Updates on the Fight for Quality Public Education in Brevard County, FL
0:00 Thank you.
0:30 Good evening. The February 8th, 2022 board meeting is now in
0:38 order. I’m happy to welcome my fellow board members and the
0:41 public. This is a business meeting of the board held in the
0:44 public. As such, the board is authorized to adopt rules or
0:46 policies to maintain orderly conduct and proper decorum in a
0:49 public meeting. Please note that your presence here is subject
0:52 to those rules and policies.
0:54 Pursuant to Florida statute 877.13, it is unlawful and a misdemeanor
0:59 of the second degree, punishable by up to 60 days in jail, and a
1:03 $500 fine for any person knowingly to disrupt or interfere with
1:06 the lawful administration or functions of any educational
1:09 institution or school board,
1:11 or knowingly to advise counselor instruct any school pupil or
1:14 school employee to disrupt any school or school board function
1:17 or activity on school board property.
1:20 To facilitate board business, please be aware of the following.
1:23 If you must leave the building for any reason, you will not be
1:26 permitted to reenter. The appropriate place for public
1:28 participation in the meeting is during your individual public
1:31 comment opportunity as identified in the agenda.
1:35 Outside of your individual public comment opportunity, your role
1:38 in the meeting is as an observer. I’ll ask persons deemed to be
1:41 knowingly or intentionally disrupting this meeting of the school
1:44 board of Brevard County or not complying with this policy to
1:47 stop or leave.
1:48 If persons receiving the warning choose not to follow my
1:51 instructions, I will instruct Brevard County Sheriff’s deputies
1:54 to take any law enforcement action they deem appropriate,
1:57 and you may be escorted, detained, or arrested depending on the
2:00 conduct.
2:00 Persons who refuse to depart after a warning may also be
2:04 committing the crime of trespassing in accordance with Florida
2:08 statute section 810.05.
2:10 These statutes apply to conduct on all school board property,
2:14 which includes this boardroom, as well as the outside of this
2:16 building to the sidewalk.
2:18 If you continue to cause a disruption, you are advised that you
2:21 are in violation of Florida statute 877.13 or if you fail to
2:25 leave the premises after being warned by the sheriff’s office,
2:27 you are committing trespass, and the board has authorized the
2:29 sheriff’s office to enforce these rules.
2:31 In the event multiple individuals feel to adhere to these
2:35 expectations and board business cannot continue due to
2:38 disruption,
2:39 I’ll call a recess and request that the law enforcement officers
2:42 present clear the boardroom of attendees.
2:45 When the room is cleared, the board will return and resume their
2:49 meeting with no public present.
2:51 Those who are signed up to speak will be seated under the front
2:53 entry area and called in when it’s your time to speak.
2:57 The board will now hold a moment of silent reflection in memory
3:11 of a BPS family member, Jenny Torrin, who recently passed away.
3:18 Ms. Torrin was the certified school counselor at Oak Park
3:21 Elementary.
3:22 The board will now hold a moment of silent reflection in memory
3:22 of a BPS family member, Jenny Torrin, who recently passed away.
3:22 Ms. Torrin was the certified school counselor at Oak Park
3:22 Elementary.
3:27 Ms. Torrin was the certified school counselor at Oak Park
3:28 Elementary.
3:28 Thank you.
3:29 Ms. Torrin was the certified school counselor at Oak Park
3:30 Elementary.
3:30 Thank you.
3:31 Please stand for the Pledge of Allegiance.
3:32 I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America,
3:34 and to the republic for which it stands,
3:34 one nation under God, and to the republic for which it stands,
3:34 one nation under God, and to the republic for which it stands.
3:34 I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America,
3:36 and to the republic for which it stands.
3:36 I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America,
3:36 and to the republic for which it stands.
3:36 I pledge allegiance to the flag of the flag of the United States
3:37 of America, and to the republic for which it stands.
3:37 I pledge allegiance to the flag of the flag of the United States
3:41 of America, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation
3:45 under God, and to the flag of the flag of the flag of the United
3:49 States of America, and to the republic for which it stands.
3:54 One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for
4:02 all.
4:03 At this time, I would like to offer my fellow board members and
4:05 Dr. Mullins an opportunity to recognize students, staff, or
4:09 members of the community who’d like to start us off this evening.
4:12 Ms. Jenkins?
4:13 Sure.
4:14 I’m in a weird spot here today.
4:18 I’m probably stealing the thunder from some other people.
4:20 I apologize, but I just want to say congratulations to our
4:23 employee of the year from Ocean Breeze Elementary, Officer Jen.
4:27 And of course, our teacher of the year from Andrew Jackson
4:30 Middle, and Alexandria Wicker.
4:32 And I had written down.
4:35 Hold on one second.
4:39 We had a quote that I really, really like.
4:43 And now I can’t find it.
4:48 There we go.
4:54 I wasn’t born to just teach.
4:55 I was born to inspire others to do what’s impossible.
5:00 I really, really appreciated her speech when she was accepting
5:03 her award.
5:04 She’s an amazing, amazing teacher, and I’m really, really happy
5:06 for her.
5:07 And I’m excited to see how far she goes to support Brevard at
5:10 the state level.
5:11 I also just want to do a shout out to Melbourne High School’s
5:15 Chamber Choir.
5:16 They were also at the ABC Awards.
5:18 And not only did they have an amazing performance, but I felt
5:21 like the song that they chose was just kind of spoke to me.
5:26 And I feel like it spoke to everybody in the room.
5:28 The room was dead silent for the entire performance.
5:30 And so I just kind of want to quote one of the parts of the
5:32 lyrics.
5:33 And it said, we shall love one another with all of our hearts,
5:36 and we shall care for each other with all of our soul and might.
5:39 When we stand, when we fall, when we rise, we are one.
5:44 And it just had a special place for me.
5:47 And I feel like it spoke to everybody in that room that night.
5:50 So thank you so much for that beautiful performance.
5:52 And I hope to hear you guys again soon.
5:54 Thank you, Ms. Jenkins.
5:57 Ms. Campbell, looks like you’re ready.
5:59 And I’ve got a lot.
6:01 On the topic of music, we had our all-county concerts a couple
6:04 weekends ago, and they were fabulous.
6:07 So good to have everybody.
6:08 I think everybody was in agreement that it was good to be back
6:10 together performing in front of a live audience.
6:13 And I’m very proud of all of our students for the great work
6:15 they did.
6:16 Saturday was the Space Coast Odyssey of the Mind tournament.
6:20 And we have – did I – am I stealing?
6:23 All right, all right.
6:24 I got to go to just the awards part.
6:26 I did miss all the fun of the day.
6:28 But people stuck around for the cold awards ceremony.
6:32 And we have just a bunch of teams, like, going to state.
6:36 So we’re really proud of them.
6:38 25.
6:39 25 teams going to the state tournament.
6:41 So that’s really, really exciting.
6:43 And if you’ve got more details, Dr. Mons, please fill us in.
6:46 I wanted to thank the members of our legislative delegation who
6:49 met with me for FSBA Day in the legislature when I went to
6:52 represent us.
6:53 I had – I met with Senator Mayfield, Representative Soroy,
6:56 Representative Altman, and then Senator Wright had one of his aides
7:00 who had time to meet with me.
7:01 So I just want to thank them for that last Thursday.
7:04 And then I wanted to recognize our new – still new because it’s
7:09 less than a year – Director of Employee Benefits and Risk
7:12 Management, Antonia Scipio, because of the great work that I
7:16 have observed her doing.
7:17 Now I get to see it more closely on SIAC, but you guys get the
7:19 emails.
7:20 She’s doing such a fantastic job as we’re trying to shift the
7:24 mindset of our benefits to not just healthcare but wellness.
7:29 And I’m really excited about that, the initiatives that are
7:33 coming up, including the 300-mile challenge, which I believe
7:38 everybody but Mr. Seusson officially has agreed to do, started
7:41 last Friday, count your steps.
7:43 And I think the next board meeting I’m going to have Tammy help
7:47 me make a leader board so we know which school board member and
7:50 Dr. Mullins – and Paul, you’re welcome to join us – have
7:53 walked the most miles over the 12 weeks.
7:56 So we want all of our employees to jump in.
7:58 It’s not too late to jump in.
7:59 You can officially sign up.
8:00 But we want to set the good example in our wellness initiatives
8:03 of being a board that will get out and walk and get those steps
8:07 in.
8:07 And I found that other exercise counts, too.
8:10 So, new – that is one thing I just wanted to shout out to Antonia
8:13 because she’s just doing such a great job of communicating with
8:16 everyone and really leading us into these changes.
8:19 And I’ll share some more with you guys during our board reports
8:21 at the end about some of the things that SIAC was talking about.
8:24 So, super exciting.
8:26 Thank you, Antonia.
8:27 Thank you, Ms. Campbell.
8:29 And could you assist with getting me my step counter?
8:33 Because –
8:34 I had to order some more.
8:35 Okay.
8:36 But yes.
8:37 Because I haven’t been counting my steps.
8:39 You can do it.
8:40 And your watch.
8:41 We’ll help you.
8:43 If one of you want to figure out how to set it up, you are
8:44 welcome to.
8:45 I don’t have the patience to fight with it.
8:48 All right.
8:49 Right?
8:50 Who’s next?
8:51 Do you want to go or do you want me to go?
8:52 No, I’ll go because you’re the vice chair.
8:54 So you get to go second.
8:55 That’s okay.
8:56 I enacted that all the time.
8:58 Hey, so we’re wearing like wristbands and stuff like that.
9:01 And they count our steps.
9:02 Like, can you explain this process?
9:03 If you don’t have like a smart watch or a phone that has a pedometer.
9:06 I have one of those.
9:07 Then it’ll count your steps for you.
9:09 All you have to do is record it in a spreadsheet.
9:10 But if I don’t have that, I can order something?
9:13 They’re providing pedometers for everyone who joins the
9:15 challenge.
9:16 If I have five buildings, I’d like to order five of them.
9:19 Strap them to them.
9:20 And then I can get my 300 miles.
9:23 That is cheating.
9:24 And I’m pretty sure you’d get more than 300 miles.
9:25 I’ve seen people attach them to animals and get some stuff.
9:29 All right.
9:30 So I’m telling you.
9:31 It’s on the record, Mr. Seusson.
9:33 Anyways, thank you for that.
9:35 I’ll join the challenge.
9:37 Love it.
9:38 And I promise my children not to put them into forced labor and
9:41 do that.
9:42 So thank you.
9:43 Gibbs, I swear.
9:44 The attorney’s giving me a look down there like you’re not
9:46 supposed to talk.
9:47 Come on, Gibbs.
9:48 All right.
9:49 So first off, before we get started on all the things that we do
9:52 great in Brevard,
9:53 I have a special thank you to an individual that’s out in the
9:56 audience.
9:57 She took over the teaching academy at Bayside High School a
10:01 couple years ago.
10:02 And that is near and dear to my heart because I started the
10:07 teaching academy at Space Coast High School.
10:10 And the transition and what that means for our school district
10:12 is amazing.
10:13 But the one thing that’s amazing about this individual is that
10:16 Jennifer actually went to middle school and high school with me.
10:20 And we were very close friends.
10:21 And so I usually, you know, I just wanted to say we have a heck
10:26 of an employee in the fact that she’s being pinned tonight.
10:28 But then on top of that, I’ve known her for a very long time.
10:31 And she has been nothing but extraordinary throughout our entire
10:34 lives.
10:34 So, Jennifer, thank you for being a part of it.
10:36 Thank you for being here tonight.
10:38 Sorry about everybody else that’s here getting pinned, but she’s
10:40 kind of special right now.
10:41 So thank you.
10:42 Thank you.
10:43 Yeah.
10:44 Thank you.
10:45 All right.
10:46 So the coolest stuff’s been happening.
10:49 We went out on a trade store, right?
10:51 And Dr. Mullins said, all right, let’s go.
10:54 And Dr. Mullins, as you know, Dr. Mullins and our staff and our
10:57 school board have put in more emphasis on CTE and trades than
11:01 any other school district that I know of.
11:04 We have the best trades programs in the state of Florida.
11:07 And I’m not lying to you.
11:08 We are the only school district with an aviation program that
11:12 has its own hangar.
11:14 We have our own water development program.
11:17 We have all kinds of stuff.
11:18 So literally, we are the best.
11:20 And it was time to start showing it off.
11:21 So we started going down there.
11:22 So we went and showed off O’Galley.
11:24 And things started to happen after we showed it off to O’Galley
11:26 that people started watching.
11:28 So we went to – all of a sudden, I got a call from a Rolex 24-hour
11:34 race team.
11:35 And they said, we want to sponsor the high school that we just
11:38 saw on Space Coast Daily.
11:40 So there’s a company called FastMD that has literally the
11:43 coolest race car.
11:44 If you guys get an opportunity to go to Space Coast Daily and
11:47 take a look at it, it is an amazing opportunity.
11:50 And what they’re going to do is adopt O’Galley’s automotive
11:53 program.
11:54 And they’re going to have the kids working on the engines on the
11:58 car at the Sebring 12-hour that’s coming up.
12:00 On top of that, they’re creating an online portal for not only O’Galley
12:05 and Brevard people,
12:06 but the entire state of Florida to look at thermodynamics on a
12:10 race car, hydrodynamic, you know, everything, aerodynamic.
12:14 They’re going to work on side of the tires.
12:15 We were looking at the tire.
12:16 I was an idiot.
12:17 This was yesterday.
12:18 I was at Sebring, and they were doing testing.
12:20 And they pulled that car off.
12:22 They stopped the car and then literally pulled it up on jacks.
12:25 Guy got out.
12:26 They carried it over, put it up on another one.
12:28 I touched the tire like 20 minutes later, and I burned my finger.
12:30 It was still that hot, right?
12:32 They pick up so much traction.
12:33 Anyway, so it’s a group of doctors, if you can believe this,
12:36 that have formed a race team,
12:38 and they’re not your normal race team.
12:40 So what they did was we said, we’re not your normal race team.
12:42 I mean, they’re in between Ferrari, Audi, Porsche, like, and
12:45 then these guys, right?
12:47 And they’re in there, and they’re just crazy, a lot of fun.
12:50 We have a lot of collaboration, and I just wanted to say that.
12:52 We also went after that to Vieira High School last week on a
12:57 trade store, and they showed off the trades from there.
12:59 And that’s getting ready to hit the, I think we’re putting out a
13:02 piece on that.
13:03 And because of that trades tour, and what they saw inside of Vieira
13:07 High School,
13:08 Health First decided they’re going to push out an initiative to
13:11 offer a hundred pharmacy tech programs
13:14 to Vieira and other schools throughout the state and throughout
13:17 our county.
13:18 So what we’re doing is, is it’s starting to boil over.
13:21 I’ve had people come in from soccer games and the community and
13:25 talk to me, hey, what’s going on?
13:26 And all it is, is that we’re able to go to every one of our
13:30 schools, show off what great things our staff
13:33 and our school board and superintendent have created, and the
13:35 community is starting to come.
13:37 Because we’ve been in COVID heck for the last two years, not
13:41 noticing what to do and couldn’t see anything.
13:43 And now we’re trying to do that.
13:45 So I wanted to say thank you to Dr. Mullins.
13:47 He actually opened it up for the rest of the county.
13:49 So they’re going to go for the next couple of months to every
13:52 single high school is going to show off all of their trades.
13:55 And that’s going to be absolutely amazing.
13:57 So I’m looking forward to it.
13:59 I mean, I don’t even know what’s going to happen next.
14:01 We’ve got a race car team.
14:02 We’ve got all this stuff happening.
14:03 Next thing, I don’t know what’s going to happen.
14:05 It’s going to be neat.
14:06 Oh, they’re bringing the race car to O’Galley High School.
14:08 The problem is they put the one race car into the wall yesterday
14:10 after we left.
