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School Board Meeting - Oct 07, 2025 (Agenda)

Tuesday, October 7, 2025 · School board meeting record

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1. CALL TO ORDER 2. READING OF THE DISTRICT'S VISION - Vice-Chair Spray 3. INVOCATION 4. PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE 5. APPROVAL OF THE AGENDA 1. Approval of the Agenda Amendments - added after publishing 6. APPROVAL OF MINUTES 1. Approval of the Minutes of the August 26, 2025 School Board Meeting, August 29, 2025 School Board Workshop, September 9, 2025 Final Budget Meeting, September 9, 2025 Regular Meeting and Swearing in the New Superintendent, September 16, 2025, School Board Workshop, and September 16, 2025 Meeting and Meeting of the Leasing Corporation 7. STUDENT CELEBRATIONS 1. Hispanic Heritage Month 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 Agenda updated 10.3.2025 October 7, 2025 School Board of Manatee County Regular Board Meeting - 10:00 AM Walter Miller School Support Center Board Room Times Indicated are Approximate 1

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 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. Audit Committee Quarterly Report to the School Board 2. Purvis Gray Presentation of the School Internal Accounts Audit Report 3. 2025-2026 FAST Progress Monitoring 1 (PM1) Assessment Results - updated 10.3.2025 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) - updated 10/3/2025 2. Approval of the Report of Teachers' Out-of-Field Content, Reading, and ESOL (English for Speakers of Other Languages) (No Financial Impact) 3. Approval of the Waiver(s) of the Manatee Education Association (MEA) Collective Bargaining Agreement (No Financial Impact) 4. Approval of Request to Declare Surplus and Dispose of District Tangible Personal Property Greater than $5,000.00 (Possible Incoming Funds to General Fund) 5. Approval to Submit Pre-Apprenticeship Standards Allowing the School District of Manatee County to Become a Registered Agency for Pre-Apprenticeship Programs (No Financial Impact) 6. Approval to Accept and Expend 2025-26 Florida Appropriation for Aviation Maintenance Technician School at Sarasota-Bradenton International Airport (SRQ) in the Amount of $1,000,000.00 (Incoming Grant Funds) 7. Approval to Amend the Previously Accepted Student Driver Education Program Grant, and Approve the Interlocal Agreement with Manatee County Government from the amount of $180,708.00 to the Amount of $168,539.00 (Incoming State Grant Funds) 8. Approval to Apply, Accept and Expend the Title III Immigrant Children and Youth Grant for the 2025-2026 School Year in the amount of $162,782.00 (Incoming Federal Grant Funds) 9. Approval to Apply, Accept, and Expend Tribal State Match Grant (Federal E-Rate Program) in the Amount of $308,517.62 (Incoming Grant Funds) 2

