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South Lake Schools Board Meeting - March 18, 2026

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it's 6 oclock first thing is the Pledge of Allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands 1 nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all all right the next thing on the agenda is the board brightener and it's Miss catrell so I what we are all the work that are tra that originated in ancient Africa on March 13th which was uh 313 days okay and the day before Pi Day March 14th our students um each classroom sent out a group of Representatives to teach about the person they researched and to teach other grade levels the games that they learned so tonight we have representatives from Miss McFarland's Miss Dobbins is anger Bretton and Miss Baron's class and they are going to sing a song that um comes from the movie be Harriet that they've been working with Miss Pratt for the month of February and then um there's a slideshow that will be playing to show you all the things that they've worked on and also at the end we'll take about 5 minutes and they're going to teach each board member 1 of the games that they learned okay are specific person we got 1 more what's the name oh we gotta take a picture of that okay okay on the line okay what am I trying to do if okay all right okay okay try it okay any way up so then you turn us over when you run out of beets okay uh oh um f****** go Is Here Yeah so it's like a little more strategy than Tic Tac know right trying to block kind know how to play all the game long time ago oh before you close you have to end there I grabbed them like if you want to use that thank you so much I got it hi I'll stop by your classroom I got really fast teacher my wife me yes I think I was like right at the end right before you got married okay but diagonal uh all right as as we finish wrapping up the game up here we're gonna have someone from third grade fourth and fifth just so you the name of the game that they just taught I know you couldn't really see what was happening but these were chosen presenters who did a really nice job in their class from fifth grade you want to tell us your name and what game you taught my name's VA and I taught sashima is an ancient game from Kenya much like tic-tac-toe that is that is a way to teach critical thinking and problem-solving which are 2 very important math skills hello my name is alayna and um I taught ai ai is an ancient game from Ghana and Nigeria used to teach the math skills strategizing predicting problem solving spatial relationships and Corey and this is my friend Tiffany and she's like girl you did not just steal the Thunder we also have a Olivia over there in fifth grade wave Olivia so who else do we have well hey Missouri and me and Watson did wcala an ancient game from ethopia that involves counting addition pattern recognition sequence and probability you want to share your name Watson Abigail Baxter Ryan Madison let's give them 1 big round of applause uh we also wanted to give a huge shout out to miss Nikki poxon who took on plain and Black History Month activities for our schools and of course thank you parents for bringing them out tonight you are more more than welcome to stay for the board meetings they are always the most fun thing you could do on a Wednesday however it's totally understandable if you you know you really have something important to do so we'll take a minute if you would like to leave you are more wait 1 though Mrs Pratt would you come up to the front please so if you don't know Mrs Pratt she is our Elementary music teacher the loudest person she said that not me this is Mrs Pratt was our elementary teacher of the year for South Lake Schools uh this year we have 1 at each grade level we have at the secondary level we have 1 for uh person for high school middle and Miss Pratt is our elementary and I'm drawing attention to her today because we learned this week that she got selected as the mome county elementary teacher of the year things have a good night so we couldn't let her leave without acknowledging that so thank you that was fantastic oh no I didn't even hear they have a lot of time to practice no I did get thank you for taking the picture by the way oh did they go through it said oh did it make it through good that's that must be the 1 person that's not saying okay they took some they took some too they took some pictures too I thought that was amazing I don't see our senior rep I wanted to talk because I think she catches the bus I see you representative the young lady that normally gets the report a student report I don't see her maybe there was a different name here I used to play that game I used to play that game because that was the bathroom I can't play when they were in school I never heard of that did you ever heard of that I didn't even hear about of picnic tone yeah once or twice I gotta go home and practice person okay everybody we're going to move on to item number 4 the consent agenda uh the consent agenda for the March 18th meeting is consists of the following approval of agenda of March 18 2026 approval of minutes for the regular meeting of February 18th 2026 checks written for February 2026 general fund 6232 65.30 cents activity fund 65184 cents syncing fund 75,792 cafeteria fund 70 67965 lachki fund has zero 2024 Bond 322,946.14 the 2025 had