School Board Meeting | August 12, 2025

001[Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] [Applause] [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Good evening. Good evening. Good evening. >> All right. All right. Uh well, yesterday and today our campuses all across this county have come alive. Um pretty amazing as you reflect. You know, we've got kindergarteners that are taking their first steps in to their classroom. Uh seniors stepping into their final year as well. And we've got recent grads that may be stepping into their first position, a job, or um about to head off for their first year of college. So, so many things happening all across this county. Uh and we're extremely happy and excited about the new year. Um so, I would like to uh wish everyone a warm welcome um for being with us tonight on Tuesday, August 12th. So, the board, the

002superintendent, and I, we're pleased uh that you've joined us as we're going to celebrate student achievement. Uh we've got some student recognition recognitions tonight as well. Um we're going to review some information. We do um have some action items before us tonight as well. So, we've got a lot going on uh that's really related to the effective operation of the PK County School Board. So, I would like to call the August 12th, 2025 regular school board meeting to order. So, now uh Bishop Mincy, thank you for joining us tonight. He's going to lead us in our invocation. So, if you can all stand and remain standing for the pledge, >> shall we pray? Kind father, in Jesus name, we are so grateful for the gift of this another day. You were good all night long

003last night while we slumbered and slept. You suffered no hurt, harm or danger to come to us, neither to our dwelling place. But early this morning, you woke us up and started us on this day. We want to tell you thank you for it. We thank you, oh God, for the privilege that you blessed us with to come again and stand in this boardroom. Thank you, oh God, for the chairman and all of the board members that serve this district. Thank you for superintendent. Thank you, oh God, for every staff member throughout our district tonight. We ask that you would continue to look upon them. Thank you, oh God, for yesterday being the first day of our new year of school. Thank you all the students and their families. Thank you for the protection, Lord

004Jesus Christ, that you put around them. And we are yet claiming throughout this year that no weapon formed against us will prosper. and every tongue that have risen against us is condemned in the judgment. I know it's not by might nor by power, but it's by your spirit, sayeth the Lord. We trust you tonight and we believe you for your protection and your guidance of this board. Give them wisdom, give them knowledge, and help them to understand what is right and what is wrong and stand for what's right because righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people. We pray your blessings tonight in this meeting. Let everything we do tonight bring glory, honor, and praise to your name. And we will tell you thank you for it all. We ask these

005blessings in the name of your son Jesus Christ. We pray. Amen. >> Amen. Thank you, Bishop. And if you could come lead us in pledge tonight, Miss Kyler. Thank you. I pledge of 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. >> All right, everybody else can be seated except our special guest tonight. We're so uh grateful to have you in the boardroom. >> I'm so grateful to be here. >> Yeah, indeed. So, uh, you know, the board and the superintendent, we had a chance to read a little bit about you, but our general public, they don't know anything about you. Uh, but there are some incredible things that you are taking part in doing.

006So, if you could maybe introduce yourself and, uh, a little bit about yourself. >> Um, my name is Kylie Jeron Pyan and I'm an eighth grader of Sleepy Hill Middle School. I have many hobbies I enjoy such as the violin where I've gotten a superior with distinction and solo ensemble for not only playing by memory but also playing um pretty well. >> I've been playing it for three years and I am also one of my electives are also orchestra. >> Wow. Very >> um one of my >> So three years you've been playing the violin. >> Yes sir. >> Okay. But you've already earned superior. Yes. >> Okay, that's pretty impressive. >> It was my actually my first try of get trying to get it. So, >> Wow, that is great. All right, so you

007have some guests with you tonight as well. If you could introduce your guest. >> Um, this these this is my family. My mom um >> All right, welcome. Welcome. >> Very good. >> Um, Scott Walton and Duke Walton, his son. >> All right. Great. Great to have you in the boardroom as well. And I believe you have someone else behind your guest there as well. Someone representing your school. >> Um my principal. >> All right. Very good. So great to have you in the boardroom tonight. Okay. So tell us more about these hobbies that you were unraveling. I mean you've got so many things that you're involved in. >> Thank you. Um another one of my big interests is chess. Um, I have attend um tourni chess tournaments at the uh chess scholastic team every

008year and I've gotten first um not first I've gotten third place in the Pulk Scholastic middle division section E. >> Oh, that's amazing. So, you know, when your name came up, I actually Googled your name and yeah, your standings as far as chess came up at the top of the Google list. So, uh pretty impressive. All right. So, very good. Um, so other things about you as well. Maybe your favorite subject in school. >> My favorite subject. I love math and science. >> Math and science. >> And I right now I'm taking geometry honors and I have physical advanced science. >> Wow, that is impressive. Um, I loved uh because you know we have some guests that sort of connect with your interests, long-term interests uh tonight as far as our special recognitions, but I

009think we have um maybe a former engineer that was over there talking with you a little bit about um Embry Riddle and some of those things that you've taken part in. Can you maybe explain some of those things as well? Um in Embry Riddle I took part in the um summer in the summer camp where they had the ACE program for aviation career exploration and it that's also uh one of the reasons why I opened up to engineering also. >> Wow. Okay. Very impressive. So um you know thinking about your future and uh where do you see yourself down the road and your biggest dreams? My biggest dreams is to have a stable career in the aviation field either as a pilot or a aerospace engineer. >> Wow. Amazing. So now I did you have

010you already um clocked some hours of flight time or some something was in relation to you wanting to be a pilot and >> Oh yes, I did. I I'm I'm already working on getting my private pilots's license in the um sporty's uh online class and I've already gotten four hours in flight logged so far. >> That's amazing. And what grade? This is your eighth grade. >> Yes, sir. >> That is impressive. That's amazing. Um yeah, indeed. Indeed. Well, is there anything else? I mean, you know, I'm seeing um painting, golf, theater, all kinds of things that you're involved in, which is amazing. So, >> yes, I also have civil air patrol where I take part as a cadet member, and I've gotten to my um recent rank of senior airman. >> All right. That's amazing.

011Well, we are so thankful that you're here uh to actually start us off and kick us off in the school year and just see all these things that you're involved in. Um, and that's I think a message for all of our students to really just jump in and get involved in as many things to find your giftings and so pretty incredible that you've shared that with us tonight. We're so thankful that you you're here. Uh, if you can give us one thing that you thoroughly enjoy about Sleepy Hill, what would it be? >> Sleepy Hill. I've met some of my best um friends there. when it comes to FBLA and the chess club itself, the clubs they have there and the opportunities they've given, I'm very grateful for. >> Wow. So, you're involved in Future

012Builder or the Business Leaders of America as well. Wow, there's so many things. That's impressive. So, we are so grateful that you're here with us tonight just to set uh the stage for this school year. So, if you all could maybe come up and uh stand in the middle here. We're going to get a picture to celebrate you for being in the boardroom with us tonight. So, if we can give Miss Kylie a round of applause. Excellent. Great. Thank you. >> All right. Excellent. [Music] Very well done. Again, thanks for joining us tonight. Um, let's see. We are going to now move to our acceptance of the agenda. Uh board members and that's the first item on our agenda tonight is to accept the agenda. Superintendent Hyde, are there any revisions to the agenda as

013printed? >> Mr. Chair, members of the board, item B number one, new administrators names and attachments were added. Item G number one, committee charge sheets, attachments were updated. Item L number two, Barto Middle School gymnasium. Total costs were added. Item L number three, Blake Academy new gymnasium. Total costs were added. Item L number four, approval of a warranty deed for the transfer of Kingsford Elementary to the school of McKill Academy. Item was removed. Item L number four, extension of management services agreement between Aramark and the school board of Pulk County, Florida. Description was updated. Item M1, non-instructional personnel actions. Attachments were added. Item M number two, administrative and instructional personnel actions attachment was added. Item N number one, Safari Montage, an item was added. Number two, IBM consulting services amendment SAP data lake item was

