Updates on the Fight for Quality Public Education in Brevard County, FL
0:00 Thank you.
11:59 Let’s take this opportunity to remind the public that the
12:01 appropriate place for public participation
12:03 in the meeting is during your individual public comment
12:06 opportunity as identified on the agenda.
12:08 Outside of your individual public comment opportunity, your role
12:11 in the meeting is as an observer.
12:14 Paul, roll call, please.
12:15 Mr. Susan?
12:16 Here.
12:16 Ms. Wright?
12:17 Here.
12:17 Mr. Tomins?
12:18 Here.
12:18 Ms. Campbell?
12:19 Here.
12:19 Mr. Trent?
12:20 Here.
12:20 At this time, the board would like to hold a moment of silence.
12:23 I invite the audience to join.
12:44 Thank you.
12:48 Please rise for the Pledge of Allegiance.
12:50 I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America
12:58 and to the republic for
13:00 which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with
13:03 liberty and justice for all.
13:05 That brings us to the adoption of the agenda.
13:12 Dr. Rindell?
13:14 Thank you, Mr. Chair.
13:14 On this morning’s agenda, we have one proclamation, one
13:17 presentation, 41 consent items, and three
13:21 policy public hearing items.
13:24 Changes made to the agenda since it was released to the public
13:27 include the following.
13:28 Added were F-12 through F-17, revised F-9 and F-41.
13:33 Removed was F-18, F-19, termination of instructional employee.
13:39 Do I have a motion?
13:40 Second.
13:43 Anything to discuss?
13:45 Paul Rocco, please.
13:48 Mr. Thomas?
13:48 Aye.
13:49 Ms. Campbell?
13:49 Aye.
13:50 Mr. Susan?
13:51 Aye.
13:51 Ms. Wright?
13:52 Aye.
13:53 Mr. Trent?
13:53 Aye.
13:54 Please welcome Ms. Yvette Cruz to the podium to read the Bleeding
14:00 Disorders Month Proclamation.
14:11 Whereas considered rare bleeding disorders that include hemophilia,
14:15 von Willebrand disease and
14:17 rare bleeding disorders are characterized by blood not clotting
14:20 normally due to the lack
14:21 of clotting proteins, also known as clotting factors.
14:24 And whereas in the United States, more than 20,000 individuals
14:28 live with hemophilia and rare
14:30 bleeding disorders, with 6,000 of them living in the state of
14:33 Florida.
14:34 And one to 2% of the American population who have von Willebrand
14:38 disease.
14:39 And while treatment can help, the conditions are not curable.
14:42 And whereas symptoms of a bleeding disorder include unexplained
14:45 and excessive bleeding, larger
14:48 deep rooting, nosebleeds and bleeding into joints, muscles and
14:51 soft tissues.
14:52 And if someone has a bleeding disorder, they may have extended
14:55 bleeding with incidences such
14:57 as injury or trauma, menstruation, surgery or dental procedures.
15:01 And whereas the Bleeding Disorder Foundation of Florida, founded
15:05 in 1996, supports the bleeding
15:07 disorder community throughout the state.
15:10 And its mission to improve the quality of life for people with a
15:13 condition and their families,
15:15 their education, information and referral services, advocacy,
15:19 support and research.
15:21 And annually, the organization hosts 5K and other events
15:25 throughout Florida to bring awareness
15:28 to the community and needed funding for research and support
15:31 services.
15:33 Now, therefore, it would be a result that the Brevard Public
15:35 School Board does hereby proclaim the month
15:38 of March, 2026, as Bleeding Disorders Awareness Month, a time to
15:43 encourage all citizens to increase
15:45 their understanding and awareness of these serious bleeding
15:48 disorders and thank the efforts
15:50 of health care professionals, the Bleeding Disorders Foundation
15:53 of Florida and the National Bleeding
15:55 Disorders Foundation organizations for their dedication and
15:58 their commitment to improve treatments
16:00 and ultimately a cure adopted by the members of the Brevard
16:04 Public School Board, Brevard County, Florida
16:06 at the regular board meeting there upheld the 10th of March, 2026.
16:11 Do I hear a motion?
16:12 Oh, whoa, whoa, whoa.
16:13 So sorry.
16:14 Go ahead.
16:14 I was going to wait.
16:15 Do you ever, do you, do I hear a motion?
16:17 No, Jim.
16:18 Second.
16:18 Any discussion?
16:19 All in favor, signify by saying aye.
16:22 Aye.
16:22 All right.
16:23 Now, go ahead.
16:24 That was a different type of roll call.
16:26 I did it.
16:26 Go ahead now.
16:28 So I’d like to invite Samantha Nazario up to the podium,
16:31 representing the Bleeding Disorder
16:33 Foundation of Florida.
16:34 Yay.
16:35 It’s ceremonial.
16:37 Good morning, board members, superintendent, and guests.
16:45 Ms. Sam, before you get started, I just want to take a second
16:48 and say thank you for all
16:49 of your service on the BIPOC committee, along with many of the
16:53 other things that you do for
16:55 our community down south.
16:56 I know that during COVID you worked really hard on doing a lot
16:58 of different stuff as far
17:00 as member of the food drives we did and everything else.
17:02 You deserve credit for that before we go.
17:04 Today is about this ceremony, but you deserve something else.
17:06 So I just want to say thank you for that before we get started.
17:08 Thank you, Matt.
17:08 I appreciate that.
17:09 Good morning.
17:12 I’m Samantha Nazario.
17:13 I stand here today as a mother, a resident of this community,
17:17 and the 2022 National Advocate
17:19 of the Year.
17:20 I represent the Bleeding Disorder Foundation of Florida, the
17:23 National Bleeding Disorder Foundation,
17:25 our Familia de Sangre, and 120 other illnesses that stand here
17:29 with me today.
17:31 March, 2026 marks two milestones, the 10th anniversary of
17:35 National Bleeding Disorder Awareness
17:37 and our sixth year of a historic partnership with BPS.
17:41 As the first in the nation to recognize our cause, you did not
17:45 just pass a resolution, you ignited
17:48 a movement.
17:48 When my son Tyler was diagnosed at age six with von Willebrand
17:52 disease, our lives changed forever.
17:54 We handle medicine costing $15,000 per dose.
17:59 Because specialized care is rare, Tyler’s Treatment Center is
18:02 over two and a half hours away.
18:04 We keep three treatments on hand just to safely pull off the
18:08 driveway.
18:09 The average cost for a patient like Tyler is anywhere from $300,000
18:14 to $1 million per year.
18:16 The literal distance separating my son from life-saving
18:20 treatment is two and a half hours.
18:22 We don’t just survive, we thrive.
18:26 Tyler is a proud BPS alumni and was honored as the first-ever
18:30 Hispanic Heritage Alumni Spotlight
18:32 in partnership with many people on this board.
18:35 He is also the creator of Team Tyler, which has raised over $75,000
18:40 for the Hemophilia Foundation,
18:42 of which 89 cents on the dollar goes back directly to patient
18:46 care.
18:47 As a national advocate, he spent his 2024 spring bake from
18:51 Eastern Florida State College in Tallahassee
18:53 securing support from Senator Mayfield for the Co-Pay Accumulator
18:57 Act.
18:57 His work helped lead a historic moment where Congressman Bill
19:01 Posey stood as the only Republican
19:03 signature to sign the Quill to Congress discharge petition with
19:08 218 names to enforce the Affordable
19:10 Care Act before his retirement.
19:12 This county has a history of crossing party lines for what is
19:16 best for our children.
19:18 This isn’t just one dose.
19:20 It’s about a financial crisis.
19:22 Look at the rising insurance premiums we’re all seeing.
19:26 This isn’t just about red or blue.
19:30 Whether you’re a Republican or a Democrat, we all have blood and
19:34 we all need blood.
19:35 And we all need our blood supply to be safe locally.
19:39 The crisis is urgent in April of twenty twenty five.
19:42 The CDC was dismantled over forty three hundred jobs were lost
19:47 in the blood division alone.
19:48 Our country stands with only two people to observe and protect
19:51 our nation’s blood supply.
19:53 This also hosted over 383 clinical trials, leaving over seventy
20:00 five thousand patients and two decades
20:02 of research in the dark that that is more there’s more people
20:07 than the seventy one thousand students
20:09 you service in Bavard County school districts.
20:11 We cannot go backward.
20:13 We must honor the ten thousand lives lost to contaminated blood
20:17 that led to the Ricky Ray Act.
20:19 And always remember the Ryan White Act and the thirty thousand
20:22 dollars, thirty thousand Americans
20:25 who died because of our lack of resources and protections.
20:28 Thank you, BPS, for leading the way in this fight and we
20:31 appreciate you very much.
20:33 Yeah.
20:34 Thank you.
20:35 Thank you, Miss Samantha.
20:36 Can we get a picture with you?
20:39 Let’s go down there and get a picture with her.
20:42 Just going to denote that the red and green is Italian colors.
20:47 Thank you.
20:48 That somebody with a white shirt can stand in between.
26:50 That a white shirt can stand in between.
26:51 That somebody with a white shirt can stand in between.
33:34 And that was not at the building level.
33:36 At the school building level.
33:37 There were some small reductions in par.
33:39 But we typically see those every year anyway.
33:42 Yeah.
33:43 Thank you.
33:44 So Dr. Rendell, thank you so much.
33:46 Again, and applaud you for bringing forward.
33:49 Something that is going to reduce costs.
33:52 And I applaud you for cutting the budget from this district.
33:55 From the district headquarters.
33:56 Because everybody always says that.
33:57 If there’s a way that the board members can get the overall plan.
34:01 You know what I mean?
34:02 So that we know ahead of time.
34:04 The other thing is, is that, you know.
34:06 We all deal with the chatter online.
34:08 Of all the social media that tells people things that aren’t
34:10 true.
34:11 And you know what I mean?
34:13 That’s why it’s called fake book.
34:14 And other things that we understand.
34:16 So anybody that’s listening out there.
34:18 Please wait until the school board meeting.
34:20 To figure out exactly what the truth is behind things.
34:22 Because there’s a lot of false accusations out there.
