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School Board Meeting and Public Hearing - Jul 22, 2025 (Agenda)

Tuesday, July 22, 2025 · School board meeting record

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1. CALL TO ORDER 2. DISTRICT VISION | Felton 3. INVOCATION | Ronnie King 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 May 23, 2025, School Board Workshop, May 29, 2025, Special School Board Meeting, June 10, 2025 School Board Meeting and Public Hearing, and June 10, 2025 School Board Workshop 7. REPORTS AND PRESENTATIONS 1. Board Discussion with Florida School Boards Association (FSBA) Regarding Superintendent Search 2. 2024-2025 FLDOE School and District Grade Updates 8. PUBLIC COMMENT AND RESPONSES (UP TO 60 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 Agenda Updated 7/21/2025 July 22, 2025 School Board of Manatee County Regular Board Meeting and Public Hearing - 5:30 PM Walter Miller School Support Center Board Room Times Indicated are Approximate 1

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. 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 at the end of the section. 1. Approval of the Appointments, Change of Assignments, Promotions, Reappointments, Reassignments, Resignations, Retirements, Suspensions, Terminations, and Transfers (No Financial Impact) - updated 7/17/2025 2. Approval of the New Agreement Between the School District of Manatee County and Sunnah Smiles for Clinical Experience for Manatee Technical College (MTC) Dental Assisting Students for the 2025-2028 School Years (No Financial Impact) 3. Approval of the New Agreement Between the School District of Manatee County and Stewart Family Orthodontics, PA for Clinical Experience for Manatee Technical College (MTC) Dental Assisting Students for the 2025-2028 School Years (No Financial Impact) 4. Approval to Apply, Accept, and Expend the Strengthening Career and Technical Education for the 21st Century Act (Perkins V), Formerly Known as the Carl D. Perkins Secondary Grant for the 2025-2026 School Year in the Amount of $537,120 (Incoming Federal Grant Funds) 5. Approval to Apply, Accept and Expend the 2025-2026 Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), Part B, K-12 Entitlement, in the Amount of $15,781,595.25 (Incoming Federal Grant Funds) 6. Approval to Apply, Accept and Expend the Following Federal Grants for the 2025-2026 School Year: Title I, Part A; Title I, Part D; and Title IX, Part A, in the Amount of $13,263,515.67 (Incoming Federal Grant Funds) 7. Approval to Apply, Accept, and Expend the 2025-2026 National Farmworker Jobs Program Discretionary Competitive Grant, Including Ratification of the Memorandum of Understanding Between the School District of Manatee County and the Suncoast Workforce Board, Inc. dba CareerSource Suncoast, in the amount of $237,195.00 (Incoming Federal Grant Funds) 8. Approval of the District and Food Service Petty Cash Funds for Fiscal Year 2025-2026 in the Amount of $900.00 (General Fund and Food Service Funds) 9. Approval of the Food Service and School's Internal Accounts Change Funds for Fiscal Year 2025-2026, in the Amount of $33,675.00 (Food Service and Internal Account Funds) 10. Approval to Renew the Contract Between Pace Center for Girls, Inc., and the School 2

