the cost relies on us we don't recoup it if someone else buys this and they're going to do something else with it that's not under School codes they can roll into their price of what they're going to sell to people rent to people whatever the cost of what it takes them to prepare the property and they don't even have the same codes or guidelines we have to follow this right now even if we were to approve this tonight for them to move forward and possibly say to the people that submitted the unsolicited we're not going to accept your unsolicited you know but in the meantime we're going to put this out and we're going to select other offers you're more than welcome to make another offer on it
163just as well as anyone else's this process is not going to be a short process it could take six months to a year to even sell it but we don't even I mean we will have to move forward with property somewhere else to build at that point point but every time we drag this out and we still are the ones that have to vote whether or not we're selling it and who we're selling it to we are just extending the timeline that it's going to take them to do the pieces in order to move forward nothing SE when you work with a school system nothing is simple and nothing sells in 30 days it's not like when you put up your house and 48 hours later you have an offer and you sell it that
164doesn't happen in the school system it does it Dr Evans so that's why I'm not for continuing to push this down the road I do think we owe the people that submitted it a response and I think we owe them the opportunity to figure out what they're going to do with it because they tell us what we have to do and the time frame we have to do it in and I have stood in front of these parents already and apologized to them because I had no idea we would be at this point and we wouldn't have already cleared land and started building a place for their kids miss Goodridge I just want to be clear that my nay was not to say that we're going to necessarily accept an offer and that's why I
165asked the questions I asked is let's see what's out there if it's property that we can't use it's creating a liability for us let's see what's out there there's an offer that makes sense fantastic if there's not we don't have to go with it so it's not causing us harm to open it up um and if in the meantime we get a great offer that gives us an better opportunity financially then I think that's being financially responsible Mr clone how many pieces of property are left in DeBry right now that are the size this is the last one I mean spring vist is the last one to build on so I would much rather put it for sale for whatever it's worth then that everybody can bid on it for the high bidder than to
166entertain one offer without what's that did you read what they posted under the background yeah okay then to entertain responding to one offer to start negotiations if we want to sell it then we we'll figure out what the price is and we'll put it up for sale and whoever wants to bid will bid and so um again that's following the traditional and you know know you know I I I think that you know to be honest with you I'd call the vote because I think it didn't go one way and I'm okay with that um and so if if the idea is that we're going to go ahead and then call make a motion and let's so I'll call the vat M brasmer could we uh time this uh based on what you've explained about
167the Surplus process and then it takes some time um to go through that process uh could we do that in conjunction with a workshop that gives us an overview of the district and and just kind of tells everybody where the growth is um where our properties are and all of that in the same time frame um while while this Pro this property is being addressed um could we also have that okay I need some clarification I'm gonna I'm going to do a recommendation and let's vote can we do that for for this property because I I do know that you're asking for a workshop where our team can they're giving some time to go out and look at what's available there come back and present and where the growth is occurring we want that right
168right sort of the overview of the of the whole District okay so Celeste if you can make a notation we're going to have a workshop on that what are we trying to do here I know we had a vote before and so it was three to two there's one piece she just said okay so when they met with you because they met with me did they go over all of the properties with you miss core oh we went well we didn't really have time to get to all of them because we we ran out of time but they did give me a lot of information and and what I said at the the time was I hope this doesn't take the place of the workshop because I I was hoping that we would uh have
169a broader discussion based on some legislation right now there's one part of what you asked for in a workshop that we can't do and what part is that we can come into a workshop and we can talk about where the growth is we can talk about where um communities are setting aside property for us to build schools on because they're building homes we can talk about the property that's already been surplused that is up for sale we can't talk about pieces of property that we own right now that are being held for growth coming up because we could have outside groups take a move forward to take over those properties to put their own schools there okay I I confess I don't totally understand that but I'm okay with you leaving out anything you're not
170supposed to say um I I just would like to have a a broader understanding of kind of where we are and um where the growth is uh we've talked about some of those areas in in these meetings um but I was is just looking for uh sort of a districtwide description uh and and um Surplus in this property in my mind is related but isn't the same all right so miss goodr so if we make a motion to Surplus the property that is just putting saying we're going to sell it we put out for bid correct okay I'd like to make a motion to Surplus this property I will second that motion okay Mrs Goodrich Miss Thompson any other questions I do have a question okay Mr colone what is the normal process that is
