##VIDEO ID:EakqimVMDg0## season Lord that we would uh focus our hearts and our minds on what it's truly about and that's you Lord as we carry out the business this morning of the school district I pray that we would seek to honor you in all that we say and all that we do that we would submit to your guidance your will and your way and it's in your holy name we pray amen I States of America stand na [Music] indivisible little louder we're going to start the uh workshop for December 17th 2024 um I'd like the record to reflect that Miss Hansen is um um not present and Mr aler will be a few minutes late welcome citizens of Clay County I want to take the opportunity to thank you for taking the time out of your busy schedule to attend today's Schoolboard Workshop this Workshop is our opportunity as your elect representatives to collaborate openly among ourselves and make decisions that will decide the future direction of our public schools and the education of our children here in Clay County there will be an opport opportunity for the public to ask questions at the end of the workshop presentation questions will be allowed public comment will not be allowed if you wish to ask a question please fill out a comment card and hand the card to a deputy your participation is welcomed and appreciated and for this meeting um because Mr Al is a few minutes we're going to go ahead and start with the agenda so I'm going to turn it over to hi right good morning hope everybody's doing well first of all happy holidays Merry Christmas to all and and a happy New Year coming up I don't want to set any uh expectations on the board but this is traditionally the shortest Workshop of the year I've done a statistical analysis over the past couple years and I'm just kind of throwing that out there to everybody in the room so they can hear that loud and clear I in all seriousness though the the typically those that that are observing I typically have a blue book and it's usually about four times that size eyes but during the holidays typically the amount of and the volume of work goes down due to the uh the winter recess uh and the change of semester so uh in regard to the last meeting traditionally statistically because you know that I love data statistically the December and the May board meetings have the most celebration so while I loved every second of that uh I recognized that there was a lot lot of of celebrations that occurred usually December and may are the two months that that occurs the most on average the total amount and I didn't do this data I did this data for previous year the average amount is roughly 26 minutes in a typical meeting if you average them all together so so this particular meeting we we have a recognition of our academic uh Team Champions we've done that before but on a sad note uh the passing away of Greg Martin who has led that that group for a long time recently has passed passed away there'll be a little a little bit of a remembrance um and made such an impact on so many students he was an oakle high teacher um had a smile on his face every time that you that you talked to him and it was always about kids and had a tremendous impact on that so just a little heads up in that regard for that particular um event and then we have the recognition of our top five uh finalists uh for Teacher of the Year and school related employee of the year as you know we went out and um we went out to surprise them on was that Friday okay seems like I think it was seems like a long seems like a long time ago but it was Friday apparently yeah I went out to see them and so uh just going out to schools especially this time of year I'll just kind of remind everybody that the number one objective of of school provide students the skills um that they need in order to be successful in life outside of that you know and all of the academic stuff is great stuff as superintendent you know being in the in the top 10 in the state's a big deal you know in a competitive sense but school's also about making memories for students and Crea an atmosphere in which students want to be there I'll just say what I've seen this week and last week there's a lot of memories being made uh out there uh and the the hard work of of learning is important all the time but you're seeing more of the memories being made uh this week than than other weeks if everybody's reading what I'm trying to put out there to people okay and that's that's an important part I always say when I talk to folks about uh Lear learning I really don't remember anything I learned as a student uh during my high school career but I do remember uh participating in athletics I remember the impact of coaches I remember girlfriends I remember all of those things that young men remember I don't remember the Pythagorean theorem or when I actually learned that right so there is this part about making memories and the and the human part of what we do in the lives of young people that uh we can never lose sight of creating the total student experience and whether that's through Athletics whether that's through the Arts whatever that is that reaches that student that too is equally as important as the academic piece in what we do uh in the school system so a lot of memories being made this week for sure I I think I saw just so happens that like three schools that I went to in a row they were all uh having pajama day uh and I kind of said does anybody dress up around here what what what happened right so all of that so next we have uh Human Resources special actions there's none at this point and that's followed by the um the minutes from the organizational meeting as well as student discipl hearings that's followed by the Personnel consent uh agenda nothing remark in that that then is followed by Elementary student out of out of town travel and the academic um uh K12 overnight student travel pretty routine there proposed allocation changes you notice that there is a uh an allocation change for assistant superintendent business Affairs Dr leuo is retiring in in June uh I think given the given the importance of the position hiring another person early so they can work side by side is extremely important so that position uh has been advertised ping for approval of this and we're already starting that that process uh monthly Financial reports that's that's a typical every month item budget amendment report followed by deletion of certain items then you'd see an onslaught of operations let me just kind of throw some Kos after the operations department but the work the work doesn't stop and I was kind of um I was kind of joking I think when I said to Bryce I said are you sure like the uh the construction at Lake Asbury Jr and and Oakley Jr I said I was there we were there uh Friday and I was looking at it I was thinking okay I don't know much about construction but is this going to happen no problem Mr brosy I got you on the record Bry it's recorded for everybody to see it'll happen Okay it'll happen okay good here good answer good answer all right so you can see a bunch of stuff some of them are not uh a very very important but not of the uh um outstanding variety Orange Park Elementary restrooms Roofing at Clay High Renovations of the restrooms at Orange Parky uh two of those the athletic field lighting at Orange Park High School as well as gym locker room Renovations uh the the updating of the project priority list for Capital outlay and Debt Service um projects Charles E Bennett School security lighting at Charles E Bennett Charles E Benn uh the replacement of that and the change order related to that doctor's Inlet security lighting there as well as the change order number two for that they you see the gbury classroom additional um items change order to that which is direct purchasing which which I think the board knows this but because we're a tax-free entity we can in fact purchase the items and therefore uh save the discri RCT a lot of money over the course of a project that size so that's a pretty smart