Updates on the Fight for Quality Public Education in Brevard County, FL
2:07 Ram. Sam. Good evening. April 8, 2025.
3:17 Board meeting is now in order. I would like to welcome my fellow board members, Dr. Rendell and the public. The appropriate place for public participation in the meeting is during your individual public comment opportunity as identified on the agenda.
3:31 Outside of your individual public comment opportunity, your role in this meeting is as an observer. Paul. Roll call, please.
3:38 Mr. Trent. Here. Mr. Susan.
3:40 Here. Ms. Wright. Here.
3:41 Ms. Campbell. Here. Mr. Thomas.
3:43 Here. The board would like to hold a moment of silence. I would like to invite the audience to join in.
4:13 Thank you. I would like to invite Lucas Tranus to the podium to lead us in the Pledge of Allegiance. Please rise.
4:37 I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America. To the republic for which it stands. One nation under God.
4:49 Invisible liberty, justice for all. Good job. Thank you, Lucas.
5:00 Tonight, performing for us, we have the Quest elementary third grade choir. Right here. There you go.
5:39 Boom. It. Get him.
6:35 Ready? Yeah. All right. Round, round, round, round 24, 7 round, round, round, round 365 round, round, round, round 20.
7:07 Try how to awkward living yeah, yeah Earthlings, maybe we should try that how we’re living yeah, yeah do we look ahead to see what’s left behind or do we just go round and round and round Rotating and revolving Our planes unite Our planes unite, yeah Earthlings unite Let’s say it right, yeah round, round, round, round 247 round, round, round, round 365 round, round, round, round.47 round, round, round, round 361 earthlings maybe we should try to change our habits yeah maybe we try to Things are planning yeah, yeah do we feel the heat from everything we’ve done or do we just go round and round and gravitating every fall day? Earthlings unite Earthlings unite yeah Earthlings unite Make it right, yeah, yeah Earthlings unite Earthlings unite yeah Earthlings unite Let’s make it right yeah, yeah round, round, round, round 247 round, round, round, round 365 round, round, round, round, 247 round, round, round, round 365 unite. So before we continue, I do want you to know that these songs that they’re performing are from their Earth Day concert a few weeks ago.
9:38 So that is our little theme. So I need you to use your imagination for our next song. We’re gonna go take a trip into the ocean.
9:45 All. Right, Sam. It.
12:14 Sa. I see trees of green Red roses jingle as in bloom. And I think to myself what a wonderful world.
13:48 I see skies of blue and clouds of white the bright blessed dead dancing night And I think to myself what a wonderful world. The colors of the rainbow so pretty in the sky Are also the faces of people going by. I see my friends.
14:02 And I think to myself what a wonderful world. I think to myself what a wonderful. Sam.
15:47 Okay, you ready for the last one? Yeah. Okay, now make it nice and big. Rock down the house.
15:54 Yeah. Oh, now I know. Oh, yeah, that’s right.
16:05 Let’s go. All right. We are the future.
16:10 We have the power. We are the agents. Agents of change.
16:16 We have problems, we have solutions. We are the agents Agents of change. I am prepared from my head to my toes.
16:33 I am so ready. I am ready to go. You will be part of this fabulous thing.
16:42 Bring what you do. I learn and bring what you bring. Oh, we are the ones to make it happen.
16:52 We are the agents of change. Whoa. We are the kinds you see it, be it.
16:52 We are the agents of change. Agents of change. Oh, yeah.
17:11 That’s right. Let’s go. All right.
17:16 We are the future. We are the power. We are the agents Agents of change.
17:16 We are the problems, we are solutions. We are the agents Agents of change flow. We want.
17:43 Spirit with pride. Sisters and brothers, not on a race. Working together in a change.
17:55 Wow. We are the ones to see it happen. We are the agents of strength Whoa.
17:56 We are the ones to see it be it. We are the angels of change. Agents of change.
18:16 On feet, join the party. Make a sweet a you on your feet Join the party, make it sweet. Hey, you on your feet Join the party, make it sweet.
18:28 Make you on your feet Join the party. Next week. Stand up.
18:58 Good job. All right. Hey, Lana and Taylor, go do your thing.
19:03 Everyone else ready? Ready. Well, again, what a performance. Thank you guys so much.
19:14 And thank you too for coming up to answer some of our questions that we may have board. We would like to give some questions. Sure.
19:23 Which one of you is Taylor? All right, Taylor. I have a tough one. What is your.
19:28 Why did you join chorus? What’s your favorite thing about chorus? I just. I just like singing. It’s my favorite part.
19:36 I like singing. I like talking. So it’s just perfect.
19:42 Love it. All right. Is it Kaylana? Okay, so I was listening to the words of your last song, agents of change.
19:57 So I have a tough question for you. What is one thing that you would like to be a part of Changing for good in this world? I put you on the spot or your school. Yeah, my class being quieter.
20:23 Well, the good thing is you have the ability to make that change pretty quickly. Good job. You guys did an excellent Job.
20:31 And I have to say, I loved seeing all the different things that you did. You sang, you moved, you did the thing with the ribbons. You did sign language.
20:39 It was all so beautiful. And I loved getting to see your many talents this evening. Very good job.
20:47 That’s right. Well, hello, my fellow earthlings. What a wonderful job you guys did.
20:52 Okay, so out of the four songs that you did for us, and you taught us that there’s multiple ways to sing, right? Because you signed some songs, you did movement, and then you sang beautifully. Which one was your favorite? Each of you, answer. Which one was your favorite out of the four? Agents of Change? Agents of change.
21:09 Okay. How about you, Taylor? Which one is your favorite? My favorite one is what a Wonderful World. Oh, I think that was my favorite one too.
21:16 It’s hard to pick, but you guys did such a good job. Thank you so much for starting off our board meeting with wonderful music and cheer and happiness. So we appreciate you guys coming and thank you to all the parents that made that happen tonight because that’s a huge feat for you.
21:28 So thank you to all of you. I wanted to thank all of the parents for coming out tonight. You have beautiful children that have so much energy, and we’re so lucky to have them a part of our school district.
21:47 I jumped up here and I took a picture because all of you had your cameras, right? But the best part of it was not because you all had your cameras, but every one of you had a smile from ear to ear, except for the siblings who were sitting there like, why am I here? So, but I had to take a picture. I’ll send it to the princess so you guys can each find yourself and see what I was talking about it because it was the cutest thing. I have a four year old, a six year old, an eight year old, and then I have two older kids, too.
