School Board Regular Meeting

1. CALL TO ORDER 2. APPROVAL OF THE AGENDA 1. Approval of the Agenda Amendments - added after publishing 3. APPROVAL OF MINUTES 1. Approval of the Minutes of the August 5, 2025 School Board Meeting Minutes, August 8, 2025, Board Workshop Minutes, August 12, 2025 Meeting - Selection of Superintendent Finalists Minutes, and August 15, 2025, Special Meeting Minutes 4. PUBLIC COMMENTS (UP TO 30 MINUTES) Public comment is not an open forum to discuss matters unrelated to education, to support or oppose candidates for public office, or to engage in commercial speech attempting to sell a service or product to the School Board or public. Also, public comment is not a forum to attack individual school system employees or Board Members. Any such complaints should be submitted in writing to the Superintendent for appropriate handling. Finally, this is not a forum for addressing issues involving individual students. Because of privacy concerns, such issues should be submitted in writing to the Superintendent for appropriate handling. Each speaker is allowed three minutes to address the Board. Speakers must stand at the podium and not approach the dais. This is a business meeting of the School Board and the public expects that we conduct it in an orderly, efficient, effective and dignified manner. We request that speakers keep this in mind when making your comments. We also request that the audience keep that in mind and not demonstrate approval or disapproval of what a speaker has said by clapping or booing. The Board appreciates the public's input and will listen attentively, consider each comment, and usually will not respond, enter into debate, or answer questions during comments on agenda items or during the public comments section. PUBLIC INPUT INSTRUCTIONS: 1. Before you begin speaking, please provide any handouts to the Agency Clerk. 2. Please identify yourself only by your full name for the record. 3. You have no more than three minutes to speak. Please stop speaking when the bell rings. 4. Florida Law requires all citizens to conduct themselves in an orderly fashion at public meetings. 5 . WARNING: Any individual who interferes with the expeditious or orderly process of a School Board meeting, will be subject to removal from the meeting pursuant to Section 1001.372(3) Florida Agenda September 9, 2025 School Board of Manatee County Regular Board Meeting - 5:45 PM Walter Miller School Support Center Board Room Times Indicated are Approximate 1

Statutes at the discretion of the Chair. Orderly fashion is deemed as, at a minimum (1) no profanity (2) no vulgar language (3) no discourteous, disrespectful, or disparaging conduct. 5. CONSENT ITEMS All matters listed under the Consent Agenda are considered to be routine and will be enacted by one motion. There will be no separate discussion of these items. If discussion is desired by a Board Member, that item will be removed from the Consent Agenda and will be considered later in the agenda. 1. Approval to Apply, Accept, and Expend a Grant from the Community Foundation of Sarasota Strauss Literacy Initiative, Not to Exceed the Amount of $200,000.00 (Incoming Grant Funds) 2. Approval to Purchase University of Florida Lastinger Center Programs and Services, SDMC No. 26-0065-BS, Estimated in the Amount of $225,000.00 (Strauss Grant Funds) 3. Intent to Use Contract for Financial Advisor Services. SDMC No. 26-0068-TG, Estimated in the Amount of $28,000.00 (General Funds) 6. NEW BUSINESS (DISCUSSION ITEMS PULLED FROM CONSENT) 7. NEW BUSINESS (NON-CONSENT ITEMS) 1. Approval of the Budget Amendments for June 2025 (No Financial Impact) 2. Year-to-Date Charter School Financial Statement Summary Through June 30, 2025 3. Approval of New Job Description of Associate Superintendent, Administration and Strategic Engagement (General Fund) 8. NEW BUSINESS (NO SUPERINTENDENT RECOMMENDATION) 1. Approval of the Contract for the New Superintendent for the School District of Manatee County - updated 9/9/2025 9. SWEAR IN SUPERINTENDENT LAURIE BRESLIN 10. CONTINUED PUBLIC COMMENT (IF NECESSARY) 11. SUPERINTENDENT REMARKS 12. BOARD COMMENTS 13. ADJOURNMENT 2

i'd welcome back, everybody. And welcome to our second. Regular school board meeting this evening officially call it to order. I want to move to approval of the agenda. The chairs found good cause to manage and include all items listed under the agenda amendments on SEPTEMBER 9, 2025 agenda updated SEPTEMBER 9, 2025 and posted to the district's website. Let's move to. I need a motion and a second proved the agenda so moved. Second second, MR. Prayer that up to speak. >> I have a problem with item. 8.1 We have been and I do want to put a dark cloud on this evening because it's a it's evening to be celebrated by. I think that that item should have been put on the 9.16 meeting due to the fact that content of contract was not published. A matter of fact, I got that contract at 4.45 last night. Then I got an amendment morning at 9, something in the morning. So the public has not even seen of contract other than when it was posted to our website. And I'm glad Dr Vogel is here because he has led us through a perfect, flawless process with f s b a for transparency and to me. Wasn't transparent. So I would like to amend the agenda and move that item to the 9.16 meeting because public did not get to see content of the contract. And me that I just don't think that's it was posted this morning. Right. It was posted this morning. >> Well, second, plea for the purposes We have motion second to pull a 0. One no board members of that up to speak. Does anyone want to comment outdoor comments? 