171taken before we decide to Surplus a property because that wasn't on the agenda tonight and that's not how this was listed so we're going to take an action that has not been published that has not been shared that has not been you know we are we allowed to do that that I would think you would need to have it on the board agend actually agrees to okay I think what the motion needs to be is the motion is Staff has requested approval to respond to the unsolicited offer and any other unsolicited offers received and commence negotiations to sell the property that's what it says on the board doc tonight so we would be making a motion based on what the the superintendent's recommended and the staff has recommended and and then my question is how
172do you all what what do you all do before you bring a surplus to us and has that been done on this property do what you just said you would have to vote the Surplus the property and what we would like is a if if we're going to do this if that's your vote we would like a vote to Surplus the property and then we will go do the market study and the U the the two appraisals and then we could to your point we could bring that back at the workshop and then we can put it for sale for whatever we know it's worth either speculatively or we're good when would you like that Workshop I think the confusion is that the word Surplus isn't in the recommended action but that is what this
173intent is to commence negotiations to sell the property is to Surplus the property to sell the property and the word Surplus is is not there so if it's a semantics issue for the board we can bring it back with the actual word Surplus in there yeah but we still have to make a decision on what we're going to do with this offer so well no it says in here staff is requesting approval to respond to the unsolicited offer so my understanding is I think we're all in agreement that they'll respond to the UN solicited offer that we're not accepting the unsolicited off that would have to be a motion okay along with any other unsolicited offers received they would respond to those and then they would commence negotiations to sell the property so miss Goodrich
174would you like to restate your motion using the language that's here and not use the word Surplus I'd like to amend my motion thank you and I'd like to make a motion to go with what's written all right I will once again second that motion all right any other questions I won't be supporting this motion because I think we're still in good faith negotiations with the city and I think that's going to hinder that correct without the word Dr bman that's your recommended M yes ma'am all right so and second it by Miss Thomas Miss Thompson all right we're going to call for a vote if there's no other questions all those in favor of approving to allow staff to respond to the unsolicited offer and any other unsolicited offers received and commence negotiations to
175sell the property please say I I any opposed say nay he did you get everybody okay all right then we're moving on now now to item 17.02 may I ask a quick question when would you when would the board like a workshop and I know you guys would need a few weeks so let's decide so I can get that so the next Workshop is two weeks from now but I believe there's already things on for that workshop and it's a short time frame okay but I don't know that they can have everything ready in two weeks so that would mean they would need to come to the first April Workshop ail 8th April 8th okay thank you Celeste all right we're moving on to item 17.02 Bedford Freeman and worth purchase of adoption of high
176school instructional materials and I see they're coming forward already thank you um so we have Dr uh desire rabinsky and Dr rabinsky you have 17.06 and Miss Taylor okay and we also have Miss Taylor so they were going to be presenting from 17.02 through 17.06 that is correct all right good evening uh chair Roman Haynes Dr balabin and Schoolboard members we are here today to follow up with our December 10th presentation on the adoption of science instru instuctional materials so we presented the selections from our committees remembered that all of our committees were composed of teachers and parents and so these are follow-ups to um with the Publishers with an agreement and the quote and contract for purchase so we're asking for each of these Publishers for um approval to adopt and to purchase the
177materials so we'll start with the first one which is 17.02 this is Bedford Freeman and worth um we are asking for the purchase of just environmental science AP environmental science so this is a small purchase based on student enrollment for that specific course so um this includes digital and print materials thank you Dr bman you have a recommendation yes I do Madam chair and board members I would like to um recommend the approval of the purchase of adoption of Bedford Freeman and Warth High School instructional materials board members you've heard the recommendation of the superintendent who would like to make a motion to purchase the Bedford Freeman and worth materials for environmental science I have a question H I have a question oh you have a question okay Mr are these materials in the state
178approved list or they actually the AP AP does not have state approved materials they are in alignment with the College Board wonderful all right and that was my only question thank you you're welcome so does that cover all of the materials you're going to be speaking about so all the materials if AP materials that applies to a AP materials all of the general courses they are all on the state approved list correct okay all right any other questions okay then do I have someone that would make a motion to approve the purchase for the environmental science I a motion to approve second thank you Mrs Thompson thank you Mr cologne any further discussion hearing none I'll call for the vote all those in favor please say I I any opposed okay it passes unanimously we're
179now on to 17.3 17.03.2012 Discovery Education which these materials are for kindergarten through 8th grade and they will be both print and digital materials okay Dr bovan your recommendation yes I do Madam chair I recommend approval the purchase and Adoption of Discovery Education Elementary grades K through five in middle school science print and digital instructional material any discussion is that's not for oh hold on there's a card coming oh okay all right so um any discussion on the purchase for the discovery um science materials for k35 and middle school all right then I need someone to make a motion to approve I'll make the motion thank you Miss Goodrich I need a second second thank you Mrs brosmer all right hearing no comments I'll call for the vote all those in favor of approving the
