2022-07-12 - School Board Meeting

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15:23 - Good morning.

15:23 The July 12th, 2022 board meeting is now in order.

15:26 I’m happy to welcome my fellow board members and the public.

15:29 I would like to take this opportunity to remind the public

15:31 that the appropriate place for public participation

15:33 in the meeting is during

15:34 your individual public comment opportunity

15:36 as identified in the agenda.

15:38 Outside of your individual public comment opportunity,

15:40 your role in the meeting is as an observer this morning.

15:43 Mr. Gibbs, roll call, please.

15:45 - Ms. Belford.

15:45 - Present.

15:46 - Ms. McDougall.

15:47 - Present.

15:48 - Mr. Susan.

15:49 - Present.

15:50 - Ms. Jenkins.

15:50 - Present.

15:52 - The board will now hold a moment of silent reflection

15:54 and invite the audience to join.

16:14 Thank you.

16:15 Please stand for the Pledge of Allegiance.

16:21 I pledge allegiance to the flag

16:22 of the United States of America

16:25 and to the republic for which it stands,

16:27 one nation under God,

16:29 indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

16:35 - At this time, I’d like to offer my fellow board members

16:38 and Dr. Mullins an opportunity to recognize student staff

16:40 or members of the community

16:42 who’d like to get us started this morning.

16:44 - Go first.

16:45 - Ms. Jenkins.

16:45 - I had the opportunity to watch

16:48 one of our summer finance programs

16:50 over at Titusville High School’s Sister Act.

16:52 So I just wanted to say congratulations

16:54 to everyone who is involved, not just the actors,

16:57 but those who put the stage together,

16:59 the cast, the crew, the orchestra,

17:02 absolutely tremendous performance.

17:03 It was really, really fun.

17:04 And the day that I went,

17:06 I got to see a ton of our cabinet members there as well,

17:08 supporting our students, which was really great.

17:10 And I know that the staff and the students

17:12 really appreciated that as well.

17:14 And just really quick, one last fun thing.

17:17 You know, while our teachers are on summer break,

17:19 many of them are still working and pre-planning and stuff,

17:21 but I’ve heard some really incredible stories

17:23 about what some of our teachers are doing

17:25 with their free time.

17:26 And one of the coolest ones I just heard I just want to share

17:29 is a teacher at Delora Middle climbed Mount Kilimanjaro.

17:33 And so I just think it’s really cool for our teachers

17:35 to come back after this break

17:37 and have conversations with their students,

17:39 share their experiences,

17:40 and kind of open up the world to those kids.

17:41 So share your stories with your kids when you get back.

17:44 Let them know what you’re doing.

17:45 There’s some really cool stuff out there.

17:47 So thanks.

17:48 - Thank you, Ms. Pinkham.

17:53 - Thank you.

17:53 I didn’t get to see Sister Act,

17:54 but I did get to see Peter Pan, and it was amazing.

17:57 - We’re a duo.

17:57 - Flying around the stage

17:59 and holding my breath just a little bit,

18:01 but it was awesome.

18:03 Very talented students and teachers

18:05 and just a good show all around.

18:09 I wanted, in our agenda this morning,

18:12 we have our annual equity report,

18:15 and I hope you guys were able

18:16 to look through all the details of that.

18:18 And while we still have a long ways to go, we really do,

18:21 I saw some little, just some shining spots in that

18:26 that I just wanted to highlight.

18:28 And these are all things,

18:29 this report for our viewing audience

18:31 is required by the state.

18:33 It’s data that they track

18:35 to see how the different districts across the state

18:37 are performing, how we’re serving our students,

18:39 whether it be from different economic backgrounds,

18:42 racial backgrounds, English language learners,

18:46 things like that.

18:47 So, and Dr. McKinnon does a lot of work.

18:49 This is a big part of her job is tracking these efforts

18:51 and putting it all into one place.

18:53 But some of the things, the bright spots,

18:55 and I mentioned this, I’m gonna give a little background.

18:57 I mentioned this because a lot of times

18:59 people hear the word equity.

18:59 They think they’re looking around the country

19:01 at different things that are happening

19:02 and that it’s somehow going to be a dumbing down

19:05 of the standards.

19:06 And the things that really stuck out to me

19:08 are absolutely not that.

19:09 It is pushing more and more students toward rigor

19:12 in their coursework.

19:13 And we had an increase in our black student enrollment

19:17 in AP, IB, and ACE classes, which is Cambridge.

19:20 We had an increase in our English language learner enrollment

19:22 in all those classes.

19:23 We had in dual enrollment, and I know this is,

19:27 Dr. Sullivan has just set the standard.

19:29 I heard her say it several years ago.

19:30 We want this, we expect we would really like

19:32 every high school student at some point

19:34 in their four years to take a dual enrollment course.

19:36 So they get a taste of what college is like to say,

19:39 either I can do this or, oh, this is not for me.

19:41 But just to get that experience,

19:42 we have an increase in our black male population

19:45 in dual enrollment as well as in our Hispanic enrollment,

19:49 dual enrollment, those two enrollments.

19:51 English language learners is up in that category as well.

19:53 Our level three courses,

19:55 which are all of those courses plus honors classes,

19:57 we had increases in our black male population,

19:59 our Hispanic population,

20:00 and our English language learner population.

20:02 So I think that is a great movement

20:06 that we are pushing more and more students

20:08 to accept the fact that, hey,

20:10 I can be in these rigorous classes

20:12 and the data that we’ve seen,

20:15 the research has shown that the more students

20:17 are in those high rigor classes,

20:18 the more successful they are,

20:19 that they rise to the expectation.

20:21 And that’s exactly what we wanna see.

20:22 So kudos to everybody who was a part

20:24 of putting the report together.

20:25 I know the report is just an evidence

20:27 of all the great work that’s being done around the district.

20:29 So great job.

20:30 I just wanted to highlight that from that report.

20:33 - Awesome, thank you, Ms. Campbell.

20:35 Mr. Susan.

20:36 - I’m good, thank you.

20:37 - Ms. McDougall.

20:38 Dr. Mullins.

20:41 - I’m gonna defer my time

20:42 to the superintendent’s report shortly.

20:44 - All right, super.

20:46 I just would like to give kudos

20:49 to all of our teams that I’m sure everyone

20:51 has seen that school grades were released.

20:54 And there’s been a lot of kind of chatter

20:57 about school grades and the different interpretations

20:59 of those.

21:01 First of all, I just have to give kudos

21:03 to our entire system, our entire team,

21:06 for the improvements that we’ve seen.

21:08 So last year school grades were not issued officially to us,

21:11 but we, being diligent, we as a system being diligent,

21:16 still kind of crunched those numbers

21:18 to see where we would be.

21:19 And we have seen significant, significant improvement

21:21 in the last year.

21:23 And that is the work of every single person

21:26 in the school supporting the students to success.

21:29 The resources that this board has put into place

21:32 to assist some of our more struggling schools.

21:35 And also the parents who are supporting those students,

21:39 and I’ll speak to that a little bit more later.

21:42 But most importantly, the teachers

21:43 that are in front of those students every single day

21:45 and working so hard to make them successful

21:47 in the work that they’re doing,

21:48 because that really is what the school grades

21:50 are a reflection of.

21:53 And so if I could just highlight a couple

21:55 that I was super excited about in my district,

21:58 just because I know how hard they’ve worked

22:00 and how determined they have been to turn the trend.

22:04 So Kokina Elementary who has struggled for quite some time.

22:08 I think the last time that they were not a C school

22:10 was like seven years ago or something like that.

22:14 And they came in to be this year.

22:16 So very, very excited for the team at Kokina.

22:19 Madison Middle School, which has struggled.

22:21 In fact, when I came on the board in 2014,

22:24 they were a D school.

22:26 And they are back up to a C school this year.

22:31 So starting to make some progress there.

22:33 And Atlantis who had dropped to a C

22:36 is an A school this year.

22:38 And so congratulations to those teams

22:40 for all of their hard work.

22:42 And then I’ll share with you,

22:43 I’ve been out talking to a lot of folks

22:45 because it’s that season.

22:49 And had the opportunity to speak with two teachers

22:52 that had been at one of our more struggling schools

22:56 and had transitioned to a school that’s doing better.

23:00 And had a conversation about

23:02 what do you think the difference is

23:03 between A school and B school?

23:07 And it came down to parent engagement.

23:11 So definitely leadership at the school impacts it,

23:13 teachers at the school impact it.

23:16 But what we really came to the conclusion of

23:18 was parent engagement in the school

23:20 really makes such a difference in the culture.

23:22 And I know we’ve talked a lot about

23:23 the importance of parents getting involved in school.

23:25 We’ve done a lot as far as paying for fingerprinting

23:28 and doing mobile fingerprinting

23:29 and setting up the mentoring structure

23:32 to try to encourage parents to get into schools.

23:34 But I just thought it was really interesting

23:35 with both of these individuals,

23:37 when we drilled down into it,

23:39 obviously a good leader draws good teachers.

23:42 Obviously a good leader is going to engage parents more.

23:47 But both of those individuals

23:48 really felt like the primary difference

23:52 between the two schools

23:53 was the parents engagement in the school

23:54 and their willingness to collaborate

23:56 with the administration and the teachers.

23:58 And so I just wanna make sure that we give kudos

24:02 to all that impacted,

24:03 including our parents who are supporting their kids

24:05 and working with our schools

24:07 to help them help their kids.

24:09 So with that, we will move into the adoption of the agenda.

24:14 Dr. Mullins.

24:23 - Ms. Balfour and members of the board,

24:24 on this morning’s agenda,

24:25 we have administrative staff recommendations,

24:28 one presentation, 20 consent items,

24:30 two action items, and three informational items.

24:34 Changes made to the agenda since release to the public

24:36 include the following items,

24:38 F17, the 2022-23 Pathways to Career Opportunities Grant,

24:45 H32, Department School Initiated Agreements,

24:48 and K36, EKG Testing Requirements.

24:53 Revisions were made to items A7,

24:55 Administrative Staff Recommendations,

24:57 D8, Superintendent Report, and I33,

25:01 Personnel Allocations for 2022-2023.

25:05 - What are the wishes of the board?

25:07 - Move to approve.

25:08 - Second.

25:09 - Moved by Ms. McDougall, seconded by Ms. Campbell.

25:11 Is there any discussion?

25:13 All in favor, please signify by saying aye.

25:15 - Aye. - Aye.

25:16 - Any opposed?

25:16 Same sign.

25:17 Motion passes, 5-0.

25:19 Dr. Mullins, will you please let us know

25:20 about the administrative staff recommendations this morning?

25:23 - Yes, Madam Chair, members of the board,

25:25 there are three items for your consideration.

25:27 - What are the wishes of the board?

25:28 - Move to approve.

25:30 - Moved by Ms. McDougall, seconded by Ms. Campbell.

25:32 Is there any discussion?

25:34 All in favor, please signify by saying aye.

25:36 - Aye. - Aye.

25:36 - Any opposed?

25:37 Same sign.

25:38 Motion passes, 5-0.

25:40 Dr. Mullins.

25:42 - Thank you, Mrs. Belford.

25:43 I’d like to take the opportunity to recognize

25:47 our administrative recommendations today,

25:50 so congratulations to Ms. Kelly Grugin,

25:53 who will be reclassed from the position of assistant

25:55 principal at Riviera Elementary School

25:58 to the position of assistant principal

26:00 at Gardendale Separate Day School, effective July 12th.

26:04 Congratulations, Ms. Grugin.

26:07 (audience applauding)

26:13 - Thank you, Dr. Mullins and the school board members.

26:17 So five years ago, I stood here,

26:19 and over the five years, I felt I’ve really grown,

26:23 and I was really confident,

26:24 yet this part, and holding this microphone in front of you,

26:28 still is an area that I need to grow in.

26:32 I wanna thank Ms. Moore and Ms. Bland

26:34 for welcoming me with open arms to student services.

26:38 I look forward to working with them,

26:40 especially Ms. Bland, who is going to be my teammate,

26:44 and the person that I get to learn from each and every day,

26:48 and I’m very grateful for this opportunity.

26:51 I wanna thank Elementary Leading and Learning,

26:53 who have brought me here today.

26:56 They’ve afforded me opportunities throughout my five years

26:59 as an assistant principal that have led me

27:02 to be able to make this jump.

27:06 I have a lot of administrators and mentors

27:08 that have helped me along the way in my leadership.

27:11 Amazing principals.

27:14 But I really wanna thank Ms. Beth Meyers to my right.

27:18 She encouraged me and pushed me to reach for things

27:21 that I thought were out of my grasp,

27:23 and without her, I would not be here,

27:25 so thank you for that.

27:28 I also wanna thank my Riviera family.

27:31 For five years, it’s been my home.

27:34 They’ve been my constant.

27:36 The community, the staff, the students, and the families

27:40 not only helped me form myself as a leader,

27:43 they’ve made me a better human.

27:44 So I will miss you and cherish all of you,

27:47 and I’m just a phone or email away.

27:50 I wanna thank my family.

27:53 I have a very extensive family,

27:54 and I’m very grateful that a lot of them are educators,

27:57 so they’re very supportive and have always been there for me.

28:02 My two children, Brayden and Andy,

28:04 who are gonna become accustomed to more Crock-Pot meals

28:09 because of my new commute, but they are cheering me on.

28:13 But most importantly to my husband, Joe,

28:15 right here on my left, he’s also an educator and has been.

