Updates on the Fight for Quality Public Education in Brevard County, FL
0:00 Speaker: Good morning. The May 28th, 2024 board meeting is now in order. I would like to welcome my fellow board members and the public. It is so encouraging to see so many wonderful faces in the audience this morning. I’ll just ask if the public will refrain from speaking loud disruptions, distractions, or other forms of communication that hinder the business of the board.
2:31 Paul, roll call, please. Ms. Wright.
2:33 Speaker 2: Here. Mr. Trent. Here. Ms. Campbell. Here. Ms. Jenkins. Here. Mr. Susan.
2:37 Speaker 3: Here.
2:38 Speaker: At this time, the board would like to hold a moment of silence and I invite the audience to join.
3:09 Alright, if you will please rise for the Pledge of Allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States
3:15 Speaker 4: of America, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
3:30 Speaker: Alright, at this time, I would like to offer my fellow board members and Dr. Rendell the opportunity to recognize students, staff, and members of the community. Ms. Jenkins, would you like to go first?
3:39 Speaker 5: Uh, no, I’m not ready
3:40 Speaker: yet. You’re not ready. Okay,
3:41 Speaker 5: Ms. Campbell? Yeah, to keep it short, I first wanted to recognize Westside Elementary.
3:46 They had their 25th anniversary celebration just a couple weeks ago, and it was so wonderful. And in 25 years, Westside has only had four principals, and three of them were there, were able to be there that day, including the very first principal, so it was really awesome to have, um, some former staff members and teachers come back, and of course recognize the ones who’ve been there from the very beginning, which there are just a, a few, and, um, people who say, You know, generation parents and then their children went to the same school, had some of the same teachers.
4:14 So it was a really fun day. And then, of course, graduation week was last week. I commend all of our schools and their staff for doing a great job. It was so wonderful to not be rained on. Can I say that again? It’s wonderful not to be rained on, but either way, one of my favorite moments in every graduation is when we start, when the principals start recognizing the students for all their wonderful accomplishments, and it’s always great to hear, you know, the student athletes who have been signed, you know, to Division I schools, but also, you know, and all the ones who got their AA degrees, but when they recognize those who are Going into the military and the response of their fellow students and the response of the crowd Hold that gets me every time and especially since we are celebrate We are remembering this week the sacrifice of so many we celebrate Memorial Day yesterday that just meant means even more So I just recognize not only those graduates who are choosing that path But their families because they sacrifice when your military family you sacrifice too.
5:11 And so that just meant Thank you so much to me and congratulations to all our graduates and to all our schools for pulling off a successful week of celebrations without rain.
5:21 Speaker: Thank you, Ms. Campbell. Are you ready now? Um,
5:26 Speaker 6: I just wanted to let everyone know, Ms. Wright was there with me as well, that Endeavor Elementary was fortunate enough to receive a 50, 000 STEM classroom makeover grant from FPL.
5:39 And I want to do a special, a special thanks and shout out to the teachers who applied for that grant. Because I think that that’s overlooked. The only reason that that even took place was because those teachers took that initiative. Ms. Wright. Took time out of their day to make that happen for their students.
5:52 So thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you for all that you do for your kids up in Deverell Elementary. Um, I was invited to the sixth grade graduation of Port Malabar, um, which was really fantastic. I, I enjoy their ceremony every single year, but Um, man, there are some dynamic little girls at Port Malabar Elementary who got some tired feet walking up and down that stage over and over again for their awards that they were getting.
6:16 But what my favorite part about it, again, was they were getting awards in mathematics, in science, in, in the STEM for girls programs. It was just really fantastic to see that they’re pouring so much energy into the little girls in that school to make sure that they Have access to opportunities that sometimes that they’re usually diverted away from so thank you to poor malabar elementary I also obviously had an opportunity to go to our graduations I want to do a special shout out.
6:41 There was one student at west shore who spoke who absolutely blew me away And um when we when it was over I was told by uh, mr Fleming that this student actually He has been invited to speak at TED Talks before, um, and so it, it didn’t surprise me why he was such a fantastic public speaker, but every single graduation had amazing students with their amazing speeches that were, um, aspirational, hopeful, um, so grateful and thankful for the teachers and the family that they had around them to support them.
7:12 So again, it’s always a wonderful experience and thank you for having me.
7:16 Speaker: Thank you, Ms. Jenkins. Mr. Susan. Yeah.
7:21 Speaker 7: Wanted to thank O’Galley, Vieira, and Rockledge for, just as Ms. Campbell had mentioned, their graduations and being a part of it. It is a most precious moment to actually be a part of those graduations and watching those kids come across the stage after four years and a total of 12, sometimes 13 years of education inside of our school.
7:41 So seeing those, and you’re right, being Seeing the students who stand up for their AA’s and everything else. But when those students stand up and they were um, you know, they’re the ones that are going to go into the military for the armed services. It’s a special kind of crowd. And one of the things that I got at Vieira that I hadn’t seen anywhere else was is that they had the parents of those children.
8:03 Stand up after, you know, you usually do the veterans and everybody else, but they had the parents stand up and that was a roar too. So I think I wanted to say thank you to those schools for being a part of their graduations. I also wanted to say thank you to O’Galley’s Aviation, Marine Mechanics and Automotive.
8:17 Um, we went by there to show some of the things that they’re doing over there, which is amazing. Um, we all know aviation at O’Galley is the number one aviation program in the country. Um, 100 percent jobs, uh, placement and a bunch of other great things that are going on there. The Marine Mechanics is also in the same aspect, along with, uh, the, uh, Automotive Mechanics is actually getting diesel next year.
8:38 So there’s a lot of really cool stuff that’s going to be going on there. I want to say thank you to the Viera Construction class, um, 178 kids signed up for the first year and he He literally has almost twice as much, many applications for that than there are actual seats inside the class this year. And one of the things people don’t understand is, is that they say that Viera, um, high school is just a bunch of kids that are wealthy and, and, but it’s not true.
9:02 There’s a lot of kids in there that needed that trade and there’s a really good opportunity for some of them to be a part of it. I also wanted to say thank you to the canine units that I met with, um, the therapy dogs. Let me tell you something. If you guys have not gone. To Milo elementary and been with the therapy dog there.
9:16 It is the most incredible opportunity that I’ve ever seen to see the therapy dog giving the entire mental health of both teachers Teacher, students, and staff is incredible. Um, if you’re not aware of the program, please reach out and look at it. It is off the, it’s incredible what that is. Um, I wanted to say thank you to security specialists that I met with.
9:37 Also, Manatee, Croton, Suntree, and Ralph Williams. I visited those schools the last day of school. Um, what a great energy that the principals and everybody have done. Manatee, I wasn’t able to get back. Um, but Manatee had this whole clap out and everything else going on and many of our schools did that and it’s just a special day to go an entire year and be a part of it.
