School Board Meeting

Page 1 Minutes April 9, 2024 Regular Meeting - 10:00 AM Manatee County School District 215 Manatee Avenue West Bradenton, FL 34205 www.manateeschools.net Times Indicated Are Approximate 1) CALL TO ORDER Attendee Name Status Dr. Jason C. Wysong, Superintendent Joseph Ranaldi, Deputy Superintendent of Operations Rachel Sellers, Deputy Superintendent of Business Services Derek Jensen, Deputy Superintendent of Instructional Services Chad Choate, Chair Cindy Spray, Vice-Chair Gina Messenger, Board Member Mary Foreman, Board Member Richard Tatem, Board Member Pamela D’Agostino, General Counsel Patricia Petruff, Board Attorney Present Stephen Dye, Board Attorney Absent Chair Choate called the Meeting to order at 10:02 AM. 2) READING OF THE DISTRICT'S VISION Vice-Chair Spray read the District's Vision. 3) INVOCATION The invocation was given by Mr. Richard Tatem. 4) PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE Chair Choate led the recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance. 5) APPROVAL OF THE AGENDA 5.1. Motion to Approve Agenda Amendments RESULT: Adopted [UNANIMOUS] MOVER: Mary Foreman

Page 2 SECONDER: Cindy Spray AYES: Gina Messenger, Chad Choate, Cindy Spray, Richard Tatem, Mary Foreman The Chair finds good cause to amend the agenda to include: Agenda amended on Friday, April 5, 2024, to add attachment 4-9-2024 Spring Assessments Update to Reports and Presentation Item Spring Assessment Schedule Update. Agenda amended on Friday April 5, 2024 to update title of Consent item Approval to Apply Accept and Expend the Title I Part A Grant Roll Forward Funds for the 2023-2024 School Year in the Amount of $1,364,152.04 (Incoming Grant Funds) to Apply Accept and Expend the Title I Part A Grant Roll Forward Funds for the 2023-2024 School Year in the Amount of $2,681,381.35 (Incoming Grant Funds) - updated April 5, 2024. Agenda amended on Friday April 5, 2024 to update Executive summary of Consent item Approval to Apply Accept and Expend the Title I Part A Grant Roll Forward Funds for the 2023-2024 School Year in the Amount of $2,681,381.35 (Incoming Grant Funds) - updated April 5, 2024 from The FDOE has determined the SDMC is eligible to receive roll forward funding in the amount of $1,364,152.04 for Title 1, Part A of which $1,317,229.31 was already approved in the original grant on June 27, 2023. The SDMC is requesting approval of Amendment 3 for the Title I, Part A Grant in the amount of $1,364,152,04 to The FDOE has determined the SDMC is eligible to receive roll forward funding in the amount of $2681,381.35 for Title 1, Part A of which $1,317,229.31 was already approved in the original grant on June 27, 2023. The SDMC is requesting approval of Amendment 3 for the Title I, Part A Grant in the amount of $2,681,381.35. 6) APPROVAL OF MINUTES 6.1 Approval of the Minutes of the February 27, 2024 School Board Meeting RESULT: Adopted [UNANIMOUS] MOVER: Gina Messenger SECONDER: Mary Foreman AYES: Gina Messenger, Chad Choate, Cindy Spray, Richard Tatem, Mary Foreman 7) RECOGNITIONS 7.1 Boys & Girls Clubs Youth of the Year Mr. Mike Barber, Director of Communication, Family and Community Engagement, introduced the following Boys and Girls Club annual winners: Elizabeth Osibajo: Junior Youth of the Year winner Elizabeth Osibajo, a Fifth grader at Rogers Garden- Bullock Elementary School. Also, in attendance in support of the student was Principal Michael Escorcia, and Boys and Girls Club Director at Rogers Garden, Cindy Schreves. Gracie Jean-Charles: Manatee County Youth of the Year winner, a Junior at Palmetto High School. Also in attendance in support of the student was Assistant Principal Quantas Simmons, and Teen Program Manager for Boys and Girls club of Manatee Conty, Tonyque Benson. 8) PUBLIC COMMENTS (UP TO 30 MINUTES)