014added. Item U number one, attendance boundary committee appointee contact information was updated. Item U number two, draft referendum ballot language attachment was updated. Item U number five, high school resoning update item was added. Item W number one, superintendent report items were added. And item X number one, attorney's report, an item was added. That concludes amendment, sir. >> All right. Thank you, Superintendent. Uh, you've heard the noted revisions. At this time, the chair will entertain a motion to accept the agenda for the August 12th, 2025 with the noted revisions. Do I have a motion and a second? >> So move. >> All right. Mr. Keys made the motion. second >> and Mr. Sharpless has seconded. Any discussion on those revisions or the agenda for tonight? Okay, seeing none, uh, I'll now call for a vote. Those

015in favor signify by saying I. >> I. Any opposed? And that motion carries. Give you a moment, board members, to place your vote in our system. All right. Very good. Next up is our new administrator, Superintendent Hyde. Would you lead us through this item? >> Yes, sir. Mr. Chair, members of the board, it's my pleasure to introduce Mr. Ty Bruno, senior director for high school programs, being promoted to regional assistant superintendent for the high school region. >> Good evening. >> Um, I'd like to thank Board Chair Dr. Allen, the rest of the board, and Superintendent Hyde. I'm incredibly honored and humbled to step into the role of the assistant superintendent of high schools. I want to thank Tracy Collins, Wayne Green, the leadership team, my colleagues, and everyone who has supported me along the way.

016I especially want to thank my wife Polly for always being there, my son Jackson for always giving me the motivation to be a champion for students, and my parents for always helping and guiding me. This opportunity means so much to me, and I'm truly excited to serve our high schools with passion, purpose, and commitment to excellence. Together, we'll continue building strong systems, empowering educators, and creating opportunities that help every student thrive. Thank you for trusting me with this responsibility. Thank you. >> Congratulations. [Applause] >> Is the Mrs. here? There she is. Okay. >> Polly, take your ID. Congratulations again. Next we have Cynthia Canangelos, principal at Malbury Middle School, being promoted to acting regional assistant superintendent for the Northeast region. Good evening. I would like to thank the superintendent and the school board members for

017this opportunity to serve in a new role. It is truly an honor to serve in this new role. Throughout my career, I've had the opportunity to be mentored and guided by incredible leaders in this district. uh from Harry Williams at Barto Middle who fostered my love for education and mentored me as a new teacher all the way to Miss Collins who was my first regional who really mentored a new principal and what she needed to do. I'm excited to provide the same mentorship and support to school leaders and I will work hard every day to make our students lives better because that is what Wayne Green taught me is to make it better. I would also like to thank my family for their love, patience, and support who could not join us this evening. Thank

018you. >> Congratulations. Wait, photo. >> Sorry. >> Congratulations. Next we have Angela Clark, formerly principal at Ridge Community High School, being promoted to acting senior director for high schools. >> Thank you. Uh thank you board members, uh Superintendent Hyde, Miss Collins, Mr. Bruno. Um very much appreciate this this opportunity. Um big change uh leaving the the high school world um moving into but the last two days have been absolutely amazing. getting to work with students, getting to work with administrators in other buildings and seeing um you know, Pulk County at its best uh over these last you know two days being in the schools with the kids back. It's been you know truly inspiring and and uplifting. So I'd like to thank um everyone for that for that opportunity, my family uh that is here

019to support me tonight and um again work my best um you know to to put forth the mission and vision which I truly believe in that P County Schools is is working in the right direction. So thank you. Congratulations. [Applause] >> Anyone going to join you for a photo? >> Come on, family. >> Come on down. >> We didn't know we had to do this. Next we have Mr. Roger Gray, formerly principal at Laurel Elementary, being promoted to acting senior director for school improvement. Good afternoon. Thank you, Superintendent Hyde and the school board members for this opportunity. I look forward to working with Miss Nicole Bennett, regional superintendent for transformation schools as well as well as other members of division of schools administrators and teachers teaching and learning department to make a positive impact on

020student learning and student outcomes. I want to thank my family who couldn't be here as well as other teachers that had worked with me in the past to get me to this point. So, thank you. >> Congratulations, sir. [Applause] Next we have Miss Elizabeth Smith, formerly principal at Philip O'Brien Elementary, being promoted to acting senior director for professional development. Not here. And lastly, we have Darren Williams, formerly principal at Pork Virtual, being promoted to senior director for information services. Good evening. >> Good evening. >> Give an honor to Christ. Um, thank you for the board. Thank you, board. Uh, Superintendent Hyde, my parents, uh, Miss Pasco, Miss Collins, Mr. Bruno, and so many other people that have helped me and supported me through my career. Uh, wonderful parents and wonderful teachers and staff that I've

021worked with over the years. So, I um I'm so appreciative and honored to to be in a position where um I have this opportunity. I look forward to serving the students and the staff and all the stakeholders of this district moving forward. So, >> thank you, sir. >> Thank you. [Music] [Applause] >> Can we get your parents to come down, too? >> Please come on down. Anybody? It's not really a please. Looks like two. Thank you. Congratulations again, [Applause] Mr. >> Chair, members of the board. That concludes new administrators for this evening. >> All right. Very good. Thank you, Superintendent. Uh we are now moving to special recognitions. Superintendent High, would you lead us through our special recognitions, please? >> I would. At this time, I'd like to introduce and ask Miss Lisa Miller to

022please step down for this evening's recognition. like to also welcome and introduce Miss Tweet, assistant director for career technical education, who's here to recognize the Malberry High School automotive program for their ASSE accreditation. >> Hello members of the PK County School Board and Superintendent Hyde. The Career Technical and Adult Education Department is proud to present this evening the automotive program at Malbury High School. The automotive program has received ASSE training accreditation by the ASSE Education Foundation. Malberry High School's automotive program is now accredited in maintenance and light repair. To achieve this coveted recognition, the school's automotive training program underwent rigorous evaluation by the ASSE Education Foundation. Nationally accepted standards of excellence in areas such as instruction, facilities, and equipment were used. According to Michael Kohley, ASC Foundation President, he states, "The automotive program at Malberry

023High School is evidence of a cooperation between Pulk County Public Schools and automotive industry leaders. It gives added assurance that Malberry High School's graduates will be employable at entrylevel automotive technicians. As a result of the quality education provided by Malberry High School, the motoring public will benefit since better repair technicians will join the workforce. Upon completion of the evaluation, Malbury High School's automotive program became accredited by the ASSE Foundation. The ASSE Education Foundation is a nonfor-profit independent organization that evaluates and accredits in entry- level technician training programs against standards developed by the automotive industry. During the 2526 school year, Aaron Crosby, head of programs, and Mr. Dr. David Brian, automotive instructor, worked closely with the ASSE Foundation to make certain Malberry High School's automotive program met strict industry standards. And now the automotive program can

024join the ranks of ASSE accredited training programs across the nation. Students at Malbury High School can be assured of a quality education and automotive shop owners will be assured of receiving quality applicants. Thank you, Mr. Mr. Brian and Miss Crosby for your dedication to the young people of your automotive program at Malbury High School. The career technical and adult education department is proud to have you both supporting the automotive students of Malbury High. At this time, the CTA department would like to present the automotive program with a banner that they can proudly display in the automotive shop which represents their ASC accreditation. And that's a result of George Jenkins High School. They made the banner for us. [Music] Congratulations. [Applause] >> Have a good night. Good night. And finally, I'd like to bring Miss Tweet

025back to the podium because she's going to recognize the CFAA Kathleen High School students who were selected for the NASA Challenge. Hello again, members of PK County School Board and Superintendent Hyde, the career technical and adult education department also proudly presents this evening the instructor and students of the unmanned aircraft systems program, more commonly known as the drone program, located at Kathleen High School, Central Florida Aerospace Academy in Lakeland. This past school year, they participated in NASA's Tech Rise Challenge program under the direction of Mr. Joel Brler, UAS instructor at Kathleen High, and head of programs, Mr. John Gully. The CTA department would like to thank Mr. Breler for his unwavering dedication to the students of Kathleen High School, CFAA campus. At this time, I would like to introduce you all to Mr. wrestler, UAS

