##VIDEO ID:ZE2Q2IesbLY## will be followed by the Pledge of Allegiance please stand would you please uh join me in a prayer let's bow our heads dear heavenly father thank you for creating us especially with the ability to learn even your son Jesus grew in wisdom and stature and learned along the way father I ask that you would pour out your love on these leaders I pray that you would turn the hearts of parents to children I thank you for the gift of Education I lift up this new school year to you I ask that you would bless it I thank you for these new board members being sworn in there are many challenges to education so I ask that you would give wisdom I ask that you would protect our schools Lord there's too much violence I pray that our schools would be safe for kids to come and learn I ask Lord for all that is happening in this County to continue to improve I'm also grateful for those who have led so well in Prior Years thank you for the excellent ratings our school has in the state and as a dad I thank you even for my own kids' education here in Clay County Lord would you bless this new year and these leaders we pray this in the name of Jesus Amen I invite you to join with me in the pledge we pledge 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 I call to order the organizational meeting of the school board of Clay County Florida this 19th day of November 2024 this meeting is called pursuant to section 10001 371 Florida statutes for the purpose of administering the Oaths of office and organizing the school board by elction of a chair and vice chair the first uh bit of business this this evening is the administrating of Oaths first is David Brasi reelected superintendent of the schools administering the oath is former state senator Rob Bradley and of course um his wonderful wife sue if they would please come forward for the record she's your wife not me raise your right hand I do solemnly swear I do solemnly swear that I will support protect and defend that I will support prend and defend support protect and defend support protect and defend the Constitution and government of the United States and of the State of Florida the Constitution of the United States and of Florida and the government of the United States and the State of Florida and the government of the United States and the State of Florida that I am duly qualified that I'm duly qualified to hold office under the constitution of the state to hold office under the constitution of the state that I will well and Faithfully that I will well and Faithfully perform the duties of superintendent perform the duties of superintendent on which I'm about to enter on which I'm about to enter so help me God so help me God congratulations [Applause] wo w [Applause] let me just sa for the record that's harder than it looks okay uh so so first of all let me just say thank you to Senator Bradley for for being here um this evening to swear me in so much to be uh so much to be proud of I want to thank all the folks that showed up here truly truly I appreciate what you what you do in Klay County schools and the difference that you make students life and lives each and every day you know if it wasn't for the great teachers that we have in the classroom the support folks and the administrators Klay County wouldn't be the the great school system that it is it's not a good school system it's a great school system I say that with great pride as superintendent of the schools and I shout that from the Mountaintop um each and every day you know uh I'd also like to recognize uh other folks that are out there I know the district office folks raise raise your hand if you from the district You' see some district office folks they work tirelessly behind the scenes supporting the activities that happen at schools all of the time I think some of the things that happen even amaze us on a daily basis and so thank you for your dedication certainly don't want to name everybody but I am going to take executive privilege and name a couple people first I'd like to recognize Bonnie [Applause] onora Bonnie onora is the executive secretary for both the school board and the superintendent and let me tell you I uh when the phone rings in Clay County schools and it's coming to the superintendent The Voice you hear is Bonnie onora there is nobody that I would trust more to be that voice of Klay County Schools than Bonnie onora just a fantastic example of a servant's heart uh doing the very best for everybody within Clay County and actually the fact that you have to make both me and the school board happy at the same time is amazing and you do amazing work Bonnie next I I certainly would be remiss if I didn't thank uh Kelly watt our chief of [Applause] staff you know let me just say there's organizational skill and then there is over-the-top organizational skill as a person that appreciates organization uh and in that way myself Kelly wad is above all others that I've ever seen she's the master of the Google Doc uh out there and just organizing imagine a district of 5,000 employees 40,000 students and the countless things that come towards the uh the superintendent's office there's no other person that I would rather have by my side than Kelly watt in the day-to-day grind of of the work being superintendent is about 4% fun and 96% work okay and the work part goes through Kelly Watt and so I'm thankful Kelly for you being Chief of Staff you know there's there's probably you guys all know who I'm going to talk about next right okay anybody want to yell it out you know right no doubt top of the list suboski let me just say suboski is the rockar of Clay County Schools she really is The Rock in my life uh I just want to take a moment to recognize her for all that she does for me uh she's my greatest Confidant my biggest cheerleader and the person uh that I enjoy going home to who could just lend an ear you know I was so lucky to be able to marry my best friend and that's Sue uh and anybody that's a principal who's heard me speak knows that there's virtually no speech that you don't get a Sue Story in is that not the truth okay I I can think of no better person to spend this journey on I'd also like to thank my in-laws that are here John and Nancy ring for their support I want to say uh welcome to Mr Alo okay and the rest of the guid of the uh governance team and I'm