Clay County District Schools, Florida Board Meetings, 15 Dec 2017

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Board Agenda Review
See the agenda here: http://agenda.oneclay.net/publishing/ap-agendas.html

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The December 15 workshop me Clay, County, School Board, will come to order.

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We're going to agenda for the meeting.

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Good morning, everyone we'll go to we'll start what c1 c1 just minutes for the school board of November 9th, along with a workshop for number 27 and the regular meeting scheduled, didn't hear any student hearing for December 7th as well.

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C2 is the employee calendar employer calendar for the 2018 2019 school year. This is where this was established by the calendar committee and just a finds work dates for for all employees.

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C3 is the 2018 exceptional educational extended school year? This is for students, extension education of students. We will have this at review. High school Keystone elementary school, along with at Middleburg high school. It will start around June the 18th for for review and then the other two schools will start June 19th- and this is all driven. Services are driven by students, IEP needs for the extended summer, so we can continue progression and those summer learning loss.

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C 4 is the consent agenda. Nothing on here and regulation from our side. We're down tricking everything c5 is is the 2017-18 salary schedule. This is the adjustments to the minimum wage. It has been increased effective starting in January by 15 cents, so a transition from 8 dollars and 10 cents to $8.25 and once approved we will post and notice this throughout the entire organization.

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C6 is the instructional valuation system. This is just a system so that everyone in the tape understands the evaluation system for our teachers. This is an elaboration with a with HR the CCE, a I click on instruction, where we have added multiple indicators to teachers, performance measure.

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Brand brand new document- and this is in collaboration with contract- yes,.

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And this year we have multiple measures for the performance measures for the evaluation, where it's just not one stand alone. So if you example so if it was just a pert and it's in isolation and we went to another layer, another measure that they could potentially hit in reference to the.

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Hidden on the side of it. Well, how does this affect? You know the big issue with the cut scores and the teachers need to make best in progress because ahead, you see students and they were judged. You know by the regular.

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Of the right door, kids, which I still have an issue which I feel that that's wrong and it's gotta be stuff but make it right.

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Everything met often with the committee, the cast him in and we identified cut scores which everyone within the green roof on. So as superintendent has stated and past that I have the ability to set the cut score, but we did it collectively, so everyone feels comfortable with it. With the cut scores, they're they're they're agreeable. They have been sent out to all of the teachers as well, just as an FYI. This is where we're going. This is what we're doing so I feel very comfortable that they're satisfied with.

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With the new measures, so the number of for a teacher who has some ESC, kids and some mainstream campus, no.

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It's not what, for things.

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The committee process, what we did is we took the average pert score for reading and math for those ESD students. So we looked at that population of kids and we settled on a score that would be comparable to the district average of that ESC population. I think it was yeah.

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So what about a teacher? That's not identified as an ESC teacher, but has ESC students. How does that affect him or her.

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Well, it can be I mean we talk about ESC students that contain large. You have some kids that don't consult some kids that are gifted so that that could the cognitive level that student could very large their understand. What continued to another continue. So still we still had average, we mean I, think it went from 114 around I. Don't have the numbers in front of me. It's either 97 or 105 was a middle point of the 97 and the 114 we came in the middle, which was it ended up being the average for the district.

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But I think if I may be honest, my fantasy, let's say I'm an inclusion. Teacher and I've got 10 quote-unquote, regular, ed kids and 10 ESC kids. Are these kids going to be looked at separately from these kids and their average is going to be separate, but.

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We didn't isolate, we.

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Didn't either so part of the original plan. 2 is to give those additional bonus points based on ESC and SES, so you have those subgroups of students, so you've got additional bonus points added on your overall to kind of set, however, is that much away something and.

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The bonus points is up to is it ten ten bonus points additional.

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It's not really very many points we may consider. I mean I'm. Thinking of this teacher that contacted me last year, teaching algebra algebra, 1a and geometry, and some of his students were just mainstream, not AP students, not honor students. Some of them had an inactive IEP, but he's not identified with an E, see teacher. This is like my son.

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One of my kids was an ESC student, so this teacher was told, get all your kids to 96 or 97, whatever the number was and then when the VAM score came in, he didn't reach 114 with all those kids and somebody was penalized, but he was doing what he was told by his principal to do so. It seems to be that you have kids that are struggling. I mean I, certainly understand your IB, your ap, your honors kids, should all be reaching that 114 baseline, but your kids that are a mainstream and struggle.

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You know don't set the bar so high that they're gonna fail and then the teachers held accountable because you're setting the bar that high for these kids that are doing the best they can and to reach that 96 is what they need for graduation. So, if they're reaching what they need for graduation, why are we set in the bar so.