zero dollars District Credit Card is 15,200.99 total is 1,114,385.95 attorney invoices the first invoices from Clarks Hill or general in the amount of 335 dollars the second invoice is from Miller Johnson for labor and employment in the amount of $315 third invoices from Johnson for school law in the amount of $1,022 the fourth invoice is from Miller Johnson for Bond investigation in the amount of 4,200 these invoices for a total of 58 72 will be brought before the board at their meeting tonight March 18th 2026 uh Board of Education approval is recommended for the following minutes from the regular meeting of February 18th 2026 minutes from the verbal superintendent evaluation of February 11th 2026 checks written for February 2026 totaling 1,114,385.95 so is their emotion to prove the board approved the minutes from regular meeting of February 18th 2026 and it's from the verbal for attendant evaluation of the very 11th and checks written for February 2026 building 1 billion 114,385.95 per second all those and I did have a question um were you finished with the motion I'm sorry no go ahead yeah absolutely um I was just wondering it's in our next Friday update if we can get um some information about the uh Bond investigation the amount of uh 4,200 just kind of curious what that was moving on to the high school update is martial Merck here look like that she's sick okay uh public comments were there any yellow cards move on to the superintendent report all right good evening everyone uh do you have a couple of uh agenda items this evening the first is Board of Education approval to adopt the resolution recognizing April 2026 as the month of the young child which is attached with a April is recognized as the month of the young child this month highlights the critical importance of supporting children and becoming valued literate healthy caring and contributing members of society therefore approval is recommended for the Board of to adopt a resolution recognizing April 2026 as the month of the young child very motion for an Adaptive resolution recognizing April 2026 support any questions all those in favor any opposed next they have Board of Education approved to adopt the resolution recognizing April 2026 as National Autism Awareness Month attachment fee National Autism Awareness Month aims to celebrate and promote acceptance of a condition that affect 1 in every 54 children in the United States this month emphasizes the need for public awareness to Foster acceptance celebrate differences and encourage greater inclusion of autistic individuals in our communities approval is recommended for the Board of Education to adopt the resolution recognizing April of 2026 as National autism awareness is there any motion the board that's focus on recommended to adopt the resolution and second question question typically would be something that would be across the state of country there's 2 yes kind of alarming number so we're bringing some recognition to it and hopefully some people are studying to find out why this is happening so we can prevent it that we're doing the recommend you know um recognize it now um I was in favor thank you then we move on to curriculum and instruction with Mr good evening I have zero action items tonight and just 2 informational items so this time of year we have the 2026 27 kindergarten enrollment update So currently we have 15 students listed in pre-registered status for um kindergarten pre-registered simply means that parents have begun but not yet completed the online enrollment process um the table below outlines the students have fully completed the incentive to their enrollment so we have 2 residents that have completed 3 schools of choice for a total of 5 students and number 2 are as our great start Readiness preschool update its attachment a is a flyer for your review capsule Early Childhood Center hosted its first enrollment on February 25th 2026 was 16 families in attendance currently enrollment for 5 students has been completed and submitted and 10 additional gsrp students are in the pre-submission stage of the enrollment process a second enrollment fair for the GSR program will be held on May 21st from 4 to 5:30 p.m. and is it for the open uh kindergarten fully we would have about a 125 would be our goal um this year I think we're currently at about 110 no thank you no I mean that's what our current enrollment is now for our current um cohort of kindergarten students but you know we start the enrollment process with the kindergarten enrollment Fair um and we're I'm reporting this to you this way because technically we have moved to an online system so until families have completed the entire enrollment packet they really haven't enrolled so the 15 are people that have started but they haven't finished and sometimes what we they'll submit it and my secretary Miss bombard has to review everything and sometimes they'll be missing the use of documentation and then she'll have to take it back to them and then they have to upload that and so it's a bit of a back and forth process now that we've moved everything so I just want to be clear with the board what we have is a completed enrollment and what we have that is a partial enrollment that's not yet Community knows that we yeah we've been on an online system for the last 3 years yeah my uh Miss Baumgart walks people through this she invites them to come into the