Updates on the Fight for Quality Public Education in Brevard County, FL
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33:29 good do I hear a motion move to approve second is there any
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33:28 Paul it’s Campbell hi hi that’s right hi picture we take a
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34:26 we are now onto the public comments portion of the meeting we
34:45 have
34:46 three speakers all of which will receive three minutes our
34:51 attorney will call the speakers in
34:53 order which they are signed to speak mr gibbs please call the
34:56 first or all three speakers if
34:58 you guys can go down to the corner over there that’d be great if
35:00 you’re going to speak that way when
35:02 they call your name we’re ready to go and that’s it here we go
35:06 bill pearlman bernard bryan all around
35:10 good morning i’m bill pearlman today i’d like to address item b1
35:26 on the agenda for the proclamation
35:28 for black history month and first and foremost i really want to
35:33 emphasize that i love this proclamation
35:38 that you took time to recognize the contributions achievements
35:42 and history of black americans by
35:45 proclaiming february as black history month and the language of
35:49 the proclamation is inspiring
35:53 as a reminder of what you just passed let me quote some of the
35:57 language you adopted
35:58 it proclaims that brevard public schools quote is committed to
36:03 creating an inclusive and equitable
36:06 learning environment that honors diversity promotes
36:10 understanding and encourages respect for all love
36:14 it it also says quote you will foster an environment of mutual
36:20 respect empathy and understanding and i want to
36:23 congratulate you on embracing your inner wokeness
36:30 being woke ensures policies focused on diversity and equity and
36:34 that’s exactly what your proclamation demands
36:37 it’s a new day in brevard public schools from now on as the proclamation
36:43 states we will encourage respect
36:47 so gone are the days when mr trent will announce to the public
36:52 on his hot mic that he mr perlin
36:55 mr perlman forkin mr susan can you please uh can you please
36:57 explain why this has anything to do with
37:00 stop my clock you owe me 10 seconds please explain that to me
37:03 can we do that you are eating my time illegally
37:09 i’ll give you another three minutes at the end i’ll give you
37:11 another three minutes at the end we’re
37:12 trying to speak to the if you’ll reset the clock to three
37:15 minutes i’ll be happy to respond at the end
37:16 we’ll give you another chance mr chair can you please finish
37:20 because he’s talking about the agenda
37:21 whether we like it or not and he’s talking about miss campbell
37:24 thank you mrs campbell
37:25 you you you don’t want to engage in another lawsuit where you
37:32 lost five hundred and seventy
37:34 thousand dollars to a first amendment lawsuit i’ll wait for you
37:38 to reset the clock and i’ll begin
37:40 again please keep going mr perlman under no circumstances will i
37:43 allow you to steal my three
37:44 minutes you have three minutes go ahead the clock doesn’t show
37:48 it keep going no sir reset the clock
37:51 please we will begin again you unnecessarily interrupted me no i
37:54 was just asking you to get to the point of
37:56 order i very clearly made my point oh waiting for the three
38:00 minutes to reset i will not allow you to
38:03 steal my time you have three minutes at the end of the meeting
38:06 no sir this is agenda related we’ve
38:08 already passed the proclamation that you’re speaking to correct
38:11 it is on tonight’s agenda please consult
38:14 with attorney gibbs as to whether or not you are violating my
38:17 rights thank you no sir
38:18 all right next speaker good morning i’m bill perlman i’d like to
38:26 address item b
38:29 mr perlman please sit down to the next person nobody’s been
38:33 violated nobody has been nobody has
38:38 violated mr perlman please sit down so the next person can speak
38:42 no sir all right can we have
38:46 staff come over here and explain to him that the next step
38:48 nobody’s illegally moving you you have an
38:51 opportunity to address any issue mr perlman you have an
38:57 opportunity at the end to address you’re speaking
39:00 to an agenda item that has already been passed
39:02 if you will reset the clock i will consider we’re not going to
39:08 resetting the clock resets it for longer
39:10 than the three minutes mr gips i implore you to prevent another
39:16 expensive lawsuit mr perlman
39:17 mr perlman please for the sanctity of our board can you please
39:22 sit down so other people can sit
39:24 can speak i will take my time at the end when it is yes that’s
39:28 that and that’s totally fine and we’ll
