Updates on the Fight for Quality Public Education in Brevard County, FL
3:28 (upbeat music)
3:58 Good evening. February 24th, 2026 board meeting is now in order.
4:02 I’m happy to welcome my fellow board members and the public.
4:04 I’d like to take this opportunity to remind the public that the
4:06 appropriate
4:07 place for public participation in the meeting is during your
4:10 individual public
4:11 comment opportunity as identified on the agenda outside of your
4:14 individual
4:14 public comment opportunity. Your role in the meeting is as an
4:17 observer. Paul,
4:19 roll call please. Mr. Susan here. It’s right here. Mr Trent.
4:23 Yeah. Mr. Thomas.
4:24 Here is Campbell here at this time. I’d like to hold a moment of
4:27 silence.
4:47 Please rise for the pledge of allegiance.
4:54 I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America
4:58 and to the
4:59 Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible,
5:04 with liberty and justice for all.
5:09 That brings us to the adoption of the agenda.
5:16 Dr. Inda. Thank you Mr. Chair. On this evening’s agenda,
5:19 we have three recognitions, 45 consent items and two information
5:24 items.
5:25 Changes made to the agenda since it was released to the public
5:27 include the
5:27 following added with C one revised F five and removed C one
5:31 administrative staff
5:33 recommendations. Do I hear a motion move for approval?
5:38 Is there any discussion? Paul roll call please. Mr. Trent.
5:42 Hi. This is right. Hi Mr. Susan. Hi Miss Campbell. Hi Mr. Thomas.
5:48 Hi. All right everybody,
5:50 please welcome Mr famous Michael Cador from Eastern Florida
5:54 State College to
5:55 the podium, sir.
6:01 Thank you so much. I don’t know about the famous piece, but Oh,
6:04 come on man.
6:04 I’ve seen some selfies. I will. I will take,
6:07 but we’re here today just to not only continue to support our
6:10 children with our
6:12 time and our treasure, but financially as well outside of
6:14 Eastern Florida State
6:16 College where I’m honored to serve as our executive director on
6:19 community
6:19 engagement. I’m involved with media organizations in our
6:22 community,
6:23 one of which is to live their voice and have some amazing
6:25 individuals who are
6:27 here with me. I’ll offer them to come up.
6:29 They had no idea that they were going to stand with me,
6:31 but it’s very important that I mentioned this amazing young lady
6:36 here,
6:36 Miss Beverly Hamilton,
6:37 who has been involved with the remote public schools for about
6:40 14 years.
6:42 And when she was at the Kennedy middle school,
6:44 she had approached me in regards to her kids being able to have
6:48 some exposure in
6:49 the community.
6:50 She came to the right person and then every voice was born.
6:55 So the last five years we have been hosting events for kids who
6:58 come out and
6:59 showcase your talents through song and dance and poetry and whatnot.
7:03 And each year that we do that money’s raised,
7:06 we’re able to donate to our students and transition program.
7:10 I have with me, well, let me, Maryland high school,
7:14 Maryland in the house, Maryland in the house. Where’s Maryland
7:16 at? All right.
7:17 All right. I’m here by way of Titusville high school ties with
7:21 Terry.
7:22 I know title is in the house. Her husband here, Mr Charles
7:25 Hamilton.
7:25 He is a graduate of Maryland high school.
7:28 Mr Herda Brown who is now the head football coach of a home in
7:31 Trinity.
7:31 He is an alum of Maryland high school as well. I don’t know
7:35 where,
7:36 I guess we’re going to show some love to, to the Mustangs. Mr,
7:40 come on up son really quick. I’m gonna make this quick.
7:42 We’re going to do a check presentation. Why do we continue to
7:45 give back to our
7:45 community? It’s because they’re going to come back and give back
7:48 to us.
7:49 I have with me, Mr Jimmy Bell.
7:50 Jimmy Bell is a graduate of Coco high school is currently a
7:53 student at Eastern
7:54 Florida state college and he works in our community engagement
7:57 program.
7:59 So he is here to not only be a standing witness of the things
8:02 that we do in our
8:03 community,
8:04 but we would like to present a check on behalf of train and
8:07 succeed a nonprofit
8:09 here locally. Three to one empowerment as well as Geico,
8:13 a check for $500 to go to our students in transition program.
8:18 Thank you so much.
8:23 Mr Kador. So when you first asked me,
8:26 you said that you only had a $250 check. Can you explain, sir,
8:29 how we just got to 500?
8:31 One phone call was made to three to one empowerment,
8:33 which Mr Thomas is a part of. And I said, Mike,
8:36 we can do this a little bit better and they chipped in another $250
8:39 to help
8:40 these kids out. So thank you again. Three to one.
8:44 So Mr Kador,
8:46 what I’ll do with my own personal funds is I’ll match theirs at
8:48 another $250
8:49 because miss Hamilton,
8:51 miss Hamilton reminded me of the first time when I ran in 2016 I
8:55 knocked on her
8:56 door illegally cause it was in a spot that I wasn’t supposed to
8:58 be.
8:59 And she kind of filled me in on all that stuff.
9:01 And I was reminded about what her commitment to the schools are.
9:04 And I appreciate you. So I will commit $250 of my own money to
9:07 match what Mr.
9:08 Thomas’s group did. And, um, I’ll get that to you. So thank you.
9:15 Absolutely. Yes sir. Let’s get it.
9:34 [Inaudible]
11:00 thank you. Miss Cruz. Sorry.
11:04 I’m good doctor. And though we’re good at this time,
11:06 we would like to welcome Miss Lesinski chief financial officer
11:09 for the district.
11:11 Miss Lesinski, what do we have here today?
11:15 Okay.
11:16 Tonight we are pleased to honor and celebrate the outstanding
11:19 achievements of our
11:20 district schools and financial management and accountability.
11:23 Each year,
11:24 our schools undergo a state required audit to review the
11:27 management of funds for
11:29 student activities.
11:30 These audits help prevent fraud and ensure compliance with
11:33 internal controls,
11:34 state statute and board policy.
11:37 RSM and external audit firm examined financial records in areas
11:42 like revenues,
11:43 expenditures, fundraising, sales, tax, and petty cash,
11:48 assessing accuracy, authorization and compliance.
11:52 Each school received a final report detailing any audit findings.
11:57 A no audit binding report indicates no issues were found
12:00 highlighting the
12:01 professionalism and integrity of our staff.
12:04 Strong financial stewardship by school leaders not only upholds
12:08 community trust
12:09 but also positively impact student outcomes.
12:13 We wish to express our sincere appreciation to the Brevard
12:16 schools foundation
12:18 for donating the frame certificates.
12:21 I would also like to acknowledge district accounting staff.
12:27 [inaudible]
12:30 introduce Mr. Edwards, who is the chairman of our audit
12:33 committee. Um,
12:35 to say a few words following Mr. Edwards, Mrs. Smith,
12:39 we’ll introduce each of our bookkeepers and respective
12:41 principals whose schools
12:43 received a no finding report. Mr. Edwards.
12:53 Mr. Edwards, before you start, I wanted to give you a thank you.
12:56 Many of you don’t know,
12:57 but Mr. Edwards has been the board or the chairman of our audit
13:00 committee for how
13:01 long, how many years? 15 years. So for 15 years,
13:05 a lot of our financials are reviewed by that man and he has been
13:08 stellar and
13:09 everything that you’ve done.
13:10 And I wanted to give you a personal thank you for your work that
13:13 you’ve done for
13:14 us. It’s never paid. He comes all the time. He’s always there.
13:18 And there were some things that we worked through that your
13:20 leadership got this
13:21 district where it needs to be. And I just wanted to say thank
13:23 you for that.
13:24 Thank you.
13:26 Yes, sir.
13:31 First of all, I just want to say, um, I’m glad to be here.
13:35 I’m especially glad to be here for the reason of recognizing the
13:38 bookkeepers and
13:40 saying, thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Um, as,
13:44 as it’s been said, I’ve been on the audit committee for a long,
13:48 long time and bookkeeping was one of the functions that we were
13:52 very,
13:53 very concerned about. What we do is we, uh,
13:57 we look at everything possibly that can go wrong and we look at,
14:02 uh, what are the consequences if it goes wrong and we determine
14:06 on an annual
14:07 basis what we’re going to buy an audit. And for many,
14:10 many years bookkeeping was flat at the top of that list. Uh,
14:14 there was some serious issues, but fortunately, uh,
14:18 the bookkeeping community, uh, they’ve gone through some
14:21 training, uh,
14:23 they’ve made some serious process changes and they’ve reduced
14:26 the number of
14:27 errors that we have to be concerned about. And for that, I’m
14:30 grateful.
14:31 I’m speaking on behalf of the five member audit committee. Uh,
14:36 each school board member gets to appoint one person to serve on
14:39 this committee.
14:41 And we do act a little bit because we’re not paid, uh, by the
14:44 school board.
14:46 We’re not paid at all, but you can change that.
14:50 But now seriously, uh, we’re giving back to our community, uh,
14:55 because we’re products of our community and we also have
14:58 children and not
15:00 grandchildren, uh, that are in school within this community.
15:04 In fact, I saw my teacher here tonight that, that taught me,
15:08 well,
15:09 she was the principal for my grandson and thanks to her and her
15:13 stuff,
15:14 I just, uh, he was able to get, uh,
15:17 live school and then the college, um, with some pretty nice
15:21 money to go to college.
15:22 So thank you. Thank you. Uh, let me just give you some numbers.
15:27 Uh, in the, uh, 20, 24, 25 year,
15:31 in terms of statistical changes, uh,
15:34 overall the number of schools with two audit comments or less
15:39 increased by four. That’s a good thing.
15:43 The number of schools with no audit comments increased by four.
15:49 The overall total of findings in 2024,
15:52 2025 reduced from the prior year by 16.
15:58 The total high risk comments reduced by five and the total
16:03 moderate risk
16:04 comments reduced by 16. And this is important here.
16:09 The total recurring comments from previous years reduced by four.
16:14 And what that means is people weren’t repeating the same
16:16 mistakes.
16:18 So with that, uh, I’m gonna talk and I can probably keep going.
16:21 You deserve it.
16:22 You talk, we got, you can go another 15 years. We’re fine.
16:29 But at any rate,
16:31 it’s a very serious matter because when you have audit
16:33 situations and audit
16:35 findings, it can end up penalizing the district.
16:39 And that can end up hurting our students and hurting our
16:41 community.
