QEC Agenda 2.25.2025COMMITTEE FOR QUALITY EDUCATION
City of Miami Beach Tuesday, February 25, 2025
James Orlowsky, Chairperson 9:00am-11:00am
AGENDA
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“The Committee of Quality Education was established in 1999 to guide the city’s efforts towards providing the best education possible in Miami
Beach schools. The committee is vested with the power and authority to make recommendations to the city commissions and to investigate,
develop and carry out plans to promote and ensure the provision of quality education in Miami Beach schools.”
Location – City Manager’s Large Conference Room 1700 Convention Center Drive 4th Floor (City Hall)
Members: Rina Bass, Donielle Cohen, Laurie Kaye Davis, Evie Fernandez, Seth Guttenberg, Miriam
Haskell, Beverly Heller, Mary Keinath, Beth Edwards, Faiza Liban, James Orlowsky, Amy Ostroff, Christine
Perrin-Stocco, Jacquelynn Powers, Jonathan Rothman, Karen Fryd, Hayley Ross, Elizabeth Soto, Ayala
Jeger
Commissioners David Suarez and Alex Fernandez
City of Miami Beach Liaison: Dr Leslie Rosenfeld
Welcome & Introductions
Minutes approval for January 21, 2025
Status of Motions –
Commission Meeting items
1. C4B (Rosen Gonzalez) February 3, 2025 Music Festival Programming referral to QEC
2. C4R Referral (Meiner) NQLC and C4AE Referral (Richardson) MBSH Drop off and
Pick Up – February 25, 2022 Finance Meeting discussed. $175,000 recommended
as match to MDCPS and Miami Dade County – waiting on Transportation team
update
3. C4E MBSH Scoreboard STATUS –Installed early February
4. C7H Sept. 11 Commission Meeting Reso to negotiate agreement with MDCPS for
use of MBFFK8 parking lots to fund future initiatives at MB public schools with
portion for MB schools and portion to MDCPS to use at their discretion
5. C7 AG May 15 Commission meeting A RESOLUTION OF THE MAYOR AND CITY
COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF MIAMI BEACH, FLORIDA, WAIVING DIRECT COST FEES
ASSOCIATED WITH USING THE CITY’S PARKS AND RECREATIONAL FACILITIES UP TO
TWO (2) TIMES PER ELIGIBLE SCHOOL YEAR EACH SCHOOL YEAR FOR ALL ELIGIBLE
SCHOOLS (K-12) WITH ACTIVE MEMBERSHIP ON THE CITY’S COMMITTEE FOR
QUALITY EDUCATION. Commissioner David Suarez sponsored – Economic
Development FERC item not heard
6. R7E December 2024 – Pilot Metal Detector Program Beach High
7. C7AD Pre K expansion to 225 scholarship for 2025-26
8. C4AP Referral (February 2, 2025) to FERC Beach High Field funding request
9. February 26 Commission Agenda Items C4 G REFERRAL TO THE PLANNING BOARD – LAND USE INCENTIVES FOR SCHOOL
AND EDUCATION FACILITIES.
Applicable Area: Citywide
Planning
Commissioner Alex Fernandez
Commissioner David Suarez
C4 M REFERRAL TO THE LAND USE AND SUSTAINABILITY COMMITTEE TO DISCUSS
POSSIBLE CONVERSION OF 7605 COLLINS AVENUE INTO A MARINE SCIENCE
EDUCATION CENTER AND MUSEUM.
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Applicable Area: North Beach
Office of Commissioner David Suarez
Commissioner David Suarez
C4 T REFERRAL TO THE PUBLIC SAFETY AND NEIGHBORHOOD QUALITY OF LIFE
COMMITTEE TO DISCUSS THE POLICE DEPARTMENT’S MINIMUM AGE AND
EDUCATIONAL REQUIREMENTS FOR THE HIRING OF CERTIFIED POLICE
OFFICERS AND POLICE OFFICER TRAINEES.
Applicable Area: Citywide
Office of Commissioner Alex Fernandez
Commissioner Alex Fernandez
C4 X REFERRAL TO THE PUBLIC SAFETY AND NEIGHBORHOOD QUALITY OF LIFE
COMMITTEE TO DISCUSS A POTENTIAL PARKING PROGRAM WITH
DISCOUNTED PARKING RATES FOR EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS AND
EDUCATION-RELATED ORGANIZATIONS.
