Jackson Falconer
BRADENTON – At Tuesday's meeting, the Manatee School Board decided to table votes on revised board bylaws. The board also heard an update on the district's use of Compass Professional Health Services, and was given a presentation on absenteeism data from the new school year's first 30 days.
CALL TO ORDER Invocation
Invocation will be given by Deacon Ronald Dains from Sacred Heart Catholic Church.
Pledge of Allegiance
STUDENT CELEBRATION (5:50 PM)
1. 2015 Scobee Scholarship Award Winners
2. Award-Winning STEM Demonstration
RECOGNITIONS
ORDERS OF THE DAY (6:00 PM)
1. Approval of the Orders of the Day and Agenda Amendments-Updated (Passed unanimously)
REPORTS AND PRESENTATIONS (6:05 PM)
1. Bullying Prevention Month Proclamation (Motion to issue proclamation passes unanimously)
2. Compass Presentation
Compass Chief Revenue Officer David Toomey gave an update on how district employees are using his company's services so far.
As a reminder, Toomey advised that Compass is providing services to the district through two components. The first is an optional "transparency/navigation" service that assigns a consultant to an employee to help them find medical practitioners in the community. The second is a "prevention solution" service which, said Toomey, helps employees become "better stewards of their health."
Toomey said during the presentation that:
- The company is seeing 2-3 percent more of unique households where employees reside use their services every month
- Over the course of the year, they anticipate that over 25-30 percent of employees will be using Compass.
- They eventually want to get the number of people getting screenings–blood work, physical exams, etc.–up to 90 percent.
- A small number of individuals are driving catastrophic insurance costs for the district, "because we're not getting the basic primary (preventive) services" under control, he said.
Toomey also went over the $100 incentive that the company is offering district employees this year for getting exams, blood work and Fla. Blue Health assessments done. Board Chair Bob Gause explained, "We're trying to get our employees to embrace their health to reduce our insurance costs," which he said would allow more money to go toward things like salaries.
INFORMATION ONLY (NO BOARD ACTION REQUIRED)
Leaves
1. Leaves for October 27, 2015 Board Meeting
PUBLIC COMMENTS (6:20 PM)
Linda Neely: Said the district needs to bring shop back to its schools at all levels ... said several high schools don't have the same access to computer-integrated shop classes that Braden River does. Neeley also said that it was a shame the board couldn't do a bullying proclamation on Sept. 27.
Pat Benson: "Everyone should care about impact fees because we don't tax our people enough. charter schools began ... now it's charter schools, the biggest boondoggle in this country ... kids are not being educated ... teachers are not getting health benefits ... as a representative of this district, as a retired teacher, I find fault with the senior citizens who do not want to pay taxes to help educate our (future)."
PUBLIC HEARING (6:50 PM)
1. Public Hearing for Consideration of Adopting Proposed Board Bylaws (Motion to table until January meeting passed unanimously)
Dave Miner made a motion to table the item, noting that the proposal had an amendment stating: "At the conclusion of the agenda, the board shall set aside time for public comment. The amount of time for such public comment will be established by the chair ... individual speakers will be guided by the same policies described above ... no board action shall be taken on requests made during public comment unless the board declares the matter to be an emergency in accordance with current law. any other requests that the board chooses to take action on shall be placed on an agenda for a subsequent meeting."
It was found that the amendment was not on the online version of the agenda's bylaw item, as an updated version of the agenda had the amendment deleted. Following a recess, Board Chair Bob Gause said, "Based on what I saw, the concern about placing public comment at the end of the meeting - that had been deleted a long time ago." Gause added that he would make a motion to table the item if the board felt it wanted more time to review the bylaws (another motion to table had to be made as the board had recessed). The board agreed unanimously.
2. Public Hearing for Consideration of Adopting Proposed Policy 1000 Administration, Policy 3000 Instructional Staff, and 4000 Support Staff (Motion to table until January meeting passed unanimously) The board also agreed to table an item for revised policies for staff to give review more time.