16:43 So what these folks have done is by no means a small thing.
16:47 What they’ve done is a big thing.
16:49 So I would like for you to join me in an applause.
17:00 And with that, I’ll turn the mic over to
17:09 which one you want.
17:12 Yes to, I would like to invite Mr. Edwards,
17:16 Ms. Lissinsky, Dr. Rendell and chairperson Susan to come down
17:19 for the award
17:20 presentation.
17:31 I am pleased to announce the following school bookkeepers and
17:31 principals.
17:34 Please come up to the front to accept your award and have your
17:37 picture taken.
17:38 Audubon elementary bookkeeper is Ashley Leedy.
17:42 Principal is Candace Jones.
17:50 Cape view elementary bookkeeper is Victoria Burns.
17:53 Principal is Melissa Long.
18:01 Central middle bookkeeper is April Boyer and principal is
18:04 Heather Smith.
18:08 Endeavor elementary bookkeeper is Vanessa Keys.
18:16 Principal is Catherine Michelle Murphy.
18:25 Golf view elementary bookkeeper is Elaine Higgins.
18:29 Principal is Jeffrey Coverdell.
18:36 Imperial estates elementary bookkeeper is Alexa Humes.
18:42 Principal is Cynthia Adams.
18:49 Jackson middle school bookkeeper is Shylonda Waters and
18:53 principal is Jennifer
18:55 Shockley
19:02 Jefferson middle bookkeeper is Melissa House.
19:05 Principal is Mira Trine.
19:14 Johnson middle school bookkeeper is Tracy Bird and assistant
19:17 principal is Tia
19:20 Wilkerson
19:26 Kennedy middle school bookkeeper is Pilar Ararat and principal
19:29 is Angela Owens.
19:35 Lewis Carroll elementary bookkeeper is Colleen Moore and
19:40 principal is Jamie
19:43 Miner.
19:49 Oak park elementary bookkeeper is Susie Mitchell and principal
19:52 is Kelly Rouse.
20:00 Ocean breeze elementary bookkeeper is Linda Nolan and principal
20:03 is Shelley Ann
20:06 Micho.
20:11 Quest elementary bookkeeper is Catherine key on Garo and
20:13 principal is Kerry
20:17 Castillo.
20:22 Saturn elementary bookkeeper is Christine Branham and principal
20:26 is Javier
20:28 Alfonso
20:34 Southlake elementary bookkeeper is Jackie sellers and principal
20:38 is Jennifer
20:40 Brockwell
20:45 space coast junior senior bookkeeper is Kristen George and
20:48 principal is Jeanette
20:52 Connor
20:57 and Viera high school bookkeeper is Renee Ambrose and principal
21:01 is Heather
21:02 legates.
21:04 Okay,
21:34 okay.
22:04 Okay.
22:41 Thank you. Thank you. Mr. Edwards.
22:46 You want to take a minute? Let them clear. Yes.
22:49 The hustle in me. We really want to push it, but I think we just
22:52 let him on.
23:04 Okay.
24:09 The amazing CTE director and Kimberly Perry Sanderlin college
24:12 and career
24:13 specialist to introduce our student award winners. Ms. Rollage,
24:17 I wanted to take a second and thank you for the construction
24:19 competition that
24:20 your team put together. Many of you may not know,
24:22 but Brevard schools is now going to challenge citrus county and
24:26 many other
24:26 schools for construction competitions based upon what you put
24:30 together and showed
24:32 that these kids are, I mean we had kids with LLCs that had
24:35 construction companies
24:36 that were there. That’s incredible. And the programs that you
24:38 put together,
24:39 I just want to say thank you. So Mr. Rutledge with that floor is
24:42 yours.
24:44 Wonderful. So I, um,
24:46 we did have some rockstar students at the competition the other
24:49 day.
24:49 So I’m looking forward to doing more of that to recognize
24:52 students.
24:52 But today I want to recognize Jane for Rosa. Um,
24:56 he is our CTE us presidential scholar for Brevard public schools.
25:01 Why don’t you stand up real quick?
25:07 Jaden is not, sit down. It’s okay.
25:11 He is not only, um, an exceptional CTE student.
25:15 He is a stellar student all around. Um,
25:18 he takes rigorous high school course load, has a GPA over 4.0,
25:23 is earning his associate of arts degree, um,
25:26 through dual enrollment with Eastern Florida. Um,
25:29 he’s taken the welding technology program as well as the
25:31 building construction
25:32 program at astronaut high school.
25:35 He also participates in avid advancement via individual
25:38 determination program
25:39 and has completed AP coursework. Um,
25:42 and he serves as a mentor for young students.
25:45 So this young man has got, has got it going on.
25:48 He is very well rounded academically as well as technically
25:53 through career and
25:54 technical education.
25:55 And we couldn’t be more proud to bring him forward as this year’s
25:58 Brevard
25:59 public school students.
26:00 So he’s earned credentials and been able to showcase his skills
26:05 in all the
26:06 different types of welding processes.
26:08 I’m probably going to mess up the pronunciation of them,
26:10 so I’m not going to do that Jane. Um,
26:12 but he is also working on CNC machinists college credit
26:15 certification and just
26:19 really has a bright future ahead of him.
26:21 So we are really proud to name you as our Brevard public school
26:26 CTE U S
26:27 presidential scholar. Congratulations.
26:30 I have to make sure if I might just say something about this.
26:33 All right.
26:35 So Jayden,
26:35 I have to speak on you for just a minute because I have known
26:38 you now for quite
26:39 some years and watching you grow up into the young men that you
26:42 are today.
26:43 Truly, honestly, it makes me so proud. I am so excited for your
26:46 future.
26:47 I have no doubt that you’re going to do amazing things. Uh, and
26:49 so, you know,
26:50 all those, all those things that you’ve already done,
26:52 you’re a legitimately good human being and I think that’s what
26:54 matters the most.
26:55 So very, very proud of you. You represent our district,
26:57 you represent district one really, really well. So I’m very,
27:00 very proud of that you getting this award.
27:02 Jayden, why don’t you come up here and tell us, talk to us.
27:07 Well, you don’t win a presidential award and you don’t come up
27:09 and say something.
27:10 I’m sorry. I know we have a couple other nominees, but when he
27:12 stood up,
27:13 I thought we were announcing one of our actual staff because he’s
27:16 so big.
27:17 Yeah. And his mom and his proud principal. Yes. Yeah.
27:21 Why don’t you tell them just a little bit about what it is that
27:23 you enjoy about
27:24 CTE. Oh, so I mean what I like about the CTE is, um,
27:28 my passion is welding. I love doing it. I don’t know.
27:31 It calms my mind and it’s something that I like to do either
27:34 just work and get
27:35 made for it or just doing it in my free time. My mom bought me a
27:38 welder.
27:40 I think it was a year or two ago for Christmas and I haven’t
27:42 been able to put
27:43 too much use to it yet because I’ve been busy, but anytime I am
27:47 able to break it
27:48 out, I love doing it. Um,
27:51 I loved being whenever I was at the high school being a part of
27:54 the welding
27:55 program in there. Um,
27:56 I was able to double up on the courses last year as my junior
28:00 year.
28:01 That way I’ll be able to do full-time at UFSC this year.
28:04 And I’m currently doing full-time there online while doing the
28:08 internship at
28:09 Atlantic Storm Protection.
28:10 That’s where you’re at working at my local barbecue place.
28:15 That’s where I’m at about passing. That’s more important.
28:17 The barbecue sounds a lot better than the storm.
28:23 What are you going to do? What am I going to do? Yeah, man.
28:25 So I’m currently looking at a couple options right now with my
28:27 main, uh,
28:29 our main interest is most likely joining the local two 95 based
28:32 out of Daytona
28:33 for commerce and pipe fitters, uh, doing the welding, the pipe
28:36 fitting,
28:36 all of that. And they have a, um, amazing, um, apprenticeship
28:40 program.
28:40 Five-year long where I’ll be able to learn a lot of more stuff
28:43 other than just
28:44 that.
28:44 The director of Brett Murphy and I are real good friends.
28:46 That’s a great home for you, man. You’re going to do very well.
28:49 I have a, I have a couple of buddies that are out there right
28:50 now and they’re
28:51 loving it. Yep. Awesome. You guys got anything to say? I kind of
28:54 took the thing.
28:55 I was just so impressed with them. I’m sorry, miss Radlich.
28:57 I kind of Jack hijacked the thing, but you don’t usually see a
29:00 kid stand up.
29:01 That’s like nine feet tall in the back and receive a
29:02 presidential award.
29:03 So that was awesome. So is your mom here? You said ma’am,
29:07 thank you so much for bringing and raising such a great kid.
29:10 I also want to say thank you so much for putting that well there
29:13 in his hands,
29:13 because he’s going to do some great things. And ma’am, you, you,
29:16 you’ve done amazing. Not that you need to know that,
29:18 but we’re very proud that he’s a BPS and our student and a
29:22 product of what we do.
29:23 So thank you so much, man. Appreciate you.
29:26 I will say she actually didn’t know I was doing this until about
29:28 five minutes
29:29 before we left.
29:33 I didn’t really know exactly what all I was going to be doing.
29:35 So I didn’t exactly tell her, just told her, Oh yeah, I’m going
29:38 to Viera.
29:39 And then she like finally asked what for a five minutes before
29:41 we left.
29:43 And that’s when she was like, Oh, I’m coming. Good, good, good,
29:46 good, good.
29:46 Well, Jean, you’re just like any other, you know, 17, 18 year
29:49 old kid.
29:50 You’re doing great, but you did win the presidential award,
29:52 which is really good. And good luck with two nine five. Great
29:55 outfit,
29:55 great organization.
29:56 They’ll treat you the right way and you’ll learn through the
29:59 best.
29:59 So that’s great, man. Congrats. Anybody else got anything to say?
30:02 Mr. Jaden?
30:03 Congratulations. All right. I promise. Okay. I’ll be quiet.
30:08 Yeah. All right.
30:19 All right. Good evening to our BPS board members, our district
30:23 leaders,
30:24 community members,
30:25 and especially our family and friends that are here for our honorees.
30:29 I’m honored to be before you this evening to celebrate three of
30:31 our most
30:32 exceptional scholars in our district recognized through two of
30:35 the most
30:36 prestigious academic nominations at the state and national level.