34:26 So with that, everybody good on this?
34:28 All right.
34:29 Thank you so much.
34:30 Thank you, Mr. Chair.
34:31 I’m going to roll into some stuff now.
34:40 We’re now on to the public comments portion of our meeting.
34:43 We’ll have.
34:44 Are we still at three?
34:45 Two.
34:47 Two public speakers.
34:48 Each will receive three minutes.
34:49 Our attorney will call the speakers in the order which they’re
34:52 signed up.
34:52 To speak, Mr. Gibbs, please call the first two speakers.
34:56 Mark Levine and Bernard Bryan.
34:57 Mark Levine: Good morning, Mr. Superintendent, members of the
35:06 board.
35:08 My name is Mark Levine.
35:09 I’m with the firm of Levine and Stivers in Tallahassee.
35:21 And I’m here on behalf of your agenda item regarding the Dan
35:26 Bennett and his, the superintendent’s request to relieve him
35:34 without pay during dependency of a termination hearing at the
35:37 end of the month.
35:38 Your comments about social media, Mr. Chair, absolutely
35:42 appropriate.
35:43 Social media is out of control.
35:45 And I hate the fact that you guys have to deal with it.
35:48 But I hate the fact that anybody has to deal with it.
35:51 So, let me suggest to you this, which should be helpful.
35:56 The Department of Children and Families has cleared Mr. Bennett.
35:59 And as of 4:30 yesterday, the Sheriff’s Department in Brevard
36:03 County has cleared Mr. Bennett.
36:06 I was with the detective personally with Mr. Bennett.
36:09 And they announced they were closing their file.
36:12 I’m quite disturbed by this press release.
36:17 I presume each of you have seen it.
36:19 It’s about half a page that went out.
36:21 I don’t know why it went out.
36:24 This whole incident has not been discussed publicly, nor has it
36:28 been ramrodded around through the district.
36:32 This just generates more concern, more publicity, more comment,
36:36 particularly on social media.
36:39 Plus, the press release is absolutely inaccurate.
36:44 It says specifically that two students engaged in oral sex while
36:49 Mr. Bennett was under their care.
36:52 That is not true.
36:54 The Sheriff’s Department confirmed that there are varying
36:58 stories about what occurred.
37:00 The seriousness of the event, they cite to Mr. Bennett being the
37:05 past president of BFT, which is true.
37:08 And for those of you who were on the board when Mr. Bennett was
37:10 president, you will remember that he was very instrumental in
37:14 helping this board and the union come together on a number of
37:18 important issues.
37:20 To bring this out about Mr. Bennett is just another strike at
37:24 the union.
37:25 It’s uncalled for and it’s just pushing the program of the
37:27 commissioner of education and the governor to do anything to
37:31 criticize union and move forward to make public education
37:37 private schools.
37:39 So, the press release is inadequate.
37:42 Whoever put this out ought to be ashamed of themselves.
37:45 They ought to be ashamed of themselves because they embarrass a
37:48 32-year employee with no discipline, his family, his children,
37:53 and they put this out when there’s no reason to do so.
37:56 Now, if the superintendent wants him suspended while we go to a
37:59 hearing, because I can tell you where we’re going, we’re signed
38:02 up for this one, then they ought to do it.
38:05 And you ought to consider that at the end of the month on March
38:08 31st when you consider the termination recommendation.
38:12 If you want to punish Dan and continue to punish him while this
38:20 is pending, then go ahead and put him on leave without pay.
38:23 No reason.
38:24 Thank you.
38:25 Thank you, Mr. Levine.
38:26 Mr. Bryant.
38:27 Good morning, Board.
38:28 Dr. Rendell.
38:29 Again, my name is Bernard Bryant, and I represent the South
38:30 Board Branch of the NAWCP as well as a concerned citizen.
38:32 I just want to say a couple of things.
38:39 Looking at your administrative recommendation, I just want to
38:40 publicly thank Ms. Bowman.
38:41 And I’ve heard that she’s retiring.
38:42 And Ms. Bowman has done a fantastic job engaging the community.
38:42 That’s kind of how I got started.
38:43 So I just want to personally thank Ms. Bowman.
38:48 She got the community together talking about educational issues.
38:49 And I’m going to thank you for the time.
38:50 I’m going to thank you for the time.
39:02 I’ve heard that she’s retiring.
39:04 And Ms. Bowman has done a fantastic job engaging the community.
39:08 It’s kind of how I got started.
39:10 So I just want to personally thank her.
39:12 She got the community together talking about educational issues.
39:17 And she deserves a lot of credit for that.
39:20 And I would also like to give a big shout out to Ms. Sue Hand.
39:26 You guys said that she has a lot of credibility.
39:29 You know, we trust her.
39:31 You know, we consider her our family a little bit.
39:34 So I’m her adopted brother.
39:36 And we just pray that she can handle all this workload
39:39 and that she can stay healthy during this time.
39:43 But I want to have a shout out.
39:45 This past week, last week, I visited University Park Early
39:49 Education Program.
39:51 And I did a walkthrough with Ms. Myers, Ms. Barlow, as well as
39:57 Ms. McDonough.
39:59 I was so impressed with what I saw with the early learning
40:03 classes.
40:04 Those kids were engaged.
40:06 The team was so professional.
40:08 When I saw those kids, they came running to me, hugging me.
40:11 I went hugging them.
40:13 In my mind, I said, why don’t every child in Brevard County have
40:17 that early learning opportunity?
40:19 So that’s my plea with you today.
40:22 You know, we looked at your millage taxes.
40:25 Is there any opportunity to move some of that bucket to help in
40:29 the canvassing area?
40:30 Are there any opportunity to really boost the advertisement in
40:35 those marginalized communities?
40:37 So I just want to – I want to say beg this board to really put
40:41 all the resources you can.
40:44 When I saw those kids’ faces, it was like, oh, my God, Brevard
40:50 Public School has the best early learning program.
40:54 And I was so proud to be there with Ms. McDonough and the team.
40:59 And I just want to see what we can do to canvass more, advertise
41:03 more.
41:04 I’ve been passing our flyers personally.
41:07 But every child needs to experience that, no matter what side of
41:12 the track you live on, no matter what your finances are.
41:17 So I just hope that we heard our heads on that.
41:21 You know, we want to partner with you.
41:23 If you need me to pass our flyer, call me out.
41:25 I would do that.
41:26 This is where it all begins.
41:28 Kindergarten readiness is where the gap’s going to close.
41:34 And looking at the marginalized areas, there are a lot more
41:37 opportunities to engage every child.
41:39 Thank you, Mr. Bryan.
41:44 That concludes the agenda.
41:45 Items only for public comments.
41:46 We thank you for taking time out of your schedule to address the
41:49 board with your concerns and suggestions.
41:50 I would like to remind the public that the board is accessible
41:53 for further conversations outside of our business meeting
41:55 through scheduling a meeting.
41:56 We’re now on to the consent agenda.
41:58 Dr. Rendell.
41:59 Thank you, Mr. Chair.
42:00 There are 41 items on the agenda under this category.
42:02 Thank you, Dr. Rendell.
42:03 Does any board member wish to pull any of these items?
42:05 Mr. Chair.
42:06 Yes, sir.
42:07 I’d like to pull item 18, suspension of instructional employee.
42:10 Okay.
42:11 Anybody else?
42:13 All right.
42:15 With – I’ll now entertain a motion to accept the consent agenda
42:21 for tonight’s agenda,
42:23 minus the number 18.
42:26 Would anybody else like to pull an item?
42:28 No?
42:29 Minus the 18.
42:31 Right.
42:32 Okay.
42:33 Got to get a second some more?
42:34 Second.
42:35 All right.
42:36 All those – Paul, you want to roll call, please?
42:38 Mr. Thomas?
42:39 Aye.
42:40 Ms. Campbell?
42:41 Aye.
42:42 Mr. Susan?
42:43 Aye.
42:44 Ms. Wright?
42:45 Aye.
42:46 Mr. Thomas?
42:47 Aye.
42:49 All right.
42:50 Mr. Thomas, you have number 18.
42:51 We need a motion and a second.
42:52 Move to approve.
42:53 Aye.
42:54 What’s the motion?
42:55 Oh.
42:56 Move to approve this – number 18 is suspension of instructional
42:59 employee.
43:00 Second.
43:01 You have to second it to have the conversation.
43:05 All right.
43:06 I’ll second for conversation.
43:07 Yep.
43:08 Here we go.
43:09 Your floor, sir.
43:10 Okay.
43:11 Thank you.
43:12 Yeah, so I would like to postpone this item or at least discuss
43:19 it today.
43:21 Though I in no way condone the alleged inaction of our teachers
43:25 and staff that were involved
43:29 in this incident if that actually occurred.
43:31 I just want to ensure that we have all the facts and make sure
43:34 the due process is, you know,
43:37 taken into account and all rights are protected on the student
43:40 side and the teacher and staff
43:41 side.
43:42 And after reviewing the investigation, I think it would be prudent
43:46 for us to make sure
43:47 that we have the DCF summary and obviously the final police
43:51 reports before we take any action
43:54 on this.
43:55 So I know this is only for suspension at the moment.
43:58 The other thing I’d like to, you know, I guess ask the
44:01 superintendent or bring to the board’s
44:03 consideration.
44:04 I don’t know if this is a board matter or if it’s appropriate,
44:06 but I know that currently
44:07 he is on unpaid leave and I just want to make sure that this,
44:10 how this teacher is being treated
44:13 until proven guilty is consistent with how we’ve taught, treated
44:17 other teachers that have
44:18 been arrested for him.
44:19 This teacher hasn’t even been arrested.
44:20 He’s been cleared to compare him by the BCSO.
44:21 So to make sure that this teacher is not getting unfairly penalized
44:26 before we are able to get
44:29 all the facts.
44:30 You had said that he was currently on unpaid leave.
44:36 That’s.
44:37 He’s currently paid.
44:38 Oh, he’s currently paid.
44:39 Okay.
44:40 I was under the understanding it was unpaid leave according.
44:41 Now it is.
44:42 This would be, that would be the motion that you’re doing.