39:30 give you your other three minutes nobody’s gender related come
39:34 on man yeah okay thank you thank you mr
39:37 wilson bernard bryant unbelievable 10 seconds i i think you the
39:43 audience needs to be able to be quiet
39:46 and speak to the each one of the agenda items through public
39:48 comment please don’t yell out while we’re
39:50 having those speaking people speak good morning good morning
39:57 everybody my name is bernard bryant
40:01 and i’m a community partner and i represent the south perlman
40:04 branch at NAACP as long as the
40:07 concerned citizens of south perlman at the last school board
40:13 meeting i saw a lot of pain in your faces
40:18 when you were closing cape view elementary school due to low
40:22 enrollment when i saw that pain
40:25 i realized that the market is shifting there are a lot of uh
40:32 growth in the charter school market and
40:36 we saw this year around 3 000 students that we lost in the
40:39 public school market so when i look at the at the
40:44 agenda item that deal with the uh recertifying of a contract for
40:50 the uh horizon uh charter school i was a
40:56 little bit worried about that and the reason why i was worried
40:59 is because you know cutting staff losing
41:03 people i’ve had a chance to do that before in my career and i
41:07 know how painful that is so when i saw that
41:11 this charter school contract is being renewed to increase its
41:15 capacity it kind of bothered me a
41:18 little bit because now we are losing market share to another
41:23 charter school by renewing this contract
41:26 i’m not a lawyer i’m not a lawyer i don’t know the uh the detail
41:31 of that but one thing i do see is that losing
41:34 schools are providing a capacity of a charter school who’s our
41:39 competitor to me doesn’t make a lot of
41:42 sense to me and basically what i was trying to say is that you
41:46 are arming our charter school to do
41:51 more damage to our to our public school like i said i don’t
41:54 understand the law per se but by giving our
41:59 charter schools more capacity and we need to gain capacity in
42:05 our public school is a threat to the to
42:08 our public schools so i’m asking this board what is the thinking
42:13 behind that when you are increasing the
42:15 capacity of a charter school it really tells me that now the
42:20 charter schools are going to have another
42:23 competitive advantage over the public school i’m not sure
42:27 whether that’s making any sense but it’s
42:29 just like playing football all right if i give this other team
42:33 my best quarterback which is a competitive
42:36 advantage it puts me in a disadvantage situation so when you
42:41 allow this charter school to grow and have
42:44 greater capacity it’s really a threat against the public school
42:49 so that is my thinking that’s where my
42:51 heart is and i hope that that doesn’t happen because i love brevard
42:56 public schools
43:00 all around so i will be speaking to b1 the black history month
43:11 proclamation again uh
43:15 to echo my friend bill uh no no objections whatever terrific proclamation
43:23 uh i would love to see
43:27 in the coming year before next year’s black history month some
43:31 evidence of meaning any of it living up to
43:34 it um when we have people bringing forth bringing to this board
43:41 in the past evidence of uh unequal
43:47 discipline and punishment to black students and students of
43:51 color and having that dismissed there’s the
43:53 head shake because we don’t like data here uh that doesn’t
43:56 measure up with that proclamation
43:59 suggestions to expand improve make it a priority to expand
44:07 access to vpk and other supportive services
44:11 particularly in heavily minority and black districts no action a
44:15 nod thanks no living up to that
44:20 uh absolute uh obedience bordering on genuflection to the our
44:26 current state department of education
44:28 standards which uh make it almost a crime possibly a fireable
44:33 offense literally to actually teach
44:35 about the effects of black history and the ongoing systemic
44:40 effects of race and relations in this
44:44 country and uh we have a board member a former chair who
44:47 campaigned on making sure we’ll never ever ever
44:50 talk about those things no siree bob so it’s a lovely proclamation
44:58 and all available evidence says it is an empty proclamation i
45:04 loved every word of it i fear if mr
45:08 trent held it it would burst into flames thank you thank you mr
45:14 ralph
45:14 that concludes agenda items only public comments we thank you
45:19 for taking time out of your schedule to
45:21 address the board with your concerns and suggestions i’d like to
45:23 remind the public that the board is
45:25 accessible for further conversations outside of the business
45:27 meeting through scheduling a meeting we