180Discovery Education purchase and adoption for elementary k35 and middle school science instructional materials please say I I I any opposed okay it's 5 Z we're moving on to 17.04 17.04 is for the purchase and Adoption of McGraw Hill materials for high school to include anatomy and physiology biology physics physical science Marine Science AP biology and AP Chemistry Dr bman you have a recommendation yes Madam chair I recommend approval of the purchase and Adoption of McGraw Hill LLC High School science print and digital instructional materials thank you board members any discussion and then I'll call for the vote all those in favor of a motion huh mtion sorry a motion yes all right a motion motion over second this is good rich thank you Mr cologne all those in favor of approving the purchase of the
181McGraw Hill um High School science instructional materials for all of the subjects they mention please say I I any opposed all right it's 5 to zero we're now on to 17.05 17.05 is for the purchase and Adoption of National Geographic learning s gagee materials these materials are for high school Earth space for AP Physics 1 AP Physics 2 and AP Physics C Dr balaman I recommend approval of the purchase and Adoption of National Geographic learnings to engage High School science print and digital materials all right any questions discussion okay who'd like to make the motion a motion to approve Mrs Thompson second second thank you Mrs brosmer all right I'll call for the vote all those in favor of approving the National Geographic learning SJ Sage P purchase and Adoption of high school science instructional
182materials for I got part of them down but basically one of the gened classes and the rest of the AP classes corre correct correct please say I I I any opposed all right passes five to zero we are moving on to 17.06 17.06 is for the purchase and Adoption of savis learning company for the purchase of high school chemistry and high school environmental science for um both print and digital materials thank you Dr baman Madam chair I recommend approval of the purchase and Adoption of Savas Learning Company LLC High School science print and digital instructional materials all right any discussion who'd like to make the motion to approve motion to approve second thank you Mr clone thank you m Goodrich I'll call for the vote all those in favor of approving the purchase of The
183salice Learning Company LLC for high school science instruction materials for chemistry and high school environmental science please say I I I any opposed okay it passes 5 to Zer we are now at 18.01 thank you thank you ladies we have one um public comment so Mrs Albert please come forward good evening Madam chair members of the board superintendent Dr balaman just a point of clarification if I could so that was a very interesting conversation and discussion that occurred around the the property but uh just to follow Robert's Rules of Order just so everybody is um you know making sure we're dotting all those eyes and Crossing those tees when a motion is amended the second occurs on the amendment there is a separate vote to accept the amendment and then another Motion in second is
184made on the new motion so we're not sleeping back there so wanted you to know thank you thank you we appreciate that we are now up to um item 19 who would like to go first Miss brosmer some of what I had in my notes for tonight has already been covered so I only have one idea I would like to float and I need to say that I was planning to say this before the governor made his announcement about creating a doge Committee in Florida um this is not related to that but uh I've I've talked with um this has been on my mind for some time uh in general and I I've talked with a number of of um corporate and business owners and one of the things that keeps coming back to me
185uh for government um budgets is that it's characteristic or normal for our budgets to build on themselves and it it seems to me that it would be a good exercise for us maybe once a year or every couple of years to do a zerob based budget and figure out exactly what we need and where we need it um rather than just always building on the same structure and the same allotments or allocations I know I know that money is moved around I don't mean to suggest that that those changes aren't made but um one one of the major businesses I spoke with uh just this week uh was telling me that that they have to do one every every month uh that's Overkill uh and I would never ask us to do that but I
186like the idea of doing it as as an exercise because I think it gives us a better understanding of of where our money goes and and where we need it the most uh one of the problems we always had with categoricals was that we were assigned a certain amount of money and we couldn't move it to where we needed it even if we had too much in a certain category in my mind it's just a good analysis um a good exercise so I just wanted to float that as as a thought and that's all I have for tonight thank you Mr cologne I have nothing have a good night H Miss goodr I just want to remind everyone we still need volunteers for the Special Olympics at Mainland on April 1 and to come join
187us at the state of the schools this week Miss Thompson I hate to be this person but at the last board meeting we did discuss that we were going to formulate a legislative agenda for March so if we can get some ideas on the T even if it's it's rough ideas just you know just to get it out there because March is coming up and uh I think we should talk about that and um can I just throw a couple things out there and just as a St what I was going to say we're not leaving because we I first I hope we can do this in a timely fashion but um one of my things um that I would like to see us ask for you know our base student allocation has crawled upward
