HomeMy WebLinkAboutMinutes EAB 090998CITY OF PALM BEACH GARDENS
EDUCATION ADVISORY BOARD
SEPTEMBER 9, 1998
The September 9, 1998, Regular meeting of the City of Palm Beach Gardens Education
Advisory Board was called to order at 7:35 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 were found to be in attendance: Alan Adams,
Monica Adams, Chair Wayne Anderson, Anne Berg, Scott Blake, Ilene Gerber, Mary
Inglis, Vice Chair Leslie Millar, Murtaza Kakil, and Ron Sedaka. Two students, Adam
Allgood and Jordan Everett , and City Council Liaison Eric Jablin were also present.
Absent from the meeting were Nona Helsel, Deborah Martel, Jan Porter, Lisa Ridgley,
Karen Robinson, Alan Sara, and Tesula Stewart.
The minutes of the August 12, 1998 meeting were reviewed. Alan Adams pointed out
that since there was more than one ad hoc committee, the minutes should be changed
to identify the committee as Ad Hoc Committee for Business School Partnership, and
that the words "Business School" should be inserted in front of the word "Partnership"
on the last page. Alan Adams made a motion to accept the minutes of the August 12,
1998 meeting as amended. Motion was seconded by Alan Adams and unanimously
carried.
Chair of the Public Liaison Committee Mary Inglis reported that the committee had met
and completed their end of the year report, that she had called everyone on Monday
night to remind them of this meeting, and that she had brought a new member to the
meeting.
Chair of the Boundary Committee Ron Sedaka reported that the committee had met and
prepared their annual report which would be typed and turned in by Friday.
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Chair Alan Adams reported that the Curriculum Committee had met and prepared their
annual report, and had decided to continue the following activities for the coming year:
to continue the literacy K thru 3 program, to monitor vocational schools, and to look
more closely at the pupil progression plan to see what it is and how it is being
implemented in the schools.
Vice Chair Leslie Millar reported she had worked on a partnership program for her
school and had Lens Crafters in that program, who had a project called "Home Town
Days" in which they provided free eye exams and glasses to any student who needed
them. Lens Crafters agreed to partner with Allamanda but since they only had a limited
number of eyeglass frames to fit small children, requested a middle school also.
Howell Watkins was suggested. Ms. Millar stated she would contact the principal of
Howell Watkins regarding this matter. During discussion of the difficulty reported by
Ms. Millar in making contact with the Allamanda school principal, Mr. Adams stressed
the importance of having a SAC member at every school who could make those kinds
of contacts. Eric Jablin reported he and Ms. Millar would work on the brochures that
weekend. Councilman Jablin reported he had had a conversation with the Director of
Operations at LRP Publishing Company that day who agreed to meet to discuss a role
for them in this program. Councilman Jablin commented that LRP Publishing had
relocated here from Pennsylvania and were having trouble getting qualified people to
fill their positions. Mr. Adams questioned whether schools had been contacted to see
if they had other partnerships. Chair Anderson suggested the schools be contacted so
that conflicts in partnerships could be avoided.
City Council Liaison Eric Jablin reported about 150 people had attended the School
Board Candidates Forum at Palm Beach Gardens High School on August 22. Mr.
• Jablin reported the students did a wonderful job of producing a quality tape for
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television, which was aired twice on successive Mondays. An ad was placed in the
Palm Beach Post for the second airing. Mr. Jablin reported Jim Brosner did a great job
of moderating and thanked Alan, Monique, and Deborah for working hard on this
project. Mr. Jablin commented that the questions were very good. It was reported that
the forum on Channel 42 had included all candidates and was only 45 minutes long, so
that each candidate only basically had time to make one statement. Another member
reported that efforts had been made to get most of the residents of Palm Beach Gardens
to see the tape, and commented that it would be interesting to see if more residents had
voted this time. Suggestions for next year's forum were to make signs visible on the
tape, and to give each candidate a chance to answer every question, as well as
questions from the floor, and possibly to lengthen the time to allow that. Alan Adams
commented he had had two tapes made from the master which he would loan out. A
member commented that only six of the members of this Board had been present, and
expressed her opinion that all members of the Board should have attended to show the
public they considered this an important matter. It was reported that Riviera Beach had
had a large turnout. Mr. Jablin commented that this had been the first time and was a
learning experience, and that he hoped to have more participation the next time. Others
commented on how good the forum had been.
