001Good. All good. If I could, I'd like to call the meeting to order, please. Miranda, roll call. Here, here. Humbles. Tyra here. Wagen here. Wisdom. I'd like everyone to stand for the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Uh the board will now move on to public participation portion of the meeting. Is there anyone who wishes to address the board? If so, please raise your hand. All right, seeing none, uh, this concludes the public participation portion of the meeting. The board will now move on to the reorganization of the board. The official results of the April 1st board meeting election are included in the packet. I'd like to
002announce that the newly elected and reelected board members are Tom Feldman, Mick Call, Yousef Bering, and Nick Yam. Congratulations to each of you. And at this time, I'd like to ask the newly elected board members to please come and take your respective seats at the board table. Thank you. Um, at this time, I'd like to ask all the board members to recite the o oath of office. You may now recite the oath of office in unison. It is in your board packet and I would ask you please rise to do so. Everybody everybody sorry Tim are we ready? Yep. Yep. Board of Education in accordance with the Constitution of the United States Constitution to the best of my ability. I fully swear that I shall respect this school district and employees. I shall recognize the
003board member authority meeting the equity and quality of education every student. I shall foster community outcomes of course. I should serve as [Music] That was beautiful. [Applause] Since there is no further business to come before this board, I'd like to ask for a motion to adjourn signed act. Second. Any discussion? All those in favor say I. Oppos say nay. I'd like to call the meeting to order and ask that roll call be called. Miranda, roll call, please. Here, here. Paul, here. Here. Tyra here. Wagenbot here. Here. I'd like to take a moment to inform the newly elected board members that you're required to comply with abuse and neglected child reporting act as stated in board policy 2 col. Please see Miranda at the end of the meeting to sign the acknowledgement of mandated reporter status
004form for the district's records. Since there is currently no board president or secretary, we need to appoint a president prom and secretary prom until the new officers are elected. I would like to suggest that I be appointed as the president prom and Miranda Boalt as a secretary prom. Is there any discussion? Can I have a motion to appoint the president prom and sec secretary prom? So moved. Second. Second. Any discussion? All those in favor say I. I. Oppose say nay. Nay. Motion carries. Majority rules. Um before we begin the nomination of officers, I'd like to go over the process. Anyone can make a nomination including self-nominations. A second is not required. Once all nominations for an office are complete, a show of hands will be taken in the order of which the nominations were received.
005A majority of those present is required for the motion to pass. As soon as a nominee receives the majority of the votes, that nominee will be declared as the elect as elected to that office. Once elected, the new board president will immediately preside over the meeting as the board proceeds to elect the vice president and secretary. Each office is for a two-year term. Are there any questions before we open the floor to nominations? Hearing none. Nominations are now in order for the office of president to serve a two-year term. Are there any nominations? I nominate Tom Feldman. [Applause] Are there any other nominations for the office of president? Hearing no other nominations. The nominations for the president of uh president are now closed. No add init additional nominations may be made without a majority vote.