026instructor to explain the details of the NASA tech ride challenge which the opport pardon me techrise challenge opportunity in which PK County students participated. Mr. Pressler, >> good evening Mr. Hyde school board. Thank you for the time. Um, we had six students. Uh, this is not part of a class. Uh actually what I did was I just uh made an announcement in all my classes. If you're interested in participating in the NASA challenge, come see me after school. I had two or three students come and I said, "Why don't you go talk to you need to talk to Mason or you need to talk to Josh and the group got together and decided that they wanted to uh try this challenge." Um and so what we did was they came up with the idea and

027uh I I it was pretty much students for running this. I just facilitated their ability to be able to do that and um they submit they made their submissions uh I think it was probably in November and um we were one of uh 60 teams uh actually it's throughout the United States and um the uh territories of the United States. So there were teams from Guam and all the all the states were uh were recognized. We were the only only school in the state of Florida that was um participating in this project. And so what they pro we have this back. Um we have six students that are participating in this. Uh we have Camille Foreman. She just walked in. Uh Mason Cessna who is now attending University of Florida and will go back to

028school next week. Uh we have Josh Johnson who also has attended University of Florida this summer and will go back to school next week. Um Preston Hopper is here. He's still at CFAA. He's he'll be a senior this year. And we have two members that weren't able to make it this evening. Uh Olivia Patton and uh she will be attending um BYU University and doing engineering. And we have Camden Walcott who has a scholarship to go to uh MA Riddle and he's going to do aerospace engineering. So uh Josh I think was the only uh student that's actually in the engineering program at CFAA. The other students were in the unmanned aircraft systems program. However, they also have other interests as well. Um, Mason is a private pilot. He earned his pilot's license before graduating

029from high school. Camille has just soloed her airplane and she is a student pilot. Um, Olivia, who is not here, is also a student pilot. Josh, you do any flying? And Josh is a student flying as well. So, it's it's not unusual to have several of our students uh in the flight programs as well. So, u basically what they did uh this is our experiment. It came back. It's all dusty. The students haven't seen it really because we just got it and we started school. Uh we're getting together on Thursday afternoon. Um all of the students who I'm I'm happy that they're coming back because four of them are going to college and um we're going to download the data and we're going to start analyzing the data and then we have to send that

030back. So this was part of uh a NASA techrise. That's the challenge. That's where it came from. And um what they were able to do is um they came up with this experiment. Any anybody want to talk about it? >> No, I don't think they do. So usually they're very good. Do you want to talk about it? >> Sure. So >> when we came up with our project proposal, one of the big things that uh we were asked was to come up with something that was relevant to today's topics and would help NASA in the grand scheme of things. And one of the big uh kind of technologies that is emerging lately is 3D printing. And so we also through Mr. wrestler's class and the engineering program, we had the ability to earn two different

031certifications in 3D modeling softwares, uh, Solid Works and Fusion 360. So, it's something that we were very familiar with and so we wanted to bring that forward and include something that we were comfortable with, uh, in school and would also help NASA. And so, we decided to test uh, different 3D filament degradation values at high in high atmospheric environments. And uh so basically there this is our capsule and there was 60 of these on one weather balloon that went up to about 70,000 ft at float altitude in the stratosphere and would be exposed therefore to radiation. And so our hypothesis was that different 3D filaments that are different types of plastic would react differently in high atmospheres when they are exposed to intense temperatures and also radiation. And so here we see our project and

032we have a conveyor belt with a bunch of different 3D filament samples that would then rotate and would be exposed to the radiation and temperature of the high atmosphere. And so this is our project that was up there. It landed. It's back with us now. If anyone wants to add anything, >> but that's it. >> We've come a long way from the egg drop. students. >> We would like to present the students of CFAA and Mr. Breastler with a coin from the district for their for our appreciation and their participation in the NASA Tech Rise Challenge. >> Okay, great. >> Great job, ladies and gentlemen. [Applause] [Music] Congratulations everyone. board members. We had previously had one additional recognition scheduled for this evening, but unfortunately uh schedulings didn't align. So, they asked us if we could

033um reschedu that because they really want their family to be here um to celebrate. So, you will see that come back to you in the near future. That concludes special recognition for this evening. >> All right. Thank you, Superintendent. Uh here's your opportunity if you need to exit out of the boardroom before we transition here. Thanks for joining us tonight, everybody. appreciate your time. >> Little bit >> a little bit. I'd be curious to see what they're thinking. >> All right. Very good. >> We're impacted. Next is our public comment uh opportunity for uh our general public to speak on agenda items. So uh before we begin, I'd just like to welcome the public and go over um just several things to give some context here. Uh basically, you'll have two opportunities to speak tonight.

034One for agenda items and one for non-aggenda items. And as always during the uh this time comments will be limited to those items on the agenda. Um and then you know the third will be for the non-aggenda items to register to speak. So basically when you come in there's that table as you enter you fill out your speaker card in the lobby and uh you'll have those opportunities to speak. We're here to listen for sure. Uh you've got three minutes to speak. Uh you'll see basically the light will turn yellow when you have one minute left and then you'll hear a beep when your time is concluded. All comments should be directed to myself as the board chair. And as a reminder, public comments are an opportunity for us to collectively hear uh what you

035have to say and um I appreciate your time being here tonight. So um if you're, you know, looking for additional information, I encourage you to contact us um and we'll try to get back to you in a timely fashion. Uh the first person I'd like to call up is Stephanie Yokum. And then after Stephanie, we have uh Willie Mincy. And if you can come stand the red line there, and you'll be on deck with us tonight. So, Miss Yokum, you are recognized. >> Uh Stephanie Yokum. Uh on behalf of the Pulk Education Association. Um I want to speak on item U2 through 4. uh very excited that we are finally going to see this move to fruition um at the September meeting that you guys are going to be you know public hearing and hear

036this and to give our community an opportunity to stand firm with their public schools uh because it's much needed because as we know over the last 20 years our state has underfunded our public schools and our education system I would say on purpose but we can have a conversation about that. Um, but this is much needed because in order for us to compete with the Bay Area, specifically in West Central Florida, we have to go out for a millage referendum. And so I'm very excited that our board is moving forward with this. uh a super majority of your teachers and staff are excited and ready for boots on the ground to get this going because we know that our community stands up and supports us time and time again and we know that they will

037stand and support us when we go out for this millillage because it's going to keep quality experienced educators in our classrooms every day with kids. Um and when you are speaking uh about your legislative priorities coming up as you know Miss Wyatt said earlier the they're going to start committee meetings in two weeks. Um, we need to be aggressive and stand together and stand firm in ensuring that our state holds up their end of our constitution and funds one public education system. And so I hope to see that that listed in your priorities as we continue to aggressively fight to ensure that our students, a majority of which still attend their public schools, are being supported by our state. Thank you. Thank you, Miss Yokum. And Mr. Mincy, Bishop Mincy, you are next. You are

038recognized. >> Good evening. My my thing I don't know if I'm on the right spot or not but uh my concerns is uh these empty schools we got and I think you all are re uh >> adjusting or drawing the lines are going to say uh in another meeting or so about our high schools that uh Tener Rock and Lake region. Uh we can't build buildings and not put children in them. Uh you got to think about it. It's serious. Uh I know you all try to appease people. Uh but you can't appease everybody. Uh we uh have been you have been entrusted you have been entrusted with uh the dollars to build what is necessary. And I believe that Lake Region is a good school. It's one of my schools. I go to and

039uh Tener Rock is the same way. And uh everybody that uh may their mom and dad and sisters and brothers might have graduated from Winter Haven. They might have graduated from Auburnale. I didn't have a choice. And I think I mentioned this once before. I had to go to Hayne City because I lived it in Lake Hamilton. They didn't have no school in Lake Hamilton. So people need to realize that uh you can't have your cake and eat it too. You're going to have to make some adjustments and board, you got to stand behind the recommendation and stand with the recommendation if we're going to be a successful district. Uh because these buildings sitting there empty, that's a waste of money. And uh you have been entrusted to take care of amen what has been