45:30 are now at the consent agenda dr rendell now we already did
45:33 there are 29 items under the on the agenda
45:36 under this category thank you dr rendell does any board member
45:38 wish to pull any items
45:39 none all right i’ll entertain a motion to accept the consent
45:45 items on tonight’s agenda
45:47 second any discussion yeah just just briefly because i wanted to
45:51 address the concerns of mr bryan about
45:53 the charter school expansion this is uh if you take a look at
45:56 the documents this is our very smallest
45:58 charter school only has about 135 students currently um they’re
46:02 looking at adding um a few classrooms that
46:05 will still be uh the smallest charter school in the county and
46:08 to be honest i i appreciate your efforts and
46:12 and and i to not conflate the two because the the enrollment
46:15 things that we’re challenge that we’re
46:17 dealing with are kind of sideways correlated with some of our
46:20 charter school growth but not always
46:23 directly in fact especially in the south area the county where
46:26 you and i live frequently the charter schools
46:29 that have that have been planted have actually uh provided some
46:34 uh release for growing population when we
46:37 could not build uh fast enough or inexpensively enough and
46:40 charter schools actually took some of
46:42 some of the pressure off especially in the meadow lane area
46:44 which is this school it’s very close to
46:46 so you know brevard we actually work in pretty good partnership
46:50 with our charter schools
46:52 and um this is one that i don’t get a lot of phone calls and
46:55 emails i can probably tell you in my seven
46:58 and a half years on the board i’ve probably gotten one email or
47:00 phone call about this charter school and
47:01 that’s a good sign that means parents are happy with the
47:04 education receiving it’s a different it’s a
47:05 Montessori program it’s a different it’s that’s that’s what
47:08 choice is about parents getting a
47:09 different environment so i hear your concern but just so you
47:12 know this is a pretty small expansion
47:14 of a pretty small school that um and who is doing good work in
47:18 the west melbourne area so um i’m going
47:21 to keep an eye on it happy to have more conversation with you
47:23 after the meeting thank you
47:27 all good all right paul roll call please ms campbell hi mr susan
47:33 hi that’s right mr trance hi we’ll
47:36 now hold a public meeting on textbook adoption k-12 english
47:39 language arts and 7 through 12 intensive
47:42 reading we will in accordance with the law florida law accept
47:45 public comments paul please call the first
47:47 speaker this is open yeah i know any speakers second call any
47:53 other speakers all right is there anyone
47:56 present wishes to address these items hearing none do i have a
48:00 motion any discussion i i just want to
48:05 thank the ela curriculum team over there i i had the uh spent
48:08 the better part of last week going through
48:11 all these ela documents in case they they came up or there was
48:15 concerns or any kind of emails i’ve got
48:17 none and it’s just again to the team over in the curriculum
48:20 department you guys are doing an amazing
48:22 job obviously and and vetting some good curriculum that’s going
48:24 to go before our students so thank you
48:26 for your hard work there all right paul roll call please ms campbell
48:32 hi mr susan hi that’s right
48:35 hi mr trance hi dr undelli please let us know about the items
48:38 under the action portion of today’s agenda
48:40 i think mr chair there are no action items there are also no
48:43 information items so you can move
48:44 straight to board member recognitions and all right thank you
48:47 anybody have any uh board member
48:50 recognitions they want to talk about miss campbell go first so i
48:55 wanted to thank supervisor of
48:58 elections tim bobanic for the most recent your vote is your
49:02 voice assembly that he held at melhi it was a
49:06 a great uh opportunity and um he motivated the students with
49:11 real life examples of why they
49:13 want to especially vote in their local elections might have had
49:17 to do with cell phones um but
49:19 i appreciated that uh a few saturdays ago i attended dr rundell
49:25 was there as well the junior achievement
49:28 business hall of fame and uh there were some i won’t i’m not
49:32 going to they have some new awards they have a student of the
49:35 year which
49:36 i am hoping that um we can get gcr to recognize um at a future
49:39 meeting of a student from heritage and then
49:41 also a volunteer of the year for their organization which is uh
49:44 kind of a supports the the schools that
49:47 they are their own organization but i think that’s worth
49:49 recognizing but i also i wanted to particularly