188the cost of living has skyrocketed and I really think that we we need people to understand the BSA has to increase at least by 5% for us to have a fighting chance to I know I know we're dreaming big here um and that leaves room for negotiation but had what's it been at like 2% is that correct three I think something like that yeah so I mean I just feel like we need we need to at least ask because if you don't ask for something you're not going to get it so I say we do that um and and on that note somehow moving some funding toward our PA professionals I know that there are a lot of people that can ask for money and everyone needs more money and I understand that I'm not
189saying that I just I feel like that's a group that sometimes gets overlooked um and they do have very very difficult jobs a lot of people have very difficult jobs but I just that's kind of a focus um also um I'm apparently just asking for money in Tallahasse because for hb1 1473 there have been a lot of things that we have to do and a lot of things that our schools need and as we know there hasn't been funding for I mean in an Ideal World we would have you know video cameras all over the place and we would have these locks these keys and these scanning cards for all of our schools and we don't and I just I know what our staff is going through to make it work and they're doing a
190phenomenal job in Safety and Security is doing a fantastic job but I just think if the state's going to ask us to fulfill these requirements that there should be some money that follows it and even if we can come up with a list of how much we would guesstimate we would need just to give them a starting point or just kind of give them numbers so they understand what we are going through and what our schools are going through through um so yeah that will be my starting off point for my ask just small asks all right so um I have some similar asks to you um of course yes I'm on board because we still have to deal with the compression issue for our employees so I think you know they get tired of
191hearing it but they need to realize that that is what we're facing and even though as I said Kudos whoever came up with retention and the longevity supplements because at least they go into the retirement account I appreciate that but I think we need to once again ask for the funding or the flexibility to deal with the compression issue that we are still facing with a lot of our employees when we went from 39 to and we're almost to 50,000 with teachers and we've taken bus drivers now to 21 when they were at I think 10 something pair of professionals were at eight or $9 and we went to 15 and when I say these numbers it's for the starting salaries like that's where we bounced up to for starting salaries but then it compressed
192the people that were higher so I think that is still a focus for me um House Bill 1473 was another one that I had on um my plate because we got some additional information the other day and so you know you think when the rules come out on a piece of legislation everybody knows how to follow the rules but it's kind of like they interpret it on their own like we interpret it one day one way and I think I appreciate our captain because he airs on the side of caution which I think that's the side of you know where we should be and some other counties as I've talked to them they didn't see it the same way but we do know that there is a piece of legislation out there and I thought
193it was laid out very nicely it's being worked on I'm hoping that it will go through but it's basically breaking down the Safety and Security into four different pillars and the one thing that I talked to them about the other day was this whole locking double doors and then locking classroom doors inside of that because we have some schools that they're all fenced all of our schools are fenced we all have a single point of entry but we know at some schools kids can like Le come through the single point entry and they can go down and knock right on their classroom door and be let in it's easy for the teacher to know but then we've got situations where they come through the front office and they have to go to a set of
194double doors where there's nobody at knocking on a set of double doors where nobody's hearing them knock to get into that part then go on to the classrooms that are locked and one of the things I've brought up repeatedly is are you going to give us the money for the manpow of somebody to sit at those double doors and open them or is that Overkill because can't why can't they walk into the building and go and knock on the door just like everyone else is that has outside doors so that's one thing I they are seriously looking at that and my understanding is the reason why some of them are parents and they went out to schools and then they found out what it was like when they were on a campus and there's a
195big discussion about the nighttime activities because we are following the same thing for all the after school and nighttime activities but not every other district is so they need to decide where's the money coming from because now you're extending your Guardians and your um sheriff's deputies and all that to be at nighttime events and none of that money was built into our budget to cover those pieces it's one of those pieces of legislation that comes out that's partially funded barely funded unfunded and um a few other things last year when we went up there we talked about the school counselors and how we were struggling with getting the school counselors because you have to have your master's degree to become a school counselor but yet they needed hours to be able to Shadow somebody else
196or do the work in order to get to that piece and so it's difficult because you just can't have a bachelor's and meet the doe requirements so one of the things we asked last year was for them to give some flexibility and if a teacher's got the bachelor's degree and they're working on their Master's can we bring them in as like an intern intern mediate like school counselor so they're getting their hours so that they can go ahead and earn their masters and then become a full-fledged school counselor for us because that is a shortage area that we have also and I think personally we need to ask for the same thing for ESC and we're not the only District that is suffering right now with ESC I think every District you talk to in
