Dr. Jeff Holness from the Broward County School Board. Mr. Abert, did you want to introduce? Sure, as you know, the partnership that Oakland Park has with this public schools here in Broward has been a close and longstanding one. We're grateful for all of the effort that the school has put into rehabbing and adding to the schools here in Oakland Park, including Northeast High School, which we recently opened the new building there and the work that's being done at Rickards. Earlier this past week, I had a great good fortune of visiting with the new Chief Oper operating officer at the Broward School's District to talk about a challenge that we've been facing with the mitigation fees and I'm encouraged that that line of communication remains open when Dr. Holness called and suggested that perhaps it was time for an opportunity for him to visit with us. We were delighted as we always are to welcome members of the for him to visit with us. We were delighted, as we always are, to welcome members of the School Board to visit with our community. And so without further ado, Dr. Holness, if you would. Thank you so much, Mayor. It's good to see you and Congress as well. And thank you Vice Mayor. I know you're on the phone. It's a pleasure to be here commissioners and our city manager as well as our city clerk and the attendees. And it's great to see food passing around. It's a good way to set the pace for our school board presentation. So I just like to mention that if you look at the slide that we're bringing up and Ms. Janice, if you could go to the next page, I am going to provide an overview of the 2024 student performance outcome. We're going to look at District 5, City of Oakland Park Limits and we're also going to look at the focus which is a new software for taking attendance and so on that replaces our prior software and we're also going to give you an update on redefining of our schools as well as a facilities update and any questions that you may have. So thank you so much. So if we go to the next slide, you will notice on the next slide that we do deserve a round of applause because Broward County is now an A district for the first time in 14 years. And as you can see from the presentation, we have 82 of our schools with a grade of A, 62 with a grade of B, and 69 with a grade of C. Now for the first time since 1999, there are no D's or F schools in Broward County and that as well deserves a round of applause. Now as it relates to Oakland Park, Oakland Park, I represent District 5 and Oakland Park, there's a small part of Oakland Park that's in my district and so I felt it would be really important to come by and give you some updates. And basically the cities, the schools in Oakland Park would be Lloyd Estates Elementary, North Andrews Garden Elementary, Oakland Park Elementary, James Ricketts Middle and Northeast High. And as the city manager mentioned, we have put a significant amount of work into Northeast. And thank you, sir, for recognizing that. And also Rickids, we are going to complete Rickids and we're doing major renovation on Rickids as well. slide. Now on the next slide you will see the this number of students in my district basically the part of Oakland Park that attend school. So for Oriole Elementary we have 128 students from my portion of Oakland Park that is attending Oriole Elementary. We also have 91 students, Rock Island Elementary, 76 Lauderdale Lakes Middle, and 49 William Dandy Middle, and Bordanderson High School, 139 of our students. So we'll go to the next page. Now on the next page, Now on the next page it's the new focus software and I am sure if we have parents in the audience today you recognize that the district is now using a new software as it relates to student schedule grades attendance discipline forms scores, and so on. Now that particular software also, if you have ESC children, children with learning challenges, disabilities, there's part of that software as well that replaces the original software that we had that would take care of IEP documentation, which is individual education plans for our ESC students. We are working diligently to iron out the wrinkles with regards to this software and to provide training to staff to make sure that they are able to use the software efficiently and to access information as it pertains to our regular students and our ESC students. I challenge our superintendent to continue to have on going training with our staff at different schools to make sure that they understand how to use focus and we believe that focus will eventually the staff will get properly trained and focus will be a great software for our staff and our parents and our students. Now in regards to redefining schools which is our next slide on June 18, 2024 the board directed the superintendent of schools to take district-wide action to expand programmatic options at our schools recommend the closure of at least five schools and develop a plan to attract students back to Broward County public schools. Over the last several years, Broward County schools have lost students. We have had increased competition from private charter schools and there are other factors as well that contributed to our last. We currently have about 43,000 empty seats in Brwkani schools, which necessitate us having to look at repurposing schools and the possibility as well of closing some schools. This will allow us to function more efficiently. For those of you who know how schools are funded, schools are funded based upon FTE dollar, which is per student. So when a school is significantly under enrolled, we