22:14 And this age is such a beautiful time and it happens so fast. Some of you that may have had older children, this is the time to spend as much time with them as possible, and you can see why. So from the bottom of our heart, I wanted to say thank you.
22:27 My question usually is always, what you guys are going to change and what song and everything else. So I don’t have any for you. So I’m gonna swing by and see you guys in a little bit.
22:36 And I see all the anxiousness down here. I really appreciate you guys. I appreciate all the families for being out here.
22:42 Thank you so much. I appreciate you. Well, that’s.
22:51 That’s not the total truth, Mr. Suzu usually talks about how he would like to go down. Hey, do you guys want us to come by and sing at your school? It’s the first time, so just so everybody knows, I stopped doing it a little while ago because nobody had ever said yes. So I always offer to come by and sing, and people are like, no way are we gonna do that.
23:16 But I think I just found my first school in the first time. So, guys, listen, you’re also. I live in your district too, so I’m gonna come by, maybe I’ll sing a little bit.
23:26 You’re not gonna really like it too much, but I’m gonna really try from the bottom of my heart. Maybe I’ll take a couple of classes and we’ll get ready. I love this.
23:35 What’s that? What time? Cause I got. We might be able to swing at 3 o’ clock because we got board workshops on Tuesdays from 1 to 3, and you’re right here, so I’m really excited. You have no idea.
23:51 I never say it because I got shot down so many times. Okay. And he just brought it up, so thank you for that.
23:57 I appreciate that. No problem. All right, we’ll see you soon.
24:00 Again, I want to thank you guys. You guys are awesome. You know, to make us move and forget about some of the things that, you know, maybe we’ve.
24:07 We’ve had to go through today. No, this is great to separate. Those are awesome songs.
24:13 The Agent of Change. That was how many of us? That’s your favorite song. Come on.
24:17 All right. That’s good. Really could be your theme song for your staff, your teachers at school, because they really are the agents of change, you know, and then we can bring it down and then you are in your little groups.
24:28 Such a cool little song. Really like that one. But again, do you.
24:34 How often do you guys question up there. How often do you practice? Depending on how many times we go to music. Oh, are there sometimes you skip it or.
24:50 Okay. It’s normally just once a week. Okay, well, you guys are awesome for a once a week thing.
24:57 That’s great. So you guys sounded wonderful. This is the time we do get to just sit back and.
25:05 And brag on you guys. As far as students of Brevard and the talent that we see every board meeting, it’s amazing how talented we have students here in Brevard. Mr. Susan mentioned it, but thank you, parents, for involving your students.
25:19 I really believe that’s what makes all students or all schools get to. The most successful that they can is the involvement of the students and of course, it takes the involvement of parents. Look at this full crowd.
25:32 Thank you so much for bringing them out, but again, I’m good. I’m done. All the Questions were answered, Dr. Andell.
25:41 Thank you, Mr. Chair. Now, I had the good fortune of speaking to the students and the parents before the meeting, so I’m good. Okay.
25:47 All right, good. Yes. Would you guys mind if we take a picture with you? All right, good.
25:52 That’s a yes. Maybe. Sa.
30:40 At this time, I would like to invite principal Catherine Murphy from Endeavor elementary to the podium. Good evening. I want to thank you board and Dr. Rendell for allowing me this opportunity to recognize two incredible community members who have had a significant impact on our students.
31:01 These two are nothing short of superheroes. Ten of our Endeavor students received essential care from Dr. M and Dr. Kim from Pearl Pediatric Dental. These students were referred to us as they had no other option for receiving critical care and the treatment that they were, that they required.
31:19 Uninsured and unavailable to afford these procedures independently, they initially sought care from our on site pediatric office with Brevard Health alliance, who determined that they needed further treatment, including sedation. Without this invaluable partnership with Pearl Pediatric Dental and the willingness of these two incredible doctors, our students would not have had access to the specialized care that they desperately need. Need.
31:44 These two have removed a significant barrier for our students. Dr. M and Dr. Kim. Over here.
31:58 So you guys can see me. Sorry, where is it? Where is it? There it is. Oh, thank you.
32:07 That’s okay. Thank you. That’s good.
32:12 Good. Now. Yes.
32:16 I’m Dr. M. Nice to see you guys. Thank you for inviting us out here tonight.
32:36 It was very important to us to provide not only dental care for these students, but to also not traumatize them with the amount of dental work they needed and have to do it in a way that wasn’t going to be fun for them. A lot of them needed extensive treatment. And we all know dentistry can’t be as fun as we make it and try to make it, however.
32:57 So we had an amazing sedation team, an anesthesiologist who does sedation for the children who do require extensive, extensive work and they require, you know, it’s just too much for them to handle. So we were able to fund that from the office side and be able to do everything at no charge for the parents. I have to thank my team who is not here tonight.
33:14 I mean, Dr. Kim is my husband and of course I have to thank him for everything he does with me. However, our team put a lot Together we had a lot of Spanish speaking employees who helped the PAR fill out our 10 page consent forms for everything we did and translate them for them. So they’re not here tonight.
33:29 But I’d like to thank my 20 staff members who helped make this happen, as well as the endeavor team who helped us communicate with the patients. But we’d love to give back to the community in any way we can and allow access to dental care. No child should be in pain from.
33:36 From dentistry at all or dental pain. So thank you, guys. Wait, wait, wait, wait.
33:41 Hold on one moment. Wait. Anyone here wanted.
33:56 I just wanted to acknowledge Deputy Mayor Palm Bay. Mike Jaffe was the one that had mentioned all the work that you guys did. So very much appreciate everything you’ve done and appreciate him for, you know, making sure that we recognize you guys.
34:06 Thank you. Mike Jaffe and I went to middle school and high school together, so I know him and his family pretty well. When he reached out to me, I said, anything yet? Thank you so much.
34:15 There’s so many unsung heroes in our community. And I know you did that, not expecting recognition. But that small act is going to change those children’s lives.
34:26 Right? Because it’s something that we don’t think about, you take for granted. And so thank you so, so much for stepping in the gap and really showing us the best of community. We really appreciate you.
34:32 Where’s your location at? We’re in Melbourne on Apollo and Sarno Road, near the airport. Okay. Okay.
34:53 And can you tell me what you do at your facility besides surgical? You do surgery? We do just pediatric dental care. We do a lot of just regular cleanings and checkups for children. Any kinds of treatments all the way up from just regular to nitrous oxide sedation of all kinds? Yeah, it just depends what the children need, what we’re able to do for them.