30:40 I would like to first recognize our 2025 2026 Sunshine State
30:44 Scholar
30:45 nominees. Each year,
30:46 Brevard public school selects two outstanding 11th grade
30:50 students who
30:51 demonstrate exceptional achievements in science, technology,
30:54 engineering,
30:55 and mathematics.
30:56 Our two nominees along with their parents will travel to Orlando
31:00 in April to
31:01 participate in a statewide program that brings together Florida’s
31:05 top STEM
31:05 scholars.
31:08 Our first Sunshine State Scholar nominee is miss Amari Thompson
31:12 of O galley
31:13 high school.
31:21 We have so many nominees. I know we’re doing pictures at the end,
31:24 but no,
31:25 listen, this is their time. You, you do, you do it. Yes.
31:28 Amari is a top ranked junior whose resume is as impressive as it
31:33 is diverse.
31:34 Her accomplishments include participation in drone racing club
31:38 art club and the
31:38 L three Harris competition. She also serves as junior class
31:42 president,
31:43 student government,
31:44 junior class president and president of the Atlanta anti
31:47 bullying and anchor
31:48 club. I said it’s a lot of presidents in here at Amara
31:51 celebration.
31:52 It was a joy to hear her parents, counselors,
31:55 and principal affirm exactly what her application judges
31:58 recognize.
31:59 Amari is a leader of integrity, intellect, and purpose.
32:03 Please join me in congratulating Miss Amari Thompson.
32:12 Miss Amari.
32:17 I just want to hear from you how we, where you’re going. Just,
32:20 just talk to us about what you feel about Brevard public schools,
32:23 O galley,
32:24 everything else.
32:25 Tell me about what it’s like to lead all those kids and where
32:27 you plan on going.
32:29 I right now it’s like I’m so happy to be at O galley and it’s
32:32 like I’m proud of
32:33 being from my school and then in the future I want to study math
32:37 and it’s like,
32:38 I want to take that and basically inspire the people who I’ve
32:42 grown up with in
32:44 my school because it’s like sometimes they’re like, Oh Amari,
32:47 you just,
32:47 you just like school and it’s like, I want to inspire other
32:51 people.
32:51 Even I can use what I like to help somebody else basically
32:55 inspire them.
32:56 And when I go to college, I do want to study math when it’s like,
33:00 people are like, well you can’t really do anything with a math
33:02 degree,
33:03 but it’s like, I don’t think so. I want to teach people and it’s
33:05 like,
33:06 I want to use my brains.
33:07 I want to use basically my authority after I’ve gained that
33:11 education level to
33:13 basically advocate for the people who may not be able to.
33:17 Mr. Mario, hang on. Dr. Endell,
33:19 it seems like we might have a future teacher right here.
33:21 I don’t know if you want to give her a folder right now just so
33:23 that you know,
33:24 in four years you get here when she graduates,
33:27 Mr. Dufresne and I can offer a contract.
33:30 Your energy will take care of her. Your energy is inspiring,
33:35 and we are so blessed to have you. Thank you so much for being
33:37 here.
33:38 And if there’s anything we can do to help facilitate that,
33:40 you’re in my district, so I would be your representative.
33:42 If you want to build any programs or do anything, use us. Okay.
33:46 Thank you so much. I appreciate it.
33:50 Mr. Susan,
33:50 I think you need to worry because she’s a future leader and she
33:52 sounds like
33:53 she’s gonna be taking your seat. Listen, we have more than
33:56 welcome it.
33:57 You come back from college and I’ll support you. You can run for
33:59 school board.
34:00 There’s a lot going on. So, but you do whatever you want to do.
34:03 You’re just,
34:03 you’re, you’re inspiring to be there. So thank you for coming
34:06 tonight.
34:07 Very good. Amari about the, uh, about the math, right?
34:13 As a math teacher. So, uh, that’s awesome that it’s interesting
34:17 to you that you,
34:18 you just get it right. Um, but when they say, what are you going
34:21 to do with math?
34:22 I mean, I used to hold up the cell phone and say, you know,
34:25 luckily there are people who enjoyed math because that’s behind
34:28 the engineering
34:29 in, in a cell phone. They don’t realize everything you do. Sorry.
34:33 Other teachers out there, but everything revolves around
34:35 mathematics.
34:36 So you got it and you’ll be, you’ll inspire people just by your
34:40 excitement.
34:41 So thank you so much. You must have had some wonderful teachers
34:44 and,
34:44 and especially the teachers you have at home. So that’s exciting.
34:50 Thank you.
34:56 All right.
34:56 We’re going to keep it moving with our second sunshine state
34:59 scholar nominee,
35:00 mr Eshaan the pool of West shore junior senior high school.
35:11 Like Amari Eshaan is top ranked junior with an extraordinary
35:14 list of
35:16 achievements. He serves as president of the Melbourne math
35:19 circle,
35:20 team captain of academic team president and lead instructor of
35:25 math counts and
35:26 vice president of the computer science club.
35:29 In addition to his academic leadership,
35:31 Eshaan is dedicated a dedicated philanthropist having logged
35:35 over 300 volunteer
35:37 hours already an accomplishment that speaks volumes about both
35:41 his character and
35:42 commitment. Please help me congratulate mr Eshaan the pool.
35:51 Hi, my name is Eshaan and I’m a student at West shore and I’d
35:54 like to thank the
35:55 board of public schools for this opportunity as well as my
35:58 principal,
35:58 mr Clark and my college and career specialist, miss Foulbush.
36:02 I’m really passionate about STEM and I want to study computer
36:05 science in the
36:06 future with the ultimate goal of giving back to my community as
36:09 I’ve done it
36:10 throughout my high school and plan to do so in the future as
36:12 well.
36:13 Eshaan when you become famous,
36:14 don’t forget to come back to Brevard and you just made a
36:17 commitment.
36:18 You got to can’t turn back, right?
36:19 You got to come back and you got to do exactly what you said
36:22 because there’s a
36:23 lot of people that make this place special when they come back.
36:26 So just think about us when you’re making that decision.
36:28 Anybody else got anything for him?
36:30 Well, there’s a common thread about math here this evening, so I
36:33 mean,
36:33 I can’t ignore that, but yeah, congratulations to all the
36:37 scholars that you know,
36:38 this is just honestly, it’s the why and that it just reiterates,
36:42 Hey,
36:42 the good work that’s getting done every day you guys are
36:44 learning and you guys
36:45 are going to be world changers. Thank you for serving your
36:47 community.
36:48 That speaks volumes to you as a human being as well.
36:50 So continue to serve your community and your community will
36:52 serve you.
36:52 I think that was Mr. Kadoor’s famous line. I believe he says
36:55 that something along
36:56 those lines, but yeah, that is the best that you can do.
36:58 But thank you so much for all that you already have done.
37:01 Absolutely. So Eshaan, I, if I recall,
37:06 I’ve actually known you since you were quite little live in our
37:09 neighborhood,
37:10 went to school with my son. Can you,
37:13 as you represent our other students also that are speaking
37:15 tonight,
37:16 can you speak to the importance of your support at home?
37:20 Cause I’m pretty sure that somebody,
37:23 before you ever got to West Melbourne school for science, you
37:25 had a good start.
37:27 Yep. My parents have been very important throughout this whole
37:30 process.
37:31 Like from the moment I was born, literally probably. So yeah,
37:36 I really appreciate everything you’ve done for me as well.
37:38 All right. Thank you Eshaan. I’m very proud of you. Good job Eshaan.
37:46 Now boy, this is a rigorous process.
37:48 And because they actually will be honored and have a weekend in
37:52 Orlando,
37:53 we have to also identify an alternate just in case one of
37:58 those nominees cannot go.
37:59 And our fabulous alternate for today is Aaron Gordon of Edgewood
38:04 junior, senior high school.
38:13 All right, Aaron, again, I’m looking through my laundry list.
38:16 Aaron,
38:18 is very involved in STEM activities,
38:22 rate test scores, math counts, AMC math competition,
38:27 mu alpha, theta, dedicated swimmer,
38:31 varsity and club MVP sectionals.
38:35 So similar to sports regionals beyond state competition,
38:38 he’s done piano for 11 years and wants to be a doctor major in
38:43 physics
38:43 or applied math.
38:48 All right. Hi, I’m Aaron.
38:52 I’m starting to feel underdressed and underprepared.
38:55 I didn’t know a lot of this was going to happen, but I guess we’ll
38:58 roll with it.
38:59 Yep. I’m another math kid. If you like math,
39:03 that’s the best. Okay. But yeah, I’ve been doing a lot of math,
39:07 you know,
39:07 all that competitions and whatnot. I’m going for a lot of big
39:11 reach colleges.
39:12 You know, I’m looking, you know, like Harvard, Caltech, you know,
39:15 we want to get there, but yeah, doctor would be nice. You know,
39:19 they help out the community a lot and you know, they pay well,
39:23 you know,
39:23 that’s just a side side thing. But yeah,
39:26 of course I want to give back to everybody and I really want to
39:28 thank my
39:29 principal, Ms. Ingrata and my career specialist, Ms. Cofer.
39:33 They’ve been helping me a lot with everything throughout these
39:35 years at Edgewood
39:36 and I, I can’t be prouder to represent Edgewood right here.
39:41 No, let’s go. Go Red Wolves. But anyway, you know,
39:45 I’m just so honored with this opportunity. My teachers as well,
39:49 they’re amazing at Edgewood. Helped me through it all,
39:52 especially, you know,
39:53 I can just name a few, Mr. Johnston, Mr. Muir, Mr. Franco,
39:57 who’s my homeroom teacher has been helping me get, get it
40:00 through. And you know,
40:02 I just want to thank everybody here for coming and recognizing
40:04 us.
40:06 Thank you so much.
40:11 For that to be extemporaneous. You were on it, sir. I’m just
40:13 telling you,
40:14 you were definitely prepared.
40:15 Our final recognition this evening is for our district’s US
40:18 Presidential Scholar
40:20 nominee.
40:21 The US Presidential Scholars Program was established to
40:23 recognize and honor some
40:25 of the nation’s most distinguished graduating high school
40:28 seniors and was later
40:29 expanded to include students demonstrating excellence in the
40:32 visual, creative,
40:33 and performing arts. This year,
40:36 Brevard School is proud to nominate a scholar who received a
40:40 perfect score
40:41 from all three of her anonymous judges.
40:44 A remarkable distinction that reflects her outstanding record of
40:47 achievement and
40:48 leadership.
40:51 Our 2025-2026 US Presidential Scholar nominee is Ms.
