School Board Meeting - Selection of Superintendent Finalists

1. CALL TO ORDER 2. PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE 3. APPROVAL OF THE AGENDA 1. Approval of the Agenda Amendments - added after publishing 4. APPROVAL OF MINUTES 1. Approval of the Minutes of the July 15, 2025 Special School Board Meeting, and July 22, 2025 School Board Meeting 5. 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. Agenda Selection of Superintendent Finalists Updated 8.8.2025 August 12, 2025 School Board of Manatee County Regular Board Meeting - 9:00 AM Walter Miller School Support Center Board Room Times Indicated are Approximate 1

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. 6. NEW BUSINESS - added after publishing 1. Approval of Seventh Amendment to Agreement for Purchase and Sale of Property North River Ranch School Site and Noncash Charitable Contributions Tax Form - Added after publishing 7. NEW BUSINESS (NO SUPERINTENDENT RECOMMENDATION) 1. Board Discussion and Vote Regarding Superintendent Finalists 8. SUPERINTENDENT REMARKS 9. BOARD COMMENTS 10. ADJOURNMENT 2

>> You're watching Manatee schools, television. Good news happens here. >> Good morning, everybody. Welcome to the 8/12/2025. 42 County regular board meeting officially call this meeting to order. We're going to do the Pledge of fuel rise with me. I pledge allegiance flag. United States of America and for it stands. One nation under GOD under GOD, indivisible, liberty and justice for all. MAY be seated. We're Number 3 approval of the agenda. There were some minutes added after publishing onto the agenda. So thank you to vote. We are going to get something in a vote too. Prove the engine. Give a motion and a second. Let's go ahead and vote for the approval of the agenda. We withdrew 3. That MR. Tariffs the logging in. But I am a yes vote. All right. That's a 5 to 0. Moving on to item before approval. The minutes didn't have Super tenor recommends approval the minutes. >> From the approval of the minutes of the JULY I'll start that over. The superintendent recommends approval of minutes from the JULY from the minutes of the JULY 15, 2025 special board meeting and the JULY 22nd 2025 school board meeting. My second. >> Seeing no lived up to comment about those minutes. It's going vote on the approval. >> Of the minutes stated by run. Happen and that passes 5 to 0. All right. We do have a public comment this morning i don't see him in here, we'll call many ways maybe is coming in from the lobby. Kevin Rothstein. Rothstein. Going once. Going twice. Sold. All right. No more public comments for this morning. So moved to we do have one pick new business item. I'm number 6 Superintendent Chapman. >> The superintendent recommends approval of the 7th Amendment to agreement for purchase and sale property of north of Iran school site and non-cash charitable contributions tax for. >> I'm I'm stuck on here with the vote. >> Same I will just do it. Verbally somis prey is our motion. Second second by MISTER Kennedy. Oh, there we go. Green, it says is good. Motion. And second, 3 going vote on the approval. The amendment. And that passes 5 to 0. Now for the new business. No superintendent, I think everybody's here this morning his poor dust discussion and then voting regarding superintendent finalist. So we have Messina here, of course, with sba. We have Dr Bill Vogel with for us helping the district. And a kickoff to you guys. And the meeting is all yours. >> Well, thank you so much. First, I want to extend my appreciation to MR. Bogle who I don't know if you're aware, but every single day he's moving things along and making sure things are where they need to be asking questions to, to ensure that this is a very smooth and transparent process. So much appreciation to doctor Vogel. As you mentioned, we are here today, too. Look at your pool of semifinalists. The last time you discussed this matter, you selected for semifinalists for additional vetting. Today. We're here to determine who from that pool of 4 this board would like to bring forward for face-to-face interviews, which as you know, are scheduled to be held next week. Once you determine the number of finalists, then we'll talk after about the scheduling and the questions and things like that. But let's first start with who you would like to see move forward and bring in for face-to-face interviews. I've spoken with the chair and he's given me the order in which to to call on you. And what I request you to do is tell me which applicants you would like to see the board bring forward for an interview. So we'll start with district number one. Heather Felton. >> So I'm just going to say, I want all 4 of them. But if you really need number and name them, I will do so. No, but I will repeat that. You are. >> You would like to see applicant number 4 applicant number 5, applicant number 7 and applicant number 10 come in for face-to-face interviews. Yes, thank you. All right. Second on my list is MR. Kennedy. I had