2022-06-28 - School Board Meeting

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1:26:45 actually could get that information out to them this summer.

1:26:49 because they have ongoing summer feeding programs so I just want

1:26:50 to throw that out.

1:26:50 Love it, thank you. As we look at you know one of the priority

1:26:56 employee groups the

1:26:59 teachers in particular I just wonder what is because you know a

1:27:03 lot of times

1:27:03 people get I don’t have an education degree you know or you know

1:27:08 if they find

1:27:09 themselves like myself you know haven’t taught in years all my

1:27:12 teaching

1:27:13 certificates and the places where I have had them have expired

1:27:16 or we have a ton

1:27:17 of people who are moving in from out of state. What is the path

1:27:20 to the classroom

1:27:21 look like for someone like that who maybe hasn’t taught in many

1:27:25 years and so

1:27:26 they don’t have current certification what does that look like

1:27:29 for them who

1:27:30 might say okay I’m ready to go back into the classroom now. Yeah

1:27:33 great question I

1:27:35 literally say everywhere I go if you hold a four-year degree

1:27:39 there is

1:27:40 virtually a pathway to being a classroom teacher for you that we

1:27:45 will partner

1:27:45 with you to do and you don’t have to wait to do it we can you

1:27:49 can start

1:27:50 teaching earning a full-time salary and we partner with you to

1:27:54 get your

1:27:54 certification to get all of the credentials that you may need if

1:27:58 you are

1:27:59 a non formally College of Education degree holder or you are a

1:28:05 former

1:28:06 educator certified in another state but it’s lapsed and that

1:28:09 type of thing. Our

1:28:11 recruitment retention office literally walks that out one-on-one

1:28:16 with any

1:28:17 candidate and helps them navigate that pathway. Let me reiterate

1:28:23 virtually any

1:28:24 four-year degree holding individual and even some not four-year

1:28:30 degree holding

1:28:30 individuals particularly for positions in career and technical

1:28:34 education

1:28:34 because we have found some very creative I’ll say pathways for

1:28:42 individuals who

1:28:42 don’t currently hold a four-year degree but in career tech ed

1:28:46 their experience

1:28:46 can meet some of those qualifications. Don’t let your belief or

1:28:52 sense that you

1:28:54 don’t meet the qualifications prevent you from reaching out to

1:28:57 us and talking.

1:28:57 There are so many potential pathways whether you’re a former

1:29:03 teacher you need

1:29:05 to get your credentials here in Florida people don’t realize we

1:29:08 have reciproca

1:29:10 reciprocity that word I’ve used my word limit today so but we we

1:29:20 walk that out

1:29:20 with folks every single day all the time and we are absolutely

1:29:23 committed to doing

1:29:24 that with any any candidate individual. Yeah and you and that

1:29:27 was my second

1:29:28 question was what if they don’t have a degree at all yeah all

1:29:30 right not a

1:29:31 degree at all but I don’t have an education degree but they have

1:29:33 a

1:29:33 bachelor’s another so thank you for addressing that and I know

1:29:35 that’s

1:29:35 something we’ve done in the past I just you know thank you for

1:29:37 dressing I want

1:29:38 to know how fast you know can we get those people and I there’s

1:29:41 some

1:29:41 principles one of my prince principles at one of the high

1:29:44 schools where I serve

1:29:45 in particular is happens to be really fantastic at recruiting

1:29:49 people who

1:29:49 hadn’t even thought about being a teacher before but maybe they

1:29:51 were

1:29:52 working as a sub and he’s like hey I’ve got a job for you and it’s

1:29:56 just great at

1:29:56 walking through. Dr. Harris is really great at walking people

1:30:00 through that

1:30:00 process and and developing a new career for many so appreciate

1:30:04 that we’re doing

1:30:05 that we’re moving them through quickly. I think that’s all I

1:30:10 have.

1:30:11 Thank you.

1:30:15 I’m not really going to address the recruitment and retention I

1:30:21 feel like

1:30:22 us as an organization as well as our community is well aware

1:30:26 that that is a

1:30:26 five alarm fire and is a priority and a focus because we cannot

1:30:30 function and we

1:30:31 cannot educate our students if we don’t have educators to

1:30:35 support them to do it

1:30:36 but I do just kind of want to just expand on the conscious

1:30:39 discipline I

1:30:40 appreciate you going into detail a little bit about what it is

1:30:43 because you

1:30:44 know it unfortunately has become a little bit apart of a culture

1:30:47 war

1:30:47 conversation but I just want to highlight as well this isn’t

1:30:52 something

1:30:52 that’s new to Brevard Public Schools this is something we’ve

1:30:54 been using for

1:30:55 years we’ve been using it in our pre-k’s we’ve been using it in

1:30:58 our elementary

1:30:58 schools it’s just kind of growing and expanding because we’ve

1:31:01 seen the benefits

1:31:02 of it and it’s a program that’s not only used in Brevard Public

1:31:06 Schools it’s used

1:31:06 across the state and across the nation and just a little fun

1:31:10 fact the author

1:31:11 Becky Bailey is well actually I don’t know if she’s a resident

1:31:15 of Central

1:31:15 Florida anymore but she was a resident of Central Florida and I

1:31:17 actually think

1:31:18 she was from Brevard at some point which is you know pretty cool

1:31:24 rooted here but

1:31:25 one other thing to focus on is this isn’t necessarily a

1:31:29 behavioral tool for

1:31:31 children it’s really intended for the adults it’s to kind of

1:31:36 change the

1:31:36 mindset of an adult to figure out how to self-regulate

1:31:40 themselves and how to

1:31:42 intervene with that child’s behavior in a positive way and I’ve

1:31:46 spoken to as a

1:31:47 speech therapist many parents who’ve utilized this program and

1:31:51 tool just as a

1:31:51 parent and communicating with their kids and you know once the

1:31:55 adult works

1:31:56 through this framework and changes their behavior it naturally

1:32:00 makes it easier

1:32:00 for them to address the behavioral concerns of the children in

1:32:03 their lives

1:32:04 or in their classroom so it’s a really really awesome tool but

1:32:08 really it’s just

1:32:09 changing that thought process and I appreciate the way that you

1:32:12 highlighted

1:32:13 it there because I think it has been made to be this boogeyman

1:32:17 and this

1:32:17 crazy program when when in reality it’s just a really smart way

1:32:22 to think about

1:32:23 stuff and just kind of change your mindset so thank you for that

1:32:26 Thank You miss Jenkins

1:32:30 yeah yeah um Thank You dr. Mullen some of the things in Russell

1:32:37 thank you for

1:32:37 all those videos thank you for everything that you’ve done you’re

1:32:41 right

1:32:42 dr. Mullen’s telling the story of the community to each one of

1:32:44 the schools is

1:32:45 important plus it’s a sense of pride for the teachers to be able

1:32:48 to see that

1:32:49 community needs to know what those schools are doing and and

1:32:52 Russell and

1:32:52 his communications team has done amazing I was looking at

1:32:56 everything that you

1:32:56 guys have done and to be honest with you I would I would

1:32:59 challenge another

1:33:01 district be doing as much as you’re doing so I wanted to give

1:33:03 you guys all

1:33:04 the credit in the world for everything that you guys are doing

1:33:07 one of the

1:33:07 problems that we run into with retention and recruitment is that

1:33:11 there are so

1:33:12 many things that we can be doing and you just can’t do all of

1:33:16 them so everybody’s

1:33:16 gonna sit there and say well you didn’t do this right and but

1:33:19 but literally like

1:33:21 I would press to see videos in schools and meeting with Eastern

1:33:25 Florida State

1:33:26 College these are amazing things that our district’s doing so I

1:33:29 wanted to say

1:33:29 thank you for all of that a couple of things that I was thinking

1:33:33 about to

1:33:34 throw on the bout on the on the table here since we’re all here

1:33:38 one of the

1:33:38 things that I ran into and these are just some suggestions dr.

