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  "reviewed": "2026-10-24",
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    {
      "id": "september",
      "title": "Original Tarpon Springs recommendation",
      "date": "September 10, 2026",
      "url": "https://resources.finalsite.net/images/v1789040986/pcsborg/ufhf7izlq8avtdweaxi1/TarponSprings.pdf",
      "local": "/sources/2026-09-10/TarponSprings.pdf",
      "note": "Superseded campus arrangement; preserved research copy. Page 1, Table 3. Original retrieval date not recorded.",
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      "id": "fundamental",
      "title": "Fundamental K–8 recommendation",
      "date": "October 6, 2026",
      "url": "https://resources.finalsite.net/images/v1791213873/pcsborg/auikupt8ufzoaxj4jeqd/2026-10-06TarponSpringsFundamental-1.pdf",
      "local": "/sources/2026-10-06/2026-10-06TarponSpringsFundamental-1.pdf",
      "note": "Page 1, Table 2. Displays October 6; embedded file date October 5. Reviewed October 10.",
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    {
      "id": "zoned",
      "title": "Sunset Hills / Tarpon Springs Middle recommendation",
      "date": "October 6, 2026",
      "url": "https://resources.finalsite.net/images/v1791379610/pcsborg/yenicehkbpgvmketfhci/2026-10-06-CreateK-8SunsetHills-TarponSpirngsMS.pdf",
      "local": "/sources/2026-10-06/2026-10-06-CreateK-8SunsetHills-TarponSpirngsMS.pdf",
      "note": "Pages 1–2; Table 3 on page 1. Displays October 6; embedded file date October 7. Reviewed October 10.",
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    {
      "id": "minutes",
      "title": "October 13 School Board draft minutes",
      "date": "October 13, 2026 (meeting)",
      "url": "https://go.boarddocs.com/fl/pcsfl/Board.nsf/goto?open&id=DMQR366AFD6C",
      "local": null,
      "note": "October 13 meeting, item 8.3, draft minutes pp. 4–5. In BoardDocs, select Meetings → 2026 → October 27 → agenda item 7.1 for the attached October 13 draft minutes. The October 13 agenda item 8.3 describes the campus plan.",
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      "id": "action",
      "title": "October 13 agenda item 8.3",
      "date": "October 13, 2026 (meeting)",
      "url": "https://go.boarddocs.com/fl/pcsfl/Board.nsf/goto?open&id=DYLLYG58D65A",
      "local": null,
      "note": "In BoardDocs, select Meetings → 2026 → October 13 → View the Agenda → item 8.3. Read the minutes for the vote outcome."
    },
    {
      "id": "fish",
      "title": "May 2026 FISH summary",
      "date": "May 2026 (inventory)",
      "url": "https://www.fldoe.org/finance/edual-facilities/fl-inventory-of-school-houses-fish.stml",
      "local": "/sources/2026-10-06/0074722-summary.xlsx",
      "note": "FacilityData!M2977 (Fundamental). Organizer-supplied XLSX; original download URL not recorded. Official reports page linked separately.",
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    {
      "id": "october-video",
      "title": "October 13 School Board meeting recording",
      "date": "October 13, 2026 (meeting)",
      "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=476y_MNIObc&t=12837s",
      "local": null,
      "note": "Official video located through the district meeting playlist. Site organizer confirms the superintendent’s direct 700–800 statement at 3:33:57. Transcript unavailable; not independently transcribed."
