MISSION
TO SERVE EVERY STUDENT
WITH EXCELLENCE AS THE STANDARD
EXPULSION
HEARINGS
November
18, 2003
2:00
p.m.
In-the-Sunshine
Expulsion hearings begin at 2:00 p.m., if necessary.
All
other Expulsion hearings are closed to the public.
REGULAR
MEETING
EDUCATIONAL
SERVICES FACILITY
November
18, 2003
5:30
p.m.
A
G E N D A
A-1. Call to
Order
A-2. Roll
Call
A-3. Invocation: Kelci McCarthy, 6th Grade,
Palm Bay Elementary School
A-4. Pledge of
Allegiance: Ezra Norton, 6th Grade,
Palm Bay Elementary School
a.
Election
of Chairman
a.
Election
of Vice Chairman
b.
Designate
date, time and place of regular and special monthly meetings with
exceptions
III. Chairman Appointments of Board Representatives
a. League
of Cities
b. Brevard
County Values Adjustment Board
c. Children’s
Services Council
d. School
Readiness Coalition
e. Professional
Development Council
f.
Federal
Legislative Committee
g. Florida
School Board Association Board of Directors
h. FSBA
Legislative Committee
i.
National
School Boards Association Conference Representative
j.
Brevard
Cultural Alliance
k. Brevard
Tomorrow
l.
Central
Florida Public School Boards Coalition (Chairman or
designee)
Authorize
the Superintendent to have signature facsimiles made of the Chairperson and
Superintendent to be used in signing checks and approve the continued use of the
current signature facsimiles for district checks until new facsimiles are
received.
V.
Recess
School Board Meeting – Time Certain:
6:00 p.m.
Recess the
regular meeting of the School Board to conduct the annual meeting of the Brevard
County School Board Leasing Corporation.
A-6. Emergency
Items
C-1. West Shore Jr./Sr. High
School – Florida School Report High Performing School Award
2002
Recommendation: Presentation of the Florida School
Report High Performing School Award 2002 to West Shore Jr./Sr. High School for
promoting best practices that raise student achievement.
C-2. Take Our Parents to School
Week – November 16 – 22, 2003
Recommendation: Approve a resolution proclaiming
November 16-22 as Take Our Parents to School Week, encouraging all citizens to
promote activities that support families in education throughout the
year.
C-3. American Education Week –
November 16 – 22, 2003
Recommendation: Approve a resolution proclaiming
November 16-22, 2003 as American Education Week.
C-4. National Education Week –
November 16 – 22, 2003
Recommendation: Approve a resolution proclaiming
November 16-22, 2003 as National Education Week in conjunction with Rolling
Readers Space Coast, Inc. celebrating its 7th year serving twenty-six
(26) Brevard County Title I Elementary Schools.
E-1. Student
Expulsion(s)
Recommendation:
Approve
student expulsion(s) for failure to comply with the Stipulation/Conduct
Agreement and issue Final Orders confirming expulsion in each case
presented.
E-2. Approve
Minutes
Recommendation: Approve the minutes from the expulsion
hearings held on October 14, 2003; the minutes from the regular meeting held on
October 14, 2003; the minutes from the expulsion hearings held on October 28,
2003; and the minutes from the special meeting held on October 28,
2003.
E-3. Financial Statement – July 1,
2003 through September 30, 2003
Recommendation: Approve the Financial Statement for July
1, 2003 through September 30, 2003.
E-4. Warrant List – September 1,
2003 through September 30, 2003
Recommendation: Approve the Warrant List for the period
of September 1, 2003 through September 30, 2003. Total expenditures were
$16,125,569.79.
E-5. Purchasing
Bids
Recommendation:
Re-Award the Purchasing
Bids listed below:
a. 02-007/JO – Bleacher
Repair and Motorization – Maintenance –2001/02, 2002/03,
2003/04
b. 02-009/JO – Kitchen
Equipment Parts – Maintenance Warehouse – 2001/02, 2002/03,
2003/04
c. 02-011/JO – Painting
Contractors – Maintenance - 2001/02, 2002/03, 2003/04
Recommendation:
Approve the routine support staff
recommendations.