Board of Manatee County for the 2025-2026 School Year (No Net Financial Impact) 11. Approval to Renew the Agreement Between AMIKids Manatee County, Inc. and the School Board of Manatee County for the 2025-2026 School Year (No Net Financial Impact) 12. Approval of the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) Between the School Board of Manatee County, Florida and Empath Stratum, Inc. dba Empath Health for the 2025- 2026 School Year (No Financial Impact) 13. Approval of the Renewal Agreement Between the School Board of Manatee County and YMCA of Southwest Florida Inc., to Provide Before-School and/or After-School Programs for Middle School Students During the 2025-2026 School Year (No Financial Impact) 14. Approval of the Department of Juvenile Justice (DJJ), Pace Center for Girls, and AMIKIds Manatee, Inc. 2025-2026 School Calendars and Bell Schedules (No Financial Impact) 15. Approval to Renew the Agreement Between Big Brothers Big Sisters of Sun Coast, Inc., and the School Board of Manatee County for the 2025-2026 School Year (No Financial Impact) 16. Approval of the Bid for Park and Playground Equipment, SDMC No. 26-0041-MR, Estimated in the Amount of $1,300,000.00 Annually (Multiple Funding Sources) 17. Approval to Use the Orange County Public Schools Contract for Temporary Staffing Services #ITB2201024, SDMC No. 26-0016-TG, Estimated in the Amount of $2,100,000.00 (Multiple Funding Sources) 18. Approval of the Bid on Irrigation Well and Pump Installation and Repairs, SDMC No. 26-0037-MR, Estimated in the Amount of $150,000.00 Annually (Capital Funds) 19. Approval of the 2025-2026 Uniform Statewide Assessment Calendar (No Financial Impact) - updated 7.21.2025 20. Approval of the Reclassification of Negotiated Select AFSCME Positions and Job Descriptions (General, Capital, and Federal Funds) 21. Approval of Harllee Middle School - Building 4 SOAR in 4 Renovation - Substantial Completion and Certificate of Completion (No Financial Impact) 22. Approval of Tara Elementary School - Campus Renovations and Addition - Agreement Between Owner and Creative Contractors, Inc. - Amendment 6 - Guaranteed Maximum Price, in the Amount of $146,283.65 for a Total Guaranteed Maximum Price of $26,809,043.40 (Capital Funds) 23. Approval of Manatee Technical College Aviation Classroom - Agreement between Owner and Johnson-Laux Construction, LLC - Amendment 1 - Guaranteed Maximum Price in the Amount of $ 6,814,524.00 (MTC/PECO Grant Funds) 24. Approval of Lake Manatee K-8 – Permanent Non-Exclusive Utility Easement (No Financial Impact) 25. Approval of Request to Declare Surplus and Donate District Property (Outgoing Donation) 26. Approval of Request to Declare Surplus and Dispose of District Tangible Personal Property Greater Than $5,000.00 (Possible Incoming Funds to General Fund) 27. Approval for the Lakewood Ranch High School Boys' Golf Team To Participate in an Out-Of-State Golf Tournament in Scottsdale, Arizona, August 20-24, 2025 (School 3

Internal Accounts) 28. Approval for Southeast High School Chorus Students to Attend and Perform at Carnegie Hall in New York, New York on March 5-9, 2026 (Multiple Funding Sources) 29. Approval for the Manatee High School Hurricanes Cheer Team to Attend the Out-Of- State Football Game in Valdosta, Georgia, September 5-6, 2025 (School Internal Accounts) 30. Approval of the Revised Job Description of Position for Specialist Choice Program (General Fund) 10. PUBLIC HEARING 1. Public Hearing for Consideration to Adopt and Amend School Board Policies 11. NEW BUSINESS (Discussion Items Pulled from Consent) 12. NEW BUSINESS (Non-Consent Items) 1. Approval to Adopt and Amend School Board Policies (General Fund) 2. Approval of the Budget Amendments for May 2025 (No Financial Impact) 3. Approval of the Parrish Classical Preparatory Academy Application, Sponsored by Charter Schools USA, for the 2027-2028 School Year (No Net Financial Impact) 4. Approval to Publish a Notice of Public Hearing to Adopt Tentative Millage Rates and Tentative Budget for Fiscal Year 2025-2026 (General Fund) -updated 7/21/2025 13. NEW BUSINESS (No Superintendent Recommendation) 1. Approval of Audit Committee Charter Revision to Change the Number of Members 2. Discussion and Decision Regarding Board and District Travel 14. INFORMATION ONLY (No Board Action Required) 1. Year-to-Date Financial Statements Through May 31, 2025 (No Financial Impact) 2. Year-to-Date Charter School Financial Statement Summary Through May 31, 2025 3. Lakewood Ranch Prep Charter Public Charter Schools Program (CSP) Grant Project Application Amendment 4. Hola! Elementary at MSA Charter Public Charter Schools Program (CSP) Grant Project Application Amendment 15. UPDATES A. INSTRUCTION UPDATE B. OPERATIONS UPDATE C. LEGAL UPDATE 16. SUPERINTENDENT REMARKS 17. BOARD COMMENTS 18. ADJOURNMENT 4

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