40:56 Helena Davis of Cocoa Beach Junior Senior High School.
41:10 Helena serves as Senior Class Vice President,
41:14 Logistics Head for Dance Marathon,
41:17 President of the Fellow Fellowship of Christian Athletes and
41:20 President of the
41:21 National Honor Society. Her leadership,
41:23 service and excellence exemplifies the very best of Brevard
41:27 Public Schools and
41:29 make her a truly deserving nominee on the national stage.
41:33 Please join us in celebrating Ms. Helena Davis.
41:40 [Applause]
41:44 Thank you guys so much for this opportunity.
41:46 I actually didn’t know about the whole perfect score thing,
41:49 so that’s a delightful surprise. Thank you so much, Mr. Rundell
41:54 for all you do.
41:55 Dr. Rundell, pardon me, for all you do. I’m not sure if y’all
41:58 are aware,
41:59 but he came from Cocoa Beach, my school, and we’re all very,
42:02 very proud of what he’s done.
42:06 I’d like to thank my parents and my wonderful teachers and my
42:09 college and
42:10 career advisor, Ms. Bierman, for all they’ve done.
42:14 And thank you so much for this opportunity.
42:18 I think you have to thank your fan club for coming too,
42:21 because it seems like you have a whole section of the actual
42:23 place here.
42:24 There’s a bunch of them over there, so thank you.
42:27 Yes, sir. They’re my family. I’m very proud of them.
42:30 It’s an amazing thing. Any questions about Helena’s future?
42:33 Yeah, I was going to ask, because you’re actually right, you’re
42:36 senior, right?
42:37 So we’re not very far out. So do you have plans yet?
42:41 Yes, ma’am. I’m going to FSU to their honors program.
42:45 Thank you. Thank you. Just want to say that. Thank you. Oh,
42:49 sorry.
42:49 Is that out loud? I’m sorry.
42:51 I’m hoping to major in international relations and Russian and
42:54 Eastern European
42:55 studies with a minor in U.S. intelligence policy.
43:04 She’s a future secretary of state right there.
43:08 Coming from an Ivy school, that makes sense.
43:13 What an honor. Yep. Take a break for some great job. Yes, Mr.
43:17 Chair.
43:18 Yes, sir. I just wanted to acknowledge the fact that all these
43:20 students are
43:21 amazing, but I also want to acknowledge that all their
43:23 principals are here.
43:25 They took time out of there, you know,
43:26 after a long day to be here to support your students. It’s
43:28 really impressive.
43:29 So Mr. Mr. Barton, Mr. Clark, missing Grotta, Mr. Powers,
43:33 thank you for being here. It really says a lot about, oh, Miss
43:37 Miller. Sorry.
43:38 Thank you so much, Mr. Powers.
44:08 Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
44:13 Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
44:38 Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
44:43 Yeah.
45:08 [inaudible]
52:15 Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
52:45 Okay. Now for the phone. Well, good. I don’t think we ever,
52:48 whenever you’re ready.
52:50 Dr. Endell, we all ready? We are now at the public comments
52:54 portion of the meeting.
52:55 We have one speaker and we’ll have received, they will receive
52:59 three minutes. Our attorney
53:00 will call a speaker in order at which they are come to speak in
53:04 order of one. Mr. Gibbs,
53:06 please call the first speaker and only speaker. Mr. Bernard
53:09 Bryant.
53:10 All right, Mr. Bernard Bryant, come on down. Here we go. Come on,
53:13 let’s hear it.
53:15 I got to tell you, I traveled just to make sure I come to this
53:18 board meeting. I just love you guys.
53:23 So, Dr. Rendell and board, thank you so much for allowing me to
53:26 speak today. I am so excited when
53:29 I saw those young people, Amari and Eshan said they want to give
53:33 back to their community. What
53:35 a tremendous thing. So, I just wanted to let this team know two
53:39 weeks ago, we had the South
53:41 Brevard Branch NAACP had their STEM program demonstration. There
53:45 were about 70 kids from
53:47 Brevard Public School that attended that event. So, we were so
53:51 proud of Brevard Public School
53:54 students and I’m very proud to be part of that program. But one
53:57 of the things I would like to
53:58 talk about is the millage, the ad valorem millage. You know,
54:05 what I’ve looked at the data and you
54:08 guys have not been up here for several years now talking about
54:12 VPK. And I guarantee you all of
54:15 those students that received those awards today, they attended
54:19 VPK. So, when I looked at the data
54:23 over the last few weeks, I noticed that the VPK participation
54:27 rate has not changed much at all,
54:31 probably by 2% in terms of participation of the marginalized
54:35 community. But when I looked at the
54:37 tax plan that was in your, I think it was in your workshop today,
54:42 there were three buckets. And one
54:44 of the things that I saw was that in the student program
54:48 development area, there were no buckets
54:51 set aside for VPK investment or improvement. And I just want to
54:56 say that when you look at the
54:58 educational gap over the last three, four years, there have been
55:02 about a 2% increase. So, the gap
55:05 is still around 22 to 24%. And to me, that is not good enough.
55:11 So, I’m asking this board for your
55:14 compassionate heart to really looking at adding some funds in
55:19 that bucket called students program
55:22 development and expansion. And I know there may be some laws
55:25 around that that I’m not familiar with,
55:27 but my mother used to always say, put your money where your
55:30 mouth is. So, I just hope that
55:35 this board will show compassion toward those areas that need VPK
55:38 participation.
55:40 And I’m a Bible teacher. You know, one of the things they said
55:43 about Jesus,
55:45 Jesus was a man of compassion. And what Jesus did, when he saw
55:50 those that were in need,
55:51 he just didn’t felt about it and express anything. It was always
55:55 coupled with an action.
55:58 He had compassion on them and he healed them. So, I’m just
56:02 hoping that you will consider
56:04 adding a bucket in there for VPK. What can we do to recruit more
56:09 students? What can we do
56:12 to really increase that population? Because your data has shared
56:16 with us that if a child does not
56:19 attend VPK, it’s 70% chance that that child will not get on
56:24 reading level. So, thank you so much.
56:27 Appreciate it. Thank you, sir. Mr. Chair, can I just…
56:30 Absolutely. Hang on, hang on.
56:31 Mr. Bryant, I know Mr. Dufresne is back there because he’s going
56:35 to jump on this,
56:36 but I actually addressed this today at the workshop because this
56:40 was an area of concern
56:41 that you had spoke to me about. And so, I’m sure that Mr. Dufresne
56:44 is going to reiterate
56:45 the same thing. But the policy mimics exactly what was on the
56:49 ballot when we voted for that millage.
56:52 So, we have to keep it in line so that they match the same thing.
56:55 So, we’re not telling our voters,
56:56 hey, we’re going to get millage funds and do this with it and
56:58 then we change the plan later.
57:00 Mr. Dufresne will go into more detail with you, but I just
57:02 wanted to let you know,
57:02 I did bring it up because this was one of the questions that was
57:05 asked today, so.
57:06 Thank you for answering that question. One of the things I also
57:10 saw in that policy,
57:13 are there any boundaries around how funds are spent? So, that’s
57:17 a concern of mine as well,
57:19 and I really thank you for that discussion. And that’s something
57:21 that I absolutely think
57:22 the board will have a discussion. We hear your passion for VPK
57:25 and it is 100% genuine,
57:26 so we understand that. But I just wanted to clarify the part
57:29 about the policy and
57:30 the verbiage that was in the policy, that’s all. So, thank you.
57:32 Thank you very much.
57:35 Thank you. That was our only speaker. Yep, we’re good. All right,
57:38 that concludes agenda items,
57:40 only public comments. Thank you for taking time out of your
57:43 schedule to address the board with
57:45 your concerns and suggestions. I would like to remind the public
57:48 that the board is accessible
57:49 for further conversations outside of our business meeting
57:51 through scheduled meeting.
57:53 We are now at the consent agenda. Dr. Rendell. Thank you, Mr.
57:57 Chair. There are 45 items on the
57:59 agenda under this category. Thank you, Dr. Rendell. Does any
58:02 board member wish to pull any of the
58:03 items? None? Okay. Being there are none pulled, I will entertain
58:08 a motion to accept the consent
58:09 items on today’s agenda. Second. Any discussion? Paul roll call,
58:16 please. Mr. Trent. Aye. Ms. Wright.
58:18 Aye. Mr. Susan. Aye. Ms. Campbell. Aye. Mr. Thomas. Aye. We will
58:22 move to the information agenda,
58:24 which includes an item for our board review that may be brought
58:27 back for action at subsequent
58:28 meeting. No action will be taken on this item today. There are
58:31 two items under this category.
58:32 Does any board member wish to discuss this item or these items?
58:35 No. We are now at board member
58:38 recognitions reports and discussion points. Does any board
58:41 member have anything to discuss?
58:45 You can go first. I’ll go first. Ms. Campbell. I’ll be happy to
58:50 go first. I’ve got a long list,
58:53 so but I’m going to go through them pretty quickly. First of all,
58:56 and I don’t know if Mike can zoom in
58:58 on my shirt because the Stevenson, show and tell time, Stevenson
59:03 Elementary, a group of students
59:05 from Stevenson Elementary designed a t-shirt, and on the front
59:08 it says in a world where you can be
59:10 anything, be kind, and then I’ll show you the back. I’m standing
59:12 up, Mike. There you go.
59:16 You got to move your hair. Oh, sorry. There we go. Perfect. He’s
59:18 got it right there. All right.
59:22 Hang on. Right there. Right there. That’s it. Right there. Okay.
59:25 Hang on. Okay. All right.
59:26 They did this as a fundraiser because they wanted to share a
59:30 message, but they also wanted to raise
59:32 money for students in transition. Michael Cador led the
59:35 organizations that were giving money to
59:38 our students in transition, but these students also wanted to do
59:41 something to help with that.
59:43 So board, there’s going to be a second round if you would like
59:46 to purchase. I’ll make sure
59:48 Ms. Tuttle’s going to send those back out, but I wanted to show
59:50 that off and let the community
59:52 know that it’s also going to be reopening, I believe, for more
59:54 shirts if you’d like to
59:56 have an awesome shirt, but also support our students in
59:58 transition and the efforts that
59:59 our students at Stevenson Elementary are doing, so I was very
1:00:02 proud of them. We had a conversation
1:00:05 about vaping this afternoon at our workshop, but I wanted to
1:00:07 share that tomorrow, the 25th of
1:00:12 February at 2 o’clock, the Uplift Drug-Free Coalition will be
1:00:16 having a webinar entitled
1:00:18 Navigating Conversations About Vaping with Youth, and so it’d be
1:00:21 a great thing for our parents to
1:00:22 jump on it. They just don’t know how to start because we talked
1:00:26 about how the vaping epidemic
1:00:28 is not going away, and parents really need to be involved in
1:00:31 recognizing the dangers.