APPROVAL OF MINUTES (Passed unanimously) (7:30 PM)
1. School Board - Board Workshop - Oct 13, 2015 2:00 PM
2. School Board - Regular Meeting - Oct 13, 2015 5:45 PM
CONSENT ITEMS (7:35 PM) (Passed unanimously)
Purchase(s) Bids Over $100,000.00
1. Approval of the Use of the State of Florida Bid on Agricultural and Lawn Equipment, MCSD No. 16-0052-MR, Not to Exceed $275,000.00 Annually
2. Approval of the Use of the School District of Osceola County’s Bid for Drug and Alcohol Testing Services, MCSD No. 16-0061-BS, Not to Exceed $150,000.00 Annually
3. Approval of the Use of the School Board of Broward County's Proposal on Finger Printing Services, MCSD No. 16-0011-BS, Not to Exceed $150,000.00 Annually-Withdrawn
4. Approval of the Use of the TCNP Proposal on Elevator Equipment, Service, Repair and Related Services, MCSD No. 16-0051-MR, Not to Exceed $150,000.00
5. Approval to Use the State of Florida Contract for Microsoft License, Maintenance, & Services #252-001-09-01 to Purchase Microsoft Modern Datacenter Services, MCSD No. 16-0062-SM, Not to Exceed $103,917.24
6. Approval to Purchase of Automatic Logic Controls, MCSD No. 15-0069-MR, an Additional$75,000.00, Not to Exceed $150,000.00 - Revised
Purchase(s) Bid $100,000.00 and Under
7. Approval to Use the State of Florida Contract for Microsoft License, Maintenance, & Services, #252-001-09-1 for Renewal of Microsoft Premier Support Services, MCSD No. 16-0063-SM, Not to Exceed $63,320.00
Contracts and Grants
8. Approval of the Participating Agreement - Solutions4Sure, Inc. DBA Tech Depot an Office Depot Company for The Cooperative Purchasing Network, Technology Solutions #11-12 Contract, MCSD No. 16-0044-SM, No Financial Impact
9. Approval of the New Agreement Between the School Board of Manatee County and The Ranch Animal Hospital LLC for On-The-Job Training for Exceptional Student Education Students for October 28, 2015 - September 30, 2018, No Financial Impact
10. Approval of the School Resource Officer (SRO) Contract with the City of Holmes Beach for the 2015/2016 School Year, Not to Exceed $50,000.00
11. Approval of the School Resource Officer (SRO) Contract with the City of Bradenton for the 2015/2016 School Year, Not to Exceed $209,665.00
12. Approval of the School Resource Officer (SRO) Contract with the Sheriff of Manatee County for the 2015/2016 School Year, Not to Exceed $1,117,346.75
Capital Projects
13. Approval of Manatee High School - 32nd Street Improvements - Substantial Completion
14. Approval of Bashaw Elementary School - Renovations - Authorization to Negotiate for Plans Review, Permitting and Inspection Services
15. Approval of Freedom Elementary - School Chiller Replacement - CO 3 - Final
16. Approval of Freedom Elementary School Chiller Replacement Sub Completion
17. Approval of Palmetto High School - Kitchen Serving Line - Substantial Completion
18. Approval of Manatee High School - HVAC Kitchen Improvements - Sub Completion
19. Approval of Southeast High School - Kitchen Serving Line Renovations - Sub Completion
Finance
Food Service
Human Resources
20. Approval of the Appointments, Change of Assignments, Deceased, Promotions, Reassignments, Resignations, Retirements, Suspensions and Transfers
21. Approval to Reimburse US Health Works for Pre-Employment Drug Testing Submitted for the Manatee County School District Through December 31, 2015
22. Approval to Reimburse Cogent the Administrative Process of the Fingerprints Submitted for the Manatee County School District Through December 31, 2015
23. Approval to Revise Program Administrator Extended Day Enrichment Program Job Description
24. Approval of Job Description and Position of Custodial Supervisor
Miscellaneous Consent
25. Approval of the Addition to the School Health Services Plan for 2014-2016 School Years
26. Approval of Settlement of Bodily Injury Claim, Not to Exceed $16,000.00
NEW BUSINESS (DISCUSSION ITEMS PULLED FROM CONSENT)