8? I'm not going to support this. I think it's fine for this evening, MR. It a start. Let's talk about pros and the cons vote. Understand your concern. It MAY be some other board members them. The cons are >> People are here and the are the large amount of the public hearing. Those of us support for for the superintendent, the pros are like you said that other people not in the public might be able to see it might be able to comment. On it. The question for with that. But that changed my my mind about anything. Have read contract and to some degree, you know, we have we have a representative democracy in the sense people elected us to make decisions for them. They're not like. Voting directly on the superintendent contract. So. And to me, this is more of an administrative item. Because we all know there was a very public process to select a curb. Roseland. The finer details of her contract, I think are kind of up to us and her lawyer and our lawyers. Do you feel like you haven't had enough time to review it over is it is a part of your issuer or? >> My issue is we went through a very public. >> And transparent process. To get to that final. All right. The contract was not published. We publish everything else. We do amendments on Friday for Tuesday meetings. This amendment was done this morning to include a contract at 9. Something in the morning. >> it a as available to the I don't know, is it available to the public to see? >> This morning was warning And that's a lot of time right at my conversation with our attorney was I'd like to see that contract. At least 48 hours. Before we vote. And I didn't. And also that should be published. So I don't know if there's a policy thing that we might have. Over stopped by not posting a contract. I know we had a place holder on the agenda for it. And it's not that not supporting. DR. PRESIDENT. I'm like. Forcing us on the agenda on the same day revolt. The content of that line item. I think was just a little. Out of bounds. I think it should have been posted PRESIDENT, though. It's always been today was always the day we were doing it. Even we set today being the day we're doing. >> The approval no matter who got the contract got the offer. From the very beginning for 5 months ago, we said today's going to be the day. So people are really interested in it today being the day I to me, I would have looked at regardless of when it was actually posted the reason why it took that while the post is because that's how long it took to finalize it. There wasn't any. Intent on on when to post it how to post it. I personally felt because you guys gave me the task MR. Di as our board attorney, I felt that it was it was ok because this contract really there's only 2 differences, one and a half differences in the contract and what we saw the last 2 years in the previous superintendent. So there wasn't really a major structural change in the contract if there was. I agree. I think we'd all the time get a look at it and see. We also. 2 or 3 weeks ago, MR. Dyson out before got to the semifinals sent out. Hey, here's the contract that was from last Intendent. Let us know what you do like what you don't like. How whatever what you want to change. Excedrin. And so that's kind of just went from that contract. And it was it basically the same contract. So and it just. And not know what's going to deceitful. No, I'm just saying I dialogue with Dr with MR. Di. >> Since we started this process from Dale contract of what? I expected in. >> All of the the body of the contract and the timing. I mean, it wasn't like I didn't reach out to him through this process. I've been in constant contact with him through the process asking where's the contract, wears a contract? Haven't got it. Haven't got it. Until. So. I'm just voicing my concerns that it wasn't properly published. That's where I'm And it just puts a little. Dark cloud over what I feel. Was a perfect process and and asked, MR. Di when she says it was apparently published. I just want to ask for a quick I want to make sure do we do anything legally wrong? >> I did. That's all real quick. You can say something. Here's want to Felt MISS MISS MR. Committee. I am not going support I feel that because. And I But both of the contracts, I read the one from the previous superintendent. Sent my comments MR. Di read the new car, contract set my comments to MISTER And I feel that because it is so similar to the previous contract, there is. There isn't anything in there that I had any reservations about that. I don't feel that anyone 70 reservations about we trusted the chair. 2 to do this on our behalf rather than on 5 of sit down and do these negotiations. I feel that was all done in good faith. That we had that expectation. The place Holder was there for this to be done today. And so I. I'm not going to support moving it. >> don't really have much left to say because everything was going to say already been said my colleagues. But I do want to express to spray my appreciation for raising your concerns because nuts, but we're here to do to MR. Taylor's point, I agree. We are in this moment. Representatives of of are districts in our our constituents across the county I think you're right. It did come to us late but we did authorize the chair to go through this process on behalf of us. I am ready. I'm also ready to move forward tonight because of the. Amount of feedback that we got during this process. And it was excellent. You're right. And it was overwhelmingly in favor of DR. PRESIDENT and You know that this is this is an