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We did address that this go-around, so we looked at every individual content area, so I geometry and algebra like 97, your ID horses would be 114, so I think we've accounted for that by subject area, which would it would address the ESC issue as well right.

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And we learned a lot from last year and the teachers are really happy, but there's no longer it's just isolation for the PERT. They could have cut corners for so a CT, a CT / FSA EOC. So we put if you can see this is an example of I'm sorry. This is what's up here, I'm, just looking at part.

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Of one, that's fine, you see all of the options.

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That they can hit a threshold.

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I was reading that it didn't make sense to me I.

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Guess you can oversee.

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Number generate your expense.

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End, you know numbers that teachers.

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Because the end of the day proficiency is the expectations for grade level, so we want to stay with proficiency. We expect games to be made and gains are a part of it, but kids are we're. Seeking for kids to be proficiency is equivalent to be an old grade level. So we want that to continue to say the norm. I'll.

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Also add that with a chief 3000, I ready as being an indicator here, if they do grow a certain amount and that could Trump to say that they weren't proficient. But they grew a certain amount of points that would that would be a benefit to the teacher on their evaluation.

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You mean yes, depending.

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Depend on the subject area.

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A chief 3000 applies to reading and that subject is more of a reading course than if a chief, three thousands one of the indicators think growth actually could be used and versus you keep it out in at one of the omens and I read, and this is really.

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Teacher friendly, thank you for correcting it. This may not be appreciated. Sorry, we had a little bit of I can't get Mike to work to scroll down. What did they do for the elementary grades? What did the elementary choices as a third grade teacher, so.

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A third grade teacher would be I think it's a everything stand alone in his FSA, but then it would go to I ready as well, so hey. They would have multiple. It's multiple indicators, there's some buddies, I'm all over a guitar and drama, an art I.

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Just want to make sure there's a different indicator.

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So if a math yeah so being right now, that's great one math would have read three men for the FSA, math and I ready as well.

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That the younger grade levels, I, believe in like we didn't wanted to, they would have died, ready and ass at 10. Right so be a number of indicators you they did it. Thank you. Yes, ma'am kindergarten ahead of our kindergarten assessment along with I, ready and I, can see it scores all right and the questions. Hi c7 is permission. We're gonna, publish the k-12 science textbook adoption everything gone long. We've said with multiple committee members they have had. We have identified their recommendation.

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Most of the recommendation is centered around I, think a supplemental in which is it, which we've identified working to identify. We've identified everything that they've had. We learn from social studies so that they had these. These are resources and this student resources that they get the same resources that we can go greater and deeper. We will so what we're going to match resources our resources, since this hasn't been adopted since 2012 I, believe so up for adoption cycle. We are. We are good with the recommendations and everything won't you goes smooth in this process are.

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There is this: does this adoption include any manipulatives? Yes, it does no awesome and as they're there obviously there's going to be some stuff that they use up in the first year following all of the experiments and everything else. Yes,.

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Are not going to probably do that.

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Lab books or journals or anything.

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We have to print special six books.

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They were very careful in betting that they were sensitive. That's the last thing, I think it's all good.

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Betting teams are very robust. This year we had lots of teachers, significant studs to be there for good, was a very rigorous process. Rubric follow documented mr. Connor not have brought the specialist back in double check to make sure they know what they're getting so there should be no, but this training won't be included the price right now.

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Yeah good prices, good solid price, great: this is a VK 12 and Avenue physiology chemistry, bio, those types of chemistry, physics,.

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Alright c8 is approvable about a county. Try student travel for k-12. This is a developer band, chorus, ROTC, wrestling basketball and Key Club. A lot of places to compete, which is awesome for a county c9 is just renewal of Emory, Riddle, Aeronautical, University or collaboration with aerospace programs. These aerospace programs are currently at three of our schools with Keystone Oakleaf in Orange Park, and we have a total around 177 on students that are actually engaged in doing Ruhlman activities through this partnership. This is just an extension of it.

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C10 is a 21st century grant program agreement every year within this grant. You have to have a third party that comes in and evaluates our implementation of a grant, funding and also programmatic approaches, so they will review the organizational deliverables, and this is going to be health tech. They give us data and survey information to tell us what's working, what's not a lot, we can do differently, and this is at Montclair, Keystone clay, heel and Ridge View Elementary School. This is the last year. The good thing is last year. This survey cost us around fifteen.

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Sixteen thousand dollars and I got it down to twelve this year. Great, so look forward to the feedback about how we can get better. This after-school program.