ok. >> Dr, Press MR. So >> I'm sorry. Doctor Breslin, an and MR. Solano, MR. However, that was my 2. >> I think that don't want to say this. Given some things i learned over the weekend I was going to have Dr PRESIDENT. It's my one finals. >> All right. So you're saying you would only like to bring forward Doctor Breslin number 4, correct? Correct? Alright Apple, let's see. MR. Tatum. >> I would like number or doctor. Lloyd Roseland and number 7, DR. Misty map us. >> All right. To confirm a have number 4 for Lori Breslin and number 7, DR. Misty Mathis. That's correct. Thank you. City spray. >> you only have one that I would like to bring forward. And that is number 4. Dr Preston. Okay. >> I have a number for Doctor Breslin, Correct? Correct. Okay. And MR. Chote. >> I have to I have a number for Doctor Lee Brez number 7, DR. Misty Mathis. Okay. >> So to review I have applicant number for Dr Laurie Breslin, all 5 board members would like to see her come forward for an interview. Is it ok with everyone? If I kind of move her to this, I'd as a finalist since you all indicated interest. Okay. So we'll say Doctor Laurie will be named a finalist. Doctor Adams has one person whose indicated interest DR. Misty Mathis has 3 and MR. Solano has won. We'll start with applicant number 7, DR. Misty Maskless. 3 of you would like to bring Dr Mathis in for an interview. We discussed and whether or not we should bring Dr Mathews forward as a finding yes, he yes. Yeah, yes. I mean. >> But you don't really. I believe shes 3 votes and that I believe. >> Should have answered. Okay. >> All right. So then we would move with I mean, obviously, are going to vote on this. But we'll move DR. Misty Mathis forward as another finalist. So at this point, we have Dr Laurie Breslin, DR. Misty Mathis as finalists. And we have to applicants MR. Adams and MR. Slaughter who each have one person who would like to bring those 4 words. Let's discuss those and I'll let you Skelton. Start since. Maybe you can advocate. I am not going to bother. I want to thank both of them for applying I what I liked what I saw on both of their resumes. I did have questions. >> About some of the things then I saw. But and I'd like to have those conversations in person. But as the rest of the board has chosen not to move those candidates forward, I'm going to thank them for applying and leave it there. Okay. Thank you. >> MR. Chair at this point. I have 2 finalists DR. Laurie Breslin and Dr Missy Mathis. I wonder if you'd like to go ahead and take a vote on that. Then we can talk about schedules. Sure. >> To get a motion to accept those 2 finalists. So moved. So I know you MAY be put that in Greenock. It's going do Looking at ready. We've got a motion so it's going vote on the 2 finalists for our superintendent search DR. PRESIDENT DR. Misty Mathis. And that passes 5 to 0. Thank you very much. And yet the through the way the rest of this morning. Yes, thank you. Ok, I'd like to now up. >> If you come in. Thank you, ma'am. Okay. We came prepared today with the interview schedule for. >> 1, 2, 3 or 4 We have just distributed the interview schedule for 2 finalists. What you will see here is that we are expecting out of can out of the area candidates to arrive on Sunday. You're f s b a team will be at the hotel to welcome the out of town candidate which is Dr Mouth us. Then on Monday, you'll see we start with a breakfast right here, board interviews and we'll talk for just a minute when I'm done with the schedule about how the interviews will run. The interviews will be in the morning and you'll notice in the afternoon times the candidates will be doing some tours at some of your schools. After that, we're going to have dinner for the finalists in spouses at Manatee Technical College just before the meet and greet at Manatee Technical College. I should tell you that I've spoken with your pr team this morning and we are going to slightly adjust that schedule. So dinner will be from 5 to 5.45? 5.45, to 6.15 Is going to be a media gaggle which organized here with your district and then 6.15, to 7.45 Will be the meet and greet. So the parameters at the beginning of the end or the same. We're just going to fit a little media gaggle in the middle there. Then on AUGUST, the 19th you'll see each one of you. We'll have opportunity to interview each of the finalists one-on-one. If any of the times that you are scheduled don't work for you. Maybe you've got children have to pick up grandchildren, whatever might be, if you could. Let me know before Friday of this week, if we need to try to get somebody to swap schedules with you right now, we have MR. Cho, you'll be here are 8.15, to 11. 45 this spray? 8.15, to 10, 30 this felt and you'd be here 10. 45 until 3, MR. Kennedy, we'd have you at 9.30, until one. 45 and then MISTER Tatum. We have you 12. 