Updates on the Fight for Quality Public Education in Brevard County, FL
0:00 Thank you.
6:29 Before we get into the rule of development or the public
6:32 hearings on the rule of development,
6:33 I want to let the board know that we’re going to pull policy 6320,
6:38 procurement and contracting.
6:41 So this is policy revisions to the procurement and contracting
6:44 section.
6:46 We brought the board, the board, the board, the board, the board,
6:58 the board, the board, the
7:03 this policy revision together we weren’t trying to sneak in any
7:07 you know increases in spending
7:09 authority or anything like that and we were just trying to get
7:13 up to speed with neighboring districts
7:15 and their levels and that kind of thing but because the board
7:18 had a little bit of concern over it and
7:19 the fact that we hadn’t really done a workshop or anything
7:22 explaining why we might want to increase
7:23 those thresholds what a difference it would make or what a
7:26 difference it wouldn’t make
7:27 with our way of work and we can continue with the policy the way
7:31 it is so we’re just going to pull the
7:34 policy right off and we’re going to clean up and just bring it
7:37 back at a future date with just the
7:39 language changes that we want to make not necessarily any
7:42 spending threshold increases but I didn’t want
7:46 to just pull it off in between the last work session and today
7:49 and people say what are they doing you
7:51 know they had it on the agenda and they pulled it off so the
7:54 idea is just pull it off here at the dais
7:56 because I can give an explanation as to why we’re pulling it so
8:00 again you know it wasn’t any
8:02 nefarious move to increase thresholds or anything like that it
8:06 was like hey you know what’s everybody
8:07 else around us doing so we’re going to increase to to match them
8:11 but we don’t need to make those
8:13 changes today right now in this cycle of policy review so we’re
8:17 just going to pull that one off
8:18 so mr chair when you get to that last one we don’t need to call
8:22 for a public hearing on it because
8:23 we’re pulling it okay I wanted to do it at the dais so the
8:26 public can understand why we’re pulling it
8:30 information agenda tonight also so will you do the same thing
8:33 same thing tonight okay thank you yep
8:37 I’m just curious uh I think that’s the superintendent um I know
8:43 based on our discussions um I don’t
8:43 I don’t know if the president board concurs but I would like to
8:46 see if in a future future date we can
8:47 bring back those uh those levels to discuss if they’re if it’s
8:51 you know some of the reasoning
8:53 behind moving those thresholds up correct yeah so so what we
8:56 talked about with staff is bringing
8:57 a like a workshop discussion first to say why we would benefit
9:02 from increasing the thresholds
9:04 for example we did see that we could reduce the number of board
9:08 agenda items you know items that
9:10 come to the board for approval if we increase the threshold but
9:13 that’s not really the sole reason
9:14 why we would want to do that so before we would bring any
9:17 increases back for approval we would have
9:20 that discussion so yeah thank you for bringing that up but we
9:22 would do that before we we bring it up
9:24 for approval very good sounds good yeah mr. chair I just would
9:27 like for the record to again reflect
9:29 that I’m not gonna this is no offense to anybody here but I
9:31 think we’re in a budget tightening times
9:33 not a budget loosening time so I won’t support it when it comes
9:36 forward for the increase just want
9:38 to make sure that that’s on the record because I’ve been
9:39 attacked in the public multiple times saying
9:41 that I did not uh advocate for it so I’m just putting it on the
9:44 record once again yeah I saw some of that
9:45 lunacy online all right thank you for that clarification all
9:48 right I’m just going to say
9:50 real quick before we get running through all of these are there
9:53 any I mean we kind of went through
9:54 them right everybody gave their say and now we pretty much have
9:58 had those does anybody have
9:59 anything they wish to speak about is there any of them that like
10:01 because I was going to roll through
10:03 them and I didn’t know if you guys wanted one or two of them
10:04 which one well you have to roll from
10:06 anywhere for public comment because it’s a hearing I understand
10:09 that but the only comment I wanted to
10:10 say because I found it online um miss right there we talked
10:14 about the kids badges and ours have a child abuse
10:18 hotline but the student ones I found it um in 21 22 in that
10:21 school year the state law changed and
10:24 requires us for at least for secondary students to have it’s
10:28 this national or statewide crisis and
10:30 suicide hotlines and text lines that is what is supposed to be
10:34 on the back of the student id cards so
10:37 that’s um we talked about maybe adding something else but the
10:40 state law requires us to have those