Recommendation: Approve the routine
certificated personnel recommendations.
E-8. Brevard County School Board
v. Robert Dale Taylor – DOAH Case No. 03-1635
Recommendation: 1.
Adopt the Recommended Order as the Board’s Final Order. 2.
Reinstate Respondent, Robert Dale Taylor’s, continuing employment
contract effective April 22, 2003.
E-9. Job
Description
Recommendation: Approve the following job
description: Coordinator –
Instructional Material. Pay Grade: Bargaining Professional/Technical Grade
DD.
E-10. Approve Job
Description
Recommendation: Approve the Learning Director – District
Law Academy job description.
Instructional Contract.
E-11. Consultant Agreement with Melissa
Forney, Writing Workshop
Recommendation: Approve the consultant agreement with
Melissa Forney for a writing workshop on December 5, 2003 for selected teachers
from Enterprise and Challenger 7 Elementary Schools.
F-1. Adult Education – Fee
Schedule
Recommendation: Approve the proposed Adult Education Fee
Schedule.
F-2. Application for Adult
Education and Family Literacy – State Leadership for Region III
RPDAC
Recommendation: Approve the application for Adult
Education and Family Literacy – Region III RPDAC (Ruby Paine) Competitive State
Leadership Funds in the amount of $100,000.
F-3. MediaWise – Links between
Mass Media and Academic Success
Recommendation: Approve funding for Dr. David Walsh,
founder of National Institute of Media and the Family (non-profit organization)
to deliver keynote address at the Title I Family Involvement
Conference.
F-4. Elementary Mathematics
Adoption Criteria
Recommendation: Approve the Elementary Mathematics
Adoption criteria established by the Elementary Mathematics Adoption Committee
and the Mathematics Adoption Principals’ Advisory
Committee.
F-5. Tech Prep Partnership
Subcontract Agreement with Brevard Community College
Recommendation: Approve the renewal of the subcontract
Agreement with Brevard Community College regarding Tech Prep terms and
conditions and reimbursement of funds, up to $50,500.
F-6. Field Trip for Choruses of
Cocoa Beach Jr./Sr. High School, Melbourne High School and Palm Bay High
School
Recommendation: Approve the request by the choruses of
Cocoa Beach Jr./Sr. High School, Melbourne High School and Palm Bay High School
to attend the Winter Park Music Festival in Winter Park, Colorado, on March 31 –
April 4, 2004.
F-7. Field Trip for SHS
Scorpionettes Dance/Flag Team to Participate in the Winterguard International
World Championships in San Diego, California on April 15, 16, 17,
2004
Recommendation: To approve the trip for 17 students to
travel to San Diego, CA to represent Satellite High School in the Winterguard
International World Championships.
There will be no cost to the district.
F-8. Rockledge High School Chorus
and Orchestra Spring Field Trip
Recommendation: Approve the request for ninety-eight
students from Rockledge High School to perform at the Music Maestro Festival in
New Orleans, Louisiana on March 25-28, 2004. Two teachers and ten chaperones will
accompany the group. The students
will miss one and a half school days on March 25 (noon) and March 26 (all
day). There will be no cost to the
district.
F-9. Cocoa Beach Jr./Sr. HS
Chilled Water Piping Replacement – Approve Change Orders, Accept Project as
Complete, and Authorize the Superintendent to Sign the Certificate of Final
Inspection and Release all Retainage
Recommendation: Approve change orders totaling $19,060,
accept project as complete, and authorize the Superintendent to sign the
Certificate of Final Inspection and release all retainage.