10. Approval to Apply, Accept and Expend the 2025-26 Perkins V Career and Technical Education Equipment Upgrade and Modernization Grant in the Amount of $126,285.00 (Incoming Grant Funds) 11. Approval of Amendment #1 to the National Farmworker Jobs Program (NFJP) Grant for 2025-2026 School Year, Reflecting Revised Recruitment Goals as Requested by the Farmworker Career Development Program State Office (No Financial Impact) 12. Approval to Apply, Accept and Expend the Allocation of the 2025-2026 Multiagency Network for Students with Emotional or Behavioral Disabilities (SEDNET) Grant Fund, in the Amount of $117,761.00 (Incoming State Grant Funds) 13. Approval of the New Agreement Between the School District of Manatee County and Sun RX LLC d/b/a Sunrise Pharmacy for Clinical Experience for Manatee Technical College (MTC) Pharmacy Technician Students for the 2025-2028 School Years (No Financial Impact) 14. Approval to Purchase Cambridge AICE Program Registration, Program Materials, and Assessments, SDMC No. 26-0077-BS, Estimated in the Amount of $700,000.00 (AICE Funding) 15. Approval to Purchase Theater Stage Lighting and Controls, SDMC No. 26-0051-MR, Estimated in the Amount of $600,000.00 (Capital Funds) 16. Approval of Sole Source to Purchase Floor Resurfacing Materials Dex-O-Tex and Related Services, SDMC No. 26-0055-MR, Estimated in the Amount of $200,000.00 (Local Capital Improvements) 17. Approval of Elementary School in Artisan Lakes, Permanent Florida Power and Light Utility Easement 10 ' (No Financial Impact) 18. Approval to Advertise a Request for Qualifications (RFQ) for Architect and Engineering (AE) Services and Construction Management (CM) at Risk Services for Moody Elementary Campus Renovations (Capital Funds) 19. Approval of Parrish Community High School Football Field Synthetic Turf Upgrades, Substantial Completion, Agreement Between Owner and P.J. Hayes, Inc., dba Tandem Construction (No Financial Impact) 20. Approval of Blackburn Elementary School, Classroom Addition and Renovation, Substantial Completion and Certificate of Completion, Buildings 2, 5, 6, 7, and 8 (No Financial Impact) 21. Approval of Blackburn Elementary School, Classroom Addition and Renovation, Substantial Completion and Certificate of Occupancy, Building 1 (No Financial Impact) 22. Approval of Blackburn Elementary School, Classroom Addition and Renovation, Substantial Completion, Sitework (No Financial Impact) 23. Approval of Oneco Elementary School, Addition and Renovation, Substantial Completion and Certificate of Occupancy, Building 1 (No Financial Impact) 24. Approval of Oneco Elementary School - Addition and Renovation, Substantial Completion and Certificate of Completion, Building 6 (No Financial Impact) 25. Approval of Haile Middle School, Classroom Addition and Renovation, Substantial Completion and Certificate of Completion, Buildings 3 & 7 (No Financial Impact) 26. Approval of Miller and Lincoln Administrative Office Enhancements, Agreement Between Owner and Tandem Construction, Pre-Construction in the Amount of $4,550.00 (Capital Funds and Grant Funds) 3

27. Approval of Lake Manatee K-8 Agreement Between Owner and NDC Construction Company, Amendment 3 Guaranteed Maximum Price, in the Amount of $14,510,530.39 for a Total Guaranteed Maximum Price of $123,109,281.00 (Capital Funds) 28. Approval of the 2025-2026 Florida Safe School Assessment Tool (FSSAT) District Report (No Financial Impact) 29. Approval of the Memorandum of Understanding Between The Willie Taggart Family Foundation, Inc. and the School Board of Manatee County (No Financial Impact) 30. Approval for the Manatee High School Chorus and Orchestra Students to Attend and Perform in the Southern Star Music Festival in Atlanta, Georgia on April 22-26, 2026 (School Internal Accounts) 31. Approval for the Bayshore High School AVID (Advancement Via Individual Determination) Students to Visit Florida State University, Florida A & M University, Valdosta State University, Albany State University, and Fort Valley State University on February 16-20, 2026 (No Financial Impact) 11. PUBLIC COMMENT FOR NEW BUSINESS ITEMS 12. NEW BUSINESS (DISCUSSION ITEMS PULLED FROM CONSENT) 13. NEW BUSINESS (NON-CONSENT ITEMS) 1. Approval of Advertising a Notice of Intent to Amend School Board Policies and Setting a Public Hearing at the Board Meeting on December 2, 2025 (General Fund) 2. Approval of the District's School Internal Accounts Audit Report as of and for the Year Ended June 30, 2025 (No Financial Impact) 3. Approval of Use of the Duval County Public Schools Contract No. 08-24/DB for Substitute Teaching Employment Services, SDMC 26-0070-TG, Estimated in the Amount of $5,225,000.00 Annually (Multiple Funding Sources) - moved to New Business Non-Consent 10/3/2025 14. OLD BUSINESS (No Superintendent Recommendation) 1. Approval of Travel Expense Associated with the School Board Member Choate and Spray's attendance at the 2025 Designation of Senator Jim Boyd as President of the Senate, located in Tallahassee, Florida, Not to Exceed $1700.00 (General Fund) 15. NEW BUSINESS (NO SUPERINTENDENT RECOMMENDATION) 1. Approval of Proposed Revisions to the New Audit Committee Charter 2. Approval of the 2026 School Board of Manatee County Legislative Priorities 16. INFORMATION ONLY (No Board Action Required) 17. CONTINUED PUBLIC COMMENT (IF NECESSARY) 18. UPDATES A. INSTRUCTION UPDATE B. OPERATIONS UPDATE C. LEGAL UPDATE 19. SUPERINTENDENT REMARKS 4

20. BOARD COMMENTS 21. ADJOURNMENT 5

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