28:19 He’s always open-minded and supportive

28:23 for whatever new adventure comes my way.

28:26 I just wanna say that for 19 years,

28:29 I’ve been serving Brevard, and I will carry out our mission

28:32 at Gardendale SDS to the best of my ability.

28:35 Thank you.

28:37 (audience applauding)

28:42 - Ms. Belford, if I may, I can’t pass up the opportunity

28:44 to say congratulations again, Kelly.

28:46 Joe, thank you for being a phenomenal educator team

28:51 and not only committing to each other

28:53 to support kids in the classroom,

28:56 but for prioritizing Brevard’s kids

28:58 and investing yourselves

28:59 and investing your professional lives,

29:01 and likely beyond that,

29:04 into the lives of the kids of our community.

29:05 You make an enormous positive impact every day,

29:10 and we thank you on behalf of the kids that you serve.

29:12 So congratulations.

29:15 (audience applauding)

29:21 - All right, next we are moving

29:23 into the Superintendent’s Report presentation, Dr. Mullen.

29:44 - Thank you.

29:53 Let me double check something here.

30:00 There we go.

30:03 Well, good morning again.

30:04 Thank you, Mrs. Belford and board members

30:06 for the opportunity to take a few minutes

30:08 and celebrate some amazing summer opportunities

30:14 that we were able to provide to our kids and our community

30:17 over the last few weeks.

30:19 You know that a couple weeks ago,

30:22 we concluded our summer enrichment

30:24 as well as our summer academic opportunities for students.

30:27 But what is rather unprecedented is the number of students

30:32 that we had engaged and involved

30:34 and the diverse array of opportunities

30:37 available for our students.

30:39 As we surveyed parents and what their needs were

30:43 and hopes were for their kids as the summer approached,

30:47 we realized that there was interest and desire

30:51 for more than just academic supports,

30:54 but interest and need for enrichment opportunities

30:58 and extended opportunities for our kids.

31:00 So I’m so excited and proud to share

31:05 that through the prioritization of our federal funds,

31:08 we were able to fund a very extensive summer academic

31:13 and enrichment opportunity for our students.

31:16 So I will inadequately capture everything that took place

31:21 across our district during the month of June,

31:24 but I will attempt to give you kind of a exciting snapshot

31:29 of exactly what our kids experienced.

31:31 We’ll begin with highlighting our 12 elementary schools

31:36 that hosted the district developed summer program

31:39 for students in first through fifth grade.

31:41 Now, keep in mind that historically,

31:43 the state has required reading camp

31:46 for third grade students.

31:48 That has been a requirement and somewhat of a staple,

31:51 if you will, across our schools over the last several years.

31:54 But this summer, we expanded those opportunities

31:57 for all grade levels,

31:59 literally elementary through high school.

32:02 And so we’ll capture some of that here

32:04 in the next few minutes.

32:06 In these camps, students were taught

32:09 in small group settings.

32:10 And of course, as the board knows,

32:12 and thrilled to share with our community

32:14 that not only was the camp provided,

32:17 but transportation, breakfast, and lunch

32:20 were provided to our students as well.

32:22 And you can see that we had over nearly 1,300 students

32:26 attend academic acceleration camp

32:29 in first through fifth grade,

32:31 as well as we had several elementary ESE students

32:36 participating in the extended school year program.

32:40 And then across several Title I schools,

32:43 we had the summer camps as well

32:46 that were developed, who developed various programs

32:49 to encourage students to engage

32:51 with English language arts, math,

32:54 as well as hands-on activities in science.

32:58 Myla, for instance, hosted a summer Safari adventure camp

33:04 in academics.

33:05 Over 40 students participated in ELA,

33:08 English language arts, math,

33:09 and hands-on science activities.

33:11 Oak Park Elementary hosted an academic SOAR camp

33:17 where 25 students attended this camp

33:19 with a focus on reading and math skills.

33:21 These were all voluntary and were not required.

33:26 Pinewood Elementary hosted a summer enrichment program

33:29 for reading and math with 100 students attending

33:33 across grades first through sixth grade.

33:35 And we also had Endeavor Elementary hosting a stream camp

33:41 where each week there was a different science theme.

33:45 Students experienced hands-on activities

33:48 along with exposure to the arts, reading, writing,

33:54 and other academic areas.

33:57 So here you see some of our kids who participated

33:59 in the Endeavor, Cambridge, University Park,

34:02 Oak Park, and Kokina camp opportunities

34:06 throughout the month of June.

34:11 Here you see our west side kids engaging

34:15 in their summer STEAM program that focused

34:17 on rising third, fourth, and fifth grade students

34:20 where they had over 100 students attend and participate

34:24 in their STEAM program.

34:27 The goal at this program was to help students develop

34:30 a deeper understanding of both science and math concepts

34:34 while thinking like a scientist

34:37 through those hands-on activities.

34:39 I love the engagement in the top left corner picture

34:44 where students are using manipulatives

34:47 to make connections to math concepts.

34:50 And you look at the bottom left,

34:53 you would never know that it’s summer quote,

34:56 break, or vacation as you can just experience the joy

35:00 on our kid’s face as they’re enjoying the athletics

35:05 as well as the camaraderie of being together.

35:08 And every picture shows that hands-on engagement

35:11 and involvement of our students

35:13 with the learning experience that they had.

35:16 Here we have Sea Park where they hosted a STEM,

35:20 science, technology, engineering, and math,

35:22 maker space, and coding camp.

35:24 Yes, you heard me correctly.

35:27 It’s an elementary school working on coding

35:30 where we had approximately 40 students participate.

35:33 And they did everything from read alouds

35:36 to a summer reading challenge.

35:38 And again, those STEM activities that connected kids

35:42 with learning concepts and how they can be expanded

35:45 through the use of kinetic sand, croquet,

35:49 or excuse me, crochet.

35:51 (laughing)

35:53 Although we could probably connect it to croquet as well

35:56 because our teachers are that amazing.

35:59 As well as building with magnets and so on.

36:03 So again, look at the level of engagement of our kids

36:08 across those different photos.

36:10 And the top right, if seeing the smile

36:14 on that little girl’s face doesn’t make your heart smile,

36:17 gotta check your pulse, gotta check your pulse.

36:19 So great, great experiences going on.

36:23 And then at Stevenson Elementary School,

36:25 they hosted an integrated summer music camp

36:28 on a phenomenal music program up there at Stevenson.

36:32 And we provided students instruments

36:34 and they engaged as groups and individually

36:37 in expanding their appreciation and understanding

36:41 of not only music but music theory as well.

36:46 So super thrilled with the experiences

36:50 across our many elementary schools

36:53 that were available to our kids.

36:55 And we saw the passion and the excitement of teachers

37:01 bringing some of their own personal areas of love

37:05 and interest and enthusiasm to their specific areas

37:10 of learning and really opened up the opportunities

37:13 for teachers to expand their engagement with kids as well.

37:16 So just so proud of the opportunities

37:20 we made available to our elementary kids.

37:23 But that’s just the beginning

37:24 because across our secondary schools as well,

37:27 you can see we had a very diverse and vast array

37:32 of opportunities available to our middle

37:34 and high school students from credit retrieval

37:37 and grade forgiveness to dual enrollment.

37:40 You’ll see in a moment we had over a thousand students

37:43 take advantage of dual enrollment access and opportunity.

37:46 Our driver’s education program, folks often don’t realize

37:50 or don’t know that driver’s education

37:53 is still available to our students

37:56 and it has advanced in the opportunities

37:59 available to our students and stayed current

38:01 with the types of vehicles.

38:03 I’ll give you more in just a minute.

38:05 But as well as the most vast and diverse array

38:10 of summer enrichment programs and opportunities

38:13 that I’ll highlight in just a moment.

38:15 So credit retrieval, grade forgiveness,

38:17 you can see that 25 secondary schools

38:19 offered these academic program opportunities.

38:23 We had nearly 2,000 students or 2,000 completions

38:28 of a half credit course recovery.

38:30 But we also had counselors and social workers

38:33 and administrators available to engage

38:36 and interact with our students.

38:37 Continuing to build that bridge

38:39 and that positive connection to our school environment.

38:42 Helping students work through the setback perhaps

38:46 of needing to be in summer school to do credit recovery

38:50 and helping them understand why they were there

38:53 for that purpose and how do we move forward

38:56 not to have to have that necessity in the future.

38:59 We also had a very extensive engagement

39:02 of students involved in Brevard Virtual School

39:05 from 36 different schools across Brevard Public Schools,

39:08 charter as well as home education students.

39:11 Over 1,100 different students enrolled

39:14 in at least one class.

39:16 And you can see the completions that were accomplished

39:20 in that short period of time.

39:22 So proud of the diverse access of opportunity

39:26 and modes of learning we were able to provide

39:28 our kids this summer.

39:30 I highlighted a moment ago the dual enrollment.

39:33 You can see over 1,400 students participating

39:36 in a dual enrollment course to earn college credit.

39:40 So very diverse access across our district

39:45 as well as an impressive completion rate of those courses.

39:50 Again counselors were given additional hours

39:53 for strong support of our students

39:56 as some of them had their first experience

39:59 with a dual enrollment course to help them ensure success.

40:03 And then our driver’s education program.

40:06 We had seven sites of 350 students participate

40:09 and I find it interesting that we now are teaching kids

40:13 how to operate and utilize electric cars

40:16 because they’re becoming an increasing reality

40:19 of the driving vehicles of the future of our kids.

40:24 So we remain relevant, we remain innovative

40:28 in providing learning to our students

40:30 through our driver’s education program.

40:34 Also at the secondary level we had extended school year

40:37 opportunities for our students with disabilities

40:40 which were identified through their IEP.

40:42 So over 160 students were served by 30 different teachers,

40:48 32 instructional assistants and received learning

40:52 opportunities to help them advance on their IEP goals.

40:57 A few moments ago Mrs. Campbell and others

41:01 highlighted the summer fine arts program.

41:03 I had the privilege and opportunity to see both performances

41:07 and different types of plays but equally as impressive.

41:13 Sister Act was just fun, just such a fun performance

41:18 and the stage set someone references,

41:21 not just the performers at the front of the stage,

41:23 all of the work that goes behind it, our orchestra pit.

41:26 You don’t hardly even see the orchestra down the bump

41:29 but they learn all of that music and coordinate it

41:31 and choreograph it with the actors and the performers

41:35 and it is accentuated by the stage crew.

41:39 That is so impressive.

41:40 And Peter Pan at O’Gally High School

41:43 was equally as impressive.

41:44 I heard that we were gonna have a flying Peter Pan.

41:48 Of course that causes my heart to palpitate a little bit.

41:51 I’m like oh my goodness.

41:52 But I’m like okay, a scene or two of Peter Pan

41:56 flying across the stage, we can do it.

41:58 I was like oh my goodness, it was not just Peter Pan,

42:01 it was like air acrobatics.

42:04 And the lead for Peter Pan just did a phenomenal job,

42:08 so talented, as well as Captain Hook

42:13 was quite the personality and it was so exciting

42:16 to see our kids enjoying that opportunity.

42:18 You can see the number of students that we had involved

42:22 in those two performances this summer

42:24 as well as the teachers and community partners

42:27 and volunteers as well.

42:31 And now I move into our secondary summer enrichment program

42:35 where we had 50 different enrichment camps

42:40 available to our students.

42:42 Some of them one week, others of them three weeks long.

42:45 Everything from airbrushing to guitar to drone piloting,

42:50 swimming, coding, crafting, and the list goes on.

42:53 And you saw some of the highlights in the news.

42:55 We had some news outlets highlight

42:58 some of the programs and opportunities.

43:00 And so we are so excited that this was made available

43:04 to our kids across Brevard County.

43:06 Here you can see summer enrichment by the numbers.

43:09 Over 1,500 students participated in the programs.

43:14 544 students in arts-based programs, 400 in STEM.

43:20 We had almost 200 students become CPR certified voluntarily.

43:25 And now they, you’ve highlighted one of our own students

43:28 who saved the life of an individual in a car accident

43:32 because of her training in one of our CTE nursing programs.

43:35 Well now we’ve got almost 200 more students

43:38 out in our community who are prepared and trained

43:42 to be available in the case of an emergency or a crisis.

43:46 But also had almost 100 kids become certified

43:50 in drone operation.

43:52 That’s a growing field of interest and popularity.

43:56 So excited that our kids could have that opportunity.

43:59 And then not the least of which, over 350 students

44:03 who just had opportunity to develop life skill type courses,

44:07 those guitar courses, airbrushing,

44:11 just enriching their lives and exploring new experiences

44:18 to bring them joy in their own personal lives.

44:23 I would be remiss if I didn’t take this opportunity

44:26 to highlight the ancillary additional supports

44:29 we provided students this summer.

44:32 You can see here that our summer food program

44:35 was busy as well, where we provided

44:38 over 24,000 breakfast meals, over 100,000 lunches

44:44 to our kids across our schools, as well as opened our doors

44:48 to students who weren’t necessarily in a learning program

44:52 or an academic enrichment program,

44:54 but they could come in from the community

44:56 and access that free lunch across our schools.

45:00 And then all of our programs were provided transportation.

45:03 You can see that we had thousands of students transported

45:09 across our different schools, 25 different sites.

45:13 You know, we take for granted the logistics

45:17 of what it takes to pick up

45:19 and drop off kids every day safely.

45:23 This was not just a, hey, let’s just pick up the routes

45:26 we normally run for different sites.