34:57 Okay, I got. I’ll follow up. Thank you.
35:00 Not for me. Yeah. You’re not a pediatrician.
35:10 We see children from newborns all the way up to 18 years old. I just think that I would like to promote you for doing what you did. I know you did it unselfishly and everything else, but I do.
35:16 I do think that people need to know which partners in our community are looking out for our kids. And that’s the reason I asked. So thank you.
35:18 I appreciate you. Appreciate you. Right, Absolutely.
35:23 Thank you for what you’re doing. So, Dr. Rendell. No, I think we should do a picture.
36:54 Absolutely. Would you mind? We shall be. Be back in a minute.
36:57 That brings us to the adoption of the agenda. Dr. Andell. Thank you, Mr. Chair.
37:18 On this evening’s agenda, we have administrative staff recommendations, two proclamations, 13 consent items, three action items and two information items. Changes made to the agenda since it was released to the public include the following revised were A6 Pearls, Pediatrics, Dental, F14, an amendment to the BCSO memorandum of understanding. F18, suspension of an administrative employee.
37:36 H27, procurement solicitations moved was F20 the code of conduct to I29 was moved from F20 to I29, added was H28 uphold of a termination of instructional staff. I hear a motion no to approve. Second.
37:41 Any discussion? Fall roll call, please. Mr. Thomas? Aye. Ms. Campbell? Aye.
37:46 Mr. Trent? Aye. Mr. Susan? Aye. Ms. Wright? Aye.
37:50 Okay, tonight we have two proclamations on the agenda. The first proclamation is the Month of the Military Child and will be read by Yvette Cruz. What? I put it really low on this one.
38:41 Month of the Military Child. Whereas thousands of brave Americans have demonstrated their courage and commitment to freedom by serving in the armed forces of the United States of America in active duty posts around the world. And whereas we recognize that many of the Patrick Space Force Bases youth have been directly affected by the frequent changes in permanent station causing them to move several times during their childhoods, military deployments or separation of at least one parent, and the difficult reintegration period that follows all deployments.
39:16 And whereas these children are a source of pride and honor to us all. And it is only fitting that we take the time to recognize their contributions, celebrate their spirit, and let our men and women in uniform know that while they’re taking care of us, we’re taking care of their children. And whereas the recognition of the Month of the Military Child, first established in 1986 by Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger, will allow us to pay tribute to military children for their commitment, their struggles and their unconditional support of our troops.
39:47 Because when parents serve in the military, their kids serve too. Whereas everyone is encouraged to wear purple on Tuesday, April 18 as a visible sign to thank military children for their strength and sacrifices. And whereas a month long salute to military children will encourage the local community to provide direct support to military children and families and reinforce the strong partnership that we have cultivated between Brevard Public Schools and Patrick Space Force Base.
40:38 Now, therefore, be it resolved that Brevard Public Schools recognizes and celebrates April 2025 as the month of the Military Child and April 18, 2025 to be the Purple update for military kids in Brevard county adopted by the members of The Brevard School Board, Brevard County, Florida, at the regular board meeting thereof, held the 8th day of April, 2025. And accepting this proclamation, we have representatives from Patrick Space Force Base, including our school liaison, Program manager, Susan Clark, and the space launch Delta 45 Deputy Commander, Colonel Christopher Bolson. All right, thank you so very much.
40:56 So, Dr. Rendell, board members, members of our community, on behalf of Brigadier General Panzenhagen, the space launch Delta 45 commander, I just want to give our sincere thanks. So the proclamation was great. It laid out a lot of the things I was going to offer up as far as some of the challenges that our military kids have to deal with.
41:07 But from someone who just recently did this with my own family, my wife is an active duty military person as well. We moved down here a year apart. Kids came at different times during that one in the middle of the school year.
41:30 And the welcome that we received not only from our own base support, but as well as from the county, has just been incredible. And so I just want to thank you for your commitment to making sure that Brevard county truly embraces its military members. Dr. Rendell, your efforts to purple up the district, if you will, to be recognized as a purple ribbon district, it’s pretty incredible.
41:37 I know that’s been a lot of. Of work. So on behalf, again, from General Panzanaga, thank you so very much for the continued support for our continued.
41:47 For our community members, always supporting its military members. You know, there’s about 1.6 million military kids throughout the world, several thousand right here in Brevard county, and.
41:54 And we couldn’t do it without the community support. So thank you very much. Thank you.
42:01 Can I motion to approve? Yep. I made. Okay, we’ve got a second.
42:04 All right, we need to take a vote. Any discussion? Call. Roll call.
42:19 Can I say one quick thing? Because Yvette’s not going to say it, so I’m going to say it. So I think it’s very fitting that. That Ms. Cruz is reading that proclamation tonight because Ms. Cruz has been married to a deployed military personnel as well and has been raising two small, small children while your husband was overseas.
42:27 So thank you for the sacrifice that your family’s made, your children, yourself. And so we appreciate you, love you, help you, support you however we possibly can. I’m glad he’s home finally.
42:38 But it’s very fitting that you’re the one that read that proclamation tonight. Mr. Thomas. Here.
42:41 Aye. Here. And aye.
42:43 Ms. Campbell. Aye. Mr. Trent.
42:44 Aye. Mr. Susan. Aye.
42:48 Ms. Wright. Aye. All right.
42:51 Thank you so much. Picture with picture. Yeah, picture be great.
42:57 Thanks. Oh, okay. We have one more proclamation, but we’ll do that when we come back and do.
43:05 I’ll go. Or you want to do the proclamation first? Is that what you’re saying? What do you want to do? How are we going to do this? I’m going. Take picture first.
44:31 John’s here. Keep them separate. The next proclamation is on Autism Awareness Month and will also be read by Yvette Cruz.
45:16 Whereas April is recognized as Autism Awareness Month, a time to honor and raise awareness about individuals with autism spectrum disorder, a neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by a range of socialization, communication, and behavioral challenges. Whereas the symptoms of autism are typically present before age 3 and are often accompanied by abnormalities in cognitive functioning, learning, attention and sensory processing. And whereas autism can impact any child, regardless of race, ethnicity or other socioeconomic factors, with an estimated 1 in 36 children in the United States being diagnosed with autism annually, with the condition being more prevalent in boys and girls.