040entrusted in your hands. And uh every chance I get, I may not say it to y'all all the time, but I'm g I'm gonna say it sometimes. And uh and sometimes you gonna push me to come look you on the eyeball and say to you, what are you going to do? Because uh I think this is a necessary thing. I know children uh people look for choices. Uh but uh the choice is to get a good education. And uh I know there's a lot of specialty stuff people are looking for, but uh what has been provided, I think they've done a great job. Uh they put some stuff in the schools to try to uh enhance it and make people feel a little bit more comfortable with it. But we got to make sure we

041got to make sure that our uh school buildings are utilized to the max. Amen. Thank you. >> Thank you, Bishop Vincy. All right, board members, we now need to approve two sets of minutes. The first set of minutes is for the July 29th, 2025 school board meeting. The chair will now entertain a motion to accept um those meeting minutes as written. Do I have a motion and a second? >> Second. >> All right. Miss Fields made the motion and Miss Wyatt seconded. Uh any discussion on this set of minutes? All right. Seeing none, I'll call for a vote. Those in favor signify by saying I. I. >> I. Any opposed. And that motion carries. Second set of minutes is for the July 29th, 2025 work session meeting. The chair will now entertain a motion to

042accept the July 29th, 2025 work session meeting minutes as written. Do I have a motion and a second? >> Second. >> All right. Miss Wyatt made the motion and Mr. Keys second it. Any discussion on that second set of minutes? Seeing none. At this point, I'll call for a vote. Those in favor signify by saying I. >> I. Any opposed? And that motion carries. All right. We are now moving to the consent agenda. The chair will now entertain a motion to accept the August 12th, 2025 consent agenda uh as printed with those noted revisions. Do I have a motion and a second? >> Second. >> Miss Fields made the motion and Mr. Sharpless second it. Any discussion on our consent agenda this evening? Board members. Seeing none, I'll call for a vote. Those in favor

043signify by saying I. >> I. Any opposed? And that motion carries. We are now down to section U, our action agenda for tonight. And our first item on the agenda is U1. And this one's entitled attendance boundary committee appointee. And the suggested action is to approve uh Mr. Garrison to the attendance boundary committee. The chair will now accept the motion and a second. So move. >> All right. Mr. Sharpless has made the motion and Mr. Keys has second it. Uh any discussion, fellow board members, on this item? All right. Mr. Sharpless, you are recognized. Yes, this is my appointee uh to the attendance boundary committee. Um I was looking for someone who knew the east side of the county well. Uh Mr. Garrison has a uh a vast amount of knowledge and expertise uh and

044experience. Uh you can see um many times uh his ownership of the different uh companies uh when it comes to land management. Um, you can see his different licenses, certifications that I put on here, as well as his service uh working in the uh serving on the Dundee City Commission and mayor of uh Dundee as well. Um, Annie's a member of multiple chambers of commerce, I just think he's a great wealth of knowledge for this committee and as someone who is a former member of the attendance boundary committee, I know he will do well. >> All right. Thank you, Mr. Sharpless. Mr. Keys, you are recognized. >> Just wanted to second Mr. Sharpless's comments on Mr. Garrison um you know been active in the community for some time now. You know shown the on their

045firefighter for over 34 years um and I I can remember you being back as a kid him being involved in the community growing up in the Lake Hamilton Dundy area. So um somebody who obviously knows the area well um and serving on those um the city commission and Dundy town commission and also as mayor um has an intimate knowledge on government works and being able to to give some good advice in that area. So, um, great recommendation and fully support that. >> All right. Thank you, Mr. Keys. I would now like to call for a vote. Those in favor signify by saying, "I." >> I. Any opposed? And that motion carries. We are down to U2 entitled draft referendum ballot language. And the suggested action is to approve the draft uh referendum ballot language. The

046chair will now entertain a motion and a second. >> So move. >> All right. Mr. Keys has made the motion. I'm looking for a second. >> Miss Fields has seconded. Uh here's your opportunity now, board members, for discussion on this item. Any discussion? All right, Miss Fields, you're recognized. I think we've been working on this for a minute now and so it's it's finally nice to see it coming to fruition. We had discussion earlier today about the percentage being focused on salaries and the percentage on the program areas and there was some discussion about 80% um and 20% or 80% and I'm sorry 85% and 15% I believe. Anyway, the way that it is written here with the 80% being focused on salaries and 20% on the program area uh is something that I I

047will support and I'm glad that again that we're making progress and hopefully we'll be able to get this moving pretty rapidly and we didn't have discussion early today, but I'm sure that Superintendent Hyde and and Stephanie Yoken will be having discussion about how we're going to be able to get support from them as we move this along. All right. Thank you, Miss Fields. Seeing no other comments at this point, I'll call for a vote. Those in favor signify by saying I. >> I. Any opposed? And that motion carries. We are now to U3 entitled formula for distribution of funds. And the uh suggested action is to approve the formula for distribution of those funds. Um, and the chair will now entertain a motion for this agenda item. Take a motion and a second. >> All

048right. Miss Fields has made the motion. Looking for a second. >> Second. >> And Miss Miller has seconded. Any discussion, board members, we have a motion and a second at this time. Seeing no discussion at this point, I would like to call for a vote. Those in favor signify by saying I. >> I. Any opposed? And that motion carries. We are now down to U4 entitled draft resolution language. And the suggested action is to approve the draft resolution language. So the chair will now accept the motion at this time. >> So >> all right, Mr. Keys made the motion. I'm looking for a second. >> Second. >> All right. Miss Fields has seconded. So, we have a motion and a second. Uh, any discussion, board members, on this item? >> Mr. Chair, do we need

049to clarify for the public? >> Yeah, I would uh recommend um our general counsel give us some context on the draft resolution language and this item that we're about to vote on. >> Sure. So, um draft resolution is uh being proposed tonight. Um, and it will be uh voted upon after the uh public hearing which I'll request later on. Um, but the official vote will be in September at the September meeting. Um, and this was um in the spirit of transparency and um inviting the public to their involvement and their feedback on on this text tonight. >> All right. >> Thank you, Mr. Green. Board members, any other comments on this resolution that we will uh see moving ahead? I appreciate the transparency um that's going to be in front of us in days ahead

050as relates to our public hearing for our community to speak on this process. All right. Uh from my opinion, I think this is this is about our teachers and our staff. strong teachers make um stronger classrooms and that's what our kids deserve. Um and I I do believe it's best for managing our growth. Um I think it's best for economic development as well. Um there's a lot that's unraveled on this over um several months. So we are at a point where we can now hear from our community and I'm excited about that. Mr. Keys, you're recognized. >> Yeah, I agree with Dr. Allen and um I think Mrs. Field said, we've been talking about this for a minute now. This has been a lot of hard work, a heavy lift u by everyone on the

051board. I'm excited to see this to really um gain steam and move forward. I think in in one of those two, it's it's absolutely fantastic. If we look, we're talking about the theme of transparency of noting one of the the parts of the resolution. It says in providing for an independent oversight committee, I think that's absolutely fantastic. We're letting the public know that um not only are we proposing these things, but we're also saying, "Hey, we're going to do a deep dive and we're going to make sure that we're doing things efficiently and under the public eye, too." So, it's um great step moving forward. >> Thank you, Mr. Keys and Miss Fields, you're recognized. >> Thank you. I I wanted to ask Superintendent a question. He might not be able to answer right this

052minute. It's fine if you can't, but on the uh the ballot language, it talks about proceeds shared with charter schools as required by law. And so my question is, will we uh reach out and get support from them as well? >> Yes, ma'am. >> Thank you. >> Yes, ma'am. >> All right. Thank you, Miss Fields. I appreciate Mr. keys comment on the oversight and I I think that uh being a part of every step along the way is very important. Um it's our uh voters money. Um it's their schools and it's their decision. So uh we appreciate that. And just reflecting back on last uh election cycle, 25 out of 26 passed around the state, I believe. Um and eight of those were new uh referenda to voters. So uh good data there. So, all