49:51 recognize the two inductees into the business hall of fame um
49:55 frequently the business hall of fame
49:58 inductees aren’t necessarily they’re they’re just they have
50:01 contributed to the business of our county and to the success of
50:04 our county but these two
50:05 inductees this year have special relationships with our school
50:09 district one is keith winston who is the
50:11 executive director of the zoo brevard zoo and obviously we’ve
50:15 had great partnerships with them
50:17 through the year and we’ll continue to have partnerships
50:19 especially as the aquarium um moves forward
50:22 and the other one is uh kendall moore who has been um someone
50:26 that has brought counsel to our
50:29 superintendents in the past and to board members in the past and
50:32 he is a product of brevard public schools
50:35 and so i just wanted to congratulate both of them keith winston
50:38 and kendall moore for their
50:39 um their recognition and their induction into the business hall
50:42 of fame for junior achievement
50:43 oh saturday this last saturday were the three all-county
50:47 concerts they were amazing one of my favorite
50:50 days of the year and i just wanted to give a special shout out
50:53 to the middle school choir because that was
50:56 probably the best middle school choir performance that i’ve that
50:59 i’ve ever seen it was just and it had a
51:01 lot to do with who they had as a guest clinician but they were
51:03 they were just truly outstanding it’s not just
51:05 because i was a middle school choir teacher they really truly
51:08 were outstanding and it was one of my
51:10 favorites of the day as a report i wanted to give you guys an
51:14 update you know i went to fsba day in the
51:17 legislature last week so i wanted to give you just report back
51:20 on that i was able to meet with all seven
51:24 members of our delegation senator wright had a meeting at the
51:27 time of my meeting so i talked with his staff
51:29 but then when we got done we sat and chatted like he always is
51:32 so kind to do i wanted to publicly thank
51:35 all seven members of our delegation because anytime i’ve gone to
51:38 tallahassee their doors are open their
51:40 ears are open they are listening to our concerns they ask
51:44 questions back of me of what what what do we
51:47 need what what do i see is the problem with what we’re asking
51:49 for example i was talking to um senator
51:52 mayfield about attendance you know we want to give districts
51:54 more flexibility so we can start
51:56 getting on when students are chronically absent we can start
51:59 earlier than the 10 days mandated by
52:01 state our hands are tied until then and so she asked me you know
52:04 my thoughts on what what is causing this
52:06 and so i just appreciate those questions back uh just to give
52:09 you an update in the first week of session the
52:12 senate passed senate bill 318 which is related to the
52:15 educational scholarship programs i very much
52:18 appreciate senator gates leadership on this they passed it
52:21 unanimously in a bipartisan way all all of
52:23 the members of the senate passed this and what this will do is
52:27 it will address the findings in the auditor
52:30 general report auditor general’s report from last fall that
52:34 listed out the problems and recommendations
52:37 for for for shoring up the system that is causing school
52:41 districts to lose money because the numbers
52:44 are not reporting reported accurately it’s causing private
52:47 schools also to lose money parents to be
52:49 left out in the cold and so um it establishes uh it there is
52:53 basically asking to pull all of the family
52:57 empowerment scholarships out of the feip feip to be its own
53:00 categorical like i said the senate’s already
53:03 passed it the house is not moving on it but it is uh my
53:05 understanding from the conversations that we had
53:08 that it’ll probably be part of negotiations when we get close to
53:10 the end so that is good news and
53:12 um i made sure i let all of our house members know hey we would
53:15 really like this because this helps
53:17 districts it also helps the families it also helps the private
53:20 schools if we can we can shore this up
53:22 and uh and define it right so it’s fair the money is fairly
53:27 distributed also had good conversations with
53:29 all of them about schools of hope made sure they understood the
53:32 implications of schools of hope if
53:34 we were to have one here in brevard our security issues which we
53:37 have all expressed concerns with
53:40 of trying to secure a campus with two schools two sets of rules
53:43 possibly two different calendars
53:44 as well as our concerns about code of conduct issues if we don’t
53:49 if they don’t have to follow
53:50 our code of conduct i also shared some of the financial things