14:11 So they’ve got to take that back and fix it, but they’re taking
14:13 a couple other race cars that they have.
14:14 It’s going to be a fun thing.
14:15 So anyways, and then we have some of our transportation and bus
14:19 drivers here tonight.
14:20 Thank you for coming.
14:21 I put on what we had discussed earlier.
14:23 I put on the agenda to discuss later.
14:25 It’s part of our board discussion.
14:27 So thank you for coming.
14:28 And thank you for everybody else that’s here tonight for what
14:30 you guys do and what you’re about to do with Ms. Kershaw and be
14:34 pinned.
14:34 Thank you.
14:35 That’s it.
14:36 Thank you.
14:37 First, I want to give a shout out to the Provide Symphony
14:42 Orchestra, who hosted the fifth graders in our district.
14:47 And what a wonderful program they provided for our students.
14:52 I think we’ve been there before.
14:54 It’s always wonderful.
14:55 And the students are so wonderful.
14:58 There was a part where they could shout out, I think, La Bamba,
15:04 and they did a great job.
15:07 So that was thank you again to the Provide Symphony Orchestra
15:10 for hosting our fifth graders.
15:12 Also, I want to give a shout out to our science teachers and our
15:16 students, who I was able to go to Merritt Island Mall.
15:21 And I hope some of you were able to pop in there over the
15:24 weekend and see some of our students and their science projects.
15:28 They were phenomenal.
15:30 I talked to the kids from Delora, Satellite, Hoover, Edgewood,
15:36 and Heritage.
15:38 Those are some of the students I talked to.
15:39 They are all different schools.
15:41 They were all very professional.
15:42 And can I tell you that I think we’re going to be in good hands.
15:45 There was one student who, he’s a senior, and I can’t remember
15:49 what school, but he decided that he wanted to find a way to
15:57 discover ovarian cancer before it gets to stage four.
16:02 I mean, he really, it was pretty amazing what he did.
16:06 And then another one, another young lady talked about the red
16:10 tide and how she wanted to develop something, which she was
16:14 working on, to reduce red tide when it happens.
16:17 So we have some amazing students and amazing science teachers.
16:24 So I want to give a shout out to those students and teachers.
16:28 I also want to give a shout out to a group of people who are
16:32 oftentimes overlooked and are very important to our custodial
16:36 service team.
16:38 This has been a couple years of intense cleaning.
16:43 And sometimes we’ve had challenges to fill our positions.
16:48 They, we have custodians working at two schools.
16:51 We have, excuse me, managers and supervisors and specialists
16:55 filling in at different schools.
16:57 We have ground technicians helping with custodial duties at our
17:00 schools.
17:01 Our high schools who may have more than one custodian, they go
17:04 to another school.
17:06 So I just want to talk about the flexibility, not only of our
17:09 custodial staff, but some of our teachers and administrators who
17:12 have stepped up to the plate to help keep our schools and our
17:16 students safe and clean.
17:18 I also wanted to give a shout out to Ms. Clark at McNair, who
17:25 was, she was the lead in, along with some of her other teachers
17:29 on pioneer days.
17:30 I don’t know if anybody’s ever been to pioneer days, but it’s
17:33 pretty phenomenal.
17:35 It’s really like you’re back in time going out west in a covered
17:39 wagon and the different activities that the students do.
17:42 And what, you know, we had a cholera area.
17:46 We had making bread.
17:48 We had making butter.
17:50 We had people that had babies.
17:52 And what did they do when the baby cries?
17:54 It’s really a five pound sack of flour.
17:56 And what do they do when they’re in the wagon train?
17:58 It’s this little thing.
17:59 It was very well done and very well put together.
18:01 And I thought, man, you had to be really had some grit.
18:04 And last but not least, is I want to give a shout out to Edgewood
18:08 students, who I never heard of this before.
18:11 But it’s the Future Health Professional Regional Competition.
18:15 And this team and students brought home four first place and
18:20 three second places trophies in both individual and team events.
18:25 And you’ll say, okay, what is this organization?
18:27 It is a international career and technical organization that has
18:33 future health professionals.
18:35 And it’s throughout the United States and they have it over in
18:38 Europe and in Asia also.
18:40 So a shout out to the science teachers and to the students at
18:42 Edgewood for bringing home some first and second places.
18:45 And I think that’s all I have.
18:48 Dr. Mullen.
18:49 Thank you.
18:58 Just to piggyback on the science research, the shout outs and
19:02 thank yous.
19:03 It was a great award ceremony Saturday night, like Ms. McDougall
19:06 shared.
19:07 I do also want to, the projects are phenomenal.
19:10 I can’t even pronounce half the words that are on the science
19:14 fair boards.
19:15 But there’s a part of our community I want to acknowledge along
19:18 with you, Ms. McDougall, and that is our community partners.
19:22 Our business partners across this great community absolutely
19:27 rally from L3 Harris to Northrop Grumman, but also individuals
19:34 across the health arena, Health First and all of our partners.
19:37 It is amazing that our students have the mentorship and the
19:41 partners to help them see those projects to fruition and have
19:45 that experience.
19:46 So thank you to our amazing community for filling a gap for our
19:50 kids that helps them absolutely receive an exceptional science
19:55 research experience.
19:57 We talk about annually the Infinite Scholars Program.
20:01 Mrs. Belford, you may have been wanting to highlight, should I
20:03 leave it for you?
20:04 No, go ahead.
20:06 Again, a shout out to Dr. Michael Cador, Assistant Provost,
20:13 Eastern Florida State College, Rockledge.
20:15 He’s a City Council member, but most closely an absolute
20:19 champion for kids and education and provide public schools.
20:25 He helped launch the Infinite Scholars Program about five or six
20:29 years ago, and every year it has grown.
20:31 This year we had over 700 students registered to attend in
20:35 person at Rockledge High School.
20:37 Over 1,000 scholarships were awarded, totaling over $18.5
20:43 million.
20:44 Our kids walked away with scholarships that night.
20:51 So just another exemplary testimonial of our community providing
20:56 exceptional opportunities for our kids.
21:00 So thank you, Mike, if you’re out there listening, but
21:02 congratulations to our kids who walked away with not only hopes
21:06 of college, but realities of college.
21:10 Amazing.
21:12 And then I also want to highlight our six students.
21:15 That’s the most we’ve ever sent in some time to the Orlando
21:18 Regional Spelling Bee, and they will be competing among the top
21:24 50 students from across Central Florida.
21:26 So Brevard is sending five of our kiddos, and they are Misri
21:31 Shah from Imperial Estates.
21:33 Tashua Batakara from Edgewood Junior Senior High.
21:40 I’m sorry if I didn’t get your name right.
21:42 Kalia Fox from Challenger 7 Elementary.
21:46 Addison Jones from Lewis.
21:48 Lewis Carroll Elementary.
21:50 Gabriel Ponton from Quest.
21:52 And Jasmine Harris from University Park Elementary Schools.
21:57 We wish you well.
21:58 Spell on and bring home the trophy to Brevard.
22:01 Thank you, Dr. Mullins.
22:08 I have a few as well.
22:09 It seems like it’s been a really busy, has it been three weeks
22:12 since our last meeting, I think?
22:14 But tons of stuff going on.
22:16 So one, I want to thank Representative Sorori, who every day or
22:20 every year puts together Brevard Day in Tallahassee.
22:25 Mr. Bruhn and I were able to go up for Brevard Day, I think it’s
22:28 been two weeks ago now, and participate.
22:31 And several of our chamber people were up there as well on that
22:34 day.
22:35 Great programming and good camaraderie and just being able to be
22:39 in the Capitol and talk and share Brevard’s stories.
22:43 Mr. Bruhn did a great job, had a table set up with lots of good
22:47 information.
22:48 And I don’t know, the shout out is kind of for him too, because
22:52 we know that Mr. Bruhn has been a rock star for us.
22:55 I don’t know if you all are aware, but the school profiles that
22:59 all of our schools put together,
23:01 Mr. Bruhn has put together a book of every one of our school’s
23:05 profiles, and it is the coolest thing ever to look through it.
23:08 So, sorry Mr. Bruhn if I’m getting ahead of you, but I just
23:11 couldn’t hold back my excitement on that one,
23:13 because I think it’s so awesome to look through and see all the
23:15 great things going on at our schools.
23:17 So, I’m sure you guys will be getting copies of those soon as
23:20 well.
23:21 Also, I’m pretty sure it was been since the last meeting.
23:26 Dr. Mullins and I had the opportunity to attend the Space Post
23:31 Junior/Senior Space Force Transition Ceremony,
23:35 where their ROTC program is transitioning from an Air Force ROTC
23:40 to one of 10 Space Force units in the entire country.
23:45 And was so incredibly cool, so well put together.
23:50 Our kids just have an incredible opportunity in front of them.
23:54 And to top it off, we had a rocket launch right at the end of
23:57 the ceremony.
23:58 So, it was like just perfection.
24:01 So, congratulations to them and thanks to the Space Force for
24:05 the opportunities for our kiddos.
24:07 Also had the opportunity to attend the Employee of the Year
24:12 ceremony last week, I think it was,
24:14 which was a great recognition of our Employees of the Year
24:17 throughout the district.
24:19 And so, many congratulations to them and also thanks to the
24:23 Foundation for putting together the opportunity for the
24:26 recognition
24:26 and all the folks that made that possible.
24:29 And then the very next day, I got to attend the Teacher of the
24:32 Year Summit, which is put on by our TLC, which was phenomenal.
24:36 So, they brought together all of our Teachers of the Year from
24:38 the entire district and they spent a day together.
24:41 And I have to tell you, the energy in that room was absolutely
24:45 amazing.
24:46 The State Teacher of the Year from last year came and spoke.
24:49 They had lots of activities going on.
24:51 It was just, it was awesome collaboration and just, I guess, re-energizing
24:57 each other.
24:58 And just really a phenomenal experience.
25:00 So, thank you for all of your work in making that possible.
25:05 And then, of course, we had the ABC Awards the night after that,
25:09 which as Ms. Jenkins mentioned,
25:10 which was wonderful recognition of our Teachers of the Year.
25:13 So, it’s been really an exciting few weeks and all of the great
25:17 stuff.
25:18 Do you have one more or do you want Dr. Mullen says one more he
25:22 needs to throw at us?
25:23 Well, I was reminded.
25:24 We can’t pass up the opportunity to recognize a group that goes
25:28 to compete nationally and brings home the second place trophy.
25:32 And that was our Marine Corps Junior ROTC from Palm Bay Magnet
25:37 Senior High School.
25:39 The rifle team went and competed nationally and came home runner
25:43 up in that competition in the country.
25:45 Awesome.
25:49 Thank you, Mrs. Belfort.
25:50 Yeah, thank you, Dr. Mullins, for making sure we cover that.
25:53 And thanks to all that have created all the great opportunities
25:56 to really showcase the amazingness in Brevard.
25:58 It’s been a great couple of weeks.
26:00 All right, we are now going to move into our adoption of the
26:04 agenda.
26:05 Dr. Mullins.
26:07 Mrs. Belfort and members of the board, on this evening’s agenda,
26:10 we have administrative staff recommendations,
26:12 one presentation, 19 consent items, and 21 action items.
26:16 Changes made to the agenda since it was released to the public
26:19 are as follows.
26:20 Revisions were made to items F7, administrative staff
26:23 recommendations.
26:24 F11, student expulsions.
26:27 F13, instructional staff recommendations.
26:29 F14, support staff recommendations.
26:32 F20, Jupiter Elementary School Construction Management Services.
26:37 F22, Riviera Elementary School Construction Management Services.
26:41 And G31, procurement solicitations.
26:44 There were also two board member discussion points added.
26:47 Items J52, Melbourne High School renaming update.
26:50 And J53, transportation and bus driver collaboration.
26:54 I’ll entertain a motion.
26:55 Move to approve.
26:56 Second.
26:57 Moved by Mr. Susan.
26:58 Seconded by Ms. McDougall.
26:59 Is there any discussion?
27:00 Voice voting.
27:01 We are voice voting.
27:02 All in favor, please indicate by saying aye.
27:05 Aye.
27:06 Any opposed, same sign.
27:07 Motion passes 5-0.
27:09 Dr. Mullins, will you please let us know about the
27:12 administrative staff recommendation?
27:14 Madam Chair, members of the board, there are six items for your
27:17 consideration, which includes one resignation, one retirement,
27:20 and four transfers.
27:21 Do I hear a motion?
27:22 Move to approve.
27:23 Second.
27:24 Moved by Mr. Susan.
27:25 Seconded by Ms. Campbell.
27:26 Is there any discussion?
27:27 Hearing none, please vote.
27:28 All in favor, please signify by saying aye.
27:29 Aye.
27:30 Any opposed, same sign.
27:31 Motion passes 5-0.
27:32 Dr. Mullins.
27:33 I would like to take this opportunity to recognize a wonderful
27:41 former colleague and wonderful administrator dedicated to our
27:48 kids, Ms. Lena Cook.
27:49 I’m not sure if she is here this evening.
27:52 Lena, are you here?
27:54 No.
27:55 She is retiring from the position of assistant principal at
27:58 Jefferson Middle School.
28:00 Lena, if you’re out there in TV land, congratulations on your
28:04 retirement.
28:05 We truly and sincerely appreciate your many, many years of
28:09 service to the students of Brevard and then also mentoring up
28:12 teachers and mentoring up other administrators as you have
28:16 served so valiantly across our district.
28:18 So congratulations.
28:19 Thank you, Dr. Mullins, and congratulations, Lena.
28:22 Dr. Mullins, if you will please let us know about the
28:25 presentation on tonight’s agenda.
28:28 Although I have to say that I got a preview the other day when I
28:31 was at the summit and I am so excited about this presentation.
28:34 I think you guys will be too.
28:35 So, Dr. Mullins.
28:36 Yes, very exciting to share.
28:38 Ms. Janice Kershaw, President and CEO of our Brevard Schools
28:41 Foundation, will lead tonight’s presentation on the new Teacher
28:47 Leadership Council Fellowship Program.
28:50 In year two, you’re probably going to cover this.
28:53 Year two?
28:54 Is this our first year?
28:55 So, Mrs. Kershaw and team.
28:57 Well, good evening, board members and Dr. Mullins.
29:01 We’re just here to give you something else to brag about.
29:04 We’re here tonight to introduce to you the new TLC Fellowship
29:08 Program initiative of Brevard Schools Foundation and our initial
29:13 cohort of fellows who will introduce to you in a few minutes.
29:17 First, you may be wondering why Brevard Schools Foundation would
29:21 initiate such a program.
29:23 Well, education foundations are not only known for helping fill
29:27 educational funding gaps, but for serving as a proving ground
29:31 for innovative programs.
29:32 In fact, in Florida, our education foundations receive
29:35 encouragement from the school district education foundation
29:39 matching grant program that allows us to use the power of public
29:44 private investment to shape and address issues around priority
29:48 areas.
29:49 One of them being teaching quality.
29:51 And our private partner in this particular project is Truist.
29:55 So, this pilot program started with a question or a wondering.
30:02 I wondered how Brevard Schools Foundation could better support
30:05 the development of teacher leaders that ultimately leads to
30:08 better results in teaching and learning.
30:11 And what I learned in my exploration was that action research
30:15 could bring respect, motivation, and improved academic results
30:20 to those who practice it, providing a lever for teacher
30:23 leadership.
30:24 What’s more, it could serve as a strong retention tool as well.
30:29 So, when I first brought this idea to Dr. Mullins last year, it
30:33 was under a working title, Sharing the Art of Teaching Action
30:37 Research by Teachers.
30:38 Now, while the concept is the same, after some collaboration
30:41 with my peers at the Jacksonville Public Education Fund, we
30:44 decided that the word fellowship would be more recognizable as a
30:50 prestigious opportunity, commonly referred to as a monetary
30:53 award given to a scholar to pay for his or her academic pursuit.