9:54 So I wanted to thank those schools. Um, also wanted to tell you guys that the ECAC museum passport is getting ready to launch. So one of the things I’d like to do is coordinate with you guys on going to the museums in your area and promoting it for the kids. Um, I think they can do that through communications and stuff like that, but it’s, um, that’s getting ready to take off.
10:12 And then also. Um, it may be a little bit early to start discussing it, but many of you guys know that I started the largest jobs program in the country a couple years ago for students with disabilities. I met with vocational rehab along with, um, our staff a little bit already and then some of the community groups that I worked with before and some of the providers and it looks like we’re going to make a run at it next year again.
10:33 So I’m going to have a meeting with that and I’ll bring you guys up to speed on it, but it looks like we’re going to make a, uh, another large jobs program for the students with disabilities. Thanks. And with that, I will pass it off.
10:43 Speaker: Thank you, Mr. Trent.
10:44 Speaker 8: Alright. Same thing, graduation, it was a wonderful week.
10:49 Um, second year in a row, or second year for me. It is now definitely my favorite time of the year. Um, just wonderful seeing all those students, uh, uh, so excited to go on to the next, uh, next phase of their life. Um, So a shout out to Cocoa Beach, Edgewood, and Cocoa. Merritt Island had it on the same night as Cocoa, so Cocoa Beach until next year, we’ll flip that.
11:14 Um, what came across, I didn’t get the young lady’s name, but by far, I think I heard the best speech from a student at Cocoa. I’m just upset I didn’t get her name so I could use it here. It was amazing. It should be bottled up and bottled up. heard across the country, it was, it was wonderful. It was everything that you would want out of a, uh, a student and a fellow classmate.
11:42 So, um, heads off to, uh, that young lady at Cocoa. Um, also the military. Absolutely. It means a little bit more to me. Uh, seeing those students stand up. I have a, I have a Navy son myself and, uh, it’s, it’s, It’s, um, heartfelt to see them get up, and it was, it was both boys, uh, or men and women, uh, have decided to take, take that step, so it was a wonderful week for that.
12:06 Yes, I was very happy we were dry, and, uh, and we were able to take full advantage of the, of the week. Uh, shout out to, uh, teachers, administration, and students, you made it, you know, uh, you know, one, one more year, uh, we talked, uh, it seems like just yesterday in August, saying, uh, here we go, ready for this. Uh, I would talk more to the students, but, uh, it’s 9.
12:28 30 and I’m sure they’re still in bed. Uh, so, uh, when they see this, maybe on, on tape, like, uh, they’ll watch it. But, uh, congratulations. We saw a lot of hard work here in Brevard all year long. We’re extremely proud of you. Teachers, extremely proud of you. Some think your work is done, but we all know who’s been in, been in the classroom ourselves.
12:47 Uh, your work is just starting for the summer to, uh, tweak things and change things, uh, to make things better. Uh, for next year because you’re, that’s who you are and you’re professional. So administration, thank you for saving, uh, all your real important work for the summer so you could spend more time, uh, during the school year for the students.
13:06 But I know your work is, is just started for the summer as well. And those schools that have summer school, um, you know, we’ll, we’ll be around. We’ll see you then. And, um, you know, one more year. Chalked up. Thank you.
13:19 Speaker: Thank you, Mr. Trent. Well, I think a common thread that we can hear is that everyone is excited about the graduations that took place.
13:24 So, I want to give a shout out. We had the Elementary Rookie of the Teacher of the Year and the Middle School Rookie Teacher of the Year. So, our Elementary Rookie Teacher of the Year came from Mims Elementary. Way to go, District 1. And then our Middle School Rookie Teacher of the Year came from Jackson Middle School.
13:40 So, thank you for the prize patrol that went out and honored those individuals that have really just shown Showing how much they love the profession of education and they’re special, uh, their children love them, their classrooms are so much fun, and that was a huge honor to get to participate in that.
13:54 Um, I’m gonna tell you about my favorite moment of the three graduations I attended. So the North End, we have three high schools. And um, every one of them is different, every one of them is unique, and every one of them is special in some way. Uh, so I’m gonna share the special moments that took place that I felt like were at the schools that we went to.
14:09 So my first one I’m gonna share is THS. THS holds a specials, specials, bleh, sorry. Special spot in my heart. That is the school that I graduated from. So it is so much fun to go back to that campus. Now granted, when I graduated, we were on Drayfield. We weren’t on the campus because we didn’t have all the wonderful things that we do now.
14:25 Uh, but that was just, it was a great honor to be there, to see these kids, to hug every kid that came across the stage. Um, and then I got the, the very fun honor of being able to introduce a dear friend of our families, uh, that we have seen raised since he’s, I think, I’m 10 years old somewhere in that, that range.
14:41 So that was a special moment for me. Uh, the next special moment was Astronaut. Astronaut had probably the best weather I think out of the three. We had a perfect, perfect night as far as weather went. Uh, but there was one individual student at the very end who had some physical limitations. So she’s in a wheelchair.
14:57 And, uh, Her goal was to walk across that stage And let me just tell you when you saw all the students that cheered her on as she got up and got from her chair Into a walker and walked across the stage because it was so important for her to achieve this and the way her fellow Students cheered her on.
15:14 I mean it brings tears to your eyes because it was special It was absolutely a moment that you You look for to happen in an everyday life. So Thank you. Thank you. Astronaut students and staff that made that happen. That was that was a very, very cool moment on the last one is Space Coast. So Space Coast had a unique student that actually got all of his graduation credits done ahead of time.
15:33 He graduated technically, I guess could have graduated in 11th grade, but instead decided he is going to enlist into the Marines or to the military, I should say. So he went through bootcamp and completed bootcamp and was able to return and be here present to walk with his graduating class. And he was able to actually wear his Marines uniform.
15:52 And that was something that Oh my goodness, I mean, the standing ovation for this young man who got to walk with his classmates and really set the example. Space Coast also had 29 students that committed their lives to serving our country through the military. So thank you, thank you to all those wonderful ROTC instructors that are helping with that, that arena.
16:12 But yeah, very special moments. We’re on a graduation high, obviously. If we could get a shot of that in the arm every single week, I think every one of us would take that because that is what it’s all about. It’s a celebration. So, I think I’ll turn it over. Dr. Rendell, do you have any recognitions you would like to make?
16:25 Speaker 9: Yeah, thank you, Madam Chair. First of all, I want to thank all the teachers and staff for their hard work this year. We’ve had a really, really good year, and that’s really a result of their hard work. So, I want to make sure we don’t forget that as we head off into the summer. And as far as the graduations go, it’s a great time of year.
16:39 It’s, uh, kind of reminds us that when people are concerned or worried about the future of our country, All they need to do is sit at a graduation ceremony and see all the great things that these young people have accomplished and Know that the future is in great hands. So great graduation ceremonies great job by teachers and staff this year Everybody can refresh and relax over the summer and get ready to hit it again next year
17:02 Speaker: Thank you, dr.