053right. At this time, uh, I would like to call for a vote. All right. Those in favor signify by saying, "I >> I." >> Any opposed? And that motion carries. We are down to U5. This is entitled high school reszone update. Um, this item seeks to provide an update uh to the board following their input from the July 29th and August 12th presentation. So, the recommended action is to approve the high school reszone update uh as it goes out to our community. So, at this time, I'll entertain a motion and a second. >> So, move second. >> All right. Mr. Keys has made the motion and Mr. Sharpless has seconded and we are now taking some discussion opportunities from you board members. Miss Wyatt, you're recognized. >> Superintendent Hyde said he has staff here. So,

054can he have staff present? >> Miss Frell, would you mind coming to the podium and outlining the changes that were made based off the feedback you received during the workshop? >> Absolutely. >> Um, so we did go in and make the changes that we discussed earlier today, uh, including harmony. Um, the only one that we still need to work on because I'm I apologize I just didn't have enough time was the hotel corridor. So, I will still need to look into that. But the the map has been updated with all the other changes that we discussed earlier today. So, the hotel changes um mine road um Lake Lucern and uh we did re pull down Harmony. >> Awesome. Thank you so much. My again my one concern is I know like I said earlier if

055we do nothing it has the opportunity to affect a high school that's already really overcrowded. If we go ahead and reszone where nobody's currently living there to the high school that's um has lots of open seats that that seems to make the most sense. Um but I'm hopeful that we can incorporate that as we end the um upcoming >> and if you have specific hotels you're very concerned with if you can let me know that would be great too. I'm I'm looking at that whole >> Yeah, it's those three right there. The lake Roy. >> It's like IHOP and then three hotels. >> Okay. Thank you. >> Nobody lives there right now. >> I Yes. >> All right. >> Thank you, Miss Wyatt, and thank you, staff, superintendent. You want to add to this in

056any way? Uh this has been uh something we have aggressively moved toward. So >> if by if by multiple years of tempting yes we've been aggressive. Um you know resoning is is an interesting and complex process because as many of you those there are some of you on the board who have had to deal with resoning in the past and the truth of the matter is reszoning current people who are already zoned to a previous to to an existing school creates a great deal of conflict when they feel like their children may not be able to attend the same school that they attended. Um whereas what we tried to do consistently of late is converting vacant lots so that that historical perspective is no longer there, but also do so in a way that you're

057not basically creating leopard spots um around your with redistricting. And we try to take into consideration growth um and and a number of factors. We work very closely with municipal municipalities. We work very closely with the county um to make sure that we're tracking and monitoring those things. We appreciate the board member feedback um about certain developments that that basically were not caught initially by the ABC committee. So, we appreciate that. And Harmony is a good example of a community that will have upwards of a thousand units um that initially were going to be split 500 in one side, 500 the other. And and while that may make sense to the committee um based off the conditions that we have to use for reasonzoning considerations, also keeping in mind that we work very closely with

058transportation to make sure that routing and and those types of things can be brought into the fold that if you know if the board has a perception of of certain communities they'd like to see remain intact and quite frankly we'll get feedback when we take it out to community. So, I'm excited to be able to take these out um and start the campaign across the district. I provided you earlier today or I will excuse me during the superintendent report. I'll provide you with an update as to the locations and dates for those meetings. Um we did and will um make a certain one slight change to the initial polling and surveying that rather than just keeping the survey open for 5 to 10 days after each site will keep it open to the end and

059the final um um community events held even though people will still be responding to their respective areas. They they will not necessarily have input on another district area that does not impact their household. So, we will be specific in our surveying and targeted, but we'll keep it open. We'll send out uh reoccurring messaging. The board will then receive that and then the board will have to make a decision. We'll either and then based off the board's um the presentation to the board on the feedback from community members and stakeholders, we'll either the board will either direct us to make some additional revisions or the board can adopt those recommendations as they were presented. So, we'll I'm excited to be able to look forward to this and get this hopefully wrapped up well before winter break

060so we can begin messaging for our families. Um, just as a reminder to everyone else, we are not I am not recommending forced choice, which means that if your child is currently a 10th grader, we are not and your and your child is reszoned based off your household residence, we are not saying you have to leave that school and go to the other school. You may continue to complete at that level. And then we'll address incoming siblings on a case-by case basis because ultimately to continue to allow siblings to feed into the previous school zone defeats the purpose of why we're trying to work to reszone. Um you previously had a lot of data presented to you. It's still on the slides talks about students choicing in and students choicing out. Um so please keep

061those things in mind and we'll continue to revisit that because if there's one thing Pulk County does a lot of it's school choice and parents and students very much take advantage of that. So, um, it's exciting and, uh, I'm glad to be able to bring this before the board. And thank you for your time and effort and the feedback cuz it was important for us to get this right or at least as close to perfect as we can get it. And now we'll wait for community feedback. And board members will keep you apprised. Mr. Frell, to team, Mr. Fix, Mr. McLemore, thank you very much for their hard work and dedication throughout this process as well. >> Thank you. >> Great. Thank you all so much. Superintendent, appreciate the context as well. Uh, I'm excited

062about this. I think even as Mr. uh Bishop Mincy mentioned in his public comments um I love reading and I reread the efficiency audit from our external um parties that evaluated the school district and by far this is one of the highest cost-saving measures to the school district. Um, so, um, I appreciate this and I think this, um, definitely demonstrates how we are seeking to be efficient, uh, from operational standpoint. All right, seeing no other comments, board members, I'd like to call for a vote. Those in favor? Stand by. We have another comment, >> Miss Wyatt. >> So, I just want to confirm because the attachment does not show moving harmony. Harmony has been added into the the current proposed map. >> According to staff, it was captured, but >> I just want to make

063sure >> I Yes, it is. It's just um Sorry. >> Okay, that's all. I just want to make sure it's on the record that that is different from the >> If you go look at the actual online map, you'll see all the new lines are drawn. >> Okay, beautiful. Thank you. >> All right. Thank you, Miss Farrell. >> Thank you, Miss White. Miss Barrell. Okay, I'll call for a vote now at this time. Those in favor signify by saying I. >> I. Any opposed? And that motion carries. All right. Next item on our agenda is our superintendence report. Superintendent Hyde, do you have a report for us tonight? >> I do. Mr. Chair, members of the board, first and foremost, celebrating back to school. Um, we had a fabulous day yesterday. Um, as like as

064with many of you, visited a number of our schools, got to interact with our staff and our students. Um, and it's so nice to see, as you've heard me say before, and I'll keep saying it, there are two great days in the school year, the first day of school and the last day of school when they graduate. And, uh, great great opportunities for us. You know, you see bright smiles and excitement and on the kids' faces. Um, even in the middle schoolers, I got to visit a few of our schools and talk to our students in classrooms and in the cafeteria. Uh, got to visit several of our new principles as well. Miss Collins, the entire team, the entire admin team are actually assigned to schools and not just assigned to visit, but assigned to

065help. Um, and so hopefully I look forward to the feedback from our building administrators as to how that went. Uh, great example of that was Elbert. Um, you know, anytime you open up a new school, no matter how much planning you think you do on paper, you start to realize that once the cars start to stream through the parking lot that maybe the traffic pattern wasn't the best pattern. Um, so we work through that. Plus, you also have more parents who typically drive during the first week of school um to drop off their children rather than have them walk or be car riders or excuse me, bike riders or bus riders. And so, we should see that slow trickle um and improvement each and every day. Board members, uh for those of you, you've been

066in your seats, you know that every year I provide you with regular updates, especially at the end of the first week, as to how bus routes have improved. Um, so we look at on-time delivery uh on-time delivery rates, meaning what percentage of our buses arrived and departed on time and on time is 10 to 15 minutes from their stated arrival time. Um, we've already seen improvements from yesterday. Um, and so we're aware of those things. We did have some complications with the um the the the system um where we track and monitor students. We had some glitches where student tracking dropped offline, came back online, but I think that was related a little bit even though it's not on the same systems. It may have been related to a local issue to a certain extent.