10:41 particular lines um dealing with mental health and and suicide
10:44 risk and all those kinds of things so I did
10:46 want to just report back I found it yeah no I appreciate that
10:49 and I saw it actually on my own
10:50 student’s id my suggestion was just about the fortify florida
10:52 and that’s because it came up from that
10:54 school safety conference and kids not knowing what fortify florida
10:57 was and a lot of times it’s because
10:58 we’re using multiple lines like the speak out so the suggestion
11:01 was just maybe just put the sticker on
11:03 there with fortify florida so we cover all the bases and then
11:05 that way kids know it’s on there when
11:06 they’re flipping their id over and looking at the back of it if
11:08 you got something that you’re going to say a couple more than
11:10 i did just and i can just tell you really quickly because i see
11:14 on it’s on policy number 2261.02 and
11:19 it’s parents yep legal guardian right so they i see that they
11:22 added the word the but they added the word
11:24 the in a spot that i wasn’t specifically speaking about so it’s
11:27 on page two and it’s under language
11:29 instruction for english learners that very first paragraph and
11:32 that was the one where it’s just a
11:33 simple word to add the word the but they added it actually down
11:37 below and i think it’s more fitting
11:39 in this very first paragraph to inform the parents of an english
11:42 language learner because otherwise it
11:45 kind of sounds as though they’re informing all parents in the
11:47 class it’s not well i mean obviously if
11:49 you read it further on you can kind of tell but i just think it
11:51 cleans it up on first glance well we
11:53 can get to that when we get to it let’s let’s let’s pull it let’s
11:56 get to it i just didn’t know if everybody
11:58 has multiples then i’ll just slow down but if i’ll just run
12:02 through just pop me if you go all right
12:04 we will begin our rule development and first public hearing on
12:06 policy revisions in group two board
12:08 policy review and rule development on the following policies
12:11 policy 211 parental involvement in the
12:14 school programs is there anyone present who wishes to address
12:17 these items is there anyone present who
12:20 wishes to address these items all right on to policy 2125 school
12:24 advisory councils for school
12:26 improvement and accountability is there anyone present who
12:28 wishes to address these items
12:29 is there anyone present who wishes to address these items
12:33 hearing none policy 2261 title one services is
12:37 there anyone present who wishes to address these items is there
12:40 anyone present who wishes to address
12:42 these items policy 2261.02 parents legal guardians right to know
12:48 is there one present who wishes to address
12:51 these items did you want to say anything no that that’s just
12:54 yeah ditto it’s on page two and it’s under
12:58 if you look at page two of the uh policy it says in bold you’ll
13:02 see language instruction for english
13:04 learners and then the next paragraph down it says the district
13:07 shall no later than 30 days from the
13:09 beginning uh sorry 30 days after the beginning of each school
13:13 year inform parents of an english english learner
13:17 identified for participation so if you said uh the word the then
13:21 obviously you’re pertaining to that child
13:24 not every like you’re telling right like you’re telling the
13:26 entire class that you’re as an english
13:28 language learner in the class kind of thing so i see that they
13:31 added the word the if you go down to the
13:33 next the very bottom they did add the word the there but i think
13:37 that might yeah yeah no it makes more sense to
13:41 be i mean not that we need to take the other one out but so just
13:44 to be very clear you wanted to read
13:46 and that first paragraph under language instruction for english
13:49 learners inform the parents of an english
13:51 learner identify yes participation okay i i totally agree with
13:54 that i don’t know because that’s probably a
13:56 poll question but if it’s just like a scrivener’s because it
13:59 counted as scrivener’s error we could make
14:00 that change and not have to pull it out of cycle or is that that’s
14:04 what he said the last time yeah that is
14:06 correct we we it can stay on track okay yeah i totally agree
14:10 with putting the the okay in the
14:12 right place one word it makes a difference right i feel
14:15 confident we’ve got it in the right place
14:17 good all right moving on policy oh wait is there anyone present
14:21 who wishes to address these items
14:23 all right one policy 2266 non-discrimination on the basis of sex
14:27 and education programs and activities
14:29 is there anyone present who wishes to address these items is
14:31 there anyone present who wishes to address
14:33 these items hearing none policy 2371 hope scholarships is there
14:37 anyone present who wishes to address these
