Clay County District Schools, Florida Board Meetings, 27 Nov 2017

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Gender-Neutral me ma'am thank.

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You and everyone they often time or given thanks for family friends or loved ones back to work for us, so we'll jump right into our gender review, the first one we will go through some recognitions if we will recognize a bullying prevention, you know, October was bully and Prevention Month and we had. We did a public service announcement throughout elementary and secondary schools. We will acknowledge 28 students through the PSA video contest. We will take these videos and we'll upload them through our social media coming up after we acknowledge them just to have so.

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Individuals in our community can see the great work that our students have done in elementary and secondary to the 28 students that were identified. The winners, the next one is recognizing petticoat Schmidt's civil contract, which they provided, the twenty to twenty-five thousand dollars to orange sports, high school's baseball from field, and they redid their entire baseball field, laser that recited it and it's smile recognized him for their their commitment and contribution to our school districts. Next one is recognizing 117 founders week, art contests.

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This is a contest where we do. We identify six individuals who are there. They have where the contributions for looking at historical figures and documents of influence, foundations of our of our government will also. This is a month we will celebrate and as Jim Harbin student media festival, recognition, Wow I believe there's around 70 students that have been recognized and will be recognized, they'll be around that five-minute, video that will be provided.

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For our students, I, don't know, seven kids are coming in, students are coming by, fingers, can I acknowledge in Madeira their school and in the highlight their names.

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All right, so we go to c1, which was our school board minutes when.

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We did our organizational meeting. I was just looking me. We selected a date. That's the first Thursday, except for the month of July, which we switched because in fourth of July January is January.

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If you see there's an opportunity for us.

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Right c2 is just a personnel consent agenda.

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See c3 is our overnight out-of-state travel for CTE programs. We have a number of FFA going out to compete.

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C4 is the keystone behavioral pediatrics contracts. I know that we we put this item on hold I believe two months ago in order to determine whether or not we can find additional supports for student within within our within our school district. We know that, after looking into a number of considerations of supports, we believe that the Keystone behavioral pediatrics is the best for the student that we serve because they have very specialized offering for our kids. They have one-on-one techniques for social, emotional behaviors.

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We do a great job with the immigrated and Kenna stick therapies for and then the current cost. Did you see this contract $154,000? If we were going to try to offer that in-house it'll cost us an additional fifty to sixty thousand dollars to duplicate the services that the Keystone behavioral pediatrics contract provides to the student? We only do through the board's request. We rigorously looked at different initiatives and offerings, and we believe this to be the best continue to be. The best contract would assume that we serve.

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Know she was gonna, try to call everyone.

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After talking, it was her because of our concerns before with the gentlemen. I assure you that, when she explained to me that he is now.

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The tyres were cut there and she has an extensive discussion with them and everybody I feel comfortable and, like mr. Davis said, there's really not another place. That does all that they do and it would cost us a whole lot more if we try to go somewhere else. But after talking with her, but she told me you know when I hang up I'm, calling all the board members to talk to him. That I wouldn't talk to you. First and I could talk bill when I had but I.

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Have to personally uncomfortable with it I just wanted to share to you as a board members that.

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With 20% of our students in Clay County, with the IEP of some form or another, that's a lot of students. We don't take this decision lightly when it comes to looking for programs for an individual child like this, we we have less than ten kids that we look for it's very specialized for gaming because of their means. So we understand that we have to be very crude with our decision making our financial responsibilities veteran and this particular student having seen myself.

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This is a good place, I'm very familiar with the program just from a previous life and trust that they they are working and in fact we have seen improvements with this student. So that's the encouraging part about this. I certainly understand the position the board is in when you're looking at accusations and headlines, and, oh my god, what does that mean for for us? And we certainly want to make sure that that follows through when.

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And clarity has brought for all of us, particularly as the decision was was very careful and from a fiscal standpoint. This was the best place that we could find from student.

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Thank you. C5 is our kindred hospital contract. This is our annual contract with Project SEARCH. These are students who are eligible students who are on access points to obtain direct clinical internships. This is where they will work collectively with to work in certain areas to help them become marketable in the workplace. After after a Clay, County Schools they'll be able to look at housekeeping maintenance or general office skills. They'll learn a number of opportunities for them to make them marketable for future employment.

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Wants to talk to us.

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About I would love you guys come around snow. The students interacting in this environment is what.