45:30 This was a customized routing for student need.

45:35 We didn’t know in January, February, March,

45:40 perhaps even April, all of the students

45:42 who were gonna participate in the programs.

45:45 But literally over days, maybe a couple of weeks,

45:48 our transportation department took all of the enrollments

45:52 of students in our summer programs and they worked through

45:55 and scheduled and routed the best way and efficient way

45:59 to pick up our kids across Brevard County.

46:01 So I can’t do a great enough shout out to our

46:05 transportation team, our drivers who were flexible

46:10 and malleable to, okay, what is the route today?

46:13 It might be a different route tomorrow

46:14 and well, next week’s route’s gonna be different

46:16 because it’s a totally different camp

46:18 and they were receptive and responsive and so helpful,

46:22 not the least of which our routers did a great job

46:25 of being responsive and our supervisors

46:28 in ensuring that our kids were picked up

46:32 and dropped off safely and consistently this summer.

46:35 And our food service team.

46:37 You know, our summer feeding program is always kind of,

46:41 we don’t know, we don’t know how many.

46:43 And access chain and access of food products and so on

46:47 continues to be challenging for our food service program.

46:51 So if they plan too big, then they have waste

46:55 and they have costs that outweigh revenue

46:59 and so they do a phenomenal job of being responsive,

47:03 being proactive while also like just in time ordering

47:07 to make sure that they have what our kids need.

47:09 Not only food to put in their stomach

47:11 but a nutritious, healthy, well planned out

47:16 and intentional meal to provide

47:18 that comfort and stability for our kids.

47:20 So huge shout out to our supporting services

47:25 as well as our teachers who took on new opportunities

47:31 and exciting practices.

47:33 I mentioned we just saw a renewed joy and enthusiasm

47:37 and being able to bring some personal interests

47:39 and even personal hobbies to these enrichment opportunities

47:43 and these extended academic camps as well

47:46 and loved that we were able to not only elevate

47:50 and celebrate our teachers’ interests

47:52 but also compensate them for their instruction,

47:57 their expertise for our kids and our community.

48:01 So if I may, I’ll open it up for questions

48:04 in a few moments but Mrs. Belford, you did a wonderful job

48:07 of highlighting some of our school’s accomplishments.

48:10 We did just receive our school grade summary last Thursday.

48:16 So we’re only four days away if that,

48:20 less than, workdays anyway, of receiving that

48:23 but I gotta give kudos and shout out

48:25 to my testing accountability team

48:27 under the leadership of Nada Francis

48:30 who is a little bit in trouble with me

48:33 only because she gave up her personal vacation

48:36 to come in and tackle some of the student achievement data.

48:40 Nada, I know you’re out there listening.

48:43 Thank you so much for helping us dive in,

48:47 dig into the results and be able to celebrate

48:50 the accomplishment of our students,

48:52 celebrate the tremendous hard work of our teachers,

48:57 our administrators and all of the team members around them

49:01 that come together to serve our kids.

49:04 So I’ve gotta add some shout outs

49:06 because we had some schools across the entire district

49:11 just accomplish some amazing feats.

49:15 I gotta shout out again to Kokina, increased by 83 points,

49:18 bringing the school from a D four years ago

49:21 to a B this year through the challenges of the pandemic.

49:26 Kokina’s math mean score improved nine points

49:29 and the percent of students at level three

49:31 increased by 20 points.

49:33 I gotta tell you, increasing proficiency level

49:36 at double digit percentage levels,

49:40 that is amazing hard work.

49:42 That is a testament of just a tremendous

49:46 amount of commitment.

49:47 Atlantis Elementary School, you highlighted,

49:50 kind of knocked the ball out of the park,

49:52 was a grand slam, increased 176 points

49:55 to return the school to an A.

49:58 Their ELA mean score improved 10 points

50:01 and the percentage of students level three

50:02 and above 19 percentage points.

50:05 Saturn Elementary increased by 89 points,

50:08 returning the school to a C.

50:10 Myla increased 106 points, taking the school to a C.

50:14 University Park increased 94 points, earning a C.

50:19 Their math mean score improved by 11 points

50:22 and the percent of level three

50:23 increased by 20 percentage points.

50:26 That’s 20% more kids than last year,

50:30 scoring proficient in math.

50:33 Turner Elementary increased 85 points,

50:36 returning to a C. Turner’s ELA, English Language Arts,

50:40 mean score improved by 10 points, level three and above,

50:43 21 point increase.

50:46 Jupiter Elementary, 158 point increase,

50:50 taking the school to a B.

50:52 Fourth grade math mean score improved by 23 points

50:55 and the percent of students level three

50:57 increased by 21 percentage points.

51:01 Holland Elementary increased by 50 points,

51:04 maintaining an A, again 21 point increase

51:08 in student scoring level three and above in ELA.

51:12 And science increased, mean score increased

51:17 by 12 percentage points.

51:20 So I’m gonna give an additional shout out

51:22 to other schools who grade didn’t necessarily go up,

51:27 but some of the accomplishments within certain areas

51:31 was commendable as well.

51:32 Gulfview in ELA, Palm Bay Elementary in math.

51:38 Croton, sixth grade math mean score improved 10 points.

51:43 Mims Elementary, 21 point increase in math.

51:47 Anderson Elementary School, math increase scores as well.

51:53 Science, Sun Tree Elementary, Oak Park, Cambridge, Myla,

51:57 some of these schools you’re hearing repeated

51:59 because they had multiple improvements

52:02 and I just wanna give my personal

52:05 and enormous congratulations to our schools

52:09 as they took on perhaps the most challenging year

52:13 at least that I can think of in my educational career

52:17 and lifetime and made impressive improvements

52:21 and gains on behalf of the students.

52:23 So congratulations to our elementary educators

52:26 for their tremendous work and their dedication to our kids.

52:29 So now secondary, you thought I was gonna

52:31 leave some of our secondary schools out.

52:33 I’d be in big trouble with Dr. Sullivan if I did that.

52:36 But Stone Middle School increased 76 points

52:41 taking the school to a C.

52:43 They’re Stone Elementary’s geometry EOC pass rate.

52:47 These are middle school kids taking geometry,

52:49 93% pass rate plus went up from 38

52:53 to 63% pass rate in algebra.

52:57 You know we have prioritized and focused on not only access

53:00 to rigorous high school credit math opportunities

53:04 for middle school students but also providing them

53:07 to the supports to succeed and excel.

53:09 And kudos and shout outs to Stone.

53:12 You know, Johnson Middle School really probably takes

53:17 the biggest kudos and shout out because they improved

53:22 in all six cells of school grade.

53:25 In 7th and 8th grade ELA, 7th and 8th grade math,

53:29 algebra and geometry, 14% increase in science.

53:33 Congratulations Ms. Middleton and your amazing team

53:37 for supporting and helping our kids be successful.

53:40 Madison Elementary School, Ms. Belford,

53:43 you highlighted them.

53:44 21 point increase taking the school to a C

53:48 and improved both 7th and 8th grade math.

53:50 Southwest Middle School increased 44 points

53:54 taking the school to a C.

53:55 They improved in 7th and 8th grade ELA

53:59 as well as algebra and geometry but they also added

54:03 to their list of improvements increases in science

54:05 and a 10 point increase in civics.

54:09 Folks forget our 7th grade students are taking civics

54:12 as their social studies class and there is a state

54:15 end of course exam on that assessment as well

54:19 and becomes part of the school grade.

54:21 Palm Bay High increased 63 points as well as

54:25 a 14 point increase in US history

54:29 and a nine point increase in biology.

54:32 Both courses that have an end of course exam.

54:35 Edgewood Junior Senior High School increased already

54:38 a very high performing school but took it to another level

54:41 increasing 70 points to maintain their A.

54:44 McNair Middle School, big shout out to Jasmine De Lauder

54:48 and the culture and the team that she built at McNair.

54:52 Very proud of you and our teachers at McNair

54:55 for improving from a C to a B.

54:58 And a shout out to the math teacher.

55:00 I think we’ve highlighted her before.

55:02 Had 100% pass rate in geometry plus the algebra EOC

55:07 pass rate increased by 14 points as well as a shout out

55:11 to Cocoa Beach Junior Senior High who increased

55:14 from a B to an A.

55:16 There are other schools that are notable for their

55:18 accomplishments.

55:19 Cocoa High School improved in all four ELA categories

55:24 across all four grade levels, seventh through 10th grade.

55:28 Eighth grade math and algebra continued to increase

55:32 and they also improved eighth grade science, civics

55:36 and US history.

55:37 Congratulations.

55:38 Kinda, I think Mr. Rashad Wilson is outside the boardroom

55:44 but a shout out to his leadership and the amazing team

55:46 that he has there and our teachers focused commitment

55:50 to serving our kids cannot be overstated.

55:53 I told Denise Stewart, our new principal at Cocoa,

55:57 I said, “You had big shoes to fill.”

56:00 Literally and metaphorically with following Mr. Wilson

56:07 but now they’re even bigger with the accomplishment

56:09 of Cocoa High.

56:10 But also Bayside improved in ninth and 10th grade

56:13 in ELA and algebra.

56:14 Jefferson Elementary School, I had forgotten this

56:17 until I was looking at the–

56:18 - Middle, middle.

56:19 - What did I say?

56:20 - Elementary. - Elementary.

56:21 Jefferson Middle School piloted, thank you.

56:25 They piloted high school biology in eighth grade.

56:30 100% pass rate first year out.

56:33 That’s a testament to our biology teacher in middle school

56:38 for our kids at Jefferson and we’re continuing to explore

56:41 that opportunity for more of our schools

56:43 as well as a shout out to Astronaut High

56:45 for a 10 point increase in biology.

56:48 I could go on and on.

56:52 I hope Bailey from Florida Today is listening.

56:55 I don’t think we got all of the credit.

56:57 Our teachers and schools are doing the little tiny write up

57:01 so Bailey, I welcome you to reach out to me.

57:04 I got more you could highlight

57:07 but just some last highlights if you would indulge me

57:11 at the time.

57:13 In English language arts, Brevard outperformed the state

57:15 in all grade levels based on the percentage

57:18 of students scoring level three, the scale score

57:21 and the percent at level one.

57:23 Mathematics, Brevard outperformed the state

57:25 in at least four grade levels in math, algebra and geometry

57:29 based on the percent of students scoring level three,

57:32 their scale score and the percent at level one.

57:35 In science, Brevard outperformed the state in grade five,

57:39 grade eight and biology.

57:41 Those are the only years we test science

57:45 based on the percent of students scoring at level three,

57:47 their scale score and the percent of level one.

57:51 And in social studies, Brevard outperformed the state

57:55 in civics and US history based again

57:58 on the students scoring at level three,

58:00 their scale score and the percent at level one.

58:03 And we can dig into it further

58:04 but I just am tremendously proud to continue

58:08 to serve our community, to serve this board

58:11 as the superintendent with a team that is undeniably

58:16 dedicated and devoted to not only the mission

58:21 but to the faces, the lives, the hearts of the children

58:24 that walk into our classrooms every day.

58:27 I often have said on August 10th, 2022,

58:34 our teachers will not only open the doors

58:36 to their classrooms but every one of them opens the doors

58:40 to their own heart for the kids that they welcome

58:43 through the door of their classroom.

58:45 They not only commit to know them, express their value

58:49 of every kid that comes into our school

58:52 but then devote themselves to inspiring those lives

58:55 to achieve more than our kids may ever have thought

58:58 was possible on their own.

59:01 So my tremendous thanks to our educators of Brevard County.

59:05 They are certainly worthy of a standing ovation

59:09 at the least and thrilled to be able

59:13 to celebrate them a little bit this morning.

59:15 Thank you for the time.

59:19 - Go ahead, Ms. McDougall.

59:22 - Oh, Dr. Mullen, you forgot one of my school.

59:24 - Uh-oh.

59:25 - It was Audubon, if I’m not mistaken,

59:27 who improved the whole grade.

59:29 I believe they are a B school now.

59:32 Ms. Klein from AC.

59:38 (laughing)

59:40 But I believe that was true

59:43 because I did talk to Ms. Jones.

59:54 That’s right.

59:55 - So shout out to Audubon.

59:56 I apologize.

59:58 I somehow, but I appreciate the accountability.

1:00:01 So thank you for keeping me straight

1:00:04 and great job to our Audubon team and family

1:00:08 for realizing a school grade increase.

1:00:12 And more importantly, let’s not get caught up

1:00:15 in grades and numbers.

1:00:16 Let’s not forget that like on the screen,

1:00:21 behind those numbers are faces and hearts of kids.

1:00:25 And that’s what has been changed.

1:00:27 And inspiration that has happened in kids’ lives.

1:00:31 Belief that they can.

1:00:33 And they’ve stepped up and done that.

1:00:36 So thank you.

1:00:38 - Thank you, Dr. Mullen and Ms. McDougall.

1:00:40 Anyone have a comment or question?

1:00:41 - Yeah, please.

1:00:43 Kudos to everybody who put everything together

1:00:46 for this summer and engaged our students

1:00:50 and increased our academics.

1:00:52 But I just want to acknowledge one more time

1:00:55 that we’re also fulfilling a critical need

1:00:57 by having these programs over the summer.

1:00:59 So we’re feeding our students.

1:01:01 We’re providing them with a safe environment

1:01:02 for some families who may struggle

1:01:04 to consistently provide that over such a long summer break.