17:03 Rendell that brings us to the adoption of the agenda. Dr. Rendell
17:07 Speaker 9: Thank you, madam chair on this morning’s agenda. We have 27 consent items and six action items and two information items Changes made to the agenda since, agenda since release to the public include the following. Added were F 15 job description district school safety specialist coordinator, F 16 job description director of public information.
17:30 Revised were F 12 instructional staff recommendations, F 13 support staff recommendations, H 40 book challenges and review infanduous by E. Arnold. An H41 book challenge and reviews, Not My Problem by C. Smith.
17:47 Speaker: Do I hear a motion? Move to approve. Any discussion?
17:56 Ms. Jenkins? Okay, sorry, I thought you hit your microphone. Oh, I apologize. All right, Paul, roll call, please.
18:00 Speaker 2: Ms. Jenkins?
18:01 Speaker: Aye.
18:02 Speaker 2: Ms. Campbell? Aye. Ms. Wright? Aye. Mr. Trent? Aye. Mr. Susan?
18:06 Speaker: Aye. All right, we are now at the administrative staff recommendations. Do I hear a motion?
18:11 Speaker 2: Move to approve.
18:12 Speaker: Second. Any discussion?
18:15 None. Paul, roll call, please.
18:17 Speaker 2: Ms. Jenkins. Aye. Ms. Campbell. Aye. Ms. Wright. Aye. Mr. Trent. Aye. Mr. Susan. Aye.
18:24 Speaker: Dr. Rendeau.
18:24 Speaker 9: Thank you, ma’am. Thank you, Madam Chair. We have a slew of administrative appointments, all assistant principals. Um, we have several that are here with us today and many more that could not be in attendance.
18:35 They have prior commitments, doctor’s appointments, vacation, stuff like that. So we want to do recognize those that are here. So first one we’re going to recognize is the promotion of jerry jr. Hanson jr. To a position of assistant principal at 12 month at viera high school jr You want to come up to the podium?
18:53 Congratulations?
19:02 Speaker 10: Thank you so much for this opportunity. Um I am extremely excited and very nervous about leaving the north end somewhere. I’ve been a long time. Uh, I’m extremely thankful to my family uh for Living that admin life, which is we all know all of us who’ve been doing this for all know It’s a very difficult thing to deal with But I’m very thankful for them.
19:23 I’m thankful having parents who taught me how to serve and to serve other people It’s gonna be difficult leaving my family behind at Ashton High School But I’m very excited about the opportunities at Vieira and kind of growing as an administrator and getting those experiences and hopefully contributing to a wonderful Team that’s already there.
19:40 So thank you All
19:41 Speaker 9: right, congratulations.
19:47 So next we want to congratulate Devin Clark on his promotion to assistant principal at Cambridge Elementary School
20:00 Speaker 11: board and mr. Superintendent, I must say the name’s Devon I never correct people but my Cambridge family would yell at me if I didn’t fix the name this one time Being a product of provide public schools. This means a lot to me being able to not only come back in you know serve as a teacher here, but now move up into the role of administration within this district.
20:18 So I’m very thankful for this opportunity. Um, beyond thanking the administrations that I’ve had the chance to work under, but also being able to stay at Cambridge and continue the great work that we have going on with the Cougar family. I am more than excited to do that. Um, lastly, I must thank my beautiful wife who cannot be here today because she’s at work.
20:35 But at the end of the day, with our three little ones at home, I could not B u i m today without the love and support of her and the rest of my family as well But thank you again for this opportunity and let the hard work begin
20:45 Speaker 3: All right
20:51 Speaker 9: Next we have jennifer unseth who’s being promoted to position of assistant principal at gemini elementary school jennifer. Come on up
21:04 Speaker 12: Good morning It’s great to be here I want to thank first my family for their love and support I want to thank the board I want to thank Superintendent I want to thank dr. Ivy I would especially like to thank Mrs. Carver for this amazing Opportunity, I’m so excited to become a part of the team at Gemini and I’m looking forward to meeting the students and their families Thank you so much
21:41 Speaker 9: Next we have Christina Serrato who’s going to be an assistant principal at Mims Elementary School. Christina come on up and congratulations.
21:49 Speaker 13: Thank you Dr. Rendell on the board and also Ms. Cochran for providing me a privilege to work in the community that I love so much. I also want to recognize like My husband, Rob, who has made a lot of sacrifices.
22:02 And my three children, I have two war eagles and a mohawk. And I have a little sister who’s also a South Lake shark that’s here to support me as well. And, uh, I also have a lot of people, I just want to really quickly, uh, Jennifer Clark, Lisa, hi, I’m Lena, and Dr. Wendy Smith, my former fifth grade math teacher, who have really poured into me as I went through this program, uh, You know, through the whole thing, even as a teacher.
22:23 And lastly, I cannot, I do not, it is not lost on me how blessed I was this last year to work under the Astronaut Administration. Like JR said, it’s a very difficult decision to leave people we’re very attached to. So thank you so much, all of you, and our resource officer too, and thank you again for the opportunity.
22:48 Speaker 9: Next, we have Leslie Cosgrove, who’s also going to be an assistant principal at Vieira High School. Leslie.
22:59 Speaker 14: Thank you, Dr. Rendell. Members of the board, I appreciate this chance. Thank you very much, Dr. Kirk, for giving me the opportunity and listening to my ideas and giving me the flexibility for those passions. Um, I’ve been at Mel High for, um, 18 years. And, um, my daughter graduated from Ohio this year, so really quick story.
23:20 Um, on the 22nd of graduation, I was going ahead and doing the interviews, and my last interview was at, uh, the, uh, high school. And, uh, I, you know, Probably sped very quickly to Mel High. I was a senior class sponsor so I had to be on stage and was my last one and all of a sudden I get this phone call from Heather and she’s offering me the position at Marburn, I mean at Vier High School and it was full circle because my daughter who was 10 months old when I went to Mel was graduating that year.
23:51 So, thank you so very much for this opportunity. I’m so very blessed and I can’t wait for it.
24:02 Speaker 9: So next we have Annette Alvarez. She’s going to Melbourne High School as an assistant principal. Congratulations.
24:07 Speaker 15: Thank you.
24:11 Good morning everyone and thank you, uh, Dr. Randell, Mr. Reamer, and our board members for the opportunity to serve our students in this new role. I want to especially thank Dr. Kirk, Ms. Bowman, and the Mel High Committee who selected me to join their team. And finally, a big thank you to Burt Clark, Paloma Ferreira, Brian Callanan, Kathy McNutt, Joanne Patterson, and Doreen for all of your wisdom, encouragement, and support through the years.
24:35 Go Dawgs!
24:40 Speaker 9: All right. Next we have Patricia Carville, who’s going to be an assistant principal at Jupiter Elementary School. Congratulations. Come on up.
24:49 Speaker 16: Good morning. I’m super excited to be joining Brevard County’s family. Um, I can’t wait to work alongside Jupiter Elementary leadership team and under Miss Nelson’s leadership team as well, too. Um, um, I can’t wait to further impact the community, the school, and the students. I’m super excited. I want to thank my husband for dealing with those late nights at work, and I’m excited to join Brevard County.
