001signal. So we know that teachers getting [Laughter] Are we are we good? Uh let me double check here that make sure the streaming is working. We are streaming. Yes. Okay. I have 58. I would like to call the meeting to order if everyone would stand for the moment of silence and the pledge. If you'd face the flag. I pledge algiance 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. Madam recorder, if you call the role. Chair Laura Harrison, present. Vice Chair Jeremy Bernett, here. Keith Actton, present. Michelle Childs, Deborah Thomas, present. I would like to welcome everyone to our May business meeting. Dr. Horl, would you lead us through our agenda? I certainly will. The first
002item on the agenda is the opportunity for public comment. Is there anyone from the public that would like to speak? Hearing none. Next item. Uh the next item is the legislative le liaison update. Uh Miss Childs is uh was not able to be here today, but she did say that she looks forward to giving a full review of the legislative session at the June meeting. The next item on the agenda is the superintendence report. Uh I will note for anybody that's uh that's paying attention or watching the streaming, we did get started a little bit late because we were able to honor uh three of our retirees from this year and a big group of tenure teachers for Lakeland school system. So, that's always an exciting time of year. Uh there are too many events
003to mention that are happening around campus today, including a big soccer game tonight. We've got uh high school baseball. Uh we're up 50 at half apparently on the soccer game. Um I I can't even begin to list all the I shouldn't have started uh to to list all the the the sports and activities that are going on now, but it's certainly an exciting time as we uh look forward to uh the next school year. Uh the monthly financial summary is uh attached to the agenda. Uh we are rounding out the year. Uh that's the March 2025 summary. We're rounding out the year exactly where we should be for this time of year. The fiscal year ends in June. And uh nothing out of the ordinary to reports. Everything's everything's trending as it should. Any questions
004for the superintendent on his report or the financial summary report? Hearing none. Next item. Uh next item is the approval of the agenda. Is there a motion to get this item on the floor? So moved. We have a motion and I'll second. We have a motion and a second. Is there anything anybody would like to add or update about the agenda? Is everybody I would like I'm just looking at my I'm sorry. I'd like to um uh offer number three and number four of the discussion action item. Move those up to consent agenda, please. Is there any discussion on moving item three and four up to the consent agenda? No. Hearing none. All in favor or I'll I'll say it appropriately. Um Keith will make it a motion. I'll second. And then so all in
005favor of moving item three and four to the consent agenda say I. I. Any opposed? We are back on the agenda as amended. Any discussion on the agenda as amended? Hearing none. All in favor of approving the agenda as amended say I. I. Any opposed? The Oh my goodness, I can't say the word. Amended agenda. That's a mouthful. Is approved. Next item. Uh, next item is the actual consent agenda. Uh, with the amendment, we now have 10 items on the consent agenda. I'll make a motion to get the item on the floor. Is there a second? Second. We have a motion and a second. Any items anybody wishes to remove from the consent agenda or any discussion about the consent agenda? Hearing none, all in favor say I. I. Any opposed? The consent agenda is
006approved. Next item. Uh, next item as we move into the discussion action items is the approval of the FY226 budget. I'll make a motion to get this item on the floor. Is there a second? Second. We have a motion and a second. Dr. Horl. Yes. Uh, if anybody uh was able to tune in last week or it's still archived. Uh, we did the full budget presentation. Uh, during this time I again want to acknowledge uh Tristan Gateley Sweat uh who was our finance director who did an outstanding job on the budget. I'll also note that our uh uh director of human resources, Jessica Milspa, does a tremendous amount of of work on the budget. Um as does Amanda Kelly. Um now I've started again, Patricia Williams. Uh Abigail Gilliam, Dr. Angie Deloso is here. She
007and her team um did not acknowledge this in last meeting do a lot of work on the front end to discuss what is going into the agenda um in terms of curriculum and otherwise. So it's definitely definitely a large group effort. uh very um uh confident in recommending this agenda to the board. I do want to note uh one enhancement uh it's a slightly different format uh with our new director of finance here and one of the enhancements that he made was adding uh FTEES to the budget. So per function which means basically per category um where there are budget funds being spent. Uh for the first time you can look at the budget and you can see how many positions that funds. So, uh, we're excited about that in terms of increasing transparency and,
