2019-05-28 - School Board Meeting

0:00 (upbeat music)

0:27 - Good evening, I’m happy to welcome

0:28 all of my fellow board members

0:30 and call the May 28th, 2019 school board meeting to order.

0:33 Whether you are in attendance here

0:35 or watching from another location,

0:36 my colleagues and I are pleased

0:38 that you took the time to join us.

0:40 We appreciate and applaud your commitment

0:42 to partnering with us in support of our schools,

0:44 our students, our staff, and our community.

0:47 While the board and Brevard Public School staff members

0:49 are fully committed to doing our best

0:51 to ensure excellence in Brevard Public Schools,

0:54 we know that our success depends heavily

0:56 on an engaged and committed community to work alongside us

1:00 and help us to continually improve.

1:03 Thank you for being active participants in the process.

1:05 Pam, roll call, please.

1:08 - Mrs. Belford.

1:10 - Present.

1:12 - Mrs. McDougall.

1:13 - Present.

1:14 - Mrs. Deskevich.

1:15 - Present.

1:16 - Mr. Susan.

1:17 - Present.

1:17 - And Mrs. Campbell.

1:18 - Present.

1:20 - Please join us for a moment of silence

1:21 as we mourn the loss of Tim English,

1:24 a member of our facility services team.

1:26 (silence)

1:37 Thank you.

1:38 Matt Reed, Assistant Superintendent

1:40 of Government and Community Relations

1:42 will lead us in the Pledge of Allegiance.

1:49 - I pledge allegiance to the flag

1:51 of the United States of America

1:53 and to the republic for which it stands,

1:56 one nation under God, indivisible,

1:59 with liberty and justice for all.

2:07 - At this time, I would like to offer

2:08 my fellow board members and Dr. Mullins

2:10 the opportunity to recognize students, staff,

2:13 or members of the community.

2:16 Ms. McDougall, would you like to start us off?

2:17 - Sure.

2:21 It’s been a busy week.

2:23 I want to say first, since our last board meeting,

2:25 we had the Merritt Island Community

2:28 listen in, or town hall, with Dr. Mullins.

2:32 I also was able to visit Gulfview

2:34 and present a few of the award pins,

2:38 and that was very moving.

2:42 That was a very nice thing I could do,

2:43 and then I went to Emma Jewell,

2:45 and Emma Jewell was my charter school,

2:48 and I did the same thing there,

2:50 and the teachers were very appreciative,

2:51 and they were surprised that I included them

2:53 as I’m being in charter school,

2:55 and I could see no reason why I wouldn’t include them.

2:57 I also went ahead and went to the

3:03 Rookie of the Year award at Freedom 7,

3:06 and it was for the, I wish I could remember the name,

3:09 the counselor there, and it was nice to see

3:11 that it was given to a counselor,

3:13 person after my own heart,

3:15 and then we had lots of graduations.

3:19 So it was fun to go to Merritt Island, Edgewood,

3:22 Cocoa, and Emma Jewell, all very different,

3:25 but all very well attended,

3:28 and if the class of 2019 is anything,

3:34 if all our future classes are like that,

3:36 I think there’s great hope for our country

3:38 and for the world, they were amazing students,

3:41 and thanks to the students,

3:43 but also thanks to the teachers

3:44 who got them to where they are.

3:46 So it was wonderful to go to the graduations.

3:51 - Thank you, Ms. McDougall.

3:52 Ms. Belford.

3:54 - Thank you, Ms. Duskovich.

3:58 So I had the opportunity this morning

4:00 to kick off my day with Space Coast Junior/Senior High School

4:04 with just a handful of great things

4:06 going on there this morning.

4:07 They had an 8 a.m. staff meeting,

4:09 and we started off the staff meeting

4:12 with celebrating their emerging teacher of the year.

4:19 So for those of you who may not be familiar,

4:21 our emerging teacher of the year is a second year teacher

4:26 that is just really showing great promise

4:29 and having great impact at the school,

4:31 and so Molly Forbes is our emerging teacher of the year

4:35 for the district and happens to be a teacher

4:37 at Space Coast Junior/Senior.

4:39 Phenomenal energy.

4:40 I can certainly see why she was chosen.

4:43 Also, Francine Drabeck was recognized this morning

4:48 at Space Coast Junior/Senior

4:50 for being our social studies teacher of the year,

4:52 and so she now will go on and compete

4:55 with other district social studies teachers

4:58 to potentially be a state social studies teacher of the year,

5:02 so congratulations to her.

5:04 I also was able to recognize three of their team members

5:09 with our pins.

5:10 All three received the Bridge Builder Award,

5:13 and all really around just going above and beyond

5:17 to support students, make connections for students,

5:21 develop relationships with students and with parents

5:24 and making connections with community organizations

5:27 to provide support, so congratulations to McKenna Diesel,

5:30 Ashley Moore, and Mr. Clark.

5:33 Mr. Clark, by the way, is their social worker.

5:36 I know we’ve had lots of feedback

5:38 about the importance of social workers in schools,

5:40 and Ashley Moore is their guidance.

5:44 Ms. M, give me her, what’s her official title?

5:46 - Guidance Clerk. - Guidance Clerk.

5:49 And both of them have really gone out of their way

5:51 to make that connection, and then McKenna Diesel,

5:55 interestingly enough, she is a science teacher

5:57 at Space Coast, and I left there

6:00 and went to two other schools to do recognitions,

6:03 and before I could get back to my house

6:04 to post recognition on Facebook, she had already posted

6:10 that she had received the pin

6:11 and she had a picture of the card,

6:13 and she was talking about the fact

6:14 that she truly loves teaching science,

6:16 but what really means the most to her

6:18 is building those relationships with our students,

6:20 so it was great to see that enthusiasm.

6:22 When I left there, I went over to Challenger 7,

6:25 and Ms. Carol Lee Webb, who is a second grade teacher

6:29 at Challenger 7, I think many of us

6:31 had received an email from a father

6:34 that was really complimenting her on her focus

6:38 on building relationships among her students,

6:40 building relationships with her students,

6:43 really working in concert with parents

6:44 to make sure that they are partnering for student success,

6:48 even in situations where there might be

6:51 some challenging parent communication for various reasons,

6:57 and so I went by to see Ms. Carol Lee Webb

6:58 and interrupted the second graders

7:01 going into the third grade classroom

7:03 to learn all about what is so super cool about third grade,

7:06 ‘cause they’re getting ready to move up,

7:08 and so I actually got to have the third grade class

7:10 and the second grade class there,

7:12 and Ms. Webb was so incredibly appreciative

7:14 of the recognition, so congratulations to her.

7:17 Left there and went to Mims Elementary,

7:19 where I had the opportunity to recognize Ms. Tammy Madison,

7:22 who is one of our ESE teachers, our pre-K ESE teachers

7:27 at Mims Elementary and has been working in that area

7:30 for several, several years,

7:31 and she just really is a rock star with her students.

7:34 That was generated from a letter from a parent as well,

7:38 who commented that her child coming into the class

7:41 was absolutely non-verbal.

7:43 They utilized sign language, and that was the way

7:46 that they kind of started working through things,

7:49 but Ms. Madison and of course the other support staff

7:52 that she works with have really gone above and beyond

7:55 to come up with creative solutions

7:57 to really help this child move forward and find success,

8:00 and they are heartbreak in that they will be leaving

8:03 Ms. Tammy the end of this year

8:04 to move on to another classroom,

8:06 but he’s shown such promise,

8:08 so congratulations to all of them.

8:11 I also wanted to give a quick shout out.

8:13 We’ve had lots of conversations about the value

8:15 and importance of school resource officers in our district,

8:18 and two weeks ago, I guess, we had a tragedy

8:25 in my community, the north end.

8:28 What is it, South Jacksonville that some of you all call,

8:32 call the north end of the county?

8:34 But we had a tragedy in our community,

8:36 and we have a school resource officer

8:39 that just really went above and beyond,

8:42 and I’ve called him and thanked him personally.

8:45 I don’t want to go into an enormous amount of details,

8:47 but basically what it came down to

8:49 is this particular school resource officer

8:51 heard of the situation, was concerned that it may impact

8:55 his children, meaning the students at his school,

8:58 and started reaching out and worked through

9:03 a lot of different channels to make sure

9:05 that although the students that were impacted

9:07 by the situation were not at his school,

9:09 they were students in our schools,

9:11 and so he really went above and beyond

9:14 to find all of that information, track down the students,

9:17 and make sure that they were okay and safe,

9:20 and I think that is obviously an absolute testament

9:23 to him as an individual and how much he cares

9:26 about our students and is committed to making sure

9:28 that they are doing well, but I think it also is a testament

9:32 to the value of having school resource officers

9:35 in our schools and the sense of community that it creates,

9:38 and our ability to really work together in partnership

9:40 to make sure that our students are safe,

9:43 not only when they’re on our school campus,

9:44 but in general, I think that’s such an important connection,

9:47 and so thank you to that deputy and to all of our SROs

9:52 who work to keep all of our students safe.

9:55 Obviously, congratulations to all of our graduates

9:57 and to all of those people that helped them to get there.

10:01 Had an awesome weekend with Astronaut High School,

10:04 Space Coast Junior Senior High School, Titusville High School

10:06 and had the opportunity to be here in the boardroom

10:09 on Saturday morning with Brevard Virtual School,

10:12 which had their largest graduating class

10:14 in the history of Brevard Virtual, 33 students.

10:18 Very nice ceremony if you’ve not had the opportunity

10:20 to go there, and then the very last thing

10:22 that I will say before I pass it on is,

10:25 I think sometimes we tend to focus on the academics

10:30 and the things that are going on in our schools

10:31 and our curriculum and our instruction

10:33 and all of those very specific things,

10:36 but in addition to the wonderful outreach

10:38 from the deputy that I referenced earlier,

10:41 had another situation recently in our community

10:44 where some of our students were impacted outside of school,

10:49 but I am just continually amazed

10:51 at how our school communities come together

10:53 to take care of our families,

10:54 regardless of what it is that’s impacting our students,

10:59 and not only just the students, but the families as well,

11:04 and really just making sure that we are doing everything

11:06 that we can to take care of them as a whole.