45 to 3. So if that doesn't work, I will send something. But no reason Tauchman. Now since I'm thinking, ok, perfect together mission. >> I mean, if somebody does need to swap, I can wide open on the two's. Yeah, yeah, I I am So you know, and I'm used to the early shift in use at the first one for grief. So somebody needs that, I'm fine. Being the first one. >> So Charter you suggesting you need to swap? Yes, but we don't you do that now meet there. We've got people willing to move around. That's fine. Perfect. We do need to tackle that right this minute. Back together with you on that? I can do any to do. >> Perfect. And so we have 2 opportunities for you to have interviews with the finalists. The first opportunity is going to be on Monday. That's going to be the public board interview. So to be in this room, similar to the way we're set up right now. The finalists will probably be sitting at a table just like this with a microphone and you'll be asking questions several weeks ago. Doctor Vogel asked you to select a somatic category for your questions. So before we leave today, I'm going to hand you a bank of questions in your thumb attic category between now and Friday. If you can tell me which and you don't have to use my questions in your cinematic category. You can come up with some of your own. But if you can tell me the questions you plan to ask before Friday, 05:00pm so I can prepare the worksheets. When we come in for the interviews on Monday, each of you will be given packet questions and you'll see these are the questions, MR. Tatum's asking. These are the questions, MR. Chote asking MR. Kennedy room is felt it and you can make notes on their responses. You'll have one packet for each of the finalists. They'll be a script in there for MR. Chote to follow, which will welcome the finalists to tell the finalists. You have 90 minutes. Each board member is going to get. I think 15 minutes to ask questions in their thumb attic category by law. And then MR. Cho, chair will call on each of you to ask your questions if you're prepared with 5 to 6, you MAY not get to them all. So if you can sort of when you give them to me, give them to me either in your priority order or force. There's no. But you can jump around in your in your order is well if you need to, you MAY or MAY not get to all of them. And depending on how the person answers, you MAY get to all of them in. You know, there's empty at the end, you could do some follow-ups. But we try to time it so that each board member has the same amount of time. In their thumb attic category with the finalist. At the end, the final U.S. Has some concluding there's a few minutes for some concluding comments. I'll be off to the side with a little time or kind of helping your chair move things along and make sure that each board member gets. There are a lot of time then for the next day, which is your one-on-one interviews. I will provide for you. A full bank of questions. It's about 200 and something you don't have to use them, but you can use them if you'd like. And then also MISS Cox security. Hand them the questions. Okay. So you'll notice you received a copy of questions that should never be asked. At the very top, I would like for you to know that question should be focused on the performance of job duties as opposed to religion children politics, politics, politics or any of those sorts of things we just want you know, try to keep you guys on the straight and narrow to make sure that there are no ad so impropriety in the one on ones your team, your fsp team will be here the whole day escorting the finalists from one meeting to another knocking on your door. When you have 5 minutes left answering any questions that you all the finalists have. I know that for the dinner and the meet and greet those details have been arranged with staff and with community partners. So we certainly appreciate all of that. And I'm happy to answer any questions that any board member has at this time related to the schedule or the questions. The interviews. >> And it's going. All right. Thank you. First from a question that was a quick. Thank you to both of you for being available. Any time. Including over the weekend, including yesterday or 2 days ago on a Sunday So appreciate there are always available. Apartment. And being prepared with the schedule now. So we in the community can plan. I did have notice for the interview, the one-on-one interviews on Tuesday. >> will be in room 2.15, and then candidate be isn't room for 6. One thing I expressed early on was that I would. Really like for my one-on-one time with the candidates to be. You know, publicly available record in some way. I know that room to 15 has the capability. For audio recording. And I'm hopeful that we have the same room for a 6 because for transparency purposes. That's why personally wanted it. Not I don't believe that every board member should have to do that. It's a personal preference, but I just want make sure that we audio capability and we're for a 6. I can deal with that MR. Chapman. >> I'm seeing Ms Cox say no, there's no audio capability in 406, connect. Yeah. Pull