still have to maintain the grounds of that school the facilities with the funding that we receive specific to the enrollment of that school. So it lends itself to not utilizing the FTE dollar as much as we should with schools that are significantly enrolled. So that's the reason we're looking at repurposing schools and the possibility of closing some schools as well. Now as a dedicated member of the school board I firmly believe that the community involvement is paramount in the decision-making of redefining our schools. Throughout this initiative I have consistently emphasized the importance of engaging our community members and stakeholders in this in discussions that impact our educational system. Over the summer, broad county public school staff have been committed to meeting with stakeholders, including but not limited to municipalities, district committees, and advisory chairs, faith-based communities, civic organizations, parent advisories, business, and industrial partners and a broader community. This inclusive engagement ensures that diverse perspectives are considered and that all stakeholders have a voice in shape in the future of our schools. As an ongoing effort staff will continue to meet with stakeholders, there are currently two policies impacting the redefend of our schools, which is Policies 6 to 400 and Policies 8 to 10. We recently discussed Policies 8 to 10, which is policy 6 to 400 and policy 8010. We recently discussed policy 8010, which is school boundaries, and policy 6 to 400 school tries. We will continue our discussion of that in subsequent meeting. So we'll go to the next slide. Now, Superintendent Dr. Hepburn and staff have identified opportunities for deep community engagement focusing on school groups into clusters to facilitate meaningful interactions. These meetings will provide both staff and community with a chance to explore programmatic opportunities tailored to meet the specific needs of each cluster. To be clear, these school clusters are not selected for repurposing our closure. The objective is to foster a constructive dialogue that effectively address challenges unique to each community's culture. So we'll go to the next slide. Now this week, the district has initiated its series of community meetings. I was at the first meeting which was at Dillard High School and we had a subsequent meeting as well at Fort Lauderdale High and as you can see from the PowerPoint that there will continue to be further meetings Miss Janice if you could go to the next one and the next one I think actually we, do we have the, actually if you could go back just a little bit, go back just a little bit. Okay, yes, I'm so sorry. So the next meeting will be Thursday, September 19th at Piper High School and I will be at that meeting and then we also have another community meeting Monday, September 23rd at Everglades High School, Monday, September 30th at South Broward High School and Wednesday, September 25th at Charles Flanagan, Thursday, September 26th at Miramar High School. So when you look at the schools to be discussed, if you have students at any of those schools and you feel that you want to share your input. Please attend one of these meetings. We are valuing your input at these meetings and your input will guide the process as to which schools we repurpose. What do we bring to those schools and which schools we will close. So it's really important that you are there that you are present to help us because in fact we redirect the superintendent at our last workshop to finish all of the community meetings before we make any final decisions on repurposing any schools or closing any schools. So we're asking the attendees and those who are listening if you see a school that is on that list that you feel you want to have an input please attend these meetings. So we'll go to the next page. Now September 11 through 18 was where we had meetings with identified municipalities and district committees and advisory chairs on September 17 the school board held a workshop focusing on discussing the components of the redefining and boundary process. Following the discussion from the workshop, please note that the adoption of the redefining and boundary resolution has been rescheduled to October 15th, instead of the previous plan September 24th. Throughout this process, there will be ongoing program review of magnet and innovative programs as well as take hold on community meetings together input on redefining. And we'll go to the next. Now speaking of two schools in Oakland Park that we have invested significantly as a school district you have James Rickard's middle. The allocated budget is $82.7 million, and that will include a three story building, administrative offices, classrooms, music, and art room, media center, science lab, indoor gym, and you can see that beautiful building on the PowerPoint. As well as Northeast High, we invested $47 million to have a scope of work, which include ADA renovations, H-Back improvements, fire alarm and sprinklers, re-roofing, electrical improvements, safety security upgrades, and new addition and renovation to build in 12. So as you can see, there are quite a lot of things happening in our district and our district is a $5 billion district in terms of our budget and we try to do our best to make sure that we are spending money in the right places and we are also listening to our stakeholders and our community. So I want to just thank you again for having me. It is certainly an opportunity for me to be here and if you have any questions, we open the questions.