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C11 is proposed allocation changes at this time we bring to you today is a allocation for the principalship for Discovery Oaks Elementary School, along with one principal secretary for discovery, Oakes and Fleming on high school, had a serve. I kin Ruhlman twith students under the esau umbrella, so we're providing a classroom assistance to make sure we need our guidelines as proposed, and a staff allocation plan.

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Ma'am I have so you know I'm I'm there, for both the replacement and the in the principal I hope to announce I wanted to announce it. You know before winter break, but at this stage I think I will wait to the allocations of fruit and do it properly.

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So once the allocation is proved, then we will announce probably either that evening or the next morning, and then I will go to staff to the staff, the new leader to to engage and then the new principal of discovery, Oaks Elementary School will stay around four to six weeks at that school, the new principal to continue to instructional momentum, and then we will probably release that individual with us to be and saw my side, Kemp and side by side. Grateful.

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He is so ready. I got.

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Stuck the noon I'm going to have to follow process, I, can't I'm ready, tell me I want they won't be announced now, but I don't have allegation.

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So what we'll have to do is announce principle for discovery. Oakes, the new principal for the school wish that in a bid to the vape II, will go to and then a new assistant principal at the school that that individual has moved from. So it's all the domino effect because.

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The new principals pickerel, her kids over party.

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Me I'm in this organization and I think I spoke to last year. I won't principal to have the autonomy of what they own, so if I'm gonna hold them accountable, I want them to end of the day when they come to me with a red wagon. I want them to want them to have the luxury to put whatever they want in that red wagon and they own the process.

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Now is there opportunity for our team and I think our professional due diligence to coach them of who we believe there's some candidates out there do our interactions and calibration walks to say hey. You may want to look at this in division. We believe that there may be the right fit. We definitely will have conversations such as that for the end of the day, it's the principal's ownership of who they hire I think they should have that target. So.

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The interviews that you just recently went through yes for assistance, yes, ma'am.

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Ma'am, so we did, we did we open it up and, as I said, for individuals apply the three qualify. So we interviewed the three for discovery. Oaks.

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Elementary School, so then we opened.

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Up a window, everyone had a lower level, 2, certification and, and you have to have little suit to certification, become a principal. We interviewed I believe it was about 12, oh yeah, about 12 candidates. We interviewed a blend of those who we may have already interviewed, have passed along with individuals who aspire to be principals, who may not have passed, or we have an interview four.

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So we had a good long day of interviews and it's going to be a great opportunity to provide some feedback to candidates about how they can improve their interview, skills and and then we're gonna find those who pass in.

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This pass, and it would really be neat after the board, approves the agenda.

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Engage the board we gave you I will engage you individually. The next week.

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Of three, because the the in going principal will have the affordability to interview on there. So you'll tell us today.

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Public property review furniture and equipment c-13 is a materials option c14 another day at work. C14 is software.

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A property software c15 is vehicles and live within our school district. C16 is deletion reports, c-17s just monthly updates on pre qualified contractors. C18 is the guaranteed maximum price from finland fleming on each facility. Yes, sir, that's a placeholder for the board because of the wound up timeframe. The.

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Gmp is due Tuesday, so as soon as we get the GMP we'll send that information out the superintendent and.

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Thomas Mann is our control company that will be driving this work. C19 is final phase plans for the Aged testing facility and flat line high school C 20 is the completion of the doctors, inlet fire alarm replacement man. This has been over for months and months and.

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We put it on, we approve, it would get the plans it burns up. We got to figure out something.

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Each time I come here, it's only agenda, so I mean I, think I'm gonna walk there and pull.

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Myself but know what it.

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Is because that would've cost us 160 grand good.

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All right discussion, d1 is controlled, open, enrollment plan for 2018 every year. We have to update this plan to determine threshold for utilization and also identify schools that qualify once again, I am presenting the board that we use. The same number we used last year is 85 percentage of threshold for utilization last year. You know we had 11 schools that qualified, as if we use the 85% threshold with consistent Liz. Last year we have 10 schools that qualify. As you see, we have five elementary school I believe it was less.

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If we had 15, it was 1,500 1557 seats. If I remember correctly,.

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Okay, if a student doesn't meet one of the five criteria, that are the other reasons they can get into the schools, the military, the foster-care.

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So they don't meet one of those.

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They're and they're not the seats on here, they can come into our schools if.

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There's Academy seats, though academies run parallel. So if there's Academy seats open in the high school, they have the opportunity to come to Academy seating. If available, and there is a special request- form that if they have, that could be a hardship. Give me a clue.