1. Approval of Braden River Elementary - Braden River Middle - Traffic Improvements - Sub Completion - Pulled From Consent (Passed 4-0, with Gause recusing himself to avoid potential conflict of interest as his firm has worked with contractor previously)
NEW BUSINESS (NON-CONSENT ITEMS)
REGULAR MEETING AGENDA REQUESTS AND WORKSHOP ITEM REQUESTS (7:45 PM)
UPDATES (7:50 PM)
Legal Update
Instructional Services Update
1. Graduation Enhancement Technicians (GETs) Operations Update
2. Operations Update
SUPERINTENDENT REMARKS (8:05 PM)
Greene: "I encourage citizens to review impact fee study (put on district's website last week)." Dr. Greene said there will be a vote on impact fees on November 10. "The frequently asked questions is a simple read."
"I'm very thrilled that our staff have dealt with bumps in the road (that are encountered at the beginning of every school year) ... I'm beginning to see our community rally around our efforts."
BOARD COMMENTS (8:10 PM)
Ms. Carpenter - "I was very impressed with Dr. Greene's comments at Manatee Education Foundation awards last week." MEF gave awards to teachers ... Carpenter commended MEF for helping provide teachers with resources for projects. "For those of us who've been in the classroom as a teacher, there's magic ... and that's the focus of our activity, as Dr. Greene would say."
Mr. Colon: "Very excited about the truancy initiative; it's a pet peeve of mine." Said he appreciated Dr. Greene supporting the initiative.
Mr. Kennedy: "While the MEF awards event was happening, I was over at Southeast High School - we had our academic teams quiz show - (just got off the ground) - students had a great time. Students were running control room and running the show - hopefully we'll keep that going."
Also mentioned Janiya Thomas tragedy. "Maj. (Connie) Shingledecker informed me the sheriff's office has something in the works to lobby Tallahassee" ... about implementing a common sense policy regarding children suspected of being abused - a policy that would not be intrusive around home school students, but would make sure that that home-schooled students with a history of having DCF around could be monitored more closely.
Mr. Miner - Said he supported public comment on action items.
"Pat Neal and Morgan Bentley were here ... both are good men. I hope a call
would be made to both of them (to thank them for coming to the meeting). Also said, "Come to the meetings - there seems to be a
complaint from both of them that their views were not part of
discussion. Come to the meetings, have your say. As a board member, I
want to hear all the pro's and con's before I vote. So if (we don't have
that opportunity to hear all pro's and con's), don't blame us."
Mr. Gause: Talked about open enrollment in the district's health insurance plan for employees, and gave a reminder: "If you are making changes to your healthcare plan as an employee of this district, you have until Friday to have that done." On truancy, said, "We struggle with it ... we're learning as we go." Praised truancy initiative and thanked Dr. Greene for helping start it.
After discussion about moving November vote on Impact Fees to December, Dr. Greene said, "I want to caution the board (about) delaying vote on Impact Fees by a month. It puts us (out of sync) with the county ... remember, we were supposed to be voting on this tonight."
Carpenter said, "I don't feel we have had enough of a vetting and discussion process on this ... I've yet to see the county's study. We had four people talk about Impact Fees ... I think it needs more discussion. I don't like feeling rushed on this, because it's too important." Said she would like to push vote to December. Colon agreed. Gause said, "It costs us a month of potential Impact Fee collection, but I understand."
ADJOURNMENT (8:35 PM)
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