25:16 Thank you so much for the opportunity.
25:23 Speaker 9: And the last one with us here today, coming out of retirement, Mr. Ron Dedman, who’s going to be at Delora Middle School. Mr. Dedman, good to see you. Congratulations. Good job.
25:36 Speaker 17: Superintendent. After 36 years as an educator in Brevard County Schools, I decided to re enter the profession, and there’s no other place I’d rather be than Delora Middle School. My, um, mother and father both worked there as a counselor and media specialist. My wife was a teacher there. My two kids, uh, uh, entered Delora and they graduated on, uh, So it’s come full circle and, and I just can’t think of a place I’d rather be.
26:07 I want to thank the interviewing committee and also Miss Susan for interviewing me and hiring me. And I look forward to continuing the excellence that has always been the situation at Delora. Go Scotties. Thank you.
26:27 Speaker 9: Madam Chair, I believe that’s all we have that’s here today. Do you want to break for a picture? Yeah,
26:31 Speaker: let’s take a quick picture if you don’t mind. We’ll take a recess and re adjourn in five minutes.
29:22 Speaker 3: Alright,
29:24 Speaker: thank you. We are now back. Mr. Gibbs, we have six, is that correct still? Yes. Alright, we’re now at the public comment portion of the meeting. We have Six people sign up to speak today. You will each receive three minutes in an effort to remain unbiased to the speakers at the podium I’ll be asking the parliamentarian our attorney to announce speakers and manage the time clock I’d like to take this opportunity to remind the public of the rules written out in board policy 0169.
29:47 1 All comments should be directed at the board or individual board members Staff members or other individuals shall not be addressed by name. Abusive, obscene, or irrelevant comments will not be permitted. Orderly conduct is expected from all public comment participants, and the presiding officer may interrupt, warn, or terminate the participant’s public comment opportunity.
30:06 Mr. Gibbs, will you please call the first three speakers.
30:09 Speaker 18: Sandra Sullivan, Richard Jones, Marcus Hockman.
30:18 Speaker 19: Good morning board. Sandra Sullivan from South Patrick Shores. Since 2018, the cancer issue at Satellite High School With former high school students has made the news. I’ve come here numerous times asking for testing at our beachside schools in 32937. That has seemingly fallen on deaf ears. The cancers have continued.
30:46 Today. I make a formal request that this board make a request request. to Patrick Space Force Base to do testing of the water, the soil and vapor intrusion in our schools for the health and safety of the students. I’ve become aware of another student that was diagnosed with lung cancer and testicle cancer, who was a football player at Satellite High School with my son who played football.
31:18 You can imagine how concerned I am about my own Children and I still have one child in satellite high school. Unfortunately, our rep for the beachside schools doesn’t even bother to respond to any of my emails. I am grateful at least to have a response from the chair and from Mr. Susan. However, still no action.
31:44 It is unacceptable to wait for regulatory requirement to test the schools given the cancers with our students that has been brought to your focus. Last September, I came to you with a long awaited EPA study that PFOS Forever Chemicals is more of a VOC and represents a health inhalation risk for vapor intrusion.
32:11 No action. Is very inexpensive to put in vapor intrusion monitoring under, say, about 5, 000. Um, unfortunately, when I brought this to the attention of Mr. Susan, he was rude to me and dismissive of the state delegation meeting on this matter and have done nothing except, um, seemingly Brevard working for liability immunity from our Congress.
32:39 I came, um, So again, another research article came out this time that the soil is bioaccumulating PFAS and is an issue. Next to the school, next to Satellite High School, a study came out in 2021 that the PFAS level in the groundwater was 400 parts per trillion, over 400 parts per trillion, which is exceedingly high, so we know it’s an issue.
33:11 Data drives decisions. So it’s really simple. This does not cost the school board anything to make a request for Patrick Space Force Space to do testing. Thank you, Ms. Sullivan.
33:26 Speaker: No, the timer went off, so that’s when we stopped the microphone. So, thank you. Who’s
33:32 Speaker 18: our next speaker? Richard Jones, Marcus Hockman, Sarah Gaudiosi.
33:39 Speaker: I can’t see. I don’t know if you can see the actual clock on there, but when the dinger goes off, I’m assuming that’s the three minutes, right? All right.
33:48 Speaker 20: Good morning. My name is Richard Jones. I’m the business manager, secretary, treasurer for District Council 78, representing the local 1010 employees. I’m here today to speak about agenda item F14.
34:04 Again, we do not believe this is an item that needs any action taken on. Um, because we do not believe the state statute affords you the ability to renew annually support staff. The agenda item itself in the last sentence says the local 1010 agreement establishes conditions for notice of layoff and termination.
34:32 By not renewing employees, you are terminating them. We can play on words that it’s a non renewal or it’s a termination. You’re terminating their employment.
34:46 The collective bargaining agreement states an employee who has completed 90 calendar days of continuous service shall not thereafter be discharged except for just cause. You’re discharging these employees. Again, we can play on the word non renewal, discharge, termination. They all result in the same thing.
35:12 Finally, I’d like to go to Florida State Statute 1012. 40 titled Educational Support Employees.
35:23 Letter B reads, Upon successful completion of the probationary period by the employee, The employee status shall continue from year to year unless the district school superintendent terminates the employee for reasons stated in the collective bargaining agreement. This is not the case for any of the individuals whose names do not appear on the list for your approval today.
35:54 I again ask you to take no action on this because it’s not necessary. And you are giving a false sense of, uh, you’re giving the administration the belief that they have the ability to not renew support staff, and that is not the case. By not renewing these staff members, we believe this to not only be a violation of the collective bargaining agreement, it’s a violation of state statute.
36:25 Thank you for your time. Mr.
36:27 Speaker: Jones. Marcus
36:29 Speaker 18: Cockman, Sarah Gaudiosi, and Pamela Castellano. Quick question, may
36:43 Speaker 21: I address specific board members with their name or not? Thank you. Uh, good, good morning board members and superintendent. Um, first thing I want to address, and I appreciate the military recognition, especially after I emailed what I emailed the past couple of days, so I really do appreciate that. My only thinking though is, is basically expanding on that.
37:03 And I would like to see a policy or statute, even though I don’t know all the aspects of it. And that’s not for necessarily, uh, responsibility or accountability actions on our schools. But honestly to promote, um, the military for our students and etc. Uh, specifically when you have the military issues of recruitment in all of the branches.
37:26 Okay, so that’s where I was going at with it and hopefully maybe down the road if you guys decide to do something like that with your new communications and government, wherever you decide to go on that, going down that road. Now the next thing I want to talk about is respectful communication. And this is going to be kind of a hard subject because I’ve got to remember I’m wearing my badge and that’s one thing we’ve got to remember that as school board members and leadership and employees that wherever we’re at, you always got to imagine you’re wearing your badge.