1:33:41 Mullen’s and

1:33:41 you can take them if you want but we have this amazing thing

1:33:44 that was

1:33:45 developed years ago for career fairs for applicants who have

1:33:48 their degrees and

1:33:49 are ready to come over and our principals go in and give binders

1:33:52 one of

1:33:53 the things we could do is there’s many people that were in the

1:33:58 community that

1:33:59 were trying to gain access to that career fair but because they

1:34:01 weren’t

1:34:02 invited and they didn’t have the process proper process they

1:34:05 weren’t allowed to

1:34:06 get in there and that’s rightfully so because we’re giving out

1:34:08 binders we

1:34:08 don’t want somebody we don’t know coming in that wasn’t part of

1:34:10 the application

1:34:11 but I really feel there’s a massive amount we had spoken about

1:34:15 this of

1:34:15 parents who stay at home with their children and then just

1:34:18 continue to stay

1:34:19 at home but we’re former teachers and I think that if we were

1:34:22 able to target

1:34:23 them and part of it’s not go to Beacon and fill it out but let’s

1:34:27 have a career

1:34:28 fair for all the individuals that may be from wanting to come

1:34:30 back meet our

1:34:31 principals talk to him there might be an opportunity there some

1:34:35 sort of a summit

1:34:36 or whatever it is to call them and we were talking dr. Mullen’s

1:34:39 and I were

1:34:40 talking and there are data points inside of our systems that we

1:34:42 can make public

1:34:43 records requests to other entities to find out who is inside the

1:34:47 FRS for

1:34:48 educators so we can identify all of them it’s not like we have

1:34:50 to just kind of

1:34:51 look for and we can make a public records request I have the

1:34:54 data to to a

1:34:54 degree but the thing is is that we can identify who is teachers

1:34:57 that are under

1:34:58 the age of 55 that might be targets for us and then we can

1:35:02 invite them all I

1:35:03 mean dr. Mullen’s and I even talked I joked around about give me

1:35:05 a list let’s

1:35:06 just go knock on some doors and see what happens so I think that

1:35:08 there’s an

1:35:09 opportunity to try to create a machine to reach out to the

1:35:13 people that are

1:35:14 already have their degrees and everything else and then have

1:35:16 them come

1:35:17 back in so we had talked about that that’s just a suggestion the

1:35:20 other thing

1:35:20 is is that we’re noticing that a lot of our actual openings many

1:35:25 of them are in

1:35:26 title one and it’s difficult I will be honest with everybody

1:35:29 title one is is

1:35:30 very difficult for individuals to be a part of there’s some

1:35:33 people that do

1:35:33 great some people that don’t and it’s a it’s a different kind of

1:35:36 dynamic I would

1:35:37 like to see if we wanted to literally put together stipends for

1:35:41 title one T

1:35:42 and I know that that’s kind of a shot across the bow we didn’t

1:35:45 talk about it

1:35:46 dr. Mullen’s but one of the problems that we have is is that as

1:35:49 a teacher

1:35:50 I’ll be honest with you I’ve taught in three different schools

1:35:53 and there was

1:35:54 one school that was particularly very easy compared to the other

1:35:57 schools I had

1:35:58 less discipline less issues less less need to teach the kids as

1:36:02 much as I did

1:36:03 less follow-up from the kids less I mean everything there’s a

1:36:06 difference right

1:36:07 and I think that there’s that amount of extra work that goes

1:36:10 into being a title

1:36:11 one sometimes we may need to look at to honor that move forward

1:36:15 because if we’re

1:36:16 gonna run into a situation where we have vacancies at our title

1:36:20 one schools we

1:36:20 need to do something to honor the extra work and if somebody

1:36:23 wants to come to me

1:36:24 and say put together an argument that the title one schools are

1:36:26 actually

1:36:27 working more very easy to see when you look at the discipline

1:36:30 differences and

1:36:31 stuff like that also um one of the bones of my existence Eastern

1:36:36 Florida State

1:36:37 College has a teacher program they’ve gone out and applied for

1:36:42 and received

1:36:43 the opportunity to do one I think it’s like second grade or

1:36:47 something like that

1:36:48 right just so everybody knows every time we put together a

1:36:53 program in the past

1:36:55 University of Central Florida has vetoed the program from being

1:37:00 consistent so let

1:37:01 me explain how that works for everybody we apply for a program

1:37:05 and it has to go

1:37:06 to the state there’s a veto program that says we already have

1:37:10 that now it’s

1:37:11 needed because there’s a lot of colleges that just spring up and

1:37:14 start offering

1:37:14 programs and then it dilutes the talent but literally what

1:37:17 happens just so you

1:37:18 know is we’re allowed to have the kids go through our program

1:37:21 but then they

1:37:22 have to do their final year or two over at Eastern over at

1:37:25 University of Central

1:37:25 Florida and do their internship so while they’re over there what

1:37:28 do you think UCF

1:37:29 is doing they’re fucking all our people and I’ll be honest with

1:37:31 you if I’m a

1:37:32 young kid and I’m going over there I’m whole heck of a lot want

1:37:35 to go to Orange

1:37:36 County and party in Orange County and grow up there at a higher

1:37:38 salary than

1:37:39 here we’ve got to break that one of the things that I think I

1:37:43 heard when I was

1:37:44 speaking it was at I forget if it was at our School Board

1:37:48 Association meeting or

1:37:49 somewhere one of the superintendents had said that they had

1:37:53 pulled all the people

1:37:54 in their district they said out of oh it was a breakout session

1:37:58 at the Florida

1:37:58 School Board Association this was amazing was that they pulled

1:38:02 all they

1:38:02 looked at their data and they said how many of our teachers have

1:38:07 graduated from

1:38:09 our schools and they got that number and then they said let’s do

1:38:13 an aggregate

1:38:14 number of how long those people stay in our schools it was off

1:38:18 the chart so

1:38:19 meaning that we may be able to take you know a handful of 25

1:38:25 teachers that come

1:38:26 in from our Eastern Florida State College program and it might

1:38:29 seem like a

1:38:30 little amount but if they stay 20 years that’s like having a

1:38:34 hundred and fifty

1:38:35 teachers that constantly are grinding right so there’s and in dr.

1:38:39 Mullins I’m

1:38:39 not saying you haven’t with Eastern Florida State I just wanted

1:38:42 my fellow

1:38:42 board members to know the BS that goes on when we’re trying to

1:38:45 do this I think

1:38:46 this is a great point to try to say let’s open that throttle I

1:38:49 mean we’ve

1:38:50 got the applications let’s roll right um that’s all and then

1:38:55 retention I know

1:38:57 this sounds like a broken record but I traveled to Escambia

1:39:01 County four years

1:39:02 ago five years ago and sat with the what was at the time

1:39:09 superintendent of the

1:39:11 year for the whole state of Florida and one of the particular

1:39:14 programs that he

1:39:15 was highlighted on is his par program now we do a mentor program

1:39:20 that I was

1:39:20 actually a part of when I was a teacher and I will tell you it

1:39:23 looks good on

1:39:24 paper and there are about a quarter to a third of the teachers

1:39:28 that really do it

1:39:29 with effectiveness and then there are other teachers that don’t

1:39:31 have the

1:39:32 opportunity because of schedules and everything else to do that

1:39:35 the par

1:39:36 program is a program that they set up because they’re competing

1:39:40 with Santa

1:39:41 Rosa because Santa Rosa County fights for their people to

1:39:43 literally give the

1:39:45 opportunity for those teachers to have the development that they

1:39:48 need a

1:39:48 professional develop they go before our committee the committee

1:39:52 says here’s what

1:39:53 it is they have a coach that comes in and they said this is

1:39:55 where I have need

1:39:55 and then they allocate the resources for it it is the most

1:39:58 phenomenal program in

1:39:59 the world now it costs them about 1.7 million dollars to do but

1:40:03 when I talked

1:40:04 to the Escambia County person and I said or the superintendent

1:40:07 who was phenomenal

1:40:08 and his HR and everybody else we spent like three days there he

1:40:11 said that the

1:40:12 amount of money that they lose in student achievement and retraining

1:40:16 which

1:40:16 is about $30,000 teacher so every teacher we lose is between 22

1:40:20 and 36

1:40:21 thousand dollars depending on the position they’re in to train

1:40:24 to be a

1:40:24 teacher throughout the year of professional development think

1:40:27 about how

1:40:28 much money you lose when that happens and how much student

1:40:31 achievement you

1:40:32 lose when you have poor teachers that are not being supported

1:40:34 inside your

1:40:35 classroom and I’m not saying that our teachers are not supported

1:40:38 we have a

1:40:38 program and it’s a lot better than some of the other programs we

1:40:42 have but if we

1:40:42 want to be the best this program was brought to our school

1:40:46 district five

1:40:47 years ago the individuals that were in charge we’re not I’ll

1:40:52 just say we’re not

1:40:53 ready for this program I was very upset with them over some of

1:40:57 the stuff that

1:40:57 they were doing otherwise and they didn’t have their eyes on

1:41:00 this the par

1:41:01 program works comes from Harvard Harvard law and it’s across the

1:41:04 nation it’s

1:41:05 literally a teacher support union members went our staff went

1:41:09 from the

1:41:09 district I truly believe this is something we need to look at

1:41:12 because

1:41:12 this is not something that’s going to go away we’re gonna be in

1:41:15 this cycle for

1:41:16 about two or three years this is something that we can have

1:41:18 support for

1:41:18 them all right the other thing is is dr. Mullins do we have a

1:41:23 survey of the

1:41:23 resume we were talking about doing a survey of the teachers that

1:41:27 resign and

1:41:27 retire do we have that survey do we what do we do in that result

1:41:31 what are we

1:41:31 doing that we do we have an exit survey it is it is not

1:41:35 mandatory participation

1:41:37 but we do we do capture that data and it is grown if you

1:41:41 remember I did present

1:41:43 our I think it was actually part of my evaluation my self-assessment

1:41:48 are the

1:41:49 feedback we’ve received from those who are exiting the the

1:41:54 number of people

1:41:55 providing their feedback has grown exponentially in the last

1:41:59 three years as

1:42:00 well as the positive response to provide public schools as a

1:42:06 positive place to

1:42:08 work or something like that pretty close had grown significantly

1:42:14 from a 30% a few

1:42:15 years ago to upwards of 80% today so short answer is yes we do

1:42:23 sometimes it’s

1:42:24 difficult to get everybody to yeah you’re not gonna give

1:42:27 somebody that quit

1:42:28 to do a survey I get it like I understand that like somebody may

1:42:31 have

1:42:31 had a bad situation I can get I can get more feedback for you

1:42:36 yeah I’d like to

1:42:36 see the results of that and then see because one of the things

1:42:41 that we’re

1:42:42 dealing with is is that in the community and from some of the

1:42:44 parents and

1:42:45 teachers for hearing that discipline is that what’s driving our

1:42:49 teachers believe

1:42:50 that is the common thing that’s out there and it would be nice

1:42:53 to know in a

1:42:54 data-driven organization if that’s actually the fact so knowing

1:42:58 that 80% of

1:43:00 them say that Brevard Public Schools is a great place to work

1:43:02 well then that’s

1:43:02 different than what we’re hearing which we all know sometimes

1:43:06 some things can be

1:43:08 said but they don’t always they’re not always true so I think

1:43:11 that exit survey

1:43:12 is perfect for that piece so we can get that information that’d

1:43:15 be great and

1:43:17 then we know that and let’s just be honest conscious discipline

1:43:21 is something

1:43:21 that I’ve supported right it’s something that is best practices

1:43:25 and Miss Jenkins

1:43:25 is right it’s been in our system forever I think where a lot of

1:43:30 my questions on

1:43:31 conscious discipline is not the actual application what that

1:43:34 tree right there

1:43:35 is everything a great teacher should do and we should continue

1:43:37 to do those

1:43:37 practices without a doubt I think where it is is once a child is

1:43:42 still having

1:43:43 issues inside the classroom and interrupting the other kids

1:43:47 inside that

1:43:47 classroom and what we do in that moment is where I think it gets

1:43:51 confused with

1:43:52 the other portions of what it is because if you sat through that

1:43:55 that I would

1:43:56 argue point to point that everything that was inside that circle

1:43:58 is beautiful

1:43:59 teaching the other pieces is that that’s where it is and I think

1:44:03 that that piece

1:44:04 is being exacerbated because of what we’re seeing from the kovat

1:44:09 and

1:44:09 everything else so our discipline be honest has been higher we’ve

1:44:14 had more

1:44:14 discipline problems than we’ve ever had and the reason is and so

1:44:17 what’s

1:44:18 happening is is that people are saying it’s conscious discipline

1:44:22 that’s

1:44:22 creating that right but I truly believe it’s not the conscious

1:44:26 discipline

1:44:26 beginning of teaching I truly believe it’s what we do right

1:44:30 afterwards when

1:44:31 we’re trying to work with it I was a teacher for nine years I

1:44:33 wrote five

1:44:34 referrals in nine years and that’s because I practiced

1:44:38 everything that’s

1:44:39 inside there but when a kid broke that rule I sent them and it

1:44:43 was they were

1:44:44 respectful so what I’m hearing from some of our teachers dr.