44:44 I just wanted to make sure.
44:45 It said on February 25th, Mr. Daniel Bennett was placed on unpaid
44:47 leave from his position.
44:48 That’s what it says in our, in our, in our packet.
44:50 Okay.
44:51 And this is furthering the February 20.
44:53 Okay.
44:54 So my suggestion is, is I don’t, just for discussion purposes, I
44:56 think, and make sure that we’re
44:58 being consistent with other employees and teachers that, like I
45:01 said, no way condoned.
45:03 I don’t have all the facts yet.
45:04 So I’m not saying he should, you know, that he’s not, that we
45:07 shouldn’t move forward with
45:08 the process.
45:09 I just want to make sure we have all the facts.
45:10 And until we have all the facts, I want to make sure that we’re
45:12 consistent with how this
45:14 particular teacher is being treated.
45:16 That it’s consistent with other, other employees of, you know,
45:19 in a similar nature or worse.
45:21 Okay.
45:22 Mr. Trump.
45:25 I’m happy to go next, if you’d like.
45:27 Okay.
45:28 There you go.
45:29 I appreciate the, the due diligence that you want us to have.
45:33 I, I, you know, Mr. Levine does his job.
45:36 He does his job well.
45:37 His job is to defend a member of the union.
45:40 And every time that I’ve had him or any other person from the
45:43 union come before me,
45:45 and since I’ve been on the board, they, they do the same thing.
45:47 They emphasize the points that they feel like they need to
45:50 emphasize to defend their clients.
45:54 I will have to just, I just want to get our focus back on what
45:57 the focus is.
45:58 The things that Mr. Levine mentioned are not necessarily the
46:02 most important, at least for
46:03 me to, I think to the district, what the most egregious error
46:06 was, which has been admitted.
46:08 The non-reporting.
46:10 It is once something happens or you are told that something has
46:14 happened.
46:15 It is, it is not as, as a teacher or an IA or a custodian or a
46:20 cafeteria worker.
46:22 It is no longer in their realm of authority.
46:24 They must immediately report it to their supervisor.
46:27 Because that person is the one who is responsible for doing the
46:30 investigation.
46:31 For making sure that the, you know, the I’s are dotted and the T’s
46:34 are crossed.
46:35 The teachers don’t get to make that decision of whether they’re
46:39 going to report it or not.
46:40 If there is a, if there’s a concern, they think something might
46:42 have happened,
46:43 they have to take it to their supervisor.
46:45 And that is the thing.
46:47 That’s, that’s, that’s the law.
46:49 It’s our policy.
46:50 It is also the law.
46:51 And that’s what we’re looking at.
46:53 Regardless of what the sheriff might have said, DCF might have
46:56 said, those things have
46:58 not been reversed that I’m aware of.
47:00 And it certainly wasn’t mentioned this morning.
47:02 And if they had been, I think they would have, we would have
47:04 been told that.
47:05 I did have a question that will help me, help us, I think, make
47:09 this decision.
47:10 Paul, if we go to the hearing and a magistrate judge, whoever’s
47:16 in charge of it, decides that
47:17 we unfairly made even this, this decision, putting Mr. Bennett
47:22 on unpaid leave, there is recourse
47:26 for him to receive back pay if that decision is found in favor
47:29 of the employee.
47:30 Is that correct?
47:31 Right.
47:32 Yeah.
47:33 They wouldn’t really view this piece if he’s reinstated.
47:36 Reinstated.
47:37 If you move forward with the termination, as Mr. Levine
47:39 mentioned, is on the agenda for
47:41 the 31st, he would get back pay to the period.
47:45 I mean, the decision could be a suspension without pay for 20
47:49 days, 30 days, whatever it
47:51 is.
47:52 And then he would get back pay without the 30 days.
47:55 But yes, it would be, if he were to prevail at the hearing, he
47:59 would get back pay.
48:00 Okay.
48:01 That, that helps.
48:02 But I, I, your question is fair.
48:05 And if the superintendent willing to answer, or APSATF willing
48:08 to answer is, as far as what
48:10 we have done when we put people on paid leave versus paid leave,
48:13 you know, depending on the
48:14 situation, being consistent, that is a legitimate request that
48:17 it would be good to get answered
48:19 if we could.
48:20 Yeah, thank you, Mrs. Campbell.
48:25 We have put other employees on unpaid leave.
48:28 This is not the first time we’ve done that.
48:31 Several instances recently.
48:32 Okay.
48:33 Thank you.
48:35 So, my question is, I know that we’ve had teachers that have
48:39 been arrested on, I don’t
48:41 remember specific cases as far as paid or unpaid leave, but even
48:45 more egregious than probably,
48:47 than this incident, not saying that this is not, it could be
48:50 potentially egregious.
48:52 My concern is, is that there’s no doubt that a teacher, whether
48:56 this turned out to be unsubstantiated
48:58 by the report.
48:59 It doesn’t mean that the teacher did not have a duty to report,
49:02 even if it turned out to be
49:03 false.
49:04 Don’t dispute that at all.
49:05 I just want to make sure that we’re consistent with how this is
49:09 investigated and that both
49:10 the teacher and the students are protected.
49:14 I’d like to weigh in on this one.
49:16 Yes, ma’am.
49:17 Okay.
49:18 All right.
49:19 So, just for clarification purposes, teachers are mandatory
49:22 reporters.
49:23 That is a fact.
49:24 They are not mandatory reporters to their supervisor.
49:26 They’re mandatory reporters if they see something as far as they
49:28 can, they’re concerned for child
49:29 abuse, neglect, abandonment, or other misconduct that will
49:31 affect a student’s health.
49:32 They’re mandatory reporters to DCF.
49:35 And I’ve been very honest about this with my conversations with
49:40 Dr. Rendell and HR.
49:42 I spent quite a bit of time reading through the investigation
49:44 yesterday myself.
49:45 Is consistency in application.
49:47 I feel like that’s a very valid question.
49:49 There were other adults that were in the room when this alleged
49:51 incident took place.
49:52 Are we consistently applying fair discipline across the board?
49:56 So I have some concerns there as well.
49:59 I, in full transparency, I acknowledge my bias to this teacher.
50:03 This teacher taught my child and taught my child very well.
50:06 And so I know him and I am, you know, he’s an exceptional
50:09 educator and he does have a stellar record for 32 years.
50:13 It doesn’t take away the fact that he is still required as is
50:16 every other employee of our district to report anything that
50:21 they suspect when a child is potentially in danger.
50:24 So that part of it, I wrestle with the disconnect there.
50:28 Right now, the motion that stands on the floor is for us to
50:31 approve the superintendent’s recommendation.
50:34 And so obviously we’ll have to go through that motion.
50:37 Depending on how that motion comes out, I suspect the proper
50:40 protocol would be for an amended motion.
50:43 If it doesn’t pass, is that correct, Mr. Gibbs?
50:46 If it fails, then there will be no motion on the floor.
50:48 Somebody can make a motion.
50:49 Make another motion if there was needing to be a change.
50:51 You can also amend the current motion.
50:53 You can amend it for different pieces.
50:55 Yeah.
50:56 So, and I guess the, the, the issue I have is that the
50:59 investigation is not completed for all the other employees that
51:03 were present in the room.
51:04 Right?
51:05 So there, there is that, that does exist.
51:07 And so how do we pick one that we chose first that we’re going
51:11 to go ahead and investigate and then what about the others?
51:14 And so there is inconsistency there in my mind.
51:17 Um, but.
51:19 Would you like to make an amendment to the current?
51:21 Well, I can’t amend her motion.
51:22 She’d have to amend her motion.
51:23 You can.
51:24 Correct?
51:25 Can I amend her motion?
51:26 Yeah, you can.
51:27 You can make a motion to amend, but then it would have to be
51:29 approved by the board.
51:30 You would approve yours and then it would come back to it to
51:32 approve.
51:33 That’s the proper process.
51:34 That’s going to be.
51:35 Okay.
51:36 And then denying something and coming back.
51:37 All right.
51:38 So I, I’m going to make a motion to amend, I guess, Ms. Campbell’s,
51:42 uh, original motion to approve.
51:44 And just ask that this be pulled until the complete
51:47 investigation for all employees is done.
51:49 And it’s addressed at the same time.
51:51 I don’t think that works with this motion.
51:55 That’s, I would recommend you just make that motion separately.
52:00 Okay.
52:01 If you wanted to do that.
52:02 That’s what I was saying.
52:03 Like 30 hours to go.
52:04 That’s not really an amendment.
52:05 That’s just postponing the decision down the road.
52:08 Right.
52:09 Yeah.
52:10 Which would have to be.
52:11 Which is, which is fine.
52:12 But I would, I would take the vote on this.
52:14 It’s going to get messy.
52:15 Well, that’s what I was thinking.
52:16 That’s what I was saying.
52:17 Should we put hers at work?
52:18 I would recommend you.
52:19 Okay.
52:20 All right.
52:21 So I haven’t, yeah, again, just to summarize what I said.
52:24 I have issues with consistency of application.
52:26 And, um, I too was frustrated with that letter that got sent out.
52:29 I, I think it was, I understand the district’s position in this.
52:33 I understand it.
52:34 And I understand the union’s position in it.
52:35 And somewhere in between this, the board is caught, right?
52:37 Cause we’re the ones that are responsible to make the decision.
52:39 That is the best decision to protect the overall wellbeing of
52:42 the district and our students.
52:43 So it is a struggle for me.
52:44 I will, I will go ahead and convey that very clearly.
52:47 Um, but I do think that we have to have consistent application
52:50 if nothing else.
52:51 So.
52:52 Mr. Chair.
52:54 Well, actually, Mr. Trent hasn’t weighed in yet.
52:58 Oh, he said he was good.
53:00 I thought.
53:01 Yeah, but he can get him back and forth.
53:02 He was.
53:03 He’s a man of many words.
53:05 Especially today.
53:06 I’m a little under the weather, but I’ve listened to it.
53:08 I’m hearing people.
53:09 Did you have something you needed to say?
53:11 No, I could, if I could.
53:12 Yeah.