you know business move there then you see same thing for um Oakleaf Junior High Orange Park Elementary uh restroom renovation final completion the pre-qualification of contractors and the work continues to go on and then you see the uh greencoat junior high CTE lab so a lot of opsw worth going on even through the holidays and a much more abbreviated agenda so that that's it as far as the agenda goes Madam chair bring it back to the board and um let the record state that Mr Alo is present um I think with confusion and some things that had come up over the um I'm just going to slide this over sure sor faces sorry um we were going to bring back the topic and subject of public comment and how we wanted to handle that um for anyways there's a lot of confusion so I believe that Miss Hansen has submitted a statement that Miss Bonnie is going to read and then after that I will hear from each of you in your thoughts and we will get a clear understanding on what we want to do as a board moving forward and then we will move forward from that from that so miss Pon okay so in Mrs Hansen's words Mrs Hansen would like to keep our school board meetings like we were holding them she wants the cameras always on with the public speaking prior to the superintendent remarks Mrs Hansen would also like is being yeah as I stated the first time I prefer to keep it the way it is um when the public speaks before the superintendent remarks and we keep cameras [Music] on let me get my idea and um for me after receiving these many texts and phone calls and messages I put myself back in 2020 when I was a nurse an ER nurse who work the front lines of Co and was not not the popular nurse at the time very popular now because um I allow family members to see family members and um the information that I was giving was being censored no matter where I was at no matter where I went to speak CU I spoke at many events and many um meetings uh in defense of our children so for me it will never be political pressure it will always be one what have I went through and two what is the right thing to do so I will say that um I don't care where we put it in the agenda we could put it at the beginning we could put it at the middle we could put it at the end I don't I don't care um but for me the cameras I think should stay on and should still roll and if people want to get up and say what they want to say it's either up to us to prove that hey you know what this is what the district is actually doing this is what the district is um performing and and how we're performing um I know Mr Broski presents facts a lot of the time um it's up to us as elected officials to say hey no that's not actually what's happening to come and speak but ultimately P all's board rules uh the chair ultimately decides whoever the chair is decides kind of the order of the meetings now that's something that y'all's a board can can reconsider But ultimately it's up to the chair to decide where where the this happens as far as the vide tapes I'm just going to present to you what the law is the the decision is y'all's decision ultimately you know how yall want to decide U Florida Florida law requires that meetings be recorded that public Sunshine meetings be be uh recorded in some way so the statute actually outlines that that' be a brief summary of of minutes there's some local governments that have a court reporter come that's not required but some do that they will actually have a court report to record the meeting um some put videotape actually the courts have found that a videotape does not count if they mention Co they were law enforcement escorted the out of a meeting if they called the superintended a conservative or a liberal that was considered abusive and they were removed from the meeting uh people were cut off when they were trying to speak um people you know mother simply coming up saying hey I'm concerned about the co policy where say look they're GED down saying you're wrong you're being abusive and law enforcement would escort them out of the meetings that is not happening here in C you're an interpretation but it's not accurate y'all are fulfilling the spirit of that Court ruling you're not cutting people off when they mention Co you're not dragging them out of the room when they say something you disagree with you are absolutely allowing public comment within the spirit of the law but we will look at the necessary tweaks we will evaluate that I will bring some recommendations we're also going through the Neola process but yall follow the law you'all do a great job and I want youall to have the assurance that so when you get an email saying you're breaking the law Spirit but Ed items not general public comments correct correct so the condent they were they were addressing was specific you you had members of the public addressing the co policies and they were they were trying to address board members and and they they were the court found that the board was abusive it simply would I mean you have grandmothers that being dragged out of the room speaking that's not happening here so as far as the general the court was not specific as to General Public comment or really didn't contemplate that but really what the court said is it said hey your policy is unconstitutional revise your policy now obviously based on that Court ruling all the 67 counties are looking at their policies because they all had policies forbidding you to address board members directly because that had been Florida law for Generations so that's that that's the one Nuance that's being addressed but um in my EXP experience I've not seen you know drag people out of meetings silence people you know cut them off you know when they when they call someone a liberal or conservative um that was the type of and what the board was saying was that's abusive language like you calling someone a liberal or conservative is abusive language well it's not they call if they stand up there to start cursing at you that's that's probably abusive but just stating a political opinion is not abuse that's that's a we're saying hey I think you guys are are wrong in the way you're handling it that's not abuse and the court was very clear on that and it listed specific examples and I can provide those to you I think you'all seen the Court ruling is very specific what the court found it found it was it was out of control how they were handling it so again y'all what yall are doing is consistent with Florida law whatever decision yall make as a board or M sure you make is consistent but I've seen some emails saying hey it's illegal to to call off the camera it's certainly not accomplishing giving the superintendent a chance to respond but many of these cases you know we can't respond we can't we just have to Simply allow the public comment and just you know respond to the legal process um and I know that's difficult because we all want to kind of answer but we can't have the superintendent we can't have board members exposed or or the district or the board exposed to you know additional legal challenges so it's just something to kind of to frame it keep it in mind and I'm kind of the restraining force behind the scenes I know recently there's an issue that the superintendent want respond to and that we you know it seemed a very simple matter I said look if you respond to this it's going to create issues for the board so just want to make sure we're clear on that I do appreciate what Mrs H is trying to do she's trying to give the superintendent opportunity to respond but sometimes it's advisable not to respond and I could always respond at the end anyway in in misinformation situations can you respond I wouldn't respond if it was a furpa issue involving Student Records or other issues that would then uh create additional liability for the district so there there are quite a few times where I sit there and I listen and know that the information given is not correct but can't respond or it's not advisable to respond legally but but the placement of