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Awesome part kids at no cost c6 just approval about a county student travel k12. Academics. To that we will highlight that the Keystone middle or high school's band will be going to FSU at Tampines, or one is was 17th and 18th. We have conversational Goldberg and one is gonna, be on the 30th, so that's the only one that will be post for me.

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C7 is proposed allocation changes. The only thing that we have right here is is that we have SPG that's going to obtain a small assistant because they qualify through the numbers and then we're just cleaning up step out. Casing. Models through play. High schools lead custodian to custodian, just making sure you get a name correct consistent with the entire district.

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Ca is amendments budget minute for the month of October c9 is the warrants and vouchers for October.

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C10 is financial reports. As always, please, dr. c11 is property reports for furniture and equipment within the organization. C12 is any AV materials that we have in the new organization, c-13 for monthly report for software C 14 is update where we offer national local vehicles or accountability. C 15 is the deletion of certain items.

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C 16 is the Clay County utility authority agreement between for discovery, Oaks Elementary, there's just the easement access for waterfront. We use utility for discovery, oaks, we're starting lost up done. Any updates. You want provide dot, know that yeah, sorry, anything from BOE.

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C-17 is just brief: qualifications for contractors. C18 is just a final completion of High School, culinary renovations, if remodel in the kitchen floor and then plumbing c19 is simple. No spa survey just making sure that we add match environment facilities plan by adding I think we added the ACE building the school one up at Fleming Iowa, just to make sure that we have permanent.

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C20 is just looking at is also the implementation and building first phase, one and two plans for specifications for the ACE. That means architectural plans are complete and we are beginning to initiate the building process. This would be is, as we said once again, over 5,000 square foot testing facility multi-purpose testing facility through a switch will have a beautiful opportunity for our kids um program.

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C 21 is a change order for direct person to have tax savings on discovery, Oaks Elementary. This would be a tax savings for around two hundred and nineteen. Seventy three thousand dollars that we will we will save in our building.

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C 22 is the final completion of our front entrance security and multiple schools with Middleburg Green, Cove, Keystone elementary risk view and W cherry. We will continue to to make this a priority of our school district safety is, was continuously being reviewed as access door, schools.

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Was some of them? We did the access controls where we have the cards and the codes to get in the front door, the any parent that comes up. They have to be buzzed in.

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Okay, because the cameras in the elementary that I had them before and apparently they're put in places where the PE teachers are teaching.

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Well, as I said, we look into that as well, but we have. We have been expanding the camera coverage for elementary junior high and high school and we've just recently completed lakeside elementary school along with SBJ and lakeside junior. Those are the three schools that we've enhanced security on. Our goal is to try to get serve coverage on pare pick up zones, front-office best picked up zones outside areas or the by the way, the video only no audio, but it does give an extra layer of safety and security for kids. The antenna settings right.

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And the biggest thing, the only way I would say that that a PE teacher is is impact. It is due the fact that it's an outside common area that they're trying to to review for any kind of potential violations or anyone coming on campus intruders. In order for us to.

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Do something will contract? Because we know.

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But if there's one that's I mean if it's like right outside a Nega chair building which we should have and there's a playground or there's a basketball court. Then wall conversation, let's not forget Jesus. Let me know at schools sure in three.

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Dimensional, the teachers are being recorded and we have contractual language to say. Teachers are not recorded in their classrooms. Those are the classrooms that.

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Area and that area, everybody knows that we have okay.

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We can look.

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At angles, camera.

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Placement contract monitoring at the very least, but it's a part of the contract it shouldn't just be. We don't.

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Had some incident ISM as.

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Well, yeah, that's.

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The boy's name.

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There's a lot of conversation that can happen if.

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They have the merit of the day in each other. Comes eight parts of those some of those yeah.

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But you wanna, you want them to have a lot of FINA rolling all the time. Just in case you have Addison Davis journey saw at the back of the building, and we don't know where Addison Davis is that we have Addison. There's no camera running around. Jumping a fence, I'm able to see those things. Well, we can do is just look at.

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It's really another, it's not designed for that. So it's not there's.

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Not need the conversation just.

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Of a knowledge meant of hey, this is going on us problem solving to figure out where it's a better placement through our staff, I think we'll be okay with it, we'll look at it with those teachers.

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All right, you have questions all right, so d1 is 2018 legislative priorities. I someone give you a draft I know. The biggest thing is for us to have a one-pager.