1:01:07 And so I just want to, again, thank everyone involved

1:01:11 from our staff, teachers, the bus drivers,

1:01:14 food and nutrition services, security, everybody.

1:01:17 You’re fulfilling a need more than just those academics.

1:01:21 So thank you so much for that.

1:01:22 And I know that some of the funding for this

1:01:24 came from federal grants and stuff.

1:01:26 So I hope that we can sustain this

1:01:28 and continue to offer it going forward in the future

1:01:30 and hopefully expand it as well.

1:01:32 So thank you.

1:01:35 - Anybody else?

1:01:38 - So I was going kind of down the same path as Ms. Jenkins.

1:01:42 I’m gonna put you on the hot seat just a little bit,

1:01:44 Dr. Mullen.

1:01:47 Phenomenal, phenomenal information.

1:01:49 Obviously, the work that was done this summer

1:01:52 was absolutely amazing.

1:01:53 And I would suggest that much of the work done this summer

1:01:56 is going to positively impact our school grades

1:01:59 for next year, right?

1:02:00 So what is the feasibility that we will be able

1:02:06 to continue to offer these great opportunities

1:02:08 for our students over the summer?

1:02:10 - Yeah, we’ve built in the summer academic

1:02:14 and enrichment opportunities at least the next two summers

1:02:17 through the federal funding.

1:02:19 So we are mindful and have our eye on the future

1:02:23 and what that looks like.

1:02:24 Clearly, our community, our parents want this,

1:02:29 our kids deserve this.

1:02:30 So we’re already having conversations.

1:02:33 You know, you’ve heard Ms. Lesinski say,

1:02:34 we’ve gotta be mindful of the cliff

1:02:38 when that funding isn’t available,

1:02:39 but we are remaining mindful

1:02:41 and of the success of these opportunities for our kids.

1:02:45 So at least the next two summers.

1:02:49 - Awesome, so one more difficult one.

1:02:52 I have to believe when the word gets out.

1:02:55 how these kids had such a great time this summer in our schools

1:02:59 that we’re

1:02:59 gonna see increased demand next year so have we also built in

1:03:02 the opportunity

1:03:03 for expanding access seats? We welcome the challenge so we would

1:03:12 love to build

1:03:13 that. Perfect thank you so much. Anybody else have comments or

1:03:21 questions for Dr.

1:03:22 Mullins? First of all yes absolutely thanks and kudos to the

1:03:28 summer

1:03:28 programming it was it was spot-on spot-on and I love the variety

1:03:33 in

1:03:33 particular. I have to you know the school grades I think the

1:03:39 media and social

1:03:41 media which is not the whole world but sometimes we start

1:03:43 thinking that it is I

1:03:44 think the piece that they’re missing in all this is that if you

1:03:48 go to the

1:03:48 Department of Education’s website all you can see is this year’s

1:03:51 grades and the

1:03:52 grades from 2019 because we decided to opt out of 2021 but it

1:03:56 doesn’t mean that

1:03:57 we weren’t graded it doesn’t mean we weren’t paying attention to

1:04:00 those and so

1:04:00 when we talk about all this this improved and this improved it

1:04:03 was based

1:04:05 off of those years because we need to recognize how what the

1:04:10 challenge was

1:04:11 that through three months of no school through the year with you

1:04:15 know anywhere

1:04:16 from 40 you know the 60% of our students doing e-learning at any

1:04:21 one time and all

1:04:22 the quarantine everything we lost a lot in that year and so our

1:04:25 grades and there

1:04:27 were some highlights but overall our grades last year that we’ve

1:04:29 made

1:04:30 optional because we didn’t want to discourage our students and

1:04:32 staff in

1:04:33 schools you know and the state gave us an opportunity to opt out

1:04:38 that we it was

1:04:39 really it was eye-opening it gave us that that baseline for here’s

1:04:45 here’s

1:04:45 here’s how far we have to go right and so we don’t need to poo-poo

1:04:52 on any on

1:04:53 these improvements because we look back at 2019 and go oh you

1:04:56 weren’t as good as

1:04:57 you were in 2019 we need to recognize the communities to

1:05:00 recognize the huge

1:05:01 dip that we all took across the state across the nation and then

1:05:05 the way that

1:05:05 even with this year’s many quarantines and many distractions and

1:05:11 and all of

1:05:12 that that our students and staff did this great work with that

1:05:16 challenge

1:05:16 continuing because it’s not like you know COVID ended in

1:05:20 September it

1:05:21 didn’t it December January and you know here we go again so I

1:05:25 just want to

1:05:27 emphasize that because that all of that really great work it

1:05:30 needs to be

1:05:31 recognized by our community because we climbed out of a hole

1:05:34 that was not

1:05:35 created by our own making and our teachers and staff our

1:05:39 students man they

1:05:41 did great work and I know that we’re we’re on the right path the

1:05:44 trajectory

1:05:45 is is going in the right direction in so many ways so appreciate

1:05:48 all of you

1:05:49 Thank You miss Campbell great points anybody else Dr. Mullen? Ms.