30:57 And all of the teachers in our program are receiving an honorarium
31:02 as well as the group leads.
31:04 The Teacher Leadership Council would help develop and house the
31:08 fellowship program, thus the name PLC Fellowship Program.
31:12 One of Brevard Public Schools’ unique attributes is its Teacher
31:16 Leadership Council, which has gained recognition around our
31:19 state.
31:20 Seven years ago, former Teachers of the Year, Christina Donohue
31:24 and Dr. Lucy Haddock, who are here tonight, gave birth to the
31:28 Council, and the fellowship program provided a logical next step
31:33 in its growth.
31:35 In practice, the TLC not only concerns itself with developing
31:39 high-performing teacher leaders, but in making the retention of
31:43 high-performing teachers a priority.
31:45 Research has shown that for one high-performing teacher that
31:49 leaves, it takes 11 new hires to replace them.
31:53 Giving teachers something important to do, like academic
31:57 research, is one low-cost retention strategy.
32:00 In the past, TLC has participated in facilitating new teacher
32:05 meetups, wellness programs, and peers in public practice
32:09 professional development, not to mention the teacher-led summits
32:13 and roundtables, to name just a few examples of its work.
32:16 We’re hoping one day that funding will allow us to develop a
32:20 teacher leadership center here in Brevard.
32:23 Now, I’m proud to introduce the TLC group leads, Danielle Lavelle
32:28 and Dottie Arier, to take you through the next step in the
32:31 development of this program, which also happens to be the next
32:36 step in the inquiry process.
32:39 Danielle Lavelle: Thank you so much, Ms. Kershaw. Before we
32:43 really dive into it, on behalf of the TLC Fellowship, we would
32:46 just like to thank the TLC and Ms. Janice Kershaw for really
32:52 putting together this unique opportunity, not only for myself
32:56 and Ms. Dottie, but for also the teachers within BPS.
32:59 Danielle Lavelle: So, my name is Danielle Lavelle. I am
33:01 currently the TOA at University Park Elementary School.
33:05 And I have with me Ms. Dottie Arier, who is the GSP teacher at
33:09 John F. Kennedy.
33:10 When this idea was presented to us, we were chomping at the bits
33:14 to get it started.
33:16 And one of the reasons being is, as a teacher leader, you’re
33:20 always wanting something more.
33:22 Danielle Lavelle: It’s not just another task that you have to
33:25 check off, but another way to reach out to effect and to
33:30 collaborate with peers.
33:33 Danielle Lavelle: So, once the teacher fellowship kind of came
33:35 together, and as you know, this is our pilot year.
33:38 Danielle Lavelle: So, we are very much learning about the
33:40 inquiry process, which I’ve been told, Dr. Mullen, so are you.
33:44 Am I correct in this?
33:45 Danielle Lavelle: So, we began with seeing really what type of
33:49 group of teachers we needed to pull in.
33:52 And our initial thought was the teacher of the year cohort.
33:57 They’ve already been elected and selected by their peers as
34:00 being teacher leaders.
34:01 So, they were our obvious initial choice to kind of bring in and
34:06 send applications to.
34:08 Danielle Lavelle: So, now that we’ve kind of gotten the
34:11 logistics and terms, we’re going to move on to explain what the
34:14 inquiry process is and how it ties into the fellowship program.
34:20 Our fellows are to complete an inquiry.
34:23 The current inquiries that we are doing are based on a
34:25 collaborative effort, as this is our pilot program.
34:28 So, we’re very much learning about action research as we’re
34:32 continuing on.
34:33 I’m going to pass it to Ms. Dottie so that she can explain to
34:36 you more further in detail the different components of action
34:39 research and how it ties into the inquiry process.
34:43 So, as Ms. Janice Kershaw said, her whole thought started with
34:47 this wondering.
34:48 And as you see, that is the initial step to inquiry.
34:52 Janice Kershaw: Good.
34:54 Janice Kershaw: Great.
34:55 So, we begin the whole process with the wondering.
34:59 As teachers, you’re always wondering what would be better to
35:03 provide more for our students to make our teaching and our
35:07 practice even better.
35:09 So, we established our group, secondary and elementary, and we
35:14 collaborated to figure out what our wonderings were, which moves
35:18 into our collaboration and exploration.
35:21 Janice Kershaw: That’s the research.
35:22 Janice Kershaw: That’s us as leads preparing whatever we need to
35:27 for our fellows and providing them with the adequate amounts of
35:31 research that will support their wonderings, which then will
35:35 lead us into that data.
35:36 Janice Kershaw: As teachers, we are in – sorry.
35:40 Janice Kershaw: As teachers, we love looking at data.
35:43 Janice Kershaw: That is something that I, as a teacher, pride
35:46 myself on because we always want to grow professionally and
35:50 within our practice.
35:51 Janice Kershaw: So, when we’re collaborating and looking for
35:55 more resources, we’re also looking at how it’s going to impact
35:59 our practice.
36:00 Janice Kershaw: At the end, we’re reflecting and continuing.
36:03 Janice Kershaw: So, our wonderings at first may start with one
36:06 simple wondering, but through this process of inquiry, it’s
36:10 actually going to grow into new wondering.
36:12 Janice Kershaw: So, it’s a continuous cycle that we can learn
36:17 and grow more from and broaden our professional practice.
36:23 Janice Kershaw: Thank you so much.
36:26 Janice Kershaw: So, as stated, we have two separate groups that
36:29 have initiated this pilot program.
36:31 Janice Kershaw: We decided to separate the fellows into a
36:34 primary or elementary, I should say, and a secondary group.
36:39 Janice Kershaw: The reason being is because we really wanted to
36:43 ensure and hone in on the populations of those schools and
36:46 recognize that even though we are serving in a whole county,
36:50 Janice Kershaw: the needs of elementary are going to differ
36:52 greatly for the needs of secondary.
36:54 Janice Kershaw: So, in terms of leading the process, we thought,
36:58 okay, what are current things, current events, current ideas,
37:02 current keywords that we’ve been hearing over the last couple of
37:06 years,
37:06 Janice Kershaw: to help drive that initial wondering.
37:09 Janice Kershaw: So, we took a survey, and one of the different
37:11 topics was trauma-informed teaching.
37:14 Janice Kershaw: Which, does that sound familiar to you, Dr. Mullins?
37:16 Janice Kershaw: Yes.
37:17 Janice Kershaw: So, trauma-informed teaching was the concept
37:19 that we had originally selected.
37:21 Janice Kershaw: Some of the other ones were social-emotional
37:24 learning, just to kind of name a couple.
37:27 Janice Kershaw: And within trauma-informed, we began thinking,
37:30 okay, with trauma-informed teaching, what type of strategies,
37:34 Janice Kershaw: what type of skill sets could we then put into
37:38 play that could benefit not only the academic side, but also the
37:42 behavior side?
37:43 Janice Kershaw: Because as educators, we know that if we do not
37:46 have solidified social-emotional learning, we have no academics
37:51 that are going to be able to take place.
37:53 Janice Kershaw: So, the elementary group decided on the effects
37:56 of small group lesson introduction based on student trauma index
38:00 and risk factors.
38:01 Janice Kershaw: The elementary team created a ACEs, which for
38:05 those of you who are not familiar, ACEs is basically a trauma
38:08 index that we provide to get an understanding of how much trauma
38:13 an individual has experienced within their lifetime, and it’s
38:17 geared towards childhood.
38:18 Janice Kershaw: So, we created our own trauma index that also
38:23 included specifics on risk factors for academics.
38:27 Janice Kershaw: This includes behavior such as discipline
38:29 referrals, how many times a child is called for assistance,
38:33 parties, and attendance.
38:35 Janice Kershaw: So, based on their trauma index on what we had
38:38 created, we have populated a group of students who have a higher
38:42 level of trauma compared to their peers.
38:45 Janice Kershaw: This small group of students will then be given
38:49 a small group lesson prior to an introductory whole group.
38:54 Janice Kershaw: The reason why we’re doing this is because as
38:56 educators, when you think of small group, it’s always done as a
38:59 remedial factor.
39:00 Janice Kershaw: You put small group to fill in the gap.
39:03 Janice Kershaw: However, what we’ve learned through our research
39:06 with trauma-informed teaching is that students who have higher
39:09 levels of trauma do not transition well.
39:12 Janice Kershaw: And we think of transitions just being
39:15 scheduling.
39:16 Janice Kershaw: Oh, going from one activity to the next.
39:19 Janice Kershaw: Whether it be lunch or PE, recess, or even just
39:23 arrival and dismissal.
39:25 Janice Kershaw: But what we’re wanting to find is that when we
39:28 think of students making those transitions,
39:31 Janice Kershaw: that very much ties into when we’re transferring
39:35 from one key concept to another.
39:38 Janice Kershaw: And how much emphasis do we really give on
39:41 providing those students with not only the additional background
39:43 knowledge,
39:44 Janice Kershaw: but a sense of awareness so that they feel
39:46 confident and comfortable to dive into a new standard.
39:50 Janice Kershaw: So the small group lesson introduction to those
39:53 students who have a higher level of trauma,
39:56 Janice Kershaw: to ease them into the skill set, let them
39:59 collaborate in a small group level,
40:02 Janice Kershaw: and then we’re also including a restorative
40:04 practice within that small group.
40:06 Janice Kershaw: Our focus is only on ELA, reason being is just
40:10 because time.
40:11 Janice Kershaw: We’re always trying to find enough time in the
40:14 day.
40:14 Janice Kershaw: But what we’re really looking at is finding how
40:16 this will build their confidence,
40:18 Janice Kershaw: how it will let them see that, you know, it’s
40:22 not just about filling those gaps,
40:24 Janice Kershaw: but it’s also about getting them prepared.
40:27 Janice Kershaw: I’m going to go ahead and pass it back to Ms. Dottie
40:29 so that she can explain the secondary inquiry.
40:32 Ms. Dottie: For the secondary, you know, we’re a different
40:39 school setting with class changes and periods throughout the day,
40:43 Janice Kershaw: and my fellows are all different subject
40:46 teachers.
40:47 Janice Kershaw: So we kind of wanted to do a more broader base,
40:50 especially with the age group that we’re working with.
40:52 Janice Kershaw: So our project is the impact of relationship
40:55 building on engagement within a trauma informed classroom.
40:59 Janice Kershaw: So we’re still having those factors of making
41:02 the students feel comfortable and building those relationships
41:06 Janice Kershaw: in order for the engagement and the academics to
41:09 occur.
41:10 Janice Kershaw: So we’re realizing the trauma is playing in all
41:13 kids’ lives in very different ways.
41:15 Janice Kershaw: When you hear where my fellows are working at,
41:19 their schools vary just by saying that, their schools are very
41:24 different.
41:25 Janice Kershaw: And their students experience different traumas.
41:28 Janice Kershaw: So therefore, we wanted to make sure that we
41:30 could do this collaboratively,
41:31 Janice Kershaw: but we obviously recognize the differences that
41:34 they might be facing.
41:35 Janice Kershaw: So we wanted to make sure that we focus on just
41:38 good relationship building strategies and how those impact the
41:42 academic.
41:44 Janice Kershaw: Thank you so much.
41:46 Janice Kershaw: And before we really begin off, I just wanted to
41:49 also point out that even though we’ve come from varying schools,
41:53 Janice Kershaw: trauma has affected everybody.
41:55 Janice Kershaw: And due to the pandemic, we no longer get to sit
41:58 back and deal with that reality,
42:00 Janice Kershaw: that trauma is just affecting certain pockets or
42:03 populations within Brevard.
42:05 Janice Kershaw: Trauma has affected everyone.
42:07 Janice Kershaw: During our research that we conducted, something
42:09 that really stuck out to me was that two thirds
42:13 Janice Kershaw: of children will experience trauma by the age of
42:17 16.
42:18 Janice Kershaw: Two thirds.
42:20 Janice Kershaw: And when you think of that, it’s very, it’s
42:22 pointing out that we need to be doing something.
42:24 Janice Kershaw: And that’s what that action research is saying.
42:27 Janice Kershaw: I’m taking action, I’m doing the research and it’s
42:31 that ownership piece that I feel as educators we really strive
42:36 for.
42:36 Janice Kershaw: So now we get to the fun part we’re going to go
42:39 ahead and introduce to you all the 2021 to 2022 fellowship
42:44 cohort.
42:45 Janice Kershaw: Prior to beginning our pinning, I’m going to ask
42:48 that the principals and our TLC Council who is representing us
42:52 today to please step forward.
42:57 Janice Kershaw: Can I have our fellowship stand up as well?
43:09 Janice Kershaw: Our first fellowship is Alexandra Stewart.
43:12 Janice Kershaw: She is a current Spanish AP teacher at West
43:23 Shore Junior and Senior High School.
43:31 Janice Kershaw: Our next fellowship member is Jennifer Laham.
43:50 Janice Kershaw: She is the teacher academy coordinator at Bayside
43:56 High School.
43:57 Janice Kershaw: Next we have Alex Wicker, our seventh grade
44:00 science teacher at Jackson Middle School and our BPS teacher of
44:07 the year as well.
44:09 Janice Kershaw: Woohoo!
59:58 Janice Kershaw: Moved by Mr. Susan, seconded by Ms. Campbell.
1:00:01 Is there any discussion?
1:00:03 Janice Kershaw: All in favor, please say aye.
1:00:05 Janice Kershaw: Aye.
1:00:07 Janice Kershaw: Any opposed?
1:00:08 Same sign.
1:00:09 Janice Kershaw: Motion passes 5-0.
1:00:11 Janice Kershaw: All right.
1:00:13 Dr. Mullins, will you please let us know about the items under
1:00:16 the action portion of tonight’s agenda.
1:00:19 Dr. Mullins: Madam Chair and members of the board, the first
1:00:21 item is to hold a public hearing
1:00:23 to approve the revisions to board policy 5780, student rights,
1:00:27 parents’ rights.
1:00:28 Janice Kershaw: Is there anyone present who wishes to address
1:00:31 board policy 5780, student rights,
1:00:33 parents’ rights?
1:00:34 Janice Kershaw: Is there anyone present who wishes to address
1:00:37 board policy 5780, students’ rights,
1:00:40 parents’ rights?
1:00:41 Janice Kershaw: Hearing none, I’ll entertain a motion.
1:00:43 Janice Kershaw: Moved to approve.
1:00:44 Janice Kershaw: Second.
1:00:45 Janice Kershaw: Moved by Mr. Susan, seconded by Ms. Campbell.
1:00:48 Is there any discussion?
1:00:49 Ms. Campbell.
1:00:50 Janice Kershaw: What did I say?
1:00:52 Ms. Campbell.
1:00:53 Janice Kershaw: Okay.
1:00:54 Janice Kershaw: All right, moved by Mr. Susan, seconded by Ms.
1:00:57 McDougall.
1:00:58 Is there any discussion?
1:01:00 Janice Kershaw: All in favor, please signify by saying aye.
1:01:03 Janice Kershaw: Aye.
1:01:04 Janice Kershaw: Any opposed, same sign.
1:01:05 Janice Kershaw: Motion passes 5-0.
1:01:07 Janice Kershaw: Our next item is on procurement solicitations.
1:01:10 Janice Kershaw: I’ll entertain a motion.
1:01:12 Janice Kershaw: Moved by Ms. Campbell, seconded by Ms. McDougall.
1:01:16 Janice Kershaw: Is there any discussion?
1:01:17 Janice Kershaw: All in favor, please signify by saying aye.
1:01:20 Janice Kershaw: Aye.
1:01:21 Janice Kershaw: Any opposed, same sign.
1:01:23 Janice Kershaw: Motion passes 5-0.
1:01:24 Janice Kershaw: Dr. Mullins.
1:01:25 Janice Kershaw: Next is hold a public hearing and approve the
1:01:30 revisions to Board Policy 2260,
1:01:32 Non-Discrimination and Access to Equal Educational Opportunity.
