good evening my name is shelley freeland any i am the mayor for the city of sarasota and i'm on behalf of the city commission commissioner hagen brody's here raise your hand say hello our city auditor and clerk miss natalie is here on behalf of the city we were so pleased that booker approached us to ask us to participate in helping to induct your officers into the bunker middle school in our act club and so we thought let's do the best that we can to make this as realistic and memorable an experience as possible so we thought why not have them come to city commission chambers to be sworn in as officers so we are pleased to host your interact club to be installed for officers for this fiscal period we're just going to i know she has a team of teachers that work with her as well and i don't know your names and i'm sorry but thank you also to the rotary club that sponsoring this event this evening let's get the rotary club to han and as i said you know half of the city of sarasota we don't get these opportunities as often as we'd like to actually do civics in action and for us this was a way for us to infuse being an elected official and education in a way that's interactive and meaningful and we apologize for the rain but we thank you for coming out this evening and if we don't have anything else will go in turn it over to d you and of course we are thrilled at booker middle school as mayor shelley said i am dr frost the proud principal of booker middle school and it's my pleasure to be here tonight for this very special event booker medal of course is a sailor a soda county public school for students grades six through eight with the desire for intensive study and the academics and the arts booker middle school a track student with talent and dant am as you look around this room i'm sure many of the students here tonight are involved in our v p a music theater creative writing visual arts and technology high academic standard couple with broad arts curriculum we offer students an opportunity to excel and chosen disciplines with which they can prepare themselves for post secondary education book or medal also attract students not only from sarasota county but we are proud that we to attract students from manatee county so i imagine that not just sarasota county students but manatee county students as well we are thrilled of course that we have a very nurturing faculty at booker middle school teachers that go over and beyond the call of duty we are thrilled about that this very nurturing staff of course offers each of our students the opportunity to excel and scholastics and the arts and of course and their ability to flourish artistically we are also thrilled that students can find a wide range of rigorous academic offerings including honors courses the secondary cambridge and our national program an exceptional education courses a spectrum of courses which also provides our students the opportunity to obtain high school credits as well so as you've heard tonight booker middle school has many many amazing programs right student raise your hand if you believe it and so tonight we are thrilled to stand before you as sarasota county public schools first middle school to have an an r ag and club i'm sorry so that and itself deserves a round of applau because it truly shows that we as a school are leading the way and terms of exposing our kids to many wonderful opportunities and more importantly i believe that we are preparing our students to become productive citizens of this great community and of our society so we're thrilled about that our students are committed to growing in our society and our community and as leaders we are so excited tonight and i am going to leave you with something that emily dickinson said students and as i state these words i want you to think about it i want you to take it to heart and i want you to be committed to these very words she stated we never know how high we are to we are called to rise and then if we are true to the plan our statures touch the skies reach for the stars tonight students and enjoy this special opportunity booker middle school loves you your principal loves you and we are so excited about this evening at this time i also like to introduce to everyone tonight booker middle school's enter at club sponsor and a dedicated staff member to our school we've loved her she works hard she goes over and beyond the call of duty and we are thrilled tonight to present to you to share more information about the n r i club not other you dr frost we couldn't do it without her support and her and courage meant to have a group like this we have had a group for many years but this just makes our group just top of the line because of rotary club i want to say one thing we had scheduled this for a couple of weeks ago so with irma just deciding to come on in make her a little entrance we didn't get to make our entrance on time  so we are missing some of our students with conflicts of scheduling so one of our officers is not able to make it tonight but the rest of them are here we actually have probably about sixty  students right now we have probably i think there's sort of five or forty kids here now so twenty of them are missing a lot of the kids are very involved in the community acting in town so a lot of them are at practice and in fact a couple of our students are going to have to leave right after the induction ceremony because they are going to go to practice but let me tell you when we were brought up this was brought to us about doing the interact club we did not question at all we said yes we would love to be the first booker the first middle school to have an anorak club and so we are so so proud to be part of the rotary i want to introduce our actual sponsor that is sponsoring us and then he will introduce all the officers that are here  from our rotary group is mr steve clarke thank you so much and i hope that you'll get everything out of it that that most other interact or do i want to make a couple of comments before we get too far down the line and but before i do that i want to introduce the rotary members that to recognize that because it's kind of important to us and rotary unfortunately has missed greenwald mention this was rescheduled and so his his schedule was conflicted and he could be here tonight but eventually i'll get him and  e'll meet all youngsters but now what is wrong i think that it's important that we talk about that briefly because you're about to embark on on that voyage and and you should understand what it's about programs in our local local communities and worldwide we work from a four way test that i would encourage you as interact members to adopt as a guiding principle for your activity but in the things they say and do that the truth is that fair to all concerned well of the good will and better friendships and will it be beneficial to all concerned ok but that beginning each meeting would encourage the president of the club to use those words now i would also tell you that interact there are three hundred and thirty eight