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All right so I have so. This is all draft, so we can punt this.

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So we just identify the area that you wanted for us to push through. This is a living document proposal that we have is still in draft. Don't think we've got to do something pass this around as well.

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I'm gonna pass this down too, so this one is a an entire.

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Document that unpacks every one of the priorities that we discussed, so it's.

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So you have one, that's a it's a summary one pager some of my pager just talked about us transitioning to become school choice within within our school district, high school district and then identifies areas in which that we said we are potentially said. We wanted to lift and create and we're looking at providing junior high schools with the option to pursue more rigorous programs for pre ace programs. Looking at providing visual Performing Arts for our students within within our County from pre early college and select junior high schools as well.

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Those direct feeders through our age programs provide high school students the option to attend the firefighter I am EMS Academy, which is a partnership with a Clay County Fire, Department and they're actually really excited about the offer of little years. Ib program and I just have I be at the high school, but also the junior high school as well, and looking at developing a potential monestary program select elementary schools for theater for a different way of alternative traditional classroom settings and expectations.

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They've been expanding steam within our school district and certain elementary and secondary schools to stem Sarek to steam and adding art design. So this is a rough draft, then the last one we're just adding pretend transportation. So we got some clean up to do on this, and this second document is just to build out of a descriptor the the impact this will have expected outcomes. What roll out and potential financials it will come.

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I will openly say that the biggest financials that we're trying to we have to complete is visual performing arts, but everything else is already outlined and been a within this document. So when.

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We talked about this in our workshop Betsy. You had a good way of wording, it we've said our ask, should just be: we want to become a school, you know more Pro for school choice and and I think somehow the language that Betsy gave us that day should be on here.

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Asked we're saying what we, what the vision is, but we're not saying what we're asking for and we're just asking for financial support to reach some of these funds and I. Don't remember exactly how you said it, but how you said if that day,.

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We don't actually have an ass yeah.

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We need an ass so right now this was the direction I wanted. My ass to each of you was: should we put the dollars that would potentially cost for each one of these initiatives on there, or did you do it individually? If that you do a big bucket.

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Read was $60,000 times, six or whatever say $300,000 or five so anyway, anyway, 30 I, guess because discovery it was already done anyway, so $300,000 for the esteemed Elementary's. So that's not a huge ask where, if we're you know, is going after five million right, that's very good right, yes, ma'am! It's realistic and.

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I will say: it's I'm, sorry, it's good that it's one page, but it's a lot. You know one page: really they like five bullets I would.

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Even go so far as to say this is our goal, for this is the money we need to enhance our programs at the high school level. This is the money we need to enhance our programs at the junior high school, and this is the money we need for elementary school and then you I think it might even be a good idea to supply something like this. There's a backup and I'm here, front page B, just those bullet points with the dollar amount and, if you're interested in what we're gonna do with that money.

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There's the details and.

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You might even want to prioritize. You know our concern would be whichever one first do we want to do the six elementary schools. Do we want to look at it, junior high IB program. Fear. Do we want what's the priority that we'd like to see and put that one first prioritize and.

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I think that's gonna, be it they're, just gonna be thrilled that it's nothing more than we want to expand our choice program. So we're not getting on any of the buzz words that are gonna turn people off. They will be a post that we join the lawsuit.

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The only thing I'm concerned about I mean this is all we needed, but they like the kiss method. They want it short and sweet. So I'm, hoping they'll, really know it well.

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I would do full, let's end like a semi attach attach. This is the backup or even go as far as I, don't know if they'd actually rehab, but attach a backup.

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I will take your recommendation. I will try to get that done. Fine, close the business tuesday to send to you so any adjustments. You want to look at it and push back right now. I'll go back and look at the actual ass in public. It's and we're sniffing that this is common. They cooperated and then we'll have a bulletin broke down by great band about what we're trying to accomplish and her choice attached to funding.

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Last one was detune I.

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Wanted to ask before we close up we're scheduled for 3:30 for one discipline. Is it possible that we, because they're dead? No? Is it it's it, something that you need to be done? I know.

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That the notification has already been sent for the parents, but I mean they can send another.

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Forecast over that, you know who stood student.

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Yes, we just got one person at 3:30, which it seems this whispering.

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A message yeah, we can do it wondering I mean we've got.

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Plenty of time to notify the parent.