    },
    {
      "id": "tentative-budget",
      "title": "July 28, 2026 district budget hearing and minutes",
      "date": "July 28, 2026",
      "url": "https://go.boarddocs.com/fl/pcsfl/Board.nsf/goto?open&id=DMQRQ86D4747",
      "local": null,
      "note": "Vote and motion details verified in archived PCSB BoardDocs research supplied October 27, 2026.",
      "agendaUrl": "https://go.boarddocs.com/fl/pcsfl/Board.nsf/goto?open&id=DMQRQN6D4756"
    },
    {
      "id": "final-budget",
      "title": "September 8, 2026 district budget hearing and minutes",
      "date": "September 8, 2026",
      "url": "https://go.boarddocs.com/fl/pcsfl/Board.nsf/goto?open&id=DMQRCK6D5C06",
      "local": null,
      "note": "Vote and motion details verified in archived PCSB BoardDocs research supplied October 27, 2026.",
      "agendaUrl": "https://go.boarddocs.com/fl/pcsfl/Board.nsf/goto?open&id=DMQRD36D5C64"
    },
    {
      "id": "september-budget-book",
      "title": "September 8, 2026 second public hearing budget book",
      "date": "September 8, 2026",
      "url": "https://go.boarddocs.com/fl/pcsfl/Board.nsf/pfiles/DXHS8P7128CC/$file/2026%2027%20Second%20Public%20Hearing%20Book%209.8.26.pdf",
      "local": null,
      "note": "Printed p. 35 (PDF page 41), Capital Outlay Allocation 2026–2027, Other Projects: Planning for Progress / Campus Renovations / $3,000,000. Checked against the archived PDF on October 27, 2026. This is a budget allocation, not evidence of expenditure or a campus-specific breakdown.",
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    {
      "id": "october-27-live-report",
      "title": "October 27 School Board meeting — organizer’s live report",
      "date": "October 27, 2026 (meeting and report)",
      "url": null,
      "local": null,
      "note": "Firsthand live meeting account supplied by the site organizer on October 27. Reports approval of $188,000 for Klar and Klar architectural planning despite parents asking for a no vote, the COO’s February–July construction timeline and August portable contingency, and district statements about lead-paint and asbestos testing during construction. Official vote tally, agenda item, recording timestamp, construction-year confirmation and testing documents are not yet recorded. Not independently verified against an official record.",
      "status": "Organizer-reported · official record pending"
    }
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  "comparisons": [
    {
      "id": "later-projection",
      "title": "Will the new K–8 open with fewer students than projected?",
      "label": "Published projection vs. superintendent’s statement",
      "summary": "The district’s October 6 table projects 920 students for the zoned K–8. During the October 13 vote discussion, Superintendent Hendrick gave a lower estimate of 700–800. Families need the district to explain the difference before it proceeds with the campus moves.",
      "observations": [
        {
          "value": "920",
          "metric": "Published projected enrollment",
          "program": "Zoned K–8",
          "campus": "Tarpon Springs Middle",
          "grades": "K–8",
          "academicYear": "2027–28",
          "source": "zoned",
          "locator": "p. 1, Table 3",
          "status": "District recommendation"
        },
        {
          "value": "700–800",
          "metric": "Superintendent’s spoken enrollment estimate",
          "program": "Zoned K–8",
          "campus": "Tarpon Springs Middle",
          "grades": "K–8",
          "academicYear": "2027–28 plan discussion",
          "source": "october-video",
          "locator": "3:33:57",
          "status": "Meeting statement; timestamp confirmed by site organizer"
        }
      ],
      "conclusion": "At the same 1,052 planned capacity, 700–800 students would mean about 67%–76% utilization, compared with the district’s published 87%. Ask the Board to require a reconciled enrollment model and explain the consequences for staffing, courses and long-term viability."
    },
    {
      "id": "fundamental-size",
      "title": "Fundamental capacity is not an enrollment forecast.",
      "label": "Capacity and enrollment are different measures",
      "summary": "The revised Fundamental plan has a smaller destination campus. Its capacity is a planned full K–8 configuration; enrollment was still undetermined in the October table.",
      "observations": [
        {
          "value": "1,052",
          "metric": "Planned capacity",
          "program": "Proposed Fundamental K–8",
          "campus": "Tarpon Springs Middle",
          "grades": "K–8",
          "academicYear": "2027–28 proposal",
          "source": "september",
          "locator": "p. 1, Table 3",
          "status": "Verified in source"
        },
        {
          "value": "546",
          "metric": "Planned capacity",
          "program": "Fundamental K–8",
          "campus": "Sunset Hills",
          "grades": "K–8",
          "academicYear": "Full K–8; phase-in through 2029–30",
          "source": "fundamental",
          "locator": "p. 1, Table 2",
          "status": "Verified in source"
        },
        {
          "value": "TBD",
          "metric": "Projected enrollment",
          "program": "Fundamental K–8",
          "campus": "Sunset Hills",
          "grades": "K–8",
          "academicYear": "2027–28 proposal",
          "source": "fundamental",
          "locator": "p. 1, Table 2",
          "status": "Verified in source"
        }
      ],
      "conclusion": "546 is 348 elementary seats plus 198 middle-grade seats. It does not mean 546 students have enrolled or are forecast to enroll."