thousand young people in one hundred thirty nine countries in or interact club in not an amazing and they're all out there trying to do good work for our communities and on an international scale it's just incredible to me fourteen thousand seven hundred interact club and interact was started by twenty three kids and guess what milburn high school in florida so florida is the home of interact i will now turn art hot meeting our agenda over to our president elect and she's going to induct on iraq members into the club tell plage h say that first and that deborah let me have you come forward where did you despair first thing i'm going to do is a certificate of organization that way we have the organization f all right interactors i'm so excited to be here i can't tell you guys enough there are a lot of things that are going on in the world right now that were actually started by the efforts of rotarians our president right now is at the u n a lot of people don't realize that the u n was started with the efforts of rotarians and the reason why is because peace initiatives are one of the biggest things that we really promote around the world and y to sorry i'm a texan so that's going to come out occasionally and you all have a chance to really support peace efforts within your school and what does that mean middle school is one of the hardest times in anyone's life and that's because our bodies are changing and we get to sort of be really are and figure out who we are as individuals and there's a lot of tensions and you all see that every day and in the halls and for you to step up and be able to stick up for the underdog and help out when you maybe see something that's not quite right your voice is going to be so powerful and that in terms of peace but also for education that's another the big initiatives that rotary does throughout the world really push  education and literacy and so those two initiatives more than anything and i cannot stress enough the four principles that i'm going to ask you guys to abide by in a second i want to really reiterate this again and then a of same with me one is that the truth that's important in everything that you say in life to always think about that is it the truth to you is it fair to all concerned is it fair to all concerned i mean not only you but everybody around you number three will build goodwill and better friendships and the number four is it will be beneficial to all concerned so that's a great thing to live your life by so that said and like each of you guys to stand up please interact clubby and speak any are looking at you all right  i'd like each of you to raise your right hand ok and repeat after me i agree to abide by the princip maintain good academic and behavior standards agree to set good examples are my fellow  i pronounce it right because it's really important to get a name ok right the treasure anthony lo you and i'm the incoming president but not the current president our current president is david bowman who is actually just coming from a meeting so he's able to make it on time no more goodies you have now been inducted as officers into the pick a middle school in iraq club however on behalf of the sarasota city of sarasota we have one more step that we'd like to take and i'm going to ask our city auditor and clerk to join me at this time and i will ask commissioner brody if you will go to the far left and i will stand here and we have certificates that we'd like to present to each of the officers each officer or receive a letter from the city auditor and clerk's office what they certificate with a proclamation that shows that they are official officers and with the things of the city of sarasota as we present that what we like to do is as we present each officer with their information we would like the parents of each member to come forward and join them during this time so we're going to start with the president miss good evening everyone my name is pamela natalie me i am the city auditor and clerk and this evening i like to go ahead and swear in the officers on behalf of the city of sarasota and actually mayor all of the peers to come down and join your kids and we're going to begin the swearing in but we're going to do it all as one ok the officers please raise your right hand and repeat after me i state your name the constitution and government of the united states and the state of florida and the charter and ordinances of the city of sarasota that i am duly qualified to hold office under the constitution of the state and the charter of the city of sarasota and that i will well and faithfully perform the duties as a member of the booker high school booker middle school excuse me i'm already promoting so help me god congratulations and again on the on the half of the city of sarasota i just want to say thank you to each of you and we have again mayor freelon eddy here as well as commissioner brody i'm certain that other commissioners would have loved to join us this evening but on the half of those who are were who were unable to attend i like to extend my appreciation and say thank you and best wishes to  and this time we like the officers to take their places at the podium you see your names next to your offices if the officers to take their places they are going to conduct a meeting this evening and agenda worst previously provide it and doing notice for the meeting that's to take place this evening and the president is the chair of this board and will preside over the meet all right not a president and everyone and everyone else on the in here and i just want to give a little public input on this very important item that you're about to vote  concerned about this project that you want to undertake for only both or middle school whatever you consider other than your own selfish interests how are you going to provide for other middle schools in the area what kind of project or you're planning on undertaking how are you going to finance it i see there are two treasures here well well first we're going to we're doing this so we can see if it works out now scores to see if they can handle it and how people feel that if your project is successful could serve as a model for other schools in the area yes what do you plan on doing to promote the success of this  and we can show them what we have done and see if they like it as well but i appreciate your initiative and i look forward to following up and seeing what kind of progress you've made wish you the best the success thank you hi how are you there so the last gentleman was speaking to you about the project that you are taking on can you tell me what is it that you are taking as a school to help other schools and community what are the actual projects well right now we're doing we're collecting paris and we're helping out those for my kids that their houses recently during the flood and we're collecting bears to help those new we're doing our school our next order business is to vote on the community project good evening i believe i was encouraged to speak well i'm very proud of you i