1:00:34 We had our separate day school groundbreaking a few weeks ago,
1:00:37 and I was proud to be there.
1:00:38 Somebody else may be mentioning it, but we’re really excited to
1:00:41 opening this facility. I wanted
1:00:43 just to take a minute because I’ve seen lots of things starting
1:00:46 online, and I know we released
1:00:48 our information, but this separate day school, to just dispel
1:00:52 some misinformation and to talk
1:00:53 about how really how extra awesome it is that we can do this.
1:00:57 Four years ago, we had in the past
1:01:01 two different, we had contracted with a company. Some people
1:01:04 said they’re charter schools. There
1:01:05 weren’t charter schools. There were contracted schools to serve
1:01:08 our students with the most
1:01:10 extreme emotional behavior needs, and so those, after the school
1:01:15 year was over, we were a little
1:01:17 bit into the summer when that company decided to cancel the
1:01:20 contract, and we had six weeks
1:01:23 to put up something to serve those students, and we had space at
1:01:26 Gardendale and Merritt Island,
1:01:27 which love Merritt Island, but the only thing close to Merritt
1:01:30 Island is Merritt Island,
1:01:32 and so we, because we have that space, we put up within six
1:01:36 weeks a special day school to serve
1:01:38 those students, and for the last four years now, students have
1:01:41 been traveling by bus from the
1:01:43 extremes of our county to a pretty out of the way location, so
1:01:46 we were really excited after we went
1:01:49 over and saw what Orange County was doing with their students
1:01:52 and this population to be able to
1:01:54 look at the possibility with impact fees, so we don’t go into
1:01:57 that, to build a building that’s
1:01:59 designed for these students. Gardendale, we did the best we
1:02:03 could of what we had, but that’s an
1:02:05 old elementary school that was not designed to meet the needs of
1:02:07 these students, so we’re really
1:02:08 excited to be breaking ground, and actually they were already
1:02:11 getting pretty far into the process,
1:02:12 so we’re excited that hopefully that will open in the middle of
1:02:14 next school year, so we can serve
1:02:16 those students who their most appropriate education space is in
1:02:20 a school that’s designed for them,
1:02:22 so we’re really excited about doing that and especially about
1:02:25 doing it debt-free.
1:02:27 So and also thank you to all the staff who’ve been making it
1:02:30 happen in that building. That’s
1:02:31 not the ideal situation for the last four years. Last week we
1:02:35 had our Children’s Hunger Project
1:02:37 luncheon. I wanted to thank you guys, board and staff, who were
1:02:40 able to come. We raised over
1:02:42 $100,000 that day alone, and I’m really proud of our community.
1:02:48 Yes, really proud of our community
1:02:51 for the compassion for our students and our goal, help joining
1:02:55 us in our goal of eliminating
1:02:57 childhood hunger in Brevard. I have been invited for the last
1:03:01 several years to teach our session
1:03:06 for our future teacher leaders, people who are thinking about
1:03:09 going into administration or who
1:03:10 are in the pipeline of going to administration. It’s called, the
1:03:13 new class name is called the
1:03:14 Foundations of Leadership. It’s an in-service that teachers can
1:03:17 go to, and I just wanted to
1:03:19 thank Lisa Stanley and Lisa Haim for their efforts in this. It’s
1:03:23 always, they get such great feedback
1:03:26 from our employees who take this course, and it’s really a lot
1:03:29 of fun for me. So next year,
1:03:30 one of you guys is going to have to figure out, I’ll give you my
1:03:32 notes, because it’s always a lot
1:03:34 of fun to interact with our teachers and let them know what my
1:03:37 part is to share, how policymaking
1:03:39 works on our end, and how they can have an impact on that. We
1:03:42 are in the middle of MPA season. That
1:03:44 stands for Music Performance Assessment, and I’m so proud of our
1:03:48 bands, orchestras, choirs, jazz
1:03:50 bands, for all the hard work that they’re doing. They’ve been
1:03:53 going on the last few weeks, and
1:03:54 they’re going to be continuing on the next couple of weeks. This
1:03:57 is their, this is their Super Bowl,
1:03:59 Mr. Susan. This is their state championship, where they go, and
1:04:03 they are judged, and they get to
1:04:05 perform their best, and so good luck to all of those groups, and
1:04:07 we’re really proud of you.
1:04:09 Last week, the Children’s, sorry, wrong organization, Brevard
1:04:13 Schools Foundation
1:04:15 celebrated the 10-year anniversary of the supply zone for
1:04:18 teachers, and especially we recognized
1:04:21 the work that the Foundation and the supply zone have done
1:04:24 towards providing school supplies and
1:04:27 personal care products to our students in need, especially our
1:04:30 students in transition. We’ve
1:04:32 talked a lot about students in transition tonight. So
1:04:34 congratulations to them, and thank you for all
1:04:36 the partners and community support that the Schools Foundation
1:04:39 has had to make that happen.
1:04:42 Last Friday and then Monday, I got to participate in the African
1:04:46 American Read-Ins at Columbia
1:04:47 Elementary, at Palm Bay Elementary, and I know that Mr. Thomas
1:04:50 and Ms. Wright were there at
1:04:51 Palm Bay Elementary on Monday morning. It was great. We had so
1:04:55 many members of the community
1:04:57 come in, and the students love it when community members come in
1:05:01 and read to them, and those,
1:05:03 there were great days. Finally, and I know I’ve had a lot, it’s
1:05:07 been three weeks, and we’ve just,
1:05:08 it’s February. We’ve had so much going on, but I can’t, I had
1:05:12 almost missed this one on my list,
1:05:14 but Ms. Han reminded me. So the fourth graders at Jupiter
1:05:20 Elementary, their STEM teacher is Ms.
1:05:24 Machada, who was one of our six finalists for Teacher of the
1:05:27 Year. They got a bug and just
1:05:31 decided, you know what, we want to build a bridge. We want to
1:05:34 build a bridge. Now it was kind of
1:05:36 symbolic, but also they wanted to serve their school because
1:05:40 there was kind of some traffic
1:05:41 jams going on. You can imagine some of our schools, the way they’re
1:05:44 designed, when you’re going across
1:05:46 like from one class to another, sometimes you have to,
1:05:48 especially if it’s raining or whatever,
1:05:50 you have to walk all the way down the sidewalk because you don’t
1:05:52 want to walk across the grass,
1:05:53 and there was no, there was no sidewalk from one side, one
1:05:56 hallway of classrooms to this,
1:05:58 all the art room, and so they want, but they wanted, didn’t just
1:06:01 want a sidewalk. They wanted
1:06:02 to build a bridge, and so I love this idea. They had this, all
1:06:06 these great designs. They built
1:06:08 bridges with like popsicle sticks and had these designs, but Sue
1:06:12 Hannon, the facilities team,
1:06:14 took this on and decided to help these fourth graders fulfill
1:06:17 this project. So, and Mike’s
1:06:20 been videotaping it, and there’s going to be more to come on it,
1:06:23 but I just wanted to recognize Ms.
1:06:24 Machada, the fourth grade students at Jupiter, and Sue just
1:06:27 showed me a picture tonight of the
1:06:28 finished work because I went on Friday after the African-American
1:06:32 read-in, and the facilities team
1:06:33 wasn’t just building it for them. These guys were down on their
1:06:36 knees on the, they poured concrete,
1:06:38 let the kids help pour the concrete, design it. The students,
1:06:43 everybody got to have a turn,
1:06:44 turning a screw, putting the slats in place, and so they have
1:06:48 built this bridge and found a little
1:06:50 extra funding in there to help them do it. It was just the most
1:06:53 amazing idea, so I can’t wait for
1:06:55 you guys to see the story, but congratulations, and thank you to
1:06:58 the facilities team for helping
1:06:59 these STEM students have this magical moment of getting to be a
1:07:03 part of a construction project
1:07:05 on their campus, and then the Bayside High School machining
1:07:09 program even got in on it because they
1:07:11 designed a little plaque in their machining class to go on the
1:07:14 bridge, and it’s so awesome. I can’t
1:07:15 wait for you guys to see it, and that’s all that happens. All
1:07:19 right, who wants to go next? Mr.
1:07:21 Thomas is chomping. Here we go. I’ll go ahead. I have two recognitions
1:07:25 tonight. First of all,
1:07:28 Ms. Myers, the principal at Riviera Elementary, has selected
1:07:32 Taylor Adams, a third grade teacher,
1:07:35 to be recognized, so I’d like to read a little bit about what Ms.
1:07:38 Myers wrote about Taylor. Taylor
1:07:40 Adams is in her first full year as a third grade teacher at Riviera.
1:07:43 She goes above and beyond to
1:07:45 connect with her students and build a strong classroom community.
1:07:48 Beyond that, she also spends
1:07:49 time thinking through her lessons so that when she delivers them,
1:07:52 her students are successful.
1:07:54 Her positivity and enthusiasm for teaching is contagious even on
1:07:58 challenging days, and this is
1:08:00 felt the minute you enter her classroom. We are so proud of her
1:08:04 and glad she is part of BPS,
1:08:06 so thank you, Ms. Adams, for all of your work at Riviera
1:08:10 Elementary, and I’d also like to
1:08:12 give a shout out. Last meeting, I gave a shout out to Palm Bay ROTC
1:08:16 air rifle team for winning
1:08:18 the national championship. It was the Marine Corps national
1:08:21 championship. Well, they went on to Ohio,
1:08:23 and they went against all services from around the country, and
1:08:26 they are the national champion
1:08:28 of all services, so congratulations to Palm Bay ROTC.