006Those nominated for the office of president are Tom Feldman. Is there any discussion regarding the nomination for the office of president or would any other nominee like to make a statement? Obviously being no other nominees, there's no statement to be made. Um, all those in favor as Tom Feldman serving as board president, please raise your hand. Very good. Motion carries. By a majority vote of the board, I declare that Tom Feldman has been elected as office of president. Mr. Feldman will now resume the board meeting and the election of the remaining officers. Mr. Feldman, floor is yours. Thank you. Top of page five. Got it. Nominations are now in order for the office of vice president to serve a two-year term. Are there any nominations? I'd like to nominate Andrew Tyra to serve as vice
007president. Are there any other nominations? Hearing no other nominations, the nominations for the office of vice president are now closed. No additional nominations may be made without a majority vote. Andrew Tyra has been nominated to serve as the vice president. Is there any discussion regarding the nominate regarding Andrew's nomination of vice president or would the nominee like to make a statement? I'd be honored. All those in favor of Andrew Tyrus serving as vice president, please raise your hand. Okay, motion carried. [Applause] flying right through this. Nominations are now in order for the office of board secretary to serve a two-year term. Are there any nominations? I'd like to nominate the call to serve as secretary. Are there any other nominations for the office of secretary hearing? No other nominations. The nominations for the office of
008secretary are now closed. No additional nominations may be made without a majority vote. McCall has been nominated for the office of secretary. Is there any discussion about McCall being the secretary? I didn't ask if he'd like to make a statement. No. All those in favor of serving of mol serving as secretary, please raise your hand. Motion carries. 52 5 Z. Thank [Applause] you. Now I'm on to a German. Before uh we move to adjournment, uh I would like to give uh the new members uh that just got seated uh the opportunity to say something if they'd like. Start with you, Nick, on the end. I just want to thank uh all the voters of the district for the opportunity to serve. I'm uh looking forward to serving with this wonderful uh board and uh hopefully
009we can do some wonderful things. Thanks everyone. Uh good afternoon everyone. I was gonna say my name is Yousef, but obviously um I just want to say first I want to thank God for the opportunity to be able to serve in this position. Uh I want to thank my parents, my family, my wife. Um a lot of people might know Adam Katum. He's sitting in the back right now. He's a sophomore in high school, but probably the best uh political person you could have out there. He advocates well and um might be our future president of United States. he knows. Um, I want to give him a big round of applause for everything he's done. We are and I'm looking forward to representing the D Life School Board. My whole goal was to, you know,
010represent the students, the teachers, the administration, and throughout my whole campaign, that's what I was planning on doing, and I want to stick by that. I never made any promises that I don't believe I can hold on to. Um, I'm looking forward to getting feedback from everyone. Um, you know, we're all a team together and we want to look out for students and I'm looking forward to that. Um, one of my friends that recently passed away on Saturday, uh, Nick Nicholas Souy. Um, his favorite team was the Philadelphia Eagles and so I wanted to wear this tie to kind of represent him um, for, you know, a big moment like this because I know he would be here today if he could be. But I just want to thank everybody for coming out. Thank you.
011Um, first I want to just say I look forward to serving with all of you uh on the board. Um, I did have a couple of things that I wanted to share. Um, I'd like to thank uh all of those who participated in this year's election. Whether or not you voted for me, I'm glad you took the time to let your voice be heard. Uh, schoolboard elections tend to have low voter turnout, but in this election, the number of votes cast increased by 18 and a.5% over our previous election. Uh, this year's election was not held during spring break like it was in 2023. Something I think that we as a board need to consider as we're setting schedules in the future. Um, this year's vote total, by the way, was the highest in the
012history of Dunlap school board elections. Uh, I do want to compliment my friend Tom Felman on securing the highest number of votes ever cast for a candidate uh in the district. So, congratulations Tom, to you for that. Um, to be clear, in my opinion, your votes uh sent a message um that the days of mean-spirited, ugly, misleading attack mailers are behind us. Uh, it didn't work. In fact, I believe this year's mailer helped me get elected. Uh, this election showed that political operatives from Florida no longer control who's on this school board. Um, I think that there there are organizations out there uh and people who supported ones like the Sunshine Pack and the Dunlap Citizens for Fiscal Responsibility who have hidden behind those fake names. Uh, and I hope that someone finds out exactly
013who those folks are and ask them to come to the meetings and watch how the board works, which I think they're going to find that it works well. Um, this is not a place for terrible politics. This is a good place to live. Um, other than that, I want to thank my family and I look forward to serving the students and the uh, incredible teachers in our district and all of the other stakeholders for the next four years. Okay, with that, thanks everyone for coming. And can I have a motion to adjurnn? Is there a second? Second. All those in favor say I. I. Any opposed? Okay. Meeting is adjourned at 6:15. Thank you.