53:53 when it had to do with transportation
53:55 and feeding students and the calendar issue and so they were all
53:58 appreciative of that information and
54:01 i think there are some things moving also on attendance on the
54:05 house side with our representative
54:07 tribulsi there’s piece of language in her house bill 1071 that
54:11 talks about giving school districts
54:13 that flexibility and so i talked to our senators about hey
54:15 please look at that um there i also was
54:19 able to talk with them about our brevard specific requests
54:22 appropriations requests for the firefighting
54:24 academy at coco as well as the adult ed program so please
54:29 continue to follow on the florida channel
54:33 if you want to see what they’re up to and just get updates so we
54:37 can call them in between because
54:38 a lot of things are going to happen between now and our next
54:40 board meeting they’re getting closer and
54:41 closer to the end of session there also will likely be a special
54:46 session about the property tax reform
54:51 but it looks like and of course no telling what will happen but
54:55 it looks like the majority of the bills
54:57 are that are moving forward would exempt public school taxes to
55:04 maintain a stable base for education
55:07 funding in the state of florida so more on that as uh as we move
55:14 forward i think that this week tomorrow
55:16 maybe it’s brevard day at the capitol not able to make that one
55:19 but it’s coming up soon and i know
55:20 they’re going to be uh representing us well and i think dr rendell
55:23 is heading up there um in the very
55:26 near future so anything that we want to share uh with them as
55:29 they get into the next round i’m sure he’d be
55:32 happy to take our message forward thank you mr chair
55:37 all right so as we all know last week was literacy week in our
55:41 schools and i had the uh the pleasure to
55:44 join uh congressman herodopoulos at delora we were out of town
55:49 so i i filled in there and and he spoke to
55:52 uh a group of middle schoolers in in the library and you know
55:55 just like we had mentioned uh uh being
55:59 up at space coast and how comfortable uh congressman herodopoulos
56:02 is in front of our our students it’s
56:05 the same uh when he’s talking about cte or just uh life in
56:09 general he is a former teacher and um has
56:13 written many books and he is he’s that’s his comfort level is
56:16 being in front of our students or any
56:18 students and it’s just uh it was a pleasure to watch uh he
56:22 interacted so well with those kids uh they were
56:24 asking questions back and forth uh many of it was just uh had
56:29 nothing had to do with literacy on some
56:31 of them but it was they were really good when you get when you
56:33 get 10 12 uh 12 year old 13 year old
56:36 kids asking questions he just answered them all and they had to
56:39 uh they had to pull them off the uh off
56:41 the stage basically because he could sit there all day long
56:44 talking to these kids so uh it was uh
56:45 it was a pleasure being there and then uh we always uh you know
56:49 mention things that we have done but
56:51 you know some of the times we mentioned things that we’re going
56:53 to do and this week we’re going to
56:54 have a groundbreaking on our uh gardendale separate day school
56:58 uh so if you had that on your list
57:00 you can take you do you can take that off there so that’s going
57:03 to be on the grounds of uh kennedy
57:05 uh middle school here uh locally and it’s a special time this is
57:10 a school that’s uh uh you know we’re being able to
57:14 build for our most severe uh students in need uh with
57:19 disabilities and uh we’re going to give these
57:23 students everything we could possibly have so they can have uh
57:27 success uh and whatever they they do in
57:29 the future so it’s an exciting time you might have already
57:32 driven by and seeing that uh there is
57:34 ground uh breaking started but we’re officially going to do it
57:37 this week so we’re excited to have that
57:39 uh as a project here in brevard so yeah it is so we’ll we’ll we’ll
57:47 have that but we want to keep
57:49 that net houses what about 100 students or so and it’s it’s
57:52 centrally located now so it’s going to be
57:54 easily accessible from the north and the south so they had a lot
57:57 to do with that so we’re we’re very
57:58 excited about that project so it’ll be good mr chair thank you
58:03 all right well i’m going to go next
58:05 um i’m going to talk about the gardendale the separate day
58:08 school um but i’ll wait and do that
58:10 at the end i want to thank sue hand and the facilities
58:12 department uh this week we had the great polar blast
58:16 of florida that has never happened before so uh there’s a lot of
58:19 challenges and i i laugh she said she