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G-1. Amend Board Policy #6320 –
Purchasing
Recommendation: Hold Public Hearing and amend Board
Policy #6320 - Purchasing
G-2. Parent/Family Involvement in
the School Policy
Recommendation: Hold Public Hearing and approve
revisions to the School Board Policy #2111 – Parent Involvement in the Schools
Program according to F.S. 1002.23.
G-3. Plan for Supplemental
Academic Instruction
Recommendation: Authorize the Superintendent to sign and
submit the district plan for the use of funds from the Supplemental Academic
Instruction (SAI) categorical by the DOE December 1, 2003,
deadline.
H-1. School Board Member Salaries
for 2003-2004
Recommendation: Approve School Board member salaries for
the 2003-2004 school year.
H-2. Brevard County Charter Review
Commission – School Board Member Elections
Recommendation: 1.
Adopt official Board position regarding the method of election of School
Board Members. 2. Authorize the Superintendent and School
Board Attorney to represent the Board’s position before the Brevard County
Charter Review Commission.
H-3. Television Contract with
WBCC
Recommendation: Approve the contract with Brevard
Community College for television services for the next three
years.
H-4. 2004-2005 Budget Adoption
Schedule
Recommendation: Approve the following Board meetings for
the adoption of the 2004-05 Millage Levy and Budget: 1) Thursday, June 24, 2004 – Workshop on
Preliminary Budget and Millage Levy – 1:00 p.m., Educational Services
Facility, 2) Thursday, July 29, 2004 – First Public
Hearing on Proposed Budget and Proposed Millage Levy – 5:30 p.m., Educational
Services Facility; 3) Thursday, September 9, 2004 – Final
Public Hearing on Tentative Budget and Proposed Millage Levy – 5:30 p.m.,
Educational Services Facility.
H-5. Audit Committee
Members
Recommendation: Approve the following individuals to
serve on the Audit Committee effective January 1, 2004 for a term concurrent
with the School Board member they were recommended by: Randy Foss – recommended by Larry
Hughes, Michael Raphael – recommended by Bea Fowler, Dr. Jeffrey Locke –
recommended by Rich Wilson, Arthur Edwards – recommended by Robert Jordan, TBA –
recommended by Janice Kershaw.
H-6. Parapro Assessment for
Non-Title I Paraprofessionals
Recommendation: Approve the use of the Educational
Testing Services (ETS) ParaPro Assessment for Teacher Assistants at Non-Title I
schools to meet the “highly qualified staff” requirement of the No Child Left
Behind Act.
H-7. Stop Loss Contract
Renewal
Recommendation: Approve the Stop Loss Contract
renewal.
H-8. Revision to Administrators
PFP
Recommendation: Modify the school-based administrators’
Pay for Performance plan.
H-9. Staffing Reinstatement
Request – Office of District and School Security
Recommendation: Reinstate the position of one clerk to
the Office of District and School Security. Change the Title of “Public Safety
Records Clerk I” to “ District and School Security Records Clerk I” to more
accurately reflect the name of the department and the duties of the
individuals.
(Attachment: District and
School Security Records Clerk I job description).
H-10. Organizational Changes for the Office of
Accountability, Testing and Evaluation and the Office of Purchasing and
Warehouse Services
Recommendation: Approve the reorganization plan for the
Office of Accountability, Testing and Evaluation and the Office of Purchasing
and Warehouse Services. The
reorganization plan provides for increased accountability, security and
supervision of all statewide assessment materials, and provides additional
inventory control over district textbook functions. 1. Delete the position of Data
Management Specialist from the Office of Accountability, Testing and Evaluation,
effective December 10, 2003.
2. Approve the job
description and addition of the position of Supervisor of Instructional Material
and Student Assessment to the Office of Purchasing and Warehouse Service,
effective December 10, 2003.
3. Approve the addition of a
Clerk Typist in the Office of Accountability, Testing and Evaluation, effective
December 10, 2003. The total
increased cost to the district from the current status is $23,639. Funding will come from district
reserve.