1:08:34 Good job, and that was an all-female team, but one male member,
1:08:37 so that’s even more impressive, so
1:08:39 very cool. All right, well you took one of mine off my list, so
1:08:47 I’m going to go ahead and read
1:08:48 to the email because this is, my daughter is actually part of
1:08:51 the ROTC program at Space Coast,
1:08:53 and so I received an email that kind of, we all received it, the
1:08:56 board did, that broke down
1:08:58 how well Brevard was represented at this competition, so I’m
1:09:01 going to read the email
1:09:03 from Senior Master Sergeant Mr. Warner. It says across the
1:09:06 United States and overseas department
1:09:07 of defense education activity, schools are, sorry, schools,
1:09:11 there are approximately 250 Marine Corps,
1:09:14 850 Air/Space Force, and 1,500 Army JROTC units, 2,600 schools
1:09:21 in total hosting an Armed Forces
1:09:23 JROTC unit. There’s over 6,000 students across all services that
1:09:28 compete in this championship
1:09:29 qualification match. BPS represented extremely well, so as of
1:09:34 Saturday, BPS owns the 2025-2026
1:09:38 Sporter Air Rifle National Championship for the United States
1:09:41 Marine Corps, thanks to Palm Bay
1:09:42 Magnet, and the United States Air Force, Space Force, thanks to
1:09:46 Space Coast Junior Senior.
1:09:48 Additionally, in their first year competing nationally,
1:09:50 satellite finished at number nine
1:09:52 for the Air/Space Force, and then finally astronaut qualified
1:09:56 for and competed in the
1:09:57 service championship, finishing the top five percent of all Army
1:10:01 units, so our district was
1:10:03 represented really well, and that just really truly goes back to
1:10:05 the amazing leaders that
1:10:07 teach those different ROTC programs. I am always amazed at the
1:10:10 conversation that comes out of that
1:10:11 in my own personal home, and I just cannot say enough wonderful
1:10:15 things about how our ROTC
1:10:17 instructors are truly changing the next generation of students,
1:10:20 so thank you, thank you. All right,
1:10:21 I know we’re going to have some overlap here on some of these,
1:10:24 so I’m going to try my best to not
1:10:26 hit on all the things that you’ve already hit on, Ms. Campbell,
1:10:29 or that one, I just wanted to read
1:10:30 the specifics, because Space Coast, one of my schools was in
1:10:32 there as well. I want to give a
1:10:34 huge thank you, so we hosted some very special guests last week,
1:10:37 it was a different week for us,
1:10:39 but the Governor, the Commissioner of Education, and Congressman
1:10:42 Herodopoulos came to one of our
1:10:44 schools in the North End, THS. They were able to announce the
1:10:48 fact that we have achieved,
1:10:49 as a state, our goal for career and technical education, so they
1:10:54 achieved that goal five years
1:10:55 in advance, which is a huge feat, because I think they were a
1:10:58 little unsure at the time of setting
1:10:59 the goal, if they’d be able to accomplish it in this amount of
1:11:02 time, but not only did they
1:11:03 accomplish it, we’ve accomplished it five years earlier, so
1:11:05 thank you so much, and thank you to
1:11:06 Titusville High School, Chef Noble hosted, she’s an amazing
1:11:10 culinary chef that is a cordon bleu chef
1:11:12 that just is charismatic and fun, and you want to be around her,
1:11:15 and so thank you for presenting
1:11:17 some food to our wonderful Governor that students had made, that
1:11:20 was a fun event overall. I also
1:11:22 want to thank, we had the Lieutenant Governor the very next day,
1:11:25 so he came to the North End,
1:11:26 and he went to our welding program, interestingly enough, at
1:11:28 Astronaut High, so I want to thank him
1:11:30 for devoting some time to really see what’s happening in the
1:11:33 trades programs in our schools.
1:11:34 I think he was blown away, I think most people are when they
1:11:37 walk into that welding program,
1:11:38 it is absolutely mind-boggling this exists in high school, so it
1:11:42 was very, very cool,
1:11:44 cool visit, and a lot of time one-on-one with him. We’ve also
1:11:47 had Brooke from, I think it’s
1:11:49 water safety, water safety presentation, so she’s come before
1:11:51 the board, and she’s talked about
1:11:53 her passion for water safety, well she invited me to attend one
1:11:56 of her water safety presentations
1:11:57 at Jackson Middle School, and the Titusville Fire Department was
1:12:01 there, the Mayor was there,
1:12:03 obviously the amazing instructors were there, but really
1:12:06 demonstrated for an entire PE class
1:12:08 how to perform CPR, and they did this on babies, on you know,
1:12:13 they went through all the entire,
1:12:16 the whole gamut, and so I just want to thank her, because
1:12:18 honestly watching these kids learn this
1:12:20 life-saving measure, I just couldn’t help but think these are
1:12:23 lessons that will carry.
1:12:25 I had a situation with a personal family member friend, so it’s
1:12:29 my best friend’s father had passed
1:12:31 away, but he had had a heart attack, and their grandchildren go
1:12:34 to school at Titusville High
1:12:35 School, and the grandchild was present when he had the heart
1:12:38 attack, and he was able to administer
1:12:39 CPR, and that was taught through one of our instructors, and so
1:12:42 I’m just like hey, some of
1:12:43 these lessons that they don’t seem like at the time this is a
1:12:46 big deal, like I don’t even know
1:12:47 if I’m ever going to use this, but they’re using it, and so that’s
1:12:50 one of those things where you’re
1:12:51 like okay, this is an aha moment, so all right, I also want to
1:12:54 give a shout out to, we had one of
1:12:56 the finalists for the top four under 40 with Lee Brevard, so
1:12:59 Kelly who works in our ESC services,
1:13:02 she was one of our finalists, and I just want to say that was an
1:13:05 amazing event, honestly there was
1:13:07 12 finalists that were there, and they all had just such hearts
1:13:10 for serving our community,
1:13:11 every single one of them gave back in such a way that was impactful,
1:13:14 and I was honored to be there,
1:13:16 and represent her, and cheer her on, and so shout out to Kelly,
1:13:19 you did an amazing job,
1:13:20 you do an amazing job, she meets these needs of children that
1:13:23 are the most vulnerable children,
1:13:24 and blows my mind that she’s able to do that day in and day out,
1:13:27 because it is a mission of her
1:13:28 heart, but she does it because she loves these kids, and then
1:13:31 also I want to thank Miss Cagney
1:13:33 for allowing me to come with, you know, Miss Campbell, we all
1:13:36 went to to Palm Bay Elementary
1:13:37 to read, but I went specifically to Miss Cagney’s first grade
1:13:40 class, and Peter Phillips from the
1:13:42 district attended with me, so he was there, and we got to read
1:13:45 to kids, and those moments are the
1:13:47 ones that kind of ground us back into the why, when you see
1:13:50 children in the classroom, and
1:13:51 a lot of times you get stuck in the governance of things, or the
1:13:53 headaches of things, and I
1:13:55 jokingly will say it’s the adults that make this job hard, it’s
1:13:57 not the kids, the kids are the best
1:13:59 part of this job, and so thank you so much, thank you to to
1:14:02 Barbie Miller for inviting us, I told
1:14:04 her hey invite me anytime I will come, and happily participate
1:14:07 in classrooms, and I think that is all
1:14:09 that I have at this point. Thank you so much, really appreciate
1:14:12 all of you guys, I mean how
1:14:14 awesome is it that we have the governor come to our school
1:14:16 district, we have presidential award
1:14:18 winners, I mean it’s just we have a lot of stuff, we have
1:14:20 national marksmanship, I mean this is
1:14:22 incredible, like I’ve I’ve been to a lot of other school board
1:14:25 meetings, and stuff like that, and
1:14:26 they don’t have this type of stuff, so it’s really cool, right,
1:14:29 um wanted to tell you guys, just give
1:14:30 you a quick, he’s gonna skip you, oh it’s okay, sorry man,
1:14:33 because you know she goes, and then I’m
1:14:35 supposed to go, like oh my god, well I let her go, I’m so sorry
1:14:40 man, so that’s fine, and many times
1:14:43 I’m like that’s fine, just go ahead, but we it has been a while,
1:14:45 and there’s been some really good
1:14:47 things that uh that have come up, so uh I’ll forgive you there,
1:14:52 but uh lots of lots of shout
1:14:54 outs today, um so bear with us, even just a little bit more, uh
1:14:59 some some very exciting sport news,
1:15:02 we got a little bit of that, like Cocoa Beach boys soccer, uh
1:15:05 wound up in the semi-finals, uh you
1:15:07 know the final four of the state soccer tournament, so that was
1:15:10 good, they that’s where they their
1:15:12 journey ended, it wasn’t quite like the the men’s and women’s
1:15:15 hockey in the Olympics, but a shout
1:15:17 out for them, but that’s it was way more than they expected for
1:15:21 the year, so great job uh coaches and
1:15:23 staff there, and then let’s stay on the sports for a little
1:15:26 while, it’s it’s all a little bit here in
1:15:28 the next few minutes, all Cocoa, um a shout out to coach Dottie,
1:15:33 had their uh first victory in
1:15:36 baseball, in over two years for the Cocoa Tigers, uh that doesn’t
1:15:40 matter, doesn’t matter, we don’t
1:15:42 talk about that, um but it was uh I got to meet uh the staff,
1:15:47 and uh some of the the coaching staff,
1:15:50 and uh coach Dottie’s wife, who’s a viewer, a teacher, and uh
1:15:54 some of the boys, and they’re
1:15:56 really turning that program around, so there’s a lot of
1:15:58 excitement about the Cocoa uh baseball
1:16:00 program over there, um he also wanted me to mention that they’re
1:16:03 always looking for some
1:16:04 donations for lots of things for for their program, but uh this
1:16:08 Friday, I can be a little
1:16:10 cheerleader for them, they are going to have a first responders
1:16:13 night, Friday February 27th
1:16:15 at 5 45 at the Cocoa baseball field, and it’s honoring Cocoa
1:16:19 police and in fire departments,
1:16:21 so they’re really stepping up uh the community involvement, you
1:16:25 know we all know about the Cocoa
1:16:26 football program, um but the baseball program is is up and
1:16:29 coming, and they’re young, they’re like
1:16:31 a middle school team, uh they had an eighth grader win their varsity
1:16:35 game, then had double digit
1:16:37 strikeouts, a big deal for uh for that program in the community,
1:16:40 so uh just to stay on the uh on the
1:16:42 Cocoa athletics, it’s a congratulations to coach Hooks, uh the
1:16:46 the new football coach that they
1:16:48 appointed there, he’s got a big uh a big program, a lot of
1:16:51 expectations, but he’s an alumni of Cocoa,
1:16:54 and uh he’s he’s excited, and he’s up for that that position, so
1:16:58 the community already loves
1:16:59 this guy, so uh I was able to meet him uh at this event, which
1:17:03 was Cocoa again, it’s the Cocoa
1:17:06 uh fire truck number 32 push-in ceremony, do you guys know what
1:17:11 I’m talking about, so if I do,
1:17:13 and if you don’t out there, please look it up, so what that is
1:17:16 first in the state, where uh these