11:08 I know a lot of people have heard us reference

11:11 our crisis teams that go out to schools

11:14 in the event of a crisis,

11:15 but also just making connections for families

11:18 and ensuring that they have what it needs,

11:21 what they need to be successful,

11:23 regardless of the challenge that they’re facing.

11:24 So many things to all of you that do the tough,

11:27 tough jobs of making sure the gates are locked

11:30 and that students are learning and all of those things,

11:32 but also thank you to those of you

11:34 who are dealing with much deeper issues

11:37 with some of our kiddos and making sure that they’re okay.

11:39 I appreciate it.

11:43 - Thank you, Ms. Belford, Mr. Susan.

11:45 - First off, I wanna say thank you to everybody else

11:47 that’s out in the crowd that’s either had an impact on me

11:49 as a teacher and a former instructor,

11:52 or just as a friend of the district.

11:53 I see Mr. Salomon back there, who was my principal.

11:56 I drove crazy for a couple of years.

11:57 I see a couple of individuals,

11:59 see Owens over there, he used to coach football with,

12:01 but I really appreciate everything

12:02 that you guys have done for me in my life,

12:04 and I just wanna take a second and say that.

12:06 Next thing is, is that I wanted to say,

12:07 I think I saw Todd from the Viera Company back there.

12:10 There he is.

12:11 We have one of the most important agenda items tonight

12:15 in recent history for Viera.

12:17 We’re gonna be taking over the land

12:18 for the new elementary school,

12:19 and that’s a huge opportunity for us to grow as a community

12:23 and put another one of our schools on the map,

12:25 and I really appreciate everything you’ve been doing with us

12:27 and working with us throughout the years, Todd.

12:29 You’ve been a great partner with all the crazy things

12:31 that we do with fireworks and everything and parades,

12:33 but you’ve been great,

12:34 and so I wanted to say thank you to that.

12:37 I did have the, you know,

12:40 there was a meeting last week with the security specialist

12:43 to go over some things, some ways to improve,

12:45 and I did wanna send a shout out to Mr. Novelli

12:48 for working with them on that,

12:50 and coming together, you talk about security.

12:52 That’s another piece that we’ve been getting huge,

12:56 huge compliments for and working on their growth

13:00 and the improvement in that area.

13:02 Mr. Novelli, I really appreciate you reaching out to them

13:03 and working with them.

13:06 I did get an opportunity also

13:07 to go to some of those graduations of Galley,

13:09 Viera, Rockledge, Edgewood.

13:11 Those were all really cool, and I did wanna say,

13:13 I talked to a school board member over in Hillsborough County

13:15 and what they do is they actually have everybody

13:17 go to the fairgrounds,

13:18 and they have them go every hour or every two hours.

13:20 They just have them pump in and out,

13:22 and I think we in Brevard do it this way,

13:24 and it is amazing,

13:26 because every single one of those graduations is different.

13:29 Well, Galley has the huge American flag,

13:31 and then you have Edgewood

13:31 that has all the buddy playing bands,

13:33 and then, you know, Viera’s out on the field

13:35 and Rockledge is out on the field.

13:36 I mean, just some amazing things,

13:37 and what we do is more people-friendly,

13:41 more towards the students and faculty,

13:43 and it really shows how much we care.

13:47 I did wanna also say that big shout out to Harbor City

13:50 and Croton Elementary for their third grade ELA scores.

13:53 I mean, they knocked it out of the charts.

13:55 I mean, they moved up on the chart,

13:57 and it’s very hard for some of our Title I schools

14:00 to do what they do, and for them to step up and do it,

14:03 it was just phenomenal.

14:04 I have to give them a shout out.

14:05 Those third grade teams are tight.

14:07 When you go visit those schools

14:08 and you kind of walk into the staff meeting rooms

14:11 and stuff like that, they look at you

14:12 and they kind of go, “Get out of our way.

14:14 “We’re trying to do some work here,”

14:15 and that’s the reason is they’re showing those improvements.

14:17 I also wanted to say, talk about some of the things

14:21 that we don’t talk about very often is that Viera,

14:23 softball went to regionals and baseball went to regionals,

14:26 and also, shout out to O’Gally in the back room.

14:30 O’Gally beat Rockledge to then go to the regionals,

14:32 so huge baseball.

14:34 When you start talking about multiple teams

14:36 reaching regional playoffs,

14:38 that is phenomenal for what we do for athletics.

14:40 I would argue to say, and I do know that Central Florida,

14:43 we have more state championships in Central Florida

14:45 than anywhere else going across the state.

14:47 If you look at how many we have for football,

14:50 there’s nobody else, all the way through Orange

14:52 and all the way through, we have more of them.

14:54 That leads me to another comment.

14:56 Which one of you guys represents Cocoa?

14:57 That’s you, McDougall, right?

14:59 Well, there’s something called the barbecue bowl

15:00 that I want to talk to you about.

15:02 It’s Rockledge versus Cocoa,

15:04 so I want you to start thinking

15:06 about what we can bet against each other,

15:07 so who’s gonna win that game, all right?

15:09 I mean, I’m talking like washing cars

15:11 or something like that. - No gambling, Mr. Susan.

15:12 - What, what? - No gambling.

15:13 - No gambling. - It’s not gambling.

15:15 There’s no money. - You said betting.

15:16 - Gambling is money.

15:17 I didn’t say money.

15:17 Did you say money? - You said betting.

15:18 - I didn’t hear money.

15:19 So where’s the rule follower, this one?

15:21 All right, anyways, I did want to say thank you.

15:24 I had an opportunity to also go to Croton

15:25 and give out awards for Rotary, and that’s it.

15:29 That’s all.

15:31 - Thank you, sir, Ms. Campbell.

15:33 - All right, I think I’m actually gonna go backwards

15:34 and start with tomorrow, because tomorrow in this room,

15:38 from three o’clock to five o’clock,

15:39 will be the graduating senior job fair,

15:42 and I know I’ve tried to push it out there.

15:45 I hope you guys will share that, too.

15:47 I believe there’s gonna be

15:48 at least 40 companies represented,

15:50 so if you know a graduating senior who needs a job,

15:53 and I’m assuming that would be probably for this summer

15:55 or just for the next coming years, get ‘em here,

15:57 ‘cause I saw companies, like some retail shops,

16:00 like Bass Pro Shop, but I also saw some other businesses

16:03 on their long-term, the city of Palm Bay,

16:06 so encourage your graduating seniors to come.

16:08 There is a place online in Eventbrite where they can RSVP,

16:11 but I don’t think pre-registration is required,

16:14 but it is encouraged, so hopefully we’ll have

16:16 a big crowd turn out tomorrow.

16:18 As far as graduations go, it was lots of fun.

16:21 I only got to go to one,

16:22 because all mine were at the same time, so I had to pick,

16:25 but that one was really awesome,

16:27 but I wanted to just highlight one thing

16:30 that I think we all saw, and that was the students

16:33 who were committed to going into the military.

16:36 Especially coming off of Memorial Day yesterday,

16:40 my heart is touched and stirred.

16:42 I know it’s a great opportunity for our students

16:44 as far as a job for the next four years

16:49 and the benefits of the GI Bill,

16:52 getting part of your education paid for,

16:54 but that four-year commitment.

16:56 I mean, they’re committing at 18

16:59 for the next four years of their lives.

17:01 This is what they’re going to be doing,

17:02 where they’re gonna be living.

17:03 They’re not gonna have control over where they’re gonna go

17:05 and what they’re gonna do,

17:07 and the uncertainty in the world, who knows?

17:08 So that commitment means a lot to me,

17:10 and I just want to thank those students,

17:13 just like I try every time I see a former

17:17 or a current member of the military to thank them.

17:18 I just wanna thank our students

17:19 for making that commitment here on the front end,

17:21 because do you remember the numbers you sent us out

17:24 across the district, how many have committed?

17:27 But at Mel High alone, the numbers were at least

17:31 three dozen names that were called off,

17:33 and so just, I’m so thankful for those students.

17:37 And then just last Friday, this’ll be my last one.

17:41 Last Friday, I was able to go on a tour

17:43 of the air conditioning systems

17:45 for the Meadow Lane Central Row.

17:47 Those three schools operate off of one system.

17:49 It’s quite a challenge,

17:50 and it’s been quite a challenge this year,

17:52 but I just wanted to give my thanks to Dave Salanti,

17:55 who did the tour.

17:56 He was so helpful and so knowledgeable

17:59 and was able to communicate to us,

18:01 and that included myself, city councilman Dan Batchelder

18:06 from the city of West Melbourne,

18:07 and the three principals.

18:09 We’re not air conditioning techs,

18:10 but he made it where we could understand it.

18:12 And thank you, Sue, for sending him.

18:17 We actually got to walk into the guts of the system.

18:19 I took some pictures, ‘cause I probably

18:21 won’t ever get to go in there again.

18:23 But it was good to take a look and just to figure out,

18:27 and I just want our public to know,

18:29 because air conditioning has been a sensitive topic,

18:31 and we live in Florida,

18:32 it’s always gonna be a sensitive topic, ‘cause it’s hot.

18:34 But I was encouraged that our employees

18:37 are really doing the best they can

18:39 to try to make sure that our students

18:40 and our employees, their needs are being taken care of.

18:44 And even if it means a really noisy, temporary chiller

18:48 being parked on the backside of Meadow Lane Intermediate,

18:50 they’re doing that so that our students and our teachers

18:53 can be comfortable,

18:54 especially during this last month of the year,

18:56 and then also looking forward to the future solutions,

19:00 what we’re going to have to do for long term.