1:44:48 Mullins is that

1:44:49 they’re sending the kids down and then they’re being sent right

1:44:52 back right may

1:44:53 not be true but that’s what’s happening so I think that the

1:44:56 argument is inside

1:44:57 of that piece and I would love to find out the information from

1:45:00 the survey of

1:45:01 resignations and retirements to tie that piece right there in to

1:45:06 see if it’s

1:45:06 actually happening because we know that our discipline numbers

1:45:09 are up we know

1:45:10 that’s happened whether that’s going to be because of kovat

1:45:12 whether it’s gonna

1:45:12 be because of a couple issues but they’re making the argument

1:45:16 that right

1:45:16 there we are just allowing kids to continually perpetuate and we’re

1:45:19 trying

1:45:20 to work with them and they just keep violating and we’re letting

1:45:22 them go right

1:45:23 that survey and some of those other things will help us feel out

1:45:27 that him

1:45:27 does that make sense all right and then I love your idea about

1:45:32 the letter dr.

1:45:33 Mullins if I mean I would do it I think the board members would

1:45:36 do it also I

1:45:37 just think a letter of appreciation to all of our staff if there’s

1:45:40 some way

1:45:41 that we can do that like hey I really appreciate you I mean I

1:45:44 know making the

1:45:45 argument that you’re making all this money and everything we

1:45:47 care about you

1:45:47 but sometimes I’m guilty of it my wife keeps telling me all the

1:45:51 time sometimes

1:45:52 people just need you to listen they don’t need you to tell them

1:45:56 they just

1:45:56 need you to listen and tell them that you can and I think

1:46:00 sometimes we could

1:46:01 do that so if you find a vehicle dr. Mullins for us to do that I

1:46:04 would love

1:46:04 to just say care about you BPS cares about you and we’re here

1:46:10 you know that

1:46:11 mean and it might you might get a thousand letters back saying

1:46:14 this you

1:46:15 don’t care about me because but that’s part of it and then the

1:46:19 last piece is

1:46:20 and I’m sorry you talked a lot so I’m gonna take a lot of time

1:46:24 to two things

1:46:28 one they’ve developed vapor sensors now that you can put inside

1:46:32 of a bathroom

1:46:32 that will tell you when one clicks so you can put cheap vent

1:46:36 vapor sensors

1:46:37 it’s audio and it’s very distinct you can get vapor sensors and

1:46:43 catch all

1:46:45 the kids that are right now I know that there might be not

1:46:47 something we want to

1:46:48 do but the cost very low I’ll get you the information I just

1:46:50 found out about

1:46:51 two days ago and then last piece dr. Mullins no listen I was a

1:46:59 social

1:46:59 studies teacher I was not a math teacher so if I say last one we’ve

1:47:02 got to keep

1:47:02 going all right um ALC how do we provide not only the support

1:47:09 for them through

1:47:11 their mental guidance but opportunities for them to not feel

1:47:15 like they are

1:47:16 ostracized from society right so we’re putting a basketball

1:47:20 court then my two

1:47:21 years I’ve been trying to get that basketball court at the south

1:47:24 oh yeah I

1:47:24 know I’ve been playing a challenge dr. Mullins to basketball

1:47:27 court down there a

1:47:28 couple times but here’s the thing I keep declining I’ve asked

1:47:33 Paul Gibbs but he

1:47:34 keeps saying no to I’m figure I got a better height differential

1:47:37 on him but

1:47:37 the thing is is that is that our children who are inside those ALC’s

1:47:42 are

1:47:44 significantly wanting to be a part of something right whether

1:47:49 they’re sitting

1:47:49 and I was one of those kids I didn’t go to an ALC I didn’t get

1:47:52 expelled but I

1:47:53 could have back then they didn’t do have stuff they do now but I

1:47:56 think if we give

1:47:57 opportunities to those kids inside there that will be better off

1:48:01 and I would I

1:48:01 would just say dr. Mullins if there’s a way I know it’s crazy at

1:48:04 the LLC’s right

1:48:05 now but I would love to have that basketball I would love the

1:48:09 offer

1:48:09 opportunities for kids in that regard because it might help with

1:48:12 their mental

1:48:12 health and opportunities outside job coaches people from the

1:48:16 community your

1:48:16 your your church is supporting you know what I mean like kind of

1:48:20 the ALC if

1:48:20 locked down and stuff all right and then no I’m just kidding you

1:48:26 okay you’ll have

1:48:27 to look at me like that miss Belfer make it make just two quick

1:48:31 responses mr. mr.

1:48:33 Susan two things I did want to respond to right away your

1:48:35 comments about title

1:48:37 one in recognition of service to our title one schools that is

1:48:40 on our radar

1:48:41 Joe I would echo your sentiments and we’re going to continue to

1:48:46 walk that out

1:48:47 it there is a process so we’ll keep the board apprised also want

1:48:50 to reference

1:48:51 Eastern Florida State College since I’ve become superintendent I

1:48:55 have pursued

1:48:56 that relationship on a and a very good I have a very good

1:49:01 relationship with

1:49:03 President Ritchie we talk regularly but his former VP of

1:49:09 academics dr. Linda

1:49:11 minima now dr. Fletcher we have a great rapport with them dr.