14:39 items is there anyone present who wishes to address these items
14:44 hearing none policy 2421 career and
14:47 technical education program is there anyone present who wishes
14:50 to address these items is there anyone
14:52 present who wishes to address these items none policy 2450 adult
14:56 community education is there anyone present
14:58 who wishes to address these items is there anyone present who
15:00 wishes to address these items hearing none
15:04 policy 3129.01 tutoring is there anyone present who wishes to
15:08 address these items
15:09 is there anyone present who wishes to address these items
15:13 hearing none policy 5330.01 self-administered
15:17 medication and indefinite use is there anyone who present who
15:21 wishes to address these items
15:23 is there anyone present who wishes to address these items just
15:26 want to shout out and say thank you to staff for
15:28 adding the minimum of two i think that that clarifies it and
15:30 families will feel better about that yep yep
15:32 all right hearing none besides miss right policy 5330.03
15:36 administration of an epinephrine by trained
15:40 school personnel is there anyone present who wishes to address
15:43 these items is there anyone present who wishes
15:46 to address these items hearing none policy 5350 student suicide
15:50 awareness and present prevention is there
15:52 anybody here who wishes to address these items is there anyone
15:56 here who present wishes to present
15:58 these items address these items hearing none policy 5460
16:01 graduation requirements is there anyone present who
16:04 wishes to address these items is there anyone present who wishes
16:08 to address these items hearing none policy 5517.01
16:11 bullying and harassment is there anyone present who wishes to
16:15 address these items
16:16 is there anyone present who wishes to address these items
16:19 policy 5520 disorder and demonstration is there anyone present
16:25 who wishes to address these items
16:26 policy 5530 drug prevention is there anyone present who wishes
16:34 to address these items
16:34 is there anyone present who wishes to address these items
16:39 policy 5610 removal out of school suspension disciplinary
16:43 placement and expulsion of students is
16:45 there anyone present who wishes to address these items is there
16:49 anyone present who wishes to address
16:50 these items hearing none moving on policy 5771.001 safe harbor
16:56 is there anyone present who wishes to address
16:59 these items is there anyone present who wishes to address these
17:02 items hearing none policy 5772 weapons is
17:07 there anyone present who wishes to address these items hearing
17:13 none policy 5780 student rights parent rights is
17:18 there anyone present who wishes to address these items is there
17:21 anyone present who wishes to address these items
17:24 all right and then that brings the procurement one that we’re
17:27 pulling that doesn’t require us to even have
17:31 a vote on it so we’re good our first topic will be the board
17:35 discussion of fsba
17:37 fsba’s advocacy committee representative and alternative for the
17:39 upcoming term
17:40 um miss miss miss campbell has served diligently on that i
17:45 wanted to take a second
17:46 but your work on there has been amazing right and you’ve done a
17:52 great job and i wanted to take a
17:54 second and say thank you for all your hard work there you’ve
17:56 done great i think it comes down
17:58 to uh miss megan is not a participant so it comes between gene
18:03 me and john i move for the chair to
18:06 be the representative okay okay
18:11 all right so um which one of you guys wants to be you both want
18:18 to be alternates that way i can okay
18:20 that’s good um sounds good on that they need you need to pick
18:24 one because they decide yeah but they
18:26 can both have it they can both be alternates so i’m like i’m the
18:28 representative they’re the alternates
18:30 and we’ll change because i think it’s something that they could
18:33 go to and have fun all right next
18:34 topic will be a discussion on logo logo trademarks guys i i
18:37 wanted to let you know i added some of these
18:40 on here just because we need to have some discussions prior to
18:43 the the summer coming out because some of
18:46 these things are going to start stacking up right the other
18:49 reason i put it on here is we’re getting
18:51 ready to issue the cease and desist orders to all of the groups
18:54 that we’re doing this and just wanted
18:58 to kind of talk about this topic so right now we’re in the
19:01 process of getting ready to issue the cease and
19:04 desist that’s i’m going to go to walmart target and those areas
19:07 of publics and i’m going to say hey guys
19:10 here’s what this is i want to let you know about this and my
19:14 thought was that we would come back with
19:17 a policy by august 1st that gives direction as to who it is that’s
19:21 going to be approving how the
19:22 vendor process goes that would be a recommendation from the