1:05:54 Belford if I

1:05:54 may just add I should have I should have made mention to the

1:05:57 schools there were

1:05:58 five schools who were identified as incomplete grade I just want

1:06:01 to add some

1:06:03 clarification to that that doesn’t mean they will not receive a

1:06:05 school grade

1:06:06 what that means is is that their percent of students tested was

1:06:10 below the state

1:06:11 required 95% and so the state initially says okay incomplete now

1:06:17 we have to

1:06:18 validate and verify the enrollment and so one of the first

1:06:21 things they do is

1:06:22 look at is the participation and testing consistent with your

1:06:26 average daily

1:06:27 attendance as a school and then second is the distribution of

1:06:32 students absent

1:06:33 representative of the student population in the school so that

1:06:37 it cannot be

1:06:38 suggested a population of students were not participating in

1:06:43 testing so we are

1:06:45 we have every anticipation and expectation that once the state

1:06:48 validates or verifies that that within the coming weeks those

1:06:52 five schools will

1:06:53 receive a grade and we are as optimistic that they will present

1:07:00 some impressive

1:07:01 accomplishment along with some of our other schools so to my

1:07:04 five schools out

1:07:05 there hang in there or we’re just we got to work through the

1:07:08 process but we have

1:07:10 no anticipation to be any any surprises there that they would

1:07:13 not receive a

1:07:13 school and finally I I would be completely remiss if I didn’t

1:07:19 take at

1:07:20 least a moment and acknowledge that going into closing a school

1:07:26 year doing a

1:07:28 summer and getting ready to start a new school year you know

1:07:33 taking this summer

1:07:35 to catch our breath but I have to give a shout out to our

1:07:39 leadership in leading

1:07:40 and learning this Klein dr. Sullivan they not only didn’t take a

1:07:44 breath they

1:07:46 put their foot on the accelerator to make this expansive array

1:07:51 of

1:07:51 opportunities available to our students so thank you to their

1:07:54 leadership and

1:07:55 supporting our schools to make these opportunities available

1:07:59 absolutely thank

1:08:00 you so much dr. Mullins all right we are now at the public

1:08:04 comment portion of the meeting on agenda items we have two

1:08:07 speakers therefore each

1:08:08 speaker will receive three minutes please note that the time is

1:08:11 per speaker

1:08:11 not per agenda item topics not specific to agenda items will be

1:08:15 moved to the

1:08:15 non-agenda portion of the meeting we have a clock in front of me

1:08:18 to help you

1:08:19 keep track of your time when your time is over you’ll be asked

1:08:21 to stop and

1:08:22 allow the next speaker his or her turn always keep in mind that

1:08:25 reasonable

1:08:25 decorum is expected and your statement should be directed to the

1:08:28 board chair

1:08:28 the chair may interrupt warn or terminate participants statement

1:08:32 when

1:08:32 time is up it’s personally directed abusive obscene or

1:08:35 irrelevant

1:08:36 should an individual not observe proper etiquette the chair may

1:08:39 request the

1:08:40 individual to leave the meeting we have two speakers this

1:08:45 morning Anthony

1:08:46 Colucci and Katie Delaney if you all would not mind getting on

1:08:51 deck for me

1:09:05 my name is Anthony Colucci I’m the president of the Brevard

1:09:06 Federation of

1:09:09 teachers we are 20 days out from the start of school and had 231

1:09:16 instructional

1:09:17 vacancies yesterday we still have an elementary school with 21

1:09:22 vacancies

1:09:23 what’s the plan dr. Mullins what’s the plan school board members

1:09:28 from what I

1:09:29 can tell the plan is the status quo put more on teachers while

1:09:34 offering them

1:09:35 raises far far below what other districts are offering their

1:09:39 teachers

1:09:39 then tell us you wish you could do more and maybe next year we’ll

1:09:43 give you a

1:09:44 competitive race board members you can try to ignore that

1:09:48 synopsis all you want

1:09:50 but that’s the message our teachers are hearing loudly and

1:09:53 clearly again this

1:09:54 year and to be frank every misstep you take you lose more and

1:09:59 more teachers to

1:10:00 retirement harder schools other counties and other industries at

1:10:05 negotiations

1:10:06 yesterday I requested that any of you show up to the bargaining

1:10:10 table and

1:10:11 explain to your teachers that although they’re amongst the worst

1:10:15 paid teachers

1:10:15 in the state and in the nation why they should accept a lower

1:10:20 recurring raise

1:10:21 than teachers in other districts please dr. Mullins please for

1:10:25 chair Belford

1:10:27 will be at the table at two o’clock today come explain your

1:10:30 rationale to our

1:10:31 teachers the boogeyman you’re creating around health insurance

1:10:35 isn’t cutting it

1:10:36 anymore you can’t use that excuse for three years and counting

1:10:39 at this point

1:10:40 our insurance issues are uniquely a BPS problem and it doesn’t

1:10:45 mean our teachers

1:10:46 shouldn’t get a competitive raise because you can’t manage the

1:10:50 plan this

1:10:51 year we were told the sky was falling when it came to insurance

1:10:54 only now to

1:10:55 see the data shows a surplus in the trust fund for June and once

1:10:59 again board

1:11:00 it’s the day-to-day bad management you allow to happen that

1:11:04 drives teachers

1:11:05 away for instance not one of you is willing to question why the

1:11:09 district is

1:11:10 going to arbitration for the same exact issue you lost five

1:11:14 years ago none of

1:11:15 the fiscal conservatives questioned the expense associated with

1:11:19 outside counsel

1:11:20 none of the moral warriors on this board questioned ignoring the

1:11:24 rolling of a new

1:11:25 neutral party instead you’re content to swindle a teacher out of

1:11:29 a deserved

1:11:30 coaching position and to prop up a community coach and the

1:11:33 difficult

1:11:34 difficult principal at this point we’re seeing this district on

1:11:38 a downward

1:11:38 trajectory in many ways board own what you’re doing own the mess

1:11:43 you’re in

1:11:44 it’s the result of the decisions you make thank you mr. Gucci

1:12:03 firstly I’d like to speak on a5 when the chair talked about

1:12:10 giving parents kudos

1:12:11 after we’ve literally been talking about parent involvement for

1:12:15 the past two

1:12:16 years so I just it’s a little bit too late for that

1:12:23 f12 the budget recently I did a public records request for

1:12:27 expenditures over a

1:12:29 thousand dollars looking for invoices from a particular account

1:12:36 that was going

1:12:38 to cost me almost $400 on something that I should have access to

1:12:44 because it’s it’s it’s for the public I shouldn’t have to spend

1:12:50 $400 to see the

1:12:51 budget and to see where our money is going

1:12:54 and I’m here to ask that you please change the way that the

1:12:57 budget is

1:12:58 presented to the public to include invoices contracts all that

1:13:02 stuff that

1:13:03 is public record anyway now on to f20 the citizens the

1:13:10 independent citizens

1:13:11 oversight committee can you please publish the dates of the

1:13:16 meetings better

1:13:18 either through your website where you post the meetings like the

1:13:22 school board

1:13:23 meetings or on your Facebook just so that it’s easier for people

1:13:29 to find and

1:13:30 lastly age 32 a the study’s weekly contract which was almost $180,000

1:13:41 which

1:13:41 that doesn’t seem too outrageous for a curriculum purchase but

1:13:45 my questions are

1:13:46 when our parents able to review the material and what have you

1:13:53 all done as a

1:13:54 board to ensure that this curriculum follows the new laws that

1:13:57 became active

1:13:58 on July 1st I don’t know if anybody wants to answer any of those

1:14:04 questions

1:14:07 all right not surprised thank you Thank You mr. Laney

1:14:14 all right that concludes our public comments on agenda items we

1:14:17 thank you

1:14:17 for your willingness to address us and we will move on to miss

1:14:22 Alfred if I may

1:14:23 may I have permission to make a response to one comment

1:14:26 reference that was made

1:14:27 that I think warrants clarification it was it was referenced in

1:14:32 public comment

1:14:33 that our health insurance trust fund fund balance is in the

1:14:36 positive I do

1:14:37 want to give perspective to that yes our health insurance trust

1:14:43 fund as of June

1:14:44 30th shows a positive balance but that is directly the result of

1:14:50 Brevard public

1:14:51 schools this district at the direction of the board infusing

1:14:55 several millions

1:14:56 of dollars into the trust fund to make that possible in addition

1:15:01 the SIAC

1:15:03 superintendents insurance advisory committee has agreed to our

1:15:09 consultants

1:15:10 projections that as of January we face upwards of a 12

1:15:16 approaching 13 million

1:15:17 dollar revenue shortfall to the plan for the coming year so yes

1:15:23 in a moment of

1:15:24 time we have a positive fund balance for the health fund that’s

1:15:29 that’s good news

1:15:31 but to suggest that there is not a significant revenue

1:15:37 obligation to

1:15:38 maintain a healthy trust fund on behalf of our employees I just

1:15:45 wanted to

1:15:45 provide that it is not our accurate reflection of that and just

1:15:50 wanted to

1:15:51 make sure that the board understood that which I know you do but

1:15:55 also the those

1:15:57 in attendance as well as our viewing public understand just some

1:16:00 perspective

1:16:00 to our health insurance trust fund thank you Thank You dr. Mullins

1:16:06 I have some follow-up mr. Susan dr. Mullins did the trend rate

1:16:12 for the

1:16:13 health or a health care fund go down meaning that we projected

1:16:19 an increase of

1:16:20 four five six seven percent over two years did that change its

1:16:25 trajectory

1:16:28 the the projection is based on both actuals and projections of

1:16:34 increased

1:16:35 revenue for the coming year the only change in projections that

1:16:42 are I think

1:16:43 you’re referencing is January through May we did for the first

1:16:48 time in a long

1:16:49 time experience less less expenses than revenue so normally we

1:16:56 have historically

1:16:57 run expenses above our revenue each month but in 2022 January

1:17:04 through I

1:17:05 believe may we show or we realized that for the first time a

1:17:10 long time the

1:17:11 expenses were slightly below our revenue was it projection

1:17:19 shifting in what our

1:17:22 consultant provided us prior to that reality no but that has

1:17:26 taken been taken

1:17:27 into consideration in that projection of approximately 12

1:17:30 million dollar revenue

1:17:31 needed for plan year 23 so in the quarter and I’m sorry to get

1:17:38 into it

1:17:38 just because we open the box so in a quarter of the first

1:17:41 quarter of this

1:17:42 year we were in a five million dollar revenue increase because

1:17:48 of the deficit

1:17:49 or is that a projection over an entire year meaning for three

1:17:53 months we pulled

1:17:54 the data and then we reported that data the question I had was

1:17:58 is was that a five

1:17:59 million dollar increase with revenue over expenses or is that a

1:18:03 five in that

1:18:04 ninety days or is that a five year a five million dollar

1:18:07 increase with

1:18:08 revenue over expenses for an entire year that makes sense to you

1:18:13 let me let me

1:18:14 try and clarify are you are you speaking specifically January

1:18:16 February March as

1:18:17 first quarter yeah that would be the first quarter of plan year

1:18:22 22 so there

1:18:22 was somewhere where the projections came in where it was five

1:18:25 million dollars was

1:18:25 that an entire year of it or was that a quarter of oh that’s a

1:18:29 year I see so

1:18:30 the last year projected increase in expenses annually is in the

1:18:34 five to six

1:18:35 percent range which is somewhere it’s around four to five

1:18:39 million dollars if I

1:18:40 remember correctly annually an increase in expenses so the

1:18:44 expenses so because

1:18:46 we received more revenue than expenses during a certain period

1:18:49 we were able to

1:18:50 receive five million dollars more in revenue than expenses than

1:18:55 last year but

1:18:56 our expenses still out supersede our revenues for the entire

1:19:00 year

1:19:02 meaning that we have a five million dollar expense plus but over

1:19:07 the year

1:19:08 we’re still in a negative

1:19:11 I think I understand what yeah yes I think you are it’s you took

1:19:15 the five

1:19:15 million dollars over last year it wasn’t quite five million I

1:19:18 believe it’s more

1:19:18 closer to four okay if you’re talking about the projected

1:19:21 increase in expenses

1:19:22 so it’s four million dollars less than Bennett but the overall

1:19:26 expenses are

1:19:27 still more correct hang on this I got you I got you hang on but

1:19:32 the overall

1:19:33 expenses are still more than the revenue that we received

1:19:37 correct and we do we

1:19:38 have the numbers for the first 90 days yet or this one okay and

1:19:45 is that trend

1:19:46 and remaining consistent well no we they they won’t the

1:19:51 consultant won’t project

1:19:53 that those the trend is going to change they have adjusted their

1:19:57 projection

1:19:58 slightly because of those first four or five months but it was

1:20:02 it was I would

1:20:04 call it nominal and the overall projected impact all right let’s

1:20:09 take a

1:20:09 look at but the reason I was asking the question is if we’re

1:20:17 looking at the

1:20:18 revenue trend over an entire year and we saw a five million

1:20:21 dollar increase in

1:20:22 revenue over expenses even though we have more expenses

1:20:25 sometimes that is

1:20:26 because we’re coming out of COVID there may be a million

1:20:28 anomalies that may

1:20:29 happen so looking at that first couple of months to readjust

1:20:33 trend rates also

1:20:34 readjusts what we want to do in different areas that’s all so I

1:20:38 was just

1:20:38 asking those questions thank you dr. Mullins yeah it’s also not

1:20:41 uncommon for

1:20:42 us going into the summer months to actually experience a rise in

1:20:45 expenses

1:20:46 because many employees take advantage of that time to access

1:20:50 medical procedures

1:20:52 or follow-up that is necessary so it’s hard to going into

1:20:56 particularly this

1:20:56 period of time to anticipate that the trend that was evident in

1:21:01 the first four

1:21:02 or five months of the plan year will continue through the rest

1:21:06 of the plan

1:21:06 year particularly in the summer months if that makes sense and

1:21:10 it’s also

1:21:10 consistent to say that because we implemented surgery plus hinge

1:21:14 health

1:21:14 yeah all the great things that we had that we may be seeing a

1:21:16 different trend

1:21:17 rate because all of the other trend rates were based on previous

1:21:21 things that

1:21:22 didn’t have that in it I think we’ve all got the piece where

1:21:24 surgery plus save

1:21:25 1.3 million inch health we don’t know those numbers yet it’s

1:21:28 some good stuff I

1:21:29 mean and so we may see that we may it may be a different

1:21:32 adjustment because of

1:21:33 that that’s all yeah to your point mr. Susan that’s what we

1:21:37 anticipate we don’t

1:21:38 have empirical data does to validate at this point but the

1:21:43 improved the improved

1:21:45 expenses or reduced expenses in the first quarter four or five

1:21:49 months of the

1:21:49 plan year are a direct result of these new initiatives that we

1:21:54 launched just

1:21:55 before the plan year started so thank you and we should be able

1:21:58 to follow that

1:21:59 trend based on the first five months of this year versus the

1:22:02 last three three

1:22:03 years first five months we should be able to see that trend rate

1:22:06 even if we

1:22:06 do see more surgeries in the summer whatever it is it’s pretty

1:22:10 consistent

1:22:10 over a five year every five years there’s a bump we should be

1:22:13 pretty good

1:22:13 thank you dr. Mullen’s and thank you to staff for putting

1:22:15 together those

1:22:15 programs it’s great all right that is going to move us into our

1:22:21 consent agenda

1:22:22 dr. Mullen’s

1:22:25 board members there are 20 agenda 20 agenda items under the

1:22:29 consent agenda

1:22:30 does any board member wish to pull any item from the consent

1:22:34 agenda paying none

1:22:34 I’ll entertain a motion to approve the consent agenda as

1:22:37 presented move by miss

1:22:39 McDougal seconded by miss Campbell’s there any discussion all in

1:22:43 favor please

1:22:44 signify by saying aye aye any opposed same sign motion passes 5-0

1:22:50 all right dr. Mullens be please let us know about items under

1:22:53 the action

1:22:54 portion of today’s agenda the first item is h31 procurement

1:22:58 solicitations what are

1:22:59 the wishes of the board move by miss McDougal seconded by miss

1:23:05 Jenkins all in

1:23:06 favor please signify by saying aye aye any opposed same sign

1:23:10 motion passes 5-0

1:23:11 dr. Mullen’s next is item h32 departments and school initiated

1:23:16 agreements what are the wishes of the board move by miss

1:23:20 Campbell seconded by

1:23:21 miss McDougal is there any discussion really quickly because it

1:23:25 was brought up

1:23:25 in public comment time I would just remind our public that if

1:23:29 you look into

1:23:30 the contract is actually an extension of what we have already

1:23:33 had the five years

1:23:34 because this state is not redoing this is this coming year is

1:23:38 our year to do

1:23:40 our next instructional materials adoption for social studies and

1:23:44 so that

1:23:44 leaves us with a gap year so this was actually just an extension

1:23:47 of what we

1:23:47 already had materials that have already gone through the

1:23:50 instructional materials

1:23:51 approval process and so parents absolutely had the opportunity

1:23:54 in fact I

1:23:54 remember that five years ago to go through these materials they

1:23:58 came from

1:23:58 the state their recommended materials from the state approved

1:24:01 through the

1:24:01 whole process and this is just making it where we have one more

1:24:04 year as a gap

1:24:05 year until we get our new materials approved for the coming year

1:24:09 so just to

1:24:11 clarify that for us and for the public Thank You miss Campbell I

1:24:14 appreciate

1:24:15 that any additional discussion all in favor please signify by

1:24:18 saying aye aye

1:24:19 any opposed same sign motion passes five zero all right we’ll

1:24:24 move on to the

1:24:25 information agenda which includes items for board review and may

1:24:27 be brought back

1:24:28 for action at a subsequent meeting no action will be taken on

1:24:30 these items

1:24:31 today Dr. Mullins there are three items under the information

1:24:35 category does any

1:24:36 board member wish to discuss any of the information items all

1:24:40 right then we are

1:24:42 now at board member reports mr. Susan added EKG testing

1:24:46 requirements and then

1:24:47 I have a secondary request for mr. Susan adding classroom

1:24:51 library so mr. Susan

1:24:53 the floor is yours yeah thank you madam chair and board and

1:24:56 superintendent what

1:24:57 we have is is um many of you know that I brought it up in

1:25:00 another meeting that

1:25:01 there’s $25,000 that was given to us from an entity so that we

1:25:05 could do

1:25:05 possible testing with elementary school students if they wanted

1:25:09 to for their

1:25:10 EKGs dr. Mullins had not been engaged in that process and he

1:25:15 came up to me the

1:25:15 other day and said hey what’s going on with this what are we

1:25:18 doing and I

1:25:19 thought it was appropriate to have a you know have staff look at

1:25:22 it but I didn’t

1:25:23 I wanted to have the board understand where it was coming from I

1:25:26 felt like it

1:25:26 was not a I felt like we got this check dr. Mullins and I were

1:25:30 talking about it

1:25:31 but I had not come to you and just said hey what is it for I

1:25:33 didn’t I felt like

1:25:34 it was you get you hadn’t been communicated to and over the

1:25:37 summer it’s

1:25:38 been kind of franchised and stuff like that so I wanted to kind

1:25:40 of do a good

1:25:40 job and then also didn’t want to give dr. Mullins instruction

1:25:44 unless the board

1:25:44 was in positive for it so what happened is Leon County they went

1:25:50 ahead and they

1:25:51 funded a initiative to test their elementary school teacher

1:25:54 students in

1:25:54 the sixth grade or fifth grade sixth grade for their EKGs and it

1:25:58 was a

1:25:59 movement they’re starting to see that if they test earlier that

1:26:01 they can catch

1:26:02 other things and might be able to save the students lives now we

1:26:04 all know that

1:26:04 we were the first school district in the state of Florida and

1:26:07 the nation to put

1:26:08 together a policy to do this so we lead the country in this so

1:26:11 what they did was

1:26:12 they called and they said hey Matt we have twenty five thousand

1:26:15 dollars that

1:26:16 we would like to donate to possibly test those kids and I said

1:26:19 well you can park

1:26:20 it in the provide schools foundation but we need to talk about

1:26:23 what we’re going

1:26:23 to do because it’s ultimately the majority of the board and the

1:26:26 superintendent that would do something with that so what we did

1:26:28 was um the idea

1:26:29 is is that this entity gave twenty five thousand dollars to test

1:26:32 students who

1:26:33 would be interested in doing so inside of our late elementary

1:26:36 schools and we

1:26:37 would have to engage with staff to see how that would be

1:26:40 implemented if we

1:26:41 were interested in doing that the other thing is is that Leon

1:26:44 County went and

1:26:45 this is probably where the discussion will go just to be

1:26:47 completely

1:26:48 transparent with you all and Leon County went a little bit

1:26:50 further and inside of

1:26:52 their form in sixth grade I think it is or fifth grade there’s a

1:26:55 form and I like

1:26:56 a like a physical form that they all have to fill out they have

1:26:59 to go get

1:26:59 physicals and all that stuff and what they did was they put this

1:27:02 as part of

1:27:03 theirs so they had it inside there that you could opt out during

1:27:07 that time or

1:27:08 you could have your EKG test now what I engaged with them on was

1:27:12 as I said hey

1:27:14 like when we did this we said we were going to require it to be

1:27:17 middle school

1:27:18 and high school right well now our sixth grade falls right in

1:27:22 right before middle

1:27:23 school so we’re gonna test the kids there and then require them

1:27:26 to test and

1:27:27 I kind of ask them questions so what I would like to do is say

1:27:30 twofold is if

1:27:32 you guys are interested engage with have Evan engage with Dr.