1:49:16 Sullivan I probably

1:49:17 is engaged with with dr. Fletcher in the academic team I don’t

1:49:22 know weekly if not

1:49:23 maybe if not monthly I have said for years if you can ever get a

1:49:30 college of

1:49:31 education program we will partner with you to make you the

1:49:35 premier education

1:49:37 training ground in the state the country in the world sure intergalactic

1:49:45 and they

1:49:46 are as committed to it as well but to your point they have been

1:49:49 denied by the

1:49:49 state to bring on a education program they just maybe two years

1:49:55 ago your ago

1:49:56 got the elementary science ed program but it’s just so narrow

1:50:03 and so I narrow

1:50:04 focus that it’s not meeting all of our needs we’re going to

1:50:07 continue to pursue

1:50:08 that I know that they want it as well I’ve literally written

1:50:11 letters of

1:50:11 support that go to their application at the state and we they

1:50:14 continue to be

1:50:15 denied I went as far as much as I can say about that right now I

1:50:20 don’t want to

1:50:20 I don’t want to speak disparagingly of other I don’t care I will

1:50:24 well I went I

1:50:24 went to UCF and I called him out in the middle of a open forum

1:50:28 and I told him

1:50:29 that that’s garbage and not so nice of word and and I’m sorry

1:50:33 but our people

1:50:34 need our students to stay in our schools and dadgummit you stop

1:50:38 stealing our

1:50:39 people and create a leverage point on us is BS it’s just BS I

1:50:43 say we go Google

1:50:45 you got you only got a couple more months let’s go raise some

1:50:46 havoc let’s

1:50:47 go yell out no all right Thank You dr. Mullins

1:51:02 dr. Mullins thank you for this presentation and for all the work

1:51:05 that

1:51:05 went into it and I want to talk about because I think it’s

1:51:08 really really

1:51:09 important I’m focusing on discipline because the mentoring I

1:51:15 went online and

1:51:17 the mentoring program that we have for our parents to go through

1:51:20 the modules

1:51:21 is excellent it gives you a clear picture of what’s in takes

1:51:26 what you need

1:51:26 we support you but I think what’s really just as important is

1:51:30 the parent support

1:51:33 that we’re going to provide for our parents because I think many

1:51:36 of our

1:51:37 parents are struggling themselves with discipline at their home

1:51:42 so I do feel

1:51:44 that we’re focusing the right way and I just want to say that

1:51:48 conscious

1:51:49 discipline you and I visited I can’t remember what school we

1:51:53 visited but we

1:51:53 saw it in action because I asked questions I wanted to see it

1:51:57 and I

1:51:58 wanted to know it was done with fidelity and how did the

1:52:01 students respond and it

1:52:02 was an elementary school and it was amazing the camaraderie and

1:52:07 even when

1:52:09 there was discourse how they solved the problem without anybody

1:52:12 getting sent to

1:52:13 the office without anybody having fisticuffs if they ever still

1:52:17 send them

1:52:17 down you know I feel this it’s a great program I wish we could

1:52:23 roll it out

1:52:24 faster as miss more and I always talk about but it works and

1:52:30 that’s what we

1:52:31 want because right now our kids as you and I have talked I’ve

1:52:35 seen a lot of

1:52:36 expulsions and I saw him against expulsions I expulsions don’t

1:52:40 solve

1:52:41 problems for these children it just sends them home and not

1:52:46 always that a

1:52:47 good place to send them so anyhow I’m very excited I like what

1:52:51 the plan and

1:52:52 these certainly have my full support thank you

1:52:57 I think I had just heard miss McDougall commit that when she

1:53:01 finishes her term

1:53:02 on the board she’s coming back to help us with conscious

1:53:05 discipline is that

1:53:05 what you guys say we need mental health counselors too she can

1:53:07 fill one of those

1:53:08 positions we’ll just keep you around for a while

1:53:18 so I have just a few questions comments first of all thank you

1:53:24 phenomenal

1:53:24 information that you shared with us this morning I’ve been

1:53:27 having lots of

1:53:27 conversations around these issues and encouraging our community

1:53:31 that we are

1:53:32 certainly having these conversations internally and will be

1:53:34 coming forward

1:53:35 with more information so thank you for putting that all together

1:53:40 for us two

1:53:41 questions that I know the answer to but I just want to make sure

1:53:44 that our public

1:53:44 hears it our substitutes included in the $15 per hour yes so for

1:53:49 all of our

1:53:50 people out there that have been contemplating substituting you

1:53:54 are

1:53:54 included in that raise to minimum wage beginning July 1 correct

1:53:59 and the other

1:53:59 qualifications are bumped up as well so it’s not just the $15

1:54:06 pardon yes through

1:54:08 our ester for ester three funding starting this year okay super

1:54:12 thank you

1:54:12 and then this one I know the answer to too but I just have to

1:54:15 get it out there

1:54:16 because anytime we talk about these things I someone seems to

1:54:20 ask the

1:54:21 question crossing guards are just for clarification are not

1:54:26 employed by us

1:54:27 right so we don’t set their salary can you just address that

1:54:31 that’s correct

1:54:31 they are not Brevard Public School employees they are employed

1:54:34 by either

1:54:35 the county or their local municipality we do not even contract

1:54:39 crossing guard

1:54:41 they are provided as a service from the respective community so

1:54:46 we have no

1:54:47 control over their salary thank you thank you know that the

1:54:53 county was

1:54:53 looking at making significant raises to their own employees

1:54:56 dollars I imagine

1:54:57 there’s yeah just just not something that we as a board have

1:55:03 control over so

1:55:04 because I hear that quite frequently that you forgot the

1:55:07 crossing guards

1:55:08 again and we don’t forget them we appreciate them immensely but

1:55:12 but

1:55:12 outside of our our sphere of control on that one question and

1:55:17 feel free to get

1:55:19 back to me later but you mentioned the data that we have on our

1:55:23 pilot

1:55:24 classrooms for conscious discipline a significant decrease in

1:55:28 the behavioral

1:55:29 issues that we’re seeing in those classrooms have we cross tab

1:55:34 to academic

1:55:36 outcomes for those classrooms do we have any that we have

1:55:41 progress monitoring

1:55:42 information or FSA information that we could also see if there

1:55:48 is an impact to

1:55:49 the academics and like I said you don’t have to answer that now

1:55:52 but I just think

1:55:52 it would be interesting to take a look absolutely I’ll

1:55:55 definitely get back with

1:55:56 you we have that for you and for the bottom and then I think the

1:56:01 last thing

1:56:01 that I will say and this is not I mean it kind of goes along

1:56:05 with all of our

1:56:06 retention things and and but more for our community several of

1:56:10 the schools are

1:56:11 working very hard to plan pre-planning for all of their team

1:56:15 members to come

1:56:16 back several of them are reaching out to community partners to

1:56:20 provide breakfast

1:56:21 lunch recognition and so I would encourage our community to

1:56:27 reach out and

1:56:28 connect with the school I can assure you they can all use some

1:56:32 support with

1:56:32 making sure that they welcome their teachers back with as much

1:56:36 love as

1:56:37 possible as we return to the new school year and that may be you

1:56:41 know little

1:56:41 gifts it may be food it there’s there’s all sorts of things but

1:56:46 I would just

1:56:47 encourage everyone you know pick pick a school in your

1:56:49 neighborhood reach out

1:56:50 and ask how you can help to ensure that everyone comes back to a

1:56:52 great

1:56:52 experience when we return and I think that’s all I have did

1:56:58 anybody else have

1:56:59 any questions or comments all right we are check in with the

1:57:11 board we are at

1:57:12 1115 does anyone need a restroom restroom break okay we’re gonna

1:57:17 take a

1:57:17 very quick probably five minute recess and then we will resume

1:57:21 with public

1:57:21 comments

1:57:29 you

2:08:18 all right we are back in session and we are entering into our

2:08:19 public comment

2:08:24 portion of the meeting on agenda items we have three speakers

2:08:30 was that it on

2:08:30 agenda items the circus is out of control

2:08:41 all right we’re now at the public comment portion of the meeting

2:08:43 on agenda

2:08:44 items we have three speakers therefore each speaker will receive

2:08:47 three minutes

2:08:48 please note that the time is per speaker not per agenda item

2:08:51 topics not specific

2:08:52 to agenda items will be moved to the non-agenda portion of the

2:08:55 meeting we

2:08:56 have a clock in front of me to help you keep track of your time

2:08:58 when your time

2:08:59 is over you will be asked to stop and allow the next speaker his

2:09:01 or her turn

2:09:01 always keep in mind that reasonable decorum is expected and your

2:09:05 statement

2:09:05 should be directed to the board chair the chair may interrupt

2:09:08 warn or terminate

2:09:09 a participant statement when time is up it’s personally directed

2:09:12 abusive obscene

2:09:12 or irrelevant should an individual not observe proper etiquette

2:09:16 the chair may

2:09:16 request the individual to leave the meeting for the audience

2:09:20 please remember

2:09:21 that outside of your personal public comment period your role is

2:09:24 as an

2:09:24 observer therefore I would ask that you please not disrupt the

2:09:27 meeting by

2:09:27 interjecting comments or noise noises during public comments all

2:09:32 right our

2:09:32 speakers are Katie Delaney Anthony Colucci and Sarah Murci if

2:09:37 you all

2:09:37 wouldn’t mind getting on deck so we can move through and miss

2:09:43 Delaney whenever

2:09:44 you are ready good afternoon board I’m here to speak about many

2:09:49 of the agenda

2:09:49 items the first one that I would like to speak on is d8 the

2:09:55 superintendent report

2:09:57 one of the things that is troublesome to me is why are we not

2:10:02 focusing on finding

2:10:03 the best teachers why it shouldn’t matter

2:10:09 what the color of somebody’s skin is as long as they are

2:10:13 invested in the growth

2:10:14 and education and well-being of our children we want the most

2:10:17 highly

2:10:18 educated highly you know enthusiastic people gifted teachers to

2:10:23 be in that

2:10:24 room regardless of their race

2:10:32 another point that was made was that they that you guys are

2:10:36 wanting parent

2:10:38 involvement I find that funny because we’ve been told that