19:25 school district but i kind of wanted you
19:27 guys to start thinking in this direction of what is that next
19:30 step in regards to how do we have
19:33 the local school and how do they approve a vendor to use the
19:36 logo don’t have to talk about it now just
19:39 one of those things go ahead you can weigh in yeah that’s what
19:41 this is about i just kind of wanted to
19:42 start no i’m actually i’m glad that we’re having this
19:45 conversation one of the things i think a lot
19:47 of parents look for when they’re they register their kid for
19:50 school is how do we get swag from the team
19:52 you know whatever sport they’re playing i would love us to be at
19:55 a place where we looked at our
19:56 schools having some some type of store there where parents
20:00 and families could go to the school go to the front office and
20:02 pick up sweatshirts or t-shirts
20:03 i think that would be a great thing to have you know some more
20:06 school team spirit around town
20:07 so far what i’m seeing in the north end so i’ve noticed like
20:11 publics has pulled any of the stuff
20:14 out and so now they’re they’re moving towards eastern florida
20:16 they have eastern florida stuff
20:17 in there and not ours which part of me is like oh it would have
20:19 been great if we could have gotten
20:20 this done and they can carry all of it or you know if we as a
20:23 district decide we’ll go the other
20:25 route and move it into the school sites i think that’s a good
20:28 opportunity i think it could
20:29 potentially be something that could even generate revenue for
20:31 each of the school sites so i would
20:33 love to see that i don’t know if that’s something that’s even
20:35 possible to get off the ground but it
20:36 would be very good i mean think about when when coco won the
20:38 state championship for football i was at
20:40 the coco walmart trying to find a coco tigers shirt like you
20:42 know looking for these things and you’re
20:44 like it would be great if i could just go to coco and go in the
20:46 front lobby and purchase a shirt right
20:47 there from them uh to support that program so part of the part
20:51 of the conversation just in regards to
20:53 what you said um there’s school online ones that we can say this
20:58 vendor is allowed to for titusville do
21:02 the online and they can also produce the ones inside of the um
21:06 you know like a school store um those are
21:09 all they already like i was using viera as an example because
21:12 they have relationships with people who
21:14 already print them they receive money back i think that there’s
21:17 about three or four large vendors inside the
21:20 community that i think that we could go to with conversations
21:23 and say we’re going to approve you
21:25 that if any school goes to your company and says they would like
21:29 to partner with you you have the
21:31 right to do so you just need their agreement to go so that would
21:34 give the school some autonomy to
21:36 utilize some of the approved vendors that might be there because
21:38 those contracts would be negotiated with
21:40 district communications along with us so that that school would
21:43 be able to get the revenue that they
21:45 deserve and they could view all of them um there’s just a lot of
21:48 opportunities out there
21:49 i do know that publix walmart and i have not talked to target
21:53 but they have in a 30 000 foot view
21:56 agreed that they would like to come in and do like a large
21:59 donation that would then be split between
22:00 the schools so that they could have um the ability to print in
22:03 all of their programs so there’s all
22:05 kinds of ways to do this i just wanted to kind of get you guys
22:07 thinking about it that’s all miss
22:09 campbell my thoughts are to leave it wide open so that schools
22:12 have as much opportunity you know once we
22:14 get the logo the trademark thing taken care of because every
22:17 school some schools are already
22:19 doing something like this like an online store but i yeah would
22:22 it be great for people just to walk off
22:24 the street but at the same time i’m always i always try to be
22:28 cognizant of the busyness of the front
22:30 office and the timing and do we really want this joe schmo off
22:33 the street walking in with our all our
22:35 security things and stuff going on so i just um i would love
22:39 schools to just for there not to be a
22:41 commandment from on high this is what you shall do but like here
22:44 let’s open up the door so that if
22:46 your school this works well great if it doesn’t work well you
22:49 know what opportunities do you have i know
22:51 at mel high for example which is where i’ve had kids last
22:53 several years they send out a link in the
22:56 newsletter here’s where you can get all the swag you want on any
23:00 type of item you want you want coffee
23:02 cup mugs hoodies athletic wear whatever it is and they go
23:05 through a vendor and that’s fundraisers usually