19:02 But I just really appreciate the tour

19:04 and our maintenance crew for what they do.

19:09 - Thank you, Ms. Campbell.

19:10 Dr. Mullins.

19:13 - Thank you, Ms. Deskevich.

19:14 I wanna start by expressing my appreciation

19:17 to Rolling Readers.

19:18 I had the opportunity, Mike is the executive director,

19:20 and I was able to participate in a fundraiser

19:23 called Art and Soul Brevard.

19:26 It was a wonderful event.

19:27 It was at the Fusner Art Museum.

19:30 A fantastic demonstration of artists around our community

19:34 that have their artwork on display,

19:36 but also had a great cover band,

19:38 and they’re raising money for Rolling Readers rights

19:41 and Rolling Readers draws,

19:43 bringing together writing and illustration students,

19:47 and I would encourage all of us to participate next year.

19:49 I told Mike I’d really put a plug in for it next year

19:52 because it was a great event.

19:54 I had the privilege of spending my morning

19:57 at Southwest Middle School last Thursday?

20:01 Thursday or Friday?

20:02 Thursday, I think?

20:03 With Carrie Friday, who is the media specialist,

20:07 and she is just an energetic inspiration.

20:12 She has turned her media center into a hub

20:15 for the entire school.

20:17 She collects data on the number of students

20:20 who are coming in to check out books,

20:21 how many books they’ve checked out,

20:23 how many classrooms have been there.

20:24 She works with teachers to facilitate hands-on learning.

20:27 She’s made her media center maker space 24/7.

20:31 It was, I had to wear running shoes

20:35 to keep up with her that morning,

20:36 and then on top of that,

20:38 the culture that she’s created in the media center

20:41 was so positive and so impressive.

20:44 I had the opportunity to work with a US history class,

20:47 with Mr. Blake’s class,

20:48 and then also a supported level class,

20:51 and the love and the engagement

20:55 and the inspiration she provided those,

20:58 our students there, was absolutely phenomenal.

21:01 So shout out to Carrie Friday.

21:05 Wanna give you some numbers of,

21:08 we all attended graduations last week.

21:10 I was fortunate to attend five different graduations,

21:13 but just to let you know how many we graduated collectively,

21:17 5,073 graduates, 2,050 of those students

21:23 graduated with honors,

21:25 434 graduated with their AA or AS degree

21:31 from Eastern Florida State College.

21:34 That’s a 20% plus increase from last year of 356 students.

21:39 That is phenomenal.

21:42 Strong, outstanding.

21:45 Last year, it’s over $4 million in college tuition savings,

21:48 if I remember correctly.

21:51 Great job to Eastern.

21:53 Yeah, let’s do that, thank you.

21:54 (audience applauding)

21:58 We had over 900 students

22:00 who earned Bright Futures Scholarship.

22:03 And like Ms. Campbell, the graduations I went to,

22:08 first to Mr. Susan’s point,

22:10 the tradition that is represented at our graduations

22:15 really makes them a very personalized ceremony.

22:19 So impressive from every graduation I attended.

22:22 But my heart was filled with the recognition

22:26 and appreciation for our students

22:28 who are committing to the military.

22:30 Every state, they stand, we recognize them,

22:32 and I’m so proud that our district

22:37 represents our armed services,

22:39 all branches with our students.

22:41 And then our graduating class of 2019

22:45 earned over $50 million in scholarships this year.

22:51 (audience applauding)

22:57 So not to mention, I’m waiting to get the statistic

23:00 on the percent of students

23:02 who graduated with an industry certification.

23:04 If it’s anything like last year, over 40%.

23:08 So very excited to see the accomplishments of our students.

23:11 Congratulations to our elementary schools

23:14 for a district-wide improvement

23:16 in our grade three ELA scores, improvement of 1%.

23:22 I wanna do a couple personalized shout-outs.

23:25 First, Darren Bolton and John Balazs in our print shop.

23:31 Our staff discovered very late last week,

23:35 one of our high schools,

23:36 the program that they have printed,

23:38 it’s a customized program,

23:40 discovered that they had misrepresented

23:43 or missed a student’s name in some of the recognitions.

23:46 And the school staff worked feverishly to get it corrected,

23:49 and Darren Bolton and his staff member came in

23:52 over the weekend, worked, I don’t know how many hours

23:55 or how late in the night and in the morning,

23:57 but they got the programs reprinted and delivered

24:00 to Titusville High School so that all of the attendees

24:03 could have the correct program.

24:05 Just a valiant effort on the part of our staff

24:08 and really a representation of what Team BPS is about.

24:11 So thank you, Darren and John, for your commitment.

24:15 And finally, I wanna share,

24:18 if you haven’t read an article in the Space Coast Daily

24:21 titled “Coco High School Afforded Me Outstanding Teachers

24:24 “Opportunities,” written by Jordan Rocco,

24:27 a graduating senior at Coco High.

24:30 And I wanna do a shout-out to,

24:33 I was so impressed with the quality of the writing

24:36 of this young man, and he gave personal appreciation

24:41 to one of his English teachers, Ms. Vanessa Skipper.

24:44 And Ms. Skipper, I wanna thank you for your leadership

24:47 to help our students, this was just a great testimony

24:49 of your great work with our students

24:52 and representation of his accomplishment as well

24:56 and representation of Coco High School.

24:59 So if you haven’t read it yet, you need to, it was great.

25:02 So thank you.

25:03 - Thank you, Dr. Mullins.

25:05 (audience applauding)

25:11 I’d be remiss if I didn’t mention graduation myself.

25:14 I wanna thank the teams that put together

25:17 each of these graduations.

25:18 I feel like I was a little closer

25:20 to one particular school this year

25:21 because I had my own graduate and I really saw,

25:24 and they also have a new principal.

25:26 And just seeing what goes into all the work and the stress

25:30 and what they’re doing to pull off a graduation

25:32 for parents and for students to enjoy.

25:35 So thank you to all our secondary teams

25:37 that are working hard, not only to get your students

25:40 to graduation, it seems like there’s so much panic

25:42 and finagling this last couple months

25:44 of students missing a credit or needing this to graduate,

25:47 to getting them through and across that finish line.

25:49 So to thank you to all of them.

25:52 I also, since the military seems to be a topic,

25:56 Satellite High had two students recognized on Saturday,

26:00 one for a Naval Academy appointment

26:02 and one for Air Force Academy appointment.

26:04 And those are, military’s awesome,

26:07 but that is like beyond awesome.

26:10 And I also attended their awards ceremony

26:12 and I think that the value of that is somewhere

26:15 between 150 and $200,000.

26:17 Maybe the Naval was even $400,000 by the time they’re done

26:20 with all their training, they’re investing in the students.

26:22 So super impressive.

26:25 We got news during West Shore’s graduation.

26:29 While we were standing there on stage that,

26:32 you remember last school board meeting,

26:34 I told you they were on their way to Monaco

26:35 for a mousetrap car race.

26:38 Four students were on their way.

26:40 They were invited, all expense paid to compete

26:43 in this global contest with these mousetrap cars

26:45 that they designed.

26:46 While we were there at graduation,

26:48 we were told that out of 500 teams globally,

26:52 we had four kids there, two teams,

26:54 one team placed second in one category

26:56 and one team placed third in another category.

26:58 So we are, Brevard Public Schools is on the map in Monaco.

27:05 I want to give a shout out to Adrienne Lafarge.

27:07 She is the music teacher at Hoover

27:09 and she was presented with one

27:11 of three emerging teacher awards.

27:13 So as Ms. Belford mentioned, one of the other teachers.

27:16 She’s a new teacher.

27:17 She’s the band teacher, director.

27:21 I’m not sure if I’ve got the terminology right,

27:23 but we were able to show up in there with the HR team

27:28 that went in and balloons and the students were excited

27:31 and she was extremely grateful to be recognized.

27:34 So thank you for all her hard work

27:35 and dedication to her students.

27:38 I want to give a shout out to Kim Donovan.

27:39 She’s the reading coach in the Atlantic Elementary School.

27:42 They had a reading celebration, an end of year celebration,

27:45 students that met certain milestones

27:46 and we were out under the pavilion,

27:48 literally silly stringing and dancing

27:51 and crazy costumes and hats

27:54 and the kids had a fantastic time.

27:57 And last, Surfside Elementary School ESE team.

28:01 The Ms. Masterson, the principal there recognized

28:05 and put them forward to receive the Bridge Builder pins.

28:09 And so we have three categories of pins we give out

28:11 and awards their bridge builder, excellence achiever

28:14 and big dreamer.

28:15 Each school board member and Dr. Mullins was given 25 pins

28:18 at the beginning of the year to award as we saw fit.

28:21 And I’m happy to say that I am out of Bridge Builder pins,

28:24 but I’m not out of the other two categories.

28:26 So it seems like, and I see as you guys mentioned,

28:28 it seems like we have a lot of Bridge Builders

28:29 within our community, and that was the theme

28:32 that Dr. Mullins set out for us for this year.

28:35 And I think that your district is proving

28:37 to be Bridge Builders.

28:39 So quickly, their names of their whole ESE team

28:42 is Faith Bowman, Mark Singleton, Sue Stocks, Nadine Willett,

28:47 Joe Lesher, Bree Lawhorn and Holly Srin.

28:50 And they, Ms. Masterson just couldn’t be more grateful

28:54 for them.

28:55 They’re a cohesive team who’s really putting all the supports

28:57 in place for their students and she just,

28:59 she saw their level of services go up tremendously

29:01 this year with this team.

29:03 And that concludes the board shout outs.

29:08 That brings us to the adoption of the agenda, Dr. Mullins.