1:01:36 Janice Kershaw: Is there anyone present who wishes to address
1:01:38 Board Policy 2260, Non-Discrimination
1:01:40 and Access to Equal Educational Opportunity?
1:01:42 Janice Kershaw: Is there anyone present who wishes to address
1:01:44 Board Policy 2260, Non-Discrimination
1:01:46 and Access to Equal Educational Opportunity?
1:01:48 Janice Kershaw: Do I hear a motion?
1:01:49 Janice Kershaw: Second.
1:01:50 Janice Kershaw: Moved by Ms. McDougall, seconded by Ms. Jenkins.
1:01:51 Is there any discussion?
1:01:52 Janice Kershaw: Ms. Campbell?
1:01:53 Janice Kershaw: So this policy and the next one are a couple
1:01:54 that I have wrestled with over
1:01:55 the last couple of months and had several discussions with Dr.
1:01:57 Mullins, with Ms.
1:02:01 Landano, I think I’ve had some with Mr. Gibbs as well as far as
1:02:15 what these policies mean.
1:02:22 And I wish I’d been able to wrap my brain around and be able to
1:02:26 focus it all into one thought
1:02:28 before this week because it would be something that I could have
1:02:31 shared if I’d had it coherently
1:02:33 at our December workshop, work session or our January workshop.
1:02:41 2260 in particular reflects the non-discrimination statement
1:02:48 that this Board, a previous Board,
1:02:51 including one member of the current Board, adopted back in 2016.
1:02:56 And for whatever reason, the policy that matches it, that marries
1:03:00 with it, was not changed at
1:03:02 the time.
1:03:03 It hasn’t been revised since 2014.
1:03:08 When I got down to the crux of what was bothering me, I think
1:03:10 what it was is that if I had been
1:03:12 on the Board in 2016, and I wasn’t, but if I had been, I would
1:03:14 have voted no for the change in the statement.
1:03:17 I believe that similar to other school districts, and I haven’t
1:03:21 pulled all of them, but just doing a quick search,
1:03:23 Marion, Escambia, Suwannee, Okaloosa, Pinellas are a few
1:03:27 counties that didn’t add the language that was added back in
1:03:29 2014 or 2016.
1:03:31 And my concern, if there’s a policy that I’m going to vote for,
1:03:39 words are so important, and they’re particularly,
1:03:41 for me, I just, I have to be able to own the policy that I’m
1:03:46 voting for.
1:03:47 And there is a, the section that bothers me the most is the preamble,
1:03:51 or the first sections,
1:03:52 that describe the purpose of the policy.
1:03:55 And I want to be clear, because I know that my words tonight and
1:04:00 my vote tonight can be misconstrued.
1:04:06 And I know this Board knows me, and I shared my heart with you a
1:04:08 couple weeks ago when I brought up the locker room issue.
1:04:12 But I still feel that way.
1:04:14 It’s still my conviction.
1:04:15 I still want to think what’s best for students, including our
1:04:18 transgender students in particular,
1:04:20 is to not open wide the doors when it comes to restrooms and
1:04:24 locker rooms.
1:04:25 And I shared those with you guys a couple weeks ago.
1:04:28 All this policy doesn’t talk about restrooms and locker rooms.
1:04:31 I feel like the way that it’s worded at the beginning opens the
1:04:34 door so that even if, for example,
1:04:36 the 11th Circuit case, Adams v. St. John’s County case, that’s
1:04:40 going to be re-heard by the full 11th Circuit this month.
1:04:43 And I told you there’s no, no statute right now that requires
1:04:46 locker rooms except for, not statute, but the current,
1:04:49 presidential administration’s interpretation of Title IX that
1:04:54 requires us to allow transgender students to use locker rooms
1:04:58 and restrooms of their choice.
1:05:00 I just feel like by having this in policy, then we’re locking it
1:05:03 in.
1:05:04 One of the things that’s been consistent in our guidelines for
1:05:10 all those things is our policy, our non-discrimination statement,
1:05:16 which, again, now is going to be solidified into policy.
1:05:19 But I want it to be clear.
1:05:21 I agree with the statements that discrimination is harmful.
1:05:26 That’s one of the things that’s in there.
1:05:27 I actually don’t mind the wording of 2266, which is why I will
1:05:31 be voting for that one tonight.
1:05:33 But I just, today, just had one more time just to read through
1:05:39 all those and just see, can I put my full weight behind it?
1:05:44 And the truth is, I cannot behind 2260 and behind 2260.01, so I’ll
1:05:49 just do all the discussion on that for myself, from my point of
1:05:53 view.
1:05:54 I actually had a conversation I called one of our NAACP leaders
1:05:57 yesterday because I wanted to make sure that there was not a miscommunication
1:06:02 that, you know, oh, Katie believes that discrimination is okay.
1:06:05 That’s not true.
1:06:06 So I want to talk about what I’m for.
1:06:09 I am for all our students having whatever opportunities,
1:06:15 education-wise, and for there to be no discrimination when it
1:06:20 comes to the kind of classes that they can take, the kind of
1:06:26 clubs they can be involved in, and the way that we are treated.
1:06:29 This is separate from harassment.
1:06:30 I mean, all our harassment policies are spot on, and I, you know,
1:06:34 don’t have a problem, and no one else tonight has spoken against
1:06:39 those either.
1:06:40 But I just, like I said, I shared with you guys my heart a
1:06:44 couple weeks ago, and I just really feel like it is important
1:06:53 for the protection of our transgender students, who I am
1:06:56 continuing to hear issues around the locker room.
1:06:58 Issue in particular, with how that’s being handled, how staff is
1:07:02 handling, they’re handling it the best they can.
1:07:05 Some of them feel very uncomfortable with how, what they’re
1:07:07 having to do.
1:07:08 And with students, I’m hearing more stories of students who are
1:07:11 not comfortable changing.
1:07:12 And we, even though Mr. Susan mentioned a couple weeks ago that
1:07:15 we could allow, you know, make sure parents know that their
1:07:18 student, if they want to, can have an alternative place to
1:07:21 change.
1:07:21 The truth is we don’t have the facilities to do that.
1:07:23 If we have an entire locker room of boys who don’t feel
1:07:27 comfortable, they don’t want to dress out because there’s
1:07:30 someone who is a biological girl now in their locker room, we
1:07:33 don’t have the facilities for all those boys to go somewhere
1:07:36 else.
1:07:36 Not in a timely manner at all.
1:07:39 And so those kinds of things, that is a choice by this board.
1:07:45 It is a choice that other boards have chosen differently.
1:07:49 And I’m not bringing that back up because I want us to change it,
1:07:51 but I’m just saying this policy is the thing behind those
1:07:55 actions and what we might do with those in the future.
1:07:59 And so for that reason, and for that reason alone, I’m going to
1:08:03 be voting no on this policy as well as 2260.01.
1:08:06 And again, it’s mainly because of those preambles, those first
1:08:10 parts of the policy.
1:08:11 But all of the rest of them, I will be a yes.
1:08:16 Thank you, Ms. Campbell.
1:08:17 Any additional discussion?
1:08:20 All right.
1:08:21 I have a motion.
1:08:22 So all in favor, please indicate by saying aye.
1:08:25 Aye.
1:08:26 I mean, I’m the nay.
1:08:28 Let’s do that one more time.
1:08:30 Just so it’s clean.
1:08:31 All in favor, please indicate by saying aye.
1:08:32 Aye.
1:08:33 All opposed.
1:08:34 Nay.
1:08:36 And the motion passes three to two.
1:08:38 Next is Dr. Mullins.
1:08:40 Next is to hold a public hearing and approve the revisions to
1:08:43 board policy 2260.01, anti-harassment and non-discrimination
1:08:48 appeal procedures.
1:08:49 Is there anyone present who wishes to address board policy 2260.01,
1:08:53 anti-harassment and non-discrimination appeal procedures?
1:08:57 Is there anyone present who wishes to address board policy 2260.01,
1:09:02 anti-harassment and non-discrimination appeal procedures?
1:09:05 Hearing none, I’ll entertain a motion.
1:09:08 Ms. Belford.
1:09:09 Oh, go ahead.
1:09:10 I did just want to chime in and mention that I spoke with
1:09:19 someone just today who was considering moving to the area.
1:09:25 And one of the questions that they asked me was, what is the
1:09:29 policy in your schools on the things that Ms. Campbell was
1:09:33 talking about?
1:09:34 And I told them.
1:09:35 And they said, wow, that really makes me reconsider.
1:09:38 And so I just would hope that this board would understand that
1:09:46 this topic is, it’s very difficult.
1:09:51 And, you know, I just wanted to throw that out there because I
1:09:54 don’t know if you guys have, you know, heard any of that stuff
1:09:59 yourself.
1:10:00 But that’s something that I experienced today.
1:10:02 So, thank you.
1:10:03 Thank you, Ms. Delaney.
1:10:04 All right.
1:10:07 Anyone else who wishes to address board policy 2260?
1:10:10 Ms. Mirsky.
1:10:18 Good evening again, board.
1:10:19 I just wonder, and I know this isn’t a question and answer
1:10:22 session, but why this issue right now when other counties and
1:10:27 other school boards in the area are not bringing this to their
1:10:31 boards and changing the policy in this way?
1:10:33 I want to know why Brevard County and why half of the
1:10:36 constituents in this room and throughout Brevard County aren’t
1:10:40 being represented in this policy.
1:10:42 Thank you.
1:10:43 Thank you, Ms. Merce.
1:10:44 Yes, ma’am.
1:10:45 I honestly have a proposition regarding this.
1:10:58 If you guys are comfortable changing into gym clothes in front
1:11:02 of everyone here, then I invite you to do so.
1:11:05 If you’re not comfortable, you have no right to do that to our
1:11:08 children.
1:11:09 All of the children deserve a safe place and making, you’re
1:11:14 concentrating on one half of the children, not the other.
1:11:19 They all deserve a safe place, private place.
1:11:22 And I just, I can’t even believe it’s the discussion.
1:11:25 Thank you, ma’am.
1:11:28 Anyone else who wishes to speak to the policy?
1:11:31 Audience, if you would please hold your applause.
1:11:34 Anyone else that wishes to speak to the policy?
1:11:37 Okay, then I will entertain a motion.
1:11:40 Second.
1:11:41 Moved by Ms. McDougall.
1:11:42 Seconded by Ms. Jenkins.
1:11:43 Is there any additional, any, is there any discussion?
1:11:44 Yes.
1:11:45 Ms. Jenkins.
1:11:46 Man, I just, it’s alarming to me that we’re still here today
1:11:55 having these conversations.
1:12:00 Ms. Campbell, I, I respect your conviction because you stand by
1:12:07 what you, what you say and what you believe.
1:12:09 And I believe that that’s in your heart.
1:12:11 And I, I’ve said this, I said this when we had our board meetup
1:12:16 or whatever we called it that day.
1:12:18 But one of the things that, that you said then, and you said
1:12:20 again today, that just, I have to be clear about is about it
1:12:24 being for the protection of our trans students.
1:12:26 And I want to make it clear.
1:12:28 I think that’s something we should be asking our trans students.
1:12:33 If the things that you’re saying make them feel protected.
1:12:36 I just don’t believe that they would agree with that.
1:12:39 And, you know, this topic, this issue, why now?
1:12:45 And it’s because our trans and LGBTQ students always existed.
1:12:51 They will continue to exist.
1:12:53 They have a right to exist.
1:12:55 And that is why.
1:12:56 That is why.