23:08 for the sports teams i know the band has their own association
23:11 that’s the other thing about when we
23:13 start doing fundraisers for the schools they they have to follow
23:16 our fundraiser policy right but these the
23:19 booster clubs the band organizations the all those things they
23:23 have a different set of roles and it’s
23:25 usually easier for them it’s kind of like with our schools
23:27 foundation for us right they’re the
23:29 fundraising arm so i just i don’t want to tie people’s hands i
23:32 want to give them hopefully what
23:34 we’ll be doing is opening doors open wider rather than restricting
23:40 them or trying to shove them a
23:43 certain way so whatever we do that’s that’s what i would like to
23:46 see is is keeping it as open as possible so
23:48 they can figure out what’s the best solution for their school
23:51 yeah no i i think that’s a hundred
23:52 percent mr thomas you had something to say nothing really to add
23:55 other than i mean i love the idea of
23:56 making sure that all of our logos are consistent but i certainly
24:00 want to be mindful not to restrict
24:02 like miss campbell said you know close that that doorway for
24:05 people to be able to get materials
24:07 we just don’t want a athletic director to be able to sign off
24:10 the logos on a non-renewing contract is
24:13 what we’re basically trying to get under control so thank you i
24:16 was going to also ask you guys um the
24:19 attorney with mr gibbs and i said would the other board members
24:23 want to be the people that go out and
24:26 talk to the businesses that are printing them because we have
24:29 the family dollar the cvs’s the walmart’s and
24:31 all those guys so i didn’t know because i’m going to go like i’m
24:35 going to go talk to him and stuff
24:36 like that and i didn’t know he said if you want to power teams i
24:41 think that’s more than but there are
24:45 some people that you may want to say hey like you know go in and
24:49 grab the local pto president or whoever
24:51 it is and say you want to come with me and stuff like that so if
24:54 you want to do that i’ll send the
24:55 cease and desist out to the entire board you guys can go in and
24:58 you know what i mean bring it in and do an
25:00 official bring a cease and desist into businesses hold on wait
25:03 hold on back up that is not what i
25:05 was gathering from this conversation so back up real fast can we
25:07 change it to request to cooperate
25:09 yeah no i do not want to hand deliver cease and desist to
25:12 multiple businesses are you by the way you
25:14 want a partner yeah yeah and we would love for you that’s no but
25:17 there are some people that need to
25:18 know that those prints that they’re doing are illegal and that
25:21 there are logos i’ll do all of them for
25:25 you guys all right so we had discussion about it if you guys can
25:28 kind of beat around with your
25:30 principals and then come back maybe at the next board meeting we
25:32 can talk about at the workshop
25:34 the next one is is that next year this is sports broadcasting
25:38 next year there’s been some our sports
25:41 are exploding and we’re starting to see our media partners are
25:45 starting to really get involved right
25:47 and we’ve been approached by a couple of them to do not only
25:50 middle school but elementary school sports and
25:52 all these things right fox news and everybody have been wanting
25:56 to do it and one of the limitations is
25:58 currently the fhsaa put some cameras in years ago into some of
26:02 our sporting venues and they say that
26:04 they’re the only ones to be able to broadcast the actual event
26:08 because they put them in it was something
26:11 that i argued against years ago i would like to look at that to
26:15 just say is there a way that if brevard
26:19 if the space coast daily and all the rest of them want to
26:22 publish what process we do it and it’s not
26:23 so much for the regular season as much as once we get into the
26:27 the playoffs what happens is is like
26:30 space coast daily or brevard news network or whoever it is goes
26:35 and applies to them says hey guys we
26:38 would like to broadcast this they pay the fee which is 500 to be
26:41 able to do it but fhsaa drags their feet
26:44 and doesn’t give them the approval wow so they don’t get the
26:47 actual opportunity there’s a lot of like
26:49 rubs that happen in there so i just wanted to go back and grab
26:52 it i’m going to do it anyway and i’ll
26:54 just bring it to the next meeting but i wanted to kind of give
26:57 you guys the the idea that i was going
26:58 behind it’s not it’s not to take away the cameras that the fhsaa’s
27:03 put in because there is dr indell
27:05 talked very positively about how he would take the camera that
27:08 they had inside the gym and place it on a tv so
27:11 when people went to go to the concession stand they could see it
27:14 there’s all more power to it but
27:15 there’s going to be i’ve been approached that there’s some some
27:18 people that want to put together