2:10:42 parents are a

2:10:43 security risk and that’s how we’ve been treated for the past two

2:10:48 years discipline

2:10:49 is a major issue for the recruitment and retention of our

2:10:54 teachers and like what

2:10:59 mr. Susan said earlier what happens when those tactics don’t

2:11:03 work these repeat

2:11:05 offenders who continuously use this bad behavior are now

2:11:09 disrupting a whole

2:11:10 classroom of children what about their education the second

2:11:15 point that I would

2:11:16 like to speak on is the financial services we need desperately a

2:11:20 forensic

2:11:21 audit on the budget the budget does not give in voices it does

2:11:25 not give where

2:11:25 our dollars and cents are going the way that the budget is

2:11:30 presented to the

2:11:31 public needs to change we need to we need readily available

2:11:35 every cent

2:11:36 that’s coming out of this building

2:11:41 the next thing that I’d like to comment on is h38

2:11:48 which lawyers are expensive I get that one hundred seventy

2:11:53 thousand dollars

2:11:54 with a possible raise of sixty eight hundred dollars per year

2:11:57 based on

2:11:57 evaluations that seems reasonable to me for a lawyer but I would

2:12:04 hope that our

2:12:05 board is conscious of

2:12:10 all the different lawsuits that have happened over over the past

2:12:14 couple years

2:12:14 and honestly the ones that will be coming because there will be

2:12:19 more coming

2:12:23 yeah thank you Thank You mr. Amy mr. Gucci

2:12:35 when I’m done

2:12:39 my name is Anthony Calucci I’m the president of the Brevard

2:12:43 Federation of

2:12:44 Teachers while I’m pleased to see the superintendent’s

2:12:47 presentation on

2:12:48 recruitment and retention I’m disappointed that this initiative

2:12:52 may be

2:12:52 too late to impact next school year for years our Union has told

2:12:57 this board we

2:12:58 have a recruitment and retention issue and most importantly we’ve

2:13:02 been focused

2:13:02 on the fact that retention was the bigger issue now we’re at a

2:13:06 point of a

2:13:07 crisis where there were 250 teacher vacancies posted yesterday

2:13:13 just weeks

2:13:14 before school starts we still have one school with over 20

2:13:18 vacancies which begs

2:13:20 the question how do you open up a school with one third of the

2:13:24 positions not

2:13:25 filled do you load up on class sizes you pull our district

2:13:29 resource teachers from

2:13:31 the work they’re supposed to be doing do you use school-based

2:13:34 coaches to cover

2:13:35 and deprive students of the services they’re hired to provide to

2:13:39 them none of

2:13:40 those are good options let me be frank our Union is disappointed

2:13:46 in this board

2:13:47 and the lack of action even discussion about the issues that are

2:13:52 impacting

2:13:52 teachers meeting after meeting there’s a lot of discussion on

2:13:56 issues that aren’t

2:13:57 important to us and now you’re seeing the result of that and

2:14:01 trying to address

2:14:02 them now is perhaps too late you’re seeing the result of

2:14:07 ignoring those who

2:14:08 represent teachers and have been telling you about these issues

2:14:12 instead you

2:14:13 abdicate your power to staff who are not properly addressing

2:14:17 these issues have

2:14:19 you dealt with poor administrative performance have you dealt

2:14:22 with

2:14:22 administrators who are just plain mean to their teachers and

2:14:25 chase them out of

2:14:26 BPS did you follow through on the student discipline issues I

2:14:30 spoke about

2:14:31 in November or did you leave it up to staff and let’s talk about

2:14:35 the

2:14:36 arbitration you’ve allowed your staff to get involved in are you

2:14:40 okay board

2:14:41 members with getting involved in an arbitration when anyone who

2:14:45 can read can

2:14:47 see that BPS is making the wrong decision are you okay with the

2:14:51 fact that

2:14:52 you spent taxpayers hard-earned dollars to arbitrate the same

2:14:56 exact case less

2:14:57 than five years ago and now you’re going to waste more money

2:15:01 because you lost and

2:15:03 don’t want to respect the neutral parties here rolling how can

2:15:07 our

2:15:07 teachers trust you when you can’t trust it to follow neutral

2:15:11 parties rolling

2:15:12 former teachers on the board would either of you think this was

2:15:17 okay when

2:15:17 you were a classroom teacher are you doing the work of a board

2:15:21 member you

2:15:21 wanted to accomplish when you ran for office or is this the same

2:15:25 nonsense you

2:15:26 would have been furious about as teachers are any of you really

2:15:30 focused

2:15:30 on your jobs right now school board members wake up you’re

2:15:34 asleep at the

2:15:35 wall and you let someone else drive the car and the car is

2:15:39 driving into a brick

2:15:40 wall thank you

2:15:45 this mercy

2:15:51 you

2:15:53 good morning madam chair and board my name is Sarah mercy I’m a

2:15:57 wife mother

2:15:58 taxpayer registered voter in Brevard County constituent in

2:16:03 school board

2:16:04 district two and I also have two children who are in Brevard

2:16:07 Public

2:16:08 Schools I hope everyone is having a great summer and looking

2:16:11 forward to a

2:16:11 wonderful 4th of July celebration today I want to address agenda

2:16:15 item c40 the

2:16:17 loving guidance training traditionally this program has been a

2:16:20 positive

2:16:21 training tool for teachers and students however this particular

2:16:26 SEL training

2:16:27 that Brevard Public Schools has chosen has become an agenda has

2:16:32 become agenda

2:16:33 driven and you know me going into the mental health field and

2:16:38 most mental

2:16:39 health clinicians keep our politics in our agenda out of out of

2:16:43 mental health

2:16:44 situation it’s only about how to truly help the person or the

2:16:50 students I

2:16:51 understand that the district has to spend money on this due to

2:16:55 it being

2:16:56 earmarked however there were no bids on this contract it’s a bit

2:17:00 silly to me

2:17:00 that the district is spending about a hundred and seventy

2:17:03 thousand dollars to

2:17:04 go to Oviedo Florida also any suicide prevention should be under

2:17:08 a licensed

2:17:09 mental health professional so I have major concerns with all

2:17:14 this suicide

2:17:15 prevention not being guided under licensed mental health

2:17:19 professionals and

2:17:21 those are my concerns those are my concerns thank you thank you

2:17:26 all right

2:17:27 that concludes our public comments on agenda items we thank you

2:17:31 for your

2:17:31 willingness to address there are 22 agenda items under the

2:17:40 consent category

2:17:42 does any board member wish to pull any item from the consent

2:17:45 agenda hearing none

2:17:46 I’ll entertain a motion to approve the consent agenda as

2:17:49 presented move to

2:17:50 approve I got it I got this move by mr. Susan second by miss

2:17:57 Campbell is there

2:17:57 any discussion all in favor please signify by saying aye aye any

2:18:01 opposed

2:18:02 same sign motion passes five zero now we are at the public

2:18:08 hearing portion of

2:18:09 this agenda first is to hold a hearing and approve item g33 is

2:18:12 there anyone

2:18:13 present to address the board regarding board policy three three

2:18:15 one five

2:18:16 students staff and wellness is there anyone present to address

2:18:20 the board

2:18:20 regarding board policy three three one five student staff and

2:18:24 wellness do I

2:18:25 hear Oh did any board member wish to address the policy three

2:18:30 none I’ll

2:18:30 entertain a motion move by miss McDougal to approve second by

2:18:35 miss Campbell’s or

2:18:36 any discussion all in favor please signify by saying aye aye any

2:18:41 opposed

2:18:41 same sign motion passes five zero next is to hold a hearing and

2:18:46 approve item g34

2:18:47 is there anyone present to address the board regarding board

2:18:49 policy eight five

2:18:50 one zero wellness is there anyone present to address the board

2:18:54 regarding

2:18:55 policy eight five one zero wellness I’ll entertain a motion move

2:19:00 to prove move by

2:19:01 mr. Susan seconded by miss McDougal is there any discussion all

2:19:05 in favor please

2:19:06 signify by saying aye aye any opposed same sign motion passes

2:19:10 five zero next

2:19:13 to hold a hearing and approve item g35 is there anyone present

2:19:15 to address the

2:19:16 board regarding board policy five one two one controlled open

2:19:19 enrollment is

2:19:20 there anyone present to address the board regarding board policy

2:19:23 five one

2:19:23 two one controlled open enrollment I’ll entertain a motion move

2:19:28 to approve I got

2:19:30 it I was ahead of her no I got it no you took too long can I

2:19:33 have a second

2:19:36 move by mr. season seconded by miss McDougal is there any

2:19:39 discussion all in

2:19:41 favor please signify by saying aye aye any opposed same sign

2:19:44 motion passes five

2:19:45 zero next is to hold a hearing and approve item g36 is there

2:19:49 anyone present

2:19:50 to address the board regarding board policy seven two five zero

2:19:53 commemoration

2:19:53 of school facilities is there anyone present to address the

2:19:56 board regarding

2:19:57 board policy seven two five zero commemoration of school

2:20:00 facilities I’ll

2:20:02 entertain a motion thank you all in favor please signify by

2:20:11 saying aye aye any

2:20:13 opposed same sign motion passes five zero next is to hold a

2:20:18 hearing and

2:20:18 approve item g37 is there anyone present to address the board

2:20:21 regarding board

2:20:21 policy seven one one zero student accommodation is there anyone

2:20:25 present to

2:20:25 address the board regarding board policy seven one one zero

2:20:28 student accommodation

2:20:29 I’ll entertain a motion moved to approve move by miss McDougal

2:20:33 second seconded

2:20:34 by mr. Susan is there any discussion all in favor please signify

2:20:39 by saying aye aye

2:20:39 any opposed same sign motion passes five zero and that concludes

2:20:43 today’s public

2:20:44 hearings dr. Mullins we please let us know about

2:20:47 items under the action portion of today’s agenda yes members of

2:20:50 the board

2:20:51 first item is h38 general council employment agreement what are

2:20:55 the wishes

2:20:55 of the board move by miss McDougal second by miss Campbell’s our

2:21:00 new

2:21:00 discussion all in favor please signify by saying aye aye any

2:21:04 opposed same sign

2:21:05 motion passes five zero next item is h39 - oh you got it

2:21:14 department school and the initiated agreements I’ll entertain a

2:21:20 motion

2:21:25 congratulating mr. Gibbs for keeping his job sorry I was and I

2:21:29 was trying to say