067So, we made sure we upload each morning. Um, and we've been working aggressively to work with any families who feel like their transportation um either wasn't put through in time or are requesting a change. And and Mr. Davis, as in keeping with board practice in the past, also has authorized school administrators to make emergency decisions to allow students to ride the bus so long as the bus is appropriate for that child. Right? So, if they live at least 2 miles and beyond, and we know what bus they typically would ride, but for whatever reason, we haven't been able to place them onto the official bus roster, principles have a form they can fill out, give it to a driver to enable that student to make sure that they get home on time. Uh, one of

068the schools I visited yesterday, Eagle Lake, I want to say there were probably 20 people in the room um, working on this, but they were tagging every single backpack for the students to make sure that they knew every single kid and how that child was getting home that day so that we don't have those mistakes. Um, we also reinforce for our drivers, you know, with incoming uh, preK and kindergarteners, they may not have the stamina for a traditional school day. And so many of them will fall asleep on the bus ride. And we have to make sure that the drivers when before they go on to their next route that they walk the aisles and look look in each and every single seat because it's not uncommon to find a little one asleep. Um, so

069it's just, you know, those things are and completely understand us from a parents perspective that can be incredibly scary. Um, so we work as quickly as we can and uh, we've we've had great fortunes so far. Um, so 85% enrollment as of yesterday. Um, we track that or what's called an 8-day count. Used to be called a 10-day count. I don't know when it got shorter, but it did. Um, and so the next count, I believe, is tomorrow. So I'll provide you a first day to a third day of school update. Uh, Miss Collins took the data that we received um yesterday from Mr. Williams and ran a report to show their projected enrollment versus their actual enrollment from yesterday. And like I said, we had 85%. Now, that's also with the understanding that some

070of our charter schools um that have upwards of 700 kids enrolled did not report their attendance yesterday. So, our numbers are a little light. Um, we'll get those updates by tomorrow. Um but a lot of excitement, a lot of enthusiasm around the start of school and uh very pleased to see so many people out and about. I want to say thank you also not only to senior admin staff and regional staff, but I want to say thank you to maintenance. I want to say thank you to facilities and every other department. Um if you had the opportunity to drive by a few of our schools, you saw many of our maintenance trucks out there. And they were not there just to do repairs. they were there with their vests on directing traffic, helping kids get

071to the front door and those types of things to help make that first day experience a great one. So, I want to say thank you to everyone who continues to support and provide that um provide that connection at our schools. Um but great opportunity yesterday and uh continue to celebrate that. Uh the board had asked for the proposed timeline for legislative platform discussion. So, what Miss Dodge and Mr. Davis had provided me is that on October 14th during the work session um that will be initially presented to the board and there'll be a discussion with the board about priorities and then October 28th at the board meeting you will approve your legislative platform and that was a timeline that they put together as I mentioned it is also on the retreat agenda so that we

072can have further discussion high school resoning meetings I've provided those for you here but I'll make sure I email them to the board for the Northwest region which is Lakeland Land High School, Kathleen, Lake Gibson, and Tenner Rock. That will be held on August 28th from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. at the Lakeland High School auditorium. For the Southwest region, which is Barto High School, Malberry, George Jenkins, and Fort me, that'll be held on September 4th from 5:30 to 6:30. That'll be held at Barto High School's auditorium. for the central reason region which will be held at the Winter Haven High School auditorium or gymnasium. They're looking to see which one's less booked, which ones are because they're already getting busy. That will involve Winter Haven, Lake Region, and Auburnale. That'll be on September 11th from

0735:30 to 6:30 p.m. The Northeast region will be held at Ridge Community High School's Auditorium. That'll include Davenport, Ridge Community, and Hayne City. That's on September 18th, same time, 5:30 to 6:30. And then the last meeting will be a virtual meeting held on October 2nd from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. We will record the virtual meeting. The virtual meeting will also cover all of the regions, not just a particular region. So anyone who may have missed their local meeting will have an opportunity to still see the information presented to them. And then lastly, I wanted to provide you with an update on the interlocal agreement. So, as you know, we met with the county last week um to have a really good good and robust conversation. So, there were several takeaways. Number one, um we made

074um we made our interest in removing adjacency known and that we had support from multiple municipalities as well. So, I think that was wellreceived. And then we talked about site selection. We talked about other factors within the interlocal including the meeting frequency. So the meeting frequency because our teams already meet monthly or quarterly the request was to move it to as needed or every 3 years and that's that would be the meeting frequency moving forward for site selection. Um you know we shared that the the previous site selection language no longer really fits the multiple options that we have here in Pulk County. For example, we have the P3 proposals. We have a proposal where now a developer is bringing the pot property. And so those right now would arguably complete be completely excluded from

075a traditional site selection committee because the language does not encapture those nor does it require that. Um so a good good example would be Scenic Terrace. Right? So we don't own that property. We lease that property. We don't take ownership of that facility or the land until year 15 or 20 of that lease agreement. So there was no site selection process. So, anytime land is donated or anytime land comes in as part of the package doesn't require a traditional site selection committee. However, to make sure that everyone's comfortable, there is a county process regardless to ensure that there's capacity. I do not recall the name of that committee and Mr. Fix stepped out. Um, and so I'll outline all of that for you with as board members. And then we are currently redlining and working

076through the interlocal agreement and we'll send that draft to you once it's finished. Hopefully by the beginning of next week and then we'll exchange that with the county and then we'll meet again and then we'll schedule a meeting for the board to meet with county commissioners as we have in the past to make sure that it's duly noticed and advertised so that we can have that meeting without any concerns. Um, the last thing is the next work session and board meeting will be held on September 9th, 2025. The work session will begin at 12:30 p.m. and the board meeting will begin at 5:00 p.m. Meaning will be held here at the district office located at 1915 South Floral Avenue in BTO. That concludes the superintendent report, sir. >> All right. Thank you, Superintendent. >> Thank

077you, Superintendent, for the update. We are now moving to our attorney report. Mr. Green, you are recognized. >> Thank you. I would like to request authority to advertise a public hearing at the September 9th, 2025 regularly scheduled school board meeting to seek in public input regarding resolution number 202526-06 as presented at today's school board meeting. Uh the recommended action is a motion to approve that request. >> All right. Very good. Board members, you've heard the recommended uh action and that motion. So, I'm I'm searching for that motion in a second from you all. >> So, moved. >> All right. So, Mr. Sharpless made the motion and Miss Fields, did you second that? I heard >> she can have it. >> All right. Miss Wyatt, Miss Wyatt, you have it. You have the second. All right.

078So, board members, we have a motion, a second. I'll call for a vote now at this time. Those in favor signify by saying I. I. Any opposed? >> All right. And that motion carries. We are now down to the auditor's report. I do see Miss Matthews uh out in the audience. Um and she's not with us tonight in in front. We did get the schedule last time um that we met as well as I believe the most recent uh audit was from Kathleen High School. So, if you had any concerns as you read through that audit report, you could bring those to Miss Matthews or the superintendent. All right. Uh, we are now down to the board members reports. I was thinking about doing a randomization on the numbers, but I'm just going to go

079in numeric order today. So, that means Miss Miller, you got some extra time to think about that. All right. And we're going to start with Mr. Keys. You're recognized. >> Thank you, Dr. Dr. Allen. Um, you know, we it seems just like yesterday we were here um only being a couple weeks ago, but not much happened other than school started, right? So, we did see go to the um inservice transportation meeting and just standing on that stage and seeing the amount of staff that we have and personnel to get our children to school safely and our students. just absolutely fantastic to um know that the camaraderie they have with each other, you know, cheering each other on their different sections, different districts. Um and to to see the the devotion they have to their craft