27:19 like an espn sports zone before the games in some places they
27:22 want to have interviews they want to do
27:24 all that stuff right i just want to make sure that it’s not
27:26 going to affect that that’s all and i’ll bring
27:29 it back and i just want to kind of let you guys know it’s coming
27:31 no i think it’s a great idea is there
27:33 anything do we have anything contractually in agreement with fhsaa
27:37 that makes it to where we’re not allowed to
27:39 have another it is it is so i believe the fhsa restriction is
27:43 you can’t broadcast the game live
27:46 without their consent or permission okay and what mr susan is
27:50 talking about is more like sideline
27:52 reporting right which would not be an issue or even happens all
27:55 the time already what about athletic
27:57 like doing the interviews like is that like a news totally fine
28:00 to do okay game stuff yeah it’s they
28:02 don’t want necessarily another vendor so to speak to have a
28:05 camera broadcasting the game and offering a
28:08 subscription service and all that kind of thing i want to take a
28:12 look at it live full game broadcast
28:14 that’s don’t we have i mean it’s been so many years i can’t even
28:16 remember don’t didn’t we get go into
28:18 a contract with a company that installed cameras it’s separate
28:22 from fhsaa correct and and they put we
28:25 was part of that we put wi-fi out in the stadiums and all that
28:27 kind of stuff i can’t remember the name of the
28:29 company or the contract but i just remember that it was for the
28:32 national fhs yeah yeah mrs campbell is
28:33 correct i believe it was with nfhs the national federation of
28:36 high schools and i think um that’s
28:39 not who the cameras are from but you know that’s who negotiated
28:42 that agreement and so there’s a camera
28:45 at every every football stadium press box and then in every gymnasium
28:49 that just you know broadcasts the
28:51 games live from one static camera point right and um you can
28:55 subscribe to that and that kind
28:57 of thing that was an agreement do we still have that contract i
28:59 believe so yeah i can check with mr
29:01 robinson so i wanted to look at that because there’s also some
29:03 places where the cameras never worked
29:05 but they’re still locking down this this policy and there might
29:09 be i’ll be completely transparent
29:11 there might be a big game that somebody might want to say i want
29:14 to put cameras all over this thing
29:15 and do like a real video like a real thing so i’ll just take a
29:18 look at it and bring it back we’ll talk
29:19 yeah that’s all um and then the ai discussion is um we need to
29:25 give direction uh so for full
29:28 transparency i talked to russell cheatham russell cheatham said
29:31 that on the may fourth the may 12th
29:33 board meeting he’s bringing forward a policy and stuff like that
29:36 my goal here was not to try to say
29:39 hey guys let’s go ahead and lock down and do everything right
29:41 now it was hey guys on may
29:43 12th we’re gonna have an ai policy conversation and one of the
29:46 things we’re doing is is we’ve received
29:48 from moms for liberty a pretty good background um there’s a neola
29:51 template coming and stuff like
29:53 that and i just wanted that in the event that you guys uh really
29:56 wanted to speak to it it’s coming
29:58 and just get ready for it that’s it i just want to speak to this
30:01 and i think i’ve said this again but
30:03 since we’re going to keep bringing it up i’m going to say this
30:06 again i i what i was what i heard was uh that
30:08 moms for liberty was it was a proclamation i will tell you i’m
30:12 not really interested in proclamation
30:14 i’m actually not even interested in the policy i’m gonna say it
30:17 again i’m interested in a framework
30:18 a plan how are we going to train teachers on what is okay and
30:22 what is not okay to use in the classroom
30:25 and have professional development ready to go how are we going
30:28 to train those teachers to train
30:30 students on the appropriate and inappropriate use so i because
30:35 again no offense to any particular
30:38 organization but i want to see the framework and the plan
30:40 because everything else to me is just words
30:42 and we’re already behind i’ve seen a few news of a few school
30:45 districts doing things here and there
30:47 but i the the plan is what’s the most important and i know mr
30:51 cheatham’s working on that so that
30:53 that that that heat that i might you might be feeling it’s not
30:56 towards him but i just like i
30:58 i we’ve been talking about at least since we got back from the
31:01 conference in december
31:03 and there are school districts around the state doing different
31:07 things and i’m ready for us to be
31:09 a part of that because right now it’s a little bit of the wild
31:12 west across the state because people
31:15 don’t know what they can and cannot use and there are totally
31:17 appropriate ways to use this there are