58:20 sang a song last christmas a christmas carol of all the
58:23 different things that happen in facilities
58:25 well one of them i bet you’re not banking on in florida is
58:27 frozen pipes or boilers not working
58:29 to provide heat because it’s been so cold so thank you for the
58:32 teams that are out there making sure
58:33 that our classrooms are up and running i know that that was a
58:35 little bit of a challenge still is a bit
58:36 of a challenge when you’re maintaining as many facilities as we
58:39 are but we see you we recognize
58:40 the hard work your team is doing and we thank you for all of all
58:43 of the work that you’re putting in
58:45 around the clock um i’m going to talk also about the separate
58:48 day school because i think something that’s very
58:49 very very very unique for this board uh is that just today we
58:53 passed that we are going to allocate
58:55 the educational impact fees from the north and the south there’s
58:59 always this misconception in the
59:01 community that oh you know vera is getting all of our tax
59:03 dollars for no offense matt but that’s what
59:05 everybody always says like our schools aren’t getting repairs
59:07 because beer is getting the best schools
59:09 everyone says that that’s just the way it is but uh this is
59:12 really showing a unified effort from our
59:15 entire county from the north to the south to invest our funds
59:18 our educational impact funds into a school
59:21 that is going to serve our most vulnerable population one of the
59:24 things i am extremely extremely proud of
59:26 this board for doing is that we were able to build the middle
59:29 school debt-free we are on track to build
59:30 this school debt-free that’s huge in this day and age so so
59:34 thank you so much um to the committee there
59:36 that made the recommendation to allocate those funds that’s a
59:39 huge commitment and again this serves all of
59:40 brevard county so we’re extremely grateful there i already
59:44 touched on uh congressman herodopoulos
59:45 and thanking him for the appropriation at space coast um and
59:49 then the other thing i’m like matt are you
59:51 going to do teacher of the year somebody has to do teacher of
59:53 the year but okay all right i’m like we
59:55 have to acknowledge that our teacher i know well you go last and
59:58 then by the time you get there
59:59 no no no no no no no no no no go go go go go go go all right all
1:00:03 right well i’ll acknowledge our
1:00:04 teacher of the year event so that is always just a fun kind of
1:00:08 uh red carpet celebration and
1:00:10 and really it’s a fill your cup up evening and so when we listen
1:00:13 to our teachers come and talk about
1:00:15 why teaching is special to them what they love about it uh it
1:00:18 just reminds everyone this is the
1:00:20 mission this is the why so to michelle heinous thank you so much
1:00:22 for all you do you are our teacher of
1:00:24 the year we are extremely proud of you uh and this board is
1:00:26 cheering you on and cannot wait to see the
1:00:28 amazing things that you do in the future and that is all that i
1:00:30 have thank you miss wright i wanted to
1:00:32 uh just say thank you to miss hand um so i wanted to officially
1:00:37 give you the polar bear award for what
1:00:39 you did um and your staff but i couldn’t get you to grab them to
1:00:43 come to this one so i’d like to do it
1:00:45 at the next board meeting and talk about because we were getting
1:00:48 text updates before school started
1:00:49 from you telling us which schools were opening which schools
1:00:52 weren’t and stuff like that in the in the
1:00:54 the amount of coordination that went into that the amount of
1:00:58 push that the members of the families
1:01:01 were able to get out of their families come to work get those
1:01:04 things taken care of we don’t even
1:01:05 fathom up here because we don’t know the work that you did so i
1:01:09 would love to have your polar bear club
1:01:11 come and tell us a little bit of fun stuff about it because what
1:01:14 you did was everything short of
1:01:16 amazing so i wanted to say thank you to that and your team
1:01:18 because you know you never give credit to
1:01:20 yourself you always try to give it to the team so i want to say
1:01:22 thank you miss hand i also want to
1:01:24 say thank you to uh congressman herodopoulos for the two million
1:01:29 dollar um program i i taught at space
1:01:31 coast for six years and i was never more proud of a cte program
1:01:35 than that one because the backbone of the
1:01:37 space industry’s workforce is at is in port st john and being
1:01:42 the fact that i taught there for six
1:01:44 years i knew a lot of the families um there are families in titusville
1:01:47 yes they are that is also
1:01:48 a backbone they have space mechatronics and some other things