agreement between the 5 of us and our superintendent. As representatives of the community. And so. Yeah, I do agree we got it late. We should have had it last week. But we're here now. And I'm I'm ready to move forward. >> I just needed time to express my concerns over I didn't expect. And I want to support me in this. I just needed my timed event and say what I felt. In the future, MR. Chair. Never negotiate another contract. Never know should hold really >> I knew what I do. But to your point, I think we can absolutely. Built some kind of policy based on when this does happen. Right. It's not for us. Maybe for the future board, right? Right. Somewhere down the road that. We've we went to this. We know. So maybe we do put some parameters based and that's when you do going to a like this. And obviously the date was known. We knew was happening. Feel like, hey, we need 7 days, 6 days. 48 out whatever that number is. >> We can actually build policy based on that hoping I never to that again. But if but for the future boards, I think it's absolutely preferred to do that. >> Right. So make a note of that. Future superintendent. Touch and we have we can build that to build that the policy that any time there's a contract of this magnitude that we need it. Lisa. I don't 7 day 4. I was happy 48 hours. I really willing look and review. Compare notes from the last search to now to the process that we went through over my weekend. I was fine to do expected actually plan might so on. I just need to get it out. So I don't expect anybody to go with me now fine. I just wanted to at least stand by. >> But it's a good appointment. I remember thinking I think look at resolute. 26 right. Of the day, AUGUST what I thought at 2 And it's going to be quick. But so it's a good point. I mean, maybe that was a put a policy in place. We need to see it. 48 hours in 70 2 hours of events, whatever that it's a point well taken. I just think tonight the cons of waiting. >> The prose months of waiting are going weigh the pros of moving forward. Understand it's a very one point the I just had to say something good one of my going to say that's seconded it. So we can have a discussion. Thank right. So let's go and vote on it. >> The amendment to pull item 8.1 >> You him, Sir, MISTER Chair. That's not vote to approve the agenda. >> No, we had a second on her the motion get a vote on the amendment. First. Yeah, I can. Want do that physically. I all those in motion or should here. All those in favor to accept the amendment to pull 8.1 from the agenda. Raise your hand say Aye. All oppose. Presenting time. Passes. I'm a I was a I made the motion. For passes, there should be unveiled. One to break. >> a and >> Iea to pull their ad. Not. >> Correct. So it was it was one. Yes, I made him or know But you didn't raise and say if you could voted against making right. So that that amendment fails for now, we're moving to the approval of the agenda vote. I was offering already had a motion is seconded. That correct? All right. Let's go vote on the approval of the agenda. And that passes 5, 2, 0, I'm number 3 approval of the minute. Superintendent Chapman superintendent recommends approval the minutes of the AUGUST 5th 2025 school board meeting AUGUST 8. 2025. Or workshop. The AUGUST 12th 2025 meeting. Selection superintendent finalists in AUGUST 15, 2025 special meeting. To moved. Have a motion and second the floor board members that up to speak. Let's go vote on the approval. >> The stated minutes of those meetings. Passes 5 to 0. I number for public comments. No public comments, correct. Moving on number 5 consent item. Superintendent Chapman superintendent recommends approval of the consent agenda for the school board meeting SEPTEMBER 9th 2025. So moved. All going to prove. Vote to approve the consent that I'm not sorry. You know. All Moving on to achieve that passes 5, 0, Moving on to item number 7, new business non consent Superintendent Kevin 7.1 Superintendent recommends approval of the budget amendments for JUNE 2025. >> Joe Thank you. It's going to get that one to motion. A second sellers. You did a lot of financial discussions but we got a chance that obviously due to the JUNE amendment. So go ahead and give those to us. If you. >> Yes, so the JUNE amendments also included fiscal year-end amendments as well. So there are actually 629 budget amendments for the month of JUNE. >> 44 chart strings were over a million and all of these were related to expenditures where we were moving funds from the. Reserves and the 24 25 to be carryforwards into fiscal year. 25 26. This was in the general fund and the General Fund voted mileage program and in the Capital Fund. Welcome. >> And we briefed on the is in our meeting. So I don't see any board members that up to speak. So let's go and vote the approval of the budget amendments for 20 JUNE 2025. And that passes 5 to 0. Item. Number 2 is the 3rd to the Superintendent Chapman. >> So commends year to date charter school financial statement summary through JUNE, 30th 2025, approval. >> I just couldn't vote that his usually is a is a and item that we put in dis-information. I just wanted to say something that MARCH Tatum says even boring numbers and all things. But I'm White Knight and asked an aide. >> On the other side, I just wanted share that with here because my husband said I can't believe how much you read those books even do this. You know, and I told him it's like reading a novel to me. It's fascinating me number. So I just wanted >> I just couldn't vote on the year-to-date chart. Full financial statements, a Marine through