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First in County first, so then, if you still have available seating and then someone or maybe request a special quest for hardship ago, then they would be potentially looking screened by a CTE Department, along with cheapest secondary education.

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This doesn't make me popular, especially.

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Where I live, okay but I think we have a gap. Okay,.

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Are students that come into our school that are not seats on here, and we need those students right to keep our numbers up, but we we have no policy for which we're improving its principal approval. Don't have an agreement with that count with bribery right.

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Burton Putnam.

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That's not the same as a state, you can just save anywhere now it should be all controllers and enrollment, and my concern is my concern- is that somebody is gonna get tonight at some point and sue the district, because it's all outside of the policy nowhere in our policy and that if I was asking one, what the reasons are you can get in, it may just be a if there's certain seats available principal discretion to come. First serve I, know, but.

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This open enrollment doesn't go through the principal discretion. This is a committee that it's and there's like. Oh it's.

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Over here and it's a they it's, the priority measures are in 514 is really spoke to, and then it's a random lottery system after that for selection. If there's something we need to do with that in seminary, we definitely can look into it with you.

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Okay, I'll tell you: it was talked about all over Facebook last spring.

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I did not engage but I read no.

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I appreciate it I I, didn't I, told my pleasure, given.

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That they have good behavior and good grades. I was told by and.

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Yeah, we don't to be submissive.

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Be a surgeon, EPA and.

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Your referrals and a roof yeah. We can definitely look at these missions. It needs to be done for that area and look to whatever agreements that we have with surrounding counties.

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And now that honor we need there's a.

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Of hundred kids a year.

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No I drink out with them. Well, that's a.

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School in the area right.

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Pants down, okay, and that does not apply to the elementary I'm sorry I kept interrupting no.

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It's fine I appreciate the heads-up I.

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All the reasons, okay, there's so many individual. Thank you.

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May be a great life, you take care, it's not.

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The overall capacitance doesn't change, but you have grade levels open.

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Up your sun block, I, don't know if there's a way to address.

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Putnam and Bradford we have an interlocal agreement so.

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Get football FTE dollars, plus the taxes, property taxes, whereas the Duval County, we don't have an interlocal treatment, so they come from there. We just get the basic student funding that it. You know the four thousand whatever that number is Susan. What's that number.

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Opposed to the 73 so.

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Really, those kids that come from the north.

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They're costing us an additional $3,000 per student, how many? How many students is that.

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We're talking about, we.

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Did want to confirm.

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I'll have Terry Dennis mr. Connor and looking review this any kind of agreements that we have and figure out, there's something when you do differently and there's various and all guilty.

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Let me be clear: no.

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No, no, no, listen and.

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I want to have me, as.

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Clean as moving.

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Process to where it doesn't put, anyone in the situation and I mean I think it's just fair for us to add a clean lane budget, but it needs to be so well that in this model you have five elementary street junior, high schools or two high schools with 1300 students. You know we will I said random lottery process these as four five priorities this year. Do you know we do right?

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You learned from last year we're going to start the window at February night through march tonight, which gives us a earlier indicator of how soon we can get this done and get the lottery out identified. There is one.

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Matter what you couldn't have any piece of 100.

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Year, one thing we do need to look at and I will look at with my internal staff and also mr. daga. If you can scroll down on this Bush I think there is, there may be a requirement for an appeal, and then this we put in there right there above siblings preferences, there's no process, so I think we just need to figure out legal if we are required to have an appeal process which we may so I pick a permit. So that may change.

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If it does kidding me well, yes, man will make the amendments I just wanted to that anything else. Mr. daga.

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No I think there's just another. You know a word I think Tyler birth goes to the military orders. If you scroll down where it says, dependent, children of active duty, military personnel, use, move, resulted in military should be.

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So you need an appeals process under the statute, just for the.

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Any other questions.

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All right d2 of special actions. First, there is one.

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That might come in just at the deadline.

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Right in d3.

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Is the atenas boundary for discovery to area in school.

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Yeah they want accessibility to it. I get every community wants accessibility to when you buy house an eagle lane to get a golf cart. So we have to go golf cart. Any true anything.

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Their belt parts, hilarious.

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But already been a follow-up question to the County Commission regarding the.

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You I appreciate it: I, don't.

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Know I couldn't do that.

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Outside of that meeting, yeah I mean in relationship to one option versus option and.

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Whether it's a church, whether it's at the grocery store workout in the area, I hear that they're happy with option line so I guess I get zero feedback.