45:54 And whereas there is currently no cure for autism, early intervention and appropriate support can significantly improve outcomes, providing individuals with the tools they need to thrive while reducing the level of funding services needed later in life. And Whereas Brevard Public Schools recognizes the importance of autism awareness and the need to support individuals with autism along with their family members, teachers, physicians and other care professionals, as well as support the funding of autism research. And Whereas all individuals living with autism should have the opportunity to to accomplish their goals, dreams and and ambitions.
46:20 Now, therefore, be it resolved that Brevard Public Schools calls upon all students, staff and community members to learn more about the condition, recognize the importance of their inclusion, and respect the unique abilities of those with autism. Adopted by the members of the Brevard County School Board. Brevard County, Florida at the regular board meeting there have held the 8th day of April 20, 2025.
46:25 Do I hear a motion move to approve? Second. Second. Any discussion follow? Roll call, please.
46:29 Mr. Thomas? Aye. Ms. Campbell? Aye. Mr. Trent? Aye.
46:34 Mr. Susan? Aye. Ms. Wright? Aye. All right.
46:43 We are now at the administrative staff recommendations. Do I hear a motion? Second. Any discussion? Roll call, please.
46:46 Mr. Thomas? Aye. Ms. Campbell? Aye. Mr. Trent? Aye.
46:50 Mr. Susan? Aye. Ms. Wright? Aye. All right.
46:56 We are now at the agenda items only public comments portion of the meeting. We have. Paul, how many speakers? Two.
47:14 We have two speakers and each will receive three minutes. Our attorney will call the speakers in order in which they signed up to speak. Mr. Gibbs, Gina Derringe, Christine Stanick.
47:32 Thank you board for letting me speak. I’m Gina Daringe, I’m with the League of women voters. And January 2023 we started looking at media and library objection policies to analyze the state of Florida.
47:46 This one binder is one, just one binder that I have. If you want to know about any of the policies in the state, they’re right here. We thought the study would take a month.
48:17 We started in January, we finished in July. We collaborated with other organizations and since it’s on the agenda item that you guys are revising your policies, I just wanted to let the public be aware of what goes on. We analyze 67 counties and school districts and usually there are templates used by organizations such as neoli, which we use or nefec.
48:45 The smaller districts use nefec. And what we found in looking at this, the various adoption instructional policies, sometimes they were convoluted and the two were in one. So the instructional textbook was also with the book challenge it depend on the finances of the district whether or not it was very clear.
49:06 Sometimes you could go to the front website and click on for a challenging a book or a technique book. Other things that we found out is that some counties did a really good job for the public of what books were being challenged and who was challenging it. And that was Santa Rosa out in the western part of the state.
49:25 They did a great job and sadly there were some districts where they had no policy whatsoever at all on the school board. Those are the poorer socioeconomic counties. So what we are suggesting for you is to keep it clear and Brevard did a very good job.
50:04 But keep it clear when it’s a textbook challenge versus a media challenge of a book. One thing that I want to point out recommendations we made was that the district have the accessibility of your policies posted on the website, possibly have copies in the front offices of schools for people who do not have access to a computer to use the guidance of the government and what the policy says with the bill that was written. Please insert a direct link to the policy on your library media page.
50:15 And having a flowchart and that was very helpful but. But hopefully you guys will follow suit of the great work you did before and have that material out there for the public. Thank you.
50:23 Great. Thank you. Christine Stanick.
50:36 Good evening board members. Thank you for giving me the opportunity to speak. I’m here tonight as both a parent of a child in this district and as a colleague of a teacher whose contract was recently not renewed.
50:44 Renewed. It’s from both of these roles that I share my deep concern not only about what was Done. But how quietly it was done.
50:50 Let me be clear. This teacher was not fired. Instead, her contract was simply not renewed.
51:11 On paper, it may seem like a small administrative decision, but let’s be honest, it was a way to slip this under the rug. No explanation of families, no chance for the teacher to correct a mistake, no transparency. Just a quiet, final decision that effectively ended her career in our district without ever calling it what it was.
51:33 Now, let’s compare that to another situation currently playing out in the same district. A principal and a teacher remain on administrative leave after being criminally charged in a case that may have directly put students in danger. It has been over three months, and yet they still received the benefit of time, privacy and due process.
51:49 And up until today’s agenda item pay. Meanwhile, the teacher, my colleague and child’s teacher, was let go of after just two weeks of internal review. Her offense, an unintentional violation of the nickname policy.
52:04 There was no harm, no threat to safety, no malicious intent. Just a teacher trying to connect with a student. And for that, her contract was not renewed, despite her strong dedication and years of service.
52:41 I ask you, how can we justify this? How can a serious legal matter involving student safety be met with patience and protection while a policy level misstep ends a respected teacher’s career in silence? What message does this send to the staff still working here? That no matter how much they give, they’re one misunderstood moment away from being erased. And to the students? What are we showing them about justice, accountability, and who gets grace? The teacher made a difference in her classroom and in the lives of our students, including my own child. She deserved more than a quiet exit.
53:01 She deserved fairness, context and compassion. I hope this board will reflect not only on the decisions made, but on the very different ways they were handled. If we truly value integrity and equity, we need to start practicing them in every corner of our leadership, not just where it’s convenient.
53:20 Thank you. All right, that concludes the agenda items. Only public comments.
53:40 We thank you for taking the time out of your schedule to address the board with your concerns and suggestions. I would like to remind the public that the board is accessible for future considerations outside or further considerations outside of the business meeting by scheduling a meeting. We are now at the consent agenda portion of our meeting, Dr. Rendell.
53:47 Thank you, Mr. Chair. There are 13 items on the list under this category. Thank you, Dr. Endowed.
53:55 Does any board member wish to pull any items? All right. I’ll entertain a motion to accept the consent items on tonight’s agenda. Move to approve.
54:00 Second. Second. Any discussion Yeah, I just like one.
54:05 Real quick one. Yep. Just wanted to thank Ms. Ziegler for coming out tonight.
54:14 She. Her robotics team has had an impressive run, and if anybody hasn’t been paying attention, they. They’re now into the nationals and doing an amazing job.
54:22 So I just wanted to thank you for coming in tonight, and we wish you the best of luck on the future endeavors and. Go get them. How long have you been coaching this.
54:29 This team for? Now. Thank you for your dedication because we know how hard those robotics teams are. Thank you very much.
54:31 That’s it. Absolutely. Thank you for the program you’re running.
54:35 It was great. So, anything else? All right. Roll call, please.