Page 3 9) REPORTS and PRESENTATIONS 9.1 Spring Assessment Schedule Update Mr. Derek Jensen, Deputy Superintendent of Instruction, provided the School Board an overview of the District’s timeline for the Spring testing schedule. Included in the presentation were the following topics: • Overview of the testing dates within the District. • Methods of informing parents of upcoming testing schedules. • Supporting students to prepare for spring testing. The Board asked questions and held discussion. Additional information was provided by Superintendent Wysong. 10) CONSENT ITEMS 10.1 Approval of the Appointments, Change of Assignments, Promotions, Reappointments, Reassignments, Resignations, Retirements, Suspensions, Terminations, and Transfers (No Financial Impact) 10.2 Approval of the Report of Teachers Out-of-Field Content, Reading, ESOL (English for Speakers of Other Languages), and/or Long-Term Substitutes (No Financial Impact) 10.3 Approval to Apply for the 2024-2025 Manatee County Government Dori Slosberg Driver Education Safety Trust Fund Grant in the Amount of $180,708.00 (Incoming Grant Funds) 10.4 Approval to Apply Accept and Expend the Title I Part A Grant Roll Forward Funds for the 2023-2024 School Year in the Amount of $2,681,381.35 (Incoming Grant Funds) 10.5 Approval of Request to Declare Surplus and Dispose of District Vehicles (Possible Incoming Funds to General Fund) 10.6 Approval to Enter into a Forty-Eight Month Lease with Evolv Technologies Holdings, Inc. for an Additional eighteen (18) Evolv Express Units, SDMC No. 23-0051-RG, Estimated in the Amount of $1,396,814.70 (Capital Outlay) 10.7 Approval of the Bid for Promotional Items, Awards and Incentives, SDMC No. 24-0107- BS, Estimated in the Amount of $200,000.00 (Multiple Funding Sources) 10.8 Approval to Use the Hillsborough County Public Schools Request for Proposal (RFP) on Bathroom Partition Services, SDMC No. 24-0113-MR, Estimated in the Amount of $100,000.00 Annually (Local Capital Improvement) RESULT: Adopted [UNANIMOUS] MOVER: Gina Messenger SECONDER: Mary Foreman AYES: Gina Messenger, Chad Choate, Cindy Spray, Richard Tatem, Mary Foreman

Page 4 10.9 Approval to Add Daughtrey Elementary School and Horizons Academy - Administrative Lobby Enhancements - Agreement Between Owner and Sweet Sparkman Architects - Amendment 1 - Additional Architectural and Engineering Services to the Existing Bayshore High School and Southeast High School Administrative Office Enhancements Project, in the Amount of $50,000.00 (Capital Funds) 10.10 Approval of Kinnan Elementary School, Lincoln Memorial Middle School, Moody Elementary School, Palmetto Elementary School, Stewart Elementary School - 2024 Media Centers Renovations - Agreement Between Owner and McIntyre, Elwell & Strammer General Contractors, Inc. - Amendment 1 - Guaranteed Maximum Price in the Amount of $873,798.15 (Capital Funds) 10.11 Approval of Haile Middle School - Classroom Addition and Renovation - Change Order 3 - Agreement Between Owner and Halfacre Construction Company, Decrease in the Amount of $406,603.84 (Capital Funds) 10.12 Approval of Participation in the 2024 Formula 1 in Schools (F1iS) STEM Challenge National Championships for Qualifying High School Students and Advisors Held at the Hilton Charlotte Airport in Charlotte, North Carolina, April 9-13, 2024 (Funded by Manatee Education Foundation) 10.13 Approval of Travel to Distributive Education Clubs of America (DECA) National Conference and Competition for High School Students and Advisors April 27-30, 2024 in Los Angeles, California (Multiple Funding Sources) 10.14 Approval for the Southeast High School Speech Team Winners to Compete in a National Debate in Chicago Illinois on May 24-27, 2024 (School Internal Accounts) 11) PUBLIC COMMENT FOR NEW BUSINESS ITEMS 12) NEW BUSINESS (DISCUSSION ITEMS PULLED FROM CONSENT) 13) NEW BUSINESS (NON-CONSENT ITEMS) 13.1 Motion for Approval of Budget Amendments for February 2024 RESULT: Adopted [UNANIMOUS] MOVER: Mary Foreman SECONDER: Gina Messenger AYES: Gina Messenger, Chad Choate, Cindy Spray, Richard Tatem, Mary Foreman Ms. Rachel Sellers, Deputy Superintendent of Business Services, provided an overview of the Budget Amendments for February 2024. 13.2 Motion for Approval of Reimbursement Resolution for Expenditures for New Elementary School – North County Rye Ranch and New Elementary School- Artisan Lakes RESULT: Adopted [UNANIMOUS]