37:56 And the reason I’m going to say this is because there’s that word that I keep seeing. I’ve had to deal with this one word talking about female, whether it’s politicians, elected officials, staff, WH work, which you guys can figure out what I mean on that, right? Okay. Unfortunately, I’ve seen that word and I’ve heard that word being used many times for many different aspects, okay, over the past few years.
38:23 That kind of just really needs to stop. That board member right there, who I’m pointing at, is a daughter, a mother, and a wife. So not only are you disrespecting her, you’re disrespecting her family, her husband, her father, her mother, son, or daughter. And, like I said, I’ve actually, this has affected a few people, not just, it’s not just pertaining to Ms.
38:54 Jenkins. It’s pertaining to a few people that I have had to do it privately with, that have wanted to use that word, because you don’t hear it when they use it against men, ever, okay? I’ve heard that word used, and I’ve had to address that word a few times, that word. And what’s ironic is Maybe even those certain board members, they might even have their own family address that way.
39:21 You really need to think about that before using that type of word. Now, I don’t know if the allegations are true, exceptions to the transcript, we’ll have to see because it’s still alleged, and I’m going to say it like that, but that word has been used many times. And I’m also going to ask you guys, hold each other accountable.
39:38 That’s called integrity. Thank
39:40 Speaker 18: you. Thank you.
39:41 Speaker: Thank you, Marcus, Mr. Hartman. Sara
39:44 Speaker 18: Gaudiosi, Pamela Castellana, Crystal Kazin.
40:00 Speaker 22: I took the long route. I apologize. Uh, good morning. My name is Sarah Gaudiozzi. I am a former Brevard Public Schools student, now pursuing my bachelor’s degree in elementary education from UCF, while simultaneously working as an instructional assistant at Croton Elementary School. Um, back in October of 2023.
40:18 Three, the FLDOE approved the teacher apprenticeship program for the state, opening a new door for our new wave of educators, and it provides on the job training to prepare for the classroom. I would like to discuss the inclusion of the University of Central Florida in the teacher apprenticeship program in Brevard County.
40:37 Uh, in the face of a teacher shortage, we should be utilizing the program. every avenue possible to, you know, fill those instructional gaps. Um, I’m sure there are many reasons why our county hasn’t partnered with UCF yet. Um, and I’d like to brainstorm solutions to make that happen. Um, it’s close in proximity, it’s affordable.
40:56 They have a very highly rated education program. Um, and Daytona State College is the only collaboration that we have right now. Now, this is not a shot at them. You know, they, I’m sure they’re an excellent state college. Don’t get me wrong. And they’ve partnered with us, which is amazing. Um, But it’s the only one we have on our roster, and in my experience, that may be hindering our, um, future educators for pursuing their certification via the pathways that were given to us by the Department of Education.
41:22 Um, You know, participation in UCF’s College of Community Innovation and Education is prolific among our past, present, and future educators in the county. Um, and the traditional route to an education degree and our certification isn’t always feasible for our families. Um, they’re experiencing extenuating circumstances of all kinds.
41:42 Uh, and I would love to serve as an advocate in this, you know, endeavor in order to connect with other universities. Not only UCF, just try to build as many connections as we can as a county that has students. So much potential We’re gonna try to you know, obviously bring that training and education opportunities to future educators in Broad County.
42:01 Thank
42:01 Speaker: you Thank you. I see mr. Dufresne. Are you your I see you you’re already on it. Thank you. Appreciate that
42:08 Speaker 18: Pamela Castellana and crystal Casey
42:17 Speaker 23: Good morning board and guests The taxpayers of Brevard County are paying countless thousands of dollars defending one member, Matt Susan, in a lawsuit over his refusal to turn over public records in our Sunshine State. Recently, a deposition in that lawsuit was made public, and at our last regular meeting, several community members read excerpts that led to Ms.
42:39 Marcus comments. That made me want to examine the deposition myself, and what I saw horrified me. When a school board member comments on another’s personal appearance. Calls that school board member a whore, and says she asks for it, to what exactly are you referring? Were you Matt? And you can shake your head, it’s public record.
43:02 Were you, Matt, claiming Jennifer was asking for people to deface her property with FU in three foot tall letters burned into her lawn? Was she asking for death threats? Was she asking for a fake DCF complaint, requiring her to pull her child from a play date so a stranger could look under her dress to ensure there were no cigarette burns?
43:20 Was she asking for all of that when she, let me see if I can remember, demanded that all of our students receive an excellent education? More to the point, who else is asking for it? Was the student hazed at the hands of his teammates asking for it? A brutal assault by being a member of the football team?
43:39 Was the teacher who died of COVID asking for it because she chose this honorable profession of teaching in a county with no regard for truly essential workers? Were the students in summer school asking for it when they faced harassment because somebody fed incorrect information about an alleged assault to your political ally you?
44:00 You know, the very reason Brevard County residents are paying your fees in an apparently endless lawsuit over public records. Thank you for your time and your respectful attention to the majority of you.
44:14 Speaker: Thank you.
44:15 Speaker 18: Crystal Casey.
44:27 Speaker 4: Why given the short span of a human life do you, Matt Susan, choose to spend it harming the good citizens of Brevard? Is it because you feel superior to Brevard citizens? Is it because you derive pleasure from observing human suffering? Is it because there is bribery or compensation? Is it because you think there is no consequence for unlawful behavior so long as certain entities shield you?
44:53 How much does that cost? What really drives you to retaliate against parents and students instead of doing your job ethically? You see, for years I’ve witnessed your behavior and you deserve your own category. I know you’re excited to hear that. An award for your negative impact on Brevard. Before we delve into your sadistic award, let me explain to everyone what you and your minions have done to my family.
45:20 You directly commanded the former principal of Vieira High School to create a file on me when you refused to answer four questions following a death threat on my child and others. Maybe you imagined that that would silence me asking questions, but there is a revised anti slap law You refuse to communicate to divulge complete records pertaining to my son My son experienced years of discrimination from a coach.
45:46 He was not alone Speaking of records you have assorted history with records your disregard for following federal and state law is astonishing In fact, the Viera High School SRO coordinated with the current Viera principal to deny me access to my children’s educational records. They desperately did not want me to see these records, so they wrongfully trespassed me with an undated typed trespass.
46:14 By the way, this SRO should be terminated due to repetitive misconduct and falsifying reports and information. Where is our sheriff? It’s noteworthy to mention you, Rendell, as a participant in this wrongful trespass, personally denied the entrance to my son’s graduation last Friday as he graduated with honors.
46:39 Remember you were talking about how precious it is? Matt Susan, watching those kids at Vieira High School, you were there. So were you, Rendell. This is a wrongful trespass and you are responsible, both of you. Oh, Megan Wright was copied on that communication, too. Matt, you conspired, allegedly, to alter records with Commissioner Tobia after calling a woman a whore.
47:03 I certainly hope that deposition becomes national news. That’s really offensive, Matt, just like labeling a woman’s parts mudflaps. What do you think Brevard thinks about your third wife being pregnant while you were married to number two? Hey, that’s irrelevant. You may think that citizens are not wise to Let her go.