H-11. Interagency Agreement with Eckerd Youth
Alternatives
Recommendation: Authorize the Superintendent to enter
into an agreement with the Eckerd Youth Alternatives to provide the Hi-Five
program at Croton, Endeavour, Riverview and Sherwood Elementary
Schools.
H-12. Math and Parent
Partnerships
Recommendation: Approve funding for Title 1 schools to
receive training in Math and Parent Partnerships (MAPPS), a program developed at
the University of Arizona through a grant from the National Science
Foundation. This funding will
provide for Consultant fees, materials and modules designed to engage parents in
experiences in math to be shared as a family activity.
H-13. Enhancing Technology Through Education
Grant Part I
Recommendation: Approve the grant application for
amendment for Part I of the Enhancing Education Through Technology Grant
(entitlement project) in the amount of $616,967.77. Targeted schools are: Central Middle, Stone Middle, Johnson
Middle, Jackson Middle, Space Coast Jr./Sr., Edgewood Jr./Sr., Southwest Middle,
Cocoa Beach Jr./Sr., DeLaura Middle, Jefferson Middle, Hoover Middle, and West
Shore Jr./Sr.
H-14. Enhancing Education Through Technology
Grant Part II
Recommendation: Approve the grant application for
Brevard Public Schools for Part II of the Enhancing Education Through Technology
Grant (competitive project) in the amount of $300,000. Targeted schools are: Coquina, Endeavour, Cambridge, South
Lake, Saturn, Palm Bay, Jupiter, Harbor City, Cape View, McNair, Clearlake,
Madison and Kennedy.
H-15. Science Fair Agreements with Area
Malls
Recommendation: Approve the renewal of agreements with
Merritt Square Mall and Melbourne Square Mall, which will permit the use of mall
facilities for three regional secondary science and engineering
fairs.
H-16. Science Fair Field
Trips
Recommendation: Approve the participation of 84
secondary regional science fair winners at the 49th Annual State
Science and Engineering Fair of Florida and up to twelve “Best of Show” senior
division regional science fair winners at the 2004 Intel International Science
and Engineering Fair.
H-17. Elementary Festival Lease Agreement with
Brevard Community College – Titusville
Recommendation: Approve lease agreement with Brevard
Community College – Titusville campus for use of Elementary Music Festival
rehearsal and performance facilities on February 26, 2004 and authorize payment
of $940.00 for facilities use.
H-18. Elementary Festival Lease Agreement with
Brevard Community College – Melbourne
Recommendation: Approve lease agreement with Brevard
Community College – Melbourne campus for use of Elementary Music Festival
rehearsal and performance facilities on February 27, 2004. The fee for the use of this facility has
been waived.
H-19. All-County Festival Lease Agreement with
the Maxwell C. King Center for the Performing Arts
Recommendation: Approve lease agreement with the Maxwell
C. King Center for the Performing Arts for use of All-County Band/Chorus
rehearsal and performance facilities on January 29-31, 2004 and authorize
payment of $4,028.20 for facilities use.
H-20. Approve School Improvement Plans for
2004
Recommendation: Approve the School Improvement Plans for
2004.
H-21. Approve Consultant Agreement with
National Reading Styles Institute
Recommendation: Approve the consultant agreement to
National Ready Styles Institute for $3,600.00, which includes $2,400.00 for
consultant fee and estimated expenses of $1,200.00
H-22. Consultant Agreement with Melissa Forney
Enterprises
Recommendation: Approve the consultant agreement with
Melissa Forney Enterprises for $1,000 per day (which includes travel and
expenses) to deliver a workshop on December 15, 2003. This workshop will be “FCAT Writes! Tips
for Success” for school writing teachers/contacts.