1:01:50 but i think setting up that direct
1:01:52 pipe to kennedy space center through that program is going to be
1:01:55 everything short of amazing and it’s
1:01:56 something that generationally we will look back and find that
1:02:00 parents who are working out at the space
1:02:02 center are encouraging their children to stay and work out at
1:02:04 the space center through that program
1:02:06 that is what we do the best is is generational occupancy of
1:02:10 these workforce so i wanted to say thank
1:02:12 you to senator around maybe one maybe one day congressman herodopoulos
1:02:16 i also wanted to talk
1:02:18 about the separate day school i was on the phone with some of
1:02:20 the contractors um some of the stuff
1:02:22 yesterday just making sure everything’s going to be on pace
1:02:24 looks like it’s going to be like a december
1:02:26 1st like uh open and then not officially until january 1st and
1:02:30 there’s a whole bunch of rollout and stuff
1:02:32 like that but what i would like to do is speak to them about
1:02:35 having some of the students with disabilities
1:02:37 families start to see it ahead of time so they can understand it
1:02:40 i’d also like there is a huge um
1:02:42 amount of students with disabilities families that are out there
1:02:46 that would really love to see us
1:02:47 moving in this direction and i think that that behooves us to
1:02:50 allow them to come see it also
1:02:51 so that they can see that the direction that we’re going and um
1:02:54 you you had spoken before about the
1:02:56 first time this has ever happened with north and south um impact
1:02:59 fees it’s because we’re servicing the
1:03:01 entire county and it’s awesome and i think that um being centrally
1:03:04 located we were talking about a lot
1:03:06 of the factors i mean you can get to kennedy off of 95 in less
1:03:09 than five minutes and so when you talk
1:03:11 about a county that’s 72 miles long to be able to move that way
1:03:14 is is pretty incredible um and that’s
1:03:17 pretty much all i have so thank you very much does anybody else
1:03:19 have anything dr rendell
1:03:20 thank you mr chair yeah i want to follow up a little bit on the
1:03:23 teacher of the year celebration so
1:03:25 thank you to janice kershaw and the education foundation for
1:03:28 throwing such a great celebration
1:03:31 it was last tuesday at the radisson at the port all of our
1:03:34 teachers of the year were recognized and
1:03:35 honored it was really a great event michelle hannes the teacher
1:03:39 from melbourne high school she’s a
1:03:41 english for speakers of other language teacher she’s an esau
1:03:45 teacher so she works with
1:03:46 students who are new to america and new to our country and new
1:03:50 to the english language and she does a
1:03:52 phenomenal job of helping them learn the english language and be
1:03:55 acclimated into our schools and
1:03:57 be successful so a really uh worthy choice all six of the finals
1:04:02 were awesome any one of them could
1:04:03 have been teacher of the year and we would have been very proud
1:04:07 but michelle is doing a fantastic job i
1:04:09 do want to shout out two of the sponsors for the event a
1:04:12 community credit union is one of our best most
1:04:15 reliable sponsors and they were the keynote sponsor keys
1:04:19 platinum sponsor whatever the big sponsor for the
1:04:21 event we wouldn’t have the event without them and they’re always
1:04:24 coming to our aid whenever we need
1:04:25 some support and so thank you to community credit union but also
1:04:30 uh starling automotive group they
1:04:32 are new to brevard county they took over some dealerships up in
1:04:35 titusville and so they have provided
1:04:37 michelle with a new car for a year one of the other local
1:04:40 automotive dealerships was supposed to do
1:04:43 that and they backed out the last minute and starling did not
1:04:46 hesitate to come in as a new community
1:04:49 partner and provide that they also donated a brand new f-150 to
1:04:53 the tiesville high automotive program
1:04:55 a couple weeks ago so the students at the tiesville high
1:04:58 automotive program are going to be working on
1:05:00 brand new vehicle getting them ready for a career in the
1:05:04 automotive service industry they’re not working
1:05:06 on old hobby cars they are working on brand new vehicles and
1:05:10 doing the diagnostics and things they would do
1:05:12 in the dealership so we appreciate the support from the starling
1:05:16 automotive group and community credit union
1:05:19 and again congratulations to michelle hannes our teacher of the
1:05:21 year thanks thank you dr rindell
1:05:24 will anybody else have anything all right we’re going to take a
1:05:36 brief recess
1:05:38 you
1:05:54 we’re going to take a brief recess