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Mean the only thing they wanted to make certain is that we're gonna offer the Steve initiative. It's gonna be really nice cool. They. They just want to make sure that it's gonna be consistent.

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Which is we talked about? Maybe we're.

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Kendrick out we'll deal with some stuff and impose really good too so, we'll make sure they're all shiny, like every school in this county, not just certain areas that they.

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Good about their practice.

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Continue that steam.

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So it's gonna want it and clay Hill and we should come in it. Progress.

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We have the additional Superintendent comments: I dunno, okay, on I'm gonna turn to the attorney. Now I am Annie one more item to the agenda. Mister d'agata will give their push the proper language yesterday, mr. Baggett and I spent don't what 1:30 in relation downtown, Jacksonville and I don't know how much you want to say about the case, but that it was a mother-daughter situation and they wanted quite a bit of money.

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If you don't mind a hope, just kind of jump in okay go okay, thank you, but we know this is a car accident case where it's alleged. There are police reports involved. We render by one of our folks in a truck and a 250 during the work day, and it led to this was an accident 2013. It led to a lawsuit that was filed berliner this year.

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The damages could be as high as 200,000 a person injured, that is, the driver, mom and passenger daughter 200 each or that there's some argument that it beat 318 captive, 300 and.

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That that exposure- also, you add, to it- attorneys fees, costs, expert costs so on and so forth, and it gets pretty expensive and then the mediation. It's very. We need to make clear that there is no admission of fault. This is a little bit different. It's coming to the board, through a proposed mediation to breed them whereby the settlement of claims all claims would be resolved for $60,000 total, which far exceeds the amount that people spend to win. Okay,.

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Its set for trial in March, so the.

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Only thing that I can't provide.

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To this board, as I normally could is the actual mediation settlement agreement because it's considered confidential. That document is considered confidential, oh yeah, until you sign okay. So what I've done is I've done my best to explain that, insofar as the proposed description that I just you know, yeah.

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Said when I said remarks, I'm sorry to the chair, we I sent emails about the contracts, great work through CCE and Seska, our marketing team and mr. barofsky and lunar Dietzen. They work hard or we're at a tentative agreement for both I.

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Know we're thrilled and I'm so happy that this came about before Christmas and as I understand it.

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So we can't get it on the James VII tender, but we'll be placing it on the February. Yes, ma'am great any more remarks. Withers mr. daga.

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I, don't look forward to working with the staff regarding open enrollment, you know. If we have one interlocal agreement, we ought to have interlocal agreements with all participating and I look forward to working with everyone. I'm happy the.

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And I just mentioned this to the superintendent this morning and it really kind of relies on a history of the board in the district I. Don't know if the board is anticipating providing a public hearing for the attendance boundary issue, I just kind of wanted to put that in front of the board whether it wanted to do that or not it's just an observation: I don't know if you've done it in the past I, don't.

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Guess, I'm just a baby. It's uh you know.

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The caution or collateral attacks.

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Board member remarks, this kind of yes.

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Seal initiative I'm going to ask that we looking at the counts and all of the schools and make certain that our art classes and our music classes and our our media center classes and any of our resource classes throughout, are within a reasonable number.

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There are some art classes where they can only work with an eight and a half or eight by ten sort of piece of paper: eight and half nine eleven, because they're so cramped, I, don't believe it's location, I believe it's just numbers, and there are a couple of schools and I'm reaching that next number for another resource teacher I know we made accommodations for was at Lakeside last year.

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They needed 12, more or fourteen more for another resource teachers, something some of the schools are getting to that point and I would like us to seriously look at the resource numbers and.

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We will and I think it's more about scheduling.

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Therapists within like 10 to 15, and so it just depends.

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On you, gotta be some just don't worn a threshold. I will look at.

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All my son, Anthony I, think they are there meeting your criteria of team planning and grade level meetings and planning together and doing what they can to do. That I know that they've pushed in guidance, counselors and other things to help, but the best testing starts rolling around in the elementary particularly they're not going to have that additional service look into it. I'm Jenny this girl.

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Having this character, Merry Christmas mmm I do want to remind the board if you haven't turned into your travel. This Tampa conference.

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Okay and don't forget, fSV a to be sure to get on the computer to get your point.

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Also, if I know that miss Bush have sent out an email to everyone, if anybody's going to be doing the legislature, we.

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To put in our registration for that.

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Same time, mr. Davis is filling up January already I.

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Would you look at the schedule for that because it appears there one night unless you're on the.

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I love to win I love, y'all, a Merry Christmas hope you have some time to just have a little R&R and relax and remember the reason for the season and with that, the maybe.

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