out. >> MR. CHAIRMAN, jump in. I I've also the suggestion on that as were talking about this through mice, 2 teams, big that the cop big conference right? Obsession right 3, 4 of 6 is a smaller one up near communications. So as the other one, the end is not open to. >> Didn't mean to do >> to find a We want more. >> And so 2 of 3 will replace for a 6. Got it. >> And both of them have audio capacity. Okay. So 203, to 15 and 2 of 3 will be the room. Okay. So we'll make that change as well as the change. Adding the media gaggle on the first day. So you'll get an updated interview schedule. Probably by tomorrow. And we also will give you first thing on Tuesday morning. When you come in, will have individual schedules for each of you so little saying, MR. Kennedy, and what your schedule is for the next 2 days as well as every finalist has a personalized schedule as well. Right? >> Great. Thank Was that do that? So if you okay. MR. Tatum, >> So what event so we attending on Monday as board members, any of them? Obviously the interviews were doing in the boardroom. But we go into the breakfast, so we're going to the community meet greet his last time. We did this weekend. Go ahead, MR. Die recommended we avoid all of the those events except for the meeting greet ask comes by. You MAY want to come in and >> and meet and greet. Did you want to comment? I mean, know, that's consistent. Talk us like it's clear. >> So for clarification purposes, the breakfast know or meet and great. Yes. >> The breakfast lunches for just candidates, correct? Correct. And we'll be with them. We will escort >> I typically in the hotel lobby in the morning to make sure I basically see somebody Levi King who's over here waiting, you know, the eagle has left the They get over that, you know, we really want to make sure any question they have outside of the hotel before they get here gets answered. We want to make sure they're all accounted for. We've had larger pools and sometimes. We've had some squarely finalists that didn't always get where they need to do so. We have found that that works well to to tightly manage. So that you all have a smooth interview process. >> There has to take this question. But last time we rules of the road, so to speak at the meet and greet at Manatee Technical College >> so last time we did this, the board didn't get him. The community forum. But I was ok with the with having the boards in this one. Just knowing the composition of this board. The so I would avoid congregating. So if you see a board member speaking to a group of people are one of the candidates or whatever, just wait till they're done. And then. You'll have your turn. >> So it's ok, it's ok for all of us to be there time. And I'll be there as well. Okay. Just to be looking to of the trying my >> I will say one of the benefits of the meet and greet is that you do have the opportunity then to see the finalists interacting with the public. And so both watching the finalists interacting with the public and the answers that they give as well as you all, you know, communicating with your constituents once they've done that is is going to be really helpful we have found that to be helpful, we will also have a feedback. Qr code again that. If people watch the interviews with the board and if they attend the meet and greet, they can provide feedback on both finalists. We'll get that to you again. You 24 hours or so before we come back to make that final decision. But we do like to provide an opportunity for the citizens to watch those interviews, at least through Saturday. It will be late Sunday night again, you know, kind of midnight ish. So that people have a time have an opportunity to really watch those interviews and provide feedback. And sometimes they need the weekend to do We didn't. >> Real One of the the events after this know what comes up once. So this is through the 19th than what comes up to that. One of the next comes after that is the meeting the following week where you will selector. >> New superintendent is. >> And I want to say that on Tuesday of the following week, it's late in the day at 4 o'clock. >> tonight, one 5.30, in Five-thirty. Yeah. I will be here at that meeting as well. Probably Doctor Rice will be with me, but that's AUGUST. The 26th and so will come of that meeting and well, kind of between now and then will once we get the interviews done, that we work on the meeting script for as we are doing the interviews on on Tuesday, all walk through with each of you verbally before you leave. You got plenty of time given the 2 finalists kind of how that meeting will work. So I can walk each of you through it. Answer each of your questions. >> And then remind me that person doesn't become the superintendent the moment that we vote on wrecked her, that there's a contract that and then we set a date like, okay, 30 days from now and we want it done so. >> Typically the motion will say something to the effect of the board. I move that the board office, select Chad