53:13 I, you know, I, I will express my own frustration, which I
53:18 shared with Dr.
53:19 Wenzel yesterday about the press release, but I have to make
53:22 this decision today, regardless
53:23 of what we might have put out to the press.
53:25 Um, as far as going with other employees, we can, um, I, I haven’t
53:29 heard or seen anything
53:31 that says that we’re not also following the process with other
53:33 employees.
53:34 That discipline just hasn’t come to us.
53:36 And I don’t think it would ever be appropriate.
53:38 I don’t think this is exactly what you’re saying, but it’s kind
53:40 of coming across this way,
53:41 that we would make one employee’s discipline dependent on
53:44 another employee.
53:46 We, we have the ability to, and we should, because also the
53:49 level of responsibility is different.
53:51 The reporting is the same, but the level of responsibility in
53:52 the classroom is different.
53:54 To, to make sure that we’re going through each one.
53:57 And also some of it has to do with, um, what was admitted.
54:00 Right?
54:01 If someone admits something, then there’s not really a whole, as
54:04 much investigation that has to happen.
54:06 So, um, you know, I, I just would be, I would caution us always
54:10 against making the decision on one employee dependent on another.
54:14 I think those are, those are separate.
54:16 They, they need to be done.
54:17 Investigation needs to be done.
54:18 The decisions need to be made.
54:19 If they need to be brought before us, they need to be brought
54:20 before us.
54:21 But those are separate and they all always need to remain
54:23 separate in my mind.
54:24 Mr. Chair.
54:25 Yes, sir.
54:26 Well, this is some, uh, good discussion here.
54:29 Um, I would like to, uh, amend her motion, Ms. Campbell’s motion,
54:34 and, um, move forward with it, move for approval, but change it
54:38 from unpaid to paid until this has been resolved.
54:41 Um, and I will tell you this, the, my hiccup in the whole thing
54:45 is, um, yes, because he is a 32 year old, a 32 year employee
54:49 with a stellar record, has a, you know, phenomenal, uh, uh,
54:53 record as a teacher here.
54:55 That we want to make sure that, um, yes, there’s not, not condoning,
54:59 even through his own admission, he should have reported it.
55:02 But there’s a big difference between reporting something that
55:04 was a rumor and unsubstantiated and an act, something that
55:09 actually occurred and proven to have occurred.
55:11 In my mind for not saying he shouldn’t have received some kind
55:14 of discipline, even if that, even if there, if it was just a
55:17 false rumor, he still had a duty or a duty to report.
55:20 But, obviously, if it not being, sorry, um, but I think it lessens
55:27 the severity if it turned out to be proven to be a false rumor,
55:31 unsubstantiated, uh, claim.
55:33 So now saying there’s not a, is it worth, is it, should a, a
55:36 teacher of 32 years with a stellar record be eventually terminated
55:40 because they, because of this incident, or should they be
55:44 received discipline?
55:45 That’s something that we can, can be determined.
55:47 I just don’t think it can be determined at this point.
55:49 So the motion on the floor is to take the termination of pay and
55:54 move it.
55:55 move it to suspension of suspension of pay to move it to the
56:00 same time as a possible termination
56:03 i’m just moving it to make it paid to make it paid until we have
56:06 uh until we’re this is you
56:08 know the issue comes back up and i think by the time this comes
56:11 back up on the agenda hopefully
56:12 we’ll have the dcf summary and we’ll have more more facts on the
56:15 on the investigation so basically
56:18 the next time they would come up would be at the termination
56:21 would be or the non-termination or
56:22 anything like that and when it does come up so if it does come
56:24 up that it’s terminated termination
56:26 then that would be the date that we would decide to terminate
56:30 the pay under this motion and if you
56:33 moved forward with it and there was no termination that comes up
56:36 he’s continued to be paid is what
56:38 it is correct i just think does everybody understand that yeah i
56:41 have a question oh sorry
56:42 i need to i have a question if the suspension is the right term
56:46 because is it do we have suspensions
56:48 it’s just it’s just unpaid you’re right now yeah they’re putting
56:52 him out on unpaid leave
56:53 right but that’s the nature of a suspension he wants to make it
56:56 paid leave no he’s he’s making a
56:58 yeah no he’s just saying that he he wants to terminate the pay
57:02 upon termination is what it is
57:04 yeah i’m saying that while this is going on to change it from unpaid
57:08 leave to paid leave i’m sorry
57:10 if i threw in the term no it’s okay do you mention is what is in
57:13 the motion right so we need to change
57:14 it from suspension to leave because that’s a different that’s
57:17 what’s in labor relations it
57:18 says suspension of instructional employees right right which is
57:21 by nature unpaid so you need a second
57:24 sorry okay i’m trying to wrap my head around your your
57:28 recommendation is to change it to
57:30 paid leave excuse me um until this comes back before the board
57:35 at the end of the month or if
57:38 they don’t bring it before the board it never happens they may
57:40 move in a different direction
57:41 depending on the dcf summary and you know once they have once
57:45 the investigation is complete i’ll
57:47 second the motion okay all right so now we’re on the next
57:51 discussion um do you want to care to
57:54 elaborate any more does anybody else was to speak to this motion
57:57 ms campbell um i am in favor of my
58:04 original motion without without change i don’t think i think
58:07 they’re like i said if we get the
58:09 investigation done the pay will come back um but i i don’t um
58:12 think this is the right direction to go
58:15 oh you’re hitting your button go ahead well i like this campbell
58:21 said you know and i think
58:23 you know dr rindell could weigh in on this too when we mentioned
58:26 suspension it’s it is typically without
58:29 pay uh in many times so uh i concur with ms campbell if you know
58:35 during the suspension it’s it’s without
58:38 paying if it comes at the end that you know uh this teacher prevails
58:43 you know he’ll get whatever he’s
58:45 got come coming to him so just to keep it uh under the same
58:50 language um i i would i would i would
58:53 keep it the same myself instead of changing things around at
58:55 this point if i can add one thing really
58:59 quick this was actually um from a slideshow put on by union
59:02 representatives at a school faculty meeting
59:05 last week um they thought that this particular issue was so
59:09 important may have been unprompted but my
59:11 guess is it was prompted by the current situation they actually
59:14 had a whole slide that they went over in
59:16 detail saying student super titled student supervision and
59:18 reporting and here are the bullets underneath it do not
59:21 leave students without supervision treat every incident no
59:25 matter how small as something that must be
59:26 reported if a student trips and falls report it if a student
59:30 shares information with you even if it
59:32 sounds like a rumor report it when in doubt document it if a
59:36 conversation happens verbally follow up with
59:38 written documentation protect yourself by assuming nothing is
59:41 too minor the union thinks this is important
59:47 any other discussion all right paul roll call please mr thomas
59:54 just to clarify this is for miss campbell’s
59:56 original motion this is for your amendment amended emotion then
59:59 i vote aye miss campbell nay mr season aye
1:00:02 that’s right aye mr trent day now back on to the original motion
1:00:08 anybody have any conversation on it
1:00:10 well it’s now it’s the motion as amended so it would be paid i i
1:00:15 have a question okay it’s still leave
1:00:19 though right so and and without it we don’t have an end date to
1:00:24 this until i mean our proposed end date
1:00:27 is the next time it comes before the board in on the 31st okay
1:00:31 just i have one more thing too when you’re
1:00:33 done with campbell um i also i want to recommend that we take
1:00:36 this time and i i asked this question when i was in hr
1:00:39 yesterday spending several hours going through the file in the
1:00:42 investigation that the district takes the
1:00:44 initiative to go ahead and send some type of link some kind of
1:00:46 training additional training on
1:00:48 mandatory reporting to every single individual within our and i
1:00:51 know this probably happens when it comes to
1:00:53 professional development but i couldn’t get a real clear answer
1:00:56 there so i think it’s a good time
1:00:58 right now just to remind all of the employees their
1:01:00 responsibility and requirement is not to
1:01:02 investigate it’s not to to assume that something is or isn’t
1:01:05 true it is to report that is their responsibility
1:01:08 um and this case kind of makes this glaringly obvious point so
1:01:13 mr chair sir mrs wright it’s part of their
1:01:17 annual training every august every august can we can we can we
1:01:22 do it twice a year
1:01:23 i mean i just feel like how many how many times does it take to
1:01:28 get this message that how many times
1:01:30 does it take to get this message it’s a very important message
1:01:32 and i’m pretty sure they have to sign off that
1:01:34 they watched it and or went through the training that is correct
1:01:37 well fair but i mean just in this
1:01:39 conversation miss campbell you just stated that they are
1:01:41 supposed to report it to their their
1:01:43 supervisor but no they’re supposed to report it to dcf so that’s
1:01:45 what i’m just saying like i think
1:01:46 there’s a misconception and this case is very obvious about this
1:01:49 on who am i reporting it to
1:01:51 because there were three adults in that room and three that
1:01:53 means that technically speaking three
1:01:55 adults should have all called dcf all three of them they shouldn’t
1:01:58 have reported it to another
1:01:59 teacher or an admin or they should have let their admin know
1:02:01 well absolutely but their first their
1:02:03 first step is calling and reporting it and so that’s why i’m
1:02:05 just saying i think there’s a
1:02:06 misconception and if you have a 32-year veteran that has this
1:02:10 misconception it’s probably a fair
1:02:12 assumption to make that there are many others in the district
1:02:14 that have you’re assuming that that
1:02:16 it was a misconception and i i was not without knowing i would i
1:02:19 would think well there was that’s a
1:02:20 stretch there’s three adults in the room and they of different
1:02:23 levels and they all had the same
1:02:25 misconception so i i’m just that’s all i’m saying about and i do
1:02:27 want to clarify i did say supervisor
1:02:29 but my main point was that it’s not their job and you you
1:02:33 clarified that for me it it it all it becomes
1:02:36 someone else’s it’s not it’s not at your level of discretion to
1:02:39 determine right that as an employee