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Elementary, why it's.

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A good question I was actually gonna, be a mother.

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We we asked individuals if there's no, no criteria we sent out. If you are at your school minimum of three years and we won that we will stability within the school district. We don't want someone in one year being in their school two years and we didn't when we were ripping them out. We need stability, so principals need to be in the school between three and five years really to create and make change.

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So we had to have three years you had to have two nd had to be highly effective, as well and in those three years at your school. So we asked the everyone who's interested in doing that we had four individuals apply that qualify with that criterion. Well, yes, ma'am! So we will have interviews December, 4th I, believe it's gonna be from ten to twelve.

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In the twelve that we interview, we've asked him to bring their data profiles and to bring the vision for what they would create, how they would open a new school and how they would take, take steam and run with it. So we're excited about what they bring yeah, we're only looking for internal candidates and the center. Fourth, at the end of the day, I believe that we will.

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We did I mean at the end of the day we wanted to make sure we had neutral colors over nice colors. We are ready to go with that. I think that's a small part of the work that has to be done now as we'll focus on recruiting branding marketing identification of implementation of seen business partners. So we did very neutral colors anyways I mean I, get it it's nice to have someone going in to do it, but.

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A cover pilot Bryce: we can share that I.

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It gives a real true sense of ownership.

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I think I just think it's gonna be a much more positive atmosphere, we're successful and the principal gets to go in and and set up their school that they're opening up no.

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I appreciate came back and I think any principal Warner can be really excited to launch an exposure and it's gonna be their school. In the day it's Clay County.

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School, how about this? When are you gonna? What has the architect put in these colors today.

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Cliff College a pinnacle. You said it was going big boy. These things in the.

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Suggestion why don't you suggestions from the.

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To be involved, example, here's the three at least have some kind of.

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Would solve the problem right? We just wanted I just.

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In Orange Park High School, the.

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What's the wing called word career in tech, it.

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Was and it's that horrible.

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Photos that they showed it was beautiful, it wasn't that color blue and then this thing went up and I thought I had.

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Many conversations with.

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Picky about colors print presentation, I believe it's the you get only one chance for an appearance, and that happens in the first thirty seconds when you meet someone or when you walk on someone's campus, so um I'm doing that, and then we promise you. It would be very nice.

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I'm gonna guess that the.

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New principle is not going.

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Would I worry about improving teacher.

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The process of really I don't wanna rush into anything, so I know we have two competent individuals who will really drive work along with with mr. Connor, so we're in the process of brainstorming to figure out. What's the best for this organization, CT continues to be a priority within an organization. We continue to increase with injured industry, certifications with more programming, more offerings for kids, and we had last year year before so we're just in the process of figuring out what specialist organization right now the job was that well, it should have been advertised.

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Let's put it that way, it was posted. It was posted for a maybe a day and there's questions. Why and an individual question why I guess they? They don't have questions with each of you as well, I elected to take it down because I'm just not prepared to just to say just because Terry Dennis resigned today, I'm, just not okay, with just saying hey, let's just post a position, the question is: is where does it fit? What do we need that? We what's our direction.

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I just know that it was taken down. We.

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Would post the position normally position became open.

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Any of the day, we'll never put the department in a situation where they're not prepared supported.

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Will we see us all right now? Is your compass? Also I will be sending go ahead. Man so.

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Be saying each of you, which started the process of our strategic cleaning.

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We now know the time will be up, so we would love for each of you to be actively engage in the planning of the strategic plan for our school district I'll be sending each of you somewhat of a draft model of initiatives, and this is implemented on with big bucket items or areas of focus along with core values, so I always send them back to each of the electronically this week, some time for us to for you to start looking at it and for us to start closing some workshops for us to start to build in this process.

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So we can really start to hit the ground running for 2018.

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Will be the day for our workshop I mean for my community meeting with Oakleaf.

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It's just deal.

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Which we will need to link and start having discussion about contracting language with teachers that.

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Went to the the click on education they're, not calling it that cleverly ed Foundation I'm the new they. It is the Clay County Education Foundation. So.

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Referring to themselves as the ED foundation, so they.

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Drop the whole idea of changing to the facts, so whatever the acronym was for that there was a question as about the grants that they're going to be awarding teachers which is coming up and I said that I would ask if it's okay continue with the same protocol that they've done up to this point. The grants are genuinely for ela, as well as stem initiatives. They generalize, they generally go into those initiatives or technology or anything, obviously to enhance their classrooms are their teaching opportunities. Last year, close to 40,000 networks was given out new grants.