showed as our next superintendent and authorize the chair. Well, when we this case. >> The vice chair and the attorney to enter into contract negotiations. So then they enter into contract negotiations. You know, sometimes says can be done in a week. Sometimes it takes 2 weeks, sometimes 3, whatever that might be. So they'll enter into contract negotiations, then MR. Die will bring that contract back to the board. >> To approve in that contract negotiation. They'll be discussions about starting date overlap. Things like that. SEPTEMBER 9. Scheduled for SEPTEMBER. Right. Hopefully for the night, we could potentially called you couldn't do it faster than that. If you could use >> We also recommend the board review past contracts and talk with MR. Di for any input. You might an item that you might want include her. >> Not this would be the time in the next few days. If you if you look at the current contract, the previous contract, you have edits or suggestions, get them to MR. Die. Now before we even select somebody and start that we did that last night. Like as we pick someone, then we talked about the current lake. We did have that conversation. If I remember, we do. We took out some stuff in that mean that we don't want anymore. We don't want batter. >> So agree. Gabba definite. Take a look at the last couple contracts give great suggestion. Thanks. Thank Should have big thank you. Spray foam. Katie. >> Why not? If you want the option have your interview audio record. That's prerogative give you that. I don't want my necessarily cause to me. That is the time for me to establish that relationship with either one of these applicants to We can start ok, is this going to be a good working relationship? So often times you MAY not get that if there's a public. I feel that the Monday. >> Board meeting is opportunity for public to come see and hear and, you know, I don't know if there would be any questions. I know it probably won't be but the schedule. Are and not a morning person for the 19. So is felt the it to admit. I'd be more than happy to switch to her on that. I'm typically longer I don't know how long board members go. MISTER Chapman on the brief. >> They're really go a little longer than scheduled. So I don't know if we want out. Think about working on that timeline as well. But just having that too. I think we'll probably be ok. That I just wanted to say those 2 things want to say. Thank you to you as well MR. Die of have a lot of conversations with temperatures past 2 weeks about the different candidates and contract terms of tree come move forward for So I just want say thank you for all your help. >> Thank you. In town, are you amenable to swapping schedules with this prank? >> I would just say I would use in a spray email the e-mail. Like I said, I think there's a lot of plates of just yes. It looks it's my mail on that. You guys figure out. Yeah. >> lot of flexibility. Rent. >> Well, I just want to make sure whatever room I'm in that time. That recording would be off. Yeah. Yeah. >> The only time it would be on is if a board member requested it, which is MISTER Kennedy. Okay. I just wanted to make sure that the public a clarification on when mayor allowed to submit comment so, you obviously they get to go meet Finalists. They can do the qr code and on the Web site and make comment and I know we have talked about that. They are not. We are not taking public comment. Camera, which meetings that was. But just want to make sure we clarify that for the public so they don't show up thinking they can make public comment and then are not able to do so. Okay. Want to make sure that very clear. >> Thank you. So the interviews on AUGUST 18th are not like a full board meeting. So that is not an opportunity for making public comments. The community meet and greet also not a specific board meeting. So there wouldn't be comments. However. After the community meet and greet on the 18th, we will open up a qr code just like just like they've done before. We had 360 some odd people within that time, a section which was specifically on semifinalists. So you've got a good response right So we'll open up that qr code on the 18th and then throughout the weekend will close that AUGUST 24th at midnight so that you all can have some time to review them before your AUGUST. 26th board meeting that AUGUST. 26 board meeting is a full board meeting. So citizen input at at the microphone during a board meeting. What happened on AUGUST? The 26th on less. Somebody chooses to send there comments in via the qr code or sometimes people will also just direct. You direct email. You direct call you, you know, you're citizens have methods that they communicate all of them or all options. But want to make sure that they knew that they can't just show up to the interviews and comment. You. >> So they don't shop and then go. Why can't talk correct? Scary. I for you. It's on. Yes, that was that. Was get Some comes up just not being more get. Excuse me or make