080was was amazing. So, it was good to attend that. Um, and then having, um, yesterday was such a big day for us is we have, um, some some tugging of the heartstrings cuz I now have a an a third grader and eighth grader and we were discussing this year that this is the last year that that the older sister is at the school with the younger sister and talking about legacy and moving on. So, interesting times, but um, so good times there. But finally, I I wanted to take the opportunity tonight to um, just to pay my respects. We uh, in Lake Wales and I'm sure Mr. Sharpos is familiar with. We had um Miss Carolyn Barnhart um passed away on the second um was an educator at Pulk Avenue Elementary for over 30 years

081>> and to hear uh those in attendance speak so highly of her and just her commitment to education and the students there. So wanted just to briefly mention her tonight and to honor her, what a what a great life of service to the district and to the students of Bulk County. um and it's um she'll be missed, but she was she was born again, so she's she's she's celebrating right now and we celebrate with her. So, just wanted to mention her and and um thank you to her and her family for sharing her with us for all these years. Um um but what a what a great woman and service she offered to the district. That's all I have. >> All right, Mr. Keys, thank you so much. And Miss Wyatt, you're recognized. >> Thank

082you. My comments are very similar to Mr. keys. But I and I know I say it every year, but I think the bus in service is one of the greatest events we get to go to. The energy in that room um makes me excited to go to school. Um the fact that those are the first people most of our kids see every day is just a a true blessing. Um, but what always impresses me the most is a the number of people that are recognized for the years without an accident. And then b the number of people that are recognized for perfect attendance. Um, Superintendent Hyde got to uh draw the perfect attendance winners who got a new bus. Um, so for those of you who don't know, the those who have perfect attendance are

083then entered into a raffle amongst their district to get a new bus for the next school year. And man, it is a >> it is it is a prized commodity. Um, so I I'm always thrilled that Superintendent Hyde gets to to be the one to draw those names and be the um make one person very happy and dozens of people very sad. Um, but it really is cool just to see how excited they are about their work and how much pride they take in getting our kids to school safely every day. Um, and then back to school. I've had the opportunity to visit several of our schools. Want to congratulate Elbert on a brand new opening on their new campus. We've gotten some great coverage there. Um but also just to give a huge shout

084out to um the city of Winter Haven team because they really have gone above and beyond to make sure you know anytime you open up a new school it's one thing but opening up a new school on a really major road um that hasn't been a school zone for the past several years um is is always a little bit scary. Um, and they have done a great job just to make sure that their team's prepared that they, you know, if you, if you travel Dundy Road, just know they've been sitting in the parking lot across the street writing tickets for about two weeks now. You should take the memo and not speed in front of the school zone on Dundy Road. Um, but they really have come alongside as a great partner to make sure

085it's safe to get kids back to school. And I think that concludes my report. >> Thank you, Miss W. And Miss Fields, you're recognized. >> Thank you, Dr. Allen today when Kylie had her comments and talked about what she is currently doing and what her dream is, it was just so heartwarming to know that we have young people that are able to articulate as well as she was able to. And a lots of times we hear negative things about select schools. Sleepy Hill Middle is on the map and in a positive way because of Kylie and other kids. So, I want to commend her for doing an excellent job today. And I would say that she is probably one of the strongest ambassadors for Sleepy Hill Middle. Um, and I hope that they would take

086advantage of that. And then I wanted to congratulate everyone that was uh recognized today as new administrators, but I specifically want to recognize uh Don Williams. He is an amazing uh young man uh and he has done a remarkable job for our school district and I am so happy that we were able to uh make sure that he continue to work for us. Uh so I wanted to just uh highlight that. I just think I just think the world of him and his mom and his dad. He comes from good stock. And then the last thing is this summer at Girls Inc. I was talking to Superintendent Hyde about it. One of the things that we noticed a lot is that sometimes kids tend to listen less and talk more. And so my message to

087the students is to remember the importance of being respectful and being good listeners. and remembering that God gave you one mouth and two ears to talk less and to listen more. And I think that if our students can get that, they will have a great school year and our educators will be able to focus on the learning more than their sometimes behavior. And so I would just leave that with them and and just pray that they will have a great school year. Uh yesterday at Girls Inc. we asked all the girls, "How was your day?" thumbs up if they you had a good day sideways it was okay and then down horrible. Every girl had her thumb up. So that mean that they had a good day starting out the school year. So we're hoping

088and praying that every student will have a great school year and do well academically and socially. And that ends my report. >> Thank you, Miss Fields. >> Yes, sir. >> Mr. Sharpless, you are recognized. >> Thank you, board chair. Um to go along with the theme of the night, I hope everyone had a great start to school um the last couple days. Uh personally, I've visited um a few of my schools already. I've been to Dawn Woods Opportunity Center, um Mlofflin Academy of Excellence, Frost Proof Ben Hill, Griffin Elementary, as well as Frost Proof Middle Senior, and I plan on visiting the rest of my schools in the next c couple weeks. um just amazing things happening at our schools and we've got great leaders at each one of those schools I've visited so far

089and I look forward to uh to visiting the others as well. Um, in between this last meeting, uh, and to today, I've, uh, been to a few different events, um, just like some of my other board members here, the transportation inservice truly truly a great, um, uh, event. It's always great to see the people who are transporting our students, getting them to school safely. Um, and I hope you've heard us over tonight. this board appreciates your service and what you do for our students. Um, also that same day I went to Language and Literacy Academy of Learning's ribbon cutting for their new building. Um, it's a really exciting time uh for that school. Want to congratulate Dr. Tandrea Calins for that. Um, Dr. Calins and I participated in Leadership Poke together where I got to

090know her. Uh, she's a great leader and um, it's going to be uh, that building is going to serve their students well. Um, I also want to thank uh Mr. Wayne Green for his service to Pulk County Public Schools. Uh, July 31st was his last day here. Um, and he's been a great leader for our district and I hope everyone um had an opportunity to say say their goodbyes to him um and thank him for his service here. I I truly believe that uh his was a he along with many of our administrators but he was a his focus on student achievement to me meant a lot and um yeah we went all the way to a B district so I think it's something to celebrate and to thank him uh for being a part

091of that. Um and finally the last event uh I'll discuss I went to the Poke County Gators Club. Uh, anyone that knows me, uh, it won't take long to know I'm a I'm a Florida Gator uh, and my undergrad and master's degree. And, um, we went, they they hosted an event to honor national champion Walter Clayton Jr., I was able to go with my wife. It was a great event. Um, and just a great role model for our students. Um, graduate of Barto High School and now national champion with the Florida Gator. So, congratulations, Walter. look forward to watching you play for the Utah Jazz in the NBA. So, hope everyone has a great start to school. >> All right. Thank you, Mr. Sharpless. And Miss Miller, you're recognized. >> Thank you. Thank you for

092going in numerical order. Um, I just want to say that it was great seeing all the classrooms. If you're online, our retention, recruitment and retention department is sharing and there's other groups that are sharing these teachers classrooms and the creativity they have. Um, I know the kids really feel um that excitement when they walk into the room and it looks so cool and has all the neatest the neat sitting areas and the reading areas. I was really pleased to see all the welcoming rooms. Um, I want to thank the Lakeland Kowanas Club that has stuffed the bus which it originally is now everywhere but originally started with Lakeland Kuanas and we go out and collect supplies. is a lot of donations are made from community um business partners and every public elementary school in Lakeland

093receives a truckload of supplies. We we bring boxes of paper. Um we've done a better job of finding out what kind of folders the teachers need and they're being very specific. So, we were able to do that. I want to thank Rob Davis for having a bus there for our pictures. So, we were actually stuffing the bus. Um and it was great for to see the community come out and support that. I want to thank One Hope Church in Davenport along with the Davenport Kuanas who spend a lot of time at Lafman oaks. I was shocked to see the size. You my district is very small elementary schools compared to what we have in Mr. Key side of the county. I had no idea our elementary schools are pushing 1400 kids in that area. Laughman

094Oaks is an amazing school and we could not do it without community partners. One Hope Church is very dedicated to that school. They just built a butterfly garden which was beautiful but they also do a lot with food the food pantry there. So I want to thank thank them and the Davenport Kuanas for their support for that school. Um I want to announce August 21st at Florida Southern is the district college and career fair which you know some people won't be thinking about that this early in the year but this is the large college fair that is on the circuit. So it's everybody and it's at Florida Southern. It's open to everyone from 600 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. on the 21st. It's important that our students attend that. I know they come in from Hayes