47:20 Speaker 7: Ms. Casey. Let her go. Let her go. Let her go. Let her go. Let her go. Let her go. For displaying
47:25 Speaker 4: ultimate disdain for parents and students in District 4, you are hereby awarded the most unit school board member.
47:32 Speaker: Congratulations.
47:37 All right. No more public comments? All right. All right.
47:45 Speaker 5: Sorry, give me one second. Madam Chair, if I may, um, that was What happens in a sudden, all of a sudden, but I just want to remind us as a board members and the audience that part of our Public comment policy has a restriction on irrelevant comments. Your comments do have to do with school board of business, school board members But I will tell you personally when we start talking about people’s families, not only is it irrelevant, it’s It’s unprofessional, and it’s extremely out of line.
48:14 So I think in the future, Madam Chair, I, I will absolutely support you if you cut someone off for being irrelevant, um, because that is written in our policy. Ms.
48:23 Speaker: Gamble. All right. We are now at the consent agenda. Dr. Rendell.
48:27 Speaker 9: Thank you, Madam Chair. There are 27 agenda items under this category.
48:32 Speaker: Thank you, Dr.
48:32 Rendell. Does any board member wish to pull any of the items? Which items?
48:39 Speaker 6: And F 16.
48:48 Speaker: Alright. Um, any other items to be pulled? No? Alright. I will entertain a motion to accept the approval of the consent items on today’s agenda with the exception of F 14 and F 16. Anybody have a motion?
49:04 Speaker 7: Move to approve.
49:05 Speaker: Second. Any discussion? Motion. Paul, roll call please.
49:09 Speaker 2: Ms. Jenkins. Aye. Ms. Gamble. Aye. Ms.
49:11 Wright. Aye. Mr. Trent. Aye. Mr. Susan. Aye.
49:14 Speaker: All right. Ms. Jenkins, we’ll go ahead and turn it back over to you in regards to F14.
49:20 Speaker 18: Oh,
49:21 Speaker: sorry.
49:21 Speaker 5: Move to approve F14. Okay.
49:24 Speaker: Move to approve F14. Second. All right. And discussion.
49:29 Speaker 6: Yes. Yes. All right. Um, so, I appreciate Mr. Jones coming and speaking to us last meeting, uh, to bring this to our attention, um, and I know that we all received an email this morning kind of, sort of clarifying information, um, but I wanted to pull it because I do think it deserves the attention and respect just to have a conversation as to why, uh, people might be going a certain way on this.
49:59 I tend to lean with Mr. Jones on this. I don’t think that there is like clear precedent set and that makes me uncomfortable to just push forward and do what we’ve always been doing just simply because we’ve always been doing it. Uh, so I am going to vote no on this, um, not because I don’t believe that the people who were getting reappointed should be reappointed before that gets twisted.
50:21 Um, I just don’t think that this, that this necessarily is a clear cut answer and I’m, I’m not comfortable voting on it going forward. Uh, again, I, there hasn’t been established clear precedent that this is the right choice to be making. Um, so I’m going to go ahead and vote no on it. So I just want it to be pulled just so that it’s getting the attention that it needs because I think it’s important.
50:43 Speaker: Thank you for that Ms. Jenkins. Any more discussion in regards to this one?
50:47 Speaker 5: Yeah, I, I want to support Dr. Rendell’s recommendation that he made to us that we go ahead and, and vote. Vote to approve all of these. I think we, um, from, um, what Mr. Gibbs has shared with us, you know, if they’re going to look at past practice, this is something we do every year, and I certainly don’t want to leave these thousands of employees hanging, wondering what’s happening with them, and so I want, I would recommend, and I support the superintendent’s recommendation to go ahead and approve all of those who are on the list currently, and then, then, uh, My suggestion would be to ask the superintendent just to handle those, um, in the way that it’s my understanding they already are handling those who are, were left off the list.
51:23 And if that means that those get brought to us later at a date, um, for appointment at a new location or reappointment at their current location, then you can bring those back to us. But I don’t want to postpone this any longer for those who are waiting to find out if they have a contract with us, um, because I haven’t seen enough to, to convince me that our practice that we’ve had over the last, you know, Um, at least a couple dozen years, um, is invalid.
51:48 Speaker: Thank you. Ms. Campbell. Does anybody else wish to speak to this? Yeah.
51:51 Speaker 7: Ms. Campbell, it’s the same thing. I, I met with our general counsel and I talked to him about, um, this whole situation and I really appreciate Mr. Jones for coming in and, and bringing up the issue that, um, we have those individuals that were left off, um, and I think as you were saying, like what happened with me was as soon as we made that vote the last time I got calls from all kinds of people saying, hey.
52:13 You know, we, we need to be approved and move forward. There’s kind of this limbo and everything else. So one of the things that, that I agree with you a hundred percent is, is that when I spoke to general counsel, he said that this is a practice that we’ve been going back, um, for a long time. And I think that with that being in place, I think the idea is exactly like what you said, Ms.
52:30 Campbell, which is have, um, Dr. Rendell work with each one of the people that are in grievance procedures or anything like that. to possibly get replaced or positioned somewhere else so that we don’t have it, but we can move forward with an overall approving the other individuals and then making sure that the people who have not been properly terminated are given the opportunity to continue to work.
52:50 So with that, that’s what I wanted to make sure everybody understood.
52:53 Speaker: Thank you. Mr. Trent, do you have anything to add to this? No, I’m good. Okay, I, I too had many questions obviously around this because we, I’m sure we all got the same email with the same communication and it obviously caused further discussions to happen and so, um, a precedence has been set over the course of 20 years on this being the policy.
53:09 Now, do I think it’s the best policy or the one that we should probably continue with? No, and I think it’s something that we’re going to have to revise moving forward, but we have to follow what we’ve currently had. So when we got the initial email, I was concerned because there was, I believe, a hundred individuals Something like that.
53:23 There was some roughly in the email saying that they were non reappointed. Well, the document that we have attached to our agenda, I think it’s 163 or 168 pages. It’s a very long document of the reappointment. So to figure out who it was and who it wasn’t, Very tricky. Um, talked to Mr. Dufresne. Mr. Dufresne is, was able to kind of clear the, the, the murky water up that we were in a bit.
53:42 Um, so it, it looks like it’s not nearly the amount of people that, that your initial email had stated to us. Um, for, and there was 10 of them that had grieved the process. There is a grievance process to go through for a non reappointment. Uh, and then, um, And just, again, do I like the process the way that it is?
53:56 No. I think it’s obviously opened up the conversation to us looking at changing this as a whole. Uh, but that’s not where we’re at right this minute. So I, I too will support the, the superintendent’s recommendation to reappoint. I know you were trying to get ahead of reappointments, uh, and we kind of, you know, with this obviously caused more questions.
54:13 But refining the process to make it better for moving forward. So, all right. Any other discussion? No, not right now. Unfortunately, it’s, the, the conversation time is over for that part of it. But is there any other discussion from the board? Does the motion
54:25 Speaker 20: mean that they’re going to approve it? No, yeah, you’re, we can’t, we’re not, it’s not a back and forth at this moment.
