QEC Minutes 1.21.2025COMMITTEE FOR QUALITY EDUCATION
City of Miami Beach Tuesday, January 21, 2025
9:00am-11:00am
MINUTES
If you are unable to attend, please call Dr. Leslie Rosenfeld, Committee Liaison, at 305.323.2717
Members Present: Rina Bass, Laurie Kaye Davis, Beverly Heller, Karen Fryd, Seth Guttenberg, Mary
Keinath, Faiza Liban, James Orlowsky, Jacquelynn Powers, Jonathan Rothman, Hayley Ross, Elizabeth
Soto, and Ayala Jeger Mendlowitz
Members Absent: Donielle Cohen, Beth Edwards, Evie Fernandez, Amy Ostroff, Christine Perrin-Stocco,
and Devorah Zeiger
Motion 1
Made by Beverly Heller
Second by Seth Guttenberg
The Committee for Quality Education requests the Mayor and Commission address the parking issues
throughout Miami Beach as it relates to teacher parking at public, private, and charter schools during
school days each school year.
The Committee for Quality Education urges the Mayor and Commission to support the above request.
Motion Passage: Votes 11-0
Absent for Vote: Mary Keinath and Jacquelynn Powers
Motion 2
Made by Beverly Heller
Second by Seth Guttenberg
The Committee for Quality Education requests the Mayor and Commission include the following in the
City’s 2025 legislative priorities:
• Expand fund for the Voluntary Prekindergarten (VPK) education program sufficient to cover the
cost of a full-day Prekindergarten program for all students
• Expand VPK to include program options for three-year old students
The Committee for Quality Education urges the Mayor and Commission to support the above request.
Motion Passage: Votes 11-0
Absent for Vote: Mary Keinath and Jacquelynn Powers
Minutes approved for November 19, 2024
Status of Motions discussed –
Commission Meeting items
1. 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
2. C4E MBSH Scoreboard STATUS –Install scheduled for early February
3. 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
4. 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
5. Teacher Appreciation Event (one-time) May 12, 2025 from 5 pm – 8 pm
6. C4P July 24, 2024 referral to referral to PSNQLC in September Polo Park and
MBNMS Fence discussion. Heard at October PSNQLC and approved. Approved
December Commission
7. R7E December 2024 – Pilot Metal Detector Program Beach High
8. C7J Donation of golf cart to MB Nautilus Middle School (December 2024)
Education Compact discussd
• 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)
• Adjournment
FUTURE MEETING DATES:
2/25/25
3/18/25
4/22/25
5/20/25