54:38 Mr. Thomas? Aye. Ms. Campbell? Aye. Mr. Trent? Aye.
54:40 Mr. Susan. Aye. Ms. Wright.
54:49 Aye. Dr. Rendell, will you please let us know about the items under the action portion of tonight’s agenda? Thank you, Mr. Chair. The first action item is H26.
54:59 FSPA Fads, Annual Summer Conference, 2025 Travel. Do I hear a motion move to approve? Second. Any discussion? Roll call, please.
55:01 Mr. Thomas? Aye. Ms. Campbell. Aye.
55:03 Mr. Trent. Aye. Mr. Susan.
55:11 Aye. Ms. Wright? Aye. Dr. Rendell, will you please let us know about the items under the action portion of tonight’s agenda? Thank you.
55:20 Mr. Chair, the next action item is H27, procurement solicitations. Do I hear a motion move to approve? Second. Any discussion? Roll call, please.
55:23 Mr. Thomas? Aye. Ms. Campbell? Aye. Mr. Trent? Aye.
55:25 Mr. Susan. Aye. Ms. Wright.
55:32 Aye. The last action item is H28. Uphold termination of instructional staff.
55:40 Do I hear a motion move to approve? Second. Any discussion? Paul? Roll call, please. Mr. Thomas? Aye.
55:43 Ms. Campbell? Aye. Mr. Trent? Aye. Mr. Susan.
55:54 Aye. Ms. Wright? Aye. We will move on to the information agenda, which includes two items for the board review and may be brought back for action at a subsequent subsequent meeting.
56:01 No action will be taken on these items tonight. Does any board member wish to discuss this item? I do. Okay.
56:29 Which one? All right, Mr. Chair, I want us to take a look at the. At item 30 I30, the Code of Student Conduct. As Ms. Stampier sent us the edits from our 11th March 11th workshop, and I was looking through here, I actually went back and watched some of the meeting again because I think some of the changes in here, I just wanted to make sure there’s a couple that I didn’t hear clear direction when I was watching.
56:42 And I want to make sure that we give clear direction on some of these changes. And so this one, she sent us a list with, like, the number, they were numbered. So if you have your numbered list, one of them was number four.
56:56 Let me get you to a page on the attachment. I’m looking at the red line item. There was the suggestion that was on the sheet was to make everything.
57:03 I think Ms. Wright was going to mention that. Make everything in Level five an expellable offense. But if you look on the elementary version, it’s the same as secondary.
57:17 On page 13 of the plan that actually, and I didn’t hear this in any discussion. This is why I want to clear this up. They redlined the recommendation for success path through pathway program online.
57:29 And if I went. When I went back and listened, what I think Ms. Wright was suggesting when we talked about it was that we wanted to make sure that everything that was in a five, level five was something like. Because we were getting rid of ALCs, we didn’t want to put anything in a level five.
57:44 That was not something that was that way. I want us to have a clear direction on this because I believe what we have now is that everything is Level five will be out with zero services, including the online pathway. I think that’s a mistake.
57:54 I think we should keep that online pathway in there for a couple of reasons. One, look at the things that we’ve moved up. Some things we’ve put up, like false accusation, hazing, some of the other things, I’m not talking.
58:09 You know, there are certain things like weapons. I think there’s some things that statute says it’s actually just full expulsion. The online pathway will allow students to keep going if they’ll do it right.
58:28 There’s stipulations on it to keep going with their work at home. They will not be allowed to be on campus, but that will keep them closer to their graduation deadline. And just to be quite honest, if they’re not doing that, then they’re going to be back on those campuses for even longer because when they come back, they will be behind and they’ll still have to finish out those semesters.
58:47 So it has the potential to mess up our graduation rates, but also to keep students who. We kind of want to keep moving along the process for whatever reason. So I think my suggestion would be, because I didn’t hear that clear direction when I went back and watched the video, is that we leave that recommendation for a success pathway program online.
58:59 We leave that in the level five like we have on the level four. And I have already talked about that with Ms. Dampier and Dr. Undell. Ms. Tampier, do you want to add before we.
59:14 That was the original recommendation that we had when we presented before the board. But I just need clear direction because we thought we went back and heard it, that we were taking that off. So if that’s the case, I just need direction.
59:27 Yeah, I. I mean, I’m in favor of leaving the online option available as well. I also, there’s a bit of a discrepancy between the false accusation against a staff member for primary versus secondary. So it’s a level four on.
59:30 On one and a level five on the other. So. Did say that.
59:36 We did say that. Okay, so we did a four on. Hold on.
59:39 Let me look. On the elementary level, that was. Okay.
59:44 I didn’t go back and rewatch that meeting. So thank you for the reminder. Can I ask a quick question? Absolutely.
59:46 If you. If you’re done, Ms. Right. Yeah, I am.
59:54 So you’re saying that a kid gets expelled and they can take a online class. Is that what you’re saying? Yes. That was for level four and level five.
1:00:05 That was an option for the principals that they could have that. We recommended that back at the board work session. Can’t they take Florida Virtual School anyway? Isn’t that the same thing? No, no.
1:00:20 Explain that to me. This is like online, that. Brevard Public Schools, part of the ALC team would be providing the supports for students so we can keep them on track to hopefully again graduate on time.
1:00:27 But it would be all online. And just to make a point, we. We recommend it.
1:00:32 Okay. Yeah. And.
1:00:35 And FLVS won’t take all. Some. Some violations they won’t take.
1:00:43 Dr. Rendell says it’s. Yes, that was the recommendation we had. Okay.
1:00:48 I just want to make sure. To make sure that there was clarification on that. Thank you.
1:00:52 So we can make that change back. We can move that back for the May 20th. Okay.
1:00:56 And I had one other. Do you get. Is everybody good with that? Okay.
1:01:12 The other. It was on our list. When she gave us the numbered list.
1:01:27 It was item number 14, and that was the item about failure to report a serious offense. So I went back and listened And I heard Mr. Susan say I did not dying on this hill. But what we ended up.
1:01:38 And Dr. Rendell suggested that we have this separate one. But after having a conversation with Ms. Dampier and with Paul and with Dr. Endel, I think we’re trying to accomplish something. What I heard.
1:01:51 What we wanted to accomplish was we want students to. If you see something, say something. Which the sheriff talks about, which we talk about, but we’re putting in here, I think, is.