095City, you know, from all over our district uh to that college and career fair that evening. I want to thank the city of Auburndale. You know, I al always will favor the small town support and we did have an issue with some bus stops um for one of our elementary schools and I was on the phone with the city manager. We had everyone, every first responder showed up, people that we didn't plan to help support that school yesterday um so we could get the changes made that were needed to get those kids to school. So, I want to thank the city of Auburndale for always showing up for their kids. I also want to recognize a couple people that were mentioned tonight. I appreciate um Miss Fields mentioning the person that she had um direct

096connection to, but I want to say that Mrs. Clark, I remember visiting that school at Ridge. She was at Ridge High School, which was the largest high school at the time, ran by this powerhouse lady that I had never met. And when I when I visited, I was so impressed. Everything from the transition units, every classroom. It was just you could tell the leadership. So, I'm excited to see her move along. And also, Mr. Bruno, who was the principal at Auburnale, you know, Mr. Bruno has a softness about him. He's not, you know, you don't think, you know, he can get riled up. He is a great leader in that capacity and makes great decisions, but he does it with the with the softness edge, which I think I really appreciate for some of our

097leaders to start with kindness when they're delivering all news. So, I'm excited to see Mr. Bruno in his new position. Um, the last thing I want to mention, and it's online, so you can look it up. We finally did the ribbon cutting for Lake Gibson Middle. The ribbon cutting was long awaited. We had a delay in that opening of the gym. Um, and that fund principal, Michila Gregory, decided to do a dodgeball game and Mr. Hyde here participated in the dodgeball game, but within seconds was taken out by Mrs. Janette Crowley. Um, >> was not taken out. She caught a ball that was >> You're out. If somebody catches the ball, you are out. So, anyways, it is online. Um, you can find the video. It's a fun time. Um, I have a I have

098a YouTube channel that we do usually very serious, not serious, but not always fun and exciting um videos. That one is a really fun and exciting video. So, Hall pass with Lisa Miller, board member Miller, you can see um Janette celebrating the win. Um, but that was an exciting time and that was good for the staff. It wasn't, you know, just a regular ribbon cutting. They really got into the camaraderie at Lake Gibson Middle and I love what's happening there and like Miss Field said, there's great things. Middle schools are always tough. We have some fantastic leaders in middle schools and so I'm excited to see Lake Gibson Middle and we'll have a round two at the next ribbon cutting and Mr. Hyde can take back his championship. Thank you. >> Thank you, Miss Miller.

099I think we want uh to play dodgeball as a board. That would really help. >> Exception. I want to take down Mr. Green. Uh very good. uh you know reflecting on you know the inservice as everybody noted I I do believe Davenport High School has the largest um auditorium is that true right across the district and that thing is slammed and you know people line the walls in that space. Um it does it shows how many um staff members it takes to transport our students all across this county. It really is um a feat man huge. So again, just want to recognize Mr. Davis and his staff for the great work and that in service and preparing uh our bus drivers for this school year. Um I I also wanted to say thank you to

100Principal Tierz and Miss Andrea Hagen for their continued work at Crystal Lake Elementary. Uh and if you don't know, they did improve their school grade this year, which is a huge feat. Uh this is one of our UCF community partnership schools. I think there's only 50 um in the state of Florida and we have one here in Pulk and it's uh quite unique. Uh they had their annual strategic planning session uh this about a week week and a half ago and chairwoman Tracy Gray uh she did does a great job leading that cabinet. Um so again I just want to commend them on the work that they're doing at Crystal Lake Elementary. Um, and then I want to say thanks to mostly all of my district 1 um, admins for carving out time last week

101to meet with me. I know crazy time for sure before the beginning of the school year. U, but I tend to try to get around to all my district one schools and I did just didn't get to connect with one or two principles along the way. Um, I I appreciate them and their leadership. Um, pretty excited for them and and the work that they have ahead of them. I did sneak over to Malberry Middle. I know we get territorial as board members and we don't like to step outside of our districts um too much, but um I had one of my past students who is an instructional coach there now and she's in her dissertation phase and wanted to share some policy ideas. But um when I was over there, I had a chance to

102just uh commend uh their new principal, Chris Miller, who moved from RW Bruce Wagner. Um, so that's a great accomplishment for him and look forward to great things happening at Malbury Middle. And then, uh, Ron Kaufman, uh, who was AP at Scot Lake Elementary, has now filled his slot, uh, over at all our Bruce Wagner. So, um, was out visiting him as well, just celebrating him and pretty excited. One thing I did realize, um, if a school gives you a shirt, okay, so I got roped into putting on this really big, you know, like orange, bright orange shirt, um, from R. Bruce Wagner. And my next stop, I went over to Mola and I forgot that I had my RW Bruce Wagner shirt on. And right off the bat, I got called out big time

103for um wearing the I don't know if it' be the enemy, but another school shirt. So, the rival indeed. Um so, I I did get a shirt from Adola as well, and it was one of their students that designed it, and it has a bunch of pencils on it. So, I almost wore it tonight, but I did not. So, you'll have to see it. Um I don't know. I just wanted to say thank you to our teachers, our support staff, bus drivers, food service teams, custodian, our central office staff. Thank you. I love hearing um the school that you went out to serve um in these last beginning of this, you know, school year. Um it's it's quite fun to hear our central office talk about going out to volunteer and serve. It's pretty amazing.

104So, thank you for the work that you're doing uh to help uh the start of the school year run smoothly. So as we move forward uh our focus is on academic achievement right that's our primary strategic goal um and then state you know a safe learning environment man we had a lot around safety today in our work session reflecting on that and the great work that Captain Sha's doing um in our safe schools division and then building those strong community connections with our families I I appreciate this opportunity to go out and talk about our high schools in the reszone um out in our community so I appreciate that superintendent and again we'll continue supporting the whole child and these are our main goals and I appreciate that. Uh and that's all I have tonight.

105We will now transition to our public comments. So the next item on our agenda is public comments addressing items not on our agenda. We do have one card this evening and as noted earlier to register to speak community members must fill out a speaker card in the lobby uh prior to the meeting. All speakers will be given three minutes to speak. Uh the light will turn yellow when you have one minute left and you'll hear a beep when your time is concluded. Please note that although board members encourage community participation, no media immediate action will be taken on that item tonight. So um if a follow-up board action is needed, um we will consider that. Um so Mr. Chandler, you are our sole non-aggended speaker tonight. So if you can come forward and give us

106your time and we will be here with two ears. You are recognized. Mr. Chandler, >> I've asked you to change how you calculate raises so that they're same for all groups of employees. A method that results in no group gaining a financial advantage when it's reported to taxpayers that they receive the same raise. It would be based on an increase in the contract and an increase in cost from the previous year. The report I gave you is so that you can check to see if there's any errors before it is given to the state attorney general, governor, and the press. Modifications have been made since I gave it to the superintendent to check and relay to you a few years back. I understand why you might want want to change as the procedure has been

107very good for the superintendent, board, deputy superintendent and all senior management positions. Their pay thus retirement increased at a rate uh equal to or far greater than that of inflation over the last five decades. While that foot teacher has taken a massive loss even though teachers were reported as receiving the same raise and many times a greater race. Please read and inform me of any errors. Afterwards, it would be appreciated if it were made available to all employees. If you have any objections to employees having access, please call me. I'll listen. Give me a reason why. If you find any errors, I'm willing to change them. Uh, I've tried my best to avoid what happened in the past where you had some senior management was thrown under the bus and they wind up having to

108resign, demoted or retire. Uh, I've done my best and I failed in contacting you. So, I'm moving on. Thank you very much. >> Thank you, Mr. Chandler. All right, board members. Next order of business is adjournment. And there being no further business, the meeting of the P County School Board is now adjourned. Thank you.