31:18 tools that will save our teachers time and our staff time and
31:23 and you know utility apps and things like
31:27 that but but we’ve got to have a they need to know from the
31:31 district what’s okay what am i going to lose
31:33 my job over or what what is something that the district is
31:37 saying no we want you guys to use this so
31:39 your productivity goes up um you know so i’m that’s what i’m
31:43 looking for and a proclamation is not
31:45 going to cut it for me well i think i think the proclamation was
31:48 part of
31:49 hey here are some items that we would like to see put into it
31:52 these are some of the things that
31:53 we’d like to put as ideas and i think i welcome those
31:56 conversations i think um also we may have
32:00 to put together a policy because there’s so many parts to it so
32:03 let’s see how it goes i hear what
32:05 you’re saying i’m really excited to move forward with it you’re
32:07 right across the state we’ve got it
32:09 i just want i wanted everybody to be on alert that this is a big
32:12 topic and we should be ready for a
32:13 conversation in a couple of weeks it’s the special session that
32:16 they just called though isn’t ai a part of
32:18 that conversation i was trying to look up to see i thought there
32:20 was a lot of talk with the
32:21 legislation on them addressing ai specifically with children and
32:24 so i think we might be wise to
32:26 just kind of slow down a little bit to see what that looks like
32:28 because there might be something
32:29 coming out of tallahassee that’s going to impact how we write a
32:32 policy that’s great i mean just a
32:33 thought that’s smart i know that’s all right well miss campbell
32:39 while miss campbell looks that up i
32:42 want to bring up another topic um we are now almost 90 percent
32:46 tested for the presidential youth physical
32:49 fitness things there’s a host of schools that are in their final
32:52 moments of doing the testing i would
32:55 love to get those lists to you guys so you could go out and
32:58 promote it um the idea is is that we will be
33:00 from what i’m gathering the only school district in the entire
33:04 state to move forward with a plan to
33:06 try to tie this to the presidential youth physical fitness um i’m
33:10 really excited about it because when
33:11 we called the company that actually prints the certificates and
33:15 has the computer programs they
33:16 were like having to dust off their stuff from way back when when
33:19 we got our lease certificates so i’m
33:21 really excited so i would like to send you guys some of the
33:24 schools that are still in your area
33:25 and understand that elementary middle and high school are
33:30 testing but in high school what’s really cool
33:32 is the rotc’s are testing so it’s pretty cool and the majority
33:35 of them have already gotten it done but
33:37 there are some still lingering ones and we’re going to do some
33:39 pr stuff on it so i’m really excited so
33:41 yeah that’s all i got um and then board members do you guys have
33:44 anything that you want to discuss i just
33:45 want to give a shout out because space coast is the only t the
33:48 only team from brevard county right now
33:50 that’s headed to um the state i’m just going to read this real
33:53 fast because they’re for their flag
33:55 football and i’ll be honest when flag football even started i
33:57 thought this is not going to be a thing
33:58 but it is a thing it is a huge thing for these girls uh so
34:01 extremely proud of them but they are headed
34:04 to play let’s see real fast i’m trying to find it and it’s
34:07 really deep into this conversation um
34:09 all right i’m not sure which they’re they they ended up placing
34:13 in there and making to the finals
34:15 honestly by the schedule which was pretty amazing but um their
34:19 final season sorry i
34:20 have to read a whole bunch of stuff to get to the final season
34:22 so they’re playing a team that’s
34:24 ranked i guess their record was 14 and one and sorry i can’t
34:27 find it right this minute but they
34:29 had a really good season and anyway so the only one from brevard
34:31 county for the flag football that
34:33 is advancing so cheering those girls on from the sideline here
34:36 and hoping that they bring back a
34:38 state champion flag football would that be amazing that would be
34:41 amazing wouldn’t it our i always said
34:43 this and i meant it that the sisters of every one of my football
34:47 players were much stronger and better
34:49 at the sports than they ever were so once we tapped into our
34:52 female sports like wrestling we have more
34:55 female wrestlers in brevard county than anywhere else in the
34:58 state and they win titles all the time
35:00 there is no doubt that when we tap all of the female sports that
35:03 we’re going to see it come out and
35:04 they’re so excited to play it because they get away from like
35:07 the soccer they play to flag football basketball
35:09 plays flag football it’s so cool that was something really