1:27:36 Mullins to figure

1:27:37 out if there’s a possibility to use the $25,000 test our kids if

1:27:41 they’re falling

1:27:42 on a voluntary basis no forms no nothing and then after that’s

1:27:46 finished I would

1:27:47 like to see if there’s an engagement on requiring and what that

1:27:50 would be this is

1:27:51 a separate thing to test the kids as part of that form but I

1:27:56 would not the

1:27:57 form piece is a second step the first piece is the 25 does that

1:28:00 make any sense

1:28:01 you guys and I just didn’t want to do that by saying this and

1:28:04 then all of a

1:28:05 sudden you guys find out and you’re like well what’s Matt doing

1:28:07 right I want to

1:28:08 be honest with you guys in the front and engage with the proper

1:28:12 process but I

1:28:12 just didn’t want to do it by telling the moment that’s all

1:28:15 questions I have a

1:28:16 question um mr. Susan I have a question about when you say sixth

1:28:21 grade are you

1:28:22 talking about every second or a student who isn’t going to be in

1:28:26 some type of

1:28:26 sport or I mean what’s the parameter right and that’s that’s

1:28:30 what I would

1:28:31 like them to engage in I think that dr. Mullins and Evan can

1:28:36 work that out and

1:28:37 do background into the Leon I don’t want to say here’s what the

1:28:41 parameters are

1:28:42 here’s what we’re doing because I think that gets into dr. Mullins

1:28:45 is John I

1:28:46 think we have this revenue we have a little bit of opportunity

1:28:48 to test our

1:28:49 kids let’s see what staff has to say about it go from there I

1:28:53 just didn’t

1:28:53 want to do it without your guys’s guidance it could be two

1:28:56 students could

1:28:57 be students they play sports and also putting like in elementary

1:29:00 school we do

1:29:01 have kids that do run like they have like clubs and track and

1:29:05 stuff like that

1:29:06 you could do it there you can do it but but I thought that the

1:29:10 original amount

1:29:10 of money that was coming was to allow anybody who wanted to test

1:29:13 on a

1:29:13 voluntary basis could do so not not specific to a sport or

1:29:17 anything like but

1:29:18 we can let them figure that out and engage conversation that’s

1:29:21 all yeah that

1:29:22 makes perfect sense but I’m so we I’m just looking at the

1:29:26 process a little bit

1:29:27 so if we let’s say we that the staff agrees that we’re gonna do

1:29:32 sixth grade

1:29:34 but don’t we test again in seventh grade right so we need to do

1:29:38 that that’s why I

1:29:40 was like that gets a little redundant

1:29:47 it just depends on what it is but I know like my son had an EKG

1:29:51 for a different

1:29:52 reasons separate from sports within his 12 months of his little

1:29:57 school athletic

1:29:58 opportunity he was in sixth originally had it and so it counted

1:30:02 then it counted

1:30:03 because I think it has to be if it’s within a certain time

1:30:06 period and I and I

1:30:07 didn’t of course we wouldn’t want somebody to have to test and

1:30:10 test and

1:30:11 test and test right I just didn’t want to speak I have a feeling

1:30:14 on where it is

1:30:15 but I felt like if I started speaking out what my thought

1:30:17 processes without

1:30:18 the entities that are gonna do it are involved but the most

1:30:21 proper thing was

1:30:21 to come to you guys say hey here’s what it is we spoke about it

1:30:24 before I think

1:30:25 they’re ready to engage in conversation with them and then have

1:30:28 staff and then

1:30:29 bring something back to us I think that’s the proper process

1:30:31 that way we’re

1:30:32 not creating any waves I have a question I think everybody up

1:30:37 here obviously it

1:30:38 would support more kids getting tested I you mentioned the $25,000

1:30:42 in parking it

1:30:43 in Brevard schools foundation so I just want some clarification

1:30:47 here because

1:30:48 we’re involving BPS Brevard schools foundation and who we play

1:30:52 for I’m

1:30:52 assuming this is what’s gonna be done under so we’re like how do

1:30:56 we have the

1:30:56 authority to tell Brevard schools foundation how to spend the $25,000

1:30:59 as

1:31:00 parks there you don’t right so I guess I’m just confused like

1:31:03 how did it get

1:31:04 parks there and are they already a part of this conversation for

1:31:07 it being spent

1:31:08 so this way perfect perfect so it would act like a scholarship

1:31:11 thing so if

1:31:11 students wanted to get tested that this would be the entity that

1:31:14 pays for it we

1:31:15 do that a lot with funding sources rather than give it over to

1:31:18 the school

1:31:18 district it has a and also just not giving a $25,000 check to

1:31:23 the school

1:31:23 district and have them set their hair on fire when it happened

1:31:26 so the idea is to

1:31:27 park it there if we need the revenue for it for them to test and

1:31:30 they can pull

1:31:31 from there if not it’s you know I mean that’s where it is it’s a

1:31:34 simple thing

1:31:35 that they do on a regular basis I’m just confused like how’s

1:31:37 that conversation

1:31:38 happened already in an agreement happened with Brevard schools

1:31:40 foundation

1:31:40 Brevard schools foundation already has a $25,000 check it’s been

1:31:43 deposited it’s

1:31:44 sitting inside of there waiting or whatever the entities over

1:31:47 here right so

1:31:47 has that conversation agreement already taken place well just to

1:31:50 provide

1:31:50 additional issues and I have had a a initial conversation with

1:31:54 miss Kershaw

1:31:54 the president of the foundation she is aware that the money is

1:32:00 set aside for

1:32:00 this ongoing conversation around EKG’s I explained to mrs. Kershaw

1:32:05 I had to do

1:32:05 some some follow-up some homework and that type of thing so no

1:32:10 definitive

1:32:11 outline or parameters have been set or discussed exactly how the

1:32:16 funds would be

1:32:17 most beneficial to this initiative so we’re both aware of what

1:32:22 the funds are

1:32:24 appear to be intended for but no decision has been proposed of

1:32:28 exactly

1:32:28 how they would be distributed thank you I just obviously they’re

1:32:32 here to support

1:32:32 for our public schools as much as they can and they always do I

1:32:35 just wanted to

1:32:36 understand and clarify where we were in the conversation with

1:32:38 them because we

1:32:39 don’t have authority over how they can spend that money if it’s

1:32:41 sitting in

1:32:41 their foundation so thank you appreciate it I would just ask

1:32:46 just thinking about

1:32:47 the expanding the EKG’s because I know mr. SEMA also contacted

1:32:51 us this last week

1:32:52 about no opportunities for band students and I would encourage

1:32:55 everybody who’s

1:32:56 concerned about that I think they’re already opening up the

1:32:58 doors they’re not

1:32:58 asking you at the door are you here for athletics if you want to

1:33:01 bring your

1:33:01 child who’s involved in those activities to do the EKG testing

1:33:07 which is you know

1:33:09 low cost no cost those options available especially going

1:33:13 through who we pay for

1:33:14 his website I so a couple of things that I would be concerned

1:33:19 about one is do our

1:33:20 local providers have capacity because when we when we added it

1:33:24 as a

1:33:24 requirement for athletics physicals you know we a lot of people

1:33:28 stepped up in

1:33:28 the community to kind of enhance those opportunities so we didn’t

1:33:32 just have who

1:33:32 we play for we had different chiropractors offices who do

1:33:35 physicals

1:33:36 and doctors offices local who were able to stepped up to say you

1:33:39 know what we’ll

1:33:40 also do them we’ll step up how many we can do and we’ll provide

1:33:42 it at the same

1:33:43 cost that who we play for was doing it for so that is just

1:33:48 making sure we have

1:33:48 capacity because we still have all our athletes doing it as well

1:33:52 on a rotating

1:33:53 basis they don’t have to do it every year but and then a concern

1:33:57 that was

1:33:57 just brought to me this week is the cost for follow-up testing

1:34:00 and the reason why

1:34:00 I bring this up you know a parent reach out to me and said their

1:34:04 child was

1:34:04 flagged and in athletics and the follow-up cost for them I don’t

1:34:09 know how

1:34:09 they negotiated with those with their insurance company was $1,200

1:34:13 and the

1:34:13 reason why I bring that up is if the word gets out that oh if

1:34:15 your child gets

1:34:15 flagged you have to pay all this and then you can’t play and I

1:34:18 work if we’re

1:34:18 talking about sixth graders we’re not talking about athletics

1:34:20 necessarily then

1:34:21 people are going to be discouraged from take from doing the

1:34:24 testing to begin

1:34:24 with and might just do it head go ahead and do the opt-out and

1:34:28 then we’ve you

1:34:29 know we’ve kind of defeated the purpose so I I would like to see

1:34:34 in the research

1:34:34 that they provide for us what what are some ways that the

1:34:39 community or whoever

1:34:39 can help with those students who are flagged and I don’t know if

1:34:43 there’s

1:34:43 anything we can do about that because obviously if it’s if it’s

1:34:46 like you know

1:34:46 as a parent I want to know even if it turns out to be oh it wasn’t

1:34:50 anything

1:34:50 they’re fine we just needed to take that extra look but if that

1:34:53 extra looks

1:34:54 costs hundreds of dollars it might discourage some families from

1:34:59 even

1:34:59 checking it out so I would just if there’s some way they can

1:35:02 kind of share

1:35:02 with us what what is it being done for students who especially

1:35:06 for our

1:35:07 financially struggling families that would be those would be my

1:35:12 two concerns

1:35:13 so I can I can answer the capacity piece those providers

1:35:17 continued to do it

1:35:18 afterwards which was awesome because what ended up happening is

1:35:21 is that many

1:35:22 of your pediatricians and your doctors and everybody else that

1:35:24 heard that this

1:35:25 was out beyond just stepping up they kind of wanted their kids

1:35:29 to be a part

1:35:29 of what they look at you see what I mean like they’re there

1:35:33 people wanted them to

1:35:33 look at them so I mean I saw in my office that I have over at

1:35:38 Riverview

1:35:38 Tower there’s a pediatrician office right below and they were

1:35:41 doing it right

1:35:41 there and there’s I know med fast and other places all these

1:35:44 places opened up

1:35:45 for it and now it’s kind of consistent with what they’re doing

1:35:48 so I think the

1:35:48 capacities there but the other thing is is with the 1200 like

1:35:53 cost and stuff

1:35:54 like that when we looked at this originally and we passed this

1:35:58 thing

1:35:58 originally what we did was we said okay there’s gonna be 10,000

1:36:02 kids we’re gonna

1:36:03 flag probably 50 of them and out of the 50 you know what I mean

1:36:06 all those things

1:36:07 so there is some conversation wrapped around how can we help

1:36:10 somebody that

1:36:11 may be in that spot because we don’t want that but on the other

1:36:14 side of it

1:36:15 and I respect that point 100% on the other side of it is is that

1:36:19 it’s the

1:36:19 greatest thing in the world if you find out that your child

1:36:21 doesn’t have it so

1:36:22 it’s like going through the process of checking and you know I I

1:36:26 think that

1:36:27 there’s some regard to it but at the same time I would tell the

1:36:29 parents that

1:36:30 are out there right now if you are flagged do everything you can

1:36:33 to check it

1:36:33 because you know your child may get to a point where they may

1:36:36 pass because of it

1:36:37 so thank you for bringing those things up I I think that’s great

1:36:40 I mean I think

1:36:41 they should have and I think where we’re probably gonna end up

1:36:42 with this

1:36:43 conversation is he’s kind of just reevaluating the entire

1:36:45 process because

1:36:46 they’re trying to bring on there is some statistics on the kids

1:36:49 in band and all

1:36:50 that stuff like we may end up in a place where we just sit down

1:36:53 and say okay

1:36:53 here’s what’s best from elementary school through high school

1:36:57 let’s expand

1:36:57 it let’s do it right you know what I mean since we are the

1:36:59 leaders for the

1:37:00 nation so that’s all just a thought can I just miss Campbell you

1:37:05 bring up a very

1:37:05 good point about the the follow-up cost but I believe that’s a

1:37:09 conversation we

1:37:10 should definitely have with Evan and who we play for I know they

1:37:12 do their best

1:37:13 they’re limited obviously with their funds to follow up with

1:37:17 those those

1:37:17 kiddos that are flagged and going through these processes there

1:37:20 always

1:37:20 stay in touch and they definitely try to guide them through that

1:37:22 process and help

1:37:23 them any way they can but this would if this continues to expand

1:37:26 which you know

1:37:27 it should it benefits our kids we need to continue those

1:37:30 conversations with

1:37:32 community partners and stuff to help with our students who

1:37:34 really can’t

1:37:35 afford that so great point and I know to your point miss

1:37:40 Campbell I the note I

1:37:41 made was capacity I had concerns about capacity and how many we

1:37:45 could bring on

1:37:46 but I know previously when we ran into those issues I had some

1:37:49 conversations

1:37:50 with Evan and they were able to step in and assess some of our

1:37:53 families with

1:37:54 connections with the doctors that are reading the EKG’s and

1:37:56 those sorts of

1:37:57 things so I valid valid concern and definitely something we have

1:38:04 to keep on

1:38:04 our radar as we go forward but I think you know I think we there’s

1:38:09 kind of a

1:38:09 pathway there for the conversation to have already started as

1:38:12 well so so mr.