office that they want most of the time it's they're doing it on their phone and she handles those things through phone calls um but we have had people we certainly invite people come in to finish it if they need that uploading attachments yep sometimes if they really haven't we let them drop them off and we upload um also I was just kind of want to are we on a good track um so far um it's time to say at this point our kindergarten enrollment fair was better attended this year than it was the previous year uh but over time you know we used to get a lot of enrollments at the kindergarten enrollment fair and over time as um families tend to wait until the last minute to enroll um so we try to get information out there as much as we can to encourage them to um enroll as quickly as possible um but usually we get its it really starts to get busy like the first or second week of August thank you very much next is the Business Report good evening we have 5 action items tonight and no informational items first item is approval of payment for Avalon and Elwood where they since this is Bid pack number 2 cost control book number 12 as per your attachment a the Avalon Elmwood Renovations and bed pack cost control book number 12 was reviewed and approved by the South Lake business office the district's construction manager McCarthy Smith and Associate and architect uh weekly and Associates I want to say thank you to Brian uh the team for being here with us tonight and this request is for work completed at Avalon Elwood as documented and cost control book number 12 information contained reflects the work completed through February 24th 26 and the payment for the mwood Renovations contractor was processed from the 2024 construction fund it is recommended that cost control book number 12 be uh totaling 679,740.24 cents be approved for payment is there a motion for approval of Hospital book number 11 9,713 your second any questions yes um and this 1 and again this can be in the Friday update I was just wondering if um um page 90 of the 122 Pages um it was the total of the change orders and it seemed like that was a huge amount um of change orders maybe I'm not maybe it's labeled uh you know change order and it means something else within this you know this thing but um they have almost 700 $1,000 worth of change orders um if we can get some kind of explanation for that because again I'm I'm using my own personal knowledge when you're doing renovations in your house in the country you do a change order um and yes I I know that you have to you know there are going to be some changes with a plan but this just seems like a a very large amount and if we can get some kind of explanation we appreciate it explanation in Friday's update yeah that's fine very good hey so we moved in a second I missed paper first I I don't fix number 2 is again payment or approval of payment of Renovations for South Lake Middle School this is big pack number 3 cost control book Number 8 as per your attachment the South Lake um middle schools renovation bed pack number 3 cost control number 8 was reviewed and approved by the South Lake business office the district's construction management Cary Smith and architect wely and Associates for payment the request for South Lake Middle School Renovations as documented in bpack number 3 cost control book Number 8 the information contained within the cost control book reflects the work completed through February 25th 26 the payment for the South Lake schoolman School renovation contractors was processed from the 24 construction 5 it is recommended that cost control book Number 8 totally 8,375.72 cents as detailed is approved for payment we have a motion I move that the board approve the cost control vote number 8 totally 8,375.72 okay and do we have a second any questions yes that and this along the same lines if we can get it um update in the Friday packet this is on page 15 of 19 um it looks like the whole project costs but again uh change order listing almost 43,000 and the biggest 1 just for an example uh 28,000 it it just says undercut south parking lot and if we could just get a little bit of information about what that entails and maybe if we can try to prevent these things if possible thank you promote it number 3 we're requesting I'm sorry we didn't yet sorry it's okay roll call I day I just congratulations on you know your job duties tonight all right now very good thank you great number 3 we're requesting approval of um the 2023 this Capital project Renovations these are new to South Lake High School South lot replacement this will be VIP pack number 5 as per your attachment C still bids were approved on February 26th 20 26 for bid pack number 5 the bid package is for South lot South Lakes lot uh this is the High School South lot replacement site work concrete Asphalt Paving and electrical work at the High School a test is being packed number 5 bid summary sheets and the recommendation letters from the districts construction manager McCarthy Smith it is recommended that the board approve the 2023 capital projects renovations to South Lake High School South lot replacement bed pack number 5 in the amount of 681450 to be paid out of the 2425 capital projects funds motion to approve I move that the board approve the 2023 projects renovations to South Lake High School South lot replacement number 5 in the amount of 81,450 to be paid out