Page 5 MOVER: Cindy Spray SECONDER: Richard Tatem AYES: Gina Messenger, Chad Choate, Cindy Spray, Richard Tatem, Mary Foreman The Board asked questions and held discussion. Additional information was provided by Ms. Rachel Sellers, Deputy Superintendent of Business Services. 14) NEW BUSINESS (NO SUPERINTENDENT RECOMMENDATION) 14.1. Motion to Accept the Resignation of Citizens’ Financial Oversight Committee Member Ms. Spray provided information regarding this topic, noting the Committee Member is moving out of state and provided their resignation. There was no further discussion. 14.2. Discussion and Possible Appointment of Value Adjustment Board Members School Board Member Foreman requested a discussion regarding the Board Member and Board Appointed Citizen Representative who belong to the County Value Adjustment Board. Board Member Foreman provided an overview of the responsibilities of the positions and requested two volunteers from the Board be appointed as new member and alternate member to the Value Adjustment Board. It was noted that the positions are required by statute and the School Board Member, or alternate, must be present for the meeting to occur. Board Member Foreman noted that due to it being an election year, the safest course of action would be to ensure the Board-appointed members are set before the upcoming election. Board Member Foreman requested the re-appointment of Brady Chapman as the citizen representative for the Value Adjustment Board 14.2a. Motion to Appoint Brady Chapman as the School Board Recommended Citizen Representative for the Value Adjustment Board August 2024 through July 2025 RESULT: Adopted [UNANIMOUS] MOVER: Mary Foreman SECONDER: Gina Messenger AYES: Gina Messenger, Chad Choate, Cindy Spray, Richard Tatem, Mary Foreman The Board held discussion regarding the Board appointment for the primary and alternate member of the Value Adjustment Board. RESULT: Adopted [UNANIMOUS] MOVER: Cindy Spray SECONDER: Gina Messenger AYES: Gina Messenger, Chad Choate, Cindy Spray, Richard Tatem, Mary Foreman

Page 6 14.2b Motion to Appoint Cindy Spray as the Primary School Board Member of the Value Adjustment Board August 1, 2024 through July 2025 RESULT: Adopted [UNANIMOUS] MOVER: Richard Tatem SECONDER: Mary Foreman AYES: Gina Messenger, Chad Choate, Cindy Spray, Richard Tatem, Mary Foreman 14.2c. Motion to Appoint Chair Chad Choate serve as the Alternate School Board Member of the Value Adjustment Board Member August 1, 2024 through July 2025 RESULT: Adopted [UNANIMOUS] MOVER: Mary Foreman SECONDER: Richard Tatem AYES: Gina Messenger, Chad Choate, Cindy Spray, Richard Tatem, Mary Foreman 15) INFORMATION ONLY (No Board Action Required) 15.1. Year-To-Date Financial Statements Through February 29, 2024 15.2. Year-To-Date Charter School Financial Statement Summary Through February 29, 2024 Ms. Rachel Sellers, Deputy Superintendent of Business services provided the Board an update regarding the charter school financial statements. 16) CONTINUED PUBLIC COMMENT (IF NECESSARY) 17) UPDATES 17.1. INSTRUCTIONAL UPDATE Mr. Derek Jensen, Deputy Superintendent of Instructional Services, updated the board on the following topics: • Math Superstars Competition • Science Adoption • State Science Fair Results • Manatee County Arts Exhibit • Adult, Career and Technical Education Updates 17.2. OPERATIONS UPDATE Mr. Joseph Ranaldi, Deputy Superintendent of Operations, updated the board on the following topics: • Human Resources o Upcoming Job Fairs • Construction Services Update o Groundbreaking for Blackburn Elementary School • Food Services Update