29:15 - Ms. Deskovich and members of the board,

29:16 on this evening’s agenda,

29:17 we have administrative staff recommendations,

29:20 one presentation, one recognition, 28 consent items,

29:24 two action items and three information items.

29:27 You also have the yellow supplemental agenda,

29:29 which are changes made to the agenda since being released

29:31 to the public on Tuesday, May 21st, 2019.

29:35 Items A7 on administrative staff recommendations,

29:39 F11 on meeting minutes, F12 on student expulsions,

29:42 F19 on reappointment nominations of annual contract teachers

29:46 for 2019-2020 school year,

29:50 F20 on administrative and professional

29:52 reappointment nominations for 2019-20

29:55 and G40 on purchasing solicitations received revisions.

29:59 Item C9 on general fund balance overview,

30:02 F16 on district five superintendents

30:05 insurance advisory committee representative,

30:07 F21 on ratification of the 2018-19 collective bargaining

30:11 agreement between the school board of Brevard County

30:13 and the International Union of Painters and Allied Trades,

30:16 local 10-10 and item F22 on salary increase

30:20 and enhancements for non-bargaining personnel,

30:22 2018-19 R additions.

30:25 - What are the wishes of the board?

30:26 - Move to approve.

30:27 - Second.

30:28 - Motion by Mr. Susan, second by Ms. Belford.

30:31 Please vote.

30:31 Oh, any discussion?

30:33 Please vote.

30:45 Motion passes five-zero.

30:47 Dr. Mullins, will you please let us know

30:49 about the administrative staff recommendations?

30:52 - Madam Chair, there are 12 persons

30:53 on this agenda item for the board to consider.

30:57 - What are the wishes of the board?

30:59 - Move to approve.

30:59 - Second.

31:00 - Motion by Ms. Belford, second by Mr. Susan.

31:02 Please, any discussion?

31:05 Please vote.

31:17 Motion passes five-zero.

31:20 - Dr. Mullins.

31:22 - At this time, I would like to welcome and congratulate,

31:26 where is she?

31:27 Dr. Karen Ivory, there she is.

31:30 On her reclassification, yeah.

31:36 On her reclassification and transfer

31:38 from the position of principal

31:39 at Sherwood Elementary School

31:40 to the position of director of elementary

31:42 leading and learning.

31:43 Congratulations, Dr. Ivory.

31:48 - Thank you, Dr. Mullins,

31:49 and thank you, Mrs. Klein and Dr. Sullivan and my new team.

31:53 And I want to thank my old team

31:55 and the team that makes it possible,

31:57 my daughter, my mother,

31:59 and my old assistant principal, Mrs. McDonough,

32:03 and Mrs. Ray, who was,

32:05 I met her as my daughter’s kindergarten teacher,

32:07 and she’s been one of my biggest cheerleaders.

32:09 So thank you.

32:10 And thank you, board, for giving me this opportunity.

32:12 And I see my sixth grade teacher in the house,

32:14 so thank you, Mrs. Bear, also.

32:18 (audience applauding)

32:23 - All right, also.

32:24 - That’s not her, like, current sixth grade teacher.

32:26 That was when she was in sixth grade.

32:28 - Yes. - Wow.

32:30 - Who was also teacher union president.

32:32 - Yes, ma’am, yes, sir.

32:33 - And a bunch of other great things.

32:34 That’s what I just want to clarify.

32:37 That’s all.

32:39 - All right, I’d also like to congratulate

32:40 Miss Theresa Benson on her reclassification and transfer

32:43 from the position of assistant principal

32:45 at Vieira High School

32:46 to the position of principal

32:48 at West Melbourne Elementary School for Science.

32:51 (audience applauding)

32:56 - This is such a great honor.

32:57 Thank you so much, board, Dr. Mullins, the cabinet staff.

33:01 Thank you so much.

33:05 To be named the principal at West Melbourne Elementary

33:08 is such an honor, not only to,

33:11 because of the School for Science component,

33:13 the technology component,

33:15 being able to create those partnerships.

33:17 I’m so excited.

33:18 I want to thank my family, first of all,

33:20 for moving to Brevard County.

33:22 I’m so grateful.

33:24 I’m so glad my husband liked the house that I bought

33:26 through FaceTime.

33:27 That was so nice.

33:30 But just being here and being part of this county

33:34 has been wonderful.

33:36 I have so many mentors to thank,

33:37 not only in Broward County where I was a teacher,

33:40 Union County where I was a principal,

33:42 but here in Brevard County.

33:43 I have Ms. Finstead at McCulloch Elementary.

33:47 She’s my mentor principal.

33:49 I have Wes Harold at Williams Elementary

33:53 where I did a teaching position there.

33:55 Mike Alba, Sarah Robinson, my admin team

33:59 at Viera High School.

34:01 Heather Smith is representing them tonight.

34:03 I’m so happy that you guys are here.

34:04 Thank you.

34:06 But just being here and being a part of Brevard

34:11 and knowing that no matter where my life

34:13 was taken, I was born and raised in Florida.

34:17 I knew I was gonna come back to Florida

34:19 and I’m so glad that Brevard County is my home.

34:21 Thanks so much for this honor.

34:23 (audience applauding)

34:27 - Congratulations are also in order

34:29 for Ms. Cherie Cochran on her reclassification

34:32 and transfer from the position of teacher on assignment

34:34 at Cambridge Elementary School to the position

34:37 of assistant principal at Apollo Elementary School.

34:40 Congratulations.

34:41 - Thank you, Dr. Mullins and members of the school board

34:44 for this opportunity to serve the students of Apollo

34:47 as an assistant principal.

34:49 I couldn’t have done this without the support of my family.

34:51 I’ve got here tonight my mom and dad, my three children,

34:53 my sister, who’s also a teacher with BPS.

34:56 She’s a resource teacher here at the district,

34:58 my husband, Brian.

35:00 Thank you to my current admin team at Cambridge,

35:03 Dr. Speer and Ms. Tagee.

35:05 Thank you to Mr. O’Leary and I look forward

35:07 to working with you and Ms. Wise and the Apollo team

35:10 and go Eagles.

35:12 (audience applauding)

35:16 - We wanna recognize and congratulate Ms. Jamie Miner

35:19 on her reclassification and transfer from the position

35:22 of teacher on assignment at Coquina Elementary School

35:25 to the position of assistant principal

35:27 at Coquina Elementary.

35:28 Congratulations.

35:29 - Thank you.

35:30 Thank you, Dr. Mullins.

35:31 Thank you to the board.

35:33 I wanna start off by thanking everyone

35:35 that’s here with me tonight, my boyfriend, Chris,

35:37 and one of my best friends, Michelle.

35:39 They have been my cheerleaders and my supporters

35:41 along this journey.

35:43 To my principal, Blair Lovelace,

35:45 and to my assistant principal,

35:47 who sadly we’re losing, Kim Harris.

35:50 They have been amazing.

35:52 They have thrown everything at me

35:54 that they could possibly think of to get me ready for this.

35:57 And I can’t thank you enough for that learning opportunity

35:59 and allowing me to grow each and every day.

36:02 Thank you to Ms. Sylvester and Ms. Klein

36:05 for believing in me.

36:06 I am absolutely honored to be the assistant principal

36:09 at Coquina Elementary School.

36:11 And thank you to Dr. John Harris

36:13 for encouraging me to come over to Brevard County

36:17 and be an amazing mentor.

36:19 Thank you so much.

36:20 (audience applauding)

36:25 - All right, next we congratulate Ms. Erica Back

36:27 on her reclassification and transfer

36:29 from the position of teacher on assignment

36:31 at Fair Glen Elementary School

36:33 to the position of assistant principal

36:35 at Dr. W.J. Creole Elementary.

36:38 - Thank you.

36:40 I consider it an honor and privilege to be here tonight.

36:43 The appointment of assistant principal

36:45 is something that I don’t take lightly.

36:48 I’m fully committed to seeing students succeed

36:51 and I’m excited about working with a team

36:54 that’s passionate about it.

36:57 I have had an amazing team

36:59 that has been with me along the way.

37:01 My husband’s my rock.

37:03 I have parents who are unconditionally supportive

37:07 along the way.

37:08 My children who have put up with me not cooking dinners

37:11 and things of that sort

37:13 and understanding and being patient

37:15 and just my whole entire family that’s on the home front.

37:19 As far as work is concerned,

37:22 I’ve had amazing leaders over the years

37:25 who have truly pushed me to where I am today.

37:29 It starts from Jane Klein who pushed me many years ago

37:33 when I was a bookkeeper to follow my dream

37:35 and my passion of being a teacher.

37:38 And then from being a teacher,

37:39 I’ve had leaders like Blair Lovelace, Angela Owens,

37:44 Catherine Murphy, Amy Delago,

37:46 who have pushed me, Stephanie Hall, to be where I am today.

37:51 My poor current admin team has put up with me

37:54 asking endless questions,

37:57 has truly supported me when I maybe have doubted myself.

38:01 And then I’m extremely excited for my new admin team

38:05 who is willing to give me the chance

38:08 to lead and guide alongside of them.

38:09 And I couldn’t be more happier and proud.

38:13 And thank you board for appointing me this evening.

38:16 (audience applauding)

38:20 - Congratulations to Melanie Nelson on her reclassification

38:24 and transfer from the position of guidance services

38:26 professional at Kennedy Middle School

38:29 to the position of assistant principal

38:30 at Pinewood Elementary.

38:32 Congratulations.

38:33 - Thank you.

38:34 Thank you to the board and thank you Dr. Mullins

38:36 for the opportunity.

38:38 I wanna thank Jane Klein for hiring me 14 years ago

38:42 when I came to Brevard County.

38:44 I wanna thank Ms. Tomlinson, my current administration

38:49 for her guidance this year,

38:50 along with several others in this room.