1:02:41 so i want to clarify that i did want to make sure i would we’re
1:02:45 super clear what a yes or no vote on this
1:02:48 now that it’s amendment amended if we were to vote no that means
1:02:53 this employee is not on leave and could
1:02:56 go back into the classroom okay thank you so if we our intention
1:03:00 is for him to not be in the classroom
1:03:02 then we need to vote yes amended or not okay thank you any other
1:03:07 discussion sorry what did you just say
1:03:11 because if we don’t approve this right like if i don’t like the
1:03:15 motion the amendment that was just
1:03:17 made i’m not going to vote now no vote no now because then i’m
1:03:20 voting for him to go back into the
1:03:22 classroom so whether i like the amendment or not i need to vote
1:03:24 yes otherwise he’s back in the classroom
1:03:26 not necessarily back in the classroom that’s not true well not
1:03:30 on leave let me clarify right
1:03:32 because they could put him in the warehouse or somewhere else
1:03:34 like that right
1:03:36 all discussion done everybody good okay now we’re voting on the
1:03:41 actual we’re voting on the motion as
1:03:43 amended by mr thomas yep mr thomas hi miss campbell hi mr susan
1:03:48 hi miss wright hi mr train bye
1:03:51 is everybody good don’t need to take a break or anything nope no
1:03:56 i think we’re good we’ll now hold a
1:03:58 public hearing on proposed policy for revisions for public
1:04:00 hearing in regular board member meetings po employee
1:04:04 employment and staff is there one here who wishes to address
1:04:07 these items anyone here who wishes to
1:04:09 address these items gotta call them individually what’s that
1:04:12 each of the call each one so the first one
1:04:14 would be 31 20. i did employment staff oh oh i did you didn’t
1:04:19 say the number yeah i was looking for the
1:04:21 number sorry sorry um move to approve second yep any discussion
1:04:26 no paul roll call please mr thomas
1:04:29 hi miss campbell hi mr susan hi that’s right hi mr trent bye
1:04:35 next up is there one here for po 6210
1:04:38 allocation and use of ad valorem millage anybody here wishes to
1:04:41 address these items anybody here who
1:04:43 wishes to address these items move to approve second any
1:04:47 discussion paul roll call please mr thomas
1:04:50 hi mr trent hi p8407 safe school officers is there one here who
1:04:59 wishes to address these items
1:05:01 is there one here who wishes to address these items move to
1:05:05 approve second any discussion paul roll call
1:05:09 please mr thomas i miss campbell hi mr susan hi that’s right hi
1:05:14 mr trent hi we are now at board member
1:05:16 discussions reports and recognitions mr thomas or mr trent can
1:05:22 you go yeah okay all right everybody
1:05:26 was kind of scrambling because we got to it pretty quick oh that’s
1:05:28 fine just bear with me i don’t
1:05:31 typically i’m ready when you are all right go ahead all right
1:05:35 this week i’d like to recognize an employee
1:05:41 from metal lane intermediate school elementary school miss barnett
1:05:45 the principal had provided me some
1:05:48 information about her and i’d like to read it to you at this
1:05:52 time miss barnett stated i would love to
1:05:55 recognize our literacy coach mrs lisa hershey for the tremendous
1:05:59 impact she has on both the staff and
1:06:01 students at our school mrs hershey is an instructional leader
1:06:04 who works closely with our grade level teams
1:06:06 meeting with teachers to collaboratively plan standards aligned
1:06:10 lessons that support strong
1:06:11 literacy instruction across our campus she also leads our lead
1:06:15 mentor program where she supports new
1:06:17 teachers by modeling effective practices in their classrooms and
1:06:21 helping them build strong instructional
1:06:23 foundations in addition to supporting teachers mrs hershey dedicates
1:06:27 significant time directly to our
1:06:28 students she teaches in our academic support program and leads
1:06:31 six small reading groups each day providing
1:06:34 targeted instruction to help students strengthen their literacy
1:06:37 skills and build confidence as readers
1:06:39 what truly makes miss hershey mrs hershey special is the way she
1:06:43 makes learning joyful her reading
1:06:44 groups are engaging and fun and students are always excited when
1:06:47 it’s their turn to be part of her group
1:06:50 you may also spot mrs hershey around campus with her beloved woot
1:06:54 woot wagon and cool schools tools
1:06:56 celebrating students who have passed their eye ready lessons
1:06:59 these moments of recognition motivate
1:07:00 students and bring a sense of excitement and pride to learn mrs
1:07:03 hershey is a welcome anticipated
1:07:05 presence in classrooms throughout our school both staff and
1:07:08 students admire her energy dedication
1:07:10 and unwavering commitment to helping everyone succeed we are
1:07:13 incredibly grateful for all that mrs hershey
1:07:15 does that strengthens our teachers inspires our students and
1:07:19 contribute to the positive culture of our school community
1:07:23 so i would just like to mirror those comments and say
1:07:28 congratulations mrs hershey and thank her for all
1:07:30 that she does for meadow lane intermediate elementary school
1:07:33 that had to be the best recognition i’ve ever heard
1:07:36 who else is next i’m trying to shake it up a little bit because
1:07:41 ms campbell always gets called next and we go down the wall
1:07:43 you’re good no go ahead all right so you’ll have to bear with me
1:07:49 on this so this past weekend we’ll go from
1:07:52 here uh we had the flag football jamboree which was amazing it
1:07:57 was uh it was great um it was all over
1:08:00 the place so it started as early as eight in the morning and uh
1:08:03 i had the pleasure of starting off at the
1:08:06 eight in the morning at over at uh golf u and all the uh uh the
1:08:09 parents what uh what a showing it was
1:08:12 great i’m sure everyone here is going to say where they went and
1:08:15 uh but it was it was like a big fair
1:08:17 i mean it was uh the excitement that early in the morning that
1:08:20 cheerleaders out from all the different
1:08:22 schools each each site had about four different schools that
1:08:25 were competing pretty much all day long
1:08:27 uh so shout out to all the principals that showed up uh we even
1:08:30 had one of the principals had to
1:08:31 jump in and be a referee for the whole day uh so he was out
1:08:35 there uh uh so started at golf u went over
1:08:39 to autobond and they hosted three other schools and again same
1:08:43 excitement the place was packed parking
1:08:46 was out under the street and uh you know they had a little food
1:08:49 truck and uh you know again cheerleaders
1:08:51 from you know this high all the way up through and then uh
1:08:55 lastly over at roosevelt and this one was
1:08:58 special they have such amount of land back there they had three
1:09:02 games going at the same time but uh
1:09:04 you know this this district is so well connected and we care
1:09:08 about students so much that we um we
1:09:10 must have contacted space force because they were doing flyovers
1:09:15 uh all day uh trading you know for the
1:09:17 helicopters and i said of course we we scheduled that but uh i
1:09:20 think the second flyover they realized
1:09:23 what was going on and they actually circled the field a little
1:09:26 bit more and and uh the kids had a uh
1:09:29 had a blast there that day so that was that was a wonderful time
1:09:33 so shout out to all the principals
1:09:35 the staff uh the parents and of course the students these are uh
1:09:40 these are these are kids uh that would
1:09:43 probably most of them would have probably still been in bed on
1:09:45 that saturday morning but they uh they
1:09:48 they they took the time out to come out there they were they all
1:09:51 had their uniforms and uh it seemed
1:09:53 like many of them this this was their maybe first shot at
1:09:57 athletics uh on the field it was really nice for
1:10:02 them to uh to experience that so uh a shout out to the board
1:10:05 here to approve all this to get that in place
1:10:09 and and actually have thousands of kids across the district
1:10:12 participate in something other than maybe
1:10:14 watching their phone on saturday morning so it was very nice uh
1:10:17 so i had the pleasure also uh uh to
1:10:21 be over at coco high school with the your vote is your with your
1:10:26 uh your your voice yeah and it was uh uh it
1:10:30 was a great showing there the uh auditorium with the kids you
1:10:34 know these these kids get the uh the
1:10:36 assembly they get a veteran up in front talking about the
1:10:39 importance of voting uh you know i had
1:10:43 the pleasure of speaking and saying look guys this is the first
1:10:46 time in your lives that you can make
1:10:48 uh an impact on the decisions that us old people have been
1:10:51 making for you your whole lives so you can
1:10:54 pre-register you can learn about the topics and then you can get
1:10:57 out there and vote the only way you’re
1:10:59 going to change things is to put your vote out there so uh i’ve
1:11:02 had a pleasure all year visiting uh in my
1:11:05 district the high schools and tim bobanic supervisor of
1:11:08 elections have done a great job getting kids
1:11:10 registered to vote so a shout out to principal steward and all
1:11:15 the staff that made that possible
1:11:17 and then lastly uh some state champions i think some of us are
1:11:21 going to be talking about that uh this one
1:11:23 i’ll i’ll i’ll specifically talk about our wrestling champions
1:11:28 so we had uh what i had four in my
1:11:31 district so uh coco beach uh gustavo of ferrara or i’m really
1:11:37 bad at pronouncing that’s my math guy not
1:11:40 an english guy but uh uh maren island had two both uh timothy
1:11:45 and trey uh they uh they they took home the gold
1:11:48 and in rockledge vlad drowned was the uh was the state champion
1:11:53 there so brevard and i know matt’s
1:11:55 going to talk about he always brags about brevard being the
1:11:58 number one county in the state for state
1:12:00 champions and uh this this year we did nothing but add to that
1:12:04 title uh of being the best in the in the
1:12:07 counter in the state so uh also i just want to you know a shout
1:12:11 out to all the staff and all the teachers
1:12:13 out there because i know they’re gearing up uh for you know the
1:12:17 uh the the stretch run i mean you say
1:12:19 it’s only march but it’s it’s really close and they’re getting
1:12:22 uh everything set up for all the
1:12:24 testing at the end of the year so uh shout out to all the
1:12:27 classroom teachers out there we’re we’re
1:12:29 supporting you and uh we know you’ve got this one so i’m good
1:12:33 thank you mr trump
1:12:37 all right i i did also get to go to a couple of black football
1:12:42 uh events i did oh yeah i ran
1:12:45 into mr thomas and ran to a couple other people it was it was a
1:12:47 great day and the kids had a lot of
1:12:49 fun um i’m one of those people who has more fun talking on the
1:12:51 sidelines and pay attention to the