1:12:57 now because we are a public education system and we serve every
1:13:02 student
1:13:03 regardless of your beliefs and I brought this up at our meeting
1:13:11 that wasn’t
1:13:12 streamed but I’m gonna bring it up again
1:13:15 we had students displaying hate against their LGBTQ peers in the
1:13:23 hallways of our
1:13:23 schools just two weeks ago and we are adults sitting on a dais
1:13:30 supporting
1:13:31 that by the things that we say and by clapping in this room
1:13:35 today
1:13:37 it’s a disc
1:13:40 Ms. Jenkins I absolutely agree with you that we are to serve
1:13:47 every student every
1:13:48 student with excellence as standard I do believe that we can
1:13:52 serve our
1:13:52 transgender students in a positive way and by the way I don’t
1:13:56 believe at all
1:13:57 that the comments I’m not going to speak for the people who came
1:14:00 up and spoke you
1:14:01 know sometimes people get ugly and don’t say it the way I would
1:14:04 have said it but the
1:14:05 conversation as far as from my perspective that even my vote on
1:14:11 this in
1:14:12 any way supports students mistreating their peers and and when
1:14:17 we okay I know but I’m
1:14:19 saying this policy because we have specific in fact we have in
1:14:22 the policies that we’re
1:14:23 going to be voting on down the line in just a minute anti
1:14:26 harassment bullying we have
1:14:27 those set up and I believe I can wholeheartedly with whatever
1:14:30 language that’s in
1:14:31 there support these policies because our students all no matter
1:14:35 what their
1:14:36 difference are whether they agree with them whether they think
1:14:38 that they should be
1:14:38 out have access to whatever space of the school they they want
1:14:42 or not that they
1:14:44 should be treating one another with respect and and that
1:14:47 absolutely I can come I am full
1:14:49 agreement with you I so I don’t the things that you say the way
1:14:52 you say that I don’t
1:14:53 necessarily agree with all of it but I agree that we need to
1:14:56 make sure that’s a
1:14:57 priority and I think that this board regardless of this
1:15:00 particular vote can can support that and
1:15:04 there’s not a person on this dais I don’t believe we’re in this
1:15:07 room who thinks that
1:15:08 whatever behavior has been happening to our trans if they are
1:15:11 being bullied if
1:15:12 they are being named called they’re being shut I’ve had an email
1:15:15 of someone who
1:15:16 was who was shoved or somebody saying something to them and they
1:15:21 never could
1:15:21 find out who it was that wasn’t one of my schools you know those
1:15:24 kinds of things
1:15:25 our administrators need to handle and they are handling and they
1:15:29 need to come
1:15:30 forward people who have those things happening to come forward
1:15:33 but again I I thank you for the
1:15:36 the acknowledgement I appreciate that but I do I do think that
1:15:42 this particular policy whether
1:15:45 it’s voted or not voted does not none of that would condone or
1:15:48 any action by this board condone
1:15:50 behavior like that thank you miss Campbell mr. Gibbs can ask you
1:15:56 a couple of questions just to kind of
1:15:57 clarify some of the the understanding by the audience so it was
1:16:01 it was mentioned why are we changing this
1:16:04 language at this point in time are we are we changing any
1:16:07 language in this policy with
1:16:09 regard to the section that miss Campbell expressed concern the
1:16:13 first paragraph with
1:16:14 regard to clarifying those types of discrimination that are
1:16:19 prohibited
1:16:22 the first section does not have many changes it looks like they
1:16:30 added a few notes as far as the ADA references in section 504
1:16:37 so we’re not changing the definition of sex discrimination in
1:16:43 this policy right
1:16:45 okay and the other question that I have for you does this policy
1:16:53 guide
1:16:54 the areas that miss Campbell expressed concern about or is our
1:17:00 handling of those situations guided by something more powerful
1:17:05 than this policy
1:17:06 so miss Campbell has expressed concern about locker rooms and
1:17:11 restrooms but does this policy address restrooms or locker rooms
1:17:16 or is the way that the district handles restrooms and locker
1:17:20 rooms guided by
1:17:21 so you know DOJ guidance and OCR guidance because the OCR and
1:17:23 the DOJ are going to come in and enforce federal law and
1:17:24 regulations against the district so all of the policy changes
1:17:25 and the policy changes Neola makes and recommends you you adopt
1:17:25 are
1:17:26 based on the federal guidance
1:17:47 are based on the federal guidance
1:17:59 so um so um miss Campbell mentioned that the Adams case is being
1:18:04 reheard by the 11th circuit
1:18:06 right if that if the decision on that case changes are we
1:18:11 required to change our policy
1:18:12 yes I would recommend that we change policy to comply with where
1:18:16 the law is in Florida and the 11th circuit will be binding on
1:18:19 Florida unless the Supreme Court changes it so whatever the
1:18:22 outcome of that
1:18:22 and I hoped it would have been out already and we’ve already had
1:18:26 two opinions from them that have been pulled back so
1:18:28 we are where we are right now with the courts and when that
1:18:32 changes this may very well be coming back to the district
1:18:36 so this is I guess the point that I’m trying to get to is our
1:18:41 our policy has to be reflective of
1:18:43 the legal guidance not your legal guidance right I mean although
1:18:48 you give us opinion and we hopefully we listen to you
1:18:50 it’s based on existing legal guidance out there that’s available
1:18:54 and when it changes like from court cases
1:18:57 and the 11th circuit court case comes down if it requires
1:19:00 amendment we’ll bring it back to the board
1:19:01 as an amendment okay thank you and Ms. Campbell I wasn’t asking
1:19:05 those questions to to like disagree with
1:19:07 you I just want for our audience to understand what the actual
1:19:10 changes are that we’re making and what the impact it has because
1:19:14 I’ve heard numerous times that you know this policy is what is
1:19:18 causing the decisions
1:19:19 the accommodations that we’re putting in place and I just I just
1:19:23 think it’s important to understand that
1:19:24 while this policy guides us it really is that that legal
1:19:27 guidance out there so I apologize
1:19:30 board for getting us down that tangent I just think it’s
1:19:32 important to understand the nuances
1:19:35 all right I have a motion and a second if there isn’t any
1:19:38 further discussion all in favor please signify by
1:19:40 saying aye aye aye all opposed same sign nay motion passes three
1:19:46 to two
1:19:46 all right dr mullins next is all the public hearing and approve
1:19:52 the revisions to board policy 2266
1:19:55 non-discrimination on the basis of sex is there anyone present
1:19:58 who wishes to address board policy 2266
1:20:00 non-discrimination on the basis of sex is there anyone present
1:20:05 who wishes to address board policy 2266
1:20:08 non-discrimination on the basis of sex miss marsky
1:20:12 good evening board my point with the non-discrimination on the
1:20:24 basis of sex is that my point is that
1:20:27 discrimination goes both ways my children have been bullied on
1:20:31 public on school property for their
1:20:34 faith and their political points of views just as other people
1:20:37 who have different faiths and different
1:20:40 points of view it has to stop on both sides I agree both sides
1:20:45 thank you thank you miss marsky
1:20:48 anyone else that wishes to speak to that policy all right then I
1:20:52 will entertain a motion
1:20:54 second moved by miss mcdougall seconded by miss jenkins is there
1:20:59 any discussion
1:21:00 miss campbell um we’ve had some I think misunderstandings and
1:21:05 communications on this policy
1:21:07 as we bring it up I think um there were some questions about
1:21:10 athletics and I think that was
1:21:12 settled by staff but I think that settled through email instead
1:21:15 of through um uh public through our
1:21:21 what we’ve said in the board meeting but our district will abides
1:21:24 and will continue to buy by fhsaa
1:21:26 guidelines because that those guidelines uh which follow florida
1:21:30 statute including the one that was
1:21:31 passed last uh session about fairness in women’s sports um we
1:21:35 follow those guidelines because that’s
1:21:38 what’s required to participate in fhsaa and we will continue
1:21:41 continue to do that actually don’t see
1:21:43 this policy as being about that and honestly the part in here in
1:21:45 though it includes some of the
1:21:47 language that i’m sure you have a problem with that makes for me
1:21:49 personally again this is just my
1:21:51 conscience and what i can vote for is the statement in number
1:21:54 one a1 that says the requirement not to
1:21:56 discriminate in its education program or activity extends to
1:22:00 admission enrollment and employment so
1:22:02 i’m yes on this one thank you miss campbell any additional
1:22:07 discussion
1:22:08 all in favor please signify by saying aye aye any opposed same
1:22:12 sign motion passes 5-0 dr mullins
1:22:16 next is i’ll hold the public hearing and approve the revisions
1:22:21 to board policy 3121 conditions for
1:22:24 employment and re-employment of staff is there anyone present
1:22:27 who wishes to address board policy 3121
1:22:29 conditions for employment and re-employment of staff is there
1:22:33 anyone present who wishes to address board
1:22:35 policy 3121 conditions for employment and re-employment of staff
1:22:39 hearing none i’ll entertain a motion
1:22:42 moved by miss campbell seconded by miss mcdougall is there any
1:22:46 discussion
1:22:47 all in favor please signify by saying aye aye any opposed same
1:22:52 sign motion passes 5-0 dr mullins
1:22:56 next is i’ll hold the public hearing and approve the revisions
1:22:58 to board policy 3121.01 criminal
1:23:01 background and employment history checks is there anyone present
1:23:04 who wishes to address board policy 3121.01
1:23:08 criminal background and employment history checks is there
1:23:10 anyone present who wishes to address board
1:23:12 policy 3121.01 criminal background and employment history checks
1:23:17 okay hearing none i’ll entertain a motion
1:23:22 move move by mr campbell seconded by mcdougall is there any
1:23:24 discussion all in favor please signify by
1:23:27 saying aye aye any opposed same sign motion passes 5-0 dr mullins
1:23:33 next is hold the public hearing and
1:23:34 approve the revisions to board policy 3590 personnel file is
1:23:38 there anyone present who wishes to address
1:23:40 board policy 3590 personnel file is there anyone present who
1:23:41 wishes to address board policy 3590 personnel file
1:23:44 hearing none i’ll entertain a motion moved by ms mcdougall
1:23:51 seconded by ms campbell is there any discussion
1:23:55 hearing none all in favor please signify by saying aye aye any
1:24:00 opposed same sign motion passes 5-0 dr mullins
1:24:06 next is all the public hearing and approve the revisions to
1:24:08 board policy 5517 anti-harassment
1:24:11 is there anyone present who wishes to address board policy 5517
1:24:15 anti-harassment is there anyone present who
1:24:18 wishes to address board policy 5517 anti-harassment hearing none
1:24:22 i’ll entertain a motion
1:24:24 moved by ms campbell seconded by ms mcdougall is there any
1:24:28 discussion
1:24:31 all in favor please signify by saying aye aye any opposed same
1:24:35 sign motion passes 5-0 dr mullins
1:24:38 next is hold the public hearing and approve the revisions to
1:24:42 board policy 5517.01 bullying and or
1:24:45 harassment is there anyone present who wishes to address board
1:24:49 policy 5517.01 bullying and or harassment
1:24:52 for anyone present who wishes to address board policy 5517 is
1:24:58 marsky okay
1:25:01 good evening i appreciate policies like this i just want to make
1:25:10 it very clear to the board i don’t
1:25:12 discriminate against anybody neither do my children and the fact
1:25:16 that a board member would say that
1:25:18 because somebody clapped i find highly disrespectful and
1:25:21 inappropriate thank you
1:25:26 all right is there anyone else present who wishes to address
1:25:29 board policy 5517.01
1:25:31 i’ll entertain a motion moved by ms campbell seconded by ms mcdougall
1:25:37 is there any discussion
1:25:39 all in favor please signify by saying aye aye any opposed same
1:25:44 sign motion passes 5-0
1:25:48 dr mullins next is to hold a public hearing and approve the revisions
1:25:52 to board policy 5517.03
1:25:55 dating violence and abuse is there anyone present who wishes to
1:25:58 address board policy 5517.03 dating
1:26:01 violence and abuse is there anyone present who wishes to address
1:26:05 board policy 5517.03 dating violence and
1:26:09 abuse i’ll entertain a motion moved by ms mcdougall seconded was
1:26:14 that ms jenkins seconded by ms jenkins is
1:26:17 there any discussion all in favor please signify by saying aye
1:26:21 aye any opposed same sign motion passes 5-0 dr mullins
1:26:26 next is all to public hearing and approve the revisions to board
1:26:29 policy 2410 school health services special
1:26:32 services is there anyone present who wishes to address board
1:26:36 policy 2410 school health services special
1:26:38 services is there anyone present who wishes to address board
1:26:42 policy 2410 school health services special
1:26:45 services i’ll entertain a motion moved by ms campbell seconded
1:26:50 by ms mcdougall is there any discussion
1:26:53 ms campbell i think there was a concern brought up tonight about
1:26:58 the statute i think that was all
1:27:00 clarified thank you ms moore for clarifying our procedures um
1:27:05 for how we handle the baker acts and the parental
1:27:08 notification is all in compliance with the law um just kind of
1:27:11 want to be crystal clear anybody walk out
1:27:13 of this room we’re watching online thinking that we’re not we
1:27:16 are doing that we have been doing it
1:27:17 already um we’re going to continue to do it and one of the
1:27:20 things that i encourage people when they look
1:27:23 at the policies is make sure to see i know for us we see these
1:27:26 all the time there there are things that
1:27:29 will say things like including and subject to the requirements
1:27:32 and exceptions established under and
1:27:33 will have florida statute and people don’t like to follow those
1:27:36 all the time but if if if our policies
1:27:38 have the and they’re hot links so you can get to them easily it
1:27:43 have the statutes referenced
1:27:45 then that means as those statutes correct me if i’m wrong mr gibbs
1:27:49 if the statutes change
1:27:51 but we’re referencing those statutes that statutes that we’re
1:27:54 going to you know abide by whatever
1:27:56 then as the statutes change we don’t have to update our policy
1:27:59 it gives us some flexibility so that
1:28:00 as those statutes change we’re still in compliance correct yes
1:28:03 it’s a way of getting around having
1:28:05 to revise if you cite specific language if that language changes
1:28:08 then we have to do three months
1:28:09 of revisions to get it re-adopted and in compliance if you just
1:28:13 reference the statute and we’re complying
1:28:15 with the statute allows the district to internally make those
1:28:18 changes without having to go through
1:28:19 revisions and i know some of that we handle by procedure which
1:28:23 can be changed as necessary and i know
1:28:24 that every time we have significant changes that need to happen
1:28:28 in our procedures notice goes out in the
1:28:30 leadership team packet and retraining happens as necessary hey
1:28:33 the law just changed and so now we
1:28:35 need to do xyz and if it requires training we’re going to have
1:28:38 this training at such and such a time
1:28:40 sign up so i just want to be clear those kinds of things are
1:28:44 ways that we build that into our policy
1:28:46 to make sure that we’re in compliance even if the laws change
1:28:49 unless they change significantly in which
1:28:51 we we have to do some of the stuff like we’re doing something
1:28:53 thank you that was good clarification
1:28:56 miss campbell thank you uh any additional discussion will
1:29:00 entertain i have a motion all in favor please
1:29:03 indicate by saying aye aye any opposed same sign motion passes 5-0
1:29:09 dr mullins next is to hold public
1:29:10 hearing and approve the revisions to board policy 2431.03 concussion
1:29:15 and head injuries is there anyone
1:29:16 present who wishes to address board policy 2431.03 concussion
1:29:20 and head injuries is there anyone present
1:29:23 who wishes to address board policy 2431.03 concussion and head
1:29:27 injuries will entertain a motion
1:29:30 moved by miss jenkins seconded by miss campbell is there any
1:29:34 discussion all in favor please signify by
1:29:37 saying aye aye any opposed same sign motion passes 5-0 dr mullins
1:29:43 next is to hold the public hearing and
1:29:45 approve the revisions to board policy 2800 educational services
1:29:49 for students in department of juvenile justice
1:29:51 educational programs for anyone present who wishes to address
1:29:54 board policy 2800 educational services for
1:29:57 students in department of juvenile justice educational programs
1:30:00 for anyone present who wishes to address board
1:30:03 the board policy 2800 educational services for students in
1:30:07 department of juvenile justice educational programs
1:30:09 do i hear a motion
1:30:12 moved by miss campbell seconded by ms mcdougall is there any
1:30:17 discussion
1:30:17 all in favor please signify by saying aye aye any opposed same
1:30:22 sign
1:30:22 motion passes 5-0 dr mullins next is to hold the public hearing
1:30:28 and approve the revisions to board
1:30:29 policy 3215 smoking and tobacco free environment is there anyone
1:30:34 present who wishes to address board
1:30:35 policy 3215 smoking and tobacco free environment is there anyone
1:30:39 present who wishes to address board
1:30:41 policy 3215 smoking and tobacco free environment do i have a
1:30:45 motion moved by miss campbell seconded by
1:30:49 miss mcdougall is there any discussion all in favor please signify
1:30:53 by saying aye aye any opposed motion passes 5-0
1:30:58 seconded by mcdougall is there any discussion
1:31:04 seconded by mcdougall seconded by mcdougall seconded by mcdougall
1:31:20 is there any discussion