38:52 And I thank my kids for being patient with me,

38:55 Brielle and Bryce, as I’ve ventured out on this journey.

38:58 So, and thank you to Ms. Robinson

39:01 for giving me the opportunity.

39:03 I’m super excited to serve the Panther community.

39:07 (audience applauding)

39:11 - Congratulations to Nicholas Stewart

39:13 on his reclassification and transfer

39:15 from the position of 10 month assistant principal

39:17 at Space Coast Junior Senior High

39:19 to the position of 12 month assistant principal

39:21 at Edgewood Junior Senior High.

39:24 Congratulations.

39:25 - Thank you Dr. Mullins.

39:26 Thank you to the board.

39:27 I appreciate the opportunity.

39:29 Big thank you to Ms. Angrada for believing in me.

39:31 I’m super excited to hit the ground running at Edgewood.

39:34 Big thank you to Ms. Majeskovic,

39:36 who has guided me over the last couple years

39:39 and given me lots of professional growth opportunities,

39:42 PGOs as we call them.

39:44 So thank you, and a huge thank you to my support here,

39:48 my lovely wife Katie, and my two angels, Avery and Olivia.

39:52 (audience applauding)

39:57 - All right, congratulations to Mr. John Roosh

40:00 on his reclassification and transfer

40:02 from the position of 10 month assistant principal

40:04 at O’Gally High to the position of 12 month

40:07 assistant principal at O’Gally High School.

40:09 Go Commodores.

40:10 - Go Commodores.

40:11 Thank you board, thank you Dr. Mullins.

40:13 Wanna thank Dr. Sullivan for hiring me in Brevard County,

40:17 and then thank you to Ms. Vega for giving me the opportunity

40:21 and also for Mr. Solomon to let me continue

40:25 in Brevard Public Schools to the next step.

40:27 Thank you.

40:28 (audience applauding)

40:33 - We also wanna congratulate Ms. Angela Owens

40:35 on her reclassification and transfer

40:37 from the position of 10 month assistant principal

40:39 at Merritt Island High to the position

40:41 of 12 month assistant principal at Palm Bay High.

40:45 - Thank you Dr. Mullins and school board.

40:47 It is definitely an honor to be able to serve

40:49 Brevard County Public Schools.

40:51 To my husband who does it all behind the scenes,

40:54 he’s been my rock through it all,

40:56 and he’s made many sacrifices so that I can continue

40:59 upon my educational leadership journey.

41:02 To my former principals, and there’s a few of you

41:05 in here today, to the elementary and secondary directors,

41:09 and to Ms. Klein and Dr. Sullivan,

41:11 thank you for everything you’ve put in place

41:13 for me to be where I am today.

41:15 You guys have inspired me, you guys have guided me,

41:18 and taught me all the great aspects of a leader.

41:22 To Mr. Ramer, it’s been one great year together.

41:26 It’s sad at the same time, but you have believed in me,

41:30 and you have given me so many opportunities

41:32 to grow as an educational leader,

41:34 and for that I’m so thankful.

41:36 Finally, to Mr. Kaminsky, I am very excited

41:39 for this opportunity, and to be able to serve

41:41 alongside your administrative team,

41:43 and I look forward to serving the community,

41:45 the parents, and the faculty, and of course the students

41:48 at Palm Bay Magnet High School.

41:49 Thank you.

41:50 (audience applauding)

41:56 - And last, but certainly not least,

41:59 congratulations to Jamie Russell

42:01 on his reclassification and transfer

42:03 from the position of 10-month assistant principal

42:05 at Astronaut High to the position

42:07 of 12-month assistant principal at Astronaut High School.

42:11 (audience applauding)

42:16 - I’d like to first off thank Dr. Mullins

42:17 and the board for the opportunity.

42:20 I’d like to also thank Mr. Novelli, Dr. Sullivan,

42:25 and Mrs. Bowman for being my mentor,

42:29 for helping me for the last four years

42:30 in the position I am, and to just be there for me

42:34 when I needed you guys to be, and thank you very much.

42:37 I also want to thank my principal,

42:39 current and gonna be continuing, Mrs. Miller,

42:42 for pushing me, for helping me be the leader

42:45 that I continue to be, and hopefully to continue

42:48 to push me and be who I need to be.

42:51 Lastly, I want to thank my wife,

42:53 who’s about there with my four little children.

42:56 (audience laughing)

42:57 We’ve had a fun ride, but she’s there,

43:02 and I couldn’t do it without her, and thank you very much.

43:07 And I just look forward to the opportunity, thank you.

43:10 (audience applauding)

43:18 - I’ll just note that there was no shortage

43:20 of PGOing out there, professional growth opportunities.

43:24 So good job, principals, way to give them opportunities,

43:27 and keep delegating.

43:30 - Thank you. - Ms. Duskovich?

43:32 - Yes, Ms. Pelperin. - May I take just one second?