JUNE, 30th. Passes 5 to 0. I'm number 3 to CHAIRMAN Superintendent recommends approval of a new job description of associate Superintendent. >> Of administration and strategic engagement. So moved. >> and happen. I'll jump in and tell everybody the board we know. But for the public, this is just lot to talk about your job description but we thank you for your services as superintendent for the past several months in this is that cheat. Tweaking some job description of what you were in before and then adding to it. So we appreciate your service over the last several months look forward to this new job description that will be posted in. So that's going a prove vote on proving the new job description. So she to administration that strategic engagement. That passes 5 to 0, Item number. >> business. Those recommendations is up for Board 0.1 is approved the contract. The new superintendent Dr Laurie PRESIDENT For School District of Manatee County. Time to get over to you. Real quick give us a rundown. Wheelies wise of the contract. Thank you, CHAIRMAN. Want to say thank you to >> the board. The chair for input that you. Gave me throughout the process. Dr Vogel's Hill. Very much appreciated. >> As as you already stated, the when you're discussing previously, the contract is is very similar to the previous one. Is the form? A run through the highlights of it for the benefit of the public. Point out any differences between it and the previous superintendent's contract. The term would be From today's date to JUNE 30th 2028. So slightly shorter than three-year term because of the time that begins base salary is 245,000. That's in this form. If approved by the board. That's different than the base salary of previous superintendent, which was a 2 35,000. But it's just slightly more than the base salary was the time when when left the district, which is around 244,000 just under. Performance review. Same as in the previous contract. Does require establishing superintendent goals prior to each year. I don't know if this is really been done. So That's that's something that's supposed to be done called for by the Those are those of the personal goals of the board wants for the superintendent, not just the 5 year plan. All right. Evaluation of the superintendent, both by the board in a self-evaluation which is done in JUNE. The chair. Vacation sick to allow expense account insurance. Personal leave retirement all the same. As in the previous summarize those vacation. 25 paid. They can accumulate up to 60 days over You don't get paid over 60 days. One day per month and use sick days accumulate. And can be cashed out at 50% later or 100% retirement. And They do a crew. Limit $650 a month. Same as the prior contract expense account of $400 per month. This is a reimbursement expense account for expenses related to the. Insurance. Basically health insurance. Same as other district employees at the senior administrator level. Personal leave 6 days per year. This gets charged again sickly but doesn't accumulate. Retirement participation in the Florida retirement system at the senior administrator level. Other benefits paid by the board conferences, professional conferences, meetings, memberships in professional groups. There are 4 listed memberships in the contract. Community groups in other groups not listed in the contract do require board approval. Disability slightly different than the prior contract. The if the superintendent became disabled, they would risk she would receive salary and benefits for 90 days. And after 90 days the board could terminate. It does include disability policy that that other members of the the district received. State leadership program. This is the state statute that provides leadership program for superintendents. It's mandatory participate same as pre prior contract and once completed. It does increase the superintendent's salary per the statute. Performance pay. That's this is a new section. That was a requested by board members. The contract before you has a $10,000 annual bonus for the District reaching a the district. With state of Florida, Department of Education, additional $2500 Bonus annual bonus. If the graduation rate reaches 90% or above. Termination termination with cause was modified to just be a 30 day notice rather than the 90 day notice that was in the prior contract. Without cause does trigger severance pay currently capped at 20 weeks by statute. With with cause termination. Notice. There's a right to appeal under state law does not does not provide severance under the circumstances. Agreement can be terminated by the superintendent with 30 day notice to the board in that circumstance, there would be no severance. Extension of super tennis term. Same as the last contract. The parties agree would agree no later than MARCH 31st of 2028. Whether to extend beyond the JUNE 30th 2028 term. That concludes my summary. They know So you need a motion. >> We need a motion to approve the contract. So move as stated by MISTER Di. So moved all second. Emotion in a second. For discussion, Mr. first. >> Just a couple things on support of the contract. But there are a couple seconds I'd like to discuss real quick. Pull up on the here. So Section 6.2 >> No problem something 3. >> I like Is it where it board and superintendent agree to jointly established a schedule of goals go to struggles. Part of the gave school and during the tenure of the superintendent. We obviously do our annual evaluation. I would just encourage us and I would encourage doctor Rosen to maybe do the more often on informal basis, least once a quarter. Just