1:31:21 all in favor please signify by saying aye aye any opposed same
1:31:26 sign motion passes 5-0
1:31:29 dr mullins the next item is to hold a public hearing and approve
1:31:34 the revisions to board policy 5610.05
1:31:38 participation in extracurricular activities is there anyone
1:31:41 present who wishes to address board policy 5610.05
1:31:43 participation in extracurricular activities is there anyone
1:31:49 present who wishes to address board policy 5610.05
1:31:53 participation in extracurricular activities do i have a motion
1:31:57 moved by ms campbell seconded by ms mcdougall is there any
1:32:01 discussion
1:32:01 all in favor please signify by saying aye aye any opposed same
1:32:07 sign motion passes 5-0
1:32:09 dr mullins and next is to hold the public hearing and approve
1:32:14 the revisions to board policy 8330 student records
1:32:16 is there anyone present who wishes to address policy 8330
1:32:23 student records is there anyone present who
1:32:26 wishes to address board policy 8330 student records i’ll
1:32:29 entertain a motion
1:32:31 moved by ms jenkins seconded by ms mcdougall is there any
1:32:36 discussion
1:32:36 all in favor please signify by saying aye aye any opposed same
1:32:41 sign motion passes 5-0 dr mullins next is
1:32:46 i’ll hold the public hearing and approve the revisions to board
1:32:49 policy 8452 automated external
1:32:51 defibrillators is there anyone present who wishes to address
1:32:55 board policy 8452 automated external
1:32:57 defibrillators anyone present who wishes to address board policy
1:33:01 8452 automated external defibrillators
1:33:04 hearing none i’ll entertain a motion motion moved by ms jenkins
1:33:11 seconded by ms mcdougall is there any discussion
1:33:15 all in favor please signify by saying aye aye any opposed same
1:33:19 sign motion passes 5-0 dr mullins next
1:33:22 is hold the public hearing and approve the revisions to board
1:33:26 policy 8405 school safety and security threat
1:33:29 assessment teams is there anyone present who wishes to address
1:33:32 board policy 8405 school safety and security
1:33:35 threat assessment teams is there anyone present who wishes to
1:33:39 address board policy 8405 school safety and
1:33:41 security threat assessment teams i’ll entertain a motion move by
1:33:46 ms mcdougall seconded by ms campbell is there
1:33:50 any discussion oh you didn’t get it out oh you said second i got
1:33:56 second oh i heard you so all in favor
1:34:00 please signify by saying aye aye any opposed same sign motion
1:34:04 passes 5-0 dr mullins the last item is to
1:34:08 hold the public hearing and approve the revisions to board
1:34:11 policy 8407 safe school officers is there anyone
1:34:14 present who wishes to address board policy 8407 safe school
1:34:18 officers is there anyone present who wishes to
1:34:21 to address board policy 8407 safe school officers do i have a
1:34:26 motion
1:34:26 moved by ms mcdougall seconded by ms campbell is there any
1:34:31 discussion
1:34:32 all in favor please signify by saying aye aye any opposed same
1:34:36 sign motion passes 5-0
1:34:42 all right use water huh i know right that was a lot
1:34:47 all righty can i thank the staff for giving us the day off today
1:34:55 no workshop yeah please to uh please do not have the workshop
1:35:02 all right we are
1:35:09 okay okay we are now at board member reports and discussion
1:35:16 points mr susan you asked to add
1:35:17 melbourne high school renaming update and transportation and bus
1:35:20 driver collaboration
1:35:21 yeah thank you so melbourne high school update so we were
1:35:27 talking about this in the board workshop
1:35:29 many of you know that there was an application about 17 months
1:35:35 ago to rename melbourne high school
1:35:36 after an amazing individual named joseph acabo who used to be a
1:35:40 teacher there and um he’s now
1:35:42 currently an astronaut and he’s part of the pool not on the
1:35:45 launch team but on the pool of astronauts
1:35:47 they will pull for the next um artemis program so it made sense
1:35:53 to many and so the miss lopez made the
1:35:56 application um lo and behold the process showed that we didn’t
1:35:59 have much support for it um overwhelming
1:36:02 support against it uh so i reached out to miss lopez and said
1:36:06 hey miss lopez uh to avoid a march meeting
1:36:10 uh is there any way that you’d like to pull this and she said at
1:36:13 this time you know um i’m not going
1:36:15 to do that and i’ll tell you the reason why she’s been making a
1:36:18 pusher is that she really would like
1:36:20 um us to make uh an effort to support the hispanic latino
1:36:25 culture down in the palm bay melbourne area
1:36:28 and across the county and this was her way of saying you know
1:36:31 what we’re going to try it and many don’t
1:36:33 understand what miss lopez was pushing for was because back when
1:36:37 i was a teacher i remember the
1:36:38 meeting it was one of the very ones that i actually came one of
1:36:41 the very few ones they were renaming uh
1:36:43 they were trying to name uh heritage high school and they were
1:36:45 upset because they thought that they
1:36:47 were going to rename it after roberto clemente um and so as you
1:36:51 know there’s no high schools that are
1:36:53 named after individuals right now so the issue that we had was
1:36:56 well presidents of course but um local
1:36:59 people so they named the athletic facility after roberto clemente
1:37:02 which is appropriate he was a great
1:37:03 baseball player but she felt like look let’s make this that’s
1:37:06 where a lot of this angst comes from
1:37:08 um where we’re saying like look there’s no support we’re going
1:37:11 to create this meeting everybody’s going to
1:37:12 come from around the area let’s avoid it so recently i reached
1:37:16 out and finally got a hold of mr akaba
1:37:18 and talked to him as i stated before and said hey mr akaba would
1:37:22 you like to uh you know what i mean
1:37:24 you know talk about this and everything else and he said hey
1:37:26 nobody reached out to me but i’ll tell you
1:37:28 right now i want to do what’s right for the kids so count me in
1:37:32 on a stem project but i’m not interested
1:37:34 in having this named after me so with the facts of him not being
1:37:38 reached out not wanting to be the one that is
1:37:40 what’s on there and then also the fact that the overwhelming
1:37:44 support i called miss lopez again
1:37:46 per your discussion mr dr mullins and the staff you guys said
1:37:49 last week give her a call
1:37:50 let her talk to her so tonight she pulled it she officially sent
1:37:54 a text mullins was on it
1:37:55 i was on it she said please i will remove it and i want to look
1:37:59 forward to trying to do something
1:38:02 for the hispanic latino culture in palm bay and melbourne so i
1:38:05 wanted to let you guys know
1:38:07 my dedication i’m i’m working in that area and part of it is
1:38:11 because there’s a gentleman in the
1:38:13 back that worked during the feed programs that we had during
1:38:17 covid we have a large hispanic latino
1:38:21 population that’s moved into my district so i’m trying to
1:38:23 address and just make sure they’re all
1:38:24 connected i work with them in temple terrace boys clubs and some
1:38:28 other areas um and boys and girls
1:38:30 club and i think there’s a need there right so my commitment to
1:38:34 miss lopez and the hispanic latino
1:38:36 community is to connect many of those areas and resources in my
1:38:40 district also push to work with
1:38:43 um renaming of buildings or uh facilities in the future if that
1:38:48 that i find in my world that when
1:38:51 you have a stem program with a astronaut will do a whole lot
1:38:54 more than naming a building after somebody
1:38:57 it’s just my my personal thing and that look that may be a
1:38:59 little bit different everybody’s different
1:39:01 but applying to the kids something that would carry them for
1:39:04 generations is um something that i think
1:39:07 is much more so i’m going to focus my energy there but i did
1:39:10 tell her that thank you for pulling it
1:39:12 um i understand where you’re coming from and if there’s an
1:39:15 opportunity it’s a committee
1:39:16 not us that names to keep them and she had recognized that so it’s
1:39:20 not like we can say
1:39:21 we want it to be named a new school and we can’t as a board we
1:39:24 only approve with the committee we’ve
1:39:26 never really gone against it so i said you can work with that
1:39:29 committee of a new school when it gets
1:39:31 built down south and she said great so i just wanted to kind of
1:39:34 give you guys an update on that
1:39:35 that’s it and i put she texted back and she has her email in
1:39:38 there so staff’s going to reach out and
1:39:41 take care of whatever it needs to be i didn’t know if you guys
1:39:43 had any questions on that
1:39:44 thank you mr susan for your follow-up on that yep okay um there
1:39:49 is one before i got to the
1:39:51 transportation issue i just wanted to say i met with a elevate
1:39:54 brevard today real quick and
1:39:58 it is focused on coco right now um and i would love to just hand
1:40:04 that to you um they asked me to talk
1:40:06 about the career and technical stuff that they’ve been seeing on
1:40:09 the on the space goes daily but the
1:40:11 thing is is that um elevate brevard is like it is made up of all
1:40:15 the people it was so crazy like so
1:40:18 elevate brevard is an organization that is trying to work on pipelining
1:40:22 students in the coco area
1:40:24 into college career and technical programs and all of the
1:40:28 barriers that exist in between right so look
1:40:31 i’m in i’m just going to talk about the trades and everything
1:40:34 else then i saw the lineup of individuals
1:40:36 that are actually there bob barnes who started the children’s
1:40:41 hunger project a good friend from back in the
1:40:44 day that when he was when that was happening i was in support of
1:40:47 him harry jones who i worked on the cpt
1:40:50 program with at the economic development council there was just
1:40:54 and then and then mr magianni from
1:40:56 the cte program at um at uh eastern florida state he runs the
1:41:00 trades programs for all states so they had
1:41:02 put together like an amazing group of people and um i’ll pass it
1:41:05 off to you because that’s your district
1:41:07 that’s respectful and if you need my help in any way please do
1:41:10 but literally i’ve never seen a dream team
1:41:12 put together to support coco schools like that in my life like
1:41:15 they’re going to do something there that
1:41:17 is spectacular i just want to kind of give you an update they
1:41:20 brought up one thing that really caught
1:41:21 me was is um the faça that you guys that the kids pass by the
1:41:25 kids have to fill out right i had to go
1:41:28 through that i had to provide tax information for my daughter
1:41:31 and all this stuff they want there’s a
1:41:33 bill in the legislature right now to make that a requirement for
1:41:36 schools to have to do okay that
1:41:38 would be a freaking nightmare because i’ll tell you this much if
1:41:41 you tie a kid’s graduation to having
1:41:44 to fill out an application and they have difficulty getting a
1:41:46 hold of their parents it’s one more
1:41:48 barrier that’s going to cause work for us but it’s a good idea
1:41:52 just not that route so they’re working
1:41:54 with community groups to get the fafas filled out and
1:41:58 coordinating with the schools so for us if we
1:42:01 hear that resoundingly needs to be from my opinion and you guys
1:42:05 can take what you want our schools can’t
1:42:08 take any more but we would love to work with community partners
1:42:12 to accomplish those goals does that make
1:42:14 sense okay i’m just sorry about the side miss miss uh belford um
1:42:19 did more people sign up to such to
1:42:21 talk we have not done our non-agenda speakers yet so were they
1:42:26 talking about the transportation issue
1:42:29 yeah i have four that are talking about it says bus driver so it’s
1:42:32 not an agenda item if i put it on a
1:42:34 board discussion right it’s only the agenda items are the ones
1:42:37 we’re taking action on okay um all right
1:42:40 so i wanted i sat at manatee and met with many of the
1:42:43 individuals that you’re sitting inside this room
1:42:47 um and you guys are absolutely amazing um you are our champions
1:42:53 and you are the first and last thing in
1:42:56 brevard public schools that our children see you have over they
1:43:00 have over 150 individuals that are
1:43:03 transported every day on their buses many of you guys are entrusted
1:43:08 with our children on your buses
1:43:11 and my wife doesn’t even entrust me with the five children in
1:43:14 our suv so i wanted to say you are
1:43:17 absolutely amazing um dr mullins and i sat down today um for
1:43:22 close to two hours and all of the issues
1:43:24 that you guys had brought up we worked through and he has staff
1:43:27 working on each one of them to give
1:43:29 back an answer as to is there a possibility of working on them
1:43:33 or not um and i want to tell you
1:43:34 dr mullins’s commitment to you was absolutely amazing and our
1:43:40 school board will tell you that
1:43:42 the commitment to you is is they care about you guys also um i
1:43:46 wanted to say that there’s an individual
1:43:50 back there i wanted to give him credit and i’m sorry about
1:43:52 taking up this for a second but um
1:43:55 we had a feed program for the covid and we had a bunch of
1:43:58 students that wouldn’t come out of the
1:44:01 houses in my galley area because they didn’t speak english and i
1:44:06 am a large white man knocking on doors
1:44:09 okay and it just was not getting the people to come out and i
1:44:13 called up our our food and nutrition
1:44:15 guys and i said guys it’s just not working i know the kids are
1:44:18 in there we have their addresses but
1:44:20 they’re not coming out um and this gentleman and his wife
1:44:23 volunteered their time to come down run the
1:44:27 food and to get out and speak spanish to all of the children so
1:44:30 they’d start coming out we literally went
1:44:32 from one location having 20 to 190 the next day because they
1:44:37 knew that that was good
1:44:42 and um there’s stories like that that are coming out um there
1:44:46 was another bus driver that we were
1:44:48 speaking to and he was talking about how this parent came
1:44:52 running up now listen to me our parents and
1:44:56 our kids are absolutely crazy sometimes right we all know that
1:44:59 my kids are crazy the kids you have on
1:45:02 your bus i couldn’t even imagine right um this driver was
1:45:05 driving and all of a sudden a parent swung the
1:45:09 door opened and said i get the kid off the bus he said no ma’am
1:45:13 no ma’am and said um and forced the
1:45:15 person off the bus and said if you want this child the kid was
1:45:19 like hiding in the back we got to drive
1:45:21 back to the school so they drove all the way back to the school
1:45:24 and that bus driver refused at that point
1:45:26 to let that child go and brought him back and dropped him off
1:45:29 the school and that’s a huge deal
1:45:31 because what you face every day not many people understand or
1:45:35 see
1:45:36 so i know you guys are going to be coming up and speaking um i’m
1:45:39 gonna wait afterwards and sit with
1:45:42 you guys and tell you everything that dr mullins and i worked
1:45:46 out um there’s also some of the items
1:45:48 that we can’t speak on we can’t speak on raises because it’s not
1:45:51 in front of us on an agenda item
1:45:52 there’s a couple other things but um i will sit with you
1:45:55 afterwards and i wanted to say from the
1:45:57 bottom of my heart thank you for everything that you’re doing um
1:46:00 and we want to listen to you and maybe
1:46:02 there’ll be some discussion after you guys speak what’s that
1:46:07 yeah mr gibbs will join you mr susan
1:46:12 i followed the law yeah we’re not supposed to talk about so far
1:46:16 absolutely i just want to make sure
1:46:17 that we’re covered and for those of you who are unaware it’s
1:46:21 because we are in the midst of bargaining
1:46:24 and so there are are things that the board should not be
1:46:28 discussing uh that could could create some
1:46:30 issues so um we just want to make sure that mr susan has good
1:46:35 clear guidance on on what can and cannot
1:46:37 be discussed there um miss campbell i think you said you had a
1:46:41 few things and then miss mcdougall you
1:46:44 have one i’ve got three quick reports um back um i don’t often
1:46:48 report on sciac but we have some really
1:46:50 exciting things going on i wanted to share with you that some
1:46:53 you may have seen in the emails but some
1:46:55 you may have not um the over the last couple years can i
1:46:59 interrupt you can you explain to the viewing
1:47:02 public in the audience what sciac is please you know what we get
1:47:05 all our our initials it’s like the army you
1:47:07 know um it’s the superintendent’s insurance advisory committee
1:47:11 and it is made up of employees um all
1:47:14 employees now um from all the different uh employee groups we’ve
1:47:18 got teachers um we have our support
1:47:21 staff we have uh our non-bargaining administration we have
1:47:26 somebody from the benefits department um
1:47:29 these are all the voting members we have some of us who are
1:47:31 joining us who are considered staff we also
1:47:33 have a retiree representative on there because many of them are
1:47:36 also on our insurance
1:47:37 plan and so they all get a say and over the last couple of years
1:47:41 um one of the things that
1:47:42 are this employee group who is on the you know chosen to be on
1:47:45 this advisory committee has really
1:47:47 pushed is we really want to see you know what can we do to
1:47:51 encourage our employees to be healthy
1:47:54 to encourage them to take the next step and this before i got on
1:47:58 sciac um it was decided a few years
1:48:00 several years ago to make um the biometric screening and the
1:48:05 health questionnaire
1:48:07 that you do online um kind of the gateway to uh lower deductibles
1:48:12 and so but this community says it’s
1:48:14 time to push it to the next level and say okay if you want
1:48:17 whatever that’s going to be in the future
1:48:19 we really want to see it be it’s got to be more than just the
1:48:22 bare minimum we want people to go to
1:48:23 that annual checkup because um that’s where a lot of these
1:48:26 things are caught you have those conversations