43:34 I just want to point out, while Jamie Russell

43:37 did give his wife due appreciation,

43:39 and I’m sure that she appreciates that,

43:43 his wife, Jamie Russell, also happens to be a member

43:46 of the Pinewood team, so not only is she like

43:48 rock star wife, supporting him in his growth in the–

43:52 district and two twins new twins how old are they now two and a

43:59 half month old

44:00 twins and and a firecracker member of the Pinewood team so thank

44:04 you both to

44:05 all that your family does for the district

44:11 Thank You miss Belford and I just add that’s quite a large

44:15 amount of new

44:17 administrators and administrators that have moved into new

44:20 positions and we

44:21 know the value of good leadership so we’re expecting and hoping

44:26 and

44:26 supporting and planning on you setting a good tone in your

44:30 schools and and

44:31 supporting our staff our teachers and our students we’re

44:35 depending on you so

44:36 thank you all very much we are now time it’s not time to move on

44:41 to our

44:42 recognition portion of our meeting dr. Mullins Thank You miss

44:46 Teskevich I’d

44:47 like to welcome miss Marcia booth founder and president of

44:52 recycle Brevard

44:53 who will be making a presentation to Robert Lewis Stephen L

44:57 Stevenson

44:57 elementary school for being selected to receive the League of

45:01 Women voters of

45:02 the Space Coast recycling award this boot today I’m representing

45:13 the League

45:13 of Women voters I’m coordinator of the recycling awards for the

45:18 league and the

45:20 league is honored to be here and offering and having the

45:23 opportunity to

45:24 once again present this the award at the school board meeting to

45:29 recognize the

45:30 school and efforts of our schools here thank you to Charles Mac

45:34 and Martin and

45:36 Joseph Montemar no Bruce Lindsay and sue Han for the support

45:43 this year’s award so

45:45 just to give you a little history of the award so it started in

45:50 1997 and the

45:53 League of Women voters of the Space Coast recycling awards in

45:56 corporation

45:57 with Brevard Public Schools has has presented Brevard schools

46:00 with a

46:01 challenge have students come up with ways to improve recycling

46:05 practices and

46:06 educate others on the importance of recycling with the goal of

46:10 encouraging

46:11 reflection and further action about recycling efforts the award

46:15 program

46:15 recognizes schools whose projects best represent their knowledge

46:20 and experience

46:21 with recycling three volunteer judges helped select this year’s

46:27 award

46:27 recipient from Brevard County solid waste management department

46:31 it was

46:32 Andrea Bolifo from Brevard Public Schools with Joseph Montemar

46:37 no and

46:38 from our league it was Fran bear thank you for all the help I

46:44 would like to

46:46 also thank the schools that participated in the program this

46:49 year we had five

46:50 applications and three submissions in the end we very much

46:53 appreciate your

46:54 efforts in learning and practicing recycling and your

46:57 participation in our

46:59 program so now I would like to invite our current president miss

47:06 Jackie

47:06 Chandler chairperson desco bitch and superintendent dr. Mullins

47:13 to join me to

47:14 present the award so the elementary school selected to receive

47:19 the award

47:20 this year with Stevenson elementary principal

47:33 principal Cornell project leader miss Rivera gray the class of a

47:40 sixth grade

47:41 class they planned the whole project and it was a very involved

47:45 project they had

47:47 a skit video they filmed they did a project a fundraiser and you

47:51 know it was

47:52 some research and survey in the school so it was a very

47:56 impressive project so

47:58 and the project was titled the great garbage project

48:28 you

49:28 miss desco bitch if I may since we have Stevenson elementary

49:35 school in the house

49:35 I missed this earlier so mr. corneau received word on Saturday

49:45 that their

49:47 fourth grade Odyssey of the mind team the youngest students to

49:51 compete at

49:52 world championship received their rating placing them at 18th in

49:57 the world

49:57 against over sixty other countries competing at world

50:01 championships

50:02 congratulations we talked about bombard rep being represented

50:13 across the world

50:14 and that’s true through Odyssey of the mind as well great job

50:17 Stevenson very

50:18 proud fantastic young lady are you part of the Odyssey of the

50:25 mind team

50:25 congratulations it’s a big account but where was that where was

50:29 it held this

50:29 year in Michigan did you have a good trip that’s wonderful where

50:38 did Mike go

50:44 Mikey back then are you behind the curtain no there you go come

50:49 back out

50:49 with your camera let’s let’s at least get the school represented

50:52 for another

50:53 picture mr. mr. Cornell dr. Cornell come on back up here

51:23 okay we are on to the presentation portion

51:53 of our meeting I have asked miss zurker and dr. Mullen’s and

51:59 miss zurker to

51:59 prepare an explanation about our general fund balance a little

52:04 bit more of a

52:04 breakdown overview so dr. Mullen’s miss zurker chief financial

52:10 officer is here

52:11 to provide us with the general fund balance overview miss zurker

52:15 thank you

52:16 dr. Mullen’s good evening board as stated at the request of the

52:21 superintendent this presentation is to provide information

52:25 regarding the 2017

52:27 18 ending fund balance fund balance is a non-recurring funds

52:35 that are the result

52:36 of an accounting equation takes the revenues net of expenditures

52:40 added to

52:41 the beginning fund balance and beginning fund balance is the

52:45 ending fund balance

52:46 from the previous year fund balance is made up of non-recurring

52:50 dollars while

52:52 it may fluctuate by the net difference of revenues and

52:55 expenditures and the mix

52:56 may fluctuate once they are spent they are gone our current for

53:02 17 18 our

53:03 percent of total revenues to fund balance was 10.66 percent fund

53:12 balance

53:12 reporting for financial statements is governed by the

53:15 governmental accounting

53:16 standards board commonly known as gas be statement number 54

53:21 fund balance

53:22 reporting and governmental fund types per the standard we are

53:26 required to

53:27 report our fund balances as non spendable inventories and

53:32 prepaids

53:32 restricted which are funds that have external restrictions on

53:37 the usage

53:38 committed which are funds that the board through action

53:42 restricts their uses or

53:44 commits their uses to a specific item assigned which are funds

53:50 that are planned

53:51 to be used for a specific purpose and unassigned are all line

53:55 items within the

53:56 fund balance that do not fit into the other four category in

54:00 addition the

54:02 Department of Education measures the financial stability of

54:05 school districts

54:06 with a financial condition ratio the pen there is penalties

54:13 according to Florida

54:15 statute ten eleven point oh five one guidelines for general

54:19 funds if the fund

54:21 balance dips below three percent across the state per the DOE

54:26 information the

54:29 financial condition ratios range from zero percent to twenty two

54:35 point six five percent with a

54:36 median of eight point one five percent district statewide the

54:41 sum of the

54:42 assigned and unassigned fund balance divided by total revenues

54:47 equals the

54:47 financial condition ratio for Brevard County schools it is eight

54:53 point two six

54:54 percent as of the end of fiscal year 17-18 taking a look for

55:02 transparency’s

55:03 sake and desire at a line item breakout of the budget we see the

55:10 different items

55:12 that actually get put into fund balance in preparing for this

55:16 presentation it

55:17 came to our attention that in a previous presentation encumbrances

55:21 had been

55:22 slightly overstated and the carry forwards included reserves

55:27 tonight we’re

55:28 going to work with the correct breakout of the total fund

55:34 balance starting with

55:37 inventory on hand we are going to look at each item individually

55:42 and provide

55:43 explanation of what makes that up inventory on hand is an

55:48 accounting of

55:49 consumable supplies and repair parts the warehouse maintains

55:54 consumable supplies

55:55 for use by schools and departments some examples of what they

56:00 hold our paper

56:01 goods markers and binders facilities and maintenance maintains a

56:05 supply of

56:06 construction and repair parts some of those would be plumbing

56:10 materials

56:11 electrical supplies spools of wire refrigerants and antifreeze

56:16 cabinetry

56:17 materials etc and lastly the transportation department maintains

56:22 a

56:22 supply of bus and vehicle repair parts include engine parts

56:27 batteries tires

56:28 headlights taillights bus paint oil lubricants etc these are all

56:35 items on

56:36 hand and would be expensed as used moving on to prepaid expenses

56:44 within our

56:45 prepaid expenses is our property and general liability insurance

56:49 premium the

56:51 annual insurance premium is due April 1st the contract runs from

56:56 April 1

56:56 through March 31st according to generally accepted accounting

57:02 principles

57:02 a portion of that premium should be recognized in the current

57:07 year for

57:08 months April through June a portion for the next fiscal year

57:13 July through March

57:15 are placed on the balance sheet as a prepaid asset and then a

57:19 portion of fund

57:20 balance is recognized as the prepaid asset the month this is a

57:26 holding place

57:28 for the payment of monthly PNG insurance premium and that

57:32 monthly premium is

57:34 $6,000 this line item won’t be fully was fully expended at the

57:44 end of March

57:45 moving to state categoricals this is funding through the state

57:52 that is not

57:53 discretionary but mandated by the state on how these funds must

57:57 be spent all of

57:59 these funds are spent in support of our schools some of the

58:02 examples that are

58:04 included in state categoricals include the mental health

58:08 allocation safe

58:09 schools schools of hope reading allocation DJJ supplemental

58:14 allocation

58:15 instructional materials teacher classroom supply assistance

58:20 digital

58:21 classroom allocation school recognition adult education or

58:25 workforce and our

58:26 voluntary pre-k program these are required externally required

58:31 by the

58:31 state on how we must spend them moving to the committed fund

58:37 balance from began

58:39 in fiscal year 17 18 recommended by the superintendent and

58:43 approved by the board

58:45 to take non-recurring dollars totaling almost 5.9 million and

58:50 pay for 16

58:52 instructional coaches seven social workers school security

58:56 resource

58:56 officers centralized internal accounts and athletic assistance

59:01 over three years

59:02 17 18 18 19 19 20 at the end of 17 18 there was 3.9 million

59:10 dollars still in

59:12 committed 1.9 of that or approximately half of it will be paid

59:17 used in the 18

59:18 19 year to cover these expenses the remainder will be used in

59:22 the 1920 year

59:27 moving to encumbrances these are open purchase orders for goods

59:33 and services

59:35 that were still outstanding as of June 30th 2018 some of the

59:40 purchase orders

59:41 that were included in this listing is supplies computer hardware

59:46 subscription

59:47 fees for software furniture fixture and equipment specialized

59:52 services of

59:53 contractors that provide maintenance for our facilities remodel

59:57 and renovation

59:59 contracts oil and grease purchases tire and tubes and bank

1:00:04 charges carry

1:00:07 forwards our remaining balances and accounts that can carry

1:00:13 forward into the

1:00:14 new fiscal year some examples include but are not limited to

1:00:19 adult ed advanced

1:00:21 placement ace program art education Avid Cape DJJ driver’s ed

1:00:30 elementary math

1:00:31 program facility use fees collected at the school gifted henna