1:12:53 game so but i did i did want to do a public service announcement
1:12:56 since this is not just our shout outs
1:12:58 it’s also our talking points i actually had a principal tell me
1:13:01 you know we’ve been talking about all this
1:13:03 vaping stuff telling me that they had had to go they had a pa
1:13:06 system because they were doing the
1:13:08 national anthem and things like that that they had to go on the
1:13:10 pa system and tell the parents that
1:13:12 they couldn’t smoke or vape so all the announcements to the
1:13:17 adults who need to to man up and woman up
1:13:21 you cannot smoke or vape on school district property it’s
1:13:27 illegal and it’s also setting a truly
1:13:31 terrible example for our children so parents and i’ve got we’ve
1:13:34 got a row of students in the front
1:13:35 row and some of them are nodding thank you for your support in
1:13:38 that adults we need to be setting a
1:13:39 good example and and have some self-control in a public
1:13:42 situation but especially on school board
1:13:45 property where it’s against the law all right so throw that out
1:13:47 back to positive all right uh this
1:13:49 room has been taken over as well as multiple rooms across the
1:13:53 the middle of the esf facility by mission
1:13:56 moon for the last um couple weeks i got to judge one day next
1:13:58 week and i’m judging again tomorrow
1:14:01 um it is such a fun event um they’ve kind of revamped it and the
1:14:04 students are really going
1:14:06 with the flow and and it is really exciting to hear schools um
1:14:11 and their success and the different um
1:14:14 things that the originality they have to bring to their mission
1:14:17 and it’s it’s a lot of fun
1:14:18 the on a couple saturdays ago we had the elementary music
1:14:23 festival i got to go to the south area concert the
1:14:26 central south area concert it was wonderful all the strength
1:14:29 students and the choir students and we
1:14:30 had uh orph instruments and teachers performing and singing
1:14:34 along with them it was it was a wonderful
1:14:36 day and i very much appreciate all our elementary music teachers
1:14:39 and miss minnie or for uh coordinating
1:14:41 that while she was also in the middle of helping to coordinate
1:14:43 all the mpa contests that are going
1:14:45 on at the same time january and february and march is just
1:14:48 really crazy time for music so good kudos to
1:14:52 everybody uh last tuesday i believe dr rendel and i ate lunch i
1:14:56 don’t know my calendar i’m having to go day
1:14:59 by day but i think it was tuesday we were at uh had lunch at mel
1:15:03 high where they had administrators
1:15:06 and teachers staff from hoover central and melbourne all coming
1:15:10 together to share with us where we’re
1:15:12 going with the ib middle years program so we have multiple
1:15:16 schools that have the ib you know coco beach
1:15:18 we’ve got mel high um that’s it that’s it who have the
1:15:21 international baccalaureate program in our district
1:15:24 it’s kind of like cambridge it is a internationally known
1:15:28 program unlike you know ap which all of our
1:15:31 schools have which is you know just a united states thing so it’s
1:15:35 very recognized people want to send
1:15:37 their schools to those programs because if you complete the ib
1:15:39 program you can automatically get bright
1:15:41 future scholarships you can get easy admission easier admissions
1:15:44 into multiple schools but there they have a
1:15:46 middle years program that is kind of backing it up and and
1:15:50 creating a framework that sets students up for
1:15:53 success i really appreciate the way that we’re going to be doing
1:15:56 this at hoover and central because
1:15:58 it is not just going to be for the high flyers gifted students
1:16:01 we’re opening the doors for all students
1:16:04 to start learning a language early um to um it’ll go along with
1:16:08 the things they’re already doing like central
1:16:12 is an avid school so they’re learning the specific note taking
1:16:14 helps and all of that hoover has their
1:16:17 gifted program that’s going to continue but it this is just an
1:16:20 added piece the students are excited
1:16:22 they’re already doing the work but they won’t get to have the
1:16:25 final approval by the ib board until next
1:16:27 spring but i’m just very proud of the way those three schools
1:16:30 are working together as a feeder system
1:16:33 i think that’s going to be very attractive to our parents
1:16:36 especially in the middle school realm because
1:16:38 it’s such a rigor and just a good just a great thing for all the
1:16:43 schools together but there is
1:16:45 definitely a spirit of cooperation that i that was so unique and
1:16:49 wonderful to see as the principals of
1:16:50 all three schools the ib teachers from all three schools are
1:16:54 there and parents are in that melbourne high
1:16:56 school hoover central area and of course you can always opt in
1:16:59 to these programs i think you’re
1:17:02 going to be excited about what you see in the coming years and
1:17:04 they’re already seeing increased
1:17:05 enrollment increased elo’s and epos through the program the
1:17:08 other thing i would say about that
1:17:10 is that it’s even melbourne high school is changing the
1:17:15 structure of ib before like when my my kids
1:17:18 first started going there ib classes were only for ib program
1:17:22 students but now the idea is we want
1:17:26 everybody as they’re going through melbourne high school and
1:17:29 they’ll be set up in central and hoover
1:17:31 everyone to to experience at least one ib class during their
1:17:35 high school to experience rigor and that
1:17:37 is that is good practice we want every school to every student
1:17:40 to have a taste of what a rigorous
1:17:42 class is like um i know my i was sitting next to my son last
1:17:45 night and he’s picking his senior year
1:17:46 classes and he’s picking an abi ap slash ib combined course and
1:17:51 so but the class behind him that’s the expectation
1:17:55 that they’re all going to be a part of that they’re all going to
1:17:58 be really um doing this excellent work
1:17:59 heritage high school has done this for years with cambridge the
1:18:02 expectation is that every student
1:18:04 who goes through heritage will take a cambridge class an ace
1:18:06 course while they’re there i think this is
1:18:08 this is good practice because they all need just a taste of it
1:18:11 because some students don’t know what
1:18:12 they can achieve until they’re they’re pushed a little bit to
1:18:15 try to do it and so so good job to all of
1:18:17 them and then my last recognition um i’ve mentioned to you guys
1:18:21 before that i sit on the board of
1:18:23 directors for the florida school music association is the board
1:18:26 that kind of help makes the roles and
1:18:27 guidelines for the mpas all the music contests and when we get
1:18:31 together which we did last weekend
1:18:33 they each of the organizations of the state gives a report the
1:18:36 florida band masters association the florida
1:18:39 vocal association and the florida orchestra association they all
1:18:42 come together to give us these reports
1:18:43 and as i was reading through the orchestra report i recognized
1:18:47 some names and so i just wanted to
1:18:49 congratulate miss marcy spur who is the orchestra teacher around
1:18:54 the corner at vera middle school
1:18:56 she was named the uh she is going to be the all-state
1:18:59 coordinator for the seventh and eighth grade all-state
1:19:02 orchestra for this coming year it’s a big responsibility on top
1:19:05 of what she’s already doing to coordinate that
1:19:08 whole process and then the event that happens in january i also
1:19:11 saw the name of samantha felber
1:19:13 who was the orchestra at heritage high school and she will be
1:19:16 coordinating the 9th through 12th all-state honors orchestra
1:19:19 again the process and then the coordination of the actual event
1:19:23 in january and then as i kept
1:19:25 going down the report i recognized another name and that is a
1:19:29 student guy francis charleston who is
1:19:32 a 12th grader at melbourne high school who is in the orchestra
1:19:35 under miss egan for the student composition
1:19:38 contest middle division division these were the division winners
1:19:43 and so guy francis was the high
1:19:45 school division winner for his piece entitled slow movement and
1:19:49 it’s a really big deal um and so i’m
1:19:52 super excited that to have this recognition but especially of
1:19:55 our our 12th grader guy francis charleston
1:19:57 congratulations to him and for miss egan for supporting him they
1:20:00 had to compose the piece they had to record it
1:20:02 using midi or live orchestra and submit it and they had a whole
1:20:06 group of of judges and so good job revard
1:20:10 orchestra programs you are shining across the state as always
1:20:17 all right i’m up next all right um i want to give a shout out to
1:20:20 a former principal of ours miss blair
1:20:22 loveless she has since retired but she was the fearless leader
1:20:25 of coquina elementary up until this
1:20:28 coming school year she was recognized by florida tax watch uh
1:20:31 just and thank you miss campbell for
1:20:32 attending that that wonderful presentation and thank you to florida
1:20:35 tax watch one of the cool things that
1:20:37 they do is that they allow the principal to pick a student and
1:20:40 they get to award that student two years of
1:20:42 prepaid college and it’s an elementary school student and so um
1:20:46 that i cannot even imagine how hard that
1:20:48 is to do but it’s just a meaningful ceremony so not only are you
1:20:51 honoring the principal for their
1:20:52 phenomenal leadership and the work that they’ve done there but
1:20:55 they get to also plant that seed that
1:20:56 legacy for that student coming forward and so that was a very
1:20:59 cool event thank you dr rindell for
1:21:00 attending that as well um one who you know i i became the board
1:21:03 liaison for the circles of care advisory
1:21:05 council for the homeless coalition and i really wasn’t sure what
1:21:08 i was stepping into with that i thought
1:21:10 i don’t i’m not really you know mr thomas i think i took that
1:21:12 off of your plate um but i i just have
1:21:14 to say that that group of individuals that sits in that room are
1:21:18 really trying to tackle homelessness in
1:21:20 brevard county and we we work well with um stanley bris he helps
1:21:23 with our drug diversion program
1:21:25 board you probably remember him coming and presenting but he
1:21:28 stepped up i i always ask our team i say okay
1:21:31 how many how many homeless students do we have or students in
1:21:33 transition and then how many unaccompanied
1:21:36 youth do we have which is truly just a minor child that is couch
1:21:39 hopping uh and they give me that data
1:21:42 and i report it each time that we have one of these meetings but
1:21:44 stanley’s organization uh he’s working
1:21:46 with with our team in our district to figure out how to attack
1:21:50 some of these things like cap and gown
1:21:52 their senior year expenses if anybody’s gone through their