of the 2024 project second questions go in and they'll be replacing some existing the lighting for the holes in the parking lot this just a 1 it's just for the the parking lot behind the auxiliary gym Photoshop area which is probably the worst part in that so it's going to be done in in 2 different phases because parking lots of the uh East is relatively new and is in good shape that particular parking lot is like bad shape we have some work that will be happening on the outside of the high school on the west side so we're kind of we're doing this in phases so that we don't have brand new parking lot that potentially be and having heavy trucks and Equipment driven over it while we complete you know the projects will be that will be on the west side of that building so we're doing this first and then in the future will do that otherwise after we've done the renovations on that side of the building so that we don't get damaged something that's brand new this will this summer yes that was going to be my question is it going to interrupt any um any school we will have summer school but with the way it is there's you know you can enter that building so it you there may be some disruption but not you can't post having our summer program 1 other question um you said it was 1 of the worst ones in the worst parking lots in the district we say a little bit more like the necessity if I were to go there when it rains because I've done this I went in that parking lot and if you walk water will squirt up from through the parking lot itself so if you literally walk for jump I was jumping in a spot where my car was and there was water shooting up from where I was jumping so it it almost looks like it's it's spongy I start yeah so and there's quite a few potholes back that in that side as well so and you asked a question about undercutting and what that is is they they call it like they'll do a proof role so what they do is they check to see how stable the soil or the where the parking lot will be and sometimes they have to come they call it an undercut they remove a part of that soil whatever it may be and they they've replaced it and you know with gravel or some other material so that it is more stable so that it cuts down on the likelihood of there being cracks and other things of that in that parking lot in the future so it really depends on the soil and we you don't have control over that and at the same time we don't want to not do something like that because then he risks brand new parking lot not lasting as long as it could if it was done way it should as well thank you so we had Miss Williams move and a second button welcome to favor I imagine thank you number 4 is a request for approval again of the 23 2023 capital projects this is renovations to the administrative billing and the athletic complex as per bid package number 6 for your attachment d still bids will open on February 5th of 2026 for big pack number 6 this big package is for renovations of administration billing and athletic complex demolition flat work carpentry acoustical work equipment HVAC and electrical work attached is to a big pack number 6 bid summary sheets and the recommendation from the district construction manager McCarthy and Smith it is recommended that the board approved the 2023 capital projects and renovations to the administration building and and athletic complex as per bid pack number 6 in the amount of 1,617,932 to be paid out of the 2024 and 2025 Capital project response is there a motion board approved the 2023 capital projects specialization to Administration Building at its complex fifth pack number 6 and the amount of 1 million 65,932 be paid out of the 2024 2025 0 second question when I went to the homecoming request the scoreboard was wasn't working properly and there was some issues so is this a part of the Improvement the athletic ultimately yes it is not included in what you you would be potentially approving because we will be purchasing this world award separate but there will be work that will the work that's done out there will include a little just be it's not in this particular what we're asking to be paid right now tonight but it will be something that will be purchased at a later date so it's it's kind of broken out in here it's really nice to see you know the flat work the car tree the coastal treatments painting um electrical in several other things um just in general the necessity for this particular project would be what in general uh this particular building is I think it's going on 26 years old so the carpet is original to the building I mean pretty much everything everything for the most part is original to the building so you know part of this includes h we're we're concerned that if we continue with our current HVAC in this building that we will not have heat next next winter especially if we have the winter light this winter because that hbac is original to the building you've heard me talk about this in the past that that's generally has a lifespan of around 20 years this building is 26 years old so we're we're to the point where we're reaching the end of life on things in this particular building so just like at the uh at the other buildings with Euler it's not something that you wait for the boiler to go out to replace it because it takes an extended period of time to replace it boiler happens if you wait for it to go out in January