Allamanda SAC had not met.
Palm Beach Gardens Elementary SAC had met, introduced new members and
discussed when to hold meetings.
Timbertrace Elementary SAC had met, introduced new members, invited participation,
and scheduled meetings.
Chair Anderson commented he felt one of the most important things this Board could
do was to have a SAC member for each school to establish a communication link with
the schools. Chair Anderson passed around a sign -up sheet for those schools who
• needed SAC representatives. Chair Anderson requested that if someone could not
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attend any of the SAC meetings that they sign up to report back to the Board on the
School Board meetings aired on Channel 20.
Chair Anderson reported that several dependable members were being lost and needed
to be replaced with other quality members. Chair Anderson stated a need to establish
an ad hoc membership committee. Mr. Adams explained the procedure that the prior
year's committee had followed. Several members volunteered to serve on the
committee. City Council Liaison Jablin indicated he would obtain the dates that Board
members' terms expired, but believed it would be after January. Alan Adams reported
that according to his records there were three Board members who had missed several
meetings and should no longer be members. Mr. Jablin reported the City was going to
• set terms for Board members for 2 years mining from November to November, with
two consecutive terms available. Chair Anderson listed the members of the Ad Hoc
Membership Committee: Eric Jablin, Chair, Alan Adams, Wayne Anderson, Leslie
Millar, Jordan Everett, and Monique Adams.
Chair Anderson reported that Nona Helsel had been nominated as Historian at the last
meeting; however, he had been unable to reach her, and it had been suggested she
would make a good Chair for the Curriculum Committee. One of the students had
volunteered to serve as Historian if Ms. Helsel did not want to serve.
Ron Sedaka made a motion to withdraw the nomination for Nona Helsel as Historian.
Lisa Ridgely nominated Adam Allgood to serve as Historian. Ron Sedaka seconded
the motion, which carried unanimously.
• It was reported by Chair Ron Sedaka that the Boundary Committee would like to
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continue to provide an annual forum for the ABC Committee to interact with Palm
Beach Gardens residents, to continue to monitor concurrency issues, to continue to
monitor proposed legislation that impacts concurrency and boundaries, and to continue
to examine boundary lines and inform the residents of proposed changes and provide
a forum in which opinions can be voiced. After an announcement that safety was now
included in this committee's scope, Chair Sedaka indicated he would go back to the
committee for safety goals.
Chair of the Public Liaison Committee Mary Inglis proposed a hot line or some way
the residents could provide input and ask questions, and explained that the Committee's
main goal was to assist the public in learning what kind of resources were available to
meet their problems. Mr. Adams questioned whether the existing City hot line could
be utilized for this. City Council Liaison Jablin volunteered to check with the employee
who handled the hot line.
Alan Adams stated the Curriculum Committee planned to continue with K through 3
literacy programs, to continue with the Board students providing tutoring to the three
elementary schools, to possibly act as a catalyst between the school organizations of
the High School to provide students to go into the elementary schools as tutors, and to
expand to adult tutors who could go into the schools during the normal school day. Mr.
Adams described a Riviera Beach summer school program which accommodated 600
students. Attendance at the Riviera Beach Education Advisory Board's meeting was
discussed.
Guest speakers were discussed. It was the consensus of the Board that invitations to
each meeting be sent each month to the principals and assistant principals of all the
schools. It was decided to ask Amelia Ostrosky, Principal of Middle School of the
Arts, to be guest speaker for next mouth.
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There being no further business to discuss, the meeting was adjourned at 8:50 p.m.
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ylioorlty Students are drsmattenlly underrepresented In classes and programs
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continue to document the inequldes our ehildrai experience is school everyday. The
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RIVIERA BEACH HEARING: Date: October 10, 1998
Place: Riviera Beach City Commission Chambers
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tme:10:00 am. to 4:00 pm.
If you would tike to testify at this heating, please codtnct Corff WELL1A�tS Az
561 - 171.7700 ext.iS to testify. These events are open to the entire commutliry,
However, If you do not reserve a time for your testimony. we cannot guarantee
{ that you will be provided an opportunity to share your experiences.
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