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They were able to give all the grants. The tightening of that, though, starts in December, and you had mentioned at some point, possibly talking with them about outlining.

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It is like Nike this month next month,.

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Information verbally or.

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On any column Scofield, it's probably best.

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As well the Teacher of the Year, it's interesting, they have the past two teachers of the year now, working with the foundation and they're responsible for the Teacher of the Year program. That's coming up.

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January and those teachers have brought new ideas, fresh ideas, so.

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It's gonna be a little different this year. It's.

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Very very some where in many respects, but it will be somewhat different as well instead of just giving the five finalists all the goodies so to say they get all of the top stuff and the rest get a nice bag and everybody gets. You know some prizes, whatever they're going to give. One of the ideas that has come up in this planning is to give a an unannounced award. I mean it's sort of.

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It goes on and I introduced a name and they said: hey all stuttered from spj we'd like you to come back up on stage because we'd like to award you $50, you occurred to such-and-such that sort of thing, and it's going to be it's going to be for the teachers as well as for the support employees. It's just gonna, be not.

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Justify funds all.

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Of the five finalists get a very nice price, the other.

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It was Brenda.

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Brenda Troutman she had somebody else. There.

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So another she's a leader, so it's bright.

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Still, the executive director.

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The truckies gentlemen, just Toledo.

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Oh she's, a lead on teacher leader.

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She is still the executive director when Matt Hutchins is still the president I can't and the longer this whirlwind district, but but Kathy's, not the district anymore is.

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She staying she's still working very closely with the district with clay. You were her Chartrand, she does, but that's, but her responsibilities include Lake County, so.

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Mentioned that there's another another grant another surprise coming up. Are you aware of that.

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I sent an email to each of you about the Amazon so to go a were pre shovel, an Amazon do, along with educational foundation for matching. Well, they didn't. Let us drive that at all, so we were just going on Amber's gonna, meet them at a school and go to school and just drop it off, and that way we wouldn't have so many people go into a classroom.

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However, when we got there even Nicole didn't know the first thing: I pulled a cold aside and when I got there, there was everywhere, worse news or reporters with one Oh. What is this? This is not what we creates you. Let us drive it. We didn't know about it. So I had to start initiate I had to speak, I had to do an interview, so so.

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With you matters.

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So I agree. I swatched an email the same day telling each of you that eh I didn't know. What's gonna happen this way and B, then no one's going to create it, but.

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I can tell you.

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You that lessons learned on the sense that we were no longer allowed Nicole nosiness. We no longer allow someone else to drive the media rush. When you come to our school district, we would drive it in a coal owner that way that you will have the press release going on there.

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Yeah and that will be coming up, there's no definite yeah sure.

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Will be, let's go Phil actually.

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Most of the time they're flexible, but.

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We do need to show support and appreciate you from your boob know.

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In it's, okay, they're, showing.

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They currently have.

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And one of the reasons is because they did give those grants are those monies to the stem teachers that you went around they're talking about having approximately $40,000 for the grants, so the sooner we can get that out. The sooner we have the applications out for those the.

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Sooner that money turns around back I.

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Get my hundred dollars or still $500.

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Burnett's, maybe, and last year they were able to give all of the applicants, but it probably won't.

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Happen, let me, would you make sure.

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Yes, Frank wanted to make sure that that yeah, it.

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Is going number one number two, it's getting close, I'm thinking that that total is going to be around $2,000. Perhaps something and we're talking about doing a I need to talk with Frank yep. This.

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I've got to and and want to talk to him about doing a full launch of a better word, a little memorial for Carol. You.

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Pictures and his three girls- oh yes, yes in.

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Fact they did such beautiful tributes on Facebook to her yeah that I wanted to use their information. If I could I.

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Have not contacted you me up of people Deena.

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Good I'm good, not a girlish short today, um board members day. If you have any comments, no okay! Now what they have you on board for the Tampa today I'm going today!

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We have one tomorrow afternoon, a party for that award in my Sunday.

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Be there Wednesday when I Drive Wednesday morning I'll be there early, eight or nine more ht2, I'll state Thursday I'll leave Thursday afternoon to come back.

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Be there for a few days.

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