008uh, allowing the public to understand the number of people that are employed in these various areas. Um, I want to again thank the, uh, board of education for your engagement um, during the budget process. We had uh, a lot of of time and opportunity to have questions and get feedback. And um once again, I I I can't say it enough times. Uh this is a board that's engaged, that is fiscally responsible, is fiscally conservative, um wants to take care of teachers and staff, uh but at the end of the day is most concerned with what's best for students. So, I appreciate you being uh the board that you are, and I wholeheartedly recommend this budget for adoption. Any discussion on this item? I just wanted to say again to Mr. Gatly Sweat. That was um
009incredibly well done presentation last week. It made it easy for us to understand and even I think the general public to understand the overall mission and and function of where we're spending our resources. So, I appreciate that. Not that what we had before wasn't awesome, but you took it up a notch. I want to echo Mr. Bernett's comments. Um I do appreciate especially for the public. I mean, I know this board comes through lots of information and lots of numbers, lots of back and forth, but to be able to summarize it succinctly like that for the public. I I really appreciate that. Um, so that they don't have to come through everything that we have to come through and can and still see transparency and what we're doing and where we're spending the dollars. So,
010thank you very much for that. I really do appreciate that. All right. So, all in favor of approving the FY26 budget 2526 budget, say I. I. I. Any opposed? Motion passes. Next item. Next item is approval of LSS job descriptions. I'll make a motion to get this item on the floor. Is there a second? Second. We have a motion and a second. Dr. Hor. Yes. I I just want to note again for the public that uh job descriptions as categories uh must be approved by the board of education. Another way that they're made aware of how the public dollars are spend spent in this case. Uh and I also want to point out or just reiterate what was noted in the presentation last week. Um nearly all of these not all I think there are
011maybe three exceptions are existing positions. So this is not a case uh where the the board is being asked to approve um you know 10 to 12 new positions. Most of this is the reorganization that considers uh not only the growth in the school system over the last well basically 3 to seven years um but also the uh emergence next year of the full K12 system. So, uh, that was discussed in the presentation if anybody cares to go back and look at it, but, um, these are the actual, uh, job descriptions that anybody's welcome to review. Any discussion on this item? Dr. Thank you for the clarification. So, the public tuning in, just as a reminder, the the PowerPoint showed the positions that these were existing position and how they be reorganized into these new
012titles with increased responsibility or different um, job descriptions and things like that. So if anybody is interested in going back the PowerPoint kind of laid out which positions of these they are existing in the budget and go to the and show their new position essentially in the budget or what the new um job title is. So just for reference out there if anybody is trying to understand what we're doing it's all in the PowerPoint last week and certainly um can reach out to any board member as well and can they can um or Dr. Horl certainly and be glad to go through any of it. So without further discussion, all appro all all in favor of approving the LSS job description say I. I. Any opposed? Motion passes. Next item. Uh next item is lettering.
013Um I would like to request that be this be carried over to June based on our recent discussions just to try to get um a more definitive uh proposal to be brought before the board to get a complete proposal. Um Dr. Dr. Hall and I had some great discussions last week about it um about how to proceed and all of that. So without objection, I'd like this carried over to the June agenda. No objection. All right. So we will carry this item over to the the June agenda. Next item. Uh next item is the review of policy manual section six, the second half. Uh I'm not aware of any recommendations from the policy committee, but again thank them for their work and doing this annually. Is there any other policies in section six that any
014board member would like to discuss or bring forward? Hearing none, as always, a board member can request that any policy item be brought up at any time and be put on an agenda for us to discuss at any future date. It does not have to be specific to the section we are reviewing that month. Next item. Uh there are no further items on this agenda. Are there any announcements? Happy birthday, Deborah Thomas. Oh, thank you. Nice. Happy birthday, Miss Thomas. Thank you. You had a big party for me. I appreciate that. Yes. the 10ear retiree Thomas birthday reception. That's right. With no other announcements, I'll make a motion to adjurnn. Is there a second? Second. We have a motion and a second. All in favor say I. I