and you have no heat or humidity of winter so you know it's a part of making those you know its ating but what's you know things that are going we know it's going to eventually stop working is everything does so but we are we've been having issues and now we're putting you know the money that we've put into fixing something that's 20 years old you know could go to other places as well so you know just as a and then the athletic field that was in the bed yes there will be you know there will be some renovations to that building there was we renovated that building roughly 10 years ago I think 10 years ago so um there will also be some some work done in their uh the flooring for example uh needs to be replaced we're doing the lighting um so Brian smack here is he is our architect and then we have Brian G a minute and Jennifer white from McCarthy Smith so that Brian's jumping in for me so Brian anything else that I've missed back um it's pointed that out as as something uh necessary for the reasons you stated it's almost 400,000 yes thank you have a question problems in favor I post I'm gonna thank you final action item is the adoption of the 2526 general fund Amendment as attachment e the purpose of this amendment is to adjust revenues and expenditures to reflect changes from the original budget estimates presented in June of 2025 and approved in the June 25th 25 special meeting and adjustments from the beginning of the school physical year it is recommended that the amended 2526 general fund budget be adopted is there any motion a vintage General concept question just flipping it all the numbers just in general what changed so um in general there were slight changes in to the tune of revenues we actually total changes amounted to about 2.37% looking at activities which is realign uh those Revenue expectations will work with actually happening so overall 2.37% in that there were changes in some expenditures approximating about .68% so while nominal changes between the 2 we would just reshuffling those money based on what has actually happened we've got uh actual data from the state in terms of our Revenue expectations so we know know where our grants are we know what are we were able to receive the 18 meals as a result of the school bus so we have better information now we can better project okay and so um just to even more simple simplify it so it looks like the we expected total revenues is roughly about a million dollars more in my reading that correctly actually roughly not a million dollars more when you compare columns 2 and 3 you'll actually see an increase or perhaps about 500,000 oh okay from actual to amended yes okay I get that I was just doing the adopted from the amended and the expenses same thing what we were saying we were projecting based on actual data now of about 600,000 so a little more okay and then where where did those the extra venue that we're expecting come from was it State local or federal the actual Revenue actually we we were receiving more in tax dollars than we had originally anticipated okay previous in the expenses the increase there is coming from so when we were actually looking at information relative to instructional staff a lot of it is from Community Services is more Grant related so we had slight increases in Grant dollars more expensive their grant money won't be Revenue uh it is revenue but there's an expense component attached to those oh it's like a matching yeah so we had to um do more of a match yeah thanks for keeping on it so Central not necessary well they do look close to 140 versus 115 I'm looking Support Services 4,000 498 that was that was the actual audit as of last year and the 72 was what we were budgeting and then the 115 I could provide you the more information specific detailed information relative to the it that's what you you can provide that yeah I can provide you that I'll include it in your update I didn't bring that detail with questions thank you thank you any public comments uh we have a public comment from Beth well and there's nothing and we'll move on to miscellaneous I was just going to say Happy Easter to everyone um but then there was that that board brightener was just um amazing and yes I played a version of tic-tac-toe from Kenya and I lost twice to Olivia really quickly it was devastating but um no that that that word brightener was wonderful and it just brought up memories of when you know going to say how old I am but um in in my elementary school um we have had the privilege and this was in the the end of the 1970s um we had Rosa Parks come into our elementary and speak with us and it was just amazing so like this board brightener was just bringing back this kind of memories and um and just it's wonderful what a what a tribute um to Black History Month and uh quite amazing and I'm sure I'm going to miss something oh great job tonight board president this is your first time it is yay congratulations never done this yeah yeah but great job and again everyone happy Easter I thought that I was gonna start with the board I'm gonna start with gaming thought that I was a parent of another and that's just write my dad and then I had the pleasure of witnessing that an amazing brighter and I told him like yeah this is twenty 7 but thank you so much so uh yeah the board right now was amazing um just to been realized that young it seems like young people are really