H-23. Consultant Contract Erik Cork: Rap, Rhythm & Rhyme – Golfview
Elementary
Recommendation: Approve the agreement with Erik Cork of
International Write Now of Missouri City, Texas to present a Writing
workshop for intermediate students in grades 3, 4 and 5 on Thursday, December
11, 2003 at Golfview Elementary School.
Proposed budget: $3,800
consultation and additional expenses.
H-24. School Recognition Dollars Expenditure –
Clearlake Middle School
Recommendation: Approve agreement in the amount of
$1,800 with Mr. Roland Smith to conduct three school-wide presentations and
slide shows regarding his books and career as a Wildlife Biologist on February
27, 2004. This will be funded by
Bright Ideas Grant and fundraisers.
H-25. E-Rate Year 7 Requests for
Services
Recommendation: Approve submittal of E-Rate funding
requests for Year 7.
H-26. Astronaut High School Request $50,000
Loan to Complete Track Renovation
Recommendation: Approve Astronaut High School’s request
for a loan in the amount of $50,000 to supplant volunteered contributions for
the installation of a synthetic all-weather track surface. AHS would reimburse the School Board by
making equal annual payment over five (5) years.
H-27. Amendment to Odyssey Charter
School
Recommendation: Approve the amendment to the charter
contract with Odyssey Charter School to change the cap to 550 students to be
served from 2004-2012 and the timeline to begin construction for a new school
site in January 2004.
H-28. Space Coast Middle School Grandstands
Project – Approve Change Order No. 2, accept Project as Complete and Authorize
Release of Retainage
Recommendation: Approve Change Order No. 2 to the
Owner-Contract Agreement with All Star Bleachers, Inc. in the amount of
$3,220.00. Accept the project as
complete and authorize the Facilities Services Staff to release final
retainage
H-29. Submission of the Five-Year Work Plan to
the Department of Education for FY03/04 thru FY07/08
Recommendation: Authorize the Superintendent to submit
the 2003-2004 Facilities Five-Year Work Plan to the Department of Education
(D.O.E.) on 12/9/03. A “Draft” copy
of the Work Plan will be provided on or before 11/18/03.
H-30. Renewal of License Agreement – Weather
Monitoring System at Whispering Hills School Site
Recommendation: Approve the renewal of license for
access/use of a portion of the Whispering Hills School site by the United States
Air Force for the operation of the existing weather monitoring system in
accordance with license agreement number SPCCAN 1-04-0002, beginning 12/10/03
and ending 12/31/2008. A copy of
the above referred license is provided as Attachment I.
H-31. Continuing Contracts for Professional
Consultants
Recommendation: Approve the renewal of the continuing contracts as listed below for projects under $500,000 for a period of one year beginning January 1, 2004 thru December 31, 2004: Environmental Engineering including asbestos abatement – Evans Environmental & Geosciences, HAS Engineering & OHC Environmental; Architectural & Engineering including program definition and studies – BRPH Architects/Engineers, MAI Architects Engineers, Inc. & Reynolds Smith & Hills; Engineering Services – Mechanical/Electrical/Plumbing – Cape Design Engineering, TECO Solutions & TLC; Civil Engineering and Land Surveying services – Allen Engineering, Inc., Consulting Civil Engineering & Droor & Associations, Inc.; Structural Engineering services – Burlingham & Associates & Droor & Associations, Inc.; Roof Design & Construction Quality Control services – ARC Associates, Inc.; D.B. Young & Associates, Inc., Mactec Engineering & Robert M. Stafford, Inc.; Design Build Services – BRPH Companies & Starmer Ranaldi/Ruby Builders; Construction Management Services – BRPH Companies, Construction Management Associates, Heard Construction, Inc., P.A.V.C.O. Construction, Inc. & TECO BGA, Inc.; Commissioning Services for Mechanical/Electrical Systems – Hanson Professional & Sunbelt Engineering; Subsurface Investigation & Testing Services – Ardaman & Associates, Inc., Nodarse & Associates & Universal Engineering; HVAC Test & Balanc