54:31 Speaker: I’m sorry, Mr. Jones. Alright, so
54:36 any other conversations with the board in regards to this? No? Alright, so Paul, roll call please.
54:42 Speaker 2: Ms. Jenkins. Nay. Ms. Campbell. Aye. Ms. Wright. Aye. Mr. Trent. Aye. Mr. Susan. Aye.
54:48 Speaker: Alright, uh, we are now at F16. Do I hear a motion?
54:53 Speaker 5: Move to approve.
54:55 Speaker: Second. Any discussion? Yes, Ms. Jenkins,
54:59 Speaker 6: go ahead. Yeah, so I just want my, uh, my concerns to be noted in the minutes and public.
55:06 Um, we were notified about this item being added on the 24th. Um, I have multiple concerns about it. Um, I haven’t had an opportunity to address those. Thank you. It pulled it to the bottom. That’s right. I know. I’m like, what is happening? Yeah, it is now 36. Yeah, it took me a second to, um, I had a one on one meeting with the superintendent on May 14th.
55:35 Uh, and this wasn’t brought up. Um, when I asked for responses in writing, some of them were not given. Um, I don’t understand the justification of this. I don’t understand the justification of a lot of things that have to do with this very topic. Um, I will be meeting with the superintendent to have those conversations, but it’s concerning to me.
56:02 Uh, the response when I asked why we’re doing this and removing it from a cabinet position, it was because it wasn’t always a cabinet position. That’s not really a good why for me. Um, usually there has to be some kind of justification with a positive. Twist there, but, um, I, I don’t understand it. So I’m going to be voting against this today as well, uh, and having further conversations with our superintendent.
56:26 Speaker: Thank you. Any other discussion on this one?
56:29 Speaker 5: Uh, I just, just would add because, you know, we’re not necessarily looking at this job description. Right up against the current, uh, job description of the person who’s currently handling this. This does not include any of the government relations, uh, part that previously, and the last two people filling this position has been a part of it.
56:49 So that’s, it’s just the community relations part. And so, um, there, you know, there’s, I haven’t done an exact side by side, but I know that’s a big, uh, chunk of what is different between the two. Um, So I would like to follow up on that. Let’s
57:03 Speaker: see if anybody else has anything else to add and then we’ll come back to it.
57:06 If that’s okay. Does anybody else have anything else to add to this? You’re good? Mr. Trent, you’re good? I’m good. Okay. Sorry. I just wanted to give everyone the opportunity. No, that’s
57:11 Speaker 6: fine. Um, cause I didn’t, I didn’t give my whole. Question, concern, response, intentionally. So I just, I’m not refuting what you’re saying.
57:19 I just want you to know what, what I was aware of already. Um, so I was told that there is a whole reorg of this department, which traditionally a superintendent would meet with the board members to explain the intention of that reorg prior to putting job descriptions up four days before a meeting. So that makes me uncomfortable.
57:35 Um, I don’t understand the separation of it. I don’t understand what the plan of the department looks like. If we’re reordering a department, traditionally you’re going to have that conversation in totality about what it’s going to look like. Um, I have Uh, I just have personal concerns about the direction of what this role is going to be doing and fulfilling.
57:53 Uh, and I don’t believe that that’s the intent of this role. Uh, and so I, I hear, I hear what you’re saying. Um, but traditionally, any reorg we’ve had, whether it was an interim superintendent or the previous superintendent, if they, we would sit down with board members and explain what the vision was going forward.
58:14 Speaker: Ms. Gamble, do you have anything else to add? No. No? Okay. Alright. I do not either. So, I think at this point, we had a motion and a second. So, Paul, roll call, please.
58:22 Speaker 2: Ms. Jenkins? Nay. Ms. Gamble? Aye. Ms. Wright? Aye. Mr. Trent? Aye. Mr. Sousan? Aye.
58:28 Speaker: Alright. Dr. Rendell, will you please let us know about the items under the action portion of today’s agenda?
58:35 Speaker 9: Thank you, Madam Chair. The first action item is H 37, Refunding of the District’s 2013 A. 2014 certificates of participation COP.
58:46 Speaker: Do I hear a motion? Move to approve. Second. Any discussion? Paul roll call, please
58:52 Speaker 2: Miss Jenkins. Aye. Ms. Gamble. Aye. Ms. Wright. Aye. Mr. Trent. Aye. Mr. Susan. Aye.
58:58 Speaker: All right So we’re gonna call a recess for a regular school board meeting so that we can convene the leasing corporation meeting that’ll take place at 1026 All right, and the leasing corporation is now called to order at 1026 Dr.
59:11 Rendell.
59:12 Speaker 9: Thank you, Madam Chair. We have one action item on today’s Leasing Corporation Agenda. It’s H 37, Refunding of the District’s 2013 A and 2014 Certificates of Participation, C O P.
59:23 Speaker: All right. What are the wishes of the board?
59:24 Speaker 9: Move to approve.
59:25 Speaker: Second. Any discussion? None. Paul, roll call, please.
59:30 Speaker 2: Ms.
59:30 Jenkins. Aye. Ms. Campbell. Aye. Ms. Wright. Aye. Mr. Trent. Aye. Mr. Susan. Aye.
59:35 Speaker: All right. Do we have any further business for Leasing Corporation? Hearing none, the leasing corporation is now adjourned at 1027. The regular school board meeting will now take place. We are back to that. Wow. Back and forth. All right.
59:50 Dr. Rendell, will you please let us know about the items under the action, the other items under the action. No, I think I might have the old one here.
59:57 Speaker 18: No, that’s right.
59:57 Speaker: That’s right. All right. Under the action portion of today’s agenda.
1:00:02 Speaker 9: Madam Chair. The first action item is H37, refunding of the districts 2014.
1:00:07 Speaker: I was gonna say, we, I have the wrong one. The wrong script. Alright, so we should be on to the next one, which is H38, correct?
1:00:14 Speaker 9: Yep. The next action item is H38, department slash school initiated agreements.
1:00:19 Speaker: Do I hear a motion?
1:00:20 Speaker 9: Move to approve.
1:00:21 Speaker: Second. Any discussion? No. Paul, roll call please.
1:00:24 Speaker 2: Ms. Jenkins. Aye. Ms.
1:00:25 Campbell. Aye. Ms. Wright.
1:00:27 Speaker: Aye.
1:00:27 Speaker 2: Mr. Trent. Aye. Mr. Susan. Aye.
1:00:30 Speaker: All right.
1:00:32 Speaker 9: The next action item is H39, Procurement and Distribution Services.
1:00:37 Speaker: Do I hear a motion?
1:00:37 Speaker 9: Move to approve.
1:00:38 Speaker: Second. Any discussion? Paul, roll call, please.
1:00:43 Speaker 2: Ms. Jenkins. Aye. Ms. Campbell. Aye. Ms. Wright. Aye. Mr. Trent. Aye. Mr. Sousa. Aye.