internalizing what black history not just reading it in a book They're engaged they're engaging other people and the gain was that's a game changer every other every future board brightener is like this or something like that that was wonderful it was very very engaging I learned from the young people who were here I I loved it also happy women's History Month probably made history and thank you Miss as you usually do not and as well I really really appreciate that because that is something that I think districts across the country are struggling with um but how do you handle the cell phone when you have parents not just to you but when you have parents say if there's an emergency I need my clock my kids to be able to reach me which is the valid point and then you have all of the distractions and the lack of education and the things that go along with having cell phones so I can appreciate you bringing that perspective that teachers pairs perspective to us so that we can further discuss um I want to say thank you well first of all this is a lot of people here usually you don't think as many faces but thank you for staying through the meeting is nice see somebody looking back at you okay anyway um thank you Miss Pratt such a wonderful boy brighter um that was so nice I remember playing in Cala um in elementary school I didn't lose it badly but I do remember a little bit I've been watching the article teacher um I didn't know he knew my son I was cutting up up here and just like I know your son and I was like oh stop playing around up here um but congratulations again to miss Pratt um for being teacher over here she is a wonderful teacher and a very very very good resource and asset to our district um I hope Miss murfs feels better um thank you to for your curriculum report um I've always and thank you to miss b or throw over as always and thank you as well for sharing that I love that conversation I mean we can share opinions right I'm a parent I think you know get them out of there to you know what I mean at the door or something and I'm I'm happy that we are talking about it I'm having a conversation it's going up because it is a really big issue in our district in District everywhere um cell phones yeah anyway um and I just wanted to ask super supportive conversation and I hope you can do something effective to all right father the same um right now it's great really Black History Month being celebrated in the district of schools congratulations Miss Brett yeah I have um 15 years so getting cell phones out of I know that's got to be difficult um maybe if we bring the kids to the people we can persuade them that that's good for them in the long run um and then uh I want to thank the architects they came tonight because this is the name that we see for both of those names we see many many times so it's good to uh see people some faces um yeah so same thing I I just want to thank our Elmwood staff for the board brightener so this control was here she is our principal Miss dob is in Miss McFarland State for the whole time so thank you for being here in addition Miss poxon who led things with the students and of course Mrs Pratt uh it was she is the second second elementary teacher within the last 3 years to be the uh elementary teacher of the year for the himself like so pretty cool I also want to thank again Mr smilnak with weekly he is our architect and then the car team Smith it was Mr gasmen and Miss Wyatt so thank you for being here kind of staying with us as well helping answer some questions uh just a reminder to everyone uh spring break is right around the corner so that is the week of March 30th so that we the 30th through the 3rd uh students do return on Monday the 6th so I wish everybody a great spring break please please say hopefully no 1 gets stranded anywhere they go away from here so but uh let's see everybody back on the 6th okay and I think uh it's my turn I just wanted to say thank you to everybody for coming out this evening um I want to say thank you to Elmwood all the staff and students that participated tonight it was great fun to play Tiffany my student here did a great job um Miss Pratt congratulations on being the mome county elementary teacher the year that craft right uh I want to thank all of the board members here for all their questions and comments I appreciate them um I think they're all very important I appreciate the administrators and all of your answers responses and presentations because a lot of time goes into that so thank you um I agree with Miss Wells about the the phone policy it's very difficult I think it's going to be a very difficult policy to consistently um push and get completed going I don't know how to say that but it's really important to go back to that and I think it's not only students but parents we have to reach out to to help them understand and then consistently um Monitor and um keep that up because it it can be difficult in a classroom to put these things into place when students aren't fully supportive having done in classrooms for a long time I understand the dilemma here but I guess if we try to keep it as positive as possible in the future if you know depending on what direction it goes in um I want to say everybody have a great bright and that would be it and I guess we'll call the meeting at 7:03 motion to adjourn all right

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