2:21:30 I should have said no because he says no to everything on me so

2:21:32 she just said no

2:21:33 then it would have been bad I have a motion by miss McDougal and

2:21:38 the second

2:21:38 by miss Campbell is there any discussion all in favor please

2:21:41 signify by saying aye

2:21:42 aye any opposed same sign motion passes five zero

2:21:46 dr. Mullins next item is h40 procurement solicitations what are

2:21:51 the wishes of the

2:21:52 board move to approve moved by mr. Susan second by miss McDougal

2:21:56 is there any

2:21:56 discussion miss Campbell I just wanted to touch base I’ve had a

2:22:00 lot of

2:22:00 conversation because it’s conscious discipline is one of those

2:22:02 things that

2:22:02 keep circling back as controversial it’s had lots of discussions

2:22:07 with teachers

2:22:08 Dr. Mullins doctor and actually that he had it with miss Klein

2:22:14 and miss more

2:22:15 around this I’m Thank You dr. Mullins for presenting the the

2:22:19 feedback from our

2:22:20 principles that have already actively engaged in this I think

2:22:23 you know I just

2:22:24 wanted to make clarification because sometimes you know the

2:22:27 interesting thing

2:22:28 about public comment is you know you can’t say ugly words and

2:22:31 you can’t call

2:22:31 us out but you can stand up there and give misinformation and I

2:22:34 think that was

2:22:34 given today because this is not a hundred seventy thousand

2:22:37 dollars for

2:22:37 people to go to Oviedo if you look at the contract it actually

2:22:41 says it’s for

2:22:42 training for follow-up it’s for a whole year’s worth if not more

2:22:50 ones and right

2:22:51 through May of next year it’s worth a whole year’s worth of

2:22:54 coaching virtual

2:22:55 check-ins and all of that so I just want to clarify that because

2:22:57 that’s a pretty

2:22:58 big misrepresentation of the use of these funds so but thank you

2:23:02 Thank You

2:23:03 miss Campbell any additional discussion all in favor please

2:23:07 signify by saying

2:23:07 aye aye any opposed same sign motion passes 5-0 and the last

2:23:13 item is h41

2:23:14 naming of Titusville High School gymnasium

2:23:19 the board moved to approve

2:23:24 discussion heck yeah anybody read this yeah she’s pretty amazing

2:23:29 like if you

2:23:30 guys don’t get an opportunity to read anything on the agenda

2:23:34 because I know

2:23:34 it’s pretty boring sometimes this is amazing and I and I think

2:23:39 her

2:23:40 contribution to our school district and what she did for women

2:23:43 and pioneered as

2:23:44 a coach is simply amazing I just want to say that because I didn’t

2:23:48 want to skip

2:23:49 over it that’s all she’s freaking awesome thank you mr. Susan

2:23:58 absolutely

2:23:58 and I you know the the group that was working on this reached

2:24:01 out to me for a

2:24:01 letter of support on it and I had to tell them no because I felt

2:24:05 like I

2:24:06 couldn’t get in front of board discussion on the item and that

2:24:09 it would

2:24:10 just I know but then I would be basically saying how I’m going

2:24:16 to be

2:24:16 voting on this issue and I try to avoid those conflicts as much

2:24:20 as humanly

2:24:20 possible I know but no I’m very I’m very happy to see this come

2:24:30 to fruition and

2:24:31 this awesome recognition so thank you board for what I’m

2:24:35 assuming is going to

2:24:36 be supporting so what is this gonna look like a big sign are we

2:24:39 gonna do a big

2:24:39 video on it I mean this is a big deal I will look into and get

2:24:46 back to you I

2:24:46 mean this is I mean honestly I know the community the Titusville

2:24:51 community is

2:24:51 doing a lot to move forward and celebrate and recognize coach

2:24:57 Dixon so

2:24:58 they do maybe challenge her to a basketball game I heard that

2:25:03 you were

2:25:03 wearing the terrier costume on the roof that day of the

2:25:06 celebration mr. Susan

2:25:07 what are you talking about I heard I didn’t know they had one oh

2:25:11 yeah the

2:25:12 bulldog little it’s a tisna terrier it’s a terrier it’s a terrier

2:25:16 but it’s a

2:25:16 bulldog like Terry okay we’ll see we’ll talk about it I like I

2:25:20 mean you know I’m

2:25:21 all for the kids last time I put it on the mascot head it didn’t

2:25:24 turn out so

2:25:24 well I will try to do it again and support the kids in any way I

2:25:30 can all

2:25:32 right all in favor please signify by saying aye aye any opposed

2:25:36 same sign

2:25:36 motion passes five zero all right do any other board members

2:25:41 have information to

2:25:41 report or discuss oh come on McDougall you only got a couple

2:25:47 months left I gotta

2:25:47 use as much as possible um all right so one of the things that

2:25:51 when I was

2:25:52 thinking about what that superintendent said on the students

2:25:55 that were inside

2:25:56 that hit homegrown from our community I was thinking maybe we do

2:26:01 the same thing

2:26:03 in some sort of way right so if we have people that were born

2:26:08 here raised here

2:26:09 went to Brevard schools and are now teaching in our schools

2:26:12 wouldn’t it be

2:26:13 cool to say thank you for being here thank you for being a part

2:26:15 of our

2:26:15 community right all right I don’t know do you guys feel that way

2:26:19 yeah okay the

2:26:20 other thing is is that one of the things is in our health plan

2:26:23 we had spoken

2:26:24 about the costs and stuff like that one of the things I would

2:26:27 like to try to

2:26:28 find out from you guys if you would like to see is I would like

2:26:32 to figure out if

2:26:34 people who have dependents on our health plan also have more

2:26:40 years of service

2:26:41 with the school district and I’ll tell you why when my father

2:26:45 was a he’s a

2:26:45 electrical contractor and a general contractor and when he hires

2:26:49 people he

2:26:50 specifically looks and I know this is kind of shouldn’t probably

2:26:53 say this but

2:26:53 he specifically looks the difference between somebody who has a

2:26:56 family and

2:26:57 somebody who doesn’t because he’s convinced that the people who

2:26:59 have the

2:26:59 family will stick it out and be there for you longer I would

2:27:02 like to see if

2:27:03 the dependent people who have dependents on our plan which isn’t

2:27:07 a huge indicator

2:27:08 or also have a higher number of service people who don’t just

2:27:12 just a survey

2:27:13 because then it would help us determine how we target our health

2:27:18 care stuff in

2:27:18 the future

2:27:21 if staff can pull it would we be interested in getting

2:27:28 on that note like to give us a update wait wait let’s just stay

2:27:33 like no I need

2:27:34 input I need input like do you guys have would you like to ask

2:27:42 staff to find that

2:27:43 out I mean I can make a public record but I thought it’d be a

2:27:47 cool thing to

2:27:48 find out I’m trying to block dr. Mullen’s from looking at you

2:27:52 guys so I’m

2:27:57 thinking through the question that you’re asking and it would

2:28:00 seem to me

2:28:01 that the people who have been in the district the longest many

2:28:04 of their

2:28:04 dependents may have absolutely absolutely I’m not opposed to

2:28:11 looking at

2:28:11 the data obviously my only concern is how cumbersome is it going

2:28:16 to be for

2:28:16 staff to have to pull that data like is it should be identifying

2:28:20 factors of

2:28:20 birthday address to be pretty to excel field but I just didn’t

2:28:25 know if you

2:28:26 guys were interested in doing it that anomaly that you said is

2:28:28 where I was at

2:28:29 with making this request but I’ll be honest with you I’m looking

2:28:33 at what when

2:28:34 I talk about retention and recruitment what particular person we’re

2:28:38 looking for

2:28:38 to retain and recruit and making sure that all of our policies

2:28:42 and revenue

2:28:42 sources and everything else pertain to that so in doing so that

2:28:45 that’s where I

2:28:46 my head was that I would hate to take up an enormous amount of

2:28:51 staff time for it

2:28:52 but if dr. Mullen’s feels like it can be done relatively easily

2:28:57 that’s all yeah

2:28:59 so I feel like it’s a I feel like it’s a good assumption that

2:29:06 that’s accurate I

2:29:08 just don’t I don’t understand the benefit of using staff time to

2:29:11 get that

2:29:11 information because what are we gonna do with that information

2:29:14 we can’t

2:29:14 discriminate against an applicant whether or not they have a

2:29:16 family or not

2:29:17 I think it’s I think it’s good information I think it makes

2:29:21 sense I

2:29:21 just don’t I don’t really understand how we would utilize it so

2:29:24 that before like

2:29:25 supporting staff to take time to do it I would want to know what

2:29:27 would be the

2:29:27 benefit of that data absolutely so part of the data that we’re

2:29:31 looking at is is

2:29:32 whether we increase the costs on families or health care costs

2:29:36 this would

2:29:37 be an opportunity for us to say you know what like maybe these

2:29:39 are people in the

2:29:40 future what we’re doing now has already been set in stone but in

2:29:43 the future we

2:29:44 need to attract families and then that also just you know great

2:29:47 question Miss

2:29:47 Jenkins also what we can do is as part of our PRS and part of

2:29:51 our push and

2:29:52 everything else it might not be that we spend a ton of money

2:29:54 trying to go get

2:29:55 kids out of college it might be that we look at post-secondary

2:29:59 more often maybe

2:30:00 we’re spending time so looking at the individual who it is that

2:30:04 will give us

2:30:04 the most years of service with the strongest back I think that

2:30:08 that was

2:30:08 part of it that’s all and I think also that’s why I was going

2:30:11 with the other

2:30:12 request of who’s homegrown who do we have right so let’s start

2:30:16 identifying

2:30:16 that’s all so I appreciate that and you know with discussions we’ve

2:30:20 had about

2:30:20 health care as a board you know mr. Susan that you and I are on

2:30:24 the same

2:30:25 page when it comes to that conversation so that you say that

2:30:27 again can you say

2:30:28 that it’s rare but it’s true but I I just wanted to hear what

2:30:39 the purpose of

2:30:39 it was if it was for that reason because I I I’m with you I

2:30:43 think it’s an

2:30:44 important conversation to have in order to retain those those

2:30:46 family members so

2:30:47 thank you rush you need a press conference on that one we both

2:30:50 agreed on

2:30:51 something all right we met this last Wednesday and got some

2:31:00 really great data

2:31:01 back specifically on hinge health and on surgery Plus and it

2:31:06 does look like we

2:31:08 are realizing already significant savings actually I believe dr.