Page 7 o Jennifer Johnson, Cafeteria Manager of Sea Breeze Elementary School will be a recipient of 2024 Congressional Education Award; providing congressional recognition to outstanding public school teachers, administrators and support staff. 17.3. LEGAL DEPARTMENT UPDATE 18) SUPERINTENDENT REMARKS Superintendent Wysong updated the Board on the following: • Thanked Board for approving the Consent Agenda. • STEM update • DECA update • Debate competition • Thanked the School Board for allowing attendance to the FADSS Conference • Noted the approval of the Firearms Detection Machines – noted additional jobs have been posted for guardians to run them for the upcoming school year. • Security updates will soon be shared with District families • Arts Alive • Provided an overview of upcoming Workshop events and topics. 19) BOARD COMMENTS 19.3) Board Member Messenger Board Member Messenger spoke regarding the following: • Thanked the participants of Arts Alive • Thanked all the participants of the PCHS Little Mermaid Play 19.1) Board Member Tatem Board Member Tatem spoke regarding the following: • Parrish Community High School Play • Safety – Youth Drivers -please be safe • Administrative clarification on acronyms used during the Board Meeting 19.2) Board Member Foreman Board Member Foreman spoke regarding the following: • Arts Alive event • Debate Competition • Media Specialists –April School Library Month Request a resolution in regard to librarians next year 19.4) Vice-Chair Spray Vice-Chair Spray spoke regarding the following:

Page 8 • District Tennis Championship upcoming – request support for secondary sports as the year closes • Noted District retirees on the Human Resources (HR) documents • Leadership Manatee • CFOC working on annual report 19.5) Chair Choate Chair Choate spoke regarding the following: • Thanked staff for all the hard work. • Noted the excellence of Arts Alive event. 20) ADJOURNMENT Minutes: There being no further business to come before the Board, Chair Choate adjourned the Meeting at 11:18 AM. ______________________________ Chad Choate, III Chairman NOTICE Any person who desires to appeal any decision made by the School Board with respect to any matter considered at the above-mentioned meeting will need a record of the proceedings, and for such purpose may need to ensure that a verbatim record of the proceedings is made, which record includes the testimony and evidence upon which an appeal may be based. School Board meetings are held in accessible locations. Auxiliary aids will be provided, upon written request received at least 48 hours prior to the meeting, to participants with disabilities.

1. CALL TO ORDER 2. READING OF THE DISTRICT'S VISION | Vice-Chair Spray 3. INVOCATION | Pastor Randal LaRoche (Elwood Park Baptist Church) 4. PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE 5. APPROVAL OF THE AGENDA 1. Agenda Amendments - added after publishing 6. APPROVAL OF MINUTES 1. Approval of the Minutes of the February 27, 2024 School Board Meeting 7. RECOGNITIONS 1. Boys & Girls Clubs Youth of the Year 8. 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 Agenda Updated 4/5/2024 April 9, 2024 School Board of Manatee County Regular Board Meeting - 10:00 AM Walter Miller School Support Center Board Room Times Indicated are Approximate 1