1:17:19 fire trucks, and you know they cost about 1.6 million dollars
1:17:22 now for fire trucks, but it’s the
1:17:24 first in the state that they took the colors of the school, and
1:17:28 they decked out this new fire truck
1:17:31 in Cocoa tiger pride stuff, it is it is amazing, it was the
1:17:35 entire, it looked like the entire
1:17:38 county was there, but it was I mean the Cocoa city council was
1:17:43 there, um uh fire chief lamb uh it
1:17:47 had a great speech, talking about the whole history of why they
1:17:51 call it a push-in ceremony,
1:17:52 uh mayor blake uh of course he brings the excitement no matter
1:17:56 where he goes,
1:17:57 but they had the cheerleaders out there, they had the baseball
1:18:01 team, and what else they have,
1:18:03 they have a lot of the band, and they even had the band there,
1:18:06 uh for Cocoa, so uh principal
1:18:08 stewart organized that that whole group of people there, it ran
1:18:12 you know flawlessly, it was really
1:18:14 exciting, so please go online, look it up, it’s the truck 32,
1:18:19 and um it was great, we actually
1:18:22 kind of pushed it into in the uh uh in the firehouse, and they
1:18:25 brought it back out,
1:18:26 and they put up the uh the the extension ladder, and they did
1:18:29 everything there, so that was real
1:18:31 good, um now we get into some other things there, uh the one
1:18:35 voice voter registration program,
1:18:37 now this is a program uh that’s been going throughout the
1:18:40 district, uh put on by the
1:18:42 supervisor of elections and tim bobanek, uh we’ll have the uh
1:18:45 privilege uh and the honor to attend
1:18:48 at merit island this past week, uh this past week, we had over
1:18:51 600 students in the uh auditorium,
1:18:54 both juniors and seniors, uh and what a what a lesson on civics,
1:18:58 so just the the uh the
1:19:00 responsibility, and uh you know the ability to pre-register, I
1:19:04 keep forgetting that,
1:19:05 that these kids can register to vote, uh you know a couple years
1:19:09 in advance of actually voting,
1:19:11 you know at 16, and you know talks about the importance of you
1:19:14 know learning before you vote,
1:19:16 you know and these these guys uh had stories upon stories of the
1:19:20 importance of uh of their one vote,
1:19:23 uh we had a veteran there talking about uh you know our what our
1:19:27 country has sacrificed in order
1:19:29 for them to be able to vote, so it is a great program uh that uh
1:19:33 tim bobanek’s uh heading up,
1:19:36 and it was just an honor, it was a joy, so uh miss lubbers uh
1:19:40 the principal over at merit island,
1:19:41 again allowed um you know both juniors and seniors uh to be
1:19:46 there, uh I don’t think that’s been the
1:19:47 largest, I think viera had over a thousand at theirs, and uh it
1:19:51 it’s it’s a great event
1:19:52 that’s going out there, um not to forget uh what roosevelt’s
1:19:58 elementary in coco beach and cape view
1:20:01 and cape canaveral, what they’ve done um because of uh um let’s
1:20:05 say the merger of the two school,
1:20:07 the consolidation, those two principals melissa wong uh cape
1:20:12 view and page trusset from roosevelt,
1:20:15 they put their heads together and came up with an idea of not
1:20:18 only are we going to have an open
1:20:19 house on march 5th, but they were bringing over grade by grade
1:20:23 for over about an hour and a half
1:20:25 a day, last week they brought over the third graders from cape
1:20:29 view into roosevelt, and they
1:20:30 they had activities set up in the gym, in the playground, in the
1:20:34 cafeteria, and they had team
1:20:35 building, uh they had games, a little bit of dodgeball, I’m glad
1:20:39 that that was that’s still
1:20:40 there, um but uh music going and it was all run by the student
1:20:44 leaders, they had these group of
1:20:46 sixth graders with their little clipboards and making teams, and
1:20:50 uh so yesterday was the fourth
1:20:52 grade and today was the fifth grade, and I was there uh along
1:20:56 with the uh the school counselor
1:20:58 miss anderson were holding the doors open for them to walk
1:21:01 through the gymnasium for the first time,
1:21:04 and their eyes are you know this big, like look at this, this is
1:21:07 amazing, and and it did help that we
1:21:09 refinish that that that gym a few years ago, it looks brand new,
1:21:12 uh and changed the light so it
1:21:14 looks very bright, but the kids just absolutely enjoyed
1:21:17 themselves, and the uh they knocked it
1:21:20 out of the park uh you know with the uh with the activities, and
1:21:23 of course when you when you you
1:21:24 know include popsicles in there somewhere, they’re they’re
1:21:27 excited about it, so uh so much so they
1:21:30 they thought they were going to stop at about third fourth and
1:21:33 fifth, well the second grade uh
1:21:35 and the first grade teachers from both schools contacted the
1:21:38 principals and said we’ve heard we
1:21:39 were hearing such positive responses on this that we would love
1:21:42 to do something ourselves,
1:21:44 so after spring break they’re going to bring them in first grade
1:21:47 and second grade and maybe do some
1:21:49 in-class activities, you know uh so the entire school is going
1:21:54 to come over and see the new
1:21:56 classmates in the schools that they’re going to have next year,
1:21:59 so they’ve really taken this and
1:22:00 and made a super positive uh situation here, so um a shout out
1:22:05 to them and um you know us providing
1:22:07 the transportation for them to come on over, so um it’s just
1:22:10 been it’s been a good week for that,
1:22:12 so that is about it, now you can go. Did they let you drive the
1:22:16 fire truck because it was your
1:22:17 birthday this week? Oh no no no that was last week, so we won’t
1:22:22 we won’t talk about that,
1:22:24 should we sing happy birthday? No we didn’t, there’s always this
1:22:30 place we can start, okay
1:22:33 anyways happy birthday, no we’re good, thank you, thank you, all
1:22:36 right um I just wanted to bring an
1:22:37 update to the Presidential Youth Physical Fitness, we actually
1:22:41 are in, we are testing the children,
1:22:43 can I stop you? Yeah, so when I was in the gymnasium today uh at
1:22:46 Roosevelt, the uh principal
1:22:50 you know kind of looked on the wall because I talked about hey I
1:22:51 think you’re going to get
1:22:52 this thing painted this and they are on the on the list for this
1:22:55 summer, and there’s a stenciled sign
1:22:58 at which she’s like we got to get rid of that thing too, and I
1:23:00 looked it was a presidential
1:23:01 uh like records or whatever and it was from like 1994 or so, and
1:23:05 she’s like you know what we’re
1:23:07 going to just put that in the back call, I go save it because
1:23:10 you know we’re doing that all again,
1:23:11 and I’m sure Mr. Susan is going to want to love to see those
1:23:14 names, so their names and stuff up
1:23:16 there from 30 years ago. Yeah just wanted to let you guys know
1:23:19 the Presidential Youth Physical
1:23:21 Fitness, the teams are already testing, should be completed
1:23:23 sometime here in the spring, and we can
1:23:25 go ahead and request that the significant that the certificates
1:23:28 start getting printed up in
1:23:29 Washington D.C. for the first time. The printer’s pretty dusty
1:23:32 as as you may know, um but it’s going
1:23:35 to be a great opportunity so more to come on that. Um so we have
1:23:38 just so you guys know April 17th,
1:23:41 we have to start saying the date over and over again is the um
1:23:44 swearing-in ceremony for our
1:23:46 students. We’re also going to see about possibly bringing in the
1:23:51 national and state winners for
1:23:53 what the things that they did to honor those ROTC students as
1:23:56 part of that, and utilize that not
1:23:59 only for swearing-in but maybe a opportunity to honor when we
1:24:01 have national or state winners,
1:24:03 you know what I mean, which would be cool because there needs to
1:24:05 be a place for that.
1:24:07 Also we had an amazing construction program competition, I just
1:24:10 want to let you guys know,
1:24:11 I talked about it earlier, but to see all of the schools that
1:24:14 have construction programs competing
1:24:17 in a competition between each other to build all of the framing
1:24:19 and everything else, put in
1:24:21 electrical, they put in all of the air conditioning and
1:24:25 everything else all within a two-hour period
1:24:28 was incredible, and then they had to go break it all down, but
1:24:30 that’s a lot of that’s a big thing.
1:24:32 I look forward to seeing the HBCA kind of take that thing over
1:24:35 and start, and we do have a
1:24:37 competition with Citrus County, it’ll be virtual, and then what
1:24:41 we’re going to do is I’m going to
1:24:42 try to challenge a couple more counties and maybe we can have
1:24:45 one big one, and maybe you can work on
1:24:47 grabbing the HBCAs in those counties and working with them to
1:24:50 kind of collaborate and everything
1:24:52 else would be kind of cool. We do have an update on the logos,
1:24:55 so just so you guys know we identified
1:24:58 organization, some organizations that had come in and gotten
1:25:01 contracts signed by athletic directors
1:25:03 back as early as 2011 to go ahead and present to Walmart and all
1:25:09 the other places to print our
1:25:11 shirts. We did an audit, found out how much money we received,
1:25:15 do not feel like that was reciprocal
1:25:17 as far as what it was over the years, but our staff and our
1:25:20 attorneys sent out cease and desist
1:25:22 letters to all of them to say no. We are going to bring forward
1:25:24 a policy, it’s what we’ll talk about
1:25:26 here in the offsite, and what we’ll do is we’re going to allow
1:25:30 on July 1st to start the beginning
1:25:33 of what will be you have to contract with the district to
1:25:36 utilize ours, and so local vendors,
1:25:38 and that’s the reason I wanted to let you guys know, if local
1:25:41 vendors reach out to you and say,
1:25:42 “Hey, we’re doing this, how do we fit into this?” No problem,
1:25:45 but they’re just going to have to get
1:25:46 the rights signed and approved for them to print. So we have a
1:25:49 couple, I think it’s Brevard,
1:25:52 there’s a company that we do business with that makes a lot of
1:25:54 our prints and stuff like that,
1:25:56 and that would be somebody that already does it, so we’d be
1:25:58 improving them, but we don’t want to
1:25:59 allow the Walmarts and the CVSs and all that stuff, and for
1:26:02 their defense, they did not think
1:26:04 that anything was wrong and they’ve been working with us to make
1:26:06 sure that those do not get sold
1:26:08 inside the school, so big opportunity for them. Look for some
1:26:10 news to come out about that possibly
1:26:12 next week. We also had the BEXA, I don’t know if you guys
1:26:15 remember, but the non-invasive mammogram
1:26:18 breast exam, and from everybody that I talked to that’s gone
1:26:21 through it said that it’s absolutely
1:26:23 amazing. Some of them said that it was so relaxing that they
1:26:26 almost fell asleep when it was going on,
1:26:28 so it’s a great opportunity, and I’m looking forward to seeing
1:26:31 some of the statistics.