2:31:12 Thiti

2:31:12 above what they originally had projected is that correct for

2:31:15 this first year that

2:31:16 we’re really just finishing up the first year with surgery Plus

2:31:19 and the data that

2:31:20 gave us was only through April so or may so that was fantastic

2:31:24 hinge health so

2:31:25 there’s a couple of things that have really positive one the

2:31:27 savings to the

2:31:28 health care plan which benefits all of us not just all of us who

2:31:31 are on the

2:31:31 plan but all every employee because you know the less we have to

2:31:36 spend on

2:31:36 health care the more we have available for salaries and things

2:31:40 like that so but

2:31:42 the other part of that is that we’re getting people our

2:31:45 employees healthier

2:31:47 because maybe they were putting things off physical therapy

2:31:51 because of

2:31:52 scheduling and whatever and and as dr. Paul’s already alluded to

2:31:55 in shelf is

2:31:55 something that you can do from home and the same thing with

2:31:58 surgery class maybe

2:31:59 they’re putting it off because yes you know they can most of it

2:32:03 could be

2:32:03 covered through insurance but there’s still usually the

2:32:05 deductible you have to

2:32:06 meet and surgery plus because it’s zero cost the employee more

2:32:08 people are are

2:32:09 taking those steps they get that care and so it’s at lower cost

2:32:14 of them because

2:32:15 your cost of them it’s at lower cost to our plan also we’re

2:32:17 getting a healthier

2:32:18 employees and so seen some really great outcomes and I think

2:32:22 that so I

2:32:23 definitely could see that these are these are the right ways to

2:32:27 go and I’m

2:32:27 looking forward to seeing that continue at the number one if

2:32:31 they one thing

2:32:32 that’s very helpful to us and our decision-making is they they

2:32:36 ask the

2:32:36 people who take advantage of those services how did you hear

2:32:39 about it or

2:32:40 what was your path to using it and the number one way is word of

2:32:44 mouth so we’re

2:32:46 sending out email Antonio is so good at something but people

2:32:49 need to it’s it’s

2:32:50 the end user it’s just like on an Amazon you want to go to the

2:32:53 comments and you

2:32:53 filter out the people who are you can tell her kind of crazy but

2:32:56 you know the

2:32:56 people who seem to be saying you know like oh look they liked it

2:32:59 and so it

2:32:59 must be good so really that end user is who we’re so that’s so

2:33:03 important so you

2:33:05 know I just encouraging your employees if you’re listening and

2:33:07 you’re thinking

2:33:07 about taking care of yourself in those ways you’ve been putting

2:33:10 stuff off

2:33:10 please take a look at that and find it someone in your building

2:33:14 who who’s used

2:33:14 it because you’re probably with a number of people who have used

2:33:17 it you’re

2:33:17 probably gonna find some on your building and and just take a

2:33:20 look at it

2:33:21 because it’s really that made a big difference we don’t have a

2:33:23 lot of the

2:33:23 data from hello heart yet because it just launched but they are

2:33:25 going to be

2:33:25 giving us that update in July so when they do I’ll report back

2:33:28 to you guys

2:33:29 how the first few months have gone miss Campbell can I ask a

2:33:31 quick question you

2:33:32 were just promoting the idea that we go to the school and we go

2:33:34 around and try

2:33:35 to find people with surgeries and I’ll do it like I’m just

2:33:38 trying to find out

2:33:39 miss Campbell like what was that it was that we’re gonna go find

2:33:41 them like I see

2:33:42 the guy that’s hunched over and I say hey surgery plus because I

2:33:47 want to tell

2:33:50 you guys I use surgery plus over the summer and this is this is

2:33:53 how it worked

2:33:54 for me and you know people realize it’s not it’s not it’s not a

2:33:58 come on it’s not

2:33:59 again it’s it’s really it’s high quality doctors they’re walking

2:34:03 you through step

2:34:04 by step through the process which is it’s which is more hand-holding

2:34:07 they

2:34:08 usually get in a normal you know walk to surgery process and in

2:34:12 addition zero

2:34:14 cost I think we should actually use it need a back surgery go to

2:34:18 work for

2:34:18 Brevard Public Schools because you I think the programs we’ve

2:34:25 implemented are

2:34:27 going well and they’re saving everybody money well and and I

2:34:31 would share miss

2:34:32 Campbell it’s funny that you say during pre-planning somebody

2:34:34 might stand up and

2:34:35 say I use surgery plus I just talked to dr. Mullins this morning

2:34:38 you know we’ve

2:34:39 been really talking about the importance of educating our folks

2:34:43 about the ways

2:34:43 that they can more efficiently use our health plan and I just

2:34:47 talked to dr.