1:00:50 Speaker 9: The next action item is H40, Book Challenges and Reviews, Infanduous by E.
1:00:55 Arnold. Do I hear a motion? Motion is to approve. The book committee’s recommendation.
1:01:00 Speaker: Right, okay. Do I hear a motion?
1:01:03 Speaker 9: Move to approve.
1:01:04 Speaker 2: Second.
1:01:05 Speaker 5: The recommendation of the committee. Right.
1:01:07 Speaker: Which, yep, alright. Um, any discussion? Paul, roll call please.
1:01:13 Speaker 2: Ms. Jenkins? Nay. Ms. Campbell?
1:01:15 Speaker: Aye.
1:01:16 Speaker 2: Ms. Wright?
1:01:16 Speaker: Aye.
1:01:17 Speaker 2: Mr. Trent? Aye. Mr.
1:01:18 Sousa? Aye.
1:01:21 Speaker 9: The next action item is H41, book challenges and reviews, Not My Problem by C. Smith. The recommendation is to approve the recommendation of the book review committee.
1:01:31 Speaker: Do I hear a motion?
1:01:33 Speaker 5: Move to approve the recommendation of the committee to keep it in high school only.
1:01:38 Speaker 7: Second.
1:01:39 Speaker: Any discussion?
1:01:41 Call roll call please. Ms. Jenkins? Aye.
1:01:43 Speaker 2: Ms. Campbell? Aye. Ms. Wright? Aye. Mr. Trent? Nay. Mr. Susan?
1:01:47 Speaker 9: Nay.
1:01:50 Last action item is H42 driver education fee for 24. 25.
1:01:55 Speaker: Do I hear a motion?
1:01:56 Speaker 9: Move to approve.
1:01:57 Speaker: Second. Any discussion?
1:01:59 Speaker 7: Yeah, just real quick. This was something when I was, uh, I was very involved with, and just so everybody understands, we are, we’re raising the fee for the individuals to take it. 2 per ticket that’s given inside the county for this program for funding.
1:02:14 And that, that’s been something that’s happened for a long time. Just want you guys to know that when we talk about the Irv Schlossberg Act, um, there’s two, two funding places. Just so you know. All right. That’s it.
1:02:23 Speaker: All right. Any other discussion? Hearing none. Call roll call, please. Ms.
1:02:27 Speaker 2: Jenkins. Aye. Ms.
1:02:28 Campbell. Aye. Ms. Wright. Aye. Mr. Trent. Aye. Mr. Shoozie. Aye.
1:02:33 Speaker: All right, we will now move on to the information agenda, which includes two items for the board to review and may be brought back for action at a subsequent meeting. No action will be taken for these items today. Does any board member wish to discuss either of these items?
1:02:47 All right, we are now at board member reports. Does any board member have anything further to discuss or report?
1:02:53 Speaker 7: Just wanted to say one real quick thing over speaker who came. Um, one of the issues that we have is Eastern Florida State does not have, um, All of the programs that they need in order to provide the, um, you know, pipeline of teachers for us.
1:03:06 They’ve applied for multiple ones and what they have is a very limited scope on which degrees they can go take, right? So years ago when we were starting this process, Eastern Florida State, Uh, requested to open up the, um, uh, teacher pipeline program and, you know, be able to teach all of the different components that we need inside of our schools.
1:03:26 UCF, as a veto member, vetoed us to have that here in Brevard County. So what Eastern Florida State did was they applied for one little one to be able to get the program to get started. What the speaker had mentioned was an opportunity to partner with UCF and the reason for that is very crucial. Because what happens is our students take their first two years worth of required, um, requirements and then they go to UCF to take their teaching degrees.
1:03:53 Once they go to UCF, they’re only taking their internships with UCF at Orange County, and we lose, like, 90 percent of them. So having that opportunity, and I’m sure Mr. Dufresne, who was really excited about that at the beginning of the year, has a plan for that. That’s one of the reasons, and I appreciate her coming today to put that forward, to grab them, because we lose a lot of our kids over there once they go.
1:04:14 So, that’s it. I just wanted to let you guys know about that.
1:04:16 Speaker 5: It’s my understanding, though, that that’s not, uh, It’s not that the Brevard doesn’t want to do it. It’s a matter of UCF hasn’t really made that feasible for us or allowable for us So if we can keep working on it, I absolutely and
1:04:28 Speaker 7: and I’ll be honest with you I drove to the president’s house when I found out that he had vetoed the original legislation and I and I had an argument with him at that location because what’s happening is is that we are in we are Being suppressed for our own students to be able to get their teaching degrees in the same place.
1:04:46 There is an astronomical, um, percentage of teachers who stay with the schools when they’re part of the schools that they came from. So students that go through our teaching profession, our classes inside of our high schools, then going to Eastern Florida State. Majority of them are going to UCF and then they’re over there in Orange County and they’re not working with us.
1:05:07 So thank you, Ms. Campbell, for bringing that up. UCF needs to be held accountable to allow us to do, to let our kids intern with us. And that’s a whole other issue. So thank you. I know Mr. Trent was getting any further No. I’m just reports to discuss? That really burns my Chaps my Ms.
1:05:22 Speaker: Jenkins, then? Ms.
1:05:24 Campbell, none? All right, hearing no further business, this meeting is adjourned. Oh, do you have something, Mr. Trent? Well, I’m sorry, I’m sorry, I almost did it, I almost did it, but I didn’t say hello to you when you came in. I’m sorry. Go ahead, Mr. Well, I
1:05:37 Speaker 8: was planning on adding on what Matt said about the internships at UCF.
1:05:41 I mean, it’s crucial to do whatever we possibly can, we want. That’s all, um, interns, uh, possible in the teaching profession. We’ll do whatever we can. I’m sure, uh, Mr. Dufresne, uh, would agree. Um, uh, also, you know, on, on some of the public comment, obviously, I think we went overboard on the, on the attacking of the family.
1:06:00 That’s wrong. If you come here to campaign, I hope we shut you down as well. Um, 1010 issue, I, I hope we can work on this. Just like some of, that’s why I didn’t add to it because it looked like, yes, we gotta go forward. But yes, in the future, we need to. Come together so this doesn’t happen again. You know, I would like to see that, uh, uh, work out, uh, on the, on the PFAS testing.
1:06:20 I think we’ll do whatever we can do as a, as a school board. Uh, it’s not that we’re disregarding our, our, our community when they say something like that. It’s just, we’ll do what we can do on our, our end there. Um, but that’s it. Enjoy the summer.
1:06:35 Speaker: Alright, any other further discussion? I’m looking at each one of you, Ms.
1:06:38 Jenkins. None. ? No. All right. Ms. Campbell? None. Mr. Susan? Nope. Or Miss? Yeah. None. Okay. Alright. None. Alright. Hearing no further. But Dr. Riddell, any from you? Good. Okay, I’m good. Alright. This meeting is adjourned.