    }
  ],
  "timeline": [
    {
      "date": "2026-07-28",
      "label": "July 28, 2026",
      "title": "The budget moved ahead before families saw the school proposal",
      "status": "Tentative budget · 6–0",
      "text": "The Board voted 6–0 to adopt the tentative 2026–27 district budget on July 28—more than six weeks before the September 10 presentation of the Tarpon Springs school proposal. Katie Blaxberg moved approval; Lisa Cane seconded. Stephanie Meyer was absent. Families deserve to know which Planning for Progress assumptions were already built into that budget and how public feedback could still change them.",
      "source": "tentative-budget",
      "locator": "item 6.1"
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-09-08",
      "label": "September 8, 2026",
      "title": "$3 million budgeted before the school proposal was presented",
      "status": "Final budget · 7–0",
      "text": "On September 8, the Board approved the final 2026–27 district budget by 7–0—two days before the September 10 presentation of the Tarpon Springs school proposal. The budget book already allocated $3 million to Planning for Progress campus renovations. The money was in the budget before families saw that proposal. Laura Hine moved approval; Katie Blaxberg seconded. Families deserve to know which campus changes that allocation assumed and how their feedback could still change the plan. The separate school reorganization vote followed on October 13.",
      "source": "final-budget",
      "locator": "item 6.2",
      "additionalSources": [
        "september-budget-book"
      ],
      "allocationReview": "2026-10-27"
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-09-10",
      "label": "September 10, 2026",
      "title": "Initial proposal presented",
      "status": "Historical proposal",
      "text": "Fundamental K–8 was proposed at the Tarpon Springs Middle campus. This arrangement was later revised.",
      "source": "september",
      "locator": "pp. 1–2"
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-10-06",
      "label": "October 6, 2026",
      "title": "Two-campus revision",
      "status": "District publication",
      "text": "Revised recommendations put Fundamental at Sunset Hills and a zoned K–8 at the middle-school campus.",
      "source": "zoned",
      "locator": "pp. 1–2; see Fundamental PDF too"
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-10-13",
      "label": "October 13, 2026",
      "title": "Board approves the campus changes",
      "status": "Board action",
      "text": "Item 8.3 approved combining Sunset Hills Elementary and Tarpon Springs Middle into a zoned K–8, and expanding Fundamental to a K–8 on the current Sunset Hills campus, beginning in 2027–28. The vote was 6–1, with Lisa N. Cane opposed. Dawn Peters moved approval; Stephanie Meyer seconded. Lisa Cane’s motion to postpone until October 27 received no second and was not considered. The minutes reviewed here are a draft.",
      "source": "minutes",
      "locator": "pp. 4–5, item 8.3"
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-10-27",
      "label": "October 27, 2026",
      "title": "Architectural payment approved; construction and testing concerns raised",
      "status": "Board action · October 27",
      "text": "The Board approved $188,000 for Klar and Klar to prepare the new K–8 architectural plan despite parents asking for a no vote. The COO described February–July construction and portables if work is unfinished for the August opening. The district also said lead-paint and asbestos testing must occur during construction. Families need a written schedule, public testing results, safety protections and details of the portable fallback.",
      "source": "october-27-live-report",
      "locator": "October 27 live meeting account; agenda item, vote tally and recording timestamp pending"
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-11-10",
      "label": "November 10, 2026",
      "title": "Policy second reading listed",
      "status": "Planned · confirm agenda",
      "text": "The October recommendations list a second policy reading. This is a planned milestone, not a completed action.",
      "source": "fundamental",
