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School Board Meeting - Feb 25, 2025 (Agenda)

Tuesday, February 25, 2025 · School board meeting record

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1. CALL TO ORDER 2. READING OF THE DISTRICT'S VISION | Kennedy 3. INVOCATION 4. COLOR GUARD | Southeast HS 5. PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE 6. APPROVAL OF THE AGENDA 1. Approval of the Agenda Amendments - added after publishing 7. APPROVAL OF MINUTES 1. Approval of the Minutes of the February 11, 2025 School Board Meeting - added after publishing 8. STUDENT CELEBRATIONS | RECOGNITIONS 1. 2024 - 2025 Student Art in the Capitol Winner 2. Career and Technical Education Month 9. 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 Feb 21, 2025 February 25, 2025 School Board of Manatee County Regular Board Meeting - 5:30 PM 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. 10. REPORTS AND PRESENTATIONS | Rachel Sellers 1. Presentation Regarding the Manatee County School Board's 2025 Credit Ratings issued by S&P Global and Fitch Ratings. (No Financial Impact) - updated 2/21/2025 11. 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 2/21/2025 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 Amendment to the 2024-2025 National Farmworker Jobs Program (NFJP) Grant for 2024-2025 (No Financial Impact) 4. Approval to Apply, Accept, and Expend the Safety and Security of School Buildings Grant in the amount of $744,583.00 (Incoming State Grant Funds) 5. Approval of the Agreement Between the School Board of Manatee County and Englewood Community Hospital, Inc. d/b/a HCA Florida Englewood Hospital for Clinical Experience for Manatee Technical College (MTC) Surgical Technology, Pharmacy Technician and Central Sterile Processing Students for the 2025-2027 School Years (No Financial Impact) 6. Approval of the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) and Data Sharing Agreement (DSA) between The University of Florida Board of Trustees and the School District of Manatee County to Provide High Impact Tutoring Services from March 3, 2025 through May 29, 2025 (No Financial Impact) 7. Approval and Acceptance of the Contract and Letter of Engagement with Purvis, Gray and Company, LLP, to Provide External Auditing Services, SDMC No. 25-0078-RG, Estimated in the amount of $190,000.00 Per Fee Schedule (General Fund) 8. Approval to Use the Maricopa County Contract #180233-RFP for Oracle Products and Services, SDMC No. 20-0018-RG, An Additional $250,000.00, Estimated in the Amount of $950,000.00 Annually - Revision 1 (Multiple Funding Sources) 9. Approval to Purchase Voice Over Internet Protocol (VoIP) Products and Services, SDMC 2

No. 25-0103-KD, Estimated in the Amount of $3,250,000.00 (Multiple Funding Sources) 10. Approval of Annie Lucy Williams Elementary School Classroom Addition - Agreement Between Owner and Gilbane Building Company - Amendment 2 - Guaranteed Maximum Price in the Amount of $4,935,868.48 (Capital Funds) 11. Approval of Artisan Lakes Elementary School Prototype - Amendment 1 - Agreement Between Owner and Skanska USA Building, Inc., in the Amount of $17,010,000.00 (Capital Funds) 12. Approval of Rye Ranch Elementary School Prototype - Amendment 1 - Agreement Between Owner and Skanska USA Building, Inc., in the Amount of $16,700,000.00 (Capital Funds) 13. Approval of Request to Declare Surplus and Dispose of District Tangible Personal Property Greater Than $5,000.00 (Possible Incoming Funds to General Fund) 12. PUBLIC COMMENT FOR NEW BUSINESS ITEMS 13. NEW BUSINESS (DISCUSSION ITEMS PULLED FROM CONSENT) 14. NEW BUSINESS (NON-CONSENT ITEMS) 1. Approval of the Authorization to Initiate Revision of Residential Attendance Zones per SDMC Policy 5120.02 (General Fund) - updated 2/21/2025 15. NEW BUSINESS (NO SUPERINTENDENT RECOMMENDATION) 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 20. BOARD COMMENTS 21. ADJOURNMENT 3

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