1:38:14 Susan it sounds like the board is amenable to conversations

1:38:17 taking place

1:38:20 explore those options and we need to go so your next request was

1:38:28 on yeah that

1:38:28 reading but I did have something that just came across the

1:38:31 governor signed an

1:38:33 executive order on pharmacy benefit management and I just wanted

1:38:36 to kind of

1:38:37 see your guys’s take but it just came out that he wants to

1:38:40 prohibit spread

1:38:41 pricing prohibit reimbursement clawbacks include data

1:38:44 transparency review all

1:38:46 Ray bin rebates payments and relationships literally within the

1:38:49 last

1:38:49 24 hours this came out those are all things that when we were

1:38:54 looking at our

1:38:54 contracts we were like wow these may be some things so I would

1:38:58 just like to have

1:39:00 staff aware that this happened and have them look at what may be

1:39:04 coming out of

1:39:05 that that might affect us in the event that we go through

1:39:08 contract negotiations

1:39:09 for something like that but I did want to make everybody aware

1:39:11 that it just

1:39:12 came out and I think it’s well needed in one of the stuff so

1:39:15 that’s nothing um so

1:39:17 all of a sudden like I’m coming into thank you madam chair give

1:39:21 me the

1:39:21 opportunity to do so the all of a sudden I’m coming into the

1:39:25 school today and I

1:39:27 get this texts are going crazy on my phone what’s going on with

1:39:30 the elementary

1:39:30 school libraries and all this stuff so I was just trying to get

1:39:34 one since there’s

1:39:35 such a public push for it there was an article written in the

1:39:38 Florida today and

1:39:38 we responded to it with some of our information I was just gonna

1:39:41 ask a

1:39:42 couple of questions and just kind of beat around it I pulled up

1:39:45 the bill I

1:39:45 think that there’s some inconsistencies or maybe misinterpretations

1:39:50 of what’s

1:39:51 happening so I just kind of wanted to give us the opportunity

1:39:54 before the

1:39:54 public runs around thinking that we just shut down all of the

1:39:56 library systems and

1:39:57 everything else to give us some opportunity to go and dr. Mullins

1:40:00 and I

1:40:01 apologize about not giving you an opportunity at a time but I

1:40:04 didn’t know

1:40:04 if we could do something like that so miss Klein thank you yeah

1:40:09 miss client

1:40:11 probably best to start with context the legislation mr. Susan is

1:40:15 referencing or

1:40:16 referring to that led to the article this morning in Florida

1:40:20 today and then

1:40:21 if you would provide the board a kind of a status of where we

1:40:24 are in responding

1:40:26 or preparing for upholding the legislation

1:40:38 so on June 3rd Jacob believe that then out directions for the

1:40:46 district on what

1:40:47 we need to do one of the things was to publish on the district

1:40:53 website in every

1:40:53 school’s district page a link to all of our elementary

1:40:58 instructional materials

1:40:59 and libraries that was done on June 30th and all of our schools

1:41:05 so that piece is

1:41:06 complete the other piece is the memo says each book made

1:41:14 available to

1:41:15 students through a school district library media center or

1:41:20 included in a

1:41:21 recommended or assigned school or grade level reading list must

1:41:26 be selected by a

1:41:27 school district employee who holds a valid educational media

1:41:31 specialist

1:41:32 certificate regardless of whether the book was purchased donated

1:41:37 or otherwise

1:41:38 made available to students so that little bullet gave me great

1:41:45 pause so

1:41:47 what are we doing the state is creating a training for our

1:41:52 library media assist

1:41:54 specialist however that training is not going to go into place

1:42:00 until the earliest

1:42:02 January 1 2023 so the statute becomes our guiding on June on

1:42:11 July 1 2022 how

1:42:13 are the trainings not until to begin till January so what missy

1:42:20 slack our k-12

1:42:22 k-12 media specialist content specialist has been working on our

1:42:28 guidelines we

1:42:31 have not given any direction to schools to close down their

1:42:34 classroom library in

1:42:38 fact we’ve given no direction other than reads House Bill 1467

1:42:44 and we will give

1:42:45 guidance at our principal’s meeting and then media specialists

1:42:50 are getting

1:42:50 guidance I believe it is August the third there’s going to be

1:42:56 training we’ve

1:42:57 been working across the state with other districts to try to

1:43:01 figure out what will

1:43:02 be the best way to vet classroom libraries we believe that there’s

1:43:09 an

1:43:09 option of just going through what is already vetted through Follett

1:43:12 and that

1:43:13 is the system we use but we’ve given no direction to schools on

1:43:19 what we’re going

1:43:20 to do yet because we have not completed that process we are

1:43:24 taking a pause on

1:43:26 okay we until we go through the process we can’t open up carte

1:43:32 blanche in our

1:43:33 elementary schools you know when I was elementary teacher in

1:43:36 fact I still have

1:43:37 all the books and my husband goes why do you still have all the

1:43:40 books my

1:43:41 classroom library was extensive I taught sixth grade ELA and so

1:43:48 we love books and

1:43:50 the thought of not having books out gives me great pause when we

1:43:55 walk into

1:43:56 a school I love seeing books there for a student to read as they’re

1:44:00 sitting by

1:44:01 the door waiting to get in or when they’re when they need free

1:44:05 time so

1:44:06 we’re not going to try we’re trying to avoid that but we are

1:44:10 going to follow

1:44:11 the statute so

1:44:16 just I think it was Friday Duvall was talking to some colleagues

1:44:23 in Duvall

1:44:23 they sent some documents that they’re working on like a

1:44:27 checklist that they’re

1:44:28 working on with with their teachers so we’re not there we’re

1:44:34 going to be in

1:44:35 compliance we dr. Sullivan and I have hired missy slack for the

1:44:41 entire summer

1:44:42 except she’s on vacation right now but that’s where we are so we

1:44:47 are meeting

1:44:48 the legislative intent and the law but we are doing it in that a

1:44:54 slow steady

1:44:55 process so do I anticipate on the first day of school that every

1:45:02 classroom

1:45:02 library will have every book about probably not that will they

1:45:07 have books

1:45:08 available of course they will because we’re going to be able to

1:45:11 go through

1:45:11 follow-up we’re pretty 99% sure we can do that but we’re going

1:45:17 to make sure

1:45:18 we’re doing it correctly and making sure that we’re not in

1:45:24 violation of any part

1:45:24 of the statute Thank You miss Klein I wanted to in amazing work

1:45:32 and applaud

1:45:32 you for working on all the other components to this bill because

1:45:35 when I

1:45:35 looked at it there’s all of those other things that you said

1:45:38 that by June 30th

1:45:39 we had them all complete like this was done the last piece which

1:45:43 is difficult

1:45:44 because and it what it calls for is on January 1st 2023 to have

1:45:50 everybody

1:45:51 certified and understand the other piece in there though says

1:45:54 the department shall

1:45:55 make this training available no later than January 1st so it’s

1:45:58 not that

1:45:58 they’re waiting until January 1st to do it they’re gonna do it

1:46:01 and they’ve given

1:46:02 the legislature has told the Department of Education you must

1:46:05 give this training

1:46:06 before January 1st 2023 and then all districts must be compliant

1:46:11 by January

1:46:11 1st 2023 so there’s an opportunity inside of there I didn’t want

1:46:15 any

1:46:15 misconfusion that right now all these books are illegal there’s

1:46:19 their state’s

1:46:20 not giving us ample time to get certified on something that they’re

1:46:23 doing there’s just miscommunication and I wanted to say that our

1:46:26 district is

1:46:27 Lee is doing the right thing we are not holding back all of

1:46:31 these different

1:46:32 things we’re doing what’s in compliance so both sides can

1:46:34 understand that we’re

1:46:35 working through this and you know that sometimes there’s some

1:46:38 communication

1:46:39 that’s inside the news and everything else that may be a little

1:46:41 bit off and

1:46:42 it’s up to us to try to communicate that directly so that we’re

1:46:45 not getting

1:46:45 killed with emails and things that aren’t true though I have

1:46:49 been in

1:46:50 contact with United Way and the Brevard schools foundation about

1:46:53 the donated

1:46:54 books and also rolling readers because they are donators of

1:46:59 books to our

1:46:59 children so I’ve asked them to make certain that prior to them

1:47:04 donating a

1:47:04 book it’s on our approved list so those are other outreaches

1:47:09 that I’ve made to

1:47:10 make sure that we’re in compliance thank you so much and I think

1:47:14 as Jenkins and

1:47:15 everybody that’s been inside the classroom would say I lived off

1:47:19 of my

1:47:19 first primary source documents like especially in American

1:47:23 history American

1:47:24 government you have to have that and if you’re not given that

1:47:27 opportunity then

1:47:28 our children are going to be given a deficit on I’m reading so I

1:47:31 appreciate

1:47:32 all your work I just wanted to kind of clarify that with the

1:47:35 community and

1:47:36 that’s all well thank you thank you

1:47:40 yeah so I just want to say to our media specialist I am sorry

1:47:47 for the stress and

1:47:49 the pressure that is going to be placed on you it is not

1:47:53 unrecognized and I

1:47:56 sympathize with you as professionals that the state is going to

1:48:01 train our

1:48:01 media specialist how to be media specialists sarcasm implied but

1:48:06 miss

1:48:07 Klein I with all due respect I just feel the need to say this I

1:48:11 had this

1:48:12 conversation with dr. Mullins I’ve had this conversation with dr.