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 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. 9. REPORTS AND PRESENTATIONS 1. Spring Assessment Schedule Update - Updated April 5, 2024 10. 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 of the Appointments, Change of Assignments, Promotions, Reappointments, Reassignments, Resignations, Retirements, Suspensions, Terminations, and Transfers (No Financial Impact) 2. Approval of the Report of Teachers Out-of-Field Content, Reading, ESOL (English for Speakers of Other Languages), and/or Long-Term Substitutes (No Financial Impact) 3. Approval to Apply for the 2024-2025 Manatee County Government Dori Slosberg Driver Education Safety Trust Fund Grant in the Amount of $180,708.00 (Incoming Grant Funds) 4. Approval to Apply Accept and Expend the Title I Part A Grant Roll Forward Funds for the 2023-2024 School Year in the Amount of $2,681,381.35 (Incoming Grant Funds) 5. Approval of Request to Declare Surplus and Dispose of District Vehicles (Possible Incoming Funds to General Fund) 6. Approval to Enter into a Forty-Eight Month Lease with Evolv Technologies Holdings, Inc. for an Additional eighteen (18) Evolv Express Units, SDMC No. 23-0051-RG, Estimated in the Amount of $1,396,814.70 (Capital Outlay) 7. Approval of the Bid for Promotional Items, Awards and Incentives, SDMC No. 24-0107- BS, Estimated in the Amount of $200,000.00 (Multiple Funding Sources) 8. Approval to Use the Hillsborough County Public Schools Request for Proposal (RFP) on Bathroom Partition Services, SDMC No. 24-0113-MR, Estimated in the Amount of $100,000.00 Annually (Local Capital Improvement) 9. Approval to Add Daughtrey Elementary School and Horizons Academy - Administrative Lobby Enhancements - Agreement Between Owner and Sweet Sparkman Architects - Amendment 1 - Additional Architectural and Engineering Services to the Existing Bayshore High School and Southeast High School Administrative Office Enhancements Project, in the Amount of $50,000.00 (Capital Funds) 10. Approval of Kinnan Elementary School, Lincoln Memorial Middle School, Moody Elementary School, Palmetto Elementary School, Stewart Elementary School - 2024 Media Centers Renovations - Agreement Between Owner and McIntyre, Elwell & Strammer General Contractors, Inc. - Amendment 1 - Guaranteed Maximum Price in 2

the Amount of $873,798.15 (Capital Funds) 11. Approval of Haile Middle School - Classroom Addition and Renovation - Change Order 3 - Agreement Between Owner and Halfacre Construction Company, Decrease in the Amount of $406,603.84 (Capital Funds) 12. Approval of Participation in the 2024 Formula 1 in Schools (F1iS) STEM Challenge National Championships for Qualifying High School Students and Advisors Held at the Hilton Charlotte Airport in Charlotte, North Carolina, April 9-13, 2024 (Funded by Manatee Education Foundation) 13. Approval of Travel to Distributive Education Clubs of America (DECA) National Conference and Competition for High School Students and Advisors April 27-30, 2024 in Los Angeles, California (Multiple Funding Sources) 14. Approval for the Southeast High School Speech Team Winners to Compete in a National Debate in Chicago Illinois on May 24-27, 2024 (School Internal Accounts) 11. PUBLIC COMMENT FOR NEW BUSINESS ITEMS 12. NEW BUSINESS (DISCUSSION ITEMS PULLED FROM CONSENT) 13. NEW BUSINESS (NON-CONSENT ITEMS) 1. Approval of the Budget Amendments for February 2024 2. Approval of Reimbursement Resolution for Expenditures for New Elementary School - North County Rye Ranch and New Elementary School - Artisan Lakes (No Financial Impact) 14. NEW BUSINESS (NO SUPERINTENDENT RECOMMENDATION) 1. Acceptance of the Resignation of Citizens' Financial Oversight Committee Member 2. Discussion and Possible Appointment of Value Adjustment Board Members 15. INFORMATION ONLY (No Board Action Required) 1. Year-to-Date Financial Statements Through February 29, 2024 2. Year-to-Date Charter School Financial Statement Summary Through February 29, 2024 16. CONTINUED PUBLIC COMMENT (IF NECESSARY) 17. UPDATES A. INSTRUCTION UPDATE B. OPERATIONS UPDATE C. LEGAL UPDATE 18. SUPERINTENDENT REMARKS 19. BOARD COMMENTS 20. ADJOURNMENT 3