1:00:36 car arts

1:00:37 international baccalaureate program lacrosse legacy club

1:00:42 positive behavior

1:00:43 school advisory council science education slosburg funds and

1:00:49 suicide

1:00:50 prevention looking at the reserve for medical insurance this was

1:00:57 a reserve

1:00:57 that was set up as part of fiscal year 2015-16 budget reductions

1:01:04 it was

1:01:04 presented at a school board workshop by dr. Bing Lee on March 31st

1:01:09 2015 this

1:01:11 reserve annually creates a 3.1 million dollar reserve out of

1:01:17 laps general funds

1:01:19 when I first came to the district and was looking at this there

1:01:22 was some

1:01:23 initial misunderstanding on my part that this reserve was set

1:01:28 aside in case we

1:01:29 got in trouble on the health insurance trust fund budget staff

1:01:34 has clarified

1:01:35 for me and provided copies of the presentation by dr. Bing Lee

1:01:40 that this

1:01:40 was actually created to avoid having to budget for a premium

1:01:44 increase in the

1:01:46 health insurance trust fund in 2015-16 the reserve pays a

1:01:52 portion of the health

1:01:53 insurance premium for the next year

1:02:00 school operations these are funds remaining specifically

1:02:05 identified for

1:02:06 school operations they do include school specific savings

1:02:10 accounts for special

1:02:12 projects marquees playgrounds shade covers and security cameras

1:02:17 in addition

1:02:19 it covers classroom technology custodial supplies furniture

1:02:23 fixture and

1:02:24 equipment and instructional materials or library books among

1:02:28 other items the

1:02:31 state required contingency is a board directed item from fiscal

1:02:37 year 2007-8

1:02:39 and established by the board at that time it is a fixed amount

1:02:44 that was said

1:02:45 at that time and the purpose was to ensure that fun balance

1:02:50 would never fall

1:02:51 below the 3% with the amount being fixed however the percent

1:02:57 does decrease as

1:02:59 total revenues increase over time we can see at the beginning of

1:03:04 18 19 or end of

1:03:06 17 18 the nineteen million eight hundred eighty thousand three

1:03:10 hundred and sixty

1:03:11 nine dollars was 3.6 percent of total revenues non-recurring

1:03:20 funds these are

1:03:22 non-recurring laps funds that fell out at the end of the year of

1:03:25 17 18 and they

1:03:28 were intended at the time to provide bonuses to employees in the

1:03:31 18 19 school

1:03:33 year yet FEFP reserve is funds that have been set aside

1:03:41 initially at a higher

1:03:42 amount over the years and reduced as calculations of the Florida

1:03:47 education

1:03:48 finance program have caused losses of revenue the district

1:03:53 receives five

1:03:54 calculations throughout the year the first two are based on

1:03:58 projected student

1:03:59 enrollment calculation three is done after the October student

1:04:05 survey and

1:04:05 adjustments are typically made downward for the difference

1:04:09 between actuals and

1:04:10 projected calculation for occurs after the February student

1:04:15 survey in many

1:04:17 cases we do gain some back but not completely what we lost in

1:04:21 the current

1:04:22 fiscal year 18 19 these third calc we lost 1.7 million dollars

1:04:29 in the funding

1:04:30 we anticipate about half of that to be coming back from the

1:04:33 fourth calculation

1:04:35 the fifth calculation occurred in late summer and gives us the

1:04:39 final counts in

1:04:40 proration from the state and lastly is miscellaneous reserves

1:04:48 these are an

1:04:50 amount of non-recurring laps dollars that are set aside to be

1:04:54 able to handle

1:04:55 unforeseen or higher than expected expenditures two examples of

1:05:01 this for

1:05:02 this year was our sat SAT testing for all of a hundred percent

1:05:07 of the juniors

1:05:07 across the district that came in higher than expected by about a

1:05:12 hundred

1:05:12 thousand dollars the second was dual enrollment textbooks the

1:05:16 cost were much

1:05:17 greater than the money that had been allocated and those funds

1:05:20 were taken

1:05:21 them up out from this miscellaneous revenue anyone wishing to

1:05:29 gain

1:05:30 additional information on fund balance I would direct them to

1:05:34 the comprehensive

1:05:34 annual financial report on the district’s website at the link

1:05:39 provided

1:05:40 our company our cappers which they’re commonly called are audited

1:05:44 by Morris

1:05:45 Stevens and Lovelace annually and the audit report for that can

1:05:49 be found in

1:05:50 the capper on page one additional information on fund balance is

1:05:54 available

1:05:55 in the balance sheet on page 20 the statement of revenues and

1:05:59 expenditures

1:06:00 and changes in fund balance on page 24 and the footnote to the

1:06:04 financial

1:06:05 statements number 20 fund balance reporting page 79 I also

1:06:12 welcome anyone

1:06:13 reaching out to my office for additional information we’d be

1:06:16 happy to share any

1:06:18 any of the details that are behind the numbers presented tonight

1:06:23 and that

1:06:24 concludes my presentation to the board Thank You miss surker if

1:06:27 anybody has any

1:06:28 follow-up questions please contact miss surker make an

1:06:31 appointment with her and

1:06:32 go go through the presentation with her we are now on to the

1:06:36 public comments

1:06:37 portion of our of our meeting this school board policy zero one

1:06:42 six nine

1:06:43 point one limits to 30 minutes the portion of the meeting during

1:06:46 which

1:06:46 public is invited to participate the policy further provides

1:06:50 that the time

1:06:51 limit may be extended we have three public speakers tonight each

1:06:56 speaker is

1:06:57 limited to three minutes we have a clock in front of me to help

1:06:59 you keep track of

1:07:00 your time when your time is over you’ll be asked to stop and

1:07:03 allow the next

1:07:04 speaker his or her turn always keep in mind that reasonable

1:07:07 decorum is expected

1:07:08 at all times and your statement should be directed to the board

1:07:11 chairman the

1:07:12 chairman may interrupt warn or terminate a participant statement

1:07:15 when time is up

1:07:16 personally directive abusive obscene or irrelevant should an

1:07:20 individual not

1:07:21 observe proper etiquette the chairman may request the individual

1:07:24 leave the

1:07:25 meeting let’s all encourage an environment appropriate for our

1:07:28 children

1:07:28 who may be present or watching at home let’s begin with our

1:07:31 speakers we have

1:07:32 Anthony Colucci Ronald Bradley and Vanessa skipper before

1:07:37 speaking please

1:07:37 state your name the organization you represent and the topic

1:07:40 that you will be

1:07:41 discussing mr. Colucci

1:07:50 my name is Ron Bradley mr. Bradley sorry mr. Colucci you can go

1:07:56 second is that

1:07:56 okay that’s okay go ahead mr. Bradley anyway I am I’m here to

1:08:05 talk to you

1:08:06 about some things that’s really on my heart I think they’re

1:08:10 spending a lot of

1:08:12 money on a lot of things that don’t need to be spent I started

1:08:19 in

1:08:19 air-conditioning in 1962 some of you weren’t even born I worked

1:08:25 on equipment

1:08:27 that you never heard of when you go to buy equipment for the

1:08:32 school system it’s

1:08:34 not first cost it’s how long it lasts you got schools around

1:08:41 here that you got

1:08:43 a hundred acre school some of the air conditioning equipment you

1:08:47 buy you can’t

1:08:48 set it by the school you got to set it out in the pasture and

1:08:52 pipe the chill

1:08:53 water from one school across a turnip patch to the other school

1:08:59 now that don’t

1:09:01 sound very economical to me if one school goes down if one unit

1:09:07 goes down

1:09:07 you got two schools go down if you got three schools and got a

1:09:13 chill package on

1:09:15 the system you got three schools down now if that makes sense I

1:09:21 don’t know I

1:09:24 worked on in four different school systems and it’s all

1:09:29 basically the same

1:09:31 first cost some I’m gonna find some more information out but

1:09:36 when you got a

1:09:37 control system and got three or four different systems on and

1:09:41 they won’t

1:09:42 interface then you got a problem you got to go out of one and

1:09:46 get in another one

1:09:47 you go out of this and get another and then you bid on the job

1:09:51 the guy low

1:09:52 balls you he gets equipment in after it’s over with you don’t

1:09:57 have anybody to

1:09:58 work on it you don’t have any people in a house that can do the

1:10:03 work but you can

1:10:05 spend thousands of dollars having people come in and do the job

1:10:09 that you get in

1:10:11 in-house now another thing I’d like to say everybody here

1:10:16 tonight thanked

1:10:18 everybody for what to do when you get the school system where

1:10:21 you do more

1:10:22 mentoring and less paperwork you have a far better school system

1:10:27 I’ll tell you

1:10:28 that thank you Thank You mr. Bradley

1:10:37 mr. colucci

1:10:52 my name is Anthony Colucci I’m the president of the Brevard

1:10:53 Federation of

1:10:57 Teachers tonight I’m requesting that you review the facts

1:11:00 presented by the

1:11:01 special magistrate a magistrate who has ruled on at least 40

1:11:06 cases and was one

1:11:07 of your high paid counsel’s top choices so let’s examine what

1:11:11 magistrate young

1:11:12 concluded the state requires a fund balance of 3% the board

1:11:17 pilot board

1:11:18 policy requires a minimum of three and a half percent the

1:11:21 district fund balance

1:11:23 has consistently been 5% above these required minimums it is

1:11:28 most

1:11:28 respectfully submitted that this conservative fiscal strategy

1:11:31 described

1:11:32 above results in the underutilization of funds generated at the

1:11:37 state federal and

1:11:39 local level funds that are intended to be applied toward the

1:11:43 education of

1:11:43 children the record establishes an unbroken pattern of

1:11:47 conservative fiscal

1:11:48 strategy to maintain each year a fund balance of between eight

1:11:52 point two three

1:11:53 percent to the current projected nine point six eight percent it

1:11:57 is submitted

1:11:58 that this practice results in funds that are no longer non-recurring

1:12:02 as the

1:12:03 result of the district’s conservative budgeting practices these

1:12:07 non-recurring

1:12:08 funds recur each year it is respectfully submitted that the

1:12:12 evidence of record

1:12:13 does not support the conclusion that funding the BFT proposal

1:12:16 would

1:12:17 jeopardize the district’s long-term financial stability it is

1:12:21 concluded that

1:12:22 there are sufficient funds available to fund the BFT final

1:12:25 proposal with teacher

1:12:27 shortages afflicting school districts statewide and nationwide

1:12:31 the labor

1:12:31 market for teachers is a seller more sellers market it seems axiomatic

1:12:36 that

1:12:36 the Brevard County School District would seem to put itself in a

1:12:40 more favorable

1:12:41 competitive position to attract and retain quality teachers and

1:12:45 that this

1:12:45 would be in the best interest of children and the public it

1:12:49 serves it is

1:12:50 concluded further that funding the BFT proposal will have a

1:12:54 positive impact on

1:12:55 the interest and welfare of the children at the out at the

1:12:59 outset of this

1:13:00 discussion it is respectfully observed that there are always

1:13:04 funds available to

1:13:05 provide for increases such as the ones provide proposed by BFT

1:13:09 it is a question

1:13:10 of priorities of choices the superintendent recommends a budget

1:13:15 that

1:13:15 is full of choices and the school board reviews the

1:13:18 recommendation and adopts a

1:13:20 budget the budget is a living document capable of being amended

1:13:23 during the

1:13:24 fiscal year as circumstances and priorities change I just handed

1:13:29 you

1:13:30 6129 signatures on a petition called Brevard Public Schools

1:13:35 accept this

1:13:35 special magistrate’s recommendation these people and so many

1:13:39 others believe

1:13:40 you must prioritize Brevard County teachers pay enough is enough