a thought. You know, I it's what happened a lot of times you. You know, everything's going along go a whole year. You'll get any feedback. And also that the New Year your boss comes you and and I wanted do and don't know. What you do me way you avoid that as you get regular feedback? >> During the year, hopefully the the person that is working for your comes due and seeks it out. But they don't you should still go to them. And so it's just a suggestion for all of you least a quarterly basis and maybe even doctor Rosen like to do that. You know, it's it's always good to come to those meetings to with some ideas about. Here's where I think maybe I'm not meeting the goals that we talked about and that the starts a good discussion. So that's a good thing that that's in there. Let's see if Section 7.6 Again, if you Doctor Rosen when you get these qualifications are special, qualified celery. And then the chief executive also development program. That's some extra money that's coming your way of make it you. Obviously, I would encourage but belts MAY be an executive coach or something that is more like a leadership coach for you. Some of but these things in here, more professional coaching and we'll need that, too. But maybe just a no one on one. And when you're at the top, it's lonely. Sometimes. And so it could to help a friend out there outside of the system. But who is an experienced? Well, either that just talk things over with and work through these things were going do is just a suggestion for Take that for what it's worth and then section 7.7 Not a real fan of a of this section. Maybe coming out of the military. But, you know, I'm thinking about let's say you're the leader of a flying wing. And the goal was to have 80 for 85% on time. Performance for your take office for the whole year maintenance people involved in that. Obviously all the aviators and the pilots are involved in that. But somehow the general officer gets a bonus at the end of the year because everybody who worked for him busted their and did their job and then he gets a bonus and nobody else does. And I just I wouldn't moved strike that I just don't think that's appropriate specially for government employees at the top of the leadership chain to be getting bonuses when the rest of their employees are because they're the ones really doing a lot of the work. And the other thing I think about too, is, you know, Dr resident of the person of High integrity from what I've noticed. But I can just imagine her sitting there at night one time at 8 o'clock and she's got $500,000 to spend and and this thing over here, probably. Even though she has integrity, I would do it like hump that might make. $10,000 and then that the. >> Yeah, it appeared the car with that. You know, I mean, >> it's just it's just that at to perverse incentive to give to somebody, I think in a government organization. And I wouldn't want that to be part of the equation in her decision-making, even though she hasn't a role subject, the temptation, so to speak. So. >> I I will move amend the contract. Well, fits my from it that much. And then 10.4, again, community communications Park. And I thought that was a good thing, too. I just wanted to coming on That we have We're going to be before OCTOBER in the inner thereafter to talk about communication. I think that's good too. But I would like to make a motion to amend the contract to strike paragraph 7.7 Second. >> Motion to strike some 0.7 out. Jump in to see why we put it in there. Definitely a trend talking with injury from f s b a something that is around other contracts around the state. So the reason why we we thought about putting in then did put it in. I look at it very much similar to. The quarterback. You have 2 other positions with you. They're making things happen. But that quarterback Tom Brady gets an extra bonus those x my touchdowns of his x amount of this. So that was my. That was my thought, is that incentivize the leader to to make sure that we're doing exactly what we should be doing. And also saying thank you for doing what. We should be doing and becoming a district. And making 90% graduation rate. We don't have any other. Other than just the normal stamp. Like, you know, the regular percentage from an increase in pay so to speak. So. You know, if you would end up. You know, having a district and 92% rate for 5, 6, 7, years. My thought process is let's and let's give them a kudos for that. And saying that that was that was the reason behind it. And it does look with >> So I think there's a difference, though, between private companies like a football team or corporation out there that and the government organization. And just think it's a perverse incentive. To give the leader of a government organization paid for by the taxpayers. That kind of bonus as opposed to. I'm ready to make money for the team and they're winning games. That's that's a different animal than like I I would encourage of think about that example. I gave you wear, you know that the general officer who leads and Air Force Base Meta's on time performance for takeoffs that year for his their crop and he get them. He gets a bonus and nobody else does. It's just a different animal between private organizations that are that for profit and the government entities like this, think is a substantial difference. And I didn't I didn't make it up. I think it's been it's been done before. That's why we I did it. >> I mean, we do that directly. You know. Yeah, just made I'm not going down and then we MAY just disagree on it. But it's a good MR. Hitting and expect. Colo