1:48:28 with your doctor and maybe we can avoid some of those high cost
1:48:31 issues by catching them earlier getting some
1:48:34 um just making that contact with the doctor and so it’s just
1:48:37 some really good conversations that are
1:48:39 going on and so some of that you know will have to go to
1:48:42 bargaining and get into the future but i’m
1:48:45 really excited about the way sciac is going in that direction
1:48:48 and you know tba what it’s all going to look
1:48:50 like but another thing that um we have had several conversations
1:48:54 about in the last few meetings is a
1:48:56 program called motivate me it is cygna’s program but they’re
1:49:00 working with us and especially sciac had was
1:49:02 able to have input on providing opportunities for employees to
1:49:07 earn gift card incentives for doing
1:49:10 things like participating in health coaching for things like
1:49:14 getting your preventive care screenings
1:49:17 like colonoscopies and things if you’re of the right age they
1:49:20 also had we had to remind hey we have
1:49:22 some employees that aren’t old enough to do those things yet um
1:49:26 so um they had uh you know some
1:49:29 other opportunities and so that’s something that’s going to be
1:49:32 rolling out starting on monday i believe
1:49:34 and so for all our employees you can actually go to your cigna
1:49:38 page and if you’re a female there’s one
1:49:40 right now but the only thing that we’ve had on in it so far is
1:49:42 if you get pregnant and you go through
1:49:44 the program you can get 150 but not all of us are up for that so
1:49:48 um now there will be more and all the
1:49:51 details of it will be on the cigna web my signal page for all
1:49:54 our employees who participate in in
1:49:56 the insurance program so go check it out we just really want to
1:49:59 focus on what we can do to get our
1:50:01 employees healthy and get them making some right decisions it’s
1:50:03 good for them it’s good for the plan
1:50:05 the plan that they pay into so it’s good for them doubly and
1:50:08 then also communications in addition to the
1:50:12 things that um have been going out communications from missipia
1:50:14 that i mentioned earlier one of the
1:50:16 things that we have access to now all our employees have access
1:50:20 to is the call center um it was set
1:50:22 up we’ve had things like this before during open enrollment
1:50:26 period but now continuing throughout the
1:50:28 year from 9 a.m in the morning till 9 p.m at night our employees
1:50:32 have access to the call center
1:50:34 where they can get their questions answered regarding um all the
1:50:38 different benefit programs and dr
1:50:39 30 if i’m correct it’s not just the health insurance it’s all of
1:50:43 our benefits package correct and so
1:50:45 it’s just really great to have that resource because sometimes
1:50:48 you have a question and it’s during the
1:50:49 school day and you’re in the middle of a class or whatever but
1:50:51 or sometimes you have a question at
1:50:53 7 30 at night you’re like oh i can’t wait till the morning and
1:50:55 you gotta write an email no you have
1:50:57 access until nine o’clock at night to get those questions
1:50:59 answered and they’ll steer you in the right
1:51:00 direction um so that’s been a really good benefit um that is
1:51:04 continuing just make sure that you guys are aware
1:51:06 that our employees are aware um is uh and that number will be i
1:51:10 think you can find it on the benefits
1:51:12 page of our district website um want to give you an update on fsba
1:51:16 down the legislature um session
1:51:20 legislative session is moving quickly and um danielle thomas is
1:51:24 sending us updates regularly so make sure
1:51:27 you’re following those um a couple of um i was just going back
1:51:31 and looking at our legislative agenda
1:51:33 that we we decided on it seems like it was forever ago when i
1:51:36 say august or september um maybe it wasn’t
1:51:39 that late but it seems like it was forever and i heard a couple
1:51:43 of you know things moving around about
1:51:45 some of these things but a couple of just just for your your
1:51:47 awareness that are moving first of all
1:51:50 it’s yet to be seen exactly what the budget will look like you
1:51:52 know in the coming weeks but it looks
1:51:54 like from the governor’s proposed budget the senate and the
1:51:57 house side there’s going to be an increase
1:51:59 for health mental health funding again and so that’s looking
1:52:02 positive and that goes on with our number
1:52:04 five needing more mental health experts and social workers in
1:52:07 school so that is a positive that we’re
1:52:08 making another uh increase to that uh funding looks like that’s
1:52:13 going to go through um i would just
1:52:17 encourage your support one of the things that i we i was able to
1:52:19 talk about with a few of our
1:52:21 representatives and senators was the firefighter academy at palm
1:52:25 magnet high school um it’s an amazing
1:52:27 program i know we’re already moving on it in one side but we
1:52:30 really need this appropriation to get the
1:52:31 funding that we need to fill out the program and get it started
1:52:35 so um if you guys would just send a little
1:52:38 something um i think that would be that would be helpful for any
1:52:41 of our public who are listening
1:52:42 if you think that this uh firefighter program and by the way i i
1:52:46 just saw not very long ago someone
1:52:49 in the community from the firefighter community talking about
1:52:51 the great need and all the holes that
1:52:52 they have this is a um a job that our students can walk into and
1:52:56 be just so much more prepared to be
1:52:58 ready to go into the workforce so any of my community who wants
1:53:01 to shoot a little email to your
1:53:02 representative and say hey would you please support the appropriation
1:53:06 for the firefighter
1:53:07 fire i can’t say that word firefighter academy at palm bay
1:53:11 magnet high school we really want to see
1:53:13 that go through um so that we can start that program um dr mullins
1:53:18 will it be next school year it’ll be the
1:53:20 following year i know it takes some time to get everything up
1:53:22 and running do you know it’ll launch
1:53:26 this coming school year okay this coming school year this coming
1:53:29 school year correct dr sullivan yep
1:53:32 yay so all right so everybody get to your emails please and ask
1:53:40 for the legislator’s support on for
1:53:42 that appropriation it’ll help us um then as far as wage
1:53:45 compression that was one of the things we had
1:53:48 i don’t know how much you guys have been paying attention but
1:53:51 the senate president wilson simpson
1:53:52 made it part of his his challenge on the first day of session
1:53:57 and the senate budget has since come out
1:53:59 supporting that looks like the senate side of the budget is
1:54:02 giving a set amount of money or proposing a
1:54:04 set amount of money to raise along with all the other state
1:54:08 employees all school district employees go
1:54:11 ahead and raise them to 15 an hour ahead of you know our minimum
1:54:15 wage is going up a dollar a year until
1:54:18 we get to 15 and um but he’s saying let’s go ahead and do that
1:54:23 now and so that’s that would be really
1:54:26 awesome and of course we’re creating some wage compression with
1:54:28 this will create some issues but
1:54:30 we when we talk about how many employees over the next few years
1:54:33 are going to be happy we’re going to
1:54:35 have to have that increase to get them to the new minimum wage
1:54:37 right now this year we only had to do it for
1:54:40 some substitutes and you know but the next year as it goes to 11
1:54:43 an hour and 12 an hour 13 the funding
1:54:46 is going to be that’s going to be a challenge um but to be able
1:54:49 to go ahead and do that now and get
1:54:50 everybody up to 15 to start um is kind of exciting so um i’m
1:54:54 going to look at the positive side of that
1:54:57 only for right now so that looks exciting and at the house i
1:55:00 have to jump in mrs campbell
1:55:04 mrs campbell and public there is no state approved budget as of
1:55:09 yet there are only proposals and
1:55:12 committees have not resumed i know and i love your optimism and
1:55:18 i share it uh but i just you’re bursting
1:55:20 my bubble i i’m i’m i’m channeling my russ brun friend over here
1:55:26 like uh i know so and i know there’s
1:55:29 some bargaining tips that kind of go along with this i you know
1:55:32 we got a little bit more of an education
1:55:33 last week as i got to sit on some things one of this one of the
1:55:36 things i got to sit in um and i’m not
1:55:38 going to get too excited about this one either but i was in the
1:55:43 house uh 3k through 12 education uh
1:55:46 subcommittee appropriation subcommittee last week when the
1:55:49 budget dropped and just you know
1:55:53 when we get to the real budget it’s probably not going to look
1:55:55 like either one it’s not it never
1:55:57 is going to look like either the senate side or the house side
1:55:59 but there’s some really good pieces in
1:56:01 there and i again pulling the positive at it the house budget
1:56:05 proposes you know the governor um
1:56:08 initiated in the legislature approved a couple years ago the 500
1:56:11 million dollars for the teacher
1:56:12 salary allocation to try to get school districts to raise the
1:56:15 minimum teacher pay to 47.5 and we were able
1:56:17 to get in brevard up to 46 550 last year this year i think we
1:56:22 got up to 46 800 ish uh anthony’s somewhere
1:56:28 in there 800 okay um we still have a long ways to go to get to
1:56:32 47.5 um because last year they were
1:56:34 able to do that because they gave an extra 50. um the governor
1:56:37 proposed 50 the senate saying 50 the house
1:56:39 budget actually saying 250 million dollars additional which
1:56:44 could get us i don’t know if it could get us
1:56:47 there they could get us closer now not 250 million dollars for
1:56:50 brevard don’t anybody get too excited
1:56:52 but to share across the state that would get the total for the
1:56:55 state up to 800 million dollars but here
1:56:58 is the part that i was really and i don’t think i don’t know
1:57:00 because the you know the senate’s still
1:57:02 saying 50 on that so there’s going to meet that’s some of the
1:57:04 bargaining in the middle but one of the
1:57:06 things that was um optimistic for me that i was optimistic about
1:57:11 is in that 250 million dollars
1:57:14 additional it actually said 50 of that to go towards getting
1:57:18 people to the 47.5 and the other 50
1:57:22 percent to be used for veteran teachers and that’s one of the
1:57:24 things we struggled with in the last
1:57:25 couple years because it was 80 20 and so then we end up with
1:57:28 situations like we had this year where we
1:57:30 had very little to give to our teachers that were over the 46
1:57:34 800 and so um moving forward if we can
1:57:36 if we you know we get the funding like that up until once we get
1:57:40 to 47.5 we can you know we can
1:57:43 we can really start moving but in the meantime um i just thought
1:57:47 that was a positive direction to get
1:57:49 it to 50 50. um we didn’t have it in our um platform but it was
1:57:54 an fsba platform to give us more flexibility
1:57:56 i’m not promising anything i’m not the legislature when you’re
1:58:09 finished the problem the problem is
1:58:12 what i’ve been screaming is we’re going to make 15 an hour as
1:58:16 the beginning wage and they haven’t even
1:58:20 fixed our true which you touched on teacher veterans which we
1:58:24 were promised we would deal with
1:58:27 so i’m all about hey let’s do great things but when you’ve got
1:58:30 people in the audience that are
1:58:32 making less than 15 an hour as a bus driver and they’re they’re
1:58:36 about to find out that this guy’s
1:58:37 going to pass it and and they’re going to make 15 but then they’ve
1:58:40 been working for us for 15
1:58:41 years mullens and i went back and forth about this for 20
1:58:45 minutes and it’s it’s absurd like they
1:58:48 need to be able to give us the flexibility to get there give us
1:58:50 the funding but get there together
1:58:52 so that we’re all rising all boats together and i think that’s
1:58:55 it’s just sad because it’s it’s like
1:58:57 like where does that reasoning come from right yeah i get it and
1:59:01 i i think the compression is going to
1:59:03 be an issue for a while um because they hand it to them they say
1:59:06 here you go look what we did and
1:59:08 they get press releases and then individuals come to us and they’re
1:59:12 like wait a minute what about us and
1:59:14 they don’t have to deal that because they don’t have an avenue
1:59:16 to the state legislators like we
1:59:18 like they do to us so and it’s unfair and and it’s just one of
1:59:21 those things that i’ve been messaging up
1:59:23 there but there that thing’s running so it’s it’s not it’s going
1:59:26 to be another record year for education
1:59:28 funding hopefully we’ll get as much flexibility as possible so
1:59:31 we can take care of the needs that we
1:59:33 have and then i was going to say one other thing that you talked
1:59:35 about sciac um i really appreciate and
1:59:38 i’m sorry guys i know i’m talking forever you guys came to talk
1:59:42 you guys um but one of the reasons i
1:59:43 was kind of hesitant with the 300 steps or miles i’ll just be
1:59:46 honest with you guys is that um one of
1:59:49 the things we could really do is drive our wellness initiatives
1:59:53 to where not just us but our staff so
1:59:56 we have staff members that don’t get colonoscopies we have a
1:59:59 majority of our staff or many in our staff
2:00:02 that don’t go get their biometrics that don’t you know what i
2:00:04 mean and that so um i’m presenting to the top
2:00:08 60 corporations in the united states in two weeks and the reason
2:00:13 that i am is because that is the
2:00:15 number one goal is to set a schedule in the private sector they’re
2:00:19 forcing two types so the first type
2:00:22 is you meet all these goals you go talk to all these people get
2:00:24 all these checkups you get this
2:00:26 deductible you go over here and you pay more because ultimately
2:00:30 getting biometrics is one thing i did
2:00:32 that and my numbers were off the charts i didn’t know i wasn’t
2:00:34 supposed to like eat right before i did it
2:00:36 so the thing is is that uh sorry um anyways my wife freaked out
2:00:40 about it but the thing is is that
2:00:42 um there’s a lot to that and it identifies your problems and
2:00:46 then we can fix that prior to it
2:00:47 becoming a thing so i would love to i’ll look i’ll run a 300
2:00:51 miles in a month if you want me to okay
2:00:53 but what i would really love to do is engage with the board on
2:00:55 engaging our our members on best
2:00:58 practices and look at some of those things that we can set
2:01:01 metrics for them in the future the savings on
2:01:05 identifying issues prior is astronomical um so that’s all i just
2:01:09 want to let you guys know thank you
2:01:11 um the final uh report is uh on friday last week we had our
2:01:16 board of directors meeting for the florida
2:01:19 school board association that i serve for you guys on uh on and
2:01:23 one of the things that we you know we
2:01:26 talked about uh our last meeting we voted to withdraw from the
2:01:29 national school board association because of
2:01:32 just the rigmarole they’ve been putting everybody through um and
2:01:35 not running very well we voted on
2:01:38 friday to become a founding member of the new of a new national
2:01:42 organization which will be called cospa
2:01:45 it stands for i have to look it up because i forgot the first
2:01:48 word consortium of state school boards
2:01:50 associations um there are already 17 i believe states um that
2:01:55 have voted to be a part um or intended
2:01:59 to be a part they were on this call and of course now everybody
2:02:01 has to go and vote now that we have a name
2:02:03 and and um submit funding commit funding to this organization um
2:02:08 we also chose bev slough who is
2:02:11 the who’s from st john’s county as our representative to the
2:02:15 transition steering committee which is going to
2:02:17 kind of serve as the temporary board of directors to kind of get
2:02:20 everything set up at least until june 23
2:02:24 uh 2023 and she was the one who was serving on our behalf for nsva
2:02:28 and so since she had that experience
2:02:30 uh the board of directors voted to have her represent us on that
2:02:33 um so we will be a part of cospa um
2:02:37 websites not up and running because last time i checked if i was
2:02:39 typing it incorrectly it was still
2:02:41 on go daddy so um but uh anyway but they didn’t have any money
2:02:46 to start it yet so um maybe they’ve they’re
2:02:49 holding it for them but um anyway so we are we are now going to
2:02:52 be a part of this new organization
2:02:54 and all the bylaws and all that has to be fleshed out but um it’s
2:02:58 exciting to kind of see
2:02:59 the goal is to get all the states back together again and
2:03:04 hopefully in a way that can really stick
2:03:05 to our goal which is not being partisan but just getting some
2:03:09 work done and by the way just um one
2:03:12 of the things that doesn’t necessarily apply to brevard as much
2:03:14 but one of the things that um
2:03:16 some of our our boards in the state were a part of the cube dr
2:03:19 gallon from miami-dade who’s
2:03:21 fantastic dude amazing vocabulary um anyway he is going to lead
2:03:30 an initiative for this new
2:03:32 organization to reach out to not so that we have that urban
2:03:35 school districts um but also we’re going
2:03:38 to have a rural um coalition to really the needs we kind of fall
2:03:42 in between that so i don’t know that
2:03:44 we’ll benefit from either one because we’re kind of one of those
2:03:46 in the middle um but anyway it’s exciting
2:03:48 so just want to give you guys that up well that’s a great info
2:03:52 mr campbell thank you
2:03:53 i am very remiss um not to have mentioned this in the beginning
2:04:00 but this week is national school
2:04:03 counselors week yes it is and i want to give a shout out to all
2:04:08 of our school counselors they have a very
2:04:11 tough job and i want to make sure we appreciate them so i’m
2:04:14 sorry i didn’t do it in the beginning of the
2:04:17 day thank you ms mcdougall for reminding us all about that i
2:04:21 know it’s been out on our social media and
