EAB Meeting Minutes 2019-05-16EDUCATION ADVISORY BOARD
THURSDAY, MAY 16, 2019
MIAMI SHORES VILLAGE HALL CONFERENCE ROOM
6:00 PM
The meeting was called to order at 6:00 pm by Mr. Netto with the following members present:
Antonio Netto
Tiffany Anderson
Patricia Walker
Douglas Garber
Sylvie Duerkopf
1. Public Comments
No public comments were offered.
2. Ysabely informed the board that the Village Manager would meet with the EAB subcommittee
and use the committee’s input when conducting negotiations with the School District, but he and
the Village Attorney would be the only representatives from the Village at the negotiations
meetings.
The Board agreed that the subcommittee should schedule a meeting with Mr. Benton and the
attorney to inform them of our requests for the negotiations.
Mr. Garber moved to request that Ms. Rodriguez would contact Mr. Benton to agree on a timeline
for the upcoming negotiations with the District and to communicate our request to meet with Mr.
Benton prior to negotiations with the District. Ms. Walker seconded, and the motion passed
unanimously.
3. The Board agreed to ask Ms. Vignale to present detailed information about the two programs,
Cambridge and iPrep, and how they would be implemented at MSE. Ms. Duerkopf added that it
would be beneficial to add a foreign language component to the curriculum.
The Board suggested June 3, 2019 as the desired date to meet and have Ms. Vignale present the
information about iPrep and Cambridge. If that date is not possible, it was agreed that we would
wait until the June 20th regularly scheduled meeting.
4. Mr. Garber moved to approve the minutes from the April 18, 2019, meeting and Mr. Netto
seconded. The motion passed unanimously.
5. Ms. Rodriguez previously sent a letter to the MSE PTA, on behalf of the board, regarding
appointing a new representative to our Board. The PTA President, Stephanie Scher, agreed that
we need a new representative and asked whether it should be a PTA member or just any
interested parent. The Board would prefer a member of the PTA and Ms. Rodriguez agreed to
contact Ms. Scher.
6. The meeting was adjourned at 7:28 pm.
Next regular meeting: Thursday, June 20, 2019, at 6:00pm in the Village Hall Conference Room.
Arrived late: Leslie Fraser
Absent: Dana Vignale
Also present: Ysabely Rodriguez, Village Clerk