2:34:47 Mullins this morning about perhaps looking at some opportunity

2:34:50 during

2:34:50 pre-planning to really take some time to educate people on how

2:34:54 the choices that

2:34:55 they make impact the dollars that are available even down to

2:34:57 like the pharmacy

2:34:58 you choose and using surgery plus and and those types of things

2:35:02 and I will

2:35:03 just say as dr. Mullins alluded to earlier we we just finished

2:35:07 up my son’s

2:35:08 surgery three weeks ago maybe and dealt with surgery plus

2:35:12 through the entire

2:35:13 thing not only have I not paid anything out of pocket and he had

2:35:16 phenomenal

2:35:17 care but they also because the there was not a surgeon on the

2:35:21 north end of the

2:35:22 county that was part of surgery bus they also gave him a debit

2:35:26 card that they put

2:35:27 money on for gas and food for when he had to travel down to

2:35:31 Melbourne yeah so

2:35:33 I mean it’s not only you know and and like I said the care was

2:35:37 phenomenal the

2:35:39 doctor had a phenomenal reputation and so I I highly encourage

2:35:43 and one of the

2:35:44 things that I found and I don’t know if there’s a way that for

2:35:47 this to be

2:35:48 addressed or if it’s just a matter of educating our people to

2:35:50 ask the question

2:35:51 my pediatrician is the one that referred us to the orthopedic

2:35:54 surgeon and when

2:35:55 they referred me they referred me to I want to say Jew it over

2:36:02 in Lake Mary or

2:36:04 something like that and so but I called Cigna and I said hey my

2:36:09 son’s gotten a

2:36:09 referral to an orthopedic surgeon I don’t know do I talk to you

2:36:13 do I go

2:36:14 ahead and see the orthopedic surgeon I was referred to do I talk

2:36:16 to you first

2:36:17 how does this process work and they said no no we prefer that

2:36:21 you talk to us

2:36:21 first and let’s see if we can get him in with an orthopedic that

2:36:24 is part of

2:36:25 surgery plus but it took yeah yes yeah so what they should do it

2:36:32 every time

2:36:33 yeah a referral should hit Cigna Cigna should call the person

2:36:36 and say right so

2:36:37 I called surgery plus I said you know this is this is what’s

2:36:43 going on and so

2:36:44 it’s it’s not seamless you know what I mean it had I not taken

2:36:48 that stuff and

2:36:49 known about surgery plus then I would not have that exists in

2:36:52 other cases so

2:36:53 dr. 30 I don’t know if you hear the board but having Cigna get

2:36:56 the referral

2:36:57 in would make the phone call to the individual and say did you

2:37:00 know that

2:37:01 surgery plus is available and you can go here is a huge savings

2:37:05 point to hit you

2:37:07 hit it right there that is that does go on in other ones so just

2:37:10 tonight I mean

2:37:14 that that’s been recurring themes on SIAC yeah you know it’s one

2:37:17 thing for

2:37:17 district staff or even the principal whoever the health benefits

2:37:20 representative

2:37:21 is to stand up and say it but when when people are telling their

2:37:24 peers again

2:37:25 it’s the end-user hey this is this is all it’s cracked up to be

2:37:29 that’s really

2:37:29 gonna make a difference and ultimately you know we want to save

2:37:32 all of our

2:37:33 employees money but we also need a healthy workforce and so

2:37:36 these these

2:37:37 decisions and all the wellness activities this is this is

2:37:41 essential

2:37:41 yeah and because it keeps people at work healthy more productive

2:37:46 you know able to

2:37:47 walk around and without pain and all that worry and all that

2:37:51 stuff so I when

2:37:53 they did a little map talking about availability of doctors and

2:37:56 one of the

2:37:56 concerns we first started was are there gonna be enough doctors

2:37:59 in our area to

2:37:59 take care of this because they do do the gas cars are they gonna

2:38:01 send everybody

2:38:02 and they did a little map of where all the services have been

2:38:05 and and they are

2:38:05 predominantly in the county so very few people were having to

2:38:09 travel outside so

2:38:10 I think that network is has been useful for the people who are

2:38:13 taking advantage

2:38:14 of it and of course HENCH Health you can do from anywhere so

2:38:17 that’s great we did

2:38:19 HENCH Health too so trying to avoid the surgery we did HENCH

2:38:23 Health and then

2:38:24 ended up having to have the surgery anyway but it was a you know

2:38:27 it it could

2:38:28 have I ideally been cost avoidance that we not gotten to that

2:38:31 point so yeah

2:38:32 it’s good stuff yeah definitely good stuff absolutely anybody

2:38:37 else have

2:38:37 anything else for discussion just a follow-up to mr. Susan’s

2:38:46 request I would

2:38:47 appreciate the opportunity to confer with staff to understand

2:38:50 first the

2:38:50 request I’m we may need some clarification and then I’ll provide

2:38:54 the

2:38:54 board an update on what the pathway is to provide what sometimes

2:39:01 the suggestion

2:39:02 of it’s easy to pull is not always as easy to pull but we will

2:39:05 we will give it

2:39:07 a good college try all right we are now going to hear the

2:39:14 remaining speakers who

2:39:15 signed up to comment on non-agenda items each speaker is limited

2:39:18 to three minutes

2:39:19 we have a clock in front of me to help you keep track of your

2:39:21 time when your

2:39:22 time is over you’ll be asked to stop allow the next speaker his

2:39:24 or her turn

2:39:25 we’ll hear from the speakers in the order in which they signed

2:39:27 up including

2:39:27 those who are not waiting outside today as stated earlier

2:39:33 reasonable decorum is

2:39:34 expected at all times and your statement should be directed to

2:39:36 the board chair

2:39:37 should audience participation interfere with speakers being

2:39:39 heard or hearing me

2:39:40 I’ll be forced to clear the room I don’t anticipate that being

2:39:42 an issue today

2:39:43 it’s a fairly small crowd when I call your name please line up

2:39:46 along the east

2:39:47 wall of the boardroom to facilitate the smooth transition of

2:39:49 speakers and we

2:39:51 only have four so I’m just going to go ahead and call all four

2:39:55 of you Katie

2:39:56 Delaney Sylvana Carnes and David Carnes and then Sarah Merski

2:40:02 before speaking

2:40:03 please state your name the organization you represent if any and

2:40:06 identify the

2:40:06 topic you will be discussing

2:40:12 I would like to speak about the I I call it the circle of

2:40:16 discipline that I’ve

2:40:18 been hearing about from teachers across the district basically

2:40:24 when a student

2:40:26 gets needs to be disciplined they go to the office a lot of

2:40:29 times they come back

2:40:30 from the office with candy or in one of the instance I heard two

2:40:36 ice creams

2:40:40 basically what I’m hearing is is from the district they’re being

2:40:45 told no

2:40:45 because of risk ratio we’re not able to discipline this child

2:40:51 the same way and

2:40:52 if people don’t know what risk ratio is basically discipline is

2:40:58 being

2:40:58 determined based upon IEPs 504s race not the the bad behavior

2:41:08 that the child

2:41:09 showed I’m asking for the board to partner with the community

2:41:15 who is going

2:41:17 to ask the state legislature and the Board of Education to get

2:41:20 rid of risk

2:41:21 ratio because it’s only hurting our children it’s not helping

2:41:25 them they need

2:41:26 standards they need a level of expectation that this is how we

2:41:30 behave

2:41:30 in a classroom we need to support our teachers we need to

2:41:33 support our

2:41:34 administration the next thing is the budget again I’m going to

2:41:40 beg this board

2:41:41 to to change the way that they show the public the budget even

2:41:48 some of you have

2:41:49 mentioned that when you get the budget it doesn’t tell you

2:41:52 anything you know so

2:41:55 we the taxpayers deserve to know how how our money is spent and

2:41:59 when we’re not

2:42:01 seeing invoices we don’t know that and lastly in a couple days

2:42:07 it’ll be July

2:42:08 1st and in a couple days a few laws will be going into effect

2:42:14 and our school

2:42:15 district will be in violation of some of the books that we are

2:42:20 having that we

2:42:21 have in our libraries and our bathroom situation that’s going on

2:42:28 plus the LGBT

2:42:29 guidelines number seven will be in violation of the new law and

2:42:33 so it is

2:42:34 once again opening up our district to more and more litigation I

2:42:38 am begging

2:42:39 you guys to please fix these problems so that we are not wasting

2:42:45 money on lawyer

2:42:46 fees we don’t need all this litigation but what are parents

2:42:52 supposed to do

2:42:53 that’s because you guys aren’t being our representatives we have

2:42:57 no other outlet

2:42:58 so I’m I’m begging you to please deal with this problem

2:43:02 thank you thank you mr. Lieny

2:43:07 it’s Carnes

2:43:27 that’s fine

2:43:36 good morning we’re here to address the situation ocean breeze

2:43:39 elementary all of

2:43:41 you should be aware of it from our numerous emails and certified

2:43:45 letters

2:43:45 miss Jenkins I watched your video from the March for our lives

2:43:49 rally posted on

2:43:50 June 11th and it’s several times you ask about your rights as a

2:43:54 parent that your

2:43:56 child it’s fitting today as a follow-up to dr. Mullins

2:44:00 discussion that so many

2:44:05 concerns are were expressed about disciplinary problems at our

2:44:11 schools

2:44:12 imagine our frustration as we send our son sent our son off to

2:44:16 school where we

2:44:17 knew he was going to be bullied with the full knowledge of the

2:44:21 school board and

2:44:22 dr. Mullins each and every one of you knew about this we know

2:44:27 these incidences

2:44:28 are well documented including in writing and video as all of you

2:44:35 know we’ve been

2:44:37 through this with you many many times we’ve received almost no

2:44:41 response from

2:44:42 anyone

2:44:46 we’ve had our set we this bullying start at the beginning of

2:44:49 August 2021 and

2:44:50 continued until January 2022 when we were forced to move our son

2:44:54 from our

2:44:54 local school you know miss Michaud never attempted to protect

2:45:00 our son only ever

2:45:01 protected the boy a complete lack of discipline their

2:45:06 reaction for this child is documented he started a campaign of

2:45:13 harassment and

2:45:14 retaliation against our son

2:45:18 including having the entire OBE staff watch our child for

2:45:23 anything she could

2:45:25 use against him again miss Jenkins I heard you say school

2:45:29 safety was the highest priority you chastised other politicians

2:45:33 for not

2:45:34 attending but today I look at another group of politicians that

2:45:38 aren’t doing

2:45:38 anything so here I’m here to ask you the superintendent and the

2:45:44 rest of the

2:45:44 school board members to finally take matter seriously you know

2:45:48 our story the

2:45:49 whores miss Michaud put us through once our story got out in the

2:45:53 community

2:45:54 others started to tell us their horror stories of bullying abuse

2:45:57 and miss

2:45:58 Michaud I’m stopping your time so I’m not taking time away from

2:46:03 you okay but I

2:46:04 just I do need to address something we have a policy that we don’t

2:46:07 address

2:46:07 people individually either board members or throw out staff

2:46:11 members names

2:46:12 primarily because they’re not here to be able to respond to what’s

2:46:14 taking place

2:46:15 so if you could just remove the the individual names from your

2:46:19 comments for

2:46:19 the remainder of your time okay one moment the principles of

2:46:27 tips of

2:46:27 silence is them as well dr. Mullins you’re responsible for

2:46:31 hiring miss

2:46:31 Michaud sir are the principal or dr. Mullins please I’m sorry or

2:46:38 a doctor so

2:46:39 no no individual names you can speak to everything should be

2:46:41 directed to me as

2:46:42 the board chair or the board of the whole or all of us is

2:46:45 perfectly

2:46:46 appropriate thank you

2:46:51 the superintendent is responsible for hiring miss Michaud her or

2:46:55 the principal

2:46:56 her failures in Connecticut have followed her here given that

2:46:59 all you

2:46:59 know problems what have you done board members you’re

2:47:03 responsible for hiring

2:47:04 the superintendent have you personally followed up to see what’s

2:47:09 happened has

2:47:10 an investigation been led into this matter have you given the

2:47:14 personal

2:47:15 attention to this matter were you more concerned about school

2:47:22 retention thank

2:47:23 you sir

2:47:26 this current you want to give it another try you want me to have

2:47:29 miss Marski okay

2:47:34 yeah take your time okay gun control and school safety is on top

2:47:42 of parents

2:47:43 minds and according to the school board is in top of their mind

2:47:49 as well but

2:47:50 unfortunately in

2:47:54 in my experience

2:48:05 yeah in my experience these words have no align with the actions

2:48:08 here’s a quote

2:48:10 directly from an incident report made an ocean breeze in basic

2:48:15 and bullying by

2:48:16 another stop and a lot of students towards my son the other a

2:48:21 student

2:48:21 reported said I said I’m going to hurt shoot and kill his mom

2:48:21 and his sister my

2:48:30 son was truly scared and turn to the adults in church for help

2:48:35 this trip was

2:48:37 no one-time incident with the specific students towards my son

2:48:42 this is students

2:48:44 arrest my son for months reading to bring a gun and kill my son

2:48:50 my daughter

2:48:50 who also attend ocean ocean breezes school and even me the

2:48:56 school had to be

2:48:57 locked on at least one because the same student claimed to have

2:49:02 a gun in his

2:49:03 backpack there is a even security bill inside the school for

2:49:08 this student

2:49:09 attempt to punch my kids I cannot tell you how disappointed I am

2:49:14 that this

2:49:15 incident and the entire situation was brought directly to the

2:49:19 principal no

2:49:20 name and a school board in fact in response to my purse pursuing

2:49:26 this issue

2:49:27 my son who previously had no records of behavior or bullying was

2:49:33 target and

2:49:33 arisen by the school administration after 10 days of my son

2:49:38 after 10 days my

2:49:40 pursuit of this mother must this matter the principal personally

2:49:45 had students

2:49:46 few reports again my son and I have true of that I have the

2:49:50 papers with me it is

2:49:53 that a state of affair when we tell our kids that this kind of

2:49:57 treat will not be

2:49:58 tolerant and that the adults in charge will handle at this issue

2:50:02 our kids see

2:50:04 those in charge turn on of reporting on pursuing such matters

2:50:08 what measures are

2:50:09 we though does this behavior sent to our children one measure

2:50:13 that it’s sent to

2:50:14 other parents in this instance I decided to pull my children out

2:50:19 from the school

2:50:20 they have been since kindergarten I moved them to another school

2:50:24 in response

2:50:25 of my corresponds miss the superintendent did wish us love at

2:50:30 our

2:50:31 newest school but that far I know did nothing to address the

2:50:35 issue that ocean

2:50:36 breeze or take actions to allow us to feel safe staying in our

2:50:40 home school we

2:50:42 are living on my understanding was at the point that the school

2:50:46 board believe

2:50:46 there was no longer an issue what about other kids in class can

2:50:52 I finish I can’t

2:50:54 allow you to finish I’m sorry but if there’s anything you would

2:50:56 like to leave

2:50:56 with us you’re certainly welcome to do so I just want to finish

2:51:01 one point I

2:51:03 already let you go over your time and I just I have to be

2:51:06 consistent but

2:51:07 absolutely if there’s anything that you would like to leave or

2:51:10 if you’d like to

2:51:10 follow up after the meeting we’d be happy to do so okay

2:51:14 miss Marski

2:51:23 good afternoon madam chair and board my name is Sarah mercy I’m

2:51:27 a wife mother

2:51:28 constituent I live in district 2 for school board and I have two

2:51:32 children in

2:51:33 our public schools I do want to recognize what an amazing

2:51:37 program the

2:51:37 summer enrichment program has been my children enjoyed it I want

2:51:41 to address

2:51:42 some concerns that were brought up today in presentations

2:51:46 specifically the vaping

2:51:47 and drug concern amongst the students you had a student here

2:51:51 that shared

2:51:52 student-led initiative to bring awareness and solutions but was

2:51:56 cut off

2:51:57 during her public comment time I want to address mental health I’ve

2:52:02 come before

2:52:02 the board many times about the mental health concerns with the

2:52:05 code policies

2:52:06 that the board passed and the devastating effects that brought

2:52:10 on our

2:52:10 students and on their mental health but that fell in deaf ears

2:52:14 for the majority

2:52:15 of this board clearly bullying is also a mental health issue

2:52:19 that’s in our

2:52:20 schools as two parents just got up and shared I want to kind of

2:52:26 go back to the

2:52:27 conscious discipline and the 170 K in Oviedo what I was

2:52:32 referencing to was it

2:52:33 seemed the way that that contract was written the original one

2:52:36 is that there’s

2:52:38 variable expenses without there was a lump sum but there’s

2:52:42 variable expenses

2:52:43 for the transportation and hotel and lodging and food and I

2:52:49 understand that

2:52:51 this is an expansion of the contract the year-round contract but

2:52:55 my point was

2:52:56 that we’re not seeing where every dollar is spent on that and

2:52:59 the difference

2:52:59 between just making it clear between keeping it strictly mental

2:53:04 health

2:53:04 without their politics or being agenda driven thank you

2:53:12 all right anything else for the good of the order all right

2:53:18 there being no

2:53:19 further business this meeting is now adjourned

2:53:30 you