2:04:23 all of that but uh we definitely want to express our sincere
2:04:27 appreciation to those folks that are uh
2:04:29 i think they’ve they’ve had well everybody’s had a rough couple
2:04:34 years but but their plates have certainly
2:04:37 been full so all right any other board member reports or
2:04:41 discussion dr mullins do you have anything more
2:04:44 to add i do i i i can’t pass up the opportunity just to miss
2:04:49 campbell that was an outstanding summary
2:04:52 of what’s going on in tallahassee albeit at 98 miles an hour uh
2:04:58 that was pretty impressive
2:05:00 um but i i have to i just want to echo i optimism but also
2:05:05 caution number one the the house of
2:05:09 representatives have released their proposed budget the senate
2:05:13 has done the same there are almost four
2:05:16 weeks of session left a lot of negotiating back and forth has to
2:05:21 happen absolutely the house’s proposal to
2:05:27 add dollars to address the minimum wage let’s not forget that is
2:05:33 a voter required obligation for the entire
2:05:37 state of florida our legislators should be planning to increase
2:05:43 funding to address what our voters have said
2:05:47 is a priority for the state of florida so that should be coming
2:05:50 forward what has not been addressed other than
2:05:55 the potential teacher salary increase allocation is the reality
2:06:00 of wage compression and you mr susan certainly
2:06:05 eloquently also reiterated the realities of wage compression for
2:06:11 we have three employee groups
2:06:16 our employee our employee our employees in the brevard federation
2:06:19 of teachers collective bargaining unit
2:06:21 our employees in the 1010 iupat okay got it um collective
2:06:28 bargaining unit and we also have nearly a thousand employees in
2:06:32 the non-bargaining
2:06:34 category which do not have a collective bargaining organization
2:06:40 and i have said since the moment the minimum teacher’s salary
2:06:45 was established
2:06:46 the minimum wage compression which is amazing but it created
2:06:50 overnight wage compression for our teachers
2:06:53 as soon as one employee group that makes up a little over half
2:06:57 of the employees in the organization create wage compression
2:07:01 there is almost well immediately a wage compression challenge
2:07:07 with all other employee groups that was solidified with the
2:07:12 minimum
2:07:13 the hourly rate increase which is great but i’m i’m also going
2:07:22 to remind and acknowledge
2:07:25 that we have nearly a thousand employees who are in the non-bargaining
2:07:29 category and if we have wage compression
2:07:32 problems with 55 60 of our employees and then another 30 of our
2:07:40 employees the remaining 10 of employees are
2:07:43 inerrantly wage compressed as well so there is the challenge
2:07:50 ahead to work through these these issues and
2:07:53 these difficulties so as optimistic as i want to be as well i’m
2:07:57 not gonna put us back to the reality of the
2:08:02 challenges we have before us which is one we do not have a
2:08:04 budget and number two there are some challenges ahead of us
2:08:08 uh to ensure we are caring for every one of our employees the
2:08:15 men and women who have devoted themselves
2:08:18 our most senior employees through the toughest years that our
2:08:24 generation has faced in our profession
2:08:28 and to ensure that they are acknowledged and recognized not only
2:08:35 with words but also with compensation
2:08:39 i would remind our citizens of our great district that you have
2:08:44 representatives and you have senators in
2:08:46 tallahassee right now that answer to you
2:08:50 and the more you become active in and engaging with our
2:08:55 delegates in tallahassee and letting them know you
2:08:59 understand the work they have before them as well as the impacts
2:09:04 it has on us here at home
2:09:05 the more you are assured that they are going to work on all of
2:09:11 our behalf so do not
2:09:16 miss the opportunity to write a handwritten letter to your
2:09:22 delegates right now and express your
2:09:26 position your perspective on the decisions that they have ahead
2:09:32 of them in these final weeks of session
2:09:34 because it will be a giant education year
2:09:42 good bad or otherwise they will decide and we will have the
2:09:49 responsibility to take it from there
2:09:51 so sorry but i had to bring us i i had to challenge and charge
2:09:58 all of us
2:09:59 we have the responsibility to ensure that we’re doing our part
2:10:05 to ensure that our representation
2:10:08 in our government is answering to the people second i would i i
2:10:15 have to echo your acknowledgement of
2:10:19 our superintendent’s insurance advisory committee and i wasn’t
2:10:22 going to do a superintendent’s report on
2:10:24 this but you you open the door miss campbell so i’m gonna i can’t
2:10:28 we can’t undervalue the work of
2:10:31 the essay act and the men and women who manage and work in our
2:10:35 health insurance plan it is the second largest expenditure of
2:10:41 this district
2:10:42 this district has approximately 70 million dollars of health
2:10:49 care expenditures a year
2:10:51 that’s the second largest expenditure only to salaries
2:10:58 the work of sciac over the last many years to be able to provide
2:11:03 at least employees by choice
2:11:06 a no premium increase for going on eight years
2:11:13 is nothing short of remarkable that is
2:11:18 blood sweat and tears kind of hard work because you go ask any
2:11:23 other folks out there
2:11:25 and you go ask any other folks out there you go ask any other
2:11:26 folks out there if they’ve experienced
2:11:27 health plan premiums a health plan premium stable option for
2:11:33 that long of a time
2:11:35 but i also got to do a shout out to this board
2:11:38 because you’ve made the hard and difficult and responsible
2:11:43 decisions
2:11:44 to invest in our health care plan our self-insured health care
2:11:48 plan
2:11:49 this board has contributed over 10 million recurring dollars in
2:11:53 the last two years to increase revenue
2:11:56 to offset increased expenses in addition this board has
2:12:01 contributed over 12 million one-time dollars to
2:12:06 the health plan to address fund balance issues so well over 22
2:12:12 23 million dollars just in the last two years
2:12:15 a health care plan for our employees that we all share we all
2:12:22 pay in we all utilize
2:12:25 and the choices we make to manage our health and take make
2:12:31 proactive choices contributes to
2:12:33 not only our personal health but the fiscal health of our plan
2:12:38 over the long term so
2:12:40 thanks for that opportunity and the last thing i uh just feel
2:12:45 compelled to clarify there was a comment
2:12:47 earlier this evening that referenced the state’s withholding
2:12:52 one-twelfth of board members salaries due to last semester’s uh
2:13:01 mass
2:13:02 conflict i’ll say um debt has since been restored to our budget
2:13:07 it was withheld once for one month
2:13:10 and it was restored the conclude the following month so i just
2:13:14 want to clarify that for the community for
2:13:16 our viewing public that the doe did restore that funding uh not
2:13:20 only for brevard but for all
2:13:22 districts that were in that situation thank you madam chair for
2:13:25 indulging my
2:13:28 yeah i like comments great things are happening and then uh dr mullins
2:13:34 is like oh so i like your
2:13:37 version better katie left out all of the bad things and uh yeah
2:13:43 so thank you both for those those
2:13:46 updates thank you all for those updates we appreciate it all
2:13:50 right we are now going to hear our remaining
2:13:52 speakers who have been incredibly patient um but have signed up
2:13:56 to comment on our non-agenda items
2:13:59 each speaker is limited to one minute we have a clock in front
2:14:01 of me to help you keep track of your time
2:14:03 when your time is over you will be asked to stop and allow the
2:14:06 next speaker his or her turn we’ll hear
2:14:08 from the speakers in the order in which they signed up including
2:14:11 those who may be waiting outside but
2:14:13 i’m pretty sure we don’t have anyone outside this evening as
2:14:15 stated earlier reasonable decorum is expected
2:14:19 at all times and your statement should be directed to the board
2:14:21 chair should audience participation
2:14:23 interfere with speakers being heard or hearing me i’ll be forced
2:14:26 to clear the room when i call your
2:14:28 name please line up along the east wall of the boardroom to
2:14:30 facilitate the smooth transition of speakers
2:14:32 we’ll begin with our first three speakers that were originally
2:14:36 on our agenda uh list deborah schmidt
2:14:40 teresa thompson and then mark rainey deborah if you could
2:14:44 approach the microphone and um teresa and
2:14:49 mark if you all could be on the wall for me that would be great
2:14:51 thank you uh deborah schmidt i happen to be uh one of our bus
2:15:01 drivers been driving for i’m in my 15th year
2:15:03 at bus driving now and uh i do happen to say that i i do love
2:15:08 the kids that i drive in my bus and i have a
2:15:13 good relationship with them i would hope that you would take
2:15:16 that into consideration i know we’re not
2:15:18 talking money right now you can but we can but um i uh i just
2:15:24 want to say that we because of the type of
2:15:27 things that we do we carry those kids around we go to the
2:15:30 different places we build relationships with
2:15:33 them we love them and take care of them and the way that we take
2:15:39 care of them greeting them the first
2:15:41 thing in the morning making sure that their day is starting on a
2:15:45 good note that they get to school
2:15:48 and they have a good day we we usher them off the buses lovingly
2:15:53 and wish them well every day so
2:15:56 that they have the best start possible at our end thank you deborah
2:16:00 we appreciate you joining us this
2:16:02 evening as well as your service to our kiddos thank you teresa
2:16:09 hi um i’ve been driving a bus for 23 years for brevard county
2:16:19 and i get the feeling
2:16:22 you guys because you decide our fate really don’t have an idea
2:16:27 of what’s involved when we
2:16:30 drive these kids i just want to give you a brief overview you
2:16:34 all drive cars you’re out on the
2:16:35 traffic you’re in the roads every day so you see how bad traffic
2:16:39 is imagine having 50 or 60 kids with you
2:16:44 50 60 kids come through and are in this room you got to corral
2:16:49 them all on a vehicle that’s 40 feet long
2:16:52 10 feet wide mirror to mirror and try to keep some sort of order
2:16:56 while you’re looking at the road you
2:16:59 also have to be see what’s going on behind you with the kids and
2:17:03 you have to deal with not only traffic but
2:17:06 you got parents teachers school administrators trash trucks golf
2:17:11 carts people walking jogging dogs and
2:17:14 you’ve got to juggle all that in addition to keeping these kids
2:17:17 safe thank you teresa we appreciate you
2:17:21 joining us and appreciate your service um as mark is approaching
2:17:25 the next speaker will be tom yates
2:17:28 followed by katie delaney sarah marsky so the before my minutes
2:17:33 start should have been free but before
2:17:37 the minutes before the minutes starts going to bus drivers will
2:17:40 raise your hand this is a representative
2:17:43 sample there was a couple of hundred that wanted to come but
2:17:45 they’re still driving when when your
2:17:47 board’s meeting so please this is a representation it’s not a it’s
2:17:52 not the only ones that have an interest in
2:17:55 the one minute timing uh at the last board meeting i urged the
2:18:00 board to impress on the administrative
2:18:02 negotiating team to do so with the root cause in mind the uh
2:18:07 that being this is starting pay is not
2:18:10 attracting the candidates now you can have compression problems
2:18:13 all you want generally you’re only going
2:18:14 to be dealing with with starting pay if you keep this up okay
2:18:18 because there isn’t going to be any
2:18:20 compression problem many of the drivers have stepped up to help
2:18:23 during the trying times they’re
2:18:25 covering extra routes they’re doing all the things that you’ve
2:18:27 asked for them however no new drivers
2:18:30 that fill the positions they’ve lost their faith they’re they’re
2:18:34 completely exhausted now after
2:18:36 three or four months of of hard uh work in this so um you have
2:18:40 an opportunity the board the drivers are
2:18:44 going to reject the 1010 contract it may still pass because of
2:18:48 the other members but the drivers are voting
2:18:50 no on the 1010 contract along with the ias um we’re asking the
2:18:55 board to reject the contract send it
2:18:57 back for negotiations on reoccurring pay i know you started the
2:19:01 negotiations with we have no money
2:19:04 and there is no reoccurring pay thank you mr rainey we
2:19:06 appreciate you joining us this evening
2:19:10 tom yay thank you so much for giving me an opportunity to speak
2:19:18 uh talking about the
2:19:20 tlc program and the stress and all the people face uh these bus
2:19:26 drivers face a lot of stress every day
2:19:29 i tell you what today is the first day in about two and a half
2:19:32 weeks i haven’t had to make extra runs
2:19:34 and when i’m transporting almost 200 students a day i have to
2:19:39 make sure the bus is correct everything is
2:19:42 safe and everything is operational and have to maintain the
2:19:46 discipline of the kids within the bus
2:19:49 but i can tell you right now i take on all of that
2:19:53 responsibility all of that pressure is on me to
2:19:57 make sure that i do my job i can go to mcdonald’s and all i have
2:20:01 to worry about is the french fries
2:20:03 if i cook them too long or not long enough and make over 14 an
2:20:08 hour i can go to wawa and dump trash
2:20:11 not worry about anything and make 15 an hour so i hope you guys
2:20:15 will reconsider thank you
2:20:26 i just want to say this is why your public policy change is so
2:20:30 wrong miss belford each meeting you
2:20:34 start by warning the audience of the consequences of breaking
2:20:37 the decorum rules of this meeting
2:20:39 then certain then a certain board member is continuously allowed
2:20:43 to defame parents and
2:20:45 stakeholders who have differing views on various topics the
2:20:48 public is expected to keep a level of
2:20:51 decorum i would request that the board would also abide abide by
2:20:55 those same rules of decorum
2:20:57 discrimination for any reason is abhorrent and no child should
2:21:02 feel unsafe in school
2:21:03 in response to dr mullen’s challenge there is a large group of
2:21:08 parents who are heading to the capitol
2:21:09 and no child should be in the capitol shortly unfortunately if
2:21:12 things go the way it is rumored
2:21:13 brevard will not benefit from those extra funds because of some
2:21:17 of the members on this board who
2:21:19 decided to vote in opposition of the governor’s executive order
2:21:23 which is now state law thank you thank you
2:21:26 miss marsky after miss marsky is karen colby and then christopher
2:21:32 macklin
2:21:33 good evening i will actually be one of the members going to tallahassee
2:21:43 and speaking specifically
2:21:44 to my legislators about this specific school board and my issues
2:21:49 with them i want to address the youth
2:21:51 through survey my understanding is that it’s an anonymous survey
2:21:55 however my husband and i were
2:21:56 offended that questions of a sexual nature were asked to our
2:22:01 minor child
2:22:02 our child felt really uncomfortable and my husband and i were
2:22:07 completely unaware that this type of survey
2:22:09 was being taken and the nature of the questions were highly
2:22:12 inappropriate to our family’s morals values
2:22:14 and faith i asked that parents be made aware of the survey that
2:22:19 that nature or the questions and parents
2:22:22 are able to opt out of this survey my husband and i are highly
2:22:26 offended over the inappropriateness of this
2:22:29 survey the medical form that has gone out district-wide is very
2:22:33 confusing it’s been very confusing to parents thank you
2:22:38 thank you miss marsky karen colby here tonight miss marsky if
2:22:42 you would please send me the specific
2:22:44 questions that you’re concerned about on that survey if you
2:22:46 wouldn’t mind so we can look into it
2:22:48 dr sullivan um miss marsky if you would get with dr sullivan
2:22:52 that would be great uh mr macklin
2:23:01 hi chris macklin uh mid south driver uh we all believe in this
2:23:06 the mission for the uh the uh
2:23:09 driving school bus we’re all loyal and dedicated uh since the
2:23:15 lack of drivers
2:23:16 for they’re all overloaded doing two and three routes
2:23:19 we all chip in our own way i do my route field bus at lunch and
2:23:26 do every field trip i can and what i end
2:23:28 up with is 21 000 a year on my w-2 that’s doing almost nine
2:23:37 hours a day that’s shameful embarrassing
2:23:41 we’re third lowest from the bottom in state and pay there’s no
2:23:48 reason for that it’s one of the richer
2:23:50 counties uh uh worth three dollars below uh the average florida
2:23:57 bus driver
2:23:58 uh across the board uh it’s uh something has to be done we’re
2:24:05 running skeleton crew our bosses are
2:24:08 driving buses thank you mr macklin we appreciate you and your
2:24:12 service
2:24:13 all right
2:24:17 the board wishes to thank this evening speakers your willingness
2:24:22 to speak with the board is
2:24:23 appreciated and certainly we appreciate the service of all of
2:24:26 our bus drivers and mr susan before you
2:24:29 gabble yeah i just um i’m gonna take whatever they wanted to say
2:24:34 at the end and email it to you guys
2:24:37 in issues that that would be appropriate and then i would love
2:24:40 to put on the for the next meeting
2:24:42 discussion around if a board member puts a board an agenda item
2:24:46 on letting the individuals that speak
2:24:47 onto that agenda item get their three minutes um and i’ll just
2:24:50 be honest with you part of that reason
2:24:52 is is because you know these are our employees and i really
2:24:55 wanted to hear the three minutes from
2:24:57 them i didn’t know that rule so um i’ll just like to talk to you
2:25:00 guys about it the next board meeting
2:25:02 thank you okay anyone have anything else all right hearing no
2:25:06 further business this meeting is now adjourned
2:25:08 have a great night