1:01:54 I don’t know that it’s going to Accomplish what we want to accomplish. And also, I think we’re having complications here because Paul talked about, and it was in the notes, you know, there. There is.
1:02:02 You can’t. Compelled speech. I’m not using the right word, Paul.
1:02:15 Is that right? It’s compelled. You know, can you compel someone to speak? So this is. Well, it’s in level three, right? 11.
1:02:20 It’s a level three, because we already have failure to report criminal offense. But even then, just so we know, you know, we have these. And Ms. Wright brought it up at the workshop.
1:02:20 And then we just kind of went on and didn’t say anything about it. But we have these anonymous reporting tip lines. We have two.
1:02:39 We have the Speak out hotline. And then we also have Fortify Florida that we encourage students to use. That’s one of the things that our dogs, the deputies with the dogs go around and they do the presentations and they were reminded.
1:02:48 We have the posters up everywhere because we do want to create a culture where students feel like they have an outlet. They see something dangerous. And they’re not just reporting weapons and drugs.
1:02:59 They’re reporting bullying on those. They’re reporting suicides on those. We’ve had, you know, the sheriff has come and talked to us about those methods.
1:03:12 And so I think that is more where we’re going to go. I think we’re going to create a situation here where we’re asking our administrators to try to identify, okay, who actually saw that. It’s going to be hard to prove.
1:03:30 It’s going to be hard to prove if someone reported it or not since they had these anonymous ways of reporting it. And again, I mentioned this at the workshop, but I think we want to create a culture like the carrot and the stick. We want to create more of the carrot.
1:03:44 Let’s create these opportunities and encourage an environment where students are reporting. But I think we’re going to have a hard time following through on this and then especially when it comes to some of the First Amendment issues of compelled speech. So I. Again, not a hill.
1:04:05 I’m dying on either. But a direction. When I went back and listened, I didn’t hear clear direction from the board on this staff bent over backwards to try to make all the changes that we asked them to make.
1:04:47 And we were making a lot of changes that day, but I’m not feeling confident about this particular one. So just so you clear, the particular one that we added where we already had failure to report a criminal offense, it’s a level four. Was adding this other thing, failure to report a Serious offense, which is also kind of vague as a level three.
1:04:53 And I just think we owe it to the staff who were putting it together, but also staff were going to have to enforce it to make it super clear. I think the main reason that I made the point was, is that if you’ve ever been in interrogation with a principal or sro, is asking questions to a kid, and they know that you’re supposed to tell them what happened, there’s a lot of kids who don’t say things. I don’t think that a principal is going to run off and say, you know, can we find out if anybody said it? And chase after the failure to report? But if they know that that kid was a part of it and they didn’t report it, it gives them leverage into finding out the other pieces to it.
1:04:59 And that’s why. That’s why I brought it up. I felt like, as an individual that you see something, you should report it.
1:05:16 And I would like to create that culture on our campus. But, you know, I mean, that’s the ways. And I felt that way.
1:05:25 Dr. Rendell, do you want to fill in on this? I’m fine with having failure to report criminal offenses as a four. I’m fine with failure to report a serious offense as a three. We just have to adequately define what failure to report serious offense is like.
1:05:38 We need a strong definition so that the administrators and the students out there know what that means. Can we ask Mr. Chair? Yeah. Yeah.
1:05:50 I’d just like to add my two cents in. One is, is that I think that one thing that gets overlooked is when this. Having this in the policy also gives students cover that may not want to say something or may want to say something, but feel like they would get repercussions.
1:05:56 Now they almost feel like they have an excuse why they have to. Yeah, that’s one other angle. On the other side of it is also another part of it is I think we should define clearly what a serious offense is as best we can.
1:05:57 That way, it’s not ambiguous. It’s not subjective. You know, do we need to do that before.
1:06:03 Very clear. We can make sure it’s ready. Okay.
1:06:20 We can make sure it’s ready by May 20th. Okay. Can you.
1:06:33 Can we ask Mr. Gibbs to clarify the legal aspect of it? Because I don’t know how much this is used. I think Justin told us it wasn’t used a whole lot, but just want to make sure that we’re not creating a problem for ourselves. It was not.
1:06:51 We went back and pulled the data and it was not. We added this lower offense and we have a definition in the back. But we also can do something with.
1:07:15 If you see something, say something like a campaign to. And have some videos and have some posters and really promote, you know, that throughout. At beginning of the school year, we can add that as something that, you know, and we can also put it as a part of the video that we do for the code of student conduct.
1:07:33 So anything new, we do go over it with the students as well as with all the stakeholders. That’s part of our training at the beginning of the year. Paul, you were going to say something? Yeah, I was going to just say, I think that you’re going to have problems or potentially have problems if someone challenges discipline on a you made my child or you are disciplining my child because they didn’t speak up.
1:07:49 And if it’s against themselves, you’re going to have a bigger problem if they were a part of it, because then you’re using compelled speech to incriminate themselves. So I think you will have a problem trying to. How do we do it for the criminal piece? You cannot force someone to criminally implicate themselves.
1:08:01 That’s their Fifth Amendment right. So I think the school would, as a state actor, would have a problem with trying to compel a student to provide any kind of information, especially if they were involved in something. So we have it already on policy to do criminal offenses.
1:08:09 Well, that. The way I read the student code of conduct was that if I’m sitting in the courtyard and I witness something happen, I’m supposed to go report that to the principal. Not that I was involved in that.
1:08:18 I’m just there, I saw it happen. I’m supposed to go report it to administration. Now, that piece is what originally I thought this was all about.
1:08:32 If I see a criminal act and I see a kid with a gun in there, that’s an extreme safety issue I’m fine with. Hey, lives are at stake. You need to have reported that.
1:08:36 That’s a separate issue. If I’m involved and the principal is questioning me. Now you are trying to say I am going to be disciplined because I did not implicate myself and I have an obligation to speak up.
1:08:45 Yeah, I did this. Sorry. I think you’re going to have a Fifth Amendment problem.
1:09:07 So on that, on the. So the failure to report a criminal offense has specific things like weapons, art, firearms, drugs. Right.
1:09:25 But this serious offense, if that would be, what were some of the things you brought, like vaping, let’s just say, because we Moved vaping up to a level it was higher. So what? So in that case, a student sees someone vaping in the bathroom and we know that they, we can somehow prove that they saw me there. Well, if that qualifies as a serious offense, we’d have to, we’d have to define it in a way that.