1:21:54 senior year or had a child for their senior year
1:21:56 it’s very expensive prom there’s grad bash there’s all these
1:21:59 events that take place they all cost money and
1:22:01 when they’re when their students are just trying to figure out
1:22:04 where they’re sleeping tonight you know
1:22:05 that is just such a far-fetched idea so i just want to thank you
1:22:08 to stanley for really being willing
1:22:09 to step up and we’re working with miss colotto and figuring out
1:22:12 what does a senior package look like
1:22:14 how much does it cost and stanley’s going to work with some of
1:22:17 his organizations to to partner with us
1:22:19 and help our students which is a very cool thing um i want to
1:22:22 give a shout out to mayor connors and the
1:22:24 council for city of titusville as well as the titusville police
1:22:27 department so recently much like our bus arm
1:22:30 cameras there are cameras that were going up in the titusville
1:22:33 area now this has been controversial in
1:22:35 some areas it hasn’t been as successful but titusville has taken
1:22:38 an approach similar to how we have on
1:22:40 some of these things and really studied what didn’t work why it
1:22:43 didn’t work and how can we make it work
1:22:44 and so these are going to be cameras that are installed that are
1:22:48 right outside of the flashing light
1:22:50 zone where our children are walking across the street and if you
1:22:53 drive in brevard county on any given
1:22:55 school day you will see people who fly through school zones that
1:22:58 don’t even slow down
1:22:59 when there’s a kid standing right there literally trying to walk
1:23:02 across the crosswalk so to me that
1:23:04 is um that’s a huge initiative so these cameras will they’re
1:23:07 going to go into a trial phase much like
1:23:09 what we did with the bus arms so there will be 60 days of
1:23:12 warnings which will gather some data for the
1:23:15 city to know how many people are actually speeding through these
1:23:18 school zones they don’t run all day
1:23:20 long there was a lot of you know just stuff on the internet like
1:23:23 oh this is big brother monitoring
1:23:24 you and they run all day long and they’re going to issue tickets
1:23:26 all the time and blah blah blah all
1:23:28 all false things inaccurate um so this is just an initiative to
1:23:31 really help our students arrive
1:23:33 to school safely and go home at the end of the day safely and
1:23:36 hopefully it is a reminder to all the
1:23:38 people that are driving if you see that flashing light please
1:23:40 please please just slow down
1:23:42 there’s nowhere that you need to be that is that important that
1:23:44 it risks somebody’s life
1:23:45 on the other end um want to also give a shout out to miss rouse
1:23:49 i had an amazing visit at oak park
1:23:51 jonathan from bft went up and joined me for i typically don’t do
1:23:54 unannounced visits but we were
1:23:56 in the area and so it’s like hey let’s go see oak park and what
1:23:58 they’re doing and i just want to thank
1:24:00 them for the work they’re doing there and i think um when you
1:24:03 look at some of the schools that you know
1:24:05 you hear things everyone hears things they are doing a
1:24:07 phenomenal job they’re running the ron clark
1:24:09 academy and i’m sure many of you been in schools and and
1:24:12 recognize the ron clark academy and it’s this
1:24:14 house mentality like we’re we might be different um i’m going to
1:24:17 use the wrong word different like
1:24:19 departments or something but we’re all one house and so it was
1:24:22 fun we got to sort jonathan into a
1:24:24 house while we were there and every kid you know they’re all
1:24:26 part of a house and they’re trying to
1:24:28 raise the bar for their entire team and it’s all grade levels
1:24:31 and it just really brings it all together
1:24:33 so that was a fun school visit um jonathan is also team revered
1:24:37 like me so that was a lot of
1:24:39 fun to be sorted into that house uh board i have one more thing
1:24:42 that i need to ask of you and i i’m
1:24:44 not sure if this is the appropriate time but i guess since we’re
1:24:46 doing board member reports and
1:24:48 i’m going to go ahead and do this um as you know i’m not a
1:24:51 member of the fsba uh for the
1:24:52 board there’s several other members of you that represent there
1:24:55 but that saves our district a
1:24:56 significant amount of money i’ve brought this up before when
1:24:58 there was an organization but this
1:25:00 one i think is a little different so space coast has a space
1:25:03 force unit jrtc unit um and i was
1:25:06 working with the commander out there we got a field trip
1:25:08 scheduled very exciting well
1:25:09 with the field trip comes an expense of bus transportation and
1:25:12 that’s an unexpected expense
1:25:14 and i honestly wasn’t thinking that through all the way so i’m
1:25:17 just asking for board approval to
1:25:18 be able to allocate some of that membership travel dues that i
1:25:23 have every year left over because of not
1:25:25 being part of fsba it’s only a couple hundred dollars uh to be
1:25:28 able to cover the transportation
1:25:30 costs for 40 students that are in the space force to be able to
1:25:33 go over and experience what is right at
1:25:35 patrick so hopefully we can recruit them and keep them here in
1:25:37 brevard county um so i think i would
1:25:39 need board approval on that i’m not really sure i’d have to go
1:25:43 on an agenda but it’s too late to add
1:25:45 it necessarily when is the why would she need money for her own
1:25:48 budget it would be the yeah it would be
1:25:51 the board if it’s under the threshold the superintendent can
1:25:53 approve so the board can always give that
1:25:55 guidance without a vote but i think what she’s saying is she has
1:25:58 not allocated her revenue that she has
1:26:00 inside of the board each one of us is allocated a certain amount
1:26:03 of money right um and what she’s
1:26:05 saying is i would like to take that and allocate that for the
1:26:09 kids um however she feels like if i
1:26:11 want to just turn around and go to an event that’s what i use to
1:26:14 pay for it and i don’t have to go
1:26:16 before the board to approve that yeah that’s not yeah but it was
1:26:19 designated we’ve had this battle before
1:26:21 it was not yeah i’m not questioning that piece i’m questioning
1:26:24 the total cost of the trip i don’t
1:26:26 know what it is two hundred dollars okay so and it’s actually
1:26:28 our transportation so it’s not we’re
1:26:30 not getting charter buses or anything fancy it’s literally
1:26:33 staying all in-house and i just want to
1:26:34 be able because they’re trying to figure out where do we pay for
1:26:36 transportation what strand do we use
1:26:37 that from and i’m like well can i just can i is that an okay
1:26:41 allocation for it right and that would
1:26:44 just be within the superintendent’s threshold so he can approve
1:26:46 that okay so then i don’t need board
1:26:48 approval for it but you’re it but here’s the thing hang on um
1:26:52 because ms campbell just so you know this
1:26:54 has been going on since ms campbell and i’ve been doing this
1:26:56 since 2018 every year they take in and
1:27:00 scoop the funds out of the funding that you guys have right
1:27:03 right whatever’s not spent but that was
1:27:05 not what was originally intended all right i will say that and i
1:27:09 will be and i can so that just started
1:27:11 happening right i have issues with that it’s one of the things i
1:27:14 have at the office i is to talk about
1:27:16 that but the thing is is that um the other piece is is that we
1:27:20 have authority to utilize the funding
1:27:22 that we have for things that we want to help as long as it’s a
1:27:26 school-based thing so you couldn’t
1:27:27 go take it like you remember that one you tried to go right
1:27:30 there was an organization right now that’s
1:27:32 to come in that kind of starts getting into that area but for a
1:27:35 school-based organization for you to
1:27:37 take 200 and cover the cost out of the allocated revenue that
1:27:40 you have i think falls under it and
1:27:43 i think um well i just need guidance on legality of that and and
1:27:46 how would i i think what we could do
1:27:49 is give direction if the board supports that but supports the
1:27:53 motion that you have the authority
1:27:54 within your own budget to discrimp to distribute to yeah go
1:27:59 ahead go ahead because the verbiage that
1:28:02 you’re using is inaccurate um you’re saying we have authority
1:28:06 within our own budget i don’t have a
1:28:09 budget i do not have a katie campbell budget i’ve never had a
1:28:12 katie campbell budget as a board member
1:28:14 what i what there is is a line item and for i totally so i would
1:28:18 rather take 200 out of my pocket and
1:28:21 pay for those guys to get where they’re going then for us to set
1:28:24 up a precedent which i believe is is a
1:28:26 problem so let me just walk through this we have line items that
1:28:30 are specifically lined out for board
1:28:33 membership board registrations i think it’s listed and board
1:28:37 travel that lena manages and those things
1:28:40 can cover um chamber luncheons or if we want to join uh you know
1:28:46 what are some of the other organizations
1:28:49 that covers our those of you guys are part of the edc or things
1:28:53 like that yes that also covers that
1:28:55 right cid milk our present our um um memberships registrations
1:29:00 travel those kinds of things
1:29:02 specifically it’s not lined out to be for a fund that we have as
1:29:09 board members to hand out to schools
1:29:12 at it within our district that we we have not i i know that that
1:29:17 happened previously it was before
1:29:19 my time on the board it was specifically restructured it is
1:29:21 labeled that and the reason why i i don’t want
1:29:24 us to do something that we wouldn’t let our other our employees
1:29:26 to do just just so you know i mean we
1:29:28 have that they don’t have the authority to do i don’t have the
1:29:31 authority to take my it’s not my money
1:29:34 right and i will the reason why i say this is it’s travel and i
1:29:37 have there’s this line item that says
1:29:39 campbell travel i frequently go over because i’ve been your
1:29:41 representative on things and so i’ve had to
1:29:43 travel uh you know the years that i was on board of directors
1:29:45 had multiple travel things and so or i went
1:29:47 to the national conference up in washington dc right we came and
1:29:51 said hey can he says we all gave you
1:29:53 money the people that had money in their budget still we we all
1:29:55 came to a consensus that it was
1:29:57 okay because otherwise i was just not going to go but we had
1:29:59 people who weren’t using it can we use
1:30:01 that because i’m representing you guys in dc yes but that’s
1:30:05 still to the purpose of it if we have
1:30:07 departments who change the purpose of the money they have to
1:30:10 submit budget budget amendments to us the
1:30:12 superintendent has to submit budget amendments some of which we
1:30:14 approved tonight saying this was money
1:30:16 this is money going here but we don’t need it for there we need