1:26:33 As you guys know, it filled up within the first two hours, so
1:26:37 they opened up more days to have
1:26:39 more, so we’re looking to see if some of the individuals that
1:26:42 don’t have breast exams actually
1:26:43 get them, and we opened it up for 35 and older, and some of the
1:26:48 people I spoke to once said,
1:26:49 “I just turned 35 and I was so lucky that they actually covered
1:26:53 the cost for me,” because there’s
1:26:54 a majority of breast cancers that are now coming in under 40
1:26:57 years old, so it’s good stuff. Another
1:26:59 great thing that Mr. Dufresne and our insurance and Dr. Rendell
1:27:02 have been working on to bring,
1:27:04 Cancer Care Direct, just so you guys know, little update, they’re
1:27:07 receiving the file for the first
1:27:09 time of all of the individuals that have cancer, so they’ll be
1:27:12 starting to reach out and getting
1:27:13 them all of the individual care that they can provide to get
1:27:16 them better treatments and stuff
1:27:18 like that. Big week for the insurance stuff, really, really good
1:27:21 stuff happening. Don’t forget,
1:27:23 we have the elementary school sports coming up March 7th is
1:27:27 going to be the big, I think that’s
1:27:30 next Saturday, is big, big, big, big. You know that flag
1:27:33 football jamboree? Yep, all the flag
1:27:35 football jamborees, and we, I spoke to Kevin Robinson, there’s
1:27:39 going to be, so the way we did
1:27:41 it is, if we don’t have the stipends and we don’t want to burden
1:27:44 the school district, but we still
1:27:46 want to hold events for the elementary schools that we were
1:27:49 going to, and we talked about this,
1:27:51 provide like an AAU or a PAL league to offer like tennis, golf,
1:27:55 and all of that. So we have
1:27:57 indication that Vieira East is going to host a county-wide
1:27:59 elementary school golf tournament,
1:28:02 so that’s going to be a whole cool nine holes, and Mr. Trent’s
1:28:04 going to help work on that.
1:28:06 We also have a tennis tournament, and then we also have a
1:28:08 wrestling tournament that’s going to be at
1:28:10 Vieira, so if you guys want to come watch the Mighty Mites come
1:28:13 and wrestle in there, you know
1:28:14 what I mean, and go after it, we’re going to have some cool
1:28:16 stuff, and what’s crazy is, is that it’s
1:28:19 not like we’re creating, so the wrestling, I found out once we
1:28:22 started calling some of the coaches and
1:28:23 stuff like that, they’re already doing it, right, so like there’s
1:28:26 already elementary school kids
1:28:27 wrestling as part of the program so that they can come up, it’s
1:28:30 just, and they’re so excited, you
1:28:31 mean you tell me I can go wrestle against Ralph Williams and all
1:28:34 this other stuff, so it’s going
1:28:35 to be really cool, so they’re gearing up, so sometimes in April
1:28:37 we’ll make some of those,
1:28:39 some of those going on, and that’s all I have, Dr. Rendell.
1:28:43 Thank you Mr. Chairman, to follow up on a couple things that
1:28:45 were mentioned by the board members,
1:28:47 first we did have the governor visit Titusville High School last
1:28:49 week, and I really want to thank
1:28:52 Jennifer Gonzalez, the principal, and her staff, it is quite a
1:28:56 lift to pull that off, especially
1:28:58 because you’re not allowed to tell people that you have the
1:29:02 governor coming, we didn’t even tell her
1:29:04 until about five days out, and so there’s a lot of work that
1:29:07 they had to do behind the scenes to do
1:29:09 that, and to host that event, and I want to thank her, and her
1:29:12 staff, and her team, and her school
1:29:14 for, for doing the things they had to do to host that, it was
1:29:18 quite a great event to have the
1:29:19 governor, the commissioner, and Representative Herodopoulos was
1:29:22 there as well, and then the
1:29:23 next day, Krista Miller and her staff at Astronaut hosted the
1:29:26 lieutenant governor, so you know it was
1:29:29 great for Brevard County, and great for public schools to have
1:29:31 these officials come and visit,
1:29:33 but there’s a lot of work that goes into preparing for that, and
1:29:36 so I just want to thank those,
1:29:38 those administrative teams, and the rest of the people at those
1:29:40 schools for all the work they
1:29:41 did for that. I don’t know if we’ve been able to see in the
1:29:45 shots of different speakers and stuff,
1:29:48 but around the room, in the boardroom, we have art, we have all
1:29:53 kinds of art, because tomorrow
1:29:54 night, so Wednesday night, we have an art show here at the
1:29:58 school, free, open to the public,
1:30:00 starts at six o’clock, and it’s visual art from all of our high
1:30:03 school art students, and the work
1:30:06 is quite amazing, so if you are a fan of visual art, and you
1:30:09 have free time tomorrow night,
1:30:11 totally encourage you to come by and see this artwork, it is
1:30:15 fantastic, so shout out to our
1:30:17 teachers and our students for working so hard and producing such
1:30:21 high quality visual art is, again,
1:30:23 amazing, the work that they have produced. The last shout out is,
1:30:28 for the last three weeks,
1:30:29 we have had science fairs, so Brevard County is such a big
1:30:33 district that we have three different
1:30:35 regional science fairs, and science fairs starts actually in
1:30:37 elementary school. A lot of districts
1:30:40 don’t concentrate on science fair as early as we do, but we do,
1:30:44 part of it’s because we’re on the
1:30:45 Space Coast and we have a lot of rocket scientists that live
1:30:47 here, engineers and things, but it is,
1:30:51 again, amazing and impressive to see the young people engaging
1:30:55 in the scientific method and the
1:30:57 research process in elementary school, and those teachers and
1:31:03 those parents who are somewhat
1:31:05 involved in the elementary science fair projects deserve a lot
1:31:10 of praise for all the work that they
1:31:12 did, and congratulations to all the students, I went to the
1:31:14 elementary award ceremonies each
1:31:16 of the weekends and saw these kids getting blue ribbons and red
1:31:20 ribbons and the pride that they
1:31:21 showed for the work that they have done, and obviously we
1:31:23 encourage that as they go into high
1:31:25 school, secondary, middle school and high school, and those
1:31:28 science fairs were also going on.
1:31:31 Ishan from West Shore, one of the youngsters that we recognized
1:31:33 earlier today, was best of show for
1:31:36 one of the fairs, and so he’s going into international
1:31:38 competition, international science fair,
1:31:40 and our kids, actually our kids, our young people actually do
1:31:43 quite well in the international
1:31:45 competition for science fair, and a lot of that is due to the
1:31:50 instruction that they receive from
1:31:52 the teachers in their classrooms, and so I really want to thank
1:31:55 all the teachers who put their heart
1:31:56 and soul into preparing these kids for science fair and
1:31:59 encouraging them to participate in science
1:32:01 fair and also the families that have supported those students
1:32:04 through that process. We don’t
1:32:06 always talk about science fair, we don’t always talk about
1:32:09 science achievement, and we really
1:32:10 should because it takes a lot of hard work and dedication by
1:32:13 those students, the teachers, and
1:32:14 of course the parents who supported them. That’s all Mr. Chair.
1:32:17 Thanks. Thank you so much, I truly
1:32:21 appreciate it. Good job Dr. Rendell. You ready Paul? Chair
1:32:28 recognizes the board’s attorney Paul Gibbs.
1:32:32 Board members, on behalf of attorneys Randy Mora and Jay Dangio,
1:32:36 I am notifying you that advice
1:32:37 is needed regarding the pending litigation style Jennifer
1:32:40 Jenkins, the Brevard School Board, and
1:32:43 Matthew Susan, case number 05-2023-CA-018437, and Jennifer
1:32:51 Jenkins, the School Board, and Matthew
1:32:54 Susan, 5th DCA case number 5D 2025-3222. Pursuant to 286.011
1:33:03 Florida statute known as the Government
1:33:05 and the Sunshine Act, I am requesting an attorney client session
1:33:08 with the board for the purpose of
1:33:10 discussing strategy and or expenses regarding the litigation. I
1:33:14 will ask the board’s clerk to cause
1:33:16 reasonable public notice of the time and date of this attorney
1:33:19 client session and the names of the
1:33:21 individuals attending to be published. If the board approves, I
1:33:24 will work with the board clerk to
1:33:25 coordinate dates for the attorney client session working with
1:33:29 our council’s availability and
1:33:30 provide notice of the meeting inclusive of scheduling a court
1:33:33 reporter. It is anticipated
1:33:35 that approximately two hours will be needed for the session. As
1:33:38 required by the statute, only the
1:33:40 following individuals may be present. School board members Katie
1:33:43 Campbell, Matt Susan, John Thomas,
1:33:45 Jean Trent, Megan Wright, Superintendent Dr. Mark Rendell, Paul
1:33:50 Gibbs, General Counsel,
1:33:52 Randy Mora, and Jay Dangio with Trask Dangio either in person or
1:33:56 via teams. As required by
1:33:58 statute, I will ask a court reporter to record the session.
1:34:01 Their notes will be fully transcribed and
1:34:03 filed with the clerk of the school board. Upon conclusion of any
1:34:06 litigation and or settlement
1:34:07 of all claims arising out of this case, the transcript will be
1:34:10 made public record.
1:34:12 I recommend to the board holding an attorney client session
1:34:14 pursuant to section 286.011 Florida
1:34:17 statutes to discuss strategy of pending litigation. If there’s
1:34:20 no objectives, objections,
1:34:22 I will instruct our attorney to work with the board clerk and
1:34:24 schedule on March 3rd if that’s
1:34:27 possible. So thank you very much. We’re good. We’re going to
1:34:37 take a brief recess. Thank you.
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