1:09:28 Is vaping a serious offense in a school? If it is, and I don’t report, oh, I went in the bathroom, turned around and left because five kids were in there vaping and I didn’t go report it. Am I now able to be suspended for three to five days because I didn’t report five kids vaping in the bathroom? Mr. Chair. Yes.
1:09:56 Quick question for Mr. Gibbs. Yep. So for.
1:10:09 Is there anything that protects a person in a non criminal incident against self incrimination? If they’re being disciplined, then it’s not a criminal issue, but it’s criminal as far as school district goes. So I mean, you’re saying that I have to report on myself as evidence and provide evidence against myself so you can expel or suspend me. I, I think you’re on very soft footing.
1:10:18 If it gets challenged to a court, I don’t think that the court’s gonna say, hey, you can use the evidence you got by forcing that kid. Yeah. To testify against themselves.
1:10:31 What we could do. Because I didn’t know that we were gonna be deep into this. You know what I mean? I didn’t know that we’d be bringing you in and conversations with Ms. Dampier and everything like that.
1:10:42 If you guys want to, we can push it and then discuss it with Dr. Rendell. We get come back with it on the 20th. If it’s on the May 20th, you got plenty of time to talk and there’s plenty of time to try and hash this out.
1:10:54 My main point is, is that it helps in the interrogation and it also helps when like just exactly what John said is that when a student wants to get the COVID of. I did see this. So there’s a great amount of.
1:11:08 I’m trying to distinguish now when you’re saying interrogated, that’s like a suspect type thing. I’m involved. So I think if you’re trying to compel anybody that’s involved to provide information.
1:11:14 If it’s my, hey, I was in the courtyard eating lunch and I saw this happen. That’s what I originally thought it was was you want people to speak up to provide. Hey, yeah, no, it was Tommy who threw the first punch.
1:11:20 It wasn’t, you know, Johnny, you can’t Ask. There’s a difference between an interview and an interrogation. But it sounded.
1:11:30 Well, it sounded like you were saying you wanted to for. If I was in involved, I have to provide it. If I’m just.
1:11:37 You want people to come forward. I think you’re going to have a hard time trying to discipline a student who feels like they need. They don’t want to be involved and say, I saw you on the security footage.
1:11:51 You were just sitting there, who threw the first punch? And they say, I’m not going to say anything. And we can’t do that. We can’t force them to tell us.
1:12:06 I think if you try and discipline them, you’re going to have a problem. If it gets to the courts, really, I don’t think you can force first. We get all kinds of letters every day that say, hey, you’re not to talk to my kid without my attorney present.
1:12:18 So you’re gonna have those issues on top of that. And if you try and compel a student to speak up now, if they want to, hey, we saw you on the camera. Did you see anything? Can you provide a statement? That’s fine.
1:12:28 If they say, I didn’t see anything, and then you try and do discipline, then that makes sense. You’re gonna have an issue of how do you prove they saw anything. Were they on their phone? Were they reading a book? Right.
1:12:35 Did they not see it? That makes sense right there. But yeah, how do you prove. For a discipline side, just because they’re on the camera, you can’t prove they saw what actually happened.
1:12:41 That piece right there makes sense. But then you’re gonna discipline them if they don’t speak up. That’s like saying, now I’m in trouble because I didn’t say anything.
1:12:43 We are compelling you to say what you saw. I don’t know that you can do that. I can work on it if you guys want.
1:12:50 I’ll work on it. We’ll bring it back. Okay.
1:12:59 And thanks. It was on the information agenda, but this. If we hadn’t had this conversation, we weren’t going to be talking about it anymore until it came up for a vote.
1:13:05 So now is the time to let staff. And like I said those two particular things, I didn’t feel like when I went back and watched it, we had clear direction. So I wanted to make sure that staff had clear direction.
1:13:07 Thank you. Great. So what I’m hearing you say, say about the other serious offense.
1:13:21 We’re going to table that. I’m going to. I’m going to come and work with you.
1:13:26 On because there’s obviously more conversations that were made that I didn’t even know about and I would like to be prepared before we came to the meeting. So instead of having it hashed out with confusion and stuff like that, I’ll come to you. It’s on the information agenda.
1:13:32 It is. But you didn’t let us know you were going to pull it and you didn’t let us know you’re going to have conversations. I didn’t do it.
1:13:56 Anything wrong? Mr. Susan? Well, we normally let each other know that we’re going to be doing this. All right. All right.
1:14:02 So at this time I would like to offer my fellow board members and Dr. Mandel an opportunity to recognize students, staff and members of the community who would like to go first. All right. First of all, I want to say good luck to all the track teams, the high school track teams who will be participating in the Cape Code conference this Friday and the district track meet next Friday.
1:14:31 And then depending on how they do, they’ll be moving on to regionals and potentially state. So good luck. Track teams.
1:14:37 I’ve been in a lot of track meets over the last couple months sitting in those cold bleachers, so it’s been a good season. I also want to thank our consultants, wxy Sue Hannon Facilities Team and for the community members who came out to our work session this afternoon and to the community meeting that last night I heard was a good presentation and I thank you, Suhan, for being part and representing the district there. I do want to encourage everybody who I think we’ve got some here in the room tonight.
1:15:00 I encourage everybody to go back and watch the work session from today. It was really informative. It talked about.
1:15:15 It was just our first look at the feedback that we’ve gotten from the consultants that they pulled the survey from the public that went out a of couple for the last couple months, looked at all of our data again, just a first look and our first chance to have conversations. No decisions were made or will be made in the very near future. But I do want people I think that was not the message that went out to the public.
1:15:22 So I want to make sure that everybody goes and watch that and you can, if you don’t have a whole lot of time, watch the YouTube video the way always watch it in like 1.5 speed, save some time while you’re cooking your dinner. But that it will be on our work session today.
1:15:33 You can find that on our YouTube channel. And so I hope people will take the opportunity to do that because it was really good information. We had a good discussion board.
1:15:36 So. But thank you to Debbie XY and to sue and the rest of the community for helping us out with that. Anyone else got anything? I’ll go.
1:15:48 That’s right. Go ahead. All right.
1:15:58 Wanted to thank the Titusville Chamber of Commerce. So we, the Space coast association of Realtors, always does the prom closet, and that’s held at, you know, Melbourne area, which is a little difficult for some of our people in the North End to get to. So just wanted to thank the Titusville Chamber and all their efforts.
1:16:11 They put in our staff here as well, went up and set up hundreds and hundreds, I don’t know, thousands maybe, of dresses, suits. It was a great event. Lots of people came.