1:30:19 it here so we’re moving around but
1:30:20 it still has to be within their department if they’re changing
1:30:23 the purpose for it they have to submit
1:30:24 budget amendments i think i’m understanding that process
1:30:28 correctly so i just as much as i i want these
1:30:30 guys to go on us to find a way i just don’t think this is the
1:30:33 way i have a solution on principle i have
1:30:35 a solution so ms campbell i would definitely disagree with a
1:30:37 couple of things that you say if you did not have an
1:30:39 account and you did not have it then when we’re told that we’re
1:30:43 getting close to our threshold
1:30:44 then that is exactly what that is and just so you know as i’ve
1:30:48 requested the budgets in the past
1:30:51 it has come down that the board budgets and then inside of it
1:30:53 how much each one of us are going to
1:30:55 spend with how much money is left over so whether the finance
1:30:59 department decided to move to a direction
1:31:01 that there’s one big account or whatever we’re still told when
1:31:04 we get close to being at a certain level
1:31:06 which means it’s identified we we well it’s it that’s why you
1:31:10 came because you said that i was
1:31:12 going over and you said i better come in and ask you stated that
1:31:15 you said i was going over
1:31:17 what were you going over your allocated amount that was inside
1:31:20 of your area there’s a certain amount
1:31:22 for every one of us and the reason that miss miss um miss wright
1:31:26 thinks that she has money left over
1:31:29 from the fsba is because we are allocated a certain amount i
1:31:33 will not sit and just say like i’m wrong
1:31:35 when that was the case and finance must have made some changes
1:31:39 but we didn’t know about it but we’re
1:31:41 still under the assumption that each one of us has an account
1:31:44 all right that’s hang on hang on
1:31:45 now i’m gonna this is going to be a thing because this keeps
1:31:49 coming up and and never should they have
1:31:51 ever pulled out the bottom of our revenue and never should we
1:31:54 not have had our accounts i have an issue
1:31:56 with that so if that’s the way it is then we need to go back to
1:32:00 the way it was and right now we all know
1:32:02 that we have limits and that’s what she’s trying to get under
1:32:05 and i have the perfect authority i would
1:32:07 definitely agree and say that she can use that 200 not only that
1:32:11 if we have to have a discussion about
1:32:13 it right now we can do that and we can allocate to allow us to
1:32:16 use our revenue for anything inside of
1:32:18 the school district that we feel is going to approve the kids
1:32:20 for a school-based function i literally
1:32:23 feel that right now mr chair if i might just i think i have a
1:32:26 really easy solution to this so
1:32:28 uh should i chaperone that field trip and i will be on that bus
1:32:31 and that would be considered a
1:32:32 travel expense for myself because i need the bus technically
1:32:35 speaking would it not
1:32:36 i don’t know about the travel part i’d have to look at the
1:32:40 policy but i do believe the board can
1:32:42 provide consensus to allow the superintendent to pay for the 200
1:32:45 okay it’s an insignificant amount and this
1:32:47 sounds like a conversation that’s probably a much larger
1:32:49 conversation where the board needs to hash
1:32:50 it out and i’m sorry every time i open this up but i thought
1:32:53 this one i’m like this one this is the
1:32:54 space force this is going to patrick like no big deal so i
1:32:58 apologize for for stirring the pot on that
1:33:00 one i thought this one was an easy one um so what do you
1:33:04 recommend how do i go about this just
1:33:07 the board can provide consensus to allow the superintendent to
1:33:10 fund that that trip okay board can i get the
1:33:12 board’s consensus on allowing the superintendent to fund the
1:33:15 transportation to that trip yes i’m good
1:33:18 for that so can i yeah i just want some clarification is it to
1:33:24 provide funding for that trip from mrs
1:33:28 wright’s travel account is that what we’re asking yeah i think
1:33:31 that’s what she’s asking that transfer
1:33:34 funds that are allocated to the board for travel understood that
1:33:36 would otherwise be allocated to her for
1:33:38 travel to fsbaa correct i just want to make sure i understood so
1:33:42 yeah she’s asking the board for
1:33:44 consensus to move 200 from that uh no no this is a great
1:33:48 opportunity to take it from somewhere else
1:33:51 until we can hash out the the process and an agreement in the
1:33:55 board because i don’t want us to open this
1:33:58 up and then we have we’ve opened what i believe is a hornet’s
1:34:01 nest this is clearly a point of disagreement
1:34:03 between mr susan and i but we need we need more than just the
1:34:07 five of us seven of us to wait and i
1:34:09 think we need to make sure we can look at it and and go back and
1:34:12 find out when when did it change or
1:34:14 whatever but if there is there is there a another way to do this
1:34:19 besides 200 uh besides doing weird
1:34:22 things with the budget yeah so what i suggest is that we review
1:34:27 how the money is allocated right now
1:34:29 i believe each board member is given a string with with an
1:34:33 amount to begin one for travel one for
1:34:36 memberships as mrs campbell stated that’s what the money’s
1:34:39 supposed to be used for but with board
1:34:43 direction we can use it for something else i think a longer term
1:34:47 conversation would be do we want to
1:34:50 continue that restriction or that allocation travel membership
1:34:57 or do we want to take the amount that
1:34:59 usually covers travel and membership and put it in an account
1:35:03 for each board member to
1:35:04 authorize the use of that’s a different conversation similar to
1:35:08 what was happening before that mr susan
1:35:11 and mrs campbell have alluded to but right now if i have board
1:35:15 consensus we can make sure we pay for
1:35:17 the field trip with some travel money from mrs wright’s account
1:35:25 and we are you guys okay with bringing this back on march 31st i
1:35:28 think this is probably a good
1:35:29 area can we talk about it on march 31st okay all right we’ll
1:35:33 bring that back good good point miss
1:35:35 campbell you have board consensus to move that’s all three
1:35:38 people approved yeah at least three okay
1:35:41 all right we’re good okay anybody else got anything crazy want
1:35:47 to throw something on the table here
1:35:49 no i’m good actually this is good all right everybody else is
1:35:53 good miss campbell you’re good everybody so
1:35:55 far i just want to take a second miss campbell and agree with
1:35:58 you on the school zones years ago we had a
1:36:00 student that was crossing post road when they put up those midpoint
1:36:03 blocks you know the ones that flash
1:36:05 and they they go through there and was killed and so i started
1:36:08 this whole um journey of trying to get
1:36:11 into where the school zones are at try to slow the kids down
1:36:15 work with the dot and it was the biggest
1:36:17 honeycomb of stuff that i couldn’t there was no it took dot 50
1:36:22 approvals and 60 months to get a hold of
1:36:24 anything and do anything so anything you can do to support those
1:36:28 school zones in that area i’m 100
1:36:30 percent and thank you for bringing that to the board yeah
1:36:34 absolutely um i also went to the flag football
1:36:36 games um and when we were at the flag football games i walked up
1:36:40 and found out that i was going to coach
1:36:43 one of the teams that literally five minutes before it started
1:36:47 and um took it and uh had to go up against
1:36:49 one of my former coaches uh mr owens who i tied and then he beat
1:36:53 me in the finals so um it was a lot
1:36:56 of fun and had a lot of fun doing it uh i wanted to be send a
1:37:00 big shout out to gary miracle for what
1:37:02 he did um gary miracle held it here um and for vieira and i’ve
1:37:07 asked him to kind of work so one of
1:37:10 the things that you hear from all of our football coaches in
1:37:13 this flag football is that they want to
1:37:15 help coach but there’s no connectivity and we don’t have the
1:37:19 availability or the bandwidth to try to
1:37:21 start creating that so i asked gary if he would come in work
1:37:24 with our area and your areas and stuff
1:37:26 to connect the high school football coaches down to the
1:37:29 elementary school so that they can coach them
1:37:31 prior to the the little six-week season just to come down two
1:37:34 days a week they’re more than happy to do
1:37:36 it sure they just needed that availability and stuff like that
1:37:39 so he’s going to work on pulling all that
1:37:40 together um i uh i have some other things down here but i’m good
1:37:46 all right one of the things i wanted to
1:37:50 highlight on the flag football was i saw a lot of high school
1:37:54 football players reffing and supporting
1:37:57 and i think that was fantastic so kudos to those coaches who
1:38:00 reached out like the the bayside football
1:38:02 team was out in multiple ways supporting and i think that’s a
1:38:05 great partnership i don’t know if i was
1:38:07 going to ask mr robinson if he did it on purpose but if he didn’t
1:38:10 i think that’s a great idea to reach
1:38:12 out to our football coaches and ask them to get involved because
1:38:14 it’s so the kids loved it and it
1:38:16 was good honestly a lot of those guys they may never play in
1:38:19 college or pros but becoming a ref on the
1:38:22 side on the weekends is a good gig and if they’re getting this
1:38:24 experience they’re not getting paid for
1:38:26 this but if they’re getting this experience kind of built in i
1:38:28 think that would be great resume
1:38:29 building for maybe a good weekend job so the guy that runs all
1:38:33 of the referees is putting together
1:38:35 a package that we’ll look at that allows our elementary or i’m
1:38:38 sorry our high school students
1:38:40 who are 18 years old to start refereeing many of our things and
1:38:44 other stuff it’s a whole like feeder
1:38:45 system that he wants to put together so write what you were
1:38:48 saying and i just want to tell you i’m
1:38:49 impressed that you went down there so i have to definitely make
1:38:52 some of the music stuff now uh yeah
1:38:54 mr shuston i go to a lot of the things no i know you go to a lot
1:38:56 of things but it’s impressive that
1:38:57 you are supporting that sports stuff so thank you i didn’t shout
1:39:00 out to miss harris because she
1:39:02 i went to them as well i didn’t even put that on my thank you
1:39:03 because everyone else did but
1:39:04 miss harris thank you for attending all the north end ones
1:39:06 appreciate you and mr ramer
1:39:08 all right all right with that we’ll uh take a break no no no we
1:39:13 have one more oh yeah you have one
1:39:14 more this right does need a recess prior to us doing that what’s
1:39:17 that prior to voting prior to the last
1:39:20 vote miss right wanted to recess okay so we’re going to take a
1:39:23 recess then we’ll come back
1:39:50 Thank you.