197Florida unless they're a very tiny District they are suffering with the ESC piece and the ESC requirements and I will I remember when at one time ESC teachers years ago if you had your degree in exceptional student education that opened up you could teach K through 12 then the state changed it and the state came back and said oh no if you're in elementary school you now have to also get an elementary degree and you have to take all these reading courses so your ESC degree so now you're going to teach the ESC kids and you have to have additional degrees to teach the ESC kids or if you were teaching math at the high school and you had your ese degree and you were teaching students that needed that support you now had to
198go get a degree in mathematics also and that's why we lost I'll be honest with you some people out of ESC because the state just kept requiring more and more so that's another area I I just think they've got to take a look at it because the teachers that are having to give the most intensive teaching and practice and especially if you have you know let's let's just say somebody only has three grade levels that they're doing you know kindergarten first and second I'm telling you right now that's three different sets of curriculum that's three different sets of needs that children have to have and we need to take that into account because otherwise I'm not sure we're going to find the ESC teachers that we need and so as I said ESC and school
199counselors I think are still something they need to take a look at um I am hearing some positive things about the teacher certification that we're finally going to move from five years to 10 years it's looking like if it passes I'm a proponent of that because when you go and talk to other people in other fields a lot of them um have a tenure um renewal of their certificate before they have to go take tests or additional coursework and that's all hinging on you know unless some new piece of equipment comes up like even in the medical field but if we could move to a 10-year certification period once teachers have started and got their initial certification I think that would also be helpful instead of tying them up having to take all the you
200know earn 120 points and oh wait you got to have this many points in this and this many hours in this before you can renew and so that is one thing that I'm positive about and I have heard some positive things about possibly that EOC test that is holding students back from graduating you know that's why I went up there and fought last year not to take the other concordant scores away for SAT and ACT and all of that but there is talk that maybe they're they're going to move forward with algebra 1 and you will still have to pass your algebra 1 class which along with the assessments given in your algebra 1 class but that your whole diploma won't hang on this one separate test sitting out here and if we can help
201get that across the Finish Line because we know the numbers of kids that we are still holding back and keeping from being able to go into the military and choose other paths because of a standalone end of course exam and so I was excited to hear that that's El Ela wait and also Ela I'm just excited about the algebra one because that's the one that has stopped most of them and having been an algebra one teacher you know if they passed my class they should have earned their diploma and not had to go sit for a separate test that I'm not sure all of our legislators could pass that's my thought on that so those are the things that I'm looking at and we I don't mind condensing them down but that's what I'm also
202tracking that is happening up there right now miss brm uh just to comment on your observations about the ese certifications and the complications that have Arisen it strikes me that it would be really good if we weren't the only County advocating for changes there if there are other counties it may not be across the board an fsba legislative priority but there might be other counties that would um that would kind of join with us um and advocate in the same direction um and and you can even work on language that that you think would be useful I don't know to what extent that's legislation and and where it's a doe rule or policy or something like that both of those probably would have to be addressed but it it sounds like something that other counties
203might support as well I I agree with Miss brosmer with what she said because going back to the ESC one of the things we've noticed last week at fads is that every superintendent shared that that that is an issue for them certification but also possibly looking at it as an area that would be of um you know critical shortage because half of vacancies from every District almost are in the in the field of ESC so I I see them joining us there and also with the eoc's I see districts joining us as well and I knew that that I had talked to her I knew that that was one of the things that they had talked about with all the superintendant because we are if you go to any District website and look at their
204vacancies that's where the problem is but I really feel like only because I saw it happen that when they added all those extra requirements and said your ese degree no longer is sufficient for you to teach an ESC class you now have to go get certified and like Middle School they teach all those subjects and they had to become certified in all of the subjects in middle school I mean that's when we saw an exodus out of middle school because why am I going to get a degree to teach math science read you know all of those things but nothing changed with their pay and all that and so but does anybody else have anything or they thought of anything else I took notes but here's here's let's let's do this because I realize you
205may leave here and you may think about something um how about this week you email um to Karen and Dr Evans like put both Karen and Dr Evans on the email and send emies huh it's like the emmies they're playing the music I don't know where that music's coming from but if we if you if you could each just take a few minutes and email Dr Evans and Karen what your thoughts are about what our platform should be and what I'll ask them what we'll have ask K to do is to take it and kind of rank it you know like five people want this four want that and then it can come back out to all of us and we could provide some feedback you know on here's what we want that way we'll
206have a you know a one-page document to go up there with us to leave with all of our legislators is that good for everyone great idea all right anything else okay then at this time it is 8:04 p.m. and we are adjourned