just would like to know why i made you all feel that you all were the best people for these positions and what made you feel like you could take a middle school to this next level well we all like we took into consideration are we really committed to doing this are really committed to this opportunity that we have and we also have voted to see like what we're all rather members think who would do the best job and see what they thought as well ok so i know that you all are web leaders  and that's something that's been going on at booker middle school so what made you feel that service should be the next level of this club that you were already a part of so that you would take world leaders and turn it into something that was interact what made you feel that service was the the want to see if any of your other members have anything to say as well good evening i am curious as to your rationale for choosing the particular community project that you chose  no rational tonight well we're we're community where it's like transitioning to our own adulthood and to bring in like the bears for the kids we kind of understand like when you're young like in like setting like you lose something like your like your house or your family taking away just something to hold on to is really like it really helps and so we thought it would be a good way to for our students to bring something that like isn't like costly they might just make i think this project will make a big impact because you'll be able to help people who are needy like foster does have friends ample they don't really have a like their own family take care of them but when they get adopted  special welcome and so to help their students special do you see this expanding beyond sarasota give our new interactive if you've heard the clicking that was going on in the background we did the same thing that we do in every city commission meeting this meeting is on television right now it is a part of our first record there is our transcript of our court reporter is taking the minutes and this becomes a part of the official record so you can come down to the city auditors office and say i'd like to see the minutes for the september twentieth meeting for booker middle school and you can actually get a sealed copy of the minutes at this meeting so booker middle school has made history in the city of its best we have refreshments for you this evening next door in room one twelve there were a freshman swear donated by steve satin sticker he's the owner of beach and louise modern downtown and he's also working with the new restaurant child's name that took a vote for this evening we will get out of the way so that you can take pictures again officers and then we'll meet she next door shortly so thank you so much for com deborah i'm going to correct myself on one thing before i do that if i may because i made a sure is fair and if you're a married man you'll find that i failed introduced my own wife was also a member of the rotary club best past secretary i will i will note that our house is run like a democracy and like the electoral college she gets fifty one percent of our vote so i'm trying to make sure i make up for that but what oh boy i want to hear about that to mention that we have for every member of our interact club your own badge will be handing those out i don't know if you did you want to take them tonight or take them tomorrow so when you leave be sure to pick up your badge ok and a church now on which it looks a lot like mine you have your name in it and you'll have it from now on as a souvenir being a member of interact in that it going to middle school we're always talking one of the things i wanted to mention terry buddy the students have been working on their projects we are probably have about twenty pairs tonight to donate to judge hurley keep the boat has been a very inclement part of this whole thing going on and we will be presenting those to you to give to judge hurley we have twenty about at least twenty years back there  also have already donated probably ten boxes of new items to the salvation army after much discussion the salvation army actually said why don't we just help our  florida people instead of sending it off to texas so we donated about ten boxes just the other day new things for help with that but the other thing we want to really acknowledge and i know dr  parker just will reenter rate on this how much we appreciate the things that these three people and all the other people that have to do with this great evening for our students i can't believe how awesome this is i going to be in tears in a few minutes my kids know me but this is just an awful awesome experience for me alone just have run the web leader club for about nineteen years so this is awesome so we'd like it is thank you thank you and i am thrilled because if you know anything about dr frost she's very competitive so i love what mayor eddie said tonight which is booker middle school made history tonight and that's a lot to celebrate so let's give our score a round of a and of course tonight i would also like to introduce our amazing assistant principal mrs cameron parker all right mr raymond let's give them a round of applause let me tell you our teachers who work hard to get it done they really do and of course this evening would not be possible without the following individuals and as i call your name i'd like to have you come up to receive a certificate of appreciation i will start with ek to depose mr depose if you will come  you very much for the time and effort you put into making this evening happen and also mayor shelley freeland mayor thank you thank you thank you this is for the city of sarasota as well and finally if i could have our road or a club president come up to receive the certificate on behalf of the rotary club ank you all so much refreshments one more thing all of our parents this night would be possible without our parents and guardians they worked hard to make sure students come to school and by the way i took a picture of the old so if anything happens on campus i have it on myself you're going to be guilty as charged if you don't follow those values so i have an on camera just so you know so parents of us stand up for a moment we appreciate you and thank you for everything make you do to support our students it takes a village and our school could not do this without partnering with you so thank you all so much and i'm going to turn it over to miss alice for one quick announcement and i apologize i wanted to mention to staff members that have been assisting me and different ways  our new career advisor nick term mine has helping us keep helping us run the school store as a true business they will be learning how to inventory take the money buy the food everything he's going to help them structure that program and then mr raman is helping them with the p r and putting little snippets on the news every tuesday morning and so he's been helping us with those kind of thing so i want to  thank you all for coming go enjoy some food thank you