1:48:15 Sullivan but

1:48:16 I have over the past couple of months when this culture war has

1:48:20 been hitting

1:48:21 the stage received many emails from concerned teachers that I

1:48:27 understand

1:48:28 that BPS isn’t is doing its best to follow the law I understand

1:48:32 that the

1:48:32 messaging is getting mixed up in a game of telephone but I think

1:48:35 we need to be

1:48:36 really really active and and I have no right to direct you guys

1:48:40 what to do this

1:48:40 is dr. Mullins job but really really active and diligent and

1:48:44 following up

1:48:45 with our administrators about the communication that they’re

1:48:47 putting out

1:48:47 there to their staff because it’s often getting maybe

1:48:51 misinterpreted and or just

1:48:53 presented the wrong way they may not see the way it came off or

1:48:57 said but I’ve had

1:48:58 concerns staff members come to me and say I think I’m being told

1:49:01 that I need

1:49:01 to remove these things for my classroom I’m being told to do a

1:49:05 substitution for

1:49:06 something that I don’t feel like I need to so again I know there’s

1:49:09 no ill

1:49:10 intent there but just we can be as proactive as possible to

1:49:13 follow up with

1:49:14 those administrators and make sure that communication is as

1:49:17 simple and clear and

1:49:18 concise as possible so that there’s no room for misinterpretation

1:49:22 so that we

1:49:22 don’t get it leaked out that we have library shutting down in

1:49:25 our classroom

1:49:25 this Jenkins after I was alerted to this post this morning I

1:49:31 have already

1:49:32 emailed all the elementary principals and said again I’m going

1:49:35 to remind you

1:49:36 you take no action at this point until we’ve had gone through

1:49:39 training thank

1:49:40 you I appreciate that really thank you mr. Klein I want to just

1:49:45 to

1:49:45 add you know this is this this new legislation is challenging

1:49:49 every

1:49:50 district I literally have superintendents contacting me I would

1:49:56 suggest it’s a kudos to the team that how they have proactively

1:50:00 been

1:50:00 addressing it and the responsiveness asking okay how are you

1:50:03 doing this what

1:50:04 process are you following and can I reach out to your people and

1:50:07 of course

1:50:07 we work very collaboratively and I’ve offered their support and

1:50:10 miss Klein and

1:50:11 miss missy slack have been wonderful dr. Sullivan about helping

1:50:17 us all navigate

1:50:17 this this new this new situation so we’re hopeful that we get

1:50:23 additional

1:50:24 direction along the way but we will continue to be thoughtful

1:50:27 intentional

1:50:28 and deliberate in how we implement the expectations and the

1:50:33 letter of the law

1:50:34 moving forward Thank You dr. Mullins um miss Klein you

1:50:39 probably are already on top of it but I happen to think our BFT

1:50:44 retirees do that

1:50:45 phenomenal program for our littles where they pair the stuffed

1:50:49 animal in the

1:50:50 books and so yeah yeah so we probably just need to make sure

1:50:58 that we are are

1:51:00 working with them on that issue as well I would also let the

1:51:03 board know that the

1:51:04 very first book we vetted was the book that we tried by five

1:51:10 bear brown bear

1:51:10 which we have been distributing prolifically to our new families

1:51:15 in the

1:51:16 community through the threat by five program and it was cleared

1:51:19 so we’re good

1:51:19 you know goodness that program I just want to tell you used to

1:51:23 be a clear lake

1:51:24 and they were expanding clearly and they ran out of room so she

1:51:27 called me and she

1:51:29 said we have nowhere to go and so this started this quest of

1:51:34 saving where they

1:51:34 could put these books that you know galley high school gave a

1:51:39 portable you’ve saved them and they

1:51:41 are amazing those ladies are well and they brought them up and I

1:51:46 got their big

1:51:47 heart of mine so I love them to death yes and now mr. Susan they’ve

1:51:50 outgrown

1:51:50 old galley and we have relocated them again because they needed

1:51:55 more space and

1:51:56 so at their requests it wasn’t we weren’t pushing them out but

1:51:59 they were

1:51:59 like we just we don’t have enough room to do what we have to do

1:52:02 so we have we

1:52:03 have once again work with them to provide them additional space

1:52:05 so yeah

1:52:06 they’re they’re amazing and such a great program but all right

1:52:11 so are we done

1:52:12 with board discussion okay then we are going to hear the

1:52:23 remaining speakers who

1:52:24 signed up to comment on non agenda items each speaker is limited

1:52:28 to three minutes

1:52:28 we have a clock in front of me to help you keep track of your

1:52:31 time when your

1:52:31 time is over you’ll be asked to stop and allow the next speaker

1:52:34 his or her turn

1:52:35 we’ll hear from the speakers in the order in which they signed

1:52:38 up including

1:52:38 anyone who might be hanging out outside in the heat today which

1:52:41 I don’t think

1:52:42 is is the case mr. Hawkman glad to see you joined us you are

1:52:46 actually second

1:52:47 I’m sorry I just I was looking for you earlier and didn’t see

1:52:50 you as stated

1:52:52 earlier reasonable decorum is expected at all times and your

1:52:54 statement should

1:52:54 be directed to the board chair should audience participation

1:52:57 interfere with

1:52:57 the speaker’s being heard or hearing me I will have to address

1:53:00 it when I call

1:53:01 your name please line up along the east wall of the boardroom to

1:53:04 facilitate the

1:53:04 smooth transition of speakers our first three speakers are Frank

1:53:08 Dinda Marcus

1:53:09 Hawkman and Becky McGowan in I apologize if I said that wrong

1:53:15 Frank if you would

1:53:16 not mind approaching the podium for me and if the rest of you

1:53:20 wouldn’t mind

1:53:21 lining up on that east wall

1:53:24 I’m Frank dinner public school teacher for 23 years the last 15

1:53:28 in Brevard

1:53:29 County from self-contained gifted fifth-grade at Gemini

1:53:32 Elementary to

1:53:33 department chair of history and gifted teacher for all of Coco

1:53:37 middle and high

1:53:37 school hired there by dr. Sullivan for her and then mr. Rashad

1:53:43 Wilson this past

1:53:44 year thanks to misty bland and Shannon Shannon see Jack I had

1:53:48 the privilege of

1:53:48 teaching and learning at the South ALC I’m filled with gratitude

1:53:52 for the

1:53:53 opportunity and for the support of those faculty and staff

1:53:56 members committed to

1:53:57 professional integrity and community building thank you dr. Mullins

1:54:01 and

1:54:01 assistant superintendent Chris Moore for allowing us the

1:54:04 flexibility to work

1:54:05 through solutions to best serve and meet the needs of a

1:54:08 population of children

1:54:09 who are seemingly to some a nuisance and then at best an afterthought

1:54:15 to the

1:54:16 community at large I hope we project the following beliefs and

1:54:19 that we pride

1:54:20 ourselves on these as truths our chain of humanity is only as

1:54:25 strong as our

1:54:26 weakest link and what we do for the least of one another we do

1:54:29 for ourselves

1:54:31 children come to us with different experiences but often commonalities

1:54:35 they

1:54:36 and their families are scared embarrassed angry broken they’re

1:54:42 uncertain of what the future holds for them at the ALC we seize

1:54:47 the seize the

1:54:48 opportunity to create a structured safe space for children we

1:54:52 counsel them on an

1:54:53 amended approach to school and life through both their coursework

1:54:58 and through

1:54:58 modeling of patterns of consistency structure and behavior it is

1:55:02 not easy

1:55:04 but contrary to flippant hyperbole it is not crazy at the ALC

1:55:08 right now I reject

1:55:10 that I am there every day while a work in progress like anything

1:55:14 else it’s

1:55:15 actually quite lovely in the short term we ate our neighborhood

1:55:19 schools by

1:55:21 returning to them young minds with a new perspective on the

1:55:24 longer arc we trust

1:55:26 and believe our communities will be safer with a growing number

1:55:29 of

1:55:29 functional citizens concerned for themselves and their neighbors

1:55:33 I want to

1:55:35 thank you the board for your interest in our community while I

1:55:38 certainly do not

1:55:39 agree with everything you say and do I believe each of you is

1:55:42 convinced that

1:55:43 you are doing what is best for all us all and that most of your

1:55:47 hearts are in

1:55:48 the right place dr. Mullins at two minutes and 19 seconds of his

1:55:53 end of the

1:55:53 year message stated that students with behavioral issues will

1:55:56 not be tossed

1:55:57 aside please hold our middle and high schools accountable for

1:56:01 that please

1:56:01 understand and make it known to administrators that the ALCs are

1:56:05 not to

1:56:05 be used as dumping grounds for challenging children and that

1:56:08 they

1:56:08 should instead go to great lengths to maintain some semblance of

1:56:12 stability

1:56:12 for these children and families in crisis the ALC is but a link

1:56:17 of in

1:56:17 Brevard’s chain of humanity and we have our weaknesses no one

1:56:22 prompted me to

1:56:23 share these thoughts with you they are mine alone thank you

1:56:26 thank you and thank

1:56:27 you for your service

1:56:35 Marcus Hawkman all right good morning school board and

1:56:40 superintendent the

1:56:42 reason I came to speak this morning actually wasn’t planning to

1:56:44 until our

1:56:44 read part of the piece of the article about the library so I

1:56:49 appreciate the

1:56:50 dialogue before coming up here because that was one of my main

1:56:53 questions was

1:56:53 whether a technical TA paper out basically which sounds what but

1:56:58 the

1:56:58 question I have because I’m some of you know me I’m tennis and

1:57:01 buck things I’m

1:57:02 like ready to buck this anyway and just go ahead and because

1:57:06 first of all I have

1:57:08 IND support a class and classroom books are extremely important

1:57:11 my class because

1:57:12 the ones I get purchased myself and use the pictures and

1:57:16 everything like one I

1:57:17 just purchased has a spinner in it where you can spin it so then

1:57:20 the story can go

1:57:21 in different directions so I was going to use that in my

1:57:24 classroom and tighten

1:57:25 with the standards of course in small group instruction so my

1:57:28 question is is

1:57:29 I’m am I going to be able to use that for curriculum and if I

1:57:33 say you guys say

1:57:34 no and I say I’m gonna do it anyway what are the consequences

1:57:37 you’re gonna write

1:57:38 me up take my file at the state of Florida get my teacher

1:57:42 license away etc

1:57:43 etc because I’m at that point now when I read stuff like this

1:57:47 and I understand a

1:57:49 little bit of the intent of the law but it’s overreaching to me

1:57:51 so that’s my

1:57:53 questions to you I know it’s not you’re just taking care of your

1:57:56 responsibilities as what you’re supposed to do as policymakers

1:57:59 but I wanted to

1:58:00 get confirmation on that because the first day of school I was

1:58:03 planning to go

1:58:03 over the books anyway be quite honest that I picked myself that

1:58:08 I have

1:58:09 responsibility that or etc do that’s all I was gonna speak on

1:58:13 that topic since I

1:58:14 was gonna ask the other questions because they were a answer can

1:58:17 I go on

1:58:18 to another topic or not okay my next topic that wasn’t planning

1:58:22 to speak on

1:58:22 but I did have some questions is about the recall vote or

1:58:28 potentially some of

1:58:29 you or the future or members that sit there I’m not in agreement

1:58:33 with it

1:58:34 because I don’t think the law is weak I think it’s gonna be a

1:58:36 political weapon

1:58:37 but my question and the biggest concern I have and I haven’t

1:58:41 been able to find

1:58:41 is for you what is your due process rights because as a board

1:58:48 member as a

1:58:49 governmental official official I believe that you have due

1:58:52 process rights what

1:58:54 are they if this charter of your views to the Commission that

1:58:57 passes which just

1:58:58 sounds like it can since it passed last week with Democrats and

1:59:01 Republican

1:59:02 support on it and when it comes to due process rights whether

1:59:07 you’re attorney

1:59:08 or would you have to get a attorney provided to you and will me

1:59:12 as a

1:59:13 taxpayer have to pay for that so those are my questions I’m not

1:59:18 sure if you

1:59:19 guys had that conversation or not but it looks like it’s coming

1:59:22 down the pipe

1:59:22 because honestly I see a political weapon as getting to her and

1:59:27 getting to

1:59:28 him from two different sides what I’ve read what I’ve heard what

1:59:31 I’ve been told

1:59:31 and I don’t like it because I don’t know what’s going to be on

1:59:34 the future and

1:59:35 your job is to do your votes and whatever what you’re supposed

1:59:39 to do

1:59:39 you’re supposed to be held accountable but not be threatened

1:59:43 thank you thanks

1:59:44 Marcus all right Becky and then after Becky is

1:59:49 Katie Delaney miss Delaney if you’d like to go ahead and get

1:59:54 ready

1:59:58 good morning I hadn’t planned on speaking this morning when I

2:00:02 got my

2:00:03 coffee and opened my newspaper because I’m one of the 12 people

2:00:06 that still

2:00:07 subscribe and pay a crazy amount of money some of you that have

2:00:10 been in

2:00:10 Brevard County for a really long time might recognize my last

2:00:13 name as a

2:00:14 pressured author many years ago for Florida today my name is

2:00:19 Becky

2:00:19 McElhenan I’m a product of Brevard County Schools rate of pride

2:00:23 as are both

2:00:24 of my children and my husband as well as my upcoming

2:00:28 granddaughter will be

2:00:29 starting kindergarten this year in Brevard Public Schools I’m

2:00:32 also a former

2:00:33 instructional assistant here in Brevard County a recipient of

2:00:36 your I’m not even

2:00:38 sure if they still do it but um career opportunity program which

2:00:41 allowed

2:00:42 instructional assistants to go back to college and finish their

2:00:46 degree as a

2:00:47 military spouse I spent 20 years traveling and got 12 credits

2:00:50 that I had

2:00:50 to take over and over so I appreciate that I had the ability to

2:00:54 get it all in

2:00:55 one time and finally I became a teacher in this county for a

2:00:59 brief time so I

2:01:01 believe standing before you I’m coming from a place of

2:01:03 experience as well as

2:01:05 passion today’s headline and the implied decision that teachers

2:01:09 wouldn’t be

2:01:10 allowed to express themselves and their professional opinions

2:01:13 about reading in

2:01:14 the classroom absolutely sent me into a place of darkness my

2:01:20 first year of

2:01:21 teaching I personally accumulated hundreds of books when people

2:01:25 would come

2:01:25 into my classroom they thought I’d been teaching for 20 years

2:01:28 books are such a

2:01:30 valuable important there’s no research to support anything other

2:01:33 than having

2:01:33 books in children’s hands books of all kinds how they represent

2:01:37 them in their

2:01:38 free time enriching a curriculum raising up lower children

2:01:42 reading groups all of

2:01:43 the things I know standing before you that you know that and

2:01:47 that you care

2:01:48 about that I also know that teachers are incredibly stressed

2:01:52 incredibly

2:01:53 overwhelmed as well as miss Jenkins said media specialists I

2:01:58 hope that I hope

2:02:01 that this legislation that’s coming down will be interpreted in

2:02:05 a way that can

2:02:06 support the ability for teachers to use their professional

2:02:09 opinion and stopping

2:02:11 insulted that they don’t know why are we teaching media

2:02:15 specialists again to do

2:02:16 their job given the amount of teachable minutes

2:02:19 required which is actually more minutes in a day than there are

2:02:22 in the classroom

2:02:23 it is insanity to assume that teachers can go to the media

2:02:25 center to check out

2:02:26 an approved book I implore you to please support your teachers

2:02:31 in whatever way

2:02:32 you possibly can given the ridiculous legislation that’s coming

2:02:36 down from

2:02:36 people that are in the classroom please give voice to the

2:02:38 teachers that care the

2:02:40 teachers that love your students please be there their voice and

2:02:43 their background

2:02:44 against the minority of loud ignorant people who aren’t even in

2:02:48 a classroom I

2:02:48 implore you to do that and I thank you for your time Thank You

2:02:52 Becky

2:02:53 mr. Laney

2:03:01 the results of our school grade going down is no surprise going

2:03:04 from an a to a

2:03:05 the majority of this board has been more focused on social and

2:03:10 political issues

2:03:11 rather than at the education of our children I know that I’ve

2:03:15 personally

2:03:15 been speaking on the lack of education going on in our schools

2:03:19 here in Brevard

2:03:20 for over a year this district has done nothing to rectify the

2:03:25 discipline

2:03:26 problems which is why our teachers are choosing other employment

2:03:31 opportunities

2:03:31 and my parents are pulling their kids out of Brevard public

2:03:34 schools and in a

2:03:35 alarming rate the bullying issues are out of control and most of

2:03:41 them are

2:03:42 repeat offenders we have some major issues and it’s coming from

2:03:47 the top down

2:03:47 it’s coming from the lack of leadership coming from this board

2:03:52 to the community

2:03:53 school board elections are coming August 23rd please get out and

2:03:57 vote

2:03:57 remember who masked your kids against your will remember who

2:04:02 voted to allow

2:04:03 boys and girls restrooms and locker rooms and vice-versa

2:04:06 remember who got

2:04:08 rid of female sports by allowing boys and girls sports remember

2:04:12 who silenced

2:04:13 the public and closed the doors on parents remember who believes

2:04:19 parents

2:04:19 are a security risk

2:04:22 remember people that are okay with graphic pornography in our

2:04:26 school

2:04:26 libraries

2:04:30 Chairman Belford you voted for all of these things you’ve had

2:04:34 eight years

2:04:35 already and it’s time to make the right change for Brevard thank

2:04:41 you thank you

2:04:41 miss doing hold your applause please audience

2:04:45 all right the board wishes to thank this morning speakers your

2:04:49 willingness to

2:04:50 join us is appreciated any board member have anything else for

2:04:53 the go to the

2:04:53 order all right there being no further business this meeting is

2:04:58 adjourned

2:05:00 you