1:16:17 Lots of it was well received in the community and a lot of fun. I mean, honestly, there’s nothing more fun, from my perspective anyways, than watching someone find the dress. So I had a great time there, and I just want to thank them for serving their community so well.
1:16:32 Also, you know, I don’t know if anybody’s following basketball. We’ve had a. There’s a big deal in Florida, which I’ll let Dr. Rendell talk about that.
1:16:39 But we had our own kind of Final Four, little competition going on in our schools on the Iready reading. And I just want to report back that District 1 took second and third place, so I had two of them. So shout out to.
1:16:48 To Mims elementary in Oak park on your phenomenal reading scores. You guys are doing an amazing job. Glad to see that needle moving.
1:17:01 Proud of all the things that you’re doing there. And then I was going to give a shout to somebody else, but they’re not in the particular room right now, so I will save that one until they are in the room. All right, that’s all I have.
1:17:13 Thank you, Mr. Chair. Yeah, just real quickly, I just thought of one that he often goes unnoticed. It doesn’t go unnoticed, but he goes on, doesn’t get recognized for his contributions.
1:17:20 And I would just like to mention, Sheriff Ivy, I was at the Evening of Hope the other night over at fit, and he did the auction. And I’m sure we’ve all. Anybody’s been to any community event where there’s an auction, he comes and does it.
1:17:24 And yeah, he raised. Now he’s super successful through threats sometimes, but he’s successful. But no, he just.
1:17:35 He. He pops into numerous community events. He’s all over the county.
1:17:47 He does it often and doesn’t seek any recognition for it. So I just Wanted to give a shout out to him because I thought he did an awesome job that night. But every time I’ve ever seen him do it, which is often, he’s always phenomenal.
1:18:08 Yes, that’s a good one. So I wanted to let you guys know, Audit committee met today, went to that for a little bit. One of the topics that they had was they did a review of our HR systems.
1:18:14 And I wanted to get a shout out to Mr. Dufresne for his work with not only bringing that entire archaic system up to speed. If you guys want to, you can take a look at RSM’s audits and stuff like that and talk about exactly what’s going on. But not only is he doing that for the audit, but he’s also overhauling our entire healthcare and everything else.
1:18:25 So I did want to give Mr. Dufresne a nice shout out. Mr. Dufresne, you got it all right. For all of his work.
1:18:40 But take a look at that audit. So you guys understand the challenges that he’s having inside of there, which are slowing down our hires and stuff like that. So our new EAP system and that kind of stuff will speed that up.
1:18:59 But in the same time, we’ve got some issues that he needs some support on. So just want to let you guys know that Also thanks to Ms. Cruz’s support with the Passport program, it is going very well. She’s getting stacks of them coming in.
1:19:07 For those of you that don’t know what the Passport program is, it’s a program we started last year to get the children to start going to all of our museums. And if they go to at least 10 of our museums and get a stamp on it, they get a certificate and they come in. And I think Ms. Cruz, they’re coming in May, all of them to get their certificates.
1:19:14 What’s that? May 20th. May 20th, they’ll be coming in to get their certificates. It’s a certificate for their involvement in getting into our communities.
1:19:21 Many of our kids don’t even know how many museums we have. Many of the parents don’t even know. So on the breaks, we support them in going and trying to do that.
1:19:43 So big support there and hard work with Ms. Cruz doing that. And it’s going very well. I also wanted to invite everybody.
1:20:05 On May 15th at 6 o’, clock, we’re going to have the first ever swearing in ceremony for students and others that are going in and swearing into the military service. It’s going to be at Viera Hutch School. It’s going to be from 6 o’ clock to 8 o’, clock, and it’s going to be the largest class that we’ve ever graduated from Brevard Public Schools for serving in the military.
1:20:11 It’s a big honor. So we’re going to have that moment. We’re also going to do a press release tomorrow overviewing the who, what, when, where, why, and for this school district to be the district that made all flags and government buildings to be made in the United States, for this district to be the one that when ROTC was being taken away from kids for classes and stuff like that, that they needed and made it a career pathway so that they could do that.
1:20:24 This district has led the state in a lot of stuff. So I’m glad that this is happening. The other thing is, I wanted to thank John Rosine.
1:20:29 This poor young man came over to Ralph Williams to help out with one of their field days. And you should see a high schooler trying to deal with about a hundred little kids running around. And he did amazing.
1:20:33 So I just wanted to give him a shout out. It’s very difficult when you get those kids all running around. It’s like herding cats.
1:20:39 And Mr. Rosene did an amazing job. And then. That’s all I’ve got.
1:20:48 Oh, wait. One last thing, XYZ. I wanted to say thank you to Ms. Sue.
1:20:58 There was a community meeting last night that was sent off that was. There was some allegations that we were going to be closing McNair and all this stuff that weren’t true. So they held the community meeting.
1:21:11 You literally went and went to that in a moment’s notice. And I don’t think people understand that commitment to grab staff to get there. That was huge.
1:21:32 And with all seriousness, McNair families and staff and everybody else for the. For the fight that you guys have inside of you, it’s applauded because I know how much you care about your school. I know how much you care about your stuff.
1:21:41 I. I wanted to say we’re proud to have you guys as part of our school district because you care about your school as much as you did that you actually held the meeting and went forward with it. I did want to tell you that there was no conversation about closing McNair prior to this, and somehow somebody got something and reported it. But.
1:22:00 But thank you, Ms. Hand, for doing that. Thank you, Dr. Rendell. Yeah, thank you, Mr. Chair.
1:22:11 I want to take a few minutes and thank Sue Han and the rest of the executive leadership team for kind of holding things down for the last couple days I was actually out of town. I was in Texas a few weeks ago. My son who is a 2018 graduate of the University of Florida asked me if I would like to attend the Final Four with him if Florida were to make it.
1:22:21 So we made some travel plans and sure enough Florida did make it. So we did go to San Antonio and we did watch the Gators bring home the championship. So great job.
1:22:32 Florida, third national championship in men’s basketball to go with their three national championships in football. So go Gators. And thanks sue and the team for keeping things under control while I was gone.
1:22:42 Awesome. That’s great. We will now take a recess in order to prepare for the non agenda public comment portion of the meeting.
1:23:26 Paul, how many speakers? 14. 14 speakers and each will receive up to three minutes. Our attorney will call and order they signed up. We’ll take a short recess. Thank you. Sam. It.