1:13:45 the facts

1:13:45 from a neutral party tell you what the right thing to do is end

1:13:49 this right now

1:13:50 and accept the special magistrate’s decision it’s past time to

1:13:55 fix this

1:13:55 blight on our community thank you mr. Colucci

1:14:03 the skipper good evening dr. Mullins members of the board

1:14:07 chapter 7 of Bill

1:14:09 Strickland’s make the impossible possible focuses on the power

1:14:12 of passion

1:14:13 he says passion isn’t blunted by defeat it isn’t tamed by common

1:14:17 sense or

1:14:18 conventional expectations he was able to find an unconventional

1:14:22 way to finance

1:14:23 his flight hours so that he could achieve his dream of being a

1:14:25 commercial

1:14:26 pilot on its face funding a raise with non-recurring dollars isn’t

1:14:31 conventional

1:14:31 I’m sure you’ve heard people say that just not common sense but

1:14:35 as I’ve said

1:14:36 before I do truly believe that you chose to run for office

1:14:39 because you are

1:14:40 passionate about education every single one of you campaigned on

1:14:44 wanting to

1:14:44 significantly improve teacher salary teachers working conditions

1:14:48 are students

1:14:48 learning conditions now is your chance to not allow yourself to

1:14:52 be blunted by

1:14:53 defeat or tamed by common sense or conventional expectations

1:14:57 there will be

1:14:58 people who tell you not to dip into reserves for a reoccurring

1:15:02 race it’s

1:15:02 common sense it’s a conventional expectation that you wouldn’t

1:15:06 do that

1:15:07 but what you’re not being told is that while you might have to

1:15:10 dip the first

1:15:10 year and a little less by the second year by the third year this

1:15:14 raise that a

1:15:14 third party neutral special magistrate agreed that should be

1:15:19 paid will no

1:15:20 longer be reoccurring due to the simple concept of attrition

1:15:24 using data obtained

1:15:26 through public record requests it was learned that the district

1:15:28 was not

1:15:29 experiencing the actual cost of the raise given I want to thank

1:15:33 you for

1:15:34 taking the time to speak with us and regularly asking questions

1:15:37 about the

1:15:38 magistrates decision I want dedicated teachers to stay in this

1:15:42 county as I

1:15:43 mentioned in my email to you all last week I implore you for

1:15:47 students like

1:15:48 Javier whose note I sent you and Rocco who wrote an amazing

1:15:52 piece about Coco

1:15:53 high for Space Coast Daily deserve to have a caring experienced

1:15:57 educator from

1:15:59 my son for your children who deserve to have a teacher that is a

1:16:03 hundred percent

1:16:03 invested in his or her classroom and not exhausted from working

1:16:07 two and three

1:16:07 side jobs to make ends meet and for all the students in Brevard

1:16:11 who by our own

1:16:12 mission we seek to serve with excellence as a standard to accept

1:16:16 the magistrates

1:16:17 decision there is a line from the decision that is on autoplay

1:16:21 in my head

1:16:22 it is most respectfully submitted that this conservative fiscal

1:16:26 strategy

1:16:27 described above results in the underutilization of funds

1:16:31 generated at

1:16:32 the federal state and local level funds that are intended to be

1:16:36 applied toward

1:16:37 the education of children teachers working conditions are our

1:16:43 students

1:16:43 learning conditions and as I have mentioned several times before

1:16:48 I don’t

1:16:49 want my child nor than I can imagine any other parent in this

1:16:53 county sitting in

1:16:55 an algebra class without in teacher all year or sitting in a

1:16:58 biology class

1:16:59 without a teacher all year because they have left to teach

1:17:02 something somewhere

1:17:03 else or they have left for another profession we have the chance

1:17:06 to do

1:17:06 something really right here let’s do it that concludes our

1:17:25 public speakers does

1:17:26 anyone have any comments before we move on just a quick comment

1:17:32 I think I have

1:17:33 been to some extent authority mr. Colucci side because all

1:17:36 weekend long I

1:17:37 was emailing and texting asking can you please send me this can

1:17:40 you please see

1:17:41 me this because you guys know I like digging into data and he

1:17:46 has been

1:17:47 wonderful about getting back with me even even throughout the

1:17:51 weekend when I

1:17:51 was digging through it all and I know that he was out doing

1:17:54 things with his

1:17:55 his daughter congratulations on her on her big dance wins

1:17:59 Anthony but I do

1:18:00 appreciate your willingness to to work to get that information

1:18:03 to me especially

1:18:04 as quickly as you did so thank you and I’ll try not to be too

1:18:07 much of a best

1:18:09 Thank You mr. Belford anyone else have any comments that

1:18:14 concludes the public

1:18:16 comment portion of our meeting we are thankful for everyone that

1:18:20 takes their

1:18:20 time to to come and speak to us moves us on to the consent

1:18:24 agenda dr. Mullins

1:18:26 there are 28 agenda items under this category two with prior

1:18:31 information

1:18:33 prior to the vote with the board’s permission miss teskovich I

1:18:37 would like

1:18:37 to ask this Debbie Greco the International Union of painters and

1:18:41 allied trades local 10-10 business representative to provide us

1:18:45 the results

1:18:46 of the recent local 10-10 vote thank you my name is Deborah Greco

1:18:53 I am the

1:18:54 business representative for the soon under to be forgotten

1:18:59 quickly forgotten

1:19:00 support staff that worked for Brevard County we had three

1:19:07 thousand two hundred

1:19:08 and fifty eligible voters in the bargaining unit we this year we

1:19:17 did a

1:19:17 little bit better than last year we had a nineteen point five

1:19:21 percent turnout

1:19:22 which is really kind of shocking to me because I was up here in

1:19:28 the afternoon

1:19:29 and we probably had one-third of the people that work in this

1:19:34 building I guess

1:19:35 willing to walk to the front of the lobby to vote which seems to

1:19:41 be what

1:19:42 happens everywhere one year we had the voting at every location

1:19:47 and we still

1:19:48 didn’t get above the 15% turnout so I don’t know what to do to

1:19:53 make it any

1:19:54 better perhaps I should get my car drive and personally carry

1:19:58 the ballot box

1:19:59 around to every support staff person to see if they’re

1:20:03 interested enough you

1:20:05 know to to vote it just amazes me that 85 percent of the people

1:20:10 that allow 15

1:20:12 percent to make the decisions for them we even had my admin

1:20:16 assistant miss

1:20:17 Barney had personally visited 21 facilities in the north area

1:20:22 going around

1:20:23 personally explaining to support staff and especially food

1:20:28 service folks what

1:20:30 was being voted on in the contract we emailed everyone mr.

1:20:35 Morton and HR worked

1:20:37 with us to get things out to each individual site and asked that

1:20:43 the

1:20:44 principals or the supervisors on duty to put the put the

1:20:49 information out so all

1:20:51 of the support staff could review it it’s just people just I don’t

1:20:56 know if

1:20:56 it’s because for so many years they haven’t gotten anything that

1:20:59 they’re

1:20:59 just so you know they just don’t care anymore I don’t know what

1:21:04 it is but if

1:21:04 anybody has an idea of how to how to get a boat out of every

1:21:08 person could you

1:21:10 please call me and let me know because frankly it’s a lot of

1:21:13 work to have such

1:21:15 a poor turnout granted we do have some folks that continually

1:21:20 work against us

1:21:22 so you know I don’t know what else to do except maybe just

1:21:28 retire and let

1:21:30 somebody else do it anyway we had out of this out of the 630

1:21:38 people that voted

1:21:40 overwhelmingly we had a yes vote 583 yes votes 47 no votes and

1:21:48 zero voted voided

1:21:51 both votes so we ask that you please consider wing the contract

1:21:58 as it was

1:21:59 ratified by its employees and please let’s get rolling on to let

1:22:04 it go to

1:22:04 payroll so folks can get the money before they get out of school

1:22:08 thank you

1:22:09 very much thank you Thank You miss Greco I believe if we approve

1:22:14 it tonight miss

1:22:16 circuit can you or maybe even dr. Lawrence can you confirm when

1:22:19 that’ll

1:22:19 go into the paychecks I believe miss Erker if it’s approved

1:22:24 tonight the bonus

1:22:26 and the impact or the effect of the recurring will go in June 15th

1:22:33 and the

1:22:33 retro would be distributed on June 30th thank you just so those

1:22:39 watching can can

1:22:40 know when to expect it does any board member wish to pull any of

1:22:46 the consent

1:22:47 agenda items what are the wishes of the board did somebody first

1:23:01 it motion by

1:23:05 miss McDougal second by miss Belford is there any discussion

1:23:17 please vote question

1:23:20 passes 5-0 thank you miss Greco we will move on to the action

1:23:30 agenda dr.

1:23:30 Mullins first first is item g39 on department school initiated

1:23:37 agreements

1:23:38 what are the wishes of the board moved approved second motion by

1:23:43 mr. Susan

1:23:44 second by miss Campbell any discussion mr. Susan were you really

1:23:51 excited about

1:23:51 making that vote or were you just trying to get a vote in there

1:23:53 so you didn’t get

1:23:54 left out please vote motion passes 5-0 dr. Mullins next is item

1:24:07 g40 and

1:24:08 purchasing solicitations move to approve

1:24:11 second motion by mr. Susan second by miss Campbell any

1:24:15 discussion please

1:24:17 votes motion passes 5-0 we will now move on to the information

1:24:34 agenda which

1:24:35 includes items for board review and we brought back for action

1:24:38 at the next

1:24:40 meeting no action will be taken on these items tonight dr. Mullins

1:24:43 there are

1:24:45 there are three items under the information category does any

1:24:50 member

1:24:51 wish to discuss any of these items we are now at board member

1:25:00 reports does

1:25:01 anyone have anything to add dr. Mullins you have anything to

1:25:06 report

1:25:07 miss deskevich and members of the board I missed the opportunity

1:25:10 earlier this

1:25:11 evening when we were recognizing and acknowledging our students

1:25:14 who went into

1:25:15 the military and I’m gonna go out on a limb here Chris more I

1:25:20 know you don’t

1:25:21 like it when I hit you with numbers do you remember how many

1:25:24 students we have

1:25:24 an ROTC it’s a lot it’s thousands of students that we have in

1:25:37 our ROTC

1:25:37 programs across the district I I love meeting the command

1:25:44 because the

1:25:44 commanders that lead our ROTC the mentorship they provide our

1:25:48 kids is top

1:25:49 notch without exception one of the and I’ll give acknowledgement

1:25:54 to dr. Sullivan

1:25:55 she presented a proposal to the ultimately that we have

1:25:58 forwarded to the

1:25:59 state that would request their consideration to add a series of

1:26:05 ROTC

1:26:05 courses that a student accumulates because they also sit for the

1:26:09 ASVAB

1:26:10 which allows them to potentially advance in rank if they do go

1:26:13 into the military

1:26:14 as a consideration of the acceleration I’m not going to get that

1:26:19 right college

1:26:20 and career readiness school grade component because right now

1:26:24 the state

1:26:25 does not acknowledge and recognize that so we’re working thank

1:26:29 you to dr.

1:26:29 Sullivan I’ve it’s already been forwarded to chase Jacob Oliva

1:26:33 deputy

1:26:34 chancellor and they are reviewing it so we’re hopeful that that

1:26:38 will be in the

1:26:38 future but it’s just one more piece of acknowledging and

1:26:41 recognizing our

1:26:41 military our potential military Brown students

1:26:50 2,343 students currently this year that’s fantastic and I really

1:26:59 hope we see

1:26:59 some progress with that it’s important all right please note the

1:27:03 next school

1:27:03 board meeting is June 25th 2019 and we will convene at 9 30 a.m.

1:27:08 for our summer

1:27:09 meetings this meeting is now adjourned