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CITY OF PALM BEACH GARDENS
EDUCATION ADVISORY BOARD
JANUARY 12, 2000
The January 12, 2000, Regular meeting of the City of Palm Beach Gardens Education
Advisory Board was called to order at 7:30 P.M. in the Council Chambers of the
Municipal Complex located at 10500 North Military Trail, Palm Beach Gardens,
Florida.
The roll was called and the following members were found to be in attendance: Chair
Wayne Anderson, Anne Berg, Scott Blake, John Gardner, Ilene Gerber, Judith
Hanrahan, Murtaza Kakli, Nancy Krause- Laurie, James Panoch, Jan Porter, and Ron
Sadaka. Students present were Adam Allgood, Andrea Kanner, Shewanna Manning,
and Christine Nelson.
Anne Berg made a motion to approve the minutes of the December 8, 1999 meeting as
submitted. Motion was seconded by Ron Sadaka and carried by unanimous vote.
® There was no guest speaker.
Committee Reports
Public Liaison - There was no report.
Boundaries - There was no report.
Curriculum - There was no report, as Charlotte Schiff was not present.
School Board Forum - Jim Panoch reported on a meeting with Tom Lynch as the
speaker. Mr. Lynch had discussed issues of early child education, class size, Health
Department, deregulation of schools, leadership (a CEO over the superintendent) ;
standardized school plans, parent involvement, and good School Board members.
Partnership - There was no report as Leslie Millar was not present.
SAC Member Signup
0 Allamanda Elementary - Chair Anderson reported the school improvement plan was
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Allamanda Elementary - Chair Anderson reported the school improvement plan was
still being formulated.
Palm Beach Gardens Elementary - Anne Berg reported there had been no meeting.
Timber Trace Elementary - There was no report.
Grove Park Elementary - There was no report since the representative was not present.
H. L. Watkins Middle - Murt Kakli reported from minutes of the meeting the main
discussion had been regarding Saturday school procedures for suspended students.
Watson B. Duncan Middle - There was no report.
School of the Arts Middle - Jan Porter reported conditions were being improved, air
conditioners were being replaced, the gym was to be re- opened, and the cafeteria was
serving a new type of sandwiches and allowing students to eat on the patio. Items
discussed by a consultant included air conditioning and a 4 -day week.
Palm Beach Gardens High - No one had volunteered to attend SAC meetings for this
school.
William T. Dwyer High - There was no report.
Suncoast High - There was no report.
Alexander W. Dreyfoos, Jr. School of the Arts - Jan Porter reported $114,000 had
been received for being an "A" school, and there had been discussion regarding how
to spend the money. Problems experienced by dance students were discussed,
including that they were not allowed to obtain honors. Summer classes were discussed.
North Tech - There was no report.
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A list of contacts for partnership programs was to be printed to be given to the
Principals at the SAC meetings.
Old Business
At the last meeting, City Council Liaison Jablin had suggested that the Board create
a list of criticisms of the "A +" school bonus program with alternatives solutions, and
that the City Council be requested to include these criticisms and solutions in a
Resolution to be sent to the Governor, and also to ask the other municipalities in the
County to look at the Resolution and also send it to the Governor. Criticisms of the
program were discussed, which were to be obtained from the tape of this meeting and
presented to the City for inclusion in a letter to Tallahassee.
Benchmarks were discussed. Ms. Schiff was sick and unable to attend the meeting to
present her report.
Chair Anderson reported Americorp paid people to be school volunteers and he would
find out more information on this program. The contact was Mr. Gibson, whose office
telephone was 651 -7304, pager 854 -9565.
New Business
Chair Anderson requested suggestions as to projects the Board could do to make a
difference. A suggestion was made to focus on the legislature because they were the
ones who could make changes, and to have members of the legislative delegation as
guest speakers. A meeting to be attended by all members of the City Council, all
school principals in the City, and the Education Advisory Board was suggested.
Personal contact with the members of the legislative delegation was discussed.
Inviting the Chairman of the Economic Council to be a guest speaker to discuss their
choice for School Board candidate was discussed.
• Chair Anderson proposed re- election of officers for next year and that nominations be
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presented at the next meeting, with the new officers taking office in June. Chair
Anderson announced that he would continue as Chair throughout the present school
year, and was not resigning, but it was a good idea to have a new person as
Chairperson.
Chair Anderson announced there was one opening on the Board, for which applications
had been submitted, and a group of Board members would be chosen to conduct
interviews.
Chair Anderson announced that a joint meeting of the School Board and the City
Council would be held January 14, and invited the Board members to attend. Mr.
Anderson commented that the representative from Golf Digest planned to attend, and
that the Board members needed to attend to hear what was discussed regarding school
® boundaries and new schools being built. Mr. Anderson reported that 16,687 new
residential units were being built, and in order to accommodate the new growth in
population the City would need to know where the schools were needed.
Scott Blake announced he would go to the legislature and hopefully would schedule a
guest speaker.
The need to brainstorm priorities was discussed.
The next meeting was announced for February 9, 2000.
Comments from the members included caution that the Board should not take on too
much, but that the main issue was the Forum for the candidates. Scott Blake was
mentioned as a possible Chairperson.
Adjournment
The meeting was adjourned at 9:30 p.m.
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