Applicable Area: Citywide
Office of Commissioner Alex Fernandez
Commissioner Alex Fernandez
C4 AI REFERRAL TO THE FINANCE AND ECONOMIC RESILIENCY COMMITTEE AND
THE QUALITY EDUCATION COMMITTEE TO CONSIDER EXPANDING THE CITY'S
PREKINDERGARTEN SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM TO INCLUDE OPTIONS FOR
THREE-YEAR-OLD STUDENTS
Applicable Area: Citywide
Office of Commissioner Laura Dominguez
Commissioner Laura Dominguez
C4 AJ REFERRAL TO THE COMMITTEE FOR QUALITY EDUCATION IN MIAMI BEACH
TO DISCUSS IDENTIFYING A PUBLIC SCHOOL IN THE CITY TO HOST THE HIGH
SCHOOL YOUTH CAMP.
Applicable Area: Citywide
Office of Commissioner Kristen Rosen Gonzalez
Commissioner Kristen Rosen Gonzalez
C7 W A RESOLUTION OF THE MAYOR AND CITY COMMISSION OF MIAMI BEACH,
FLORIDA, APPROVING AND AUTHORIZING AN ANNUAL ALLOCATION OF $3,000
TO EACH OF THE CITY’S SIX ADVISORY COMMITTEES ADDRESSING HUMAN
AND CIVIL RIGHTS (I.E., THE HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE, CITY OF MIAMI
BEACH COMMISSION FOR WOMEN, DISABILITY ACCESS COMMITTEE, BLACK
AFFAIRS ADVISORY COMMITTEE, HISPANIC AFFAIRS COMMITTEE, AND
LGBTQIA+ ADVISORY COMMITTEE) IN THE TOTAL AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED
$18,000 IN THE AGGREGATE, TO ENABLE THESE COMMITTEES TO SPONSOR
EDUCATIONAL, COMMUNITY-WIDE EVENTS THROUGHOUT THE YEAR,
SUBJECT TO CITY MANAGER’S APPROVAL.
Applicable Area: Citywide
City Attorney
Commissioner Alex Fernandez
C7 AB A RESOLUTION OF THE MAYOR AND CITY COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF MIAMI
BEACH, FLORIDA, ADDING THE EXPANSION OF FUNDING FOR THE
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VOLUNTARY PREKINDERGARTEN (VPK) EDUCATION PROGRAM TO COVER
THE COST OF A FULL-DAY PREKINDERGARTEN PROGRAM FOR ALL
STUDENTS, AND TO INCLUDE PROGRAM OPTIONS FOR THREE-YEAR-OLD
STUDENTS TO THE CITY’S LIST OF 2025 STATE LEGISLATIVE PRIORITIES.
Applicable Area: Citywide
City Attorney
Commissioner Laura Dominguez
Education Compact
• Safety / Traffic –
• MBSH Drop Off Lane – County Commissioner Micky Steinberg to return in 6 months
• MDCPS School Operations school time start and end times (-MDCPS)
• Communication
• School Board update – legislative issues update
• Feeder Pattern Update
• Student Achievement
• STEAM Plus 2025-26 start date August 2025
• Parental Involvement/Family Support/Youth and Community Engagement
• Trust for Public Land – Biscayne Beach field partnership under design
• Technology
• STEM equipment for Charter/Private Schools – all agreements routed for execution.
Then purchasing begins.
• Teacher Recruitment/Retention
• Teach at the Beach – Substitute Teacher Incentive Program
• Teacher Appreciation Event May 12 2025 – will have registration process beginning in
February 2025 for all school teachers
• Health / Mental Health
• Current mental health city support status and expansion for virtual health support
through MDCPS/Hazel Health (SPE, FF, NMS, BB)
• New Business / Announcement
• Washington Avenue Residential incentive (Suarez)
• Field Improvements - Asking QEC to support an allocation of funds by COMB
towards improvements to the MBSH athletic field amenities. The commission
has voted to refer it to the budget committee.
• Vape World (vape shop) - Concerns about the proximity of a vape shop that is
planning to open at the corner of Dade Blvd & Alton Road to the high school.
• Miami Musical Festival Programming
• Blue Zones Update
• Fienberg Fisher Infrastructure
• MBSH 100th Anniversary
• Adjournment
FUTURE MEETING DATES:
3/18/25
4/22/25
5/20/25