35:11 surprising to me because some of these girls
35:13 again being in that community and seeing these kids through
35:15 different sports whether it’s softball
35:16 volleyball whatnot they were they were athletes in multiple
35:19 different sports but they love flag football
35:21 so much that they’re like nope we’re going to do flag football
35:23 solely i’m like oh my goodness you’ve been
35:24 a softball player for the last eight years what do you mean they’re
35:27 nope they want to do flag football so
35:29 it’s been really cool to watch them and they are definitely a
35:31 force to be reckoned with so i’m hoping they bring
35:33 back that state title for us that would be pretty amazing what
35:35 are they playing they are playing today
35:37 actually so that’s uh it’s in i think pointon beach or something
35:41 it’s somewhere it’s not local um which
35:43 i was like man i would love to be there cheering you guys on but
35:46 i’m sure i’ll get updates and so if
35:47 i get any from parents as this is going on you may i may ask to
35:50 interrupt you mr chair and give you a
35:52 score update just in the game call them and text them um anybody
35:56 else have anything yeah just really quick
35:58 and i just forward this email to you um the special session that
36:02 starts today it’s just this week so we
36:04 actually should know by the end of this week what bill the it’s
36:08 it’s going to be filed it’s supposed
36:09 to be identical to senate bill 482 which the senate passed in a
36:12 regular session i think they have to
36:14 file again because it’s a special session but it’s supposed to
36:17 be the identical um bill that they’d already
36:19 passed so that’s senate bill 482 and i it’s in there’s a hot
36:22 link in the email that i just sent you
36:24 so we should know actually by the end of this week what the
36:27 state’s putting forward
36:29 uh when it comes to ai it does it there are going to be some
36:32 child safety protection things and public
36:34 records exemptions things like that um that that will
36:37 potentially affect us but um again we’ll know
36:40 by the end of this week so that should help um russell and his
36:43 team when we bring it back we should
36:46 at least have some answers the governor may not have signed it
36:48 by then but you know we’ll know it’s
36:50 coming he’s not going to not sign a special session he called um
36:53 anybody else got anything saving it
36:56 for them all good all right um wanted to give you guys another
36:59 quick update um elementary school sports
37:01 just so you guys know we hosted the elementary school golf
37:05 championship 40 participants more like
37:09 excited i thought that i was at the masters these kids were like
37:12 battling it out and they had a leader
37:14 board that was going on the whole time parents were their caddies
37:18 it was the coolest thing i’ve ever
37:20 seen so i’m going to ask them to come back to a board meeting um
37:24 in in honor of mr trent who likes to
37:26 play golf but i um but i did want to tell you that that was
37:30 incredible we also hosted a elementary school
37:33 track tournament melbourne the city of melbourne does it every
37:37 year they invited all kinds of elementary
37:40 school sports but they agreed that next year they would host the
37:44 championship for all elementary
37:46 school sports so like our elementary schools and they’re really
37:49 excited to um to do that next year
37:51 so we we basically took like wrestling track a couple other
37:55 little things and got like a little
37:57 championship together so that we could work through the formats
37:59 and stuff like that and now kevin
38:02 robinson myself gary miracle and a bunch of other guys are going
38:04 to put together elementary school
38:06 sports webpage where it has all the contact information so that
38:09 each pto can go and say hey we’d like to do
38:11 this or notify their kids and everything else um i also wanted
38:15 to tell you guys that the uh brevard
38:18 county red eyes which is the rugby team which is um they won the
38:22 state title this year and um they
38:25 went out and they almost won the national title and we have
38:28 always talked about bringing rugby um as
38:31 a sport to brevard so risk management risk management we’ve
38:35 always talked about it right now so i was
38:37 gonna i’m gonna bring that back as a um high school sport and uh
38:42 as a youth sport so i would like to
38:44 bring that back at a further date um and then mr cheetham i
38:47 wanted to say thank you for your
38:49 involvement in the ai platform everybody keeps saying that um
38:52 all these other school districts are doing
38:55 things i know that you’ll do it right um because we have the
38:58 best it guy um more than anybody else so
39:00 i’m looking forward to that ai platform resolution that you
39:04 bring or policy and procedures and everything
39:06 else so anybody else have anything dr rindell all right we’re
39:12 good that’s the end of the meeting
39:21 you