looking forward to getting it started you know we have so many things that we're blessed with an a school district a high performing district and all of those things but we also recognize there's work more work to do I'm excited to get started I'm as excited as I've ever been about Clay County Schools right now and I'm looking forward to the next four years so with that Soliloquy done we're next up is Beth Clark Beth Clark if you'd come to give your oath we have judge Ray forbus here here to administer the oath and Ted Clark if you'll raise your right hand and place your left hand on the Bible I do solemnly swear I do solemnly swear that I will support protect and defend that I will support protect and defend the Constitution and government the constitution of government of the United States of the United States and of the State of Florida and of the State of Florida that I am duy qualified to hold office that I am duy qualified to hold office under the constitution of the State under the constitution of the state and that I will well and I will well and Faithfully perform Faithfully perform the duties of the duties of Schoolboard District member district three School Board District member district three on which I'm about to enter on which I'm about toenter so help me God so help me God congratulations [Applause] next we have Robert alvero newly elected to District Two Schoolboard seat administering the the oath of office is Scotty Taylor Kristen Alo his wife lovely wife is holding the Bible this evening Robert if you repeat after me I do solemnly swear that I will support protect and defend I do solemnly swear that I will support protect and defense the Constitution and government of the United States the Constitution and government of the United States and of the State of Florida and of the State of Florida that I am duly qualified to hold office that I'm duly qualified to hold office under the constitution of the State under the constitution of the state and that I will well and faithfully and that I will well and Faithfully perform the duties of perform the duties of school board member School Board member district two District Two on which I am about to enter on which I'm about to enter so help me God so help me God congratulations [Applause] now it is the tradition at the at the reorganization meeting that we uh award a plaque to the chair from the previous year which is Miss gilhousen let me just say this the plaque reads presented to Ashley gilhousen in appreciation of 10 years of dedicated loyal service to Klay County School Board from 2014 to 2024 board chair extraordinaire 22 to 24 Klay County Schools how about a big round of applause for Miss Ashley Gil [Music] at this time I'll turn it over to our attorney Jeremiah Blocker thank you Mr brosi so this time we're going to enter into our reorganizational meeting so I'm just going to going to briefly read from your board rules to clarify what will happen next so per the board rules the superintendent shall be the secretary and executive officer of the school board as annual organizational meeting superintendent and shall preside as a chair in the organization of the school board is completed so this time we're going to move into nominations and please just make sure that you're audible in your in your nominations and we might ask for a a raising the hand so we can can record the vote correctly thank you so with that in mind I'll now open the floor for nominations for chair of the Clay County School Board I'd like to nominate Beth Clark I would like to nominate Ashley gilhousen okay I would like to nominate Aaron [Music] Skipper so we have three individuals we have Beth Clark Ashley Gil and Aaron Skipper first all in favor of Beth Clark as the board chair please raise your hand and say I I only okay Ashley gilhousen hi hi uh Aaron Skipper hi I so that's three for Miss Skipper so miss Skipper you you are the new chair now I'll take uh open the floor for nominations for vice chair I'd like to nominate Beth Clark Beth Clark has been nominated is there any other uh nominees I'd like to nominate Ashley Hill any other nominees so here we go first uh Beth Clark all in favor raise your hand and say and say I I all in favor of Ashley gilhousen raise your hand and say I I okay so we have Aaron Skipper as our new chair and Ashley gilhousen as our vice chair congratulations to to them you want to move so now we play the musical chairs so let's let's do this Miss Skipper if you'd come down here if you'd move over one e be patient with me guys sorry the next item on the organization of the board is to establish dates and times for the schedule of regular school board meetings for the upcoming year superintendent's proposed recommendation that the board establish meeting dates and times for regular school board meetings for the period December 2024 through November 2025 as the first Thursday of each month with the exception of the December meeting due to the annual joint conference which will be Thursday December 12th 2024 the January meeting due to New Year's holiday which will be Thursday January 9th 2025 and the July meeting due to the July 4th holiday which will be Thursday June 26 2025 all meetings to be held at 6:00 pm. at Fleming Island High School in the teachers and Service Center board members is there a motion to approve I'll move approval Al I'll second any discussion Mr braski does that schedule take into account the schedule I sent you with the fsba joint conferences yes we we would vote on that at the next organizational meeting this is for this upcoming year this is just just this upcoming year and then we'll add that later corre corre okay any more discussion all those in favor please signify by saying yay yay I any opposed motion carries five 5 z uh okay so uh author is authorized payment of bonds for school board members is there a motion to approve I'll Mo approval I'll second all those in favor please signify by saying I I I uh any opposed motion carries 5 Z Bank resolutions due to change of school board chair and vice chair is there a motion to approve moved I'll make a move I'll second uh all those in favor please signify by saying I I I any opposed motion carries 5 Z this concludes the organization H okay sorry this concludes the organization business I now ader the organization meeting we're done that's it we're done for