      "locator": "p. 1, Policy implications"
    },
    {
      "date": "2027",
      "label": "2027–28 school year",
      "title": "Campus changes begin",
      "status": "Approved future implementation",
      "text": "The zoned K–8 opens at TSMS and Fundamental moves to Sunset Hills. The October PDF phases Fundamental grade 6 in during 2027–28, grade 7 in 2028–29 and grade 8 in 2029–30.",
      "source": "fundamental",
      "locator": "p. 1; Board action in minutes pp. 4–5"
    },
    {
      "date": "2027-01",
      "label": "January 2027",
      "title": "Application period identified",
      "status": "Planned · confirm dates",
      "text": "The recommendation identifies January for applications for 2027–28. Check the district for exact deadlines and admission priorities.",
      "source": "fundamental",
      "locator": "p. 1, Recommendation"
    }
  ],
  "updates": [
    {
      "id": "update-2026-10-27-architecture",
      "date": "2026-10-27",
      "label": "October 27, 2026",
      "tag": "Architectural funding approved",
      "title": "Board approves $188,000 for Klar and Klar architectural planning",
      "text": "During the October 27 School Board meeting, the Board approved a $188,000 payment to Klar and Klar for the architectural plan for the new K–8, despite parents asking members to vote no. Families should continue pressing the Board to reconsider the campus plan and explain how public objections will affect its next decisions.",
      "source": "october-27-live-report",
      "locator": "Organizer’s live account; official vote record and timestamp pending"
    },
    {
      "id": "update-2026-10-27-construction",
      "date": "2026-10-27",
      "label": "October 27, 2026",
      "tag": "Construction concerns",
      "title": "COO reports February–July construction, with portables as a fallback",
      "text": "The district COO said the new construction timeline is February through July. If construction is not finished in time for the August school opening, the district would deploy portables. The district also said it must test for lead paint and asbestos during construction but did not explain how students attending the school during that work would be protected. Families need a public testing and safety plan for the older building.",
      "source": "october-27-live-report",
      "locator": "Organizer’s live account; official recording timestamp and written schedule pending"
    },
    {
      "id": "update-2026-10-13-enrollment",
      "date": "2026-10-13",
      "label": "October 13, 2026",
      "tag": "Enrollment dispute",
      "title": "Superintendent gives a lower K–8 enrollment estimate",
      "text": "During the vote discussion, Superintendent Hendrick gave an estimate of 700–800 students for the zoned K–8. The October recommendation lists 920. Ask the district to publish the assumptions behind both figures and explain what the lower enrollment means for the school.",
      "source": "october-video",
      "locator": "3:33:57"
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-10-13",
      "label": "October 13, 2026",
      "tag": "Board action",
      "title": "Tarpon Springs campus changes approved",
      "text": "The Board approved the campus changes for 2027–28 by 6–1. Lisa N. Cane voted no. Her motion to postpone the decision did not receive a second. Families can continue asking Board members to reopen discussion and change the plan.",
      "source": "minutes",
      "locator": "pp. 4–5, item 8.3",
      "id": "update-2026-10-13"
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-10-06",
      "label": "October 6, 2026",
      "tag": "District publication",
      "title": "Revised recommendations change the campus arrangement",
      "text": "The revised plan retains a zoned K–8 in Tarpon Springs and places Fundamental K–8 at Sunset Hills.",
      "source": "zoned",
      "locator": "pp. 1–2",
      "id": "update-2026-10-06"
    }
  ],
  "editorialReviews": {
    "homepageIntroduction": "2026-10-27",
    "takeAction": "2026-10-27",
    "note": "October 27 meeting update added; historical numerical review remains October 24. Source provenance retained in the evidence register.",
    "meetingUpdate": "2026-10-27"
  }
}